Now students have the opportunity to create and sustain invincibility in their community, nation and world, through Maharishi's Consciousness-Based Education.

Consciousness-Based Education brings Invincibility to Colombia
by Global Good News staff writer
4 December 2007

During the early part of this year, 1,200 students and teachers in one city in Colombia learned the Transcendental Meditation Programme with extremely positive results. During the summer, Transcendental Meditation also was taught in three large centres of a foundation for underprivileged children, and juvenile offenders who are rehabilitated rather than sent to prison. The change in these youths was felt by their families and was immediate, positive, and soft.

Dr Jose Luis Alvarez, Raja (Administrator) of Latin America for the Global Country of World Peace and co-ordinator of all projects said, 'The children find the practice very relaxing and very easy and they really feel much more lively. At the same time the schools are much more quiet. That is what the teachers say. A school principal has reported to us that the Transcendental Meditation Programme is the only way to handle their students in an easy way without any effort.'

The project in Colombia expanded to many schools offering Transcendental Meditation with the support from government, teachers, and parents. Drawing from three Transcendental Meditation projects in Colombia, in November 700 students learned the advanced TM-Sidhi Programme and became Yogic Flyers. The benefits to students has been so pronounced that one school has organized the necessary time by changing the curriculum, so the students could have the time for twice daily practice of Yogic Flying in a group at school.

Like so many schools in Colombia, every school can now offer a practical, proven programme that fulfils the highest aspirations of educators, parents, and students, simply by adding one period a day to the existing curriculum. For a few minutes each day the students sit comfortably and practice the Maharishi Transcendental Meditation Technique to develop their total creative potential. This effortless mental procedure produces holistic brain functioning, resulting in increased intelligence, reduced stress, and improved social behaviour. This one addition will provide what has been lacking in education: new knowledge that is effective in solving the problems that plague our schools and society. This innovative system of education is known as Maharishi’s Consciousness-Based Education.

Now students also have the opportunity to create and sustain invincibility in their community, nation, and world, especially when the advance programme, the TM-Sidhi programme including Yogic Flying, is added to their daily routine. All of these benefits have been confirmed by hundreds of scientific research studies. Through this experience, students know their Self, the level of silence, bliss, and peace at the source of thought. In this experience, the student is experiencing the Unified Field of Consciousness, the Self of all beings.

The Unified Field of Consciousness is an invincible field, because it is a field of total unity. It is a field of total silence, yet it contains within it the dynamism of the entire universe. This Unified Field contains within it all the Laws of Nature, which create and administer the universe. During the TM-Sidhi Programme, including Yogic Flying, students learn to act from this level of Total Natural Law. Thinking and acting on the level of the Unified Field, students enliven Total Natural Law for the whole population.

Invincibility refers to inner strength that is indestructible from within and from outside influences. When large numbers of Yogic Fliers enliven total brain functioning and create coherence in the Unified Field of Consciousness, this internal strength and orderliness spreads to the environment. Yogic Fliers, practising in large groups make the country impervious to outside or internal disruptive influences. The result is invincibility for the nation.

Scientific research has shown that groups of individuals practising Maharishi's Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi Programme, especially Yogic Flying—results in a decrease of negative trends throughout society— such as crime, accidents, and sickness — and an increase in positive social, economic, and political trends. The number of Yogic Flyers needed to fulfil the requirement for the invincibility of any nation is equal to the square root of one per cent of the population, and this is known as the super-radiance number.

Dr Jose Luis Alvarez, recently announced that the country of Colombia now has 700 Yogic Flyers—and has reached the goal necessary to achieve invincibility.

'Colombia, a central country in Latin America with a population of 44 million, needed 660 Yogic Flyers to attain Invincibility, and has reached its super-radiance number,' he stated. 'This was accomplished by Dr Luz Marino la Scagno, Founder and National Leader of the Global Country of World Peace in Colombia, and her team of local teachers and practitioners of the Transcendental Meditation Technique, and Yogic Flyers.'

Dr Alvarez also credited Father Gabriel Mejia, the Catholic priest who instituted Maharishi's Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi Programme in his schools, along with the mayor of Las Treya, Dr Carlos Loskar, who supported the teaching of the programme in the schools of his town.

In all the schools together, Dr Alvarez reported, that now with over 700 Yogic Flyers in Colombia 'their total experience is that the effect of invincibility is being created for this country that . . . has had major conflicts, internal civil war, for years with very negative effects.' Now, Dr Alvarez said, 'the powerful effect of all the Yogic Flyers, functioning from the level of pure silence, will support softer, wiser actions by the government, and more success for the country.'

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