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[FairfieldLife] Re: Meditating Fairfield, Iowa [1974-2014+]

2019-12-03 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]



 The Fairfield Meditating Community: Yep, in process should have 'mission' well 
described to develop and have successful policy. Editing from their memo, this 
is a good start at describing who we are:
 

 “We are a group of people who have come together and created a community for a 
transcendentally important common purpose, which of course is to practice the 
Transcendental Meditation program and the TM-Sidhi program together as a group, 
for the sake of bringing coherence to national consciousness. .. our 
Super-Radiance community includes all the Meditators as well as the families of 
all the Sidhas and Meditators.”
 

 -Buck in the Dome
 

 Well, the memo is a needed advocacy for the community here..
 
 “We are a group of people who have come together and created a community for a 
transcendentally important common purpose, which of course is to practice the 
Transcendental Meditation program and the TM-Sidhi program together as a group, 
for the sake of bringing coherence to national consciousness. .. our 
Super-Radiance community includes all the Meditators as well as the families of 
all the Sidhas and Meditators.”
 

 The Super-Radiance Community paragraphs at the bottom of the memo are 
important ones that are now actively adding meditators in to policy description 
of the broader Fairfield, Vedic City and Jefferson County meditation community. 
As a change in course this particularly is a substantial one to notice. That is 
new and a new welcome thought.
 

 While the larger attempt at transparency is a frank signature element of the 
change; however, the definition of the Fairfield meditating community away from 
just the TM-sidha/yogic flying TSR Dome-going community to include [TM] 
meditators of the community as the Super-Radiance Community is the substantial 
change.
 

 Loaded down old super-tankers don't change course quickly. This is an attempt 
at a major change of direction even in Fairfield where there are so many old 
meditators of the TM movement and most who live as meditators in the meditating 
community without much of any relationship to the organization. I wish the 
corporate TM organization all good shipping through the chop of the narrows 
they are sailing through. -Buck in the Dome
 

 Pablum? No, actually this memo is a major and conscious policy change. Most 
you don't live in Fairfield or have nothing to do with meditating Fairfield. 
Possibly you are or were once practicing meditators. This particular memo as 
sent out is actually a really important change of direction. By policy 
initiative it is an attempt to organizationally soften, facilitate, re-gather 
and include meditators again by policy in to the interests of the TM movement. 
 

 Maharishi Mahesh Yogi for whatever reason left to founder the meditators and 
the meditating movement un-attended from late in the 1970's shifting his 
attention on to programs for advanced meditators around yogic flying and the 
TM-Sidhis and monumental projects for creating Heaven on Earth. So it was and 
so it is; and, the meditating element of the movement crescendo-ed from those 
days and times of higher point. Now as part of a practical process of 
succession planning the re-inclusion of 'the meditator' is back in to a 
definition of our corporate communal policy as essential formative element. 
This is a huge strategic change in direction being brought about by some savvy 
old [retirement-aged] field teachers of TM as recognized necessity. The 
TM-teaching movement is once again being generally successful and this policy 
move is timely and strategically helpful towards unifying and supporting that 
larger regeneration of a meditating movement otherwise. It is a purposeful 
organizational realignment of priority and also significant to what is communal 
meditating and non-meditating Fairfield.
 -Buck in the Dome
 

 Rick Archer posts:
 Raja John Hagelin wrote:
 

 
 February 26, 2014
 Dear Sidhas and Meditators of Fairfield, Maharishi Vedic City, and Jefferson 
County,
 Over the last couple of years we have been making some structural changes and, 
we hope, significant improvements in how our Super-Radiance community 
functions. It is all for the purpose of giving you a better experience of 
living here and doing program in our flying halls—deeper programs, more fun, 
more friendliness, better service, more transparency, inclusiveness, due 
process, and community spirit. I’d like to lay out for you how our 
Super-Radiance community is organized these days. I’ve also included a couple 
of organizational charts below so you can see how everything fits together. 
 The Invincible America Assembly
 The Invincible America Assembly consists of every Sidha who has a dome badge 
and attends group program. You don’t need to be rounding to be on the 
Invincible America Assembly—although rounding is an extraordinary experience in 
our special dome atmosphere.
 The Invincible America Solutions Group
 The Invincible America Solutions

