Mail FW: Thank you Raja Hagelin, Here are summary thoughts and suggestions,
There are always three basic levels or types of approaches Rishi - Consciousness-based Devata - People Management Based (including promotion) Chhandas - Money-Based All three are valid. Although the Holy Tradition specializes in the consciousness-based approach to situations, the Tradition and Maharishi have always been holistically practical and sensitive to include all three approaches. *** Approaching this situation only in terms of fund-raising (Chhandas) would be a big strategic mistake. So it was good to hear of ideas utilizing other approaches as well. They are equally crucial, and vastly accentuate success, especially in over time. We have all been taught most of our lives that money is a result of support of Nature. If money is less, it means support of Nature has for some reason become less. Support of Nature is obviously a function of a) attendance, and b) administration and liveliness of the IAA. So it is incumbent on us to ask ourselves why support is insufficient. There are very obvious reasons I have been sharing with ICG for years. The way IAA is now should not be taken as a given. But for now, I will offer an estimate of possible income from Dome support revenue, to compare to the numbers you have run: Right now Domes are about 450 people coming (PM weekdays), about 42% lower than before 'monitoring' began in August, 2012. So far, this year attendance has not been increasing as it usually does in the Spring. So I would not recommend estimating higher. Yes, numbers will go higher with warmer weather, but then lower in winter. So using 450. Bob ( ) said 135 on Grant, who will presumably not be paying into Dome contributions, but making a contribution, if any, by voluntarily taking less Grant. 450 minus 135 = 315 people attending now approximately not on Grant. Let's say the typical Dome contribution is set at a dollar per Program. That is the common suggested support request of designated Program halls I've heard of and experienced around the country, including in MVC. How many will stop coming? Every person I have heard has said a charge will be devastating to community morale, especially if it is not a part of a holistic inspiring uplifting progressive Plan (this is NOT just about money, because nothing is just about money - there are very real, practical reasons our attendance is down, and therefore support of Nature, and therefore finances). If only a quarter of those not on Grant stop coming (many might probably start going to other halls?), that's about 80 Sidhas who would stop coming to the Domes = 235 Sidhas @ $60 each = $14,100/month. But How much money will be lost by reducing participation? Based on your calculations of trillions or at least billions of dollars gained by the U.S. economy in the 2006 IAA attendance rise, you would be the one to calculate the loss of income from the reduced participation. This effect is INDIRECT in terms of reduced support of Nature from reduced participation. It has to be weighted. This results in an imperative to use the Rishi and Devata levels of support in addition to the Chhandas approach, possibly in addition to the Dome Support contribution. Personally I feel a Support Contribution by each participant is fair and reasonable in principle. It is common around the country for designated TM-Sidhi Program facilities. Grant Participants could have the same amount taken out of the amount they would otherwise receive. I would make the point, however, that I have been keenly assured by multiple devoted parties that the request for a Dome Support contribution should be a component of a holistic, uplifting, highly visible improvement and upgrade in many aspects of IAA and community relations that are crying for attention and a progressive attitude. You have done it and are dong it in the Centers. You are doing it at MUM. Now the Consciousness basis of the Centers and MUM and of the American economy is asking for your concerted time and attention. As far as increasing attendance, it has been done before massively long-term, for 15 out of 17 months - between March, 2011 and July, 2012 when Grant 'monitoring' began (the two lower months were only lower by a trace). So it can be done again, if certain evidence-based and widely known fundamental administrative principles are attended to. 'The Invincible America Assembly is the single most important thing in our world-wide Movement.' - Maharishi (I have been told, according to Raja Peter, to the ELI Summit in Vlodrop last summer) I have submitted many specific suggestions and can do so again if desired. What is needed is major, decisive, carefully considered, visible change and improvement, asap, a great deal of which can take place without the expenditure of one penny. Thank you again for your leadership in this Finance- Foundation initiative. Jai Guru Dev, ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : Succinct Action Steps for Dr. Hagelin to Engage Group conversations and committee summaries: Top of list: Re-articulate Communal Mission Dissolve all the Meditation Monitoring System(s). Get the movement out of all the biz of monitoring people (students, faculty, grantees, citizens, old initiators/govs of TSR) and their meditations. Dissolve the IAA grant program as it is currently. Re-Start a World Peace Assembly for those who can. Shorten the morning and evening long program by letting attendees out of the Domes by 11:45am and 6:15pm so our meditators could be