[FairfieldLife] Re: Muckraking Fairfield or Yellow Journalism
From Email:
Q: “I just "stumbled into" something today ..and I hope some of you will
read it and I encourage any responses - I would love to hear "your take" on
this. The topic is MUM/Suicides and Missing Persons (and other interesting
MUM/Maharishi info).
I know none of you are big in the TM movement any more ("got what you needed
and moved on" so to speak) . . and I am not shocked by anything any more, and,
this has created some noticeable "cognitive dissonance" . . and at the same
time, some "things came together" for me with this as well.
If you chose to read this far, and read her report below, please consider
letting me know what you think..
. .
https://www.coreysdigs.com/new-world-order/murder-suicides-missing-persons-at-iowas-maharishi-campus/
https://www.coreysdigs.com/new-world-order/murder-suicides-missing-persons-at-iowas-maharishi-campus/
A: I just scrolled the length of the thing but did not read it deeply. A
re-mix of things that were ‘gathered’ and put in her blog place. Though the
headlines promote flame the processes of the stories are dated even now. It
seems too simple to just assert it is all ‘cult’ where more interesting and
better things are in the backstories. Those are cultural in context.
History will have its longer perspective if journalism that gathers the story
now is well gathered, comprehensive and may be not bias now in presentation.
Her journalism it seems is taking the shortcut. It needs a lot more
consideration with people for context and perspective. Her gathering is not the
end of the story yet.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
The blog has all the tell-tale of yellow. Yellow journalism uses eye-catching
headlines for increased sales, vs. reform-minded progressive muckraking
journalism, the blogger leads with eye-catchers, ‘murder’, ‘trafficking’,
‘suicides’, ‘missing persons’, ‘Maharishi’. On the internet it seems anyone
can be a journalist.
[FairfieldLife] Re: In Satsanga Fairfield, Iowa
Q: AND THEN you have David Spero activating, transmitting soul energy this other aspect, shakti. Is able to trigger that palpably in people. He is very effective at transmitting this. A: That is the first track Matt Kahn is describing, that is what the first group is. That is that job. His job is the first ascension group. He is out there holding the light, that is his job. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : In FF satsang: ..Don’t get hung up on Matt Kahn’s goofy shirts that he wears. or his delivery. But Matt Kahn is cheering on those of us who are so interested in and have been dedicated to spiritual development, the Big “S” Spiritual development, upliftment. That it is not for nothing. That because as one has been engaged in it that it is not useless in this world or it is frivolous or inconsequential to what needs to happen here. That actually it holds the vibration and holds the criminal element back. He says that it is all part of one light, even the ones who are asleep. They are all still of the light. It is very uplifting. He has quite a construct of understanding, as a teacher at another level, as a native adept, like Janet Sussman. He is both very practical and advaitin-like in a way he strips down to the essentials, stripping the constructs, the excess to get to the essentials, the essential value of nonduality, which Cynthia very astutely gets to. . ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : The FF Satsang continuing, over coffee: “..They are meant to be together (head and heart) . You don’t abdicate the head, the brain, the mind or the heart, they are together, the ‘masculine and feminine’..” Q: it sets up a duality talking about this, identifying it. A: What Matt Kahn points out is that there are people on various tracks, we are all on ascension tracks, we are all in tracks, this is not a better than the other. The first track is the one is where the people are standing in light where the people are light bearers. Where people are light holders. The people who are in consciousness where they are standing there in the light and that is their main job. Being light holders. Then you have the second track, which is people who are becoming activated by what they see as problems in the world and they are going to look for social justice solutions, constructs, and so they are activated, and then a third track of people asleep. The third track is people who are always up to technology, on their phones, who their reference is always the phone, IT, technology. Light holders, social construct, and then the asleep who are willing and wanting to wed themselves to technology. Matt Kahn is saying we all have our place in this, we are all in to this together. In his view this is going to become very clear in the next two years, unambiguous. These Three general tracks is how people are going to be moving forward. He says there are people just waiting to have apps in their heads, for there to be apps, downloaded and become wedded to their technology, some kind of artificial intelligence. FF Coffee haus Satsang: “You have to love this, I love this that there she was at SAND. Wow! Thank god that someone is finally speaking to this.” Q: The TM neuroscience people would be studying this if he had an apparatus to do it, the heart-mind? A: “They do but they are brain-centric. “..In this discussion of spirituality Matt Kahn has a good description, embedded in the discussion of the expression of spirituality he says, and this makes sense, that we are moving from a third dimensional reality to a 5th dimensional reality. The third dimensional reality is dominated by the mind and the fifth dimensional reality is dominated by the heart. So you have the head and the heart, 3rd and 5th, and how to get there is through here, the connecting of the head and heart. The connectivity is what Janet Sussman identifies as the ‘articulation’ between the two, the communication between the two where you are moving from the third dimension of the mind and its constructs to the non-linear value of the fifth. It does make sense that we are moving from a third dimensional reality to a fifth. The third dimensional reality, it is that we are dominated by the mind. The fifth dimensional reality is dominated by the heart. How do you get between the two? The fourth dimension is time. We are moving through that, the throat area , expression. The connectedness, the ‘articulation’, as Janet says it. What you see in the advaitins and the TM people is that it is all about the brain, the head and the mind. Some Buddhists too, some of the Buddhist practices are very head centered. The The third eye is insight and the throat area, the 4th, is poetry, speaking, the expression between the two, the fourth dimension. The vehicle, this part, the fourth dimension is time. So you
[FairfieldLife] Re: Guru Tattva
Sri Ganapathy Sachchidananda Swamiji has never declared He is God. Keep posting. You're doing a great job.
