[FairfieldLife] Re: Growing Up TM
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : FF Coffee Haus conversation reports, TM Atheism & Nihilism: Excerpt, ..her daily work consults all day long with people from all over about their spiritual states. https://sites.google.com/site/ jenniferhamiltonsunpoint/home https://sites.google.com/site/jenniferhamiltonsunpoint/home She works with some TM’ers and with other folks who call on her. With old TM’ers it can be ‘checking’ their experience related to meditating. It can be everything. For some while now, also a lot of younger ™.org http://tm.org/ teachers and DLF teachers who have also found her over the years by word of mouth as someone they can talk to for perspective on what they are experiencing as dissonance. More recently she was talking about this from her experience in talking with these kids of the movement about the evident integrity problem the movement is in. What she finds in her experience… paraphrasing, Voice to text.. “The Gen-X and Millennials of TM assert that many people in their group cohort who they do know are atheist, that they are atheist to an extreme. There are two groups. One group in the Gen-X and Millennials of TM is atheist that are the most spiritual people you ever met. And, another group that is atheist in a place of utter rejection of anything: that there is no truth, there is nothing to reality other than a biological event, life. This second group sits with: ..that consciousness has no other place other than in the brain and that when one is born one becomes conscious and then one dies and consciousness goes away. For that group there is no what we might call continuum of experience or continuum of life. There is that group. However, there is a group in what they are going through and what is happening to them that on the level of consciousness is absolutely sublime. Is this going to fit in to ™-Ville and a vision of seven states of consciousness? Probably not. Some of the cohort have personal and direct intimate relationship with their experience (evolution). The description is gorgeous. It happens when they meditate invited to sit in the lap of it and they are held to be in quiet in a capacity built to not get just strung out on their thinking, but just to be in that silence present. God intoxicated and in life. Gorgeous and in detail in Nature. It is gorgeous. Add to this we have the walking wounded of the TM children because of how they were or were not handled in the school and by the teaching. What they saw very early on was the utter hypocrisy of the whole deal while their parents, tru-believers, were ‘drinking the kool-aid’. These kids were going like, “What is going on here?” This is not just news to them. It was a revelation that occurred early in their life. So they have this wound, this impression. Of course they run the gamut, of course they are not all going to be the same, but how many of them consider themselves to be atheist, atheism of the nihilist type. Then you have those that are atheist but they are atheist of the most refined spirituality. They are so non-dual that the idea of god as other, that kind of state they are Stabilizing unity consciousness is in that God absorbed ecstatic kind of union. Stabilizing a unity consciousness they talk about this as their expression. This is before Veda. It is before Maharishi, or Ammas or a David Spero last week or Janet Sussman this week. It is not about it being male or female, it is about it being both of masculine and feminine in balance. Infinite dynamism and infinite silence at the same time and the form of it in expression, in form that the mind can understand. Right now some are in this ‘shiva-shakti’ merging in their experience of state shaped by the direct guru-hood of the experience. It is fascinating. These are very spiritual kids, they are not looking for ‘church’. They are not looking for someone to tell them what to do. They get guidance. They are in to jyotish, they are about insight and perspective. But as far as this whole thing of trying to perpetuate a teaching, that even though the movement say and want to assert that it does not, it most certainly does seek to perpetuate duality because the guru in their minds is, “always perfect”, “beyond reproach”, “not questioned”, everything is deferred to whatever he said, the guru guidelines, it is all of that. All about structuring everything around that; and that you cannot trust your own experience. If your experience deviates from the seven states, in the sense of the tidy super mental linear thing they have, that he barely touched on at the least, that it was something you had to get through in order to have unity. Fascinating, depending on how one defines unity. Unity to what, not a who but a what. Their talk is about the difference in reality not of what who they are but what they are, what is. Not the who. The who impli
[FairfieldLife] Re: Year-end, 2015 Post-Founder TM, an Index
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : # ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : May 2016 427373Re: Change of Leadership, Bevan Deposed https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/427373 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/427373 427441Re: TM Legacy https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/427441 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/427441 427265Re: MUM Student Petition https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/427265 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/427265 427165Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Tony Nader's new lot https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/427165 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/427165 427167Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditators Should Come (back) to the Domes the next 4-5 weeks ~ Important time for coherence in consciousness https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/427167 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/427167 427089Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Is TM a New Religion? The Federal District Court https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/427089 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/427089 427183Re: Revolutionary Millenarianism, TM and the Meissner Effect [ME] in Consciousness https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/427183 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/427183 427004Re: Directory of Active Spiritual Practice Groups of Fairfield https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/427004 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/427004 426986Re: [FairfieldLife] Maharishi Thumb Drive https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/426986 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/426986 426886Re: Charismatic Spiritual https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/426886 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/426886 # The Collective Meditation: 426885Re: Peace and Groups Joining to Meditate https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/426885 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/426885 426805Re: New Study: Invincible America Assembly Reduced Homicides 21.2% and Violent Crime 18.5% https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/426805 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/426805 426753Re: In Peace Projects, Formative and Powerful Times https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/426753 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/426753 # 427434:Growing up in a TM community, Claire Hoffman https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/427434 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/427434 # 423593Re: An Old Index to FFL https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/423593 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/423593 # Year-end, 2015 Post-Founder TM, an Index: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : [y-2015] 419933Re: Maharishi School, enters new era. https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/419933 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/419933 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : TM Mental Health: 422639So, How's Meditating Fairfield, Iowa Doing? https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/422639 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/422639?soc_src=mail&soc_trk=ma 374777FW: How Our Community Works Corporate Communal TM, the flow chart.. https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/374777 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/374777?soc_src=mail&soc_trk=ma 422273Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: FF Mental Health Alliance: Shifting Cultural Attitudes https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/422273 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/422273?soc_src=mail&soc_trk=ma This chronicles work back to 2014, scroll down through the post and open the 'show more history'. Perfectionism, The Stressed and Distressed in Achievement Cultures.. 423577Re: Normal Kids, Rich Kids, Poor Kids, the MSAE and MUM kids.. https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups
[FairfieldLife] Re: Mental Health in the Fairfield and Meditating Communities
