[FairfieldLife] Governor recertification course application questions
The application for the TM Governor recertification course asks: "Are you currently living in proper Vastu?Yes No If not, is your house oriented to the east or north? Yes No Within approximately how many degrees? If not, do you have plans to move into a proper Vastu or a house with proper orientation? (please explain)"
[FairfieldLife] Re: 632 pundits in VC
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Global Good News: > > Raja Wynne said that it was a great joy to be back in Maharishi Vedic > City where there are now 632 Vedic Pandits, including the 85 that > arrived recently. Snip. I want to hear what the pandits are saying in their letters home. Do they like living in Vedic City? I think they're homesick before the plane leaves India airspace, and an Iowa winter or two will send them packing. Plus, who is there to order them to go to America now with Maharishi gone? The image that comes to mind when I think of them playing volleyball, which I've read here in FFL that they're fond of, is the American interment of the Japanese-Americans during WWII. Do Vedic Pandits have wives and kids, and, if so, are the families united in Fairfield? Contrast the pandits with another expatriate group: the American Purusha in Uttar Kashi. For the Purusha, retirement in Uttar Kashi is the holy grail of Purusha life. For the Vedic Pandits, their motivation is questionable. Were they ordered to go to Iowa? Do they go so that they, like Guatamalans and El Salvadorans working in America, can send money home? Do the Pandits want to stay in Iowa? Has anyone gotten any feedback from them on their expatriate experience?
[FairfieldLife] Reply to message 168783--Solar Thermal Power
I was happy to read the article your message linked to, espcially the part that said that on a sunny day, a few of the solar thermal plants can create as much energy as a few nuclear power plants. I think one of Maharishi's gretest observations was that "through the window of science we see the dawn of the age of enlightenment." I'm not sure TM has anything to do with the technological progress we, the family of man, are making, but science, I think, is on the brink of breakthroughs that will transform human life. Two especially that come to mind, and your post about one of them inspired me to post, are energy and desalination. Science is in a positive feedback loop--the more progress it makes, the more progress it is able to make because part of its progress is improving the tools for making progress. I can't help but think that science is on the brink of discovering how to supply humanity with all the energy it can use in a way that doesn't harm the environment. That discovery will transform human life. Maybe one immediate benefit will be to make desalination of sea water economically feasible, if the energy component of the current cost of the process makes it prohibitively expensive. And that would transform human life too.
[FairfieldLife] Re: RIP Scott Girard
One thing that I got from the TMO that I still do is asanas--surya namaskar and the "advanced" set of asanas I was taught at a course. I spend more time doing the yoga than I spend meditating. I also lift weights moderately--for tone rather than for getting bulky, and bicycle. I feel pretty good physically.
[FairfieldLife] Re: RIP Scott Girard
He was a jolly guy who I hadn't thought of in years. RIP indeed Scotty.