Generational Attrition in Spiritual Communal Movements
Doug Hamilton
The Flowering of Spiritual Movements
Through generational attrition it seems when spiritual practice communal movements recede, like happened in the 19th and early 20th Century with the Quakers or the Shaker movement, evidently “it ain’t over until it is over”.
The TM movement today is undergoing a generational transition and like within the storylines of these other movements, that which does remain of the TM movement is seeking a place of renewed relevance to a greater world.
I grew up with and most of my adult life I have been around spiritual practice movements. I grew up with Hicksite Quakers as elders and I learned Transcendental Meditation at age 16 and from then have spent extended time with founders of spiritual practice movements. I am on the young side of the baby-boom generation and I am now watching contemporaries of my life pass away in time. While attending memorials was once more rare and now in recent years I am attending memmorials more and more for friends who were part of my journey in life. Some time ago I began gathering a list of TM meditators who were part of a larger meditating community I knew. The list shows a receding generation that seems a recurring pattern in the flowering of spiritual movements.
The story of the Shakers is well told as a collapse popularly misconstrued to their practice of celibacy, the Society of Friends broadsided by evangelicalism and social and generational change went through a recession in their numbers in the same time frame. Though both groups were founded by mystics as spiritual practice groups both continue even now in vestige of their former selves.
The generational recession of numbers in the old ‘un-programmed’ practice of the Society of Friends Quaker Meetings is shown in an appendix published at the very beginning of the 20th Century.
Evidently in the scope of attrition of transcendent meditationist numbers attending group meditations of the TM movement a similar generational collapse is being witnessed as happened with the Quakers, Shakers and also at Amana Colony.
As a founding energy (shakti) of a mystic and spiritual practice of a formation era came to be supplanted by monotony and routinized rigidity of maintaining institutional states and causes built up from founding eras then successive generations evidently becoming tired went their own ways on into a material world of their day. ..all work and no ‘shakti’ make of Jack and Betty dull worker ants.
TM ‘s Actuarial March of Time:
Meditationist Fairfield, Iowa and a TM Movement,
in Memoriam..
Ellen Lashmutt
Finn Bousquet..
Gurdy Leete
Nathan Zenack
Christina Revolinski
Nancy Glassco
Ellie Ditzel
Vaidya Mishra
Paul Handelman
Carl Wonneman
Tim Hildebrandt
John Ong
Rod Magoon
David George
Gary Malmgren
Amalia Bright
William James Duke
Florence Davis
George Gallagher
Andrew Sheehan
Sally Peden
Tom Torpy
John Herbert Prechtel
Nancy Van Blaricum
Harvey Lubar
Louisa Magee
Marc Travis
Gillian Pierce
Frank Ramsey
Gert MacQueen
Evelyn Normandin
Petra Stanley
Cindy Korn
Jan Overholt
James R. French
Jan Wixon
Robert Vaughn Abrams • April 13, 1949 • Seattle, WA • August 12, 1997 • North Carolina
Roy Adams • February 16, 1949 • August, 1980 • California
Jefferson Aikens • December, 2015 • Fairfield, Iowa
Antoinette F. Alazraki • November 20, 1947 • July 25, 2013
Farrokh K. Anklesaria • May 29, 1946 • Mumbai, India • June 27, 2012 • St. Louis, MO
Gwenn Anderson • September 20, 1944 • February 9, 2016 • Ogden, UT
Jean Archer • August 13, 1924 • May 30, 1989 • Ottumwa, IA
Margaret Rose Ardussi • June 1, 1941 • Toledo, OH • December 7, 2004 • Belcamp, MD • Estes Park TTC
Margaret Ashelman • December 18, 1916 • November 28, 2015 • Fairfield, Iowa
Chris Blanchard Ayres • June 26, 1949 • August 21, 2010 • Truckee, CA
Geoffrey Baker • June 1, 1926 • April 12, 2011 • Iowa City, Iowa
Bruce Murray Beal • October 29, 1954 • February 9, 2010 • Massachusetts
Robert L. Bollinger • May 22, 1950 • June 22, 2014 • Fairfield, Iowa
Rob Buck • October 3, 1950 • October 8, 2009 • Rochester, MN
Laura Ann Calvert • August 24, 1949 • December 12, 2005 • Purcell, OK
Edmond A. Chouinard • July 19, 1936 • North Adams, MA • December 2, 2004 • Providence, RI
Henry Ogden Clark • December 29, 1944 • December 22, 2004 • Iowa City, IA
