[FairfieldLife] Re: The Killing of History

[emily.ma...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

I get it.  Pilgar is a long-time activist and calls foul on western imperialism 
and denial thereof.  In this article, Pilgar's outrage over the one line *in 
the beginning* of the documentary is way overblown and his mind seems to snap 
shut at the point Bank of America is id'd as a sponsor.  Don't think I don't 
get the sad irony that David H. Koch is also listed—I cringed each and every 
time I saw the name. 

 Pilgar doesn't seem to have watched the entire thing, unfortunately, and his 
article rambles on and on about topics unrelated, given the vast material he 
could have written about. There are other reviews out there by other activists 
against imperialism focusing in on that same line and taking issue with points 
of history and perspectives and details that either were or weren't included. 
One of Pilgar's reasons for his contention that the film is not operating in 
good faith is because: "In the series’ press release in Britain — the BBC will 
show it — there is no mention of Vietnamese dead, only Americans."  
Whateverthe film states this number as at least 2 million and the U.S. loss 
at around 60,000 (I'm rounding).   
 

 To say that this film serves an imperialist agenda and write it off as such is 
a response based in angry cynicism, imo. It masterfully weaves the political 
history of Vietnam (yes, dating back to the imperialist French) and the U.S., 
reams and reams of wartime and political footage, and a lock-step analysis of 
what was happening in Vietnam and in the U.S. during this long era, with 
ongoing personal storylines and interviews of U.S. and Vietnamese veterans (I 
found the Vietnamese veteran interviews really interesting) and family members. 
 It is obvious that there was a huge effort to ensure the documentary was fact 
driven and unbiased in its telling. In no way is U.S. involvement and the 
impetus for our involvement soft-pedaled.  
 

 What comes across viscerally is the ugly underbelly of war and also the human 
cost to hearts and souls—all of them.  
 

 And, I'm sorry, but Peter Coyote is a great narrator.  
 

 This documentary is for those who think they know all and enough about Vietnam 
or for those that don't believe that it couldn't happen again.  It's brilliant. 
  
 


---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 https://consortiumnews.com/2017/09/21/the-killing-of-history/ 
https://consortiumnews.com/2017/09/21/the-killing-of-history/

 

 

 



  

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[FairfieldLife] Lee Pearson

[emily.ma...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

Saw him today as part of a Chris Botti show.
 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYp5wKQ29HE 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYp5wKQ29HE

 

 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Second-Generation Consolidation

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

Yogananda's SRF passes to a second-generation leadership, someone who never met 
Yogananda... 

 SRF Announces New President 
 

 Brother Chidananda Elected President and Spiritual Head of SRF/YSS 
 


 
 
http://www.yogananda-srf.org/NewsArchive/2017/SRF_Announces_New_President.aspx#.WdFuk3eGNo4
 
http://www.yogananda-srf.org/NewsArchive/2017/SRF_Announces_New_President.aspx#.WdFuk3eGNo4

 

 


 
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 
 Generational-wisdom.. 

 Technically in Maharishi's founding and with Hagelin and others having worked 
directly alongside Maharishi they would be first generation of ™ and their 
working now (post-founder) to consolidate things towards a (demographic) 
turnover at some point to second generation meditators, generations coming who 
have never directly seen or met Maharishi.  Thus far the microphone has not 
been shared or handed to a second generation to hold nor is a second generation 
much present in upper level policy circles. 
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 

 Of “second-generation” wisdom.. as Noyes frames it below, Will John Hagelin 
now of his own ‘first-generation’ wisdom turn out to be the consolidator to 
something that may last some decades more? ..   Excerpts from the 1966 
Introduction by Mark Holloway  to the Dover edition, History Of American 
Socialisms, Noyes 1869 “At the time when Noyes was alive (19th Century) any 
marked deviation from the established churches of Christianity was likely to 
provoke a vigorous reaction.  Consequently initiators and leaders of sects had 
to be men of exceptionally strong character, especially if they were 
evangelically minded, for then they had to be capable of keeping the allegiance 
of their original members and of winning converts even in the midst of 
antagonism or actual physical persecution. 

