[FairfieldLife] Re: Speaking of Vastu

[jim_flanegin]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Anna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Any suggestions of whom to contact for vastu designs/architectural
> renderings? Some friends in Canada would like to build a vastu home
> and pay a reasonable price for the plans, and have the process go
> smoothly.
> I hear there are some good people available. You can send info to my
> email address if you don't want to take up air space. Thanks. 
> p.s. If someone has "woken up", then, does "bad" vastu still have the
> same "bad" effects?
>
All things being relative, I recall when the straw that broke the 
camel's back arrived, waking me up, I was in my bedroom with a South 
facing door. My front door faces West. My back door faces East. I have 
three other structures on my property with North, South and West 
facing doors. None of that has made the slightest difference either 
before or after waking up. I now feel happy and successful, and 
bubbling over with creativity and silence. 

I support the idea of proper vastu for government buildings for 
example, and support the archetype that Maharishi is working to re-
establish. However the other side of the coin is that I have a fun and 
full life to live, and cannot be slowed down by some linear track of 
thinking that says I should or should not do something because of 
spiritual blah blah blah.

Life is complex, often contradictory-- why imprison ourselves on the 
way to eternal freedom?

RE: [FairfieldLife] Speaking of Vastu

[Rick Archer]

From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of Anna
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 11:27 PM
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Speaking of Vastu

 

Any suggestions of whom to contact for vastu designs/architectural
renderings? Some friends in Canada would like to build a vastu home
and pay a reasonable price for the plans, and have the process go
smoothly.
I hear there are some good people available. You can send info to my
email address if you don't want to take up air space. Thanks. 
p.s. If someone has "woken up", then, does "bad" vastu still have the
same "bad" effects?

Try Michael Borden:

 


Michael Borden
Vastuved International, Inc.
Principal


\



P.O. Box 2197
 
Fairfield, IA 52556
USA 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
vastu-design.com


 




 

Re: [FairfieldLife] Muslims should memorise such facts and be strong against ...

[FeyLyla]

 
 
I stand by everything you said.  It was a contest between Islam and 
Christendom as to who's
god was great and how much  violence they could visit upon each other. The 
crusades, the 
ottoman empire, etc. Now it  seems it's a holy triumvirate. Jews defend 
themselves by  bombing
Arabs, Christians kick the crap  out of Arab countries, Arabs kill each 
other, Christians kill
Each other, Jews kill Arabs,  Arabs kill JewsHuh.
 
I wonder if Arabs, Christians  and Jews care whether the rest of us want to 
be in their
Drama? Who the hell, using the  term very loosely, do you people thin you 
are? I'm not
kidding here. Every single one  of you think you have the God given right to 
do whatever
Awful shit that makes a point  that day, or year, or month. If you want to 
have a religious
pissing match, could the three  groups please have the courtesy to pick one 
continent and
Go destroy yourselves? And while  you, the big three, are doing that, the 
rest of us will
Try to find better ways to live.  Like living without oil. And a big ass 
military. and since
a lot of people will be off  having a "religious" experience, we might have 
good health  care
and fewer of us will have  sleepless nights. We might even come up with 
bedtime stories
For our children that don't have  trolls under bridges or a prayer that 
includes a sentence:
"...And if I die before I wake,  I pray the lord my soul to take." 
 
Yawed, yeti, Allah Look where  they have brought mankind. Or are they a 
single entity.
And if it is all one God, is  this a test? Are you going to kill each other 
off or have you  All
Missed the point?
 
Namaste
 
FeyLyla





** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.

[FairfieldLife] Speaking of Vastu

[Anna]

Any suggestions of whom to contact for vastu designs/architectural
renderings? Some friends in Canada would like to build a vastu home
and pay a reasonable price for the plans, and have the process go
smoothly.
I hear there are some good people available. You can send info to my
email address if you don't want to take up air space. Thanks. 
p.s. If someone has "woken up", then, does "bad" vastu still have the
same "bad" effects?

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ann Coulter on illegal immigrants

[Richard J. Williams]

Peter wrote:
> Grow up! 
> 
Peter wrote:
Lurk, what the f**k is your problem, you a**hole! ;-)

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/139281

[FairfieldLife] Cheap Laptops on Ebay

[suziezuzie]

Has anyone here ever purchased a cheap laptop on Ebay. I'm talking 
about the ones that sell for $1.09 up to about $50.00 (starting bid) 
with shipping, $40.00. These are usually refurbished, Pentium II 600H, 
300+ Memory, 20HD. They claim that they work, have operating systems, 
etc. You have to bid for these computers so the starting bid price can 
be very low. I'm currently bidding for a computer now that started out 
at $15. Right now I'm at $20. The bid will finish tomorrow noon. There 
are plenty of laptops in this range. Mark

[FairfieldLife] "Lonely Atheists of the Global Village"

[authfriend]

Long, deeply thoughtful, but devastating
review by theologian Michael Novak of the
three current books by atheists Harris,
Dawkins, and Dennett:

http://tinyurl.com/2vqjwk

[FairfieldLife] Re: Extruded plastic dingus

[shempmcgurk]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" 
> wrote:
> >
> > One of my favorite lines from one of my favorite movies, "The 
> > Hudsucker Proxy".
> > 
> > In fact it isn't even a spoken line.  When the blueprint for the 
> > extruded plastic dingus in question is drawn up (and I don't want 
to 
> > spoil it for you if you haven't yet seen the film by telling you 
what 
> > it is), the as-yet unnamed item is described on the blueprint as 
> > an "Extruded plastic dingus".
> > 
> > You know, for kids.
> 
> I saw that movie again just the other day. Because
> they had a new film they were showing at Cannes, 
> one of my satellite channels had a Coen Brothers
> festival. So I got to see a lot of their films 
> again. Cool guys, always with something to say.
> 
> Didn't you have an extruded plastic dingus when
> you were a kid?



I did, but I was horrible at it.  My older brother could do it from 
the get go.  But I had about as much luck with coordinating my body 
with it as I did in riding horses: that is, my ass never moved in 
rhythm with the horse.  When it went up, the saddle went down and 
when my ass went down, the saddle went up. Ouch!



> I sure did. I was good with it, 
> too. I was the block extruded plastic dingus
> champ. Sometimes I wish I still had one...you
> know...for adults.  :-)
> 
> [ After having written that, I realize that any-
> one out there who hasn't seen the film might get
> a slightly different impression of what I was
> doing when I was playing with my extruded plastic
> dingus than the one I intended. :-) T'ain't so.
> The preceding was a completely G-rated post. ]
>

On the cover of one of the DVD versions of the film, Tim Robbins is 
shown with the extruded plastic dingus!  If I was one of the Coen 
Brothers I would be quite angry at the marketing department of the 
studio.  One of the fun parts of seeing the movie is the "reveal"; 
that is, when it is revealed to the viewer what "it" is.

An example of movie marketing where the studio doesn't give a rat's 
ass whether they ruin the fun for the viewer.

Another example of that is a wonderful documentary called "Mail Order 
Wife".  I don't want to spoil it for anyone but if you haven't seen 
the movie, just order it...don't read about it or look at the extras 
in the DVD...just put it on and see the documentary.

On another subject: the Coen Brothers are wonderful with catch 
phrases, such as "extruded plastic dingus".  Now, they aren't mass-
appeal catchphrases the way Mike Myers' catch phrases are (and Myers 
is probably the champion in this regard with a whole slew that have 
earned common use status in the English language like "do I make you 
horny" and "Schwing!").  

The Coen Brothers' catch phrases are more on the esoteric side and 
are NOT likely to become part of the regular lexicon.  My favorite of 
theirs is from the movie "Miller's Crossing" in which everyone in the 
movie greets everyone else with "What's the Rumpus?" instead of "how 
are you?".  After seeing that movie for the first time, I used it for 
about a month but people just thought I was nuts (except for the one 
or two who had actually seen the film).

Anther one from "Hudsucker Proxy" is "sure, sure"; that is, at least 
the way that Paul Newman delivers the phrase numerous times 
throughout the movie.  Another is the way Tim Robbins 
pronounces "karma" with the accept on the "ma" instead of the "kar" 
part.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Extruded plastic dingus

[TurquoiseB]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> One of my favorite lines from one of my favorite movies, "The 
> Hudsucker Proxy".
> 
> In fact it isn't even a spoken line.  When the blueprint for the 
> extruded plastic dingus in question is drawn up (and I don't want to 
> spoil it for you if you haven't yet seen the film by telling you what 
> it is), the as-yet unnamed item is described on the blueprint as 
> an "Extruded plastic dingus".
> 
> You know, for kids.

I saw that movie again just the other day. Because
they had a new film they were showing at Cannes, 
one of my satellite channels had a Coen Brothers
festival. So I got to see a lot of their films 
again. Cool guys, always with something to say.

Didn't you have an extruded plastic dingus when
you were a kid? I sure did. I was good with it, 
too. I was the block extruded plastic dingus
champ. Sometimes I wish I still had one...you
know...for adults.  :-)

[ After having written that, I realize that any-
one out there who hasn't seen the film might get
a slightly different impression of what I was
doing when I was playing with my extruded plastic
dingus than the one I intended. :-) T'ain't so.
The preceding was a completely G-rated post. ]

[FairfieldLife] Extruded plastic dingus

[shempmcgurk]

One of my favorite lines from one of my favorite movies, "The Hudsucker 
Proxy".

In fact it isn't even a spoken line.  When the blueprint for the 
extruded plastic dingus in question is drawn up (and I don't want to 
spoil it for you if you haven't yet seen the film by telling you what 
it is), the as-yet unnamed item is described on the blueprint as 
an "Extruded plastic dingus".

You know, for kids.

[FairfieldLife] Re: VM as TM, outside the TM.org

[TurquoiseB]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> This is very interesting.  Does anyone remember Thom Knoles from 
> back in the day? I think he did TTC in Rishikesh in 68 or 69.  
> Looks like a lot is going on...
> 
> http://introtomeditation.com/photogallery.html

I don't know Thom and don't know anything much
about him or this organization, but I'll say this
for them -- they know how to put together a good
website. The secret is in the clean design and
in the photos they've chosen of themselves and
of their students and of the environment. It
looks as if these people are happy and having 
fun. Yeah, that could just be a good PR job,
but I suspect it isn't. My bet is that these
people, whatever they're up to, ARE happy and
having a lot of fun. And that will attract 
seekers to them who are interested in being more
happy and having more fun. Such seekers don't care
about "scientific research." When did scientific
research ever make them happy and enable them to
have more fun, eh?  :-)




> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "dhamiltony2k5"
>  wrote:
> >
> > This link is interesting trend.  
> > 
> > That court ruling, that Transcendental Meditation was not unique.  
> > Noteworthy link George, things to come?  Moving on .org,on with 
> > teaching meditation, retreats, teacher training otherwise etc.  
> > 
> > vs.
> > 
> > Selling 'peace bonds' support of an old TM the old way, with the gold 
> > robes and party hats and pomp of the old TM.org.
> > 
> > 
> > -Doug in FF
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "george_deforest" 
> >  wrote:
> > >
> > > from a friend: 
> > > 
> > > If you go to this link, you can see 
> > > a whole bunch of photos taken just about 2 weeks ago 
> > > of a group of TM students visiting Maharishi's ashram 
> > > in Rishikesh. I had no idea it was abandoned 
> > > and had become such a ruin!
> > > Jai guru deva
> > > TS
> > > 
> > > http://www.introtomeditation.com/maharishi_ashram/
> > > 
> > > 
> > > note: they call themselves "TM students", but their TM is
> > > being taught outside the TMO as "Vedic Meditation"; 
> > > nevertheless, they also read MMY's gita!
> > > 
> > > Does anyone on FFLife recognize M's asram? (i was never there)
> > >
> >
>

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: "09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0"

[Bhairitu]

shempmcgurk wrote:
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> wrote:
>   
>> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB  
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Great article, great protest.
>>>
>>> Having worked on the peripheries of the music and
>>> film industry at one point in my life, I have to
>>> admit that I don't have a lot of compassion for the
>>> companies who are screaming about being ripped off
>>> by pirates. They've been Long John Silver to their
>>> artists for decades now, ripping off the very people 
>>> who create their product every way they can possibly
>>> imagine. And now the karma has come home to roost.
>>> And about bloody time, in my opinion. I've known
>>> musicians who sold over a million dollars worth of
>>> product and who got a *bill* from their record
>>> companies for the album. The smarmy lawyers of the
>>> record companies had found a way to pass all of
>>> *their* expenses onto the band, and make them pay
>>> the company for the privilege of having made money
>>> for them. 
>>>   
>> I just saw a segment on TV about how popular bands are now doing 
>> 
> all 
>   
>> of their marketing, publishing and distribution by themselves 
>> because of the obvious economic benefit. The show featured a band, 
>> Wilco, who said that instead of a record company contract that 
>> 
> would 
>   
>> pay them $1 per CD, by outsourcing these functions and managing 
>> 
> them 
>   
>> themselves, they were now realizing $6 per CD. That's a big 
>> difference. :-)
>>
>> 
>
> ...and I don't understand why book authors aren't doing the same 
> things as bands and self-publishing.
>
> A typical book at Barnes and Noble -- or online for that matter -- 
> runs $19.95.  Like the per CD residual paid to musicians as shown 
> above, authors get about $1.00 per book sold.
>
> But if authors self-publish, they can do it EVEN IN SMALL QUANTITIES 
> for about $1.25 per book (soft cover, of course).  Sure, they'd have 
> to market it themselves but they'd be getting about 15-20 times more 
> profit per book than if they did it through a publishing house.
>
> Why aren't more doing it?
>   
I have a friend who did and wound up with a garage full of books. :)  
His mistake?  Not taking it a book at a time.  For some reason he felt 
he had to publish a whole line of books whereas I would have suggested 
starting with one and see how it goes then from the mistakes made in the 
first avoid those in the second for a better book.  As for the marketing 
and distribution he had some good angles on that but the books needed to 
be better and more innovative (they were non-fiction).

