LEnglish5 has put his finger on something around the science replication of
what were preliminary and evidently good results. His point is looking at how
to replicate given the practical and real constraints of such large replication
research. This is extremely important as to the fate and
An evidently large problem now for our replication science is that so many
still in the middle of TM are all so well known for a poor ethic in their past
behavior [Ethics as a Leading Economic Indicator]. A more interesting thing
recently is seeing a resurrection of old movement leaders like
Replicating the Science: Within TM the progressive element that deep down
inside just wants to teach TM, see it work out, would also really like to be
able to replicate the large-scale science. Data and the science testing of
hypothesis is always what we were about historically.
That was
Now there's some darshan for you: a nice field effect around relics of the
Buddha on display this last week up in Des Moines. Awesome experience of a
spiritual field effect. An extremely nice and activating spiritual place to
meditate too. They were saying that hundreds of people from Fairfield
Beautiful, short (6 min), lucid explanation of the implications of quantum
mechanical reality ….enjoy!
The Entanglement of Life
“People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun is
out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there
is a light within.”
-Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, psychiatrist and author (1926-2004)
So often the exercise of our policy of the TM movement was all about science
testing in large ways. A failure more recently was that we never really got the
critical and necessary large numbers to be able to pursue the replication
studies during the Invincibility courses. Never got the critical
Dear Fleetwood; I find there is a discrepancy betwx apple and pc's on this
point. My iphone and ipad-mini and i-mac do not scroll down at all beyond a
point in the recent FFL posts. Just will not. Though on my pc laptop
MS-windows7, the yahoo posts go down eternally. On PC's it evidently
Yes, Initiators. Like regular folks as meditators turned in to transcending
meditation teachers. That was done before and it worked for a while at a time
pretty well in the early/mid-1970's. It could be done again. It is being done
with some good effect in the David Lynch side of TM. You
Yes, MJ as usual is forcing wild conclusions just to defame TM from premises
that don't hold water.
I spoke with the County medical examiner here yesterday. There are not spikes
in suicides. Nothing demographically significant. People of all demographics
die all the time for a whole range
Differently, this person has taken and re-branded inclusively what TM should
have done..
mentioned as an underwriter of local NPR .. “Virtue Medicine”
bringing allopathic scientific medicine and alternative together for
client-centric mental health.
Take a look at the web page for her
Thanks, for the wide view but as Everett Dirksen would say, “All politics is
local..”. Some of us live here and you do not and what is going on in this
subject thread very much affects our community here. It matters to me mostly
because how folks behave in the movement affects us locally as to
Yahoo [Neo] curtailed the search functions? Anybody figured around that?
Won't do advanced search anymore.
Seems Won't even do an initial search of the group.
Way too arduous now to go through the the hundreds of quips to find even
recently posted particular authors or
particular posts of
Dear Dear Mr. Hamas MJ; As others point out here you are quite out of touch.
In fact everything is on the table. However, Why should you and these other
absolute TM-haters who you seem to want to speak for think for a moment to even
be acceptable at a place at the local working communal
Nablusoss; Good advice for these pitiable souls here claiming transcending
meditation does not work. Like our friend MJ? Saying that there is no
transcendence? 'No mantra-no thought' does not exist and “TM doesn't quiet the
mind”. What a sad and pitiful sack. That surely would be 'depressing'
Look, Sam Harris leaves the door wide open to research in consciousness like TM
does. Read the article. In fact in meditation even he, Sam Harris does science
on 'introspective' woo-woo that way too! You guys must be very disappointed to
have lost what you have seen as your champion against
Nope. Sounds like a lot of potential counter-revolutionary spirit
table-rapping narcissism in the making. ..The astral circus comes to town. Talk
about mental health, would you let a person like this anywhere near a Peace
Palace? I was on a course once with Maharishi and he paused at a point
Maharishi School is celebrating the 25th anniversary of their new building
that so many in the community helped to make happen by contributing in various
ways, including helping with the construction.