 A fanatic might get this far, might indeed get further, as Ann Lee got to 
America from Lancashire and Joseph Smith got to Nauvoo; but other qualities 
were required in order to maintain the initial impetus.  As well as the 
absolute conviction that they and they alone had chosen the right path, and the 
ability to persuade others that this was so, leaders of this kind needed 
exceptional organizing ability and foresight, balanced judgment, and a quality 
that can best be described as “intuitive astuteness”. Joseph Meacham, who 
organized the Shakers into communities, and Brigham Young, who commanded the 
Mormon hegira, must have been endowed with these qualities; and no doubt other 
examples of “second-generation” wisdom of this kind could be cited.  It was a 
characteristic that was less common among initiators, 

 'second-generation' wisdom, ..simple vision, the strength of character and the 
evangelical fire of the fanatical initiator were blended with the balanced 
judgment and practical managerial capacity of the successful consolidator.  
This was an unusual combination of characteristics; and in view of (his) 
background , his absolute rejection of orthodoxy was also unusual. 

 ..He was extreme, but logical and realistic; revolutionary, but not violent. 
When religious fire, moral courage, and good judgment ..have all been given due 
credit, something remains unexplained--some ingredient of the personality--. I 
think that this unnamed quality can without sentimentality be called “love of 
life.”  ..I believe Noyes, unlike many sectarians, was a great yea-sayer, an 
enhancer of life,” 

 

 

 








 
 

   
 


 
 


 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 
 Generational-wisdom.. 

 Technically in Maharishi's founding and with Hagelin and others having worked 
directly alongside Maharishi they would be first generation of ™ and their 
working now (post-founder) to consolidate things towards a (demographic) 
turnover at some point to second generation meditators, generations coming who 
have never directly seen or met Maharishi.  Thus far the microphone has not 
been shared or handed to a second generation to hold nor is a second generation 
much present in upper level policy circles. 
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 

 Of “second-generation” wisdom.. as Noyes frames it below, Will John Hagelin 
now of his own ‘first-generation’ wisdom turn out to be the consolidator to 
something that may last some decades more? ..   Excerpts from the 1966 
Introduction by Mark Holloway  to the Dover edition, History Of American 
Socialisms, Noyes 1869 “At the time when Noyes was alive (19th Century) any 
marked deviation from the established churches of Christianity was likely to 
provoke a vigorous reaction.  Consequently initiators and leaders of sects had 
to be men of exceptionally strong character, especially if they were 
evangelically minded, for then they had to be capable of keeping the allegiance 
of their original members and of winning converts even in the 

[FairfieldLife] TM Retreat in Fairfield, Ia.

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

Meditation Retreat Assembly in Fairfield, Iowa, where you will dive into 
extended practice of your TM-Sidhi program in the Golden Domes of Pure 
Knowledge, where hundreds of Sidhas are doing their program together, providing 
the best possible conditions for deepening your inner experience. 

 

 https://tmretreats.org/location/129 https://tmretreats.org/location/129

 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Second-Generation Consolidation

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

 Generational-wisdom.. 

 Technically in Maharishi's founding and with Hagelin and others having worked 
directly alongside Maharishi they would be first generation of ™ and their 
working now (post-founder) to consolidate things towards a (demographic) 
turnover at some point to second generation meditators, generations coming who 
have never directly seen or met Maharishi.  Thus far the microphone has not 
been shared or handed to a second generation to hold nor is a second generation 
much present in upper level policy circles. 
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 

 Of “second-generation” wisdom.. as Noyes frames it below, Will John Hagelin 
now of his own ‘first-generation’ wisdom turn out to be the consolidator to 
something that may last some decades more? ..   Excerpts from the 1966 
Introduction by Mark Holloway  to the Dover edition, History Of American 
Socialisms, Noyes 1869 “At the time when Noyes was alive (19th Century) any 
marked deviation from the established churches of Christianity was likely to 
provoke a vigorous reaction.  Consequently initiators and leaders of sects had 
to be men of exceptionally strong character, especially if they were 
evangelically minded, for then they had to be capable of keeping the allegiance 
of their original members and of winning converts even in the midst of 
antagonism or actual physical persecution. 

