[FairfieldLife] Re: The '93-'94 Survey of Meditating Fairfield
The '93 Survey results are available for download still in the files section of FairfieldLife for members. See the Files section tab above of FFL while Yahoo still hosts them.. https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/files/FFL%20and%20Fairfield%20Community/ https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/files/FFL%20and%20Fairfield%20Community/ ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : # TSR Survey ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Yes, this larger survey is interesting base-line data on the larger meditating community in Fairfield from back when the meditating community and the Dome numbers were more around their peak as the long decline (attrition) was then ensuing. You can see the seeds and the consequent beginning of the cultivated socioeconomic exclusivity sprouting then and the administrative separation of meditators from membership in the group meditation over visiting saints and spiritual people that had started in the late 1980's and through the 1990's to present. Since the larger sample community survey of the early 1990's there have only been small sample surveys of sub-groups. In a way the recent book on Fairfield [How a New Age Movement Remade a Small Town in Iowa] by the journalist, Joseph Weber is a survey by extensive interviewing of the Fairfield meditating community that is current. A few years ago when there was such strife in the sustainable living students an interview survey was hired and conducted of the university SL students about their experience at the university. The results were presented to the administration and then defended against by the President. That survey and more recent surveying has been useful more recently in guiding some policy changes around the university and MSAE student life currently. While the progressive side of the TM movement has been methodically tracking metrics and hiring marketing surveying related to the teaching of meditation, there have not been broad surveying of the meditating community of the scale of the 1994 survey. That could proly be too frightening for some of the key patriarchs of old administration on watch of the movement to see. The closest thing to that kind of surveying would be a larger ongoing survey of collected first-person cases by a sub-committee of the Fairfield Mental Health Alliance compiling cases where people have felt their well-being was effected by their experience with the culture of the movement. There is a range and distribution to those collected cases which have clearly indicated areas for policy changes that could improve elements of culture and consequences in aspects of the movement. Elements of the movement are moving on some of this while some ideologues try to hold a dogmatic line against it. Having 'data-points' has been extremely helpful towards seeing policy. There is a lot in process going on and things are also fluid. -JaiGuruYou ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : This is interesting but 20 years old. Is there anything more recent to compare this to? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : The Community Forum Community-wide Survey Results (also saved as documents in the FairfieldLife at Yahoo-groups files section.) Dear Meditator, In late spring (1994), the Community Forum sponsored a community-wide survey to sample opinion on a wide range of issues that affect our lives. Based on a compiled list of Fairfield-area meditators, we sent out approximately 2,000 surveys. We received 659 completed surveys, for a response rate of about 33%. (The response rate may even be higher; since we used bulk mail, we do not know the exact number of surveys delivered.) In the field of written surveys, a response rate of 33% is considered outstanding. Survey respondents come from a cross-section of our community: 84% have been meditating for 16 years or longer; 68% have lived in Fairfield for seven years or more; and 68% are registered for Super Radiance. Although not every meditator filled out a survey, we believe the results provide significant insights into how meditators feel about important issues and about our lives in Fairfield. Survey Data This document provides the raw data for all questions except for the essays. For the essays, this document lists the more common suggestions and comments. Looking at the data, one can identify responses of general consensus and also responses reflecting widely diverse opinions. Where there is a clear need and desire in a particular area of concern, the Community Forum will hold open meetings so that interested people can come together, discuss options, and explore possible solutions. The survey data can also be evaluated from a variety of different perspectives (e.g., age, gender, income, Movement status, etc.). We encourage anyone with statistical analytical skills to help us analyze the survey results
[FairfieldLife] Re: The '93-'94 Survey of Meditating Fairfield
# TSR Survey ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Yes, this larger survey is interesting base-line data on the larger meditating community in Fairfield from back when the meditating community and the Dome numbers were more around their peak as the long decline (attrition) was then ensuing. You can see the seeds and the consequent beginning of the cultivated socioeconomic exclusivity sprouting then and the administrative separation of meditators from membership in the group meditation over visiting saints and spiritual people that had started in the late 1980's and through the 1990's to present. Since the larger sample community survey of the early 1990's there have only been small sample surveys of sub-groups. In a way the recent book on Fairfield [How a New Age Movement Remade a Small Town in Iowa] by the journalist, Joseph Weber is a survey by extensive interviewing of the Fairfield meditating community that is current. A few years ago when there was such strife in the sustainable living students an interview survey was hired and conducted of the university SL students about their experience at the university. The results were presented to the administration and then defended against by the President. That survey and more recent surveying has been useful more recently in guiding some policy changes around the university and MSAE student life currently. While the progressive side of the TM movement has been methodically tracking metrics and hiring marketing surveying related to the teaching of meditation, there have not been broad surveying of the meditating community of the scale of the 1994 survey. That could proly be too frightening for some of the key patriarchs of old administration on watch of the movement to see. The closest thing to that kind of surveying would be a larger ongoing survey of collected first-person cases by a sub-committee of the Fairfield Mental Health Alliance compiling cases where people have felt their well-being was effected by their experience with the culture of the movement. There is a range and distribution to those collected cases which have clearly indicated areas for policy changes that could improve elements of culture and consequences in aspects of the movement. Elements of the movement are moving on some of this while some ideologues try to hold a dogmatic line against it. Having 'data-points' has been extremely helpful towards seeing policy. There is a lot in process going on and things are also fluid. -JaiGuruYou ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : This is interesting but 20 years old. Is there anything more recent to compare this to? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : The Community Forum Community-wide Survey Results (also saved as documents in the FairfieldLife at Yahoo-groups files section.) Dear Meditator, In late spring (1994), the Community Forum sponsored a community-wide survey to sample opinion on a wide range of issues that affect our lives. Based on a compiled list of Fairfield-area meditators, we sent out approximately 2,000 surveys. We received 659 completed surveys, for a response rate of about 33%. (The response rate may even be higher; since we used bulk mail, we do not know the exact number of surveys delivered.) In the field of written surveys, a response rate of 33% is considered outstanding. Survey respondents come from a cross-section of our community: 84% have been meditating for 16 years or longer; 68% have lived in Fairfield for seven years or more; and 68% are registered for Super Radiance. Although not every meditator filled out a survey, we believe the results provide significant insights into how meditators feel about important issues and about our lives in Fairfield. Survey Data This document provides the raw data for all questions except for the essays. For the essays, this document lists the more common suggestions and comments. Looking at the data, one can identify responses of general consensus and also responses reflecting widely diverse opinions. Where there is a clear need and desire in a particular area of concern, the Community Forum will hold open meetings so that interested people can come together, discuss options, and explore possible solutions. The survey data can also be evaluated from a variety of different perspectives (e.g., age, gender, income, Movement status, etc.). We encourage anyone with statistical analytical skills to help us analyze the survey results more thoroughly. Thank You! We would like to thank everyone who participated in the survey! We would also like to thank those who wrote to us with comments and suggestions about the survey. THE COMMUNITY FORUM, P.O. Box 1633, Fairfield, IA 52556 • 515-472-8132 (0ld) Summary of responses to.. ESSAY QUESTIONS Of the 659 people who completed a survey, 548 wrote answers to the essay questions. Many pe
[FairfieldLife] Re: The '93-'94 Survey of Meditating Fairfield
One thing I have been curious about for a long time. I lived briefly in Fairfield. I think it was in early 2006 that Mother Divine relocated there. We went out to look at the property, and were astonished to see that a good number of the manufactured homes had primary southern and secondary western entrances. What about sthapatya veda principles? Were community members too fearful to bring up this point at meetings? Did others, like us, take note and add it to the straw that eventually broke the camel's back of belonging to the movement? Nevertheless, my many, many years of TM were life transforming, for which I am very grateful.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The '93-'94 Survey of Meditating Fairfield
