[FairfieldLife] The end of Yahoo-Groups !
Within a dysfunctional capitalism evidently this Verizon Corp purchase of Yahoo! appears as something similar to corporate Reader’s Digest’s buying Earl Kaplan’s “Reading is Fun” business for 267 million or so $, letting bean-counters and outside managers come in and destroy what was an ongoing business. Then, Earl buying the name back for a paltry few million after a couple of years or so. A stunning devaluation. (..that was a told as a journalism in the group archive of FFL.) After Verizon corp bought Yahoo! last year, the whole service has sequentially degraded terribly to this.
Re: [FairfieldLife] FFL at Yahoo! closing..
There is a Facebook group..
that could take up the slack of the closing of FFL on Yahoo-Groups..
A Group on Facebook:
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On Tuesday, October 20, 2020, 06:47:03 AM CDT, Doug Hamilton
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Farewell to Yahoo-groups..
For whatever ‘corporate’ reason they are dissolving all Yahoo-Groups.
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[FairfieldLife] FFL at Yahoo! closing..
Farewell to Yahoo-groups.. For whatever ‘corporate’ reason they are dissolving all Yahoo-Groups. An archive of posts made to Yahoo FFL (FairfieldLife) still exists for research at: https://www.mail-archive.com/fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com/ fairfieldlife | | | | fairfieldlife | | |
[FairfieldLife] Fw: Resending, since not everyone received: Domes to close Sunday evening
-- Forwarded message - From: Dome Announcements Date: Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 10:46 AM Subject: Resending, since not everyone received: Domes to close Sunday evening March 12, 2020 Dear Yogic Flyers, The Center for Disease Control (CDC) has told us that older adults have a higher risk of getting seriously ill from the coronavirus (COVID – 19). To lessen the risk of a large portion of the Super Radiance community contracting and spreading the disease we have decided to take a serious step to protect everyone’s health: After the Sunday evening program this week, we will close all Fairfield and Maharishi Vedic City flying halls until further notice. We strongly urge everyone to continue their program at home, lifting off at the usual times morning d evening. It will not be possible to Round at home. Those on the IAA Grant will continue to receive their monthly grant check at the average rate of participation over the last 6 months. While we hate to halt the Super Radiance program even temporarily, we will continue to generate coherence for the Nation from home during this delicate health time for the Country and the World. On a positive note, we are sending out an email to all Governors, Sidhas and Meditators in the U.S. encouraging them to coordinate their program times with those of us in our community – or at another set time within their time zones – to help create additional coherence during these delicate times. We are looking into the best way to continue the daily phone call to the Invincible America Assembly. Safety First! Jai Guru Dev, Raja John Haglin Drs. Doug and Linda Birx Our mailing address is: Maharishi International University 1000 N 4th St Fairfield, IA 52557
[FairfieldLife] In Radical Political Spirituality..
I Went to the Democrat’s caucus information meeting last night at the public’s library. In leaving with some campaign’s sticker stuck on my coat at the meeting’s end I was asked to express opinion and then accosted, assaulted, by one of the meeting organizers as my being divisive and angry in that. I am thankful for that consult now for like Tulsi critiquing the nature of partisan party division in Congress I will vote ‘present’ in affect for the caucus by going to the communal group Dome meditation during the caucus hour. The meeting was large wherein I came to caution with friends against mixing with people in their human policies and outward forms of government - showing in all ages that those that were called to be the Lord’s people in nature had been ruined and destroyed by such associations, manifesting clearly by scripture testimonies and other records that our strength and preservation consisted in standing alone and not to be counted among the people or nations who were setting up partial and party interests -one against another- which is the true ground of all war and bloodshed, being actuated by the spirit of pride and wrath which is always opposed to the true Christian Spirit that breathes peace on earth and good will to all men. And therefore, we cannot use any coercive force or compulsion by any means whatever - not being overcome with evil, but overcoming evil with good. And although there were many opposite spirits present who, in their creaturely wisdom and human policy, are pleading for those kinds of associations and taking part with these political governments, yet Truth favors and comes into a good degree of dominion over all - to the strengthening and encouraging by demonstration the true travailers for Zion’s prosperity. In our meditating churches and such places of spiritual practice like the Domes, Truth is favored in an eminent manner where many hearts are deeply bowed from the sensible evidence of the prevailing of the devine power that is in dominion over all, to the tendering of hearts of most present. This is a precious season, worthy of thankful remembrance and humble gratitude to the Blessed Author of Nature and all our rich mercies and blessing, which is over all, blessing forever. The crowd of the meeting appeared in a low state, as to a right ordering of the affairs of the party by reason whereof many and great were the apparent divisions among them. The greater part are too much captivated by a worldly spirit which leads into a neglect of attending to their True spiritual nature and a great carelessness in respect to the right ordering of their families and community. By reason many undue liberties have got in among them wounding the faith. Om how the gold becomes dim, how is the most fine gold changed! Some that retain a good degree of outward spiritual plainness themselves have nevertheless for want of dwelling enough in the pure Spring of Life suffered the eye of their minds to be so far blinded by the god of this world as not only to suffer these improper indulgences but in some instances are ready to plead for them. The sense thereof much affected my mind under which exercise I was led forth in to a line of close searching labor to more diligence and honest care in those respects which afforded degrees in comfort which is a treasure I prefer to all this world’s glory and honor. Stirring up to more vigilance in a careful waiting for the arising of the Spring of Life, as nothing short of the divine power and renewed quickenings of the Holy Spirit, can qualify for the promotion of good order and discipline in the community. I vote ‘present’.
[FairfieldLife] Fw: Rick Archer at the 2019 SAND Conference - Knowledge/Reality is Different in Different States of Consciousness
- Forwarded Message - From: Buddha at the Gas Pump To: Doug Hamilton Sent: Wednesday, January 1, 2020, 10:39:49 AM CSTSubject: Rick Archer at the 2019 SAND Conference - Knowledge/Reality is Different in Different States of Consciousness Rick Archer - Knowledge/Reality is Different in Different States of Consciousness Opening points: • People get polarized in different perspectives. | | | Like Tweet Pin +1 in | | | | | Rick Archer - Knowledge/Reality is Different in Different States of Consciousness | | | Rick Archer | Opening points: • People get polarized in different perspectives. The more they focus exclusively on their perspective, the more justification for it they find. • Learning to appreciate paradox; accommodating different viewpoints within a broader perspective. • Enlightenment as Totality. Only Totality can realize Totality. • Totality has no difficulty reconciling paradoxes. • Getting comfortable with paradox might be conducive to our realization of Totality. Examples of contradictory realities: • free will vs. determinism • personal self vs. no-self • Are we already enlightened, or must enlightenment be attained? • Is practice an aid or an obstacle? • Is the guru model dead? • Does non-duality imply that there are no stages of spiritual growth? • direct vs. progressive paths • patience vs. determination on the spiritual path Additional points covered: • Acting in accordance with your own experience, not a concept of someone else’s. • Absolute reality does not negate relative realities. • Radically different realities at different levels of nature’s functioning are perfectly compatible with one another. • Incorporating universal and individual perspectives – ocean and wave, boundless and boundaries. • My experience in doing BatGap. Recorded at the Science and Nonduality Conference, October 27, 2019. | | | |Click Here for Interview| | | | | || | BatGap Community There's a Facebook group for the discussion of BatGap interviews. This link will take you to the home page of the group and this one will take you to the discussion thread for this particular interview. Please subscribe to our YouTube channel | || | Recent Interviews | | ▪ Mirabai Starr, 2nd Interview ▪ Zvi Ish-Shalom ▪ John Prendergast, 2nd Interview ▪ Julie Brown Yau ▪ Vicki Woodyard | ▪ | Mirabai Starr, 2nd Interview | | ▪ | Zvi Ish-Shalom | | ▪ | John Prendergast, 2nd Interview | | ▪ | Julie Brown Yau | | ▪ | Vicki Woodyard | | || | Mailing List | Podcast | Past Interviews | Future Interviews Donations | About Us | Resources | | | | | | ©2020 Buddha at the Gas Pump | 1108 South B St., Fairfield, IA 52556 | | | | | Web Version Preferences Forward Unsubscribe | | | | Powered by GoDaddy Email Marketing ® | | |
[FairfieldLife] New Income-Based TM fees
We’re happy to announce that income-based TM® course fees are now available nationwide! If you know anyone who’d be interested to learn about the new course fees, feel free to share this with them. As a non-profit organization, we’ve always been committed to making the TM technique and its benefits available to as many people as possible. With this change, we hope to open our doors even wider, enabling more people to benefit. We believe that this tool for inner peace and wellness is needed by society now, more than ever. As before, the course fee can be paid up front or over four months. We will continue offering need-based, partial grant support and a satisfaction guarantee. We hope you’re enjoying your TM practice, and also want to remind you to take advantage of our lifetime follow-up program! If you ever find your TM practice isn’t easy, feel free to schedule a “tune-up”—it’s free, and can make all the difference in re-establishing effortless practice. Just contact your local TM Center. All the best, Your friends at Transcendental Meditation
[FairfieldLife] New Year's Day yagna at Morning Star!
Hi friends We are hosting a public participatory yagna with Pundit D N Sharma at Morning Star Studio for the Nine Planets and MahaLakshmi on Wednesday January 1st 2020! It starts at 10am for the Navagraha and at 2pm for the Lakshmi puja and homa. Come for any or all of this! Take a tour of the solar system! We will do puja to each of the nine planets/stars…each with its own mandala. You will learn the mantra for each planet and be invited to propitiate ones you would like to put some extra attention on! In the afternoon Sharmaji will perform the abhisheka for MahaLaksmi, her 1000 names and 16 recitations of the Shri Suktam. A fire ceremony will conclude the day for the Navagraha and MahaLakshmi. Sponsorships available $54 for each part for an individual. $154 for a family. Help is needed for set up and take down. contact 641 472 8422 or 919 9147 All blessings in the New Year! The Veda Vishwa family
[FairfieldLife] Meditating in the Domes
TM Meditators visiting Fairfield.. can register to be able to meditate in the Domes with the group. TM in the Golden Domes | | | | TM in the Golden Domes | | |
Re: [FairfieldLife] The old FFL mail archive..
Sorry that the format has changed. Evidently email sent to the yahoo group does get sent through. Verizon Corp is the recent new owner of Yahoo! With the change of ownership came this change that the content of the group will no longer be held for view on the yahoo-group page. The group service now is simply as an email list. I suspect that Verizon is dumping a privacy liability that their hosting of open group content could present for the corporation. But an archive was set up separate from Yahoo. I see that the mail archive is still picking up and copying current email sent to Fairfieldlife at yahoo. Evidently FFL can be followed at the mail archive. The archive can be searched over there. .. fairfieldlife | | | | fairfieldlife | | |
[FairfieldLife] The old FFL mail archive..
The old Fairfieldlife group archive is still searchable. It is held at:https://www.mail-archive.com/fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com/ fairfieldlife | | | | fairfieldlife | | | For instance, search, ' Saha Nav ' for the translation of that hymn that was used in the TM movement.
[FairfieldLife] In the Spiritual FF satsang:
Fairfield, Iowa's Divine Mother Church, Downtown at the Fairfield square.. ...join us for Empowerment Healings on Saturdays -- and Feast of Light sessions on Tuesdays, led by Connie*. Some highlights of our extended calendar are listed here. Be sure to check listings for all the events in the calendar below. Feast of Light Healings These sessions are a wonderful pick-me-up in the middle of a busy week, and we encourage you to take advantage of them. They are shorter than the Saturday sessions, so they can fit into your lunch break. Tuesday, 12:15 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Central Time USA Attend these sessions in person at Divine Mother Church, 51 N Court, Fairfield - or by teleconference at 712-770 8027, CONFERENCE CODE 468716. Conversation From the Fairfield satsang.. Q: David Spero is very good at a transmission of soul energy but this other, he is not directly of this other process of spiritual body, subtle body and cultivating those processes as the heart-mind and such as Janet, Matt, or Cynthia particularly entail it. A: You can see why because all that can become distracting in itself. It is funny, one sort of chooses one distraction for another. It used to be that it was meditation, meditation, meditation in the meditating community until it became more multi-formed in a coming on of ‘Vedic Sciences’. ..That is because we needed to have the elevated value of this, the beautiful. Then is the sublime value of the Divine masculine, it is this open mind, it is this capacity of consciousness itself, the experience of the silence. But it is only part of what needs to happen in this process. In David there is a type of unification in process in what unity is, there is both. In what makes unity unity is not just infinite unbounded silence but infinite unbounded silence and infinite unbounded dynamism together at the same time. Not one or the other but both wedded. That is what Cynthia Bourgeault was talking about with this ecstatic languaging in Christianity, that there is a way it gets language-ed historically. Q: AND THEN you have David Spero activating, transmitting soul energy this other aspect, shakti. Is able to trigger that palpably in people. He is very effective at transmitting this. A: That is the first track Matt Kahn is describing, that is what the first group is. That is that job. His job is the first ascension group. He is out there holding the light, that is his job. In FF satsang: ...Don’t get hung up on Matt Kahn’s goofy shirts that he wears. or his delivery. But Matt Kahn is cheering on those of us who are so interested in and have been dedicated to spiritual development, the Big “S” Spiritual development, upliftment. That it is not for nothing. That because as one has been engaged in it that it is not useless in this world or it is frivolous or inconsequential to what needs to happen here. That actually it holds the vibration and holds the criminal element back. He says that it is all part of one light, even the ones who are asleep. They are all still of the light. It is very uplifting. He has quite a construct of understanding, as a teacher at another level, as a native adept, like Janet Sussman. He is both very practical and advaitin-like in a way he strips down to the essentials, stripping the constructs, the excess to get to the essentials, the essential value of nonduality, which Cynthia very astutely gets to. . ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : The FF Satsang continuing, over coffee: “..They are meant to be together (head and heart) . You don’t abdicate the head, the brain, the mind or the heart, they are together, the ‘masculine and feminine’..” Q: it sets up a duality talking about this, identifying it. A: What Matt Kahn points out is that there are people on various tracks, we are all on ascension tracks, we are all in tracks, this is not a better than the other. The first track is the one is where the people are standing in light where the people are light bearers. Where people are light holders. The people who are in consciousness where they are standing there in the light and that is their main job. Being light holders. Then you have the second track, which is people who are becoming activated by what they see as problems in the world and they are going to look for social justice solutions, constructs, and so they are activated, and then a third track of people asleep. The third track is people who are always up to technology, on their phones, who their reference is always the phone, IT, technology. Light holders, social construct, and then the asleep who are willing and wanting to wed themselves to technology. Matt Kahn is saying we all have our place in this, we are all in to this together. In his view this is going to become very clear in the next two years, unambiguous. These Three general tracks is how people are
[FairfieldLife] The Glory of Being near Guru Dev
This is being shared around the community.. Subject: Guru Dev ** The Glory of Being near Guru Dev >From a talk about Guru Dev which Maharishi gave in Hertenstein, Switzerland >around 1974-1976 . The priceless transcendental nectar in which saints and seekers lose themselves and forget everything during their deep meditations in silent barren places - when that same nectar, that very same experience is had in nearness to the lotus feet of Guru Dev, in an unmoving and stable manner, with the eyes open and in a completely wakeful state, the incomparably blissful transcendental torrent floods the inside and outside, and the mind is drowned in ecstasy. Certainly this state in the nearness to the lotus feet of Guru Dev is much more desirable and enjoyable than the state where we forgot everything in samadhi. In that state at the lotus feet of Guru Dev, wave upon wave of the bliss of samadhi rises in myriads of forms and channels in complete wakefulness. That is the experience of jivan mukti, by the grace of the lotus feet of Guru Dev. The experience of the unshakable bliss of samadhi, when we are completely awake, is the jivan mukti, drowned in which the great Mahatmas become Brahman. At this time in this silence, in the nearness to Guru Dev, that is the experience. There is an inexpressible happiness, a feeling of huge elation, the heart is overwhelmed by ecstatic feeling like the heaving of an ocean of love, an ocean of bliss, as if the blissfulness of pure consciousness is rising in powerful torrents to surface from somewhere deep inside; and outside, Guru Dev's wordless, enchanting, inviting, nectar- like love is an infinitely large ocean. Torrential waves are rising from this limitless ocean on the outside, and diving deep inside and having struck the deepest depths, are rising outwards again and again, and then falling at the lotus feet of Guru Dev in voiceless ripples softly heaving and vibrating in ecstasy. The hand and feet and ears and all the senses, together with the heart and mind and intellect, are bursting with the fullness of that ecstatic feeling. Every tiny atom of the body is enveloped in that unbounded transcendental bliss of Brahmananda, and is melting into that experience as if into an indivisible, everlasting union with pure radiant love, untouched by time, space, or any other constraint. The limitless ocean of the heart bursts forth in wave upon torrential wave of invincibility and freedom. That unchanging, eternally stable, and timeless bliss, which is beyond the senses and transcendental in every way, is being experienced at the surface value of life at one single time simultaneously by all the senses, by every part of the physical body, and by the entire heart, mind, and intellect - all this by the grace and love of Guru Dev. The whole of life, the gross physical body, the subtle body, the transcendental inner phase of life, is throbbing and heaving with ecstatic feeling that is only bliss, just ecstasy and the nearness of Guru Dev. Outside on the terrace, it is as if the gentle ripples of the lake are nudging the sides and sleeping vegetation to awaken them to enjoy the tender moonlight. And there, on the terrace, the divine illumination of the lotus feet of Guru Dev is giving the power of life to the brilliant, inexpressible, transcendental sun of pure consciousness, to allow its waves to shake the heart of the ignorant disciple, to bring enlightenment and jivan mukti. The disciple is awakening from sleep. He is rising up. His ignorance and doubts are being erased. The fog facing him is lifting and the long journey is being quickly completed; the goal is becoming visible; it is right in front. Reaching it is all that is left. The other shore barely appears, and Guru Dev, the captain of the boat, throws a chain around the docking post to hasten his disciple's arrival. Great good fortune is needed to be able to experience the unbounded grace of Guru Dev and to continue to drink of that infinite ocean of bliss… The point being brought out here is the blissfulness experienced in nearness to the true Master. The point to notice is how the Guru, by giving his disciples and other seekers the experience of the different and varied aspects of Brahman strengthens every disciple's progress on the path of evolution and carries him to the pinnacle of perfection. The thing is the same, pure consciousness, but the Guru gives the disciple experiences of it in such a variety of ways that remove every shadow of doubt that could become an obstacle to the disciple's progress. This is the glory of being near Guru Dev
[FairfieldLife] A Directory of Active Fairfield Spiritual Practice Groups (2005)
Title: Directory of Active Fairfield Spiritual Practice Groups Text of the article in the Weekly Reader (October 2005,Old dated contacts): Directory of Active Fairfield Spiritual Practice Groups Outside of Fairfield, people intently ask, “What is going on in Fairfield?” The spiritual, utopian side of Fairfield is something they are wondering about. Fairfield has become recognized as a spiritual Mecca of sorts, ranking with Sedona, Arizona, Boulder and Crestone, Colorado or Ashville, North Carolina and the like. Within these past three decades, Fairfield spiritual practice groups have matured, giving this community a rich, new face. The long-time Fairfield meditating community today is its own center for spiritual practice. The breadth of spiritual practice groups in Fairfield is now a unique feature of our town in the 21st Century. ___ A Course in Miracles, Mondays 7:30 pm. Local contact: 472-7148. Art of Living Foundation -Sri Sri Ravishankar Meditation and program schedule in Fairfield. 472-2053 Babaji Group: Local contact: 472-9952 Bapuji Group Shri Avadoot, better known as “Bapuji”. Local contact: 472-9260 Chalanda Sai Maa Satang in Fairfield Group meditations based on the teachings of Chalanda Sai Maa Lakshmi Devi. First and third Monday of the month at 7:30 PM. Call for location & information: 472-5175. Circle of Sophia a holy order for women at St. Gabriel and All Angels, the Liberal Catholic Church. Original worship celebration, written from sources in ancient Christianity, enlivens the Feminine Divine for both men and women. Celebrations monthly. 300 E. Burlington. www.stgabe.org, 472-1645, for information and calendar. Deeksha Darshan and teachings of Bhagavan Kalki & Padmavati Amma Fairfield contact for local program: 472-6948 Divine Mother Church in Fairfield “We don’t talk about God, we commune with God”. Sundays 10 AM; 409 W. Broadway; 472-0662. Fairfield Ammachi Satsang Ammachi Fairfield weekly schedule of meditation, chanting, and bhajans contact: 472-8563 Fairfield Vedic Pujas, Yagyas and Ceremonies Scheduled public events always open to interested persons. By Vedic Scholar and Priest, Pandit Dhruv Narain Sharma: 630-240-3368 or (641) 209-5757 Fairfield Shri Karunamayi Satsang Fairfield Group Meditation and Program. 472-8422 Fairfield Transcendental Meditation Programs: 641-919.8188 or 472-1174 Fairfield Weekly Discussion Group - Experiences in Consciousness and Enlightenment. For meeting time and location, contact Rick Archer, 472-9336.. Fellowship of the Holy Spirit in Fairfield “Consciousness, Joy, and Devotion: Christianity that works.” Sundays, 11 AM, Gateridge Building, 1100 N. 4th. 472-8737. Friends Meeting Fairfield Society of Friends (Quakers) Un-programmed ‘silent’ meeting for worship. 472-8422. Gangaji Group Local contact: 472-9476. Golden Shield Qi Gong Fairfield practice: 641-919-3913. Hatha Yoga classes. Sue Berkey: 472-6577 Henry Hertzberger Chanting, Pujas & Yagyas. Mahaganapati Temple Schedule: 472-9952. Liberal Catholic Church in Fairfield St Gabriel and all Angels, 300 E. Burlington. 472-1625 Manavata Mandir Vedic Temple 800 W. Burlington in Fairfield. 469-6041. Saniel Bonder, ‘Waking Down’ in Fairfield. Sittings calendar: call 472-7182. Scalar Group Meditation Programs facilitated by Lilli Botchis. A unique opportunity as a group to research in mind/body consciousness the universal themes of pure energy and manifestation potential of HHFe Scalar wave regeneration system. Programs designed to clear, balance and open the chakra system. 472-0129. Shivabalayogi Group All are welcome. There is never any charge for Swamiji’s blessings. For further information, contact: 641-233-1025. Svaroopa Yoga (641) 472-7499. Tetra Building TM-Sidhi Meditation Practice Room Daily morning and afternoon meditation facility for the practice of the TM-Sidhi meditation program. A quiet, clean and convenient place ‘to do program’. Contact David Hawthorne for use and membership information: 472-3799. Transformational Prayer in Fairfield For information on Fairfield activities, call 472-0662. This directory was compiled using public notices, advertisements in The Fairfield Weekly Reader, or by Web pages and Yellow Book searches for listings. Most of these groups have e-mail lists for schedules and programs. Contact them directly for more information. For additions and updated email
[FairfieldLife] FFL's archive
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[FairfieldLife] A Meditating Community...
9.14.2001 20 years ago Post # 7 to FairfieldLife, Rick proposing: "I’ve love to see a public announcement like the following from the Department of the Development of Consciousness (the people who give out the badges): Dear Fairfield Sidhas and Governors, First, we would like to publicly apologize for ever having excluded from the domes anyone who wanted to practice Maharishi’s program there. We would like to welcome everyone back on the condition that if you are in the dome, you promise to practice what you have learned from Maharishi – no more, no less. In turn, we promise to never again judge or exclude anyone for what they may choose to do with their private life. We possess neither the wisdom nor the right to do this. Let us all come together again in a spirit of love and acceptance, and begin once more to radiate the harmony and coherence for which the domes were built. Jai Guru Dev, The Department of the Development of Consciousness ..numbers flying in the domes would double overnight." / From FFL post 6, before Rick's reply: I think it is an exciting thing that they opened up the doors for meetings on campus. Is there a thawing? Or is this just expedience? It has been getting pretty small and cold up there. So it was noteworthy what you sent out. I missed the call to meeting initially but I would have gone if I had known. I do not really expect anymore that anything is open to the community up there. We live here and we do our programs but we are sort of out of the loop, being "no-badge-niks". Some of what the movement is doing I am not necessarily interested in. But as an old-time meditator I am here and I am interested. Though the movement might not believe it, I am probably more conservative and fundamental than they would rate me. As someone posted in an e- mail to me recently, "Hope all is well in the lovely peaceful land of Iowa. I hear we are all invited back to the domes again? Silly fools to have chased us all away in the first place. Oh well." I wrote this piece below recently this summer hoping to get it published in the Weekly Reader back when they were publishing things about the community. I thought you might enjoy it. Best Regards,
[FairfieldLife] A Sept 2001 FFL post #6
14.sept.2001, FairfieldLife: An opportunity... A Meditating Community I meditate. I am an old style field TM Initiator and I am an old style movement Governor. Like so many here I am a meditator, fundamentally. In coming to Fairfield, most of us have come here as TM meditators. Some of us came as TM initiators. Some of us came here as TM-Sidhas or some as TM Governors. We have come from many places and points. From many points though, the common point of the meditating community has been that we are here as practicing meditators. We share a lot of history together. Some of us have been meditators of 30 and 40 years. Many of us here are mediators of 20 or more years. Many of 5, 10 or 15 years. There are a few new meditators today but the core of the movement community here is a veteran group. As a community we are in common as mediators. In common we have had much to draw on as meditators and then also as initiators and Governors. In numbers we have been a powerful resource to draw on because of a strength of diversity we have brought as meditators in community. There is a huge diversity in our group. We have a great community here. Many of us have watched it grow. Many of us have worked to make it grow. It has been vibrant and a lot of fun to be in. Today, in recent years and times, it is apparent to witness that there are many many meditators living in Fairfield who are without place in the TM movement. There are lots of people who are old time long term meditators living here and also around the country without place in the current movement. It is a curious thing that there can be hundreds and hundreds of meditators living here in the town community who have little or no contact or relationship to what today has become a small and shrinking enclave of the movement community. We see these many people here when we do come together to marry or bury our community. We see each other up town everywhere. We do not see each other so much on campus or in the movement anymore. As an event, probably the last truly inclusive community group meditation was held last fall at the memorial for Alex Grace held in the chapel. It was a significant last moment in the meditating community here. In effect, as we are meditators in practice and in heart we are without an organ of a movement. In looking, there is a huge opportunity, if the movement elite could see it, in the base of the people who are here as meditators doing their meditation and doing their TM-Sidhis as meditators. The speculation for all of us watching is whether there may be too much pride or too much arrogance inside the movement now to see what is here at hand. Possibly it is beyond the nature of character of too many in the middle to recoup. There is always hope. Of Support and facility... In general, as a meditator, to the extent that I may look to the movement, I look to it to support my practice as a meditator. As an initiator, I look to the movement to support us in the teaching of TM. As a governor I look to the movement to facilitate. Supporting and facilitating, our needs as a meditating community are about that simple. Beyond what could be done directly to administratively support and facilitate practicing meditators, as practicing meditators, meditators may or may not be interested at all in anything further coming from the movement as new knowledge. Meditators may do their practice. However, as meditators we may or we may not necessarily be interested in vedic architecture or astrology or education or service or political rantings or anything else that the movement may franchise. Beyond a quiet practice which itself is self-evident, any of the new knowledge may or may not be interesting or compelling. As a group, the essential relationship for practicing meditators with the movement has always been experiential and practical, and has not been until recently now, faith-based otherwise. Of course, in reflecting, in the culture of the TM movement there is no place to rate ourselves on how we might be doing as a movement organized. No place even to ask or reflect how we might be doing supporting meditators or supporting teachers or sidhas. Versus our ideal administration, reflecting on our own administration in any way practical would of course be too negative. Would it be too practical? There is a huge opportunity, if the movement enclave could see it, in the base of the people who are here as meditators doing their meditation and doing their TM-Sidhis as meditators. The speculation for all of us watching is whether there may be too much rigid pride or too much arrogance inside the movement now to see what is here at hand. Possibly it is beyond the nature of character of too many in the middle to recoup. There is always hope. With Best Regards, -Doug Hamilton
[FairfieldLife] Rick's 5 Sept. 2001 FFL Start Msg.