 A fanatic might get this far, might indeed get further, as Ann Lee got to 
America from Lancashire and Joseph Smith got to Nauvoo; but other qualities 
were required in order to maintain the initial impetus.  As well as the 
absolute conviction that they and they alone had chosen the right path, and the 
ability to persuade others that this was so, leaders of this kind needed 
exceptional organizing ability and foresight, balanced judgment, and a quality 
that can best be described as “intuitive astuteness”. Joseph Meacham, who 
organized the Shakers into communities, and Brigham Young, who commanded the 
Mormon hegira, must have been endowed with these qualities; and no doubt other 
examples of “second-generation” wisdom of this kind could be cited.  It was a 
characteristic that was less common among initiators, 

 'second-generation' wisdom, ..simple vision, the strength of character and the 
evangelical fire of the fanatical initiator were blended with the balanced 
judgment and practical managerial capacity of the successful consolidator.  
This was an unusual combination of characteristics; and in view of (his) 
background , his absolute rejection of orthodoxy was also unusual. 

 ..He was extreme, but logical and realistic; revolutionary, but not violent. 
When religious fire, moral courage, and good judgment ..have all been given due 
credit, something remains unexplained--some ingredient of the personality--. I 
think that this unnamed quality can without sentimentality be called “love of 
life.”  ..I believe Noyes, unlike many sectarians, was a great yea-sayer, an 
enhancer of life,” 

 

 

 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: Rain Yagya for Fairfield

[starbaby...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

Rain yagya is not going to do a thing when it  is not nature making the 
weather. 

 #geoengineering

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: Rain Yagya for Fairfield

[starbaby...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

Rain yagya is not gonna help when it is not Nature making the weather. 

 #geonegineering

[FairfieldLife] Billy Elliot clip 2 minutes

[ultrarishi]

Kind of reminds me of...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0tTT_87Hh8 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0tTT_87Hh8

[FairfieldLife] Re: Types of Pietism

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

 

Good distinction, thanks for the perspective.  
 
yifuxero wrote :

 May be categorized as to the early Age of Enlightenment (mainly German 
Lutherasns) (17-th century) and the later period (l18-th)  being influenced by 
the founders of Methodism: John Wesley and his friend George Whitefield.
 The early period had an important evolutionary trend in that:
 Quietism (a practice of the Quakers and others), became distinct form 
"Enthusiasm" which later evolved ;into "Being Born again in the Holy Spirit", 
popular especially in Methodism and then many other sects such as the 
Pentacostals.
 Thus, we have two trends: 1. Quietism leading to Transcendental Awareness, and
 ...2. Being "Born Again" as a purely 
emotional conversion
 Those are two important trends we have today, for the most part completely at 
odds.  The second group is of course a package deal accompanied by rigid 
literal interpretations of the Bible, group confessions, the singing of Hymns, 
and Evangelistic ferver leading to religious conversions of non-Believers.
 ...
 Quietist movements OTOH, do not emphasize emotional religious conversions 
since the Essence of what occurs in Quietism is something that can be "caught" 
but not "taught".
 As to a popularity contest, Quietism and it forms are today in the extreme 
'minority, mainly due to the growth of Evangelism through John Wesley and 
George Whitefield.
 Pietism and the growth of the early Evangelical Movement through Wesley and 
Whitefield is covered in detail in this excellent video by Pastor Tom Nelson of 
Denton, TX, a graduate of the Dallsas Theological Seminary:
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_PFqLE2mrg=PLT8IFvbAQaujmVknoahiRYDDoZszLYEzU=8
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_PFqLE2mrg=PLT8IFvbAQaujmVknoahiRYDDoZszLYEzU=8
 

