Great video...and here I thought Peter Paul and Mary were the original singers of this...
<snip> More like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQcL8sAt9iE ________________________________ From: turquoiseb <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2011 7:14 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: super-rare find on YouTube --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, obbajeeba <no_reply@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Tom Pall <thomas.pall@> wrote: > > > > > > On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 8:52 AM, Buck <dhamiltony2k5@> wrote: > > > > > > > Turqb, what a fabulous opportunity in life that you had, to > > > > have been there at that very pivotal moment of world > > > > consciousness in the 20th Century. That Merv Griffen show. > > > > Would be like having witnessed the moments of Eckhart Tolle > > > > on Oprah, a moment of broad change in world consciousness. > > > > > > > > You, should just shake off this faint-heartedness of yours > > > > and be with us here in Fairfield again. It would do the > > > > world some good also. Bring CurtisDB along too. I pray for you. > > > > > > > > Jai Adi Shankara, -Buck > > > > > > Usually, I just delete posts from this fellow. But I happened > > > to read this one and found it amazing. It revealed much about me. > > > I discovered reading this that I increasingly take life as it is. > > > There's no need for drama. I'm OK without it. > > > > Exactly. More important, as you suggest below, there is > > no need for the layers and layers of self importance that > > many seem to feel the need to surround themselves with. > > > > > There appear to have been long stretches of time as hunter > > > gatherers in which things didn't change much at all, that a > > > new discovery happened once every hundred thousand years. But > > > a couple thousand years ago things sped up and they are > > > speeding up more and more. How on Earth can someone believe > > > he is so special that he is in a millenia time, an end of > > > the Old Days and the beginning of the New Age? > > > > From my POV it's just normal human self importance. If > > you're like me, Tom, you probably made a bundle off of > > the hysteria surrounding Y2K and the turn of the millen- > > ium. Remember all the hysterical predictions at that time? > > > > Well, some of the more sensible articles did some research > > and found that *there has never been a time in human his- > > tory* in which large numbers of people DIDN'T believe > > that they were in the "end times," or on the cusp of some > > grand transformation from one state of existence to another, > > "higher" or more "cosmic" one. It turns out that this belief > > is just plain human nature. Everyone wants to believe that > > he or she is the center of the universe, living in the > > most importantest time in human history, and acting out > > the most importantest events in that history. Trouble is > > that it's not true now any more than it was at any point > > in human history. People are just living their lives and > > then dying, just as they always have, in most cases > > leaving no trace that they ever existed, much less > > changing the flow of life forever. > > > > > That wasn't so every single year over the last couple thousand > > > years? Why is it that we, and we alone are so special to be > > > living in a time in which life and outlooks are changing? > > > Have life and outlooks not been ever changing? Seems like at > > > a certain level of psychological development we need to believe > > > that we're not just living in a changing world, we're living in > > > the Golden Age, the Dawning of the Age of Enlightenment. > > > > But then some of us grow up. Others, not so much. > > > > > Can't we just, perhaps be living, gathering more common > > > knowledge and experience, with natural ebbs and flows just > > > as the latest fashion has skirts long this year, shorter > > > next year? > > > > Exactly. And none of those fashions really means diddleysquat. > > They're just passing fads and fashions. So was Maharishi's > > "Age Of Enlightenment." Some people got over it. Others are > > still trying to sell granny skirts as the only "true" way > > of dressing. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_25z8AoByw > Turq, Does this sum up your relationship with the Maharishi? I merely hope that this is a joke. This song is one of my candidates for Hell's Top Ten, the songs that play in eternal rotation in Hades. :-) More like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQcL8sAt9iE Or this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdRZ1gFhZP0 :-)