Joe Clark • June, 1972 • North Carolina
Lyman Hathaway Clark • December 29, 1944 • December 15, 1998 • Traverse City, MI
Joan Clemenzi • August 7, 1957 • April 22, 1999 • Newburyport, MA
Seth A. Cohen • December 27, 1954 • July 19, 2008 • Philadelphia, PA
Morris Cohn • October 24, 1940 • Denver, CO • August 31, 2010 • Boulder, CO • Rishikesh TTC
Marie Annette Connors • November 6, 1935 • October 3, 2011 • Seattle, WA
Nancy Eleanor Cook • September 4, 1947 • December 28, 2010 • Clearlake Oaks, CA
Ellen Corby • June 3, 1911 • April 14, 1999 • Los Angeles, CA
William E. Crist • October 14, 1946 • February 11, 2007 • California
Michael Culver • June 21, 1956 • August 15, 2014 • Joplin, MO
Ron Dean • October 22, 1944 • January 13, 2016 • Fairfield, Iowa
Robert King Dee, Jr. • April 28, 1953 • January 13, 2007 • Warwick, RI
Emma Estrada • January 3, 1925 • March 2, 2011 • Lawrence, KS • brunnen 1975 YYC
Jeri Mae Felix • December 3, 1945 • Norwalk, CT • January 27, 2016 • Iowa City, Iowa
Charles Darden Ficke • May 1, 1947 • March 18, 2007 • Newport, RI
Nancy Cooke de Herrera • April 12, 1922 • February 28, 2013 • Beverly Hills, CA
Mary Drew • June 20, 1945 • April 30, 2003 • Iowa City, Iowa
Francillo Durfey • June 27, 1947 • March 3, 2013 • Ogden, UT
Toni Raben Eckstein • May 25, 1951 • New York • December 8, 2014 • Fairfield, Iowa • Estes Park TTC
Eamon P. Edmonds • July 1, 1948 • November 8, 2010 • Fairfield, Iowa
William Godfrey • March 27, 1931 • June 6, 2012 • Fairfield, Iowa
William D. Goodbar • February 9, 1949 • September 18, 2008 • North Carolina • Rishikesh TTC
Jeffrey Goodman • September 2, 1953 • April 22, 2012 • Houston, TX
Arthur Granville •
Christina Granville •
Sarina Joyce Grosswald • March 20, 1951 • Charlotte, NC • September 14, 2015 • Arlington, VA
Michael E. Haig • December 16, 1947 • October 1, 2015 • Honolulu, HI
Ronald Edwin Hall • ?? • November 25, 2015 • Fairfield, Iowa
Joel R. Hamilton • June 28, 1954 • December 28, 2005 • Boone, NC
Doug Henning • May 3, 1947 • Winnipeg, MB, Canada • February 7, 2000 • Los Angeles, CA
Janis Hensley • May 3, 1946 • November 4, 2007 • Fairfield, Iowa
Anne G. Hildenbrand • May 1, 1900 • August 16, 1999 • Fairfield, Iowa
Jane E. Hopson • August 29, 1939 • September 14, 2005 • Fairfield, IA
Paul Horn • March 17, 1930 • June 29, 2014 • Vancouver, BC, Canada
Allan M. Hosler • July 9, 1926 • Naperville, IL • August 11, 2009 • Fairfield, IA (Sidha)
Mary Hammond Iber • May 7, 1949 • Kenosha, WI • January 2, 2014 • Orinda, CA
Calvin C. Haynes • June 10, 1947 • March 28, 1995 • Fairfield, IA
Lily Marjorie Hill Kager • April 23, 1921 • Dulwich, England • December 2, 2012 • Norwood, MA
Andy Kaufman • January 17, 1949 • May 16, 1984 • New York
Terry Kavanaugh • March 9, 1940 • May 28, 2015 • Flagstaff, AZ
James Keersemaker • November 19, 1946 • October 21, 2009 • Uttarkashi, India
Kenneth Joseph Ketterhagen • January 31, 1950 • April 11, 2004 • Iowa City, Iowa
Herbert R. Khare • April 30, 1943 • Pasadena, CA • May 8, 2013 • Pasadena, CA Estes Park TTC
Kurleigh D. King • December 10, 1933 • November 27, 1998 • New York City
Claire Kinter • June 6, 1921 • August 5, 2013 • Mentor, OH
Eric Koenecke • 1951 • March 5, 2016 • Iowa City, Iowa
David Anthony LaBarbara • February 10, 1948 • December 4, 2009
Michael Lang • May 31, 1946 • June 10, 2006 • Iowa City, Iowa
Harry Langstaff • January 4, 1953 • Ohio • June, 1980 • Chagrin Falls, OH
Janis J. Langstaff • August 15, 1949 • May 25, 2001 • Fairfield, Iowa
Larry Gilbert Larson • May 30, 1942 • September 27, 2015 • Fairfield, Iowa
John Leslie (Jay) Latham III • May 28, 1948 • September 14, 2000 • Fairfield, Iowa
John P. Lauer • October 31, 1948 • January 10, 2004 • Fairfield, Iowa
Kenneth R. Leavitt • October 16, 1950 • December 17, 2013 • Sherborn, MA
Robert Liatunick • ??? • May 4, 2006 • Pittsburgh, PA
Dr. Emily Liddell • ?? Australia • March 11, 2008 • Massachusetts
Randy Liefer • May 26, 1951 • Corona, CA • August 19, 2015 • Fairfield, CA
John Musser Lloyd • 1948 • Libertyville, IL • 1991
Charles F. Lutes • October 23, 1913 • December 7, 2001 • Scottsdale, AZ
Mitchell A. Mazur • April 26, 1951 • 1951 • August 18, 2008 • Fairfield, IA
Richard William McBride • October, 2015 • Chester, VA
Eleanor McColgan • June 26, 1920 • Fresno, CA • September 19, 2013 • Belmont, CA
Virginia McEvilley • September 10, 1949 • October 2, 2011 • Vedic City, Iowa