Hi Dick and Susan, So far it’s just we three. This is just a test message to see if it works. Next week, or maybe this, the Weekly Reader is going to announce it.. Love to you pioneers. -- Rick Archer
[FairfieldLife] Re: The '93-'94 Survey of Meditating Fairfield
The '93 Survey results are available for download still in the files section of FairfieldLife for members. See the Files section tab above of FFL while Yahoo still hosts them.. https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/files/FFL%20and%20Fairfield%20Community/ https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/files/FFL%20and%20Fairfield%20Community/ ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : # TSR Survey ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Yes, this larger survey is interesting base-line data on the larger meditating community in Fairfield from back when the meditating community and the Dome numbers were more around their peak as the long decline (attrition) was then ensuing. You can see the seeds and the consequent beginning of the cultivated socioeconomic exclusivity sprouting then and the administrative separation of meditators from membership in the group meditation over visiting saints and spiritual people that had started in the late 1980's and through the 1990's to present. Since the larger sample community survey of the early 1990's there have only been small sample surveys of sub-groups. In a way the recent book on Fairfield [How a New Age Movement Remade a Small Town in Iowa] by the journalist, Joseph Weber is a survey by extensive interviewing of the Fairfield meditating community that is current. A few years ago when there was such strife in the sustainable living students an interview survey was hired and conducted of the university SL students about their experience at the university. The results were presented to the administration and then defended against by the President. That survey and more recent surveying has been useful more recently in guiding some policy changes around the university and MSAE student life currently. While the progressive side of the TM movement has been methodically tracking metrics and hiring marketing surveying related to the teaching of meditation, there have not been broad surveying of the meditating community of the scale of the 1994 survey. That could proly be too frightening for some of the key patriarchs of old administration on watch of the movement to see. The closest thing to that kind of surveying would be a larger ongoing survey of collected first-person cases by a sub-committee of the Fairfield Mental Health Alliance compiling cases where people have felt their well-being was effected by their experience with the culture of the movement. There is a range and distribution to those collected cases which have clearly indicated areas for policy changes that could improve elements of culture and consequences in aspects of the movement. Elements of the movement are moving on some of this while some ideologues try to hold a dogmatic line against it. Having 'data-points' has been extremely helpful towards seeing policy. There is a lot in process going on and things are also fluid. -JaiGuruYou ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : This is interesting but 20 years old. Is there anything more recent to compare this to? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : The Community Forum Community-wide Survey Results (also saved as documents in the FairfieldLife at Yahoo-groups files section.) Dear Meditator, In late spring (1994), the Community Forum sponsored a community-wide survey to sample opinion on a wide range of issues that affect our lives. Based on a compiled list of Fairfield-area meditators, we sent out approximately 2,000 surveys. We received 659 completed surveys, for a response rate of about 33%. (The response rate may even be higher; since we used bulk mail, we do not know the exact number of surveys delivered.) In the field of written surveys, a response rate of 33% is considered outstanding. Survey respondents come from a cross-section of our community: 84% have been meditating for 16 years or longer; 68% have lived in Fairfield for seven years or more; and 68% are registered for Super Radiance. Although not every meditator filled out a survey, we believe the results provide significant insights into how meditators feel about important issues and about our lives in Fairfield. Survey Data This document provides the raw data for all questions except for the essays. For the essays, this document lists the more common suggestions and comments. Looking at the data, one can identify responses of general consensus and also responses reflecting widely diverse opinions. Where there is a clear need and desire in a particular area of concern, the Community Forum will hold open meetings so that interested people can come together, discuss options, and explore possible solutions. The survey data can also be evaluated from a variety of different perspectives (e.g., age, gender, income, Movement status, etc.). We encourage anyone with statistical analytical skills to help us analyze the survey results
[FairfieldLife] Re: The '93-'94 Survey of Meditating Fairfield
# TSR Survey ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Yes, this larger survey is interesting base-line data on the larger meditating community in Fairfield from back when the meditating community and the Dome numbers were more around their peak as the long decline (attrition) was then ensuing. You can see the seeds and the consequent beginning of the cultivated socioeconomic exclusivity sprouting then and the administrative separation of meditators from membership in the group meditation over visiting saints and spiritual people that had started in the late 1980's and through the 1990's to present. Since the larger sample community survey of the early 1990's there have only been small sample surveys of sub-groups. In a way the recent book on Fairfield [How a New Age Movement Remade a Small Town in Iowa] by the journalist, Joseph Weber is a survey by extensive interviewing of the Fairfield meditating community that is current. A few years ago when there was such strife in the sustainable living students an interview survey was hired and conducted of the university SL students about their experience at the university. The results were presented to the administration and then defended against by the President. That survey and more recent surveying has been useful more recently in guiding some policy changes around the university and MSAE student life currently. While the progressive side of the TM movement has been methodically tracking metrics and hiring marketing surveying related to the teaching of meditation, there have not been broad surveying of the meditating community of the scale of the 1994 survey. That could proly be too frightening for some of the key patriarchs of old administration on watch of the movement to see. The closest thing to that kind of surveying would be a larger ongoing survey of collected first-person cases by a sub-committee of the Fairfield Mental Health Alliance compiling cases where people have felt their well-being was effected by their experience with the culture of the movement. There is a range and distribution to those collected cases which have clearly indicated areas for policy changes that could improve elements of culture and consequences in aspects of the movement. Elements of the movement are moving on some of this while some ideologues try to hold a dogmatic line against it. Having 'data-points' has been extremely helpful towards seeing policy. There is a lot in process going on and things are also fluid. -JaiGuruYou ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : This is interesting but 20 years old. Is there anything more recent to compare this to? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : The Community Forum Community-wide Survey Results (also saved as documents in the FairfieldLife at Yahoo-groups files section.) Dear Meditator, In late spring (1994), the Community Forum sponsored a community-wide survey to sample opinion on a wide range of issues that affect our lives. Based on a compiled list of Fairfield-area meditators, we sent out approximately 2,000 surveys. We received 659 completed surveys, for a response rate of about 33%. (The response rate may even be higher; since we used bulk mail, we do not know the exact number of surveys delivered.) In the field of written surveys, a response rate of 33% is considered outstanding. Survey respondents come from a cross-section of our community: 84% have been meditating for 16 years or longer; 68% have lived in Fairfield for seven years or more; and 68% are registered for Super Radiance. Although not every meditator filled out a survey, we believe the results provide significant insights into how meditators feel about important issues and about our lives in Fairfield. Survey Data This document provides the raw data for all questions except for the essays. For the essays, this document lists the more common suggestions and comments. Looking at the data, one can identify responses of general consensus and also responses reflecting widely diverse opinions. Where there is a clear need and desire in a particular area of concern, the Community Forum will hold open meetings so that interested people can come together, discuss options, and explore possible solutions. The survey data can also be evaluated from a variety of different perspectives (e.g., age, gender, income, Movement status, etc.). We encourage anyone with statistical analytical skills to help us analyze the survey results more thoroughly. Thank You! We would like to thank everyone who participated in the survey! We would also like to thank those who wrote to us with comments and suggestions about the survey. THE COMMUNITY FORUM, P.O. Box 1633, Fairfield, IA 52556 • 515-472-8132 (0ld) Summary of responses to.. ESSAY QUESTIONS Of the 659 people who completed a survey, 548 wrote answers to the essay questions. Many
[FairfieldLife] Re: Meditating Fairfield, Iowa [1974-2014+]
The Fairfield Meditating Community: Yep, in process should have 'mission' well described to develop and have successful policy. Editing from their memo, this is a good start at describing who we are: “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 consciousness. .. our Super-Radiance community includes all the Meditators as well as the families of all the Sidhas and Meditators.” -Buck in the Dome Well, the memo is a needed advocacy for the community here.. “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 consciousness. .. our Super-Radiance community includes all the Meditators as well as the families of all the Sidhas and Meditators.” The Super-Radiance Community paragraphs at the bottom of the memo are important ones that are now actively adding meditators in to policy description of the broader Fairfield, Vedic City and Jefferson County meditation community. As a change in course this particularly is a substantial one to notice. That is new and a new welcome thought. While the larger attempt at transparency is a frank signature element of the change; however, the definition of the Fairfield meditating community away from just the TM-sidha/yogic flying TSR Dome-going community to include [TM] meditators of the community as the Super-Radiance Community is the substantial change. Loaded down old super-tankers don't change course quickly. This is an attempt at a major change of direction even in Fairfield where there are so many old meditators of the TM movement and most who live as meditators in the meditating community without much of any relationship to the organization. I wish the corporate TM organization all good shipping through the chop of the narrows they are sailing through. -Buck in the Dome Pablum? No, actually this memo is a major and conscious policy change. Most you don't live in Fairfield or have nothing to do with meditating Fairfield. Possibly you are or were once practicing meditators. This particular memo as sent out is actually a really important change of direction. By policy initiative it is an attempt to organizationally soften, facilitate, re-gather and include meditators again by policy in to the interests of the TM movement. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi for whatever reason left to founder the meditators and the meditating movement un-attended from late in the 1970's shifting his attention on to programs for advanced meditators around yogic flying and the TM-Sidhis and monumental projects for creating Heaven on Earth. So it was and so it is; and, the meditating element of the movement crescendo-ed from those days and times of higher point. Now as part of a practical process of succession planning the re-inclusion of 'the meditator' is back in to a definition of our corporate communal policy as essential formative element. This is a huge strategic change in direction being brought about by some savvy old [retirement-aged] field teachers of TM as recognized necessity. The TM-teaching movement is once again being generally successful and this policy move is timely and strategically helpful towards unifying and supporting that larger regeneration of a meditating movement otherwise. It is a purposeful organizational realignment of priority and also significant to what is communal meditating and non-meditating Fairfield. -Buck in the Dome Rick Archer posts: Raja John Hagelin wrote: February 26, 2014 Dear Sidhas and Meditators of Fairfield, Maharishi Vedic City, and Jefferson County, Over the last couple of years we have been making some structural changes and, we hope, significant improvements in how our Super-Radiance community functions. It is all for the purpose of giving you a better experience of living here and doing program in our flying halls—deeper programs, more fun, more friendliness, better service, more transparency, inclusiveness, due process, and community spirit. I’d like to lay out for you how our Super-Radiance community is organized these days. I’ve also included a couple of organizational charts below so you can see how everything fits together. The Invincible America Assembly The Invincible America Assembly consists of every Sidha who has a dome badge and attends group program. You don’t need to be rounding to be on the Invincible America Assembly—although rounding is an extraordinary experience in our special dome atmosphere. The Invincible America Solutions Group The Invincible America Solutions
[FairfieldLife] Re: FF meditator memoriam
November 2019 Patricia and Robert Oates Steven Hathaway Mark Welch Emerson Knoll Valerie Janlois Mark Shier passed yesterday, Oct 9.2019 Tom Winquist Dave Tanner Judith Foulds Linda Parmet Scott Pidd Abraham Silverstein Jonathan Mayhew Gareth John Oliver Ron Khare Dale Wagoner Buffy Mooney, has passed. I'd guess he taught thousands of people. Happy Trails Buffy. Norman Watsey Gareth Oliver Hannah Kesler 2019 Rona Abramson George Hrebar Lucien Mansour Sept 2018 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Thank you for posting the obituaries, Doug. There was a time, during my teaching days, when I touted, "Perfect Health in the Direction of Immortality" I look back on this with a certain amount of amusement at my naivete, and unbridled optimism. What I do not carry with me is anger and resentment that I bought into a path, that didn't quite live up to its lofty expectations. On the other hand, stepping onto a spiritual path, which encourages you to go beyond the superficial aspect of things, what price do you put on that? Stephen Richter Jim Bates Susan Small Lillian Busch Dar ( 1921-2018) Kayren Berna - died March, 1996 Sarah Oliver - died August, 1997 János Szász Sr. • June 4 1936 • October 19 2017 (diwali day) • Budapest • Decorated Hungarian freedom fighter • TM teacher 1977 San Francisco • MIU community + Purusha 1980-1990 • Was only one to demonstrate yogic flying behind the iron curtain Aug 15 1986 • Initiated many in Hungary • National leader for some time • His work continues • Recently deceased.. Chip Gallagher Dolly Honkenon Savannah Wechsler Len Labagh passed away Sunday morning, Jan 14. Gary Gill Judy Walls Bryan Peterson passed Stanley Kresky Randy Coplin, 1949-2018 Gary Rich, passed away early this morning, Sept 11, 2018 David Seager Merle C. Dockendorff Robert Iverson David Gannon has dropped the body. Rosie Estrin passed away this morning July 1, 2018 Transcendental Meditationist Fairfield, Iowa and a TM Movement Memoriam.. Stewart Oestreich Robert Oats Jerry Jarvis Peter Just truncated There are additional names gathered further back in this thread. Yahoo now truncates posts for length. There are many more names and also the Purusha passing list is further back in this thread. I have placed the larger file of this memoriam list over on to a Google-group. Yahoo-groups truncates now in a way that makes researching back into Yahoo subject threads difficult to work. The Google-group is an older more comprehensive adjunct to this more current listing here on FFL Yahoo-group. Note: A longer earlier version of this list that scrolls more easily can be found and opened at: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/communal-studies-forum/8LCTgvO26LM https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/communal-studies-forum/8LCTgvO26LM / Enloe Willingham Friends You probably heard that Enloe Willingham passed last week. Jai Guru Dev Norman Zierold passed away at pre-dawn 7 March 2018. There will be a gathering for cremation at Behner Funeral Home in Fairfield, 2pm Friday Sharon Starr Cynthia Cole Patrick Gearon, The Quantum (car) Mechanic Charles (Charly) Vaughn Savannah Alyn Harrell John L. Petit Roberto, Robert David passed away yesterday. Wonderful character in the community, lovely person, a very spiritual guy.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Growing Up TM
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : FF Coffee Haus conversation reports, TM Atheism & Nihilism: Excerpt, ..her daily work consults all day long with people from all over about their spiritual states. https://sites.google.com/site/ jenniferhamiltonsunpoint/home https://sites.google.com/site/jenniferhamiltonsunpoint/home She works with some TM’ers and with other folks who call on her. With old TM’ers it can be ‘checking’ their experience related to meditating. It can be everything. For some while now, also a lot of younger ™.org http://tm.org/ teachers and DLF teachers who have also found her over the years by word of mouth as someone they can talk to for perspective on what they are experiencing as dissonance. More recently she was talking about this from her experience in talking with these kids of the movement about the evident integrity problem the movement is in. What she finds in her experience… paraphrasing, Voice to text.. “The Gen-X and Millennials of TM assert that many people in their group cohort who they do know are atheist, that they are atheist to an extreme. There are two groups. One group in the Gen-X and Millennials of TM is atheist that are the most spiritual people you ever met. And, another group that is atheist in a place of utter rejection of anything: that there is no truth, there is nothing to reality other than a biological event, life. This second group sits with: ..that consciousness has no other place other than in the brain and that when one is born one becomes conscious and then one dies and consciousness goes away. For that group there is no what we might call continuum of experience or continuum of life. There is that group. However, there is a group in what they are going through and what is happening to them that on the level of consciousness is absolutely sublime. Is this going to fit in to ™-Ville and a vision of seven states of consciousness? Probably not. Some of the cohort have personal and direct intimate relationship with their experience (evolution). The description is gorgeous. It happens when they meditate invited to sit in the lap of it and they are held to be in quiet in a capacity built to not get just strung out on their thinking, but just to be in that silence present. God intoxicated and in life. Gorgeous and in detail in Nature. It is gorgeous. Add to this we have the walking wounded of the TM children because of how they were or were not handled in the school and by the teaching. What they saw very early on was the utter hypocrisy of the whole deal while their parents, tru-believers, were ‘drinking the kool-aid’. These kids were going like, “What is going on here?” This is not just news to them. It was a revelation that occurred early in their life. So they have this wound, this impression. Of course they run the gamut, of course they are not all going to be the same, but how many of them consider themselves to be atheist, atheism of the nihilist type. Then you have those that are atheist but they are atheist of the most refined spirituality. They are so non-dual that the idea of god as other, that kind of state they are Stabilizing unity consciousness is in that God absorbed ecstatic kind of union. Stabilizing a unity consciousness they talk about this as their expression. This is before Veda. It is before Maharishi, or Ammas or a David Spero last week or Janet Sussman this week. It is not about it being male or female, it is about it being both of masculine and feminine in balance. Infinite dynamism and infinite silence at the same time and the form of it in expression, in form that the mind can understand. Right now some are in this ‘shiva-shakti’ merging in their experience of state shaped by the direct guru-hood of the experience. It is fascinating. These are very spiritual kids, they are not looking for ‘church’. They are not looking for someone to tell them what to do. They get guidance. They are in to jyotish, they are about insight and perspective. But as far as this whole thing of trying to perpetuate a teaching, that even though the movement say and want to assert that it does not, it most certainly does seek to perpetuate duality because the guru in their minds is, “always perfect”, “beyond reproach”, “not questioned”, everything is deferred to whatever he said, the guru guidelines, it is all of that. All about structuring everything around that; and that you cannot trust your own experience. If your experience deviates from the seven states, in the sense of the tidy super mental linear thing they have, that he barely touched on at the least, that it was something you had to get through in order to have unity. Fascinating, depending on how one defines unity. Unity to what, not a who but a what. Their talk is about the difference in reality not of what who they are but what they are, what is. Not the who. The who
[FairfieldLife] Re: Year-end, 2015 Post-Founder TM, an Index
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : # ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : May 2016 427373Re: Change of Leadership, Bevan Deposed https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/427373 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/427373 427441Re: TM Legacy https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/427441 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/427441 427265Re: MUM Student Petition https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/427265 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/427265 427165Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Tony Nader's new lot https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/427165 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/427165 427167Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditators Should Come (back) to the Domes the next 4-5 weeks ~ Important time for coherence in consciousness https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/427167 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/427167 427089Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Is TM a New Religion? The Federal District Court https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/427089 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/427089 427183Re: Revolutionary Millenarianism, TM and the Meissner Effect [ME] in Consciousness https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/427183 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/427183 427004Re: Directory of Active Spiritual Practice Groups of Fairfield https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/427004 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/427004 426986Re: [FairfieldLife] Maharishi Thumb Drive https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/426986 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/426986 426886Re: Charismatic Spiritual https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/426886 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/426886 # The Collective Meditation: 426885Re: Peace and Groups Joining to Meditate https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/426885 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/426885 426805Re: New Study: Invincible America Assembly Reduced Homicides 21.2% and Violent Crime 18.5% https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/426805 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/426805 426753Re: In Peace Projects, Formative and Powerful Times https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/426753 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/426753 # 427434:Growing up in a TM community, Claire Hoffman https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/427434 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/427434 # 423593Re: An Old Index to FFL https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/423593 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/423593 # Year-end, 2015 Post-Founder TM, an Index: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : [y-2015] 419933Re: Maharishi School, enters new era. https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/419933 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/419933 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : TM Mental Health: 422639So, How's Meditating Fairfield, Iowa Doing? https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/422639 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/422639?soc_src=mail_trk=ma 374777FW: How Our Community Works Corporate Communal TM, the flow chart.. https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/374777 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/374777?soc_src=mail_trk=ma 422273Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: FF Mental Health Alliance: Shifting Cultural Attitudes https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/422273 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/422273?soc_src=mail_trk=ma This chronicles work back to 2014, scroll down through the post and open the 'show more history'. Perfectionism, The Stressed and Distressed in Achievement Cultures.. 423577Re: Normal Kids, Rich Kids, Poor Kids, the MSAE and MUM kids..
[FairfieldLife] Re: Mental Health in the Fairfield and Meditating Communities
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Nope. MJ, someone evidently is leading you along [by the nose] with bad information. That simply is not true. There have been working meetings of [meditating] mental health professionals and interested people going on for weeks around actively delivering modern mental health to the Fairfield and meditating communities. That process has pushed a development of a mental health clinic on campus that is being set up and staffed. There is movement with local community resources of hospital, emergency response, social services and police to have qualified mental health people available as standard now. Even a local facility to help in crisis. These are work in progress in the meditating community and locally working together around this. Yes and all very much looking at the culture of the meditating community around modern mental health services and resources is going on. One of the academic papers delivered at the academic conference over this last weekend was a framework for mental health from the movement adopting modern scientific and effective practices to mental health. This is being forced and grappled with by good people and the movement too. There is good progress and work in progress. You are making wild and large assumptions evidently to your own end otherwise. -Buck, on the Ground in Fairfield and in the Dome mjackson74 writes: I just got a private e-mail from someone in Fairfield who says that you are making all this up about the TMO creating a group to help people with mental problems that might lead to suicide. As I thought. From: "Share Long sharelong60@... [FairfieldLife]" To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" Sent: Thursday, August 7, 2014 1:13 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] How to inspire confidence in your troops...I served 28 yrs now Ret Col TM is a great success4me & my troops who learned it I found out from friends who know of my interest in helping improve the situation. On Thursday, August 7, 2014 11:38 AM, "Michael Jackson mjackson74@... [FairfieldLife]" wrote: so how do I find out about them? From: "Share Long sharelong60@... [FairfieldLife]" To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" Sent: Thursday, August 7, 2014 12:30 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] How to inspire confidence in your troops...I served 28 yrs now Ret Col TM is a great success4me & my troops who learned it Michael, how I am replying is totally my choice and is based to a large extent on the tone of your posts here, including this one. I think you are stuck in the past about the TMO. More importantly, I don't think you welcome good news about the TMO. But you are welcome to come to one of the public meetings I'm referring to and find out for yourself. That is, if you are sincerely interested in improving situations. On Thursday, August 7, 2014 11:10 AM, "Michael Jackson mjackson74@... [FairfieldLife]" wrote: And with true Movement slippery-ness you are refusing to give us any info on how the Movement is dealing with ongoing suicides. Why the secrecy? Interesting in that you just took me to task for not responding to Sounds of Silence's bs. So what are the Movement's remedies to prevent suicide? More meditation? More yagyas? More money donated to the Movement? Come on Share, don't blather about it unless you are gonna come clean. I know the Movement. The Movement in fact does not evolve. They are still stuck in the vibe that the Old Fraud himself gave that TM is 10% life supporting. They can't offer a damn thing to mitigate suicides among TM'ers that works, cause you could have to cease TM to do so. Their remedies are all superstitious nonsense. So come on, prove me wrong. Are they now suggesting that depressed TM'ers go get professional non-TM help from psychiatrists? Or is it some ayurvedic mental health fakir who come from India to squirt some mango juice in their ears while chanting mantras to them, all at an exorbitant price? From: "Share Long sharelong60@... [FairfieldLife]" To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" Sent: Thursday, August 7, 2014 11:52 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] How to inspire confidence in your troops...I served 28 yrs now Ret Col TM is a great success4me & my troops who learned it Michael, all I'm saying is that wrt suicide and the TMO, your allegation that the TMO is ignoring such situations is out of date. I'd also add that the TMO is an evolving organization comprised of evolving individuals in an evolving universe. It's healthy to make use of what's beneficial in the world and if one wants, help heal and or develop what's still evolving. I don't think it's healthy to keep focused on what happened a long time ago with a non healing intention. Which is what I think you do. On Thursday, August 7, 2014 10:32 AM, "Michael Jackson mjackson74@... [FairfieldLife]" wrote: E-mail
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: FF Mental Health Alliance: Shifting Cultural Attitudes
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Yes there was a change in the fundamentalism. The practical operational policy now is that people will get referred to professional mental health resources as needed. You ask about mindfulness meditation as therapy, in the operation of the new policy I doubt that the clinics on campus or that TM teachers out in the world will be providing mindfulness branded prescriptions for mental illnesses. That particular mental-health prescription would be coming from experts certified or licensed in mental health counseling otherwise, as needs be the case. Take a look at the policy as it operates. It is a major change. According to the science Mindfulness therapy may have its place for some people, as does the practice of transcending meditation. Also with this policy, TM would no longer dispute a place for mindfulness practices in mental health modality based on where modern science is going. TM takes great pain to differentiate the practices and benefits of the two different practices. Evidently the two meditations each have their places in mental health well-being. Culturally though I doubt we we'll see a merger of meditation trademarks of the two meditation institutions. It seems both are quite busy entrenching themselves each in their own science of uniqueness. Bolstering, each seems to have valid mental health science behind their own existence. But the TM policy in practice now is much clearer with this policy revision governing the movement's mental health policy. The policy sends people to experts in mental health for particular mental illnesses. The TM movement changed in process with this by an amalgam of urgent need for re-assessment and modern science in the 21st Century. That is okay and healthful in itself. Calm minds prevailed inside the process. The TM Policy Initiative on Mental Health: http://portals.mum.edu/Customized/uploads/guidelines-for-mental-health.html http://portals.mum.edu/Customized/uploads/guidelines-for-mental-health.html ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : In TM Policy.. A comprehensive look at mental health and a changing of position. Adapting a Culture to Changing Times, The TM Policy Initiative on Mental Health: http://portals.mum.edu/Customized/uploads/guidelines-for-mental-health.html http://portals.mum.edu/Customized/uploads/guidelines-for-mental-health.html salyavin808 writes: Nice to see you've dropped Marshy's teaching that TM was the ultimate cure for every mental ailment, but this isn't reflecting a changing culture - the world was always like that, he was just too keen to teach you otherwise. It's a healthy thing to have struck his fundamentalism from the record. Don't get me wrong, TM is a nice thing to do but the cure for the world's pain it is not. Have you thought about introducing Mindfulness Cognitive Behaviour Therapies? Very useful indeed for depression and anxiety states which are the most common acquired problems in the world today. Assuming the TMO has the flexibility to recommend techniques that it comprehensively rubbished not so long ago you will find it more effective than a lot of talking therapies. It also has a fine "hands on" style which may suit people used to doing stuff with their heads. The TM Policy Initiative on Mental Health: http://portals.mum.edu/Customized/uploads/guidelines-for-mental-health.html http://portals.mum.edu/Customized/uploads/guidelines-for-mental-health.html The FF Mental Health Alliance: Shifting Cultural Attitudes update meeting: November 2015: http://us11.campaign-archive1.com/?u=8106b31a70de58c5f10ebc41b=64e514542b=4a03ac3b4a http://us11.campaign-archive1.com/?u=8106b31a70de58c5f10ebc41b=64e514542b=4a03ac3b4a ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Communal Work in Progress.. "Thirty or 40 years ago, there was a great resistance to using the tools of Western psychotherapy and Western psychology. People at various ashrams or Zen centers or Buddhist centers and so forth would say, “All you need to do is chant, or do the mantra, or sit in Zen meditation, and it will take care of everything.” And other tools were considered to be unnecessary or even kind of lower-level practices. Now, I could tell you the names of the therapists of half of the main Zen teachers and lamas around the country, because they realized that in our modern, Western time, we need all the help we can get. We need to marry these powerful spiritual disciplines with the wisdom and the understanding of this particular culture. That wisdom and understanding includes tools for healing, tools for trauma work, tools for emotional intelligence. And in the last 40 years, these have become integrated much more actively across the spiritual teachings." -Jack Kornfield
[FairfieldLife] Re: Reformation and Renaissance
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : A narrative of a leadership change in the TM community... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : "Maharishi University of Management has celebrated Sept. 12 as Founder’s Day ever since 1971 when it was founded in Santa Barbara, California, as Maharishi International University. The event this year was a particularly momentous one for the university as Bevan Morris, its president for 36 years, stepped down from his post and handed the reigns to John Hagelin (pictured) during a ceremony Monday Night in the Patanjali Dome. Hagelin was most recently a physics professor at the university, where he has worked since 1984. To commeorate the passing of the torch from Morris to Hagelin, the university put on a fire works display (pictured) at about 10 p.m." http://fairfield-ia.villagesoup.com/p/founders-day/1572283 http://fairfield-ia.villagesoup.com/p/founders-day/1572283 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : FW: August 26, 2016 In my new role as President-elect of Maharishi University of Management, I have been greatly impressed by the devoted and extremely competent leaders who have sustained our institution for so many years. These stalwart heroes have helped make my transition a thoroughly enjoyable and inspiring experience. Together, we are reshaping and expanding many dimensions of the University’s functioning. In particular, we are revamping and improving our marketing strategies, drawing upon the extensive experience and talents of our Maharishi Foundation marketing experts who have increased TM instructions in the U.S. by 25-fold in the past eight years. We are launching exciting new academic programs and upgrading many facets of the University’s functioning. And most important right now, we are upgrading the physical campus to a whole new level of excellence and beauty. We have already made great strides in this area. In the last several months we have invested nearly $1 million in donor-supported upgrades—including to Hildenbrand Hall, our largest women’s residence hall, which houses over 100 students. (See photos.) Likewise, our largest building for classrooms and offices—Verrill Hall, at 10,000 sq. ft.—has been transformed to a new level of dignity and functionality. A brand-new Maharishi Vedic Observatory now graces the exterior entry to the Argiro Student Center. We are renovating the interior and exterior of historic Henn Mansion, and just last year we replaced both roofs on our Golden Domes. All this has been possible through the great generosity and selfless support of our precious donors. Right now, we are focused on a crucial remodeling our five high-rise residence halls, home to over 250 men students. Two of these buildings were significantly upgraded several years ago, but the other three are in rather urgent need of renovation. We already have most of the funds needed for this major project from within the University’s operating budget and from donor support, but at present we are still $127,000 short. Therefore, we are reaching out once again to our greatest supporters, such as yourself, to help us bridge this financial gap and complete this vitally important and timely undertaking. This renovation is especially timely because our new marketing campaigns are bearing fruit: there is an upsurge in student inquiries, applications and visits to campus in these last 1-2 months. Our dormitories must be dignified and attractive to inspire these visiting students and their parents. With your support, we can easily make MUM far more irresistible for these prospective students. I have been so inspired and impressed by our newly arrived students, whom I’ve been meeting in my new capacity as President-elect. They are so fresh and intelligent and excited about the new direction they have taken with MUM. They are truly the bright future of the world. (Note that nearly half of the 51 young Americans now heading to Bali for their TM Teacher Training Course are from MUM!) I see an incredibly bright future for MUM—Maharishi’s precious, flagship university. The momentum is building very quickly. With your generous support for our most vitally important initiatives, we can quickly create a campus that fully reflects the limitless possibilities of Consciousness-Based education. Please join me in giving generously today http://portals.mum.edu/donations/highrise. With my deepest thanks, and with best wishes for your success and happiness, John Hagelin, Ph.D. President-elect ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : September 12th—Founder’s Day We look forward to seeing everyone at the Maharishi Patanjali Golden Dome of Pure Knowledge on Monday evening at 8:00 pm. This evening marks the point of transition from one presidency of the University to the next one, so it is an historic event for all to share. Sunday, September 18th at 8:00 pm in Dalby Hall
[FairfieldLife] Re: Spiritual Morality
Rick Archer’s panel enumerates sexual, emotional, and financial abuse. There was a guy, Mark Meredith who was really good a ferreting out financial records on the ™ movement. Mark is passed away now some time ago but he had background in things both financial management and also the ™ movement. He was really helpful in his way with shedding light on this area of behavior. Within Rick’s oversight group there could be helpful facilitation to .org financials of gurus and such. Often times it takes insiders to help with insight to shells within groups. Mark was particularly good at looking through all the various incorporporations with ‘Maharishi’ in their name. A service like Charity Navigator could be helped to have category for spiritual teachers/healers/guru non-profits. A committee of Rick’s SAND group could be quite helpful working with a credible group like Charity Navigator to help them get a better look at these peculiar ‘spiritual’ people and groups. This last summer the Shambhala community at large was racked by both sexual and financial abuse at the top. Watching John Douglas’ business get hooked up with a former ™ operative could make anyone seeing that wonder where that money all is going. Which groups can accede to standards out there like Charity Navigator’s of financial behavior? This could be helped to be made more clear. Evaluating Charities Not Currently Rated by Charity Navigator https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=content.view=847 https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=content.view=847 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Rick’s group of concerned therapist spiritual counselors corrals the perpetration and the teacher/leader perps of spiritually hurtful bad behavior. May be this group in their thoughtful concern could hold their focus and refer or collaborate the communal part of the work to people who mediate communal hurt already. It is real interesting to see the communal re-mediating work being actively done right now on the Shambhala community. Way down in the SAND discussion comes consideration of the effect of poor behavior on “community” offering “Truth and Reconciliation” as a model. Re-developing community seems another whole jurisdiction of work. What has been the experience of mediated work of peace movements, ‘truth and conconcilliation’ processes, ‘non-violent communication’ is extended with the work of ‘restorative justice’. Remediating the perps is one level of the work, the community they work in is a whole nother. Cornering the perps civilly or criminally is its own work, but their effect on their community is another part of the work. NPR posted a link recently to some research demonstrating how a lot of people lack empathy. Rick’s example of the disordered narcissistic spiritual teacher is a good example. I had conversation a while ago with one of the main owners of the ™ movement about the problems, who replied the same kind of response, “what problems?”. Yet, as was said many times in the panel discussion, this cannot hold for very long in contemporary culture with the fluidity and transparency of social media now. An example of process on the Communal Hurt part of the Equation, here is abstracted a process that happened in the trauma of a guru passing away, 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 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : This ethics work at the SAND conference is a very good distillation to the subject. Locally the atonement part of the work Is something yet to be really applied towards what are the subsets of the meditating community in Fairfield, Iowa “with standards of expectation”, “We’re trying to balance our subjective perspectives with standards that fit our contemporary culture.. Of behavior and abdication of behavior sexually, financially, emotional, ..causing divestment of life savings, causing harm, and dissolution. " "..Revisiting traditions of patriarchy, power play and equality that are being shattered by contemporary culture and being rebuilt in an honest way that is reflective of contemporary culture. ..All too often, when teachers are challenged on their behavior, they ignore the challenger or become defensive.” In Fairfield and the TMO it seems what those that were the meditating movement have 'moved on' with any latent hurt they may have had. Unacknowledged. At a distance now. Maharishi died about 10 years ago. The sex and that money stuff, the biggest building in the world, the 'Brahmasthan of America', happened before that. The Pundits gone now. Figure there were about 6000 TM teachers in the United States in 1975, and what, 360 active TM teachers in the US now. About that many
