date:20090404

[FairfieldLife] SCOOP! -- preview of the benefit concert set list

2009-04-04 Thread TurquoiseB

We here at Music For Meditators have recieved the
inside poop on some of the songs to be performed
at tonight's gala benefit concert. 

The concert will supposedly open with Paul Horn
(flutist) performing songs from his last (and only)
hit album, 1972's "Inside." Rumors have it that he
wanted the promoters to rebuild the entire Taj Mahal
onstage for him so that he could emulate the acoustic
effects he got from playing inside it on the album,
but that the TM cheapskates refused, so he's going
to have to make do with echo loops.

Next will come Paul McCartney, setting the tone of
the evening with a rendition of his song, Spin It On.

His and Ringo's full set list is still unclear, but
we know that it will contain a medley of songs dedi-
cated to the theme of aging gracefully, including:
Crackin' Up, Medicine Jar, Don't Get Around Much 
Anymore and Live And Let Die.

Next up will be Moby, singing his sattvic hits When 
It's Cold I'd Like To Die, That's When I Reach For 
My Revolver, and (appropriately) Great Escape. He
will finish up with a touching "personal memoir
medley" of One Minute Man and Sleep Alone.

Eddie Vedder will perform a medley of Love Boat 
Captain and Dangers Of Love, which some say is his
autobiographical retelling of the fateful night on
a yacht with a dozen groupies that went so so wrong.

Sheryl Crow promises a somewhat steamier set, with
a set of tunes dedicated to sex and sexuality: If It 
Makes You Happy, Body Kiss, Mr. Goodbar, All I Wanna 
Do, and Love Is All There Is.

Finally, the whole ensemble will gather onstage and
sing The Fool On The Hill and Listen To What The Man 
Said. 

The encore will be a group performance of Sexy Sadie.

[FairfieldLife] Karma Chameleon

2009-04-04 Thread Robert

Instant karmas gonna get you
Gonna knock you right on the head
You better get yourself together
Pretty soon youre gonna be dead
What in the world you thinking of
Laughing in the face of love
What on earth you tryin to do
Its up to you, yeah you

Instant karmas gonna get you
Gonna look you right in the face
Better get yourself together darlin
Join the human race
How in the world you gonna see
Laughin at fools like me
Who in the hell dyou think you are
A super star
Well, right you are

Well we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun
Well we all shine on
Evryone come on

Instant karmas gonna get you
Gonna knock you off your feet
Better recognize your brothers
Evryone you meet
Why in the world are we here
Surely not to live in pain and fear
Why on earth are you there
When youre evrywhere
Come and get your share

Well we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun
Yeah we all shine on
Come on and on and on on on
Yeah yeah, alright, uh huh, ah

Well we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun
Yeah we all shine on
On and on and on on and on

Well we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun
Well we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun
Well we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun
Yeah we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun

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[FairfieldLife] "Things get real good...from within." (was Re: New Conference)

2009-04-04 Thread TurquoiseB

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008  wrote:
>
> Can be viewd here :
> http://www.davidlynchfoundation.org/

Having finally had time to watch yesterday's press
conference, I'll spend a little time rapping about 
my impressions of it. I have to say that 1) there 
is little question that these people are all well-
meaning and that their hearts are in the right 
places, but 2) many of them are *really* not 
the sharpest pencils in the box.

I'd never seen David Lynch speak before. Now I know
why, if his quote in the subject line is an indication 
of *how* he speaks. Ringo was jetlagged and thus 
rambling and near-incoherent, but he was rambling 
and near-incoherent nonetheless. Bob Roth looked like 
he's training in preparation for entering the "Keith 
Richards Who Can Look The Most Dead While Still Being 
Technically Alive" contest.

Hagelin was comfortable in front of the cameras and
a good speaker, but on the whole his schtick reminded 
me of the TV preachers who raise money while invoking 
the "poor children." By comparison Russell Simmons 
struck me as more intelligent. Donovan has *never* 
been the sharpest pencil in the box, and upheld 
that tradition masterfully.

Paul Horn was cool; it was good to see him again. On
the other hand, it wasn't good to see Mike Love, who
is still the same near-illiterate asshole I knew and
tolerated so many years ago. ("It brought tears to my 
mind.") Moby was good, except that he outgrew his idea 
that TM involved ritual animal sacrifice...someone 
should tell him about the Vedic horse sacrifice :-) 
He at least can speak without interjecting "Like" 
every 3 words...uh...like Mike.

As always, after trotting out the personalities, then
they trotted out the science, introduced again by a
surprisingly not-well-spoken Lynch. I now understand
my Internet friend's stories about the years she spent
as Lynch's secretary and the difficulties she had 
explaining simple facets of real life to him. The 
teachers themselves, by comparison, were literate 
and good presenters.

Personally, I watched it hoping to see Sheryl Crow,
and was a little disappointed she wasn't there. I like
her music, and she's not exactly hard to look at. But 
no.

Anyway, on the whole I thought it was an *effective*
press conference, given what it attempted to do (sell
TM by getting people emotionally pumped up about the
poor "children at risk"). I hope the concert is good
and the attendees get their money's worth. The per-
formers are all professionals, so I'm pretty sure 
that the music will be good.

As for the program itself, I wish it well. I really
do think that kids would benefit from learning a 
simple form of meditation while still kids. That the
form of meditation being proposed is TM I think is
problematic because I honestly believe that the way
it's taught and explained in followup talks is 
religously-based and thus inappropriate for American
schools given the Constitution and the clear wishes
of America's founding fathers. But the courts will
decide that.

But as for the concert itself, I hope that any lurkers
here who are attending enjoy it, and that they come
back and give us their first-hand impressions.

