Advertising aside, it does appear the Superradiance experiment is actually a
failure. Why not just cap it off and do something that is worthwhile in some
other way?
Leadership is an important contribution, but there could be other reasons why
people don't come. What is the level of fulfillment for people who do do the
program, but for some other reason do not come?
What are peoples' experience of the techniques in general? When experiences are
published, they are the cream of the crop, but what about the average joe? Lots
of peoples' experiences of meditation and the sidhi program are not spectacular
by any means. How do you entice them?
On Saturday, February 2, 2019, 3:01:47 AM GMT, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com
[FairfieldLife] <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Re: The Importance of Group Meditation!
Excellent well written Doug! Great start for a FRESH & look inwards via the
dome experience to be more inclusive..
In FF conversation..
"..Spiritual Evolution is a whole lot easier in a group. It will take a whole
lot longer individually, to do this individually alone. It ‘takes a village’.
When we do this together obviously you are the first beneficiary of it but you
are also affecting the collective, our collective and also the larger
collective. So thank you for coming to Fairfield and the group meditation in
community we do here."
Yes, thanks for seeing this. .
It should be important in the survival of the Dome meditation right now that
any who have access to levels of the ownership in TM where policy is made could
be copying and pasting points of this exchange below in to communication with
those power people at the top. Engage whoever and wherever the power is vested,
where the levers of power are. Send ‘em a letter, mail, e-mail, imessages,
facebook messenger, phone them, tweet them, however.
The Dome meditation attendance numbers are in crisis. Month by month these
numbers continue to dwindle. The metrics of this situation are foreboding.
Numbers are dropping in a consistency by 10 and 20 a month for many many months
now. This is not just an administrative problem but one of leadership. The
recent month attendance numbers are not just lower but now hitting lows lower
than they were prior to the beginning of the late assembly in 2006.
There evidently is a core cultural problem in leadership of the TM movement
that for a cohesion in survival of this community needs to be proactively
addressed right now. Everyone’s help is needed on pressing this now..
Who has contact with, policy access to Dr. Nader?
Dr. Hagelin: MUM President’s Office, 641-472-1260. presid...@mum.edu
JGD,
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <wle...@aol.com> wrote :
EXCELLENT Doug very well thought & presented in a respectful, & loving manor
with the past restrictive codes put aside, MOST REFRESHING! To read & to see
the compassion & love between the lines Doug!
The group meditation & coupling it with the TM Sidhi program reduces combat ,
prevents wars & is most helpful for the health of the community at large.AGAIN
THANKS in gratitude for your well shared KNOWLEDGE back up with Guru Dev Quotes
-----Original Message-----
From: dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
To: FairfieldLife <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sun, Jan 20, 2019 7:59 am
Subject: RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation
...based on the non-religious Transcendental Meditation (TM) program,As strange
as it may sound, when large groups of trained practitioners sit down on a daily
basis to do this meditation program together, a powerful "field effect" of
coherence and peace ripples throughout the consciousness of the surrounding
population. The bigger the group the bigger the effect. The outcomes, confirmed
repeatedly by extensive scientific research, are consistent and measurable
decreases in war deaths, terrorism, and crime.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote :
Dear Drs. Hagelin and Nader:
Now that the pundits are gone from Maharishi Vedic City, Iowa could you write
the membership application guidelines for the Domes anew?
The old guidelines are yet too inflammatory towards superradiance as they are
cobbled and wordsmithed. Please sit and write with a new piece of paper a new
and fresh Dome application guideline now for membership in the group programs,
now the pundits are gone. Start with a fresh sheet of paper.. Get it down to
simple: did someone learn the ™ programs and that this is what they will do in
the group programs for superradiance.
This would be a good time to just go in and gut, drop the clause from the
guidelines that remains excluding from membership people who spend money on
‘non-Maharishi’ jyotish and yagya. The earnest reason it was put in there
originally evidently has gone away. It is time to just get rid of that clause
in the membership application guideline. There is no sense now to having the
office staff there investigating that one on people anymore.
The pundit program had been a long endured suction of resource out of the
Fairfield community. That clause about people spending monies on
‘non-Maharishi’ jyotish and yagya along with the couple of other clauses that
are left there as some kind of fealty test within the membership guidelines is
just needlessly inflammatory to succeeding with the Dome attendance numbers and
superradiance in Fairfield now.
Sincerely, Doug Hamilton.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote :
A morality,
Q: I don’t recall anything about “principles of higher moral character” in the
air when we first came here from Amherst. A: Meditation in groups, Maharishi
was consistent the whole way about the utility of group meditating influencing
a wellbeing of good for others at a distance. This remarkable idea in practice
is a simple disruptor to a lot of people’s material paradigm but after so many
decades of inquiry in to this observation the science has well borne out the
hypothesis. And, Guru Dev too in his spiritual construct on moral order could
have easily agreed now given what all we know from the inquiry of science, that
people who do not go to group meditations when they could join with them are
being amoral in their selfishness. That someone sitting out in a coffee house
whether in Leiden watching videos on their laptop or those meditators idle
downtown around the Fairfield, iowa town square at Paradiso, the Cider House,
the Sushi bar, or in Revelations during the communal group meditation is near
to worthless and worse morally in their contribution to the general good and
communal welfare, a drag, amoral. So this, the virtue of group meditation is
now in the reach of this spiritual but not religious time of science and
spirituality that we do live in. Yet, people who would stay home by
themselves, be it some Raja hold up somewhere out there by themselves, or an
editor working overtime somewhere and may be would meditate later, but also an
administration and its defenders with a religious-like adherence to ill-serving
guidelines that should keep people away who could otherwise be meditating with
the group evidently are all worst than sad but pretty bad morally. Jai Guru
Dev. Thread 437705Re: What did ‘Guru Dev’ say on Spiritual Morality and its
Moral
Compasshttps://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/437705
.< Interesting to see how the principles of higher moral character that were
the communal experiment started at Amherst in ‘78 have been eroded and hurt in
the administration of it..For outsiders or people from away looking in on the
experiment I recommend their reading "Greetings From Utopia Park" and listening
to the NPR 'Fresh Air' interview of Claire Hoffman for insight to how it went.
I don’t recall anything about “principles of higher moral character” in the
air when we first came here from Amherst. Q: I appreciate what you’re doing
with the group meditation thing, but I like meditating at home. I usually take
a nap first, then just sit up and meditate. Times vary. A: Evidently a lot of
people feel this way also about meditating with the TM group, not turning out
for what was superradianceof the group. The numbers in the Dome meditation are
incredibly low now.. #
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote :
Meditation brings wisdom;lack of meditation leaves ignorance.Know well what
leads you forward and what holds you back,and choose the path that leads to
wisdom. -The Buddha
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote :
Meditate and Act
Meditation with activity has always been the TM teaching (B.Gita II v 48).
This teaching was one of the things also used to convince a change in the
administration policy at a point to modify the ‘long’ IAAssembly morning
program rounds to get it all shortened down more to what it is now with the
idea according to the teaching to get them out of there and in to the world and
community before the mid-day and to give them longer in the afternoon to ‘do
things’ of life and be in the community. That was important to have happen at
the time for people’s health and general wellbeing. The long program the way it
was enforced was turning folks in to pale renunciates in front of us here in
the community. Then it is just a matter of how people may use their time
between meditations. Turning compost for health is not a bad use of time.
Meditate and perform action. Communicating this by FFL was an effective
element at the time in turning this around for the better. .Jai Guru Dev
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