You know Mr. Hamilton, if we look at the past history of Fairfield Life, it has
declined from as many as 4,000 posts a month to a trickle. Almost everyone has
abandoned it, and it would appear you had a lot to do with it, by removing
people you disagreed with.
Rick Archer had made this an open
On Monday, June 10, 2019, 6:17:25 PM PDT, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com
[FairfieldLife] wrote:
Radically Spiritual: Fairfield, Iowa.
A Top City for Meditation
26 Square Miles Surrounded by Reality
Fairfield may be surrounded by reality somewhere, but what about inside the
town and the
Advertising aside, it does appear the Superradiance experiment is actually a
failure. Why not just cap it off and do something that is worthwhile in some
other way?
Leadership is an important contribution, but there could be other reasons why
people don't come. What is the level of fulfillment
The Meissner effect results in a magnetic field being repelled in a
superconducting metal. So what is being repelled with meditation? City-Data.com
reports that Fairfield has more crime than 67.6% of U.S. cites and other
reports indicate Fairfield rates a C+ for crime, 20% higher than the
What we are meditating for in the end, is so there is no other, only the Self.
Community is nice, but it is a more superficial view. Unity is not created by
packing bodies in proximity, it can be done alone, in a cave, or anywhere if
you have persistence.
Packing bodies in proximity can have
The reductionism in linear fashion is simply the square root of 1% which I
believe is Hagelin's formula which is based on analogy with super radiance in
lasers. This in turn is loosely correlated with some comment Patanjali made in
the Yoga Sutras.
What I think you are doing is trying to fudge
I was about to put up similar figures. The current estimated population of Iowa
for 2018 is 3.16 million. 0.01% is 31,600 and √31,600 = 177.763888 which means
you only need 178 people for program in Iowa.
So that means if more hogs in Iowa near Fairfield represent the lack of support
of the
Some doubt is necessary to make intelligent decisions. Not enough, you are a
sucker, and too much and you lose out. I am well aware of what spiritual
practice in my life has and has not done.
Clearly meditating is not going to remove CO2 from the atmosphere. But would it
result in people
While you are proposing meditation as a solution to this, you have not
specified just how meditation will result in the desired changes. A paradigm
shift does not explain how that shift will induce the desired result.
First, greenhouse gases will stay at current levels even if emissions are
SR has not even kept the Fairfield community together. As for climate change,
a look at the graphs shows no effect from SR from 1975 to today.
It is a forlorn hope that SR can affect climate change. What you are saying has
not been established scientifically except for a small core of true
Yes there is some good science in meditation research, but seemingly there is
not much.
Perhaps 1% of the studies meet the gold standard. So out of 700 studies you
have seven that are really decent.
As the quality of the journal published in goes down, so does the quality of
peer review. There
It is great that there is an attempt to do research on TM, but TM and other
forms of meditation has a very poor record as far as quality scientific papers,
as this summary in Scientific American indicates.
Meditation is essentially for self-realization/enlightenment. Promoting it for
heath and
The Permian-Triassic extinction event was rather unusual. The Siberian Traps
released a lot of volcanic gas into the air, and there may have been a
meteorite event, both of these may have resulted in subsequent fires, but huge
amounts of greenhouse gases went into the atmosphere.
This is a
If an electron can be observed as a wave or a particle, why does that mean the
universe is not objective? The difference shows during different measurements
at different times. Water can be liquid or solid at different times, but that
does not mean it is not objective.
Campbell's ideas have
A single person explaining something does not mean it is correct. Information
is a pattern in matter and as matter is equivalent to energy (Einstein), it is
also a pattern in energy. On a printed page, or as electrons in a computer,
information exists in the form of matter.
There is the
Physics is all about matter, quantum fields, gravitational fields are all
matter.
In physics, a field is a physical quantity, represented by a number or tensor,
that has a value for each point in space and time. (Wikipedia)Consciousness
does not yet have a definition in physics or in science
On Sunday, April 22, 2018, 8:22:36 PM GMT, jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
wrote:
Based on the Drake equation, there should be millions of civilizations in the
universe that are intelligent to communicate with others in their light sphere.
On Thursday, December 21, 2017, 11:42:05 AM GMT, he...@hotmail.com
[FairfieldLife] wrote:
Re Handel: when he composed Messiah, I believe he'd been living in
London, England next to nothing short of 30 yrs? YES
But he premiered the piece in Dublin. Later
Handel's Messiah was originally performed in Dublin, Ireland around Easter
time. It was designed as a concert piece. Many back then objected to it being
sung by theater people. Somehow the work has become associated more with
Christmas than Easter.
