[FairfieldLife] Re: Countering a Post-Modern Spiritual Disabling of the Human Being..

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

Fear, the 'Social Question". 

 The coming future..
 

 “And that's the fear. The fear is that populism makes this not about an 
electoral ballot but really about the future, fundamentally of oneself within 
one society. And it - and populists winning, in particular, not only by having 
solutions that people can hang onto but by demonizing the opposition. And 
that's the danger in the society we're living into today.  ..And it's not just 
in the United States. It's beyond that, which means that the period after 
November 8 really is the critical period because that will determine whether 
our electoral system and democratic system based on the alternation - the 
peaceful alternation - of power is acceptable.” -NPR
 


 

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

 Yes, the Domes in Fairfield quite evidently are activating spiritually too 
like spiritual places are for an individual or collective.   There certainly is 
a reality to that. Like sitting in a gathered Quaker meeting In effect wages 
peace as places in the silence of their spiritual processes. Waging Peace now 
given these agitated and divided times, the imperative seems to rise as we know 
more. It becomes like a duty: duty for those who know how to pursue and wage 
radical peace spiritually.
 

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

 

 "Where did we go wrong? The real mistake we commit lies in our inability to 
differentiate between requirements and luxuries."-Amma

 "Don't be discouraged by your incapacity to dispel darkness from the world. 
Light your candle and step forward." -Amma
 "Be like the honeybee who gathers only nectar wherever it goes. Seek the 
goodness that is found in everyone."-Amma
 

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

 Ammachi in Detroit, ‘Q and A’ satsang meeting. 
 11.23.16

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

 Transcription of rough handwritten notes..

 

 Q:What of the fear, agitation, commotion, hatred and confusion that is 
individual and societal for the present time?
 

 A: Amma answering, Swami translating.. 
 [ ..her observation was that everyone has opinions, like people have different 
opinions about how to take their tea.  But what good is fear? Her instruction 
directly was to gain spiritual strength, to strengthen ourselves spiritually 
without becoming too anxious about the future.  
 

 We are not candles that need to be lit but self-luminous suns. To just keep 
moving with spiritual growth.  That while we live in families and communities 
that ultimately we are alone and so we look to find strength in ourselves. 
Ultimately only God is there, gain mastery over mind. 
 

 Refocus on our dharma which is compassion and everything will be okay. With a 
candle keep walking forward into the dark and extend the light.  This is the 
dark age of materialism, Kali Yuga. 
 

 There is virtue and divinity in everything, even a broken clock reads the time 
correctly 2 times a day.  Even in the worst human beings there is compassion 
there too.  You cannot force unity to happen, it unfolds by itself. Feel happy 
first and others will be too. Every drop flows to the ocean. Do whatever you 
can. Even though one half are gripped by fear everything will be alright, even 
if it is not.  Strengthen the internal mind to help others. Let the weapon be 
love.  Be strong (jestering active stance ). Don’t meet anger with anger. Do 
the work.   ]  
 

 #
 11.24.16
 Excerpts from Ammachi’s ‘Big-Swami’ 
 talk/discourse with Swamiji..
 Transcribed From handwritten notes:

 

 Big-Swami-
 'A follow-up on the fear and confusion in the world and of ‘institutional 
fear’ questions from the previous day,'
 

 Big-Swami: “.. saying there is ‘no need of confusion or fear’ is not a simple 
or superficial statement.

 The way we look at the universe is different than ..the world view.  For us 
the universe cannot be self-made, everything obeys Nature.  We cannot amend 
that.  For every action Nature follows the set laws. We are not an exception to 
the laws of Nature, we only break ourselves against nature’s law.  
Indiscriminately the law of karma works as nature.  The Law of Karma is the law 
of the Universe.  [..some examples, ‘there are pious credits ..but then you get 
the credit’.. Gita IV.v17..] 
 ”The mills of God (nature) grind slow but fine.”
 

 ..Don’t expect that people will understand you.  Understanding equals love, 
patience equals compassion, if people do not understand then grow your own 
inner light. 
 In life, civil law we have to learn and Nature’s law we have to learn. Even a 
little of this practice protects from fear.  There are 3 dimensions of space 
and 1 of time, space is static, time is movement.  A. Huxley: there is one 
corner of the universe you can improve and that is your own.  
 

