“Geoff is a MIU grad who never got the sidhis. The Maharishi Effect, his memoir, is killer.” Weber did a lot to make his book interesting, "Transcendental Meditation in America: How a New Age Movement Remade a Small Town in Iowa." . http://www.uiowapress.org/books/2014-spring/transcendental-meditation-america.htm http://www.uiowapress.org/books/2014-spring/transcendental-meditation-america.htm
-gleaning from e-mail sent on the side. .. -Buck Geoff, are you a meditator? Nice review. I read another reviewer that says of the new book that while heavily footnoted the book and the author suffers from the lack of back-stories and too much objectivity as a straight journalist. However, I am glad a real and professional journalist came along to the story now while so many interviews could be collected from the first, or eye-witness generation. There have been other authors and academics show up looking to write their story of it in their way. By contrast with them I have been wont-ing for a real journalist to show up for a long time. Joseph Weber appears is that journalist. It [meditating Fairfield, Iowa] is a fabulous story in human nature. The scholarly world is just waking up to it. This new book will help bring more qualified people to it and other books will likely follow too. We've been in Fairfield as a meditating community for over 40 years and that community is not going to leave anytime soon. The story is not over, -Buck in the Dome The Fairfield Meditating Community: “We are a group of people who have come together and created a community for a transcendentally important common purpose, which of course is to practice the Transcendental Meditation program and the TM-Sidhi program together as a group, for the sake of bringing coherence to national and world consciousness based on balancing labor and leisure to meditate while working together for the benefit of the community. Our Super-Radiance meditating community includes families of all the TM-Meditators and TM-Sidhas in the Fairfield, Vedic City and Jefferson County area.” geoff.gilpin writes: Hi, everyone. Michael Jackson already mentioned my blog (thanks, Michael!), but I thought I's stop in with a personal invitation. I hope you'll all pay a visit to Reason and Magic, "Where Skeptics and Believers Find Common Ground, at geoffgilpin.com http://www.geoffgilpin.com. Discussion topics include psychedelic science and culture, drug policy, and skeptical mysticism. There's even some stuff about the TM movement, including my review of Joseph Weber's new book "Transcendental Meditation in America: How a New Age Movement Remade a Small Town in Iowa."
