[FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: I tell Vasishtha experience at this Mon. Sept.24 Dalby Hall MUM celebration on Vasishtha
Yep, this problem is in the guidelines. As there are written guidelines, good or bad, so they get enforced by administration. The people administrating are not bad people, they just have these bad guidelines they have to work with. I just had the guidelines read out to me in a meeting for badge renewal. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : fear mongering
[FairfieldLife] Re: MUM 's Mission Statement redux
“We will count ourselves successful only when the problems of today's world are substantially reduced and eventually eliminated and the educational institutions of every country are capable of producing fully developed citizens.” -Maharishi, from the founding catalog of Maharishi International University, 1974 > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, > "Buck" wrote: > > > > One sentence! > > Version: > > > > "Maharishi University of Management was founded by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi > > to produce more fully developed individuals by developing the potential > > of consciousness within every student through a higher educational system > > of > > Consciousness-Based education giving traditional academic knowledge a > > foundation > > coupled with the study of consciousness through Transcendental Meditation > > and other scientifically validated practices taught by Maharishi Mahesh > > Yogi for developing consciousness." > > > >--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, > >"Buck" wrote:> > You know, to get it (MUM's mission statement) down to one sentence took a lot > of work. It's their words in one sentence that do remain but I had to > jettison all sorts of their hyperbolic rhetoric and whole sections about > their life-supporting behavior in alignment with natural law to make it work. > ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Yep, that perfectionist social and moral TM behavior 'in alignment with natural law' stuff of course does not work anymore given all that we know now about their imperfect behavior and the dissonance running with that,(the sex, money and power). Those later TM-movement sections on behavior don't wash clean anymore. The perfect behavior parts just plain need to be cut out of it to keep the mission focused on facilitating meditating and consciousness-based education. The perfect behavior 'natural law' stuff is evidently out the window now in this day and age of the internet. It gets in the way of consciousness-based education and meditation. The perfect behavior stick should just be dropped. It's not supportable alongside consciousness-based education and meditation. > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > > > mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > > > > mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > > > > > mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > > > > > > > > mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" > > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > > > > > > > > > > > mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jpgillam" > > > > > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Feste, thanks for pointing out the actual text in > > > > > > > > > > > > question. I agree with you. It's pretty good. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Good for what? > > > > > > > > > > > Internal consumption? > > > > > > > > > > > Clear guidance? > > > > > > > > > > > Mission? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > "Make sure your idea is clear and focused. You should be > > > > > > > > > > able to describe the (charity's) purpose and mission in a > > > > > > > > > > single sentence." -The Nonprofit Handbook -Grobman > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > "Three elements of a Good Mission Statement: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 1 A mission statement should be no more than a single sentence > > > > > > > > long. > > > > > > > > 2 It should be easily understood by a twelve year old. > > > > > > > > 3 It should be able to be recited by memory at gunpoint." > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > "Having a clearly articulated mission statement > > > > > gives one a template of purpose that can be used to initiate, > > > > > evaluate, and refine all of one's activities." > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Unsuccessful or Inadequate Mission Statements will > > > > have these characteristics: > > > > > > > > 1 Uninspiring. > > > > 2 They are for the benefit of one person or party only. > > > > 3 They are unintelligible by "outsiders". > > > > 4 They are full of trite or ordinary phrases." > > > > > > > > > > There, that is the movement's MUM mission statement. Pretty clearly the > > > Movement's web page version of mission is to re-enforce people who are > > > already tru-believers. It's for internal consumption mostly. > > > > > > > >
[FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: I tell Vasishtha experience at this Mon. Sept.24 Dalby Hall MUM celebration on Vasishtha
fear mongering
[FairfieldLife] Re: In Satsanga Fairfield, Iowa
