[FairfieldLife] Re: In Satsanga Fairfield, Iowa

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

FF Satsang replies over coffee.. 
  
 "These are Constructs that are helpful, where Cynthia Bourgeaut’s construct is 
very beautiful but body based, physical body, physical heart.. So like TM’ers 
had they have gone from the physical brain, brain-centric to the physical 
heart, heart-centric. Not that they, the physical heart and brain, are not 
players in this; but this idea that it is in the physical heart, where it is in 
the subtle structures of the heart..
  
 It’s resonance, its genesis is in the subtle system of the heart and this is 
going to impact the structure of the physical heart just like consciousness is 
going to impact the activity of the brain. This is why you get brain coherence, 
global brain coherence. But it is not the waves that are coherent it is just as 
the consciousness and its indication of the influence of consciousness on the 
brain, the influence of the heart just like the genesis of love in the heart 
there is going to be a physical correlate in the heart. As there is an 
indication of love in the heart, a generative process, there is going to be a 
physical correlate. Q: ‘Generative process’, is that the term she uses, A: no 
that is my term.." 
 https://sites.google.com/site/chakraheartmeditation/ 
https://sites.google.com/site/chakraheartmeditation/

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Replies in the (spiritual) FF coffee house satsang:
  
 “..a cultivating the heart-mind, people are coming to terms with this however 
they do. People find reference points that are useful to themselves, alignments 
to deal with it however they do. Whether they find another teacher or this 
beautiful practice of this ‘heart-mind’. 
  
 This is where the meditating community has gone. Like with Matt Kahn, “We 
Belong to the Light”. It is helpful to people. 
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkfzOk74r5I=4801s 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkfzOk74r5I=4801s
  
 Being emailed around spiritual FF recently..
 Cynthia Bourgeault at the SAND conference 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_bV8mxaXhE 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_bV8mxaXhE

 The extension of centering prayer..
 

 And on batgap: https://batgap.com/cynthia-bourgeault/ 
https://batgap.com/cynthia-bourgeault/
 

 

 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 As type of satsang here in Fairfield there are several groups on campus that 
recite/chant sanskrit. Also in town.  The Ammachi group, some other groups and 
also at the Devi Mandir Temple in town as also there is dedicated individual 
spiritual practice of chanting. Also there is a group that meets regularly for 
chanting of old Hebrew as spiritual practice in Fairfield. 
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 FF Satsang:
 

 “..All kinds of spiritual practice is going on here. The thread is that people 
understand it because of Maharishi, because of the holy tradition. They 
understand the state, that it is not just about having flashy experience but 
finding modalities which help with their clarity, the clarity of the inner 
state.”
. .
 “..Whether it is the bhakti path, ritual, whatever the avenue is that people 
feel they the need to cultivate, it is here and it is happening .  It is very 
lively. ..Huge Trillium group, big Oneness group, the AOL They are there. 
Connie’s group, Janet has her following, or Byron Katie and the inquiry path, 
adviatian path. The meditator churches and temples, it is all here. “ 
. .
 “..For instance there are people here in Fairfield in to the Trillium thing 
here. Trillium is a big deal here. It was called Waking Down, it is now called 
something else because Daniel Bonder could not keep it in his pants, so they 
had a division over that so now they are re-branded, re-orienting, but they 
have certainly carried on in transpersonal work, a Stanislav Grauf process that 
is very powerful and clearer.”
 

 

 Satsang FF replies..: 

 “Now with the Pundits gone we do have these Western people on social security 
trained up with these skill sets of chanting sanskrit and the Vedic texts.  
 Maybe they become the communal pundits in recitation.   “if the MUM process 
fell apart”, then..
 Hello! They are right here.  If you have what, 20 smart people doing it then 
here we have it.”
 


 
 replies:

 

"Yes, and Fairfield, Iowa meditating is certainly 'a tale of two cities' or 
more everyday  ..In Fairfield, Ia. in context there are so many people who are 
rippingly along engaged in spiritual evolution. Look at all these groups that 
are meeting the individual needs of people because it suits them. It is not a 
'one size fits all' program, nature does not work that way. Nature is 
infinitely diverse in how she solves and works it. It is okay and alive."
 
 Fell apart? The Fairfield, Iowa Coffee House Satsanga in consideration replies:
 

 "..No, in Fairfield the people who want to be here are meditating in the 
Domes. Many hundreds here still." 
 

