[FairfieldLife] Re: SitTFup and Meditate: Fa irfield’s Crisis in the Dome
Kapha pacification in the Domes.. This is an excellent teaching having coffee and teas available in the Domes that would yield a whole lot better result than say having some General Patton monitoring meditations walking through the Dome meditation slapping the sleepers awake or kicking up the slouchers, trying to improve their character. ---In [email protected], wrote : Yes, as one understands the larger significance of the group meditating in the Domes here in Fairfield, Iowa it becomes imperative that the community contact Dr. Hagelin and ask him to address this problem directly in the Domes. ---In [email protected], wrote : Jai Guru Dev, yes a very practical administrative policy remediation of this situation with some people feeling they should come to the Domes to sleep, people who even take it as some instructional prerogative towards somnolence, one policy change that could be quite helpful to the Dome meditation generally would be having coffee or chai available in the Dome lobby area. Sal Sunshine agrees: I vote for a latte/espresso machine, would serve a dual purpose of warming the guys up in the colder weather. The TMO could charge a few bucks, make some serious extra cash. And in this case, it would actually be for something people wanted. Then again, keeping people uncomfortable and hungry seems to be part of the program. Sal ---In [email protected], wrote : Yes like, have coffee and tea available in the men’s Dome entry area just inside the first door off to the left before one would go through the second door where the badges are checked. To the left out of the flow of people coming where some of the grant bubba's already often gather and sit talking. The communal problem of spiritual somnolence and ill discipline could then be better resolved following Maharishi’s instruction: “You’ve slept enough. If you are falling asleep in meditation take some stimulants, like coffee or tea”. ---In [email protected], wrote : Maharishi instructed, “If you are falling asleep in meditation take some stimulants, like coffee or tea”. On my Governor training course with Maharishi some guy was telling Maharishi that he was falling asleep in meditation a lot. This was about half way through the course with Maharishi. Maharishi heard this guy go on about falling asleep in meditation and snapped, “You’ve slept enough. If you are falling asleep in meditation take some stimulants, like coffee or tea”. Scout’s honor, that was the instruction. Bevan was there too, he could back me up on this instruction directly from Maharishi. Adding to the list of Dr. Hagelin’s action points: a coffee maker and the makings for black, green or chai teas in the Domes would be helpful for the kapha types. ---In [email protected], wrote : Qualitatively I can vouch that generally people are actually sitting up attending more to meditating now than before there was monitoring of the grant $. Possibly this one aspect of more people actually sitting up and meditating is a general benefit of the greater expectations in monitoring. Before the monitoring of the grant the meditating community with its Domes were well known for its TM sleepers “dosing for dollars”. Quite evidently there now is a lot more meditating going on per dollar granted for meditating than before but a spiritual hurt otherwise here has been great. Not like it used to be but the Domes even with their incredibly attrited numbers are still powerfully activated spiritual places to meditate. That a meditator would live in Fairfield and not go to the Dome meditation? God save the Domes. ---In [email protected], wrote : E-mail: “I was on the assembly for 4 years, and even while "minding my own business," as Maharishi said, it was still obvious that there were a number of individuals who were "off the program." Certain guys would lie down almost immediately on arrival in the dome and sleep through the entire round! Sometimes both rounds! This was happening, like, right in front of me, so it was pretty hard to miss. In the early days,” I agree this problem and fair observation with others sleeping in the Domes needs to be in a larger consideration about the Dome meditation and like so many other things there with the community it needs to be spoken to by some calm leadership. ---In [email protected], wrote : Succinct Action Steps for Dr. Hagelin to Engage Group conversations and committee summaries: Top of list: Re-articulate Communal Mission Dissolve all the Meditation Monitoring System(s). Get the movement out of all the biz of monitoring people (students, faculty, grantees, citizens, old initiators/govs of TSR) and their meditations. Dissolve the IAA grant program as it is currently. Re-Start a World Peace Assembly for those who can. Shorten
