Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume 36, Number 2. 7th March 1973
Creative Intelligence & Education
Creative Intelligence & Education
Creative intelligence is defined as the impelling life force which manifests itself in the evolutionary process through creation of new forms and new relationships in the universe. The science of Creative Intelligence (SCI) is a systematic study of its nature, origin and development, and incorporates a natural means of experienceing its whole range, in the application of this field of intelligence to daily life, through the regular practice of the simple technique of transcendental meditation, the practical aspect of this science.
The present system of education is such that the mind is continuously channelled into specialist roles from early school days. While specialisation is good and necessary up to a point, it has become so over-emphasised that it is now looked upon as the desirable norm, and a broad view of life in all its aspects is even discouraged as a waste of time. What is needed then, is some means of linking all branches of specialised learning so as to see the overall picture. The Science of Creative Intelligence provides just such an holistic basis for it draws together the source and goal of all knowledge, bringing to light a natural inter relationship among all disciplines.
(The following article was written at special request by Louise Volse—currently the only teacher in Wellington trained by Maharishi to teach this technique. He is on leave of absence from California State University in Los Angeles where he is Assistant Professor of Engineering).