Samuel Polk McIlhenny • January 6, 1947 • December 7, 1995 • Louisiana
Robert McRae • August 22, 1948 • January 12, 2014 • Orange, CA
John H. Meyers • December 28, 1942 • January 30, 2014 • Fairfield, IA
Ron Michalove • July 11, 1946 • June, 1972 • North Carolina
Scott William Mohoric • September 27, 1949 • January 31, 2009 • San Miguel, Mexico
Charles Morenus • July 7, 1951 • January 22, 2011 • Fairfield, Iowa (Sidha)
Donald Norman Murray • September 1, 1933 • February 3, 2015 • Mississaugua, ON, Canada
Greg Mylett • ?? • Fairfield, Iowa
Gary L. Nalley • August 11, 1942 • September 15, 1990 • Fairfield, Iowa • Mallorca TTC
Dennis O'Leary • November 7, 1947 • Kentucky • September 25, 1999 • Hawaii • Rishikesh TTC
Sarah E. Oliver • May 8, 1951 • Texas • July 14, 1997 • Fairfield, Iowa
Darrell Barry Osher • ???? • April 2, 1992 • Fort Washington, MD
Donald M. Patrick • March 22, 1951 • November 14, 2012 • Fairfield, Iowa (Sidha)
Dennis Patterson • May, 1947 • November 9, 2015 • Mt. Shasta, CA
Harold James Pavelka • October 23, 1947 • March 23, 2011 • Fairfield, Iowa
Lanny Peach • August 6, 1945 • September, 1979 • Navasota, Texas
Ron Perry • April 20, 1950 • July 5, 2013 • Holland
Stan Peters • November 22, 1933 • February 17, 2005 • Iowa City, Iowa (Sidha)
Kenneth J. Petrucci • May 5, 1947 • August 14, 2010 • Fairfield, Iowa
Claudia Purves • August 23, 1951 • June 24, 2011 • Tucson, AZ
Robin Meadows Rachele • August 7, 1953 • March 16, 2016 • Fairfield, Iowa
James Reynolds • November 28, 1932 • January 29, 2007 • Fairfield, Iowa
Lisa C. Robb • December 27, 1956 • January 18, 2011 • Columbus, OH
Randy J. Robb • May 13, 1950 • January 1, 2004 • Fairfield, Iowa
Andy Robinson • February 2, 1952 • June 12, 2009 • Palm Desert, CA
Linda Elizabeth Rossi • March 27, 1948 • October 16, 2005 • Stockton, CA
Wanda Roth • August 9, 1942 • November 2, 2012 • Fairfield, Iowa
Bertha Lee Ruddick • September 4, 1925 • April 12, 2015 • Belton, MO
Marshall Saipher •
Gail Kay Eardley Seager • February 26, 1937 • Salt Lake City, UT • June 13, 2007 • Sandy, UT
Heidi Lopata Sherman • January 14, 1954 • January 23, 2014 • St. Louis, MO (1972)
Alan M. Scherr • March 11, 1950 • November 26, 2008 • Mumbai, India
Thomas E. Shirah • October 3, 1949 • September 29, 2006 • Boone, NC
John "Jack" F. Schumacher • April 26, 1928 • March 19, 2012 • Damariscotta, ME
Paul L. Scolastico • November 23, 1935 • December 10, 2003 • Reading, PA
L.B. Shriver • November 20, 1946 • May 27, 2013 • Fairfield, Iowa
John Smilek • December 19, 1949 • July 30, 2011
Marianne Smith • June 11, 1922 • July 15, 2006 • Berkeley, CA • (1972)
Sarah Stumm • July 12, 1952 • March 23, 2009 • Fairfield, Iowa
Thomas Paul Sweet • February 17, 1942 • November 27, 2010 • Santa Barbara, CA
Guy M. Tankslery, Jr. • December 15, 1947 • December 6, 2000 • Blowing Rock, NC
Edward Tarabilda • June 23, 1940 • January10, 1999 • Fairfield, Iowa
John Dallas Thomson • August 18, 1949 • March 3, 2014 • San Lorenzo, CA
Chris Todd • February 9, 1950 • December 28, 2009 • Fairfield, Iowa
Lester Tolson • June 6, 1943 • March 2, 2009 • Iowa City, Iowa
William R. Torrison • July 27, 1945 • September 21, 2015 • Manitowoc, WI
Victor Paul Trouette • October 30, 1948 • September 19, 2002 • Mill Valley, CA
Harold McLeod Turner • May 15, 1954 • September 30, 2010 • Fairfield, Iowa
Catharina Van Rood • December 25, 1945 • October 29, 2000 • Iowa City, Iowa
Dr. David R. Verrill • January 10, 1912 • Los Angeles, CA • November 15, 2008 • California
Jessamine Verrill •
Erik Vigmostad • June 23, 1950 • April 26, 2013 • Fairfield, Iowa
Daniel (Ananda Wats) Watts • August 25, 1950 • January 23, 2012 • Fairfield, Iowa
Betsy Ann Webster • September 24, 1925 • December 24, 2014 • Shawnee Mission, KS
David Thomas White • January 2, 1946 • April 15, 2004 • Chula Vista, CA
Syreeta Wright • August 3, 1946 • Pittsburgh, PA • July 6, 2004 •
Natalie Zimmerman • April 21, 1930 • November 10, 1993 • Fairfield, Iowa
Peter Lyda
Jim Gerhardt
Robin Meadows Rachele
Jeph Cambridge
Shimohn Ziber
Eric Koenecke
Bill Farber
Ron Dean
Don Patrick
Eileen Elsinger
Jane Lorous
Inez Valentine
Will Hummer
Toni Eckstein
Marsha Grey
Gopi Vargon Lutz
Bonnie Stark
Jeff Lanaan
Joe Becker
Michelle Ozman
Serenity Stone
Daniel Swartz
Sheer-el Cohen
Carpenter Wood
John Meyers
Rob Buck
Eric Vigmostad
Charlie Moreno
