[FairfieldLife] Forest Fires in the Amazon Forest
The fires in the Amazon are being caused by the malefic planets in the sign of Leo. Mars and the Sun are fiery planets in conjunction with Venus. This conjunction is not good for women, and ironically is not good for President Trump either. The prez may have some health issues relating to heat in the body or related issues.. Stay tuned. Stay tuned. https://www.yahoo.com/news/explainer-why-amazon-fires-sparking-175734079.html https://www.yahoo.com/news/explainer-why-amazon-fires-sparking-175734079.html
[FairfieldLife] Mountain lion spotted on Fairfield Loop Trail North of MUM Campus
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[FairfieldLife] Re: What is Conscionable, in TM?
In community.. and hurtful tendency exposed - particularly, that of coveting and grasping after riches. To obtain which, many of the members of our society had launched into extensive business - more particularly, in the line of commerce. And in order for the carrying it on, had involved themselves in debt beyond their ability to pay. And in order to keep up a false credit, had through a show of friendship and a deceptive appearance of having great possession, drawn in others to lend them money and become their sureties for large sums, until both the borrowers and lenders were involved in utter ruin - to the great scandal of themselves, the distress of their families, and the reproach of our holy profession. 1814 Evidently there is a behavioral axis between self-interest and altruism.. and maybe not strictly related to 'consciousness', as we have seen. Hauptman’s Federal indictment is on the internet to read.. then also hearing immediate reactions with how other felons have been in the flock, and some infamous names unindicted. https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/2741368/bruce-a-hauptman-v-commissioner/ https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/2741368/bruce-a-hauptman-v-commissioner/ https://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/2018/ia-4950.pdf https://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/2018/ia-4950.pdf https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/wyoming-man-ordered-to-pay-restitution-to-iowa-investors/ https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/wyoming-man-ordered-to-pay-restitution-to-iowa-investors/ https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/28227351/USA_v_Hauptman https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/28227351/USA_v_Hauptman ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : The Transcendentalists’ Morality.. In the ™ movement we were told some little details about Maharishi’s teacher Guru Dev, Swami Brahmananda Saraswati. About how Maharishi first met SBS and also about how Guru Dev found his own teacher. On advanced training residential courses with Maharishi back in the 1970’s for those of us who were TM teachers there was a typed one page translated discourse of Swami Brahmananda Saraswati, of Guru Dev’s that was let to be passed around. This was the talk warning of the selling of life for the price of spinach. An advice that held intrinsic value that was important clarification, like a moral wake up, for people in TM then. Discourse 59 “After experiencing 8,400,000 births, we have obtained this rare human body; don't waste it. Each and every moment of life is very valuable. And if you don't understand its value? Then you will have nothing else to do but weep, and you will have nothing in your hands in the end. You are a human being, therefore you have the power to discriminate what is good and what is bad, and you can accomplish the greatest human goals. Don't think of yourself as weak or fallen. Whatever has happened in the past, understand that it was done unknowingly. But now be careful, begin doing the type of acts appropriate for a human being. Discern for yourself what is good and what is bad. Adopt the good and reject the bad. As a human being, if you don't know Paramàtmà (the Transcendent), then understand that you have sold a diamond for the price of spinach. One does not worship Paramàtmà for the sake of Paramàtmà. One worships Paramàtmà to remove one's own sorrow, lack of peace, ignorance, and lack of power. Paramàtmà is all knowing, omnipotent, and full of limitless bliss. Through worship, one can grasp on to his unending power. The fulfillment of this superb act is the real purpose of human life. If there is no effort made toward this, then understand that you have cheated yourself.” The Sweet Teachings of the Blessed Shankaràcàrya translation by Cynthia A. Humes http://www.lulu.com/shop/lb-shriver-and-translation-by-cynthia-ann-humes/the-sweet-teachings-of-the-blessed-sankaracarya-swami-brahmananda-saraswati/paperback/product-21350609.html http://www.lulu.com/shop/lb-shriver-and-translation-by-cynthia-ann-humes/the-sweet-teachings-of-the-blessed-sankaracarya-swami-brahmananda-saraswati/paperback/product-21350609.html ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Ethics, Later on MMY counseled a type of self discipline.. to be happy and mind your own business towards being regular practicing meditators and ‘on the program’ as a basis for behavior. This instruction would be a spiritual working ethic maybe different from social cultural ethic like the Golden Rule, that kindness seems overtly more to do with effects of behavior on subtle psycho-spiritual light-bodies of people. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Evidently there is a behavioral axis between self-interest and altruism.. and maybe not strictly related to 'consciousness', as we have seen. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : A hardwired morality of self-interest v Altruism.. In a core worldview
[FairfieldLife] Re: What is Conscionable, in TM?
Evidently there is a behavioral axis between self-interest and altruism.. and maybe not strictly related to 'consciousness', as we have seen. Hauptman’s Federal indictment is on the internet to read.. then also hearing immediate reactions with how other felons have been in the flock, and some infamous names unindicted. https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/2741368/bruce-a-hauptman-v-commissioner/ https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/2741368/bruce-a-hauptman-v-commissioner/ https://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/2018/ia-4950.pdf https://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/2018/ia-4950.pdf https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/wyoming-man-ordered-to-pay-restitution-to-iowa-investors/ https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/wyoming-man-ordered-to-pay-restitution-to-iowa-investors/ https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/28227351/USA_v_Hauptman https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/28227351/USA_v_Hauptman ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : The Transcendentalists’ Morality.. In the ™ movement we were told some little details about Maharishi’s teacher Guru Dev, Swami Brahmananda Saraswati. About how Maharishi first met SBS and also about how Guru Dev found his own teacher. On advanced training residential courses with Maharishi back in the 1970’s for those of us who were TM teachers there was a typed one page translated discourse of Swami Brahmananda Saraswati, of Guru Dev’s that was let to be passed around. This was the talk warning of the selling of life for the price of spinach. An advice that held intrinsic value that was important clarification, like a moral wake up, for people in TM then. Discourse 59 “After experiencing 8,400,000 births, we have obtained this rare human body; don't waste it. Each and every moment of life is very valuable. And if you don't understand its value? Then you will have nothing else to do but weep, and you will have nothing in your hands in the end. You are a human being, therefore you have the power to discriminate what is good and what is bad, and you can accomplish the greatest human goals. Don't think of yourself as weak or fallen. Whatever has happened in the past, understand that it was done unknowingly. But now be careful, begin doing the type of acts appropriate for a human being. Discern for yourself what is good and what is bad. Adopt the good and reject the bad. As a human being, if you don't know Paramàtmà (the Transcendent), then understand that you have sold a diamond for the price of spinach. One does not worship Paramàtmà for the sake of Paramàtmà. One worships Paramàtmà to remove one's own sorrow, lack of peace, ignorance, and lack of power. Paramàtmà is all knowing, omnipotent, and full of limitless bliss. Through worship, one can grasp on to his unending power. The fulfillment of this superb act is the real purpose of human life. If there is no effort made toward this, then understand that you have cheated yourself.” The Sweet Teachings of the Blessed Shankaràcàrya translation by Cynthia A. Humes http://www.lulu.com/shop/lb-shriver-and-translation-by-cynthia-ann-humes/the-sweet-teachings-of-the-blessed-sankaracarya-swami-brahmananda-saraswati/paperback/product-21350609.html http://www.lulu.com/shop/lb-shriver-and-translation-by-cynthia-ann-humes/the-sweet-teachings-of-the-blessed-sankaracarya-swami-brahmananda-saraswati/paperback/product-21350609.html ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Ethics, Later on MMY counseled a type of self discipline.. to be happy and mind your own business towards being regular practicing meditators and ‘on the program’ as a basis for behavior. This instruction would be a spiritual working ethic maybe different from social cultural ethic like the Golden Rule, that kindness seems overtly more to do with effects of behavior on subtle psycho-spiritual light-bodies of people. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Evidently there is a behavioral axis between self-interest and altruism.. and maybe not strictly related to 'consciousness', as we have seen. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : A hardwired morality of self-interest v Altruism.. In a core worldview that life is nakedly a selfish struggle for money and dominance the great act of moral decoupling woven through this in this worldview, morality has nothing to do with anything. Altruism, trust, cooperation and virtue are unaffordable luxuries in the struggle of all against all. Everything is about self-interest. Powerful, selfish people have always adopted this dirty-minded realism to justify their own selfishness. The problem is that this philosophy is based on an error about human beings and it leads to self-destructive behavior in all cases. The error is that it misunderstands what drives human action. Of course people are driven by selfish motivations — for individual status, wealth and power
[FairfieldLife] Community Group Meditation
Sunday, August 25: Community Group Meditation followed by social in the Golden Dome Market Cafe Sunday, August 25, our second Community Group Meditation will be held at all 11 local group meditation halls: 9 for TM-Sidhi practice, and 2 for Transcendental Meditation practice. Community Group Meditations for TM Meditators are at 5 PM on the second floor of the Orpheum Building on Broadway Avenue (near the square, south hallway), and in the MUM Campus Peace Palace. A Group Check will also take place at the Peace Palace at 4:30 PM. TM-Sidhas begin Group Practice as usual in their ten local halls at 5 PM. The Super-Radiance Social for both the Women’s and Men’s Domes will be held right after Community Group Meditation, upstairs in the Golden Dome Cafe, as it was in July, supplemented by Everybody’s Whole Foods’ major generous layout of savories and snacks. “Our National Coherence-Creating Group was established 40 years ago, in August of 1979, after the Amherst World Peace Assembly, to help prevent and reduce social, political, and cultural tensions. If enough TM-Sidhas and Meditators enjoy that bliss in togetherness enough of the time, it will work,” said Mary Cathryn Olsen of the Super-Radiance Action Team (SAT). The Super-Radiance Action Team invites each practitioner of the TM and TM-Sidhi Program to enjoy Community Group Meditation and help build National Super-Radiance attendance at a time when it is so obviously needed.
[FairfieldLife] friends of Tom Winquist; he passed away 8/23
Hello to everyone, My name is John Congdon and I have been helping Tom with his affairs for around 3 months now. Tom and I first met late in 1969 when he came to my hometown to teach a TM course that I was helping to organize. We have been friends and in contact on and off ever since, and much more the last two years as we both have been living in Fairfield. Most know that Tom has been suffering from Parkinson's Disease with some early symptoms appearing 5 years ago with symptoms being more evident in the last three years. Though Tom has tried many different products to help with his PD nothing seemed to help, even with treatments where others had found benefits. During the last 6 months the deterioration in his health and endurance has been quite rapid. Summer in Fairfield and Utopia Park didn't help much but the fact that Iowa's chiggers found Tom to be exceptionally tasty was the worst for him. Tom devised an escape plan of coming to Laramie, Wyoming for 10 days, where chiggers do not roam and elevation is said to help Parkinson's. I accompanied him on the trip to do the driving and heavy lifting. He wasn't bothered by any chiggers which was a big relief. However at his more advanced stage of PD he continued to weaken and spent the majority of time trying to rest which the disease had made very difficult if not impossible for him. He passed yesterday in Laramie. His 76th birthday would be on this coming September 18. Tom's wishes were to be cremated and have his ashes scattered with his parents' on his older brother's property near Eugene, Oregon. Plans are being formed to have a celebration of Tom's life in Fairfield, probably in mid September, perhaps the 18th. The actual date will be announced after arrangements are finalized.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The USA is buying Greenland?
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : why would Greenlanders want to be part of a shithole country? if you can send migrants there why couldnt you have sent to any other of the US territories? youre just a crazy as Drumpf SJ, I was joking meaning to say that Trump will use the migrants to populate a desolate land area--which is Greenland.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The USA is buying Greenland?
why would Greenlanders want to be part of a shithole country? if you can send migrants there why couldnt you have sent to any other of the US territories? youre just a crazy as Drumpf
[FairfieldLife] Seattle Healing & Meditation Concert [1 Attachment]
His Holiness Sri Ganapathy Sachchidananda Swamiji will be in Chicago September 14th-15th, with "Anahata Raga Sagara" Healing and Meditation concert on the 15th.Tickets only $12. Sri Chakra Puja on the 14th morning and bhajans on that evening at Lakshmi Venkateshwara Temple in Redmond. . See the schedule at this link. https://www.facebook.com/sgsseattle/ http://dycchicago.com/wp/ Tickets Rare opportunity for Datta darshan. Jaya Guru Datta
[FairfieldLife] Re: 40th Anniversary of Our National Coherence Creating Community
The meditating University community as an academic institution survives now with better tone but oh the nature of the separation of the movement with the community and oh what squandered goodwill that occurred with the meditating community here! The coherence creating world peace program could use a communal mediation towards the renewal of the Domes, superradiance and the larger TM movement. 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 : In the low Dome attendance numbers now.. “Where have all the meditators gone, long time passing, where have all the meditators gone long time ago?” ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Nice reminisce meeting, of the scope of what we did there at Amherst and here in Fairfield. The meeting as hosted did not engage with the low Dome attendance numbers as they are now, the loss of communal critical mass. Surprising how many meditators in town, veterans of Amherst, did not even hear of this meeting. How disassociated from the movement so many have become. Dick Mays Shares: Celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Amherst Course in Dalby Hall at 2:00 today! See old friends and share memories! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Today. The 40th Anniversary of the Amherst course, The Creating Coherence Program. CELEBRATING The 40th Anniversary of Maharishi Founding the National Super Radiance Program At Amherst, Massachusetts August 1979 _ THAT DAY IN AMHERST That Changed the History of the United States http://communications.tm.org/2019/2019_08_13_Amherst-40.html http://communications.tm.org/2019/2019_08_13_Amherst-40.html In Fairfield, Dalby Hall – 2 pm – Sunday August 18 Everyone who was there that day is invited to submit their memories to share with all, and be recorded for all time. Governors, Teachers, Sidhas, and Mediators Invited Dome Badge Not Required Please E-mail your memories – including good photos to: amherst.memor...@mum.edu mailto:amherstmemor...@mum.edu?subject=Amherst%20Memories%20from Come celebrate these anniversaries: -the 40th Anniversary of Our National Coherence Creating Community -the 13th Anniversary of the Invincible America Assembly (IAA) The Invincible America Assembly began on July 23, 2006, when Maharishi and Dr. John Hagelin saw a keen and obvious need to stop a war that had suddenly and unexpectedly broken out in Lebanon. Upon their timely call, hundreds of TM Governors, Sidhas, and Meditators poured into Fairfield and Maharishi Vedic City for Group Practice of the TM and TM-Sidhi progams. Within a few weeks, the war in Lebanon vanished. And on the day the IAA began, July 23, the long-term decline of the American stock market stopped, and began a 10-month climb that hit 12 all-time highs. “There is nothing more important to our global Movement than the Invincible America Assembly,” said Maharishi. Come and celebrate “the most powerful method of transforming society that exists -- or ever will exist” This Tuesday, July 23, 2019 after group program.. The party will include savories, snacks, and live entertainment. It will be held between the Women’s Golden Dome and the Golden Dome Market, between 6:15 PM and 9 PM on MUM Campus. Maharishi defined the IAA as all those who are attending Group Practice morning and evening. Everybody’s Whole Foods will be providing their incredible layout of treats and snacks to support the IAA, along with any sweets and savories you would like to provide as well. Also available will be a delicious dinner menu prepared by Nayna Dave of India, who has decades of success in delighting many with her refined and delicious traditional cooking. Nayna, currently evening chef at the Golden Dome Market, will be offering roasted saffron rice, mixed curried vegetables, and yogurt dumplings, at $9.49/pound. You are also welcome to bring your own dinner. Music will be provided by Geoffrey Shaffer, IAA veteran and multi-decade composer and keyboardist. Geoffrey's music aims for the beautiful and provides a melodic touch and phrasing that is felt by the heart. Flavors of light classical, melodic New Age, and contemporary are included along with original compositions all encouraging the experience of blissful listening. For our anniversary, he also promises to offer several crowd favorites including special keyboard stylings of many of the Beatles best and most beautiful melodies.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The USA is buying Greenland?
