date:20090422

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/01/28/dining/0128-BACON_index.html

[FairfieldLife] Re: WorldWide Telescope

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer"  wrote:
>
> Check this out: http://www.worldwidetelescope.org
> 
>  It's like Google Earth, but for the rest of the universe. You can tour
> around the solar system from planet to planet, travel to the center of the
> galaxy or to other galaxies, etc., and at each location, watch a
> presentation by a professional astronomer. I regard the study of astronomy
> as a spiritual technique. It really puts things in perspective.
>

***

WWT is nifty -- in the "view" setting, you can set the time for your birthtime 
and see the grahas displayed (except Rahu/Ketu) as they were then.

[FairfieldLife] I see Bevan has been polishing his thumbscrews

2009-04-22 Thread guyfawkes91

I see the TMO is starting to get heavy with people who point out its rather 
obvious failings. YouTube has been told to take down the famous Berlin clip of 
Schiffgens making an idiot of himself.

http://nosedef.blogspot.com/2009/04/david-lynch-forces-my-video-of-him.html

This isn't the only recent case of the TMO getting heavy with people. My guess 
is that Bevan is the driving force behind the new heavy handed attitude to 
detractors since he's basically a bully and enjoys that sort of thing.

Comments?

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ample Breasts

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, grate.swan  wrote:

> I just spoke with the Prime Minister -- and I think we all know and agree 
> that his words are as powerful and deep as the Ved -- he wants to 
> congratulation you on your most golden and Brahm soaked descriptions of the 
> latest wave of knowledge.  He wants to congratulate you both in person, and 
> on the level of the Gap, granting you a new level of Fullness and 
> Satisfaction. A Total One experience.
> 
> Meanwhile, I have been given the honor of being one of the Judges in the new 
> global TV sensation: World, Domain of Consciousness, Idol, now on DLTV, MOU, 
> UTUBE FFLVideo, And Fox.
> 
> We have 100,000 screaming, yet dignified, beautiful Ladies 18-22 in 108 
> Cities across the glove competing to be the next World, Domain of 
> Consciousness, Idol. And the top 1008 Ladies will be the 2009 Divine Devi 
> Dancers featured at a Tower of Invincibility Gentleman's Club near you.
> 
> So, I am off to dye and fade the cloth.

Thank you, Grate Swan. As I read about your recent conversation with His 
Excellency, I did indeed feel golden showers of bliss raining down on me.  It 
was a very beautiful experience. I am also going to dry and fade my cloth now.

With Infinite Blessings of Heaven on Earth for all Men and for all Devi Dancers,

Science

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ample Breasts

2009-04-22 Thread grate . swan

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, scienceofabundance  wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, grate.swan  wrote:
> --snip--
> 
> > Well, I must say you both have some glimpes that are on the right track -- 
> > but clearly you are not on the double-secret World Government of the Domain 
> > of Consciousness mailing list. Or worse, you have been cut from the list 
> > and are now on the list's double-secret probation. Following are key points 
> > (that i really should not be sharing -- but its all so blissful!)
> > 
> > 1) Catching up to the Ladies, all men and things manly shall be referred to 
> > as Gentlemen. 
> > 
> > 2) the Towers of Invincibility are monuments to manhood, and will soon be 
> > revealed as such.
> > 
> > 3) The Towers shall cater to Gentlemen and their needs -- which of course 
> > are synonomous with the needs of Natural Law and which support the entire 
> > creation at its most fundamental and blissful level.  
> > 
> > 4) The Towers shall hence force be known as the Invincibility Towers 
> > Gentlemen's Clubs.
> > 
> > 5) Some of the Divine Devis, particularly the 18 year olds, will serve as 
> > divine escorts to the Gentlemen as they enter the club -- and will cater to 
> > their total needs ((which of course are synonomous with the most 
> > fundamental and powerful needs and will of Natural Law).
> > 
> > 6) The Devis, if asked, will perform divine dances for the Gentlemen to 
> > fulfill their inner most desires ((which of course are synonomous with the 
> > most fundamental and powerful needs and will of Natural Law)
> > 
> > 7) As is the custom, Yogic motorboating will be given to Gentlemen who 
> > offer dancers the Holy Raam. 
> > 
> > 8) Further, in the inner sanctums of the temple Towers, dancers shall 
> > perform a sort of yogic waterboarding -- in which they induce unto 
> > themselves, with the passive assistance of the Gentlemen, a type of joyous 
> > gaging reflex. 
> > 
> > 9) The Rajas, Purusha, and all Gentleman Sidhas are very very excited about 
> > the new initiative. Their unending praises come spontaneously.
> > 
> > 10) Through the  Invincibility Towers Gentlemen's Clubs the true knowledge 
> > of life shall be expounded -- and all the world (Gentlemen of course) shall 
> > become totally attuned with Natural Law as expressed by the Divine dances 
> > and gyrations of the Divine Devi Dancers.
> >   
> > 11) The world will live truly in bliss. No suffering. Total Joy.
> 
> Thank you, Grate Swan.  You certainly must be in the Inner Sanctum with all 
> this information. However, there is some recent information that you may not 
> be aware of. 
> 
> I guess there is no point in us waiting for the official announcement now - I 
> will fill everyone in on the few details that Grate Swan has not mentioned. 
> 
> Three of the above programs have already been initiated in Maharishi Golden 
> Towers of Invincibility. His Majesty Maharaja Adhi Raj Raja Raam has 
> authorized three of the most enlightened leaders of Maharishi's Worldwide 
> Movement to teach these beautiful techniques in three Golden Towers of 
> Invincibility. For now, it would be good to keep their location private and 
> so we do not speculate. 
> 
> The first technique was introduced to us by Turqouise B. and I just need to 
> add some more information. However, the full name of the technique is From 
> Fullness to Fullness: Raising the Ideal Gentleman from Earth to Heaven. 
> 
> Leaders of Maharishi's Worldwide Movement and 108 Divine Devi of the Global 
> Country of World Peace have recently graduated as course leaders for the  
> 3-month "Gentlemen's Earth to Heaven" program. At this time, only male 
> governors are being accepted into the first course, which will be held 
> following a period of deep rest and transcending by the initial group of 108 
> course leaders Divine Devi of the Global Country of World Peace. 
> 
> Interested male governors should immediately contact the Gentlemen's Earth to 
> Heaven program by email at rajahage...@... [Please note that this course is 
> not being offered to members or recent members of the Maharishi Purusha 
> Program at this time.]
> 
> I have already mentioned a similar program for gay men, which will now be 
> given the name "Ideal Gentleman-Gentleman Earth to Heaven" program.
> 
> While details of this program have not yet been finalized, members of the 
> Maharishi Purusha Progam are invited to apply to participate in training as 
> leaders of this program. Interested members of the Maharishi Purusha Program 
> are invited to email "Ideal Gentleman-Gentleman Earth to Heaven" program 
> office at ap...@...
> 
> The third program in this series can only be taken by long-term male 
> governors who have reported experiences of Brahman Incarnate (BI) or who are 
> curious about Braham Incarnate (BI-Curious) since puberty or since they began 
> Maharishi's Transcendental Meditation technique - whichever came first. 
> Members of Maharish

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ample Breasts

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, grate.swan  wrote:
--snip--

> Well, I must say you both have some glimpes that are on the right track -- 
> but clearly you are not on the double-secret World Government of the Domain 
> of Consciousness mailing list. Or worse, you have been cut from the list and 
> are now on the list's double-secret probation. Following are key points (that 
> i really should not be sharing -- but its all so blissful!)
> 
> 1) Catching up to the Ladies, all men and things manly shall be referred to 
> as Gentlemen. 
> 
> 2) the Towers of Invincibility are monuments to manhood, and will soon be 
> revealed as such.
> 
> 3) The Towers shall cater to Gentlemen and their needs -- which of course are 
> synonomous with the needs of Natural Law and which support the entire 
> creation at its most fundamental and blissful level.  
> 
> 4) The Towers shall hence force be known as the Invincibility Towers 
> Gentlemen's Clubs.
> 
> 5) Some of the Divine Devis, particularly the 18 year olds, will serve as 
> divine escorts to the Gentlemen as they enter the club -- and will cater to 
> their total needs ((which of course are synonomous with the most fundamental 
> and powerful needs and will of Natural Law).
> 
> 6) The Devis, if asked, will perform divine dances for the Gentlemen to 
> fulfill their inner most desires ((which of course are synonomous with the 
> most fundamental and powerful needs and will of Natural Law)
> 
> 7) As is the custom, Yogic motorboating will be given to Gentlemen who offer 
> dancers the Holy Raam. 
> 
> 8) Further, in the inner sanctums of the temple Towers, dancers shall perform 
> a sort of yogic waterboarding -- in which they induce unto themselves, with 
> the passive assistance of the Gentlemen, a type of joyous gaging reflex. 
> 
> 9) The Rajas, Purusha, and all Gentleman Sidhas are very very excited about 
> the new initiative. Their unending praises come spontaneously.
> 
> 10) Through the  Invincibility Towers Gentlemen's Clubs the true knowledge of 
> life shall be expounded -- and all the world (Gentlemen of course) shall 
> become totally attuned with Natural Law as expressed by the Divine dances and 
> gyrations of the Divine Devi Dancers.
>   
> 11) The world will live truly in bliss. No suffering. Total Joy.

Thank you, Grate Swan.  You certainly must be in the Inner Sanctum with all 
this information. However, there is some recent information that you may not be 
aware of. 

I guess there is no point in us waiting for the official announcement now - I 
will fill everyone in on the few details that Grate Swan has not mentioned. 

Three of the above programs have already been initiated in Maharishi Golden 
Towers of Invincibility. His Majesty Maharaja Adhi Raj Raja Raam has authorized 
three of the most enlightened leaders of Maharishi's Worldwide Movement to 
teach these beautiful techniques in three Golden Towers of Invincibility. For 
now, it would be good to keep their location private and so we do not 
speculate. 

The first technique was introduced to us by Turqouise B. and I just need to add 
some more information. However, the full name of the technique is From Fullness 
to Fullness: Raising the Ideal Gentleman from Earth to Heaven. 

Leaders of Maharishi's Worldwide Movement and 108 Divine Devi of the Global 
Country of World Peace have recently graduated as course leaders for the  
3-month "Gentlemen's Earth to Heaven" program. At this time, only male 
governors are being accepted into the first course, which will be held 
following a period of deep rest and transcending by the initial group of 108 
course leaders Divine Devi of the Global Country of World Peace. 

Interested male governors should immediately contact the Gentlemen's Earth to 
Heaven program by email at rajahage...@ghe.org. [Please note that this course 
is not being offered to members or recent members of the Maharishi Purusha 
Program at this time.]

I have already mentioned a similar program for gay men, which will now be given 
the name "Ideal Gentleman-Gentleman Earth to Heaven" program.

While details of this program have not yet been finalized, members of the 
Maharishi Purusha Progam are invited to apply to participate in training as 
leaders of this program. Interested members of the Maharishi Purusha Program 
are invited to email "Ideal Gentleman-Gentleman Earth to Heaven" program office 
at ap...@g2g.org

The third program in this series can only be taken by long-term male governors 
who have reported experiences of Brahman Incarnate (BI) or who are curious 
about Braham Incarnate (BI-Curious) since puberty or since they began 
Maharishi's Transcendental Meditation technique - whichever came first. Members 
of Maharishi's Purusha Program who have had BI or BI-Curious feelings or 
experiences are strongly encouraged to apply. 

As this is the supreme enlightenment program offered by Maharishi's Worldwide 
Movement, it is a great joy to announce that His Excellen

[FairfieldLife] WorldWide Telescope

Check this out: http://www.worldwidetelescope.org

 It's like Google Earth, but for the rest of the universe. You can tour
around the solar system from planet to planet, travel to the center of the
galaxy or to other galaxies, etc., and at each location, watch a
presentation by a professional astronomer. I regard the study of astronomy
as a spiritual technique. It really puts things in perspective.

[FairfieldLife] How to survive a nuclear attack


http://www.wikihow.com/Survive-a-Nuclear-Attack

* If you can't find shelter, seek a depressed area nearby and lay
face down, exposing as little skin as possible if shelter is impossible
to reach. If there is no shelter of this kind, dig as fast as possible.
Even around 8 kilometers (5 miles) you will suffer third degree
thermal-burns; still at 32 kilometers (20 miles) the heat can burn the
skin off your body. The wind itself will peak at around 960 kilometers
per hour (600mph) and will level anything or anybody caught in the open.
* Failing the above options, get indoors, if, and only if, you can be
sure that the building will not suffer significant blast and heat
damage. This will, at least, provide some protection against radiation
 . Whether this
will be a viable option depends on the construction of the building and
how close you will be to the likely ground zero of a nuclear strike.
Stay well away from any windows, preferably in a room without one; even
if the building does not suffer substantial damage, a nuclear explosion
will blow out windows at enormous distances.[5]
* If you live in Switzerland
 , check whether or
not your home has an atomic shelter. If not, find out where your
village/town/district atomic shelter is and know how to get there.
Remember this: no matter where you are in Switzerland, you will be able
to find an atomic shelter. When the sirens go off in Switzerland, you
are advised to inform those around you who may not be able to hear the
siren (e.g. they are deaf
 ) and then tune in
to the National Radio Services (RSR, DRS and/or RTSI).
* Be sure you are not surrounded by anything flammable or
combustible. Substances such as nylon or any sort of oil based material
will catch on fire from the heat.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi Channel now on Youtube

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante  wrote:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/maharishichannel
> 
> only about 30 recordings are currently available, but more will be added
>

*

There are actually 4 TM channels on you tube:

maharishichannel
MaharishiUniversity
meditationchannel
vedicpandits

[FairfieldLife] Maharishi Channel now on Youtube

http://www.youtube.com/maharishichannel

only about 30 recordings are currently available, but more will be added

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ample Breasts

2009-04-22 Thread grate . swan

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, scienceofabundance  wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB  wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I have heard, in fact, that the TMO is about
> > to announce a new course, supposedly more
> > effective than the TM-siddhis.
> > 
> > The new technique will be called "Yogic
> > Motorboating." Do not confuse this Vedic-
> > based technique with the more mundane desc-
> > ription of motorboating: "The act of pushing 
> > one's face in between two ample breasts and 
> > rocking one's head side to side very rapidly 
> > while making a vigorous, lip-vibrating 'brrr' 
> > sound." 
> > 
> > Not the same thing at all. Yogic Motorboating
> > is to regular motorboating as the butt-bouncing
> > of Yogic Flying is to...uh...is to... Sorry...
> > I can't really think of any parallel to Yogic
> > Flying in the mundane world...forget I even
> > brought it up.
> > 
> > Anyway, the first Yogic Motorboating courses
> > will be offered soon at Maharishi Peace Palaces
> > throughout the world. While the target audience
> > for these courses is of course men -- who are,
> > after all, the only ones who matter in the
> > TM view of spirituality -- exceptions will be 
> > made for lesbians and Hillary Clinton supporters, 
> > as long as they agree to practice the technique 
> > in a different Motorboating Dome than the men.
> > 
> > Catch the buzz today. Motorboat your way to
> > true enlightenment. D-cups for D-stressing.
> 
> I don't have time to respond in detail now, but I have some details of this 
> new course and will post them later. Also, I don't want FFL readers to think 
> my posting about this new course is a spoof - it is for real. 
> 
> I will also briefly post some details here of another course that TurquoiseB 
> may not be aware of. As usual, there are some "amazing" elements to this 
> never-before offered course:
> 
> There will be a special course for gay men - for obvious reasons, the regular 
> Yogic Motorboating course may put unnecessary strain on the delicate 
> physiology of the gay men who have contributed so much and so stylishly (and 
> so silently)to Maharishi's Global Movement over the past 50 years. 
> 
> While full details are still being worked out, I can write that the gay men's 
> course is tentatively titled "Yogic B-Boating (YBB). While the goal of this 
> new course is the same as the Yogic Motorboarding course, the mechanics of 
> practice will be somewhat different. 
> 
> This is all the information I have at the moment. However, on a personal 
> note, I will add that from my experience with "regular" B-Boating in other 
> organizations, I am very, very excited about the upcoming course.
> 
> So, those are the main points, and now it is time for many of us to rest 
> before diving deep within and enlivening the silence as we continue to enjoy 
> Maharishi's Heaven on Earth in this generation.
> 
> Science
>

Well, I must say you both have some glimpes that are on the right track -- but 
clearly you are not on the double-secret World Government of the Domain of 
Consciousness mailing list. Or worse, you have been cut from the list and are 
now on the list's double-secret probation. Following are key points (that i 
really should not be sharing -- but its all so blissful!)

1) Catching up to the Ladies, all men and things manly shall be referred to as 
Gentlemen. 

2) the Towers of Invincibility are monuments to manhood, and will soon be 
revealed as such.

3) The Towers shall cater to Gentlemen and their needs -- which of course are 
synonomous with the needs of Natural Law and which support the entire creation 
at its most fundamental and blissful level.  

4) The Towers shall hence force be known as the Invincibility Towers 
Gentlemen's Clubs.

5) Some of the Divine Devis, particularly the 18 year olds, will serve as 
divine escorts to the Gentlemen as they enter the club -- and will cater to 
their total needs ((which of course are synonomous with the most fundamental 
and powerful needs and will of Natural Law).

6) The Devis, if asked, will perform divine dances for the Gentlemen to fulfill 
their inner most desires ((which of course are synonomous with the most 
fundamental and powerful needs and will of Natural Law)

7) As is the custom, Yogic motorboating will be given to Gentlemen who offer 
dancers the Holy Raam. 

8) Further, in the inner sanctums of the temple Towers, dancers shall perform a 
sort of yogic waterboarding -- in which they induce unto themselves, with the 
passive assistance of the Gentlemen, a type of joyous gaging reflex. 

9) The Rajas, Purusha, and all Gentleman Sidhas are very very excited about the 
new initiative. Their unending praises come spontaneously.