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Nope. MJ, someone evidently is leading you along [by the nose] with bad information. That simply is not true. There have been working meetings of [meditating] mental health professionals and interested people going on for weeks around actively delivering modern mental health to the Fairfield and meditating communities. That process has pushed a development of a mental health clinic on campus that is being set up and staffed. There is movement with local community resources of hospital, emergency response, social services and police to have qualified mental health people available as standard now. Even a local facility to help in crisis. These are work in progress in the meditating community and locally working together around this. Yes and all very much looking at the culture of the meditating community around modern mental health services and resources is going on. One of the academic papers delivered at the academic conference over this last weekend was a framework for mental health from the movement adopting modern scientific and effective practices to mental health. This is being forced and grappled with by good people and the movement too. There is good progress and work in progress. You are making wild and large assumptions evidently to your own end otherwise. -Buck, on the Ground in Fairfield and in the Dome mjackson74 writes: I just got a private e-mail from someone in Fairfield who says that you are making all this up about the TMO creating a group to help people with mental problems that might lead to suicide. As I thought. From: "Share Long sharelong60@... [FairfieldLife]" To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" Sent: Thursday, August 7, 2014 1:13 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] How to inspire confidence in your troops...I served 28 yrs now Ret Col TM is a great success4me & my troops who learned it I found out from friends who know of my interest in helping improve the situation. On Thursday, August 7, 2014 11:38 AM, "Michael Jackson mjackson74@... [FairfieldLife]" wrote: so how do I find out about them? From: "Share Long sharelong60@... [FairfieldLife]" To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" Sent: Thursday, August 7, 2014 12:30 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] How to inspire confidence in your troops...I served 28 yrs now Ret Col TM is a great success4me & my troops who learned it Michael, how I am replying is totally my choice and is based to a large extent on the tone of your posts here, including this one. I think you are stuck in the past about the TMO. More importantly, I don't think you welcome good news about the TMO. But you are welcome to come to one of the public meetings I'm referring to and find out for yourself. That is, if you are sincerely interested in improving situations. On Thursday, August 7, 2014 11:10 AM, "Michael Jackson mjackson74@... [FairfieldLife]" wrote: And with true Movement slippery-ness you are refusing to give us any info on how the Movement is dealing with ongoing suicides. Why the secrecy? Interesting in that you just took me to task for not responding to Sounds of Silence's bs. So what are the Movement's remedies to prevent suicide? More meditation? More yagyas? More money donated to the Movement? Come on Share, don't blather about it unless you are gonna come clean. I know the Movement. The Movement in fact does not evolve. They are still stuck in the vibe that the Old Fraud himself gave that TM is 10% life supporting. They can't offer a damn thing to mitigate suicides among TM'ers that works, cause you could have to cease TM to do so. Their remedies are all superstitious nonsense. So come on, prove me wrong. Are they now suggesting that depressed TM'ers go get professional non-TM help from psychiatrists? Or is it some ayurvedic mental health fakir who come from India to squirt some mango juice in their ears while chanting mantras to them, all at an exorbitant price? From: "Share Long sharelong60@... [FairfieldLife]" To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" Sent: Thursday, August 7, 2014 11:52 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] How to inspire confidence in your troops...I served 28 yrs now Ret Col TM is a great success4me & my troops who learned it Michael, all I'm saying is that wrt suicide and the TMO, your allegation that the TMO is ignoring such situations is out of date. I'd also add that the TMO is an evolving organization comprised of evolving individuals in an evolving universe. It's healthy to make use of what's beneficial in the world and if one wants, help heal and or develop what's still evolving. I don't think it's healthy to keep focused on what happened a long time ago with a non healing intention. Which is what I think you do. On Thursday, August 7, 2014 10:32 AM, "Michael Jackson mjackson74@... [FairfieldLife]" wrote: E-mail me
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: FF Mental Health Alliance: Shifting Cultural Attitudes
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Yes there was a change in the fundamentalism. The practical operational policy now is that people will get referred to professional mental health resources as needed. You ask about mindfulness meditation as therapy, in the operation of the new policy I doubt that the clinics on campus or that TM teachers out in the world will be providing mindfulness branded prescriptions for mental illnesses. That particular mental-health prescription would be coming from experts certified or licensed in mental health counseling otherwise, as needs be the case. Take a look at the policy as it operates. It is a major change. According to the science Mindfulness therapy may have its place for some people, as does the practice of transcending meditation. Also with this policy, TM would no longer dispute a place for mindfulness practices in mental health modality based on where modern science is going. TM takes great pain to differentiate the practices and benefits of the two different practices. Evidently the two meditations each have their places in mental health well-being. Culturally though I doubt we we'll see a merger of meditation trademarks of the two meditation institutions. It seems both are quite busy entrenching themselves each in their own science of uniqueness. Bolstering, each seems to have valid mental health science behind their own existence. But the TM policy in practice now is much clearer with this policy revision governing the movement's mental health policy. The policy sends people to experts in mental health for particular mental illnesses. The TM movement changed in process with this by an amalgam of urgent need for re-assessment and modern science in the 21st Century. That is okay and healthful in itself. Calm minds prevailed inside the process. The TM Policy Initiative on Mental Health: http://portals.mum.edu/Customized/uploads/guidelines-for-mental-health.html http://portals.mum.edu/Customized/uploads/guidelines-for-mental-health.html ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : In TM Policy.. A comprehensive look at mental health and a changing of position. Adapting a Culture to Changing Times, The TM Policy Initiative on Mental Health: http://portals.mum.edu/Customized/uploads/guidelines-for-mental-health.html http://portals.mum.edu/Customized/uploads/guidelines-for-mental-health.html salyavin808 writes: Nice to see you've dropped Marshy's teaching that TM was the ultimate cure for every mental ailment, but this isn't reflecting a changing culture - the world was always like that, he was just too keen to teach you otherwise. It's a healthy thing to have struck his fundamentalism from the record. Don't get me wrong, TM is a nice thing to do but the cure for the world's pain it is not. Have you thought about introducing Mindfulness Cognitive Behaviour Therapies? Very useful indeed for depression and anxiety states which are the most common acquired problems in the world today. Assuming the TMO has the flexibility to recommend techniques that it comprehensively rubbished not so long ago you will find it more effective than a lot of talking therapies. It also has a fine "hands on" style which may suit people used to doing stuff with their heads. The TM Policy Initiative on Mental Health: http://portals.mum.edu/Customized/uploads/guidelines-for-mental-health.html http://portals.mum.edu/Customized/uploads/guidelines-for-mental-health.html The FF Mental Health Alliance: Shifting Cultural Attitudes update meeting: November 2015: http://us11.campaign-archive1.com/?u=8106b31a70de58c5f10ebc41b&id=64e514542b&e=4a03ac3b4a http://us11.campaign-archive1.com/?u=8106b31a70de58c5f10ebc41b&id=64e514542b&e=4a03ac3b4a ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Communal Work in Progress.. "Thirty or 40 years ago, there was a great resistance to using the tools of Western psychotherapy and Western psychology. People at various ashrams or Zen centers or Buddhist centers and so forth would say, “All you need to do is chant, or do the mantra, or sit in Zen meditation, and it will take care of everything.” And other tools were considered to be unnecessary or even kind of lower-level practices. Now, I could tell you the names of the therapists of half of the main Zen teachers and lamas around the country, because they realized that in our modern, Western time, we need all the help we can get. We need to marry these powerful spiritual disciplines with the wisdom and the understanding of this particular culture. That wisdom and understanding includes tools for healing, tools for trauma work, tools for emotional intelligence. And in the last 40 years, these have become integrated much more actively across the spiritual teachings." -Jack Kornfield how-can-p