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Then send all of the migrants from Mexico over there. If this is done, Trump's name will be etched in America's history along with the presidents who purchased Alaska and Louisiana. Here's the article: https://www.yahoo.com/news/the-us-buying-greenland-joke-or-genius-215804764.html https://www.yahoo.com/news/the-us-buying-greenland-joke-or-genius-215804764.html
[FairfieldLife] The USA is buying Greenland?
Then send all of the migrants from Mexico over there. If this is done, Trump's name will be etched in America's history along with the presidents who purchased Alaska and Louisiana.
[FairfieldLife] Do you want a boarding ticket to go to Mars in 2020?
If you want to go, let me know. Just for the record, I will be running the subperiod of Saturn, placed in the 3rd house, in July 2020. Also, Saturn is my lord of the 7th and 8th house in my birth kundali.
[FairfieldLife] Re: 40th Anniversary of Our National Coherence Creating Community
In the low Dome attendance numbers now.. “Where have all the meditators gone, long time passing, where have all the meditators gone long time ago?” ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Nice reminisce meeting, of the scope of what we did there at Amherst and here in Fairfield. The meeting as hosted did not engage with the low Dome attendance numbers as they are now, the loss of communal critical mass. Surprising how many meditators in town, veterans of Amherst, did not even hear of this meeting. How disassociated from the movement so many have become. Dick Mays Shares: Celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Amherst Course in Dalby Hall at 2:00 today! See old friends and share memories! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Today. The 40th Anniversary of the Amherst course, The Creating Coherence Program. CELEBRATING The 40th Anniversary of Maharishi Founding the National Super Radiance Program At Amherst, Massachusetts August 1979 _ THAT DAY IN AMHERST That Changed the History of the United States http://communications.tm.org/2019/2019_08_13_Amherst-40.html http://communications.tm.org/2019/2019_08_13_Amherst-40.html In Fairfield, Dalby Hall – 2 pm – Sunday August 18 Everyone who was there that day is invited to submit their memories to share with all, and be recorded for all time. Governors, Teachers, Sidhas, and Mediators Invited Dome Badge Not Required Please E-mail your memories – including good photos to: amherst.memor...@mum.edu mailto:amherstmemor...@mum.edu?subject=Amherst%20Memories%20from Come celebrate these anniversaries: -the 40th Anniversary of Our National Coherence Creating Community -the 13th Anniversary of the Invincible America Assembly (IAA) The Invincible America Assembly began on July 23, 2006, when Maharishi and Dr. John Hagelin saw a keen and obvious need to stop a war that had suddenly and unexpectedly broken out in Lebanon. Upon their timely call, hundreds of TM Governors, Sidhas, and Meditators poured into Fairfield and Maharishi Vedic City for Group Practice of the TM and TM-Sidhi progams. Within a few weeks, the war in Lebanon vanished. And on the day the IAA began, July 23, the long-term decline of the American stock market stopped, and began a 10-month climb that hit 12 all-time highs. “There is nothing more important to our global Movement than the Invincible America Assembly,” said Maharishi. Come and celebrate “the most powerful method of transforming society that exists -- or ever will exist” This Tuesday, July 23, 2019 after group program.. The party will include savories, snacks, and live entertainment. It will be held between the Women’s Golden Dome and the Golden Dome Market, between 6:15 PM and 9 PM on MUM Campus. Maharishi defined the IAA as all those who are attending Group Practice morning and evening. Everybody’s Whole Foods will be providing their incredible layout of treats and snacks to support the IAA, along with any sweets and savories you would like to provide as well. Also available will be a delicious dinner menu prepared by Nayna Dave of India, who has decades of success in delighting many with her refined and delicious traditional cooking. Nayna, currently evening chef at the Golden Dome Market, will be offering roasted saffron rice, mixed curried vegetables, and yogurt dumplings, at $9.49/pound. You are also welcome to bring your own dinner. Music will be provided by Geoffrey Shaffer, IAA veteran and multi-decade composer and keyboardist. Geoffrey's music aims for the beautiful and provides a melodic touch and phrasing that is felt by the heart. Flavors of light classical, melodic New Age, and contemporary are included along with original compositions all encouraging the experience of blissful listening. For our anniversary, he also promises to offer several crowd favorites including special keyboard stylings of many of the Beatles best and most beautiful melodies.
[FairfieldLife] Sri Ganapathy Sachchidananda Swamiji in Chicago
His Holiness Sri Ganapathy Sachchidananda Swamiji will be in Chicago September 6th-8th, with free "Nada Shobha Raga Sagara" Healing and Meditation concert on the 7th. Sri Chakra Puja and Ganapathy Homa on the 8th morning and bhajans as only Sri Swamiji does on that evening. See the schedule at this link. http://dycchicago.com/wp/ http://dycchicago.com/wp/ Rare opportunity for Datta darshan. Jaya Guru Datta
[FairfieldLife] Re: 40th Anniversary of Our National Coherence Creating Community
Nice reminisce meeting, of the scope of what we did there at Amherst and here in Fairfield. The meeting as hosted did not engage with the low Dome attendance numbers as they are now, the loss of communal critical mass. Surprising how many meditators in town, veterans of Amherst, did not even hear of this meeting. How disassociated from the movement so many have become. Dick Mays Shares: Celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Amherst Course in Dalby Hall at 2:00 today! See old friends and share memories! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Today. The 40th Anniversary of the Amherst course, The Creating Coherence Program. CELEBRATING The 40th Anniversary of Maharishi Founding the National Super Radiance Program At Amherst, Massachusetts August 1979 _ THAT DAY IN AMHERST That Changed the History of the United States http://communications.tm.org/2019/2019_08_13_Amherst-40.html http://communications.tm.org/2019/2019_08_13_Amherst-40.html In Fairfield, Dalby Hall – 2 pm – Sunday August 18 Everyone who was there that day is invited to submit their memories to share with all, and be recorded for all time. Governors, Teachers, Sidhas, and Mediators Invited Dome Badge Not Required Please E-mail your memories – including good photos to: amherst.memor...@mum.edu mailto:amherstmemor...@mum.edu?subject=Amherst%20Memories%20from Come celebrate these anniversaries: -the 40th Anniversary of Our National Coherence Creating Community -the 13th Anniversary of the Invincible America Assembly (IAA) The Invincible America Assembly began on July 23, 2006, when Maharishi and Dr. John Hagelin saw a keen and obvious need to stop a war that had suddenly and unexpectedly broken out in Lebanon. Upon their timely call, hundreds of TM Governors, Sidhas, and Meditators poured into Fairfield and Maharishi Vedic City for Group Practice of the TM and TM-Sidhi progams. Within a few weeks, the war in Lebanon vanished. And on the day the IAA began, July 23, the long-term decline of the American stock market stopped, and began a 10-month climb that hit 12 all-time highs. “There is nothing more important to our global Movement than the Invincible America Assembly,” said Maharishi. Come and celebrate “the most powerful method of transforming society that exists -- or ever will exist” This Tuesday, July 23, 2019 after group program.. The party will include savories, snacks, and live entertainment. It will be held between the Women’s Golden Dome and the Golden Dome Market, between 6:15 PM and 9 PM on MUM Campus. Maharishi defined the IAA as all those who are attending Group Practice morning and evening. Everybody’s Whole Foods will be providing their incredible layout of treats and snacks to support the IAA, along with any sweets and savories you would like to provide as well. Also available will be a delicious dinner menu prepared by Nayna Dave of India, who has decades of success in delighting many with her refined and delicious traditional cooking. Nayna, currently evening chef at the Golden Dome Market, will be offering roasted saffron rice, mixed curried vegetables, and yogurt dumplings, at $9.49/pound. You are also welcome to bring your own dinner. Music will be provided by Geoffrey Shaffer, IAA veteran and multi-decade composer and keyboardist. Geoffrey's music aims for the beautiful and provides a melodic touch and phrasing that is felt by the heart. Flavors of light classical, melodic New Age, and contemporary are included along with original compositions all encouraging the experience of blissful listening. For our anniversary, he also promises to offer several crowd favorites including special keyboard stylings of many of the Beatles best and most beautiful melodies.
[FairfieldLife] Nokic flying!
https://www.nokia.com/blog/giant-leap-5g-cloud-ran/ https://www.nokia.com/blog/giant-leap-5g-cloud-ran/ Time to buy NOK in stead of, say, AAPL? Absolutely NO!
[FairfieldLife] Celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Amherst Course in Dalby Hall at 2:00 today!
See old friends and share memories!
[FairfieldLife] Celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Amherst Course in Dalby Hall at 2:00 today!
See old friends and share memories!
[FairfieldLife] Re: 40th Anniversary of Our National Coherence Creating Community
Today. The 40th Anniversary of the Amherst course, The Creating Coherence Program. CELEBRATING The 40th Anniversary of Maharishi Founding the National Super Radiance Program At Amherst, Massachusetts August 1979 _ THAT DAY IN AMHERST That Changed the History of the United States http://communications.tm.org/2019/2019_08_13_Amherst-40.html http://communications.tm.org/2019/2019_08_13_Amherst-40.html In Fairfield, Dalby Hall – 2 pm – Sunday August 18 Everyone who was there that day is invited to submit their memories to share with all, and be recorded for all time. Governors, Teachers, Sidhas, and Mediators Invited Dome Badge Not Required Please E-mail your memories – including good photos to: amherst.memor...@mum.edu mailto:amherstmemor...@mum.edu?subject=Amherst%20Memories%20from Come celebrate these anniversaries: -the 40th Anniversary of Our National Coherence Creating Community -the 13th Anniversary of the Invincible America Assembly (IAA) The Invincible America Assembly began on July 23, 2006, when Maharishi and Dr. John Hagelin saw a keen and obvious need to stop a war that had suddenly and unexpectedly broken out in Lebanon. Upon their timely call, hundreds of TM Governors, Sidhas, and Meditators poured into Fairfield and Maharishi Vedic City for Group Practice of the TM and TM-Sidhi progams. Within a few weeks, the war in Lebanon vanished. And on the day the IAA began, July 23, the long-term decline of the American stock market stopped, and began a 10-month climb that hit 12 all-time highs. “There is nothing more important to our global Movement than the Invincible America Assembly,” said Maharishi. Come and celebrate “the most powerful method of transforming society that exists -- or ever will exist” This Tuesday, July 23, 2019 after group program.. The party will include savories, snacks, and live entertainment. It will be held between the Women’s Golden Dome and the Golden Dome Market, between 6:15 PM and 9 PM on MUM Campus. Maharishi defined the IAA as all those who are attending Group Practice morning and evening. Everybody’s Whole Foods will be providing their incredible layout of treats and snacks to support the IAA, along with any sweets and savories you would like to provide as well. Also available will be a delicious dinner menu prepared by Nayna Dave of India, who has decades of success in delighting many with her refined and delicious traditional cooking. Nayna, currently evening chef at the Golden Dome Market, will be offering roasted saffron rice, mixed curried vegetables, and yogurt dumplings, at $9.49/pound. You are also welcome to bring your own dinner. Music will be provided by Geoffrey Shaffer, IAA veteran and multi-decade composer and keyboardist. Geoffrey's music aims for the beautiful and provides a melodic touch and phrasing that is felt by the heart. Flavors of light classical, melodic New Age, and contemporary are included along with original compositions all encouraging the experience of blissful listening. For our anniversary, he also promises to offer several crowd favorites including special keyboard stylings of many of the Beatles best and most beautiful melodies.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Giving a bad name to TM’ers?
Surprise in relating to communal meditators that Hauptman’s Federal indictment is on the internet to read then hearing immediate reactions with how other felons have been in the flock, and some infamous names unindicted. . Evidently there is a behavioral axis between self-interest and altruism.. and maybe not strictly related to 'consciousness', as we have seen. https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/2741368/bruce-a-hauptman-v-commissioner/ https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/2741368/bruce-a-hauptman-v-commissioner/ https://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/2018/ia-4950.pdf https://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/2018/ia-4950.pdf https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/wyoming-man-ordered-to-pay-restitution-to-iowa-investors/ https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/wyoming-man-ordered-to-pay-restitution-to-iowa-investors/ https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/28227351/USA_v_Hauptman https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/28227351/USA_v_Hauptman
[FairfieldLife] 8 pts.of agreement from the lived experience of contemporary mystics..
The 1984 Smowmass Conference Eight Points of Agreement, from the lived experience of contemporary mystics.. The world religions bear witness to the experience of Ultimate Reality, to which they give various names. Ultimate Reality cannot be limited by any name or concept. Ultimate Reality is the ground of infinite potentiality and actualization. Faith is opening, accepting, and responding to Ultimate Reality. Faith in this sense precedes every belief system. The potential for human wholeness—or, in other frames of reference, enlightenment, salvation, transcendence, transformation, blessedness—is present in every human being. Ultimate Reality may be experienced not only through religious practices but also through nature, art, human relationships, and service to others. As long as the human condition is experienced as separate from Ultimate Reality, it is subject to ignorance and illusion, weakness and suffering. Disciplined practice is essential to the spiritual life; yet spiritual attainment is not the result of one’s own efforts, but the result of the experience of oneness with Ultimate Reality. [2]
[FairfieldLife] ™ is Apolitical
TM Is not religion and also not interested or involved in politics. Is Apolitical. FW: Office of the President Dear MUM community members, You may have received emails or communications from the University announcing upcoming meetings in town for political candidates. As we have informed the University community in the past, we wish to restate that the University does not endorse any political candidate. However, MUM wishes to support an informed electorate and, therefore, whenever asked by any candidate to announce their visits to our town we always seek to oblige them, regardless of their political affiliation, party, or ideology. We hope you appreciate this policy, which we believe will serve to enable each of us to select the candidate who best reflects our personal views and desires for our country. Sincerely, John Hagelin 15 Aug. 2019
[FairfieldLife] Re: 40th Anniversary of Our National Coherence Creating Community
40th Anniversary of the Amherst course. CELEBRATING 40th Anniversary of Maharishi Founding the National Super Radiance Program At Amherst, Massachusetts August 1979 _ THAT DAY IN AMHERST That Changed the History of the United States http://communications.tm.org/2019/2019_08_13_Amherst-40.html http://communications.tm.org/2019/2019_08_13_Amherst-40.html In Fairfield, Dalby Hall – 2 pm – Sunday August 18 Everyone who was there that day is invited to submit their memories to share with all, and be recorded for all time. Governors, Teachers, Sidhas, and Mediators Invited Dome Badge Not Required Please E-mail your memories – including good photos to: amherst.memor...@mum.edu mailto:amherstmemor...@mum.edu?subject=Amherst%20Memories%20from The Creating Coherence Program Come celebrate these anniversaries: -the 40th Anniversary of Our National Coherence Creating Community -the 13th Anniversary of the Invincible America Assembly (IAA) The Invincible America Assembly began on July 23, 2006, when Maharishi and Dr. John Hagelin saw a keen and obvious need to stop a war that had suddenly and unexpectedly broken out in Lebanon. Upon their timely call, hundreds of TM Governors, Sidhas, and Meditators poured into Fairfield and Maharishi Vedic City for Group Practice of the TM and TM-Sidhi progams. Within a few weeks, the war in Lebanon vanished. And on the day the IAA began, July 23, the long-term decline of the American stock market stopped, and began a 10-month climb that hit 12 all-time highs. “There is nothing more important to our global Movement than the Invincible America Assembly,” said Maharishi. Come and celebrate “the most powerful method of transforming society that exists -- or ever will exist” This Tuesday, July 23, 2019 after group program.. The party will include savories, snacks, and live entertainment. It will be held between the Women’s Golden Dome and the Golden Dome Market, between 6:15 PM and 9 PM on MUM Campus. Maharishi defined the IAA as all those who are attending Group Practice morning and evening. Everybody’s Whole Foods will be providing their incredible layout of treats and snacks to support the IAA, along with any sweets and savories you would like to provide as well. Also available will be a delicious dinner menu prepared by Nayna Dave of India, who has decades of success in delighting many with her refined and delicious traditional cooking. Nayna, currently evening chef at the Golden Dome Market, will be offering roasted saffron rice, mixed curried vegetables, and yogurt dumplings, at $9.49/pound. You are also welcome to bring your own dinner. Music will be provided by Geoffrey Shaffer, IAA veteran and multi-decade composer and keyboardist. Geoffrey's music aims for the beautiful and provides a melodic touch and phrasing that is felt by the heart. Flavors of light classical, melodic New Age, and contemporary are included along with original compositions all encouraging the experience of blissful listening. For our anniversary, he also promises to offer several crowd favorites including special keyboard stylings of many of the Beatles best and most beautiful melodies.
