[FairfieldLife] Re: What is Conscionable, in TM?

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

Of Spiritual morality and ethical behavior, 
 

 inside Swami Brahmananda Saraswati's discourses the importance of moral 
behavior and the company we keep is very much a thread that runs through his 
satsanga. SBS groups together the study of spiritual works, cultivating 
transcendence (meditation practices)  and also behavior that does not impugn 
the spiritual subtle system. 
 

 The discourses are short talks given as practical spirituality. They are 
erudite and grounded with folk sense of countryside humor (mid-20th Century). 
For the discourses of Swami Brahmanada Saraswati find: 
http://www.lulu.com/shop/lb-shriver-and-translation-by-cynthia-ann-humes/the-sweet-teachings-of-the-blessed-sankaracarya-swami-brahmananda-saraswati/paperback/product-21350609.html
 
http://www.lulu.com/shop/lb-shriver-and-translation-by-cynthia-ann-humes/the-sweet-teachings-of-the-blessed-sankaracarya-swami-brahmananda-saraswati/paperback/product-21350609.html
 
 


 

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

 [ email reply.. 
 This has nothing to do with being 'judgmental.'
 Just about everyone associated with the IAA knows that 'minding one's own 
business'  has to do with how we do our Program. That is clear from the context 
of Maharishi's saying it on his talks, which we hear all the time. It may not 
be clear for anyone who do not hear those talks all the time. ]
 

 Ethics, 
Later on MMY counseled a type of self discipline.. to be happy and "mind your 
own business" towards being regular practicing meditators and ‘on the program’ 
as a basis for behavior. This instruction would be a spiritual working ethic 
maybe different from social cultural ethic like the Golden Rule, that kindness 
seems overtly more to do with effects of behavior on subtle psycho-spiritual 
light-bodies of people. 

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

 What is unconscionable, in TM? "Thou shalt not.." Anything particularly 
unconscionable, hurtful, in the community of TM?


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

 The Transcendentalists’
 Morality.. 

 In the ™ movement we were told some little details about Maharishi’s teacher 
Guru Dev, Swami Brahmananda Saraswati. About how Maharishi first met SBS and 
also about how Guru Dev found his own teacher. On advanced training residential 
courses with Maharishi back in the 1970’s for those of us who were TM teachers 
there was a typed one page translated discourse of Swami Brahmananda Saraswati, 
of Guru Dev’s that was let to be passed around. This was the talk warning of 
the selling of life for the price of spinach. An advice that held intrinsic 
value that was important clarification, like a moral wake up, for people in TM 
then.

 Discourse 59
 “After experiencing 8,400,000 births, we have obtained this rare human body; 
don't waste it. Each and every moment of life is very valuable. And if you 
don't understand its value? Then you will have nothing else to do but weep, and 
you will have nothing in your hands in the end.  
 You are a human being, therefore you have the power to discriminate what is 
good and what is bad, and you can accomplish the greatest human goals. Don't 
think of yourself as weak or fallen. Whatever has happened in the past, 
understand that it was done unknowingly. But now be careful, begin doing the 
type of acts appropriate for a human being. Discern for yourself what is good 
and what is bad. Adopt the good and reject the bad.
  
 As a human being, if you don't know Paramàtmà (the Transcendent), then 
understand that you have sold a diamond for the price of spinach. One does not 
worship Paramàtmà for the sake of Paramàtmà. One worships Paramàtmà to remove 
one's own sorrow, lack of peace, ignorance, and lack of power. Paramàtmà is all 
knowing, omnipotent, and full of limitless bliss. Through worship, one can 
grasp on to his unending power. The fulfillment of this superb act is the real 
purpose of human life. If there is no effort made toward this, then understand 
that you have cheated yourself.”
 
 The Sweet Teachings  of the Blessed Shankaràcàrya 
 translation by Cynthia A. Humes
 
 
http://www.lulu.com/shop/lb-shriver-and-translation-by-cynthia-ann-humes/the-sweet-teachings-of-the-blessed-sankaracarya-swami-brahmananda-saraswati/paperback/product-21350609.html
 
http://www.lulu.com/shop/lb-shriver-and-translation-by-cynthia-ann-humes/the-sweet-teachings-of-the-blessed-sankaracarya-swami-brahmananda-saraswati/paperback/product-21350609.html


 


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

 Evidently there is a behavioral axis between self-interest and altruism..  and 
maybe not strictly related to 'consciousness', as we have seen.  

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

 A hardwired morality of self-interest v Altruism..
 

 In a core worldview that life is nakedly a selfish struggle for money and 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Rajneesh Documenatary

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

An old FF meditator saying of the Rajaneesh documentary,  ‘..disturbingly 
familiar’.

 Different than with Antelope, Oregon though, the first four years of 
meditators coming to Fairfield, Iowa meditators as a group lived physically 
mostly within the confines of the academic institution, mostly up on campus, in 
Fairfield. After five years then came an arrival and flow of diverse mostly 
middling class educated peoples and families as meditators, even moving in to 
neighborhoods throughout town and in the county alongside locals as neighbors.
 

