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> >
> > Good post that has some lot of truth in it. But Meditators in Fairfield
> > generally are a lot more sensible about Sthapathya Ved now than you give
> > them credit for. At a minimum the Brits should build to facilitate their
> > spiritual practice as a standard of living. Build something modest to
> > facilitate their group meditation program and then build modest
> > super-energy efficient housing that is cost effective for its occupants,
> > like housing being no more than 25% of their incomes. If people are going
> > to be taking time out to be mystical then they need to live in a way at a
> > standard of living that can generally afford that. It is proly the mistake
> > of Fairfield that so much was built that people can't really afford in the
> > new-normal of the economy.
> >
> > In Fairfield if new housing is going to be built it should be scaled for
> > people in jobs earning $8.81 an hour. Or retired people on social security
> > incomes of $1,100 per month. Or the Invincible America course participant
> > on $800 stipend a month.
> >
> > But the student housing should be on campus, and yes the students should be
> > meditating. They are damn lucky to have the opportunity as part of the
> > schooling. They just need more discipline and come up with more
> > self-direction. If they don't want to be meditators at a meditaing
> > university then they should go to a community college somewhere else.
> > Trending now is that Older students in particular seem to want more privacy
> > than traditional dorm rooms. For a while the sustainable living students
> > were solving the problem by living in RV's which are more readily adaptable
> > as projects to live in for direct solar energy.
> > Times have changed,
> > -Buck in the Dome
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "allanrosenzweig" <allanrosenzweig@>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > It is sorry to see people in Skelmersdale working to make a whole new
> > > Sthapatya-vedic village, wasting all the effort to build a community,
> > > including a Golden Dome, with the idea that much good will come of it.
> > >
> > > We all want to believe that Maharishi is 100% correct. But we have also
> > > seen Veda Land fail, Deepak Chopra going off on his own, tallest building
> > > in the world in the center of India, and other failed projects and
> > > mistakes. We tend to forget about these. He does not have to be 100%
> > > correct to be the wisest man on Earth. 90%, or even 80%, is still WAY
> > > above everyone else.
> > >
> > > If the Brits are looking to Fairfield Iowa as an example of SV "success"
> > > think again. Telegroup was doing fine, as one of the top 1% of American
> > > businesses, until they established their headquarters in a new SV
> > > building. They not only did NOT succeed, they started going bankrupt.
> > > Telegroup went from hiring over 400 employees, to hiring zero - even
> > > though it is in an industry that has flourished, telecommunications. Same
> > > with Global Link, and other companies in Fairfield that put their faith
> > > in SV.
> > >
> > > MUM tore down about 15 "pod" dormitories that were in good shape because
> > > the were not SV. They had to have a fund raiser to tear them down.
> > > There was no massive influx of students - mainly visa seeking foreign
> > > students who don't seem to really care about the meditation. There is
> > > not enough housing, so many have to live off campus, and tend to be less
> > > on the program. It would have been better to keep the pods, and get the
> > > revenue for the rooms for the students. There is not enough money to
> > > build replacement housing. There are just empty fields there.
> > >
>
> It's true the campus is suffering a dreadful housing shortage for students
> because someone tore down dorms, frats and pods without replacing them. The
> President?
>
>
Also they have a problem now hosting a cohesive group meditation for just
meditators with their having torn down the big chapel that had come with the
campus and not replacing it with something as significant to central campus to
meditate in. These were all really someone's bad. The President's?
> > > If something is going to work, it will show results. We have given SV
> > > about 20 years to show that it works. There is not a single scientific
> > > article published about it, much less its success. People would have
> > > noticed, in thousands of years, if facing east really brought success or
> > > if south did not. When does the Sun go from being good at sunrise in the
> > > east to being bad around noon in the south? The whole sun-based "logic"
> > > is not internally consistent. SV is just a placebo effect. If you think
> > > it works, it does. If you don't think it works, you are also right.
> > >
> > > Skelmersdale, save your time and money. Build on what you have already
> > > achieved. Maharishi's TM, TM-Sidhis Program, and Super Radiance do work,
> > > and have scientific research behind them. Sadly SV does not work. We
> > > should face the truth and judge knowledge by its fruits.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson <mjackson74@> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Quite simply you don't know what you are talking about - as to feng
> > > > shui, even a cursory examination of the multitude of feng shui
> > > > resources will show that in feng shui south facing entrances can be
> > > > quite positive. There are many different kinds of feng shui and most
> > > > practitioners (unlike Maha) don't claim to have revitalized and
> > > > rejuvenated and brought forth the real deal of truth out of an ancient
> > > > practice.
> > > >
> > > > Someone told Maharishi early on that feng shui had good things to say
> > > > about a south facing entrance and thus in classic Mahastyle he bad
> > > > mouthed all south facing entrances to distinguish MAHARISHI sthapatya
> > > > veda from feng shui, really hamming it up as to how much woe and bad
> > > > fortune would accrue if you don't get a MAHARISHI vastu veda design.
