--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" > wrote: > > > > ...if you're an old-time meditator and should like to come > > back to help meditate some in the domes, just practically > > know that the TMmovement policy guidelines on having visited > > and been with other saints is effectively un-changed. Rather, > > it applies more evenly to meditators and old TM teachers now. > > Essentially is still, "Don't ask, Don't tell" , or as > > Maharaishi once coached, "practice lying". > > > > This Youtube short essentially is not far from the truth: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOPXgBflM8I > > > > Status quo. > > Speaking directly to the "Buck" persona, what would > he answer to the question, "Has it ever occurred to > you that adherence to these policies is, in fact, a > ploy to keep the 'Dome numbers' *down*, a way of > making sure that the 'right numbers' are never > reached, and that the 'Maharishi Effect' is thus > never put to the test?" > > > Color me not convinced that many of these people > making these urgent pleas for more BBs For Peace > actually want more BBs For Peace. Based on seeing > him speak at the "Watershed Meeting," I am convinced > that Mr. Settle wants that. But I also came away > from watching that stream feeling that he suspects > the same thing I do above. Do the "people in charge" > ever want to *emerge* from the tunnel? Or do they > want to keep the tunnel ride going on forever? > > What do the folks at ground zero think about all of > these machinations, Buck? What do they think is behind > the whole "Dome policy" thang, and what do they think > its intent is? Genuinely curious. >
Dear Turqb, That is a great focal journalistic question for the meditating community. A kind of a crux for the TM community. Yes certainly I have written a lot about this here. It would be useful additionally to have some of the real tru-believers who post here explain this split in their own words here. Like Dick Mays, Feste and Shukra for instance. Or have a TM-Raja who actually lives in Fairfield come on and explain themselves in a public forum. Or a university trustee. If they have hearts they must have feelings about how it is going for the dome numbers. Clearly there are different elements around in the TM- middle. There certainly are different activity areas that draw people differently like the university, the dome meditations, the pundits, the MSAE Maharishi School, the schools of Maharishi Vedic-Hinduism like Maharishi AV, Maharishi SV, Maharishi music, astrology etc. The David Lynch Foundation. Meditation runs through it all as the common denominator though faith and belief in Maharishi does not necessarily run through the community in the same way by relationship. With the dome numbers, there certainly have been progressive people who by experience would like to see the numbers of meditators facilitated with the dome numbers effectively working. Progressives versus more conservative elements who are rigidly doctrinal and would hold the domes hostage even to a bitter end in their own way. These later are the ultra-"Maharishi-said" TB'er fundamental-ists inside. The faith-and-belief in Maharishi devotee types. These TM orthodox have consolidated their grasp since Maharishi's death and they seem to hold court now over the progressive elements. In the end, these ultra orthodox meditator conservatives won out over the dome policy last year, holding that policy a fealty test to their own standard. That was their choice to take it the way they did. As such they effectively doomed the dome numbers last summer in their own wisdom. Plan B now is augmenting the Pundit numbers to some threshold at some cost for some while. Status quo now, -Buck in FF
