Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: FF meditator Morbidity Stats Thanks 4 this up date Doug my - our polite & most informative FRIEND here THANKS! Bill Leed
I always read Ur posts thanks Doug & will avail my self of the alternate meditation forms when in FF & the lunches as well! Again MY THANKS In a message dated 10/18/16 22:21:33 Eastern Daylight Time, FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com writes: Reading the local newspaper obits one could hypothesize that meditators are less likely to die violently. But that might be similar to other population groups that have higher education levels than the norm. The FF meditating community is quite an over-educated group by comparison if you look at the survey that was done of the larger meditating community back in the 1990’s. Or, like with Parkinson's is the incident any higher at all and if any more so might it have any connection to the mercury contained in health products imported from India that were consumed in copious quantity by some portion of meditators. Would take a serious Public Health study to figure out. More Public Health study too around hepatitis. Were baby-boom hippies on college campuses in the 1960’s more likely to contract Hep C? Meditation then being a phenomena that came out of college and university campuses, Is the rate of Hep C end-of-life complication any different with meditators from any other 1960’s-70’s college educated groups? Again more Public Health science is needed to fairly answer that without prejudice. Brain tumors, any more common in meditators than in farmers? Probably not. Cirrhosis of the liver compared to the general population? Obesity, a few notables. Tobacco? Vit K1 and K2 deficiencies? ..The University of Iowa's School of Public Health ought to have a research team down here. Potentially could be real interesting. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : B- No one thing out of the ordinary. People die all the time. People die all along. We don't notice it so much in younger or middle age folks. But it happens all along. The larger baby-boom demographic of the meditator community is moving up to and through the window. It is just more evident (frequent). Get ready. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Doug, do you know what any of these people are passing away from? Old age, cancer, heart disease? On 10/18/2016 01:33 PM, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Tom Torpy, a long time Purusha friend passed away recently. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : John Herbert Prechtel is now gone on. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Sali Pedin has passed on. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Nancy Van Blaricum TTC Mallorca 1972 w/ Maharishi Initiated over 2000 meditators ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Thanks for posting these. Harvey Lubar, I knew. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Louisa Magee Marc Travis ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Recent passings from the meditating community.. Gillian Pierce Frank Ramsey Gert MacQuaeen Evelyn Normandin Petra Stanley Harvey Lubar Further back, to add to the longer list Cindy Korn Jan Overholt ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : James R. French Long time friend and benefactor of TM and the Fairfield, Iowa meditating community passed away, April 9th. . ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Jan Wixon, is another name on the list. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Currently, on average FF TM'ers would be.. of the Boomer II generation, ..about 65-70 years of age, on average. 1994, Survey of Fairfield Adult Meditators, Age: 25-35 65 10% 36-45 391 60% 46-55 138 21% > 55 47 7% ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Rates of Change. The calculus of aging in TM.. Some of what we can see in these lists is a natural aging-out of the Post-War Cohort, of the people who were early with Maharishi in the very early SRM movement, the Walter Koch and Charlie Lutes generation of TM. Now what we are seeing in TM is an accelerating rate of attrition to aging-out of the Boomer I and Boomer II’s. Interestingly, the cusp time period where the Boomers I and Boomers II met was the time frame where TM took off in popular (college undergrad, grad student, professor-age) culture for a time. A lot of the TM movement intake happened in those years 1968-76, over the cusp of the Boomers I and II. You can see this particular cusp in the age span of meditators in the Dome or at campus meetings of the TM community now. The WWII generation is pretty much gone from the ranks of TM now. The Post-War Cohort are pretty gone or geriatric now and the Boomers I are increasingly shuffling or gone on. Boomers II are increasingly ‘in diminish’. Time is short regardless. Post-War Cohort Born: 1928-1945 Coming of Age: 1946-1963 Age in 2004: 59 to 76 Current Population: 41 million (declining) Boomers I or The Baby Boomers Born: 1946-1954 Coming of Age: 1963-1972 Age in 2004:
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: FF meditator Morbidity Stats
Reading the local newspaper obits one could hypothesize that meditators are less likely to die violently. But that might be similar to other population groups that have higher education levels than the norm. The FF meditating community is quite an over-educated group by comparison if you look at the survey that was done of the larger meditating community back in the 1990’s. Or, like with Parkinson's is the incident any higher at all and if any more so might it have any connection to the mercury contained in health products imported from India that were consumed in copious quantity by some portion of meditators. Would take a serious Public Health study to figure out. More Public Health study too around hepatitis. Were baby-boom hippies on college campuses in the 1960’s more likely to contract Hep C? Meditation then being a phenomena that came out of college and university campuses, Is the rate of Hep C end-of-life complication any different with meditators from any other 1960’s-70’s college educated groups? Again more Public Health science is needed to fairly answer that without prejudice. Brain tumors, any more common in meditators than in farmers? Probably not. Cirrhosis of the liver compared to the general population? Obesity, a few notables. Tobacco? Vit K1 and K2 deficiencies? ..The University of Iowa's School of Public Health ought to have a research team down here. Potentially could be real interesting. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : B- No one thing out of the ordinary. People die all the time. People die all along. We don't notice it so much in younger or middle age folks. But it happens all along. The larger baby-boom demographic of the meditator community is moving up to and through the window. It is just more evident (frequent). Get ready. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Doug, do you know what any of these people are passing away from? Old age, cancer, heart disease? On 10/18/2016 01:33 PM, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com mailto:dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Tom Torpy, a long time Purusha friend passed away recently. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mailto:dhamiltony...@yahoo.com wrote : John Herbert Prechtel is now gone on. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mailto:dhamiltony...@yahoo.com wrote : Sali Pedin has passed on. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mailto:dhamiltony...@yahoo.com wrote : Nancy Van Blaricum TTC Mallorca 1972 w/ Maharishi Initiated over 2000 meditators ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mailto:steve.sun...@yahoo.com wrote : Thanks for posting these. Harvey Lubar, I knew. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mailto:dhamiltony2k5@... wrote : Louisa Magee Marc Travis ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mailto:dhamiltony2k5@... wrote : Recent passings from the meditating community.. Gillian Pierce Frank Ramsey Gert MacQuaeen Evelyn Normandin Petra Stanley Harvey Lubar Further back, to add to the longer list Cindy Korn Jan Overholt ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mailto:dhamiltony2k5@... wrote : James R. French Long time friend and benefactor of TM and the Fairfield, Iowa meditating community passed away, April 9th. . ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mailto:dhamiltony2k5@... wrote : Jan Wixon, is another name on the list. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mailto:dhamiltony2k5@... wrote : Currently, on average FF TM'ers would be.. of the Boomer II generation, ..about 65-70 years of age, on average. 1994, Survey of Fairfield Adult Meditators, Age: 25-35 65 10% 36-45 391 60% 46-55 138 21% > 55 47 7% ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mailto:dhamiltony2k5@... wrote : Rates of Change. The calculus of aging in TM.. Some of what we can see in these lists is a natural aging-out of the Post-War Cohort, of the people who were early with Maharishi in the very early SRM movement, the Walter Koch and Charlie Lutes generation of TM. Now what we are seeing in TM is an accelerating rate of attrition to aging-out of the Boomer I and Boomer II’s. Interestingly, the cusp time period where the Boomers I and Boomers II met was the time frame where TM took off in popular (college undergrad, grad student, professor-age) culture for a time. A lot of the TM movement intake happened in those years 1968-76, over the cusp of the Boomers I and II. You can see this particular cusp in the age span of meditators in
