e-mail asks, Is this more just a matter of principle? People choose not to be on these programs because they are monitored? It reaches in and affects the practice of meditation for those sitting in the domes? Spreadsheets of the long term attendance data and its graphs show empirically what has happened. The communal narratives certainly describe it. More recently in committee meetings other minds more versed in Vedic Science figured the ill effect of monitoring’s connection out. From cultivated Mother Divine and IAA alumni and those current on the grant programs evidently in report there is a fear and hurt that is put in people by the monitoring. All this taken together becomes compelling evidence that monitoring the way it is done is ‘deeply’ offending to the practice of meditation. The data shows there a need now for acknowledging the policy problem and remediating it.
A more recent interview tells of someone intentionally working at throwing the observers off (during meditation) by constantly changing outward patterns during practice and the hopping performance so there is no trend to record. We found the same thing before in the couple of years of committee work prior to the former University President’s removal which also collected these narratives related to student (MSAE, MIU & MUM) experience. Same offending problem which then got identified as a policy problem and remediated. Work in progress. - ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : By e-mail: "They" actually do that??? Ie monitor meditation???? WTF What is this "physical monitoring"? Are they walking around checking to see if you're awake? Hopping? Money clearly is primary as a corrupting force in the ruin of the system here. Now, in an abundance of fear for my own Dome badge status I can neither confirm or deny here that there are monitors hired in both Domes to have their eyes open during meditation observing and making records of parameters of how the grantees meditate. That spreadsheets are made. That Grantees who are not productive within parameters as meditators are consulted with and may be dropped from the grant, so it is said. I can neither confirm or deny I have seen this. I do hear firsthand narratives of assembly meditators quitting the assembly no longer going to the dome meditation having disliked being followed to the toilets, being forced to hop for hours by guideline and such or harangued to give ‘number one’ experiences of meditating. Some broken hearted (energy system) demoralization from the experience. Qualitatively I can vouch that generally people are actually sitting up attending more to meditate now than before there was monitoring of the grant $. Possibly this one aspect of more people actually sitting up and meditating is a general benefit of the greater expectations in monitoring. Before the monitoring of the grant the meditating community with its Domes were well known for its TM sleepers “dosing for dollars”. Quite evidently there now is a lot more meditating going on per dollar granted for meditating than before but a spiritual hurt otherwise here has been great. Not like it used to be but the Domes even with their incredibly attrited numbers are still powerfully activated spiritual places to meditate. That a meditator would live in Fairfield and not go to the Dome meditation? God save the Domes. 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. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : Dear Dr. Hagelin, Please Stop the grant program right now as it is run. It is way too corrosive to the element of innocence and effortless meditation here. Let some other community group figure out how to support these few indigents who are meditating on the “long program” in the Domes. Everything should be done to support them but it is clearly time to get the movement out of the administration of the grant. The money and its monitoring the grant has destroyed the whole coherence of what was the place. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : 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. May 7, 2017 Jai Guru Dev and warm greetings. I am writing today to alert you to a matter of great importance. In 2006, Maharishi personally created and organized our Invincible America Assembly (IAA), which has played a critical role in maintaining national coherence and world peace—a role that has never been more important than it is now. On Saturday, April 29th, Raja Raam, Dr. Bevan Morris and I met with a group of 115 donors and other movement leaders (85 in person and 30 online) to discuss how we can maintain this indispensable component of our community. A brief review of the April 29th meeting for those who were not present: Bevan and I summarized the current situation: Two years ago Howard and Alice Settle, having donated more than $125m, found themselves no longer in a position to support the IAA Grantees, as much as they wanted to continue to do so. Since then, the International TM organization has been drawing upon global resources to support the IAA Grantees—but this was only a temporary and unsustainable stopgap. We must now urgently turn our attention to finding other ways to support our core Yogic flyers. Raja Raam welcomed donors and community leaders, emphasized the key importance of the IAA for the U.S. and for the world, and strongly upheld MUM and the IAA as the heart and soul of our community and of our entire country. Concerning our Maharishi Vedic Pandits in Maharishi Vedic City: It was agreed that the donors who have been supporting our precious MVC Pandits should continue their support, for which we are all very grateful. To add further Pandit support to America in what all agree is a critical time, International is creating large new groups of Maharishi Vedic Pandits in India, totaling between 1,000 and 1,331 in number—dedicated solely or primarily to bolstering coherence for the United States through Yoga and Yagya. This will be funded in part through our ongoing contributions to the National Yagya and Special Yagya programs, and with additional International support. 135 professional Sidhas flying 135 minutes everyday: Bob Markowitz emphasized that we have assembled a very precious resource in the form of 135 dedicated full-time IAA participants who practice Yogic Flying for a minimum of 135 minutes every day. Most of these are long-term “Heroes of the Movement” who have been doing this since Maharishi inaugurated the IAA in 2006, and who are now reporting profound experiences of higher states of consciousness—thus creating a sublime influence of sattwa and coherence for the US that absolutely must be maintained. He reminded us how Maharishi called in every day to the assembly, asking about our numbers and what we could possibly do to increase them. A number of valuable points were made and suggestions put forward by all those present. Examples of these include: charging a modest fee for use and maintenance of the domes that could help to provide support for our IAA grantees; establishing a temp and employment office/agency to help find remunerative employment for many of our IAA participants during their afternoons; providing our IAA participants with more affordable Vastu housing at the IdeaLife Campus; and even crowd-funding for world peace. Action Steps: All these ideas, taken together, offer some promise of making a significant contribution towards maintaining our 135 core IAA long-term rounders, and we are starting to implement them all. However, it was clear to us as a group that a steady stream of donations will play the largest role in supporting our Heroes of the IAA—including retiring MUM and MSAE faculty and full-time Governors from the field in their late 60’s who have come to Fairfield to dedicate themselves full-time to bolstering the core coherence of our community and our country. We were very gratified that some of our donors present immediately offered to increase their financial support for the IAA. If you too would like to begin donating to our precious Invincible America Assembly, please click here http://giving.mum.edu/giving-areas/invincible-america-yogic-flyers/. Yoga and Yagya are powerfully synergistic, and we must make sure that the Yoga aspect of sublime consciousness is powerfully maintained by supporting our Invincible America Assembly participants. Specifically, we must replace $90,000 in crucial monthly support formerly provided by the Settle Foundation. We have already achieved nearly $25,000 of this $90,000 through pledges from MUM and Maharishi Foundation, from anticipated dome badge revenues, and from ongoing International support. The remainder of our International / Settle Foundation support will start to wither on September 1, so we need to move forward swiftly, collectively. It was wonderful and heartening to see that all those who were gathered last week—from Raja Raam on down—were a united chorus of strong support for this project. All our beautiful long-term Yogic Flyers and IAA Heroes—and indeed our entire Fairfield and Maharishi Vedic City community, heartily thank you for your support! And we warmly welcome your thoughts and suggestions. With fond wishes, John 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 : 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.