The following is from a letter from someone regarding her return flight to
DC this week.

====

I just wanted to drop you all a note and let you know that I arrived safe
and sound into Dulles Airport tonight [9/15] at about 6:00. It was an
interesting flight.

The airport in Denver was almost spooky, it was so empty and quiet. No one
was in line for the security check point when I got there so that went
fairly quickly, just x-ray of my bags and then a chemical test to be sure
nothing explosive was on them.

Then I waited 2 1/2 hours to board the plane. What happened after we boarded
was interesting and thought I would share it with you.

The pilot/captain came on the loudspeaker after the doors were closed. His
speech went like this:

"First I want to thank you for being brave enough to fly today. The doors are
now closed and we have no help from the outside for any problems that might
occur inside this plane. As you could tell when you checked in, the
government has made some changes to increase security in the airports.

"They have not, however, made any rules about what happens after those doors
close. Until they do that, we have made our own rules and I want to share
them with you. Once those doors close, we only have each other.

"The security has taken care of a threat like guns with all of the increased
scanning, etc. Then we have the supposed bomb. If you have a bomb, there is
no need to tell me about it, or anyone else on this plane; you are already
in control.  So, for this flight, there are no bombs that exist on this
plane.

"Now, the threats that are left are things like plastics, wood, knives, and
other weapons that can be made or things like that which can be used as
weapons.

"Here is our plan and our rules. If someone or several people stand up and
say they are hijacking this plane, I want you all to stand up together. Then
take whatever you have available to you and throw it at them. Throw it at
their faces and heads so they will have to raise their hands to protect
themselves.

"The very best protection you have against knives are the pillows and
blankets. Whoever is close to these people should then try to get a blanket
over their head--then they won't be able to see. Once that is done, get them
down and keep them there. Do not let them up. I will then land the plane at
the closest place and we WILL take care of them.

"After all, there are usually only a few of them and we are 200+ strong! We
will not allow them to take over this plane.

"I find it interesting that the US Constitution begins with the words, 'We,
the people'--that's who we are, THE people and we will not be defeated."

With that, the passengers on the plane all began to applaud, people had
tears in their eyes, and we began the trip toward the runway.

The flight attendant then began the safety speech. One of the things she
said is that we are all so busy and live our lives at such a fast pace. She
asked that everyone turn to their neighbors on either side and introduce
themselves, tell each other something about your families and children, show
pictures, whatever.  She said "for today, we consider you family. We will
treat you as such and ask that you do the same with us."

Throughout the flight we learned that for the crew, this was their first
flight since Tuesday's tragedies. It was a day that everyone leaned on each
other and together everyone was stronger than any one person alone.  It was
quite an experience.

You can imagine the feeling when that plane touched down at Dulles and we
heard "welcome to Washington Dulles Airport, where the local time is 5:40".
Again, the cabin was filled with applause.

Last night I saw a program with college students where one of them said that
at their campus there are no more hyphenated titles, i.e., African-American,
etc., everyone is just an American. No one will ever be able to take that
pride away from us. "

----- Original Message -----

From: Rick Archer

To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 9:43 PM

Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Using this egroup

> I have concerns I wouldn't mind sharing but not in print
>here open for the world at this time.

I think this group will be a reflection of whoever joins and participates in it. If it seems to be going in a direction that someone doesn’t like, they can either drop out or preferably, contribute things which take it in a direction they do like. If you want to share things but are squeamish about the public nature of the group, you could set up a hotmail account and use a pseudonym.

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Hello all,

Checking on the Yahoo group site, there are 19 people on this public,
unmoderated list.

When I signed up I imagined this egroup as a venue for people telling what
cool things are happening and I imagined hundreds of people on it. Not that
we don't read about such things in the Weekly Reader anyway but this could
be a way for more info to come out or be updated as needed.

It's nice for people to have an outlet for expressing concerns but I can't
help but feel shy about it being so public and all. There's much more
harmony in the atmosphere here than there has been in a long time and I'd
like to see us take advantage of that. I'm one who has grumbled about there
not being enough love in the TM movement's language or attitudes, but when I
decided I better seek for it I noticed more what is there. I'm sorry for
those who are still left out and I wish there was a way to fix that, but I'm
grateful for the good that is there.