 SHALOM
 

 Gospel music and its many hymns represent the inner core of Evangelical 
Christianity.  If you think, "Amazing Grace", for example, we cannot wonder why 
the Evangelical Movement became so popular. Hymns even helped fuel the Civil 
War since while not shooting each other, both Confederates and the Union 
soldiers could engage in singing hymns.
 The great age of Hymns (17-th - 18-centuries( are covered in the first 10 min 
of this video, along with audios of some of the more important ones, such as:
 "Amazing Grace" - John Henry Newton, 1725 - 1807,
 "Christ the Lord is Risen Today" - Charles Wesley
 "Joy to the World" - Isaac Watts
 "Rock of Ages" - Augustus Toplady
 
 Compare Gospel Hymns to Vedic Hymns.  Which are more likely to win the 
popularity contest in the US?
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVhYHa-Cjcg=9=PLT8IFvbAQaujmVknoahiRYDDoZszLYEzU
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVhYHa-Cjcg=9=PLT8IFvbAQaujmVknoahiRYDDoZszLYEzU
 

 
 SHALOM
 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mantras can Rewire and Strengthen the Nervous Systems

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

 
 

 A friend living here in Fairfield, Ia. was a student at MIU in the early days. 
In sharing this account below of the Trappist Monks having learned TM back in 
the 1970's, some of the monks from Spencer, Mass. then visited MIU in Iowa in 
the early days wanting to see what was going on. They came to a class studying 
comparative religion. This friend was in the class, the monks in talking with 
the class observed that the TM mantras as they are used as sound in TM work 
better than using "Jesus" as a mantra.  .. evidently too much meaning going on 
with using "Jesus" for attempts at effortless transcendent meditation. 
 

 Chanting maybe different than, meditating TM? 
 

 
https://detechter.com/chanting-mantras-can-help-rewire-and-strengthen-nervous-system/
 
https://detechter.com/chanting-mantras-can-help-rewire-and-strengthen-nervous-system/

 

 

 The meditating Trappist monks..
 

 Separatism. 
 The historical ‘separating’ of spiritual mystics from the creedal orthodoxy of 
institutional ‘churches’ (Catholic, Lutheran, or Anglican) evidently is also 
contemporary.  
 

 In the early 1970’s as a ™ teacher I was able to visit and ‘check’ the 
meditations of Cistercian trappist monks in Spencer, Mass  who after having 
studied the spiritual experience of the ‘desert mystics’ and so many others of 
the early Christian era found in themselves a lacking in spiritual depth of 
experience where they then reached out for methodology outside their own 
confines of practice.  These Spencer, Mass Trappist monks were earnest, 
scholarly and dedicated spiritual seekers who set about finding better method 
than what they had in their order. (At one point one of these monks exclaimed, 
“Thank God for Vatican II!”).  Of course Thomas Merton, also a Cistercian in 
the 1940’s, 50’s and 60’s, had done the same thing a generation before in his 
visiting with Buddhism or Eastern practices and writing about his experience.  
 

 The Spencer, Mass. monks proceeded then from their experience in learning to 
meditate with ™ to abstract instruction from the ™practice and share with 
others what they subsequently re-branded as “Centering Prayer”, a meditative 
technique for lay people with features taken from ™.  Centering Prayer now is 
widely taught as church adult education classes taught and supported by these 
monks in courses with video and lectures as a transcendent meditative practice 
for lay Catholic religious people. In a type of movement Centering Prayer now 
has also crossed over as progressive spiritual practice methodology to 
Protestant churches.
 
 A couple years ago I visited the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky where I found 
the legacy of Thomas Merton supporting a thriving monastic community serving as 
a Merton pilgrimage site, with a modern museum and a bookstore doing active 
business vending in so many books by and about Thomas Merton. 
 