Warren Wechsler
Harry Pavelka
Chip Charleston
Charles 'Skip' Alexander
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/426247
356603RE: Purusha Passing List
Keeva Stansberry
Marion Fellmer
Helena Yellin
Susan Arnold
Mary Sue Schwartz
Tim Hildebrandt
LB Shriver, FFL#345753Obit
Mark Meredith FFL#219912Memorial
Janis Langstaff
Greg Heilman, FFL#42293Obit
Ron Hall
Betty Sheasgreen
Larry Larson
Susan Arnold
Sarina Grosswald
Rich Henderson
Harriet (Speltz) Glubka — 1918-2015
Jeff Wells
Lilian Wallace
Frieda Gratzon
Lois Kehrl
Larry White
Marcia grey
Wanda Roth
Thomas LeMay
Cici Balmer
Eileen Squillo
David Scheroff
William Draper
Currently (2017), on average Fairfield, Iowa TM'ers would be.. of the Boomer II generation,
..about 65-70 years of age, on average.
1994, Survey of Fairfield Adult Meditators,
Age:
25-35 65 10%
36-45 391 60%
46-55 138 21%
> 55 47 7%
Post-War Cohort
Born: 1928-1945
Coming of Age: 1946-1963
Age in 2004: 59 to 76
Current Population: 41 million (declining)
Boomers I or The Baby Boomers
Born: 1946-1954
Coming of Age: 1963-1972
Age in 2004: 50-58
Current Population: 33 million
Boomers II or Generation Jones
Born: 1955-1965
Coming of Age: 1973-1983
Age in 2004: 39 to 49
Current Population: 49 million
For a long time the Baby Boomers were defined as those born between 1945 and 1964. That would make the generation huge (71 million) and encompass people who were 20 years apart in age. It didn't compute to have those born in 1964 compared with those born in 1946.
http://www.socialmarketing.org/newsletter/features/generation2.htm
Rates of Change and the Calculus of Aging in TM..
Some of what we can see in these memorian lists is a natural aging-out of the Post-War Cohort, the people who were early with Maharishi in the very early (1950’s-1960’s) SRM movement, the Walter Koch and Charlie Lutes generation of TM.
Now what we are seeing in TM is an accelerating rate of attrition to aging-out of the Boomer I and Boomer II’s. Interestingly, the cusp time period where the Boomers I and Boomers II met TM was the time frame where TM ‘took off’ in popular (college undergrad, grad student, professor-age) culture for a time. A lot of the TM movement intake happened in those years 1968-76, over the cusp of the ‘coming of age’ of Boomers I and II.
You can see this particular cusp in the age span in the Dome group meditation or at meetings of the Fairfield TM community now (2017). The WWII generation is pretty much gone from the ranks of TM now. The Post-War Cohort are pretty thin, geriatric or gone now and the Boomers I are increasingly shuffling or gone on. Boomers II are increasingly ‘in diminish’. Time is short regardless.
The ‘Prime Minister of TM’ was born in 1955?
Your own odds of living 10 more years..
if you are 45 years of age your own odds of being alive in 10 years
is about 24 in 25.
According to the USA Census your odds of making it ten more years if you are:
53 years of age is about 10 in 11.
Your odds of living 10 years more from 60 years of age is about 5 in 6.
Your odds of making it 10 more years if you are 68 are about 3 in 4.
If you are 70 the odds are 2 in 3 that you will make it 10 more years.
Of those who remain alive at age 75, 1 in 2 will last ten more years.
At age 80, 1 in 3 you will last 10 years. At age 85, 3 in 20 will make it another 10 years.
Age 88, 1 in 20 living at age 88 will make it another 10 years,
..cumulatively, most everyone else is gone before then.
The die-off really starts to happen from about age 60. Very few actually make it to be older than age 85, most are gone on by then.
https://sites.google.com/site/ffhamfampage/our-company/bransonanalyticsageexpectancy
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RE: Purusha Passing List (Purusha = men’s monasitc order within the TM movement)
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/356603
List of Purusha Men That Have Passed Away
It's actually four lists, and there are some duplicates.
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43 Purusha that passed away
Gunter Wiesenarter (Germany) died 13 July 2010 in the morning at the age of 64 in Dalheim, Germany (born 13.03.1946).
Heinrich Schock (Germany) died 14 January 2010 at home of stomach cancer.
Ralph Ward - Lymphoma (USA) died in July 2010
Chris Todd, USA, died end of December 2009 on heart failure at age 59 in Fairfield, Iowa.
