[FairfieldLife] The end of Yahoo-Groups !

[Doug Hamilton dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

Within a dysfunctional capitalism evidently this Verizon Corp purchase of 
Yahoo! appears as something similar to corporate Reader’s Digest’s buying Earl 
Kaplan’s “Reading is Fun” business for 267 million or so $, letting 
bean-counters and outside managers come in and destroy what was an ongoing 
business. Then, Earl buying the name back for a paltry few million after a 
couple of years or so. A stunning devaluation.   (..that was a told as a 
journalism in the group archive of FFL.)


After Verizon corp bought Yahoo! last year, the whole service has sequentially 
degraded terribly to this. 

Re: [FairfieldLife] FFL at Yahoo! closing..

[Doug Hamilton dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

  
There is a Facebook group..

 

that could take up the slack of the closing of FFL on Yahoo-Groups..


A Group on Facebook:  

 Meditating Fairfield, Iowa


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On Tuesday, October 20, 2020, 06:47:03 AM CDT, Doug Hamilton 
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Farewell to Yahoo-groups.. 


For whatever ‘corporate’ reason they are dissolving all Yahoo-Groups. 

An archive of posts made to Yahoo FFL (FairfieldLife) still exists for research 
at: 
 
https://www.mail-archive.com/fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com/



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[FairfieldLife] FFL at Yahoo! closing..

[Doug Hamilton dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

Farewell to Yahoo-groups.. 


For whatever ‘corporate’ reason they are dissolving all Yahoo-Groups. 

An archive of posts made to Yahoo FFL (FairfieldLife) still exists for research 
at: 
 
https://www.mail-archive.com/fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com/



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[FairfieldLife] Fw: Resending, since not everyone received: Domes to close Sunday evening

[Doug Hamilton dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

-- Forwarded message -
From: Dome Announcements 
Date: Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 10:46 AM
Subject: Resending, since not everyone received: Domes to close Sunday evening
 

  
March 12, 2020 
  
Dear Yogic Flyers, 
  
The Center for Disease Control (CDC) has told us that older adults have a 
higher risk of getting seriously ill from the coronavirus (COVID – 19). 
  
To lessen the risk of a large portion of the Super Radiance community 
contracting and spreading the disease we have decided to take a serious step to 
protect everyone’s health: 
  
  After the Sunday evening program this week, we will close 
all Fairfield and Maharishi Vedic City flying halls until further notice. 
  
We strongly urge everyone to continue their program at home, lifting off at the 
usual times morning d evening. It will not be possible to Round at home. Those 
on the IAA Grant will continue to receive their monthly grant check at the 
average rate of participation over the last 6 months. While we hate to halt the 
Super Radiance program even temporarily, we will continue to generate coherence 
for the Nation from home during this delicate health time for the Country and 
the World. 
  
On a positive note, we are sending out an email to all Governors, Sidhas and 
Meditators in the U.S. encouraging them to coordinate their program times with 
those of us in our community ­– or at another set time within their time zones 
– to help create additional coherence during these delicate times. 
  
  We are looking into the best way to continue the daily phone call to the 
Invincible America Assembly. Safety First! 
  
Jai Guru Dev, 
  
Raja John Haglin 
Drs. Doug and Linda Birx 
    
  
  Our mailing address is:   
  
Maharishi International University
1000 N 4th St
Fairfield, IA 52557
  

  

[FairfieldLife] In Radical Political Spirituality..

[Doug Hamilton dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

I Went to the Democrat’s caucus information meeting last night at the public’s 
library.

 

In leaving with some campaign’s sticker stuck on my coat at the meeting’s end I 
was asked to express opinion and then accosted, assaulted, by one of the 
meeting organizers as my being divisive and angry in that. I am thankful for 
that consult now for like Tulsi critiquing the nature of partisan party 
division in Congress I will vote ‘present’ in affect for the caucus by going to 
the communal group Dome meditation during the caucus hour.


The meeting was large wherein I came to caution with friends against mixing 
with people in their human policies and outward forms of government - showing 
in all ages that those that were called to be the Lord’s people in nature had 
been ruined and destroyed by such associations, manifesting clearly by 
scripture testimonies and other records that our strength and preservation 
consisted in standing alone and not to be counted among the people or nations 
who were setting up partial and party interests -one against another-  which is 
the true ground of all war and bloodshed, being actuated by the spirit of pride 
and wrath which is always opposed to the true Christian Spirit that breathes 
peace on earth and good will to all men. And therefore, we cannot use any 
coercive force or compulsion by any means whatever - not being overcome with 
evil, but overcoming evil with good. 


And although there were many opposite spirits present who, in their creaturely 
wisdom and human policy, are pleading for those kinds of associations and 
taking part with these political governments, yet Truth favors and comes into a 
good degree of dominion over all - to the strengthening and encouraging by 
demonstration the true travailers for Zion’s prosperity. 


In our meditating churches and  such places of spiritual practice like the 
Domes, Truth is favored in an eminent manner where many hearts are deeply bowed 
from the sensible evidence of the prevailing of the devine power that is in 
dominion over all, to the tendering of hearts of most present. This is a 
precious season, worthy of thankful remembrance and humble gratitude to the 
Blessed Author of Nature and all our rich mercies and blessing, which is over 
all, blessing forever.


The crowd of the meeting appeared in a low state, as to a right ordering of the 
affairs of the party by reason whereof many and great were the apparent 
divisions among them. 


The greater part are too much captivated by a worldly spirit which leads into a 
neglect of attending to their True spiritual nature and a great carelessness in 
respect to the right ordering of their families and community. By reason many 
undue liberties have got in among them wounding the faith.

Om how the gold becomes dim, how is the most fine gold changed! Some that 
retain a good degree of outward spiritual plainness themselves have 
nevertheless for want of dwelling enough in the pure Spring of Life suffered 
the eye of their minds to be so far blinded by the god of this world as not 
only to suffer these improper indulgences but in some instances are ready to 
plead for them. The sense thereof much affected my mind under which exercise I 
was led forth in to a line of close searching labor to more diligence and 
honest care in those respects which afforded  degrees in comfort which is a 
treasure I prefer to all this world’s glory and honor. 


Stirring up to more vigilance in a careful waiting for the arising of the 
Spring of Life, as nothing short of the divine power and renewed quickenings of 
the Holy Spirit, can qualify for the promotion of good order and discipline in 
the community. 

I vote ‘present’.  

[FairfieldLife] Fw: Rick Archer at the 2019 SAND Conference - Knowledge/Reality is Different in Different States of Consciousness

[Doug Hamilton dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

 

   - Forwarded Message - From: Buddha at the Gas Pump 
To: Doug Hamilton Sent: Wednesday, 
January 1, 2020, 10:39:49 AM CSTSubject: Rick Archer at the 2019 SAND 
Conference - Knowledge/Reality is Different in Different States of Consciousness
  

 
Rick Archer - Knowledge/Reality is Different in Different States of 
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Opening points: 
 • People get polarized in different perspectives. The more they focus 
exclusively on their perspective, the more justification for it they find. 
 • Learning to appreciate paradox; accommodating different viewpoints within a 
broader perspective. 
 • Enlightenment as Totality. Only Totality can realize Totality. 
 • Totality has no difficulty reconciling paradoxes. 
 • Getting comfortable with paradox might be conducive to our realization of 
Totality.
 
Examples of contradictory realities: 
 • free will vs. determinism 
 • personal self vs. no-self 
 • Are we already enlightened, or must enlightenment be attained? 
 • Is practice an aid or an obstacle? 
 • Is the guru model dead? 
 • Does non-duality imply that there are no stages of spiritual growth? 
 • direct vs. progressive paths 
 • patience vs. determination on the spiritual path
 
Additional points covered: 
 • Acting in accordance with your own experience, not a concept of someone 
else’s. 
 • Absolute reality does not negate relative realities. 
 • Radically different realities at different levels of nature’s functioning 
are perfectly compatible with one another. 
 • Incorporating universal and individual perspectives – ocean and wave, 
boundless and boundaries. 
 • My experience in doing BatGap.
 
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[FairfieldLife] New Income-Based TM fees

[Doug Hamilton dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

We’re happy to announce that income-based TM® course fees are now available 
nationwide! If you know anyone who’d be interested to learn about the new 
course fees, feel free to share this with them.

As a non-profit organization, we’ve always been committed to making the TM 
technique and its benefits available to as many people as possible. With this 
change, we hope to open our doors even wider, enabling more people to benefit.

We believe that this tool for inner peace and wellness is needed by society 
now, more than ever.

As before, the course fee can be paid up front or over four months. We will 
continue offering need-based, partial grant support and a satisfaction 
guarantee.

We hope you’re enjoying your TM practice, and also want to remind you to take 
advantage of our lifetime follow-up program! If you ever find your TM practice 
isn’t easy, feel free to schedule a “tune-up”—it’s free, and can make all the 
difference in re-establishing effortless practice. Just contact your local TM 
Center.

All the best,

Your friends at Transcendental Meditation

[FairfieldLife] New Year's Day yagna at Morning Star!

[Doug Hamilton dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

Hi friends

 

We are hosting a public participatory yagna with Pundit D N Sharma at Morning 
Star Studio for the Nine Planets and MahaLakshmi on Wednesday January 1st 2020! 

It starts at 10am for the Navagraha and at 2pm for the Lakshmi puja and homa.  
Come for any or all of this!

 

Take a tour of the solar system!  We will do puja to each of the nine 
planets/stars…each with its own mandala.  You will learn the mantra for each 
planet and be invited to propitiate ones you would like to put some extra 
attention on!

 

In the afternoon Sharmaji will perform the abhisheka for MahaLaksmi, her 1000 
names and 16 recitations of the Shri Suktam. 

A fire ceremony will conclude the day for the Navagraha and MahaLakshmi. 

 

Sponsorships available $54 for each part for an individual.  $154 for a family.

 

Help is needed for set up and take down.   contact  641 472 8422 or 919 9147

 

All blessings in the New Year!

The Veda Vishwa family

[FairfieldLife] Meditating in the Domes

[Doug Hamilton dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

TM Meditators visiting Fairfield.. 

can register to be able to meditate in the Domes with the group.

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Re: [FairfieldLife] The old FFL mail archive..

[Doug Hamilton dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

 
Sorry that the format has changed. Evidently email sent to the yahoo group does 
get sent through.  

Verizon Corp is the recent new owner of Yahoo! With the change of ownership 
came this change that the content of the group will no longer be held for view 
on the yahoo-group page. The group service now is simply as an email list. I 
suspect that Verizon is dumping a privacy liability that their hosting of open 
group content could present for the corporation.  

But an archive was set up separate from Yahoo. 

 I see that the mail archive is still picking up and copying current email sent 
to Fairfieldlife at yahoo. Evidently FFL can be followed at the mail archive. 
The archive can be searched over there. ..


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[FairfieldLife] The old FFL mail archive..

[Doug Hamilton dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

 
The old Fairfieldlife group archive is still searchable. It is held 
at:https://www.mail-archive.com/fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com/

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used in the TM movement.

[FairfieldLife] In the Spiritual FF satsang:

[Doug Hamilton dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

Fairfield, Iowa's Divine Mother Church, Downtown at the Fairfield square..

...join us for Empowerment Healings on Saturdays -- and Feast of Light sessions 
on Tuesdays, led by Connie*.  Some highlights of our extended calendar are 
listed here.  Be sure to check listings for all the events in the calendar 
below.


Feast of Light Healings

These sessions are a wonderful pick-me-up in the middle of a busy week, and we 
encourage you to take advantage of them. They are shorter than the Saturday 
sessions, so they can fit into your lunch break.
Tuesday, 12:15 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.  Central Time USA

Attend these sessions in person at Divine Mother Church, 51 N Court, Fairfield 
- or by teleconference at  712-770 8027, CONFERENCE CODE 468716.






Conversation From the Fairfield satsang.. 

 

Q: David Spero is very good at a transmission of soul energy but this other, he 
is not directly of this other process of spiritual body, subtle body and 
cultivating those processes as the heart-mind and such as Janet, Matt, or 
Cynthia particularly entail it. 

 

A: You can see why because all that can become distracting in itself. It is 
funny, one sort of chooses one distraction for another. 

It used to be that it was meditation, meditation, meditation in the meditating 
community until it became more multi-formed in a coming on of ‘Vedic Sciences’. 
..That is because we needed to have the elevated value of this, the beautiful. 
Then is the sublime value of the Divine masculine, it is this open mind, it is 
this capacity of consciousness itself, the experience of the silence. But it is 
only part of what needs to happen in this process. 

 

In David there is a type of unification in process in what unity is, there is 
both. In what makes unity unity is not just infinite unbounded silence but 
infinite unbounded silence and infinite unbounded dynamism together at the same 
time. Not one or the other but both wedded. That is what Cynthia Bourgeault was 
talking about with this ecstatic languaging in Christianity, that there is a 
way it gets language-ed historically. 

 





Q: AND THEN you have David Spero activating, transmitting soul energy this 
other aspect, shakti. Is able to trigger that palpably in people. He is very 
effective at transmitting this.   

 

A: That is the first track Matt Kahn is describing, that is what the first 
group is. That is that job. His job is the first ascension group. He is out 
there holding the light, that is his job.




In FF satsang:

...Don’t get hung up on Matt Kahn’s goofy shirts that he wears. or his 
delivery. 

 

But Matt Kahn is cheering on those of us who are so interested in and have been 
dedicated to spiritual development, the Big “S” Spiritual development, 
upliftment. That it is not for nothing. That because as one has been engaged in 
it that it is not useless in this world or it is frivolous or inconsequential 
to what needs to happen here. That actually it holds the vibration and holds 
the criminal element back. 

 

He says that it is all part of one light, even the ones who are asleep. They 
are all still of the light. It is very uplifting. He has quite a construct of 
understanding, as a teacher at another level, as a native adept, like Janet 
Sussman. He is both very practical and advaitin-like in a way he strips down to 
the essentials, stripping the constructs, the excess to get to the essentials, 
the essential value of nonduality, which Cynthia very astutely gets to.  .





---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :


The FF Satsang continuing, over coffee:

 

“..They are meant to be together (head and heart) . You don’t abdicate the 
head, the brain, the mind or the heart, they are together, the ‘masculine and 
feminine’..”  

 

Q: it sets up a duality talking about this, identifying it. 

 

A: What Matt Kahn points out is that there are people on various tracks, we are 
all on ascension tracks, we are all in tracks, this is not a better than the 
other. The first track is the one is where the people are standing in light 
where the people are light bearers. Where people are light holders. The people 
who are in consciousness where they are standing there in the light and that is 
their main job. Being light holders. 

 

Then you have the second track, which is people who are becoming activated by 
what they see as problems in the world and they are going to look for social 
justice solutions, constructs, and so they are activated, and then a third 
track of people asleep. The third track is people who are always up to 
technology, on their phones, who their reference is always the phone, IT, 
technology. 

 

Light holders, social construct, and then the asleep who are willing and 
wanting to wed themselves to technology. 

 

Matt Kahn is saying we all have our place in this, we are all in to this 
together. In his view this is going to become very clear in the next two years, 
unambiguous.  These Three general tracks is how people are 

[FairfieldLife] The Glory of Being near Guru Dev

[Doug Hamilton dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

This is being shared around the community..

Subject: Guru Dev

 
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The Glory of Being near Guru Dev

>From a talk about Guru Dev which Maharishi gave in Hertenstein, Switzerland 
>around 1974-1976

 

. The priceless transcendental nectar in which saints and seekers lose 
themselves and forget everything during their deep meditations in silent barren 
places - when that same nectar, that very same experience is had in nearness to 
the lotus feet of Guru Dev, in an unmoving and stable manner, with the eyes 
open and in a completely wakeful state, the incomparably blissful 
transcendental torrent floods the inside and outside, and the mind is drowned 
in ecstasy.

 

Certainly this state in the nearness to the lotus feet of Guru Dev is much more 
desirable and enjoyable than the state where we forgot everything in samadhi. 
In that state at the lotus feet of Guru Dev, wave upon wave of the bliss of 
samadhi rises in myriads of forms and channels in complete wakefulness. That is 
the experience of jivan mukti, by the grace of the lotus feet of Guru Dev. The 
experience of the unshakable bliss of samadhi, when we are completely awake, is 
the jivan mukti, drowned in which the great Mahatmas become Brahman.

 

At this time in this silence, in the nearness to Guru Dev, that is the 
experience. There is an inexpressible happiness, a feeling of huge elation, the 
heart is overwhelmed by ecstatic feeling like the heaving of an ocean of love, 
an ocean of bliss, as if the blissfulness of pure consciousness is rising in 
powerful torrents to surface from somewhere deep inside; and outside, Guru 
Dev's wordless, enchanting, inviting, nectar- like love is an infinitely large 
ocean.

 

Torrential waves are rising from this limitless ocean on the outside, and 
diving deep inside and having struck the deepest depths, are rising outwards 
again and again, and then falling at the lotus feet of Guru Dev in voiceless 
ripples softly heaving and vibrating in ecstasy. The hand and feet and ears and 
all the senses, together with the heart and mind and intellect, are bursting 
with the fullness of that ecstatic feeling.

 

Every tiny atom of the body is enveloped in that unbounded transcendental bliss 
of Brahmananda, and is melting into that experience as if into an indivisible, 
everlasting union with pure radiant love, untouched by time, space, or any 
other constraint. The limitless ocean of the heart bursts forth in wave upon 
torrential wave of invincibility and freedom.

 

That unchanging, eternally stable, and timeless bliss, which is beyond the 
senses and transcendental in every way, is being experienced at the surface 
value of life at one single time simultaneously by all the senses, by every 
part of the physical body, and by the entire heart, mind, and intellect - all 
this by the grace and love of Guru Dev. The whole of life, the gross physical 
body, the subtle body, the transcendental inner phase of life, is throbbing and 
heaving with ecstatic feeling that is only bliss, just ecstasy and the nearness 
of Guru Dev.

 

Outside on the terrace, it is as if the gentle ripples of the lake are nudging 
the sides and sleeping vegetation to awaken them to enjoy the tender moonlight. 
And there, on the terrace, the divine illumination of the lotus feet of Guru 
Dev is giving the power of life to the brilliant, inexpressible, transcendental 
sun of pure consciousness, to allow its waves to shake the heart of the 
ignorant disciple, to bring enlightenment and jivan mukti. The disciple is 
awakening from sleep. He is rising up. His ignorance and doubts are being 
erased. The fog facing him is lifting and the long journey is being quickly 
completed; the goal is becoming visible; it is right in front. Reaching it is 
all that is left. The other shore barely appears, and Guru Dev, the captain of 
the boat, throws a chain around the docking post to hasten his disciple's 
arrival.

 

Great good fortune is needed to be able to experience the unbounded grace of 
Guru Dev and to continue to drink of that infinite ocean of bliss…

 

The point being brought out here is the blissfulness experienced in nearness to 
the true Master. The point to notice is how the Guru, by giving his disciples 
and other seekers the experience of the different and varied aspects of Brahman 
strengthens every disciple's progress on the path of evolution and carries him 
to the pinnacle of perfection. The thing is the same, pure consciousness, but 
the Guru gives the disciple experiences of it in such a variety of ways that 
remove every shadow of doubt that could become an obstacle to the disciple's 
progress.