10) Through the  Invincibility Towers Gentlemen's Clubs the true knowledge of 
life shall be expounded -- and all the world (Gentlemen of course) shall become 
totally attuned with Natural Law as expressed by the Divine dances and 
gyrations of the Divine Devi Dancer

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: Mother Divine Emerita and Divine Devi of the Global Country of World P

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Hugo"  wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, scienceofabundance  wrote:
> >
> > FORWARDED:
> > 
> > Sender: gcwpnews@
> > Date: Mon, 21 April 2009 12:10:09 -0500
> > X-Google-Sender-Auth: c7c7e9987d0dd46d
> > Subject: Mother Divine Emerita and Divine Devi of the Global Country or 
> > World Peace
> > 
> > Following consultation with the ladies of Maharishi's Mother Divine Program 
> > and the 21 Rajinis of Maharishi's worldwide movement, His Majesty Maharaja 
> > Adhi Raj Raja Raam has announced the creation of two new groups of ideal 
> > ladies to create enlightenment for all the world.
> > 
> > In a Royal Proclamation to prepare for the celebration of Vaisakhi Purnima 
> > of the Vedic Calendar, His Majesty has proclaimed Vaisakhi Purnima as the 
> > auspicious day of inauguration of Mother Divine Emerita (MDE) and Divine 
> > Devi of the Global Country of World Peace (DD-GCWP).
> > 
> > In a worldwide satellite conference celebration, amid cheers, applause, and 
> > the sounds of conches and ringing bells, His Majesty announced: "It is a 
> > great joy to invite current ladies of Mother Divine to join Mother Divine 
> > Emerita and continue to sanctify the world with their blessing.  This 
> > invitation will be of particular interest to our dear Mothers Divine who 
> > have blessed the world for at least 15 years or who are 35 years of age or 
> > older."
> > 
> > His Majesty explained that it was always Maharishi's wish that the ladies 
> > of Maharishi's Mother Divine would be granted the title of "Mother Divine 
> > Emerita" as a celebration of gratitude to their continuous blessings on our 
> > worldwide movement and creating Heaven on Earth. 
> > 
> > More details of this beautiful program will be announced shortly. In the 
> > meantime, all of our dear Mother Divine ladies interested should please 
> > contact the Mother Divine Emerita office at apply@
> > 
> > His Majesty also announced the creation of a beautiful new program, Divine 
> > Devi of the Global Country of World Peace, created especially for ladies 
> > everywhere who are seeking true enlightenment  but who also wish to join 
> > His Majesty and Their Excellencies, The 40 Rajas of our Worldwide Movement, 
> > in perpetuating the administration of Maharishi's Worldwide Movement and 
> > creating the enlightened leaders of tomorrow for our beloved Maharishi's 
> > Worldwide Movement. 
> > 
> > According to His Majesty, the goal of Divine Devi of the Global Country of 
> > World Peace is to create a Royal Family of the Global Country of World 
> > Peace to ensure enlightenment administration of the world for all mankind 
> > for all generations. 
> > 
> > More details of this beautiful program will be announced shortly. Please 
> > distribute this Royal Proclamation to all ladies.  Given the nature of this 
> > program, this program is limited to ladies between 18 and 22 years of age.  
> > In special cases, ladies as young as 15 years of age will be considered 
> > depending on their country of residence at the time of application.  
> > 
> > All interested ladies should know that their local Rajas are very, very 
> > excited about this program and are immediately available to personally 
> > answer all questions related to this beautiful program. If it is not 
> > immediately possible to speak with their local Raja, ladies are requested 
> > to contact the Divine Devi of the Global Country of World Peace office by 
> > email at urgent@ 
> > 
> >   
> > PROCLAMATION
> > By the Royal Order 
> > of 
> > His Majesty Maharaja Adhi Raj Raja Raam,
> > First Ruler of Vishwa Shanti Rashtra, The Global Country of World Peace
> > 
> > In Preparation for the Auspicious Celebration of Vaisakhi Purnima
> > Of the Year 2066 of the Vedic Calendar
> >
> 
> 
> 1st thought: What the gibbering fuck is this insane 
> nonsense.
> 
> 2nd thought: It's got to be a send up. But it's a good
> one. I'm so used to madness like this I really can't tell
> for sure.
> 
> I had to search the net for a bit and the sender ID is from
> one David Shapiro which implies either authenticity or spoofing
> above the high standard we usually get. But the e-mail links
> just go to the FFL post topic page.
> 
> The only other place any of the keywords in the title come up
> is on TM-Free so it looks like they've been had too. If indeed
> we have been, I'm going to keep my options open but I always 
> get suckered by these things but I've seen it all so often I 
> can't tell the difference anymore!
>
Yep, and that's pretty much the point. Spoof or not, what does it matter? The 
lines get blurry!

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amazing Saturn

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj  wrote:
>
> The pictures just keep getting better:
> 
> http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/04/cassinis_continued_mission.html
> 
> LINK
>

***

Gorgeous. Saw the occultation of Venus by the moon this morning --  to see 
Venus reappear was not as dramatic as an eclipse, but pretty cool nevertheless. 
Space.com always has some nice pics: http://snipurl.com/ghw5b  [www_space_com]

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: Mother Divine Emerita and Divine Devi of the Global Country of World Peace

2009-04-22 Thread Hugo

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, scienceofabundance  wrote:
>
> FORWARDED:
> 
> Sender: gcwpnews@
> Date: Mon, 21 April 2009 12:10:09 -0500
> X-Google-Sender-Auth: c7c7e9987d0dd46d
> Subject: Mother Divine Emerita and Divine Devi of the Global Country or World 
> Peace
> 
> Following consultation with the ladies of Maharishi's Mother Divine Program 
> and the 21 Rajinis of Maharishi's worldwide movement, His Majesty Maharaja 
> Adhi Raj Raja Raam has announced the creation of two new groups of ideal 
> ladies to create enlightenment for all the world.
> 
> In a Royal Proclamation to prepare for the celebration of Vaisakhi Purnima of 
> the Vedic Calendar, His Majesty has proclaimed Vaisakhi Purnima as the 
> auspicious day of inauguration of Mother Divine Emerita (MDE) and Divine Devi 
> of the Global Country of World Peace (DD-GCWP).
> 
> In a worldwide satellite conference celebration, amid cheers, applause, and 
> the sounds of conches and ringing bells, His Majesty announced: "It is a 
> great joy to invite current ladies of Mother Divine to join Mother Divine 
> Emerita and continue to sanctify the world with their blessing.  This 
> invitation will be of particular interest to our dear Mothers Divine who have 
> blessed the world for at least 15 years or who are 35 years of age or older."
> 
> His Majesty explained that it was always Maharishi's wish that the ladies of 
> Maharishi's Mother Divine would be granted the title of "Mother Divine 
> Emerita" as a celebration of gratitude to their continuous blessings on our 
> worldwide movement and creating Heaven on Earth. 
> 
> More details of this beautiful program will be announced shortly. In the 
> meantime, all of our dear Mother Divine ladies interested should please 
> contact the Mother Divine Emerita office at ap...@...
> 
> His Majesty also announced the creation of a beautiful new program, Divine 
> Devi of the Global Country of World Peace, created especially for ladies 
> everywhere who are seeking true enlightenment  but who also wish to join His 
> Majesty and Their Excellencies, The 40 Rajas of our Worldwide Movement, in 
> perpetuating the administration of Maharishi's Worldwide Movement and 
> creating the enlightened leaders of tomorrow for our beloved Maharishi's 
> Worldwide Movement. 
> 
> According to His Majesty, the goal of Divine Devi of the Global Country of 
> World Peace is to create a Royal Family of the Global Country of World Peace 
> to ensure enlightenment administration of the world for all mankind for all 
> generations. 
> 
> More details of this beautiful program will be announced shortly. Please 
> distribute this Royal Proclamation to all ladies.  Given the nature of this 
> program, this program is limited to ladies between 18 and 22 years of age.  
> In special cases, ladies as young as 15 years of age will be considered 
> depending on their country of residence at the time of application.  
> 
> All interested ladies should know that their local Rajas are very, very 
> excited about this program and are immediately available to personally answer 
> all questions related to this beautiful program. If it is not immediately 
> possible to speak with their local Raja, ladies are requested to contact the 
> Divine Devi of the Global Country of World Peace office by email at 
> urg...@... 
> 
>   
> PROCLAMATION
> By the Royal Order 
> of 
> His Majesty Maharaja Adhi Raj Raja Raam,
> First Ruler of Vishwa Shanti Rashtra, The Global Country of World Peace
> 
> In Preparation for the Auspicious Celebration of Vaisakhi Purnima
> Of the Year 2066 of the Vedic Calendar
>


1st thought: What the gibbering fuck is this insane 
nonsense.

2nd thought: It's got to be a send up. But it's a good
one. I'm so used to madness like this I really can't tell
for sure.

I had to search the net for a bit and the sender ID is from
one David Shapiro which implies either authenticity or spoofing
above the high standard we usually get. But the e-mail links
just go to the FFL post topic page.

The only other place any of the keywords in the title come up
is on TM-Free so it looks like they've been had too. If indeed
we have been, I'm going to keep my options open but I always 
get suckered by these things but I've seen it all so often I 
can't tell the difference anymore!

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM On Jeopardy last night

2009-04-22 Thread Nelson

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung  wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, I am the eternal  wrote:
> Seek after the Humbold video tapes.  I so much enjoyed them.  They
> > were perhaps his best ever. . . .
> > And don't listen to the damned Buddhists here.
> 
> Shad,
> 
> Yeah, get those 1971 Humboldt tapes -- find the tape that shows Maharishi 
> telling some guy "I'd rather disband the movement than have initiators who 
> look like you."  The guy had a beard and had gotten to the microphone and 
> made a seriously good case that bearded initiators would command respect.  
> There were 1500 folks there...half of them hippies. When Maharishi rebuked 
> the guy -- get this -- the crowd hissed and booed Maharishi.  Maharishi then 
> said, "Time for lunch."  You know, he chickened out -- something Turq does 
> when the heat in the kitchen is too much.
> 
> Yet, now we have the rajas with full beards.
> 
> When I got back from TTC, Bill Whitherspoon told me I had to shave my 
> mustache or he wouldn't allow me to teach in the Detroit area.  Years later I 
> had my chance to smack him around for it when we both lived in FF, but I, by 
> that time, saw Bill as this guy without a life and pitied him.  He was 
> pretending to be joe-honcho in the TM business community.  I wonder if he's 
> still plowing up the desert to make artforms.  Anyhoo, he was one of the 
> "little tyrants" the movement gave a bit of power to, and he wasn't the worst 
> TMO abuser by a long shot, but I guess I owe him a thank you note for being 
> part of the long process of building disaffection and clarity in me. Thanks 
> Bill for the abuse!
> 
> Anyone know if Bill is still toeing the TMO company line?
> 
> Edg
>
  I help out Bill now and then with some odd products and, inventions and would 
say he is definitely not a tb.
  He started a small business which has rapidly expanded and is selling stuff 
world wide.
  One of the aluminum frame assemblies I helped design and welded together 
ended up in Dubai.
  Anyway, look up "the sky factory" they have quite a website.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Can you help?

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine  wrote:
>
> On Apr 21, 2009, at 6:48 PM, Kirk wrote:
> 
> > What specifically is human design and what value does it have
> 
> I have no idea--there was no real description.
> 
> > . What are potential forms of restructuring one goes though after?
> 
> Well your wallet sure gets restructured.

I just loved the whole concept:

"I want you to pay for me to go to a 
three-day course, after which I will
be such an expert in something I'm not
going to explain to you that I can 
practice it on you and you'll be grate-
ful because your life will be better."

The "scientific study" that needs to
be done on TM is how it affects one's
gullibility. My bet is that there would
be two parallel lines in the graph for
"Length of time practicing TM" and
"Amount of money spent on things that 
promise to improve my life."

They should forget trying to market TM
to kids in schools, with all of those
nasty Constitutional issues, and just 
market it to marketing and advertising 
professionals. A strong case could 
probably be made to them that if they 
teach someone TM those TMers will then 
buy ANYTHING one tries to sell to them.

Ad agencies would eat this up and offer
to pay for all Americans to learn TM.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Book Review: Under The Thumb Of Cult Leader Sri Chinmoy

Sorry, but I been jammin cream.

- Original Message - 
From: "I am the eternal" 
To: 
Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 7:06 PM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Book Review: Under The Thumb Of Cult Leader 
Sri Chinmoy


> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 7:04 PM, Kirk  wrote:
>>
>>
>> What do you know of Sri Chinmoy, Nabby? Probably nothing first hand. 
>> Neither
>> do I. I just noticed the article in NHNE News, written by someone who had
>> grown up with him, and forwarded it here as I assumed, correctly, that it
>> might interest people. Do you have any evidence or experience to refute 
>> what
>> the woman wrote?
>>
>> No but after getting buttfucked by Ben Creme he will take just about 
>> any
>> guru's cock in his mouth and slurp on it until it explodes all over him 
>> and
>> consider it vibhuti.
>>
>
> Kirk, you must be tired after your first day of work.  Nap time.  Now!
>
>
> 
>
> To subscribe, send a message to:
> fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com
>
> Or go to:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/
> and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>

[FairfieldLife] PolitiFact

2009-04-22 Thread raunchydog

PolitiFact has won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for coverage of 
the 2008 election.

The board cited PolitiFact's use of "probing reporters and the power of the 
World Wide Web to examine more than 750 political claims, separating rhetoric 
from truth to enlighten voters.

Neil Brown, executive editor of the St. Petersburg Times, which launched 
PolitiFact in August 2007, said the award was "proof that the Web is not a 
death sentence for newspapers. In fact, PolitiFact marries the power of 
old-fashioned shoe-leather journalism with an extraordinarily powerful way to 
present it."

He wrote, "Online databases are rapidly becoming one of the important tools of 
watchdog journalism in the digital age. Identifying PolitiFact as the best 
national reporting of the year will only speed that trend."

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Brasil Law and Brasil Love

Do you still meditate?  Your story sounds awful.  Simple truth is if you 
meditate with no thought of vengeance and try to forgive them then their karma 
will have no hooks to sink into you and will return to them.  So do not play on 
their level. I suggest buying some redraksha. If you have a mailing address I 
will send you some free. Reach me through Facebook when you're ready.  Shiva 
scares away all ghouls. 
  - Original Message - 
  From: pranamoocher 
  To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 6:02 PM
  Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Brasil Law and Brasil Love




  You need help alright- help to stop posting insane messages and asking others 
to bail yourself out.

  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Louis McKenzie  wrote:
  >
  > Jai Guru Dev
  >  
  > In case you have wondered where went Louis
  >  
  > In 2004 I had a reconnect with a woman.  I spoke to her by phone for a 
friend who found her on an internet dating site.   I advised my friend that it 
was better that I not talk to this woman again, but as it was in the time of 
Carnival 2004 and everything closes in Brasil during Carnival, he insisted that 
I give her a call.  I did.  When he came to Brasil she was two months 
pregnant...
  >  
  > Today after living together for 4 years I live in a town called Sorocaba 
where my son lives with his mother, her mother, his uncle, his wife and my 
son´s sister.  The grandmother is a woman in her 60´s illiterate as far as 
education goes, yet very viscious as life goes.   I louis thomas Mckenzie was 
not trained at MIU, UCSD or COLUMBIA or NYU or New Seminary in how to deal with 
a person like this.   A mother pimp she lived off money given to her from three 
daughters that she assisted in becoming prostitutes.  A woman who with her 
husband took all of their ten children out of school by the age of 10, or after 
the 4th grade.  
  >  
  > In Brasil they use all kinds of natural law manipulatives in order to 
effect the desired result. In 2007 Maria A was told that if I recieved an 
investment in my company in Brasil her daughter would go to jail.   She was 
told this by a woman who channels gypsies and other devil spirits and is 
specialized in doing harm to people for money.   They decided to do everything 
and anything they could to break up my family and make sure that I did not 
receive my funding. (This is no longer hypothesis it has been verified and is 
now fact)
  >  
  > By the end of 2007 we could not receive any money via western union in our 
names in Brasil.   From 2008 January to June we received a total of 1500 usd, 
compared to the year before in which we recieved 15000 in the same period.   In 
July of 2008 we had to move to Sorocaba because we lost our apt in Sao Paulo.   
one week after arriving I was asked to please leave the apt of my mother in law 
because her daughter who paid her rent did not want me there.   
  >  
  > I took a hotel room.   Since that day the strangeness just got stranger and 
stranger until today, I am an american with a brazilian born child who is bound 
by brazilian law which says that no matter how bad the living situation is the 
child belongs with the mother.   
  >  
  > The law says that even no matter what if the mother or father does not sign 
an agreement to allow it is not possible to leave the country with the child.  
So in order for me to come back to the US and get a job I would have to abandon 
my child.   I have refused to do so.  I have had things happen like hotels 
asking ne to leave after paying 11,000 reais = 5000 usd while trying to arrange 
a new credit card.   The person who was willing to assist me was hit by a truck 
returning home to send the card info.  
  >  
  > I had to spend some time sleeping in a plaza.   Between the financial 
crisis and other things my funds have been severly delayed.   I am now in a 
situation where I live in a garage.   Share a very small space with a nother 
guy, I sleep on the floor.   Seems I have been unaable to recieve even 10 cents 
from the US lately.  
  >  
  > Recently it seems I may be getting closer to breaking this thing with this 
gypsy but I am still suffering.   
  >  
  > I know there are some people who do not like it when people write about 
personal situations but all I can say is that the guy who was on television 
regarding his 4 year old son I know that story because I am living it.   I NEED 
HELP..
  >  
  > Louis  JGD
  >  
  >  
  >

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[FairfieldLife] Benjamin Creme

Been Jammin Cream

[FairfieldLife] Real Transcendence [1 Attachment]


Real Transcendence, from the collapse of sound to the point (Bindu),  
to Nirodhika (the Limit), Transcendental Sound (Nada or Paravac), the  
collapse or End of Sound (Nadanta), the Energy of consciousness  
(Shakti), the Pervasive expansion (Vyapini), the Equal One (Samana,  
Uniform Equanimity),
Unmana (Pure Transcendence, beyond the body, the Transcendental Void  
of Speech):

Re: [FairfieldLife] Are Runes, Astrology and Other Ancient Paths Connected?

2009-04-22 Thread Peter

Okay, beno beno...I get it. Did you know there is a product by that name that 
stops you from farting? ;-) No metaphysics there! Just, as Maharishi said once, 
"...each with its own color and flavor."

--- On Wed, 4/22/09, beno beno  wrote:
From: beno beno 
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Are Runes, Astrology and Other Ancient Paths Connected?
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, April 22, 2009, 3:26 PM

I have discovered, over the course of 24 years, a new system of metaphysics 
that combines and sythesizes all of the following into one great whole, like 
pieces of a great jigsaw puzzle: astrology, tarot, I Ching, runes, the Tolkin 
(Mayan calendar), the Enneagram, Wm. B. Yeates' "A Vision", "Messages From 
Michael" on soul age, and even blood type analysis, DNA, amino acids and 
proteins. This is the Rosetta Stone of ancient mysteries. I even calculate all 
my own values and show how they match with currently accepted values. Please, 
take a look:
http://logos.13gems.com/
Note: This is NOT nor ever will be a commercial site.
beno

"If your words don't startle the crowd, you will fall into the streams of the 
commonplace."--Blue Cliff Record (Ch'an [Zen] Buddhist scripture)

[FairfieldLife] Re: Miss California Cheated out of Crown

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Alex Stanley"  
wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John"  wrote:
> >
> > To All:
> > 
> > Miss California had all the goods to win the Miss America crown.
> > She was cheated by a blogger who asked a politically sensitive
> > question about gay marriage.  Questions like that should not have
> > been allowed  in a beauty contest.
> 
> She could have answered the question with something along the lines of "I 
> think it's up to the individual states to decide for themselves whether same 
> sex marriage should be legalized." The question did not require her to state 
> her personal views about same sex marriage. She stupidly and needlessly 
> included information in her answer that cost her the crown. Basically, the 
> question was a test of intelligence and social skills, and she failed 
> miserably.
>


All she had to do was say: "I take the position of my president, Barack Obama, 
and believe that marriage is defined by one man and one woman."