Invincible America Assembly & Friends Picnic, Thursdays. 12:30pm-1:00pm Waterworks Park Fairfield, Iowa ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Email: Thank you for letting me know. I had never heard of a yagya before but after resarching see that it is a fire ritual/offering. Is this open to others that may not be students of Pundit Sharma such as myself?Blessings to you. Ans: Sorry to find this too late. Yes, a lot of very spiritually practiced folks showed up. Yes, with lots of spiritual things going on in this little town most of us who live here in the meditating community look to the Thursday edition of the Fairfield Weekly reader to find what is up. With the WR those of us who actively live here get our day-timers out and then plan what to show up at for the week. It is a busy place. As you show up at various functions and then get on e-mail lists there becomes its own web of notice for what is interesting to you and actively coming up. The Fairfield Weekly Reader is a good way to find interesting groups that are already doing things in Fairfield. Also the boards at Everybody's, the Noodle House and Thai Deli and other places for poster notices of what is going on. Mostly there are already groups that function like guilds 'doing things' in Fairfield. It just takes some initiative to show up and find like minded people already here.. arts, writing, business, nature, garden, music, recreation, fitness, spiritual practice. Hope to meet you soon at something. A Ganesh yagya today also at, Sri Devi Mandir, a Hindu Temple, located in Fairfield, IA, a small rural community in southeast Iowa. The temple initiated within the Fairfield meditating community opened October 7, 2002, during Navaratri - the Nine Nights of Mother Divine. Sri Devi Mandir is an independent spiritual organization, not affiliated with any spiritual teacher or group. Sri Devi Mandir is a non-profit 501 (c)(3) organization run by devotees for devotees. The Temple's main income is through devotee donations and sponsorships. Through the years Devi Mandir has become an important cultural center for the Indo- American community that is well settle in Fairfield, Iowa. Community Ganesh Yagya today.. In line with Fairfield being one of the spiritual places to live.. FW: a long tradition (and a lot of personal experience!) to support his title of "remover of Obstacles"! See full details at: https://vedyagya.blogspot.com/ https://vedyagya.blogspot.com/ # Fairfield of recent years has changed into something else which is now quite rich after nearly four decades development. The long-time Fairfield meditating community today is its own center for spiritual practice. The breadth of spiritual practice groups in Fairfield is now a unique feature of the town in the 21st Century. 30 Top Cities and Towns for Meditation in America An article: http://www.sonima.com/meditation/top-cities-for-meditation/ http://www.sonima.com/meditation/top-cities-for-meditation/ “..keep company with the saints (sants), mahàtmàs, and the wise (vidvànta), so that your human birth will be fruitful.” -Guru Dev, Brahmananda Saraswati .. * About 90 attended Dr. Evan Finkelstein's event at Phoenix Rising Sunday evening. It was a powerpoint presentation of slides of saints from around the world and throughout the ages, with pictures or likenesses of the saints, and their quotes on meditation and experiences of higher states of consciousness, and comments by Dr. Evan. It was just like the IAA daily calls, with a wider and more varied group of people calling in. That is how it felt. It felt very very good. There was an audience request for Dr. Evan to do an encore presentation later and there was support for this in the audience. So that's in the works. # # 1000 Names on Sunday the 26th (for Kerala Flood, US Fires/Floods etc.) 6:10 to 6:30: Group meditation (please come on time for this) 6:30 to 7:30: 1000 Names of Sri Lalitha We hope to see you all there! AmmaFairfieldSatsang ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Yes, simply as a transcription of conversation there is a powerful insight to communal spiritual Fairfield, Iowa. These kind of spiritual conversations go on throughout the meditating day in Fairfield. Morning, noon and night. they make for quite a journal. In journalizing, the names of people are not so irrelevant here for consideration on FFL but the idea content in context evidently is quite relevant consideration within the community. So in editing I do not bring names of folks over here to FFL though their ideas may come here. In the daily life of Fairfield the coffee house satsanga are where a lot of business of the community is met, and again at the lunchtime eateries as people spill into the cafes for mid-day, throughout the afternoons back in the coffee houses, and the evening dinner hour.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Describing Communal (Meditating) Fairfield
