Glad you got to get in for the lecture.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote:
>
> Yes, I just recently applied for a valid dome badge and was rejected (again)
> for a dome badge for sitting with saints. However I was given an exemption
> for attending Rajaraam's knowledge meeting evidently by Raja Hagelin. On the
> one hand 'they' still hold up meditation in the dome as an administrative
> punishment by guideline. However the lecture evidently was as a different
> threshold that was not covered in the dome program guidelines; hence Raja
> Hagelin had discretion over the lecture. The processes of deliberation is
> obscured because you never present to or hear directly from the people who
> make these decisions. "They say...".
> -Buck
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Susan" <wayback71@> wrote:
> >
> > Buck, how did you get in the Dome if you don't have a valid badge thee days?
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > All around the crowd in the dome there were a lot of 40-year meditators.
> > > These are the practitioners and survivors in the culture of the practice.
> > > Veterans. I walked out with an old friend who is a 50 year long
> > > meditator having started with Maharishi out in California back in the
> > > very early 1960's. It's old relationship to the practice and there is
> > > certainly a way of surviving inside, that is inside the culture. It was
> > > nice to be in the dome again with so many meditators.
> > >
> > > -Buck
> > >
> > > >
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> > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "whynotnow7" <whynotnow7@>
> > > > > > wrote:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > What did he have to say?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Was mostly a spiritual or meditation knowledge kind of talk with
> > > > > > good experience questions to start it off. I found it a great
> > > > > > interior guided meditation that way. That was my experience with
> > > > > > it. You kind of had to be there. Was well expressed brilliant
> > > > > > abstract spiritual stuff mostly.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > You missed a great knowledge meeting tonite in Fairfield.
> > > > > > > > > -Buck
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Was like watching a Jerry Jarvis in the old days answer
> > > > > > > > questions in meetings for having spent so much time around
> > > > > > > > Maharishi. He's [Rajaraam] a fine teacher that way. He's
> > > > > > > > bright, sharp, funny, kind, and calls things like they are.
> > > > > > > > Was well attended q&a format.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > The people who wanted to be there were there. In culture it is a
> > > > > very sweet old crowd and at this point seems innocuous. Mostly of a
> > > > > lot of old TM'ers and TM teachers who were enjoying how he hit
> > > > > pitches out of the park. He is plenty good at it in his own way. He
> > > > > is not Bevan or John Hagelin. Fundamentally it is a teaching
> > > > > movement and would seem we'll see more of this coming now that he has
> > > > > his feet under him with traction. It's a good direction.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > These (TM) movement knowledge meetings continue to have their own
> > > > culture. In this meeting Bevan was definitely the 'King-maker' prime
> > > > minister there. As much as anything, or more, that was his (Bevan's)
> > > > role and philosopher-king-making the purpose of the meeting. Rajaraam
> > > > acquitted himself quite well in that role for the meeting.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > > > > > We are very fortunate to announce that
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > Maharaja Adhiraj Rajaraam-ji will speak in the
> > > > > > > > > Maharishi Patanjali Golden Dome
> > > > > > > > > on Monday night (December 5th)
> > > > > > > > > at 8:15 pm.
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > This will be a knowledge presentation with questions and
> > > > > > > > > answers.
> > > > > > > > > Jai Guru Dev
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > Please bring your program badge.
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > (Meditators should contact the Invincible America Assembly
> > > > > > > > > Office at 472-1212, and meditating MUM students should bring
> > > > > > > > > their University ID.)
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > >
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