Re: [FairfieldLife] Nobody is missing.

[Michael Jackson]

then why are the MUM authorities being quoted in the papers saying only five 
percent are missing? And Hagelin used the same figure in his attempt to mollify 
the faithful who have been giving money to this program

On Sun, 2/2/14, sri...@ymail.com  wrote:

 Subject: [FairfieldLife] Nobody is missing.
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Date: Sunday, February 2, 2014, 3:16 AM
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
   
   
   anyone who talks about missing people here is just
 showing what an ass they are. No-one is missing. If your
 parents know where you are then you are not missing. It is
 another manufactured scandal about nothing.
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

[FairfieldLife] RE: Those who reject superstition are displaying extra brain power

[anartaxius]

Yes, scientists often fail at being scientists, they do have passions, they 
make mistakes and have biases. Keeping these at bay is one of the marks of a 
top scientist. Richard Feynman is one of my favorites.
 

 No, I am not British. The family mythos has it that I was born in Larissa, 
Greece, but I remember little of my early half decade, and the remainder my 
family moved to a city on the West coast of the U.S. I have lived in other 
countries for a bit, including Canada. They say you can see Mt. Olympus from 
Larissa, but I do not recall; the earliest part of my life was shadowed by 
World War II.
 

 

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Those who reject superstition are displaying extra brain power

[Michael Jackson]

No to mention the fact that so many of the long time TM leaders who SHOULD be 
enlightened by now all act like fuckheads.

On Sun, 2/2/14, s3raph...@yahoo.com  wrote:

 Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: Those who reject superstition are displaying 
extra brain power
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Date: Sunday, February 2, 2014, 3:11 AM
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
   
   
   Re "Don't act like it
 doesn't happen and that long term TM practice and esp.
 long term TMSP practice is not a factor.":
 
 Totally agree with you. Of course, the problem with
 issues like this is that if anyone claims TM has
 such-and-such benefits, or alternatively that TM causes
 this-and-that problems, the only way to empirically resolve
 the issue is to have a large sample of people who learn TM
 and another sample who don't. Make sure the two groups
 are more-or-less matched for other features - age, status,
 mental health, money issues, etc. Then follow the two groups
 over the years and see what benefits or disasters occur that
 are statistically significant. Anything
 else is just anecdotal. You also have to rule
 out the horse-before-the-cart fallacies: do people who learn
 TM show a greater tendency to stop using drugs thanks to
 regularly experiencing pure consciousness? Or is it the case
 that those who display the discipline necessary to stop
 using drugs and take up a regular practice of meditation are
 statistically more likely to continue
 abstaining?I'm pretty sure
 that for some sensitive individuals, taking up TM could have
 undesirable psychological consequences.
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Re: [FairfieldLife] Those who reject Spirituality display extra Cognition Inhibition

[Michael Jackson]

Why don't you just say "Our Lord and Savior Marshy, only through Our Lord and 
Savior Marshy do we come to the Father."

On Sun, 2/2/14, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com  wrote:

 Subject: [FairfieldLife] Those who reject Spirituality display extra Cognition 
Inhibition
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Date: Sunday, February 2, 2014, 2:07 AM
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
   
   
   MJ, I can't speak for you or your friends
 poor or sad experiences.
  I am glad that you can allow for the possibility of my own
 satisfying experience with it all.  My experience with the
 TM
 Movement and around Maharishi has been one of quite
 satisfying
 spirituality.  Possibly though when I began at an early age
 I was
 never enmeshed as a devotee but rather as just a
 practitioner and
 participant that way and not much dependent on the
 organization other than
 for its facilitating meditating and group meditations.  All
 along it
 either worked or if it would have not then I would have
 moved on.  
 That may well have been in the nature of my whole Iowa
 upbringing,
 different from others background.  But in the
 meantime we all did a
 lot of large and great things with TM.  Like dragging
 science in to
 spirituality.  As a transcendentalism movement we were
 successful
 leaving a foot print on larger culture for all the
 campaigning we did
 at a time out on the front line.  It was revolutionary.  I
 was glad
 to have been on the 'long march' with Maharishi in
 his time.  You
 can't take that away from us for all of your blanket
 carping.  We do
 share a brother-hood as transcendentalists and Fairfield is
 still a
 fabulous place to live for its being a meditator's
 place.  It's a
 highly spiritual place and the MUM University here is still
 a
 visionary's place to go to school along with others of
 like
 high-mind.   I'd go to school there.  It is a place and
 an
 organization to be proud of even now.
 
 
 Which
 would you rather experience: living the paradox or
 understanding it
 to your satisfaction? 
 
 
 
 I am here to plead Maharishi's cause with you. I
 plead not for his
 life, but for his character — his immortal life; and so it
 becomes
 your cause wholly, and is not his in the least. Some
 twenty-one
 hundred years ago Christ was crucified; this morning,
 perchance,
 Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was hung again by someone on
 FairfieldLife at
 Yahoo-Groups. These are the two ends of a chain which is not
 without
 its links. He is not Old Maharishi any longer; he is an
 angel of
 light.!Jai Maharishi Mahesh Yogi!-Buck in the
 Dome
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Re: [FairfieldLife] Those who reject Spirituality display extra Cognition Inhibition

[Michael Jackson]

Why don't you just say "Our Lord and Savior Marshy, only through Our Lord and 
Savior Marshy do we come to the Father."

On Sun, 2/2/14, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com  wrote:

 Subject: [FairfieldLife] Those who reject Spirituality display extra Cognition 
Inhibition
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Date: Sunday, February 2, 2014, 2:07 AM
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
   
   
   MJ, I can't speak for you or your friends
 poor or sad experiences.
  I am glad that you can allow for the possibility of my own
 satisfying experience with it all.  My experience with the
 TM
 Movement and around Maharishi has been one of quite
 satisfying
 spirituality.  Possibly though when I began at an early age
 I was
 never enmeshed as a devotee but rather as just a
 practitioner and
 participant that way and not much dependent on the
 organization other than
 for its facilitating meditating and group meditations.  All
 along it
 either worked or if it would have not then I would have
 moved on.  
 That may well have been in the nature of my whole Iowa
 upbringing,
 different from others background.  But in the
 meantime we all did a
 lot of large and great things with TM.  Like dragging
 science in to
 spirituality.  As a transcendentalism movement we were
 successful
 leaving a foot print on larger culture for all the
 campaigning we did
 at a time out on the front line.  It was revolutionary.  I
 was glad
 to have been on the 'long march' with Maharishi in
 his time.  You
 can't take that away from us for all of your blanket
 carping.  We do
 share a brother-hood as transcendentalists and Fairfield is
 still a
 fabulous place to live for its being a meditator's
 place.  It's a
 highly spiritual place and the MUM University here is still
 a
 visionary's place to go to school along with others of
 like
 high-mind.   I'd go to school there.  It is a place and
 an
 organization to be proud of even now.
 
 
 Which
 would you rather experience: living the paradox or
 understanding it
 to your satisfaction? 
 
 
 
 I am here to plead Maharishi's cause with you. I
 plead not for his
 life, but for his character — his immortal life; and so it
 becomes
 your cause wholly, and is not his in the least. Some
 twenty-one
 hundred years ago Christ was crucified; this morning,
 perchance,
 Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was hung again by someone on
 FairfieldLife at
 Yahoo-Groups. These are the two ends of a chain which is not
 without
 its links. He is not Old Maharishi any longer; he is an
 angel of
 light.!Jai Maharishi Mahesh Yogi!-Buck in the
 Dome
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

[FairfieldLife] RE: Those who reject superstition are displaying extra brain power

[authfriend]

Xeno is lying through his vicious teeth. If anyone wants to know (other than 
Xeno, who knows already) why I say this, you're more than welcome to ask me.
 
 

 'The lady doth protest too much, methinks.'  Judy makes great show of pointing 
out her integrity, honesty, and fairness, but there are character defects that 
undermine this theatrical performance. Repeatedly making such a show is a 
characteristic of those that have mendacious tendencies. No one else here makes 
such an effort to appear trustworthy.

[FairfieldLife] RE: Those who reject superstition are displaying extra brain power

[s3raphita]

Re "Cognitive inhibition is believed to strongly influence, helping to control 
both sexual and aggressive urges within human society.":
 On a side note: TM, of course, relies not on inhibition but on the natural 
tendency of the mind to settle in deeper, calmer depths.
 

 Re "Most scientists, being sceptics, test the reliability of certain kinds of 
claims by subjecting them to a systematic investigation using some form of the 
scientific method.":
 I'm (more-or-less) happy with the scientific *method*; it's *scientists* I'm 
more sceptical about. They have ambitions, lusts, egos, insecurities, . . . and 
understand what their paymasters expect. An investigation into the effects of 
passive smoking produces different results if the tests are funded by tobacco 
companies or health authorities. We all know why.
 (You use "sceptic" rather than "skeptic" - you British?)

[FairfieldLife] RE: Secret Doctrines

[s3raphita]

Re "So we should KNOW to give importance to nothingness. And then we have in 
our grip the totality.": 

 

 Thanks for sharing that. The whole MMY quote you post had me purring 
contentedly.
 

 What we really need is for someone of intelligence and discrimination to 
produce a book - "The Essential Maharishi Mahesh Yogi" - which could include 
all his choice prose.

[FairfieldLife] RE: Those who reject superstition are displaying extra brain power

[anartaxius]

'The lady doth protest too much, methinks.'  Judy makes great show of pointing 
out her integrity, honesty, and fairness, but there are character defects that 
undermine this theatrical performance. Repeatedly making such a show is a 
characteristic of those that have mendacious tendencies. No one else here makes 
such an effort to appear trustworthy.

[FairfieldLife] RE: Why a Jyotish Ring Works

[s3raphita]

Re "Human consciousness is above the dimensions of space and time.  As such, 
nature follows the desire of the knower.":

 

 But note that "desire" is itself within the dimensions of space and time. I 
desire to own a Land Rover. That can only be fulfilled at some *time* in the 
future and at a certain, specific *location*.
 If Jyotish rings (or similar magical techniques) do work it is because the 
"desire" element is transcended. Magical rituals conclude with a banishing - in 
vulgar understanding the banishing sends a servitor spirit back to its "home"; 
in reality the banishing works by making the magician himself forget about his 
original desire and so - as you point out - any result is the effect of his 
subconscious (perhaps a better term is his *higher self*).

[FairfieldLife] RE: Those who reject superstition are displaying extra brain power

[anartaxius]

Cognitive inhibition is the ability to control inner and outer distracting 
stimuli, thereby making sure that working memory is not cluttered with 
irrelevant information or content. Cognitive inhibition is believed to strongly 
influence, helping to control both sexual and aggressive urges within human 
society. Do you really want us to take these gloves off?
 

 Scepticism is generally any questioning attitude towards assumed knowledge, 
facts, or opinions and beliefs stated as facts, or doubt regarding claims that 
are taken for granted elsewhere. Scepticism allows one to dig deeper into a 
subject or situation, to reverify facts or to discover conclusions that may be 
in error.
 

 Most scientists, being sceptics, test the reliability of certain kinds of 
claims by subjecting them to a systematic investigation using some form of the 
scientific method. As a result, a number of claims are considered 
'pseudoscience' if they are found to improperly apply or ignore the fundamental 
aspects of the scientific method. Scientific scepticism may discard beliefs 
pertaining to things outside perceivable observation and thus outside the realm 
of systematic, empirical falsifiability and testability.
 