I don't know the best way to use this form of communication for Fairfield.
Perhaps there could be several lists over time. One for fun and sharing of
lighter topics. I have concerns I wouldn't mind sharing but not in print
here open for the world at this time. Know what I mean?

Peace, Carol de Giere

> Dear Friends,
      If anyone out there has any connections to the higher ups in the
movement, PLEASE try to convince them that now is the time to offer
TM free of charge, or at least, at a very small nominal fee.  We have
opened up the domes, now this is the next obvious step.  Many
initiators are not able to come to Fairfield to participate in group
program, but I'm sure they would gladly, happily, without hesitation,
love to initiate people in their home towns as their way of
contributing to alleviate the stress of this crisis.
     As Jean Greco says, what if the answer is in our own back yard,
and we're not letting people in because we want money.  The TM
movement has come to be known as a commercial enterprise.  It's time
to get back to the basics - the Spiritual Regeneration Movement.

Love and Peace



> If it's really just all about getting the numbers of meditators up,
> that all we need to do is to learn this simple technique and then
> practice it for creating coherence in the world, now is a good time
> to drop the barriers, drop the obstacles and let's get going.
>
> All over the planet, we need a way to think and act like a world.
>
> So what if the answer was in our own back yard and we never did
> anything about it?
> --

• Submit the application questions below to your local MVU Director or Center Chairman.
• If there is no Center in your area, then please submit your application directly by faxing to: 641-472-1217
• If you are not able to apply by fax, call: 641-472-1212.

1.      Last name, first name:

2.      Former names:

3.      Social security number:

4.      Status (GOV, CSD, MED):

5.      TM-Sidhi� program course (type, dates, location):

6.      Man or lady:

7.      Applicant's home phone number and fax number:

8.      Applicant's e-mail address:

9.      Do you need on-campus housing?

10.     Do you need help making arrangements for off-campus housing?

11.     Are you making your own housing arrangements?

12.     Would you like campus meals?

13.     MVU or TM� Program Center:

14.     MVU or TM Program Center phone and fax number:

15.     Name of MVU Director or Center Chairman:

16.     Country of Citizenship:

17.     Date planning to arrive:

18.     Length of stay (inclusive dates):

19.     Are you in excellent mental and physical health? If no, please describe:

Hagelin asserted in his Weekly Reader defense of his
own comments to the community here, that the community
here is an ashram and that other saints, in form,
should not recruit here uninvited.
    There are two large assumptions in his comment.  An
assumption about the nature of the meditating
community here and the other assumption that the tour
of saints coming through Fairfield has not been
invited.  The movement as Hagelin participates in it
has brought about what we see here.  In fact, these
saints have directly been invited by sidhas and
meditators of the meditating community to come and
visit here.
    Like it or not, agree with it or not, the touring
of saints we are seeing here are not just touring
through uninvited nor coming without welcome here.

    With Best Regards,  -Doug


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Of Support and facility...

	 In general, as a meditator, to the extent that I may
look to the movement, I look to it to support  my
practice as a meditator.  As an initiator, I look to
the movement to support us in the teaching of TM.  As
a governor I look to the movement to facilitate.
Supporting and facilitating, our needs as a meditating
community are about that simple.

	 Beyond what could be done directly to
administratively support and facilitate practicing
meditators, as practicing meditators, meditators may
or may not be interested at all in anything further
coming from the movement as new knowledge.  Meditators
may do their practice.  However, as meditators we may
or we may not necessarily be interested in vedic
architecture or astrology or education or service or
political rantings or anything else that the movement
may franchise.
	 Beyond a quiet practice which itself is self-evident,
any of the new knowledge may or it may not be
interesting or compelling.  As a group, the essential
relationship for practicing meditators with the
movement has always been experiential and practical,
and has not been until recently now, faith-based
otherwise.

	 Of course, in reflecting, within the culture of the
TM movement there is no place to rate ourselves on how
we might be doing as a movement organized.  No place
even to ask or reflect  how we might be doing
supporting meditators or supporting teachers or
facilitating our sidhas.  Versus our ideal
administration, reflecting on our own administration
in any way practical would of course be too negative.
Would it be too practical?