MUM Celebrates 40 Years in Fairfield
Does that precede even FFL?
Recent celebrations commemorating the 1980's construction:
Maharishi School is celebrating the 25th anniversary of their new building
that so many in the community helped to make happen by contributing in various
ways, including helping with the construction.
Last weekend on Saturday:
[The First Reformed SRM] Meeting!! Om okay, so this announced meeting is about
the reformation of the old Spiritual Regeneration Movement. It evidently is
well intentioned and is not really a 'channeling' meeting. Yes, that was a
really unfortunate choice of subject line and a poor use of
Om, Really; you people should all be meeting in Fairfield for a dinner after a
group meditation. This next month and this fall are going to be especially
spiritual here. You should be here. I can't really talk about it here but you
should Be here Now. Heck, Fairfield itself is nearly the
Group Meditation. That is the difference we make in the world. And our own
safety — our own security — depends upon our willingness to do what it takes to
defend this nation in meditation, and uphold the values that we stand for —
timeless ideals that will endure long after those who offer
I would hypothesize this is a lot like brains learning to chant Sanskrit..
-Buck
This Is Your Brain. This Is Your Brain On Music.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/ed/2014/09/10/343681493/this-is-your-brain-this-is-your-brain-on-music
..celebrating with you the founder of our University, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi,
and the 40th anniversary of the University's move from Santa Barbara,
California, to Fairfield.
September 12th—Founder's Day Celebration
8:00 pm - 9:15 pm
Dalby Hall, Argiro Student Center
On the Campus of
Thanks for the synopsis. The scorpion nation fell from grace originally because
a bunch of old UK TM teachers broke ranks from policy edicts they saw as out of
touch and were teaching the old way, independently. Damn scorpions.Is there
still a scorpion independent [renegade] group of TM
Sal, what became of the TM teachers who fragmented from the movement? Just
wondering, they seemed organized and found some presentation independent of the
Vlodrop movement. Do they still have a public presence or are they
underground? -Buck
#salyavin808,
Thanks for the synopsis. The
One could also argue the indictment and case that this weekly drag race has
become an indulgence of unkindness to the more relevant and serious material
that was the spiritual community of Fairfieldlife at Yahoo.
Just like Maharishi's Brahmacharya Satyananda might go smack a scorpion down
Even within Rocks.
Fascinating. It seems these hypothesis [hollow earth] are mostly elaborate
metaphors about transcendentalism in nature. The deeper inner that underlies
the outer, the manifest and then the underlying unmanifest or transcendental
realities. Add an effective transcending
So, is this person a meditator? Help us understand the relevance to FFL.
That you'd post it to FFL?
-Buck
noozguru@...wrote :
Actually she's from my neck of the woods and only went to NYC for college. ;-)
On 09/15/2014 03:51 AM, danfriedman2002 wrote:
just showing some hometown
Om, there's a town here full of old meditators who meditate and who don't have
a relationship with the TM movement. Lot of meditators would say, Yes I am a
meditator but not that. Waving a hand in the general direction of campus and
vedic city to the north of town. This has been a quandary
Yes, was quite dated. Not at all how the new TM movement is today. -Buck
Feste37 writes:
I found it quite entertaining but this is not serious journalism. It's a
hatchet job, anyone can see that. I thought Bevan handled the reporter's
questions very well, actually.
Ebb and flow of elders in transition.. I can think of five people in recent
weeks, older now, old time long time Fairfield meditators who just recently
moved away from Fairfield to live closer to their kids and grandchildren
somewhere else. A sad departure of old friends and campaigners.
This
My soul be on thy guard;
Ten thousand foes arise;
The hosts of sin are pressing hard
To draw thee to the skies.
