date:20090320

Geezer,

Sorry for your loss.

I stopped having pets after my cat died in my lap and the tears just would not 
stop.

Edg

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, geezerfreak geezerfr...@... wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ 
 wrote:
 
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote:
   
I know what Maharishi is talking about when he describes the states of 
consciousness developed by regular meditation.  It is cultivating those 
states that I am calling a waste of time comparable to spending the day 
stoned.
   
   Says it all Curtis, you have reached the pinnacle of stupidity. You don't 
   even have to make any more comments as you will never reach such hights 
   as today.
  
  
  Oh I didn't mean you Nabby.  I know that you are reaching the highest state 
  of human development, a state the angels themselves envy, the state of 
  perfection for man, glorified in the scriptures and which will culminate in 
  Lord Maitreya himself giving you a sloppy Cleveland Steamer to celebrate 
  how special you are inside your head compared to me.
 
 Curtis you make me smile today, even though I had to put my beloved dog down 
 today. Thank you.

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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: EEG definition of Yoganidra



On Mar 19, 2009, at 7:37 PM, sparaig wrote:


--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote:



On Mar 19, 2009, at 11:24 AM, sparaig wrote:





Shrugs. Its like the researchers that note that all meditation
techniques lead to a quieting of the part of hte brain
having to do with self and come up with books discussing it,
while ignoring their own research on TM that counters their
hypothesis.

The question arises: who is making what up?


Well some research builds on good prior research and then moves  
forward. That's what interests me.






So which is the redefinition TM is a rather simple practice
and if it facilitates a specific state as a side-effect, which is
more likely, that the specific state is the natural one or
that it is the redefinition?


Since Gaudapada (on the Hindu side of things) practices to cultivate  
the witness were practiced. It doesn't make sense that these states  
arise without a method by mistake--and in fact they don't. It's a  
causal state.





OR its just a sign of unstressing manifesting as
extreme tiredness.


I don't buy the unstressing model, I think it's BS.

It's more likely, as Siegel points out in the lecture I recently  
linked to, a form of imbalance. You can tell if you fell into that  
imbalance if you're ending up in a DSM-IV type diagnosis since, as he  
explained, all the states in the DSM-IV are from one of two  
polarities. You have the hypomanic folks and you have those that get  
obsessed, stuck in rigidity. What's fascinating to me is is how  
closely this matches yogic models which were established hundreds and  
hundreds of years before fMRI or even psychiatry.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Unregulated Capitalism

2009-03-20 Thread nablusoss1008

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, I am the eternal l.shad...@... wrote:

 On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 5:54 PM, nablusoss1008 no_re...@yahoogroups.com 
 wrote:
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote:
 
 
 
  See cartoon: http://snipurl.com/e5h8v
 
 
  Now that Communism is gone the next to go is Capitalism
 
  - Maharishi, 1989
 
 Couldn't we just save ourselves time and assign numbers to all the now
 trite expressions, like this one and just say #17, for instance,
 instead of having to write out the whole sentence?

Sure. If I was convinced you had grasped the full consequence of what Maharishi 
said.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: EEG definition of Yoganidra



On Mar 19, 2009, at 10:25 PM, I am the eternal wrote:


On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 7:36 PM, Vaj vajradh...@earthlink.net wrote:



Actually, I'm told by my fellow TMSP friends who would know such
things, TMSP really turns up the gain on bipolar disorder such that
where once there was none evident now there is.  So there are  
times of

sleep jags and times of sleeplessness.

It's actually a known side effect in a certain kundalini disorder,  
which
produces a bipolar type pattern. Yogis are familiar with it in any  
event.




I'll bite, and worse yet, commingle my post with those of a a a
Buddhist.  What's the kundalini disorder called?


It's a certain pathway, I forget which one. But basically what  
happens is it's a non-unity culminating nadi, so when you get stuck  
in this pattern, neurotransmitters tend to build up on one phase and  
be depleted on the other, resulting in these swinging states. Of  
course if the person gets allopathic treatment for one end of the  
polarity, it just masks it. The interesting thing is the person will  
'glimpse' unitary states, so it seems very inspiring, thus causing  
the person to feed the pattern again with more sadhana.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Backpedaling on AIG?

2009-03-20 Thread Nelson

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings no_re...@... wrote:

 
 
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams
 willytex@ wrote:
 
  do.rflex wrote:
   Congress, White House Pointing Fingers Over
   Who Killed Bonus Provision...
  
  You need to get some smarts, Mr. Manning,
  the AIG bonuses aren't even a blip on the radar
  compared to the crazed spending by the Obama
  Democratic Party Congress. And nobody knows
  where the money is even going. Obama is turning
  into a nightmare spender.
 
  The Obama, Reid and Polosi clique are bent on
  ruining our economy and turning this country
  into a Soviet-style communism. There's anger
  brewing in the masses and like Barry2 says,
  rebellion is in the air. 
 
 LOL !...only among the minority rednecks like you and Chuck Norris,
 Richard. What a joke.
 
  Where would we be if it weren't for the minority of rednecks (patriots) that 
took issue with the powers that be in the late seventeen hundreds?
   Probably best to wait before making a judgment.

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Time Fractal Excerpt/1983-1984'

2009-03-20 Thread boo_lives

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_re...@... wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote:
 
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert babajii_99@ wrote:
  
   --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Kirk kirk_bernhardt@ wrote:
   
So he does TM? How else would he have heard of the Taste course?
(snip)
   In the radio interview, he didn't mention anything about TM, or the 
   'Taste of Utopia Course'...
   I haven't read his books, so don't know much more than I heard in the 
   interview.
   His direct quote was something like this: 'There was a group of about 
   7,000 people' who were creating and intensifying a calming effect on 
   world consciousness, at that time, which altered the 'seed' of his timing 
   of a 'surprise attack'...
   He claimed his theory also predicted the 'surprise attack' of 9/11...
   Which obviously wasn't prevented.
   
   His main point, was that this date of 2012, was a point of major 
   transition, and in order to get through it peacefully would require an 
   evolution of consciousness, which would be grounded by people meditating 
   and calming the extreme fear, which would grip many people, who were 
   afraid of the changes, which were occurring.
   R.g.
  
  According to my information, by 2012 the points of major transition is 
  history. 
  In fact many in this group have participated in creating a peacefull 
  transition which started already when Maharishi gave one of His first 
  rounding-courses during the Cuban crisis.
 
 Or perhaps much earlier; when His Divinity Brahmananda Sarasawathi accepted 
 the seat of the Shankaracharya in Jyothir Math ? 
 
 The Masters of Wisdom certainly knew, having encouraged us since the 
 beginning of time, that humanity once again was recovering into Discipleship 
 and Masterhood, with Maitreya - the World Teacher - being in the world of men 
 for the first time in 100.000 years, present in His Self-created Mahavirupta 
 body since 1977 in the West, only two years after Maharishi inaugurated the 
 Dawn of the Age of Enlightenment.
  
 They also knew that a Bright Star of Wisdom would personally take 
 responsebility for creating this more and more visible Heaven on Earth, with 
 the blessings from Guru Dev, one of the most Senior amongst The Masters of 
 Wisdom. 
 
 And They knew His name to be: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
 
 Blessed are all those souls, and infinite are their future possebilities for 
 Discipleship and Masterhood, in this life or later, those that even with a 
 fraction of their time did help Maharishi in His Cosmic endeavor to create 
 Heaven on Earth, in this generation. 
 
 Every one of them are blessed.
 
I was going to say that this type of magical thinking is at least cheaper than 
drugs for creating a high, but actually it's probably a lot more expensive.  
MMY didn't get those huge offshore bank accts out of nothing.  Sorry, blessed 
offshore bank accts which he set up in order to purify the wall street crisis 
that he foresaw.

[FairfieldLife] Republican: The Party of White-Trash Pride

2009-03-20 Thread do.rflex



Ship of fools - The Economist - Nov 13th 2008


JOHN STUART MILL once dismissed the British Conservative Party as the stupid 
party. Today the Conservative Party is run by Oxford-educated high-fliers who 
have been busy reinventing conservatism for a new era. As Lexington sees it, 
the title of the stupid party now belongs to the Tories' transatlantic 
cousins, the Republicans.

There are any number of reasons for the Republican Party's defeat on November 
4th. But high on the list is the fact that the party lost the battle for 
brains. 

Barack Obama won college graduates by two points, a group that George Bush won 
by six points four years ago. He won voters with postgraduate degrees by 18 
points. And he won voters with a household income of more than $200,000many of 
whom will get thumped by his tax increasesby six points. John McCain did best 
among uneducated voters in Appalachia and the South.