[FairfieldLife] Re: SitTFup and Meditate: Fa irfield’s Crisis in the Dome
Kaffa pacification in the Domes.. This is an excellent teaching having coffee and teas available in the Domes that would yield a whole lot better result than say having some General Patton monitoring meditations walking through the Dome meditation slapping the sleepers awake or kicking up the slouchers, trying to improve their character. ---In [email protected], wrote : Yes, as one understands the larger significance of the group meditating in the Domes here in Fairfield, Iowa it becomes imperative that the community contact Dr. Hagelin and ask him to address this problem directly in the Domes. ---In [email protected], wrote : Jai Guru Dev, yes a very practical administrative policy remediation of this situation with some people feeling they should come to the Domes to sleep, people who even take it as some instructional prerogative towards somnolence, one policy change that could be quite helpful to the Dome meditation generally would be having coffee or chai available in the Dome lobby area. Sal Sunshine agrees: I vote for a latte/espresso machine, would serve a dual purpose of warming the guys up in the colder weather. The TMO could charge a few bucks, make some serious extra cash. And in this case, it would actually be for something people wanted. Then again, keeping people uncomfortable and hungry seems to be part of the program. Sal ---In [email protected], wrote : Yes like, have coffee and tea available in the men’s Dome entry area just inside the first door off to the left before one would go through the second door where the badges are checked. To the left out of the flow of people coming where some of the grant bubba's already often gather and sit talking. The communal problem of spiritual somnolence and ill discipline could then be better resolved following Maharishi’s instruction: “You’ve slept enough. If you are falling asleep in meditation take some stimulants, like coffee or tea”. ---In [email protected], wrote : Maharishi instructed, “If you are falling asleep in meditation take some stimulants, like coffee or tea”. On my Governor training course with Maharishi some guy was telling Maharishi that he was falling asleep in meditation a lot. This was about half way through the course with Maharishi. Maharishi heard this guy go on about falling asleep in meditation and snapped, “You’ve slept enough. If you are falling asleep in meditation take some stimulants, like coffee or tea”. Scout’s honor, that was the instruction. Bevan was there too, he could back me up on this instruction directly from Maharishi. Adding to the list of Dr. Hagelin’s action points: a coffee maker and the makings for black, green or chai teas in the Domes would be helpful for the kapha types. ---In [email protected], wrote : Qualitatively I can vouch that generally people are actually sitting up attending more to meditating now than before there was monitoring of the grant $. Possibly this one aspect of more people actually sitting up and meditating is a general benefit of the greater expectations in monitoring. Before the monitoring of the grant the meditating community with its Domes were well known for its TM sleepers “dosing for dollars”. Quite evidently there now is a lot more meditating going on per dollar granted for meditating than before but a spiritual hurt otherwise here has been great. Not like it used to be but the Domes even with their incredibly attrited numbers are still powerfully activated spiritual places to meditate. That a meditator would live in Fairfield and not go to the Dome meditation? God save the Domes. ---In [email protected], wrote : E-mail: “I was on the assembly for 4 years, and even while "minding my own business," as Maharishi said, it was still obvious that there were a number of individuals who were "off the program." Certain guys would lie down almost immediately on arrival in the dome and sleep through the entire round! Sometimes both rounds! This was happening, like, right in front of me, so it was pretty hard to miss. In the early days,” I agree this problem and fair observation with others sleeping in the Domes needs to be in a larger consideration about the Dome meditation and like so many other things there with the community it needs to be spoken to by some calm leadership. ---In [email protected], wrote : Succinct Action Steps for Dr. Hagelin to Engage Group conversations and committee summaries: Top of list: Re-articulate Communal Mission Dissolve all the Meditation Monitoring System(s). Get the movement out of all the biz of monitoring people (students, faculty, grantees, citizens, old initiators/govs of TSR) and their meditations. Dissolve the IAA grant program as it is currently. Re-Start a World Peace Assembly for those who can. Short
[FairfieldLife] Re: SitTFup and Meditate: Fa irfield’s Crisis in the Dome
