Maharishi's Consciousness-Based ^SM Education

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• Maharishi University of Management - USA - Complete site about Maharishi's twenty -five year old university. Offering Bachelor's, Master's and PhD programs in a wide range of subjects. Utilizing the managing intelligence of Nature for professional success and personal fulfillment in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, Arts, Humanities, and Sciences. MUM University Press, Find an MUM phone number online.
• Maharishi School of the Age of Enlightenment - Pioneering Consciousness-Based^SM Education. Maharishi School of the Age of Enlightenment was founded to bring Consciousness-Based education to children from preschool to 12th grade. The School has a present enrollment of over 600 students with a faculty of more than 70 highly qualified teachers. Located on the campus of Maharishi University of Management, the School now serves as a model and inspiration for similar institutions around the world and a source of curricula and faculty training materials. M.S.A.E. has been chosen as the "Cool School of the Month" by Teen People magazine. Check out pages 167-168 of the April 99 issue.
• Vedic Knowledge: Total Knowledge for Fulfillment in Life - Provides an opportunity for anyone to learn about Vedic Knowledge, in both theory and practice -- what it is, where it comes from, and most of all how it can be employed to bring perfection to every individual and to every nation. For those who are unfamiliar with Vedic Knowledge, we recommend that you begin by clicking on ´What is Vedic Knowledge' on the home page. After that, you can enjoy all of the different aspects of Vedic Knowledge, including books by Maharishi on the application of Vedic Knowledge to every field of life.
• Maharishi College of Vedic Medicine - Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. Training in Maharishi Vedic Medicine^SM A complete approach to the prevention and treatment of disease. Join focused, enthusiastic students and outstanding, committed faculty in an ideal atmosphere. As you are gaining expertise, you will be enjoying the flowering of your own inner creativity and happiness. Offers degree and certificate programs.
• Ideal Girls' School - Consciness-based college preparatory school for girls who want more. Students study the traditional middle and secondary school subjects in light of Maharishi Vedic Science , the knowledge of the full development of human life. This combined curriculum develops the inner genius, joy, and wisdom of every girl.Ideal Girls School is accredited as a college preparatory school (grades 7–12) by the Iowa State Department of Education. It is located in a serene and protected setting in Maharishi Vedic City, in southeastern Iowa.
• Maharishi School of the Age of Enlightenment - Welcome The Maharishi School is located in Skelmersdale, Lancashire. It was founded in 1986 and includes a primary school (reception to year 6), and a secondary school (year 7 to year 11). It is registered with the Department for Education and Employment as an independent school. Successful Examination and Test Results put The Maharishi School as the joint top school in Lancashire, and in the top 2.5% of schools in the country (including the top selective independent schools). This is a remarkable achievement, given that the Maharishi School does not select pupils on the basis of academic ability.
• Insights in Health - ADHD, the Mind and the Transcendental Meditation® technique. As parents and educators search for options and alternatives, groundbreaking research is showing the effectiveness of the Transcendental Meditation technique, a non-drug approach to ADHD. Insights in Health explores the research and experiences using the Transcendental Meditation technique for ADHD.
• The Institute of Science, Technology and Public Policy - Founded to identify, scientifically evaluate, and implement through public policy promising new technologies and programs that offer practical solutions to the problems we face. These new programs and emerging technologies have proven or potential significance for every area of national administration, including the economy, health, education, the environment, crime and rehabilitation, drug abuse, urban development, energy, agriculture, defense and foreign policy. The Institute is rapidly becoming a leading international Center for the latest scientific knowledge and scientifically proven programs that offer real promise for raising America and the international community above the reach of problems.
• The Brain Research Institute - The Brain Research Institute fosters theoretical and/or experimental research in the light of Maharishi Vedic Science. conducted in the following disciplines: neuroanatomy, psychophysiology, computational neuroscience, molecular neuroscience, and linguistics. The Brain Research Institute is a scientific research institute within the Institute for Science, Technology and Public Policy.
• Bay Area Committee for Stress-Free Schools - Improving Academic Achievement Preventing and Treating Stress, Anxiety and Depression, and Learning Disabilities; Showcasing 30 years of scientific research and classroom experience with the Transcendental Meditation® program. For educators, government leaders, health professionals, and foundations concerned about the stress epidemic in the Bay Area and its impact in our schools. See news report here.
• The Maharishi University of Management Alumni Association has been established as an organization governed and run by alumni with the support of the University. This Association is dedicated to reaching, serving and engaging all M.U.M. alumni through a worldwide network and continued access to Maharishi's Vedic Science and Technology. Our goal is to nurture a direct and inspiring connection between alumni and the M.U.M. family, providing the university with valuable goodwill and support.
• Maharishi Open University is opening the gateway of Total Knowledge of Natural Law
  for everyone, everywhere, in their own homes via satellite broadcasts. We encourage all our friends and visitors to install a dish and watch MOU.
• Maharishi Research Institute - Japan - Nice looking, very ccomplete site. In Japanese, so we can't tell exactly what the site contains, however the buildings are real.
• Maharishi University of Management - (Russian) -
• Maharishi Vedic University - USA - "Know that by which everything else is known... " The curriculum of Maharishi Vedic University integrates intellectual study of consciousness with direct research into consciousness for the progressive unfoldment of the student's creative potential.
• NIH Awards Grant Natural Medicine Research Center - The new Center for Natural Medicine and Prevention, is being funded by the NIH National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. It will study the effectiveness of alternative medical approaches for the treatment and prevention of cardiovascular disease in African Americans and other high-risk groups.
• Maharishi Centre for Educational Excellence - School system in India offering K thru masters degree.
• Australian Aid for Cambodia Fund - to help bring peace to Cambodia through education, health care and human resource development. Includes Maharishi Vedic University for Cambodia. Also see the newspaper article from the Canberra Times.
• Maharishi Basisschool - Kinderen voorbereiden op de volwassenheid begint vanaf de vroegste peutertijd. Leren op de Maharishi Basisschool betekent echter meer dan leren rekenen, lezen of schrijven. Web page in Dutch describing their school.
• Degree Programs in Media and Physiology - Human physiology and enlightened media give Maharishi University of Management students new options.
• School Peace.org - Inoculate Schools Against Violence Through Reducing Stress and Frustration. The consciousness-based approach to school peace brings a solution to the problem of stress by utilizing two thoroughly researched technologies for reducing individual and collective stress, promoting psychological development, and increasing mental clarity. Practice of these technologies has been incorporated in numerous educational and correctional settings, including schools, after school programs, probation programs, and prisons.
• School Director Offers Solution to Quell Student Violence... Teach Youth To Meditate - Something fundamental is lacking in our country's educational system. Unless we can eliminate the underlying stress in individual and collective consciousness that fuels acts of violence, whether they be in Colorado or Kosovo, tragedies will repeat themselves again and again. This is the conclusion of Dr. Ashley Deans, Director of Maharishi School of the Age of Enlightenment in Fairfield, Iowa, where students practice the Transcendental Meditation technique twice daily and consistently score in the top percentiles on national achievement tests.
• Supplementing Interdisciplinary Studies Programs with a Consciousness-based Transdisciplinary Approach to Increase Students' Holistic Development - Formal and informal assessment of interdisciplinary courses in learning communities indicate that communicating across disciplines is a problem that can diminish the effectiveness of these courses. This presentation will review a new discipline, called the Science of Creative Intelligence (SCI), whose use for the last 27 years at Maharishi University of Management has been experienced to facilitate cross-disciplinary communication.

