[FairfieldLife] Origins of TM: Dr. Raj Varma, Maharishi's uncle?

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1940's, Showing the Origins of ™.. 

 Nice quotes from the introduction below.
 


 

“i felt so happy with my mantra, but i kept forgetting it while my fingers were 
moving automatically. In each round this happened! What can I do about it?!”

a wonderful smile was on Guru Dev’s face.
“FOUND!” he exclaimed. “You have learnt to transcend the mantra! Excellent! You 
transcended the mantra which wants to go back to the source. The best thing 
that can happen! When you are aware of having forgotten the mantra you quietly 
pick up the mantra again and continue happily. This was very good meditation. 
Continue meditating like that now and tonight and report to me tomorrow 
morning.” So very happy checkings followed.’
 

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

 This must be old news, but new to me:
 

 Before Guru Dev became Shankaracharya, on September 14th 1940 someone by the 
name of Raj Varma made his way across Jabalpur to where Guru Dev was staying, 
in order to become an initiate of Guru Dev:-
 
 'So before sunrise Dr. Varma came full of joy to his initiation. Guru Dev did 
the puja with his fruit and flowers and then gave him his mantra and asked him 
to sit down. He gave him a rosary. An indian rosary has mostly 108 beads. Guru 
Dev told Dr. Varma to close his eyes and repeat the mantra and with every 
mantra touch a new bead so that the rosary would go forward in his hand with 
each mantra. Then he told him to only think the mantra easily without speaking 
it any more while his fingers moving forward touched the beads. The rosary has 
one extra bead attached to it where you start and where eventually you finish 
the round of 108. When Guru Dev saw that Dr. Varma had reached the end of the 
round at the extra bead, he told him to stop thinking the mantra. After some 
time he told him to open his eyes slowly.
 

 Read more:
 

 http://www.paulmason.info/gurudev/introduction.htm 
http://www.paulmason.info/gurudev/introduction.htm

 

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Statistical Fact: new Maharishi Meisnner-like Effect article published

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“12 published, peer-reviewed articles on violence prevention through the TM and 
TM-sidhi program have put hard-to-ignore numbers on something that otherwise 
might seem like an exercise in wishful thinking."
 

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

 “..There is a 3 in 10,000 trillion probability that the reductions in the 
homicide rate could simply be due to chance.”
 

 It only takes what?  Evidently only about 2000 people meditating in the same 
place at the same time doing ™ and the ™-sidhi program.
 

 New, solid, published, peer-reviewed research has indicated once again (in 
replication) how meditation can change the world for the better.  -FF Weekly 
Reader
 

 

 

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

 ‘ ..the ‘Not everyone agrees’ defense against correlations of science:  “We 
don’t know..it is only probability, ‘correlation is not causation’, it is not 
certain, therefore it may not exist and it would cost too much to implement or 
make any change in public policy, better we should not do anything until we 
know for certain, we should even stonewall the correlation, fire the messengers 
if they get too far with this!’  
 

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

 Brilliant and a fine extension of the scientific process (discourse). Thanks. 
I will forward a link to this to higher authorities for their review. 

 yifuxero writes:
 Let's review some hypotheses and assumptions.
 

