The course will explore the new paradigm in science that the “Physiology is Consciousness.” Current concepts of mind and body will be understood in terms of this new paradigm. The human brain is unique in the universe. The unfathomably complex fabric of the brain neuropil rivals the billions of shining galaxies. This course examines the contribution of the Vedic tradition of knowledge to our understanding of brain structure and function, and hence, the potential that lies within every individual. The exponential growth of modern scientific understanding, primarily during the last 50 years, has created a situation in which we have an urgent need to understand the relationship between consciousness and our physiology. This course will present our facts of brain structure and function in light of Maharishi Vedic Science and Raja Raam’s discovery of Veda and Vedic Literature in human physiology. We will examine how our brain constructs reality at every moment and how, from Vedic Science, the transcendental field of life, the home of all the Laws of Nature is the source of these myriad physiological impulses seamlessly orchestrated to produce what we call human experience. We will study how the experience of unboundedness, the Self of every individual, can transform our physiology and awaken the total creative potential of the brain in enlightenment, the birthright of every human being. (4 units)

This course offers a holistic, prevention-oriented approach to good health that integrates principles from the 40 areas of Veda and the Vedic Literature to restore and maintain balanced health in mind, body, behavior, and environment. This course includes specific knowledge of daily and seasonal routines, diet, other health-promoting behavior, and the development of higher states of consciousness — all of which bring life into harmony with Natural Law. Other topics of this course include self-referral consciousness as the basis for prevention of disease, maintaining balance in the physiology for prevention, importance of good digestion and metabolism, strengthening the immune system, reversing the aging process, and preventing collective health problems of society. (4 units)

This course unfolds the historic discovery that the human physiology is an exact replica of all of the Laws of Nature contained in the ancient Veda and Vedic Literature. This course presents the essence of the entire field of modern objective science and ancient subjective science. It brings to light the major discovery of the physiology in terms of its inner intelligence, whose impulses are available in the form of Veda and Vedic Literature. All the specialized components and organs of the human physiology are found to match the 40 branches of the Vedic Literature, one-to-one, both in structure and in function. This first course will investigate how Rk Veda — Total Knowledge of Natural Law in its most concentrated form — corresponds to the entire physiology, and especially the central nervous system. An overview of the structures and functions of the nervous system, the synaptic gap, the sensory, motor, and processing systems, and their precise correspondence with Sama Veda, Yajur Veda and Atharva Veda will be presented. These branches of the Veda correspond to the sensory systems, processing systems, and motor systems of the whole physiology. An in depth discussion of the precise structural and functional relationship between the structures of the autonomic nervous system, limbic system, and endocrine system and the 6 Vedanga, or “limbs of the Veda” is presented. The Vedangas include Shiksha, Kalpa, Vyakaran, Nirukta, Chhand, and Jyotish branches of Vedic Literature. They are the Expressing, Transforming, Expanding, Self-Referral, Measuring, and All-Knowing qualities of Natural Law. These qualities can be enlivened in human consciousness and physiology through Maharishi’s Technologies of Consciousness, including reading and listening to the Veda and Vedic Literature. (4 units)

This course further elaborates the Historic Discovery that the Human Physiology is the exact replica of the total Creative Potential of Natural Law contained in the most ancient record of human knowledge, the Veda and Vedic Literature. This course will introduce the correspondence between important structures of the nervous system and the 6 Upanga or “subordinate limbs” of the Veda. These Vedic texts provide intellectual understanding and technologies for direct experience of Total Natural Law in human consciousness. They include Nyaya, Vaisheshika, Samkhya, Yoga, Karma Mimansa, and Vedanta. These are the Distinguishing and Deciding, Specifying, Enumerating, Unifying, Analyzing, and Living Absolute qualities of consciousness. Also the course will cover the major structures of the cell, as well as the three germ tissues of endoderm, mesoderm and ectoderm and their correspondence to the Upa Veda or subordinate Veda, including Ayur Veda, the science of lifespan. (4 units)

This course continues the unfoldment of the discovery that the human physiology, particularly key structures of the nervous system and memory systems correspond to the Brahmanas and Pratishakhyas. The study of the discovery of Veda in Human Physiology culminates in the knowledge that the total expression of Natural Law exists in every human being, and therefore that every individual is truly cosmic. Yatha Pinde, tatha brahmande — the individual is cosmic! (4 units)

This course presents the essence of the entire field of modern objective science and ancient subjective science. It brings to light the major discovery of the physiology in terms of its inner intelligence, whose impulses are available in the form of Veda and Vedic Literature. All the specialized components and organs of the human physiology are found to match the 40 branches of the Vedic Literature, one-to-one, both in structure and in function. (variable units)

Self Pulse Diagnosis is the most ancient and most natural means of determining the level of balance or imbalance in the mind and body. This course presents Maharishi's revival of this ancient technology to determine the state of the inner intelligence of the body. Everyone should learn pulse diagnosis to maintain their own health. Pulse diagnosis allows one to detect imbalances early, before they manifest as disease. Pulse allows one to precisely determine where the imbalance is and how to restore balance. Furthermore, pulse is therapeutic in itself. Just taking the pulse increases the balance in the pulse and therefore the balance of the whole mind and body. Taking the pulse enlivens the connection between mind and body, consciousness and matter. (4 units)