# TSR Survey ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Yes, this larger survey is interesting base-line data on the larger meditating community in Fairfield from back when the meditating community and the Dome numbers were more around their peak as the long decline (attrition) was then ensuing. You can see the seeds and the consequent beginning of the cultivated socioeconomic exclusivity sprouting then and the administrative separation of meditators from membership in the group meditation over visiting saints and spiritual people that had started in the late 1980's and through the 1990's to present. Since the larger sample community survey of the early 1990's there have only been small sample surveys of sub-groups. In a way the recent book on Fairfield [How a New Age Movement Remade a Small Town in Iowa] by the journalist, Joseph Weber is a survey by extensive interviewing of the Fairfield meditating community that is current. A few years ago when there was such strife in the sustainable living students an interview survey was hired and conducted of the university SL students about their experience at the university. The results were presented to the administration and then defended against by the President. That survey and more recent surveying has been useful more recently in guiding some policy changes around the university and MSAE student life currently. While the progressive side of the TM movement has been methodically tracking metrics and hiring marketing surveying related to the teaching of meditation, there have not been broad surveying of the meditating community of the scale of the 1994 survey. That could proly be too frightening for some of the key patriarchs of old administration on watch of the movement to see. The closest thing to that kind of surveying would be a larger ongoing survey of collected first-person cases by a sub-committee of the Fairfield Mental Health Alliance compiling cases where people have felt their well-being was effected by their experience with the culture of the movement. There is a range and distribution to those collected cases which have clearly indicated areas for policy changes that could improve elements of culture and consequences in aspects of the movement. Elements of the movement are moving on some of this while some ideologues try to hold a dogmatic line against it. Having 'data-points' has been extremely helpful towards seeing policy. There is a lot in process going on and things are also fluid. -JaiGuruYou ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : This is interesting but 20 years old. Is there anything more recent to compare this to? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : The Community Forum Community-wide Survey Results (also saved as documents in the FairfieldLife at Yahoo-groups files section.) Dear Meditator, In late spring (1994), the Community Forum sponsored a community-wide survey to sample opinion on a wide range of issues that affect our lives. Based on a compiled list of Fairfield-area meditators, we sent out approximately 2,000 surveys. We received 659 completed surveys, for a response rate of about 33%. (The response rate may even be higher; since we used bulk mail, we do not know the exact number of surveys delivered.) In the field of written surveys, a response rate of 33% is considered outstanding. Survey respondents come from a cross-section of our community: 84% have been meditating for 16 years or longer; 68% have lived in Fairfield for seven years or more; and 68% are registered for Super Radiance. Although not every meditator filled out a survey, we believe the results provide significant insights into how meditators feel about important issues and about our lives in Fairfield. Survey Data This document provides the raw data for all questions except for the essays. For the essays, this document lists the more common suggestions and comments. Looking at the data, one can identify responses of general consensus and also responses reflecting widely diverse opinions. Where there is a clear need and desire in a particular area of concern, the Community Forum will hold open meetings so that interested people can come together, discuss options, and explore possible solutions. The survey data can also be evaluated from a variety of different perspectives (e.g., age, gender, income, Movement status, etc.). We encourage anyone with statistical analytical skills to help us analyze the survey results more thoroughly. Thank You! We would like to thank everyone who participated in the survey! We would also like to thank those who wrote to us with comments and suggestions about the survey. THE COMMUNITY FORUM, P.O. Box 1633, Fairfield, IA 52556 • 515-472-8132 (0ld) Summary of responses to.. ESSAY QUESTIONS Of the 659 people who completed a survey, 548 wrote answers to the essay questions. Many pe
[FairfieldLife] Re: The '93-'94 Survey of Meditating Fairfield
# ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : # TSR Survey ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Yes, this larger survey is interesting base-line data on the larger meditating community in Fairfield from back when the meditating community and the Dome numbers were more around their peak as the long decline (attrition) was then ensuing. You can see the seeds and the consequent beginning of the cultivated socioeconomic exclusivity sprouting then and the administrative separation of meditators from membership in the group meditation over visiting saints and spiritual people that had started in the late 1980's and through the 1990's to present. Since the larger sample community survey of the early 1990's there have only been small sample surveys of sub-groups. In a way the recent book on Fairfield [How a New Age Movement Remade a Small Town in Iowa] by the journalist, Joseph Weber is a survey by extensive interviewing of the Fairfield meditating community that is current. A few years ago when there was such strife in the sustainable living students an interview survey was hired and conducted of the university SL students about their experience at the university. The results were presented to the administration and then defended against by the President. That survey and more recent surveying has been useful more recently in guiding some policy changes around the university and MSAE student life currently. While the progressive side of the TM movement has been methodically tracking metrics and hiring marketing surveying related to the teaching of meditation, there have not been broad surveying of the meditating community of the scale of the 1994 survey. That could proly be too frightening for some of the key patriarchs of old administration on watch of the movement to see. The closest thing to that kind of surveying would be a larger ongoing survey of collected first-person cases by a sub-committee of the Fairfield Mental Health Alliance compiling cases where people have felt their well-being was effected by their experience with the culture of the movement. There is a range and distribution to those collected cases which have clearly indicated areas for policy changes that could improve elements of culture and consequences in aspects of the movement. Elements of the movement are moving on some of this while some ideologues try to hold a dogmatic line against it. Having 'data-points' has been extremely helpful towards seeing policy. There is a lot in process going on and things are also fluid. -JaiGuruYou ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : This is interesting but 20 years old. Is there anything more recent to compare this to? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : The Community Forum Community-wide Survey Results (also saved as documents in the FairfieldLife at Yahoo-groups files section.) Dear Meditator, In late spring (1994), the Community Forum sponsored a community-wide survey to sample opinion on a wide range of issues that affect our lives. Based on a compiled list of Fairfield-area meditators, we sent out approximately 2,000 surveys. We received 659 completed surveys, for a response rate of about 33%. (The response rate may even be higher; since we used bulk mail, we do not know the exact number of surveys delivered.) In the field of written surveys, a response rate of 33% is considered outstanding. Survey respondents come from a cross-section of our community: 84% have been meditating for 16 years or longer; 68% have lived in Fairfield for seven years or more; and 68% are registered for Super Radiance. Although not every meditator filled out a survey, we believe the results provide significant insights into how meditators feel about important issues and about our lives in Fairfield. Survey Data This document provides the raw data for all questions except for the essays. For the essays, this document lists the more common suggestions and comments. Looking at the data, one can identify responses of general consensus and also responses reflecting widely diverse opinions. Where there is a clear need and desire in a particular area of concern, the Community Forum will hold open meetings so that interested people can come together, discuss options, and explore possible solutions. The survey data can also be evaluated from a variety of different perspectives (e.g., age, gender, income, Movement status, etc.). We encourage anyone with statistical analytical skills to help us analyze the survey results more thoroughly. Thank You! We would like to thank everyone who participated in the survey! We would also like to thank those who wrote to us with comments and suggestions about the survey. THE COMMUNITY FORUM, P.O. Box 1633, Fairfield, IA 52556 • 515-472-8132 (0ld) Summary of responses to.. ESSAY QUESTIONS Of the 659 people who completed a survey, 5
[FairfieldLife] Re: The '93-'94 Survey of Meditating Fairfield
