Just as a question from someone who never lived in Fairfield,
what is the "official" reaction of the TMO and the campus
administration to TMers attending such events? I have heard
rather conflicting stories over the years, about people having
their "dome badges" lifted, etc., and even (here) about death
threats to visiting teachers, and since I've never really
spent any time there, don't know. If someone does, could they
clear up the picture for me? Thanks in advance,
Unc
The TMO and the `Lady-saints'
Their overt reaction (the TMO) has been a persistent coercively
administrative one, which effectively has been reactionary, combative,
adversarial and at times predator like. In total it has driven a lot
of people away from supporting them.
In effect the meditating movement has gone away from them (the TMO)
mostly. On the one hand in the TMO they are down now to a few hundred
true-believer types up there. On the other hand, in town here there
may be a couple of thousand adult meditators left. The recent TMO
teacher re-certification program effectively has again stripped away
another number of true-believers from FF.
While there are still possibly a couple thousand old-time adult
meditators left here in the Fairfield/Jefferson County community the
actual true-believer attending TMO types is really down to a very few
hundred. There are very few people left associated with MUM as staff
or faculty. Dome attendance is way down. The place is active and
running still but with very few people left in it.
What was noticeable this time with the Mother-saints coming through is
that the effect of the `re-certification' TMO course was to relieve a
lot of old-movement meditators/teachers of any responsibility to the
TMO. A lot of Fairfield meditators came out to the meetings with both
Karunnamayi and Ammachi. There were lots and lots of old-time
meditators/TMO governors etc. at the meetings. A lot of people got
darshan from the Mothers this time for the first time being free of
the TMO. The meetings were really quite large for the meditating
community, being like old-home week out with the saints.
By contrast, I spoke yesterday with some folks who did not make it
over to the meetings because they are still hostage to the TMO for the
financial support they do need to send their kids to the Maharishi
school. That urgency for some to be able to have their kids still
attend the Maharishi School is still is a remaining bit of leverage
that keeps people in line for the TMO. In listening to these folks,
this administrative coercion over their inclinations also breeds quite
a lot of resentment in these people for who it applies.
Demographically, with our kids growing older and graduating out of
here in recent years, quite a number of people have taken the
opportunity to leave as this point arrives for them. The MSAE as a
meditation-based alternative school has been a large draw and anchor
to have brought people to live here. Certainly a good number of a
couple thousand have chosen to remain living in FF after their kids
graduate on and some other number of folks have moved to lives
elsewhere after their kids have passed through the school.
Particularly in the last few years there has been quite a departure of
these folks. Certainly the administrative vindictiveness over the
dome attendance policy has played a role in the departure and Diaspora
of the old Fairfield meditating community.
An un-accounted for effect of the recent TMO re-certification program
is that it has released a lot of TMO-bound people from responsibility
to MMY or the TMO. What was that Martin Luther King line? "Free,
free at last"? There may have been 20,000 US governors trained at one
time, but the TMO now evidently is down to a few hundred cultists left
in the middle.
In the end now, Fairfield as a place again where spiritual practice is
done by a community. Fairfield has already re-made itself as these
lady saints and others attend to the long-time meditating community
that is here as it is. It really a very beautiful powerful spiritual
place to live.
JGD,
-Doug
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/56801
--- In [email protected], "dhamiltony2k5"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The lady saints arrive, chronicling FFL:
>
> Every year now these are some of the best weeks to be in Fairfield,
> while the lady saints are arriving.
>
> Karunnamayi arrived last night in Fairfield for a visit of several
> days. Last night she sat with people who had gathered to welcome her
> in a home and then the group migrated over to the Temple on W.
> Burlington Street that a number of Fairfield meditators maintain for
> their worship. Karunnamayi again sat with people there.
>
> Tonight (Monday) Karunnamayi has a public meeting with people down at
> Roberts Memorial Hall just north of Keosauqua.
>
>
> These are the special months to be here in Fairfield. The annual
> visits of the lady saints has started again now.
>
> Both Ammachi on her national tour and Karunnamayi on her national tour
> also come to Fairfield. Both like Fairfield especially for the unique
> large community of old long-time meditators doing a long sadhana here.
> Each lady saint carries her own `field effect' of darshan to give
> freely on their national tours according to their own character.
> However, coming to Fairfield they evidently both like to pool the good
> powerful field effect that can be had with the large group of our long
> time practicing meditator community here.
>
> They do get invited here to Fairfield by the meditating community. To
> bring the Lady saints here there is a lot of concerted committee work
> that goes on in the meditating community to sponsoring them here.
> Each of these saints are great teachers with large spiritual gifts to
> consul in their ways. They have been very formative for the
> meditation practices of a lot of Fairfield meditators especially here
> in the last years of the TMO and MMY.
>
>
> Tuesday morning Karunnamayi sits with people individually for
> blessings also down at Roberts Memorial Hall.
>
> Weds. She presides over a fire homa ceremony held up by Vedic City.
>
> Like with Ammachi's visits these meetings are always powerful with
> Shakti and Atman Vidya to be a part of. The meetings are also great
> fun to go to and see who all comes out of the FF wood work here and
> see who all is still here in the meditating community.
>
> JGD, -D
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