Leach's tenure repreesenting the District in which Fairfield resides
is a long one. I was at MIU when he won over the incumbent Ed
Medvinsky (who was later convicted of some sort of fraud and may
still be in prison over it).
Medvinsky was scheduled to come to MIU to speak during the campaign
but never showed up. So his wife came a few days later with
apologies (his wife several years later became a Congressperson
herself) and spoke on his behalf.
Leach also came to campus to speak and spoke at the learning center.
The TMO spin on all this would be: Leach got the support of nature --
and the electorate -- because he showed up at MIU. Medvinsky didn't
because he was a no-show.
Leach must be going on almost 30 years representing that district...
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
from another Yahoo group list:
Both Iowa Senators and Jim Leach, MUM's US congressman since it
moved here, all wrote letters to the embassy to help the original
issuance of these first 342 [visas for pundits]. In discussing
this
on the phone, Congressman Leach said it's been a long time since
he
visited, so he came yesterday and met with Maharishi Vedic City
and
MUM leaders and also was going to speak with some students.
complete post:
Dear Friends,
Experiences were as rich and infinite as ever this morning. Three
more people described their very profound and beautiful, almost
breathtaking experiences of Light, Unity, Atma, Brahm, in varying
degrees of simplicity and complexity, all embedded in the
simplicity
of Unity. The calls usually last about one and a half hours. This
morning Maharishi was not on the line but Dr. Bevan said he'll be
back tomorrow. When he's on, it's like participating in another
universe, and one gets increasingly restructured. One starts to
see
how everything one has done in the past has been in terms of off-
base, not so in touch with what really is, no matter how creative,
intelligent, influential from the perspective of the waking state.
Of
what value are the past actions and achievements in the light of
these experiences? Just to get one closer to Maharishi and to hear
these experiences and have them, more and more. Maharishi has been
virtually riveted (easily, blissfully) on these experiences and
doesn't discuss much about the Pandits although he's very
attentive
about them and their arrival and the country as a whole.
Maharishi's
spiritual mastership is so evident in how he handles each
experiencer
and his or experiences. Everything he says is either so unexpected
but perfect or expected and more powerful than it used to be. In
listening to these experiences and Maharishi, one gets the
feeling,
this is what matters most to Maharishi, to help as many people as
possible have this level of experience. It is this level of
experience by so many people that is lifting America to the level
of
deservability for invincibility and a new life together, and
providing the unified foundation on which the Vedic Pandits can
now
come.
In most calls he creates a sort of theme. One of his main points
recently is that experience and these experiences are themselves
the
technology of invincibility. Our experience is our technology.
He
is inviting people to discuss experiences only in TM-Sidhi
practice,
and not in activity, and not inviting any intellectual reflections
or
perspectives about the experiences. It is powerful. Dr. John said
in
passing at the end of one of his talks that Maharishi asks him to
give each day, that the Course Participants are the pioneers of
Invincible America. Maharishi really liked that and picked up on
that
and now this identification - Pioneer of Invincible America - is
often used by Maharishi and Drs. John and Bevan to refer to each
person on the Course.
Maharishi had been saying he wanted 500 Pandits now, 1,000 soon,
and
eventually 1,500. Dr. Bevan announced this morning Maharishi wants
1,000 Pandits to come, apparently asap, instead of just 500. Raja
Wynne has been speaking to banks to increase the amount of funding
for more room, infrastructure and homes for them on their new
campus. The homes will be organized in six groups of 20 homes
each,
with a kitchen and dining area for each. 750 of the 4800 of the
foundation post holes were poured as of Wednesday along with those
for one of the kitchens, and work was proceeding well on all the
utilities, etc. Fiber optic cable is going in and the many permits
required were in process. The new homes are 41' X 14,' about 1/3
smaller than those of the original campus where Mother Divine now
resides. They come in one part, not two halves, so won't need to
be
joined when they are installed. It took about one day to join the
halves of the first buildings and install them, these new homes
will
go in faster, probably six/business day, as