Yes, as one understands the larger significance of the group meditating in the Domes here in Fairfield, Iowa it becomes imperative that the community contact Dr. Hagelin and ask him to address this problem directly in the Domes. ---In [email protected], wrote : Jai Guru Dev, yes a very practical administrative policy remediation of this situation with some people feeling they should come to the Domes to sleep, people who even take it as some instructional prerogative towards somnolence, one policy change that could be quite helpful to the Dome meditation generally would be having coffee or chai available in the Dome lobby area. Sal Sunshine agrees: I vote for a latte/espresso machine, would serve a dual purpose of warming the guys up in the colder weather. The TMO could charge a few bucks, make some serious extra cash. And in this case, it would actually be for something people wanted. Then again, keeping people uncomfortable and hungry seems to be part of the program. Sal ---In [email protected], wrote : Yes like, have coffee and tea available in the men’s Dome entry area just inside the first door off to the left before one would go through the second door where the badges are checked. To the left out of the flow of people coming where some of the grant bubba's already often gather and sit talking. The communal problem of spiritual somnolence and ill discipline could then be better resolved following Maharishi’s instruction: “You’ve slept enough. If you are falling asleep in meditation take some stimulants, like coffee or tea”. ---In [email protected], wrote : Maharishi instructed, “If you are falling asleep in meditation take some stimulants, like coffee or tea”. On my Governor training course with Maharishi some guy was telling Maharishi that he was falling asleep in meditation a lot. This was about half way through the course with Maharishi. Maharishi heard this guy go on about falling asleep in meditation and snapped, “You’ve slept enough. If you are falling asleep in meditation take some stimulants, like coffee or tea”. Scout’s honor, that was the instruction. Bevan was there too, he could back me up on this instruction directly from Maharishi. Adding to the list of Dr. Hagelin’s action points: a coffee maker and the makings for black, green or chai teas in the Domes would be helpful for the kapha types. ---In [email protected], wrote : Qualitatively I can vouch that generally people are actually sitting up attending more to meditating now than before there was monitoring of the grant $. Possibly this one aspect of more people actually sitting up and meditating is a general benefit of the greater expectations in monitoring. Before the monitoring of the grant the meditating community with its Domes were well known for its TM sleepers “dosing for dollars”. Quite evidently there now is a lot more meditating going on per dollar granted for meditating than before but a spiritual hurt otherwise here has been great. Not like it used to be but the Domes even with their incredibly attrited numbers are still powerfully activated spiritual places to meditate. That a meditator would live in Fairfield and not go to the Dome meditation? God save the Domes. ---In [email protected], wrote : E-mail: “I was on the assembly for 4 years, and even while "minding my own business," as Maharishi said, it was still obvious that there were a number of individuals who were "off the program." Certain guys would lie down almost immediately on arrival in the dome and sleep through the entire round! Sometimes both rounds! This was happening, like, right in front of me, so it was pretty hard to miss. In the early days,” I agree this problem and fair observation with others sleeping in the Domes needs to be in a larger consideration about the Dome meditation and like so many other things there with the community it needs to be spoken to by some calm leadership. ---In [email protected], wrote : Succinct Action Steps for Dr. Hagelin to Engage Group conversations and committee summaries: Top of list: Re-articulate Communal Mission Dissolve all the Meditation Monitoring System(s). Get the movement out of all the biz of monitoring people (students, faculty, grantees, citizens, old initiators/govs of TSR) and their meditations. Dissolve the IAA grant program as it is currently. Re-Start a World Peace Assembly for those who can. Shorten the morning and evening long program by letting attendees out of the Domes by 11:45am and 6:15pm so our meditators could be eating and networking in sync with the larger meditating community around them. Axe the time spent on the puja and the 10am ‘number one’ experience meeting in the middle of the morning meditation. Worst than just being spartan the grant program as it has been admin
[FairfieldLife] Re: SitTFup and Meditate: Fa irfield’s Crisis in the Dome
