RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

efore the mid-day and to give them longer in the afternoon to ‘do 
things’ of life and be in the community. 
  
 That was important to have happen at the time for people’s health and general 
wellbeing. The long program the way it was enforced was turning folks in to 
pale renunciates in front of us here in the community. Then it is just a matter 
of how people may use their time between meditations. Turning compost for 
health is not a bad use of time. Meditate and perform action.  Communicating 
this by FFL was an effective element at the time in turning this around for the 
better. .
 Jai Guru Dev
 




---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 I think I’d rather shovel cow manure for a living than spend my days spying on 
people through people’s social media, the Weekly Reader, Source, etc.
  
 Note to spies: shoveling cow manure is great exercise and really quite 
enjoyable when you get into it. I used to do it at Livingston Manor. If 
interested, contact Radiance Dairy. They may have openings.
  
 Rick Archer
 Buddha at the Gas Pump
 https://batgap.com

  
 From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com  
 Sent: Friday, December 14, 2018 8:11 PM
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Subject: RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation


  
  
 The Authorities?  Yes they read FFL and make files about people’s social 
media, the Weekly Reader, Source, and such on applicants.  It is their job to 
gather info on people in ferreting out people who are in violation of the 
membership guidelines by making inquiry in to lives.  Yes, with potentially 
long interrogation. 
 One of the things that was held up this last time I was denied a badge was 
about things I may have written on FFL, “about these things you write on 
Fairfield Life”. Yes, you could proly be in some trouble with the membership 
guidelines promoting other spiritual teachers and such by what and who you 
promote with BATGAP. 
  
 The existential problem they have with this is that as they have these written 
guidelines they have to have a staff hired to investigate and enforce them in 
detail over applicants.  The guidelines have been cobbled together, wordsmithed 
over the years either to exclude people and they have been reduced somewhat to 
include peoples who were separated from the group by guideline. The remaining 
exclusionary clauses now are mostly cultural and not simply as to whether 
someone is a practitioner or not. There are three written clauses remaining 
that still are in there that can stick in the craw of the larger meditating 
community. 
  
 The Authorities, I also do send in communication to movement policy makers the 
url’s to posts made on FFL as posts are pithy, incisive, pertinent and relevant 
in the context of having to do with policy. Fairfield Life has had its 
effective place in communications.  But, the people who investigate Dome 
membership applications do not make policy themselves, they just enforce it. 
The people who make decisions you likely will never meet in the process.
  
 May the grace of the Unified Field grant providential support in Nature 
towards overcoming these long problems we all have suffered with our communal 
Dome meditation attendance numbers.  Jai Guru Dev 
 
 
 

 
 
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 
mailto:r...@searchsummit.com> wrote :
 So do the dome authorities still read FFL to see who’s saying what, and 
exclude them if they feel inclined?
  
 Batgap is a funny phenomena with regard to this issue. I promote other 
teachers up the wazoo, and probably wouldn’t be allowed in the dome if I wanted 
to be, but I’ve interviewed Hagelin and Pearson, and others who still go to the 
dome. A senior faculty member listens to just about every BatGap interview and 
we sometimes chat about them. He said he even discusses them with other faculty 
in his department sometimes.
  
 Rick Archer
 Buddha at the Gas Pump
 https://batgap.com https://batgap.com

  
 From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> 
 Sent: Friday, December 14, 2018 10:52 AM
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation


  
  
  
 Q: I appreciate what you’re doing with the group meditation thing, but I like 
meditating at home. I usually take a nap first, then just sit up and meditate. 
Times vary.
  
 A: Evidently a lot of people feel this way also about meditating with the TM 
group, not turning out for what was superradiance
 of the group.
 The numbers in the Dome meditation are incredibly low now.
  
 A radical transcendentalist's response to excuses, like the.. 
  
  This Insulting Frenchman's:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSo0duY7-9s 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSo0duY7-9s
  
  
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mailto:dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote :
 banned from the Domes.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiKZjq0vTWg 
https://w

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation! Excellent well written Doug! Great start for a FRESH & look inwards via the dome experience to be more inclusive

[srijau]

Thank you  for you continuing commitment to a better world through uplifting 
group consciousness and more fair and accountable organizational structures.

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation! Excellent well written Doug! Great start for a FRESH & look inwards via the dome experience to be more inclusive

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

Looking through the whole Batgap list now I can see some lot of interviewees 
whose spiritual pollination or incubation included ™ in their biography though 
they may not be affiliated directly with ™now. This is a longer list in itself. 
™ like reading Yogananda’s book was an aspect that was pervasive in 
counter-culture to the orthodox at a time in a demographic shift of the 
‘spiritual but not religious’ transformation that has taken place in the last 
50 years. Batgap coming as it has as a phenomena in the information age seems 
emblematic of a (progressive) transformation that is going on. 
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Batgap guests with a TM background: 
https://batgap.com/past-interviews/categorical-index-guests/#TM
  
 Rick Archer
 Buddha at the Gas Pump
 https://batgap.com

  
 From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com  
 Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2019 6:49 AM
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation! Excellent 
well written Doug! Great start for a FRESH & look inwards via the dome 
experience to be more inclusive


  
  
  
 Good question, ArchOn. There is a composite of things here.
 Reading your observation out to meditators in Ff, with easy regaling people do 
readily recall how nice the inner experiences were meditating in the group 
whence the aggregate numbers meditating together before were high.
  
 Comments Also,
 “Those who want to be and can be there doing program in the Domes are there 
now.”
 “The place is still incredibly activated as a place to meditate.”
 “For too long, since the 1980’s, the cumulative communications of exclusion 
were such that it became known that the group was not necessarily welcoming.”
  
 “There is an assumption on both the admin and meditating community sides that 
people are not even listening and that it is way or likely past a recovery 
point.” 
 “This is sad really.”
  
 “Knowing a moral character involved and the hostage taking of the creed of 
their religious belief, “That if Maharishi said something, it can’t be 
changed”, it will take massive administrative leadership magnanimity to move 
this forward towards thriving again, let alone just surviving.” 
  
 mag·na·nim·i·ty
 generosity, charitableness, charity, benevolence, beneficence, 
open-handedness, big-heartedness, great-heartedness, liberality, humanity, 
nobility, chivalry, kindness, munificence, bountifulness, bounty, largesse, 
altruism, philanthropy; 
 unselfishness, selflessness, self-sacrifice, self-denial; 
 clemency, mercy, leniency, forgiveness, indulgence
  
 There is an enduring cultural fear and anxiety about spiritual teachers as a 
stance that remains in the ownership that is held within the written membership 
guidelines for the group meditations. Fearing of people who would be spiritual 
teachers, fearing of those with their persistence for visiting spiritual 
people, and a fear of people, old meditators, who may work for other spiritual 
teachers.  By one or another count these have been held against people of the 
TM meditating community for decades here. 
  
 Our demographic pool to draw on has gotten very small. 
 In practicality those who have wanted to be in the Domes meditating with the 
large group often have worked around the guidelines i e., staying low as 
frightened flyers or as the process taught towards being yogic liars, while 
others simply have withdrawn from the movement community. 
  
 May the providential support of Nature grace a survival of the Fairfield Dome 
meditations through these currents of adverse times. Jai Guru Dev.  
  
 A remarkable thing now is to recognize how many people with their resources 
have sold homes and moved away now by what seems became a lack in communal 
cohesion driven to a detachment of peoples meditating in the Dome group by a 
remoteness from an insular group inside TM.   
  
 This while a number of folks of the old TM meditating community have become 
relevant spiritual commentators in larger culture as spiritual teachers where 
each can represent communal nodes of  old TM meditators who associate. The 
narrow membership guidelines to the group Dome meditation practice with the 
large group in the past were adversarial to and would have excluded most all of 
them. Scroll down Rick Archer’s Buddha at the Gas Pump and see how many of 
those interviewees are TM meditator alumni with TM in their pedigree and also 
have alignment followings that include TM meditators. Evidently these are a 
fruit of TM going mainstream. Should Batgappers with a following be able to 
simply meditate with the large group as TM meditators? 
  
 Figure there were about 6000 TM teachers in the mid-1970’s in the United 
States and only about 560 active TM teachers now and 300 or 400 people 
meditating in the Domes now. Driven on for decades these membership guidelines 
for participation in the large group have not been sympathetic towards 
gathering what is a gone 

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation! Excellent well written Doug! Great start for a FRESH & look inwards via the dome experience to be more inclusive

[Rick Archer r...@searchsummit.com [FairfieldLife]]

Batgap guests with a TM background: 
https://batgap.com/past-interviews/categorical-index-guests/#TM

Rick Archer
Buddha at the Gas Pump
https://batgap.com

From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2019 6:49 AM
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation! Excellent 
well written Doug! Great start for a FRESH & look inwards via the dome 
experience to be more inclusive




Good question, ArchOn. There is a composite of things here.

Reading your observation out to meditators in Ff, with easy regaling people do 
readily recall how nice the inner experiences were meditating in the group 
whence the aggregate numbers meditating together before were high.


Comments Also,

“Those who want to be and can be there doing program in the Domes are there 
now.”

“The place is still incredibly activated as a place to meditate.”

“For too long, since the 1980’s, the cumulative communications of exclusion 
were such that it became known that the group was not necessarily welcoming.”


“There is an assumption on both the admin and meditating community sides that 
people are not even listening and that it is way or likely past a recovery 
point.”

“This is sad really.”


“Knowing a moral character involved and the hostage taking of the creed of 
their religious belief, “That if Maharishi said something, it can’t be 
changed”, it will take massive administrative leadership magnanimity to move 
this forward towards thriving again, let alone just surviving.”


mag·na·nim·i·ty

generosity, charitableness, charity, benevolence, beneficence, open-handedness, 
big-heartedness, great-heartedness, liberality, humanity, nobility, chivalry, 
kindness, munificence, bountifulness, bounty, largesse, altruism, philanthropy;

unselfishness, selflessness, self-sacrifice, self-denial;

clemency, mercy, leniency, forgiveness, indulgence


There is an enduring cultural fear and anxiety about spiritual teachers as a 
stance that remains in the ownership that is held within the written membership 
guidelines for the group meditations. Fearing of people who would be spiritual 
teachers, fearing of those with their persistence for visiting spiritual 
people, and a fear of people, old meditators, who may work for other spiritual 
teachers.  By one or another count these have been held against people of the 
TM meditating community for decades here.


Our demographic pool to draw on has gotten very small.

In practicality those who have wanted to be in the Domes meditating with the 
large group often have worked around the guidelines i e., staying low as 
frightened flyers or as the process taught towards being yogic liars, while 
others simply have withdrawn from the movement community.


May the providential support of Nature grace a survival of the Fairfield Dome 
meditations through these currents of adverse times. Jai Guru Dev.


A remarkable thing now is to recognize how many people with their resources 
have sold homes and moved away now by what seems became a lack in communal 
cohesion driven to a detachment of peoples meditating in the Dome group by a 
remoteness from an insular group inside TM.


This while a number of folks of the old TM meditating community have become 
relevant spiritual commentators in larger culture as spiritual teachers where 
each can represent communal nodes of  old TM meditators who associate. The 
narrow membership guidelines to the group Dome meditation practice with the 
large group in the past were adversarial to and would have excluded most all of 
them. Scroll down Rick Archer’s Buddha at the Gas Pump and see how many of 
those interviewees are TM meditator alumni with TM in their pedigree and also 
have alignment followings that include TM meditators. Evidently these are a 
fruit of TM going mainstream. Should Batgappers with a following be able to 
simply meditate with the large group as TM meditators?


Figure there were about 6000 TM teachers in the mid-1970’s in the United States 
and only about 560 active TM teachers now and 300 or 400 people meditating in 
the Domes now. Driven on for decades these membership guidelines for 
participation in the large group have not been sympathetic towards gathering 
what is a gone away group back now. These policy guidelines instead have driven 
a type of known “bad blood” that is around TM.  For instance someone, an old 
TM’er, made a teacher by Maharishi, active in the meditating community here now 
and 30 years ago who stopped going to the Domes to meditate that long ago when 
friends in the old meditating community here were hunted down and had their 
Dome badges taken for seeing saints. This person living here with the evident 
administrative dissonance with the community has not been back in the Domes 
since.


Which goes back to that comment above,

“There is an assumption on both the admin and meditating community sides that 
people are not even listening and that it is

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation! Excellent well written Doug! Great start for a FRESH & look inwards via the dome experience to be more inclusive

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

 aside, it does appear the Superradiance experiment is actually a 
failure. Why not just cap it off and do something that is worthwhile in some 
other way?
 

 Leadership is an important contribution, but there could be other reasons why 
people don't come. What is the level of fulfillment for people who do do the 
program, but for some other reason do not come?
 

 What are peoples' experience of the techniques in general? When experiences 
are published, they are the cream of the crop, but what about the average joe? 
Lots of peoples' experiences of meditation and the sidhi program are not 
spectacular by any means. How do you entice them?

 
 

 On Saturday, February 2, 2019, 3:01:47 AM GMT, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com 
[FairfieldLife]  wrote: 
 

 

   
 Re: The Importance of Group Meditation! Excellent well written Doug! Great 
start for a FRESH & look inwards via the dome experience to be more inclusive.. 

 In FF conversation.. 
 

"..Spiritual Evolution is a whole lot easier in a group. It will take a whole 
lot longer individually, to do this individually alone. It ‘takes a village’. 
When we do this together obviously you are the first beneficiary of it but you 
are also affecting the collective, our collective and also the larger 
collective.  So thank you for coming to Fairfield and the group meditation in 
community we do here." 
 


 Yes, thanks for seeing this. . 

 It should be important in the survival of the Dome meditation right now that 
any who have access to levels of the ownership in TM where policy is made could 
be copying and pasting points of this exchange below in to communication with 
those power people at the top. Engage whoever and wherever the power is vested, 
where the levers of power are.  Send ‘em a letter, mail, e-mail, imessages, 
facebook messenger, phone them, tweet them, however. 

 The Dome meditation attendance numbers are in crisis. Month by month these 
numbers continue to dwindle. The metrics of this situation are foreboding. 
Numbers are dropping in a consistency by 10 and 20 a month for many many months 
now. This is not just an administrative problem but one of leadership. The 
recent month attendance numbers are not just lower but now hitting lows lower 
than they were prior to the beginning of the late assembly in 2006.  

 There evidently is a core cultural problem in leadership of the TM movement 
that for a cohesion in survival of this community needs to be proactively 
addressed right now. Everyone’s help is needed on pressing this now.  

 Who has contact with, policy access to Dr. Nader? 
 Dr. Hagelin: MUM President’s Office,  641-472-1260. presid...@mum.edu 
mailto:presid...@mum.edu

 JGD, 

 
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 EXCELLENT Doug very well thought  & presented in a respectful, &  loving manor 
with the past restrictive codes put aside, MOST REFRESHING!  To read & to see 
the compassion & love between the lines Doug!
 
 
 The group meditation  & coupling it with the TM Sidhi program reduces combat , 
prevents wars & is most helpful for the health of the community at large.
 AGAIN THANKS in gratitude for your well shared KNOWLEDGE back up with Guru Dev 
Quotes
 
 
 -Original Message-
 From: dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] 
 To: FairfieldLife 
 Sent: Sun, Jan 20, 2019 7:59 am
 Subject: RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation
 
 
 
 ..based on the non-religious Transcendental Meditation (TM) program,
 As strange as it may sound, when large groups of trained practitioners sit 
down on a daily basis to do this meditation program together, a powerful "field 
effect" of coherence and peace ripples throughout the consciousness of the 
surrounding population. The bigger the group the bigger the effect. The 
outcomes, confirmed repeatedly by extensive scientific research, are consistent 
and measurable decreases in war deaths, terrorism, and crime.
 
 
 
 
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :
 
 Dear Drs. Hagelin and Nader:

 Now that the pundits are gone from Maharishi Vedic City, Iowa could you write 
the membership application guidelines for the Domes anew?

 The old guidelines are yet too inflammatory towards superradiance as they are 
cobbled and wordsmithed.  Please sit and write with a new piece of paper a new 
and fresh Dome application guideline now for membership in the group programs, 
now the pundits are gone. Start with a fresh sheet of paper.  Get it down to 
simple: did someone learn the ™ programs and that this is what they will do in 
the group programs for superradiance. 

 This would be a good time to just go in and gut, drop the clause from the 
guidelines that remains excluding from membership people who spend money on 
‘non-Maharishi’ jyotish and yagya. The earnest reason it was put in there 
originally evidently has gone away. It is time to just get rid of that clause 
in the membership application guideline. T

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation

[srijau]

its good for where they are it does not work well for the whole world. 
Maharishi was trying to re-establish something after thousands of years, he was 
playing with time that householders do TM in the beginning at one point an hour 
and at another 15mins and then 20, he didnt now everything in detail without 
experimentation. .. He also said every place need to have its own groups as 
well these big groups in one place which are a start. The world as a whole may 
be on an upward path but the super-power countries are all lacking in 
coherence. It could be a formula for a very rough transformation

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

Poll Finds Trust In Science Is Rising, But as contrast there seems a meditating 
communal skepticism to the superradiant value of meditating in groups now.  A 
communal antipathy of the science of meditating. A deeper lack of science 
literacy in a disrespect for the significance or a victim of hyperbole? The 
communal Dome group meditation numbers seem to be in the dumper.  
 Trust in Science, 
 NPR on Pew survey of Americans..
 
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/08/02/747561031/poll-finds-trust-in-science-is-rising
 
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/08/02/747561031/poll-finds-trust-in-science-is-rising
  
 

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation

[keosauquakid]

According to Raja Luis, there are now groups of 10,000 somewhere in South 
America. 

 According to the Super Radiance theory, this exceeds the square root of 1% of 
the world's population -- and this should be sufficient to bring about world 
peace.
 

 So doesn't this make Fairfield numbers moot?
 

 Do you believe the Raja?
 

 

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

the community. 
  
 That was important to have happen at the time for people’s health and general 
wellbeing. The long program the way it was enforced was turning folks in to 
pale renunciates in front of us here in the community. Then it is just a matter 
of how people may use their time between meditations. Turning compost for 
health is not a bad use of time. Meditate and perform action.  Communicating 
this by FFL was an effective element at the time in turning this around for the 
better. .
 Jai Guru Dev
 


 



---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 I think I’d rather shovel cow manure for a living than spend my days spying on 
people through people’s social media, the Weekly Reader, Source, etc.
  
 Note to spies: shoveling cow manure is great exercise and really quite 
enjoyable when you get into it. I used to do it at Livingston Manor. If 
interested, contact Radiance Dairy. They may have openings.
  
 Rick Archer
 Buddha at the Gas Pump
 https://batgap.com

  
 From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com  
 Sent: Friday, December 14, 2018 8:11 PM
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Subject: RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation


  
  
 The Authorities?  Yes they read FFL and make files about people’s social 
media, the Weekly Reader, Source, and such on applicants.  It is their job to 
gather info on people in ferreting out people who are in violation of the 
membership guidelines by making inquiry in to lives.  Yes, with potentially 
long interrogation. 
 One of the things that was held up this last time I was denied a badge was 
about things I may have written on FFL, “about these things you write on 
Fairfield Life”. Yes, you could proly be in some trouble with the membership 
guidelines promoting other spiritual teachers and such by what and who you 
promote with BATGAP. 
  
 The existential problem they have with this is that as they have these written 
guidelines they have to have a staff hired to investigate and enforce them in 
detail over applicants.  The guidelines have been cobbled together, wordsmithed 
over the years either to exclude people and they have been reduced somewhat to 
include peoples who were separated from the group by guideline. The remaining 
exclusionary clauses now are mostly cultural and not simply as to whether 
someone is a practitioner or not. There are three written clauses remaining 
that still are in there that can stick in the craw of the larger meditating 
community. 
  
 The Authorities, I also do send in communication to movement policy makers the 
url’s to posts made on FFL as posts are pithy, incisive, pertinent and relevant 
in the context of having to do with policy. Fairfield Life has had its 
effective place in communications.  But, the people who investigate Dome 
membership applications do not make policy themselves, they just enforce it. 
The people who make decisions you likely will never meet in the process.
  
 May the grace of the Unified Field grant providential support in Nature 
towards overcoming these long problems we all have suffered with our communal 
Dome meditation attendance numbers.  Jai Guru Dev 
 
 
 

 
 
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 
mailto:r...@searchsummit.com> wrote :
 So do the dome authorities still read FFL to see who’s saying what, and 
exclude them if they feel inclined?
  
 Batgap is a funny phenomena with regard to this issue. I promote other 
teachers up the wazoo, and probably wouldn’t be allowed in the dome if I wanted 
to be, but I’ve interviewed Hagelin and Pearson, and others who still go to the 
dome. A senior faculty member listens to just about every BatGap interview and 
we sometimes chat about them. He said he even discusses them with other faculty 
in his department sometimes.
  
 Rick Archer
 Buddha at the Gas Pump
 https://batgap.com https://batgap.com

  
 From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> 
 Sent: Friday, December 14, 2018 10:52 AM
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation


  
  
  
 Q: I appreciate what you’re doing with the group meditation thing, but I like 
meditating at home. I usually take a nap first, then just sit up and meditate. 
Times vary.
  
 A: Evidently a lot of people feel this way also about meditating with the TM 
group, not turning out for what was superradiance
 of the group.
 The numbers in the Dome meditation are incredibly low now.
  
 A radical transcendentalist's response to excuses, like the.. 
  
  This Insulting Frenchman's:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSo0duY7-9s 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSo0duY7-9s
  
  
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mailto:dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote :
 banned from the Domes.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiKZjq0vTWg 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiKZjq0vTWg
  

  
 It is time to start change with the memb

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

 

To an..

 
 Upcoming Nationwide
TM Group Meditation
 Sunday, February 24, 4:30 pm CST
 

 Please join us for our next Nationwide Group Meditation on February 24 

 Group Meditation at 5:05 pm CST

 New for those meditating at the same time on their own
 
 For those who cannot make it to a Center, we’d still love you to join us by 
meditating at the same time [5:05 pm CST], wherever you are. 
 Also, record your “remote” participation by clicking here 
https://mum.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0baef123e6d28ab4b21c9087a=f6f8b52083=919bd5d8cb
 :
  
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 We look forward to seeing you at our Nationwide TM Group Meditation on 
February 24, 
 and then again on the March 24 Global Group Meditation.
 


 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 ..based on the non-religious Transcendental Meditation (TM) program,
 As strange as it may sound, when large groups of trained practitioners sit 
down on a daily basis to do this meditation program together, a powerful "field 
effect" of coherence and peace ripples throughout the consciousness of the 
surrounding population. The bigger the group the bigger the effect. The 
outcomes, confirmed repeatedly by extensive scientific research, are consistent 
and measurable decreases in war deaths, terrorism, and crime.
 

 

 Dear Drs. Hagelin and Nader:

 Now that the pundits are gone from Maharishi Vedic City, Iowa could you write 
the membership application guidelines for the Domes anew?

 The old guidelines are yet too inflammatory towards superradiance as they are 
cobbled and wordsmithed.  Please sit and write with a new piece of paper a new 
and fresh Dome application guideline now for membership in the group programs, 
now the pundits are gone. Start with a fresh sheet of paper.  Get it down to 
simple: did someone learn the ™ programs and that this is what they will do in 
the group programs for superradiance. 

 This would be a good time to just go in and gut, drop the clause from the 
guidelines that remains excluding from membership people who spend money on 
‘non-Maharishi’ jyotish and yagya. The earnest reason it was put in there 
originally evidently has gone away. It is time to just get rid of that clause 
in the membership application guideline. There is no sense now to having the 
office staff there investigating that one on people anymore. 

 The pundit program had been a long endured suction of resource out of the 
Fairfield community. That clause about people spending monies on 
‘non-Maharishi’ jyotish and yagya along with the couple of other clauses that 
are left there as some kind of fealty test within the membership guidelines is 
just needlessly inflammatory to succeeding with the Dome attendance numbers and 
superradiance in Fairfield now.  

 Sincerely, Doug Hamilton.  
 

 
 A morality,   Q: I don’t recall anything about “principles of higher moral 
character” in the air when we first came here from Amherst.
  
 A: Meditation in groups,  Maharishi was consistent the whole way about the 
utility of group meditating influencing a wellbeing of good for others at a 
distance. This remarkable idea in practice is a simple disruptor to a lot of 
people’s material paradigm but after so many decades of inquiry in to this 
observation the science has well borne out the hypothesis.  
  
 And, Guru Dev too in his spiritual construct on moral order could have easily 
agreed now given what all we know from the inquiry of science, that people who 
do not go to group meditations when they could join with them are being amoral 
in their selfishness. 
  
 That someone sitting out in a coffee house whether in Leiden watching videos 
on their laptop or those meditators idle downtown around the Fairfield, iowa 
town square at Paradiso, the Cider House, the Sushi bar, or in Revelations 
during the communal group meditation is near to worthless and worse morally in 
their contribution to the general good and communal welfare, a drag, amoral.  
  
 So this, the virtue of group meditation is now in the reach of this spiritual 
but not religious time of science and spirituality that we do live in.  Yet, 
people who would stay home by themselves, be it some Raja hold up somewhere out 
there by themselves, or an editor working overtime somewhere and may be would 
meditate later, but also an administration and its defenders with a 
religious-like adherence to ill-serving guidelines that should keep people away 
who could otherwise be meditating with the group evidently are all worst than 
sad but pretty bad morally.  Jai Guru Dev. 
  
 Thread 437705
 Re: What did ‘Guru Dev’ say on Spiritual Morality and its Moral Compass
 
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/437705 

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

versations/messages/437705 
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/437705
  
  
 .< Interesting to see how the principles of higher moral character that were 
the communal experiment started at Amherst in ‘78 have been eroded and hurt in 
the administration of it.
 For outsiders or people from away looking in on the experiment I recommend 
their reading "Greetings From Utopia Park" and listening to the NPR 'Fresh Air' 
interview of Claire Hoffman for insight to how it went.  
  
 I don’t recall anything about “principles of higher moral character” in the 
air when we first came here from Amherst.
  
 Q: I appreciate what you’re doing with the group meditation thing, but I like 
meditating at home. I usually take a nap first, then just sit up and meditate. 
Times vary.
  
 A: Evidently a lot of people feel this way also about meditating with the TM 
group, not turning out for what was superradiance
 of the group. 
 The numbers in the Dome meditation are incredibly low now.
  
 #
 



---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Meditation brings wisdom;
 lack of meditation leaves ignorance.
 Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back,
 and choose the path that leads to wisdom.  -The Buddha
 


---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Meditate and Act
 

 Meditation with activity has always been the TM teaching (B.Gita II v 48).  
This teaching was one of the things also used to convince a change in the 
administration policy at a point to modify the ‘long’ IAAssembly morning 
program rounds to get it all shortened down more to what it is now with the 
idea according to the teaching to get them out of there and in to the world and 
community before the mid-day and to give them longer in the afternoon to ‘do 
things’ of life and be in the community. 
  
 That was important to have happen at the time for people’s health and general 
wellbeing. The long program the way it was enforced was turning folks in to 
pale renunciates in front of us here in the community. Then it is just a matter 
of how people may use their time between meditations. Turning compost for 
health is not a bad use of time. Meditate and perform action.  Communicating 
this by FFL was an effective element at the time in turning this around for the 
better. .
 Jai Guru Dev
 




---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 I think I’d rather shovel cow manure for a living than spend my days spying on 
people through people’s social media, the Weekly Reader, Source, etc.
  
 Note to spies: shoveling cow manure is great exercise and really quite 
enjoyable when you get into it. I used to do it at Livingston Manor. If 
interested, contact Radiance Dairy. They may have openings.
  
 Rick Archer
 Buddha at the Gas Pump
 https://batgap.com

  
 From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com  
 Sent: Friday, December 14, 2018 8:11 PM
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Subject: RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation


  
  
 The Authorities?  Yes they read FFL and make files about people’s social 
media, the Weekly Reader, Source, and such on applicants.  It is their job to 
gather info on people in ferreting out people who are in violation of the 
membership guidelines by making inquiry in to lives.  Yes, with potentially 
long interrogation. 
 One of the things that was held up this last time I was denied a badge was 
about things I may have written on FFL, “about these things you write on 
Fairfield Life”. Yes, you could proly be in some trouble with the membership 
guidelines promoting other spiritual teachers and such by what and who you 
promote with BATGAP. 
  
 The existential problem they have with this is that as they have these written 
guidelines they have to have a staff hired to investigate and enforce them in 
detail over applicants.  The guidelines have been cobbled together, wordsmithed 
over the years either to exclude people and they have been reduced somewhat to 
include peoples who were separated from the group by guideline. The remaining 
exclusionary clauses now are mostly cultural and not simply as to whether 
someone is a practitioner or not. There are three written clauses remaining 
that still are in there that can stick in the craw of the larger meditating 
community. 
  
 The Authorities, I also do send in communication to movement policy makers the 
url’s to posts made on FFL as posts are pithy, incisive, pertinent and relevant 
in the context of having to do with policy. Fairfield Life has had its 
effective place in communications.  But, the people who investigate Dome 
membership applications do not make policy themselves, they just enforce it. 
The people who make decisions you likely will never meet in the process.
  
 May the grace of the Unified Field grant providential support in Nature 
towards overcoming these long problems we all have suffered with our communal 
Dome meditation attendance numbers.  Jai Guru Dev 
 
 
 

 

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation! Excellent well written Doug! Great start for a FRESH & look inwards via the dome experience to be more inclusive

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

, it does appear the Superradiance experiment is actually a 
failure. Why not just cap it off and do something that is worthwhile in some 
other way?
 

 Leadership is an important contribution, but there could be other reasons why 
people don't come. What is the level of fulfillment for people who do do the 
program, but for some other reason do not come?
 

 What are peoples' experience of the techniques in general? When experiences 
are published, they are the cream of the crop, but what about the average joe? 
Lots of peoples' experiences of meditation and the sidhi program are not 
spectacular by any means. How do you entice them?

 


 On Saturday, February 2, 2019, 3:01:47 AM GMT, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com 
[FairfieldLife]  wrote: 
 

 

   
 Re: The Importance of Group Meditation! Excellent well written Doug! Great 
start for a FRESH & look inwards via the dome experience to be more inclusive.. 

 In FF conversation.. 
 

"..Spiritual Evolution is a whole lot easier in a group. It will take a whole 
lot longer individually, to do this individually alone. It ‘takes a village’. 
When we do this together obviously you are the first beneficiary of it but you 
are also affecting the collective, our collective and also the larger 
collective.  So thank you for coming to Fairfield and the group meditation in 
community we do here." 
 


 Yes, thanks for seeing this. . 

 It should be important in the survival of the Dome meditation right now that 
any who have access to levels of the ownership in TM where policy is made could 
be copying and pasting points of this exchange below in to communication with 
those power people at the top. Engage whoever and wherever the power is vested, 
where the levers of power are.  Send ‘em a letter, mail, e-mail, imessages, 
facebook messenger, phone them, tweet them, however. 

 The Dome meditation attendance numbers are in crisis. Month by month these 
numbers continue to dwindle. The metrics of this situation are foreboding. 
Numbers are dropping in a consistency by 10 and 20 a month for many many months 
now. This is not just an administrative problem but one of leadership. The 
recent month attendance numbers are not just lower but now hitting lows lower 
than they were prior to the beginning of the late assembly in 2006.  

 There evidently is a core cultural problem in leadership of the TM movement 
that for a cohesion in survival of this community needs to be proactively 
addressed right now. Everyone’s help is needed on pressing this now.  

 Who has contact with, policy access to Dr. Nader? 
 Dr. Hagelin: MUM President’s Office,  641-472-1260. presid...@mum.edu 
mailto:presid...@mum.edu

 JGD, 

 
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 EXCELLENT Doug very well thought  & presented in a respectful, &  loving manor 
with the past restrictive codes put aside, MOST REFRESHING!  To read & to see 
the compassion & love between the lines Doug!
 
 
 The group meditation  & coupling it with the TM Sidhi program reduces combat , 
prevents wars & is most helpful for the health of the community at large.
 AGAIN THANKS in gratitude for your well shared KNOWLEDGE back up with Guru Dev 
Quotes
 
 
 -Original Message-
 From: dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] 
 To: FairfieldLife 
 Sent: Sun, Jan 20, 2019 7:59 am
 Subject: RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation
 
 
 
 ..based on the non-religious Transcendental Meditation (TM) program,
 As strange as it may sound, when large groups of trained practitioners sit 
down on a daily basis to do this meditation program together, a powerful "field 
effect" of coherence and peace ripples throughout the consciousness of the 
surrounding population. The bigger the group the bigger the effect. The 
outcomes, confirmed repeatedly by extensive scientific research, are consistent 
and measurable decreases in war deaths, terrorism, and crime.
 
 
 
 
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :
 
 Dear Drs. Hagelin and Nader:

 Now that the pundits are gone from Maharishi Vedic City, Iowa could you write 
the membership application guidelines for the Domes anew?

 The old guidelines are yet too inflammatory towards superradiance as they are 
cobbled and wordsmithed.  Please sit and write with a new piece of paper a new 
and fresh Dome application guideline now for membership in the group programs, 
now the pundits are gone. Start with a fresh sheet of paper.  Get it down to 
simple: did someone learn the ™ programs and that this is what they will do in 
the group programs for superradiance. 

 This would be a good time to just go in and gut, drop the clause from the 
guidelines that remains excluding from membership people who spend money on 
‘non-Maharishi’ jyotish and yagya. The earnest reason it was put in there 
originally evidently has gone away. It is time to just get rid of that clause 
in the membership application guideline. There is no sense now

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation! Excellent well written Doug! Great start for a FRESH & look inwards via the dome experience to be more inclusive

[srijau]

there are profoundly satisfying experiences however:

 1. they are dead now

 or

 2. they cannot afford to live there without the stipend
 or

 3. its too cold when you are that old now.
 that pretty much sums it up

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation! Excellent well written Doug! Great start for a FRESH & look inwards via the dome experience to be more inclusive

[Archer Angel archonan...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

 Advertising aside, it does appear the Superradiance experiment is actually a 
failure. Why not just cap it off and do something that is worthwhile in some 
other way?
Leadership is an important contribution, but there could be other reasons why 
people don't come. What is the level of fulfillment for people who do do the 
program, but for some other reason do not come?
What are peoples' experience of the techniques in general? When experiences are 
published, they are the cream of the crop, but what about the average joe? Lots 
of peoples' experiences of meditation and the sidhi program are not spectacular 
by any means. How do you entice them?

