> Now, the behavior of some in the .org and how poorly or well the metics of > their facilitating what is here as a community in this larger enterprise of > superradiance is another question entirely.
You know Doug, sometimes I really wonder if English is your first language. Sal > On Oct 27, 2018, at 6:45 AM, [email protected] [FairfieldLife] > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hey, I am a satisfied customer of the practice of the ™ program. I know my > experience with it. Questioning the character of my experience with it? I > thank the Providence in the large Nature of the Unified Field for my having > come across it in my life time as a spiritual practice. > Now, the behavior of some in the .org and how poorly or well the metics of > their facilitating what is here as a community in this larger enterprise of > superradiance is another question entirely. > > > [email protected]> wrote : > In [email protected], salsunshineiniowa@ wrote : > > 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 > > > ---In [email protected], <[email protected]> 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 [email protected], <[email protected]> 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 [email protected], <[email protected]> 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 [email protected], <[email protected]> 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 [email protected], <[email protected]> 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 [email protected], <[email protected]> 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 [email protected], > <[email protected]> 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 [email protected], <[email protected]> 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 [email protected], <[email protected]> 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 [email protected], <[email protected]> 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 [email protected], <[email protected]> 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 [email protected], <[email protected]> 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 [email protected], <[email protected]> wrote : > < > > (Message over 64 KB, truncated) > > >