	 There is a huge opportunity, if the movement enclave
could see it, in the base of the people who are here
as meditators doing their meditation and doing their
TM-Sidhis as meditators.  The speculation for all of
us watching is whether there may be too much rigid
pride or too much arrogance inside the movement now to
see what is here at hand.  Possibly it is beyond the
nature of character of too many in the middle to
recoup.  There is always hope.


With Best Regards,   -Doug  Hamilton


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Dear Friends,
Group program has become marvelous! Please join us if you can.
Jai Guru Dev
Dick

********

MAHARISHI UNIVERSITY OF MANAGEMENT

September 17, 2001

Dear friends,

Maharishi has urged as many North American Yogic Flyers as possible
to come to Fairfield immediately to do group program in the Golden
Domes and create an upsurge in coherence in collective consciousness.

Maharishi has created a special rounding structure in which we have
people in the Golden Domes continuously, throughout the day, with no
break in the coherence-creating effect. One may choose any three of
six program sessions running from early morning to late afternoon.

There is no charge at this time for either the Super Radiance program
or the Creating Coherence program.

Maharishi has warned that a violent response from the U.S. and its
allies would result in a violent response from the other side,
resulting in a "chain of destruction" that would be disastrous to
both sides.

Because the government mirrors the nation's collective consciousness,
we urgently need to increase coherence and harmony in the collective
consciousness immediately. We have the power to do this by building
the size of our Yogic Flying group here in the Golden Domes of Pure
Knowledge.

TO APPLY:
* Call your Maharishi Vedic Center chairperson. If you do not have
one, call 641-472-1120 or FAX 641-472-1217.

   * Applications need to be made in advance by phone or FAX. As usual,
please do not begin traveling to the University before being accepted
to Super Radiance or CCP.

   IF YOU CAN COME:
   Please email coherence@... and tell us:
   * what dates you can come
   * what kind of housing you need
   NOTE: This is separate from the application, to help us plan.

   ON-CAMPUS HOUSING:
   * Pod Room with Shared Bath: $100/week or $325/month
   * Frat Room with Shared Bath: $125/week or $400/month
   * Frat 153 with Private Bath: $150/week or $500/month

   ON-CAMPUS MEALS:
   * On-Campus Dining: $90/week or $360/month
   Or you may make your own arrangements for meals off campus.

Payment for on-campus housing and meals: May be made by personal
check, cash, or Traveler's Check.

   OTHER HOUSING:
   Alternately, you are welcome to make your own arrangements to stay at:
   * The Mansion (call 641-472-9121)
   * The Raj (800-248-9050 or 641-472-9580)
   * The Rukmapura Park Hotel (call 641-469-1919)
   * or with friends in town.

   CHILDCARE:
   * If you would like to enroll your children in Maharishi School of
the Age of Enlightenment grades K-12, contact Rod Falk at
641-472-9400, ext. 5064. Enrollment is available for periods of up to
2 weeks for $50 per week.
   * For children 2-5 years old, childcare is available at $2.50 per
hour. Contact Nancy Schill at 641-472-9400, ext. 1174.

TARGET:
We need 1,700 people to create coherence for the whole country (the
square root of 1% of the current U.S. population) - BUT THE MORE WE
CAN EXCEED THIS TARGET, THE BETTER. We currently have more than 1,100
at each evening program, and nearly that many at each morning program.

PLEASE COME. Every day counts. If you cannot come, please help others
come who are free to do so. Each passing day is critical.

We can and must eliminate terrorism. But we must go to the root.
Terrorism is the expression of stress, tension, and turbulence in
collective consciousness, Maharishi explains. We have the power to
relieve social stress and tension - through group practice of the
Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programs, including Yogic
Flying. And we have a brilliant track record and unprecedented
scientific research findings confirming the effectiveness of this
approach.

Let's all get together and do what so urgently needs to be done right now.

With all best wishes,

Craig Pearson
Executive Vice-President

Life In The Monestary



Brother Baku entered the 'Monastery of Silence' and
the Head Friar said, "Welcome Brother, this is a
silent monastery. You are welcome here as long as you
like, but you may not speak until I direct you to do
so."


Brother Baku lived in the monastery for 5 years before
the Head Friar said to him: "Brother Baku, you have
been here 5 years now, you may speak two words."


Brother Baku said, "Hard Bed."


"I'm sorry to hear that," the Head Friar said. "We
will get you a better bed."