On Saturday, February 2, 2019, 3:01:47 AM GMT, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com 
[FairfieldLife]  wrote:  
 
     


Re: The Importance of Group Meditation! 

Excellent well written Doug! Great start for a FRESH & look inwards via the 
dome experience to be more inclusive..


In FF conversation.. 
"..Spiritual Evolution is a whole lot easier in a group. It will take a whole 
lot longer individually, to do this individually alone. It ‘takes a village’. 
When we do this together obviously you are the first beneficiary of it but you 
are also affecting the collective, our collective and also the larger 
collective.  So thank you for coming to Fairfield and the group meditation in 
community we do here." 




Yes, thanks for seeing this. . 


It should be important in the survival of the Dome meditation right now that 
any who have access to levels of the ownership in TM where policy is made could 
be copying and pasting points of this exchange below in to communication with 
those power people at the top. Engage whoever and wherever the power is vested, 
where the levers of power are.  Send ‘em a letter, mail, e-mail, imessages, 
facebook messenger, phone them, tweet them, however. 


The Dome meditation attendance numbers are in crisis. Month by month these 
numbers continue to dwindle. The metrics of this situation are foreboding. 
Numbers are dropping in a consistency by 10 and 20 a month for many many months 
now. This is not just an administrative problem but one of leadership. The 
recent month attendance numbers are not just lower but now hitting lows lower 
than they were prior to the beginning of the late assembly in 2006.  


There evidently is a core cultural problem in leadership of the TM movement 
that for a cohesion in survival of this community needs to be proactively 
addressed right now. Everyone’s help is needed on pressing this now..  


 Who has contact with, policy access to Dr. Nader? 

Dr. Hagelin: MUM President’s Office,  641-472-1260. presid...@mum.edu


 JGD, 


---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

EXCELLENT Doug very well thought  & presented in a respectful, &  loving manor 
with the past restrictive codes put aside, MOST REFRESHING!  To read & to see 
the compassion & love between the lines Doug!
The group meditation  & coupling it with the TM Sidhi program reduces combat , 
prevents wars & is most helpful for the health of the community at large.AGAIN 
THANKS in gratitude for your well shared KNOWLEDGE back up with Guru Dev Quotes


-Original Message-
From: dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] 
To: FairfieldLife 
Sent: Sun, Jan 20, 2019 7:59 am
Subject: RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation



...based on the non-religious Transcendental Meditation (TM) program,As strange 
as it may sound, when large groups of trained practitioners sit down on a daily 
basis to do this meditation program together, a powerful "field effect" of 
coherence and peace ripples throughout the consciousness of the surrounding 
population. The bigger the group the bigger the effect. The outcomes, confirmed 
repeatedly by extensive scientific research, are consistent and measurable 
decreases in war deaths, terrorism, and crime.


---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

Dear Drs. Hagelin and Nader:
Now that the pundits are gone from Maharishi Vedic City, Iowa could you write 
the membership application guidelines for the Domes anew?
The old guidelines are yet too inflammatory towards superradiance as they are 
cobbled and wordsmithed.  Please sit and write with a new piece of paper a new 
and fresh Dome application guideline now for membership in the group programs, 
now the pundits are gone. Start with a fresh sheet of paper..  Get it down to 
simple: did someone learn the ™ programs and that this is what they will do in 
the group programs for superradiance. 
This would be a good time to just go in and gut, drop the clause from the 
guidelines that remains excluding from membership people who spend money on 
‘non-Maharishi’ jyotish and yagya. The earnest reason it was put in there 
originally evidently has gone away. It is time to just get rid of that clause 
in the membership application guideline. There is no sense now to having the 
office staff there investigating

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation! Excellent well written Doug! Great start for a FRESH & look inwards via the dome experience to be more inclusive

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

Re: The Importance of Group Meditation! Excellent well written Doug! Great 
start for a FRESH & look inwards via the dome experience to be more inclusive.. 

 In FF conversation.. 
 

"..Spiritual Evolution is a whole lot easier in a group. It will take a whole 
lot longer individually, to do this individually alone. It ‘takes a village’. 
When we do this together obviously you are the first beneficiary of it but you 
are also affecting the collective, our collective and also the larger 
collective.  So thank you for coming to Fairfield and the group meditation in 
community we do here." 
 


 Yes, thanks for seeing this. . 

 It should be important in the survival of the Dome meditation right now that 
any who have access to levels of the ownership in TM where policy is made could 
be copying and pasting points of this exchange below in to communication with 
those power people at the top. Engage whoever and wherever the power is vested, 
where the levers of power are.  Send ‘em a letter, mail, e-mail, imessages, 
facebook messenger, phone them, tweet them, however. 

 The Dome meditation attendance numbers are in crisis. Month by month these 
numbers continue to dwindle. The metrics of this situation are foreboding. 
Numbers are dropping in a consistency by 10 and 20 a month for many many months 
now. This is not just an administrative problem but one of leadership. The 
recent month attendance numbers are not just lower but now hitting lows lower 
than they were prior to the beginning of the late assembly in 2006.  

 There evidently is a core cultural problem in leadership of the TM movement 
that for a cohesion in survival of this community needs to be proactively 
addressed right now. Everyone’s help is needed on pressing this now.  

 Who has contact with, policy access to Dr. Nader? 
 Dr. Hagelin: MUM President’s Office,  641-472-1260. presid...@mum.edu 
mailto:presid...@mum.edu

 JGD, 

 
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 EXCELLENT Doug very well thought  & presented in a respectful, &  loving manor 
with the past restrictive codes put aside, MOST REFRESHING!  To read & to see 
the compassion & love between the lines Doug!
 
 
 The group meditation  & coupling it with the TM Sidhi program reduces combat , 
prevents wars & is most helpful for the health of the community at large.
 AGAIN THANKS in gratitude for your well shared KNOWLEDGE back up with Guru Dev 
Quotes
 
 
 -Original Message-
 From: dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] 
 To: FairfieldLife 
 Sent: Sun, Jan 20, 2019 7:59 am
 Subject: RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation
 
 
 
 ..based on the non-religious Transcendental Meditation (TM) program,
 As strange as it may sound, when large groups of trained practitioners sit 
down on a daily basis to do this meditation program together, a powerful "field 
effect" of coherence and peace ripples throughout the consciousness of the 
surrounding population. The bigger the group the bigger the effect. The 
outcomes, confirmed repeatedly by extensive scientific research, are consistent 
and measurable decreases in war deaths, terrorism, and crime.
 
 
 
 
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :
 
 Dear Drs. Hagelin and Nader:

 Now that the pundits are gone from Maharishi Vedic City, Iowa could you write 
the membership application guidelines for the Domes anew?

 The old guidelines are yet too inflammatory towards superradiance as they are 
cobbled and wordsmithed.  Please sit and write with a new piece of paper a new 
and fresh Dome application guideline now for membership in the group programs, 
now the pundits are gone. Start with a fresh sheet of paper.  Get it down to 
simple: did someone learn the ™ programs and that this is what they will do in 
the group programs for superradiance. 

 This would be a good time to just go in and gut, drop the clause from the 
guidelines that remains excluding from membership people who spend money on 
‘non-Maharishi’ jyotish and yagya. The earnest reason it was put in there 
originally evidently has gone away. It is time to just get rid of that clause 
in the membership application guideline. There is no sense now to having the 
office staff there investigating that one on people anymore. 

 The pundit program had been a long endured suction of resource out of the 
Fairfield community. That clause about people spending monies on 
‘non-Maharishi’ jyotish and yagya along with the couple of other clauses that 
are left there as some kind of fealty test within the membership guidelines is 
just needlessly inflammatory to succeeding with the Dome attendance numbers and 
superradiance in Fairfield now.  

 Sincerely, Doug Hamilton.  
 
 
 
 
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :
 
 A morality,   Q: I don’t recall anything about “principles of higher moral 
character” in the air when we first came here from Amherst.
  
 A: Meditation in group

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation! Excellent well written Doug! Great start for a FRESH & look inwards via the dome experience to be more inclusive

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

.. 

 In FF conversation.. 
 

"..Spiritual Evolution is a whole lot easier in a group. It will take a whole 
lot longer individually, to do this individually alone. It ‘takes a village’. 
When we do this together obviously you are the first beneficiary of it but you 
are also affecting the collective, our collective and also the larger 
collective.  So thank you for coming to Fairfield and the group meditation in 
community we do here." 
 


 Yes, thanks for seeing this. . 

 It should be important in the survival of the Dome meditation right now that 
any who have access to levels of the ownership in TM where policy is made could 
be copying and pasting points of this exchange below in to communication with 
those power people at the top. Engage whoever and wherever the power is vested, 
where the levers of power are.  Send ‘em a letter, mail, e-mail, imessages, 
facebook messenger, phone them, tweet them, however. 

 The Dome meditation attendance numbers are in crisis. Month by month these 
numbers continue to dwindle. The metrics of this situation are foreboding. 
Numbers are dropping in a consistency by 10 and 20 a month for many many months 
now. This is not just an administrative problem but one of leadership. The 
recent month attendance numbers are not just lower but now hitting lows lower 
than they were prior to the beginning of the late assembly in 2006.  

 There evidently is a core cultural problem in leadership of the TM movement 
that for a cohesion in survival of this community needs to be proactively 
addressed right now. Everyone’s help is needed on pressing this now.  

 Who has contact with, policy access to Dr. Nader? 
 Dr. Hagelin: MUM President’s Office,  641-472-1260. presid...@mum.edu 
mailto:presid...@mum.edu

 JGD, 

 
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 EXCELLENT Doug very well thought  & presented in a respectful, &  loving manor 
with the past restrictive codes put aside, MOST REFRESHING!  To read & to see 
the compassion & love between the lines Doug!
 
 
 The group meditation  & coupling it with the TM Sidhi program reduces combat , 
prevents wars & is most helpful for the health of the community at large.
 AGAIN THANKS in gratitude for your well shared KNOWLEDGE back up with Guru Dev 
Quotes
 
 
 -Original Message-
 From: dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] 
 To: FairfieldLife 
 Sent: Sun, Jan 20, 2019 7:59 am
 Subject: RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation
 
 
 
 ..based on the non-religious Transcendental Meditation (TM) program,
 As strange as it may sound, when large groups of trained practitioners sit 
down on a daily basis to do this meditation program together, a powerful "field 
effect" of coherence and peace ripples throughout the consciousness of the 
surrounding population. The bigger the group the bigger the effect. The 
outcomes, confirmed repeatedly by extensive scientific research, are consistent 
and measurable decreases in war deaths, terrorism, and crime.
 
 
 
 
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :
 
 Dear Drs. Hagelin and Nader:

 Now that the pundits are gone from Maharishi Vedic City, Iowa could you write 
the membership application guidelines for the Domes anew?

 The old guidelines are yet too inflammatory towards superradiance as they are 
cobbled and wordsmithed.  Please sit and write with a new piece of paper a new 
and fresh Dome application guideline now for membership in the group programs, 
now the pundits are gone. Start with a fresh sheet of paper.  Get it down to 
simple: did someone learn the ™ programs and that this is what they will do in 
the group programs for superradiance. 

 This would be a good time to just go in and gut, drop the clause from the 
guidelines that remains excluding from membership people who spend money on 
‘non-Maharishi’ jyotish and yagya. The earnest reason it was put in there 
originally evidently has gone away. It is time to just get rid of that clause 
in the membership application guideline. There is no sense now to having the 
office staff there investigating that one on people anymore. 

 The pundit program had been a long endured suction of resource out of the 
Fairfield community. That clause about people spending monies on 
‘non-Maharishi’ jyotish and yagya along with the couple of other clauses that 
are left there as some kind of fealty test within the membership guidelines is 
just needlessly inflammatory to succeeding with the Dome attendance numbers and 
superradiance in Fairfield now.  

 Sincerely, Doug Hamilton.  
 
 
 
 
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :
 
 A morality,   Q: I don’t recall anything about “principles of higher moral 
character” in the air when we first came here from Amherst.
  
 A: Meditation in groups,  Maharishi was consistent the whole way about the 
utility of group meditating influencing a wellbeing of good for others at a 
distance. This remarkable ide

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation! Excellent well written Doug! Great start for a FRESH & look inwards via the dome experience to be more inclusive

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

In FF conversation.. 
 

"..Spiritual Evolution is a whole lot easier in a group. It will take a whole 
lot longer individually, to do this individually alone. It ‘takes a village’. 
When we do this together obviously you are the first beneficiary of it but you 
are also affecting the collective, our collective and also the larger 
collective.  So thank you for coming to Fairfield and the group meditation in 
community we do here." 
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Yes, thanks for seeing this. . 

 It should be important in the survival of the Dome meditation right now that 
any who have access to levels of the ownership in TM where policy is made could 
be copying and pasting points of this exchange below in to communication with 
those power people at the top. Engage whoever and wherever the power is vested, 
where the levers of power are.  Send ‘em a letter, mail, e-mail, imessages, 
facebook messenger, phone them, tweet them, however. 

 The Dome meditation attendance numbers are in crisis. Month by month these 
numbers continue to dwindle. The metrics of this situation are foreboding. 
Numbers are dropping in a consistency by 10 and 20 a month for many many months 
now. This is not just an administrative problem but one of leadership. The 
recent month attendance numbers are not just lower but now hitting lows lower 
than they were prior to the beginning of the late assembly in 2006.  

 There evidently is a core cultural problem in leadership of the TM movement 
that for a cohesion in survival of this community needs to be proactively 
addressed right now. Everyone’s help is needed on pressing this now.  

 Who has contact with, policy access to Dr. Nader? 
 Dr. Hagelin: MUM President’s Office,  641-472-1260. presid...@mum.edu 
mailto:presid...@mum.edu

 JGD, 

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 EXCELLENT Doug very well thought  & presented in a respectful, &  loving manor 
with the past restrictive codes put aside, MOST REFRESHING!  To read & to see 
the compassion & love between the lines Doug!
 
 
 The group meditation  & coupling it with the TM Sidhi program reduces combat , 
prevents wars & is most helpful for the health of the community at large.
 AGAIN THANKS in gratitude for your well shared KNOWLEDGE back up with Guru Dev 
Quotes
 
 
 -Original Message-
 From: dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] 
 To: FairfieldLife 
 Sent: Sun, Jan 20, 2019 7:59 am
 Subject: RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation
 
 
 
 ..based on the non-religious Transcendental Meditation (TM) program,
 As strange as it may sound, when large groups of trained practitioners sit 
down on a daily basis to do this meditation program together, a powerful "field 
effect" of coherence and peace ripples throughout the consciousness of the 
surrounding population. The bigger the group the bigger the effect. The 
outcomes, confirmed repeatedly by extensive scientific research, are consistent 
and measurable decreases in war deaths, terrorism, and crime.
 
 
 
 
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :
 
 Dear Drs. Hagelin and Nader:

 Now that the pundits are gone from Maharishi Vedic City, Iowa could you write 
the membership application guidelines for the Domes anew?

 The old guidelines are yet too inflammatory towards superradiance as they are 
cobbled and wordsmithed.  Please sit and write with a new piece of paper a new 
and fresh Dome application guideline now for membership in the group programs, 
now the pundits are gone. Start with a fresh sheet of paper.  Get it down to 
simple: did someone learn the ™ programs and that this is what they will do in 
the group programs for superradiance. 

 This would be a good time to just go in and gut, drop the clause from the 
guidelines that remains excluding from membership people who spend money on 
‘non-Maharishi’ jyotish and yagya. The earnest reason it was put in there 
originally evidently has gone away. It is time to just get rid of that clause 
in the membership application guideline. There is no sense now to having the 
office staff there investigating that one on people anymore. 

 The pundit program had been a long endured suction of resource out of the 
Fairfield community. That clause about people spending monies on 
‘non-Maharishi’ jyotish and yagya along with the couple of other clauses that 
are left there as some kind of fealty test within the membership guidelines is 
just needlessly inflammatory to succeeding with the Dome attendance numbers and 
superradiance in Fairfield now.  

 Sincerely, Doug Hamilton.  
 
 
 
 
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :
 
 A morality,   Q: I don’t recall anything about “principles of higher moral 
character” in the air when we first came here from Amherst.
  
 A: Meditation in groups,  Maharishi was consistent the whole way about the 
utility of group meditating influencing a wellbeing of good for

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation! Excellent well written Doug! Great start for a FRESH & look inwards via the dome experience to be more inclusive

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

Yes, thanks for seeing this. . 

 It should be important in the survival of the Dome meditation right now that 
any who have access to levels of the ownership in TM where policy is made could 
be copying and pasting points of this exchange below in to communication with 
those power people at the top. Engage whoever and wherever the power is vested, 
where the levers of power are.  Send ‘em a letter, mail, e-mail, imessages, 
facebook messenger, phone them, tweet them, however. 

 The Dome meditation attendance numbers are in crisis. Month by month these 
numbers continue to dwindle. The metrics of this situation are foreboding. 
Numbers are dropping in a consistency by 10 and 20 a month for many many months 
now. This is not just an administrative problem but one of leadership. The 
recent month attendance numbers are not just lower but now hitting lows lower 
than they were prior to the beginning of the late assembly in 2006.  

 There evidently is a core cultural problem in leadership of the TM movement 
that for a cohesion in survival of this community needs to be proactively 
addressed right now. Everyone’s help is needed on pressing this now.  

 Who has contact with, policy access to Dr. Nader? 
 Dr. Hagelin: MUM President’s Office,  641-472-1260. presid...@mum.edu 
mailto:presid...@mum.edu

 JGD, 

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 EXCELLENT Doug very well thought  & presented in a respectful, &  loving manor 
with the past restrictive codes put aside, MOST REFRESHING!  To read & to see 
the compassion & love between the lines Doug!
 
 
 The group meditation  & coupling it with the TM Sidhi program reduces combat , 
prevents wars & is most helpful for the health of the community at large.
 AGAIN THANKS in gratitude for your well shared KNOWLEDGE back up with Guru Dev 
Quotes
 
 
 -Original Message-
 From: dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] 
 To: FairfieldLife 
 Sent: Sun, Jan 20, 2019 7:59 am
 Subject: RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation
 
 
 
 ..based on the non-religious Transcendental Meditation (TM) program,
 As strange as it may sound, when large groups of trained practitioners sit 
down on a daily basis to do this meditation program together, a powerful "field 
effect" of coherence and peace ripples throughout the consciousness of the 
surrounding population. The bigger the group the bigger the effect. The 
outcomes, confirmed repeatedly by extensive scientific research, are consistent 
and measurable decreases in war deaths, terrorism, and crime.
 
 
 
 
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :
 
 Dear Drs. Hagelin and Nader:

 Now that the pundits are gone from Maharishi Vedic City, Iowa could you write 
the membership application guidelines for the Domes anew?

 The old guidelines are yet too inflammatory towards superradiance as they are 
cobbled and wordsmithed.  Please sit and write with a new piece of paper a new 
and fresh Dome application guideline now for membership in the group programs, 
now the pundits are gone. Start with a fresh sheet of paper.  Get it down to 
simple: did someone learn the ™ programs and that this is what they will do in 
the group programs for superradiance. 

 This would be a good time to just go in and gut, drop the clause from the 
guidelines that remains excluding from membership people who spend money on 
‘non-Maharishi’ jyotish and yagya. The earnest reason it was put in there 
originally evidently has gone away. It is time to just get rid of that clause 
in the membership application guideline. There is no sense now to having the 
office staff there investigating that one on people anymore. 

 The pundit program had been a long endured suction of resource out of the 
Fairfield community. That clause about people spending monies on 
‘non-Maharishi’ jyotish and yagya along with the couple of other clauses that 
are left there as some kind of fealty test within the membership guidelines is 
just needlessly inflammatory to succeeding with the Dome attendance numbers and 
superradiance in Fairfield now.  

 Sincerely, Doug Hamilton.  
 
 
 
 
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :
 
 A morality,   Q: I don’t recall anything about “principles of higher moral 
character” in the air when we first came here from Amherst.
  
 A: Meditation in groups,  Maharishi was consistent the whole way about the 
utility of group meditating influencing a wellbeing of good for others at a 
distance. This remarkable idea in practice is a simple disruptor to a lot of 
people’s material paradigm but after so many decades of inquiry in to this 
observation the science has well borne out the hypothesis.  
  
 And, Guru Dev too in his spiritual construct on moral order could have easily 
agreed now given what all we know from the inquiry of science, that people who 
do not go to group meditations when they could join with them are being amoral 
in their selfishness. 
  
 That som

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation! Excellent well written Doug! Great start for a FRESH & look inwards via the dome experience to be more inclusive

[William Leed wle...@aol.com [FairfieldLife]]

EXCELLENT Doug very well thought  & presented in a respectful, &  loving manor 
with the past restrictive codes put aside, MOST REFRESHING!  To read & to see 
the compassion & love between the lines Doug!
The group meditation  & coupling it with the TM Sidhi program reduces combat , 
prevents wars & is most helpful for the health of the community at large.AGAIN 
THANKS in gratitude for your well shared KNOWLEDGE back up with Guru Dev Quotes


-Original Message-
From: dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] 
To: FairfieldLife 
Sent: Sun, Jan 20, 2019 7:59 am
Subject: RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation

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...based on the non-religious Transcendental Meditation (TM) program,As strange 
as it may sound, when large groups of trained practitioners sit down on a daily 
basis to do this meditation program together, a powerful "field effect" of 
coherence and peace ripples throughout the consciousness of the surrounding 
population. The bigger the group the bigger the effect. The outcomes, confirmed 
repeatedly by extensive scientific research, are consistent and measurable 
decreases in war deaths, terrorism, and crime.


---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

Dear Drs. Hagelin and Nader:
Now that the pundits are gone from Maharishi Vedic City, Iowa could you write 
the membership application guidelines for the Domes anew?
The old guidelines are yet too inflammatory towards superradiance as they are 
cobbled and wordsmithed.  Please sit and write with a new piece of paper a new 
and fresh Dome application guideline now for membership in the group programs, 
now the pundits are gone. Start with a fresh sheet of paper..  Get it down to 
simple: did someone learn the ™ programs and that this is what they will do in 
the group programs for superradiance. 
This would be a good time to just go in and gut, drop the clause from the 
guidelines that remains excluding from membership people who spend money on 
‘non-Maharishi’ jyotish and yagya. The earnest reason it was put in there 
originally evidently has gone away. It is time to just get rid of that clause 
in the membership application guideline. There is no sense now to having the 
office staff there investigating that one on people anymore. 
The pundit program had been a long endured suction of resource out of the 
Fairfield community. That clause about people spending monies on 
‘non-Maharishi’ jyotish and yagya along with the couple of other clauses that 
are left there as some kind of fealty test within the membership guidelines is 
just needlessly inflammatory to succeeding with the Dome attendance numbers and 
superradiance in Fairfield now.  
Sincerely, Doug Hamilton.  


---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :


A morality,  
Q: I don’t recall anything about “principles of higher moral character” in the 
air when we first came here from Amherst. A: Meditation in groups,  Maharishi 
was consistent the whole way about the utility of group meditating influencing 
a wellbeing of good for others at a distance. This remarkable idea 

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

rradiance
 of the group. 
 The numbers in the Dome meditation are incredibly low now.
  
 #
 



---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Meditation brings wisdom;
 lack of meditation leaves ignorance.
 Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back,
 and choose the path that leads to wisdom.  -The Buddha
 


---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Meditate and Act
 

 Meditation with activity has always been the TM teaching (B.Gita II v 48).  
This teaching was one of the things also used to convince a change in the 
administration policy at a point to modify the ‘long’ IAAssembly morning 
program rounds to get it all shortened down more to what it is now with the 
idea according to the teaching to get them out of there and in to the world and 
community before the mid-day and to give them longer in the afternoon to ‘do 
things’ of life and be in the community. 
  
 That was important to have happen at the time for people’s health and general 
wellbeing. The long program the way it was enforced was turning folks in to 
pale renunciates in front of us here in the community. Then it is just a matter 
of how people may use their time between meditations. Turning compost for 
health is not a bad use of time. Meditate and perform action.  Communicating 
this by FFL was an effective element at the time in turning this around for the 
better. .
 Jai Guru Dev
 




---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 I think I’d rather shovel cow manure for a living than spend my days spying on 
people through people’s social media, the Weekly Reader, Source, etc.
  
 Note to spies: shoveling cow manure is great exercise and really quite 
enjoyable when you get into it. I used to do it at Livingston Manor. If 
interested, contact Radiance Dairy. They may have openings.
  
 Rick Archer
 Buddha at the Gas Pump
 https://batgap.com

  
 From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com  
 Sent: Friday, December 14, 2018 8:11 PM
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Subject: RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation


  
  
 The Authorities?  Yes they read FFL and make files about people’s social 
media, the Weekly Reader, Source, and such on applicants.  It is their job to 
gather info on people in ferreting out people who are in violation of the 
membership guidelines by making inquiry in to lives.  Yes, with potentially 
long interrogation. 
 One of the things that was held up this last time I was denied a badge was 
about things I may have written on FFL, “about these things you write on 
Fairfield Life”. Yes, you could proly be in some trouble with the membership 
guidelines promoting other spiritual teachers and such by what and who you 
promote with BATGAP. 
  
 The existential problem they have with this is that as they have these written 
guidelines they have to have a staff hired to investigate and enforce them in 
detail over applicants.  The guidelines have been cobbled together, wordsmithed 
over the years either to exclude people and they have been reduced somewhat to 
include peoples who were separated from the group by guideline. The remaining 
exclusionary clauses now are mostly cultural and not simply as to whether 
someone is a practitioner or not. There are three written clauses remaining 
that still are in there that can stick in the craw of the larger meditating 
community. 
  
 The Authorities, I also do send in communication to movement policy makers the 
url’s to posts made on FFL as posts are pithy, incisive, pertinent and relevant 
in the context of having to do with policy. Fairfield Life has had its 
effective place in communications.  But, the people who investigate Dome 
membership applications do not make policy themselves, they just enforce it. 
The people who make decisions you likely will never meet in the process.
  
 May the grace of the Unified Field grant providential support in Nature 
towards overcoming these long problems we all have suffered with our communal 
Dome meditation attendance numbers.  Jai Guru Dev 
 
 
 

 
 
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 
mailto:r...@searchsummit.com> wrote :
 So do the dome authorities still read FFL to see who’s saying what, and 
exclude them if they feel inclined?
  
 Batgap is a funny phenomena with regard to this issue. I promote other 
teachers up the wazoo, and probably wouldn’t be allowed in the dome if I wanted 
to be, but I’ve interviewed Hagelin and Pearson, and others who still go to the 
dome. A senior faculty member listens to just about every BatGap interview and 
we sometimes chat about them. He said he even discusses them with other faculty 
in his department sometimes.
  
 Rick Archer
 Buddha at the Gas Pump
 https://batgap.com https://batgap.com

  
 From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> 
 Sent: Friday, December 14, 2018 10:52 AM
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Subject: [Fair

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

int to modify the ‘long’ IAAssembly morning 
program rounds to get it all shortened down more to what it is now with the 
idea according to the teaching to get them out of there and in to the world and 
community before the mid-day and to give them longer in the afternoon to ‘do 
things’ of life and be in the community. 
  
 That was important to have happen at the time for people’s health and general 
wellbeing. The long program the way it was enforced was turning folks in to 
pale renunciates in front of us here in the community. Then it is just a matter 
of how people may use their time between meditations. Turning compost for 
health is not a bad use of time. Meditate and perform action.  Communicating 
this by FFL was an effective element at the time in turning this around for the 
better. .
 Jai Guru Dev
 




---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 I think I’d rather shovel cow manure for a living than spend my days spying on 
people through people’s social media, the Weekly Reader, Source, etc.
  
 Note to spies: shoveling cow manure is great exercise and really quite 
enjoyable when you get into it. I used to do it at Livingston Manor. If 
interested, contact Radiance Dairy. They may have openings.
  
 Rick Archer
 Buddha at the Gas Pump
 https://batgap.com

  
 From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com  
 Sent: Friday, December 14, 2018 8:11 PM
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Subject: RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation


  
  
 The Authorities?  Yes they read FFL and make files about people’s social 
media, the Weekly Reader, Source, and such on applicants.  It is their job to 
gather info on people in ferreting out people who are in violation of the 
membership guidelines by making inquiry in to lives.  Yes, with potentially 
long interrogation. 
 One of the things that was held up this last time I was denied a badge was 
about things I may have written on FFL, “about these things you write on 
Fairfield Life”. Yes, you could proly be in some trouble with the membership 
guidelines promoting other spiritual teachers and such by what and who you 
promote with BATGAP. 
  
 The existential problem they have with this is that as they have these written 
guidelines they have to have a staff hired to investigate and enforce them in 
detail over applicants.  The guidelines have been cobbled together, wordsmithed 
over the years either to exclude people and they have been reduced somewhat to 
include peoples who were separated from the group by guideline. The remaining 
exclusionary clauses now are mostly cultural and not simply as to whether 
someone is a practitioner or not. There are three written clauses remaining 
that still are in there that can stick in the craw of the larger meditating 
community. 
  
 The Authorities, I also do send in communication to movement policy makers the 
url’s to posts made on FFL as posts are pithy, incisive, pertinent and relevant 
in the context of having to do with policy. Fairfield Life has had its 
effective place in communications.  But, the people who investigate Dome 
membership applications do not make policy themselves, they just enforce it. 
The people who make decisions you likely will never meet in the process.
  
 May the grace of the Unified Field grant providential support in Nature 
towards overcoming these long problems we all have suffered with our communal 
Dome meditation attendance numbers.  Jai Guru Dev 
 
 
 

 
 
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 
mailto:r...@searchsummit.com> wrote :
 So do the dome authorities still read FFL to see who’s saying what, and 
exclude them if they feel inclined?
  
 Batgap is a funny phenomena with regard to this issue. I promote other 
teachers up the wazoo, and probably wouldn’t be allowed in the dome if I wanted 
to be, but I’ve interviewed Hagelin and Pearson, and others who still go to the 
dome. A senior faculty member listens to just about every BatGap interview and 
we sometimes chat about them. He said he even discusses them with other faculty 
in his department sometimes.
  
 Rick Archer
 Buddha at the Gas Pump
 https://batgap.com https://batgap.com

  
 From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> 
 Sent: Friday, December 14, 2018 10:52 AM
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation


  
  
  
 Q: I appreciate what you’re doing with the group meditation thing, but I like 
meditating at home. I usually take a nap first, then just sit up and meditate. 
Times vary.
  
 A: Evidently a lot of people feel this way also about meditating with the TM 
group, not turning out for what was superradiance
 of the group.
 The numbers in the Dome meditation are incredibly low now.
  
 A radical transcendentalist's response to excuses, like the.. 
  
  This Insulting Frenchman's:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

e the mid-day and to give them longer in the afternoon to ‘do 
things’ of life and be in the community. 
  
 That was important to have happen at the time for people’s health and general 
wellbeing. The long program the way it was enforced was turning folks in to 
pale renunciates in front of us here in the community. Then it is just a matter 
of how people may use their time between meditations. Turning compost for 
health is not a bad use of time. Meditate and perform action.  Communicating 
this by FFL was an effective element at the time in turning this around for the 
better. .
 Jai Guru Dev
 




---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 I think I’d rather shovel cow manure for a living than spend my days spying on 
people through people’s social media, the Weekly Reader, Source, etc.
  
 Note to spies: shoveling cow manure is great exercise and really quite 
enjoyable when you get into it. I used to do it at Livingston Manor. If 
interested, contact Radiance Dairy. They may have openings.
  
 Rick Archer
 Buddha at the Gas Pump
 https://batgap.com

  
 From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com  
 Sent: Friday, December 14, 2018 8:11 PM
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Subject: RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation


  
  
 The Authorities?  Yes they read FFL and make files about people’s social 
media, the Weekly Reader, Source, and such on applicants.  It is their job to 
gather info on people in ferreting out people who are in violation of the 
membership guidelines by making inquiry in to lives.  Yes, with potentially 
long interrogation. 
 One of the things that was held up this last time I was denied a badge was 
about things I may have written on FFL, “about these things you write on 
Fairfield Life”. Yes, you could proly be in some trouble with the membership 
guidelines promoting other spiritual teachers and such by what and who you 
promote with BATGAP. 
  
 The existential problem they have with this is that as they have these written 
guidelines they have to have a staff hired to investigate and enforce them in 
detail over applicants.  The guidelines have been cobbled together, wordsmithed 
over the years either to exclude people and they have been reduced somewhat to 
include peoples who were separated from the group by guideline. The remaining 
exclusionary clauses now are mostly cultural and not simply as to whether 
someone is a practitioner or not. There are three written clauses remaining 
that still are in there that can stick in the craw of the larger meditating 
community. 
  
 The Authorities, I also do send in communication to movement policy makers the 
url’s to posts made on FFL as posts are pithy, incisive, pertinent and relevant 
in the context of having to do with policy. Fairfield Life has had its 
effective place in communications.  But, the people who investigate Dome 
membership applications do not make policy themselves, they just enforce it. 
The people who make decisions you likely will never meet in the process.
  
 May the grace of the Unified Field grant providential support in Nature 
towards overcoming these long problems we all have suffered with our communal 
Dome meditation attendance numbers.  Jai Guru Dev 
 
 
 

 
 
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 
mailto:r...@searchsummit.com> wrote :
 So do the dome authorities still read FFL to see who’s saying what, and 
exclude them if they feel inclined?
  
