RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield’s Crisis of Me ditating Numbers in the Dome:

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

Those guidelines of the ‘administrative state’ up there on campus and those 
Rajas who defend them have turned too many capable meditators out from the 
Domes. In the span of a few days after the communal meeting at Phoenix Rising I 
spoke separately with two long long time TM movement meditators who were 
administratively excluded from the Dome meditation for practicing jyotish 
astrology. Both exclaimed they would be there meditating if the guidelines were 
changed to omit the ‘non-compete clauses’ about people who practice jyotish, 
that have nothing to do with their practice of ™.  A couple weeks ago there was 
a former MIU student back visiting who applying for a Dome badge the course 
office did an internet search about the person’s life, judged and told this 
person they would never be allowed in the Dome. Never? We need membership here 
and these people go out into the world and tell others what, about being 
excluded? 
  
 A long time ago now a concert pianist, long time ™ meditator and initiator 
excluded from the Dome meditation and playing on campus at movement events? 
Others too make too many stories in the community.
  
 The narrative needs to change now. It is not enough to claim that things have 
changed when they have not. 
 

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <r...@searchsummit.com> wrote :

 Maharishi once said that there will come a time when I’ll tell you to meditate 
on your own, but for now I want you do it in the domes.
  
 Rick Archer
 Buddha at the Gas Pump
 https://batgap.com https://batgap.com
 r...@batgap.com mailto:r...@batgap.com
 Podcast https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/buddha-at-the-gas-pump/id602578156
  

  
 From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] 
 Sent: Monday, July 10, 2017 5:03 AM
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield’s Crisis of Me ditating Numbers in the 
Dome:


  
  
 e-mail:
  

 Insist all those in stopatya veda homes and on campus meditating in different 
places get back to meditating in the domes...  May take some presentation by 
Travis of the science to actually point out the value of proximity.
Regenerate the power of numbers and proximity in meditation. Facilitating 11 
different program locations and encouraging people to just meditate at home was 
a formula in specialness and loss of communal cohesion.

  

 
 
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 
<dhamiltony...@yahoo.com mailto:dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote :
 Meditating attendees at the men’s Dome had a relatively large 
 ​YOY (year over year) ​
 drop 
 ​this​
 June of 26 
 ​fewer men​
 per Program than last year. 
  
 Attendees at mediation in the women’s Dome had a very very large drop of 79 
per Program, yoy.
 
 
 

 
 
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 
<dhamiltony...@yahoo.com mailto:dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote :
  
 The ending of the “grant” program funding.
  
 Old meditators cut loose as
 the ™ movement readies to
 outsource US Meditation to India.
  
 The international ™ movement is announcing it will shift its funding resources 
away from propping the Dome group meditation in Iowa over to pundit programs in 
India. 
  
 Winding down the “Grant” program..
  
 Financial support for the Invincible America Assembly had been coming in 
substantial amounts donated monthly by Drs. Howard and Mickey Settle. About two 
years ago, the International ™ Movement took over most, then all, of the IAA 
Grant funding, and has now announced it will step down its contributions 
beginning in September, to 22% of the $90,000/month it has been giving, by this 
coming November. 
 
 
 

 
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 
<dhamiltony...@yahoo.com mailto:dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote :
  
 The movement should get out of the business of monitoring people.
  
 FW:  
 Myth: People dropped off or were cut from the Grant because there was not 
enough funds, due to Howard Settle's business situation. 
  
 Truth: Not one person was dropped from the Grant due to reduction in Settle 
funds in 2013. Every single person who re-applied went back on the Grant. Julie 
Anne, who handled the Grant checks, told me this herself. But the 100 person 
drop overnight, and 350 or more after that reduction, was primarilybecause of 
dislike or disapproval of the 'monitoring' system, and, the way that Bryan Lee 
et al conducted the lengthy highly formal meeting to introduce the 'monitoring' 
system (I had warned him what 'monitoring' would do, and also what that type of 
meeting would do, but was disregarded). It crippled Movement family and 
community feeling, what was left of that. 
  
