Jenny and Lisa are on the Web—again, and their parents are all smiles about it.  Why? Because these teenage sisters are working together on an Internet home-study course called Living in Tune with Natural Law. which introduces them to the basic principles of the Maharishi Ayur-Veda program.

For the first time, students and their families have easy access by computer to Maharishi Vedic Science courses. Now families everywhere can participate in a series of practical courses, offered entirely on the World Wide Web, designed to help create healthy, enlightened families who know how to manage life in harmony with natural law.

The two sisters shut down their PC and announce they’re off on a nature observation, part of the learning activity from this week’s lesson on Cycles of Natural Law. They’ve been asked to observe how natural law functions in the environment as a preparation for seeing how these same cycles of nature’s intelligence influence their own life.

These user-friendly courses are colorfully illustrated, creative and fun. They present beautiful, profound concepts in simple, straight-forward language that young people can easily understand. Each lesson contains many concrete examples and appealing graphics, along with imaginative learning activities that enable students of all ages to work creatively with the new knowledge they are gaining.

Developed in response to requests from parents who wished to have in their own home the knowledge used successfully at Consciousness-Based schools around the world, the courses are ideal as:

• part of your children’s home-school curriculum
• an enlightening supplement to your family’s education
• independent study, elective classes, and special research projects by students

After dinner, the girls present their findings from today’s outing to their family. In excited tones, Lisa describes how she saw all of nature settling down when the sun started to set. What especially impressed Jenny was the realization that the intelligence of nature they observed is completely automatic, something taken for granted yet "so amazing when you think about it" (which they just did!).

What do parents think? "As the mother of a teenage daughter," says Bonnie Barnett, "I have to tell you how much I love your internet course Living in Tune With Natural Law. It’s lively, engaging, well-written, and above all, filled with the kind of practical knowledge so deeply needed by families today."

The course completed, Jenny sits at the dining room table with Mom and Dad deciding which course they’ll all take next. Where’s Lisa? At the computer with her little brother. "Now Bobby, this course is called Living in Tune with Natural Law . . ."

Visit the web site www.ideal-ed.org for full course descriptions, a free course sample, and enrollment information.

Middle and high school girls can take the courses for credit through the Heavenly Mountain Ideal Girls School, receive feedback from faculty via e-mail, and join special conference calls with Heavenly Mountain students.

Dennis and Robin Rowe currently faculity members of Maharihsi Open University in Vlodrop Holland