That could be a solution, but as the number of "Sidhas" practicing in the Domes
exceed the number required for coherence in Fairfield, why did that not provide
the basis for continued success in Fairfield?
If we take Kaplan's letter over a decade ago at face value, it would seem
Maharishi did not even really know if this coherence effect would really work,
as it seemed to be based on a rather loose association of a statement by
Patanjali with a coherence effect in physics.
The maximum numbers were in the 1980s and everything has declined, including
the state of the world from that point on, whereas if the theory were true, it
should have improved, especially in Fairfield, more people would have come into
the program and the world would have gotten better.
In spite of the movement's confirmation-bias tainted research, Fairfield, the
star of the movement, seems to indicate the Maharishi effect does not exist in
the form and extent that it is touted to be.
The point of meditation is it is an aid to enlightenment. Everything else that
has been bundled with it in the movement has been an effort to make it
attractive to people who probably would not otherwise meditate for the real
reason.
It is an appeal to personal success and well-being, which is fine for
ego-centric individuals, but enlightenment is to discover that everything is
consciousness, and consciousness when unbounded is not personal.
Meditating for "World Peace" sounds great, and maybe that idea will make you
feel good as an individual, but World Peace has not happened, and seems less
likely now than previously.
Perhaps the Bhagavad-Gita is correct, that life is an unending battleground and
that you need to achieve peace on the basis of your practice, but the battle
continues unending, without letup, and you gain peace even amid ceaseless
turmoil.
From: "[email protected] [FairfieldLife]"
<[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2017 10:32 AM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield’s Crisis of Meditating Numbers in the
Dome:
The ending of the “grant” program funding. Old meditators cut loose as the ™
movement readies tooutsource US Meditation to India. The international ™
movement is announcing it will shift its funding resources away from propping
the Dome group meditation in Iowa over to pundit programs in India. Winding
down the “Grant” program.. Financial support for the Invincible America
Assembly had been coming in substantial amounts donated monthly by Drs. Howard
and Mickey Settle. About two years ago, the International ™ Movement took over
most, then all, of the IAA Grant funding, and has now announced it will step
down its contributions beginning in September, to 22% of the $90,000/month it
has been giving, by this coming November.
---In [email protected], <[email protected]> wrote :
The movement should get out of the business of monitoring people.
FW: Myth: People dropped off or were cut from the Grant because there was not
enough funds, due to Howard Settle's business situation. Truth: Not one person
was dropped from the Grant due to reduction in Settle funds in 2013. Every
single person who re-applied went back on the Grant. Julie Anne, who handled
the Grant checks, told me this herself. But the 100 person drop overnight, and
350 or more after that reduction, was primarilybecause of dislike or
disapproval of the 'monitoring' system, and, the way that Bryan Lee et al
conducted the lengthy highly formal meeting to introduce the 'monitoring'
system (I had warned him what 'monitoring' would do, and also what that type of
meeting would do, but was disregarded). It crippled Movement family and
community feeling, what was left of that. The reduction in attendance began
ONE YEAR BEFORE the Settle funds were reduced. In August of 2012. Soon as
'monitoring' started, after 17 nearly consecutive higher months, our attendance
fell through the floor, and went down 12 consecutive months PRIOR TO the Settle
fund reduction (then continued falling for 39 months after that, until 2 months
up for October Surprise (then down 3 months in a row since then.
---In [email protected], <[email protected]> wrote :
‘Fixing’ the grant $ program and its monitoring? That seems like.. 'putting
Lipstick on a pig’.
---In [email protected], <[email protected]> wrote :
The Administrative State of monitoring..
The coloring of consciousness with fear by effect of meditation-monitoring in
physical observation is antithetical to 'effortless meditation' in creating
stress to the innocence of the practice.
FW: ..refer to Maharishi's Commentary on the Gita, where he states, inter
alia, at VI: 10, "the feeling of someone being around him or watching him may
impede the smoothness of the process of transcending." FW:This monitoring
system is clearly in contrast to basic Program instructions about not being
watched while meditating that are in our Checking Notes, and in Chapter VI
Verse 10 of Maharishi's Gita. This system has also been a dagger in the thigh
of our Sidha community, already hurt by decades of authoritarian
administration. There are mild to very hard feelings about it all over town
among all those who know about it. It has put many people off the end of the
diving board w the Movement, hurt our local community and Movement more than
almost any single thing that has ever happened to it. note what this
'monitoring' system involves - A man up on the stage not meditating, watching
each person, counting how many hops they take per Program, how many times they
go to the bathroom, how many minutes they are gone, how many times they lie
down to sleep, for how long each time, and when they enter and leave the day,
to the minute, and writing it all down as needed and entering it in a computer
spreadsheet at night, then the record being reviewed by someone else, then if
felt necessary someone who is too far from the Program being emailed
anonymously, or asked to call an out of state phone # of someone they never
heard of?
