“Where two or more are gathered..” By experience and now by what modern science does show, a having of numbers meditating and their proximity does matter both for the individual meditating and collectively. Quite evidently this particular group was ‘colored’ in its way by the ‘administrative state’ of it. That becomes part of the narrative around this. The transformational capacity of the Dome group meditation (Meissner-like Effect) was palpable in the days of 1000 and 2000 meditating together. Now even with just 200 or so in each Dome gathered to meditate the Dome meditation remains a powerful place to meditate. There yet is a lot of consciousness in the Domes in the meditators sitting up there meditating. It quite evidently still functions as a special place that way.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <archonan...@yahoo.com> wrote : That could be a solution, but as the number of "Sidhas" practicing in the Domes exceed the number required for coherence in Fairfield, why did that not provide the basis for continued success in Fairfield? If we take Kaplan's letter over a decade ago at face value, it would seem Maharishi did not even really know if this coherence effect would really work, as it seemed to be based on a rather loose association of a statement by Patanjali with a coherence effect in physics. The maximum numbers were in the 1980s and everything has declined, including the state of the world from that point on, whereas if the theory were true, it should have improved, especially in Fairfield, more people would have come into the program and the world would have gotten better. In spite of the movement's confirmation-bias tainted research, Fairfield, the star of the movement, seems to indicate the Maharishi effect does not exist in the form and extent that it is touted to be. The point of meditation is it is an aid to enlightenment. Everything else that has been bundled with it in the movement has been an effort to make it attractive to people who probably would not otherwise meditate for the real reason. It is an appeal to personal success and well-being, which is fine for ego-centric individuals, but enlightenment is to discover that everything is consciousness, and consciousness when unbounded is not personal. Meditating for "World Peace" sounds great, and maybe that idea will make you feel good as an individual, but World Peace has not happened, and seems less likely now than previously. Perhaps the Bhagavad-Gita is correct, that life is an unending battleground and that you need to achieve peace on the basis of your practice, but the battle continues unending, without letup, and you gain peace even amid ceaseless turmoil. From: "dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2017 10:32 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield’s Crisis of Meditating Numbers in the Dome: The ending of the “grant” program funding. Old meditators cut loose as the ™ movement readies to outsource US Meditation to India. The international ™ movement is announcing it will shift its funding resources away from propping the Dome group meditation in Iowa over to pundit programs in India. Winding down the “Grant” program.. Financial support for the Invincible America Assembly had been coming in substantial amounts donated monthly by Drs. Howard and Mickey Settle. About two years ago, the International ™ Movement took over most, then all, of the IAA Grant funding, and has now announced it will step down its contributions beginning in September, to 22% of the $90,000/month it has been giving, by this coming November. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : The movement should get out of the business of monitoring people. FW: Myth: People dropped off or were cut from the Grant because there was not enough funds, due to Howard Settle's business situation. Truth: Not one person was dropped from the Grant due to reduction in Settle funds in 2013. Every single person who re-applied went back on the Grant. Julie Anne, who handled the Grant checks, told me this herself. But the 100 person drop overnight, and 350 or more after that reduction, was primarilybecause of dislike or disapproval of the 'monitoring' system, and, the way that Bryan Lee et al conducted the lengthy highly formal meeting to introduce the 'monitoring' system (I had warned him what 'monitoring' would do, and also what that type of meeting would do, but was disregarded). It crippled Movement family and community feeling, what was left of that. The reduction in attendance began ONE YEAR BEFORE the Settle funds were reduced. In August of 2012. Soon as 'monitoring' started, after 17 nearly consecutive higher months, our attendance fell through the floor, and went down 12 consecutive months PRIOR TO the Settle fund reduction (then continued falling for 39 months after that, until 2 months up for October Surprise (then down 3 months in a row since then. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : ‘Fixing’ the grant $ program and its monitoring? That seems like.. 'putting Lipstick on a pig’. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : The Administrative State of monitoring.. The coloring of consciousness with fear by effect of meditation-monitoring in physical observation is antithetical to 'effortless meditation' in creating stress to the innocence of the practice. FW: ..refer to Maharishi's Commentary on the Gita, where he states, inter alia, at VI: 10, "the feeling of someone being around him or watching him may impede the smoothness of the process of transcending." FW: This monitoring system is clearly in contrast to basic Program instructions about not being watched while meditating that are in our Checking Notes, and in Chapter VI Verse 10 of Maharishi's Gita. This system has also been a dagger in the thigh of our Sidha community, already hurt by decades of authoritarian administration. There are mild to very hard feelings about it all over town among all those who know about it. It has put many people off the end of the diving board w the Movement, hurt our local community and Movement more than almost any single thing that has ever happened to it. note what this 'monitoring' system involves - A man up on the stage not meditating, watching each person, counting how many hops they take per Program, how many times they go to the bathroom, how many minutes they are gone, how many times they lie down to sleep, for how long each time, and when they enter and leave the day, to the minute, and writing it all down as needed and entering it in a computer spreadsheet at night, then the record being reviewed by someone else, then if felt necessary someone who is too far from the Program being emailed anonymously, or asked to call an out of state phone # of someone they never heard of? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : FW: "..refer to Maharishi's Commentary on the Gita, where he states, inter alia, at VI: 10, "the feeling of someone being around him or watching him may impede the smoothness of the process of transcending." ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : At this point we should carry on without the movement doing the paying of people to meditate. That is just fraught with bad feeling. Parse that off to some other non-profit entity to figure out if it can be. Drop now the IAA and carry on with a WPA group meditation for those who can. The movement should simply just facilitate meditation and not try to run the social support program by monitoring people's lives. Let other parts of the meditating community figure that out. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : A Responding e-mail: Dr. Hagelin, I came to MIU in 1974 as a student. One of the best times of my life, I was inspired to become a teacher, moved here to raise children, etc. IF, MIU had had "monitoring"then, I'm sure I'd never have stayed in Fairfield. Honestly, the concept is weird and certainly not...spiritual. I stay because Fairfield is a mature and integrated spiritual community that supports me and that hopefully I contribute to. I do hope that some thought and consideration is given to the points about "monitoring". I'm sure none of this policy is your design but I'm inspired to write you. One would hope, that the understanding of the practice of meditation, i.e. that "control" doesn't work, could be applied in this instance. In appreciation and gratitude, ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : FW: Friends it is imperative that we all press Dr. Hagelin to put an end to monitoring in the Dome meditation. Monitoring as it has been done in the administrative state of the “grant” program and the Invincible America Assembly stands as a prime culprit in the undoing of our communal cohesion as a meditating community. There is an elite level of money and administrative apparatchiks in the movement community who are enamored of controlling people with punitive controls by monitoring meditation. Punitive monitoring of meditation is completely antithetical to what we stand on as the teaching of effortless meditation. It is time to put to put an end to the administrative state of the Invincible America Assembly. This is an extremely important time right now. As much as one can act right now, push this real concern about the group meditation here in Fairfield by contacting Dr. Hagelin now. Dr. Hagelin as Raja of America in the Global Country of World Peace, Director of Maharishi Foundation USA, and as President of Maharishi International University (MUM), Dr. Hagelin has the position to pull rank and remediate this locally. Ask him to take courage and right this predicament which is so fundamental to our innocent practice of meditation as a group. It is time to remove what has been a sutra of fear from the Dome community. Act now and share your feelings about this with Dr. Hagelin at, Contact, Write him Dr, John Hagelin, MUM President’s Office Leave a Phone Message Tell him: Dr. Hagelin,, Please dissolve all the Meditation Monitoring System(s) and get the movement out of all the business of monitoring people (students, faculty, grantees, citizens, old initiators/govs of TSR) and their meditations. The large principle here is that monitoring the way it has been done in the Domes is fundamentally antithetical to the effortless practice of meditation there. Tell this to Dr. Hagelin and anyone else who could help. For the community don’t lose this opportunity now to: Stop the ‘grant’ program right now as it is run. It is way too corrosive to the element of innocence and effortless meditation there. Let some other community group figure out how to support these few indigents who are meditating on the “long program” in the Domes. Everything should be done to support them but it is clearly time to get the movement out of the administration of the grant. The money and with its monitoring the grant has destroyed the whole coherence of what was the place. A substantial “principle of the 2nd element” towards correcting this is to completely skip trying to ‘solve’ the problem on the level of the problem but simply to stop having the movement run the ‘grant’ program as the Invincible America Assembly. There have been weeks-long ongoing considerations of this in small groups and meditating community committees including grantees, university, TSR, IAA and administrator members of the meditating community.. Summary links, open and scroll down.. The FairfieldLife forum can be read by the public without having to join as a group member, Fairfield’s Crisis of Meditator Numbers in the Dome https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/g roups/FairfieldLife/conversati ons/messages/434720 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/434720?soc_src=mail&soc_trk=ma Fairfield's Kodak Moment https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/g roups/FairfieldLife/conversati ons/messages/434676 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/434676?soc_src=mail&soc_trk=ma
