Buck, you've returned, we were getting worried, a forum can't run without good moderation - anything can happen! But I'm glad you've been having a good time howling at the moon.
Now you're back perhaps you'd care to scroll down through the list and answer a few questions about your moderation technique concerning the always civil, respectful and creatively philosophical Curtis who would surely be considered a boon to any forum with his spiritual experience and lucid writing skills. It seems to me that he's been the victim of an "apostate" cleansing purge, was that the case? Can you clarify your reasoning behind his constructive dismissal? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote : Went to a Guru Purnima group silent meditation in suburban NJ the other evening –Summit, Shorthills, Maplewood, Chatam area. Gathering of people from a couple different yoga studios for an evening meditation as a group. Eclectic gathering of different mature meditator folks for a nice group silent meditation. Really nice field effect in an amalgam of some Gurumayi meditators, chopra meditators, oprah, Quaker, centering, Buddhist, meditators, and a couple people who learned meditation in recent times through TM center in the NJ area. Ecumenical silent meditation together in a room for a long meditation one evening after the workday. Also Looking in now on a guru Purnima meditation retreat hosted by Karunamayi also in NJ just across from NYC. About 400 practiced meditators from New England and Canada with some coming from the West also. Mature eclectic demographic of practiced meditators for a several day retreat practicing in long silent meditations as a group. .. it's a nice cultivated spiritual group effect. Demographics of both these groups meetings are middle-aged and at least middle-class. Not many millennials to see in the group though the meditation retreat does cost money and afforded some time including a weekday workday to go to, but are not many millennials to be seen. Both groups age-wise were generally younger (middle-age) than what we more commonly see in our Fairfield meetings of older greying baby-boom meditators. -JaiGuruYou