Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditating in the Dome

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

Yep it seems a frightened flock now.
 A best thing you hope for as a sheep shepherd is a leader-sheep in the flock 
who has a steady eye with enough bravery and inner wisdom to gather up and lead 
a flock with you. 
 

 You look for the sheep with courage to step up and lead and then give them 
enough calmness and encouragement to come forward.  That part takes being a 
good human being in character.  Those guys of the Patterson-Morris 
administrative state of TM it seems clear now did not have what it takes to 
shepherd people, they probably should never have administrated anything.
 

 177 in the Dome the other morning. 

 Rajawilliamsmith wrote:

 Sheep herders lead from behind.
 

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

 Only 179 in the Dome the other morning. 
 
Communal Critical mass?
 

 It is way past time to re-draft the national guidelines that regulate 
membership for inclusion in the group meditations.  There are way too many 
“non-compete” clauses that remain in the guidelines, still. Clauses that 
exclude capable meditators from the collective of the group meditations.  It is 
sinful what the Rajas have continued to abide in excluding people. 

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

 It is time for a new policy of inclusion. The old adage is, “You can’t lead 
from behind”.  The ™ Rajas need to bravely get out front on this now. And,those 
Raja who can’t need to recuse themselves and get out of the way. 

 This part of culture change is going to take some extraordinary leadership by 
some brave Rajas to step in to position out in front of us all. ..Grant them 
strength.  
 

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

 
 I appreciate your concern here but it would be an invasion of some people's 
privacy to go on about this here. The more important thing here in this subject 
thread is what cultural fiduciary position the TM Raja have with the TM 
movement. 

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

 Please share with us as U may know what Rajas have left or become in active in 
our movement! Thanks in advance 4 this news
 
 
 -Original Message-
 From: dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] 
 To: FairfieldLife 
 Sent: Thu, Apr 6, 2017 2:20 pm
 Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditating in the Dome
 
 
 
 The TM Rajas? The TM Raja of America? They are the equivalent of corporate 
executive vice-presidents with some Trustees as directors over them. Except for 
Dr. Hagelin as Raja of America who is also one of a small group of the trustees 
at the top of everything TM. In the flow chart they can be like divisional exec 
VP-CEO’s of areas or lesser incorporations of the larger corporation. It is 
time for them Raja all to collectively rise up together and effect change in 
the Administrative State of the TM Movement’s group meditations.
 
 Flow chart, for instance:
 374777FW: How Our Community Works
 Corporate Communal TM, the flow chart.. 
 
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/374777?soc_src=mail_trk=mahttps://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/374777
 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/374777
 
 
 Some number of those who became Raja with Maharishi have abandoned their posts 
and are long gone now on to other things. Yet there are some who are dedicated 
holding steady to corporate missions. Jai Guru Dev 
 
 
 
 
 
 What is Raja of  America?
 
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 
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 There are two lines of thought here that work in opposition, the evident 
statistical fact of science for meditation and meditation in groups and then 
the ‘administrative state’ of the Domes that excludes practicing meditators of 
the community from the Domes. 
 
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 
 wrote :

 It is way past time to re-draft the national guidelines that regulate 
membership for inclusion in the group meditations.  There are way too many 
“non-compete” clauses that remain in the guidelines, still. Clauses that 
exclude capable meditators from the collective of the group meditations.  It is 
sinful what the Rajas have continued to abide in excluding people. 
 

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

 
 Just simply reading the published science, it is compelling. 
 A common sense of the statistical fact of the science certainly justifies now 
an immediate change of the membership guidelines for facilitated group 
meditations to directly remediate the hurtful damage that was done to people 
that suppresses still the 

[FairfieldLife] 6-day National TM Retreat, Fairfield, Iowa

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OPTION 1: Sunday, May 7 — Saturday, May 13, 2017 
 
 OPTION 2: Sunday, May 7 — Friday, May 12, 2017
 

 https://tmretreats.org/course/556 https://tmretreats.org/course/556

 

 Participants report that even one such retreat boosts energy, clarity, 
happiness, and health for months afterwards. Courses are held in a settled, 
atmosphere away from home and work responsibilities.

 

 

 

[FairfieldLife] Re: FF meditator memoriam

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

 

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

 
 Vaidya Mishra

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

 Paul Handelman
 
 April 11,1949 - March 20, 2017
 

 Carl Wonneman, 75
 Obit, Fairfield Ledger:
 Died March 11, 2017
 Born May 27, 1943
 Served four years in the United States Navy in the Underwater Demolition 
Program as a “frogman”. 
 Received a MBA from Maharishi International University. 
 

 Yep, someone recently was telling me there were about a 100 people who became 
TM teachers out of St. Louis, Columbia, Kansas City and the Cape. Carl seems to 
have also been of the Missouri TM cohort for a time.
 