Jim Keersemaker (USA) died 21 October 2009 at age 62, when he walked alone in Gajoli without a buddy and fell into a ravine. A good dog was with him, who protected his dead body all night from being eaten by wild animals.
Pranab Sarma (Germany / Bengal) died early September 2009 in Germany (prostate cancer).
Eduardo Lozano (Spain) died on the full moon day 9 Febr 2009 around 7 p.m. in Spain.
Scott Girard (USA) Iowa, died in 2009
Billy Goodbar (USA) was found dead in his bathroom in September 2008 at his farm in North Carolina, where he was taking care of the Purusha cow herd. Heart failure.
Sam Jarvis (USA) died of old age in the beginning of March 2008.
Al Klapper (USA, in coma after returning from India with a lung infection) died around 10. March 2008.
Reinhard Borowitz (Germany) died 16 Oct 2007, 19:30 at Lothar Pirc’s MAV clinic in Germany, where he stayed for his last few months.
Bernt Metzner (Germany) died on 28 July 2007 at noon 12:47 in Vlodrop in his room in space box 22 (lung cancer).
Hans Hinrichsen (Germany) died on 21 Sept. 2006 in Hamburg.
Rudolf Knerer (Germany) died at home in Passau 2006.
Heinz Wittke (Germany) died in India after a crash with his motorcycle after several months in coma, 2006.
Bob Liatunick (USA) died 2006 of a heart failure and liver cancer at his home in USA after being in Uttarkashi for 6 years.
Bernhard Wenzl (Germany) died in Bavaria 2005 (rabies).
Garrison (Gary) Frantz died 2002 or 2003 in India of blood poisoning after he had injured his colon with a self-administered basti.
Hanspeter Ritterstaedt (Germany) died ~1998.
Bodo Bartusch, a German Purusha, who died maybe 1998.
Vincent Eliaume, France, a white young Purusha who was in Wavre 1996, performed suicide in 1998 (after he left Purusha together with Jean-Paul Dufaure, who advocated Yoga Vasishtha for fast enlightenment).
Bobby Warron, a black Purusha from Martinique was known to wash his face with water in the Vlodrop in-house swimming pool area all the time. He was sent home after he had all his teeth drawn out, and he committed suicide at home in Martinique.
Dr. George Jansen (Holland) died maybe in the beginning of 1993.
Jos Verstege, a Dutch Purusha of the Vedic Atom who died after he went home, maybe 1990.
Roberto Frangerini (Italy) had a fatal traffic accident on the way to his mine in Brasil ~1990
Dr. Eberhard Arnold, Purusha doctor, died maybe 1988.
Sten Sjoested aus Schweden burned himself in the basement in Vlodrop 1987.
Dr. José Maria Coderch, a medical doctor and Spanish Purusha, who died in Brazil in a car accident in 1987.
Adrian Hug died maybe 1985 at home in Switzerland (cancer).
Frank Papentin died maybe 1983 of a brain tumor.
Ceri Brooks (from Wales, Great Britain) – Mike Toomey said 2007 in Oebisfelde that Ceri died “a long time ago."
Andreas Moritz, German, died in U.S. Oct. 19, 1012. Artist and author of 15 books on health.
Pierre Baierle (Switzerland), died Sep. 9, 2012 at age 58 in Uttarakhand, India, walking home after spending day with Rob Cox.
David Earl (US), died age 58 on Dec. 9, 2011 during sleep at Brahmasthan, while assisting with International courses.
Johannes Seefluth (Germany), died Oct. 2, 2011 at age 79 of old age , Oebisfelde.
John Smilek (US), died July 2011 of liver cancer, age 61, Fairfield.
Harry Pavelka (US), died Mar 23 2011 of heart failure in Golden Dome after morning program.
Plus 11 US-Purusha
Eamon Edmonds in Fairfield, early Nov. 2010 (heart failure)
Tom Sweet Dec. 2010, Santa Barbara CA (cancer)
Paul Scolastico (heart attack)
Guy Tankersly (colon cancer)
Joel Hamilton Boone, Dec. 27, 2005 (lung cancer)
Bill Crist Fairfield, 2007 (brain cancer)
Bill Dunn (colon)
Bobby Warren Central America, late fall 1992 (waterfall accident)
Tom Shirah Boone, early summer 2006 (lung cancer)
Vince Daczinski (lung; age 86)
Dennis French (mountain accident) The first-response people that found Denis French said it was very unusual because it was the first person that they ever found dead with a smile on his face.
Eric Kochel died circa 1995.
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47 Purusha that passed away
Harry Pavelka (USA) died 23 March 2011 doing programme in the Dome in Fairfield.
Tom Sweet (USA), Uttarkashi group, died in December 2010 of cancer in Santa Barbara, California.
Eamon Edmonds (USA) died early November 2010 of heart failure in Fairfield, Iowa.
Ralph Ward Lymphoma (USA) died in July 2010
Gunter Wiesenarter (Germany) died 13 July 2010 in the morning at the age of 64 in Dalheim, Germany (born 13.03.1946).
Heinrich Schock (Germany) died 14 January 2010 at home of stomach cancer.