 The 'files' section of FairfieldLife has a survey in it of the meditating 
community that was done in the early 1990's. The demographic parts are 
interesting to look at as profile. 
 

 

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

 A Study in Polarized Communities, yes.

 A large difference in two stories, between Antelope, Oregon and Fairfield, 
Iowa is that mostly neither our local Iowans or the incoming TM meditators to 
Iowa became overtly violent, or physically aggressive with each other.
 
 But even with ‘that look’ that can be in the Fairfield meditator community a 
difference from the outset between the two places is that the meditators who 
came to Iowa were modestly dressed. Meditators coming to Iowa wearing suits and 
ties and such, clean shaven, for the most part, and not ‘in red’ like in Oregon.

 The opinion page of the local newspaper in Fairfield has always run with a lot 
of hot and even bruising ink written on the subject but fortunately red hot 
blood was not overtly spilled over the subject. Now nearly 4.5 decades later 
there has come a better understanding as a detente in how both sides of the 
community tend to speak about each other as there has become a blending of 
blood within the whole area community by a living and sharing for long enough 
in life’s practicalities and raising kids.

 Possibly it all happened too fast on too large a scale for much smaller 
Antelope, Oregon to absorb what all happened like has happened differently in 
Fairfield, Iowa. Fairfield, Iowa being a liberal arts traditional college town 
had a different level of education that possibly allowed for a different 
outcome. 

 However, the posed level of ambient violence that came in to the Oregon story 
is a frank difference in the narratives.   
 

 

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

 Trailer 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBLS_OM6Puk 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBLS_OM6Puk

 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vata and irregular heart beat?

[garyth...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]]

I started developing pronounced heart palpitations, or erratic heart beat, 
after 50 years of age. After a few years of ignoring it, the condition seemed 
to be permanent. At the same time, I started getting dizzy or light-headed 
whenever rising from bending over or crouching down. That condition became more 
and more pronounced until it started happening almost all the time. To cut to 
the chase, I started taking Maharishi Amrit Kalash nectar and ambrosia 
religiously every day. Within one month both those conditions disappeared 
completely. And now, two full years later, I'm still taking those two products 
regularly and have not seen a re-emergence of the symptoms I described. I had 
no idea the products would be that successful. I'd have been happy with 60 or 
70% relief. But 100%??? And another benefit that I've been reluctant to talk 
about until now, because I wanted more time before jumping to any conclusions 
-- I haven't gotten a cold or flu since I started to take the products. No 
joke. I've always been quite healthy all my life. And I sometimes went a whole 
year without catching a cold or flu. But 2 years is very unusual. I'm certainly 
exposed as much as anyone, I think. And I have felt the beginning stages of a 
cold or flu trying to get a foothold in my system. But it has not persisted 
more than 12 hours or so. It's really amazing. I highly, highly recommend those 
products. 



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

 just try a little Maharishi ayurveda cardio support   can be called by 
different name elsewhere. you can also use a similar heart formula from india   
divya hrdyamrit vati   very quick actingand powerful   but don't take that one 
for long as it is not as mild and universally applicable as the Maharishi 
Ayurveda otc formulas.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mindfulness and TM, in the Marketplace

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

Good example of the consideration locked in stock TM preparatory lecture 
material as the all or nothing critique.  TM starts early asserting that other 
meditations are a waste of time. 
 The TM research even from way back gets used to co-opt the discussion of 
meditations
 trying to define what is deep or surface. Think of Keith's Scientific American 
paper with the oxygen graph that was used with good sales effect back then 
against the Zen Buddhist that was comparative.
 And, R's life is certainly vested in TM this way now. Like some other TM 
researchers and intellectuals as they  possibly understand things they are hot 
on it.
 TM fights now for market share against what is the more dominant market force 
in popular culture of Buddhism/ mindfulness by denigration of other practices. 
 I feel it is wonderful you are so passionate about TM. 
 I am too with some respect and appreciation for other spiritual practices 
also. TM is a great asset to have in spiritual practice.
 Hopefully we TM'ers can get along with other spiritual peoples, like practiced 
mindfulness meditators too.
 -JGD 

 

 A simple google search for Mindfulness and Buddhism.. 
 

 Mindfulness is the psychological process of bringing one's attention to 
experiences occurring in the present moment, which can be developed through the 
practice of meditation and other training. The term "mindfulness" is a 
translation of the Pali term sati, which is a significant element of Buddhist 
traditions.

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

 just watched that clip again, there is zero disparaging Buddhism there.
most Buddhists say that mindfulness is shorn of any connection to Buddhism, 
there is Christians who are trying to spread panic that mindfulness is stealth 
Buddhism, there is Buddhists who complain that mindfulness is appropriation.
If anyone is stuck on disparaging it is you. You love to disparage all sorts of 
good people when it serves absolutely no purpose and is even pointless, 
destructive and does not help your goals.
TMers have every good reason to point of the valid and scientifically verified 
differences between TM and Mindfulness which are very often muddled together in 
popular media. Those differences have been validated and highlighted by highly 
esteemed professionals like Dr Norman Rosenthal who have no vested interest in 
TM teaching.