 Someone commentating about Fairfield from afar, “The 

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

The Authorities?  Yes they read FFL and make files about people’s social media, 
the Weekly Reader, Source, and such on applicants.  It is their job to gather 
info on people in ferreting out people who are in violation of the membership 
guidelines by making inquiry in to lives.  Yes, with potentially long 
interrogation. 
 One of the things that was held up this last time I was denied a badge was 
about things I may have written on FFL, “about these things you write on 
Fairfield Life”. Yes, you could proly be in some trouble with the membership 
guidelines promoting other spiritual teachers and such by what and who you 
promote with BATGAP. 
  
 The existential problem they have with this is that as they have these written 
guidelines they have to have a staff hired to investigate and enforce them in 
detail over applicants.  The guidelines have been cobbled together, wordsmithed 
over the years either to exclude people and they have been reduced somewhat to 
include peoples who were separated from the group by guideline. The remaining 
exclusionary clauses now are mostly cultural and not simply as to whether 
someone is a practitioner or not. There are three written clauses remaining 
that still are in there that can stick in the craw of the larger meditating 
community. 
  
 The Authorities, I also do send in communication to movement policy makers the 
url’s to posts made on FFL as posts are pithy, incisive, pertinent and relevant 
in the context of having to do with policy. Fairfield Life has had its 
effective place in communications.  But, the people who investigate Dome 
membership applications do not make policy themselves, they just enforce it. 
The people who make decisions you likely will never meet in the process.
  
 May the grace of the Unified Field grant providential support in Nature 
towards overcoming these long problems we all have suffered with our communal 
Dome meditation attendance numbers.  Jai Guru Dev 
 



---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 So do the dome authorities still read FFL to see who’s saying what, and 
exclude them if they feel inclined? 
  
 Batgap is a funny phenomena with regard to this issue. I promote other 
teachers up the wazoo, and probably wouldn’t be allowed in the dome if I wanted 
to be, but I’ve interviewed Hagelin and Pearson, and others who still go to the 
dome. A senior faculty member listens to just about every BatGap interview and 
we sometimes chat about them. He said he even discusses them with other faculty 
in his department sometimes. 
  
 Rick Archer
 Buddha at the Gas Pump
 https://batgap.com
 
  
 From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com  
 Sent: Friday, December 14, 2018 10:52 AM
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation
 
 
  
   
 
 
 
 Q: I appreciate what you’re doing with the group meditation thing, but I like 
meditating at home. I usually take a nap first, then just sit up and meditate. 
Times vary.
  
 A: Evidently a lot of people feel this way also about meditating with the TM 
group, not turning out for what was superradiance
 of the group. 
 The numbers in the Dome meditation are incredibly low now.
  
 A radical transcendentalist's response to excuses, like the.. 
  
  This Insulting Frenchman's:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSo0duY7-9s 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSo0duY7-9s
  
  
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mailto:dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote :
 banned from the Domes.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiKZjq0vTWg 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiKZjq0vTWg
  
 
  
 It is time to start with the membership guidelines anew with a clean sheet of 
paper. 
  
 Examples of adapting policy:
  
 The ‘Adhesion Contract’.. 
 Back in 2012 I incited getting the ridiculous 4 pages ‘course agreement’ down 
more essentially to two pages of text. 
 All that is needed to run a residence course or group meditation is the 
ability to remove disruptive people. The 'course agreement' as it was written 
by apparatchiks trying to be ‘legal’ with everything in their minds and all 
their concerns including the kitchen sink thrown in, their course agreement was 
trying to catch, coerce or punish people to line on all kinds of creed stuff 
otherwise unrelated to being on a course, assembly or in a group meditation. 
The agreement was embarrassing as it was ridiculous as a ‘human resources’ 
document.  
  
 I pointed this out to reasonable minds and it was written down to what was 
more essential to running the facility and course with people. One sheet of 
paper, two sides for signature.   
 
 
 
 
 Blue jeans were once banned from the Domes. That changed. 
 
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 
mailto:dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote :
 Thanks for the response,  
 Yes, you are right about a practical need to regulate the running of a course 
assembly or group meditation. 
 The practical Regulating of Disruptive behavior is 

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation

[Rick Archer r...@searchsummit.com [FairfieldLife]]

So do the dome authorities still read FFL to see who’s saying what, and exclude 
them if they feel inclined?

Batgap is a funny phenomena with regard to this issue. I promote other teachers 
up the wazoo, and probably wouldn’t be allowed in the dome if I wanted to be, 
but I’ve interviewed Hagelin and Pearson, and others who still go to the dome. 
A senior faculty member listens to just about every BatGap interview and we 
sometimes chat about them. He said he even discusses them with other faculty in 
his department sometimes.