The Republicans lost the battle of ideas even more comprehensively than they 
lost the battle for educated votes, marching into the election armed with 
nothing more than slogans. 

Energy? Just drill, baby, drill. 

Global warming? Crack a joke about Ozone Al. 

Immigration? Send the bums home. 

Torture and Guantánamo? Wear a T-shirt saying you would rather be 
water-boarding. Ha ha. 

During the primary debates, three out of ten Republican candidates admitted 
that they did not believe in evolution.

The Republican Party's divorce from the intelligentsia has been a while in the 
making. 

The born-again Mr Bush preferred listening to his heart rather than his 
head. He also filled the government with incompetent toadies like Michael 
heck-of-a-job Brown, who bungled the response to Hurricane Katrina. 

Mr McCain, once the chattering classes' favourite Republican, refused to 
grapple with the intricacies of the financial meltdown, preferring instead to 
look for cartoonish villains. 

And in a desperate attempt to serve boob bait to Bubba, he appointed Sarah 
Palin to his ticket, a woman who took five years to get a degree in journalism, 
and who was apparently unaware of some of the most rudimentary facts about 
international politics.

Republicanism's anti-intellectual turn is devastating for its future. 

The party's electoral success from 1980 onwards was driven by its ability to 
link brains with brawn. The conservative intelligentsia not only helped to 
craft a message that resonated with working-class Democrats, a message that 
emphasised entrepreneurialism, law and order, and American pride. It also 
provided the party with a sweeping policy agenda. The party's loss of brains 
leaves it rudderless, without a compelling agenda.

This is happening at a time when the American population is becoming more 
educated. More than a quarter of Americans now have university degrees. Twenty 
per cent of households earn more than $100,000 a year, up from 16% in 1996. 
Mark Penn, a Democratic pollster, notes that 69% call themselves 
professionals. 

McKinsey, a management consultancy, argues that the number of jobs requiring 
tacit intellectual skills has increased three times as fast as employment in 
general. 

The Republican Party's current redneck strategy will leave it appealing to a 
shrinking and backward-looking portion of the electorate.

Why is this happening? One reason is that conservative brawn has lost patience 
with brains of all kinds, conservative or liberal. 

Many conservativesparticularly lower-income onesare consumed with elemental 
fury about everything from immigration to liberal do-gooders. They take their 
opinions from talk-radio hosts such as Rush Limbaugh and the deeply unsubtle 
Sean Hannity. And they regard Mrs Palin's apparent ignorance not as a problem 
but as a badge of honour.

Another reason is the degeneracy of the conservative intelligentsia itself, a 
modern-day version of the 1970s liberals it arose to do battle with: trapped in 
an ideological cocoon, defined by its outer fringes, ruled by dynasties and 
incapable of adjusting to a changed world. 

The movement has little to say about today's pressing problems, such as global 
warming and the debacle in Iraq, and expends too much of its energy on 
xenophobia, homophobia and opposing stem-cell research.

Conservative intellectuals are also engaged in their own version of what Julian 
Benda dubbed la trahison des clercs, the treason of the learned. They have 
fallen into constructing cartoon images of real Americans, with their 
volkish wisdom and charming habit of dropping their gs. 

Mrs Palin was invented as a national political force by Beltway journalists 
from the Weekly Standard and the National Review who met her when they were on 
luxury cruises around Alaska, and then noisily championed her cause.

Time for reflection

How likely is it that the Republican Party will come to its senses? 
There are glimmers of hope. 

Business conservatives worry that the party has lost the business vote. 

Moderates complain

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Nuclear War Thwarted by Taste of Utopia Course'

2009-03-20 Thread Kirk

Maharishi believed that Guru Dev had a huge yajna which saved the world from 
the continued woes of WW2. Atomics was the single reason that drove 
Maharishi to come to the West, just as similar insights have occurred to 
other yogis - Buddhist and Hindu.

- Original Message - 
From: at_man_and_brahman at_man_and_brah...@sbcglobal.net
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 9:16 AM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Nuclear War Thwarted by Taste of Utopia 
Course'

I was. Two comments:

 1) the energy in the meditation halls was immense,
 and I have trouble believing it was confined to just
 the course participants.

 2) As documented in press reports in recent years,
 and obliquely at the Wikipedia page on Stanislav
 Petrov, there was a deep fear in the Kremlin at the
 time that Pres. Raygun was about to launch a
 preemptive first strike. The Kremlin was considering
 trying to be first. Regardless of your opinion about
 the ME, it's interesting that Maharishi made an
 unexpected visit to the College of Natural Law in D.C.
 right around Thanksgiving and declared that it
 was imperative that 7000 be assembled before the
 end of the year. The Movement went into overdrive,
 both at CNL and MIU to invite and prepare for 7000
 people to descend on the MIU campus by Christmas.
 It seems to me that Maharishi somehow knew that
 something bad was brewing and was trying to disarm it,
 even if he might not have been aware exactly what it
 was.

 Have I mentioned that the energy in the meditation
 halls was immense?

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Kirk kirk_bernha...@... wrote:

 Bullshit, were you there?

   - Original Message - 
   From: Peter
   To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
   Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 5:05 PM
   Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] 'Nuclear War Thwarted by Taste of Utopia 
 Course'

 The ME is so weak as to warrant calling it non existent. To make 
 such a claim is just plain silly.

 --- On Wed, 3/18/09, Robert babajii...@... wrote:

   From: Robert babajii...@...
   Subject: [FairfieldLife] 'Nuclear War Thwarted by Taste of 
 Utopia Course'
   To: fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com
   Date: Wednesday, March 18, 2009, 4:16 PM

 I was surprised to hear Gregg Braden claim, that the 
 Soviet Union, during the 1983-1984 period, was considering a '1st 
 strike', against the United States...saying that the Soviets were afraid 
 the U.S. was considering retailiation over a passenger jet, which was 
 shot down over Soviet air space. The show can be downloaded below. He 
 credits the large group which was assembled in Fairfield, at that time, 
 for settling down the influences, which were very unstable at the time...
 Tuesday March 17th, 2009
 Listen: Windows Media   Real Media

 Time Codes  2012
 Author Gregg Braden discussed how he merged the ancient 
 understanding of cycles with modern views of nature's patterns. Such 
 patterns or fractals repeat on a cyclic basis following the rhythms of 
 nature, and so we can predict the return of these conditions,... more 
 Host: George Noory
 Bio
 New York Times Best selling author Gregg Braden has been 
 a featured guest for international conferences, and media specials, 
 exploring the role of ancient wisdom and spirituality in science.

 A former Senior Computer Systems Designer for Martin 
 Marietta Aerospace, Computer geologist for Phillips Petroleum and a 
 Technical Operations Manager for Cisco Systems, Braden is now considered 
 a leading authority on bridging the wisdom of our past with the science 
 and peace of our future. Through his journeys into the remote mountain 
 villages, temples and monasteries of times past, Braden marries the 
 wisdom of ancient traditions and modern science to benefit our lives 
 today.

 From his groundbreaking books, Awakening to Zero Point 
 and Walking Between the Worlds, to his pioneering work in The Isaiah 
 Effect, he offers meaningful solutions to the unique challenges of our 
 time. In his newest book, The God Code, Gregg Braden ventures beyond the 
 traditional boundaries of science and spirituality, revealing the words 
 of an ancient and timeless message encoded as the DNA of all life.

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[FairfieldLife] Re: Backpedaling on AIG?

2009-03-20 Thread boo_lives

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Nelson nelsonriddle2...@... wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings no_reply@ wrote:
 
  
  
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams
  willytex@ wrote:
  
   do.rflex wrote:
Congress, White House Pointing Fingers Over
Who Killed Bonus Provision...
   
   You need to get some smarts, Mr. Manning,
   the AIG bonuses aren't even a blip on the radar
   compared to the crazed spending by the Obama
   Democratic Party Congress. And nobody knows
   where the money is even going. Obama is turning
   into a nightmare spender.
  
   The Obama, Reid and Polosi clique are bent on
   ruining our economy and turning this country
   into a Soviet-style communism. There's anger
   brewing in the masses and like Barry2 says,
   rebellion is in the air. 
  
  LOL !...only among the minority rednecks like you and Chuck Norris,
  Richard. What a joke.
  
   Where would we be if it weren't for the minority of rednecks (patriots) 
 that took issue with the powers that be in the late seventeen hundreds?
Probably best to wait before making a judgment.

If you've studied the american patriots at all you know they were definitely 
not rednecks.

