--- In [email protected], Louis McKenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
>
> I looked for Ealr Kaplan letter in the files did not see it.
> 

Earl Kaplan's Letter 4.16.04
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/32360


> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: dhamiltony2k5 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 1, 2006 11:59:02 AM
> Subject: [FairfieldLife] An Index, to FFL
> 
> 
> The Meditating Community and the TM-Org, Fairfieldlife.
> 
> 
> 
> Fairfield Life, Indexing the Story Here at:
> 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/
> 
> 
> The FFL list can be read off the internet from its homepage, 
without 
> having to be a member. You can start by using the links in this 
> index or go to the home page and start there by clicking 
> on 'messages'. 
> 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/messages
> 
> 
> From the `messages' you can insert these numbers into the message 
# 
> search box.  That will take you to the area of the archive of 
these 
> threads. You can sieve the posts of the archive area that way.
> 
> 
> Often I point newcomers, recent arrivals or outsiders to FFL 
through 
> this list.  Below is a quick index.  Scroll down through this 
index 
> and survey the range of subject threads.
> 
>   This index includes many summary posts in the FFL archive like:
> 
> 
> 
> -the petition contained in post # 3811 (The Meditating Rift Here)
> 
> -The TMO, partitioning the Meditating Community thread, # 3478
> 
> -Meditating Classical Concert Pianist Banned from MUM thread #3113 
> (late Nov, Dec '02)
> 
> -Meditating Irish Musician Banned from MUM # 2963
> 
> -Meditators Banned from MUM  # 4219 , 4402
> 
> 
> -Is Everyone Welcome?  953
> 
> -The difference between a shooting star and a falling one: # 2960
> 
> 
> The Meditating Community Mexican Stand-off:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/26429
> 
> 
> -The `one hundred millionaires' thread # 985  or 949
> 
> 
> 
> -Some resolution #726 and thread
> 
> -Heavenly Mountain  # 935
> 
> -Legal remedy and threads # 3965
> 
> -The meditating community-wide survey # 3896 thread
> 
> Also look in the "files" section of FFL.  The actual survey is 
> archived there.  The seeds of the present were present then in 
> 1994~  It is a very interesting read.  
> 
> -Fairfield and the TMO, the dwindle  # 4724
> 
> -The Iowa Meditating Landscape, Trickle-down Depopulation 4503 , 
> 4502 , 13564
> 
> -The Kaplans 
> and their money threads, # 3040 or # 3420 
> 
> 
> The recurring million dollar questions spread throughout the 
archive:
> 
> -Fiscal Soundness summary, 5958
> 
> -Financial disclosure thread, 5012, 5026
> 
> The Real Estate Guru, D Magazine, 10938
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/10938
> 
> Estimating the Assets:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/13902
> 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/13959
> 
> 
> Hartford Advocate, Maharishi's Hotel of Emptiness:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/17234
> 
> TMO purchases NYC Wall Street building
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/28546
> 
>   
> -Endowing, process and The Meditating Community  637
> 
> -The Kaplan Lawsuit
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/10936
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/13217
> 
> 
> -Kaplans 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/13274
> 
> 
> -Lawsuit Against the Kaplans
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/17110
> 
> (More on the Kaplans & Heavenly Mountain in sequence below)
> 
> 
> -The TMO and the CIA thread 5752
> 
> -Threats in the fair field, 5057  and 5063 , 30276
> 
> 
> -What is the hook here, what is the story here thread, # 4813   # 
> 4762
> 
> -The Sex Summaries I-IV, 6154 through 6157 and and also posts 
during 
> late December 2002 and post # 7663, 
> 
> - Sexy-Sadie.txt, A compilation of posts about MMY's other guru 
> life.  In the "files" section of FFL:
> 
http://f2.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/gIA3QBSi0yiUE0KAJU0EYsFiuNMzTjUDZ9j_z6LV
> 5ZzXmp28u4oqzeDr-oTxvZoE24PfMGM0qlTS19MYa1GOhseOzU9TQi15Llf-/Sexy-
> Sadie.txt
>   You might have to sign in to read the 'files' section of the FFL 
> archive
> 
> 
> -Summarized Topic Articles Titled:, 4813
> 
> -Guru Dev's Discourse: Gyan & Bhakti  7883 and 7884
> 
> -TM Scandals a Logical Sequence, 7430, Insights to TMO in India, 
7504
