A Research Guide to the Literature of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Since the mid-1950s, a significant global research and publishing program has accompanied the teaching of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi program, Science of Creative Intelligence (SCI), Maharishi Vedic Science and Technology, Maharishi Technology of the Unified Field, Maharishi International University (MIU) in USA, Maharishi Vedic University (MVU) in Holland, and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Vedic Vishwavidyalaya in India. This research program in Vedic knowledge and its application, along with its accompanying international publishing effort, consists of thousands of published documents, many authored by Maharishi, including books, booklets, literature reviews, white papers, conference proceedings, display charts, and posters, most in English but many also translated into languages as diverse as Spanish, Russian, Turkish, Hindi, Malayalam, and Mandarin. Topics addressed by Maharishi include investigations into Veda and the Vedic Literature, consciousness, Natural Law and the laws of nature, physics (particularly quantum unified field theories), biochemistry, physiology, mathematics, law, justice and rehabilitation, education, health and ageing, government, business and industry, management, economics, art and architecture, and agriculture, among many other academic disciplines and applied areas of life. Moreover, a corpus of more than 650 experimental and quasi-experimental studies, time-series analyses, meta-analyses, mixed methods, and social impact assessments, along with theoretical and review studies associated with Maharishi Vedic Science and its applied technologies, accompany Maharishi’s published literature. This unique record of research excellence combines with experiential, qualitative, descriptive, and case study accounts of Maharishi’s teaching and its application to all areas of life, such as health, education, business, government, and social well-being—all of it documented with evidentiary support and explained using a range of charts, graphs, conceptual maps, diagrams, and other visual aids—to provide a vast body of advanced Vedic knowledge dedicated to establishing the fullness of individual and social life for everyone on earth. This Research Guide builds upon the work presented in earlier related journal publications by this author: 1) Fergusson, L. (2016). An annotated historical survey of 84 publications by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi from 1957-2015, International Journal of Current Research, 9(2), 47009–47054; and 2) Fergusson, L. (2017). Researching Maharishi Mahesh Yogi: An archive of published literature from 1957–2015, Journal of Maharishi Vedic Research Institute, 3, 5–351, as well as the first edition of this book: Fergusson, L. (2018). A research guide to the literature of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Maharishi Vedic Research Institute Press (ISBN: 978-0-9872633-8-4, 435pp). The present Research Guide identifies and evaluates 369 published documents by Maharishi, including authoritative books and other documents written and prepared by in-house and/or affiliated writers and publishers, to detail the topics, themes, principles and disciplines he examined over a 50-year period and thereby to better comprehend the scope of his written output. The purpose of this Research Guide is to provide the reader–researcher with information and background material on the published works of Maharishi and other authoritative sources and to furnish an appropriate context in which this significant body of work can be accessed and comprehended for scholarly benefit and for the systematic presentation of Maharishi Vedic Science and Technology. The goal of the Research Guide therefore is to create a record of literature by Maharishi and others since 1955 and to provide functionality for its access. Table of Contents: Introduction 1 Part 1—Survey of Maharishi’s Literature 5 Part II—Research Bibliography 317 Part III—General Index 373