--- In [email protected], "dhamiltony2k5" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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
Wow. Flash from the past (I must've posted this weeks or months ago.) Thank you for your honest point of view. Much more eloquent in its feeling than other replies I remember. Unc To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
