This means that Vedic Science locates self-referral consciousness to be the same foundation for the sciences as for art, culture, poetry, language and sound. Vedic Science, therefore, offers fulfillment to the Transcendentalists' self-culture and Whitman's theory of language because it demonstrates how language is related to Natural Law and it provides the technologies to experience that relationship. This paper has closely examined the viability of Whitman's language experiment for unifying America at a time of crisis. He intuitively knew that it is on the subtler levels of language that the unifying power of Natural Law could be felt. As Maharishi has explained, this intuition is verified because language has the same structure as the self-referral pure consciousness pervading and upholding both Natural Law and human awareness.
Language is a continuum of the values of Natural Law.
Such an experience of literature cultures the aesthetic response-the movement of awareness toward a unified Self, and provides the reader with a taste of higher, more integrated states of consciousness. Both nineteenth-century Transcendentalism and Maharishi's Vedic Science promote the inner unity and harmony of the individual as a prerequisite to outer harmony in culture. The science Whitman imagined is a science of Nature, a science of life that anticipates Maharishi's Vedic Science, a science of Natural Law. The science Maharishi has founded is both theoretical and empirical, a science that aims to unfold the fullness of both individual and society, a science to complete Whitman's prophetic vision of a whole nation engaged in self-culture.