# TSR Survey ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Yes, this larger survey is interesting base-line data on the larger meditating community in Fairfield from back when the meditating community and the Dome numbers were more around their peak as the long decline (attrition) was then ensuing. You can see the seeds and the consequent beginning of the cultivated socioeconomic exclusivity sprouting then and the administrative separation of meditators from membership in the group meditation over visiting saints and spiritual people that had started in the late 1980's and through the 1990's to present. Since the larger sample community survey of the early 1990's there have only been small sample surveys of sub-groups. In a way the recent book on Fairfield [How a New Age Movement Remade a Small Town in Iowa] by the journalist, Joseph Weber is a survey by extensive interviewing of the Fairfield meditating community that is current. A few years ago when there was such strife in the sustainable living students an interview survey was hired and conducted of the university SL students about their experience at the university. The results were presented to the administration and then defended against by the President. That survey and more recent surveying has been useful more recently in guiding some policy changes around the university and MSAE student life currently. While the progressive side of the TM movement has been methodically tracking metrics and hiring marketing surveying related to the teaching of meditation, there have not been broad surveying of the meditating community of the scale of the 1994 survey. That could proly be too frightening for some of the key patriarchs of old administration on watch of the movement to see. The closest thing to that kind of surveying would be a larger ongoing survey of collected first-person cases by a sub-committee of the Fairfield Mental Health Alliance compiling cases where people have felt their well-being was effected by their experience with the culture of the movement. There is a range and distribution to those collected cases which have clearly indicated areas for policy changes that could improve elements of culture and consequences in aspects of the movement. Elements of the movement are moving on some of this while some ideologues try to hold a dogmatic line against it. Having 'data-points' has been extremely helpful towards seeing policy. There is a lot in process going on and things are also fluid. -JaiGuruYou ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : This is interesting but 20 years old. Is there anything more recent to compare this to? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : The Community Forum Community-wide Survey Results (also saved as documents in the FairfieldLife at Yahoo-groups files section.) Dear Meditator, In late spring (1994), the Community Forum sponsored a community-wide survey to sample opinion on a wide range of issues that affect our lives. Based on a compiled list of Fairfield-area meditators, we sent out approximately 2,000 surveys. We received 659 completed surveys, for a response rate of about 33%. (The response rate may even be higher; since we used bulk mail, we do not know the exact number of surveys delivered.) In the field of written surveys, a response rate of 33% is considered outstanding. Survey respondents come from a cross-section of our community: 84% have been meditating for 16 years or longer; 68% have lived in Fairfield for seven years or more; and 68% are registered for Super Radiance. Although not every meditator filled out a survey, we believe the results provide significant insights into how meditators feel about important issues and about our lives in Fairfield. Survey Data This document provides the raw data for all questions except for the essays. For the essays, this document lists the more common suggestions and comments. Looking at the data, one can identify responses of general consensus and also responses reflecting widely diverse opinions. Where there is a clear need and desire in a particular area of concern, the Community Forum will hold open meetings so that interested people can come together, discuss options, and explore possible solutions. The survey data can also be evaluated from a variety of different perspectives (e.g., age, gender, income, Movement status, etc.). We encourage anyone with statistical analytical skills to help us analyze the survey results more thoroughly. Thank You! We would like to thank everyone who participated in the survey! We would also like to thank those who wrote to us with comments and suggestions about the survey. THE COMMUNITY FORUM, P.O. Box 1633, Fairfield, IA 52556 • 515-472-8132 (0ld) Summary of responses to.. ESSAY QUESTIONS Of the 659 people who completed a survey, 548 wrote answers to the essay questions. Many peopl
[FairfieldLife] Re: The '93-'94 Survey of Meditating Fairfield
# TSR survey ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Yes, this larger survey is interesting base-line data on the larger meditating community in Fairfield from back when the meditating community and the Dome numbers were more around their peak as the long decline (attrition) was then ensuing. You can see the seeds and the consequent beginning of the cultivated socioeconomic exclusivity sprouting then and the administrative separation of meditators from membership in the group meditation over visiting saints and spiritual people that had started in the late 1980's and through the 1990's to present. Since the larger sample community survey of the early 1990's there have only been small sample surveys of sub-groups. In a way the recent book on Fairfield [How a New Age Movement Remade a Small Town in Iowa] by the journalist, Joseph Weber is a survey by extensive interviewing of the Fairfield meditating community that is current. A few years ago when there was such strife in the sustainable living students an interview survey was hired and conducted of the university SL students about their experience at the university. The results were presented to the administration and then defended against by the President. That survey and more recent surveying has been useful more recently in guiding some policy changes around the university and MSAE student life currently. While the progressive side of the TM movement has been methodically tracking metrics and hiring marketing surveying related to the teaching of meditation, there have not been broad surveying of the meditating community of the scale of the 1994 survey. That could proly be too frightening for some of the key patriarchs of old administration on watch of the movement to see. The closest thing to that kind of surveying would be a larger ongoing survey of collected first-person cases by a sub-committee of the Fairfield Mental Health Alliance compiling cases where people have felt their well-being was effected by their experience with the culture of the movement. There is a range and distribution to those collected cases which have clearly indicated areas for policy changes that could improve elements of culture and consequences in aspects of the movement. Elements of the movement are moving on some of this while some ideologues try to hold a dogmatic line against it. Having 'data-points' has been extremely helpful towards seeing policy. There is a lot in process going on and things are also fluid. -JaiGuruYou ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : This is interesting but 20 years old. Is there anything more recent to compare this to? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : The Community Forum Community-wide Survey Results (also saved as documents in the FairfieldLife at Yahoo-groups files section.) Dear Meditator, In late spring (1994), the Community Forum sponsored a community-wide survey to sample opinion on a wide range of issues that affect our lives. Based on a compiled list of Fairfield-area meditators, we sent out approximately 2,000 surveys. We received 659 completed surveys, for a response rate of about 33%. (The response rate may even be higher; since we used bulk mail, we do not know the exact number of surveys delivered.) In the field of written surveys, a response rate of 33% is considered outstanding. Survey respondents come from a cross-section of our community: 84% have been meditating for 16 years or longer; 68% have lived in Fairfield for seven years or more; and 68% are registered for Super Radiance. Although not every meditator filled out a survey, we believe the results provide significant insights into how meditators feel about important issues and about our lives in Fairfield. Survey Data This document provides the raw data for all questions except for the essays. For the essays, this document lists the more common suggestions and comments. Looking at the data, one can identify responses of general consensus and also responses reflecting widely diverse opinions. Where there is a clear need and desire in a particular area of concern, the Community Forum will hold open meetings so that interested people can come together, discuss options, and explore possible solutions. The survey data can also be evaluated from a variety of different perspectives (e.g., age, gender, income, Movement status, etc.). We encourage anyone with statistical analytical skills to help us analyze the survey results more thoroughly. Thank You! We would like to thank everyone who participated in the survey! We would also like to thank those who wrote to us with comments and suggestions about the survey. THE COMMUNITY FORUM, P.O. Box 1633, Fairfield, IA 52556 • 515-472-8132 (0ld) Summary of responses to.. ESSAY QUESTIONS Of the 659 people who completed a survey, 548 wrote answers to the essay questions. Many peopl
[FairfieldLife] Re: The '93-'94 Survey of Meditating Fairfield
What was the “average age” of meditating community survey respondents, back in 1993-4? Add 20 years to that now as an estimate now? Link to the survey results below.. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Yep, is a fair assessment about the Fairfield Mental Health Alliance in your comments below. Out of an upward pressure showcased through a more public discussion the Fairfield Mental Health Alliance helped the .org-movement from its highest levels be brought to change and incorporate a lot that is modern on this in there being places and appropriate need at times for modern mental health practices. The surveying has been extremely important in this process. There is still ongoing discussion and practical work in progress towards improving particular policy effects within the 'culture' of the TM movement around this. dhamiltony2k5writes, Yes, this larger survey is interesting base-line data on the larger meditating community in Fairfield from back when the meditating community and the Dome numbers were more around their peak as the long decline (attrition) was then ensuing. You can see the seeds and the consequent beginning of the cultivated socioeconomic exclusivity sprouting then and the administrative separation of meditators from membership in the group meditation over visiting saints and spiritual people that had started in the late 1980's and through the 1990's to present. Since the larger sample community survey of the early 1990's there have only been small sample surveys of sub-groups. In a way the recent book on Fairfield [How a New Age Movement Remade a Small Town in Iowa] by the journalist, Joseph Weber is a survey by extensive interviewing of the Fairfield meditating community that is current. A few years ago when there was such strife in the sustainable living students an interview survey was hired and conducted of the university SL students about their experience at the university. The results were presented to the administration and then defended against by the President. That survey and more recent surveying has been useful more recently in guiding some policy changes around the university and MSAE student life currently. While the progressive side of the TM movement has been methodically tracking metrics and hiring marketing surveying related to the teaching of meditation, there have not been broad surveying of the meditating community of the scale of the 1994 survey. That could proly be