 By contrast a few weeks ago I visited New Mallory Abbey near Dubuque, Iowa.  
In the 1980’s I had opportunity to visit and stay at New Mallory in their guest 
house quite a lot. I was excited recently to be able to return and visit back 
there and also see their bookstore.  In their bookstore  surprisingly I found 
not a book on Centering Prayer and one by Thomas Merton on a bottom shelf, by 
contrast. A little puzzled after this visit there to New Mallory I asked around 
about this seeming ‘edit’ and obvious blank and was told that some in the 
Church feel those teachings are heretical to the Holy Father Church. Even 
within the Church today?  Evidently dangerous for being out of control 
(unorthodox) the mystics in cultivated spiritual experience and by their 
critique in transcendentalism are still ‘separated’ from the orthodox. 
 

 “They who believe their practice is best are devotees
 They who believe their technique is the only are zealots.”
 -Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
 

 
 Re Separatists, In Quiet, European ancestral genealogy of transcendentalism
 
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/435251 
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/435251

 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Re Separatists, In Quiet, European ancestral genealogy of transcendentalism

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

 
 Persecutions by creedal religionists of mystics and their groups of separatist 
transcendentalists across Europe are often a theme in these communal 
narratives. 

 Recently retired to a safety in community of meditating Fairfield, Iowa a 
meditator’s spouse who practiced law for a career in NYC at a law firm kept 
their practice of meditation secret to avoid persecution. 

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Of the modern day persecution of transcendentalists, up in Wisconsin recently 
I ran into an older ™ initiator from there. This is someone who saw a TM intro 
lecture poster in 1969 in Madison, attended the lecture that was given by 
Walter Koch and learned ™ then in those times. 

 As a State certified teacher working in public school this person then fell 
victim to persecution for associating with ™.  Directly persecuted by school 
superintendents, building principals,other staff, parents asking that their 
kids not be taught by this person or parents going directly to the school board 
to have this person fired for fear this person might be teaching meditation to 
the children. The superintendent calling the local ™ center seeking information 
about this staff teacher. The teacher declined resignation and stayed on 
teaching. But the pressure was great to resign. 
  
 This followed for years affecting this person’s career advancement.  An irony 
now is that mindfulness meditation is taught in the public schools up there 
today.
  
 This person is retired now from teaching and still traumatized by the longer 
experience of it does not talk to friends and associates about meditating or 
being with Maharishi in those days. When the person found I was from Fairfield 
and an old initiator from those days a comparing of old stories opened up. 

 The person was a working school teacher then and made use of school breaks. We 
figured we attended the same weekend residence courses early on in Iowa City as 
new meditators, one month courses with Maharishi, a teacher training course 
with Maharishi, ATR courses with Maharishi in Europe, was with Maharishi in 
Fairfield too.

 This person used the word ‘persecution’ in recounting the experience 
throughout. It was stark. Early days of moving to Meditating Fairfield, Ia. 
gave a small taste of insight in to what persecution in Jim Crow might have 
been to someone who was otherwise majority Iowan, like me coming to Fairfield 
as a transcendental meditationist.

 Now though with a longer time of assimilation the separation is not nearly so 
great in Fairfield.  And evidently, the postmodern is catching up with Madison, 
Wisconsin too as they are teaching meditation in their schools now.   

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 
 In victimization of separatist movements by the hands of creedal religionists 
persecution runs throughout the narratives of these historic satsanga groups 
across Europe and across time as they formed. 
As transcendentalist and essentially heretical to the religious belief and 
ideology of God the Father Church, these ‘separatist’ groups and their 
practitioners evidently fell victim to a State of fear within religious 
formality throughout Europe.