Rick Archer
Buddha at the Gas Pump
https://batgap.com

From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2018 10:52 AM
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation





Q: I appreciate what you’re doing with the group meditation thing, but I like 
meditating at home. I usually take a nap first, then just sit up and meditate. 
Times vary.



A: Evidently a lot of people feel this way also about meditating with the TM 
group, not turning out for what was superradiance

of the group.

The numbers in the Dome meditation are incredibly low now.



A radical transcendentalist's response like the..



The Insulting Frenchman's:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSo0duY7-9s




---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 
mailto:dhamiltony...@yahoo.com>> wrote :
banned from the Domes..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiKZjq0vTWg



It is time to start with the membership guidelines anew with a clean sheet of 
paper.


Examples of adapting policy:


The ‘Adhesion Contract’..

Back in 2012 I incited getting the ridiculous 4 pages ‘course agreement’ down 
more essentially to two pages of text.

All that is needed to run a residence course or group meditation is the ability 
to remove disruptive people. The 'course agreement' as it was written by 
apparatchiks trying to be ‘legal’ with everything in their minds and all their 
concerns including the kitchen sink thrown in, their course agreement was 
trying to catch, coerce or punish people to line on all kinds of creed stuff 
otherwise unrelated to being on a course, assembly or in a group meditation. 
The agreement was embarrassing as it was ridiculous as a ‘human resources’ 
document.


I pointed this out to reasonable minds and it was written down to what was more 
essential to running the facility and course with people. One sheet of paper, 
two sides for signature.


Blue jeans were once banned from the Domes. That changed.

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 
mailto:dhamiltony...@yahoo.com>> wrote :

Thanks for the response,

Yes, you are right about a practical need to regulate the running of a course 
assembly or group meditation.

The practical Regulating of Disruptive behavior is written in to the legal 
course agreement that gets signed as people get badges that allows course 
administrators a discretion to remove disruptive folks. There is a communal 
practicality to that.


That “course agreement” is different than the written guidelines for membership 
(Dome badge) application to the group.

Om by the way, that 'course agreement' document that had developed into a 
piled-on cobbled and complex Four page document of legalese (what is called in 
common law an abusive 'adhesion contract') got cut down to one sheet of paper, 
the sheet of paper agreement that is what they use now to have people sign as 
they come in to get Dome badges. That change is an example of work in progress 
that can occur within TM.
Jai Guru Dev


---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 
mailto:dhamiltony...@yahoo.com>> wrote :

Our ™ group offers what?

The written guidelines to the Domes have for years not been inviting to a 
larger community practice here.  The guidelines as they have been cobbled and 
word-smithed together have not served us well, at all.

The guidelines must, need to be written down to simple: 1) Did someone learn 
the ™ technique and programs? 2) If folks come to the Dome is that what they 
will do?  If yes on both accounts then say ‘welcome’. Be magnanimous and even 
say, ‘thank you’ for being with the group.

Get rid of the remaining old jealousies that are cultural written still into 
the guidelines which have right at nothing to do with the either the practice 
or running a group meditation or residence/assembly course but are there as 
purely administrative coercive and punitive ideas of other things of some 
people’s creeds. To approach the communal problem with the Dome numbers the 
guidelines must be changed to such a place that they may be publishable on a 
web page. Now.



---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 
mailto:dhamiltony...@yahoo.com>> wrote :
Thanks for the replies from several of you.


The membership (Dome badge) guideline problem


The need is to write the membership guidelines anew, start with a clean 

[FairfieldLife] Re: In Satsanga Fairfield, Iowa

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

Replies in the (spiritual) FF coffee house satsang:
  
 “..a cultivating the heart-mind, people are coming to terms with this however 
they do. People find reference points that are useful to themselves, alignments 
to deal with it however they do. Whether they find another teacher or this 
beautiful practice of this ‘heart-mind’. 
  
 This is where the meditating community has gone. Like with Matt Kahn, “We 
Belong to the Light”. It is helpful to people. 
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkfzOk74r5I=4801s 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkfzOk74r5I=4801s
  
 Being emailed around spiritual FF recently..
 Cynthia Bourgeault at the SAND conference 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_bV8mxaXhE 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_bV8mxaXhE

 The extension of centering prayer..
 

