I can’t believe you or anybody else still goes out of their way to be part of a group of aging yahoos who still believe in expelling people from their clique, despite abundant evidence almost nobody wants to be IN said clique, and hasn’t for many years. Hear they’re up to around 300 these days, even with the MUM students...pathetic.
“Provisional” dome badge...lol. How’s the mold doing in there by the way? Then again, a friend tells me it’s still a good place to sleep, so there is that. Sal > On Oct 24, 2018, at 1:46 PM, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] > <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> wrote: > > > > They gave me a ‘provisional’ Dome badge. > Okay, I am back in the Dome meditation again with the group. > In the interviewing, the more grave concerns were in three jealousies > embedded in the written guidelines, that posts here on FairfieldLife could be > seen as ‘promoting’ other practices, also the giving an indication of money > going to ‘non-Maharishi’ jyotish/ yagya, and then what cursory promotion of > Ravi Shankar there could be seen here from describing (a journalism of) any > of these as being part of what is going on in the meditating community of > ‘spiritual’ Fairfield. FairfieldLife posts, news and social media/facebook > otherwise get read actively by an investigating staff. > This is not like going in to a Saudi Embassy in Turkey for papers but an > intelligence gathering about people works similarly because of guidelines as > they are written and a staff that is hired to investigate these guidelines. > > Srijau writing: you compare to the House of Saud. disgusting. > > > > ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : > > > In the last few of weeks of processing since I was denied an updated sticker > or new Dome badge people here generally on hearing word of this would > respond, “..are they still doing that?” and then relate their own experience > and fears with this. > > These last few days in Fairfield I have run across people who recently > updated/got their badges and when hearing about the written guideline over > ‘money’ going to ‘non-Maharishi’ jyotish/yagya, remarked “opps”, that they > had. Another just the other day, had an ‘inexpensive’ ‘non-Maharishi’ yagya > done otherwise, also recently updated with a new badge and can meditate now > in the Dome group meditation in fear of being found out. > > # > I have advocated more recently with a direct hand for four successfully > renewed badge people urging them to/having them get Dome badges. Aggregate > numbers, superradiance, towards a more critical mass. Jai Guru Dev. > The process just let someone else in who they did not know about into the > Domes who visits/sees Ravi Shankar quite a lot. > These are each people (example) whether 'persisting' visiting other > saints/spiritual people or having bought 'non-Maharishi' jyotish and yagya > who can come and do, willingly do, the TM program with the group. And, will > do so if so long as they are 'not found out' and separated from the group... > > > > > ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : > > This is very much in the purvey now of TM’s Trustees and Raja class, as > something like the House of Saud is hierarchical and organized. Hopefully our > Trustees and Raja of the ™ .org can get the guidelines for membership down > simply to whether someone learned the programs and would come to the group > meditations doing those. Simple. May the grace of Providence of the Unified > Field free us all from what long oppression the Dome group meditation numbers > have suffered of those written guidelines. Jai Guru Dev > > > ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : > > Dear Ones, > I am very sorry and apologetic that Maharishi has told conflicting > instruction of such different things to different groups and individuals that > this has left you here to enforce a cobbled (wordsmithed) set of guidelines > for our superradiance membership. Guidelines that have not served you or our > meditating community well. > > The essential guideline of course is at the bottom of the printed guidelines: > Only Maharishi’s techniques are permitted to be practiced in the program > halls. > Which essentially would entail an applicant having learned ™ and the > TM0-Sidhis at some point. > > However, having now had the guidelines for membership read out to me on more > than one occasion and also having read the guidelines directly there are > three embedded jealousies which are cultural that stand out in the > guidelines. These continue to be essentially corrosive to our communal > superradiance experience. > > . . > > > Everyone living in Fairfield should be very concerned about the metrics of > the Dome meditation numbers and how it goes for them for many good reasons. > > Inside the administration there presents manifest an administrative fear that > evidently is now creed and cultural as bound to a ‘sufficiency’ in people > going out to visit other teachers and saints along with a subjective > enforcement over those ‘who persist in seeking council or audience’, possibly > too much? There also is the old fear of and a whole long animosity with Ravi > Shankar by name; and third, a jealousy with monies people may spend ($) on > ‘Non-Maharishi’ jyotish and yagya. > > These three jealousies: persistence in visiting saints and spiritual > teachers, money that is spent on non-Maharishi jyotish and yagya, and Ravi > Shankar by name as they are left written in to our guidelines for membership > will require the continued employment of your investigations in to the > private lives of people, an investigating that has as tool a coercion and > punishment with our Dome superradiance membership. With your enforcement > auspice having become something of a collection agency this has not gone well > for you with the attendance numbers. > > While the essential guideline about the practice is at the bottom of the > written guidelines, one can feel really badly for such the position of a > needless picking of fight with the community that some are in with consequent > to the communal Dome numbers. It is like you all do not really believe the > implications of all the research on value and spiritual necessity of > superradiance in life. Hopefully with better reason prevailing and the > providence of the Unified Field our community can get beyond the jealousies > and thrive together in superradiance once again. > Jai Guru > > > > ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : > > As I relate the workings of the Dome meditation application process to people > in the community here there are now plenty of exhibits as evidence of > Maharishi quotes on the subject of visiting other spiritual teachers coming > forth out of the community. > Evidently the administrative (TM) movement is in a bad place with the > meditating community and with superradiance metrics in a way that their > policies appear pitiable given the potential of what it could be and could > have been. > May the Unified Field help us all with an undoing of this conundrum they and > we are in. JGD. > > “..keep company with the saints (sants), mahàtmàs, and the wise > (vidvànta), so that your human birth will be fruitful.” -Guru Dev Swami > Brahmananda Saraswati (SBS), Maharishi's teacher. > > > > ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : > > Within Fairfield superradiance and the group meditation evidently we have a > membership problem in TM which is of policy that is cultural, where the > guidelines for membership in the group’s superradiance are actively used > tools of coercion and punishment. The Raja and ownership Trustees as > enfranchised could change that. The superradiance buck stops there with the > TM Raja now. > > Transcendentalism, > this becomes MMY’s great legacy along the line with George Fox or Jesus > Christ, "Where two or more are gathered..". This modern development, of > natural sciences correlating with transcendentalism in modern time as to the > practical role of collective meditation, not only an individual experience is > compelling in transcendental meditationism but now by virtue of Maharishi > Mahesh Yogi's articulation there is the evident science of collective > practice of meditation on the whole.