Anyone with an ounce of economic sense knows the current crisis was created and 
started long before obama was around, and the current spending is to stimulate 
the economic in response to this crisis.  Funny how $5 trillion in debt 
incurred during bush yrs before he created a crisis didn't raise an eyebrow for 
these republican idiots.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ru undies in knot over cell tower

2009-03-20 Thread Nelson

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante no_re...@... wrote:

 Citizens demand regulation of cell phone towers
 Opponents say they'll cancel their service with U.S. Cellular if the
 tower is constructed. Others have said they're prepared to move out of
 town. By LACEY JACOBS
 Ledger staff writer Published:  Thursday, March 19, 2009 2:42 PM CDT The
 Fairfield City Hall Council Chambers were packed Wednesday evening with
 citizens demanding greater regulation of cell phone tower siting inside
 city limits.
 
 Fairfield City Council Property Committee Chairman John Revolinski
 acknowledged research both proving and disproving the link of cell
 towers to cancers, tumors and other health problems.
 
 He prefaced the open forum, saying, There are certainly a lot of
 studies that have shown harmful effects of [electromagnetic fields] from
 cell phone towers. The thing is these kinds of arguments would be more
 appropriate at a congressional hearing because ultimately the
 Communications Act of 1996 precludes the prohibition of cell phone
 towers based on radiation effects.
 
 From our side, we're limited. If we use that as a reason to not
 allow towers to go up, we can be taken to court, he said.
 
 City attorney John Morrissey said although the city does not have the
 power to impose restrictive taxes or ban all towers outright, the city
 does have the ability to regulate cell towers based on aesthetics and
 height limitations.
 
 For many in the audience, that was not enough.
 
 At the center of the controversy is an 85-foot tower U.S. Cellular
 obtained a permit to build at 509 W. Depot Ave. Doug Greenfield reported
 negotiations  involving Mayor Ed Malloy and U.S. Cellular  to
 move the tower to the former Iowa Malleable site are under way; however,
 U.S. Cellular has refused to move the tower outside of city limits
 because the company is looking to improve call reception in the downtown
 area.
 snip,,
  Iowa malleable is three blocks west of the site and, still across the street 
from a residential area- can't be much difference I would think.
  The students at MUM put up a windmill on an eighty foot pole and, caused 
quite a problem by not having approval for being over thirty feet.
  They were fined and told a variance would be permanently unavailable.
  The cell tower is a much bigger deal and, I would think they must have gotten 
a variance before starting so the whole thing is old news
.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Non-Duality Cartoons

2009-03-20 Thread curtisdeltablues

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, geezerfreak geezerfr...@... wrote:
snip
 
 Curtis you make me smile today, even though I had to put my beloved dog down 
 today. Thank you.


Sincere condolences brother.

The little creatures give us so much joy.  Every morning they greet us as if 
this is the greatest day of their lives because we are sharing it with them.  
We go out for lunch and when we return we get a hero's welcome as if our return 
from the pizza joint was a triumphant odyssey worthy of rippling excitement and 
celebration.

What a gift to have loved such a dog.

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Nuclear War Thwarted by Taste of Utopia Course'

2009-03-20 Thread curtisdeltablues

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Kirk kirk_bernha...@... wrote:

 Maharishi believed that Guru Dev had a huge yajna which saved the world from 
  the continued woes of WW2.

Funny I thought it was guys like my dad spending four years of their youth 
sleeping in muddy holes while facing death each day, watching their closest 
friends die or become mangled before their eyes and then living the rest of 
their lives with pieces of metal shrapnel in their bodies and waking up in cold 
sweats and terror every night for decades afterwords.

He'll be glad to know it was really some uber-religious guy pouring ghee on a 
statue in safety and comfort thousands of miles away from the battlefield.  



 Atomics was the single reason that drove 
 Maharishi to come to the West, just as similar insights have occurred to  
 other yogis - Buddhist and Hindu.
 
 - Original Message - 
 From: at_man_and_brahman at_man_and_brah...@...
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 9:16 AM
 Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Nuclear War Thwarted by Taste of Utopia 
 Course'
 
 
 I was. Two comments:
 
  1) the energy in the meditation halls was immense,
  and I have trouble believing it was confined to just
  the course participants.
 
  2) As documented in press reports in recent years,
  and obliquely at the Wikipedia page on Stanislav
  Petrov, there was a deep fear in the Kremlin at the
  time that Pres. Raygun was about to launch a
  preemptive first strike. The Kremlin was considering
  trying to be first. Regardless of your opinion about
  the ME, it's interesting that Maharishi made an
  unexpected visit to the College of Natural Law in D.C.
  right around Thanksgiving and declared that it
  was imperative that 7000 be assembled before the
  end of the year. The Movement went into overdrive,
  both at CNL and MIU to invite and prepare for 7000
  people to descend on the MIU campus by Christmas.
  It seems to me that Maharishi somehow knew that
  something bad was brewing and was trying to disarm it,
  even if he might not have been aware exactly what it
  was.
 
  Have I mentioned that the energy in the meditation
  halls was immense?
 
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Kirk kirk_bernhardt@ wrote:
 
  Bullshit, were you there?
 
 
- Original Message - 
From: Peter
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 5:05 PM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] 'Nuclear War Thwarted by Taste of Utopia 
  Course'
 
 
  The ME is so weak as to warrant calling it non existent. To make 
  such a claim is just plain silly.
 
  --- On Wed, 3/18/09, Robert babajii_99@ wrote:
 
From: Robert babajii_99@
Subject: [FairfieldLife] 'Nuclear War Thwarted by Taste of 
  Utopia Course'
To: fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, March 18, 2009, 4:16 PM
 
 
  I was surprised to hear Gregg Braden claim, that the 
  Soviet Union, during the 1983-1984 period, was considering a '1st 
  strike', against the United States...saying that the Soviets were afraid 
  the U.S. was considering retailiation over a passenger jet, which was 
  shot down over Soviet air space. The show can be downloaded below. He 
  credits the large group which was assembled in Fairfield, at that time, 
  for settling down the influences, which were very unstable at the time...
  Tuesday March 17th, 2009
  Listen: Windows Media   Real Media
 
  Time Codes  2012
  Author Gregg Braden discussed how he merged the ancient 
  understanding of cycles with modern views of nature's patterns. Such 
  patterns or fractals repeat on a cyclic basis following the rhythms of 
  nature, and so we can predict the return of these conditions,... more 
  Host: George Noory
  Bio
  New York Times Best selling author Gregg Braden has been 
  a featured guest for international conferences, and media specials, 
  exploring the role of ancient wisdom and spirituality in science.
 
  A former Senior Computer Systems Designer for Martin 
  Marietta Aerospace, Computer geologist for Phillips Petroleum and a 
  Technical Operations Manager for Cisco Systems, Braden is now considered 
  a leading authority on bridging the wisdom of our past with the science 
  and peace of our future. Through his journeys into the remote mountain 
  villages, temples and monasteries of times past, Braden marries the 
  wisdom of ancient traditions and modern science to benefit our lives 
  today.
 
  From his groundbreaking books, Awakening to Zero Point 
  and Walking Between the Worlds, to his pioneering work in The Isaiah 
  Effect, he offers meaningful solutions to the unique challenges of our 
  time. In his newest book, The God Code, Gregg Braden ventures beyond the 
  traditional boundaries of science and

Re: [FairfieldLife] Locked in to stupid!



On Mar 19, 2009, at 7:14 PM, BillyG. wrote:

For all those TM'ers who only use MMY as the source for their  
spiritual  personal growth, unless you expand your horizons and  
explore the overall subject of Yoga you'll be 'locked in to stupid'  
till the day you die!


There's actually a term for this: Brain Lock. It's pathological  
version is OCD, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Since “neurons that  
fire together, wire together”, it's all too easy to get hardwired  
into problems, if we aren't awakening the brain circuity associated  
with the third eye, the middle prefrontal cortex. The problem is,  
once you become stuck in rigidity, you tend to loose the factors  
which encourage neuroplastic change in the brain: the desire to  
aerobically exercise, allowing novelty in our lives, emotional  
engagement--tend to be lost and we turn off the mid-prefrontal  
circuitry, our resonant circuitry which allows us to experience the  
world as an interdependently arising relationship, rather than the  
other.


It's interesting, you can tell by how people respond: embracing or  
creating an enemy. Present a stimulus that's different from the  
pattern they're expressing and then to watch if they embrace the  
differentness or attack it, like an enemy. People who instinctively  
create the enemy, also instinctively shut down this circuitry.  
People who embrace diversity instinctively, have it turned on.