too frightening for some of the key patriarchs of old administration on watch of the movement to see. The closest thing to that kind of surveying would be a larger ongoing survey of collected first-person cases by a sub-committee of the Fairfield Mental Health Alliance compiling cases where people have felt their well-being was effected by their experience with the culture of the movement. There is a range and distribution to those collected cases which have clearly indicated areas for policy changes that could improve elements of culture and consequences in aspects of the movement. Elements of the movement are moving on some of this while some ideologues try to hold a dogmatic line against it. Having 'data-points' has been extremely helpful towards seeing policy. There is a lot in process going on and things are also fluid. -JaiGuruYou awoelflebater writes This last paragraph is enlightening. This Mental Health Alliance group is important, it seems and the data it could produce would/could address all sorts of aspects with regard to the socio-economic factors that may have resulted in damage to individuals coupled with its relationship to their involvement/participation in or practice of TM. In the sense that TM is supposed to factor into all aspects of one's life this mental health thing is relevant in perhaps revealing where the meditation technique might not measure up to its promise. Those in the meditating community in FF are often old timers, not only in their practice of TM but chronologically. The mere fact of the existence of the Mental Health Alliance is evidence of the need for psychiatric aid for those practicing TM. How could anyone in the Movement cling to dogma in the face of such a fact? Perhaps they require the attention of the professionals in the psychiatric department there. Rabid or avid denial is a form of aberrational behavior, is it not? awoelflebater writes: This is interesting but 20 years old. Is there anything more recent to compare this to? FFL#420254Re: The '93-'94 Survey of Meditating Fairfield text of early 1990's survey report: Fairfield Life https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/420254 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/420254 Fairfield Life https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/420254 Fairfield Life focuses on topics of interest to seekers (and
[FairfieldLife] Re: The '93-'94 Survey of Meditating Fairfield
Yep, is a fair assessment about the Fairfield Mental Health Alliance in your comments below. Out of an upward pressure showcased through a more public discussion the Fairfield Mental Health Alliance helped the .org-movement from its highest levels be brought to change and incorporate a lot that is modern on this in there being places and appropriate need at times for modern mental health practices. The surveying has been extremely important in this process. There is still ongoing discussion and practical work in progress towards improving particular policy effects within the 'culture' of the TM movement around this. dhamiltony2k5writes, Yes, this larger survey is interesting base-line data on the larger meditating community in Fairfield from back when the meditating community and the Dome numbers were more around their peak as the long decline (attrition) was then ensuing. You can see the seeds and the consequent beginning of the cultivated socioeconomic exclusivity sprouting then and the administrative separation of meditators from membership in the group meditation over visiting saints and spiritual people that had started in the late 1980's and through the 1990's to present. Since the larger sample community survey of the early 1990's there have only been small sample surveys of sub-groups. In a way the recent book on Fairfield [How a New Age Movement Remade a Small Town in Iowa] by the journalist, Joseph Weber is a survey by extensive interviewing of the Fairfield meditating community that is current. A few years ago when there was such strife in the sustainable living students an interview survey was hired and conducted of the university SL students about their experience at the university. The results were presented to the administration and then defended against by the President. That survey and more recent surveying has been useful more recently in guiding some policy changes around the university and MSAE student life currently. While the progressive side of the TM movement has been methodically tracking metrics and hiring marketing surveying related to the teaching of meditation, there have not been broad surveying of the meditating community of the scale of the 1994 survey. That could proly be too frightening for some of the key patriarchs of old administration on watch of the movement to see. The closest thing to that kind of surveying would be a larger ongoing survey of collected first-person cases by a sub-committee of the Fairfield Mental Health Alliance compiling cases where people have felt their well-being was effected by their experience with the culture of the movement. There is a range and distribution to those collected cases which have clearly indicated areas for policy changes that could improve elements of culture and consequences in aspects of the movement. Elements of the movement are moving on some of this while some ideologues try to hold a dogmatic line against it. Having 'data-points' has been extremely helpful towards seeing policy. There is a lot in process going on and things are also fluid. -JaiGuruYou awoelflebater writes This last paragraph is enlightening. This Mental Health Alliance group is important, it seems and the data it could produce would/could address all sorts of aspects with regard to the socio-economic factors that may have resulted in damage to individuals coupled with its relationship to their involvement/participation in or practice of TM. In the sense that TM is supposed to factor into all aspects of one's life this mental health thing is relevant in perhaps revealing where the meditation technique might not measure up to its promise. Those in the meditating community in FF are often old timers, not only in their practice of TM but chronologically. The mere fact of the existence of the Mental Health Alliance is evidence of the need for psychiatric aid for those practicing TM. How could anyone in the Movement cling to dogma in the face of such a fact? Perhaps they require the attention of the professionals in the psychiatric department there. Rabid or avid denial is a form of aberrational behavior, is it not? awoelflebater writes: This is interesting but 20 years old. Is there anything more recent to compare this to? FFL#420254Re: The '93-'94 Survey of Meditating Fairfield text of early 1990's survey report: Fairfield Life https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/420254 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/420254 Fairfield Life https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/420254 Fairfield Life focuses on topics of interest to seekers (and finders) of truth and liberation everywhere. Fairfield, Iowa is home to Maharishi University of Mana... View on groups.yahoo.com https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/420254
[FairfieldLife] Re: The '93-'94 Survey of Meditating Fairfield
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Yes, this larger survey is interesting base-line data on the larger meditating community in Fairfield from back when the meditating community and the Dome numbers were more around their peak as the long decline (attrition) was then ensuing. You can see the seeds and the consequent beginning of the cultivated socioeconomic exclusivity sprouting then and the administrative separation of meditators from membership in the group meditation over visiting saints and spiritual people that had started in the late 1980's and through the 1990's to present. Since the larger sample community survey of the early 1990's there have only been small sample surveys of sub-groups. In a way the recent book on Fairfield [How a New Age Movement Remade a Small Town in Iowa] by the journalist, Joseph Weber is a survey by extensive interviewing of the Fairfield meditating community that is current. A few years ago when there was such strife in the sustainable living students an interview survey was hired and conducted of the university SL students about their experience at the university. The results were presented to the administration and then defended against by the President. That survey and more recent surveying has been useful more recently in guiding some policy changes around the university and MSAE student life currently. While the progressive side of the TM movement has been methodically tracking metrics and hiring marketing surveying related to the teaching of meditation, there have not been broad surveying of the meditating community of the scale of the 1994 survey. That could proly be too frightening for some of the key patriarchs of old administration on watch of the movement to see. The closest thing to that kind of surveying would be a larger ongoing survey of collected first-person cases by a sub-committee of the Fairfield Mental Health Alliance compiling cases where people have felt their well-being was effected by their experience with the culture of the movement. There is a range and distribution to those collected cases which have clearly indicated areas for policy changes that could improve elements of culture and consequences in aspects of the movement. Elements of the movement are moving on some of this while some ideologues try to hold a dogmatic line against it. Having 'data-points' has been extremely helpful towards seeing policy. There is a lot in process going on and things are also fluid. -JaiGuruYou This last paragraph is enlightening. This Mental Health Alliance group is important, it seems and the data it could produce would/could address all sorts of aspects with regard to the socio-economic factors that may have resulted in damage to individuals coupled with its relationship to their involvement/participation in or practice of TM. In the sense that TM is supposed to factor into all aspects of one's life this mental health thing is relevant in perhaps revealing where the meditation technique might not measure up to its promise. Those in the meditating community in FF are often old timers, not only in their practice of TM but chronologically. The mere fact of the existence of the Mental Health Alliance is evidence of the need for psychiatric aid for those practicing TM. How could anyone in the Movement cling to dogma in the face of such a fact? Perhaps they require the attention of the professionals in the psychiatric department there. Rabid or avid denial is a form of aberrational behavior, is it not? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : This is interesting but 20 years old. Is there anything more recent to compare this to?
