M A H A R ISH I U N I V ER SI T Y OF M A NAGE M EN T

Founder of Maharishi University of Management Maharishi has opened the gateway to enlightenment for millions of people in the world for more than 50 years.

His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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he potential of every human brain is unbounded, innite. Everyone is equipped with the physical machinery in his brain

physiology to experience that level of intelligence which is the ocean of all knowledge, the ocean of all energy, intelligence, and bliss. Fragmented, intellect-predominant education in universities today does not utilize the total creative potential of the brain. Utilizing only a small part of the brain, such education over time disables other parts of the brain from rough Consciousness-Based education, Maharishi University of Management will take away the inadequacies of education by oering Total Knowledge to unfold the total brain potential of everyone so that man may use the full creative potential with which he is really born to live perfection in life. Maharishi

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DR. BEVA N MOR R IS

s we celebrate the Universitys 40th anniversary, I warmly invite you to visit Maharishi University of Management and its enlightened community. It is a magic place on earth. Even approaching from a distance you can feel the glow of the atmosphere of peace created by the enlightened people from 85 countries gathered here. Waking up here after just one night, as our Founder Maharishi once said, you feel you are living in heaven. e experiences of higher states of consciousness in the Golden Domes of Maharishi University of Management are reaching heights unprecedented in modern times experiences of pure Being becoming manifest, bliss becoming blissful, deep silence owing with unlimited dynamism, profound intimacy with the laws of nature themselves, and rising support of that great power of nature in thinking and action.

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A warm invitation to you to visit

Uniqueness of Maharishi University of Management

Maharishi University of Management is in fact unique in America, as it is the only university of enlightenment and permanent world peace. It develops intellectual rigor while simultaneously unfolding the treasures that lie within our consciousness. e transformation that takes place in the students over the course of their education is remarkable. On the day of graduation, everyone is dazzled by the sight of the graduating students and the manner in which they speak and the depth and universality of their understanding.

approach, in which students focus on specic elds of the laws of nature, such as scientic laws, or principles of management or art, etc. is approach only enlivened specic parts of the brain, and never the total brain. Consequently, students total creative potential and intelligence have remained undeveloped. is inadequate and incomplete education is the cause of all stress and strain and problems that have been witnessed in the world. ere is no other university or school in America like ours, where students experience their own Self the most silent, peaceful, blissful level of consciousness. is holistic experience of consciousness itself is the only experience that awakens total brain functioning. e result: Our students grow in the ability to achieve anything they desire not through hard work but through softest thought thinking from the most rened level of consciousness where thought begins, where it is most creative, and where it engages the support of natures intelligence for the steps of activity needed to achieve the goal.

Holistic versus fragmented approach

Higher education until now had developed only part of the brain because of its fragmented

Scientic research, for example the studies conducted by Professor N.N. Lyubimov at the Brain Institute in Moscow, has demonstrated that the Transcendental Meditation technique optimizes brain functioning, allowing students to use the hidden reserves of brain potential. Other scientic ndings on the Transcendental Meditation program include increased creativity and intelligence, improved memory, better academic grades, reduced anxiety, improvements in moral reasoning and in selfdevelopment.

Scientic research on Consciousness-Based SM education

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Unication of all elds of knowledge

Also unique at Maharishi University of Management, students focus with their professors on the discovery of the unied eld the unity of all the laws of nature in a single universal eld from both the modern scientic and ancient scientic perspectives. Students study the totality of the laws of nature through dierent disciplines of science, arts and commerce, but also through their common basis in the unied eld which can be experienced by everyone in the self-referral eld of their own consciousness. rough special charts the faculty have prepared, students understand the parts of each eld of knowledge they study in relation to the total knowledge of the eld, the total eld in terms of the source of all laws of nature in the unied eld, and the reality of that unied level of intelligence as their own consciousness in its self-referral state. is is Consciousness-Based, unied eldbased education. In the future all education in the world will be Consciousness-Based. is is truly a holistic and complete approach to gaining knowledge. It develops our students innate creative potential to become global citizens of our dear planet. It develops the balance and leadership needed for a new golden age of the human race to dawn and for life to be sustained perpetually in harmony with the laws of nature.

as measured by declining crime and violence, strong economic progress, and greater societal harmony. It is easy now for any university or school to incorporate the Transcendental Meditation program and give the opportunity for students to experience the limitless potential creativity of their total brain.