[FairfieldLife] Can a robot be a temple priest?
Yes, apparently, according to some Buddhists in Japan. https://www.yahoo.com/news/playing-god-japan-temple-puts-faith-robot-priest-034720647--finance.html https://www.yahoo.com/news/playing-god-japan-temple-puts-faith-robot-priest-034720647--finance.html
[FairfieldLife] This Thursday at 11:30: Democratic Presidential Candidate Pete Buttigieg Will Host Town Hall Meeting
There will be many Presidential Candidates visiting Fairfield in the coming months. The next visit is happening this Thursday morning: Democratic Presidential Candidate Pete Buttigieg Will Host A Town Hall Meeting at the Fairfield Town Square Thursday, August 15 – Event opens at 11:30 AM. Pete is the 37 year old Mayor of South Bend, Indiana, serving his 2nd term. He is the youngest of the twenty Democratic presidential candidates, and is an extremely clear, intelligent, and creative problem solver. The Town Hall Meeting is free and open to the public.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Stilling and YF?
Stillness, No mantra no thought is one of the correct experiences in the practice of TM. 3.3 And when that same awareness, its essential nature shining forth in purity, is as if unbounded, this is known as Samadhi 3.4 Dharana, Dhyana and Samadhi practiced together are known as Sanyama ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Could there be a connection between stilling and group practice of Yogic Flying?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Spiritual mission of TM-
'Our task of the day is to find a cure for this major ill of humanity. The heart of man is so changed. The inner man has to be transformed.. A direct experience of the Blissful nature of Soul and the inner man is completely transformed. The mind, experiencing the Great Bliss, feels satisfaction and this satisfaction of the mind results in right understanding and virtuous action, kindness, love and compassion for all Extracted from Maharishi's address to the 15th session of the World Vegetarian Congress held at Madras on 30 November 1957 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" wrote: > > > 15th World Vegetarian Congress 1957 > Delhi/Bombay/Madras/Calcutta, India > > > > Found on a website about Transcendental Meditation (slightly corrected as > they gave the date as 1958): > > The extract below is from Maharishi's address to the 15th session of the > World Vegetarian Congress held at Madras on 30 November 1957 (taken from a > Canadian Publication from the early 1960s). Considering the recent events in > the world it seems particularly relevant to the present times. > > 'How are we going to change the 'Killing world' of today into a non- killing > world of tomorrow? How are we going to change the spirit of killing, the > spirit of aggression, the spirit of violence into the spirit of kindness and > love - overflowing love for the whole creation? How are we going to change > hardness and cruelty of heart to softness and overflowing love for > everybody? > > 'Through platform speaking? No, it is not possible. Through singing the > values of Vegetarianism in to the ears of the non-vegetarians? No, because > their ears may receive the message but the hardness of their hearts will > repel it.. > > 'Suggestive knowledge? Suggestions from outside do not much change the man. > 'Speaking does not go a long way to change a man. All the great religions of > the world have been speaking for it from time immemorial - Eternal Vedas > have been speaking of it, Holy Bible has been speaking of it, Holy Koran has > been speaking of it, yet the killer kills. The killer knows that he is > killing and in return he will be killed. The sinner knows that he is > committing a sin and that he will be punished for it. Not that he does not > know. He knows it. But, with this information, the cruel is not afraid - his > cruelty is hardened still. The killer declares his action is the role of a > saviour, he kills in the name of life, he kills in the name of saving life, > he kills in the name of maintaining life. He kills and murders ruthlessly in > the name of protection and peace. 'In the name of world peace and protection > have been waged the deadliest of wars. In the name of peace and protection > are preparations being made for the murder of man and creation. Shame to the > greatness of the human intelligence which fails to recognise the Judge > Supreme! > > 'Our task of the day is to find a cure for this major ill of humanity. The > heart of man is so changed. The inner man has to be transformed.. A direct > experience of the Blissful nature of Soul and the inner man is completely > transformed. The mind, experiencing the Great Bliss, feels satisfaction and > this satisfaction of the mind results in right understanding and virtuous > action, kindness, love and compassion for all > > Extracted from Maharishi's address to the 15th session of the World > Vegetarian Congress held at Madras on 30 November 1957 > > > > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.17.12/1203 - Release Date: 12/30/2007 > 11:27 AM >
[FairfieldLife] Re: Transcendental Meditation Revolutionary Mission:
Mission: “This is what happens in the Domes: A wave of infinity spreads from one end of the Dome to the other end. But the wave is not constrained by the walls. It permeates the whole collective consciousness -the whole field of unmanifest infinity… This is what you are here for. And as the group gets larger and larger, your experiences will become even more profound.” --Maharishi, Inauguration of the Invincible America Assembly, July 2006 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : “We will count ourselves successful only when the problems of today's world are substantially reduced and eventually eliminated and the educational institutions of every country are capable of producing fully developed citizens.” -Maharishi, from the founding catalog of Maharishi International University, 1974
[FairfieldLife] Stilling and YF?
Could there be a connection between stilling and group practice of Yogic Flying? https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-27/land-wind-speeds-slowing-down-over-land-the-stilling/10392980 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-27/land-wind-speeds-slowing-down-over-land-the-stilling/10392980
[FairfieldLife] Re: Yogananda's SRF
Yogananda passed away in 1952, Maharishi passed away over ten years ago now. SRF’s Brother Chidananda‘s recent talk is excellent perspective in the navigation of a spiritual renewal movement. SRF as a worldwide spiritual practice movement is roughly 90 years old, nine decades ahead of Maharishi and the TM movement in cycle. Bro. Chidananda now in his address does a superb job of voicing together mission from their past, the present and where they are going now in their communal movement. They have now made a transition to directors and group leaders who are members who had never met with Yogananda. With a renewed youthfulness they evidently have a vital movement inclusive with youth going forward now. Bro. Chidananda seems to be a right person at the right time for the job of leadership of their group. His satsanga talk at about 1:16 minutes is worth listening to as to who, how and where they are going as a group. With evident good tone they are going forward now in clear mission and with cohesion as a group. For those who can hear it In comparison theirs is a good story to follow. Satsanga with Brother Chidananda: https://yogananda.org/blog/satsanga-with-brother-chidananda-to-be-livestreamed https://yogananda.org/blog/satsanga-with-brother-chidananda-to-be-livestreamed ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Tonite: A special satsanga with Brother Chidananda, president and spiritual head of Self-Realization Fellowship/Yogoda Satsanga Society of India https://yogananda.org/blog/satsanga-with-brother-chidananda-to-be-livestreamed https://yogananda.org/blog/satsanga-with-brother-chidananda-to-be-livestreamed ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : 5000 SRF meditators gathered in LA meditating this week. 2019 SRF World Convocation 2019 SRF World Convocation2019 SRF World Convocation2019 SRF World Convocation
[FairfieldLife] Re: current astro for USA
SJ, I have a chart of the USA based on July 4, 1776, Philadelphia PA. The chart was researched by a Vedic astrologer who was a member of a Vedic astrology group many years ago. He came up with a lagna in Dhanus with Saturn in Kanya or Virgo. Based on most Vedic astrologers back then, the chart was representative of the USA historical trends. Personally, I agree with their assessment. Regards, John R. PS: I don't use the systems analysis method. But I have heard of David Hawthorne. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : a Fairfield Jyotishi on the USA chart if you want prediction just listen to the last 5 mins unless you are trying to learn this school of astrology which does have some valid insights but does not work for a lot of human birth times. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HayP52tv2pw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HayP52tv2pw
[FairfieldLife] Re: Yogananda's SRF
Tonite: A special satsanga with Brother Chidananda, president and spiritual head of Self-Realization Fellowship/Yogoda Satsanga Society of India https://yogananda.org/blog/satsanga-with-brother-chidananda-to-be-livestreamed https://yogananda.org/blog/satsanga-with-brother-chidananda-to-be-livestreamed ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : 5000 SRF meditators gathered in LA meditating this week. 2019 SRF World Convocation 2019 SRF World Convocation2019 SRF World Convocation2019 SRF World Convocation
[FairfieldLife] Yogananda's SRF
5000 SRF meditators gathered in LA meditating this week. 2019 SRF World Convocation 2019 SRF World Convocation2019 SRF World Convocation2019 SRF World Convocation
[FairfieldLife] current astro for USA
a Fairfield Jyotishi on the USA chart if you want prediction just listen to the last 5 mins unless you are trying to learn this school of astrology which does have some valid insights but does not work for a lot of human birth times. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HayP52tv2pw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HayP52tv2pw
[FairfieldLife] Giving a bad name to TM’ers?
Evidently there is a behavioral axis between self-interest and altruism.. and maybe not strictly related to 'consciousness', as we have seen. https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/2741368/bruce-a-hauptman-v-commissioner/ https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/2741368/bruce-a-hauptman-v-commissioner/ https://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/2018/ia-4950.pdf https://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/2018/ia-4950.pdf https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/wyoming-man-ordered-to-pay-restitution-to-iowa-investors/ https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/wyoming-man-ordered-to-pay-restitution-to-iowa-investors/ https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/28227351/USA_v_Hauptman https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/28227351/USA_v_Hauptman
[FairfieldLife] RE: Waging Radical Peace, A Call to Group Meditations
World Peace Projects, Assemblies, Where the heck is the ™ movement? The number of people fleeing war, persecution and conflict exceeded 70 million globally last year - the highest number in the UN refugee agency's almost 70 years of operations. The number averaged out to 37,000 new displacements every day. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : There is an unconventional, yet highly effective approach with a proven scientific record for diffusing terrorism and violence, called Invincible Defense Technology (IDT), based on the non-religious Transcendental Meditation (TM) program. There is an unconventional, yet highly effective approach with a proven scientific record for diffusing terrorism and violence, called Invincible Defense Technology (IDT), based on the non-religious Transcendental Meditation (TM) program. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : The revelation that group meditation reduces turbulence in society and improves community or global health is simply an extension of the individual practice of meditation. This is a new paradigm to be implemented, for it may hold the secret for planetary peace. If wars start in the minds of men, then peace logically should start there as well. 438473Prevent Terrorism ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Kim Jong-un warns of change in direction on denuclearisation He made the remarks during his closely-watched annual New Year's address. Mr Kim said, "if the US does not keep its promise made in front of the whole world... and insists on sanctions and pressures on our republic, we may be left with no choice but to consider a new way to safeguard our sovereignty and interests". The annual New Year's address is a tradition Mr Kim picked up from his grandfather, Kim Il-sung, founder of the communist country. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : ..at the interdisciplinary Global Zen Consciousness Conference in Atlanta... The conference was organized by the Shaolin Chan [Zen] Foundation, which hopes to “create a worldwide revolution by combining the spheres of science and Eastern philosophy to help humanity realize that at the deepest sub-nuclear level and at the innermost consciousness level we are all one.” “This was a breakthrough event, with both the modern and ancient corroborating each other in an authentic and science-based manner,” said Dr. Schneider, dean of MUM’s College of Integrative Medicine. Dr. Hagelin spoke about the physics of consciousness and higher states of consciousness. Dr. Schneider discussed the physiological correlates.. Peace by the Meissner-like effect of groups meditating: Creating an Ideal Society: The phenomenon of a powerful influence of harmony spreading through a whole community or nation when a small fraction of the population practices the Transcendental Meditation technique is known as the Maharishi Effect [ME]. The influence of orderliness generated from the state of infinite correlation experienced during the Transcendental Meditation technique is so powerful that even one per cent of the people in society practising the Transcendental Meditation technique is sufficient to neutralize negative tendencies and give an evolutionary direction to community life as a whole. With the growth of individual consciousness, family consciousness, community consciousness, national consciousness, and world consciousness are enriched. More than one and a half million people currently practising the Transcendental Meditation technique are constantly intensifying the Maharishi Effect and contributing to the Age of Enlightenment. The dawn is rising to the day. 12 January 1977 Brave meditators, you have done all we asked you to do, and more than could be reasonably expected; but your own global country of World Peace is at stake, your partners, families, your homes and all that you hold dear. You have worn yourselves out with fatigues and hardships of waging world peace, but we know not how to spare you. If you will consent to stay in the Domes only one month longer, you will render that service to the cause of liberty of all and to your global country of world peace which you probably never can do under any other circumstances. -Buck in the Dome Transcendental Meditation: Crime rate decreased in cities after one percent of their populations had begun practicing the Transcendental Meditation technique. -Editors Paper 98 Improved Quality of Life Through The Transcendental Meditation Program: Decreased Crime Rate Paper 98 Introduction In 1960 Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of the Transcendental Meditation program, predicted that a transition in society toward a more orderly and harmonious functioning would occur when a small fraction -on the order of one percent- of a population practiced the Transcendental Meditation technique (6), and in December 1974 we found that crime rate di
[FairfieldLife] Re: How capitalism captured the mindfulness industry
Critique by Maharishi: Maharishi - What creates real deep Peace: “The basis of peace is bliss. Unless one is happy, he cannot be in peace. Peace without lasting happiness is only passivity. When one sleeps in the night he feels absence of activity. This is called peace. But when he wakes up in the morning and comes into the field of thought, speech, and activity, he begins to feel miserable again. The peace felt by the absence of activity is not lasting. The peace gained by emptying the mind of thoughts, holding the mind in suspension, is due only to the lack of pressure of thought. When such a mind returns to the field of thinking and acting, it again begins to feel the pressures of thought and action. Then the individual begins to feel unpeaceful. All such practices of silencing the mind are wrong. Such practices continued for much time result in making the mind dull. There are many groups in the world who sit in silence and try to hear their inner voice or the voice of God, as they term it. All such practices make the mind passive and dull. Those who practice silencing the mind begin to lack in brilliance. Dullness can be seen on their faces. They are not energetic in the field of action. They look peaceful, but they are passive in life. Peace at the cost of activity is at the cost of life. Such an experience of peace is at the cost of efficiency in life and at the cost of life itself. An attempt to silence the mind in the hope of experiencing pure consciousness is pursuing a mirage. When one keeps the thoughts out of the mind, it becomes passive because it remains on the conscious thinking level without a thought. This practice makes the mind dull. What is necessary is not the attempt to vacate the mind, but that the conscious mind be led on to the subtle states of thinking to eventually transcend the subtlest state and arrive at the positive state of Being. Holding the mind on the conscious level is only taking it out of the field of activity and allowing it to be passive and inactive. This only helps to diminish the brilliancy of the mind and brings dullness and passivity to it. People who practice this do feel peace in life because they are practicing suppression or negation of thoughts. When a mind that has gained the quality of sluggishness and dullness through such practices does not have a thought in a very energetic manner and does not engage itself energetically in the field of experience and activity, peace is felt because of the innate dullness of the mind. But, whenever some serious problems in life arise, the mind feels a strain because it has been trained to remain dull and passive. When the individual must become active to accomplish some work in a very precise and energetic manner, the mind feels the strain. Such practices have also done great damage to the progress of the individual and society. Thus we find that practices that silence the mind in the first place produce dullness in the mind, and, in the second place, the peace that is felt is not lasting. As we have said, peace can be lasting only if the mind could be made happy forever. Only if the very nature of the mind could be transformed to bliss consciousness could peace be lasting. The quest for peace should be directed to bringing the mind to the field of the transcendent, the source of all happiness through the practice of Transcendental Meditation. When one is not peaceful, fear, lack of self-confidence, and all the pettiness in life arise and the consciousness of man becomes so abjectly miserable that he cannot think and cannot accomplish anything worthwhile. Fear is just lack of self-confidence, and the basis of confidence is in contentment which can only result from the experience of bliss. There is nothing in the world which can really bring lasting contentment to the mind because everything in the world, although it provides some happiness to the mind, is not intensive enough to satisfy the great thirst for happiness of the mind. The only field of contentment is the transcendental field of bliss consciousness. Unless one arrives at that state, one’s peace will always be threatened by everything in the world because of lack of contentment. The only golden gate to peace in life is the experience of transcendental bliss consciousness and this great glory of life is easy for everyone to achieve and live throughout life.” — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi from MERU Course ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Is interesting in the article how they define and expect revolution. However evidently a regular practice of meditation, even mindfulness meditation, evidently brings change to the individual and society as a Meissner-like Effect (ME) of meditators on groups. Political struggle could hope that society could transform individuals. But someone asserting trope that meditating ‘does not require change
[FairfieldLife] Ethnomusicology, for Maharishi
This is a collection of songs written for His Holiness, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi over several decades starting in 1971, Songs for Maharishi https://paulfauerso.bandcamp.com/album/songs-for-maharshi https://paulfauerso.bandcamp.com/album/songs-for-maharshi by Paul Fauerso http://paulfauerso.bandcamp.com/
[FairfieldLife] Re: World Plan Assessment
The world without the SRM arriving as it did? The World Plan figured out a lot of things just by meditating. Doubters and haters may reference the volumes of the Collected Papers. At 47 years, this is still likely too soon to tell what the whole of it did as being developmental in spiritual revolution. Was part of a work in progress. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : How would you assess the World Plan, nearly 50 years on? Goals of the World Plan (1972) 1. To develop the full potential of the individual. 2. To improve governmental achievements. 3. To realize the highest ideal of education. 4. To solve the problems of crime, drug abuse, and all behavior that brings unhappiness to the family of man. 5. To maximize the intelligent use of the environment. 6. To bring fulfillment to the economic aspirations of individuals and society. 7. To achieve the spiritual goals of mankind in this generation.