 1. In regard to "modern" scientific inquiry, we may be in agreement  that such 
methodologies are quite limited in scope, since there are vast bodies of 
phenomena beginning with simple psychic experiences that most people "believe" 
are true based on subjective experiences and the testimonials of others. This 
body of "unproved" phenomena extends into such areas as crop circles, alien 
appearances and abductions, cattle mutilations, Big Foot sightings, etc, and 
ultimately, the ME.
 ...
 2. Most profoundly and of great importance, is the nature of Gnosis 
(Self-knowledge of the Atman leading to complete Brahman realization). We can 
go back to the early Gnostics to see how this as a Movement gradually gave way 
to Dualistic dogmatic religion.  In the 20-th century prior to WWII, there were 
minor revivals such as the "I AM Movement".  After WWII, we have Yogananda, 
Kirpal Sing, Eckankar,, etc; but most important, MMY.
 Ultimately, we come across (through subjective experience,) the Self - Purusha 
and find a true Paradox:
 The Self (Purusha) is indeed "experiential" but purely so, and as such, is not 
by It's very nature objectively provable or demonstrable to others.
 Thus, in terms of the ongoing evolutionary development of mankind (Cf. MMY, 
Eckart Tolle, and others); the hypothesis has been promulgated that the long 
term "Salvation" of individuals and of mankind is innately connected to Gnosis, 
rather than the dogma of belief systems and dualistic religions.
 Thus, the only way to "prove" Purusha is to experience It for yourself; and a 
tipping point in evolution will occur when vast numbers of people simply 
"overpower": those endowed with dualistic perception alone. This is the 
hypothesis of Tolle's "Heaven on Earth" concept.  When large numbers of people 
are Self-aware, such Gnosis will simply take it for granted as being an 
intrinsic part of life, having no need for "modern science" to prove It's 
existence as the basis of reality.
 

 3. OTOH, the ME is a SHAKTI-basic phenomena.  Among those practicing TM for 
any significant length of time, a type of perception awakens in which Shakti as 
a subtle type of energy creeps into overall awareness, with a "Shakti-meter", 
allowing people to discriminate between various people and places radiating 
that Energy.  In a sense, Shakti can be considered a subtle type of "field". 
Thus, the TMO's use of the term would be appropriate.
 

 4. Unfortunately, at this state of modern scientific inquiry, there's no 
empirical evidence for the existence of
 . higher dimensions beyond our materialistic, naturalistic world.  The fact 
that may people have experienced contact with Angels, the dead, and 
interdimensional phenomena is a moot point. Such personal testimonies maketh 
not what's acceptable as "science". If this were the case, nut cases claiming 
Alien abductions and others such as Scientologists AND the TMO would (and 
have!) attempted to make a spurious and dishonest claim for their own versions 
of what "should" be the true post-modern science.
 

 5. Factually, we are dealing with MODERN scientific methods, not such 
futuristic model of what science "should" be like. If that were not the case, 
the TMO would (and does), have their own make-believe version of science, the 
Scientologists theirs, and the UFO-ologists theirs..  Do I "believe" in the 
existence of Angels, interdimensional entities, and Aliens, as well as very 
common psychic experiences.  Yes!  

[FairfieldLife] Re: Spiritual Movements and their relationship to Social Justice.

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Pretty clearly the science indicates that a largest most significant direct 
‘social action’ that people can take, that activists could take on as their own 
civil disobedience to the norm, is to come (back?) and meditate now with the 
large group in Fairfield, Iowa.  That is it. That is what this group is about.  
Every thing else are externalities. And distraction and excuses to meditating 
in the collective. 
 

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

 Bhairitu brings here a substantial observation towards.. The active anti- GMO 
stance of the Transcendental Meditation meditating movement. 
What is the TM movement doing aggravating its farm neighbors and farmers 
generally provoking this anti-gmo controversy where the TM movement’s primary 
mission purpose as a spiritual regeneration movement has been advocating for 
people to learn meditation? Is TM as a movement becoming something else?
 
Of TM?   Bhairitu writes:  I can't imagine that an organization who dislikes 
GMOs would favor anything resembling the unnatural such as "The Singularity".   
   434045
 

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

 
 A spiritual renewal movement that aligns itself with, or allows itself to be 
aligned with, particular social positions both alters itself in so doing but is 
drawn away from its initial stance, at least in the eyes of potential 
adherents, and thus both attracts those interested in the social policy 
position rather than the spiritual aspect or repels people who would otherwise 
have been attracted to the spiritual aspect but can’t “cotton to “ the policy 
position.
 

