loWelcome caring viewers to this week’s edition of Science and Spirituality on Supreme Master Television. 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. Please stay tuned to Supreme Master Television.

Welcome back to Science and Spirituality on Supreme Master Television. 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

Thank you loyal viewers for your company today on Science and Spirituality. Up next is Words of Wisdom, after Noteworthy News. May we all take time 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. Please stay tuned to Supreme Master Television.

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.