[FairfieldLife] Maharishi Central University [Re: Irresponsible Advice]
Regarding Maharishi Central University, here's a video news clip from a television station in Hastings, NE, which was produced in May, 2008. http://new.khastv.com/modules/news/article.php?storytopic=10storyid=13392 I have been away from the TM movement for twenty-seven years, and this clip revives memories of discomfort over how grandiose things were getting when I left. Yet my memories of the TM community and attendance at MIU include deep, positive feelings of idealism, inner freedom and people all around me making personal sacrifices for higher, mutual ideals. Those ideals are embodied in the architectural computer animations and the partially completed buildings of the MCU campus in Smith Center, KS. Lately I've been musing on how the trajectory of the TM Organization, and that of the path I took afterwards, seems to parallel the path of Western society as a whole over the last 25 years or so. There has been a mood of optimism and dynamic progress, followed by a period of irrational exuberance, and now we find that we went a little too far and need to bring our optimism (reflected in the value of assets) back closer to concrete reality. Unfortunately, the tendency in a contraction is to become too pessimistic, so the value of assets plunges below what would be rational. I'm afraid the TM movement will be facing this contraction, just as wider society will. But does that mean that spirituality is headed for a contraction as well? IMO, Absolutely not! According to my intuition, history shows that the greatest spiritual progress has been made during the hardest times. God doesn't need a huge infrastructure to help his souls learn what he sent them here to learn. In the early seventies, the late historian and social commentator Studs Terkel collected audio interviews for his book Hard Times (selections on webpage below). Check out his conversation with Peggy Terry (near the bottom of the page). She didn't earn a Ph.D. (barely finished the sixth grade) but check out the revolution in her understanding as the result of living through the Great Depression! http://www.studsterkel.org/htimes.php --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, guyfawkes91 guyfawke...@... wrote: Anyone have any news on the 10,000's of students queuing up for Maharishi Central University? Last I heard Wynne was telling lies about how wonderful it was all going, while the local newspaper was reporting that the girders were rusting quite nicely and the weeds were coming along just fine but apart from that nothing was happening.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Maharishi Central University [Re: Irresponsible Advice]
It is odd to be away from the TMO/MMY madness for so many years and then to hear people prattle on about nonsensical concepts such as the center of a country being where you can best influence the country (uh?) and building 50 campuses, one for each state. Such craziness. Can you imagine that place in 5 years? Just rusted steel girders, that's all. --- On Mon, 3/16/09, yateendrajee mcint...@scn.org wrote: From: yateendrajee mcint...@scn.org Subject: [FairfieldLife] Maharishi Central University [Re: Irresponsible Advice] To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Monday, March 16, 2009, 12:02 PM Regarding Maharishi Central University, here's a video news clip from a television station in Hastings, NE, which was produced in May, 2008. http://new.khastv.com/modules/news/article.php?storytopic=10storyid=13392 I have been away from the TM movement for twenty-seven years, and this clip revives memories of discomfort over how grandiose things were getting when I left. Yet my memories of the TM community and attendance at MIU include deep, positive feelings of idealism, inner freedom and people all around me making personal sacrifices for higher, mutual ideals. Those ideals are embodied in the architectural computer animations and the partially completed buildings of the MCU campus in Smith Center, KS. Lately I've been musing on how the trajectory of the TM Organization, and that of the path I took afterwards, seems to parallel the path of Western society as a whole over the last 25 years or so. There has been a mood of optimism and dynamic progress, followed by a period of irrational exuberance, and now we find that we went a little too far and need to bring our optimism (reflected in the value of assets) back closer to concrete reality. Unfortunately, the tendency in a contraction is to become too pessimistic, so the value of assets plunges below what would be rational. I'm afraid the TM movement will be facing this contraction, just as wider society will. But does that mean that spirituality is headed for a contraction as well? IMO, Absolutely not! According to my intuition, history shows that the greatest spiritual progress has been made during the hardest times. God doesn't need a huge infrastructure to help his souls learn what he sent them here to learn. In the early seventies, the late historian and social commentator Studs Terkel collected audio interviews for his book Hard Times (selections on webpage below). Check out his conversation with Peggy Terry (near the bottom of the page). She didn't earn a Ph.D. (barely finished the sixth grade) but check out the revolution in her understanding as the result of living through the Great Depression! http://www.studsterkel.org/htimes.php --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, guyfawkes91 guyfawke...@... wrote: Anyone have any news on the 10,000's of students queuing up for Maharishi Central University? Last I heard Wynne was telling lies about how wonderful it was all going, while the local newspaper was reporting that the girders were rusting quite nicely and the weeds were coming along just fine but apart from that nothing was happening. To subscribe, send a message to: fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links
[FairfieldLife] Maharishi Central University [Re: Irresponsible Advice]
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, yateendrajee mcint...@... wrote: Regarding Maharishi Central University, here's a video news clip from a television station in Hastings, NE, which was produced in May, 2008. http://new.khastv.com/modules/news/article.php?storytopic=10storyid=13392 That was a three-part video series, and I archived all three videos on my server: http://alex.natel.net/ffl/video/ 519peace.wmv 520peace.wmv 521peace.wmv The most recent news article I could find is from Sept 2008: http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/09/19/america/NA-US-Transcendental-Tension.php http://is.gd/nA99
[FairfieldLife] Maharishi Central University
Maharishi Central University making headway in construction by Global Good News staff writer Global Good News16 October 2008 Speaking on Maharishi Global Family Chat, Raja Robert Wynne, Mayor of Maharishi Vedic City and Raja of Invincible New Zealand, Armenia, Kenya, Pakistan, Iraq, Vanuatu, Liberia, and Burundi for the Global Country of World Peace, reported recent developments at the site of Maharishi Central University in Smith Center, Kansas, USA, located in the Brahma-Sthan (auspicious geographical centre) of the continental United States. Raja Wynne reported that there are currently 10 Vastu buildings in the process of being constructed on the campus. The buildings will eventually be used for student dormitories, he said, when the university opens. The buildings were designed and laid out by Dr Eike Hartmann, Global Minister of Vedic Architecture for the Global Country of World Peace; and Dr Roger Audet, Surveyor General. 'Witnessing these beautifully laid-out buildings in the Brahma-Sthan of the country produces a wonderful feeling,' commented Raja Wynne. He added that on the northern side of campus there is a stream of water, and on the eastern side there is an ancient glacier river underground. This pure glacier water, he said, could easily support a group of 5,000 people, if not up to 10,000. 'In such a dry climate as that in Kansas, it is remarkable to have these water sources.' Also remarkable, Raja Wynne said, is that there is no evident source leading into the northern river. 'It's somewhat of a miracle,' he commented. 'But we would expect no less from the Brahma-Sthan* of the United States.' For more about the establishment of Maharishi Central University in the United States, please visit: 'Grand new plans unfolding rapidly for construction of ''premier, flagship university'' at US Brahmasthan'. * Dr Eike Hartmann has recently explained that the centre point of a country has a very special and precious quality of balance and unifying wholeness. In the Vedic language, the central place is called Brahma-Sthan, and from here, the wholeness of life could be administered according to the Constitution of the Universe, the Will of God, that silently administers the entire ever-expanding galactic universe in perfect order and harmony. © Copyright 2008 Global Good News®