[FairfieldLife] Re: "09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0"

[jim_flanegin]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin"  
> wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB  
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Great article, great protest.
> > > 
> > > Having worked on the peripheries of the music and
> > > film industry at one point in my life, I have to
> > > admit that I don't have a lot of compassion for the
> > > companies who are screaming about being ripped off
> > > by pirates. They've been Long John Silver to their
> > > artists for decades now, ripping off the very people 
> > > who create their product every way they can possibly
> > > imagine. And now the karma has come home to roost.
> > > And about bloody time, in my opinion. I've known
> > > musicians who sold over a million dollars worth of
> > > product and who got a *bill* from their record
> > > companies for the album. The smarmy lawyers of the
> > > record companies had found a way to pass all of
> > > *their* expenses onto the band, and make them pay
> > > the company for the privilege of having made money
> > > for them. 
> > 
> > I just saw a segment on TV about how popular bands are now doing 
> all 
> > of their marketing, publishing and distribution by themselves 
> > because of the obvious economic benefit. The show featured a 
band, 
> > Wilco, who said that instead of a record company contract that 
> would 
> > pay them $1 per CD, by outsourcing these functions and managing 
> them 
> > themselves, they were now realizing $6 per CD. That's a big 
> > difference. :-)
> >
> 
> ...and I don't understand why book authors aren't doing the same 
> things as bands and self-publishing.
> 
> A typical book at Barnes and Noble -- or online for that matter -- 
> runs $19.95.  Like the per CD residual paid to musicians as shown 
> above, authors get about $1.00 per book sold.
> 
> But if authors self-publish, they can do it EVEN IN SMALL 
QUANTITIES 
> for about $1.25 per book (soft cover, of course).  Sure, they'd 
have 
> to market it themselves but they'd be getting about 15-20 times 
more 
> profit per book than if they did it through a publishing house.
> 
> Why aren't more doing it?
>
Since books are still bought in "brick and mortar" stores, maybe its 
a matter of the big book sellers not buying indie published books...

[FairfieldLife] Re: Scientific validation of Yagyas, a beginning

[jim_flanegin]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin"  
wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB  
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" 
 
> > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB  
> > > > wrote:
> > > You have my full permission to send as much of
> > > your money as you want to these people. I don't
> > > have any problem with that at all. Or, if you
> > > want to cover *all* the bases, you can send some
> > > cash to me as well. I promise to burn it in my
> > > fireplace.  :-)
> > >
> > Ha-ha! Yeah, after I read my response I saw the issue with 
Yagyas 
> > the same as you do- either they work, or not. And you are right, 
I 
> > tend to believe they do, hence the MD analogy. Given that 
vibration 
> > manifests effects in the material world, the most obvious being 
> > music, why wouldn't a Yagya produce some effect? How can you 
without 
> > a shadow of a doubt say that Yagyas don't produce any effect?
> 
> I can't, and I don't. I don't know. They may work
> exactly as described. I just don't think they do,
> that's all. My thoughts on the matter and...what
> is it now in America? three bucks...will get you
> a cup of coffee at Starbucks.
>
Fair enough. Good area for some research- not the "scientific" kind, 
but just something I'll turn over in my mind for awhile and see what 
pops. At least 3 bucks for a cuppa joe at S-bux- wish their stock 
would go up too...bought some on a whim last Xmas and its done 
nothing but go down. :-)

[FairfieldLife] Re: "09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0"

[authfriend]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin"  
> wrote:

> > I just saw a segment on TV about how popular bands are now doing 
> all 
> > of their marketing, publishing and distribution by themselves 
> > because of the obvious economic benefit. The show featured a 
band, 
> > Wilco, who said that instead of a record company contract that 
> would 
> > pay them $1 per CD, by outsourcing these functions and managing 
> them 
> > themselves, they were now realizing $6 per CD. That's a big 
> > difference. :-)
> >
> 
> ...and I don't understand why book authors aren't doing the same 
> things as bands and self-publishing.
> 
> A typical book at Barnes and Noble -- or online for that matter -- 
> runs $19.95.  Like the per CD residual paid to musicians as shown 
> above, authors get about $1.00 per book sold.
> 
> But if authors self-publish, they can do it EVEN IN SMALL
> QUANTITIES for about $1.25 per book (soft cover, of course).
> Sure, they'd have to market it themselves but they'd be getting
> about 15-20 times more profit per book than if they did it
> through a publishing house.
> 
> Why aren't more doing it?

Marketing and distribution are both very difficult
for self-published books. Many of the publications
that still do book reviews won't consider self-
published books (the "vanity press" stigma is still
a factor). Plus which, it's a *huge* job to self-
publish a book and do it right (as opposed to
trusting a company like iUniverse), as well as a
very substantial financial investment. And doing
the marketing yourself is just about a full-time
job.

Despite the obstacles, however, self-publishing
is very much on the rise. If you can make it
work, the rewards are great.

[FairfieldLife] Re: East, north doors good for happiness

[TurquoiseB]

Ya just gotta admit, this letter would never have
been published in any other small town newspaper
in America. You guys live in an interesting place.


--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> This was printed in the Fairfield Ledger as a letter to the editor a
> couple of months ago. I found it rather amusing and saved to scan 
> and post when I got the chance:
> 
> East, north doors good for happiness
> 
> To the editor:
> In Katmandu, Nepal, ancient vastu temples with east doors have
> survived earthquakes while other buildings in the city have cracked
> and fallen down.
> In the movie Passion a temple is torn asunder by the earth opening up.
> This letter will discuss the explanations as to why vastu architecture
> with east and north doors is good for health, happiness, and
> enlightenment.
> Every building is made from a blue print.
> A seed contains the DNA which is in the sprout and in the plant. The
> DNA is like the blueprint of the plant.
> The "blueprint" of the cosmos is the unified field of superstring
> theoretic physics.
> From this blueprint are constructed atoms, solar systems, and galaxies
> by the laws of nature. Within the unified field, beyond time and
> space, are silent rotational symmetries. These are found to be
> expressed in the rotational symmetries of the "architecture" of the
> universe: atoms with revolving electrons, solar systems with revolving
> planets, and spinning galaxies, etc.
> The right hand rule in physics describes the rotational symmetries and
> directions of electromagnetism. In high school, we put our fist around
> a cord of an electric current: the thumb points in direction of the
> current, and the fingers curled show direction of revolving magnetic
> fields. Or if the fist is around a magnet, the thumb points north, for
> direction of magnetic field, and the fingers curl east for direction
> of electric currents. These rotational symmetries come from the
> unified field, like the sprout from the seed.
> By such quantum physics principles, Harvard physicist Dr. John Hagelin
> says homes with east and north doors are fortune-creating homes while
> homes with south aid west doors are misfortune creating homes. Hagelin
> says in east and north door homes there is orderly brain EEG, while in
> the south and west door homes there is disorderly brain EEG. EEG is
> the electrical activity between neurons in the brain.
> Orderly EEG is like the invincible superconductor current: cool,
> smooth, silent, eternally flowing, with memory. Disorderly EEG is like
> the room temperature electric cord: electrons are chaotic, hot, bumpy,
> with no memory.
> Again, Hagelin says, in a south door or west door home, the minds are
> as if spinning out of direction, and there are problems like
> confusion, arguments, indigestion, and sleep problems which create
> disease. In a north or east door home, on the other hand, the brain's
> orderly functioning creates smooth thinking and blissful feelings,
> with excellent memory, bright creative ideas and more loving behavior.
> Thus if a student wants to be valedictorian, capture the awards and
> scholarships, be a state championship athlete, be celibate, never get
> into any fights or arguments, honor his parents as scripture demands,
> get into an Ivy League school, and get into a noble career, science
> says he or she should move into an east door home.
> Musical instruments and singing is more harmonious in these homes.
> Sound vibrations can annihilate enemy's morale like Scottish bagpipes
> or as when the quark-lepton transformational vibration shatters to
> bits and pieces the indestructible invincible (?) iron proton which
> otherwise survives even nuclear blasts.
> EEG coherence (orderly brain) is correlated to higher intelligence,
> and higher moral reasoning (International Journal of Neuroscience 13,
> 1981,211-217 and 15,1981, 151-157.
> More orderly EEG is to decreased hospital admissions in all categories
> such as 55% less tumors, 87% less heart disease, 87% less neurological
> disease, 63% less injuries, 67% less musculoskeletal diseases, 65%
> less metabolic diseases (Journal of American Medical Association 1998:
> 279: 1200-1205, New England Journal of Medicine 1991: 324:370-376,
> Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 1992:41:783-787).
> Thus east and north door homes with more orderly brain EEG have more
> invincibility to disease and problems.
> If you have any questions, you can please ask Harvard physicist, Dr.
> John Hagelin director©invincibledefence.org
> Dr. Veronica Butler's study to be published in Journal of Social
> behavior and Personality this fall, found increased mental illness in
> south door homes, http^/conference, vedicarchitecture.org/speak-ers.html
> — Will Davis, Fairfield
>

[FairfieldLife] Re: Scientific validation of Yagyas, a beginning

[TurquoiseB]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB  
> wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin"  
> wrote:
> > >
> > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB  
> > > wrote:
> > You have my full permission to send as much of
> > your money as you want to these people. I don't
> > have any problem with that at all. Or, if you
> > want to cover *all* the bases, you can send some
> > cash to me as well. I promise to burn it in my
> > fireplace.  :-)
> >
> Ha-ha! Yeah, after I read my response I saw the issue with Yagyas 
> the same as you do- either they work, or not. And you are right, I 
> tend to believe they do, hence the MD analogy. Given that vibration 
> manifests effects in the material world, the most obvious being 
> music, why wouldn't a Yagya produce some effect? How can you without 
> a shadow of a doubt say that Yagyas don't produce any effect?

I can't, and I don't. I don't know. They may work
exactly as described. I just don't think they do,
that's all. My thoughts on the matter and...what
is it now in America? three bucks...will get you
a cup of coffee at Starbucks.

[FairfieldLife] Re: The discipline of letting go (of TM)

[TurquoiseB]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Stu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Bhairitu said
> In fact in other systems it's no great crime if
> you miss some meditations.
> 
> Yes.  I wonder if I would not be better served by going to a 
> different practice. If for no other reason than after 30 years 
> of this maybe its time to explore some other areas of the brain.  

Stu, you know where I'm comin' from in all of this.
I've gotten to know you a little on a.m.t. and in
email, and I honestly think that TM has done great
things for you. If it really feels appropriate for
you to check out alternatives to TM as "replacements,"
go for it. But you also have the option of "extending"
your TM practice by looking into other forms of 
meditation that you can do *in addition to* your
TM practice, or in lieu of it from time to time.

For example, I know that you are fortunate enough to
make your living by performing an art. That's a rare
and valuable thing, and makes you a great candidate
for practices that involve mindfulness and paying 
more attention to the things that we do outside
sitting meditation. *Every* occupation is an artform
in my opinion, and allows equally rewarding "payback"
from paying more attention to it as a mechanism for
eyes-open, engaging-in-activity meditation, but if
you happen to have an occupation that is a true calling,
and actually rewards you for how much consciousness
you can bring to the things you create, in my opinion
you're Home Free in any practice that involves 
mindfulness.

> I have really enjoyed reading Sally Kempton's "Heart of 
> Meditation" where she suggests "playing" with meditation, 
> trying different approaches.  Not taking the darn thing 
> so seriously. Her Guru, Swami Muktananda wrote a book on 
> the importance of this playfulness.

I missed Muktananda entirely, and never had the 
opportunity to meet him or sit with him, but I have
had a number of friends who studied with him for
some time. I have a number of friends who studied
with Rajneesh for some time. Both teachers are a 
tad controversial, but based on the intuitive "hit"
I've gotten from people who studied with both 
teachers for years, even though I've never met them
I suspect that both of them had somethin' goin' for 
them. They had phwam! 

And the other thing that Muktananda had in common
with Rajneesh is that both of them were into FUN.
A lot of teachers aren't. A lot of spiritual 
teachers and spiritual traditions *aren't* into
having fun. They've never "gotten" the truth of
the one-liner by Christian philosopher G.K. 
Chesterton, "Seriousness is not a virtue."

You know me from years of my silly-assed posts.
I'm *rarely* completely serious. There is always
this aspect of me that's "stepped back" a bit from
the things I write, laughing at it, and at me for
writing it. To quote another spiritual teacher,
Charlie Chaplin, "Life is a tragedy when seen in
closeup, but a comedy in long shot." 

Being able to laugh at (and with) your practice of
meditation, taking it less seriously, is like track-
ing back and viewing it in long shot. It gives you
a little distance on how seriously you've been
taking your spiritual sadhana, and how absurdly
FUNNY that is, and how absurdly FUNNY you are acting
so serious about something (one's spiritual sadhana)
that is taking you nowhere, from self to Self. Being
a spiritual seeker in a world that does not value
or appreciate spiritual seekers very much IS pretty
damned FUNNY. 

For me personally, lightening up a little about my
daily meditation was terribly liberating. Instead of
feeling that I "had" to sit down and meditate twice
a day, I started alternating the sitting meds with
Zen walking meds, or with setting aside a few hours
at work that I began to consider a meditation, 
focusing on every detail of my work, making it an
exercise in attempting perfection. And that worked
for me like gangbusters. I started experiencing 
(by my standards) *more* spiritual progress while
doing sitting meditation "irreguarly" than I had
while practicing it religiously. I learned to laugh
at how dogmatic I'd been about it during my TM days.

> > I wonder if this incessant need to eat, sleep
> > and brush my teeth is healthy?
> 
> Eating sleeping and brushing are not a great metaphor for 
> meditation. Eating and sleeping are physiological necessities.  
> We stop - we die.  There is no choice involved here.
> 
> Can we equate TM to toothbrushing? Both have benefits to their 
> habitual practice. On the other hand those who don't brush their 
> teeth face terrible dental problems eventually. What lies in 
> store for the millions of people with out a meditation practice?  
> Is it as bad as gingivitis?
> 
> Does anybody else here feel this strong need to meditate after 
> so many years of habitual practice? 

Absolutely. I felt it strongly for years after I left
the TM movement. Lightening up about it, and finding 
that I could get the same energy boosts and epiphanies
from practices that d

[FairfieldLife] Re: "09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0"

[shempmcgurk]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB  
> wrote:
> >
> > Great article, great protest.
> > 
> > Having worked on the peripheries of the music and
> > film industry at one point in my life, I have to
> > admit that I don't have a lot of compassion for the
> > companies who are screaming about being ripped off
> > by pirates. They've been Long John Silver to their
> > artists for decades now, ripping off the very people 
> > who create their product every way they can possibly
> > imagine. And now the karma has come home to roost.
> > And about bloody time, in my opinion. I've known
> > musicians who sold over a million dollars worth of
> > product and who got a *bill* from their record
> > companies for the album. The smarmy lawyers of the
> > record companies had found a way to pass all of
> > *their* expenses onto the band, and make them pay
> > the company for the privilege of having made money
> > for them. 
> 
> I just saw a segment on TV about how popular bands are now doing 
all 
> of their marketing, publishing and distribution by themselves 
> because of the obvious economic benefit. The show featured a band, 
> Wilco, who said that instead of a record company contract that 
would 
> pay them $1 per CD, by outsourcing these functions and managing 
them 
> themselves, they were now realizing $6 per CD. That's a big 
> difference. :-)
>

...and I don't understand why book authors aren't doing the same 
things as bands and self-publishing.

A typical book at Barnes and Noble -- or online for that matter -- 
runs $19.95.  Like the per CD residual paid to musicians as shown 
above, authors get about $1.00 per book sold.

But if authors self-publish, they can do it EVEN IN SMALL QUANTITIES 
for about $1.25 per book (soft cover, of course).  Sure, they'd have 
to market it themselves but they'd be getting about 15-20 times more 
profit per book than if they did it through a publishing house.