But introduce exercise (which encourages new neural growth,  
depression does the opposite) and awaken the mindful and mirror  
neuron circuitry of the third eye/mid-prefrontal cortex-- the brain  
will change, breaking the lock of the cortex on these illusory  
patterns of separateness. Research shows, once these circuits are  
turned on, symptoms like depression or OCD simply do not return.


It may be that we need to turn away from such abstractions as a  
third eye for the general public and work on sharing scientific  
findings anyone can appreciate.

[FairfieldLife] Don't Look Here...Look Over There!

2009-03-20 Thread raunchydog

...while the ire of Congress and the media focus are on the $165 million that 
AIG paid out in bonuses to their executives, the president is hoping you won't 
notice the $100 billion in taxpayer bailout dollars that AIG paid out to other 
banks, including $58 billion to foreign banks and $36 billion given to French 
and German banks alone...

[The the banks and AIG who are benefiting from bail out money, are the same 
folks who got us into an economic mess, and helped Obama get elected. The bail 
out money is just payback.] The following recipients of President Obama's 
trickle-down-to-my-donors bailout plan rank among his top 20 contributors to 
his 2008 presidential election campaign, according to Open Secrets:

Goldman Sachs: $955,473
Citigroup: $653,468
JP Morgan Chase  Co.: $646,058
Morgan Stanley: $485,823
Three other banks that were significant contributors to Obama received money 
through AIG:
Bank of America: $274,493
Wachovia: $214,151
AIG: $112,170
Lehman Brothers, which did not survive long enough to join the list of banks 
leaching off the work of the American taxpayer, also gave the Obama campaign 
$276,088.

Read more: http://tinyurl.com/cfbocx
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/contributions-to-obama-campaign-track-bailout-money/

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Nuclear War Thwarted by Taste of Utopia Course'

2009-03-20 Thread Hugo

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltabl...@... 
wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Kirk kirk_bernhardt@ wrote:
 
  Maharishi believed that Guru Dev had a huge yajna which saved the world 
  from  the continued woes of WW2.
 
 Funny I thought it was guys like my dad spending four years of their youth 
 sleeping in muddy holes while facing death each day, watching their closest 
 friends die or become mangled before their eyes and then living the rest of 
 their lives with pieces of metal shrapnel in their bodies and waking up in 
 cold sweats and terror every night for decades afterwords.
 
 He'll be glad to know it was really some uber-religious guy pouring ghee on a 
 statue in safety and comfort thousands of miles away from the battlefield.  

And if only he'd done it *before* Hilter had invaded France or built auchwitz, 
might have saved a lot of bother all round. Still, now we have the technology, 
at least we know nothing else bad will ever happen.

 
  Atomics was the single reason that drove 
  Maharishi to come to the West, just as similar insights have occurred to  
  other yogis - Buddhist and Hindu.
  
  - Original Message - 
  From: at_man_and_brahman at_man_and_brahman@
  To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
  Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 9:16 AM
  Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Nuclear War Thwarted by Taste of Utopia 
  Course'
  
  
  I was. Two comments:
  
   1) the energy in the meditation halls was immense,
   and I have trouble believing it was confined to just
   the course participants.
  
   2) As documented in press reports in recent years,
   and obliquely at the Wikipedia page on Stanislav
   Petrov, there was a deep fear in the Kremlin at the
   time that Pres. Raygun was about to launch a
   preemptive first strike. The Kremlin was considering
   trying to be first. Regardless of your opinion about
   the ME, it's interesting that Maharishi made an
   unexpected visit to the College of Natural Law in D.C.
   right around Thanksgiving and declared that it
   was imperative that 7000 be assembled before the
   end of the year. The Movement went into overdrive,
   both at CNL and MIU to invite and prepare for 7000
   people to descend on the MIU campus by Christmas.
   It seems to me that Maharishi somehow knew that
   something bad was brewing and was trying to disarm it,
   even if he might not have been aware exactly what it
   was.
  
   Have I mentioned that the energy in the meditation
   halls was immense?
  
   --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Kirk kirk_bernhardt@ wrote:
  
   Bullshit, were you there?
  
  
 - Original Message - 
 From: Peter
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 5:05 PM
 Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] 'Nuclear War Thwarted by Taste of Utopia 
   Course'
  
  
   The ME is so weak as to warrant calling it non existent. To make 
   such a claim is just plain silly.
  
   --- On Wed, 3/18/09, Robert babajii_99@ wrote:
  
 From: Robert babajii_99@
 Subject: [FairfieldLife] 'Nuclear War Thwarted by Taste of 
   Utopia Course'
 To: fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com
 Date: Wednesday, March 18, 2009, 4:16 PM
  
  
   I was surprised to hear Gregg Braden claim, that the 
   Soviet Union, during the 1983-1984 period, was considering a '1st 
   strike', against the United States...saying that the Soviets were afraid 
   the U.S. was considering retailiation over a passenger jet, which was 
   shot down over Soviet air space. The show can be downloaded below. He 
   credits the large group which was assembled in Fairfield, at that time, 
   for settling down the influences, which were very unstable at the time...
   Tuesday March 17th, 2009
   Listen: Windows Media   Real Media
  
   Time Codes  2012
   Author Gregg Braden discussed how he merged the ancient 
   understanding of cycles with modern views of nature's patterns. Such 
   patterns or fractals repeat on a cyclic basis following the rhythms of 
   nature, and so we can predict the return of these conditions,... more 
   Host: George Noory
   Bio
   New York Times Best selling author Gregg Braden has been 
   a featured guest for international conferences, and media specials, 
   exploring the role of ancient wisdom and spirituality in science.
  
   A former Senior Computer Systems Designer for Martin 
   Marietta Aerospace, Computer geologist for Phillips Petroleum and a 
   Technical Operations Manager for Cisco Systems, Braden is now considered 
   a leading authority on bridging the wisdom of our past with the science 
   and peace of our future. Through his journeys into the remote mountain 
   villages, temples and monasteries of times past, Braden marries the 
   wisdom of ancient traditions

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Nuclear War Thwarted by Taste of Utopia Course'

On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 9:30 AM, curtisdeltablues
curtisdeltabl...@yahoo.com wrote:
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Kirk kirk_bernha...@... wrote:

 Maharishi believed that Guru Dev had a huge yajna which saved the world from 
  the continued woes of WW2.

 Funny I thought it was guys like my dad spending four years of their youth 
 sleeping in muddy holes while facing death each day, watching their closest 
 friends die or become mangled before their eyes and then living the rest of 
 their lives with pieces of metal shrapnel in their bodies and waking up in 
 cold sweats and terror every night for decades afterwords.

 He'll be glad to know it was really some uber-religious guy pouring ghee on a 
 statue in safety and comfort thousands of miles away from the battlefield.


The Guru Dev yagna and Maharishi Effect would of course be seized by
the local police as more cops on the beat, by the military as their
getting new, more powerful weapons.  Even the crime rate going down
because (now this one was difficult even for me) the percentage of
young, tending towards crime, men had dropped.

Didn't you get the memo?

[FairfieldLife] Re: Don't Look Here...Look Over There!

2009-03-20 Thread boo_lives

I guess you get your foreign policy facts from joe the plumber over at 
pajamasmedia too.

Sorry, the $100 billion you talk about is from the original TARP money paid out 
by Bush Admin with the terms set by Sec. Paulsen formerly of Goldman who made a 
sweetheart deal for the banks.  The pay off to counterparties in full via AIG 
is a huge mistake but it has nothing to do with obama as that was done prior to 
his coming in.  Geithner recently approved another $30 billion yet to be 
transferred and hopefully stricter terms come into play (though I don't like 
geithner either).  

I wish republicans could understand that things don't happen when they get 
promoted on right wing talk radio, they happen when they actually happened in 
time and usually have something called a cause that made them happen even 
earlier in time.

As far as campaign contributions, raunchy's source states more fully:

Overall, the securities and investment industry has contributed about $10 
million to Obama and $7 million to McCain. To all federal candidates for 
president and Congress, and to political parties, the industry has contributed 
more than $101 million in the 2008 election cycle, 56 percent of it to 
Democrats. The Democrats' edge is a relatively recent development, however; 
Republicans had the advantage for most of the last 10 years.

Republicans had the edge because they promoted the deregulatory agenda that 
caused this mess.  Obama got more last year because it was clear he was going 
to win (except to pumas who thought he was an inadequate black male).





--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchy...@... wrote:

 ...while the ire of Congress and the media focus are on the $165 million 
 that AIG paid out in bonuses to their executives, the president is hoping you 
 won't notice the $100 billion in taxpayer bailout dollars that AIG paid out 
 to other banks, including $58 billion to foreign banks and $36 billion given 
 to French and German banks alone...
 