 

This is the glory of being near Guru Dev

[FairfieldLife] A Directory of Active Fairfield Spiritual Practice Groups (2005)

[Doug Hamilton dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

Title: Directory of Active Fairfield Spiritual Practice Groups Text of the 
article in the Weekly Reader (October 2005,Old dated contacts): 
Directory of Active Fairfield Spiritual Practice Groups

 Outside of Fairfield, people intently ask, “What is going on in Fairfield?” 
The spiritual, utopian side of Fairfield is something they are wondering about. 
Fairfield has become recognized as a spiritual Mecca of sorts, ranking with 
Sedona, Arizona, Boulder and Crestone, Colorado or Ashville, North Carolina and 
the like. Within these past three decades, Fairfield spiritual practice groups 
have matured, giving this community a rich, new face.

The long-time Fairfield meditating community today is its own center for 
spiritual practice. The breadth of spiritual practice groups in Fairfield is 
now a unique feature of our town in the 21st Century.

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A Course in Miracles,

Mondays 7:30 pm. Local contact: 472-7148.

 Art of Living Foundation -Sri Sri Ravishankar Meditation and program schedule 
in Fairfield. 472-2053

 Babaji Group: Local contact: 472-9952

 Bapuji Group Shri Avadoot, better known as “Bapuji”. Local contact: 472-9260

 Chalanda Sai Maa Satang in Fairfield

Group meditations based on the teachings of Chalanda Sai Maa Lakshmi Devi. 
First and third Monday of the month at 7:30 PM. Call for location & 
information: 472-5175.

 Circle of Sophia a holy order for women at St. Gabriel and All Angels, the 
Liberal Catholic Church. Original worship celebration, written from sources in 
ancient Christianity, enlivens the Feminine Divine for both men and women. 
Celebrations monthly. 300 E. Burlington. www.stgabe.org, 472-1645, for 
information and calendar.

 Deeksha Darshan and teachings of Bhagavan Kalki & Padmavati Amma

Fairfield contact for local program: 472-6948

 Divine Mother Church in Fairfield

“We don’t talk about God, we commune with God”. Sundays 10 AM; 409 W. Broadway; 
472-0662.

 Fairfield Ammachi Satsang

Ammachi Fairfield weekly schedule of meditation, chanting, and bhajans contact: 
472-8563

 Fairfield Vedic Pujas, Yagyas and Ceremonies

Scheduled public events always open to interested persons. By Vedic Scholar and 
Priest, Pandit Dhruv Narain Sharma: 630-240-3368 or (641) 209-5757

 Fairfield Shri Karunamayi Satsang

Fairfield Group Meditation and Program.  472-8422

 Fairfield Transcendental Meditation Programs: 641-919.8188 or 472-1174

 Fairfield Weekly Discussion Group - Experiences in Consciousness and 
Enlightenment. For meeting time and location, contact Rick Archer, 472-9336..

 Fellowship of the Holy Spirit in Fairfield

“Consciousness, Joy, and Devotion: Christianity that works.” Sundays, 11 AM, 
Gateridge Building, 1100 N. 4th. 472-8737.

 Friends Meeting Fairfield Society of Friends (Quakers) Un-programmed ‘silent’ 
meeting for worship. 472-8422.

 Gangaji Group Local contact: 472-9476.

 Golden Shield Qi Gong Fairfield practice: 641-919-3913.

 Hatha Yoga classes. Sue Berkey: 472-6577

 Henry Hertzberger Chanting, Pujas & Yagyas. Mahaganapati Temple Schedule: 
472-9952.

 Liberal Catholic Church in Fairfield

St Gabriel and all Angels, 300 E. Burlington. 472-1625

 Manavata Mandir Vedic Temple

800 W. Burlington in Fairfield. 469-6041.

 Saniel Bonder, ‘Waking Down’ in Fairfield. Sittings calendar: call 472-7182.

 Scalar Group Meditation Programs

facilitated by Lilli Botchis. A unique opportunity as a group to research in 
mind/body consciousness the universal themes of pure energy and manifestation 
potential of HHFe Scalar wave regeneration system. Programs designed to clear, 
balance and open the chakra system. 472-0129.

 Shivabalayogi Group All are welcome. There is never any charge for Swamiji’s 
blessings. For further information, contact: 641-233-1025.

 

Svaroopa Yoga (641) 472-7499.

 Tetra Building TM-Sidhi Meditation Practice Room Daily morning and afternoon 
meditation facility for the practice of the TM-Sidhi meditation program. A 
quiet, clean and convenient place ‘to do program’. Contact David Hawthorne for 
use and membership information: 472-3799.

 Transformational Prayer in Fairfield

For information on Fairfield activities, call 472-0662.

 This directory was compiled using public notices, advertisements in The 
Fairfield Weekly Reader, or by Web pages and Yellow Book searches for listings. 
Most of these groups have e-mail lists for schedules and programs. Contact them 
directly for more information. For additions and updated email

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[FairfieldLife] A Meditating Community...

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9.14.2001  20 years ago Post # 7 to FairfieldLife, 
Rick proposing:
"I’ve love to see a public announcement like the following from the Department 
of the Development of Consciousness (the people who give out the badges):

Dear Fairfield Sidhas and Governors,

First, we would like to publicly apologize for ever having excluded from the 
domes anyone who wanted to practice Maharishi’s program there. We would like to 
welcome everyone back on the condition that if you are in the dome, you promise 
to practice what you have learned from Maharishi – no more, no less. In turn, 
we promise to never again judge or exclude anyone for what they may choose to 
do with their private life. We possess neither the wisdom nor the right to do 
this. Let us all come together again in a spirit of love and acceptance, and 
begin once more to radiate the harmony and coherence for which the domes were 
built.

Jai Guru Dev,

The Department of the Development of Consciousness



..numbers flying in the domes would double overnight."

/  From FFL post 6, before Rick's reply:
 I think it is an exciting thing that they opened up the doors
for meetings on campus. Is there a thawing? Or is this just
expedience? It has been getting pretty small and cold up there. So
it was noteworthy what you sent
out. I missed the call to meeting initially but I would have gone if
I had known. I do
not really expect anymore that anything is open to the community up
there.
We live here and we do our programs but we are sort of out of
the loop, being "no-badge-niks".
Some of what the movement is doing I am not necessarily
interested in. But as an old-time meditator I am here and I am
interested.

Though the movement might not believe it, I am probably more
conservative
and fundamental than they would rate me. As someone posted in an e-
mail to me recently, "Hope all is well in the lovely peaceful land of
Iowa. I hear we are all invited back to the domes again? Silly fools
to have chased us all away in the first place. Oh well."

I wrote this piece below recently this summer hoping to get
it published in the Weekly Reader back when they were publishing
things about the community. I thought you might enjoy it.
Best Regards, 

[FairfieldLife] A Sept 2001 FFL post #6

[Doug Hamilton dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

14.sept.2001, FairfieldLife: 
An opportunity...

A Meditating Community

I meditate. I am an old style field TM Initiator and I am an
old style movement Governor. Like so many here I am a meditator,
fundamentally.

In coming to Fairfield, most of us have come here as TM
meditators. Some of us came as TM initiators. Some of us came here
as TM-Sidhas or some as TM Governors. We have come from many places
and points. From many points though, the common point of the
meditating community has been that we are here as practicing
meditators.

We share a lot of history together. Some of us have been
meditators of 30 and 40 years. Many of us here are mediators of 20
or more years. Many of 5, 10 or 15 years. There are a few new
meditators today but the core of the movement community here is a
veteran group.

As a community we are in common as mediators. In common we
have had much to draw on as meditators and then also as initiators
and Governors. In numbers we have been a powerful resource to draw
on because of a strength of diversity we have brought as meditators
in community. There is a huge diversity in our group.

We have a great community here. Many of us have watched it
grow. Many of us have worked to make it grow. It has been vibrant
and a lot of fun to be in.

Today, in recent years and times, it is apparent to witness
that there are many many meditators living in Fairfield who are
without place in the TM movement. There are lots of people who are
old time long term meditators living here and also around the country
without place in the current movement. It is a curious thing that
there can be hundreds and hundreds of meditators living here in the
town community who have little or no contact or relationship to what
today has become a small and shrinking enclave of the movement
community.
We see these many people here when we do come together to
marry or bury our community. We see each other up town everywhere.
We do not see each other so much on campus or in the movement
anymore. As an event, probably the last truly inclusive community
group meditation was held last fall at the memorial for Alex Grace
held in the chapel. It was a significant last moment in the
meditating community here.

In effect, as we are meditators in practice and in heart we
are without an organ of a movement. In looking, there is a huge
opportunity, if the movement elite could see it, in the base of the
people who are here as meditators doing their meditation and doing
their TM-Sidhis as meditators. The speculation for all of us
watching is whether there may be too much pride or too much arrogance
inside the movement now to see what is here at hand. Possibly it is
beyond the nature of character of too many in the middle to recoup.
There is always hope.


Of Support and facility...

In general, as a meditator, to the extent that I may look to
the movement, I look to it to support my practice as a meditator.
As an initiator, I look to the movement to support us in the teaching
of TM. As a governor I look to the movement to facilitate.
Supporting and facilitating, our needs as a meditating community are
about that simple.

Beyond what could be done directly to administratively
support and facilitate practicing meditators, as practicing
meditators, meditators may or may not be interested at all in
anything further coming from the movement as new knowledge.
Meditators may do their practice. However, as meditators we may or
we may not necessarily be interested in vedic architecture or
astrology or education or service or political rantings or anything
else that the movement may franchise.
Beyond a quiet practice which itself is self-evident, any of
the new knowledge may or may not be interesting or compelling. As a
group, the essential relationship for practicing meditators with the
movement has always been experiential and practical, and has not been
until recently now, faith-based otherwise.

Of course, in reflecting, in the culture of the TM movement
there is no place to rate ourselves on how we might be doing as a
movement organized. No place even to ask or reflect how we might be
doing supporting meditators or supporting teachers or sidhas. Versus
our ideal administration, reflecting on our own administration in any
way practical would of course be too negative. Would it be too
practical?

There is a huge opportunity, if the movement enclave could
see it, in the base of the people who are here as meditators doing
their meditation and doing their TM-Sidhis as meditators. The
speculation for all of us watching is whether there may be too much
rigid pride or too much arrogance inside the movement now to see what
is here at hand. Possibly it is beyond the nature of character of
too many in the middle to recoup. There is always hope.


With Best Regards, -Doug Hamilton

[FairfieldLife] Rick's 5 Sept. 2001 FFL Start Msg.

[Doug Hamilton dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

Hi Dick and Susan,

So far it’s just we three. This is just a test message to see if it works. Next 
week, or maybe this, the Weekly Reader is going to announce it.. Love to you 
pioneers.
--
Rick Archer

[FairfieldLife] Fw: Update on our Golden Domes

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Date: Sat, Apr 27, 2019 at 12:05 PM
Subject: Update on our Golden Domes




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Dear Doug and Jennifer,

Last year I wrote to you about a critically important new initiative to help 
sustain our beautiful Golden Domes at Maharishi University of Management.

We are all so grateful to the many generous donors who have recognized the 
vital importance of keeping our Domes open and functional—and who have joined 
our new “Dome Supporters 1800 Group” to help safeguard these cherished homes of 
enlightenment and coherence in the U.S. But we still have a ways to go if we 
want to be able to preserve our Domes on a secure and sustainable basis.
   
   - Our first priority for our beautiful Domes is to fill them. Everyone who 
has spent program time here knows the power and depth of Dome experiences. In 
this spirit, we invite you to be in the Domes if you’re in Fairfield, and to 
visit us often if you’re not. 
   - In order to keep the Domes open and available to everyone, we face some 
real financial challenges. The actual cost to maintain the Domes—heating, 
cooling, lighting, water, and maintenance—is $270,000 a year. That’s about 
$22,500 a month, or $5,200 a week. At present, thanks to the generosity of 
donors from around the world, we can cover about half these costs sustainably. 
But we can’t cover the other half without your help. And we don’t want to close 
even one of our beautiful Domes.
   - Last year we established a large group of Sidhas from around the country 
to help sustain the Domes financially —a complementary national Super Radiance 
group, if you will—called the “Dome Supporters 1800 group.” The goal is simple: 
If 1800 Sidhas were each to commit even $15 a month to sustain the Domes—a very 
affordable contribution—the Dome maintenance costs would be completely covered, 
very easily and comfortably for everyone. So many Sidhas recognized the value 
of this proposal and responded generously, and now I’m hoping to bring this 
project to a very fulfilling fruition. Will you join us?
   - Naturally, those of you with greater financial means are welcome and 
encouraged to make a larger contribution. You could consider $50–100 or more 
per month; or you could “adopt a week” at the Domes for a $5,200 gift; or you 
could even “adopt a month” or more. But whatever your financial means may be, 
we would like everyone to contribute something toward this worthy and 
achievable goal.
   - Ideally, we want you to be part of both groups—our Super Radiance group in 
the Domes and our 1,800 group of contributors. But if you can’t be in one of 
these groups, then please be in the other. Your contributions will secure our 
Golden Domes—now and into the future.  

Together, we can ensure that the largest peace-creating community in the U.S. 
can continue to grow and provide a beautiful home for TM and TM-Sidhi 
practitioners everywhere in the world. 

Please join me in giving generously today. Thank you.

With all best wishes,

John Hagelin, Ph.D.
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[FairfieldLife] Fw: Bank of sustainability: Meeting, Dec. 12, 7:30 pm

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John Congdon Sent: Thursday, December 7, 2017, 8:54:48 PM 
CSTSubject: Bank of sustainability: Meeting, Dec. 12, 7:30 pm
 Hi everyone,
I'm sending this notice to all that I have contacted about the bank of 
sustainability project, the Golden Rule Trust. There is a community wide 
meeting scheduled for Tuesday evening on December 12th at 7:30 pm. The location 
is the Phoenix Rising Hall on the corner of 3rd and Burlington. The most 
significant challenge that we face as humans today I believe is learning the 
strength that we have available in local cooperation, rather than depending on 
the fictional rational that someone else from somewhere else is going to do it 
for us.
An accomplishment that Fairfield still needs to complete lies in having enough 
jobs to support a larger prosperous population. This will be essential for 
attracting and retaining the number of people we would like to see living here. 
A larger population is also critical for maintaining a diversity of cultural 
programs and civic amenities. I personally do not see another viable means of 
making that a reality along with the prosperity that will accompany it 
happening within a reasonable time frame other than having our own bank.
There is a two page summary of the project attached to this email. If there is 
someone that you think will be interested in the project please send it to 
them. I hope to see everyone, or at least all who can possibly come Tuesday 
evening. Thank you for your interest!
John CongdonTel: 641 451-4719


  

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[FairfieldLife] Unity candlelight vigil Monday, Sept. 11, 7:30 pm, MUM outdoor amphitheater east of Argiro Student Center

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Dome Announcements 

Subject: Unity candlelight vigil , outdoor amphitheater east of Argiro Student 
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[FairfieldLife] Fw: Video: 'All Love Flows to the Self: The Power of the Upanishads' • Fairfield, May 26 [1 Attachment]

[Doug Hamilton dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

 Dear Consciousness Connoisseurs,
For those in Fairfield who missed it...or out-of-towners who love to partake in 
our enlightened vibe here, here's the video from our recent event on the 
Upanishads--All Love Flows to the Self.
Joining me were visionary artist and intrepid explorer of the field of 
consciousness Harri Aalto, and brilliant All Love co-author Linda Egenes, for 
an evening of deep knowledge on the nature of Brahman and other good stuff...
Featured on the video is the full-length playout of one of my favorite stories 
from the new audio production of All Love Flows to the Self.  This is the 
illuminating story of the young boy Nachiketas, who visits Yama (God of the 
Underworld) and learns the profound secrets of gaining immortality.
For more info on the new audio production, click here.

More details on the content of our evening presentation are featured beneath 
the poster below...

Let the love flow,Michael

​Please click here to see the video​

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All Love Flows to the Self: The Power of the Upanishads

Morning Star Studio, Fairfield, Iowa May 26, 2017:The Power of the Upanishads: 
All Love Flows to the Self
With Michael Sternfeld, Harri Aalto and Special Guest Linda Egenes
Featuring the Release of a New Audio Production of All Love Flows to the Self

Joseph Campbell called the Upanishads the "greatest spiritual record of 
mankind...". Tagore called them, "...Like some eternal source of light...".Join 
Michael Sternfeld and Harri Aalto, along with Linda Egenes, on a deep dive into 
the nature of Brahman (Totality), expressed in sacred stories from the 
Upanishads: 

* Michael explores the central themes of the Upanishads-- adapted from the 
expansive talk he recently gave in India at the World Association for Vedic 
Studies (WAVES). * Visionary artist Harri Aalto offers his always-refreshing 
insights into these 'landscapes of consciousness'. 
* All Love Flows to the Self co-author Linda Egenes shares her 
behind-the-scenes process on how these beautiful stories came into being.

Videography: Melodia and Coral MoralesVideo Editing: Werner Elmker

You can find out more about the new release of the Upanishads and other 
productions of Vedic Audio Knowledge (VAK) here: ramayanaudio.com

-- 
Michael Sternfeld, ProducerVedic Audio Knowledge (VAK)RamayanAudio.com306 E. 
Madison Av.
Fairfield, IA 52556
Phone/FAX:  641-472-8697
Cell- 641-919-9778
michaelksternf...@gmail.com


   

[FairfieldLife] Fw: International Ayurveda/Psychology conference coming to MUM in April

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[FairfieldLife] Fw: C. Connoisseurs: World Ramayana Conference Epic Adventures 1 [11 Attachments]

[Doug Hamilton dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

 Dear Consciousness Connoisseurs,
It has been a while since I sent out any word on my latest adventures in the 
field of consciousness, but I just returned from a month in India, where I 
presented at the World Ramayana Conference...and that's a story worth telling!
I mainly wanted to send you a video link to my presentation, but before that, 
here's a little bit of background...     Last Fall, I received an invitation to 
speak at the World Ramayana Conference in Jabalpur in December.  The invite 
came out of the blue, and what made it sweeter was that it was an 
all-expenses-paid trip by the Indian government (Indian Council on Cultural 
Relations--ICCR).  There was some irony--a Westerner being brought in by the 
Indian government to speak to Indians on the Ramayana.  Go figure! 
I expected a dry academic conference.  Little did I anticipate the Ramayana 
extravaganza that I would be walking into.  The tip-off came the day before the 
conference, when we got word at our hotel to come over right away to the 
conference facility, a short walk away.  All the streets were blocked off, and 
there was a full military cover guard, complete with armored vehicles, as the 
Chief Minister (comparable to our VP here) had come to inaugurate the event.  
As I walked over, I was garlanded, everyone in the streets greeted me with a 
Jai Shri Ram, and the streets were lined with large images depicting the entire 
story of the Ramayana.
The experience actually went up from there.  The conference turned out to be a 
four-day festival embracing Ramayana-inspired political activism, beautiful 
cultural exhibitions, inspiring spiritual discourses, and world-class 
performances, with an academic conference sandwiched in between.  International 
delegations from countries that adore the Ramayana, such as Thailand, Burma and 
Indonesia, added to the cultural diversity.
The event culminated in one final grand Ram Lila (dance/drama) performance in 
our packed 1500-seat conference hall.  During the finale, Ram and Sita were 
being showered with buckets of flower petals thrown by the other performers.  
In a frenzy of devotion, audience members rushed on to the stage. Grown men and 
women (myself included, of course) were singing, dancing and scooping up and 
throwing flower petals in celebration of Ram's and Sita's triumphant return to 
Ayodhya to create Ram Raj (the enlightened rulership of Ram).
Postscript:  Based on my past experiences,I had never been thrilled about 
visiting India, but this time I finally understood the heart and soul of India. 
 This extraordinary depth of knowledge and devotion is so lively at its very 
core.  I also witnessed that the Ramayana is still a powerful living tradition, 
evoking a vitality, creativity and dynamism that continues to inspire, uplift 
and transform all who come in contact with its wisdom.
I hope that story, along with some of the images below, give you a vicarious 
thrill from this peak experience...
Here's the video link to my 20-minute presentation at the World Ramayana 
Conference:  Ram's Dharma: Leadership Secrets of the Ultimate 
Warrior~Sage~Prince.http://youtu.be/qELXrGHY44o
Qualification: Because the talk was short, I only give the Wholeness, rather 
than going into individual principles...and also the video and audio quality is 
occasionally spotty, but I think you'll get the drift. I refer to a chart in my 
talk, but it is not shown, so I attached it below.
And if this talk intrigues you, click here for a full-length version of the 
talk (90 min) given at MUM's Distinguished Lecture Series last year
For those who are as enchanted with the Ramayana as I am, you may also be 
interested in hearing my audio production released last year--Click here for 
info:   Ram's Dharma: Leadership Secrets of the Ultimate Warrior~Sage~Prince
Jai Shri Ram,Michael
Here's some great images from the event
                                                             
   
​Opening inauguration chanting                                                  
      Military checkpoint..."Ram needed protection"     

                          Honoring Sage Valmiki, author of Ramayana             
 Introducing Shakti Sagar, creator of Ramayana epic video series


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​World class performances every evening in Ramayana dance/drama: Shiva's bow, 
Ravana's ten heads, and rare Kuchipudi performance
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​Grand finale: Ram Lila                                                         
            Michael w/ cognizers of Ramayana:Valmiki, Tulsidas & Kamban
The final devotional frenzy, Watch short 20 sec.video clip 
:https://goo.gl/photos/1vq9Lum 55zB2MBMV9
Hope you have enjoyed your Ram Lila tour.
Chart to go with presentation video attached below...
​​-- 
Michael Vedic Audio Knowledge (VAK)www.RamayanAudio.com




   

[FairfieldLife] Fw: Fwd: Reminder - January 12 Celebration, 1:15 pm

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[FairfieldLife] Fw: Fwd: Can Fairfield become a garden city? A dahlia city? [10 Attachments]

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FW:

Dear FF friends:  I've been growing dahlias in and around Fairfield, Iowa for 9 
years, starting with beds at the Logan apartments and most recently staking 70 
plants on the easements near 5th & Broadway and 6th & Broadway. Some of my 
fellow gardeners have suggested this effort could be expanded and formalized; 
that we could turn the entire city in a big dahlia garden, sort of like Pella 
is now known for its tulips.