[FairfieldLife] Re: The '93-'94 Survey of Meditating Fairfield
Yes, this larger survey is interesting base-line data on the larger meditating community in Fairfield from back when the meditating community and the Dome numbers were more around their peak as the long decline (attrition) was then ensuing. You can see the seeds and the consequent beginning of the cultivated socioeconomic exclusivity sprouting then and the administrative separation of meditators from membership in the group meditation over visiting saints and spiritual people that had started in the late 1980's and through the 1990's to present. Since the larger sample community survey of the early 1990's there have only been small sample surveys of sub-groups. In a way the recent book on Fairfield [How a New Age Movement Remade a Small Town in Iowa] by the journalist, Joseph Weber is a survey by extensive interviewing of the Fairfield meditating community that is current. A few years ago when there was such strife in the sustainable living students an interview survey was hired and conducted of the university SL students about their experience at the university. The results were presented to the administration and then defended against by the President. That survey and more recent surveying has been useful more recently in guiding some policy changes around the university and MSAE student life currently. While the progressive side of the TM movement has been methodically tracking metrics and hiring marketing surveying related to the teaching of meditation, there have not been broad surveying of the meditating community of the scale of the 1994 survey. That could proly be too frightening for some of the key patriarchs of old administration on watch of the movement to see. The closest thing to that kind of surveying would be a larger ongoing survey of collected first-person cases by a sub-committee of the Fairfield Mental Health Alliance compiling cases where people have felt their well-being was effected by their experience with the culture of the movement. There is a range and distribution to those collected cases which have clearly indicated areas for policy changes that could improve elements of culture and consequences in aspects of the movement. Elements of the movement are moving on some of this while some ideologues try to hold a dogmatic line against it. Having 'data-points' has been extremely helpful towards seeing policy. There is a lot in process going on and things are also fluid. -JaiGuruYou ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : This is interesting but 20 years old. Is there anything more recent to compare this to? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : The Community Forum Community-wide Survey Results (also saved as documents in the FairfieldLife at Yahoo-groups files section.) Dear Meditator, In late spring (1994), the Community Forum sponsored a community-wide survey to sample opinion on a wide range of issues that affect our lives. Based on a compiled list of Fairfield-area meditators, we sent out approximately 2,000 surveys. We received 659 completed surveys, for a response rate of about 33%. (The response rate may even be higher; since we used bulk mail, we do not know the exact number of surveys delivered.) In the field of written surveys, a response rate of 33% is considered outstanding. Survey respondents come from a cross-section of our community: 84% have been meditating for 16 years or longer; 68% have lived in Fairfield for seven years or more; and 68% are registered for Super Radiance. Although not every meditator filled out a survey, we believe the results provide significant insights into how meditators feel about important issues and about our lives in Fairfield. Survey Data This document provides the raw data for all questions except for the essays. For the essays, this document lists the more common suggestions and comments. Looking at the data, one can identify responses of general consensus and also responses reflecting widely diverse opinions. Where there is a clear need and desire in a particular area of concern, the Community Forum will hold open meetings so that interested people can come together, discuss options, and explore possible solutions. The survey data can also be evaluated from a variety of different perspectives (e.g., age, gender, income, Movement status, etc.). We encourage anyone with statistical analytical skills to help us analyze the survey results more thoroughly. Thank You! We would like to thank everyone who participated in the survey! We would also like to thank those who wrote to us with comments and suggestions about the survey. THE COMMUNITY FORUM, P.O. Box 1633, Fairfield, IA 52556 • 515-472-8132 (0ld) Summary of responses to.. ESSAY QUESTIONS Of the 659 people who completed a survey, 548 wrote answers to the essay questions. Many people wrote multiple pages of comments and suggestions; one indivi
[FairfieldLife] Re: The '93-'94 Survey of Meditating Fairfield
This is interesting but 20 years old. Is there anything more recent to compare this to? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : The Community Forum Community-wide Survey Results (also saved as documents in the FairfieldLife at Yahoo-groups files section.) Dear Meditator, In late spring (1994), the Community Forum sponsored a community-wide survey to sample opinion on a wide range of issues that affect our lives. Based on a compiled list of Fairfield-area meditators, we sent out approximately 2,000 surveys. We received 659 completed surveys, for a response rate of about 33%. (The response rate may even be higher; since we used bulk mail, we do not know the exact number of surveys delivered.) In the field of written surveys, a response rate of 33% is considered outstanding. Survey respondents come from a cross-section of our community: 84% have been meditating for 16 years or longer; 68% have lived in Fairfield for seven years or more; and 68% are registered for Super Radiance. Although not every meditator filled out a survey, we believe the results provide significant insights into how meditators feel about important issues and about our lives in Fairfield. Survey Data This document provides the raw data for all questions except for the essays. For the essays, this document lists the more common suggestions and comments. Looking at the data, one can identify responses of general consensus and also responses reflecting widely diverse opinions. Where there is a clear need and desire in a particular area of concern, the Community Forum will hold open meetings so that interested people can come together, discuss options, and explore possible solutions. The survey data can also be evaluated from a variety of different perspectives (e.g., age, gender, income, Movement status, etc.). We encourage anyone with statistical analytical skills to help us analyze the survey results more thoroughly. Thank You! We would like to thank everyone who participated in the survey! We would also like to thank those who wrote to us with comments and suggestions about the survey. THE COMMUNITY FORUM, P.O. Box 1633, Fairfield, IA 52556 • 515-472-8132 (0ld) Summary of responses to.. ESSAY QUESTIONS Of the 659 people who completed a survey, 548 wrote answers to the essay questions. Many people wrote multiple pages of comments and suggestions; one individual sent in 12 typed pages. We are committed to making available an unedited compilation of all essay responses, and we need volunteers to help us complete this project. Please call 472-7033 if you can help. Because we do not yet have an unedited compilation of the essay questions, volunteers read the surveys and categorized all answers. From these categories, they identified comments more commonly given. (Therefore, not every comment is listed here.) We have provided these comments in this section. The summary to the essay questions necessarily involved a subjective evaluation. While the comments in this summary were commonly mentioned, it is difficult to determine whether they reflect a majority opinion or even a significant minority. They simply reflect the more common essay responses as interpreted by the volunteers who read them. 25. My comments and recommendations regarding economic issues in Fairfield are: • Concern about limited job opportunities. • Need for affordable housing. • Products and programs too expensive. • Fairfield residents should get discounts on all products and programs. • Monies generated in this community should stay here. • Concern about prevalence of poverty consciousness. 37. My comments and recommendations regarding social and family concerns are: • Need for more ethical conduct (most often mentioned were adultery and divorce). • Strengthening family life (most often mentioned were neglect of children, weak parenting skills, and lack of recognition of the value of counseling). • Resentment of classism, elitism. • Need for less arrogance toward local residents. • Complaints about fatigue; no time for social activities, feeling of lack of balanced life, etc. 47. To make Fairfield a more attractive place to raise a family, I would like: • More parental involvement in after-school activities, dances, teenage clubs, etc. • Fairfield is a wonderful place to raise children. Desire for more interaction between MSAE, MIU, and public schools. Desire for ice-skating rink, bike paths, etc. • MSAE: less emphasis on Sanskrit; more on Western traditional academics. Need for more openness and creativity; need to deal with drugs, alcohol, and sex education. • Better pay for teachers. • Movement should subsidize poorer parents so all kids can attend MSAE. 59&75. My comments and recommendations regarding TM or TM-Sidhi programs and to improve superradiance are: • Treat participants with trust and respect. • Need experience meetings regularly. • It’