Chris Todd, USA, died end of December 2009 on heart failure at age 59 in Fairfield, Iowa.
Jim Keersemaker (USA) died 21 October 2009 at age 62, when he walked alone in Gajoli without a buddy and fell into a ravine. A good dog was with him, who protected his dead body all night.
Pranab Sarma (Germany / Bengal) died early September 2009 in Germany (prostate cancer).
Eduardo Lozano (Spain) died on the full moon day 9 Febr 2009 around 7 p.m. in Spain.
Scott Girard (USA) Iowa, died in 2009 (possibly from suicide)
Billy Goodbar (USA) was found dead in his bathroom in September 2008 at his farm in North Carolina, where he was taking care of the Purusha cow herd.
Sam Jarvis (USA) died of old age in the beginning of March 2008.
Al Clapper (USA) died around 10 March 2008 from lung infection after returning from India.
Reinhard Borowitz (Germany) died 16 Oct 2007, 19:30 at Lothar Pirc’s MAV clinic in Germany, where he stayed for his last few months.
Bernt Metzner (Germany) died on 28 July 2007 at noon 12:47 in Vlodrop in his room in space box 22 (lung cancer).
Tom Shirah (USA) died 29 September 2006 of liver cancer in Boone, North Carolina, at age 56.
Hans Hinrichsen (Germany) died on 21 September 2006 in Hamburg.
Rudolf Knerer (Germany) died at home in Passau 2006.
Heinz Wittke (Germany) died in India after a crash with his motor cycle after several months in coma 2006.
Bob Liatunick (USA) died 2006 of a heart failure and liver cancer at his home in USA after being in Uttarkashi for 6 years.
Joel Hamilton (USA) died 27 or 28 December 2005 of lung disease in Boone, North Carolina.
Bernhard Wenzl (Germany) died in Bavaria 2005 (rabies).
Paul Scolastico (USA) died 10 December 2003 in the city of Reading, Pennsylvania of heart attack at age 69.
Vince Daczinski (USA) died 29 January 2003 of lung cancer at age 86.
Garrison Frantz died 2002 or 2003 in India on blood poisoning after he had injured his colon with a self-implemented basti.
Dennis French (USA) died in 1988 after a fall while hiking solo on Mt. Shasta in California. The search team that found his body said it was very unusual because he was the first dead person they ever found with a smile on his face.
Hanspeter Ritterstaedt (Germany) died ~1998.
Bodo Bartusch, a German Purusha, who died maybe 1998.
Vincent Eliaume, France, a white young Purusha who was in Wavre 1996, performed suicide in 1998 (after he left Purusha).
Dr. George Jansen (Holland) died maybe in the beginning of 1993.
Bobby Warren (USA) drowned after diving into a waterfall pool while on vacation in Costa Rica in November or early December 1992, after the first NLP campaign in the US.
Jos Verstege, a Dutch Purusha of the Vedic Atom who died after he went home, maybe 1990.
Roberto Frangerini (Italy) had a fatal traffic accident on the way to his mine in Brasil ~1990
Dr. Eberhard Arnold, Purusha doctor, died maybe 1988.
Sten Sjoested (Sweden) burned himself in the basement in Vlodrop 1987.
Dr. José Maria Coderch, a medical doctor and Spanish Purusha, who died in Brazil in a car accident in 1987.
Adrian Hug died maybe 1985 at home in Switzerland (cancer).
Frank Papentin died maybe 1983 on a brain tumor.
Plus 8 Purusha without the date
Bill Crist (USA) died of brain cancer
Guy Tankersley (USA) died of liver cancer in Boone, North Carolina
Bill Dunn (USA) died in India of colon cancer
Emmett O’Neil (USA) died in a fire in California
Eric Kochel (USA) died of cancer
Lance Morrison (USA) died at Khumba Mela in India after jumping off a tall building
Ken Matthews (Canada) died of tongue cancer
Ceri Brooks (from Wales, Great Britain) – Mike Toomey said 2007 in OebisfelÂde that Ceri died “a long time agoâ€
Doug Hamilton
For some time I have been keeping a ‘list’ in memoriam, adding names as time has gone along. It is a list in its way from a particular group of utopians who have passed away in time. It is an interesting perspective on something that has been communal that has gone along. I was collating the list recently to print out and add as a record to the State Archives here in Iowa as it relates to Fairfield, Iowa and the meditating community that came to Fairfield.
To have this file someplace other than on my computer I put it on a forum that I keep as a blog on things like this. Some of you might find the file interesting to scroll through and reminiscent to groups that you may study.
My wife is a career RN and has vigil-ed with hundreds of people of the meditating community who have passed away over the years. In recent years I keep track of the passings by reading hand notices put up near the entry doors to the daily group meditations in the Fairfield Domes and posted at the health food grocery store and coffee shops. I also make a study of going to memorials. The meditating community is an incredibly verbal bunch and it is always interesting to go hear the friends of people who have passed on tell stories of the person and of times over decades related to the TM movement
I put the larger file on this Google group that it can be found and opened at:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/communal-studies-forum/8LCTgvO26LM
Best Regards,
-Doug Hamilton
Doug Hamilton
Doug – What a most special thing you have done.
This is important history, not simply for Fairfield or for the larger meditating community, but for any “social movement,” utopian or otherwise.