[FairfieldLife] Re: Reformation and Renaissance
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : A narrative of a leadership change in the TM community... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : "Maharishi University of Management has celebrated Sept. 12 as Founder’s Day ever since 1971 when it was founded in Santa Barbara, California, as Maharishi International University. The event this year was a particularly momentous one for the university as Bevan Morris, its president for 36 years, stepped down from his post and handed the reigns to John Hagelin (pictured) during a ceremony Monday Night in the Patanjali Dome. Hagelin was most recently a physics professor at the university, where he has worked since 1984. To commeorate the passing of the torch from Morris to Hagelin, the university put on a fire works display (pictured) at about 10 p.m." http://fairfield-ia.villagesoup.com/p/founders-day/1572283 http://fairfield-ia.villagesoup.com/p/founders-day/1572283 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : FW: August 26, 2016 In my new role as President-elect of Maharishi University of Management, I have been greatly impressed by the devoted and extremely competent leaders who have sustained our institution for so many years. These stalwart heroes have helped make my transition a thoroughly enjoyable and inspiring experience. Together, we are reshaping and expanding many dimensions of the University’s functioning. In particular, we are revamping and improving our marketing strategies, drawing upon the extensive experience and talents of our Maharishi Foundation marketing experts who have increased TM instructions in the U.S. by 25-fold in the past eight years. We are launching exciting new academic programs and upgrading many facets of the University’s functioning. And most important right now, we are upgrading the physical campus to a whole new level of excellence and beauty. We have already made great strides in this area. In the last several months we have invested nearly $1 million in donor-supported upgrades—including to Hildenbrand Hall, our largest women’s residence hall, which houses over 100 students. (See photos.) Likewise, our largest building for classrooms and offices—Verrill Hall, at 10,000 sq. ft.—has been transformed to a new level of dignity and functionality. A brand-new Maharishi Vedic Observatory now graces the exterior entry to the Argiro Student Center. We are renovating the interior and exterior of historic Henn Mansion, and just last year we replaced both roofs on our Golden Domes. All this has been possible through the great generosity and selfless support of our precious donors. Right now, we are focused on a crucial remodeling our five high-rise residence halls, home to over 250 men students. Two of these buildings were significantly upgraded several years ago, but the other three are in rather urgent need of renovation. We already have most of the funds needed for this major project from within the University’s operating budget and from donor support, but at present we are still $127,000 short. Therefore, we are reaching out once again to our greatest supporters, such as yourself, to help us bridge this financial gap and complete this vitally important and timely undertaking. This renovation is especially timely because our new marketing campaigns are bearing fruit: there is an upsurge in student inquiries, applications and visits to campus in these last 1-2 months. Our dormitories must be dignified and attractive to inspire these visiting students and their parents. With your support, we can easily make MUM far more irresistible for these prospective students. I have been so inspired and impressed by our newly arrived students, whom I’ve been meeting in my new capacity as President-elect. They are so fresh and intelligent and excited about the new direction they have taken with MUM. They are truly the bright future of the world. (Note that nearly half of the 51 young Americans now heading to Bali for their TM Teacher Training Course are from MUM!) I see an incredibly bright future for MUM—Maharishi’s precious, flagship university. The momentum is building very quickly. With your generous support for our most vitally important initiatives, we can quickly create a campus that fully reflects the limitless possibilities of Consciousness-Based education. Please join me in giving generously today http://portals.mum.edu/donations/highrise. With my deepest thanks, and with best wishes for your success and happiness, John Hagelin, Ph.D. President-elect ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : September 12th—Founder’s Day We look forward to seeing everyone at the Maharishi Patanjali Golden Dome of Pure Knowledge on Monday evening at 8:00 pm. This evening marks the point of transition from one presidency of the University to the next one, so it is an historic event for all to share. Sunday, September 18th at 8:00 pm in Dalby Hall
[FairfieldLife] Re: Spiritual Morality
Rick Archer’s panel enumerates sexual, emotional, and financial abuse. There was a guy, Mark Meredith who was really good a ferreting out financial records on the ™ movement. Mark is passed away now some time ago but he had background in things both financial management and also the ™ movement. He was really helpful in his way with shedding light on this area of behavior. Within Rick’s oversight group there could be helpful facilitation to .org financials of gurus and such. Often times it takes insiders to help with insight to shells within groups. Mark was particularly good at looking through all the various incorporporations with ‘Maharishi’ in their name. A service like Charity Navigator could be helped to have category for spiritual teachers/healers/guru non-profits. A committee of Rick’s SAND group could be quite helpful working with a credible group like Charity Navigator to help them get a better look at these peculiar ‘spiritual’ people and groups. This last summer the Shambhala community at large was racked by both sexual and financial abuse at the top. Watching John Douglas’ business get hooked up with a former ™ operative could make anyone seeing that wonder where that money all is going. Which groups can accede to standards out there like Charity Navigator’s of financial behavior? This could be helped to be made more clear. Evaluating Charities Not Currently Rated by Charity Navigator https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=content.view&cpid=847 https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=content.view&cpid=847 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Rick’s group of concerned therapist spiritual counselors corrals the perpetration and the teacher/leader perps of spiritually hurtful bad behavior. May be this group in their thoughtful concern could hold their focus and refer or collaborate the communal part of the work to people who mediate communal hurt already. It is real interesting to see the communal re-mediating work being actively done right now on the Shambhala community. Way down in the SAND discussion comes consideration of the effect of poor behavior on “community” offering “Truth and Reconciliation” as a model. Re-developing community seems another whole jurisdiction of work. What has been the experience of mediated work of peace movements, ‘truth and conconcilliation’ processes, ‘non-violent communication’ is extended with the work of ‘restorative justice’. Remediating the perps is one level of the work, the community they work in is a whole nother. Cornering the perps civilly or criminally is its own work, but their effect on their community is another part of the work. NPR posted a link recently to some research demonstrating how a lot of people lack empathy. Rick’s example of the disordered narcissistic spiritual teacher is a good example. I had conversation a while ago with one of the main owners of the ™ movement about the problems, who replied the same kind of response, “what problems?”. Yet, as was said many times in the panel discussion, this cannot hold for very long in contemporary culture with the fluidity and transparency of social media now. An example of process on the Communal Hurt part of the Equation, here is abstracted a process that happened in the trauma of a guru passing away, Engaging Restorative Justice in Reclamation of Community https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/communal-studies-forum/AM9bhYe1dXI https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/communal-studies-forum/AM9bhYe1dXI ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : This ethics work at the SAND conference is a very good distillation to the subject. Locally the atonement part of the work Is something yet to be really applied towards what are the subsets of the meditating community in Fairfield, Iowa “with standards of expectation”, “We’re trying to balance our subjective perspectives with standards that fit our contemporary culture.. Of behavior and abdication of behavior sexually, financially, emotional, ..causing divestment of life savings, causing harm, and dissolution. " "..Revisiting traditions of patriarchy, power play and equality that are being shattered by contemporary culture and being rebuilt in an honest way that is reflective of contemporary culture. ..All too often, when teachers are challenged on their behavior, they ignore the challenger or become defensive.” In Fairfield and the TMO it seems what those that were the meditating movement have 'moved on' with any latent hurt they may have had. Unacknowledged. At a distance now. Maharishi died about 10 years ago. The sex and that money stuff, the biggest building in the world, the 'Brahmasthan of America', happened before that. The Pundits gone now. Figure there were about 6000 TM teachers in the United States in 1975, and what, 360 active TM teachers in the US now. About that