 His friends called him, 'Big-Beefy'. Tim Hildebrandt told a story about Carl 
saying one time when they were teaching TM in the St. Louis area they were in 
rough area using a motel to initiate in. They went out for a meal and on coming 
back Carl's tape recorder was missing from the room. He went out to his car, 
got a baseball bat and went down a few doors banging on a door to where some 
guys were hanging out saying to them that he was missing his tape recorder and 
was going out for a while but that the tape recorder better be back when he 
returns or.. "heads will roll". The tape recorder was back in its place when he 
got back. 
 

 Wait.  Karl ( Carl) Wannaman?  I knew him.  He was part of the Cape Giradeau, 
Mo. contingent if it is who I am thinking of. Would have been friends with 
George Todt and Tim Hildebrandt, (deceased). 

 I would not have pegged him as the Navy Seal type, though, or a healer, for 
that matter, but he was a nice fellow.

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

 
 Carl W0nneman passed away last night. An old devotee of Maharishi, very much a 
part of the Fairfield, Iowa Meditating Satsanga. A cultivated spiritual guy, a 
healer. He was a Navy Seal before there were Navy Seals, went to Viet Nam. He 
met Maharishi while surfing and walking on the beach one day in Malibu. Later 
he went to TM teacher training. For a while Maharishi made him a checker of 
advanced techniques. In his later years he was resident in Fairfield and very 
much present in the meditating community. The last couple of years he was 
confined in a nursing home in Fairfield. I am grateful to have known him, he 
taught me the night technique the way Maharishi taught it to him.  I will miss 
him.   “Free at last, he is free, thank god almighty he is free at last”. 
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb_g4jkPqUw 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb_g4jkPqUw
 


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

 John Ong 1927-2017
 
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 On Being. This is pretty good, you'll laugh.
 Withering Into the Truth  
 http://onbeing.org/blog/withering-into-the-truth/ 
http://onbeing.org/blog/withering-into-the-truth/
 
 
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Obits,
 Rod Magoon 
 David George
 

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

 Gary Malmgren,
 A friend to everyone.
 The sweetest man in the Dome. 
Sept. 11, 1945 - Jan. 8, 2017

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

 Eulogy, 
 Meditators; it's been a long time, it's been a sacrifice at times to have been 
here. You came bravely, proudly. You're a special group. You've found in one 
another a bond that exists possibly only among siblings. You've shared 
community, held each other in dire moments. You've seen friends in their death 
here and we have all suffered together at times to be here. I'm proud to have 
meditated with each and every one of you. You all who came and joined the 
Fairfield, Iowa group meditation deserve long and happy rest in peace.

 

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

 Amalia Bright passed away yesterday.  
 

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

 Hi Friends
 Our dear friend William James Duke passed into the Life Eternal today at 
2:54pm as the Supermoon was preparing to rise.  It was a powerful, graceful 
transition.  The cremation ceremony will be Friday at Behner’s Funeral and 
Crematorium…in the afternoon ( time TBA).  A reception will follow at the home 
of Catharine Castle (time and address TBA).
  
 All blessings, jennifer
 
 
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 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.  
 

 
 Florence Davis passed away recently.
 George Gallagher too. 

 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 

[FairfieldLife] Tesla's Master Plan!

[Dick Mays dickm...@lisco.com [FairfieldLife]]

Reading Elon Musk's forward thinking shown in Tesla's Master Plan gives me such 
great hope that I thought I’d share it! Enjoy!

With warm best wishes for a sustainable future,
Dick


https://www.tesla.com/blog/master-plan-part-deux
Master Plan, Part Deux

Elon Musk July 20, 2016
The first master plan 

 that I wrote 10 years ago is now in the final stages of completion. It wasn't 
all that complicated and basically consisted of:

Create a low volume car, which would necessarily be expensive
Use that money to develop a medium volume car at a lower price
Use that money to create an affordable, high volume car
And...
Provide solar power. No kidding, this has literally been on our website for 10 
years.
The reason we had to start off with step 1 was that it was all I could afford 
to do with what I made from PayPal. I thought our chances of success were so 
low that I didn't want to risk anyone's funds in the beginning but my own. The 
list of successful car company startups is short. As of 2016, the number of 
American car companies that haven't gone bankrupt is a grand total of two: Ford 
and Tesla. Starting a car company is idiotic and an electric car company is 
idiocy squared.

Also, a low volume car means a much smaller, simpler factory, albeit with most 
things done by hand. Without economies of scale, anything we built would be 
expensive, whether it was an economy sedan or a sports car. While at least some 
people would be prepared to pay a high price for a sports car, no one was going 
to pay $100k for an electric Honda Civic, no matter how cool it looked.

