In India every household will consider vaastu when they are buying a house. The main entrance, bedroom, bed, kitchen, bathroom everything related to directions and even the small mandir inside house. In India every temple is like an energy. You feel so refreshed and calm when you visit temples in India

As a Hindu its great to see Vedic City in a foreign land. It shows Sanatan Dharma is for the world and it has lot of good practices for meditation and self realisation.

*In India almost every house is built on basis of Vedic Vastu rules. I am an athiest but I believe in facing east thing because during my panic attacks I experienced effect of these things on my body and mind. Following Meditation and Yogic traditions recovered me from it without any doctor.*

I have owned a house in Vedic City. It is an extraordinary experience that even as my house was being built, the non-meditating workers expressed amazement because they could feel the energy. When I had to move away, I feltl the contrast. I now feel the increased aging effects where I live--the denser, heavier atmosphere; the lessened quality of sleep, the increase in anxiety and less natural happiness.

I thoroughly enjoyed watching this.. Maharishi had big effect on my life and his teaching that the mind naturally wants to go to a happier place so meditation should be effortless was a break through for many. He once told me "My love for you was established the day I met you" and that is a lovely memory to have.

Finally! New Episode! Can't wait to continue to watch this series! Love this channel!

Love from india♥️🇮🇳

superb share thank you

I live in the Vedic City and work with many of the movement's followers, but don't follow the movement myself. It's definitely an interesting experience.

It is actually a nice city. Visited there years ago and really like the vibe. Outside Vedic City is Fairfield Iowa, which is really just a nice little town.

Invictus….such a lovely poem. My Papa had a sailboat named after this poem because of this very line. Thank you for bringing back such a warm memory!

This video instilled some of my innate lifestyle choices and decision to attend Maharishi University. Thank you!

Interesting ❤🎉 I'd love to live there and contribute to the community ❤

Wow, what an amazing place ! Definitely mind altering. And but you need to put up with the unusual ideas and routines of the place. It could be a very huge adjustment moving there and even more so to move out of there after a long residence. Cult is a strong word with negative connotations. We need another word that describes people who ferociously believe in a particular life style in pursuit of spiritual growth.

Hey this is a great video with one glaring inaccuracy at 5:35 “The goal of TM is to dissasociate into a thoughtless void.” Not so. Thoughts are fine and there is no goal. It’s a process, and an experience, that is satisfying and makes goals easier when you are not meditating. Disassociation is more a term you use for PTSD. In fact people who tend to disassociate can be more grounded withTM. Other than that lots of good info and well done.

The people in the town are absolute gems. Meditation works.

crazy stuff!

Very interesting. You guys did another great job showing parts of America that the public might have been unaware of and do it in such a captivating way that that it draws you in and fills you with knowledge of something new . A city where you can openly consume cannabis and not have to keep out of view from the public would be a place I could find myself. I do live in Colorado and openly smoke but only out in nature where it feels natural. Looking forward to more videos from off the cuf.