Why aren't more doing it?

[FairfieldLife] Turning off gene makes mice smarter

[larry.potter]

May 27, 2007 10:04:39 AM PST

Turning off a gene that has been associated with Alzheimer's disease 
made mice smarter in the lab, researchers said on Sunday in a 
finding that lends new insight on learning and may lead to new drugs 
for memory problems.

They said these mice were far more adept at sensing changes in their 
environment than their mouse brethren.

"It's pretty rare when you can make an animal smarter," 
said Dr. James Bibb, assistant professor of psychiatry at the 
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, who led the study 
published in the journal Nature Neuroscience.

Bibb and colleagues used genetic engineering techniques to breed 
mice that could be manipulated to switch off Cdk5, a gene that 
controls production of a brain enzyme linked to diseases marked by 
the death of neurons in the brain, such as Alzheimer's.

"Any time we're losing neurons, Cdk5 may be contributing to 
that process. That has made it an area of great interest," Bibb 
said in a telephone interview.

"We have shown that we can turn off a gene in an adult animal. 
That has never been done before," he added. When they had tried 
to breed mice that completely lacked the gene, the pups died at 
birth.

Bibb said they put the mice though a series of tests and found the 
altered mice did better than normal mice.

"Everything is more meaningful to these mice," he said. 
"The increase in sensitivity to their surroundings seems to 
have made them smarter."

Bibb said the mice were better at tasks based on associated 
learning, Bibb said.

"It's the most important kind of learning in the animal 
kingdom. It's how we know where our car is and that is our wife or 
our husband and that's our kids. It's how we connect things," 
he added.

The smart mice were better at learning to navigate a water maze and 
remembering that they got a shock when they were in a certain cage.

"It was very clear right off the bat that the loss of Cdk5 made 
them have a much stronger associative memory," Bibb said.

"What was really interesting is they not only remembered 
better, but the next day, if you put them back in those same 
circumstances, they noticed they were not getting shocked."

Bibb said his work was inspired by the 1999 discovery of 
"Doogie" mice, a smarter breed of mice developed at 
Princeton University that were named after the TV program 
"Doogie Houser," a show that featured a child prodigy.

Those mice were bred by manipulating NR2B, a gene that also plays a 
role in associative memory.

"It turns out Cdk5 was controlling the regulation of 
NR2B," Bibb said.

"Maybe by finding these new mechanisms we can find new drugs 
that improve the cognitive performance of people who have 
deficits."

He and colleagues are working on developing drugs that could create 
the same effect without the need for genetic alteration.

"There are other cases -- in post-traumatic stress disorder, 
addiction and depression -- where we may want to modulate memory not 
so much to improve it, but to selectively modify it to remove the 
negative memories that are causing the problems. I think that has a 
lot of potential," Bibb said.

However, he said the long-term effects are not yet clear.

"If all of your (brain) synapses were magically strengthened 
all the time, that might be good for the short term, but I'm not 
sure if it would be good all the time," he said.


http://health.yahoo.com/news/175614

[FairfieldLife] Re: "09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0"

[jim_flanegin]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
>
> Great article, great protest.
> 
> Having worked on the peripheries of the music and
> film industry at one point in my life, I have to
> admit that I don't have a lot of compassion for the
> companies who are screaming about being ripped off
> by pirates. They've been Long John Silver to their
> artists for decades now, ripping off the very people 
> who create their product every way they can possibly
> imagine. And now the karma has come home to roost.
> And about bloody time, in my opinion. I've known
> musicians who sold over a million dollars worth of
> product and who got a *bill* from their record
> companies for the album. The smarmy lawyers of the
> record companies had found a way to pass all of
> *their* expenses onto the band, and make them pay
> the company for the privilege of having made money
> for them. 

I just saw a segment on TV about how popular bands are now doing all 
of their marketing, publishing and distribution by themselves 
because of the obvious economic benefit. The show featured a band, 
Wilco, who said that instead of a record company contract that would 
pay them $1 per CD, by outsourcing these functions and managing them 
themselves, they were now realizing $6 per CD. That's a big 
difference. :-)

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The discipline of letting go (of TM)

[Vaj]

On May 29, 2007, at 3:52 PM, qntmpkt wrote:


---So, you're saying that this Rinpoche Dildo of yours recommends
just being "open" and no practices at all?


No, not at all.


Interesting viewpoint!.


If you understood the citation, yes.


I'll stick with TM, thanks.


):->



As to the other Gurus, I've tasted their offerings and crossed them
off my list, including Muktananda.


I didn't like Gurumayi that much, but I found her absolutely,  
stunningly gorgeous.


I later got to hang with the other successor, Nityananda and his  
advaita guru and they were really down to earth. Nityananda was flat  
open honest about these huge ashram-hotel complexes they had  
inherited from Baba: he said they were counterproductive to any sort  
of life separate from worry over an empire of sadhana sales.



Norbu Rinpoche only has
the "Dance of the Vajra".


Oh?

[FairfieldLife] Another fake photo?

[shempmcgurk]

  [pig.jpg]



This photo has been shown on all legitimate websites and media outlets.
It's of a wild pig killed by the 11-year-old in the picture.

But it just seems too huge to be real.  If those Indian skeletons aren't
real, I have to ask myself whether this photo is accuarately depicting
the size of the pig...I mean, look at the boy next to it!  This pig
would have to be bigger than a hippo!

Now, excuse me...I've got to go eat...for some reason I feel like a BLT.

[FairfieldLife] Fwd: Fox alert

[George DeForest]

-- Original Message --

TO: ALL CAMPUS RESIDENTS
 
FROM: JAMES BEDINGER, SAFETY DEPARTMENT 
 
RE: FOX ALERT
 
There is a fox afoot through town & gown
   who never goes to ground.
No fear of man with scolding hand,
   No Sit, no Stay, no Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
 
He seeks those treats of twilight --
A repast of rabbit, served cold,
   or the ever delightful Mouse Flambeau.
 
Tasty comestibles, so digestible,
   fletched from overturned can? --
   but not from an offering hand.
 
>>>

There is an abundance of wildlife on campus, not usually seen 
during the daylight hours.  These animals have been 
coexisting with the campus for over 100 years. 
At all times we should give the wildlife a full latitude of movement, 
because a gesture or word from us may be seen as threatening 
to a small animal protecting its young.
 
The Department of Natural Resources is aware of the several foxes 
in town and on campus during daylight hours.  Wildlife Services is 
doing their part by monitoring for disease.  It is important that 
we keep our distance.  If an animal appears to be sick, disoriented 
or aggressive, please call Campus Safety Director, 641-919-7992, 
and the Department of Natural Resources, 319-694-2430.
 
James Bedinger

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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: "09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0"

[Bhairitu]

Windows Vista was built from the bottom up for DRM.  It is a very bad 
mistake and will probably get a worse reputation than Windows ME.   It 
doesn't even work the same way as previous versions of Windows.  What 
the hell were they thinking?   People will return new computers in 
droves.   When on idle my notebook which granted only has the minimal 
512 MB which is required to run Vista has only 7 MB free!  I will be 
replacing that memory chip with a 1 GB chip instead.   The machine slogs 
around due to constantly needing to use virtual memory that it runs as 
slow as a Linux Live CD will run (actually Linux Mint Bianca which is 
based on Ubuntu but includes the multimedia support that Ubuntu does not 
runs faster as a Live CD than Vista on the same notebook).   The funny 
thing is this notebook, due to being dual core encodes HD files in Divx 
faster than my desktop with XP Pro and a 3.4 ghz CPU!

Granted I've got a lot of data mining to do to get rid of so many things 
to make the notebook run sane.  There is way too much hand-holding and I 
often get to see a cryptic "insufficient quota" message on it when I try 
to move large files across the network.  I have never seen that one 
before on a Windows system.   Microsoft deserves to loose big time for 
putting such a piece of crap on the market.

I work and continue to work in the entertainment industry.  I can vouch 
for the fact that most all the record companies and film companies are 
run by scum.   Executives of either never actually understand how the 
technology they are delivering their goods with work.   All they care 
about is making buttloads of money so they can by that new mansion in 
Tahiti or Boeing private jet.  Compare that with the software industry 
that when the web started to break out embraced it as a "new means of 
distribution." 

How many years has the DVD encryption system been broken and yet they 
are still making buttloads of money on their movies many of which are 
crap?   Why should they worry about HD-DVD copy protection being broken?

I have also published stuff that is copyrighted and have even had it 
pirated.  But you'd think that most of the copies of stuff the 
entertainment stuffed shirts are concerned about make up the majority of 
the market instead a small insignificant number.

Then we have the government which sucking up to these industries passes 
such draconian laws that if you made a copy of a TV show for a friend 
while they were on vacation that they want to give you more prison time 
than if you murdered somebody.  Totally absurd.  I guess they think they 
need some more inmates for these privatized prisons they are building.

It's time for American Revolution II and I don't mean a Fox reality series.



TurquoiseB wrote:
> Great article, great protest.
>
> This pandering to the copyright barons is also the
> thing that has crippled Windows Vista, because 
> Microsoft capitulated to it. From what I hear, the
> moment you launch any of its multimedia utilities,
> the memory requirements of the operating system 
> double, and sometimes triple if you're trying to 
> play HD. I read one review/test of Vista in which 
> the tester was unable to run more than two other 
> programs (for example, Microsoft Word and Outlook) 
> in 2 Mb of memory (Microsoft's claimed minimum 
> memory requirement for Vista) when the OS went 
> into its "protect Microsoft from copyright 
> infringement suits" mode. They have effectively
> crippled their OS and passed the cost of the
> crippling (in the form of more memory being
> required) by giving in to the lawyers.
>
> When are the copyright owners going to learn that
> they're dealing with a "frontier" situation, and
> outlaws, and that heavy-handed attempts to intimidate
> the outlaws Just Aren't Going To Work? The outlaws
> understand the tech, and the entertainment industry
> lawyers do not. The outlaws are going to win every
> time, because they've got Righteous Indignation on
> their side. That and being 17 and having no assets
> that can be effectively seized.  :-)
>
> My favorite attempt-at-copy-protection story is the
> short-lived scheme used by Sony corp. on its CDs.
> They spent several million bucks coming up with a
> copy-protection algorhythm that would prevent users
> from copying their CDs. The only trouble with it 
> was that it actually *crashed* the users' computers
> when they tried to play the CDs on them. Big no-no,
> one that put the Righteous Indignation reaction into
> hyperdrive. Within a week, someone had figured out
> that the multi-million-dollar copy protection scheme
> could be defeated using a 49-cent Magic Marker pen.
> Simply use it to paint over the outside edge of the
> CD, and it played (and copied) just fine on any
> computer. No more crashes, no more copy protection.
> Sony abandoned the scheme.
>
> That's the way that all such copy protection schemes
> are going to be dealt with in the future. The hackers
> are smarter than the people cre

[FairfieldLife] Coolest word of the week

[shempmcgurk]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Richard J. Williams" 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


[snip]

> 
> Barry sent this post to me via email to make sure I 
> wouldn't miss it.  I responded briefly and politely, 
> only to find that he had configured his account to
> block email from my address. That pretty much takes 
> the cake for chickenshittery, in my book.


"Chickenshittery"

[FairfieldLife] East, north doors good for happiness

[Rick Archer]

This was printed in the Fairfield Ledger as a letter to the editor a
couple of months ago. I found it rather amusing and saved to scan and
post when I got the chance:

East, north doors good for happiness

To the editor:
In Katmandu, Nepal, ancient vastu temples with east doors have
survived earthquakes while other buildings in the city have cracked
and fallen down.
In the movie Passion a temple is torn asunder by the earth opening up.
This letter will discuss the explanations as to why vastu architecture
with east and north doors is good for health, happiness, and
enlightenment.
Every building is made from a blue print.
A seed contains the DNA which is in the sprout and in the plant. The
DNA is like the blueprint of the plant.
The "blueprint" of the cosmos is the unified field of superstring
theoretic physics.
>From this blueprint are constructed atoms, solar systems, and galaxies
by the laws of nature. Within the unified field, beyond time and
space, are silent rotational symmetries. These are found to be
expressed in the rotational symmetries of the "architecture" of the
universe: atoms with revolving electrons, solar systems with revolving
planets, and spinning galaxies, etc.
The right hand rule in physics describes the rotational symmetries and
directions of electromagnetism. In high school, we put our fist around
a cord of an electric current: the thumb points in direction of the
current, and the fingers curled show direction of revolving magnetic
fields. Or if the fist is around a magnet, the thumb points north, for
direction of magnetic field, and the fingers curl east for direction
of electric currents. These rotational symmetries come from the
unified field, like the sprout from the seed.
By such quantum physics principles, Harvard physicist Dr. John Hagelin
says homes with east and north doors are fortune-creating homes while
homes with south aid west doors are misfortune creating homes. Hagelin
says in east and north door homes there is orderly brain EEG, while in
the south and west door homes there is disorderly brain EEG. EEG is
the electrical activity between neurons in the brain.
Orderly EEG is like the invincible superconductor current: cool,
smooth, silent, eternally flowing, with memory. Disorderly EEG is like
the room temperature electric cord: electrons are chaotic, hot, bumpy,
with no memory.
Again, Hagelin says, in a south door or west door home, the minds are
as if spinning out of direction, and there are problems like
confusion, arguments, indigestion, and sleep problems which create
disease. In a north or east door home, on the other hand, the brain's
orderly functioning creates smooth thinking and blissful feelings,
with excellent memory, bright creative ideas and more loving behavior.
Thus if a student wants to be valedictorian, capture the awards and
scholarships, be a state championship athlete, be celibate, never get
into any fights or arguments, honor his parents as scripture demands,
get into an Ivy League school, and get into a noble career, science
says he or she should move into an east door home.
Musical instruments and singing is more harmonious in these homes.
Sound vibrations can annihilate enemy's morale like Scottish bagpipes
or as when the quark-lepton transformational vibration shatters to
bits and pieces the indestructible invincible (?) iron proton which
otherwise survives even nuclear blasts.
EEG coherence (orderly brain) is correlated to higher intelligence,
and higher moral reasoning (International Journal of Neuroscience 13,
1981,211-217 and 15,1981, 151-157.
More orderly EEG is to decreased hospital admissions in all categories
such as 55% less tumors, 87% less heart disease, 87% less neurological
disease, 63% less injuries, 67% less musculoskeletal diseases, 65%
less metabolic diseases (Journal of American Medical Association 1998:
279: 1200-1205, New England Journal of Medicine 1991: 324:370-376,
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 1992:41:783-787).
Thus east and north door homes with more orderly brain EEG have more
invincibility to disease and problems.
If you have any questions, you can please ask Harvard physicist, Dr.
John Hagelin director©invincibledefence.org
Dr. Veronica Butler's study to be published in Journal of Social
behavior and Personality this fall, found increased mental illness in
south door homes, http^/conference, vedicarchitecture.org/speak-ers.html
— Will Davis, Fairfield

[FairfieldLife] Re: The discipline of letting go (of TM)

[qntmpkt]

Thanks, I agree totally.  Andrew Cohen - in spite of his lip service 
to "evolutionary Enlightenment", hasn't changed much over the years.  
He still supports his Utopian communes.  They don't work.  Such 
groups (as in the Israeli experiments); soon degenerate into a 
situation of total control over one's thoughts and actions, stiffling 
the incentive to embrace new ideas.  Thus, your supposed prescription 
for expanding eclecticism is totally counterproductive.
 There are very serious downsides to living as a monk in commune-like 
settings, as in traditional Buddhism. I opt for libertarian Sadhanas 
that I can practice on my own without having some idiot leader tell 
me how to think. That's why I like TM.  I've had many Gurus (or they 
have "had me); but at least I have the freedom to change course on a 
dime if I choose to do so.

