--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "dhamiltony2k5" <dhamiltony...@...> wrote: > > Folks saying good-bye. The last few days I learned that five long-time > friends are leaving Fairfield now. From different circles. Long-time > meditators. From different parts of the meditating community. > > Used to be folks figured how to come to FF to be in the domes for group > meditation . The sacrifice and excitment was about being in the domes > meditating in group. > > Seems lot of you writing here don't seem to live close to Fairfield. Some > kind of interest in Fairfieldlife but not living here in FF. > > > Not being here you may not see the complexion of the meditating community in > FF. Fact is there are a lot more FF meditators in town outside of the domes > than inside the domes. With people out and dome numbers chronically down, > that gathering impetus is less. Has been for some while. Too many turned > out who are here as meditators is a number that does eats at the dome > community. An administrative problem evidently that is the status quo. >
I can see why you'd be annoyed at the TMO screwing up the running of the domes and people leaving town because of it, but you do have to see the TMOs side of it, they are a fundamentalist religious sect and like all religions they do practise a "No other God but me" approach to their gatherings. And you can see why, if people go about saying that such and such Guru is just as good as Marshy then people might start asking questions like "Could I be doing better with my choice of meditation?" and they don't want that! The trouble is the TMO insists that it's a secular group and the stuff about doing puja to Hindu Gods is really just "enlivening aspects of the laws of nature". People are genuinely fooled by that and actually act as though they aren't religious despite the fact they do yoga and meditation for hours every day, follow a prescribed diet and even say grace before every meal! That's not even getting into the weird belief system (and it is weird, you may just be so used to it you've forgotten how the rest of the world is - easily done in a closed group). Finding out that their are some serious control freak issues at the heart of the TMO comes as a shock to most and drives most people away, I don't know many without some sort of horror story about bad management. If they were straight with you from the start would there be all this trouble? But help is at hand. I sense you are concerned with the effect on collective consciousness and that the people currently being refused dome entry are going to have some sort of negative impact on world affairs. Regardless of whether the Maharishi Effect even exists (I think not - but then I always argue according to evidence and not what I'm told to think) the greater amount of people doing prog outside the domes will make up for the fewer people inside the domes. If it's a field effect (as claimed) then there must be 4000 doing prog and adding their effect (if any) to the official number. I think Hagelin and the boys at MUM should take the numbers of ALL people doing the siddhis in FF and add that to their calculations. Of course, they'd then have to explain why it STILL isn't having any effect ;-) > > > > Trouble in FF, > > > > http://invincibleamerica.org/tallies.html > > > > > > > > > > Trouble in FF. > > > > > > > > Well, evidently meditator FF folk recently re-registering are being > > > > asked at registration if they have 'seen' other saints. Responding > > > > 'yes', these TM meditators are denied re-registration on the spot. > > > > > > > > & Raja John Hagelin is aware of this? Its consequent in the meditating > > > > community just by word of mouth on the numbers of people who could be > > > > doing program in the domes? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Does Hagelin know? > > > > > > Would seem like Hagelin is getting stabbed in the back by his dogmatic > > > doctrinal types within TMmovement administration. > > > > > > Must be mighty frustrating in there for Hagelin while his dome numbers > > > sag & the meditating community gets distanced from the the movement again > > > like this. Sad to watch tragedy like his. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:12:39 -0500 > > > > > Subject: Message to Invincible America from Raja John Hagelin > > > > > From: Invincible America <communication@> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > "The July 2009 Invincible America Assembly was perfect in every way." > > > > > - IA Course Participant > > > > > > > > > >> Now it's August. Many visitors have left. Our Super Radiance numbers > > > > > are in a lull until the MUM students return and the next group of > > > > > Maharishi Vedic Pandits arrive. > > > > > > > > > > We urgently need all local Sidhas to attend morning and evening > > > > > programs. > > > > > > > > Thank you for being here in wonderful > > > > > Fairfield and Maharishi Vedic City. > > > > > > > > > > JAI GURU DEV > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