[FairfieldLife] In Meditating Fairfield, Iowa

2016-11-27 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]

FW: 
 ..But these achievements are just the tip of the iceberg. We have just emerged 
from a weekend strategic summit with our University brain trust, where we set a 
path for rapid expansion and strengthening of all aspects of the University: 
bolstering student satisfaction, retention, and enrollment; improving faculty 
skills, credentials, compensation, housing, and benefits—including retirement 
benefits; enhancing our ability to inspire our students with Maharishi’s unique 
knowledge and vision, deepening their experiences with Advanced Techniques and 
the TM-Sidhis; strengthening our core academic programs; and expanding programs 
that will have the greatest positive financial impact, thereby providing the 
economic engine to fulfill all these other vital commitments.

 

 
 With my deepest thanks for your timely support, and with my sincere wishes for 
your health, happiness and success.
   John Hagelin, Ph.D.
President

[FairfieldLife] Fw: Meditating Fairfield, Iowa - Providing Food Security to Families in Developing Countries

2016-09-05 Thread Doug Hamilton dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]





 
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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 
to offer internship possibilities for MUM students in permaculture and 
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[FairfieldLife] Re: Meditating Fairfield, Iowa [1974-2014+]

2015-10-20 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]

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

 The Fairfield Meditating Community: Yep, in process should have 'mission' well 
described to develop and have successful policy. Editing from their memo, this 
is a good start at describing who we are:
 

 “We are a group of people who have come together and created a community for a 
transcendentally important common purpose, which of course is to practice the 
Transcendental Meditation program and the TM-Sidhi program together as a group, 
for the sake of bringing coherence to national consciousness. .. our 
Super-Radiance community includes all the Meditators as well as the families of 
all the Sidhas and Meditators.”
 

 -Buck in the Dome
 

 Well, the memo is a needed advocacy for the community here..
 
 “We are a group of people who have come together and created a community for a 
transcendentally important common purpose, which of course is to practice the 
Transcendental Meditation program and the TM-Sidhi program together as a group, 
for the sake of bringing coherence to national consciousness. .. our 
Super-Radiance community includes all the Meditators as well as the families of 
all the Sidhas and Meditators.”
 

 The Super-Radiance Community paragraphs at the bottom of the memo are 
important ones that are now actively adding meditators in to policy description 
of the broader Fairfield, Vedic City and Jefferson County meditation community. 
As a change in course this particularly is a substantial one to notice. That is 
new and a new welcome thought.
 

 While the larger attempt at transparency is a frank signature element of the 
change; however, the definition of the Fairfield meditating community away from 
just the TM-sidha/yogic flying TSR Dome-going community to include [TM] 
meditators of the community as the Super-Radiance Community is the substantial 
change.
 

 Loaded down old super-tankers don't change course quickly. This is an attempt 
at a major change of direction even in Fairfield where there are so many old 
meditators of the TM movement and most who live as meditators in the meditating 
community without much of any relationship to the organization. I wish the 
corporate TM organization all good shipping through the chop of the narrows 
they are sailing through. -Buck in the Dome
 

 Pablum? No, actually this memo is a major and conscious policy change. Most 
you don't live in Fairfield or have nothing to do with meditating Fairfield. 
Possibly you are or were once practicing meditators. This particular memo as 
sent out is actually a really important change of direction. By policy 
initiative it is an attempt to organizationally soften, facilitate, re-gather 
and include meditators again by policy in to the interests of the TM movement. 
 

