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Science and Spirituality
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Many decades ago,
a great scientist,
Albert Einstein attempted
to formulate the
“Unified Field Theory,”
also known as the
“Theory of Everything” –
a formula that marries
all of the forces of nature
into a single doctrine.
However he was
ultimately not successful
in reaching his goal
during his lifetime.
Now in this Golden Age,
scientists have continued
Einstein’s noble endeavor
to further explore the
very nature of existence.
One of these individuals
is Dr. John Hagelin.
Physics has come
a long way, especially
in the last 12 years since
the Superstring Revolution,
where we have,
to a good degree,
fulfilled Einstein’s
life-long dream to
discover the unified source
of the diversified universe;
to discover
the fundamental unity
at the basis of
the surface complexity
of the universe.
So the unified field is that
fundamental field of
intelligence
at the basis of all forms
and phenomena
in the universe.
Dr. Hagelin is
a world-renowned
vegetarian
quantum physicist, who
received his Ph.D. from
Harvard University, USA.
He is currently
the Director of
the Institute of Science,
Technology and Public
Policy, a leading science
and technology
think tank, and
International Director of
the Global Union of
Scientists for Peace,
an organization of
leading scientists
throughout the world
dedicated to ending
nuclear proliferation.
He has led studies on the
nature of consciousness,
and is a leader
among those working to
bring together science
and our spiritual heritage.
Dr. Hagelin
has developed the
“Grand Unified Field
Theory based on
the Superstring,”
a formulation he says
achieves Einstein’s vision
and the application
of which can bring about
peace in our world.
His work is an extension
of string theory, which
says everything is based
on one-dimensional,
unimaginably small
loop-shaped particles that
vibrate like violin strings.
The particular vibration
determines
the characteristics of
an object and the things
that it will experience.
Let us now learn more
about his findings.
Would you give us
a brief overview of
the Unification Theories
in physics?
Modern science has
explored deeper levels of
reality, more fundamental
space-time scales;
starting at the macroscopic
sensory level,
getting onto
the molecular, atomic,
nuclear, sub-nuclear
levels,
to the electro-weak
Unified Field Theory –
for which several Nobel
Prizes have been given –
to grand unification.
And now
super unification, where
all four forces of nature,
including gravity,
electro-magnetism,
radioactivity, and the
nuclear force become one.
And all those so-called
particles of nature also
become unified in the
single unified universal
field of intelligence at
the origin of the universe,
at the basis
of space and time.
That's what the
Unified Field Theory is.
We next asked
Dr. Hagelin to further
explain the nature of
the universal field
of intelligence.
Physics has discovered
something beyond matter,
something non-material,
because the material world
really stops at
about the atomic level.
Sub-nuclear particles like
photons, quarks, these
aren't particles at all;
they are expressions
of intelligence,
they are vibrational
modes of a universal field
or a superstring field.
So we've
gone beyond matter into
quantum mechanics, then
Quantum Field Theory,
and today, Unified
Quantum Field Theory.
We've left matter behind
in physics.
We're now about
the study of intelligence.
And so we have
this fundamental field
in physics, which is
a field of intelligence,
not dead intelligence,
dynamic intelligence,
self-interacting,
self-aware intelligence.
So, physics has really
encountered,
stumbled upon the field
of consciousness,
pure subjectivity
at the basis of the
objective reality of matter.
Physicists have
really probed beyond
the limits of matter, and
are into the exploration
of the fundamental
intelligence that gave
birth to the universe,
fundamental intelligence
that governs the universe.
So what is
the relationship between
unity, diversity
and individuality?
Our true Self is
our deep inner Self,
field of consciousness,
field of subjectivity,
the “I” within all of us,
that which experiences.
It's different from
your beliefs.
It's different from
anything specific
about your life.
It is the non-specific field
of pure subjectivity;
that which knows,
that which sees,
that is beyond the mind,
beyond the intellect,
even beyond emotion;
that is the true Self.
That pure consciousness
within is the unified field,
now being explored
by physics.
So, individuality,
this field of course
is universal, field of
universal consciousness
at our inner core.