Part of the reason I wrote the first master plan was to defend against the 
inevitable attacks Tesla would face accusing us of just caring about making 
cars for rich people, implying that we felt there was a shortage of sports car 
companies or some other bizarre rationale. Unfortunately, the blog didn't stop 
countless attack articles on exactly these grounds, so it pretty much 
completely failed that objective.

However, the main reason was to explain how our actions fit into a larger 
picture, so that they would seem less random. The point of all this was, and 
remains, accelerating the advent of sustainable energy, so that we can imagine 
far into the future and life is still good. That's what "sustainable" means. 
It's not some silly, hippy thing -- it matters for everyone.

By definition, we must at some point achieve a sustainable energy economy or we 
will run out of fossil fuels to burn and civilization will collapse. Given that 
we must get off fossil fuels anyway and that virtually all scientists agree 
that dramatically increasing atmospheric and oceanic carbon levels is insane, 
the faster we achieve sustainability, the better.

Here is what we plan to do to make that day come sooner:

Integrate Energy Generation and Storage
Create a smoothly integrated and beautiful solar-roof-with-battery product that 
just works, empowering the individual as their own utility, and then scale that 
throughout the world. One ordering experience, one installation, one service 
contact, one phone app.

We can't do this well if Tesla and SolarCity are different companies, which is 
why we need to combine and break down the barriers inherent to being separate 
companies. That they are separate at all, despite similar origins and pursuit 
of the same overarching goal of sustainable energy, is largely an accident of 
history. Now that Tesla is ready to scale Powerwall and SolarCity is ready to 
provide highly differentiated solar, the time has come to bring them together.

Expand to Cover the Major Forms of Terrestrial Transport
Today, Tesla addresses two relatively small segments of premium sedans and 
SUVs. With the Model 3, a future compact SUV and a new kind of pickup truck, we 
plan to address most of the consumer market. A lower cost vehicle than the 
Model 3 is unlikely to be necessary, because of the third part of the plan 
described below.

What really matters to accelerate a sustainable future is being able to scale 
up production volume as quickly as possible. That is why Tesla engineering has 
transitioned to focus heavily on designing the machine that makes the machine 
-- turning the factory itself into a product. A first principles physics 
analysis of automotive production suggests that somewhere between a 5 to 10 
fold improvement is achievable by version 3 on a roughly 2 year iteration 
cycle. The first Model 3 factory machine should be thought of as version 0.5, 
with version 1.0 probably in 2018.

In addition to consumer vehicles, there are two other types of electric vehicle 
needed: heavy-duty trucks and high passenger-density urban transport. Both are 
in the early stages of development at Tesla and should be ready for unveiling 
next year. We believe the Tesla Semi will deliver a substantial reduction in 
the cost of cargo transport, while 

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[FairfieldLife] German hydrogen-powered train emits only water

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http://money.cnn.com/2017/04/12/technology/germany-hydrogen-powered-train/index.html
This hydrogen-powered train emits only water
by Nadine Schmidt   @CNNTech 
April 12, 2017




Imagine a nearly silent train that glides along its tracks emitting nothing 
more toxic than water.
That train is a reality. 
In March, Germany conducted successful tests of the world's first "Hydrail" -- 
a hydrogen powered, zero-emission train. 
"The new train is 60% less noisy than a traditional diesel train, completely 
emission free," said Jens Sprotte of Alstom, the French producer of the train. 
"Its speed and the possibility to transport passengers match the performance of 
a diesel train." 
"The only sound it gives off comes from the wheels and air resistance," Sprotte 
added. 
Here's how the new technology works: 
The Hydrail uses the same equipment as a diesel train but substitutes hydrogen 
as its fuel source. Large fuel cells sitting on top of the train combine 
hydrogen and oxygen to generate electricity, which is then transferred to 
lithium ion batteries. 
Energy that is not immediately used can be stored for later use, increasing 
fuel efficiency. The train's only emissions are steam and water, resulting in 
minimal impact to the environment. 
"It's so clean you can breathe it in," said Stefan Schrank, the train's project 
manager at Alstom. 
Related: India's big move into solar is already paying off 
:
http://money.cnn.com/2016/03/07/technology/india-solar-energy-coal/index.html?iid=EL
Five federal states in Germany have signed a letter of intent to purchase a 
total of 60 trains from the French firm. 
Each two-car train set requires a fuel cell and a 207 pound tank of hydrogen to 
supply it. The oxygen is supplied from the air around the train. 
The train can travel up to 500 miles per day on a single tank of hydrogen, 
carrying 300 passengers at a time. 
The first operational trains will roll out by the beginning of 2018, providing 
a green alternative to the 4,000 diesel trains currently operating in Germany. 
According to the EU, about 20% of Europe's current rail traffic runs on diesel. 
The new train is ideally suited for short stretches of the European network 
that have not been converted to electric rails. 
Related: Elon Musk offers to fix Australia's energy crisis in 100 days
 

Germany is particularly interested in reducing its greenhouse gas emissions. 
A recent German Environment Agency report said the country continues to emit 
the equivalent of 906 million tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) a year, tarnishing 
its reputation as a green energy pioneer. 
Kristina Juhrich of the German Environment Agency said last year's emissions 
levels will make it difficult for the country to reach its climate target and 
reduce emissions by 40% in 2020. 
Alstom are hoping the train will turn a profit within its first couple years of 
operation. They hope the model will replace Germany's fleet of diesel trains in 
five to 20 years. 
The Netherlands, Denmark, Norway and the U.K., which have also expressed 
interest in the train.

