Maharishi University of Bad Management. It's called shooting one's self in the
foot. If people really find that TM works, they might leave the *movement* but
stick with TM. Unfortunately, there are those that will judge TM's
effectiveness by the results of how the TMO operates. A forest is only as green
as the individual trees in it.
From: "dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]"
<FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2016 6:40 AM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditators Should Come (back) to the Domes the
next 4-5 weeks ~ Important time for coherence in consciousness
It is really a large stain on the community how the admin have let it go
and alienated so many meditators from the official movement and meditation.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote :
A lot of meditators can’t or won’t go to the Domes now. There is quite a lot
of communal hurt here around going to the Domes. A lot of time [years] has
flowed under the bridge, over the dam and down stream with all this. The three
Drs. at the top of the organization are going to have to get their collective
heads together and change the guidelines they have been enforcing on the
community and come up with some thing much more encompassing to remediate the
situation they have caused with the community Dome meditation.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote :
The whole community has story of knowing someone who was poorly handled or
judged. The interview that starts, “We have some questions we want to ask
you?” “..Are you now or have you ever been?” A result is that fear marinates
the Domes as possibility of personally being found out and found in error of
the guidelines. Fear has become the first sutra of the meditating community
now in the Domes for many who would like to be involved with the group
meditation.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote :
Any recourse for changing the guidelines or their enforcement for any of this
is obscure at best. Redress happens at a pay level way above all of ours and
is hidden there. But pretty clearly all of this rests now with the three Drs.,
Morris, Hagelin, and Nader.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote :
Good observation on how it can go. Yes, there is a working document like this
that is logical and based on specifics now that is being passed around that has
recommendations in it. It is based on metrics and it is a comprehensive way of
thinking about a series of troubles the University and Movement have.
The document’s creation as a proposal has spurred sub-groups of trustees and
groups of faculty and groups of staff to become motivated in drawing up
specific strategic changes in the University and the larger movement.
There is a lot in play right now. Is to be seen if the upper admin of the
status quo movement (the three Drs.) can themselves lead on this together and
will facilitate the sea change that is going on underneath or will try to sit
on it.
olliesedwuz writes:
Is there still the ability to place this back in the realm of logic, where
those who are creating an obstruction can be presented with a concrete list of
necessary changes? Apologies if I missed it, but has that been tried?
Assembling a grounded list of changes to existing policies, and then working
through each item via discussion is the only way to broach this. And if those
in opposition to change refuse to listen, then they must be allowed to see the
further consequences of what have set in place.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote :
Thanks, Ollie. Yours is really a well grounded enlightened response. A
problem in the middle of TM is that the guidelines for participation are
unknown to most except the people who do the interrogation of applicants and
the staff handlers. It has been that way a long time.
I have been able to read the guidelines on several occasions over the years.
There is not much good reason why the guidelines need to be held secret from
everyone. It is not necessarily that the staff who enforce the guidelines over
people are bad people but it is that the guidelines themselves which they
enforce are bad. There is a vindictiveness in them which has been long
crippling to the community.
Actually some of the people who have been staff there enforcing the guidelines
strictly have been very good at that enforcement, if that is the objective.
The problem is the guidelines themselves are bad and unresponsive to time. The
staff and their handlers can’t do anything about that except possibly not
enforce things at times, which can then become arbitrary.
The whole situation is looking for remediation. It will take the urging of the
three Drs. (Morris, Hagelin and Nader) at the head of the whole organization to
put their heads together and come out with some better leadership on all this.
It is said that 'change comes from within'. In the case of the TM movement
change that would remediate this communal problem has to come at the level of
the three Drs. over all this. That is a cultural problem now that is corporate.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <olliesed...@yahoo.com> wrote :
Is there still the ability to place this back in the realm of logic, where
those who are creating an obstruction can be presented with a concrete list of
necessary changes? Apologies if I missed it, but has that been tried?
Assembling a grounded list of changes to existing policies, and then working
through each item via discussion is the only way to broach this. And if those
in opposition to change refuse to listen, then they must be allowed to see the
further consequences of what have set in place.