 Maharishi Mahesh Yogi for whatever reason left to founder the meditators and 
the meditating movement un-attended from late in the 1970's shifting his 
attention on to programs for advanced meditators around yogic flying and the 
TM-Sidhis and monumental projects for creating Heaven on Earth. So it was and 
so it is; and, the meditating element of the movement crescendo-ed from those 
days and times of higher point. Now as part of a practical process of 
succession planning the re-inclusion of 'the meditator' is back in to a 
definition of our corporate communal policy as essential formative element. 
This is a huge strategic change in direction being brought about by some savvy 
old [retirement-aged] field teachers of TM as recognized necessity. The 
TM-teaching movement is once again being generally successful and this policy 
move is timely and strategically helpful towards unifying and supporting that 
larger regeneration of a meditating movement otherwise. It is a purposeful 
organizational realignment of priority and also significant to what is communal 
meditating and non-meditating Fairfield.
 -Buck in the Dome
 

 Rick Archer posts:
 Raja John Hagelin wrote:
 

 
 February 26, 2014
 Dear Sidhas and Meditators of Fairfield, Maharishi Vedic City, and Jefferson 
County,
 Over the last couple of years we have been making some structural changes and, 
we hope, significant improvements in how our Super-Radiance community 
functions. It is all for the purpose of giving you a better experience of 
living here and doing program in our flying halls—deeper programs, more fun, 
more friendliness, better service, more transparency, inclusiveness, due 
process, and community spirit. I’d like to lay out for you how our 
Super-Radiance community is organized these days. I’ve also included a couple 
of organizational charts below so you can see how everything fits together. 
 The Invincible America Assembly
 The Invincible America Assembly consists of every Sidha who has a dome badge 
and attends group program. You don’t need to be rounding to be on the 
Invincible America Assembly—although rounding is an extraordinary experience in 
our special dome atmosphere.

[FairfieldLife] How's Meditating Fairfield, Iowa Doing?

2015-10-05 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]

I just returned from a scholar's conference on Communal Societies. Spent the
past week traveling to the Lexington, Ky area for the annual meeting of the
Communal Studies Association. http://www.communalstudies.org/
http://www.communalstudies.org/

The conference is three days of scholarly papers on groups like ours here in
Fairfield, Iowa multiple sessions with papers being delivered on 20 minute
intervals. 2015 Paper schedule:
http://www.communalstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Pleasant-Hill-Program-12-Sept-15.pdf

http://www.communalstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Pleasant-Hill-Program-12-Sept-15.pdf

They host their annual meetings at historic sites of communal societies. This
year their conference was at the historic Shaker village of Pleasant Hill. The
historic site at Pleasant Hill is of a historic ashram-like spiritual group
with many features similar to our own here in Fairfield, Iowa.
http://shakervillageky.org/ http://shakervillageky.org/

About 130 association members came to this years conference. Lot of the
scholars teach at the university level who use the Communal Studies Association
to be able to present papers in conference or publish in the association's
journal. Also there were papers given by people who live in communal groups of
various types.

I've been attending these conferences for a number of years now. Most all the
papers are interesting and relevant to Fairfield in some way by comparison as
criticism. I always go away from these conferences with relevant things that I
will think about for the following year.

I have gone enough times to their annual conference that folks in this
association know me as the person from Fairfield, Iowa and folks at the
conference will then often ask me in conversation how it is going for the
meditating group here?

Of course there are layers to answering this question. Well, on returning home
to Fairfield, Iowa from the CSA annual conference I drove in just in time for
the weekly shape note harmony sing in Fairfield. In the Sacred Harp tune book
there is a song titled, The Church's Desolation. The last verse of the text is
a pretty good paraphrased succinct description of 'how it is going' in
Fairfield for the contemporary meditating community. The Church's Desolation is
a real fine tune to sing by example of the genre with great harmony and
poignant narrative in the text. Verse 3, like meditating Fairfield, Iowa:

Some few, like good Elijah, stand
While thousands have revolted,
In earnest for the heav'nly land
They never yet have halted.
With such religion doth remain,
For they are not perverted;
O may they all through men regain

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