Mindfulness, it is also that place like after you have thought a sutra or
mantra and you are sitting as just quiet in samadhi in restful alertness.
Resourcing Awake in Being, then pinging the system with some vibration of
thought as the mantra or sutra and yet mindful as what comes out of
A saint? On a scale of transforming things spiritually one has spiritual
authors, lecturers, teachers, sadhus, swamis, gurus, sat gurus, and jagad gurus
ranging in each case from the inconsequential up to truly saintly in life
transforming status. Sat gurus and jagad gurus seem to have higher
Beautiful. Now that is where spirituality turns to sainthood in field effect.
What you can do with a human system is way more than transcending, like also
being of use in the lighthouse to others in life. -Buck
for example, I may do a TM, or 1/2 a TM, simply for its ability to clear
Carrey's presentation was motivational for action in life in a way that we
don't often get. It was pure spiritual wisdom and a call to spiritual action.
Great delivery. -Buck “You are ready and able [after graduating with
consciousness-based education at MUM] to do beautiful things in this
May be not. The stage was uber set up to film and record the commencement. Was
proly a lot of pressure, even for Bevan, to MC the introduction. Un-usual was
that Bevan read from prepared statements as his introduction of Carrey. Bevan
had a long introduction that he read. It was kind of
In a spectrum of practitioners : -Meditation teachers, -Subtle system teachers,
-Ritam Bhara Pragya people; as analogous to, 'Quietism', 'Piety' and
'Inspiration' in typology. In range and distribution of illumined Batgap
interviewees by type, just throwing these Batgap illumined people
With Bevan and Craig Pearson.
Special Afternoon with
Dr. Bevan Morris and Dr. Craig Pearson
Sunday, June 1st
1:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Dalby Hall
Reflections on Recent Graduation Events,
News, and Stories from Africa and Around the World
You are warmly invited to presentations by Dr. Bevan
Om, BTW, Not everyone is invited.
[update: The following information regarding required badge was inadvertently
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or MUM ID. For other practitioners of the Transcendental Meditation program,
please contact the
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Om the FFL 'message history', On the FFL main web page the 'message history'
archive matrix that is organized by month and year is working again better now
in this new yahoo-neo world. It reports in slim mode and you can scroll down
through a month. Would be nice too if you could
Well, Bevan does have a long war record. Bevan seems more like 'an old general'
who will not fade away, when one looks at the record. Ypres. For people
researching lurking from outside looking in on the personalities of the people
inside TM now, FFL post [377120] can be useful for some
. .
The group meditations in Fairfield, Iowa were long, large and twice daily then.
As the transcendental meditators generally arrived in Fairfield, Iowa during
the mid and late 1970's and throughout the 1980's the Fairfield group
meditations then were large and inclusive of the whole
. .
“It’s like watering the root and enlivening the nourishment, the sap. And the
sap permeates all the fields of the tree—branches, leaves, flowers—and
nourishes them.”
“This in physics is called a “field effect.” The field effect is produced from
the unified field of natural law. It
“The younger generation grew restive, however, and demanding personal freedom
and individual ownership of property. In 1898 the [Zoar] Society was disbanded
and property divided up among the members.”
The Zoarites of Zoar, Ohio they got in a lot of trouble for being spiritually
outside
2003,
(Though my mother's side of the family is old Iowa Quaker (Whittier-
Springville, Ia. via Flushing, Oh. and the Carolinas) and runs
directly back to England, I am not currently really versed or
participating in things Quaker. My own interests are more abstract.
However, I thought
. .
Maharishi: “All don't have to meditate. Just some small percentage in society
will be enough.”[281] -1968-9 “This was borne out at the end of 1974 when it
was found that in cities where the number of meditators had reached one percent
the crime rate decreased significantly.”
. .
Observation, Hypothesis, Test;
Scientific Process.. .
When you get things laid out in time series of publication to look at it
becomes remarkable what Maharishi was doing all along going way back.