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Book Review: Under The Thumb Of Cult Leader Sri Chinmoy

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 7:04 PM, Kirk  wrote:
>
>
> What do you know of Sri Chinmoy, Nabby? Probably nothing first hand. Neither
> do I. I just noticed the article in NHNE News, written by someone who had
> grown up with him, and forwarded it here as I assumed, correctly, that it
> might interest people. Do you have any evidence or experience to refute what
> the woman wrote?
>
> No but after getting buttfucked by Ben Creme he will take just about any
> guru's cock in his mouth and slurp on it until it explodes all over him and
> consider it vibhuti.
>

Kirk, you must be tired after your first day of work.  Nap time.  Now!

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Book Review: Under The Thumb Of Cult Leader Sri Chinmoy

What do you know of Sri Chinmoy, Nabby? Probably nothing first hand. Neither do 
I. I just noticed the article in NHNE News, written by someone who had grown up 
with him, and forwarded it here as I assumed, correctly, that it might interest 
people. Do you have any evidence or experience to refute what the woman wrote?

No but after getting buttfucked by Ben Creme he will take just about any 
guru's cock in his mouth and slurp on it until it explodes all over him and 
consider it vibhuti.

[FairfieldLife] Re: FW: Letter from Islam and updated list of published TM research

I hear that Muhammed Atta and the pilot in the plane that hit the other world 
trade center attributed their accuracy to the improved hand/eye co-ordination 
brought about through regular practise of the TM technique.




--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer"  wrote:
>
> From: David Orme-Johnson [mailto:davi...@...] 
> Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 8:37 AM
> To: David Orme-Johnson
> Subject: Letter from Islam and updated list of published TM research
>  
> Dear Colleagues,
> Below is a letter from Miral Shaaban in Cairo, Egypt, which relates how
> practice of the Transcendental Meditation technique has enriched the depth
> of her appreciation of her Muslim faith. I have added this letter to the
> collection of such letters posted on TruthAboutTM.com.
> I have also attached an updated "Bibliography of independent research
> publications on TM 1970-2009," compiled by Dr. Roger Chalmers for the UK TM
> Web site. Please delete previous versions.
> All the best,
> David W. Orme-Johnson, Ph.D.
>  
>  Leaders/index.cfm#Top> Letters from Religious Leaders and Persons of Faith
> on the Transcendental Meditation Program 
> A universal theme in these letters from religious leaders and persons is
> that the Transcendental Meditation program deepens their own spiritual life
> and enhances their comprehension and love of their own tradition. They note
> that it does not require any belief or change in life style to practice.
> They point out that the technique has been scientifically validated
>  >  to reduce stress
>  cfm#stress>  and improve mental clarity
>  ex.cfm> , health
>  cfm> , and interpersonal relations
>  cfm#social> , which are beneficial to any cultural tradition and which serve
> to increase appreciation and tolerance of other people's traditions and
> worldviews.
> These letters are used with permission of the writers.
> Contents:
> Andean Path 
> Shaman Mallku Aribalo, November 4, 2008
>  Leaders/index.cfm#Mallku#Mallku> 
> Catholicism 
> Father Leonard Dubi, December 1, 2008
>  Leaders/index.cfm#Dubi#Dubi> 
> Father Thomas R. Miller, June 17, 2008
>  Leaders/index.cfm#Miller#Miller> 
> Father Cletus Stein, October 2, 2008
>  Leaders/index.cfm#Stein#Stein> 
> Sister Carol Wirtz, August 25, 2008
>  Leaders/index.cfm#Wirtz#Wirtz> 
> Islam
> Nada
>  Leaders/index.cfm#Haider#Haider>  Haider, March 2, 2009
> Mohammad Haghverdi, December 24, 2008
>  Leaders/index.cfm#Mohammad#Mohammad> 
> Atmane
>  Leaders/index.cfm#Kouider#Kouider>  Kouider, Ph.D., February 15, 2009
> Miral
>  Leaders/index.cfm#Shaaban#Shaaban>  Shaaban, March 25, 2009
> Judaism 
> Senior
>  Leaders/index.cfm#Green#Green>  Rabbi Alan Green, March 13, 2009
> Rabbi Michael Shevack, November 12, 2008
>  Leaders/index.cfm#Shevack#Shevack> 
> Mormon
> High
>  Leaders/index.cfm#Stephens#Stephens>  Priest Marc Stephens
> United Methodist Church
> Reverend Jonathan Chadwick, November 4, 2008
>  Leaders/index.cfm#Chadwick#Chadwick> 
> Unity Church
> Reverend Don Lansky, June 30, 2008
>  Leaders/index.cfm#Lansky#Lansky>   
> Islam
> Miral Shaaban, March 25, 2009
> 
> To all interested in self-development,
> 
> I am a veiled Muslim that practices Transcendental Meditation (TM) and I
> cannot ever forget the first time I prayed after my first meditation. I
> learned the TM technique in December of 2006: I was speechless and cannot
> explain this state of complete serenity, contentment and gratitude for God.
>

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ample Breasts

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer"  wrote:
>
> From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com]
> On Behalf Of I am the eternal
> Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 9:17 AM
> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ample Breasts
>  
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:21 PM, scienceofabundance
> mailto:no_reply%40yahoogroups.com> > wrote:
> >
> >> Aren't "ample breasts" the "two fullnesses?"
> 
> Mein Got! Weren't any of the guys of FFL besides me breast fed as
> infants? I swear I've never heard any talk like this about women's
> breasts in any guy's locker rooms.
> My mother told me that some doctor had advised her against breast feeding,
> so she hadn't done it. She started crying while telling me this, as she felt
> that she was wrongly deprived of a natural experience she had wanted to
> have. My sisters and I were born by cesarean. Not sure if that was necessary
> either.



According to Nabby, this would explain why you no longer follow Maharishi.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Brazil Law and Brazil Love

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer"  wrote:
>
> From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com]
> On Behalf Of pranamoocher
> Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 6:03 PM
> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Brasil Law and Brasil Love
>  
> 
> I didn't get that he was asking anyone to bail him out. In fact he said he
> can't receive money from the US. He's just telling his story and asking for
> a little compassion and sympathy, which I feel for him.


My wife is a practicing lawyer here in Brazil. The fellow's story doesn't ring 
true. Among other reasons in his post including his false claims about child 
custody, no one can be prevented from receiving his money from the USA. After 
all, isn't he asking for money from any sucker at Fairfield Life who falls for 
his act?

And FWIW, the other guy he refers to in the USA claiming he wants 'his' kid, is 
another scam artist. My wife is fully familiar with 'his' very widely 
publicized story.





> You need help alright- help to stop posting insane messages and asking
> others to bail yourself out.
> 
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Louis McKenzie  wrote:
> >
> > Jai Guru Dev
> >  
> > In case you have wondered where went Louis
> >  
> > In 2004 I had a reconnect with a woman.  I spoke to her by phone for a
> friend who found her on an internet dating site.   I advised my friend that
> it was better that I not talk to this woman again, but as it was in the time
> of Carnival 2004 and everything closes in Brasil during Carnival, he
> insisted that I give her a call.  I did.  When he came to Brasil she was two
> months pregnant...
> >  
> > Today after living together for 4 years I live in a town called Sorocaba
> where my son lives with his mother, her mother, his uncle, his wife and my
> son´s sister.  The grandmother is a woman in her 60´s illiterate as far as
> education goes, yet very viscious as life goes.   I louis thomas Mckenzie
> was not trained at MIU, UCSD or COLUMBIA or NYU or New Seminary in how to
> deal with a person like this.   A mother pimp she lived off money given to
> her from three daughters that she assisted in becoming prostitutes.  A woman
> who with her husband took all of their ten children out of school by the age
> of 10, or after the 4th grade.  
> >  
> > In Brasil they use all kinds of natural law manipulatives in order to
> effect the desired result. In 2007 Maria A was told that if I recieved an
> investment in my company in Brasil her daughter would go to jail.   She was
> told this by a woman who channels gypsies and other devil spirits and is
> specialized in doing harm to people for money.   They decided to do
> everything and anything they could to break up my family and make sure that
> I did not receive my funding. (This is no longer hypothesis it has been
> verified and is now fact)
> >  
> > By the end of 2007 we could not receive any money via western union in our
> names in Brasil.   From 2008 January to June we received a total of 1500
> usd, compared to the year before in which we recieved 15000 in the same
> period.   In July of 2008 we had to move to Sorocaba because we lost our apt
> in Sao Paulo.   one week after arriving I was asked to please leave the apt
> of my mother in law because her daughter who paid her rent did not want me
> there.   
> >  
> > I took a hotel room.   Since that day the strangeness just got stranger
> and stranger until today, I am an american with a brazilian born child who
> is bound by brazilian law which says that no matter how bad the living
> situation is the child belongs with the mother.   
> >  
> > The law says that even no matter what if the mother or father does not
> sign an agreement to allow it is not possible to leave the country with the
> child.  So in order for me to come back to the US and get a job I would have
> to abandon my child.   I have refused to do so.  I have had things happen
> like hotels asking ne to leave after paying 11,000 reais = 5000 usd while
> trying to arrange a new credit card.   The person who was willing to assist
> me was hit by a truck returning home to send the card info.  
> >  
> > I had to spend some time sleeping in a plaza.   Between the financial
> crisis and other things my funds have been severly delayed.   I am now in a
> situation where I live in a garage.   Share a very small space with a nother
> guy, I sleep on the floor.   Seems I have been unaable to recieve even 10
> cents from the US lately.  
> >  
> > Recently it seems I may be getting closer to breaking this thing with this
> gypsy but I am still suffering.   
> >  
> > I know there are some people who do not like it when people write about
> personal situations but all I can say is that the guy who was on television
> regarding his 4 year old son I know that story because I am living it.   I
> NEED HELP..
> >  
> > Louis  JGD
> >  
> >  
> >
>

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ample Breasts


> I agree, this is gross. These fellows are beyond checking. Is FFL now 
> being swamped with the extreme fools from alt.tm, from where the Turq also 
> came ?


I believe Turq first came on your face, before he came here.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Are Runes, Astrology and Other Ancient Paths Connected?

Then tell us here what it is. I hate navigating away from here. I am too 
attached to leave. Sorry.

  - Original Message - 
  From: beno beno 
  To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 2:26 PM
  Subject: [FairfieldLife] Are Runes, Astrology and Other Ancient Paths 
Connected?

I have discovered, over the course of 24 years, a new system of 
metaphysics that combines and sythesizes all of the following into one great 
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of the commonplace."--Blue Cliff Record (Ch'an [Zen] Buddhist scripture)

[FairfieldLife] Re: Book Review: Under The Thumb Of Cult Leader Sri Chinmoy

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer"  wrote:
>
> From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com]
> On Behalf Of nablusoss1008
> Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 3:51 PM
> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Book Review: Under The Thumb Of Cult Leader Sri
> Chinmoy
>  
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
>  , nablusoss1008 
> wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
>  , "Rick Archer"  wrote:
> > 
> > Rick Archer; you are a fool and a rumour-monger.
> 
> How many Yogis has Rick denounced during his short, little, pathetic span of
> life ? 10 ?
> 
> From where does a grim little fool from Fairfield get the guts to denounce
> anyone, let alone a great Yogi like Sri Chimnoy ? 
> What do you know of Sri Chinmoy, Nabby? Probably nothing first hand. Neither
> do I. I just noticed the article in NHNE News, written by someone who had
> grown up with him, and forwarded it here as I assumed, correctly, that it
> might interest people. Do you have any evidence or experience to refute what
> the woman wrote?




I hear tell that Sri Chinmoy once violated Nabby with one of his dumbbells.




>

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ample Breasts

Funny, but I thought you were talking about Vedic Waterboarding.

- Original Message - 
From: "TurquoiseB" 
To: 
Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 1:46 AM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ample Breasts


> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, scienceofabundance  
> wrote:
>>
>> > Aren't "ample breasts" the "two fullnesses?"
>>
>> Hello Bhairatu. The historic mistake of the intellect
>> has been that ample breasts were two fullnesses.
>>
>> Maharishi's Worldwide Movement has now corrected this
>> error through the experiences of millions of enlightened
>> men in this generation and several hundred scientific
>> research studies completed by independent investigators
>> in leading universities.
>>
>> Today, as Heaven on Earth has been achieved due to the
>> rapidly increasing practice of Maharishi's programs
>> throughout the world, enlightened men are experiencing
>> the bliss of unity in ample breasts - ever-deepening
>> waves of fullness at the level of the point value of
>> life as they joyfully play with the ample breasts on
>> the surface level of life.
>
> Absolutely. Have you ever seen a painting
> of a statue of a Hindu goddess who didn't
> have ample breasts? I rest my case.
>
> I have heard, in fact, that the TMO is about
> to announce a new course, supposedly more
> effective than the TM-siddhis.
>
> The new technique will be called "Yogic
> Motorboating." Do not confuse this Vedic-
> based technique with the more mundane desc-
> ription of motorboating: "The act of pushing
> one's face in between two ample breasts and
> rocking one's head side to side very rapidly
> while making a vigorous, lip-vibrating 'brrr'
> sound."
>
> Not the same thing at all. Yogic Motorboating
> is to regular motorboating as the butt-bouncing
> of Yogic Flying is to...uh...is to... Sorry...
> I can't really think of any parallel to Yogic
> Flying in the mundane world...forget I even
> brought it up.
>
> Anyway, the first Yogic Motorboating courses
> will be offered soon at Maharishi Peace Palaces
> throughout the world. While the target audience
> for these courses is of course men -- who are,
> after all, the only ones who matter in the
> TM view of spirituality -- exceptions will be
> made for lesbians and Hillary Clinton supporters,
> as long as they agree to practice the technique
> in a different Motorboating Dome than the men.
>
> Catch the buzz today. Motorboat your way to
> true enlightenment. D-cups for D-stressing.
>
>
>
>
>
> 
>
> To subscribe, send a message to:
> fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com
>
> Or go to:
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>
>
>

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: New Job

I forgot a few other points. First Green Goddess is the only place in New 
Orleans that is doing a partially vegetarian menu of new items which are not 
just trying to imitate meat dishes. I have been wanting to work someplace 
with a more sattvic plan and this is the only place there is.

Also, the chef and the other owner were also punk rockers before in their 
life. One still plays in a couple punk bands so we have that in common. The 
fact that the chef's wife is Poppy Z Brite a unique local author means we 
will have press.

I feel that this is the place for me. Oh yeah, I have lived a fairly social 
life, never eschewing a party or excuse to play around.  But after all that 
I have heard myself talk until I am sick of hearing myself.  In the same 
light, I have been chef about five times and twice getting to write my own 
menus and I have done prettymuch everything I have felt like doing, so I 
like to let other people take the reigns and to support them if they are 
genuinely interesting. This is such a case where I will be interested and 
the fact that the menu will not be written in stone, the fact that we will 
be making coctails with coffee bean juice and dragonberry, and cashew juice 
and so on is really fascinating to me.  There's no limit to what we will do. 
Very few reataurants in the world can claim this.  And we are in New Orleans 
where we do have already a native sense of propriety in cuisine so I am 
merely inspired.

All bullshit aside, if I have to work I like to be cutting edge.

I invite you all to step in when you're in town.  Naughty or nice.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: New Job

I'll try to answer (read in).
  - Original Message - 
  From: Duveyoung 
  To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 9:27 AM
  Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: New Job

  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Kirk"  wrote:
  >
  > Hi guys I am starting to work at a new and fascinating restaurant in 
  > Exchange Place in the French Quarter. 

  Kirk,

  What kind of research do you do to be "on top  of" the restaurant scene in 
NOLA?  Is there local coverage via newspaper columnist, or TV show, or tourist 
guidebooks?  
  Of course there is coverage but I care little for it.  Word of mouth is 
the main thing. Plus being a cook and having worked so many places I know 
pretty much what is going on in the city. Fine restaurants in general wont hire 
me because I cost too much. My resume isn't good enough for me to claim chef at 
any of them. They demand CIA or equivalent education. 

  And, fine restaurants around here all pay homage to Cajun/Creole food or 
French and few (or none) really break out and go wild with their concepts. For 
instance, one can freeze coconut milk and then serve excellent rum on coconut 
ice cubes.  Sometimes simple and obvious things take a really alert chef to 
make notes and then enact. 

  The chef Chris Debarre is a genius and 
  > for once I stand to learn a lot of new cooking ingredients and techniques. 

  All these years you've been a passionate chef yourself -- can there really be 
ingredients that you can say are new to you?  

  There's always new ingredients. To use Curtis' analogy, one can be a 
great blues player and yet there will always be new songs and varieties on 
style which are even more aluring having had some background in the first 
place. Also, as Curtis said, ethnic cuisines are various and discrete and 
proper use of ideal ingredients makes all the difference. My background is 
mostly New Orleans Metro French and Creole.  Almost exclusively. So I still 
have alot to learn.

  How do you know that  Chris has the mojo -- has ya eaten in other places he's 
been the chef?  

  Actually I haven't but word of mouth from friends of mine say he's cool. 
And I have met him and started work there so I know him. I am one of his 
sous-chefs so I am helping to formulate the menu and implement it from scratch. 
I am even helping remodel the place! All this makes me more integral and feel 
more important. That's usually the most important aspect of the job for me, 
that is, to not feel like a mere useless appendage. But his menu is the mojo, 
and between us we can tweak stuff to be entirely delicious and not merely stuck 
up and unusual. 

  Seems to me that your intellect is capable of taking up your skills a notch 
by hanging with another genius, but from my side,  as an inventor myself, you 
surely must be at that stage where you can turn out a new dish every single 
time you cook, and it'll be as creative and savory as any dish that any chef 
can create.  98% of the customers surely wouldn't have the chops to say that 
your menu is "less inviting" than this chef's menu, so what's your goal?  

  -I can write menus from scratch and they would be unique, but working 
with even more unique or more worldly chefs still broadens my purview. I can't 
lose by expanding my range. I can only win. Moreover, I work best as partners 
with others due to my own lack of motivation.  My goal is to be associated with 
one of the most avant garde chefs in the country. The fact that he isn't known 
yet means little. I have faith that he will make it to the top and you will all 
hear about him within a few years, if not immediately. Then I can thumb my nose 
at all those who derided me. his smarts to hire me equal my smarts in working 
for him. I'm not sure how but we hit it off from the start and he has been 
entirely personable to me thus far.

  I can understand working with another chef, and hoping to secure a stable 
position of  respect there, but as for you "as an artist,"  I can't see you 
becoming more  creative -- only creating more dishes in this chef's cuisine.  
Are you searching for your inner cuisine -- your artistic style or genre?  

  -No. I have my style, but I am always seeking to broaden my range and 
become more eclectic and knowledgable. It's an insiders brag to know and use 
not only fine ingredients but to have a knowledge of and use of unique 
ingredients. This is about the only chance I have had in the last ten years to 
work with a fine chef, who isn't myself. Who really has a more extensive 
palette than me. 