But from that ocean of
universal consciousness,
swells up waves of
individual consciousness.
From individual
consciousness, ego,
comes individual mind,
individual senses,
individual body.
Individuality is just
a localized wave
on the Universal Ocean
of being,
Universal Ocean
of consciousness.
In meditation, for example,
I mean
effective meditation, that
takes you all the way
to that level of
universal consciousness,
in meditation,
you experience
the universal, unbounded
nature of consciousness,
our universal Self
and you experience
the emergence of
individual mind,
individual self, individual
thoughts and body
from that universality.
So modern science is
in a position to say,
“Yes, that's true,
that's how it works.”
But long before
the superstring,
the ancient sciences of
consciousness and
the deep philosophical
and spiritual traditions
of the world have
talked about the
fundamental unity of life,
and have even given
techniques of prayer
or meditation,
not any prayer,
not any meditation,
but specific techniques of
meditation that actually
take the awareness
so deeply within, that our
inner universal silent Self
is opened to
direct experience.
After this brief message,
we will continue
our engaging discussion
about the mysteries of
the universe
with Dr. John Hagelin.
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For years, physicists
have searched for
an all-encompassing
unified theory – a
“Theory of Everything,”
or a coherent set of laws
that describe
all forces of nature.
It is thought that
such a formulation could
provide answers to all the
mysteries of the universe,
including creation itself.
Dr. John Hagelin,
a respected vegetarian
quantum physicist from
the USA, has developed
the “Grand Unified Field
Theory based on
the Superstring”
which he says, “reveal[s]
the ultimate unity
underlying all life,
confirming the timeless
wisdom of the ages.”
We asked Dr. Hagelin
what his findings mean
for us and whether
we can tap into this unity
to better our world.
How can one access
the unified field,
the super unified field?
Even though we all have
consciousness,
by virtue of which I can
see you and hear you
in this, consciousness
is necessary
for any experience.
But consciousness itself
is un-experienced;
it's the experiencer.
Consciousness rarely,
if ever, has
the experience of itself.
It is always outwardly
directed to one thing or
one person or another;
a thought, an idea,
an emotion, an object,
a person;
that's not consciousness;
those are objects
of consciousness.
So, it's interesting,
in order to experience
our own subjectivity,
in order to know
our own consciousness,
our own Self,
you need a technique.
You need a technique
to take the outwardly
directed attention
and turn that attention
powerfully within,
to experience and explore
deeper levels of mind,
deeper levels of
human intelligence,
deeper levels of
consciousness.
Absolute universal
consciousness remains;
consciousness
aware of itself;
Self-awareness.
That's the meditative state.
And for that
a technique is necessary.
Just because we have
a lifetime of habit of
the attention
flowing purely without,
we need to turn it around
and teach it basically
to go within.
Dr. Hagelin says that
Transcendental
Meditation,
a meditation technique
developed by
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi,
can take one
into this deeper level
of consciousness.
Many scientific studies
have concluded that
heightened states
of awareness
can be achieved
during meditation.
Those who are
regular practitioners of
meditation report that the
experience of an intense,
restful state of mind
causes constructive
psychological changes
and improved quality
of life.
And interestingly enough,
that experience is a
fundamental importance,
even for education,
for example, because
that experience alone
engages the total brain.
It brings what's called,
"global EEG coherence,"
maximally expanded
comprehension,
which becomes
more and more stabilized.
And we have that
broad comprehension,
stabilized,
global EEG coherence,
permanently established,
that leads to increased
intelligence, creativity,
memory, moral reasoning,
academic performance,
learning ability,
reaction time, alertness;
everything good
about the mind
depends on it's
systematic development.
And that development
occurs not so much
through reading, writing,
arithmetic;
that development occurs
most rapidly and
most completely
through the experience of
unbounded awareness,
the meditative state.
You have mentioned the
benefits and implications
of the super unified field
and you mentioned
education.
Why isn't it applied?
It's a very interesting
question, because
scientists are
talking about
the unified field today.
Finally, they've gotten
to that level of
ultimate reality.