 [The the banks and AIG who are benefiting from bail out money, are the same 
 folks who got us into an economic mess, and helped Obama get elected. The 
 bail out money is just paybac;k.] The following recipients of President 
 Obama's trickle-down-to-my-donors bailout plan rank among his top 20 
 contributors to his 2008 presidential election campaign, according to Open 
 Secrets:
 
 Goldman Sachs: $955,473
 Citigroup: $653,468
 JP Morgan Chase  Co.: $646,058
 Morgan Stanley: $485,823
 Three other banks that were significant contributors to Obama received money 
 through AIG:
 Bank of America: $274,493
 Wachovia: $214,151
 AIG: $112,170
 Lehman Brothers, which did not survive long enough to join the list of banks 
 leaching off the work of the American taxpayer, also gave the Obama campaign 
 $276,088.
 
 Read more: http://tinyurl.com/cfbocx
 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/contributions-to-obama-campaign-track-bailout-money/

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Nuclear War Thwarted by Taste of Utopia Course'

On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Hugo richardhughes...@hotmail.com wrote:

 And if only he'd done it *before* Hilter had invaded France or built 
 auchwitz, might have saved a lot of bother all round. Still, now we have the 
 technology, at least we know nothing else bad will ever happen.


Of course you didn't get the memo (why should you, it hasn't been
written yet) that the ME can result in the complete breakdown of all
of Western Civilization, just like it has caused the breakdown of the
world economy (or for Nabby, trite rephrase #17).  So be ready for
world peace or total disruption of Western Civilization.  One or the
other.  Or something in between.  Details when the event happens.
Unless nothing happens.  If nothing happens we'll announce that
something really bad was supposed to happen but we prevented it.  We'd
publish a flowchart of the possibilities but our compsci students
create flow charts and our compsci enrollment is way down.  Oh, wait.
This requires advanced math knowledge, the kind necessary to
understand quantum mechanics.  But Maharishi told us that there is no
math but Vedic Math.

Get it?

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: EEG definition of Yoganidra

On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 6:46 AM, Vaj vajradh...@earthlink.net wrote:
 It's a certain pathway, I forget which one. But basically what happens is
 it's a non-unity culminating nadi, so when you get stuck in this pattern,
 neurotransmitters tend to build up on one phase and be depleted on the
 other, resulting in these swinging states. Of course if the person gets
 allopathic treatment for one end of the polarity, it just masks it. The
 interesting thing is the person will 'glimpse' unitary states, so it seems
 very inspiring, thus causing the person to feed the pattern again with more
 sadhana.


Are these things you're speaking of, like the physical location, in
the frontal lobe, of the third eye your supposition or is there a body
of work available somewhere I can get at and read?

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: EEG definition of Yoganidra



On Mar 20, 2009, at 11:25 AM, I am the eternal wrote:


On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 6:46 AM, Vaj vajradh...@earthlink.net wrote:
It's a certain pathway, I forget which one. But basically what  
happens is
it's a non-unity culminating nadi, so when you get stuck in this  
pattern,
neurotransmitters tend to build up on one phase and be depleted on  
the
other, resulting in these swinging states. Of course if the person  
gets
allopathic treatment for one end of the polarity, it just masks  
it. The
interesting thing is the person will 'glimpse' unitary states, so  
it seems
very inspiring, thus causing the person to feed the pattern again  
with more

sadhana.



Are these things you're speaking of, like the physical location, in
the frontal lobe, of the third eye your supposition or is there a body
of work available somewhere I can get at and read?



The Mindful Brain by Daniel Siegel, MD is a great synopsis, if you're  
referring to the mid-prefrontal cortex I mentioned in another thread  
(?). It's mainly about mental health, but also touches on bipolar  
disorder, OCD and depression. A recent theory for BPD is that the  
connection between the mid-prefrontal cortex and the amygdala are  
somehow impaired.


From a yogic POV, I guess Kundalini Vidya by Joan Harrigan is the  
only book I can immediately think of that discusses meditational/ 
kundalini disorders in incredible detail.

[FairfieldLife] Credit where credit is due

2009-03-20 Thread Bhairitu

Like I say, we need to name this economic depression the George W. Bush 
Depression:

Suze Orman: Bush owes American people every penny of his fortune

Commander in Chief? she sputters. You blew up every single financial 
vessel we had and if you think you aren't personally responsible, well, 
the blame starts at the top. There is no higher top than you, sir! If I 
were you, I would feel so absolutely horrific that I would take every 
penny I had and distribute it to anybody and everybody to help them in 
whatever way I could. You owe the American people every penny of your 
fortune and your family's fortune.

More here:

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Suze_Orman_Bush_owes_American_people_0320.html

And remember when Bill Clinton left office the government had a surplus.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Unregulated Capitalism

If you haven't heard the joke, here 'tis:

A guy goes to prison where all the jokes have numbers assigned, and from time 
to time someone yells out a number and everyone laughs.

The guy decides to try it and yells out 67, but no one laughs.

What's wrong? asks the guy.

Guy next to him says:  Some folks just can't tell a joke.

Edg

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_re...@... wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, I am the eternal L.Shaddai@ wrote:
 
  On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 5:54 PM, nablusoss1008 no_re...@yahoogroups.com 
  wrote:
   --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote:
  
  
  
   See cartoon: http://snipurl.com/e5h8v
  
  
   Now that Communism is gone the next to go is Capitalism
  
   - Maharishi, 1989
  
  Couldn't we just save ourselves time and assign numbers to all the now
  trite expressions, like this one and just say #17, for instance,
  instead of having to write out the whole sentence?
 
 Sure. If I was convinced you had grasped the full consequence of what 
 Maharishi said.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: EEG definition of Yoganidra



On Mar 20, 2009, at 12:15 PM, Vaj wrote:

The Mindful Brain by Daniel Siegel, MD is a great synopsis, if  
you're referring to the mid-prefrontal cortex I mentioned in  
another thread (?). It's mainly about mental health, but also  
touches on bipolar disorder, OCD and depression. A recent theory  
for BPD is that the connection between the mid-prefrontal cortex  
and the amygdala are somehow impaired.



I forgot, he has a website with info/training for patients,  
meditators, medical professionals, etc.:


http://www.mindsightinstitute.com/

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: EEG definition of Yoganidra

On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Vaj vajradh...@earthlink.net wrote:

 On Mar 20, 2009, at 12:15 PM, Vaj wrote:

 The Mindful Brain by Daniel Siegel, MD is a great synopsis, if you're
 referring to the mid-prefrontal cortex I mentioned in another thread (?).
 It's mainly about mental health, but also touches on bipolar disorder, OCD
 and depression. A recent theory for BPD is that the connection between the
 mid-prefrontal cortex and the amygdala are somehow impaired.

 I forgot, he has a website with info/training for patients, meditators,
 medical professionals, etc.:
 http://www.mindsightinstitute.com/


Hmm.  I'll have to go to Kinko's, Campus (company or UT), or secure
shell into a remote machine to pull up this website.  I have my hosts
files, my browsers and firewalls all set up to block Buddhist and
politically correct URLs.  I wasn't even able to pull up the books you
cited on Amazon.  I kept getting Error 600 -- potential viewpoint
altering material in my browser.

[FairfieldLife] Re: EEG definition of Yoganidra

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFFMtq5g8N4

Vaj,

What do you make of Ken Wilber's ability to control his EEG waves?

Edg


--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote:

 
 On Mar 20, 2009, at 12:15 PM, Vaj wrote:
 
  The Mindful Brain by Daniel Siegel, MD is a great synopsis, if  
  you're referring to the mid-prefrontal cortex I mentioned in  
  another thread (?). It's mainly about mental health, but also  
  touches on bipolar disorder, OCD and depression. A recent theory  
  for BPD is that the connection between the mid-prefrontal cortex  
  and the amygdala are somehow impaired.
 
 
 I forgot, he has a website with info/training for patients,  
 meditators, medical professionals, etc.:
 
 http://www.mindsightinstitute.com/

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: EEG definition of Yoganidra



On Mar 20, 2009, at 1:17 PM, I am the eternal wrote:

On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Vaj vajradh...@earthlink.net  
wrote:


On Mar 20, 2009, at 12:15 PM, Vaj wrote:

The Mindful Brain by Daniel Siegel, MD is a great synopsis, if you're
referring to the mid-prefrontal cortex I mentioned in another  
thread (?).
It's mainly about mental health, but also touches on bipolar  
disorder, OCD
and depression. A recent theory for BPD is that the connection  
between the

mid-prefrontal cortex and the amygdala are somehow impaired.