As for singing, "The Lord" is two syllables
"Transcendence of peace" means to go beyond peace, I am not sure that is what
you meant. It would mean peace is bypassed.
The might mean the absence of peace or it could mean something beyond peace and
non-peace, but not peace itself.
It could also mean one transcends non-peace, and somehow
I suppose that would be correct, the Higgs field and its mathematics is the
hypothesis that is given to explain the observed phenomena. A field in physics
is defined as a region in which each point in space-time is affected by a force.
When we observe the universe, it would seem everything is
"Enlightenment" is basically tautological as knowledge/experience. It is
basically "true" but that truth is trivial. It is like saying a dog is a dog..
To quote Nisargadatta, "There is no such thing as enlightenment, and the full
appreciation of this is, in fact, enlightenment."
There is a
There is a term called ideological immunity, and some sociologists think this
is a factor in what holds communities together.
Fairfield, Iowa, the meditator part, is basically based on a set of ideas.
Ideological immunity means the ideas that help a community cohere are resistant
to change in
It is interesting how many enlightened persons seem to fall into what is
considered bad behaviour. As a Zen master said, after good behavior,
enlightenment is the next most important thing.
It would seem that people have different strengths of ego, and what is left
after awaking reflects how
On Friday, September 1, 2017, 9:44:42 AM GMT, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com
[FairfieldLife] wrote:
The more essential transcendental meditation..
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A Shadow is a metaphor for fear. Fear is the loss of Unity, thinking we are
separate from what happens in the world. Light is sucked out, blocked. This is
for the ignorant. If "infinity is at every point," there is pure being
everywhere, no shadows at all. You are trading in illusions. The
As you must be aware, the dead weight of ideology is measured in bodies.
On Friday, August 18, 2017, 2:14:07 AM GMT, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com
[FairfieldLife] wrote:
The critical need now is for numbers in proximity meditating. This need in
critical mass
The real problem is direct experience is not a belief.
A belief is an interpretation of experience, it is not the experience itself.
Spiritual awakening in not about belief in what reality is, but a more direct
apprehension of reality, outside the confines of the mind's discourse.
The problem
Mr. Hamilton, reconciliation is not the proper word. Once rather simple and
obvious effects are discovered, cataloged, and more or less explained by
science, the more subtle aspects are often very difficult to sort out. The
leading edge of any scientific discipline is rife with contradictions
I met Bob when he was 26. I have only seen him twice in the last 15 years or
so, last time a couple of years ago, when he showed up unexpectedly at a party.
I presume he is rather busy these days.
On Sunday, July 2, 2017, 6:17:32 AM EDT, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com
[FairfieldLife]
ts from TM.
On Thursday, June 22, 2017, 12:22:42 PM PDT, Archer Angel archonan...@yahoo.com
[FairfieldLife] <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Comments below in text.
From: "dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [Fairfield
That could be a solution, but as the number of "Sidhas" practicing in the Domes
exceed the number required for coherence in Fairfield, why did that not provide
the basis for continued success in Fairfield?
If we take Kaplan's letter over a decade ago at face value, it would seem
Maharishi did
I rather hate to post this, but these are the facts:
1972 World Plan as viewed from 2017, 45 years.1. To develop the full potential
of the individual FAILED (but small percent of individuals?) 2. To improve
governmental achievements FAILED 3. To realise the highest ideal of education
FAILED 4.
This is interesting. Neuroscience basically has found that the sense of agency
in human beings is illusory, that everything is "controlled" by the laws of
nature.
Decision making takes places in the brain 1/2 to 7 seconds prior to the
decision becoming a conscious event. That means there
The content as you say is not uninteresting, but there is a lot of it, and
also, how you understand what you post is also a consideration.
When we post things here, it shows our understanding (or lack of it) of the
subject in the post, and this is what results in discussions, because people
en yelling at a sporting event. ● I
thought I had earned a special relationship with God and nature. From: Archer
Angel archonan...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2017 2:36
PMTo: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] My
Enlightenment Delusion -
I am rather curious about this. What is a kundalini crisis?
Some people do have trouble with TM's effects, everyone has a different nervous
system, and some have problems, and the movement does not always handle these
things well.
Unlike some systems TM does not have any real qualifications
This is very much in line with Fred Travis's research on brain coherence.
By the way, most anti-science skeptics don't know anything about science.
There is however a problem in that most spiritual types are anti-science
because they do not know how science works, what the methodologies are.
They
A softer, sweeter way to punish people for their imagined religious offences is
drowning in molasses.
