Rick Archer is really a great example of the complexion of TM in the Fairfield meditating community and the TM movement at large. Rick's old friend John Hagelin should do something to facilitate and invite Rick back in to meditation with the group again. The field effect of the collective spiritual practice is fabulous in the group meditation. That field effect spiritual practice could be enlarged with the presence of experienced meditators like Rick. Rick could even be a good as a poster boy to bring back. Sort of like the prodigal child who went out and came home story. -Buck in the Dome "..policies that reduce super-radiance by banning people from the domes for "competing" with the movement or visiting other spiritual guru types when they are not wavering their adherence to core values concerning the TM and TM Sidhis purity" Rick Archer is a good example. An old and practicing meditator like Rick is so entrained in the transcendent and the culture of the transcendent he ought to be invited back to meditate along with the big group in some way. An old meditator like Rick could easily just be asked to join with the group and meditate. I would recommend Rick for the group meditation. I'd be glad to have someone join back in like Rick to sit with in meditation. He would be a spiritually powerful and healing element towards our field effect generation of peace in the Domes. There is a whole community of folks like Rick here and a small greying community of people who go to the Domes according to the guidelines. LE, Your answer to the communal problem is continued dwindle in the strict preservation of the existing exclusivity. We got a problem with that position. It is called survival as a group. -Buck in the Dome The Fairfield Meditating Community:
“We are a group of people who have come together and created a community for a transcendentally important common purpose, which of course is to practice the Transcendental Meditation program and the TM-Sidhi program together as a group, for the sake of bringing coherence to national and world consciousness based on balancing labor and leisure to meditate while working together for the benefit of the community. Our Super-Radiance meditating community includes families of all the TM-Meditators and TM-Sidhas in the Fairfield, Vedic City and Jefferson County area.” LE writes: Effortless transcending isn't a teaching. Effortless transcending can't be taught. It is what hopefully results from maintaining the "purity of the teaching" -that the student will absorb the strategy for setting up conditions for effortless transcending to occur by the time he or she finishes the 4-day TM course. ... And different people have different ideas about what is what. Rick, for example, in his interview with John Hagelin, told John that he has meditated without fail for many decades. On the other hand, Rick has said in Fairfield Life that he no longer uses TM mantras when he meditates. Is this an important distinction? Does it make a difference for practice in the Domes? Would John have agreed with Rick's statement had he known that Rick no longer uses TM mantras? Everyone interprets things differently. L Of course practically, it would be good if folks should not confuse changing policy guidelines being the equal with a changing in the purity of the teaching. Policy guidelines facilitate a teaching but are not the purity of the teaching themselves. Effortless transcending is the purity. Dealing with some of the TM-Taliban-like TM traditionalists on policy is the sort of matter not unlike dealing with a Joe Stalin. Lists get made. Good people can end up in meditator 'Siberia'. The Prime Minister is clearly the most powerful person inside all of this. Anybody have the courage to talk with him about, “the Problem”? Anybody get through to Maharaja Adhiraj Rajaraam? A change like this would have to come from a MahaRaja. -Buck Srijau@... posts: . ..rethink the policies that reduce super-radiance by banning people from the domes for "competing" with the movement or visiting other spiritual guru types when they are not wavering their adherence to core values concerning the TM and TM Sidhis purity Om; this memo, did it come from anybody who could actually affect change in the policy or is this more just “talking” around “the problem”? Just wondering who this came from, -Buck in the Dome srijau@... posts: "Now that the introduction of Maharishi brahminism is getting a thoughtful "reboot" to make the participants more appreciative of Maharishi's knowledge, we have a great opportunity to rethink policies that reduce super-radiance by banning people from the domes for "competing" with the movement or visiting other spiritual guru types when they are not wavering their adherence to core values concerning the TM and TM Sidhis purity." .