  And, the really important question is, aside from your excitement at the new 
prospect, and other than your intuitive powers (which are potent if your posts 
are any indication,) "what has you assured that this chef's personality will be 
harmonious with yours?"  Isn't that as important as the chef's credentials and 
skills?

  ---Yes, well so far he respects me and defers to my input. Tha

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Brazil Law and Brazil Love

From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com]
On Behalf Of pranamoocher
Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 6:03 PM
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Brasil Law and Brasil Love
 

I didn't get that he was asking anyone to bail him out. In fact he said he
can't receive money from the US. He's just telling his story and asking for
a little compassion and sympathy, which I feel for him.


You need help alright- help to stop posting insane messages and asking
others to bail yourself out.

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Louis McKenzie  wrote:
>
> Jai Guru Dev
>  
> In case you have wondered where went Louis
>  
> In 2004 I had a reconnect with a woman.  I spoke to her by phone for a
friend who found her on an internet dating site.   I advised my friend that
it was better that I not talk to this woman again, but as it was in the time
of Carnival 2004 and everything closes in Brasil during Carnival, he
insisted that I give her a call.  I did.  When he came to Brasil she was two
months pregnant...
>  
> Today after living together for 4 years I live in a town called Sorocaba
where my son lives with his mother, her mother, his uncle, his wife and my
son´s sister.  The grandmother is a woman in her 60´s illiterate as far as
education goes, yet very viscious as life goes.   I louis thomas Mckenzie
was not trained at MIU, UCSD or COLUMBIA or NYU or New Seminary in how to
deal with a person like this.   A mother pimp she lived off money given to
her from three daughters that she assisted in becoming prostitutes.  A woman
who with her husband took all of their ten children out of school by the age
of 10, or after the 4th grade.  
>  
> In Brasil they use all kinds of natural law manipulatives in order to
effect the desired result. In 2007 Maria A was told that if I recieved an
investment in my company in Brasil her daughter would go to jail.   She was
told this by a woman who channels gypsies and other devil spirits and is
specialized in doing harm to people for money.   They decided to do
everything and anything they could to break up my family and make sure that
I did not receive my funding. (This is no longer hypothesis it has been
verified and is now fact)
>  
> By the end of 2007 we could not receive any money via western union in our
names in Brasil.   From 2008 January to June we received a total of 1500
usd, compared to the year before in which we recieved 15000 in the same
period.   In July of 2008 we had to move to Sorocaba because we lost our apt
in Sao Paulo.   one week after arriving I was asked to please leave the apt
of my mother in law because her daughter who paid her rent did not want me
there.   
>  
> I took a hotel room.   Since that day the strangeness just got stranger
and stranger until today, I am an american with a brazilian born child who
is bound by brazilian law which says that no matter how bad the living
situation is the child belongs with the mother.   
>  
> The law says that even no matter what if the mother or father does not
sign an agreement to allow it is not possible to leave the country with the
child.  So in order for me to come back to the US and get a job I would have
to abandon my child.   I have refused to do so.  I have had things happen
like hotels asking ne to leave after paying 11,000 reais = 5000 usd while
trying to arrange a new credit card.   The person who was willing to assist
me was hit by a truck returning home to send the card info.  
>  
> I had to spend some time sleeping in a plaza.   Between the financial
crisis and other things my funds have been severly delayed.   I am now in a
situation where I live in a garage.   Share a very small space with a nother
guy, I sleep on the floor.   Seems I have been unaable to recieve even 10
cents from the US lately.  
>  
> Recently it seems I may be getting closer to breaking this thing with this
gypsy but I am still suffering.   
>  
> I know there are some people who do not like it when people write about
personal situations but all I can say is that the guy who was on television
regarding his 4 year old son I know that story because I am living it.   I
NEED HELP..
>  
> Louis  JGD
>  
>  
>

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: Mother Divine Emerita and Divine Devi of the Global Country of World P

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, satvadude108  wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig"  wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, satvadude108  wrote:
> > [...]
> > > Jeez, its not like the announcement said 
> > > something crazy like the MD's were going
> > > to be put on a scale and given their weight  
> > > in gold.
> > > 
> > > 
> > >
> > 
> > You have a problem with that?
> > 
> > L
> >
> 
> No, do you?
> 
> I find it humorous.
>

You suggested it was somehow crazy


;-)


L

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: Mother Divine Emerita and Divine Devi of the Global Country of World P

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, grate.swan  wrote:
>

> Well I am not as sharp as Judy. And I initially skimmed Turqs commented 
> reposting and did not question its validity. 
> 
> However, then I read the original post in full. By the 6th paragraph, tell me 
> with a straight face -- anyone -- that you believe this could be real: 
> 
> 1)  "created especially for ladies everywhere who are seeking true 
> enlightenment"
> 
> As opposed to all the other TMO sucker programs that offer not real 
> enlightenment? Yea, the TMO is going to bad mouth all of its other 
> enlightenment programs.  
> 
> 2)  "but who also wish to join His Majesty and Their Excellencies, The 40 
> Rajas of our Worldwide Movement, in perpetuating the administration of 
> Maharishi's Worldwide Movement and creating the enlightened leaders of 
> tomorrow for our beloved Maharishi's Worldwide Movement."
> 
> A bunch of young "Devi's working directly with the rajas? Hmm its beginning 
> to smell fishy.  

That would be "Devine Devi's." DD Double D 
Flow soma flow.


> 
> 3) " According to His Majesty, the goal of Divine Devi of the Global Country 
> of World Peace is to create a Royal Family of the Global Country of World 
> Peace" 
> 
> Royal Family? this did initally get me thinking about perpetuating the 
> lineage.  But it also sounds a bit put on.
> 
> 
> 4) Given the nature of this program, this program is limited to ladies 
> between 18 and 22 years of age. 
> 
> BINGO! Red Alert! Um why cut it off at 22 -- and why start at 18 (given the 
> movement likes degrees, etc) except if, if its a SPOOF on horny rajas -- 
> whereby 18-22 year olds perfectly fit the bill. 
> 
> 5) "In special cases, ladies as young as 15 years of age will be considered 
> depending on their country of residence at the time of application."
> 
> Bells and Sirens Ringing intensely. DefCom 5 -- We are on the verge of total 
> Reality breakdown. "As young as 15" WTF!!! ! 
> Depending on the country of residence ! an oh by the way -- some 
> countries have an age of legal consent < 18? Jeez , could there be a 
> connection here???!!! Even the wacko dysfunctional Movement would not 
> publicly advertise a brand spanking new pedaphile program for its 
> distinguished leaders.
> 
> 
> 6)  "All interested ladies should know that their local Rajas are very, very 
> excited "
> 
> Um How large and grand is their excitement! Do you think they can contain 
> their excitment much longer!!?? Can anyone possibly take this as a serious 
> news release?
> 
> 7) "rajas ... are immediately available to personally answer
> all questions related to this beautiful program."
> 
> Immediately available huh. Talking to 18-22 year old girls has a higher 
> priority than all of the other projects? Imediately available!!  No bells? 
> Really? 
> 
> 8) "If it is not immediately possible to speak with their local Raja, ladies 
> are requested to contact the Divine Devi of the Global Country of World Peace 
> office by email at urgent@"
> 
> At "urgent@ ..." HA! Quick Ladies. These old guys can neither keep it up, nor 
> hold it for much longer. Its URGENT! 
> 
> As PT Barnum said, " ...
>

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: Mother Divine Emerita and Divine Devi of the Global Country of World P

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig"  wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, satvadude108  wrote:
> [...]
> > Jeez, its not like the announcement said 
> > something crazy like the MD's were going
> > to be put on a scale and given their weight  
> > in gold.
> > 
> > 
> >
> 
> You have a problem with that?
> 
> L
>

No, do you?

I find it humorous.

[FairfieldLife] The devil and his Friend

The devil and his FriendThe devil went for a walk with a friend, They saw a man ahead of them stop down and pick up something from the ground."What did that man find?" asked the friend. "A piece of Truth" , said the devil. "Doesn't that disturb you ?" asked the friend. "No," said the devil, "I shall let him make a belief out of it, and that shall create another new religion."From the beautiful Septic Pen blog (Bangalore, India)http://septicpen.blogspot.com

[FairfieldLife] Amazing Saturn


The pictures just keep getting better:

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/04/cassinis_continued_mission.html

LINK

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Book Review: Under The Thumb Of Cult Leader Sri Chinmoy

From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com]
On Behalf Of nablusoss1008
Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 3:51 PM
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Book Review: Under The Thumb Of Cult Leader Sri
Chinmoy
 
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 , nablusoss1008 
wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 , "Rick Archer"  wrote:
> 
> Rick Archer; you are a fool and a rumour-monger.

How many Yogis has Rick denounced during his short, little, pathetic span of
life ? 10 ?

>From where does a grim little fool from Fairfield get the guts to denounce
anyone, let alone a great Yogi like Sri Chimnoy ? 
What do you know of Sri Chinmoy, Nabby? Probably nothing first hand. Neither
do I. I just noticed the article in NHNE News, written by someone who had
grown up with him, and forwarded it here as I assumed, correctly, that it
might interest people. Do you have any evidence or experience to refute what
the woman wrote?

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: Mother Divine Emerita and Divine Devi of the Global Country of World P

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, grate.swan  wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues"  
> wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend"  wrote:
> > > The third paragraph:
> > > 
> > 
> > I haven't been following this closely enough early on to see if I would 
> > have detected a spoof or not, but lets examine this paragraph and compare 
> > it to the real MD program.
> > 
> > 
> >  This
> > > invitation will be of particular interest to our
> > > dear Mothers Divine who have blessed the world for
> > > at least 15 years or who are 35 years of age or
> > > older.'"
> > 
> > Me:
> > 
> > Age requirements for a retirement course.  Sounds right.
> > 
> > > 
> > > This really didn't trigger your spoof detector?
> > > 
> > > Seriously??
> > > 
> > > Wow.
> > 
> > So what exactly in that quote is so out of line from what the movement is 
> > actually doing?  Is the idea that they might actually be taking care of 
> > older MD members with a special program designed for their needs instead of 
> > chucking them out on the street when they become a financial burden the 
> > part that is soo  un TM movement?
> > 
> > 
> 
> Well I am not as sharp as Judy. And I initially skimmed Turqs commented 
> reposting and did not question its validity. 
> 
> However, then I read the original post in full. By the 6th paragraph, tell me 
> with a straight face -- anyone -- that you believe this could be real: 
> 
> 1)  "created especially for ladies everywhere who are seeking true 
> enlightenment"
> 
> As opposed to all the other TMO sucker programs that offer not real 
> enlightenment? Yea, the TMO is going to bad mouth all of its other 
> enlightenment programs.  
> 
> 2)  "but who also wish to join His Majesty and Their Excellencies, The 40 
> Rajas of our Worldwide Movement, in perpetuating the administration of 
> Maharishi's Worldwide Movement and creating the enlightened leaders of 
> tomorrow for our beloved Maharishi's Worldwide Movement."
> 
> A bunch of young "Devi's working directly with the rajas? Hmm its beginning 
> to smell fishy.  
> >
> 
> 3) " According to His Majesty, the goal of Divine Devi of the Global Country 
> of World Peace is to create a Royal Family of the Global Country of World 
> Peace" 
> 
> Royal Family? this did initally get me thinking about perpetuating the 
> lineage.  But it also sounds a bit put on.
> 
> 
> 4) Given the nature of this program, this program is limited to ladies 
> between 18 and 22 years of age. 
> 
> BINGO! Red Alert! Um why cut it off at 22 -- and why start at 18 (given the 
> movement likes degrees, etc) except if, if its a SPOOF on horny rajas -- 
> whereby 18-22 year olds perfectly fit the bill. 
> 
> 5) "In special cases, ladies as young as 15 years of age will be considered 
> depending on their country of residence at the time of application."
> 
> Bells and Sirens Ringing intensely. DefCom 5 -- We are on the verge of total 
> Reality breakdown. "As young as 15" WTF!!! ! 
> Depending on the country of residence ! an oh by the way -- some 
> countries have an age of legal consent < 18? Jeez , could there be a 
> connection here???!!! Even the wacko dysfunctional Movement would not 
> publicly advertise a brand spanking new pedaphile program for its 
> distinguished leaders.
> 
> 
> 6)  "All interested ladies should know that their local Rajas are very, very 
> excited "
> 
> Um How large and grand is their excitement! Do you think they can contain 
> their excitment much longer!!?? Can anyone possibly take this as a serious 
> news release?
> 
> 7) "rajas ... are immediately available to personally answer
> all questions related to this beautiful program."
> 
> Immediately available huh. Talking to 18-22 year old girls has a higher 
> priority than all of the other projects? Imediately available!!  No bells? 
> Really? 
> 
> 8) "If it is not immediately possible to speak with their local Raja, ladies 
> are requested to contact the Divine Devi of the Global Country of World Peace 
> office by email at urgent@"
> 
> At "urgent@ ..." HA! Quick Ladies. These old guys can neither keep it up, nor 
> hold it for much longer. Its URGENT! 
> 
> As PT Barnum said, " ...
>
Yep, PT was right. Mahesh and the Shrivastava/Varma clan clearly studied him 
carefully.

Look, if back in the 70's someone described the Raja's and King Tony (and the 
photo of King Tony on the scale), the special houses, the special honey, the 
yagyas for hire, the astrologers for hire, the hopping sold as "flying" for 
hire.(and I'm just thinking off the top of my head) and described it all in 
great detail and told you "this is what the TMO is going to look like in the 
year 2009, you'd say it was a hoax and total bull shit. I mean there's no way 
our precious Maharishi and his movement would involve itself in such silliness 
so clearly contrary to the "knowledge", right?

So when a spoof, a very well written one as this one was,

[FairfieldLife] IQ test for republican party

Failed...


http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2009/04/just_by_lookin_atem.php


"I didn't mean to suggest that *I* was an expert..."


Er, um, who cares?


Lawson

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Science Of Spiritual Marketing (Is kneeling ever just kneeling)

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "geezerfreak"  wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "geezerfreak"  wrote:
> >
> > > Everything I ever needed to know about how
> > > to handle Judy Stein's stalking I learned
> > > from the late, great Reverend Gene Scott.
> > 
> > Gene Scott! Man, there's a stab from the past! I use 
> > to watch him for hours in the upstairs loft at the 
> > Palisades WPECendless entertainment. A women who 
> > works with me know was once married to his body guard. 
> > Gene used to hang out with actor Mickey Rourke in those 
> > days. When did he die?

Died of cancer in 2005.
 
> > You know who was REALLY a trip, also LA based? Dr. O.L. 
> > Jaggers and Miss Velma. They had this church in mid-town 
> > LA called the Universal Life Church. 

I've been trying to remember the name of 
this church for years. Thanks. What a zoo!

The things people get used to and no longer
think are crazy. Frogs in hot water, the
lot of them...

[FairfieldLife] Great fun ! - Dr. Gene Scott and Monkeys with Cymbals



Monkey business with lots of monkeys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJxKQ-WOFFE&feature=related


...and here he is counting his $$$ pledges... and more
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3X-GtEnjME&feature=related

[FairfieldLife] David Lynch press conferences in Moscow, Kiev

2009-04-22 Thread michael

David Lynch press conferences in Moscow, Kiev inspire new wave of publicity for 
Transcendental Meditation
by Global Good News staff writer

Global Good News    Translate This Article
22 April 2009

Renowned filmmaker David Lynch, whose foundation is raising funds to teach one 
million at-risk children the Transcendental Meditation Programme, recently gave 
press conferences in Moscow, Russia and Kiev, Ukraine, which attracted great 
publicity and support. 

The level of receptivity and excitement in Moscow and Kiev—for the David Lynch 
Foundation and the programmes of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi—was almost 
unprecedented, reported Dr Robert Roth, National Director of Expansion for the 
Global Country of World Peace in the United States, on 21 April 2009. 

Immediately following his foundation's benefit concert, 'Change Begins Within', 
on 4 April 2009 in New York, David Lynch traveled to Moscow for an exhibition 
of his photography and paintings. 'Dr Lynch is extremely popular and respected 
in Eastern European countries,' commented Dr Roth, 'and his exhibitions were 
widely attended.' 

After the art exhibition, Dr Lynch and Dr Roth spent a week touring and giving 
press conferences in Moscow and Kiev. Displaying photos of the press 
conferences, Dr Roth commented on how crowded each of the rooms were with 
people eager to hear Dr Lynch's message. 'You can see the looks of wonder on 
all of the young people's faces,' he pointed out. While some young people and 
students asked about Dr Lynch's filmmaking, the majority of questions concerned 
his experience with Transcendental Meditation, as well as higher states of 
consciousness, the connection between TM and the creative process, and the 
goals of the David Lynch Foundation. 

In Kiev, David Lynch appeared on the front page of all major newspapers and on 
many popular television shows in the days following the press conferences. One 
TV show, reported Dr Roth, during which Dr Lynch answered questions on 
Transcendental Meditation, was viewed by 50 million people. Dr Lynch drew 
attention from many celebrities in Ukraine, including one of the country's most 
famous actresses, who interviewed him on a morning talk show. 

David Lynch also held a book signing in Ukraine for his book 'Catching the Big 
Fish', which has been translated into the Russian language. Dr Roth reported 
that all 300 books at the signing were sold very quickly. 

'The response we saw in Moscow and Kiev was another example of collective 
consciousness rising in the world, as a result of the Maharishi Vedic Pandits 
in India and the US, as well as the Invincible America Assembly of Yogic 
Flyers,' noted Dr Roth. 'In all the press conferences we attended in Eastern 
Europe,' he continued 'there were never any misguided questions or doubts 
concerning Transcendental Meditation or Maharishi's knowledge.' He went on to 
report that Global Country of World Peace leaders in Russia and Ukraine are 
planning for expansion of Consciousness-Based Education and Maharishi's other 
programmes in their countries, keeping the momentum strong from the recent wave 
of publicity. 

© Copyright 2009 Global Good News®

[FairfieldLife] Frog In A Pot Syndrome

Reading scienceofabundance's great spoof, right
on the heels of having watched the video of the
Rajas in full regalia doing puja, the video of
King Tony receiving his weight in gold, and the
*real* ad for Mother Divine posted by Nabby, 
I found myself remembering an analogy that
the Rama fellow I studied with for some time
used to use. 

He claimed (though I've never actually done this
so I can't swear that it's true...no frogs were
harmed in the telling of this story) that if you
take a frog and throw it in a pot of boiling
water, the frog jumps right out and is fine. But
if you take a frog and put it in a pot of cold
water and then gradually heat the water, the
frog will stay there until the water boils, and
will die.

Rama used the story as a warning about how we
tend to get used to changes that happen to us
gradually, and that over time those seemingly
small changes build up and build up, and we 
eventually find ourselves in...uh...hot water.

Think about the discussions that have been going
on recently here on FFL. On one side there are
people who have spent years *waking up* from 
decades of living in cult hot water, who are 
saying that the TM movement should be honest 
with potential new students and tell them about 
what the puja means, what the mantras mean in 
the context that they came from, what the Rajas 
wear when they're not trying to impress the press, 
and what life in the "heaven on earth" of a TM
community is really like *before* they start TM.