 The reduction in attendance began ONE YEAR BEFORE the Settle funds were 
reduced. In August of 2012. Soon as 'monitoring' started, after 17 nearly 
consecutive higher months, our attendance fell through the floor, and w

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield’s Crisis of Me ditating Numbers in the Dome:

[Rick Archer r...@searchsummit.com [FairfieldLife]]

Maharishi once said that there will come a time when I’ll tell you to meditate 
on your own, but for now I want you do it in the domes.

Rick Archer
Buddha at the Gas Pump
https://batgap.com
r...@batgap.com<mailto:r...@batgap.com>
Podcast<https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/buddha-at-the-gas-pump/id602578156>


From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: Monday, July 10, 2017 5:03 AM
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield’s Crisis of Me ditating Numbers in the 
Dome:



e-mail:

Insist all those in stopatya veda homes and on campus meditating in different 
places get back to meditating in the domes...  May take some presentation by 
Travis of the science to actually point out the value of proximity.
Regenerate the power of numbers and proximity in meditation. Facilitating 11 
different program locations and encouraging people to just meditate at home was 
a formula in specialness and loss of communal cohesion.



---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com<mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>, 
<dhamiltony...@yahoo.com<mailto:dhamiltony...@yahoo.com>> wrote :

Meditating attendees at the men’s Dome had a relatively large

​YOY (year over year) ​

drop

​this​

June of 26

​fewer men​

per Program than last year.



Attendees at mediation in the women’s Dome had a very very large drop of 79 per 
Program, yoy.




---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com<mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>, 
<dhamiltony...@yahoo.com<mailto:dhamiltony...@yahoo.com>> wrote :


The ending of the “grant” program funding.



Old meditators cut loose as

the ™ movement readies to

outsource US Meditation to India.



The international ™ movement is announcing it will shift its funding resources 
away from propping the Dome group meditation in Iowa over to pundit programs in 
India.



Winding down the “Grant” program..



Financial support for the Invincible America Assembly had been coming in 
substantial amounts donated monthly by Drs. Howard and Mickey Settle. About two 
years ago, the International ™ Movement took over most, then all, of the IAA 
Grant funding, and has now announced it will step down its contributions 
beginning in September, to 22% of the $90,000/month it has been giving, by this 
coming November.



---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com<mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>, 
<dhamiltony...@yahoo.com<mailto:dhamiltony...@yahoo.com>> wrote :



The movement should get out of the business of monitoring people.



FW:

Myth: People dropped off or were cut from the Grant because there was not 
enough funds, due to Howard Settle's business situation.



Truth: Not one person was dropped from the Grant due to reduction in Settle 
funds in 2013. Every single person who re-applied went back on the Grant. Julie 
Anne, who handled the Grant checks, told me this herself. But the 100 person 
drop overnight, and 350 or more after that reduction, was primarilybecause of 
dislike or disapproval of the 'monitoring' system, and, the way that Bryan Lee 
et al conducted the lengthy highly formal meeting to introduce the 'monitoring' 
system (I had warned him what 'monitoring' would do, and also what that type of 
meeting would do, but was disregarded). It crippled Movement family and 
community feeling, what was left of that.



The reduction in attendance began ONE YEAR BEFORE the Settle funds were 
reduced. In August of 2012. Soon as 'monitoring' started, after 17 nearly 
consecutive higher months, our attendance fell through the floor, and went down 
12 consecutive months PRIOR TO the Settle fund reduction (then continued 
falling for 39 months after that, until 2 months up for October Surprise (then 
down 3 months in a row since then.





---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com<mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>, 
<dhamiltony...@yahoo.com<mailto:dhamiltony...@yahoo.com>> wrote :

‘Fixing’ the grant $ program and its monitoring?

That seems like.. 'putting Lipstick on a pig’.




---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com<mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>, 
<dhamiltony...@yahoo.com<mailto:dhamiltony...@yahoo.com>> wrote :

The Administrative State of monitoring..



The coloring of consciousness with fear by effect of meditation-monitoring in 
physical observation is antithetical to 'effortless meditation' in creating 
stress to the innocence of the practice.



FW: ..refer to Maharishi's Commentary on the Gita, where he states, inter alia, 
at VI: 10, "the feeling of someone being around him or watching him may impede 
the smoothness of the process of transcending."



 FW:

This monitoring system is clearly in contrast to basic Program instructions 
about not being watched while meditating that are in our Checking Notes, and in 
Chapter VI Verse 10 of Maharishi's Gita.



