[FairfieldLife] Re: Story of Shikhidvaja
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[FairfieldLife] Re: Saving the Golden Domes
Two Tax-free Donation Link, to Support the IAA (Invincible America Assembly): Support Grant Pioneers: https://giving.mum.edu/dome-support-fund/dome-supporters-1800-group/ https://giving.mum.edu/dome-support-fund/dome-supporters-1800-group/ Support Dome Expenses: https://giving.mum.edu/giving-areas/invincible-america-yogic-flyers/ https://giving.mum.edu/giving-areas/invincible-america-yogic-flyers/ .. Dome Supporters 1800 Group https://giving.mum.edu/dome-support-fund/dome-supporters-1800-group/ https://giving.mum.edu/dome-support-fund/dome-supporters-1800-group/ ,, A fair way to this is to satisfy truth using the standards in the algorithms of these charity rating services and the way they look at governance. It is not enough for our party apparatchiks to respond pleading some excuse that we don’t ‘fit’ the evaluation. GiveWell: https://www.givewell.org/charities/top-charities https://www.givewell.org/charities/top-charities Gifting time or money, GiveWell, "Don't just give. Figure out your goals first." Make sure the charity is actually doing good. Look for hard evidence. https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/11/27/671259748/how-to-make-a-good-charitable-choice-on-giving-tuesday-and-beyond https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/11/27/671259748/how-to-make-a-good-charitable-choice-on-giving-tuesday-and-beyond srijau@ offers: if you read the memoirs of people like Susan Shumsky it is obvious that people like Morris and Paterson were only doing exactly what Maharishi Mahesh Yogi told them to do and nothing else. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : The essential form of the .org ratings says a lot about trust. A decades long communal hurt here by the Morris-Patterson ‘administration’ of ™ is evident throughout the ™ community here with the long stories of trails of money given altruistically to good cause only to have it scooped off of budgets and wired elsewhere.. Asking around the old meditating community evidently a long collective experience around fundraising would be an impediment to success now. That ought to be addressed directly. Where soliciting in groups of community ™ movement meditators for the $18 million for the university endowment, 2.3 $million for the annual fund, or operating funds for MSAE, or now the $270k to keep the Domes open, too often the immediate response comes as.. “I’ll never give them another a nickel again!”. Hot communal hurt. Apropos: The phrase, "all politics is local" is a common phrase in U.S. politics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics.[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_politics_is_local#cite_note-Harpers-1 Without charity rating *stars*..? So, TM’s other units are charity ‘star-less’. They don’t rate a Charity rating star? .. Article from ConsumerReports.. Understanding Charity Ratings - Consumer Reports http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/2012/12/make-sure-your-donation-counts/index.htm Srijau offers: DLF 4 out of 4 on Charity Navigator https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=16018 https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=16018 .. David Lynch Foundation was always extraterritorial in its ways and insulated in its success from the rest of the movement’s culture of operations and characters... We need money$. $270K annually now to keep the Domes open. https://giving.mum.edu/dome-support-fund/dome-supporters-1800-group/ https://giving.mum.edu/dome-support-fund/dome-supporters-1800-group/ ™’s Pundit program, needs $45 million annually. http://globalpeaceproject.net/about-us/the-foundation/ http://globalpeaceproject.net/about-us/the-foundation/ for 9,000 peace-creating professionals at the central campus plus the required training program is $45.5 million annually. Annual Reports http://globalpeaceproject.net/vedicpandits/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/BSF-Financial-Statements-2018.pdf http://globalpeaceproject.net/vedicpandits/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/BSF-Financial-Statements-2018.pdf Notes of a larger operation at the end of the statements appear material to some of what is interlocking but mostly unseen and untold between movement business operations, assets, and various shells of ideal .org needs. 