Research on the Transcendental Meditation Program in Education

Consciousness-Based(SM) Education: Principles, Practice, and Research Susan Levin Dillbeck Michael C. Dillbeck Maharishi University of Management Fairfield, Iowa, U.S.A. ABSTRACT This paper presents evidence that the highest goals of education can be achieved by adding the Maharishi Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programs to the existing curricula of schools and universities. This technology of Consciousness-Based education develops the full value of the three fundamental aspects of education: the knower, or student; the known, or subject matter; and the processes of knowing, which connect knower to known. The first section gives a brief overview of the basic principles from Maharishi Vedic Science(SM) that are the foundation of this approach to education. Section 2 analyzes knower, known, and process of knowing. It suggests that the deficiencies in education today result from the knower's limited experience of his or her own infinite potential, and that these deficiencies can be eliminated by stabilizing in the awareness of student and teacher the experience of the full potential of the mind, transcendental consciousness. Section 3 describes how the theory and experience of transcendental consciousness, which are provided by the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programs and the Science of Creative Intelligence®, are applied in an educational system. Section 4 reviews the scientific research documenting the success of Consciousness-Based education. Sections 5 and 6 describe how this approach solves current educational problems and is giving rise to new, more powerful principles for guiding educational practice. Reference: Dillbeck, M.C., Dillbeck, S.(1987). “The Maharishi Technology of the Unified Field in Education: Principles, Practice, and Research.” Modern Science and Vedic Science, 1, 383–482. Click here for the full article Consciousness-Based Education: Principles, Practice, and Research (150K) For more information, please contact the Department of Education at one of the following addresses: Department of Education, Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield, IA 52557 Phone: (641) 472-7000 ext. 5021 • E-Mail: eddept@mum.edu • Fax: (641) 472-1189