  

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vata and irregular heart beat?

[srijau]

just try a little Maharishi ayurveda cardio support   can be called by 
different name elsewhere. you can also use a similar heart formula from india   
divya hrdyamrit vati   very quick actingand powerful   but don't take that one 
for long as it is not as mild and universally applicable as the Maharishi 
Ayurveda otc formulas.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mindfulness and TM, in the Marketplace

[srijau]

just watched that clip again, there is zero disparaging Buddhism there.
most Buddhists say that mindfulness is shorn of any connection to Buddhism, 
there is Christians who are trying to spread panic that mindfulness is stealth 
Buddhism, there is Buddhists who complain that mindfulness is appropriation.
If anyone is stuck on disparaging it is you. You love to disparage all sorts of 
good people when it serves absolutely no purpose and is even pointless, 
destructive and does not help your goals.
TMers have every good reason to point of the valid and scientifically verified 
differences between TM and Mindfulness which are very often muddled together in 
popular media. Those differences have been validated and highlighted by highly 
esteemed professionals like Dr Norman Rosenthal who have no vested interest in 
TM teaching.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Rajneesh Documenatary

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

A Study in Polarized Communities, yes.

 A large difference in two stories, between Antelope, Oregon and Fairfield, 
Iowa is that mostly neither our local Iowans or the incoming TM meditators to 
Iowa became overtly violent, or physically aggressive with each other.
 
 But even with ‘that look’ that can be in the Fairfield meditator community a 
difference from the outset between the two places is that the meditators who 
came to Iowa were modestly dressed. Meditators coming to Iowa wearing suits and 
ties and such, clean shaven, for the most part, and not ‘in red’ like in Oregon.

 The opinion page of the local newspaper in Fairfield has always run with a lot 
of hot and even bruising ink written on the subject but fortunately red hot 
blood was not overtly spilled over the subject. Now nearly 4.5 decades later 
there has come a better understanding as a detente in how both sides of the 
community tend to speak about each other as there has become a blending of 
blood within the whole area community by a living and sharing for long enough 
in life’s practicalities and raising kids.

 Possibly it all happened too fast on too large a scale for much smaller 
Antelope, Oregon to absorb what all happened like has happened differently in 
Fairfield, Iowa. Fairfield, Iowa being a liberal arts traditional college town 
had a different level of education that possibly allowed for a different 
outcome. 

 However, the posed level of ambient violence that came in to the Oregon story 
is a frank difference in the narratives.   
 

 

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

 Trailer 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBLS_OM6Puk 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBLS_OM6Puk

 

[FairfieldLife] Mindfulness and TM, in the Marketplace

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

Pointing out how aggressive and arrogant the official ™’er characterization and 
denigration of Buddhist meditation has become one responding ™ apologist 
asserts, “Mindfulness meditation is not Buddhism”.  Huh. Some authority. ™’ers 
can seem so apparently virginally innocent, even for having meditated so long.
 

 A simple google search for Mindfulness and Buddhism.. 
 

 Mindfulness is the psychological process of bringing one's attention to 
experiences occurring in the present moment, which can be developed through the 
practice of meditation and other training. The term "mindfulness" is a 
translation of the Pali term sati, which is a significant element of Buddhist 
traditions.
 

 Disparaging Buddhism again. 
 Subject: Bob Roth talks TM on Ellen Show, today, April 2: Here is the clip -- !
 
 Ellen Welcomes Transcendental Meditation Expert Bob Roth 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lwmel4F5OEg
 
 
 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hmmm...aakaashena gacchati

[srijau]

I overhead one of Maharishi's closest disciples being asked for some insight 
into what his experience was now after so much practice and his reply was 
something to the effect of that the world we are in is mostly just space, 
mostly nothing

[FairfieldLife] Hmmm...aakaashena gacchati

[he...@hotmail.com [FairfieldLife]]

The last words of Bhojadevas comment on the YF-suutra:
 

 ...yatheSTam aakaashena gacchati.
 

 Translation in Asoke Sastri's book:
 

 [and then he/she] walks (gacchati) through the air (aakaashena) in any way he 
likes (yatheSTam; sandhi 
 for yathaa + iSTam) 
 

 It's kinda "interesting" that aakaashena is the instrumental singular from 
aakaasha.
 

 According to John Hagelin, aakaasha is "subtle substance that flows" 
(paraphrase).
 

 So, in principle the above could also be translated for instance as "goes with 
the help of aakaasha as
 s/he wishes". Doesn't over 99% of ones body consist of aakaasha (the "empty" 
space between molecules and
 "inside" atoms?)??

