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| FOR 103 Health-Related Fitness | | FOR 103 Health-Related Fitness: Physical Activity to Promote Longevity and Fitness for Life
This course presents the latest knowledge from Western science and the Maharishi Consciousness-Based Health Care program concerning the optimum daily routine for establishing the foundation for lifelong excellent health and growing enlightenment. The major focus will be on the details of the ideal routine of sleep, diet, exercise, meaningful activity, recreation and the importance of the regular experience of pure consciousness for optimum health and evolution. This course will combine both lectures and physical activity labs. (2 credits) |  |
| FOR 421 World Art and Media | | FOR 421 World Art and Media: How Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, and Film Mirror Consciousness
In this course students discover how art and media from many cultures express the universal qualities, principles, and structures of consciousness identified by Maharishi Vedic Science. Topics explored in art and media include: transcending, self-referral, creativity, archetypes or structures of awareness, qualities of pure consciousness (the Unified Field of Natural Law), qualities of the Veda, principles such as how the coexistence of opposite values structures wholeness in art and life, and the art of living in higher states of consciousness. Includes a field trip to a meditating artist's gallery. (No field trip fee. 2 credits) | |
| FOR 423 Leadership for Community Building | | FOR 423 Leadership for Community Building: Progressing Together to Enjoy Fulfillment Together
This course will focus on providing students with tools and techniques to be effective leaders and exceptional group participants. There will be a deep emphasis on improving communication skills and developing greater self-awareness. Students will learn about individual tendencies, team dynamics, mediation and facilitation. They will also learn how to recognize subtle body language in communication and how to recognize and address the needs and concerns of diverse individuals they are working with. Together we will explore what it means to be a leader within our communities, and specifically, in the Maharishi University of Management community. The class will be interactive and provide students with time to experience the lessons through various planned activities. All students interested in being part of the Peer Mentorship must take this course. (2 credits) | |
| FOR 424 Professional Success: Skills in Action | | The goal of this course is to familiarize students with soft skills, intra-personal and interpersonal, which determine a person’s ability to excel or at least fit in a particular social structure, such as a project team or a company. These skills include competencies in areas such as communication, personal habits, time-management, personal relations, etiquette, self-motivation, self-discipline, persuasion, etc. Furthermore, students will understand cultural orientation of the U.S. i.e., how people in the U.S. speak, act, negotiate and make decisions. Furthermore, students will learn how these skills arise from their common source in the eternal Laws of Nature as explained by the Science of Creative Intelligence. (2 credits) | |
| FOR 432 The Philosophy of Action | | FOR 432 The Philosophy of Action: Transcending the Field of Activity as the Basis for Right Action and Fulfillment in Life
This course investigates the explanation in Maharishi Vedic Science of the role of action in the development of higher states of consciousness and how action performed from the level of pure consciousness spontaneously gains the support of all the Laws of Nature for maximum success. (2 credits) | |
| FOR 433 Women, Wisdom and the World | | FOR 433 Women, Wisdom and the World: Exploring the lives of Great Women, including Us
Through the writings of great women throughout time, and the knowledge of Maharishi Vedic Science, this course for women will look at those essential qualities springing from the deepest part of ourselves, and how developing them creates an innate and natural wisdom that becomes central to who we are as individuals. How we apply, and equally important, how we protect these qualities in the world is what makes a woman great and what brings her fulfillment in every area of her life. (2 credits)
Ladies only | |
| FOR 434 The Creative Process | | FOR 434 The Creative Process: Tracing Human Creativity to the Infinite Creativity of Natural Law — Developing the Unbounded Source of Your Own Creativity
From the standpoint of the Maharishi Science of Creative IntelligenceSM program, creativity expresses the fundamental characteristic of Nature itself — to expand through the process of evolution and find full expression. In this course, students explore the full range of creativity, from the creative dynamics within the pure, self-referral level of consciousness, through self-expression in the arts and other fields, and culminating in Self-expression in unity consciousness. This rich and stimulating course, developed by faculty in the Departments of Fine Arts and Literature, includes beautiful tapes of Maharishi speaking on the creative process and a wide range of other creative activities. (2 credits) | |
| FOR 438 Ideal Relationships | | FOR 438 Ideal Relationships: Improving Your Relationships by Exploring the Principles of Natural Law That Operate in All Relationships
We live our lives in relationships, beginning with our mother, father, and family, expanding to our friends, spouse, and children, our business associates, our fellow citizens, and on to all the people of the world. Handling these relationships with wisdom, appropriateness, and love is central to our good fortune. The Science of Creative Intelligence and Maharishi Vedic Science provide insights into how all relationships have their source in the self-referral dynamics of consciousness, our own Self — and guidelines for ensuring that our relationships are in accord with the natural evolution of life in accord with Natural Law. The course features tapes of Maharishi, guest presentations, group projects, and practical knowledge of etiquette. (2 credits) | |
| FOR 446 Nobel Laureates | | In this course, students hear presentations from a range of faculty on the latest and most exciting discoveries in each of their fields — discoveries that either have won a Nobel Prize or are worthy of one. Students learn more about the discovery process by exploring, with leading University faculty, the cutting edge of knowledge and the people behind it in a variety of disciplines ranging from physics to the visual arts. Students’ own self-referral creative process will be enlivened through multimedia presentations, lively discussions, readings, and creative exercises. (2 credits) | |
| FOR 462 Maharishi Yoga Asanas | | The goal of this course is to enhance physiological balance and mind-body coordination through simple Maharishi Yoga Asanas program postures and breathing exercises. This course gives a comprehensive understanding of the nature and attainment of Yoga, which is the unification of individual and cosmic life. (2 credits) | |
| FOR 463 Ramayana | | In this course students will study the Ramayana, one of the great epics of the Vedic Literature. Students will read the Ramayana in Sanskrit and English, and will see videos of the Ramayana created by Ramanand Sagar. Students will see videotapes by Maharishi on topics related to the Ramayana, and will participate in presentations on the Ramayana. (2 credits)
Prerequisite: instruction in the TM-Sidhi program. | |
| FOR 469 Maharishi on God and Religion | | This two-week course will focus on Maharishi’s knowledge on the nature of God, religion, prayer, ritual, scripture, spiritual development, devotion and service, the relationship between science and religion, right and wrong, the kingdom of God on Earth, and the state of God-realization. The course includes extended group practice of Maharishi Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programs, including Yogic Flying. (2 credits)
Prerequisite: instruction in the TM-Sidhi program | |
| FOR 490 World Peace Assembly | | FOR 490 World Peace Assembly: Creating World Peace from the Least Excited State of Your Own Consciousness
In this Forest Academy, students participate in a World Peace Assembly that allows them to refine their own consciousness while creating coherence in national consciousness through the Maharishi Technology of Consciousness. (0.5 credits — may be repeated)
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| FOR 510 Maharishi’s Absolute Theory of Management, Wholeness on the Move | | This course explores various topics in Maharishi’s Absolute Theory of Management. Students learn that every manager can harness the organizing power of Nature and spontaneously act in accord with Natural Law through the practice of the Transcendental Meditation and TM Sidhi programs. Nature always takes the path of least resistance; managers can learn to do less and accomplish more as they develop their consciousness and become more in tune with the managing power of Nature. (1–4 credits) This course may be repeated with different topics. | |
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