[FairfieldLife] 'Welcome to Iowa/The Gay State'

2009-04-04 Thread Robert

DES MOINES, Iowa – Gay marriage, seemingly the providence of the nation's two 
coasts, is just weeks away from penetrating the heartland and it appears there 
is nothing social conservatives can do immediately to stop it.
The Iowa Supreme Court on Friday unanimously upheld a lower-court ruling that 
rejected a state law restricting marriage to a union between a man and woman. 
Now gays and lesbians may exchange vows as soon as April 24 following the 
landmark decision.
The county attorney who defended the law said he would not seek a rehearing. 
The only recourse for opponents appeared to be a constitutional amendment, 
which couldn't get on the ballot until 2012 at the earliest.
"I would say the mood is one of mourning right now in a lot of ways," said a 
dejected Bryan English, spokesman for the Iowa Family Policy Center, a 
conservative group that opposes same-sex marriage.
In the meantime, same-sex marriage opponents may try to enact residency 
requirements for marriage so that gays and lesbians from across the country 
could not travel to Iowa to wed.
U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, urged the Legislature to do so, saying he feared 
without residency requirements Iowa would "become the gay marriage mecca."
Only Massachusetts and Connecticut currently permit same-sex marriage. For six 
months last year, California's high court allowed gay marriage before voters 
banned it in November.
For gays and lesbians, meanwhile, the day was one of jubilation. The Vermont 
House of Representatives also passed a measure Friday that would allow same-sex 
couples to wed, on a 94-52 roll call vote, just short of the two-thirds 
majority needed to override a promised veto by Gov. Jim Douglas.
Gay marriage supporters hoped to convince a few Vermont legislators to switch 
when it comes to the override vote, which could be taken as soon as Tuesday.
In Iowa, hundreds cheered, waved rainbow flags and shed tears of joy at rallies 
in seven cities Friday evening. "Corn-fed and Ready to Wed!" read one man's 
sign at a gathering at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls.
In downtown Des Moines, about 300 people gathered beneath rainbow flags to 
celebrate including Des Moines Mayor Frank Cownie.
"We finally have equality in Iowa," said Harold Delaria, of Des Moines, who 
attended the rally and has two gay children. "It's kind of the last wall of 
legalized discrimination and it's coming tumbling down."
The Rev. Diane McLanahan of Trinity United Methodist Church in Des Moines 
acknowledged that many people of faith won't agree with the ruling. With that 
in mind, she said the court has reached a decision that "pretty much insists 
that this will not be a debate about religious rights but a matter of equality 
and fairness."
In its ruling, the Supreme Court upheld an August 2007 decision by a judge who 
found that a state law limiting marriage to a man and a woman violates the 
constitutional rights of equal protection.
Iowa lawmakers have "excluded a historically disfavored class of persons from a 
supremely important civil institution without a constitutionally sufficient 
justification," the justices wrote.
To issue any other decision, the seven justices said, "would be an abdication 
of our constitutional duty."
At a news conference announcing the decision, plaintiff Kate Varnum, 34, 
introduced her partner, Trish Varnum, as "my fiance."
"I never thought I'd be able to say that," she said, fighting back tears. 
Jason Morgan, 38, said he and his partner, Chuck Swaggerty, adopted two sons, 
confronted the death of Swaggerty's mother and endured a four-year legal battle 
as plaintiffs. 
"If being together though all of that isn't love and commitment or isn't family 
or marriage, then I don't know what is," Morgan said. "We are very happy with 
the decision today and very proud to live in Iowa." 
Iowa has a history of being in the forefront on social issues. It was among the 
first states to legalize interracial marriage and to allow married women to own 
property. It was also the first state to admit a woman to the bar to practice 
law and was a leader in school desegregation. 
Senate Majority Leader Mike Gronstal, a Democrat, said state lawmakers were 
unlikely to consider gay marriage legislation in this legislative session, 
which is expected to end within weeks. 
Gronstal also said he's "not inclined" to propose a constitutional amendment 
during next year's session. Without a vote by the Legislature this year or 
next, the soonest gay marriage could be repealed would be 2014. 
Amendments to Iowa's constitution must be passed by the House and Senate in two 
consecutive general assemblies, which each last two years, and then approved by 
a simple majority of voters during a general election. 
Iowa's Democratic governor, Chet Culver, said he would review the decision 
before announcing his views.

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Welcome to Iowa/The Gay State'

2009-04-04 Thread TurquoiseB

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert  wrote:
>
> DES MOINES, Iowa â" GayÂ marriage, seemingly the providence 
> of the nation's two coasts, is just weeks away from penetrating 
> the heartland and it appears there is nothing social 
> conservatives can do immediately to stop it.
> 
> The IowaÂ SupremeÂ Court on Friday unanimously upheld a lower-
> court ruling that rejected a stateÂ law restricting marriage 
> to a union between a man and woman. Now gaysÂ andÂ lesbians 
> may exchange vows as soon as April 24 following the landmark 
> decision.
>
> The county attorney who defended the law said he would not 
> seek a rehearing. The only recourse for opponents appeared to 
> be a constitutional amendment, which couldn't get on the ballot 
> until 2012 at the earliest.
> 
> "I would say the mood is one of mourning right now in a lot 
> of ways," said a dejected Bryan English, spokesman for the 
> Iowa Family Policy Center, a conservative group that opposes 
> same-sex marriage.

If you know Iowans who are in such a state of
mourning, this trailer for Sacha Baron Cohen's
new movie "Bruno" should cheer them up:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFySyGaQP7E

NOTE: Because this trailer, like the film, is
R-rated, Nabby, Jim Flanegin and Willytex are
going to have to lie and claim that they are
over the age of 18 in order to see it. This
should pose no problems for Nabby, considering
the lies he's had to tell to get on courses 
over the years.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Public Webcast of the Press Conference for the David Lynch Foundation Benefi

2009-04-04 Thread Sal Sunshine

On Apr 4, 2009, at 1:40 AM, TurquoiseB wrote:

Um...Lawson...the actual ticket prices are
contained in this viral email sent to meditators.
One simple search on Ebay showed that the highest
*asking price* (much less what they actually got
for them) was $750, most much less.

