The Self-Interacting Dynamics of Consciousness as the Source of the Creative Process in Nature and in Human Life • The Mechanics of Individual Intelligence Arising from the Field of Cosmic Intelligence—the Cosmic Psyche

This article outlines, from the perspective of the Vedic Science and Vedic Psychology of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the process by which pure consciousness, the field of pure intelligence in nature—the "cosmic psyche"—sequentially gives rise through its self-interacting dynamics to the diversity of subjective and objective existence. Maharishi Vedic Science identifies the field of pure consciouness as the Samhita of Rishi, Devata, and Chhandas—the unified state of knower, process of knowing, and known. The Vedic literature describes all the forms and phenomena of nature as combinations and elaborations of these three components of pure consciousness; thus, the seed of all diversity is located in the three-in-one structure of Samhita. Maharishi Vedic Psychology locates, in the process of diversificati on from the field of pure intelligence, a sequence of levels or functions of subjectivity, ranging from abstract to concrete—intellect, mind, desire, and senses. These levels can be identified universally, as principles of nature functioning, as well as individually, as aspects of subjectivity. The purpose of Maharishi technology of consciousness is to develop all levels of an individual subjectivity to their most universal stature, for the benefit of the individual and the entire society.