I forgot, he has a website with info/training for patients,  
meditators,

medical professionals, etc.:
http://www.mindsightinstitute.com/



Hmm.  I'll have to go to Kinko's, Campus (company or UT), or secure
shell into a remote machine to pull up this website.  I have my hosts
files, my browsers and firewalls all set up to block Buddhist and
politically correct URLs.  I wasn't even able to pull up the books you
cited on Amazon.  I kept getting Error 600 -- potential viewpoint
altering material in my browser.



Damn. I already forwarded a letter to the Off the Program Police at  
Maharishi Vedic City in my role as an Undercover Off the Program  
Enforcement Officer of the Age of Enlightenment. My apologies for any  
future problems this may create for you.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: EEG definition of Yoganidra



On Mar 20, 2009, at 1:21 PM, Duveyoung wrote:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFFMtq5g8N4

Vaj,

What do you make of Ken Wilber's ability to control his EEG waves?

Edg



I think it's a common ability for long term meditators who are used  
to working with different meditational techniques that emphasize  
different aspects of the mind and consciousness (e.g. ishta  
meditation, open presence and attentional styles of meditation). It's  
not something you'd see in meditators who don't know how to work with  
the mind, but just do a rote formula. The Mind Mirror is a fun tool  
to play with.


He actually lists the different types of meditation he used in one of  
his books. When I first posted it here years ago, it really upset  
some people--their reactions were as interesting as the video!

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: EEG definition of Yoganidra

On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Vaj vajradh...@earthlink.net wrote:

I have the most amazing health insurance.  It pays for almost anything
except TCM and Ayurveda.  I'd love to find a place where I can go for
a week (under doctor's orders) and learn biofeedback to the point of
being able to regulate my EEGs.  I'd imagine since I've gotten all 4
of the Age of Enlightenment techniques in addition to the TMSP I
should take to altering my brainwaves in a controlled basis pretty
easily.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Non-Duality Cartoons

2009-03-20 Thread jyouells2000


--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues
curtisdeltabl...@... wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, geezerfreak geezerfreak@
wrote:
 snip
  
  Curtis you make me smile today, even though I had to put my beloved
dog down today. Thank you.
 

 Sincere condolences brother.

 The little creatures give us so much joy.  Every morning they greet us
as if this is the greatest day of their lives because we are sharing it
with them.  We go out for lunch and when we return we get a hero's
welcome as if our return from the pizza joint was a triumphant odyssey
worthy of rippling excitement and celebration.

 What a gift to have loved such a dog.


My condolences as well Geezer, truer devotion I have not seen...
Every time I loose a dog, another shows up 6 to 9 months later
to correct my errant ways.

JohnY

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Non-Duality Cartoons

2009-03-20 Thread Rick Archer

From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com]
On Behalf Of jyouells2000
Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 12:54 PM
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Non-Duality Cartoons

My condolences as well Geezer, truer devotion I have not seen...
Every time I loose a dog, another shows up 6 to 9 months later
to correct my errant ways.

Mine, too. Dogs are great. I think Nabby's problem is that he doesn't have
one, so his heart is underdeveloped and he ridicules me for having and
helping them. What do you say, Nabby, is there a little pooch in your
future?

[FairfieldLife] Re: EEG definition of Yoganidra

2009-03-20 Thread cardemaister

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote:


 of  
 his books. When I first posted it here years ago, it really upset  
 some people--their reactions were as interesting as the video!


I seem to recall that video was almost as unscientific as it gets...

[FairfieldLife] Re: EEG definition of Yoganidra

Card,

I'd read anything more about the video you have to share -- especially if you 
watch it again and have it fresh in your mind.

I take Ken as a man of integrity, so I never looked at the video for red flags. 

If Ken really is doing what the video shows and there's no hanky-panky going 
on, what it proves to me is that the TMO's high-fiving itself all the time 
about EEG effects is made laughable by Ken's ability to do this with eyes open 
and not having learned it from doing a mantra.  That to me really douses the 
TMO's claims with a bucket of cold water.  Ken makes it look like, well, 
nothing much.

Edg

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_re...@... wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote:
 
 
  of  
  his books. When I first posted it here years ago, it really upset  
  some people--their reactions were as interesting as the video!
 
 
 I seem to recall that video was almost as unscientific as it gets...

[FairfieldLife] Re: Backpedaling on AIG?

boo_lives wrote:
 Anyone with an ounce of economic sense knows 
 the current crisis was created and started 
 long before obama was around...

So, Richard Holbrooke approved the AIG bonuses 
when he served on the AIG board. Holbrook also 
got sweetheart deals from Angelo at Countrywide. 
But where was Holbrook when Enron was going down? 
Now Holbrook is Obama's special envoy? So, this 
is the hope and change in Washington D.C. with 
Obama.

Read more:

'Strike Two for Holbrooke'
Kausfiles, March 20, 2009
http://tinyurl.com/ddtwgv

[FairfieldLife] Re: Credit where credit is due

Bhairitu wrote:
 Like I say, we need to name this economic depression 
 the George W. Bush Depression...
 
Does the president have anything to do with the economy
in free market capitalism? Isn't it the job of congress
to pass regulatory laws?

 http://rawstory.com/news/2008

[FairfieldLife] Re: Don't Look Here...Look Over There!

raunchydog wrote:
 Don't Look Here...Look Over There!

If the 90% retroactive tax rate on bonuses 
passes, Obama has to veto it. Otherwise he's 
a hypocrite.

Read more:

'Obama Must Veto The 90% Bonus Tax Rate'
By Joe Weisenthal
Business Insider, March 19, 2009
http://tinyurl.com/calfgg

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: EEG definition of Yoganidra



On Mar 20, 2009, at 1:42 PM, Vaj wrote:

He actually lists the different types of meditation he used in one  
of his books. When I first posted it here years ago, it really upset  
some people--their reactions were as interesting as the video!


BTW Edg, he is doing a mantra on the witnessing example, in a practice  
more like a full TM--mantra meditation on an ishta-devata (Tib.:  
yidam). I've been able to replicate the same signature using the  
same kind of practice on a lab EEG:


(from One Taste by Ken Wilber)

Thursday, April 10

Alec Tsoucatos is an old friend of Treya's who has become a good  
friend of mine. He teaches business and economics at various colleges  
in the area, and every now and then leads a kw study group. He brought  
his group by the house to say hello, and I invited a few other  
friends, Kate Olson, a PBS producer, and Phil Jacobson, Director of  
Continuing Education at Naropa.


At some point in the evening we got into a discussion about meditation  
and the changes it can produce in brain waves. A young man training to  
be a psychiatrist asked me to get out a videotape I have of me  
connected to an EEG machine while I meditate. He believed none of the  
discussion about how meditation could profoundly alter brain waves,  
and he wanted proof.


The tape shows me hooked to an EEG machine; this machine shows alpha,  
beta, theta, and delta waves in both left and right hemispheres. Alpha  
is associated with awake but relaxed awareness; beta with intense and  
analytic thinking; theta is normally produced only in the dream state,  
and sometimes in states of intense creativity; and delta is normally  
produced only in deep dreamless sleep. So alpha and beta are  
associated with the gross realm; theta with the subtle realm; and  
delta with the causal realm. Or, we could say, alpha and beta tend to  
be indicative of ego states, theta of soul states, and delta of spirit  
states. Delta presumably has something to do with the pure Witness,  
which most people experience only in deep dreamless sleep.


This video starts with me hooked up to the machine; I am in normal  
waking consciousness, so you can see a lot of alpha and beta activity  
in both hemispheres. But you can also see a large amount of delta  
waves; in both hemispheres the delta indicators are at maximum,  
presumably because of constant or stable witnessing. I then attempt to  
go into a type of nirvikalpa samadhi--or complete mental cessation-- 
and within four or five seconds, all of the machine's indicators go  
completely to zero. It looks like whoever this is, is totally brain- 
dead. There is no alpha, no beta, no theta--but there is still maximum  
delta.


After several minutes of this, I start doing a type of mantra  
visualization technique--yidam meditation, which I have always  
maintained is predominantly a subtle-level practice--and sure enough,  
large amounts of theta waves immediately show up on the machine, along  
with maximum delta. The fact that theta, which normally occurs only in  
dreaming, and delta, which normally occurs only in deep sleep, are  
both being produced in a wide-awake subject tends to indicate a type  
of simultaneous presence of gross, subtle, and causal states (e.g.,  
turiyatita [Cosmic Consciousness]). It is, in any event, attention- 
grabbing.