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Yep, a hack. He came in dismissive and ignorant of the material science and
the reality of our spiritual experience underlying. He had a story constructed
before he came in. Hence, Transcendental to the ignorant while attacking the
illumination of reality in others. The guy obviously came in
Nice booklet of Brahmananda Saraswati Pictures:
Jai Guru Dev http://www.blurb.com/books/1548925-jai-guru-dev
http://www.blurb.com/books/1548925-jai-guru-dev
Jai Guru Dev http://www.blurb.com/books/1548925-jai-guru-dev See a book
preview of Jai Guru Dev
View on www.blurb.com
As much as there is a business-page story about meditating Fairfield as an
economy which focuses on the several multi-million dollar companies which have
been created. Another part of the Fairfield meditating story are those who have
adjusted their standard of living to be able to pursue long
Elders in transition.. Also some older TM elders who had moved away recently
“to be with children” elsewhere out in the world have moved back to the
community here in Fairfield. The Domes and the larger meditating spiritual
community that is Fairfield, Iowa are hard to just replace elsewhere
Dateline Fairfield, Iowa:
Yes, the simple life. “Plain Living and High Thinking in American Culture”.
Likewise, there is a whole class of meditators here in Fairfield, Iowa who live
quite rich and well without or with little debt as a long-term strategy in life
to be able to have had the
Om, it should be really impressive if the front runners actually posted on
spiritual topic
related to FFL.-Buck
Bhairitu writes:
And they're off and running!
One could also argue the indictment and case that this weekly sprint race has
become an indulgence of unkindness to the
Writers have come and gone, a lot has happened in 13 years, and some things
have not changed.
!Jai FFL!
-Buck in the Dome
Scroll through the first hundred or so of many posts to FFL and see how far we
have come,
Starter messages at:
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages?messageStartId=1archiveSearch=true
Yes, it is interesting to read this particular quote again now with the
perspective of time and see where these cultural norms of TM-ishness came from.
This was quite a formative quote at the time for what became permissible. It
reads all over the place and ambiguous now but it was influential
Though quite evidently it seems just meditating is different practically than
development of the spiritual 'heart' center [chakra] as a spiritual center.
That quite evidently is different than the cultivation which transcending alone
can bring to the mind and possibly to upper registers of the
Subject: FAIRFIELD CARES TRAINING EVENT, !
The best $5.00 I have ever spent said an attendee at last Thursday's QPR
training. Everyone was given information that they need to address a situation
with someone is in that dark place, and to recognize when someone might be
going there. This
Well yes, TM cultivates an interior quietness that can be (could be) a basis
for greater empathy. But empathetic and virtuous action is mostly cultural,
learned and cultivated by good up-bringing. There can be a virtue there around
meditators actively protecting other people's subtle spiritual
A fabulous Iowa Public radio discussion broadcast yesterday of communal
societies settled in Iowa.
Features interviews of with historian and current Communal Studies Association
President, Peter Hoehnle
and director of the Amana Historical Society, Lanny Haldly, amongst others
expert on other
But, empathy as a quality is not in itself a virtue unless attached to virtuous
action. Virtuous in this case would be that which should be nourishing life, or
life-supporting. As in such virtues that 'protect' and 'advance' spiritual
development. All else of course would be less than virtuous
You need not leave your room.
Remain sitting at your table and listen.
You need not even listen, simply wait.
Become quiet, and still, and solitary.
The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked.
It has no choice.
It will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
~Franz Kafka~
-Buck
Thanks You Pundit-sir, for defending the honour of all us transcendentalists
left here on FFL.
In fact I have great empathy for both MJ and Turqb in their state. It does not
follow though that I must see their POV's as 'valid expression of life'. I'd
sit and drink strong coffee or whiskey
Yes, this is true. Jai Shankara,
-Buck in the Dome
martyboi wrote :
I was taught that on a residence course many years before the siddhis came
out.
We were told that all the stages of consciousness were only taught as a linear
sequence to make them understandable and easy to teach,
So tribalism is necessarily a cruder value? No possibility for collective
altruism for individuals to join? And getting back to the original quote, the
role of the sweet truth in protecting a finer value?