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The '93-'94 Survey of Meditating Fairfield
Let me rephrase that. Yes, everything's *f'ed* up. From: "dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, September 3, 2015 9:39 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The '93-'94 Survey of Meditating Fairfield TheCommunity ForumCommunity-wideSurvey Results (also saved as documents in the FairfieldLife at Yahoo-groups files section.)DearMeditator, Inlate spring (1994), the Community Forum sponsored a community-wide survey tosample opinion on a wide range of issues that affect our lives. Basedon a compiled list of Fairfield-area meditators, we sent outapproximately 2,000 surveys. We received 659 completed surveys, for aresponse rate of about 33%. (The response rate may even be higher;since we used bulk mail, we do not know the exact number of surveysdelivered.) In the field of written surveys, a response rate of 33%is considered outstanding. Surveyrespondents come from a cross-section of our community: 84% have beenmeditating for 16 years or longer; 68% have lived in Fairfield forseven years or more; and 68% are registered for Super Radiance.Although not every meditator filled out a survey, we believe theresults provide significant insights into how meditators feel aboutimportant issues and about our lives in Fairfield.SurveyDataThisdocument provides the raw data for all questions except for theessays. For the essays, this document lists the more commonsuggestions and comments. Lookingat the data, one can identify responses of general consensus and alsoresponses reflecting widely diverse opinions. Where there is a clearneed and desire in a particular area of concern, the Community Forumwill hold open meetings so that interested people can come together,discuss options, and explore possible solutions. Thesurvey data can also be evaluated from a variety of differentperspectives (e.g., age, gender, income, Movement status, etc.). Weencourage anyone with statistical analytical skills to help usanalyze the survey results more thoroughly. ThankYou!Wewould like to thank everyone who participated in the survey! We wouldalso like to thank those who wrote to us with comments andsuggestions about the survey. THECOMMUNITY FORUM, P.O. Box 1633, Fairfield, IA 52556 • 515-472-8132 (0ld) Summary of responses to..ESSAYQUESTIONS Ofthe 659 people who completed a survey, 548 wrote answers to the essayquestions. Many people wrote multiple pages of comments andsuggestions; one individual sent in 12 typed pages. We are committedto making available an unedited compilation of all essay responses,and we need volunteers to help us complete this project. Please call472-7033 if you can help. Becausewe do not yet have an unedited compilation of the essay questions,volunteers read the surveys and categorized all answers. From thesecategories, they identified comments more commonly given. (Therefore,not every comment is listed here.) We have provided these comments inthis section. The summary to the essay questions necessarily involved a subjectiveevaluation. While the comments in this summary were commonlymentioned, it is difficult to determine whether they reflect amajority opinion or even a significant minority. They simply reflectthe more common essay responses as interpreted by the volunteers whoread them. 25.My comments and recommendations regarding economic issues inFairfield are:• Concern about limited jobopportunities.• Need for affordable housing.• Products and programs tooexpensive.• Fairfield residents should getdiscounts on all products and programs.• Monies generated in thiscommunity should stay here.• Concern about prevalence ofpoverty consciousness. 37.My comments and recommendations regarding social and family concernsare:• Need for more ethical conduct(most often mentioned were adultery and divorce).• Strengthening family life (mostoften mentioned were neglect of children, weak parenting skills, andlack of recognition of the value of counseling).• Resentment of classism, elitism.• Need for less arrogance towardlocal residents.• Complaints about fatigue; no timefor social activities, feeling of lack of balanced life, etc. 47.To make Fairfield a more attractive place to raise a family, I wouldlike:• More parental involvement inafter-school activities, dances, teenage clubs, etc.• Fairfield is a wonderful place toraise children. Desire for more interaction between MSAE, MIU, andpublic schools. Desire for ice-skating rink, bike paths, etc.• MSAE: less emphasis on Sanskrit;more on Western traditional academics. Need for more openness andcreativity; need to deal with drugs, alcohol, and sex education.• Better pay for teachers.• Movement should subsidize poorerparents so all kids can attend MSAE. 59&75.My comments and recommendations regarding TM or TM-Sidhi programs andto improve superradianceare:• Treat participants with trust andrespect.• Need experience meetingsregularl
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The '93-'94 Survey of Meditating Fairfield
yes From: "dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, September 3, 2015 9:39 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The '93-'94 Survey of Meditating Fairfield TheCommunity ForumCommunity-wideSurvey Results (also saved as documents in the FairfieldLife at Yahoo-groups files section.)DearMeditator, Inlate spring (1994), the Community Forum sponsored a community-wide survey tosample opinion on a wide range of issues that affect our lives. Basedon a compiled list of Fairfield-area meditators, we sent outapproximately 2,000 surveys. We received 659 completed surveys, for aresponse rate of about 33%. (The response rate may even be higher;since we used bulk mail, we do not know the exact number of surveysdelivered.) In the field of written surveys, a response rate of 33%is considered outstanding. Surveyrespondents come from a cross-section of our community: 84% have beenmeditating for 16 years or longer; 68% have lived in Fairfield forseven years or more; and 68% are registered for Super Radiance.Although not every meditator filled out a survey, we believe theresults provide significant insights into how meditators feel aboutimportant issues and about our lives in Fairfield.SurveyDataThisdocument provides the raw data for all questions except for theessays. For the essays, this document lists the more commonsuggestions and comments. Lookingat the data, one can identify responses of general consensus and alsoresponses reflecting widely diverse opinions. Where there is a clearneed and desire in a particular area of concern, the Community Forumwill hold open meetings so that interested people can come together,discuss options, and explore possible solutions. Thesurvey data can also be evaluated from a variety of differentperspectives (e.g., age, gender, income, Movement status, etc.). Weencourage anyone with statistical analytical skills to help usanalyze the survey results more thoroughly. ThankYou!Wewould like to thank everyone who participated in the survey! We wouldalso like to thank those who wrote to us with comments andsuggestions about the survey. THECOMMUNITY FORUM, P.O. Box 1633, Fairfield, IA 52556 • 515-472-8132 (0ld) Summary of responses to..ESSAYQUESTIONS Ofthe 659 people who completed a survey, 548 wrote answers to the essayquestions. Many people wrote multiple pages of comments andsuggestions; one individual sent in 12 typed pages. We are committedto making available an unedited compilation of all essay responses,and we need volunteers to help us complete this project. Please call472-7033 if you can help. Becausewe do not yet have an unedited compilation of the essay questions,volunteers read the surveys and categorized all answers. From thesecategories, they identified comments more commonly given. (Therefore,not every comment is listed here.) We have provided these comments inthis section. The summary to the essay questions necessarily involved a subjectiveevaluation. While the comments in this summary were commonlymentioned, it is difficult to determine whether they reflect amajority opinion or even a significant minority. They simply reflectthe more common essay responses as interpreted by the volunteers whoread them. 25.My comments and recommendations regarding economic issues inFairfield are:• Concern about limited jobopportunities.• Need for affordable housing.• Products and programs tooexpensive.• Fairfield residents should getdiscounts on all products and programs.• Monies generated in thiscommunity should stay here.• Concern about prevalence ofpoverty consciousness. 37.My comments and recommendations regarding social and family concernsare:• Need for more ethical conduct(most often mentioned were adultery and divorce).• Strengthening family life (mostoften mentioned were neglect of children, weak parenting skills, andlack of recognition of the value of counseling).• Resentment of classism, elitism.• Need for less arrogance towardlocal residents.• Complaints about fatigue; no timefor social activities, feeling of lack of balanced life, etc. 47.To make Fairfield a more attractive place to raise a family, I wouldlike:• More parental involvement inafter-school activities, dances, teenage clubs, etc.• Fairfield is a wonderful place toraise children. Desire for more interaction between MSAE, MIU, andpublic schools. Desire for ice-skating rink, bike paths, etc.• MSAE: less emphasis on Sanskrit;more on Western traditional academics. Need for more openness andcreativity; need to deal with drugs, alcohol, and sex education.• Better pay for teachers.• Movement should subsidize poorerparents so all kids can attend MSAE. 59&75.My comments and recommendations regarding TM or TM-Sidhi programs andto improve superradianceare:• Treat participants with trust andrespect.• Need experience meetingsregularly.• It’s perfect just the way itis. Just keep on