---In [email protected], <[email protected]> wrote :
FW: "..refer to Maharishi's Commentary on the Gita, where he states, inter
alia, at VI: 10, "the feeling of someone being around him or watching him may
impede the smoothness of the process of transcending."
---In [email protected], <[email protected]> wrote :
At this point we should carry on without the movement doing the paying of
people to meditate. That is just fraught with bad feeling. Parse that off to
some other non-profit entity to figure out if it can be. Drop now the IAA and
carry on with a WPA group meditation for those who can. The movement should
simply just facilitate meditation and not try to run the social support program
by monitoring people's lives. Let other parts of the meditating community
figure that out.
---In [email protected], <[email protected]> wrote :
A Responding e-mail: Dr. Hagelin, I came to MIU in 1974 as a student. One of
the best times of my life, I was inspired to become a teacher, moved here to
raise children, etc.IF, MIU had had "monitoring"then, I'm sure I'd never have
stayed in Fairfield. Honestly, the concept is weird and certainly
not...spiritual.
I stay because Fairfield is a mature and integrated spiritual community that
supports me and that hopefully I contribute to. I do hope that some thought and
consideration is given to the points about "monitoring". I'm sure none of this
policy is your design but I'm inspired to write you. One would hope, that the
understanding of the practice of meditation, i.e. that "control" doesn't work,
could be applied in this instance. In appreciation and gratitude,
---In [email protected], <[email protected]> wrote :
FW: Friends it is imperative that we all press Dr. Hagelin to put an end to
monitoring in the Dome meditation. Monitoring as it has been done in the
administrative state of the “grant” program and the Invincible America Assembly
stands as a prime culprit in the undoing of our communal cohesion as a
meditating community.
There is an elite level of money and administrative apparatchiks in the
movement community who are enamored of controlling people with punitive
controls by monitoring meditation. Punitive monitoring of meditation is
completely antithetical to what we stand on as the teaching of effortless
meditation. It is time to put to put an end to the administrative state of the
Invincible America Assembly.
This is an extremely important time right now. As much as one can act right
now, push this real concern about the group meditation here in Fairfield by
contacting Dr. Hagelin now.
Dr. Hagelin as Raja of America in the Global Country of World Peace, Director
of Maharishi Foundation USA, and as President of Maharishi International
University (MUM), Dr. Hagelin has the position to pull rank and remediate this
locally.
Ask him to take courage and right this predicament which is so fundamental to
our innocent practice of meditation as a group. It is time to remove what has
been a sutra of fear from the Dome community.
Act now and share your feelings about this with Dr. Hagelin at,
Contact,Write him
Dr, John Hagelin, MUM President’s Office
Leave a Phone Message
Tell him:
Dr. Hagelin,, Please dissolve all the Meditation Monitoring System(s) and get
the movement out of all the business of monitoring people (students, faculty,
grantees, citizens, old initiators/govs of TSR) and their meditations.
The large principle here is that monitoring the way it has been done in the
Domes is fundamentally antithetical to the effortless practice of meditation
there.
Tell this to Dr. Hagelin and anyone else who could help.
For the community don’t lose this opportunity now to: Stop the ‘grant’ program
right now as it is run. It is way too corrosive to the element of innocence and
effortless meditation there. 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 with its
monitoring the grant has destroyed the whole coherence of what was the place.
A substantial “principle of the 2nd element” towards correcting this is to
completely skip trying to ‘solve’ the problem on the level of the problem but
simply to stop having the movement run the ‘grant’ program as the Invincible
America Assembly. There have been weeks-long ongoing considerations of this in
small groups and meditating community committees including grantees,
university, TSR, IAA and administrator members of the meditating community..
Summary links, open and scroll down..The FairfieldLife forum can be read by the
public without having to join as a group member,
Fairfield’s Crisis of Meditator Numbers in the Dome
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/g roups/FairfieldLife/conversati
ons/messages/434720
Fairfield's Kodak Moment
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/g roups/FairfieldLife/conversati
ons/messages/434676
Why does it matter?..
In Statistical Truth, The Call to Spiritual Order,Rally Now to Meditation!
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/g roups/FairfieldLife/conversati
ons/messages/434677
Act nowwith the best of kind regards,
---In [email protected], <[email protected]> wrote :
As an advocating force behind meditation monitoring,Raja Bob LoPinto, someone
was saying LoPinto is not a TM teacher?Is that true?Minister of Finance and
Planning: Raja Bob LoPinto
- Deputy Minister: Dr. Markus Gerber
-
http://www.globalcountry.org/wp/ministries/
---In [email protected], <[email protected]> wrote :
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 [email protected], <[email protected]> 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 for
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