There was only one Maharishi and he is gone, so any decisions must now be made
on the basis of logic and goal-orientation. No more Maharishi would have said.
Much messier now, a situation calling for someone who can transcend the hurt
feelings and sense of righteousness, that sound pervasive from your description.
The other thing to consider is what others have mentioned. What is the downside
to it all going away, except the process to continue the marketing and teaching
of TM and the TM Siddhis programs? Maharishi designed his programs for
householders, without an external support mechanisms needed.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote :
There’s a lot of judgement of ‘sinning’ in TM going on and there is a lot of
personal judgement of people going on in TM. We have some strict
Preservationists who judge the practitioners and then we have the practitioners
who as a community judge the preservationists.
It is judgement to some standard and where capricious the judgement becomes
personal and vendetta that is self indulgent, selfish, relentlessly indulged.
TM.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote :
We’ve got a terrible Catch-22 in the middle of TM right now with the movement’s
TM Dome group meditation participation guidelines. On the one hand Strict
preservation originalist religious ideologues within the middle at the top of
TM feel that the older meditator community and old TM teachers have “sinned”
against original policy and guideline and should necessarily be disciplined,
while on the other hand the old and young meditating community finds the TM
leadership itself has in any number of ways ‘sinned’ as leaders of the
community.
This is all really bad for and works against the Dome meditation numbers right
now.
It would take some extraordinary leadership to reconcile.
A Great Mediator.
Could a forgiveness be found somewhere on either side?
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote :
It would be good if all of us could participate in group program
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote :
It would be good, If practitioners can get approval.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote :
The situation is dire.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote :
Om! The situation could use a great ‘mediator’ to reconcile some forgiveness
from both sides, the strict preservationists and the practitioners, to save its
communal group meditation.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote :
FW: Secondly, many hundreds, if not thousands, of Sidhas and Governors all
over the country are convinced that 'the worst', more glaring (and most
damaging) example of violation of the excellent and true principles .. is the
so-called 'monitoring' system of the IAA Grant. Statistics .. carefully kept
(with the help of MUM and other statistical experts) show that it was this
'monitoring' system that mainly (not only) stopped 14 consecutivemonths
(year-on-year) of higher Super Radiance participation dead in its tracks in the
month of August, 2012, and has resulted in 40 consecutive lower months since it
went in
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote :
It seems an upper leadership is incredibly isolated. It’s no wonder the
leaders and the larger movement community have moved away from each other and
it has gone the way it has. Is pitiable really, given the science and
spirituality at stake.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote :
They have a cultural problem built in to the guidelines that they use to judge
meditators. We have long been losing numbers of meditators faster than they
can manufacture them. It is going to take a revolutionary culture change
inside the leadership to right this. Can it happen fast enough? Can culture
change happen in the movement at the top fast enough to save itself and us?
upfronter writes:
Perhaps one reason why there is not 100% attendance is because a lot of people
do not actually believe that what they are being told in such a matter-of-fact
way is accurate and factual.
A meditator continues to meditate because they have a clear and subjectively
recognisable benefit from doing so.
It is true in some number of cases that as some people are meditators they are
are not necessarily interested in doing the 'long' program much anymore.
Meditators yes, but not doing the TM-sidhis.
But when it moves into the arena of expanded applied Vedic philosophies, as
nice as these are in creating interests and spawning various communities, it
appears to some, now with hindsight due to early pioneers, that this is just
guesswork, wishful thinking or ideological fervour.
emptybill writes:Fairfield is now the Damascus of Iowa.
All those duplicitous yajña-s are scams that the devata-s easily see.
Why would they want to come and abide there?
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote :
It seems a leadership is isolated from its meditaors and so unable to redeem
itself that the conflict is worst than stalemate and the group meditation
languishes. By many metrics the movement is running out.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote :
Yep, is a sorry thing to watch those so hopeful and earnest TM ideologues at
the top of TM and see how they have lost it so badly with the movement. It
seems they can’t see it at all and as they would honestly do so they are so
afraid of making a mistake if they should change anything that they have done,
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