Notes from the FF Cafe Satsanga:
"They are terrified about losing control of some vedic idea." "People making life in Fairfield are about their business and less likely to show up at a meeting with people who do not have personal filters. They should meet with people who are about it doing community life." "The movement has long shut the door on being included in the broader sense into a dynamic inclusive community that is meditating Fairfield. The people who are making community happen were out of town that week visiting Ammachi. The admin will make their conclusions about what is not in their own minds from that?" "..It is not about ™, we all grew up here and made lives. The campus is tangential to life in Fairfield." ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : FW: Wake things up, open a starbucks outside the dome in the am.. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : Increasing Means of support: FW: Buy on Amazon, Ebay = Donate to the Meditation Assembly An average of 5% of any purchase on Amazon, Ebay, and 250 other online stores will go the Invincible America meditation Assembly if you go to the following website (brightFutureNews.com) and click the green bar in order to go to the store you want: https://brightfuturenews.com/s hops?a=cipek https://brightfuturenews.com/shops?a=cipek Just click on the above link, then click on the green bar to shop, and choose among 250 shops, including Amazon, Ebay, and hundreds of other online stores. About half of the amount donated by the store will go directly to the IAA general fund, and about half will go directly to individuals and help meditators stay on the IAA and continue to uphold the United States to be more peaceful, just, free, and unified. If meditators would like to receive support in half of the donated amount (average 5% of purchase) from every purchase by others that they inspire, they can sign up to become an affiliate member by clicking on the following link: https://brightfuturenews.com/m embers?a=cipek https://brightfuturenews.com/members?a=cipek If you sign up to become a member via that link , you can send your own link to others, and will receive about half of the approximate 5% of every purchase your friends generate with their purchases. The other half of that approximately 5% will go to the IAA general fund. Thank you very very much for helping move the Invincible America Assembly forward to create a bright future for us all. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : FW: Start a Fairfield outreach program to get people here meditating again. Through course offerings and incentives to stay here like free or almost free continuing ed courses and university courses.. My old college still offers that to Alums..besides getting free box seats at the Cleveland orchestra.. yesss.... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : from e-mail: BTW Dr. Nader told me that he would consider a course in fairfield at a cheap rate. ..suggest a big course , with Dr. Nader giving out to us all, over period of 2 or 3 weeks daily in the dome his course or part of it before or after we do tm..etc.. Along with that.. or after a big course of us tsr invite others of our celebs promoting superradience. Is it still impt. .?? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : e-mail: Invite tsr and alumni retirees to help on projects.. this brings people together for a common cause.. feste37 wrote: am so glad there is hope! Actually, the meeting in Phoenix Hall was quite good. I assume you did not go. Salsunshineiniowa: No, I didn’t even know about it. Supposedly there were flyers up all over, but I guess not where I shop. There was scarcely a necktie in sight, and only a few Jai Guru Devs (which I suspect drive you crazy) were uttered. Hagelin even admitted that when he took over leadership of the movement, it was a "mess" regarding TM instruction. The fee was too high and no one was learning. Since then the fee has been lowered and initiations have gone up. What’s it lowered to? Let me guess…it’s still way too high. It must be the first time in history that a TM movement leader has admitted that anything at all in the movement was "a mess.” ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : Mail: To bring our community together again one of the challenges of getting an extended huge group meditation together is sustainability. We do have 1500 or more sidhas in town to accomplish that. The trick is getting them back. We had some success in getting some friends interested in coming back but need more of them to come, and we need help from the University. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : e-mail: We are supposed to be a family.. Pops talks to the whole family not just the favorite sons or favored daughter... The admin needs to do this. Meet with people of the community. Not just one evening but several.. FW: ..we also need continued access to admin to change things. For helping out, to gripe. etc. on a weekly or ongoing basis.. Sometimes it takes a lot of venting then people come around.. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : From e-mail: More meetings to solve issues should include tsr (town-super-radiance) members. or have meetings exclusively of tsr, Rich, working and poor who make their lives here, mixing with capable Trustees. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : Some people are still here for altruistic reasons and are yet interested in the process of making something happen. People who are contentious and by nature uneasy or impatient with process likely may go crazy having to listen in on the process. The folks who feel their big contribution is to tell why it won’t work? They get sidelined by effective people who volunteer working on things. Civics seems a skill set. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <salsunshineini...