---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote :
Doug, I just watched a video of Bishop Barron who mentioned St John of the Cross, a Christian monk, who wrote about the "night of the soul" or the purging of the self...in other words, similar to samadhi in yoga or TM practice. So, it appears that there are similarities between Christian and TM spirituality. In FF conversation.. “In Fairfield, Iowa we are growing up. There are young people here having amazing spiritual experience. These are profoundly spiritual people. They are having Unity experiences. They have spiritual practices, meditation that they do as they need it. In their lives they are spiritual on the hoof. That is their requirement of their age. It does not mean that they do not sit or have sitting practice. Theirs is going to have to be eclectic stepping outside of this little TM box. When they get together it is a yagya of love. That is the power of the group here, how it is lived. That is Fairfield with consciousness in a room or a place. It is overwhelming when you are with it. This is a palpable real deal.” ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote : In FF conversation.. “Q: There is a thesis in hoping that some young people can hold on for a while longer in the group TM culture, hoping for some young people to come along?” A: “It is not going to happen with a first gen group bound themselves into an identity that is about obedience and self-doubt “I can only do what Maharishi said”, it will take a second or third generation. They had this January 12 meeting and what do they do? They put this crown on Tony Nader. That is this stupidest shit thing that they ever did. I am sorry, Maharishi, but that was stupid to create Kings and Rajas. ..Done with the movement, but the funny thing is that the meditation i still recommend to people. We refer new initiates. We are doing our part and they wear crowns. This first gen group is locked in to a belief structure about their efficacy. It is a belief structure. The community though is not done. Where would it, the common meditators as people, go to replicate this? Just up and move? Most people own only one house at a time in their lives. It is going to take a third gen people in wisdom to speak to it who are not necessarily locked in to the belief structure. You are going to see it: Women coming back in to it too. It must be women too and in our world today it needs to be collaborative and not patriarchal-hierarchical” ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote : In an application to join FFL... “My Father (God rest his soul) was way into TM. I consider myself spiritual, but I never quite understood his connection to an organization that basically charged him for a Mantra…” In and around Fairfield, Iowa there evidently is a second generation of the old meditating community making lives, buying houses, living, engaging in the culture of the larger community. Around Fairfield also now a third generation of the old meditating community is raising, clearly visible. Second gen engagement in the ™ meditating community seems reserved, remote or passive yet some are clearly quite spiritual in their lives. There has started to be a genre of second gen writing about their experience growing up as children of the meditating community. Living processes of community can appear subterrain or unspoken unless one shows up. Culture generally is slow to move but clearly something is on the move in meditating Fairfield, generation to generation. It will be particularly interesting for those living it to see where the meditating community of Fairfield, Iowa is in 5 years. This link is to a reflection on the range of communal processes that are in communal Fairfield.. Engaging Restorative Justice in Reclamation of Community https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/communal-studies-forum/AM9bhYe1dXI https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/communal-studies-forum/AM9bhYe1dXI As anyone has comments to share directly with Fairfield Life they can e-mail comments to consider to the owner-link on the Yahoo-group Fairfield Life main page. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote : President Hagelin Elevates Role of Young Administrators In recent months President John Hagelin has elevated younger administrators to leading positions and has added 10 of them to his “cabinet,” the group that helps run the university. This new group of 10 is sometimes referred to as the “young cabinet.” “These very dedicated, talented, and accomplished young leaders are building the bright future of our university,” Dr. Hagelin said. “They constantly demonstrate their brilliance and their vision for moving MUM forward. In collaboration with our long-standing cabinet members, they are continually upgrading and expanding the university’s operations and successes.” The young cabinet members include Carol Passos, director of human resources, Patrik Siljestam, comptroller, Aster Hesse, associate dean of admissions, Taniya Hallman, registrar, Gwen Stowe, director of admissions, Tiago Passos, director of development, Leslie Doyle, director of Student Support Services, Eric Liu, director of MUM Online and continuing education, Selin Ozbudak, associate dean of enrollment and student affairs, and Maryam Naraghi, principal designated school official and international student adviser. “I feel immensely fortunate that our young cabinet has been willing to take on such significant responsibilities at our university so early in their careers,” Dr. Hagelin said. “They will ensure a vital continuity of experience and knowledge as the university expands and moves into the future.” https://www.mum.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/11-14-18.pdf https://www.mum.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/11-14-18.pdf Of “second-generation” wisdom.. in terms as John Humphrey Noyes (1869) frames it below, Will John Hagelin now of his own direct experience of ‘first-generation’ wisdom turn out to be the consolidator of the TM community to something that may last some decades or more? Dr. Nader? .. Quoting Holloway.. “At the time when Noyes was alive (19th Century) any marked deviation from the established churches of Christianity was likely to provoke a vigorous reaction. Consequently initiators and leaders of sects had to be men of exceptionally strong character, especially if they were evangelically minded, for then they had to be capable of keeping the allegiance of their original members and of winning converts even in the midst of antagonism or actual physical persecution. A fanatic might get this far, might indeed get further, as Ann Lee got to America from Lancashire and Joseph Smith got to Nauvoo; but other qualities were required in order to maintain the initial impetus. As well as the absolute conviction that they and they alone had chosen the right path, and the ability to persuade others that this was so, leaders of this kind needed exceptional organizing ability and foresight, balanced judgment, and a quality that can best be described as “intuitive astuteness”. Joseph Meacham, who organized the Shakers into communities, and Brigham Young, who commanded the Mormon hegira, must have been endowed with these qualities; and no doubt other examples of “second-generation” wisdom of this kind could be cited. It was a characteristic that was less common among initiators, 'second-generation' wisdom, ..simple vision, the strength of character and the evangelical fire of the fanatical initiator were blended with the balanced judgment and practical managerial capacity of the successful consolidator. This was an unusual combination of characteristics; and in view of (his) background , his absolute rejection of orthodoxy was also unusual. ..He was extreme, but logical and realistic; revolutionary, but not violent. When religious fire, moral courage, and good judgment ..have all been given due credit, something remains unexplained--some ingredient of the personality--. I think that this unnamed quality can without sentimentality be called “love of life.” ..I believe Noyes, unlike many sectarians, was a great yea-sayer, an enhancer of life,” Excerpts from the 1966 Introduction by Mark Holloway to the Dover edition, History Of American Socialisms, Noyes 1869 # In Second-generation Wisdom.. SRF, Older than the TM movement by a generation, Yogananda’s SRF shifts leadership now to ‘third generation’ organizational members whom have never met the founder. The Self-Realization Fellowship Board of Directors is happy to share with you the news that Brother Chidananda has been elected president and spiritual leader of Self-Realization Fellowship/Yogoda Satsanga Society of India, succeeding Sri Mrinalini Mata, who served in this position from January 2011 until her passing last month. His appointment was made by a unanimous vote by the SRF Board of Directors on Wednesday, August 30, 2017. Technically in Maharishi's founding and with John Hagelin and others having worked directly alongside Maharishi they could be first generation of TM and their work now is (post-founder) to consolidate things towards a (demographic) turnover at some point even to third generation meditators, who have never directly seen or met Maharishi. Thus far the microphone has not been shared or handed to a 'second' or 'third generation' to hold nor is a second or third generation much present in upper level policy circles. #
