RE: [FairfieldLife] RE: Fairfield’s Crisis of Meditating Numbers in the Dome

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

Bound by a conservative TM ideology evidently our conservative tru-believers 
don’t even believe the implications of the science or else in the policy 
conversations they would get out of the way of more membership and more 
meditation in the Domes.
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 It is time to start a new document guideline for membership. Keep to the 
simple and get rid of the old guidelines of what was the Patterson-Morris 
administrative state of ™.   Monitoring people’s lives the way they did it 
quite obviously was against natural law. 
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 In this recent crisis of Dome numbers Bevan’s early solution was to charge for 
the Dome meditation as a reaction.  

 How about first remediating the guidelines, re-articulating what we are about 
with the Domes and a campaign to increase numbers of people doing program in 
the Dome before you guys re-introduce fees and that having to come to get 
stickers, with all that visits to the course office entails of ‘validating’ 
badges.  

 Do some of this other work first to increase numbers of meditators coming to 
the Dome and then deal with a fee later. 
 

 
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Rolling out the Dome fees..  

 Inevitably there will be some drop off when a meditation fee gets 
re-instituted.  Do due- diligence before you roll out Dome fees.  Very little 
leadership had been done under the Patterson-Morris administration with 
interfacing in the larger meditating community to present the why and the what 
we are doing with the Domes.  Do your leadership work first before you taint 
everything in the discussion with fees now. 
 


 
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 A better administration of the group meditation is needed right now to 
increase the membership of people meditating doing the program in the Domes.  
Right now quite evidently this needs to happen.  
 

 
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 This was a terrible state of administrative matters that let things get so bad 
with the numbers meditating there in the Domes and with the meditating 
community here. Emergency action needs to happen to make this meditation about 
expansion, to pull this out of nose dive. This needs some extra-ordinary 
leadership right now out in front. 
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Dr. Hagelin is one of the few people who in legality actually ‘owns’ ™ by 
virtue of being one of a very few Trustees at the top of the corporations that 
are ™ now  
 This becomes critical for critical mass here.  Ask him now to use every ounce 
of fiduciary responsibility and trust that he has to right this right now by 
joining a coalition of the other real trustee- scientists who are at the top 
and dictate a proper policy according to the evidence base of all that is 
science. It is time to push the faith-based ashram-ites out of the way of 
meditation program practice and lead past them.  Everything is at stake here 
right now. 

 Jai Guru Dev, 
 

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Only 180 in the Dome meditating the other morning. 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 189 yesterday morning and 208 the evening before in the men's Dome meditating. 
Women's Dome usually is less than the Men's tally. 
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 The divide asserting “They made promises” to keep people out of the Domes ‘is 
a made up maya’ about fealty in some conservative TB'er’s minds. 
  
 The TM tru-believers assert their discipline over others that: “They made 
promises..”  and want a punitive retributive discipline over old meditators 
using membership at the Dome meditation. 
 A common response In the old meditating movement community.. 
 “..The only promise I made was to go teach people to meditate as I learned to 
teach meditation from Maharishi and to not let money get in the way of anyone 
learning to meditate.”
 

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Surveying: 

 "In the dome they got discouraged. The cohesion was destroyed by endless bar 
raising to the dome.  
 People were made to feel bad."  
 


 

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 People spoke to different aspects in the meditating community meeting at 
Phoenix Rising. Some people in the line at the open microphone spoke to the 
collapse of the Dome numbers in their experience saying things of regret that 
2,000 meditating together is way more than 200 to the effect.  Those particular 
policy problems related to the Dome numbers around the guidelines for Dome 
group meditation membership were not directly taken up or responded to at the 
Phoenix Rising meeting. 

RE: [FairfieldLife] RE: Fairfield’s Crisis of Meditating Numbers in the Dome

[Rick Archer r...@searchsummit.com [FairfieldLife]]

If someone were teaching at another university and wanted to visit and be in 
the dome, would they be seen as working for a competing organization and be 
disallowed? Or if they are a doctor, are they seen as competing with Maharishi 
Ayurveda? As long as MUM enforces these silly rules, it will continue to be 
shooting itself in the foot. It’s questionable whether there’s any foot left 
after all these years. Just a bloody stump.