 For instance, one way or another being known for some social action position, 
like organic, vegetarian, and non-GMO food, or known for its spiritual 
practice, is the TM movement or are TM ‘ers themselves a social justice or 
spiritual renewal movement?  A problem with the TM group being known for 
mundane social action positions is that social activism can redefine the group 
differently from its origins of being a spiritual regeneration movement 
promulgating Transcendentalism through transcendental meditationist practice.  

 

 As with an early Quaker movement moving on from its more narrow spiritual 
regeneration in promulgated collective meditation practice, what once began in 
time as identified spiritual regenerative movement then transformed over 
towards facilitating social reform.  And likewise, current organizations (21st 
Century) within a reforming post-founder TM movement foster a relevance for 
themselves through advocacies in revolutionary education, health, food safety, 
agricultural, architectural, and GMO public policy reform. As this happens in 
spiritual revival groups, is this transformation a formula in dilution of what 
was originally gathered?

 

 Discerning between spiritual community and political activism: walking a line 
between spirituality or pacifism, anti-slavery, anti-war, or anti-GMO activism,
 

 in spiritual regeneration movements a position of policy rooted in methodical 
abstinence from mundane political opinion on social issues is not without 
example.
 

 During the Vietnam war years as Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was traveling the world 
giving spiritual talks and teaching meditation, in the West he would generally 
refrain from particular advice or partisan consultations about the Vietnam war 
as to whether young people should be drafted or not into the armies to fight in 
the Southeast Asia war or as to their seeking conscientious objection in 
pacifism as a deferment from the war.  
 

 Initially Quaker (Society of Friends) founders facilitated a spiritual 
practice movement of meditation and, for instance, were neither a movement for 
abolitionism or pacifism as they have later become well known for in their 
narrative. Partly for their own safety within a larger society an early 
consideration within their fledgling group that it was not necessarily their 
place as a spiritual practice movement to be advocating social, political or 
worldly position but that they were primarily a spiritual practice group, of 
‘Friends’.  
 

 For some time Quaker founding generations were conservative in this position 
of not being antagonizing to the world around them in mixing their primary work 
of regenerating spiritual practice with particular secular advocacy. This was 
weighed with practical expediency and conscience with their working as a 
broader public teaching organization. The workings of social conscience that 
Quakers are now more readily known for came subsequently into the being of 
their movement to become very much part of their current spiritual/religious 
practice. These encroachments would come to their movement in time.  
 

 Initially Quakers were more strictly a spiritual practice group of 
meditationism and their social actions of conscience as a people have come 
along to be adopted in a sequence.  
 

 For example, see 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Science says: Deploy Meditation as Missile Defense Now!

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Another alarming thing that could prick 'the market balloon' is China..   
 China and Asia are back in the news..

 China’s Missile Defense Meltdown: 

 

 Read further down in the article for the dialogue..
 

At the weekend I was monitoring social media and had the following conversation 
with a woman in Beijing.


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

 China’s Missile Defense Meltdown: 
 Time now for setting up a Radical Peace Shield 
 

 http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-china-blog-39254254 
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-china-blog-39254254
 

 The Chinese Communist Party is definitely playing with fire by stirring up 
such emotions in order to achieve a political result.

 

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[FairfieldLife] PDF version of key extracts from the 18 major Puranas

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[FairfieldLife] Journals Publish Maharishi Effect Studies on Invincible America Assembly

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The Review, Vol. 32, #15, March 15, 2017
Copyright 2016, Maharishi University of Management

Scholarly Journals Continue to Publish Maharishi Effect Studies on Invincible 
America Assembly

Following the publication a year ago of a study showing reduced homicide and 
violent crime during the peak years of the Invincible America Assembly from 
2006–2010, a new study published last month found a reduction in motor vehicle 
fatalities. And three additional studies will be coming out soon.

"The level of acceptance is amazing," said lead author Ken Cavanaugh. "There's 
rising receptivity to the notion of a field effect of consciousness and that 
group meditation can affect the environment."