After another 5 years, Brother Baku was called by the
Head Friar. "You may say another two words Brother
Baku."


"Cold food," said Brother Baku, and the Head Friar
assured him that the food would be better in the
future.


On his 15th anniversary at the monastery, the Head
Friar summoned Brother Baku to hear his allowed two
words.


"I quit," said Brother Baku.


"It is probably best," said the Head Friar. "You've
done nothing but complain since you've been here."



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Hi,
    I am in a file, probably with LB.  My application
for the dome program continues to wait... call back
the next day.  Un-explained.  Really, I am having
great experiences otherwise doing my program.

    To the dome program I have not been acceptable for
some time.  Too many pointed letters to the
President's office and Maharishi and too much facial
hair apparently.


    Here is the deal.  We will be busy through this
weekend.  But next week we will offer an ex-patriot TM
Governors' group program.  Next week in our community
room for those old movement Governors who would like
to do group program together but who are not accepted
to the Dome for political reasons.  We can certainly
add to the numbers on our own here.  Everyone extra
could count.

    I will post some thing here as we make
arrangements.

JaiGuruDev, -Doug




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The Meditating Community

       I meditate.  I am an old style field TM
Initiator and I am an
old style movement Governor.  Like so many here I am a
meditator,
fundamentally.

       In coming to Fairfield, most of us have come
here as TM
meditators.  Some of us came as TM initiators. Some of
us came here
as TM-Sidhas or some as TM Governors.   We have come
from many places
and points.  From many points though, the common point
of the
meditating community has been that we are here as
practicing
meditators.

       We share a lot of history together.  Some of us
have been
meditators of 30 and 40 years.  Many of us here are
mediators of 20
or more years.   Many of 5, 10 or 15 years.  There are
a few new
meditators today but the core of the movement
community here is a
veteran group.

       As a community we are in common as mediators.
In common we
have had much to draw on as meditators and then also
as initiators
and Governors.  In numbers we have been a powerful
resource to draw
on because of a strength of diversity we have brought
as meditators
in community.   There is a huge diversity in our
group.

       We have a great community here.  Many of us have
watched it
grow.  Many of us have worked to make it grow.  It has
been vibrant
and a lot of fun to be in.

       Today, in recent years and times, it is apparent
to witness
that there are many  many meditators living in
Fairfield  who are
without place in the TM movement.  There are lots of
people who are
old time long term meditators living here and also
around the country
without place in the current movement.   It is a
curious thing that
there can be hundreds and hundreds of meditators
living here in the
town community who have little or no contact or
relationship to what
today has become a small and shrinking enclave of the
movement
community.
       We see these many people here when we do come
together to
marry or bury our community.  We see each other up
town everywhere.
We do not see each other so much on campus or in the
movement
anymore.   As an event, probably the last truly
inclusive community
group meditation was held last fall at the memorial
for Alex Grace
held in the chapel.  It was a significant last moment
in the
meditating community here.

       In effect,  as we are meditators in practice and
in heart we
are without an organ of a movement.  In looking, there
is a huge
opportunity, if the movement elite could see it, in
the base of the
people who are here as meditators doing their
meditation and doing
their TM-Sidhis as meditators.  The speculation for
all of us
watching is whether there may be too much rigid pride
or too much arrogance
inside the movement now to see what is here at hand.
Possibly it is
beyond the nature of character of too many in the
middle to recoup.
There is always hope.

With Best Regards,  -Doug Hamilton


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Urgent Meeting Tonight

8:10 at the Maharishi Patanjali Golden Dome

Special message on program from Maharishi this morning, to be
delivered by H.E. Dr. Bevan Morris

For all Meditators, Sidhas and Governors

PLEASE TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS

URGENT MEETING
Special message on program from Maharishi this morning
Given by Bevan
Open meeting for all Sidhas and Governors
Sunday at 8:10 PM in the Men's Dome

Announcement in the Dome this morning:

URGENT MEETING
Special message on program from Maharishi this morning
Given by Bevan
For Sidhas and Governors
Sunday at 8:10 PM in the Men's Dome
Bring your current badge