There was quite a lot of scientific process (advancement too) which got
Yahoo Groups Neo it seems truncates posts at 64KB.
Older versions of the Index are not truncated.
This one seems to be 'unabridged' by neo-truncation..
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/352508
You know, as per this underlying subject thread, I know how to meditate and
shoe a horse and I don't give much of a shit about Maharishi and this woman's
private sex life in Feet of Clay. Fine, read the book if you will, I have, and
that is old business that was well rendered down here before
$30 Million? That is a lot of money. How and how well is it really being used?
Anybody know? Publicly? Is it accounted for? Just wondering, -Buck
the fact that Simmons has donated about $30 million to the DLF
which has allowed them to teach about 100,000 students TM without charge.
The 22nd Annual ISSSEEM Conference
June 11 - 14
The International Society for the Study of Subtle Energy and Energy Medicine
[ISSSEEM]
EmptyBill, have you seen that this conference is happening next week near you?
To be held at the Unity Village conference facility nearby you. You
Vipassana and TM interwoven,
Mindful Notes of a Fairfield meditating satsang:
Vipassanaic TM:
[Once upon a time at a meeting a few years ago in Fairfield, Iowa ]
.. We’re going to talk about transcendence in relation to vaipassana. These
two practices are interwoven for me. What has meshed?
The meeting, showed that things are un-changed. Bevan is busy all around the
world still trying to preserve the way things are done. He gave a powerpoint
travelogue to that effect. At the start of the meeting Craig Pearson
recounted the lead up to Jim Carrey doing the commencement speech.
Of course there is monitoring to do in TM as a mental technique unless you are
one of those who simply lays down or lounge back and go to sleep as your
meditation. I got these old tapes from India TTC where Maharishi very
specifically goes through that TM does involve some [small] effort to
Cardemaister, Ohhmm that voltage of the [spiritual] heart! This is really an
important post you offer here. This spiritual 'heart of the matter' that you
offer here actually seems to be where much of the meditating community has gone
on to with all of its satsanga here otherwise. It is a lot of
Great Quote. Got a citation for this quote? Where did this quote come from?
Was it published? Anywhere? Date or time-frame? Just wondering.
A citation with a little more info would be useful. Thanks, -Buck
Spiritual and Material Values
Every experience has its level of physiology, and
Empty writes: TM teachers are not gurus. However, as trained instructors in
the lineage teachings and techniques, TM teachers are valid exponents and
initiators. Thanks, I appreciate this is very carefully said. That is how
Maharishi spoke of us too. Exponents of Reality and Initiators of
“..a guru is He [the person] who bestows that nature which transcend the
qualities is said to be guru.
Dear FFL I would propose and make the motion that we use this higher value of
“guru” as the interpretation of word, “Guru” for use on FFL and have anyone who
disrespects and deviates from
Send in the Marines and restore civil righteousness there again. Round up those
criminal people and send their children to public schools. Jump-start some
dharma there. Start programs of quiet time meditation in the schools, like with
MSAE schools. -Buck
fleetwood writes:
I sure can't
Bull Shit! Go in there with unconditional surrender as the terms. War is hell.
This is deeply adharmic and anti-spiritual stuff the Boko Haram do. These are
ignorant criminal people. This is Bhagavad-Gita material, chapter and verse.
Shake off this fucking faint-heartedness and fight, now!
I can think of some TM teachers who are not gurus or not very good as TM
teachers either. There are TM teachers and there are TM teachers. Some are
really good at it. I still like this definitional cut off for practical reasons
of simplification: “..a guru is He [the person] who bestows that
For our general use on FFL I feel this more concise usage fits to our needs. We
all kind of know it when we see it. It covers the Western mystics that way too
and it seems a fair use to describe a number of legitimate gurus. As such even
a number of people on BATGAP could be that, as Guru.