The recent study reported that group practice of the Transcendental Meditation® 
and TM-Sidhi® program by participants in the Invincible America Assembly at MUM 
reduced the rate of U.S. motor vehicle fatalities by a total of 20.6% over the 
four-year period 2007–2010.

All other accidental deaths were reduced by 13.5%. "An estimated 19,435 motor 
vehicle fatalities and 16,759 other accidental deaths were averted," said 
coauthor Michael Dillbeck.

>From 2007–2010 the group size was above or near 1,725 participants, the size 
>predicted to have a positive influence on the U.S. quality of life. This 
>predicted threshold represents the square root of 1% of the U.S. population.

"Maharishi explains that when a sufficient number of individuals are 
experiencing pure consciousness during group practice, the field of pure 
consciousness is enlivened in the entire population," Dr. Cavanaugh said. "This 
field effect positively influences the quality of consciousness in the 
individuals in society in much the same direction as that experienced by those 
practicing the Transcendental Meditation technique."

Specifically, this research tested the hypothesis that group practice results 
in increased alertness and reduced stress in the general population, thus 
contributing to reduced accident rates.

In their study, published in the Journal of Consciousness Studies, the 
researchers first calculated a baseline trend for both accidental fatality 
rates 2002–2006, and then used time series intervention analysis to compare 
that baseline with the corresponding trend for the intervention period 
2007–2010.

For motor vehicle fatality rates, they found that a slightly declining trend 
during the baseline period 2002–2006 accelerated significantly beginning in 
January 2007 and continued declining during the intervention period 2007–2010.

In the case of all other accidents, there was a highly significant shift from a 
rising trend in 2002–2006 to a substantially slower positive trend in 2007–2010.

The probability that the reduced trend for motor vehicle fatalities was due to 
chance was 3.7 in 10 million million and for fatalities due to other accidents, 
less than 8.4 in 1 million.

The prediction of reduced accidental fatalities was lodged in advance. The 
researchers were able to rule out alternative explanations.

[FairfieldLife] Study Shows Brain Coherence When Listening to Vedic Pandits

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The Review, Vol. 32, #15, March 15, 2017
Copyright 2016, Maharishi University of Management

Study Shows Brain Coherence When Listening to Vedic Pandits

Those who have listened to live Vedic recitation by pandits often have 
experiences of deep inner silence, and now a new EEG study describes the 
coherent brain wave patterns associated with those experiences.

EEG measurements on the 37 subjects while they listened to the recitation not 
only found coherence in their brain wave patterns, but that the coherence was 
actually higher than during their practice of the Transcendental Meditation 
technique.

However, study author Fred Travis explains that all of the subjects had not 
only been practicing the Transcendental Meditation technique for an average of 
34 years but had also practiced the TM-Sidhi program an average of 28 years. 
When he measured four subjects who practiced only Transcendental Meditation, 
they didn't have the same high level of brain wave coherence.

"Those who practice the TM-Sidhi program have cultivated the habit of sitting 
in silence and allowing the mental activity to easily pass through awareness," 
Dr. Travis said. "This provided the basis, I think, for them to profit 
maximally from listening to Vedic recitation."

Dr. Travis analyzed the subjective reports of the participants' experience 
during listening to the recitation and found that their experiences were 
generally 1) deeper than during Transcendental Meditation practice; 2) 
experienced as an inner process; and 3) characterized by lively silence. They 
reported that they ''experienced a depth of experience rarely experienced even 
during deep Transcendental Meditation practice."

EEG measurements showed higher alpha1 coherence, which is associated with the 
experience of pure consciousness. And they showed higher theta2 coherence, 
which is associated with attending to internal mental processes. The latter 
finding explains the participants' experience that the Vedic recitations felt 
as though they weren't external sounds but rather internal vibrations.

Those who only practiced Transcendental Meditation had higher gamma coherence, 
with gamma being associated with focusing on an external object. Hence, their 
experience of the recitation as an outer experience.

The study was published last month in Consciousness and Cognition. Coauthors of 
the study were Niyazi Parim and Amrita Shrivastava.