[FairfieldLife] Re: World Plan Assessment
I was there in Fiuggi. We were all very young and very inspired by the World Plan Maharishi described. I suppose we believed all these high ideals could be achieved with enough people doing TM. Looking at them now, they could only possibly exist in Satya Yuga, if even then, as we live in the ever imperfect material creation. To evaluate success in any of them, specific, quantifiable targets or indicators would have had to have been laid out. I doubt that any ever were. Looking them over now, I wonder if we have not regressed from where we were then.
[FairfieldLife] World Plan Assessment
How would you assess the World Plan, nearly 50 years on? Goals of the World Plan (1972) 1. To develop the full potential of the individual. 2. To improve governmental achievements. 3. To realize the highest ideal of education. 4. To solve the problems of crime, drug abuse, and all behavior that brings unhappiness to the family of man. 5. To maximize the intelligent use of the environment. 6. To bring fulfillment to the economic aspirations of individuals and society. 7. To achieve the spiritual goals of mankind in this generation.
[FairfieldLife] Re: How capitalism captured the mindfulness industry
Is interesting in the article how they define and expect revolution. However evidently a regular practice of meditation, even mindfulness meditation, evidently brings change to the individual and society as a Meissner-like Effect (ME) of meditators on groups. Political struggle could hope that society could transform individuals. But someone asserting trope that meditating ‘does not require change’ like the critique entailed in this article is asserting old school marxist criticism that it is social struggles which shape individual condition in transformational (revolutionary) change and not necessarily the other way around, denying the collective (corporate?) effect of the individual. Assertion from the article: “..mindfulness as a practice and discourse focused on the self minimizes social critique and change and contributes to keeping existing social injustices and inequitable power structures intact. There is nothing revolutionary about the so-called Mindful Revolution. Chris Goto-Jones says: “The revolution doesn’t require any particular change in values or economic systems … For a revolution this movement shows remarkable conservatism. The leading voices make no demands on followers. They need not become activists or participate in political struggle.” ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : People do make a same indictment of a secular presentation of transcendental meditation and a culture in its business .orgs.. Does the stripping away of spiritual revival in the presentation necessarily say more about about the people and their institution than the practice of meditation. "..authors argued that a “stripped down, secular technique” of mindfulness originating in Buddhism not just fails to serve to awaken people and organizations from “the unwholesome roots of greed, ill will and delusion, it is usually being refashioned into a banal, therapeutic, self-help technique that can actually reinforce those roots." ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : The spiritual moral bypass.. "By negating and downplaying actual social and political contexts and focusing on the individual, or more so, the individual’s brain, McMindfulness interventions ignore seeing our inseparability from all others. They ignore seeing our inseparability from inequitable cultural patterns and social structures that affect and constitute our relations, and thereby ourselves. McMindfulness thus forfeits the moral demand that follows this insight: to challenge social inequities and enact universal compassion, service and social justice in all forms of human endeavor." (Note where someone points three fingers are pointing back at the person) ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : How capitalism captured the mindfulness industry https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/apr/16/how-capitalism-captured-the-mindfulness-industry https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/apr/16/how-capitalism-captured-the-mindfulness-industry
[FairfieldLife] Reunion: TM Teachers from the 1960s and 1970s Sept. 20-22
>From a card I received today: TM MOVEMENT ORIGINALS REUNION September 20-22, 2019 TM Teachers from the 1960s and 1970s reunion. Hosted by Maharishi University of Management Save the date. Here’s your chance to meet with buddies from the early days and reconnect with others from the origin of the TM Movement. Times to see some familiar faces, share stories, catch up with old friends, and experience the MUM campus of 2019. Details here: https://originals.mum.edu Be there! And spread the word…!
[FairfieldLife] wisdom-traditions
DrTonyNader Self Knowledge from Around the World https://www.drtonynader.com/river?fbclid=IwAR1kO8Nnlw6uG2sjmofH-FPkYjQVy--i0l3yJg9i1-1cK0NiuIl32GDnVM0 https://www.drtonynader.com/river?fbclid=IwAR1kO8Nnlw6uG2sjmofH-FPkYjQVy--i0l3yJg9i1-1cK0NiuIl32GDnVM0
[FairfieldLife] Re: Scorpionland?
Evidently back as Maharishi made his decision to raise the price of learning TM then initiations of new meditators dropped off precipitously. Furloughed by effect in this some numbers of old ™ teachers kept on with initiating new meditators as old prices worked out. In Vlodrop this was brought to Maharishi’s attention. As this became apparent that some numbers of ™ teachers were continuing on with teaching ™ under old pricing he responded calling these old ™ teachers of his ‘scorpions’ and Brits ‘scorpion nation’. It was a developed bit of a rant to a point of urging TM people to leave Britain. A similar thing happened with a collapse in initiations of new meditators in France and other countries where ™ teachers continued trying on with the propagation of meditation. Triggering of wider reactionary separations, disownments of old ™ teachers, legal disputes, and then some long decades of a missing of or the skipping over of the millennial generations in which ™ was not taught so much at all to new meditators. It is a backstory to the present. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Why did Maharishi start to call UK Scorpionland, or something like that?
[FairfieldLife] Scorpionland?
Why did Maharishi start to call UK Scorpionland, or something like that? https://twitter.com/stevemoynihan62/status/1156133973782913024 https://twitter.com/stevemoynihan62/status/1156133973782913024
[FairfieldLife] Re: MMY's Gita
The Gita chapters are copyrighted material, and I was forced to take the files down. That was years ago, and I have zero interest in TM stuff any more. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Hello, Long-time lurker who finally had to join to ask - there used to be so many files on here, namely on Alex Stanley's server, that I've lost, and subsequently don't seem to be up anymore. There's hardly anywhere you can go for the large collection of Maharishi's lectures, as well as the chapters 7/8/9 of the Gita manuscript by Maharishi. Can someone help out with this?
[FairfieldLife] MMY's Gita
Hello, Long-time lurker who finally had to join to ask - there used to be so many files on here, namely on Alex Stanley's server, that I've lost, and subsequently don't seem to be up anymore. There's hardly anywhere you can go for the large collection of Maharishi's lectures, as well as the chapters 7/8/9 of the Gita manuscript by Maharishi. Can someone help out with this?
RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation
its good for where they are it does not work well for the whole world. Maharishi was trying to re-establish something after thousands of years, he was playing with time that householders do TM in the beginning at one point an hour and at another 15mins and then 20, he didnt now everything in detail without experimentation. .. He also said every place need to have its own groups as well these big groups in one place which are a start. The world as a whole may be on an upward path but the super-power countries are all lacking in coherence. It could be a formula for a very rough transformation
[FairfieldLife] Dr Tony Nader
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RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation
Poll Finds Trust In Science Is Rising, But as contrast there seems a meditating communal skepticism to the superradiant value of meditating in groups now. A communal antipathy of the science of meditating. A deeper lack of science literacy in a disrespect for the significance or a victim of hyperbole? The communal Dome group meditation numbers seem to be in the dumper. Trust in Science, NPR on Pew survey of Americans.. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/08/02/747561031/poll-finds-trust-in-science-is-rising https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/08/02/747561031/poll-finds-trust-in-science-is-rising
RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation
According to Raja Luis, there are now groups of 10,000 somewhere in South America. According to the Super Radiance theory, this exceeds the square root of 1% of the world's population -- and this should be sufficient to bring about world peace. So doesn't this make Fairfield numbers moot? Do you believe the Raja?
RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation
In studying the science, the low numbers meditating together evidently shows a dangerous communal lack of discipline. .. Invincible Defense Technology:A Non-Religious, Humane and Beneficial Approach to Peace.. The practical components of IDT are the non-religious Transcendental Meditation (TM) and the more advanced TM-Sidhi programs. When large groups of experts practice these programs together, a powerful field effect of coherence and peace is generated that spills over into the surrounding population. This effect has been shown in extensive scientific research that has repeatedly confirmed measurable decreases in war deaths, terrorism, and crime. Studies have also shown, for example, reductions in verbal hostilities and hostile acts, increased number of cooperative events, and other improvements in quality of life such as reduced accidents, hospital admissions, and infant mortality. These are all tangible signs of reduction of societal stress. Due to this research the non-profit organization Global Union of Scientists for Peace (GUSP) advocates this simple and cost-effective approach for reducing social stress (see: https://www.gusp.org/global-peace-summit https://www.gusp.org/global-peace-summit ). See more at http://www.pravdareport.com/opinion/columnists/30-10-2018/141897-khashoggi-0/ http://www.pravdareport.com/opinion/columnists/30-10-2018/141897-khashoggi-0/ A morality, : Meditation in groups, Maharishi was consistent the whole way about the utility of group meditating influencing a wellbeing of good for others at a distance. This remarkable idea in practice is a simple disruptor to a lot of people’s material paradigm but after so many decades of inquiry in to this observation the science has well borne out the hypothesis. And, Guru Dev too in his spiritual construct on moral order could have easily agreed now given what all we know from the inquiry of science, that people who do not go to group meditations when they could join with them are being amoral in their selfishness. That someone sitting out in a coffee house whether in Leiden watching videos on their laptop or those meditators idle downtown around the Fairfield, iowa town square at Paradiso, the Cider House, the Sushi bar, or in Revelations during the communal group meditation is near to worthless and worse morally in their contribution to the general good and communal welfare, a drag, amoral. So this, the virtue of group meditation is now in the reach of this spiritual but not religious time of science and spirituality that we do live in. Yet, people who would stay home by themselves, be it some Raja hold up somewhere out there by themselves, or an editor working overtime somewhere and may be would meditate later, but also an administration and its defenders with a religious-like adherence to ill-serving guidelines that should keep people away who could otherwise be meditating with the group evidently are all worst than sad but pretty bad morally. Jai Guru Dev. Thread 437705 Re: What did ‘Guru Dev’ say on Spiritual Morality and its Moral Compass https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/437705 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/437705 .< Interesting to see how the principles of higher moral character that were the communal experiment started at Amherst in ‘78 have been eroded and hurt in the administration of it. For outsiders or people from away looking in on the experiment I recommend their reading "Greetings From Utopia Park" and listening to the NPR 'Fresh Air' interview of Claire Hoffman for insight to how it went. I don’t recall anything about “principles of higher moral character” in the air when we first came here from Amherst. Q: I appreciate what you’re doing with the group meditation thing, but I like meditating at home. I usually take a nap first, then just sit up and meditate. Times vary. A: Evidently a lot of people feel this way also about meditating with the TM group, not turning out for what was superradiance of the group. The numbers in the Dome meditation are incredibly low now. # Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom. -The Buddha ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Meditate and Act Meditation with activity has always been the TM teaching (B.Gita II v 48). This teaching was one of the things also used to convince a change in the administration policy at a point to modify the ‘long’ IAAssembly morning program rounds to get it all shortened down more to what it is now with the idea according to the teaching to get them out of there and in to the world and community before the mid-day and to give them longer in the afternoon to ‘do things’ of life and be in
[FairfieldLife] File - FFL Acronyms
BC - Brahman Consciousness
BN - Bliss Ninny or Bliss Nazi
CC - Cosmic Consciousness
GC - God Consciousness
MMY - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
OTP - Off the Program - a phrase used in the TM movement meaning to do
something (such as see another spiritual teacher) considered in violation of
Maharishi's program.
