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This here represents the surface [snorts] of life. Surface. And we see surfaces, you know? [music] Surfaces.
And about 300 years ago, scientists, they started wondering what [music] was this wood, and what was this metal, and what was it really? So, they started looking into matter. So, this side is matter. And this side [music] is mind. Mind and matter.
And the scientist, well, they [music] discovered molecules. Deeper they went, and they discovered these atoms. And like I say, they thought that was the smallest particle for a long time. All these things we learn about in school. They went deeper, and they found inside the atoms these little electrons, and neutrons, and protons. And they went deeper, and deeper, and deeper. Smaller and smaller particles. Smaller and smaller particles. They found four forces. On a deeper [music] level, the four became three. And on a deeper level, the three became two.
And then [music] about 30 years ago, modern science, quantum physics, discovered the unified field. The unity of all the particles and all the forces of matter, of creation. Not only did they discover the unified field, but [music] they found that everything that is a thing emerges from this field of no-thing. Unmanifest it is. Unmanifest it is no hyphen thing, but all things come from it. Anything that is a thing has emerged from this field of unity. It's oneness. The scientist know this exists. But if they wanted to get there, they can't; you can't get there. It's unmanifest. You can't walk into this field.
But any one of those scientists could practice a technique, Transcendental Meditation, which – remember it – true happiness is not out there. You're given a mantra. A mantra: a very specific sound, vibration, thought. Very specific. It needs to be life-supporting at all deeper levels. And that mantra that you're given, that Maharishi gives, is the key that opens the door. The mantra turns the mind within. Turns the awareness within. And you naturally dive.
Why is it natural? Because each deeper level of mind and each deeper level of intellect [music] has more happiness. And the deeper levels of mind and deeper levels of intellect correspond to deeper levels of matter. At the borderline of intellect, you transcend. "Transcend" is the keyword. [music] It means to go beyond. You're going beyond the field of relativity, duality, experiencing oneness: pure, unbounded, infinite consciousness. This consciousness has qualities: infinite creativity, intelligence, energy, love, power, and bliss. Dynamic peace. Always been there, never had a beginning. It is, and it will be, forever. Unbounded, infinite, eternal, immutable, immortal consciousness, fullness.
Any human being can experience this easily and effortlessly with Transcendental Meditation. Transcendental Meditation is just a vehicle to get [music] you here. When you experience this level, you enliven it, and it grows in the individual.
So, if you started [music] with a ball of consciousness this big... Everyone has consciousness. Consciousness is the way to understand consciousness: if you took it away, you'd see what [music] it really is. You take. If there wasn't any consciousness, we wouldn't exist. And if we did exist, we wouldn't know it. It's the "I am-ness" of life. It is life itself. Tied to consciousness [music] is all this: creativity, intelligence, energy, love, power, bliss, dynamic peace, all positive light of unity, all positive. You experience this level, and you enliven it, and this ball of consciousness that you thought was just going to stay the same for the rest of your life starts expanding, and these qualities expand. So, day by day, you're growing creativity, [music] intelligence, love, energy, and this ball of consciousness is now expanding, and you're owning unconscious or subconscious more and more and more.
A side effect of the growth of this consciousness is negativity starts to recede. Tension – I'm writing all these things – stress, anxiety, sorrow, depression, anger, hate, fear, all starts to go. It can't live in the light of this. In schools, when there's stress, anxiety, [music] horror stories, depression, so many people on pharmaceutical drugs, suicides, shootings, stabbings... You give a student this technique. It's easy to do. It's not concentration; it's not contemplation. Concentration and contemplation keep you right on the surface. You're not transcending. It's this field that does everything for the human being. This field. And you experience this field when you really get there and transcend.
This is transcendental consciousness. [music] It's, you know, there are so many names for this field: The Tao, Kingdom of Heaven, all these names for this one field, the Absolute, Totality. In Vedic language, this field is called Atman. A [music] T M A means the Self with a capital S. Know thyself. Get there. Know it by being it. Unfold it. And what you're doing is unfolding your full potential as a human being. [snorts] Your full potential of the beautiful human being is called enlightenment. And people can unfold their enlightenment.
And then, you're not angry anymore? No, I told [music] you that anger lifted away without trying. Poison to the artist, poison to the environment, poison to the human being. It lifts away without trying. But it's not that you become numb – no – and sleepy and don't want to work. You get more energy, more enjoyment of the doing. And negativity lifting means that the conduit of the flow of ideas, the flow of creativity, is not cramped by that. Negativity restricts that flow. So, you know, and you can still have righteous anger. Being very strongly for something or against something [music] beautiful. But, the kind of anger that is just bitter, just like selfish kind of anger – no one wants to be around this kind of person, and the person's poisoning themselves. The person can't work so good. The. That's mind control. Negativity is really mind control. Depression controls the mind now. Can't work. Anger controls the mind. You can't work. Sorrow. Some people hold sorrow for years. And you want to visit them and cheer them up, but it doesn't do anything. You give them the chance to transcend, and watch what happens. Sorrow will lift away. They'll be back on the road. [music]
You started 34 years ago to go deeper and deeper into that spiritual journey, but it's lately only that you decided to go public about it more and more. What was the ignition point in your life or in the world that made you want to talk about it? What happened?
This [music] – this right here. What are the root peace-creating group? This one here. I don't know where my pen. This is the individual here. And the same phenomenon happens with a group. Lots and lots of people. Square root of 1% of a population. So, like I said, for France, 750,000 do the thing. A group quadratically more powerful than the same number scattered about. And this is a thing like my friend Dr. John Hagelin says: if you have two loudspeakers and they're separated, you have one volume. You put the two next to each other, and you got the equivalent of four loudspeakers. You put three, you got suddenly the nine. It's called constructive interference. It's a real thing. A group close, doing the program of advanced techniques day by day. Just like when you want to get electricity to the people, you build a power plant, generate the electricity, and they get it. And you want that power plant to stay. They got their computers running, their TVs [music] running, the whole kitchen's running, and day by day by day you're generating electricity. Day by day by day you're generating dynamic peace. Beautiful thing.
Human beings are like a light bulb. And we enjoy that light inside, but we also radiate it. We affect our environment. Everybody knows that. You go into a room where there's been a bad argument. The argument's over, but you can feel that thing. You go into a room filled with félicité, bliss, and the power of that is so beautiful to be in. And this group radiates that. A side effect: negativity goes. Enmity and the enemy go. Without trying. Without trying. Unified field. That's our big, big, big friend. And this is all the thing tied to peace. It gets to the point where you couldn't hurt another human being. It would be like hurting yourself. This is the way it is supposed to be. It's not the way it is, but it would be so beautiful. But the key is there. This feeling, it just grows, and it's real. It's a much more real feeling than our world, which is pretty much an absurd joke when, you know, somebody is blowing children's heads off in the name of peace. It's a sadness. [music] It's the old way. And now there's a new way. A new way to real peace. It has nothing to do with killing. And so [music] it's reached a point where you couldn't – you just wouldn't ever think to hurt another human being. And you travel in real peace. You travel, and you meet friends, not enemies. The light of unity destroys the enmity in an enemy. Destroys negativity. There's no more enemy.
I hope you enjoyed this documentary. Thank you very much. And I wish [clears throat] you all the very, very best.