Shakers are an interesting example of a regenerative spiritual practice group losing its shakti. Because general feelings are so volatile around celibacy that is commonly given as a simplistic shorthand for why shakers declined, as Shakers are looked at from outside. Shakers withered a long time ago from their heights for a lack of a spiritual juice.
They are a helpful example to look at for a comparison of how TM is doing in life-cycle as a spiritual regenerative movement. I find they are very relevant to our group that way. See some blogging where I have drawn on the Shakers for example.. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/communal-studies-forum https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/communal-studies-forum # ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : I would hope that our own TM Mother Divine and Purusha programs would send representatives to memorial services there. These are very much our kind of people. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : There aren't many Shakers left.. http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/01/03/508100617/one-of-the-last-shakers-dies http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/01/03/508100617/one-of-the-last-shakers-dies