POV - Point of View
SBS - Swami Brahmananda Saraswati, Maharishi's master
SCI Science of Creative Intelligence
SOC - State of Consciousness
SSRS - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (Pundit-ji)
SV - Stpathya Ved (Vedic Architecture)
TB - True Believer (in TM doctrines)
TNB - True Non-Believer
TMO - The Transcendental Meditation organization
TTC TM Teacher Training Course
UC - Unity Consciousness
WYMS - "World Youth Meditation Society" later changed to "World Youth Movement
for the Science of Creative Intelligence" was founded by Peter Hübner in
Germany, as a national TM outlet competing with SIMS, Students International
Meditation Society
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[FairfieldLife] Re: VasiSTha and YF!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HUoflK127s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HUoflK127s
[FairfieldLife] VasiSTha and YF!
Peter Freund's book on YF is extremely interesting, at least for an Asperger's (self diagnosed) like myself. Sometimes the connection between the translation and the original devanaagarii text is very hard to grasp, even if I know at least almost all the words in the original. Anyhow, loads of new information for myself about what enlightenment is, and the differences between the "levels"(?) of it!
[FairfieldLife] Re: The UK Dome 20 Years On
Dome - 20 Years On https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olvIddB4ZdM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olvIddB4ZdM Dome - 20 Years On https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olvIddB4ZdM Celebrating 20 years of the Maharishi Golden Dome, Skelmersdale UK. Produced for the anniversary 19th March 2008. John Stanley trumpet tune in D p... View on www.youtube.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olvIddB4ZdM Preview by Yahoo ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Radical Transcendentalism? These are good observations and question. Evidently ‘respectability’ didn’t work very well for ™ after the 1970’s the way that they did it. Revolutionary is another narrative of our being transcendentalists who look to broad transformations may now be more in keeping with these times now. Your definitions on transcendentalism are fine and could be added in well with the recent threads on transcendentalism here that were explored before you joined FFL. (You can find those threads gathered on Oct 1 posts in the matrix that is at the bottom of the FFL homepage). Transcendentalists both contemporary and going back in time as a people it seems have an ongoing kind of spirituality way more than the historical artifacts and cultural expression of the 1830’s American movement of Transcendentalists. As a people now we ™’ers fit in with the definitions quite well. A more recent academic definition goes well to describe a spirituality of the meditating community, the Fairfield Transcendental Meditationists but I see it also is describing a wider movement in the current postmodern, evidently a growing ‘spiritual but not religious’ demographic. (in mindfulness and TM, tolle, chopra, centering, oprah, Yogananda ..) Transcendentalism: Our initial working definition of transcendentalism, however, will stress a divine force in each individual, a force that is also linked to nature and has the power to transform lives, as well as social institutions. -Professor Ashton Nichols, Emerson, Thoreau, and the Transcendentalist Movement ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : The triumphal trumpet, radical transcendentalists in the postmodern age... With these short words I think you may have undercut the movement's attempt at respectability. From: "dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, October 15, 2016 1:20 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] The UK Dome 20 Years On The triumphal trumpet, radical transcendentalists in the postmodern age... With these short words I think you may have undercut the movement's attempt at respectability. "Radical means advocating, advocating complete political or social reform or supporting an extreme section of a idealistic movement." "Transcendentalism is an idealistic philosophical and social movement that developed in New England around 1836 in reaction to rationalism. Influenced by romanticism, Platonism, and Kantian philosophy, it taught that divinity pervades all nature and humanity, and its members held progressive views on feminism and communal living. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were central figures." "Postmodernism is an era and a broad movement that developed in the late-20th century across philosophy, the arts, architecture, and criticism which marked a departure from modernism typically defined by an attitude of skepticism or distrust toward grand narratives, ideologies, and various tenets of Enlightenment rationality, including the existence of objective reality and absolute truth, as well as notions of rationality, human nature, and progress.It asserts that knowledge and truth are the product of unique systems of social, historical, and political discourse and interpretation, and are therefore contextual and constructed." Postmodernism also exhibits a high degree of irrationality, at odds with science. It seems to me this kind of language does not really suit the Transcendental Meditation movement which prides itself on a public face of religious neutrality, scientific rigor and as not being a lifestyle or philosophy. It creates a sense of extremism and religious advocacy which does not forward the movement's public image they have cultured for the last 45 years or so, to avoid the appearance of crass Hinduism. The movement has enough trouble with this as it is. What do you think is the best way for TM to be promoted to modern, rational people that have perhaps paid lip service in the direction of spiritual activities, people who are basically secular in outlook and desire? Dome - 20 Years On https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olvIddB4ZdM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olvIddB4ZdM Dome - 20 Years On https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olvIddB4ZdM Celebrating 20 years of the Maharishi Golden Dome, Skelmersdale UK. Produced for the anniversary 19th Marc
[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Radical' 'Revolutionary' Transcendental Meditationists
Weber defined charisma as "a certain quality of an individual personality by virtue of which he is considered extraordinary and treated as endowed with supernatural, superhuman, or at least specifically exceptional powers . . . [that] are regarded as of divine origin." Weber added, however, that the leader’s disciples--those who see him as divine--are as much a source of his power as are his personal talents, for without them he is nothing (Weber 1968a, 241-42). . It is creative and revolutionary, for "in its pure form charisma . . . may be said to exist only in the process of originating" (Weber 1964, 364). At the other end of the continuum, routinized charisma describes what happens when a leader’s charisma is thinly dispersed throughout the followers who act in the leader’s name, typically after he has died. It may survive many generations and underlie a stable social order, but it is conservative and is not a force for social change (Miyahara 1983, 370). .. Along this continuum lie the variants of magical and prophetic charisma. Magical charisma is attached to the shaman or magician who is "permanently endowed with charisma" (Weber 1968a, 401). Such charisma is basically conservative, supporting the customs of the tribe. Prophetic charisma occurs in more complex societies and adheres to the prophet who proclaims a divine mission or radical political doctrine. This form of charisma leads to revolution and social change. Weber regarded the prophet as the prototype for other kinds of charismatic leaders (Schweitzer 1984, 32). . In using charisma to explain social change and heroic leaders, Weber did not intend merely to invent a dry academic term. Rather, he saw charisma as representing the incarnate life force itself, "the thrust of the sap in the tree and the blood in the veins," an elemental or daemonic power (Dow 1978). . By critical contrast: How capitalism captured the mindfulness industry.. The secular technique and its relativist lack of a moral foundation has opened itself up to a host of dubious uses, called out by its critics as McMindfulness. Without a critical account of the social context of neoliberal individualism, mindfulness as a practice and discourse focused on the self minimizes social critique and change and contributes to keeping existing social injustices and inequitable power structures intact. There is nothing revolutionary about the so-called Mindful Revolution. Chris Goto-Jones says: “The revolution doesn’t require any particular change in values or economic systems … For a revolution this movement shows remarkable conservatism. The leading voices make no demands on followers. They need not become activists or participate in political struggle.” https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/apr/16/how-capitalism-captured-the-mindfulness-industry https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/apr/16/how-capitalism-captured-the-mindfulness-industry ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : The 40th Anniversary, of the 1979 Amherst course. Taking from current history, a paraphrasing of a NYTimes article: as something like our own TM movement’s annual January 12th meetings of the essential group.. Paraphrasing..: “Facing deepening tensions abroad and anxieties inside, ..using a key anniversary to argue that the recipe of guided growth under strong movement control must not waver. he said, The first lesson from these 40 years of spiritual regeneration was the need to maintain party (Movement) leadership “over all tasks.” “It was precisely because we’ve adhered to the centralized and united leadership of the movement that we were able to achieve this great historic transition, said” .. at a pivotal, potentially fraught moment in the movement when all the contradictions in its governance appeared in stark relief. ..as great as that of any leadership in decades, yet the movement’s tightening of controls over the organization and ever more aspects of its society suggest a deep-seated insecurity at the highest levels. “Today many policy goals in the Movement are in tension with one another. Which ones take precedence? This is what officials will need to know to carry out their work on a practical level.” Some had been hoping for signals that the leadership would take further steps to liberalize the movement or ease tensions with its membership.” Jai Guru Dev https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/world/asia/xi-jinping-speech-china.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/world/asia/xi-jinping-speech-china.html ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : A Spiritual Regenerative Movement (SRM) in the TM.org? Is the TM movement currently transformational as regenerative, reform, or revolution? A Consideration, TM as Revolutionary Millenarian: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/communal-studies-forum/1di3
[FairfieldLife] IEA and Skelmersdale weather?
You can follow Skelmersdale temperature e.g. in here: https://www.foreca.com/United_Kingdom/Skelmersdale?tenday https://www.foreca.com/United_Kingdom/Skelmersdale?tenday It "should" drop at least some 4 degrees Celsius around Aug 9! https://www.goldendome.org.uk/courses/full-course-list/iea-9-aug-3wks https://www.goldendome.org.uk/courses/full-course-list/iea-9-aug-3wks
[FairfieldLife] celebration of Ron Khare
For those of you who live or can travel to Fairfield, we will be having an informal Celebration of Life for Ron. This is not a memorial service - more of a gathering of his friends to chat with each other and reminisce. We have created a nice Google photo album that will be playing as a slideshow during the gathering. If you have pictures to add - send them to me and I will put them in. Ron loved having people over - so we will do this on Sunday, July 28th 1-5 pm at our house 1108 N. B St, Fairfield, IA 52556. Those attending are welcome to bring something to share to eat or drink. For those of you thinking to travel here, know that RAGBRI is happening this week and all the hotels are full until Sat. I have two small rooms open at the house, sharing a bathroom with Ronnie and Archer. The response to how much Ron meant to so many people is beyond heartwarming. Thank you again for everything. You may share this post with anyone who would like to know what the plans are. There will be a notice at the Fairfield Men's Dome, too, soon. Much love and appreciation, Phyllis
[FairfieldLife] 40th Anniversary of Our National Coherence Creating Community
The Creating Coherence Program Come celebrate these anniversaries: -the 40th Anniversary of Our National Coherence Creating Community -the 13th Anniversary of the Invincible America Assembly (IAA) The Invincible America Assembly began on July 23, 2006, when Maharishi and Dr. John Hagelin saw a keen and obvious need to stop a war that had suddenly and unexpectedly broken out in Lebanon. Upon their timely call, hundreds of TM Governors, Sidhas, and Meditators poured into Fairfield and Maharishi Vedic City for Group Practice of the TM and TM-Sidhi progams. Within a few weeks, the war in Lebanon vanished. And on the day the IAA began, July 23, the long-term decline of the American stock market stopped, and began a 10-month climb that hit 12 all-time highs. “There is nothing more important to our global Movement than the Invincible America Assembly,” said Maharishi. Come and celebrate “the most powerful method of transforming society that exists -- or ever will exist” This Tuesday, July 23, 2019 after group program.. The party will include savories, snacks, and live entertainment. It will be held between the Women’s Golden Dome and the Golden Dome Market, between 6:15 PM and 9 PM on MUM Campus. Maharishi defined the IAA as all those who are attending Group Practice morning and evening. Everybody’s Whole Foods will be providing their incredible layout of treats and snacks to support the IAA, along with any sweets and savories you would like to provide as well. Also available will be a delicious dinner menu prepared by Nayna Dave of India, who has decades of success in delighting many with her refined and delicious traditional cooking. Nayna, currently evening chef at the Golden Dome Market, will be offering roasted saffron rice, mixed curried vegetables, and yogurt dumplings, at $9.49/pound. You are also welcome to bring your own dinner. Music will be provided by Geoffrey Shaffer, IAA veteran and multi-decade composer and keyboardist. Geoffrey's music aims for the beautiful and provides a melodic touch and phrasing that is felt by the heart. Flavors of light classical, melodic New Age, and contemporary are included along with original compositions all encouraging the experience of blissful listening. For our anniversary, he also promises to offer several crowd favorites including special keyboard stylings of many of the Beatles best and most beautiful melodies.
[FairfieldLife] RakSasas(sp?) in the Netherlands??
https://voiceofeurope.com/2019/07/shocking-report-from-netherlands-many-police-officers-involved-in-crimes-much-due-to-clan-culture/ https://voiceofeurope.com/2019/07/shocking-report-from-netherlands-many-police-officers-involved-in-crimes-much-due-to-clan-culture/ A secret report has sent shockwaves through the Netherlands. The report points out that significant parts of Dutch police have links to organized crime. The report’s content has been published by the Dutch newspaper Algemeen Dagblad (AD). It is notable and shocking that something like this is happening in a country that is usually regarded as orderly and law-abiding.
[FairfieldLife] Shatakam, the Days of Shiva
I am consciousness-bliss, I am Shiva. I am consciousness-bliss, I am Shiva. I am neither the mind, intellect, ego, nor memory. I am neither the five sense organs (eyes, ears, nose, tongue nor skin). I am neither the five elements (earth, wind, fire, water nor ether). I am consciousness-bliss, I am Shiva. I am neither energy, the five types of breath, the seven material essences, nor the five coverings. I am not the organs of elimination (rectum), procreation (genitals), motion (legs), grasping (hands) nor speech (mouth). I am consciousness-bliss, I am Shiva. I have neither hatred nor dislike, neither affiliation nor liking, neither greed nor delusion, neither pride nor haughtiness, neither feelings of envy nor jealousy. I have neither duty, nor wealth, neither desire nor liberation. I am consciousness-bliss, I am Shiva. I have neither merit, nor demerit. I do not commit deeds bad nor good, I am neither happy nor sad, I have neither pain nor pleasure. I do not need of mantras, holy places, scriptures, rituals nor sacrifices. I am neither the seer nor the seen, neither the experiencer nor the experience. I am consciousness-bliss, I am Shiva. I fear no death as I am deathless. I have no separation of Self, nor doubt of my existence, I have no caste discrimination. I have no father nor mother, I am not born. I am no one's relative, friend, guru, or disciple. I am consciousness-bliss, I am Shiva. I am all-pervasive. I have no attributes, I am formless. I have no world attachment, nor am I liberated. I have no wish for anything as I am everything, everywhere, always, always in equilibrium. I am consciousness-bliss, I am Shiva. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7c0beF-4zw Chidananda Rupa Shivoham Shivoham Chidananda Rupa Shivoham Shivoham Mano Buddhi Ahankara Chitta Ninaham Nacha Shrotra Jihve Na Cha Ghrana Netre Nacha Vyoma Bhoomir Na Tejo Na Vayu Chidananda Rupa Shivoham Shivoham Na Cha Prana Samjno Na Vai Pancha Vayu Na Va Saptadhatur Na Va Pancha Koshah Na Vak Pani Padau Na Chopastha Payu Chidananda Rupa Shivoham Shivoham Na Me Dvesha Ragau Na Me Lobha Mohau Mado Naiva Me Naiva Matsarya Bhavah Na Dharmo Na Chartho Na Kamo Na Mokshah Chidananda Rupa Shivoham Shivoham Na Punyam Na Papam Na Saukhyam Na Dukham Na Mantro Na Teertham Na Vedo Na Yajnaha Aham Bhojanam Naiva Bhojyam Na Bhokta Chidananda Rupa Shivoham Shivoham Na Me Mrityu Shanka Na Me Jati Bhedah Pita Naiva Me Naiva Mata Na Janma Na Bandhur Na Mitram Gurur Naiva Shishyah Chidananda Rupa Shivoham Shivoham Aham Nirvikalpo Nirakara Roopaha Vibhur Vyapya Sarvatra Sarvendriyanam Sada Me Samatvam Na Muktir Na Bandhah Chidananda Rupa Shivoham Shivoham These stanzas, are known as "Nirvana Shatakam" or "Atma Shatakam." "Nirvana" is complete equanimity, peace, tranquility, freedom and joy. "Atma" is the True Self. ..