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Separating the heterodox and heretical..  A Christian statement of belief, The 
Athanasian Creed it differs from the Nicene-Constantinopolitan 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicene_Creed and Apostles' Creeds 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostles%27_Creed in the inclusion of anathemas 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anathema, or condemnations of those who disagree 
with the creed (like the original Nicene Creed 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicene_Creed#The_original_Nicene_Creed_of_325 
..which various anathemas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anathema against Arian 
propositions were added.[15] 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicene_Creed#cite_note-15).. All mainstream 
branches[citation needed 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed] of Christianity now 
consider (Arianism in that case) to be heterodox 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterodoxy and heretical 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heresy. The Ecumenical First Council of Nicaea 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Council_of_Nicaea of 325 deemed it to be a 
heresy.[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arianism#cite_note-Ferguson2013-3
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athanasian_Creed 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athanasian_Creed
 ..Whosoever will be saved, before all things it is necessary that he hold the 
catholic faith. Which faith except every one do keep whole and undefiled; 
without doubt he shall perish everlastingly.
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anathema https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anathema

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 “The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. It is the power 
of all 

[FairfieldLife] Re: 47 years of TM Research

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

 
 
 A talk at Loyola Medical School in Chicago. 
https://brightfuturenews.com/views/Education/what-does-47-years-of-research-tell-us-about-the-transcendental-meditation-technique?v=1
 
https://brightfuturenews.com/views/Education/what-does-47-years-of-research-tell-us-about-the-transcendental-meditation-technique?v=1

 

 
 What does 47 years of research tell us about the Transcendental Meditation 
technique? 

[FairfieldLife] RE: Waging Radical Peace, A Call to Group Meditations

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

 
 "..the United States nuclear arsenal.. If it is ever used, it could kill 
almost every American, as well as the rest of humanity, due to the impacts of 
the smoke from fires that would be ignited, which would cool Earth’s surface 
and kill virtually all crops in the ensuing nuclear winter." 

 The Ramifications Of Going Nuclear 

 http://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2017/09/26/nuclear-north-korea 
http://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2017/09/26/nuclear-north-korea
 
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Hopefully Dr. Hagelin right now has his war room advisors devising deployments 
of meditation for peace on earth (POE) alongside what forces of war may be 
deployed over there in this current conflict with with a small country who 
spirits weapons of mass destruction (WMD). 

 Dr. Hagelin, et al; 
 Right now, pull all the levers you have to have
 a group meditation, to augment peace in the world.
 “All we are saying is give peace a chance”.
 

 ..Progressive Meditators Unite!
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Also good is Ken Burn's documentary on the Vietnam War.  And, the Fog of War 
is good too, a McNamara documentary. 
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Important perspective to Take. ..Watch of this Frontline documentary now.. 
 Frontline 1996 The Gulf War (Complete) - Comprehensive and critical analysis 
of the 1990-1991 war
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUMAyiI0TPA 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUMAyiI0TPA

 One could bet that the same range of calculations are being thought and said 
inside all the administrations involved in this current Korean conflict as were 
considered options, ramifications, possible political ends, and ways that 
things can go wrong like back in the first-Bush administration at the start of 
the Gulf Wars, or like at the start of the Vietnam war. This Gulf War 
documentary is awesome for all the voices it collects.  
 

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 
 Iran tests missile despite Trump pressure..
 By test-firing a new missile, Iran is sending another signal of defiance taken 
straight from the North Korean textbook.
 

 Iran says it has successfully tested a new-medium range missile, in defiance 
of US President Donald Trump.
 

 The launch of the Khoramshahr missile, which has a range of 2,000 km (1,242 
miles), was shown on state TV.

 Kim Jong-un has said remarks by "deranged" US President Donald Trump have 
convinced him he is right to develop weapons for North Korea.  

 Mr Trump responded  
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/911175246853664768that the 
"madman... will be tested like never before".
 

 Mr Kim said Mr Trump would "pay dearly" for a UN speech where he threatened to 
"totally destroy" the North if the US was forced to defend itself.

 

 Mr Kim ended his statement by saying he would "surely and definitely tame the 
mentally deranged US dotard http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-41357315 with 
fire".

 

 "All relevant parties should exercise restraint instead of provoking each 
other," said China's Foreign Minister spokesman Lu Kang.

