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Rick Archer Buddha at the Gas Pump https://batgap.com From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2018 8:39 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: In Satsanga Fairfield, Iowa Being emailed around spiritual FF recently.. Cynthia Bourgeault at the SAND conference The extension of centering prayer.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_bV8mxaXhE .. .. Yes Janet Sussman bought a house in Fairfield recently. Is part of the Fairfield, Iowa community. This last weekend a number of healers came together in Fairfield for a two day workshop/ satsang with her. Long experienced as a spiritual healer she is excellent with capacities as a teacher of ‘how to’ transmit energetic healing. >A lot of Maha-Saints have come here to Fairfield. And quite a few BATGAP-ERS >have visited too. Janet Sussman?: https://batgap.com/janet-sussman/ ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com<mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com<mailto:dhamiltony...@yahoo.com>> wrote : As type of satsang here in Fairfield there are several groups on campus that recite/chant sanskrit. Also in town. The Ammachi group, some other groups and also at the Devi Mandir Temple in town as also there is dedicated individual spiritual practice of chanting. Also there is a group that meets regularly for chanting of old Hebrew as spiritual practice in Fairfield. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com<mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com<mailto:dhamiltony...@yahoo.com>> wrote : FF Satsang: “..All kinds of spiritual practice is going on here. The thread is that people understand it because of Maharishi, because of the holy tradition. They understand the state, that it is not just about having flashy experience but finding modalities which help with their clarity, the clarity of the inner state.” . . “..Whether it is the bhakti path, ritual, whatever the avenue is that people feel they the need to cultivate, it is here and it is happening . It is very lively. ..Huge Trillium group, big Oneness group, the AOL They are there. Connie’s group, Janet has her following, or Byron Katie and the inquiry path, adviatian path. The meditator churches and temples, it is all here. “ . . “..For instance there are people here in Fairfield in to the Trillium thing here. Trillium is a big deal here. It was called Waking Down, it is now called something else because Daniel Bonder could not keep it in his pants, so they had a division over that so now they are re-branded, re-orienting, but they have certainly carried on in transpersonal work, a Stanislav Grauf process that is very powerful and clearer.” Satsang FF replies..: “Now with the Pundits gone we do have these Western people on social security trained up with these skill sets of chanting sanskrit and the Vedic texts. Maybe they become the communal pundits in recitation. “if the MUM process fell apart”, then.. Hello! They are right here. If you have what, 20 smart people doing it then here we have it.” replies: "Yes, and Fairfield, Iowa meditating is certainly 'a tale of two cities' or more everyday ..In Fairfield, Ia. in context there are so many people who are rippingly along engaged in spiritual evolution. Look at all these groups that are meeting the individual needs of people because it suits them. It is not a 'one size fits all' program, nature does not work that way. Nature is infinitely diverse in how she solves and works it. It is okay and alive." Fell apart? The Fairfield, Iowa Coffee House Satsanga in consideration replies: "..No, in Fairfield the people who want to be here are meditating in the Domes. Many hundreds here still." Someone commentating about Fairfield from afar, “The infrastructure he put in place in N. America has fallen apart, with few pandits and dropping numbers in the domes. Perhaps there is some destiny for a rougher transition.” Quoting: “..if the MUM process fell apart, then it is because each of us as individuals has gained more influence over the environment. It doesn't really make sense that we are gaining light on the planet, and the sustaining element if it is such, at MUM would fall apart. ..I think it is simply obsolete.”.end quote .. .. Contentious, – you told us about some such groups in town with whom you recently met who are planning group meditations (TM, or mostly TM) on the night before the election in the hope if creating some positive effect. Like, really? I would suggest that you tell them that they would have a much stronger effect by coming to the Dome at least once daily every day from now on, and keep coming. If they think their group meditations will have an effect, then (in the same breath) they cannot say that the Dome groups don’t! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com<mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com<mailto:dhamiltony...@yahoo.com>> wrote : I was at a meeting a couple of nights ago of about 25 people at Janet Sussman’s new Fairfield house. They agreed to meet for a meditation (superradiance) on the night of the Election Day, regardless of the results as the results are coming in. I was at another meeting of about 25 people last night on our porch, a different group of 25 from Janet’s satsanga. This group agreed to meet for a meditation on the night before Election Day having a group meditation for the country. Both groups of people are of the old meditator TM community here, mostly unaffiliated anymore/disaffiliated with the .org movement without badges to the Domes . Same thing, meditating, over a concern with the general agitation around the Election over at the meditator churches and temples, the liberal catholics, and Mother Divine church. The meditating Quakers. The temple(s). 