--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > > > Great links for researching. > > Y'know, Buck, I just had a flash of insight about what > would be a cool dharma task for you to undertake, should > it interest you. > > You'd be the perfect person to write a "History of the > Transcendental Meditation Movement." But with a twist. > Write it as if you're a religious historian 50 to 100 > years in the future, trying to make sense of it the > same way you do with the early American religious > groups you love reading about and learning about. > > I think it would be gangbusters. Maybe not bestseller > material unless you made it really steamy, but I'd > buy it and read it. >
Well, we do know that parts of it are steamy. I've been interacting with outsiders for a long time helping them look in. Even from the start of FFL I most always write as if it is to outsiders. It's an interesting task to try to provide insight. I have now a really important e-mail I have to write today to a bunch of scholars on the whole subject. When I visit these historic communal sites of Utopian villages like Fairfield that are run as museums I often watch the tour guides and think what they would say in the future about what 'we were doing' in Fairfield. The ones that I found really interesting were some of the younger tour guides at a Shaker village who obviously were very Christian interpreting what Mother Ann and the Shakers were all about. Hey, it was a paying job for a local people. Imagine how local people in the future will interpret for a visiting public what had gone on in Fairfield in a hundred years time. America and certainly Iowa also are littered with former Utopian sites. But for the wealth now of a few donors this place could quickly become one too. Yes, it's an interesting story. Of Iowa, -Buck