[FairfieldLife] Re: Support in Nature
..protective care of nature as a spiritual power. # What did Guru Dev (Maharishi’s teacher) say about cultivating this support in nature? It is a theme that recurs in his talks about spirituality and spiritual life. This is one discourse that considers a support in nature that comes from meditation and spiritual practices. Swami Brahmananda Saraswati said: “If you want to benefit from Bhagavàn (the Transcendent), then do spiritual practice and make him manifest in one location. The all-pervasive, formless divine being (bhagavatsattà ) is incapable of action; it is merely a witness. Only when it manifests itself in one place with the help of màyà can it take some action in màyà's world, characterized as it is by the three guṇas. This is like the fire which remains unmanifest in wood; even though it is all-pervading, it cannot light the wood, nor can it perform any act. But when wood is rubbed, the wood can burn and act as we desire. Similarly, when the all-pervasive divine being manifests in some site with the help of our spiritual practice, then there can be some worldly benefit. Spiritual practice is a staircase by which the devotee climbs to Bhagavàn (the Transcendent), and Bhagavàn climbs down to the devotee. Only by spiritual practice does the being of Bhagavàn, which abides in all animate and inanimate things, manifest itself in one site and thus acts in accordance with the devotee's desires. Only when the formless, unmanifest pure existence manifests itself in a form with attributes can any activity take place. Hence if you want to receive Bhagavàn's blessings, then carry out spiritual practice and make him manifest, either inside or outside. Once Bhagavàn manifests in one's heart, only then will all the poverty of life be eliminated.” ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Support of Nature: A Life Supported by Natural Law Lectures by His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1985) Maharishi said: “The unified field is the unmanifest basis of the whole creation, the creator and governor of the whole universe. Through Transcendental Meditation it is simple to open our awareness to this state of transcendence. Spontaneously, the conscious mind identifies itself with the self-referral unified field, the fountainhead of all the streams of activity in nature. As we gain more and more familiarity with that self-referral performance, our thoughts and actions spontaneously begin to be as orderly and evolutionary as all the activity of nature.” “This training is of supreme practical value for our lives.” Support in Nature, a Provident protective care of unasked for grace in elegant favour of nature as a spiritual power. ..Support of Nature. The presentation of providence as support in nature that is in spiritual cultivation was a strong feature in both Guru Dev’s and Maharishi’s practical teaching of life. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Brahmananda Saraswati (Guru Dev) from a mid-20th Century Himalayan India and then Maharishi in the opening decade of the modern 21st Century taught to this practicality of spiritual life. Maharishi in a 1985 lecture: All who are practicing the Transcendental Meditation and ™-Sidhi program are the real scientists of this generation, on the forefront of scientific investigation. ..Now Vedic Science offers the knowledge to develop a fully integrated man, whose mind, body, intellect, and behavior are in perfect accord with all the laws of nature. Human brain physiology is the hardware of that cosmic computer which can create anything through proper programming. Human awareness has the ability to identify completely with the total potential of natural law, the unified field, which is transcendental consciousness, the self-referral state of consciousness. The Transcendental.. Life Supported by Natural Law World Assembly on Vedic Science Lectures by His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi July 9-17, 1985, Washington, D.C. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : In this nature of phenomenology, there is someone who conducted what became an empirical study of 'support of nature' as phenomenology. Gathered data, authored a paper on support of nature experience. Became the work of a PhD thesis. Collected people’s experience that became data. The work of the paper allows for something that would seems more purely subjective to become more objective to look at. Nature’s providence in meditating human’s nature in, Grace. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Support of Nature, in findings of phenomenological support that is operational as nature in the human life form in practical life. Phenomenal. ‘..Know this to be that which you are seeking’, also. email sharing by experience from a friend to FFL.. "Yes, our source of the source is Mother Divine. We expand in consciousness from
[FairfieldLife] RE: Waging Radical Peace, A Call to Group Meditations
Maharishi - What creates real deep Peace: “The basis of peace is bliss. Unless one is happy, he cannot be in peace. Peace without lasting happiness is only passivity. When one sleeps in the night he feels absence of activity. This is called peace. But when he wakes up in the morning and comes into the field of thought, speech, and activity, he begins to feel miserable again. The peace felt by the absence of activity is not lasting. The peace gained by emptying the mind of thoughts, holding the mind in suspension, is due only to the lack of pressure of thought. When such a mind returns to the field of thinking and acting, it again begins to feel the pressures of thought and action. Then the individual begins to feel unpeaceful. All such practices of silencing the mind are wrong. Such practices continued for much time result in making the mind dull. There are many groups in the world who sit in silence and try to hear their inner voice or the voice of God, as they term it. All such practices make the mind passive and dull. Those who practice silencing the mind begin to lack in brilliance. Dullness can be seen on their faces. They are not energetic in the field of action. They look peaceful, but they are passive in life. Peace at the cost of activity is at the cost of life. Such an experience of peace is at the cost of efficiency in life and at the cost of life itself. An attempt to silence the mind in the hope of experiencing pure consciousness is pursuing a mirage. When one keeps the thoughts out of the mind, it becomes passive because it remains on the conscious thinking level without a thought. This practice makes the mind dull. What is necessary is not the attempt to vacate the mind, but that the conscious mind be led on to the subtle states of thinking to eventually transcend the subtlest state and arrive at the positive state of Being. Holding the mind on the conscious level is only taking it out of the field of activity and allowing it to be passive and inactive. This only helps to diminish the brilliancy of the mind and brings dullness and passivity to it. People who practice this do feel peace in life because they are practicing suppression or negation of thoughts. When a mind that has gained the quality of sluggishness and dullness through such practices does not have a thought in a very energetic manner and does not engage itself energetically in the field of experience and activity, peace is felt because of the innate dullness of the mind. But, whenever some serious problems in life arise, the mind feels a strain because it has been trained to remain dull and passive. When the individual must become active to accomplish some work in a very precise and energetic manner, the mind feels the strain. Such practices have also done great damage to the progress of the individual and society. Thus we find that practices that silence the mind in the first place produce dullness in the mind, and, in the second place, the peace that is felt is not lasting. As we have said, peace can be lasting only if the mind could be made happy forever. Only if the very nature of the mind could be transformed to bliss consciousness could peace be lasting. The quest for peace should be directed to bringing the mind to the field of the transcendent, the source of all happiness through the practice of Transcendental Meditation. When one is not peaceful, fear, lack of self-confidence, and all the pettiness in life arise and the consciousness of man becomes so abjectly miserable that he cannot think and cannot accomplish anything worthwhile. Fear is just lack of self-confidence, and the basis of confidence is in contentment which can only result from the experience of bliss. There is nothing in the world which can really bring lasting contentment to the mind because everything in the world, although it provides some happiness to the mind, is not intensive enough to satisfy the great thirst for happiness of the mind. The only field of contentment is the transcendental field of bliss consciousness. Unless one arrives at that state, one’s peace will always be threatened by everything in the world because of lack of contentment. The only golden gate to peace in life is the experience of transcendental bliss consciousness and this great glory of life is easy for everyone to achieve and live throughout life.” — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi from MERU Course Kim Jong-un warns of change in direction on denuclearisation He made the remarks during his closely-watched annual New Year's address. Mr Kim said, "if the US does not keep its promise made in front of the whole world... and insists on sanctions and pressures on our republic, we may be left with no choice but to consider a new way to safeguard our sovereignty and interests". The annual New Year's address is a tradition Mr Kim picked up from his grandfather, Kim
[FairfieldLife] Re: Is TM a New Religion? The Federal District Court
Religion.. Searching the FFL archive for, 'Federal District Court'.. turns up these link: Here are links to a five-part post made to alt.m.t in 1996 containing the text of the appeals court decision and Judge Adams's concurrence; 1 of 5 http://groups.google.com/group/alt.meditation.transcendental/msg/a175a1217c214306 http://groups.google.com/group/alt.meditation.transcendental/msg/a175a1217c214306 http://tinyurl.com/dcudhy http://tinyurl.com/dcudhy 2 of 5 http://groups.google.com/group/alt.meditation.transcendental/msg/f8dd186604b5feb5 http://groups.google.com/group/alt.meditation.transcendental/msg/f8dd186604b5feb5 http://tinyurl.com/d3c8lt http://tinyurl.com/d3c8lt 3 of 5 http://groups.google.com/group/alt.meditation.transcendental/msg/9e0cc2271692d7a8 http://groups.google.com/group/alt.meditation.transcendental/msg/9e0cc2271692d7a8 http://tinyurl.com/dnhtbp http://tinyurl.com/dnhtbp 4 of 5 http://groups.google.com/group/alt.meditation.transcendental/msg/f5b05e15a264beb9 http://groups.google.com/group/alt.meditation.transcendental/msg/f5b05e15a264beb9 http://tinyurl.com/5vapbt http://tinyurl.com/5vapbt 5 of 5 http://groups.google.com/group/alt.meditation.transcendental/msg/a2721a415e324740 http://groups.google.com/group/alt.meditation.transcendental/msg/a2721a415e324740 http://tinyurl.com/covb7y http://tinyurl.com/covb7y TM Appeals Court Decision, == == == MALNAK, Alan B. and EDWINA K. MALNAK; HARRY C. BOONE and EVELYN M. BOONE; HARRY C. BOONE and EVELYN M. BOONE as Guardians ad litem for their infant son David; WILLIAM E. GURY and MARGARET M. GURY; WILLIAM E. GURY and MARGARET M. GURY, as Guardians ad litem for their infant daughter Laura Jean; JOSEPH G. LERNER; JOSEPH M. DUFFY; REV. DR. SAMUEL A. JEANES; AMERICANS UNITED FOR SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE, a non-profit corporation; SPIRITUAL COUNTERFEIT PROJECT, INC., a non-profit corporation; COALITION FOR RELIGIOUS INTEGRITY, an unincorporated association v. YOGI, Maharishi Mahesh; SPIRITUAL REGENERATION MOVEMENT FOUNDATION; WORLD PLAN EXECUTIVE COUNCIL - UNITED STATES AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR CREATIVE INTELLIGENCE; MAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY; CHARLES F. LUTES; JEROME W. JARVIS; ROBERT B. KORY; JANET AARON; BOARD OF EDUCATION OF MAPLEWOOD - SOUTH ORANGE, NEW JERSEY SCHOOL DISTRICT; BOARD OF EDUCATION OF GLEN RIDGE, NEW JERSEY SCHOOL DISTRICT; BOARD OF EDUCATION OF WEST NEW YORK, NEW JERSEY SCHOOL DISTRICT; BOARD OF EDUCATION OF UNION CITY, NEW JERSEY SCHOOL DISTRICT; NEW JERSEY STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION; NEW JERSEY STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION; FRED G. BURKE, as New Jersey Commissioner of Education; CHARLES WILSON; STATE OF NEW JERSEY; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION AND WELFARE; and UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; DAVID MATHEWS, SECRETARY OF THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE, WORLD PLAN EXECUTIVE COUNCIL - UNITED STATES, JEROME W. JARVIS, ROBERT B. KORY, and JANET AARON, Appellants. MALNAK v. YOGI Nos. 78-1568, 78-1882 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS, THIRD CIRCUIT 592 F.2d 197 December 11, 1978, Argued February 2, 1979, Decided PRIOR HISTORY: APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW JERSEY (D.C. Civil Action No. 76-0341) COUNSEL: Steven M. Druker, Fairfield, Iowa, Peter R. Sterling, Morristown, N. J., for appellants, McCarter & English, Newark, N. J., of counsel. Julius B. Poppinga, on brief, Geoffrey M. Johnson, Newark, N. J., for appellees. JUDGES: Before ALDISERT, ADAMS and HUNTER, Circuit Judges. OPINION BY: PER CURIAM OPINION:[*197] OPINION OF THE COURT This appeal requires us to decide whether the district court erred in determining that the teaching of a course called the Science of Creative Intelligence Transcendental Meditation (SCI/TM) in the New Jersey public high schools, under the circumstances presented in the record, constituted an establishment [*198] of religion in violation of the first amendment of the United States Constitution. Plaintiffs sought injunctive and declaratory relief and, after defendants had filed numerous depositions, answers to interrogatories, admissions, and other affidavits, the district court granted summary judgment in favor of plaintiffs. The court held that SCI/TM was religious activity for purposes of the establishment clause and that the teaching of SCI/TM in public schools is prohibited by the first amendment. The World Plan Executive Council United States and certain individual defendants have appealed. We affirm, essentially for the reasons set forth by Judge H. Curtis Meanor in Malnak v. Yogi, 440 F. Supp. 1284 (D.N.J.1977). The course under examination here was offered as an elective at five high schools during the 1975-76 academic year and was taught four or five days a week by teachers specially trained by the World Plan Executive Council United States, an organization whose objective is to
[FairfieldLife] Re: “Schismogenesis”
“Schismogenesis” Quoting Atmore: “The idea of “schismogenesis” was first identified by Gregory Bateson to describe the ways in which relationship between individual or groups deteriorate. Schismogenesis occurs in several different ways: factional schismogenesis , in which a group splinters into two or more distinct group; apostatizing schismogenesis, in which an individual separates from the group; symmetrical schismogenesis, in which individuals from the group compete directly with each other, the severity of competition increasing equally on each side; and complementary schismogenesis, in which a rift forms between unequal partners playing the roles of dominant and submissive. Bateson treats the events involved in schismogenesis as openly recognized by both parties. However, in my study of Fairfield, it became apparent that schisms are not always overt and recognized by those involved in them. In some cases, schism occur without the knowledge of one or more parties, which I will refer to as a covert schism or overt schismogenesis. This can often lead to overt schismogenesis (Batesons’ openly recognized schism) once the schism has progressed to a certain point. However, this does not mean schismogenesis is not occurring until it has become overt; there are still social rifts forming during the covert phase. This necessitates a slight redefinition of schismogenesis, in which the term encompasses all situations in which rifts form between people, whether overt, covert, or in a processual relationship from covert to overt.” -excerpted from: Communal Societies, Journal of the Communal Studies Association, Lane Atmore, Death of a Guru: An Analysis of the Postcharismatic Phase in the Transcendental Meditation Movement.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Second-Generation Consolidation
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, 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, 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, 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
[FairfieldLife] Re: Vitalism
But what happens, when someone dies and the Vitalism goes from the body? Vitalism ..the "vital spark" noun the theory that the origin and phenomena of life are dependent on a force or principle distinct from purely chemical or physical forces. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitalism the belief that "living organisms are fundamentally different from non-living entities because they contain some non-physical element or are governed by different principles than are inanimate things". ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : In looking at “What is Vitalism” I see that Maharishi Mahesh Yogi promulgated a form of Vitalism in the 1970’s as The Science of Creative Intelligence . The Science of Creative Intelligence was a stripped down secularized transcendentalism and offered a technique as self-study empiricism to experience it. Jealous religionists dragged this Vitalism in to the Federal Courts asserting that the teaching of this in public schools amounted to government establishment of religion and should be stopped. This generated a long Federal District Court case which became a discovery as to what constitutes religion in America. Many experts were called upon in sequence to testify. Christians arguing ™ is a religion. ™’ers refuting saying, no this meditation and understanding around it is not a religious practice or religion. By definition then The Science of Creative Intelligence (SCI) was adjudicated a religion and could not be offered directly in public schools but the practice of meditation would be okay. The Federal Court opinion in the case is actually really interesting jurisprudence to read for how it delineated what are the “Indica of religion” and applied them in the case. I pasted the text of the Federal Court opinion in a place on the internet as a quick reference to find. See if this opens for you, it goes to a Yahoo group that is open and can be publicly read. Sometimes you have to fuss with your browsers to get one that works well with Yahoo. Once it opens then tap on the faint “Show Message History” to open the opinion text... 419797Re: Is TM a New Religion? The Federal District Court https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/419797 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/419797?soc_src=mail_trk=ma One could posit that the eschatology of a TM community would entail vitalism. # ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : 437914 Re: TM and Premillennialism https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/437914 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/437914
[FairfieldLife] Re: TM in Communities
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Stanley Lewis, a Visionary from Watts In June 1968.. Whenever Lewis found something valuable, he wanted to share it. He knew right away that the TM technique was something he wanted to give back to his community.. Maharishi invited Lewis to begin training to be a TM teacher that August, at a two-week advanced TM Retreat he was giving in Squaw Valley, California. In a matter of minutes, Lewis’ life took a new direction. Before long a new TM organization would be born. In February, 1968, on the banks of the Ganges in Rishikesh, India—shortly before the famous arrival of The Beatles—Maharishi took time from his TM teacher-training lectures for an in-depth interview with Ebony https://books.google.com/books?id=KtoDMBAJ=frontcover=gbs_ge_summary_r=en#v=onepage=false editor Era Bell Thompson. In 1969 a few African American meditators and teachers of the Transcendental Meditation® (TM®) program wished to bring the technique directly to their communities. TM Founder Maharishi Mahesh Yogi supported this vision to form an organization dedicated to teaching the TM technique to communities of color. .. Now, To celebrate the TMC’s history and legacy, join the 50th Anniversary Live Webcast on March 17, https://www.tmclegacyandbeyond.com/ online or at your local TM Center. It will feature inspiring talks and music by key figures, rare photos and footage, and a keynote address by Dr. John Hagelin, director of the TM organization in the United States. https://enjoytmnews.org/celebrating-50-years-of-teaching-tm-in-african-american-communities-1969-2019/#.XGlsNOJKhsM https://enjoytmnews.org/celebrating-50-years-of-teaching-tm-in-african-american-communities-1969-2019/#.XGlsNOJKhsM https://enjoytmnews.org/ https://enjoytmnews.org/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Re Separatists, In Quiet, European ancestral genealogy of transcendentalism
French Transcendentalists.. French Origins of American Transcendentalism https://www.jstor.org/stable/1414105?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents https://www.jstor.org/stable/1414105?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Importing Transcendentalism (German) to America HISTORICAL NOTE American Turners Records, http://www.ulib.iupui.edu/collections/german-american/mss030 http://www.ulib.iupui.edu/collections/german-american/mss030 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turners https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turners https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freethought https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freethought ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Persecutions by creedal religionists of mystics and their groups of separatist transcendentalists across Europe are often a theme in these communal narratives. Recently retired to a safety in community of meditating Fairfield, Iowa a meditator’s spouse who practiced law for a career in NYC at a law firm kept their practice of meditation secret to avoid persecution. .. Of the modern day persecution of transcendentalists, up in Wisconsin recently I ran into an older ™ initiator from there. This is someone who saw a TM intro lecture poster in 1969 in Madison, attended the lecture that was given by Walter Koch and learned ™ then in those times. As a State certified teacher working in public school this person then fell victim to persecution for associating with ™. Directly persecuted by school superintendents, building principals,other staff, parents asking that their kids not be taught by this person or parents going directly to the school board to have this person fired for fear this person might be teaching meditation to the children. The superintendent calling the local ™ center seeking information about this staff teacher. The teacher declined resignation and stayed on teaching. But the pressure was great to resign. This followed for years affecting this person’s career advancement. An irony now is that mindfulness meditation is taught in the public schools up there today. This person is retired now from teaching and still traumatized by the longer experience of it does not talk to friends and associates about meditating or being with Maharishi in those days. When the person found I was from Fairfield and an old initiator from those days a comparing of old stories opened up. The person was a working school teacher then and made use of school breaks. We figured we attended the same weekend residence courses early on in Iowa City as new meditators, one month courses with Maharishi, a teacher training course with Maharishi, ATR courses with Maharishi in Europe, was with Maharishi in Fairfield too. This person used the word ‘persecution’ in recounting the experience throughout. It was stark. Early days of moving to Meditating Fairfield, Ia. gave a small taste of insight in to what persecution in Jim Crow might have been to someone who was otherwise majority Iowan, like me coming to Fairfield as a transcendental meditationist. Now though with a longer time of assimilation the separation is not nearly so great in Fairfield. And evidently, the postmodern is catching up with Madison, Wisconsin too as they are teaching meditation in their schools now. .. In victimization of separatist movements by the hands of creedal religionists persecution runs throughout the narratives of these historic satsanga groups across Europe and across time as they formed. As transcendentalist and essentially heretical to the religious belief and ideology of God the Father Church, these ‘separatist’ groups and their practitioners evidently fell victim to a State of fear within religious formality throughout Europe. .. Separating the heterodox and heretical.. A Christian statement of belief, The Athanasian Creed it differs from the Nicene-Constantinopolitan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicene_Creed and Apostles' Creeds https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostles%27_Creed in the inclusion of anathemas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anathema, or condemnations of those who disagree with the creed (like the original Nicene Creed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicene_Creed#The_original_Nicene_Creed_of_325 ..which various anathemas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anathema against Arian propositions were added.[15] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicene_Creed#cite_note-15).. All mainstream branches[citation needed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed] of Christianity now consider (Arianism in that case) to be heterodox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterodoxy and heretical https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heresy. The Ecumenical First Council of Nicaea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Council_of_Nicaea of 325 deemed it to be a heresy.[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arianism#cite_note-Ferguson2013-3
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Revolutionary Millenarian Transcendental Meditation Movement:
The Revolutionary Millenarian Transcendental Meditation Movement: Historically it is remarkable to see the similarities in organizational lines of relationship that is called on expecting and asking for broad change; with reference to one of the other of the 20th Century's millenarian revolutionaries by transliteration of Chairman Mao's quotations in to communal revolutionary millenarian meditating TM-ism: “If there is to be revolution, there must be a revolutionary meditating movement. Without a revolutionary meditating movement, without a movement built on the scientific and revolutionary theory of the ME and group meditation and in the style of science and spiritual experience of the Unified Field, it is impossible to lead the practicing meditator and the broad groupings of the meditators everywhere against the entrenched forces of reductionist materialism, of deconstructionism and their running-dogs.” “A well-disciplined meditating movement armed with the theory and practice of the ME, using the method of transcending meditation and linked with groups of transcending meditators; an army of such transcendentalists under the leadership of such a movement; a united front of all revolutionary spiritually regenerative meditators and all revolutionary group transcendentalist meditations under the leadership of such a revolutionary and millenarian [belief in a coming ideal society and especially one created by revolutionary action] movement -these are the three main weapons with which we have to defeat that enemy of spiritless materialism.” etc., hence it flows from the Red Book of Mao's quotations. [hit the three dots on the post to find the further flow of quotations transliterated.] Yours in Millenarian Revolution, -Buck in the Dome --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: It is everyone's duty now to come to meditation. -Buck in the Dome The force at the core leading our cause forward is the Transcendental Meditation Movement. The theoretical basis guiding our spiritual experience and thinking is the Meissner Effect, the ME, found in Natural Law and our manifestly Self-evident empirical experience meditating. > > If there is to be revolution, there must be a revolutionary meditating > movement. Without a revolutionary meditating movement, without a movement > built on the scientific and revolutionary theory of the ME and group > meditation and in the style of science and spiritual experience of the > Unified Field, it is impossible to lead the practicing meditator and the > broad groupings of the meditators everywhere against the entrenched forces of > reductionist materialism, of deconstructionism and their running-dogs. > > > > > Without the organizing and facilitating efforts of our revolutionary > > millenarian meditating movement, without the practicing meditator as the > > mainstay of the mediating community, Humanity can never achieve a > > millenarian's heaven on earth. *** > > ***see heaven on earth: > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/343576 > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/343576 > > > > > > > > > > > The meditating movement is the core of leadership of the practicing > > > meditator. Without this core, the cause of the ME cannot be victorious. > > > > > > > > > > > A well-disciplined meditating movement armed with the theory and > > > > practice of the ME, using the method of transcending meditation and > > > > linked with groups of transcending meditators; an army of such > > > > transcendentalists under the leadership of such a movement; a united > > > > front of all revolutionary spiritually regenerative meditators and all > > > > revolutionary group transcendentalist meditations under the leadership > > > > of such a revolutionary and millenarian [belief in a coming ideal > > > > society and especially one created by revolutionary action] movement > > > > -these are the three main weapons with which we have to defeat that > > > > enemy of spiritless materialism. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Ongoing, we must have trust in our masses of practicing meditators > > > > > and we must have trust in the meditating movement. These are two > > > > > cardinal principles. If we doubt these principles, we shall > > > > > accomplish nothing. > > > > > -Buck > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > > > > > mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "drpsutphen" > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > Buck, you do realize that according to standard scientific research > > > > > > methods that the ME does not exist? The studies have so many > > > > > > methodological flaws that they can not be taken seriously. I wish > > > > > > there was a ME but there isn't. > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > > > > > > mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
[FairfieldLife] Re: What did ‘Guru Dev’ say on Spir itual Morality and its Moral Compass
"You are a human being, therefore you have the power to discriminate what is good and what is bad, and you can accomplish the greatest human goals. Don't think of yourself as weak or fallen. Whatever has happened in the past, understand that it was done unknowingly. But now be careful, begin doing the type of acts appropriate for a human being. Discern for yourself what is good and what is bad. Adopt the good and reject the bad. As a human being, if you don't know Paramàtmà, then understand that you have sold a diamond for the price of spinach." -SBS In TM we say “Jai Guru Dev” a lot; but, what did Guru Dev Swami Brahmananda Saraswati (Maharishi’s teacher) have to say about morality and behavior? Let us look at this for a bit. Let us look more at what Maharishi’s teacher had to say about character and behavior... Of morality Guru Dev evidently is saying, That our Spiritual in morality is judging in discernment how we take care of ourselves and others in either enhancing spiritual wellbeing or not. ..Swami Brahmananda Saraswati (Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s teacher) says: “Dhanàrjana has said, [Sanskrit:] akçtvà parasantàpaü, àgatvà khalamandiram | anullaïghya satàm vartmaü yadalpamapi tad bahu || This means, not harming others, not associating with bad persons, not plunging the àtman in entanglements, and whatever small amount we earn will be plenty. If you make trouble for others while earning your money, that wealth will remain behind, but the harm that you have given to the person will carry along with your subtle body. Therefore, don't act such that you carry along a baggage of sin with you. The meaning of àgatvà khalamandiram is this Þ if you associate with base people, your intellect (buddhi) gets spoiled, and once your intellect is spoiled, a fall is certain. [The phrase] buddhinà÷àt praõasyati Þ Direct association with base objects is much more precipitous. So going to the home of the wicked for the purpose of making money is forbidden. The meaning of anullaïghya satàm vartmaü is thisÞthat path which is in accord with the Vedas and ÷àstras given by good people should never be violated. If a situation arises in your daily dealings where you have to come into contact with a base person, then you should approach him just like you go to the toilet — do the job and leave. Nobody lingers in the toilet for long. If you discipline your intellect in this way, then there is no doubt of harm through association with the low. A pure mind goes near Paramàtmà, and the impure mind wanders through various types of emotional states.” ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Of moral integrity, Maharishi’s teacher’s teachings about moral character.. Teaching #50, "For all kinds of progress, both in this world and the next, keep the mind pure, and it is essential to increase the purity of the mind to remain pure. Therefore you must keep the company of good people while foregoing the company of the bad. Always study the scriptures; take care to maintain a pure diet (thoughts); perform Bhagavàn's bhajan and worship, as well as repetition of mantras; practice truth and non-injury (ahimsà), and the other precepts of good conduct; you must always keep yourself within proper bounds." -Guru Dev Swami Brahmananda Saraswati ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : "A man learns from the company he keeps. As one's company is good or evil, so such things will be learned. It is a notable fact that on seeing his companions' behavior, a man does likewise; whether he is aware of it at all or not, he nevertheless acts accordingly. So the point is that man's actions and thoughts accord with the company he keeps. Therefore, if someone falls in with a bad crowd, then his actions and thoughts will be corrupted; moreover, those with whom he comes into contact will also sink. Hence, one should strive to associate with good company." -Guru Dev, SBS Guru Dev Swami Brahmananda Saraswati reflecting, You should understand that if someone is of poor character, he is not a [real] devotee, and is just putting on a show to cheat people. Save yourself from such deceitful people, and save innocent pious people from them. .. As a matter of principle, one should reject those deserving rejection and honor those deserving honor. If unworthy people are honored, then their number will increase and their stench will spoil society. -SBS ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Consideration of bad spiritual morality and bad character in behavior runs throughout Brahmananda Saraswati’s discourses. Like discourses #17, 19, 22, 33, 50 and throughout, morality by what enhances spirituality or does not as a litmus. Of bad morality and bad character different people have dealt with their feelings around behavior displayed in the communities ofTM differently. There evidently
[FairfieldLife] Re: Freethinking
, Russian Transcendentalism.. ‘The highest wisdom and truth is like the purest dew, which we try to hold within us,’ said he. ‘Can I hold in an impure vessel that pure dew and judge of its purity? Only by the inner purification of myself can I bring that dew contained within me to some degree of purity. The highest wisdom is founded not on reason only, not on those wordly sciences, of physics, history, chemistry, etc., into which knowledge of the intellect is divided. The highest wisdom is one. The highest wisdom knows but one science; the science of the whole, the science that explains the whole creation and the place of man in it. To instill this science into one’s soul, it is needful to purify and renew one’s inner man, and so, before one can know, one must believe and be made perfect. And for the attainment of these aims there has been put into our souls the light of God, called the conscience.’ ‘Look with the spiritual eye into thy inner man, and ask of they self whether thou art content with thyself. What hast thou attained with the guidance of the intellect alone? What art thou? You are young, you are wealthy, you are cultured, sir. What have you made of all the blessings vouchsafed you? Are you satisfied with yourself and your life?’ ‘Thou hatest it; then change it, purify thyself, and as thou are purified thou wilt come to know wisdom. Look at your life, sir. How have you been spending it? In riotous orgies and debauchery, taking everything from society and giving nothing in return. You have received wealth. How have you used it? What have you done for your neighbour?’ -Tolstoy, War and Peace ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Of Free Thinkers and Orthodoxy, An essay, About our Church Building in Fairfield, Iowa: Here's the history about our church which is technically called the "Church of the Holy Spirit Charitable Trust." We use the name Fellowship of the Holy Spirit because there are too many churches named "Church of the Holy Spirit." The building was built in 1913, and first served as a bridal and tack shop for horses and buggies. Like every building on the square, it is long and narrow. This allows more stores to have a storefront. The owners lived upstairs and the backspace was for inventory and workshops. Very sensible. I don't know all the stores or businesses that have used the building. My memory goes back to Simone's - a clothing store owned by Julia Marchand and Bill DeKramer. Simone was Julia's daughter. At some point Julan White, Bonnie's daughter, bought the building. (Yes, Bonnie is the unforgettable owner of 2nd Street Coffee). Julan loved the building and was remodeling it when unfortunately it burned. John Minor, a local contractor who had once gone to seminary school, bought the burned out building to keep it from being razed. He figured we didn't need another parking lot on the square like the empty space next to India Cafe - empty from another fire. I bought it from John to restore as a church building. I paid $50K for the building, and then watched in amazement when I put in another $250K at least to restore it. I've never regretted spending the money, even though the building is not at all worth $300K. For me it has become a gift to the community, giving me great satisfaction to see how so many people and groups are using it for the spiritual upliftment of our community and world. Our church history: I was the original "Ru" minister of the Unity Church in Fairfield for 12 years. We had a Unity-ordained minister for 2 or 3 years before that, but one day from the pulpit she said: "The Holy Spirit has told me I have to leave, and that you (pointing at me) are the next minister." I pulled in 3 other people to be ministers with me - including my decades' long friend Connie Huebner. After 12 years, the main Unity organization realized we had become a real church with a church building and money in the bank. They sent someone up and said we couldn't do this - we needed a real Unity minister. They sent a Unity minister up from Quincy who was a fine person but didn't have the depth of experience to inspire and teach a church full of sidhas. So we split off, and Unity church faded away. Connie started the Divine Mother church, and I started the Fellowship of the Holy Spirit. Joy Hirshberg became the president of the local synagogue (a good Shiksha president!) and Eleanor Fleming moved out of town. We struggled with finding a good location, so I eventually bought our current building. It had been burned out by a construction fire - one of Julan's construction workers was sneak-sleeping in the building and fell asleep with a cigaret. I was going to do a cheap Walmart's remodel, but I fell in love with the building and my business flooded me with money so I tried to do a beautiful remodel. Funnily enough, after 13 months of remodeling, I had a Jyotish reading that said:
[FairfieldLife] Re: the Meditator Doxology Opinion Based on Experience
The Meditator's Doxology Om, Praise the Unified Field from which all Blessing come; Praise it all ye creatures here on earth. Praise the Unified Field, ye heavenly hosts; Praise the Rishi, Chandas, and Devata, Three in Unity One. Om Shanti! Shanti! Shanti! 385455Re: Qualities of the Unified Field https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/385455 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/385455
[FairfieldLife] Re: Qualities of the Unified Field
, “It’s like watering the root and enlivening the nourishment, the sap. And the sap permeates all the fields of the tree—branches, leaves, flowers—and nourishes them.” “This in physics is called a “field effect.” The field effect is produced from the unified field of natural law. It nourishes all the laws of nature which emerge from the unified field and conduct all activity in nature.” -Maharishi Mahesh Yogi The Unified Field I go among trees and sit still, All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water. -Wendell Berry All Possibilities > > Freedom > > > > > > Unboundedness > > > > Self-Sufficiency > > > > > > > > > > Bliss > > > > > > > > > > > > Integrating > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Self-Referral > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Invincibility > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Perfect Balance > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Fully Awake > > > > > > > > > > Within Itself > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Total Potential > > > > > > > > > > > of Natural Law > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Unmanifest > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Simplicity > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Harmonizing > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Infinite Correlation > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Infinite Silence > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Pure Knowledge > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Infinite Organizing Power > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Perfect Orderliness > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Infinite Creativity > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Purifying > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Immortality > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Nourishing > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Evolutionary > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Omnipresence > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Ominiscience > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Ominipotence > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Bountiful > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Discriminating > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Infinite Dynamism > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >.
RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation
, Invincible Defense Technology:A Non-Religious, Humane and Beneficial Approach to Peace.. The practical components of IDT are the non-religious Transcendental Meditation (TM) and the more advanced TM-Sidhi programs. When large groups of experts practice these programs together, a powerful field effect of coherence and peace is generated that spills over into the surrounding population. This effect has been shown in extensive scientific research that has repeatedly confirmed measurable decreases in war deaths, terrorism, and crime. Studies have also shown, for example, reductions in verbal hostilities and hostile acts, increased number of cooperative events, and other improvements in quality of life such as reduced accidents, hospital admissions, and infant mortality. These are all tangible signs of reduction of societal stress. Due to this research the non-profit organization Global Union of Scientists for Peace (GUSP) advocates this simple and cost-effective approach for reducing social stress (see: https://www.gusp.org/global-peace-summit https://www.gusp.org/global-peace-summit ). See more at http://www.pravdareport.com/opinion/columnists/30-10-2018/141897-khashoggi-0/ http://www.pravdareport.com/opinion/columnists/30-10-2018/141897-khashoggi-0/ ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : A morality, Q: I don’t recall anything about “principles of higher moral character” in the air when we first came here from Amherst. A: Meditation in groups, Maharishi was consistent the whole way about the utility of group meditating influencing a wellbeing of good for others at a distance. This remarkable idea in practice is a simple disruptor to a lot of people’s material paradigm but after so many decades of inquiry in to this observation the science has well borne out the hypothesis. And, Guru Dev too in his spiritual construct on moral order could have easily agreed now given what all we know from the inquiry of science, that people who do not go to group meditations when they could join with them are being amoral in their selfishness. That someone sitting out in a coffee house whether in Leiden watching videos on their laptop or those meditators idle downtown around the Fairfield, iowa town square at Paradiso, the Cider House, the Sushi bar, or in Revelations during the communal group meditation is near to worthless and worse morally in their contribution to the general good and communal welfare, a drag, amoral. So this, the virtue of group meditation is now in the reach of this spiritual but not religious time of science and spirituality that we do live in. Yet, people who would stay home by themselves, be it some Raja hold up somewhere out there by themselves, or an editor working overtime somewhere and may be would meditate later, but also an administration and its defenders with a religious-like adherence to ill-serving guidelines that should keep people away who could otherwise be meditating with the group evidently are all worst than sad but pretty bad morally. Jai Guru Dev. Thread 437705 Re: What did ‘Guru Dev’ say on Spiritual Morality and its Moral Compass https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/437705 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/437705 .< Interesting to see how the principles of higher moral character that were the communal experiment started at Amherst in ‘78 have been eroded and hurt in the administration of it. For outsiders or people from away looking in on the experiment I recommend their reading "Greetings From Utopia Park" and listening to the NPR 'Fresh Air' interview of Claire Hoffman for insight to how it went. I don’t recall anything about “principles of higher moral character” in the air when we first came here from Amherst. 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. # ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom. -The Buddha ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Meditate and Act Meditation with activity has always been the TM teaching (B.Gita II v 48). This teaching was one of the things also used to convince a change in the administration policy at a point to modify the ‘long’ IAAssembly morning program rounds to get it all shortened down more to what it is now with the idea according to the teaching to get them out of there and in to the world and community before the
[FairfieldLife] Re: Paradigm Shiftings: Climate Change & the Consciousness Community
, Eco-anxiety.. Dealing with abrupt climate change “With a basic knowledge of your brain, you can use your Mind to change your Brain to change your Mind. Neurons that Fire together Wire together, according to neuroscientist Hanson. Using an easy method (acronym HEAL) Hanson explains “taking in the good” to build inner strengths into people’s psyches. This is NOT “positive thinking” which is problematic; but it is a quick way to enrich and install positive experiences and rewire brain circuits (create synapses, overwrite others, create new neural pathways) to build up inner strengths. ‘HEAL’, remember the acronym HEAL: Have a positive experience, Enrich it in your mind, Absorb it feel like it is permeating your soul and then link it to negative thoughts. This is a great way to deal with climate change. “ -Beckwith Deal With Climate Depression Using Neuropsychology https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66mDd_J_VQU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66mDd_J_VQU HEAL’ing Your Despairing Climate Change Brain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7TxIAERgGM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7TxIAERgGM A Plethora of Dire Climate Reports: 1 of 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_fK3Uv55oU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_fK3Uv55oU Plethora of Dire Climate Reports: 2 of 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZV8IhPFFX3o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZV8IhPFFX3o ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : In his homily, Pope Francis said "Let us ask ourselves: Do I really need all these material objects and complicated recipes for living? Can I manage without all these unnecessary extras and live a life of greater simplicity?" ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : the Global Carbon Project (GCP), says that this year's "strong" rise is projected to be 2.7%. That's much bigger than 2017's 1.6%. ..main factor in the near 3% rise has been coal use in China, a booming global market for cars has helped drive CO2 emissions to an all-time high. Charts: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46447459 https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46447459 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Do Something? “..Just stop 'doing', meditate. Doing ‘nothing’, today that makes us nervous.. (though) it was not long ago that this was what everybody did. Maybe we should try that. ..Stop doing, meditate." ..“Do ‘everything”, that is human nature. We are too clever by halves.” Conservation Biologist vs. Geo-engineer: A Conversation with Guy McPherson, Paul Beckwith, and Martin Halliwell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3l9wI1Gvds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3l9wI1Gvds . . Hope’s Dissertation.. Herculean Hope: Paul Beckwith: “..People ask, in face of doom and gloom of this time do you have hope? How do you maintain hope and keep from getting in to despair, or just basically shutting off ? Answer: Having hope for action is a mug’s game ( A mug is a fool, one easily duped.) when the challenge for change has not been met, even for years. If you have hope and your hopes are continually dashed it is very hard on your psyche or to maintain a balance to function and so on, do I have hope? I have always been hopeful but it is the wrong question. I may not have a lot of hope but it is not a hopeless situation, it is ‘not all or nothing’. There is lots of things we can do as individuals to try to get change from the power structures, from governments, from politicians, leaders, from people. Everything seems going the wrong way right now though there are glimmers, of that word, hope. Have hope or hopeless? The better way to think about it is having passion, you try to make a difference in your life. Do what you can to use the skills that you have to try to get change. A lot of people can feel guilty or try to make you feel guilty, that misses the point; it is not your fault. We can always try to effect change. Things are bad and spiralling continuing, going in the wrong direction, one thing is in the three legged bar stool (analogy).. See the Emergency, step one is agree there is an emergency, then two,what do we do(?) and then (3) change (action).” (.. transcription edited for clarity) -Herculean Climate Rant to Rouse Humanity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt5ORKJoH-Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt5ORKJoH-Q Fairfield Focus Group: Global Climate Change and the Consciousness Community The Climate Change Lecture, Lecture transcription: "We are right now in the position where what some of these scientists are talking about is on the edge of unfolding. Most scientists say this is irreversible and there is nothing we can do about it, and some go so far as to say that if there is a tree with a leaf left on the planet in six years then they will be amazed. This is how dire the assessment is. The assessment actually leads them to that deduction." "In sharing this with people some
[FairfieldLife] Re: 1975
, Year 1975.. TM in the United States: 5799 Initiators Initiations per Month: 16,000 440,000 meditators World Plan Centers: 205 Satellite Centres: 173 ATR Courses given: 48 Residence SIMS Courses: Numerous Etc., Source: World Plan Executive Council First National Leaders’ Conference in the Age of Enlightenment (1975) National Reports In contrast, 1975: Germany with 664 initiators doing 1000 initiations a month and 54,000 meditators, England 305 initiators doing 1,400 initiations a month and 40,000 meditators, France with 92 initiators initiating 250 per month & 5,577 meditators, Sweden with 122 initiators initiating 400 per month and 27,000 meditators, Canada with 553 initiators initiating 3,500 per month and 89,853 meditators. ..Etc., ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Within a couple of years of this 1975 report, Jerry and others were out as that epoch ended in a great leap forward with ‘teams of four’ sent out usurping what was a then honed teaching organization. Thence in metrics TM in the 1980’s and 1990’s under a Morris-Patterson era of administration effectively disappeared from popular culture. By y-2006 initiations in the USA were running less than 200 per month and most assets of the teaching movement had been sold off. From 2006 others have struggled with what was in place to re-inflate something that was TM. Jai Guru Dev. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Dear TM Teachers and Meditators Jerry’s Stats in the United States: year-1975: 5799 Initiators Initiations per Month: 16,000 440,000 meditators World Plan Centers: 205 Satellite Centres: 173 ATR Courses given: 48 Residence SIMS Courses: Numerous Etc., Source: World Plan Executive Council First National Leaders’ Conference in the Age of Enlightenment (1975) National Reports In contrast, 1975: Germany with 664 initiators doing 1000 initiations a month and 54,000 meditators, England 305 initiators doing 1,400 initiations a month and 40,000 meditators, France with 92 initiators initiating 250 per month & 5,577 meditators, Sweden with 122 initiators initiating 400 per month and 27,000 meditators, Canada with 553 initiators initiating 3,500 per month and 89,853 meditators. ..Etc., # ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Office of the National Director Raja John Hagelin Maharishi Foundation USA PO Box 670 Fairfield, IA 52556 March 17, 2018 In Honor of Our Dear Jerry Jarvis Dear Governors, It is with heartfelt love and fondest memories that we announce the sudden passing of dear Jerry Jarvis on Wednesday afternoon, at his Malibu home. In honor of Jerry and in lieu of flowers, we are pleased to announce a special fund to support Debby, his loving, devoted wife. September 1961 In September of 1961, Jerry and Debby were instructed by Maharishi, and, after their first experience of the Transcendent, knew that the direction of their lives was forever transformed. They immediately began to study and work with Maharishi, helping him to create and grow the U.S. and international TM® organizations. Science of Being and Art of Living Jerry and Debby went on to become TM teachers in 1966 in Rishikesh, India. Both former journalists for the Congressional Quarterly, they later helped to transcribe and edit Maharishi’s Science of Being and Art of Living and his translation and commentary on the Bhagavad-Gita. Over the next decade and a half, Jerry rose to become the national leader of the TM organization in the U.S., and was instrumental in developing over 400 TM Centers, which brought the TM technique to more than one million Americans. Maharishi’s quest to spiritually regenerate the world The story of Maharishi’s worldwide movement is the cosmic, eternal story of the unfoldment of pure knowledge. And there is perhaps no part of this ever-evolving story that is more beloved than the early days, when Maharishi first set out alone on his worldwide quest to spiritually regenerate the world. It was Jerry’s extraordinary heart and naturally wise and mature guidance that played such a vital role in shepherding the many newly trained, youthful TM teachers at this early stage of Maharishi’s quickly growing organization. Our precious times with Jerry, his ever-present, bright, shining face, and the many wondrous, heartfelt stories, life-lessons, and beautiful examples of purity and devotion will always be a cherished part of our TM organization’s history. Archives and special manuscripts of Maharishi that were donated by Jerry and Debby will become an invaluable treasure at MUM. Once these materials are sorted and curated, they will be available to Meditators, Sidhas, and Governors everywhere. A passion for Maharishi’s knowledge In addition to his enduring love for Debby, there was nothing that Jerry felt more passionate about than Maharishi’s knowledge. His commitment to Pure Knowledge took several
[FairfieldLife] Re: A History Time-line of the Revolutionary Millenarian TM Movement 1955-'91
, 1991: > Maharishi's Year of Support of Nature's Government > > In his new years inaugural address to 7,000 Sidhas and meditators in > Maastricht, > Holland, and via satellite broadcast to meditators throughout the world, > Maharishi inspires his worldwide movement to create permanent groups of > 7,000 > Yogic Glyers- experts in The Maharishi Technology of the Unified Field- > as soon > as possible in as many places as possible, with particular emphasis on > India, > the U.S.A., Soviet Union,, Holland, and China. These groups of 7,000 > will > > nourish all nations and ensure irreversible world peace. > > > > > 1991 (continued) > The Maharishi Center for Perfect Health and World Peace, currently under > construction in Fairfield, is a monumental health care facility with the > dual > goal of creating health for the individual and permanent peace for the > world. > The Maharishi Center will have accommodations for 5,000 visitors and > staff > spread over thousands of acres of landscaped countryside. It will offer > the > treatment approaches of Maharishi Ayur-Veda for individual health and > longevity, > and it will contribute to world peace by the participants' group > practice of > Maharishi's Transcendental meditation and TM-Sidhi program. The 5,000 > Yogic > Flyers associated with the Maharishi Center, along with the Yogic Flyers > currently at MIU, will bring the total to more than 7,000. > > > > > 1990 > Maharishi's Year of Alliance with Nature's Government > > Announcements in the major world press proclaim Maharishi's offer to > every > government of alliance with nature's government, which governs the > universe with > perfect orderliness and without a problem. > > In October, through announcements in the world press and at news > conferences > around the world, Maharishi offers a solution to international crises > and a > practical formula for perpetuating world peace. > > Maharishi's Transcendental Mediation and TM-Sidhi Program is offered for > the > first time to citizens of the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc countries, > and as a > result, ten of thousands learn Transcendental Mediation and hundreds > learn the > TM-Sidhi program. > > > > > 1989 > Maharishi's Year of Heaven on Earth > > On the ground of the Global Maharishi Effect creating the dawn of world > peace in > 1988, Maharishi initiates the second step -ERADICATION OF POVERTY- > throughout > the world, and achievement of the SUPREME GOAL OF AN AFFLUENT SOCIETY, > Heaven on > Earth. > > Maharishi's theme of creating LIFE ACCORDING TO NATURAL LAW paves the > way for > the reconstruction of the whole world -inner and outer. > > > > > 1989 (continued) > Maharishi's theme of creating a Vedic University in India, and its > colleges of natural law throughout the world, has the goal of enriching > every professional activity through enlightenment through the precious > disciplines of: > > > > Maharishi's Vedic Science -fruit of all knowledge- mistake-free daily > life of everyone- problem-free society; > > > > Maharishi Ayur-Veda for perfect health; > > > > Maharishi Yog for enlightenment and perfection in the daily life of > everyone; > > > > Maharishi Yagya for prevention -averting the danger that has not yet > come- "Victory before War"; > > > > Maharishi Dhanur Ved for irresistibly penetrating the target; > > > > Maharishi Sthapatya Ved to awaken and enliven consciousness, enliven > intelligence in the structure of inert matter, enliven the whole in > every part, and raise every aspect of life to perfection. > > > > All these precious disciplines of Maharishi's Vedic Science will create > and maintain the Maharishi Effect for coherence in national and world > consciousness. > > > > Maharishi's theme of KNOWLEDGE-BASED ACTION brings fulfillment to > Maharishi's Master Plan to Create Heaven on Earth. > > > > Creation of a post-industrial era -the era of pollution-free environment > and disease-free, stress-free, problem-free societythrough alliance > with the evolutionary power of natural law. > > > > Maharishi's Program to Create Heaven on Earth in its third and inal step > will achieve thegoal of an affluent society-24-hour bliss for all > mankind. > > > > > 1988 > Maharishi's Year of Achieving World Peace > > > > On January 12, Maharishi celebrates World Peace Day and inaugurates his > MASTER PLAN TO CREATE HEAVEN ON EARTH through Vedic Science and > Technology. > > > > Rise of the Global Maharishi Effect creates such an indomitable > influence of harmony and peace that it melts the enmity of the > superpowers and creates an atmosphere of friendliness throughout the > world. > > > > Long awaited peace treaties between warring nations are signed and the > world press celebrates the "dawn of world peace."
[FairfieldLife] Re: 1957
, 1984 (continued) Maharishi formulated his Unified Field Based Integrated Systems of Education , Health, Government, Economics, Defense, Rehabilitation, and Agriculture, which will perpetuate the forthcoming Unified Field Based Ideal Civilization, generation after generation. > > 1984 (continued) > A wave of inspiration throughout the world to create groups of 7,000 > "flyers" -experts in the Maharishi Technology of the Unified Field- in each > continent. > > > > 1983 > > Maharishi's Year of > > the Unified Field > > > > Quantum field theories of modern physics glimpse the Unified Field of All > > the Laws of Nature. Maharishi recognizes the self-referral Unified Field > > of Natural Law in terms of self-referral Transcendental Consciousness -one > > unbounded ocean of consciousness, fully awake within itself, in its > > eternal unity which is pure knowledge, the Ved -Rig Ved- Samhita (unified > > value) of Rishi, Devata, and Chandas. > > > > > > 1983 (continued) > > > > > > Maharishi brings out all knowledge of the Unified Field of Natural Law. > > > Maharishi shows that all knowledge of the Unified Field and all > > > organizing power of the Unified Field are profusely available in the > > > Vedic literature, and show that his Transcendental Meditation is the > > > basic technology for accomplishing anything. > > > > > > > > > > > 1983 (continued) > > > > > > > > Maharishi shows through scientific research on Transcendental > > > > Meditation, that the qualities of the Unified Field of Natural Law are > > > > derived from the Lagrangian of the Unified Field -the description of > > > > the Unified Field in terms of mathematical language. > > > > > > > > > > 1983 (continued) > > > > > > > > > > Commencement of the Silver Jubilee Celebrations of Maharishi's > > > > > worldwide Transcendental Meditation movement. Maharishi celebrates > > > > > the RISING SUNSHINE OF THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT throughout the world. > > > > > > > > > > With 7,000 "flyers" -experts in the Maharishi Technology of the > > > > > Unified Field- gathered at Maharishi International University, > > > > > Maharishi creates the Global Maharishi Effect, an unprecedented > > > > > level of coherence in world consciousness, giving A SWEET TASTE OF > > > > > UTOPIA to all mankind and opening a new horizon of all possibilities > > > > > for peaceful like on earth. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 1982 > > > > > > Maharishi's Year of Natural Law > > > > > > > > > > > > Maharishi inaugurates Maharishi University of Natural Law in > > > > > > England, with 1008 Colleges of Natural Law for the whole world. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 1981 > > > > > > > Maharishi's Year of > > > > > > > Vedic Science > > > > > > > > > > > > > > For professionally maintaining one group of men and > > > > > > > one group of ladies solely dedicated > > > > > > > to gaining enlightenment and spontaneously producing the > > > > > > > Maharishi Effect in world consciousness, Maharishi establishes > > > > > > > a Purusha Group for men and Paramba group for ladies. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 1981 (continued) > > > > > > > > Maharishi's Year of > > > > > > > > Vedic Science > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Maharishi Celebrates the Ved as the fountainhead > > > > > > > > of all sciences and all activity in the universe. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Maharishi conducts the First International Vedic > > > > > > > > Science Course in New Delhi, India, and with the quiet > > > > > > > > performance of 3,000 students practicing Maharishi's Vedic > > > > > > > > Technology, calms down the growing violent tendencies > > > > > > > > in India, demonstrating the rise of sattwa, balance in Nature. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 1980 > > > > > > > > > Maharishi's Year of > > > > > > > > > Pure Knowledge, the Ved > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Maharishi celebrates the upsurge of pure knowledge > > > > > > > > > in world consciousness, and reveals the nature > > > > > > > > > of the Ved in terms of the spontaneous, sequential flow of > > > > > > > > > the eternal, self-referral state of consiousness. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Maharishi brings to light his timeless commentary > > > > > > > > > on Rig Ved, the Apaurusheya Bhashya, which explains the > > > > > > > > > structure of the Ved and its extension, the universe, > > > > > > > > > lively within every point of consciousness, > > > > > > > > > the Self of everyone. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 1979 > > > > > > > > > > Maharishi's Year of > > > > > > > > > > All Possibilities > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Maharishi clebrates the upsurge of > > > > > > > > > > the organizing power of nature > > > > > > > > > > in world consciousness. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
[FairfieldLife] Re: Reaffirming The Yahoo-Groups Guidelines
,, ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : In self-moderation we rely on each other, "Your use of Groups is subject to these Guidelines, Keep your content relevant to the group and moderate it correctly. Be courteous. Moderate your content." In moderation, -JaiGuruYou #FFL is categorized as a 'spiritual' group. One would hope that people could trust that they could post reflections here on this yahoo-group without incurring personal abuse. Please note the yahoo-groups guidelines saying, “Don't threaten, harass, impersonate, or hurt others, and don't invade other people's privacy.” and “Exploitative or degrading comments are not welcome in Groups. Also not welcome are belligerence, insults, slurs, profanity or ranting.” # From the Yahoo-Groups Guidelines: “Don't threaten, harass, impersonate, or hurt others, and don't invade other people's privacy. ..the group owner may remove your content — or you — from the group altogether." “2. Don't be unkind. Exploitative or degrading comments are not welcome in Groups. Also not welcome are belligerence, insults, slurs, profanity or ranting.” Exploitative, especially: unfairly or cynically using another person or group for profit or advantage; to use selfishly for one's own ends. Degrading: causing a loss of self-respect; humiliating Belligerence: a warlike or aggressively hostile nature, condition, or attitude. Insult: to speak to or treat with disrespect or scornful abuse. A disrespectful or scornfully abusive remark or action. An insult is an expression, statement (or sometimes behavior) which is disrespectful or scornful. Slur: an insinuation or allegation about someone that is likely to insult them or damage their reputation. Profanity: abusive, vulgar, or irreverent. To Rant, to speak or declaim extravagantly or violently; talk in a wild over-vehement way; rave. "Keep your content relevant to the group and moderate it correctly." “Don't be unkind”. "We depend on each member to help keep it [FFL] a safe, fun, and positive place for everyone. Yahoo Groups, in its sole discretion, may terminate or remove any content, Group or your Yahoo ID immediately and without notice if (a) Yahoo believes that you have acted inconsistently with the spirit or the letter of the Yahoo Terms of Service or the Yahoo Groups Guidelines, or (b) Yahoo believes you have violated or tried to violate the rights of others. Please help us keep Yahoo Groups an enjoyable and positive experience." "If you see a Group or content that violates our rules, please let us know by contacting us [..yahoo-groups]." While standing on steady ground I look to the guidelines of civility that Yahoo intended for its groups. Those guidelines are way more than spirit but plain intent. Folks should simply make their contributions to FFL within the chalice which Yahoo holds up to us. Offerings not written well within the spirit and intent of what Yahoo has given us may well fall or bounce out as given. In reformation anew have a nice day, -JaiGuruYou ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Dear Friends of FFL; I feel we are moving very much within the spirit and intent of letter of the Yahoo-groups guidelines in the re-moderation we have done thus far. We're dealing with some few nit-pickers of detail but the challenge is very much like the Supreme Court faced in ruling yesterday. There is spirit and intent of law that needs to be taken in to account, just like as Yahoo asks for: Yahoo Groups, in its sole discretion, may terminate or remove any content, Group or your Yahoo ID immediately and without notice if (a) Yahoo believes that you have acted inconsistently with the spirit or the letter of the Yahoo Terms of Service or the Yahoo Groups Guidelines, or (b) Yahoo believes you have violated or tried to violate the rights of others. Please help us keep Yahoo Groups an enjoyable and positive experience. If you see a Group or content that violates our rules, please let us know by contacting us. The supreme court dealing with this.. From the NPR page: The Supreme Court, however, firmly rejected the challengers' argument, ruling that the overall purpose of the statute was to create a nationwide system of insurance for those who are not insured through work. Chief Justice Roberts said that Congress established a system of "interlocking reforms" that could not be separated. Lose the subsidies, he said, and history shows that mainly the sick will sign up for insurance; costs will skyrocket, making insurance unaffordable; and insurance plans will be pushed into a "death spiral." It is simply "implausible" that Congress intended such a result, said Roberts. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Dear Friends of FFL; Regrettably as moderators we recently received a compliant having to do with protecting people's
[FairfieldLife] Re: Communal Studies
,, Core Values and Communal Critical Mass.. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : ‘Movements’ & Organizations, with Culture.. Bales’ observation of variables here seems fair over a range of spectrum both of spiritual to religious movements as they might warp as institutions in time. Like these observations about: Life-cycle within Communal Spiritual Groups https://groups.google.com/forum/… https://groups.google.com/forum/?fbclid=IwAR3fs5wCPIX13VTz_ucfZdwGOKPS8nDnPBAvPIy2EWBfqq8WqpdgQqbiHWc#%21topic/communal-studies-forum/ChNcesJm1Cs “While institutions focus primarily on self-perpetuation, movements focus on mission. Institutions most highly value results that can be concretely measured, while movements are most concerned about being faithful to how the Holy Spirit is leading. Institutions are based in rules and procedures, while movements are primarily based in relationships and vision. On a fundamental level, institutions believe that they are the answer, but an apostolic movement believes that Jesus Christ is the answer.” [Micah Bales, 2010] ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : . Checklist: “..something of a template for how it goes with spiritual practice groups as our own: Diminution in the cheering of core values, administrative rigidity setting in, loss of people, loss of altruism towards the community, loss of donors, loss of critical mass, financial crisis, and finally an auction of assets attendant to the dispersal of community." A long declining arc of the Dome meditation attendance numbers in what is the Fairfield, Ia. meditating community seems far along on this path.” Unseen, for as large as our communal ‘artifacts’ here in meditating Fairfield appear to be, a tragedy which people coming from the outside will not be able to see is the collapse in aggregate numbers attending the communal group meditations inside the Domes. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : A driving tour yesterday around meditating Fairfield again for a visitor, this time an old SRF (Yogananda) meditator visiting Fairfield. The scale of our whole facility of communal meditating is remarkably stunning when visitors get to see the whole scope of it. It is fun to see and be with people when they 'get it'. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Eroding Core Values and Loss of Communal Critical Mass One session of papers at the Communal Studies conference was on ‘the end of community’ with three in depth papers given on three different communal groups. One of the groups was a 19th Century group something like our own in Fairfield and the others were of more secular communal groups of the earlier 20th Century and late 19th. The commonality in their three narratives was what came as diffusion of their core values in time as there came along arrivals of newer outsiders in membership and fewer of generations born to the older founding generation would stay on in community. These trends were supplanting to founding generations then in time. Hence, the loss in perspective of foundational core communal values over time as those values came to not be so well spoken to (championed) or lived in the groups. Evidently once core foundational values diminished in time within each group example there came in a mundane to the workload of sustaining ‘community’ as resources of energy and altruistic goodwill ebbed and dried. The cohesion of a communal ‘shakti’ generally went down, people leave, people stop coming. Each group then arriving to point whence their assets of what had been built up to facilitate their core values are then auctioned off. The sale. Within the examples in these papers was the group of Zoar separatists, something like our own in transcendentalism, seems something of a template for how it goes with spiritual practice groups as our own: Diminution of the cheering of core values, administrative rigidity setting in, loss of people, loss of altruism towards the community, loss of donors, loss of critical mass, financial crisis, and finally an auction of assets attendant to the dispersal of community. A long declining arc of the Dome meditation attendance numbers in what is the Fairfield, Ia. meditating community seems far along on this path. In TM community it is said: “The Past is a lesser state of evolution.” But, financial planners warn cautioning us otherwise, “Past performance is not a guarantee of future returns” . Towards becoming something else like a historic site to visit, according to these histories evidently things may not look the same as what we may see now as community. Already we are hearing grumblings in TM from what is an elder International Council of Rajas that the Domes in Fairfield, Iowa are too expensive to maintain. While at the same time the University being without endowment requires active and substantial donor cohorts every
