--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Marek Reavis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Doug, what a great list of groups Fairfield has; so cool that folks >there feel free to > find what works for them. > > For those of us who live elsewhere, there's FFL. > > Thanks > > ** > > "dhamiltony2k5" <dhamiltony2k5@> wrote: > > > > Spiritual Practice Groups of Fairfield > > > > Directory of Active Fairfield Spiritual Practice Groups > > > > > > ___________________________Alphabetical: > > > > <snip> > > > > > > The Active Spiritual Practice Groups of Fairfield > > > > Fairfield of recent years has changed into something else which is > > now quite rich after nearly three decades development. > > > > The long-time Fairfield meditating community today is its > > own center for spiritual practice. It has become way more than >TM. > > The breadth of spiritual practice > > groups in Fairfield is now a unique feature of the town in the >21st > > Century. > > >
Dear Marek, Yeah, it is going along good. FF is a special place to live right now. At least one of the 12 best places. enclosed is a review of FF from another time: <paste> MY DEAR FRIEND:--In reply to your question as to what the religious views of the Fairfield experiment are, I might, if I wished to be curt, say that they are such as you see by their lives. I am aware, however, that such a reply will not exactly suit you, and that you really mean what are their creeds, as, are they all Baptists, Trinitarians, Unitarians, or what not? And I answer you that I find here those who were brought up in every kind of belief; some who are from the Roman Catholic Church; some from the Jewish; some Trinitarians; some Unitarians; some from the Swedenborgian Church; some who are Liberals; some who are called "Come-Outers," and Mr. P., who professes to be, and is more like an infidel than any other man I ever saw. They call some of the residents here "Transcendentalists." You may judge from the name that they must be either very good or very bad people, but they represent people of education who are a little "high stilted" in their religious views, and do not take in all the wonderful Mosaic traditions. At least, this is as near as I can explain it to you. It is the fashion to call every one who has any independent notions a Transcendentalist, but I do not know who invented the name or first applied it. Like yourself, we are seekers of universal truth. We worship only reality. We are striving to establish a mode of life which shall combine the enchantments of poetry with the facts of daily experience. This we believe can be done by a rigid adherence to justice, by fidelity to human rights, by loving and honoring man as man, and rejecting all arbitrary, factitious distinctions. We are not in the interest of any sect, party or coterie; we have faith in the soul of man, in the universal soul of things, and trusting to the might of a benignant Providence which is over all, we are here sowing in weakness a seed which will be raised in power.