On the other side there are people who justify
NOT telling prospective students these things.
The argument they seem to fall back on is that
the *only* important thing is that they "get
the technique." If that happens, everything 
will be OK these people say, even if the students
were "a little" lied to, just with a tiny "lie of
omission."

Well, I'm telling ya, that's a boiled frog 
talking. 

Would any sane person on planet Earth NOT be
shocked at the sight of Rajas prancing around 
in robes and crowns pretending to "rule" an 
imaginary country? Would any sane person on
planet Earth NOT split a gut at being told 
that the only way to make countries work is 
to tear down their capital cities and rebuild 
them from scratch? Would any sane person on 
planet Earth look at the pencil-neck Purusha 
geeks, the dry-as-a-bone Mother Divine women, 
and the fat, old, out-of-shape Rajas with
their wives walking several paces behind them
and actually WANT TO BE LIKE THEM?

The ONLY people who can look at these things 
and see them as sane or even positive are people 
who have been in the pot too long, as the heat 
was turned up gradually over the span of decades. 

If Judy Stein had been confronted with what the
TM is now when she first heard about TM, *there
is simply no question* that she would never have
started. Same for *most* of the TM supporters
here. They'd take one look at the craziness and
run the other way. 

And THAT is why they want to withhold information
about the true nature of the TM movement from
prospective students. On some level they must 
*know* that they're boiled frogs, and that the
only reason they can possibly look at what the
TM movement has become without wanting to run
the other way is that they've been subjected to
small outrage after small outrage after small
outrage for decades, so gradually that they never
noticed that it was building up to one big outrage.

I think that prospective TM students should be
given a chance to "test the waters" before they
dive in. I trust them enough to make their own
decisions, and sane ones, based on being given a
*complete* picture of what the TM organization is
and is not, and what TM is and is not.

The TM defenders here don't feel that way. They
want to keep these prospective students in the
dark and just "get them in the water," so that
they'll "get the technique" *before* they're 
exposed to any of these things. They think that
if that is allowed to happen, these new kids 
will somehow "get used to" all the craziness the
way they did. 

I think that people who think this way have been
in the boiling water too long.

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Science Of Spiritual Marketing (Is kneeling ever just kneeling)

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "geezerfreak"  wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB  wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, satvadude108  wrote:
> > >
> > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB  wrote:
> > > >
> > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "geezerfreak"  
> > > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Judy, I didn't respond to you because I've concluded 
> > > > > that word wrestling with you is about as useful as 
> > > > > arguing with Nabby or WillyTex. I don't have time time 
> > > > > to get into convoluted dialogs with you. I don't have 
> > > > > time to get into convoluted dialogs with anyone here 
> > > > > for that matter. I check in when I get a moment, post 
> > > > > quick comments when I'm able and move on to to other 
> > > > > pressing matters. You've made it clear over the years 
> > > > > that "winning" is of utmost importance to you. While, 
> > > > > I've enjoyed a few posts of yours concerning food or 
> > > > > birds, I find the endless "you're lying and you know 
> > > > > it" crap to be tiring and mind-numbingly boring. 
> > > > > 
> > > > > That's why I don't rumble in the jungle with you.
> > > > 
> > > > Wise man. 
> > > > 
> > > > Add to what you said, however, the fact that
> > > > the person trying to taunt you into entering
> > > > an argument with her is the person who recently
> > > > defined a good discussion (à la a.m.t.) as one
> > > > that she could prolong until it was "100 posts
> > > > deep." 
> > > > 
> > > > Since saying that, she has tried to taunt at
> > > > least four people into such an argument. And
> > > > it never even *occurs* to her that by saying
> > > > what she's trying to do (lure people into end-
> > > > less arguments) and then attempting to do just 
> > > > that she might be shooting herself in the foot.  
> > > > 
> > > > That's our Judy. Not just an attention vampire, 
> > > > but a stupid attention vampire.
> > > 
> > > Do you ever tire of being stalked by her?
> > > 
> > > What makes it kinda funny to read is she 
> > > never seems to see her stalking always is
> > > adroitly flipped to her acting like a monkey 
> > > you have on a chain, begging for coins and 
> > > support from passers by.
> > 
> > I'm sure that the monkey thinks it's
> > "owning" the organ grinder as well.  :-)
> > 
> > Some folks on a.m.t. used to characterize 
> > our relationship as Judy being a wind-up 
> > toy and me being the person with the key.
> > Whatever. The bottom line is that Judy has 
> > only one post left for the week and I have
> > 20. Her compulsion to "correct" and "manage"
> > any view of her that does not match the one 
> > in her head makes her easy prey. 
> > 
> > Did you ever watch Reverend Gene Scott on
> > TV? I used to love Gene. He was a very smart
> > guy, a Stanford grad, who realized that 
> > there was more money to be made in being
> > a TV preacher than in other forms of bus-
> > iness. His show was informative and some-
> > times even esoteric, but basically it was
> > 20% religion and 80% "Send me money to
> > fight Satan!"
> > 
> > This is not the percentage that the FCC
> > demands of TV stations, so they were always
> > trying to sue Gene and his TV station to
> > provide the balance of programming required
> > by the law. Gene did not take kindly to 
> > this, and so periodically he would go on
> > anti-FCC rants in a very entertaining way.
> > 
> > He bought all these little wind-up toys --
> > monkeys clanging cymbals, barking dogs,
> > etc., and then he would wind them up and
> > let them run around in front of his chair
> > on live TV while he sat there and badrapped
> > the FCC and said, "Send me money to fight
> > Satan and the FCC!"
> > 
> > The thing that Judy does not and has never
> > understood is that I am *not* trying to
> > "silence" her, as she has claimed. That
> > is the *opposite* of what I intend. I have
> > told her many, many times what my intention
> > is, but her ego prevents her from hearing
> > it, just as that same ego prevents her from
> > seeing the truth about TM and what she has 
> > been taught about it.
> > 
> > You don't wind up tiny toy monkeys clanging
> > cymbals to "silence" them. You wind them up 
> > SO THAT THEY'LL DO THEIR THING 
> > AND PEOPLE WILL LAUGH AT THEM.
> > 
> > Everything I ever needed to know about how
> > to handle Judy Stein's stalking I learned
> > from the late, great Reverend Gene Scott.
> >
> Gene Scott! Man, there's a stab from the past! I use to watch him for hours 
> in the upstairs loft at the Palisades WPECendless entertainment. A women 
> who works with me know was once married to his body guard. Gene used to hang 
> out with actor Mickey Rourke in those days. When did he die?
> 
> You know who was REALLY a trip, also LA based? Dr. O.L. Jaggers and Miss 
> Velma. They had this church in mid-town LA called the Universal Life Church. 
> Doc Jaggers would come out and either play a white Fender Strat or sit and

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Science Of Spiritual Marketing (Is kneeling ever just kneeling)

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB  wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, satvadude108  wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB  wrote:
> > >
> > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "geezerfreak"  wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Judy, I didn't respond to you because I've concluded 
> > > > that word wrestling with you is about as useful as 
> > > > arguing with Nabby or WillyTex. I don't have time time 
> > > > to get into convoluted dialogs with you. I don't have 
> > > > time to get into convoluted dialogs with anyone here 
> > > > for that matter. I check in when I get a moment, post 
> > > > quick comments when I'm able and move on to to other 
> > > > pressing matters. You've made it clear over the years 
> > > > that "winning" is of utmost importance to you. While, 
> > > > I've enjoyed a few posts of yours concerning food or 
> > > > birds, I find the endless "you're lying and you know 
> > > > it" crap to be tiring and mind-numbingly boring. 
> > > > 
> > > > That's why I don't rumble in the jungle with you.
> > > 
> > > Wise man. 
> > > 
> > > Add to what you said, however, the fact that
> > > the person trying to taunt you into entering
> > > an argument with her is the person who recently
> > > defined a good discussion (à la a.m.t.) as one
> > > that she could prolong until it was "100 posts
> > > deep." 
> > > 
> > > Since saying that, she has tried to taunt at
> > > least four people into such an argument. And
> > > it never even *occurs* to her that by saying
> > > what she's trying to do (lure people into end-
> > > less arguments) and then attempting to do just 
> > > that she might be shooting herself in the foot.  
> > > 
> > > That's our Judy. Not just an attention vampire, 
> > > but a stupid attention vampire.
> > 
> > Do you ever tire of being stalked by her?
> > 
> > What makes it kinda funny to read is she 
> > never seems to see her stalking always is
> > adroitly flipped to her acting like a monkey 
> > you have on a chain, begging for coins and 
> > support from passers by.
> 
> I'm sure that the monkey thinks it's
> "owning" the organ grinder as well.  :-)
> 
> Some folks on a.m.t. used to characterize 
> our relationship as Judy being a wind-up 
> toy and me being the person with the key.
> Whatever. The bottom line is that Judy has 
> only one post left for the week and I have
> 20. Her compulsion to "correct" and "manage"
> any view of her that does not match the one 
> in her head makes her easy prey. 
> 
> Did you ever watch Reverend Gene Scott on
> TV? I used to love Gene. He was a very smart
> guy, a Stanford grad, who realized that 
> there was more money to be made in being
> a TV preacher than in other forms of bus-
> iness. His show was informative and some-
> times even esoteric, but basically it was
> 20% religion and 80% "Send me money to
> fight Satan!"
> 
> This is not the percentage that the FCC
> demands of TV stations, so they were always
> trying to sue Gene and his TV station to
> provide the balance of programming required
> by the law. Gene did not take kindly to 
> this, and so periodically he would go on
> anti-FCC rants in a very entertaining way.
> 
> He bought all these little wind-up toys --
> monkeys clanging cymbals, barking dogs,
> etc., and then he would wind them up and
> let them run around in front of his chair
> on live TV while he sat there and badrapped
> the FCC and said, "Send me money to fight
> Satan and the FCC!"
> 
> The thing that Judy does not and has never
> understood is that I am *not* trying to
> "silence" her, as she has claimed. That
> is the *opposite* of what I intend. I have
> told her many, many times what my intention
> is, but her ego prevents her from hearing
> it, just as that same ego prevents her from
> seeing the truth about TM and what she has 
> been taught about it.
> 
> You don't wind up tiny toy monkeys clanging
> cymbals to "silence" them. You wind them up 
> SO THAT THEY'LL DO THEIR THING 
> AND PEOPLE WILL LAUGH AT THEM.
> 
> Everything I ever needed to know about how
> to handle Judy Stein's stalking I learned
> from the late, great Reverend Gene Scott.
>
Gene Scott! Man, there's a stab from the past! I use to watch him for hours in 
the upstairs loft at the Palisades WPECendless entertainment. A women who 
works with me know was once married to his body guard. Gene used to hang out 
with actor Mickey Rourke in those days. When did he die?

You know who was REALLY a trip, also LA based? Dr. O.L. Jaggers and Miss Velma. 
They had this church in mid-town LA called the Universal Life Church. Doc 
Jaggers would come out and either play a white Fender Strat or sit and play the 
"white Steinway" while Miss Velma looked on. As soon as I ran across these two 
I kind of forgot about Gene Scott. I even went down to the church one Sunday to 
catch their act. Barry did I ever turn you on to these two? Shame on me if I 
didn't!

But the really big thing at this place was

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM On Jeopardy last night

And there's always Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, who like Maharishi is very  
positive, from the same tradition (they also teach TM) and there's a  
lot already on the web to chose from in terms of video. As someone  
once said: the nice thing about lineage means there's always someone  
else to choose from. Given that there are a lot of TM lineage folks  
out there, I'm sure you'll find someone who will capture the spirit of  
what needs to shared.

On Apr 22, 2009, at 4:40 PM, eingegerd wrote:

> I agree - and I always refer toChopras books and tapes on my courses.
> Ingegerd
>
>> Get some Chopra, he's a much more interesting and articulate speaker.
>

[FairfieldLife] West of Finland: naked crispbread dancing

http://www.thelocal.se/19000/20090421/

[FairfieldLife] Re: Book Review: Under The Thumb Of Cult Leader Sri Chinmoy

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008  wrote:
> 
> Snip
/
> Look around; how many greedy, simple and foolish people do you see on the 
> street, in your neigbourhood ?
> 
> Spiritual greed and dishonesty, ego out of control, rumour-mongering; it's a 
> grave and simplistic state of mind stated by Rick Archer again and again.
>

I agree totally with you, Nablusoss. It is such a gift to have someone with 
your level of enlightenment on FFL. I don't think you were here when I was a 
member several years ago. [If you were, I definitely would not have left the 
group.]

As you very correctly write, FFL members with "ego out of control", "simplistic 
state of mind", "rumor-mongering", etc., etc., 

:)

Do you think that there is any way we could get rid of these people? I know 
that  I do not have the high level of consciousness to come up with a 
resolution, but I _know_ that you have. 

Is there any way that you might help.. please, please??

Yours in the eternal effervescence of supplication, 

Science

[FairfieldLife] Netanyahu Tells Obama What He Can Do With His Peace Plan



The Obama Administration will put forth new peace
initiatives only if Israel wants it to, said Foreign
Minister Avigdor Lieberman in his first comprehensive
interview on foreign policy since taking office.

"Believe me, America accepts all our decisions,"
Lieberman told the Russian daily Moskovskiy Komosolets.

~~ Haaretz Newspaper in Israel
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1080097.html

[What is this man smoking?]



~Netanyahu Government Tells Obama What He Can Do With His Peace Plan~ 

MJ Rosenberg - Washington Director of Policy Analysis, Israel Policy Forum - 
April 22, 2009 - http://snipurl.com/gh85a


There can be no doubt: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu does not much care 
what President Obama thinks about negotiations with the Palestinians. He seems 
to be making the same mistake that Obama's opponents in the 2008 election made. 
He thinks Obama is a lightweight and that he can just roll him.

It's pretty incredible considering that President Obama leads the nation that 
is Israel's lifeline. The whole world is lining up to cooperate with the new -- 
and incredibly popular -- President, but not the new Israeli government.

Yesterday, speaking at the White House, Obama expressed, yet again, his strong 
commitment to the two-state solution and added that the United States is 
resolved to see action now. He called on Israelis and Palestinians to take 
"some concrete steps all parties can take that are evidence of that resolution. 
The United States is going to deeply engage in this process to see if we can 
make progress."

The Israeli government's response: fuggetaboutit.

Today's Washington Post quotes Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon as saying 
that "the new Israeli government will not move ahead on the core issues of 
peace talks with the Palestinians until it sees progress in U.S. efforts to 
stop Iran's suspected pursuit of a nuclear weapon and limit Tehran's rising 
influence in the 
region," (Post's words).

"It's a crucial condition if we want to move forward  If  we want to have a 
real political process with the Palestinians, then you can't have the Iranians 
undermining and sabotaging," Ayalon said. Israeli newspapers reported other 
officials with similar rejections of Obama's entreaty.

Pretty incredible. One of the reasons Obama is so eager to settle the 
Israeli-Palestinian conflict is because he understands that doing so will help 
the United States address the Iran issue without going to war. And here the 
Israeli government takes the American approach and stands it on its head. Talk 
about sabotaging.

I guess Netanyahu is counting on pro-Israel organizations in America to line up 
behind him and not Obama. He is wrong. Someone needs to tell him that Barack 
Obama is more important than Avigdor Lieberman and the settler bloc. Maybe it 
should just be Obama.

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Science Of Spiritual Marketing (Is kneeling ever just kneeling)

2009-04-22 Thread Richard J. Williams

> > Do you ever tire of being stalked by her?
> > 
> > What makes it kinda funny to read is she 
> > never seems to see her stalking always is
> > adroitly flipped to her acting like a 
> > monkey you have on a chain, begging for 
> > coins and support from passers by.
> >
Psst - have you ever considered not feeding 
it?

TurquoiseB wrote:
> Whatever. The bottom line is that Judy has 
> only one post left for the week and I have
> 20... 
>
So, it always come back to your dick being 
bigger than Judy's dick. That, *in my opinion*
is why you're the pussy and Judy is *just 
another guy* who can do *amazing* things with
words. Why you'd want to set her up as a 
Goddess is beyond me, since you don't believe
in the Gods. 

Uncle Tantra on the TM Religion:

From: Uncle Tantra
Subject: Re: Petrus and religion 
Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental
Date: October 17, 2002 

To a person such as myself, who believes 
that the entire notion of "Hindu Gods" is 
a fantasy, a human attempt to personify 
real principles of nature, it really 
doesn't matter a damn whether someone 
else believes that the mantras were based 
on them. It has the same effect on me as 
if they believed they were based on the 
secret names of Harry Potter candy beans.
Both beliefs are based on what I consider 
at best a myth, a creative fantasy. Why 
should I have to take these fantasies 
seriously just because a bunch of others 
do?

[FairfieldLife] Re: Book Review: Under The Thumb Of Cult Leader Sri Chinmoy

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008  wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer"  wrote:
> 
> Rick Archer; you are a fool and a rumour-monger.

How many Yogis has Rick denounced during his short, little, pathetic span of 
life ? 10 ?

>From where does a grim little fool from Fairfield get the guts to denounce 
>anyone, let alone a great Yogi like Sri Chimnoy ? 

Many americans, as well as many in thirld world countries, are in incarnation 
for the first time because greed is one of the first intentions for 
incarnation, a root cause so to speak. 
Look around; how many greedy, simple and foolish people do you see on the 
street, in your neigbourhood ?

Spiritual greed and dishonesty, ego out of control, rumour-mongering; it's a 
grave and simplistic state of mind stated by Rick Archer again and again.

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Science Of Spiritual Marketing

2009-04-22 Thread Richard J. Williams

> > That's our Judy. Not just an attention 
> > vampire, but a stupid attention vampire.
> >
satvadude wrote:
> Do you ever tire of being stalked by her?
> 
You sound really scared of Judy. I wonder why?

You could always stop trolling here and move 
on - go back to where you came from, to be 
with your own kind.

In my opinion, Judy is the only reason I even
bother to come here anymore - the rest of the
informants don't really have much to say that
would hep me understand the mechanics of
consciousness. I mean, you can only say so
much about sex and breasts.

But, even with Judy here, it's really not 
very uplifting to visit an anti-TM forum 
anymore.

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM On Jeopardy last night

2009-04-22 Thread eingegerd

I agree - and I always refer toChopras books and tapes on my courses.
Ingegerd
 
> Get some Chopra, he's a much more interesting and articulate speaker.
>

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM On Jeopardy last night

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, I am the eternal  wrote:
>
> 
> Although Chopra is entertaining, if you've read a book or two, an
> article or two or heard another lecture or two in you're life, you'll
> discover that Chopra never had an original thought in his entire life.

>  He reads, steals some from this book, some from this article.  Though
> charismatic, I find his rehash of everybody else's words and thoughts
> to be grating.
> 

Seek after the Humbold video tapes.  I so much enjoyed them.  They
> were perhaps his best ever.  
> 

> And don't listen to the damned Buddhists here.