[FairfieldLife] Re: Paradigm Shiftings: Climate Change & the Consciousness Community
Hope’s Dissertation.. Herculean Hope: Paul Beckwith: “..People ask, in face of doom and gloom of this time do you have hope? How do you maintain hope and keep from getting in to despair, or just basically shutting off ? Answer: Having hope for action is a mug’s game ( A mug is a fool, one easily duped.) when the challenge for change has not been met, even for years. If you have hope and your hopes are continually dashed it is very hard on your psyche or to maintain a balance to function and so on, do I have hope? I have always been hopeful but it is the wrong question. I may not have a lot of hope but it is not a hopeless situation, it is ‘not all or nothing’. There is lots of things we can do as individuals to try to get change from the power structures, from governments, from politicians, leaders, from people. Everything seems going the wrong way right now though there are glimmers, of that word, hope. Have hope or hopeless? The better way to think about it is having passion, you try to make a difference in your life. Do what you can to use the skills that you have to try to get change. A lot of people can feel guilty or try to make you feel guilty, that misses the point; it is not your fault. We can always try to effect change. Things are bad and spiralling continuing, going in the wrong direction, one thing is in the three legged bar stool (analogy).. See the Emergency, step one is agree there is an emergency, then two,what do we do(?) and then (3) change (action).” (.. transcription edited for clarity) ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Eco-Anxiety Disorder and CBT, Cognitive Behavior Therapy technique, 10 Distorted thinking ideas applied to near term human extinction… .. there are basically 10 main types of distorted thinking habits that derail people's mental well-being. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaEe2tTmXXo=29s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaEe2tTmXXo=29s ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Eco-anxiety.. Dealing with abrupt climate change “With a basic knowledge of your brain, you can use your Mind to change your Brain to change your Mind. Neurons that Fire together Wire together, according to neuroscientist Hanson. Using an easy method (acronym HEAL) Hanson explains “taking in the good” to build inner strengths into people’s psyches. This is NOT “positive thinking” which is problematic; but it is a quick way to enrich and install positive experiences and rewire brain circuits (create synapses, overwrite others, create new neural pathways) to build up inner strengths. ‘HEAL’, remember the acronym HEAL: Have a positive experience, Enrich it in your mind, Absorb it feel like it is permeating your soul and then link it to negative thoughts. This is a great way to deal with climate change. “ -Beckwith Deal With Climate Depression Using Neuropsychology https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66mDd_J_VQU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66mDd_J_VQU HEAL’ing Your Despairing Climate Change Brain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7TxIAERgGM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7TxIAERgGM A Plethora of Dire Climate Reports: 1 of 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_fK3Uv55oU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_fK3Uv55oU Plethora of Dire Climate Reports: 2 of 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZV8IhPFFX3o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZV8IhPFFX3o ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : In his homily, Pope Francis said "Let us ask ourselves: Do I really need all these material objects and complicated recipes for living? Can I manage without all these unnecessary extras and live a life of greater simplicity?" ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : the Global Carbon Project (GCP), says that this year's "strong" rise is projected to be 2.7%. That's much bigger than 2017's 1.6%. ..main factor in the near 3% rise has been coal use in China, a booming global market for cars has helped drive CO2 emissions to an all-time high. Charts: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46447459 https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46447459 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Do Something? “..Just stop 'doing', meditate. Doing ‘nothing’, today that makes us nervous.. (though) it was not long ago that this was what everybody did. Maybe we should try that. ..Stop doing, meditate." ..“Do ‘everything”, that is human nature. We are too clever by halves.” Conservation Biologist vs. Geo-engineer: A Conversation with Guy McPherson, Paul Beckwith, and Martin Halliwell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3l9wI1Gvds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3l9wI1Gvds . . Hope’s Dissertation.. Herculean Hope: Paul Beckwith: “..People ask, in face of doom and gloom of this time do you have hope? How do you maintain hope and keep from getting in to despair, or just basically shutting off ? Answer: Having hope for action is a mug’s game ( A mug is a
[FairfieldLife] Maharishi's Contributions
FW: ..The following was written during the recent TM Teachers' Reunion and Movement Archive Exhibition: * Some of Maharishi’s Most Significant Contributions Maharishi made many contributions that were not only of great importance, but were also unique, unprecedented, or highly important historically in type or scale. Here is an initial list. Please let us know of any other contributions by Maharishi that you feel are a) unprecedented, and/or b) important in type or scale. In our enthusiasm to honor Maharishi, it is good to remember that Maharishi developed his teaching, practices, and organizations after other very influential spiritual teachers, organizations, and movements before him, all with their significant accomplishments. Meditation 1. Maharishi was the world’s most influential global meditation teacher. After significant ground-breaking beginnings by other meditation teachers, and a lot of help from modern communications and global awareness and interconnectedness, Maharishi made ‘meditation’ a so-far permanent household word in the West, and made his meditation the most widely practiced, globally accessible meditation system in history. Maharishi brought meditation solidly into society’s mainstream for the first time, making concrete and practical the theoretical philosophy of Vedanta, the Upanishads, and the Gita that had been floating around among Western intellectuals since the American Transcendentalists and their European counterparts, who spread them mainly as ideas and theories. Meditation was no longer just an idea or philosophy for open-minded intellectuals inclined to spirituality. And in America and the West, ‘practical’ is of the utmost importance. 2. Maharishi widely de-mystified meditation, taking it from the mountain cave to the subway and airport. From the monk to the commodities broker. From the pandit and obscure Raja library to the Scientific American. From folklore and rumor to the U.S. Senate. Otherworldliness, concentration, creating intellectual moods and attitudes, all have been dramatically lessened and marginalized. The general atmosphere of spiritual technique was deeply relaxed and a quantum shift in approach took place in the world of spirituality. Out of the forest of many misconceptions and the vast variety of possible spiritual experiences, Transcendental Consciousness zoomed forth, sprouting visibly in world consciousness. After preparatory partial penetration by others, the perennial High Road of Spirituality was reborn on Earth. 3. The further removal of meditation practice and theory from both Eastern and Western religion, faith, and belief was of the utmost importance in establishing meditation not only throughout the Western hemisphere, but in India and throughout Asia as well. Maharishi took this distinction between religion and spirituality much further than it had ever been taken. 4. The naturalness and ease of meditation is so important and fundamental that it deserves its own independent point. 5. The principle and experience described in the preparatory portion of the Introductory TM Talk (formerly called the Preparatory Lecture) in which the natural tendency of the mind to move toward more charm, and the most charming experience of bliss being the source of thought as the reason why effort is not needed in meditation, is a key, revolutionary understanding in the history of world spirituality. Without this knowledge, the ease of practice would be very problematic to convey and maintain, and it is unlikely that TM would have spread nearly as much as it has. 6. The same is the case with the knowledge given in the second day of checking during the four days of personal instruction - another revolutionary understanding in the history of world spirituality, without which the growth of TM in the world would probably have been nowhere near as large as it has been. Organization 7. Maharishi was the first to systemize and express meditation and its terminology for modern understanding and use, the first to train very large numbers of meditation teachers (over 25,000), The systematization of the teaching and checking of meditation practice was a major step and stage of its development not only in the West but also in India and globally. “To my mind, the checking notes and 7 steps are products of genius. Someday they’ll qualify as sacred texts.” - Expert author on Eastern spirituality in America 8. The number and size of institutions, websites, books and buildings founded and built by Maharishi and in his name around the world is staggering and virtually beyond cataloguing. Presentation 9. Although much of the metaphysical knowledge that Maharishi taught, such as the existence of Being and its character, was not new, Maharishi’s language was incredibly fresh, different, and engaging. He stepped out of the box of
[FairfieldLife] Fairfield in Iowa, A Spiritual Place
To Fairfield, Iowa Four decades ago people in a solidarity moved intentionally to gather and make a spiritual practice community. In recent migrations evidently away from soaring high living costs, climate change, and overcrowding in the Western US we have seen people arrive in our little midwest town. Some coming without means of support, requiring support, coming only because they had heard it is a nice progressive and spiritual place. While most who had originally come to make a small progressive spiritual community have worked and endured to live here pursuing community living mostly as poorer mice to be here. Quite a lot of life-time, resource, human capital, and money has been given to the place of the community by folks. Fairfield, Iowa the number one Top City for Meditation. 30 Top Cities and Towns for Meditation in America An article: http://www.sonima.com/meditation/top-cities-for-meditation/ http://www.sonima.com/meditation/top-cities-for-meditation/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Guru Purnima: 10,000 Sidhas for Perpetual World Peace and Progress
. Irony here is that the decisions for the fate of the Domes will be made by a bunch of people who do not go to the Domes to meditate, don’t even live in Fairfield. Colonialism is the policy of a nation seeking to extend or retain its authority over other people or territories, generally with the aim of opening trade opportunities. The colonising country seeks to benefit from the colonized country or land mass. Q: Do they stand a chance of finding the money? -Dr. L. A: Dear Dr. L.: is hard to know what they think, or are doing. Is a classic (extractive) colonial empire situation with the movement’s leadership. Mostly they do not live here in the Fairfield, Iowa community, are living somewhere else. Yes we few as practicing meditators are subject to and suffer their rule with very little to say in it. Some of them visit periodically as fiduciary (corporate) duty might call them to Fairfield. But theirs is a vast empire. Theirs is a realm way way above most everyone’s pay grade here. What is evident is that they are pressed on what all they would like to do on all levels by budget. Hence, the late pundit program in M. Vedic City. Inflow of money from the bottom in initiations is meager and conflicted. Donors are disappeared. Incredible number of people with retirement means have sold their homes here, moved on and away with their lives and resources. And, apparently the vast sums that were once raised 15 years ago here were converted and walked away to India as gold going off-books in some ways there. In earnest altruism a faithful high-minded group inside carry on. It is getting very thin here. Most mornings there are around 170 men in the Dome meditation. Around 200 in the evenings. Roughly double that, a little less than double, to get the aggregate numbers group-meditating in the communal Golden Domes. Hope? “We few, we loyal few, a band of brothers and sisters..”, in Fairfield, Iowa. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Process Reform Structure.. Here is a current example of a ‘restructuring’ of a large complex spiritual group like ours. It is interesting (useful) to skim through how they are going about doing it. They are ‘on it’. Their trouble was brought on by discovery of poor moral behavior in governance and also financial mismanagement. Example of process.. https://board.shambhala.org/ https://board.shambhala.org/ Their Update communications https://mailchi.mp/879b1575658b/ib-finance-report-march-769065?e=e84c596bae https://mailchi.mp/879b1575658b/ib-finance-report-march-769065?e=e84c596bae Early in their discovery process they turned to a third party ( https://www.an-olive-branch.org/ https://www.an-olive-branch.org/ ) that specializes in these kind of spiritual communal recovery. Kind Regards, .. A nice prospect though is that at the apex of ownership of the TM movement now at least two most powerful owners are scientists with real PhD’s inclined to look at data as metrics in determining policy that can facilitate things. A fate right now for the aggregate of Dome numbers meditating together (for superradiance) is within the culture of the written guidelines as these continue to be punitive and coercive over people’s lives. By culture these had become creedal and fealty by some tru-believers inside. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Everyone in Fairfield should be very concerned about the welfare of the Dome group meditation numbers, . . This is about communal cohesion and survival of the Fairfield meditating community, and the wellbeing of the larger Fairfield community. They, the .org have the facility up there, this incredible facility, it would be nice if they would to a better job (look at the metrics) with their better natured behavior in facilitating for the communal Dome meditation up there. Some of the strict preservationist tru-believers will have to relent on their religion about their inclusiveness in their exclusiveness that is in their guidelines for group membership here for the whole thing to survive. The Dome meditation attendance numbers are way off, and another financial metric told is that the sale of M Sthapatya design homes is off, people are ‘not buying’ the homes or service. This all is about communal critical mass. Too many with their acquired retirement resources have recently sold homes here and moved away disenfranchised and disinterested. That is a stunning loss of resource leaving behind a thin soup for the community at large. These numbers become critical to the superradiance weight of what we had here. There is a cultural problem inside that needs to be looked at and remediated right now. Practically for the benefit of all the inflow of capital that does come through the meditating community everyone in Fairfield should be very interested in the welfare of the Dome meditation numbers. If
[FairfieldLife] Re: Support in Nature
, ..protective care of nature as a spiritual power. # What did Guru Dev (Maharishi’s teacher) say about cultivating this support in nature? It is a theme that recurs in his talks about spirituality and spiritual life. This is one discourse that considers a support in nature that comes from meditation and spiritual practices. Swami Brahmananda Saraswati said: “If you want to benefit from Bhagavàn (the Transcendent), then do spiritual practice and make him manifest in one location. The all-pervasive, formless divine being (bhagavatsattà ) is incapable of action; it is merely a witness. Only when it manifests itself in one place with the help of màyà can it take some action in màyà's world, characterized as it is by the three guṇas. This is like the fire which remains unmanifest in wood; even though it is all-pervading, it cannot light the wood, nor can it perform any act. But when wood is rubbed, the wood can burn and act as we desire. Similarly, when the all-pervasive divine being manifests in some site with the help of our spiritual practice, then there can be some worldly benefit. Spiritual practice is a staircase by which the devotee climbs to Bhagavàn (the Transcendent), and Bhagavàn climbs down to the devotee. Only by spiritual practice does the being of Bhagavàn, which abides in all animate and inanimate things, manifest itself in one site and thus acts in accordance with the devotee's desires. Only when the formless, unmanifest pure existence manifests itself in a form with attributes can any activity take place. Hence if you want to receive Bhagavàn's blessings, then carry out spiritual practice and make him manifest, either inside or outside. Once Bhagavàn manifests in one's heart, only then will all the poverty of life be eliminated.” ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Support of Nature: A Life Supported by Natural Law Lectures by His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1985) Maharishi said: “The unified field is the unmanifest basis of the whole creation, the creator and governor of the whole universe. Through Transcendental Meditation it is simple to open our awareness to this state of transcendence. Spontaneously, the conscious mind identifies itself with the self-referral unified field, the fountainhead of all the streams of activity in nature. As we gain more and more familiarity with that self-referral performance, our thoughts and actions spontaneously begin to be as orderly and evolutionary as all the activity of nature.” “This training is of supreme practical value for our lives.” Support in Nature, a Provident protective care of unasked for grace in elegant favour of nature as a spiritual power. ..Support of Nature. The presentation of providence as support in nature that is in spiritual cultivation was a strong feature in both Guru Dev’s and Maharishi’s practical teaching of life. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Brahmananda Saraswati (Guru Dev) from a mid-20th Century Himalayan India and then Maharishi in the opening decade of the modern 21st Century taught to this practicality of spiritual life. Maharishi in a 1985 lecture: All who are practicing the Transcendental Meditation and ™-Sidhi program are the real scientists of this generation, on the forefront of scientific investigation. ..Now Vedic Science offers the knowledge to develop a fully integrated man, whose mind, body, intellect, and behavior are in perfect accord with all the laws of nature. Human brain physiology is the hardware of that cosmic computer which can create anything through proper programming. Human awareness has the ability to identify completely with the total potential of natural law, the unified field, which is transcendental consciousness, the self-referral state of consciousness. The Transcendental.. Life Supported by Natural Law World Assembly on Vedic Science Lectures by His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi July 9-17, 1985, Washington, D.C. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : In this nature of phenomenology, there is someone who conducted what became an empirical study of 'support of nature' as phenomenology. Gathered data, authored a paper on support of nature experience. Became the work of a PhD thesis. Collected people’s experience that became data. The work of the paper allows for something that would seems more purely subjective to become more objective to look at. Nature’s providence in meditating human’s nature in, Grace. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Support of Nature, in findings of phenomenological support that is operational as nature in the human life form in practical life. Phenomenal. ‘..Know this to be that which you are seeking’, also. email sharing by experience from a friend to FFL.. "Yes, our source of the source is Mother Divine. We expand in consciousness from
[FairfieldLife] Re: 1975
, Year 1975.. TM in the United States: 5799 Initiators Initiations per Month: 16,000 440,000 meditators World Plan Centers: 205 Satellite Centres: 173 ATR Courses given: 48 Residence SIMS Courses: Numerous Etc., Source: World Plan Executive Council First National Leaders’ Conference in the Age of Enlightenment (1975) National Reports In contrast, 1975: Germany with 664 initiators doing 1000 initiations a month and 54,000 meditators, England 305 initiators doing 1,400 initiations a month and 40,000 meditators, France with 92 initiators initiating 250 per month & 5,577 meditators, Sweden with 122 initiators initiating 400 per month and 27,000 meditators, Canada with 553 initiators initiating 3,500 per month and 89,853 meditators. ..Etc., ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Within a couple of years of this 1975 report, Jerry and others were out as that epoch ended in a great leap forward with ‘teams of four’ sent out usurping what was a then honed teaching organization. Thence in metrics TM in the 1980’s and 1990’s under a Morris-Patterson era of administration effectively disappeared from popular culture. By y-2006 initiations in the USA were running less than 200 per month and most assets of the teaching movement had been sold off. From 2006 others have struggled with what was in place to re-inflate something that was TM. Jai Guru Dev. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Dear TM Teachers and Meditators Jerry’s Stats in the United States: year-1975: 5799 Initiators Initiations per Month: 16,000 440,000 meditators World Plan Centers: 205 Satellite Centres: 173 ATR Courses given: 48 Residence SIMS Courses: Numerous Etc., Source: World Plan Executive Council First National Leaders’ Conference in the Age of Enlightenment (1975) National Reports In contrast, 1975: Germany with 664 initiators doing 1000 initiations a month and 54,000 meditators, England 305 initiators doing 1,400 initiations a month and 40,000 meditators, France with 92 initiators initiating 250 per month & 5,577 meditators, Sweden with 122 initiators initiating 400 per month and 27,000 meditators, Canada with 553 initiators initiating 3,500 per month and 89,853 meditators. ..Etc., # ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Office of the National Director Raja John Hagelin Maharishi Foundation USA PO Box 670 Fairfield, IA 52556 March 17, 2018 In Honor of Our Dear Jerry Jarvis Dear Governors, It is with heartfelt love and fondest memories that we announce the sudden passing of dear Jerry Jarvis on Wednesday afternoon, at his Malibu home. In honor of Jerry and in lieu of flowers, we are pleased to announce a special fund to support Debby, his loving, devoted wife. September 1961 In September of 1961, Jerry and Debby were instructed by Maharishi, and, after their first experience of the Transcendent, knew that the direction of their lives was forever transformed. They immediately began to study and work with Maharishi, helping him to create and grow the U.S. and international TM® organizations. Science of Being and Art of Living Jerry and Debby went on to become TM teachers in 1966 in Rishikesh, India. Both former journalists for the Congressional Quarterly, they later helped to transcribe and edit Maharishi’s Science of Being and Art of Living and his translation and commentary on the Bhagavad-Gita. Over the next decade and a half, Jerry rose to become the national leader of the TM organization in the U.S., and was instrumental in developing over 400 TM Centers, which brought the TM technique to more than one million Americans. Maharishi’s quest to spiritually regenerate the world The story of Maharishi’s worldwide movement is the cosmic, eternal story of the unfoldment of pure knowledge. And there is perhaps no part of this ever-evolving story that is more beloved than the early days, when Maharishi first set out alone on his worldwide quest to spiritually regenerate the world. It was Jerry’s extraordinary heart and naturally wise and mature guidance that played such a vital role in shepherding the many newly trained, youthful TM teachers at this early stage of Maharishi’s quickly growing organization. Our precious times with Jerry, his ever-present, bright, shining face, and the many wondrous, heartfelt stories, life-lessons, and beautiful examples of purity and devotion will always be a cherished part of our TM organization’s history. Archives and special manuscripts of Maharishi that were donated by Jerry and Debby will become an invaluable treasure at MUM. Once these materials are sorted and curated, they will be available to Meditators, Sidhas, and Governors everywhere. A passion for Maharishi’s knowledge In addition to his enduring love for Debby, there was nothing that Jerry felt more passionate about than Maharishi’s knowledge. His commitment to Pure Knowledge took several
[FairfieldLife] Re: Qualities of the Unified Field
, , “It’s like watering the root and enlivening the nourishment, the sap. And the sap permeates all the fields of the tree—branches, leaves, flowers—and nourishes them.” “This in physics is called a “field effect.” The field effect is produced from the unified field of natural law. It nourishes all the laws of nature which emerge from the unified field and conduct all activity in nature.” -Maharishi Mahesh Yogi The Unified Field I go among trees and sit still, All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water. -Wendell Berry All Possibilities > > Freedom > > > > > > Unboundedness > > > > Self-Sufficiency > > > > > > > > > > Bliss > > > > > > > > > > > > Integrating > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Self-Referral > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Invincibility > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Perfect Balance > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Fully Awake > > > > > > > > > > Within Itself > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Total Potential > > > > > > > > > > > of Natural Law > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Unmanifest > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Simplicity > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Harmonizing > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Infinite Correlation > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Infinite Silence > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Pure Knowledge > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Infinite Organizing Power > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Perfect Orderliness > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Infinite Creativity > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Purifying > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Immortality > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Nourishing > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Evolutionary > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Omnipresence > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Ominiscience > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Ominipotence > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Bountiful > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Discriminating > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Infinite Dynamism > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Reformation and Renaissance
,, ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : A narrative of a leadership change in the TM community... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : "Maharishi University of Management has celebrated Sept. 12 as Founder’s Day ever since 1971 when it was founded in Santa Barbara, California, as Maharishi International University. The event this year was a particularly momentous one for the university as Bevan Morris, its president for 36 years, stepped down from his post and handed the reigns to John Hagelin (pictured) during a ceremony Monday Night in the Patanjali Dome. Hagelin was most recently a physics professor at the university, where he has worked since 1984. To commeorate the passing of the torch from Morris to Hagelin, the university put on a fire works display (pictured) at about 10 p.m." http://fairfield-ia.villagesoup.com/p/founders-day/1572283 http://fairfield-ia.villagesoup.com/p/founders-day/1572283 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : FW: August 26, 2016 In my new role as President-elect of Maharishi University of Management, I have been greatly impressed by the devoted and extremely competent leaders who have sustained our institution for so many years. These stalwart heroes have helped make my transition a thoroughly enjoyable and inspiring experience. Together, we are reshaping and expanding many dimensions of the University’s functioning. In particular, we are revamping and improving our marketing strategies, drawing upon the extensive experience and talents of our Maharishi Foundation marketing experts who have increased TM instructions in the U.S. by 25-fold in the past eight years. We are launching exciting new academic programs and upgrading many facets of the University’s functioning. And most important right now, we are upgrading the physical campus to a whole new level of excellence and beauty. We have already made great strides in this area. In the last several months we have invested nearly $1 million in donor-supported upgrades—including to Hildenbrand Hall, our largest women’s residence hall, which houses over 100 students. (See photos.) Likewise, our largest building for classrooms and offices—Verrill Hall, at 10,000 sq. ft.—has been transformed to a new level of dignity and functionality. A brand-new Maharishi Vedic Observatory now graces the exterior entry to the Argiro Student Center. We are renovating the interior and exterior of historic Henn Mansion, and just last year we replaced both roofs on our Golden Domes. All this has been possible through the great generosity and selfless support of our precious donors. Right now, we are focused on a crucial remodeling our five high-rise residence halls, home to over 250 men students. Two of these buildings were significantly upgraded several years ago, but the other three are in rather urgent need of renovation. We already have most of the funds needed for this major project from within the University’s operating budget and from donor support, but at present we are still $127,000 short. Therefore, we are reaching out once again to our greatest supporters, such as yourself, to help us bridge this financial gap and complete this vitally important and timely undertaking. This renovation is especially timely because our new marketing campaigns are bearing fruit: there is an upsurge in student inquiries, applications and visits to campus in these last 1-2 months. Our dormitories must be dignified and attractive to inspire these visiting students and their parents. With your support, we can easily make MUM far more irresistible for these prospective students. I have been so inspired and impressed by our newly arrived students, whom I’ve been meeting in my new capacity as President-elect. They are so fresh and intelligent and excited about the new direction they have taken with MUM. They are truly the bright future of the world. (Note that nearly half of the 51 young Americans now heading to Bali for their TM Teacher Training Course are from MUM!) I see an incredibly bright future for MUM—Maharishi’s precious, flagship university. The momentum is building very quickly. With your generous support for our most vitally important initiatives, we can quickly create a campus that fully reflects the limitless possibilities of Consciousness-Based education. Please join me in giving generously today http://portals.mum.edu/donations/highrise. With my deepest thanks, and with best wishes for your success and happiness, John Hagelin, Ph.D. President-elect ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : September 12th—Founder’s Day We look forward to seeing everyone at the Maharishi Patanjali Golden Dome of Pure Knowledge on Monday evening at 8:00 pm. This evening marks the point of transition from one presidency of the University to the next one, so it is an historic event for all to share. Sunday, September 18th at 8:00 pm in Dalby Hall