Jai Guru Dev, yes a very practical administrative policy remediation of this situation with some people feeling they should come to the Domes to sleep, people who even take it as some instructional prerogative towards somnolence, one policy change that could be quite helpful to the Dome meditation generally would be having coffee or chai available in the Dome lobby area. Sal Sunshine agrees: I vote for a latte/espresso machine, would serve a dual purpose of warming the guys up in the colder weather. The TMO could charge a few bucks, make some serious extra cash. And in this case, it would actually be for something people wanted. Then again, keeping people uncomfortable and hungry seems to be part of the program. Sal ---In [email protected], wrote : Yes like, have coffee and tea available in the men’s Dome entry area just inside the first door off to the left before one would go through the second door where the badges are checked. To the left out of the flow of people coming where some of the grant bubba's already often gather and sit talking. The communal problem of spiritual somnolence and ill discipline could then be better resolved following Maharishi’s instruction: “You’ve slept enough. If you are falling asleep in meditation take some stimulants, like coffee or tea”. ---In [email protected], wrote : Maharishi instructed, “If you are falling asleep in meditation take some stimulants, like coffee or tea”. On my Governor training course with Maharishi some guy was telling Maharishi that he was falling asleep in meditation a lot. This was about half way through the course with Maharishi. Maharishi heard this guy go on about falling asleep in meditation and snapped, “You’ve slept enough. If you are falling asleep in meditation take some stimulants, like coffee or tea”. Scout’s honor, that was the instruction. Bevan was there too, he could back me up on this instruction directly from Maharishi. Adding to the list of Dr. Hagelin’s action points: a coffee maker and the makings for black, green or chai teas in the Domes would be helpful for the kapha types. ---In [email protected], wrote : Qualitatively I can vouch that generally people are actually sitting up attending more to meditating now than before there was monitoring of the grant $. Possibly this one aspect of more people actually sitting up and meditating is a general benefit of the greater expectations in monitoring. Before the monitoring of the grant the meditating community with its Domes were well known for its TM sleepers “dosing for dollars”. Quite evidently there now is a lot more meditating going on per dollar granted for meditating than before but a spiritual hurt otherwise here has been great. Not like it used to be but the Domes even with their incredibly attrited numbers are still powerfully activated spiritual places to meditate. That a meditator would live in Fairfield and not go to the Dome meditation? God save the Domes. ---In [email protected], wrote : E-mail: “I was on the assembly for 4 years, and even while "minding my own business," as Maharishi said, it was still obvious that there were a number of individuals who were "off the program." Certain guys would lie down almost immediately on arrival in the dome and sleep through the entire round! Sometimes both rounds! This was happening, like, right in front of me, so it was pretty hard to miss. In the early days,” I agree this problem and fair observation with others sleeping in the Domes needs to be in a larger consideration about the Dome meditation and like so many other things there with the community it needs to be spoken to by some calm leadership. ---In [email protected], wrote : Succinct Action Steps for Dr. Hagelin to Engage Group conversations and committee summaries: Top of list: Re-articulate Communal Mission Dissolve all the Meditation Monitoring System(s). Get the movement out of all the biz of monitoring people (students, faculty, grantees, citizens, old initiators/govs of TSR) and their meditations. Dissolve the IAA grant program as it is currently. Re-Start a World Peace Assembly for those who can. Shorten the morning and evening long program by letting attendees out of the Domes by 11:45am and 6:15pm so our meditators could be eating and networking in sync with the larger meditating community around them. Axe the time spent on the puja and the 10am ‘number one’ experience meeting in the middle of the morning meditation. Worst than just being spartan the grant program as it has been administered turns these people into renunciate sanyasis in our midsts. Stop the daily Puja Performance as part of the Dome meditation program Stop the 10:00am ‘number one experience’ sessions. Make that meeting now separate from the meditating of the group. Get the Dome WPA med
[FairfieldLife] Re: SitTFup and Meditate: Fa irfield’s Crisis in the Dome