In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>  
> In a message dated 5/29/2007 1:37:15 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>  
> Andrew Cohen, Ekhart Tolle and many others have had spontaneous 
experiences  
> of enlightenment. They have forgotten what got them to that 
experience in the  
> first place. After all if your in a state of CC or GC and you 
forget about 
> the  dualistic path that got you there in the first place why would 
you 
> recommend it.  I think MMY is correct. The nervous system needs to 
be cultured to 
> reflect a  specific state of cons. The regular practice helps 
culture the nervous  
> system.  Andrew and others should be focusing on the collective 
meditation  
> and promoting it within their groups. All of these teachers seem to 
be more  
> concerned about their own attention to what they want to teach. We 
need more  
> teachers to reach out to others and start a network
> of practitioners regardless of the form of meditation. I don't 
think people  
> are bored of the regular practice of meditation. I think everyone 
wants a more 
>  expanded version of the group experience. MMY tried to do it but 
he is so  
> exclusive to not only others joining his TM or TM Sidhi's group and 
has even  
> made it difficult for those who are TM-Sidhi practitioners to join. 
For this  
> very reason he will not accomplish his goal of creating world 
peace. O-the  
> bitter taste of judgement.Stick it out with your meditation. Don't 
stop doing it  
> everyday. When the violence calms down in the world then we can 
relax our  
> practice. Most people who do other forms of meditation never do it 
everyday or  
> with some consistency. They brush their teeth everyday, take a 
shower, feed 
> the  body, go to work, exercise but god forbid we meditate 
everyday. Now we know 
> why  the world is so screwed up. Lsoma.
> 
>  
>  
>  
> Bhairitu  said
> In fact  in other systems it's no great crime if 
> you miss some  meditations.
> 
> Yes.  I wonder  if I would not be better served by going to a 
different 
> practice.  If for  no other reason than after 30 years of this 
maybe its time to 
> explore some  other areas of the brain.  I have really enjoyed 
reading Sally 
> Kempton's  "Heart of Meditation" where she suggests "playing" with 
meditation, 
> trying  different approaches.  Not taking the darn thing so 
seriously.  Her  
> Guru, Swami Muktananda wrote a book on the importance of this  
playfulness.
> 
> > 
> > I wonder if this  incessant need to eat, sleep 
> > and brush my teeth is  healthy?
> 
> Eating sleeping and brushing are not a great  metaphor for 
meditation.  
> Eating and sleeping are physiological  necessities.  We stop - we 
die.  There is no 
> choice involved  here.
> 
> Can we equate TM to toothbrushing?  Both have benefits to  their 
habitual 
> practice.  On the other hand those who don't brush their  teeth 
face terrible 
> dental problems eventually.  What lies in store for  the millions 
of people with 
> out a meditation practice?  Is it as bad as  gingivitis?
> 
> Does anybody else here feel this strong need to meditate  after so 
many years 
> of habitual practice?  Its as if the neural networks  have been 
redesigned to 
> NEED meditation 2 x a day.  Is this  healthy?
> 
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> For me, meditation does clear me out and center me. But its not  
about me 
> after 30 years, its about the  collective.
> 
> I have  been reading a lot of Andrew Cohen lately who has been 
experimenting 
> with  expanding group consciousness through intersubjectivity.  It 
is a very  
> interesting approach.
> 
> Meditation is primarily narcissistic.  The  argument that somehow 
one has to 
> first meditate before they can come into the  world to help others 
is 
> questionable.  There are plenty of altruistic  people out there 
making a positive mark 
> without CC or GC.  Atheists are  capable of doing good.
> 
> I am not sure of the relevence of your response  to my question 
about the 
> addictive nature of a 30 year  practice.
> 
> "curtisdeltablues" said,
> But I  can also speak
> for the rest of 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vaidya Mishra pulse diagnosis course and consultations in July

[at_man_and_brahman]

Yes. It's old news. I could provide the 
reasons, but they're not particularly
interesting. The good news is that the
separation lets him practice Ayurveda
according to his family's very pure
tradition, including marma therapy.

Mishra has incredibly deep knowledge,
and taking an opportunity like this to
learn from him is well worth the time
and energy.

The Movement's Ayurveda-trained 
docs are missing some key elements.

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "george_deforest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
>
> AFAIK, Vaidya Mishra severed his ties with MAPI,
> and works independenly of the TMO now;
> 
> but i dont know the details of why ...
> 
> > pratap Mahapatra wrote:
> >
> > I was wondering if it is Vaidya Ramakant Mishra or someone else.
> > Is it TM movement organised?
> > 
> > at_man_and_brahman wrote:  
> > The esteemed Raj Vaidya Mishra, whose lineage
> > extends through 5000 years, will be offering
> > a three-day course on pulse diagnosis in July
> > in Indianapolis. This course is intended 
> > primarily for health-care professionals, but
> > others are invited to attend. 
> > 
> > Indianapolis is about a six-hour drive from 
> > Fairfield.
> > 
> > Vaidya Mishra's approach to Ayurveda is
> > much deeper than most other vaidyas, based
> > on the traditional training he received from his
> > father during seven years following his graduation 
> > from an Ayurvedic college.
> > 
> > If you are interested in attending or want more
> > information, contact me at 
> > at_man_and_brahman@
> > 
> > Vaidya Mishra will also do three days of pulse
> > consultations following the course.
>

[FairfieldLife] Re: The discipline of letting go (of TM)

[qntmpkt]

---So, you're saying that this Rinpoche Dildo of yours recommends 
just being "open" and no practices at all?  Interesting viewpoint!.  
I'll stick with TM, thanks.
  As to the other Gurus, I've tasted their offerings and crossed them 
off my list, including Muktananda.  Norbu Rinpoche only has 
the "Dance of the Vajra".   


 In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 
> On May 29, 2007, at 1:35 PM, Stu wrote:
> 
> > Bhairitu said
> > In fact in other systems it's no great crime if
> > you miss some meditations.
> >
> > Yes.  I wonder if I would not be better served by going to a  
> > different practice.  If for no other reason than after 30 years 
of  
> > this maybe its time to explore some other areas of the brain.  I  
> > have really enjoyed reading Sally Kempton's "Heart of 
Meditation"  
> > where she suggests "playing" with meditation, trying different  
> > approaches.  Not taking the darn thing so seriously.  Her Guru,  
> > Swami Muktananda wrote a book on the importance of this 
playfulness.
> 
> I agree. It's important to have familiarity with different styles 
of  
> meditation experientially--and if you can keep that at the level 
of  
> "play" you're already well on the way to success. Ideally there  
> should be no special division between practicing and not 
practicing  
> meditation. As the meditation master Dilgo Khyentse said:
> 
> "The everyday practice of the Great Perfection is simply to develop 
a  
> complete carefree acceptance, an openness to all situations 
without  
> limit.
> 
> We should realize openness as the playground of our emotions and  
> relate to people without artificiality, manipulation or strategy.
> 
> We should experience everything totally, never withdrawing into  
> ourselves as a marmot hides in its hole. This practice releases  
> tremendous energy which is usually constricted by the process of  
> maintaining fixed reference points. Referentiality is the process 
by  
> which we retreat from the direct experience of everyday life.
> 
> Being present in the moment may initially trigger fear. But by  
> welcoming the sensation of fear with complete openness, we cut  
> through the barriers created by habitual emotional patterns.
> 
> When we engage in the practice of discovering space, we should  
> develop the feeling of opening ourselves out completely to the 
entire  
> universe. We should open ourselves with absolute simplicity and  
> nakedness of mind. This is the powerful and ordinary practice of  
> dropping the mask of self-protection.
> 
> We shouldn't make a division in our meditation between perception 
and  
> field of perception. We shouldn't become like a cat watching a 
mouse.  
> We should realize that the purpose of meditation is not to 
go "deeply  
> into ourselves" or withdraw from the world. Practice should be 
free  
> and non-conceptual, unconstrained by introspection and 
concentration.
> 
> Vast unoriginated self-luminous wisdom space is the ground of 
being -  
> the beginning and the end of confusion. The presence of awareness 
in  
> the primordeal state has no bias toward enlightenment or non- 
> enlightenment. This ground of being which is known as pure or  
> original mind is the source from which all phenomena arise. It is  
> known as the great mother, as the womb of potentiality in which 
all  
> things arise and dissolve in natural self-perfectedness and 
absolute  
> spontaneity."
> 
> 
> >
> > >
> > > I wonder if this incessant need to eat, sleep
> > > and brush my teeth is healthy?
> >
> > Eating sleeping and brushing are not a great metaphor for  
> > meditation.  Eating and sleeping are physiological necessities.  
We  
> > stop - we die.  There is no choice involved here.
> >
> > Can we equate TM to toothbrushing?  Both have benefits to their  
> > habitual practice.  On the other hand those who don't brush 
their  
> > teeth face terrible dental problems eventually.  What lies in 
store  
> > for the millions of people with out a meditation practice?  Is 
it  
> > as bad as gingivitis?
> >
> > Does anybody else here feel this strong need to meditate after 
so  
> > many years of habitual practice?  Its as if the neural networks  
> > have been redesigned to NEED meditation 2 x a day.  Is this 
healthy?
> 
> When one reaches a calm state in meditation, this state, a state  
> without thought content, can become very addicting. I would 
venture  
> that most long-term TMers are in fact, addicted to this state and 
the  
> neurotransmitters it triggers.
> 
> Addiction, even to meditative states, is not healthy.
>

[FairfieldLife] Re: Scientific validation of Yagyas, a beginning

[qntmpkt]

---Turq, your intuitions are faulty.  You don't see the big picture.



 In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin"  
wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB  
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "qntmpkt"  
wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Has a Jyotish and Yagya program.  CD's and DVD's available 
too.
> > > > http://www.expertvedicastrology.com
> > > > 
> > > > As a US headquarters base in Hawaii, you can send US $ to 
their 
> > > > HQ and not bother with converting $ to rupees.
> > > 
> > > As to where your US $ go and your expected Return
> > > On Investment, I offer a crude start at validating
> > > the effect of Yagyas (as per the announced effect 
> > > of the Yagya) vs. some kind of objective measure 
> > > of its actual effect.
> > > 
> > > The first link documents the announced intention of 
> > > one Yagya offered by this fellow, and its cost ($11,000). 
> > > 
> > > http://www.expertvedicastrology.com/index.php?
pr=Yagya_for_World_Peace
> > > 
> > > The second link documents the ongoing conflicts in 
> > > the world during 2006:
> > > 
> > > http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0904550.html
> > > 
> > > It would seem that the benefactors who donated to this
> > > Yagya, other than the "feel good" benefit of contributing
> > > to a supposedly noble cause, got at least 20 continuing
> > > significant armed conflicts for their money. That's less
> > > than $500 US per war, which some would consider a bargain.
> > > One of the conflicts (the one in Sri Lanka, fairly close 
> > > to the "broadcast tower" for the Yagya's Woo Woo Rays) 
> > > actually had a four-year cease fire fall apart and revert 
> > > to armed conflict again shortly after the Yagya was 
> > > performed.
> > > 
> > > T'would seem that either the gods aren't listening, or
> > > perhaps the 121 pundits got the pronunciation of one of
> > > the verses slightly wrong. Either that, or the Yagya
> > > was a total success, and accomplished its intended effect
> > > (bringing in $11,000) perfectly.
> >
> > Even if the Yagya brings less than what you have defined 
> > as total success, is that justification for not doing it 
> > at all? I don't get that logic. 
> 
> Did I suggest that? I think that people should
> do whatever they think that they should do. If
> someone gets off by paying $11,000 for a yagya,
> more power to them. If someone else gets off by
> taking that $11,000 and burning it in their
> fireplace, more power to them. All that I'm 
> suggesting is that the *effect* of these two 
> actions -- both of which bring a sense of 
> satisfaction and pleasure to the person who is 
> supplying the money for them -- may be exactly
> the same.  :-)
> 
> > It is not a black and white world, imo. Your comment is 
> > like finding out from the physician that to attempt to 
> > cure your total inability to walk will result in walking 
> > with a pronounced limp, so you then declare to the doctor, 
> > "well then, forget it, I'll continue in my wheelchair". 
> 
> Rather false analogy. What I am suggesting is 
> that there is a possibility that the doctor 
> who promises to cure you never attended med
> school, and has no knowledge that *could*
> improve you. If you "improve" as a result 
> of his "care," it's the result of your
> belief that you would improve -- in other
> words, the placebo effect.
> 
> You are trying to make the case *for* yagyas
> because intuitively you believe they have some
> effect. I am merely saying that intuitively I
> suspect they have no effect at all, *except*
> on the level of the placebo effect.
> 
> BUT, if it makes you happy to send your money
> off to Hawaii, and then you look at the world
> and see some positive results from your "invest-
> ment" in the yagyas, cool. The only point I'm 
> making is that I'd be willing to bet that (as
> we have certainly seen with the "selective 
> vision" with which the TMO tends to view world
> events to justify their fund-raising flying 
> courses), the more you "invest" in the yagya,
> the more you might be tempted to *imagine*
> positive results. As you seem to be doing here,
> you could look at a year in which the number
> of wars possibly increased and say, "Well,
> they might have increased *more* if I hadn't
> paid for the yagya." That's cool, too, but I
> think it's a tough sell to those who suspect
> that the real motivation for performing yagyas
> is to pay for the lives of those who perform
> yagyas.  :-)
> 
> > ??? I would add that like any endeavor, large or small, 
> > intution and common sense are the best guides on 
> > whether or not to proceed. :-)
> 
> That's what I'm suggesting, too. If someone claims
> to be able to bring about world peace by hiring
> 121 people to chant for 11 days, I'd expect to
> see some measure of world peace as a result. If
> I don't, I'd begin to think that I was ripped off.
> 
> You seem to be wearing ros

[FairfieldLife] Re: VM as TM, outside the TM.org

[Michael]

This is very interesting.  Does anyone remember Thom Knoles from back
in the day?  I think he did TTC in Rishikesh in 68 or 69.  Looks like
a lot is going on...

http://introtomeditation.com/photogallery.html


--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "dhamiltony2k5"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> This link is interesting trend.  
> 
> That court ruling, that Transcendental Meditation was not unique.  
> Noteworthy link George, things to come?  Moving on .org,on with 
> teaching meditation, retreats, teacher training otherwise etc.  
> 
> vs.
> 
> Selling 'peace bonds' support of an old TM the old way, with the gold 
> robes and party hats and pomp of the old TM.org.
> 
> 
> -Doug in FF
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "george_deforest" 
>  wrote:
> >
> > from a friend: 
> > 
> > If you go to this link, you can see 
> > a whole bunch of photos taken just about 2 weeks ago 
> > of a group of TM students visiting Maharishi's ashram 
> > in Rishikesh. I had no idea it was abandoned 
> > and had become such a ruin!
> > Jai guru deva
> > TS
> > 
> > http://www.introtomeditation.com/maharishi_ashram/
> > 
> > 
> > note: they call themselves "TM students", but their TM is
> > being taught outside the TMO as "Vedic Meditation"; 
> > nevertheless, they also read MMY's gita!
> > 
> > Does anyone on FFLife recognize M's asram? (i was never there)
> >
>

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vaidya Mishra pulse diagnosis course and consultations in July

[george_deforest]

AFAIK, Vaidya Mishra severed his ties with MAPI,
and works independenly of the TMO now;

but i dont know the details of why ...