[FairfieldLife] Re: What did ‘Guru Dev’ say on Spir itual Morality and its Moral Compass
,, "You are a human being, therefore you have the power to discriminate what is good and what is bad, and you can accomplish the greatest human goals. Don't think of yourself as weak or fallen. Whatever has happened in the past, understand that it was done unknowingly. But now be careful, begin doing the type of acts appropriate for a human being. Discern for yourself what is good and what is bad. Adopt the good and reject the bad. As a human being, if you don't know Paramàtmà, then understand that you have sold a diamond for the price of spinach." -SBS In TM we say “Jai Guru Dev” a lot; but, what did Guru Dev Swami Brahmananda Saraswati (Maharishi’s teacher) have to say about morality and behavior? Let us look at this for a bit. Let us look more at what Maharishi’s teacher had to say about character and behavior... Of morality Guru Dev evidently is saying, That our Spiritual in morality is judging in discernment how we take care of ourselves and others in either enhancing spiritual wellbeing or not. ..Swami Brahmananda Saraswati (Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s teacher) says: “Dhanàrjana has said, [Sanskrit:] akçtvà parasantàpaü, àgatvà khalamandiram | anullaïghya satàm vartmaü yadalpamapi tad bahu || This means, not harming others, not associating with bad persons, not plunging the àtman in entanglements, and whatever small amount we earn will be plenty. If you make trouble for others while earning your money, that wealth will remain behind, but the harm that you have given to the person will carry along with your subtle body. Therefore, don't act such that you carry along a baggage of sin with you. The meaning of àgatvà khalamandiram is this Þ if you associate with base people, your intellect (buddhi) gets spoiled, and once your intellect is spoiled, a fall is certain. [The phrase] buddhinà÷àt praõasyati Þ Direct association with base objects is much more precipitous. So going to the home of the wicked for the purpose of making money is forbidden. The meaning of anullaïghya satàm vartmaü is thisÞthat path which is in accord with the Vedas and ÷àstras given by good people should never be violated. If a situation arises in your daily dealings where you have to come into contact with a base person, then you should approach him just like you go to the toilet — do the job and leave. Nobody lingers in the toilet for long. If you discipline your intellect in this way, then there is no doubt of harm through association with the low. A pure mind goes near Paramàtmà, and the impure mind wanders through various types of emotional states.” ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Of moral integrity, Maharishi’s teacher’s teachings about moral character.. Teaching #50, "For all kinds of progress, both in this world and the next, keep the mind pure, and it is essential to increase the purity of the mind to remain pure. Therefore you must keep the company of good people while foregoing the company of the bad. Always study the scriptures; take care to maintain a pure diet (thoughts); perform Bhagavàn's bhajan and worship, as well as repetition of mantras; practice truth and non-injury (ahimsà), and the other precepts of good conduct; you must always keep yourself within proper bounds." -Guru Dev Swami Brahmananda Saraswati ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : "A man learns from the company he keeps. As one's company is good or evil, so such things will be learned. It is a notable fact that on seeing his companions' behavior, a man does likewise; whether he is aware of it at all or not, he nevertheless acts accordingly. So the point is that man's actions and thoughts accord with the company he keeps. Therefore, if someone falls in with a bad crowd, then his actions and thoughts will be corrupted; moreover, those with whom he comes into contact will also sink. Hence, one should strive to associate with good company." -Guru Dev, SBS Guru Dev Swami Brahmananda Saraswati reflecting, You should understand that if someone is of poor character, he is not a [real] devotee, and is just putting on a show to cheat people. Save yourself from such deceitful people, and save innocent pious people from them. .. As a matter of principle, one should reject those deserving rejection and honor those deserving honor. If unworthy people are honored, then their number will increase and their stench will spoil society. -SBS ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Consideration of bad spiritual morality and bad character in behavior runs throughout Brahmananda Saraswati’s discourses. Like discourses #17, 19, 22, 33, 50 and throughout, morality by what enhances spirituality or does not as a litmus. Of bad morality and bad character different people have dealt with their feelings around behavior displayed in the communities ofTM differently. There
RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Yahoo Groups shutting down
I have appreciated using a bookmark to quick look at the goings on of FFL on the homepage, being able to follow and and also search subject threads there within the webpage interface. This also freed up my email account. A value in FFL was in its archive of first-person posts from a larger community. Those evidently will disappear in a shifting the burden of hosting content to the client? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Email is the only way I do these groups, so maybe I won’t notice anything, but participation may drop off. Rick Archer Buddha at the Gas Pump https://batgap.com From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com On Behalf Of maha_brahman Sent: Friday, October 18, 2019 10:41 AM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Yahoo Groups shutting down Read on the internet: Google Groups will continue. Yahoo Groups will continue, but only private. Communications would only come across in email, including content. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mailto:no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote : Attention: Starting December 14, 2019 Yahoo Groups will no longer host user created content on its sites. New content can no longer be uploaded after October 28, 2019. The conversation continues: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/alt.meditation.transcendental https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/alt.meditation.transcendental ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mailto:noozgurugm@...> wrote : The tech press is beginning to pick it up as a story. It basically seems to be going back to an email group. https://www.pcmag.com/news/371369/still-use-yahoo-groups-content-will-be-deleted-on-dec-14 https://www.pcmag.com/news/371369/still-use-yahoo-groups-content-will-be-deleted-on-dec-14 Groups.io is one alternative: https://lifehacker.com/drop-google-and-facebook-groups-and-use-this-instead-1823994067 https://lifehacker.com/drop-google-and-facebook-groups-and-use-this-instead-1823994067 On 10/16/19 1:44 PM, jr_esq@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: > > > > Yes, I saw this. What's the alternative? Does this mean the end to > this group? > > ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mailto:rick@...> wrote : > > Did everyone see this? > > https://help.yahoo.com/kb/groups/SLN31010.html > >
[FairfieldLife] Re: “Schismogenesis”
., ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Take a look at this, it’ll look very familiar: https://masterangels.org/ https://masterangels.org/ As will the prices. You can buy a General Admission Ticket (lol) to one of his intro courses for the low, low price of $250 for the day. Or, if you want to meet with the Master himself, a “Golden Pass” is the way to go, (Is it just me or does that sound a little obscene) for a mere $3250 you can get 4 sessions, 2 in person and 2 “remote silent-faith” healings. A steal I’m sure. Can’t meet in person? No problem! Master John has you covered, you can buy a Spring 2019 Regular Dial-In Pass—yes, this is really what they call it—for a tiny little donation of $2000. And on and on, jhfc what a racket. Sal On Mar 31, 2019, at 7:15 PM, feste37 mailto:no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote: Hey Sal, At last we can agree on something! How many years has that taken? We should celebrate or something. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : I have several friends, people I thought would surely know better. It seems with MMY gone the “head guru” field is wide open. And I see once again people are granting themselves phony degrees and calling each other “dr.” Sal On Mar 31, 2019, at 5:31 PM, feste37 mailto:no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote: I have seen someone get sucked into this "Master John" cult, and it is not pretty. Supreme Grand Master? Oh, come on . . . ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Book: Supreme Grand Master John Douglas and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi: The Christ Mission and Earth Ascension By Dr. Susan Andersen, under guidance from the Divine Masters with a Foreword by Dr. Christopher W. Hartnett and Dr. Linda Saint-Denis Hartnett Possibly more than a tax shelter church, true-believers shift to true-believers of another. Anybody read this book? From the book’s Preface: “By spreading his meditation to millions, he raised the collective consciousness of earth. Only now is it becoming clear why Maharishi had this task to prepare world consciousness for a leap in human evolution. He came to prepare for the rise of a different civilization on earth. His was only the first step in this world transformation. Another Master came after him with more knowledge and healing that would lead to an ascension of earth to another plane of existence, for this is the way a new human civilization can arise. That Master is Supreme Grand Master John Douglas.” From the Foreword: “Maharishi Mahesh Yogi has given the world powerful techniques to transform the individual to “know thyself”, to be orderly enough to begin to create and exist in Heaven on Earth. Prior to his passing in February of 2008 , He declared to His followers and disciples “My work is done.” This left many in the temporary state of bewilderment and confusion. How could tHis work be done and so many remain unenlightened, physically impaired and not Self of Soul-Realized? The Vedic Knowledge He disseminated was complete and holistic for the time. He blessed the world with the big picture, the goal, and a vision of whom, what and where we should be, but knowledge continues, and the demands and challenges of the new world also continue, requiring new knowledge. ..Master John is here at this time to lead the “disruptive spiritual revolution”, introduce the Angelic Reformation, discover the Truth in all Matter, the Universal Truth beyond the humanly constructed world in which we live. ..Our direct experience is that Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and the great saints of our time have passed the baton to Master John. Maharishi created Heaven on Earth, and the legions of Angels and Master Angels have come down and are now amongst us.” From the last page.. “..Maharishi prepared the way and told us the stories of Vedic Civilization. Now it possible to actually manifest on earth. Supreme Grand Master John Douglas is the reason it can be there. He comes with the Master Angels, and he is one of them, known by his title and his cosmic role as God’s First Angel, the Angel of Creation.” https://www.amazon.de/Supreme-Master-Douglas-Maharishi-Mahesh-ebook/product-reviews/B07897FQ6K https://www.amazon.de/Supreme-Master-Douglas-Maharishi-Mahesh-ebook/product-reviews/B07897FQ6K The Church of John Douglas https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/434567 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/434567 .. “Schismogenesis” Quoting Atmore: “The idea of “schismogenesis” was first identified by Gregory Bateson to describe the ways in which relationship between individual or groups deteriorate. Schismogenesis occurs in several different ways: factional schismogenesis , in which a group splinters into two or more distinct group; apostatizing
[FairfieldLife] Re: In Quiet, European ancestral genealogy of transcendentalism
,, ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Persecutions by creedal religionists of mystics and their groups of separatist transcendentalists across Europe are often a theme in these communal narratives. Recently retired to a safety in community of meditating Fairfield, Iowa a meditator’s spouse who practiced law for a career in NYC at a law firm kept their practice of meditation secret to avoid persecution. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Of the modern day persecution of transcendentalists, up in Wisconsin recently I ran into an older ™ initiator from there. This is someone who saw a TM intro lecture poster in 1969 in Madison, attended the lecture that was given by Walter Koch and learned ™ then in those times. As a State certified teacher working in public school this person then fell victim to persecution for associating with ™. Directly persecuted by school superintendents, building principals,other staff, parents asking that their kids not be taught by this person or parents going directly to the school board to have this person fired for fear this person might be teaching meditation to the children. The superintendent calling the local ™ center seeking information about this staff teacher. The teacher declined resignation and stayed on teaching. But the pressure was great to resign. This followed for years affecting this person’s career advancement. An irony now is that mindfulness meditation is taught in the public schools up there today. This person is retired now from teaching and still traumatized by the longer experience of it does not talk to friends and associates about meditating or being with Maharishi in those days. When the person found I was from Fairfield and an old initiator from those days a comparing of old stories opened up. The person was a working school teacher then and made use of school breaks. We figured we attended the same weekend residence courses early on in Iowa City as new meditators, one month courses with Maharishi, a teacher training course with Maharishi, ATR courses with Maharishi in Europe, was with Maharishi in Fairfield too. This person used the word ‘persecution’ in recounting the experience throughout. It was stark. Early days of moving to Meditating Fairfield, Ia. gave a small taste of insight in to what persecution in Jim Crow might have been to someone who was otherwise majority Iowan, like me coming to Fairfield as a transcendental meditationist. Now though with a longer time of assimilation the separation is not nearly so great in Fairfield. And evidently, the postmodern is catching up with Madison, Wisconsin too as they are teaching meditation in their schools now. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : In victimization of separatist movements by the hands of creedal religionists persecution runs throughout the narratives of these historic satsanga groups across Europe and across time as they formed. As transcendentalist and essentially heretical to the religious belief and ideology of God the Father Church, these ‘separatist’ groups and their practitioners evidently fell victim to a State of fear within religious formality throughout Europe. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Separating the heterodox and heretical.. A Christian statement of belief, The Athanasian Creed it differs from the Nicene-Constantinopolitan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicene_Creed and Apostles' Creeds https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostles%27_Creed in the inclusion of anathemas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anathema, or condemnations of those who disagree with the creed (like the original Nicene Creed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicene_Creed#The_original_Nicene_Creed_of_325 ..which various anathemas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anathema against Arian propositions were added.[15] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicene_Creed#cite_note-15).. All mainstream branches[citation needed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed] of Christianity now consider (Arianism in that case) to be heterodox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterodoxy and heretical https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heresy. The Ecumenical First Council of Nicaea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Council_of_Nicaea of 325 deemed it to be a heresy.[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arianism#cite_note-Ferguson2013-3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athanasian_Creed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athanasian_Creed ..Whosoever will be saved, before all things it is necessary that he hold the catholic faith. Which faith except every one do keep whole and undefiled; without doubt he shall perish everlastingly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anathema https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anathema ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : “The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. It is the power of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion
[FairfieldLife] A Fairfieldlife Mail Archive
As a backup, someone some while ago set up a parallel archive of posts made to FFL. A google search for 'Fairfieldlife Mail Archive' usually brings it up. https://www.mail-archive.com/fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com/ https://www.mail-archive.com/fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com/ An index to FairfieldLife subject threads can be found among some of the last posts made to FFL in the Mail Archive Index: https://www.mail-archive.com/fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com/msg370402.html https://www.mail-archive.com/fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com/msg370402.html One could be sorry to lose some first hand writing that was post to FairfieldLife at Yahoo. The Mail Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com/ https://www.mail-archive.com/fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Old Indexing to FFL
,, , ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : FFL 1.2019 433529Re: An Older Index to FFL w/ 2016 summary https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/433529 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/433529 428491Re: Year-end, 2015 Post-Founder TM, an Index https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/428491 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/428491 419797Re: Is TM a New Religion? The Federal District Court https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/419797 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/419797?soc_src=mail_trk=ma 434662Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Statistical Fact: new Maharishi Meisnner-like Effect article published https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/434662 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/434662 1956 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/topics/304524 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/topics/304524 374777 FW: How Our Community Works https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/374777 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/374777 FFL post # 437958Re: The Importance Of Group Meditation They gave me a ‘provisional’ Dome badge. https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/437958 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/437958 437954Re: Communal Studies https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/437954 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/437954 One session of papers at the Communal Studies conference was on ‘the end of community’ Separatists, In Quiet, European ancestral genealogy of transcendentalism https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/438032 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/438032 Transcendentalist Fairfield https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/160262 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/160262 437929Re: The Importance Of Group Meditation https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/437929 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/437929 437908RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Guru Purnima: the Raja class.. https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/437908 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/437908 437920Re: The Scooped ATR credit https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/437920 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/437920 437888Re: Communal Studies https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/437888 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/437888 30 Top Cities and Towns for Meditation in America An article: http://www.sonima.com/meditation/top-cities-for-meditation/ http://www.sonima.com/meditation/top-cities-for-meditation/ Ypres = https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/377120 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/377120 437953Re: 30th November movement 437914Re: TM and Premillennialism https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/437914 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/437914 433529Re: An Old Index to FFL https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/433529 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/433529 FFL# 431494 Re: Reformation and Renaissance Leadership change in the TM community. https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/431494 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/431494 Helping fractured communities https://www.an-olive-branch.org/ethical-misconduct/ https://www.an-olive-branch.org/ethical-misconduct/ The White Paper on .org Ethical Misconduct: https://www.an-olive-branch.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/An-Olive-Branch-White-Paper-on-Clergy-Misconduct-and-the-Misuse-of-Power.pdf https://www.an-olive-branch.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/An-Olive-Branch-White-Paper-on-Clergy-Misconduct-and-the-Misuse-of-Power.pdf Life-cycle within Communal Spiritual Groups See: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/communal-studies-forum/ChNcesJm1Cs https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/communal-studies-forum/ChNcesJm1Cs Early 2018: 28.5k new meditators taught last year in US America, a 30% increase. 380 certified teachers.
[FairfieldLife] Re: FF meditator memoriam
Valerie Janlois ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Mark Shier passed yesterday, Oct 9.2019 Tom Winquist Dave Tanner Judith Foulds Linda Parmet Scott Pidd Abraham Silverstein Jonathan Mayhew Gareth John Oliver Ron Khare Dale Wagoner Buffy Mooney, has passed. I'd guess he taught thousands of people. Happy Trails Buffy. Norman Watsey Gareth Oliver Hannah Kesler 2019 Rona Abramson George Hrebar Lucien Mansour Sept 2018 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Thank you for posting the obituaries, Doug. There was a time, during my teaching days, when I touted, "Perfect Health in the Direction of Immortality" I look back on this with a certain amount of amusement at my naivete, and unbridled optimism. What I do not carry with me is anger and resentment that I bought into a path, that didn't quite live up to its lofty expectations. On the other hand, stepping onto a spiritual path, which encourages you to go beyond the superficial aspect of things, what price do you put on that? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Stephen Richter Jim Bates Susan Small Lillian Busch Dar ( 1921-2018) Kayren Berna - died March, 1996 Sarah Oliver - died August, 1997 János Szász Sr. • June 4 1936 • October 19 2017 (diwali day) • Budapest • Decorated Hungarian freedom fighter • TM teacher 1977 San Francisco • MIU community + Purusha 1980-1990 • Was only one to demonstrate yogic flying behind the iron curtain Aug 15 1986 • Initiated many in Hungary • National leader for some time • His work continues • Recently deceased.. Chip Gallagher Dolly Honkenon Savannah Wechsler Len Labagh passed away Sunday morning, Jan 14. Gary Gill Judy Walls Bryan Peterson passed Stanley Kresky Randy Coplin, 1949-2018 Gary Rich, passed away early this morning, Sept 11, 2018 David Seager Merle C. Dockendorff Robert Iverson David Gannon has dropped the body. Rosie Estrin passed away this morning July 1, 2018 Transcendental Meditationist Fairfield, Iowa and a TM Movement Memoriam.. Stewart Oestreich Robert Oats Jerry Jarvis Peter Just truncated There are additional names gathered further back in this thread. Yahoo now truncates posts for length. There are many more names and also the Purusha passing list is further back in this thread. I have placed the larger file of this memoriam list over on to a Google-group. Yahoo-groups truncates now in a way that makes researching back into Yahoo subject threads difficult to work. The Google-group is an older more comprehensive adjunct to this more current listing here on FFL Yahoo-group. Note: A longer earlier version of this list that scrolls more easily can be found and opened at: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/communal-studies-forum/8LCTgvO26LM https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/communal-studies-forum/8LCTgvO26LM / Enloe Willingham Friends You probably heard that Enloe Willingham passed last week. Jai Guru Dev Norman Zierold passed away at pre-dawn 7 March 2018. There will be a gathering for cremation at Behner Funeral Home in Fairfield, 2pm Friday Sharon Starr Cynthia Cole Patrick Gearon, The Quantum (car) Mechanic Charles (Charly) Vaughn Savannah Alyn Harrell John L. Petit Roberto, Robert David passed away yesterday. Wonderful character in the community, lovely person, a very spiritual guy. Timothy Kasten, from online obit, "We were all MIU students in 1974, close as thieves sharing the grand TM adventure". Steve Petersen 1952-2017
[FairfieldLife] Re: Yahoo Groups shutting down
An Early FFL post from 2001,, 7Re: [FairfieldLife] A Meditating Community... https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/7 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/7 For folks coming in with interest in the meditating community story in Fairfield, Iowa, -academics, scholars, and journalists- looking in on Fairfield, the archive of FFL has served a useful place to research for perspective. I noticed the Yahoo! search functionality has been degrading for a while back since Yahoo! was acquired by its new owners. More recently the sharing of post links were being denied. End of a time. FairfieldLife served an important role at a time. Too bad the archive will disappear. It was a good run. Thanks all. As transcendentalists in FF say greeting one another, Jai Guru You! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Did everyone see this? https://help.yahoo.com/kb/groups/SLN31010.html
[FairfieldLife] Re: FF meditator memoriam
In SF, Paul Brown is alive and active, still teaches out there. He was back visiting in Fairfield recently, in great, hale and good form. There is another crop of TM teachers on station doing it now. At the recent reunion here of 1960’s-1970’s TM teachers there was hosted a panel with newer or younger ™ teachers, some of whom have taught many hundreds and some teaching thousands of meditators now since the efforts to rekindle the teaching from 2006 and after. As Hagelin (USA TM National leader since 2006) pointed out in his talk then, there had been no national leader for the United States since the later 1970’s. There was administration but no national leader watching over it connected to Maharishi. The metrics fell from initiations of over 30k a month in 1975 to less than a hundred a month in 2006 when someone actually looked at the metrics. ™ evidently lost or skipped a generation. It is doing better now at a rate of 2000 or more a month with some better coordinate attention being given to supporting it. Between 1975 and 1980 most everybody got displaced with a new order then that Maharishi put in place. Sort of like what happened within the 'Cultural Revolution' in China. The great leap forward became a giant step backwards. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : I was initiated in San Francisco in 1975 during the Merv Wave. Does anyone know what happened to the various teachers in San Francisco between 1975 and 1980? One of my favorite personalities at the center was Catherine (Katherine?) Lyons.
[FairfieldLife] Re: FF meditator memoriam
Mark Shier passed yesterday, Oct 9.2019 Tom Winquist Dave Tanner Judith Foulds Linda Parmet Scott Pidd Abraham Silverstein Jonathan Mayhew Gareth John Oliver Ron Khare Dale Wagoner Buffy Mooney, has passed. I'd guess he taught thousands of people. Happy Trails Buffy. Norman Watsey Gareth Oliver Hannah Kesler 2019 Rona Abramson George Hrebar Lucien Mansour Sept 2018 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Thank you for posting the obituaries, Doug. There was a time, during my teaching days, when I touted, "Perfect Health in the Direction of Immortality" I look back on this with a certain amount of amusement at my naivete, and unbridled optimism. What I do not carry with me is anger and resentment that I bought into a path, that didn't quite live up to its lofty expectations. On the other hand, stepping onto a spiritual path, which encourages you to go beyond the superficial aspect of things, what price do you put on that? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Stephen Richter Jim Bates Susan Small Lillian Busch Dar ( 1921-2018) Kayren Berna - died March, 1996 Sarah Oliver - died August, 1997 János Szász Sr. • June 4 1936 • October 19 2017 (diwali day) • Budapest • Decorated Hungarian freedom fighter • TM teacher 1977 San Francisco • MIU community + Purusha 1980-1990 • Was only one to demonstrate yogic flying behind the iron curtain Aug 15 1986 • Initiated many in Hungary • National leader for some time • His work continues • Recently deceased.. Chip Gallagher Dolly Honkenon Savannah Wechsler Len Labagh passed away Sunday morning, Jan 14. Gary Gill Judy Walls Bryan Peterson passed Stanley Kresky Randy Coplin, 1949-2018 Gary Rich, passed away early this morning, Sept 11, 2018 David Seager Merle C. Dockendorff Robert Iverson David Gannon has dropped the body. Rosie Estrin passed away this morning July 1, 2018 Transcendental Meditationist Fairfield, Iowa and a TM Movement Memoriam.. Stewart Oestreich Robert Oats Jerry Jarvis Peter Just truncated There are additional names gathered further back in this thread. Yahoo now truncates posts for length. There are many more names and also the Purusha passing list is further back in this thread. I have placed the larger file of this memoriam list over on to a Google-group. Yahoo-groups truncates now in a way that makes researching back into Yahoo subject threads difficult to work. The Google-group is an older more comprehensive adjunct to this more current listing here on FFL Yahoo-group. Note: A longer earlier version of this list that scrolls more easily can be found and opened at: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/communal-studies-forum/8LCTgvO26LM https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/communal-studies-forum/8LCTgvO26LM / Enloe Willingham Friends You probably heard that Enloe Willingham passed last week. Jai Guru Dev Norman Zierold passed away at pre-dawn 7 March 2018. There will be a gathering for cremation at Behner Funeral Home in Fairfield, 2pm Friday Sharon Starr Cynthia Cole Patrick Gearon, The Quantum (car) Mechanic Charles (Charly) Vaughn Savannah Alyn Harrell John L. Petit Roberto, Robert David passed away yesterday. Wonderful character in the community, lovely person, a very spiritual guy. Timothy Kasten, from online obit, "We were all MIU students in 1974, close as thieves sharing the grand TM adventure". Steve Petersen 1952-2017 recently on the Settle Grant with IAAssembly 2012-2015 Katherine Hanna Victor Pardo
[FairfieldLife] Re: Does King Tony have any new projects for the TMO?
A TM teacher, to a new generation he is attending more to the teaching of TM. Close your eyes and transcend. To know and live unity of life is an age-old quest of humanity. In all ages and cultures, people have gone beyond the surface of reality to seek insight and understanding. I invite you to visit my site for more about consciousness—what it is and how it functions. drtonynader.com http://drtonynader.com/?fbclid=IwAR2aazzRfebucWnlQuIf15ZCjCt_AAUaFaHel6WPQDjmCKH_-SmMm0B9Axg Official page of Tony Nader MD PhD M.A.R.R. www.drtonynader.com http://www.drtonynader.com/?fbclid=IwAR0t3_A7S9k0nBjEGlpumF0HWdGEG9lhGsXzXYfopr6tMfqN8yvgl1HmNwM ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : He appears to be staying quiet and staying out of any controversy. Was this part of MMY's instruction before he died?