2017-18 MUM Annual Fund goal of $2.25 million. The Annual Fund supplements MUM’s revenues each year and completes our general operating budget. https://giving.mum.edu/annual-fund-2019/annual-fund/ https://giving.mum.edu/annual-fund-2019/annual-fund/ Maharishi Foundation USA teaches TM https://www.tm.org/taught-by-non-profit https://www.tm.org/taught-by-non-profit .. Will the last one out of the Domes please remember to turn out the lights? Sal ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Nice that he (Tony Nader) showed up. Important really. With community badge holders in the Dome he acquitted himse
[FairfieldLife] Re: FF meditator memoriam
Steven Timm Buffy Mooney, has passed. I'd guess he taught thousands of people. Happy Trails Buffy. Norman Watsey Gareth Oliver Hannah Kesler 2019 Rona Abramson George Hrebar Lucien Mansour Sept 2018 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Thank you for posting the obituaries, Doug. There was a time, during my teaching days, when I touted, "Perfect Health in the Direction of Immortality" I look back on this with a certain amount of amusement at my naivete, and unbridled optimism. What I do not carry with me is anger and resentment that I bought into a path, that didn't quite live up to its lofty expectations. On the other hand, stepping onto a spiritual path, which encourages you to go beyond the superficial aspect of things, what price do you put on that? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Stephen Richter Jim Bates Susan Small Lillian Busch Dar ( 1921-2018) Kayren Berna - died March, 1996 Sarah Oliver - died August, 1997 János Szász Sr. • June 4 1936 • October 19 2017 (diwali day) • Budapest • Decorated Hungarian freedom fighter • TM teacher 1977 San Francisco • MIU community + Purusha 1980-1990 • Was only one to demonstrate yogic flying behind the iron curtain Aug 15 1986 • Initiated many in Hungary • National leader for some time • His work continues • Recently deceased.. Chip Gallagher Dolly Honkenon Savannah Wechsler Len Labagh passed away Sunday morning, Jan 14. Gary Gill Judy Walls Bryan Peterson passed Stanley Kresky Randy Coplin, 1949-2018 Gary Rich, passed away early this morning, Sept 11, 2018 David Seager Merle C. Dockendorff Robert Iverson David Gannon has dropped the body. Rosie Estrin passed away this morning July 1, 2018 Transcendental Meditationist Fairfield, Iowa and a TM Movement Memoriam.. Stewart Oestreich Robert Oats Jerry Jarvis Peter Just truncated There are additional names gathered further back in this thread. Yahoo now truncates posts for length. There are many more names and also the Purusha passing list is further back in this thread. I have placed the larger file of this memoriam list over on to a Google-group. Yahoo-groups truncates now in a way that makes researching back into Yahoo subject threads difficult to work. The Google-group is an older more comprehensive adjunct to this more current listing here on FFL Yahoo-group. Note: A longer earlier version of this list that scrolls more easily can be found and opened at: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/communal-studies-forum/8LCTgvO26LM https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/communal-studies-forum/8LCTgvO26LM / Enloe Willingham Friends You probably heard that Enloe Willingham passed last week. Jai Guru Dev Norman Zierold passed away at pre-dawn 7 March 2018. There will be a gathering for cremation at Behner Funeral Home in Fairfield, 2pm Friday Sharon Starr Cynthia Cole Patrick Gearon, The Quantum (car) Mechanic Charles (Charly) Vaughn Savannah Alyn Harrell John L. Petit Roberto, Robert David passed away yesterday. Wonderful character in the community, lovely person, a very spiritual guy. Timothy Kasten, from online obit, "We were all MIU students in 1974, close as thieves sharing the grand TM adventure". Steve Petersen 1952-2017 recently on the Settle Grant with IAAssembly 2012-2015 Katherine Hanna Victor Pardo Dave Randall Tim Hunter
[FairfieldLife] Fairly funny TMer!
Women are scary: a rather funny tropical Scorpio TMer: https://youtu.be/PbHrIC5AX1Y https://youtu.be/PbHrIC5AX1Y