 Batgap is a funny phenomena with regard to this issue. I promote other 
teachers up the wazoo, and probably wouldn’t be allowed in the dome if I wanted 
to be, but I’ve interviewed Hagelin and Pearson, and others who still go to the 
dome. A senior faculty member listens to just about every BatGap interview and 
we sometimes chat about them. He said he even discusses them with other faculty 
in his department sometimes.
  
 Rick Archer
 Buddha at the Gas Pump
 https://batgap.com https://batgap.com

  
 From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> 
 Sent: Friday, December 14, 2018 10:52 AM
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation


  
  
  
 Q: I appreciate what you’re doing with the group meditation thing, but I like 
meditating at home. I usually take a nap first, then just sit up and meditate. 
Times vary.
  
 A: Evidently a lot of people feel this way also about meditating with the TM 
group, not turning out for what was superradiance
 of the group.
 The numbers in the Dome meditation are incredibly low now.
  
 A radical transcendentalist's response to excuses, like the.. 
  
  This Insulting Frenchman's:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSo0duY7-9s 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSo0duY7-9s
  
  
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mailto:dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote :
 banned from the Domes.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiKZjq0vTWg 
https://w

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

A morality,   Q: I don’t recall anything about “principles of higher moral 
character” in the air when we first came here from Amherst.
  
 A: Meditation in groups,  Maharishi was consistent the whole way about the 
utility of group meditating influencing a wellbeing of good for others at a 
distance. This remarkable idea in practice is a simple disruptor to a lot of 
people’s material paradigm but after so many decades of inquiry in to this 
observation the science has well borne out the hypothesis.  
  
 And, Guru Dev too in his spiritual construct on moral order could have easily 
agreed now given what all we know from the inquiry of science, that people who 
do not go to group meditations when they could join with them are being amoral 
in their selfishness. 
  
 That someone sitting out in a coffee house whether in Leiden watching videos 
on their laptop or those meditators idle downtown around the Fairfield, iowa 
town square at Paradiso, the Cider House, the Sushi bar, or in Revelations 
during the communal group meditation is near to worthless and worse morally in 
their contribution to the general good and communal welfare, a drag, amoral.  
  
 So this, the virtue of group meditation is now in the reach of this spiritual 
but not religious time of science and spirituality that we do live in.  Yet, 
people who would stay home by themselves, be it some Raja hold up somewhere out 
there by themselves, or an editor working overtime somewhere and may be would 
meditate later, but also an administration and its defenders with a 
religious-like adherence to ill-serving guidelines that should keep people away 
who could otherwise be meditating with the group evidently are all worst than 
sad but pretty bad morally.  Jai Guru Dev. 
  
 Thread 437705
 Re: What did ‘Guru Dev’ say on Spiritual Morality and its Moral Compass
 
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/437705 
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/437705
  
  
 .< Interesting to see how the principles of higher moral character that were 
the communal experiment started at Amherst in ‘78 have been eroded and hurt in 
the administration of it.
 For outsiders or people from away looking in on the experiment I recommend 
their reading "Greetings From Utopia Park" and listening to the NPR 'Fresh Air' 
interview of Claire Hoffman for insight to how it went.  
  
 I don’t recall anything about “principles of higher moral character” in the 
air when we first came here from Amherst.
  
 Q: I appreciate what you’re doing with the group meditation thing, but I like 
meditating at home. I usually take a nap first, then just sit up and meditate. 
Times vary.
  
 A: Evidently a lot of people feel this way also about meditating with the TM 
group, not turning out for what was superradiance
 of the group. 
 The numbers in the Dome meditation are incredibly low now.
  
 #
 



---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Meditation brings wisdom;
 lack of meditation leaves ignorance.
 Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back,
 and choose the path that leads to wisdom.  -The Buddha
 


---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Meditate and Act
 

 Meditation with activity has always been the TM teaching (B.Gita II v 48).  
This teaching was one of the things also used to convince a change in the 
administration policy at a point to modify the ‘long’ IAAssembly morning 
program rounds to get it all shortened down more to what it is now with the 
idea according to the teaching to get them out of there and in to the world and 
community before the mid-day and to give them longer in the afternoon to ‘do 
things’ of life and be in the community. 
  
 That was important to have happen at the time for people’s health and general 
wellbeing. The long program the way it was enforced was turning folks in to 
pale renunciates in front of us here in the community. Then it is just a matter 
of how people may use their time between meditations. Turning compost for 
health is not a bad use of time. Meditate and perform action.  Communicating 
this by FFL was an effective element at the time in turning this around for the 
better. .
 Jai Guru Dev
 




---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 I think I’d rather shovel cow manure for a living than spend my days spying on 
people through people’s social media, the Weekly Reader, Source, etc. 
  
 Note to spies: shoveling cow manure is great exercise and really quite 
enjoyable when you get into it. I used to do it at Livingston Manor. If 
interested, contact Radiance Dairy. They may have openings.
  
 Rick Archer
 Buddha at the Gas Pump
 https://batgap.com
 
  
 From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com  
 Sent: Friday, December 14, 2018 8:11 PM
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Subject: RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation
 
 
  
   
 The Authorities?  Yes they read FFL and make files about people’s 

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

Meditation brings wisdom;
 lack of meditation leaves ignorance.
 Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back,
 and choose the path that leads to wisdom.  -The Buddha
 


---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Meditate and Act
 

 Meditation with activity has always been the TM teaching (B.Gita II v 48).  
This teaching was one of the things also used to convince a change in the 
administration policy at a point to modify the ‘long’ IAAssembly morning 
program rounds to get it all shortened down more to what it is now with the 
idea according to the teaching to get them out of there and in to the world and 
community before the mid-day and to give them longer in the afternoon to ‘do 
things’ of life and be in the community. 
  
 That was important to have happen at the time for people’s health and general 
wellbeing. The long program the way it was enforced was turning folks in to 
pale renunciates in front of us here in the community. Then it is just a matter 
of how people may use their time between meditations. Turning compost for 
health is not a bad use of time. Meditate and perform action.  Communicating 
this by FFL was an effective element at the time in turning this around for the 
better. .
 Jai Guru Dev
 




---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 I think I’d rather shovel cow manure for a living than spend my days spying on 
people through people’s social media, the Weekly Reader, Source, etc. 
  
 Note to spies: shoveling cow manure is great exercise and really quite 
enjoyable when you get into it. I used to do it at Livingston Manor. If 
interested, contact Radiance Dairy. They may have openings.
  
 Rick Archer
 Buddha at the Gas Pump
 https://batgap.com
 
  
 From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com  
 Sent: Friday, December 14, 2018 8:11 PM
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Subject: RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation
 
 
  
   
 The Authorities?  Yes they read FFL and make files about people’s social 
media, the Weekly Reader, Source, and such on applicants.  It is their job to 
gather info on people in ferreting out people who are in violation of the 
membership guidelines by making inquiry in to lives.  Yes, with potentially 
long interrogation. 
 One of the things that was held up this last time I was denied a badge was 
about things I may have written on FFL, “about these things you write on 
Fairfield Life”. Yes, you could proly be in some trouble with the membership 
guidelines promoting other spiritual teachers and such by what and who you 
promote with BATGAP. 
  
 The existential problem they have with this is that as they have these written 
guidelines they have to have a staff hired to investigate and enforce them in 
detail over applicants.  The guidelines have been cobbled together, wordsmithed 
over the years either to exclude people and they have been reduced somewhat to 
include peoples who were separated from the group by guideline. The remaining 
exclusionary clauses now are mostly cultural and not simply as to whether 
someone is a practitioner or not. There are three written clauses remaining 
that still are in there that can stick in the craw of the larger meditating 
community. 
  
 The Authorities, I also do send in communication to movement policy makers the 
url’s to posts made on FFL as posts are pithy, incisive, pertinent and relevant 
in the context of having to do with policy. Fairfield Life has had its 
effective place in communications.  But, the people who investigate Dome 
membership applications do not make policy themselves, they just enforce it. 
The people who make decisions you likely will never meet in the process.
  
 May the grace of the Unified Field grant providential support in Nature 
towards overcoming these long problems we all have suffered with our communal 
Dome meditation attendance numbers.  Jai Guru Dev 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 
mailto:r...@searchsummit.com> wrote :
 So do the dome authorities still read FFL to see who’s saying what, and 
exclude them if they feel inclined? 
  
 Batgap is a funny phenomena with regard to this issue. I promote other 
teachers up the wazoo, and probably wouldn’t be allowed in the dome if I wanted 
to be, but I’ve interviewed Hagelin and Pearson, and others who still go to the 
dome. A senior faculty member listens to just about every BatGap interview and 
we sometimes chat about them. He said he even discusses them with other faculty 
in his department sometimes. 
  
 Rick Archer
 Buddha at the Gas Pump
 https://batgap.com https://batgap.com
 
  
 From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> 
 Sent: Friday, December 14, 2018 10:52 AM
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation
 
 
  
   
  
 Q: I appreciate what you’re doing with the group meditation thing, but 

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

Meditate and Act
 

 Meditation with activity has always been the TM teaching (B.Gita II v 48).  
This teaching was one of the things also used to convince a change in the 
administration policy at a point to modify the ‘long’ IAAssembly morning 
program rounds to get it all shortened down more to what it is now with the 
idea according to the teaching to get them out of there and in to the world and 
community before the mid-day and to give them longer in the afternoon to ‘do 
things’ of life and be in the community. 
  
 That was important to have happen at the time for people’s health and general 
wellbeing. The long program the way it was enforced was turning folks in to 
pale renunciates in front of us here in the community. Then it is just a matter 
of how people may use their time between meditations. Turning compost for 
health is not a bad use of time. Meditate and perform action.  Communicating 
this by FFL was an effective element at the time in turning this around for the 
better. .
 Jai Guru Dev
 




---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 I think I’d rather shovel cow manure for a living than spend my days spying on 
people through people’s social media, the Weekly Reader, Source, etc. 
  
 Note to spies: shoveling cow manure is great exercise and really quite 
enjoyable when you get into it. I used to do it at Livingston Manor. If 
interested, contact Radiance Dairy. They may have openings.
  
 Rick Archer
 Buddha at the Gas Pump
 https://batgap.com
 
  
 From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com  
 Sent: Friday, December 14, 2018 8:11 PM
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Subject: RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation
 
 
  
   
 The Authorities?  Yes they read FFL and make files about people’s social 
media, the Weekly Reader, Source, and such on applicants.  It is their job to 
gather info on people in ferreting out people who are in violation of the 
membership guidelines by making inquiry in to lives.  Yes, with potentially 
long interrogation. 
 One of the things that was held up this last time I was denied a badge was 
about things I may have written on FFL, “about these things you write on 
Fairfield Life”. Yes, you could proly be in some trouble with the membership 
guidelines promoting other spiritual teachers and such by what and who you 
promote with BATGAP. 
  
 The existential problem they have with this is that as they have these written 
guidelines they have to have a staff hired to investigate and enforce them in 
detail over applicants.  The guidelines have been cobbled together, wordsmithed 
over the years either to exclude people and they have been reduced somewhat to 
include peoples who were separated from the group by guideline. The remaining 
exclusionary clauses now are mostly cultural and not simply as to whether 
someone is a practitioner or not. There are three written clauses remaining 
that still are in there that can stick in the craw of the larger meditating 
community. 
  
 The Authorities, I also do send in communication to movement policy makers the 
url’s to posts made on FFL as posts are pithy, incisive, pertinent and relevant 
in the context of having to do with policy. Fairfield Life has had its 
effective place in communications.  But, the people who investigate Dome 
membership applications do not make policy themselves, they just enforce it. 
The people who make decisions you likely will never meet in the process.
  
 May the grace of the Unified Field grant providential support in Nature 
towards overcoming these long problems we all have suffered with our communal 
Dome meditation attendance numbers.  Jai Guru Dev 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 
mailto:r...@searchsummit.com> wrote :
 So do the dome authorities still read FFL to see who’s saying what, and 
exclude them if they feel inclined? 
  
 Batgap is a funny phenomena with regard to this issue. I promote other 
teachers up the wazoo, and probably wouldn’t be allowed in the dome if I wanted 
to be, but I’ve interviewed Hagelin and Pearson, and others who still go to the 
dome. A senior faculty member listens to just about every BatGap interview and 
we sometimes chat about them. He said he even discusses them with other faculty 
in his department sometimes. 
  
 Rick Archer
 Buddha at the Gas Pump
 https://batgap.com https://batgap.com
 
  
 From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> 
 Sent: Friday, December 14, 2018 10:52 AM
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation
 
 
  
   
  
 Q: I appreciate what you’re doing with the group meditation thing, but I like 
meditating at home. I usually take a nap first, then just sit up and meditate. 
Times vary.
  
 A: Evidently a lot of people feel this way also about meditating with the TM 
group, not turning out for what was superra

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

Though Skeptical people may cynically try to discount meditation saying it is 
just some ontology of subjectivity. However the experience is quite objective 
to the practiced meditator, even scientific.  

 
 Om no, Sal. On the contrary, these people are not categorically or necessarily 
‘nuts’ for their being in the Domes meditating. They know their own experience 
with it, so maybe consider having your own meditation practice checked, over at 
the Peace Palaces. 
  
 Jai Guru Dev, 

 



---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 salsunshineiniowa writes:
 

 OTOH, I don’t see why anyone would still care or want to get back into the 
“dome,” with its mold and aging population and all 300 people left.  Imo you 
gotta be nuts at this point to still see any value. 
 

 They used to go around to meetings and take down license plates, lol can’t you 
just see one of those idiots in a suit doing that?Sal 
 


 
 On Dec 15, 2018, at 7:39 AM, Rick Archer r...@searchsummit.com 
mailto:r...@searchsummit.com [FairfieldLife] mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> wrote:


 I think I’d rather shovel cow manure for a living than spend my days spying on 
people through people’s social media, the Weekly Reader, Source, etc. 
  
 Note to spies: shoveling cow manure is great exercise and really quite 
enjoyable when you get into it. I used to do it at Livingston Manor. If 
interested, contact Radiance Dairy. They may have openings.
  
 Rick Archer
 Buddha at the Gas Pump
 https://batgap.com https://batgap.com
 
  
 From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> 
 Sent: Friday, December 14, 2018 8:11 PM
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Subject: RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation
 
 
  
   
 The Authorities?  Yes they read FFL and make files about people’s social 
media, the Weekly Reader, Source, and such on applicants.  It is their job to 
gather info on people in ferreting out people who are in violation of the 
membership guidelines by making inquiry in to lives.  Yes, with potentially 
long interrogation. 
 One of the things that was held up this last time I was denied a badge was 
about things I may have written on FFL, “about these things you write on 
Fairfield Life”. Yes, you could proly be in some trouble with the membership 
guidelines promoting other spiritual teachers and such by what and who you 
promote with BATGAP. 
  
 The existential problem they have with this is that as they have these written 
guidelines they have to have a staff hired to investigate and enforce them in 
detail over applicants.  The guidelines have been cobbled together, wordsmithed 
over the years either to exclude people and they have been reduced somewhat to 
include peoples who were separated from the group by guideline. The remaining 
exclusionary clauses now are mostly cultural and not simply as to whether 
someone is a practitioner or not. There are three written clauses remaining 
that still are in there that can stick in the craw of the larger meditating 
community. 
  
 The Authorities, I also do send in communication to movement policy makers the 
url’s to posts made on FFL as posts are pithy, incisive, pertinent and relevant 
in the context of having to do with policy. Fairfield Life has had its 
effective place in communications.  But, the people who investigate Dome 
membership applications do not make policy themselves, they just enforce it. 
The people who make decisions you likely will never meet in the process.
  
 May the grace of the Unified Field grant providential support in Nature 
towards overcoming these long problems we all have suffered with our communal 
Dome meditation attendance numbers.  Jai Guru Dev 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 
mailto:r...@searchsummit.com> wrote :
 So do the dome authorities still read FFL to see who’s saying what, and 
exclude them if they feel inclined? 
  
 Batgap is a funny phenomena with regard to this issue. I promote other 
teachers up the wazoo, and probably wouldn’t be allowed in the dome if I wanted 
to be, but I’ve interviewed Hagelin and Pearson, and others who still go to the 
dome. A senior faculty member listens to just about every BatGap interview and 
we sometimes chat about them. He said he even discusses them with other faculty 
in his department sometimes. 
  
 Rick Archer
 Buddha at the Gas Pump
 https://batgap.com https://batgap.com
 
  
 From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> 
 Sent: Friday, December 14, 2018 10:52 AM
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation
 
 
  
   
  
 Q: I appreciate what you’re doing with the group meditation thing, but I like 
meditating at home. I usually take a nap first, then just sit up and meditate.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation

[Sal Sunshine salsunshineini...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]]

They used to go around to meetings and take down license plates, lol can’t you 
just see one of those idiots in a suit doing that?

OTOH, I don’t see why anyone would still care or want to get back into the 
“dome,” with its mold and aging population and all 300 people left.  Imo you 
gotta be nuts at this point to still see any value. 

Sal 


> On Dec 15, 2018, at 7:39 AM, Rick Archer r...@searchsummit.com 
> [FairfieldLife]  wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> I think I’d rather shovel cow manure for a living than spend my days spying 
> on people through people’s social media, the Weekly Reader, Source, etc.
>  
> Note to spies: shoveling cow manure is great exercise and really quite 
> enjoyable when you get into it. I used to do it at Livingston Manor. If 
> interested, contact Radiance Dairy. They may have openings.
>  
> Rick Archer
> Buddha at the Gas Pump
> https://batgap.com
>  
> From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com  
> Sent: Friday, December 14, 2018 8:11 PM
> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation
>  
>  
> The Authorities?  Yes they read FFL and make files about people’s social 
> media, the Weekly Reader, Source, and such on applicants.  It is their job to 
> gather info on people in ferreting out people who are in violation of the 
> membership guidelines by making inquiry in to lives.  Yes, with potentially 
> long interrogation.
> One of the things that was held up this last time I was denied a badge was 
> about things I may have written on FFL, “about these things you write on 
> Fairfield Life”. Yes, you could proly be in some trouble with the membership 
> guidelines promoting other spiritual teachers and such by what and who you 
> promote with BATGAP. 
>  
> The existential problem they have with this is that as they have these 
> written guidelines they have to have a staff hired to investigate and enforce 
> them in detail over applicants.  The guidelines have been cobbled together, 
> wordsmithed over the years either to exclude people and they have been 
> reduced somewhat to include peoples who were separated from the group by 
> guideline. The remaining exclusionary clauses now are mostly cultural and not 
> simply as to whether someone is a practitioner or not. There are three 
> written clauses remaining that still are in there that can stick in the craw 
> of the larger meditating community.
>  
> The Authorities, I also do send in communication to movement policy makers 
> the url’s to posts made on FFL as posts are pithy, incisive, pertinent and 
> relevant in the context of having to do with policy. Fairfield Life has had 
> its effective place in communications.  But, the people who investigate Dome 
> membership applications do not make policy themselves, they just enforce it. 
> The people who make decisions you likely will never meet in the process.
>  
> May the grace of the Unified Field grant providential support in Nature 
> towards overcoming these long problems we all have suffered with our communal 
> Dome meditation attendance numbers.  Jai Guru Dev
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :
> 
> So do the dome authorities still read FFL to see who’s saying what, and 
> exclude them if they feel inclined?
> 
>  
> 
> Batgap is a funny phenomena with regard to this issue. I promote other 
> teachers up the wazoo, and probably wouldn’t be allowed in the dome if I 
> wanted to be, but I’ve interviewed Hagelin and Pearson, and others who still 
> go to the dome. A senior faculty member listens to just about every BatGap 
> interview and we sometimes chat about them. He said he even discusses them 
> with other faculty in his department sometimes.
> 
>  
> 
> Rick Archer
> 
> Buddha at the Gas Pump
> 
> https://batgap.com
> 
>  
> 
> From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com  
> Sent: Friday, December 14, 2018 10:52 AM
> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> Q: I appreciate what you’re doing with the group meditation thing, but I like 
> meditating at home. I usually take a nap first, then just sit up and 
> meditate. Times vary.
>  
> A: Evidently a lot of people feel this way also about meditating with the TM 
> group, not turning out for what was superradiance
> of the group.
> The numbers in the Dome meditation are incredibly low now.
>  
> A radical transcendentalist's response to excuses, like the.. 
>  
>  This Insulting Frenchman's:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSo0duY7-9s
>  
>  
> ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :
> 
> banned from the Domes..
> https://www.you

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation & the droppings of COWS!

[William Leed wle...@aol.com [FairfieldLife]]

Very nicely put Rick! Re: cow dung.  
I  your friend Col. Ret Bill Leed, note as we may well know it has aniceptic 
properties & is use in rural " Baharaht " India, for ones home & especially 
patio & as well as court yard & roof flooring & often in re done several time 
as well. It also as we may well know used a fuel in many parts of hte world. I 
use it as garden compost. THANKS rick my friend 4 the positive posts re such as 
well.


-Original Message-
From: Rick Archer r...@searchsummit.com [FairfieldLife] 

To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Sat, Dec 15, 2018 10:39 am
Subject: RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation

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RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation

[srijau]

I wouldn't  mind shoveling cow manure either, but *I* personally would never 
descend to peddling the metaphorical kind for a living.

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation

[srijau]

you made statements here that very much called into question whether you really 
do the TM Sidhis as orignally taught when you are in group program ie " the sun 
moon and stars" comment
 you gratuitously insult the founders of the university . Yes the constitution 
guarantees free speech. Your speech also has consequences.

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation

[Rick Archer r...@searchsummit.com [FairfieldLife]]

I think I’d rather shovel cow manure for a living than spend my days spying on 
people through people’s social media, the Weekly Reader, Source, etc.

Note to spies: shoveling cow manure is great exercise and really quite 
enjoyable when you get into it. I used to do it at Livingston Manor. If 
interested, contact Radiance Dairy. They may have openings.

Rick Archer
Buddha at the Gas Pump
https://batgap.com

From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2018 8:11 PM
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation



The Authorities?  Yes they read FFL and make files about people’s social media, 
the Weekly Reader, Source, and such on applicants.  It is their job to gather 
info on people in ferreting out people who are in violation of the membership 
guidelines by making inquiry in to lives.  Yes, with potentially long 
interrogation.

One of the things that was held up this last time I was denied a badge was 
about things I may have written on FFL, “about these things you write on 
Fairfield Life”. Yes, you could proly be in some trouble with the membership 
guidelines promoting other spiritual teachers and such by what and who you 
promote with BATGAP.



The existential problem they have with this is that as they have these written 
guidelines they have to have a staff hired to investigate and enforce them in 
detail over applicants.  The guidelines have been cobbled together, wordsmithed 
over the years either to exclude people and they have been reduced somewhat to 
include peoples who were separated from the group by guideline. The remaining 
exclusionary clauses now are mostly cultural and not simply as to whether 
someone is a practitioner or not. There are three written clauses remaining 
that still are in there that can stick in the craw of the larger meditating 
community.



The Authorities, I also do send in communication to movement policy makers the 
url’s to posts made on FFL as posts are pithy, incisive, pertinent and relevant 
in the context of having to do with policy. Fairfield Life has had its 
effective place in communications.  But, the people who investigate Dome 
membership applications do not make policy themselves, they just enforce it. 
The people who make decisions you likely will never meet in the process.



May the grace of the Unified Field grant providential support in Nature towards 
overcoming these long problems we all have suffered with our communal Dome 
meditation attendance numbers.  Jai Guru Dev




---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com<mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>, 
mailto:r...@searchsummit.com>> wrote :

So do the dome authorities still read FFL to see who’s saying what, and exclude 
them if they feel inclined?



Batgap is a funny phenomena with regard to this issue. I promote other teachers 
up the wazoo, and probably wouldn’t be allowed in the dome if I wanted to be, 
but I’ve interviewed Hagelin and Pearson, and others who still go to the dome. 
A senior faculty member listens to just about every BatGap interview and we 
sometimes chat about them. He said he even discusses them with other faculty in 
his department sometimes.



Rick Archer

Buddha at the Gas Pump

https://batgap.com



From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com<mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> 
mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>>
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2018 10:52 AM
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com<mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation







Q: I appreciate what you’re doing with the group meditation thing, but I like 
meditating at home. I usually take a nap first, then just sit up and meditate. 
Times vary.



A: Evidently a lot of people feel this way also about meditating with the TM 
group, not turning out for what was superradiance

of the group.

The numbers in the Dome meditation are incredibly low now.



A radical transcendentalist's response to excuses, like the..



 This Insulting Frenchman's:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSo0duY7-9s





---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com<mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>, 
mailto:dhamiltony...@yahoo.com>> wrote :

banned from the Domes..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiKZjq0vTWg





It is time to start with the membership guidelines anew with a clean sheet of 
paper.



Examples of adapting policy:



The ‘Adhesion Contract’..

Back in 2012 I incited getting the ridiculous 4 pages ‘course agreement’ down 
more essentially to two pages of text.

All that is needed to run a residence course or group meditation is the ability 
to remove disruptive people. The 'course agreement' as it was written by 
apparatchiks trying to be ‘legal’ with everything in their minds and all their 
concerns including the kitchen sink thrown in, their course agreement was 
trying to catch, coerce or punish people to line on all kinds of creed stuff 
otherwis

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

The Authorities?  Yes they read FFL and make files about people’s social media, 
the Weekly Reader, Source, and such on applicants.  It is their job to gather 
info on people in ferreting out people who are in violation of the membership 
guidelines by making inquiry in to lives.  Yes, with potentially long 
interrogation. 
 One of the things that was held up this last time I was denied a badge was 
about things I may have written on FFL, “about these things you write on 
Fairfield Life”. Yes, you could proly be in some trouble with the membership 
guidelines promoting other spiritual teachers and such by what and who you 
promote with BATGAP. 
  
 The existential problem they have with this is that as they have these written 
guidelines they have to have a staff hired to investigate and enforce them in 
detail over applicants.  The guidelines have been cobbled together, wordsmithed 
over the years either to exclude people and they have been reduced somewhat to 
include peoples who were separated from the group by guideline. The remaining 
exclusionary clauses now are mostly cultural and not simply as to whether 
someone is a practitioner or not. There are three written clauses remaining 
that still are in there that can stick in the craw of the larger meditating 
community. 
  
 The Authorities, I also do send in communication to movement policy makers the 
url’s to posts made on FFL as posts are pithy, incisive, pertinent and relevant 
in the context of having to do with policy. Fairfield Life has had its 
effective place in communications.  But, the people who investigate Dome 
membership applications do not make policy themselves, they just enforce it. 
The people who make decisions you likely will never meet in the process.
  
 May the grace of the Unified Field grant providential support in Nature 
towards overcoming these long problems we all have suffered with our communal 
Dome meditation attendance numbers.  Jai Guru Dev 
 



---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 So do the dome authorities still read FFL to see who’s saying what, and 
exclude them if they feel inclined? 
  
 Batgap is a funny phenomena with regard to this issue. I promote other 
teachers up the wazoo, and probably wouldn’t be allowed in the dome if I wanted 
to be, but I’ve interviewed Hagelin and Pearson, and others who still go to the 
dome. A senior faculty member listens to just about every BatGap interview and 
we sometimes chat about them. He said he even discusses them with other faculty 
in his department sometimes. 
  
 Rick Archer
 Buddha at the Gas Pump
 https://batgap.com
 
  
 From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com  
 Sent: Friday, December 14, 2018 10:52 AM
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation
 
 
  
   
 
 
 
 Q: I appreciate what you’re doing with the group meditation thing, but I like 
meditating at home. I usually take a nap first, then just sit up and meditate. 
Times vary.
  
 A: Evidently a lot of people feel this way also about meditating with the TM 
group, not turning out for what was superradiance
 of the group. 
 The numbers in the Dome meditation are incredibly low now.
  
 A radical transcendentalist's response to excuses, like the.. 
  
  This Insulting Frenchman's:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSo0duY7-9s 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSo0duY7-9s
  
  
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mailto:dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote :
 banned from the Domes.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiKZjq0vTWg 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiKZjq0vTWg
  
 
  
 It is time to start with the membership guidelines anew with a clean sheet of 
paper. 
  
 Examples of adapting policy:
  
 The ‘Adhesion Contract’.. 
 Back in 2012 I incited getting the ridiculous 4 pages ‘course agreement’ down 
more essentially to two pages of text. 
 All that is needed to run a residence course or group meditation is the 
ability to remove disruptive people. The 'course agreement' as it was written 
by apparatchiks trying to be ‘legal’ with everything in their minds and all 
their concerns including the kitchen sink thrown in, their course agreement was 
trying to catch, coerce or punish people to line on all kinds of creed stuff 
otherwise unrelated to being on a course, assembly or in a group meditation. 
The agreement was embarrassing as it was ridiculous as a ‘human resources’ 
document.  
  
 I pointed this out to reasonable minds and it was written down to what was 
more essential to running the facility and course with people. One sheet of 
paper, two sides for signature.   
 
 
 
 
 Blue jeans were once banned from the Domes. That changed. 
 
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 
mailto:dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote :
 Thanks for the response,  
 Yes, you are right about a practical need to regulate the running of a course 
assembly or group meditation. 
 The practical Regulating of Disruptive be

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation

[Rick Archer r...@searchsummit.com [FairfieldLife]]

So do the dome authorities still read FFL to see who’s saying what, and exclude 
them if they feel inclined?

Batgap is a funny phenomena with regard to this issue. I promote other teachers 
up the wazoo, and probably wouldn’t be allowed in the dome if I wanted to be, 
but I’ve interviewed Hagelin and Pearson, and others who still go to the dome. 
A senior faculty member listens to just about every BatGap interview and we 
sometimes chat about them. He said he even discusses them with other faculty in 
his department sometimes.

Rick Archer
Buddha at the Gas Pump
https://batgap.com

From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2018 10:52 AM
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation





Q: I appreciate what you’re doing with the group meditation thing, but I like 
meditating at home. I usually take a nap first, then just sit up and meditate. 
Times vary.



A: Evidently a lot of people feel this way also about meditating with the TM 
group, not turning out for what was superradiance

of the group.

The numbers in the Dome meditation are incredibly low now.



A radical transcendentalist's response like the..



The Insulting Frenchman's:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSo0duY7-9s




---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com<mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>, 
mailto:dhamiltony...@yahoo.com>> wrote :
banned from the Domes..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiKZjq0vTWg



It is time to start with the membership guidelines anew with a clean sheet of 
paper.


Examples of adapting policy:


The ‘Adhesion Contract’..

Back in 2012 I incited getting the ridiculous 4 pages ‘course agreement’ down 
more essentially to two pages of text.

All that is needed to run a residence course or group meditation is the ability 
to remove disruptive people. The 'course agreement' as it was written by 
apparatchiks trying to be ‘legal’ with everything in their minds and all their 
concerns including the kitchen sink thrown in, their course agreement was 
trying to catch, coerce or punish people to line on all kinds of creed stuff 
otherwise unrelated to being on a course, assembly or in a group meditation. 
The agreement was embarrassing as it was ridiculous as a ‘human resources’ 
document.


I pointed this out to reasonable minds and it was written down to what was more 
essential to running the facility and course with people. One sheet of paper, 
two sides for signature.


Blue jeans were once banned from the Domes. That changed.

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com<mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>, 
mailto:dhamiltony...@yahoo.com>> wrote :

Thanks for the response,

Yes, you are right about a practical need to regulate the running of a course 
assembly or group meditation.

The practical Regulating of Disruptive behavior is written in to the legal 
course agreement that gets signed as people get badges that allows course 
administrators a discretion to remove disruptive folks. There is a communal 
practicality to that.


That “course agreement” is different than the written guidelines for membership 
(Dome badge) application to the group.

Om by the way, that 'course agreement' document that had developed into a 
piled-on cobbled and complex Four page document of legalese (what is called in 
common law an abusive 'adhesion contract') got cut down to one sheet of paper, 
the sheet of paper agreement that is what they use now to have people sign as 
they come in to get Dome badges. That change is an example of work in progress 
that can occur within TM.
Jai Guru Dev


---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com<mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>, 
mailto:dhamiltony...@yahoo.com>> wrote :

Our ™ group offers what?

The written guidelines to the Domes have for years not been inviting to a 
larger community practice here.  The guidelines as they have been cobbled and 
word-smithed together have not served us well, at all.

The guidelines must, need to be written down to simple: 1) Did someone learn 
the ™ technique and programs? 2) If folks come to the Dome is that what they 
will do?  If yes on both accounts then say ‘welcome’. Be magnanimous and even 
say, ‘thank you’ for being with the group.

Get rid of the remaining old jealousies that are cultural written still into 
the guidelines which have right at nothing to do with the either the practice 
or running a group meditation or residence/assembly course but are there as 
purely administrative coercive and punitive ideas of other things of some 
people’s creeds. To approach the communal problem with the Dome numbers the 
guidelines must be changed to such a place that they may be publishable on a 
web page. Now.



---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com<mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>, 
mailto:dhamiltony...@yahoo.com>> wrote :
Thanks for the replies from several of you.


The membership (Dome badge) guideline problem


The need is to write th

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance of Group Meditation

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

 Q: I appreciate what you’re doing with the group meditation thing, but I like 
meditating at home. I usually take a nap first, then just sit up and meditate. 
Times vary.
  
 A: Evidently a lot of people feel this way also about meditating with the TM 
group, not turning out for what was superradiance
 of the group. 
 The numbers in the Dome meditation are incredibly low now.
  
 A radical transcendentalist's response like the.. 
  
 The Insulting Frenchman's:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSo0duY7-9s 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSo0duY7-9s
 

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 banned from the Domes.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiKZjq0vTWg 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiKZjq0vTWg
 


 It is time to start with the membership guidelines anew with a clean sheet of 
paper. 