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/13338
> 
> 
> -J.Krishnamurti, 1929 Speech Dissolving his organization, post 7513
> 
> -Search for Global Queen, 7664
> 
> -Just go, don't enter in to the politics, Karunamayi,  7849
> 
> -Tax-exempt Status Lost, 7793
> 
> -TM&Sedona, 7510
> 
> - Walking the dog, where to go to learn meditation outside the 
cult:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/13502
> 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/37303
> 
> 
> 
> -MMY's comments about other techniques, links: 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/28270
> 
> 
> -The Diaspora, The Informal-TMO, 8176
> 
> -Bevan, MUM Presidential Frolic'ng ,  8220
> 
> About Cult in the TMO culture..  10346
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/10346
> Cult test:  
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/10307
> 
> Of Contracts, vows and loyalty testing thread… 10307,  10319
> 
> -Funding the Pundits thread,  12679,  13565, 16026 Rudra's 
Letter:  
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/13305
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Also  MMY's Family Money : 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/13568
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/31999
> Mahapatra: 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/48039
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/117229
> Run out of India & Switzerland: 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/116541
> 
> 
> 
> Zimmerman money:  
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/13226
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/116519
> 
> 
> TMO 'investment' properties in India
> http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=25966
> 
> Spiritual Accounting: 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/19273
> 
> 
> -TMO announcement concerning the "End of the World"
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/12690
> 
> 
> - 12801  Dealing with scandal, Killing the Buddha thread. 
> 
> - charges of Impropriety thread  
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/14528
> 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/14535
> 
> 
> 
> -Spiritual Accounting, 'Reputational Capital':
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/19401
> 
> 
> -Fairfield life, prognosis Fall '03,  13043
> 
> -  13610  Raising Kids in the TMO thread.
>   http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/13610
> 
> 
> -Murder on Campus, the thread unravels starting from:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/19830
> (good insight in to the sociology of the FF meditating community, 
> skim the successive posts for about two weeks after this initial 
> post.) March 2004
> 
> -Statistics:Unreported crime in culture. 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/14107
> 
> 
> - TMO Cult of Vastu & FF:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/19286
> 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/39014
> 
> 
> -Skimming Tuitions, Muhurt 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/20441
> 29487
> 
> -An MUM student's observations from inside:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/20449
> 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/20565
> 
> 
> Insights to the Fairfield utopian experiment:
> 
> 1) Summary Review, The Super-Radiance Theory, the "N-squared 
effect" 
> of group meditations: 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/21796
> 
> 2) MMY commencement charge to MUM grads: 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/28801
> 
> 
> 3) TM & "Meissner" Effect:  
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/20748
> 
> 
> 4) FF super-radiance, some history:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/15
> 
> 5)Maharishi Effect:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/116506
> 
> Rigor, credibility of TMO research: 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/37535
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/37561
> also a long discussion several days before and after 1 Nov. 2005:
> see FFL home page table of message history, click on 1 Nov 2005 & 
> navigate using the `older' and `newer' buttons.
> 
> 
> 
> Heavenly Mountain Disputed more:
> 
> Published Article: 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/26773
> 
> e-letter from David Kaplan: 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/26771
> 
> 
> Kaplans tell Purusha & Mother Divine to vacate Heavenly Mt.
