Like in Fairfield it [satsang] starts as small living room satsanga or
meetings in home or in the public community meeting rooms with a teacher,
mystic or visiting saint. Friends in meetings. Occasionally it goes straight to
a big space like Adyashanti coming to the Fairfield convention center once. But
Satsanga certainly lives and thrives in an old fashion too under the radar
where necessary in meditating Fairfield, just like in history. It's part of the
story.
Interesting that so many of these spiritual groups that developed historically
had commonly started out around a mystic in meetings held in people's living
rooms then going on towards facilitating around that in to organizations and
becoming a history. In Europe they would have living room meetings [satsanga?]
and then grow in to facilitating groups while defending themselves against the
persecutions that would come from the established local orthodoxy, be that the
Lutherans, Papists, or Anglicans of their day. Then, eventually fleeing to
America.
Thanks. Yes, the world could use a lot more piety. FFL could too.
-Buck the Pious
Nicely put. It reminds me of something I wanted to say about awoelflebater's
post on another thread ("power naps"): "Now, these long-term, incessant
meditators obviously have absolutely nothing else pressing in their lives to
compel them to want to stand up and open their eyes.":
We understand what you're saying but it is a common belief in all
contemplative traditions that communities joined together practising silent
prayer (eg, monks and nuns) have a beneficial effect on the world even though
to practical, common-sense types they seem to be a waste of space. Indeed, even
the very recollection that there are men and women who forsake the feverish
ambitions of the mass of people induces a feeling of calm!
---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote:
[Pietist, belief in the power of individual meditation [Quietism] on the
divine [Unified Field] – a direct, individual approach to the ultimate
spiritual reality of the [Unified Field] – ]
TM and Quietist Pietistic [meditating] Fairfield, Iowa
in companion as with other historic places like
for instance on the Registry of National Historic Places, organized here A to
Z..
Other Meissner Effect [ME] group meditators...
Amana Colonies
Long Meissner Effect group meditations every day.
http://amanacolonies.com/pages/about-amana-colonies/history.php
http://amanacolonies.com/pages/about-amana-colonies/history.php
Brook Farm
http://www.mass.gov/eea/docs/dcr/parks/boston/brookfarmbrochure.pdf
http://www.mass.gov/eea/docs/dcr/parks/boston/brookfarmbrochure.pdf
Pleasant Hill,
Half hour silent meditation twice a day and daily group Meissner Effect [ME]
meditations
http://www.shakervillageky.org/ http://www.shakervillageky.org/
Whittier, Iowa Hicksite Quakers,
National Registry of Historic Places;
Settlement era
Iowa Meissner Effect [ME] Group Meditation:
https://sites.google.com/site/ffhamfampage/clients/whittier-quaker-meeting-house
https://sites.google.com/site/ffhamfampage/clients/whittier-quaker-meeting-house
Zoar
http://www.ohiohistory.org/museums-and-historic-sites/museum--historic-sites-by-name/zoar-village
http://www.ohiohistory.org/museums-and-historic-sites/museum--historic-sites-by-name/zoar-village
[Pietist, belief in the power of individual meditation [Quietism] on the
divine [Unified Field] – a direct, individual approach to the ultimate
spiritual reality of the [Unified Field] – ]
---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote:
In a coming future, meditating Fairfield, Iowa very likely shall also come to
be on the National Registry of Historic Places along with other important
spiritual practice communities of American and Western history.
Going forward meditating Fairfield, Iowa is blazing still its contemporary and
revolutionary commentary on 21st Century materialism and spiritual and
religious American community. Jai Brahmananda Saraswati!
-Buck, in the Dome
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Yes, meditating Fairfield as a spiritual practice community was never
conceived an amusement park. Even right now it is a living artifact of 20th
Century American spiritual experience and community.
Feste37 makes a very important distinction here. Fairfield clearly is even now
a historic American pietist spiritual practice community rooted in the
practices of Quietism.
-Buck
Feste37 writes, “Fairfield is not a theme park, dummy.”
Fairfield is not a theme park, dummy.
---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
http://www.messynessychic.com/2013/10/04/holy-land-usa-before-after-the-abandoned-christian-theme-park/
http://www.messynessychic.com/2013/10/04/holy-land-usa-before-after-the-abandoned-christian-theme-park/
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