 Examples of adapting policy:

 The ‘Adhesion Contract’.. 
 Back in 2012 I incited getting the ridiculous 4 pages ‘course agreement’ down 
more essentially to two pages of text. 
 All that is needed to run a residence course or group meditation is the 
ability to remove disruptive people. The 'course agreement' as it was written 
by apparatchiks trying to be ‘legal’ with everything in their minds and all 
their concerns including the kitchen sink thrown in, their course agreement was 
trying to catch, coerce or punish people to line on all kinds of creed stuff 
otherwise unrelated to being on a course, assembly or in a group meditation. 
The agreement was embarrassing as it was ridiculous as a ‘human resources’ 
document.  

 I pointed this out to reasonable minds and it was written down to what was 
more essential to running the facility and course with people. One sheet of 
paper, two sides for signature.   
 

Blue jeans were once banned from the Domes. That changed. 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Thanks for the response,  
 Yes, you are right about a practical need to regulate the running of a course 
assembly or group meditation. 
 The practical Regulating of Disruptive behavior is written in to the legal 
course agreement that gets signed as people get badges that allows course 
administrators a discretion to remove disruptive folks. There is a communal 
practicality to that. 

 That “course agreement” is different than the written guidelines for 
membership (Dome badge) application to the group. 

Om by the way, that 'course agreement' document that had developed into a 
piled-on cobbled and complex Four page document of legalese (what is called in 
common law an abusive 'adhesion contract') got cut down to one sheet of paper, 
the sheet of paper agreement that is what they use now to have people sign as 
they come in to get Dome badges. That change is an example of work in progress 
that can occur within TM. 
Jai Guru Dev 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Our ™ group offers what?  
 The written guidelines to the Domes have for years not been inviting to a 
larger community practice here.  The guidelines as they have been cobbled and 
word-smithed together have not served us well, at all. 
 The guidelines must, need to be written down to simple: 1) Did someone learn 
the ™ technique and programs? 2) If folks come to the Dome is that what they 
will do?  If yes on both accounts then say ‘welcome’. Be magnanimous and even 
say, ‘thank you’ for being with the group. 
 Get rid of the remaining old jealousies that are cultural written still into 
the guidelines which have right at nothing to do with the either the practice 
or running a group meditation or residence/assembly course but are there as 
purely administrative coercive and punitive ideas of other things of some 
people’s creeds. To approach the communal problem with the Dome numbers the 
guidelines must be changed to such a place that they may be publishable on a 
web page. Now.



---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Thanks for the replies from several of you.  

 The membership (Dome badge) guideline problem

 
 The need is to write the membership guidelines anew, start with a clean sheet 
of paper. Right now. New. Don’t just edit and wordsmith the old ones.   

 Go with “Name, Rank, and Serial number”. Simply, Did someone start ™ and learn 
the ™ program practices and if they would come to the Domes that is what is 
practiced as these Domes are facilitated. Thank you very much.  

 Don’t try to wordsmith the old ones anymore. Raja Hagelin did that again more 
recently retreating with (..) whispering in his ear this last spring and it did 
not improve on the essential problem of these old jealousies that are stuck in 
the written guidelines as they are cobbled.  

 Notice also: The ‘course agreement’ that people sign as they get badges is a 
different doc than ‘the guideline for (Dome badge) membership  application’ . 
 Don’t confuse either document for ‘the purity of the teaching’. 
 ‘Effortless meditation’ is the purity of the teaching. Policy as guideline 
only facilitates the teaching but 

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance Of Group Meditation

[Sal Sunshine salsunshineini...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]]

> Now, the behavior of some in the .org and how poorly or well the metics of 
> their facilitating what is here as a community in this larger enterprise of 
> superradiance is another question entirely.

You know Doug, sometimes I really wonder if English is your first language.

Sal 


> On Oct 27, 2018, at 6:45 AM, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] 
>  wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Hey, I am a satisfied customer of the practice of the ™ program. I know my 
> experience with it. Questioning the character of my experience with it? I 
> thank the Providence in the large Nature of the Unified Field for my having 
> come across it in my life time as a spiritual practice. 
> Now, the behavior of some in the .org and how poorly or well the metics of 
> their facilitating what is here as a community in this larger enterprise of 
> superradiance is another question entirely.  
> 
> 
> jr_...@yahoo.com> wrote :
> In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salsunshineiniowa@ wrote :
> 
> I can’t believe you or anybody else still goes out of their way to be part of 
> a group of aging yahoos who still believe in expelling people from their 
> clique, despite abundant evidence almost nobody wants to be IN said clique, 
> and hasn’t for many years.  Hear they’re up to around 300 these days, even 
> with the MUM students...pathetic.
> 
> “Provisional” dome badge...lol. How’s the mold doing in there by the way? 
> 
> Then again, a friend tells me it’s still a good place to sleep, so there is 
> that.  
> 
> Sal 
> 
> 
> ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :
> 
> They gave me a ‘provisional’ Dome badge.  
> Okay, I am back in the Dome meditation again with the group.  
> In the interviewing, the more grave concerns were in three jealousies 
> embedded in the written guidelines, that posts here on FairfieldLife could be 
> seen as ‘promoting’ other practices, also the giving an indication of money 
> going to ‘non-Maharishi’ jyotish/ yagya, and then what cursory promotion of 
> Ravi Shankar there could be seen here from describing (a journalism of) any 
> of these as being part of what is going on in the meditating community of 
> ‘spiritual’ Fairfield. FairfieldLife posts, news and social media/facebook 
> otherwise get read actively by an investigating staff. 
> This is not like going in to a Saudi Embassy in Turkey for papers but an 
> intelligence gathering about people works similarly because of guidelines as 
> they are written and a staff that is hired to investigate these guidelines. 
> 
> Srijau writing: you compare to the House of Saud. disgusting.
> 
> 
> 
> ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :
> 
> 
> In the last few of weeks of processing since I was denied an updated sticker 
> or new Dome badge people here generally on hearing word of this would 
> respond, “..are they still doing that?” and then relate their own experience 
> and fears with this. 
> 
> These last few days in Fairfield I have run across people who recently 
> updated/got their badges and when hearing about the written guideline over 
> ‘money’ going to ‘non-Maharishi’ jyotish/yagya, remarked “opps”, that they 
> had.  Another just the other day, had an ‘inexpensive’ ‘non-Maharishi’ yagya 
> done otherwise, also recently updated with a new badge and can meditate now 
> in the Dome group meditation in fear of being found out. 
>  
> #
> I have advocated more recently with a direct hand for four successfully 
> renewed badge people urging them to/having them get Dome badges.  Aggregate 
> numbers, superradiance, towards a more critical mass. Jai Guru Dev. 
> The process just let someone else in who they did not know about into the 
> Domes who visits/sees Ravi Shankar quite a lot. 
> These are each people (example) whether 'persisting' visiting other 
> saints/spiritual people or having bought 'non-Maharishi' jyotish and yagya 
> who can come and do, willingly do, the TM program with the group. And, will 
> do so if so long as they are 'not found out' and separated from the group...  
>  
> 
> 
> 
> ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :
> 
> This is very much in the purvey now of TM’s Trustees and Raja class, as 
> something like the House of Saud is hierarchical and organized. Hopefully our 
> Trustees and Raja of the ™ .org can get the guidelines for membership down 
> simply to whether someone learned the programs and would come to the group 
> meditations doing those. Simple. May the grace of Providence of the Unified 
> Field free us all from what long oppression the Dome group meditation numbers 
> have suffered of those written guidelines. Jai Guru Dev 
> 
> 
> ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :
> 
> Dear Ones,  
> I am very sorry and apologetic that Maharishi has told conflicting 
> instruction of such different things to different groups and individuals that 
> this has left you here to enforce a cobbled (wordsmithed) set of guidelines 
> for our superradiance membership.  Guidelines that have not served you or 

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance Of Group Meditation

[Sal Sunshine salsunshineini...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]]

I can’t believe you or anybody else still goes out of their way to be part of a 
group of aging yahoos who still believe in expelling people from their clique, 
despite abundant evidence almost nobody wants to be IN said clique, and hasn’t 
for many years.  Hear they’re up to around 300 these days, even with the MUM 
students...pathetic.

“Provisional” dome badge...lol. How’s the mold doing in there by the way? 

Then again, a friend tells me it’s still a good place to sleep, so there is 
that.  

Sal 


> On Oct 24, 2018, at 1:46 PM, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] 
>  wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> They gave me a ‘provisional’ Dome badge.  
> Okay, I am back in the Dome meditation again with the group.  
> In the interviewing, the more grave concerns were in three jealousies 
> embedded in the written guidelines, that posts here on FairfieldLife could be 
> seen as ‘promoting’ other practices, also the giving an indication of money 
> going to ‘non-Maharishi’ jyotish/ yagya, and then what cursory promotion of 
> Ravi Shankar there could be seen here from describing (a journalism of) any 
> of these as being part of what is going on in the meditating community of 
> ‘spiritual’ Fairfield. FairfieldLife posts, news and social media/facebook 
> otherwise get read actively by an investigating staff. 
> This is not like going in to a Saudi Embassy in Turkey for papers but an 
> intelligence gathering about people works similarly because of guidelines as 
> they are written and a staff that is hired to investigate these guidelines. 
> 
> Srijau writing: you compare to the House of Saud. disgusting.
> 
> 
> 
> ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :
> 
> 
> In the last few of weeks of processing since I was denied an updated sticker 
> or new Dome badge people here generally on hearing word of this would 
> respond, “..are they still doing that?” and then relate their own experience 
> and fears with this. 
> 
> These last few days in Fairfield I have run across people who recently 
> updated/got their badges and when hearing about the written guideline over 
> ‘money’ going to ‘non-Maharishi’ jyotish/yagya, remarked “opps”, that they 
> had.  Another just the other day, had an ‘inexpensive’ ‘non-Maharishi’ yagya 
> done otherwise, also recently updated with a new badge and can meditate now 
> in the Dome group meditation in fear of being found out. 
>  
> #
> I have advocated more recently with a direct hand for four successfully 
> renewed badge people urging them to/having them get Dome badges.  Aggregate 
> numbers, superradiance, towards a more critical mass. Jai Guru Dev. 
> The process just let someone else in who they did not know about into the 
> Domes who visits/sees Ravi Shankar quite a lot. 
> These are each people (example) whether 'persisting' visiting other 
> saints/spiritual people or having bought 'non-Maharishi' jyotish and yagya 
> who can come and do, willingly do, the TM program with the group. And, will 
> do so if so long as they are 'not found out' and separated from the group...  
>  
> 
> 
> 
> ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :
> 
> This is very much in the purvey now of TM’s Trustees and Raja class, as 
> something like the House of Saud is hierarchical and organized. Hopefully our 
> Trustees and Raja of the ™ .org can get the guidelines for membership down 
> simply to whether someone learned the programs and would come to the group 
> meditations doing those. Simple. May the grace of Providence of the Unified 
> Field free us all from what long oppression the Dome group meditation numbers 
> have suffered of those written guidelines. Jai Guru Dev 
> 
> 
> ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :
> 
> Dear Ones,  
> I am very sorry and apologetic that Maharishi has told conflicting 
> instruction of such different things to different groups and individuals that 
> this has left you here to enforce a cobbled (wordsmithed) set of guidelines 
> for our superradiance membership.  Guidelines that have not served you or our 
> meditating community well.
>  
> The essential guideline of course is at the bottom of the printed guidelines: 
> Only Maharishi’s techniques are permitted to be practiced in the program 
> halls.
> Which essentially would entail an applicant having learned ™ and the 
> TM0-Sidhis at some point.
> 
> However, having now had the guidelines for membership read out to me on more 
> than one occasion and also having read the guidelines directly there are 
> three embedded jealousies which are cultural that stand out in the 
> guidelines. These continue to be essentially corrosive to our communal 
> superradiance experience.
> 
> . .
> 
> 
> Everyone living in Fairfield should be very concerned about the metrics of 
> the Dome meditation numbers and how it goes for them for many good reasons.  
>  
> Inside the administration there presents manifest an administrative fear that 
> evidently is now creed and cultural as bound to a ‘sufficiency’ in 

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance Of Group Meditation

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

World Wide Group Meditation.. Sunday 24 June 5pm CST
 

 Tune into KHOE 90.5 FM on Friday, June 15, at noon and 7:30 PM to hear Dr. 
David Orme-Johnson interviewed by Karen Aoki and Cy Winther-Tamaki discussing 
the Maharishi Effect, group meditations, and Experiences.

This program will also be available as an Mp3 download at www.khoe.org 
https://mum.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0baef123e6d28ab4b21c9087a=943b86952e=919bd5d8cb.



 Sweet is the day of sacred rest;
 No mortal cares shall seize my breast.
 Oh, may my heart in tune be found,
 Like David’s harp of solemn sound.
 

 Then shall I share a glorious part,
 When grace hath well refined my heart,
 And fresh supplies of joy are shed,
 Like holy oil, to cheer my head.
 

 Then shall I see, and hear, and know
 All I desired and wished below;
 And ev’ry pow’r find sweet employ,
 In that eternal world of joy.



 "Group meditation...
 

 Dictated by the collective, any time you get two or more people together you 
have a group dynamic situation where you are actually creating another energy 
system between you, this happens spontaneously all the time. 

 So when you have a group like this, of meditators transcending, you have all 
this input of coherence in the subtle system .." 
 -FF Spiritual Coffee Haus Satsanga


 The Meissner-like transmission.. 

 The Meissner-like effect (ME) of active ‘civil resistance’ = 3.5% , or 11 
million in the USA

 The Meissner-like effect (ME) of effective meditators to societal positive 
coherence = 1% 
Or 3,270,000 meditators. 

 The ME In the USA of advanced meditators, at the (square root of 1%) =>2,000. 

 Evidently SuperRadiance (SR) of meditators not as the only solution, but as a 
requirement for a functional society toward permanent peace and progress can 
not happen without sufficient participation in SR of group meditation. 
(Maharishi would say many times we must have 2,000). 
 The science quite evidently bares this out now with quite high level of 
certainty while in the numbers meditating it seems there is a deficiency in 
science literacy.  Quite evidently, there needs to be better evidence-based 
public policy fostering the regular practice of meditation by more people. 


 So why is civil resistance so much more effective than armed struggle? The 
answer lies in people power itself.
 Researchers 
http://www.amazon.com/Rebels-Dilemma-Economics-Cognition-Society/dp/0472085743 
used to say that no government could survive if five percent 
http://willopines.wordpress.com/2012/07/19/the-5-rule-and-indiscriminate-killing-of-civilians/
 of its population mobilized against it. But our data reveal that the threshold 
is probably lower. In fact, no campaigns failed once they’d achieved the active 
and sustained participation of just 3.5% of the population 
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/why-civil-resistance-works/9780231156820—and lots 
of them succeeded with far less than that [5] 
https://rationalinsurgent.com/2013/11/04/my-talk-at-tedxboulder-civil-resistance-and-the-3-5-rule/#_edn5.
 Now, 3.5% is nothing to sneeze at. In the U.S. today, this means almost 11 
million people.

 
https://rationalinsurgent.com/2013/11/04/my-talk-at-tedxboulder-civil-resistance-and-the-3-5-rule/
 
https://rationalinsurgent.com/2013/11/04/my-talk-at-tedxboulder-civil-resistance-and-the-3-5-rule/
 



 Q: A role of working social justice service in grounding spiritual experience? 

 FF Satsanga Observations:

 

 A: The world of consciousness is branched way beyond alpha brainwaves.
 


 A: Spirituality is taught by ‘the mothers’ as: 
 1moral cultivation, developmental education in moral values, 
 2cultivation of spiritual practice, and 
 3active service to others to help others; 
 Those three things together. that is the cultivation of the whole.
 One without the others is not complete and will leave people ungrounded. 

 
 A..that Compassion is different than mood-making and this is different than 
just narrow cultivation of consciousness. This like the difference between the 
state of compassion and the emotion of love. One can have loving thoughts or 
loving feelings which are distinct. Not that these are not great things, these 
are expressions. Those are expressions of the heart for sure. But the heart 
state, the state of compassion, is a steady thing. It is not a conditional 
thing. It is a pretty steady thing. It is not a conditional thing like, ‘I feel 
this and I become Compassionate’. It is a state, of compassion. It is, ‘If I am 
compassion then I observe’. It is a state. It is not, ‘oh I see this and I 
become compassion’. It is a state and it is a state of heart because of the 
energetics of the heart chakra that can embrace with a capacity to digest, to 
take in without fear. That requires stability. 
 



 

 Great observation, the exercising the polyvagal and the hologram of the 
wholeness of the subtle human system. 
 

 Look at the aspect of the ™ movement that is doing well, the David Lynch 
Foundation 

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance Of Group Meditation

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

Sweet is the day of sacred rest;
 No mortal cares shall seize my breast.
 Oh, may my heart in tune be found,
 Like David’s harp of solemn sound.
 

 Then shall I share a glorious part,
 When grace hath well refined my heart,
 And fresh supplies of joy are shed,
 Like holy oil, to cheer my head.
 

 Then shall I see, and hear, and know
 All I desired and wished below;
 And ev’ry pow’r find sweet employ,
 In that eternal world of joy.



 "Group meditation...
 

 Dictated by the collective, any time you get two or more people together you 
have a group dynamic situation where you are actually creating another energy 
system between you, this happens spontaneously all the time. 

 So when you have a group like this, of meditators transcending, you have all 
this input of coherence in the subtle system .." 
 -FF Spiritual Coffee Haus Satsanga


 The Meissner-like transmission.. 

 The Meissner-like effect (ME) of active ‘civil resistance’ = 3.5% , or 11 
million in the USA

 The Meissner-like effect (ME) of effective meditators to societal positive 
coherence = 1% 
Or 3,270,000 meditators. 

 The ME In the USA of advanced meditators, at the (square root of 1%) =>2,000. 

 Evidently SuperRadiance (SR) of meditators not as the only solution, but as a 
requirement for a functional society toward permanent peace and progress can 
not happen without sufficient participation in SR of group meditation. 
(Maharishi would say many times we must have 2,000). 
 The science quite evidently bares this out now with quite high level of 
certainty while in the numbers meditating it seems there is a deficiency in 
science literacy.  Quite evidently, there needs to be better evidence-based 
public policy fostering the regular practice of meditation by more people. 


 So why is civil resistance so much more effective than armed struggle? The 
answer lies in people power itself.
 Researchers 
http://www.amazon.com/Rebels-Dilemma-Economics-Cognition-Society/dp/0472085743 
used to say that no government could survive if five percent 
http://willopines.wordpress.com/2012/07/19/the-5-rule-and-indiscriminate-killing-of-civilians/
 of its population mobilized against it. But our data reveal that the threshold 
is probably lower. In fact, no campaigns failed once they’d achieved the active 
and sustained participation of just 3.5% of the population 
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/why-civil-resistance-works/9780231156820—and lots 
of them succeeded with far less than that [5] 
https://rationalinsurgent.com/2013/11/04/my-talk-at-tedxboulder-civil-resistance-and-the-3-5-rule/#_edn5.
 Now, 3.5% is nothing to sneeze at. In the U.S. today, this means almost 11 
million people.

 
https://rationalinsurgent.com/2013/11/04/my-talk-at-tedxboulder-civil-resistance-and-the-3-5-rule/
 
https://rationalinsurgent.com/2013/11/04/my-talk-at-tedxboulder-civil-resistance-and-the-3-5-rule/
 



 Q: A role of working social justice service in grounding spiritual experience? 

 FF Satsanga Observations:

 

 A: The world of consciousness is branched way beyond alpha brainwaves.
 


 A: Spirituality is taught by ‘the mothers’ as: 
 1moral cultivation, developmental education in moral values, 
 2cultivation of spiritual practice, and 
 3active service to others to help others; 
 Those three things together. that is the cultivation of the whole.
 One without the others is not complete and will leave people ungrounded. 

 
 A..that Compassion is different than mood-making and this is different than 
just narrow cultivation of consciousness. This like the difference between the 
state of compassion and the emotion of love. One can have loving thoughts or 
loving feelings which are distinct. Not that these are not great things, these 
are expressions. Those are expressions of the heart for sure. But the heart 
state, the state of compassion, is a steady thing. It is not a conditional 
thing. It is a pretty steady thing. It is not a conditional thing like, ‘I feel 
this and I become Compassionate’. It is a state, of compassion. It is, ‘If I am 
compassion then I observe’. It is a state. It is not, ‘oh I see this and I 
become compassion’. It is a state and it is a state of heart because of the 
energetics of the heart chakra that can embrace with a capacity to digest, to 
take in without fear. That requires stability. 
 



 

 Great observation, the exercising the polyvagal and the hologram of the 
wholeness of the subtle human system. 
 

 Look at the aspect of the ™ movement that is doing well, the David Lynch 
Foundation (DLF) of teaching ™. .  
 

 DLF  is highly attractive to gen-x and gen-millennial youth because iDLF is 
not just some sect of meditating but doing service work to need.  For good 
reasons DLF is engaged in  teaching meditation to veterans, in violent schools, 
to single moms, at UN peacekeeping camps, teaching meditation in prisons, etc. 
DLF foci being of social service to peoples in need. 

 The visioning people at the top of DLF were 

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance Of Group Meditation

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

"Group meditation...
 

 Dictated by the collective, any time you get two or more people together you 
have a group dynamic situation where you are actually creating another energy 
system between you, this happens spontaneously all the time. 

 So when you have a group like this, of meditators transcending, you have all 
this input of coherence in the subtle system .." 
 -FF Spiritual Coffee Haus Satsanga


---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 The Meissner-like transmission.. 

 The Meissner-like effect (ME) of active ‘civil resistance’ = 3.5% , or 11 
million in the USA

 The Meissner-like effect (ME) of effective meditators to societal positive 
coherence = 1% 
Or 3,270,000 meditators. 

 The ME In the USA of advanced meditators, at the (square root of 1%) =>2,000. 

 Evidently SuperRadiance (SR) of meditators not as the only solution, but as a 
requirement for a functional society toward permanent peace and progress can 
not happen without sufficient participation in SR of group meditation. 
(Maharishi would say many times we must have 2,000). 
 The science quite evidently bares this out now with quite high level of 
certainty while in the numbers meditating it seems there is a deficiency in 
science literacy.  Quite evidently, there needs to be better evidence-based 
public policy fostering the regular practice of meditation by more people. 


 So why is civil resistance so much more effective than armed struggle? The 
answer lies in people power itself.
 Researchers 
http://www.amazon.com/Rebels-Dilemma-Economics-Cognition-Society/dp/0472085743 
used to say that no government could survive if five percent 
http://willopines.wordpress.com/2012/07/19/the-5-rule-and-indiscriminate-killing-of-civilians/
 of its population mobilized against it. But our data reveal that the threshold 
is probably lower. In fact, no campaigns failed once they’d achieved the active 
and sustained participation of just 3.5% of the population 
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/why-civil-resistance-works/9780231156820—and lots 
of them succeeded with far less than that [5] 
https://rationalinsurgent.com/2013/11/04/my-talk-at-tedxboulder-civil-resistance-and-the-3-5-rule/#_edn5.
 Now, 3.5% is nothing to sneeze at. In the U.S. today, this means almost 11 
million people.

 
https://rationalinsurgent.com/2013/11/04/my-talk-at-tedxboulder-civil-resistance-and-the-3-5-rule/
 
https://rationalinsurgent.com/2013/11/04/my-talk-at-tedxboulder-civil-resistance-and-the-3-5-rule/
 



---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Q: A role of working social justice service in grounding spiritual experience? 

 FF Satsanga Observations:

 

 A: The world of consciousness is branched way beyond alpha brainwaves.
 


 A: Spirituality is taught by ‘the mothers’ as: 
 1moral cultivation, developmental education in moral values, 
 2cultivation of spiritual practice, and 
 3active service to others to help others; 
 Those three things together. that is the cultivation of the whole.
 One without the others is not complete and will leave people ungrounded. 

 
 A..that Compassion is different than mood-making and this is different than 
just narrow cultivation of consciousness. This like the difference between the 
state of compassion and the emotion of love. One can have loving thoughts or 
loving feelings which are distinct. Not that these are not great things, these 
are expressions. Those are expressions of the heart for sure. But the heart 
state, the state of compassion, is a steady thing. It is not a conditional 
thing. It is a pretty steady thing. It is not a conditional thing like, ‘I feel 
this and I become Compassionate’. It is a state, of compassion. It is, ‘If I am 
compassion then I observe’. It is a state. It is not, ‘oh I see this and I 
become compassion’. It is a state and it is a state of heart because of the 
energetics of the heart chakra that can embrace with a capacity to digest, to 
take in without fear. That requires stability. 
 


---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 

 Great observation, the exercising the polyvagal and the hologram of the 
wholeness of the subtle human system. 
 

 Look at the aspect of the ™ movement that is doing well, the David Lynch 
Foundation (DLF) of teaching ™. .  
 

 DLF  is highly attractive to gen-x and gen-millennial youth because iDLF is 
not just some sect of meditating but doing service work to need.  For good 
reasons DLF is engaged in  teaching meditation to veterans, in violent schools, 
to single moms, at UN peacekeeping camps, teaching meditation in prisons, etc. 
DLF foci being of social service to peoples in need. 

 The visioning people at the top of DLF were old successful field teachers, 
differing by a long shot  from the stayed rigid old Vlodrop people,.  The  DLF 
cohort are anything but complacent in adaptation to need. 
 Internally there has been quite a lot of argument and 

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance Of Group Meditation

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

 Transcendentalism, 
 this becomes MMY’s great legacy along the line with George Fox or Jesus Christ 
"Where two or more are gathered..". This modern development, of natural 
sciences correlating with transcendentalism in modern time as to the practical 
role of collective meditation, not only an individual experience is compelling 
in transcendental meditationism but now by virtue of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's 
articulation there is the evident science of collective practice of meditation 
on the whole. 

 

 The Meissner-like transmission.. 

 The Meissner-like effect (ME) of active ‘civil resistance’ = 3.5% , or 11 
million in the USA

 The Meissner-like effect (ME) of effective meditators to societal positive 
coherence = 1% 
Or 3,270,000 meditators. 

 The ME In the USA of advanced meditators, at the (square root of 1%) =>2,000. 

 Evidently SuperRadiance (SR) of meditators not as the only solution, but as a 
requirement for a functional society toward permanent peace and progress can 
not happen without sufficient participation in SR of group meditation. 
(Maharishi would say many times we must have 2,000). 
 

 The science quite evidently bares this out now with quite high level of 
certainty while in the numbers meditating it seems there is a deficiency in 
science literacy.  Quite evidently, there needs to be better evidence-based 
public policy fostering the regular practice of meditation by more people. 


 So why is civil resistance so much more effective than armed struggle? The 
answer lies in people power itself.
 
For more than a century, from 1900 to 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance 
were more than twice as effective as their violent counterparts in achieving 
their stated goals.

 Researchers 
http://www.amazon.com/Rebels-Dilemma-Economics-Cognition-Society/dp/0472085743 
used to say that no government could survive if five percent 
http://willopines.wordpress.com/2012/07/19/the-5-rule-and-indiscriminate-killing-of-civilians/
 of its population mobilized against it. But our data reveal that the threshold 
is probably lower. In fact, no campaigns failed once they’d achieved the active 
and sustained participation of just 3.5% of the population 
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/why-civil-resistance-works/9780231156820—and lots 
of them succeeded with far less than that [5] 
https://rationalinsurgent.com/2013/11/04/my-talk-at-tedxboulder-civil-resistance-and-the-3-5-rule/#_edn5.
 Now, 3.5% is nothing to sneeze at. In the U.S. today, this means almost 11 
million people.

 
https://rationalinsurgent.com/2013/11/04/my-talk-at-tedxboulder-civil-resistance-and-the-3-5-rule/
 
https://rationalinsurgent.com/2013/11/04/my-talk-at-tedxboulder-civil-resistance-and-the-3-5-rule/
 



---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Q: A role of working social justice service in grounding spiritual experience? 

 FF Satsanga Observations:

 

 A: The world of consciousness is branched way beyond alpha brainwaves.
 


 A: Spirituality is taught by ‘the mothers’ as: 
 1moral cultivation, developmental education in moral values, 
 2cultivation of spiritual practice, and 
 3active service to others to help others; 
 Those three things together. that is the cultivation of the whole.
 One without the others is not complete and will leave people ungrounded. 

 
 A..that Compassion is different than mood-making and this is different than 
just narrow cultivation of consciousness. This like the difference between the 
state of compassion and the emotion of love. One can have loving thoughts or 
loving feelings which are distinct. Not that these are not great things, these 
are expressions. Those are expressions of the heart for sure. But the heart 
state, the state of compassion, is a steady thing. It is not a conditional 
thing. It is a pretty steady thing. It is not a conditional thing like, ‘I feel 
this and I become Compassionate’. It is a state, of compassion. It is, ‘If I am 
compassion then I observe’. It is a state. It is not, ‘oh I see this and I 
become compassion’. It is a state and it is a state of heart because of the 
energetics of the heart chakra that can embrace with a capacity to digest, to 
take in without fear. That requires stability. 
 


---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 

 Great observation, the exercising the polyvagal and the hologram of the 
wholeness of the subtle human system. 
 

 Look at the aspect of the ™ movement that is doing well, the David Lynch 
Foundation (DLF) of teaching ™. .  
 

 DLF  is highly attractive to gen-x and gen-millennial youth because iDLF is 
not just some sect of meditating but doing service work to need.  For good 
reasons DLF is engaged in  teaching meditation to veterans, in violent schools, 
to single moms, at UN peacekeeping camps, teaching meditation in prisons, etc. 
DLF foci being of social service to peoples in need. 

 The visioning people at the top of DLF were old 

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance Of Group Meditation

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

Transcendentalism, 
 this becomes MMY’s great legacy along the line with George Fox or Jesus Christ 
"Where two or more are gathered..". This modern development, of natural 
sciences correlating with transcendentalism in modern time as to the practical 
role of collective meditation, not only an individual experience is compelling 
in transcendental meditationism but now by virtue of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's 
articulation there is the evident science of collective practice of meditation 
on the whole. 

 

 The Meissner-like transmission.. 

 The Meissner-like effect (ME) of active ‘civil resistance’ = 3.5% , or 11 
million in the USA

 The Meissner-like effect (ME) of effective meditators to societal positive 
coherence = 1% 
Or 3,270,000 meditators. 

 The ME In the USA of advanced meditators, at the (square root of 1%) =>2,000. 

 Evidently SuperRadiance (SR) of meditators not as the only solution, but as a 
requirement for a functional society toward permanent peace and progress can 
not happen without sufficient participation in SR of group meditation. 
(Maharishi would say many times we must have 2,000). 
 

 The science quite evidently bares this out now with quite high level of 
certainty while in the numbers meditating it seems there is a deficiency in 
science literacy.  Quite evidently, there needs to be better evidence-based 
public policy fostering the regular practice of meditation by more people. 


 So why is civil resistance so much more effective than armed struggle? The 
answer lies in people power itself.
 
For more than a century, from 1900 to 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance 
were more than twice as effective as their violent counterparts in achieving 
their stated goals.

 Researchers 
http://www.amazon.com/Rebels-Dilemma-Economics-Cognition-Society/dp/0472085743 
used to say that no government could survive if five percent 
http://willopines.wordpress.com/2012/07/19/the-5-rule-and-indiscriminate-killing-of-civilians/
 of its population mobilized against it. But our data reveal that the threshold 
is probably lower. In fact, no campaigns failed once they’d achieved the active 
and sustained participation of just 3.5% of the population 
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/why-civil-resistance-works/9780231156820—and lots 
of them succeeded with far less than that [5] 
https://rationalinsurgent.com/2013/11/04/my-talk-at-tedxboulder-civil-resistance-and-the-3-5-rule/#_edn5.
 Now, 3.5% is nothing to sneeze at. In the U.S. today, this means almost 11 
million people.

 
https://rationalinsurgent.com/2013/11/04/my-talk-at-tedxboulder-civil-resistance-and-the-3-5-rule/
 
https://rationalinsurgent.com/2013/11/04/my-talk-at-tedxboulder-civil-resistance-and-the-3-5-rule/
 



---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Q: A role of working social justice service in grounding spiritual experience? 

 FF Satsanga Observations:

 

 A: The world of consciousness is branched way beyond alpha brainwaves.
 


 A: Spirituality is taught by ‘the mothers’ as: 
 1moral cultivation, developmental education in moral values, 
 2cultivation of spiritual practice, and 
 3active service to others to help others; 
 Those three things together. that is the cultivation of the whole.
 One without the others is not complete and will leave people ungrounded. 

 
 A..that Compassion is different than mood-making and this is different than 
just narrow cultivation of consciousness. This like the difference between the 
state of compassion and the emotion of love. One can have loving thoughts or 
loving feelings which are distinct. Not that these are not great things, these 
are expressions. Those are expressions of the heart for sure. But the heart 
state, the state of compassion, is a steady thing. It is not a conditional 
thing. It is a pretty steady thing. It is not a conditional thing like, ‘I feel 
this and I become Compassionate’. It is a state, of compassion. It is, ‘If I am 
compassion then I observe’. It is a state. It is not, ‘oh I see this and I 
become compassion’. It is a state and it is a state of heart because of the 
energetics of the heart chakra that can embrace with a capacity to digest, to 
take in without fear. That requires stability. 
 


---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 

 Great observation, the exercising the polyvagal and the hologram of the 
wholeness of the subtle human system. 
 

 Look at the aspect of the ™ movement that is doing well, the David Lynch 
Foundation (DLF) of teaching ™. .  
 

 DLF  is highly attractive to gen-x and gen-millennial youth because iDLF is 
not just some sect of meditating but doing service work to need.  For good 
reasons DLF is engaged in  teaching meditation to veterans, in violent schools, 
to single moms, at UN peacekeeping camps, teaching meditation in prisons, etc. 
DLF foci being of social service to peoples in need. 

 The visioning people at the top of DLF were old successful 

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance Of Group Meditation

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

Transcendentalism, 
 this becomes MMY’s great legacy along the line with George Fox or Jesus Christ 
"Where two or more are gathered..". This modern development, of natural 
sciences correlating with transcendentalism in modern time as to the practical 
role of collective meditation, not only an individual experience is compelling 
in transcendental meditationism but now by virtue of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's 
articulation there is the evident science of collective practice of meditation 
on the whole. 