 In other words, to be a scientist, whatever you are investigating, the normal 
course is to at first assume that, whatever your hypothesis is, that it is 
wrong, that the null hypothesis - that the effect one is investigating does not 
really exist is true. If you are entranced that the non-null hypothesis is 
true, you have a cognitive bias that may adversely affect your investigation, 
cause you to overlook critical tests that could disprove your thesis. You are 
basically too gullible and trusting to evaluate scientific work. A good 
scientific theory goes through a crucible of scepticism before it is considered 
respectable.
 

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

 Dear Dear Anartaxius,
 Somehow we must deal with this “Cognitive Inhibition” problem which so 
evidently is at the root of so much skepticism around some certain things so 
good that it obstructs a positive consensus about our history and where we 
could together go.
 I do not wish to force my thoughts upon you or anyone else, but I feel forced 
myself. Little as I know of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, I would fain do my part to 
correct the tone and the statements of the newspapers and newsgroups, and of 
our FFL people here generally, respecting his character and actions. It costs 
us nothing to be just. We can at least express our sympathy with, and 
admiration of, him and his companions, and that is what I now propose to do.
 Sincerely, 
  -Buck in the Dome
 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Jerry Seinfeld talks Transcendental Meditation at David Lynch Foundation Gala

[Joe]

The Srivastava/Varma clan felt quite full, thank you very much.

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, srijau@...  wrote:
>
> I was at this one. You sure do not get much to eat for $1000. Seinfeld was 
> fun though.
>

[FairfieldLife] RE: Philip K. Dick was smarter than you, and earlier

[s3raphita]

Barry, apologies for lowering the tone of the conversation, but you did make 
the acquaintance of Crumb and I was pruriently curious if his wife was also one 
of those dominatrix types with huge thighs and ass like his trademark fantasy 
artwork women. Had he found his ideal partner? And what was she like as a 
person?
 

  

[FairfieldLife] Srivastava-Varma clan / David Miscavige and Scientology

[Joe]

The Srivastava/Varma clan do exactly what David Miscavige and Scientology have 
done to rake in funds: you set up a goal that is "almost" realizable and then 
you say we are ALMOST there, just a few more pundits, just a few more 
donations. If only we could just get a bit closer to the magic percentage THEN 
we could have world peace!

Miscavige and Scientology have been a similar scam … they've been raising 
donations for over 20 years for a big magic building in Clearwater FL called 
"The Super Power Building". When Scientology members finally began to realize 
that over 100 times the amount of money needed to build this thing had been 
raised, Miscavige realized they better put up something … late in 2013 this 
building was finally opened in order to stop the exodus of members. How will 
they deal with the fact that no one achieves super powers? (Most likely by 
re-focusing on the global "planet clearing" goals in the same manner that the 
TMO focuses on the global ME.)

By the way, the new teaching that is supposed to happen in this building is 
called "The Golden Age of Tech-2". Sound familiar? Towns that meet certain fund 
raising goals are called "Ideal Cities and Towns." Ring a bell?  (BTW, a great 
source of Scientology info is Tony Ortega's Underground Bunker.)

How has the TMO (aka the family) raked in the funds since the mid-70s? Through 
a variety of means, but the most prevalent has been to ride on the so-called 
"Maharishi Effect" (god, what a humble man he was …) in an effort to move the 
focus from personal enlightenment (which simply wasn't happening) to global 
world peace. IF ONLY we could get the correct percentage of people meditating 
then we'd have it!

People … isn't it obvious by now that you will never be allowed to have the 
right percentage of mediators in FF or anywhere else! The whole scam would fall 
apart if that ever happened … it would draw back the curtains on the wizard of 
Oz. If you actually ever got the magic number then true believers would expect 
something … something like results … something like the world peace that was 
promised.

And that simply cannot ever be allowed! The greatest way to rake in more money 
is to keep a perpetual state of "we're close, just a bit more money and we can 
attain the magic number of pundits/meditators to achieve world peace." The 
message: if you don't keep giving then YOU are responsible for the hunger, 
poverty and war in the world. 

Back to Scientology, the goal is called "clearing the planet" and that has 
taken on equal importance over the years to becoming an Operating Thetan … the 
Scientology equivalent of higher states.

How cool is it to feel so very special to the world that you have this kind of 
control and importance? The special bus indeed!

Follow the money people, follow the money ….


--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson  wrote:
>
> Thank you for posting this. I appreciate it. You notice that all those who 
> were claiming there are no missing pundits are silent on your post. 
> 
> On Sat, 2/1/14, Zoran Krneta  wrote:
> 
>  Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Missing Pundits
>  To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
>  Date: Saturday, February 1, 2014, 3:30 PM
>  
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>
>They never got what Movement
>  promised them especially payments, I remember one pundit, he
>  was a good one, you could saw him on most broadcasts in the
>  time of Global Country inauguration, he had family, he
>  complained again and again about the money, finally he was
>  paid in Raams which is useless and unrecognized currency.
>

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Now Playing

[Richard Williams]

The Jim Cullum Jazz Band

[image: Inline image 1]

We saw this band a few years ago and we listen to them on PRI every week.
So, we decided to see them again soon. This is going to be a very busy time
for music lovers around here what with the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo
followed by South by Southwest (SxSW) the music and film festival in Austin
(Rodriquez will probably be there and Linklater too). In this video the Jim
Cullum Jazz Band is joined by David Jellema when they performed at the
historic Pearl Brewery in San Antonio Texas, for the public radio series
"Riverwalk Jazz" in October 2009:

Clarinet Marmalade
http://youtu.be/z4RWkTrU2d8

Jim Cullum Jazz Band
Boardwalk Bistro
7:30pm -- 10:30pm
Friday February 7, 2014
4011 Broadway, San Antonio

http://riverwalkjazz.org/

http://www.pri.org/programs/riverwalk-jazz

"The Jim Cullum Jazz Band is an acoustic seven-piece traditional jazz
ensemble led by cornetist Jim Cullum, Jr.. Since 1989, the band has been
featured nationally on their own weekly public radio series Riverwalk Jazz.
The band performs live Tuesday through Saturday at the Landing Jazz Club on
the Riverwalk in San Antonio, Texas."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Cullum_Jazz_Band


On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Richard Williams wrote:

> The dB's
>
> [image: Inline image 1]
>
> "That Time Is Gone" - Peter Holsapple, vocals and guitar
> http://youtu.be/f9CwLD1Yrvo
>
> Recorded live in 2012 in Austin, Texas at Threadgill's during the Music
> Fog Marathon. When Rita was living in San Diego the guitarist in this
> video, Peter Holsapple, was her boyfriends roommate. It was great meeting
> up with him again in Austin. An amazing reunion from the old days in
> California!
>
> MusicFog review:
> http://musicfog.com/home/2012/6/12/the-dbs-that-time-is-gone.html
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 9:58 PM, Richard Williams wrote:
>
>> Orianthi
>>
>> [image: Inline image 3]
>>
>> Orienthe with Carls Santana
>>
>> "Orianthi Panagaris, better known by her mononym Orianthi, is an
>> Australian musician, singer-songwriter and guitarist. Orianthi was named
>> one of the 12 Greatest Female Electric Guitarists by Elle magazine.[3] She
>> also won the award as "Breakthrough Guitarist of the Year" 2010 by Guitar
>> International magazine."
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orianthi
>>
>> Voodoo Child
>> http://youtu.be/mK6tcgsKgps
>>
>> According to You
>> http://youtu.be/Pu1aQvm5MrU
>>
>> Highly Strung - with Steve Vai - Video
>> http://youtu.be/G7b-_YcACuQ
>>
>> Heaven In This Hell - Video
>> http://youtu.be/2kMXxDkqD6I
>>
>> [image: Inline image 2]
>>
>> Guitar World Magazine:
>> http://www.guitarworld.com/orianthi
>>
>> Anyone who can write, sing, and produce an album they play nearly all the
>> instruments on is someone special, especially someone only 20 years old
>> when it all happened! When Rita was in Adelaide in 2004 she got her CD
>> signed by Orienthe. Sweet!
>>
>> [image: Inline image 1]
>>
>> Violet Journey
>>
>> Orianthi Interview at musicasa::
>> http://www.musicsa.com.au/artists/orianthi/
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Richard Williams 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> [image: Inline image 1]
>>>
>>> Call of the Valley
>>> http://youtu.be/ptTmZlzIIxQ
>>>
>>> Shivkumar Sharma
>>> Brijbhushan Kabra
>>> Hariprasad Chaurasia
>>>
>>> "The instrumental album follows a day in the life of an Indian shepherd
>>> from Kashmir. It is one of the most successful Indian albums and one that
>>> became popular with an international audience. It was very important in
>>> introducing Indian music to Western ears and internationally the best
>>> selling Indian music record."
>>>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_of_the_Valley
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 10:47 AM, nablusoss1008 <
>>> no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>>>


 Not only perhaps the best flutist today but also a long-time meditator
 and tireless champion of Maharishi Ghandarva Ved all over the world :-)

  

>>>
>>>
>>
>

[FairfieldLife] RE: Amanda Knox is Found Guilty Again

[s3raphita]

The fact that Knox was originally questioned without her lawyer being present 
will surely guarantee that no US authority would consent to her being sent back 
to Italy. 
 I was wondering what would happen if her lover Raffaele Sollecito was able to 
sneak into the USA and claim asylum. He's an Italian citizen but could the US 
send him back while at the same time denying the Italians' request for Knox? 
Gotta feel sorry for the guy if he serves decades in prison while Foxy leads a 
normal life.

[FairfieldLife] Nobody is missing.

[srijau]

anyone who talks about missing people here is just showing what an ass they 
are. No-one is missing. If your parents know where you are then you are not 
missing. It is another manufactured scandal about nothing.

[FairfieldLife] RE: Jerry Seinfeld talks Transcendental Meditation at David Lynch Foundation Gala

[srijau]

I was at this one. You sure do not get much to eat for $1000. Seinfeld was fun 
though.

[FairfieldLife] RE: Those who reject superstition are displaying extra brain power

[s3raphita]

Re "Don't act like it doesn't happen and that long term TM practice and esp. 
long term TMSP practice is not a factor.":

 

 Totally agree with you. Of course, the problem with issues like this is that 
if anyone claims TM has such-and-such benefits, or alternatively that TM causes 
this-and-that problems, the only way to empirically resolve the issue is to 
have a large sample of people who learn TM and another sample who don't. Make 
sure the two groups are more-or-less matched for other features - age, status, 
mental health, money issues, etc. Then follow the two groups over the years and 
see what benefits or disasters occur that are statistically significant. 
Anything else is just anecdotal. You also have to rule out the 
horse-before-the-cart fallacies: do people who learn TM show a greater tendency 
to stop using drugs thanks to regularly experiencing pure consciousness? Or is 
it the case that those who display the discipline necessary to stop using drugs 
and take up a regular practice of meditation are statistically more likely to 
continue abstaining?
 I'm pretty sure that for some sensitive individuals, taking up TM could have 
undesirable psychological consequences.

[FairfieldLife] Those who reject Spirituality display extra Cognition Inhibition

[dhamiltony2k5]

MJ, I can't speak for you or your friends poor or sad experiences. I am glad 
that you can allow for the possibility of my own satisfying experience with it 
all. My experience with the TM Movement and around Maharishi has been one of 
quite satisfying spirituality. Possibly though when I began at an early age I 
was never enmeshed as a devotee but rather as just a practitioner and 
participant that way and not much dependent on the organization other than for 
its facilitating meditating and group meditations. All along it either worked 
or if it would have not then I would have moved on. That may well have been in 
the nature of my whole Iowa upbringing, different from others background.  
 But in the meantime we all did a lot of large and great things with TM. Like 
dragging science in to spirituality. As a transcendentalism movement we were 
successful leaving a foot print on larger culture for all the campaigning we 
did at a time out on the front line. It was revolutionary. I was glad to have 
been on the 'long march' with Maharishi in his time. You can't take that away 
from us for all of your blanket carping. We do share a brother-hood as 
transcendentalists and Fairfield is still a fabulous place to live for its 
being a meditator's place. It's a highly spiritual place and the MUM University 
here is still a visionary's place to go to school along with others of like 
high-mind. I'd go to school there. It is a place and an organization to be 
proud of even now.
 

