Sweet is the day of sacred rest;
No mortal cares shall seize my breast.
Oh, may my heart in tune be found,
Like David’s harp of solemn sound.
Then shall I share a glorious part,
When grace hath well refined my heart,
And fresh supplies of joy are shed,
Like holy oil, to cheer my head.
Then shall I see, and hear, and know
All I desired and wished below;
And ev’ry pow’r find sweet employ,
In that eternal world of joy.
"Group meditation...
Dictated by the collective, any time you get two or more people together you
have a group dynamic situation where you are actually creating another energy
system between you, this happens spontaneously all the time.
So when you have a group like this, of meditators transcending, you have all
this input of coherence in the subtle system .."
-FF Spiritual Coffee Haus Satsanga
The Meissner-like transmission..
The Meissner-like effect (ME) of active ‘civil resistance’ = 3.5% , or 11
million in the USA
The Meissner-like effect (ME) of effective meditators to societal positive
coherence = 1%
Or 3,270,000 meditators.
The ME In the USA of advanced meditators, at the (square root of 1%) =>2,000.
Evidently SuperRadiance (SR) of meditators not as the only solution, but as a
requirement for a functional society toward permanent peace and progress can
not happen without sufficient participation in SR of group meditation.
(Maharishi would say many times we must have 2,000).
The science quite evidently bares this out now with quite high level of
certainty while in the numbers meditating it seems there is a deficiency in
science literacy. Quite evidently, there needs to be better evidence-based
public policy fostering the regular practice of meditation by more people.
So why is civil resistance so much more effective than armed struggle? The
answer lies in people power itself.
Researchers
http://www.amazon.com/Rebels-Dilemma-Economics-Cognition-Society/dp/0472085743
used to say that no government could survive if five percent
http://willopines.wordpress.com/2012/07/19/the-5-rule-and-indiscriminate-killing-of-civilians/
of its population mobilized against it. But our data reveal that the threshold
is probably lower. In fact, no campaigns failed once they’d achieved the active
and sustained participation of just 3.5% of the population
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/why-civil-resistance-works/9780231156820—and lots
of them succeeded with far less than that [5]
https://rationalinsurgent.com/2013/11/04/my-talk-at-tedxboulder-civil-resistance-and-the-3-5-rule/#_edn5.
Now, 3.5% is nothing to sneeze at. In the U.S. today, this means almost 11
million people.
https://rationalinsurgent.com/2013/11/04/my-talk-at-tedxboulder-civil-resistance-and-the-3-5-rule/
https://rationalinsurgent.com/2013/11/04/my-talk-at-tedxboulder-civil-resistance-and-the-3-5-rule/
Q: A role of working social justice service in grounding spiritual experience?
FF Satsanga Observations:
A: The world of consciousness is branched way beyond alpha brainwaves.
A: Spirituality is taught by ‘the mothers’ as:
1moral cultivation, developmental education in moral values,
2cultivation of spiritual practice, and
3active service to others to help others;
Those three things together. that is the cultivation of the whole.
One without the others is not complete and will leave people ungrounded.
A..that Compassion is different than mood-making and this is different than
just narrow cultivation of consciousness. This like the difference between the
state of compassion and the emotion of love. One can have loving thoughts or
loving feelings which are distinct. Not that these are not great things, these
are expressions. Those are expressions of the heart for sure. But the heart
state, the state of compassion, is a steady thing. It is not a conditional
thing. It is a pretty steady thing. It is not a conditional thing like, ‘I feel
this and I become Compassionate’. It is a state, of compassion. It is, ‘If I am
compassion then I observe’. It is a state. It is not, ‘oh I see this and I
become compassion’. It is a state and it is a state of heart because of the
energetics of the heart chakra that can embrace with a capacity to digest, to
take in without fear. That requires stability.
Great observation, the exercising the polyvagal and the hologram of the
wholeness of the subtle human system.
Look at the aspect of the ™ movement that is doing well, the David Lynch
Foundation (DLF) of teaching ™. .
DLF is highly attractive to gen-x and gen-millennial youth because iDLF is
not just some sect of meditating but doing service work to need. For good
reasons DLF is engaged in teaching meditation to veterans, in violent schools,
to single moms, at UN peacekeeping camps, teaching meditation in prisons, etc.
DLF foci being of social service to peoples in need.
The visioning people at the top of DLF were old successful field teachers,
differing by a long shot from the stayed rigid old Vlodrop people,. The DLF
cohort are anything but complacent in adaptation to need.
Internally there has been quite a lot of argument and conflict with
conservative ideologues inside over adaptation. Directed by science data and
more empathetic scientists DLF as a group DLF has been able to go around
conservative fanatics who would hold things back.
Looking at the ‘go-fund-me’ fliers that were up all over town this last summer
and fall here before the recent teacher training course started in Bali the
requesting for help was so that the candidate could become a teacher of
meditation to serve particular populations in need. The urgings were very
idealistic in sympathy and empathetic for needs of the time. Polyvagal in
nature. Much more of the heart than just in the head.
yifuxero writes
Old ideas often fade away only when the old generation dozes off. The Old
Guard at MUM may change but it doesn't look like it.
For example, take the connections between Consciousness and biology relating
to the Polyvagal nervous system. The key ingredient is Compassion (the feeling
of Compassion resulting from more Empathy).
The old idea is that this would be a type of mood making and contrary to the
notion that people are to meditate and "take it as it comes" No. Compassion
must be worked on diligently and over time: the Quakers are an example. It's a
type of culture that grows and evolves, but first the idea must be introduced.
This is unlikely in the MUM atmosphere since Compassion doesn't bring in $.
“How can CEOs learn from Kodak’s failure?”. Fabulous article for our
meditating Fairfield communal purposes. From the last two paragraphs it could
be said we are ‘in Kodak’ mode still.
