Yep, cellphone format does seem to make for 'compactness'. Sorry geezer, sometimes I just calls it likes I sees it from the saddle on the move. As a platform for typing using cellphones from the back of a horse don't work too good where condensed can become dense in medium. -JaiGuruYou
geezerfreak@ wrote : Seriously man, I get a headache trying to untangle your tortured prose. Do you actually speak like this? If not, try writing like you speak. Anything would be better. y...@yahoo.com wrote : In looking, it seems times are changed noticeably from during the 1990’s and the 2000’s where organizations of the maha-saints and spiritual teachers were often fleshed out by TM’ers/ the TM community. Altruistic TM’ers seemed to have had the ready know-how in training and and experience in volunteering to help 'make' gurus and spiritual movements then. s/Mothers, chopra, Shri-Shri, Meera and others. It often used to be that the people up front in these spiritual organizations were of old TM. Now in looking it is fairly evident that others have come along in to being the organizing workhorses of different spiritual movements. You see many fewer TM’ers up front running things at events or in the crowd or on the organizing committees. Other folks coming along of more of a middle-age demographic now do more of the facilitating of the spiritual movements and tours. Also compared to earlier times some of the groups now have a more solid showing of the Indo-American community culturally showing up and running things in a way that was not there so long ago. And there a is now a smattering of spiritually lit millennials in the crowds. Times change. -JaiGuruYou Well, met several old TM’ers at these meditations too. Found an old TM teacher from San Francisco who was at MIU in Santa Barbara meditating here too. These are long meditations that draw serious meditators to this retreat. Lot of people and a lot of different paths. New Jersey is far enough rom Iowa that there are not so many Fairfield meditators that traveled here. Not like last month in Chicago where there were a few hundred Fairfield meditators at Ammachi’s meetings or earlier in the year when Fairfield traveled to be with Mother Meera. Geezer writes: I dunno man, that sounds WAY off the program and hardly Dome-worthy! 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