[FairfieldLife] Re: Meditating Fairfield, Iowa and Unity Village Kansas City

2014-04-25 Thread anartaxius
Buck, it seems to me that the TM generation while still current is past, so I am wondering what you think the characteristics of its spiritual successors will be. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5@... wrote : It seems every generation or two, probably all through human

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditating Fairfield, Iowa and Unity Village Kansas City

2014-03-21 Thread LEnglish5
Current TM initiations are higher than they have been since the Merv Griffith days. The pprice of TM instruction has been lowered 36% for adults, and down to $360 for ages 10-18, and full-time college students, at least through May 31, 2014. http://www.tm.org/fee http://www.tm.org/fee

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditating Fairfield, Iowa and Unity Village Kansas City

2014-03-21 Thread Michael Jackson
steve.sun...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditating Fairfield, Iowa and Unity Village Kansas City To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, March 21, 2014, 3:14 AM   Sphere of influence

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditating Fairfield, Iowa and Unity Village Kansas City

2014-03-21 Thread Share Long
...@yahoo.com steve.sun...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditating Fairfield, Iowa and Unity Village Kansas City To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, March 21, 2014, 3:14 AM   Sphere of influence.  Remember that, anyone

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditating Fairfield, Iowa and Unity Village Kansas City

2014-03-21 Thread doctordumbass
Excellent news - Given what infomercials charge for vitamins and a CD, the TM price doesn't seem so out of line. Besides, after boosting it to $2500 a few years ago, anything else is going to look really affordable - excellent marketing. I am glad people are again noticing the benefits of the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditating Fairfield, Iowa and Unity Village Kansas City

2014-03-21 Thread Bhairitu
Yup, now all they need is a late night huckster doing back end ad spots on cable television saying order now for only $240 (muted voice) and with three additional monthly payments of $240. Call now, operators are standing by. This offer only good for the first 5 callers. Kinda puts the TMO

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditating Fairfield, Iowa and Unity Village Kansas City

2014-03-20 Thread TurquoiseBee
support. From: steve.sun...@yahoo.com steve.sun...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 3:15 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditating Fairfield, Iowa and Unity Village Kansas City   Actually Michael, You might

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2014-03-20 Thread TurquoiseBee
: Wednesday, March 19, 2014 11:52 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditating Fairfield, Iowa and Unity Village Kansas City   Spirituality, . ..stems from being initiated into TM MJ, you bet. More experience of the transcendent as the unified field is the basis of spiritual progress

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2014-03-20 Thread turquoiseb
: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditating Fairfield, Iowa and Unity Village Kansas City Actually Michael, You might be surprised to know that more people are learning TM than you might have expected. The fee structure has changed, and more people are signing up. I was surprised myself actually

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditating Fairfield, Iowa and Unity Village Kansas City

2014-03-20 Thread steve.sundur
@... steve.sundur@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 3:15 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditating Fairfield, Iowa and Unity Village Kansas City Actually Michael, You might be surprised to know that more people are learning TM than you might have

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2014-03-20 Thread TurquoiseBee
@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 1:03 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditating Fairfield, Iowa and Unity Village Kansas City   It was me Barry, and I will speak generally since I do wish to stay somewhat anonymous.  But in my area, a teacher has come and generated activity

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditating Fairfield, Iowa and Unity Village Kansas City

2014-03-20 Thread steve.sundur
made it to email for some reason. Yahoo sucketh. From: steve.sundur@... steve.sundur@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 1:03 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditating Fairfield, Iowa and Unity Village Kansas City It was me Barry, and I will speak

[FairfieldLife] Re: Meditating Fairfield, Iowa and Unity Village Kansas City

2014-03-20 Thread dhamiltony2k5
It is interesting how transcending can be taught to and has been taught to in different times. I was harmony singing over the lunch hour yesterday with some other conservative Fairfield meditators here and we sang this old hymn that came from the Shaker spiritual movement where the text is

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2014-03-20 Thread WLeed3
THANKS for so sharing this Buck shared very well as well ! HA! HA! HO! Sent in the highest regards Bill Leed

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditating Fairfield, Iowa and Unity Village Kansas City

2014-03-20 Thread dhamiltony2k5
For outsiders looking in, 7thRay is entirely correct in comment here. Yep, TM is come under a much more empathetic and effective leadership now in John Hagelin and the people he draws around him. Still a fight in the middle about things with strict preservationists over policy and what is 'the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditating Fairfield, Iowa and Unity Village Kansas City

2014-03-20 Thread Michael Jackson
to upsell everyone to buy other TM-related products that I can't support. From: steve.sundur@... steve.sundur@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 3:15 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditating Fairfield, Iowa and Unity Village Kansas City

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditating Fairfield, Iowa and Unity Village Kansas City

2014-03-20 Thread Share Long
@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 1:03 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditating Fairfield, Iowa and Unity Village Kansas City   It was me Barry, and I will speak generally since I do wish to stay somewhat anonymous.  But in my area, a teacher has come

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditating Fairfield, Iowa and Unity Village Kansas City

2014-03-20 Thread authfriend
@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 1:03 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditating Fairfield, Iowa and Unity Village Kansas City It was me Barry, and I will speak generally since I do wish to stay somewhat anonymous. But in my area, a teacher has come

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditating Fairfield, Iowa and Unity Village Kansas City

2014-03-20 Thread dhamiltony2k5
Look MJ, you are talking bad about the old TM movement. We don't have control over what happened then. We are not that now. TM is moving forward transparently, honestly and effectively teaching something from the yogic tradition that is highly useful and relevant in a modern and scientific

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditating Fairfield, Iowa and Unity Village Kansas City

2014-03-20 Thread Michael Jackson
what I and MANY others have gone through. On Thu, 3/20/14, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com dhamiltony...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditating Fairfield, Iowa and Unity Village Kansas City To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date