Rick Archer
Buddha at the Gas Pump
https://batgap.com
r...@batgap.com<mailto:r...@batgap.com>
Podcast<https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/buddha-at-the-gas-pump/id602578156>


From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: Monday, July 24, 2017 10:44 PM
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [FairfieldLife] RE: Fairfield’s Crisis of Meditating Numbers in 
the Dome



People spoke to different aspects in the meditating community meeting at 
Phoenix Rising. Some people in the line at the open microphone spoke to the 
collapse of the Dome numbers in their experience saying things of regret that 
2,000 meditating together is way more than 200 to the effect.  Those particular 
policy problems related to the Dome numbers around the guidelines for Dome 
group meditation membership were not directly taken up or responded to at the 
Phoenix Rising meeting.

In the preliminary meetings leading up to the Phoenix Rising meeting it was 
summarily expressed that the leadership feels for the status quo, that people 
‘made promises’ and therefore should not be in the Domes for practicing other 
competing systems to MVS, and then it was qualified a little in the process of 
meeting to be more particularly around those who ‘work against’ the movement. 
Work in process.

Also it seems there is a cultural disavowing inside that the ‘guidelines’ for 
being in the group meditation are neither punitive or disciplinary.  This needs 
a lot more conversation between factions. Leadership have not acknowledged that 
those being either studied and practiced in any astrology systems has anything 
to do with how people practice meditation.

That whole non-compete clause in the guidelines could stand to just be omitted. 
Invite those few who it effects freely back in to membership. That would be an 
important telegraph.

There is another preliminary working meeting tomorrow coming up on how to go 
forward with a communal process. 'Work in progress.'




---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com<mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>, 
<r...@searchsummit.com<mailto:r...@searchsummit.com>> wrote :

Were these examples (e.g., people doing their own jyotish) brought up in the 
Phoenix Rising meeting?



Rick Archer

Buddha at the Gas Pump

https://batgap.com

r...@batgap.com<mailto:r...@batgap.com>

Podcast<https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/buddha-at-the-gas-pump/id602578156>





From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com<mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> 
[mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2017 8:47 PM
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com<mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: Fairfield’s Crisis of Meditating Numbers in the 
Dome





July 2017, no change in the ‘non-compete’ policies for Dome 
admission/membership.
Men’s Dome number was 193 a recent morning and 196 evening.


---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com<mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>, 
<dhamiltony...@yahoo.com<mailto:dhamiltony...@yahoo.com>> wrote :

E-mail responding to



“Willing people not allowed in the Dome”..



You know one of the very biggest issues now? That when someone is mistreated, 
they will not put it in an email. The admins and leadership needs emails now, 
for good reason. Otherwise it won't be believed, they have to have something in 
hand. It is not just fear of losing badge, it takes strength to deal with 
things like this, to write that email. I have been told dozens of times, 'No I 
won't send an email, I'm just going to let it go.' Then what can I do?

People have to be strong enough to lead the leaders.



Contact John Hagelin directly.



At:

Global Union of Scientists for Peace

2000 Capital Boulevard

Fairfield, IA 52556

secretar...@gusp.org<mailto:secretar...@gusp.org>

+1-888-600-GUSP




---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com<mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>, 
<dhamiltony...@yahoo.com<mailto:dhamiltony...@yahoo.com>> wrote :

Those guidelines of the ‘administrative state’ up there on campus and those 
Rajas who defend them have turned too many capable meditators out from the 
Domes. In the span of a few days after the communal meeting at Phoenix Rising I 
spoke separately with two long long time TM movement meditators who were 
administratively excluded from the Dome meditation for practicing jyotish 
astrology. Both exclaimed they would be there meditating if the guidelines were 
changed to omit the ‘non-compete clauses’ 