@gmail.com> wrote : They do need people and are starting the process to collaborate. Collaborate? How many times. have we heard this now? They’ve been having meetings like this for decades now, nearly every time something awful happens and they need to put on a false show of reassurance. You do know what the definition of insanity is, right, Doug? All they need is someone else in white up there and they’re all set for a scene straight out of the Leftovers. Sal On Jun 24, 2017, at 5:14 AM, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com mailto:dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> wrote: We’re a bunch of communal transcendental meditationists with a range of affiliation and some of them came down into town to show their hand of their own concern. They do need people and are starting the process to collaborate. It begins with a lot of listening and consideration. Yes of course we know the past. This was a remarkable meeting in corporation. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <salsunshineini...@gmail.com mailto:salsunshineini...@gmail.com> wrote : Brilliant feste. So instead of insults, do you actually have anything of substance to contribute? I'm misinformed? So by all means, tell us what the reality is. All you have to do is look at the Women's Dome to know it has, or had, a big problem with mold. I was simply conceding that since I hadn't been inside in quite a while, I didn't have all the answers. Unlike you, apparently. Sal On Jun 23, 2017, at 9:24 PM, feste37 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com mailto:no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote: The most relevant part of this poster's response is contained in the very first sentence: "from the little I know." How true. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <salsunshineiniowa@...> wrote : lol…The Dooms are mold-filled too, from the little I know, and the roofs leak there as well. Mold and poor construction seem to follow the TMO like a bad case of the flu since they rarely take good care of things. Would love to know the condition of Barhydt pre-1973, was it a mess then? If not, it’s just one more building that they let go to ruin undoubtedly because they wanted a good excuse to get rid of it, maybe because it was positioned slightly awkwardly. Who knows. Beautiful old place, I would have paid the half mill. You know how the TMO pisses away $$?? Gold this and gold that, expensive leaflets and catalogues that nobody reads. But a beautiful old building, not to mention the ponds as well as potholes galore? The nicest parts of campus were the ones they got rid of first. Meanwhile the ghastly frats? As well as most of the so-called pods? Still there. It’s like they want the campus to be as ugly as possible, and they are succeeding. And Doug, you have got to be kidding. You know as well as I do it was all for show, people in white sitting looking down on everyone else while they pretend to care for about 10 minutes. But let others in that have been banned? Oh no, we won’t go that far! Elitism at its finest. Remember how “modern mental health” was going to be coming? How many young adult suicides have there been since that? And absolutely *nothing* has changed. Sal On Jun 23, 2017, at 5:44 PM, j_alexander_stanley@... mailto:j_alexander_stanley@... [FairfieldLife] <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> wrote: Oh gawd, not the friggin' chapel drama again. When I was at MIU, I had to meditate on the rock-hard pews in that mold-filled shithole. It was full of mold because the roof leaked; they threw a bunch of money at the roof, and it didn't stay fixed because the foundation was crumbling. It was gonna cost around half a million dollars to fix the foundation, and it didn't make sense to spend that kind of money on a building that wasn't all that useful to the university. Plus, it was also Sthapatya Vedicly wonky. OMG!!! SATANIC HINDOOS WHO HATE JEEBUS DESTROYED A CHURCH!!!!! But, the old St. Mary's Catholic Church, which was built within 5 years of Barhydt Chapel and had similar severe structural issues, was also torn down. :::: crickets chirping :::: No one gave two shits that the Catholics tore down their own old church building. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony2k5@... mailto:dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote : Large meeting. A lot was said and listened to from both vantages, the stage and the crowd. Someone in the meeting observed this had the similar feeling as in community meetings of earlier days held on campus in the Barhydt Chapel, when so much was collaboratively done by so many. A radical group tore down the old Barhydt Chapel, may be this is an attempt to rebuild what was not replaced when the old Chapel was torn down. There was a sense of harmony and collaboration in this meeting, something to build on.. A lot of areas to consider. More meetings to follow after this week’s Commencement program and meetings of the Board of Trustees for the University. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony2k5@... mailto:dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote : FW, Notes from 6-21-17 Communal Meeting: An incredibly powerful , coherent community meeting took place last night (Wed.) at Phoenix Rising Hall. Approximately 275 people filled the hall to overflowing, with dozens sitting in aisles and standing in the back, and a large group of M.U.M. Trustees in front, with Tom Stanley, VP of MUM Board of Trustees, MCing the meeting, and Dr. John Hagelin and Mayor Ed Malloy also responding to comments and suggestions from the floor . A fer a Welcome by Trustee Tom, Dr. Hagelin briefly summarized the just - finished spectacular Ukraine Peace Conference attended by over 500 VIP s - the highest stature gathering ever exposed to the Peace Solutions we practice, and an inspiring overview of our community history by Mayor Malloy.