[FairfieldLife] He made a fortune from his trademarked Bikram yoga, but now his empire is in tatters
He made a fortune from his trademarked Bikram yoga, but now his empire is in tatters A new documentary chronicles Bikram Choudhury’s downfall after allegations of rape and sexual assault https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/dec/03/he-made-a-fortune-from-his-trademarked-bikram-yoga-but-now-his-empire-is-in-tattersUS&CMP=GTUS_email https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/dec/03/he-made-a-fortune-from-his-trademarked-bikram-yoga-but-now-his-empire-is-in-tattersUS&CMP=GTUS_email
[FairfieldLife] Yoga grandma V Nanammal passes away at 99 in Coimbatore
A little dated: Yoga grandma V Nanammal passes away at 99 in Coimbatore https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/yoga-grandma-v-nanammal-passes-away-at-99-in-coimbatore-1613179-2019-10-26 https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/yoga-grandma-v-nanammal-passes-away-at-99-in-coimbatore-1613179-2019-10-26
[FairfieldLife] Re: The '93-'94 Survey of Meditating Fairfield
The '93 Survey results are available for download still in the files section of FairfieldLife for members. See the Files section tab above of FFL while Yahoo still hosts them.. https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/files/FFL%20and%20Fairfield%20Community/ https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/files/FFL%20and%20Fairfield%20Community/ ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : # TSR Survey ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Yes, this larger survey is interesting base-line data on the larger meditating community in Fairfield from back when the meditating community and the Dome numbers were more around their peak as the long decline (attrition) was then ensuing. You can see the seeds and the consequent beginning of the cultivated socioeconomic exclusivity sprouting then and the administrative separation of meditators from membership in the group meditation over visiting saints and spiritual people that had started in the late 1980's and through the 1990's to present. Since the larger sample community survey of the early 1990's there have only been small sample surveys of sub-groups. In a way the recent book on Fairfield [How a New Age Movement Remade a Small Town in Iowa] by the journalist, Joseph Weber is a survey by extensive interviewing of the Fairfield meditating community that is current. A few years ago when there was such strife in the sustainable living students an interview survey was hired and conducted of the university SL students about their experience at the university. The results were presented to the administration and then defended against by the President. That survey and more recent surveying has been useful more recently in guiding some policy changes around the university and MSAE student life currently. While the progressive side of the TM movement has been methodically tracking metrics and hiring marketing surveying related to the teaching of meditation, there have not been broad surveying of the meditating community of the scale of the 1994 survey. That could proly be too frightening for some of the key patriarchs of old administration on watch of the movement to see. The closest thing to that kind of surveying would be a larger ongoing survey of collected first-person cases by a sub-committee of the Fairfield Mental Health Alliance compiling cases where people have felt their well-being was effected by their experience with the culture of the movement. There is a range and distribution to those collected cases which have clearly indicated areas for policy changes that could improve elements of culture and consequences in aspects of the movement. Elements of the movement are moving on some of this while some ideologues try to hold a dogmatic line against it. Having 'data-points' has been extremely helpful towards seeing policy. There is a lot in process going on and things are also fluid. -JaiGuruYou ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : This is interesting but 20 years old. Is there anything more recent to compare this to? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : The Community Forum Community-wide Survey Results (also saved as documents in the FairfieldLife at Yahoo-groups files section.) Dear Meditator, In late spring (1994), the Community Forum sponsored a community-wide survey to sample opinion on a wide range of issues that affect our lives. Based on a compiled list of Fairfield-area meditators, we sent out approximately 2,000 surveys. We received 659 completed surveys, for a response rate of about 33%. (The response rate may even be higher; since we used bulk mail, we do not know the exact number of surveys delivered.) In the field of written surveys, a response rate of 33% is considered outstanding. Survey respondents come from a cross-section of our community: 84% have been meditating for 16 years or longer; 68% have lived in Fairfield for seven years or more; and 68% are registered for Super Radiance. Although not every meditator filled out a survey, we believe the results provide significant insights into how meditators feel about important issues and about our lives in Fairfield. Survey Data This document provides the raw data for all questions except for the essays. For the essays, this document lists the more common suggestions and comments. Looking at the data, one can identify responses of general consensus and also responses reflecting widely diverse opinions. Where there is a clear need and desire in a particular area of concern, the Community Forum will hold open meetings so that interested people can come together, discuss options, and explore possible solutions. The survey data can also be evaluated from a variety of different perspectives (e.g., age, gender, income, Movement status, etc.). We encourage anyone with statistical analytical skills to help us analyze the survey results
[FairfieldLife] Re: The '93-'94 Survey of Meditating Fairfield
