People spoke to different aspects in the meditating community meeting at Phoenix Rising. Some people in the line at the open microphone spoke to the collapse of the Dome numbers in their experience saying things of regret that 2,000 meditating together is way more than 200 to the effect. Those particular policy problems related to the Dome numbers around the guidelines for Dome group meditation membership were not directly taken up or responded to at the Phoenix Rising meeting. In the preliminary meetings leading up to the Phoenix Rising meeting it was summarily expressed that the leadership feels for the status quo, that people ‘made promises’ and therefore should not be in the Domes for practicing other competing systems to MVS, and then it was qualified a little in the process of meeting to be more particularly around those who ‘work against’ the movement. Work in process. Also it seems there is a cultural disavowing inside that the ‘guidelines’ for being in the group meditation are neither punitive or disciplinary. This needs a lot more conversation between factions. Leadership have not acknowledged that those being either studied and practiced in any astrology systems has anything to do with how people practice meditation. That whole non-compete clause in the guidelines could stand to just be omitted. Invite those few who it effects freely back in to membership. That would be an important telegraph. There is another preliminary working meeting tomorrow coming up on how to go forward with a communal process. 'Work in progress.'
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <r...@searchsummit.com> wrote : Were these examples (e.g., people doing their own jyotish) brought up in the Phoenix Rising meeting? Rick Archer Buddha at the Gas Pump https://batgap.com https://batgap.com r...@batgap.com mailto:r...@batgap.com Podcast https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/buddha-at-the-gas-pump/id602578156 From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2017 8:47 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: Fairfield’s Crisis of Meditating Numbers in the Dome July 2017, no change in the ‘non-compete’ policies for Dome admission/membership. Men’s Dome number was 193 a recent morning and 196 evening. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com mailto:dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : E-mail responding to “Willing people not allowed in the Dome”.. You know one of the very biggest issues now? That when someone is mistreated, they will not put it in an email. The admins and leadership needs emails now, for good reason. Otherwise it won't be believed, they have to have something in hand. It is not just fear of losing badge, it takes strength to deal with things like this, to write that email. I have been told dozens of times, 'No I won't send an email, I'm just going to let it go.' Then what can I do? People have to be strong enough to lead the leaders. Contact John Hagelin directly. At: Global Union of Scientists for Peace 2000 Capital Boulevard Fairfield, IA 52556 secretar...@gusp.org mailto:secretar...@gusp.org +1-888-600-GUSP ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com mailto:dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : Those guidelines of the ‘administrative state’ up there on campus and those Rajas who defend them have turned too many capable meditators out from the Domes. In the span of a few days after the communal meeting at Phoenix Rising I spoke separately with two long long time TM movement meditators who were administratively excluded from the Dome meditation for practicing jyotish astrology. Both exclaimed they would be there meditating if the guidelines were changed to omit the ‘non-compete clauses’ about people who practice jyotish, those guidelines that have nothing to do with their practice of ™. A couple weeks ago there was a former MIU student back visiting who applying for a Dome badge the course office did an internet search about the person’s life, judged and told this person they would never be allowed in the Dome. Never? We need membership here and these people go out into the world and tell others what, about being excluded? The narrative needs to change now. It is not enough to claim that things have changed when they have not. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <r...@searchsummit.com mailto:r...@searchsummit.com> wrote : Maharishi once said that there will come a time when I’ll tell you to meditate on your own, but for now I want you do it in the domes. Rick Archer Buddha at the Gas Pump https://batgap.com https://batgap.com r...@batgap.com mailto:r...@batgap.com Podcast https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/buddha-at-the-gas-pump/id602578156 From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] Sent: Monday, July 10, 2017 5:03 AM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield’s Crisis of Me ditating Numbers in the Dome: e-mail: Insist all those in stopatya veda homes and on campus meditating in different places get back to meditating in the domes... May take some presentation by Travis of the science to actually point out the value of proximity. Regenerate the power of numbers and proximity in meditation. Facilitating 11 different program locations and encouraging people to just meditate at home was a formula in specialness and loss of communal cohesion. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com mailto:dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : Meditating attendees at the men’s Dome had a relatively large YOY (year over year) drop this June of 26 fewer men per Program than last year. Attendees at mediation in the women’s Dome had a very very large drop of 79 per Program, yoy. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com mailto:dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : The ending of the “grant” program funding. Old meditators cut loose as the ™ movement readies to outsource 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 FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com mailto:dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> 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 FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com mailto:dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : ‘Fixing’ the grant $ program and its monitoring? That seems like.. 'putting Lipstick on a pig’. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com mailto:dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> 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 FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com mailto:dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> 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 FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com mailto:dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> 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 FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com mailto:dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> 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 FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com mailto:dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> 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/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/434676?soc_src=mail&soc_trk=ma
