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RE: [FairfieldLife] RE: Fairfield’s Crisis of Meditating Numbers in the Dome

[Rick Archer r...@searchsummit.com [FairfieldLife]]

If someone were teaching at another university and wanted to visit and be in 
the dome, would they be seen as working for a competing organization and be 
disallowed? Or if they are a doctor, are they seen as competing with Maharishi 
Ayurveda? As long as MUM enforces these silly rules, it will continue to be 
shooting itself in the foot. It’s questionable whether there’s any foot left 
after all these years. Just a bloody stump.

Rick Archer
Buddha at the Gas Pump
https://batgap.com
r...@batgap.com
Podcast


From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: Monday, July 24, 2017 10:44 PM
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [FairfieldLife] RE: Fairfield’s Crisis of Meditating Numbers in 
the Dome



People spoke to different aspects in the meditating community meeting at 
Phoenix Rising. Some people in the line at the open microphone spoke to the 
collapse of the Dome numbers in their experience saying things of regret that 
2,000 meditating together is way more than 200 to the effect.  Those particular 
policy problems related to the Dome numbers around the guidelines for Dome 
group meditation membership were not directly taken up or responded to at the 
Phoenix Rising meeting.

In the preliminary meetings leading up to the Phoenix Rising meeting it was 
summarily expressed that the leadership feels for the status quo, that people 
‘made promises’ and therefore should not be in the Domes for practicing other 
competing systems to MVS, and then it was qualified a little in the process of 
meeting to be more particularly around those who ‘work against’ the movement. 
Work in process.

Also it seems there is a cultural disavowing inside that the ‘guidelines’ for 
being in the group meditation are neither punitive or disciplinary.  This needs 
a lot more conversation between factions. Leadership have not acknowledged that 
those being either studied and practiced in any astrology systems has anything 
to do with how people practice meditation.

That whole non-compete clause in the guidelines could stand to just be omitted. 
Invite those few who it effects freely back in to membership. That would be an 
important telegraph.

There is another preliminary working meeting tomorrow coming up on how to go 
forward with a communal process. 'Work in progress.'




---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 
mailto:r...@searchsummit.com>> wrote :

Were these examples (e.g., people doing their own jyotish) brought up in the 
Phoenix Rising meeting?



Rick Archer

Buddha at the Gas Pump

https://batgap.com

r...@batgap.com

Podcast





From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
[mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2017 8:47 PM
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: Fairfield’s Crisis of Meditating Numbers in the 
Dome





July 2017, no change in the ‘non-compete’ policies for Dome 
admission/membership.
Men’s Dome number was 193 a recent morning and 196 evening.


---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 
mailto:dhamiltony...@yahoo.com>> wrote :

E-mail responding to



“Willing people not allowed in the Dome”..



You know one of the very biggest issues now? That when someone is mistreated, 
they will not put it in an email. The admins and leadership needs emails now, 
for good reason. Otherwise it won't be believed, they have to have something in 
hand. It is not just fear of losing badge, it takes strength to deal with 
things like this, to write that email. I have been told dozens of times, 'No I 
won't send an email, I'm just going to let it go.' Then what can I do?

People have to be strong enough to lead the leaders.



Contact John Hagelin directly.



At:

Global Union of Scientists for Peace

2000 Capital Boulevard

Fairfield, IA 52556

secretar...@gusp.org

+1-888-600-GUSP




---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 
mailto:dhamiltony...@yahoo.com>> wrote :

Those guidelines of the ‘administrative state’ up there on campus and those 
Rajas who defend them have turned too many capable meditators out from the 
Domes. In the span of a few days after the communal meeting at Phoenix Rising I 
spoke separately with two long long time TM movement meditators who were 
administratively excluded from the Dome meditation for practicing jyotish 
astrology. Both exclaimed they would be there meditating if the guidelines were 
changed to omit the ‘non-compete clauses’ about people who practice jyotish, 
those guidelines that have nothing to do with their practice of ™.  A couple 
weeks ago there was a former MIU student back visiting who apply

Re: [FairfieldLife] FF Meditating Community Meeting

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

In the meagre Dome meditation numbers an alarming trend is a number of retired 
people of the old Fairfield meditating community with inherited or earned 
resources who have sold their houses and moved away with their checkbooks. 
  