[FairfieldLife] Re: Respite from Climate wreckage: Come to Fairfield, Iowa

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

2018 Hurricane Season Will Bring Another Battery Of Storms 

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

 Better to move to Fairfield than come as a refugee. -Maharishi
 

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

 21 March, East Coast: a Foot to a foot and a half of wet snow predicted today 
as abnormal heat in the arctic pushes jet streams down on
 New England meeting a low depression fed by warm ocean
 currents tracking north offshore the Eastern seaboard.
 Big weather expected of freezing rain, ice and heavy snows.  
 

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

 8 March, 2018: Thousands of people were left without power as a storm brought 
more than 2ft (60cm) of snow to the US east coast. 
 More than 800,000 customers were without electricity, including some who have 
been without power since last Friday's powerful winter storm.
 March 2: Severe storms have battered the US eastern seaboard, causing coastal 
flooding and power outages and bringing travel services to a halt.
 Heavy rains and damaging winds.. More than a million residences were without 
power..

 Seawater flooded coastal streets for the second time this year caused by an 
extreme high tide. Strong winds brought branches or entire trees down on 
streets, cars, and homes. Massive snows.  Declared states of emergency. 
 

 Om, what lamentation!

 

 California:

 March 2,  Up to 30,000 people were under evacuation orders in foothills of 
Santa Barbara County, with sheriff's deputies going door-to-door ordering 
people to leave, 
 
Come meditate now with the meditating community in Fairfield, Iowa.

 
 Respite:  a short period of rest or relief from something difficult or 
unpleasant.

 

 

 There are rentals in Fairfield, Iowa
 on AirBnB.
 https://www.airbnb.com/s/Fairfield--IA?s_tag=hbwJTdMO_override%5B%5D= 
https://www.airbnb.com/s/Fairfield--IA?s_tag=hbwJTdMO_override%5B%5D=

 

 


 For meditators, come meditate along with other meditators in Fairfield, Iowa.
 There are several group meditations in Fairfield to attend. Also meetings
 to attend with other meditators.
 Fairfield, Iowa is a fabulous place for spiritual respite, renewal.
 

 

 An Iowa retreat offers a place of peace to those fleeing extreme weather 
damage.
 

 Also a place to learn to meditate.. 
http://www.tm.org/transcendental-meditation-fairfield 
http://www.tm.org/transcendental-meditation-fairfield
 


 

 

 
 Lodging and Housing 

 

 
http://www.fairfieldinfocenter.org/fairfield-tm-information-center/lodging-and-housing/
 
http://www.fairfieldinfocenter.org/fairfield-tm-information-center/lodging-and-housing/

 




 Fleeing towards respite, 
 throw essential belongs you may have into a car and start driving.

 Note: Available Short-term Lodging of Meditators who practice the ™-Sidhis is 
now more opened up at the pundit campus. For Short-term accommodation, 
including meditation with the group 
 but rounding on the ‘long program’ of the Assembly is no longer required for 
rental lease at the pundit campus.
 
 2 Room Suites at $320 Including Utilities, 
 2 Bedroom cottages at $320 including Utilities.  
 # https://sites.google.com/view/idealifeassembly/home 
https://sites.google.com/view/idealifeassembly/home
 


 AirBnB accommodations also available in the Fairfield area.. 
 
 https://www.airbnb.com/s/Fairfield--IA?s_tag=hbwJTdMO_override%5B%5D= 
https://www.airbnb.com/s/Fairfield--IA?s_tag=hbwJTdMO_override%5B%5D=
 

 

 
 "Hayam Dukan Anagatam"
 
 "Avert the danger which has not yet come"
 

 Bhairitu offers: The earth is just "unstressing." :-)


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

 While the Domes themselves are spiritually powerful activated places to 
meditate, in the Fairfield meditating community in town there are a number of 
nice meditations throughout the wek that people can sit with. There are a 
number of meditator churches which are quite spiritual. There are quite a lot 
of spiritually powerful people living here to be with even if meditators could 
not directly qualify for a badge to meditate in the Domes.
 


 ‘Give us the tired,  The huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched 
refuse of these teeming super-storms.’  Come to respite now, to meditating 
Fairfield, Iowa.. 
 















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

 
 Weather Disasters In  2017 Cost More Than $300 Billion...
 ..Thousands Evacuate In Southern California As Mudslides Turn Deadly 

 

 Come meditate now with the meditating community in Fairfield, Iowa.
 

 Respite:  a short period of rest or relief from something difficult or 
unpleasant.

 

 There are rentals in Fairfield, Iowa
 



 California Struggles To Gain On Fires As New Ones Appear Daily Authorities in 
California have issued new evacuation orders as a huge wildfire flares up again 
in Santa Barbara County.


 
 
 October 1:
 a 1012 mb 

[FairfieldLife] RE: Waging Radical Peace, A Call to Group Meditations

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

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

 Russian officials condemned the U.S.-led airstrikes on three sites in Syria 
early Saturday, calling the attacks 
https://twitter.com/RussianEmbassyC/status/984990458593054720 "treacherous and 
insane" and a "clear and present danger to world peace."


