[FairfieldLife] The Iraqi Army has a Problem

[jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

The troops assigned to retake Mosul, Iraq from ISIS fleed from the fight when 
the shooting started.  It appears that the soldiers are not motivated to fight. 
 How can they win even with an overwhelming air force support?  This episode is 
beginning to be an embarrassment for the Iraqi people.
 

 http://https://www.yahoo.com/ http://https://www.yahoo.com/

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditators Should Come (back) to the Domes the next 4-5 weeks ~ Important time for coherence in consciousness

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

Asking around how it got so bad for the Dome meditation numbers, someone 
reflecting was saying:
  
 “Meditators once came to Fairfield and we are here for world peace and with no 
denouncement of other gurus or comment on other people and not burdened by 
fear, deceit and judgment.  If that had been the movement’s continued 
administration it would not have died.  When the fear and lying became 
requirements, not an option but required, to just lie, it ended.   The irony is 
that in the stand of people’s own integrity people have left.”
 

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

 

 This new order of business that came in to the new TM movement was very much 
about exclusivity and securing trademark and market share in their minds.  This 
is embedded in the group meditation guidelines too.
 

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

 This business shift over to Old Testament-like judgements about people and 
vengeful retributions in separating off old TM teachers by a kind of summary 
business personality in the middle of TM has become something of a huge loss of 
resource, both human and financial, that could have been handled differently. 
  
 By a Corporate coldness and a mercantile administration of a bunch of wealthy 
people there was not much of a sustained attempt at visiting around with people 
of the old movement after Maharishi died by 2008. In effect they turned a lot 
of people out by trying to use the org to discipline people to their own minds. 
 They quite effectively lost a lot of capital and love.  The metrics are not 
good when you look at them.   
 

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

 
 Old TM teachers had a relationship more directly to Maharishi in being 
cultivated and certified by him and under essential understanding in 
relationship to use what they learned from him without letting money get in the 
way of people learning to meditate.
 

 

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

 There was a further mercantile shift in administration of old TM after 
Maharishi.  The complete change over after Maharishi was handled most 
unfortunately by a strong mind of making old testament like judgments about old 
teachers and then retributions by some business-minded group consciousness of 
some wealthy fanatical followers, ..as Feste here reduces how they 'frame' it. 
Sounds so rational but was poorly handled. 
 

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

 
 

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

 You know, the TMO has always operated in a cliquish manner. When you first get 
initiated ,everything is cool. You belong to a unique group of people *saving 
the world*. But then you notice various cliques have formed. There are plane 
ol' meditaters,( the lowest of the low, that nobody wants to hang with) sidhas, 
pre-teachers, Teachers, Governors, Rajas, Maharajas, ministers of this and 
that, administrators, cooks and dish washer, etc
 Disenfranchising a group could have the effect of making them scramble to get 
in a better position, even if it costs them a lot of money to *belong*.
 Thank God, I don't want to *belong*!
 I don't remember how many teachers Maharishi trained before this 
recertification program started but imagine getting every, or nearly every, 
teacher to plop down a couple of thousand bucks just to maintain their status. 
Might pay some bills with that kind of cash. Plus, you can tighten your grip on 
confidentiality of the teaching process.

 

 I think I managed to avoid all of this messy stuff by not becoming an 
initiator. It just never appealed to me - all that standardized code of 
behavior and dress and conduct. I simply enjoyed the technique and MIU back in 
the 70's was really a gas - a demographically diverse student body and a 
feeling of tapping into something special in terms of the curriculum and how it 
related to SCI. I'm not sure how it feels on the campus now, but back then it 
was perfectly timed for who I was and what I needed. Consequently, no hard 
feelings and I simply moved on. The Robin adventure was sort of like stealing a 
car and going for a wild joy ride having imbibed a six pack. You sort of wake 
up one day with a hangover and wonder what the hell happened but don't regret 
the adventure.