[FairfieldLife] Re: Meditating Fairfield, Iowa and Unity Village Kansas City

2014-03-20 Thread dhamiltony2k5
The old Unity movement and their Unity Village in Kansas City as has been a case also with the Transcendental Meditation movement and Fairfield, Iowa evidently were great introductions to spiritual transcendentalism and a unity in the transcendental state by experience of what practical

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditating Fairfield, Iowa and Unity Village Kansas City

2014-03-20 Thread steve.sundur
@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 1:03 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditating Fairfield, Iowa and Unity Village Kansas City It was me Barry, and I will speak generally since I do wish to stay somewhat

[FairfieldLife] Re: Meditating Fairfield, Iowa and Unity Village Kansas City

2014-03-19 Thread LEnglish5
The fun thing about such folk is that they've missed the point that TM's effects continue to accumulate, even 50+ years into the practice, so dabbling in it for a few years or decades means that they've missed out on the accumulated effects. Of course, one could claim that they have stopped

[FairfieldLife] Re: Meditating Fairfield, Iowa and Unity Village Kansas City

2014-03-19 Thread dhamiltony2k5
These were pretty illumined people [Meissner-like Field Effect of consciousness]. I'd grant them some thing good that came of doing TM as new meditators years ago may be even larger than global-alpha-wave-coherence in just doing TM. Egg, If you came down off your high horse and sat with them

[FairfieldLife] Re: Meditating Fairfield, Iowa and Unity Village Kansas City

2014-03-19 Thread dhamiltony2k5
Dear Egg, so you believe there is a strict exclusivity in your transcendence. To just practicing the TM technique. That people would not be able to be in transcending after learning TM if they did not practice TM strictly as in coming back to the mantra as instructed in basic TM when noticing

[FairfieldLife] Re: Meditating Fairfield, Iowa and Unity Village Kansas City

2014-03-19 Thread dhamiltony2k5
Maybe the Transcendent is possibly more than you are cracking your TM meditation alpha-global-coherence brain wave TM research up to be and these people are transcendental meditators still growing in Spirituality may be as something more than just alpha wave coherence. Touting alpha coherence

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditating Fairfield, Iowa and Unity Village Kansas City

2014-03-19 Thread Michael Jackson
: Meditating Fairfield, Iowa and Unity Village Kansas City To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Wednesday, March 19, 2014, 2:08 PM   Maybe the Transcendent is possibly more than you are cracking your TM meditation

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditating Fairfield, Iowa and Unity Village Kansas City

2014-03-19 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 3/19/2014 9:59 AM, Michael Jackson wrote: I am happy to report that one of my old friends who has done TM since 1972 recently ceased his TM practice because he could no longer justify doing a practice he could not in good conscience recommend. A good deal of his change of mind and heart

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditating Fairfield, Iowa and Unity Village Kansas City

2014-03-19 Thread dhamiltony2k5
on FFL. All glory to FFL! Jai Guru Truth and Common Sense! Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditating Fairfield, Iowa and Unity Village Kansas City To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Wednesday, March 19, 2014

[FairfieldLife] Re: Meditating Fairfield, Iowa and Unity Village Kansas City

2014-03-19 Thread dhamiltony2k5
Sometimes the teaching stays individuated like with Emerson and sometimes it propagates in groups or even in to popular movement. It is all the same based on experience of the absolute. This expression and re-expression in self-referral transcendental spiritual experience of the Unified

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditating Fairfield, Iowa and Unity Village Kansas City

2014-03-19 Thread steve.sundur
@... dhamiltony2k5@... mailto:dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditating Fairfield, Iowa and Unity Village Kansas City To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Wednesday, March 19, 2014, 2:08 PM

[FairfieldLife] Re: Meditating Fairfield, Iowa and Unity Village Kansas City

2014-03-19 Thread dhamiltony2k5
It seems every generation or two, probably all through human time someone comes and re-expresses the ultimate teaching of transcendence as spirituality in life that way. Like the Unity movement in its time or TM in our time. Sometimes the teaching stays individuated like with Emerson and

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditating Fairfield, Iowa and Unity Village Kansas City

2014-03-19 Thread Michael Jackson
...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditating Fairfield, Iowa and Unity Village Kansas City To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, March 20, 2014, 2:15 AM   Actually Michael, You might

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditating Fairfield, Iowa and Unity Village Kansas City

2014-03-19 Thread steve.sundur
@... mailto:steve.sundur@... steve.sundur@... mailto:steve.sundur@... wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditating Fairfield, Iowa and Unity Village Kansas City To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, March 20, 2014, 2:15 AM

[FairfieldLife] Re: Meditating Fairfield, Iowa and Unity Village Kansas City

2014-03-19 Thread LEnglish5
Dear Egg, so you believe there is a strict exclusivity in your transcendence. To just practicing the TM technique. That people would not be able to be in transcending after learning TM if they did not practice TM strictly as in coming back to the mantra as instructed in basic TM when noticing

[FairfieldLife] Re: Meditating Fairfield, Iowa and Unity Village Kansas City

2014-03-18 Thread dhamiltony2k5
In Unity congregations, serving both the families with children and the elderly-in-transition are strategies intertwined for a succession. Likewise TM [Maharishi Foundation] is very consciously looking at teaching TM again to student populations which was so long neglected by the TM-sidhis

[FairfieldLife] Re: Meditating Fairfield, Iowa and Unity Village Kansas City

2014-03-18 Thread dhamiltony2k5
Transcending Meditation, TM ? One of the Unity ministers from California told of an active younger Unity laity minister who just started TM that found it very helpful.. Everyone older at the coffee table discussion acknowledged starting TM back in the day, “Oh yes, TM everyone [they] started