I lived in Fairfield IA when I was a kid, before Maharishi Vedic City (pronounced VAY-dic, btw, not VEH-dic) was incorporated, from '93 to '97. My younger sister was born there. A couple of points from this perspective: - Technically speaking, not every resident meditated, because the kids didn't. There was a gradual training program for kids, starting with 'pre-meditation' in preschool, which was basically not talking for... 10 minutes, I think? And repeating a temporary, individual mantra in your head. At some age you're meant to be given your permanent individual mantra, but we moved away before I got mine. We (kids) were also not allowed in the domes. - Domes, plural. I remember there being two domes, so I'm not sure why there's just one now. They were gender-segregated. - I lived in a stationary trailer residential area called Utopia Park (lol), north of the MUM campus. I didn't notice a lot of architecture as a kid, but from my memory and comments from my parents, I believe the stationary trailers also had elements of vastu architecture. - In school (Maharishi School of the Age of Enlightenment), we were taught the teachings of Maharishi (I only remember "The world is as you are"), and I remember learning Sanskrit characters off of flashcards. My class was girls-only, and the uniform was a plain blue dress with a red or pink bow. The uniforms have changed since, just plaid now. Those shots are 3:20 really got to me -- I remember playing hide-and-seek around that hall below the stairs! - In addition to the ban on non-organic food, I'm fairly sure I didn't know anyone there who wasn't vegetarian. Iowa is big on soy bean production so it's a pretty easy place to be vegetarian. I'm still very pro-tofu even though I'm no longer vegetarian. People ate a lot of Indian food, rice and dahl was a staple. - They are 100% serious about that whole levitation thing. I don't believe it for a second but my dad still swears it was a thing that happened, even as he seems to have mixed feelings about the rest of the experience. - Regarding the cult issue -- I consider it a cult, just a relatively benign one, not really qualitatively much different from most organized religions in terms of societal pressure. My dad thinks it was a cult, my mum doesn't last time I checked. My father told me that my parents were pressured not to leave. I remember communicating openly to friends about our upcoming move and I wasn't discouraged from talking about it, though. It was just like "oh, we'll miss you so much". - I was hoping you would talk more about the Pandits, who were (are? I don't know what's going on now, you said something about 'up until a few years ago') abysmally treated. Which is particularly terrible given how much culture of Maharishi Vedic City is stolen from Hinduism and Indian culture. I wasn't aware of it at the time but found out later.

*That's INDIAN culture... always shines* 🇮🇳

Hey Chris and Harris! How did you both feel when visiting? Just watching this video gave off good vibes!

Bro, Yoga was created by the god Shiva, passed down to Patanjali who lived in 200 bce

This looks like a very interesting experiment, particularly due to the fact it is now being run over the first generation of inhabitants. Time will tell but I am not too worried for them.

Lotts of love from Bengaluru Karnataka India ❤️❤️❤️😘😘🙏💐🙏

Why you people calling it a cult, 😠😠😠😠, simply call it a hindu vedic Dharma or sanatan, afterall they're following Hinduism

At 21:13, is the video muted? "Seems destined---"

What a great place! It looks like the kind of place I would like to live some day...

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This is the coolest city to live in. Vedic is an awsome triving town.

Okay I loved it..I want to live there 😅

Hinduism is not a religion is a way of life

Team, shoot over your shoulder and have the camera facing the subject. You did not show up as the important one, but you showed up to show off important ones. Keep up the hard work.

And what happens when you decide that twice daily meditation isn't for you? You get yeeted out of your home in this "city" is what. This is just another repressive collectivist hell hole where someone else decides what is good for you.

@21:12 destined to what? The audio strangely cut off there.

Maybe it depends on fengshui? In Malaysian community some minorities like us ethnic Chinese prefer houses that face North or South claiming that it's good fengshui for us

call it yoga not meditation americans now days are giving names like cobra meditation and such to yoga which is one of the major things in sanatan dharma

It's so funny that West tries to copy Indian culture ,yoga etc. by branding it with their own name but unfortunately they don't understand the basic essence or idea behind it..Just take an example of Yog which foreigners believe it a kind of exercise in the same way they don't know about Vastu shastra ..

The fact that so many of these deluded fools believe in "yogic flying" is enough, all by itself, to discredit the entire TM movement.

Wow- I always wondered why I’ve felt so much better praying or meditating while looking out of windows which faced east!! And while even at sunset I’m drawn to look towards the east not the west. I think that theory has a point to it!

The pundits left about 5 years ago, all those trailers they built for them are now full of mold and falling down.Fairfield was great in the 80's a magical place but now two teenage children of meditating parents have murdered their high school teacher. The dream is dead.

I get it, good for people finding their space to live comfortably. I Like the group focus on meditation but I find the layout of the city and the building very boring. Restrictive even. Where is the art? Where is the deep embodiment of nature? Its pretty white and where is the local business creation? How about healthcare? I could not live there.