Now could we have a comment from you about your
charge of "insane?"

Yeah, he'll ignore it rather than admit he was wrong.

I did see some going for $1500 a few days ago--asking price.
Have no idea what they actually got.

Advanced purchase email for TMers:

***

Dear Friends,

The David Lynch Foundation wishes to extend to every member of the
U.S. TM family a special advance opportunity to purchase a ticket
for the "Change Begins Within Concert" April 4th at Radio City Music
Hall in New York City. The benefit concert will feature Paul
McCartney, Ringo Starr, Sheryl Crow, Donovan, Eddie Vedder, Moby,
and Paul Horn. (http://www.davidlynchfoundation.org)

Beginning at 9am Eastern Time, Sunday morning March 8th we will have
a SPECIAL PRE-SALE for our meditator family. The time window for
this special pre-sale is 9am to 11am Eastern time on Sunday.
Starting at 11am, the presale will expand to a much larger group and
the chances of getting a ticket will decrease.

You may order your concert tickets by phone or online by calling
866-858-0008 or 212-307-1000, or by going online to the pre-sale
ordering page:http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/1D00424BAF8134DB

General Admission tickets are $79.50, $99.50, $129.50, $225.50,
$325.50 and $504.50. There is a limit of 6 tickets per person. We
recommend that you have the Radio City seating chart open in advance
so that you can see the different price and seating options http://www.radiocity.com/media/global/radio_seating.pdf

Which is almost exactly what I said, $75 being the low
price I had heard.

PLEASE, PLEASE do not forward this email to anyone. You are
receiving this email because you are on an approved meditator email
list and a trusted member of our family. If this gets out to anyone
beyond our immediate family, the risk of a viral email spreading is
too great...

"approved meditator list"...lol
Glad to see you're on it, Barry!

Thanks for posting that--sure clears up
any confusion.

Sal

[FairfieldLife] "Things get real good...from within." (was Re: New Conference)

2009-04-04 Thread TurquoiseB

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "raunchydog"  wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB  wrote:
> >
> > As for the program itself, I wish it well. I really
> > do think that kids would benefit from learning a 
> > simple form of meditation while still kids. That the
> > form of meditation being proposed is TM I think is
> > problematic because I honestly believe that the way
> > it's taught and explained in followup talks is 
> > religously-based and thus inappropriate for American
> > schools given the Constitution and the clear wishes
> > of America's founding fathers. But the courts will
> > decide that.
> 
> What other form of meditation would you propose? 

The de-Easternized forms of mindfulness meditation
Vaj has talked about numerous times. 

> No other organization is more capable, willing or funded 
> enough to tackle a project of the magnitude proposed by 
> the TMO. 

LOL. The TMO is **not** funding this. They are 
getting PAID $600 a head for every student they
teach. They are doing what they've always done,
trying to get someone else to pay for everything
while sitting on bank accounts and real estate
worth millions and millions of dollars. 

By comparison at least three groups I know of --
Mindfulness Meditation, Sahaja Meditation and
Vipassana Meditation -- teach FOR FREE and 
always have. They don't look at what they do as
a way of making money; the TMO does.

> No one else has ever come forward with the resources or 
> a plan to teach as many kids ANY meditation technique. 

The groups mentioned above are not trying to 
recruit people into their cult and finding them-
selves unable to do so without marketing to kids.

[FairfieldLife] "Things get real good...from within." (was Re: New Conference)

2009-04-04 Thread raunchydog

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB  wrote:
>
> As for the program itself, I wish it well. I really
> do think that kids would benefit from learning a 
> simple form of meditation while still kids. That the
> form of meditation being proposed is TM I think is
> problematic because I honestly believe that the way
> it's taught and explained in followup talks is 
> religously-based and thus inappropriate for American
> schools given the Constitution and the clear wishes
> of America's founding fathers. But the courts will
> decide that.

What other form of meditation would you propose? No other organization is more 
capable, willing or funded enough to tackle a project of the magnitude proposed 
by the TMO. No one else has ever come forward with the resources or a plan to 
teach as many kids ANY meditation technique. 

The TMO is well aware of the legal pitfalls to teaching TM in public schools, 
been there done that, and they have probably prepared for it. It's possible 
someone will challenge TM in the schools, and it's also possible the courts 
will rule that TM is not a religion and O.K. to teach in schools. By the time 
such a case winds its way through the court, perhaps thousands of kids will 
have learned TM. 

The concept of charter schools is on the rise. The Obama administration is 
eager to implement innovative programs that help kids learn in such schools. 
Charter schools as well as public schools could become a proving ground for the 
effectiveness of TM. Either way my bet is that once TM gets rolling, and kids 
are doing well with it, no one will want to stop it.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Wind turbines could more than meet U.S. electricity needs, report says

2009-04-04 Thread Duveyoung

Shemp, Shemp, Shemp,

Please tell us the below was you being satirical.

