Researchers! There is a forum that has a tremendous wealth of insight in to meditating Fairfield, Iowa. The TM community as a spiritual practice group was operated as a type of theocratic autocracy belief community where transparency in open two-way dialogue was not often entertained. In the late 1990’s with the advent of internet forums open communication began to come in Fairfield,Iowa. One site which has played important roles at times for open communication in the TM meditating community has been Fairfieldlife, a yahoo group, which was opened in y-2001. It ran for years as a bulletin board for the larger Transcendental Meditation (TM) community with forum members contributing from all over the world, often with eye-witness perspective of the history of TM. For some intervening years FairfieldLife as a forum became overwhelmed by internet trolls and more recently it has recovered as a place of consideration.
However throughout the life of FairfieldLife the forum holds a tremendous archive of firsthand accounts from the Transcendental Meditationist community during this period of time that includes the passing of its founder, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and subsequent transition into a post-founder era for a meditating community sect. January 1st. For years as a means of access I have kept a larger running index of posts to FairfieldLife that were, to my eye, particularly substantial for insight into communal meditating Fairfield. For a number of years I have been using January 1st on FairfieldLife as a date to post links to the indexing as well as aggregating what were substantial recent threads then of the preceding year. At least for my own use I find this helps to quickly locate the links. This allows one to open the Yahoo-group home page of FairfieldLife, then scroll down to the ‘message history’ matrix and locate the start of each year where I have posted the larger index as it has evolved. As a tip for something interesting to look at, look at the earliest posts to FairfieldLife in y-2001. Within the first hundred posts are themes which frame and recur even to the present in meditating Fairfield, Iowa. Y-2001, Beginning posts to FairfieldLife: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages?messageStartId=1&archiveSearch=true https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages?messageStartId=1&archiveSearch=true For as long as Yahoo exists and and Yahoo will maintain this database FairfieldLife will be a tremendous research source for insight into communal meditating Fairfield, Iowa. Homepage: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/info https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/info FairfieldLife (FFL) is set to be open for viewing by the public. You do not need to join the group to scroll through the archive. I hope this is of helpful interest to scholarship, Doug Hamilton Fairfield, Iowa January 1st 2017 link: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages?messageStartId=433507&archiveSearch=true https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages?messageStartId=433507&archiveSearch=true January 1st 2016 link: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages?messageStartId=423566&archiveSearch=true https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages?messageStartId=423566&archiveSearch=true
