Maharishi Vedic City seeks ideas for mostly vacant pandit campus Dear Fairfield Meditators, Sidhas, and Governors, You are invited to help us envision the future of the historic Maharishi Vedic Pandit campus, which served for 12 years as the home for over 1,000 Maharishi Vedic Pandits. Imbued with thousands of hours of recitations, the campus consists of 161 Maharishi Vastu® buildings on 76 acres of organic land. In recent weeks, planners have been thinking together about the campus and how to transform it into an ideal, sustainable, multi-generational community. (Read more below.) Now they would like your input. This is our opportunity to create the vision for its future. Whether you picture organic gardens, walking trails, a market/café, a wellness/fitness center, or beautiful program halls and inspiring knowledge programs, please share your ideas. More information The campus today This precious facility said farewell to the last Maharishi Vedic Pandits in November 2018. Although we hope to enrich our community again with their presence, we can only expect a small group. In the meantime, the IdeaLife Campus, located in the north section, serves as home to official Invincible America Assembly participation, TM® Retreats, and conferences. However, more than two-thirds of the campus sits empty. A vision for the future The vision that is emerging is to serve our community with these precious campus facilities, all built according to Maharishi Vastu design, by creating an ideal, sustainable, multi-generational community, with everything needed to promote health, happiness, and enlightenment. Developers invited To achieve this, we will be inviting private developers who have the interest and financial capacity to redevelop the campus for private residences, including very affordable homes, rental housing, and amenities. The plan is to send a Request for Proposals to prospective developers on October 7, 2019. Now is our opportunity to create the vision This is our chance to create the vision that developers will follow to guide the future of the campus. Whatever features you can envision, please share your ideas. How to share ideas Meetings will be announced where you can participate in person or connect electronically. A new website is being developed that will give you access to the latest plans.. You may also send your ideas to vis...@maharishivediccity-iowa.gov mailto:vis...@maharishivediccity-iowa.gov?subject=Maharishi%20Vedic%20Pandit%20Campus%20ideas. In the meantime, please submit your ideas via this survey: link We look forward to thinking with you and creating a bright future for the historic Maharishi Vedic Pandit campus to continue to create an Invincible America and Heaven on Earth. With best wishes, Jai Guru Dev Dr. John Hagelin and Mayor Bob Wynne/
/ Local Newspaper report,, https://www.southeastiowaunion.com/subject/news/maharishi-vedic-city-seeks-ideas-for-mostly-vacant-pandit-campus-20190911 https://www.southeastiowaunion.com/subject/news/maharishi-vedic-city-seeks-ideas-for-mostly-vacant-pandit-campus-20190911 MAHARISHI VEDIC CITY – Maharishi Vedic City is seeking input on ideas to rehabilitate its mostly vacant pandit campus. John Hagelin, president of Maharishi University of Management, and Bob Wynne, the mayor of Maharishi Vedic City, sent an email addressed to “Fairfield Meditators, Sidhas and Governors” about the state of the pandit campus near Maharishi Vedic City, and opportunities for renewing it. Merriam-Webster defines a pandit as a “wise or learned man in India – often used as an honorary title.” The pandits at the campus in Maharishi Vedic City came to meditate and chant, with the hope that their actions might alter the world around them for the better. Wynne said the Maharishi Vedic Pandits are “trained experts in Vedic technologies of consciousness for world peace.” “In addition to practicing the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi program also practiced by many members of the Fairfield and Maharishi Vedic City community and millions of people around the world, the Vedic Pandits are experts in Vedic recitation to create peace. UNESCO has declared Vedic recitation as a masterpiece of oral and intangible heritage of humanity,” Wynne said. The campus was built over a three-year period from 2006-2008. According to the email, the Maharishi Vedic Pandit campus hosted more than 1,000 Maharishi Vedic Pandits for 12 years. The campus consists of 161 Maharishi Vastu (a style of architecture) buildings on 76 acres of organic land.