---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 The Meissner-like transmission.. 

 The Meissner-like effect (ME) of active ‘civil resistance’ = 3.5% , or 11 
million in the USA

 The Meissner-like effect (ME) of effective meditators to societal positive 
coherence = 1% 
Or 3,270,000 meditators. 

 The ME In the USA of advanced meditators, at the (square root of 1%) =>2,000. 

 Evidently SuperRadiance (SR) of meditators not as the only solution, but as a 
requirement for a functional society toward permanent peace and progress can 
not happen without sufficient participation in SR of group meditation. 
(Maharishi would say many times we must have 2,000). 
 The science quite evidently bares this out now with quite high level of 
certainty while in the numbers meditating it seems there is a deficiency in 
science literacy.  Quite evidently, there needs to be better evidence-based 
public policy fostering the regular practice of meditation by more people. 


 So why is civil resistance so much more effective than armed struggle? The 
answer lies in people power itself.
 Researchers 
http://www.amazon.com/Rebels-Dilemma-Economics-Cognition-Society/dp/0472085743 
used to say that no government could survive if five percent 
http://willopines.wordpress.com/2012/07/19/the-5-rule-and-indiscriminate-killing-of-civilians/
 of its population mobilized against it. But our data reveal that the threshold 
is probably lower. In fact, no campaigns failed once they’d achieved the active 
and sustained participation of just 3.5% of the population 
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/why-civil-resistance-works/9780231156820—and lots 
of them succeeded with far less than that [5] 
https://rationalinsurgent.com/2013/11/04/my-talk-at-tedxboulder-civil-resistance-and-the-3-5-rule/#_edn5.
 Now, 3.5% is nothing to sneeze at. In the U.S. today, this means almost 11 
million people.

 
https://rationalinsurgent.com/2013/11/04/my-talk-at-tedxboulder-civil-resistance-and-the-3-5-rule/
 
https://rationalinsurgent.com/2013/11/04/my-talk-at-tedxboulder-civil-resistance-and-the-3-5-rule/
 



---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Q: A role of working social justice service in grounding spiritual experience? 

 FF Satsanga Observations:

 

 A: The world of consciousness is branched way beyond alpha brainwaves.
 


 A: Spirituality is taught by ‘the mothers’ as: 
 1moral cultivation, developmental education in moral values, 
 2cultivation of spiritual practice, and 
 3active service to others to help others; 
 Those three things together. that is the cultivation of the whole.
 One without the others is not complete and will leave people ungrounded. 

 
 A..that Compassion is different than mood-making and this is different than 
just narrow cultivation of consciousness. This like the difference between the 
state of compassion and the emotion of love. One can have loving thoughts or 
loving feelings which are distinct. Not that these are not great things, these 
are expressions. Those are expressions of the heart for sure. But the heart 
state, the state of compassion, is a steady thing. It is not a conditional 
thing. It is a pretty steady thing. It is not a conditional thing like, ‘I feel 
this and I become Compassionate’. It is a state, of compassion. It is, ‘If I am 
compassion then I observe’. It is a state. It is not, ‘oh I see this and I 
become compassion’. It is a state and it is a state of heart because of the 
energetics of the heart chakra that can embrace with a capacity to digest, to 
take in without fear. That requires stability. 
 


---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 

 Great observation, the exercising the polyvagal and the hologram of the 
wholeness of the subtle human system. 
 

 Look at the aspect of the ™ movement that is doing well, the David Lynch 
Foundation (DLF) of teaching ™. .  
 

 DLF  is highly attractive to gen-x and gen-millennial youth because iDLF is 
not just some sect of meditating but doing service work to need.  For good 
reasons DLF is engaged in  teaching meditation to veterans, in violent schools, 
to single moms, at UN peacekeeping camps, teaching meditation in prisons, etc. 
DLF foci being of social service to peoples in need. 

 The visioning people at the top of DLF were old successful field teachers, 
differing by a long shot  from the stayed rigid old Vlodrop people,.  The  DLF 
cohort are 

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance Of Group Meditation

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

For more than a century, from 1900 to 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance 
were more than twice as effective as their violent counterparts in achieving 
their stated goals.


---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 The Meissner-like transmission.. 

 The Meissner-like effect (ME) of active ‘civil resistance’ = 3.5% , or 11 
million in the USA

 The Meissner-like effect (ME) of effective meditators to societal positive 
coherence = 1% 
Or 3,270,000 meditators. 

 The ME In the USA of advanced meditators, at the (square root of 1%) =>2,000. 

 Evidently SuperRadiance (SR) of meditators not as the only solution, but as a 
requirement for a functional society toward permanent peace and progress can 
not happen without sufficient participation in SR of group meditation. 
(Maharishi would say many times we must have 2,000). 
 

 The science quite evidently bares this out now with quite high level of 
certainty while in the numbers meditating it seems there is a deficiency in 
science literacy.  Quite evidently, there needs to be better evidence-based 
public policy fostering the regular practice of meditation by more people. 


 So why is civil resistance so much more effective than armed struggle? The 
answer lies in people power itself.
 Researchers 
http://www.amazon.com/Rebels-Dilemma-Economics-Cognition-Society/dp/0472085743 
used to say that no government could survive if five percent 
http://willopines.wordpress.com/2012/07/19/the-5-rule-and-indiscriminate-killing-of-civilians/
 of its population mobilized against it. But our data reveal that the threshold 
is probably lower. In fact, no campaigns failed once they’d achieved the active 
and sustained participation of just 3.5% of the population 
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/why-civil-resistance-works/9780231156820—and lots 
of them succeeded with far less than that [5] 
https://rationalinsurgent.com/2013/11/04/my-talk-at-tedxboulder-civil-resistance-and-the-3-5-rule/#_edn5.
 Now, 3.5% is nothing to sneeze at. In the U.S. today, this means almost 11 
million people.

 
https://rationalinsurgent.com/2013/11/04/my-talk-at-tedxboulder-civil-resistance-and-the-3-5-rule/
 
https://rationalinsurgent.com/2013/11/04/my-talk-at-tedxboulder-civil-resistance-and-the-3-5-rule/
 



---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Q: A role of working social justice service in grounding spiritual experience? 

 FF Satsanga Observations:

 

 A: The world of consciousness is branched way beyond alpha brainwaves.
 


 A: Spirituality is taught by ‘the mothers’ as: 
 1moral cultivation, developmental education in moral values, 
 2cultivation of spiritual practice, and 
 3active service to others to help others; 
 Those three things together. that is the cultivation of the whole.
 One without the others is not complete and will leave people ungrounded. 

 
 A..that Compassion is different than mood-making and this is different than 
just narrow cultivation of consciousness. This like the difference between the 
state of compassion and the emotion of love. One can have loving thoughts or 
loving feelings which are distinct. Not that these are not great things, these 
are expressions. Those are expressions of the heart for sure. But the heart 
state, the state of compassion, is a steady thing. It is not a conditional 
thing. It is a pretty steady thing. It is not a conditional thing like, ‘I feel 
this and I become Compassionate’. It is a state, of compassion. It is, ‘If I am 
compassion then I observe’. It is a state. It is not, ‘oh I see this and I 
become compassion’. It is a state and it is a state of heart because of the 
energetics of the heart chakra that can embrace with a capacity to digest, to 
take in without fear. That requires stability. 
 


---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 

 Great observation, the exercising the polyvagal and the hologram of the 
wholeness of the subtle human system. 
 

 Look at the aspect of the ™ movement that is doing well, the David Lynch 
Foundation (DLF) of teaching ™. .  
 

 DLF  is highly attractive to gen-x and gen-millennial youth because iDLF is 
not just some sect of meditating but doing service work to need.  For good 
reasons DLF is engaged in  teaching meditation to veterans, in violent schools, 
to single moms, at UN peacekeeping camps, teaching meditation in prisons, etc. 
DLF foci being of social service to peoples in need. 

 The visioning people at the top of DLF were old successful field teachers, 
differing by a long shot  from the stayed rigid old Vlodrop people,.  The  DLF 
cohort are anything but complacent in adaptation to need. 
 Internally there has been quite a lot of argument and conflict with 
conservative ideologues inside over adaptation. Directed by science data and 
more empathetic scientists DLF as a group DLF has been able to go around 
conservative fanatics who would hold things back.  

 Looking 

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance Of Group Meditation

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

A group meditation for the Americas (North,South and Central Americas) is 
scheduled for today. ...Sunday eve, 5pm Central Time 24 Sept. .  Find a ™ 
group near you. 

 Short group meditation/checking at 4:15pm and co-ordinated group meditation 
starting at 5pm.  Meditate together at 5pm.  

 As this was coordinated 18,000 meditators gathered for a group meditation. 
 



---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 The Meissner-like transmission.. 

 The Meissner-like effect (ME) of active ‘civil resistance’ = 3.5% , or 11 
million in the USA

 The Meissner-like effect (ME) of effective meditators to societal positive 
coherence = 1% 
Or 3,270,000 meditators. 

 The ME In the USA of advanced meditators, at the (square root of 1%) =>2,000. 

 Evidently SuperRadiance (SR) of meditators not as the only solution, but as a 
requirement for a functional society toward permanent peace and progress can 
not happen without sufficient participation in SR of group meditation. 
(Maharishi would say many times we must have 2,000). 
 The science quite evidently bares this out now with quite high level of 
certainty while in the numbers meditating it seems there is a deficiency in 
science literacy.  Quite evidently, there needs to be better evidence-based 
public policy fostering the regular practice of meditation by more people. 


 So why is civil resistance so much more effective than armed struggle? The 
answer lies in people power itself.
 Researchers 
http://www.amazon.com/Rebels-Dilemma-Economics-Cognition-Society/dp/0472085743 
used to say that no government could survive if five percent 
http://willopines.wordpress.com/2012/07/19/the-5-rule-and-indiscriminate-killing-of-civilians/
 of its population mobilized against it. But our data reveal that the threshold 
is probably lower. In fact, no campaigns failed once they’d achieved the active 
and sustained participation of just 3.5% of the population 
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/why-civil-resistance-works/9780231156820—and lots 
of them succeeded with far less than that [5] 
https://rationalinsurgent.com/2013/11/04/my-talk-at-tedxboulder-civil-resistance-and-the-3-5-rule/#_edn5.
 Now, 3.5% is nothing to sneeze at. In the U.S. today, this means almost 11 
million people.

 
https://rationalinsurgent.com/2013/11/04/my-talk-at-tedxboulder-civil-resistance-and-the-3-5-rule/
 
https://rationalinsurgent.com/2013/11/04/my-talk-at-tedxboulder-civil-resistance-and-the-3-5-rule/
 



---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Q: A role of working social justice service in grounding spiritual experience? 

 FF Satsanga Observations:

 

 A: The world of consciousness is branched way beyond alpha brainwaves.
 


 A: Spirituality is taught by ‘the mothers’ as: 
 1moral cultivation, developmental education in moral values, 
 2cultivation of spiritual practice, and 
 3active service to others to help others; 
 Those three things together. that is the cultivation of the whole.
 One without the others is not complete and will leave people ungrounded. 

 
 A..that Compassion is different than mood-making and this is different than 
just narrow cultivation of consciousness. This like the difference between the 
state of compassion and the emotion of love. One can have loving thoughts or 
loving feelings which are distinct. Not that these are not great things, these 
are expressions. Those are expressions of the heart for sure. But the heart 
state, the state of compassion, is a steady thing. It is not a conditional 
thing. It is a pretty steady thing. It is not a conditional thing like, ‘I feel 
this and I become Compassionate’. It is a state, of compassion. It is, ‘If I am 
compassion then I observe’. It is a state. It is not, ‘oh I see this and I 
become compassion’. It is a state and it is a state of heart because of the 
energetics of the heart chakra that can embrace with a capacity to digest, to 
take in without fear. That requires stability. 
 


---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 

 Great observation, the exercising the polyvagal and the hologram of the 
wholeness of the subtle human system. 
 

 Look at the aspect of the ™ movement that is doing well, the David Lynch 
Foundation (DLF) of teaching ™. .  
 

 DLF  is highly attractive to gen-x and gen-millennial youth because iDLF is 
not just some sect of meditating but doing service work to need.  For good 
reasons DLF is engaged in  teaching meditation to veterans, in violent schools, 
to single moms, at UN peacekeeping camps, teaching meditation in prisons, etc. 
DLF foci being of social service to peoples in need. 

 The visioning people at the top of DLF were old successful field teachers, 
differing by a long shot  from the stayed rigid old Vlodrop people,.  The  DLF 
cohort are anything but complacent in adaptation to need. 
 Internally there has been quite a lot of argument and conflict with 
conservative 

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance Of Group Meditation

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

The Meissner-like transmission.. 

 The Meissner-like effect (ME) of active ‘civil resistance’ = 3.5% , or 11 
million in the USA

 The Meissner-like effect (ME) of effective meditators to societal positive 
coherence = 1% 
Or 3,270,000 meditators. 

 The ME In the USA of advanced meditators, at the (square root of 1%) =>2,000. 

 Evidently SuperRadiance (SR) of meditators not as the only solution, but as a 
requirement for a functional society toward permanent peace and progress can 
not happen without sufficient participation in SR of group meditation. 
(Maharishi would say many times we must have 2,000). 
 The science quite evidently bares this out now with quite high level of 
certainty while in the numbers meditating it seems there is a deficiency in 
science literacy.  Quite evidently, there needs to be better evidence-based 
public policy fostering the regular practice of meditation by more people. 


 So why is civil resistance so much more effective than armed struggle? The 
answer lies in people power itself.
 Researchers 
http://www.amazon.com/Rebels-Dilemma-Economics-Cognition-Society/dp/0472085743 
used to say that no government could survive if five percent 
http://willopines.wordpress.com/2012/07/19/the-5-rule-and-indiscriminate-killing-of-civilians/
 of its population mobilized against it. But our data reveal that the threshold 
is probably lower. In fact, no campaigns failed once they’d achieved the active 
and sustained participation of just 3.5% of the population 
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/why-civil-resistance-works/9780231156820—and lots 
of them succeeded with far less than that [5] 
https://rationalinsurgent.com/2013/11/04/my-talk-at-tedxboulder-civil-resistance-and-the-3-5-rule/#_edn5.
 Now, 3.5% is nothing to sneeze at. In the U.S. today, this means almost 11 
million people.

 
https://rationalinsurgent.com/2013/11/04/my-talk-at-tedxboulder-civil-resistance-and-the-3-5-rule/
 
https://rationalinsurgent.com/2013/11/04/my-talk-at-tedxboulder-civil-resistance-and-the-3-5-rule/
 



---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Q: A role of working social justice service in grounding spiritual experience? 

 FF Satsanga Observations:

 

 A: The world of consciousness is branched way beyond alpha brainwaves.
 


 A: Spirituality is taught by ‘the mothers’ as: 
 1moral cultivation, developmental education in moral values, 
 2cultivation of spiritual practice, and 
 3active service to others to help others; 
 Those three things together. that is the cultivation of the whole.
 One without the others is not complete and will leave people ungrounded. 

 
 A..that Compassion is different than mood-making and this is different than 
just narrow cultivation of consciousness. This like the difference between the 
state of compassion and the emotion of love. One can have loving thoughts or 
loving feelings which are distinct. Not that these are not great things, these 
are expressions. Those are expressions of the heart for sure. But the heart 
state, the state of compassion, is a steady thing. It is not a conditional 
thing. It is a pretty steady thing. It is not a conditional thing like, ‘I feel 
this and I become Compassionate’. It is a state, of compassion. It is, ‘If I am 
compassion then I observe’. It is a state. It is not, ‘oh I see this and I 
become compassion’. It is a state and it is a state of heart because of the 
energetics of the heart chakra that can embrace with a capacity to digest, to 
take in without fear. That requires stability. 
 


---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 

 Great observation, the exercising the polyvagal and the hologram of the 
wholeness of the subtle human system. 
 

 Look at the aspect of the ™ movement that is doing well, the David Lynch 
Foundation (DLF) of teaching ™. .  
 

 DLF  is highly attractive to gen-x and gen-millennial youth because iDLF is 
not just some sect of meditating but doing service work to need.  For good 
reasons DLF is engaged in  teaching meditation to veterans, in violent schools, 
to single moms, at UN peacekeeping camps, teaching meditation in prisons, etc. 
DLF foci being of social service to peoples in need. 

 The visioning people at the top of DLF were old successful field teachers, 
differing by a long shot  from the stayed rigid old Vlodrop people,.  The  DLF 
cohort are anything but complacent in adaptation to need. 
 Internally there has been quite a lot of argument and conflict with 
conservative ideologues inside over adaptation. Directed by science data and 
more empathetic scientists DLF as a group DLF has been able to go around 
conservative fanatics who would hold things back.  

 Looking at the ‘go-fund-me’ fliers that were up all over town this last summer 
and fall here before the recent teacher training course started in Bali the 
requesting for help was so that the candidate could become a teacher of 
meditation to serve particular 

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance Of Group Meditation

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

Q: A role of working social justice service in grounding spiritual experience? 

 FF Satsanga Observations:

 

 A: The world of consciousness is branched way beyond alpha brainwaves.
 


 A: Spirituality is taught by ‘the mothers’ as: 
 1moral cultivation, developmental education in moral values, 
 2cultivation of spiritual practice, and 
 3active service to others to help others; 
 Those three things together. that is the cultivation of the whole.
 One without the others is not complete and will leave people ungrounded. 

 
 A..that Compassion is different than mood-making and this is different than 
just narrow cultivation of consciousness. This like the difference between the 
state of compassion and the emotion of love. One can have loving thoughts or 
loving feelings which are distinct. Not that these are not great things, these 
are expressions. Those are expressions of the heart for sure. But the heart 
state, the state of compassion, is a steady thing. It is not a conditional 
thing. It is a pretty steady thing. It is not a conditional thing like, ‘I feel 
this and I become Compassionate’. It is a state, of compassion. It is, ‘If I am 
compassion then I observe’. It is a state. It is not, ‘oh I see this and I 
become compassion’. It is a state and it is a state of heart because of the 
energetics of the heart chakra that can embrace with a capacity to digest, to 
take in without fear. That requires stability. 
 


---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 

 Great observation, the exercising the polyvagal and the hologram of the 
wholeness of the subtle human system. 
 

 Look at the aspect of the ™ movement that is doing well, the David Lynch 
Foundation (DLF) of teaching ™. .  
 

 DLF  is highly attractive to gen-x and gen-millennial youth because iDLF is 
not just some sect of meditating but doing service work to need.  For good 
reasons DLF is engaged in  teaching meditation to veterans, in violent schools, 
to single moms, at UN peacekeeping camps, teaching meditation in prisons, etc. 
DLF foci being of social service to peoples in need. 

 The visioning people at the top of DLF were old successful field teachers, 
differing by a long shot  from the stayed rigid old Vlodrop people,.  The  DLF 
cohort are anything but complacent in adaptation to need. 
 Internally there has been quite a lot of argument and conflict with 
conservative ideologues inside over adaptation. Directed by science data and 
more empathetic scientists DLF as a group DLF has been able to go around 
conservative fanatics who would hold things back.  

 Looking at the ‘go-fund-me’ fliers that were up all over town this last summer 
and fall here before the recent teacher training course started in Bali the 
requesting for help was so that the candidate could become a teacher of 
meditation to serve particular populations in need. The urgings were very 
idealistic in sympathy and empathetic for needs of the time.  Polyvagal in 
nature. Much more of the heart than just in the head.
 

 

 

 yifuxero writes

 Old ideas often fade away only when the old generation dozes off.  The Old 
Guard at MUM  may change but it doesn't look like it.
 For example, take the connections between Consciousness and biology relating 
to the Polyvagal nervous system. The key ingredient is Compassion (the feeling 
of Compassion resulting from more Empathy). 
 The old idea is that this would be a type of mood making and contrary to the 
notion that people are to meditate and "take it as it comes"  No. Compassion 
must be worked on diligently and over time: the Quakers are an example. It's a 
type of culture that grows and evolves, but first the idea must be introduced. 
This is unlikely in the MUM atmosphere since Compassion doesn't bring in $.
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 “How can CEOs learn from Kodak’s failure?”.  Fabulous article for our 
meditating Fairfield communal purposes. From the last two paragraphs it could 
be said we are ‘in Kodak’ mode still. 

 “..Of course strategy sessions with the BIG CEO went nowhere. Of course all 
the people buried in the hierarchy who saw the oncoming problems and had ideas 
for solutions made no progress. Their bosses and peers ignored them.”

 Yes we just accomplished a strategic removal of an unable/disabling old 
leadership for the university community yet in what touches the Fairfield 
meditating community there are no tools  or skillsets to use yet inside there 
that would help facilitate a communal transition. Being available to listen and 
share is not where the Rajas have been with this. The work that got done to 
remove Bevan was done ad hoc by the community and forced on them.
  
 Yes things are being done now at the level of Hagelin but it is autocratic and 
not apparent because it still does not sit with, listen or engage with the 
meditating community outside the university and movement bubble. Same old 
problem.  

 

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance Of Group Meditation

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

 Is it necessary to meditate with the group?
 Meditating as a group creates a more powerful spiritual vibration than 
meditating alone.  Amma has designed each session of the meditation retreat to 
increase the spiritual benefits to each participant.  She asks that we all 
attend every meditation together, and not meditate alone in our rooms.  If you 
would like to start meditating before the first session, you are welcome to 
come to the main meditation room and start early.  -Karunamayi
 

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 The 'Collective Meditation'   
 

 -Spiritual Regeneration Movement NEWSLETTER 

 May 1965
 Maharishi Concludes Five World Tours
 

 "His Holiness returned to India on 20th March, 1965 after a successful 
nine-month world tour.
 

 ..A special feature of this tour was the keen interest generated in scientific 
circles in England, Germany and America, where scientists are now conducting 
experiments to assess the effects of Deep Meditation.."

 

 


 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 

 "An event of unique importance took place on the 28th of March, at 
Shankaracharya Nagar, Rishikesh. The saints and Mahatmas of Uttarakhand 
assembled on the ground of the Academy of Meditation to invoke the benign grace 
and the almighty power of the gods to right the wrongs of today's world 
society."

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 ..in "Duty-bound" 
 

 The "collective meditation"  of  "Deep Meditation", 
 

 "In welcoming the saints and Mahatmas, Maharishi said that the world today 
needed the intercession of the saints who are established n themselves and are 
therefore, nearer to the almighty power. The situation of the world now 
demanded of the people a powerful invocation of the grace of gods to fill the 
atmosphere with peace and purity. This, he said, can be effectively done by 
those who by long practice of meditation and various spiritual disciplines, had 
gained the privilege of being nearer to the seat of divine power and mercy. The 
saints of Uttarakhand therefore were in duty-bound to intercede on behalf of 
the people and invoke the grace of gods to alleviate human suffering."

 

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 "..After Maharishi had stressed the importance and purpose of the assembly of 
the Saints and Mahatmas.. 
 Then the party entered the 84 caves of Shakaracharya Nagar, where collective 
meditation was held for one hour. So soon as everyone had taken their seats in 
the caves, the meditation started with a recitation of Vedic hymns, and as 
everyone sank deep within, nature herself was absorbed in silence. There was 
utter stillness for one solid hour, at the end of which, the meditation was 
broken by a recitation of vedic slokas. The saints who are accustomed to long 
meditation felt the powerful intensity of today's collective meditation. It was 
decided to continue collective meditation regularly every Sunday until 
atmospheric tension abates.”
  
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

Anybody have short quotes from the TM movement about the value of group 
meditation?  Doing TM in a group.  Something from the old days of Maharishi in 
the time before the siddhis?
 

  There are plenty enough of charts and pronouncement of a value for practicing 
the TM-Siddhis in a group.  How about for pre-siddhis meditators and group 
meditation?  It seems that some portion of the meditating community is not 
interested in practicing the TM-Siddhis, at least for that long as they do in 
the Domes now. 
 

 Is there a value to just meditating in a group.  Evidently Fred Travis has 
data that shows that there is a spiritual value related to proximity and 
numbers of meditators meditating.   
 

  
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Group meditation is a castle that protects the new spiritual aspirants as well 
as the veteran meditators. Meditating together increases the degree of 
Self-realization of each member of the group by the law of invisible vibratory 
exchange of group magnetism. —Paramahansa 
Yogananda in Seeking God Together

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 ..Group meditations strengthen the individuals. When you're in meditation with 
other devotees you don't know how much you help one another. It gives you 
strength. There is a vibration that is created that strengthens, and supports, 
and encourages each one. So when you sit to meditate just remember this.
 —Sri Daya Mata on the SRF tape Karma Yoga
 

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Group meetings to practice the techniques of meditation are vitally important. 
Group meetings strengthen the individual Self-realization that one has acquired 
in private at home.  

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance Of Group Meditation

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

Maharishi explains that pure consciousness has a field-like character and is a 
universal field at the basis of everyone’s thought and behavior. When a 
sufficient number of individuals are experiencing pure consciousness during 
group practice of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi program, the field 
of pure consciousness is enlivened in the entire population. This field effect 
positively influences the quality of consciousness in the individuals in 
society in much the same direction as that experienced by those practicing the 
Transcendental Meditation technique,


---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 * 
 December 2016 Domes Attendance Report
 

 December this year shows:
 

 Yellow highlight = Higher Months YOY (year over year)
 Colder weather stops women's 7-month higher attendance streak 
 Men's reduction much less than before Oct. Surprise (minus 7 compared to minus 
30-something average), so Oct. Surprise effect continued into December. 
 Weather effects women more than men.
 Increasing age increases reduction of attendance by weather (as we get older, 
winter weather lowers attendance more than it used to).
 

 I want to provide total Community attendance as soon as I can, not just the 
Domes. 
 

 December 2016  Domes Attendance 
 

 Bagambhrini Dome   Patanjali Dome
PM20152011  PM2015  
  2011
 
 ​
 ​
Jan 2016 189 -35 -16% ​ ​
-160 ​ ​
-85% ​ 
239 -46 -17% -197 -46%
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-129 ​ 
-64% ​ 
228 -20 -8% -192 -46% 
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-107 ​ ​ 
-47% ​ ​ 
245 -27 -10% -157 -39% 
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34% ​ ​ 
261 -17 -6% -159 -38% 
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 -174 -40% 
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 ​There is a specific reason why our attendance has decreased. It is definitely 
possible to greatly increase our attendance and provide much more calm and 
coherence to this country via the bliss of Super Radiance, the most powerful 
and effective way to create coherence and integration for society. If you would 
like to discuss how this can be done, please get in touch. 



---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Internally the TM movement community has some top-notch consultants of both 
skill-sets and strategies in facilitating better communication. 
 Tom Morgan in intercultural strategies who could help them strategize 
inclusivity from the top down and back up. 
 Ken Daley who facilitates methodical strategic planning is excellent and has 
been extremely helpful to the processes that brought change to the movement 
leadership which came out of community mental health meetings.  
 Charles Bargerstock who does corporate ‘Change Management’. 
 

 


Acquiring Skill-sets...

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 In the ™ community the transition from elder to youth will, and is, happening 
in time. Right now the elder group needs to get some adult education to further 
their communication skill-sets and apply those right now. .  If the elders 
can’t give themselves to do it then bring in some facilitation, like from the 
practiced restorative justice people. 
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 

 Cultivating the wholistic grounded spiritual human being.. Great observation, 
the exercising of the polyvagal and the hologram of the wholeness of the subtle 
human system. 
 

 Look at the aspect of the ™ movement that is doing well, the David Lynch 
Foundation (DLF) of teaching ™. .  
 DLF  is highly attractive to gen-x and gen-millennial youth because iDLF is 
not just some sect of meditating but doing service work to need.  For good 
reasons DLF is engaged in  teaching meditation to veterans, in violent schools, 
to single moms, at UN peacekeeping camps, teaching meditation in prisons, etc. 
DLF foci being of social service to peoples in need. 


 The visioning people at the top of DLF were old successful field TM teachers, 
differing by a long shot  from the stayed rigid old Vlodrop people,.  The  DLF 
cohort are anything but complacent in adaptation to need. 
 Internally there has been quite a lot of argument and conflict with 
conservative ideologues inside over adaptation. Directed by science data and 
more empathetic scientists DLF as a group DLF has been able to go around 
conservative fanatics who 

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance Of Group Meditation

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

Internally the TM movement community has some top-notch consultants of both 
skill-sets and strategies in facilitating better communication. 
 Tom Morgan in intercultural strategies who could help them strategize 
inclusivity from the top down and back up. 
 Ken Daley who facilitates methodical strategic planning is excellent and has 
been extremely helpful to the processes that brought change to the movement 
leadership which came out of community mental health meetings.  
 Charles Bargerstock who does corporate ‘Change Management’. 
 

 


Acquiring Skill-sets...

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 In the ™ community the transition from elder to youth will, and is, happening 
in time. Right now the elder group needs to get some adult education to further 
their communication skill-sets and apply those right now. .  If the elders 
can’t give themselves to do it then bring in some facilitation, like from the 
practiced restorative justice people. 
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 

 Cultivating the wholistic grounded spiritual human being.. Great observation, 
the exercising of the polyvagal and the hologram of the wholeness of the subtle 
human system. 
 

 Look at the aspect of the ™ movement that is doing well, the David Lynch 
Foundation (DLF) of teaching ™. .  
 DLF  is highly attractive to gen-x and gen-millennial youth because iDLF is 
not just some sect of meditating but doing service work to need.  For good 
reasons DLF is engaged in  teaching meditation to veterans, in violent schools, 
to single moms, at UN peacekeeping camps, teaching meditation in prisons, etc. 
DLF foci being of social service to peoples in need. 


 The visioning people at the top of DLF were old successful field TM teachers, 
differing by a long shot  from the stayed rigid old Vlodrop people,.  The  DLF 
cohort are anything but complacent in adaptation to need. 
 Internally there has been quite a lot of argument and conflict with 
conservative ideologues inside over adaptation. Directed by science data and 
more empathetic scientists DLF as a group DLF has been able to go around 
conservative fanatics who would hold things back.  

 Looking at the ‘go-fund-me’ fliers that were up all over town this last summer 
and fall here before the recent teacher training course started in Bali the 
requesting for help was so that the candidate could become a teacher of 
meditation to serve particular populations in need. The urgings were very 
idealistic in sympathy and empathetic for needs of the time.  Polyvagal in 
nature. Much more of the heart than just in the head.
 

 

 

 yifuxero writes

 Old ideas often fade away only when the old generation dozes off.  The Old 
Guard at MUM  may change but it doesn't look like it.
 For example, take the connections between Consciousness and biology relating 
to the Polyvagal nervous system. The key ingredient is Compassion (the feeling 
of Compassion resulting from more Empathy). 
 The old idea is that this would be a type of mood making and contrary to the 
notion that people are to meditate and "take it as it comes"  No. Compassion 
must be worked on diligently and over time: the Quakers are an example. It's a 
type of culture that grows and evolves, but first the idea must be introduced. 
This is unlikely in the MUM atmosphere since Compassion doesn't bring in $.
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 “How can CEOs learn from Kodak’s failure?”.  Fabulous article for our 
meditating Fairfield communal purposes. From the last two paragraphs it could 
be said we are ‘in Kodak’ mode still. 

 “..Of course strategy sessions with the BIG CEO went nowhere. Of course all 
the people buried in the hierarchy who saw the oncoming problems and had ideas 
for solutions made no progress. Their bosses and peers ignored them.”

 Yes we just accomplished a strategic removal of an unable/disabling old 
leadership for the university community yet in what touches the Fairfield 
meditating community there are no tools  or skillsets to use yet inside there 
that would help facilitate a communal transition. Being available to listen and 
share is not where the Rajas have been with this. The work that got done to 
remove Bevan was done ad hoc by the community and forced on them.
  
 Yes things are being done now at the level of Hagelin but it is autocratic and 
not apparent because it still does not sit with, listen or engage with the 
meditating community outside the university and movement bubble. Same old 
problem.  

 A desire is there for transition but no method/practiced skillsets to 
facilitate innovation.  These are school teachers and ‘administrators’ by 
experience, not leaders in the sense of effective CEO’s. Effective leadership 
of this would require training old dogs in new methods of listening circles, 
non-violent communication listening skills, intergenerational work, and 

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance Of Group Meditation

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

In the ™ community the transition from elder to youth will, and is, happening 
in time. Right now the elder group needs to get some adult education to further 
their communication skill-sets and apply those right now. .  If the elders 
can’t give themselves to do it then bring in some facilitation, like from the 
practiced restorative justice people. 
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 

 Cultivating the wholistic grounded spiritual human being.. Great observation, 
the exercising of the polyvagal and the hologram of the wholeness of the subtle 
human system. 
 

 Look at the aspect of the ™ movement that is doing well, the David Lynch 
Foundation (DLF) of teaching ™. .  
 DLF  is highly attractive to gen-x and gen-millennial youth because iDLF is 
not just some sect of meditating but doing service work to need.  For good 
reasons DLF is engaged in  teaching meditation to veterans, in violent schools, 
to single moms, at UN peacekeeping camps, teaching meditation in prisons, etc. 
DLF foci being of social service to peoples in need. 


 The visioning people at the top of DLF were old successful field TM teachers, 
differing by a long shot  from the stayed rigid old Vlodrop people,.  The  DLF 
cohort are anything but complacent in adaptation to need. 
 Internally there has been quite a lot of argument and conflict with 
conservative ideologues inside over adaptation. Directed by science data and 
more empathetic scientists DLF as a group DLF has been able to go around 
conservative fanatics who would hold things back.  

 Looking at the ‘go-fund-me’ fliers that were up all over town this last summer 
and fall here before the recent teacher training course started in Bali the 
requesting for help was so that the candidate could become a teacher of 
meditation to serve particular populations in need. The urgings were very 
idealistic in sympathy and empathetic for needs of the time.  Polyvagal in 
nature. Much more of the heart than just in the head.
 

