D espite living in a nation of great affluence, the citizens of the United States do not always enjoy the best health. For example, in a recent comparison, the United States ranked twelfth (second from the bottom) among 13 developed countries in order of health indicators, such as neonatal and infant mortality; years of potential life lost; low–birth-weight percentages; life expectancy at 1, 15...

There is a growing interest for more effective, innovative programs to address the chronic illness suffered by approximately 40 percent of the U.S. population. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of a new Maharishi Vedic Medicine program-the Maharishi Vedic Vibration Technology-on the quality of life of individuals with chronic disorders. A total of 213 individuals took part i...

The principles and practice of sustainability have gained momentum in the last 15 years and now form a central part of conversations around social praxis and the future. It has been proposed that the theories driving sustainability science are embedded in Indigenous history, and it has been shown that many ancient traditions always concerned themselves with sustainable and ethical living. Among...

This article presents the seminal contributions that intellectual understanding and experience of pure consciousness make to education. This knowledge of consciousness, which has been brought to light by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and systematically presented in his Vedic Science, supplies a missing fundamental to education that deeply transforms the way we understand all aspects of the field, inclu...

During the past two decades, the United States has become increasingly concerned with reducing medical care expenditures while continuing to improve the health of Americans. However, medical costs have continued to rise rapidly, despite efforts to contain them. Unlike the treatment-based strategies for health care that are currently in wide use, prevention-oriented approaches offer great unreal...

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi approaches peace from collective consciousness, the holistic level of society where all its component parts are integrated. Collective consciousness arises from the consciousness of all individuals in society and reciprocally influences each individual’s consciousness and behavior. The basis of all levels of individual and collective consciousness is transcendental conscio...

The work of Robert de Marrais intersects with Vedic Physics at the point of Lissajous Figures (Bowditch Twirls). That is to say that modern mathematical physics meets ancient Vedic Science at a point of nuclear physics anticipated by but not yet articulated in western science – the Purushka. In Vedic Physics, Lissajous Figures of combinatorial waves meet at the crossroads of three types of matt...

‘Veda’ means knowledge. Since we call our earliest period Vedic, this is suggestive of the importance of knowledge and science, as a means of acquiring that knowledge, to that period of Indian history. For quite some time scholars believed that this knowledge amounted to no more than speculations regarding the self; this is what we are still told in some schoolbook accounts. New insights in arc...

‘Veda’ means knowledge. Since we call our earliest period Vedic, this is suggestive of the importance of knowledge and science, as a means of acquiring that knowledge, to that period of Indian history. For quite some time scholars believed that this knowledge amounted to no more than speculations regarding the self; this is what we are still told in some schoolbook accounts. New insights in arc...