A Little TSR History

(This is a letter which I sent to the President's
Office back in 1995.  This was sent about 7 or 8
months after the Dome fees were so dramatically raised
for TSR through Bevan.  In this letter is re-stated
the time line of events.  You will recall that Keith
Wallace at that time had been brought back to be the
campus Exec. President.  Keith had developed a number
of working committees from TSR for the University and
the TSR community in late '93 and early '94.  They
began working that Winter and were subsequently
spurned by Voldrop. The stick of retribution came from
afar by raising the dome fees in the summer of �94.
Read through this to refresh your mind on the
sequence.  There is nothing wild here.  It is just
recounted. )
<<
<<

8 March 1995
									 RR 3 Box 76A-1
									 Fairfield, Ia. 52556
									 (515) 472-8422

Dear MIU President's Office People;

	 Thanks for the charted quarterly information on Dome
attendance that you have sent out this past week.  It
was interesting to ponder.  However, I found the chart
as it was presented does not reveal much about how the
year really went.

	 In your sending this chart out, I hope that in the
middle of all of this, you understand that the ball
has always been in your court as far as TSR
participation in your programs goes.  The chart really
is a reflection of your performance.

	 In matter of fact, for this past year (�94-�95) there
have been several influences on dome numbers which
would sort themselves out if you could watch the
average registrations from quarter to quarter during
the last year or more.  These influences would
include: 1) Purusha being shipped out, 2) MIU faculty
being jettisoned to MVU's, 3) A drop in MIU enrollment
over the summer, 4) The downsizing of the Clinic staff
and farming people out to MVU's, and of course, 5) The
stunning effect on the whole community of Bevan's
visit to Fairfield at the 4th of July in the summer of
1994.

	 These are all influences coming from/through your
office and effecting the nature of our meditating
community here.  It would be fun to see the charting
correlated to these influences.

	 Now, to the extent that you might be looking to lay
blame or guilt to TSR by sending out your version of
this chart: a little humility please!  Take the time
to break the numbers down a little further!  Take the
time to sort out the cause and effect and do take some
responsibility yourself for how the year went.

	 In looking it over, this attendance chart would be
more useful if it would break out averages by
quarterly registrations for the three groups of MIU,
Purusha and TSR.  It would be a more useful graph
charting of your performance if it were broken down by
group, by quarter and run through March 1st for
comparison.  Through March 1st would reflect the folks
who did not renew on an annual basis for TSR.

											 page 2

	 Also, it would be most instructive to see what the
complete effect of Bevan's visit last summer (1994)
was on the average quarterly registration numbers for
TSR through March 1st.  To be honest, it would take
that long to witness the whole downfall.

	 You will recall that Bevan returned to Fairfield
around July 1st and stayed through the start of the
Guru Purnima course.  During his visit, he
methodically worked his way through MIU faculty,
students, and staff, and the TSR community declaring
to each group: 1) That our friends and neighbors who
were on the various working groups created by Keith's
initiative to address improvements in the community
were enemies of the movement, 2) asserted the party
line that all the issues had been taken care of,  3a)
asserted that the movement is for "those who have
faith and belief in Maharishi" (rebuffing the old
premise for participation, that anyone who could think
could meditate and supplanting his new doctrine of
faith!) and 3b) Encouraged the non-believers to leave,
4) Raised the dome fees to $100 @ month, 5) Locked out
of that Guru Purnima celebration, with no prior
notice, scores of loyal long-time governors and
sidhas, 6) Reaffirmed the "old guard" of the
President's Office, and 7) abruptly leaves town.  With
his tour de force, Bevan certainly gave our larger
meditating community in Fairfield and around the
country a lot to talk about at their 4th of July
picnics!  And we certainly did talk.

	 These are all influences that have gone into the mix;
and consequently, here we are today.  Today we have
hundreds and hundreds of meditators/Sidhas...long time
meditators who are living here in the TSR community
who have, in effect, been spurned by the leadership of
your office.  Today you have hundreds of practising
Sidhas carrying on their lives here in Fairfield with
little reason, other than your apparent spite, to have
contact with you or the movement.   Incredible!

	 Today in the domes, you have left yourself with some
TSR people who are generally "well made" people of
means.  Beyond a partial group of "well made" is
another group of folks who are "well" employed.  By
any demographics you want to choose, both of these
groups are minorities in our larger group of
meditators.