# TSR Survey ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Yes, this larger survey is interesting base-line data on the larger meditating community in Fairfield from back when the meditating community and the Dome numbers were more around their peak as the long decline (attrition) was then ensuing. You can see the seeds and the consequent beginning of the cultivated socioeconomic exclusivity sprouting then and the administrative separation of meditators from membership in the group meditation over visiting saints and spiritual people that had started in the late 1980's and through the 1990's to present. Since the larger sample community survey of the early 1990's there have only been small sample surveys of sub-groups. In a way the recent book on Fairfield [How a New Age Movement Remade a Small Town in Iowa] by the journalist, Joseph Weber is a survey by extensive interviewing of the Fairfield meditating community that is current. A few years ago when there was such strife in the sustainable living students an interview survey was hired and conducted of the university SL students about their experience at the university. The results were presented to the administration and then defended against by the President. That survey and more recent surveying has been useful more recently in guiding some policy changes around the university and MSAE student life currently. While the progressive side of the TM movement has been methodically tracking metrics and hiring marketing surveying related to the teaching of meditation, there have not been broad surveying of the meditating community of the scale of the 1994 survey. That could proly be too frightening for some of the key patriarchs of old administration on watch of the movement to see. The closest thing to that kind of surveying would be a larger ongoing survey of collected first-person cases by a sub-committee of the Fairfield Mental Health Alliance compiling cases where people have felt their well-being was effected by their experience with the culture of the movement. There is a range and distribution to those collected cases which have clearly indicated areas for policy changes that could improve elements of culture and consequences in aspects of the movement. Elements of the movement are moving on some of this while some ideologues try to hold a dogmatic line against it. Having 'data-points' has been extremely helpful towards seeing policy. There is a lot in process going on and things are also fluid. -JaiGuruYou ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : This is interesting but 20 years old. Is there anything more recent to compare this to? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : The Community Forum Community-wide Survey Results (also saved as documents in the FairfieldLife at Yahoo-groups files section.) Dear Meditator, In late spring (1994), the Community Forum sponsored a community-wide survey to sample opinion on a wide range of issues that affect our lives. Based on a compiled list of Fairfield-area meditators, we sent out approximately 2,000 surveys. We received 659 completed surveys, for a response rate of about 33%. (The response rate may even be higher; since we used bulk mail, we do not know the exact number of surveys delivered.) In the field of written surveys, a response rate of 33% is considered outstanding. Survey respondents come from a cross-section of our community: 84% have been meditating for 16 years or longer; 68% have lived in Fairfield for seven years or more; and 68% are registered for Super Radiance. Although not every meditator filled out a survey, we believe the results provide significant insights into how meditators feel about important issues and about our lives in Fairfield. Survey Data This document provides the raw data for all questions except for the essays. For the essays, this document lists the more common suggestions and comments. Looking at the data, one can identify responses of general consensus and also responses reflecting widely diverse opinions. Where there is a clear need and desire in a particular area of concern, the Community Forum will hold open meetings so that interested people can come together, discuss options, and explore possible solutions. The survey data can also be evaluated from a variety of different perspectives (e.g., age, gender, income, Movement status, etc.). We encourage anyone with statistical analytical skills to help us analyze the survey results more thoroughly. Thank You! We would like to thank everyone who participated in the survey! We would also like to thank those who wrote to us with comments and suggestions about the survey. THE COMMUNITY FORUM, P.O. Box 1633, Fairfield, IA 52556 • 515-472-8132 (0ld) Summary of responses to.. ESSAY QUESTIONS Of the 659 people who completed a survey, 548 wrote answers to the essay questions. Many pe
[FairfieldLife] Re: Meditating Fairfield, Iowa [1974-2014+]
The Fairfield Meditating Community: Yep, in process should have 'mission' well described to develop and have successful policy. Editing from their memo, this is a good start at describing who we are: “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 consciousness. .. our Super-Radiance community includes all the Meditators as well as the families of all the Sidhas and Meditators.” -Buck in the Dome Well, the memo is a needed advocacy for the community here.. “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 consciousness. .. our Super-Radiance community includes all the Meditators as well as the families of all the Sidhas and Meditators.” The Super-Radiance Community paragraphs at the bottom of the memo are important ones that are now actively adding meditators in to policy description of the broader Fairfield, Vedic City and Jefferson County meditation community. As a change in course this particularly is a substantial one to notice. That is new and a new welcome thought. While the larger attempt at transparency is a frank signature element of the change; however, the definition of the Fairfield meditating community away from just the TM-sidha/yogic flying TSR Dome-going community to include [TM] meditators of the community as the Super-Radiance Community is the substantial change. Loaded down old super-tankers don't change course quickly. This is an attempt at a major change of direction even in Fairfield where there are so many old meditators of the TM movement and most who live as meditators in the meditating community without much of any relationship to the organization. I wish the corporate TM organization all good shipping through the chop of the narrows they are sailing through. -Buck in the Dome Pablum? No, actually this memo is a major and conscious policy change. Most you don't live in Fairfield or have nothing to do with meditating Fairfield. Possibly you are or were once practicing meditators. This particular memo as sent out is actually a really important change of direction. By policy initiative it is an attempt to organizationally soften, facilitate, re-gather and include meditators again by policy in to the interests of the TM movement. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi for whatever reason left to founder the meditators and the meditating movement un-attended from late in the 1970's shifting his attention on to programs for advanced meditators around yogic flying and the TM-Sidhis and monumental projects for creating Heaven on Earth. So it was and so it is; and, the meditating element of the movement crescendo-ed from those days and times of higher point. Now as part of a practical process of succession planning the re-inclusion of 'the meditator' is back in to a definition of our corporate communal policy as essential formative element. This is a huge strategic change in direction being brought about by some savvy old [retirement-aged] field teachers of TM as recognized necessity. The TM-teaching movement is once again being generally successful and this policy move is timely and strategically helpful towards unifying and supporting that larger regeneration of a meditating movement otherwise. It is a purposeful organizational realignment of priority and also significant to what is communal meditating and non-meditating Fairfield. -Buck in the Dome Rick Archer posts: Raja John Hagelin wrote: February 26, 2014 Dear Sidhas and Meditators of Fairfield, Maharishi Vedic City, and Jefferson County, Over the last couple of years we have been making some structural changes and, we hope, significant improvements in how our Super-Radiance community functions. It is all for the purpose of giving you a better experience of living here and doing program in our flying halls—deeper programs, more fun, more friendliness, better service, more transparency, inclusiveness, due process, and community spirit. I’d like to lay out for you how our Super-Radiance community is organized these days. I’ve also included a couple of organizational charts below so you can see how everything fits together. The Invincible America Assembly The Invincible America Assembly consists of every Sidha who has a dome badge and attends group program. You don’t need to be rounding to be on the Invincible America Assembly—although rounding is an extraordinary experience in our special dome atmosphere. The Invincible America Solutions Group The Invincible America Solutions Gro
[FairfieldLife] Re: FF meditator memoriam
November 2019 Patricia and Robert Oates Steven Hathaway Mark Welch Emerson Knoll Valerie Janlois Mark Shier passed yesterday, Oct 9.2019 Tom Winquist Dave Tanner Judith Foulds Linda Parmet Scott Pidd Abraham Silverstein Jonathan Mayhew Gareth John Oliver Ron Khare Dale Wagoner Buffy Mooney, has passed. I'd guess he taught thousands of people. Happy Trails Buffy. Norman Watsey Gareth Oliver Hannah Kesler 2019 Rona Abramson George Hrebar Lucien Mansour Sept 2018 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Thank you for posting the obituaries, Doug. There was a time, during my teaching days, when I touted, "Perfect Health in the Direction of Immortality" I look back on this with a certain amount of amusement at my naivete, and unbridled optimism. What I do not carry with me is anger and resentment that I bought into a path, that didn't quite live up to its lofty expectations. On the other hand, stepping onto a spiritual path, which encourages you to go beyond the superficial aspect of things, what price do you put on that? Stephen Richter Jim Bates Susan Small Lillian Busch Dar ( 1921-2018) Kayren Berna - died March, 1996 Sarah Oliver - died August, 1997 János Szász Sr. • June 4 1936 • October 19 2017 (diwali day) • Budapest • Decorated Hungarian freedom fighter • TM teacher 1977 San Francisco • MIU community + Purusha 1980-1990 • Was only one to demonstrate yogic flying behind the iron curtain Aug 15 1986 • Initiated many in Hungary • National leader for some time • His work continues • Recently deceased.. Chip Gallagher Dolly Honkenon Savannah Wechsler Len Labagh passed away Sunday morning, Jan 14. Gary Gill Judy Walls Bryan Peterson passed Stanley Kresky Randy Coplin, 1949-2018 Gary Rich, passed away early this morning, Sept 11, 2018 David Seager Merle C. Dockendorff Robert Iverson David Gannon has dropped the body. Rosie Estrin passed away this morning July 1, 2018 Transcendental Meditationist Fairfield, Iowa and a TM Movement Memoriam.. Stewart Oestreich Robert Oats Jerry Jarvis Peter Just truncated There are additional names gathered further back in this thread. Yahoo now truncates posts for length. There are many more names and also the Purusha passing list is further back in this thread. I have placed the larger file of this memoriam list over on to a Google-group. Yahoo-groups truncates now in a way that makes researching back into Yahoo subject threads difficult to work. The Google-group is an older more comprehensive adjunct to this more current listing here on FFL Yahoo-group. Note: A longer earlier version of this list that scrolls more easily can be found and opened at: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/communal-studies-forum/8LCTgvO26LM https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/communal-studies-forum/8LCTgvO26LM / Enloe Willingham Friends You probably heard that Enloe Willingham passed last week. Jai Guru Dev Norman Zierold passed away at pre-dawn 7 March 2018. There will be a gathering for cremation at Behner Funeral Home in Fairfield, 2pm Friday Sharon Starr Cynthia Cole Patrick Gearon, The Quantum (car) Mechanic Charles (Charly) Vaughn Savannah Alyn Harrell John L. Petit Roberto, Robert David passed away yesterday. Wonderful character in the community, lovely person, a very spiritual guy.