There is morality which has religious origins, and ethics which supposedly
could give a secular spin to behavior.
The goal, or if spoken of in evolutionary terms, the result of greater societal
Thanks. If one or other of the authors is still at MUM maybe you could contact
them.
From: "dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]"
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, March 3, 2017 11:52 AM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Statistical
Mr. Hamilton, is there a published data set of dome numbers since the
construction of the domes?
It would be nice to see. I am not disputing the possibility there is the stated
effect, but that there are other correlations that are just as plausible such
as safer cars.
The promotional PDF
There are other explanations for this outside the TM organization's universe,
it is attributed to better vehicle construction, and now that vehicles are
appearing that can sense potential danger, the drop in fatalities should
continue to go down.
Correlation is not causation. One of the
At our current speeds using the Pluto mission craft as a guide, it would take
over 800,000 years to get there.
Would you like to volunteer? You would have to make repairs along the way, as
nothing we build as sophisticated as a spacecraft would last that long.
If you meditate---a lot---and get
What is the definition of a Number One Experience? I have heard the term, but
do not know what it refers to. Are there Number Two and Number Three
experiences? Are these criterion written out somewhere?
According to Vedanta, experiential enlightenment cannot last because whatever
experience one
Well, I am at a distance. Once I lived in Fairfield.
I was experiencing some peculiar normalization that resulted in insomnia.
Going to the dome, even living at MIU as it was called then, was problematical
because of the weird sleep cycle.
When I moved into town, I never went back to the dome,
Francis Knight. Don't know when it was painted, but she revised it at some
point, adding Maharishi to the painting.
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From: "dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]"
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2017 2:39 AM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance Of Group Meditation
Should we create a dispensation for the meditators who do not attend group
I note that the TM scientists have never tried to measure the effect of the
flying sutra in regards to gravity. It should be fairly easy to do. There seems
to be an avoidance of doing any experiment that would conclusively demonstrate
whether this effect is real or not.
On a macroscopic scale
These examples also do not take into account that experiments have been done to
eliminate human awareness making a choice, the choice as to what to measure
being made mechanically by apparatus after particles are on their way.
The same correlations occur, so the collapse of the wave function,
I have heard this story too, but in the version I heard, Maharishi directed
that a camera be set up to run automatically, and no indication of there being
a group around him.
That is, the story is some people have been said to have seen such a video of
Maharishi levitating, but those telling
This seems to be what is known about the hacks as far as what has been released
publicly:
- Russia orchestrated the hacking of the Democratic National Committee and
other political organizations of the Democratic Party.
- Russia's hacks were aimed at helping Trump, according to
Food is an interesting concept in spirituality. I do not think there is any
real evidence that spiritual growth and enlightenment require more than basic
adequate nutrition.
The whole idea of purity and so forth does not take into account the body's
immense flexibility in extracting nutrition
One of the features of "awakening" is the surprise.
All along you are expecting to come to pass what you have been taught, but real
awakening is transcendental to this, goes beyond what you knew.
This is the transition from Unity to Brahman, when the illusion, as it is
called, "that which is
A sample of scientific research on mindfulness meditation, which is actually
researched more than TM. The proprietary nature of TM teaching seems to
restrict the possibilities of more directly comparative studies. The studies on
TM are also mentioned.
76 Scientific Benefits of Meditation | Live
An interesting article comparing mantra-based meditation with mindfulness
meditation. Note the final paragraph.
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From: "yifux...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]"
To:
That is rather interesting. It confirms my experience with TM versus other
types when I started.
More recently however the experience is they are all similar but then my mind
has undergone a lot transformations in the last few years or so.
The main difference now is the mind is far more silent
While there did not seem to be enough people in the domes for the United States
in this last Presidential election, there were certainly enough for Jefferson
County, Iowa.
Trump won over Clinton by 51% to 46% of the vote in Jefferson County. So what
does this mean in relation to the support of
Transcendentalism and Quietism have philosophically at their basis, withdrawal.
That is a recessive quality, a retreat, and that cannot stand up to more
forceful attitudes such as ramming a dogma down someone's throat.
Quietism was condemned as a heresy in the Catholic Church, wrongly elevating
War is evil, and the moral equivalent of war is evil. You are using the wrong
terminology.
If meditation brings peace, it is the antithesis of war, and of evil. It does
not achieve its results by conflict, but by stilling conflict.
The universe shows no signs of morality. Morality does not come
The moderator here seems to be more religiously oriented than the typical TM
meditator.
I think the average TM meditator is a bit more secular.