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/ ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com<mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com<mailto:dhamiltony...@yahoo.com>> wrote : The Boom Fitness Satsanga in Fairfield, Iowa.. CrossFit and SoulCycle are becoming “churches” for millennials. ..very illuminating. I had noticed this, but this is very clearly explained about the group and its spiritual needs. https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/9/10/17801164/crossfit-soulcycle-religion-church-millennials-casper-ter-kuile ..in Fairfield Boom Fitness is located at 210 West Lowe (near Everybodys and BP Gas). When you enter our 2400 square foot space, you will quickly realize we are a very different workout experience. In place of workout machines that isolate muscles, you will find Olympic bars, free weights, kettlebells, medicine balls, pullup bars, and jump ropes by Rogue Fitness. This is the same gear used in the Reebok / ESPNs Crossfit Games. We aim for efficient functionality, you won’t find mirrors or televisions. What you will quickly find is that we have everything you need to get in phenomenal shape. You can use your mirror at home for verification. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com<mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com<mailto:dhamiltony...@yahoo.com>> wrote : Experiences of Saints Part 2 with Dr. Evan Finkelstein On Sunday, September 30. A Sweet Sunday evening in September, at Phoenix Rising Hall, at 7:30 PM, Dr. Evan Finkelstein will present: PART 2 “A Funny Thing Happened to Me in the Cave Last Night: Spiritual Experiences of Saints in Light of Maharishi's Science of Consciousness” With a lot of new saints and all new experiences! This presentation will highlight the divine experiences of great saints from the traditions of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Taoism and Buddhism in the light of Maharishi’s teachings on higher states of consciousness. Quotes from the writings of these saints will be deeply explored; with a PowerPoint presentation and lots of time for comments, discussion and questions. Dr. Evan, a Transcendental Meditation teacher since 1972, earned his BA in English and Theatre Arts, and Master’s degrees in Social Work and the Science of Creative Intelligence, with an Outstanding Student Award. Awarded the Veda Vyasa Award for outstanding doctoral level scholarship, his MVS doctoral dissertation Universal Principles of Life Expressed in Maharishi Vedic Science and in the Scriptures and Writings of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam documented fundamental principles shared among these faiths in the light of Maharishi’s Vedic Science. He also teaches courses on Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism in the light of Maharishi’s knowledge. Dr. Finkelstein, on faculty since 1989, is currently adjunct professor of Maharishi Vedic Science, and National Director of Religion and Culture for the United States. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com<mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com<mailto:dhamiltony...@yahoo.com>> wrote : Fairfield Jingui Golden Shield Qi Gong Contact Mary Ida Adams ph. 641 980 8017 http://jingui-iowa.com/ http://jingui-iowa.com/events-calendar/ Invincible America Assembly & Friends Picnic, Thursdays. 12:30pm-1:00pm Waterworks Park Fairfield, Iowa Email: Thank you for letting me know. I had never heard of a yagya before but after resarching see that it is a fire ritual/offering. Is this open to others that may not be students of Pundit Sharma such as myself? Blessings to you. Ans: Sorry to find this too late. Yes, a lot of very spiritually practiced folks showed up. Yes, with lots of spiritual things going on in this little town most of us who live here in the meditating community look to the Thursday edition of The Fairfield Weekly Reader to find what is up. With the WR those of us who actively live here get our day-timers out and then plan what to show up at for the week. It is a busy place. As you show up at various functions and then get on e-mail lists there becomes its own web of notice for what is interesting to you and actively coming up. The Fairfield Weekly Reader is a good way to find interesting groups that are already doing things in Fairfield. Also the boards at Everybody's, the Noodle House and Thai Deli and other places for poster notices of what is going on. Mostly there are already groups that function like guilds 'doing things' in Fairfield. It just takes some initiative to show up and find like minded people already here.. arts, writing, business, nature, garden, music, recreation, fitness, spiritual practice. Hope to meet you soon at something. A Ganesh yagya today also at, Sri Devi Mandir, a Hindu Temple, located in Fairfield, IA, a small rural community in southeast Iowa. The temple initiated within the Fairfield meditating community opened October 7, 2002, during Navaratri - the Nine Nights of Mother Divine. Sri Devi Mandir is an independent spiritual organization, not affiliated with any spiritual teacher or group. Sri Devi Mandir is a non-profit 501 (c)(3) organization run by devotees for devotees. The Temple's main income is through devotee donations and sponsorships. Through the years Devi Mandir has become an important cultural center for the Indo- American community that is well settle in Fairfield, Iowa. Community Ganesh Yagya today.. In line with Fairfield being one of the spiritual places to live.. FW: a long tradition (and a lot of personal experience!) to support his title of "remover of Obstacles"! See full details at: https://vedyagya.blogspot.com/ # Fairfield of recent years has changed into something else which is now quite rich after nearly four decades development. 