Focus on permanent world peace and global invincibility

Global eectiveness of Consciousness-Based education

Consciousness-Based education has been introduced in Maharishi universities and schools and in public and private schools in dierent parts of the world. Professors and teachers have reported that the result is a more focused and disciplined educational environment, with greater creativity and enthusiasm for knowledge and an atmosphere of serenity and mutual respect pervading the classrooms. In cities with Consciousness-Based universities and schools, the quality of life improves,

Maharishi University of Management is also dedicated to creating permanent world peace and national invincibility for the U.S. and for every nation such that no nation in the world can be damaged any more by such negativity as terrorism, crime, disease, and war from outside or inside the nation. Our students, by practicing the Transcendental Meditation program and its advanced programs including Yogic Flying in the Golden Domes at the heart of our campus, have created a great particle accelerator of consciousness. With more than 2,000 participants, this group generates a more coherent and peaceful national consciousness. e eld eect of consciousness created by this group practice of Transcendental Meditation and Yogic Flying has been measured in 50 scientic studies. So every student and faculty member at Maharishi University of Management is a peace creator for the world and the creator of a more intelligent, balanced, and sustainable world. ere is no other place that feels like this, and no other group of people on earth living like this focused on enlightenment and profound unifying knowledge, eating organic food, living in FortuneCreating buildings, practicing prevention-oriented natural health care, setting an example to the world in sustainable living, living in harmony as a global family from 85 nations, and devoting themselves to the perpetual peace of the human race. We welcome you with all our hearts to come soon.

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e University at a Glance
Founded In 1971 by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the worlds foremost scientist of consciousness and scholar of the Vedic tradition of enlightenment, the worlds most ancient continuous tradition of knowledge. Faireld, Iowa, in the southeast corner of the state 60 miles west of the Mississippi River and 60 miles south of Iowa City in the center of the U.S. Accredited by the Higher Learning Commission, part of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools (ncahlc.org). Business programs accredited by the International Assembly for Collegiate Business Education (iacbe.org). Nonsectarian the University has students from every major religion. Bachelors Art Business Computer Science Education Literature and Writing Maharishi Vedic Science Mathematics Media and Communications Physiology and Health Sustainable Living Masters MBA / Sustainable Business MBA / Accounting Professionals Computer Science Maharishi Vedic Science Educational Innovation Doctoral Management Maharishi Vedic Science Physiology (research)

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Enrollment

1,109 students (fall 2011) 335 undergraduate students / 966 graduate students Students from 85 countries around the world in 2010 Enrollment has more than doubled in the last six years:
Total MUM Fall Enrollment Since 2000
1400 1200 1000 800 600 400 200 0 2000 2002 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

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Uniqueness

Maharishi University of Management is unique in American higher education in oering a Consciousness-Based approach: All students practice the Transcendental Meditation technique to develop their total brain potential. Our approach to teaching is unied eld-based. In contrast to fragmented approaches of other colleges and universities, our students gain total knowledge in terms of the unied eld, the eld of pure intelligence that gives rise to the ever-expanding universe and to all streams of knowledge. The health and well-being of students is paramount. We oer organic vegetarian dining, teach the value of staying rested, require daily exercise, and create a nurturing environment. Over 270 acres surrounded by wooded areas, elds, and two lakes. As of 2011, the University had over 45 buildings on campus, including 17 main classroom and administrative buildings. Iowa Association of Independent Colleges and Universities U.S. Green Building Council Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education More than 90% of the Universitys students receive Federal, State of Iowa, and/or other forms of nancial aid. The typical award for U.S. students covers 8090% of the tuition and fees. More than 90% are placed within 6 months of graduation. Our graduates have been employed by hundreds of companies in the U.S. and around the world. Many have started their own successful businesses. Our graduates have also been accepted at more than 100 graduate schools. More than $32 million in Federal and other grants awarded to date, to the University and to Maharishi University of Management Research Institute in collaboration with leading academic medical centers around the country, for scientic research and academic development, including more than $25 million from the National Institutes of Health for research in natural medicine. Faireld is known as the entrepreneurial capital of Iowa, and has 25 art galleries around the town square, an active theater and music scene, and more restaurants per capita than San Francisco. Our monthly Visitors Weekends oer the opportunity to meet faculty and students, learn about our education, visit classes, tour the campus, sample our food, and explore the community. For information call 800-369-6480 (outside the USA: 1-641-472-1110) or visit www.mum.edu/visitors.