This is *not* an expensive project. It's relatively cheap, especially compared 
to other projects that have run into the 10s of millions of dollars. 

To make Fairfield a dahlia city would take no more than a few hundred dollars. 
Maybe a thousand or two, max. Assuming we didn't have to procure any land, 
which we shouldn't.

I've been working mostly on public land and on the MUM campus, but there are 
privately owned lots that would serve just as well.

It's apparent the main issues that must be addressed are:  (1) who will do the 
work  -and-  (2) where will irrigation water come from.  

I've thought about this a little, and maybe you can do the same. While you're 
thinking, have a look at a history of Fairfield's dahlias on the website I've 
set up. It documents what I've been doing myself for 9 years. And there are a 
handful of other gardeners around Fairfield who have been inspired to grow 
dahlias in their own yards. Kate Ross, the Boenders, Colleen Bell, Tim Hart, to 
name a few. So maybe some of us can come together and cooperate to make this 
happen.

Note: the two gardens on the easement I had this past summer will need special 
approval to come back again next spring, as the use of that land is controlled 
by city ordinance.
cheers ... Al Gabis, 52 S. Fifth St., Fairfield, 515-897-5173, 
agabi...@gmail.com

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[FairfieldLife] -- free course, 'Crafting a Career', Online

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[FairfieldLife] Fwd: Maharishi Award given to Scott Terry, and through him, for all of us and what we are all trying to create.

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Thursday night. This is a great honor. In no way do I see this as an award for 
just me. This is a recognition of the channel that we have all created together 
to make a difference real in our communities here and now. I say communities, 
because it isn't just the on-campus world that we have made such huge inroads 
on. This represents a sea change in the acceptance of mental health issues, and 
therefore, something we should all be proud of. This is the change that we have 
all created in the acceptance of mental health issues, the removal of stigma 
and misunderstandings, and the creation of healing and significant growth for 
everyone here in all our diversity, and all the variations of our communities.
 
I'm very grateful for great Soren recording this event and sharing with us his 
YouTube of Ken's noble speech and my short acceptance of this award.
Soren's YouTube of the entire event is at: https:,//www.youtube.com/ 
watch?v=ASykJOQ6T2A
 
 
I also wanted to wish everyone a: Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy 
Kwanzaa, or whatever holiday you celebrate now.  May this glorious New Year 
bring you and yours, growth, evolution, transformation, healing and progress.  
May bring you fulfillment of your Dharma and acceptance of your truth in the 
greatest of all possibilities for all of us in lasting fullness of peace. Peace 
is your love of connection with the world around you. While loving the other in 
you. Peace the gap of transcendence, the process from inside you to outside. 
From point to infinity. From self to Self to other and back again. Or simply, 
just a moment of harmony, reconciliation, hello, good bye, and peace for each 
and every soul, however you create that world for yourself, now. Peace.
Scott

         
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If you need anything at all, please don't hesitate to reach out to me, or 
anyone else in the group.

My direct email is:  sc...@ardentcenter.com   
   - Fairfield / Jefferson County Mental Health Alliance
   - Hope for Life
   - Mental Health Matters, with Dr. Scott Terry  (Radio Show - KRUUFM)
   - YouTube Channel  (Radio Show, Talks, and more - YouTube)
See you all soon, 
Scott Finally, please tell your friends to email us to be put on this email 
list, so we can notify them of upcoming lectures and work that we are doing, 
and so that we can get their support on what we are creating here. 

Is there something else, you feel, we should be working on or addressing now? 
Make your voice heard. Make a difference in the lives of others, so you can 
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   - HelpGuide:  Suicide-Prevention
   - If you're thinking about suicide...  read this first
   - National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
   - Crisis Text Line
Another interesting post, you could always find great talks and TED:   
   - What reality are you creating for yourself?
   - Why you think you're right — even if you're wrong
   - How to speak up for yourself
   - Who are you, really? The puzzle of personality
   - The benefits of failure
   - What reality are you creating for yourself?
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had while facing depression, and how this motivated him to interview others 
with similar issues and learn about their challenges with depression.
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   - How The Concept Of Implicit Bias Came Into Being
   - What Makes For Quality Child Care? It Depends Who You Ask
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   - NAMI:  Iowa's Mental Health System
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[FairfieldLife] Fw: An Important Message to the Fairfield/MVC Community

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Fairfield,The atmosphere in Fairfield and Maharishi Vedic City is much 
enlivened these days with the influx of Sidhas and Governors from around the 
country — and even from other countries — who have come to join us in creating 
coherence in national consciousness during this unusually turbulent election 
period. Wherever we meet them, in the Domes or the square or the supermarkets, 
let’s give them such a warm welcome that they won’t want to leave our oasis of 
happiness.The extra numbers in the flying halls remind us of all those times 
when the Domes were overflowing, and we just felt invincible and blissful 
despite whatever was going on in the world. You’ve probably heard from friends 
that, recently, many in our community are re-discovering group program. They’re 
experiencing anew that special light feeling as you walk out of the Dome after 
program.The current elections are crucial to the future of our nation in many 
ways. It is not just the executive; it is all three branches of government 
which hang in the balance. Let’s use the powerful technology of group program 
that Maharishi gave us to ensure the best possible outcome for the whole 
country.The evidence for the Maharishi Effect continues to mount up. Another 
compelling, new study came out in February of this year, again based on 
publicly available statistics. This is a scientific breakthrough that outstrips 
all others in its power to do good for ourselves, our nation, and our world.Jai 
Guru DevRaja John HagelinP.S. I want to be clear that as a non-profit 
organization, we do not support any one candidate over any other candidate. 
Natural Law, when enlivened by our group practice, will support the best 
outcome for the nation.P.P.S. This does not mean that we, as individuals, do 
not support specific candidates. We do. And we should be sure to exercise our 
civic duty and vote for the candidates we believe will serve the nation in the 
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[FairfieldLife] Fw: Live Online Broadcast - Founder's Day Celebration - Mon., Sept. 12

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September 12th
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Maharishi Patanjali Golden DomeWe invite our whole community to join us in a 
historic celebration of Founder’s Day:
   
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   - To celebrate the 36 years of Dr. Bevan Morris’ presidency

   - To welcome our new president, Dr. John Hagelin
Dr. Keith Wallace will host the evening. In addition to reviewing selected 
highlights of the tremendous achievements of Maharishi University of Management 
over the past 37 years, there will be a unique ceremony to award Dr. Bevan 
Morris and Dr. John Hagelin with Post-Doctoral Degrees in Maharishi Vedic 
Science and Technology—Maharishi Veda Vigyan Vidyaa Vaachaspati Honoris Causa, 
designed by Maharishi for those who have reached an unprecedented level of 
knowledge and experience in Maharishi Vedic Science and Technology. Dr. Morris 
and Dr. Hagelin will speak after receiving their degrees.Other highlights of 
the evening will include Maharishi’s Veda Lila performed by Maharishi School 
girls, a memorable tape of Maharishi speaking about the University, and a 
message from Maharaja Adhiraj Rajaraam celebrating the achievements of Dr. 
Bevan Morris and Dr. John Hagelin.The evening will conclude with a glorious 
fireworks display in the stadium just to the east of the Maharishi Patanjali 
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[FairfieldLife] Fw: Meditating Fairfield, Iowa - Providing Food Security to Families in Developing Countries

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| Sustainable living student Kim StrubellWith the help of Charity Seeds, 
families are growing corn and beans in Kenya Kenyan Children helping to 
transport seedlings to the farmGrowing local vegetables such as tree collards 
in Kenya | Kim Strubell — Providing Food Security to Families in Developing 
CountriesMUM student Kim Strubell has practiced the Transcendental Meditation® 
technique for over 40 years and has had many careers, including construction 
and furniture sales. During a business trip to Panama in 2006, Kim witnessed 
the environmental devastation of corporate influence among the indigenous 
population. He decided to turn his attention to sustainability and return to 
school.Kim enrolled in MUM’s sustainable living program and, after receiving 
his undergraduate degree in 2015, continued with the master’s program. “The 
sustainable living program is excellent,” said Kim. “The professors are the 
most important part. We had some teachers that gave us world-class education. 
This program is for change-makers.”Kim has been busy applying what he has 
learned in class. With the help of his son Garrett, he has built an 
off-the-grid, zero net energy home that is surrounded by a small organic farm. 
Six years ago, Kim funded a nonprofit organization called Charity Seeds, along 
with MUM alumna Christina Ring. They are helping small-scale famers become 
self-reliant through sustainable growing methods so that they can feed their 
families.Kim is partnering with John Jeavons’ organization that trains teachers 
in John’s Grow Biointensive Sustainable Mini-Farming methods. These teachers 
recruit the farmers and Charity Seeds provides them with seeds and trains them 
how to save their seeds at the end of the growing season. Over the past six 
years, they have helped install 12,000 small farms in Kenya and Uganda. In 
addition, in those two countries, they are now building gardens and food 
forests around schools and teaching children how to grow their own food.As his 
thesis project, Kim is opening up a new Charity Seeds hub in Ecuador. In 
addition to teaching farmers how to grow food sustainably, his organization is 
also planning to support local artists, who turn seeds into jewelry, by selling 
their hand-made products online. “We will make sure the whole process is 
sustainable and benefits their lives,” said Kim. The project is also planning 
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[FairfieldLife] In Nourishment, Healing, and Unity..Fw: Fwd: The October Surprise! Creating a Wave of National Coherence for the Elections

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 for the ElectionsDear Sidhas and Governors,This election season is like no 
other. It has polarized America more than any other. And whoever wins, it will 
leave a very large segment of our population deeply frustrated—dangerously 
disenfranchised. More than ever, we need a wave of national coherence.The 
candidates espouse very different visions for our country. And yet, though 
America is deeply divided, we can all agree on one thing: We all want the best 
possible outcome. We all want what is best for America and the world.And we 
also know this: As a nation, on the whole, we get what we deserve. And this 
November, Nature will give us what we deserve. But Sidhas and Governors also 
know that we can substantially improve our deservability—even for the whole 
country—by blissfully tending to our daily program, especially in large 
groups.So... as this election season reaches its peak, are you ready to create 
a burst of blissful coherence? A wave of national unity?Come and join us in 
Fairfield, Iowa, for a month-long Festival of Coherence that we are calling: 
The October Surprise! 

As Sidhas, we can easily uplift our national 
consciousness. We can enliven the all-powerful, nourishing power of Natural 
Law—just by joining with other Sidhas. In Fairfield, we have one of the largest 
creating-coherence groups in the entire world. Let’s take advantage of this 
opportunity to bring healing, unity, and maximum support of Nature to this 
great country of ours—especially during this critical decision point.The 
October Surprise runs for four weeks: from Saturday October 15th to Saturday 
November 12th. You can join us for any period: from a couple of days to the 
whole four weeks. MARK YOUR CALENDARS! (Come for all of October if you have the 
time.)We have amazing speakers, national celebrities, and special events lined 
up for you.To participate in The October Surprise, simply apply online to join 
the Invincible America Assembly (also referred to as “obtaining a Dome badge”), 
and then just make your way to Fairfield/Maharishi Vedic City.In most cases it 
takes only a few days for approval of a Dome badge. If you already have a 
current Dome badge, please just come.Free accommodations (single room, shared 
bath, dorm style) will be provided to as many guests as possible. If you are 
interested in this option, please write to campusmana...@tm.org.this is a 
once-every-four-year opportunity to massively leverage our collective power, 
and shape a new destiny for America. DON’T MISS IT!With warmest wishes,Dr. John 
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[FairfieldLife] Fw: Fwd: Special Jyotish Alert from the Global Council of Jyotish Experts

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purpose of Maharishi Jyotish is to see the clouds on the horizon so we may 
better prepare ourselves for upcoming challenges. On rare occasions, our 
international council of Jyotish experts issues a warning of a particularly 
dangerous time. Such a period is upon us.Building throughout this month of 
August, and culminating in the final week—including the solar eclipse on 
September 1—is a particularly dangerous time of deep divisions, strife, and the 
potential for terrorism and global violence.The October Surprise: A special 
coherence-creating course in FairfieldYou may be aware that we are planning a 
major coherence-creating drive in Fairfield and across the nation during the 
peak of the election season, called The October Surprise. That major effort 
will involve all of us, and will have a much-needed unifying and harmonizing 
effect during the pivotal weeks of our election and immediately following.But 
this does not address the critical Jyotish window that lies immediately before 
us. For this, we will redouble our efforts this month to engage a powerful, 
protective National Yagya. But even more important, as Sidhas, we can create a 
powerful protective influence just by joining with other Sidhas in our Golden 
Domes and other community program facilities. We are very fortunate, in 
Fairfield, to have one of the largest creating-coherence groups in the entire 
world.And the research continues...An ever-expanding body of peer-reviewed, 
published research shows that group practice of the TM-Sidhi® program can 
profoundly reduce crime and negative tendencies across the nation. (The latest, 
and in some respects most remarkable, research on our Fairfield 
coherence-creating group was published just this February.) Let’s take 
advantage of this remarkable scientific reality to bring unity, harmony, and 
maximum support of Nature to this great country of ours—especially at this 
vulnerable time. While our group practice of the Sidhis is by far the most 
important thing we can do for our community and for our nation, there is more 
that we can do for ourselves and families.Suggestions during this delicate time 
from the Maharishi Jyotishis1) Stay rested! Enjoy longer, deeper programs.2) 
Don’t entertain negativity. Don’t get pulled off the Self. Don’t allow yourself 
to be drawn into any potentially divisive conversation. Avoid disharmony. Favor 
the positive. “Speak the Truth which is Sweet.” Keep the channels of 
communication open.3) Enjoy nourishing, delicious, easily digestible food, 
especially leading up to the eclipse. (The eclipse won’t be visible in the US, 
which will mitigate its effects some.)That’s it!  Let us hope that, by 
maintaining ourselves in joy and harmony, and with the power of large group 
program and Yagya, we will able to uplift our entire nation. We have done it 
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[FairfieldLife] Fw: Dying is hard. Death doulas want to help make it easier. - The Washington Post

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 On Sunday, July 24, 2016 7:57 AM, jennifer hamilton ham...@lisco.com wrote:
 

 Nice article…very 
descriptive of the experience for me too…the beauty, intimacy and fulfillment.  
And definitely more appreciative of life!  Things are changing for the 
positive.  All blessings, jennifer    
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[FairfieldLife] Fw: Campus Buildings Receive Major Upgrades

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(view enlarged photo)Photos by Everett Day | Two Campus Buildings Receive Major 
UpgradesMaharishi University of Management has reached another milestone in the 
ongoing renovation of campus buildings in line with its 5-year strategic plan. 
The most recent upgrades focused on dormitory Hildenbrand Hall and its neighbor 
Verrill Hall, which now houses classrooms and offices.Hildenbrand Hall, the 
main residence hall for women, was the subject of major mechanical and cosmetic 
transformation. New rooms were created including a kitchen and dining room, 
study rooms, a TV room, a lounge, and a fitness room. “We wanted to create more 
communal living space where students can get together,” said David Todt, chief 
administrative officer.The improvements include the laundry room and bike 
storage with new tile floor, washers, and dryers; a renovated bathroom; newly 
painted and carpeted hallways; and an upgraded meditation room. Many of the 
rooms are decorated with bright and lively colors including the walls, floors, 
curtains, and furniture.The main entrance received a new canopy, landscaping, 
and sidewalk. Two sample student rooms were also renovated with new paint, 
carpet, and furniture. The next phase of improvements is focused on the rest of 
the student rooms, additional bathroom upgrades, and a new roof.“We are all 
inspired by the beautiful renovations taking place at Hildenbrand Hall,” said 
MUM President Dr. Bevan Morris. “We are so grateful to Jeffrey Abramson, Toby 
Lieb, Doug Greenfield, David and Marilyn Todt, and Everett Day for the 
beautiful support they have given and their excellent and lively design. I am 
sure that all the present and future women students of our University will 
enjoy it very much.”A large section of Verrill Hall has also been completely 
renovated, including four classrooms that accommodate the growing Computer 
Science Department and 30 new offices for the Computer Science Department as 
well as other administrative personnel. New windows and skylights, new carpet, 
and upgraded heating and air conditioning make the offices more comfortable. An 
anonymous donor made a substantial gift to fund most of the renovations to 
Verrill Hall.In addition, two science labs were renovated that are used by the 
Health and Physiology Department. The two existing video studios were upgraded 
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[FairfieldLife] 3-7 day TM Retreats here in Fairfield!

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[FairfieldLife] Fw: Course in Ramayan in Human Physiology begins April 25

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This inspiring 16-lesson course by Maharaja Adhiraj Rajaraam (Tony Nader, MD, 
PhD) will be held Monday and Wednesday evenings, April 25 – June 15, 2016 from 
7:45 pm – 9:15 pm in Dalby Hall. The course consists of 16 videotaped lessons 
by Maharaja Adhiraj Rajaraam, along with discussions which will be led by 
Professor Robert Keith Wallace, PhD, Founding President of MUM and Dean of the 
Maharishi College of Perfect Health; and Professor William Sands, PhD, Dean of 
the College of Maharishi Vedic Science and author of Maharishi's Yoga: The 
Royal Path to Enlightenment.