Yes like, have coffee and tea available in the men’s Dome entry area just inside the first door off to the left before one would go through the second door where the badges are checked. To the left out of the flow of people coming where some of the grant bubba's already often gather and sit talking. The communal problem of spiritual somnolence and ill discipline could then be better resolved following Maharishi’s instruction: “You’ve slept enough. If you are falling asleep in meditation take some stimulants, like coffee or tea”. ---In [email protected], wrote : Maharishi instructed, “If you are falling asleep in meditation take some stimulants, like coffee or tea”. On my Governor training course with Maharishi some guy was telling Maharishi that he was falling asleep in meditation a lot. This was about half way through the course with Maharishi. Maharishi heard this guy go on about falling asleep in meditation and snapped, “You’ve slept enough. If you are falling asleep in meditation take some stimulants, like coffee or tea”. Scout’s honor, that was the instruction. Bevan was there too, he could back me up on this instruction directly from Maharishi. Adding to the list of Dr. Hagelin’s action points: a coffee maker and the makings for black, green or chai teas in the Domes would be helpful for the kapha types. ---In [email protected], wrote : Qualitatively I can vouch that generally people are actually sitting up attending more to meditating now than before there was monitoring of the grant $. Possibly this one aspect of more people actually sitting up and meditating is a general benefit of the greater expectations in monitoring. Before the monitoring of the grant the meditating community with its Domes were well known for its TM sleepers “dosing for dollars”. Quite evidently there now is a lot more meditating going on per dollar granted for meditating than before but a spiritual hurt otherwise here has been great. Not like it used to be but the Domes even with their incredibly attrited numbers are still powerfully activated spiritual places to meditate. That a meditator would live in Fairfield and not go to the Dome meditation? God save the Domes. ---In [email protected], wrote : E-mail: “I was on the assembly for 4 years, and even while "minding my own business," as Maharishi said, it was still obvious that there were a number of individuals who were "off the program." Certain guys would lie down almost immediately on arrival in the dome and sleep through the entire round! Sometimes both rounds! This was happening, like, right in front of me, so it was pretty hard to miss. In the early days,” I agree this problem and fair observation with others sleeping in the Domes needs to be in a larger consideration about the Dome meditation and like so many other things there with the community it needs to be spoken to by some calm leadership. ---In [email protected], wrote : Succinct Action Steps for Dr. Hagelin to Engage Group conversations and committee summaries: Top of list: Re-articulate Communal Mission Dissolve all the Meditation Monitoring System(s). Get the movement out of all the biz of monitoring people (students, faculty, grantees, citizens, old initiators/govs of TSR) and their meditations. Dissolve the IAA grant program as it is currently. Re-Start a World Peace Assembly for those who can. Shorten the morning and evening long program by letting attendees out of the Domes by 11:45am and 6:15pm so our meditators could be eating and networking in sync with the larger meditating community around them. Axe the time spent on the puja and the 10am ‘number one’ experience meeting in the middle of the morning meditation. Worst than just being spartan the grant program as it has been administered turns these people into renunciate sanyasis in our midsts. Stop the daily Puja Performance as part of the Dome meditation program Stop the 10:00am ‘number one experience’ sessions. Make that meeting now separate from the meditating of the group. Get the Dome WPA meditation down to two long programs for anyone who would take the time. Advocate largely for the larger group meditation by the practice of transcendent meditative experience along with the science, and not through disciplinary punitive means of judging or monitoring of practice while meditating, the level of fealty of faith or belief, or the individual lives of members. Done. Q: They wonder, why are people not meditating together? A:Using our own communal technical Vedic Science nomenclature.. Monitoring lowered the group coherence and numbers meditating in Fairfield by 'tainting the wave function' of consciousness as the wave function of individual consciousness collapses in meditation(™). The coloring of consciousness with fear by effect of monitoring in physical obse