I dragged the video out and we all watched it. Sam says I make a total  
ass out of myself by showing this, since it seems so self-serving, so  
braggadocio. Probably so. But to me it's just an objective event. Too  
bad the test subject isn't somebody else, because the results are  
striking to the average viewer. It really gets their attention, and  
much more than my books do. It also convinced the soon-to-be  
psychiatrist, as it does virtually every scientific type I show it to.


I had started doing these videos--entering various types of meditation  
states and video-taping the corresponding brainwave patterns on the  
EEG--as part of an integral approach to studying higher states and  
levels of consciousness (correlating what I would call Upper Left-- 
subjective consciousness--and Upper Right--objective brain). I've  
found that there really are distinctively different brainwave patterns  
for different types and levels of meditation. If nothing else, this  
could serve as a simple pilot project for more adequate and controlled  
studies.

[FairfieldLife] Now We Really ARE Screwed

A bare congressional desire to harm a politically 
unpopular group? 

The frantic passage of the Populist Rage Tax was 
a new low in the US government's response to this 
crisis. It shows just how likely we are to doom 
ourselves to a decade or more of miseryby choking 
our markets, closing our borders, turning our banks 
into tools of social policy, and wrecking what's 
left of our economy.

Read more:

'90% Tax? Now We Really ARE Screwed'
By Henry Blodget
Business Insider, March 19, 2009
http://tinyurl.com/c7a9kx

[FairfieldLife] Re: Backpedaling on AIG?

  Dodd will be defeated in the next election, now
  he's trying to put the blame for the AIG bonuses
  on Tim, Barak, Harry and Nancy. 
 
boo wrote: 
 You're finished Richard. Give it up old man. You 
 are all washed up, and no-one cares about your 
 stupid Chevy truck that has broken down.
 
So, Tim Gaithner knew about the AIG bonuses on March 
3rd, not just last weekend. Business as usual in
Washington, D.C. Dodd will be defeated in the next
election - he's finished. Next to go will be Tim
Gaithner, I predict.

'Congress, Geithner knew about bonuses on March 3rd'
Posted by Ed Morrissey
Hot Air, March 20, 2009
http://tinyurl.com/d2bl29

[FairfieldLife] Re: Republican: The Party of White-Trash Pride

do.rflex wrote:
 Ship of fools...
 
They react in emotional ways, so when the 
banking crisis hit, instead of dealing with 
it over the last decade -- which I've been 
begging and pleading for them to do -- they 
wait and, 'Oh, there's a financial crisis.' 
While the bonuses are bad, the original 
government bailout is the root of the problem. 
Congress last year approved TARP, a $700 billion 
bailout of financial institutions. - Ron Paul

Re: [FairfieldLife] Now We Really ARE Screwed

It'll all come out in the wash! 














A bare congressional desire to harm a politically 

unpopular group? 



The frantic passage of the Populist Rage Tax was 

a new low in the US government's response to this 

crisis. It shows just how likely we are to doom 

ourselves to a decade or more of misery–by choking 

our markets, closing our borders, turning our banks 

into tools of social policy, and wrecking what's 

left of our economy.



Read more:



'90% Tax? Now We Really ARE Screwed'

By Henry Blodget

Business Insider, March 19, 2009

http://tinyurl. com/c7a9kx

[FairfieldLife] Jim Hightower - Tax Code

THE RIDICULOUS CLASS BIAS IN AMERICA'S TAX CODE
Wednesday, March 18, 2009 | Posted by Jim Hightower

The rich truly are different from you and me, for they are treated differently.

I'm not talking about the merely affluent, but about the ultra-rich – those
Wall Street elites who annually pocket tens of millions of dollars each through
such financial entities as hedge funds and private equity firms. While you and
I earn the bulk of our money from wages (or ordinary income, as economists so
snobbishly call it), the richy-rich don't receive anything as pedestrian as
income. No, no, they have gains.

Aside from the snoot factor, what's the difference? The tax code. Our ordinary
income is taxed by the feds at a rate of up to 35 percent. The very rich,
however, who haul in most of their money from capital gains and stock gains,
pay only 15 percent on this income.

What's at work here is another big difference between us and them. They have
lobbyists and are able to make impressive levels of campaign contributions to
key politicians – so, the tax code has been deliberately perverted to benefit
them. Oh, tut-tut, sniff these swell ones, we take big investment risks with
our money and we fuel America's entrepreneurial spirit. So we are, in fact,
special and deserve preferential tax treatment.

Good grief, Daddy Warbucks, spare us your bloated sense of entitlement. Mostly,
you're risking other people's money, and mostly you're buying up existing
companies, which you then cannibalize by firing workers and selling off
corporate parts to fatten your take. Nothing noble about it.

Income is income, and the superrich deserve no special break just because they
make their money from money. As Warren Buffett has asked, why should
billionaire investors like him pay a lower tax rate than our receptionists do
or our cleaning ladies? It's a question of fundamental fairness.

Putting A Bull's-Eye On a Tax Loophole, The New York Times, March 10, 2009.

Two Americas, Two Tax Codes, The New York Times, March 9, 2009.

+++

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We can't continue to have a system where Wall Street executives privatize all
the gains and then socialize all the losses. --Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.)
.
This would be the best of all possible worlds if there were no religion in
it. --John Adams
...
I can't understand why people are afraid of new ideas, I'm afraid of the old
ones. --John Cage
...
Whoever loves money, never has money enough; whoever loves wealth is never
satisfied with hir income. This too is meaningless. --Ecclesiastes 5:10
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[FairfieldLife] Re: Bailout - sometimes Moore is better

Good News!


#yiv1013870891 p {margin:0;}There's a new letter on MichaelMoore.com and it has 
some new insight into the movie. It's going to be focusing on the Wall Street 
Bailout or the financial crisis in the USA going on right now. The title of the 
movie could be 'Bailout' judging by the letter. 

Here it is in full: 

Friends, 

I am in the middle of shooting my next movie and I am looking for a few brave 
people who work on Wall Street or in the financial industry to come forward and 
share with me what they know. Based on those who have already contacted me, I 
believe there are a number of you who know the real deal about the abuses 
that have been happening. You have information that the American people need to 
hear. I am humbly asking you for a moment of courage, to be a hero and help me 
expose the biggest swindle in American history. 

All correspondence with me will be kept confidential. Your identity will be 
protected and you will decide to what extent you wish to participate in telling 
the greatest crime story ever told. 

The important thing here is for you to step up as an American and do your duty 
of shedding some light on this financial collapse. A few good people have 
already come forward, which leads me to believe there are many more of you out 
there who know what's going on. Here's your chance to let your fellow citizens 
in on the truth. 

If you have any info that would help, please contact me at my private email 
address: bail...@michaelmoore.com. 

For the rest of you on my email list who don't work in the financial industry, 
you're probably wondering, What the heck is this all about? I thought he said 
he was making a romantic comedy! 

Well, I just can't say much right now. I'm sure you can understand why. One 
thing I can tell you is that you're gonna like this movie when I'm done with 
it. Oh, yeah... 

So, again, if you work for a bank, a brokerage firm or an insurance company -- 
or if you have seen things or heard things that you believe the American people 
have a right to know -- please contact me at bail...@michaelmoore.com. 

Thank you in advance for your help! 

Yours, 
Michael Moore 
bail...@michaelmoore.com 
MichaelMoore.com

[FairfieldLife] The Idoiots are Coming out of Their Holes


 







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[FairfieldLife] Friend needs a place.....

2009-03-20 Thread Rick Archer

From a friend:

Hello  -
I have a friend visiting Fairfield from Florida thru the end of
March.  He needs a simple place to crash for a couple of weeks.
Do you have a place, or know of someone who might have a spot, where
he could stay until he returns to FL on about April 1st ?
Thanks in advance for any help you can give me on this.
(He is short of housing funds, so he needs a place for free or almost
free.)

Arthur Atkinson
PO Box 493,  Fairfield, Iowa   52556
641/472-3666   641/919-3979 cell
aatkin...@lisco.com

[FairfieldLife] The Secret Swami - Sai Baba (BBC)


LINK

The Secret Swami - Sai Baba
It has been estimated that Sri Satya Sai Baba, India's biggest  
spiritual leader, has up to 30 million devotees around the world. But  
increasing numbers of former followers are alleging he has sexually  
abused them or their families. This World investigates. Swamis,  
otherwise known as yogis or gurus, are the holy men of India, and part  
of ancient tradition. Sai Baba, 78, is based in Puttaparthi, near  
Bangalore in southern India. His distinctive 1960s orange robes and  
Afro hairstyle make him instantly recognisable. As the country's  
biggest God-man - a human being who declares himself divine - he  
professes to be the reincarnation of a Hindu God-man from the 19th  
Century.


