My neighbor was a source of negative energy, so I shot him.

Twice.

With my finger-gun.

Did any farker see Mahesh Yogi - guru of the beatles on Larry King weekend yesterday? He's planning to take over the world with Flying Yogis[tm]...

on topic: Sthapatya Veda is just like Feng Shui and Vasthu Sastra, I presume.

This would have never happened if The Mahavishnu Orchestra was in the room.

So, um, theoretically, if you really sucked at school and dropped out, could you sue them for having buildings with bad energy?

By "bad energy" they mean the students aren't having enough sex, right?

And you guys said nothing happens in Iowa.

I want to levitate!!

http://www.degreeinfo.com/article4_2.html

^^ Look, you can get a BS in levitation! BS is right!

I killed my drummer once for this very reason

Joseph "Joe Bananas" Bonanno will give ya some negative energy

makes sense to me....

Good lord! They're demolishing buildings built in 1961 because they're not "oriented correctly". Half the campus at my old school was built around 1961 and those buildings are just fine. What a waste! I'm sure the students are excited their tuition is going for all this. Then again they're probably too stoned to mind.

Its a cult. Just like $cientology only sadder. Their best celebrity was Doug Henning. Then he died becuase the cult told him he didn't need no doctor, and now they don't have shiat.

Plus they get to live in boring iowa or wherever and not even cruise Sunset to the org.

$cientology rules over them as the cult to be in.

Surely they know that they have to build upside down to keep the positive energy flowing.

Is this like Feng Shui on a bigger scale or something?

Yeah, Fairfield is a strange town. About half the town are "native" Iowans and the other half are these people from all over the world, who are, well, a little different.

Not much to do in Fairfield. They do have a large quantity of computer and bio-tech industries considering it's a relatively tiny town. Makes you wonder. Not me, you.

This is also down in Fairfield, and related to the university -- The Raj. If you ever need an enema, give 'em a call..

err, so much for that link..

www.theraj.com

I'm from around Fairfield and my dad still works there. He talks to so many of these guys every day. For some reason they all have tons of money but don't really work that hard. They also meditate twice a day for like two hours. The dome looks like something from outer space. They've been trying to build their own town out of the city limits for a while now because people are getting pissed they're tearing down historic buildings becauseof the "negative energy". What it was is the door was facing the wrong direction. Yep, they do the whole feng shui thing. and play music in their buildings at night. Not sure why on that one. Don't know if i really want to find out.....

Wow, someone submitted an article from the Ledger. I grew up in Fairfield, and there are a LOT of odd people there. The folks at MUM have torn down some other buildings on the old Parsons College campus, but those were all in pretty bad shape - mainly because MUM had let them go to hell for 20-odd years.

I thought it was weird when they drained a nice-looking pond located right in the middle of campus and left it to become a big, weed-filled depression. Apparently, there is some Sthapatya Veda rule about bad luck and standing water...

One of their other superstitions is that they really dislike going through doors facing any other than North and East (I believe), but they especially hate doors facing south. I worked for a company owned by meditators (practitioners of TM) during summers home from college and we couldn't even have our desks facing south. You can pick out homes owned by some TM'ers by looking to see if certain doors are boarded up (including front doors), or alcoves built on to angle the door so it opens another direction.

You can get a free video from them at mum.edu. My friends and I always had a good time watching them bounce around after a few beers.



On a nearly unrelated note, 2000 Presidential candidate John Hagelin, the guy that Ross Perot backed as his successor in the Reform Party, has been involved in this for a LONG time. I guess you could say he has earned his wings...

Went to MUM.edu and got some of this from their site. The locals were not kidding. (Beware, flame bait below)

734 students, $24K/yr (OUCH!), they take 1 class at a time (4 weeks straight with a 3day weekend), all meals are fresh, organic, and 100% vegetarian!

The FAQ page is strange:

http://www.mum.edu/introduction/faq.html

More strangeness:
http://www.mum.edu/introduction/wholeness.html

Mission Statement (weird)
http://www.mum.edu/introduction/statement.shtml

Here was their response to 9/11 (weird)
http://www.mum.edu/worldpeace/welcome.shtml


They have satellite campuses across the globe (scary?)
Maharishi Institute of Management, India (4 campuses)


Maharishi Vedic University, Madhya Pradesh, India


Maharishi Institute of Computer Science and Technology, India (in planning)


Maharishi University of Management Higher School of Computer Science, in five cities in Ukraine

Maharishi Academy of Management, Kazakhstan


Maharishi School of Management, Kyrgyzstan


Maharishi University of Management, Kenya


Maharishi Open University in South Africa


Maharishi Vedic University, Russia


Maharishi Vedic University, Cambodia


Maharishi's Consciousness-Based schools in India, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Sweden, Ecuador, and the United States.


Faculty of Maharishi University of Management were part of a scientific delegation that visited 33 cities in 15 countries in Asia, Australia, and New Zealand last year to inaugurate Maharishi Institutes of Post-Graduate Studies for enlivening total brain functioning and achieving perfection in life.

Comparing TM to $cientology?

Ha.

05-15-02 01:03:05 AM PopeSmoker
Comparing TM to $cientology?

Ha.

I would say there are many $imilarities...

"...as a follower of the Maharishi Maheesh Yogi, Hagelin and his followers believe that they can levitate (and cure all diseases) through the power of meditation. Of course, the Path to True Enlightenment could cost you as much as $100,000 - that's what they charge for a full course of instruction into the higher mysteries of Transcendental Meditation - but hey, what the heck, money's no object when it comes to gettin' a piece of the Godhead."


Just like Greg Brown says, "there's a lot of money in
Fairfield..."

Yogic Flying is Geh.

The number of people practicing the TM-Sidhi program in the Golden Domes rose to over 1,700 - the square root of 1% of the U.S. population, the number that research has shown is sufficient to create a wave of harmony termed the Maharishi Effect by scientists who have studied it.

Yeah, not like $cientology at all. No mumbo jumbo whatsoever.

Yes,it is Feng Shui,people.It's pretty interesting, really.
They say you can move your furniture around and it will
influence your karma.wtf? I don't know how far I'd take this.Someone obviously thought that building was an obstacle
to their Enlightenment.Or that it was oriented wrong,facing
the wrong direction.

Please straighten out that tin foil hat....