But in terms of applying
it, right now today, even
with particle accelerators,
as sophisticated
as they are, there's no
real technology to utilize
that most fundamental
and powerful level
of nature's functioning,
except to the human
nervous system, through
a subjective technology
of consciousness.
That experience of
expanded comprehension
develops the brain
holistically.
Not in a fragmented way.
You can study like I did,
15 years of physics.
You can develop this
sliver of the brain here.
Or you can study music
and develop
this sliver over here.
But in terms of
holistic development,
which is enlightenment,
higher states of
consciousness, you need
this more fundamental
experience of the big Self.
So the application of
the unified field
is a side effect
of experiencing it.
And the experience of
the unified field is what
develops the total brain,
what develops
enlightenment.
Dr. Hagelin
strongly believes that
all educational systems
should include
meditation practice
in their curriculum to
enhance students’ level
of performance
and overall lives.
There are maybe
700 studies published
in the world's
top scientific journals,
showing that
this experience,
the meditative state,
develops the total brain,
develops IQ,
improves learning ability,
gets rid of ADHD
(Attention-Deficit
Hyperactivity Disorder),
which is
a terrible epidemic today.
We've got to
have something that will
really work and to give
our children a chance,
especially children
who are locked in these
pressure cookers of stress,
give them a chance
to really succeed in life.
It has been in place
long enough to have done
a lot of published
research already
showing improved
academic performance,
radically reduced
suspension rates,
increased graduation
rates, better self-esteem,
less violence, less fights,
less disciplinary
infractions and so forth.
In fact, there's one school
in San Francisco (USA),
which was notorious
for its violence.
That school turned
around so profoundly,
through a number of
innovative improvements
including implementation
of TM (Transcendental
Meditation), what's called
a quiet time program,
time out twice a day.
That school improved
so much that the
principal of that school
was awarded
two years ago by
former (US) President
George W. Bush with the
Middle School Principal
of the Year Award.
Most successful principal
of the country, awarded
that because of his ability
to turn that school
around.
And TM was
a critical component of
the transformation
of that school.
Dr. John Hagelin is
dedicated to applying
the advances of science
to benefit humanity.
Join us September 20,
2010 for part two of
our interview with
Dr. Hagelin where he will
speak about the power
of group meditation and
the Maharishi Effect.
For more details
on Dr. Hagelin,
please visit
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to discover
our great Self within.
Welcome
friendly viewers to
Science and Spirituality
for part two
of our interview
with Dr. John Hagelin,
who is well known for
his “Grand Unified Field
Theory based on
the Superstring,”
a formulation he says
explains
all the forces of nature
in a single doctrine.
Dr. Hagelin is
a world-renowned
vegetarian
quantum physicist, from
the United States,
who received his Ph.D. from
Harvard University, USA.
He is currently
the director of
the Institute of Science,
Technology and Public
Policy, a leading
think tank housed at
the Maharishi University
of Management in
Fairfield, Iowa, USA, and
International Director of
the Global Union of
Scientists for Peace,
an organization of
leading scientists
throughout the world
dedicated to ending
nuclear proliferation.
He has led studies on the
nature of consciousness,
and is a leader
among those working to
bring science and our
spiritual heritage together.
Dr. Hagelin has authored
the book Manual for
a Perfect Government,
where he describes how
an educational system
which helps develop
human consciousness can
effectively build a stable
and peaceful society
as well as enhance
government’s effectiveness.
He has also
comprehensively
researched what is called
the Maharishi Effect,
which most simply put
is the constructive results
of a group of people
meditating together
using the Transcendental
Meditation method.
This type of meditation
practice was taught by
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi,
an Indian spiritual teacher.
Dr. Hagelin has published
scientific evidence
demonstrating that
when a sufficiently
large number of people
meditate together,
they can effectively
lower social conflict
as well as crime rates
in the vicinity around them.
Depending on
the size of the group,
the area affected can be
a city, a region, a country
or even the entire world.
Let’s now
learn more details about
the Maharishi Effect
from Dr. Hagelin.