Sai Baba not only commands huge regular audiences at the local ashram  
(religious retreat) - where he performs countless miracles - he also  
boasts followers from more than 165 countries world-wide. But as the  
This World team discovers as they travel from India to California,  
there are a number of former devotees who have turned away from his  
teachings, claiming he has ruined their lives. Alaya, a former  
follower who claims he was sexually abused by the swami, says in the  
programme: I remember him saying, if you don't do what I say, your  
life will be filled with pain and suffering. In an intimate and  
powerful portrait, Alaya's family talks openly about how they feel  
they were betrayed. Back in India, there are serious questions to be  
asked of politicians, who seem to have continuously ignored the  
problem. Indeed, some would say, the correct position for these  
politicians appears to be at the feet of Sai Baba. He certainly has  
friends in high places, and throughout the scandal, his popularity has  
remained intact. Has this God-man been wrongly accused or does his  
status mean he is immune to criticism?

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[FairfieldLife] Ozymandius Syndrome 1 - The Definition

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_re...@...
wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote:
 
  According to my information, by 2012 the points of major
transition
  is history. In fact many in this group have participated in creating
  a peacefull transition which started already when Maharishi gave one
  of His first rounding-courses during the Cuban crisis.

 Or perhaps much earlier; when His Divinity Brahmananda Sarasawathi
 accepted the seat of the Shankaracharya in Jyothir Math ?

 The Masters of Wisdom certainly knew, having encouraged us since
 the beginning of time, that humanity once again was recovering into
 Discipleship and Masterhood, with Maitreya - the World Teacher -
 being in the world of men for the first time in 100.000 years,
 present in His Self-created Mahavirupta body since 1977 in the
 West, only two years after Maharishi inaugurated the Dawn of the
 Age of Enlightenment.

 They also knew that a Bright Star of Wisdom would personally take
 responsebility for creating this more and more visible Heaven on
 Earth, with the blessings from Guru Dev, one of the most Senior
 amongst The Masters of Wisdom.

 And They knew His name to be: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

 Blessed are all those souls, and infinite are their future
 possebilities for Discipleship and Masterhood, in this life or
 later, those that even with a fraction of their time did help
 Maharishi in His Cosmic endeavor to create Heaven on Earth, in
 this generation.

 Every one of them are blessed.

importance -- im·por·tance :
1 : the quality or state of being important, of
having great worth or significance

self-importance -- selfim·por·tance :
1 : an exaggerated estimate of one's own importance,
self-conceit
2 : arrogant or pompous behavior

fool -- fül :
1 : a person lacking in judgment or prudence
2 : a retainer formerly kept in great households to
provide casual entertainment and commonly dressed in
motley with cap, bells, and bauble
3 : a harmlessly deranged person or one lacking in
common powers of understanding
4 : someone who cannot tell the difference between
importance and self-importance


Ozymandius
by: Percy Bysshe Shelley

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things,
The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains: round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

[FairfieldLife] Ozymandius Syndrome 2 - The Hubble Explanation

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert babajii...@... wrote:

 'Nuclear War Thwarted by Taste of Utopia Course'
 I was surprised to hear Gregg Braden claim, that the Soviet
 Union, during the 1983-1984 period, was considering a '1st
 strike', against the United States...saying that the Soviets
 were afraid the U.S. was considering retailiation over a
 passenger jet, which was shot down over Soviet air space.
 The show can be downloaded below. He credits the large group
 which was assembled in Fairfield, at that time, for settling
 down the influences, which were very unstable at the time...

As an alternative explanation for why the world
avoided nuclear destruction during the Taste Of
Utopia course, might I propose this:

Dec. 1993--The Hubble telescope mirror flaw was
fixed and clear pictures from outer space received.

This was the *real* cause of the lessening of
international tensions on Earth. I have it on
good authority (a noted astrologer whom I cannot
name but who shares a last name with a silent
movie star named Rudolph) that what was going on
is that the Big Verginas in the Pleiaides, while
generally more evolved than humans, are really,
really vain, and did not like the fuzzy photos
of them coming back to Earth via the Hubble tele-
scope. As a result, they resolved to use their
Cosmic Woo Woo powers to influence the Soviets
to nuke the whole planet, just to be sure.

It was not until an emergency effort to repair the
Hubble telescope was successful and the photos of
the Big Verginas became less fuzzy and out of focus
that the Pleiaidians lightened up and allowed the
Earth to survive.

We've still not achieved world peace, however,
because the Big Verginas are still a little miffed.
They think that the now-clear photos make them
look fat.

[FairfieldLife] Ozymandius Syndrome 3 - Where's Waldo?

The recent posts about the Taste Of Utopia course
having saved the world, and Nabby's posts about the
relative importance of Maharishi and Guru Dev and
Maitreya -- and by extension *his* importance, for
having been associated with them -- has left me
thinking about Shelley's poem Ozymandius.

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things,
The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains: round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

Powerful metaphors here. About life and the trans-
ience of it. About the belief in things which yet
survive death, and the wrinkled lip and cold sneer
with which many believe that that *their* memory
and *their* acts and *their* importance will persist
after death, stamp'd on the memory of others they
leave behind, others not fortunate enough to be as
important as they were. And about how that belief
often turns out.

Interestingly enough, all these posts have also
left me thinking about Where's Waldo? Remember
those books? The game was to pick out Waldo amongst
a crowd of people, a crowd of people *he did not
stand out among*.

http://technology360.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/waldo.jpg

Now think about another series of recent posts, in
which people waxed poetic about the famous people
they have run into in their lives. Although it was
a fun thread, and harmless, nonetheless it illustrates
the desire in human beings for *proximity to fame*. It's
as if we humans believe that being in the aura of a
famous person amps up their *own* aura and makes them
stand out in the crowd a bit more. Which brings up a
question -- would Waldo be easier to find if he were
standing next to Paul McCartney in the drawing above?
Or would he stand out if he were standing next to
Maharishi? You gotta admit that if he were standing
next to Maitreya that might make *Maitreya* easier to
find...he's been lost in the crowd for 30 years now. :-)

Part of the appeal of spirituality in my opinion is
this desire to stand out, to put one's stamp upon
the world such that we won't be forgotten when we die.
Finding a spiritual group with a charismatic leader,
one who is famous and rich or both, has a strong
emotional appeal to the members of that group.

First, they're *no longer alone*. They're not Waldo,
just one more face in the crowd. They are instead part
of a group that is so important that they are saving
the world from destruction, or that is evangelizing the
message of a spiritual teacher who is *also* not just
another Waldo in the crowd. The group is *important*.

Second, not only are they part of an *important* group,
they are in the aura of an *important* teacher, in many
cases *THE most important teacher*. And as a result they
get charisma cooties -- because the Blazing Brahman
of the teacher's aura (and importance) is so powerful,
their auras (and importance) becomes brighter, too.
Blazing Brahman is contagious. Stand next to it long
enough, and you begin to blaze, too. No more being
just another Waldo in the crowd then, nope.

And all of this is completely understandable. We were
plunked down here on this blue-green ball in black space
without a User's Manual, and seemingly without much
importance. The blue-green ball seems not even to
*notice* when we die. No matter how hard we try to be
remembered and revered after our deaths, no matter how
big and ornate the tombstones we have our relatives put
up over our graves, sooner or later the granite is worn
down by time and all that's left is the same thing that
was left to Ozymandius, King Of Kings -- ruins. Ruins
that now provide as much of a wry commentary on our
lives and their *real* importance as did Ozy's words
to Harriet, trying to make her believe that he was the
best husband ever and that she should obey his every
word as his subjects did: Look on my works, ye Mighty,
and despair!

Call me an idiot, or someone who has missed the point,
but I really don't GET this quest for importance. Maybe
I've read too much Zen poetry written by guys who not
only were comfortable with their unimportance in the
Grand Scheme Of Things, but managed to turn it into
art. Maybe I'm just aware of my own limitations, and
comfortable with the fact that I probably am NOT very
important in the Grand Scheme Of Things. Maybe I'm just
not as evolved as the folks who believe that they saved
planet Earth from imminent destruction by bouncing on
their butts on slabs of polyeurythane.

All I know is that one of the other poems I like a lot
was by a much lesser poet than Shelley. Like Shelley,
this poet

[FairfieldLife] Re: Don't Look Here...Look Over There!