RE: [FairfieldLife] RE: Fairfield’s Crisis of Meditating Numbers in the Dome

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

People spoke to different aspects in the meditating community meeting at 
Phoenix Rising. Some people in the line at the open microphone spoke to the 
collapse of the Dome numbers in their experience saying things of regret that 
2,000 meditating together is way more than 200 to the effect.  Those particular 
policy problems related to the Dome numbers around the guidelines for Dome 
group meditation membership were not directly taken up or responded to at the 
Phoenix Rising meeting.  
 In the preliminary meetings leading up to the Phoenix Rising meeting it was 
summarily expressed that the leadership feels for the status quo, that people 
‘made promises’ and therefore should not be in the Domes for practicing other 
competing systems to MVS, and then it was qualified a little in the process of 
meeting to be more particularly around those who ‘work against’ the movement. 
Work in process.
 Also it seems there is a cultural disavowing inside that the ‘guidelines’ for 
being in the group meditation are neither punitive or disciplinary.  This needs 
a lot more conversation between factions. Leadership have not acknowledged that 
those being either studied and practiced in any astrology systems has anything 
to do with how people practice meditation. 
 That whole non-compete clause in the guidelines could stand to just be 
omitted. Invite those few who it effects freely back in to membership. That 
would be an important telegraph. 
 There is another preliminary working meeting tomorrow coming up on how to go 
forward with a communal process. 'Work in progress.'  
 

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <r...@searchsummit.com> wrote :

 Were these examples (e.g., people doing their own jyotish) brought up in the 
Phoenix Rising meeting?
  
 Rick Archer
 Buddha at the Gas Pump
 https://batgap.com https://batgap.com
 r...@batgap.com mailto:r...@batgap.com
 Podcast https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/buddha-at-the-gas-pump/id602578156
  

  
 From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] 
 Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2017 8:47 PM
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: Fairfield’s Crisis of Meditating Numbers in the 
Dome


  
  
 July 2017, no change in the ‘non-compete’ policies for Dome 
admission/membership.   Men’s Dome number was 193 a recent morning and 196 
evening. 
 
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 
<dhamiltony...@yahoo.com mailto:dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote :
 E-mail responding to
  
 “Willing people not allowed in the Dome”..
  
 You know one of the very biggest issues now? That when someone is mistreated, 
they will not put it in an email. The admins and leadership needs emails now, 
for good reason. Otherwise it won't be believed, they have to have something in 
hand. It is not just fear of losing badge, it takes strength to deal with 
things like this, to write that email. I have been told dozens of times, 'No I 
won't send an email, I'm just going to let it go.' Then what can I do? 
 People have to be strong enough to lead the leaders.  
  
 Contact John Hagelin directly.
  
 At:
 Global Union of Scientists for Peace
 2000 Capital Boulevard
 Fairfield, IA 52556
 secretar...@gusp.org mailto:secretar...@gusp.org
 +1-888-600-GUSP 
 
 
 

 
 
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 
<dhamiltony...@yahoo.com mailto:dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote :
 Those guidelines of the ‘administrative state’ up there on campus and those 
Rajas who defend them have turned too many capable meditators out from the 
Domes. In the span of a few days after the communal meeting at Phoenix Rising I 
spoke separately with two long long time TM movement meditators who were 
administratively excluded from the Dome meditation for practicing jyotish 
astrology. Both exclaimed they would be there meditating if the guidelines were 
changed to omit the ‘non-compete clauses’ about people who practice jyotish, 
those guidelines that have nothing to do with their practice of ™.  A couple 
weeks ago there was a former MIU student back visiting who applying for a Dome 
badge the course office did an internet search about the person’s life, judged 
and told this person they would never be allowed in the Dome. Never? We need 
membership here and these people go out into the world and tell others what, 
about being excluded? 
  
  
 The narrative needs to change now. It is not enough to claim that things have 
changed when they have not. 
 
 
 

 
 
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 
<r...@searchsummit.com mailto:r...@searchsummit.com> wrote :
 Maharishi once said that there will come a time when I’ll tell you to meditate 
on your own, but for now I want you do it in the domes.
  
 Rick Archer
 Buddha at the Gas Pump
 https://batgap.com https://batgap.com
 r...@batgap.com mailto:r...@batgap.com
 Podcast https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcas

RE: [FairfieldLife] RE: Fairfield’s Crisis of Meditating Numbers in the Dome

[Rick Archer r...@searchsummit.com [FairfieldLife]]

Were these examples (e.g., people doing their own jyotish) brought up in the 
Phoenix Rising meeting?