The world is still plagued
by violence and war.
Is there a way to leverage
the power of meditation,
to produce social change
and even to stop warfare
in war torn areas?
And the answer,
amazingly, is “yes.”
First of all, basic principle:
we as individuals
are not islands.
We have an inevitable
effect on each other,
on our families,
on our work environments,
on our schools.
And if one person
is extremely agitated,
that has an infectious,
negative, ripple effect.
If somebody is
very harmonious,
very calming, very unifying,
very loving, that also
has a positive, calming,
ripple effect.
So just as violence,
chaos, and panic can
spread through a city;
harmony, unity,
coherence, and calm
can spread through a city.
What does it take to
achieve a society-wide
transformation,
where you could lower
crime rates for example,
in a whole city,
in a whole country?
Well, it takes
a few people to do that.
It would take about
one percent of a city,
taking time out twice a day
- to meditate, to transcend
- to reduce violence
and increase calm and
coherence and harmony
within the city.
But if you can get those
meditators together
in a group,
practicing very specific,
very powerful meditations,
like we have here
in Fairfield, Iowa (USA),
a group of 2,000
advanced meditators,
dedicating hours a day
to their collective practice
of transcendental
meditation and
advance techniques,
it’s transcending
and experiencing this
powerful field of unity
and creating a ripple effect
from that deepest
most powerful level,
that can transform
the entire country.
For this whole country
of the United States,
about 2,000 people
are enough, according to
theory and research
to produce
a demonstrable change,
a significant change.
And since this group started
four years ago today,
we predicted in advance
that there would be
significant reductions
of crime
throughout the country.
We predicted in advance,
with the press,
that our country would
adopt a more peaceful
effect in the world,
role in the world, a more
peaceful administration.
Well, what has happened?
According to
all the newspaper articles
today, that crime
started going down,
four years ago this month,
and crime is down right now
to the lowest point
in the United States,
murder in particular,
in 40 years,
just as predicted.
According to
the universities
in the country that
measure peacefulness
of a whole country
and peacefulness in
the political relationships
of a country, this country
is also right now,
in terms of foreign policy,
more peaceful than
it has been in decades.
In the scientific world,
research conclusions are
much more readily accepted
if the study has been
published in a respected
peer reviewed journal.
The experiments involving
the Maharishi Effect
have appeared in
leading scientific journals,
including the prestigious
Yale University, USA’s
Journal of
Conflict Resolution and
Social Indicators Research.
There are many studies
about this,
50 published studies.
This group
of advanced meditators
located here
at Maharishi University
of Management
in Fairfield, Iowa, USA
has itself been enough
to begin to turn the tides
in the United States,
from higher crime
to much lower crime
and to certainly
a more peaceful outreach
to the world, as predicted.
So it's very possible
to do this.
It takes a number of people,
of course,
to change the direction
of an entire country,
but 2,000 is enough.
When we hit 2,500,
which I'm hoping
we do within a year,
that transformation will be
far more comprehensive
and far more profound.
If you can get even
a couple thousand
together in one place
practicing their TM, and
advanced techniques of
transcendental meditation,
you can create a
peace promoting factory.
After this brief pause,
we will continue
our engaging discussion
with Dr. John Hagelin
director of the Institute
of Science, Technology
and Public Policy.
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to Supreme Master
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And one of the reasons
for my being here
in the corn fields of Iowa
is to help build this
peace promoting group
of meditating experts,
to produce
a powerful influence peace
for the country,
and hopefully
turn the United States
into a beacon light
of peace for the world.
Welcome back to
Science and Spirituality
on Supreme Master
Television
featuring an interview
with Dr. John Hagelin,
a world-renowned
vegetarian
quantum physicist.
Dr. Hagelin says that
to explain the essence
of the universe, physicists
have gone beyond
exploring the realm
of physical matter
and now focus on
the field of consciousness
as the actual heart of all
that there is in the cosmos.
His explanation of
how our universe works
is called
the “Grand Unified Field
Theory based on
the Superstring.”
Dr. Hagelin says the key
to accessing this field
is meditation.