 And some long time movement meditators recently moving/retiring to Fairfield 
with retirement resources and then moving out and selling their Fairfield house 
because the Dome/movement community experience was so stale. 
 

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 from e-mail: My overall feeling is that the log jam at TM if released will 
free an enormous good to the world, to this country, and to individuals.

 

 
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 

 Hagelin is pretty sensible about facts and data and policy in steering this. 
The communities of the institutions are a lot of work in (human) process. I 
wish him well and the best of fortune for all of us in this.  

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 The deal now is that no one at the top of the org can rule simply by decree. 
Bevan was de-fanged by moving him over. The ™ movement now after Maharishi is 
something of 'democratic-corporate' ruled by boards of trustees, the equivalent 
of executive VP’s (Raja?) and then a class of powerful administrative 
apparatchiks. 
 Maharishi did not leave a guru behind him.  Anyone in leadership has to bring 
people who are around them along on policy. There are people and coalitions at 
all levels with different feelings and interests in all of this. In a spectrum 
of formed values (culture) it is sort of like you have tru-believer devotee or 
faith-based types who fundamentally are not wont to change anything bound by a 
fear of losing 'the purity of the teaching' and then effective practitioners 
who hope to have things work out for good reasons and there are folks in the 
scale in flux in between.  And, they all now are constrained very much more by 
the reality of budgets and numbers and performance.  
 

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Thanks, this is an interesting note to the problems at hand in meditating 
Fairfield, Iowa.  I feel a similar way about publishing the admin guidelines 
for people being in the Domes. The guidelines ought to be on a web page where 
they can be read. It is an opportunity to be clear about our mission that way. 
One would think that if they can’t be shared then something must be wrong with 
them.  
 But there is a cautious element at the upper levels who have some PTS around 
sharing anything for fear that ‘negative people’ will use any information given 
out against the movement. This is an old wound that makes some immobile on 
opening financials or the guidelines.  Certainly there are people and some 
groups out there who actively work against TM. 
 Though in orgs that I have been where opaque numbers and processes get opened 
and shared then everyone looks at them and sees what needs to be done with a 
whole lot better effectiveness and feeling about things. 
 To go forwards the narrative actively needs to be changed around TM on these 
things. That is always my recommend to the powers that Be on this. I’ll forward 
this thread for their review too. FFL is always useful this way.  
 

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 From E-mail: Doug,  It appears, from the video Hagelin made for the national 
group meditation in which he mentioned repeatedly that you were sitting right 
in front of him, that you have his ear.

 I suggest you remind him that he supported objective and open standards for 
inclusion in presidential debates during his NLP years. In the same way, the 
Sidha community should be subject to objective and open standards with respect 
to inclusion in the dome, and anyone who is denied access should have an 
appeals process available.
 


 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Community Justice Panels (RJP’s) in Action
 However, they differ from other restorative practice in that they are 
generally wholly staffed by community volunteers.

 A 'Local' Response to Community Problems? A Critique of Community Justice 
Panels A key characteristic of the CJP process itself is that all participants 
are given the opportunity to speak about the incident, how it occurred, the 
impact as well as the consequences that it has had.
 4
 Usually the offender speaks first so that the circumstances around the 
incident can be heard. The victim is then able to share his/her experience, to 
ask the offender questions and suggest ways in which the harm could be 
repaired. At the end of the meeting an agreement is drawn up, with all parties 
having a say in the content,
 5
 which outlines the activities the offender is required to carry out and the 
timeframe in which it needs to be completed. 
 Activities may include a direct gesture such as mending broken property, 
providing financial recompense, writing a letter of apology to the 
victim,staying away from a particular area/

Re: [FairfieldLife] FF Meditating Community Meeting

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

from e-mail: My overall feeling is that the log jam at TM if released will free 
an enormous good to the world, to this country, and to individuals.