Edg

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk"  wrote:
>
> The problem with wind turbines is if you put up too many of them they will 
> cut down all winds blowing across the world and this will cause our planet to 
> stop spinning on its axis and we will all be throw into deep space along with 
> planes, trains, automobiles, and anything else that isn't tethered to Mother 
> Earth.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, I am the eternal  wrote:
> >
> > http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-energy3-2009apr03,0,7532220.story?track=rss
> > 
> > http://tinyurl.com/dzasmm*
> > *
> > Temperature difference caused by taking the power out of the wind would be
> > around 1 degree difference, about the same as the localized effect of a
> > city. *
> > 
> > *[image: Los Angeles Times] 
> > 
> > The Interior Department report, which looks at the potential of wind
> > turbines off the U.S. coast, is part of the government's process to chart a
> > course for offshore energy development.
> > By Jim Tankersley
> > April 3, 2009
> >  Reporting from Arlington, Va. -- Wind turbines off U.S. coastlines could
> > potentially supply more than enough electricity to meet the nation's current
> > demand, the Interior Department reported Thursday.
> > 
> > Simply harnessing the wind in relatively shallow waters -- the most
> > accessible and technically feasible sites for offshore turbines -- could
> > produce at least 20% of the power demand for most coastal states, Interior
> > Secretary Ken Salazar said, unveiling a report by the Minerals Management
> > Service that details the potential for oil, gas and renewable development on
> > the outer continental shelf.
> > 
> >  The biggest wind potential lies off the nation's Atlantic coast, which the
> > Interior report estimates could produce 1,000 gigawatts of electricity --
> > enough to meet a quarter of the national demand.
> > 
> > The report also notes large potential in the Pacific, including off the
> > California coast, but said the area presented technical challenges.
> > 
> > The Interior Department released an executive
> > summaryof the
> > report on Thursday.
> > 
> > It noted that "strong wind resources also exist offshore California, Oregon,
> > Washington and Hawaii, but it appears that the majority of this resource
> > lies in deep waters where technology constraints are potentially
> > significant" -- a sentiment Salazar echoed when asked about Pacific wind
> > potential.
> > 
> > The report also suggests vast oil and gas reserves off the Pacific coast:
> > the equivalent of 10 billion to 18 billion barrels of oil.
> > 
> > Salazar told attendees at the 25x'25 Summit in Virginia, a gathering of
> > agriculture and energy representatives exploring ways to cut carbon dioxide
> > emissions, that "we are only beginning to tap the potential" of offshore
> > renewable energy.
> > 
> > The report is a step in the Obama administration's mission to chart a course
> > for offshore energy development, an issue that gained urgency last year amid
> > high oil prices and chants of "Drill, baby, drill" at the Republican
> > National Convention.
> > 
> > Critics have accused President Obama and Salazar of dragging their feet on
> > new oil and gas drilling, and Thursday's report does little to rebut those
> > complaints.
> > 
> > It includes no new estimates of potential oil and gas reserves offshore and
> > notes that some of the existing estimates are based on 25-year-old seismic
> > studies.
> > 
> > Meeting with reporters after his speech, Salazar said he would wait to
> > decide whether to commission new seismic studies until after he convened a
> > four-stop series of offshore energy hearings, which begin next week in
> > Atlantic City, N.J. In San Francisco, a hearing will be held April 16 at 9
> > a.m. at the Mission Bay Conference Center at UC San Francisco.
> > 
> > Drilling advocates say updated estimates could show even more offshore oil
> > potential.
> > 
> > In contrast, Salazar said he expected a push to expedite offshore wind
> > development to be one of the most significant aspects at the hearings.
> > 
> > He pledged to finalize guidelines for such development, which the Bush
> > administration failed to complete before leaving office, within about two
> > months.
> > 
> > jtankersley@
> >
>

[FairfieldLife] "Things get real good...from within." (was Re: New Conference)

2009-04-04 Thread raunchydog

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB  wrote:
>
> By comparison at least three groups I know of --
> Mindfulness Meditation, Sahaja Meditation and
> Vipassana Meditation -- teach FOR FREE and 
> always have. They don't look at what they do as
> a way of making money; the TMO does.
> 
> > No one else has ever come forward with the resources or 
> > a plan to teach as many kids ANY meditation technique. 
> 
> The groups mentioned above are not trying to 
> recruit people into their cult and finding them-
> selves unable to do so without marketing to kids.

If the groups you mentioned teach for free, why are they not capable of 
implementing a program to teach as many kids in the schools as the TMO is 
willing and able to do? 

I just googled Sahaja Meditaion and here's what is got: 
http://www.sahajayoga.com.au/index.php 

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi is a very nice grandmotherly Indian lady who founded 
her meditation technique in 1970. This is a sample of her teachings: 
http://www.chicagoyoga.org/meditation-room/2/1

"Place the left hand in front of your lower abdomen, palm facing the body. 
Raise the left hand up vertically, until it reaches a position above your head. 
While the left hand is ascending, the right hand rotates around it clockwise, 
until both hands are above the head. Use both hands to tie a knot. Repeat three 
times and the third time tie the knot three times, fixing your attention and 
the Kundalini energy above the seventh chakra."

Try it. Pat your head and rub your belly. Fun, isn't it?

[FairfieldLife] "Things get real good...from within." (was Re: New Conference)

2009-04-04 Thread Robert

---  
> > 
> > What other form of meditation would you propose? 
> 
> The de-Easternized forms of mindfulness meditation
> Vaj has talked about numerous times. 
> 
> > No other organization is more capable, willing or funded 
> > enough to tackle a project of the magnitude proposed by 
> > the TMO. 
> (snip)
The only problem with that is, that the technique, just keeps the mind on a 
superficial level, without transcending and getting the breath to 
stillness...and it doesn't explain the different states of consciousness, and 
so much more...so, in my humble oppinion, TM is far superior to this 
'mindfullness' stuff.
Mindfulness, turns out to be 'mindlessness', as one is always off on a thought 
or emotion, and never transcends the field of thought of emotion...there is no 
vehicle to produce finer levels of thought, and therefore, like Psychanalysis 
keeps one from ever transcending thought and emotions.
R.G.