 
 Which would you rather experience: living the paradox or understanding it to 
your satisfaction? 
 

 
 I am here to plead Maharishi's cause with you. I plead not for his life, but 
for his character — his immortal life; and so it becomes your cause wholly, and 
is not his in the least. Some twenty-one hundred years ago Christ was 
crucified; this morning, perchance, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was hung again by 
someone on FairfieldLife at Yahoo-Groups. These are the two ends of a chain 
which is not without its links. He is not Old Maharishi any longer; he is an 
angel of light.
 !Jai Maharishi Mahesh Yogi!
 -Buck in the Dome
 
 

 

[FairfieldLife] RE: Invincibility for Germany

[j_alexander_stanley]

http://vimeo.com/4201441 http://vimeo.com/4201441

 

 That is all.
 

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

 I was watching part of David Wants to Fly tonight - haven't seen it in a while 
and noticed that Raja Emmanuel says that all 80 million Germans will live in 
harmony if one thousand yogic flyers meditate at the same time in one place in 
Germany. 
 
 Well that doesn't seem to big a task for the Movement - surely it can supply a 
thousand yogic flyers to that country - let's see it, let's see the results.

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Country Chuckles

[Richard Williams]

"If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car
payments." - Will Rogers


On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 7:39 AM, Richard Williams wrote:

> "It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities
> without your help."- Will Rogers
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 6:49 AM, Share Long  wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Another great Will Rogers quote, Richard, thanks
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>   On Friday, January 31, 2014 7:51 PM, Richard Williams <
>> pundits...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>  "It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a
>> warning to others."- Will Rogers
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Share Long wrote:
>>
>>
>>  Wonderful, LOL, thanks Richard. Thanks to Will too (-:
>>
>>
>>
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>>   On Friday, January 31, 2014 9:22 AM, Richard Williams <
>> pundits...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>  "Never test the depth of the water with both feet." - Will Rogers
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>> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 8:39 AM, Richard Williams 
>> wrote:
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>> "Don't be irreplaceable. If you can't be replaced, you can't be
>> promoted."- Will Rogers
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>> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 7:28 PM, Richard Williams 
>> wrote:
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>> "It's always darkest before dawn. So if you're going to steal your
>> neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it." - Will Rogers
>>
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>> On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 5:37 PM, Richard Williams 
>> wrote:
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>> In case you are worried about what is going to become of the younger
>> generation, it is going to grow up and start worrying about the younger
>> generation.
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>> On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 8:13 AM, Richard Williams 
>> wrote:
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>> "Always remember you're unique. Just like everyone else."- Will Rogers
>>
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>> On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 9:27 AM, Richard J. Williams > > wrote:
>>
>> On 1/7/2014 6:01 PM, Richard Williams wrote:
>>
>> "The journey of a thousand miles begins with a broken fan belt and a
>> leaky tire." - Will Rogers
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[FairfieldLife] MMY on Bhagavad Gita

[Richard Williams]

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi On The Bhagavad-Gita - Chapter 7, Verse 20.

"kamais tais tair hrta-jañah
prapadyante 'nya-devatah
tam tam niyamam asthya
prakrtya niyatah svay"

"*Those whose knowledge has been carried away by this or that desire resort
to other Gods, observing this or that rule, led by their own nature*" (B.G.
7 v 20).

[image: Inline image 2]

MMY 1965 unpublished photo

MMY photo, large, high resolution, suitable for framing 8 x 10:

http://www.rwilliams.us/archives/images/maharishi_large.jpg

In his commentary of Chapter 7, verse 20, Maharishi makes the distinction
between all the different Laws of Nature (Gods) that individually promote
different streams of relative life and evolution as compared to the Home of
all these Laws of Nature --- the ultimate basis and all encompassing
WHOLENESS (Transcendental Pure Consciousness --- the Self) which is more
than the collection of parts.

Maharishi's commentary on Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 7, Verse 20:

The sequence of words is important.

Contentment is gained by resorting to Being, desires are fulfilled by
resorting to different Gods*. Gods are pleased through specific channels**
of observances, and modes of observances may be selected according to one's
own nature. This shows that there are various ways to please one God.

Here the contrast is between resorting to Me and resorting to Gods. This
verse shows how going through various desires one takes 'many births', as
stated in the previous verse.

Those for whom the goal of life is obscure keep themselves engaged in the
activity of maintaining life. They see not why and for what life is to be
maintained. All their intelligence and strength is used for the purpose of
amassing more comforts of  life, and their desires are concentrated on what
will bring them greater material glories. In their attempt to fulfill their
increasing desires, they turn to higher powers in Nature and follow the
prescribed rites and ways to win their blessings. 'This or that rule' means
some specific rites prescribed by the scriptures.

'As different men have different likes and dislikes, so also different
Gods, or higher powers in Nature, have their own tastes, their own likes
and dislikes.. The rites that are prescribed in the scriptures to please a
certain God are set forth according to the nature of that God. Following
those rites, the devotees of Gods receive blessings to fulfill their
desires.

'Knowledge has been carried away' means Self Consciousness and Divine
Consciousness, has been distorted, transcendental Self Consciousness has
been replaced 'by this or that desire'. The teaching is that desire
distorts the state of Being. Thinking and desiring are opposed to the state
of Being. The state of Transcendental Consciousness, or the state of Being,
which is gained during Transcendental Meditation, is disturbed when the
mind comes out in some thought. What one thinks is immaterial in this case.
It is the rising of a thought that brings the mind out of that state of
Pure Consciousness. That is why the Lord says 'this or that desire'. Even
if one thinks of God it is a thought, and with this thought the mind comes
out of Pure Consciousness. So the teaching is that desire or thought takes
one out of one's essential divine nature.

Another teaching that is implied here is that it is not an arbitrary
principle that desire inevitably forces the mind out of the inner divine
nature of transcendental Self Consciousness. It is not true for everyone
that knowledge is led away by this or that desire. To give this idea the
Lord says 'those whose knowledge...'. This means there may be those whose
knowledge is not carried away by desires. They are those for whom the state
of transcendental Self Consciousness, or Being, is so concentratedly
infused into the nature of their minds that even when they are out in the
field of thought and action their consciousness is held by Being.

In this state they may entertain this or that desire and engage themselves
in any activity. They may even undertake to worship other Gods, but they
will not lose their eternal freedom in Divine Consciousness.

This verse does not mean to condemn desires and worship of other Gods
according to one's 'own nature'; it only deplores the state of mind of
those who have not gained a firm fixity of Being and who have not secured
for themselves a steadfast state of Being --- who are like those who plunge
into water without knowing how to swim.

'Safety first' should be the principle of everyone's life. The depth of the
pond will swallow anyone who is unaware of how to maintain oneself on the
surface..

The world of desire and action will rob anyone of his natural state of
divine bliss if he has not equipped himself with the knowledge and
experience of Being, which alone is capable of maintaining his state of
divine freedom in his life in the world.

* Maharishi brings to light that the Vedic Devata [Gods] are the Laws of
Nature that administer the entire universe and maint

[FairfieldLife] RE: Secret Doctrines

[emptybill]

Junior High level philosophy. 
Wiki punditry. 

 Embarrassing half-baked knowledge.
 

 "Against the Buddhist Subjective idealists (Vijñanavadin-s), who denied the 
existence of the external world, Shankara urges a number of arguments, the 
first and strongest among which is that we must admit the existence of what we 
actually perceive. If anyone has any suspicion that Shankara was a subjective 
idealist himself, let that be laid to rest here. In fact, he almost stoops to 
sarcasm when he suggests that we should no more pay heed to to a man who, while 
perceiving external things with his senses, denies their existence than believe 
the report of a man who, while eating and experiencing the feeling of 
satisfaction, avers that he does not do so. Strange as it may sound, mâyâvâda 
implies a very strong affirmation of the reality of the world. In this respect 
it goes as far as empiricism would want to go. No empiricist  ever ascribes 
absolute reality to the world in any case."

 Hermeneurtical Essays on Vedântic Topics, John G. Arapura
Professor Emeritus, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
  

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

 So, let's review what we know: 

 These days almost nobody can read and understand the Sanskrit scriptures so 
it's a really good thing that somebody can elucidate what the ancients were 
talking about. According to what I've reaed, there is a close affinity between 
Advaita Vedanta and Yogacara Buddhism. This has been noted by many scholars and 
historians due to the fact that the BS (Brahma Sutras) seem to indicate that 
Badarayana may have been a pantheistic realist. This is certainly what Ramanuja 
and Madhva seemed to have believed - that a dualist or quasi-dualist (dwaita 
and/or vasisit-advaita) reading is possible from BS. 
 

 Are we agreed so far?
 

 According to Werner, "Their theory of Maya emerges from their belief in 
experiential reality of the absolute consciousness 'Brahman' (as emphasized in 
Upanishads), as opposed to Buddhist doctrine of emptiness, which emerges from 
the Buddhist approach of observing the nature of reality." The Upanishads were 
composed by transcendentalists, that is, the authors all believed in the 
existence of an Absolute, which was beyond or transcendental to, the world of 
the senses. According to what I've read, all the Upanishads were authored after 
the passing of the historical Buddha. 
 

 Shankara taught that through direct knowledge one could realize Brahman. He 
taught that it was only through direct knowledge that one could realize 
Brahman. Vasabandhu taught that yoga is a direct knowledge experienced as 
emptiness - there is a co-dependency and non-origination. Werner says, "A 
perception of the fact that the object seen is a rope will remove the fear and 
sorrow which result from the illusory idea that it is a snake". Cited from 
Shankara's "Vivekachuudaamani" verse #12/a metaphor that was borrowed from 
Yogacara Buddhist thinkers, who used it in a different context." 
 

 Works cited:
 

 'The Yogi and the Mystic'
 Karel Werner
 Routledge, 1995, 
 p. 67.
 

 'Sankaracarya'
 by S. Vidyasankar
 http://www.advaita-vedanta.org/avhp/sankara.html 
http://www.advaita-vedanta.org/avhp/sankara.html
 

 

 On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 7:31 AM, mailto:emptybill@...> wrote:
   Yer so right. 

"Let's review what we know."

Yep, there's nothing here to know and apparently you got nothing out of it.
 
"Are we agreed so far?".

Yep, we all agree - nothing here in the beginning, the  middle or the end..

 

[FairfieldLife] Invincibility for Germany

[Michael Jackson]

I was watching part of David Wants to Fly tonight - haven't seen it in a while 
and noticed that Raja Emmanuel says that all 80 million Germans will live in 
harmony if one thousand yogic flyers meditate at the same time in one place in 
Germany. 

Well that doesn't seem to big a task for the Movement - surely it can supply a 
thousand yogic flyers to that country - let's see it, let's see the results.

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[FairfieldLife] Why a Jyotish Ring Works

[jr_esq]

IMO, it has something to do with expectation.  Human consciousness has a way of 
determining the outcome of events.  It can be done through sheer hard work and 
will power.  But the subconscious mind also influences the outcome of events. 
 

 Further, in scientific terms, the human consciousness is above the dimensions 
of space and time.  As such, nature follows the desire of the knower.
 

 

Re: [FairfieldLife] Missing Pundits

[Michael Jackson]

Thank you for posting this. I appreciate it. You notice that all those who were 
claiming there are no missing pundits are silent on your post. 