 [discussion of power politics.. Binding love and liberating love are 
different.. A 

Re: [FairfieldLife] Contrary to MMY's ideas, a businessman recommends

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

This depends on community effectiveness too.  For a time at a time the 
community of TM was more effective where mission and metrics were more 
transparent. The ‘movement’ community was more effectively inclusive and more 
effectively used. That seemed to change after the mid-70’s with the advent of 
teams-of-four overthrow and again with the pivot of the Vedic science course in 
India.  Some decades later now under corporate democracy what is left remaining 
of TM as a community seems to be moving back to clearer mission operating more 
according to metric.
 

 

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

 I've noticed this idea over the years in the TM movement. "oh, I'll let nature 
organize it!" They sit back and wait and meditate for ever and a day and 
nothing gets done or is half-ass done

 The fulfillment is an inner experience but accomplishments, acquiring wealth 
and achievements requires busting your butt(maybe physically or mentally) in 
most cases.  

 Maharishi worked his ass off to get what he accomplished.
 


 From: "jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" 
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
 Sent: Monday, December 5, 2016 11:20 PM
 Subject: [FairfieldLife] Contrary to MMY's ideas, a businessman recommends
 
 
   
 to work harder to become a millionaire>
 

 Self-made millionaire: If you want to get rich, start working 95 hours a week 
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/self-made-millionaire-want-rich-160218534.html?soc_src=mail_trk=ma
 
 
 
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/self-made-millionaire-want-rich-160218534.html?soc_src=mail_trk=ma
 
 Self-made millionaire: If you want to get rich, start wo... 
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/self-made-millionaire-want-rich-160218534.html?soc_src=mail_trk=ma
 Stop doing the 9-to-5 and start doing 95, advises businessman Grant Cardone.


 
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 But MMY states to gain affluence through higher consciousness:
 

 Fulfillment and affluence through higher consciousness, not through hard work 
- Maharishi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acDuQowyzko 
 
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acDuQowyzko
 
 Fulfillment and affluence through higher consciousnes... 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acDuQowyzko http://www.tm.org Fulfillment and 
affluence through higher consciousness, not through hard work - Maharishi 
Mahesh Yogi 1. Dr. Hagelin: Thank you very muc...


 
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[FairfieldLife] Some ET, some man-made, some both??

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 Dr. Steven Greer : The Biggest HOAX in Human History 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhP_R8Eyyt4

 
 
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhP_R8Eyyt4 
 
 Dr. Steven Greer : The Biggest HOAX in Human Hi... 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhP_R8Eyyt4 Please visit: 
http://portaltoascension.org/event/greer-cosmic-false-flag/
 
 
 
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[FairfieldLife] US Life-Expectancy Maxed Out?

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According to Ayurveda, humans should expect to reach 120 years.  But that's not 
happening.  Why?
 

 Has U.S. life expectancy maxed out? First decline since 1993 
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/has-us-life-expectancy-maxed-out-first-decline-since-1993/ar-AAlj0nu?li=AA4ZnC=spartanntp
 
 
 
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/has-us-life-expectancy-maxed-out-first-decline-since-1993/ar-AAlj0nu?li=AA4ZnC=spartanntp
 
 
 Has U.S. life expectancy maxed out? First decline sin... 
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/has-us-life-expectancy-maxed-out-first-decline-since-1993/ar-AAlj0nu?li=AA4ZnC=spartanntp
 If only the good die young, Americans are getting better. U.S. life expectancy 
dipped by about a month last year from 2014, to 78.8 years, according to a 
report for...
 
 
 
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[FairfieldLife] Old Astronauts Never Die, They Just Fade Away

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Senator John Glenn RIP.
 

 John Glenn, the 1st American to orbit Earth, has died at 95 
https://www.yahoo.com/news/former-astronaut-us-sen-john-glenn-ohio-died-203210458.html
 
 
 
https://www.yahoo.com/news/former-astronaut-us-sen-john-glenn-ohio-died-203210458.html
 
 
 John Glenn, the 1st American to orbit Earth, has died at... 
https://www.yahoo.com/news/former-astronaut-us-sen-john-glenn-ohio-died-203210458.html
 WASHINGTON (AP) — John Glenn, whose 1962 flight as the first U.S. astronaut to 
orbit the Earth made him an all-American hero and propelled him to ...
 
