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Developing Cosmic Intelligence in the awareness of the student During the second half of his Inaugural Address to the Fifth International Symposium on the Science of Creative Intelligence, held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on 14 July 1972, Maharishi said that with the tools of modern science it has been possible to examine the concrete changes that take place in the nervous system as a result of the practice of Transcendental Meditation. It is these changes that bring about an overall feeling of fullness of life, which throughout the ages have been declared a spiritual value. ‘It is the quality of physiological activity that is responsible for any level of consciousness,’ he said. ‘The Transcendental Meditation Technique transforms the physiology in a natural way to produce the most desirable state of consciousness.’ Maharishi explained that everything that is manifest has at its basis the same unmanifest value that is continuous throughout creation and harmonizes the entire diversity of life. When the natural impulse of evolution takes our awareness to that unmanifest level, our awareness becomes capable of spontaneously harmonizing the manifest and unmanifest values of life. ‘When the awareness is open to the unmanifest value of life at the source of thought,’ Maharishi said, ‘it is open to that value which underlies the entire universe and which we call Cosmic Intelligence. Cosmic Intelligence is the climax of creativity, because it gives rise to the whole creation. ‘Cosmic Consciousness* is the state of consciousness in which Cosmic Intelligence is spontaneously maintained in the awareness,’ Maharishi explained. ‘In this state thoughts are fulfilled spontaneously and one enjoys the full support of Nature because one’s awareness is established in the home of all the Laws of Nature. ‘What has been lacking in education is knowledge of the knower, knowledge of the intelligence of the individual, the field of pure Creative Intelligence [at the source of thought, Transcendental Consciousness]. ‘Knowledge of the knower is the basis of all knowledge. The Science of Creative Intelligence fulfils the need of education by providing knowledge of the knower.’ The Science of Creative Intelligence develops in the student that clear intelligence, which will not only enable him to gain maximum knowledge, but also develops in him the ability to make practical use of the knowledge that he gains. ‘Whatever direction his action may take,’ Maharishi said, ‘the maximum value of Creative Intelligence is spontaneously available to him for practical use. ‘No government has succeeded in creating a society free from suffering or in establishing harmony in the midst of differences. The Science of Creative Intelligence will enhance the achievements of all governments by developing the full potential of the individual and society,’ Maharishi concluded. * Cosmic Consciousness—a fifth state of consciousness in which the fourth state, Trancendental Consciousness, is maintained along side the more familiar first three states of consciousness—waking, dreaming, and deep sleep. © Copyright 2009 Global Good News®
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