Bingo ! :-)

[FairfieldLife] Re: Book Review: Under The Thumb Of Cult Leader Sri Chinmoy

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer"  wrote:

Rick Archer; you are a fool and a rumour-monger.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ample Breasts

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer"  wrote:
> 
> Mein Got! Weren't any of the guys of FFL besides me breast fed as
> infants? I swear I've never heard any talk like this about women's
> breasts in any guy's locker rooms.


> My mother told me that some doctor had advised her against breast feeding,
> so she hadn't done it. 

Thanks for sharing this Rick, explains alot !

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Science Of Spiritual Marketing (Is kneeling ever just kneeling)

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, satvadude108  wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB  wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "geezerfreak"  wrote:
> > >
> > > Judy, I didn't respond to you because I've concluded 
> > > that word wrestling with you is about as useful as 
> > > arguing with Nabby or WillyTex. I don't have time time 
> > > to get into convoluted dialogs with you. I don't have 
> > > time to get into convoluted dialogs with anyone here 
> > > for that matter. I check in when I get a moment, post 
> > > quick comments when I'm able and move on to to other 
> > > pressing matters. You've made it clear over the years 
> > > that "winning" is of utmost importance to you. While, 
> > > I've enjoyed a few posts of yours concerning food or 
> > > birds, I find the endless "you're lying and you know 
> > > it" crap to be tiring and mind-numbingly boring. 
> > > 
> > > That's why I don't rumble in the jungle with you.
> > 
> > Wise man. 
> > 
> > Add to what you said, however, the fact that
> > the person trying to taunt you into entering
> > an argument with her is the person who recently
> > defined a good discussion (à la a.m.t.) as one
> > that she could prolong until it was "100 posts
> > deep." 
> > 
> > Since saying that, she has tried to taunt at
> > least four people into such an argument. And
> > it never even *occurs* to her that by saying
> > what she's trying to do (lure people into end-
> > less arguments) and then attempting to do just 
> > that she might be shooting herself in the foot.  
> > 
> > That's our Judy. Not just an attention vampire, 
> > but a stupid attention vampire.
> 
> Do you ever tire of being stalked by her?
> 
> What makes it kinda funny to read is she 
> never seems to see her stalking always is
> adroitly flipped to her acting like a monkey 
> you have on a chain, begging for coins and 
> support from passers by.

I'm sure that the monkey thinks it's
"owning" the organ grinder as well.  :-)

Some folks on a.m.t. used to characterize 
our relationship as Judy being a wind-up 
toy and me being the person with the key.
Whatever. The bottom line is that Judy has 
only one post left for the week and I have
20. Her compulsion to "correct" and "manage"
any view of her that does not match the one 
in her head makes her easy prey. 

Did you ever watch Reverend Gene Scott on
TV? I used to love Gene. He was a very smart
guy, a Stanford grad, who realized that 
there was more money to be made in being
a TV preacher than in other forms of bus-
iness. His show was informative and some-
times even esoteric, but basically it was
20% religion and 80% "Send me money to
fight Satan!"

This is not the percentage that the FCC
demands of TV stations, so they were always
trying to sue Gene and his TV station to
provide the balance of programming required
by the law. Gene did not take kindly to 
this, and so periodically he would go on
anti-FCC rants in a very entertaining way.

He bought all these little wind-up toys --
monkeys clanging cymbals, barking dogs,
etc., and then he would wind them up and
let them run around in front of his chair
on live TV while he sat there and badrapped
the FCC and said, "Send me money to fight
Satan and the FCC!"

The thing that Judy does not and has never
understood is that I am *not* trying to
"silence" her, as she has claimed. That
is the *opposite* of what I intend. I have
told her many, many times what my intention
is, but her ego prevents her from hearing
it, just as that same ego prevents her from
seeing the truth about TM and what she has 
been taught about it.

You don't wind up tiny toy monkeys clanging
cymbals to "silence" them. You wind them up 
SO THAT THEY'LL DO THEIR THING 
AND PEOPLE WILL LAUGH AT THEM.

Everything I ever needed to know about how
to handle Judy Stein's stalking I learned
from the late, great Reverend Gene Scott.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ample Breasts

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, I am the eternal  wrote:
>
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:21 PM, scienceofabundance
>  wrote:
> >
> >> Aren't "ample breasts" the "two fullnesses?"
> 
> Mein Got!  Weren't any of the guys of FFL besides me breast fed as
> infants?  I swear I've never heard any talk like this about women's
> breasts in any guy's locker rooms.

I agree, this is gross. These fellows are beyond checking. Is FFL now being 
swamped with the extreme fools from alt.tm, from where the Turq also came ?

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Science Of Spiritual Marketing (Is kneeling ever just kneeling)

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, satvadude108  wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB  wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "geezerfreak"  wrote:
> > >
> > > Judy, I didn't respond to you because I've concluded 
> > > that word wrestling with you is about as useful as 
> > > arguing with Nabby or WillyTex. I don't have time time 
> > > to get into convoluted dialogs with you. I don't have 
> > > time to get into convoluted dialogs with anyone here 
> > > for that matter. I check in when I get a moment, post 
> > > quick comments when I'm able and move on to to other 
> > > pressing matters. You've made it clear over the years 
> > > that "winning" is of utmost importance to you. While, 
> > > I've enjoyed a few posts of yours concerning food or 
> > > birds, I find the endless "you're lying and you know 
> > > it" crap to be tiring and mind-numbingly boring. 
> > > 
> > > That's why I don't rumble in the jungle with you.
> > 
> > Wise man. 
> > 
> > Add to what you said, however, the fact that
> > the person trying to taunt you into entering
> > an argument with her is the person who recently
> > defined a good discussion (à la a.m.t.) as one
> > that she could prolong until it was "100 posts
> > deep." 
> > 
> > Since saying that, she has tried to taunt at
> > least four people into such an argument. And
> > it never even *occurs* to her that by saying
> > what she's trying to do (lure people into end-
> > less arguments) and then attempting to do just 
> > that she might be shooting herself in the foot.  
> > 
> > That's our Judy. Not just an attention vampire, 
> > but a stupid attention vampire.
> >
> 
> Do you ever tire of being stalked by her?
> 
> What makes it kinda funny to read is she 
> never seems to see her stalking always is
> adroitly flipped to her acting like a monkey 
> you have on a chain, begging for coins and 
> support from passers by.
>
True...very true. But it's so low. The MOST guilty pleasure!

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ample Breasts

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB  wrote:

> 
> I have heard, in fact, that the TMO is about
> to announce a new course, supposedly more
> effective than the TM-siddhis.
> 
> The new technique will be called "Yogic
> Motorboating." Do not confuse this Vedic-
> based technique with the more mundane desc-
> ription of motorboating: "The act of pushing 
> one's face in between two ample breasts and 
> rocking one's head side to side very rapidly 
> while making a vigorous, lip-vibrating 'brrr' 
> sound." 
> 
> Not the same thing at all. Yogic Motorboating
> is to regular motorboating as the butt-bouncing
> of Yogic Flying is to...uh...is to... Sorry...
> I can't really think of any parallel to Yogic
> Flying in the mundane world...forget I even
> brought it up.
> 
> Anyway, the first Yogic Motorboating courses
> will be offered soon at Maharishi Peace Palaces
> throughout the world. While the target audience
> for these courses is of course men -- who are,
> after all, the only ones who matter in the
> TM view of spirituality -- exceptions will be 
> made for lesbians and Hillary Clinton supporters, 
> as long as they agree to practice the technique 
> in a different Motorboating Dome than the men.
> 
> Catch the buzz today. Motorboat your way to
> true enlightenment. D-cups for D-stressing.

I don't have time to respond in detail now, but I have some details of this new 
course and will post them later. Also, I don't want FFL readers to think my 
posting about this new course is a spoof - it is for real. 

I will also briefly post some details here of another course that TurquoiseB 
may not be aware of. As usual, there are some "amazing" elements to this 
never-before offered course:

There will be a special course for gay men - for obvious reasons, the regular 
Yogic Motorboating course may put unnecessary strain on the delicate physiology 
of the gay men who have contributed so much and so stylishly (and so 
silently)to Maharishi's Global Movement over the past 50 years. 

While full details are still being worked out, I can write that the gay men's 
course is tentatively titled "Yogic B-Boating (YBB). While the goal of this new 
course is the same as the Yogic Motorboarding course, the mechanics of practice 
will be somewhat different. 

This is all the information I have at the moment. However, on a personal note, 
I will add that from my experience with "regular" B-Boating in other 
organizations, I am very, very excited about the upcoming course.

So, those are the main points, and now it is time for many of us to rest before 
diving deep within and enlivening the silence as we continue to enjoy 
Maharishi's Heaven on Earth in this generation.

Science

[FairfieldLife] Are Runes, Astrology and Other Ancient Paths Connected?

2009-04-22 Thread beno beno

I have discovered, over the course of 24 years, a new system of metaphysics 
that combines and sythesizes all of the following into one great whole, like 
pieces of a great jigsaw puzzle: astrology, tarot, I Ching, runes, the Tolkin 
(Mayan calendar), the Enneagram, Wm. B. Yeates' "A Vision", "Messages From 
Michael" on soul age, and even blood type analysis, DNA, amino acids and 
proteins. This is the Rosetta Stone of ancient mysteries. I even calculate all 
my own values and show how they match with currently accepted values. Please, 
take a look:
http://logos.13gems.com/
Note: This is NOT nor ever will be a commercial site.
beno

"If your words don't startle the crowd, you will fall into the streams of the 
commonplace."--Blue Cliff Record (Ch'an [Zen] Buddhist scripture)

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: Mother Divine Emerita and Divine Devi of the Global Country of World P

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig"  wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, satvadude108  wrote:
> [...]
> > Jeez, its not like the announcement said 
> > something crazy like the MD's were going
> > to be put on a scale and given their weight  
> > in gold.
> > 
> > 
> >
> 
> You have a problem with that?
> 
> L
>

No, do you?

I love comic relief.

RE: [FairfieldLife] Can you see this?

From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com]
On Behalf Of cardemaister
Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 2:06 PM
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Can you see this?

http://www.mtv3nettitv.fi/?progId=12651

A meditation room with Japanese influence, in the Valamo
orthodox monastery, in Eastern Finland.

Just saw it on TV, but can't see that video using Ubuntu.
I couldn't (Vista/Firefox). It wanted me to install the Windows Media Player
plug-in, which I probably already have.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ample Breasts

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, scienceofabundance  wrote:
>
> > Aren't "ample breasts" the "two fullnesses?"
> 
> Hello Bhairatu. The historic mistake of the intellect 
> has been that ample breasts were two fullnesses.  
> 
> Maharishi's Worldwide Movement has now corrected this 
> error through the experiences of millions of enlightened 
> men in this generation and several hundred scientific 
> research studies completed by independent investigators 
> in leading universities. 
> 
> Today, as Heaven on Earth has been achieved due to the 
> rapidly increasing practice of Maharishi's programs 
> throughout the world, enlightened men are experiencing 
> the bliss of unity in ample breasts - ever-deepening 
> waves of fullness at the level of the point value of 
> life as they joyfully play with the ample breasts on 
> the surface level of life.

Absolutely. Have you ever seen a painting
of a statue of a Hindu goddess who didn't
have ample breasts? I rest my case.

I have heard, in fact, that the TMO is about
to announce a new course, supposedly more
effective than the TM-siddhis.

The new technique will be called "Yogic
Motorboating." Do not confuse this Vedic-
based technique with the more mundane desc-
ription of motorboating: "The act of pushing 
one's face in between two ample breasts and 
rocking one's head side to side very rapidly 
while making a vigorous, lip-vibrating 'brrr' 
sound." 

Not the same thing at all. Yogic Motorboating
is to regular motorboating as the butt-bouncing
of Yogic Flying is to...uh...is to... Sorry...
I can't really think of any parallel to Yogic
Flying in the mundane world...forget I even
brought it up.

Anyway, the first Yogic Motorboating courses
will be offered soon at Maharishi Peace Palaces
throughout the world. While the target audience
for these courses is of course men -- who are,
after all, the only ones who matter in the
TM view of spirituality -- exceptions will be 
made for lesbians and Hillary Clinton supporters, 
as long as they agree to practice the technique 
in a different Motorboating Dome than the men.

Catch the buzz today. Motorboat your way to
true enlightenment. D-cups for D-stressing.

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Science Of Spiritual Marketing (Is kneeling ever just kneeling)

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig"  wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, satvadude108  wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB  wrote:
> > >
> > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "geezerfreak"  wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Judy, I didn't respond to you because I've concluded 
> > > > that word wrestling with you is about as useful as 
> > > > arguing with Nabby or WillyTex. I don't have time time 
> > > > to get into convoluted dialogs with you. I don't have 
> > > > time to get into convoluted dialogs with anyone here 
> > > > for that matter. I check in when I get a moment, post 
> > > > quick comments when I'm able and move on to to other 
> > > > pressing matters. You've made it clear over the years 
> > > > that "winning" is of utmost importance to you. While, 
> > > > I've enjoyed a few posts of yours concerning food or 
> > > > birds, I find the endless "you're lying and you know 
> > > > it" crap to be tiring and mind-numbingly boring. 
> > > > 
> > > > That's why I don't rumble in the jungle with you.
> > > 
> > > Wise man. 
> > > 
> > > Add to what you said, however, the fact that
> > > the person trying to taunt you into entering
> > > an argument with her is the person who recently
> > > defined a good discussion (ï¿½ la a.m.t.) as one
> > > that she could prolong until it was "100 posts
> > > deep." 
> > > 
> > > Since saying that, she has tried to taunt at
> > > least four people into such an argument. And
> > > it never even *occurs* to her that by saying
> > > what she's trying to do (lure people into end-
> > > less arguments) and then attempting to do just 
> > > that she might be shooting herself in the foot.  
> > > 
> > > That's our Judy. Not just an attention vampire, 
> > > but a stupid attention vampire.
> > >
> > 
> > Do you ever tire of being stalked by her?
> > 
> > What makes it kinda funny to read is she 
> > never seems to see her stalking always is
> > adroitly flipped to her acting like a monkey 
> > you have on a chain, begging for coins and 
> > support from passers by.
> >
> 
> Just as I would not be a slave, I would not be a master, either...
> 
> Or something like that.
> 
> 
> Or howzabout:
> 
> he who takes pride in manipulating a fool is...
> 
> 
> Lawson
>

Ok, howzabout that comes from a guy who on Monday said:

Message #216192

"The conservatives just have a better phone tree concerning online polls and
Obama
than the liberals do. Easy enough to correct. This message is a good first step.

Speaking as someone who pioneered skewing online political polls for the NLP..."


Lawson

Are you *proud* of that Lawson?
Nice display of "Movement" ethics.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Can you see this?

2009-04-22 Thread fflmod




It worked for me. 
 
"Love will swallow you, eat you up completely, until there is no `you,' only 
love." 
 
- Amma  

--- On Wed, 4/22/09, cardemaister  wrote:


From: cardemaister 
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Can you see this?
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, April 22, 2009, 3:06 PM



http://www.mtv3nettitv.fi/?progId=12651

A meditation room with Japanese influence, in the Valamo
orthodox monastery, in Eastern Finland.

Just saw it on TV, but can't see that video using Ubuntu.





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[FairfieldLife] 'Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes...'

2009-04-22 Thread Robert

http://www.emergingearthangels.com/index.html

[FairfieldLife] Can you see this?

2009-04-22 Thread cardemaister


http://www.mtv3nettitv.fi/?progId=12651

A meditation room with Japanese influence, in the Valamo
orthodox monastery, in Eastern Finland.

Just saw it on TV, but can't see that video using Ubuntu.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ample Breasts

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, scienceofabundance  wrote:
>
> 
> > Aren't "ample breasts" the "two fullnesses?"
> >
> Hello Bhairatu. The historic mistake of the intellect has been that ample 
> breasts were two fullnesses.  
> 
> Maharishi's Worldwide Movement has now corrected this error through the 
> experiences of millions of enlightened men in this generation and several 
> hundred scientific research studies completed by independent investigators in 
> leading universities. 
> 
> Today, as Heaven on Earth has been achieved due to the rapidly increasing 
> practice of Maharishi's programs throughout the world, enlightened men are 
> experiencing the bliss of unity in ample breasts - ever-deepening waves of 
> fullness at the level of the point value of life as they joyfully play with 
> the ample breasts on the surface level of life.
> 
> Science
>

The relative is way underrated.

[FairfieldLife] Why we're fascinated by Susan Boyle

2009-04-22 Thread Dick Mays


http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Music/04/22/bregman.boyle/index.html
CNN.com /entertainment
Commentary: Why we're fascinated by Susan Boyle
	*	Boyle "wasn't painfully ordinary; she was amazingly 
extraordinary," says Bregman
	*	Bregman: We go through life with "hidden sense" that 
we're "destined for more"
	*	Author: Boyle was an overnight sensation, but her 
transformation was not overnight

By Peter Bregman
Special to CNN

Editor's note: Peter Bregman is chief executive of Bregman Partners 
Inc., a global management consulting firm, and the author of "Point 
B: A Short Guide to Leading a Big Change". He writes a weekly column, 
How We Work, for HarvardBusiness.org.



Peter Bregman says we prejudged Susan Boyle by her looks and were fooled.

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Susan Boyle, who recently performed on the U.K. 
television show "Britain's Got Talent," has captured the world's 
attention.


In case you've missed it, she's a 47-year-old unemployed charity 
worker who lives with her cat in a small village in Scotland.


As soon as she walked on stage, the audience began to snicker and 
roll their eyes. Simon Cowell, the show's host, asked her some 
pre-performance questions in his famously condescending style, and to 
the audience's enjoyment, she answered awkwardly.


She was painfully ordinary, and everyone was prepared, looking 
forward even, to see her fail.


By now, if you don't know the story, you could guess it, right? She 
more than wowed them. She opened her mouth to sing, and, as judge 
Piers Morgan later said, she had "the voice of an angel."


She wasn't painfully ordinary; she was amazingly extraordinary. The 
audience immediately jumped to a standing ovation and stayed there 
until the end of the song. The YouTube video [at 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY] of Susan's performance 
has, as of Tuesday, received more than 35 million views.


We are riveted, and a recent article in USA Today does a good job of 
cataloguing all the reasons. We prejudged her by her looks and were 
fooled. We experienced the gamut of emotions in a few short moments: 
guilt, shame, vindication, hope. She's a modern-day Cinderella, and 
these days, it's a wonderful distraction and inspiration to witness 
the triumph of the human spirit.


But there's something else Susan Boyle awakens in us as we watch her 
come out of her shell: our own selves. Who among us does not move 
through life with the hidden sense, maybe even quiet desperation, 
that we are destined for more? That underneath our ordinary exterior 
lays an extraordinary soul? That given the right opportunity, the 
right stage, the right audience, we would shine as the stars we truly 
are?