The first two lessons are free and open to the community. Everyone is invited. 
The prerequisite for the course is instruction in the TM Technique.

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[FairfieldLife] Fw: - Reviving Traditional Herbal Medicine

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| MUM graduate Angela SengHarvesting fruit from a saguaro cactus in the Sonoran 
Desert of her backyard in TucsonMUM post-graduation ceremony with fellow 
classmatesAt the 2016 Sedona Yoga Festival with Herbal farmer and 
aromatherapist Ylara Khasla | Angela Seng — Reviving Traditional Herbal 
MedicineAngela Seng grew up in Tucson, Arizona, and prior to coming to MUM she 
worked as manager of an essential oil manufacturing company for several years. 
She didn’t consider going to college until she became interested in holistic 
health and sustainability, and MUM was the perfect choice.Angela majored in 
health and physiology and took the Maharishi AyurVeda Wellness Consultant 
track. She also completed a minor in Sustainable Living and graduated this past 
December. To combine her interests in holistic health and sustainability, 
Angela has been focusing on herbalism and ethnobotany. She completed an 
internship with an herbalist in New York, and as her senior project she has 
compiled a booklet on herbal medicine for women.In addition to being able to 
study her favorite subjects at MUM, Angela says she gained a community of 
friends. “When you are here with the collective goal of growing and expanding 
your heart, your relationships go to another level,” she said. Angela also 
appreciates the experience of stress-free studying. “Transcendental Meditation 
has brought me such peace I never realized could exist,” she said.Angela also 
completed internships at MUM with Dr. Sandy Nidich, helping with data analysis 
and the publication of research papers on the effect of the TM® program on 
inmates. This experience sparked her interest in research and the application 
of it to herbalism. She is currently doing another internship on an herb farm 
in Mount Shasta, California.“Angela was one of the top undergraduate students 
in our program,” said Dr. Sandy Nidich, professor of physiology and health. 
“She has a very bright future as an herbalist and medical researcher.”Angela 
has been accepted into an online master’s program at the American College of 
Healthcare Sciences in complementary alternative medicine, where she will be 
concentrating on herbal medicine. In the future she hopes to start a center 
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[FairfieldLife] Fwd: Jeri's Memorial Service - This Saturday March 26th [1 Attachment]

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[FairfieldLife] Fw: Enjoy a National TM Retreat in Fairfield, Iowa

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practice during a National TM Retreat in Fairfield, Iowa. A TM Retreat allows 
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deeper, more accelerated experiences of the growth of consciousness and a 
richer, more profound understanding of the knowledge that underlies the TM 
technique.A TM Retreat includes:   
   - Extended periods of your TM practice, including group meditations
   - Exclusive video presentations by the Founder of the TM technique, 
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, as well as leading scientists, educators, business 
professionals, and others, on a wide range of topics that will broaden your 
understanding of the growth of human potential and enrich your experiences in 
meditation
   - Time for in-depth questions and answers on the growth of higher states of 
consciousness and experiences related to your meditation practice
   - Personal instruction in easy-to-practice Maharishi Yoga   ® asanas and 
pranayama, a neurorespiratory technique. These help to remove surface stress 
and strain and deepen your TM practice.
 
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experience levels. This TM Retreat is ideal for anyone wishing to both go deep 
into the experience of restful alertness unique to the TM technique, and review 
and refine their understanding of the practice. Special guest speaker: Dr. Fred 
Travis, one of the world’s leading experts on the TM technique and brain 
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 5-Day RetreatHigher States of Consciousness:
Accelerate Your Growth Interested in programs to enhance your experience and 
progress?From the same source as Transcendental Meditation, there are various 
and interesting modalities you may wish to incorporate in your daily life. 
Guest speaker Dr. Fred Travis explains how the enhanced brain function of TM 
practice enhances daily life. |  |

 
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TM Retreat!Beyond Stress Reduction:
Achieving Your Peak Performance in All Areas of LifeHow to be in the “zone.” 
Guest speaker Dr. Fred Travis explains how to be “in the zone” every day. |  |

 
|  | 6-Day National TM RetreatHigher States of Consciousness — 200% of Life: 
Inner Bliss & Outer Achievement.Guest speaker Dr. Fred Travis explains how 
growth towards higher states of consciousness increases with each sitting of 
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TM Retreat!200% of Life: Inner Bliss
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along with the opportunity to meditate in our Golden Domes. Guest speaker: Dr. 
Fred Travis.​ |  |

 
|  | Labor Day Weekend ​5-Day National TM Retreat!Balancing Your Mind,
Body, & EmotionsLearn life-transforming tips from a leading expert on Maharishi 
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large TM community of over 2,000 meditators, Maharishi University of 
Management® (MUM), the creative arts, Maharishi Vastu® architecture, Maharishi 
School of the Age of Enlightenment® (MSAE), and an outstanding quality of life. 
Fairfield was listed by Smithsonian magazine as one of the seven best small 
towns to visit in 2013 and by BuzzFeed as the second coolest small city in 
2014.Just down the road from Fairfield is Maharishi Vedic City, Iowa’s newest 
small municipality, inspired by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, where you will enjoy the 
deep peace and quiet of the Iowan countryside. 
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[FairfieldLife] Last Night.. Fwd: Aligning the individual physiology with the cosmic physiology

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[FairfieldLife] Fw: Hanuman Comes to MUM Feb. Full Moon Celebration This Sunday [1 Attachment]

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 Dear All,

It is our great joy to invite you to the Ultimate Flying Club's February Full 
Moon Celebration on Sunday, February 21st, at 8.15​ ​pm in Dalby Hall.
Our topic will be Hanuman, the superb Yogic Flyer, as well as the enlivenment 
of Purushottam -- the government of Nature, in collective consciousness.
The celebration will include a very rare tape -- played only once before in 
Fairfield -- in which Maharishi reaches incredible depths in discussing Yogic 
Flying in terms of the union of silence and dynamism. He unfolds the Hanuman 
quality of consciousness​, with many​ details about this level of experience.
After the tape, Dr. Bevan Morris will explain how the unfoldment of the Hanuman 
quality of consciousness can fulfill the need of this important time in 
history, with a large group (towards 2,000) gathering together in Fairfield for 
Yogic Flying.
Then Dr. Doug​ Birx​, Master Checker of the TM-Sidhi program​,​ will discuss 
Hanuman's inspiration for Yogic Flying, followed by "Dr. Sama" (Dr. William 
Sands), Dean of the College of Maharishi Vedic Science, who will speak on 
generating Purushottam -- the rulership ​quality​ in collective consciousness​ 
- ​through group Yogic Flying.
Come and enjoy the tradition of Full Moon Celebrations in an evening of 
advanced and blissful knowledge of Hanuman the Great and Yogic Flying.
Jai Guru Dev
Dimitrios Karasis & Dr. Peter Freund
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[FairfieldLife] Fwd: Pandits Saturday: Festival of World Peace Inauguration

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| Festival of World Peace Inauguration With the Maharishi Vedic Pandits
 
 Saturday, February 20
 2:00 – 3:30 p.m.
 Maharishi Patanjali Golden Dome
 
 All Meditators, Sidhas, and Governors are warmly invited to enjoy recitations 
by the Maharishi Vedic Pandits to enliven nature to remove obstacles, Guru 
Puja, and Vishnu Sahasranam, followed by Aarti with musical accompaniment.
  
 You may bring fresh flowers and 2 whole washed organic fruits.  Donations are 
greatly appreciated to support the Pandits in our community.  Credit card 
donations can be made online at www. VedicPandits.org; checks are payable to 
Brahmananda Saraswati Foundation (or BSF).  A donation box and donor cards will 
be available at the door.  Please bring your current program badge or MUM 
student ID. Meditators without badges please call 641-472-1212 or email: 
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[FairfieldLife] Fw: TM-Sidhi checking meetings & more information from Dr. Morris

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| Jai Guru Dev 

TM-Sidhi Checking Meeting ScheduleIn this delicate Jyotish time, we want to do 
everything possible to create coherence in our environment and for world 
consciousness. There will be many special events in the coming weeks with a 
strong emphasis on Yogic Flying together in group program. Drs. Doug and Linda 
Birx will be holding several TM-Sidhi checking meetings for individual groups 
in our community. Doug and Linda are doing checkings in small groups so that 
everyone can have any personal attention they need in order to have effortless, 
simple, and most effective programs.
| Category | Date and Time | Location |
| Student Sidhas - Men and Women  | Friday, Feb. 19, 1:30 pm  | Dalby Hall  |
| TSR Sidha Community Men  | Sun., Feb. 21, 2:00 pm  | Men’s Golden Dome  |
| TSR Sidha Community Women  | Sun., Feb. 21, 2:00 pm  | Ladies’ Golden Dome  |
| MUM Sidha Staff Men  | Mon., Feb. 22, 3:00 pm  | Dalby Hall  |
| MUM Sidha Staff Women  | Mon., Feb. 22, 3:00 pm  | Festival Hall  |
| MUM Faculty Sidha Men  | Mon., Feb. 22, 8:00 pm  | Dalby Hall  |
| MUM Faculty Sidha Women  | Mon., Feb. 22, 8:00 pm  | Festival Hall  |
| Settle Grant/Sponsorship Recipients Men  | Tues., Feb. 23, 10-10:30 am  | 
Men’s Golden Dome  |
| Settle Grant/Sponsorship Recipients Women  | Tues., Feb. 23, 10-10:30 am  | 
Ladies’ Golden Dome  |
| Maharishi Vedic City Sidha Men  | Tues. Feb 23, 8:00 pm  | Maharishi Vedic 
City Peace Palace  |
| Maharishi Vedic City Sidha Women  | Tues. Feb 23, 8:00 pm  | Maharishi Vedic 
City Peace Palace  |

Please bring your Dome badge with a currently dated sticker.Additional points 
from Dr. Bevan Morris:   
   - If by chance you are not feeling well and have to stay home, please 
coordinate your program times with those in the Golden Domes. Super Radiance 
times are 8:15 in the morning and and 5:45 in the evening. Please email your 
participation at these auspicious times in to goldend...@mum.edu on any day you 
are home, so your contribution to national coherence can be noted. 
   - Doing your most ideal and full program during this period would also be 
helpful, according to the guidelines given by the Transcendental 
Meditation-Sidhi Program Administrators. 
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[FairfieldLife] Maharishi Vedic Organic CSA

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In spiritual experience, ..nature has an eightfold divided aspect, and a 
twofold undivided aspect—the 8 prakritis, along with Paraprakriti and Purusha. 
During 50 years, Maharishi brought to light a complete science of life from the 
Vedic literature of India including programs in 40 areas. In the last 10 years 
of his life, Maharishi unfolded Vedic Organic Agriculture—because the quality 
of mind and body is directly affected by the food we eat.

 

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Date: Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 12:16 PM
Subject: Maharishi Vedic Organic CSA




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| Dear Supporter of Maharishi’s Programs,We are excited to announce that for 
the first time ever you can enjoy Maharishi Vedic Organic produce no matter 
where you live in America. This is through our new nationwide 2016 CSA 
(Community Supported Agriculture). In our local community, we have already been 
able to enjoy Vedic Organic produce during the growing season at the MUM Dining 
Hall, The Raj, Everybody’s, Golden Dome Market, Hy-Vee, and natural food stores 
around Iowa including New Pioneer Coops, Wheatsfield, and Whole Foods Market. 
That will continue. But now, we are offering this Vedic produce to our wider 
community in the U.S. You can have a box of abundant, freshly picked, Vedic 
Organic vegetables delivered directly to your home or office every week from 
mid-April through November through our CSA.And if this is not enough, and you 
have a garden, we can send you young Vedic vegetable and flower plants, ready 
to plant in your garden. Please click here to find out how you can be 
surrounded by your own Vedic garden wherever you live in America. |
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| What is Maharishi Vedic Organic? During 50 years, Maharishi brought to light 
a complete science of life from the Vedic literature of India including 
programs in 40 areas. In the last 10 years of his life, Maharishi unfolded 
Vedic Organic Agriculture—because the quality of mind and body is directly 
affected by the food we eat.Vedic Pandits trained in India residing at their 
campus in Maharishi Vedic City perform very specific live Vedic recitations to 
the plants in our greenhouses at each of the eight stages of the plants’ 
development—from seed to seed—creating an enriched vitality and balance in the 
plants that you’ll enjoy in the vegetables.  |
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perform live Vedic recitations daily to the plants. |
| Dr. John Konhaus who worked with Maharishi for many years on this program 
describes it as follows: “From the very beginning Maharishi explained why Vedic 
Organic Agriculture is truly Brahm Vidya or Total Knowledge. He elaborated that 
nature has an eightfold divided aspect, and a twofold undivided aspect—the 8 
prakritis, along with Paraprakriti and Purusha. By enlivening and balancing the 
8 prakritis in the food, Maharishi said we could create real Vedic food, food 
that was capable of developing higher states of consciousness.” This is what 
Maharishi called “Vedic Food for Vedic Life.” It is food for enlightenment. 
That is why we wanted to make this food available not only in our local 
community but to everyone in our broader community around the US who cares 
about their own enlightenment.We look forward to seeing the rising of Vedic 
America, Invincible America, through this new avenue of Maharishi Vedic Organic 
Agriculture.Best wishes for a happy, healthy, prosperous, and enlightened 
life.Jai Guru DevDr. Bob Wynne, Mayor of Maharishi Vedic City, and 
MaureenMaharishi World Peace Vedic Organics is a non-profit 501(c)(3) 
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[FairfieldLife] Group Meditation, FREE EVENING WEBCAST:Wed Feb. 3rd

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Broadcast From Fairfield, Iowa ..a transcendentalist meditation... 

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[FairfieldLife] Fw: Alumni Attend Paris Climate Summit

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| MUM alumni Troy (’10) and Amy (’04) Van BeekAmy at the UN 2015 Climate Change 
Conference in ParisTroy visiting Washington, D.C. with fellow E2 
representativesA solar array outside the Maharishi Patanjali Golden Dome on 
campus, installed by Ideal Energy | Alumni Amy and Troy Van Beek Attend Paris 
Climate SummitMUM Alumni Amy and Troy Van Beek visited the 21st Session of the 
Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate 
Change in Paris last December, representing Ideal Energy. Amy and Troy were 
invited by the National Resource Defense Council (NRDC) as part of the 
Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2) delegation of fifteen business owners. Amy and 
Troy founded Ideal Energy in 2009 with the mission to drive the change towards 
sustainable energy and help businesses and individuals invest in clean energy 
and save money by installing solar arrays. Since 2009, Ideal Energy has become 
one of the largest solar companies in Iowa, with 36 employees.Amy and Troy 
became involved with the NRDC and E2 a few years ago and have been supporting 
clean energy policy in the U.S. by telling their success stories and those of 
their clients. Their mission at the Paris summit was to show the world that 
businesses and investors support action on climate change because it is good 
for the economy and the environment. “Solar energy is one of the fastest 
growing industries in the country,” said Amy. “People want to 
participate.”While Amy is working with the Environmental Protection Agency in 
Iowa on the state’s Clean Power Plan proposal, Troy has visited the White House 
several times to meet with senators and senior presidential advisors. Troy, who 
served in the U.S. Navy for nine years, feels fortunate to be involved with 
national security through renewable energy and resource security.“Most wars are 
fought over lack of resources,” said Troy. “With renewable energy, we are 
creating an abundance of energy. We don’t have to be in a situation of lack, 
and this is changing the politics of the world.”Ideal Energy’s success is 
driven by the Van Beeks’ dedication to clean energy and the environment. They 
are proud that MUM alumni comprise 50 percent of their workforce. “Most of the 
MUM student body are very conscious individuals and they believe that there is 
a different and more conscious way to live in this world,” said Amy.“The 
idealism that MUM has is exactly why we started the company,” Troy said. 
“Sustainability is the manifestation of the consciousness the University 
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[FairfieldLife] Fw: Monthly FMHA Meeting--1/12 at 7:30-8:45 at Argiro Cafe, MUM Campus: Time to implement Strategic Plan--Action steps

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From: Fairfield/JeffCo Mental Health Alliance 
Date: Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 1:45 PM
Subject: Monthly Group Meeting--1/12 at 7:30-8:45 at Argiro Cafe, MUM Campus: 
Time to implement Strategic Plan--Action steps


   
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   -  The full FMHA group meeting, this Tuesday night.  At: Argiro Cafe, MUM 
Campus 7:30 - 8:45 PM, January 12th 
   - Action items and progress on: Strategic Plan for FMHA 2016    
 (I will copy and paste the whole document into a separate email).   
  
   - Working on our new 2016 Goals.
   - Working on our new 2016 Strategies.
   - Working on our new 2016 Who Will Be Responsible for this project.
   - Working on our new 2016 Timeline, for this project to get accomplished.
   - Working on our new 2016 Success Indicators / Measures.
   - Upcoming Workshops - be part of the next great workshop.
   - Create better resources for those suffering.
   - Whet else do you think needs to be done, now? We want your insights, 
support, direction, ideas, from wherever you are.   

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   - Possible future organization of mental health training for community 
leaders - helping businesses to create Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs)
   - Address homelessness / poverty / economic issues in terms of mental health
   - Community profile
   - Get community leaders / local businesses to help promote JC/FMHA
   - Identify Resources?
   - How to get people to come to these meetings?
   - Are there unique goals / considerations for campus life vs the larger 
community?
   - Social media 
Finally, please tell your friends to email us to be put on this email list, so 
we can notify them of upcoming lectures and work that we are doing, and so that 
we can get their support on what we are creating here. 

Is there something else, you feel, we should be working on or addressing now? 
Make your voice heard. Make a difference in the lives of others, so you can 
make an even bigger difference in your life today. 

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Great source and info from Ken:   
   - Small Towns Face Rising Suicide Rates
   - NAMI:  Iowa's Mental Health System
Check out our progress and help us make this site even better for everyone:   
   - www.FairfieldMentalHealth.org
Check out our new Facebook page, add in your thoughts, share with all your 
friends, and please Like us:   
   - https://www.facebook.com/fairfieldmentalhealth
For a bit of fun and exploration addressing mental health issues:   
   -  Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Mental Health
   - TED talks on Mental Health
   - YouTube of our Lectures  
(we are just starting this channel, so let us know what else to put on here)   
   - YouTube of our Lectures  and
   - Mental Health Matters, radio show
(not all of them are there, and soon they will be on our YouTube channel, as 
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[FairfieldLife] Fairfield New Year's Eve at Morningstar!

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Join us on New Year's Eve for contra dancing, life drawing, dancing to world 
music, and swing/Latin/pop/blues dancing, and an evening of socializing at 
Morningstar!  Family dance, 7:00 pm
$15 per family (sliding scale); individuals welcome also! (pay what you can)
Community dancing with fun, easy dances from 7:00 to 8:30 pm for all ages 
(Ballroom). Calling by Jennifer Hamilton and April Maberry, and music by the 
Fairtown Ramblers.

