--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robin Carlsen" <maskedzebra@...> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robin Carlsen" <maskedzebra@> wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Xenophaneros Anartaxius" wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > > > > > > > > > So it's Friday, and the End Of The World to boot. Cool. > > > > > > > > > > So I finished all my work for the week a few minutes ago, and then > > > > > chose to celebrate it by taking a walk around the 'hood I live in, > > > > > prior to celebrating it by going out to dinner with my extended > > > > > adoptive family. > > > > > > > > Barry, just wondering if you took that photo of the light on water > > > from > > > > the location pictured below. > > > > > > Yes. It's a couple of hundred meters from where I live. Good Googling! > > > > > > Haarlemerstraat, at the upper left of the ariel view, is Leiden's > > > main shopping drag. I went shopping on it today, with Paris and > > > Pippin in their Christmas attire. The photo below shows them in > > > their little reindeer antlers and Santa hat, but from an earlier > > > Christmas in Paris, the city. The dogs are a bit greyer around the > > > muzzle now, as am I. :-) > > > > > > [Barry';s Christmas Dogs] > > > > > > We were quite a hit. Stupidly, I forgot to bring my iPhone (same > > > camera that took the other photo of the canal) with me, so I don't > > > have any "reaction shots" of the often-dour Dutch cracking up and > > > smiling. A few even laughed out loud. I consider that a win. > > > > > > Even though no one asked, dinner was smashing. We went to a > > > Thai restaurant called Buddhas (http://www.buddhas.nl/ > > > <http://www.buddhas.nl/> ) and > > > it was delightful -- one of the few Dutch restaurants I've found in > > > which the food was worth what they were charging for it. Spain > > > and France spoil you when it comes to eating out. > > > > > > After dinner we walked around and looked at the Christmas lights > > > and at the skaters on the rink they have erected over the canal in > > > front of the town hall. Not Rockefeller Center, but cool. Then I let > > > the others walk home and I climbed up to the Citadel (a castle > > > from the 11th century that is one of the oldest (and interestingly, > > > since it is in the center of Leiden, one of the most silent areas of > > > the city) and meditated for a while. > > > > > > [http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2071/2115542556_1343492e48.jpg] > > > > > > Not because of the so-called Apocalypse, not because I wanted to > > > tune in to some grand global W00 Woo Fest...just because I felt > > > like meditating. It was an OK meditation, just your normal, every- > > > day stuff like seeing visions of Shiva dancing Gangnam style with > > > an unidentified Hindu goddess almost wearing the sexiest see- > > > through sari I've ever seen, followed by God herself coming down > > > for a chat, sharing a champagne glass full of soma with me and > > > commending me for my infinite patience in dealing with FFL > > > stalkers. > > > > > > Oh wait. That didn't happen. I must have been channeling that. > > > That's what TMers might consider an OK meditation. :-) > > > > > > Mine was just silence. Pure, infinite silence. > > > > Robin: Well, that's good, Barry. In fact that's *really* good. "Pure, > > infinite silence". > > > > You are a fun guy, Barry. Did Curtis every get around to telling you that > > you weren't supposed to eat Irish children because of the shortage of > > potatoes? > > > > I don't believe authfriend has ever said anything about you that was > > objectively false. And yet, you have never come back at her to refute > > her--You think her severe analysis of you refutes itself? > > > > Your hatred of FF, TM, the TMO, and MMY: this tempts you into deliberate > > exaggeration and misrepresentation of your own meditation experience: > > "Pure, infinite silence": this is a description motivated by your antipathy > > about TM & MMY--Did that cynicism not exist, you would probably have said: > > "It was pleasant enough. Quite relaxing. But no big deal." > > > > The "pure, infinite silence": Simply an anti-Bevan remark. > > > > Although I don't disagree with you--contra Buck--about the charismatic > > potential John Hagelin. > > > > Eliot said that Santayana's philosophy lectures at Harvard were soporific. > > I like the mystery of tragedy in Bevan more than the unseriousness (in some > > unpreventable way) of soul in John Hagelin. Santayana, he would seem on > > fire. > > > > Merry Christmas, Barry. Your dogs look like they don't know who you are. > > > > Not enough individuation of first person ontology. > > Coda: I would love JH to become a charismatic leader/beautiful human > being--who knows! maybe he will become this. But I side with Bevan in his > fidelity to the purity of Maharishi's Teaching--also in the depth of his > suffering and despair--he remains absolutely and properly true to Maharishi. > If Buck gets his way--through championing the authority of JH--it will mean > the death of that ultra innocent experience that an initiator can give to a > initiate the moment he begins to repeat the mantra after the initiator has > sung the Puja. There is nothing like TM, and there never has been anything > like it. And there is no one like Maharishi Mahesh Yogi either. > > John Hagelin is a brilliant physicist. He is devoted to Maharishi and > believes in the metaphysical integrity of Maharishi's Teaching-and his vision > for the whole world. But he will never be taken as seriously as Bevan, > because Bevan has a very perfect read on Maharishi himself--as Bevan's > Master. The purity of The Teaching is held inside Bevan Morris's soul. If > there is some silent coup d'etat, it will be the end of Transcendental > Meditation and the the last light of the brilliance of what the TM Movement > once was (up to the ruling in the New Jersey case) will go out. > > Bevan has the potential to command respect. John Hagelin, were he not a > remarkable scientist and thinker, could not command, would never command, > that respect. "Bevan from Heaven" was once a real phenomenon. > > Bevan still feels the holiness of his experience of his Master; he acts out > of a sense of felt supernatural inspired obedience. The Buck revolution, it > comes from someone who never really felt what we initiators felt, say in the > early seventies. For me, it is either Maharishi and TM all the way, or it is > nothing. It is sort of parallel to Newman saying there is no medium between > atheism and Catholicism. If you are not a Catholic, you are > essentially--functionally--an atheist. >
Whatever happened to Tony Nader in all of this assessment? He is after all the designated "King" of the TM movement by MMY himself.