[FairfieldLife] Visit Spiritual Fairfield, Iowa..
Radical Spirituality The Spiritual Heart of America A Top City for Meditation 26 Square Miles Surrounded by Reality Visit Spiritual Fairfield, Iowa.. Fairfield, Iowa rated the number one Top City for Meditation.. 30 Top Cities and Towns for Meditation in America, An article: http://www.sonima.com/meditation/top-cities-for-meditation/ http://www.sonima.com/meditation/top-cities-for-meditation/?fbclid=IwAR1WCOBsb3OT6yJ9_Mlkz8e-y8xrrW0QfK7xy3Echif-XsSR6Ug2aAgCGS0 MotherEarthNews: 12 Great Places: Fairfield, Iowa https://www.motherearthnews.com/nature-and-environment/fairfield-iowa-zmaz06aszraw https://www.motherearthnews.com/nature-and-environment/fairfield-iowa-zmaz06aszraw Niche Grade, Fairfield, Ia. https://www.niche.com/places-to-live/fairfield-jefferson-ia/ https://www.niche.com/places-to-live/fairfield-jefferson-ia/ Why this Iowa town is thriving when so many aren't https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/business/2016/05/31/why-iowa-town-thriving-when-so-many-arent/83973154/ https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/business/2016/05/31/why-iowa-town-thriving-when-so-many-arent/83973154/ US News and World Report selects Fairfield, Iowa with Maharishi University of Management as one of their Healthiest Communities https://theuncarvedblog.com/2018/06/22/us-news-and-world-report-selects-fairfield-iowa-with-maharishi-university-of-management-as-one-of-their-healthiest-communities/ https://theuncarvedblog.com/2018/06/22/us-news-and-world-report-selects-fairfield-iowa-with-maharishi-university-of-management-as-one-of-their-healthiest-communities/
[FairfieldLife] Community Group Meditation, Sunday, July 21
All TM meditators and TM-Sidhas are invited to join together this coming Sunday, July 21, for the monthly Community Group Meditation, at nine local TM-Sidha halls and the Orpheum hall for TM meditators. This group meditation will be at the regular meditation time of 5 pm. While there will not be a global or nationwide group meditation this month, we are eager to come together to foster coherence, which is so needed and important these days. PS: Watch for an upcoming announcement about a big party coming up on Tuesday, July 23, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of our national coherence-creating community.
[FairfieldLife] DJT wouldn't allow this?
https://voiceofeurope.com/2019/07/north-african-muslim-migrant-who-murdered-jewish-neighbor-while-screaming-allahu-akbar-not-criminally-liable-because-he-was-high-on-cannabis-french-judge-rules/ https://voiceofeurope.com/2019/07/north-african-muslim-migrant-who-murdered-jewish-neighbor-while-screaming-allahu-akbar-not-criminally-liable-because-he-was-high-on-cannabis-french-judge-rules/
[FairfieldLife] Litmus test of ME in Skelmersdale?
https://www.goldendome.org.uk/courses/full-course-list/iea-9-aug-3wks https://www.goldendome.org.uk/courses/full-course-list/iea-9-aug-3wks
[FairfieldLife] Re: universal fee structure usa for TM
An earlier baseline metric: Stats in the United States: year-1975: 5799 Initiators Initiations per Month: 16,000 440,000 meditators World Plan Centers: 205 Satellite Centres: 173 ATR Courses given: 48 Residence SIMS Courses: Numerous Etc., Source: World Plan Executive Council First National Leaders’ Conference in the Age of Enlightenment (1975) National Reports In contrast, 1975: Germany with 664 initiators doing 1000 initiations a month and 54,000 meditators, England 305 initiators doing 1,400 initiations a month and 40,000 meditators, France with 92 initiators initiating 250 per month & 5,577 meditators, Sweden with 122 initiators initiating 400 per month and 27,000 meditators, Canada with 553 initiators initiating 3,500 per month and 89,853 meditators. ..Etc., New for July 1 2019.. at $380 for full-time students, and based on an individual's earnings," New prices, per person: $380 for full-time students $500 for households earning less than $50,000 annually $740 for households earning between $50,000 and $99,999 annually $860 for households earning between $100,000 and $199,999 annually $960 for households earning $200,000 or more annually .. TM Rajas break faith with Maharishi over the pricing of TM in a competitive marketplace: the price to learn TM is dropped. Pricing of the basic course to learn the meditation is to be means tested. Coveting the rich to get to 1% turned out a null set. TM looks for a comeback (Metrics show 'Trickle Down' as a policy failing..) the hope is to have more people learning to meditate. Jai Guru Dev. .. srijau defends, David Lynch Foundation and a million people taught for free is a null set to you. And, where are the million? The current adult fee is lower in inflation adjusted dollars than it was in 1977. For those under 50.000 income its likely the lowest it has ever been. Ever? Learning TM before 1977? A day's, week's wage. Multiply Bernie Sander's proposed $15 an hour minimum wage? 1/5 of the population lives under the Federal Poverty level. Almost a quarter of children are beneath poverty level. Likewise a third are 'income insufficient', by another metric. Towards the 'middle-class' this change of pricing policy for TM is a major change of heart. There is no " break faith with Maharishi" as you said, Maharishi was delighted with what David Lynch was doing he just wanted his TM teachers to be able to work full time with a good standard of living which is what David Lynch Foundation is paying thanks almost entirely to getting rich people onside and donating. It is going from success to more success. You are copying the Fox News schools of empty rhetoric and the Paul Ryan school of saying stuff you don't even really believe yourself. wow so manipulative dishonest and negative. there is no breaking faith with Maharishi. and there is no metrics showing a policy failing, the metrics are fantastically good. srijau offers: “..he couldn't go straight to large groups anymore. he had to focus on teaching the rich, the ruling class, the decision makers “ ironically if you are low income north of the border with Canada you are probably S.O,L, ranscendental Meditation Turns 60 Transcendental Meditation® has been learned by 10 million people, including 1 million inner-city youth in high-crime communities Nationwide income-based pricing will help millions more to start to meditate to reduce stress, improve creativity, and increase happiness NEWS PROVIDED BY Transcendental Meditation https://www.prnewswire.com/news/transcendental-meditation Jul 09, 2019, 10:04 ET SHARE THIS ARTICLE NEW YORK, July 9, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- TM® turns 60 this year. First introduced in the US in 1959 by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi: the Transcendental Meditation (TM) technique has now been learned by more than 10 million people, worldwide its health benefits have been documented through more than 400 published peer-reviewed research studies through the efforts of filmmaker David Lynch, the technique has been taught at no charge to more than one million inner-city youth, veterans with PTSD, and adults and children battling substance use disorder Studies on inner-city students have found the TM technique improves academic performance and reduces toxic stress and violence. Learn more at www.TM.org or DavidLynchFoundation.org. However, the need for Transcendental Meditation is more urgent than ever, according to quantum physicist Dr. John Hagelin, who heads the TM organization in the U.S. "We live in an epidemic of stress. Tens of millions of Americans are anxious or depressed—or feel overwhelmed and overburdened by the critical need to be more productive, more creative, more energetic, and more focused than ever," Dr. Hagelin said. "People are learning TM because it's a simple, easily learned technique
[FairfieldLife] Re: Bhogic flying?
Let's hope Nokia's Indian CEO Rajeev Suri (more accurately, probably suuri, which in Finnish means great) makes Nokia fly, and great again, mainly to prevent communist Huawei taking over the whole 5G network stuff! May 29, 2019 Last month, the Netherlands' leading wireless carrier chose Huawei to provide equipment for its next-generation 5G wireless network. The carrier, KPN, insisted the choice was based on quality. But Huawei had another advantage: price. Huawei underbid the existing vendor, Swedish firm Ericsson, by 60 per cent, according to two industry officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter - offering a price that wouldn't even cover the cost of parts.
[FairfieldLife] Bhogic flying?
The group Vikas* from Mumbai:
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2272974336353701
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2272974336353701
In Sanskrit, prolly either vikasa or vikaasa (vikAsa):
(In Finnish, vika is fault and vikas would colloquial for vikasi = your
fault...)
* vikasa m. the moon L. ; (%{A}) f. Bengal madder (also written %{vikaSA}) L.
; = %{mAMsa-rohiNI} L.
vikAsa m. expanding , budding , blowing (of flowers) Kum. S3is3. ; opening (of
the mouth or eyes) VarBr2S. Pan5cat. ; opening (of the heart) , cheerfulness ,
serenity Das3. S3is3. ; expansion , development , growth S3is3. Pur. Sarvad. ;
[FairfieldLife] The Key to Healthy Relationships
Timeless advice from three spiritual teachers on love and relationships. These do not just apply to people entering a relationship, but to all of us, whether our relationships are romantic or otherwise. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMdvgbeKVoE=1s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMdvgbeKVoE=1s
[FairfieldLife] Ammericans badly need TM...
Excited: https://youtu.be/SbXmGgJePsk https://youtu.be/SbXmGgJePsk
[FairfieldLife] Re: universal fee structure usa for TM
David Lynch Foundation and a million people taught for free is a null set to you. The current adult fee is lower in inflation adjusted dollars than it was in 1977. For those under 50.000 income its likely the lowest it has ever been. There is no " break faith with Maharishi" as you said, Maharishi was delighted with what David Lynch was doing he just wanted his TM teachers to be able to work full time with a good standard of living which is what David Lynch Foundation is paying thanks almost entirely to getting rich people onside and donating. It is going from success to more success. You are copying the Fox News schools of empty rhetoric and the Paul Ryan school of saying stuff you don't even really believe yourself.
[FairfieldLife] Y. Soma on Ellen; sextuplet?
Yoyoka ("sadly", not yoyoga) Soma has been a couple of time on TMer Ellen's
talk show. Is this a sextuplet? At least she seems to try, but it doesn't seem
very clean; impressive, all the same?
https://youtu.be/4_mrIy3_JgM?t=200 https://youtu.be/4_mrIy3_JgM?t=200
[FairfieldLife] Re: universal fee structure usa for TM
at $380 for full-time students, and based on an individual's earnings," New prices, per person: $380 for full-time students $500 for households earning less than $50,000 annually $740 for households earning between $50,000 and $99,999 annually $860 for households earning between $100,000 and $199,999 annually $960 for households earning $200,000 or more annually ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : TM Rajas break faith with Maharishi over the pricing of TM in a competitive marketplace: the price to learn TM is dropped. Pricing of the basic course to learn the meditation is to be means tested. Coveting the rich to get to 1% turned out a null set. TM looks for a comeback (Metrics show 'Trickle Down' as a policy failing..) the hope is to have more people learning to meditate. Jai Guru Dev. srijau defends, wow so manipulative dishonest and negative. there is no breaking faith with Maharishi. and there is no metrics showing a policy failing, the metrics are fantastically good. “..he couldn't go straight to large groups anymore. he had to focus on teaching the rich, the ruling class, the decision makers “ ironically if you are low income north of the border with Canada you are probably S.O,L, ranscendental Meditation Turns 60 Transcendental Meditation® has been learned by 10 million people, including 1 million inner-city youth in high-crime communities Nationwide income-based pricing will help millions more to start to meditate to reduce stress, improve creativity, and increase happiness NEWS PROVIDED BY Transcendental Meditation https://www.prnewswire.com/news/transcendental-meditation Jul 09, 2019, 10:04 ET SHARE THIS ARTICLE NEW YORK, July 9, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- TM® turns 60 this year. First introduced in the US in 1959 by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi: the Transcendental Meditation (TM) technique has now been learned by more than 10 million people, worldwide its health benefits have been documented through more than 400 published peer-reviewed research studies through the efforts of filmmaker David Lynch, the technique has been taught at no charge to more than one million inner-city youth, veterans with PTSD, and adults and children battling substance use disorder Studies on inner-city students have found the TM technique improves academic performance and reduces toxic stress and violence. Learn more at www.TM.org or DavidLynchFoundation.org. However, the need for Transcendental Meditation is more urgent than ever, according to quantum physicist Dr. John Hagelin, who heads the TM organization in the U.S. "We live in an epidemic of stress. Tens of millions of Americans are anxious or depressed—or feel overwhelmed and overburdened by the critical need to be more productive, more creative, more energetic, and more focused than ever," Dr. Hagelin said. "People are learning TM because it's a simple, easily learned technique that markedly reduces stress, promotes health, improves brain and cognitive functioning, and promotes happiness and self-actualization." To celebrate the sixtieth anniversary, Dr. Hagelin announced a national initiative to teach the TM technique to millions of Americans in the next five years. To facilitate the process, a new nationwide income-based pricing plan is being introduced in July, based on annual household income. "This will bring the extraordinary benefits of Transcendental Meditation to a broader audience. The one-time course fee now starts at $380 for full-time students, and increases based on an individual's earnings," Dr. Hagelin said. The plan will be implemented at all Transcendental Meditation Centers in the U.S., and will apply to all instructions booked on and after July 1. New prices per person are as follows: $380 for full-time students $500 for households earning less than $50,000 annually $740 for households earning between $50,000 and $99,999 annually $860 for households earning between $100,000 and $199,999 annually $960 for households earning $200,000 or more annually The TM course comes with a satisfaction guarantee, and includes a lifetime of free personal follow-up. The Transcendental Meditation organization also offers partial grant support to deserving individuals in need. For more information: www.TM.org https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0=en=2518925-1=4280449203=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tm.org%2F=www.TM.org and DavidLynchFoundation.org https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0=en=2518925-1=1931743367=https%3A%2F%2Fdavidlynchfoundation.org%2F=DavidLynchFoundation.org. To arrange interviews: Keith DeBoer at (888) 300-1439, pressoff...@tm.org. mailto:pressoff...@tm.org ©2019 Maharishi Foundation USA, a non-profit educational organization. All rights reserved. Transcendental Meditation® and TM® are protected trademarks and are used in the U.S. under license or with permission. SOURCE Transcendental Meditatio
[FairfieldLife] Re: Charismatic Spiritual
.. Charisma and shakti classically are not taught as the same thing. Charisma being more of the personality in faculties and shakti a life force itself. Something I find interesting in this academic introduction further below is the attempt to introduce for academicians the aspect of shakti as primordial into the consideration of charisma, separate from personality features. .."Pure charisma thus is personal and is based on face-to-face contact and feelings of trust, duty, and love on the part of the followers (Schweitzer 1984, 33). It is creative and revolutionary, for "in its pure form charisma . . . may be said to exist only in the process of originating" (Weber 1964, 364). ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Shakti, What are they doing for good with it? On a ‘shaktic scale’ different spiritual people evidently have different capacity to help transform others in their spiritual life. And then there are the ones we call ‘saints’ for their transforming capacity. In the old Quaker practice of silent meditative meetings some individual old Friends whose presence ‘settled’ the silence of the group meditative Quaker meetings were known as “Weighty Friends” for their field effect of shakti on others. And then the scope of shakti transmission in someone living like Ammachi helps one consider the possibilities of homo sapien. A 'shaktic' or spiritual experience scale different from beliefs, enthusiasm, or faith in a doctrine. 'Shaktic' possibly as a word for scale of actual spiritual experience. Shakti as a word for a spiritual energy or field experienced directly. -Graphing, Spiritual Experience with Millennial-ism https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/communal-studies-forum/BVT5Okg_nfc https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/communal-studies-forum/BVT5Okg_nfc ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Shakti, ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : "In using charisma to explain social change and heroic leaders, Weber did not intend merely to invent a dry academic term. Rather, he saw charisma as representing the incarnate life force itself, "the thrust of the sap in the tree and the blood in the veins," an elemental or daemonic power (Dow 1978)." -Prophetic Charisma.. Intro. Book Review: Prophetic Charisma: A Psychological Explanation for the Castaneda Phenomenon http://sustainedaction.org/Explorations/prophetic_charisma_psychological_explanation%20part1.htm http://sustainedaction.org/Explorations/prophetic_charisma_psychological_explanation%20part1.htm Prophetic Charisma: A Psychological Explanation f... http://sustainedaction.org/Explorations/prophetic_charisma_psychological_explanation%20part1.htm Prophetic Charisma: A Psychological Explanation for the 'Castaneda Phenomenon' Introduction by Corey Donovan View on sustainedaction.org http://sustainedaction.org/Explorations/prophetic_charisma_psychological_explanation%20part1.htm Preview by Yahoo ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : What of charisma, spiritually? Where is TM with charisma? Evidently it would seem that TM's charisma is now "dispersed and routinized, ..and not necessarily as great a force for social change," .. 'routinized', by this way of thinking: Prophetic Charisma: The Psychology of Revolutionary Religious Personalities (1997) by Len Oakes Introduction by Corey Donovan What is this thing called charisma? [T]he idea of a divinely inspired power or talent is as old as mankind. The oldest surviving work of fiction, the Epic of Gilgamesh, tells of a warrior-king, part god and part man, who quests for the secret of eternal life. He has many adventures in the lands of the gods, and even attains that which he seeks, only to have it torn from his grasp at the last moment. He returns home convinced of the futility of his quest and knowing that "the central fact of my life is my death" (Kopp 1972, 31; Heidel 1968). The word "charisma" comes from the name of the Greek goddess Charis, who personified grace, beauty, purity, and altruism. Possession of these faculties came to be known as charisma. [Footnote: The Greek word is charizesthai, and it means favor or gift of divine origin. The Greeks do not seem to have associated this with the kind of demagogic and irrational leadership of which Plato wrote in his Gorgias, although they were well aware of the rhapsodic "Dionysian" aspect of life; Plato was a member of the Elysian mystery cult. For Aristotle the megalopsychos was the great man who dares to live alone in secret worship of his own soul. The Romans called the hero’s charismatic power facilitas and believed it was derived from the gods.] Later usages derive from St. Paul, who saw it as a gift of grace from God: "To one there is given through the spirit the message of wisdom, to
[FairfieldLife] Marshall Plan for Central America?