 From: "dhamiltony2k5@... [FairfieldLife]" 
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
 Sent: Thursday, April 7, 2016 7:03 AM
 Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditators Should Come (back) to the Domes 
the next 4-5 weeks ~ Important time for coherence in consciousness
 
 
   
 Yes a lot of old TM teachers feel cut this way.  
 I hear this a lot and this is very much related to how people feel about 
attending the group meditation in the Domes here. Meditators have been 
separated and excluded in a number of ways that need to be directly 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Finding New Leadership for Old TM

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

..the whole TM organization is focusing on the next generation and bringing 
them in to leadership roles. This is the focus also of the Enlightened 
Leadership International organization who with the movement is hosting a TTC 
for mostly under 40's in Bali in September and there are already over 250 
applicants.
 

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

 Millennials by culture it seems are not so malleable, though some number can 
still be religious fanatical about TM.  In tone there is a race on within TM to 
adapt some hearts and minds to what is current, one way and/or another.   
 

 

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

 Though look closer at this recent list someone provided of meditators who have 
passed.  It has a lot of the WW II and post-war cohort generation on it now,  
as would be expected of age 70 and 80+ year older meditators.  The earlier 
lists include more of TM boomers I and II who have passed away.  
 

 Next up to bat are Boomers I and then Boomers II, naturally.  The lists of 
meditators that are further down show what was the natural mortality of TM 
Boomers I and II too.  In any population there are people who die-off all along 
as a natural attrition.  TM’ers are no different that way.  In fact, a natural 
die-off in modern humans really accelerates once people hit 70, to where very 
very few make it to their 80’s. 
 

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

 We need not to get too defensive about this.  In a Natural mortality like most 
any general population of peoples TM’ers have been dying all along throughout 
their decades.  Mortality rates generally are slow and seemingly imperceptible 
early-on up through middle years.  

 

Sri writes:  There is nothing in this list to indicate TM Governors die young, 
this list does not show all the Governors, many who are alive and very old.
 

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

 The Prime Minister of TM was born in 1955?
 

 Your odds of living 10 more years.. 
 if you are 45 years of age is about 24 in 25. 
 

 According to the USA Census your odds of making it ten more years if you are:
 53 years of age is about 10 in 11. 
 Your odds of living 10 years more from 60 years of age is about 5 in 6. 
 Your odds of making it 10 more years if you are 68 are about 3 in 4.  
 If you are 70 the odds are 2 in 3 that you will make it 10 more years. Age 75, 
1 in 2 will last ten more years.   Age 80, 1 in 3 you will last 10 years.   At 
age 85, 3 in 20 will make it another 10 years. 
 Age 88, 1 in 20 living at age 88 will make it another 10 years, 
 ..cumulatively, most everyone else is gone before then.
 
 
 The die-off really starts to happen from about age 60. Very few actually make 
it to be older than age 85,  most are gone on by then. 
 

 
https://sites.google.com/site/ffhamfampage/our-company/bransonanalyticsageexpectancy
 

   -JaiGuruYou
 

 
---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%
 

 

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

 

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

 Some of what we can see in these mortality lists of TM'ers below is a natural 
aging-out of the Post-War Cohort, 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.  The teaching of TM virtually disappeared during the 1980's, 
1990's and first half of the 00's.  Initiations have crept upward since y-2006. 
  
 

 You can see this particular cusp of Boomers I and II in the general age span 
in the Dome meditation 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 Age: 1963-1972
 Age in 2004: 50-58
 Current Population: 33 million 
 

 

 Boomers II or Generation Jones
 Born: 1955-1965
 Coming of Age: 1973-1983
 Age in 

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[FairfieldLife] The Broad and the Narrow

[yifux...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

Pietist painting by Charlotte Reihlen (1805 - 1868)
 

 Der breite und der schmale Weg 
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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditators Should Come (back) to the Domes the next 4-5 weeks ~ Important time for coherence in consciousness

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

 This new order of business that came in to the new TM movement was very much 
about exclusivity and securing trademark and market share in their minds.  This 
is embedded in the group meditation guidelines too.
 