I’d live in this one ❤

Is there some kind of acceptance of Maharishi as Guru and what is involved with this fact? Is Maharishi offering entrance into Vaikuntha Dhama or is there some limitation regarding the Spiritual side to all of this? Is Maharishi following akin to beliefs such as Buddhism or Jainism? Is your way encouraging the development & advancement of the mind & intelligence more than Spiritual Life? Seems like a nice idea to build sustainable and Vedic. There may be interests worldwide at least for this. I do not think vegetarianism was mentioned in the video? Is the diet just organic or is it also vegetarian to some extent? Do you have a following with local farms to provide food for your community? Thank you

1000% a cult The entire city of Fairfield does not participate. This video has more information completely false than accurate. They call it "city" but it has no police or fire departments for becoming a actual "City" and a different zip code doesn't make it a City. I have lived in Fairfield Iowa for over 40 years.

Screwed up your editing around 21 mins. No idea what you were going to say, but it was cut off.

How can I become resistant! Can someone put me in touch with them, please? Pretty Please!

Separate gender chant rooms, every house must face east ... this is “progressive”?

I want to go there and feel the vibe.

I would live there anyway 🙏

The Beatles didn't stop partying after visiting the maharishi mahesh yogi, in fact, John wrote the song Sexy Sadie about him and he sings, "you'll get yours yet..." They didn't buy into it. Even George who did embrace the Hare Krishna movement had Srila Prabhupada as his guru, so it would be nice to do real research before all the assumptions and misinformation. All you need to see is a guy claiming to "levitate" as he bounces up and forward in a cross-legged position to realize there's some deluded weirdness going on reinforced by group behavior. Some people buy the trump lie and some people "levitate" but the truth is an entirely different experience. I suppose we all have our own version of reality.

It's hardly surprising that Deepak Chopra was involved in this in the '90s, must be where he perfected his snake-oil word-salad dressing.

I absolutely LOVED living in Vedic City. I wouldn't say that is a cult city but more the university makes Fairfield a cult city.

don't do that be happy in your own religion and lead the way of life your community is leading....

Their Maharishi Vastu architecture principles seemed to be their answer to Feng Shui - sort of a Hindu re-marketing of East Asian trends in the West (just as Maharishi Ayurveda Health seemed their answer to the wider acceptance of Acupuncture/TCM). They drained all the little ponds and steams on campus that had the misfortune of being located on "the wrong side" of buildings, still leaving up some tiny "bridges to nowhere" about campus. Likewise, campus buildings and private homes in town had their cosmically misaligned front entries closed-off (some with "door is broken, please use side door" signs on them!). But, on the upside I suppose, the Town Square easily had the highest number of Eastern & Indian Restaurants per capita than any other town in the Western Hemisphere. (I don't know if they all accept the official, alternate "Raam" currency also distributed out there). For most who want to live there, it seems a congenial enough place - only the "true believers" and devotees seemed to approach dogmatism. But it must be pointed out that much of their published, "Scientific" Sociological and Neuroscience that backs their practices and philosophy has come under a good bit of fire and skepticism over the years. (IOW, Buyer beware - and yes, it CAN get expensive). And nope, no one was ever witnessed to have *truly* levitated around there - neither Mahesh himself, or the late, great magician Doug Henning.

19:40 ... yeah the catholic church is a cult. .. In modern English, a cult is a social group that is defined by its unusual religious, spiritual, or philosophical beliefs, or by its common interest in a particular personality, object or goal... So yeah this is also a cult. That doesn't make a/your cult a bad thing.

They lost me on levitation and flying carpets :

this video just scratched the surface a little bit. should ve brought up more details and info about the guru and what he did, what wong doings he did, why he was accused and so forth and then just engage in conversations with the disciples.

21:06 destined to…? I agree tho

You should just make a documentary about different cultures but you bring in livelihood.

Ehh, Vedic City is not "in the middle" of IA. (Just saying )

21:29 east facing house man talking about the value of science🤦‍♀️

17:06 oh god

Yes, it IS the MOST PROGRESSIVE CITY IN THE WORLD!

What is the cost of living there? How do people earn a living?

