MY INNER SELF IS THE BASIS OF ALL CHANGE : A CASE STUDY OF LIVED EXPERIENCE
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This paper presents a qualitative phenomenological case study of lived experiences resulting from one student’s research in consciousness while participating in the Bachelor of Arts degree program in The Science of Creative Intelligence for Management, Rajapark Institute, Thailand. This study seeks to understand meaning and to explore significance of results that were gained through utilizing the research in consciousness technologies of the Transcendental Meditation (TM) technique and its advanced programs, which form the practical aspect of the Science of Creative Intelligence, a complete science of consciousness. The results are centered on the theme: research into what is beyond change.
This student describes lived experiences of what she calls her deepest inner Self, leading to feelings of contentment, bliss, love, fulfillment, and happiness just from within. In order to explore meaning and identify significance, this study examines these results in the context of the theoretical principles of the Science of Creative Intelligence that describe changing and non-changing values of consciousness. Findings reveal the results clearly suggest the development of higher states of consciousness—particularly Transcendental Consciousness—which the consciousness literature explains is characterized by an inner experience of an unchanging field of pure consciousness, one’s inner Self. Triangulation builds deeper meaning by correlating the results with both principles of ancient Vedic science and modern quantum physics. Further, this triangulation shows that these qualitative results support published quantitative research that documents EEG changes showing a distinct shift from incoherent partial brain functioning to coherent total brain functioning during meditation practice leading to extensive benefits in daily life.
Keywords: consciousness, Transcendental Meditation, total brain functioning
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