That promise underlies most successful advertising campaigns: the 
desire to transform from caterpillar to butterfly. Maybe if you buy 
that (fill in the blank), people will see you for the sophisticated, 
cool, gorgeous, talented, lovable person you know you really are.


But in our less desperate moments, we know we can't purchase that 
transformation. Although Susan Boyle became an overnight sensation, 
hers was not an overnight transformation. She's been practicing 
singing since she was 12. In her case, overnight was 35 years.


It's easy to admire Susan. But it's far more interesting to be 
transformed by her. "There is grace," a friend recently wrote to me, 
"in being molded by your own gifts."


To allow yourself to be molded by your own gifts takes courage. You 
have to be willing to stand there, exposed and authentic, while the 
audience rolls their eyes at you and sneers, expecting failure. And 
then, of course, you have to fail, laugh or cry, and keep going 
until, one day, they stop laughing and start clapping.


But you can't do it alone. Susan Boyle didn't; she had a voice coach, 
Fred O'Neil, who worked with her for years and encouraged her to 
audition. And she had her mother.


"She was the one who said I should enter 'Britain's Got Talent.' We 
used to watch it together," Boyle told the British paper The Times of 
her mother, who died in 2007, "She thought I would win. ... I am 
doing it as a tribute to my mum, and I think she would be very proud."


If we're lucky, we have parents who encourage us. Nothing really 
replaces a mother or father who believes in you. But even if you 
don't have parents who believe in you, it's important to have 
someone. Someone you trust, enough that when they offer criticism, 
you know it's to draw you out more fully, not shut you down even 
partially.


And a good supporting friend even sees through the talent, right 
through to you. With her mother gone, Boyle still has O'Neil. And 
recently he said to The Telegraph that he was worried all this 
attention was obscuring "the real person" he knew.


"I am concerned about her being surrounded by all these PR people," 
he said, "that she will not be given the time to sing."


Susan Boyle is a phenomenal role model for all of us, not just 
because of her talent or her

RE: [FairfieldLife] Book Review: Under The Thumb Of Cult Leader Sri Chinmoy

From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com]
On Behalf Of William108
Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 1:44 PM
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Book Review: Under The Thumb Of Cult Leader Sri
Chinmoy

In light of this revealing book on Sri Chinmoy, I guess we'll start seeing a
spate of  books on the "true" MMY and his organization soon.
By the way, is Dana Sawyer still working on his book about MMY and the TM
org. and, if so, does anyone know when it will be published.

I just shot him an email and I'll post his response.

--- On Wed, 4/22/09, Rick Archer  wrote:
From: Rick Archer 
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Book Review: Under The Thumb Of Cult Leader Sri
Chinmoy
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, April 22, 2009, 1:20 PM
UNDER THE THUMB OF CULT LEADER SRI CHINMOY
By Krystle M. Davis
Forbes.com
April 14, 2009

http://www.forbes. com/2009/ 04/14/jayanti- tamm-carwheels-
  sari-opinions- book-r
eviews-cults- sri-chinmoy. html

Book Review:
Jayanti Tamm's ''Cartwheels in a Sari"

Purchase on Amazon:
http://www.amazon. com/exec/ obidos/ASIN/ 0307393925/

newheavenneweart

Cults are notorious for convincing people to do the unthinkable. In March, a
member of the now-defunct One Mind Ministries pleaded guilty to starving her
son to death. Allegedly, she and other cult members stopped feeding the
1-year-old because he wouldn't say "amen" at mealtime.

Back in 1993, David Koresh's Branch Davidian sect ended in a conflagration
after a 51-day standoff with the FBI. In 1978, over 900 members of the
People's Temple died at Jonestown, Guyana, in a mass murder-suicide; and in
1997, scores of Heaven's Gate followers killed themselves in California.

But not all cult members' stories end so tragically.

In her fascinating new memoir, Cartwheels in A Sari, Jayanti Tamm describes
growing up in a cult within mainstream America -- and how she eventually
managed to break free. With a succinct and earnest writing style, Tamm
delivers a coming-of-age story overflowing with heartbreaking and hilarious
moments.

Read his 2007 New York Times obituary  >, and Sri Chinmoy
comes across as a kind-hearted spiritual leader who championed world peace
through his art, music and athleticism. His meditation center's Web site
  oycentre. org/>
likens him to Jesus Christ, Buddha and
Krishna. Well into his 70s, crowds gathered to watch the old man's extreme
weightlifting feats, which included lifting an airplane (with the help of an
apparatus).

Celebrity followers have included Olympian Carl Lewis and musicians Carlos
Santana and Roberta Flack. And a host of prominent people -- Nelson Mandela,
Bill Clinton and Princess Diana, to name a few -- have applauded Chinmoy's
dedication to promoting unity and world peace.

Tamm, on the other hand, depicts a charlatan who masqueraded as a god and
convinced hundreds of thousands to worship him. Her parents were among the
first disciples. Chinmoy arranged a "divine marriage" between a
Yale-educated hippie and a single mother, then told them to practice
abstinence. (Most disciples, however, were directed to remain single.) When
Tamm's parents disobeyed and conceived her, Chinmoy invented a myth to
explain her birth. He declared her the "Chosen One," a miracle child he'd
selected to be his most devoted follower.

When she was a year old, Tamm's family moved to Connecticut and opened a
meditation center in their basement. She writes, "The sole point of
everything was Guru ... Our house felt like a Guru museum, replete with
photo gallery -- pictures of Guru occupied every single free space upon the
wall."

>From Tamm's description of Chinmoy, it's hard to help but draw parallels to
Warren Jeffs, the imprisoned leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-Day Saints, whose picture still adorns the walls of
classrooms on the Yearning for Zion ranch in Texas.

Tamm says the guru always had the last word in her household. TV was mostly
forbidden, but she was allowed to watch The Muppet Show and Little House on
the Prairie. The guru disparaged education, so instead of doing her
homework, she spent hours memorizing aphorisms and songs he wrote. Consuming
alcohol, caffeine and meat; dancing; sex and dating; socializing with
outsiders; and owning pets were prohibited.

But the guru contradicted himself and made hypocritical decisions. Despite
his ban on pets, as a preteen, Tamm worked long, unpaid hours during the
summer cleaning cages in Chinmoy's Queens basement, where he kept his
collection of exotic pets from around the world.

She also says the guru controlled his pupils by pitting them against one
another. He created a caste system that allowed him to

Re: [FairfieldLife] Book Review: Under The Thumb Of Cult Leader Sri Chinmoy

2009-04-22 Thread William108

In light of this revealing book on Sri Chinmoy, I guess we'll start seeing a 
spate of  books on the "true" MMY and his organization soon.
By the way, is Dana Sawyer still working on his book about MMY and the TM org. 
and, if so, does anyone know when it will be published.  

--- On Wed, 4/22/09, Rick Archer  wrote:

From: Rick Archer 
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Book Review: Under The Thumb Of Cult Leader Sri Chinmoy
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, April 22, 2009, 1:20 PM

UNDER THE THUMB OF CULT LEADER SRI CHINMOY
By Krystle M. Davis
Forbes.com
April 14, 2009

http://www.forbes. com/2009/ 04/14/jayanti- tamm-carwheels- sari-opinions- 
book-r
eviews-cults- sri-chinmoy. html

Book Review:
Jayanti Tamm's ''Cartwheels in a Sari"

Purchase on Amazon:
http://www.amazon. com/exec/ obidos/ASIN/ 0307393925/ newheavenneweart

Cults are notorious for convincing people to do the unthinkable. In March, a
member of the now-defunct One Mind Ministries pleaded guilty to starving her
son to death. Allegedly, she and other cult members stopped feeding the
1-year-old because he wouldn't say "amen" at mealtime.

Back in 1993, David Koresh's Branch Davidian sect ended in a conflagration
after a 51-day standoff with the FBI. In 1978, over 900 members of the
People's Temple died at Jonestown, Guyana, in a mass murder-suicide; and in
1997, scores of Heaven's Gate followers killed themselves in California.

But not all cult members' stories end so tragically.

In her fascinating new memoir, Cartwheels in A Sari, Jayanti Tamm describes
growing up in a cult within mainstream America -- and how she eventually
managed to break free. With a succinct and earnest writing style, Tamm
delivers a coming-of-age story overflowing with heartbreaking and hilarious
moments.

Read his 2007 New York Times obituary , and Sri Chinmoy
comes across as a kind-hearted spiritual leader who championed world peace
through his art, music and athleticism. His meditation center's Web site
 likens him to Jesus Christ, Buddha and
Krishna. Well into his 70s, crowds gathered to watch the old man's extreme
weightlifting feats, which included lifting an airplane (with the help of an
apparatus).

Celebrity followers have included Olympian Carl Lewis and musicians Carlos
Santana and Roberta Flack. And a host of prominent people -- Nelson Mandela,
Bill Clinton and Princess Diana, to name a few -- have applauded Chinmoy's
dedication to promoting unity and world peace.

Tamm, on the other hand, depicts a charlatan who masqueraded as a god and
convinced hundreds of thousands to worship him. Her parents were among the
first disciples. Chinmoy arranged a "divine marriage" between a
Yale-educated hippie and a single mother, then told them to practice
abstinence. (Most disciples, however, were directed to remain single.) When
Tamm's parents disobeyed and conceived her, Chinmoy invented a myth to
explain her birth. He declared her the "Chosen One," a miracle child he'd
selected to be his most devoted follower.

When she was a year old, Tamm's family moved to Connecticut and opened a
meditation center in their basement. She writes, "The sole point of
everything was Guru ... Our house felt like a Guru museum, replete with
photo gallery -- pictures of Guru occupied every single free space upon the
wall."

>From Tamm's description of Chinmoy, it's hard to help but draw parallels to
Warren Jeffs, the imprisoned leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-Day Saints, whose picture still adorns the walls of
classrooms on the Yearning for Zion ranch in Texas.

Tamm says the guru always had the last word in her household. TV was mostly
forbidden, but she was allowed to watch The Muppet Show and Little House on
the Prairie. The guru disparaged education, so instead of doing her
homework, she spent hours memorizing aphorisms and songs he wrote. Consuming
alcohol, caffeine and meat; dancing; sex and dating; socializing with
outsiders; and owning pets were prohibited.

But the guru contradicted himself and made hypocritical decisions. Despite
his ban on pets, as a preteen, Tamm worked long, unpaid hours during the
summer cleaning cages in Chinmoy's Queens basement, where he kept his
collection of exotic pets from around the world.

She also says the guru controlled his pupils by pitting them against one
another. He created a caste system that allowed him to demote or promote
members at will. He encouraged members to keep tabs on one another and turn
in rule-breakers. Tamm says he once held a fundraiser where disciples paid
$25 apiece to hear him describe their worst qualities. At one meditation
session, he held a contest for the ugliest girl -- a young member with a
boil on her face won the distinction.

When Tamm was ejected repeatedly for dating, she felt compelled to beg for
forgiveness and return to the organization. But at 25, she was so unhappy
that

[FairfieldLife] Jesus Worshipers Run Amok in Florida Public School

Public schools in St. Johns County, Florida have been infiltrated by
Christianist radicals from the top of the organization down, leaving the
community in an uproar and the school district in federal court.

The trouble started when several teachers at Webster Elementary School in St.
Augustine decided this little ditty, "In God We Still Trust" by the country
music group Diamond Rio, should be sung by third graders in their annual
assembly at the end of the year.

Parents of several children objected to the song, which calls for an end to
separation of church and state through a Christian uprising.

Now there are those among us
Who want to push him out
And erase his name from everything
This country's all about
>From the schoolhouse to the courthouse
They're silencing his word
Now it's time for all believers
To make our voices heard

The parents were told their children didn't have to sing this song. There's
just one little catch. If they chose to abstain they would be barred from
participation in the entire program. Cue up the first lawsuit.

Only upon being informed the suit was filed did the school district pull the
song from the program. But not without whining in a press release first.

Even after a judge ruled that the school violated the First Amendment rights of
the students and parents, teachers and administrators still didn't get it

"This is obviously someone again using the school system
(as well as taxpayers' money to defend the lawsuit) for
their own personal agenda," [said Superintendent Joseph
Joyner]. "Unfortunately, this is not unusual and distracts
us from our mission."

The nature of Joyner's "mission" is the issue. The superintendent and other
county notables, including the sheriff, tax collector, and members of the
state's attorneys office, belong to the steering committee of a group called
"The Marketplace," whose flagrant goal is to bring Jesus into the office.

The purpose of The Marketplace is to help men and women
fulfill their call right in their own place of work. To
realize that their workplace IS their ministry

Where do the majority of people spend the majority of
time interacting with the majority of unsaved people?
it is where most people spend 60-70% of their waking
hours the workplace.

If we are going to see our society changed for Jesus
Christ we will have to change the way we equip believers
to live out their faith where they spend a majority of
their time.

If you thought there was a "wait, there's more" coming, you're right.

Read more here:
http://www.pensitoreview.com/2009/04/22/jesus-worshipers-run-amok-in-florida-public-school/

http://snipurl.com/ggu6v

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM On Jeopardy last night



On Apr 22, 2009, at 2:22 PM, Duveyoung wrote:



Anyone know if Bill is still toeing the TMO company line?


http://www.iamplify.com/store/product_details/New-Dimensions/Bill- 
Witherspoon-Land-Art/product_id/2311


LINK

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM On Jeopardy last night

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, I am the eternal  wrote:
>
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Vaj  wrote:
> > Get some Chopra, he's a much more interesting and articulate speaker.
> 
> Although Chopra is entertaining, if you've read a book or two, an
> article or two or heard another lecture or two in you're life, you'll
> discover that Chopra never had an original thought in his entire life.
>  He reads, steals some from this book, some from this article.  Though
> charismatic, I find his rehash of everybody else's words and thoughts
> to be grating.
> 
> Seek after the Humbold video tapes.  I so much enjoyed them.  They
> were perhaps his best ever.  And do get hold of the Merv shows.  They
> were great.  Nothing beats Maharishi's giggle.
> 
> And don't listen to the damned Buddhists here.
>


Is that twice-damned, or thrice-damned, BTW?


L.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM On Jeopardy last night

2009-04-22 Thread Bhairitu

I am the eternal wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Vaj  wrote:
>   
>> Get some Chopra, he's a much more interesting and articulate speaker.
>> 
>
> Although Chopra is entertaining, if you've read a book or two, an
> article or two or heard another lecture or two in you're life, you'll
> discover that Chopra never had an original thought in his entire life.
>  He reads, steals some from this book, some from this article.  Though
> charismatic, I find his rehash of everybody else's words and thoughts
> to be grating.
>
> Seek after the Humbold video tapes.  I so much enjoyed them.  They
> were perhaps his best ever.  And do get hold of the Merv shows.  They
> were great.  Nothing beats Maharishi's giggle.
>
> And don't listen to the damned Buddhists here.
Why should Chopra need an original thought?  Much of what he does is 
using age old techniques anyway and clarifying them into 21st century 
terms.   Being that he spent most of his life in the US he does a pretty 
good job of whereas MMY, though competent with English, struggled a 
bit.  Much of it is understanding the use of colloquialism in American  
English and concepts that are pretty foreign to Indians.   It is also 
understanding the (unsustainable) American lifestyle and how to take 
some of the concepts of yoga and make them work in that lifestyle.  Much 
of it is looking at simpler village traditions in Indian which are not 
burdened by intellectualism (the favorite sport of  TM'ers)  and don't 
take a lot of time to grasp.  That's why I'm very happy with the 
teachings I've learned from a tantra master who I can call up or just 
visit to ask all the questions I want.  Try that with a "pop" guru (who 
usually know far, far less).

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM On Jeopardy last night



On Apr 22, 2009, at 1:52 PM, I am the eternal wrote:

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Vaj   
wrote:

Get some Chopra, he's a much more interesting and articulate speaker.


Although Chopra is entertaining, if you've read a book or two, an
article or two or heard another lecture or two in you're life, you'll
discover that Chopra never had an original thought in his entire life.
 He reads, steals some from this book, some from this article.  Though
charismatic, I find his rehash of everybody else's words and thoughts
to be grating.



Yeah unlike Marshy's homeopathic version of "vedanta".

And of course with Chopra you don't have to deal with the phony  
giggling...man, Rajneesh nailed that one!


Where would you get a Humboldt video anyhew without getting a letter  
from Goldstein Esq.?

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM On Jeopardy last night

2009-04-22 Thread Duveyoung

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, I am the eternal  wrote:
Seek after the Humbold video tapes.  I so much enjoyed them.  They
> were perhaps his best ever. . . .
> And don't listen to the damned Buddhists here.

Shad,

Yeah, get those 1971 Humboldt tapes -- find the tape that shows Maharishi 
telling some guy "I'd rather disband the movement than have initiators who look 
like you."  The guy had a beard and had gotten to the microphone and made a 
seriously good case that bearded initiators would command respect.  There were 
1500 folks there...half of them hippies. When Maharishi rebuked the guy -- get 
this -- the crowd hissed and booed Maharishi.  Maharishi then said, "Time for 
lunch."  You know, he chickened out -- something Turq does when the heat in the 
kitchen is too much.

Yet, now we have the rajas with full beards.

When I got back from TTC, Bill Whitherspoon told me I had to shave my mustache 
or he wouldn't allow me to teach in the Detroit area.  Years later I had my 
chance to smack him around for it when we both lived in FF, but I, by that 
time, saw Bill as this guy without a life and pitied him.  He was pretending to 
be joe-honcho in the TM business community.  I wonder if he's still plowing up 
the desert to make artforms.  Anyhoo, he was one of the "little tyrants" the 
movement gave a bit of power to, and he wasn't the worst TMO abuser by a long 
shot, but I guess I owe him a thank you note for being part of the long process 
of building disaffection and clarity in me. Thanks Bill for the abuse!

Anyone know if Bill is still toeing the TMO company line?

Edg

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Science Of Spiritual Marketing (Is kneeling ever just kneeling)

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, satvadude108  wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB  wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "geezerfreak"  wrote:
> > >
> > > Judy, I didn't respond to you because I've concluded 
> > > that word wrestling with you is about as useful as 
> > > arguing with Nabby or WillyTex. I don't have time time 
> > > to get into convoluted dialogs with you. I don't have 
> > > time to get into convoluted dialogs with anyone here 
> > > for that matter. I check in when I get a moment, post 
> > > quick comments when I'm able and move on to to other 
> > > pressing matters. You've made it clear over the years 
> > > that "winning" is of utmost importance to you. While, 
> > > I've enjoyed a few posts of yours concerning food or 
> > > birds, I find the endless "you're lying and you know 
> > > it" crap to be tiring and mind-numbingly boring. 
> > > 
> > > That's why I don't rumble in the jungle with you.
> > 
> > Wise man. 
> > 
> > Add to what you said, however, the fact that
> > the person trying to taunt you into entering
> > an argument with her is the person who recently
> > defined a good discussion (ï¿½ la a.m.t.) as one
> > that she could prolong until it was "100 posts
> > deep." 
> > 
> > Since saying that, she has tried to taunt at
> > least four people into such an argument. And
> > it never even *occurs* to her that by saying
> > what she's trying to do (lure people into end-
> > less arguments) and then attempting to do just 
> > that she might be shooting herself in the foot.  
> > 
> > That's our Judy. Not just an attention vampire, 
> > but a stupid attention vampire.
> >
> 
> Do you ever tire of being stalked by her?
> 
> What makes it kinda funny to read is she 
> never seems to see her stalking always is
> adroitly flipped to her acting like a monkey 
> you have on a chain, begging for coins and 
> support from passers by.
>

Just as I would not be a slave, I would not be a master, either...