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[FairfieldLife] Re: many many pubished studies in peer reviewed scientific journals..

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

Iowa City, Iowa was one of the four cities researched in the pilot studies on 
meditation and social behavior. I was there in Iowa City as a meditator at the 
time.  
 Iowa City was one of the four cities that early popped up as a 1% meditating 
city. 

 This is interesting now to see this published review of the earlier Iowa City 
research. It is correct that a wider growth in the practice of  meditation 
began in a period a little bit prior to the window selected in the original 
research paper.  Looking in retrospect it is in fact interesting to see the 
parallel sociological indica changing along with the increasing incidence of 
meditation practice. 

 ™ dropped into the culture of the university community (University of Iowa) 
beginning in 1970 and took off like wildfire. For some extended few years 
weekly initiations into ™ in to the 1970’s were happening at rates of a hundred 
or so of people. 

 This was at a time when the cost of learning ™ was $35 and group meditations 
and weekly advanced lectures held at the University of Iowa were popular and 
widely attended. The thematic material presented then in advanced lectures for 
meditators was about meditation practice and Maharishi’s commentary on the 
Bhagavad Gita, supplemented with audio tape lectures made from one month 
extended meditation courses with Maharishi that were given earlier on. Frequent 
meditation in-residence courses for extended meditating were inexpensive and 
widely attended in the 1970’s.

 Mostly through the university community Iowa City, Iowa in the 1970's went on 
to become a 5%, 10% and 15% meditating community for a period of time. That 
student population then graduated though and dispersed in time in the 1980’s 
and 1990’s as the organizations teaching TM also became debilitated and 
withdrew from teaching meditation. 

 

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

 This is actually interesting what they are doing in larger dialogue of science 
process in taking the clear criticism from the skeptical and going back to test 
it out further by looking at parallel non-meditating towns of the time in 
comparison. That seems fair enough to further test the hypothesis.. Read the 
science,

 Adding in control cities to Paper 98..

 In 1972 there were a number of cities in the U.S. where 1% of the population 
had learned the Transcendental Meditation technique. For 11 such cities another 
nearby city was chosen with comparable demographic variables (geographic 
location, population and student population) where TM had not yet been learned 
by 1%. These served as the control cities. Then crime statistics were requested 
from the FBI and compared.

 The statistics showed that in the 1% cities (full line) a significant decrease 
occurred in crime from 1972, both compared to earlier trends in the same city, 
and compared to the control cities. There was a decrease in the number of 
crimes of 16.5% (p<.001). Compared to overall crime trends in the U.S. the 
decrease was even greater, 18%.

 This therefore appears to be extra confirmation of the effect. As soon as the 
1% threshold is reached, crime will decrease.

 Current work:
 http://tm-ireland.org/category/published-maharishi-effect-studies/ 
http://tm-ireland.org/category/published-maharishi-effect-studies/

 The original (1976) work:
 Paper 98
 Improved Quality of Life Through The Transcendental Meditation Program:
 Decreased Crime Rate

 Crime rate decreased in cities after one percent of their populations had 
begun practicing the Transcendental Meditation technique. -Editors

 Introduction

 In 1960 Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of the Transcendental Meditation 
program, predicted that a transition in society toward a more orderly and 
harmonious functioning would occur when a small fraction -on the order of one 
percent- of a population practiced the Transcendental Meditation technique (6), 
and in December 1974 we found that crime rate did decrease in four Midwestern 
U.S. Cities in which one percent of the population was practicing the TM 
technique.

 etc.,

 Candace Borland, Ph.D., and Garland Landrith III, M.A., 'Improved Quality of 
City Life Through the Transcendental Meditation Program: Decreased Crime Rate' 
in Scientific Research on the Transcendental Meditation Program: Collected 
Papers, Vol. I, eds. David W. Orme-Johnson, Ph.D., and John T. Farrow, Ph.D., 
West Germany, MERU Press, 1976

 Scientific Research on the Transcendental Meditation Program
 Collected Papers,
 Volume I,
 1977
 pp 727
 

 

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 http://tm-ireland.org/category/published-maharishi-effect-studies/ 
http://tm-ireland.org/category/published-maharishi-effect-studies/