We need to take mind
to the awareness
beyond the mental, to
the field of consciousness.
That’s where
nature is most powerful.
That’s where
peace is powerful.
You need to really
change human behavior
at a deeper level.
You need to actually
start to rewire the brain,
so that the scientific truth
of the unity of life,
the unity of humanity
becomes a living reality
in daily life.
You need to elevate
the consciousness.
Remember the super-string
unified field
is the foundation
of nature’s intelligence.
It is a level of dynamism,
where the energy density
is a thousand, million,
million times more powerful
than the nuclear force.
That’s the level where
you can even overwhelm
the destructive potential
of nuclear weapons,
millions of times more
powerful, to prevent
the use of nuclear weapons.
The scriptures tell us
that with a mustard seed
of faith,
you can move mountains.
How do we explain that,
and how do we
harness that power?
You harness that power
by taking the awareness
from the very superficial,
which is where the mind
is weak, to deeper
and deeper levels, where
the mind is powerful.
Why is nuclear power
a million times
more powerful
than chemical energy?
Because chemical energy
operates at
the molecular level.
Nuclear power operates
at the nuclear level,
which is a million times
smaller and therefore,
according to
quantum mechanics,
a million times
more powerful.
So the deeper you go,
the more powerful
you become.
You can shout out
the name of God, and
you get some emotional
kind of upliftment.
You can settle down deeply
and feel God’s presence,
and that has
a more powerful
pervasive influence
on the mind and body.
Or you can go deeper still
and unite with God,
on the level of being.
There is where
you can move mountains.
And group meditation
is taking a group
of individuals, contacting
and stimulating
that most fundamental
and powerful field
of nature’s intelligence to
transform entire societies.
You are saying that
the practice of meditation,
and specifically
group meditation,
takes one beyond
this concept level
into a beingness level?
Absolutely.
Even as individuals
we have a lot of power
from that deepest,
deepest level of our being.
In a group,
that power is actually
amplified powerfully.
The reason we bring
the group together
is to leverage that power.
For example, if you have
two loudspeakers;
if those speakers are
playing the same sound,
it’s called
a monaural signal.
If those two speakers
are moving together,
they produce a sound wave
that’s twice as big,
twice as tall
as a single speaker.
But the power of that wave,
the volume of the sound,
grows as the square
of the height of the wave.
So instead of
getting twice the sound,
you get
four times the sound.
Three loud speakers give
you nine times the sound,
nine times the power.
The principle there
is called constructive
interference, or
the n-squared power
of coherent radiators.
If you put
2,000 coherent radiators
in a group,
all experiencing and
stimulating in unison,
that field of unity at
the basis of all diversity,
that becomes
a tidal wave of unity,
a tidal wave of peace.
And you can have people
that are miles away,
hundreds of miles away,
from the Golden Domes
in Fairfield, Iowa, where
people assemble to practice
their group meditation,
and you’ll
feel the influence.
We also asked Dr. Hagelin
about the vegetarian diet
and how it influences
the Maharishi Effect.
There’s a lot of research
on vegetarianism, and
even veganism, and health.
Based on my experience,
a vegetarian diet
does tend to make you
more subtle, more clear,
and more peaceful.
Through his research
Dr. Hagelin has verified
the power of
group meditation
in creating a peaceful
and harmonious energy
that reaches out
and embraces others
in surrounding areas,
thereby promoting
more constructive lives
and the love of all beings.
Thank you
Dr. John Hagelin
for your contributions to
advancing global peace
through your scientific work
on group meditation,
the nature
of consciousness, and
the Grand Unified Field
Theory based on
the Superstring.
May God continue to bless
your kind and noble work
which reminds us that
universal consciousness
and love
know no boundaries.
For more details
on Dr. Hagelin,
please visit
Manual for
a Perfect Government
is available
at the same website
Esteemed viewers,
thank you for
your gracious company
on today’s episode of
Science and Spirituality.
Coming up next is
Words of Wisdom, right
after Noteworthy News.
May we always earnestly
seek the inner peace within.