“..Of course strategy sessions with the BIG CEO went nowhere. Of course all
the people buried in the hierarchy who saw the oncoming problems and had ideas
for solutions made no progress. Their bosses and peers ignored them.”
Yes we just accomplished a strategic removal of an unable/disabling old
leadership for the university community yet in what touches the Fairfield
meditating community there are no tools or skillsets to use yet inside there
that would help facilitate a communal transition. Being available to listen and
share is not where the Rajas have been with this. The work that got done to
remove Bevan was done ad hoc by the community and forced on them.
Yes things are being done now at the level of Hagelin but it is autocratic and
not apparent because it still does not sit with, listen or engage with the
meditating community outside the university and movement bubble. Same old
problem.
A desire is there for transition but no method/practiced skillsets to
facilitate innovation. These are school teachers and ‘administrators’ by
experience, not leaders in the sense of effective CEO’s. Effective leadership
of this would require training old dogs in new methods of listening circles,
non-violent communication listening skills, intergenerational work, and
restorative justice work that might actually acknowledge the past in going
forward.
Because of a leadership character of where a past leadership has for so long
taken us we are starting a communal climb out from way down in a hole. The last
paragraphs of the Kodak article are useful to read as to a way out..
Kodak article:
“How can CEOs learn from Kodak’s failure? Historically, Kodak was built on a
culture of innovation and change. It’s the type of culture that’s full of
passionate innovators, already naturally in tune to the urgency surrounding
changes in the market and technology. It’s these people – those excited about
new ideas within your own organization – who keep your company moving ahead
instead of falling behind. One key to avoiding complacency is to ensure these
innovators have a voice with enough volume to be heard (and listened to) at the
top. It’s these voices that can continue to keep a sense of urgency in your
organization. If they are given the power to lead, they will continue to
innovate, help keep a culture of urgency and affect change.
... The organization overflowed with complacency
http://www.kotterinternational.com/kotterprinciples/urgency/complacency. I saw
it, maybe in the late 1980s. Kodak was failing to keep up even before the
digital revolution when Fuji started doing a better job with the old
technology, the roll-film business. With the complacency so rock-solid, and no
one at the top even devoting their priorities toward turning that problem into
a huge urgency around a huge opportunity, of course they went nowhere. Of
course strategy sessions with the BIG CEO went nowhere. Of course all the
people buried in the hierarchy who saw the oncoming problems and had ideas for
solutions made no progress. Their bosses and peers ignored them.”
Barriers to Change: The Real Reason Behind the Kodak Downfall
http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkotter/2012/05/02/barriers-to-change-the-real-reason-behind-the-kodak-downfall/#5011be473698
http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkotter/2012/05/02/barriers-to-change-the-real-reason-behind-the-kodak-downfall/#5011be473698
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[email protected] wrote :
"Restorative justice." Nice term. So is this happening in Fairfield?
Awareness without action, or in other words, "complacency" is not a good
strategy. Reenvision!
Barriers to Change: The Real Reason Behind the Kodak Downfall
http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkotter/2012/05/02/barriers-to-change-the-real-reason-behind-the-kodak-downfall/#b02a9e136985
http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkotter/2012/05/02/barriers-to-change-the-real-reason-behind-the-kodak-downfall/#b02a9e136985
Barriers to Change: The Real Reason Behind the Kodak...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkotter/2012/05/02/barriers-to-change-the-real-reason-behind-the-kodak-downfall/#b02a9e136985
Dr. John Kotter discusses the real reason behind the Kodak downfall:
complacency. Read on to find out how Kodak let complacency take over, and how
to avo...
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For a small place, Fairfield, Iowa has a number of open performance venues and
open space parks that are actively used. The music and performing arts
communities are developed and busy here all the time. In fact Fairfield is
known with booking agents as a place with venues and a sophisticated audience
that turns out for talent. A lot of people traveling in the various arts put
Fairfield on their tours. Fairfield is an easy drive between St. Louis,
Minneapolis, Chicago, Kansas City and Omaha. I like the architectural link. An
artistic family here in Fairfield rehabilitated a classic old brick railroad
freight house into a new performance space that opened this last year. That is
all fine.
However, it is evident in history that where spiritual practice groups like
ours diffuse into other things, absorbed in business, social or political cause
and they get away from their formative spiritual practice it is not long before
their communal assets get sold off. Bankruptcy got headed off last year for the
university with a timely change of leadership.
An evident challenge now for survival of the Domes is that the previous
administration spent 36 years separating meditators from the collective
practice. There is some deep hurt here to remediate. Turning the Domes in to
open space for mundane performance or sports would really signal the end. No,
there is work to do at reconciliation now. It likely is going to take some
brave leadership to pull it off.
See: Engaging Restorative Justice in Reclamation of Community
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/433528
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/433528
[email protected] :
How about turning that iconic dome into a public space! Re-envision,
repurpose it for an open, inclusive and rockin' venue.....e.g., you could do a
"concerts in the dome" series. How are the acoustics? Sructure a
public-private partnership with the Town of Fairfield.
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Archer, from a distance view that is fine, your philosophical of ‘no-doing
do-nothing’.
Some of us live in Fairfield, Iowa, though, with this amazing facility for
meditation that has just a couple hundred people meditating in it now. The
question, (..what can be done?) is operational, what can be done in the
community to better utilize the place by way of facilitating the meditating
community that came here to meditate.
Some damages clearly were done to a feeling of cohesion of the meditating
community, what might the remediation look like to have more people meditating
collectively again in Fairfield, Iowa?
Archer Angel writes:
..that nothing need be done.
---In [email protected], <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote :
Should we create a dispensation for the meditators who do not attend group
meditation in Fairfield, Iowa? What can we do?
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