 

 Russia also urged restraint. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Moscow was 
"deeply concerned by an escalation of tensions".

 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-41356836 
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-41356836

 

 
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :
 He said diplomacy was the only answer.

 Mr Putin also said that the ramping up of "military hysteria" could lead to 
global catastrophe.

 

 Russian President Vladimir Putin has said pursuing further sanctions against 
North Korea is "useless", saying "they'd rather eat grass than give up their 
nuclear programme".

 

 
 

 
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Where the Sam Hill are the teachers of peace in this? You read the BBC page 
this morning? The Japanese, the Russians, the Chinese, the South Koreans call 
for diplomacy.  
 Where is ™’s leadership in the diplomacy of those people there asking for 
peace?  Our ™ communal leadership should be all over this. 
 Where the heck are TM’s Prime Minister, the Raja of America and the Maharaja 
of TM in this diplomacy, the owners of TM? 
 

 This is a perfectly good time to have an emergency re-write of the Dome 
meditation application guidelines and to then invite people to the Dome 
meditations. Right now. 
 

 
 North Korea crisis: South's leader in plea to avoid war 

 Mr Moon told the visiting top US military official that there must be a 
diplomatic solution to the crisis.

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 “This country and our world need you to be an army of wisdom, compassion, and 
connectedness, showing the world how to be awake, to be connected, and to be 
energized by the tremendous power that lies within,” said Congressman Ryan in 
his Maharishi University of 

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance Of Group Meditation

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

 Transcendentalism, 
 this becomes MMY’s great legacy along the line with George Fox or Jesus Christ 
"Where two or more are gathered..". This modern development, of natural 
sciences correlating with transcendentalism in modern time as to the practical 
role of collective meditation, not only an individual experience is compelling 
in transcendental meditationism but now by virtue of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's 
articulation there is the evident science of collective practice of meditation 
on the whole. 

 

 The Meissner-like transmission.. 

 The Meissner-like effect (ME) of active ‘civil resistance’ = 3.5% , or 11 
million in the USA

 The Meissner-like effect (ME) of effective meditators to societal positive 
coherence = 1% 
Or 3,270,000 meditators. 

 The ME In the USA of advanced meditators, at the (square root of 1%) =>2,000. 

 Evidently SuperRadiance (SR) of meditators not as the only solution, but as a 
requirement for a functional society toward permanent peace and progress can 
not happen without sufficient participation in SR of group meditation. 
(Maharishi would say many times we must have 2,000). 
 

 The science quite evidently bares this out now with quite high level of 
certainty while in the numbers meditating it seems there is a deficiency in 
science literacy.  Quite evidently, there needs to be better evidence-based 
public policy fostering the regular practice of meditation by more people. 


 So why is civil resistance so much more effective than armed struggle? The 
answer lies in people power itself.
 
For more than a century, from 1900 to 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance 
were more than twice as effective as their violent counterparts in achieving 
their stated goals.

 Researchers 
http://www.amazon.com/Rebels-Dilemma-Economics-Cognition-Society/dp/0472085743 
used to say that no government could survive if five percent 
http://willopines.wordpress.com/2012/07/19/the-5-rule-and-indiscriminate-killing-of-civilians/
 of its population mobilized against it. But our data reveal that the threshold 
is probably lower. In fact, no campaigns failed once they’d achieved the active 
and sustained participation of just 3.5% of the population 
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/why-civil-resistance-works/9780231156820—and lots 
of them succeeded with far less than that [5] 
https://rationalinsurgent.com/2013/11/04/my-talk-at-tedxboulder-civil-resistance-and-the-3-5-rule/#_edn5.
 Now, 3.5% is nothing to sneeze at. In the U.S. today, this means almost 11 
million people.

 
https://rationalinsurgent.com/2013/11/04/my-talk-at-tedxboulder-civil-resistance-and-the-3-5-rule/
 
https://rationalinsurgent.com/2013/11/04/my-talk-at-tedxboulder-civil-resistance-and-the-3-5-rule/
 



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 Q: A role of working social justice service in grounding spiritual experience? 

