Jai Guru Dev, yes a very practical administrative policy remediation of this situation with some people feeling they should come to the Domes to sleep, people who even take it as some instructional prerogative towards somnolence, one policy change that could be quite helpful to the Dome meditation generally would be having coffee or chai available in the Dome lobby area. Sal Sunshine agrees:
I vote for a latte/espresso machine, would serve a dual purpose of warming the guys up in the colder weather. The TMO could charge a few bucks, make some serious extra cash. And in this case, it would actually be for something people wanted. Then again, keeping people uncomfortable and hungry seems to be part of the program. Sal ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : Yes like, have coffee and tea available in the men’s Dome entry area just inside the first door off to the left before one would go through the second door where the badges are checked. To the left out of the flow of people coming where some of the grant bubba's already often gather and sit talking. The communal problem of spiritual somnolence and ill discipline could then be better resolved following Maharishi’s instruction: “You’ve slept enough. If you are falling asleep in meditation take some stimulants, like coffee or tea”. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : Maharishi instructed, “If you are falling asleep in meditation take some stimulants, like coffee or tea”. On my Governor training course with Maharishi some guy was telling Maharishi that he was falling asleep in meditation a lot. This was about half way through the course with Maharishi. Maharishi heard this guy go on about falling asleep in meditation and snapped, “You’ve slept enough. If you are falling asleep in meditation take some stimulants, like coffee or tea”. Scout’s honor, that was the instruction. Bevan was there too, he could back me up on this instruction directly from Maharishi. Adding to the list of Dr. Hagelin’s action points: a coffee maker and the makings for black, green or chai teas in the Domes would be helpful for the kapha types. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : Qualitatively I can vouch that generally people are actually sitting up attending more to meditating now than before there was monitoring of the grant $. Possibly this one aspect of more people actually sitting up and meditating is a general benefit of the greater expectations in monitoring. Before the monitoring of the grant the meditating community with its Domes were well known for its TM sleepers “dosing for dollars”. Quite evidently there now is a lot more meditating going on per dollar granted for meditating than before but a spiritual hurt otherwise here has been great. Not like it used to be but the Domes even with their incredibly attrited numbers are still powerfully activated spiritual places to meditate. That a meditator would live in Fairfield and not go to the Dome meditation? God save the Domes. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : E-mail: “I was on the assembly for 4 years, and even while "minding my own business," as Maharishi said, it was still obvious that there were a number of individuals who were "off the program." Certain guys would lie down almost immediately on arrival in the dome and sleep through the entire round! Sometimes both rounds! This was happening, like, right in front of me, so it was pretty hard to miss. In the early days,” I agree this problem and fair observation with others sleeping in the Domes needs to be in a larger consideration about the Dome meditation and like so many other things there with the community it needs to be spoken to by some calm leadership. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : Succinct Action Steps for Dr. Hagelin to Engage Group conversations and committee summaries: Top of list: Re-articulate Communal Mission Dissolve all the Meditation Monitoring System(s). Get the movement out of all the biz of monitoring people (students, faculty, grantees, citizens, old initiators/govs of TSR) and their meditations. Dissolve the IAA grant program as it is currently. Re-Start a World Peace Assembly for those who can. Shorten the morning and evening long program by letting attendees out of the Domes by 11:45am and 6:15pm so our meditators could be eating and networking in sync with the larger meditating community around them. Axe the time spent on the puja and the 10am ‘number one’ experience meeting in the middle of the morning meditation. Worst than just being spartan the grant program as it has been administered turns these people into renunciate sanyasis in our midsts. Stop the daily Puja Performance as part of the Dome meditation program Stop the 10:00am ‘number one experience’ sessions. Make that meeting now separate from the meditating of the group. Get the Dome WPA meditation down to two long programs for anyone who would take the time. Advocate largely for the larger group meditation by the practice of transcendent meditative experience along with the science, and not through disciplinary punitive means of judging or monitoring of practice while meditating, the level of fealty of faith or belief, or the individual lives of members. Done. Q: They wonder, why are people not meditating together? A:Using our own communal technical Vedic Science nomenclature.. Monitoring lowered the group coherence and numbers meditating in Fairfield by 'tainting the wave function' of consciousness as the wave function of individual consciousness collapses in meditation(™). The coloring of consciousness with fear by effect of monitoring in physical observation is antithetical to meditation in creating stress to the innocence of the practice. It was the same complaint of students both at MSAE and MUM over being graded on their meditation practice by monitors and having that grade go in transcripts. The same complaint of the file-making on meditator’s private lives by ‘the administrative state’ of the ™ movement. The monitoring needs to be decompressed to something else to help get back to increased levels of communal cohesion again. Towards Regaining Communal Critical Mass: Also, it is way past time to re-draft the national guidelines that regulate membership for inclusion in the group meditations. There are way too many “non-compete” clauses that remain in the guidelines, still. Clauses that exclude capable meditators from the collective of the group meditations. It is sinful what the Rajas have continued to abide in excluding people. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : What has been allowed to happen with the Dome meditation numbers in Fairfield will be defining of how life in the local economy goes forward for Fairfield, Iowa. Remediation? There are meetings that have been ongoing the last weeks right now about this. Everyone who lives in Fairfield should be concerned and vocal with the TM movement Trustees who let things get so bad for the Dome numbers in Fairfield. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : This is a communal problem we have here in Fairfield, this is not a forlorn hope here in the community. This is a uniquely Fairfield and American ™ movement problem here. The challenge here is to get the ™ movement Trustees, the Raja and their own movement apparatchiks to behave themselves in a way that is actually helpful to the group numbers. Starting a some few weeks ago, after the removing of the former university President here, there have been ad hoc local meditator, university people, AND grantees of the Invincible America Assembly (IAA) sub-committee meetings on the unique problems of ™ meditating community in Fairfield. A week ago about 60 or 80 select TM movement 'elite' people met on the problem. Of course that did not include the larger meditating community in Fairfield in direct push back. Work is in progress, as the road signs say.. Q: They wonder, why are people not meditating together? A:Using our own communal technical Vedic Science nomenclature.. Monitoring lowered the group coherence and numbers meditating in Fairfield by 'tainting the wave function' of consciousness as the wave function of individual consciousness collapses in meditation(™). The coloring of consciousness with fear by effect of monitoring in physical observation is antithetical to meditation in creating stress to the innocence of the practice. It was the same complaint of students both at MSAE and MUM over being graded on their meditation practice by monitors and having that grade go in transcripts. The same complaint of the file-making on meditator’s private lives by ‘the administrative state’ of the ™ movement. The monitoring needs to be decompressed to something else to help get back to increased levels of communal cohesion again. yifuxero wriges: Probability assessment: What's the probability that (in view of the results so far), that any tactic on your part or any expenditure of mental effort will result in an increase in the dome numbers? If close to zero, why waste any time worrying about? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : That we have got the separated and disenfranchised old ™ movement meditators here out sitting in Fairfield’s cafes and coffee shops during the group meditation times is bad enough but these Raja and the movement apparatchiks who defend the Raja standing in the way of remediating what obviously needs be done is itself counter-revolutionary. Quite evidently it is the Trustees, Raja and their apparatchiks themselves who need to be taken out and re-educated by the best of the science on the meissner-like effect of meditating in groups. How could it have got so bad for the Dome meditation numbers? It is terrible how bad they have let the administrative state of it get and evidently keep at it by their inaction on what has become the status quo of decline. Timeline Summary: March 2011 through July 2012 17 consecutive higher months YOY due to many projects to increase attendance (so there is a precedent for long-term attendance increase if fundamentals and certain projects are in place). August 2012 through Sept 2016 - 50 consecutive lower months YOY, beginning suddenly from a specific cause (our continuing drop did not begin when the Grant was temporarily stopped one year later, it had already been going on for 12 consecutive months). Feb through June 2016 - Attendance up YOY in Women's Dome due to Festival of World Peace Oct and Nov 2016 - Attendance significantly up YOY due to October Surprise/'elections' Dec 2016 through Feb 2017 - Attendance a little lower in both Domes YOY March and April, 2017 - Attendance substantially lower YOY ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : Magnanimity. The TM movement Trustees and Rajas must come together on this to save the cohesion of the American meditating movement community here. Above all they need to be magnanimous right now. The narrative is bad out there. The Patterson-Morris administrative state of TM spent 37 years separating meditators from the American meditating movement. We cannot afford that now any longer. The trustees, Rajas of TM and movement apparatchiks must be magnanimous in facilitating our group meditations here now, by contrast. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : To make some budget, extracting money out of this they are thinking to institute fees, to support the what? The IAAssembly ‘grantees’ or Domes themselves? Fees of support of $30, 50, 100 a month on people who do meditate in the Domes. FW: "..just had a long talk, 1. They both strongly oppose monitoring. she went off the Grant because of it. 2. They both were 100% clear that attendance declined since August 2012, when monitoring began, and went down an even bigger drop further in August 2013 when the Grant was reorganized." ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : There is a crisis of leadership here at the top. In our case here at the Dome the sheep herders mostly don't meditate in the group at the Domes. Communal Critical mass? It is way past time to re-draft the national guidelines that regulate membership for inclusion in the group meditations. There are way too many “non-compete” clauses that remain in the guidelines, still. Clauses that exclude capable meditators from the collective of the group meditations. It is sinful what the Rajas have continued to abide in excluding people. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : Given all that we do know about the power of group meditation and what we do have here to facilitate a group in meditation we must have new and brilliant leadership on this now to wield the power of our group meditators meditating here. The leadership must move immediately from their narcissisms to magnanimity. The status quo of 37 years spent separating people from the movement and the group meditation is not good enough. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : It is terrible that the Trustees and Rajas and those who defend them have let it get so bad with the meditating numbers here. It is time to overrule the fanatics and change the guidelines by extending the olive branch of membership back to those who have been separated from the movement during this late era of the Patterson-Morris administrative state of the USA movement. It is time for the ™ Rajas to collectively step up to the problem that was created in the US movement before and expect instead a healthy change towards expansion. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : Yep it seems a frightened flock of meditators now. A best thing you hope for as a sheep shepherd is a leader-sheep in the flock who has a steady eye with enough bravery and inner wisdom to gather up and lead a flock with you. You look for the sheep with courage to step up and lead and then give them enough calmness and encouragement to come forward. That part takes being a good human being in character. Those guys of the Patterson-Morris administrative state of TM it seems clear now did not have what it takes to shepherd people, they probably should never have administrated anything. 177 in the Dome the other morning. Rajawilliamsmith wrote: Sheep herders lead from behind. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : Only 179 in the Dome the other morning. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : It is time for a new policy of inclusion. The old adage is, “You can’t lead from behind”. The ™ Rajas need to bravely get out front on this now. And,those Raja who can’t need to recuse themselves and get out of the way. This part of culture change is going to take some extraordinary leadership by some brave Rajas to step in to position out in front of us all. ..Grant them strength. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : I appreciate your concern here but it would be an invasion of some people's privacy to go on about this here. The more important thing here in this subject thread is what cultural fiduciary position the TM Raja have with the TM movement. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <wle...@aol.com> wrote : Please share with us as U may know what Rajas have left or become in active in our movement! Thanks in advance 4 this news -----Original Message----- From: dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Thu, Apr 6, 2017 2:20 pm Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditating in the Dome