I do hope that you will follow through and provide your list to the State Archives. Perhaps they would accept it not only in hard copy (which is
“as of a date certain”) but also electronically so that you can replace it as the list grows.
On Sunday, July 9, 2017 at 6:26:43 PM UTC-5, Doug Hamilton wrote:
Doug Hamilton
a TM Movement,
in Memoriam..
Sharon Starr
Patrick Gearon, The Quantum (car) Mechanic
Roberto,
Robert David passed away
Wonderful character in the community,
lovely person, a very spiritual guy.
Dave Randall
Tim Hunter
"Whoever has come, will certainly go; nobody stays here.
Always keep your bags packed. We never know when the call will come. The call of death is like an arrest warrant: there is no hope of further "appeal."72 Then and there, one must drop everything and leave. Wherever, however, one must go. This need not be difficult if you are prepared from the beginning.
He who is always ready to go cannot commit sins. Sins are possible only when one forgets about the life hereafter. If one can always remember that he has to leave one day, then a man will never adopt lying and bad conduct.
Realizing that your fathers, grandfathers, and great-grandfathers have not stayed, it is easy to understand that, "I, too, cannot stay here permanently." Since it is certain that you will leave, then those people who prepare for the journey at the outset can rest comfortably; and if you are not ready, then you will surely have difficulty. Take care: "don't do something that will make you repent when you go." "Discourse 23, The Sweet Teachings of the Blessed Sankaracarya
Swami Brahmananda Saraswati (..Maharishi's teacher)
Doug Hamilton
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Mark Shier passed yesterday, Oct 9.2019
Tom Winquist
Dave Tanner
Judith Foulds
Linda Parmet
Scott Pidd
Abraham Silverstein
Jonathan Mayhew
Gareth John Oliver
Ron Khare
Dale Wagoner
Norman Watsey
Gareth Oliver
2019
Rona Abramson
George Hrebar
Lucien Mansour Sept 2018
---In Fairfi...@yahoogroups.com, <steve....@yahoo.com> wrote :
---In Fairfi...@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote :
Jim Bates
Susan Small
Lillian Busch Dar ( 1921-2018)
Kayren Berna - died March, 1996
Sarah Oliver - died August, 1997
Decorated Hungarian freedom fighter •
TM teacher 1977 San Francisco • MIU community + Purusha 1980-1990 •
Was only one to demonstrate yogic flying behind the iron curtain Aug 15 1986 •
Initiated many in Hungary • National leader for some time • His work continues •
Recently deceased..
Chip Gallagher
Dolly Honkenon
Savannah Wechsler
Bryan Peterson passed
Jerry Jarvis
Peter Just
Doug Hamilton
On Sunday, July 9, 2017 at 6:26:43 PM UTC-5, Doug Hamilton wrote:
The Flowering of Spiritual Movements
Through generational attrition it seems when spiritual practice communal movements recede, like happened in the 19th and early 20th Century with the Quakers or the Shaker movement, evidently “it ain’t over until it is over”.
The TM movement today is undergoing a generational transition and like within the storylines of these other movements, that which does remain of the TM movement is seeking a place of renewed relevance to a greater world.
I grew up with and most of my adult life I have been around spiritual practice movements. I grew up with Hicksite Quakers as elders and I learned Transcendental Meditation at age 16 and from then have spent extended time with founders of spiritual practice movements. I am on the young side of the baby-boom generation and I am now watching contemporaries of my life pass away in time. While attending memorials was once more rare and now in recent years I am attending memmorials more and more for friends who were part of my journey in life. Some time ago I began gathering a list of TM meditators who were part of a larger meditating community I knew. The list shows a receding generation that seems a recurring pattern in the flowering of spiritual movements.
The story of the Shakers is well told as a collapse popularly misconstrued to their practice of celibacy, the Society of Friends broadsided by evangelicalism and social and generational change went through a recession in their numbers in the same time frame. Though both groups were founded by mystics as spiritual practice groups both continue even now in vestige of their former selves.
The generational recession of numbers in the old ‘un-programmed’ practice of the Society of Friends Quaker Meetings is shown in an appendix published at the very beginning of the 20th Century.
Evidently in the scope of attrition of transcendent meditationist numbers attending group meditations of the TM movement a similar generational collapse is being witnessed as happened with the Quakers, Shakers and also at Amana Colony.
As a founding energy (shakti) of a mystic and spiritual practice of a formation era came to be supplanted by monotony and routinized rigidity of maintaining institutional states and causes built up from founding eras then successive generations evidently becoming tired went their own ways on into a material world of their day. ..all work and no ‘shakti’ make of Jack and Betty dull worker ants.
TM ‘s Actuarial March of Time:
Meditationist Fairfield, Iowa and a TM Movement,
in Memoriam..