[FairfieldLife] Mass Migrations
A study of Transcendentalists immigrating to Fairfield Iowa could make a good exploration of mass migration as a comparison. Resilience was a theme in the climate change policy symposium held recently in Iowa. . Jefferson County Iowa would be a good study with its integrations of transcendentalists coming as about a quarter of its population into its culture and economy. Extreme Weather Symposium.. Iowa Public Policy Center http://ppc.uiowa.edu/ http://ppc.uiowa.edu/ ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : https://voiceofeurope.com/2019/10/columbia-university-professor-sweden-in-a-demographic-experiment-of-historical-dimensions/ https://voiceofeurope.com/2019/10/columbia-university-professor-sweden-in-a-demographic-experiment-of-historical-dimensions/ According to professor Sheri Berman, Sweden is currently in the middle of a monumental demographic and cultural transformation as a result of mass migration that could very well cause the society to unravel.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Dying the Christian Science way
..about the “imposition of omission” – religious jargon for everyone forgetting about them. They were well aware, he said, that “nine out of ten people who go to the plaza know nothing about Christian Science”. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Dying the Christian Science way: the horror of my father’s last days https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/06/christian-science-church-medicine-death-horror-of-my-fathers-last-days https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/06/christian-science-church-medicine-death-horror-of-my-fathers-last-days
[FairfieldLife] Maharishi's Most Significant Contributions
FW: Author/editor unknown,, Some of Maharishi’s Most Significant Contributions Maharishi made many contributions that were not only of great importance, but were also unique, unprecedented, or highly important historically in type or scale. Here is an initial list. Please let us know of any other contributions by Maharishi that you feel are a) unprecedented, and/or b) important in type or scale. It is good to remember that Maharishi developed his teaching, practices, and organizations after many other very influential saints and spiritual teachers, organizations, and movements before him, all with their significant accomplishments. 1. Maharishi was the world’s first major global meditation teacher of modern times. Maharishi made ‘meditation’ a household word in the West. He was the first to systemize and express meditation and its terminology for modern understanding and use, the first to train very large numbers of meditation teachers (over 25,000), and made his meditation the most widely practiced, globally accessible meditation system in history. 2. After ground-breaking but comparatively limited teaching of meditation in the West before him by other saints and teachers from India, Maharishi made concrete and practical the theoretical philosophy of Vedanta, the Upanishads, and the Gita that had been floating around among Western intellectuals since the American Transcendentalists and their European counterparts, who spread them mainly as ideas and theories. Cosmic transcendental reality was no longer just an idea or philosophy anymore. And in America and the West, ‘practical’ is of the utmost importance. 3. Maharishi was the main teacher who widely de-mystified meditation to the world, taking it from the mountain cave to the subway and airport. From the monk to the commodities broker. From the pandit and obscure Raja library to the Scientific American. From folklore and rumor to the U.S. Senate. From tangled irrational confusion to simple clear accurate instructions. Otherworldliness, concentration, creating intellectual moods and attitudes, all were left to the eclectic fringe and the past. Out of the forest of uncountable misconceptions and infinite variety of possible spiritual experiences, Transcendental Consciousness zoomed forth, sprouting in world consciousness. After preparatory forays throughout the history of the West, and gradually building in cycles and waves, the perennial High Road of Spirituality was reborn on Earth. 4. The further removal of meditation practice and theory from both Eastern and Western religion, faith, and belief was of the utmost importance in establishing meditation not only throughout the Western hemisphere, but in India and throughout Asia as well. Maharishi took this distinction between religion and spirituality to a much higher and more established level. 5. The natural ease of meditation is so important that it deserves its own independent point. 6. The principle and experience described in the preparatory portion of the Introductory TM Talk (formerly called the Preparatory Lecture) in which the natural tendency of the mind to move toward more charming experience, and the most charming experience of bliss being the source of thought as the reason why effort is not needed in meditation is a key revolutionary understanding in the history of world spirituality. Without this knowledge, the ease of practice would be very problematic to convey and maintain, and it is unlikely that TM would have spread nearly as much as it has. 7. The same is the case with the knowledge given in the second day of checking during the four days of personal instruction - another revolutionary understanding in the history of world spirituality, without which the growth of TM in the world would probably have been nowhere near as large as it has been. 8. The systematization of the teaching and checking of meditation practice was a major step and stage of its development not only in the West but in India and globally. “To my mind, the checking notes and 7 steps are products of genius. Someday they’ll qualify as sacred texts.” - Expert author on Eastern spirituality in America 8. Although much of the metaphysical knowledge that Maharishi taught, such as the existence of Being and its character, was not new, Maharishi’s language was incredibly fresh, different, and engaging. He stepped out of the box of traditional spiritual expressions and customary stock phrases of India into a new world of clarity and precision of description, adapting his language to the West with incredible skill. 9. Continuing the trend begun several decades earlier by other Indian spiritual teachers in the West, Maharishi substantially stepped further out of the traditional Indian gender box, welcoming thousands of women on the same level as men to be meditation teachers and giving mantras. His Mother
[FairfieldLife] Re: Meeting to Meditate
Peace & Politics - Marianne Williamson in Fairfield, IA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRtpNBe3EsA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRtpNBe3EsA --In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Like a modern day John Woolman sitting with people Marianne Willilamson is calling for what old Quakers would call an Opportunity Meeting to meditate. At FACC.. https://www.marianne2020.com/ events https://www.marianne2020.com/events
[FairfieldLife] Meeting to Meditate
Like a modern day John Woolman sitting with people Marianne Willilamson is calling for what old Quakers would call an Opportunity Meeting to meditate. At FACC.. https://www.marianne2020.com/ events https://www.marianne2020.com/events
RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation! Excellent well written Doug! Great start for a FRESH & look inwards via the dome experience to be more inclusive
Looking through the whole Batgap list now I can see some lot of interviewees whose spiritual pollination or incubation included ™ in their biography though they may not be affiliated directly with ™now. This is a longer list in itself. ™ like reading Yogananda’s book was an aspect that was pervasive in counter-culture to the orthodox at a time in a demographic shift of the ‘spiritual but not religious’ transformation that has taken place in the last 50 years. Batgap coming as it has as a phenomena in the information age seems emblematic of a (progressive) transformation that is going on. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Batgap guests with a TM background: https://batgap.com/past-interviews/categorical-index-guests/#TM Rick Archer Buddha at the Gas Pump https://batgap.com From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2019 6:49 AM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation! Excellent well written Doug! Great start for a FRESH & look inwards via the dome experience to be more inclusive Good question, ArchOn. There is a composite of things here. Reading your observation out to meditators in Ff, with easy regaling people do readily recall how nice the inner experiences were meditating in the group whence the aggregate numbers meditating together before were high. Comments Also, “Those who want to be and can be there doing program in the Domes are there now.” “The place is still incredibly activated as a place to meditate.” “For too long, since the 1980’s, the cumulative communications of exclusion were such that it became known that the group was not necessarily welcoming.” “There is an assumption on both the admin and meditating community sides that people are not even listening and that it is way or likely past a recovery point.” “This is sad really.” “Knowing a moral character involved and the hostage taking of the creed of their religious belief, “That if Maharishi said something, it can’t be changed”, it will take massive administrative leadership magnanimity to move this forward towards thriving again, let alone just surviving.” mag·na·nim·i·ty generosity, charitableness, charity, benevolence, beneficence, open-handedness, big-heartedness, great-heartedness, liberality, humanity, nobility, chivalry, kindness, munificence, bountifulness, bounty, largesse, altruism, philanthropy; unselfishness, selflessness, self-sacrifice, self-denial; clemency, mercy, leniency, forgiveness, indulgence There is an enduring cultural fear and anxiety about spiritual teachers as a stance that remains in the ownership that is held within the written membership guidelines for the group meditations. Fearing of people who would be spiritual teachers, fearing of those with their persistence for visiting spiritual people, and a fear of people, old meditators, who may work for other spiritual teachers. By one or another count these have been held against people of the TM meditating community for decades here. Our demographic pool to draw on has gotten very small. In practicality those who have wanted to be in the Domes meditating with the large group often have worked around the guidelines i e., staying low as frightened flyers or as the process taught towards being yogic liars, while others simply have withdrawn from the movement community. May the providential support of Nature grace a survival of the Fairfield Dome meditations through these currents of adverse times. Jai Guru Dev. A remarkable thing now is to recognize how many people with their resources have sold homes and moved away now by what seems became a lack in communal cohesion driven to a detachment of peoples meditating in the Dome group by a remoteness from an insular group inside TM. This while a number of folks of the old TM meditating community have become relevant spiritual commentators in larger culture as spiritual teachers where each can represent communal nodes of old TM meditators who associate. The narrow membership guidelines to the group Dome meditation practice with the large group in the past were adversarial to and would have excluded most all of them. Scroll down Rick Archer’s Buddha at the Gas Pump and see how many of those interviewees are TM meditator alumni with TM in their pedigree and also have alignment followings that include TM meditators. Evidently these are a fruit of TM going mainstream. Should Batgappers with a following be able to simply meditate with the large group as TM meditators? Figure there were about 6000 TM teachers in the mid-1970’s in the United States and only about 560 active TM teachers now and 300 or 400 people meditating in the Domes now. Driven on for decades these membership guidelines for participation in the large group have not been sympathetic towards gathering what is a gone away
[FairfieldLife] Re: The '93-'94 Survey of Meditating Fairfield
# TSR Survey ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Yes, this larger survey is interesting base-line data on the larger meditating community in Fairfield from back when the meditating community and the Dome numbers were more around their peak as the long decline (attrition) was then ensuing. You can see the seeds and the consequent beginning of the cultivated socioeconomic exclusivity sprouting then and the administrative separation of meditators from membership in the group meditation over visiting saints and spiritual people that had started in the late 1980's and through the 1990's to present. Since the larger sample community survey of the early 1990's there have only been small sample surveys of sub-groups. In a way the recent book on Fairfield [How a New Age Movement Remade a Small Town in Iowa] by the journalist, Joseph Weber is a survey by extensive interviewing of the Fairfield meditating community that is current. A few years ago when there was such strife in the sustainable living students an interview survey was hired and conducted of the university SL students about their experience at the university. The results were presented to the administration and then defended against by the President. That survey and more recent surveying has been useful more recently in guiding some policy changes around the university and MSAE student life currently. While the progressive side of the TM movement has been methodically tracking metrics and hiring marketing surveying related to the teaching of meditation, there have not been broad surveying of the meditating community of the scale of the 1994 survey. That could proly be too frightening for some of the key patriarchs of old administration on watch of the movement to see. The closest thing to that kind of surveying would be a larger ongoing survey of collected first-person cases by a sub-committee of the Fairfield Mental Health Alliance compiling cases where people have felt their well-being was effected by their experience with the culture of the movement. There is a range and distribution to those collected cases which have clearly indicated areas for policy changes that could improve elements of culture and consequences in aspects of the movement. Elements of the movement are moving on some of this while some ideologues try to hold a dogmatic line against it. Having 'data-points' has been extremely helpful towards seeing policy. There is a lot in process going on and things are also fluid. -JaiGuruYou ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : This is interesting but 20 years old. Is there anything more recent to compare this to? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : The Community Forum Community-wide Survey Results (also saved as documents in the FairfieldLife at Yahoo-groups files section.) Dear Meditator, In late spring (1994), the Community Forum sponsored a community-wide survey to sample opinion on a wide range of issues that affect our lives. Based on a compiled list of Fairfield-area meditators, we sent out approximately 2,000 surveys. We received 659 completed surveys, for a response rate of about 33%. (The response rate may even be higher; since we used bulk mail, we do not know the exact number of surveys delivered.) In the field of written surveys, a response rate of 33% is considered outstanding. Survey respondents come from a cross-section of our community: 84% have been meditating for 16 years or longer; 68% have lived in Fairfield for seven years or more; and 68% are registered for Super Radiance. Although not every meditator filled out a survey, we believe the results provide significant insights into how meditators feel about important issues and about our lives in Fairfield. Survey Data This document provides the raw data for all questions except for the essays. For the essays, this document lists the more common suggestions and comments. Looking at the data, one can identify responses of general consensus and also responses reflecting widely diverse opinions. Where there is a clear need and desire in a particular area of concern, the Community Forum will hold open meetings so that interested people can come together, discuss options, and explore possible solutions. The survey data can also be evaluated from a variety of different perspectives (e.g., age, gender, income, Movement status, etc.). We encourage anyone with statistical analytical skills to help us analyze the survey results more thoroughly. Thank You! We would like to thank everyone who participated in the survey! We would also like to thank those who wrote to us with comments and suggestions about the survey. THE COMMUNITY FORUM, P.O. Box 1633, Fairfield, IA 52556 • 515-472-8132 (0ld) Summary of responses to.. ESSAY QUESTIONS Of the 659 people who completed a survey, 548 wrote answers to the essay questions. Many
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation! Excellent well written Doug! Great start for a FRESH & look inwards via the dome experience to be more inclusive
aside, it does appear the Superradiance experiment is actually a failure. Why not just cap it off and do something that is worthwhile in some other way? Leadership is an important contribution, but there could be other reasons why people don't come. What is the level of fulfillment for people who do do the program, but for some other reason do not come? What are peoples' experience of the techniques in general? When experiences are published, they are the cream of the crop, but what about the average joe? Lots of peoples' experiences of meditation and the sidhi program are not spectacular by any means. How do you entice them? On Saturday, February 2, 2019, 3:01:47 AM GMT, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Re: The Importance of Group Meditation! Excellent well written Doug! Great start for a FRESH & look inwards via the dome experience to be more inclusive.. In FF conversation.. "..Spiritual Evolution is a whole lot easier in a group. It will take a whole lot longer individually, to do this individually alone. It ‘takes a village’. When we do this together obviously you are the first beneficiary of it but you are also affecting the collective, our collective and also the larger collective. So thank you for coming to Fairfield and the group meditation in community we do here." Yes, thanks for seeing this. . It should be important in the survival of the Dome meditation right now that any who have access to levels of the ownership in TM where policy is made could be copying and pasting points of this exchange below in to communication with those power people at the top. Engage whoever and wherever the power is vested, where the levers of power are. Send ‘em a letter, mail, e-mail, imessages, facebook messenger, phone them, tweet them, however. The Dome meditation attendance numbers are in crisis. Month by month these numbers continue to dwindle. The metrics of this situation are foreboding. Numbers are dropping in a consistency by 10 and 20 a month for many many months now. This is not just an administrative problem but one of leadership. The recent month attendance numbers are not just lower but now hitting lows lower than they were prior to the beginning of the late assembly in 2006. There evidently is a core cultural problem in leadership of the TM movement that for a cohesion in survival of this community needs to be proactively addressed right now. Everyone’s help is needed on pressing this now. Who has contact with, policy access to Dr. Nader? Dr. Hagelin: MUM President’s Office, 641-472-1260. presid...@mum.edu mailto:presid...@mum.edu JGD, ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : EXCELLENT Doug very well thought & presented in a respectful, & loving manor with the past restrictive codes put aside, MOST REFRESHING! To read & to see the compassion & love between the lines Doug! The group meditation & coupling it with the TM Sidhi program reduces combat , prevents wars & is most helpful for the health of the community at large. AGAIN THANKS in gratitude for your well shared KNOWLEDGE back up with Guru Dev Quotes -Original Message- From: dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] To: FairfieldLife Sent: Sun, Jan 20, 2019 7:59 am Subject: RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation ..based on the non-religious Transcendental Meditation (TM) program, As strange as it may sound, when large groups of trained practitioners sit down on a daily basis to do this meditation program together, a powerful "field effect" of coherence and peace ripples throughout the consciousness of the surrounding population. The bigger the group the bigger the effect. The outcomes, confirmed repeatedly by extensive scientific research, are consistent and measurable decreases in war deaths, terrorism, and crime. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Dear Drs. Hagelin and Nader: Now that the pundits are gone from Maharishi Vedic City, Iowa could you write the membership application guidelines for the Domes anew? The old guidelines are yet too inflammatory towards superradiance as they are cobbled and wordsmithed. Please sit and write with a new piece of paper a new and fresh Dome application guideline now for membership in the group programs, now the pundits are gone. Start with a fresh sheet of paper. Get it down to simple: did someone learn the ™ programs and that this is what they will do in the group programs for superradiance. This would be a good time to just go in and gut, drop the clause from the guidelines that remains excluding from membership people who spend money on ‘non-Maharishi’ jyotish and yagya. The earnest reason it was put in there originally evidently has gone away. It is time to just get rid of that clause in the membership application guideline. T
[FairfieldLife] Re: Communal Studies
With the practitioner paramount, for a survival of the Domes in Fairfield an old communal mission of practicing a simple natural innocent technique by a group larger than ones self would needs a new different leadership from the old ‘faith and belief’ in Maharishi cult. Jai Guru Dev, Unseen, for as large as our communal ‘artifacts’ here in meditating Fairfield appear to be, a tragedy which people coming from the outside will not be able to see is the collapse in aggregate numbers attending the communal group meditations inside the Domes. Checklist: “..something of a template for how it goes with spiritual practice groups as our own: Diminution of the cheering of core values, administrative rigidity setting in, loss of people, loss of altruism towards the community, loss of donors, loss of critical mass, financial crisis, and finally an auction of assets attendant to the dispersal of community." ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : One session of papers presented at the annual conference of the Communal Studies Association was on ‘the end of community’ with three in depth papers given on three different communal groups. One of the groups was a 19th Century group something like our own in Fairfield and the others were of more secular communal groups of the earlier 20th Century and late 19th. The commonality in their three narratives was what came as diffusion of their core values in time as there came along arrivals of newer outsiders in membership and fewer of generations born to the older founding generation would stay on in community. These trends were supplanting to founding generations then in time. Hence, the loss in perspective of foundational core communal values over time as those values came to not be so well spoken to (championed) or lived in these groups. Evidently once core foundational values diminished in time within each group example there came in a mundane to the workload of sustaining ‘community’ as resources of energy and altruistic goodwill ebbed and dried. The cohesion of a communal ‘shakti’ generally went down, people leave, people stop coming. Each group then arriving to point whence their assets of what had been built up to facilitate their core values are then auctioned off. The sale. Within the examples in these papers was the group of Zoar separatists, something like our own in transcendentalism, seems something of a template for how it goes with spiritual practice groups as our own: Diminution of the cheering of core values, administrative rigidity setting in, loss of people, loss of altruism towards the community, loss of donors, loss of critical mass, financial crisis, and finally an auction of assets attendant to the dispersal of community. . Checklist: “..something of a template for how it goes with spiritual practice groups as our own: Diminution in the cheering of core values, administrative rigidity setting in, loss of people, loss of altruism towards the community, loss of donors, loss of critical mass, financial crisis, and finally an auction of assets attendant to the dispersal of community." Eroding Core Values and Loss of Communal Critical Mass A long declining arc of the Dome meditation attendance numbers in what is the Fairfield, Ia. meditating community seems far along on this path.” .. Unseen, for as large as our communal ‘artifacts’ here in meditating Fairfield appear to be, a tragedy which people coming from the outside will not be able to see is the collapse in aggregate numbers attending the communal group meditations inside the Domes. / A driving tour yesterday around meditating Fairfield again for a visitor, this time an old SRF (Yogananda) meditator visiting Fairfield. The scale of our whole facility of communal meditating is remarkably stunning when visitors get to see the whole scope of it. It is fun to see and be with people when they 'get it'. .. In TM community it is said: “The Past is a lesser state of evolution.” But, financial planners warn cautioning us otherwise, “Past performance is not a guarantee of future returns” . Towards becoming something else like a historic site to visit, according to these histories evidently things may not look the same as what we may see now as community. Already we are hearing grumblings in TM from what is an elder International Council of Rajas that the Domes in Fairfield, Iowa are too expensive to maintain. While at the same time the University being without endowment requires active and substantial donor cohorts every year to make budget for what all they should like to do to keep on. With prospect in communal core values, the hopeful in re-developing community are constrained in reality by budget and human resource right now. The complexion of the core group that is remaining quite evidently is not what it once was in youth. May providential
[FairfieldLife] A Vacant pandit campus
Maharishi Vedic City seeks ideas for mostly vacant pandit campus Dear Fairfield Meditators, Sidhas, and Governors, You are invited to help us envision the future of the historic Maharishi Vedic Pandit campus, which served for 12 years as the home for over 1,000 Maharishi Vedic Pandits. Imbued with thousands of hours of recitations, the campus consists of 161 Maharishi Vastu® buildings on 76 acres of organic land. In recent weeks, planners have been thinking together about the campus and how to transform it into an ideal, sustainable, multi-generational community. (Read more below.) Now they would like your input. This is our opportunity to create the vision for its future. Whether you picture organic gardens, walking trails, a market/café, a wellness/fitness center, or beautiful program halls and inspiring knowledge programs, please share your ideas. More information The campus today This precious facility said farewell to the last Maharishi Vedic Pandits in November 2018. Although we hope to enrich our community again with their presence, we can only expect a small group. In the meantime, the IdeaLife Campus, located in the north section, serves as home to official Invincible America Assembly participation, TM® Retreats, and conferences. However, more than two-thirds of the campus sits empty. A vision for the future The vision that is emerging is to serve our community with these precious campus facilities, all built according to Maharishi Vastu design, by creating an ideal, sustainable, multi-generational community, with everything needed to promote health, happiness, and enlightenment. Developers invited To achieve this, we will be inviting private developers who have the interest and financial capacity to redevelop the campus for private residences, including very affordable homes, rental housing, and amenities. The plan is to send a Request for Proposals to prospective developers on October 7, 2019. Now is our opportunity to create the vision This is our chance to create the vision that developers will follow to guide the future of the campus. Whatever features you can envision, please share your ideas. How to share ideas Meetings will be announced where you can participate in person or connect electronically. A new website is being developed that will give you access to the latest plans.. You may also send your ideas to vis...@maharishivediccity-iowa.gov mailto:vis...@maharishivediccity-iowa.gov?subject=Maharishi%20Vedic%20Pandit%20Campus%20ideas. In the meantime, please submit your ideas via this survey: link We look forward to thinking with you and creating a bright future for the historic Maharishi Vedic Pandit campus to continue to create an Invincible America and Heaven on Earth. With best wishes, Jai Guru Dev Dr. John Hagelin and Mayor Bob Wynne/ / Local Newspaper report,, https://www.southeastiowaunion.com/subject/news/maharishi-vedic-city-seeks-ideas-for-mostly-vacant-pandit-campus-20190911 https://www.southeastiowaunion.com/subject/news/maharishi-vedic-city-seeks-ideas-for-mostly-vacant-pandit-campus-20190911 MAHARISHI VEDIC CITY – Maharishi Vedic City is seeking input on ideas to rehabilitate its mostly vacant pandit campus. John Hagelin, president of Maharishi University of Management, and Bob Wynne, the mayor of Maharishi Vedic City, sent an email addressed to “Fairfield Meditators, Sidhas and Governors” about the state of the pandit campus near Maharishi Vedic City, and opportunities for renewing it. Merriam-Webster defines a pandit as a “wise or learned man in India – often used as an honorary title.” The pandits at the campus in Maharishi Vedic City came to meditate and chant, with the hope that their actions might alter the world around them for the better. Wynne said the Maharishi Vedic Pandits are “trained experts in Vedic technologies of consciousness for world peace.” “In addition to practicing the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi program also practiced by many members of the Fairfield and Maharishi Vedic City community and millions of people around the world, the Vedic Pandits are experts in Vedic recitation to create peace. UNESCO has declared Vedic recitation as a masterpiece of oral and intangible heritage of humanity,” Wynne said. The campus was built over a three-year period from 2006-2008. According to the email, the Maharishi Vedic Pandit campus hosted more than 1,000 Maharishi Vedic Pandits for 12 years. The campus consists of 161 Maharishi Vastu (a style of architecture) buildings on 76 acres of organic land.
[FairfieldLife] Secular Stagnation
You May Be Experiencing Secular Stagnation Feeling sluggish? Having trouble achieving and maintaining productivity growth? Does it feel like your investment in life will never ever go up? You may be experiencing secular stagnation. Secular Stagnation ..Growth has a tendency to be sluggish and.. has a tendency to decline. And that's not a temporary cyclical situation. It's a secular, or longer term, situation unless policy intervenes very strongly. The secular stagnation, a spiritual malaise of the time.. Symptoms include: persistently low interest and weak life force. Also, mediocre appetite for growth despite huge diets, deficits and cheap credit. In order to keep it moving, we need to make extraordinary steps. It may be time to consult a.. Spiritual Discipline! "Purity, maintenance of purity, not only of meditation, but of our vision, of our thought, of our aspirations, of the influence that we emit around us. Always after meditation, morning and evening, be good to others, be kind to others, and maintain purity at every level. Don't look if the purity is maintained from the other side or not. No, you are responsible to give what you have. If someone has mud, he will splash mud on you, and if you have some sweets to spread, you splash sweets around him. Be sweet to the people, maintain purity of life, and for that be regular in your practice of meditation." ---Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, 1965 / https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/09/03/755855079/you-may-be-experiencing-secular-stagnation https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/09/03/755855079/you-may-be-experiencing-secular-stagnation
[FairfieldLife] Re: Respite from Climate wreckage: Come to Fairfield, Iowa
Respite: a short period of rest or relief from something difficult or unpleasant. Paradise Lost? Come meditate now with the meditating community in Fairfield, Iowa. With 185 Mph Winds, Hurricane Dorian Bears Down As A Category 5 StormFleeing towards respite, throw essential belongs you may have into a car and start driving. What happens in a community with 3,000 meditators.. Remarkable creativity, award-winning innovation, and harmonious, conscious living are a few of the features that make this Iowa town stand out, attracting students, young families, older retirees, and everyone in between. Take a peek, in this delightful video! https://vimeo.com/280412429 https://enjoytmnews.org/the-small-town-that-radiates-peace-and-creativity/#.XNF-K-tKhsM https://enjoytmnews.org/the-small-town-that-radiates-peace-and-creativity/#.XNF-K-tKhsM . Note: Available Short-term Lodging of Meditators who practice TM and the ™-Sidhis is now more opened up at the pundit campus. For Short-term accommodation, including meditation with the group. Check out the.. Idealife Campus http://www.idealifecampus.com/home.html http://www.idealifecampus.com/home.html Rounding on the ‘long program’ of the Assembly is no longer required for rental lease at the pundit campus. There are rentals in Fairfield, Iowa on AirBnB. https://www.airbnb.com/s/Fairfield--IA?s_tag=hbwJTdMO_override%5B%5D= https://www.airbnb.com/s/Fairfield--IA?s_tag=hbwJTdMO_override%5B%5D= For meditators, come meditate along with other meditators in Fairfield, Iowa. There are several group meditations in Fairfield to attend. Also meetings to attend with other meditators. Fairfield, Iowa is a fabulous place for spiritual respite, renewal. An Iowa retreat offers a place of peace to those fleeing extreme weather damage. Also a place to learn to meditate.. http://www.tm.org/transcendental-meditation-fairfield http://www.tm.org/transcendental-meditation-fairfield 2018 Hurricane Season Will Bring Another Battery Of Storms Lodging and Housing http://www.fairfieldinfocenter.org/fairfield-tm-information-center/lodging-and-housing/ http://www.fairfieldinfocenter.org/fairfield-tm-information-center/lodging-and-housing/ Vastu Rentals in Fairfield (on Facebook): Temporary Vastu Housing (without lease) https://www.facebook.com/groups/Fairfield.Vastu.TEMP.Housing/%20 Permanent Vastu Housing (with lease) https://www.facebook.com/groups/fairfieldhousing/%20 Cries she With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming storms. Send these, the homeless, the climate’s tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” FW: Paradigm Change..the last week in May atmospheric scientists at: http://www.copernicus.eu/ http://www.copernicus.eu/ reported a huge albeit temporary spike in Methane gas release in the northern hemisphere. This indicated to us that we may not even have 1-3 years before the 'preverbal SHIT hits the fan' as Dr. McPherson so aptly referred to what is about to unfold. FW email: "..Finally we must inspire and motivate those present that collective consciousness can and must alter this apparent scientific inevitability of climate change. Now is the final call for our consciousness based community to rally together in large groups to routinely do their meditation practices." Better to move to Fairfield than come as a refugee. -Maharishi ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : An Irony is that climate change peer review science and meditation peer review science are both met with the same strategies of character assassination, assertions by false truth, posing doubt about the economy being able to afford remediation and skepticisms sown about science, in whether correlation means causation. In the same w (Message over 64 KB, truncated)
[FairfieldLife] Re: What is Conscionable, in TM?
“Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend.” ..said by Polonius in Act-I, Scene-III of William Shakespeare’s play https://literarydevices.net/play/, Hamlet. The character https://literarydevices.net/character/ Polonius counsels his son Laertes before he embarks on his visit to Paris. In community.. and hurtful tendency exposed - particularly, that of coveting and grasping after riches. To obtain which, many of the members of our society had launched into extensive business - more particularly, in the line of commerce. And in order for the carrying it on, had involved themselves in debt beyond their ability to pay. And in order to keep up a false credit, had through a show of friendship and a deceptive appearance of having great possession, drawn in others to lend them money and become their sureties for large sums, until both the borrowers and lenders were involved in utter ruin - to the great scandal of themselves, the distress of their families, and the reproach of our holy profession. 1814 Elias Hicks Evidently there is a behavioral axis between self-interest and altruism.. and maybe not strictly related to 'consciousness', as we have seen. Hauptman’s Federal indictment is on the internet to read.. then also hearing immediate reactions with how other felons have been in the flock, and some infamous names unindicted. https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/2741368/bruce-a-hauptman-v-commissioner/ https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/2741368/bruce-a-hauptman-v-commissioner/ https://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/2018/ia-4950.pdf https://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/2018/ia-4950.pdf https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/wyoming-man-ordered-to-pay-restitution-to-iowa-investors/ https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/wyoming-man-ordered-to-pay-restitution-to-iowa-investors/ https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/28227351/USA_v_Hauptman https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/28227351/USA_v_Hauptman ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : The Transcendentalists’ Morality.. In the ™ movement we were told some little details about Maharishi’s teacher Guru Dev, Swami Brahmananda Saraswati. About how Maharishi first met SBS and also about how Guru Dev found his own teacher. On advanced training residential courses with Maharishi back in the 1970’s for those of us who were TM teachers there was a typed one page translated discourse of Swami Brahmananda Saraswati, of Guru Dev’s that was let to be passed around. This was the talk warning of the selling of life for the price of spinach. An advice that held intrinsic value that was important clarification, like a moral wake up, for people in TM then. Discourse 59 “After experiencing 8,400,000 births, we have obtained this rare human body; don't waste it. Each and every moment of life is very valuable. And if you don't understand its value? Then you will have nothing else to do but weep, and you will have nothing in your hands in the end. You are a human being, therefore you have the power to discriminate what is good and what is bad, and you can accomplish the greatest human goals. Don't think of yourself as weak or fallen. Whatever has happened in the past, understand that it was done unknowingly. But now be careful, begin doing the type of acts appropriate for a human being. Discern for yourself what is good and what is bad. Adopt the good and reject the bad. As a human being, if you don't know Paramàtmà (the Transcendent), then understand that you have sold a diamond for the price of spinach. One does not worship Paramàtmà for the sake of Paramàtmà. One worships Paramàtmà to remove one's own sorrow, lack of peace, ignorance, and lack of power. Paramàtmà is all knowing, omnipotent, and full of limitless bliss. Through worship, one can grasp on to his unending power. The fulfillment of this superb act is the real purpose of human life. If there is no effort made toward this, then understand that you have cheated yourself.” The Sweet Teachings of the Blessed Shankaràcàrya translation by Cynthia A. Humes http://www.lulu.com/shop/lb-shriver-and-translation-by-cynthia-ann-humes/the-sweet-teachings-of-the-blessed-sankaracarya-swami-brahmananda-saraswati/paperback/product-21350609.html http://www.lulu.com/shop/lb-shriver-and-translation-by-cynthia-ann-humes/the-sweet-teachings-of-the-blessed-sankaracarya-swami-brahmananda-saraswati/paperback/product-21350609.html ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Ethics, Later on MMY counseled a type of self discipline.. to be happy and mind your own business towards being regular practicing meditators and ‘on the program’ as a basis for behavior. This instruction would be a spiritual working ethic maybe different from social cultural ethic like the Golden Rule, that kindness seems overtly more to do with effects of behavior on subtle psycho-spiritual
[FairfieldLife] Re: What is Conscionable, in TM?
In community.. and hurtful tendency exposed - particularly, that of coveting and grasping after riches. To obtain which, many of the members of our society had launched into extensive business - more particularly, in the line of commerce. And in order for the carrying it on, had involved themselves in debt beyond their ability to pay. And in order to keep up a false credit, had through a show of friendship and a deceptive appearance of having great possession, drawn in others to lend them money and become their sureties for large sums, until both the borrowers and lenders were involved in utter ruin - to the great scandal of themselves, the distress of their families, and the reproach of our holy profession. 1814 Evidently there is a behavioral axis between self-interest and altruism.. and maybe not strictly related to 'consciousness', as we have seen. Hauptman’s Federal indictment is on the internet to read.. then also hearing immediate reactions with how other felons have been in the flock, and some infamous names unindicted. https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/2741368/bruce-a-hauptman-v-commissioner/ https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/2741368/bruce-a-hauptman-v-commissioner/ https://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/2018/ia-4950.pdf https://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/2018/ia-4950.pdf https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/wyoming-man-ordered-to-pay-restitution-to-iowa-investors/ https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/wyoming-man-ordered-to-pay-restitution-to-iowa-investors/ https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/28227351/USA_v_Hauptman https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/28227351/USA_v_Hauptman ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : The Transcendentalists’ Morality.. In the ™ movement we were told some little details about Maharishi’s teacher Guru Dev, Swami Brahmananda Saraswati. About how Maharishi first met SBS and also about how Guru Dev found his own teacher. On advanced training residential courses with Maharishi back in the 1970’s for those of us who were TM teachers there was a typed one page translated discourse of Swami Brahmananda Saraswati, of Guru Dev’s that was let to be passed around. This was the talk warning of the selling of life for the price of spinach. An advice that held intrinsic value that was important clarification, like a moral wake up, for people in TM then. Discourse 59 “After experiencing 8,400,000 births, we have obtained this rare human body; don't waste it. Each and every moment of life is very valuable. And if you don't understand its value? Then you will have nothing else to do but weep, and you will have nothing in your hands in the end. You are a human being, therefore you have the power to discriminate what is good and what is bad, and you can accomplish the greatest human goals. Don't think of yourself as weak or fallen. Whatever has happened in the past, understand that it was done unknowingly. But now be careful, begin doing the type of acts appropriate for a human being. Discern for yourself what is good and what is bad. Adopt the good and reject the bad. As a human being, if you don't know Paramàtmà (the Transcendent), then understand that you have sold a diamond for the price of spinach. One does not worship Paramàtmà for the sake of Paramàtmà. One worships Paramàtmà to remove one's own sorrow, lack of peace, ignorance, and lack of power. Paramàtmà is all knowing, omnipotent, and full of limitless bliss. Through worship, one can grasp on to his unending power. The fulfillment of this superb act is the real purpose of human life. If there is no effort made toward this, then understand that you have cheated yourself.” The Sweet Teachings of the Blessed Shankaràcàrya translation by Cynthia A. Humes http://www.lulu.com/shop/lb-shriver-and-translation-by-cynthia-ann-humes/the-sweet-teachings-of-the-blessed-sankaracarya-swami-brahmananda-saraswati/paperback/product-21350609.html http://www.lulu.com/shop/lb-shriver-and-translation-by-cynthia-ann-humes/the-sweet-teachings-of-the-blessed-sankaracarya-swami-brahmananda-saraswati/paperback/product-21350609.html ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Ethics, Later on MMY counseled a type of self discipline.. to be happy and mind your own business towards being regular practicing meditators and ‘on the program’ as a basis for behavior. This instruction would be a spiritual working ethic maybe different from social cultural ethic like the Golden Rule, that kindness seems overtly more to do with effects of behavior on subtle psycho-spiritual light-bodies of people. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Evidently there is a behavioral axis between self-interest and altruism.. and maybe not strictly related to 'consciousness', as we have seen. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : A hardwired morality of self-interest v Altruism.. In a core worldview
[FairfieldLife] Re: What is Conscionable, in TM?