Empty, It's true and people should know this and some weep for having jumped
the rails and gone off but you are making large assumptions about what the
larger meditating community has or has not done here. But like Lawson I am out
of here on this mantra thread too. It is all way too
The press reports tell of 15 being fired from GM related to poor ethical
behavior in the case of the bad ignition switches. Evidently the firings
followed in a line of responsibility from the ground up through management.
The case is relevant to a foul ethical corporate culture within GM that
Whose 'conspicuous ignorance' here? Are you contending saying Fleetwood is
conspicuously ignorant [academically] because in his experience he is not
quoting and speaking from the books you are referencing? As much as Turqb
hates him, Fleetwood is the one here saying it in his own words without
This would be a really good investment in to our community to support this
artist. I like it. -Buck in the Dome
More inclusively, I feel we would be nothing here on FFL without some of the
lower scaled of illumination by example of some of these writers posting here.
Theirs is also an important dissonance to the higher plane of spiritual
discussion that can go on here. I always appreciate reading Turqb
I am come in from the day and holding this man in my heart. -Buck in Meditation
jr_esq writes:
Apparently, he hasn't heard of MMY's ideas for automatic governance. Or, he
should learn how to delegate his duties and to take some rest for his own
health and welfare.
Pope Francis Takes
Interestingly, Maharishi instructed his Rajas to maintain their vigilance for
their spiritual program and have good staffing to take care of what comes as
duties in the world.
I am come in from the day and holding this man in my heart. -Buck in Meditation
jr_esq writes:
Apparently, he
People everywhere should simplify their lives to the extent that they can take
the time to meditate also.
-Buck in the Dome
Interestingly, Maharishi instructed his Rajas to maintain their vigilance for
their spiritual program and have good staffing to take care of what comes as
duties in
Yep, thanks for noticing and appreciating this. I have been working at
developing this Cartesian graphing of mysticism as a thesis for a while as an
aid in helping those people who are reserved or even flat out skeptical about
spirituality to be better able to place mysticism and mystics within
Dontknow. Would likely be regrettable. Ironic too. I am one of the only ones
here on FFL advocating and even defending the Dome meditation program on merit.
I see that there is a notice in the Dome now just more recently since the TM
movement old-guard has recently returned to Fairfield of a
This is serious shit. I was with a courthouse employee today who jumped while
we were working at something official, jumped at some sound and told of being
afraid in this person's job of what goes on around now. This person looked
around to see what was going on. That is pretty sad. Not good
Last year I was at a conference and one paper that I thought really stood out
for our purposes here was a completely objective paper on altruistic
communalism which had absolutely no consideration of spirituality. The paper
only considered relative organization and the value of doing or being
Dear Friends; I'd rather be secretary. But were I chairman I'd start with the
Mission Statement then develop metrics around how we are doing with that which
everyone can check and see. Establish written job descriptions for everyone and
job reviews for everyone every quarter. Bring more metric
In Fairfield, Iowa now we transcending meditators have been here 4 decades now
this summer and have facilitated ourselves quite extensively in that time.
Fairfield itself is 175 years old this summer. When we meditators first came to
Fairfield at times it was like living in the Jim Crow South.
Yes, and you'll notice on the graph that these real and positive trends are
taking effect from the time frame that Maharishi Mahesh Yogi came to the West
and began traveling widely teaching people transcending meditation in his
Spiritual Regeneration Movement. Clearly it is just really
Fair Field Life. Yes, certainly there is a generally real nice field effect
manifesting in cultured qualities of the Unified Field. A bubble extending at
least 20 miles in every direction of the activated field effect used to be much
larger back in the 1980's and early 90's when the numbers in
Yup, like in the recent thread here categorizing the BATGAP.COM spiritually
awakened interviewees around describing a range in typology of mystical
illumination. Those interviews then come as another good place for the
Cartesian graph as help in getting a handle on de-mystifying the spiritual
The Pontiff is absolutely right about this: Way too many hours are spent
working and Not enough quiet time spent in effective transcending meditation,
for people everywhere. There needs to be a redistribution of time spent. People
are making the wrong investment of their life-energy-time in
“But as a Third World War can’t be done, they make zonal wars. What does this
mean? That they produce and sell weapons, and with this the balance sheets of
the idolatrous economies, the great world economies that sacrifice man at the
feet of the idol of money, obviously they are sorted.”