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

 This business shift over to Old Testament-like judgements about people and 
vengeful retributions in separating off old TM teachers by a kind of summary 
business personality in the middle of TM has become something of a huge loss of 
resource, both human and financial, that could have been handled differently. 
  
 By a Corporate coldness and a mercantile administration of a bunch of wealthy 
people there was not much of a sustained attempt at visiting around with people 
of the old movement after Maharishi died by 2008. In effect they turned a lot 
of people out by trying to use the org to discipline people to their own minds. 
 They quite effectively lost a lot of capital and love.  The metrics are not 
good when you look at them.   
 

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

 
 Old TM teachers had a relationship more directly to Maharishi in being 
cultivated and certified by him and under essential understanding in 
relationship to use what they learned from him without letting money get in the 
way of people learning to meditate.
 

 

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

 There was a further mercantile shift in administration of old TM after 
Maharishi.  The complete change over after Maharishi was handled most 
unfortunately by a strong mind of making old testament like judgments about old 
teachers and then retributions by some business-minded group consciousness of 
some wealthy fanatical followers, ..as Feste here reduces how they 'frame' it. 
Sounds so rational but was poorly handled. 
 

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

 
 

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

 You know, the TMO has always operated in a cliquish manner. When you first get 
initiated ,everything is cool. You belong to a unique group of people *saving 
the world*. But then you notice various cliques have formed. There are plane 
ol' meditaters,( the lowest of the low, that nobody wants to hang with) sidhas, 
pre-teachers, Teachers, Governors, Rajas, Maharajas, ministers of this and 
that, administrators, cooks and dish washer, etc
 Disenfranchising a group could have the effect of making them scramble to get 
in a better position, even if it costs them a lot of money to *belong*.
 Thank God, I don't want to *belong*!
 I don't remember how many teachers Maharishi trained before this 
recertification program started but imagine getting every, or nearly every, 
teacher to plop down a couple of thousand bucks just to maintain their status. 
Might pay some bills with that kind of cash. Plus, you can tighten your grip on 
confidentiality of the teaching process.

 

 I think I managed to avoid all of this messy stuff by not becoming an 
initiator. It just never appealed to me - all that standardized code of 
behavior and dress and conduct. I simply enjoyed the technique and MIU back in 
the 70's was really a gas - a demographically diverse student body and a 
feeling of tapping into something special in terms of the curriculum and how it 
related to SCI. I'm not sure how it feels on the campus now, but back then it 
was perfectly timed for who I was and what I needed. Consequently, no hard 
feelings and I simply moved on. The Robin adventure was sort of like stealing a 
car and going for a wild joy ride having imbibed a six pack. You sort of wake 
up one day with a hangover and wonder what the hell happened but don't regret 
the adventure.

 From: "dhamiltony2k5@... [FairfieldLife]" 
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
 Sent: Thursday, April 7, 2016 7:03 AM
 Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditators Should Come (back) to the Domes 
the next 4-5 weeks ~ Important time for coherence in consciousness
 
 
   
 Yes a lot of old TM teachers feel cut this way.  
 I hear this a lot and this is very much related to how people feel about 
attending the group meditation in the Domes here. Meditators have been 
separated and excluded in a number of ways that need to be directly 
acknowledged and remediated for attendance to improve with the 'collective 
meditation'.  
 

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

 One doesn't need a license to teach TM.
 So, you want the *state* to regulate the TM movement on how to operate?

 Bet Maharishi would have taken his knowledge and money and left in a heart 
beat.
Hot under the collar? You can perceive it that way. I just say I washed my 
hands of their foolishness. I know a shake down when I see it. I don't need 
them anymore than they need me.