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

 China accuses US of 'Cold War mentality' over nuclear policy

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

 Doomsday Clock moved to just two minutes to 'apocalypse' Growing concerns 
about a possible nuclear war and other global threats have pushed forward the 
symbolic Doomsday Clock by 30 seconds - to just two minutes before midnight.
 The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) said it had acted because the 
world was becoming "more dangerous".

 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-42823734 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-42823734

 ..
 

 Doomsday torpedo: 

 
http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a15227656/pentagon-document-confirms-existence-of-russian-doomsday-torpedo/
 
http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a15227656/pentagon-document-confirms-existence-of-russian-doomsday-torpedo/

 


 



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

 Unsettled By Russia, Sweden Revives Pamphlets On What To Do 'If War Comes' The 
decision to revive the pamphlet after all this time was inspired by the 
"current security situation" around the Baltic Sea, referring to recent Russian 
movements in the region.

 The Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency is organizing a reboot of the pamphlet, 
this time augmenting its advice on conventional warfare with tips on how to 
grapple with threats of this era: terrorism and cyberattacks, pandemics, 
misinformation campaigns and crises related to climate change.

 The agency expects to deliver these pamphlets to 4.7 million Swedish 
households beginning in late May.

 
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/22/578893302/unsettled-by-russia-sweden-revives-pamphlets-on-what-to-do-if-war-comes
 
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/22/578893302/unsettled-by-russia-sweden-revives-pamphlets-on-what-to-do-if-war-comes
 




 You’re Invited!
 To Global TM Group Meditations
 Contact your local TM Center for more info.
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 “A rare feeling of inner peace and interconnectedness!”
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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Statistical Fact: new Maharishi Meisnner-like Effect article published

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

 .
 
 The simple conclusion, as people understand the degree of statistical import 
now of the science on the Meissner-like beneficial effect from meditation there 
comes a community duty to others to meditate regularly and to meditate in 
groups.  It is time.  
 

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

 “12 published, peer-reviewed articles on violence prevention through the TM 
and TM-sidhi program have put hard-to-ignore numbers on something that 
otherwise might seem like an exercise in wishful thinking."
 

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

 “..There is a 3 in 10,000 trillion probability that the reductions in the 
homicide rate could simply be due to chance.”
 

 It only takes what?  Evidently only about 2000 people meditating in the same 
place at the same time doing ™ and the ™-sidhi program.
 

 New, solid, published, peer-reviewed research has indicated once again (in 
replication) how meditation can change the world for the better.  -FF Weekly 
Reader
 

 

 

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

 ‘ ..the ‘Not everyone agrees’ defense against correlations of science:  “We 
don’t know..it is only probability, ‘correlation is not causation’, it is not 
certain, therefore it may not exist and it would cost too much to implement or 
make any change in public policy, better we should not do anything until we 
know for certain, we should even stonewall the correlation, fire the messengers 
if they get too far with this!’  
 

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

 Brilliant and a fine extension of the scientific process (discourse). Thanks. 
I will forward a link to this to higher authorities for their review. 

 yifuxero writes:
 Let's review some hypotheses and assumptions.
 

 1. In regard to "modern" scientific inquiry, we may be in agreement  that such 
methodologies are quite limited in scope, since there are vast bodies of 
phenomena beginning with simple psychic experiences that most people "believe" 
are true based on subjective experiences and the testimonials of others. This 
body of "unproved" phenomena extends into such areas as crop circles, alien 
appearances and abductions, cattle mutilations, Big Foot sightings, etc, and 
ultimately, the ME.
 ...
 2. Most profoundly and of great importance, is the nature of Gnosis 
(Self-knowledge of the Atman leading to complete Brahman realization). We can 
go back to the early Gnostics to see how this as a Movement gradually gave way 
to Dualistic dogmatic religion.  In the 20-th century prior to WWII, there were 
minor revivals such as the "I AM Movement".  After WWII, we have Yogananda, 
Kirpal Sing, Eckankar,, etc; but most important, MMY.
 Ultimately, we come across (through subjective experience,) the Self - Purusha 
and find a true Paradox:
 The Self (Purusha) is indeed "experiential" but purely so, and as such, is not 
by It's very nature objectively provable or demonstrable to others.
 Thus, in terms of the ongoing evolutionary development of mankind (Cf. MMY, 
Eckart Tolle, and others); the hypothesis has been promulgated that the long 
term "Salvation" of individuals and of mankind is innately connected to Gnosis, 
rather than the dogma of belief systems and dualistic religions.
 Thus, the only way to "prove" Purusha is to experience It for yourself; and a 
tipping point in evolution will occur when vast numbers of people simply 
"overpower": those endowed with dualistic perception alone. This is the 
hypothesis of Tolle's "Heaven on Earth" concept.  When large numbers of people 
are Self-aware, such Gnosis will simply take it for granted as being an 
intrinsic part of life, having no need for "modern science" to prove It's 
existence as the basis of reality.
 