 And on batgap: https://batgap.com/cynthia-bourgeault/ 
https://batgap.com/cynthia-bourgeault/
 

 

 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 As type of satsang here in Fairfield there are several groups on campus that 
recite/chant sanskrit. Also in town.  The Ammachi group, some other groups and 
also at the Devi Mandir Temple in town as also there is dedicated individual 
spiritual practice of chanting. Also there is a group that meets regularly for 
chanting of old Hebrew as spiritual practice in Fairfield. 
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 FF Satsang:
 

 “..All kinds of spiritual practice is going on here. The thread is that people 
understand it because of Maharishi, because of the holy tradition. They 
understand the state, that it is not just about having flashy experience but 
finding modalities which help with their clarity, the clarity of the inner 
state.”
. .
 “..Whether it is the bhakti path, ritual, whatever the avenue is that people 
feel they the need to cultivate, it is here and it is happening .  It is very 
lively. ..Huge Trillium group, big Oneness group, the AOL They are there. 
Connie’s group, Janet has her following, or Byron Katie and the inquiry path, 
adviatian path. The meditator churches and temples, it is all here. “ 
. .
 “..For instance there are people here in Fairfield in to the Trillium thing 
here. Trillium is a big deal here. It was called Waking Down, it is now called 
something else because Daniel Bonder could not keep it in his pants, so they 
had a division over that so now they are re-branded, re-orienting, but they 
have certainly carried on in transpersonal work, a Stanislav Grauf process that 
is very powerful and clearer.”
 

 

 Satsang FF replies..: 

 “Now with the Pundits gone we do have these Western people on social security 
trained up with these skill sets of chanting sanskrit and the Vedic texts.  
 Maybe they become the communal pundits in recitation.   “if the MUM process 
fell apart”, then..
 Hello! They are right here.  If you have what, 20 smart people doing it then 
here we have it.”
 


 
 replies:

 

"Yes, and Fairfield, Iowa meditating is certainly 'a tale of two cities' or 
more everyday  ..In Fairfield, Ia. in context there are so many people who are 
rippingly along engaged in spiritual evolution. Look at all these groups that 
are meeting the individual needs of people because it suits them. It is not a 
'one size fits all' program, nature does not work that way. Nature is 
infinitely diverse in how she solves and works it. It is okay and alive."
 
 Fell apart? The Fairfield, Iowa Coffee House Satsanga in consideration replies:
 

 "..No, in Fairfield the people who want to be here are meditating in the 
Domes. Many hundreds here still." 
 

 Someone commentating about Fairfield from afar, “The infrastructure he put in 
place in N. America has fallen apart, with few pandits and dropping numbers in 
the domes. Perhaps there is some destiny for a rougher transition.” 
 

 Quoting:  “..if the MUM process fell apart, then it is because each of us as 
individuals has gained more influence over the environment. It doesn't really 
make sense that we are gaining light on the planet, and the sustaining element 
if it is such, at MUM would fall apart.   ..I think it is simply obsolete.”.end 
quote 

 

.. ..
 
Contentious, 
 – you told us about some such groups in town with whom you recently met who 
are planning group meditations (TM, or mostly TM) on the night before the 
election in the hope if creating some positive effect. Like, really? 

 I would suggest that you tell them that they would have a much stronger effect 
by coming to the Dome at least once daily every day from now on, and keep 
coming. 
 If they think their group meditations will have an effect, then (in the same 
breath) they cannot say that the Dome groups don’t! 
 



---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 I was at a meeting a couple of nights ago of about 25 people at Janet 
Sussman’s new Fairfield house. They agreed to meet for a meditation 
(superradiance) on the night of the Election Day, regardless of the results as 
the results are coming in. 
 

 I was at 

[FairfieldLife] Levitation

[Rick Archer r...@searchsummit.com [FairfieldLife]]

"Immortal Self: A Journey to the Himalayan Valley of the Amartya Masters" by 
Aaravindha Himadra.



"Dardura siddhi is the most practiced levitation technique and also the most 
accessible form, although among masters it’s rarely thought of as a genuine 
siddhi. The dardura technique can cause energetic surges of Shakti to burst 
through the body’s subtle meridians, triggering it to leap like a frog through 
the air but with little or no noticeable muscular involvement. Though it 
doesn’t fully qualify as a true levitation, it typically acts as a transitional 
phase in the development of the more advanced practice of laghima. However, to 
accomplish a full expression of laghima, a number of extenuating mental 
obstacles must first be overcome. Both dardura and laghima rely on identical 
principles. Both depend on an ability to meditatively transcend into a state of 
clear-light awareness. Clear-light awareness is rooted in a sustained samadhi 
wherein the perception-illumining power that acts as the quintessence of the 
psyche is no longer altered by any unconscious tendencies, patterned habits, or 
beliefs. Laghima requires a systematic process of constant, inwardly directed 
letting go while also consciously releasing one’s awareness into the resulting 
subtle flow of bliss. This leads to deeper and more expanded states of 
consciousness to where the psyche’s mental clutter no longer interferes with 
the inception to be weightless. Earlier in my life I had an opportunity to 
witness the successful performance of laghima levitation by two devout young 
monks living in a cloistered hermitage in northern India. Later, using what I 
learned, and after lengthy periods of study and practice, I personally 
experienced the direct potency of laghima a number of times. However, never in 
my life had I beheld the beauty and grace of this siddhi made so magnificent as 
I had this morning. It was beyond anything I imagined it could be—so free, so 
heavenly, so luminous and awe-inspiring."