[FairfieldLife] Re: The '93-'94 Survey of Meditating Fairfield
The Community Forum Community-wide Survey Results (also saved as documents in the FairfieldLife at Yahoo-groups files section.) Dear Meditator, In late spring (1994), the Community Forum sponsored a community-wide survey to sample opinion on a wide range of issues that affect our lives. Based on a compiled list of Fairfield-area meditators, we sent out approximately 2,000 surveys. We received 659 completed surveys, for a response rate of about 33%. (The response rate may even be higher; since we used bulk mail, we do not know the exact number of surveys delivered.) In the field of written surveys, a response rate of 33% is considered outstanding. Survey respondents come from a cross-section of our community: 84% have been meditating for 16 years or longer; 68% have lived in Fairfield for seven years or more; and 68% are registered for Super Radiance. Although not every meditator filled out a survey, we believe the results provide significant insights into how meditators feel about important issues and about our lives in Fairfield. Survey Data This document provides the raw data for all questions except for the essays. For the essays, this document lists the more common suggestions and comments. Looking at the data, one can identify responses of general consensus and also responses reflecting widely diverse opinions. Where there is a clear need and desire in a particular area of concern, the Community Forum will hold open meetings so that interested people can come together, discuss options, and explore possible solutions. The survey data can also be evaluated from a variety of different perspectives (e.g., age, gender, income, Movement status, etc.). We encourage anyone with statistical analytical skills to help us analyze the survey results more thoroughly. Thank You! We would like to thank everyone who participated in the survey! We would also like to thank those who wrote to us with comments and suggestions about the survey. THE COMMUNITY FORUM, P.O. Box 1633, Fairfield, IA 52556 • 515-472-8132 (0ld) Summary of responses to.. ESSAY QUESTIONS Of the 659 people who completed a survey, 548 wrote answers to the essay questions. Many people wrote multiple pages of comments and suggestions; one individual sent in 12 typed pages. We are committed to making available an unedited compilation of all essay responses, and we need volunteers to help us complete this project. Please call 472-7033 if you can help. Because we do not yet have an unedited compilation of the essay questions, volunteers read the surveys and categorized all answers. From these categories, they identified comments more commonly given. (Therefore, not every comment is listed here.) We have provided these comments in this section. The summary to the essay questions necessarily involved a subjective evaluation. While the comments in this summary were commonly mentioned, it is difficult to determine whether they reflect a majority opinion or even a significant minority. They simply reflect the more common essay responses as interpreted by the volunteers who read them. 25. My comments and recommendations regarding economic issues in Fairfield are: • Concern about limited job opportunities. • Need for affordable housing. • Products and programs too expensive. • Fairfield residents should get discounts on all products and programs. • Monies generated in this community should stay here. • Concern about prevalence of poverty consciousness. 37. My comments and recommendations regarding social and family concerns are: • Need for more ethical conduct (most often mentioned were adultery and divorce). • Strengthening family life (most often mentioned were neglect of children, weak parenting skills, and lack of recognition of the value of counseling). • Resentment of classism, elitism. • Need for less arrogance toward local residents. • Complaints about fatigue; no time for social activities, feeling of lack of balanced life, etc. 47. To make Fairfield a more attractive place to raise a family, I would like: • More parental involvement in after-school activities, dances, teenage clubs, etc. • Fairfield is a wonderful place to raise children. Desire for more interaction between MSAE, MIU, and public schools. Desire for ice-skating rink, bike paths, etc. • MSAE: less emphasis on Sanskrit; more on Western traditional academics. Need for more openness and creativity; need to deal with drugs, alcohol, and sex education. • Better pay for teachers. • Movement should subsidize poorer parents so all kids can attend MSAE. 59&75. My comments and recommendations regarding TM or TM-Sidhi programs and to improve superradiance are: • Treat participants with trust and respect. • Need experience meetings regularly. • It’s perfect just the way it is. Just keep on the program. • Movement recommending programs for evolution, such as Jyotish, Ayurveda products
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The '93-'94 Survey of Meditating Fairfield
Interesting - if TM works then how the hell can all these issues exist in FF?!?!?!? Get a clue Dougy, TM makes you feel nice while you got your eyes closed, it don't do shit to improve quality of life in ANY community. From: "dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2015 7:15 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The '93-'94 Survey of Meditating Fairfield Summary of responses to.. ESSAYQUESTIONS Ofthe 659 people who completed a survey, 548 wrote answers to the essayquestions. Many people wrote multiple pages of comments andsuggestions; one individual sent in 12 typed pages. We are committedto making available an unedited compilation of all essay responses,and we need volunteers to help us complete this project. Please call472-7033 if you can help. Becausewe do not yet have an unedited compilation of the essay questions,volunteers read the surveys and categorized all answers. From thesecategories, they identified comments more commonly given. (Therefore,not every comment is listed here.) We have provided these comments inthis section. The summary to the essay questions necessarily involved a subjectiveevaluation. While the comments in this summary were commonlymentioned, it is difficult to determine whether they reflect amajority opinion or even a significant minority. They simply reflectthe more common essay responses as interpreted by the volunteers whoread them. 25.My comments and recommendations regarding economic issues inFairfield are:• Concern about limited jobopportunities.• Need for affordable housing.• Products and programs tooexpensive.• Fairfield residents should getdiscounts on all products and programs.• Monies generated in thiscommunity should stay here.• Concern about prevalence ofpoverty consciousness. 37.My comments and recommendations regarding social and family concernsare:• Need for more ethical conduct(most often mentioned were adultery and divorce).• Strengthening family life (mostoften mentioned were neglect of children, weak parenting skills, andlack of recognition of the value of counseling).• Resentment of classism, elitism.• Need for less arrogance towardlocal residents.• Complaints about fatigue; no timefor social activities, feeling of lack of balanced life, etc. 47.To make Fairfield a more attractive place to raise a family, I wouldlike:• More parental involvement inafter-school activities, dances, teenage clubs, etc.• Fairfield is a wonderful place toraise children. Desire for more interaction between MSAE, MIU, andpublic schools. Desire for ice-skating rink, bike paths, etc.• MSAE: less emphasis on Sanskrit;more on Western traditional academics. Need for more openness andcreativity; need to deal with drugs, alcohol, and sex education.• Better pay for teachers.• Movement should subsidize poorerparents so all kids can attend MSAE. 59&75.My comments and recommendations regarding TM or TM-Sidhi programs andto improve superradianceare:• Treat participants with trust andrespect.• Need experience meetingsregularly.• It’s perfect just the way itis. Just keep on the program.• Movement recommending programsfor evolution, such as Jyotish, Ayurveda products, yagyas, etc., thenpricing them out of reach of the average Fairfielder.• More flexibility to come in andout of Domes, especially for parents.• Freedom from blacklisting forparticipating in personal growth programs.• Ease the dress codes, especiallyin the Domes.• Do away with reserved spaces inthe Dome.• Too many sales pitches and hypeon courses.• Bathroom access, especially inmen’s Dome. 107.My comments and recommendations to improve TM Movement relations are:• Need for more openness:• Foster non-judgmental attitudes.• Administration should exemplifyin its actions what the Movement preaches.• Eliminate elitism andexclusivity.• People in authority alienate andsometimes offend with arrogance and lack of heart. • Eliminate secrecy and fear.• Administrative • Hire administrators withreal-world experience.• Need for fiscal accountability.• Hold administrators accountable(some suggested elections)• Dissatisfaction with BevanMorris.• Run the Movement withcontemporary American business standards and practices.• Fairfield community deserves tobe rewarded with discounts across the board on all Movement courses,products, and services.• Reduce Movement hyperbole.• Get out of the hotel business andmake Fairfield the focal point.• More and direct contact betweenMaharishi and the Fairfield meditating community.• A concern that the Movement isdying. 108.My major concerns, in order of priority, are:• Money: price of Movement productsand services, economic opportunities, and affordable housing.• Attitude: need for tolerance,love, openness, fairness, harmony, respect, togetherness, and freedomfrom fear.• Movement Administration• Dissatisfaction with quality ofcontact with the Mo