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/28540
> 
> Judge dismisses cases against Kaplans in Heavenly Mt. rift
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/28541
> 
> Articles on Heavenly Mt. rift, June '04:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/28542
> 
> 
> Kaplans revisited, thread:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/38168
> 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/30263
> 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/30266
> 
> Earl Kaplan's Letter 4.16.04
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/32360
> 
> 
> 
> 
> More meditators banned:  
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/24466
> 
> At MUM, Leave none un-fleeced: 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/24857
> 
> 
> Pundit Update, May 04: 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/25194
> 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/25607
> 
> 
> Guidestar: Non-profit indexing to IRS filings:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/28039
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/117466
> 
> 
> 
> Heavy Fundraising Announcement, June-04: 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/28805
> 
> 
> TMO buys NYC building: 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/28546
> 
> Replies to TMO fund-raisings & NYC building acquisition: 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/28725
> 
> Also: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/28769  
> 28864  29116  29213
> 
> 
> Belief & Disillusionment: 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/28812
> 
> 
> 
> Hegelin defending the bannings, the fundraising and status quo
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/31817
> 
> 
> 
> Kirkpatrick defending the status quo:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/67668
> True-believing in method: 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/31716
> 
> 
> 
> Quelling Meeting with Hagelin: 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/29307
> 
> Notes & replies on the meeting:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/29534
> 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/29416
> 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/29522
> 
> Hagelin & the Factor of Meditating Community Trust Lost:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/29603
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/29604
> 
> Hagelin: TMO Fundraising Income tied to bank loans for more money: 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/29959
> 
> 
> 
> Outline 6-04: restructuring the movement distilled, 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/29512
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/29548
> 
> 
> Hagelin defending the bannings in FF public meeting. 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/31817
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> TMO Business practice in method examples: 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/117466
> 
> 
> Money sent abroad on MSAE:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/29565
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/29571
> 
> Stiffing swimming pool contractors, solicited co-signatures & 
hotel 
> housing http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/29575
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/29591
> 
> 
> Buses: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/29580
> 
> The Culture of Tactic: 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/29606
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/29595
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/30078
> 
> i.e., More suitcases of cash: 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/30299
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/30313
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/33737
> 
> 
> Pundit money co-mingled and sent abroad: 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/30244
> 
> 
> Appreciated Avon Lake Property Sold:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/34237
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/34300
> 
> 
> The Earl Kaplan Letter 4.16.04  Text:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/32360
> 
> 
> The Donor Diaspora, 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/30972
> 
> M. Vedic City reviewed, NH Union Leader article:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/34353
> 
> 
> Local Politics: 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/35678
> 
> Public Funding for things 'Vedic': 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/37233
> 
> Evangelical Christians and Meditators, Evangelizing FF:  
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/79479
> 
> 
> Heavy Metals in AV Indian Herbs, Forbes Article Discussion:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/38375
> 
> 
> Pundit Update thread, 12.29.2004  # 39211  
> 
> Camelot, Oklahoma Peace Palace article 10.2005:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/77386
> 
> TMO cashes out Florida Vedaland  5.2005:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/55574
> 
> Re-certification:  
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/56424
> 
> Guardian Article, MMY pulls out of England:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/68040
> 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/68636
> 
> 
> Skelmersdale Article 8.2005, TM-Org meditators split:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/67944
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/80923
> 
> 
> Fairfield longtime meditators: 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/30785
> 
> Peace at a Price, Oregon article:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/68635
> 
> 
> Directory of Active Spiritual Practice Groups in Fairfield:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/77260 Directory
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/76965  
(threads)
> 
> 
> Teaching TM in Peace Palaces 2005 :  
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/77915
> 
> 
> Trademark and Indi-teaching of TM, 
> St. Louis Sentencing program:  
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/77997
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/80922
> Florida: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/81194
> California: 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/82186
> 
> 
> TMO editing PR (NYTimes article): 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/79381
> 
> Threads in Delusion & Self-importance: 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/83004
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/83006
> 
> 
> Threads of self-importance, money & management: 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/82885
> 
> Blackstone Hotel sold: 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/83007
> Peace Palaces in Pittsburgh: 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/81104
> 
> Buy a Raja.  For a million or so.  50% down will do.
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/45050?l=1
> 
> The re-cert and de-certification of the TMO.