> pratap Mahapatra wrote:
>
> I was wondering if it is Vaidya Ramakant Mishra or someone else.
> Is it TM movement organised?
> 
> at_man_and_brahman wrote:  
> The esteemed Raj Vaidya Mishra, whose lineage
> extends through 5000 years, will be offering
> a three-day course on pulse diagnosis in July
> in Indianapolis. This course is intended 
> primarily for health-care professionals, but
> others are invited to attend. 
> 
> Indianapolis is about a six-hour drive from 
> Fairfield.
> 
> Vaidya Mishra's approach to Ayurveda is
> much deeper than most other vaidyas, based
> on the traditional training he received from his
> father during seven years following his graduation 
> from an Ayurvedic college.
> 
> If you are interested in attending or want more
> information, contact me at 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> Vaidya Mishra will also do three days of pulse
> consultations following the course.

[FairfieldLife] Re: How accurate is the 'Swindle'...???

[cardemaister]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jason Spock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>  
>
>A mondo block of ice at the 'ass end' of the planet is
melting..!!
>
>Shemp thinks it's not a problem at all..!!

Well, Shemp prolly doesn't live on the coast, YEE-HAW!

[FairfieldLife] Re: Scientific validation of Yagyas, a beginning

[jim_flanegin]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin"  
wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB  
> > wrote:
> You have my full permission to send as much of
> your money as you want to these people. I don't
> have any problem with that at all. Or, if you
> want to cover *all* the bases, you can send some
> cash to me as well. I promise to burn it in my
> fireplace.  :-)
>
Ha-ha! Yeah, after I read my response I saw the issue with Yagyas 
the same as you do- either they work, or not. And you are right, I 
tend to believe they do, hence the MD analogy. Given that vibration 
manifests effects in the material world, the most obvious being 
music, why wouldn't a Yagya produce some effect? How can you without 
a shadow of a doubt say that Yagyas don't produce any effect?

As for actually sending my money to Hawaii per the referenced web 
site, I don't think so. :-)

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The discipline of letting go (of TM)

[Lsoma]

 
In a message dated 5/29/2007 1:37:15 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 
Andrew Cohen, Ekhart Tolle and many others have had spontaneous experiences  
of enlightenment. They have forgotten what got them to that experience in the  
first place. After all if your in a state of CC or GC and you forget about 
the  dualistic path that got you there in the first place why would you 
recommend it.  I think MMY is correct. The nervous system needs to be cultured 
to 
reflect a  specific state of cons. The regular practice helps culture the 
nervous  
system.  Andrew and others should be focusing on the collective meditation  
and promoting it within their groups. All of these teachers seem to be more  
concerned about their own attention to what they want to teach. We need more  
teachers to reach out to others and start a network
of practitioners regardless of the form of meditation. I don't think people  
are bored of the regular practice of meditation. I think everyone wants a more 
 expanded version of the group experience. MMY tried to do it but he is so  
exclusive to not only others joining his TM or TM Sidhi's group and has even  
made it difficult for those who are TM-Sidhi practitioners to join. For this  
very reason he will not accomplish his goal of creating world peace. O-the  
bitter taste of judgement.Stick it out with your meditation. Don't stop doing 
it  
everyday. When the violence calms down in the world then we can relax our  
practice. Most people who do other forms of meditation never do it everyday or  
with some consistency. They brush their teeth everyday, take a shower, feed 
the  body, go to work, exercise but god forbid we meditate everyday. Now we 
know 
why  the world is so screwed up. Lsoma.

 
 
 
Bhairitu  said
In fact  in other systems it's no great crime if 
you miss some  meditations.

Yes.  I wonder  if I would not be better served by going to a different 
practice.  If for  no other reason than after 30 years of this maybe its time 
to 
explore some  other areas of the brain.  I have really enjoyed reading Sally 
Kempton's  "Heart of Meditation" where she suggests "playing" with meditation, 
trying  different approaches.  Not taking the darn thing so seriously.  Her  
Guru, Swami Muktananda wrote a book on the importance of this  playfulness.

> 
> I wonder if this  incessant need to eat, sleep 
> and brush my teeth is  healthy?

Eating sleeping and brushing are not a great  metaphor for meditation.  
Eating and sleeping are physiological  necessities.  We stop - we die.  There 
is no 
choice involved  here.

Can we equate TM to toothbrushing?  Both have benefits to  their habitual 
practice.  On the other hand those who don't brush their  teeth face terrible 
dental problems eventually.  What lies in store for  the millions of people 
with 
out a meditation practice?  Is it as bad as  gingivitis?

Does anybody else here feel this strong need to meditate  after so many years 
of habitual practice?  Its as if the neural networks  have been redesigned to 
NEED meditation 2 x a day.  Is this  healthy?


[EMAIL PROTECTED]
For me, meditation does clear me out and center me. But its not  about me 
after 30 years, its about the  collective.

I have  been reading a lot of Andrew Cohen lately who has been experimenting 
with  expanding group consciousness through intersubjectivity.  It is a very  
interesting approach.

Meditation is primarily narcissistic.  The  argument that somehow one has to 
first meditate before they can come into the  world to help others is 
questionable.  There are plenty of altruistic  people out there making a 
positive mark 
without CC or GC.  Atheists are  capable of doing good.

I am not sure of the relevence of your response  to my question about the 
addictive nature of a 30 year  practice.

"curtisdeltablues" said,
But I  can also speak
for the rest of the world in wondering what's up with  the
"buttsplicer" email Stu?

I work as a film  editor.  It was the first name that stuck after trying a 
dozen or so in  gmail.   I reserve the gmail account for the internet because 
whenever it  gets published it invites too much spam.

s.



>  
> 
> --- In FairfieldLife@ --- In Fair --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogr
> >
> > Every so often this daily  meditation practice feels like an addiction. 
> > I find myself  structuring the events of my day so that I can get my
> > afternoon  session in, or changing plans to I will have time in the
> > morning.  If I miss a sitting, I feel lethargic and dull. Sometimes I
> > have  to sneek off to a staircase or a closet for my TM. I wonder if a
> >  habit so ingrained is healthy.
> > 
> > So about three weeks  ago I decided to stop for a while to see what would
> > happen. The  first week was very difficult. I have had headaches and
> > had to  battle the desire to sit. At one point I had a job interview and
> >  realized I needed to do my TM before the interview to keep my calm.
>  > 
> > At this poi

[FairfieldLife] Re: Giant Skeletons Found in India &Where to Locate FRAUD evidence .

[WLeed3]

I note in the Old testament & some non: canonical books of the, "OT" the 
Giants of old are mentioned as well.



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[FairfieldLife] How accurate is the 'Swindle'...???

[Jason Spock]

 
   
   A mondo block of ice at the 'ass end' of the planet is melting..!!
   
   Shemp thinks it's not a problem at all..!!
   
   Does Rick and Turquoise have anything to say about it.??
   
   
  
   
   

   
-
Sick sense of humor? Visit Yahoo! TV's Comedy with an Edge to see what's on, 
when. 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Giant Skeletons Found in IndiaWhere to find evidence of FRAUD?

[WLeed3]

Substantiate the evidence of FRAUD re: the skeletons? So we may know of this 
evidence of fraud please.



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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The discipline of letting go (of TM)

[Vaj]

On May 29, 2007, at 1:35 PM, Stu wrote:


Bhairitu said
In fact in other systems it's no great crime if
you miss some meditations.

Yes.  I wonder if I would not be better served by going to a  
different practice.  If for no other reason than after 30 years of  
this maybe its time to explore some other areas of the brain.  I  
have really enjoyed reading Sally Kempton's "Heart of Meditation"  
where she suggests "playing" with meditation, trying different  
approaches.  Not taking the darn thing so seriously.  Her Guru,  
Swami Muktananda wrote a book on the importance of this playfulness.


I agree. It's important to have familiarity with different styles of  
meditation experientially--and if you can keep that at the level of  
"play" you're already well on the way to success. Ideally there  
should be no special division between practicing and not practicing  
meditation. As the meditation master Dilgo Khyentse said:


"The everyday practice of the Great Perfection is simply to develop a  
complete carefree acceptance, an openness to all situations without  
limit.


We should realize openness as the playground of our emotions and  
relate to people without artificiality, manipulation or strategy.


We should experience everything totally, never withdrawing into  
ourselves as a marmot hides in its hole. This practice releases  
tremendous energy which is usually constricted by the process of  
maintaining fixed reference points. Referentiality is the process by  
which we retreat from the direct experience of everyday life.


Being present in the moment may initially trigger fear. But by  
welcoming the sensation of fear with complete openness, we cut  
through the barriers created by habitual emotional patterns.


When we engage in the practice of discovering space, we should  
develop the feeling of opening ourselves out completely to the entire  
universe. We should open ourselves with absolute simplicity and  
nakedness of mind. This is the powerful and ordinary practice of  
dropping the mask of self-protection.


We shouldn't make a division in our meditation between perception and  
field of perception. We shouldn't become like a cat watching a mouse.  
We should realize that the purpose of meditation is not to go "deeply  
into ourselves" or withdraw from the world. Practice should be free  
and non-conceptual, unconstrained by introspection and concentration.


Vast unoriginated self-luminous wisdom space is the ground of being -  
the beginning and the end of confusion. The presence of awareness in  
the primordeal state has no bias toward enlightenment or non- 
enlightenment. This ground of being which is known as pure or  
original mind is the source from which all phenomena arise. It is  
known as the great mother, as the womb of potentiality in which all  
things arise and dissolve in natural self-perfectedness and absolute  
spontaneity."





>
> I wonder if this incessant need to eat, sleep
> and brush my teeth is healthy?

Eating sleeping and brushing are not a great metaphor for  
meditation.  Eating and sleeping are physiological necessities.  We  
stop - we die.  There is no choice involved here.


Can we equate TM to toothbrushing?  Both have benefits to their  
habitual practice.  On the other hand those who don't brush their  
teeth face terrible dental problems eventually.  What lies in store  
for the millions of people with out a meditation practice?  Is it  
as bad as gingivitis?


Does anybody else here feel this strong need to meditate after so  
many years of habitual practice?  Its as if the neural networks  
have been redesigned to NEED meditation 2 x a day.  Is this healthy?


When one reaches a calm state in meditation, this state, a state  
without thought content, can become very addicting. I would venture  
that most long-term TMers are in fact, addicted to this state and the  
neurotransmitters it triggers.


Addiction, even to meditative states, is not healthy.

[FairfieldLife] Re: The discipline of letting go (of TM)

[Stu]

Bhairitu said
In fact in other systems it's no great crime if
you miss some meditations.

Yes.  I wonder if I would not be better served by going to a different
practice.  If for no other reason than after 30 years of this maybe its
time to explore some other areas of the brain.  I have really enjoyed
reading Sally Kempton's "Heart of Meditation" where she suggests
"playing" with meditation, trying different approaches.  Not taking the
darn thing so seriously.  Her Guru, Swami Muktananda wrote a book on the
importance of this playfulness.

>
> I wonder if this incessant need to eat, sleep
> and brush my teeth is healthy?

Eating sleeping and brushing are not a great metaphor for meditation. 
Eating and sleeping are physiological necessities.  We stop - we die. 
There is no choice involved here.

Can we equate TM to toothbrushing?  Both have benefits to their habitual
practice.  On the other hand those who don't brush their teeth face
terrible dental problems eventually.  What lies in store for the
millions of people with out a meditation practice?  Is it as bad as
gingivitis?

Does anybody else here feel this strong need to meditate after so many
years of habitual practice?  Its as if the neural networks have been
redesigned to NEED meditation 2 x a day.  Is this healthy?


[EMAIL PROTECTED]
For me, meditation does clear me out and center me. But its not about me
after 30 years, its about the collective.

I have been reading a lot of Andrew Cohen lately who has been
experimenting with expanding group consciousness through
intersubjectivity.  It is a very interesting approach.

Meditation is primarily narcissistic.  The argument that somehow one has
to first meditate before they can come into the world to help others is
questionable.  There are plenty of altruistic people out there making a
positive mark without CC or GC.  Atheists are capable of doing good.

I am not sure of the relevence of your response to my question about the
addictive nature of a 30 year practice.

"curtisdeltablues" said,
But I can also speak
for the rest of the world in wondering what's up with the
"buttsplicer" email Stu?

I work as a film editor.  It was the first name that stuck after trying
a dozen or so in gmail.   I reserve the gmail account for the internet
because whenever it gets published it invites too much spam.

s.



>
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Stu" buttsplicer@ wrote:
> >
> > Every so often this daily meditation practice feels like an
addiction.
> > I find myself structuring the events of my day so that I can get my
> > afternoon session in, or changing plans to I will have time in the
> > morning.  If I miss a sitting, I feel  lethargic and dull. 
Sometimes I
> > have to sneek off to a staircase or a closet for my TM.  I wonder if
a
> > habit so ingrained is healthy.
> >
> > So about three weeks ago I decided to stop for a while to see what
would
> > happen.  The first week was very difficult.  I have had headaches
and
> > had to battle the desire to sit.  At one point I had a job interview
and
> > realized I needed to do my TM before the interview to keep my calm.
> >
> > At this point I still feel I am missing the practice.  My
consciousness
> > is in a semi-fog.  Is this the way the rest of the world feels?
> >
> > s.
> >
>

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ann Coulter on illegal immigrants

[authfriend]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
>
> Jesus Christ! Here we go again. What the hell is
> wrong with you people? Like a couple of 8 year olds on
> the play ground. Grow up! At least take your inane
> argument private so others don't have to read this
> asinine drivel. And don't bother telling me/us about
> how you are right because if you look at post #3645475
> made in 1874 it proves how youblah, blah, blah...
> What a waste of a couple of good intellects.