Fairfield, Iowa: The Peace Engine that Could. "A big part of life in Fairfield — in order to understand why everyone moved there and what the vision was — was that Maharishi had a theory that large groups of people practicing his trademarked form of meditation and his advanced form of meditation, which he called "Yogic Flying," would create world peace. He had a scientific formula that he had come up with where it was to be precise, the square root of one percent of the population — if that amount of people were meditating it would radiate this sort of peace engine that would change the world. So the people that moved there, moved there to meditate together. And in the late '70s, early '80s, they built these two gigantic, golden dome-shaped buildings. There was a women's dome and a men's dome, and twice a day, people would go and meditate together. In the '80s and into the '90s it was thousands of people and they would meditate for about an hour and a half to two hours each session. So it would be an hour and a half to two hours, twice a day, so three to four hours." -Greetings From Utopia Park https://www.npr.org/2016/06/13/481845003/a-childhood-of-transcendental-meditation-spent-in-the-shadow-of-a-guru https://www.npr.org/2016/06/13/481845003/a-childhood-of-transcendental-meditation-spent-in-the-shadow-of-a-guru ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Transcendentalism I am the Self, I am the body, I am the Veda, I am the universe, I am totality https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCDXALGej84 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCDXALGej84 I am the Self, I am the body, I am the Veda, I am the un... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCDXALGej84 http://www.TM.org I am the Self, I am the body, I am the Veda, I am the universe, I am totality 1. Dr. Hagelin: Maharishi mentioned Vedic health care. The qu... View on www.youtube.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCDXALGej84 Preview by Yahoo “We are a group of people who have come together and created a community for a transcendentally important common purpose, which of course is to practice the Transcendental Meditation program and the TM-Sidhi program together as a group, for the sake of bringing coherence to national and world consciousness based on balancing labor and leisure to meditate while working together for the benefit of the community. Our Super-Radiance meditating community includes families of TM-Meditators and TM-Sidhas in the Fairfield, Vedic City and Jefferson County area.” ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Fairfield Meditating: Living nice, cheap, and spiritual having some style and a good time, like on the Farm. http://www.nationofchange.org/remembering-stephen-gaskin-conversation-man-behind-original-grid-farm-1406990309 http://www.nationofchange.org/remembering-stephen-gaskin-conversation-man-behind-original-grid-farm-1406990309 Erin McCarley: What would you say were the founding principles of The Farm? Stephen Gaskin: We had all been spiritual students of one kind or another. We still are. I used to say, “If you took all religions, like on IBM punch cards, some of the holes would go clear through the stack.” And that’s what we’re interested in. We agreed that if you felt like we were all one, we could live collectively in a way in which everybody could have some of what was happening. For Lurkers looking in, for a perspective on how we live as the Fairfield, Iowa meditating community see the recent post/link to the organizational flow charts as to how we are as a living community here. The pundit thing is a small part of the Fairfield Iowa meditator experience. https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/375646 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/375646 Om well, to anybody who is *new* to this, looking in on Fairfield, Iowa from the outside, you should know also for relative perspective that the pundit thing is an outpost of all that is the TM meditating community in Fairfield, Iowa. Most Fairfield meditators don't have anything to do with it and there was never a lot of buy in to it for common Fairfield rank and file meditators. The pundit program is a pretty exclusive thing that is run by a few super-ru's. -Buck awoelflebater writes: feste37 writes: "feste37" wrote: That's a good summary. Thanks. It is interesting that you responded first to this. I actually was thinking of asking you to help me edit this particular paper [below] for this particular scholarly audience. I pushed ahead anyway and they seem quite pleased with this as an entry in to the subject of TM and Fairfield for discussion. -Buck But if the scholars didn't know about TM and Fairfield, I'd be interested in knowing what were the Utopian/spiritual/intentional/communal groups that they did discuss, especially those currently in existence. Where
[FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: I tell Vasishtha experience at this Mon. Sept.24 Dalby Hall MUM celebration on Vasishtha
Wow, this is certainly complicating. This is promoted by the official TM movement with movement facility? People have tried by means before to claim spiritual authority with endorsement and blessing of Maharishi and it did not go well for them. One can remember previous skisms in narcissism before that have challenged (tried to trump) the auspices of authority here. One could also fear for the Dome badge memberships of those people ‘promoting’ this with endorsements identified in thumbnail pictures on the web pages. The course office should be busy with notice of this and these people? By guideline it is felt that the practice of ™ and its programs is quite ‘sufficient’ enough to get people to enlightenment and an evaluation for membership in the group. Jai Guru Dev ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Forwarded from: "Suzanne B. Stryker" mailto:grouph...@gmail.com> This Monday, September 24, 8 pm, Dalby Hall, at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa. Free. Monday's Full Moon Celebration will feature a tape of Maharishi discussing a cognition of Vasishtha. Peter Freund will tell stories about Vasishtha: seeing Siva’s Pillar of Light form, describing the 68 letters of Sanskrit alphabet and Vaishtha's Cow of Plenty and teaching Ram about yogic flying. He will discuss research on the Vasishtha Shiksha and the Vasishtha Yoga. In addition, I have been asked to tell a Vedic experience I had of Vasishtha and will include Maharishi’s comments. Everyone is invited to come and enjoy. -- Suzanne B. Stryker, PhD RevealWisdom.com http://revealwisdom.com/ 641-472-7767 grouph...@gmail.com mailto:grouph...@gmail.com http://facebook.com/RevealWisdom
