[FairfieldLife] DLF 4 out of 4 on Charity Navigator
https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=16018 https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=16018 the Maharishi orgs can be searched there, mostly not rated as too small etc
[FairfieldLife] Re: Nxivm former members to break vow of silence by testifying against cult leader
The salacious content aside the abstract of the group could be relevant generally. Some quotes from the article: the centralisation of control, a belief system vulnerable to critical scrutiny and an attempt to change people in fundamental ways.” experts say people attracted to change are vulnerable to manipulative ‘cultish group behavior’ As the case against Raniere unspools, larger questions may emerge, including how a group which appears to have begun as relatively benign program linked to the personal wellness movement could have developed into a hierarchical organisation of interlocking subgroups.. and under the control of a single leader. “There’s nothing wrong with a self-help workshop, but people who are attracted to change and being changed are vulnerable to the kind of leader we see in cult situations – manipulative, interested in control and highly narcissistic.” The existence of a cult around Raniere, Boyle-Laisure said, would not necessarily mean that a wellness group like Nxivm, which tapped into modern obsessions such as wellness, celebrity, affluence and thinness, was inherently dangerous. “I don’t believe people joined the group saying ‘I want to look thinner,’” she said. “They joined because somebody said they had answers to life questions. In the process they became controlled about how to look and behave. “That is what is so deceptive about cults. The engagement is not clear at the outset, people get sucked in, turn over collateral and then it’s too late to exit.” .. eustace10679 posts: 'Everything was just lies': how alleged sex cult Nxivm deceived its victims https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/11/nxivm-trial-allison-mack-keith-raniere-cult-victims https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/11/nxivm-trial-allison-mack-keith-raniere-cult-victims?utm_term=RWRpdG9yaWFsX0d1YXJkaWFuVG9kYXlVUy0xOTA1MTE%3D&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUS&CMP=GTUS_email ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Upstate NY’s ashram communities, including ™’s Livingston Manor, that other TM one at South Fallsburg, NY in there too.. The facility at South Fallsburg was bought subsequently from TM by Muktananda’s .org? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Upstate New York, “..a 'burnt district.' this references where the religious revival is related to reform movements of the period, such as abolition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abolitionism_in_the_United_States, women's rights https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_rights, and utopian social experiments https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia#Religious_utopia, the region is expanded to include areas of central New York that were important to these movements. “ Others there in history too. The earliest Shaker spiritual practice ashram-like communities landed in upstate New York. = Shaker Meditative Practice: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fbclid=IwAR3KgYKQM6y-efgVs1Ds2zKFMtsflbwajNjSFBoSCPB38Ee4P9G5-aIDhbA#!topic/communal-studies-forum/0wLtbs5giDo https://groups.google.com/forum/?fbclid=IwAR3KgYKQM6y-efgVs1Ds2zKFMtsflbwajNjSFBoSCPB38Ee4P9G5-aIDhbA#!topic/communal-studies-forum/0wLtbs5giDo The Amana Society communalists of The True Inspiration, also silent meditators in spiritual transcendentalist practice, went through that upstate NY area too, building an ashram-like community outside Syracuse initially before they migrated to settle and build in Iowa. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : That upstate New York corridor seems to have been a hotbed for this kind of breeding. Noyes at Oneida, Joe Smith with the Mormons, and this. What could the astrocartographers say, fertile ground or something in the water? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Nxivm former members to break vow of silence by testifying against cult leader https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/06/nxivm-former-members-opening-arguments-new-york-court https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/06/nxivm-former-members-opening-arguments-new-york-court?utm_term=RWRpdG9yaWFsX0d1YXJkaWFuVG9kYXlVUy0xOTA1MDY%3D&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUS&CMP=GTUS_email
[FairfieldLife] Re: Nxivm former members to break vow of silence by testifying against cult leader
'Everything was just lies': how alleged sex cult Nxivm deceived its victims https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/11/nxivm-trial-allison-mack-keith-raniere-cult-victims https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/11/nxivm-trial-allison-mack-keith-raniere-cult-victims?utm_term=RWRpdG9yaWFsX0d1YXJkaWFuVG9kYXlVUy0xOTA1MTE%3D&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUS&CMP=GTUS_email
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Communal Studies
THANKS Douglas for sharing this with US & Me Bill Leed. ... ... May come to &
hope to come to FF., IA to see Dr Raju of HYD, Hyderabad India, a world class
Vadya ( pulse reader) end of May 26 -27, to 5 or 6 June 19. Martha Blackmore,
is assisting him & hosting him at her place, Court St.
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From: dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
To: FairfieldLife
Sent: Mon, May 13, 2019 9:41 am
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Communal Studies
One session of papers presented at the annual conference of the Communal
Studies Association was on ‘the end of community’ with three in depth papers
given on three different communal groups. One of the groups was a 19th Century
group something like our own in Fairfield and the others were of more secular
communal groups of the earlier 20th Century and late 19th.
The commonality in their three narratives was what came as diffusion of their
core values in time as there came along arrivals of newer outsiders in
membership and fewer of generations born to the older founding generation would
stay on in community. These trends were supplanting to founding generations
then in time. Hence, the loss in perspective of foundational core communal
values over time as those values came to not be so well spoken to (championed)
or lived in these groups.