 3. OTOH, the ME is a SHAKTI-basic phenomena.  Among those practicing TM for 
any significant length of time, a type of perception awakens in which Shakti as 
a subtle type of energy creeps into overall awareness, with a "Shakti-meter", 
allowing people to discriminate between various people and places radiating 
that Energy.  In a sense, Shakti can be considered a subtle type of "field". 
Thus, the TMO's use of the term would be appropriate.
 

 4. Unfortunately, at this state of modern scientific inquiry, there's no 
empirical evidence for the existence of
 . higher dimensions beyond our materialistic, naturalistic world.  The fact 
that may people have experienced contact with Angels, the dead, and 
interdimensional phenomena is a moot point. Such personal testimonies maketh 
not what's acceptable as "science". If this were the case, nut cases claiming 
Alien abductions and others such as Scientologists AND the TMO would (and 
have!) attempted to make a spurious and dishonest claim for their own versions 
of what "should" be the true post-modern science.
 

 5. Factually, we are dealing with MODERN scientific methods, not such 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Respite from Climate wreckage: Come to Fairfield, Iowa

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

Better to move to Fairfield than come as a refugee. -Maharishi
 

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

 21 March, East Coast: a Foot to a foot and a half of wet snow predicted today 
as abnormal heat in the arctic pushes jet streams down on
 New England meeting a low depression fed by warm ocean
 currents tracking north offshore the Eastern seaboard.
 Big weather expected of freezing rain, ice and heavy snows.  
 

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

 8 March, 2018: Thousands of people were left without power as a storm brought 
more than 2ft (60cm) of snow to the US east coast. 
 More than 800,000 customers were without electricity, including some who have 
been without power since last Friday's powerful winter storm.
 March 2: Severe storms have battered the US eastern seaboard, causing coastal 
flooding and power outages and bringing travel services to a halt.
 Heavy rains and damaging winds.. More than a million residences were without 
power..

 Seawater flooded coastal streets for the second time this year caused by an 
extreme high tide. Strong winds brought branches or entire trees down on 
streets, cars, and homes. Massive snows.  Declared states of emergency. 
 

 Om, what lamentation!

 

 California:

 March 2,  Up to 30,000 people were under evacuation orders in foothills of 
Santa Barbara County, with sheriff's deputies going door-to-door ordering 
people to leave, 
 
Come meditate now with the meditating community in Fairfield, Iowa.

 
 Respite:  a short period of rest or relief from something difficult or 
unpleasant.

 

 

 There are rentals in Fairfield, Iowa
 on AirBnB.
 https://www.airbnb.com/s/Fairfield--IA?s_tag=hbwJTdMO_override%5B%5D= 
https://www.airbnb.com/s/Fairfield--IA?s_tag=hbwJTdMO_override%5B%5D=

 

 


 For meditators, come meditate along with other meditators in Fairfield, Iowa.
 There are several group meditations in Fairfield to attend. Also meetings
 to attend with other meditators.
 Fairfield, Iowa is a fabulous place for spiritual respite, renewal.
 

 

 An Iowa retreat offers a place of peace to those fleeing extreme weather 
damage.
 

 Also a place to learn to meditate.. 
http://www.tm.org/transcendental-meditation-fairfield 
http://www.tm.org/transcendental-meditation-fairfield
 


 

 

 
 Lodging and Housing 

 

 
http://www.fairfieldinfocenter.org/fairfield-tm-information-center/lodging-and-housing/
 
http://www.fairfieldinfocenter.org/fairfield-tm-information-center/lodging-and-housing/

 




 Fleeing towards respite, 
 throw essential belongs you may have into a car and start driving.

 Note: Available Short-term Lodging of Meditators who practice the ™-Sidhis is 
now more opened up at the pundit campus. For Short-term accommodation, 
including meditation with the group 
 but rounding on the ‘long program’ of the Assembly is no longer required for 
rental lease at the pundit campus.
 
 2 Room Suites at $320 Including Utilities, 
 2 Bedroom cottages at $320 including Utilities.  
 # https://sites.google.com/view/idealifeassembly/home 
https://sites.google.com/view/idealifeassembly/home
 


 AirBnB accommodations also available in the Fairfield area.. 
 
 https://www.airbnb.com/s/Fairfield--IA?s_tag=hbwJTdMO_override%5B%5D= 
https://www.airbnb.com/s/Fairfield--IA?s_tag=hbwJTdMO_override%5B%5D=
 

 

 
 "Hayam Dukan Anagatam"
 
 "Avert the danger which has not yet come"
 

 Bhairitu offers: The earth is just "unstressing." :-)


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

 While the Domes themselves are spiritually powerful activated places to 
meditate, in the Fairfield meditating community in town there are a number of 
nice meditations throughout the wek that people can sit with. There are a 
number of meditator churches which are quite spiritual. There are quite a lot 
of spiritually powerful people living here to be with even if meditators could 
not directly qualify for a badge to meditate in the Domes.
 


 ‘Give us the tired,  The huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched 
refuse of these teeming super-storms.’  Come to respite now, to meditating 
Fairfield, Iowa.. 
 