On Sat, 2/1/14, Zoran Krneta  wrote:

 Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Missing Pundits
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Date: Saturday, February 1, 2014, 3:30 PM
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
   
   
   They never got what Movement
 promised them especially payments, I remember one pundit, he
 was a good one, you could saw him on most broadcasts in the
 time of Global Country inauguration, he had family, he
 complained again and again about the money, finally he was
 paid in Raams which is useless and unrecognized currency.
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Those who reject superstition are displaying extra brain power

[Michael Jackson]

My comments about his character and actions ARE just. He was a sexual 
opportunist, took money under false pretenses and created a big fat 
organization that has told innumerable lies over the decades it has existed. 
While there are those like you who are satisfied with their personal practice, 
there are many others who have had serious mental/emotional problems and there 
are many, many more than most people think who are long term meditators who 
have committed suicide and tried to commit suicide. And you want me to fawn all 
over the dead leader? No thanks. Before anyone starts squalling about the 
suicide comments, I have been talking to several people who have family members 
who are TM suicide survivors and who know others who did it successfully, so 
don't act like it doesn't happen and that long term TM practice and esp. long 
term TMSP practice is not a factor.

On Sat, 2/1/14, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com  wrote:

 Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: Those who reject superstition are displaying 
extra brain power
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Date: Saturday, February 1, 2014, 8:55 PM

 Dear Anartaxius,  
 Somehow we must deal with this “Cognitive Inhibition” problem
 which so evidently is at the root of so much skepticism around some
 certain things so good that it obstructs a positive consensus about
 our history and where we could together go.I do
 not wish to force my thoughts upon you or anyone else, but
 I feel forced myself.  Little as I know of Maharishi Mahesh
 Yogi, I
 would fain do my part to correct the tone and the statements
 of the
 newspapers and newsgroups, and of our FFL people here
 generally,
 respecting his character and actions. It costs us nothing to
 be just.
 We can at least express our sympathy with, and admiration
 of, him and
 his companions, and that is what I now propose to
 do.Sincerely,  -Buck
 in the
 Dome
 
 
 
 Science
 Discovers A Clear and Present Spiritual Danger:  Too
 Damned much
 “Cognitive Inhibition”.
 
 
 
 So,
 the practical take-away from this research is that skeptics
 here
 suffer from “Cognitive Inhibition”. Too damned much
 “Cognitive
 Inhibition” evidently is a very sad state of diagnosis
 frequently
 leading to spiritual depression such like we see expressed
 so often
 on FFL. More research is needed on this condition to be able
 to
 protect people from the deleterious effects of this
 dangerous state
 in their spiritual lives.
 
 
 
 "A
 recent issue of Social Cognitive and Affective
 Neuroscience (via BPS Research
 Digest)
 suggests
 that skeptics possess greater powers of cognitive
 inhibition.
 
 
 
 Our
 brains evidently infer greater meaning from random events in
 an
 instinctual way.
 
 
 
 "Cognitive
 inhibition, that is, suppressing or overriding spontaneously
 occurring mental processes, may thus be the mechanism that,
 when
 working efficiently, controls our natural intuitions and
 explains why
 supernatural interpretations seem so natural for some people
 and yet
 others find them quite
 strange," 
 
 
 
 There
 are caveats involved. In this case, since creativity also
 relies
 on reduced cognitive inhibition (introducing the
 mind to
 new ideas), it's possible that believer brain activity
 was just the
 creative process in motion. A larger lingering question is
 why (and
 how) people can shift from believer to skeptic and
 back."
 
 
 
 Turquoiseb posts: 
 http://www.fastcodesign.com/3025750/evidence/the-neuroscience-of-superstition 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Anartaxius
 writes:
 
 All I did was cut
 and paste Yahoo guidelines, as Buck had mentioned them. What
 does that have to do with what Judy wrote to Buck? I was
 curious about the Yahoo guidelines because I had never read
 them until now. As text, the format of the guidelines did
 not paste in well, but they are still readable. Because Judy
 seems to know what I was thinking at the time, perhaps, in
 an independent post (so she does not have to lie as much),
 she can give more details of my misunderstanding of what she
 claims is my take on what she wrote to Buck. It seems to me
 that Buck's interpretation of the Yahoo guidelines is
 not entirely clear of the mark. My take on Buck's
 concern is that generally I think he would be over
 censorious in instituting content and language
 controls..
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

[FairfieldLife] RE: Amanda Knox is Found Guilty Again

[authfriend]

From what I can gather from the rather confusing stories, what you're calling a 
"second appeal" was actually a retrial. If that's correct, there were two 
trials, although some stories seem to be calling the first appeal a trial as 
well, making a total of three. Who knows if the reporters have any idea what 
they're talking about with regard to the Italian justice system?
 
 From what I remember of the news reports, she was not tried again in Italy. 
She was tried and convicted, then the verdict was overturned on appeal, but 
then there was a second appeal, which reaffirmed the guilty verdict. I haven't 
checked it, but I think that's what happened. 

 

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

 If she was here in the US, she would not have been retried again due to a 
double jeopardy rule.  But apparently this rule doesn't work in Italy.  She has 
no choice but to fight the extradition request that will soon come from the 
Italian court system.  And she can't flee anywhere in the world to hide because 
she is now infamous, whether she likes it or not. 

 Astrologically, she is undergoing a very difficult phase in her life.  She is 
running the period of the Sun, which is both the lord of the 64th navamsa and 
the Atmakaraka.
 

 If she has not already done so, she should be take up meditation to get her 
through this difficult situation.
 

 
http://news.yahoo.com/knox-39-judge-says-suffered-over-guilty-verdict-155312133.html
 
http://news.yahoo.com/knox-39-judge-says-suffered-over-guilty-verdict-155312133.html

 

[FairfieldLife] RE: All About Sadhus and Yogis

[emptybill]

The pundito doesn't want to understand deeply and expansively.
Rather he wants to appear "knowledgeable" and "o-so erudite". 

Professor P-Dog apparently equates humility with humiliation. 
No other explanation for such repeated, intractable behavior.

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: All About Sadhus and Yogis

[Bhairitu]

I've recommended that trilogy several times to the great pundito but it 
seemed to fall on blind eyes. And Svoboda is even of all things  a 
Texan!  Hart DeFouw used to give "Robbie" a hard time about that. :-D


On 02/01/2014 01:59 PM, emptyb...@yahoo.com wrote:


The usual half-baked information from the "professor".

You should try reading the Aghora series by Svaboda.
Perhaps that might help you not embarrass your self so much.

[FairfieldLife] File - FFL Acronyms

[FairfieldLife]

BC - Brahman Consciousness
BN - Bliss Ninny or Bliss Nazi
CC - Cosmic Consciousness
GC - God Consciousness
MMY - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
OTP - Off the Program - a phrase used in the TM movement meaning to do 
something (such as see another spiritual teacher) considered in violation of 
Maharishi's program.
POV - Point of View
SBS - Swami Brahmananda Saraswati, Maharishi's master
SCI – Science of Creative Intelligence
SOC - State of Consciousness
SSRS - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (Pundit-ji)
SV - Stpathya Ved (Vedic Architecture)
TB - True Believer (in TM doctrines)
TNB - True Non-Believer
TMO - The Transcendental Meditation organization
TTC – TM Teacher Training Course
UC - Unity Consciousness
WYMS - "World Youth Meditation Society" later changed to "World Youth Movement 
for the Science of Creative Intelligence" was founded by Peter Hübner in 
Germany, as a national TM outlet competing with SIMS, Students International 
Meditation Society
YMMV = Your Mileage may vary




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Re: [FairfieldLife] The Seahawks’ Superbowl A dvantage

[Bhairitu]

Jr_esq sez:
"The SuperBowl has become an annual ritual for the American culture, 
which is comparable to a religious revival."


Which shows you how low this country has sunk.  It's a wonder we haven't 
been mandated to watch it.  Years ago it was one of my favorite days to 
catch a movie but last time I tried that there were plenty of other 
folks doing the same thing so it was no longer an advantage.


Regardless of whether you feel that Alex Jones is a nutter or not he has 
a pretty good video report on who the real winners of the Super Bowl 
are.  And it is certainly not a Libertarian take nor a conservative 
Republican take on it either.

http://www.infowars.com/winner-of-super-bowl-48-announced/

On 02/01/2014 01:42 PM, jr_...@yahoo.com wrote:


Bhairitu,


The SuperBowl has become an annual ritual for the American culture, 
which is comparable to a religious revival.  But this year, a new 
factor has been introduced to the equation, which makes it more like 
the Kumbha Mela of India.  Specifically, the two cities representing 
the contestants have residents who legally smoke bhong for recreation. 
 Whether they know it or not, smoking bhong is considered a religious 
worship of Shiva.



As such, I believe the winning team will have the signs of Shiva on 
the team or its logo.  Since two of the key players wear their hair in 
dreadlocks, I'm picking the Seahawks to win.

[FairfieldLife] RE: All About Sadhus and Yogis

[emptybill]

The usual half-baked information from the "professor".

You should try reading the Aghora series by Svaboda. 
Perhaps that might help you not embarrass your self so much.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Those who reject superstition are displaying extra brain power

[Michael Jackson]

Funny I should read your take on my comment at this moment - I just re-read the 
post about the ice linga (so called) and wondered who the heck had the 
privilege of escorting the purusha guys upstairs and point out the icicle to 
them - I wondered if he was able to maintain a straight face when he told them 
what it was.

And the pundits did puja to an icicle??? Jesus Christ - what a bunch of maroons 
as Bugs Bunny would say. And TM ain't no religion - offerings to an icicle???

It makes my earlier experience of today so much more precious, satisfying and 
fulfilling. I dropped by a friend's house and met a woman and her teen age son 
who is hot to attend MUM next year since it is "consciousness based education" 
They had done the visitors weekend and everything. 

By the time I finished filling them in on real TM and TMO reality, they both 
decided it would be better if he went elsewhere to get an education. Score a 
victory for the forces of wisdom and common sense. Hurray! Hoorahh!

On Sat, 2/1/14, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com  wrote:

 Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Those who reject superstition are displaying 
extra brain power
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Date: Saturday, February 1, 2014, 3:15 PM
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
   
   
   Son, you got way too much “Cognitive
 Inhibition” for your own good.There is a point at
 which someone like
 you will get himself isolated fromthe general
 population for the extreme
 asocial-like behaviour that this presents.  I
 amgetting worried about the level of your
 skepticism for your own good and possibly 
 all of us as a community here. 
 According to the research this does not seem healthy.
  Rick, keep an eye on this guy.  We
 may have to bring in the Yahoo-Groups
 GuidelinesAdministration to protect ourselves and
 the community here,-Buck
 
 
 Science Discovers A Clear
 and Present Spiritual Danger:  Too Damned much
 “Cognitive
 Inhibition”. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 mjackson74
 writess:
 
 So the gist of the tale
 is that the Mighty Thousand Headed Purusha arrived at the
 Old Goat's house and a Hindu god showed his pleasure by
 letting his dick appear in ice for all to see. so miracles
 do exist.
 
 
 
 God Almighty Damn. You have to hear/see it to believe such
 crap exists.
 
 
  On Sat, 2/1/14, TurquoiseB 
 wrote:
 
 
 
 Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Those who reject superstition
 are displaying extra brain power
 
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 
 Date: Saturday, February 1, 2014, 12:37 PM
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,
 Michael Jackson 
 
 wrote:
 
 >
 
 > Can you expand on the icicle event? I have never heard
 
 that story.
 