The
Let it be known that when we on FFL speak ex cathedra, where we define a
doctrine concerning faith by experience or proper morals of practice to be held
by the whole of FFL and the meditating community, this happens very rarely, and
when it does, it's made explicit inside official FFL posts as
Yes, this link got passed around Fairfield recently by e-mail. It is quite a
relevant and interesting post.
There is a lot of keen interest here in the meditating community in the
energetics of mental health/well-being this way in addition to the MD PhD
allopathic approaches. It is very
A few years ago as I was first developing this Cartesian way of looking at
mysticism and spiritual movements I drew it out on the back of an envelope and
showed it then to an eminent scholar PhD in our field. He looked at it and
laughed out saying, “Oh, I understand that! My wife is a PhD in
Farming. Farmers, die of suicide at “four times” the rate of the general
population. Farm Workers Far More Likely to Die of Suicide, Why?
http://iowapublicradio.org/post/farm-workers-far-more-likely-die-suicide-why
I feel they [hindoos] will be better off as they better incorporate science and
the substantial spiritual experience of quiet time transcendent meditation in
to their studies in secular public school education. Thank the Unified Field
for the continuing good progress in broad science-based
5:13-16 Ye are the salt of the earth. Mankind, lying in ignorance and
wickedness, were as a vast heap, ready to putrify; but Christ sent forth his
disciples, by their lives and doctrines to season it with knowledge and grace.
If they are not such as they should be, they are as salt that has
Like Buddhas down at a gas pump talking about enlightenment..
You are the light of the world. You cannot hide a city that has been built
upon a mountain. -Matthew
Fleetwood_macncheese writes:
Thanks - yes, I know that many people aren't comfortable discussing this
stuff. I think it
Fleetwood writes: Many of the old texts that talk about this state of natural
freedom are not useful for modern times, and householders, so it is a fun time,
now, to see the truth or otherwise, of these early texts on enlightenment.
Equally satisfying is being able to quickly put the lie to
Whoa there. For my own TM teacher, someone who had journey-ed to learn to teach
this and come to the wilderness of the West, I do puja to my TM initator
every time I say or think, “Jai Guru Dev”.
Jai Guru Dev, -Buck in the Dome
Fleetwood writes: Many of the old texts that talk about this
Turqb, my sympathy to you on the loss of your friend/ companion/ partner. Those
times become their own amazing grace in experience at the passing of the life
form of even our pets or livestock. Is always sobering and makes one look
inside all the further at life whilst we got it. Much love to
Yes they are part of the meditating community here. Dennis and his wife are
some of the nicest people in all of Fairfield. Rick ought to interview them for
Buddha at the Gas Pump. -Buck in the Dome
In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fleetwood_macncheese@... wrote :
Cool - I wonder if he
It seems some awakened 'pietist' people are discovering Fairfield, Iowa from
Rick Archer's Batgap.com interviews. I see by the recent advertisements in the
Fairfield Weekly Reader that energy healers from afar are more commonly
introducing themselves to Fairfield. In recent weeks and months
Dear MJ, we will hold you in our awareness. In Satsanga, -Buck
mjackson74writes:
They smell the heady aroma of sheep, willing to be fleeced.
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Spiritual “Energy Work”
It seems some awakened 'pietist' people are discovering Fairfield, Iowa from
Rick Archer's
Om. Dear Turqb; Did you get the new place, rectified? You know, Spiritually
fixed. Does it have an East entry or something less auspicious? Does Rental and
housing price in the Netherlands fluctuate according to the direction of the
home entry? -Buck
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,
Well, they clearly are behind the times and evidently slow to adopt more
scientific and modern ways. But, you did not even Feng Shui the place?