Or something like that.


Or howzabout:

he who takes pride in manipulating a fool is...


Lawson

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM On Jeopardy last night

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Vaj  wrote:
> Get some Chopra, he's a much more interesting and articulate speaker.

Although Chopra is entertaining, if you've read a book or two, an
article or two or heard another lecture or two in you're life, you'll
discover that Chopra never had an original thought in his entire life.
 He reads, steals some from this book, some from this article.  Though
charismatic, I find his rehash of everybody else's words and thoughts
to be grating.

Seek after the Humbold video tapes.  I so much enjoyed them.  They
were perhaps his best ever.  And do get hold of the Merv shows.  They
were great.  Nothing beats Maharishi's giggle.

And don't listen to the damned Buddhists here.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM On Jeopardy last night



On Apr 22, 2009, at 8:20 AM, eingegerd wrote:


Hi.
I am interested in buying the Merv Griffin Show from the 70ths.  
Does someone have the video/dvd for sale?
People that I initiate is not interested in tapes from MMY. They  
think he is boring. Bus as I remember, the Merv Griffin Show was ok.

Best regards.
Ingegerd



Get some Chopra, he's a much more interesting and articulate speaker.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ample Breasts

2009-04-22 Thread Sal Sunshine


On Apr 22, 2009, at 12:02 PM, Rick Archer wrote:

She also said, "It costs a lot to look this cheap." Unfortunately,  
she continues to get cosmetic surgery, and she's beginning to look a  
little freakish.


A little?  She's getting into Michael Jackson
territory IMO.

Sal

[FairfieldLife] Book Review: Under The Thumb Of Cult Leader Sri Chinmoy

UNDER THE THUMB OF CULT LEADER SRI CHINMOY
By Krystle M. Davis
Forbes.com
April 14, 2009

http://www.forbes.com/2009/04/14/jayanti-tamm-carwheels-sari-opinions-book-r
eviews-cults-sri-chinmoy.html



Book Review:
Jayanti Tamm's ''Cartwheels in a Sari"

Purchase on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0307393925/newheavenneweart



Cults are notorious for convincing people to do the unthinkable. In March, a
member of the now-defunct One Mind Ministries pleaded guilty to starving her
son to death. Allegedly, she and other cult members stopped feeding the
1-year-old because he wouldn't say "amen" at mealtime.

Back in 1993, David Koresh's Branch Davidian sect ended in a conflagration
after a 51-day standoff with the FBI. In 1978, over 900 members of the
People's Temple died at Jonestown, Guyana, in a mass murder-suicide; and in
1997, scores of Heaven's Gate followers killed themselves in California.

But not all cult members' stories end so tragically.

In her fascinating new memoir, Cartwheels in A Sari, Jayanti Tamm describes
growing up in a cult within mainstream America -- and how she eventually
managed to break free. With a succinct and earnest writing style, Tamm
delivers a coming-of-age story overflowing with heartbreaking and hilarious
moments.

Read his 2007 New York Times obituary , and Sri Chinmoy
comes across as a kind-hearted spiritual leader who championed world peace
through his art, music and athleticism. His meditation center's Web site
 likens him to Jesus Christ, Buddha and
Krishna. Well into his 70s, crowds gathered to watch the old man's extreme
weightlifting feats, which included lifting an airplane (with the help of an
apparatus).

Celebrity followers have included Olympian Carl Lewis and musicians Carlos
Santana and Roberta Flack. And a host of prominent people -- Nelson Mandela,
Bill Clinton and Princess Diana, to name a few -- have applauded Chinmoy's
dedication to promoting unity and world peace.

Tamm, on the other hand, depicts a charlatan who masqueraded as a god and
convinced hundreds of thousands to worship him. Her parents were among the
first disciples. Chinmoy arranged a "divine marriage" between a
Yale-educated hippie and a single mother, then told them to practice
abstinence. (Most disciples, however, were directed to remain single.) When
Tamm's parents disobeyed and conceived her, Chinmoy invented a myth to
explain her birth. He declared her the "Chosen One," a miracle child he'd
selected to be his most devoted follower.

When she was a year old, Tamm's family moved to Connecticut and opened a
meditation center in their basement. She writes, "The sole point of
everything was Guru ... Our house felt like a Guru museum, replete with
photo gallery -- pictures of Guru occupied every single free space upon the
wall."

>From Tamm's description of Chinmoy, it's hard to help but draw parallels to
Warren Jeffs, the imprisoned leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-Day Saints, whose picture still adorns the walls of
classrooms on the Yearning for Zion ranch in Texas.

Tamm says the guru always had the last word in her household. TV was mostly
forbidden, but she was allowed to watch The Muppet Show and Little House on
the Prairie. The guru disparaged education, so instead of doing her
homework, she spent hours memorizing aphorisms and songs he wrote. Consuming
alcohol, caffeine and meat; dancing; sex and dating; socializing with
outsiders; and owning pets were prohibited.

But the guru contradicted himself and made hypocritical decisions. Despite
his ban on pets, as a preteen, Tamm worked long, unpaid hours during the
summer cleaning cages in Chinmoy's Queens basement, where he kept his
collection of exotic pets from around the world.

She also says the guru controlled his pupils by pitting them against one
another. He created a caste system that allowed him to demote or promote
members at will. He encouraged members to keep tabs on one another and turn
in rule-breakers. Tamm says he once held a fundraiser where disciples paid
$25 apiece to hear him describe their worst qualities. At one meditation
session, he held a contest for the ugliest girl -- a young member with a
boil on her face won the distinction.

When Tamm was ejected repeatedly for dating, she felt compelled to beg for
forgiveness and return to the organization. But at 25, she was so unhappy
that she attempted suicide, and Chinmoy banned her permanently without
explanation.

Tamm's memoir is the first book to document Chinmoy's life and expose the
insular existence his followers adopted. As Tamm notes, the 7,000 current
members worldwide, and countless others who have encountered Chinmoy, are
likely to have had different experiences and perceptions. She doesn't
pretend to have the definitive story. But her account reveals a great deal.



Wikipedia on Sri Chinmoy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_C

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ample Breasts

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Rick Archer  wrote:
>
>
> From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com]
> On Behalf Of I am the eternal
> Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 11:41 AM
> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ample Breasts
>
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Bhairitu  wrote:
>> I am the eternal wrote:
>> Really?  It's an old TM teachers joke.  Old as in circa 1970's.   It
>> usually was accompanied by the observation that Dolly Parton was
>> enlightened.
>
> Ah, yes. Dolly Parton. The very famous C&W and Gospel music singer.
> I've listened to interviews she's given. She says that she, like most
> C&W singers/writers, grew up very poor. She says she was so poor that
> until she was 14 she was flat busted.
>
> She also said, "It costs a lot to look this cheap." Unfortunately, she
> continues to get cosmetic surgery, and she's beginning to look a little
> freakish.

Rick, I saw Sally Fields on TV yesterday.  In a commercial, as a
matter of fact.  She was playing with her grandchildren.  She looked
fresh as a daisy.  Then there's Cher and of course the GEICO
commercial with Joan Rivers. "Am I smiling?  I can't feel my face!".
I wonder how confused grandkids get when grandma looks younger than
their just out of college school teacher.

What's wrong with natural, like George Burns, who was ever loyal to
Gracie until she died?  He said when he was 21 he liked 21 year old
women.  Well, he still did.

One day, late in his 90s, George Burns was having a great time in the
restaurant of his favorite hotel in NYC.  A 70 year old man in tennis
clothing strode across the floor to him and announced "I'm 70 years
old and every day I play two sets of tennis."  George chomped on his
cigar for a moment, looked him up and down and told him "When I was 70
I had the clap."  Now that's natural.

[FairfieldLife] Re: New Job

2009-04-22 Thread curtisdeltablues

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine  wrote:
>
> On Apr 22, 2009, at 11:14 AM, curtisdeltablues wrote:
> 
> > As has as you have to bust your ass in a commercial kitchen
> 
> Mind giving us  the English translation, Curtis?
> 
> Sal

What a weird thing to type!  I must have let my fingers do the walking.

Should read: As long as you have to bust your ass in a commercial kitchen.

>

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ample Breasts

From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com]
On Behalf Of I am the eternal
Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 11:41 AM
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ample Breasts

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Bhairitu mailto:noozguru%40sbcglobal.net> > wrote:
> I am the eternal wrote:
> Really?  It's an old TM teachers joke.  Old as in circa 1970's.   It
> usually was accompanied by the observation that Dolly Parton was
> enlightened.

Ah, yes. Dolly Parton. The very famous C&W and Gospel music singer.
I've listened to interviews she's given. She says that she, like most
C&W singers/writers, grew up very poor. She says she was so poor that
until she was 14 she was flat busted.
She also said, "It costs a lot to look this cheap." Unfortunately, she
continues to get cosmetic surgery, and she's beginning to look a little
freakish.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Desperate Bush Admin Used Torture To Look For Iraq-Qaida Link

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 11:11 AM, do.rflex  wrote:
>
>
> WASHINGTON — The Bush administration applied relentless pressure on 
> interrogators to use harsh methods on detainees in part to find evidence of 
> cooperation between al Qaida and the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's 
> regime, according to a former senior U.S. intelligence official and a former 
> Army psychiatrist.
>

What I find fascinating about this whole mess is that Cheney is now
Mr. Openness and some of The King's Men are wanting to justify to the
media how they saved the country from terrorists using torture.  I
read a lot of history and I don't remember a time since the Adamses
that previous administrations jumped into center stage trying to prove
they were right.  Or are they trying to prove that they shouldn't be
shipped off to Spain, the World Court or have Congress force the AG to
appoint a special prosecutor to look into the matter?  Hmm.  What's
Ken Starr doing this days?  And would Cheney have to be impeached or
could he just be tried in Federal District Court?

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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: New Job

2009-04-22 Thread Sal Sunshine


On Apr 22, 2009, at 11:14 AM, curtisdeltablues wrote:


As has as you have to bust your ass in a commercial kitchen


Mind giving us  the English translation, Curtis?

Sal

[FairfieldLife] Re: New Job

2009-04-22 Thread curtisdeltablues

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung  wrote:

He is gunna be jamming with another blues master.  That always makes you up 
your game.  Every human has a unique taste and approach. If Kirk says the guy 
is a badass, then that is the proof cuz it takes one to know one.

As far as ingredients goes (and of course I am busybodying myself right into 
the discussion) have you ever walked into a fully stocked specialty market for 
Thai, then Korean, then Japanese,then each Latin America country, North and 
South India, Gujarati, then specialty African stores starting with Ethiopia...

Western trained chefs don't get trained in how the cooks in these countries 
approach their ingredients.  Each one can take a lifetime to master. I think 
Kirk was showing the proper respect that just because you can make a decent Pad 
Thai, it doesn't mean that you know the proper way to prepare dried shrimp 
paste by adding the chemical that comes from a certain water beetle that 
absolutely MAKES the sauce, transforming it from something that smells like old 
salty gym socks into on of the best flavors I have ever eaten.  



>
> 
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Kirk"  wrote:
> >
> > Hi guys I am starting to work at a new and fascinating restaurant in
> > Exchange Place in the French Quarter.
> 
> Kirk,
> 
> What kind of research do you do to be "on top  of" the restaurant scene
> in NOLA?  Is there local coverage via newspaper columnist, or TV show,
> or tourist guidebooks?
> 
> The chef Chris Debarre is a genius and
> > for once I stand to learn a lot of new cooking ingredients and
> techniques.
> 
> All these years you've been a passionate chef yourself -- can there
> really be ingredients that you can say are new to you?  How do you know
> that  Chris has the mojo -- has ya eaten in other places he's been the
> chef?
> 
> Seems to me that your intellect is capable of taking up your skills a
> notch by hanging with another genius, but from my side,  as an inventor
> myself, you surely must be at that stage where you can turn out a new
> dish every single time you cook, and it'll be as creative and savory as
> any dish that any chef can create.  98% of the customers surely wouldn't
> have the chops to say that your menu is "less inviting" than this chef's
> menu, so what's your goal?
> 
> I can understand working with another chef, and hoping to secure a
> stable position of  respect there, but as for you "as an artist,"  I
> can't see you becoming more  creative -- only creating more dishes in
> this chef's cuisine.  Are you searching for your inner cuisine -- your
> artistic style or genre?
> 
> And, the really important question is, aside from your excitement at the
> new prospect, and other than your intuitive powers (which are potent if
> your posts are any indication,) "what has you assured that this chef's
> personality will be harmonious with yours?"  Isn't that as important as
> the chef's credentials and skills?
> 
> Edg
> 
> > He has made the menu partially vegetarian and explores uses of exotic
> fruits
> > and juices as well as ethnic cuisine.  We are sure to spark a new
> culinary
> > enthusiasm in the city. I will write the menu down for you when it is
> > finalized. Peace for now.  Loves Yahs.
> 
> I think you've posted your menu descriptions more than once here, and
> everytime you've made my mouth drool, so I have to ask:  What amount of
> drool are you trying for?  I had to drink a bottle of Gatorade after
> reading your last menu just to replentish the loss of fluids.
> >
>

[FairfieldLife] Desperate Bush Admin Used Torture To Look For Iraq-Qaida Link



WASHINGTON  The Bush administration applied relentless pressure on 
interrogators to use harsh methods on detainees in part to find evidence of 
cooperation between al Qaida and the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's 
regime, according to a former senior U.S. intelligence official and a former 
Army psychiatrist.

Such information would've provided a foundation for one of former President 
George W. Bush's main arguments for invading Iraq in 2003. In fact, no evidence 
has ever been found of operational ties between Osama bin Laden's terrorist 
network and Saddam's regime.

The use of abusive interrogation  widely considered torture  as part of 
Bush's quest for a rationale to invade Iraq came to light as the Senate issued 
a major report tracing the origin of the abuses and President Barack Obama 
opened the door to prosecuting former U.S. officials for approving them. 

~Full article here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/66622.html

[FairfieldLife] Fixing the puja

2009-04-22 Thread curtisdeltablues

I may be the only one left enjoying the conversation about the puja...

but here is something I thought of this morning.  The movement wants TM in 
schools but they have a dilemma.  TM was invented out of a religious tradition. 
 Maharishi has said that we need to recognize the source of the knowledge when 
we teach to keep it pure.  There is also a deeper belief that the puja does 
some kind of magic to the mantra and this is a religious belief.  So if the 
movement really wants to teach a secular mediation they could say this instead 
of doing the puja before teaching someone:

Before you teach someone, and without the picture of the Hindu Pope in front or 
an alter the teacher says to the student:

"Before we teach TM we always start by acknowledging the tradition of 
meditation teachers who have given us this wisdom of integration of life.  The 
closest to us in this line was Maharishi's teacher Guru Dev, who was a 
religious leader in India.  Maharishi secularized his teaching so that anyone 
from any background could enjoy meditation without interfering with their own 
beliefs and background.  As meditation teachers, we always remember the source 
of our tradition and promise to maintain the purity and effectiveness of how 
Maharishi instructed us to teach.  Now let's begin."

Of course this will never happen because the movement believes in the puja AS a 
religious act with magical properties.  What I just said would satisfy the 
brochure level claim that the purpose of the puja is to keep the knowledge pure 
by acknowledging the tradition.  It also makes explicit the religious source of 
TM without the Vedic two-step song and dance.

This of course does not address the mantras or the religious assumptions in the 
3 days of checking.  But I am offering this not as a serious suggestion (I was 
born at night but it wasn't LAST night) but as an indicator for the lack of 
seriousness in the movement for teaching TM in a truly secular way.

My suggestion would be considered absurd in the movement because it ignores the 
religious superstitions that surround the "imparting of the mantra."  My 
suggestion would be only the first step in actually secularizing the teaching.  
But the movement would  never consider even this one step.

They want it both ways, all the religious magic of the puja as well as the 
front of a secular practice.  And thy have gotten away with this slippery move 
for the most part pretty well.  Right up till they try to put it in schools.  
Here, the shell game becomes transparent, and their lack of sincerity in 
offering a truly secular meditation to schools becomes obvious.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ample Breasts

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Bhairitu  wrote:
> I am the eternal wrote:
> Really?  It's an old TM teachers joke.  Old as in circa 1970's.   It
> usually was accompanied by the observation that Dolly Parton was
> enlightened.

Ah, yes.  Dolly Parton.  The very famous C&W and Gospel music singer.
I've listened to interviews she's given.  She says that she, like most
C&W singers/writers, grew up very poor.  She says she was so poor that
until she was 14 she was flat busted.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: Mother Divine and Other Spoofs

2009-04-22 Thread Richard J. Williams

Judy wrote: 
> I realized it was a spoof by the third 
> paragraph...
> 
One of the most famous spoofs, on the entire 
internet, was Delia's 'DHMO Update', which 
managed to spoof both Barry Wright and John 
Manning, to no end. Judy was brilliant in 
this thread, as usual, and Delia was 
hillarious; Delia, with Judy's help, really 
pulled off a good one.

A classic from the a.m.t. grooveyard!

(But I must confess that I was mis-informed 
about the 'punk' use in the Guru Dev Puja; 
apparently the TMO techers DO use Sandalwood 
incense, in the form of 'punk', not pure 
camphor like they do in pujas in Inida. My 
bad.) But still, I'm LOL!

From: Delia
Subject: DHMO update
Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental
Date: March 16, 2004
http://tinyurl.com/cphymm

Those who have been at a.m.t a few years may 
recall the DHMO health scare from a few 
years ago, when it was unclear whether the TM 
org was making use of dihydrogen monoxide in 
their Puja ceremony... 

From: Uncle Tantra
Subject: Re: DHMO update
Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental
Date: Tues, March 16, 2004
http://tinyurl.com/cphymm

Hey, Delia...I don't know who your 
initiator was, but he or she was burning 
styrofoam cup bits instead of camphor, I 
think that explains a great deal... 

From: John Manning 
Subject: Re: DHMO update 
Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental
Date: March 16, 2004 
http://tinyurl.com/cphymm

You're full of shit, Delia. You may be 
intellectually skilled, but you're full of 
shit nevertheless. You really fucked up on 
this post of yours, Delia...

From: Willytex
Subject: Re: DHMO update
Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental
Date: Wed, Mar 17 2004
http://tinyurl.com/cphymm

It's plain old tap water, not a "drug" like 
you maintained. You may have used plain city 
water in your puja but no self-respecting 
devotee would ever use plain 'incense' in a 
puja.

Punk, apparently, is offensive to the gods. 
Only pure camphor is used to summon the 
divine, not paraffin candles or plain DHMO. 
LOL!

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