France will never cede to terrorism because it is our duty, and, more than
that,
Whoa. Compare the two? Where is the 'Monday e-mail' sent by John Hagelin to TM
recerts, to compare? Or, the 'Sunday' thing posted by John Hagelin mentioned?
Anybody have either or both of those to look at? It would be helpful to clarify
things around this.
This post by Rick it seems is
historic progress in reducing both its crime and its incarceration rates,
Incredible marker of the progress of the spiritual over medieval religion in
America and the continuing Dawn of an Age of Enlightenment.
Jai Guru Dev,
-Buck in the Dome
Earth Shaking Results are in:
In transcendent meditation;
In the early years of his teaching, Maharishi used “Being” as a synonym for
Brahman. More recently the term “unified field,” drawn from physics, has taken
over that role. Consciousness, understood not as thought but as pure unmediated
awareness, is roughly
So, how is it in this thread that two of the seemingly biggest TM quitters on
this list got to read Hagelin's memo to cert teachers about this DC meeting
sent on Monday last and the rest of us old TM teachers did not get to read it?
Would these two actually be re-cert teachers amongst us, lambs
Evidently some defamation legal action and injunction seems to have forced this
recanting out. A lot of gum-shoe investigation and deposition work showed there
was no corroboration for the stories this person/ Treadwell and that Gayatri
person were spinning. That is what I heard from someone
From this day to the ending of the world we transcendentalists in it shall be
proudly remembered. We lucky few, we band of brothers and sisters. For thee all
who today came to meditate for all with us shall be of my family. We all shall
always be indebted, in your honor. 4th of July 2014,
Meditating Fairfield, Iowa [1974-2014-]
There are times when the world asks ordinary people to do extraordinary things.
From this day to the ending of the world we transcendentalists in it shall be
proudly remembered. We lucky few, we band of brothers and sisters for thee all
who
mdixon.6569 writes :
After program come join us for Bar B Que, Hot dogs and Beer!
Buck writes:
Meditating Fairfield, Iowa [1974-2014-]
There are times when the world asks ordinary people to do extraordinary things.
From this day to the ending of the world we
On Solid Rock All Else is Sinking Sand..
As an old and experienced meditator,
_l. My hope is built on nothing less
Than in abiding experience of the Unified Field transcendent, Science and their
righteousness;
I dare not trust the sweetest frame,
But wholly lean on Its Being.
Refrain:
On The
That state which transcends speech and thought is mouna. That which is, is
mouna. How can mouna be explained in words? Sages say that the state in which
the thoughtI(the ego) does not rise even in the least, alone is Self
(swarupa) which is silence (mouna). That silent Self alone is God; Self
Every day is the 4th of July for the illumined.
Independence Day.
It is true.
-Buck in the Dome
That state which transcends speech and thought is mouna. That which is, is
mouna. How can mouna be explained in words? Sages say that the state in which
the thoughtI(the ego) does not rise
Dear Anartaxius, 'No mantra and no thought' is certainly a correct experience
in transcending meditation: see list of correct experience of meditation
enumerated in second nite of TM checking. Take it easy and take it as it comes.
Working on those knots feeling the body is a correct experience
A One percent field effect. That is a really important and well done film clip
for these times. You are missing entirely what spiritual regeneration is
coming. In your negative way, thanks for calling attention to it. You
anti-science neganauts are entirely on the wrong side of history, -Buck
MJ? Yes, MJ's evidently apostate and infamous TM defamer on the internet too.
It is just sinful anti-science what MJ does working the internet the way he
does. -Buck in the Dome
sharelong60 writes:
MJ, you left out Apostate. Proud to be that too?
on Sunday, July 6, 2014 6:32 AM, Michael
Frederico Princ D.V. RB.
He tried to harmonize the philosophy of Plato and Aristotle with the Cabala
and Neo-Platonism, but his excessive devotion to the Cabala resulted in an
ascetic and mystical tendency, which brought him into conflict with the Church.
