[FairfieldLife] An ecumenical MUM?
This strikes me as interesting. Maharishi University's Sustainable Living Department is hosting an expert who represents a tradition other than the vedic tradition. He follows the Anthroposophical teachings of Rudolf Steiner. Typically, M.U.M. doesn't entertain experts from fields that compete with anything Maharishi promoted or taught, and Maharishi founded his own honey making operation. Bees and bee keeping are big topics in biodynamic farming, which this guest speaker practices. It's nice to see the University accepting teachings other than its own. Here's the announcement from Alumni Association Director Jennine Fellmer: Dear Alumni and University Friends, The Sustainable Living Dept is happy and proud to host Mr. Gunther Hauk, top expert on organic natural biodynamic beekeeping, on our M.U.M. campus. Mr. Hauk will teach a 3-day workshop to our SL students during block 5 and has graciously agreed to present his work and knowledge of organic natural biodynamic beekeeping to our M.U.M. and Fairfield community. Don't miss this opportunity! The presentation will be held this Tuesday, January 6th, 8:00 p.m. at our new Argiro Student Center in Dalby Hall. Admission is free. Email this info and invitation to your friends! For more info: www.spikenardfarm.org Best wishes for an enlightening and sustainable new year, Bee well, Alex Kachan, Sustainable Agriculture and Composting Coordinator akac...@mum.edu
Re: [FairfieldLife] An ecumenical MUM?
On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Patrick Gillam jpgil...@yahoo.com wrote: This strikes me as interesting. Maharishi University's Sustainable Living Department is hosting an expert who represents a tradition other than the vedic tradition. He follows the Anthroposophical teachings of Rudolf Steiner. Typically, M.U.M. doesn't entertain experts from fields that compete with anything Maharishi promoted or taught, and Maharishi founded his own honey making operation. The buzz on the Maharishi Channel, on IA and from the President's Office is to follows the Ammendments Maharishi made to the Constitution of the Universe. I've state it here before. The TMO, for business purposes, will become more ecumenical. We'll be making lots of alliances and business deals with non-TMO agents/people/organizations per Maharishi's orders. There is a reason, beyond the fact that Maharishi wanted to bring us a Vedic society, that Maharishi set us up with a simple speaking reclused king and princes. I am just starting to cognize the reason. Part of it I'm sure has to do with the obvious: they're not making any Maharishi clones these days. If we got someone as charismatic as Maharishi we'd get a new cult of personality and would be a new and different movement. The other has to do with viability. You can have a keeper of the knowledge and then you can have money changers in the temple. I've been wondering why there have been so few changes at MUM or within the TMO in the past year. I believe that the changes are a coming, they are just taking time to pick up steam and also put out to pasture those who represent the current way things are done. You can't through everybody out because it's not like there are a million people lined up to do the work at MUM for room, board and a few dollars a month. The TMO will take years before it starts giving badges back but it's already doing its best not to find a reason to take badges away. We're going to see a much different organization in the coming years, I'd wager.
RE: [FairfieldLife] An ecumenical MUM?
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of I am the eternal Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 12:47 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] An ecumenical MUM? There is a reason, beyond the fact that Maharishi wanted to bring us a Vedic society, that Maharishi set us up with a simple speaking reclused king and princes. I am just starting to cognize the reason. Part of it I'm sure has to do with the obvious: they're not making any Maharishi clones these days. If we got someone as charismatic as Maharishi we'd get a new cult of personality and would be a new and different movement. Good point. Maharishi appreciated the fact that his more charismatic teachers brought in a lot of initiations, but they made him a bit nervous, especially if they displayed much independence in their personalities. The moment folks like Deepak, Jerry Jarvis, etc., began show signs of thinking for themselves, they got the boot.