The Prevention course presents an overview of the whole discipline of Maharishi Consciousness-Based Health Care. In this course one learns how Consciousness expresses as physiology, and how enlivening Consciousness through all of the 40 approaches of Maharishi Consciousness-Based Health Care is the basis for restoring balance and creating perfect health. Prevention is much better than cure. Living life according to Natural Law is the means to "avert the danger that has not yet come." This course gives all the principles and many practical points on how to live according to Natural Law. These include diet, daily and seasonal routine, an introduction to self pulse, Maharishi Jyotish (the Vedic science of prediction), Vedic Architecture or Maharishi Sthapatya Veda, and collective practice of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programs. (4 units)

Diet, digestion and nutrition are fundamental to health. How we metabolize food and drink directly affects the strength, vitality, immunity, and longevity of the physiology. In this course detailed knowledge of the influences of foods on the physiology is described. Also the influence of consciousness on the process of digestion and nutrition is discussed carefully. Different foods are categorized according to their influence on the three principal governing qualities of intelligence in the body: communication and movement, transformation, and structure. The balance of these three principles determines the balance, strength, immunity and health of the body. And that balance is greatly influenced by the food that is taken, and the state of awareness of the one who is eating. This course provides very practical knowledge of what to eat, when to eat, and how to eat to maintain or restore perfect balance. (4 units)

This practical course presents the knowledge and experience of enlivening the unified state of consciousness, or Yoga, through the physiological approach of Yoga Asanas. Maharishi has revived the essential understanding that Yoga means unified level of consciousness or Transcendental Consciousness, and that Yoga, one of the 40 aspects of the Vedic Literature provides the technologies to unfold that experience. The physical postures of Yoga Asanas are traditional positions that enliven the connection between mind and body, consciousness and physiology. When done properly, Maharishi Yoga asanas help dissolve stress and give the experience of settledness and expansion in the direction of the experience of pure consciousness, or Yoga. This unique practical course includes regular practice of Maharishi Yoga asanas as well as the understanding of their specific effects on the mind and body. (4 units)

Students study Maharishi Sthapatya Veda design, which is the most ancient system of country, town, village, and home planning, in accord with Natural Law — connecting individual life with cosmic life, individual intelligence with cosmic intelligence — to create ideal living conditions and better health. The course explains the three principles of Maharishi Sthapatya Veda design: right direction, right placement of rooms and right proportion and other principles of Vastu VidyaSM — knowledge of the site. (4 units)

Students work in Maharishi Medical Centers or Centers for Chronic Disorders in various aspects of clinic operations including such areas as guest education, guest services, and clinic marketing. (4 units — may be repeated) Prerequisites: PH 309 and consent of the department faculty and the Academic Standards Committee

Students refine their patient education skills under the direct supervision of the department faculty. They work within one of our clinics or Maharishi Spas and gain experience with all aspects of clinic operations: administration, patient education, and publicity. (Course has variable units.)

The physiology is the expression of the body’s inner intelligence (Atma, the Self). The basic theme of this course is the elimination of the separation between the unbounded Self and the limited expressions of the relative. This separation is called the mistake of the intellect, or Pragya-Aparadha. All the approaches of Maharishi Consciousness-Based Health Care are capable of restoring wholeness to life and overcoming Pragya-Aparadha by using specific procedures of enlivening consciousness and the physiology. Wholeness means perfect balance of the relative expressions on the basis of fully awake self-referral consciousness. This course will use Maharishi’s book, Maharishi Forum of Natural Law and National Law for Doctors, and Total Heart Health, by Dr. Robert Schneider, as textbooks. (4 units)

This course explores modern and Vedic physiology, balance and imbalance in specific physiological systems, including the musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, digestive, and respiratory systems. Students learn to recognize the basic imbalances and learn the fundamentals of how balance can be restored through Maharishi’s technologies of consciousness, diet, exercise, daily and seasonal routine, herbs, Maharishi Vedic Vibration Technology, Maharishi Rejuvenation therapy, and other modalities. The students continue to refine their pulse-diagnosis skills as well. (4 units)

This course unfolds the modern and Vedic physiology, basic pathophysiology, and means to restore balance in the articular system and joints, the endocrine/reproductive, hemotologic and immune systems and the nervous system. Students learn to recognize the basic imbalances and learn the fundamentals of how balance can be restored through Maharishi’s technologies of consciousness, diet, exercise, daily and seasonal routine, herbs, Maharishi Vedic Vibration Technology, Maharishi Rejuvenation therapy, and other modalities. (4 units)

This course introduces the knowledge and objective skills indispensable to scientific research. Topics include the scientific method, logical and practical considerations in experimental design and data acquisition, procedures for conducting literature reviews, selection of research topics, research ethics, and practical research aids such as computer-assisted data analysis. Particular emphasis is placed on clinical research design, including proper choice of control subjects and the prevention of bias in subject selection. (variable units)