Evidently there is a behavioral axis between self-interest and altruism.. and maybe not strictly related to 'consciousness', as we have seen. Hauptman’s Federal indictment is on the internet to read.. then also hearing immediate reactions with how other felons have been in the flock, and some infamous names unindicted. https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/2741368/bruce-a-hauptman-v-commissioner/ https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/2741368/bruce-a-hauptman-v-commissioner/ https://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/2018/ia-4950.pdf https://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/2018/ia-4950.pdf https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/wyoming-man-ordered-to-pay-restitution-to-iowa-investors/ https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/wyoming-man-ordered-to-pay-restitution-to-iowa-investors/ https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/28227351/USA_v_Hauptman https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/28227351/USA_v_Hauptman ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : The Transcendentalists’ Morality.. In the ™ movement we were told some little details about Maharishi’s teacher Guru Dev, Swami Brahmananda Saraswati. About how Maharishi first met SBS and also about how Guru Dev found his own teacher. On advanced training residential courses with Maharishi back in the 1970’s for those of us who were TM teachers there was a typed one page translated discourse of Swami Brahmananda Saraswati, of Guru Dev’s that was let to be passed around. This was the talk warning of the selling of life for the price of spinach. An advice that held intrinsic value that was important clarification, like a moral wake up, for people in TM then. Discourse 59 “After experiencing 8,400,000 births, we have obtained this rare human body; don't waste it. Each and every moment of life is very valuable. And if you don't understand its value? Then you will have nothing else to do but weep, and you will have nothing in your hands in the end. You are a human being, therefore you have the power to discriminate what is good and what is bad, and you can accomplish the greatest human goals. Don't think of yourself as weak or fallen. Whatever has happened in the past, understand that it was done unknowingly. But now be careful, begin doing the type of acts appropriate for a human being. Discern for yourself what is good and what is bad. Adopt the good and reject the bad. As a human being, if you don't know Paramàtmà (the Transcendent), then understand that you have sold a diamond for the price of spinach. One does not worship Paramàtmà for the sake of Paramàtmà. One worships Paramàtmà to remove one's own sorrow, lack of peace, ignorance, and lack of power. Paramàtmà is all knowing, omnipotent, and full of limitless bliss. Through worship, one can grasp on to his unending power. The fulfillment of this superb act is the real purpose of human life. If there is no effort made toward this, then understand that you have cheated yourself.” The Sweet Teachings of the Blessed Shankaràcàrya translation by Cynthia A. Humes http://www.lulu.com/shop/lb-shriver-and-translation-by-cynthia-ann-humes/the-sweet-teachings-of-the-blessed-sankaracarya-swami-brahmananda-saraswati/paperback/product-21350609.html http://www.lulu.com/shop/lb-shriver-and-translation-by-cynthia-ann-humes/the-sweet-teachings-of-the-blessed-sankaracarya-swami-brahmananda-saraswati/paperback/product-21350609.html ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Ethics, Later on MMY counseled a type of self discipline.. to be happy and mind your own business towards being regular practicing meditators and ‘on the program’ as a basis for behavior. This instruction would be a spiritual working ethic maybe different from social cultural ethic like the Golden Rule, that kindness seems overtly more to do with effects of behavior on subtle psycho-spiritual light-bodies of people. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Evidently there is a behavioral axis between self-interest and altruism.. and maybe not strictly related to 'consciousness', as we have seen. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : A hardwired morality of self-interest v Altruism.. In a core worldview that life is nakedly a selfish struggle for money and dominance the great act of moral decoupling woven through this in this worldview, morality has nothing to do with anything. Altruism, trust, cooperation and virtue are unaffordable luxuries in the struggle of all against all. Everything is about self-interest. Powerful, selfish people have always adopted this dirty-minded realism to justify their own selfishness. The problem is that this philosophy is based on an error about human beings and it leads to self-destructive behavior in all cases. The error is that it misunderstands what drives human action. Of course people are driven by selfish motivations — for individual status, wealth and power. But they are
[FairfieldLife] Community Group Meditation
Sunday, August 25: Community Group Meditation followed by social in the Golden Dome Market Cafe Sunday, August 25, our second Community Group Meditation will be held at all 11 local group meditation halls: 9 for TM-Sidhi practice, and 2 for Transcendental Meditation practice. Community Group Meditations for TM Meditators are at 5 PM on the second floor of the Orpheum Building on Broadway Avenue (near the square, south hallway), and in the MUM Campus Peace Palace. A Group Check will also take place at the Peace Palace at 4:30 PM. TM-Sidhas begin Group Practice as usual in their ten local halls at 5 PM. The Super-Radiance Social for both the Women’s and Men’s Domes will be held right after Community Group Meditation, upstairs in the Golden Dome Cafe, as it was in July, supplemented by Everybody’s Whole Foods’ major generous layout of savories and snacks. “Our National Coherence-Creating Group was established 40 years ago, in August of 1979, after the Amherst World Peace Assembly, to help prevent and reduce social, political, and cultural tensions. If enough TM-Sidhas and Meditators enjoy that bliss in togetherness enough of the time, it will work,” said Mary Cathryn Olsen of the Super-Radiance Action Team (SAT). The Super-Radiance Action Team invites each practitioner of the TM and TM-Sidhi Program to enjoy Community Group Meditation and help build National Super-Radiance attendance at a time when it is so obviously needed.
[FairfieldLife] friends of Tom Winquist; he passed away 8/23
Hello to everyone, My name is John Congdon and I have been helping Tom with his affairs for around 3 months now. Tom and I first met late in 1969 when he came to my hometown to teach a TM course that I was helping to organize. We have been friends and in contact on and off ever since, and much more the last two years as we both have been living in Fairfield. Most know that Tom has been suffering from Parkinson's Disease with some early symptoms appearing 5 years ago with symptoms being more evident in the last three years. Though Tom has tried many different products to help with his PD nothing seemed to help, even with treatments where others had found benefits. During the last 6 months the deterioration in his health and endurance has been quite rapid. Summer in Fairfield and Utopia Park didn't help much but the fact that Iowa's chiggers found Tom to be exceptionally tasty was the worst for him. Tom devised an escape plan of coming to Laramie, Wyoming for 10 days, where chiggers do not roam and elevation is said to help Parkinson's. I accompanied him on the trip to do the driving and heavy lifting. He wasn't bothered by any chiggers which was a big relief. However at his more advanced stage of PD he continued to weaken and spent the majority of time trying to rest which the disease had made very difficult if not impossible for him. He passed yesterday in Laramie. His 76th birthday would be on this coming September 18. Tom's wishes were to be cremated and have his ashes scattered with his parents' on his older brother's property near Eugene, Oregon. Plans are being formed to have a celebration of Tom's life in Fairfield, probably in mid September, perhaps the 18th. The actual date will be announced after arrangements are finalized.
[FairfieldLife] Re: 40th Anniversary of Our National Coherence Creating Community
The meditating University community as an academic institution survives now with better tone but oh the nature of the separation of the movement with the community and oh what squandered goodwill that occurred with the meditating community here! The coherence creating world peace program could use a communal mediation towards the renewal of the Domes, superradiance and the larger TM movement. 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 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : In the low Dome attendance numbers now.. “Where have all the meditators gone, long time passing, where have all the meditators gone long time ago?” ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Nice reminisce meeting, of the scope of what we did there at Amherst and here in Fairfield. The meeting as hosted did not engage with the low Dome attendance numbers as they are now, the loss of communal critical mass. Surprising how many meditators in town, veterans of Amherst, did not even hear of this meeting. How disassociated from the movement so many have become. Dick Mays Shares: Celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Amherst Course in Dalby Hall at 2:00 today! See old friends and share memories! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Today. The 40th Anniversary of the Amherst course, The Creating Coherence Program. CELEBRATING The 40th Anniversary of Maharishi Founding the National Super Radiance Program At Amherst, Massachusetts August 1979 _ THAT DAY IN AMHERST That Changed the History of the United States http://communications.tm.org/2019/2019_08_13_Amherst-40.html http://communications.tm.org/2019/2019_08_13_Amherst-40.html In Fairfield, Dalby Hall – 2 pm – Sunday August 18 Everyone who was there that day is invited to submit their memories to share with all, and be recorded for all time. Governors, Teachers, Sidhas, and Mediators Invited Dome Badge Not Required Please E-mail your memories – including good photos to: amherst.memor...@mum.edu mailto:amherstmemor...@mum.edu?subject=Amherst%20Memories%20from Come celebrate these anniversaries: -the 40th Anniversary of Our National Coherence Creating Community -the 13th Anniversary of the Invincible America Assembly (IAA) The Invincible America Assembly began on July 23, 2006, when Maharishi and Dr. John Hagelin saw a keen and obvious need to stop a war that had suddenly and unexpectedly broken out in Lebanon. Upon their timely call, hundreds of TM Governors, Sidhas, and Meditators poured into Fairfield and Maharishi Vedic City for Group Practice of the TM and TM-Sidhi progams. Within a few weeks, the war in Lebanon vanished. And on the day the IAA began, July 23, the long-term decline of the American stock market stopped, and began a 10-month climb that hit 12 all-time highs. “There is nothing more important to our global Movement than the Invincible America Assembly,” said Maharishi. Come and celebrate “the most powerful method of transforming society that exists -- or ever will exist” This Tuesday, July 23, 2019 after group program.. The party will include savories, snacks, and live entertainment. It will be held between the Women’s Golden Dome and the Golden Dome Market, between 6:15 PM and 9 PM on MUM Campus. Maharishi defined the IAA as all those who are attending Group Practice morning and evening. Everybody’s Whole Foods will be providing their incredible layout of treats and snacks to support the IAA, along with any sweets and savories you would like to provide as well. Also available will be a delicious dinner menu prepared by Nayna Dave of India, who has decades of success in delighting many with her refined and delicious traditional cooking. Nayna, currently evening chef at the Golden Dome Market, will be offering roasted saffron rice, mixed curried vegetables, and yogurt dumplings, at $9.49/pound. You are also welcome to bring your own dinner. Music will be provided by Geoffrey Shaffer, IAA veteran and multi-decade composer and keyboardist. Geoffrey's music aims for the beautiful and provides a melodic touch and phrasing that is felt by the heart. Flavors of light classical, melodic New Age, and contemporary are included along with original compositions all encouraging the experience of blissful listening. For our anniversary, he also promises to offer several crowd favorites including special keyboard stylings of many of the Beatles best and most beautiful melodies.
[FairfieldLife] Re: 40th Anniversary of Our National Coherence Creating Community
In the low Dome attendance numbers now.. “Where have all the meditators gone, long time passing, where have all the meditators gone long time ago?” ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Nice reminisce meeting, of the scope of what we did there at Amherst and here in Fairfield. The meeting as hosted did not engage with the low Dome attendance numbers as they are now, the loss of communal critical mass. Surprising how many meditators in town, veterans of Amherst, did not even hear of this meeting. How disassociated from the movement so many have become. Dick Mays Shares: Celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Amherst Course in Dalby Hall at 2:00 today! See old friends and share memories! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Today. The 40th Anniversary of the Amherst course, The Creating Coherence Program. CELEBRATING The 40th Anniversary of Maharishi Founding the National Super Radiance Program At Amherst, Massachusetts August 1979 _ THAT DAY IN AMHERST That Changed the History of the United States http://communications.tm.org/2019/2019_08_13_Amherst-40.html http://communications.tm.org/2019/2019_08_13_Amherst-40.html In Fairfield, Dalby Hall – 2 pm – Sunday August 18 Everyone who was there that day is invited to submit their memories to share with all, and be recorded for all time. Governors, Teachers, Sidhas, and Mediators Invited Dome Badge Not Required Please E-mail your memories – including good photos to: amherst.memor...@mum.edu mailto:amherstmemor...@mum.edu?subject=Amherst%20Memories%20from Come celebrate these anniversaries: -the 40th Anniversary of Our National Coherence Creating Community -the 13th Anniversary of the Invincible America Assembly (IAA) The Invincible America Assembly began on July 23, 2006, when Maharishi and Dr. John Hagelin saw a keen and obvious need to stop a war that had suddenly and unexpectedly broken out in Lebanon. Upon their timely call, hundreds of TM Governors, Sidhas, and Meditators poured into Fairfield and Maharishi Vedic City for Group Practice of the TM and TM-Sidhi progams. Within a few weeks, the war in Lebanon vanished. And on the day the IAA began, July 23, the long-term decline of the American stock market stopped, and began a 10-month climb that hit 12 all-time highs. “There is nothing more important to our global Movement than the Invincible America Assembly,” said Maharishi. Come and celebrate “the most powerful method of transforming society that exists -- or ever will exist” This Tuesday, July 23, 2019 after group program.. The party will include savories, snacks, and live entertainment. It will be held between the Women’s Golden Dome and the Golden Dome Market, between 6:15 PM and 9 PM on MUM Campus. Maharishi defined the IAA as all those who are attending Group Practice morning and evening. Everybody’s Whole Foods will be providing their incredible layout of treats and snacks to support the IAA, along with any sweets and savories you would like to provide as well. Also available will be a delicious dinner menu prepared by Nayna Dave of India, who has decades of success in delighting many with her refined and delicious traditional cooking. Nayna, currently evening chef at the Golden Dome Market, will be offering roasted saffron rice, mixed curried vegetables, and yogurt dumplings, at $9.49/pound. You are also welcome to bring your own dinner. Music will be provided by Geoffrey Shaffer, IAA veteran and multi-decade composer and keyboardist. Geoffrey's music aims for the beautiful and provides a melodic touch and phrasing that is felt by the heart. Flavors of light classical, melodic New Age, and contemporary are included along with original compositions all encouraging the experience of blissful listening. For our anniversary, he also promises to offer several crowd favorites including special keyboard stylings of many of the Beatles best and most beautiful melodies.
[FairfieldLife] Re: 40th Anniversary of Our National Coherence Creating Community
Nice reminisce meeting, of the scope of what we did there at Amherst and here in Fairfield. The meeting as hosted did not engage with the low Dome attendance numbers as they are now, the loss of communal critical mass. Surprising how many meditators in town, veterans of Amherst, did not even hear of this meeting. How disassociated from the movement so many have become. Dick Mays Shares: Celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Amherst Course in Dalby Hall at 2:00 today! See old friends and share memories! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Today. The 40th Anniversary of the Amherst course, The Creating Coherence Program. CELEBRATING The 40th Anniversary of Maharishi Founding the National Super Radiance Program At Amherst, Massachusetts August 1979 _ THAT DAY IN AMHERST That Changed the History of the United States http://communications.tm.org/2019/2019_08_13_Amherst-40.html http://communications.tm.org/2019/2019_08_13_Amherst-40.html In Fairfield, Dalby Hall – 2 pm – Sunday August 18 Everyone who was there that day is invited to submit their memories to share with all, and be recorded for all time. Governors, Teachers, Sidhas, and Mediators Invited Dome Badge Not Required Please E-mail your memories – including good photos to: amherst.memor...@mum.edu mailto:amherstmemor...@mum.edu?subject=Amherst%20Memories%20from Come celebrate these anniversaries: -the 40th Anniversary of Our National Coherence Creating Community -the 13th Anniversary of the Invincible America Assembly (IAA) The Invincible America Assembly began on July 23, 2006, when Maharishi and Dr. John Hagelin saw a keen and obvious need to stop a war that had suddenly and unexpectedly broken out in Lebanon. Upon their timely call, hundreds of TM Governors, Sidhas, and Meditators poured into Fairfield and Maharishi Vedic City for Group Practice of the TM and TM-Sidhi progams. Within a few weeks, the war in Lebanon vanished. And on the day the IAA began, July 23, the long-term decline of the American stock market stopped, and began a 10-month climb that hit 12 all-time highs. “There is nothing more important to our global Movement than the Invincible America Assembly,” said Maharishi. Come and celebrate “the most powerful method of transforming society that exists -- or ever will exist” This Tuesday, July 23, 2019 after group program.. The party will include savories, snacks, and live entertainment. It will be held between the Women’s Golden Dome and the Golden Dome Market, between 6:15 PM and 9 PM on MUM Campus. Maharishi defined the IAA as all those who are attending Group Practice morning and evening. Everybody’s Whole Foods will be providing their incredible layout of treats and snacks to support the IAA, along with any sweets and savories you would like to provide as well. Also available will be a delicious dinner menu prepared by Nayna Dave of India, who has decades of success in delighting many with her refined and delicious traditional cooking. Nayna, currently evening chef at the Golden Dome Market, will be offering roasted saffron rice, mixed curried vegetables, and yogurt dumplings, at $9.49/pound. You are also welcome to bring your own dinner. Music will be provided by Geoffrey Shaffer, IAA veteran and multi-decade composer and keyboardist. Geoffrey's music aims for the beautiful and provides a melodic touch and phrasing that is felt by the heart. Flavors of light classical, melodic New Age, and contemporary are included along with original compositions all encouraging the experience of blissful listening. For our anniversary, he also promises to offer several crowd favorites including special keyboard stylings of many of the Beatles best and most beautiful melodies.
[FairfieldLife] Re: 40th Anniversary of Our National Coherence Creating Community
Today. The 40th Anniversary of the Amherst course, The Creating Coherence Program. CELEBRATING The 40th Anniversary of Maharishi Founding the National Super Radiance Program At Amherst, Massachusetts August 1979 _ THAT DAY IN AMHERST That Changed the History of the United States http://communications.tm.org/2019/2019_08_13_Amherst-40.html http://communications.tm.org/2019/2019_08_13_Amherst-40.html In Fairfield, Dalby Hall – 2 pm – Sunday August 18 Everyone who was there that day is invited to submit their memories to share with all, and be recorded for all time. Governors, Teachers, Sidhas, and Mediators Invited Dome Badge Not Required Please E-mail your memories – including good photos to: amherst.memor...@mum.edu mailto:amherstmemor...@mum.edu?subject=Amherst%20Memories%20from Come celebrate these anniversaries: -the 40th Anniversary of Our National Coherence Creating Community -the 13th Anniversary of the Invincible America Assembly (IAA) The Invincible America Assembly began on July 23, 2006, when Maharishi and Dr. John Hagelin saw a keen and obvious need to stop a war that had suddenly and unexpectedly broken out in Lebanon. Upon their timely call, hundreds of TM Governors, Sidhas, and Meditators poured into Fairfield and Maharishi Vedic City for Group Practice of the TM and TM-Sidhi progams. Within a few weeks, the war in Lebanon vanished. And on the day the IAA began, July 23, the long-term decline of the American stock market stopped, and began a 10-month climb that hit 12 all-time highs. “There is nothing more important to our global Movement than the Invincible America Assembly,” said Maharishi. Come and celebrate “the most powerful method of transforming society that exists -- or ever will exist” This Tuesday, July 23, 2019 after group program.. The party will include savories, snacks, and live entertainment. It will be held between the Women’s Golden Dome and the Golden Dome Market, between 6:15 PM and 9 PM on MUM Campus. Maharishi defined the IAA as all those who are attending Group Practice morning and evening. Everybody’s Whole Foods will be providing their incredible layout of treats and snacks to support the IAA, along with any sweets and savories you would like to provide as well. Also available will be a delicious dinner menu prepared by Nayna Dave of India, who has decades of success in delighting many with her refined and delicious traditional cooking. Nayna, currently evening chef at the Golden Dome Market, will be offering roasted saffron rice, mixed curried vegetables, and yogurt dumplings, at $9.49/pound. You are also welcome to bring your own dinner. Music will be provided by Geoffrey Shaffer, IAA veteran and multi-decade composer and keyboardist. Geoffrey's music aims for the beautiful and provides a melodic touch and phrasing that is felt by the heart. Flavors of light classical, melodic New Age, and contemporary are included along with original compositions all encouraging the experience of blissful listening. For our anniversary, he also promises to offer several crowd favorites including special keyboard stylings of many of the Beatles best and most beautiful melodies.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Giving a bad name to TM’ers?
Surprise in relating to communal meditators that Hauptman’s Federal indictment is on the internet to read then hearing immediate reactions with how other felons have been in the flock, and some infamous names unindicted. . Evidently there is a behavioral axis between self-interest and altruism.. and maybe not strictly related to 'consciousness', as we have seen. https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/2741368/bruce-a-hauptman-v-commissioner/ https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/2741368/bruce-a-hauptman-v-commissioner/ https://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/2018/ia-4950.pdf https://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/2018/ia-4950.pdf https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/wyoming-man-ordered-to-pay-restitution-to-iowa-investors/ https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/wyoming-man-ordered-to-pay-restitution-to-iowa-investors/ https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/28227351/USA_v_Hauptman https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/28227351/USA_v_Hauptman
[FairfieldLife] 8 pts.of agreement from the lived experience of contemporary mystics..
The 1984 Smowmass Conference Eight Points of Agreement, from the lived experience of contemporary mystics.. The world religions bear witness to the experience of Ultimate Reality, to which they give various names. Ultimate Reality cannot be limited by any name or concept. Ultimate Reality is the ground of infinite potentiality and actualization. Faith is opening, accepting, and responding to Ultimate Reality. Faith in this sense precedes every belief system. The potential for human wholeness—or, in other frames of reference, enlightenment, salvation, transcendence, transformation, blessedness—is present in every human being. Ultimate Reality may be experienced not only through religious practices but also through nature, art, human relationships, and service to others. As long as the human condition is experienced as separate from Ultimate Reality, it is subject to ignorance and illusion, weakness and suffering. Disciplined practice is essential to the spiritual life; yet spiritual attainment is not the result of one’s own efforts, but the result of the experience of oneness with Ultimate Reality. [2]
[FairfieldLife] ™ is Apolitical
TM Is not religion and also not interested or involved in politics. Is Apolitical. FW: Office of the President Dear MUM community members, You may have received emails or communications from the University announcing upcoming meetings in town for political candidates. As we have informed the University community in the past, we wish to restate that the University does not endorse any political candidate. However, MUM wishes to support an informed electorate and, therefore, whenever asked by any candidate to announce their visits to our town we always seek to oblige them, regardless of their political affiliation, party, or ideology. We hope you appreciate this policy, which we believe will serve to enable each of us to select the candidate who best reflects our personal views and desires for our country. Sincerely, John Hagelin 15 Aug. 2019
[FairfieldLife] Re: 40th Anniversary of Our National Coherence Creating Community
40th Anniversary of the Amherst course. CELEBRATING 40th Anniversary of Maharishi Founding the National Super Radiance Program At Amherst, Massachusetts August 1979 _ THAT DAY IN AMHERST That Changed the History of the United States http://communications.tm.org/2019/2019_08_13_Amherst-40.html http://communications.tm.org/2019/2019_08_13_Amherst-40.html In Fairfield, Dalby Hall – 2 pm – Sunday August 18 Everyone who was there that day is invited to submit their memories to share with all, and be recorded for all time. Governors, Teachers, Sidhas, and Mediators Invited Dome Badge Not Required Please E-mail your memories – including good photos to: amherst.memor...@mum.edu mailto:amherstmemor...@mum.edu?subject=Amherst%20Memories%20from The Creating Coherence Program Come celebrate these anniversaries: -the 40th Anniversary of Our National Coherence Creating Community -the 13th Anniversary of the Invincible America Assembly (IAA) The Invincible America Assembly began on July 23, 2006, when Maharishi and Dr. John Hagelin saw a keen and obvious need to stop a war that had suddenly and unexpectedly broken out in Lebanon. Upon their timely call, hundreds of TM Governors, Sidhas, and Meditators poured into Fairfield and Maharishi Vedic City for Group Practice of the TM and TM-Sidhi progams. Within a few weeks, the war in Lebanon vanished. And on the day the IAA began, July 23, the long-term decline of the American stock market stopped, and began a 10-month climb that hit 12 all-time highs. “There is nothing more important to our global Movement than the Invincible America Assembly,” said Maharishi. Come and celebrate “the most powerful method of transforming society that exists -- or ever will exist” This Tuesday, July 23, 2019 after group program.. The party will include savories, snacks, and live entertainment. It will be held between the Women’s Golden Dome and the Golden Dome Market, between 6:15 PM and 9 PM on MUM Campus. Maharishi defined the IAA as all those who are attending Group Practice morning and evening. Everybody’s Whole Foods will be providing their incredible layout of treats and snacks to support the IAA, along with any sweets and savories you would like to provide as well. Also available will be a delicious dinner menu prepared by Nayna Dave of India, who has decades of success in delighting many with her refined and delicious traditional cooking. Nayna, currently evening chef at the Golden Dome Market, will be offering roasted saffron rice, mixed curried vegetables, and yogurt dumplings, at $9.49/pound. You are also welcome to bring your own dinner. Music will be provided by Geoffrey Shaffer, IAA veteran and multi-decade composer and keyboardist. Geoffrey's music aims for the beautiful and provides a melodic touch and phrasing that is felt by the heart. Flavors of light classical, melodic New Age, and contemporary are included along with original compositions all encouraging the experience of blissful listening. For our anniversary, he also promises to offer several crowd favorites including special keyboard stylings of many of the Beatles best and most beautiful melodies.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Stilling and YF?
Stillness, No mantra no thought is one of the correct experiences in the practice of TM. 3.3 And when that same awareness, its essential nature shining forth in purity, is as if unbounded, this is known as Samadhi 3.4 Dharana, Dhyana and Samadhi practiced together are known as Sanyama ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Could there be a connection between stilling and group practice of Yogic Flying?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Spiritual mission of TM-
'Our task of the day is to find a cure for this major ill of humanity. The heart of man is so changed. The inner man has to be transformed.. A direct experience of the Blissful nature of Soul and the inner man is completely transformed. The mind, experiencing the Great Bliss, feels satisfaction and this satisfaction of the mind results in right understanding and virtuous action, kindness, love and compassion for all Extracted from Maharishi's address to the 15th session of the World Vegetarian Congress held at Madras on 30 November 1957 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" wrote: > > > 15th World Vegetarian Congress 1957 > Delhi/Bombay/Madras/Calcutta, India > > > > Found on a website about Transcendental Meditation (slightly corrected as > they gave the date as 1958): > > The extract below is from Maharishi's address to the 15th session of the > World Vegetarian Congress held at Madras on 30 November 1957 (taken from a > Canadian Publication from the early 1960s). Considering the recent events in > the world it seems particularly relevant to the present times. > > 'How are we going to change the 'Killing world' of today into a non- killing > world of tomorrow? How are we going to change the spirit of killing, the > spirit of aggression, the spirit of violence into the spirit of kindness and > love - overflowing love for the whole creation? How are we going to change > hardness and cruelty of heart to softness and overflowing love for > everybody? > > 'Through platform speaking? No, it is not possible. Through singing the > values of Vegetarianism in to the ears of the non-vegetarians? No, because > their ears may receive the message but the hardness of their hearts will > repel it.. > > 'Suggestive knowledge? Suggestions from outside do not much change the man. > 'Speaking does not go a long way to change a man. All the great religions of > the world have been speaking for it from time immemorial - Eternal Vedas > have been speaking of it, Holy Bible has been speaking of it, Holy Koran has > been speaking of it, yet the killer kills. The killer knows that he is > killing and in return he will be killed. The sinner knows that he is > committing a sin and that he will be punished for it. Not that he does not > know. He knows it. But, with this information, the cruel is not afraid - his > cruelty is hardened still. The killer declares his action is the role of a > saviour, he kills in the name of life, he kills in the name of saving life, > he kills in the name of maintaining life. He kills and murders ruthlessly in > the name of protection and peace. 'In the name of world peace and protection > have been waged the deadliest of wars. In the name of peace and protection > are preparations being made for the murder of man and creation. Shame to the > greatness of the human intelligence which fails to recognise the Judge > Supreme! > > 'Our task of the day is to find a cure for this major ill of humanity. The > heart of man is so changed. The inner man has to be transformed.. A direct > experience of the Blissful nature of Soul and the inner man is completely > transformed. The mind, experiencing the Great Bliss, feels satisfaction and > this satisfaction of the mind results in right understanding and virtuous > action, kindness, love and compassion for all > > Extracted from Maharishi's address to the 15th session of the World > Vegetarian Congress held at Madras on 30 November 1957 > > > > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.17.12/1203 - Release Date: 12/30/2007 > 11:27 AM >
[FairfieldLife] Re: Transcendental Meditation Revolutionary Mission:
Mission: “This is what happens in the Domes: A wave of infinity spreads from one end of the Dome to the other end. But the wave is not constrained by the walls. It permeates the whole collective consciousness -the whole field of unmanifest infinity… This is what you are here for. And as the group gets larger and larger, your experiences will become even more profound.” --Maharishi, Inauguration of the Invincible America Assembly, July 2006 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : “We will count ourselves successful only when the problems of today's world are substantially reduced and eventually eliminated and the educational institutions of every country are capable of producing fully developed citizens.” -Maharishi, from the founding catalog of Maharishi International University, 1974
[FairfieldLife] Re: Yogananda's SRF
Yogananda passed away in 1952, Maharishi passed away over ten years ago now. SRF’s Brother Chidananda‘s recent talk is excellent perspective in the navigation of a spiritual renewal movement. SRF as a worldwide spiritual practice movement is roughly 90 years old, nine decades ahead of Maharishi and the TM movement in cycle. Bro. Chidananda now in his address does a superb job of voicing together mission from their past, the present and where they are going now in their communal movement. They have now made a transition to directors and group leaders who are members who had never met with Yogananda. With a renewed youthfulness they evidently have a vital movement inclusive with youth going forward now. Bro. Chidananda seems to be a right person at the right time for the job of leadership of their group. His satsanga talk at about 1:16 minutes is worth listening to as to who, how and where they are going as a group. With evident good tone they are going forward now in clear mission and with cohesion as a group. For those who can hear it In comparison theirs is a good story to follow. Satsanga with Brother Chidananda: https://yogananda.org/blog/satsanga-with-brother-chidananda-to-be-livestreamed https://yogananda.org/blog/satsanga-with-brother-chidananda-to-be-livestreamed ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Tonite: A special satsanga with Brother Chidananda, president and spiritual head of Self-Realization Fellowship/Yogoda Satsanga Society of India https://yogananda.org/blog/satsanga-with-brother-chidananda-to-be-livestreamed https://yogananda.org/blog/satsanga-with-brother-chidananda-to-be-livestreamed ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : 5000 SRF meditators gathered in LA meditating this week. 2019 SRF World Convocation 2019 SRF World Convocation2019 SRF World Convocation2019 SRF World Convocation
[FairfieldLife] Re: Yogananda's SRF
Tonite: A special satsanga with Brother Chidananda, president and spiritual head of Self-Realization Fellowship/Yogoda Satsanga Society of India https://yogananda.org/blog/satsanga-with-brother-chidananda-to-be-livestreamed https://yogananda.org/blog/satsanga-with-brother-chidananda-to-be-livestreamed ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : 5000 SRF meditators gathered in LA meditating this week. 2019 SRF World Convocation 2019 SRF World Convocation2019 SRF World Convocation2019 SRF World Convocation
[FairfieldLife] Yogananda's SRF
5000 SRF meditators gathered in LA meditating this week. 2019 SRF World Convocation 2019 SRF World Convocation2019 SRF World Convocation2019 SRF World Convocation
[FairfieldLife] Giving a bad name to TM’ers?
Evidently there is a behavioral axis between self-interest and altruism.. and maybe not strictly related to 'consciousness', as we have seen. https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/2741368/bruce-a-hauptman-v-commissioner/ https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/2741368/bruce-a-hauptman-v-commissioner/ https://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/2018/ia-4950.pdf https://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/2018/ia-4950.pdf https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/wyoming-man-ordered-to-pay-restitution-to-iowa-investors/ https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/wyoming-man-ordered-to-pay-restitution-to-iowa-investors/ https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/28227351/USA_v_Hauptman https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/28227351/USA_v_Hauptman