As for his comments about grace they appear to be "the free and unmerited favor
of God" which is basically a Christian idea, even though the idea of
I don't understand how you can claim the materialist view has been debunked by
modern science.
The scientific view is that the entire universe is material.
Can you give some examples of published scientific work where scientists
investigate non-material realms?
Without the materialistic
Quite a few of my friends meditate, and some are teachers, but most of us live
far from Fairfield, IA.
But we are scattered over a wide area so group gatherings of meditators tends
to take place only during quarterly celebrations or occasional group
meditations.
Attempting to get enlightened is
Underlying the TM organization's idea of group program is this will influence
the way the election would go according to the Laws of Nature.
But in the minds of meditation practitioners there is another level of
expectation, that Nature will be in agreement with how you think the election
will
The slacking off of meditators might depend on more than simple laziness.
Long time meditators generally report that experiences of states in medtation
that were short-lived early in their practice basically become perpetual.
That means a state you had to practice to get at simply exists all
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I like the crunchy peanut butter too. Peanuts have high protein. You could
remove the fat and replace it with another lipid, which would make it more
digestible, but probably less tasty.
1980 Vedic Science Conference. I was there but was told this story later as I
was sick that day. Maharishi
The nature of maya, as it has to do with meditation and enlightenment has
little to do with the complexity and paradoxes of the physical world, but has
much to do with the mind and how it interprets what is experienced, for that is
how the paradoxes manifest.
The world itself has no paradox
I meditate all the time, and more often than most TM meditators, it has a
goodly effect.
Meditation reveals certain oddities about the nature of the universe from the
level of experience.
I would say the the illusion aspect of maya, and the consequent
misunderstanding of the nature of
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I am fond of peanuts as are birds, squirrels, rats, and other rodents. Blue
I agree.
"The term moral obligation has a number of meanings in moral philosophy, in
religion, and in layman's terms. Generally speaking, when someone says of an
act that it is a 'moral obligation,' they refer to a belief that the act is one
prescribed by their set of values."
People, even in
These Maharishi School students must have missed a lesson —
"We must take situations as they are. We must only change our mental attitudes
towards them." —Maharishi
From: "dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]"
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent:
Jyotish proves nothing. When you compare a simulation with the reality it is
mimicking, there are discrepancies, because a simulation has to fake certain
things for expediency, the simulation lacks the detail of the reality.
Jyotish tries to mimic the events in the world, but it is a very poor
I really have no idea. Doesn't nature just do what it does anyway?
Coming into alignment with nature would seem to mean that we do nothing, just
get out of the way, and that would seem to be the way its always been.
That would mean TM would prevent people from interfering with the natural
So, what was described as real, or not real? I live 2,000 miles from Fairfield,
so I could not attend.
From: "dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]"
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2016 2:33 AM
Subject: [FairfieldLife]
From: "dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]"
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, October 15, 2016 1:20 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] The UK Dome 20 Years On
The triumphal trumpet,
radical transcendentalists in the postmodern
It would seem that the passage simply indicates the result of successful
practice.
From: "he...@hotmail.com [FairfieldLife]"
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, October 14, 2016 12:37 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] YS: mahaa-videhaa
YS
Perhaps they are out, groping about.
From: feste37
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, October 14, 2016 3:06 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: One Question
The Trump supporters on this forum have gone very quiet. I wonder why?
---In
Trump is largely reactive, seems to have no self-awareness or self-reflection
capability.
Were he to win, I think it is likely he would be impeached at some point, if we
are still alive that is.
Clinton's policies would be self-ingratiating in other ways and probably
financially damaging to
Disagreeing with another's view is an expression of contempt for that view,
particularly if that view is simply dismissed.
This seems to be the human condition.
Scientists express contempt for other scientists' views but they do have a
method to resolve disputes.
There does not seem to be an
So TM fosters abnormality? That would seem to make sense.
From: "awoelfleba...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]"
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2016 4:34 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM?
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k?
Leave if it’s not to your liking.
Sal
On Oct 10, 2016, at 10:48 AM, Archer Angel archonan...@yahoo.com
[FairfieldLife] <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
I take it from the content here that no one here practices TM
Or if they do, get any benefits from TM, or display a
No
From: "awoelfleba...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]"
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2016 4:30 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM?
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
Trump supporter, hmm?
No
From: "authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]"
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2016 4:17 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM?
Trump supporter, hmm?
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
I
I take it from the content here that no one here practices TM
Or if they do, get any benefits from TM, or display any of the intelligence or
behavior that is supposed to result from TM.
Maybe the group could be renamed to something more in line with the subject
matter here.
It seems to be a
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