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WESSEX
PUPILS HEAR ABOUT NATURAL LAW
New Vision for Education in 21st Century presented to students at
Portsmouth Grammar School
HMS Warrior, Portsmouth
(NLP WESSEX LOCAL PAGE)
Wessex News Release
February 1997
Sixth form students at Portsmouth Grammar School heard this week about a
new vision for the educational system presented by local Transcendental Meditation teacher
and Natural Law Party prospective candidate for Portsmouth South, William Treend. Mr
Treend explained that the failure of the current educational system was its inability to
give direct experience and understanding of Natural Law, with the result that the full
creativity and intelligence of pupils are not developed.
"Natural Law is the intelligence of Nature responsible for the
smooth functioning of all levels of life from the orchestration of huge galaxies down to
the organisation of the individual cells that make up our own physiologies. It has immense
organising power. Education is failing because it does not provide students with
spontaneous access to that same reservoir of intelligence which quantum physics reveals
exists at every point in space and time. As a result our education system produces adults
who are unable to fulfil their own aspirations in life, and a society which is chaotic and
ill at ease with itself."
Mr Treend went on to say that the development of higher states of
consciousness in pupils, students, and teachers was the key to developing successful
citizens living a problem free life in accordance with Natural Law. He added that research
on the use of Transcendental Meditation in schools and colleges has shown that the
development of higher states of consciousness in students results in consistent
improvements in both I.Q. and moral reasoning scores.
"Schools and colleges which apply this approach routinely outperform
their competitors, producing improved exam results and the almost complete disappearance
of behavioural problems such as drug and alcohol abuse. It is an approach which if widely
adopted has the potential to transform the nation’s education. Put simply, Natural
Law based education is a system which makes a dull student bright and a bored pupil
responsible and enthusiastic."
Mr Treend said there was almost no problem in society which could not be
traced back to failings in the current educational system. This was one of the reasons, he
explained, that degree courses in Natural Law based education were now being made
available in Management, Economics, and Accountancy and Finance through the University of
London.
Although stressing the overwhelming importance of education, Mr Treend
also took the opportunity to explain the Natural Law Party’s position in other policy
areas. These include:
· plans to transform the NHS by placing much greater emphasis on
preventative medicine and food quality, including the banning of genetically engineered
foods
· the introduction of a voluntary parallel European currency which would
neither replace the Pound nor remove the UK’s sovereignty over fiscal and monetary
policy
· the introduction of Transcendental Meditation into the prison service
to ensure that criminals are successfully rehabilitated, allowing them to lead
constructive lives on their release without relapsing into further routines of repeat
criminal behaviour
"Nonetheless the key to success in all these areas is to ensure that the
collective consciousness of the nation as a whole is as coherent as possible. All the time
stress and tension in society continues to build up, decisions by Government will always
be made in an atmosphere in which it is easy to make mistakes. For this reason the first
action of any Natural Law based government will be to set up a national group of Yogic
Flyers.
There is now a large body of research published in leading independent scientific
journals which confirms that when such groups are established the machinery of Government
starts to function much more smoothly and symptoms of wider societal distress such as
crime, disease and social conflict start to fall off dramatically. A number of governments
in developing countries are already starting to apply this approach because of its cost
effectiveness."
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