Thanks Buck, I appreciate your info. I am kind of surprised that some turned away from the Movement after seeing it - all the meditators I know who were true believers before seeing it still were after - I appreciate your assessment of the effect it had in Fairfield.
________________________________ From: Buck <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, October 12, 2012 8:59 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield Response Jackson, The "David Wants to Fly" film passed around town some when the film first came out. It was bootleg initially and got handed around between friends and acquaintances. Eventually it was a little more widely available through a cable company web-site to view on computer. But now I do still frequently run in to people here who have not seen it. People who have not seen it always ask in conversation right away, "Can you believe it?". Most here have probably heard about it. I run in to folks in the community who want nothing to do with the movement after seeing it, "Would never give another dime to them". Others were not surprised by it and sort of knew already from being around the movement what was in it and have dealt with it as they would on their own terms. Of the folks left here meditating still even after all the years they are figured where they were at with meditating in their lives and in the community anyway. We're all pretty good at dealing with dissonance if we've stuck with meditating in the movement this long. Yet still there are folks who have not seen it. I ran in to an old Purusha friend a little while ago who had not seen it and has found himself somewhat forlorned since Maharishi died anyway. He asked about DwtF from his side. He was going to go look at the cable link. "David Wants to Fly" must be pretty dis-spiriting for real Maharishi true-believers if they've seen it and at this point they seem to be just looking to other things that were good about their experience and Maharishi and adulate that. Certainly that is what the leadership is doing. Another friend who is an old community meditator here with a kid still at MSAE had not seen it and called recently checking to see if we had a copy to look at. I was kind of floored that he had not seen it yet. But then, People are busy with their lives here as they are. People certainly talk about it (DWtF) amongst themselves; we're also a very social people as a meditating community. The copy we have seems to go out and circulate regularly. There are a lot of copies around town too but just not everyone has one. I don't think it can be bought yet in town. -Buck in the Dome --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <authfriend@...> wrote: > > I'm not sure mjackson reads my posts; someone might want to > call this one to his attention: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "mjackson74" <mjackson74@> wrote: > > > > Something Buck posted made me curious - I would be interested > > to hear what any of you have to say about the response you have > > seen people have to the film David Wants to Fly. Its been so > > long since I was in Fairfield, I didn't know how such a film > > went over. So anyone willing to say what you have observed as a > > response to the film, I would appreciate it. > > We've had oodles and oodles of discussion about the film, > and quite a bit specifically about the reaction in > Fairfield. > > You might find the thread that begins with this post of > interest: > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/271545 > > There was lots more in subsequent threads. You'll want to > read this post: > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/272758 > > Unfortunately the videos of the Q&A session with Bob Roth > seem no longer to be available. > > But the post above links to this long article, which > includes a detailed summary of the Q&A with Roth: > > http://www.conscioustimesonline.com/2011/03/bob-roth-discusses-david-wants-to-fly/ > > http://tinyurl.com/9hsoux9 >