 
 
 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/158523 
 
 
 
 > 
 
 > On Sat, 2/1/14, TurquoiseB turquoiseb@... wrote:
 
 > 
 
 >  Subject: [FairfieldLife] Those who reject
 superstition
 
 are displaying extra brain power
 
 >  To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 
 >  Date: Saturday, February 1, 2014, 11:49 AM
 
 > 
 
 >Remember the talk of
 
 >  "omens" when a couple of birds attacked the
 
 >  Pope's "peace doves?" Remember when
 
 Maharishi
 
 >  mistook an icicle on his balcony for Shiva? 
 
 >  
 
 >  New research suggests that the brains of many people
 
 are
 
 >  naturally susceptible to projecting meaning onto
 
 meaningless
 
 >  events and considering them omens. Unless their
 brains
 
 are
 
 >  working more efficiently, that is, and exercising
 
 cognitive
 
 >  inhibition. 
 
 >  
 
 >  
 > http://www.fastcodesign.com/3025750/evidence/the-neuroscience-of-superstition
 >  
 
 > 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Re: [FairfieldLife] The Seahawks’ Superbowl A dvantage

[jr_esq]

Bhairitu,
 

 The SuperBowl has become an annual ritual for the American culture, which is 
comparable to a religious revival.  But this year, a new factor has been 
introduced to the equation, which makes it more like the Kumbha Mela of India.  
Specifically, the two cities representing the contestants have residents who 
legally smoke bhong for recreation.  Whether they know it or not, smoking bhong 
is considered a religious worship of Shiva.
 

 As such, I believe the winning team will have the signs of Shiva on the team 
or its logo.  Since two of the key players wear their hair in dreadlocks, I'm 
picking the Seahawks to win.
 

 

 

 

[FairfieldLife] Wiccan circle of Philoshophy - map-chart

[Jason]

The Wiccan circle of Philoshophy - map-chart



 
[https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-kM7UUDe2hWY/Uu1cBoV0IFI/A1g/\
Q6qTb8pvcPI/s785/Circle_of_Philosophy_1.jpg]

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-kM7UUDe2hWY/Uu1cBoV0IFI/A1g/Q\
6qTb8pvcPI/s785/Circle_of_Philosophy_1.jpg

[FairfieldLife] Most Twipular TMer in this world?

[cardemaister]

https://twitter.com/katyperry https://twitter.com/katyperry

[FairfieldLife] RE: Those who reject superstition are displaying extra brain power

[dhamiltony2k5]

Dear Dear Anartaxius, 
 Somehow we must deal with this “Cognitive Inhibition” problem which so 
evidently is at the root of so much skepticism around some certain things so 
good that it obstructs a positive consensus about our history and where we 
could together go.
 I do not wish to force my thoughts upon you or anyone else, but I feel forced 
myself. Little as I know of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, I would fain do my part to 
correct the tone and the statements of the newspapers and newsgroups, and of 
our FFL people here generally, respecting his character and actions. It costs 
us nothing to be just. We can at least express our sympathy with, and 
admiration of, him and his companions, and that is what I now propose to do.
 Sincerely, 
  -Buck in the Dome
 

 
 Science Discovers A Clear and Present Spiritual Danger:  Too Damned much 
“Cognitive Inhibition”.
 
 
 So, the practical take-away from this research is that skeptics here suffer 
from “Cognitive Inhibition”. Too damned much “Cognitive Inhibition” evidently 
is a very sad state of diagnosis frequently leading to spiritual depression 
such like we see expressed so often on FFL. More research is needed on this 
condition to be able to protect people from the deleterious effects of this 
dangerous state in their spiritual lives.
 
 
 "A recent issue of Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (via BPS 
Research Digest)
 suggests that skeptics possess greater powers of cognitive inhibition.
 
 
 Our brains evidently infer greater meaning from random events in an 
instinctual way.
 
 
 "Cognitive inhibition, that is, suppressing or overriding spontaneously 
occurring mental processes, may thus be the mechanism that, when working 
efficiently, controls our natural intuitions and explains why supernatural 
interpretations seem so natural for some people and yet others find them quite 
strange," 
 
 
 There are caveats involved. In this case, since creativity also relies on 
reduced cognitive inhibition (introducing the mind to new ideas), it's possible 
that believer brain activity was just the creative process in motion. A larger 
lingering question is why (and how) people can shift from believer to skeptic 
and back."
 

 
 Turquoiseb posts: 
http://www.fastcodesign.com/3025750/evidence/the-neuroscience-of-superstition 
http://www.fastcodesign.com/3025750/evidence/the-neuroscience-of-superstition 
 
 


 Anartaxius writes:

 

 All I did was cut and paste Yahoo guidelines, as Buck had mentioned them. What 
does that have to do with what Judy wrote to Buck? I was curious about the 
Yahoo guidelines because I had never read them until now. As text, the format 
of the guidelines did not paste in well, but they are still readable. Because 
Judy seems to know what I was thinking at the time, perhaps, in an independent 
post (so she does not have to lie as much), she can give more details of my 
misunderstanding of what she claims is my take on what she wrote to Buck. It 
seems to me that Buck's interpretation of the Yahoo guidelines is not entirely 
clear of the mark. My take on Buck's concern is that generally I think he would 
be over censorious in instituting content and language controls.
 .

[FairfieldLife] RE: Amanda Knox is Found Guilty Again

[feste37]

From what I remember of the news reports, she was not tried again in Italy. She 
was tried and convicted, then the verdict was overturned on appeal, but then 
there was a second appeal, which reaffirmed the guilty verdict. I haven't 
checked it, but I think that's what happened. 

 

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

 If she was here in the US, she would not have been retried again due to a 
double jeopardy rule.  But apparently this rule doesn't work in Italy.  She has 
no choice but to fight the extradition request that will soon come from the 
Italian court system.  And she can't flee anywhere in the world to hide because 
she is now infamous, whether she likes it or not. 

 Astrologically, she is undergoing a very difficult phase in her life.  She is 
running the period of the Sun, which is both the lord of the 64th navamsa and 
the Atmakaraka.
 

 If she has not already done so, she should be take up meditation to get her 
through this difficult situation.
 

 
http://news.yahoo.com/knox-39-judge-says-suffered-over-guilty-verdict-155312133.html
 
http://news.yahoo.com/knox-39-judge-says-suffered-over-guilty-verdict-155312133.html

 

Re: [FairfieldLife] The Seahawks’ Superbowl Advantage

[Bhairitu]

We should call it the "Police State Bowl" because of all the security 
they have put in place.  It's a wonder they just don't have a cage for 
each person and you step into it and then are wheel to where you seat 
would have been and you aren't released until after the game.  It would 
be tough for those with weak bladders.


It's also a cash cow for Frito-Lay, Nabisco and the pizza companies.  I 
was also thinking this morning as I heard the local pizza guy talking 
about the Super Bowl party at his restaurant. With more and more people 
cutting the cable and having no way to watch the game streaming then 
watching at restaurants and sports bars is going to be a bigger venue.


Me, I never watched the thing anyway.  It's just the big bread and 
circus for the year.


On 02/01/2014 06:47 AM, nablusoss1008 wrote:



http://www.normanrosenthal.com/blog/2014/01/seahawks-yoga-meditation/

[FairfieldLife] Amanda Knox is Found Guilty Again

[jr_esq]

If she was here in the US, she would not have been retried again due to a 
double jeopardy rule.  But apparently this rule doesn't work in Italy.  She has 
no choice but to fight the extradition request that will soon come from the 
Italian court system.  And she can't flee anywhere in the world to hide because 
she is now infamous, whether she likes it or not. 
 

 Astrologically, she is undergoing a very difficult phase in her life.  She is 
running the period of the Sun, which is both the lord of the 64th navamsa and 
the Atmakaraka.
 

 If she has not already done so, she should be take up meditation to get her 
through this difficult situation.
 

 
http://news.yahoo.com/knox-39-judge-says-suffered-over-guilty-verdict-155312133.html
 
http://news.yahoo.com/knox-39-judge-says-suffered-over-guilty-verdict-155312133.html

 

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Deploying Meditators for Peace

[Bhairitu]

I don't know about it being a myth but because alcohol thins the blood 
it might actually improve blood flow to the brain.  Probably another 
reason why some red wine daily is not a bad idea unless you're too kapha 
for it.


I'm not much into drinking probably because it was not a mystery to me 
as I was growing up.  My dad would come home from work and open a beer.  
He would occasionally grab a shot glass and give me a little of even 
before I was in grade school.  At the yearly Christmas gathering I might 
be asked if I would like a creme de menthe or a tom and jerry.  Both 
would have a little alcohol in them.  These days CPS might be called on 
parents who do that.  How stupid!


Also my kapha nature keeps me from wanting to "dull down".  I can 
understand those who are antsy wanting to calm down with alcohol. I 
prefer to come alive with coffee or spice tea instead.  Society needs to 
understand the two extremes.


On 02/01/2014 11:11 AM, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com wrote:





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

noozguru, I read once that1 ounce of alcohol kills 10,000 brain cells. 
Forever! I figure I need all the ones I have left!


That is a myth.



On Friday, January 31, 2014 3:57 PM, Bhairitu  wrote:
A lot of people drink occasionally for social reasons.  It loosens the 
tongue and in general can make folks a little more pleasant to be 
around (not counting those whose over indulgence turns them in to 
belligerent and often violent ass holes).  However MADD did a good job 
of getting rid of the drinking social scene and probably are partly 
responsible for the reclusive "online" socializing we have in the 
Internet age.


On 01/31/2014 12:33 PM, TurquoiseB wrote:

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

>
> People drink to transcend self, to get away from the image of 
themselves. So in that sense, that activity is the same as 
transcending in TM. The small self is transcended when you pass out, 
the activity of drinking ceases.


*/I would say instead, whether it relates to whiskey, or drugs, or 
meditative experience, that the "transcendence" is achieved long 
before the point of passing out. All that is really necessary for 
many psychic wanderers in search of the transcendental experience, is 
the *shift* of awareness from one localized plane of awareness to 
another. /*


*/In Castanedan terms, one "shifts one's state of attention," 
allowing the self access to other, congruent, states of attention. 
Alcohol can do this, drugs can do this, mediation can do this, and 
even *intent* can do this. You just declare internally that you're 
sick and tired of the same old same old way you've been seeing 
things, and just shift to a new way of seeing things. /*


> If an automobile comes to rest and stops moving, does that make it 
more self sufficient? The whole idea of an automobile is 
self-sufficiency in motion.


*/And, according to some supposed sages, the whole idea of the "human 
being" is that it is most "in touch" with the Tao or the flow of life 
when it is in motion. Stasis inhibits this flow. Movement encourages it.

/*
> This play on words has limits. Self-sufficiency on an individual 
level is defined as the condition or quality of being adequate or 
sufficient on the level of a person's essential being that 
distinguishes them from others.


*/Or even if it doesn't. I don't necessarily see "inability to 
perceive otherness" as an indicator of self-sufficiency. I can 
envision people (to limit things to MMY's 7 states) in CC being 
self-sufficient, or in GC being self-sufficient, or in UC being 
self-sufficient. Theoretically, in this latter SoC the perceiver no 
longer makes the distinction between "self" and "other," but that 
does not necessarily -- in my view, at least -- imply 
self-sufficiency. Only self-sufficiency implies self-sufficiency, not 
the SoC one brings to it. /*


> When talking about enlightenment, this is not what it means, though 
independence may be a by product of changes in experience. With the 
big E the sense of individuality is reduced or eliminated and the 
small self is replaced with the experience of continuity and intimacy 
of all things, a practical death of the ego-sense.