[FairfieldLife] Characteristics of the Unified Field

2009-04-04 Thread Robert

 
 
Characteristics of the Unified Field





Nothing to forgive
Our true nature
Embraces all
Peace
Harmony
Trust
Clarity
Love
Wisdom
Inclusion
Beauty
Vibrancy
Unlimited outlook
Unlimited freedom
Bliss
Fulfillment
Unlimited realization of  potentials
Understanding
True knowledge
Mastery of life
Aliveness
Unification
Larger Self 
Undefended
Confident
Unity
Essence
Power
Gratitude
Open


 
http://www.unifying.com/manifesting/index.htm 
Innocence
Health
Eternalness
Authentic
Unlimited thinking
Self esteem
Self Worth
Flow
Safety
Unconditional Loving
Neutrality
Joy
Creation
Allowing
Success
Abundance
Guidance
Intuition
Direct experiences
All is well
True stability and safety
Transformative
Transcendence
Unlimited thinking
Appreciation

[FairfieldLife] "Things get real good...from within." (was Re: New Conference)

2009-04-04 Thread TurquoiseB

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "raunchydog"  wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB  wrote:
> >
> > By comparison at least three groups I know of --
> > Mindfulness Meditation, Sahaja Meditation and
> > Vipassana Meditation -- teach FOR FREE and 
> > always have. They don't look at what they do as
> > a way of making money; the TMO does.
> > 
> > > No one else has ever come forward with the resources or 
> > > a plan to teach as many kids ANY meditation technique. 
> > 
> > The groups mentioned above are not trying to 
> > recruit people into their cult and finding them-
> > selves unable to do so without marketing to kids.
> 
> If the groups you mentioned teach for free, why are they 
> not capable of implementing a program to teach as many 
> kids in the schools as the TMO is willing and able to do? 

You keep evading the point in an attempt to
obfuscate, Raunchy. 

The **TM organization** was not capable of
creating such a program. They had to get 
someone to do it for them.

Their *theoretical* involvement in this pro-
gram consists of providing their services as
PAID OUTSIDE CONTRACTORS to the David Lynch
Foundation, at a cost of $600 per head. That
is (on the average) 10X more than the average
beginner's meditation course costs in America.
And many others are taught for free.

So it's not really as if the TM movement GAVE
A DAMN about these kids. They just see this
as a way to allow someone they normally would
never associate with (David Lynch) to do all
the P.R. and "heavy lifting" for them, while
they sit back and rake in $600 a head for each
student instructed. 

Stop trying to portray the TMO as somehow noble
in this endeavor. David Lynch might be, Paul
McCartney and Ringo and the others might be.
But the TMO is in it for the same reason they
have *always* been into it -- for the money and
to grow the cult. IMO, of course.

> I just googled Sahaja Meditaion and here's what is got: 
> http://www.sahajayoga.com.au/index.php 

I know nothing about it. I just Googled "meditation
for free." TM did not come up in the list. Surprise.

> Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi is a very nice grandmotherly 
> Indian lady who founded her meditation technique in 1970. 
> This is a sample of her teachings: 
> http://www.chicagoyoga.org/meditation-room/2/1
> 
> "Place the left hand in front of your lower abdomen, 
> palm facing the body. Raise the left hand up vertically, 
> until it reaches a position above your head. While the 
> left hand is ascending, the right hand rotates around it 
> clockwise, until both hands are above the head. Use both 
> hands to tie a knot. Repeat three times and the third time 
> tie the knot three times, fixing your attention and the 
> Kundalini energy above the seventh chakra."
> 
> Try it. Pat your head and rub your belly. Fun, isn't it?

How would you know?

WE all know that YOU didn't try it.

JUST as you've never tried any of the other
techniques of meditation you characterize
here as "difficult" and as "not as good" as
TM. You're just parroting the things you
were taught to parrot, convinced that what
you practice is "the best" practice because
long ago, back when you were young and impres-
sionable, someone TOLD you it was "the best" 
and you believed every word of it.

And now you're a big fan of telling young
and impressionable kids the same thing, so
that they spend *their* whole lives doing what
you did and settling for what they were told.

Hmm. 

Programming begets programming...

[FairfieldLife] Re: VERY SPECIAL MEETING IN THE DOME 3:00pm FRIDAY!

2009-04-04 Thread dhamiltony2k5

We were Graced.
Though so too bad half of the remaining Tru-believers had left town
to see the Beatles concert in NYC.

Jai Guru Dev,

-Doug in FF


> Everyone is warmly invited
> to a very special meeting
> here in person with
> Maharaja Adhiraj Rajaraam,
> First Ruler of the Global Country of World Peace.
> 
> This rare occasion will be hosted by
> Prime Minister Bevan Morris
> and the Rajas of the Global Country of World Peace
> 
> Friday, April 3, at 3:00 p.m.
> in the Maharishi Patanjali Golden Dome of Pure Knowledge
> 
> Please bring your current program badge.
> 
> Jai Guru Dev
>

[FairfieldLife] Recommendation for John Knapp - re: McCartney/Lynch Benefit Concert

2009-04-04 Thread do.rflex



--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John M. Knapp, LMSW"  
wrote:
>
> HI, Curtis, Sal, and everyone,
> 
> It's not my intention to end the fight here. But it's important to me that my 
> co-presenters not become entangled in some protracted legal battle with DLF 
> or TMO.
> 
> I believe it may be possible to use this turn of events to publicize my 
> concerns about TM in public schools in a much larger fashion than the webinar 
> itself would have done. I believe the aftermath of this concert will be that 
> the TM Org is held to a level of scrutiny that they have not seen before.
> 
> But I'm taking the afternoon off to decompress. This has been an emotional 
> day for me. I have received many emails of support for which I am thankful. 
> 
> Talk to you soon!
> 
> J.
> 
> John M. Knapp, LMSW
> Recovery from Toxic Groups, Abusive Churches & Cults
> KnappFamilyCounseling.com



If I might make a suggestion:

It appears that the TMO has at its disposal a legal team that you, on your own, 
can't match. Why not get the ACLU and Americans United for Separation of Church 
and State involved - and we'll see how successfully the TMO's 'invincible' 
legal team stands up.