He was accused of heresy, but
In someone's grill? !!! Fists-cuffs? !FFL! !Moderators!, Keep an eye on
this thread!
awoelflebater writes:
I would find some way to get up in someone's grill, and resolve this.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fleetwood_macncheese@... wrote :
Who cares if I agree or
Rick's original vision for FFL was that this place should be a salon for
ideas. Not a saloon. I agree.
MJ should just turn the other cheek and yield to the already enlightened here.
But then MJ might just get it after enough thrashing, However to avoid
conflict with the Yahoo-groups
Yep, MJ seems really hard-hearted around his hate of TM. Personally I feel
concern for him. MJ's defaming of TM that he does so completely work at
imposing feels out of balance mean-spirited anti-spiritual ignorance. It just
can't be good for his subtle system or to the ultimate benefit of
Yep, Bleeding Hearts Defiled by sin, Quiet Time Meditation can make, can make
you clean; Contrite souls with guilt oppressed, Quiet Time Meditation can
give, can give you rest.
Om Sweet Redeemer from Within, Born on wings, on the wings of love.
Jai Guru Dev,
-Buck
Shape Note
He's out of town? The rent proly came due.
MJ could always come back here. Lot of old TM meditators are coming back to
finish their days here in a meditating community. Fairfield, Iowa is a very
spiritual place. He could get his meditation checked and start meditating
effectively again.
Son, it's about the lite-body and its ready connection and flow with the causal
body. That is what goes on. Everything else is left behind, stripped away but
those snags and tears put in to the lite body along the way are what any and
all we all take forward. It is certainly worth while
Jai Guru Dev, Something MJ in his vilest ways could never accuse TM of doing is
over-booking seats, like the airlines commonly do as a business strategy today.
It's standard business now for the airlines. Cut the number of planes and
flights, limiting number of routes, over-sell the tickets and
For all Humanity let us use the best of science and unite in effective
meditation transcendent:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WibmcsEGLKo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WibmcsEGLKo
-Buck
Dear Friends; I'd rather be secretary. But were I chairman I'd start with the
Mission
Om Fleetwood, are you rectifying the house and property? You know, if in case
it is out of alignment from the previous owners or has poor influences of
anything? Around here spiritual people use combinations of the John Douglas
Location Repair CD, or chant or play the Sri Suktam. It is an
Cougars? Nature? Out in the West I hear that if you get jumped by a cougar
mountain lion to immediately go in to fight- back. If it looks like one in
nature is going to jump you prepare for a fight. Sticks, rocks, gun. Keep an
eye out over your shoulder where you walk around in the woods and
Well people's thought forms in life can be persistent things around properties
evidently that seemingly can become resident as energetic entity. There are
people who are good at straightening out those forms, releasing and sending
them back to the Unified Field of Nature.
You seem quite
Picture a coffee shop, somewhere in Fairfield, Iowa..
Do you hear voices?
http://www.shortoftheweek.com/2014/06/23/the-gunfighter/
http://www.shortoftheweek.com/2014/06/23/the-gunfighter/
Complex physiologies and a lot of, karmas.
Life in the body, ayurveda could have helped
Not just cheap. On a scale, which one has the least shtick to put up with?
That apparently matters in the marketplace now.
People are more informed and sensitive to cultish-ness.
Spiritual, but not religious.
SSRS also offers a meditation evidently informed by TM.
DLF is much more secular
So going forward what is going to be tolerated in TM, ethically? Do the ends
justify the means? Or no? Are we yet seeing a way forward for TM that is
clearly articulated by the old administration, whatever the past?
Dick you posted this to FFL,do take a look at FFL post 386780 and then may be
ONENESS HEALTH WORKSHOP
with ERIC ISEN
Wednesday, July 30
7-9:30pm
All illness can be traced back to a spiritual cause. The ancient Ayurvedic
texts state that unless a person is growing spiritually, they can never be
completely healed.