This appears to be a viable solution to stem the tide of migrants on the southern US border, rather than building a wall to prevent migrants to the US. https://www.yahoo.com/news/marshall-plan-central-america-restore-090014894.html https://www.yahoo.com/news/marshall-plan-central-america-restore-090014894.html Julian Castro suggested this idea. And it may turn out that he would lead the Democratic pack in opposing Trump for the next election.
[FairfieldLife] Barry Turns to a Hurricane
I've been waiting the past couple of weeks when the effects of Mars will manifest in the USA. As some of you may know, Mars is now transiting the rashi of Cancer or Karka. and typically brings on hurricanes or tornadoes. Along with the negative mutual aspects of the Sun and Saturn, there will be bad news that will arise in the southeastern seaboard or Louisiana Gulf regions in the next few weeks. https://www.yahoo.com/news/sprawling-storm-barry-intensifies-hurricane-173133732.html https://www.yahoo.com/news/sprawling-storm-barry-intensifies-hurricane-173133732.html
[FairfieldLife] Re: universal fee structure usa for TM
wow so manipulative dishonest and negative. there is no breaking faith with Maharishi. and there is no metrics showing a policy failing, the metrics are fantastically good.
[FairfieldLife] Vogue onTM
https://www.vogue.in/wellness/content/meditation-types-how-to-find-the-right-one-transcendental-meditation?fbclid=IwAR1wK7BJprfDgoAvE6THtUw8miQJy58yCEAqOPB8V1SbakraRGYNVeOiDio https://www.vogue.in/wellness/content/meditation-types-how-to-find-the-right-one-transcendental-meditation?fbclid=IwAR1wK7BJprfDgoAvE6THtUw8miQJy58yCEAqOPB8V1SbakraRGYNVeOiDio
[FairfieldLife] Re: universal fee structure usa for TM
TM Rajas break faith with Maharishi over the pricing of TM in a competitive marketplace: the price to learn TM is dropped. Pricing of the basic course to learn the meditation is to be means tested. (Metrics show'Trickle Down' as a policy failing..“..he couldn't go straight to large groups anymore. he had to focus on teaching the rich, the ruling class, the decision makers “) ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : ironically if you are low income north of the border with Canada you are probably S.O,L, ranscendental Meditation Turns 60 Transcendental Meditation® has been learned by 10 million people, including 1 million inner-city youth in high-crime communities Nationwide income-based pricing will help millions more to start to meditate to reduce stress, improve creativity, and increase happiness NEWS PROVIDED BY Transcendental Meditation https://www.prnewswire.com/news/transcendental-meditation Jul 09, 2019, 10:04 ET SHARE THIS ARTICLE NEW YORK, July 9, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- TM® turns 60 this year. First introduced in the US in 1959 by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi: the Transcendental Meditation (TM) technique has now been learned by more than 10 million people, worldwide its health benefits have been documented through more than 400 published peer-reviewed research studies through the efforts of filmmaker David Lynch, the technique has been taught at no charge to more than one million inner-city youth, veterans with PTSD, and adults and children battling substance use disorder Studies on inner-city students have found the TM technique improves academic performance and reduces toxic stress and violence. Learn more at www.TM.org or DavidLynchFoundation.org. However, the need for Transcendental Meditation is more urgent than ever, according to quantum physicist Dr. John Hagelin, who heads the TM organization in the U.S. "We live in an epidemic of stress. Tens of millions of Americans are anxious or depressed—or feel overwhelmed and overburdened by the critical need to be more productive, more creative, more energetic, and more focused than ever," Dr. Hagelin said. "People are learning TM because it's a simple, easily learned technique that markedly reduces stress, promotes health, improves brain and cognitive functioning, and promotes happiness and self-actualization." To celebrate the sixtieth anniversary, Dr. Hagelin announced a national initiative to teach the TM technique to millions of Americans in the next five years. To facilitate the process, a new nationwide income-based pricing plan is being introduced in July, based on annual household income. "This will bring the extraordinary benefits of Transcendental Meditation to a broader audience. The one-time course fee now starts at $380 for full-time students, and increases based on an individual's earnings," Dr. Hagelin said. The plan will be implemented at all Transcendental Meditation Centers in the U.S., and will apply to all instructions booked on and after July 1. New prices per person are as follows: $380 for full-time students $500 for households earning less than $50,000 annually $740 for households earning between $50,000 and $99,999 annually $860 for households earning between $100,000 and $199,999 annually $960 for households earning $200,000 or more annually The TM course comes with a satisfaction guarantee, and includes a lifetime of free personal follow-up. The Transcendental Meditation organization also offers partial grant support to deserving individuals in need. For more information: www.TM.org https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0=en=2518925-1=4280449203=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tm.org%2F=www.TM.org and DavidLynchFoundation.org https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0=en=2518925-1=1931743367=https%3A%2F%2Fdavidlynchfoundation.org%2F=DavidLynchFoundation.org. To arrange interviews: Keith DeBoer at (888) 300-1439, pressoff...@tm.org. mailto:pressoff...@tm.org ©2019 Maharishi Foundation USA, a non-profit educational organization. All rights reserved. Transcendental Meditation® and TM® are protected trademarks and are used in the U.S. under license or with permission. SOURCE Transcendental Meditation Related Links https://www.tm.org https://www.tm.org/
[FairfieldLife] long term prediction of countries
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyzkh1y4DF4=5724s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyzkh1y4DF4=5724s a video of PVR Narasimha Rao a very respected astrological researcher, he does not do any consultation he makes his living as a corporate computer engineer, he showed a successful method of predicting about 285 year cycles of history without any kind of need of accurate birth time for a nation you just use the capital location and the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn when Ketu is in Pisces. if the theory that Yuga change happening now is not correct then he may have the best method of prediction of long term trends. it depends mostly on the region you are in, as when the chart changes the appropriate dasha system might not be vimshottari, but as most will use vimshottari and he says USA and China charts do therefore it indicates the next 16 years are warlike with competition between different countries for dominance and out of it the current chinese government collapses due to dissatisfaction with governance and also the USA remains relatively powerful but loses its pre-eminent position hat it has now.
[FairfieldLife] universal fee structure usa for TM
ironically if you are low income north of the border with Canada you are probably S.O,L, ranscendental Meditation Turns 60 Transcendental Meditation® has been learned by 10 million people, including 1 million inner-city youth in high-crime communities Nationwide income-based pricing will help millions more to start to meditate to reduce stress, improve creativity, and increase happiness NEWS PROVIDED BY Transcendental Meditation https://www.prnewswire.com/news/transcendental-meditation Jul 09, 2019, 10:04 ET SHARE THIS ARTICLE NEW YORK, July 9, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- TM® turns 60 this year. First introduced in the US in 1959 by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi: the Transcendental Meditation (TM) technique has now been learned by more than 10 million people, worldwide its health benefits have been documented through more than 400 published peer-reviewed research studies through the efforts of filmmaker David Lynch, the technique has been taught at no charge to more than one million inner-city youth, veterans with PTSD, and adults and children battling substance use disorder Studies on inner-city students have found the TM technique improves academic performance and reduces toxic stress and violence. Learn more at www.TM.org or DavidLynchFoundation.org. However, the need for Transcendental Meditation is more urgent than ever, according to quantum physicist Dr. John Hagelin, who heads the TM organization in the U.S. "We live in an epidemic of stress. Tens of millions of Americans are anxious or depressed—or feel overwhelmed and overburdened by the critical need to be more productive, more creative, more energetic, and more focused than ever," Dr. Hagelin said. "People are learning TM because it's a simple, easily learned technique that markedly reduces stress, promotes health, improves brain and cognitive functioning, and promotes happiness and self-actualization." To celebrate the sixtieth anniversary, Dr. Hagelin announced a national initiative to teach the TM technique to millions of Americans in the next five years. To facilitate the process, a new nationwide income-based pricing plan is being introduced in July, based on annual household income. "This will bring the extraordinary benefits of Transcendental Meditation to a broader audience. The one-time course fee now starts at $380 for full-time students, and increases based on an individual's earnings," Dr. Hagelin said. The plan will be implemented at all Transcendental Meditation Centers in the U.S., and will apply to all instructions booked on and after July 1. New prices per person are as follows: $380 for full-time students $500 for households earning less than $50,000 annually $740 for households earning between $50,000 and $99,999 annually $860 for households earning between $100,000 and $199,999 annually $960 for households earning $200,000 or more annually The TM course comes with a satisfaction guarantee, and includes a lifetime of free personal follow-up. The Transcendental Meditation organization also offers partial grant support to deserving individuals in need. For more information: www.TM.org https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0=en=2518925-1=4280449203=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tm.org%2F=www.TM.org and DavidLynchFoundation.org https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0=en=2518925-1=1931743367=https%3A%2F%2Fdavidlynchfoundation.org%2F=DavidLynchFoundation.org. To arrange interviews: Keith DeBoer at (888) 300-1439, pressoff...@tm.org. mailto:pressoff...@tm.org ©2019 Maharishi Foundation USA, a non-profit educational organization. All rights reserved. Transcendental Meditation® and TM® are protected trademarks and are used in the U.S. under license or with permission. SOURCE Transcendental Meditation Related Links https://www.tm.org https://www.tm.org/
[FairfieldLife] A 17th Century Spiritual Regeneration
At a time one percent of Great Britain became Quaker meditators. Some towns had 10 percent Quakers. A spiritual movement fast erupting something like Maharishi’s was late in the 20th Century. Makes for good comparisons... as history repeats itself. A mystic, George Fox: “And this I knew experimentally.” Radical Spirituality: the Early History of the Quakers ..This is an excellent, important (and free) university course presentation of substantial material at the foundation of what Quakers are. I am appreciating this course recently as being well worth the investment of some small time towards learning or review about Quakers and The Society of Friends.. https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/quakers https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/quakers?fbclid=IwAR05gmax6oaCgRNcTRWi_saLRDEdxGQsCWcW2eSpcaz9XNOted-lS5hHGdg A theme occurring throughout the material: “When Fox writes in his journal of his transformational 1647 experience that he ‘knew this experimentally’, he means simply that he knew this ‘experientially’. He knew this from an experience, not from a text or teacher.” “Fox claims that other Christians have focused too much on outward forms and outward notions, and have lost their way. They are concluded under sin. The outward creates a barrier between humanity and God. These early Quakers became very critical of the outward, and their spirituality is focused on the inward-- what we can term as interiorised. We can see this in the form of worship which Quakers adopted, and in the style of early meeting houses like the one at Brigflatts. They worshipped in stillness and silence, usually for about three hours, without any outward form or ritual. Everyone was spiritually equal. Everyone was a minister. Nobody stood at the front, because everyone was fulfilling the priestly role, one to another.” -B. P. Dandelion, Radical Spirituality: the Early History of the Quakers
[FairfieldLife] Caution: Solar Eclipse Today
>From the Maharishi Purusha Calendar for today: Total Solar Eclipse, South America, 2:01 p.m - 4:45 p.m. Also coming up for July 16th, Guru Purnima: Partial Lunar Eclipse, Eastern Hemisphere, 4:02 p.m - 7:00 p.m.
