August 2007

Creating a World Free from Poverty through Maharishi Vedic Organic Agriculture and
the Maharishi Poverty Removal Program

Dr. John Konhaus
Professor of Maharishi Vedic Organic Agriculture
Maharishi University of Management
johnkonhaus@gfcny.net

Executive Summary

Globalization has brought us open markets, vastly increased prosperity and trade, and a new sense of global family. But along with this growth have come volatility, fear of change, and the expression of social upheaval. Some deeply unifying and stabilizing factor is needed to bring balance amidst rapid change. This factor must be fundamental to all cultures, all people, all political and all economic systems if it is to moderate the required diversity in a harmonious manner. To achieve a lasting and universally applicable system of economic development, that system must mirror the economy of Nature itself with its basis in the Unified Field of Natural Law, the field of consciousness.

Recent developments in the understanding of human collective consciousness, in conjunction with latest Unified Field Theories from modern physics have revealed an intimate and unified relationship between the collective consciousness of a society or nation, and the expression of natural and social laws within that society. The level of coherence or incoherence in human consciousness directly expresses itself as harmonious or destructive societal trends and natural phenomenon. 

A coherent collective consciousness results in positive trends—economic and human vitality and creativity, balance and peace; an incoherent collective consciousness manifests as the opposite. Collective consciousness is the water out of which the waves of social, economic and political change are made. This understanding has powerful implications for managing investment risks, which are now global in nature, and which are seen to undermine the outcome of investments with ever increasing volatility and cost. (read more)