About that Fairfield Directory of Active Spiritual Practice groups there is always an ambiance of this going on in the larger meditating community. Jefferson County has about 15,000 people in it. Fairfield has about 10,000. Discerning the general elections and off-year election returns, there are still about 3,000 adult meditators living in the area. There seems to be an ongoing inflow of old meditators coming back. People inclined as such moved here as practicing meditators. Depends now on people's core interests but there is a sliding of people back and forth interested in and supporting the various spiritual groups.
For instance, when Ammachi visited easily 3,000 people showed up each year in recent years from Fairfield even using a nearby Mt. Pleasant venue. When Mother Meera came and visited on a working week day a couple thousand showed up between her meetings with the community. Adyashanti visited recently on short notice and had two evenings with people filling the Civic Auditorium. AOL seems to be vibrant here. There is always a flow of spiritual speakers through Fairfield who turn out a flow of Fairfield people. Last week there was a spiritual healer who had an un-advertized meeting in the public library of about 150 people. The weekly spiritual satsangs or meditating churches are on-going but smaller groupings of folks. The dome numbers are deceiving, about 1200 of those numbers include younger student-pundits who are hired to come to Fairfield and meditate and counted in the grand number. Of the daily dome meditation tally number there are some hundreds of meditators from campus and the Fairfield area in the domes in the group mediation every day. People came here initially as meditators but they may or may not be associated with the campus or TM-movement now. Most meditators in town are not associated. In cnesud, most seem to fall in to the category of 'yes they are meditators', not associated with the campus, but "spiritual and not religious". It is uniquely quite a spiritual practice place. Every Thursday the Fairfield Weekly Reader is published and distributed here locally. Living here you get this and put it against your calendar for things going on spiritually in Fairfield, all the time. Thanks for asking, -Buck in FF