[FairfieldLife] Re: How capitalism captured the mindfulness industry
People do make a same indictment of a secular presentation of transcendental meditation and a culture in its business .orgs.. Does the stripping away of spiritual revival in the presentation necessarily say more about about the people and the institution than the practice of meditation. "..authors argued that a “stripped down, secular technique” of mindfulness originating in Buddhism not just fails to serve to awaken people and organizations from “the unwholesome roots of greed, ill will and delusion, it is usually being refashioned into a banal, therapeutic, self-help technique that can actually reinforce those roots." ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : The spiritual moral bypass.. "By negating and downplaying actual social and political contexts and focusing on the individual, or more so, the individual’s brain, McMindfulness interventions ignore seeing our inseparability from all others. They ignore seeing our inseparability from inequitable cultural patterns and social structures that affect and constitute our relations, and thereby ourselves. McMindfulness thus forfeits the moral demand that follows this insight: to challenge social inequities and enact universal compassion, service and social justice in all forms of human endeavor." ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : How capitalism captured the mindfulness industry https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/apr/16/how-capitalism-captured-the-mindfulness-industry https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/apr/16/how-capitalism-captured-the-mindfulness-industry
[FairfieldLife] Re: Communal Studies
‘Movements’ & Organizations, with Culture.. Bales’ observation of variables here seems fair over a range of spectrum both of spiritual to religious movements as they might warp as institutions in time. Like these observations about: Life-cycle within Communal Spiritual Groups https://groups.google.com/forum/… https://groups.google.com/forum/?fbclid=IwAR3fs5wCPIX13VTz_ucfZdwGOKPS8nDnPBAvPIy2EWBfqq8WqpdgQqbiHWc#%21topic/communal-studies-forum/ChNcesJm1Cs “While institutions focus primarily on self-perpetuation, movements focus on mission. Institutions most highly value results that can be concretely measured, while movements are most concerned about being faithful to how the Holy Spirit is leading. Institutions are based in rules and procedures, while movements are primarily based in relationships and vision. On a fundamental level, institutions believe that they are the answer, but an apostolic movement believes that Jesus Christ is the answer.” [Micah Bales, 2010] ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : . Checklist: “..something of a template for how it goes with spiritual practice groups as our own: Diminution in the cheering of core values, administrative rigidity setting in, loss of people, loss of altruism towards the community, loss of donors, loss of critical mass, financial crisis, and finally an auction of assets attendant to the dispersal of community." A long declining arc of the Dome meditation attendance numbers in what is the Fairfield, Ia. meditating community seems far along on this path.” Unseen, for as large as our communal ‘artifacts’ here in meditating Fairfield appear to be, a tragedy which people coming from the outside will not be able to see is the collapse in aggregate numbers attending the communal group meditations inside the Domes. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : A driving tour yesterday around meditating Fairfield again for a visitor, this time an old SRF (Yogananda) meditator visiting Fairfield. The scale of our whole facility of communal meditating is remarkably stunning when visitors get to see the whole scope of it. It is fun to see and be with people when they 'get it'. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Eroding Core Values and Loss of Communal Critical Mass One session of papers at the Communal Studies conference was on ‘the end of community’ with three in depth papers given on three different communal groups. One of the groups was a 19th Century group something like our own in Fairfield and the others were of more secular communal groups of the earlier 20th Century and late 19th. The commonality in their three narratives was what came as diffusion of their core values in time as there came along arrivals of newer outsiders in membership and fewer of generations born to the older founding generation would stay on in community. These trends were supplanting to founding generations then in time. Hence, the loss in perspective of foundational core communal values over time as those values came to not be so well spoken to (championed) or lived in the groups. Evidently once core foundational values diminished in time within each group example there came in a mundane to the workload of sustaining ‘community’ as resources of energy and altruistic goodwill ebbed and dried. The cohesion of a communal ‘shakti’ generally went down, people leave, people stop coming. Each group then arriving to point whence their assets of what had been built up to facilitate their core values are then auctioned off. The sale. Within the examples in these papers was the group of Zoar separatists, something like our own in transcendentalism, seems something of a template for how it goes with spiritual practice groups as our own: Diminution of the cheering of core values, administrative rigidity setting in, loss of people, loss of altruism towards the community, loss of donors, loss of critical mass, financial crisis, and finally an auction of assets attendant to the dispersal of community. A long declining arc of the Dome meditation attendance numbers in what is the Fairfield, Ia. meditating community seems far along on this path. In TM community it is said: “The Past is a lesser state of evolution.” But, financial planners warn cautioning us otherwise, “Past performance is not a guarantee of future returns” . Towards becoming something else like a historic site to visit, according to these histories evidently things may not look the same as what we may see now as community. Already we are hearing grumblings in TM from what is an elder International Council of Rajas that the Domes in Fairfield, Iowa are too expensive to maintain. While at the same time the University being without endowment requires active and substantial donor cohorts every year to make budget for what all they should like to do to keep on. With
[FairfieldLife] File - FFL Acronyms
BC - Brahman Consciousness
BN - Bliss Ninny or Bliss Nazi
CC - Cosmic Consciousness
GC - God Consciousness
MMY - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
OTP - Off the Program - a phrase used in the TM movement meaning to do
something (such as see another spiritual teacher) considered in violation of
Maharishi's program.
POV - Point of View
SBS - Swami Brahmananda Saraswati, Maharishi's master
SCI Science of Creative Intelligence
SOC - State of Consciousness
SSRS - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (Pundit-ji)
SV - Stpathya Ved (Vedic Architecture)
TB - True Believer (in TM doctrines)
TNB - True Non-Believer
TMO - The Transcendental Meditation organization
TTC TM Teacher Training Course
UC - Unity Consciousness
WYMS - "World Youth Meditation Society" later changed to "World Youth Movement
for the Science of Creative Intelligence" was founded by Peter Hübner in
Germany, as a national TM outlet competing with SIMS, Students International
Meditation Society
YMMV = Your Mileage may vary
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[FairfieldLife] Smart Meters
https://vimeo.com/227169236 https://vimeo.com/227169236 Have smart meters been installed in Fairfield yet?
[FairfieldLife] > Fairfield's transcendental meditators lead opposition to Alliant Energy's smart meters
https://eu.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/business/2019/06/27/iowa-transcendental-meditation-fairfield-alliant-energy-smart-meters-maharishi-vedic-radio-radiation/1559247001/ Fairfield's transcendental meditators lead opposition to Alliant Energy's smart meters... WITH ALL THE BEST WISHESMICHAEL, THE VEDIC GARDENERJAI GURU DEV
[FairfieldLife] [humour?] The Sekond Koming?
https://www.churchofkakko.com/commandments/ https://www.churchofkakko.com/commandments/ FWIW, the deminutive form of his family name, kakkonen, means either number 2 or the sekond one... THOU SHALL GREET OTHER MEMBERS OF THE C.O.K BY RECITING OUR MANTRA"KAAPO KAKKO"
[FairfieldLife] Re: Dalai Lama says Donald Trump has a 'lack of moral principle'
I think he is right , its not racist for Europeans to keep their own homeland.
[FairfieldLife] Dalai Lama says Donald Trump has a 'lack of moral principle'
Dalai Lama says Donald Trump has a 'lack of moral principle' https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/27/dalai-lama-says-donald-trump-has-a-lack-of-moral-principle https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/27/dalai-lama-says-donald-trump-has-a-lack-of-moral-principle?utm_term=RWRpdG9yaWFsX0d1YXJkaWFuVG9kYXlVUy0xOTA2Mjc%3D_source=esp_medium=Email_campaign=GuardianTodayUS=GTUS_email
[FairfieldLife] TM in 4 Sweden schools
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[FairfieldLife] Re: Respite from Climate wreckage: Come to Fairfield, Iowa
Europe heatwave: Why are temperatures on the continent soaring? A: Climate Change Karma.. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48756480 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48756480 Paradise Lost? . . Respite: a short period of rest or relief from something difficult or unpleasant. Come meditate now with the meditating community in Fairfield, Iowa. Fleeing towards respite, throw essential belongs you may have into a car and start driving. Note: Available Short-term Lodging of Meditators who practice TM and the ™-Sidhis is now more opened up at the pundit campus. For Short-term accommodation, including meditation with the group. Check out the.. Idealife Campus http://www.idealifecampus.com/home.html http://www.idealifecampus.com/home.html Rounding on the ‘long program’ of the Assembly is no longer required for rental lease at the pundit campus. There are rentals in Fairfield, Iowa on AirBnB. https://www.airbnb.com/s/Fairfield--IA?s_tag=hbwJTdMO_override%5B%5D= https://www.airbnb.com/s/Fairfield--IA?s_tag=hbwJTdMO_override%5B%5D= For meditators, come meditate along with other meditators in Fairfield, Iowa. There are several group meditations in Fairfield to attend. Also meetings to attend with other meditators. Fairfield, Iowa is a fabulous place for spiritual respite, renewal. An Iowa retreat offers a place of peace to those fleeing extreme weather damage. Also a place to learn to meditate.. http://www.tm.org/transcendental-meditation-fairfield http://www.tm.org/transcendental-meditation-fairfield 2018 Hurricane Season Will Bring Another Battery Of Storms Lodging and Housing http://www.fairfieldinfocenter.org/fairfield-tm-information-center/lodging-and-housing/ http://www.fairfieldinfocenter.org/fairfield-tm-information-center/lodging-and-housing/ Vastu Rentals in Fairfield (on Facebook): Temporary Vastu Housing (without lease) https://www.facebook.com/groups/Fairfield.Vastu.TEMP.Housing/%20 Permanent Vastu Housing (with lease) https://www.facebook.com/groups/fairfieldhousing/%20 Cries she With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming storms. Send these, the homeless, the climate’s tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” FW: Paradigm Change..the last week in May atmospheric scientists at: http://www.copernicus.eu/ http://www.copernicus.eu/ reported a huge albeit temporary spike in Methane gas release in the northern hemisphere. This indicated to us that we may not even have 1-3 years before the 'preverbal SHIT hits the fan' as Dr. McPherson so aptly referred to what is about to unfold. FW email: "..Finally we must inspire and motivate those present that collective consciousness can and must alter this apparent scientific inevitability of climate change. Now is the final call for our consciousness based community to rally together in large groups to routinely do their meditation practices." Better to move to Fairfield than come as a refugee. -Maharishi ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : An Irony is that climate change peer review science and meditation peer review science are both met with the same strategies of character assassination, assertions by false truth, posing doubt about the economy being able to afford remediation and skepticisms sown about science in whether correlation means causation. In the same way that the scientists of meditation have known the hateful works of the deniers the same strategies carried out by the same kind of anti-science people and ideologies the meditation scientists can have a lot of empathy for climate change scientists by shared experience. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Public Policy should be driven by Science. Considering the science of climate change and science of meditation it is worth making a stand in human life. "Live urgently: meditate now! The end is plainly very near!" We can contribute spirituality in to the rational consideration of of the consequent of Arctic Ice Melt. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Considering Human life brings up spirituality right away. Such overwhelming fatalism like the climate science gives will bring the push back to nihilism. Spirituality then as we know it in our meditational experience is the antidote to all that of 'nothing of purpose' and materialistic thinking. The meditating community has i (Message over 64 KB, truncated)
[FairfieldLife] Funny immigrant joke in Germany
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RE: [FairfieldLife] Sunday Nationwide Group Meditation W.N. Y. report on same! [1 Attachment]
11 of us did so in Western NY & found the experience deeper than sometimes 90% felt so , all will do so again,11 will join us … … me to meditate, 3 did breathing teck prior to meditation, I note. Next time & the numbers will increase all felt so by bringing friends, the next time when ever that may be! 3 were sidhas, 5 joined in 4 veggie soup after. Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2019 8:37 AM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Sunday Nationwide Group Meditation Sunday, June 23, 4:30 pm Please Join Us for the Next Nationwide TM Group Meditation Fairfield Peace Palace 1040 N. 4th St., Fairfield, IA 52556 Schedule 4:30 pm — Group TM Checking 5:05 pm — Nationwide Group Meditation Refreshments following. Registration Please register by June 20 by clicking on this link. Nationwide Group Meditation: Sunday, June 23 Please plan to arrive by 4:30 pm or slip in quietly for the Group Meditation that will start promptly at 5:05 pm.
[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Radical' 'Revolutionary' Transcendental Meditationists
By critical contrast: How capitalism captured the mindfulness industry.. The secular technique and its relativist lack of a moral foundation has opened itself up to a host of dubious uses, called out by its critics as McMindfulness. Without a critical account of the social context of neoliberal individualism, mindfulness as a practice and discourse focused on the self minimizes social critique and change and contributes to keeping existing social injustices and inequitable power structures intact. There is nothing revolutionary about the so-called Mindful Revolution. Chris Goto-Jones says: “The revolution doesn’t require any particular change in values or economic systems … For a revolution this movement shows remarkable conservatism. The leading voices make no demands on followers. They need not become activists or participate in political struggle.” https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/apr/16/how-capitalism-captured-the-mindfulness-industry https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/apr/16/how-capitalism-captured-the-mindfulness-industry ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : The 40th Anniversary, of the 1979 Amherst course. Taking from current history, a paraphrasing of a NYTimes article: as something like our own TM movement’s annual January 12th meetings of the essential group.. Paraphrasing..: “Facing deepening tensions abroad and anxieties inside, ..using a key anniversary to argue that the recipe of guided growth under strong movement control must not waver. he said, The first lesson from these 40 years of spiritual regeneration was the need to maintain party (Movement) leadership “over all tasks.” “It was precisely because we’ve adhered to the centralized and united leadership of the movement that we were able to achieve this great historic transition, said” .. at a pivotal, potentially fraught moment in the movement when all the contradictions in its governance appeared in stark relief. ..as great as that of any leadership in decades, yet the movement’s tightening of controls over the organization and ever more aspects of its society suggest a deep-seated insecurity at the highest levels. “Today many policy goals in the Movement are in tension with one another. Which ones take precedence? This is what officials will need to know to carry out their work on a practical level.” Some had been hoping for signals that the leadership would take further steps to liberalize the movement or ease tensions with its membership.” Jai Guru Dev https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/world/asia/xi-jinping-speech-china.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/world/asia/xi-jinping-speech-china.html ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : A Spiritual Regenerative Movement (SRM) in the TM.org? Is the TM movement currently transformational as regenerative, reform, or revolution? A Consideration, TM as Revolutionary Millenarian: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/communal-studies-forum/1di3VYUG13U https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/communal-studies-forum/1di3VYUG13U Revolution does not have to be violent to be revolutionary. Different than fomenting violent revolution Maharishi was about peace and he worked in a long career on improving people’s lives on earth.. What Mao, (as paraphrased) could have said to meditators in transcendentalist revolution.. To meditators: "The force at the core leading our cause forward is the Transcendental Meditation Movement. The theoretical basis guiding our spiritual experience and thinking is the Meissner Effect, the ME, found in Natural Law and our manifestly Self-evident experience meditating. If there is to be revolution, there must be a revolutionary meditating movement. Without a revolutionary meditating movement, without a movement built on the scientific and revolutionary theory of the ME and group meditation and in the style of science and spiritual experience of the Unified Field, it is impossible to lead the practicing meditator and the broad groupings of the meditators everywhere against the entrenched forces of reductionist materialism, of deconstructionism and their running-dogs.: Revolutionaries, where it has happened and where revolution has brought change in broader status quo for humanity it is interesting in study to look at and hear how they said it, how they said it, led it, and acted it out such that they compelled and led broader societal change. Like looking back at Mao’s quotations, the little red book, to seeing what/how he said that resonated a people then. While Mao (or Castro either) is not in the tradition of transcendentalists, A Study of what Mao could have said to meditators in his Maoist way.. Link to a leadership mash-up of Mao’s quotations and transcendental meditationist revolution.. A mash-up of, Mao and Maharishi: Now folded in to one millen
[FairfieldLife] Re: How capitalism captured the mindfulness industry
The spiritual moral bypass.. "By negating and downplaying actual social and political contexts and focusing on the individual, or more so, the individual’s brain, McMindfulness interventions ignore seeing our inseparability from all others. They ignore seeing our inseparability from inequitable cultural patterns and social structures that affect and constitute our relations, and thereby ourselves. McMindfulness thus forfeits the moral demand that follows this insight: to challenge social inequities and enact universal compassion, service and social justice in all forms of human endeavor." ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : How capitalism captured the mindfulness industry https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/apr/16/how-capitalism-captured-the-mindfulness-industry https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/apr/16/how-capitalism-captured-the-mindfulness-industry