 

 That's a ridiculous comment. I was just making the point that people need to 
keep 

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditators Should Come (back) to the Domes the next 4-5 weeks ~ Important time for coherence in consciousness

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

This business shift over to Old Testament-like judgements about people and 
vengeful retribution in separating off old TM teachers by a kind of summary 
business personality in the middle has become something of a huge loss of 
resource, both human and financial, that could have been handled differently. 
  
 By a Corporate coldness and a mercantile administration of a bunch of wealthy 
people there was not much of a sustained attempt at visiting around with people 
of the old movement after Maharishi died by 2008 in effect they turned a lot of 
people out by trying to use the org to discipline people to their own minds.  
They quite effectively lost a lot of capital and love.  The metrics are not 
good when you look at them.   
 

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

 
 Old TM teachers had a relationship more directly to Maharishi in being 
cultivated and certified by him and under essential understanding in 
relationship to use what they learned from him without letting money get in the 
way of people learning to meditate.
 

 

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

 There was a further mercantile shift in administration of old TM after 
Maharishi.  The complete change over after Maharishi was handled most 
unfortunately by a strong mind of making old testament like judgments about old 
teachers and then retributions by some business-minded group consciousness of 
some wealthy fanatical followers, ..as Feste here reduces how they 'frame' it. 
Sounds so rational but was poorly handled. 
 

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

 
 

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

 You know, the TMO has always operated in a cliquish manner. When you first get 
initiated ,everything is cool. You belong to a unique group of people *saving 
the world*. But then you notice various cliques have formed. There are plane 
ol' meditaters,( the lowest of the low, that nobody wants to hang with) sidhas, 
pre-teachers, Teachers, Governors, Rajas, Maharajas, ministers of this and 
that, administrators, cooks and dish washer, etc
 Disenfranchising a group could have the effect of making them scramble to get 
in a better position, even if it costs them a lot of money to *belong*.
 Thank God, I don't want to *belong*!
 I don't remember how many teachers Maharishi trained before this 
recertification program started but imagine getting every, or nearly every, 
teacher to plop down a couple of thousand bucks just to maintain their status. 
Might pay some bills with that kind of cash. Plus, you can tighten your grip on 
confidentiality of the teaching process.

 

 I think I managed to avoid all of this messy stuff by not becoming an 
initiator. It just never appealed to me - all that standardized code of 
behavior and dress and conduct. I simply enjoyed the technique and MIU back in 
the 70's was really a gas - a demographically diverse student body and a 
feeling of tapping into something special in terms of the curriculum and how it 
related to SCI. I'm not sure how it feels on the campus now, but back then it 
was perfectly timed for who I was and what I needed. Consequently, no hard 
feelings and I simply moved on. The Robin adventure was sort of like stealing a 
car and going for a wild joy ride having imbibed a six pack. You sort of wake 
up one day with a hangover and wonder what the hell happened but don't regret 
the adventure.

 From: "dhamiltony2k5@... [FairfieldLife]" 
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
 Sent: Thursday, April 7, 2016 7:03 AM
 Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditators Should Come (back) to the Domes 
the next 4-5 weeks ~ Important time for coherence in consciousness
 
 
   
 Yes a lot of old TM teachers feel cut this way.  
 I hear this a lot and this is very much related to how people feel about 
attending the group meditation in the Domes here. Meditators have been 
separated and excluded in a number of ways that need to be directly 
acknowledged and remediated for attendance to improve with the 'collective 
meditation'.  
 

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

 One doesn't need a license to teach TM.
 So, you want the *state* to regulate the TM movement on how to operate?

 Bet Maharishi would have taken his knowledge and money and left in a heart 
beat.
Hot under the collar? You can perceive it that way. I just say I washed my 
hands of their foolishness. I know a shake down when I see it. I don't need 
them anymore than they need me.

 

 That's a ridiculous comment. I was just making the point that people need to 
keep up with developments in their field, and that is all that recertification 
is. 

 

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

 One doesn't need to take two weeks off to travel cross country to learn the 
latest information. If a teacher's knowledge  wasn't sufficient