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 the town in the 21st Century. 30 Top Cities and Towns for Meditation in America An article: http://www.sonima.com/meditation/top-cities-for-meditation/ “..keep company with the saints (sants), mahàtmàs, and the wise (vidvànta), so that your human birth will be fruitful.” -Guru Dev, Brahmananda Saraswati .. * About 90 attended Dr. Evan Finkelstein's event at Phoenix Rising Sunday evening. It was a powerpoint presentation of slides of saints from around the world and throughout the ages, with pictures or likenesses of the saints, and their quotes on meditation and experiences of higher states of consciousness, and comments by Dr. Evan. It was just like the IAA daily calls, with a wider and more varied group of people calling in. That is how it felt. It felt very very good. There was an audience request for Dr. Evan to do an encore presentation later and there was support for this in the audience. So that's in the works. # # 1000 Names on Sunday the 26th (for Kerala Flood, US Fires/Floods etc.) 6:10 to 6:30: Group meditation (please come on time for this) 6:30 to 7:30: 1000 Names of Sri Lalitha We hope to see you all there! AmmaFairfieldSatsang ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com<mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com<mailto:dhamiltony...@yahoo.com>> wrote : Yes, simply as a transcription of conversation there is a powerful insight to communal spiritual Fairfield, Iowa. These kind of spiritual conversations go on throughout the meditating day in Fairfield. Morning, noon and night. they make for quite a journal. In journalizing, the names of people are not so irrelevant here for consideration on FFL but the idea content in context evidently is quite relevant consideration within the community. So in editing I do not bring names of folks over here to FFL though their ideas may come here. In the daily life of Fairfield the coffee house satsanga are where a lot of business of the community is met, and again at the lunchtime eateries as people spill into the cafes for mid-day, throughout the afternoons back in the coffee houses, and the evening dinner hour. Not uncommonly depending on who you want to run in to you go to their watering holes as a means of finding people. These kind of fragment spiritual conversations happen then between folks throughout the day in Fairfield. ( I had a long spiritual conversation over at Menards back in the drywall area the other day with an old ™ teacher who has traveled to Peru a number of times. Really interesting perspective on spiritual experience.) Back a few posts on FFL there was the “Sit up and Meditate” thread about ™ being something ‘you do’.. That subject then became a coffee house conversation between some spiritually cultivated folks that focused some light on an aspect of the culture of some number of ™’ers who chronically cave over in meditation. It was an interesting perspective that went on to consideration about ™’ers possibly being cultivated in mental fields in ways but not necessarily grounded in their experience. I’ll add the transcript to the ™ and Karma Yoga thread. Likewise, as folks would like to add in to consideration here on FFL they can send emails to the owner of Fairfieldlife link as listed on the FFL homepage. . JaiGuruYou In Satsanga Fairfield, Iowa skymtseawrites: Excellent post. It's this sort of vision of FF that has prompted me to resettle in FF. It would be wonderful if the person conveying these thoughts, and friends, could participate in FairfieldLife and help illuminate further how things are unfolding in the community. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com<mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com<mailto:dhamiltony...@yahoo.com>> wrote : Fairfield, Ia. Coffee shop satsanga: From conversation, opinion by experience given: “The meditating community is much more inclusive now moving towards unity behavior, an understanding, seeing the truth in many things. This is informed by their experience, by the transcendent. Not because someone said that it had to look like a Unified Field Chart, it is informed by their experience. This is what is moving the community forward and that is why we have someone visiting like ( ) taking me aside and saying coming back to this, the engine, the possibilities of this are so great here because of it. This does not seem to require the Domes for people anymore. Or necessarily group practice anymore, or even practice. We don’t even know what people are doing in their experience. .. There is a kind of cultivated maturity out in the community now that is not requiring people to divulge what it is they are doing, or with whom, because as Maharishi said, “mind your own business”. Everyone here is actively finding their path. This, Fairfield, continues to be a maturing dynamic spiritual community. In confirming this, if we have an administrative group that confirms it only to “Thou Shalts” that it is going to be just about one practice when in life one really has to realize that many things are actually required to develop consciousness, that is why most of the people have left, < > .. edit .. In facilitating a community of course the ™ thing should be supporting group practice, there is not problem with that.These cultivated people are having inner experience that are objective to themselves, that is science. These other admin people who are over intellectualizing and trying to administrate it miss this: Experience in consciousness not in lineal formulas. If you are looking for a drone then of course. .. Ongoing in Fairfield, Iowa.. There is a weekday 5pm silent group meditation Weekdays, 5-6pm. 'Unaffiliated and open' for silent meditation practice. 51 N. Court, Fairfield, Iowa.
