Science of Creative Intelligence Course

The first semester begins with Maharishi’s 33-lesson Science of Creative Intelligence^® (SCI) course. In this course Maharishi talks about all the implications for life resulting from daily practice of his Transcendental Meditation^® technique and the growth of creative intelligence. He describes the principles underlying the development of full potential in life and demonstrates the unified expression of creative intelligence in the laws of nature that modern science has discovered. He thereby integrates the understanding of nature’s intelligence provided by modern science (through its objective approach) and by ancient Vedic Science (which utilizes both objective and subjective approaches to gaining knowledge).

Like all sciences, the Science of Creative Intelligence has an applied and a theoretical aspect: The applied aspect is the Transcendental Meditation technique, which provides all human beings with the ability to directly access the field of pure intelligence in the simplest state of their own awareness. Students not yet instructed in the Transcendental Meditation technique learn this simple, effortless technique as part of the SCI course. Through regular practice of the Transcendental Meditation technique, students begin to utilize the unlimited potential of their own creative intelligence.

The highlight of the course is Maharishi’s description of seven states of consciousness, including the four higher states of consciousness that are the core of the University’s research program on the farther reaches of human potential. The understanding of these higher states of consciousness, and the experience of the first of them — transcendental consciousness — will begin to establish an inner compass for all good and fruitful directions in life.