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/45444?
threaded=1
> 
> De-certification of the TMO, 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/46041?l=1
> 
> Epilogue Re-cert, A lot of people off the hook with de-
certification:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/47012?l=1
> 
> 
> Call to action; July 2006
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/107519
> 
> Except, ejected August 2006
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/104974
> 
> Except rejected, August 2006
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/108879
> 
> Rejected: 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/108731
> 
> Yogic flyer ad, 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/117667
> 
> Des Moines Reg. 8-2006 article, 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/119862
> 
> Can't find, the 190 Million. 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/117466
> 
> Invincible America Course 10-2006; 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/120103
> 
> Can't get the numbers needed Oct 2006:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/113629
> 
> These posts scratch the surface.
> 
> 
> The five-plus year archive here does tell a story.
> 
> You will find the story when you prowl around.
> 
> It becomes apparent. 
> 
> Jai Guru Dev, -Doug
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Continuing on about the culture of the FFL list:
> 
> --- In [email protected], "Mike Doughney" 
> > wrote:
> > > --- In [email protected], "dhamiltony2k1 wrote:
> > > > for a little perspective, how would you tell an outsider
> > > > what the story is here?
> > 
> 
> Mike and also "L_B_Shriver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> write:
> snip
> 
> > Like all online forums focused on the (TMOrg) movement and its
> > programs that I'm aware of, discussion migrates into what I'd 
> call "in the head" things - talk of experiences and the 
> movement's explanations/dogmas regarding those experiences. 
> All of this is just meaningless noise to the outside observer, who 
> will just tune out unless they're acclimated to the fact that 
these 
> discussions are just like that, and to get any information about 
> the "story" they're going to have to dig for a considerable amount 
> of time to find something interesting and understandable in all 
> the noise.
> *****
> 
> L B:I agree about the digging, although there are nuggets of pure 
> gold in this chat from time to time.
> 
> > I'd also say that this phenomenon is by design, that any 
> discussion of actual quality of life issues gets dwarfed by all 
this 
> one-upsmanship centered on experiences and interpretation 
> thereof. It's a learned habit, showing what people are really 
> attached to, and that attachment seems to be something distinct 
> from concrete quality of life issues, and it's learned from the 
> movement because the movement tends to be like that. But to an
> > outsider it makes no sense at all.
> 
> Rick Archer writes:
> Major media have done balanced stories on other spiritual 
movements. 
> Someone posted a link here to a New Yorker story on Muktananda's 
> movement which covered the money, sex, and internal politics 
issues 
> quite thoroughly. The Times of India and other media have covered 
> the 
> Sai Baba story extensively. If these things are done right, 
they're 
> of interest to a wide readership.
> 
> What do we have here?
> 
> Sex: numerous personal secretaries and maybe some of the women 
would 
> be happy to talk to reporters.
> 
> Money: this would take some serious sleuth work by an outfit 
larger 
> than the Fairfield Ledger – preferably one with correspondents in 
> India. Does M's family own mansions and Rolls Royce's? Let's see 
> photos. What does the movement have to show for the millions it 
has 
> raised?
> 
> Politics: the banning issues here in Fairfield.
> 
> All three of these angles have at their root the issue of honesty 
> and 
> integrity. How wide is the gulf between the public façade and the 
> actual reality? In a truly healthy movement, there would be no 
gulf.
> 
> 
> Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> wrote:
> > Major media have done balanced stories on other spiritual 
> movements. 
> 
> L B: I agree that there are people out there capable of doing it 
> right, 
> but I was thinking more in terms of the mainstream media 
> outlets in the regional markets.  (Local)KTVO, WHO, KGAN, KCRG. 
> These guys never go for depth, in my experience. The Des 
> Moines Register is capable of getting it right sometimes, but 
> often settles for the cheap shot. So the story will not be well 
told 
> until it falls into the hands of a really good story teller.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --- In [email protected], "dhamiltony2k1 
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > for a little perspective, how would you tell an outsider 
> > what the story is here?
