Yes, in succession Bevan could be of great service to the University by going 'Emeritus' as an ex- University President and remove himself from operations there. He still has a role to play in the larger TM movement but it is past time to have yielded the presidency of the University to someone else to use.
Someone suggested giving Craig Pearson the Presidency for two or so years and do a search for a successor in the meantime. Craig certainly has earned that role. The the ongoing attrition in so many elements the meditating university and what remains of the meditating community at large cannot wait for morbidity to catch up with Bevan to move him on. The place needs a president who is of daily residence of the community. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <olliesed...@yahoo.com> wrote : Agreed. Those entrusted with protecting the techniques for realization, have themselves not reached the goal. So how can they lead others? Those at the top of the org are blind, though still at the effect of natural laws that render them less and less effective. Which is kind of a good thing, though quite awkward when viewed from the outside, in. Bad PR. Further limiting their visibility would be helpful. TM can be easily integrated into all levels of society, as DL's programs have shown. Why we still need this old guard is beyond me. TM was always a program for the masses, and never a fetish over domes, doorways, and diet. These historical figures should be treated with respect, while gently led from power. That is probably the way it will go anyway, if they are as you describe - no succession, so this branch will literally die out. Perhaps it was intended that way, to prevent a religion from forming, and instead integrate TM into society more like the gym franchise at the mall. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote : In the old days the split was differentiated by field teacher types, the worker bees who effectively ran and taught the programs to people (meditators) out in the centers around the country and around the world and then the 'mood-makers' in type who tended to congregate around wherever Maharishi was. One side was more effective in life and the others were more skinny and pale in life. You can kind of see who is left in the movement by default by going to meetings. There are a lot of childless, particularly skinny or excessively out of shape over-weight pale people in a type left remaining on guard duty in the fort, holding the fort as some of them see it. There is a bit of a fight going on between folks over who gets to occupy the fort. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <olliesedwuz@...> wrote : It looks like the TMO has developed a split - On the one hand, instruction in TM and the TM-Sidhis, is going very well, and gaining a lot of popularity. On the other, the more 'research-oriented' activities, culminating in MUM and the World Government programs, are marginally successful. Maharishi did a good job of presenting Vedic knowledge in all its forms, but now it seems to have become largely dogma at the higher reaches of the TMO, not serving those who try to live by it. Why not turn MUM into an on-line school to broaden its reach, and move all the World Govt. up to MVC? Then put some excellent administrators in place, to grow and spread the reach of TM and TMSP. Seems like a very mixed message these days, with a lot of in-fighting, which could be solved by further separating these two branches of the organization. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote : Spiritual Morality.. how about introducing practical ideas to these young people about those things what are useful to spiritual evolution and what things or activities could be hurtful or harmful as a part of spiritual instruction one can gain through learning to cultivate spiritual experience [inner consciousness] by quiet-time meditation practices? Possibly giving a sense of spiritual discernment as to a construct of such things that are helpful as virtues and such things that are hurtful being sinful to one's spiritual growth. Not introducing religion but just some useful interpretive clarifying ideas as for a helpful public education, -JaiGuruYou ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote : And, what does the public school principal do when searching the internet about TM and the principal finds the Global Country of World Peace with its patriarchy of kings and rajas? How does a David Lynch TM teacher explain that to the public school administrator? salyavin808 writes: Simple. He admits that the TMO is a Hindoo religious sect that holds the vedas of India as the purest example of perfect human knowledge and that we firmly believe that recreating their alleged society would be the best thing for all mankind because we have houses that make you invincible, prayers that can end wars - if you can afford them - and if that doesn't work we can hop up and down until peace is restored. Then he picks up his unemployment cheque and heads out the door. OR, he can say that that is just the way we do things in our organisation but TM itself is sold according to it's proven benefits for self-development to whoever wants it. What you don't want to do is admit that the DLF is a gateway foundation to gradually indoctrinating new meditators by telling them about unified fields and yogic flying and systematically getting them into the belief system until they've swapped reality for Marshy's knowledge. Like they did with us.... Nine Days of Mother Divine Daily Celebrations at the Maharishi Vedic Pandit Campus October 13-21 10:00 am-1:00 pm Mother Divine Recitation by five Vedic Pandits 8:00-9:30 pm Evening aarti with all the Vedic Pandits ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mikemail4you@...> wrote : Under Stress, Students in New York Schools Find Calm in Meditation http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/24/nyregion/under-stress-students-in-new-york-schools-find-calm-in-meditation.html http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/24/nyregion/under-stress-students-in-new-york-schools-find-calm-in-meditation.html Under Stress, Students in New York Schools Find Calm in ... http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/24/nyregion/under-stress-students-in-new-york-schools-find-calm-in-meditation.html Though evidence is thin on how well mindfulness and meditation might work at school, the use of inward-looking practices in the classroom is growing. View on www.nytimes.com http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/24/nyregion/under-stress-students-in-new-york-schools-find-calm-in-meditation.html Preview by Yahoo http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/24/nyregion/under-stress-students-in-new-york-schools-find-calm-in-meditation.html http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/24/nyregion/under-stress-students-in-new-york-schools-find-calm-in-meditation.html “It’s built into the schedule,” said Linda Rosenbury, founding principal at Brooklyn Urban Garden, a middle school. “Everyone clears off their desks. They shouldn’t be chewing gum, but if they are, they spit it out. Their hands are free. We ring a bell.” A building full of preteens and teenagers goes quiet, she said. “It used to be that you wouldn’t say ‘meditation’ in polite company,” said Bob Roth, executive director of the David Lynch Foundation https://www.davidlynchfoundation.org/, a charitable foundation founded by the director of “Blue Velvet,” that promotes and teaches transcendental meditation to adults and children, including those at Brooklyn Urban Garden. ________________________________ *************************