Ron Khare
Tom Winquist
Gillian Peirce
Nancy Watkins, 2020
Helen Ederer
Tom Pattison
Larry Zimmerman
John William Fralick,
2020:
Mark Kincaid
Maryanne Harvey
Carl Churchill
John Honkenen
Jerry Leahy
Marjorie Leahy
Deborah Swartz
Micheal Frederickson
Jonathan Fotis
Robert Wynne
Doug Hamilton
Bryan Hancock (6-2022)
Arthur F. Yuenger
Liz Kwant
Don Leveque, 1942-2022
Herb Benson:
https://www.nytimes.com/.../dr-herbert-benson-dead.html
Carol Jean Allen
Dear friends of Dee Stauffer. Dee passed today, Feb 12, 2022
Billy Marr has ascended
Long time TM teacher in Arkansas, Michael Willbanks passed away Feb 4, 2022
Jay Latham on the list.
Carol Allen, MIU grad, governor, wonderful person and artist passed last week from cancer.
Robert “Bob” Franzen, MIU grad class of ‘81, recently passed from Covid.
Rae Koch, widow of Walter Koch, passes away Oct. 2021
Michael Budinetz - MIU Class of 79, Pod 123c 1975,
https://www.legacy.com/.../name/michael-budinetz-obituary...
Larry Chroman
Michael Gautherat
Russ Wollman, a long time meditator, governor and friend,
Barbara Bobbie Dreier, John Petite,
Tom Ridgley has passed away.
https://www.southeastiowaunion.com/.../thomas-tom-w-ridgley/
Tim Peterson, long time Sidha from San Diego, married to Mary May Peterson who was on IA program for many years passed away Nov 15, 2021
Parras Chookolingo was a Governor some may remember from TTC in India, years working with International press in Europe, with the Raju family in Hyderabad, and with his family here in Fairfield.
David Grodjesk
Jonathan Whipple on Nov. 17
Recently ‘Transitioned’, Oct. 2021:
Gyan Kessler
John Brown
Anjali Trice
Anjali Trice
Donna Cingeri
Add to the list: Carol Dixon, Linda Rossi, Diane Gelber, Stephen Walt Richter
Linda Hutchins
Tom Banks
Terry Bauer
Elizabeth Rose Augusto
James Claitor
John Lediaev
Mary Iber
Jon Kelly Kirkpatrick, Matthew McGaffick, Justin Malloy, Sandra Kopf, Beatrice Marechal
Patricia Oates, Bob Oates, Ecta Hutchinson (child), Alex Grace (child), Ann Cowhig Grace (Alex's mother), Serenity Stone, Suzanne Stone (not related to Serenity)
Robert "Bob" Brown, who was a Trustee of MUM/MIU. Also known as
" Brown",
Julie Ann
Nadine Cohen
Zenon Pochodenko (Zee)
Kim Plaut,
Linda Mason, formerly THMD
Scott Walker
Laura DeAngelis
Tim Bregenzer
. July 2021
Dennis Dowell; father, meditator, tarot card reader. Rest in peace Dennis. Love and light.
Doug White.
Roy Tonnessen
recently passed away at his home in Fairfield, Iowa. (July 2021).
MIU grad, one of the pioneers of MIU's Iowa campus, Chris Stopa, passed away Dec. 28, 2020, in West Linn, OR.
Grace Carter
Alison Wasielewski
Shastriy (Jyotishi to hundreds in the Fairfield meditating community)
Dearest Nancy Watkins
Recently deceased,
Sue Huss
and
Susie Headley ..
https://newspress.com/headley-nellasue-susie/
Kristina Kittelson
Earl Sheppard
Josephine Danaher
Steve Sperber
Barney Potratz passed away peacefully on March 21.
https://www.southeastiowaunion.com/.../robert...
Brian MacQueen, a Siddha, passed away today, March 1, 2021. -Obit: https://www.southeastiowaunion.com/.../brian-macqueen...
Jon Kelly Kirkpatrick
Devani Wagner, this past week.
Jamela Soules, a TM Governor and Fairfield resident, passed away in 2007 of cancer.
Add to the list: Carol Dixon (1944? - 1990) and Diane Gelber (dates unknown)
Charles and Sara Baron both passed away. Sara was in 2020 I think and Charles several years before.
Fred Rosenberg
Evangeline Perry
/
Karen Harris
Howard Judge
Passed on early in Feb 2021
Patrick Seery
Jennifer Lawrence
Mac Sutherland
Devorah McKay
Dr Richard F. Gunn, DC, BIDS degree from MIU 1978, Former Chairman, Fairfield County CT 1972 to 1974 and half of Governor couple, 1981 to 1985. Born Dec 3, 1946, passed away Oct 6, 2007 in Stratford CT.
Scott Pidd
‘Dropped the body’ ..Passed on In recent days, August 2020:
Remembering, - Rick Starr, David Edson, and Rhiana Levy
David Edson of cancer at Mercy Hospital in Iowa City on August 18th
and Rick Starr of heart disease in his sleep at home on August 19th.
Matthew Barrett McGaffick,
passed away peacefully at Jefferson County Health Center in Fairfield, Iowa, on Sunday, August 23, 2020.
He was a dedicated follower of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and practiced Transcendental Meditation (TM) daily until his passing. He was passionate about the physiological, mental, and spiritual benefits of utilizing TM on a regular basis not only in one's personal life, but also about the peace and positivity it can generate for society on a broader scale.
https://www.southeastiowaunion.com/.../matthewbarret
Charles “Chip” Katz was an MIU student in the late 1970’s,
He passed on August 8, 2021.
https://stljewishlight.org/obituaries/charles-chip-katz/