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

 
 Weather Disasters In  2017 Cost More Than $300 Billion...
 ..Thousands Evacuate In Southern California As Mudslides Turn Deadly 

 

 Come meditate now with the meditating community in Fairfield, Iowa.
 

 Respite:  a short period of rest or relief from something difficult or 
unpleasant.

 

 There are rentals in Fairfield, Iowa
 



 California Struggles To Gain On Fires As New Ones Appear Daily Authorities in 
California have issued new evacuation orders as a huge wildfire flares up again 
in Santa Barbara County.


 
 
 October 1:
 a 1012 mb low centered across the
central Florida peninsula near 29N81W. A strong pressure gradient
N of 29N W of 79W is generating near gale to 

[FairfieldLife] RE: Waging Radical Peace, A Call to Group Meditations

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

Russian officials condemned the U.S.-led airstrikes on three sites in Syria 
early Saturday, calling the attacks 
https://twitter.com/RussianEmbassyC/status/984990458593054720 "treacherous and 
insane" and a "clear and present danger to world peace."


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

 China accuses US of 'Cold War mentality' over nuclear policy

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

 Doomsday Clock moved to just two minutes to 'apocalypse' Growing concerns 
about a possible nuclear war and other global threats have pushed forward the 
symbolic Doomsday Clock by 30 seconds - to just two minutes before midnight.
 The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) said it had acted because the 
world was becoming "more dangerous".

 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-42823734 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-42823734

 ..
 

 Doomsday torpedo: 

 
http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a15227656/pentagon-document-confirms-existence-of-russian-doomsday-torpedo/
 
http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a15227656/pentagon-document-confirms-existence-of-russian-doomsday-torpedo/

 


 



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

 Unsettled By Russia, Sweden Revives Pamphlets On What To Do 'If War Comes' The 
decision to revive the pamphlet after all this time was inspired by the 
"current security situation" around the Baltic Sea, referring to recent Russian 
movements in the region.

 The Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency is organizing a reboot of the pamphlet, 
this time augmenting its advice on conventional warfare with tips on how to 
grapple with threats of this era: terrorism and cyberattacks, pandemics, 
misinformation campaigns and crises related to climate change.

 The agency expects to deliver these pamphlets to 4.7 million Swedish 
households beginning in late May.

 
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/22/578893302/unsettled-by-russia-sweden-revives-pamphlets-on-what-to-do-if-war-comes
 
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/22/578893302/unsettled-by-russia-sweden-revives-pamphlets-on-what-to-do-if-war-comes
 




 You’re Invited!
 To Global TM Group Meditations
 Contact your local TM Center for more info.
 Also, in case you missed it: Conf. replay: “A New Science for Peace” 
http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=93859237=1255941=6OX3=381609=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.davidlynchfoundation.org%2Fscience-for-peace-live-stream%2F
 Dear Friends,

 The success of our previous Group Meditations, with over 19,000 people 
meditating together in 29 countries, has inspired us to think bigger. Please 
join us for Global Group Meditations.
 This event will be part of our powerful waves of personal and collective 
growth—a tradition that began more than 50 years ago with TM’s Founder, 
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
 

 Join us for global waves of coherence and bliss
 

 Participants from around the world have commented on the wonderful, often 
blissful, experience of meditating together in such a large group.
 “A rare feeling of inner peace and interconnectedness!”
—L.K. Chicago, IL “Because it was such a large group, one had the feeling 
[during the meditation] that we were not only diving into our own inner 
silence, but we were also enlivening that silence in the whole world.” ­—D.T., 
Barbados “It’s an opportunity to connect with other meditators locally and also 
around the world. I love the large group meditations. I never miss them.” ­ 
—F.C., New York City Join the TM meditating family in North and South America, 
Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australasia, to create a wave of happiness, peace, 
and harmony, as we welcome in the new year and take a big step in our own 
growth.
 Please contact your local TM Center for more details. If you cannot attend in 
person, do join us from wherever you are.
 Conference Replay: “A New Science for Peace”
 Candy Crowley, Dr. John Hagelin, and experts in health, brain science, 
education, and the military recently held a morning summit to discuss the use 
of the evidence-based TM technique to address the critical issues of toxic 
stress, trauma, and peace at the Abramson Center for Peace, David Lynch 
FoundationSM, Washington, D.C. You can read more and watch a replay of the 
event here. 
http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=93859237=1255941=6OX3=381609=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.davidlynchfoundation.org%2Fscience-for-peace-live-stream%2F
 We look forward to seeing you soon!
 

 
 Maharishi on “The 1% Effect” – How Just a Small Percentage of People Can 
Change the World http://www.tm.org/blog/maharishi/maharishi-on-the-1-effect/ 
http://www.tm.org/blog/maharishi/maharishi-on-the-1-effect/

 

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

 
 It is time to let science drive public policy. It is time to have effective 
meditation taught and practiced everywhere. Time is come now to break with the 
ignorance of the past. 

