RJ, I am interested in that too. The Domes and their fences. Did Maharishi ever say anything particular about the hemispherical shape of the meditation domes that the meditating movement built? The fencing came later as an after thought as inquiry about Sthapatya Veda [SV] was put together and there was thinking about rectifying the domes as they had been built and were sitting. I notice the traditional Saraswati dome you posted a while ago sat atop a square base. Any thoughts relative to the spiritual significance as to how the domes stack up hemispheric-ally in a squared off area, as spiritual places. Or was it more by accident of convenience that the Dome manufacturers just were chosen. Somebody knew the manufacturer otherwise? Or, at that time of needing meditation halls was the aesthetic of the Dome just a cultural out-shoot of our TM contact with Buckminister Fuller? Anybody around now who was there when the initial discussions were being had [1979?] and then after wards when the SV rectification discussions [around year 2000] were being had? Is the initial hemispheric shape significant as in particularly spiritually desirable? And then the problem of Sthapatya Veda solved with a fenced square enclosure around the circle foot print of the Domes. What was the historical story there? I'm interested to know the sequence of how it all went for the several movement meditation Domes and what the thinking was as to the architectural bridging of inner and outer shape and form as to our transcendental expression that outer is an expression of inner and not just some reductionism.
The Domes are particularly great places to meditate in now for the spiritual field effect they do hold as Spiritual places for all the meditation that has been done in them. That spirituality as inner experience and inner meditation itself seems a long ways out from the materialism of design structures as super-mentality of just building designs where form may have had nothing to do with function as a meditation hall in our case other than a coincidence. Anybody here who was there in 1979 when the Golden Domes were being ordered who could shed light? Wiki: The Golden Domes, also called the Maharishi Golden Domes, are twin buildings on the Maharishi University of Management(MUM) campus in Fairfield, Iowa built in 1980 and 1981. According to MUM, the Golden Domes were the first structures built specifically for group meditation and the practice of the TM-Sidhi program. In 2001 and 2005 they received additional construction including landscaping, perimeter fencing and new entrances. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Domes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Domes -Buck inside the Dome