[FairfieldLife] Take life as it comes
These words by MMY sound simple and innocuous when you first hear them. But, with deeper reflection, you will realize there is power hidden in them. It implies that the person is adjustable to all situations in life and can succeed in whatever situation life provides. He or she does not have to show superhuman abilities as shown in the movies. As stated in the Gita, all you need is to ... 'Be established in yoga, and perform actions.' And at the highest level of human development these actions should include "devotion" to one's Ishwara. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEm9xda4KwM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEm9xda4KwM
[FairfieldLife] Re: Spiritual Morality
Rick Archer’s panel enumerates sexual, emotional, and financial abuse. There was a guy, Mark Meredith who was really good a ferreting out financial records on the ™ movement. Mark is passed away now some time ago but he had background in things both financial management and also the ™ movement. He was really helpful in his way with shedding light on this area of behavior. Within Rick’s oversight group there could be helpful facilitation to .org financials of gurus and such. Often times it takes insiders to help with insight to shells within groups. Mark was particularly good at looking through all the various incorporporations with ‘Maharishi’ in their name. A service like Charity Navigator could be helped to have category for spiritual teachers/healers/guru non-profits. A committee of Rick’s SAND group could be quite helpful working with a credible group like Charity Navigator to help them get a better look at these peculiar ‘spiritual’ people and groups. This last summer the Shambhala community at large was racked by both sexual and financial abuse at the top. Watching John Douglas’ business get hooked up with a former ™ operative could make anyone seeing that wonder where that money all is going. Which groups can accede to standards out there like Charity Navigator’s of financial behavior? This could be helped to be made more clear. Evaluating Charities Not Currently Rated by Charity Navigator https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=content.view&cpid=847 https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=content.view&cpid=847 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Rick’s group of concerned therapist spiritual counselors corrals the perpetration and the teacher/leader perps of spiritually hurtful bad behavior. May be this group in their thoughtful concern could hold their focus and refer or collaborate the communal part of the work to people who mediate communal hurt already. It is real interesting to see the communal re-mediating work being actively done right now on the Shambhala community. Way down in the SAND discussion comes consideration of the effect of poor behavior on “community” offering “Truth and Reconciliation” as a model. Re-developing community seems another whole jurisdiction of work. What has been the experience of mediated work of peace movements, ‘truth and conconcilliation’ processes, ‘non-violent communication’ is extended with the work of ‘restorative justice’. Remediating the perps is one level of the work, the community they work in is a whole nother. Cornering the perps civilly or criminally is its own work, but their effect on their community is another part of the work. NPR posted a link recently to some research demonstrating how a lot of people lack empathy. Rick’s example of the disordered narcissistic spiritual teacher is a good example. I had conversation a while ago with one of the main owners of the ™ movement about the problems, who replied the same kind of response, “what problems?”. Yet, as was said many times in the panel discussion, this cannot hold for very long in contemporary culture with the fluidity and transparency of social media now. An example of process on the Communal Hurt part of the Equation, here is abstracted a process that happened in the trauma of a guru passing away, Engaging Restorative Justice in Reclamation of Community https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/communal-studies-forum/AM9bhYe1dXI https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/communal-studies-forum/AM9bhYe1dXI ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : This ethics work at the SAND conference is a very good distillation to the subject. Locally the atonement part of the work Is something yet to be really applied towards what are the subsets of the meditating community in Fairfield, Iowa “with standards of expectation”, “We’re trying to balance our subjective perspectives with standards that fit our contemporary culture.. Of behavior and abdication of behavior sexually, financially, emotional, ..causing divestment of life savings, causing harm, and dissolution. " "..Revisiting traditions of patriarchy, power play and equality that are being shattered by contemporary culture and being rebuilt in an honest way that is reflective of contemporary culture. ..All too often, when teachers are challenged on their behavior, they ignore the challenger or become defensive.” In Fairfield and the TMO it seems what those that were the meditating movement have 'moved on' with any latent hurt they may have had. Unacknowledged. At a distance now. Maharishi died about 10 years ago. The sex and that money stuff, the biggest building in the world, the 'Brahmasthan of America', happened before that. The Pundits gone now. Figure there were about 6000 TM teachers in the United States in 1975, and what, 360 active TM teachers in the US now. About that ma
[FairfieldLife] Muckraking Fairfield or Yellow Journalism
The blog has all the tell-tale of yellow. Yellow journalism uses eye-catching headlines for increased sales, vs. reform-minded progressive muckraking journalism, the blogger leads with eye-catchers, ‘murder’, ‘trafficking’, ‘suicides’, ‘missing persons’, ‘Maharishi’. On the internet it seems anyone can be a journalist.