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1971 |

e founding of the University

In 1971, after teaching the Transcendental Meditation program around the world for the previous 16 years, Maharishi began to formulate a new science that would oer a complete, systematic understanding of consciousness. He called the new discipline the Science of Creative Intelligence (SCI). Maharishi envisioned SCI as a supplementary course that could be taught at universities around the world. It would make all elds of knowledge meaningful, revealing the laws of nature at the basis of math, art, biology, and every other area of study. After studying SCI, a student would easily be able to connect any subject to his or her own Self. In 1971, SCI was introduced at such universities as Yale and Stanford with great success. at summer, Dr. Robert Keith Wallace, a post-doctoral researcher at Harvard whose Ph.D. dissertation had included the rst research on the Transcendental Meditation program, organized a large SCI symposium on the Amherst campus of the University of Massachusetts. At that conference, in the presence of leading scientists like Buckminster Fuller, Maharishi announced his intention to create a university whose entire curriculum would incorporate the Science of Creative Intelligence. Its name would be Maharishi International University.

Dr. Robert Keith Wallace, Founding President of Maharishi University of Management and pioneering scientic researcher on the Transcendental Meditation technique

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For complete fulllment, complete knowledge is necessary.

e original MIU catalog was a striking 420-page document that laid out Maharishis vision of Consciousness-Based education education for enlightenment along with BA, MA, and PhD programs, programs for global education, institutes and centers, summaries of the symposia he had held with noted scientists and scholars from numerous disciplines, scientic research on the benets of the Transcendental Meditation program, and more. Knowledge is for action, action for achievement, achievement for fulllment. us, knowledge is directly concerned with fulllment. For complete fulllment, complete knowledge is necessary. Complete knowledge should mean total knowledge of the object of inquiry and total knowledge of the subject: total knowledge of both the known and the knower. When the knower does not know himself, then the basis of knowledge is missing. In this situation of baseless knowledge, fulllment will always remain baseless. is is what mankind had been left to face concerning life throughout the ages. Now in this scientic age, it is high time for knowledge to be complete and for fulllment to be profound for every man, for every society, for the whole human race. Maharishi, from the original MIU Catalog

September 3, 1974 Arosa, Switzerland It is my delight to receive you in this new campus where you will be developing your full potential. Let every day structure a new step of progress. Infinite is the range of knowledge and so is your consciousness. Rise to wholeness and prepare to lead the world. Jai Guru Dev Maharishi

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1979 |

e rst Golden Dome generating invincibility and peace

In October 1979, the University and the community began construction of a 25,000-squarefoot wooden dome in the center of campus a Golden Dome. is would be the rst building in the world dedicated to group practice of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programs, including Yogic Flying. Construction companies had advised allowing 2 years to build such a dome. But the crew was intent on completing the building by January 12, just over 100 days later. People from all over the country came to help, working around the clock. To meet the deadline, the construction schedule specied eight separate, specic days for pouring concrete. On each of these days, the temperature would have to rise above 32 degrees and remain there until the concrete dried. And on each of these days, it did sometimes rising as much as 4050 degrees in a single day. And on each occasion, the concrete dried in a single day. e inauguration took place on January 12, 1980, right on schedule, one of the most moving and exhilarating events in University history. A year earlier on January 12, the temperature had been just 8 degrees. On this day it was a sunny 54 degrees. e dome structure was named the Maharishi Patanjali Golden Dome of Pure Knowledge, after the Vedic sage Patanjali, who brought forth the Yoga Sutras, the source of the TM-Sidhi program and Yogic Flying. A second Golden Dome was completed in 1981. roughout the world, these two Golden Domes symbolized group practice of Yogic Flying Maharishis technology for creating invincibility for every nation and peace for the world. Maharishi visited the campus at the end of 1979 while the Golden Dome was being constructed. He said: is rst Dome will create a very powerful inuence of coherence in the world consciousness. Well continue to purify world consciousness, day after day and week after week and year after year generation after generation. Its going to prove a blessing for the whole of mankind.