Rick Archer
Buddha at the Gas Pump
https://batgap.com
r...@batgap.com<mailto:r...@batgap.com>
Podcast<https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/buddha-at-the-gas-pump/id602578156>


From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2017 8:47 PM
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: Fairfield’s Crisis of Meditating Numbers in the 
Dome


July 2017, no change in the ‘non-compete’ policies for Dome 
admission/membership.
Men’s Dome number was 193 a recent morning and 196 evening.


---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com<mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>, 
<dhamiltony...@yahoo.com<mailto:dhamiltony...@yahoo.com>> wrote :

E-mail responding to



“Willing people not allowed in the Dome”..



You know one of the very biggest issues now? That when someone is mistreated, 
they will not put it in an email. The admins and leadership needs emails now, 
for good reason. Otherwise it won't be believed, they have to have something in 
hand. It is not just fear of losing badge, it takes strength to deal with 
things like this, to write that email. I have been told dozens of times, 'No I 
won't send an email, I'm just going to let it go.' Then what can I do?

People have to be strong enough to lead the leaders.



Contact John Hagelin directly.



At:

Global Union of Scientists for Peace

2000 Capital Boulevard

Fairfield, IA 52556

secretar...@gusp.org<mailto:secretar...@gusp.org>

+1-888-600-GUSP




---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com<mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>, 
<dhamiltony...@yahoo.com<mailto:dhamiltony...@yahoo.com>> wrote :

Those guidelines of the ‘administrative state’ up there on campus and those 
Rajas who defend them have turned too many capable meditators out from the 
Domes. In the span of a few days after the communal meeting at Phoenix Rising I 
spoke separately with two long long time TM movement meditators who were 
administratively excluded from the Dome meditation for practicing jyotish 
astrology. Both exclaimed they would be there meditating if the guidelines were 
changed to omit the ‘non-compete clauses’ about people who practice jyotish, 
those guidelines that have nothing to do with their practice of ™.  A couple 
weeks ago there was a former MIU student back visiting who applying for a Dome 
badge the course office did an internet search about the person’s life, judged 
and told this person they would never be allowed in the Dome. Never? We need 
membership here and these people go out into the world and tell others what, 
about being excluded?





The narrative needs to change now. It is not enough to claim that things have 
changed when they have not.




---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com<mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>, 
<r...@searchsummit.com<mailto:r...@searchsummit.com>> wrote :

Maharishi once said that there will come a time when I’ll tell you to meditate 
on your own, but for now I want you do it in the domes.



Rick Archer

Buddha at the Gas Pump

https://batgap.com

r...@batgap.com<mailto:r...@batgap.com>

Podcast<https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/buddha-at-the-gas-pump/id602578156>





From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com<mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> 
[mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: Monday, July 10, 2017 5:03 AM
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com<mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield’s Crisis of Me ditating Numbers in the 
Dome:





e-mail:



Insist all those in stopatya veda homes and on campus meditating in different 
places get back to meditating in the domes...  May take some presentation by 
Travis of the science to actually point out the value of proximity.
Regenerate the power of numbers and proximity in meditation. Facilitating 11 
different program locations and encouraging people to just meditate at home was 
a formula in specialness and loss of communal cohesion.




---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com<mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>, 
<dhamiltony...@yahoo.com<mailto:dhamiltony...@yahoo.com>> wrote :

Meditating attendees at the men’s Dome had a relatively large

​YOY (year over year) ​

drop

​this​

June of 26

​fewer men​

per Program than last year.



Attendees at mediation in the women’s Dome had a very very large drop of 79 per 
Program, yoy.




---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com<mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>, 
<dhamiltony...@yahoo.com<mailto:dhamiltony...@yahoo.com>> wrote :



The ending of the “grant” program funding.



Old meditators cut loose as

the ™ movement readies to

outsource US Meditation to India.