 FF Satsanga Observations:

 

 A: The world of consciousness is branched way beyond alpha brainwaves.
 


 A: Spirituality is taught by ‘the mothers’ as: 
 1moral cultivation, developmental education in moral values, 
 2cultivation of spiritual practice, and 
 3active service to others to help others; 
 Those three things together. that is the cultivation of the whole.
 One without the others is not complete and will leave people ungrounded. 

 
 A..that Compassion is different than mood-making and this is different than 
just narrow cultivation of consciousness. This like the difference between the 
state of compassion and the emotion of love. One can have loving thoughts or 
loving feelings which are distinct. Not that these are not great things, these 
are expressions. Those are expressions of the heart for sure. But the heart 
state, the state of compassion, is a steady thing. It is not a conditional 
thing. It is a pretty steady thing. It is not a conditional thing like, ‘I feel 
this and I become Compassionate’. It is a state, of compassion. It is, ‘If I am 
compassion then I observe’. It is a state. It is not, ‘oh I see this and I 
become compassion’. It is a state and it is a state of heart because of the 
energetics of the heart chakra that can embrace with a capacity to digest, to 
take in without fear. That requires stability. 
 


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 Great observation, the exercising the polyvagal and the hologram of the 
wholeness of the subtle human system. 
 

 Look at the aspect of the ™ movement that is doing well, the David Lynch 
Foundation (DLF) of teaching ™. .  
 

 DLF  is highly attractive to gen-x and gen-millennial youth because iDLF is 
not just some sect of meditating but doing service work to need.  For good 
reasons DLF is engaged in  teaching meditation to veterans, in violent schools, 
to single moms, at UN peacekeeping camps, teaching meditation in prisons, etc. 
DLF foci being of social service to peoples in need. 

 The visioning people at the top of DLF were old 

[FairfieldLife] Reminisce-ing Reminiscence..

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

“ ..from that moment on he had changed.”
 forward from e-mail going around Fairfieldl..
 

 “When we were traveling around India teaching TM way back when.  We were in 
Madhya Pradesh where Maharishi was born and raised.  In a nearby town, Satna, 
we gave a lecture to a group of lawyers.  At the end of the lecture one of them 
came up and said he used to be the Chief Justice of Madhya Pradesh and invited 
us to his office to talk. 
 When we got there and sat down, there was a huge picture of Guru Dev on a desk 
on one wall.  It must have been 4 or 5 feet tall.  
 This gentleman said he used to be a disciple of Swami Brahmananda (that's what 
he called him).  He said that at one lecture a man got up and asked Swami 
Brahmananda if he would touch him.  Swami Brahmananda chuckled a bit and asked 
him why he had asked.  The man said that he heard that Swami Vivekananda told 
the story of how Ramakrishna had touched him once and from that moment on his 
life was changed.  So, the man said, would you touch me?
 Swami Brahmananda said something to the effect that to have the experience of 
a Vivekananda you had to have the body of a Vivekananda, and made some 
reference to Mahesh (what he called Maharishi) who was in the back doing 
various things at the back of the hall doing things. 
 
 He said he didn't think a thing of it until many years later after Guru Dev 
had passed and Maharishi had come out and started to lecture.  He said 
Maharishi came through the town and met with him and told him that Guru Dev had 
passed away right in his arms and that something had gone into him and from 
that moment on he had changed. 
 Immediately the lawyer said that Swami Brahmananda's answer to that man had 
come to mind.
 
 He also said that many years later he had had the same experience when he 
heard of Maharishi's World Plan.   He said Swami Brahmananda had always talked 
about bringing this knowledge to the whole world, but the lawyer said he never 
took it for a real possibility because how could it be possible for Swami 
Brahmananda to reach the whole world when he was just moving around India and 
giving talks, how was that going to reach the whole world?  And when he heard 
of the World Plan, it clicked into place.