salyavin, just to say that I think this is an excellent summary of last
Tuesday's meeting, which was totally rich with feelings and ideas and
aspirations.
On Saturday, October 25, 2014 7:17 AM, "dhamiltony...@yahoo.com
[FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
salyavin808asks:So,what happened at the meeting, who said what and what
are they goingto do about it?
DatelineFairfield, Iowa. The meeting? It was one in a continuation of working
meetings held about mental health in the community that havebeen ongoing for
months now most every Tuesday going under theworking banner of the Fairfield
Mental Health Alliance. These areworking meetings of people who are interested
in being activleyinvolved in helping with communal mental health. On
alternatingTuesdays are working committee meetings while on the off Tuesdays
isthe large group meeting where the committees bring their work. Thelarger
meetings are very business like organized by agenda. A lot hasbeen done
[accomplished in very tangible ways] over several months tofacilitate mental
health in to the community. The meetings are opento interested people who would
be actively involved. They are notgripe sessions where people just hate, bitch
and complain, but workingmeetings looking for action steps to work on and
facilitate. Different aspects have been focused on and worked on within the
ongoing previousmeeting process. Last month before this last meeting the other
night was the presentation anddistribution of the campus guideline for
psychological healthtreatment. That was a historic meeting and showed the work
of a lot of people.
This current meeting the other night was a facilitated meeting getting down to
the culturalthings that may underlie meditator communal mental health.
Everything came on to the table. It was really well facilitated. Evidently it
is now time in the process to really consider elements of our culture. There
were about 40 people around the room of various ages and rankin the community.
The meeting had a cross-section representation of students, graduates of
thewhole school system, long-term community meditators, campus people,
andmovement leadership. It was extremely well facilitated lastingwithin and
hour or so such that everyone was asked to speak andparticipate in a series of
rounds around the room where everyone wasasked by the facilitator who ran the
meeting to respond to particular questionsin short and those comments were
captured on whiteboard and posterboards by scribes in front of everyone to be
kept and read throughout the meeting. Starting with a question something like,
in only a few limited words andwithout statement what do you see the problem is
here in thecommunity culture with mental health? 5 or so words. It went
aroundthe room. Then once everything was on the boards in front ofeveryone came
the next question, in a word how do you feel now about allthat was said? It
went around the room to everyone includingmovement leadership. 'Hopeful' was a
common comment among a range offeelings.Lastlarge question of the group was
something like, in five words whatshould be done to effect change in the
communal culture? Again timewas taken to go entirely around the room and the
answers wererecorded by scribes on boards in front of the whole group to read.
That went around the whole room and everything was said without comment or
discussion. It just moved around the room to everyone. These werepertinent
action points. Inthe end of the meeting then everyone was asked to come forward
and physically vote with a limited number of hash-marks to what they felt were
themost important points offered in the meeting. That data then
willsubsequently generate a report with priority for a future meetingabout what
it might take to change the culture of the movement aroundmental health. It was
all very open and very well done. Communal process to continue,,# #Now, as the
science evidently does seem to indicate do take some quiet time for effective
transcendent meditation for the welfare of your mental health and go forth and
havea better day. JaiGuru Dev,-Buck in the Dome
?“..the role of principle Barry hater - and you have to admire thegusto!” No,we
all rate posts as we may read them on spectrum; from posts thatmake:
Observations, to suggestions, to criticism, by negativity andtone, to apostasy,
thence to active anger and hating. In reading these posts Ifeel Ann through
reading the individual postings here simply lost some faith more in Turq by her
better understanding of his writing and approach here after reading theLenz
book that was posted here. It is that simple also. I alwaysread the Turq and
feel he has a valid perspective from having 'beenthere' at a time, by his
contrast with spiritual experience likeFleet's, and now I feel I have an even
better understanding of him asa critic from this recent Freddy Lenz/Rama thread
on FFL. Context oftenis everything.
Thatis something that is particularly good about the writing on FFL, thatit
often can render down what is truth. Judy was very much part ofthat process
when she was here. Ann also helps with that by virtueof her mind about things
and by life experience as context aboutthings here. Some here have been pricks
and Ann may be prickly towards people attimes. Rick seems to welcome almost
everyone contributing to therelated topics of FairfieldLife. I thank Rick for
that. Publicforum is often one of the best checks against theocratic tyranny.
Therewas an amazing open meeting last night in meditating Fairfield
whereeverything was on the table in front of a bunch of the higher-up
apparatchiks of the new TM movement. For upward pressures on the
organizationbeing beyond theocratic control, FFL has long been a part of the
calculus of the meditating Fairfield communal culture. Thereis a lot of change
going on inside right now by virtue of theattention of public forum. Turq in
his way has been part of that foryears by force of his experience, personality
and writing. I wouldmiss him if he gets entirely hounded or completely
embarrassed off ofthis forum. In the same way I feel it was really mean the way
theyhounded Judy personally off this list and out of this community.Rick and
the moderators should have stopped that before the end. Iwould hope we could
all be kinder with one another in process. JaiGuru Dev, -Buckin the Dome
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