[FairfieldLife] Re: Support in Nature
..protective care of nature as a spiritual power. # What did Guru Dev (Maharishi’s teacher) say about cultivating this support in nature? It is a theme that recurs in his talks about spirituality and spiritual life. This is one discourse that considers a support in nature that comes from meditation and spiritual practices. Swami Brahmananda Saraswati said: “If you want to benefit from Bhagavàn (the Transcendent), then do spiritual practice and make him manifest in one location. The all-pervasive, formless divine being (bhagavatsattà ) is incapable of action; it is merely a witness. Only when it manifests itself in one place with the help of màyà can it take some action in màyà's world, characterized as it is by the three guṇas. This is like the fire which remains unmanifest in wood; even though it is all-pervading, it cannot light the wood, nor can it perform any act. But when wood is rubbed, the wood can burn and act as we desire. Similarly, when the all-pervasive divine being manifests in some site with the help of our spiritual practice, then there can be some worldly benefit. Spiritual practice is a staircase by which the devotee climbs to Bhagavàn (the Transcendent), and Bhagavàn climbs down to the devotee. Only by spiritual practice does the being of Bhagavàn, which abides in all animate and inanimate things, manifest itself in one site and thus acts in accordance with the devotee's desires. Only when the formless, unmanifest pure existence manifests itself in a form with attributes can any activity take place. Hence if you want to receive Bhagavàn's blessings, then carry out spiritual practice and make him manifest, either inside or outside. Once Bhagavàn manifests in one's heart, only then will all the poverty of life be eliminated.” ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Support of Nature: A Life Supported by Natural Law Lectures by His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1985) Maharishi said: “The unified field is the unmanifest basis of the whole creation, the creator and governor of the whole universe. Through Transcendental Meditation it is simple to open our awareness to this state of transcendence. Spontaneously, the conscious mind identifies itself with the self-referral unified field, the fountainhead of all the streams of activity in nature. As we gain more and more familiarity with that self-referral performance, our thoughts and actions spontaneously begin to be as orderly and evolutionary as all the activity of nature.” “This training is of supreme practical value for our lives.” Support in Nature, a Provident protective care of unasked for grace in elegant favour of nature as a spiritual power. ..Support of Nature. The presentation of providence as support in nature that is in spiritual cultivation was a strong feature in both Guru Dev’s and Maharishi’s practical teaching of life. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Brahmananda Saraswati (Guru Dev) from a mid-20th Century Himalayan India and then Maharishi in the opening decade of the modern 21st Century taught to this practicality of spiritual life. Maharishi in a 1985 lecture: All who are practicing the Transcendental Meditation and ™-Sidhi program are the real scientists of this generation, on the forefront of scientific investigation. ..Now Vedic Science offers the knowledge to develop a fully integrated man, whose mind, body, intellect, and behavior are in perfect accord with all the laws of nature. Human brain physiology is the hardware of that cosmic computer which can create anything through proper programming. Human awareness has the ability to identify completely with the total potential of natural law, the unified field, which is transcendental consciousness, the self-referral state of consciousness. The Transcendental.. Life Supported by Natural Law World Assembly on Vedic Science Lectures by His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi July 9-17, 1985, Washington, D.C. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : In this nature of phenomenology, there is someone who conducted what became an empirical study of 'support of nature' as phenomenology. Gathered data, authored a paper on support of nature experience. Became the work of a PhD thesis. Collected people’s experience that became data. The work of the paper allows for something that would seems more purely subjective to become more objective to look at. Nature’s providence in meditating human’s nature in, Grace. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Support of Nature, in findings of phenomenological support that is operational as nature in the human life form in practical life. Phenomenal. ‘..Know this to be that which you are seeking’, also. email sharing by experience from a friend to FFL.. "Yes, our source of the source is Mother Divine. We expand in consciousness from
[FairfieldLife] RE: Waging Radical Peace, A Call to Group Meditations
Maharishi - What creates real deep Peace: “The basis of peace is bliss. Unless one is happy, he cannot be in peace. Peace without lasting happiness is only passivity. When one sleeps in the night he feels absence of activity. This is called peace. But when he wakes up in the morning and comes into the field of thought, speech, and activity, he begins to feel miserable again. The peace felt by the absence of activity is not lasting. The peace gained by emptying the mind of thoughts, holding the mind in suspension, is due only to the lack of pressure of thought. When such a mind returns to the field of thinking and acting, it again begins to feel the pressures of thought and action. Then the individual begins to feel unpeaceful. All such practices of silencing the mind are wrong. Such practices continued for much time result in making the mind dull. There are many groups in the world who sit in silence and try to hear their inner voice or the voice of God, as they term it. All such practices make the mind passive and dull. Those who practice silencing the mind begin to lack in brilliance. Dullness can be seen on their faces. They are not energetic in the field of action. They look peaceful, but they are passive in life. Peace at the cost of activity is at the cost of life. Such an experience of peace is at the cost of efficiency in life and at the cost of life itself. An attempt to silence the mind in the hope of experiencing pure consciousness is pursuing a mirage. When one keeps the thoughts out of the mind, it becomes passive because it remains on the conscious thinking level without a thought. This practice makes the mind dull. What is necessary is not the attempt to vacate the mind, but that the conscious mind be led on to the subtle states of thinking to eventually transcend the subtlest state and arrive at the positive state of Being. Holding the mind on the conscious level is only taking it out of the field of activity and allowing it to be passive and inactive. This only helps to diminish the brilliancy of the mind and brings dullness and passivity to it. People who practice this do feel peace in life because they are practicing suppression or negation of thoughts. When a mind that has gained the quality of sluggishness and dullness through such practices does not have a thought in a very energetic manner and does not engage itself energetically in the field of experience and activity, peace is felt because of the innate dullness of the mind. But, whenever some serious problems in life arise, the mind feels a strain because it has been trained to remain dull and passive. When the individual must become active to accomplish some work in a very precise and energetic manner, the mind feels the strain. Such practices have also done great damage to the progress of the individual and society. Thus we find that practices that silence the mind in the first place produce dullness in the mind, and, in the second place, the peace that is felt is not lasting. As we have said, peace can be lasting only if the mind could be made happy forever. Only if the very nature of the mind could be transformed to bliss consciousness could peace be lasting. The quest for peace should be directed to bringing the mind to the field of the transcendent, the source of all happiness through the practice of Transcendental Meditation. When one is not peaceful, fear, lack of self-confidence, and all the pettiness in life arise and the consciousness of man