 

 

 yifuxero writes

 Old ideas often fade away only when the old generation dozes off.  The Old 
Guard at MUM  may change but it doesn't look like it.
 For example, take the connections between Consciousness and biology relating 
to the Polyvagal nervous system. The key ingredient is Compassion (the feeling 
of Compassion resulting from more Empathy). 
 The old idea is that this would be a type of mood making and contrary to the 
notion that people are to meditate and "take it as it comes"  No. Compassion 
must be worked on diligently and over time: the Quakers are an example. It's a 
type of culture that grows and evolves, but first the idea must be introduced. 
This is unlikely in the MUM atmosphere since Compassion doesn't bring in $.
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 “How can CEOs learn from Kodak’s failure?”.  Fabulous article for our 
meditating Fairfield communal purposes. From the last two paragraphs it could 
be said we are ‘in Kodak’ mode still. 

 “..Of course strategy sessions with the BIG CEO went nowhere. Of course all 
the people buried in the hierarchy who saw the oncoming problems and had ideas 
for solutions made no progress. Their bosses and peers ignored them.”

 Yes we just accomplished a strategic removal of an unable/disabling old 
leadership for the university community yet in what touches the Fairfield 
meditating community there are no tools  or skillsets to use yet inside there 
that would help facilitate a communal transition. Being available to listen and 
share is not where the Rajas have been with this. The work that got done to 
remove Bevan was done ad hoc by the community and forced on them.
  
 Yes things are being done now at the level of Hagelin but it is autocratic and 
not apparent because it still does not sit with, listen or engage with the 
meditating community outside the university and movement bubble. Same old 
problem.  

 A desire is there for transition but no method/practiced skillsets to 
facilitate innovation.  These are school teachers and ‘administrators’ by 
experience, not leaders in the sense of effective CEO’s. Effective leadership 
of this would require training old dogs in new methods of listening circles, 
non-violent communication listening skills, intergenerational work, and 
restorative justice work that might actually acknowledge the past in going 
forward.  

 Because of a leadership character of where a past leadership has for so long 
taken us we are starting a communal climb out from way down in a hole. The last 
paragraphs of the Kodak article are useful to read as to a way out.. 
  
 Kodak article:
 “How can CEOs learn from Kodak’s failure? Historically, Kodak was built on a 
culture of innovation and change. It’s the type of culture that’s full of 
passionate innovators, already naturally in tune to the urgency surrounding 
changes in the market and technology. It’s these people – those excited about 

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance Of Group Meditation

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

 Great observation, the exercising the polyvagal and the hologram of the 
wholeness of the subtle human system. 
 

 Look at the aspect of the ™ movement that is doing well, the David Lynch 
Foundation (DLF) of teaching ™. .  
 

 DLF  is highly attractive to gen-x and gen-millennial youth because iDLF is 
not just some sect of meditating but doing service work to need.  For good 
reasons DLF is engaged in  teaching meditation to veterans, in violent schools, 
to single moms, at UN peacekeeping camps, teaching meditation in prisons, etc. 
DLF foci being of social service to peoples in need. 

 The visioning people at the top of DLF were old successful field teachers, 
differing by a long shot  from the stayed rigid old Vlodrop people,.  The  DLF 
cohort are anything but complacent in adaptation to need. 
 Internally there has been quite a lot of argument and conflict with 
conservative ideologues inside over adaptation. Directed by science data and 
more empathetic scientists DLF as a group DLF has been able to go around 
conservative fanatics who would hold things back.  

 Looking at the ‘go-fund-me’ fliers that were up all over town this last summer 
and fall here before the recent teacher training course started in Bali the 
requesting for help was so that the candidate could become a teacher of 
meditation to serve particular populations in need. The urgings were very 
idealistic in sympathy and empathetic for needs of the time.  Polyvagal in 
nature. Much more of the heart than just in the head.
 

 

 

 yifuxero writes

 Old ideas often fade away only when the old generation dozes off.  The Old 
Guard at MUM  may change but it doesn't look like it.
 For example, take the connections between Consciousness and biology relating 
to the Polyvagal nervous system. The key ingredient is Compassion (the feeling 
of Compassion resulting from more Empathy). 
 The old idea is that this would be a type of mood making and contrary to the 
notion that people are to meditate and "take it as it comes"  No. Compassion 
must be worked on diligently and over time: the Quakers are an example. It's a 
type of culture that grows and evolves, but first the idea must be introduced. 
This is unlikely in the MUM atmosphere since Compassion doesn't bring in $.
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 “How can CEOs learn from Kodak’s failure?”.  Fabulous article for our 
meditating Fairfield communal purposes. From the last two paragraphs it could 
be said we are ‘in Kodak’ mode still. 

 “..Of course strategy sessions with the BIG CEO went nowhere. Of course all 
the people buried in the hierarchy who saw the oncoming problems and had ideas 
for solutions made no progress. Their bosses and peers ignored them.”

 Yes we just accomplished a strategic removal of an unable/disabling old 
leadership for the university community yet in what touches the Fairfield 
meditating community there are no tools  or skillsets to use yet inside there 
that would help facilitate a communal transition. Being available to listen and 
share is not where the Rajas have been with this. The work that got done to 
remove Bevan was done ad hoc by the community and forced on them.
  
 Yes things are being done now at the level of Hagelin but it is autocratic and 
not apparent because it still does not sit with, listen or engage with the 
meditating community outside the university and movement bubble. Same old 
problem.  

 A desire is there for transition but no method/practiced skillsets to 
facilitate innovation.  These are school teachers and ‘administrators’ by 
experience, not leaders in the sense of effective CEO’s. Effective leadership 
of this would require training old dogs in new methods of listening circles, 
non-violent communication listening skills, intergenerational work, and 
restorative justice work that might actually acknowledge the past in going 
forward.  

 Because of a leadership character of where a past leadership has for so long 
taken us we are starting a communal climb out from way down in a hole. The last 
paragraphs of the Kodak article are useful to read as to a way out.. 
  
 Kodak article:
 “How can CEOs learn from Kodak’s failure? Historically, Kodak was built on a 
culture of innovation and change. It’s the type of culture that’s full of 
passionate innovators, already naturally in tune to the urgency surrounding 
changes in the market and technology. It’s these people – those excited about 
new ideas within your own organization – who keep your company moving ahead 
instead of falling behind. One key to avoiding complacency is to ensure these 
innovators have a voice with enough volume to be heard (and listened to) at the 
top. It’s these voices that can continue to keep a sense of urgency in your 
organization. If they are given the power to lead, they will continue to 
innovate, help keep a culture of urgency and affect change.
 ... The organization overflowed with 

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance Of Group Meditation

[yifux...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

Old ideas often fade away only when the old generation does off.  The Old Guard 
at MUM  may change but it doesn't look like it.
 For example, take the connections between Consciousness and biology relating 
to the Polyvagal nervous system. The key ingredient is Compassion (the feeling 
of Compassion resulting from more Empathy). The old idea is that this would be 
a type of mood making and contrary to the notion that people are to meditate 
and "take it as it comes"  No. Compassion must be worked on diligently and over 
time: the Quakers are an example. It's a type of culture that grows and 
evolves, but first the idea must be introduced. This is unlikely in the MUM 
atmosphere since Compassion doesn't bring in $.
 

 

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance Of Group Meditation

[emily.ma...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

"Restorative justice."  Nice term.  So is this happening in Fairfield?  
Awareness without action, or in other words, "complacency" is not a good 
strategy.  Reenvision!   

 Barriers to Change: The Real Reason Behind the Kodak Downfall 
http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkotter/2012/05/02/barriers-to-change-the-real-reason-behind-the-kodak-downfall/#b02a9e136985
 
 
 
http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkotter/2012/05/02/barriers-to-change-the-real-reason-behind-the-kodak-downfall/#b02a9e136985
 
 
 Barriers to Change: The Real Reason Behind the Kodak... 
http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkotter/2012/05/02/barriers-to-change-the-real-reason-behind-the-kodak-downfall/#b02a9e136985
 Dr. John Kotter discusses the real reason behind the Kodak downfall: 
complacency. Read on to find out how Kodak let complacency take over, and how 
to avo...
 
 
 
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---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 For a small place, Fairfield, Iowa has a number of open performance venues and 
open space parks that are actively used. The music and performing arts 
communities are developed and busy here all the time.   In fact Fairfield is 
known with booking agents as a place with venues and a sophisticated audience 
that turns out for talent.  A lot of people traveling in the various arts put 
Fairfield on their tours. Fairfield is an easy drive between St. Louis, 
Minneapolis, Chicago, Kansas City and Omaha. I like the architectural link. An 
artistic family here in Fairfield rehabilitated a classic old brick railroad 
freight house into a new performance space that opened this last year. That is 
all fine.

 However, it is evident in history that where spiritual practice groups like 
ours diffuse into other things, absorbed in business, social or political cause 
and they get away from their formative spiritual practice it is not long before 
their communal assets get sold off. Bankruptcy got headed off last year for the 
university with a timely change of leadership.

 An evident challenge now for survival of the Domes is that the previous 
administration spent 36 years separating meditators from the collective 
practice. There is some deep hurt here to remediate. Turning the Domes in to 
open space for mundane performance or sports would really signal the end. No, 
there is work to do at reconciliation now. It likely is going to take some 
brave leadership to pull it off.  

 See:  Engaging Restorative Justice in Reclamation of Community
 
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/433528 
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/433528



---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 How about turning that iconic dome into a public space!  Re-envision, 
repurpose it for an open, inclusive and rockin' venue.e.g.,  you could do a 
 "concerts in the dome" series.  How are the acoustics?  Sructure a 
public-private partnership with the Town of Fairfield.  

 Public Space architecture and design | ArchDaily 
http://www.archdaily.com/search/projects/categories/public-space 
 
 http://www.archdaily.com/search/projects/categories/public-space 
 
 Public Space architecture and design | ArchDaily 
http://www.archdaily.com/search/projects/categories/public-space 
 
 
 View on www.archdaily.com 
http://www.archdaily.com/search/projects/categories/public-space 
 Preview by Yahoo 
 
 
  

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 
 

 Archer, from a distance view that is fine, your philosophical of ‘no-doing 
do-nothing’. 
 

Some of us live in Fairfield, Iowa, though, with this amazing facility for 
meditation that has just a couple hundred people meditating in it now. The 
question, (..what can be done?) is operational, what can be done in the 
community to better utilize the place by way of facilitating the meditating 
community that came here to meditate. 
 Some damages clearly were done to a feeling of cohesion of the meditating 
community, what might the remediation look like to have more people meditating 
collectively again in Fairfield, Iowa?

 Archer Angel writes:

 ..that nothing need be done.

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 
 Should we create a dispensation for the meditators who do not attend group 
meditation in Fairfield, Iowa? What can we do?  

One could correlate from what science that we do know about group meditation 
that a large part of the tense psycho-spiritual problems we collectively face 
is rooted in the absentee meditators living here, those who do not attend to 
the collective meditation of Fairfield, Iowa.  All those Art of Living people, 
the Oneness people, the Amma satsang and others. They seem to not care that 
they are given this opportunity, even at the weekday 

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance Of Group Meditation

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

For a small place, Fairfield, Iowa has a number of open performance venues and 
open space parks that are actively used. The music and performing arts 
communities are developed and busy here all the time.   In fact Fairfield is 
known with booking agents as a place with venues and a sophisticated audience 
that turns out for talent.  A lot of people traveling in the various arts put 
Fairfield on their tours. Fairfield is an easy drive between St. Louis, 
Minneapolis, Chicago, Kansas City and Omaha. I like the architectural link. An 
artistic family here in Fairfield rehabilitated a classic old brick railroad 
freight house into a new performance space that opened this last year. That is 
all fine.

 However, it is evident in history that where spiritual practice groups like 
ours diffuse into other things, absorbed in business, social or political cause 
and they get away from their formative spiritual practice it is not long before 
their communal assets get sold off. Bankruptcy got headed off last year for the 
university with a timely change of leadership.

 An evident challenge now for survival of the Domes is that the previous 
administration spent 36 years separating meditators from the collective 
practice. There is some deep hurt here to remediate. Turning the Domes in to 
open space for mundane performance or sports would really signal the end. No, 
there is work to do at reconciliation now. It likely is going to take some 
brave leadership to pull it off.  

 See:  Engaging Restorative Justice in Reclamation of Community
 
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/433528 
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/433528



---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 How about turning that iconic dome into a public space!  Re-envision, 
repurpose it for an open, inclusive and rockin' venue.e.g.,  you could do a 
 "concerts in the dome" series.  How are the acoustics?  Sructure a 
public-private partnership with the Town of Fairfield.  

 Public Space architecture and design | ArchDaily 
http://www.archdaily.com/search/projects/categories/public-space 
 
 http://www.archdaily.com/search/projects/categories/public-space 
 
 Public Space architecture and design | ArchDaily 
http://www.archdaily.com/search/projects/categories/public-space 
 
 
 View on www.archdaily.com 
http://www.archdaily.com/search/projects/categories/public-space 
 Preview by Yahoo 
 
 
  

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 
 

 Archer, from a distance view that is fine, your philosophical of ‘no-doing 
do-nothing’. 
 

Some of us live in Fairfield, Iowa, though, with this amazing facility for 
meditation that has just a couple hundred people meditating in it now. The 
question, (..what can be done?) is operational, what can be done in the 
community to better utilize the place by way of facilitating the meditating 
community that came here to meditate. 
 Some damages clearly were done to a feeling of cohesion of the meditating 
community, what might the remediation look like to have more people meditating 
collectively again in Fairfield, Iowa?

 Archer Angel writes:

 ..that nothing need be done.

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 
 Should we create a dispensation for the meditators who do not attend group 
meditation in Fairfield, Iowa? What can we do?  

One could correlate from what science that we do know about group meditation 
that a large part of the tense psycho-spiritual problems we collectively face 
is rooted in the absentee meditators living here, those who do not attend to 
the collective meditation of Fairfield, Iowa.  All those Art of Living people, 
the Oneness people, the Amma satsang and others. They seem to not care that 
they are given this opportunity, even at the weekday no-badge group meditation, 
and they make no effort. Those satsangs don’t even show up to meditate with 
others in collective group meditation as a practice where there is offered 
invitation.   It is like they have a spiritual aloofness, a type of arrogance 
that keeps them from doing the spiritual work. 
 What can be done to motivate them to open their hearts to communal practice?
 -JaiGuruYou

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 In Transcendentalism, 
 this becomes MMY’s great legacy along the line with George Fox or Jesus Christ 
"Where two or more are gathered..". This modern development, of natural 
sciences correlating with transcendentalism in modern time as the practical 
role of collective meditation, not only an individual experience is compelling 
in transcendental meditationism but now by virtue of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's 
articulation there is the evident science of collective practice of meditation 
on the whole.  
  
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 The evidence for the Maharishi Effect 

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance Of Group Meditation

[emily.ma...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

How about turning that iconic dome into a public space!  Re-envision, repurpose 
it for an open, inclusive and rockin' venue.e.g.,  you could do a  
"concerts in the dome" series.  How are the acoustics?  Sructure a 
public-private partnership with the Town of Fairfield.  

 Public Space architecture and design | ArchDaily 
http://www.archdaily.com/search/projects/categories/public-space 
 
 http://www.archdaily.com/search/projects/categories/public-space 
 
 Public Space architecture and design | ArchDaily 
http://www.archdaily.com/search/projects/categories/public-space 
 
 
 View on www.archdaily.com 
http://www.archdaily.com/search/projects/categories/public-space 
 Preview by Yahoo 
 
 
  

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 
 

 Archer, from a distance view that is fine, your philosophical of ‘no-doing 
do-nothing’. 
 

Some of us live in Fairfield, Iowa, though, with this amazing facility for 
meditation that has just a couple hundred people meditating in it now. The 
question, (..what can be done?) is operational, what can be done in the 
community to better utilize the place by way of facilitating the meditating 
community that came here to meditate. 
 Some damages clearly were done to a feeling of cohesion of the meditating 
community, what might the remediation look like to have more people meditating 
collectively again in Fairfield, Iowa?

 Archer Angel writes:

 ..that nothing need be done.

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 
 Should we create a dispensation for the meditators who do not attend group 
meditation in Fairfield, Iowa? What can we do?  

One could correlate from what science that we do know about group meditation 
that a large part of the tense psycho-spiritual problems we collectively face 
is rooted in the absentee meditators living here, those who do not attend to 
the collective meditation of Fairfield, Iowa.  All those Art of Living people, 
the Oneness people, the Amma satsang and others. They seem to not care that 
they are given this opportunity, even at the weekday no-badge group meditation, 
and they make no effort. Those satsangs don’t even show up to meditate with 
others in collective group meditation as a practice where there is offered 
invitation.   It is like they have a spiritual aloofness, a type of arrogance 
that keeps them from doing the spiritual work. 
 What can be done to motivate them to open their hearts to communal practice?
 -JaiGuruYou

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 In Transcendentalism, 
 this becomes MMY’s great legacy along the line with George Fox or Jesus Christ 
"Where two or more are gathered..". This modern development, of natural 
sciences correlating with transcendentalism in modern time as the practical 
role of collective meditation, not only an individual experience is compelling 
in transcendental meditationism but now by virtue of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's 
articulation there is the evident science of collective practice of meditation 
on the whole.  
  
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 The evidence for the Maharishi Effect continues to mount up. Another 
compelling, new study came out in February of this year, again based on 
publicly available statistics. This is a scientific breakthrough that outstrips 
all others in its power to do good for ourselves, our nation, and our world.
 Jai Guru Dev
 Raja John Hagelin
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 When a person waters the root of life, when they begin to experience the 
transcendental field of their own existence, which is the treasure house of 
inexhaustible energy, and intelligence, and harmony and bliss —then that as we 
know gets infused into their lives and their lives become so much better. They 
evolve, they grow, and they start to live in such a way that automatically 
their actions are in harmony with the laws of nature. 


"The public are invited to experience some degree of the power of a group 
meditation,"
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 " 
 Meditators notice that even in a group of two there is a greater settling of 
the mind, and this effect grows in accordance with how many people gather, says 
Colin. "Regular meditators have reported much stronger experiences of silence 
and bliss than they normally experience alone or in their usual groups of 20–50 
people.
 ..The public are invited to experience some degree of the power of a group 
meditation," -explains TM teacher, Colin Beckley

 

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Right from the beginning of his movement, Maharishi predicted that even a 
small number of the world's population practicing his Transcendental Meditation 
technique could neutralize the stress being built up in the world 
consciousness, thus averting conflicts and wars.
 

---In 

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance Of Group Meditation

[Archer Angel archonan...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

Well, I am at a distance. Once I lived in Fairfield. 
I was experiencing some peculiar normalization that resulted in insomnia. 
Going to the dome, even living at MIU as it was called then, was problematical 
because of the weird sleep cycle. 
When I moved into town, I never went back to the dome, a deliberate and 
conscious decision, as it held no value for me. 
Being in the dome had no effect on my experience and thus there was no natural 
inclination to be there. 
I now have a better idea why that was the case. I have no objection to people 
who want to do group programs.
I actually prefer meditating with small groups of new meditators on occasion, 
but am naturally disposed to solitude.

  From: "dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" 
<FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
 Sent: Monday, January 16, 2017 1:34 PM
 Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance Of Group Meditation
   
    

Archer, from a distance view that is fine, your philosophical of ‘no-doing 
do-nothing’. 
Some of us live in Fairfield, Iowa, though, with this amazing facility for 
meditation that has just a couple hundred people meditating in it now. The 
question, (..what can be done?) is operational, what can be done in the 
community to better utilize the place by way of facilitating the meditating 
community that came here to meditate. Some damages clearly were done to a 
feeling of cohesion of the meditating community, what might the remediation 
look like to have more people meditating collectively again in Fairfield, Iowa?
Archer Angel writes:
..that nothing need be done.

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote :


Should we create a dispensation for the meditators who do not attend group 
meditation in Fairfield, Iowa? What can we do?  
One could correlate from what science that we do know about group meditation 
that a large part of the tense psycho-spiritual problems we collectively face 
is rooted in the absentee meditators living here, those who do not attend to 
the collective meditation of Fairfield, Iowa.  All those Art of Living people, 
the Oneness people, the Amma satsang and others. They seem to not care that 
they are given this opportunity, even at the weekday no-badge group meditation, 
and they make no effort. Those satsangs don’t even show up to meditate with 
others in collective group meditation as a practice where there is offered 
invitation.   It is like they have a spiritual aloofness, a type of arrogance 
that keeps them from doing the spiritual work. What can be done to motivate 
them to open their hearts to communal practice?-JaiGuruYou

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote :

In Transcendentalism, this becomes MMY’s great legacy along the line with 
George Fox or Jesus Christ "Where two or more are gathered..". This modern 
development, of natural sciences correlating with transcendentalism in modern 
time as the practical role of collective meditation, not only an individual 
experience is compelling in transcendental meditationism but now by virtue of 
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's articulation there is the evident science of collective 
practice of meditation on the whole.   

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote :

The evidence for the Maharishi Effect continues to mount up. Another 
compelling, new study came out in February of this year, again based on 
publicly available statistics. This is a scientific breakthrough that outstrips 
all others in its power to do good for ourselves, our nation, and our world.Jai 
Guru DevRaja John Hagelin

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote :

When a person waters the root of life, when they begin to experience the 
transcendental field of their own existence, which is the treasure house of 
inexhaustible energy, and intelligence, and harmony and bliss then that as we 
know gets infused into their lives and their lives become so much better. They 
evolve, they grow, and they start to live in such a way that automatically 
their actions are in harmony with the laws of nature. 

"The public are invited to experience some degree of the power of a group 
meditation,"


---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote :

" Meditators notice that even in a group of two there is a greater settling of 
the mind, and this effect grows in accordance with how many people gather, says 
Colin. "Regular meditators have reported much stronger experiences of silence 
and bliss than they normally experience alone or in their usual groups of 2050 
people...The public are invited to experience some degree of the power of a 
group meditation," -explains TM teacher, Colin Beckley



---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote :

Right from the beginning of his movement, Maharishi predicted that 

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance Of Group Meditation

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

 

 Archer, from a distance view that is fine, your philosophical of ‘no-doing 
do-nothing’. 
 

Some of us live in Fairfield, Iowa, though, with this amazing facility for 
meditation that has just a couple hundred people meditating in it now. The 
question, (..what can be done?) is operational, what can be done in the 
community to better utilize the place by way of facilitating the meditating 
community that came here to meditate. 
 Some damages clearly were done to a feeling of cohesion of the meditating 
community, what might the remediation look like to have more people meditating 
collectively again in Fairfield, Iowa?

 Archer Angel writes:

 ..that nothing need be done.

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 
 Should we create a dispensation for the meditators who do not attend group 
meditation in Fairfield, Iowa? What can we do?  

One could correlate from what science that we do know about group meditation 
that a large part of the tense psycho-spiritual problems we collectively face 
is rooted in the absentee meditators living here, those who do not attend to 
the collective meditation of Fairfield, Iowa.  All those Art of Living people, 
the Oneness people, the Amma satsang and others. They seem to not care that 
they are given this opportunity, even at the weekday no-badge group meditation, 
and they make no effort. Those satsangs don’t even show up to meditate with 
others in collective group meditation as a practice where there is offered 
invitation.   It is like they have a spiritual aloofness, a type of arrogance 
that keeps them from doing the spiritual work. 
 What can be done to motivate them to open their hearts to communal practice?
 -JaiGuruYou

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 In Transcendentalism, 
 this becomes MMY’s great legacy along the line with George Fox or Jesus Christ 
"Where two or more are gathered..". This modern development, of natural 
sciences correlating with transcendentalism in modern time as the practical 
role of collective meditation, not only an individual experience is compelling 
in transcendental meditationism but now by virtue of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's 
articulation there is the evident science of collective practice of meditation 
on the whole.  
  
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 The evidence for the Maharishi Effect continues to mount up. Another 
compelling, new study came out in February of this year, again based on 
publicly available statistics. This is a scientific breakthrough that outstrips 
all others in its power to do good for ourselves, our nation, and our world.
 Jai Guru Dev
 Raja John Hagelin
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 When a person waters the root of life, when they begin to experience the 
transcendental field of their own existence, which is the treasure house of 
inexhaustible energy, and intelligence, and harmony and bliss —then that as we 
know gets infused into their lives and their lives become so much better. They 
evolve, they grow, and they start to live in such a way that automatically 
their actions are in harmony with the laws of nature. 


"The public are invited to experience some degree of the power of a group 
meditation,"
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 " 
 Meditators notice that even in a group of two there is a greater settling of 
the mind, and this effect grows in accordance with how many people gather, says 
Colin. "Regular meditators have reported much stronger experiences of silence 
and bliss than they normally experience alone or in their usual groups of 20–50 
people.
 ..The public are invited to experience some degree of the power of a group 
meditation," -explains TM teacher, Colin Beckley

 

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Right from the beginning of his movement, Maharishi predicted that even a 
small number of the world's population practicing his Transcendental Meditation 
technique could neutralize the stress being built up in the world 
consciousness, thus averting conflicts and wars.
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 The Meissner-like Effect of Collective Meditation..

 As early as,

 “In 1960 Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of the Transcendental Meditation 
program, predicted that a transition in society toward a more orderly and 
harmonious functioning would occur when a small fraction -on the order of one 
percent- of a population practiced the Transcendental Meditation technique (6), 
and in December 1974 we found that crime rate did decrease in four midwestern 
U.S. Cities in which one percent of the population was practicing the TM 
technique.”

 Candace Borland, Ph.D., and Garland Landrith III, M.A., 'Improved Quality of 
City Life Through the Transcendental Meditation Program: Decreased Crime 

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance Of Group Meditation

[Archer Angel archonan...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

 From: "dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
 Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2017 2:39 AM
 Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance Of Group Meditation
Should we create a dispensation for the meditators who do not attend group 
meditation in Fairfield, Iowa? What can we do?  
One could correlate from what science that we do know about group meditation 
that a large part of the tense psycho-spiritual problems we collectively face 
is rooted in the absentee meditators living here, those who do not attend to 
the collective meditation of Fairfield, Iowa.  All those Art of Living people, 
the Oneness people, the Amma satsang and others. They seem to not care that 
they are given this opportunity, even at the weekday no-badge group meditation, 
and they make no effort. Those satsangs don’t even show up to meditate with 
others in collective group meditation as a practice where there is offered 
invitation.   It is like they have a spiritual aloofness, a type of arrogance 
that keeps them from doing the spiritual work.
What can be done to motivate them to open their hearts to communal practice?
It could be that, as has always happened, all these meditators, as well as 
everyone else, is simply functioning according to the laws of nature, and that 
nothing need be done.
Ignorance of the laws of nature does not mean the laws are not functioning, it 
only means that some are not aware of that.
The strife in life is caused by the mind not knowing, not because the laws are 
absent.
Everything is as it is, and thus thinking things are not as they should be 
reveals a lack of understanding.
It means the mind is acting from imagination rather than being grounded in the 
truth of the moment.
Spiritual work is done by the whole (the entire universe or whatever you want 
to call the whole, what Maharishi called the aggregate), not the part.
The purpose of spiritual work is to experience that expanse.
Ignorance is thinking the part can usurp the power of the whole, that the part 
is in control.
An individual human being is a part.
If a human being experiences the whole, he or she is not concerned, for he or 
she need do nothing, it is done for them, they know they are not in control, 
they let go, they are calm.
If they do not experience the whole, they may be concerned, but everything 
still happens out of their control.
That is the arrogance, thinking you can control what is out of your hands, not 
that people do not do what you would have them do because you have a mental 
stance "they are wrong."
An enlightened being is communal practice, for there is nothing about them that 
is not the whole.
The purpose of communal practice for the ignorant is to keep their seeking 
enlightenment from getting sidetracked.
But there are other ways to keep that focus, each according to his or her 
nature.
In a cave, cooking for the family, cleaning a house, taking a walk in the park, 
talking with friends, and even, meditating.
If you do not have to think about what you are doing even interacting with 
those who do cogitate their actions, you are in the hands of the laws of 
nature, meditating or not.
Take it as it comes. You do not have to be in the Dome, or in a church, a 
meeting hall, or other supposedly spiritual place to do this.
You carry the secret of the whole with you at every moment while wasting time 
trying to arrange the parts.

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[FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance Of Group Meditation

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

 Should we create a dispensation for the meditators who do not attend group 
meditation in Fairfield, Iowa? What can we do?  

One could correlate from what science that we do know about group meditation 
that a large part of the tense psycho-spiritual problems we collectively face 
is rooted in the absentee meditators living here, those who do not attend to 
the collective meditation of Fairfield, Iowa.  All those Art of Living people, 
the Oneness people, the Amma satsang and others. They seem to not care that 
they are given this opportunity, even at the weekday no-badge group meditation, 
and they make no effort. Those satsangs don’t even show up to meditate with 
others in collective group meditation as a practice where there is offered 
invitation.   It is like they have a spiritual aloofness, a type of arrogance 
that keeps them from doing the spiritual work. 
 What can be done to motivate them to open their hearts to communal practice?
 -JaiGuruYou

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 In Transcendentalism, 
 this becomes MMY’s great legacy along the line with George Fox or Jesus Christ 
"Where two or more are gathered..". This modern development, of natural 
sciences correlating with transcendentalism in modern time as the practical 
role of collective meditation, not only an individual experience is compelling 
in transcendental meditationism but now by virtue of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's 
articulation there is the evident science of collective practice of meditation 
on the whole.  
  
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 The evidence for the Maharishi Effect continues to mount up. Another 
compelling, new study came out in February of this year, again based on 
publicly available statistics. This is a scientific breakthrough that outstrips 
all others in its power to do good for ourselves, our nation, and our world.
 Jai Guru Dev
 Raja John Hagelin
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 When a person waters the root of life, when they begin to experience the 
transcendental field of their own existence, which is the treasure house of 
inexhaustible energy, and intelligence, and harmony and bliss —then that as we 
know gets infused into their lives and their lives become so much better. They 
evolve, they grow, and they start to live in such a way that automatically 
their actions are in harmony with the laws of nature. 


"The public are invited to experience some degree of the power of a group 
meditation,"
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 " 
 Meditators notice that even in a group of two there is a greater settling of 
the mind, and this effect grows in accordance with how many people gather, says 
Colin. "Regular meditators have reported much stronger experiences of silence 
and bliss than they normally experience alone or in their usual groups of 20–50 
people.
 ..The public are invited to experience some degree of the power of a group 
meditation," -explains TM teacher, Colin Beckley

 

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Right from the beginning of his movement, Maharishi predicted that even a 
small number of the world's population practicing his Transcendental Meditation 
technique could neutralize the stress being built up in the world 
consciousness, thus averting conflicts and wars.
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 The Meissner-like Effect of Collective Meditation..

 As early as,

 “In 1960 Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of the Transcendental Meditation 
program, predicted that a transition in society toward a more orderly and 
harmonious functioning would occur when a small fraction -on the order of one 
percent- of a population practiced the Transcendental Meditation technique (6), 
and in December 1974 we found that crime rate did decrease in four midwestern 
U.S. Cities in which one percent of the population was practicing the TM 
technique.”

 Candace Borland, Ph.D., and Garland Landrith III, M.A., 'Improved Quality of 
City Life Through the Transcendental Meditation Program: Decreased Crime Rate' 
in Scientific Research on the Transcendental Meditation Program: Collected 
Papers, Vol. I, eds. David W. Orme-Johnson, Ph.D., and John T. Farrow, Ph.D., 
West Germany, MERU Press, 1976

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Yep, group meditations were always used as part of the mix but you are right 
as to its relative promotion in the earlier ™ movement.  Group meditations 
clearly were an activating aspect for meditators in coming along in a deepening 
experience with meditating.  
 

 As I look around now for teachings that speak to the value of meditating in 
groups the quotes that I do readily find are from other sages about the 
spiritual practice of group meditation as an adjunct to individual or 

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance Of Group Meditation

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

In Transcendentalism, 
 this becomes MMY’s great legacy along the line with George Fox or Jesus Christ 
"Where two or more are gathered..". This modern development, of natural 
sciences correlating with transcendentalism in modern time as the practical 
role of collective meditation, not only an individual experience is compelling 
in transcendental meditationism but now by virtue of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's 
articulation there is the evident science of collective practice of meditation 
on the whole.  
  
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 The evidence for the Maharishi Effect continues to mount up. Another 
compelling, new study came out in February of this year, again based on 
publicly available statistics. This is a scientific breakthrough that outstrips 
all others in its power to do good for ourselves, our nation, and our world.
 Jai Guru Dev
 Raja John Hagelin
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 When a person waters the root of life, when they begin to experience the 
transcendental field of their own existence, which is the treasure house of 
inexhaustible energy, and intelligence, and harmony and bliss —then that as we 
know gets infused into their lives and their lives become so much better. They 
evolve, they grow, and they start to live in such a way that automatically 
their actions are in harmony with the laws of nature. 


"The public are invited to experience some degree of the power of a group 
meditation,"
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 " 
 Meditators notice that even in a group of two there is a greater settling of 
the mind, and this effect grows in accordance with how many people gather, says 
Colin. "Regular meditators have reported much stronger experiences of silence 
and bliss than they normally experience alone or in their usual groups of 20–50 
people.
 ..The public are invited to experience some degree of the power of a group 
meditation," -explains TM teacher, Colin Beckley

 

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Right from the beginning of his movement, Maharishi predicted that even a 
small number of the world's population practicing his Transcendental Meditation 
technique could neutralize the stress being built up in the world 
consciousness, thus averting conflicts and wars.
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 The Meissner-like Effect of Collective Meditation..

 As early as,

 “In 1960 Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of the Transcendental Meditation 
program, predicted that a transition in society toward a more orderly and 
harmonious functioning would occur when a small fraction -on the order of one 
percent- of a population practiced the Transcendental Meditation technique (6), 
and in December 1974 we found that crime rate did decrease in four midwestern 
U.S. Cities in which one percent of the population was practicing the TM 
technique.”