This issue really DOES deserve a conclusive decision - one way or another.

[FairfieldLife] Turq worships his Founding Gurus from afar -- go figure.

2009-04-04 Thread Duveyoung

 TurquoiseB  wrote: [snip] That the
> form of meditation being proposed is TM I think is
> problematic because I honestly believe that the way
> it's taught and explained in followup talks is 
> religously-based and thus inappropriate for American
> schools given the Constitution and the clear wishes
> of America's founding fathers. But the courts will
> decide that.

Turq,

Didn't you sorta choke while writing that last statement?

I mean:  you, someone who's posted a thousand reasons not to trust anyone's 
OPINION without there being logic and science behind it (at the least,) are 
bending your knee to the OPINIONS of the founding fathers.  WTF? -- you an 
expat saying this? 

If the wisdom of the founding fathers is your guide, then, you're for slavery, 
no voting rights for women, and, oh, I almost forgot, genocide as a tool for 
getting all the land from the natives.

Those founding fathers were not magic.  They came up with a document that could 
be augmented, but they didn't come up with anything that guarantees that the 
finer qualities of humanity would emerge from the people.  They did as good as 
they could, but by today's moral standards, they were elitist barbarians who 
believed so much nonsense that they'd shock even Rush Limbaugh with the depth 
of their disconnects.

And they didn't forbid religion in government -- they made their form of 
government into a religion that was backed up by guns.  A religion with all the 
trappings of entitlement, symbolic clothing (clean,) elitist powers, and even 
the right to kill anyone for almost any reason if merely 12 dunderheads can be 
made into a lynch mob in a courtroom.

The Constitution is the basis of a religion that allows ANYTHING if money can 
be made from it and some of that money is given to the politicians (priests.)  

I like Mel Gibson's line from The Patriot.  His character was being prompted to 
join the Revolutionary War because everyone had HAD IT with King George, the 
tyrant. He said: "Better to have one tyrant 3,000 miles away than 3,000 tyrants 
one mile away."  That's what his character thought about the neighborliness of 
those founding fathers-to-be.  

Any representational form of government can be easily controlled by money.  The 
words of the Constitution are nothing to the BigWadsmerely something to 
augment if money can be made.  

Edg

[FairfieldLife] Bütles ....

2009-04-04 Thread Rick Archer

 

http://newsquake.netscape.com/2007/02/08/recording-the-beatles-geoff-emerick
-speaks/



Hi Rick,

with all the fancying about the Beatles and TM
going on after the concert, there is a real good source.
Their sound engineer geoff emerick, who helped
shaped peculiar sounds since the Revolver Album.

In his book Here, There and Everywhere, he clearly describes
the difference, the Bealtes where in when they came back
from India.

Reading it, one can understand, that the whole TM and maharishi
broke that group spirit. After India, it was everyone on his own.

The maharishi was for his own movement, and had no intentions
to help the artists gain deeper understanding of their problem.

Yes, TM is a quite good beginning, but taking care of people ?
And helping groups to succeed ?
Its only "Take the next course, but pls. spare me with your
personal crap".

cheers

joerg.

PS: yes, you can put it on FFL.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Wind turbines could more than meet U.S. electricity needs, report says

2009-04-04 Thread Nelson

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung  wrote:
>
> Shemp, Shemp, Shemp,
> 
> Please tell us the below was you being satirical.
> 
> Edg
> 
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk"  wrote:
> >
> > The problem with wind turbines is if you put up too many of them they will 
> > cut down all winds blowing across the world and this will cause our planet 
> > to stop spinning on its axis and we will all be throw into deep space along 
> > with planes, trains, automobiles, and anything else that isn't tethered to 
> > Mother Earth.
> > 
> snip,
  I don't think this will cause a noticeable problem as it will be such a long 
time before the windmills excede the number of trees that have been cut down 
that we shouldn't worry.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ten things that would make me become a TM TB again

2009-04-04 Thread dhamiltony2k5

Might be that some TB's have never left but just don't have
or need a current dome badge.  Once a transcendentalist always 
a transcendentalist.

Eternal Transcendent Field grant, we pray
To all Meditators, both night and day,
The courage, honor, strength, and skill
Their lives to serve, thy law fulfill;
Be thou the shield forevermore
>From every peril to our meditation.