Most of the apartments out there were built by Johnson realty who have a pretty bad reputation here. The apartments out there are incredibly overpriced and have MAJOR problems.

I grew up in this my whole life and it’s definitely closer to a cult

1:20 6 in 10 American adults are now obese, is that Fat Shaming or just telling people that they are too fat to be healthy?

I am indian hindu but American is practicing Hinduism in far more better way than us. That's why America is great.

Too many distortions of Maharishi's perfect knowledge. When are we going to learn to make our own documentaries.

Always annoyed me how Maharashi and his crew styled all this as just "science" and denied it is actually religion. (Hinduism) Also annoyed me that "the Maharishi" had an English (white) hippy mistress who he was attached to, to an asinine degree, like a child. I used to hang around a bit in Fairfield before they set up "Vedic City." Very interesting scene there. But when you have hundreds of Hindu "pundits" chanting and meditating there, you can no longer keep saying "It's not a religion." Maharishi started as a western type who continued to gradually discover his own country's Hinduism. So, after he discovered Vastu Shastra (Hindu Feng Shui) he started pressing that on his followers. There are TM-trained astrologers in Fairfield/Vedic City. They train in TM astrology courses and they are beholden to the TM organization. They can't step outside of their Vedic astrology bubble or they get in trouble with Big TM.

Lived in the country just north of vedic city and the cyclone fenced area they keep the outcasts who are shipped in from overseas as mediators as a form of punishment instead of jail. Very odd people who don't like to pay their bills lol there's a reason local contractors won't work for them. They have taken over Fairfield and exert a lot of influence on local politics to the point most longtime residents have left leaving the door open for the gurus to take over. Outside of mum there's not much there anymore unless your into veganism and their hindu medicine rituals.

im woke

I can't be still it hurts my mind an body to even try any ideal why?

So like can you bring ur kids with you or?

My travel days are over. Health care is big issue. Wishes are not horses , thank god, we would never stop ridding them, not even to feed ourselves nor the horses. Jokes aside l would definitely visited the place even if I had to take loan from the bank, and pay it back by washing dishes in hotels.

100% a cult. It's sad that all these people fell for the trap card.

Went there on accident and it was the strangest most eerie frightening experience ever... Felt like the beginning to a scary cult movie. Too many blank stare smiles and overall deep cult like vibes. Idk.

well for those who haven't experienced it yet and still calling it cult ...are the same who hasn't seen aliens but still believes in alien... i would suggest...go and get experience first ...then after that you will be eligible to comment on that .😊😊

Are you a floater or a bouncer?