becomes so abjectly miserable that he cannot think and cannot accomplish anything worthwhile. Fear is just lack of self-confidence, and the basis of confidence is in contentment which can only result from the experience of bliss. There is nothing in the world which can really bring lasting contentment to the mind because everything in the world, although it provides some happiness to the mind, is not intensive enough to satisfy the great thirst for happiness of the mind. The only field of contentment is the transcendental field of bliss consciousness. Unless one arrives at that state, one’s peace will always be threatened by everything in the world because of lack of contentment. The only golden gate to peace in life is the experience of transcendental bliss consciousness and this great glory of life is easy for everyone to achieve and live throughout life.” — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi from MERU Course Kim Jong-un warns of change in direction on denuclearisation He made the remarks during his closely-watched annual New Year's address. Mr Kim said, "if the US does not keep its promise made in front of the whole world... and insists on sanctions and pressures on our republic, we may be left with no choice but to consider a new way to safeguard our sovereignty and interests". The annual New Year's address is a tradition Mr Kim picked up from his grandfather, Kim Il-sung,
[FairfieldLife] Re: Second-Generation Consolidation
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Doug, I just watched a video of Bishop Barron who mentioned St John of the Cross, a Christian monk, who wrote about the "night of the soul" or the purging of the self...in other words, similar to samadhi in yoga or TM practice. So, it appears that there are similarities between Christian and TM spirituality. In FF conversation.. “In Fairfield, Iowa we are growing up. There are young people here having amazing spiritual experience. These are profoundly spiritual people. They are having Unity experiences. They have spiritual practices, meditation that they do as they need it. In their lives they are spiritual on the hoof. That is their requirement of their age. It does not mean that they do not sit or have sitting practice. Theirs is going to have to be eclectic stepping outside of this little TM box. When they get together it is a yagya of love. That is the power of the group here, how it is lived. That is Fairfield with consciousness in a room or a place. It is overwhelming when you are with it. This is a palpable real deal.” ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : In FF conversation.. “Q: There is a thesis in hoping that some young people can hold on for a while longer in the group TM culture, hoping for some young people to come along?” A: “It is not going to happen with a first gen group bound themselves into an identity that is about obedience and self-doubt “I can only do what Maharishi said”, it will take a second or third generation. They had this January 12 meeting and what do they do? They put this crown on Tony Nader. That is this stupidest shit thing that they ever did. I am sorry, Maharishi, but that was stupid to create Kings and Rajas. ..Done with the movement, but the funny thing is that the meditation i still recommend to people. We refer new initiates. We are doing our part and they wear crowns. This first gen group is locked in to a belief structure about their efficacy. It is a belief structure. The community though is not done. Where would it, the common meditators as people, go to replicate this? Just up and move? Most people own only one house at a time in their lives. It is going to take a third gen people in wisdom to speak to it who are not necessarily locked in to the belief structure. You are going to see it: Women coming back in to it too. It must be women too and in our world today it needs to be collaborative and not patriarchal-hierarchical” ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : In an application to join FFL... “My Father (God rest his soul) was way into TM. I consider myself spiritual, but I never quite understood his connection to an organization that basically charged him for a Mantra…” In and around Fairfield, Iowa there evidently is a second generation of the old meditating community making lives, buying houses, living, engaging in the culture of the larger community. Around Fairfield also now a third generation of the old meditating community is raising, clearly visible. Second gen engagement in the ™ meditating community seems reserved, remote or passive yet some are clearly quite spiritual in their lives. There has started to be a genre of second gen writing about their experience growing up as children of the meditating community. Living processes of community can appear subterrain or unspoken unless one shows up. Culture generally is slow to move but clearly something is on the move in meditating Fairfield, generation to generation. It will be particularly interesting for those living it to see where the meditating community of Fairfield, Iowa is in 5 years. This link is to a reflection on the range of communal processes that are in communal Fairfield.. Engaging Restorative Justice in Reclamation of Community https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/communal-studies-forum/AM9bhYe1dXI https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/communal-studies-forum/AM9bhYe1dXI As anyone has comments to share directly with Fairfield Life they can e-mail comments to consider to the owner-link on the Yahoo-group Fairfield Life main page. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : President Hagelin Elevates Role of Young Administrators In recent months President John Hagelin has elevated younger administrators to leading positions and has added 10 of them to his “cabinet,” the group that helps run the university. This new group of 10 is sometimes referred to as the “young cabinet.” “These very dedicated, talented, and accomplished young leaders are building the bright future of our university,” Dr. Hagelin said. “They constantly demonstrate their brilliance and their vision for moving MUM forward. In collaboration with our long-standing cabinet members, they are continually upgrading and expanding the university’s operations and successes.” The young cabinet members include Caro
[FairfieldLife] Re: Is TM a New Religion? The Federal District Court
Religion.. Searching the FFL archive for, 'Federal District Court'.. turns up these link: Here are links to a five-part post made to alt.m.t in 1996 containing the text of the appeals court decision and Judge Adams's concurrence; 1 of 5 http://groups.google.com/group/alt.meditation.transcendental/msg/a175a1217c214306 http://groups.google.com/group/alt.meditation.transcendental/msg/a175a1217c214306 http://tinyurl.com/dcudhy http://tinyurl.com/dcudhy 2 of 5 http://groups.google.com/group/alt.meditation.transcendental/msg/f8dd186604b5feb5 http://groups.google.com/group/alt.meditation.transcendental/msg/f8dd186604b5feb5 http://tinyurl.com/d3c8lt http://tinyurl.com/d3c8lt 3 of 5 http://groups.google.com/group/alt.meditation.transcendental/msg/9e0cc2271692d7a8 http://groups.google.com/group/alt.meditation.transcendental/msg/9e0cc2271692d7a8 http://tinyurl.com/dnhtbp http://tinyurl.com/dnhtbp 4 of 5 http://groups.google.com/group/alt.meditation.transcendental/msg/f5b05e15a264beb9 http://groups.google.com/group/alt.meditation.transcendental/msg/f5b05e15a264beb9 http://tinyurl.com/5vapbt http://tinyurl.com/5vapbt 5 of 5 http://groups.google.com/group/alt.meditation.transcendental/msg/a2721a415e324740 http://groups.google.com/group/alt.meditation.transcendental/msg/a2721a415e324740 http://tinyurl.com/covb7y http://tinyurl.com/covb7y TM Appeals Court Decision, == == == MALNAK, Alan B. and EDWINA K. MALNAK; HARRY C. BOONE and EVELYN M. BOONE; HARRY C. BOONE and EVELYN M. BOONE as Guardians ad litem for their infant son David; WILLIAM E. GURY and MARGARET M. GURY; WILLIAM E. GURY and MARGARET M. GURY, as Guardians ad litem for their infant daughter Laura Jean; JOSEPH G. LERNER; JOSEPH M. DUFFY; REV. DR. SAMUEL A. JEANES; AMERICANS UNITED FOR SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE, a non-profit corporation; SPIRITUAL COUNTERFEIT PROJECT, INC., a non-profit corporation; COALITION FOR RELIGIOUS INTEGRITY, an unincorporated association v. YOGI, Maharishi Mahesh; SPIRITUAL REGENERATION MOVEMENT FOUNDATION; WORLD PLAN EXECUTIVE COUNCIL - UNITED STATES AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR CREATIVE INTELLIGENCE; MAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY; CHARLES F. LUTES; JEROME W. JARVIS; ROBERT B. KORY; JANET AARON; BOARD OF EDUCATION OF MAPLEWOOD - SOUTH ORANGE, NEW JERSEY SCHOOL DISTRICT; BOARD OF EDUCATION OF GLEN RIDGE, NEW JERSEY SCHOOL DISTRICT; BOARD OF EDUCATION OF WEST NEW YORK, NEW JERSEY SCHOOL DISTRICT; BOARD OF EDUCATION OF UNION CITY, NEW JERSEY SCHOOL DISTRICT; NEW JERSEY STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION; NEW JERSEY STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION; FRED G. BURKE, as New Jersey Commissioner of Education; CHARLES WILSON; STATE OF NEW JERSEY; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION AND WELFARE; and UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; DAVID MATHEWS, SECRETARY OF THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE, WORLD PLAN EXECUTIVE COUNCIL - UNITED STATES, JEROME W. JARVIS, ROBERT B. KORY, and JANET AARON, Appellants. MALNAK v. YOGI Nos. 78-1568, 78-1882 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS, THIRD CIRCUIT 592 F.2d 197 December 11, 1978, Argued February 2, 1979, Decided PRIOR HISTORY: APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW JERSEY (D.C. Civil Action No. 76-0341) COUNSEL: Steven M. Druker, Fairfield, Iowa, Peter R. Sterling, Morristown, N. J., for appellants, McCarter & English, Newark, N. J., of counsel. Julius B. Poppinga, on brief, Geoffrey M. Johnson, Newark, N. J., for appellees. JUDGES: Before ALDISERT, ADAMS and HUNTER, Circuit Judges. OPINION BY: PER CURIAM OPINION:[*197] OPINION OF THE COURT This appeal requires us to decide whether the district court erred in determining that the teaching of a course called the Science of Creative Intelligence Transcendental Meditation (SCI/TM) in the New Jersey public high schools, under the circumstances presented in the record, constituted an establishment [*198] of religion in violation of the first amendment of the United States Constitution. Plaintiffs sought injunctive and declaratory relief and, after defendants had filed numerous depositions, answers to interrogatories, admissions, and other affidavits, the district court granted summary judgment in favor of plaintiffs. The court held that SCI/TM was religious activity for purposes of the establishment clause and that the teaching of SCI/TM in public schools is prohibited by the first amendment. The World Plan Executive Council United States and certain individual defendants have appealed. We affirm, essentially for the reasons set forth by Judge H. Curtis Meanor in Malnak v. Yogi, 440 F. Supp. 1284 (D.N.J.1977). The course under examination here was offered as an elective at five high schools during the 1975-76 academic year and was taught four or five days a week by teachers specially trained by the World Plan Executive Council United States, an organization whose objective is to dissemin
[FairfieldLife] Re: “Schismogenesis”
“Schismogenesis” Quoting Atmore: “The idea of “schismogenesis” was first identified by Gregory Bateson to describe the ways in which relationship between individual or groups deteriorate. Schismogenesis occurs in several different ways: factional schismogenesis , in which a group splinters into two or more distinct group; apostatizing schismogenesis, in which an individual separates from the group; symmetrical schismogenesis, in which individuals from the group compete directly with each other, the severity of competition increasing equally on each side; and complementary schismogenesis, in which a rift forms between unequal partners playing the roles of dominant and submissive. Bateson treats the events involved in schismogenesis as openly recognized by both parties. However, in my study of Fairfield, it became apparent that schisms are not always overt and recognized by those involved in them. In some cases, schism occur without the knowledge of one or more parties, which I will refer to as a covert schism or overt schismogenesis. This can often lead to overt schismogenesis (Batesons’ openly recognized schism) once the schism has progressed to a certain point. However, this does not mean schismogenesis is not occurring until it has become overt; there are still social rifts forming during the covert phase. This necessitates a slight redefinition of schismogenesis, in which the term encompasses all situations in which rifts form between people, whether overt, covert, or in a processual relationship from covert to overt.” -excerpted from: Communal Societies, Journal of the Communal Studies Association, Lane Atmore, Death of a Guru: An Analysis of the Postcharismatic Phase in the Transcendental Meditation Movement.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Second-Generation Consolidation
In FF conversation.. “In Fairfield, Iowa we are growing up. There are young people here having amazing spiritual experience. These are profoundly spiritual people. They are having Unity experiences. They have spiritual practices, meditation that they do as they need it. In their lives they are spiritual on the hoof. That is their requirement of their age. It does not mean that they do not sit or have sitting practice. Theirs is going to have to be eclectic stepping outside of this little TM box. When they get together it is a yagya of love. That is the power of the group here, how it is lived. That is Fairfield with consciousness in a room or a place. It is overwhelming when you are with it. This is a palpable real deal.” ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : In FF conversation.. “Q: There is a thesis in hoping that some young people can hold on for a while longer in the group TM culture, hoping for some young people to come along?” A: “It is not going to happen with a first gen group bound themselves into an identity that is about obedience and self-doubt “I can only do what Maharishi said”, it will take a second or third generation. They had this January 12 meeting and what do they do? They put this crown on Tony Nader. That is this stupidest shit thing that they ever did. I am sorry, Maharishi, but that was stupid to create Kings and Rajas. ..Done with the movement, but the funny thing is that the meditation i still recommend to people. We refer new initiates. We are doing our part and they wear crowns. This first gen group is locked in to a belief structure about their efficacy. It is a belief structure. The community though is not done. Where would it, the common meditators as people, go to replicate this? Just up and move? Most people own only one house at a time in their lives. It is going to take a third gen people in wisdom to speak to it who are not necessarily locked in to the belief structure. You are going to see it: Women coming back in to it too. It must be women too and in our world today it needs to be collaborative and not patriarchal-hierarchical” ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : In an application to join FFL... “My Father (God rest his soul) was way into TM. I consider myself spiritual, but I never quite understood his connection to an organization that basically charged him for a Mantra…” In and around Fairfield, Iowa there evidently is a second generation of the old meditating community making lives, buying houses, living, engaging in the culture of the larger community. Around Fairfield also now a third generation of the old meditating community is raising, clearly visible. Second gen engagement in the ™ meditating community seems reserved, remote or passive yet some are clearly quite spiritual in their lives. There has started to be a genre of second gen writing about their experience growing up as children of the meditating community. Living processes of community can appear subterrain or unspoken unless one shows up. Culture generally is slow to move but clearly something is on the move in meditating Fairfield, generation to generation. It will be particularly interesting for those living it to see where the meditating community of Fairfield, Iowa is in 5 years. This link is to a reflection on the range of communal processes that are in communal Fairfield.. Engaging Restorative Justice in Reclamation of Community https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/communal-studies-forum/AM9bhYe1dXI https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/communal-studies-forum/AM9bhYe1dXI As anyone has comments to share directly with Fairfield Life they can e-mail comments to consider to the owner-link on the Yahoo-group Fairfield Life main page. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : President Hagelin Elevates Role of Young Administrators In recent months President John Hagelin has elevated younger administrators to leading positions and has added 10 of them to his “cabinet,” the group that helps run the university. This new group of 10 is sometimes referred to as the “young cabinet.” “These very dedicated, talented, and accomplished young leaders are building the bright future of our university,” Dr. Hagelin said. “They constantly demonstrate their brilliance and their vision for moving MUM forward. In collaboration with our long-standing cabinet members, they are continually upgrading and expanding the university’s operations and successes.” The young cabinet members include Carol Passos, director of human resources, Patrik Siljestam, comptroller, Aster Hesse, associate dean of admissions, Taniya Hallman, registrar, Gwen Stowe, director of admissions, Tiago Passos, director of development, Leslie Doyle, director of Student Support Services, Eric Liu, director of MUM Online and continuing education, Selin Ozbudak, associate dean of enroll
[FairfieldLife] Re: Vitalism