 Candace Borland, Ph.D., and Garland Landrith III, M.A., 'Improved Quality of 
City Life Through the Transcendental Meditation Program: Decreased Crime Rate' 
in Scientific Research on the Transcendental Meditation Program: Collected 
Papers, Vol. I, eds. David W. Orme-Johnson, Ph.D., and John T. Farrow, Ph.D., 
West Germany, MERU Press, 1976

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Yep, group meditations were always used as part of the mix but you are right 
as to its relative promotion in the earlier ™ movement.  Group meditations 
clearly were an activating aspect for meditators in coming along in a deepening 
experience with meditating.  
 

 As I look around now for teachings that speak to the value of meditating in 
groups the quotes that I do readily find are from other sages about the 
spiritual practice of group meditation as an adjunct to individual or isolated 
practice. Maharishi evidently employed the value of collective meditation 
practice but I am not finding earlier comments from Maharishi related to simple 
group meditation of the pre-sidhis ™ movement before the TMO went 
Sidhis-centric.  He probably did speak to it, like at the time of calling 
meditators together during the Cuban missile crisis with the Soviet Union.  

 

 ..
 

The quote below concerned a special event in which "The saints and Mahatmas of 
Uttarakhand" gathered together. This does not address the claim that there is 
some special value to ordinary lay meditators practicing in groups in golden 
domes or elsewhere. 

I was very much involved in the TM movement for several years in the mid-1970s 
and I do not recall a single instance in which any special value was placed on 
group meditations. The emphasis was always on rounding in the privacy of your 
own room. I must have watched several hundred video tapes of MMY and I do not 
recall a single one in which he spoke about this.
 

---In 

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance Of Group Meditation

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

The evidence for the Maharishi Effect continues to mount up. Another 
compelling, new study came out in February of this year, again based on 
publicly available statistics. This is a scientific breakthrough that outstrips 
all others in its power to do good for ourselves, our nation, and our world.
 Jai Guru Dev
 Raja John Hagelin
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 When a person waters the root of life, when they begin to experience the 
transcendental field of their own existence, which is the treasure house of 
inexhaustible energy, and intelligence, and harmony and bliss —then that as we 
know gets infused into their lives and their lives become so much better. They 
evolve, they grow, and they start to live in such a way that automatically 
their actions are in harmony with the laws of nature. 


"The public are invited to experience some degree of the power of a group 
meditation,"
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 " 
 Meditators notice that even in a group of two there is a greater settling of 
the mind, and this effect grows in accordance with how many people gather, says 
Colin. "Regular meditators have reported much stronger experiences of silence 
and bliss than they normally experience alone or in their usual groups of 20–50 
people.
 ..The public are invited to experience some degree of the power of a group 
meditation," -explains TM teacher, Colin Beckley

 

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Right from the beginning of his movement, Maharishi predicted that even a 
small number of the world's population practicing his Transcendental Meditation 
technique could neutralize the stress being built up in the world 
consciousness, thus averting conflicts and wars.
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 The Meissner-like Effect of Collective Meditation..

 As early as,

 “In 1960 Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of the Transcendental Meditation 
program, predicted that a transition in society toward a more orderly and 
harmonious functioning would occur when a small fraction -on the order of one 
percent- of a population practiced the Transcendental Meditation technique (6), 
and in December 1974 we found that crime rate did decrease in four midwestern 
U.S. Cities in which one percent of the population was practicing the TM 
technique.”

 Candace Borland, Ph.D., and Garland Landrith III, M.A., 'Improved Quality of 
City Life Through the Transcendental Meditation Program: Decreased Crime Rate' 
in Scientific Research on the Transcendental Meditation Program: Collected 
Papers, Vol. I, eds. David W. Orme-Johnson, Ph.D., and John T. Farrow, Ph.D., 
West Germany, MERU Press, 1976

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Yep, group meditations were always used as part of the mix but you are right 
as to its relative promotion in the earlier ™ movement.  Group meditations 
clearly were an activating aspect for meditators in coming along in a deepening 
experience with meditating.  
 

 As I look around now for teachings that speak to the value of meditating in 
groups the quotes that I do readily find are from other sages about the 
spiritual practice of group meditation as an adjunct to individual or isolated 
practice. Maharishi evidently employed the value of collective meditation 
practice but I am not finding earlier comments from Maharishi related to simple 
group meditation of the pre-sidhis ™ movement before the TMO went 
Sidhis-centric.  He probably did speak to it, like at the time of calling 
meditators together during the Cuban missile crisis with the Soviet Union.  

 

 ..
 

The quote below concerned a special event in which "The saints and Mahatmas of 
Uttarakhand" gathered together. This does not address the claim that there is 
some special value to ordinary lay meditators practicing in groups in golden 
domes or elsewhere. 

I was very much involved in the TM movement for several years in the mid-1970s 
and I do not recall a single instance in which any special value was placed on 
group meditations. The emphasis was always on rounding in the privacy of your 
own room. I must have watched several hundred video tapes of MMY and I do not 
recall a single one in which he spoke about this.
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 He was employing group meditation as part of the mix from early on in his 
teaching.  The call for meditators to come together [ Catalina Island retreat] 
during the 1962 US Cuban Missile crisis with the Soviet Union.   Again in 1965 
in the triangulation of ramped up and extremely incendiary rhetoric and between 
the Soviet Union, The People’s Republic of [Maoist] China, and these United 
States over an invasion of South Vietnam by communist North Vietnam that was 
happening right then.  

These calls to group meditation were each 

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance Of Group Meditation

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

When a person waters the root of life, when they begin to experience the 
transcendental field of their own existence, which is the treasure house of 
inexhaustible energy, and intelligence, and harmony and bliss —then that as we 
know gets infused into their lives and their lives become so much better. They 
evolve, they grow, and they start to live in such a way that automatically 
their actions are in harmony with the laws of nature. 


"The public are invited to experience some degree of the power of a group 
meditation,"
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 " 
 Meditators notice that even in a group of two there is a greater settling of 
the mind, and this effect grows in accordance with how many people gather, says 
Colin. "Regular meditators have reported much stronger experiences of silence 
and bliss than they normally experience alone or in their usual groups of 20–50 
people.
 ..The public are invited to experience some degree of the power of a group 
meditation," -explains TM teacher, Colin Beckley

 

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Right from the beginning of his movement, Maharishi predicted that even a 
small number of the world's population practicing his Transcendental Meditation 
technique could neutralize the stress being built up in the world 
consciousness, thus averting conflicts and wars.
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 The Meissner-like Effect of Collective Meditation..

 As early as,

 “In 1960 Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of the Transcendental Meditation 
program, predicted that a transition in society toward a more orderly and 
harmonious functioning would occur when a small fraction -on the order of one 
percent- of a population practiced the Transcendental Meditation technique (6), 
and in December 1974 we found that crime rate did decrease in four midwestern 
U.S. Cities in which one percent of the population was practicing the TM 
technique.”

 Candace Borland, Ph.D., and Garland Landrith III, M.A., 'Improved Quality of 
City Life Through the Transcendental Meditation Program: Decreased Crime Rate' 
in Scientific Research on the Transcendental Meditation Program: Collected 
Papers, Vol. I, eds. David W. Orme-Johnson, Ph.D., and John T. Farrow, Ph.D., 
West Germany, MERU Press, 1976

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Yep, group meditations were always used as part of the mix but you are right 
as to its relative promotion in the earlier ™ movement.  Group meditations 
clearly were an activating aspect for meditators in coming along in a deepening 
experience with meditating.  
 

 As I look around now for teachings that speak to the value of meditating in 
groups the quotes that I do readily find are from other sages about the 
spiritual practice of group meditation as an adjunct to individual or isolated 
practice. Maharishi evidently employed the value of collective meditation 
practice but I am not finding earlier comments from Maharishi related to simple 
group meditation of the pre-sidhis ™ movement before the TMO went 
Sidhis-centric.  He probably did speak to it, like at the time of calling 
meditators together during the Cuban missile crisis with the Soviet Union.  

 

 ..
 

The quote below concerned a special event in which "The saints and Mahatmas of 
Uttarakhand" gathered together. This does not address the claim that there is 
some special value to ordinary lay meditators practicing in groups in golden 
domes or elsewhere. 

I was very much involved in the TM movement for several years in the mid-1970s 
and I do not recall a single instance in which any special value was placed on 
group meditations. The emphasis was always on rounding in the privacy of your 
own room. I must have watched several hundred video tapes of MMY and I do not 
recall a single one in which he spoke about this.
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 He was employing group meditation as part of the mix from early on in his 
teaching.  The call for meditators to come together [ Catalina Island retreat] 
during the 1962 US Cuban Missile crisis with the Soviet Union.   Again in 1965 
in the triangulation of ramped up and extremely incendiary rhetoric and between 
the Soviet Union, The People’s Republic of [Maoist] China, and these United 
States over an invasion of South Vietnam by communist North Vietnam that was 
happening right then.  

These calls to group meditation were each particular calls for meditators to 
come together as a spiritual practice in group meditation.  Read the 
description below from 1965 for his interpretation of it. That practiced 
[effective] meditators have a societal responsibility to sit in groups 
meditating/ for the world.  The science is pretty convincing on this now.  
Certainly a failure of the ™ movement in the last few decades was to have let 
it go 

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance Of Group Meditation

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

" 
 Meditators notice that even in a group of two there is a greater settling of 
the mind, and this effect grows in accordance with how many people gather, says 
Colin. "Regular meditators have reported much stronger experiences of silence 
and bliss than they normally experience alone or in their usual groups of 20–50 
people.
 ..The public are invited to experience some degree of the power of a group 
meditation," -explains TM teacher, Colin Beckley

 

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Right from the beginning of his movement, Maharishi predicted that even a 
small number of the world's population practicing his Transcendental Meditation 
technique could neutralize the stress being built up in the world 
consciousness, thus averting conflicts and wars.
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 The Meissner-like Effect of Collective Meditation..

 As early as,

 “In 1960 Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of the Transcendental Meditation 
program, predicted that a transition in society toward a more orderly and 
harmonious functioning would occur when a small fraction -on the order of one 
percent- of a population practiced the Transcendental Meditation technique (6), 
and in December 1974 we found that crime rate did decrease in four midwestern 
U.S. Cities in which one percent of the population was practicing the TM 
technique.”

 Candace Borland, Ph.D., and Garland Landrith III, M.A., 'Improved Quality of 
City Life Through the Transcendental Meditation Program: Decreased Crime Rate' 
in Scientific Research on the Transcendental Meditation Program: Collected 
Papers, Vol. I, eds. David W. Orme-Johnson, Ph.D., and John T. Farrow, Ph.D., 
West Germany, MERU Press, 1976

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Yep, group meditations were always used as part of the mix but you are right 
as to its relative promotion in the earlier ™ movement.  Group meditations 
clearly were an activating aspect for meditators in coming along in a deepening 
experience with meditating.  
 

 As I look around now for teachings that speak to the value of meditating in 
groups the quotes that I do readily find are from other sages about the 
spiritual practice of group meditation as an adjunct to individual or isolated 
practice. Maharishi evidently employed the value of collective meditation 
practice but I am not finding earlier comments from Maharishi related to simple 
group meditation of the pre-sidhis ™ movement before the TMO went 
Sidhis-centric.  He probably did speak to it, like at the time of calling 
meditators together during the Cuban missile crisis with the Soviet Union.  

 

 ..
 

The quote below concerned a special event in which "The saints and Mahatmas of 
Uttarakhand" gathered together. This does not address the claim that there is 
some special value to ordinary lay meditators practicing in groups in golden 
domes or elsewhere. 

I was very much involved in the TM movement for several years in the mid-1970s 
and I do not recall a single instance in which any special value was placed on 
group meditations. The emphasis was always on rounding in the privacy of your 
own room. I must have watched several hundred video tapes of MMY and I do not 
recall a single one in which he spoke about this.
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 He was employing group meditation as part of the mix from early on in his 
teaching.  The call for meditators to come together [ Catalina Island retreat] 
during the 1962 US Cuban Missile crisis with the Soviet Union.   Again in 1965 
in the triangulation of ramped up and extremely incendiary rhetoric and between 
the Soviet Union, The People’s Republic of [Maoist] China, and these United 
States over an invasion of South Vietnam by communist North Vietnam that was 
happening right then.  

These calls to group meditation were each particular calls for meditators to 
come together as a spiritual practice in group meditation.  Read the 
description below from 1965 for his interpretation of it. That practiced 
[effective] meditators have a societal responsibility to sit in groups 
meditating/ for the world.  The science is pretty convincing on this now.  
Certainly a failure of the ™ movement in the last few decades was to have let 
it go so badly for itself and have separated so many people from the meditating 
movement and its group meditations. 
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 I learned TM in 1975 at the Manhattan Center. As I recall, we were told there 
was a group meditation (20 minutes) every evening that we were welcome to 
attend. 

 It wasn't pushed on us, nor was there any dogma about how it would have 
greater benefits, but it was clearly presented as an opportunity to be taken 
advantage of if we could.
 

 

 

 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 
 

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance Of Group Meditation

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

Right from the beginning of his movement, Maharishi predicted that even a small 
number of the world's population practicing his Transcendental Meditation 
technique could neutralize the stress being built up in the world 
consciousness, thus averting conflicts and wars.
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 The Meissner-like Effect of Collective Meditation..

 As early as,

 “In 1960 Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of the Transcendental Meditation 
program, predicted that a transition in society toward a more orderly and 
harmonious functioning would occur when a small fraction -on the order of one 
percent- of a population practiced the Transcendental Meditation technique (6), 
and in December 1974 we found that crime rate did decrease in four midwestern 
U.S. Cities in which one percent of the population was practicing the TM 
technique.”

 Candace Borland, Ph.D., and Garland Landrith III, M.A., 'Improved Quality of 
City Life Through the Transcendental Meditation Program: Decreased Crime Rate' 
in Scientific Research on the Transcendental Meditation Program: Collected 
Papers, Vol. I, eds. David W. Orme-Johnson, Ph.D., and John T. Farrow, Ph.D., 
West Germany, MERU Press, 1976

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Yep, group meditations were always used as part of the mix but you are right 
as to its relative promotion in the earlier ™ movement.  Group meditations 
clearly were an activating aspect for meditators in coming along in a deepening 
experience with meditating.  
 

 As I look around now for teachings that speak to the value of meditating in 
groups the quotes that I do readily find are from other sages about the 
spiritual practice of group meditation as an adjunct to individual or isolated 
practice. Maharishi evidently employed the value of collective meditation 
practice but I am not finding earlier comments from Maharishi related to simple 
group meditation of the pre-sidhis ™ movement before the TMO went 
Sidhis-centric.  He probably did speak to it, like at the time of calling 
meditators together during the Cuban missile crisis with the Soviet Union.  

 

 ..
 

The quote below concerned a special event in which "The saints and Mahatmas of 
Uttarakhand" gathered together. This does not address the claim that there is 
some special value to ordinary lay meditators practicing in groups in golden 
domes or elsewhere. 

I was very much involved in the TM movement for several years in the mid-1970s 
and I do not recall a single instance in which any special value was placed on 
group meditations. The emphasis was always on rounding in the privacy of your 
own room. I must have watched several hundred video tapes of MMY and I do not 
recall a single one in which he spoke about this.
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 He was employing group meditation as part of the mix from early on in his 
teaching.  The call for meditators to come together [ Catalina Island retreat] 
during the 1962 US Cuban Missile crisis with the Soviet Union.   Again in 1965 
in the triangulation of ramped up and extremely incendiary rhetoric and between 
the Soviet Union, The People’s Republic of [Maoist] China, and these United 
States over an invasion of South Vietnam by communist North Vietnam that was 
happening right then.  

These calls to group meditation were each particular calls for meditators to 
come together as a spiritual practice in group meditation.  Read the 
description below from 1965 for his interpretation of it. That practiced 
[effective] meditators have a societal responsibility to sit in groups 
meditating/ for the world.  The science is pretty convincing on this now.  
Certainly a failure of the ™ movement in the last few decades was to have let 
it go so badly for itself and have separated so many people from the meditating 
movement and its group meditations. 
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 I learned TM in 1975 at the Manhattan Center. As I recall, we were told there 
was a group meditation (20 minutes) every evening that we were welcome to 
attend. 

 It wasn't pushed on us, nor was there any dogma about how it would have 
greater benefits, but it was clearly presented as an opportunity to be taken 
advantage of if we could.
 

 

 

 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 
 Group meditations were very much part of what was offered in learning 
meditation in the old days of TM.  Group meditations were definitely a feature 
at the ™ Centers that were doing well initiating a lot of people. The group 
meditations were important to that for all the reasons [spiritual and then 
scientific] listed further below.   

 

 I find it telling that the encouragement to meditate in a group came only 
AFTER the emergence of the Siddhi flying program. 

Prior to that there was no such encouragement

 

 Those meditator 

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance Of Group Meditation

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

The Meissner-like Effect of Collective Meditation..

 As early as,

 “In 1960 Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of the Transcendental Meditation 
program, predicted that a transition in society toward a more orderly and 
harmonious functioning would occur when a small fraction -on the order of one 
percent- of a population practiced the Transcendental Meditation technique (6), 
and in December 1974 we found that crime rate did decrease in four midwestern 
U.S. Cities in which one percent of the population was practicing the TM 
technique.”

 Candace Borland, Ph.D., and Garland Landrith III, M.A., 'Improved Quality of 
City Life Through the Transcendental Meditation Program: Decreased Crime Rate' 
in Scientific Research on the Transcendental Meditation Program: Collected 
Papers, Vol. I, eds. David W. Orme-Johnson, Ph.D., and John T. Farrow, Ph.D., 
West Germany, MERU Press, 1976

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Yep, group meditations were always used as part of the mix but you are right 
as to its relative promotion in the earlier ™ movement.  Group meditations 
clearly were an activating aspect for meditators in coming along in a deepening 
experience with meditating.  
 

 As I look around now for teachings that speak to the value of meditating in 
groups the quotes that I do readily find are from other sages about the 
spiritual practice of group meditation as an adjunct to individual or isolated 
practice. Maharishi evidently employed the value of collective meditation 
practice but I am not finding earlier comments from Maharishi related to simple 
group meditation of the pre-sidhis ™ movement before the TMO went 
Sidhis-centric.  He probably did speak to it, like at the time of calling 
meditators together during the Cuban missile crisis with the Soviet Union.  

 

 ..
 

The quote below concerned a special event in which "The saints and Mahatmas of 
Uttarakhand" gathered together. This does not address the claim that there is 
some special value to ordinary lay meditators practicing in groups in golden 
domes or elsewhere. 

I was very much involved in the TM movement for several years in the mid-1970s 
and I do not recall a single instance in which any special value was placed on 
group meditations. The emphasis was always on rounding in the privacy of your 
own room. I must have watched several hundred video tapes of MMY and I do not 
recall a single one in which he spoke about this.
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 He was employing group meditation as part of the mix from early on in his 
teaching.  The call for meditators to come together [ Catalina Island retreat] 
during the 1962 US Cuban Missile crisis with the Soviet Union.   Again in 1965 
in the triangulation of ramped up and extremely incendiary rhetoric and between 
the Soviet Union, The People’s Republic of [Maoist] China, and these United 
States over an invasion of South Vietnam by communist North Vietnam that was 
happening right then.  

These calls to group meditation were each particular calls for meditators to 
come together as a spiritual practice in group meditation.  Read the 
description below from 1965 for his interpretation of it. That practiced 
[effective] meditators have a societal responsibility to sit in groups 
meditating/ for the world.  The science is pretty convincing on this now.  
Certainly a failure of the ™ movement in the last few decades was to have let 
it go so badly for itself and have separated so many people from the meditating 
movement and its group meditations. 
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 I learned TM in 1975 at the Manhattan Center. As I recall, we were told there 
was a group meditation (20 minutes) every evening that we were welcome to 
attend. 

 It wasn't pushed on us, nor was there any dogma about how it would have 
greater benefits, but it was clearly presented as an opportunity to be taken 
advantage of if we could.
 

 

 

 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 
 Group meditations were very much part of what was offered in learning 
meditation in the old days of TM.  Group meditations were definitely a feature 
at the ™ Centers that were doing well initiating a lot of people. The group 
meditations were important to that for all the reasons [spiritual and then 
scientific] listed further below.   

 

 I find it telling that the encouragement to meditate in a group came only 
AFTER the emergence of the Siddhi flying program. 

Prior to that there was no such encouragement

 

 Those meditator group meditations became overlooked whence the TMO became 
Sidhis-centric and as the teaching of ™  fell apart once the more honed TM 
teaching movement based on initiating, group meditations, and residence courses 
got displaced by the ‘teams of four’ around 1977 that came everywhere to take 
over the local teaching of ™ and administrate the 

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance Of Group Meditation

[srijau]

Yes group TM was definitely extolled as very valuable and beneficial for 
non-Sidhas. I was involved from seventies  for decades. Even post 911 it was 
extolled as useful contribution to benefit world consciousness.

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance Of Group Meditation

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

Yep, group meditations were always used as part of the mix but you are right as 
to its relative promotion in the earlier ™ movement.  Group meditations clearly 
were an activating aspect for meditators in coming along in a deepening 
experience with meditating.  
 

 As I look around now for teachings that speak to the value of meditating in 
groups the quotes that I do readily find are from other sages about the 
spiritual practice of group meditation as an adjunct to individual or isolated 
practice. Maharishi evidently employed the value of collective meditation 
practice but I am not finding earlier comments from Maharishi related to simple 
group meditation of the pre-sidhis ™ movement before the TMO went 
Sidhis-centric.  He probably did speak to it, like at the time of calling 
meditators together during the Cuban missile crisis with the Soviet Union.  

 

 ..
 

The quote below concerned a special event in which "The saints and Mahatmas of 
Uttarakhand" gathered together. This does not address the claim that there is 
some special value to ordinary lay meditators practicing in groups in golden 
domes or elsewhere. 

I was very much involved in the TM movement for several years in the mid-1970s 
and I do not recall a single instance in which any special value was placed on 
group meditations. The emphasis was always on rounding in the privacy of your 
own room. I must have watched several hundred video tapes of MMY and I do not 
recall a single one in which he spoke about this.
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 He was employing group meditation as part of the mix from early on in his 
teaching.  The call for meditators to come together [ Catalina Island retreat] 
during the 1962 US Cuban Missile crisis with the Soviet Union.   Again in 1965 
in the triangulation of ramped up and extremely incendiary rhetoric and between 
the Soviet Union, The People’s Republic of [Maoist] China, and these United 
States over an invasion of South Vietnam by communist North Vietnam that was 
happening right then.  

These calls to group meditation were each particular calls for meditators to 
come together as a spiritual practice in group meditation.  Read the 
description below from 1965 for his interpretation of it. That practiced 
[effective] meditators have a societal responsibility to sit in groups 
meditating/ for the world.  The science is pretty convincing on this now.  
Certainly a failure of the ™ movement in the last few decades was to have let 
it go so badly for itself and have separated so many people from the meditating 
movement and its group meditations. 
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 I learned TM in 1975 at the Manhattan Center. As I recall, we were told there 
was a group meditation (20 minutes) every evening that we were welcome to 
attend. 

 It wasn't pushed on us, nor was there any dogma about how it would have 
greater benefits, but it was clearly presented as an opportunity to be taken 
advantage of if we could.
 

 

 

 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 
 Group meditations were very much part of what was offered in learning 
meditation in the old days of TM.  Group meditations were definitely a feature 
at the ™ Centers that were doing well initiating a lot of people. The group 
meditations were important to that for all the reasons [spiritual and then 
scientific] listed further below.   

 

 I find it telling that the encouragement to meditate in a group came only 
AFTER the emergence of the Siddhi flying program. 

Prior to that there was no such encouragement

 

 Those meditator group meditations became overlooked whence the TMO became 
Sidhis-centric and as the teaching of ™  fell apart once the more honed TM 
teaching movement based on initiating, group meditations, and residence courses 
got displaced by the ‘teams of four’ around 1977 that came everywhere to take 
over the local teaching of ™ and administrate the sidhis. 

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Is it necessary to meditate with the group?
 Meditating as a group creates a more powerful spiritual vibration than 
meditating alone.  Amma has designed each session of the meditation retreat to 
increase the spiritual benefits to each participant.  She asks that we all 
attend every meditation together, and not meditate alone in our rooms.  If you 
would like to start meditating before the first session, you are welcome to 
come to the main meditation room and start early.  -Karunamayi
 

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 The 'Collective Meditation'   
 

 -Spiritual Regeneration Movement NEWSLETTER 

 May 1965
 Maharishi Concludes Five World Tours
 

 "His Holiness returned to India on 20th March, 1965 after a successful 
nine-month world tour.
 

 ..A special feature of this tour was the keen interest generated in scientific 
circles in 

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance Of Group Meditation

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

He was employing group meditation as part of the mix from early on in his 
teaching.  The call for meditators to come together [ Catalina Island retreat] 
during the 1962 US Cuban Missile crisis with the Soviet Union.   Again in 1965 
in the triangulation of ramped up and extremely incendiary rhetoric and between 
the Soviet Union, The People’s Republic of [Maoist] China, and these United 
States over an invasion of South Vietnam by communist North Vietnam that was 
happening right then.  

These calls to group meditation were each particular calls for meditators to 
come together as a spiritual practice in group meditation.  Read the 
description below from 1965 for his interpretation of it. That practiced 
[effective] meditators have a societal responsibility to sit in groups 
meditating/ for the world.  The science is pretty convincing on this now.  
Certainly a failure of the ™ movement in the last few decades was to have let 
it go so badly for itself and have separated so many people from the meditating 
movement and its group meditations. 
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 I learned TM in 1975 at the Manhattan Center. As I recall, we were told there 
was a group meditation (20 minutes) every evening that we were welcome to 
attend. 

 It wasn't pushed on us, nor was there any dogma about how it would have 
greater benefits, but it was clearly presented as an opportunity to be taken 
advantage of if we could.
 

 

 

 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 
 Group meditations were very much part of what was offered in learning 
meditation in the old days of TM.  Group meditations were definitely a feature 
at the ™ Centers that were doing well initiating a lot of people. The group 
meditations were important to that for all the reasons [spiritual and then 
scientific] listed further below.   

 

 I find it telling that the encouragement to meditate in a group came only 
AFTER the emergence of the Siddhi flying program. 

Prior to that there was no such encouragement

 

 Those meditator group meditations became overlooked whence the TMO became 
Sidhis-centric and as the teaching of ™  fell apart once the more honed TM 
teaching movement based on initiating, group meditations, and residence courses 
got displaced by the ‘teams of four’ around 1977 that came everywhere to take 
over the local teaching of ™ and administrate the sidhis. 

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Is it necessary to meditate with the group?
 Meditating as a group creates a more powerful spiritual vibration than 
meditating alone.  Amma has designed each session of the meditation retreat to 
increase the spiritual benefits to each participant.  She asks that we all 
attend every meditation together, and not meditate alone in our rooms.  If you 
would like to start meditating before the first session, you are welcome to 
come to the main meditation room and start early.  -Karunamayi
 

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 The 'Collective Meditation'   
 

 -Spiritual Regeneration Movement NEWSLETTER 

 May 1965
 Maharishi Concludes Five World Tours
 

 "His Holiness returned to India on 20th March, 1965 after a successful 
nine-month world tour.
 

 ..A special feature of this tour was the keen interest generated in scientific 
circles in England, Germany and America, where scientists are now conducting 
experiments to assess the effects of Deep Meditation.."

 

 


 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 

 "An event of unique importance took place on the 28th of March, at 
Shankaracharya Nagar, Rishikesh. The saints and Mahatmas of Uttarakhand 
assembled on the ground of the Academy of Meditation to invoke the benign grace 
and the almighty power of the gods to right the wrongs of today's world 
society."

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 ..in "Duty-bound" 
 

 The "collective meditation"  of  "Deep Meditation", 
 

 "In welcoming the saints and Mahatmas, Maharishi said that the world today 
needed the intercession of the saints who are established n themselves and are 
therefore, nearer to the almighty power. The situation of the world now 
demanded of the people a powerful invocation of the grace of gods to fill the 
atmosphere with peace and purity. This, he said, can be effectively done by 
those who by long practice of meditation and various spiritual disciplines, had 
gained the privilege of being nearer to the seat of divine power and mercy. The 
saints of Uttarakhand therefore were in duty-bound to intercede on behalf of 
the people and invoke the grace of gods to alleviate human suffering."

 

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 "..After Maharishi had stressed the importance and purpose of the assembly of 
the Saints and Mahatmas.. 
 Then the party entered the 84 caves of Shakaracharya 

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance Of Group Meditation

[yifux...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

Group meditations at Charlie Lutes meetings were very powerful.  Lots of Shakti 
generated, but meditating in the initiation rooms at SIMS was even more 
powerful(alone).  So both approaches have value, but generally speaking, 
ime - group meditations rule.
 What would really be useful: group healings of a miraculous nature.  This has 
been attempted by many Evangelical preachers going back to Kathryn Kuhlman and 
even before, but with limited success success.
 

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance Of Group Meditation

[authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

I learned TM in 1975 at the Manhattan Center. As I recall, we were told there 
was a group meditation (20 minutes) every evening that we were welcome to 
attend. 

 It wasn't pushed on us, nor was there any dogma about how it would have 
greater benefits, but it was clearly presented as an opportunity to be taken 
advantage of if we could.
 

 

 

 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 
 Group meditations were very much part of what was offered in learning 
meditation in the old days of TM.  Group meditations were definitely a feature 
at the ™ Centers that were doing well initiating a lot of people. The group 
meditations were important to that for all the reasons [spiritual and then 
scientific] listed further below.   

 

 I find it telling that the encouragement to meditate in a group came only 
AFTER the emergence of the Siddhi flying program. 

Prior to that there was no such encouragement

 

 Those meditator group meditations became overlooked whence the TMO became 
Sidhis-centric and as the teaching of ™  fell apart once the more honed TM 
teaching movement based on initiating, group meditations, and residence courses 
got displaced by the ‘teams of four’ around 1977 that came everywhere to take 
over the local teaching of ™ and administrate the sidhis. 

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Is it necessary to meditate with the group?
 Meditating as a group creates a more powerful spiritual vibration than 
meditating alone.  Amma has designed each session of the meditation retreat to 
increase the spiritual benefits to each participant.  She asks that we all 
attend every meditation together, and not meditate alone in our rooms.  If you 
would like to start meditating before the first session, you are welcome to 
come to the main meditation room and start early.  -Karunamayi
 

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 The 'Collective Meditation'   
 

 -Spiritual Regeneration Movement NEWSLETTER 

 May 1965
 Maharishi Concludes Five World Tours
 

 "His Holiness returned to India on 20th March, 1965 after a successful 
nine-month world tour.
 

 ..A special feature of this tour was the keen interest generated in scientific 
circles in England, Germany and America, where scientists are now conducting 
experiments to assess the effects of Deep Meditation.."

 

 


 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 

 "An event of unique importance took place on the 28th of March, at 
Shankaracharya Nagar, Rishikesh. The saints and Mahatmas of Uttarakhand 
assembled on the ground of the Academy of Meditation to invoke the benign grace 
and the almighty power of the gods to right the wrongs of today's world 
society."

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 ..in "Duty-bound" 
 

 The "collective meditation"  of  "Deep Meditation", 
 

 "In welcoming the saints and Mahatmas, Maharishi said that the world today 
needed the intercession of the saints who are established n themselves and are 
therefore, nearer to the almighty power. The situation of the world now 
demanded of the people a powerful invocation of the grace of gods to fill the 
atmosphere with peace and purity. This, he said, can be effectively done by 
those who by long practice of meditation and various spiritual disciplines, had 
gained the privilege of being nearer to the seat of divine power and mercy. The 
saints of Uttarakhand therefore were in duty-bound to intercede on behalf of 
the people and invoke the grace of gods to alleviate human suffering."

 

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 "..After Maharishi had stressed the importance and purpose of the assembly of 
the Saints and Mahatmas.. 
 Then the party entered the 84 caves of Shakaracharya Nagar, where collective 
meditation was held for one hour. So soon as everyone had taken their seats in 
the caves, the meditation started with a recitation of Vedic hymns, and as 
everyone sank deep within, nature herself was absorbed in silence. There was 
utter stillness for one solid hour, at the end of which, the meditation was 
broken by a recitation of vedic slokas. The saints who are accustomed to long 
meditation felt the powerful intensity of today's collective meditation. It was 
decided to continue collective meditation regularly every Sunday until 
atmospheric tension abates.”
  
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

Anybody have short quotes from the TM movement about the value of group 
meditation?  Doing TM in a group.  Something from the old days of Maharishi in 
the time before the siddhis?
 

  There are plenty enough of charts and pronouncement of a value for practicing 
the TM-Siddhis in a group.  How about for pre-siddhis meditators and group 
meditation?  It seems that some portion of the meditating community is not 
interested in practicing the TM-Siddhis, at 

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance Of Group Meditation

[Tom Huffman t...@chromapure.com [FairfieldLife]]

Sure, brief 10-min group meditations were conducted in a variety of 
circumstances. However, there was NEVER any suggestion that a group 
meditation offered any benefits above and beyond a private session, at 
least none I ever heard.


dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] 


Tuesday, July 19, 2016 6:50 AM

Group meditations were very much part of what was offered in learning 
meditation in the old days of TM.  Group meditations were definitely a 
feature at the ™ Centers that were doing well initiating a lot of 
people. The group meditations were important to that for all the 
reasons [spiritual and then scientific] listed further below.




I find it telling that the encouragement to meditate in a group came 
only AFTER the emergence of the Siddhi flying program.


Prior to that there was no such encouragement

Those meditator group meditations became overlooked whence the TMO 
became Sidhis-centric and as the teaching of ™  fell apart once the 
more honed TM teaching movement based on initiating, group 
meditations, and residence courses got displaced by the ‘teams of 
four’ around 1977 that came everywhere to take over the local teaching 
of ™ and administrate the sidhis.



---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

Is it necessary to meditate with the group?

