I find your idea interesting, Barry- what would loss of a belief in God do to a community like Fairfield.
If you lost your belief in God, would that necessarily mean that enlightenment does not exist, at least in the TM framework? Do they really go to the Dome to create world peace? And if they believed there was no God but meditating in a group did increase peace in the world, would people still go to the Domes - or become more "selfish" with their time? And if you are in middle age, how much more time would you devote to meditation if you knew that enlightenment (if you achieve it) died when the brain died and there was nothing else? Would you start to spend less time with your eyes closed and pretty much give up on the enlightenment? Or would you continue to devote hours a day trying to train the brain to function in a manner that creates feelings of enlightenment? Or would people still head to the Domes because all that meditation makes them feel calm and happy? If you found out God did not exist, is there still a possibility of an afterlife of some sort?
