Consciousness-Based Education

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The Art and Science of Creating Peace – A Personal Account

As a designer, photographer, and Teacher of Transcendental Meditation, John Ashforth was inspired to create this ‘word cloud’ – an artistic representation of the lnvincible Europe Assembly, held in the meditation Dome, Skelmersdale, Lancashire, UK in 2014. At that time, John was the Assembly leader. His responsibilities included the presentation of participants’ experiences of Transcendental Meditation which were often profound and sublime. He later analysed hundreds of their written accounts and added up their most regularly used descriptive words. Note: The size of the word represents the frequency of the word's usage.
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REVIEW: “One Unbounded Ocean of Consciousness”
By Tony Nader, M.D., Ph.D., MARR

Tony Nader, M.D., Ph.D., MARR, is a medical doctor trained at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D. in neuroscience), and a globally recognised Vedic scholar. As Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s successor, Dr Nader is head of the international Transcendental Meditation® organisations in over 100 countries. From the Americas to Asia, from Europe to Africa, Dr Nader guides the Transcendental Meditation program and its advanced practices, and the practical applications of this technology in all areas of national life – education, health, business, defense, agriculture, and more.

Poetry, Process and Silence

Former Royal Literary Fund Fellow, Poetry Society poet-in-residence and TES Guest Poet, Dr. Cliff Yates explains what drew him to poetry – the distinctive value of silence in the process of writing. This inspiration led him to not only develop and hone his skills as a highly regarded poet, but to teach and inspire others to locate the field of infinite silence in consciousness, the source of all creative expression, which is directly experienced through practice of the Transcendental Meditation technique.

The Flow of Consciousness in Literature and Language

Rhoda Orme-Johnson, Ph.D, Professor Emerita of Literature, Maharishi International University (MIU), explains the fascinating backdrop to the emergence of MIU's consciousness-based literature department in the 1970’s. The article acts as an introduction to the enlightening book, “The Flow of Consciousness – Maharishi Mahesh Yogi on Literature and Language”.
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Maharishi Gandharva-Veda Music — Music in Alliance with Natural Law

In the 1980’s after teaching Transcendental Meditation around the world for 30 years, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was thinking about what more could he do to bring peace and happiness to mankind. He looked deeper into the Vedic literature of India, the oldest tradition of knowledge and human experience, and found Gandharva-Veda music, the eternal music of Nature . . .

The Glorious Domain of the Arts

To paint a canvas, carve a block of stone or mold clay; to weave a basket, blow glass or make a piece of jewelry; to design a residence, an automobile, or a website; to build furniture, an architectural model, or develop a fashion trend; to sing an aria, play sitar, or conduct an orchestra; to perform a ballet, recite Shakespeare, or direct a movie; to write a poem, a memoir or develop a storyline. . .