Hey Turq, Susan certainly gets you, me and Vaj's panties in a bunch, doesn't she? Off to manifest some sleep.......
--- On Fri, 9/19/08, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Technology for Manifesting Intentions - meeting > is changed! > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Date: Friday, September 19, 2008, 3:01 AM > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Susan > <my3paths@> wrote: > > > > > > Hi everyone, > > > The first meeting of the Technology for > Manifesting Intentions > > > group that was scheduled for Sept 19 at 7:30 at > Revelations in > > > Fairfield is being postponed due to a very > exciting new > > > development. > > > > > > Tommorrow night, Sept 19 at 8pm at Dalby Hall in > the Argiro > > > Student Center (MUM campus) there is a free > showing of the > > > movie THE SECRET and then John Hagelin and > Michael Beckwith, > > > both of whom are featured speakers in the movie, > will be there > > > live for a discussion afterwards. > > > > > > So I am postponing our first meeting one week so > that everyone > > > can > > > go and see the movie in the fabulous new Dalby > Hall and have a > > > chance to hear John Hagelin and Michael Beckwith > talk about the > > > technologies for manifesting yoru intentions!!! > > > > > > Support of nature - we couldn't begin our > group meetings with a > > > better opportunity! See you all there. Any > questions please call > > > 760 687-5911 > > > > > > Sincerely, > > > Susan Sayler > > > > > > Translation: > > > > No one expressed the slightest bit of interest > > in my "group meetings." > > > > I'm going to pretend that it was because of a > > film scheduled at the same time (that I was > > too 'unsupported by nature' to know about and > > plan around) and not because no one buys into > > this moodmaking shit I'm trying to peddle. > > > > Furthermore, by sending this out, I'm going to > > co-opt anyone who DOES attend the film so that > > later I can suggest that they're part of my > > "group." > > > Susan, > > Just to follow up a bit, and hopefully a > bit less snide, the above was my first reaction > to this announcement. This is my second. > > I, for one, am not convinced about all this > "manifesting intentions" stuff. What I have seen > for decades now, among anyone who believes that > what they're doing is "manifesting > intentions," > is that what they're really doing is what I > mentioned once before, "Moodmaking, moodmaking, > moodmaking." > > I've heard people say things like (literally), > "Yes, I parked my car last night with its tail > end sticking out into the intersection and it > got totalled by a garbage truck this morning, so > I won't be able to use it to drive to the job > interview I should be going to, but all of this > is *really* the support of nature because now I > can use the insurance money I'm going to get for > my car to pay my rent for the next month, and > don't need to find that job after all. I can just > sit and meditate and wait for the next 'support > of nature' event." > > Call me an old cynic, but this sounds a lot to me > *not* like "support of nature" but more like > train- > ing oneself to moodmake pretty much anything that > happens into "Something good is happening" and > pretend that you're having "support of > nature." > > What ever happened to, if you want something, > actually *working* to achieve it? > > What ever happened to expending a little *effort* > to achieve one's goals, be they personal or universal? > > What ever happened to taking some individual respons- > ibility for one's individual karma? > > I think Maharishi did tens of thousands of people > and the whole New Age that emerged from meditation > and Eastern thought being introduced to the West a > huge and terrible disservice. "Do less and accom- > plish more" and "Do nothing and accomplish every- > thing" is IMO a lazy, non-evolutionary approach to > life, a way to systematically avoid DOING THE WORK. > > What I suspect (although I may be wrong) is that > your "group," if it ever forms, is going to > present > a bunch of buzzwords and ways of thinking that allow > people who don't want to or are not willing to DO > THE WORK to moodmake anything that happens to them > as 1) "support of nature," and 2) "having > manifested > their intentions." > > I have rarely seen anyone *really* "manifest their > intentions" using any of this New Age crap. But > I've > seen a lot of people *claim* that they have. I've > seen them take credit for the weather or for things > that are clearly out of their control or anyone/ > anything else's control, I've seen them claim that > serious fuckups and oversights and laziness on their > part resulted in good things. And basically, I have > seen them waste their lives on this stuff instead > of picking a few *good* intentions and then just > going out and DOING THE WORK necessary to achieve > them. > > Since gathering a group of people around yourself > seems to be one of *your* intentions, and since > Fairfield seems to have more suckers per square foot > than most places on this planet, I'll be curious to > see whether anyone shows up to your meetings, if > and when they actually happen. > > But if they do, for me the jury is out on whether > you are doing them a favor by feeding them all this > "manifest your intentions" crap, or whether you > are > doing them a disservice by luring them -- once again -- > into the moodmaking approach and away from the > approach that REAL successful people have ALWAYS > undertaken -- DOING THE WORK. > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > To subscribe, send a message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Or go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ > and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! 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