I have actually traded words with Bobby Schneider on the blog Cardio Brief by Larry Husten who writes for Forbes.
From: "TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, June 12, 2015 9:20 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fancy that! From: "Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, June 12, 2015 2:30 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fancy that! All I can say is that my post referenced VEBAL slapping, meaning that I would not cut Schneider any slack for his prepsoterous claims for TM, especially his idea that he as a cardiologist is in any way an expert or authority on any form of psychiatry. Having watched his first "Vedic psychiatry" presentation I have already stated here on FFL that his ideas are more TM fluff and bs. OF COURSE you were referring to verbal slapping, and Doug knows it. He's just being a drama queen. But it's interesting that in doing so and in calling what you wrote a "threat," he's revealing the incredible extent of his bias against you and people like you who don't toe the TM party line. I still have hopes that he can get his act together and his "TM ego" out of the way and become a truly fair moderator, but he's sure making it difficult for me to maintain that hope. I am pretty sure that neither Schneider nor any other TM big shot has any desire to show up here on FFL where there are too many former TM'ers who have stopped drinking the kool-aide and have seen the man behind the curtain. Those guys prefer an audience who is guzzling the soporific of TM PR and so applaud instead of asking incisive or even intelligent questions. I would however love to see any exchanges between Hagelin and Sal and his physicist friends. What I find most fascinating is that Doug believes that these people are such wimps and so UNinvincible that the only way they'd agree to appear on Fairfield Life is if he put everyone who isn't a TM TB on "moderated" status and sat there poised with his finger on the button to make sure that no one was able to sneak through a real question. That's pretty revealing. I don't know what you expect would happen if one of the TM hot shots posted here. How can you not call a liar a liar? And Marshy was a liar, and he set the tone for all his followers. I also expect to be the first FFL member to be banned by Dougy. It'll be interesting to see who Doug will ban first. For example, since he's been moderator, there is one person who has posted repeatedly to FFL *for no other purpose than to harass another poster he doesn't like* (as he has done consistently for over a year), violating the Yahoo Guidelines in many minor ways in almost every post, and Doug's never said a word about it. But when YOU use a Southern turn of phrase in an obviously funny way ("I would verbally slap this jackass into the middle of next week"), suddenly it's a "threat." I suspect that you and I are both high on Doug's agenda for who he had already *planned* to ban when he took on the job of FFL moderator, so we'll probably be "neck and neck" down the stretch until one of us finally "wins." :-) :-) :-) From: "TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, June 12, 2015 4:15 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fancy that! OK, my bad. I managed to get all dyslexic while typing in the post number, and got post 416431 instead. Sorry. Thus I retract the things I said in my post below in points 1, 2 and 3. I still stand behind what I said in my last paragraph, however, because if Doug actually took what Michael said in the real post #416341 as a threat, he's not terribly sane. Michael suggesting that he would "verbally slap" someone is NOT a threat. Here is what Michael actually SAID, and that Doug is so biased that he's characterizing as a "threat." Jesus Christ. I really which I could attend. I would verbally slap this jackass into the middle of next week. What a huckster. A cardiologist claiming expertise in a non-existent form of psychiatry, laced with ancient superstition. Some of you folk in Fairfield are indeed making progress in helping those who need help with mental and emotional problems, this ass is not one of them. I hope he gets shut down in a time soon to come. From: "TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, June 12, 2015 10:00 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fancy that! From: "dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, June 12, 2015 4:19 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fancy that! MJ, FFL being categorized withYahoo-groups as a spiritual group one would hope that people couldcome in here and express their own spiritual experience without the harassing suppression of threats being made against them. You seemto have some parochial way in threatening people here by 'slap'. Would pushing the 'moderate' button over your membership status herebetter provide safe space for spiritual people to come forward on FFLwith their experiences? For instance I should think it valuable to also have Robert Schneider or someone from his office come on here andexpress their feelings in conversation here, without threat of abuse. Threat exampled within FFL post #416341 as what evidently was a slurring rant and an invasion of someone's privacy, using FFL as avehicle. OK, Doug, here is another example that demonstrates how incapable you are (so far) of moderating this group fairly: 1. The post you cite (#416341) is *not even from Michael*. It's from serious_richard. You care so little about facts that you aren't even careful enough to point to the *right* post you feel is a "threat." 