*/At times. And then, unless one's experience was sudden and from 
that point on never-changing (unlike mine), things keep changing. 
Some days, no individuality, no self. Other days, nothing but self. 
Still other days, no-self congruent with self. So which of these is 
"highest," or "best?" My suspicion is none of them./*


> The small self may also be extinguished by being a drunk which 
often leads to death, but that is probably not such a cool 
experience, the part leading up to death, that is.


*/Better than dying of pancreatic cancer after a life of abstinence, 
given the testimony of friends who have departed from this world 
using both of those methods./*


> Turq's comments about those uber expensive whiskeys rev

[FairfieldLife] RE: Those who reject superstition are displaying extra brain power

[authfriend]

As Xeno knows, I do not lie.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Those who reject superstition are displaying extra brain power

[Bhairitu]

So says a bunch of folks who have only developed the intellect and not 
intuition.  Plus the "superstitious beliefs" they were looking at were 
western in nature.  They would probably also think that people using 
Sanskrit mantras to meditate are "praying to superstitious gods."  ROTFL!


Thing is, like astrology, long documented omens from classical Indian 
philosophy often play out.  And the reason they do may have to do with 
the connectedness of everything which is way beyond the understanding of 
those with overstimulated intellects.  The philosophy may be the 
fragments for sciences of a long lost civilization for all we know.


It's always fun to see if these things play out.

On 02/01/2014 03:49 AM, TurquoiseB wrote:


*/Remember the talk of "omens" when a couple of birds attacked the 
Pope's "peace doves?" Remember when Maharishi mistook an icicle on his 
balcony for Shiva?


New research suggests that the brains of many people are naturally 
susceptible to projecting meaning onto meaningless events and 
considering them omens. Unless their brains are working more 
efficiently, that is, and exercising cognitive inhibition.


/*

*/http://www.fastcodesign.com/3025750/evidence/the-neuroscience-of-superstition 
/*

[FairfieldLife] RE: Those who reject superstition are displaying extra brain power

[anartaxius]

All I did was cut and paste Yahoo guidelines, as Buck had mentioned them. What 
does that have to do with what Judy wrote to Buck? I was curious about the 
Yahoo guidelines because I had never read them until now. As text, the format 
of the guidelines did not paste in well, but they are still readable. Because 
Judy seems to know what I was thinking at the time, perhaps, in an independent 
post (so she does not have to lie as much), she can give more details of my 
misunderstanding of what she claims is my take on what she wrote to Buck. It 
seems to me that Buck's interpretation of the Yahoo guidelines is not entirely 
clear of the mark. My take on Buck's concern is that generally I think he would 
be over censorious in instituting content and language controls.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Deploying Meditators for Peace

[awoelflebater]

 

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

 noozguru, I read once that 1 ounce of alcohol kills 10,000 brain cells. 
Forever! I figure I need all the ones I have left!
 

 That is a myth.
 

 
 
 On Friday, January 31, 2014 3:57 PM, Bhairitu  wrote:
 
   
 A lot of people drink occasionally for social reasons.  It loosens the tongue 
and in general can make folks a little more pleasant to be around (not counting 
those whose over indulgence turns them in to belligerent and often violent ass 
holes).  However MADD did a good job of getting rid of the drinking social 
scene and probably are partly responsible for the reclusive "online" 
socializing we have in the Internet age.
  
 On 01/31/2014 12:33 PM, TurquoiseB wrote:
 
   --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 
wrote:
 >
 > People drink to transcend self, to get away from the image of themselves. So 
 > in that sense, that activity is the same as transcending in TM. The small 
 > self is transcended when you pass out, the activity of drinking ceases. 
 
 I would say instead, whether it relates to whiskey, or drugs, or meditative 
experience, that the "transcendence" is achieved long before the point of 
passing out. All that is really necessary for many psychic wanderers in search 
of the transcendental experience, is the *shift* of awareness from one 
localized plane of awareness to another. 
 
 In Castanedan terms, one "shifts one's state of attention," allowing the self 
access to other, congruent, states of attention. Alcohol can do this, drugs can 
do this, mediation can do this, and even *intent* can do this. You just declare 
internally that you're sick and tired of the same old same old way you've been 
seeing things, and just shift to a new way of seeing things. 
 
 > If an automobile comes to rest and stops moving, does that make it more self 
 > sufficient? The whole idea of an automobile is self-sufficiency in motion. 
 
 And, according to some supposed sages, the whole idea of the "human being" is 
that it is most "in touch" with the Tao or the flow of life when it is in 
motion. Stasis inhibits this flow. Movement encourages it. 
 
 > This play on words has limits. Self-sufficiency on an individual level is 
 > defined as the condition or quality of being adequate or sufficient on the 
 > level of a person's essential being that distinguishes them from others. 
 
 Or even if it doesn't. I don't necessarily see "inability to perceive 
otherness" as an indicator of self-sufficiency. I can envision people (to limit 
things to MMY's 7 states) in CC being self-sufficient, or in GC being 
self-sufficient, or in UC being self-sufficient. Theoretically, in this latter 
SoC the perceiver no longer makes the distinction between "self" and "other," 
but that does not necessarily -- in my view, at least -- imply 
self-sufficiency. Only self-sufficiency implies self-sufficiency, not the SoC 
one brings to it. 
 
 > When talking about enlightenment, this is not what it means, though 
 > independence may be a by product of changes in experience. With the big E 
 > the sense of individuality is reduced or eliminated and the small self is 
 > replaced with the experience of continuity and intimacy of all things, a 
 > practical death of the ego-sense. 
 
 At times. And then, unless one's experience was sudden and from that point on 
never-changing (unlike mine), things keep changing. Some days, no 
individuality, no self. Other days, nothing but self. Still other days, no-self 
congruent with self. So which of these is "highest," or "best?" My suspicion is 
none of them.
 
 > The small self may also be extinguished by being a drunk which often leads 
 > to death, but that is probably not such a cool experience, the part leading 
 > up to death, that is. 
 
 Better than dying of pancreatic cancer after a life of abstinence, given the 
testimony of friends who have departed from this world using both of those 
methods.
 
 > Turq's comments about those uber expensive whiskeys reveals a caste system 
 > for drunkeness. The super rich drunk can afford to wall themselves away from 
 > the world, private and in posh style, maybe in a fifty room mansion, and 
 > pass out on only the finest rarest forms of alcohol, while the lowest caste 
 > drunk has to publicly pass out on the sidewalk, often in very unpleasant 
 > weather, using only the cheapest of wine. In a way the latter is in a better 
 > position spiritually if he does not die because he has nothing to lose, 
 > having lost all possessions, self respect, and care for what others think of 
 > him (or her). The super rich drunk has a lot more to lose.
 
 My comment -- as I'm sure you understand -- was an attempt at humor, slightly 
burdened with a dig at the TMO's notion of pricing for its products. Truly good 
Scotch may in fact be worth more than the TMO's million dollar courses.  :-)
 
 


 

 


 

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Deploying Meditators for Peace

[awoelflebater]

 

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

 Ann, it's a matter or gradation rather than either or. Meaning that pre 
glaucoma is designated by a certain level of pressure on optic nerve and above 
that is full blown glaucoma.
 

 Then let's hope you stay in the "pre" state forever. Or, at least until you 
die. (BTW, I was actually joking in my first post.)
 

 
 
 On Saturday, February 1, 2014 8:52 AM, "awoelflebater@..."  
wrote:
 
   

 

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

 thank you, merudanda, but for someone like me with pre glaucoma, it's better 
to avoid any asanas that feature the legs above the head. Something about 
increased pressure on optic nerve.
 
 

 Aren't all of us without the manifestation of that/any disease "pre" _ 
(fill in the name of any disease here)?
 
 On Friday, January 31, 2014 5:04 PM, merudanda  
wrote:
 
   
 

 

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

 .. over 40 years, I have been drunk..was addicted to alcohol. I.. I never 
passed out..have been lassoed. Over and over again. 
 "Though Siddhartha fled from the self a thousand times, stayed in nothingness, 
stayed in the animal, in the stone, the return was inevitable, inescapable was 
the hour, when he found himself back in the sunshine or in the moonlight, in 
the shade or in the rain, and was once again his self and Siddhartha, and again 
felt the agony of the cycle which had been forced upon him. .
"What is meditation? What is leaving one's body? What is fasting? What is 
holding one's breath? It is fleeing from the self, it is a short escape of the 
agony of being a self, it is a short numbing of the senses against the pain and 
the pointlessness of life. The same escape, the same short numbing is what the 
driver of an ox-cart finds in the inn, drinking a few bowls of rice-wine or 
fermented coconut-milk. Then he won't feel his self any more, then he won't 
feel the pains of life any more, then he finds a short numbing of the senses. 
When he falls asleep over his bowl of rice-wine, he'll find the same what 
Siddhartha and Govinda find when they escape their bodies through long 
exercises, staying in the non-self. This is how it is, oh Govinda." 
H.Hesse "Siddhartha"Chapter 2 WITH THE SAMANAS


  
 

O h my...back the memory train to the future
She's got it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LhkyyCvUHk 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LhkyyCvUHk

A Goddess on a mountain top
Was burning like a silver flame
She's got it
Her weapons were
Her crystal eyes
Happy Chinese New Year of the Horse

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbjTZW5z5rw 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbjTZW5z5rw
 












 














 


 

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Those who reject superstition are displaying extra brain power

[authfriend]

Ooopsie! Xeno had a little trouble understanding what I wrote to Buck.
 

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

 

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Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Secret Doctrines

[Richard Williams]

So, let's review what we know:

These days almost nobody can read and understand the Sanskrit scriptures so
it's a really good thing that somebody can elucidate what the ancients were
talking about. According to what I've reaed, there is a close affinity
between Advaita Vedanta and Yogacara Buddhism. This has been noted by many
scholars and historians due to the fact that the BS (Brahma Sutras) seem to
indicate that Badarayana may have been a pantheistic realist. This is
certainly what Ramanuja and Madhva seemed to have believed - that a dualist
or quasi-dualist (dwaita and/or vasisit-advaita) reading is possible from
BS.

Are we agreed so far?

According to Werner, "Their theory of Maya emerges from their belief in
experiential reality of the absolute consciousness 'Brahman' (as emphasized
in Upanishads), as opposed to Buddhist doctrine of emptiness, which emerges
from the Buddhist approach of observing the nature of reality." The
Upanishads were composed by transcendentalists, that is, the authors all
believed in the existence of an Absolute, which was beyond or
transcendental to, the world of the senses. According to what I've read,
all the Upanishads were authored after the passing of the historical
Buddha.

Shankara taught that through direct knowledge one could realize Brahman. He
taught that it was only through direct knowledge that one could realize
Brahman. Vasabandhu taught that yoga is a direct knowledge experienced as
emptiness - there is a co-dependency and non-origination. Werner says, "A
perception of the fact that the object seen is a rope will remove the fear
and sorrow which result from the illusory idea that it is a snake". Cited
from Shankara's "Vivekachuudaamani" verse #12/a metaphor that was borrowed
from Yogacara Buddhist thinkers, who used it in a different context."

Works cited:

'The Yogi and the Mystic'
Karel Werner
Routledge, 1995,
p. 67.

'Sankaracarya'
by S. Vidyasankar
http://www.advaita-vedanta.org/avhp/sankara.html



On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 7:31 AM,  wrote:

>
>
> Yer so right.
>
> "Let's review what we know."
>
> Yep, there's nothing here to know and apparently you got nothing out of it.
>
> "Are we agreed so far?".
>
> Yep, we all agree - nothing here in the beginning, the  middle or the end..
>  
>

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Those who reject superstition are displaying extra brain power

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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Now Playing

[Richard Williams]

The dB's

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"That Time Is Gone" - Peter Holsapple, vocals and guitar
http://youtu.be/f9CwLD1Yrvo

Recorded live in 2012 in Austin, Texas at Threadgill's during the Music Fog
Marathon. When Rita was living in San Diego the guitarist in this video,
Peter Holsapple, was her boyfriends roommate. It was great meeting up with
him again in Austin. An amazing reunion from the old days in California!