I'm a philosopher writing about time. Spontaneous generation. I don't sell my work. I don't want praise. The work does. Female understanding. Free. Maybe this was hidden. I reveal a lot but I don't think it's been illustrated by anyone else. Eg Wonder: Is the meaning of life really the meaning of centre? Is truth churning story all there is & nothing else? I know. It's quite simple & black & white for what so colourful isn't it. Do opposites really attract or is it that one churns out the other? God said all this was good didn't he? 📖✍️As there is no such thing as wrong as opposed to right but only less right, there is no such thing as dead as opposed to alive. A person whether their body still works or not is as alive as long as not reject life, or alive yet they do. The body is not significant in regards to death & neither is it's decomposition. Energy does not die. The better instrument of truth, the better instrument will had been born. Time is cyclical. Though we aren't born young, grow up, then die young in cyclical motion, it is not from birth life begins. The greater edges we be of what more important, & the greater edges of us they be ..the richer our story. Our body is just a temporary room, & so long as it exists, alive or not, it will be rich in richness of story. As history expands as does universe & we change beneath our noses as the story dictates, no two same moments the same, because regardless of that time is cyclical we move You may experience cyclical time where moments however long come full circle. In regards to life, we will move forward & back & forward to go forward, checkpoint to checkpoint we shuffle. This is how we & earth with us more beautiful every yesterday. As there is no such thing as wrong as opposed to right but only less right there is no such thing as dead as opposed to alive. You can come back from subjective death, because, at any one given moment you are both somewhat anew & somewhat excess else you hadn't been any this one same moment ago. We fly. Right this very moment sometimes together we're richer of story, & sometimes not as rich, but another this moment away you're going to be ok. So will we all with you. We are like a wing of a bird together. When a wing flaps the wing travels upwards & down 'in unison' with itself all at once & it's only the bird that notices it's going anywhere & that anything goes full circle & that life doesn't. The wing is programmed to age, but it's awareness isn't on age but on what it does. Every movement flows into a next & irrespective of that It cannot move but another does, it still does what it does. We each breathe singularly per our willingness to live, but also we do all at once together. ..It doesn't appear like anything has changed dramatically since 10 minutes ago. We see the sky is still blue, & that we still have two legs, & some of us still can't get out of spots because it is so easy to believe changes occur moment after moment & not that the story kaleidoscopes out from centre. That to every living thing they are the centre, disguises that centre is centre. Feathers may flutter about like unprecedented things happen, & the papillas that feathers grow from centre. Are wings like what flutter compared to the bird what be centre ..& like wings are we of varying different proportions moment to same moment some strong & others weak & then what otherwise & some being born & some dying to this extreme & that, & is the bird like the earth & like the papillas the seemingly unchanging. When we go back to check we'd done the right things whether & how we could have done better to go forward (like for example to check we had locked the door again upon trying to leave the house) ..well when the places we go are back to what to repair, does it really matter what it is we repair? .. because the sky is still going to be blue & we'll still have two legs, or however many we've always had not unprecedented? Fly. Like does it really matter where we go when not know we're going anywhere or not know we're not, when no point in time gone back to to get to live twice forward from be the same, as well as no point twice headed back from? *Wonders jokingly what would happen if we smacked the Kaleidoscope like a pinball machine? Would it be yesterday again? Might you have been a brunette all your life? Aren't kaleidoscopes meant to be tapped sometimes? I mean, God told Moses he shouldn't hit the rock, not not tap the kaleidoscope. Maybe it's centre to do it? maybe there'll be something better than chicken next this time around. (Definitely try for that lol! God? Can you do it? By writing, am I doing it? I know that wherever there's richness of story, there we will be. Lol. I know it's totally what you'd have thought too. You always speak really interesting things. You have such a talent for life. Anyway, things can only get better . We are bound to be more than what from our perspectives. No matter how interesting, I don't think we'll ever leave a place absolutely done with it. Maybe we don't have to wack the kaleidoscope. 🫂❤️☮️❤️🌕❤️🗺️❤️💞 *Wonders. If we are comparisons as much as the comparisons we draw & symmetrical so expansion had used deduction & this way fly, might we sing to be bigger than ourselves like butterflies use wings & be a song ourselves, vibrations, never gone? Oh how colourful can be black & white.✍️

Wha is the conclusion someone tell me I don’t wan t to watch it

so,,, ure telling me i’m probably depressed bc my bed is faced south????

Whatever people don't understand they call it cult.. specially in West 🤣🤣🤣

Jai guru dev Jai maharshi

Remember Christianity was also considered a 'cult' 2000 years ago. Any new faith or set of ideologies is considered to be a cult in it's early stage ,unless it comes to the mainstream, therefore becomes normalized.... I hope y'all got my point✌️

Jaigurudev

Why does this dude's face look like he got pinched in photoshop @19:16

Tell me how they get food and water.

How is this radical

This definitely isn't what I had in mind for "progressive".

no!

1st place that has kids

Dude, this is cult. But we are a country of freedom. As long as people don't hurt others, they are free to do whatever they want. And they seems happy doing it. Let them be.

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Partager la propagande des sectes devrait être interdit!, vous ne parlez pas des personnes disparues, ni des suicides, ni du jeune homme qui a poignardé une personne!🤬

Definitely a cult.

*the concepts here should be instituted worldwide*

TM helps increase IQ and reverse Global Dumbing, and create an Age of Enlightenment.

cAN YOU SYILL BELIEVE IN CHRIST A ONE OF THESE PEOPLE

It's a cult. Run.