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Interesting that so many of these spiritual groups that developed historically
had commonly started out around a mystic in meetings held in people's living
rooms then going on towards facilitating around that in to organizations and
becoming a history. In Europe they would have living room meetings [satsanga?]
and then grow in to facilitating groups while defending themselves against the
persecutions that would come from the established local orthodoxy, be that the
Lutherans, Papists, or Anglicans of their day. Then, eventually fleeing to
America.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
Thanks. Yes, the world could use a lot more piety. FFL could too.
-Buck the Pious
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
Nicely put. It reminds me of something I wanted to say about awoelflebater's
post on another thread ("power naps"): "Now, these long-term, incessant
meditators obviously have absolutely nothing else pressing in their lives to
compel them to want to stand up and open their eyes.":
We understand what you're saying but it is a common belief in all
contemplative traditions that communities joined together practising silent
prayer (eg, monks and nuns) have a beneficial effect on the world even though
to practical, common-sense types they seem to be a waste of space. Indeed, even
the very recollection that there are men and women who forsake the feverish
ambitions of the mass of people induces a feeling of calm!
---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
[Pietist, belief in the power of individual meditation [Quietism] on the
divine [Unified Field] – a direct, individual approach to the ultimate
spiritual reality of the [Unified Field] – ]
[FairfieldLife] RE: RE: RE: A vision of Fairfield's future?
Whittier, Iowa Hicksite Quakers, National Registry of Historic Places; Settlement era Iowa Meissner Effect [ME] Group Meditation: https://sites.google.com/site/ffhamfampage/clients/whittier-quaker-meeting-house https://sites.google.com/site/ffhamfampage/clients/whittier-quaker-meeting-house ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: Zoar http://www.ohiohistory.org/museums-and-historic-sites/museum--historic-sites-by-name/zoar-village http://www.ohiohistory.org/museums-and-historic-sites/museum--historic-sites-by-name/zoar-village ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: [Pietist, belief in the power of individual meditation [Quietism] on the divine [Unified Field] – a direct, individual approach to the ultimate spiritual reality of the [Unified Field] – ] ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: In a coming future, meditating Fairfield, Iowa very likely shall also come to be on the National Registry of Historic Places along with other important spiritual practice communities of American and Western history. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: Going forward meditating Fairfield, Iowa is blazing still its contemporary and revolutionary commentary on 21st Century materialism and spiritual and religious American community. Jai Brahmananda Saraswati! -Buck, in the Dome ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: Yes, meditating Fairfield as a spiritual practice community was never conceived an amusement park. Even right now it is a living artifact of 20th Century American spiritual experience and community. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: Feste37 makes a very important distinction here. Fairfield clearly is even now a historic American pietist spiritual practice community rooted in the practices of Quietism. -Buck Feste37 writes, “Fairfield is not a theme park, dummy.” ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: Fairfield is not a theme park, dummy. ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: http://www.messynessychic.com/2013/10/04/holy-land-usa-before-after-the-abandoned-christian-theme-park/ http://www.messynessychic.com/2013/10/04/holy-land-usa-before-after-the-abandoned-christian-theme-park/
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Yes, meditating Fairfield as a spiritual practice community was never conceived an amusement park. Even right now it is a living artifact of 20th Century American spiritual experience and community. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: Feste37 makes a very important distinction here. Fairfield clearly is even now a historic American pietist spiritual practice community rooted in the practices of Quietism. -Buck Feste37 writes, “Fairfield is not a theme park, dummy.” ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: Fairfield is not a theme park, dummy. ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: http://www.messynessychic.com/2013/10/04/holy-land-usa-before-after-the-abandoned-christian-theme-park/ http://www.messynessychic.com/2013/10/04/holy-land-usa-before-after-the-abandoned-christian-theme-park/
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If the incredible story of man destroying his fellow man depresses you, you *really* won't like this article. It's about the same tendency in women. Talk about Mean Girls: /www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/10/06/hitler-s-killer-women-reveale\ d-in-new-history.html s3raphita sez: Re "Yeah, I am a big fan of places left to crumble. I saw Devil's Island . . . ": I know where you're coming from. That sounds like a fantastic but disturbing place to see. The closest I got to such an experience was when when I visited the Channel Islands. The islands were the only part of the UK that were occupied by the Nazis in WWII and they used slave labour to construct vast underground complexes. The sites are open for tourists to visit and I swear that you can sense the ghosts of the former inmates who died in the thousands from starvation and over-work. I still shudder whenever I remember my visit. That people could be so brutal to fellow humans is quite literally incomprehensible to me. It was a traumatic onslaught, and it is to this day a nightmarish memory. It reminds me of my visit to the Imperial War Museum in London. When you enter, at first you are quite upbeat: Wow, there's a German Tiger tank just like in the movies. And look there! There's a Spitfire fighter, and so-on. But eventually the sheer overload of witnessing the various ways man has invented to massacre his fellows really starts to wear you down. Oddly, the most disturbing exhibits were from a World War One display which had authentic home-made (trench-made) knuckle dusters and such-like primitive weapons. It was warfare reduced to a close-combat gang fight - primitive, brutal and elemental. I was seriously depressed when I left!