Celebration throughout Morning Star, 8:30 pm
Door fee: $10/person   
   - Contra dancing (Ballroom): 8:30 pm to midnight. Calling by Jennifer 
Hamilton and April Maberry, and music by the Fairtown Ramblers.
   - World music dancing (Sunset Gallery): 8:30 to 10:00 pm. Teaching by 
embodiment teachers, Michael Sternfeld and Mary Roche.
   - Swing, pop, blues, and Latin dancing (Sunset Gallery): 10:00 pm to 
midnight.
   - Life drawing: 8:30 pm to midnight. 
   - Socializing (Stardust Lounge): Come one, come all! All evening

Potluck: Feel free to bring drinks and snacks to share.
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Location: 51 1/2 S. Court St., Fairfield, IA. www.morningstarstudio.info
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[FairfieldLife] Today, Peaceful Postures, Both Classes on 12/31 are ON!

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From: Peaceful Postures 
Date: Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 3:40 PM
Subject: Both Classes on 12/31 are ON!
To: Peaceful Postures 


Hello again,
Thanks to all of you have responded. We do have enough folks to hold both 
classes tomorrow. John is on his way home today, and he's looking forward to 
seeing all of you who can come - as am I!
with love, Mary




QiGong, 9:30-10:30 a.m.
Stretch, Strengthen & Flow, 3:30-4:30


If we don't see you, we wish you all blessings, peace and joy in the New Year!
with love,Mary & John

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Mary Rachel Platt
Director, Peaceful Postures, LLC
845-463-3494
www.peacefulpostures.com




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Mary Rachel Platt
Director, Peaceful Postures, LLC
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[FairfieldLife] Fw: A Community holiday potluck party open to all, this Saturday Afternoon at the Roosevelt Center

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From: Fairfield/JeffCo Mental Health Alliance 
Date: Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 8:34 PM
Subject: A holiday potluck party open to all, this Saturday Afternoon at the 
Rec Center



   
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community room (Gojindy) on the second floor of the Fairfield Parks and Rec 
Center - free and open to the public - all ages welcome.

We hope this will be the first of many potlucks that foster a spirit of 
community, connection, belonging, and self-worth, developing networks of 
inclusion, support and service opportunities at a person to person level.

If your organization would like to participate or host future programs, please 
contact the Fairfield Mental Health Alliance.

This event is inspired by the belief that suicide prevention is everyone's 
business, and that personal and social connections are vital to health and 
happiness and can help prevent suicide.

Every life has value, and every person has a unique contribution to make and 
deserves opportunities for inclusion, support, and supporting others.

The winter can be a time of isolation, feeling lonely or excluded, and having 
greater need for warmth, transportation, food, clothes, money, and more. We 
hope to combat this by bringing people together to have fun and appreciate and 
support one another in a relaxed family atmosphere. Everyone is welcome to  
attend, to offer their gifts, and to state their 
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Very very last thing - if 7 of us can chip in $5 that will cover the cost of 
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Thanks again. ___ Great source and info from Ken:   
   - Small Towns Face Rising Suicide Rates
   - NAMI:  Iowa's Mental Health System
Check out our progress and help us make this site even better for everyone:   
   - www.FairfieldMentalHealth.org
Check out our new FaceBook page, add in your thoughts, share with all your 
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   -  Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Mental Health
   - TED talks on Mental Health   
  
   - YouTube of our Lectures  
(we are just starting this channel, so let us know what else to put on here)   
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[FairfieldLife] FF Mental Health Alliance Meeting Tuesday--12/8 at 7:30-8:45 at Argiro Cafe, MUM Campus: Goals-Strategies etc. and about the latest suicide

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Great source and info from Ken:   
   - Small Towns Face Rising Suicide Rates
   - NAMI:  Iowa's Mental Health System
Check out our progress and help us make this site even better for everyone:   
   - www.FairfieldMentalHealth.org
Check out our new FaceBook page, add in your thoughts, share with all your 
friends, and please Like us:   
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One of our board members who sent us a wonderful link addressing mental health 
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   - Working on our new 2016 Strategies.
   - Working on our new 2016 Who Will Be Responsible for this project.
   - Working on our new 2016 Timeline, for this project to get accomplished.
   - Working on our new 2016 Success Indicators / Measures.
   - Upcoming Workshops - be part of the next great workshop.
   - Create better resources for those suffering.   

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   - Possible future organization of mental health training for community 
leaders - helping businesses to create Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs)
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[FairfieldLife] Fw: Fwd: Appreciating you on Thanksgiving

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and deep gratitude to all those who have so generously supported Maharishi 
University of Management. May peace and abundance reign in our world and the 
light of happiness shine in your life.All our best wishes,Jai Guru DevDr. Bevan 
Morris, Dr. John Hagelin, the Board of Trustees, and all the Faculty, Students, 
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[FairfieldLife] Fw: Fwd: Free talk: The Life of a Buddhist Rinpoche, Monday, Nov. 23, 8 pm, Dalby Hall.

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Subject: Free talk: The Life of a Buddhist Rinpoche, Monday, Nov. 23, 8 pm, 
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[FairfieldLife] FMHA: ACHIEVEMENTS AND GOALS 2015-2016 this Tuesday night 11/10 at 7:30-8:45 at Argiro Cafe, MUM Campus

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Subject: ACHIEVEMENTS AND GOALS 2015-2016 this Tuesday night 11/10 at 7:30-8:45 
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   - Upcoming Workshops - be part of the next great workshop.
   - Create better resources for those suffering.   

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   - Possible future organization of mental health training for community 
leaders - helping businesses to create Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs)
   - Address homelessness / poverty / economic issues in terms of mental health 
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[FairfieldLife] Fwd: Werner Elmker recital tomorrow night.........(-: [2 Attachments]

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Subject: Werner Elmker: I hope you can come to my recital Thursday 
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  I hope you can come to my recital, Thursday, 7:30 pm at the Sondheim. Here 
are a few of my recent videos with music I am planning to perform at the 
recital:  Shenandoah improvisation Beethoven Moonlight Sonata & Improvisation 
Debussy: Clair de Lune & Improvisation   See you​ there​...(-: ​Werner​   
​The Sound of SilenceA Piano Concert by Werner Elmker Danish concert pianist 
and composer Werner Elmker will present a solo performance at the Sondheim 
Center on Thursday, November 5 at 7:30 pm. Increasingly known in recent years 
for his magical photos and videos of Fairfield life and nature, Werner is also 
a magician on the piano, allowing the instrument to communicate in ​the 
​l​anguage of ​f​eeling. His music cultivates a rich inner experience of 
silence for the audience, as ​one concertgoer experienced: “Your sound has a 
special quality of silence, no matter how loud or soft you are playing. It is 
cumulative. The silence gets deeper and deeper, and I notice the whole audience 
sinks into it together, so that by the end, no one can move or speak. The 
silence is so tangible, you can cut it with a knife!” This recital offers a 
​compelling selection of classical, popular and traditional melodies​ as well 
as original compositions. General admission is $10. For reservations please 
call 472-2787 or visit fairfieldacc.com.
​Werner Elmker Audio-Visual StudioVideo, Photography, Graphic Design, Sound 
RecordingP. O. Box 1206, Fairfield, Iowa 52556641 472 4131Music: 
www.Elmker.comPhotos: www.facebook.com/elmkerVideos: 
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[FairfieldLife] Fw: A Call For Conference Papers

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We hope you are well and that you had a lovely time at the conference. 

We are distributing next year's call for papers and would appreciate it if you 
could send to colleagues, students, and friends who might be interested. You 
can find the CFP here and on our website here. 

Next year's theme is Anticipating the End Times: Millennialism, Apocalypticism, 
and Utopianism in Intentional Communities and the deadline for submitting 
abstracts is May 15th, 2016.

We are looking forward to an exciting conference next year and hope you can all 
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[FairfieldLife] Fairfield Group Meditating

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In Fairfield, Iowa there is a lot of group meditating.This is a spiritual group 
that has an ongoing schedule ofgroup meditations. 
This particular meeting happens periodically where peoplecome sit meditating in 
the room from where the webcastis occurring.  Lot of powerful upright 
meditators cometo this when it happens.     
   

 
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guidance, healing, and love.Using vibrational healing tools, Connie Huebner 
will guide you on a profound inner journey into Divine Mother's presence. You 
will be dipped in and out of the Infinite Source of creation to heal and 
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Date:    Wednesday, October 14thTime:    7:00 p.m. (central US time)Where:  by 
Skype, webcast, teleconference, or in person at Divine Mother Church*
When you register for the webcast you will receive a recording of it (in an 
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session, Saturday, October 24, 10 a.m. central (USA) time zone.Register here.
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[FairfieldLife] Fw: Fwd: Free talk: Speaking and listening from the heart

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| Free talk Monday Oct 12, 7 pm, Room 12 in the Sustainable Living Center   
Jeff Brown: Speaking & Listening from the Heart  Non Violent Communication    * 
Deep Listening: Understanding others with empathy  * Authentic Self-Expression: 
Speaking honestly in a way that leads to connection * Creating Inner Peace: 
Converting judgments and resentments into human needs * Moving from unconscious 
reacting to conscious responding * Top 10 responses that block heartfelt 
connection * Gratitude: Giving and receiving appreciation   
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[FairfieldLife] Fw: Fwd: Reminder - JFAN meeting, Wed., 7:15 pm

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Jefferson County Farmers and Neighbors, Inc. (JFAN), “More CAFOs Are Coming – 
What YOU Can Do.” This year’s meeting, to be held on Wednesday, October 7, at 
7:15 pm at the Fairfield Arts & Convention Center, has been especially designed 
to address the increasing number of CAFOs converging on Jefferson County and 
across Iowa, with community organizing and activism as the meeting’s core 
purpose. Attending the JFAN Annual Meeting is one of the most important things 
we all can do to protect our community’s interests against infringing CAFOs. 
When we show up in force to pack the Sondheim, our solidarity sends a powerful 
message to the pork industry that our community will not tolerate unwanted 
CAFOs. At this year’s empowering meeting, seasoned CAFO fighter Joe Maxwell, 
Senior Political Director of the Humane Society Legislative Fund, will present 
practical strategies to help us all fight back against unwanted CAFOs, 
including a menu of concrete actions that any of us can take, no matter where 
we live or what our interests may be. As a former Missouri legislator, Maxwell 
will speak on what it takes to get people politically motivated to demand 
better protections and to stand up for our basic human rights to clean air, 
clean water, and safe food. And because we can all influence change with our 
spending dollars, Maxwell will place special emphasis on becoming an Activist 
Consumer. He is a powerful orator that you will not want to miss.Maxwell grew 
up on a family farm and is a long-time advocate for humane, independent, 
traditional farming practices. He served for 14 years in the Missouri State 
Legislature as a State Representative, State Senator, and Lt. Governor. Four 
years ago he joined the Humane Society to oversee its Rural Outreach program. 
He has been a powerful advocate for traditional family farming practices while 
fighting against large-scale, industrialized livestock facilities. JFAN has 
worked tirelessly for over a decade to protect our community against CAFOs—but 
no community is safe today from the expansion of corporate pork production. If 
protecting our precious Fairfield community from CAFO infringement is as 
important to you as it is to me, I strongly urge you to attend this year’s JFAN 
Annual Meeting. It’s an easy and enjoyable way to do something positive, and 
frankly very necessary, for the security and well-being of us all.Please mark 
your calendar for October 7 and join me at the Sondheim Theater for “More CAFOs 
Are Coming – What YOU Can Do.” Thank you in advance for your attendance and 
support.With all best wishes,John Hagelin, Ph.D.P.S. Please note that the JFAN 
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[FairfieldLife] Fwd: Founder's Day Celebration Friday, Sept. 18, 8 pm, Men's Dome

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8:00 pm
Maharishi Patanjali Golden DomeWe warmly invite everyone to join us to 
celebrate His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the Founder of Maharishi 
University of Management. The evening will include:   
   - Live address by Maharaja Adhiraj Rajaraam
   - Videotape of Maharishi
   - Talk by Raja John Hagelin 
   - In-person recitation by Maharishi Vedic Pandits 
   - Dr. Bevan Morris, Master of Ceremonies
Please bring your current program badge or MUM ID. Meditators without badges 
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[FairfieldLife] Fw: The 40th Annual Fall Celebration

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 Fall celebration Sunday, Sept. 20, 7:45 pm, Dalby Hall. 

   

[FairfieldLife] Celebrating communal Health and Well-being

[Doug Hamilton dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

The fruit of a lot of communal organizing,  Fairfield wins Blue Zones 
Designation..
Celebrate our becoming a Blue Zones community with a free movie (McFarland USA) 
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[FairfieldLife] Fw: Fwd: Meditating Community PICNIC Thursdays starting Sept. 10 !

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Potluck Picnic​ ​Thursday, September 10​ ​and every  Thursday​ following,​ as 
long as the​ ​weather is​ ​good​ !​

Bonnefield (formerly​ ​Waterworks) Park​ ​starting 12:30 or whenever you​ can 
come.​ Bring your own picnic or something to​ share. Everyone is invited. Let's 
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[FairfieldLife] Fw: Fwd: Fairfield Cares II: Panel discussion on addiction and suicide at Public Library

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Date: Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 9:08 AM
Subject: Fairfield Cares: Panel discussion on addiction and suicide at Public 
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Fairfield Cares II: Panel discussion on addiction and suicide. Thursday, Sept. 
10, 7:30-9:15 pm, Fairfield Public Library. Co-sponsored by Maharishi 
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[FairfieldLife] Work, in Progress on Campus in Fairfield, Ia.

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of Maharishi’s knowledge. It’s encouraging to see these campus renovations 
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summer we’ll save money, because the roofing company is already here. The cost 
will be only $250,000. Thank you to everyone who stepped forward last October 
to support repairs to both Dome roofs. Because of your generosity, we were able 
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and the symbols of Consciousness-Based education for the world. Since the early 
1980s when they were constructed, tens of millions of person hours of 
transcending have taken place within them. And day after day, the most profound 
experiences of higher states of consciousness have been emerging from them.Will 
you please join us in making a gift to complete this project? This will help 
ensure that the largest number of women come together for group program and 
create maximum coherence in our national consciousness.Thank you so much,Vicki 
Malloy, Barb McLaughlin, Sandra Rosania, Melissa Pearson, Carol Markowitz, Nora 
Mylett P.S. The Golden Domes are open to us all for group program and many 
other special events free of charge. We are very grateful to those of you who 
contribute each year to the Golden Dome Support Fund. This fund covers the cost 
of utilities, insurance, cleaning, sheets, and general maintenance of the 
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[FairfieldLife] Fw: New Interview on Buddha at the Gas Pump - 08/19/2015

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From Fairfield, Rick continues his interviews in to the subject of spiritual 
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[FairfieldLife] FFL hi!

[Doug Hamilton]

check this out http://bit.ly/Td71xc

[FairfieldLife] Re: 1979

[Doug]

 Any here who are veterans of this 1979 course?
 
 I was there.
 
 JGD,
 -Doug in FF
 
 
  1979
  Maharishi's Year of
  All Possibilities
  
  
  The First Annual World Peace Assembly of Governors
  of the Age of Enlightenment is held in
  the U.S.A. to create coherence in national and 
  world consciousness.
 


Om, yes I see. 

One thing that some of us will be able to say that we can thank God about
when asked, What did you do in the great war of world consciousness? 
Some of us won't have to say,  Oh, I quit and shoveled shit technical writing 
in New Jersey instead.

AWOL? Asleep?  Is not too late to come back to meditation and join the world 
fight of jihad in a group meditation near you.  Your small part of just 
n-squared in the total will make an infinite contribution to the liveliness in 
nature of peace and well-being in world consciousness.  

Don't let yourself be counted as one shirker of duty.  The need now on all 
sides is great and so in the balance.  Come back to regular meditation now.  
More than your money, we need your life in the fight.  Volunteer to commit your 
lives to life in spiritual practice.  A few more good meditators are need up 
front. Now.  The science is quite clear about this as is the experience now.  
Help your selves and all of us.  Come join and sit with us in meditation again. 
 


JGD,
-Doug in FF  

[FairfieldLife] Re: i.e. What Nader is REALLY saying

[Doug]

Shemp that is funny.  Brilliant in understanding too.  Writing now as an old 
Iowa conservative meditator farmer I can only wonder what a fucking knucklehead 
jerk this Girish must be.  What the fuck is he thinking?  Yep, does seems like 
one damn ambitious fool.  Jesus fucking christ, someone should kick this Girish 
guy in the ass.  Like with a damn loose cannon on a rolling deck, lash the 
fucker down before he kills everyone and wrecks the ship. What a knucklehead.

JGD,
D in FF 

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ShempMcGurk shempmcg...@... wrote:

 
 
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@ wrote:
 
  It's not clear to me who this was sent to. I'll post that info when I find
  out.
   
  
   
  Here's a message from Maharaja ji today:
   
  I spoke this morning with Girish-ji and he lovingly welcomed the news
 
 
 
 i.e. Girish doesn't really care for me (Nader) and looked at the news for any 
 suggestion in it that could be used to belittle and diminish my stature in 
 the Movement.
 
 
 
  but
  brought to my attention a delicacy in the notice sent by Raja Hagelin which
 
 
 
 
 
 
 i.e. Girish found something in the announcement that he is working on so that 
 a scism in the Movement can be created.  No matter how small the 
 inconsistency, we all know we can count on Girish to eventually attempt to 
 drive a Mac Truck through it.  But like the scheming little prick he is, he's 
 going to let the delicacy fester for a while and then exploit it at that 
 moment when it will have its greatest effect for his objectives.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  he had read to me before sending (but I had not carefully looked at it).
 
 
 
 i.e. Oh, I looked at it all right and the final copy went through many, many 
 drafts before Hagelin and I settled on a draft we were both happy with.  
 Indeed, there was a back and forth between myself and Hagelin quite a bit. 
 After all, this was to be a major announcement and probably one of the most 
 important letters I will ever put my signature to.  We both knew how invested 
 many cult members in the Movement were with the illusion that I was a life 
 celibate and realized the potential for a visceral reaction on their part if 
 we didn't handle it in just the right way.  That's why we spent hours upon 
 hours on the letter to get it just right.
 
 But in the interest of damage control and because that prick Girish wants to 
 control the whole Movement, he is putting the pressure on me and I now have 
 to back off at something in the letter to make him happy.  After all, that 
 bastard has his fingers on the major shre of the Movement's purse strings and 
 when he says dance I pretty well have to unless I want to see the Movement 
 divided in two tomorrow.
 
 
 
 
 
  The following statement is not really accurate since Maharishi-ji never said
  to me the following in those terms: Maharishi had told him that, in the
  tradition of rulership, having the support of a Royal Family brought
  stability and strength to the Kingdom.
 
 
 
 i.e. This is really going to piss off Hagelin because he knows the truth: 
 both him and I went over that letter like a fine-tooth comb and he knows that 
 I agreed to virtually everything in it before I released it.  
 
 I gave him my solemn word.
 
 But let's face it; I'm a doctor and scientist and I have no fucking clue how 
 the machinations and infighting amongst political types in organisations like 
 this take place.  And Girish is a master at it; and of course he manipulated 
 me into saying that the passage in question is not accurate.  So I folded 
 like a cheap deck chair on the Titanic.
 
 
 
 
  This is why it is best not to quote Maharishi in this regard. 
 
 
 
 
 i.e. Of course Maharishi said it to me and of course I accurately represented 
 his words in my letter.  But what can I do?  The Indian prick put the full 
 court press on me...
 
 Darn, I only wish I had tape recorded Maharishi on it so I could shut Girish 
 up...
 
 
  Maharishi has
  been most delicate and quiet about it and all he told me directly when I
  personally was wondering what impact it will have was: .this will be good
  for The Movement..
 