2. The content of Michael's that was encapsulated inside the post you pointed to is *also* not a "threat" in any way. He said, "Even if I say that Marshy was a liar, cheat, fraud and con artist and that he was a serial womanizer?" In the recent past, you replied to Michael saying that you didn't feel that such a statement was cause for moderation, and NOW you're pointing to it as a "threat?" WTF, man. 3. What Michael posted (as a query, we should all remember) was NOT a "slurring rant and an invasion of someone's privacy," as you claim above in your last sentence. There actually IS ample evidence -- both in the mainstream media and in the FFL archives -- that Maharishi WAS a liar, a cheat, a fraud, a con artist, and a serial womanizer. The fact that some don't choose to believe this evidence does not mean that evidence is not true. So again, Michael stating actual *facts* based on freely-available evidence cannot be construed as a "slur," let alone a "threat." Doug, you've really got to work on cleaning up YOUR act before you can ever expect anyone to accept you as a fair and honorable moderator. BOTH of the posts I have taken the trouble to comment on this morning indicate that you are anything BUT fair. Your bias is obvious. I honestly hope that you are able to get it under control. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mjackso...@yahoo.com> wrote : And let's face it, if I came on like gangbusters here and touted myspiritual experiences, the mob would tear my descriptions asunder.....ashas been done to every single person who has come here to reportsuchlike. I am only aware of Brother Jim aka Dr. Dumbass - who else claimed spiritual awareness/awakening/enlightenment and received a stout thrashing as a result? From: Duveyoung <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, June 9, 2015 4:21 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fancy that! I'm thinking over here that having had an "experience" does not validate "as necessarily true" the thoughts that arise afterwards. We see most folks here thinking otherwise -- that is: they think that their thoughts MUST be resonant with the ultimate reality of their recent experience. To have seen someone levitate doesn't make one's subsequent thoughts about levitation necessarily true. Even the person who levitates can be expected to have but a mere abstraction for an explanation that is open to every sort of nay-saying. Relativity being such a dynamic, if one knows this, hypocrisy of a deeper degree is needed to validate one's thoughts and yet invalidate the subsequent thoughts of others -- others that had differing experiences. Nabby is a very very sincere poster, for instance, yet we found him being bonked by those who claim to not personally have such blinkeredness when it is obvious to all that everyone is blinkered in some IMPORTANT and PROFOUND manner. Stone, glass house and all that. No one gets to toss the first stone. Or the second. I would expect that someone who found fault in others for being a true believer and "running with it," would be especially careful to underline ones obvious conflict of interests. As for me being inside my head and not having had experiences. Harrumph. While this assertion is not couched in the normal cruel-troll manner of FFL-past, it does seem to accuse me of being spiritually bereft of the basic information needed to be clear about spirituality. Only I could know if that's true -- to assert it as true is to do a one-upman-ship deal. I claim that this kind of insinuation is AGAINST THE GUIDELINES. And let's face it, if I came on like gangbusters here and touted my spiritual experiences, the mob would tear my descriptions asunder.....as has been done to every single person who has come here to report suchlike. This is the place where prophets come to not be honored....heh heh. And, by the way, I have had and continue to have some very profound moments when all my abstractions align -- with a wonderful congruence -- with my heart and thought stream. Moment by moment, if I wish to do so, I can suss out from my flow of consciousness perfect examples of the concepts I hold dear. Doesn't make me correct, but I sure do have experiences. I'll walk this back: everyone has great experiences -- even if they've never personally noted such. Given the human karma of the ego daily dying-into-sleep, being reborn in dreams, and then coming back to life in the morning, what isn't magical? To diss others for not describing it "well" or "logically" or "intuitively acceptably," is at least juvenile and probably an act of aggression.....and AGAINST THE GUIDELINES. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <turquoiseb@...