[FairfieldLife] Re: Greetings from Utopia Park
Schismosis. Asking around here about the ‘schism’ at the time ‘yogic flying’ came out people here are noting that a number of their own initiators who taught TM in the mid and later 1960’s and the very early 1970’s did not make the hop with the introduction of yogic flying in mid and late 1970’s. The published 1975 metrics catch a picture of a time in TM right before yogic flying. Some of the teachers who were then the experienced workhorses in a honed TM teaching movement stepped back separating and went on to other things. Whether it was the coming of yogic flying or the turning out that happened organizationally right then It seemed a time in effect something like both ‘The Great Leap Forward’ and ‘Cultural Revolution’ in a sequence of short order. I remember the older people leaving apparently retired aside and a number of the boomer generation TM teachers went back to graduate school. My own TM initiator from then who was on an early India teacher training course with Maharishi went on to a longer career as a university professor. cardemaister adds: During Yogic Flying, the practitioner almost always feels a wave of inner bliss. The technique also provides the practitioner with a lot of energy. When professional athletes would try to copy the yogic flying, most of them would be exhausted after 15 minutes. The yogic flyer on the other hand can easily keep going for an hour, and in the end he will have more energy than when he started. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Claire Hoffman in the NPR Fresh Air interview observes there was something of a schism in the TM community when Maharishi came out with the Yogic Flying TM-Sidhis. Hoffman: “..it was schismatic because TM was very mainstream in the '70s, and then he introduces levitation and he loses a lot of people”. Communal Studies scholars could similarly relate to an occurrence in Mormon history. The Mormon movement was set at a point with The Book of Mormon and similarly excelling at a time with enthusiasts out traveling widely spreading the message and converts where streaming from across America and the old world. While the devoted Mormon movement with an esprit de corps was out and away spreading the message, Joseph Smith out on the frontier in Illinois then came down with a new piece of knowledge, a new teaching with plural marriage delivered to a smaller group out with him. As a far flung Mormon movement came in after time to find this there was a WTF!. Likewise there was a WTF time in 1976-’78 with Maharishi ensconced over in Europe and Yogic Flying. “Everyone should get over to Europe and learn this”. Some went with it and some separated then. Like with the Mormons this was not the end but it reshaped what had been a successful movement up to then. So it was. TM in the USA, 1975. Stats in the United States: year-1975: 5799 Initiators Initiations per Month: 16,000 440,000 meditators World Plan Centers: 205 Satellite Centres: 173 ATR Courses given: 48 Residence SIMS Courses: Numerous Etc., Source: World Plan Executive Council First National Leaders’ Conference in the Age of Enlightenment (1975) National Reports Early 2018: 28.5k new meditators taught last year in US America, a 30% increase. 380 certified teachers. https://www.npr.org/2016/06/13/481845003/a-childhood-of-transcendental-meditation-spent-in-the-shadow-of-a-guru https://www.npr.org/2016/06/13/481845003/a-childhood-of-transcendental-meditation-spent-in-the-shadow-of-a-guru 436880Re: Dear Governors 437776RE: Guru Purnima: the Raja class.. 423859Re: Do most TMers ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Doug, I listened to the recording of the NPR show. It was great to listen to the writer's experience of TM as a young child and as an adult. Everyone here should listen to the show and understand a little bit of ourselves. JGD ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Yes, Dave Davies of NPR’s Fresh Air does a really capable job of leading her through the interview. I appreciate the way she quickly recaps the history of the ™ movement. That is important as I learned a number of years ago going to scholarly conferences finding that professor-types under the age of 40, gen-X and under, really had no reference for ™. ™ and Maharishi had withdrawn and skipped them. (1980’s, 1990’s ™ had withdrawn from teaching TM. ) Then also, for those over 40 it was distant only, “Oh, the Beatles?” At conferences it was evident that these people who teach the young at real Universities, they had never heard of TM let alone Fairfield, Iowa. The Fresh Air interview does a good job of overview, introduction and some of how it felt. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : I had missed this book interview a couple of years ago. emf NPR - Fresh Ari A Childhood Of Transcendental Meditation, Spent In The 'Shadow Of A Guru'
