Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Mother DivineSM program and what are the requirements for joining?
Why are you called The Mother Divine program?
Who joins the Mother Divine program?
Where is the Mother Divine program located?
What are your accommodations?
How can I receive additional information or apply?
What is the Transcendental Meditation® technique?
What is the TM-Sidhi® program?
Is there scientific research to support the benefits of the Transcendental Meditation and
TM-Sidhi programs?
How can your group practice of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programs influence
the nation and the whole world?
What is the Mother Divine program and what are the requirements for joining?
The Mother Divine program is an advanced program for developing higher states of consciousness. The program was inaugurated in 1981 to fulfill two purposes:
- To allow ladies the opportunity to deepen their experiences of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programs and enliven 24-hour bliss in daily life.
- To create large, permanent coherence-creating groups to radiate a powerful influence of harmony and bliss throughout the whole world.
All single ladies 18 years or older who are practicing the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programs, including Yogic Flying, and who aspire for this sublime quality of life, are eligible to apply. The starting date is generally the first of each month.
Why are you called The Mother Divine program?
In the Vedic Tradition, the name “Mother Divine” refers to the nourishing, evolutionary power of Natural Law lively within all of creation and within the silent consciousness of everyone. The daily extended practice of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programs by those participating in the Mother Divine program enables them to blossom in the cosmic value of Mother Divine within themselves and to enliven this nourishing influence in collective consciousness for the benefit of the nation and the world.
Who joins the Mother Divine program?
Students, businesswomen, artists, educators—more than 1,000 ladies from 40 countries with a wide range of professional and educational backgrounds have spent time with us. The group is surprisingly diverse yet shares a common purpose of developing higher states of consciousness.
Where is the Mother Divine program located?
We have lived all over the world since our group was founded in 1981. We participated as a group in international World Peace projects in Switzerland, Italy, France, Holland, India, Thailand, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico, before coming to the United States in 1992. We spent six years in the Catskill Mountains of New York, about 7 years in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, and are now living on the Vedic Scholar's campus in Maharishi Vedic City, USA.
What are your accommodations?
As a member of the Mother Divine program, you will enjoy comfortable accommodations and delicious organic vegetarian cuisine, prepared in accordance with the principles of Maharishi Ayur-VedaSM to create balance in the physiology and promote perfect health. You will be inspired and delighted by the beauty of nature and the deeply silent, vibrant air that permeates the abode of the Mother Divine program.
How do I receive additional information or apply?
The easiest way is just to call us directly. Our toll-free number is 877-77BLISS and we can send you a brochure or answer your questions directly. Outside the USA call 641-209-1835 or fax 641-472-1738.
What is the Transcendental Meditation technique?
The Transcendental Meditation technique is a simple, effortless mental procedure whereby the mind easily and naturally arrives at the source of thought, the settled state of mind—Transcendental Consciousness—pure consciousness, self-referral consciousness, which is the source of all creative processes. This process can be likened to a river which naturally and effortlessly flows on to the ocean and gains the status of the ocean.
The Transcendental Meditation technique is practiced for 15 to 20 minutes in the morning and evening, while sitting comfortably with eyes closed. During this technique the individual’s awareness settles down and experiences a unique state of restful alertness; as the body becomes deeply relaxed, the mind transcends all mental activity to experience the simplest form of awareness—Transcendental Consciousness—where consciousness is open to itself. This is the self-referral state of consciousness.
The experience of Transcendental Consciousness develops the individual’s latent creative potential, while dissolving accumulated stress and fatigue through the deep rest gained during the practice. This experience enlivens within one’s awareness creativity, dynamism, orderliness, and organizing power, which results in increasing effectiveness and success in daily life.
The Transcendental Meditation technique can be easily learned by anyone. People of all levels of intelligence, of all ages, and of diverse cultures, religions, and educational backgrounds in countries throughout the world practice the technique.
What is the TM-Sidhi program?
An advanced aspect of the Transcendental Meditation technique, the Transcendental Meditation–Sidhi ProgramSM, including Yogic Flying, trains the individual to think and act from the level of Transcendental Consciousness, greatly enhancing the coordination between mind and body. The Transcendental Meditation-Sidhi Program including Yogic Flying has also been shown to produce greater coherence, or orderliness, of brain functioning.
When groups of individuals practice the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programs together in one place, the effect is amplified. A tiny percentage of a population—as small as the square root of 1%—can create a powerful influence of harmony, coherence, and orderliness that radiates throughout society.
Like a radio transmitter sending sound waves through an invisible field, individuals practicing these meditation technologies radiate their peaceful influence through the abstract, transcendental field of consciousness. Even on the far side of the globe, this peaceful influence can be measured.
Is there scientific research to support the benefits of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programs?
Over 600 research studies, conducted at more than 200 research institutions and universities in 30 countries, show the wide-ranging benefits of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programs. These benefits include improved health, increased intelligence, improved interpersonal relationships, and decreased crime and terrorism.
How can your group practice of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programs influence the whole society and even the whole world?
Today’s most advanced scientific thinking equates the Unified Field—the home of all the Laws of Nature—with Transcendental Consciousness, the simplest state of human awareness. This means that the same natural law that makes the huge galactic universe float in empty space can be accessed in the transcendental field of human consciousness.
The Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programs, including Yogic Flying, allow individuals to directly experience the Unified Field—Transcendental Consciousness—as the finest, most silent level of their own awareness. This experience of the Unified Field in one’s own consciousness enlivens the infinite intelligence, organizing power, and orderliness of nature in one’s own thoughts and actions. The Unified Field then becomes a living reality. Daily life is lived more in harmony with Natural Law, with the result that individuals begin to enjoy better health, greater intelligence, and increased creativity.
Because the unified field is a field of infinite correlation, where everything is connected with everything else, when it is enlivened in one place, it is enlivened everywhere. This is how large groups of individuals practicing the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programs, including Yogic Flying, in one place can radiate an influence of peace and coherence throughout their environment. By enlivening that basic field of infinite orderliness and harmony in one place, they enliven it everywhere.
Research shows that the larger the group, the stronger the influence of coherence. If the number in the group is large enough, the area affected can be a city, a country, or the world. Groups of even a few thousand can create a global effect.
How the Technologies of Peace Work
In recent decades, modern science has revealed progressively deeper layers of order and unification in nature, from the atomic to the nuclear and sub-atomic levels of nature’s functioning. This exploration culminated in the recent discovery of one, single Unified Field of all the Laws of Nature—the ultimate source of everything in the universe. The Unified Field is a transcendental field of perfect coherence and harmony. It is a scientific fact that at that level, we and everything in creation are one.
These scientific discoveries provide us with a simple formula to change the trends of time from increasing negativity to increasing positivity. Establishing permanent groups of individuals practicing these technologies of peace in every part of the world will continually nourish the positive trends and tendencies of life, creating a beautiful atmosphere of peace everywhere on earth.
To date, almost 50 research studies, many published in peer-reviewed academic journals, have shown the power of the group practice of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programs, including Yogic Flying, to reduce crime, warfare, terrorism, and other indicators of social stress. This body of research is a gem of social science, not only because of the significance of its outcomes but also because of its rigorous methodology.
For example, one study (shown below, left) evaluated the effects of seven world peace projects in which large groups practiced the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programs, including Yogic Flying, in one place. This study found that the increased progress towards peace shown during each of the project periods, taken together, had a statistical significance so great that the possibility that such a dramatic reduction in conflict could have occurred by chance was less than one in a million trillion times.
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