eating and networking in sync with the larger meditating community around them. Axe the time spent on the puja and the 10am ‘number one’ experience meeting in the middle of the morning meditation. Worst than just being spartan the grant program as it has been administered turns these people into renunciate sanyasis in our midsts. Stop the daily Puja Performance as part of the Dome meditation program Stop the 10:00am ‘number one experience’ sessions. Make that meeting now separate from the meditating of the group. Get the Dome WPA meditation down to two long programs for anyone who would take the time. Advocate largely for the larger group meditation by the practice of transcendent meditative experience along with the science, and not through disciplinary punitive means of judging or monitoring of practice while meditating, the level of fealty of faith or belief, or the individual lives of members. Done. Q: They wonder, why are people not meditating together? A:Using our own communal technical Vedic Science nomenclature.. Monitoring lowered the group coherence and numbers meditating in Fairfield by 'tainting the wave function' of consciousness as the wave function of individual consciousness collapses in meditation(™). The coloring of consciousness with fear by effect of monitoring in physical observation is antithetical to meditation in creating stress to the innocence of the practice. It was the same complaint of students both at MSAE and MUM over being graded on their meditation practice by monitors and having that grade go in transcripts. The same complaint of the file-making on meditator’s private lives by ‘the administrative state’ of the ™ movement. The monitoring needs to be decompressed to something else to help get back to increased levels of communal cohesion again. Towards Regaining Communal Critical Mass: Also, it is way past time to re-draft the national guidelines that regulate membership for inclusion in the group meditations. There are way too many “non-compete” clauses that remain in the guidelines, still. Clauses that exclude capable meditators from the collective of the group meditations. It is sinful what the Rajas have continued to abide in excluding people. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : What has been allowed to happen with the Dome meditation numbers in Fairfield will be defining of how life in the local economy goes forward for Fairfield, Iowa. Remediation? There are meetings that have been ongoing the last weeks right now about this. Everyone who lives in Fairfield should be concerned and vocal with the TM movement Trustees who let this happen. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : This is a communal problem we have here in Fairfield, this is not a forlorn hope here in the community. This is a uniquely Fairfield and American ™ movement problem here. The challenge here is to get the ™ movement Trustees, the Raja and their own movement apparatchiks to behave themselves in a way that is actually helpful to the group numbers. Starting a some few weeks ago, after the removing of the former university President here, there have been ad hoc local meditator, university people, AND grantees of the Invincible America Assembly (IAA) sub-committee meetings on the unique problems of ™ meditating community in Fairfield. A week ago about 60 or 80 select TM movement 'elite' people met on the problem. Of course that did not include the larger meditating community in Fairfield in direct push back. Work is in progress, as the road signs say.. Q: They wonder, why are people not meditating together? A:Using our own communal technical Vedic Science nomenclature.. Monitoring lowered the group coherence and numbers meditating in Fairfield by 'tainting the wave function' of consciousness as the wave function of individual consciousness collapses in meditation(™). The coloring of consciousness with fear by effect of monitoring in physical observation is antithetical to meditation in creating stress to the innocence of the practice. It was the same complaint of students both at MSAE and MUM over being graded on their meditation practice by monitors and having that grade go in transcripts. The same complaint of the file-making on meditator’s private lives by ‘the administrative state’ of the ™ movement. The monitoring needs to be decompressed to something else to help get back to increased levels of communal cohesion again. yifuxero wriges: Probability assessment: What's the probability that (in view of the results so far), that any tactic on your part or any expenditure of mental effort will result in an increase in the dome numbers? If close to zero, why waste any time worrying about? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : That we have got the separated and disenfranchised old ™ movement meditators here out sitting in Fairfield’s cafes and coffee shops during the group meditation times is bad enough but these Raja and the movement apparatchiks who defend the Raja standing in the way of remediating what obviously needs be done is itself counter-revolutionary. Quite evidently it is the Trustees, Raja and their apparatchiks themselves who need to be taken out and re-educated by the best of the science on the meissner-like effect of meditating in groups. How could it have got so bad for the Dome meditation numbers? It is terrible how bad they have let the administrative state of it get and evidently keep at it by their inaction on what has become the status quo of decline. Timeline Summary: March 2011 through July 2012 17 consecutive higher months YOY due to many projects to increase attendance (so there is a precedent for long-term attendance increase if fundamentals and certain projects are in place). August 2012 through Sept 2016 - 50 consecutive lower months YOY, beginning suddenly from a specific cause (our continuing drop did not begin when the Grant was temporarily stopped one year later, it had already been going on for 12 consecutive months). Feb through June 2016 - Attendance up YOY in Women's Dome due to Festival of World Peace Oct and Nov 2016 - Attendance significantly up YOY due to October Surprise/'elections' Dec 2016 through Feb 2017 - Attendance a little lower in both Domes YOY March and April, 2017 - Attendance substantially lower YOY ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : Magnanimity. The TM movement Trustees and Rajas must come together on this to save the cohesion of the American meditating movement community here. Above all they need to be magnanimous right now. The narrative is bad out there. The Patterson-Morris administrative state of TM spent 37 years separating meditators from the American meditating movement. We cannot afford that now any longer. The trustees, Rajas of TM and movement apparatchiks must be magnanimous in facilitating our group meditations here now, by contrast. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : To make some budget, extracting money out of this they are thinking to institute fees, to support the what? The IAAssembly ‘grantees’ or Domes themselves? Fees of support of $30, 50, 100 a month on people who do meditate in the Domes. FW: "..just had a long talk, 1. They both strongly oppose monitoring. she went off the Grant because of it. 2. They both were 100% clear that attendance declined since August 2012, when monitoring began, and went down an even bigger drop further in August 2013 when the Grant was reorganized." ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : There is a crisis of leadership here at the top. In our case here at the Dome the sheep herders mostly don't meditate in the group at the Domes. Communal Critical mass? It is way past time to re-draft the national guidelines that regulate membership for inclusion in the group meditations. There are way too many “non-compete” clauses that remain in the guidelines, still. Clauses that exclude capable meditators from the collective of the group meditations. It is sinful what the Rajas have continued to abide in excluding people. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : Given all that we do know about the power of group meditation and what we do have here to facilitate a group in meditation we must have new and brilliant leadership on this now to wield the power of our group meditators meditating here. The leadership must move immediately from their narcissisms to magnanimity. The status quo of 37 years spent separating people from the movement and the group meditation is not good enough. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : It is terrible that the Trustees and Rajas and those who defend them have let it get so bad with the meditating numbers here. It is time to overrule the fanatics and change the guidelines by extending the olive branch of membership back to those who have been separated from the movement during this late era of the Patterson-Morris administrative state of the USA movement. It is time for the ™ Rajas to collectively step up to the problem that was created in the US movement before and expect instead a healthy change towards expansion. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : Yep it seems a frightened flock of meditators now. A best thing you hope for as a sheep shepherd is a leader-sheep in the flock who has a steady eye with enough bravery and inner wisdom to gather up and lead a flock with you. You look for the sheep with courage to step up and lead and then give them enough calmness and encouragement to come forward. That part takes being a good human being in character. Those guys of the Patterson-Morris administrative state of TM it seems clear now did not have what it takes to shepherd people, they probably should never have administrated anything. 177 in the Dome the other morning. Rajawilliamsmith wrote: Sheep herders lead from behind. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : Only 179 in the Dome the other morning. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : It is time for a new policy of inclusion. The old adage is, “You can’t lead from behind”. The ™ Rajas need to bravely get out front on this now. And,those Raja who can’t need to recuse themselves and get out of the way. This part of culture change is going to take some extraordinary leadership by some brave Rajas to step in to position out in front of us all. ..Grant them strength. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : I appreciate your concern here but it would be an invasion of some people's privacy to go on about this here. The more important thing here in this subject thread is what cultural fiduciary position the TM Raja have with the TM movement. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <wle...@aol.com> wrote : Please share with us as U may know what Rajas have left or become in active in our movement! Thanks in advance 4 this news -----Original Message----- From: dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Thu, Apr 6, 2017 2:20 pm Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditating in the Dome
