In Maharishi's version of the Hindu cosmology, all beings are dissolved with the dissolution of creation in the Mahapralaya at the end of the Yuga cycles. The only exception according to Maharishi is a person who has achieved,not just a celestial nervous system, but an absolute nervous system. Again according to Maharishi, only one person in history was said to have achieved this and he didn't mention who that was on the tape I heard.
So we come to where Maharishi got this idea. It was NOT his experience since this is impossible according to his own teaching. It comes from something he read or was told by someone quoting the teaching of his tradition. In other words, Maharishi's assumptive statements about the nature of reality amount to no greater epistemological merit than the bubba in a revival church in Mississippi stating with the same assumptive enthusiasm: "Its in the good book Mister, and that is the word of God. Now you had better believe it as a fact, or get your pansy ass back to the big city and wait for God's wraith to destroy the world's second Gomorrah!" ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <jr_esq@...> wrote : Salyavin, Maharishi was saying that the universe is part of the creative intelligence of the unified field. Similarly, he does not say that the origin of species is completely random. Rather, the evolution of species is based on the creative intelligence of the unified field as well. That's why he said that those who are not familiar with the transcendental field will only base their theories on the physical and the measurable. IOW, these theories that are based on the waking state of consciousness are completely different from those who understand the transcendental and cosmic states of consciousness. Here's MMY's explanation: Maharishi on the Origin of Species (Part 7 of 9) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Hi8-lJ0XEw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Hi8-lJ0XEw Maharishi on the Origin of Species (Part 7 of 9) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Hi8-lJ0XEw Maharishi Mahesh Yogi speaks about "the Origin of Species," June 21, 1976 - Part of 7 of 9. Dr Brian Josephson comments later. Transcendental Meditation h... View on www.youtube.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Hi8-lJ0XEw Preview by Yahoo ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <jr_esq@...> wrote : Since we've been discussing the origin of the universe lately, it would be nice to review what Maharishi had to say about this subject. Essentially, he was saying that the view of the new atheists are limited in that their philosophy only addresses one phase of life, which is the waking state. It is does not address the values relating to sleeping, dreaming, transcendental consciousness, and the other higher levels of existence. As such, atheism does not satisfy nor bring bliss to the mind. But John, I'm both satisfied and a happy sort of chap and I achieve it without the need for a god. We are all the same, I'm tellin ya ;-) The thing you need to know is that evolution will explain all states of consciousness as being part of brain structure and not just the one you call "waking state". They are all neurophysiological states so they will all come under the same fundamental encompassing umbrella of chemical interactions. I used to be fascinated by what enlightenment meant for Darwinism but have reached a sort of peace with it and don't anymore think it's a worryingly complex thing to have lying latent in our brains as a kind of pre-adaptation without anything to be pre-adapted from. Back to the case at hand; Maharishi, of course, flatly refuses to answer the question about the origin of the universe and just gives the his usual sap bollocks answer that every question is an opportunity for him to warm over and drone on about for a few hours. It's just a shame everyone there is too polite to mention it. But then they wouldn't be sitting there if they weren't terminal, grovelling yes-men. Another wasted opportunity for a proper scientist to demolish the drivel of the reesh and challenge him to either explain what he knows or admit that he doesn't have an answer. The origin of the universe - like every other physical problem - will be explainable mathematically, somehow. Because the universe is made of small bits of stuff, being in a different state of consciousness isn't going to change the math that explains things. If his answer actually provided an explanation he could have given it there and then but he didn't. I've mentioned it before but the enlightened could have saved everyone a lot of bother - or at least made an interesting prediction - by telling everyone at CERN what the electron weight of the Higg's boson was. Not even John Hagelin knew what it was going to be. That would have been a practical demonstration of the power of enlightenment but they blew it. Origin of the Universe (Part 1 of 2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIBXn_mr2Zg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIBXn_mr2Zg Origin of the Universe (Part 1 of 2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIBXn_mr2Zg Physicist, Ilya Prigogine discuss's the origin or the universe with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Prigogine describes how it is difficult to explain the origin of t... View on www.youtube.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIBXn_mr2Zg Preview by Yahoo
