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Parmartha posted an update in the group The Humaniversity 12 years, 4 months ago
These humaniversity groups are basically a minority interets. My observation is that they seem to appeal to people who have self-importance and bullying tendencies, and those are the ones who end up living in that community. BUT my experience is simply that NOT AT ALL all sannyasins universally like such groups, or bother to partake in them. Sannyasins are very varied, like the rest of the population, and I would not say group work of any type is a majority interest.
Would you happen to know what percentage of sannyasins are involved in Humaniversity activities? My idea is that people who have self-importance and bullying tendencies probably get to make it to the top and run the Humaniversity but others also participate in Humaniversity activities because they believe wrongly or rightly that these activities promote personal growth.
Between 5 and 10% in Europe and Australia/New Zealand. .
Virtually no-one you would meet in India or Nepal would have done a humaniversity group.
Never found myself that Americans or Canadians were that interested in group work generally, alone the Humaniversity type groups, so less than 5% there.
What I have seen is that yes generally in the Americas (North and South), it does not seem that Humaniversity groups have been too popular. The only place in the Americas where Aum Meditation has been going on a regular basis since 1988 and has maintained popularity is Montreal. Check out the Humaniversity.nl website to see where Aum Meditations are held today. It seems that from the map that they provide at humaniversity,nl, Aum Meditation events are pretty well confined to Europe.