Scientific Research

Organizations & Communities

• Consciousness-Based Education Association - This Association offers the scientifically validated Consciousness-Based SM education program, founded by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. More than 40 years of experience and over 600 scientific research studies have shown this non-sectarian program to improve educational outcomes, reduce stress and antisocial behavior, increase creativity and intelligence, and unfold the inner happiness of students and teachers of all cultural and educational backgrounds.

Articles, Ezines, and Videos

• Can meditation help inner-city kids? - Getting children to sit still is tough at the best of times. But for 10 minutes early in the morning and just before they leave for the day, students at this school master the art. They don't fidget or look over at their friends. The young meditators do not giggle. Jane Pitt, a TM teacher at the school, thinks meditation could help keep these inner-city kids away from temptations of the streets. " When we don't have this kind of a natural tool, then people tend to turn to unnatural tools like substance abuse," she says. The Globe and Mail, 5 July 03
• Beating the drum for Cambodian education - Michael Thomson of the Australian Aid for Cambodia Fund is raising money for a university campus in the rural backblocks of war-ravaged Cambodia. Article in the Canberra Times by Frank Cassidy. 28 Aug 01
• A School Like No Other - Meditators in Fairfield are finding academic success by breaking out of the mold cast by other Iowa schools. A visitor to the Maharishi School of the Age of Enlightenment finds plenty of differences - but also finds that kids will always be kids. Story by Mary Kay Shanley, Photographs by Chris Stewart. Feature article on Maharishi School of the Age of Enlightenment in the fall '98 issue of " The Iowan."
• Pupils use Transcendental Meditation for better marks and self-esteem - A method of improving student pass rates and reducing violence has been adopted by schools in Alexandra, Johannesburg, with great success. Pupils at Kwa Bhekilanga High School, Skeen Primary and Pholosha Higher Primary participate in daily meditation sessions - March 2, 1999.

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• Maharishi Speaks to Educators: Mastery Over Natural Law - Supreme Knowledge for everyone-everywhere. 4 beautiful gilded softcover pocketbooks in a special presentation box. Maharishi Speaks to Educators has been compiled as a reference text to compliment Maharishi Vedic University's 'Course for Educators'. Contained in four volumes of twenty different themes, the main points of knowledge in each lecture bring out the most salient points of the course. These main points are from Maharishi's lectures to educators around the world from 1970 to 1986. Here is the formula for educators to gain mastery over Natural Law-'the ability to know anything, do anything, and accomplish anything and make their nation invincible'. (20 themes: 101 lectures - 4 volumes in one case binding)
• Maharishi Speaks to Students: Mastery Over Natural Law - Supreme Knowledge for everyone-everywhere. 4 beautiful gilded softcover pocketbooks in a special presentation box. Maharishi Speaks to Students has been compiled as a reference text to compliment Maharishi Vedic University's 'Course for Students'. Contained in four volumes of twenty different themes, the main points of knowledge in each lecture bring out the most salient points of the course. These main points are from Maharishi's lectures to students around the world from 1970 to 1986. Here is the formula for students to gain mastery over Natural Law——'the ability to know anything, do anything, and accomplish anything and make their nation invincible'. (20 themes: 113 lectures—4 volumes in one case binding)
• Celebrating Perfection in Education: Dawn of Total Knowledge - Supreme Knowledge for everyone-everywhere. Beautifully presented in this unique high quality A4 size, gilded, 4 colour book. The field of Total Knowledge at the basis of all disciplines is the foundation for celebrating the availability of Total Knowledge for every student in every university throughout the world. Celebrating Perfection in Education-Dawn of Total Knowledge offers the formula for providing ideal education to every student, for changing the old concept of university education from 'all knowledge in one campus' to 'all knowledge in one brain', and for delivering the fruit of all knowledge, the ability to live a mistake-free life in perfect accord with all the Laws of Nature.