This workshop on Oneness and Health will
Peer-pressure can be a double edged thing cutting two ways like with some of
those who actively hate TM out in the world now. But there is a lot of middle
ground, the middle-way. Seems a lot of meditators living in town here
acknowledge they are meditators when you ask them; just not 'that'
The 2014 Conference of the World Association of Vedic Studies is being held at
MUM from July 31st through August 3rd. There will be many exciting speakers and
a wonderful and enlivening atmosphere.
Admission is free and people can wander in and out of talks at will.
this will be an
The booklet of the paper abstracts will be available
at the registration desk in the Lobby of the Argiro!! It will be a beautiful
booklet with over hundred abstracts and other interesting information on
WAVES (World association for Vedic Studies),
The 2014 Conference of the World Association
World Association of Vedic Studies (WAVES) is a multidisciplinary academic
society. It is a forum for all scholarly activities and views on any area of
Vedic Studies variously called Indian Studies, South Asian Studies or Indology.
WAVES is not confined to study related to Vedas alone or to
I talked with a very spiritual person who saw it and liked it a lot. The
person initially knowing the director then went to it because the reviews were
so split, thinking that is a good sign for a substantial movie. On going to
see Lucy over in Ottumwa with a very local crowd a lot of people
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
Yes quite evidently you and the other anti-meditation anti-science folks here
are afraid of where the data is going. Your asserting no data therefore no
replication and therefore it can't be talked about or researched. Asserting
that it does not exist defies reality and scientific process
Yes, ..the affect of N-squared spiritual people in the world and the rising
coherence in field effect of the global world around that poor place. It would
be nicer quicker and with less pain for all Koreans and the whole world if you
would come to meditation, again. Numbers count exponentially,
Darshan doesn't exist? Om ha, ha, ha! That's funny, someone on the side sent
me a picture today of Karunamayi having gold vibuti coming out her hand while
she is holding her hand up. Om ye of little experience and therefore little
faith, you are pitiful.
-Buck
steve.sundur writes:
Data, Observation, Hypothesis and Test. Quite evidently it [the Meissner Effect
of Consciousness] was hypothesized, data gathered, tested and demonstrated
quite well statistically. You quite evidently are just saying what you are
saying as part of your own emotionally damaged anti-science
The Meissener Effect. One percent. N-squared. All through the history of the TM
movement Maharishi was making observation and hypothesis and based on
observation and testing of hypothesis came the actions of policy and direction
of the larger TM movement. Science process entirely drove what we
Nope. MJ, someone evidently is leading you along [by the nose] with bad
information. That simply is not true. There have been working meetings of
[meditating] mental health professionals and interested people going on for
weeks around actively delivering modern mental health to the Fairfield
A while ago a memo was circulated between health professionals of the
meditating community here in Fairfield. Someone took the initiative to draft a
comprehensive memo and it was timely. It had an excellent definition of the
problem with mental health locally and also uniquely in the meditating
Yes, Robert Schneider as a psychiatrist gave an academic paper at the
conference. It theorized around by topic of “Veda and Psychiatry” . It was
different than policy initiative and the working meetings of where the
rubber-meets-the road for [meditator] community mental health. This later is
No, this is way more than their hurting themselves. Theirs is hateful rant
thrown like grenades into a group denying the right of a people to even exist.
Talk about defamation as terrorism and terrorism is a brand of underground
warfare these guys are waging war upon us in their methods and
Describing and Defending the Fairfield Meditating Community:
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
The Fairfield Meditating Community:
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
5,000 people are gathered together meditating out West right now at the
Yogananda [SRF] annual meeting, their annual convocation. They are doing these
large silent group meditations of three hours at a stretch each day with 5,000
meditators in attendance.
A question is if they, the
I am with Obama when it comes to organizing against insurgency like the
TM-haters on this list and TM-deniers out there in the world on the internet.
“Obama: Iraq Must Have Legitimate Government To Combat Insurgency”
He said the situation amounts to a long-term project.
The Fairfield
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