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

 Q: I appreciate what you’re doing with the group meditation thing, but I like 
meditating at home. I usually take a nap first, then just sit up and meditate. 
Times vary.
  
 A: Evidently a lot of people feel this way also about meditating with the TM 
group, not turning out for what was superradiance
 of the group. 
 The numbers in the Dome meditation are incredibly low now.
  
 A radical transcendentalist's response like the.. 
  
 The Insulting Frenchman's:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSo0duY7-9s 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSo0duY7-9s
 

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 banned from the Domes.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiKZjq0vTWg 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiKZjq0vTWg
 


 It is time to start with the membership guidelines anew with a clean sheet of 
paper. 

 Examples of adapting policy:

 The ‘Adhesion Contract’.. 
 Back in 2012 I incited getting the ridiculous 4 pages ‘course agreement’ down 
more essentially to two pages of text. 
 All that is needed to run a residence course or group meditation is the 
ability to remove disruptive people. The 'course agreement' as it was written 
by apparatchiks trying to be ‘legal’ with everything in their minds and all 
their concerns including the kitchen sink thrown in, their course agreement was 
trying to catch, coerce or punish people to line on all kinds of creed stuff 
otherwise unrelated to being on a course, assembly or in a group meditation. 
The agreement was embarrassing as it was ridiculous as a ‘human resources’ 
document.  

 I pointed this out to reasonable minds and it was written down to what was 
more essential to running the facility and course with people. One sheet of 
paper, two sides for signature.   
 

Blue jeans were once banned from the Domes. That changed. 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Thanks for the response,  
 Yes, you are right about a practical need to regulate the running of a course 
assembly or group meditation. 
 The practical Regulating of Disruptive behavior is written in to the legal 
course agreement that gets signed as people get badges that allows course 
administrators a discretion to remove disruptive folks. There is a communal 
practicality to that. 

 That “course agreement” is different than the written guidelines for 
membership (Dome badge) application to the group. 

Om by the way, that 'course agreement' document that had developed into a 
piled-on cobbled and complex Four page document of legalese (what is called in 
common law an abusive 'adhesion contract') got cut down to one sheet of paper, 
the sheet of paper agreement that is what they use now to have people sign as 
they come in to get Dome badges. That change is an example of work in progress 
that can occur within TM. 
Jai Guru Dev 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Our ™ group offers what?  
 The written guidelines to the Domes have for years not been inviting to a 
larger community practice here.  The guidelines as they have been cobbled and 
word-smithed together have not served us well, at all. 
 The guidelines must, need to be written down to simple: 1) Did someone learn 
the ™ technique and programs? 2) If folks come to the Dome is that what they 
will do?  If yes on both accounts then say ‘welcome’. Be magnanimous and even 
say, ‘thank you’ for being with the group. 
 Get rid of the remaining old jealousies that are cultural written still into 
the guidelines which have right at nothing to do with the either the practice 
or running a group meditation or residence/assembly course but are there as 
purely administrative coercive and punitive ideas of other things of some 
people’s creeds. To approach the communal problem with the Dome numbers the 
guidelines must be changed to such a place that they may be publishable on a 
web page. Now.



---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Thanks for the replies from several of you.  

 The membership (Dome badge) guideline problem

 
 The need is to write the membership guidelines anew, start with a clean sheet 
of paper. Right now. New. Don’t just edit and wordsmith the old ones.   

 Go with “Name, Rank, and Serial number”. Simply, Did someone start ™ and learn 
the ™ program practices and if they would come to the Domes that is what is 
practiced as these Domes are facilitated. Thank you very much.  

 Don’t try to wordsmith the old ones anymore. Raja Hagelin did that again more 
recently retreating with (..) whispering in his ear this last spring and it did 
not improve on the essential problem of these old jealousies that are stuck in 
the written guidelines as they are cobbled.  

 Notice also: The ‘course agreement’ that people sign as they get badges is a 
different doc than ‘the guideline for (Dome badge) membership  application’ . 
 Don’t confuse either document for ‘the purity of the teaching’. 
 ‘Effortless meditation’ is the purity of the teaching. Policy as guideline 
only facilitates the teaching but