 
 
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[FairfieldLife] Re: FF meditator memoriam

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

Word around town today that John Black passed away.
 

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 They shall not grow old:
 As we who are left grow old
 At the going down of the sun
 And in the morning we will
Remember them.  
 

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 Florence Davis passed away recently.
 George Gallagher too. 

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 Obit, 

  Thursday Oct. 20, 2016, Andrew Sheehan, age 40, passed away while resting at 
home.  His parents are Brian and Theresa Sheehan, his sister is Anna Hunter and 
his two sons are Sebastian, 23, and Tristyn, 10. Their mother is Angela 
Sheehan.  

 Andrew’s parents ask that all who loved Andrew send loving thoughts and 
prayers to Andrew.

 Andrew was a skilled builder and much loved. 

 A memorial service will be held Saturday, Oct. 22, at 2 p.m. at Behner Funeral 
Home. All are welcome. Those who wish may bring stems of flowers, no 
arrangements. Thank you.

 

 

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 Andrew Sheehan has passed.
 

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 Sally Peden, 69, of Fairfield, died Saturday, Oct. 1, 2016.
 Ms. Peden was born May 26, 1947, in Columbia, Missouri.
 She had devoted her life in personal service to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi since 
1971. She traveled the world with him as a personal assistant and lived for 
many years at the International Capital for the Transcendental Meditation 
movement in Seelisberg, Switzerland.
 Following that time, Ms. Peden spent years working for Maharishi University of 
Management. She worked for the Institute for Public Policy, the Natural Law 
Party, and finally she worked as administrator for M.U.M.’s vedic science 
program.
 
 Survivors include: her stepmother, Petch Peden, of Columbia Missouri; one 
sister, Liza Mitchell of Webster Groves, Missouri; and her close companion, Ken 
Chawkin of Fairfield.
 

 

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

 Tom Torpy, a long time Purusha friend
 passed away recently. 
 

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

 John Herbert Prechtel
is now gone on.
 

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

 Sali Pedin has passed on. 
 

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

 Nancy Van Blaricum TTC Mallorca 1972 w/ Maharishi
 Initiated over 2000 meditators
 

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

 Thanks for posting these. 

 Harvey Lubar, I knew.
 

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 Louisa Magee Marc Travis
 

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

 Recent passings from the meditating community.. 

 Gillian Pierce
 Frank Ramsey
 Gert MacQuaeen
 Evelyn Normandin
 Petra Stanley
 Harvey Lubar

 Further back, to add to the longer list
 Cindy Korn
 Jan Overholt

 

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

 James R. French Long time friend and benefactor 
 of TM and the Fairfield, Iowa
 meditating community
 passed away, April 9th. .  
 

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

 Jan Wixon, is another name on the list.   

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

 Currently, on average FF TM'ers would be.. of the Boomer II generation,
 ..about 65-70 years of age, on average. 
 

 1994, Survey of Fairfield Adult Meditators,
 Age:
 25-35 65 10%
 36-45 391 60%
 46-55 138 21%
 > 55 47 7%
 

 

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 Rates of Change.  The calculus of aging in TM.. 
 

 Some of what we can see in these lists is a natural aging-out of the Post-War 
Cohort, of the people who were early with Maharishi in the very early SRM 
movement,  the Walter Koch and Charlie Lutes generation of TM. 
 

 Now what we are seeing in TM is an accelerating rate of attrition to aging-out 
of the Boomer I and Boomer II’s.  Interestingly, the cusp time period where the 
Boomers I and Boomers II met was the time frame where TM took off in popular 
(college undergrad, grad student, professor-age) culture for a time.  A lot of 
the TM movement intake happened in those years 1968-76, over the cusp of the 
Boomers I and II.  
 

 You can see this particular cusp in the age span of meditators in the Dome or 
at campus meetings of the TM community now.  The WWII generation is pretty much 
gone from the ranks of TM now.  The Post-War Cohort are pretty gone or 
geriatric now and the Boomers I are increasingly shuffling or gone on.  Boomers 
II are increasingly ‘in diminish’.  Time is short regardless.  
 

 Post-War Cohort
 Born: 1928-1945
 Coming of Age: 1946-1963
 Age in 2004: 59 to 76
 Current Population: 41 million (declining)
 

 Boomers I or The Baby Boomers
 Born: 1946-1954
 Coming of