 Pope Francis 

[FairfieldLife] Vata and irregular heart beat?

[he...@hotmail.com [FairfieldLife]]

Seem to recall on of the symptoms of vata (vaata) aggravation is irregular
 heart beat.
 

 Anyone know, what could be the most efficient ayur-vedic procedure, or 
whatever,
 for palpitations (vagus-nerve over-activation??)?

[FairfieldLife] Re: TMers at the Dome will be busy to promote peace in Syria

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

Russian officials condemned the U.S.-led airstrikes on three sites in Syria 
early Saturday, calling the attacks 
https://twitter.com/RussianEmbassyC/status/984990458593054720 "treacherous and 
insane" and a "clear and present danger to world peace."
 

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

 The US and Russia are now in a standoff with high risks for a nuclear war.  
Has King Tony requested pandits in India and Fairfield to perform yagyas to 
deter war in Syria?
 

 https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/russia-u-near-brink-syrian-195009843.html 
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/russia-u-near-brink-syrian-195009843.html
 

 

 

 

[FairfieldLife] Re: What is Conscionable, in TM?

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

[ email reply.. 
 This has nothing to do with being 'judgmental.'
 Just about everyone associated with the IAA knows that 'minding one's own 
business'  has to do with how we do our Program. That is clear from the context 
of Maharishi's saying it on his talks, which we hear all the time. It may not 
be clear for anyone who do not hear those talks all the time. ]
 

 Ethics, 
Later on MMY counseled a type of self discipline.. to be happy and "mind your 
own business" towards being regular practicing meditators and ‘on the program’ 
as a basis for behavior. This instruction would be a spiritual working ethic 
maybe different from social cultural ethic like the Golden Rule, that kindness 
seems overtly more to do with effects of behavior on subtle psycho-spiritual 
light-bodies of people. 

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

 What is unconscionable, in TM? "Thou shalt not.." Anything particularly 
unconscionable, hurtful, in the community of TM?


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

 The Transcendentalists’
 Morality.. 

 In the ™ movement we were told some little details about Maharishi’s teacher 
Guru Dev, Swami Brahmananda Saraswati. About how Maharishi first met SBS and 
also about how Guru Dev found his own teacher. On advanced training residential 
courses with Maharishi back in the 1970’s for those of us who were TM teachers 
there was a typed one page translated discourse of Swami Brahmananda Saraswati, 
of Guru Dev’s that was let to be passed around. This was the talk warning of 
the selling of life for the price of spinach. An advice that held intrinsic 
value that was important clarification, like a moral wake up, for people in TM 
then.

 Discourse 59
 “After experiencing 8,400,000 births, we have obtained this rare human body; 
don't waste it. Each and every moment of life is very valuable. And if you 
don't understand its value? Then you will have nothing else to do but weep, and 
you will have nothing in your hands in the end.  
 You are a human being, therefore you have the power to discriminate what is 
good and what is bad, and you can accomplish the greatest human goals. Don't 
think of yourself as weak or fallen. Whatever has happened in the past, 
understand that it was done unknowingly. But now be careful, begin doing the 
type of acts appropriate for a human being. Discern for yourself what is good 
and what is bad. Adopt the good and reject the bad.
  
 As a human being, if you don't know Paramàtmà (the Transcendent), then 
understand that you have sold a diamond for the price of spinach. One does not 
worship Paramàtmà for the sake of Paramàtmà. One worships Paramàtmà to remove 
one's own sorrow, lack of peace, ignorance, and lack of power. Paramàtmà is all 
knowing, omnipotent, and full of limitless bliss. Through worship, one can 
grasp on to his unending power. The fulfillment of this superb act is the real 
purpose of human life. If there is no effort made toward this, then understand 
that you have cheated yourself.”
 
 The Sweet Teachings  of the Blessed Shankaràcàrya 
 translation by Cynthia A. Humes
 
 
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---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Evidently there is a behavioral axis between self-interest and altruism..  and 
maybe not strictly related to 'consciousness', as we have seen.  

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

 A hardwired morality of self-interest v Altruism..
 

 In a core worldview that life is nakedly a selfish struggle for money and 
dominance the great act of moral decoupling woven through this in this 
worldview, morality has nothing to do with anything.  Altruism, trust, 
cooperation and virtue are unaffordable luxuries in the struggle of all against 
all. Everything is about self-interest.
  
 Powerful, selfish people have always adopted this dirty-minded realism to 
justify their own selfishness. The problem is that this philosophy is based on 
an error about human beings and it leads to self-destructive behavior in all 
cases.
  
 The error is that it misunderstands what drives human action. Of course people 
are driven by selfish motivations — for individual status, wealth and power. 
But they are also motivated by another set of drives — for solidarity, love and 
moral fulfillment — that are equally and sometimes more powerful.
 People are wired to cooperate. Far from being a flimsy thing, the desire for 
cooperation is the primary human evolutionary advantage we have over the other 
animals.
 People have a moral sense. They have a set of universal