This system has also been a dagger in the thigh of our Sidha community, alread

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield’s Crisis of Me ditating Numbers in the Dome:

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

e-mail: 

 Insist all those in stopatya veda homes and on campus meditating in different 
places get back to meditating in the domes...  May take some presentation by 
Travis of the science to actually point out the value of proximity.
Regenerate the power of numbers and proximity in meditation. Facilitating 11 
different program locations and encouraging people to just meditate at home was 
a formula in specialness and loss of communal cohesion.

 

 

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

 Meditating attendees at the men’s Dome had a relatively large 
 ​YOY (year over year) ​
 drop 
 ​this​
 June of 26 
 ​fewer men​
 per Program than last year. 
  
 Attendees at mediation in the women’s Dome had a very very large drop of 79 
per Program, yoy.
 

 

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

 
 The ending of the “grant” program funding.
  
 Old meditators cut loose as
 the ™ movement readies to
 outsource US Meditation to India.
  
 The international ™ movement is announcing it will shift its funding resources 
away from propping the Dome group meditation in Iowa over to pundit programs in 
India. 
  
 Winding down the “Grant” program..
  
 Financial support for the Invincible America Assembly had been coming in 
substantial amounts donated monthly by Drs. Howard and Mickey Settle. About two 
years ago, the International ™ Movement took over most, then all, of the IAA 
Grant funding, and has now announced it will step down its contributions 
beginning in September, to 22% of the $90,000/month it has been giving, by this 
coming November. 
 


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

  
 The movement should get out of the business of monitoring people.

 

 FW:  
 Myth: People dropped off or were cut from the Grant because there was not 
enough funds, due to Howard Settle's business situation. 
  
 Truth: Not one person was dropped from the Grant due to reduction in Settle 
funds in 2013. Every single person who re-applied went back on the Grant. Julie 
Anne, who handled the Grant checks, told me this herself. But the 100 person 
drop overnight, and 350 or more after that reduction, was primarilybecause of 
dislike or disapproval of the 'monitoring' system, and, the way that Bryan Lee 
et al conducted the lengthy highly formal meeting to introduce the 'monitoring' 
system (I had warned him what 'monitoring' would do, and also what that type of 
meeting would do, but was disregarded). It crippled Movement family and 
community feeling, what was left of that. 
  
 The reduction in attendance began ONE YEAR BEFORE the Settle funds were 
reduced. In August of 2012. Soon as 'monitoring' started, after 17 nearly 
consecutive higher months, our attendance fell through the floor, and went down 
12 consecutive months PRIOR TO the Settle fund reduction (then continued 
falling for 39 months after that, until 2 months up for October Surprise (then 
down 3 months in a row since then.
  
  
 
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 ‘Fixing’ the grant $ program and its monitoring? 
 That seems like.. 'putting Lipstick on a pig’.  
  
 

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

 The Administrative State of monitoring..
 

 The coloring of consciousness with fear by effect of meditation-monitoring in 
physical observation is antithetical to 'effortless meditation' in creating 
stress to the innocence of the practice.

  
 FW: ..refer to Maharishi's Commentary on the Gita, where he states, inter 
alia, at VI: 10, "the feeling of someone being around him or watching him may 
impede the smoothness of the process of transcending."
  
  FW:
 This monitoring system is clearly in contrast to basic Program instructions 
about not being watched while meditating that are in our Checking Notes, and in 
Chapter VI Verse 10 of Maharishi's Gita. 
  
 This system has also been a dagger in the thigh of our Sidha community, 
already hurt by decades of authoritarian administration. There are mild to very 
hard feelings about it all over town among all those who know about it. It has 
put many people off the end of the diving board w the Movement, hurt our local 
community and Movement more than almost any single thing that has ever happened 
to it. 
  
 note what this 'monitoring' system involves - 
  
 A man up on the stage not meditating, watching each person, counting how many 
hops they take per Program, how many times they go to the bathroom, how many 
minutes they are gone, how many times they lie down to sleep, for how long each 
time, and when they enter and leave the day, to the minute, 
  
 and writing it all down as needed and entering it in a computer spreadsheet at 
night, then the record being reviewed by someone else, then if felt necessary 
someone who is too far from the Program being emailed anonymously, or asked to 
call an out of state phone # of someone 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield’s Crisis of Me ditating Numbers in the Dome:

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

Meditating attendees at the men’s Dome had a relatively large 
 ​YOY (year over year) ​
 drop 
 ​this​
 June of 26 
 ​fewer men​
 per Program than last year. 
  