---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, > <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : > > You can’t go to the Dome group meditation without a badge. The Dome, it was a > nice place to meditate. Spiritually activated and extraordinary really . > > It has been my honor to have served with so many meditators in the group > meditation in Fairfield, Iowa, to have been part of this transcendent > meditationist superradiance group here these last many years. So it is. Jai > Guru Dev > > > > ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : > > This Last Global Group Meditation of Sept. evidently is to be my last day > meditating in the Dome with the group. My current Badge expired that day and > my Badge has not been renewed. > > There came an hour long application interview for badge updating recently > whence they asked me questions about how I feel about yogic flying and also > of some of what is written here on such a public forum (FFL) for > consideration that may describe Fairfield as what spiritual place that > Fairfield is, which may be seen as ‘promotion’ of other teachers. There are > written guidelines for membership that get read out in the interview end. So > it is. FairfieldLife. In leaving the interview they instruct, "We will call > you". And they do not call, as a kind of silent passive aggressive way of > their not having to say to you that you are unacceptable to them and their > guidelines. > > > > ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : > > Global Group Meditation, Sunday 5pm CST > > > > The TM® Technique > > > > Please Join Us for the Next Global TM Group Meditation > > Sunday, Sept. 30, 4:00 pm CDT > > Men's Peace Palace > 1040 N. 4th Street > Fairfield, IA 52556 > > Knowledge • TM Checking • Global Group Meditation > > Schedule > > 4:00 pm — Maharishi: “Love, the Tender Impulse of Life” (20 min) > 4:30 pm — Group TM® Checking > 5:05 pm — Global Group Meditation > 5:35 pm — Special video presentation by Dr. Fred Travis (12 min) > > Registration > > Please register by replying to this email to let us know you will be > attending. You are invited to participate in any or all of the evening’s > events. > > Enjoy great company and pure knowledge > > Please plan to arrive by 4:00 pm CDT, or slip in quietly for the Group > Meditation that will start promptly at 5:05 pm CDT. Also, if you cannot make > it to the Center, but will start your meditation at the same time as the > group and wish to be counted, please let us know. > > Special video presentation > > Dr. Fred Travis is a world-renowned neuroscientist who conducted > ground-breaking research on the study of consciousness and the mind-body > connection.. He is one of the leading scientists studying the effects of the > Transcendental Meditation technique on brain functioning. In his video, > titled “Effects of Group Meditation on Individual Brain Functioning and on > Collective Consciousness,” he explores the effects of our Global Group > Meditation on individual brain functioning and on collective consciousness. > > Two other videos will be played: > > “Love, the Tender Impulse of Life” — Maharishi goes deeply into the > understanding of love as it relates not only to experiences in meditation, > but also to its evolutionary role as an essential quality of consciousness. > “Fairfield, Iowa: A Community of 3,000 Meditators”— Highlights of Fairfield’s > rich community life, from the bliss of group TM practice, to the innovative > businesses, cultural events, and award-winning Consciousness-BasedSM pre-K- > to-PhD school system. > “The Global Group Meditation was profound! I personally notice a big > difference meditating with a group, especially with teachers. I always enjoy > the company of other TMers! I love knowing that we are doing something very > powerful and positive to passively improve humanity.” > —Nicholas Painter, Austin, TX > > We’d love to hear your experiences > > If you have participated in a Nationwide, All-Americas, or Global TMGroup > Meditation and would like to share your experience(s), please fill out this > brief survey. Thank you very much! > > We look forward to seeing you soon and wish you a joyous, healthy, and happy > fall. > > With best wishes, > > > > > ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : > > Superradiance, where two or more are gathered. > > “Gathered”. “Where two or more are gathered..” in group meditation. > > Interesting that silent meeting old Quakers talking about where a group > meditative practice goes superradiant as we refer to that, they refer to > those meditation meetings as “gathered” at that in that collective experience. > Evidently the ‘spiritual but not religious’ modern free thinking version then > of Matthew 18:50 becomes.. > Where two or more meditators are gathered in [effective] meditation there is > superradiance. > > > > > > 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. > > > The more you meditate, the more helpful you can be to others, and the more > deeply you will be in tune with (..the Unified Field). Selfish people remain > spiritually hide-bound, but the unselfish expand their consciousness. When > you find your omnipresence in meditation, you will find God. If He is pleased > with you, all nature will work in harmony with you. Learn to talk to him with > all your soul. -Paramahansa Yogananda > > > So why is civil resistance so much more effective than armed struggle? The > answer lies in people power itself. > > > For more than a century, from 1900 to 2006, campaigns of nonviolent > resistance were more than twice as effective as their violent counterparts in > achieving their stated goals. > > Researchers used to say that no government could survive if five percent 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—and lots of > them succeeded with far less than that [5]. 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/ > > > > ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : > > Q: A role of working social justice service in grounding spiritual experience? > > FF Coffee House Satsanga Observations in conversation: > > 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 (meditation), 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. > > > ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : > > > 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 $. > > > ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : > > “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: > > >
