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4. Students Taking TM-Sidhi Course Via Special Arrangement Thanks to their sincere desire to join the Invincible America campaign (see next article), a large number of students were expected to begin instruction in the TM-Sidhi® program as this issue of The Review goes to press. The students had expressed their eagerness to learn the TM-Sidhi program as soon as possible to contribute to greater coherence in the world and had initiated various fundraising plans. Then at a campuswide meeting for all those interested in taking this step, it was announced that there would be no charge for current students to learn the TM-Sidhi program if they would commit to participating in group program in the Golden Domes for a year. ³When we were told that the 59th CIC meeting would be free to all students, a wave of bliss swept through the room,² said Stephen Cardinal, president of Global Student Council. ³People were cheering, laughing, and hugging. It was an amazing experience to be there. We feel deeply blessed by Maharishi¹s divine generosity. The student body is eagerly looking forward to joining the Invincible America Course. Not only are we creating an Invincible America, we are creating history in the world and in Maharishi¹s Worldwide Movement for the Transcendental Meditation program.² Because of the urgency of the situation in the Middle East, and because of the need to have a larger number of participants practicing the TM- Sidhi program together in the Domes, a decision was made to start instruction immediately rather than to wait until the regularly scheduled TM-Sidhi course in November. The latter course will also be held, since some students weren¹t able to begin immediately. The offer of free instruction in the TM-Sidhi program has now been offered to anyone in the United States who practices the Transcendental Meditation technique and who is accepted to the TM-Sidhi program course. Those interested must move to Fairfield and commit to regular attendance in the Domes for a minimum of one year. 5. Invincible America Course to Continue Indefinitely In another historic summer almost rivaling the Golden Jubilee celebrations in The Netherlands last year, the University facilitated the Invincible America Course, the largest gathering of Yogic Flyers in the U.S. in over 12 years. The benefits of the course on all levels have been so great that the Invincible America Course will continue indefinitely. While Maharishi spoke last year of the arrival of Sat Yuga -- an era of prosperity, peace, and mass enlightenment -- he explained there could be many ups and downs until that era is stabilized. During July he recognized the extremely dangerous world events and called on every country to urgently establish groups of Yogic Flyers to practice the TM-Sidhi program at coordinated times. Over 45 scientific studies indicate that the square root of 1% of a population -- the Super Radiance number -- practicing the TM-Sidhi program as a group creates the Maharishi Effect. This effect raises national consciousness to a high level of integration and coherence so that the country radiates only friendliness and harmony to the family of nations and has no enemies. Although the U.S. did not achieve its Super Radiance number of 1,730, there were dramatic improvements on many levels. The stock markets improved so significantly the media referred to it as ³Wall Street Euphoria² and ³Blissful Shock.² Inflationary expectations were markedly better, oil prices dropped dramatically, and an oil exploration discovery indicated a potential increase in oil reserves of 50%. Intelligence agencies thwarted a terrorist attack. Most significantly, a ceasefire was achieved to stop the fighting between Israel and the Hezbollah in Lebanon. French fries may even return to the White House with the U.S. working with France in successful negotiations. Participants in Washington, D.C., and Fairfield enjoyed daily live conference calls with Maharishi. They spoke about their experiences from group program, and Maharishi gave many comments and brought out even more Vedic wisdom. He was pleased with the experiences on the course and said a bubble of stress had burst in world consciousness. Experiences were so profound most participants felt the benefits to be among the most transforming they¹d had. Most of the experiences exemplified or indicated achievement of higher states of consciousness or unique styles of mind and body functioning. 9. Ph.D. Grad Puts All Vedic Literature on the Internet As part of his dissertation research, recent Ph.D. grad Peter Freund, the University¹s videotape librarian, has put online the world¹s most comprehensive and orderly collection of Vedic Literature written in the Sanskrit Devanagari script. The collection comprises almost 60,000 pages of Vedic texts, including rare, sought-after, or out-of-print publications. Scholars and libraries from around the world contributed to the project by providing texts. Dr. Freund worked on the project as part of his dissertation for a Ph.D. in Maharishi Vedic Science(SM). The Vedic Literature website orders the previously scattered Vedic texts according to the principles of ancient Vedic Science revived by Maharishi, who first proposed a reading program in 1991 to allow students to read the Vedic Literature in Sanskrit in a proper sequence. Maharishi predicted the profound benefits that would result, and these have been verified by the experiences of students. The main goal of the website is to smooth the progress of the Vedic Literature reading curriculum. Previously, students faced a difficult task to gather or borrow all the texts and to get them in time to be read in sequence. Approximately 311 texts were identified by Maharishi as the essential parts of a reading program. So far 288 of these texts have been assembled and most are online. A small number of texts still need to be assembled or prepared, including rare texts in the Grantha script that need to be converted to Devanagari. The online collection shows an at-a-glance structure of the Vedic Literature with links to downloadable PDF files. The overview page has links for each of the 40 branches of the Vedic Literature, which in turn give each individual quality of a branch and how it correlates with the functioning of the physiology, as explained in the profound work of His Majesty Raja Ram. The Vedic Literature collection can be viewed at http://www.mum.edu/vedicreserve. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! 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