                                    page 3

	 Gone generally from the domes are the hourly working
people of our community.  Gone generally from the
domes are the trades people , the homemakers; the
normal folks of our community who have always been the
largest
numbers in our group.  Gone from the Domes is a large
chunk of regular meditators/sidhas who have been
continually spurned in our pricing and continually
eroded as a group by the nature of your style of
cultivating exclusivity.


	 There is a lot that went on this past year ('94).  If
charted honestly, the graph will help reveal your
performance in this.  Truthfully, it is not a chart of
success!  Yet, the ball is in your court to serve.  I
wish you well.

					 JAI GURU DEV!


					 Doug Hamilton



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--- In FairfieldLife@y..., Rick Archer <rickhome@c...> wrote:
> To the disciples' embarrassment the Master once told a bishop that
religious
> people have a natural bent for cruelty.
>
> "Why?" demanded the disciples after the bishop had gone.
>
> "Because they all too easily sacrifice persons for the advancement
of a
> purpose," said the Master.
>
> Anthony de Mello, SJ
>
>
> MORSEL:   Be aware that a halo has to fall only a few inches to be
a noose.
> --Dan McKinnon

Maharishi says "Cruelty arises from lack of progress," and we don't
have to look far to see why Hagelin and Bevan are so cruel and
foolish as to bar people from the dome. You are certainly right to
call for them to apologize for doing so, but I'm not sure they
understand the difference between giving advice (about not wasting
time on other gurus, or whatever) and pointless and damaging and
ultimately futile attempts to coerce and control people into toeing
some imaginary lines.

Bob Brigante
http://geocities.com/bbrigante

<<
someone cautions, "this is a very practical idea, but
it probly wont happen
unless someone in power, like Bevon or John Hagelin,
are told - in polite fashion - what the problem
is/was.

but, they dont like to have to listen to someone
"unstress"
with some angry speech about everything and
nothing.">>


   Such caution too easily begs the question.  Sweet
truth?  They will not hear it anyway you say it.
   These guys are very rigid administrators locked into
their service mindset.  I know Bevan from way back, it
is either you are with him or not.  He always fights
the good fight as he sees it.  Of us against them. For
so long it has been against us as movement rank and
file meditators,initiators&Govenors and them in the
middle.

   Like some other rigid mindset, they will drive the
airliner right into the ground beleiving in their own
righteousness against the community.  They have been
flying the airliner for some twenty years now since
the zenth of the flight of the movement.  Except for
all of their fundraising numbers, look at the numbers
otherwise.  This has not been a flight of success.
They have about flown things nearly into the ground
now.

    Some sharp language is quite fair about this given
where we have come from and where we are as a
meditating community now.  Things have been squandered
very badly.  It is fair to look at how things have
been and who is responsible.  As a movement we could
be initiating and we could have a large meditating
movement.  We have had a 20 year slide of
disenfranchisement.  I still see the same people at
the helm.  It is pretty easy to point fingers.  How
about saying what we are all thinking as we watch
this?  The tough thing with this is that these guys
don't play fairly.  They never have.  Speak the sweet
truth?  Look at our community to see
where it has gotten us.

   Warm regards,  -Doug Hamilton


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> Rick Archer wrote:
>
> I'd love to see a public announcement like the following
> from the Department of the Development of Consciousness
>  (the people who give out the badges):
> we would like to publicly apologize
> for ever having excluded from the domes anyone
> who wanted to practice Maharishi�s program there.

this is a very practical idea, but it probably won't happen
unless someone in power, like Bevan or John Hagelin,
are told - in polite fashion - what the problem is/was.

but, they dont like to have to listen to someone "unstress"
with some angry speech about everything and nothing.

I think it is an exciting thing that they opened up the doors
for meetings on campus.  Is there a thawing?  Or is this just
expedience?  It has been getting pretty small and cold up there.  So
it was noteworthy what you sent
out.  I missed the call to meeting initially but I would have gone if
I had known.  I do
not really expect anymore that anything is open to the community up
there.
	 We live here and we do our programs but we are sort of out of
the loop, being "no-badge-niks".
	 Some of what the movement is doing I am not necessarily
interested in. But as an old-time meditator I am here and I am
interested.