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Maharishi University of Management Firsts

1971 1973 1974 1977 1978 1979 1980

Maharishi founds Maharishi University of Management as the worlds rst Consciousness-Based educational institution and a global model for higher education. e University opens its doors to its rst students, in a motel complex in Santa Barbara, California. e University moves to Faireld, Iowa. First research on the Maharishi Eect, discovering that even 1% of a citys population practicing the Transcendental Meditation technique is sucient to reduce the crime rate and thus improve the quality of life of society. First students graduate from Maharishi University of Management. Maharishi University of Management becomes the rst university in the world to oer the TM-Sidhi program as part of its curriculum. Maharishi University of Management becomes the home of the worlds rst permanent national coherence-creating group group practice of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programs, including Yogic Flying. Inauguration of the worlds rst building designed and constructed for group practice of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programs the Maharishi Patanjali Golden Dome of Pure Knowledge. Maharishi University of Management gains accreditation from the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, becoming the rst accredited ConsciousnessBased institution in the world.

1981 1982

Maharishi School of the Age of Enlightenment founded as the rst ConsciousnessBased K12 school in the world. First time the size of a Yogic Flying group surpasses the square root of a nations population for an extended period when the number of Yogic Flyers in Faireld reaches 1,500 and sustains that number for the rest of the decade transforming U.S. quality of life, softening U.S.-Soviet relations, and contributing to the end of the Cold War. University faculty work closely with Maharishi to develop Unied Field Charts, a landmark new teaching technique.

1983

First demonstration that it is possible to create world peace from one place on earth, when more than 7,000 Yogic Flyers from around the world the square root of 1% of the worlds population gather in Maharishis presence at Maharishi University of Management. is was the historic global Taste of Utopia Assembly, which created a worldwide wave of coherence, harmony, and goodwill.

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19831984 | Giving the world a sweet taste of Utopia

7,000 Yogic Flyers create a global wave of harmony
In 1974, scientists at Maharishi University of Management discovered that when just 1% of a citys population was instructed in the Transcendental Meditation program, the quality of life in those cities began to rise, reected in reduced crime rate. ey called this eect the Maharishi Eect. When Maharishi brought out the advanced TM-Sidhi program in 1977, he predicted that an even smaller number would be required to begin to transform society the square root of 1% of a population practicing together in one place. At the end of November 1983, Maharishi called for Yogic Flyers from all over the world to come to Faireld to give the world a sweet taste of utopia. e goal was to assemble 7,000 Yogic Flyers in one place for several weeks the square root of 1% of the worlds population at that time. is would be the largest social experiment in history and it would be held in just three weeks.
Yogic Flyers participating in the historic Taste of Utopia Assembly gather in front of the Maharishi Patanjali Golden Dome of Pure Knowledge on the campus of Maharishi University of Management at the end of December 1983.

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Over the next three weeks, the campus was transformed. A 60,000-square-foot Grand Assembly Hall was built. A 200-unit mobile home park was installed. Another 15,000-square-foot building was constructed. And by the end of December, 8,000 Yogic Flyers from 46 countries had arrived. During those magical three weeks, a wave of harmony and goodwill swept the world. Stock markets soared all over the world, many setting new records repeatedly. International conict eased. Heads of state became more positive and cooperative. roughout the country, crime, air trac fatalities, and highway trac fatalities dropped signicantly. Trac fatalities dropped in countries as far away as Australia and South Africa. Infectious disease rates dropped throughout the country and as far away as Australia. ese outcomes were predicted in press conferences in advance of the Assembly. Based on this success, Maharishi called for a permanent group of 7,000 Yogic Flyers in the United States to create the Maharishi Eect on a permanent basis and transform the world. Maharishi said, e world can never remain the same old suering world.

