Meditator Quakers..
A history of Ff’s silent Quaker meetings
#385494 Friends Journal article, The TM Diaspora...
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/385494
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/385494
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“People, meditators are for getting done what needs are for themselves as what
they are getting done communally.”
“Within the various meditator infused churches, temples, and spiritual groups,
in
Fairfield, Iowa this has not just only to do with groups meditating, the
transcendent is an important part of it, Maharishi got it off to a realy good
start, Jai Guru Dev. It is fantastic. We have a transcendent practice, Jai Guru
Dev. But the need to go beyond that in terms of how we are going to live it,
that is what is happening in Fairfield. Group practice wherever you find it.
The Trillium people, the Art of Living people, the Oneness people, the
meditators in the Liberal Catholic churches, the meditators in the Jewish, the
Germain, and the Hindu Temples, the silent Quakers, go for it.”
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
Yet,
People, practicing meditators were disaffiliated from the group?
A: Just on the intellectual level of belief by personality of administration.
The naturally limiting value of beliefs is that not everyone is going to
believe the same thing. Just like a forest of trees are not going to be all
elms.
And yet disaffiliation has happened. Separating people over belief structures,
over ‘devotion to the guru’, pressing an alignment to the guru. That is really
what is under the TM Dome guidelines for membership and how they have been
enforced for decades. A contriving of feeling that people made promises and
that people are in violation and should be punished and separated.
For example,
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/communal-studies-forum/PXOdRY1SlUY
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/communal-studies-forum/PXOdRY1SlUY
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
“Is it necessary for something to be strong for everyone to act and behave in
a similar way on a behavioral level? This is one of the amazing things about
Fairfield, Ia. is that it proves ‘no you don’t have to be’. That you can have
wildly different people who believe, have wildly different politics, different
religions, all of it, and ask them and it is TM where they all started and are
informed by. It is incredible.”
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
Using “schismogenesis” as an anthropologist's social science vehicle for
driving through the Fairfield, Iowa story becomes a whole different level of
exploration into the story of community.
At a Communal Studies Association Annual Conference I presented a paper as an
overview road-map interpretation for outsiders who would look in on meditating
Fairfield, Ia. An irony is that locals are not themselves necessarily able to
fathom the meditating community..
The Text of that paper is posted as:
Describing Communal (Meditating) Fairfield, Iowa
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/communal-studies-forum/Hbd4EfxrbU0
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/communal-studies-forum/Hbd4EfxrbU0
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
"..Is not this diversity in community with the transcendent experience a good
thing? That you could have such diversity exploring and such unified
perspective. Avenues of teachings, pathways or faithways that relate. Informed
by experience, is that diversity a schism or a healthy diversification?"
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
‘Schismogenesis’? What a hoot. Someone got their doctorate coming up with that
term.
Q: In a communalism that is here in Fairfield, Ia. it is interesting to see
that there has been overt and covert schismatic processes going on that is
reflected in subsets of community that are here. Academic, global country,
the meditating community in town.
A: Those are ideas, alignment of belief structure. This does not touch the
commonality of the experience in this which is consciousness itself. It, the
experience of state in transcendentalism, is like an ultimate unifier even when
groups get together in Fairfield.
If you go around a room of the meditating community and really ask people and
you will get people who are really TM’ers to people who are Mahur Baba people,
whatever they are exploring or have gone in to; or waking down, Artee, mystic
Christianity, all of it is informed by the experience of this. In going around,
in spite of that, we all can understand this because we all know what we are
talking about because it is in the experiential. This is how deep does that TM
community go. Does it have to be ‘schism’ or is it the expression of diversity
in the community of the experience.
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