Posted on 10/22/2011 7:18:01 PM PDT by STARWISE
FAIRFIELD, Iowa (AP) - Oprah Winfrey meditated with more than 400 women in southeastern Iowa and also talked to students about her spiritual journey.
Suzanne Stryker says she was among the women participating in the transcendental meditation Wednesday at the Maharishi School in Fairfield. She says no one in the meditation group knew the TV personality was going to be there until Winfrey, who heads the OWN television network, arrived with a film crew.
The private Maharishi School specializes in "consciousness-based education" for kindergarten through 12th grade.
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Amen!
Barf-o-rama.
“Oprah used to go to Obama’s “church”.”
I can’t stand Harpo-on, but she only went there a couple of times and she was smart enough to not come back.
At least she knew that hate wasn’t the same as Christianity. But she loses whatever points that won her by still endorsing, and supporting the a$$hole who sat there and listened to that garbage for 20 years.
Loony Tunes
she’s a full fledged witch now? This person is talking to children? What’s the test again? Throw them in water, if they drown they weren’t a witch, but if they float they’re a witch, then burn em?
Good grief
CBEA offers Consciousness-Based education (CBESM) to enliven the full creative potential and inner happiness of every student and teacher, eliminate stress, and enliven total brain functioning. The key technologies of this program are the Transcendental Meditation® and TM-Sidhi® programs.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, born Mahesh Prasad Varma or Mahesh Srivastava (12 January 1917 – 5 February 2008) developed the Transcendental Meditation technique and was the leader and guru of the TM movement, characterised as a new religious movement and also as non-religious.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi became a disciple and assistant of Swami Brahmananda Saraswati, the Shankaracharya (spiritual leader) of Jyotirmath in the Indian Himalayas. The Maharishi credits Brahmananda Saraswati with inspiring his teachings. By 1955, the Maharishi had introduced the Transcendental Meditation (TM) technique and other related programmes and initiatives to the world. His first global tour began in 1958.
He began to be known as Maharishi Mahesh Yogi around the year 1955. His devotees referred to him as His Holiness, and because he often laughed in TV interviews he publicly became known as the giggling guru.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Maharishi achieved fame as the guru to The Beatles and other celebrities. He started the TM-Sidhi programme, in the late 1970s that claimed to offer practitioners the ability to levitate and to create world peace.
The Maharishi’s Natural Law Party was founded in 1992, and ran campaigns in dozens of countries. He moved to MERU, Holland, near Vlodrop, the Netherlands, in the same year.
In 2000, he created the Global Country of World Peace, a country without borders, and appointed its leaders. In 2008, the Maharishi announced his retirement from all administrative activities and went into mauna (spiritual silence) until his death three weeks later.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maharishi_Mahesh_Yogi
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, born Mahesh Prasad Varma or Mahesh Srivastava (12 January 1917 – 5 February 2008) developed the Transcendental Meditation technique and was the leader and guru of the TM movement, characterised as a new religious movement and also as non-religious.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi became a disciple and assistant of Swami Brahmananda Saraswati, the Shankaracharya (spiritual leader) of Jyotirmath in the Indian Himalayas. The Maharishi credits Brahmananda Saraswati with inspiring his teachings. By 1955, the Maharishi had introduced the Transcendental Meditation (TM) technique and other related programmes and initiatives to the world. His first global tour began in 1958.
He began to be known as Maharishi Mahesh Yogi around the year 1955. His devotees referred to him as His Holiness, and because he often laughed in TV interviews he publicly became known as the giggling guru.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Maharishi achieved fame as the guru to The Beatles and other celebrities. He started the TM-Sidhi programme, in the late 1970s that claimed to offer practitioners the ability to levitate and to create world peace.
The Maharishi’s Natural Law Party was founded in 1992, and ran campaigns in dozens of countries. He moved to MERU, Holland, near Vlodrop, the Netherlands, in the same year.
In 2000, he created the Global Country of World Peace, a country without borders, and appointed its leaders. In 2008, the Maharishi announced his retirement from all administrative activities and went into mauna (spiritual silence) until his death three weeks later.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maharishi_Mahesh_Yogi
YOu know what the Zen Buddhist ordered at the hot dog stand? ONe with everything.. You know what Oprah ordered? The same thing that guy got but seven of them
I’ve been there a few times. The Maharishis have been there for 40 years.
Presbyterian Parsons College, bankrupt in 1973, was purchased by the Maharishis in 1974. Maharishi University is accredited with about 1000 mostly foreign students. They try very hard to appear and act conservatively.
Farm subsidies have been around since World War I.
Presbyterian Parsons College, bankrupt in 1973,
My dad taught at Parsons College in the mid-60s. Interesting place, even before the yogi came to town.
Did The “O” practice her levatation techniques while in
Fairfield??
The old farmers from arond there must have been rolling their eyes.
These outsiders ruined a nice little town.
FUBO and OWS, not the other OWS (Oprah Winfrey Show)
“I AM THE WAY, THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE, NO ONE COMES TO THE FATHER BUT BY ME”.
He is the stumbling block..
Unless Oprah or anyone else comes to Him, they will die.
J.S.
Farm subsidies certainly have something to do with what is happening there. They have taught people to become dependent on the government. Iowa is a far different place now then when I grew up there.
I’d say they tolerate the floaters, at best. Any ‘tolerance’ is because they’ve mostly taken over and dominate the local political scene. Trust me the locals are very offended.
As far as farm subsidies the cause of Iowa’s problems...not even close. Iowa’s problems are due to the rust belt brain drain that has occurred for the last 30 years, in combination with piss poor leadership. Iowa may be the farm state, but do not forget it is a river state which at one time had an impressive manufacturing base - more diversity of industry per capita than anywhere in the world.
That base was heavily unionized and overreached in the 70’s ag prosperity. Wages were to high and when the ag boom collapsed, both the ag and factory economy collapsed. Yet at that time Iowa was #1 in education, and with no opportunity bright students fled and stayed away.
It left a dearth of local leadership in many parts of the state and some very narrow, stale thinking. The unions are still relatively powerful and don’t want change. The problem is that their base are the ones that stay here, and there often isn’t enough to overcome their votes, though they are dying off and you are seeing a GOP resurgence even in traditional Dem areas.
When your best and brightest leave and don’t come back...it really screws things up.
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