Maharishi gathers with more than 7,000 Yogic Flyers in the e knowledge of the laws of nature in our possession today, he declared, Grand Assembly Hall during the Taste of Utopia Assembly.

is sucient to eliminate all suering and raise life to its full dignity.

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1984 | Breakthrough research on cardiovascular disease

the Institute of Natural Medicine and Prevention
In 1984, University scientists established the Laboratory for Health and Aging Studies. Later renamed the Institute for Natural Medicine and Prevention, this was the rst institute dedicated to research on Consciousness-Based Health Care. By the early 1990s, the Institute had received its rst grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). In the last two decades, the NIH has invested more than $25 million in this ongoing research, and the Institute, under the leadership of Dr. Robert Schneider and working in collaboration with leading universities and medical schools around the U.S., has produced study after study documenting the benets of the Transcendental Meditation technique for cardiovascular health and other disorders.

e research studies conducted by the Universitys Institute for Natural Medicine and Prevention have been greeted with national and international press coverage.

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Maharishi University of Management Firsts

1984

Establishment of the Laboratory for Health and Aging Studies (later renamed the Institute for Natural Medicine and Prevention), the rst institute dedicated to research on Consciousness-Based Health Care. is institute has received more than $25 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health and has produced study after study documenting the benets of the Transcendental Meditation technique for cardiovascular health and other disorders. First masters degree program in Maharishi Vedic Science begins. First bachelors degree program in Maharishi Vedic Science begins. First publication of an academic journal Modern Science and Vedic Science dedicated to exploring the relation between the modern academic disciplines and Maharishi Vedic Science, with articles by University faculty tracing the origin of each discipline to the self-interacting dynamics of the unied eld of natural law. First academic article, by Dr. John Hagelin in Modern Science and Vedic Science, showing that pure consciousness is identical with the unied eld of all the laws of nature.

1985 1986 1987

1988 1989 1990 1991

First PhD program in Maharishi Vedic Science begins. First widespread teaching of the Transcendental Meditation program in a Soviet Republic, Armenia, organized and led by faculty and administrators of Maharishi University of Management. More than 35,000 individuals were instructed in the Transcendental Meditation technique, more than 1% of Armenias population. First widespread teaching of the Transcendental Meditation program in Russia, led by University faculty and administrators. By the years end approximately 150,000 people had learned the Transcendental Meditation technique in Russia. Courses were also oered in the TM-Sidhi program, including Yogic Flying, as well as Transcendental Meditation Teacher Training courses. First PhD in Maharishi Vedic Science awarded.

an ideal spot an oasis in the desert of the whole world.

Maharishi University of Management in Faireld has already created

pure atmosphere of Faireld will raise that light of purity which will disallow ignorance to remain in any part of the world. Maharishi

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1993 | Reducing crime in the nations capital

the National Demonstration Project
In the summer of 1993, under the leadership of Dr. John Hagelin, the University organized a National Demonstration Project in Washington, DC is would be the most highly public demonstration of the Maharishi Eect to date, testing its ecacy in reducing crime and social stress and improving the eectiveness of government. In particular, Dr. Hagelin predicted violent crime would drop by 20%. In this carefully controlled experiment, the peace-creating group increased from 800 to 4,000 over the two-month period. Although violent crime had been steadily increasing during the rst ve months of the year, soon after the start of the study, violent crime (measured by FBI Uniform Crime Statistics) began decreasing and continued to drop until the end of the experiment (maximum decrease 23.3%), after which it began to rise again. e likelihood that this result could be attributed to chance variation in crime levels was less than two parts per billion. e drop in crime could not be attributed to other possible causes, including temperature, precipitation, weekends, and police and community anticrime activities. e study was published in Social Indicators Research, one of the leading social science journals.

