Prestigious Speakers Preside Over Commencement Ceremony
On July 1, visitors from across the nation and around the world joined the Maharishi University of Management community in the Maharishi Patanjali Golden Dome for its 1999 Commencement Exercises. For the 25th year in a row, students received Bachelors, Masters, and Ph.D. degrees verifying both expertise in their field of study and mastery of the managing intelligence of nature, "higher education for higher consciousness."

Keynote addresses were given by Mr. Gordon T. Beeham III, president of Bon Ami household products, and Professor Tony Nader, M.D., Ph.D., discoverer of Veda and Vedic Literature in the Human Physiology. Mr. Beeham was introduced as a man with "a remarkable range of personal accomplishments including degrees from Princeton and Harvard, achievements in the U.S. Navy, and leadership roles in business and social organizations. Most recently, Mr. Beeham distributed copies of Dr. John Hagelin’s videotape, "A Peaceful Solution to the Kosovo Crisis," to company presidents and board members across the nation. In his address, Mr. Beeham reviewed the achievements of past civilizations, culminating with Maharishi’s plan "to prevent future wars through large coherence-creating groups and global yagyas."

Professor Nader congratulated the graduates for their accomplishments. "The cosmic potential we have within us unfolds a reality that is beyond the imagination of what anyone has known or seen today," he noted. "The graduates of Maharishi University of Management have worked to develop that full potential whereby with a thought they can achieve their goals, with a feeling they can know everything. They can be everything!"

In his traditional Charge to the Graduates, Dr. Bevan Morris, President of the University, proclaimed, "You are the most enlightened university graduates in the world. You have the greatest wisdom, wisdom of how to achieve success in any aspect of human existence. You are the best of the world. And I think we all feel when we look at you that you are the hope of the world."

To qualify as a Vedic Medicine Consultant, Sylvia, along with her class-mates, developed expertise in all areas of Vedic Medicine, including Dr. Nader’s discovery of Veda and Vedic Literature in Human Physiology, and the knowledge of classical Ayurvedic texts. The students gained practical experience in pulse diagnosis, dietary recommendations, and herbal prescriptions at the campus clinic, where they completed 108 consultations under the supervision of western physicians and experts in Maharishi Vedic Medicine from India.

At an award ceremony the night before commencement, Sylvia expressed gratitude for the deep knowledge she had received. "When I first started this program," she said, "I did so based on the saying, ‘Physician, heal thyself!’ This has been so much more than a degree for me. There has also been incredible personal growth through this program.