-Buck
turquoiseb writes:
I can confirm that the housing in this town -- much of which dates back
several centuries and is not about to
Evidently it is felt that bad orientation could be dangerous. Housing prices in
the USA now are fluctuating widely based on entry orientation. Apparently
realtors in NYC of necessity have to be facile in both vastu and Feng Shui to
close on real estate deals.
Well, they clearly are behind
An old post from 2002. Evidently meditators do not count.
-Buck
in FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, pwwoods@... wrote :
The Importance and the Urgency of Group program
Dear Sidhas,
Have you done your program with a group today? How about this week? Or last
week?
Maharishi has
Jim, welcome back;
I would suspect that you could walk in to some churches here and sit to
meditate. Like heck, what good is a Peace Palace for anyway if someone could
not walk in and take 'quiet time' there? The times I have been visiting in
California I have been able to walk in and
It is true the four seasons are fully expressed in Fairfield. I work outside
in them and I love them all. Fairfield is a great place to live and incredibly
spiritual. Just this last weekend there were some deep and incredible
spiritual satsangs in town also as a huge music festival was going
At this point I feel this becomes a communal question for the meditating
community here in Fairfield. What to do with spiritual people coming here as
meditators? I meditate in the Golden Dome and of course that is a closed
program as it is defined but I will check around to see how it fairs for
I prefer meditating in the Golden Dome. The spiritual field effect of
meditation there makes it one of the seven wonders of the world as a place of
spiritual activation. It would be nice and evidently important to everything if
the sticks-in-the-mud administrator types would open it up in a way
There is so much to do and so little time to do it all here. Lot of people get
the Fairfield Weekly Reader when it is published on Thursdays and get out their
own calendars and schedule their coming week. There is a tremendous amount of
high level and spiritual culture here functioning in lots
Jim, when you get here to Fairfield, Iowa look around the shops and coffee
houses for a copy of the Fairfield Weekly Reader. The meditating community
generally schedules itself through the Fairfield Weekly Reader. Let us have
coffee when you get here. Best Regards, -Buck
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Thanks for the review of these chicken soup people, Feste37 and Turqb. I had
not paid much attention to them. There seems to be an ethical problem there.
Did they learn that kind of way of doing business from somewhere or develop the
approach themselves? What might it have been in their
Contrary to what New Age Woo Woo Blissninnies think, having a trusting mind
is NOT the same thing as having a well-functioning mind. :-
These chicken soup people all being former TM people, did they learn this kind
of ethical performance in TM? Some of them went on to be big in Art of
The 60's and 70's. These letters are like a window looking in to that time.
Like Maharishi's movement at the time..
Similarities between Leary and Sagan abound. They were both scientific
explorers and political activists – men of ideas and action. They were
geniuses at communication, not
Towards Actionable Plans..
Dear Committee Members;
The focus of the next working meeting will be on implementation of the stage
plans of the various subgroups. [currently 11.11.2014] We are now at the point
of developing an implementation of each of the goals. Come join us. We want you
Business Ethics, as nature or nurture? TM for instance now is not the nearly
the theocratic autocracy that it once was and is evidently much more
'corporation' in culture being run more altruistically by scientists than it
was before. With a changing of generations and some change as corporate
Absolutely Awoelflebater has a point,
Yep I am fine with marriage being reserved (licensed) for describing the
raising of offspring by adults. ..for the purpose of.. Then, Civil unions for
various combinations of everything else. Clearly in the cases of early
Mormonist plural wives it was
Om, These recent Joseph Smith and his 40 wives articles surfacing in the
popular press were incredibly shoddy at referencing the actual scholarly work
behind their journalism that their articles were written on and edited off of.