> > > > And he did this to frighten people into using only HIS brand of
> > > > architecture to, of course increase his revenue.
> > > >
> > > > As I have stated here before, if one looks at other vastu veda web
> > > > sites that are not connected to the Movement, you will see that most of
> > > > them address the issue of south facing entrances by saying that there
> > > > are some (unnamed) people who claim an east facing entrance is the only
> > > > one that is viable and acceptable and that this assertion in not true
> > > > in all circumstances. These are people who have been studying and
> > > > practicing vastu veda far longer than Big M ever did.
> > > >
> > > > Maha didn't contribute a damn thing to vastu veda except to treat it
> > > > like all the Hindu/Vedic stuff he promoted over the years, tried to
> > > > make out like he was the one who either invented it or revitalized it
> > > > and brought it back into its full glory.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ________________________________
> > > > From: wgm4u <no_re...@yahoogroups.com>
> > > > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
> > > > Sent: Saturday, December 8, 2012 7:36 PM
> > > > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: !Progress in the Fairfield Dome Meditation
> > > > Numbers!
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Â
> > > > Maharishi's contribution to the field of architecture via vedic vastu
> > > > is truly valuable, but like everything in the tmorg it becomes a
> > > > panacea for all of the worlds woes which is nonsense and a hyperbole.
> > > >
> > > > Clearly East facing facades are superior, even in Feng Shui (Chinese
> > > > architecture) this is true.
> > > >
> > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson <mjackson74@>
> > > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Thank you for telling me this although my question was to Anne about
> > > > > the idea that a Master wouldn't incarnate in a female body, which of
> > > > > course is horse shit - actually not even as good as horse shit cuz
> > > > > you can use horse shit as compost which helps things grow if used
> > > > > properly
> > > > >
> > > > > On another note, I don't think the Movements best foot these days is
> > > > > TM sidhis - it has to be vastu veda - I can't wait for everyone to
> > > > > begin to rebuild there homes and offices to have the proper vastus -
> > > > > I intend to hover over the line of taxis to see the construction
> > > > > efforts, the line of taxis carrying all the re-certified governors to
> > > > > the mountains to escape the millions of people who are clamoring to
> > > > > be initiated.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > ________________________________
> > > > > From: Buck <dhamiltony2k5@>
> > > > > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
> > > > > Sent: Friday, November 30, 2012 5:03 PM
> > > > > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: !Progress in the Fairfield Dome
> > > > > Meditation Numbers!
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > ÃÂ
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson <mjackson74@>
> > > > > wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > what kind of readings do you get that tell you that?
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Jack, in the meditating community you only need to contribute money
> > > > > to the right places to get on the right mailing lists. The only
> > > > > thing is that I have to re-write these releases they send to me to
> > > > > make them much less antagonizing and more palatable for folks to read
> > > > > as I do 'forward' them on to people to read. As our movement
> > > > > 'development' apparatchiks write copy what comes out of their offices
> > > > > is TM-sidhis "yogic flying" this and TM-sidhis "yogic flying" that.
> > > > > If they did some honest market research and focus groups they would
> > > > > know that most folks here identify as 'meditators' and are not
> > > > > interested in "Yogic Flying" anymore and are in fact antagonized by
> > > > > putting "yogic flying" forward as our best foot. These releases read
> > > > > better re-written substituting "meditator" and "meditation" for
> > > > > TM-sidhis "yogic flyer" and "yogic flying".
> > > > > -Buck in the Dome
> > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > ________________________________
> > > > > > From: awoelflebater <no_re...@yahoogroups.com>
> > > > > > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
> > > > > > Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2012 11:17 PM
> > > > > > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: !Progress in the Fairfield Dome
> > > > > > Meditation Numbers!
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > ÃâÃÂ
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > To our dear Meditating Movement family,
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > The Vedic Pandits are finally coming âââ¬"not just the
> > > > > > > original 556 but a total of 600!
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > With the addition of this group of Pandits, we will achieve a
> > > > > > > stable Super Radiance group of 2,000 meditating to create
> > > > > > > Invincibility for America, a goal we have all worked towards for
> > > > > > > 30 years.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > -Buck
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Buck, do me a favour, and I am dead serious here, let me know what
> > > > > > invincibility for America looks like when it happens. I am so dense
> > > > > > I might just miss it. Oh, and while you're at it maybe you could
> > > > > > point out Maitreya if you happen to stumble on him/her (I think it
> > > > > > is a him though, because somehow women aren't yet qualified,
> > > > > > according to my readings, to embody such a powerful Supreme Master
> > > > > > within their more delicate physiques.)
> > > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
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