 
 
 
 
 i.e. My getting married was going to be a really big deal and I most 
 certainly saw the potential for conflict if Maharishi expected me to be the 
 figurehead of the Movement after he was gone.  Of course I wanted his 
 blessing and assurances before taking the leap...and I got it.  Nothing 
 delicate about it; I asked him I wanted to get married and he consented to it.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  Other thoughts were deductions from discussions and side
  allusions.
 
 
 
 i.e. That prick Girish is making me do all sorts of intellectual gymnastics 
 to weasel out of what I wrote in that letter.  Side illusions and 
 deductions from discussion indeed!  I feel like Bill Clinton defining what 
 the meaning of is is with Ken Starr breathing down his neck.
 
 
 
 
 
  Therefore please 

[FairfieldLife] January, The Secret Wife and 2 Kids

[Doug]

The TM Maharaja Secret wife and 2 Kids


Hagelin's Announcement
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/238789

Wynne's Annoucement
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/239107

Bevan's Announcement
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/239740
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/239198

Commentary:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/238933

The TM King in Paris:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/239327

Perspective
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/239460
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/239461
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/239564

TM movement dynamic:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/239631

Maharishi with this:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/239707


These posts scratch the surface.





 Just as a comment, if this story is true it lends
 some credence to the theory that it might have been
 Tony's idea to hide his wife, and that the person 
 he was trying to hide her *from* was Maharishi, not
 the rest of the TM movement. If this is what a 
 jealous Maharishi does when one of his boys hooks
 up with a woman, I'd hide my girlfriend from him, 
 too.
 
 

[FairfieldLife] Re: 1957

[Doug]

1980
Maharishi's Year of
Pure Knowledge, the Ved

Maharishi celebrates the upsurge of pure knowledge
in world consciousness, and reveals the nature
of the Ved in terms of the spontaneous, sequential flow of the eternal, 
self-referral state of consiousness.

Maharishi brings to light his timeless commentary
on Rig Ved, the Apaurusheya Bhashya, which explains the
structure of the Ved and its extension, the universe,
lively within every point of consciousness, 
the Self of everyone.

 
 1979
 Maharishi's Year of
 All Possibilities
 
 Maharishi clebrates the upsurge of 
 the organizing power of nature
 in world consciousness.
 
 Maharishi begins his commentary on
 Rig Ved, the Apaurusheya Bhashya.
 
 The First Annual World Peace Assembly of Governors
 of the Age of Enlightenment is held in
 the U.S.A. to create coherence in national and 
 world consciousness.
  
  
  1978
  Maharishi's Year of
  Invincibility to Every Nation
  
  Realization of the Extended
  Maharishi Effect, Maharishi celebrates
  the rise of global coherence and
  proclaims invincibilty to
  every nation.
  
   
   1977
   Maharishi's Year of Ideal Society
   
   Maharishi envisions the creation of an ideal society
   through the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi program,
   and inaugurates the Ideal Society Campaign in 108 countries.
   Scientific research verified that this campaign decreased negative trends 
   and increased positive trends in society.  Crime rate went down in every 
   area of the campaign, and police management everywhere enjoyed the credit.


 
  
   1976
   
   Maharishi introduced the TM-Sidhi program
   and starts to train Governors of the Age of 
   Enlightenment to function from the Unified
   Field of all the Laws of Nature to purify
   world consciousness.
  
  

 This is the start of a new theme of action, 
an ideal path of performance 
following the principle of least action,
which upholds all activity in nature-  Maharishi's
principle of do less and accomplish more through
 the help of natural law.

This is to give a new theme to life on earth, 
progressive life without
stress, strain, and fatigue, through alliance
with the total potential of natural law.

  
  
  
  1976  (continued)
   Maharishi's Year of Government
 
  Maharishi inaugurates the  World Government
  Of the Age of Enlightenment, a non-political,
  Non-religious global organization, with sovereignty
  In the domain of consciousness, authority in the invincible power
  Of Natural Law, and activity in purifying world
  Consciousness with the participation of the people of over 
  120 countries and with 1,200 Maharishi Capitals of the Age of 
  Enlightenment
  around the world.
  
  
   
   
   
1975
Maharishi's Year of the
Dawn of the Age of Enlightenment

With the discovery of the Maharishi Effect
the profound nature of Maharishi's Creative
Intelligence is further validated.  The
Maharishi Effect demonstrates that 
the collective life of a society or nation can 
be fully developed and enriched through a small proportion
of the population practicing Maharishi's
Transcendental Meditation.
   
   
   1975  (continued)
   
   The 'Maharishi Effect' establishes a new formula for the creation 
   of an ideal society, free from crime and problems.  With this, 
   Maharishi envisions the dawn of a new age for humankind- the Age 
   of Enlightenment.
   
   On January 12, Maharishi inaugurates the Dawn of the Age of 
   Enlightenment for the whole world in Switzerland, and travels to 
   all six continents inaugurating the Dawn of the Age of 
   Enlightenment for each continent.  The Dawn of the Age of 
   Enlightenment brings the first wave of fulfillment of Maharishi's 
   World Plan.
   
   Maharishi establishes Maharishi European Research University to 
   monitor the rise of the Age of Enlightenment in all parts of the 
   world, and to investigate the full range of possibilities 
   inherent in human consciousness. 

 1974
 Maharishi's Year of 
 Achievement of the World Plan
 
 The Discovery of the Maharishi Effect:
 one percent of the population practicing
 the Transcendental Meditation program in
 any city reduces negative tendencies, such
 as crime, accident, and sickness rates, and
 increases positive tendencies throughout
 society.
 
  
  1973
  Maharishi's Year of
  Action for the World Plan
  
  More than 2,000 World Plan Centers are
  established in all parts of the world,
  offering courses in the Science of
 

[FairfieldLife] 1979

[Doug]

Any here who are veterans of this 1979 course?

I was there.

JGD,
-Doug in FF


 1979
 Maharishi's Year of
 All Possibilities
 
 
 The First Annual World Peace Assembly of Governors
 of the Age of Enlightenment is held in
 the U.S.A. to create coherence in national and 
 world consciousness.
  

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi on the Different Types of Samadhi - 1962

[Doug]

Yup, is absolutely true.

JGD,
-D in FF


--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer r...@... wrote:

  From an audio recorded in Hochgurgelin in 1962 
 Maharishi on the Different Types of Samadhi
  
 
  
  
 MAHARISHI:   ...Let me conclude it by telling you, you have seen  Nirvikalpa
 Samadhi, that Samadhi which is eternal.
  
 Another type of Samadhi which are not eternal, which are impermanent with
 breaks, two names we have put down:  Anandanugat and Atmikanugat
 (Asmitanugat) - Ananda that glow and Atmika that pure consciousness. 
  
 Two types of Samadhi, one is Nirvikalpa,  that is eternal, that never breaks
 and the other is Savikalpa - Savikalpa and Nirvikalpa.  Savikalpa  means
 that which breaks, sometimes it comes, sometimes it breaks. Nirvikalpa never
 to break, eternal.
  
 Savikalpa Samadhi is of four types:
  
 - Vitsaranugat (Vicharanugat)
 - Vitarkanugat
 - Anandanugat
 - Atmikanugat (Asmitanugat)
  
 What is Vitsaranugat (Vicharanugat)?  When the mantra begins to be slow and
 becomes slower and slower, this isVitsaranugat (Vicharanugat)Samadhi, first
 state of Samadhi.
  
 Second, Vitarkanugat is that where the mantra ceases to be a specific
 thought, it becomes only a rhythm. That is Vitarkanugat.
  
 And when thathum, humming sound is also gone and you are left in that glow,
 that is Anandanugat (Samadhi), the third (type of Samadhi)
  
 And when that glow is also gone and you are left in a state which the speech
 can not describe, that is (Samadhi), just 'am'ness, 'is'ness, existence
 pure.
  
 In this meditation you have experienced all these four types of Savikalpa
 Samadhi and you have begun to grow by degrees in the Nirvikalpa Samadhi...
   
  ...I will describe to you two types of experience:  one is pure
 consciousness and the other is bliss consciousness.
  
 The experience of bliss consciousness is Anandanugat  Samadhi.
  
 And that pure consciousness is said to be Atmikanugat (Asmitanugat) Samadhi.
 Atmimeans 'am', pure consciousness. Atmi and Ananda.
  
  Anandanugat Samadhi, that bliss consciousness. The feeling of that glow and
 just happiness.
  
 Atmikanugat (Asmitanugat), that is Samadhi that got into Atmika state, state
 of 'am'.
  
 And when this Atmikanugat (Asmitanugat) Samadhi becomes uninterrupted, it is
 not broken up by any state of consciousness, whether wakeful, dreaming or
 deep sleep. When the nature of the mind is pure consciousness all the time
 during all experiences of wakeful state and dreaming state and deep sleep
 state, then that Samadhi is called Nirvikalpa Samadhi. That is Cosmic
 Consciousness.
  
 The word Nirvikalpa means uninterrupted, continuous, unbreakable, eternal,
 ever lasting.  It is called Jivan Mukti, life eternal, divine life... 
  
 Jai Guru Dev

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hitler responds to the iPad

[Doug]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stan...@... 
wrote:

 I'm not a Nazi, but I heartily agree with Hitler about the iPad:
 
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQnT0zp8Ya4
 
 Seriously, though, add USB and a camera and switch it to OSX, and I'll buy 
 one.


Film school?  Great supporting acting.  Transpose again, over to Bevan and his 
staff in a bunker in Vedic City pouring over the invincible movement's global 
dome attendance totals. Same actor and staff cast could proly pull it off. 
Reality TMorg.  

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi on the Different Types of Samadhi - 1962

[Doug]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer r...@... wrote:

  From an audio recorded in Hochgurgelin in 1962 
 Maharishi on the Different Types of Samadhi
  


For the non-meditators,
Canaan's Land:

O for a breeze of heav'nly love
To waft my soul away
To that celestial world above,
Where pleasures ne'er decay. 
Eternal Spirit, deign to be
My pilot here below,
To steer thro' life's tempestuous sea,
Where stormy winds do blow.


  
  
 MAHARISHI:   ...Let me conclude it by telling you, you have seen  Nirvikalpa
 Samadhi, that Samadhi which is eternal.
  
 Another type of Samadhi which are not eternal, which are impermanent with
 breaks, two names we have put down:  Anandanugat and Atmikanugat
 (Asmitanugat) - Ananda that glow and Atmika that pure consciousness. 
  
 Two types of Samadhi, one is Nirvikalpa,  that is eternal, that never breaks
 and the other is Savikalpa - Savikalpa and Nirvikalpa.  Savikalpa  means
 that which breaks, sometimes it comes, sometimes it breaks. Nirvikalpa never
 to break, eternal.
  
 Savikalpa Samadhi is of four types:
  
 - Vitsaranugat (Vicharanugat)
 - Vitarkanugat
 - Anandanugat
 - Atmikanugat (Asmitanugat)
  
 What is Vitsaranugat (Vicharanugat)?  When the mantra begins to be slow and
 becomes slower and slower, this isVitsaranugat (Vicharanugat)Samadhi, first
 state of Samadhi.
  
 Second, Vitarkanugat is that where the mantra ceases to be a specific
 thought, it becomes only a rhythm. That is Vitarkanugat.
  
 And when thathum, humming sound is also gone and you are left in that glow,
 that is Anandanugat (Samadhi), the third (type of Samadhi)
  
 And when that glow is also gone and you are left in a state which the speech
 can not describe, that is (Samadhi), just 'am'ness, 'is'ness, existence
 pure.
  
 In this meditation you have experienced all these four types of Savikalpa
 Samadhi and you have begun to grow by degrees in the Nirvikalpa Samadhi...
   
  ...I will describe to you two types of experience:  one is pure
 consciousness and the other is bliss consciousness.
  
 The experience of bliss consciousness is Anandanugat  Samadhi.
  
 And that pure consciousness is said to be Atmikanugat (Asmitanugat) Samadhi.
 Atmimeans 'am', pure consciousness. Atmi and Ananda.
  
  Anandanugat Samadhi, that bliss consciousness. The feeling of that glow and
 just happiness.
  
 Atmikanugat (Asmitanugat), that is Samadhi that got into Atmika state, state
 of 'am'.
  
 And when this Atmikanugat (Asmitanugat) Samadhi becomes uninterrupted, it is
 not broken up by any state of consciousness, whether wakeful, dreaming or
 deep sleep. When the nature of the mind is pure consciousness all the time
 during all experiences of wakeful state and dreaming state and deep sleep
 state, then that Samadhi is called Nirvikalpa Samadhi. That is Cosmic
 Consciousness.
  
 The word Nirvikalpa means uninterrupted, continuous, unbreakable, eternal,
 ever lasting.  It is called Jivan Mukti, life eternal, divine life... 
  
 Jai Guru Dev

[FairfieldLife] Re: 1957

[Doug]

1979
Maharishi's Year of
All Possibilities

Maharishi clebrates the upsurge of 
the organizing power of nature
in world consciousness.

Maharishi begins his commentary on
Rig Ved, the Apaurusheya Bhashya.

The First Annual World Peace Assembly of Governors
of the Age of Enlightenment is held in
the U.S.A. to create coherence in national and 
world consciousness.
 
 
 1978
 Maharishi's Year of
 Invincibility to Every Nation
 
 Realization of the Extended
 Maharishi Effect, Maharishi celebrates
 the rise of global coherence and
 proclaims invincibilty to
 every nation.
 
  
  1977
  Maharishi's Year of Ideal Society
  
  Maharishi envisions the creation of an ideal society
  through the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi program,
  and inaugurates the Ideal Society Campaign in 108 countries.
  Scientific research verified that this campaign decreased negative trends 
  and increased positive trends in society.  Crime rate went down in every 
  area of the campaign, and police management everywhere enjoyed the credit.
   
   

 
  1976
  
  Maharishi introduced the TM-Sidhi program
  and starts to train Governors of the Age of 
  Enlightenment to function from the Unified
  Field of all the Laws of Nature to purify
  world consciousness.
 
 
   
This is the start of a new theme of action, 
   an ideal path of performance 
   following the principle of least action,
   which upholds all activity in nature-  Maharishi's
   principle of do less and accomplish more through
the help of natural law.
   
   This is to give a new theme to life on earth, 
   progressive life without
   stress, strain, and fatigue, through alliance
   with the total potential of natural law.
   
 
 
 
 1976  (continued)
  Maharishi's Year of Government

 Maharishi inaugurates the  World Government
 Of the Age of Enlightenment, a non-political,
 Non-religious global organization, with sovereignty
 In the domain of consciousness, authority in the invincible power
 Of Natural Law, and activity in purifying world
 Consciousness with the participation of the people of over 
 120 countries and with 1,200 Maharishi Capitals of the Age of 
 Enlightenment
 around the world.
 
 
  
  
  
   1975
   Maharishi's Year of the
   Dawn of the Age of Enlightenment
   
   With the discovery of the Maharishi Effect
   the profound nature of Maharishi's Creative
   Intelligence is further validated.  The
   Maharishi Effect demonstrates that 
   the collective life of a society or nation can 
   be fully developed and enriched through a small proportion
   of the population practicing Maharishi's
   Transcendental Meditation.
  
  
  1975  (continued)
  
  The 'Maharishi Effect' establishes a new formula for the creation 
  of an ideal society, free from crime and problems.  With this, 
  Maharishi envisions the dawn of a new age for humankind- the Age of 
  Enlightenment.
  
  On January 12, Maharishi inaugurates the Dawn of the Age of 
  Enlightenment for the whole world in Switzerland, and travels to 
  all six continents inaugurating the Dawn of the Age of 
  Enlightenment for each continent.  The Dawn of the Age of 
  Enlightenment brings the first wave of fulfillment of Maharishi's 
  World Plan.
  
  Maharishi establishes Maharishi European Research University to 
  monitor the rise of the Age of Enlightenment in all parts of the 
  world, and to investigate the full range of possibilities inherent 
  in human consciousness. 
   
1974
Maharishi's Year of 
Achievement of the World Plan

The Discovery of the Maharishi Effect:
one percent of the population practicing
the Transcendental Meditation program in
any city reduces negative tendencies, such
as crime, accident, and sickness rates, and
increases positive tendencies throughout
society.

 
 1973
 Maharishi's Year of
 Action for the World Plan
 
 More than 2,000 World Plan Centers are
 established in all parts of the world,
 offering courses in the Science of
 Creative Intelligence.
 
  1972
  Maharishi's Year of the World Plan.
  
  Maharishi inaugurates the World Plan to solve
  the age-old problems of mankind in this generation,
  with 2,000 newly trained teachers of 
  the Science of Creative Intelligence.
  
  
  
   1971
   Maharishi's Year of
   Science of Creative Intelligence
   
   Maharishi formulates the Science of Creative Intelligence
   as the scientific theory for the development of 
   higher states of 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Interesting story of Maharishi messing with other TMO romances

[Doug]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote:

 Just as a comment, if this story is true it lends
 some credence to the theory that it might have been
 Tony's idea to hide his wife, and that the person 
 he was trying to hide her *from* was Maharishi, not
 the rest of the TM movement. If this is what a 
 jealous Maharishi does when one of his boys hooks
 up with a woman, I'd hide my girlfriend from him, 
 too.
 
 


Yup,
En lieu of official Transcendental Meditation  movement Global Chat about this
and with knowing the culture,
this does seem a leading rational explanation for
why Tony did it and how it all got so far. 

To the point of someone got someone over a barrel of gold.
A very human story underneath.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: Vote for Consciousness-Based Education at Change.org

[Doug]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seekliberation seekliberat...@... 
wrote:

 I think for the sake of the psychological health of many in the TMO, it would 
 be better for it to fail and someone else with a similar education (Ravi 
 Shankar  Eckart Tolle come to my mind) to gain the favor of the government.  


Yup, I'd vote for the secular guy at UCLA.
Daniel Siegel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr4Od7kqDT8


 
 I have family and friends who have waited until they're 40-50 yrs old to make 
 anything happen in their lives.  It's always because they feel that something 
 magic is coming right around the corner, and therefore there is no need to 
 engage in the lowly behavior of getting a job and working for a living.  All 
 it takes for some people i've met is just a small signal of success, no 
 matter how insignificant, and it is used as an excuse to avoid reality for 
 just 2 or 3 more years.  Before you know it they're a senior citizen, no 
 skills or experience, no chance of retirement.
 
 I can see a lot of individuals in the TMO using any government attention as 
 an excuse to do the same thing.  Although it would be very inspiring to me if 
 the US govt did start implementing TM into certain areas like military, 
 prisons, and education,  I would still fear so much for the manic state of 
 mind that could result in the TMO if these goals were actually met.  
 
 I do have to admit, I haven't interacted much with other organizations 
 similar to TMO.  For all I know, they have the same problem too.  
 
 seekliberation  
 
 
 
 
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo richardhughes103@ wrote:
 
  
  
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Dick Mays dickmays@ wrote:
  
   I'm circulating this because it's a way of solving the fundamental 
   problem of society - ignorance of natural law - through 
   consciousness-education for enlightenment.-Dick
  
  The fundamental problem of society is not believing the TMO's
  world view? You've really no idea how scary this is.
 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Interesting story of Maharishi messing with other TMO romances

[Doug]

  
   Just as a comment, if this story is true it lends
   some credence to the theory that it might have been
   Tony's idea to hide his wife, and that the person 
   he was trying to hide her *from* was Maharishi, not
   the rest of the TM movement. If this is what a 
   jealous Maharishi does when one of his boys hooks
   up with a woman, I'd hide my girlfriend from him, 
   too.
  