The international ™ movement is announcing it will shift its funding resources 
away from propping the Dome group meditation in Iowa over to pundi

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield’s Crisis of Meditating Numbers in the Dome:

[Archer Angel archonan...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

That could be a solution, but as the number of "Sidhas" practicing in the Domes 
exceed the number required for coherence in Fairfield, why did that not provide 
the basis for continued success in Fairfield? 
If we take Kaplan's letter over a decade ago at face value, it would seem 
Maharishi did not even really know if this coherence effect would really work, 
as it seemed to be based on a rather loose association of a statement by 
Patanjali with a coherence effect in physics.
The maximum numbers were in the 1980s and everything has declined, including 
the state of the world from that point on, whereas if the theory were true, it 
should have improved, especially in Fairfield, more people would have come into 
the program and the world would have gotten better.
In spite of the movement's confirmation-bias tainted research, Fairfield, the 
star of the movement, seems to indicate the Maharishi effect does not exist in 
the form and extent that it is touted to be.
The point of meditation is it is an aid to enlightenment. Everything else that 
has been bundled with it in the movement has been an effort to make it 
attractive to people who probably would not otherwise meditate for the real 
reason.
It is an appeal to personal success and well-being, which is fine for 
ego-centric individuals, but enlightenment is to discover that everything is 
consciousness, and consciousness when unbounded is not personal.
Meditating for "World Peace" sounds great, and maybe that idea will make you 
feel good as an individual, but World Peace has not happened, and seems less 
likely now than previously.
Perhaps the Bhagavad-Gita is correct, that life is an unending battleground and 
that you need to achieve peace on the basis of your practice, but the battle 
continues unending, without letup, and you gain peace even amid ceaseless 
turmoil.

  From: "dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" 
<FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
 Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2017 10:32 AM
 Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield’s Crisis of Meditating Numbers in the 
Dome:
   
    
The ending of the “grant” program funding. Old meditators cut loose as the ™ 
movement readies tooutsource US Meditation to India. The international ™ 
movement is announcing it will shift its funding resources away from propping 
the Dome group meditation in Iowa over to pundit programs in India.  Winding 
down the “Grant” program.. Financial support for the Invincible America 
Assembly had been coming in substantial amounts donated monthly by Drs. Howard 
and Mickey Settle. About two years ago, the International ™ Movement took over 
most, then all, of the IAA Grant funding, and has now announced it will step 
down its contributions beginning in September, to 22% of the $90,000/month it 
has been giving, by this coming November. 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote :

 The movement should get out of the business of monitoring people.

FW:  Myth: People dropped off or were cut from the Grant because there was not 
enough funds, due to Howard Settle's business situation.  Truth: Not one person 
was dropped from the Grant due to reduction in Settle funds in 2013. Every 
single person who re-applied went back on the Grant. Julie Anne, who handled 
the Grant checks, told me this herself. But the 100 person drop overnight, and 
350 or more after that reduction, was primarilybecause of dislike or 
disapproval of the 'monitoring' system, and, the way that Bryan Lee et al 
conducted the lengthy highly formal meeting to introduce the 'monitoring' 
system (I had warned him what 'monitoring' would do, and also what that type of 
meeting would do, but was disregarded). It crippled Movement family and 
community feeling, what was left of that.  The reduction in attendance began 
ONE YEAR BEFORE the Settle funds were reduced. In August of 2012. Soon as 
'monitoring' started, after 17 nearly consecutive higher months, our attendance 
fell through the floor, and went down 12 consecutive months PRIOR TO the Settle 
fund reduction (then continued falling for 39 months after that, until 2 months 
up for October Surprise (then down 3 months in a row since then.  
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote :

‘Fixing’ the grant $ program and its monitoring? That seems like.. 'putting 
Lipstick on a pig’.   

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote :

The Administrative State of monitoring..
The coloring of consciousness with fear by effect of meditation-monitoring in 
physical observation is antithetical to 'effortless meditation' in creating 
stress to the innocence of the practice.
 FW: ..refer to Maharishi's Commentary on the Gita, where he states, inter 
alia, at VI: 10, "the feeling of someone being around him or watching him may 
impede the smoothness of the process of transcending."  FW