Jai Guru Dev,



--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung  wrote:
>
> What would it take for you to become a TM TB again?
> 
> I guess almost any miracle could do the trick for me.  If lots of folks 
> started hovering, or one person hovered in a very scientific setting, I'd 
> immediately start TM again. 
> 
> 1.  So, I think of hovering as a proof despite the fact that Turq says that 
> his Rama guy did it in front of crowds and many times.  To me something's 
> hinky with Turq's reporting, cuz, in my world, real hovering is a feat that 
> gets the CIA kidnapping your ass.  Seems likely that the Rama guy was a 
> magician, not a MAGICIAN.  Show me a true MAGICIAN and I'm sold out.
> 
> 2. If Maharishi came back from the dead, , yeah that'd do for me too.
> 
> 3. If some sort of class-action suit completely exposed all the finances of 
> the TMO and showed that -- unbelievably -- all the money went to promoting TM 
> instead of buying yachts for Girish, AND, if some "knock your socks off 
> scientific measurements" showed at least some mind-over-matter processes 
> during TM -- such as some blood chemistry marker that's immediately changed 
> when one starts meditating and that marker is known so well that scientists 
> flock to get TM instructions, then, yeah, I might be a redneck, er, TB.
> 
> 4. Okay, anyone coming back from the dead and saying TM works -- yeah, that'd 
> do it too.  Maybe even moreso than if Maharishi came back, cuz, maybe 
> Maharishi never died and merely faked it so that he could seemingly come back 
> from the dead, but if, say, Hitler came back and espoused TM, sorry Jews, but 
> I'll be listening to Adolph.
> 
> 5. If some verifiable ancient document was found that predicted the advent of 
> Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and TM in precise and exacting terms (whatever that 
> means,) well, that'd turn my head, but the verification had better be 
> non-controversial and widely accepted by scholars. And/or, if some dead sea 
> scrolls were found that listed all-and-only the TM mantras, I'd go "Urp, say 
> what?"
> 
> 6.  If a UFO lands and out comes some entity with Maharishi's Gita in its 
> hands/tenticles, and this entity says something like:  "Maharishi is the most 
> famous teacher in all the cosmos and he's incarnate in over 1,000 bodies on 
> 1,000 planets."  Um, it would get my interest.
> 
> 7.  If any MAV products were endorsed by the AMA and the FDA to be powerful 
> healers, and if physicians reported that their patients were additionally 
> having spiritual experiences of significant intensity, okay, I'll revisit my 
> "TM only works somewhat" conclusions.
> 
> 8.  If the words "Transcendental Meditation Works" appeared on the Moon and 
> was easily read by the naked eye by anyone on Earth, okay, that's got me just 
> like the UFO landing concept got me.
> 
> 9. If a nanobot swarm becomes conscious and form itself into the shape of a 
> human being and then that entity meditates using a TM mantra -- okay, sign me 
> up again.
> 
> 10. If Curtis, Vaj, Turq, and their ilk started TM again and reported that, 
> despite the long lapse of time since they last meditated, that they were NOW 
> having tremendous, full-reality, spiritual experiences with gods, angels, et 
> al, then, hey, I'd sit in the chair for at least a few attempts.
> 
> You?  What would it take?
> 
> Edg
>

[FairfieldLife] Re: Turq worships his Founding Gurus from afar -- go figure.

2009-04-04 Thread TurquoiseB

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung  wrote:
>
>  TurquoiseB  wrote: [snip] That the
> > form of meditation being proposed is TM I think is
> > problematic because I honestly believe that the way
> > it's taught and explained in followup talks is 
> > religously-based and thus inappropriate for American
> > schools given the Constitution and the clear wishes
> > of America's founding fathers. But the courts will
> > decide that.
> 
> Turq,
> 
> Didn't you sorta choke while writing that last statement?
> 
> I mean:  you, someone who's posted a thousand reasons not 
> to trust anyone's OPINION without there being logic 
> and science behind it (at the least,)...

I've never said any such thing. About all 
I've said is that *everyone's* opinion is
just that, and *remains* that, no matter
how much "logic" or "science" they use to
try to sell it.

> ...are bending your knee to the OPINIONS of the founding 
> fathers.  WTF? -- you an expat saying this? 

In this instance, my opinion agrees with
their opinion, that's all.

But that still puts me leagues ahead of
you, dude. With all of your pretensions
to being so intelligent, you've now fallen
for two of Shemp's *obvious* trolls in a 
row. And you've *still* never figured out
the first one, the one about the hospital.

Out of curiosity I showed that one to the
ten-year-old son of a friend who was visit-
ing me and he got it immediately. If you
are so smart, why didn't you?  :-)  :-)  :-)

[FairfieldLife] Re: Wind turbines could more than meet U.S. electricity needs, report says

2009-04-04 Thread uns_tressor

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk"  wrote:
>
> The problem with wind turbines is...
>
...that they are already old hat. This free ebook (1800 pages)
can provide all that is required whether the wind blows or
not:
http://www.free-energy-info.co.uk
Look out for Charles Flynn, Tesla Switch, Robert Adams,
Bob Boyce.

And Takahashi here:
http://www.cheniere.org/misc/wankel.htm

Uns.

[FairfieldLife] The Star is seen worldwide

2009-04-04 Thread nablusoss1008


Share International News Release No. 89, 3 April 2009


The Star is seen worldwide


For over 30 years author, lecturer and artist Benjamin Creme has been
preparing the way for the emergence of Maitreya, the World Teacher.

On 12 December 2008 Share International distributed a news release
announcing that in the very near future a large, bright Star would
appear in the sky visible throughout the world, night and day. The Star
heralds the imminent emergence of Maitreya, who will be giving His first
interview on a major US television programme very soon. Since January
2009 hundreds of sightings of the Star have been reported worldwide.
Videos of the Star posted on YouTube are creating much debate and Share
International is receiving more and more photographs showing the Star in
a variety of stunning colours and shapes.

In his latest article, Benjamin Creme's Master reiterates the
significance of the Star and seeks to stimulate public discussion about
its meaning and purpose.

See attached photograph showing the Star from various countries. For
more photographs and eye-witness reports visit
www.share-international.org  .


The restoration of the world


"From almost every point of view the situation facing men everywhere
grows daily more painful. The economic chaos resulting from years of
unlicensed greed and heartless competition lays waste the honest toil
and aspiration of countless millions. On the whole, the men of money go
blithely on, their treasure intact, while men and women in every country
face joblessness, poverty and fear. More accurate readings of climatic
changes show men how close this planet is to irreversible calamity, and
alarm bells sound loudly on many political fronts, raising to new levels
the factor of stress.

How much more of this tension can humanity bear? For how long will men
accept, mildly, their fate? Desperate men do desperate deeds and already
in their minds, if not yet in their actions, many contemplate
revolution.

Behind the scenes, Maitreya watches carefully these happenings, and
gives succour wherever the Law allows. He waits, patiently, for the
build-up of response to the sign of His Emergence, the "star-like
luminary of brilliant power" on which many now gaze in wonder and
even love.

What is desired is some measure of public debate about the significance
or meaning of the Star, thus signifying the emergence of Maitreya, the
World Teacher. The greater and more public the discussion, the greater
does it prepare the way for Maitreya's entry. Soon there will be no
gainsaying. Very soon, Venus will move beyond the sight of men and so
leave the platform of the heavens open to the Star. Then there will be
no doubt that the Star is there for all to see.

