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"A particularly dogged
questioner tried to clarify a
difference between the two in the
matter of sacredness of law. Fuller
again appeared the political activist,
Maharishi either the believer in the
status quo, or the believer in its
irrelevance, and hence the danger or
irrelevance of political change. With
some breathtaking legal thinking of
his own, Maharishi again attained
reconciliation, vindicating his a
priori belief in the wisdom and
goodness of a man like Fuller.

" 'The laws of nature...accomodate
and allow a man to progress
in all directions. Man-made laws
may not have that infinite
flexibility...But we see the lawyers
doing black of white and white of
black all the time: it's the
interpretation that has a very wide
range. Therefore, laws are very rigid
and very flexible depending upon
the intellect of man, which we are
emphasizing to be great. So, (from)
the Science of Creative
Intelligence...intellect will be great,
and then the man-made laws will be
as rigid as natural laws. Then they
will not need change.' "

A course format for the Science
of Creative Intelligence (SCI) is
currently in use in universities such
as Yale and Stanford, and is being
offered as a Liberal Arts Seminar in
the college of Arts and Sciences
here at the University. SCI purports
to offer "a systematic approach to
the unfoldment of an individual's
full potential for enjoyment and
effectiveness in life." The two
major aspects of the course include.

(1) "A-delineation of the inner
source of Creative Intelligence, and
an examination of various
techniques for contacting and
utilizing it, particularly TM." The
organizers of the course, do not,
however, expect anyone to begin
the practice merely for the sake of
the course.

(2) "Discussions of readings of
some exceptional expressions of
more developed states of
consciousness in religion, literature
philosophy, psychology and
education."

The first meeting of the Liberal
Arts Seminar on SCI involved a