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Fascinating read and thanks for posting. Will take time to read thoroughly but two things leapt out at me: What does "concern for poverty consciousness" mean? And, what do the 38% of people who answered "agree or strongly agree" to the question "I will levitate in my lifetime" think about it now? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Summary of responses to.. ESSAY QUESTIONS Of the 659 people who completed a survey, 548 wrote answers to the essay questions. Many people wrote multiple pages of comments and suggestions; one individual sent in 12 typed pages. We are committed to making available an unedited compilation of all essay responses, and we need volunteers to help us complete this project. Please call 472-7033 if you can help. Because we do not yet have an unedited compilation of the essay questions, volunteers read the surveys and categorized all answers. From these categories, they identified comments more commonly given. (Therefore, not every comment is listed here.) We have provided these comments in this section. The summary to the essay questions necessarily involved a subjective evaluation. While the comments in this summary were commonly mentioned, it is difficult to determine whether they reflect a majority opinion or even a significant minority. They simply reflect the more common essay responses as interpreted by the volunteers who read them. 25. My comments and recommendations regarding economic issues in Fairfield are: • Concern about limited job opportunities. • Need for affordable housing. • Products and programs too expensive. • Fairfield residents should get discounts on all products and programs. • Monies generated in this community should stay here. • Concern about prevalence of poverty consciousness. 37. My comments and recommendations regarding social and family concerns are: • Need for more ethical conduct (most often mentioned were adultery and divorce). • Strengthening family life (most often mentioned were neglect of children, weak parenting skills, and lack of recognition of the value of counseling). • Resentment of classism, elitism. • Need for less arrogance toward local residents. • Complaints about fatigue; no time for social activities, feeling of lack of balanced life, etc. 47. To make Fairfield a more attractive place to raise a family, I would like: • More parental involvement in after-school activities, dances, teenage clubs, etc. • Fairfield is a wonderful place to raise children. Desire for more interaction between MSAE, MIU, and public schools. Desire for ice-skating rink, bike paths, etc. • MSAE: less emphasis on Sanskrit; more on Western traditional academics. Need for more openness and creativity; need to deal with drugs, alcohol, and sex education. • Better pay for teachers. • Movement should subsidize poorer parents so all kids can attend MSAE. 59&75. My comments and recommendations regarding TM or TM-Sidhi programs and to improve superradiance are: • Treat participants with trust and respect. • Need experience meetings regularly. • It’s perfect just the way it is. Just keep on the program. • Movement recommending programs for evolution, such as Jyotish, Ayurveda products, yagyas, etc., then pricing them out of reach of the average Fairfielder. • More flexibility to come in and out of Domes, especially for parents. • Freedom from blacklisting for participating in personal growth programs. • Ease the dress codes, especially in the Domes. • Do away with reserved spaces in the Dome. • Too many sales pitches and hype on courses. • Bathroom access, especially in men’s Dome. 107. My comments and recommendations to improve TM Movement relations are: • Need for more openness: • Foster non-judgmental attitudes. • Administration should exemplify in its actions what the Movement preaches. • Eliminate elitism and exclusivity. • People in authority alienate and sometimes offend with arrogance and lack of heart. • Eliminate secrecy and fear. • Administrative • Hire administrators with real-world experience. • Need for fiscal accountability. • Hold administrators accountable (some suggested elections) • Dissatisfaction with Bevan Morris. • Run the Movement with contemporary American business standards and practices. • Fairfield community deserves to be rewarded with discounts across the board on all Movement courses, products, and services. • Reduce Movement hyperbole. • Get out of the hotel business and make Fairfield the focal point. • More and direct contact between Maharishi and the Fairfield meditating community. • A concern that the Movement is dying. 108. My major concerns, in order of priority, are: • Money: price of Movement products and services, economic opportunities, and affordable housing. • Attitude: need for tolerance, love, openness, fairness, harmony, respect, togetherness, and freedom from fear. • Moveme
[FairfieldLife] Re: The '93-'94 Survey of Meditating Fairfield
Summary of responses to.. ESSAY QUESTIONS Of the 659 people who completed a survey, 548 wrote answers to the essay questions. Many people wrote multiple pages of comments and suggestions; one individual sent in 12 typed pages. We are committed to making available an unedited compilation of all essay responses, and we need volunteers to help us complete this project. Please call 472-7033 if you can help. Because we do not yet have an unedited compilation of the essay questions, volunteers read the surveys and categorized all answers. From these categories, they identified comments more commonly given. (Therefore, not every comment is listed here.) We have provided these comments in this section. The summary to the essay questions necessarily involved a subjective evaluation. While the comments in this summary were commonly mentioned, it is difficult to determine whether they reflect a majority opinion or even a significant minority. They simply reflect the more common essay responses as interpreted by the volunteers who read them. 25. My comments and recommendations regarding economic issues in Fairfield are: • Concern about limited job opportunities. • Need for affordable housing. • Products and programs too expensive. • Fairfield residents should get discounts on all products and programs. • Monies generated in this community should stay here. • Concern about prevalence of poverty consciousness. 37. My comments and recommendations regarding social and family concerns are: • Need for more ethical conduct (most often mentioned were adultery and divorce). • Strengthening family life (most often mentioned were neglect of children, weak parenting skills, and lack of recognition of the value of counseling). • Resentment of classism, elitism. • Need for less arrogance toward local residents. • Complaints about fatigue; no time for social activities, feeling of lack of balanced life, etc. 47. To make Fairfield a more attractive place to raise a family, I would like: • More parental involvement in after-school activities, dances, teenage clubs, etc. • Fairfield is a wonderful place to raise children. Desire for more interaction between MSAE, MIU, and public schools. Desire for ice-skating rink, bike paths, etc. • MSAE: less emphasis on Sanskrit; more on Western traditional academics. Need for more openness and creativity; need to deal with drugs, alcohol, and sex education. • Better pay for teachers. • Movement should subsidize poorer parents so all kids can attend MSAE. 59&75. My comments and recommendations regarding TM or TM-Sidhi programs and to improve superradiance are: • Treat participants with trust and respect. • Need experience meetings regularly. • It’s perfect just the way it is. Just keep on the program. • Movement recommending programs for evolution, such as Jyotish, Ayurveda products, yagyas, etc., then pricing them out of reach of the average Fairfielder. • More flexibility to come in and out of Domes, especially for parents. • Freedom from blacklisting for participating in personal growth programs. • Ease the dress codes, especially in the Domes. • Do away with reserved spaces in the Dome. • Too many sales pitches and hype on courses. • Bathroom access, especially in men’s Dome. 107. My comments and recommendations to improve TM Movement relations are: • Need for more openness: • Foster non-judgmental attitudes. • Administration should exemplify in its actions what the Movement preaches. • Eliminate elitism and exclusivity. • People in authority alienate and sometimes offend with arrogance and lack of heart. • Eliminate secrecy and fear. • Administrative • Hire administrators with real-world experience. • Need for fiscal accountability. • Hold administrators accountable (some suggested elections) • Dissatisfaction with Bevan Morris. • Run the Movement with contemporary American business standards and practices. • Fairfield community deserves to be rewarded with discounts across the board on all Movement courses, products, and services. • Reduce Movement hyperbole. • Get out of the hotel business and make Fairfield the focal point. • More and direct contact between Maharishi and the Fairfield meditating community. • A concern that the Movement is dying. 108. My major concerns, in order of priority, are: • Money: price of Movement products and services, economic opportunities, and affordable housing. • Attitude: need for tolerance, love, openness, fairness, harmony, respect, togetherness, and freedom from fear. • Movement Administration • Dissatisfaction with quality of contact with the Movement. Get back to basics as when the Movement had more heart and everyone was welcome; stop blacklisting. Too much emphasis on money. • Improve physical plant: Domes and campus. • A sense that the techniques, services, and products are promoted for our evolution and then priced