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Student pressures and national security eased by Consciousness-Based Education During the global Press Conference Highlights held at MERU, Holland, on 14 March 2007, Dr Bevan Morris, President of Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, USA, and Prime Minister of the Global Country of World Peace, explained the value of Consciousness-Based Education for developing the full potential of a child’s brain, and how this will affect the society as children following this system of education grow up to be ideal citizens. Dr Morris commented that it is very natural for parents to want the best for their children. He said that Maharishi has revealed to us that the best that children can have is to use the total brain potential with which they are born. The kind of education to which parents are pushing their children with ever-greater intensity does not have this effect of totally developing the brain. ‘In fact, it has the effect of leaving “functional holes” in the brain,’ Dr Morris said, which create ‘a lack of any real foundation for the success of the children in their lives. So while seeking to create more success for their child, parents are unknowingly reducing the child's chances.’ By contrast, Dr Morris explained, Consciousness-Based Education has as its principle feature the technique of transcending to experience the holistic and unified state of consciousness, Transcendental Consciousness, which is the child's own Self. ‘ ‘‘Know Thyself” is fulfilled by this system of education,’ Dr Morris said. ‘And this experience of the unified, holistic state of consciousness is the only experience that has been found to maximize the use of the total brain. It creates highly coherent, orderly, holistic brain functioning—the whole brain begins to function together. Scientific research has shown that when the students study with this more awakened brain, they are able to absorb the knowledge in a much more effortless way. ‘The container of knowledge has been expanded,’ Dr Morris continued. ‘Students are able to enjoy gaining knowledge and are enthusiastic to learn because of this awakening of their total brain, which is the awakening of their creativity, their receptivity, their intelligence, and their simple joy of living. ‘The children become delighted to go to school and gain knowledge, and the teachers do not put them under the extreme pressure of exhausting homework . . . and all kinds of stresses and strains. It is a restful and delightful academic routine.’ Dr Morris explained that the child learns every field of knowledge in terms of its origin in the Unified Field of Natural Law and that all knowledge is one grand wholeness of knowledge, Total Knowledge, and ‘that Total Knowledge is in my own Transcendental Consciousness, in my own Self. ‘So the children feel at home with everything,’ Dr Morris said. ‘They feel connected with everything they study. They feel that everything is an expression of their own consciousness in its unbounded state.’ As the students grow up, they become Yogic Flyers with the advanced technique of Transcendental Meditation, ‘which intensifies all the effects of Transcendental Meditation and gives them the subjective experience of bubbling bliss and big smiles of joy,’ Dr Morris continued. ‘If anyone wants success for his or her children, this is what they should do. This is what they should have, either in an existing school that gets all the children to meditate or in the school your child already goes to.’ This is happening in schools all over America now under the leadership of Dr John Hagelin, Minister of Science and Technology of the Global Country of World Peace. ‘Have a new Consciousness-Based School in your area,’ Dr Morris continued, ‘and let the children grow up joyfully, peacefully, with the basis for unlimited success. ‘They gain success not through exhaustion and stress and strain, which take away the very joy of living itself, but through soft thought, powerful thought, thought motivated by the basic intelligence that administers the universe and supports their thought to effortlessly gain fulfilment. They engage the managing intelligence of the universe to support them to achieve whatever it is that they want to achieve effortlessly, not through struggle and stress and strain.’ Dr Morris said that having the children of the nation grow up like this is the best security against any kind of attack or any kind of crime from within the nation. . . . It is not only negativity from outside the country that one has to protect against, ‘but negativity down the street or across the town. ‘However, when the children grow up with Consciousness-Based Education, there will be two effects. The first effect is that the children who grow up this way, grow up in the spirit of ideal citizenship. When they live their life with a totally developed brain and on the basis of all thought and behaviour from the level of the Unified Field, their actions are spontaneously in harmony with the Laws of Nature and with national law. They grow up without any tendency towards violent or criminal activity. ‘When the whole society is based upon a school system like that, then the children will grow up not performing either minor or major crimes of any kind and leaving aside any behaviour which brings suffering to others. This is a future when Consciousness-Based Education is universal. ‘In the short term also,’ Dr Morris said, ‘in the schools that have Consciousness-Based Education, when the children begin to practise Yogic Flying at school in a group twice a day, the power of those children experiencing the Unified Field radiates intense coherence and harmony into the atmosphere around them. This is sufficient to create a phase transition in the whole quality of the collective consciousness of the neighbourhood, town, or city in which they live.’ With such schools shining everywhere around the country, combined with the Invincibility Group in Iowa, at Maharishi University of Management, and in other institutions that come up, for example in California and Michigan—all these school children radiating peace and harmony will neutralize the daily build up of stress and strain in the atmosphere. The result will be that those who used to think in a criminal way will spontaneously wake up feeling differently. In that atmosphere they will think of something positive to do instead of the damage that they were going to do. ‘Likewise,’ Dr Morris continued, ‘when there is this rising harmony from the children in the schools, the whole national consciousness—as well as the people outside the United States. . . . will become highly harmonious and full of peace and positivity. This is what Maharishi calls an invincible state of national consciousness.’ Negative tendencies towards America and Americans will evaporate, Dr Morris said. ‘This is what has happened already on many occasions through the application of these technologies and has been shown to happen by scientific research, as Dr Hagelin has explained. ‘It is the school children of the world now who can create this kind of invincibility in America, in any other country, and in all countries of the world, just through their own joyful routine of awakening their own total brain functioning and awakening their life to be lived on the level of higher states of consciousness, on the level of the highest and supreme level of living, as the Unified Field itself. They know, "I am that field, which is the field that is expressing itself as the whole universe, and that is the level of my dignity and my power as a human being,”’ Dr Morris concluded. © Copyright 2010 Global Good News®
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