If sufficient discussion can be fostered on the various media and
internet, it will not be long until men see and hear Maitreya speak. He
will not be so called, that men can judge His ideas rather than His
status.

As the economic crisis deepens, a singular reaction is appearing in many
countries: alongside the fear, bravado and growing despair is a new
understanding of the reasons for the crash  the greed and
competitive spirit at the centre of our systems and, therefore, the need
for sharing. Of themselves, many are awakening to this basic truth and
see sharing as the answer to injustice and war. Thus are many ready for
Maitreya's Call. This realization will grow as the crisis bites
deeper and deeper into the shaky fabric of the outworn forms and
structures that no longer work, can never be made to work for long.

When Maitreya speaks, He will show that this is so, that the world is
ready for the adoption of new and better forms, based on the true needs
of the peoples everywhere. His is the task to focus and strengthen this
growing realization of the oneness and unity of men, of their mutual
dependence and awakening divinity. Thus will Maitreya and humanity work
together for the restoration of this world."


Benjamin Creme lecture

`The Emergence of Maitreya the World Teacher'

Friends House, 173 Euston Road, London NW1

Thursday 23 April, 7 to 9.30pm, admission free

Share International, PO Box 3677, London NW5 1RU

tel: 44-(0)207-482-1113  www.share-international.org

[FairfieldLife] Robert -- you have to stop to think -- will you?

2009-04-04 Thread Duveyoung

"Robert" wrote:
> The only problem with that is, that the technique, [[mindfulness]]
just keeps the mind on a superficial level, without transcending and
getting the breath to stillness...and it doesn't explain the different
states of consciousness, and so much more...so, in my humble oppinion,
TM is far superior to this 'mindfullness' stuff.
> Mindfulness, turns out to be 'mindlessness', as one is always off on a
thought or emotion, and never transcends the field of thought of
emotion...there is no vehicle to produce finer levels of thought, and
therefore, like Psychanalysis keeps one from ever transcending thought
and emotions.
> R.G.

Robert,

I worry about you.  I read your posts, and everytime, I wonder if you
have ever, say, reread anything you've written before you post it.  It
all seems just off the top of your head.

You are blabbing propaganda -- I would suggest you take your above
statement one piece at a time and try to actually, you know, see if it
means anything to ya.

Here, I'll do some of the spade work for ya.

Like:  "the technique, [[mindfulness]] just keeps the mind on a
superficial level"

Here we see that you are asserting that there exists a technique called
"mindfulness" about which  everyone reading here will have clarity.

As if.

(Vaj, don't bother, once again, showing that there's a hundred ways to
do something mental that could be in the set called "mindfulness,"
Robert isn't listening.)

Robert, is there any chance in hell you could define "superficial
level?"

Don't you see the elitism in that phrase?  Don't you understand the
great insult such a phrase would be if, say, you told the Dali Lama that
his mind was merely residing in superficiality after decades of him
exploring within?  How could anyone anywhere ever think that they can
know about another's mindfulness, let alone it's "level" without, you
know, BEING THAT PERSON?  And, Robert, have you been tested by all the
machines and the analysis of the TMO "scientists?"  Is your level so
deep that you can now decide that others are shallow? Or, are you
repeating words you've heard from "on high" and not really trying to get
solid on the definitions of the words you use?

Like:  "without transcending and getting the breath to stillness..."

I've posted here about the four ways to understand the word
"transcending."  Did you bother to consider it?  I doubt it.  Yet, here
you are using that word as if it had only one meaning and that it can
only be understood to be valid if breathing is affected when
transcending is happening.  Um, just for your information, didja ever
notice that Maharishi gave us more than one way to control the breath? 
Is pranyama a form of transcending to you?  It is to me, but if it's
done without using a mantra, would you honor it as a valid spiritual
technique?

I agree that stilling the breath is a good thing if it naturally occurs,
but, my friend Vaj would scold me for believing that since there's some
serious conceptual wait-just-a-damned-minute-there-bub aspects of this
phenomenon that he thinks one might want to chew on for a while before
committing to stillness of breath as a always-positive thingy.  I
disagree with him about this, but I have yet to say that he's wrong,
because I haven't studied this concept enough to have clarity -- only
then will I grab Vaj's arm and swing him around to face my, er, PSYCHIC
WRATH -- Oh, yeah, I'm the scorcher, uh huh, uh huh, I like it.

Like:  [[mindfulness]] "it doesn't explain the different states of
consciousness,

You come out with a concept that there are [[seven]] states of
consciousness, but you seem to never have heard Maharishi talking about
the 16 calas and that Guru Dev had to die to get to the 16th "level." 
And you don't seem to have any precise grasp of the word "consciousness"
-- can you please tell us what the differences are (if any) between the
following words? "Consciousnes, amness, pure being, transcendent,
awareness, mind, soul, witness."

I don't expect you'll answer in any scholarly fashion, because the above
question was never a topic of any lecture I ever heard from Maharishi --
and I heard (estimate) over 1,000 lectures by Maharishi, and he never
educated me about any of the above distinctions.  In his Gita, he's all
over the map when he uses these words without any precision.

But, you're sure, aren't you, that you have it locked down tight about
this word "consciousness?"

Like: "Mindfulness, turns out to be 'mindlessness', as one is always off
on a thought or emotion, and never transcends the field of thought of
emotion..."

How fucking arrogant can you get?If someone is having a thought --
they're mindless?  WTF?

You take thousands of other forms of thinking and clump them together
into one word and, without a hint of precision defining, you, Robert,
are staking your image here on parroted words.  Do you really want to
only spew the pap you were fed?  With the above statement, you dismiss
virtually all religious and spiritu

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