MusicFog review:
http://musicfog.com/home/2012/6/12/the-dbs-that-time-is-gone.html


On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 9:58 PM, Richard Williams wrote:

> Orianthi
>
> [image: Inline image 3]
>
> Orienthe with Carls Santana
>
> "Orianthi Panagaris, better known by her mononym Orianthi, is an
> Australian musician, singer-songwriter and guitarist. Orianthi was named
> one of the 12 Greatest Female Electric Guitarists by Elle magazine.[3] She
> also won the award as "Breakthrough Guitarist of the Year" 2010 by Guitar
> International magazine."
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orianthi
>
> Voodoo Child
> http://youtu.be/mK6tcgsKgps
>
> According to You
> http://youtu.be/Pu1aQvm5MrU
>
> Highly Strung - with Steve Vai - Video
> http://youtu.be/G7b-_YcACuQ
>
> Heaven In This Hell - Video
> http://youtu.be/2kMXxDkqD6I
>
> [image: Inline image 2]
>
> Guitar World Magazine:
> http://www.guitarworld.com/orianthi
>
> Anyone who can write, sing, and produce an album they play nearly all the
> instruments on is someone special, especially someone only 20 years old
> when it all happened! When Rita was in Adelaide in 2004 she got her CD
> signed by Orienthe. Sweet!
>
> [image: Inline image 1]
>
> Violet Journey
>
> Orianthi Interview at musicasa::
> http://www.musicsa.com.au/artists/orianthi/
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Richard Williams 
> wrote:
>
>> [image: Inline image 1]
>>
>> Call of the Valley
>> http://youtu.be/ptTmZlzIIxQ
>>
>> Shivkumar Sharma
>> Brijbhushan Kabra
>> Hariprasad Chaurasia
>>
>> "The instrumental album follows a day in the life of an Indian shepherd
>> from Kashmir. It is one of the most successful Indian albums and one that
>> became popular with an international audience. It was very important in
>> introducing Indian music to Western ears and internationally the best
>> selling Indian music record."
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_of_the_Valley
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 10:47 AM, nablusoss1008 > > wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Not only perhaps the best flutist today but also a long-time meditator
>>> and tireless champion of Maharishi Ghandarva Ved all over the world :-)
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>
>>
>

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Missing Pundits

[feste37]

Health insurance for MUM faculty has nothing to do with Obamcare. It's been in 
place for a long time. Certainly while I was there in the 1980s all the 
full-time faculty were covered by it. I don't remember even having to pay a 
deductible. Mind you, the 1980s was before health care costs went out of 
control. I do agree with you about lack of any pension plan for the faculty. 
They did in fact start one in the 1980s while I was there, but that was only 
because the accreditation team told them they should "do more" for the faculty. 
The pension plan was in place for a few years but was then discontinued. I 
don't know what the current situation is. 

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

 I am always up for being educated on the facts - I am happy to know the 
faculty get more money, and that they have health insurance of some kind. 
 
 I wonder if that is because of the recent law courtesy of Obama that mandates 
health care for everyone - because for MANY years there was no insurance of any 
kind for staff or faculty. There is also no retirement for any of the faculty 
according to some of the people I know in Fairfield (one of whom was a long 
time staffer herself before joining Mother Divine for some years)
 
 Don't tell me how hard it is for private universities - MIU/MUM has saved tens 
of millions of dollars over the years by not paying salaries, benefits and 
retirement to any of their faculty and staff. Had Girish and the Srivastavas 
boys and Marshy himself not siphoned off most of those millions, the university 
would be well heeled by now. 
 
 On Sat, 2/1/14, feste37 mailto:no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
 
 Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Missing Pundits
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Date: Saturday, February 1, 2014, 1:44 PM
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 I don't know the exact figure, but I am told
 it is much more than it used to be. MJ is not correct in
 saying there are no benefits, since the university provides
 health insurance for its faculty. Obviously, if your goal in
 life is to make a lot of money, you wouldn't choose to
 be on MUM faculty, but not everyone has such a goal. No one
 is forcing anyone to stay. If someone on faculty feels
 aggrieved or resentful at what they are receiving, they are
 free to leave. 
 
 I
 think MUM is doing a very good job in maintaining enrollment
 and keeping the university in operation. It is hard for
 private colleges at the moment. Iowa Wesleyan College, a
 liberal arts college that is just 23 miles down the road
 from MUM, has just announced that it is closing half its
 programs and laying off about 40 percent of its faculty. In
 contrast, MUM just last year started up the David Lynch MA
 in Film program, which was a great achievement.  
 
 
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 

 wrote:
 
 Is it good? So
 what is the stipend now Feste? Double, say $600? Triple?
 
 
 
 Still way below the poverty line. What will it take for
 folks to wake up and realize that the money all goes to the
 Varma and Srivastava clan? Follow the money people, follow
 the money!
 
 
 
 
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,
 Michael Jackson  wrote:
 
 >
 
 > That is good to know, but I understand they still have
 no benefits and no retirement
 
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 > Date: Saturday, February 1, 2014, 3:34 AM
 
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 > wrote:
 
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 > Tell that to the
 
 > professors who make only 300 a month and have no
 benefits
 
 > and no retirement. Go figure
 
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[FairfieldLife] Saving the Disposable Ones

[nablusoss1008]

 
 http://issue11.tmmagazine.org/saving-the-disposable-ones.html 
http://issue11.tmmagazine.org/saving-the-disposable-ones.html

[FairfieldLife] A Very Special Video describing the Training and Life of the Maharishi Vedic Pandits

[nablusoss1008]

 
 
http://www.frequency.com/video/very-special-video-describing-training/146951309/-/5-2180493
 
http://www.frequency.com/video/very-special-video-describing-training/146951309/-/5-2180493

[FairfieldLife] RE: 'Maharishi was an emperor and an ascetic'

[nablusoss1008]

Agreed Buck :-)

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: All About Sadhus and Yogis

[Richard Williams]

Mudra is a seal or secret hand gesture; an auspicious hand-sign used by
yogis.

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A yogi displaying the secret hand sign - Tat Wallah Baba

According to Saunders, a mudra is a "seal", "mark", or "gesture"; a
symbolic or ritual gesture in Hinduism and Buddhism. While some mudras
involve the entire body, "most are performed with the hands and fingers. A
mudra is a spiritual gesture and an energetic seal of authenticity employed
in the iconography and spiritual practice of Indian religions."

In Shankara Acharya's Dakshina-murti Stotram, Shankara advises that for our
practice we should meditate on the South-Facing Form, that is, a
north-facing posture of meditative devotion to the Glorious Presence. How,
exactly, is this accomplished? Here are the directions for practicing
transcendental meditation enumerated by the Adi Shankara Acharya:

"Devotion to that Glorious Presence,
Infinite Instructor, Who,
By means of the auspicious hand-sign,
Makes clear to the worshippers
His own real nature
Always shining within as "I,"
Following into all the successive states-
And those beginning with waking."

(Translation by Ernest Wood)

The auspicious hand-sign in Sanskrit literature is referred to as the
symbol of wisdom or the mark of the "I" consciousness, which represents
"Knowing That I am", or "Knowing That I know." The auspicious hand-sign
meditation reminds us of the absolute truth, the circle made by the thumb
and the forefinger is the symbol of unity - a space that is empty, yet full
at the same time. It is the symbol of the one reality and for Shankara, the
one-without-a-second. In this poem Shankara Acharya is advocating the yogic
practice of yogic mudra and meditation on the formless Brahman by use of a
secret hand-sign, the auspicious mudra being the mnemonic device
par-excellence for yogis. SBS seems to agree with this, according to Raj
Varma SBS was a siddha yogi.

Notes:

"The mudra is a 'gesture of understanding' (cincihna); the thumb and index
finger grasp a fine object as a a grain of truth. This is a symbol for
spiritual understanding."

http://www.buddhas-online.com/mudras.html

Mudra:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudra

Works cited:

'The Glorious Presence'
The Vedanta Philosophy Including Shankara's Ode to the South-Facing Form
Quest Books, Theosophical Pub House, 1952
p. 129

"Strange Facts About a Great Saint"
By Raj P. Varma
Jabalpur, India 1980
Varma & Sons Pub.
p. 10

Other resources:

'The Illustrated Dictionary of Hindu Iconography'
by Margaret Stutley
Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985

'Mudra: A Study of Symbolic Gestures in Japanese Buddhist Sculpture'
by E. Dale Saunders
Princeton University Press, 1975.


On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 10:21 AM, Richard Williams wrote:

> All About the Dandi Sanyasins
>
> [image: Inline image 1]
>
> SBS photographed with danda staff and water pot; sitting in padmaasana;
> displayng the gyan mudra. The auspicious hand-sign in Sanskrit literature
> is refered to as the symbol of wisdom or the mark of the "I" conciousness,
> which represents "Knowing That I am", or "Knowing That I know."The
> auspicious hand-sign meditation reminds us of the absolute truth, the
> circle made by the thumb and the forefinger is the symbol of unity - a
> space that is empty, yet full at the same time. It is the symbol of the one
> reality and for Shankara, the one-without-a-second.
>
> "He used to live only on germinated gram seeds mixed with a little bit of
> salt. He lived on a hillock in a small natural cave near a mountain pool."
> - Swami Rama
>
> Everyone knows that Swami Brahmananda Saraswati followed the Dasanmi order
> of the Adi Shankarcharya - SBS was of the Dandi sub-order in the Saraswati
> tradition - founded by Shankara. According to Oman, the Sanyasis, Dandis,
> Parmahmsas, Aghoris and the Yogis make up the great bulk of the ascetic
> sects, especally in Northern India.
>
> So, lets review the major ascetic sects in India.
>
> Saivas, or worshipers of Siva
>
> 1. Sanyasis - followers of Shankaracharya
> 2. Dandis - "
> 3. Paramahamsas - "
> 4. Brahmacharyis - "
> 5. Lingyats - followers of Basava
> 6. Aghoris - "
> 7. Yogis - "
>
> Vaishnavas, or worshippers of Vushnu
>
> 1. Sri Vaishnavas - followres of Ramanujacharya
> 2. Madhvas - followers of Madhvacharya
> 3. Ramanandis - followers of Ramanand
> 4. Kabir Panthis - followers of Kabi
> 5. Ballavacharya - followers of Ballavacharya
> 6. Chaitanites -followers of Chaitanya
>
> Notes:
>
> The Dandi sect derives its name from the "danda" or staff, which each
> member is required to carry. A "dandiwallah" (fellow with the staff) should
> not be be settling down to rest in one single place for over one day and if
> so doing he must be planting the danta staff erect in the ground, hanging
> from a tree, or at all times being upright, never laying on the ground -
> the danda staff never takes a rest. The dandis do not worship Shiva, only
> their own danda. The dandis wear salmon-colored clothing, which is s

[FairfieldLife] The Art of Self-defense

[Richard Williams]

A study in time, flexibility and initiative.

[image: Inline image 1]

Martial Ats instructor Kam Yuen

Kam Yuen on practice and thinking:
http://youtu.be/_W_D_UsLqNs

Most people, when they think of martial arts think of physical force and
how it might be used to overwhelm opponents. In meeting the needs of
practical people for a strong system of invincibility, "TM" is second to
none. With the inner focus of meditation it is often possible to avoid not
only violence but the kinds of self-defeat that arises out of our inability
to manage the impact of stresses such as fatigue, fear, and pain. While you
may never engage someone who intends to harm you physically, you won't be
able to escape the stresses that follow in the wake of active living.