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Decreased crime in Washington, DC correlate with increasing numbers of people practicing the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi program in the US national capital (Hagelin et al., 1999)

Immediately following the National Demonstration project, Dr. John Hagelin established the Institute of Science, Technology and Public Policy, an international center spearheading a wide range of cutting-edge national initiatives in the elds of peace, national health care, and education. He said: ere has been more scientic evidence on the eects of collective Yogic Flying for diusing social stress and resolving international conict than any previous approach in the history of the social sciences.

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2000 | Rebuilding the campus in harmony with natural law

In 2000, we embarked on an ambitious multi-year project to reconstruct the campus. e buildings would not simply be new they would be in accord with natural law, as specied . by the ancient and highly precise principles of Maharishi Vedic Architecture ese buildings promote the health and well-being of the people within them. e main elements of this ancient, mathematically precise approach (also known as Maharishi Sthapatya Veda design) include eastern orientation, precise proportioning, and proper placement of rooms within the building according to function. e reconstruction announcement opened a ood of nancial support, and the face of the campus was transformed. us far we have demolished 43 buildings, and 70 new buildings have been built, all using this ancient design approach. ese include the 48,000-squarefoot Argiro Student Center and classroom and administrative buildings as well as private homes, condos, and an oce building.

Maharishi Veda Bhavan Building

Argiro Student Center

Headley Hall

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e Sustainable Living Center, a revolutionary 7,000-square-foot building, will combine for the rst time ever all the features of four dierent sustainable building philosophies: LEED Platinum certication, the healthy-building principles of Baubiologie, the Cascadia Living Building Challenge, and Maharishi Vedic Architecture.

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2006 | Creating national coherence

the Invincible America Assembly
In July 2006, inspired by Maharishi, the University launched a major initiative to create coherent national consciousness, the basis of a peaceful, prosperous, invincible country. is was the Invincible America Assembly. Its aim: to build the size of the Yogic Flying group at the University to the square root of 1% of the U.S. population. is would be the largest scientic experiment ever to monitor the eects of a large group of advanced meditation experts on national economic and social trends. Since 2006, we have seen signs of rising national coherence and positivity. In 2010, for example, the FBI reported an unexpected 50-month decrease in violent crime in the U.S. Federal law enforcement ocials neither anticipated the sustained drop in violent crime, nor have they identied a cause. But before the Assembly started, Dr. John Hagelin predicted a dramatic crime decrease to the global press. Almost every day Assembly participants report extraordinary experiences of higher states of consciousness experiences of the highest levels of human development, unique in the worlds spiritual literature. ey simply close their eyes, dive within using Maharishis technologies of consciousness, experience the dynamically silent bliss of their own Self and the world around them is enriched and transformed.

With 2,000, you will begin to see the desired changes in society. Maharishi

In 2008, the University built the Tower of Invincibility to commemorate the Invincible America Assembly.

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Maharishi University of Management Firsts

1993

First national demonstration project on the Maharishi Eect, the Group for a Government Assembly, led by Dr. John Hagelin and other University leaders. A highly public demonstration in Washington, DC, the project brought together 4,000 Yogic Flyers from around the world to create coherence in the nations capital. e result: a 23% reduction in Washingtons violent crime rate, improved quality of life throughout the city, and restored public approval for the President. Establishment of the rst radio station, KHOE, playing Maharishi Gandharva Veda music, the melodies of nature, 24 hours a day to enliven peace and harmony in nature. Inauguration of the worlds rst university building, the Dreier Building, designed and constructed in accord with natural law using the principles of Maharishi Vedic Architecture, Fortune-Creating architecture and the launch of a multi-year campaign to rebuild the campus using this approach. Founding of Maharishi Vedic City by University faculty, the worlds rst city based on the principles of Maharishi Vedic Science. All buildings are designed and constructed in accord with natural law, using the principles of Maharishi Vedic Architecture. First of Maharishis Global Press Conferences, organized from Maharishi University of Management, continuing on a regular basis until 2007. Maharishi responds to questions from the press on a wide range of topics health, personal development, religion, national invincibility, world peace, and many more. First academic program in Sustainable Living in the world begins. e Invincible America Assembly inaugurated, to create a permanent group of at least 2,000 Yogic Flyers the square root of 1% of the U.S. population plus a safety margin to create coherence and invincibility for the nation and peace for the world. e rst Yogic Flying Maharishi Vedic Pandits come to the U.S. from India, residing initially on the MUM campus, increasing the number of Yogic Flyers to the square root of 1% of the U.S. population.