Like, really bad professional journalism. Damned yellow as a
Yes very valid point, Fleetwood in experience. Evolving gradients of
transformational field effect in reality. Is one thing (CC) as for your self
and then to another level ascending towards spiritual trans-formative affect in
well-being with others whence Being rises to being saintly in field
Dear FFL,
Culturally this particular post below attempting to clarify Maharishi's
teaching on negativity is really important. It did not just show up here.
And so accordingly, evidently these TM apostates here like MJ, Turqb, CDB here
having divorced themselves from things TM are trying to
So evidently spiritually speaking what Maharishi is saying here is that if one
entertains a negativity then one commits a negativity on the subtle. One may
even take on the energetics in the subtle. Negativity in form then it seems is
like an entity lodging in the system spiritually. Like a
“..speaking ill and thinking ill of someone, dwelling on the weaknesses of
someone, all their bad qualities come to your heart; [this way] you get your
heart and mind spoiled.
So when through meditation, purity is growing in life, we don't invite this mud
from outside to make us impure
Son, as a transcendentalist I well know the reality of my inner experience with
this and for that I am quite a satisfied customer of the transcending
meditation experience. I know and can certainly trust in the clarity of that
reality by the science of my experience, thank you for asking. I am
Well, really there is a much larger communal discussion going on here about
dealing with negativity. As such I am not going to entertain your particular
negativity around this any further. For to go any further might well
necessitate having to denounce you in addition to dredging your
Really a Salient point, Fleet. Evolving gradients of transformational field
effect in reality. Is one thing (CC) as for your self and then to another level
ascending towards spiritual trans-formative effect in well-being on others
whence Being rises to being saintly in field effect. Is a
CDB, I am appreciative that you took to, invested in and extended upon this
subject thread (hook, line and sinker) with these comments. Context often is
everything.What you write as to clarifying the context of Maharishi giving
these comments is actually quite helpful to some of the
Culture: Never shall we denounce anyone, never entertain negativity.
Such that within the culture of TM the TM negativity policy like with the TM
Saha Nav Hymn for instance, if someone commits a larceny within an element of
the organization then by the teachings it would be entertaining
The 1980 Pledge. Things in TM did seem to change from about then to become a
lot about some theocratic sense of fealty and a lot less as to merit and
performance. Is noteworthy that the Saha Nav hymn was extracted up to become a
normative organizational code of conduct as an oath then.
C: The
FW: A Cultural Survey..
Never entertain negativity.
Would you be so kind as to give us your understanding of what this phrase has
meant to you and how your understanding has impacted your life. And if you wish
to ask someone else their view on this phrase and submit it with yours, that
What has it meant? Culturally this sanctioning of blindness has allowed some
really bad ethical behavior to go unchecked. In the marketplace TM it seems is
well known for things not being right around money, sex and power. “Never
entertain negativity” is a root of silence in its culture which
FW: “Never Entertain Negativity”, This ethos never entertain negativity is
a crux of the problem here. This has created a world of psycho-spiritual hurt
in our tribe.
FW: A Cultural Survey..
Never entertain negativity.
Would you be so kind as to give us your understanding of what
From your long distant vantages you guys may see it all as static but the new
TM movement since Maharishi's passing away moves on with what they got. It is
functioning much more as a corporation with scientists in the top CEO slots
now. You may not want to see this but it is much less of a
It is about Ethics as a Leading Economic Indicator. For the New TM movement
changes from within process are a necessity of the marketplace..
FW: “Never Entertain Negativity”, This ethos never entertain negativity is
a crux of the problem here. This has created a world of
Honesty is the best policy -when there is money in it.
-Mark Twain
It is about Ethics as a Leading Economic Indicator. For the New TM movement
changes from within process are a necessity of the marketplace..
FW: “Never Entertain Negativity”, This ethos never entertain negativity is
FW: An other implication of this negativity statement is that it has
effectively crushed any constructive criticism/discussion about the need for
change and/or issues within the TMO. People who had constructive input to
share were therefore at least unheard, and even dismissed and shunned.
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