 

 
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 

 Hagelin is pretty sensible about facts and data and policy in steering this. 
The communities of the institutions are a lot of work in (human) process. I 
wish him well and the best of fortune for all of us in this.  

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 The deal now is that no one at the top of the org can rule simply by decree. 
Bevan was de-fanged by moving him over. The ™ movement now after Maharishi is 
something of 'democratic-corporate' ruled by boards of trustees, the equivalent 
of executive VP’s (Raja?) and then a class of powerful administrative 
apparatchiks. 
 Maharishi did not leave a guru behind him.  Anyone in leadership has to bring 
people who are around them along on policy. There are people and coalitions at 
all levels with different feelings and interests in all of this. In a spectrum 
of formed values (culture) it is sort of like you have tru-believer devotee or 
faith-based types who fundamentally are not wont to change anything bound by a 
fear of losing 'the purity of the teaching' and then effective practitioners 
who hope to have things work out for good reasons and there are folks in the 
scale in flux in between.  And, they all now are constrained very much more by 
the reality of budgets and numbers and performance.  
 

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Thanks, this is an interesting note to the problems at hand in meditating 
Fairfield, Iowa.  I feel a similar way about publishing the admin guidelines 
for people being in the Domes. The guidelines ought to be on a web page where 
they can be read. It is an opportunity to be clear about our mission that way. 
One would think that if they can’t be shared then something must be wrong with 
them.  
 But there is a cautious element at the upper levels who have some PTS around 
sharing anything for fear that ‘negative people’ will use any information given 
out against the movement. This is an old wound that makes some immobile on 
opening financials or the guidelines.  Certainly there are people and some 
groups out there who actively work against TM. 
 Though in orgs that I have been where opaque numbers and processes get opened 
and shared then everyone looks at them and sees what needs to be done with a 
whole lot better effectiveness and feeling about things. 
 To go forwards the narrative actively needs to be changed around TM on these 
things. That is always my recommend to the powers that Be on this. I’ll forward 
this thread for their review too. FFL is always useful this way.  
 

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 From E-mail: Doug,  It appears, from the video Hagelin made for the national 
group meditation in which he mentioned repeatedly that you were sitting right 
in front of him, that you have his ear.

 I suggest you remind him that he supported objective and open standards for 
inclusion in presidential debates during his NLP years. In the same way, the 
Sidha community should be subject to objective and open standards with respect 
to inclusion in the dome, and anyone who is denied access should have an 
appeals process available.
 


 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Community Justice Panels (RJP’s) in Action
 However, they differ from other restorative practice in that they are 
generally wholly staffed by community volunteers.

 A 'Local' Response to Community Problems? A Critique of Community Justice 
Panels A key characteristic of the CJP process itself is that all participants 
are given the opportunity to speak about the incident, how it occurred, the 
impact as well as the consequences that it has had.
 4
 Usually the offender speaks first so that the circumstances around the 
incident can be heard. The victim is then able to share his/her experience, to 
ask the offender questions and suggest ways in which the harm could be 
repaired. At the end of the meeting an agreement is drawn up, with all parties 
having a say in the content,
 5
 which outlines the activities the offender is required to carry out and the 
timeframe in which it needs to be completed. 
 Activities may include a direct gesture such as mending broken property, 
providing financial recompense, writing a letter of apology to the 
victim,staying away from a particular area/person, or an indirect gesture such 
as community
 

 =..
 Fourth, the term community tends to conjure up positive images of support and 
care and something that needs to be recovered to repair the moral fabric of 
society. However, this rosy view of what community offers and what it can 
achieve often glosses over the potential negative attitudes and responses that 
communities may harbour and a lack of contact and knowledge between individuals 
who make up those communities. Certainly in larger cities a