Evidently once core foundational values diminished in time within each group
example there came in a mundane to the workload of sustaining ‘community’ as
resources of energy and altruistic goodwill ebbed and dried. The cohesion of a
communal ‘shakti’ generally went down, people leave, people stop coming. Each
group then arriving to point whence their assets of what had been built up to
facilitate their core values are then auctioned off. The sale. Within the
examples in these papers was the group of Zoar separatists, something like our
own in transcendentalism, seems something of a template for how it goes with
spiritual practice groups as our own: Diminution of the cheering of core
values, administrative rigidity setting in, loss of people, loss of altruism
towards the community, loss of donors, loss of critical mass, financial crisis,
and finally an auction of assets attendant to the dispersal of community.
..Checklist:
“..something of a template for how it goes with spiritual practice groups as
our own: Diminution in the cheering of core values, administrative rigidity
setting in, loss of people, loss of altruism towards the community, loss of
donors, loss of critical mass, financial crisis, and finally an auction of
assets attendant to the dispersal of community."
Eroding Core Values and Loss of Communal Critical Mass
A long declining arc of the Dome meditation attendance numbers in what is the
Fairfield, Ia. meditating community seems far along on this path.”..
Unseen, for as large as our communal ‘artifacts’ here in meditating Fairfield
appear to be, a tragedy which people coming from the outside will not be able
to see is the collapse in aggregate numbers attending the communal group
meditations inside the Domes.
/
A driving tour yesterday around m
[FairfieldLife] Re: Communal Studies
One session of papers presented at the annual conference of the Communal Studies Association was on ‘the end of community’ with three in depth papers given on three different communal groups. One of the groups was a 19th Century group something like our own in Fairfield and the others were of more secular communal groups of the earlier 20th Century and late 19th. The commonality in their three narratives was what came as diffusion of their core values in time as there came along arrivals of newer outsiders in membership and fewer of generations born to the older founding generation would stay on in community. These trends were supplanting to founding generations then in time. Hence, the loss in perspective of foundational core communal values over time as those values came to not be so well spoken to (championed) or lived in these groups. Evidently once core foundational values diminished in time within each group example there came in a mundane to the workload of sustaining ‘community’ as resources of energy and altruistic goodwill ebbed and dried. The cohesion of a communal ‘shakti’ generally went down, people leave, people stop coming. Each group then arriving to point whence their assets of what had been built up to facilitate their core values are then auctioned off. The sale. Within the examples in these papers was the group of Zoar separatists, something like our own in transcendentalism, seems something of a template for how it goes with spiritual practice groups as our own: Diminution of the cheering of core values, administrative rigidity setting in, loss of people, loss of altruism towards the community, loss of donors, loss of critical mass, financial crisis, and finally an auction of assets attendant to the dispersal of community. . Checklist: “..something of a template for how it goes with spiritual practice groups as our own: Diminution in the cheering of core values, administrative rigidity setting in, loss of people, loss of altruism towards the community, loss of donors, loss of critical mass, financial crisis, and finally an auction of assets attendant to the dispersal of community." Eroding Core Values and Loss of Communal Critical Mass A long declining arc of the Dome meditation attendance numbers in what is the Fairfield, Ia. meditating community seems far along on this path.” .. Unseen, for as large as our communal ‘artifacts’ here in meditating Fairfield appear to be, a tragedy which people coming from the outside will not be able to see is the collapse in aggregate numbers attending the communal group meditations inside the Domes. / A driving tour yesterday around meditating Fairfield again for a visitor, this time an old SRF (Yogananda) meditator visiting Fairfield. The scale of our whole facility of communal meditating is remarkably stunning when visitors get to see the whole scope of it. It is fun to see and be with people when they 'get it'. .. In TM community it is said: “The Past is a lesser state of evolution.” But, financial planners warn cautioning us otherwise, “Past performance is not a guarantee of future returns” . Towards becoming something else like a historic site to visit, according to these histories evidently things may not look the same as what we may see now as community. Already we are hearing grumblings in TM from what is an elder International Council of Rajas that the Domes in Fairfield, Iowa are too expensive to maintain. While at the same time the University being without endowment requires active and substantial donor cohorts every year to make budget for what all they should like to do to keep on. With prospect in communal core values, the hopeful in re-developing community are constrained in reality by budget and human resource right now. The complexion of the core group that is remaining quite evidently is not what it once was in youth. May providential blessings from the superradiance in the Nature of the Unified Field support a magnanimous prosperity to our continued journey here in community. Jai Guru Dev, As related point of reference like this template shown of how groups like ours end, Life-cycle within Communal Spiritual Groups See: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/communal-studies-forum/ChNcesJm1Cs https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/communal-studies-forum/ChNcesJm1Cs Yep, the Dome group meditation attendance numbers in Fairfield seem are at catastrophic low levels. Srijau notes: there is no adequate superradiance for America now that's obvious to everyone. a good pocket of good influence for Fairflield and some other pockets of good influence elsewhere where in some cities there is a lot of people doing TM ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : The Loss of communal superradiance mass.. There are mornings here more recently with only 160 meditating in the men’s Dom