> wrote : Edg, because you're so...uh...edgy and all, I suspect you'll take my quickie response below as if it was intended as some kind of affront, and it really wasn't. I was just taking advantage of these "revalidated FFL guidelines" vibes to just be honest. To expand on this a bit, to be honest I've always gotten the impression from your writing that your approach to most spiritual topics is intellectual, as opposed to experiential. When you get into how much you know about Advaita, for example, my impression is that this is stuff that you "know" -- intellectually -- about Advaita, but without ever having experienced the states of consciousness that are being written about. Correct me if I'm wrong about this. I say this not to take a dig at you but to point out a possible distinction between the two of us. I haven't just read about and thought about the basic principle of Tantra -- the peaceful co-existence of complete opposites -- I've *lived* it. I've spent fourteen years with Rama -- and all the time since -- living it. Please try to remember who you're talking to here. I write science articles for a living. I have a strong feel for what science considers "real" in this world and what it does not. At the same time, *I cannot deny my own experience*. While knowing all of this about science, I have personally witnessed many of the siddhis you have only read about. I have sat in the desert -- or in a Dennys along a California highway -- and watched someone just gently lift up off the ground (or the naugahyde Dennys benches) and float in the air for a while. The morning after experiencing something like that, if you are a bit of a cynical scientist like myself, you tend to wake up thinking, "OK, what the fuck was that?" I still don't know. All I know is that I experienced it, in states of mind that were as high and clear as I have ever experienced in this incarnation, and that were completely free from the effects of any kinds of drugs, and that for me it all really fuckin' happened. I am NOT saying that I know exactly *what* happened. What I'm saying is that *something* fairly extraordinary happened, and that until someone proves to me exactly what it was, I'm going to go easy on myself for not getting all anal about what is "real" and what isn't. That "real" enough for you, dude? :-) From: "TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 9, 2015 8:53 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fancy that! I have *absolutely no problem* with such seeming contradictions. If you do, I would suggest that they just might be *your* problems. :-) From: Duveyoung <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, June 9, 2015 8:49 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fancy that! Barry -- you are on record here being quite against most "magical thinking," but here we find you being quite the believer. "That explained quite a few of my dreams during the period I lived there. :-)" Would this be hypocrisy or you just playing loose with "what's real?" I ask this in the fullest sincerity to honor the recently re-validated FFL guidelines. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <turquoiseb@...> wrote : Excellent. A few years ago, before we actually moved from Spain to the Netherlands, my odd extended family and I spent a month living in Amsterdam in a house we'd rented there. It was a really cool house, with multiple floors and a grand piano and a great kitchen, but at the same time there was always something "off" about it. So I asked around the neighborhood and found that it had in previous centuries been an asylum for crazy women. That explained quite a few of my dreams during the period I lived there. :-) From: salyavin808 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, June 9, 2015 8:02 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Fancy that! In the late '90's the TMO acquired a mansion in a highly sought after part of London. Namely Kensington palace gardens. It was a fabulous house, right opposite Kensington palace. Huge place with double iron gates and a massive ballroom. It faced east too. The heads of the movement all lived there and all said how amazing the perfect vastu felt. I lived there too for a while, just helping out the media department. Great place to stay as the big knobs sure knew how to live, bespoke silk carpets and the best food eaten off mahogany tables. The idea was that they'd use it to wine and dine the rich and famous thus spreading TM to the top of society, as was Marshy's wish at the time. "The rich won't eat in a poor house" he said, they sure didn't here! Not that all that many came. Hardly any in fact, but the intention was a good one if you approve of that sort of elitism. I didn't but staying there made a nice change from our draughty, cold and empty mansion in the Bedfordshire countryside. But as I was finishing my book on The Great Escape I was reminded that the house had a rather more chequered history than expected. It was owned and used by MI6 to interrogate captured Nazi officers during and after WW2. Including the masterminds of the massacre that wiped out 50 allied airmen in 1944. Fancy that, I might have slept in a room that was once occupied by a terrified Gestapo murderer who sat awake all night dreading his fate at the hands of a war crimes tribunal. 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