F**k off, Peter. If somebody grossly misrepresented
what you had said and then called you a liar for
saying it, I don't imagine you'd let it go by.

Further, your tendency to portray moral
equivalence when one party is trying to pursue an
argument and the other (me) is trying to end it
doesn't speak so well for your own ethical compass.







> 
> 
> --- authfriend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Richard J.
> > Williams" 
> >  wrote:
> > >
> > > > Nowhere in my post does it say or suggest or
> > > > hint at anything of the kind. You made that
> > > > up, attributed it to me, then called me a liar.
> > > >
> > > What you wrote was very decieving - you attempted 
> > > to decieve.
> > 
> > No, again, that would be you.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ann Coulter on illegal immigrants

[Peter]

Jesus Christ! Here we go again. What the hell is
wrong with you people? Like a couple of 8 year olds on
the play ground. Grow up! At least take your inane
argument private so others don't have to read this
asinine drivel. And don't bother telling me/us about
how you are right because if you look at post #3645475
made in 1874 it proves how youblah, blah, blah...
What a waste of a couple of good intellects.


--- authfriend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Richard J.
> Williams" 
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > Nowhere in my post does it say or suggest or
> > > hint at anything of the kind. You made that
> > > up, attributed it to me, then called me a liar.
> > >
> > What you wrote was very decieving - you attempted 
> > to decieve.
> 
> No, again, that would be you.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> To subscribe, send a message to:
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> 
> Or go to: 
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> and click 'Join This Group!' 
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[FairfieldLife] Re: Somewhere in the Akash

[authfriend]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Richard J. Williams"
>  wrote:
> >
> > TurquoiseB wrote:
> > > Bingo. What you focus on, you become.
> > 
> > From: Judy Stein
> > Subject: Re: Good bye
> > Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental
> > Date: 2003-11-07 07:00:34 PST
> > http://tinyurl.com/ynv9bn
> > 
> > Barry sent this post to me via email to make sure I 
> > wouldn't miss it.  I responded briefly and politely, 
> > only to find that he had configured his account to
> > block email from my address. That pretty much takes 
> > the cake for chickenshittery, in my book.
> 
> LOL. 
> 
> T'would seem that my post yesterday about
> trolls has the resident troll here working
> overtime.  :-)
> 
> This particular tempest in a pisspot was
> resolved long ago.

Needless to say, Barry's version of what
happened is seriously misrepresentational.
Among many other points, I did *not* know
that his account blocked all email; and
what I was referring to as "chickenshittery"
was not the content of his email or his post,
but the fact that my email to him was bounced
with the message that *my* account
specifically was being blocked.

He also misrepresents how long I was "gone"
from alt.m.t, both right after I left and
longer term. I stayed out of all substantive
discussions for well over a year and posted
only in response to posts attacking me in
absentia, which died down after awhile.

And if anybody does read the posts, they'll
note that it wasn't just Shemp I was upset
with; they'll also most likely understand
*why* I was upset.

Barry obviously went back to review the posts
in question, so he's well aware of what I've
pointed out above.








 Judy stormed off of a.m.t.
> in a snit, so upset about Shemp's beliefs after
> years of TM that she expressed doubts about TM's
> overall effectiveness. I actually believed that
> she had done what she said, and left a.m.t., so
> I posted a note to the group and copied her on
> it in email suggesting that she might find some 
> answers to her announced dilemma in Tibetan 
> Buddhism, because of its emphasis on compassion. 
> If you're silly enough to follow the tinyurl link 
> above, Judy's "I'm leaving" post is #28. My reply, 
> which is the one she refers to as "chickenshittery," 
> is #29.
> 
> As for her claim of "chickenshittery," that email 
> account was blocked to ALL traffic. I used it 
> *only* to post to a.m.t. and other such spamtraps 
> on Google. As it turns out, Judy knew that, and 
> had already made at least one post some time 
> earlier acknowledging that she knew it. So this 
> was Just Another Opportunity To Feign Indignation. 
> This is documented in post #36. Her gracious
> apology is in post #37. She stayed "gone" from
> a.m.t. for less than 24 hours.
> 
> And now, back to the ongoing attempts by the Troll 
> From Texas to start more arguments. As I suggested
> yesterday, he's probably lonely, and this is what
> he *does* when he's lonely. Personally I think that
> masturbating would be more effective, but that's
> probably just me. 
> 
> And if Judy chooses to respond to this by trying to
> reopen the old argument, I might suggest the same 
> practice to her.  :-)
>

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ann Coulter on illegal immigrants

[authfriend]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Richard J. Williams" 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Nowhere in my post does it say or suggest or
> > hint at anything of the kind. You made that
> > up, attributed it to me, then called me a liar.
> >
> What you wrote was very decieving - you attempted 
> to decieve.

No, again, that would be you.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ann Coulter on illegal immigrants

[Lsoma]

 
In a message dated 5/29/2007 12:00:53 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 
> Why doesn't America invest in Mexico's economy? That would take away  the 
need for them to leave a country that is starving to death. Give it five  years 
of investment and the problem will go away all by itself.
After all, we built China's economy and now its India. Why not Mexico?  Lsoma.

 
 
 
> Nowhere in my post does it say or suggest or
> hint at anything  of the kind. You made that
> up, attributed it to me, then called me a  liar.
>
What you wrote was very deceiving - you attempted 
to  decieve. In context, almost every single American 
company hires illegals  through sub-contractors, since 
we all eat food harvested by illegal  aliens. But a 
very small percentage of illegals are hired directly
by  the companies you cited. Shemp seems to be correct.

You got caught  deceiving and posting a non sequitur
in an attempt mislead due to the fact  that you are
an inveterate argumentative time-waster.

Shemp  wrote:
> > The only time so-called "big business" has ever 
>  > been caught hiring illegal's is through sub-contractors, 
> >  who do the direct hiring of illegals.
> >
jstein wrote:
>  Tyson Foods
> Miller Brewing
> Honeywell
> Home  Depot
> Ford
> Wells Fargo Bank
> Hormel
>  IHOP
> Swift and Co.
>
> All hire  illegals.
>


 


 



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[FairfieldLife] Re: Somewhere in the Akash

[TurquoiseB]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Richard J. Williams"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> TurquoiseB wrote:
> > Bingo. What you focus on, you become.
> 
> From: Judy Stein
> Subject: Re: Good bye
> Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental
> Date: 2003-11-07 07:00:34 PST
> http://tinyurl.com/ynv9bn
> 
> Barry sent this post to me via email to make sure I 
> wouldn't miss it.  I responded briefly and politely, 
> only to find that he had configured his account to
> block email from my address. That pretty much takes 
> the cake for chickenshittery, in my book.

LOL. 

T'would seem that my post yesterday about
trolls has the resident troll here working
overtime.  :-)

This particular tempest in a pisspot was
resolved long ago. Judy stormed off of a.m.t.
in a snit, so upset about Shemp's beliefs after
years of TM that she expressed doubts about TM's
overall effectiveness. I actually believed that
she had done what she said, and left a.m.t., so
I posted a note to the group and copied her on
it in email suggesting that she might find some 
answers to her announced dilemma in Tibetan 
Buddhism, because of its emphasis on compassion. 
If you're silly enough to follow the tinyurl link 
above, Judy's "I'm leaving" post is #28. My reply, 
which is the one she refers to as "chickenshittery," 
is #29.

As for her claim of "chickenshittery," that email 
account was blocked to ALL traffic. I used it 
*only* to post to a.m.t. and other such spamtraps 
on Google. As it turns out, Judy knew that, and 
had already made at least one post some time 
earlier acknowledging that she knew it. So this 
was Just Another Opportunity To Feign Indignation. 
This is documented in post #36. Her gracious
apology is in post #37. She stayed "gone" from
a.m.t. for less than 24 hours.

And now, back to the ongoing attempts by the Troll 
>From Texas to start more arguments. As I suggested
yesterday, he's probably lonely, and this is what
he *does* when he's lonely. Personally I think that
masturbating would be more effective, but that's
probably just me. 

And if Judy chooses to respond to this by trying to
reopen the old argument, I might suggest the same 
practice to her.  :-)

[FairfieldLife] Re: "09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0"

[Duveyoung]

I've copywritten many a piece, and it saved my ass bigtime in one
instance when material of mine was wholly ripped off and used on a Web
site -- for profit -- $54,000's worth as it turned out.  

Because I had a copyright, the thief incurred a risk of much larger
penalties than he would have faced otherwise -- civil law allows for
multiples of the profits as a proscribed penalty.  That big penalty,
once he finally grasped what risk he faced, forced him to reconsider
his position in a three year long lawsuit, and he's now asking for an
out of court settlement.  Without that copyright "clout," my civil
suit against the guy would have much less of a penalty being possibly
exacted against him, and he would have held out much longer before
coming to the settlement table.

Because of this experience, I'm grateful for the copyright laws.

That said:  here's a suggestion to all artists:  give it all away for
free until you have a following. If you can't get a following, then
you don't have what the market wants, so keep your day job. 

If you do get a following, have those folks sign up to an opt-in list
that gets them the privilege of being the first to get your fresh new
stuff for a price.  Yes, they can then give your new stuff away after
purchase, but they will want your stuff fresh-as-possible, so much
that, if they have the bucks, they'll buy it when it comes hot off the
griddle just to get their fix.  Those that can wait, will get your
stuff from the buyers down the line when those buyers post your stuff
on the Web.  

See?  If one really has chops, there will be a paying audience who
want that next blast from you NOW.  And this can be done direct -- P2P
-- with no agents or broadcasters or media vampires involved.  The
artist sells to his core audience, and the rest of the world gets it
for free -- which is advertising for the next roll out of stuff. 
Providing your stuff for free in a degraded form (smaller file size)
will give everyone a taste, and invite them to purchase the "full
pleasure."  E.g., Put your stuff on youtube.com and cuz it's so crappy
a display, folks will pay for the bigger files with the visual and
audio details that youtube.com crunches out of existence.  The opt-in
list will grow.  

Yes, this means an artist must continually put out more, but that's
what any artist would do for funzies if he/she is a true artist, right?

Then, if one really has a following, a concert will be sold out, a
gallery's display will be well visited, etc. 

Now, I do have a problem with the heirs of material.  John Wayne's
family is still making healthy buckzoids from licensing his image, and
I cannot find myself wanting that to stop -- I have kids that I want
to leave my creations to, ya see?  So, the Duke's family have a
legitimate gripe if someone is diluting the value of his image by
over-use which will decrease how much is paid by a commercial interest
in the material.  I think that if anyone makes more than a few bucks
off my stuff, they should pay a royalty at least.  Maybe as a
compromise, we could allow general use of all material, but if money
is being made, then the copyright laws click in.  If people get tired
of seeing John Wayne in youtube vids, then so be it.  John Wayne's
family needs to make hay while the sun shines.

On the other hand, I don't create anything, and I'm thieving from God,
so who am I to try to control how the stuff that flows through me is
used by God in the "other" nervous systems out there?  Can't justify
it on my good days, but when I finally get that lawsuit cleared up,
I'll be sure to cash the check instead of, you know, giving to one of
"God's charities."  

SighI don't have clarity about all this.

Edg



--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Great article, great protest.
> 
> This pandering to the copyright barons is also the
> thing that has crippled Windows Vista, because 
> Microsoft capitulated to it. From what I hear, the
> moment you launch any of its multimedia utilities,
> the memory requirements of the operating system 
> double, and sometimes triple if you're trying to 
> play HD. I read one review/test of Vista in which 
> the tester was unable to run more than two other 
> programs (for example, Microsoft Word and Outlook) 
> in 2 Mb of memory (Microsoft's claimed minimum 
> memory requirement for Vista) when the OS went 
> into its "protect Microsoft from copyright 
> infringement suits" mode. They have effectively
> crippled their OS and passed the cost of the
> crippling (in the form of more memory being
> required) by giving in to the lawyers.
> 
> When are the copyright owners going to learn that
> they're dealing with a "frontier" situation, and
> outlaws, and that heavy-handed attempts to intimidate
> the outlaws Just Aren't Going To Work? The outlaws
> understand the tech, and the entertainment industry
> lawyers do not. The outlaws are going to win every
> time, because they've got Righteous Indignati

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ann Coulter on illegal immigrants

[Richard J. Williams]

> Nowhere in my post does it say or suggest or
> hint at anything of the kind. You made that
> up, attributed it to me, then called me a liar.
>
What you wrote was very decieving - you attempted 
to decieve. In context, almost every single American 
company hires illegals through sub-contractors, since 
we all eat food harvested by illegal aliens. But a 
very small percentage of illegals are hired directly
by the companies you cited. Shemp seems to be correct.

You got caught decieving and posting a non sequitur
in an attempt mislead due to the fact that you are
an inveterate argumentative time-waster.

Shemp wrote:
> > The only time so-called "big business" has ever 
> > been caught hiring illegals is through sub-contractors, 
> > who do the direct hiring of illegals.
> >
jstein wrote:
> Tyson Foods
> Miller Brewing
> Honeywell
> Home Depot
> Ford
> Wells Fargo Bank
> Hormel
> IHOP
> Swift and Co.
>
> All hire illegals.
>

[FairfieldLife] Re: A different explanation of stress release

[nablusoss1008]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>

 
> I'm hardly the only person to have made this
> observation (and I made it independently,
> before learning that others had made it as
> well, just on the strength of the similarities).
> It seems rather strange, Vaj, that with all
> your vast knowledge of MMY's teaching ...