 Attendees at mediation in the women’s Dome had a very very large drop of 79 
per Program, yoy.
 

 

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

 
 The ending of the “grant” program funding.
  
 Old meditators cut loose as
 the ™ movement readies to
 outsource US Meditation to India.
  
 The international ™ movement is announcing it will shift its funding resources 
away from propping the Dome group meditation in Iowa over to pundit programs in 
India. 
  
 Winding down the “Grant” program..
  
 Financial support for the Invincible America Assembly had been coming in 
substantial amounts donated monthly by Drs. Howard and Mickey Settle. About two 
years ago, the International ™ Movement took over most, then all, of the IAA 
Grant funding, and has now announced it will step down its contributions 
beginning in September, to 22% of the $90,000/month it has been giving, by this 
coming November. 
 


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

  
 The movement should get out of the business of monitoring people.

 

 FW:  
 Myth: People dropped off or were cut from the Grant because there was not 
enough funds, due to Howard Settle's business situation. 
  
 Truth: Not one person was dropped from the Grant due to reduction in Settle 
funds in 2013. Every single person who re-applied went back on the Grant. Julie 
Anne, who handled the Grant checks, told me this herself. But the 100 person 
drop overnight, and 350 or more after that reduction, was primarilybecause of 
dislike or disapproval of the 'monitoring' system, and, the way that Bryan Lee 
et al conducted the lengthy highly formal meeting to introduce the 'monitoring' 
system (I had warned him what 'monitoring' would do, and also what that type of 
meeting would do, but was disregarded). It crippled Movement family and 
community feeling, what was left of that. 
  
 The reduction in attendance began ONE YEAR BEFORE the Settle funds were 
reduced. In August of 2012. Soon as 'monitoring' started, after 17 nearly 
consecutive higher months, our attendance fell through the floor, and went down 
12 consecutive months PRIOR TO the Settle fund reduction (then continued 
falling for 39 months after that, until 2 months up for October Surprise (then 
down 3 months in a row since then.
  
  
 
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 ‘Fixing’ the grant $ program and its monitoring? 
 That seems like.. 'putting Lipstick on a pig’.  
  
 

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

 The Administrative State of monitoring..
 

 The coloring of consciousness with fear by effect of meditation-monitoring in 
physical observation is antithetical to 'effortless meditation' in creating 
stress to the innocence of the practice.

  
 FW: ..refer to Maharishi's Commentary on the Gita, where he states, inter 
alia, at VI: 10, "the feeling of someone being around him or watching him may 
impede the smoothness of the process of transcending."
  
  FW:
 This monitoring system is clearly in contrast to basic Program instructions 
about not being watched while meditating that are in our Checking Notes, and in 
Chapter VI Verse 10 of Maharishi's Gita. 
  
 This system has also been a dagger in the thigh of our Sidha community, 
already hurt by decades of authoritarian administration. There are mild to very 
hard feelings about it all over town among all those who know about it. It has 
put many people off the end of the diving board w the Movement, hurt our local 
community and Movement more than almost any single thing that has ever happened 
to it. 
  
 note what this 'monitoring' system involves - 
  
 A man up on the stage not meditating, watching each person, counting how many 
hops they take per Program, how many times they go to the bathroom, how many 
minutes they are gone, how many times they lie down to sleep, for how long each 
time, and when they enter and leave the day, to the minute, 
  
 and writing it all down as needed and entering it in a computer spreadsheet at 
night, then the record being reviewed by someone else, then if felt necessary 
someone who is too far from the Program being emailed anonymously, or asked to 
call an out of state phone # of someone they never heard of? 
 



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

 
 FW: "..refer to Maharishi's Commentary on the Gita, where he states, inter 
alia, at VI: 10, "the feeling of someone being around him or watching him may 
impede the smoothness of the process of transcending."
 


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

 At this point we should carry on without the movement doing the paying of 
people to meditate. That is just fraught with bad feeling. Parse that off