Meditating as a group creates a more powerful spiritual vibration than 
meditating alone.  Amma has designed each session of the meditation 
retreat to increase the spiritual benefits to each participant.  She 
asks that we all attend every meditation together, and not meditate 
alone in our rooms.  If you would like to start meditating before the 
first session, you are welcome to come to the main meditation room and 
start early.  -Karunamayi





---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

The 'Collective Meditation'


-Spiritual Regeneration Movement NEWSLETTER

May 1965

Maharishi Concludes Five World Tours


"His Holiness returned to India on 20th March, 1965 after a successful 
nine-month world tour.



..A special feature of this tour was the keen interest generated in 
scientific circles in England, Germany and America, where scientists 
are now conducting experiments to assess the effects of Deep Meditation.."




---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :


"An event of unique importance took place on the 28^th of March, at 
Shankaracharya Nagar, Rishikesh. The saints and Mahatmas of 
Uttarakhand assembled on the ground of the Academy of Meditation to 
invoke the benign grace and the almighty power of the gods to right 
the wrongs of today's world society."



---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

..in "Duty-bound"

The "collective meditation"  of  "Deep Meditation",


"In welcoming the saints and Mahatmas, Maharishi said that the world 
today needed the intercession of the saints who are established n 
themselves and are therefore, nearer to the almighty power. The 
situation of the world now demanded of the people a powerful 
invocation of the grace of gods to fill the atmosphere with peace and 
purity. This, he said, can be effectively done by those who by long 
practice of meditation and various spiritual disciplines, had gained 
the privilege of being nearer to the seat of divine power and mercy. 
The saints of Uttarakhand therefore were in duty-bound to intercede on 
behalf of the people and invoke the grace of gods to alleviate human 
suffering."





---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

"..After Maharishi had stressed the importance and purpose of the 
assembly of the Saints and Mahatmas..


Then the party entered the 84 caves of Shakaracharya Nagar, where 
collective meditation was held for one hour. So soon as everyone had 
taken their seats in the caves, the meditation started with a 
recitation of Vedic hymns, and as everyone sank deep within, nature 
herself was absorbed in silence. There was utter stillness for one 
solid hour, at the end of which, the meditation was broken by a 
recitation of vedic slokas. The saints who are accustomed to long 
meditation felt the powerful intensity of today's collective 
meditation. It was decided to continue collective meditation regularly 
every Sunday until atmospheric tension abates.”




---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

Anybody have short quotes from the TM movement about the value of 
group meditation?  Doing TM in a group.  Something from the old days 
of Maharishi in the time before the siddhis?


There are plenty enough of charts and pronouncement of a value for 
practicing the TM-Siddhis in a group.  How about for pre-siddhis 
meditators and group meditation?  It seems that some portion of the 
meditating community is not interested in practicing the TM-Siddhis, 
at least for that long as they do in the Domes now.


Is there a value to just 

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance Of Group Meditation

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

Group meditations were very much part of what was offered in learning 
meditation in the old days of TM.  Group meditations were definitely a feature 
at the ™ Centers that were doing well initiating a lot of people. The group 
meditations were important to that for all the reasons [spiritual and then 
scientific] listed further below.   

 

 I find it telling that the encouragement to meditate in a group came only 
AFTER the emergence of the Siddhi flying program. 

Prior to that there was no such encouragement

 

 Those meditator group meditations became overlooked whence the TMO became 
Sidhis-centric and as the teaching of ™  fell apart once the more honed TM 
teaching movement based on initiating, group meditations, and residence courses 
got displaced by the ‘teams of four’ around 1977 that came everywhere to take 
over the local teaching of ™ and administrate the sidhis. 

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Is it necessary to meditate with the group?
 Meditating as a group creates a more powerful spiritual vibration than 
meditating alone.  Amma has designed each session of the meditation retreat to 
increase the spiritual benefits to each participant.  She asks that we all 
attend every meditation together, and not meditate alone in our rooms.  If you 
would like to start meditating before the first session, you are welcome to 
come to the main meditation room and start early.  -Karunamayi
 

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 The 'Collective Meditation'   
 

 -Spiritual Regeneration Movement NEWSLETTER 

 May 1965
 Maharishi Concludes Five World Tours
 

 "His Holiness returned to India on 20th March, 1965 after a successful 
nine-month world tour.
 

 ..A special feature of this tour was the keen interest generated in scientific 
circles in England, Germany and America, where scientists are now conducting 
experiments to assess the effects of Deep Meditation.."

 

 


 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 

 "An event of unique importance took place on the 28th of March, at 
Shankaracharya Nagar, Rishikesh. The saints and Mahatmas of Uttarakhand 
assembled on the ground of the Academy of Meditation to invoke the benign grace 
and the almighty power of the gods to right the wrongs of today's world 
society."

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 ..in "Duty-bound" 
 

 The "collective meditation"  of  "Deep Meditation", 
 

 "In welcoming the saints and Mahatmas, Maharishi said that the world today 
needed the intercession of the saints who are established n themselves and are 
therefore, nearer to the almighty power. The situation of the world now 
demanded of the people a powerful invocation of the grace of gods to fill the 
atmosphere with peace and purity. This, he said, can be effectively done by 
those who by long practice of meditation and various spiritual disciplines, had 
gained the privilege of being nearer to the seat of divine power and mercy. The 
saints of Uttarakhand therefore were in duty-bound to intercede on behalf of 
the people and invoke the grace of gods to alleviate human suffering."

 

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 "..After Maharishi had stressed the importance and purpose of the assembly of 
the Saints and Mahatmas.. 
 Then the party entered the 84 caves of Shakaracharya Nagar, where collective 
meditation was held for one hour. So soon as everyone had taken their seats in 
the caves, the meditation started with a recitation of Vedic hymns, and as 
everyone sank deep within, nature herself was absorbed in silence. There was 
utter stillness for one solid hour, at the end of which, the meditation was 
broken by a recitation of vedic slokas. The saints who are accustomed to long 
meditation felt the powerful intensity of today's collective meditation. It was 
decided to continue collective meditation regularly every Sunday until 
atmospheric tension abates.”
  
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

Anybody have short quotes from the TM movement about the value of group 
meditation?  Doing TM in a group.  Something from the old days of Maharishi in 
the time before the siddhis?
 

  There are plenty enough of charts and pronouncement of a value for practicing 
the TM-Siddhis in a group.  How about for pre-siddhis meditators and group 
meditation?  It seems that some portion of the meditating community is not 
interested in practicing the TM-Siddhis, at least for that long as they do in 
the Domes now. 
 

 Is there a value to just meditating in a group.  Evidently Fred Travis has 
data that shows that there is a spiritual value related to proximity and 
numbers of meditators meditating.   
 

  
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Group meditation is a castle that protects the new spiritual 

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance Of Group Meditation

[Tom Huffman t...@chromapure.com [FairfieldLife]]

I find it telling that the encouragement to meditate in a group came 
only AFTER the emergence of the Siddhi flying program.


Prior to that there was no such encouragement

dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] 


Sunday, July 17, 2016 5:22 AM

Is it necessary to meditate with the group?

Meditating as a group creates a more powerful spiritual vibration than 
meditating alone.  Amma has designed each session of the meditation 
retreat to increase the spiritual benefits to each participant.  She 
asks that we all attend every meditation together, and not meditate 
alone in our rooms.  If you would like to start meditating before the 
first session, you are welcome to come to the main meditation room and 
start early.  -Karunamayi





---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

The 'Collective Meditation'


-Spiritual Regeneration Movement NEWSLETTER

May 1965

Maharishi Concludes Five World Tours


"His Holiness returned to India on 20th March, 1965 after a successful 
nine-month world tour.



..A special feature of this tour was the keen interest generated in 
scientific circles in England, Germany and America, where scientists 
are now conducting experiments to assess the effects of Deep Meditation.."




---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :


"An event of unique importance took place on the 28^th of March, at 
Shankaracharya Nagar, Rishikesh. The saints and Mahatmas of 
Uttarakhand assembled on the ground of the Academy of Meditation to 
invoke the benign grace and the almighty power of the gods to right 
the wrongs of today's world society."



---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

..in "Duty-bound"

The "collective meditation"  of  "Deep Meditation",


"In welcoming the saints and Mahatmas, Maharishi said that the world 
today needed the intercession of the saints who are established n 
themselves and are therefore, nearer to the almighty power. The 
situation of the world now demanded of the people a powerful 
invocation of the grace of gods to fill the atmosphere with peace and 
purity. This, he said, can be effectively done by those who by long 
practice of meditation and various spiritual disciplines, had gained 
the privilege of being nearer to the seat of divine power and mercy. 
The saints of Uttarakhand therefore were in duty-bound to intercede on 
behalf of the people and invoke the grace of gods to alleviate human 
suffering."





---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

"..After Maharishi had stressed the importance and purpose of the 
assembly of the Saints and Mahatmas..


Then the party entered the 84 caves of Shakaracharya Nagar, where 
collective meditation was held for one hour. So soon as everyone had 
taken their seats in the caves, the meditation started with a 
recitation of Vedic hymns, and as everyone sank deep within, nature 
herself was absorbed in silence. There was utter stillness for one 
solid hour, at the end of which, the meditation was broken by a 
recitation of vedic slokas. The saints who are accustomed to long 
meditation felt the powerful intensity of today's collective 
meditation. It was decided to continue collective meditation regularly 
every Sunday until atmospheric tension abates.”




---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

Anybody have short quotes from the TM movement about the value of 
group meditation?  Doing TM in a group.  Something from the old days 
of Maharishi in the time before the siddhis?


There are plenty enough of charts and pronouncement of a value for 
practicing the TM-Siddhis in a group.  How about for pre-siddhis 
meditators and group meditation?  It seems that some portion of the 
meditating community is not interested in practicing the TM-Siddhis, 
at least for that long as they do in the Domes now.


Is there a value to just meditating in a group.  Evidently Fred Travis 
has data that shows that there is a spiritual value related to 
proximity and numbers of meditators meditating.




---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

/Group meditation is a castle that protects the new spiritual 
aspirants as well as the veteran meditators. Meditating together 
increases the degree of Self-realization of each member of the group 
by the law of invisible vibratory exchange of group magnetism./

—Paramahansa Yogananda in /Seeking God Together//
/


---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

/..Group meditations strengthen the individuals. When you're in 
meditation with other devotees you don't know how much you help one 
another. It gives you strength. There is a vibration that is created 
that strengthens, and supports, and encourages each one. So when you 
sit to meditate just remember this/.


—Sri Daya Mata on the SRF tape /Karma Yoga/

/
/


---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance Of Group Meditation

[Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

I've always settled down quicker  and had much better experiences when 
meditating alone. Groups are a distraction for me.


  From: "dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" 
<FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
 Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2016 5:22 AM
 Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance Of Group Meditation
   
    Is it necessary to meditate with the group?Meditating as a group creates a 
more powerful spiritual vibration than meditating alone.  Amma has designed 
each session of the meditation retreat to increase the spiritual benefits to 
each participant.  She asks that we all attend every meditation together, and 
not meditate alone in our rooms.  If you would like to start meditating before 
the first session, you are welcome to come to the main meditation room and 
start early.  -Karunamayi


---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote :

The 'Collective Meditation'   
-Spiritual Regeneration Movement NEWSLETTER 
May 1965Maharishi Concludes Five World Tours
"His Holiness returned to India on 20th March, 1965 after a successful 
nine-month world tour.
..A special feature of this tour was the keen interest generated in scientific 
circles in England, Germany and America, where scientists are now conducting 
experiments to assess the effects of Deep Meditation.."

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote :


"An event of unique importance tookplace on the 28th of March, at 
Shankaracharya Nagar,Rishikesh. The saints and Mahatmas of Uttarakhand 
assembled on theground of the Academy of Meditation to invoke the benign grace 
andthe almighty power of the gods to right the wrongs of today's worldsociety."
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote :

..in "Duty-bound" 
The "collective meditation"  of  "Deep Meditation", 

"In welcoming the saints and Mahatmas,Maharishi said that the world today 
needed the intercession of thesaints who are established n themselves and are 
therefore, nearer tothe almighty power. The situation of the world now demanded 
of thepeople a powerful invocation of the grace of gods to fill theatmosphere 
with peace and purity. This, he said, can be effectivelydone by those who by 
long practice of meditation and variousspiritual disciplines, had gained the 
privilege of being nearer tothe seat of divine power and mercy. The saints of 
Uttarakhandtherefore were in duty-bound to intercede on behalf of the people 
andinvoke the grace of gods to alleviate human suffering."


---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote :

"..After Maharishi had stressed theimportance and purpose of the assembly of 
the Saints and Mahatmas..Then the party entered the 84 caves ofShakaracharya 
Nagar, where collective meditation was held for onehour. So soon as everyone 
had taken their seats in the caves, themeditation started with a recitation of 
Vedic hymns, and as everyonesank deep within, nature herself was absorbed in 
silence. There wasutter stillness for one solid hour, at the end of which, 
themeditation was broken by a recitation of vedic slokas. The saintswho are 
accustomed to long meditation felt the powerful intensity oftoday's collective 
meditation. It was decided to continuecollective meditation regularly every 
Sunday until atmospherictension abates.” 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote :

  Anybody have short quotes from the TM movement about the value of group 
meditation?  Doing TM in a group.  Something from the old days of Maharishi in 
the time before the siddhis?
 There are plenty enough of charts and pronouncement of a value for practicing 
the TM-Siddhis in a group.  How about for pre-siddhis meditators and group 
meditation?  It seems that some portion of the meditating community is not 
interested in practicing the TM-Siddhis, at least for that long as they do in 
the Domes now. 
Is there a value to just meditating in a group.  Evidently Fred Travis has data 
that shows that there is a spiritual value related to proximity and numbers of 
meditators meditating.   
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote :

Group meditation is a castle that protects the new spiritual aspirants as well 
as the veteran meditators. Meditating together increases the degree of 
Self-realization of each member of the group by the law of invisible vibratory 
exchange of group magnetism.                                —Paramahansa 
Yogananda in Seeking God Together


---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote :

..Group meditations strengthen the individuals. When you're in meditation with 
other devotees you don't know how much you help one another. It gives you 
strength. There is a vibration that is created that strengthens, and su

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance Of Group Meditation

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

Is it necessary to meditate with the group?
 Meditating as a group creates a more powerful spiritual vibration than 
meditating alone.  Amma has designed each session of the meditation retreat to 
increase the spiritual benefits to each participant.  She asks that we all 
attend every meditation together, and not meditate alone in our rooms.  If you 
would like to start meditating before the first session, you are welcome to 
come to the main meditation room and start early.  -Karunamayi
 

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 The 'Collective Meditation'   
 

 -Spiritual Regeneration Movement NEWSLETTER 

 May 1965
 Maharishi Concludes Five World Tours
 

 "His Holiness returned to India on 20th March, 1965 after a successful 
nine-month world tour.
 

 ..A special feature of this tour was the keen interest generated in scientific 
circles in England, Germany and America, where scientists are now conducting 
experiments to assess the effects of Deep Meditation.."

 

 


 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 

 "An event of unique importance took place on the 28th of March, at 
Shankaracharya Nagar, Rishikesh. The saints and Mahatmas of Uttarakhand 
assembled on the ground of the Academy of Meditation to invoke the benign grace 
and the almighty power of the gods to right the wrongs of today's world 
society."

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 ..in "Duty-bound" 
 

 The "collective meditation"  of  "Deep Meditation", 
 

 "In welcoming the saints and Mahatmas, Maharishi said that the world today 
needed the intercession of the saints who are established n themselves and are 
therefore, nearer to the almighty power. The situation of the world now 
demanded of the people a powerful invocation of the grace of gods to fill the 
atmosphere with peace and purity. This, he said, can be effectively done by 
those who by long practice of meditation and various spiritual disciplines, had 
gained the privilege of being nearer to the seat of divine power and mercy. The 
saints of Uttarakhand therefore were in duty-bound to intercede on behalf of 
the people and invoke the grace of gods to alleviate human suffering."

 

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 "..After Maharishi had stressed the importance and purpose of the assembly of 
the Saints and Mahatmas.. 
 Then the party entered the 84 caves of Shakaracharya Nagar, where collective 
meditation was held for one hour. So soon as everyone had taken their seats in 
the caves, the meditation started with a recitation of Vedic hymns, and as 
everyone sank deep within, nature herself was absorbed in silence. There was 
utter stillness for one solid hour, at the end of which, the meditation was 
broken by a recitation of vedic slokas. The saints who are accustomed to long 
meditation felt the powerful intensity of today's collective meditation. It was 
decided to continue collective meditation regularly every Sunday until 
atmospheric tension abates.”
  
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

Anybody have short quotes from the TM movement about the value of group 
meditation?  Doing TM in a group.  Something from the old days of Maharishi in 
the time before the siddhis?
 

  There are plenty enough of charts and pronouncement of a value for practicing 
the TM-Siddhis in a group.  How about for pre-siddhis meditators and group 
meditation?  It seems that some portion of the meditating community is not 
interested in practicing the TM-Siddhis, at least for that long as they do in 
the Domes now. 
 

 Is there a value to just meditating in a group.  Evidently Fred Travis has 
data that shows that there is a spiritual value related to proximity and 
numbers of meditators meditating.   
 

  
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Group meditation is a castle that protects the new spiritual aspirants as well 
as the veteran meditators. Meditating together increases the degree of 
Self-realization of each member of the group by the law of invisible vibratory 
exchange of group magnetism. —Paramahansa 
Yogananda in Seeking God Together

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 ..Group meditations strengthen the individuals. When you're in meditation with 
other devotees you don't know how much you help one another. It gives you 
strength. There is a vibration that is created that strengthens, and supports, 
and encourages each one. So when you sit to meditate just remember this.
 —Sri Daya Mata on the SRF tape Karma Yoga
 

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Group meetings to practice the techniques of meditation are vitally important. 
Group meetings strengthen the individual Self-realization that one has acquired 
in private at home.  

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance Of Group Meditation

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

The 'Collective Meditation'   
 

 -Spiritual Regeneration Movement NEWSLETTER 

 May 1965
 Maharishi Concludes Five World Tours
 

 "His Holiness returned to India on 20th March, 1965 after a successful 
nine-month world tour.
 

 ..A special feature of this tour was the keen interest generated in scientific 
circles in England, Germany and America, where scientists are now conducting 
experiments to assess the effects of Deep Meditation.."

 

 


 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 

 "An event of unique importance took place on the 28th of March, at 
Shankaracharya Nagar, Rishikesh. The saints and Mahatmas of Uttarakhand 
assembled on the ground of the Academy of Meditation to invoke the benign grace 
and the almighty power of the gods to right the wrongs of today's world 
society."

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 ..in "Duty-bound" 
 

 The "collective meditation"  of  "Deep Meditation", 
 

 "In welcoming the saints and Mahatmas, Maharishi said that the world today 
needed the intercession of the saints who are established n themselves and are 
therefore, nearer to the almighty power. The situation of the world now 
demanded of the people a powerful invocation of the grace of gods to fill the 
atmosphere with peace and purity. This, he said, can be effectively done by 
those who by long practice of meditation and various spiritual disciplines, had 
gained the privilege of being nearer to the seat of divine power and mercy. The 
saints of Uttarakhand therefore were in duty-bound to intercede on behalf of 
the people and invoke the grace of gods to alleviate human suffering."

 

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 "..After Maharishi had stressed the importance and purpose of the assembly of 
the Saints and Mahatmas.. 
 Then the party entered the 84 caves of Shakaracharya Nagar, where collective 
meditation was held for one hour. So soon as everyone had taken their seats in 
the caves, the meditation started with a recitation of Vedic hymns, and as 
everyone sank deep within, nature herself was absorbed in silence. There was 
utter stillness for one solid hour, at the end of which, the meditation was 
broken by a recitation of vedic slokas. The saints who are accustomed to long 
meditation felt the powerful intensity of today's collective meditation. It was 
decided to continue collective meditation regularly every Sunday until 
atmospheric tension abates.”
  
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

Anybody have short quotes from the TM movement about the value of group 
meditation?  Doing TM in a group.  Something from the old days of Maharishi in 
the time before the siddhis?
 

  There are plenty enough of charts and pronouncement of a value for practicing 
the TM-Siddhis in a group.  How about for pre-siddhis meditators and group 
meditation?  It seems that some portion of the meditating community is not 
interested in practicing the TM-Siddhis, at least for that long as they do in 
the Domes now. 
 

 Is there a value to just meditating in a group.  Evidently Fred Travis has 
data that shows that there is a spiritual value related to proximity and 
numbers of meditators meditating.   
 

  
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Group meditation is a castle that protects the new spiritual aspirants as well 
as the veteran meditators. Meditating together increases the degree of 
Self-realization of each member of the group by the law of invisible vibratory 
exchange of group magnetism. —Paramahansa 
Yogananda in Seeking God Together

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 ..Group meditations strengthen the individuals. When you're in meditation with 
other devotees you don't know how much you help one another. It gives you 
strength. There is a vibration that is created that strengthens, and supports, 
and encourages each one. So when you sit to meditate just remember this.
 —Sri Daya Mata on the SRF tape Karma Yoga
 

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Group meetings to practice the techniques of meditation are vitally important. 
Group meetings strengthen the individual Self-realization that one has acquired 
in private at home.  -Paramahansa Yogananda
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Group meditation helps to disperse the dark clouds of man's obliviousness to 
the Sun of All Life, that its warm, liberating rays may burst forth in his 
soul.  
 -Self-Realization Fellowship in Meeting For Group Meditation

 















   

 "In welcoming the saints and Mahatmas, Maharishi said that the world today 
needed the intercession of the saints who are established n themselves and are 
therefore, nearer to the almighty power. The situation of the world now 

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance Of Group Meditation

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

"Duty-bound"  
 

 "In welcoming the saints and Mahatmas, Maharishi said that the world today 
needed the intercession of the saints who are established n themselves and are 
therefore, nearer to the almighty power. The situation of the world now 
demanded of the people a powerful invocation of the grace of gods to fill the 
atmosphere with peace and purity. This, he said, can be effectively done by 
those who by long practice of meditation and various spiritual disciplines, had 
gained the privilege of being nearer to the seat of divine power and mercy. The 
saints of Uttarakhand therefore were in duty-bound to intercede on behalf of 
the people and invoke the grace of gods to alleviate human suffering."

 

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 "..After Maharishi had stressed the importance and purpose of the assembly of 
the Saints and Mahatmas.. 
 Then the party entered the 84 caves of Shakaracharya Nagar, where collective 
meditation was held for one hour. So soon as everyone had taken their seats in 
the caves, the meditation started with a recitation of Vedic hymns, and as 
everyone sank deep within, nature herself was absorbed in silence. There was 
utter stillness for one solid hour, at the end of which, the meditation was 
broken by a recitation of vedic slokas. The saints who are accustomed to long 
meditation felt the powerful intensity of today's collective meditation. It was 
decided to continue collective meditation regularly every Sunday until 
atmospheric tension abates.”
  
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

Anybody have short quotes from the TM movement about the value of group 
meditation?  Doing TM in a group.  Something from the old days of Maharishi in 
the time before the siddhis?
 

  There are plenty enough of charts and pronouncement of a value for practicing 
the TM-Siddhis in a group.  How about for pre-siddhis meditators and group 
meditation?  It seems that some portion of the meditating community is not 
interested in practicing the TM-Siddhis, at least for that long as they do in 
the Domes now. 
 

 Is there a value to just meditating in a group.  Evidently Fred Travis has 
data that shows that there is a spiritual value related to proximity and 
numbers of meditators meditating.   
 

  
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Group meditation is a castle that protects the new spiritual aspirants as well 
as the veteran meditators. Meditating together increases the degree of 
Self-realization of each member of the group by the law of invisible vibratory 
exchange of group magnetism. —Paramahansa 
Yogananda in Seeking God Together

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 ..Group meditations strengthen the individuals. When you're in meditation with 
other devotees you don't know how much you help one another. It gives you 
strength. There is a vibration that is created that strengthens, and supports, 
and encourages each one. So when you sit to meditate just remember this.
 —Sri Daya Mata on the SRF tape Karma Yoga
 

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Group meetings to practice the techniques of meditation are vitally important. 
Group meetings strengthen the individual Self-realization that one has acquired 
in private at home.  -Paramahansa Yogananda
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Group meditation helps to disperse the dark clouds of man's obliviousness to 
the Sun of All Life, that its warm, liberating rays may burst forth in his 
soul.  
 -Self-Realization Fellowship in Meeting For Group Meditation

 

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance Of Group Meditation

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

 "An event of unique importance took place on the 28th of March, at 
Shankaracharya Nagar, Rishikesh. The saints and Mahatmas of Uttarakhand 
assembled on the ground of the Academy of Meditation to invoke the benign grace 
and the almighty power of the gods to right the wrongs of today's world 
society."

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 "Duty-bound" 
 

 The "collective meditation"  of  "Deep Meditation", 
 

 "In welcoming the saints and Mahatmas, Maharishi said that the world today 
needed the intercession of the saints who are established n themselves and are 
therefore, nearer to the almighty power. The situation of the world now 
demanded of the people a powerful invocation of the grace of gods to fill the 
atmosphere with peace and purity. This, he said, can be effectively done by 
those who by long practice of meditation and various spiritual disciplines, had 
gained the privilege of being nearer to the seat of divine power and mercy. The 
saints of Uttarakhand therefore were in duty-bound to intercede on behalf of 
the people and invoke the grace of gods to alleviate human suffering."

 

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 "..After Maharishi had stressed the importance and purpose of the assembly of 
the Saints and Mahatmas.. 
 Then the party entered the 84 caves of Shakaracharya Nagar, where collective 
meditation was held for one hour. So soon as everyone had taken their seats in 
the caves, the meditation started with a recitation of Vedic hymns, and as 
everyone sank deep within, nature herself was absorbed in silence. There was 
utter stillness for one solid hour, at the end of which, the meditation was 
broken by a recitation of vedic slokas. The saints who are accustomed to long 
meditation felt the powerful intensity of today's collective meditation. It was 
decided to continue collective meditation regularly every Sunday until 
atmospheric tension abates.”
  
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

Anybody have short quotes from the TM movement about the value of group 
meditation?  Doing TM in a group.  Something from the old days of Maharishi in 
the time before the siddhis?
 

  There are plenty enough of charts and pronouncement of a value for practicing 
the TM-Siddhis in a group.  How about for pre-siddhis meditators and group 
meditation?  It seems that some portion of the meditating community is not 
interested in practicing the TM-Siddhis, at least for that long as they do in 
the Domes now. 
 

 Is there a value to just meditating in a group.  Evidently Fred Travis has 
data that shows that there is a spiritual value related to proximity and 
numbers of meditators meditating.   
 

  
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Group meditation is a castle that protects the new spiritual aspirants as well 
as the veteran meditators. Meditating together increases the degree of 
Self-realization of each member of the group by the law of invisible vibratory 
exchange of group magnetism. —Paramahansa 
Yogananda in Seeking God Together

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 ..Group meditations strengthen the individuals. When you're in meditation with 
other devotees you don't know how much you help one another. It gives you 
strength. There is a vibration that is created that strengthens, and supports, 
and encourages each one. So when you sit to meditate just remember this.
 —Sri Daya Mata on the SRF tape Karma Yoga
 

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Group meetings to practice the techniques of meditation are vitally important. 
Group meetings strengthen the individual Self-realization that one has acquired 
in private at home.  -Paramahansa Yogananda
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Group meditation helps to disperse the dark clouds of man's obliviousness to 
the Sun of All Life, that its warm, liberating rays may burst forth in his 
soul.  
 -Self-Realization Fellowship in Meeting For Group Meditation

 















   

 "In welcoming the saints and Mahatmas, Maharishi said that the world today 
needed the intercession of the saints who are established n themselves and are 
therefore, nearer to the almighty power. The situation of the world now 
demanded of the people a powerful invocation of the grace of gods to fill the 
atmosphere with peace and purity. This, he said, can be effectively done by 
those who by long practice of meditation and various spiritual disciplines, had 
gained the privilege of being nearer to the seat of divine power and mercy. The 
saints of Uttarakhand therefore were in duty-bound to intercede on behalf of 
the people and invoke the grace of gods to alleviate human suffering."

 

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance Of Group Meditation

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

"..After Maharishi had stressed the importance and purpose of the assembly of 
the Saints and Mahatmas.. 
 Then the party entered the 84 caves of Shakaracharya Nagar, where collective 
meditation was held for one hour. So soon as everyone had taken their seats in 
the caves, the meditation started with a recitation of Vedic hymns, and as 
everyone sank deep within, nature herself was absorbed in silence. There was 
utter stillness for one solid hour, at the end of which, the meditation was 
broken by a recitation of vedic slokas. The saints who are accustomed to long 
meditation felt the powerful intensity of today's collective meditation. It was 
decided to continue collective meditation regularly every Sunday until 
atmospheric tension abates.”
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

Anybody have short quotes from the TM movement about the value of group 
meditation?  Doing TM in a group.  Something from the old days of Maharishi in 
the time before the siddhis?
 

  There are plenty enough of charts and pronouncement of a value for practicing 
the TM-Siddhis in a group.  How about for pre-siddhis meditators and group 
meditation?  It seems that some portion of the meditating community is not 
interested in practicing the TM-Siddhis, at least for that long as they do in 
the Domes now. 
 

 Is there a value to just meditating in a group.  Evidently Fred Travis has 
data that shows that there is a spiritual value related to proximity and 
numbers of meditators meditating.   
 

  
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Group meditation is a castle that protects the new spiritual aspirants as well 
as the veteran meditators. Meditating together increases the degree of 
Self-realization of each member of the group by the law of invisible vibratory 
exchange of group magnetism. —Paramahansa 
Yogananda in Seeking God Together

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 ..Group meditations strengthen the individuals. When you're in meditation with 
other devotees you don't know how much you help one another. It gives you 
strength. There is a vibration that is created that strengthens, and supports, 
and encourages each one. So when you sit to meditate just remember this.
 —Sri Daya Mata on the SRF tape Karma Yoga
 

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Group meetings to practice the techniques of meditation are vitally important. 
Group meetings strengthen the individual Self-realization that one has acquired 
in private at home.  -Paramahansa Yogananda
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Group meditation helps to disperse the dark clouds of man's obliviousness to 
the Sun of All Life, that its warm, liberating rays may burst forth in his 
soul.  
 -Self-Realization Fellowship in Meeting For Group Meditation

 

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance Of Group Meditation

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

   Anybody have short quotes from the TM movement about the value of group 
meditation?  Doing TM in a group.  Something from the old days of Maharishi in 
the time before the siddhis?
 

  There are plenty enough of charts and pronouncement of a value for practicing 
the TM-Siddhis in a group.  How about for pre-siddhis meditators and group 
meditation?  It seems that some portion of the meditating community is not 
interested in practicing the TM-Siddhis, at least for that long as they do in 
the Domes now. 
 

 Is there a value to just meditating in a group.  Evidently Fred Travis has 
data that shows that there is a spiritual value related to proximity and 
numbers of meditators meditating.   
 

  
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Group meditation is a castle that protects the new spiritual aspirants as well 
as the veteran meditators. Meditating together increases the degree of 
Self-realization of each member of the group by the law of invisible vibratory 
exchange of group magnetism. —Paramahansa 
Yogananda in Seeking God Together

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 ..Group meditations strengthen the individuals. When you're in meditation with 
other devotees you don't know how much you help one another. It gives you 
strength. There is a vibration that is created that strengthens, and supports, 
and encourages each one. So when you sit to meditate just remember this.
 —Sri Daya Mata on the SRF tape Karma Yoga
 

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Group meetings to practice the techniques of meditation are vitally important. 
Group meetings strengthen the individual Self-realization that one has acquired 
in private at home.  -Paramahansa Yogananda
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Group meditation helps to disperse the dark clouds of man's obliviousness to 
the Sun of All Life, that its warm, liberating rays may burst forth in his 
soul.  
 -Self-Realization Fellowship in Meeting For Group Meditation

 

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance Of Group Meditation

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

Group meditation is a castle that protects the new spiritual aspirants as well 
as the veteran meditators. Meditating together increases the degree of 
Self-realization of each member of the group by the law of invisible vibratory 
exchange of group magnetism. —Paramahansa 
Yogananda in Seeking God Together

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 ..Group meditations strengthen the individuals. When you're in meditation with 
other devotees you don't know how much you help one another. It gives you 
strength. There is a vibration that is created that strengthens, and supports, 
and encourages each one. So when you sit to meditate just remember this.
 —Sri Daya Mata on the SRF tape Karma Yoga
 

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Group meetings to practice the techniques of meditation are vitally important. 
Group meetings strengthen the individual Self-realization that one has acquired 
in private at home.  -Paramahansa Yogananda
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Group meditation helps to disperse the dark clouds of man's obliviousness to 
the Sun of All Life, that its warm, liberating rays may burst forth in his 
soul.  
 -Self-Realization Fellowship in Meeting For Group Meditation

 

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance Of Group Meditation

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

..Group meditations strengthen the individuals. When you're in meditation with 
other devotees you don't know how much you help one another. It gives you 
strength. There is a vibration that is created that strengthens, and supports, 
and encourages each one. So when you sit to meditate just remember this.
 —Sri Daya Mata on the SRF tape Karma Yoga
 

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Group meetings to practice the techniques of meditation are vitally important. 
Group meetings strengthen the individual Self-realization that one has acquired 
in private at home.  -Paramahansa Yogananda
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Group meditation helps to disperse the dark clouds of man's obliviousness to 
the Sun of All Life, that its warm, liberating rays may burst forth in his 
soul.  
 -Self-Realization Fellowship in Meeting For Group Meditation

 

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Importance Of Group Meditation

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

Group meetings to practice the techniques of meditation are vitally important. 
Group meetings strengthen the individual Self-realization that one has acquired 
in private at home.  -Paramahansa Yogananda
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Group meditation helps to disperse the dark clouds of man's obliviousness to 
the Sun of All Life, that its warm, liberating rays may burst forth in his 
soul.  
 -Self-Realization Fellowship in Meeting For Group Meditation