Joke of the Day :-)

[FairfieldLife] Re: Global warming alarmist recants

[nablusoss1008]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
>
> I Was On the Global Warming Gravy Train 
> By David Evans 
> Posted on 5/28/2007 
> [Subscribe or Tell Others]   
> 
>  
> [A version of tihs article was previously blogged on Mises.org 
here, 
> and inspired a spirited debate. The author reworked the piece for 
the 
> Mises.org front page. The blog item remains the same.] 
> 
> 
> 
> I devoted six years to carbon accounting, building models for the 
> Australian government to estimate carbon emissions from land use 
> change and forestry. When I started that job in 1999 the evidence 
> that carbon emissions caused global warming seemed pretty 
conclusive, 
> but since then new evidence has weakened that case. I am now 
> skeptical. 
> In the late 1990s, this was the evidence suggesting that carbon 
> emissions caused global warming:
> 
> Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, proved in a laboratory a 
century 
> ago.
> 
> Global warming has been occurring for a century and concentrations 
of 
> atmospheric carbon have been rising for a century. Correlation is 
not 
> causation, but in a rough sense it looked like a fit.
> 
> Ice core data, starting with the first cores from Vostok in 1985, 
> allowed us to measure temperature and atmospheric carbon going back 
> hundreds of thousands of years, through several dramatic global 
> warming and cooling events. To the temporal resolution then 
available 
> (data points more than a thousand years apart), atmospheric carbon 
> and temperature moved in lockstep: they rose and fell together. 
Talk 
> about a smoking gun!
> 
> There were no other credible causes of global warming.
> 
> This evidence was not conclusive, but why wait until we are 
> absolutely certain when we apparently need to act now? So the idea 
> that carbon emissions were causing global warming passed from the 
> scientific community into the political realm. Research increased, 
> bureaucracies were formed, international committees met, and 
> eventually the Kyoto protocol was signed in 1997 to curb carbon 
> emissions.
> 
> "Correlation is not causation, but in a rough sense it looked like 
a 
> fit." 
> The political realm in turn fed money back into the scientific 
> community. By the late 1990s, lots of jobs depended on the idea 
that 
> carbon emissions caused global warming. Many of them were 
> bureaucratic, but there were a lot of science jobs created too. 
> 
> I was on that gravy train, making a high wage in a science job that 
> would not have existed if we didn't believe carbon emissions caused 
> global warming. And so were lots of people around me; there were 
> international conferences full of such people. We had political 
> support, the ear of government, big budgets. We felt fairly 
important 
> and useful (I did anyway). It was great. We were working to save 
the 
> planet!
> 
> But starting in about 2000, the last three of the four pieces of 
> evidence above fell away. Using the same point numbers as above: 
> Better data shows that from 1940 to 1975 the earth cooled while 
> atmospheric carbon increased. That 35 year non-correlation might 
> eventually be explained by global dimming, only discovered in about 
> 2003. 
> The temporal resolution of the ice core data improved. By 2004 we 
> knew that in past warming events, the temperature increases 
generally 
> started about 800 years before the rises in atmospheric carbon. 
> Causality does not run in the direction I had assumed in 1999 — it 
> runs the opposite way! 
> 
> It took several hundred years of warming for the oceans to give off 
> more of their carbon. This proves that there is a cause of global 
> warming other than atmospheric carbon. And while it is possible 
that 
> rising atmospheric carbon in these past warmings then went on to 
> cause more warming ("amplification" of the initial warming), the 
ice 
> core data neither proves nor disproves this hypothesis.
> 
> There is now a credible alternative suspect. In October 2006 Henrik 
> Svensmark showed experimentally that cosmic rays cause cloud 
> formation. Clouds have a net cooling effect, but for the last three 
> decades there have been fewer clouds than normal because the sun's 
> magnetic field, which shields us from cosmic rays, has been 
stronger 
> than usual. So the earth heated up. It's too early to judge what 
> fraction of global warming is caused by cosmic rays. 
>  
> 
> There is now no observational evidence that global warming is 
caused 
> by carbon emissions. You would think that in over 20 years of 
intense 
> investigation we would have found something. For example, 
greenhouse 
> warming due to carbon emissions should warm the upper atmosphere 
> faster than the lower atmosphere — but until 2006 the data showed 
the 
> opposite, and thus that the greenhouse effect was not occurring! In 
> 2006 better data allowed that the effect might be occurring, except 
> in the tropics. 
> 
> The only current "evidence

[FairfieldLife] Re: Somewhere in the Akash

[Richard J. Williams]

TurquoiseB wrote:
> Bingo. What you focus on, you become.
> 
From: Judy Stein
Subject: Re: Good bye
Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental
Date: 2003-11-07 07:00:34 PST
http://tinyurl.com/ynv9bn

Barry sent this post to me via email to make sure I 
wouldn't miss it.  I responded briefly and politely, 
only to find that he had configured his account to
block email from my address. That pretty much takes 
the cake for chickenshittery, in my book.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ann Coulter on illegal immigrants

[authfriend]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Richard J. Williams" 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > > > > Tyson Foods
> > > > > > Miller Brewing
> > > > > > Honeywell
> > > > > > Home Depot
> > > > > > Ford
> > > > > > Wells Fargo Bank
> > > > > > Hormel
> > > > > > IHOP
> > > > > > Swift and Co.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > All hire illegals.
> > > > > >
> > > > > So, they are "illegals", but are you suggesting that 
> > > > > the above companies employ 12 million of them, all 
> > > > > with stolen or forged Social Security cards?
> > > > > 
> > > > > What percentage of the illegals are employed by the 
> > > > > above cited companies? 1%?
> > > > >
> > > Shemp wrote:
> > > > It's far, far less than 1%.
> > > > 
> > > > I know.  I'm relying on the same source as Judy 
> > > > is (the Akasha).
> > > >
> > > So, Judy was attempting to decieve.
> > >
> jstein wrote:  
> > No, that would be you and Shemp, of course.
> >
> So, what percentage of illegal aliens work for the 
> cited companies? More than 1%? It seemed like you
> were trying to say that most of the estimated 12
> million illegals worked for them

Nowhere in my post does it say or suggest or
hint at anything of the kind. You made that
up, attributed it to me, then called me a liar.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ann Coulter on illegal immigrants

[Richard J. Williams]

> > > > > Tyson Foods
> > > > > Miller Brewing
> > > > > Honeywell
> > > > > Home Depot
> > > > > Ford
> > > > > Wells Fargo Bank
> > > > > Hormel
> > > > > IHOP
> > > > > Swift and Co.
> > > > > 
> > > > > All hire illegals.
> > > > >
> > > > So, they are "illegals", but are you suggesting that 
> > > > the above companies employ 12 million of them, all 
> > > > with stolen or forged Social Security cards?
> > > > 
> > > > What percentage of the illegals are employed by the 
> > > > above cited companies? 1%?
> > > >
> > Shemp wrote:
> > > It's far, far less than 1%.
> > > 
> > > I know.  I'm relying on the same source as Judy 
> > > is (the Akasha).
> > >
> > So, Judy was attempting to decieve.
> >
jstein wrote:  
> No, that would be you and Shemp, of course.
>
So, what percentage of illegal aliens work for the 
cited companies? More than 1%? It seemed like you
were trying to say that most of the estimated 12
million illegals worked for them, but according to 
Shemp, far less than 1% did. My guess is that about 
two illegal aliens may have worked for Wells Fargo 
Bank on a clean-up crew. According to Shemp, most 
of the illegal aliens worked through sub-contractors 
and were not hired directly by the companies themselves.

'Wal-Mart Pays for Hiring Illegal Aliens'
http://immigration.about.com/b/a/162521.htm

An investigation by the U.S. Immigration and Customs 
Enforcement uncovered that contractors providing 
cleaning services to Wal-Mart hired illegal aliens 
for the job.

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Challenge For Shemp

[Richard J. Williams]

TurquoiseB wrote:
> The troll might just be lonely, and desperate for 
> someone -- anyone -- to react to them and talk to 
> them. (I honestly think that's why Richard
> Williams does his trolling.) 
>
Now, what exactly were those "two simple questions for 
the bhakti supporters"?

From: Uncle Tantra
Subject: Two simple questions for the bhakti supporters
Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental
Date: 2003-03-16 
http://tinyurl.com/38tsdh

I studied with a guy who could turn huge rooms in convention 
centers gold, to the point where even the security guards saw 
it, but that never made me think he was enlightened, only that 
he could do cool things with light. 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Scientific validation of Yagyas, a beginning

[TurquoiseB]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB  
> wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "qntmpkt"  wrote:
> > >
> > > Has a Jyotish and Yagya program.  CD's and DVD's available too.
> > > http://www.expertvedicastrology.com
> > > 
> > > As a US headquarters base in Hawaii, you can send US $ to their 
> > > HQ and not bother with converting $ to rupees.
> > 
> > As to where your US $ go and your expected Return
> > On Investment, I offer a crude start at validating
> > the effect of Yagyas (as per the announced effect 
> > of the Yagya) vs. some kind of objective measure 
> > of its actual effect.
> > 
> > The first link documents the announced intention of 
> > one Yagya offered by this fellow, and its cost ($11,000). 
> > 
> > http://www.expertvedicastrology.com/index.php?pr=Yagya_for_World_Peace
> > 
> > The second link documents the ongoing conflicts in 
> > the world during 2006:
> > 
> > http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0904550.html
> > 
> > It would seem that the benefactors who donated to this
> > Yagya, other than the "feel good" benefit of contributing
> > to a supposedly noble cause, got at least 20 continuing
> > significant armed conflicts for their money. That's less
> > than $500 US per war, which some would consider a bargain.
> > One of the conflicts (the one in Sri Lanka, fairly close 
> > to the "broadcast tower" for the Yagya's Woo Woo Rays) 
> > actually had a four-year cease fire fall apart and revert 
> > to armed conflict again shortly after the Yagya was 
> > performed.
> > 
> > T'would seem that either the gods aren't listening, or
> > perhaps the 121 pundits got the pronunciation of one of
> > the verses slightly wrong. Either that, or the Yagya
> > was a total success, and accomplished its intended effect
> > (bringing in $11,000) perfectly.
>
> Even if the Yagya brings less than what you have defined 
> as total success, is that justification for not doing it 
> at all? I don't get that logic. 

Did I suggest that? I think that people should
do whatever they think that they should do. If
someone gets off by paying $11,000 for a yagya,
more power to them. If someone else gets off by
taking that $11,000 and burning it in their
fireplace, more power to them. All that I'm 
suggesting is that the *effect* of these two 
actions -- both of which bring a sense of 
satisfaction and pleasure to the person who is 
supplying the money for them -- may be exactly
the same.  :-)

> It is not a black and white world, imo. Your comment is 
> like finding out from the physician that to attempt to 
> cure your total inability to walk will result in walking 
> with a pronounced limp, so you then declare to the doctor, 
> "well then, forget it, I'll continue in my wheelchair". 

Rather false analogy. What I am suggesting is 
that there is a possibility that the doctor 
who promises to cure you never attended med
school, and has no knowledge that *could*
improve you. If you "improve" as a result 
of his "care," it's the result of your
belief that you would improve -- in other
words, the placebo effect.

You are trying to make the case *for* yagyas
because intuitively you believe they have some
effect. I am merely saying that intuitively I
suspect they have no effect at all, *except*
on the level of the placebo effect.

BUT, if it makes you happy to send your money
off to Hawaii, and then you look at the world
and see some positive results from your "invest-
ment" in the yagyas, cool. The only point I'm 
making is that I'd be willing to bet that (as
we have certainly seen with the "selective 
vision" with which the TMO tends to view world
events to justify their fund-raising flying 
courses), the more you "invest" in the yagya,
the more you might be tempted to *imagine*
positive results. As you seem to be doing here,
you could look at a year in which the number
of wars possibly increased and say, "Well,
they might have increased *more* if I hadn't
paid for the yagya." That's cool, too, but I
think it's a tough sell to those who suspect
that the real motivation for performing yagyas
is to pay for the lives of those who perform
yagyas.  :-)

> ??? I would add that like any endeavor, large or small, 
> intution and common sense are the best guides on 
> whether or not to proceed. :-)

That's what I'm suggesting, too. If someone claims
to be able to bring about world peace by hiring
121 people to chant for 11 days, I'd expect to
see some measure of world peace as a result. If
I don't, I'd begin to think that I was ripped off.

You seem to be wearing rose-colored glasses that
enable you to see a year's worth of wars as world
peace, so you can justify the "investment" in 
such a yagya. That seems to be your definition 
of "intuition and common sense." Me, I have a 
slightly different definition, that's all.

You have my full permission to send as much of
your money as you want to these people. I don't
have an

[FairfieldLife] Re: A different explanation of stress release

[authfriend]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > > > Karma is what tradition would state, not "stress".
> > >
> > > Actually, "stress" in MMY's lingo refers to samskaras,
[restoring snipped portion]
> impressions left in the mind of past experiences (in
> this or previous lives). In the yogic tradition, 
> they're said to be the imprints of past karmas
> (actions) that compel new actions/reactions in the
> present.
> 
> Note that stress can be "eustress" (from positive
> experiences) or "distress" (from negative experiences),
> per Hans Selye; the same is true of samskaras.
> 
> The parallel between Selye's "stress" and samskaras
> isn't perfect, although there are many common elements.
> MMY uses "stress" simply as a translation of "samskaras,"
> rather than strictly in the Selyean sense.
> 
> MMY believes, of course, that everything mental has
> a physical (or neurophysiological) correlate (including
> the "subtle" nervous system). TM is said to allow the
> release of the physical/neurophysiological correlates
> of mental impressions (samskaras), which results in the
> dissolution of the mental impressions as well.
> 
>  Generally one  
> > would practice a technique to resolve the karmic eddies that
> > still exist in the pranic body. Once practicing such a
> > technique, then one can follow various signs to see how that's
> > working. MMY's position is a marketable one, that's all,
> > otherwise it's utterly fallacious and misleading.
> 
> Of course, it's neither. It's *simplified*, but
> conceptually it's pretty straight yogic theory a
> la Patanjali.


> If this is indeed what he's referring to, then please
> quote a source showing the equivalency in MMB's own words.

Who's "MMB"?

If you mean MMY, I don't have a quote, but none
is needed. If you know what samskaras are, and
you've ever heard MMY talking about "stress," the
equivalence is ridiculously obvious.

I'm hardly the only person to have made this
observation (and I made it independently,
before learning that others had made it as
well, just on the strength of the similarities).
It seems rather strange, Vaj, that with all
your vast knowledge of MMY's teaching and the
yogic teaching, you wouldn't have made the
association on your own.

For that matter, MMY isn't the only one to have
adopted the term "stress" to refer to samskaras.
See, for instance, this from Swami Satyananda
Saraswati (student of Sivananda):

http://tinyurl.com/2gevpa

> If indeed it is, and I suspect you may be right, the mediator is  
> indeed the pranic body and it's karmic eddies not the physical  
> nervous system (as oft advertised in TMO tracts).
> 
> There may indeed be a physical component in the nervous system,
> e.g. glia with an extremely short time span unmeasurable by 
> current medical imaging technology or some short biological half-
> life fast neurotransmitters, but currently there is no tangible 
> evidence to definitely arrive at such a conclusion.

There are a lot of things in yogic theory for
which there is no "tangible evidence."

