I replied with the following note, anybody have something to add? Reply:
"A great pleasure to hear from you. Yes, as to the designs, there are the principles of the sthapatya veda design and then how the TM community has formalized it, popularized it and trademarked it. Googling keywords like Vastu design gets you into the subject. Also sthapatya veda. google sthapatya veda images comes up with this abstract of a floor design. https://www.google.com/imgres? imgurl=http://image. slidesharecdn.com/ introtomaharishisthapatyaveda- 12731880980775-phpapp02/95/ intro-to-maharishi-sthapatya- veda-17-728.jpg%253Fcb% 253D1273170267&imgrefurl=http: //www.slideshare.net/SJQ/ intro-to-maharishi-sthapatya- veda-4000245&h=546&w=728& tbnid=qc6mGZBIUK_OMM:&docid= ZVDvWIph6ZLo-M&ei=BRexVoXqK- TxjgSptYLADw&tbm=isch&ved= 0ahUKEwjFgKzs- tnKAhXkuIMKHamaAPgQMwgfKAIwAg https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://image.slidesharecdn.com/introtomaharishisthapatyaveda-12731880980775-phpapp02/95/intro-to-maharishi-sthapatya-veda-17-728.jpg%253Fcb%253D1273170267&imgrefurl=http://www.slideshare.net/SJQ/intro-to-maharishi-sthapatya-veda-4000245&h=546&w=728&tbnid=qc6mGZBIUK_OMM:&docid=ZVDvWIph6ZLo-M&ei=BRexVoXqK-TxjgSptYLADw&tbm=isch&ved=0ahUKEwjFgKzs-tnKAhXkuIMKHamaAPgQMwgfKAIwAg The TM movement's version of sthapatya design is talked about on a wiki page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Maharishi_Vastu_Architecture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maharishi_Vastu_Architecture Quite a number of tru-believers have built pure designed sthapatya designed homes. A lot of meditators adapt according to budgets and life otherwise. Some people take their existing homes and maybe will change where their main door entry is. It is pretty clear that meditators in trend tend to live on the west side of streets facing east. East facing houses sell at a premium. So much so that the county assessor adjusts valuations for property taxes accordingly. I built a home for myself back in the 1980's before sthapatya ved became propelled as a rage and anxiety from within TM. My people have a background in Frank LLoyd Wright Prairie architecture. My dad had a first cousin who ran off from Yale architectual school and went to study and then live in the communal fellowship up in Spring Green, Wisconsin with Frank Lloyd Wright. Was scandalous when that happened. After WWII my father had that cousin design a house for our family. I grew up in a prairie style home, which of course was oriented to the sun naturally. As I built my home in the 80's it was passive solar super insulated state of the art then. By good fortune my house happens to have an East entry such that when TM came out with sthapathya ved I was not alarmed to the point of having to do anything to keep up with my neighbors who were seeking fortune creating houses, as they say. It was a cultural phenomena that happened. Still, often if meditators buy or build houses it is in the back of their minds to get a properly oriented house. .. Good to hear from you. All blessings from the land of transcendental meditationists, Fairfield, Iowa, end} ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : I receive a flow of some e-mail thru the FairfieldLife home page sent to the 'owner'. That link at the bottom of the home page is a way that 'non-members' lurking can make contact with the group. If things are written well within the yahoo-groups guidelines I bring them over. This one came in from a scholar who studies groups like ours in Fairfield. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : FW: "Some years ago a small group of us went on a tour. At the time it was not the giant university campus it is now. A member of the community (I believe that she was a woman of Indian abstraction) was our tour guide, and I was particularly impressed by the domestic houses built according to certain Hindu principles. They were square and had a central entry. The doors had to face a certain way. The ventilation was not mechanical but very effective, especially in summer. Do you know where I could find a photograph and a general house plan for those houses? Best regards,.."