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First Maharishi Tower of Invincibility constructed, on the University campus. e Sustainable Living Center opens, the rst building in the world to combine four major building philosophies Maharishi Vedic Architecture, LEED Platinum Certication, the Living Building Challenge, and the healthy building principles of Baubiologie. e worlds rst completely integrated medical school, oering a traditional MD along with knowledge of the full range of natural, prevention-oriented medical approaches, with special emphasis on the Maharishi Vedic Approach to Health.

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Soon we will have a beautiful world, a new history, and youll be the writers of new history.
Maharishis address to the graduating students

e need of our time is to create the basis of a new history of the world. To say in short, the world needs really good leadership. One good leader in the world will create a new history in his country, and create an example of prevention-oriented, problem-free administration. Of course, money anyone can earn, but your earning will be a good, graceful fortune of all the millions of people of your countries. A peaceful, prevention-oriented administration you will provide to the country by just following the advice of your university. You have been trained under top scientists, under top enlightened people, and under those who have taken the responsibility to correct the wrongs of our civilization peacefully and establish the fortune of the world, the fortune of the people in every country, to be on a high level of fulllment.

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ai Guru Dev.

of the University. You will remain a joy to your parents, to your families, to your tradition, and you will be fullling the need of our time.
You have the ability through your morning and evening long programs to engage the total innite organizing power of natural law to work for you. Its a great achievement, and you have been very special in your age, and very fortunate that you will be able to fulll the aspiration of your parents. Parents always like to see their children on the top of success. ey want to see their children successful for themselves and for their environment, for their country, for everyone. So you will be fullling the aspiration of your parents, the aspirations of your professors. And above all, I invite you to fulll my aspiration, and my aspiration in the world what remains to be achieved is a permanent ground for peaceful life everywhere in auence and fulllment for everyone. You have that technique, that technology whereby you can utilize total natural law to

e students graduating today, you will always remain a joy

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fulll your desire, and your desire will be nothing less than a bright civilization for the people of your country to become an example to the people of other countries. ere is a proverb in Sanskrit, that one moon rising in the darkness of the night is enough to bring the light everywhere one single moon. So you will be the expected bright moon of your country, when now you will be going home to your dierent countries, or if you are in the U.S. itself, you will be the guiding light. You have that basis in knowledge of your Self, which you have achieved quietly inside yourself during your hopping periods in the Golden Domes of Maharishi University of Management, and of course, in the classes, with all the management skills that you have gathered. Your task will be to create beautiful lotuses on the muddy pond. And that will be from within your Self, from within your Self, from within your Self. I am telling you my experience of 50 years working in the Movement, giving lectures, persuading people, individually training teachers, and all opening universities, all that but I have come to the conclusion that now creating the eect is necessary. is is beyond publicity. is is beyond lecturing. is is beyond talking to the people. From ones own inner selfreferral consciousness, unied eld within

oneself, this Consciousness-Based education, Consciousness-Based health care system, Consciousness-Based agriculture, Consciousness-Based administration, Consciousness-Based defense, ConsciousnessBased progress will bring great progress with least eort. ere is a phrase, safety rst. Where is the safety? e safety is in not being lost in the diversity of the world. Maintain your steadfastness in your own inner silence, be self-referral consciousness. You have all the knowledge, you have all the knowledge, and you have all the programs for life. Be a guiding light for your entire environment, wherever you are. Wherever you are, your environment will have you as a guiding light. So take the advice of your professors, of your parents, and make hay when the sun shines. When you are fresh in your experiences of the inner Self, spread the light by cultivating your inner awareness more and more day by day. Bless them all [the students] and send them with cheers everywhere. Wherever theyll be, they are going to ring the bell of Eureka for themselves and for all their environment. All Glory to Guru Dev, and soon we will have a beautiful world, a new history, and youll be the writers of new history. Jai Guru Dev

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