  Yup,
  En lieu of official Transcendental Meditation  movement Global 
  Chat about this and with knowing the culture,
  this does seem a leading rational explanation for
  why Tony did it and how it all got so far. 
  
  To the point of someone got someone over a barrel of gold.
  A very human story underneath.
 
 My feeling exactly. 
 
 As Curtis was the first to point out, it's the
 WTF Quotient of this story that makes it so
 fascinating. WHY OH WHY would *either* Tony
 or Maharishi choose to hide a legitimate mar-
 riage from not only the riffraff of the TM 
 movement, but from its supposed illuminati?
 
 It makes no sense, no matter how you configure
 it. WHETHER it was Maharishi's idea or Tony's
 idea to hide his marriage from the TM movement
 as a whole, there is almost no up side to 
 this, long-term. The news *has* to eventually
 come out, and when it does, the credibility of
 *both* of them goes right in the crapper.
 
 But with the advent of this story passed along
 by alex from the Netherlands, a very human and,
 in my opinion almost *understandable* theory
 can begin to form, one that is slightly less
 WTF, at least on one side.
 
 IF Maharishi had a proven history of reacting
 jealously and vengefully against women who 
 dared to romance any of his boys, and you
 *are* one of his boys and KNOW of this 
 proven history, it *almost* makes sense to
 hide your girlfriend or wife from him. What 
 still has a rather high WTF Quotient is 
 that in this scenario the person you are 
 hiding her FROM is Maharishi himself, 
 fearing *his* wrath against someone you love.
 
 Sadly...and I *am* more than aware of how
 sad this theory is...this theory makes sense
 to me. It makes sense based on the way I've
 seen Maharishi treat his boys, based on the 
 way I've seen him treat people who lost his
 favor, and based on the way I've seen him
 treat women in general. 
 
 So my current *purely speculative* theories 
 on all of this are 1) that it might have been 
 possible that Tony Nader initially kept his 
 girlfriend/eventual wife hidden from Maharishi 
 and then told him later, when he felt that it 
 was finally safe for his wife to do so, or
 2) he never told Maharishi at all. *As possi-
 bilities*, I consider both equally possible. 
 
 The original theory as proposed by Bevan and
 Hagelin -- 3) that Maharishi was in on the 
 deception from the beginning and supported or
 proposed it -- is still possible, of course, 
 but seems less likely to me because it doesn't 
 make sense on *any* level. Theories 1 and 2 
 at least make sense on a human level.


Now on a side mail here I am told, that Larry Domash left the middle for the 
similar reason.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: Vote for Consciousness-Based Education at Change.org

[Doug]

  I sometimes wonder how likely it is for a long term true believer to give 
  it up and lose faith.  And whether it simply is a drifting away or a more 
  sudden aha moment.
 
 Usually, from my experiences meeting virtually thousands of people, it's due 
 to lack of good experiences during meditation usually because of an 
 undisciplined lifestyle. 
 That ofcourse is just one of many reasons but definately the most common.


Yeah, writing as an old and conservative meditator, I'm with Nablusoss on this 
one.
My experience too.  Simply are a lot of folks who just didn't sit up and do the 
work of spiritual  practice.  Lot of people outright laid down and actively 
went to sleep.  Spiritual practice is something that folks do have to do, as in 
have the discipline to do and work at.  Not sleep at.  
  
Some grace may bring it along to folks as a work come to be done.  Even so, 
some lot of people even if given everything never learn how to work in life; 
just get by and some are just quitters in being ill-prepared as they are 
ill-disciplined.   Either badly nurtured or cultured, just bad material that 
might have been made more better beforehand, next time. 

So says the knowledge, people's experience, and the science together now.  
 
The extraordinary time now is that the spiritual bandwidth is so wide and open 
to so many in these modern times.   A message so widely around now in so many 
ways, Repent your ways and come to meditation.  The opportunity of a life 
time.  It's even on Oprah.  Hope springs eternal eternally in natural law.  
Know they Self.

Jai Adi Shankara,
-D in FF  

[FairfieldLife] Disengaging (was Re: Fwd: Vote for Consciousness-Based Education at Change.org)

[Doug]

This is one of those more cogent posts about the TMorg that can show up on FFL. 
 Archetypal.  There are many hundreds of meditators like this around Fairfield 
and lots of others around the country also just like this.  What was a whole 
movement.  

Practically, if Hagelin, Tony and Bevan et. al. can't empathize with this and 
come to some kind of terms other than their own, then they ain't going to go 
nowhere with the knowledge they got now.  Like this post below, they got a 
large problem in the dis-engaged, dispossessed, and those dis-enfranchised of a 
Transcendental Meditation movement.  The challenge is that these folks are out 
there in the marketplace talking to others about their state.  Is not a good 
recommendation.

God Help them,
-D in FF 

 
  May I ask, how did you happen to disengage?  
  
  I sometimes wonder how likely it is for a 
  long term true believer to give it up and 
  lose faith.  And whether it simply is a 
  drifting away or a more sudden aha moment.
 
 In 2001 I lost my attachment to the TM 
 organization without dropping my beliefs 
 in the TM worldview. To me, identification 
 with the True Self - pure consciousness - 
 is vitally important to individual and 
 collective health. I still believe that 
 collective consciousness influences 
 individual thoughts and actions. I believe 
 the world is going through a phase transition 
 in the Domash-Hagelin sense of that term. To 
 me, the Science of Creative Intelligence is 
 a great explanation of how creation works.
 
 I still consider TM to be a super-nifty way 
 to transcend, although I no longer consider 
 it to be the only practical way.
 
 I realized I no longer felt a deep attachment 
 to the TM organization in January of 2001. I 
 realized it had been about a month since I 
 had yearned to return to the TM womb - a 
 yearning that had been fairly constant for 
 me up until that time. The switch just 
 happened. An ooga-booga consultant offered 
 an explanation for the change in attitude, 
 but it's too woo-woo to repeat.
 
 The shift in attitude was automatic and 
 easy, but it took a while to integrate 
 it, as the saying goes. Discussions on 
 Fairfield Life played an integral role in 
 helping my intellect catch up with my heart 
 during much of 2002 and 2003. Lots of postings 
 of that era dealt with helping people question 
 teachings and find answers to dissonances.
 
 I'm a long way from re-certifying as a TM 
 teacher, but I like what the organization 
 is trying to do and look forward to its success.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Interesting story of Maharishi messing with other TMO romances

[Doug]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote:

 Passed on from the TM-Free Blog, where a commenter
 who calls himself alex posted the following in
 response to Bevan's letter about King Tony being
 married. Interesting story, and it sures sounds
 like the Maharishi I knew and his level both of
 compassion and meddling in his favorites affairs.
 Does anyone know whether it can be verified?


How did native Americans handle 'delicate' nutcakes, like this where the care 
is beyond the scope of the group?  Manifest destiny, how do corporations even 
now deal with this level of psych brittleness where it is beyond the scope of 
the work?  The movement community always dealt with this kind of thing around 
at every level.  Questions at an introductory lecture were a pass at it. The 
interview form at a prep lecture.  Is all profiling for scope.  Is done 
everywhere.  In every group.  Of course in a more modern world the care is more 
socialized or communal as it gets beyond what people can do amongst themselves 
to deal with that kind of brittleness.  

Actually, a large part of the budget at the County level even here is devoted 
to mental health services for people who can not take care of themselves.
So is this story really so different from life problems anywhere?  To be fair i 
think it is hard to judge or pontificate over this one at this distance.

-Doug in FF   

 
 alex
 about 25 years ago, there was a dutch teacher, Wendeline, a beautiful
 woman, who was in love with Bevan.
 She already printed her wedding cards , they lived in Seelisberg.
 When Maha heard of it, he sent her away back to Holland, with the
 instruction to the national leader to put her in a psych. clinic.
 She was not allowed to visit the academy when Maha was there, she
 was  a paria.  No one was allowed to talk to her.
 the shrink and psychologist had no intention to help her. Maha did not
 want it.
 She killed herself on Maha s birthday, by jumping in front of a train.
 the church was filled with all her friends.
 I was crying a lot, i visited her in the clinic, I was alreay out of
 the organisation.
 the wife of the national leader said to me: don t be said, this was
 her last stress.
 Thanks Bevin.
 
 alex
 wendeline was a gouvernor,about 30 when she killed herself,and did
 a 4 years during study , something to do with creative development.
 When I visited her during her time in de psych.clinic,I tried to
 help her to start  a normal life.
 But Bevan and Maha where her only goal.
 She couldn t make the choice to step out of the movement, although
 they already threw her out.
 No one was suppose to visit her in the hospital, she was all alone.
 Like I  already said she was seen as a paria,
 They gave the impression that it was dangerous to have contact with
 her.
 She was a threat for Maha when he visited Holland, they said the
 national leader of Holland, Jacques Uyen, the greatest snake there
 ever was in the movement.
 He had a big influence on Maha, and for a long time he was his right
 hand.
 He told me when I left the movement, in name of Maha, that I would
 die in an accident or something like that if I left the movement.
 I am sure Wendeline went crazy in Seelisberg because of all the
 rounding.
 Before this time I knew her well, she was a normal, happy and
 enthousiastic person, very intelligent also.
 Before she was sent, by mr. uyen, to the clinic, she was allowed to
 work in a mother divine academy.
 Also here she was seen as a paria, no one talked to her, she had to eat
 and meditate alone.
 How to get someone totaly crazy I woul say.
 Yes, just unstressing.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharaja Adhiraj Rajaraam is married with 2 daughters

[Doug]

 
 
 
 
  Darn, I'm saddened Zoran has signed off. Coming from someone who was
 there, around the middle there with access on special projects for some
 time, this had some direct sight.
 
 
  Further down he had this note:
 
   How many times MMY said Tony is purusha and that his domain is from
 silence?
  Did he mentioned during his life that Tony will have family?
  Of course not and that is why Tony Nader is liar.
 
  Nothing will stay the same... you will not wait much time until Girish
 Varma
  attack his position.
 
  Such a partnership, the Westerners and Indians. Did you see the Jan.
 12 birthday celebration tape? Girishi upstaging everyone, sitting on a
 Diaz cross-leg, in white, beads, beard, hair and looking like a
 Maharishi himself. Was great theatre.
 
 
   [Girishji]


So, how does Girish see himself in this?  
As new guru or old soldier?

I uploaded the Girish-Maharishi-look-a-like picture to the FFL photos archive,
just quickly filed it putting the picture in the Gurus album.  

If not guru or 
just a soldier, it seems kind of a blasphemous to have him
filed amongst some those really eminent teacher kind of souls.

Would there be a better place to keep him?  Would be nice to be
fairly accurate. 

Just wondering,

-D in FF


 
 Grishji
 
 
 
  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/238933
 
 
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Zoran Krneta krneta.zoran@
 wrote:
  
   *Tony Nader is liar. That's now evident.*
  
   Everyone who was with MMY last 10-20 years was aware about the fact
 that he
   was strongly encouraging people to join him in organization but to
 remain as
   a single or if they were married couple then MMY did not accept them
 to join
   with children. There were very rare exceptions.
   There are still now a lot of couples in organization who accept that
 and
   they drop off the posibility to became normal families. The same
 thing
   happened to us... me and my wife wanted to join but they told us
 that MMY
   will not accept us if we want to have children.
  
   How Tony Nader can look at the faces of those people and say such
 thing?
   How he can lie to people who decided to stay issueles in order to
 serve
   their Guru but the same Guru aproved him from the grave that he can
 have
   children?
   Who can confirm that MMY gave him blessing for that? Nobody..
 because that
   never happened.
  
   I was in Vlodrop in '92 when Nader all of the sudden was pulled back
 by MMY
   from Japan. There was some bad rumor going in the back that he was
   entertaining someones wife. Strange things were happening then with
 him and
   his French secretary.
  
   Probably MMY was aware of Nader's affairs but for sure he was asking
 him to
   drop off such behavior as he was doing in the same way in similar
 situations
   during the past. I think many of you can confirm that.
  
   How many times MMY said Tony is purusha and that his domain is from
 silence?
   Did he mentioned during his life that Tony will have family?
   Of course not and that is why Tony Nader is liar.
  
   Nothing will stay the same... you will not wait much time until
 Girish Varma
   attack his position.
  
   Hallo Mr. Konhaus... wake up... your dream ended... drink your sugar
 free
   cup of coffee and fuck off...
  
 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Interesting story of Maharishi messing with other TMO romances

[Doug]

  
   Passed on from the TM-Free Blog, where a commenter
   who calls himself alex posted the following in
   response to Bevan's letter about King Tony being
   married. Interesting story, and it sures sounds
   like the Maharishi I knew and his level both of
   compassion and meddling in his favorites affairs.
   Does anyone know whether it can be verified?
  
  How did native Americans handle 'delicate' nutcakes, like 
  this where the care is beyond the scope of the group?  
  Manifest destiny, how do corporations even now deal with 
  this level of psych brittleness where it is beyond the scope 
  of the work?  snip drivel
 
 Doug, I think you are (possibly intentionally) 
 missing the point. Given the story as related,
 the *obvious* question to be asked is, Was this
 woman mentally imbalanced *before* Maharishi dis-
 covered that Bevan was involved with her and had
 her shipped off first to a Mother Divine retreat
 with instructions for no one to interact with her,
 and then to a mental institution?
 
 What's YOUR take on Bevan? Is he the kind of 
 guy who is likely to have been involved with and
 possibly engaged to a crazy woman? alex's descrip-
 tions of her *before* she was shipped off are that
 she was a happy, intelligent, lovely woman.
 
 It seems more likely, given alex's story, that 
 Maharishi just reacted JEALOUSLY, as he has done
 so many other times, and GOT RID OF THE 
 COMPETITION for Bevan's attention.
 
 To his discredit, of course, it seems that Bevan
 allowed Maharishi to do it. What a megatoday.
 


 Possibly, given his age back then and the movement.
Your take on RajaRam could well be in play given the culture.
Still waiting for the Global Chat on this though.

In Icelandic they have this colloquial about leadership:

It is windy at the top.   

Probably was lonely at times too. 

Is interesting to see here how many of the administrative TB'er movement 
marriages at the top have recombined in time.  Amongst themselves and also 
including some of the loner single men or spinster women having hooked up in 
matrimony later in life now.  The unions formed are really sweet to see in some 
cases.  More fit partnerships later in life.

There are small rumors out about another announcement pending coming from 
someone really really *large* in the movement.  Something about a long-term 
male companion.


Best Regards from FF,
-D

   alex
   about 25 years ago, there was a dutch teacher, Wendeline, a beautiful
   woman, who was in love with Bevan.
   She already printed her wedding cards , they lived in Seelisberg.
   When Maha heard of it, he sent her away back to Holland, with the
   instruction to the national leader to put her in a psych. clinic.
   She was not allowed to visit the academy when Maha was there, she
   was  a paria.  No one was allowed to talk to her.
   the shrink and psychologist had no intention to help her. Maha did not
   want it.
   She killed herself on Maha s birthday, by jumping in front of a train.
   the church was filled with all her friends.
   I was crying a lot, i visited her in the clinic, I was alreay out of
   the organisation.
   the wife of the national leader said to me: don t be said, this was
   her last stress.
   Thanks Bevin.
   
   alex
   wendeline was a gouvernor,about 30 when she killed herself,and did
   a 4 years during study , something to do with creative development.
   When I visited her during her time in de psych.clinic,I tried to
   help her to start  a normal life.
   But Bevan and Maha where her only goal.
   She couldn t make the choice to step out of the movement, although
   they already threw her out.
   No one was suppose to visit her in the hospital, she was all alone.
   Like I  already said she was seen as a paria,
   They gave the impression that it was dangerous to have contact with
   her.
   She was a threat for Maha when he visited Holland, they said the
   national leader of Holland, Jacques Uyen, the greatest snake there
   ever was in the movement.
   He had a big influence on Maha, and for a long time he was his right
   hand.
   He told me when I left the movement, in name of Maha, that I would
   die in an accident or something like that if I left the movement.
   I am sure Wendeline went crazy in Seelisberg because of all the
   rounding.
   Before this time I knew her well, she was a normal, happy and
   enthousiastic person, very intelligent also.
   Before she was sent, by mr. uyen, to the clinic, she was allowed to
   work in a mother divine academy.
   Also here she was seen as a paria, no one talked to her, she had to eat
   and meditate alone.
   How to get someone totaly crazy I woul say.
   Yes, just unstressing.
  
 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharaja Adhiraj Rajaraam is married with 2 daughters

[Doug]

 Darn, I'm saddened Zoran has signed off. Coming from someone who was
there, around the middle there with access on special projects for some
time, this had some direct sight.


 Further down he had this note:

  How many times MMY said Tony is purusha and that his domain is from
silence?
 Did he mentioned during his life that Tony will have family?
 Of course not and that is why Tony Nader is liar.

 Nothing will stay the same... you will not wait much time until Girish
Varma
 attack his position.

 Such a partnership, the Westerners and Indians. Did you see the Jan.
12 birthday celebration tape? Girishi upstaging everyone, sitting on a
Diaz cross-leg, in white, beads, beard, hair and looking like a
Maharishi himself. Was great theatre.


  [Girishji]


Grishji



 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/238933


 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Zoran Krneta krneta.zoran@
wrote:
 
  *Tony Nader is liar. That's now evident.*
 
  Everyone who was with MMY last 10-20 years was aware about the fact
that he
  was strongly encouraging people to join him in organization but to
remain as
  a single or if they were married couple then MMY did not accept them
to join
  with children. There were very rare exceptions.
  There are still now a lot of couples in organization who accept that
and
  they drop off the posibility to became normal families. The same
thing
  happened to us... me and my wife wanted to join but they told us
that MMY
  will not accept us if we want to have children.
 
  How Tony Nader can look at the faces of those people and say such
thing?
  How he can lie to people who decided to stay issueles in order to
serve
  their Guru but the same Guru aproved him from the grave that he can
have
  children?
  Who can confirm that MMY gave him blessing for that? Nobody..
because that
  never happened.
 
  I was in Vlodrop in '92 when Nader all of the sudden was pulled back
by MMY
  from Japan. There was some bad rumor going in the back that he was
  entertaining someones wife. Strange things were happening then with
him and
  his French secretary.
 
  Probably MMY was aware of Nader's affairs but for sure he was asking
him to
  drop off such behavior as he was doing in the same way in similar
situations
  during the past. I think many of you can confirm that.
 
  How many times MMY said Tony is purusha and that his domain is from
silence?
  Did he mentioned during his life that Tony will have family?
  Of course not and that is why Tony Nader is liar.
 
  Nothing will stay the same... you will not wait much time until
Girish Varma
  attack his position.
 
  Hallo Mr. Konhaus... wake up... your dream ended... drink your sugar
free
  cup of coffee and fuck off...
 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharaja Adhiraj Rajaraam is married with 2 daughters

[Doug]

 
  
  Well, what exactly is the mood in Fairfield regarding this?  Specifically 
  what is going on?  ANyone truly upset?
 
 
 How's it going?
 
 Yes much mulling going on in the Fairfield coffee houses and eateries this 
 last weekend about this. Can hear as many fatwas issued forth as are tables 
 with people around them.   About those skinny and fat guys and the puppets.




Om
Fatwa, a religious ruling, a scholarly opinion on a matter of natural law. A 
fatwa is issued by a recognized authority in nature. But since there is no 
hierarchical priesthood or anything of the sort , a fatwa is not necessarily 
binding on the faithful. The people who pronounce these rulings are supposed 
to be knowledgeable, and base their rulings in knowledge and wisdom. They need 
to supply the evidence from sources for their opinions, and it is not uncommon 
for scholars to come to different conclusions regarding the same issue.
  


