FFL.. Someone recently gave me some SRM newsletters [Spiritual Regeneration Movement Newsletters]. In conversation here in Fairfield, Iowa this person mentioned they had them from the old days. I asked what this person was going to do with them? This was an old meditator from way back who grew up in California when Maharishi was out there and Charlie Lutes with Walter Koch were right-hand people of Maharishi's. I have been working with special collections of source material on the TM movement for a while now and mentioned to this person that this kind of thing in particular would be of interest to some of these scholarly library collections. The person thought about it for a little while and gave them over to me to send on. Reading them now is real interesting. They are pre-'transcendental' meditation, pre-siddhis, and before the secularization of the presentation that become so heavy ladden with science. The Newsletters are from 1961, '63, '65 and show the progression of things TM from the 1950's. They pre-date the International Meditation Society and Students International Meditation Society which came in after that period, as more 'meditation guides' were taught and the TM teacher training courses evolved. These SRM newsletters have these wonderful [more un-bridled] descriptions of spirituality. -JaiGuruYou
---In [email protected], <[email protected]> wrote : FairfieldLife (FFL) at yahoo-groups from its beginnings has had a utility in communal ways. As a place for ideas I find that I gain a leverage in a way of sharing critique by forwarding particularly insightful FFL posts over to people both inside and outside the of TM movement as connecting communication in sending links to people and officials in the movement itself but also to journalists, authors, and academics who are outside looking in. Some lot of what I do write and compile here as posts on FFL is voiced to audience who are outside of FFL who may come to read FFL through its Yahoo-groups web page interface. As this turns out some people more recently both in the .orgTM movement and the Communal Studies Association have taken a more keen interest in the mental health issues around the communal group as they have learned more about it by looking at it. The communal issues are really quite interesting to others looking in. You'll notice I have dragged up some of those kinds of posts more recently from the archive and brought them closer to the top to find them. Different people have other aspects they follow about the culture and the .org of TM. There certainly are nuggets in the dross of FFL that can be found. It is amusing in its way to hear from the range of folks who do read here. The archive of FFL evidently has its place in history, -JaiGuruYou ---In [email protected], <[email protected]> wrote : Fairfield Life Post Counter =========================== Start Date (UTC): 10/24/15 00:00:00 End Date (UTC): 10/31/15 00:00:00 61 messages as of (UTC) 10/27/15 23:53:44 12 Mike Dixon mdixon.6569 11 dhamiltony2k5 9 jr_esq 7 Bhairitu noozguru 4 olliesedwuz 4 awoelflebater 3 hepa7 3 emptybill 2 salyavin808 2 feste37 2 email4you mikemail4you 1 William Leed WLeed3 1 Doug Hamilton dhamiltony2k5 Posters: 13 Saturday Morning 00:00 UTC Rollover Times ========================================= Daylight Saving Time (Summer): US Friday evening: PDT 5 PM - MDT 6 PM - CDT 7 PM - EDT 8 PM Europe Saturday: BST 1 AM CEST 2 AM EEST 3 AM Standard Time (Winter): US Friday evening: PST 4 PM - MST 5 PM - CST 6 PM - EST 7 PM Europe Saturday: GMT 12 AM CET 1 AM EET 2 AM For more information on Time Zones: www.worldtimezone.com