But what happens, when someone dies and the Vitalism goes from the body? Vitalism ..the "vital spark" noun the theory that the origin and phenomena of life are dependent on a force or principle distinct from purely chemical or physical forces. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitalism the belief that "living organisms are fundamentally different from non-living entities because they contain some non-physical element or are governed by different principles than are inanimate things". ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : In looking at “What is Vitalism” I see that Maharishi Mahesh Yogi promulgated a form of Vitalism in the 1970’s as The Science of Creative Intelligence . The Science of Creative Intelligence was a stripped down secularized transcendentalism and offered a technique as self-study empiricism to experience it. Jealous religionists dragged this Vitalism in to the Federal Courts asserting that the teaching of this in public schools amounted to government establishment of religion and should be stopped. This generated a long Federal District Court case which became a discovery as to what constitutes religion in America. Many experts were called upon in sequence to testify. Christians arguing ™ is a religion. ™’ers refuting saying, no this meditation and understanding around it is not a religious practice or religion. By definition then The Science of Creative Intelligence (SCI) was adjudicated a religion and could not be offered directly in public schools but the practice of meditation would be okay. The Federal Court opinion in the case is actually really interesting jurisprudence to read for how it delineated what are the “Indica of religion” and applied them in the case. I pasted the text of the Federal Court opinion in a place on the internet as a quick reference to find. See if this opens for you, it goes to a Yahoo group that is open and can be publicly read. Sometimes you have to fuss with your browsers to get one that works well with Yahoo. Once it opens then tap on the faint “Show Message History” to open the opinion text... 419797Re: Is TM a New Religion? The Federal District Court https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/419797 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/419797?soc_src=mail&soc_trk=ma One could posit that the eschatology of a TM community would entail vitalism. # ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : 437914 Re: TM and Premillennialism https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/437914 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/437914
[FairfieldLife] Re: TM in Communities
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Stanley Lewis, a Visionary from Watts In June 1968.. Whenever Lewis found something valuable, he wanted to share it. He knew right away that the TM technique was something he wanted to give back to his community.. Maharishi invited Lewis to begin training to be a TM teacher that August, at a two-week advanced TM Retreat he was giving in Squaw Valley, California. In a matter of minutes, Lewis’ life took a new direction. Before long a new TM organization would be born. In February, 1968, on the banks of the Ganges in Rishikesh, India—shortly before the famous arrival of The Beatles—Maharishi took time from his TM teacher-training lectures for an in-depth interview with Ebony https://books.google.com/books?id=KtoDMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&hl=en#v=onepage&q&f=false editor Era Bell Thompson. In 1969 a few African American meditators and teachers of the Transcendental Meditation® (TM®) program wished to bring the technique directly to their communities. TM Founder Maharishi Mahesh Yogi supported this vision to form an organization dedicated to teaching the TM technique to communities of color. .. Now, To celebrate the TMC’s history and legacy, join the 50th Anniversary Live Webcast on March 17, https://www.tmclegacyandbeyond.com/ online or at your local TM Center. It will feature inspiring talks and music by key figures, rare photos and footage, and a keynote address by Dr. John Hagelin, director of the TM organization in the United States. https://enjoytmnews.org/celebrating-50-years-of-teaching-tm-in-african-american-communities-1969-2019/#.XGlsNOJKhsM https://enjoytmnews.org/celebrating-50-years-of-teaching-tm-in-african-american-communities-1969-2019/#.XGlsNOJKhsM https://enjoytmnews.org/ https://enjoytmnews.org/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Re Separatists, In Quiet, European ancestral genealogy of transcendentalism
French Transcendentalists.. French Origins of American Transcendentalism https://www.jstor.org/stable/1414105?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents https://www.jstor.org/stable/1414105?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Importing Transcendentalism (German) to America HISTORICAL NOTE American Turners Records, http://www.ulib.iupui.edu/collections/german-american/mss030 http://www.ulib.iupui.edu/collections/german-american/mss030 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turners https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turners https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freethought https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freethought ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Persecutions by creedal religionists of mystics and their groups of separatist transcendentalists across Europe are often a theme in these communal narratives. Recently retired to a safety in community of meditating Fairfield, Iowa a meditator’s spouse who practiced law for a career in NYC at a law firm kept their practice of meditation secret to avoid persecution. .. Of the modern day persecution of transcendentalists, up in Wisconsin recently I ran into an older ™ initiator from there. This is someone who saw a TM intro lecture poster in 1969 in Madison, attended the lecture that was given by Walter Koch and learned ™ then in those times. As a State certified teacher working in public school this person then fell victim to persecution for associating with ™. Directly persecuted by school superintendents, building principals,other staff, parents asking that their kids not be taught by this person or parents going directly to the school board to have this person fired for fear this person might be teaching meditation to the children. The superintendent calling the local ™ center seeking information about this staff teacher. The teacher declined resignation and stayed on teaching. But the pressure was great to resign. This followed for years affecting this person’s career advancement. An irony now is that mindfulness meditation is taught in the public schools up there today. This person is retired now from teaching and still traumatized by the longer experience of it does not talk to friends and associates about meditating or being with Maharishi in those days. When the person found I was from Fairfield and an old initiator from those days a comparing of old stories opened up. The person was a working school teacher then and made use of school breaks. We figured we attended the same weekend residence courses early on in Iowa City as new meditators, one month courses with Maharishi, a teacher training course with Maharishi, ATR courses with Maharishi in Europe, was with Maharishi in Fairfield too. This person used the word ‘persecution’ in recounting the experience throughout. It was stark. Early days of moving to Meditating Fairfield, Ia. gave a small taste of insight in to what persecution in Jim Crow might have been to someone who was otherwise majority Iowan, like me coming to Fairfield as a transcendental meditationist. Now though with a longer time of assimilation the separation is not nearly so great in Fairfield. And evidently, the postmodern is catching up with Madison, Wisconsin too as they are teaching meditation in their schools now. .. In victimization of separatist movements by the hands of creedal religionists persecution runs throughout the narratives of these historic satsanga groups across Europe and across time as they formed. As transcendentalist and essentially heretical to the religious belief and ideology of God the Father Church, these ‘separatist’ groups and their practitioners evidently fell victim to a State of fear within religious formality throughout Europe. .. Separating the heterodox and heretical.. A Christian statement of belief, The Athanasian Creed it differs from the Nicene-Constantinopolitan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicene_Creed and Apostles' Creeds https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostles%27_Creed in the inclusion of anathemas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anathema, or condemnations of those who disagree with the creed (like the original Nicene Creed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicene_Creed#The_original_Nicene_Creed_of_325 ..which various anathemas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anathema against Arian propositions were added.[15] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicene_Creed#cite_note-15).. All mainstream branches[citation needed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed] of Christianity now consider (Arianism in that case) to be heterodox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterodoxy and heretical https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heresy. The Ecumenical First Council of Nicaea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Council_of_Nicaea of 325 deemed it to be a heresy.[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arianism#cite_note-Ferguson2013-3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athanasian
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[FairfieldLife] Re: The Revolutionary Millenarian Transcendental Meditation Movement:
The Revolutionary Millenarian Transcendental Meditation Movement: Historically it is remarkable to see the similarities in organizational lines of relationship that is called on expecting and asking for broad change; with reference to one of the other of the 20th Century's millenarian revolutionaries by transliteration of Chairman Mao's quotations in to communal revolutionary millenarian meditating TM-ism: “If there is to be revolution, there must be a revolutionary meditating movement. Without a revolutionary meditating movement, without a movement built on the scientific and revolutionary theory of the ME and group meditation and in the style of science and spiritual experience of the Unified Field, it is impossible to lead the practicing meditator and the broad groupings of the meditators everywhere against the entrenched forces of reductionist materialism, of deconstructionism and their running-dogs.” “A well-disciplined meditating movement armed with the theory and practice of the ME, using the method of transcending meditation and linked with groups of transcending meditators; an army of such transcendentalists under the leadership of such a movement; a united front of all revolutionary spiritually regenerative meditators and all revolutionary group transcendentalist meditations under the leadership of such a revolutionary and millenarian [belief in a coming ideal society and especially one created by revolutionary action] movement -these are the three main weapons with which we have to defeat that enemy of spiritless materialism.” etc., hence it flows from the Red Book of Mao's quotations. [hit the three dots on the post to find the further flow of quotations transliterated.] Yours in Millenarian Revolution, -Buck in the Dome --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: It is everyone's duty now to come to meditation. -Buck in the Dome The force at the core leading our cause forward is the Transcendental Meditation Movement. The theoretical basis guiding our spiritual experience and thinking is the Meissner Effect, the ME, found in Natural Law and our manifestly Self-evident empirical experience meditating. > > If there is to be revolution, there must be a revolutionary meditating > movement. Without a revolutionary meditating movement, without a movement > built on the scientific and revolutionary theory of the ME and group > meditation and in the style of science and spiritual experience of the > Unified Field, it is impossible to lead the practicing meditator and the > broad groupings of the meditators everywhere against the entrenched forces of > reductionist materialism, of deconstructionism and their running-dogs. > > > > > Without the organizing and facilitating efforts of our revolutionary > > millenarian meditating movement, without the practicing meditator as the > > mainstay of the mediating community, Humanity can never achieve a > > millenarian's heaven on earth. *** > > ***see heaven on earth: > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/343576 > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/343576 > > > > > > > > > > > The meditating movement is the core of leadership of the practicing > > > meditator. Without this core, the cause of the ME cannot be victorious. > > > > > > > > > > > A well-disciplined meditating movement armed with the theory and > > > > practice of the ME, using the method of transcending meditation and > > > > linked with groups of transcending meditators; an army of such > > > > transcendentalists under the leadership of such a movement; a united > > > > front of all revolutionary spiritually regenerative meditators and all > > > > revolutionary group transcendentalist meditations under the leadership > > > > of such a revolutionary and millenarian [belief in a coming ideal > > > > society and especially one created by revolutionary action] movement > > > > -these are the three main weapons with which we have to defeat that > > > > enemy of spiritless materialism. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Ongoing, we must have trust in our masses of practicing meditators > > > > > and we must have trust in the meditating movement. These are two > > > > > cardinal principles. If we doubt these principles, we shall > > > > > accomplish nothing. > > > > > -Buck > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > > > > > mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "drpsutphen" > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > Buck, you do realize that according to standard scientific research > > > > > > methods that the ME does not exist? The studies have so many > > > > > > methodological flaws that they can not be taken seriously. I wish > > > > > > there was a ME but there isn't. > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > > > > > > mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > A
[FairfieldLife] Re: What did ‘Guru Dev’ say on Spir itual Morality and its Moral Compass
"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, then understand that you have sold a diamond for the price of spinach." -SBS In TM we say “Jai Guru Dev” a lot; but, what did Guru Dev Swami Brahmananda Saraswati (Maharishi’s teacher) have to say about morality and behavior? Let us look at this for a bit. Let us look more at what Maharishi’s teacher had to say about character and behavior... Of morality Guru Dev evidently is saying, That our Spiritual in morality is judging in discernment how we take care of ourselves and others in either enhancing spiritual wellbeing or not. ..Swami Brahmananda Saraswati (Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s teacher) says: “Dhanàrjana has said, [Sanskrit:] akçtvà parasantàpaü, àgatvà khalamandiram | anullaïghya satàm vartmaü yadalpamapi tad bahu || This means, not harming others, not associating with bad persons, not plunging the àtman in entanglements, and whatever small amount we earn will be plenty. If you make trouble for others while earning your money, that wealth will remain behind, but the harm that you have given to the person will carry along with your subtle body. Therefore, don't act such that you carry along a baggage of sin with you. The meaning of àgatvà khalamandiram is this Þ if you associate with base people, your intellect (buddhi) gets spoiled, and once your intellect is spoiled, a fall is certain. [The phrase] buddhinà÷àt praõasyati Þ Direct association with base objects is much more precipitous. So going to the home of the wicked for the purpose of making money is forbidden. The meaning of anullaïghya satàm vartmaü is thisÞthat path which is in accord with the Vedas and ÷àstras given by good people should never be violated. If a situation arises in your daily dealings where you have to come into contact with a base person, then you should approach him just like you go to the toilet — do the job and leave. Nobody lingers in the toilet for long. If you discipline your intellect in this way, then there is no doubt of harm through association with the low. A pure mind goes near Paramàtmà, and the impure mind wanders through various types of emotional states.” ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Of moral integrity, Maharishi’s teacher’s teachings about moral character.. Teaching #50, "For all kinds of progress, both in this world and the next, keep the mind pure, and it is essential to increase the purity of the mind to remain pure. Therefore you must keep the company of good people while foregoing the company of the bad. Always study the scriptures; take care to maintain a pure diet (thoughts); perform Bhagavàn's bhajan and worship, as well as repetition of mantras; practice truth and non-injury (ahimsà), and the other precepts of good conduct; you must always keep yourself within proper bounds." -Guru Dev Swami Brahmananda Saraswati ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : "A man learns from the company he keeps. As one's company is good or evil, so such things will be learned. It is a notable fact that on seeing his companions' behavior, a man does likewise; whether he is aware of it at all or not, he nevertheless acts accordingly. So the point is that man's actions and thoughts accord with the company he keeps. Therefore, if someone falls in with a bad crowd, then his actions and thoughts will be corrupted; moreover, those with whom he comes into contact will also sink. Hence, one should strive to associate with good company." -Guru Dev, SBS Guru Dev Swami Brahmananda Saraswati reflecting, You should understand that if someone is of poor character, he is not a [real] devotee, and is just putting on a show to cheat people. Save yourself from such deceitful people, and save innocent pious people from them. .. As a matter of principle, one should reject those deserving rejection and honor those deserving honor. If unworthy people are honored, then their number will increase and their stench will spoil society. -SBS ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Consideration of bad spiritual morality and bad character in behavior runs throughout Brahmananda Saraswati’s discourses. Like discourses #17, 19, 22, 33, 50 and throughout, morality by what enhances spirituality or does not as a litmus. Of bad morality and bad character different people have dealt with their feelings around behavior displayed in the communities ofTM differently. There evidently w