Om shanti, is frightening what experienced and observant meditators say here 
amongst themselves.

 
 JGD,
 -D in FF

[FairfieldLife] Re: Thousands of Indian Children Ready to Learn TM - Only $7 a Student

[Doug]

Any good reason to not make this universal, for students? Just for Indian 
children?





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[FairfieldLife] 1977

[Doug]

 1977
 Maharishi's Year of Ideal Society

 Maharishi envisions the creation of an ideal society
 through the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi program,
 and inaugurates the Ideal Society Campaign in 108 countries.
 Scientific research verified that this campaign decreased negative trends and
 increased positive trends in society. Crime rate went down in every area of 
 the
 campaign, and police management everywhere enjoyed the credit.



I love that last line for 1977. 

You do realize these shorts are Maharishi writing.  He edited the hell out of 
these
to get it.  These are the high points of what he was doing as he saw it and 
would tell it.  At face value they are pretty good chronicle for what they are. 

He liked to laugh too:

Crime rate went down in every area of the
 campaign, and police management everywhere enjoyed the credit.

[FairfieldLife] Re: 1957

[Doug]

1978
Maharishi's Year of
Invincibility to Every Nation

Realization of the Extended
Maharishi Effect, Maharishi celebrates
the rise of global coherence and
proclaims invincibilty to
every nation.

 
 1977
 Maharishi's Year of Ideal Society
 
 Maharishi envisions the creation of an ideal society
 through the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi program,
 and inaugurates the Ideal Society Campaign in 108 countries.
 Scientific research verified that this campaign decreased negative trends and 
 increased positive trends in society.  Crime rate went down in every area of 
 the campaign, and police management everywhere enjoyed the credit.
  
  
   

 1976
 
 Maharishi introduced the TM-Sidhi program
 and starts to train Governors of the Age of 
 Enlightenment to function from the Unified
 Field of all the Laws of Nature to purify
 world consciousness.


  
   This is the start of a new theme of action, 
  an ideal path of performance 
  following the principle of least action,
  which upholds all activity in nature-  Maharishi's
  principle of do less and accomplish more through
   the help of natural law.
  
  This is to give a new theme to life on earth, 
  progressive life without
  stress, strain, and fatigue, through alliance
  with the total potential of natural law.
  



1976  (continued)
 Maharishi's Year of Government
   
Maharishi inaugurates the  World Government
Of the Age of Enlightenment, a non-political,
Non-religious global organization, with sovereignty
In the domain of consciousness, authority in the invincible power
Of Natural Law, and activity in purifying world
Consciousness with the participation of the people of over 
120 countries and with 1,200 Maharishi Capitals of the Age of 
Enlightenment
around the world.


 
 
 
  1975
  Maharishi's Year of the
  Dawn of the Age of Enlightenment
  
  With the discovery of the Maharishi Effect
  the profound nature of Maharishi's Creative
  Intelligence is further validated.  The
  Maharishi Effect demonstrates that 
  the collective life of a society or nation can 
  be fully developed and enriched through a small proportion
  of the population practicing Maharishi's
  Transcendental Meditation.
 
 
 1975  (continued)
 
 The 'Maharishi Effect' establishes a new formula for the creation of 
 an ideal society, free from crime and problems.  With this, Maharishi 
 envisions the dawn of a new age for humankind- the Age of 
 Enlightenment.
 
 On January 12, Maharishi inaugurates the Dawn of the Age of 
 Enlightenment for the whole world in Switzerland, and travels to all 
 six continents inaugurating the Dawn of the Age of Enlightenment for 
 each continent.  The Dawn of the Age of Enlightenment brings the 
 first wave of fulfillment of Maharishi's World Plan.
 
 Maharishi establishes Maharishi European Research University to 
 monitor the rise of the Age of Enlightenment in all parts of the 
 world, and to investigate the full range of possibilities inherent in 
 human consciousness. 
  
   1974
   Maharishi's Year of 
   Achievement of the World Plan
   
   The Discovery of the Maharishi Effect:
   one percent of the population practicing
   the Transcendental Meditation program in
   any city reduces negative tendencies, such
   as crime, accident, and sickness rates, and
   increases positive tendencies throughout
   society.
   

1973
Maharishi's Year of
Action for the World Plan

More than 2,000 World Plan Centers are
established in all parts of the world,
offering courses in the Science of
Creative Intelligence.

 1972
 Maharishi's Year of the World Plan.
 
 Maharishi inaugurates the World Plan to solve
 the age-old problems of mankind in this generation,
 with 2,000 newly trained teachers of 
 the Science of Creative Intelligence.
 
 
 
  1971
  Maharishi's Year of
  Science of Creative Intelligence
  
  Maharishi formulates the Science of Creative Intelligence
  as the scientific theory for the development of 
  higher states of consciousness, which naturally develop 
  through the practice of Transcendental Meditation.
  
  Maharishi establishes Maharishi Interantional University
  in the U.S.A. to serve as a model of ideal education in the 
  world.
  
  
   
   1970
   Maharishi's Year of
   Scientific Research
   
   First scientific research on Transcendental
   Meditation, identifying the physiological
   

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharaja Adhiraj Rajaraam is married with 2 daughters

[Doug]

 
 Well, what exactly is the mood in Fairfield regarding this?  Specifically 
 what is going on?  ANyone truly upset?


How's it going?

Yes much mulling going on in the Fairfield coffee houses and eateries this last 
weekend about this. Can hear as many fatwas issued forth as are tables with 
people around them.   About those skinny and fat guys and the puppets.  Om 
shanti, is frightening what experienced and observant meditators say here 
amongst themselves.

JGD,
-D in FF

[FairfieldLife] Repenting your Bad Karmic Attachments

[Doug]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, BillyG wgm4u@ wrote:
 
  Actually ... every soul is born with proclivities he or 
  she has brought over from previous lives. If He/She was 
  promiscuous in a previous life, he/she is promiscuous 
  now, or born that way. 
 
 Billy, you may have single-handedly cured my 
 atheism. This God guy sounds like an OK dude.
 
 I mean, the way you're explaining it, if I got 
 a lot of nookie in this life -- and I definitely
 did -- I'll be getting a lot of nookie in the 
 next one. I will, according to you, be *born* 
 in such a way as to insure me getting a lot 
 of nookie.

Dear Turq, asking around spiritual folks who seem to know here they urge this 
could be helpful for you in the longrun for this kind of addiction or 
attachment:

http://www.melora.org/Cords.html

Unbound this way Folks who have these kind of atheric cord attachment cut find 
their thinking especially quieter and spiritual meditations clearer and deeper 
after.  Would proly help your Buddhist sittings too.

Good luck,
-D


 
 Nice setup. Good work, God. I'm still not big 
 on the using tsunamis and earthquakes to smite 
 people idea, but You get a big high-five from 
 me for this one.
 
 But, having learned the basics, I am curious 
 about the details. Maybe Your humble servant 
 Billy can fill me in on some of them:
 
 * If I only slept with three fashion models in
 this life, and not one of them a supermodel,
 am I limited to three in the next life? I know
 that Your time is precious, but if You could
 tell Billy the answer to this one fairly soon
 it would really help me out. There is a Vogue
 fashion shoot scheduled for Sitges during the
 Carnivale in February, and Your answer may 
 determine which bars I frequent during that
 period.
 
 * If I only had one threesome relationship (two 
 women and me, so neither You nor Billy have to 
 worry about that gay thing), am I limited to 
 only one threesome in the next life? If so, I 
 may be more discriminating next time and not 
 choose sisters. Sister issues are a bitch.
 
 * If I missed sleeping with women of some ethnic 
 persuasion this time around, am I not likely to
 score with women of that ethnicity next time
 around? Knowing this in advance would save me 
 a lot of time.
 
 * If I was promiscuous in this incarnation with
 someone who was really smokin' and wanted to hook 
 up my next incarnation with *her* next incarnation, 
 is there any possibility of this? One of the models 
 could do just the most amazing things with an 
 airbrush.
 
 Thanks for Your time, Big Guy. And for providing
 Your humble servant Billy to tell me all this 
 stuff. Made my day. And possibly, if Your answer
 to any of the questions above is Yes, my night.

[FairfieldLife] Re: More on Raja Ram

[Doug]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer r...@... wrote:

 From a friend:
 Raja John Hagelin said he thought
 RR is as deeply steeped in silence as any Purusha and maintains what could
 be called an ideal Purusha program and routine. 


I'm on that program too.  Yes,is real nice.
Lifetime is be a waste of time otherwise.
JGD,
-D in FF

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharaja Adhiraj Rajaraam is married with 2 daughters

[Doug]

 Darn, there are some good books just
 waiting to be written on all this. Does anyone know of someone who is
 actually working on a book on MMY, the TMO, etc.? The whole thing is a
 Jungian's playground.


 There are some things coming out this spring, supposedly.


yup, an they barometric read here at FFL too.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharaja Adhiraj Rajaraam is married with 2 daughters

[Doug]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wayback71 waybac...@... wrote:

 
 
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Doug dhamiltony2k5@ wrote:
 
  It's true, you people trying to participate here who are not in FF are at 
  really some loss for the nuance.  It's great.  Should hear the 
  ultra-conservative meditators out in the shops on this one.  Yikes!  Om 
  what fatwa issued.  Is frightening, the truth of it.  You'll never really 
  know until you meditate and live here.  
   JGD,
  -Doug in FF
  
  
   
   On Jan 16, 2010, at 10:50 AM, Duveyoung wrote:
   
You folks who live in FF -- why aren't you accosting TBs contually with 
this kind of evidence?  Are there a lot of heated debates in the coffee 
shops?
   
   Yeah, Edg, the coffee shops are just burning up
   here in FF.  It's all anyone can talk about!  Why,
   just this morning...
   
   Sal
  
 
 Well, what exactly is the mood in Fairfield regarding this?  Specifically 
 what is going on?  ANyone truly upset?


Well yes, the ultra-conservative meditator coffee group, Vigilantes for the Age 
of E. have issued fatwas for the fat guy and his puppet.  Something about 
crimes, liars and enemies of humanity.  

Mostly the global country does not come in to town.  When they do they 
obviously skulk `round trying to blend in with the community otherwise, leaving 
their crowns and robes back in their cars.  Anyway, they were told to not mix 
as part of their pack.  Don't see much of them out and around and of course 
their meetings are closed except for select meditators with badges.  Really, 
there are not too many of them compared to the larger meditating community.

Is very sad how it has gone with a potential once so great. God help `em.  Pray 
for their civil redemption .  I pray for a extra-territorial success and 
vitality of that David Lynch Foundation teaching meditation in the world, that 
it may grant the TMorg otherwise the coherence they so evidently miss.  I wish 
them well.

JGD,
-D in FF

[FairfieldLife] Re: Letter to Howard Settle - from Jamie Knapp

[Doug]

Thanks. This is beautiful.  I admire the guy a lot too.
It's way utopian and incredibly virtuous what he is doing.
-Doug in FF

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer r...@... wrote:

 This letter was read out by a young Australian sidha on the occasion of
 Howard Settle's birthday.  He and his father recently came to Fairfield to
 join the Invincible America Course for 6 months.  
  
 ~
  
 Letter To Howard Settle
 My name is Jamie and I've been here on the IA course for 2 weeks with my dad
 Geoff, and while it's Maharishi's birthday today I would like to pay a
 little tribute to Howard Settle, also on his birthday
 What you have done to promote rising world consciousness is probably without
 parallel in modern times.  But I would like to put a personal face to the
 sponsorship you provide on the IA course.
 Our family lives on the Gold Coast - the tourism capital of the Australia.
 Mum and Dad have been sidhas for over 30 years and I learnt about 3 years
 ago, and my sister Penny learnt a little over a year ago. She saw such
 changes in me that she fast tracked plans to do the CIC course herself. A
 few months, after having learnt, Penny took advantage of your generous and
 insightful offer of sponsorship for the IA course. She resigned from work
 and signed on for 3 months of the course.
 After settling in, she began to have some lovely experiences both in and out
 of programme, and was truly inspired by the quality of the people her own
 age that she met here. They seemed generally happy and friendly; there was a
 calmness and integrity about them.
 She loved being at MUM, with out a doubt it was the best time of her life,
 and at the end of the 3 months she didn't want to leave. On one occasion she
 emailed home a quote from Maharishi that went something like all your
 parents really want to know is that you are happy and Penny added, mum and
 dad - I am happy!
 The other major development for Penny whilst at MUM and after being exposed
 to Maharishi's knowledge was that for the first time in her life she knew
 exactly what she wanted to do. She always wanted to help people at the grass
 roots level, and becoming a TM teacher just clearly stood out as the path
 she wanted to follow. 
 While at MUM, Penny frequently tried to inspire us to come over.and I was
 the first to respond. For 9 years I had worked at Billabong, the world's
 biggest and most successful surf-wear company. I managed product design
 there for the men's accessories ranges. There was a lot of interstate and
 overseas travel, range releases, PR work and long hours involved in the job.
 There was no doubt I had a rosy career ahead of me, but I wanted more from
 life than work alone could offer.
 I had experienced Guru Purnima in Vlodrop, July 2008, which I found
 unforgettable.  But the thing that really clinched it for me were these
 words from Penny, Jamie, if you come over here - you will never want to
 leave. So I resigned from work, staying long enough to train a successor,
 and signed on for 6 months of the IA course. Just to put that decision into
 perspective, I was the type of person who put his heart and soul into his
 job, but on a fateful drive down to Byron with my girlfriend Gab, it was
 like when Maharishi was explaining his announcement to start the global
 Spiritual Regeneration Movement.the idea just 'popped into his head'.  It
 was like God sent down a lightning bolt saying 'now is the time for change,
 and I just blurted out mid sentence that I was going to do this course at
 the end of the year.and we both spontaneously started crying with joy. It
 was one of those days you never forget.
 After the IA course, Penny spent 3 months working on Mother Divine in
 Vlodrop and then returned home. When Penny arrived back in Australia, we all
 noticed what a life changing experience she had been through. She was
 stronger, more one pointed and self-sufficient, yet relaxed and laughed
 freely. We found ourselves going to her for advice quite often. She
 continued working on Mum and Dad to go to MUM.
 One of their responsibilities was caring for dad's 96 year old grandmother
 who, incidentally, does TM. They had ruled out MUM so long as she was alive,
 but Penny offered to move in and help look after Gran so dad could come over
 and do the IA course with me, then after 3 months, all going well, Mum and
 Dad would swap places. Mum would join me for 3 months and Penny would help
 Dad hold down the fort back home. Eventually, after Mum and I return, Penny
 will come back over to do TTC.
 On a personal note.I don't know why but I've always felt that I was going to
 be and do something great in the world, and while at this exact point in
 time I don't know exactly what that is, I do know that this next 6 months on
 the inward stroke on the IA course will be the perfect springboard back into
 dynamism into the relative world.
 So, Howard, as you can see your generous sponsorship has triggered massive

[FairfieldLife] Nadar Ram's Secret Queen

[Doug]

Om, on the subject of Nadar Ram's secret Queen

anybody know the name of the hidden Queen?

How should we refer to her?



 So, what is Bevan saying here?  
 
 That we're supposed to be, blissful and unified in warm and loving 
 response to learning their secret.  To just get on fulfilling our duties … 
 as Maharishi charged us to do.
 
 …May we go ahead together under Maharaja Adhiraj Raja Raam.. without delay.
 
 Many may have heard some of this news, so we thought to let you know
 What had unfolded. With best wishes, Jai Guru Dev Bevan.
 
 Hence this is Bevan's truth.  The best he can do.  No explanation.  No 
 apology.  A spiritual teacher?  Integrity evidently is not a suit that he 
 seems to wear well.
 
 His memo reads more like the dressed up door keep in the Wiz of Oz crying 
 out,  Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!,  just as the truth 
 is coming out.
 
 Great spiritual teaching.,
 
 
  
  
  Juxtaposing these two announcements, some sub-text going on with the
  Winn's spin?
  
  Hagelin appearing frank and truthful,  on paper.
  
  They could use
  
  more of the later.
  
  God help 'em.
  
  JGD,
  
  -D  in FF
  
  
  
  
Here is what looks to me like it may be the original source email:
   
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BuddhaAtTheGasPump/message/1837
  
   -
  
   paste from BuddhaATGP:
   From Raja Wynne and Maureen for you to enjoy.
  
   Jai Guru Dev
   Graeme
  
   Dear Graeme - Here is some wonderful news. Please let your Governors
  and sidhas know without making a grand formal announcement or fanfare.
  I'm sure that all the families of New Zealand will be thrilled and
  delighted.
   Jai Guru Dev
   Raja Wynne and Maureen
  
   end paste
   
  
  
  Dear Rajas and Ministers,
  In a beautiful, tender moment following our Gita Study today,
  Maharaja-ji quietly shared the following.
  He announced that, with Maharishi's blessing, he had gotten married some
  eight years ago, and has two beautiful daughters, age 5-1/2 and 3-1/2.
  Maharishi had requested him to, for the children's sake, maintain the
  privacy of his family until the oldest was old enough to begin school.
  That time has come, and Maharaja therefore felt it was proper to share
  this news with his family of Rajas and Ministers and global leadership.
  Maharishi had told him that, in the tradition of rulership, having the
  support of a Royal Family brought stability and strength to the Kingdom.
  Of course, as was obvious to all--and as Maharaja himself
  emphasized--nothing has changed, or would change, in his Administration,
  and his continued one-pointed focus on the fulfillment of Maharishi's
  global legacy: bringing Total Knowledge--Raam Raj--to the world, while
  focussing on his own deep silence and realization of the supreme goal of
  Brahmi Chetana.
  Many were surprised, including me, but the atmosphere was most festive
  and joyous.
  Jai Guru Dev,   John
  
  
  
  
  
   --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley
  j_alexander_stanley@ wrote:
   
   
   
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@ wrote:

 I missed how Brian Horsfield is involved in this. Please explain.
   
I didn't notice it before, but he made the original post in this
  thread:
   
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/238789
   
Here is what looks to me like it may be the original source email:
   
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BuddhaAtTheGasPump/message/1837
   
  
 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Nadar Ram's Secret Queen

[Doug]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stan...@... 
wrote:

 
 
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Doug dhamiltony2k5@ wrote:
 
  Om, on the subject of Nadar Ram's secret Queen
  
  anybody know the name of the hidden Queen?
  
  How should we refer to her?
 
 Mrs. Nader


Is that good enough?  We've had four announcements come through now on this; 
one by the Wynnes, one by John Hagelin and one by Bevan, and of course the 
confession itself, and no name?

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharaja Adhiraj Rajaraam is married with 2 daughters

[Doug]

It's true, you people trying to participate here who are not in FF are at 
really some loss for the nuance.  It's great.  Should hear the 
ultra-conservative meditators out in the shops on this one.  Yikes!  Om what 
fatwa issued.  Is frightening, the truth of it.  You'll never really know until 
you meditate and live here.  
 JGD,
-Doug in FF


 
 On Jan 16, 2010, at 10:50 AM, Duveyoung wrote:
 
  You folks who live in FF -- why aren't you accosting TBs contually with 
  this kind of evidence?  Are there a lot of heated debates in the coffee 
  shops?
 
 Yeah, Edg, the coffee shops are just burning up
 here in FF.  It's all anyone can talk about!  Why,
 just this morning...
 
 Sal