[FairfieldLife] Re: SitTFup and Meditate: Fa irfield’s Crisis in the Dome
Maharishi instructed, “If you are falling asleep in meditation take some stimulants, like coffee or tea”. On my Governor training course with Maharishi some guy was telling Maharishi that he was falling asleep in meditation a lot. This was about half way through the course with Maharishi. Maharishi heard this guy go on about falling asleep in meditation and snapped, “You’ve slept enough. If you are falling asleep in meditation take some stimulants, like coffee or tea”. Scout’s honor, that was the instruction. Bevan was there too, he could back me up on this instruction directly from Maharishi. Adding to the list of Dr. Hagelin’s action points: a coffee maker and the makings for black, green or chai teas in the Domes would be helpful for the kapha types. ---In [email protected], wrote : Qualitatively I can vouch that generally people are actually sitting up attending more to meditating now than before there was monitoring of the grant $. Possibly this one aspect of more people actually sitting up and meditating is a general benefit of the greater expectations in monitoring. Before the monitoring of the grant the meditating community with its Domes were well known for its TM sleepers “dosing for dollars”. Quite evidently there now is a lot more meditating going on per dollar granted for meditating than before but a spiritual hurt otherwise here has been great. Not like it used to be but the Domes even with their incredibly attrited numbers are still powerfully activated spiritual places to meditate. That a meditator would live in Fairfield and not go to the Dome meditation? God save the Domes. ---In [email protected], wrote : E-mail: “I was on the assembly for 4 years, and even while "minding my own business," as Maharishi said, it was still obvious that there were a number of individuals who were "off the program." Certain guys would lie down almost immediately on arrival in the dome and sleep through the entire round! Sometimes both rounds! This was happening, like, right in front of me, so it was pretty hard to miss. In the early days,” I agree this problem and fair observation with others sleeping in the Domes needs to be in a larger consideration about the Dome meditation and like so many other things there with the community it needs to be spoken to by some calm leadership. ---In [email protected], wrote : Succinct Action Steps for Dr. Hagelin to Engage Group conversations and committee summaries: Top of list: Re-articulate Communal Mission Dissolve all the Meditation Monitoring System(s). Get the movement out of all the biz of monitoring people (students, faculty, grantees, citizens, old initiators/govs of TSR) and their meditations. Dissolve the IAA grant program as it is currently. Re-Start a World Peace Assembly for those who can. Shorten the morning and evening long program by letting attendees out of the Domes by 11:45am and 6:15pm so our meditators could be eating and networking in sync with the larger meditating community around them. Axe the time spent on the puja and the 10am ‘number one’ experience meeting in the middle of the morning meditation. Worst than just being spartan the grant program as it has been administered turns these people into renunciate sanyasis in our midsts. Stop the daily Puja Performance as part of the Dome meditation program Stop the 10:00am ‘number one experience’ sessions. Make that meeting now separate from the meditating of the group. Get the Dome WPA meditation down to two long programs for anyone who would take the time. Advocate largely for the larger group meditation by the practice of transcendent meditative experience along with the science, and not through disciplinary punitive means of judging or monitoring of practice while meditating, the level of fealty of faith or belief, or the individual lives of members. Done. Q: They wonder, why are people not meditating together? A:Using our own communal technical Vedic Science nomenclature.. Monitoring lowered the group coherence and numbers meditating in Fairfield by 'tainting the wave function' of consciousness as the wave function of individual consciousness collapses in meditation(™). The coloring of consciousness with fear by effect of monitoring in physical observation is antithetical to meditation in creating stress to the innocence of the practice. It was the same complaint of students both at MSAE and MUM over being graded on their meditation practice by monitors and having that grade go in transcripts. The same complaint of the file-making on meditator’s private lives by ‘the administrative state’ of the ™ movement. The monitoring needs to be decompressed to something else to help get back to increased levels of communal cohesion again. Towards Regaining Communal Critical Mass: Also, it is way past time to re-draft the nationa