[FairfieldLife] Re: Scientific validation of Yagyas, a beginning

[jim_flanegin]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "qntmpkt"  wrote:
> >
> > Has a Jyotish and Yagya program.  CD's and DVD's available too.
> > http://www.expertvedicastrology.com
> > 
> > As a US headquarters base in Hawaii, you can send US $ to their 
> > HQ and not bother with converting $ to rupees.
> 
> As to where your US $ go and your expected Return
> On Investment, I offer a crude start at validating
> the effect of Yagyas (as per the announced effect 
> of the Yagya) vs. some kind of objective measure 
> of its actual effect.
> 
> The first link documents the announced intention of 
> one Yagya offered by this fellow, and its cost ($11,000). 
> 
> http://www.expertvedicastrology.com/index.php?
pr=Yagya_for_World_Peace
> 
> The second link documents the ongoing conflicts in 
> the world during 2006:
> 
> http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0904550.html
> 
> It would seem that the benefactors who donated to this
> Yagya, other than the "feel good" benefit of contributing
> to a supposedly noble cause, got at least 20 continuing
> significant armed conflicts for their money. That's less
> than $500 US per war, which some would consider a bargain.
> One of the conflicts (the one in Sri Lanka, fairly close 
> to the "broadcast tower" for the Yagya's Woo Woo Rays) 
> actually had a four-year cease fire fall apart and revert 
> to armed conflict again shortly after the Yagya was 
> performed.
> 
> T'would seem that either the gods aren't listening, or
> perhaps the 121 pundits got the pronunciation of one of
> the verses slightly wrong. Either that, or the Yagya
> was a total success, and accomplished its intended effect
> (bringing in $11,000) perfectly.
>
Even if the Yagya brings less than what you have defined as total 
success, is that justification for not doing it at all? I don't get 
that logic. It is not a black and white world, imo. Your comment is 
like finding out from the physician that to attempt to cure your 
total inability to walk will result in walking with a pronounced 
limp, so you then declare to the doctor, "well then, forget it, I'll 
continue in my wheelchair". ??? I would add that like any endeavor, 
large or small, intution and common sense are the best guides on 
whether or not to proceed. :-)

[FairfieldLife] Re: "09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0"

[TurquoiseB]

Great article, great protest.

This pandering to the copyright barons is also the
thing that has crippled Windows Vista, because 
Microsoft capitulated to it. From what I hear, the
moment you launch any of its multimedia utilities,
the memory requirements of the operating system 
double, and sometimes triple if you're trying to 
play HD. I read one review/test of Vista in which 
the tester was unable to run more than two other 
programs (for example, Microsoft Word and Outlook) 
in 2 Mb of memory (Microsoft's claimed minimum 
memory requirement for Vista) when the OS went 
into its "protect Microsoft from copyright 
infringement suits" mode. They have effectively
crippled their OS and passed the cost of the
crippling (in the form of more memory being
required) by giving in to the lawyers.

When are the copyright owners going to learn that
they're dealing with a "frontier" situation, and
outlaws, and that heavy-handed attempts to intimidate
the outlaws Just Aren't Going To Work? The outlaws
understand the tech, and the entertainment industry
lawyers do not. The outlaws are going to win every
time, because they've got Righteous Indignation on
their side. That and being 17 and having no assets
that can be effectively seized.  :-)

My favorite attempt-at-copy-protection story is the
short-lived scheme used by Sony corp. on its CDs.
They spent several million bucks coming up with a
copy-protection algorhythm that would prevent users
from copying their CDs. The only trouble with it 
was that it actually *crashed* the users' computers
when they tried to play the CDs on them. Big no-no,
one that put the Righteous Indignation reaction into
hyperdrive. Within a week, someone had figured out
that the multi-million-dollar copy protection scheme
could be defeated using a 49-cent Magic Marker pen.
Simply use it to paint over the outside edge of the
CD, and it played (and copied) just fine on any
computer. No more crashes, no more copy protection.
Sony abandoned the scheme.

That's the way that all such copy protection schemes
are going to be dealt with in the future. The hackers
are smarter than the people creating the protection
devices, and they're more motivated. The employees
of the entertainment industry companies who invent
these things are rewarded with (and thus motivated 
by) an industry-standard salary and a Dilbert cube 
that they can't even put up any of their photos of
Elle Macpherson in. The hackers are motivated by
Righteous Indignation, which doesn't pay as well in
dollars, but pays off Big-Time in terms of satis-
faction and peer approval.  :-)

Having worked on the peripheries of the music and
film industry at one point in my life, I have to
admit that I don't have a lot of compassion for the
companies who are screaming about being ripped off
by pirates. They've been Long John Silver to their
artists for decades now, ripping off the very people 
who create their product every way they can possibly
imagine. And now the karma has come home to roost.
And about bloody time, in my opinion. I've known
musicians who sold over a million dollars worth of
product and who got a *bill* from their record
companies for the album. The smarmy lawyers of the
record companies had found a way to pass all of
*their* expenses onto the band, and make them pay
the company for the privilege of having made money
for them. Same with some small films.

So do I feel bad about these entertainment industry
remoras losing a few bucks from pirates who take
advantage of this authorization code being spread
around on the Internet? I do not. When they start
treating the "talent" that pays for their Porsches
with a little more respect, I'll have more respect
for them. Until then, I'm siding with the pirates.
Ho ho ho, pass the bottle of rum, and plop that 
HD copy of Pirates Of The Caribbean At World's 
End into that Linux machine. Party time.  :-)


--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "vajradhatu108" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> 09 F9: A Simple Way to Stand Up Against the Latest Assault on
Digital Rights
> By Annalee Newitz, AlterNet
> Posted on May 22, 2007
> 
> I have a number, and therefore I am a free person. That's the message
> more than a million protesters across the Internet have been
> broadcasting throughout the month of May as they publish "09 F9 11 02
> 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0," the 128-bit number familiarly
> known as 09 F9. Why would so many people create MySpace accounts using
> this number, devote a Wikipedia entry to it, post it thousands of
> times on news-finding site Digg, share pictures of it on photo site
> Flickr, and emblazon it on T-shirts?
> 
> They're doing it to protest kids being threatened with jail by
> entertainment companies. They're doing it to protest bad art, bad
> business, and bad uses of good technology. They're doing it because
> they want to watch Spider-Man 3 on their Linux machines.
> 
> In case you don't know, 09 F9 is part of a key that unlocks the
> encryption codes on HD-DV

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Giant Skeletons Found in India

[MDixon6569]

 
In a message dated 5/28/07 10:24:22 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:


>  They must have been very popular with they ladies.
> 
Its a hoax,  first reported in 2004.



Du!



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Re: [FairfieldLife] Vaidya Mishra pulse diagnosis course and consultations in July

[pratap Mahapatra]

I was wondering if it is Vaidya Ramakant Mishra or someone else. Is it TM 
movement organised?

at_man_and_brahman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:  The esteemed Raj Vaidya 
Mishra, whose lineage
extends through 5000 years, will be offering
a three-day course on pulse diagnosis in July
in Indianapolis. This course is intended 
primarily for health-care professionals, but
others are invited to attend. 

Indianapolis is about a six-hour drive from 
Fairfield.

Vaidya Mishra's approach to Ayurveda is
much deeper than most other vaidyas, based
on the traditional training he received from his
father during seven years following his graduation 
from an Ayurvedic college.

If you are interested in attending or want more
information, contact me at 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Vaidya Mishra will also do three days of pulse
consultations following the course.



 

 
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[FairfieldLife] "09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0"

[vajradhatu108]

09 F9: A Simple Way to Stand Up Against the Latest Assault on Digital Rights
By Annalee Newitz, AlterNet
Posted on May 22, 2007

I have a number, and therefore I am a free person. That's the message
more than a million protesters across the Internet have been
broadcasting throughout the month of May as they publish "09 F9 11 02
9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0," the 128-bit number familiarly
known as 09 F9. Why would so many people create MySpace accounts using
this number, devote a Wikipedia entry to it, post it thousands of
times on news-finding site Digg, share pictures of it on photo site
Flickr, and emblazon it on T-shirts?

They're doing it to protest kids being threatened with jail by
entertainment companies. They're doing it to protest bad art, bad
business, and bad uses of good technology. They're doing it because
they want to watch Spider-Man 3 on their Linux machines.

In case you don't know, 09 F9 is part of a key that unlocks the
encryption codes on HD-DVD and Blu-ray DVDs. Only a handful of DVD
players are authorized to play these discs, and if you don't own one
of them, you can't watch Spidey in high definition -- even if you
purchase the DVD lawfully and aren't doing any copying. For many in
the tech community, this encryption scheme, known as the Advanced
Access Content System (AACS), felt like a final slap in the face from
an entertainment industry whose recording branch sues kids for
downloading music and whose movie branch makes crappy sequels that you
can't even watch on your good Linux computer (you guessed it -- not
authorized).

When a person going by the screen name arnezami managed to uncover and
publish the AACS key in February, other people immediately began
reposting it. They did it because they're media consumers angry about
the AACS and they wanted Hollywood and the world to know that they
don't need no stinkin' authorized players. That's when the Motion
Picture Association of America and the AACS Licensing Administrator
(AACS LA) started sending out the cease and desist letters. Lawyers
for the AACS LA argued that the number could be used to circumvent
copy protection measures on DVDs and posting it was therefore a
violation of the anticircumvention clauses in the Digital Millennium
Copyright Act. They targeted blogs and social networks with cease and
desists, even sending notice to Google that the search engine should
stop returning results for people searching for the AACS key (as of
this writing, Google returns nearly 1.5 million pages containing it).

While some individuals complied with the AACS LA, in many cases
community sentiment was so overwhelming that it was impossible to
quell the tide of hexadecimal madness. Popular news site Digg tried to
take down articles containing the number, and for a while it appeased
the AACS LA. But Digg is a social network whose content is determined
by millions of people, and as soon as Digg staffers took down one
number, it would pop up in hundreds of other places. At last Digg's
founder, Kevin Rose, gave up and told the community that if Digg got
sued, it'd go down fighting. Many other sites, such as Wikipedia and
Wired.com, deliberately published the number in articles, daring the
AACS LA to sue them. Sites like MySpace and LiveJournal are also rife
with the number -- like Digg, these sites are made up entirely of user
content, and it would be practically impossible for administrators to
scrub the number out.

The AACS key protests have become so popular because they reach far
beyond the usual debates over copyright infringement. This isn't about
my right to copy movies -- it's about my right to play movies on
whatever machine I want to. The AACS scheme is the perfect planned
obsolescence generator. It will absolutely force people to upgrade
their existing DVD players because soon they won't be authorized to
play new DVDs. Even worse, the AACS scheme allows movie companies to
revoke authorized status for players. Already, the AACS LA has revoked
the authorized status of the WinDVD media player, so anybody who
invested in WinDVD will have to reinvest in a new player -- at least,
until that player's authorized status is revoked too.

The AACS, more than any other digital rights management scheme, has
revealed that the Hollywood studios have formed a cartel with
electronics manufacturers who will do anything to suck more money out
of the public. If you want to watch lawfully purchased movies, the
only sane thing to do is post the number. Stand up and be counted.

http://www.alternet.org/story/52242/

[FairfieldLife] Chacun son cinema

[TurquoiseB]

For the film freaks on this forum (and I know that
there are a few of you out there), I can highly
recommend a fun compilation that was done for the
recent 60th Cannes Film Festival. It's currently
showing on the Canal+ channels here, and it consists
of 35 short (2-4 minutes) films created by invited 
by the festival to celebrate cinema and their feel-
ings about it, as suggested by the title -- To Each
His Own Cinema.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0973844/

We're talking about shorts by directors like Lars 
von Trier (a dark but hilarious piece about what
many film viewers have fantasized doing to those
who talk in cinemas), David Lynch (as you might
expect, surrealistic and incomprehensible to the
max), David Cronenberg (pseudo news coverage of
the last Jew in the world committing suicide in
the last cinema in the world), Roman Polanski
(Cinéma Erotique), Gus van Sant, Claude Lelouch,
Billie August, Jane Campion, Michael Cimino, the
Coen brothers, Andrei Konchalovsky, Ken Loach,
Wim Wenders, Kar Wai Wong, and others.

Great fun! People who just *love* the cinema, and
have devoted their lives to their love affair with
the cinema, taking a few moments from their busy
schedules to create short love letters to their
beloved. I don't know whether it'll ever be 
released on DVD or in theaters in the US, but if
it is, and you share these directors' love of
movies, you might want to join in the fun.

As for the token FFL "TM content" rule, the David
Lynch segment does not seem to be contained in the
version of the film they're showing on Canal+. It
was shown during the opening ceremonies of the
festival, and I saw it then. Suffice it to say
that it was weird. If you weren't in the business
of making excuses for Lynch because he's a TMer,
you might suspect that it had been made by a
psychopath. The reaction of the audience at the
ceremony was stunned silence, followed by sporadic 
polite applause. This might have something to do
with why it's not in the version being shown on
Canal+.

My favorite is by Chen Kaing, and starts with a 
flashback to kids in a backwater village in China,
trying to watch a movie in an improvised theater
by pedaling their bikes to generate enough power
to run the projector. They're watching a silent
Charlie Chaplin film, and laughing to beat all 
because of course it's universal. A night watchman 
arrives and chases off the kids before they can 
see the end of the film. All of the kids but one. 
He's still sitting there because he's blind, and 
can't run away. Instead he says to the watchman, 
"Can't we finish the film?" Flash forward to 2007,
and the blind kid is now grown, and is using his
cane to tap his way into a movie theater. He's
still in love with the movies, even though he's
never been able to see even one of them. 

Those who love film understand. These directors
all understand.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Giant Skeletons Found in India

[hugheshugo]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> http://fourwinds10.com/NewsServer/ArticleFunctions/ArticleDetails.php?
Articl
> eID=15307 
> 
> Click on the photos for a larger view, then click on the article 
again to
> return to it.
>


The first of april sure comes round quick these days!

[FairfieldLife] Scientific validation of Yagyas, a beginning

[TurquoiseB]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "qntmpkt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Has a Jyotish and Yagya program.  CD's and DVD's available too.
> http://www.expertvedicastrology.com
> 
> As a US headquarters base in Hawaii, you can send US $ to their 
> HQ and not bother with converting $ to rupees.

As to where your US $ go and your expected Return
On Investment, I offer a crude start at validating
the effect of Yagyas (as per the announced effect 
of the Yagya) vs. some kind of objective measure 
of its actual effect.

The first link documents the announced intention of 
one Yagya offered by this fellow, and its cost ($11,000). 

http://www.expertvedicastrology.com/index.php?pr=Yagya_for_World_Peace

The second link documents the ongoing conflicts in 
the world during 2006:

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0904550.html

It would seem that the benefactors who donated to this
Yagya, other than the "feel good" benefit of contributing
to a supposedly noble cause, got at least 20 continuing
significant armed conflicts for their money. That's less
than $500 US per war, which some would consider a bargain.
One of the conflicts (the one in Sri Lanka, fairly close 
to the "broadcast tower" for the Yagya's Woo Woo Rays) 
actually had a four-year cease fire fall apart and revert 
to armed conflict again shortly after the Yagya was 
performed.

T'would seem that either the gods aren't listening, or
perhaps the 121 pundits got the pronunciation of one of
the verses slightly wrong. Either that, or the Yagya
was a total success, and accomplished its intended effect
(bringing in $11,000) perfectly.