The old Unity movement and their Unity Village in Kansas City as has been a case also with the Transcendental Meditation movement and Fairfield, Iowa evidently were great introductions to spiritual transcendentalism and a unity in the transcendental state by experience of what practical spirituality in life comes of the Unified Field. The Unity movement at its time evidently was that as an introduction at its time like with TM coming along more recently has been. Both Unity and TM providing an experiential critique of materialism in their time.
It is interesting how transcending can be taught to and has been taught to in different times. I was harmony singing over the lunch hour yesterday with some other conservative Fairfield meditators here and we sang this old hymn that came from the Shaker spiritual movement where the text is rejoicing in the efficacy of their movement then when they were teaching transcendence as spiritual practice in their system at that time. An Old Ship of Zion: SH 79 The Old Ship of Zion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg7lmXSqfKA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg7lmXSqfKA SH 79 The Old Ship of Zion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg7lmXSqfKA This is a little scrappy at points, but it's still good fun, especially the third verse. View on youtube.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg7lmXSqfKA Preview by Yahoo It seems every generation or two, probably all through human time someone comes and re-expresses the ultimate teaching of transcendence as spirituality in life that way. Like the Unity movement in its time or TM in our time. Sometimes the teaching stays individuated like with Emerson and sometimes it propagates in groups or even in to popular movement. It is all the same based on experience of the absolute. This expression and re-expression in self-referral transcendental spiritual experience of the Unified Field becomes the real story of the progression of all our manifest destiny in American history. Cultivating the transcendence in human experience meditating evidently is very American. Cultivation of the transcendent state is ultimate spirituality and teaching it is revolutionary action in the face of materialism. Subverting people's experience of the transcendent is nothing less than counter-revolutionary, anti-scientific and anti-American spiritual ignorance, -Buck in Meditating Fairfield, Iowa The Fairfield Meditating Community: “We are a group of people who have come together and created a community for a transcendentally important common purpose, which of course is to practice the Transcendental Meditation program and the TM-Sidhi program together as a group, for the sake of bringing coherence to national and world consciousness based on balancing labor and leisure to meditate while working together for the benefit of the community. Our Super-Radiance meditating community includes families of all the TM-Meditators and TM-Sidhas in the Fairfield, Vedic City and Jefferson County area.”