> > 
> > 
> > Certainly a large part of the story here is that there is a 
> community 
> > of people who have pursued a spiritual practice for over 20,30 
or 
> 40 
> > years, a meditating-community. The story also includes that 
there 
> > have become some spiritually very powerful people in their own 
> > experience here, from this life of focused pursuit. Some of the 
> flow 
> > of subject thread of this list indicates this aspect of what is 
> going 
> > on here. 
> > 
> > We have some lit people here. This is part of the story 
> > along with the meditator bannings, the sx, the fund-raisings, 
the 
> > projects, the TMO and the Kaplans' lost money, money 
appropriated 
> etc. 
> 
> >That there is 
> > spiritual experience here is what keeps people here while there 
is 
> > also conflict here now. 
> > That there are lit people here quietly pursuing their 'sadhana' 
on 
> their own or in other small groups now is partly why things are 
> > changing within the meditating community of FF.  For instance, 
> this is also what 
> > draws the repeating flow of saints, sadus & pundits through here 
> > these last few years. The 'Shakti' of a few thousand meditators 
> who have pursued their meditation practice now for 20, 30 and 40 
> years here is something to 
> > behold and there is word out about it in the larger spiritual 
> community. 
> 
> >This also is manifestly a part of 
> > Fairfieldlife and is partly why people are so earnest, apart 
from 
> parts of the `consciousness-based education' campus and its TMO 
cult 
> mood-
> > making. Yes, 'Jai Guru Dev', and with gratitude to Maharishi; 
> > however, in looking, there is a story of change here going on 
now. 
> > It is a fascinating story for what it is.
> > 
> > Jai Guru Dev, -Doug
> > 
> 
> > 
> > 
> > Fairfieldlife, what is the story here?
> > 
> > I get e-mail sent to me on the side. For instance, this was sent 
> to 
> > me on the side:
> > 
> > <Paste>
> > <I've actually been on the FairfieldLife list myself for about a 
> > month --
> > I… didn't feel like I was as in touch as I wanted to be with 
what 
> was 
> > going on in the community. I've been following the recent 
> exchanges 
> > about people being banned from campus for seeing Ammachi with 
some 
> > interest and trying to figure out if there was a 
> > story to write about it.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > <I would like to look into this more. I'm curious as to what you 
> see 
> > the 
> > main "hook" as. Are the incidents with Suzanne Niedermeyer and 
Tim
> > Britton the big things right now? Or is it the declining number 
of
> > people in the domes? Or is it, just overall, the rift between 
> M.U.M. 
> > and 
> > the meditating community as a whole?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > <I guess another question I have is, is there a rift with people 
> > pretty
> > much on one side or the other, or are there a lot of people who 
> don't
> > offend anyone and don't care? And how many people would you 
guess 
> are
> > siding with the university admin. as opposed to being ostracized 
> by 
> > it?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > <Would you be interested in meeting to talk sometime, or is e-
mail 
> > better
> > for you? Let me know. I'd also be looking for other folks to 
talk 
> > to.
> > I can get some names off the Yahoo group, but anyone you can 
steer 
> me 
> > to
> > in particular would be better.
> > 
> > <end paste> >>
> > 
> > 
> > For some time now I have been inviting outsiders to this 
> > list. Since about Thanksgiving, I have been going to the major 
> print-
> > media, radio and cable editors inviting their writers to look in 
> on 
> > the story here. I have persistently gone through at least all of 
> the 
> > major print media once or twice going to their web pages 
ferreting 
> > out 
> > their editors and inviting them with a cover letter about the 
> story 
> > here. To academia also.
> > 
> > 
> > Some one a little while ago on the list here cautioned that we 
> > should be careful what we are saying here , that "the Des Moines 
> > Register or the AP" might pick it up. Well, actually they are 
here 
> > too in all likelihood. There is more than just "us" here lurking.
> > 
> > So for a little perspective, how would you tell an outsider 
> > what the story is here?
> > 
> > There is at least an anthropology PhD. thesis here, but there is 
> > a story here. How would you break it down for an outsider to 
see? 
> > What is the hook here?
> > 
> > Jai Guru Dev, -Doug in FF
> 
> 
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