Twenty-five years ago, 1983, was the epitome of personal participation in the group practices of the TMSP in Fairfield's Domes. In 1983, there were still traces of egalitarianism around; every Sidha was considered equally important to creating the square root effect. Sidhas in Fairfield were fully appreciated by the TMO simply for their dedicated, reliable dome attendance. Yet, in January, 1984, even before the end of the TOU 7000 course, the TMO took steps in a new direction that would undermine the status of the loyal single Sidha, and since then, the concept of the loyal valuable Sidha has yet to recover. Consequently, participation in group TMSP has declined as well. In January, 1984, the TMO elites, many still in Fairfield following the TOU course, were introduced to Ayurveda treatments, and thus began the TMO's new emphasis Outrageously high-priced services and products for every conceivable relative need pampered "medical treatments" ; routines and products for every hour of the day; luxury spa vacations ; jems ; jyotish ; yagyas to counter-act malefic jyotish; architecture; yada yada
Egalitarianism is now long-gone. And loyal, subsistence-level Fairfield Sidhas ???? Should they feel good about going to the domes today ? Like the jobs before them, even their participation in Superradiance has now been outsourced. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "dhamiltony2k5" <dhamiltony...@...> wrote: > > > > > So Doug, you're saying there are dome-eligible > > Fairfield 'rus who would rather meditate at home? > > I wonder if they reject the notion that group > > practice of the TM-Sidhi program creates good > > in society. It would be interesting if they > > believe in the efficacy of the TM-Sidhi program, > > but reject the Maharishi Effect. > > > > That efficacy aspect is a level of the question. It is a good > question though that can get at things here. > > > More often the answer to efficacy of the ME question is that some lot > of people see the behavior of the movement as so bad that the feeling > in the domes from that bad character aspect of the movement itself is > counter-productive to the experience. It is common when you ask > around and listen. Yes, lot of people do not go. It is also > remarkable too how many people have current dome badges but do not > go. > > It often does boil down to the moral dissonance problem as you > canvas. They do not reject the ME necessarily. Folks know the > experience of a good group meditation. That experience and hope is > often what had brought people here originally. Increasingly though > over the years people are identifying the experience of a bad-group > meditation with doing program in the domes. So they would simply > rather stay home. > > Then again it can also just be that some people just do not like to > meditate in group regardless. The common denominator here though is > that folks mostly do like their meditation. & mostly folks are loyal > to that. > > But yet an equally common denominator when you ask is that most folks > do not do the whole blown TM-sidhi thing anymore as their practice, > in or out of the dome. Very few do. It has gone on to something > else for most people. > > Of course, a lot of people have left over the years but of what > remains, this aspect is pretty clear. I just ask and listen. > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "dhamiltony2k5" wrote: > > > > > > Relevant thread, > > > > > > canvassing around as to why folks are > > > not in the dome meditating, > > > most often say they `like' meditating > > > at home instead of the domes. > > > That then breaks down, to that there is > > > too much sleeping in the > > > domes which dulls the experience, or > > > there are too many people bad > > > from the old TM-movement and therefore > > > the feeling is bad in there > > > and 3) there is a comunalenment in the > > > group that the administration > > > by their chs keeping it from happening. > > > > Doug, what are you saying in Point 3 above? > > > > > Mostly folks in the larger meditating > > > community would rather meditate > > > at home and have a better experience > > > than going up on campus. > > [snip] > > >