	 Though the movement might not believe it, I am probably more
conservative
and fundamental than they would rate me.  As someone posted in an e-
mail to me recently, "Hope all is well in the lovely peaceful land of
Iowa. I hear we are all invited back to the domes again?  Silly fools
to have chased us all away in the first place. Oh well."

	 I wrote this piece below recently this summer hoping to get
it published in the Weekly Reader back when they were publishing
things about the community. I thought you might enjoy it.
			 Best Regards, -Doug Hamilton
<<<
An opportunity...

A Meditating Community

	 I meditate.  I am an old style field TM Initiator and I am an
old style movement Governor.  Like so many here I am a meditator,
fundamentally.

	 In coming to Fairfield, most of us have come here as TM
meditators.  Some of us came as TM initiators. Some of us came here
as TM-Sidhas or some as TM Governors.   We have come from many places
and points.  From many points though, the common point of the
meditating community has been that we are here as practicing
meditators.

	 We share a lot of history together.  Some of us have been
meditators of 30 and 40 years.  Many of us here are mediators of 20
or more years.   Many of 5, 10 or 15 years.  There are a few new
meditators today but the core of the movement community here is a
veteran group.

	 As a community we are in common as mediators.  In common we
have had much to draw on as meditators and then also as initiators
and Governors.  In numbers we have been a powerful resource to draw
on because of a strength of diversity we have brought as meditators
in community.   There is a huge diversity in our group.

	 We have a great community here.  Many of us have watched it
grow.  Many of us have worked to make it grow.  It has been vibrant
and a lot of fun to be in.

	 Today, in recent years and times, it is apparent to witness
that there are many  many meditators living in Fairfield  who are
without place in the TM movement.  There are lots of people who are
old time long term meditators living here and also around the country
without place in the current movement.   It is a curious thing that
there can be hundreds and hundreds of meditators living here in the
town community who have little or no contact or relationship to what
today has become a small and shrinking enclave of the movement
community.
	 We see these many people here when we do come together to
marry or bury our community.  We see each other up town everywhere.
We do not see each other so much on campus or in the movement
anymore.   As an event, probably the last truly inclusive community
group meditation was held last fall at the memorial for Alex Grace
held in the chapel.  It was a significant last moment in the
meditating community here.

	 In effect,  as we are meditators in practice and in heart we
are without an organ of a movement.  In looking, there is a huge
opportunity, if the movement elite could see it, in the base of the
people who are here as meditators doing their meditation and doing
their TM-Sidhis as meditators.  The speculation for all of us
watching is whether there may be too much pride or too much arrogance
inside the movement now to see what is here at hand.  Possibly it is
beyond the nature of character of too many in the middle to recoup.
There is always hope.


Of Support and facility...

	 In general, as a meditator, to the extent that I may look to
the movement, I look to it to support  my practice as a meditator.
As an initiator, I look to the movement to support us in the teaching
of TM.  As a governor I look to the movement to facilitate.
Supporting and facilitating, our needs as a meditating community are
about that simple.

	 Beyond what could be done directly to administratively
support and facilitate practicing meditators, as practicing
meditators, meditators may or may not be interested at all in
anything further coming from the movement as new knowledge.
Meditators may do their practice.  However, as meditators we may or
we may not necessarily be interested in vedic architecture or
astrology or education or service or political rantings or anything
else that the movement may franchise.
	 Beyond a quiet practice which itself is self-evident, any of
the new knowledge may or may not be interesting or compelling.  As a
group, the essential relationship for practicing meditators with the
movement has always been experiential and practical, and has not been
until recently now, faith-based otherwise.

	 Of course, in reflecting, in the culture of the TM movement
there is no place to rate ourselves on how we might be doing as a
movement organized.  No place even to ask or reflect  how we might be
doing supporting meditators or supporting teachers or sidhas.  Versus
our ideal administration, reflecting on our own administration in any
way practical would of course be too negative.  Would it be too
practical?

	 There is a huge opportunity, if the movement enclave could
see it, in the base of the people who are here as meditators doing
their meditation and doing their TM-Sidhis as meditators.  The
speculation for all of us watching is whether there may be too much
rigid pride or too much arrogance inside the movement now to see what
is here at hand.  Possibly it is beyond the nature of character of
too many in the middle to recoup.  There is always hope.


With Best Regards,   -Doug  Hamilton

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