Countless generations of martial artists in China, Japan, and India have
been attracted to the concept of energy, inner stillness, and the certainty
that goes with it. There have been many who have drawn deep spiritual
lessons from a vocational relationship with danger; living with the
knowledge that one may soon die may well induce the most profound
self-examination of which humans are capable.

According to Sensei Randal Bassett, "The path to self-power is more than a
quest for bodily survival; it is the quest for identity and authentic free
will."

To the extent that a man lacks self-power, that is, to the extent that he
cannot dictate the contents of his own mind, to that extent he will
manufacture threats where none existed. Bassett notes that it is rare that
human beings are overwhelmed by hopelessly powerful objective forces, and
that in the vast majority of personal disasters it is we ourselves who
prove to be our own undoing.

If you are going to achieve consistent, meaningful results in your quest
for self-culture, you are going to have to cultivate a series of
specialized habits, for habits are the only things you can count on
retaining in the face of strong resistance. Get the right mental habits,
cultivate physical culture, and nothing can stop your progress toward
enlightenment.

The first and most basic of all martial arts psychological defenses is
meditation, the object of which is to gain the skill necessary to remain
calm in the face of threat; the result is an ability to keep attention from
being broken in the face of heavy stress. The fundamental goal of such
mental technique is to avoid the kinds of self-defeating actions that tend
to occur once you lose a sharp awareness of essential objectives, a common
pitfall of all high-pressure situations.

"We have a way," observes Bassett, "of not realizing what is occurring
within our own minds in moments of heavy stress; and this helps to explain
why we so often tend to yield to irrational responses in the face of threat
- responses that a knowledgeable opponent will use against us."

In a sense we all meditate but we do this is a random fashion and not all
systematically. Being able to meditate is a matter of forming a specialized
habit, a mental mechanism that will work for you automatically and
dependably even in adversity.

Bassett also says, "Nothing is more self-defeating than to allow vanity to
influence one's actions under heavy pressure, and one of the best ways to
check such vanity is to never compete with anyone but yourself."

According to Bassett, the idea that we as humans are "creatures who
consciously control ourselves" is largely a myth. It might well be argued
that we're characterized as much by our lack of control as by our control.

Most people are able to exert full conscious control over their mind
content for less than a fraction of a second during waking hours. In short,
active attention yields to preoccupation. Difficulties begin when we can't
control preoccupation, even when it is vitally important to do so.

And yet, this is exactly what happens in threatening situations; at the
moment when we need to bring forth our full conscious attention, and fix
its brilliance upon one point, we have trouble doing so. There is nothing
surprising in this, if preoccupation is viewed for what it is: a kind of
first cousin of sleep - sleep being a form of total preoccupation within
the realm of the unconscious.

Shakya the Muni, the historical Buddha, was a master of the martial arts,
and the founder of the dhyana scool in India - he testified countless times
to the difficulty involved in gaining habit-level skill, or mindfulness.

In many respects there is no greater threat than stress, and the resistance
of your own mental inertia. In meditation self-defense, the will is
considered to be a manifestation of strength or of wakefulness.

In thinking that we possess powers of attention that we don't in fact have,
we tend to overlook the actual mental capabilities that we do command.
Bodhidharma, the founder of the chan school in China, a Master who
apparently originated "kung fu" in his spare time, was emphatic in warning
his students to avoid reliance upon concepts, mere words, and theologica

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Deploying Meditators for Peace

[Share Long]

shocking shocking merudanda
the little rope of hemp has only
dreams of morphing into eel electric!





On Friday, January 31, 2014 5:27 PM, merudanda  wrote:
 
  
shockingshocking 
shocking
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote:

being blue


shocking blue

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAsrOCj6a5k




---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote:
>
>
>.. over 40 years, I have been drunk..was addicted to alcohol. I.. I never 
>passed out..have been lassoed. Over and over again. 
>"Though Siddhartha fled from the self a thousand times, stayed in nothingness, 
>stayed in the animal, in the stone, the return was inevitable, inescapable was 
>the hour, when he found himself back in the sunshine or in the moonlight, in 
>the shade or in the rain, and was once again his self and Siddhartha, and 
>again felt the agony of the cycle which had been forced upon him. .
>"What is meditation? What is leaving one's body? What is fasting? What is 
>holding one's breath? It is fleeing from the self, it is a short escape of the 
>agony of being a self, it is a short numbing of the senses against the pain 
>and the pointlessness of life. The same escape, the same short numbing is what 
>the driver of an ox-cart finds in the inn, drinking a few bowls of rice-wine 
>or fermented coconut-milk. Then he won't feel his self any more, then he won't 
>feel the pains of life any more, then he finds a short numbing of the senses. 
>When he falls asleep over his bowl of rice-wine, he'll find the same what 
>Siddhartha and Govinda find when they escape their bodies through long 
>exercises, staying in the non-self. This is how it is, oh Govinda." 
>H.Hesse "Siddhartha"Chapter 2 WITH THE SAMANAS
>
>
> 
>
>
>O h my...back the memory train to the future
>She's got it
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LhkyyCvUHk
>
>A Goddess on a mountain top
>Was burning like a silver flame
>She's got it
>Her weapons were
>Her crystal eyes
>Happy Chinese New Year of the Horse
>
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbjTZW5z5rw
>
>
>

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Deploying Meditators for Peace

[Share Long]

noozguru, I read once that 1 ounce of alcohol kills 10,000 brain cells. 
Forever! I figure I need all the ones I have left!





On Friday, January 31, 2014 3:57 PM, Bhairitu  wrote:
 
  
A lot of people drink occasionally for social reasons.  It loosens the tongue 
and in general can make folks a little more pleasant to be around (not counting 
those whose over indulgence turns them in to belligerent and often violent ass 
holes).  However MADD did a good job of getting rid of the drinking social 
scene and probably are partly responsible for the reclusive "online" 
socializing we have in the Internet age.
 
On 01/31/2014 12:33 PM, TurquoiseB wrote:

  
>--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
>>
>> People drink to transcend self, to get away from the
  image of themselves. So in that sense, that activity is
  the same as transcending in TM. The small self is
  transcended when you pass out, the activity of drinking
  ceases. 
>
>I would say instead, whether it relates to whiskey, or drugs, or meditative 
>experience, that the "transcendence" is achieved long before the point of 
>passing out. All that is really necessary for many psychic wanderers in search 
>of the transcendental experience, is the *shift* of awareness from one 
>localized plane of awareness to another. 
>
>In Castanedan terms, one "shifts one's state of attention," allowing the self 
>access to other, congruent, states of attention. Alcohol can do this, drugs 
>can do this, mediation can do this, and even *intent* can do this. You just 
>declare internally that you're sick and tired of the same old same old way 
>you've been seeing things, and just shift to a new way of seeing things. 
>
>> If an automobile comes to rest and stops moving, does
  that make it more self sufficient? The whole idea of an
  automobile is self-sufficiency in motion. 
>
>And, according to some supposed sages, the whole idea of the "human being" is 
>that it is most "in touch" with the Tao or the flow of life when it is in 
>motion. Stasis inhibits this flow. Movement encourages it. 
>
>> This play on words has limits. Self-sufficiency on an
  individual level is defined as the condition or quality of
  being adequate or sufficient on the level of a person's
  essential being that distinguishes them from others. 
>
>Or even if it doesn't. I don't necessarily see "inability to perceive 
>otherness" as an indicator of self-sufficiency. I can envision people (to 
>limit things to MMY's 7 states) in CC being self-sufficient, or in GC being 
>self-sufficient, or in UC being self-sufficient. Theoretically, in this latter 
>SoC the perceiver no longer makes the distinction between "self" and "other," 
>but that does not necessarily -- in my view, at least -- imply 
>self-sufficiency. Only self-sufficiency implies self-sufficiency, not the SoC 
>one brings to it. 
>
>> When talking about enlightenment, this is not what it
  means, though independence may be a by product of changes
  in experience. With the big E the sense of individuality
  is reduced or eliminated and the small self is replaced
  with the experience of continuity and intimacy of all
  things, a practical death of the ego-sense. 
>
>At times. And then, unless one's experience was sudden and from that point on 
>never-changing (unlike mine), things keep changing. Some days, no 
>individuality, no self. Other days, nothing but self. Still other days, 
>no-self congruent with self. So which of these is "highest," or "best?" My 
>suspicion is none of them.
>
>> The small self may also be extinguished by being a
  drunk which often leads to death, but that is probably not
  such a cool experience, the part leading up to death, that
  is. 
>
>Better than dying of pancreatic cancer after a life of abstinence, given the 
>testimony of friends who have departed from this world using both of those 
>methods.
>
>> Turq's comments about those uber expensive whiskeys
  reveals a caste system for drunkeness. The super rich
  drunk can afford to wall themselves away from the world,
  private and in posh style, maybe in a fifty room mansion,
  and pass out on only the finest rarest forms of alcohol,
  while the lowest caste drunk has to publicly pass out on
  the sidewalk, often in very unpleasant weather, using only
  the cheapest of wine. In a way the latter is in a better
  position spiritually if he does not die because he has
  nothing to lose, having lost all possessions, self
  respect, and care for what others think of him (or her).
  The super rich drunk has a lot more to lose.
>
>My comment -- as I'm sure you understand -- was an attempt at humor, slightly 
>burdened with 

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Those who reject superstition are displaying extra brain power

[authfriend]

"We may have to bring in the Yahoo-Groups Guidelines Administration to protect 
ourselves and the community here," You trying to fight bullshit with bullshit, 
Buck? As you know, there ain't no such administration, and even if there were, 
it would have zero interest in "protecting" us from someone inveighing against 
superstition. Why do you bother posting this kind of total crap?
 

 

 << Son, you got way too much “Cognitive Inhibition” for your own good.
 There is a point at which someone like you will get himself isolated from
 the general population for the extreme asocial-like behaviour that this 
presents. I am
 getting worried about the level of your skepticism for your own good and 
possibly
 all of us as a community here. According to the research this does not seem 
healthy.
 Rick, keep an eye on this guy. We may have to bring in the Yahoo-Groups 
Guidelines
 Administration to protect ourselves and the community here, >>
 -Buck
 

 

 Science Discovers A Clear and Present Spiritual Danger:  Too Damned much 
“Cognitive Inhibition”. 
 

 

 

 

 mjackson74 writess:

 

 So the gist of the tale is that the Mighty Thousand Headed Purusha arrived at 
the Old Goat's house and a Hindu god showed his pleasure by letting his dick 
appear in ice for all to see. so miracles do exist.
 
 God Almighty Damn. You have to hear/see it to believe such crap exists.
 
 On Sat, 2/1/14, TurquoiseB mailto:turquoiseb@...> wrote:
 
 Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Those who reject superstition are displaying 
extra brain power
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Date: Saturday, February 1, 2014, 12:37 PM
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 
Michael Jackson 
 wrote:
 >
 > Can you expand on the icicle event? I have never heard
 that story.
 
 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/158523  
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/158523 
 
 > 
 > On Sat, 2/1/14, TurquoiseB turquoiseb@... wrote:
 > 
 > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Those who reject superstition
 are displaying extra brain power
 > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 > Date: Saturday, February 1, 2014, 11:49 AM
 > 
 > Remember the talk of
 > "omens" when a couple of birds attacked the
 > Pope's "peace doves?" Remember when
 Maharishi
 > mistook an icicle on his balcony for Shiva? 
 > 
 > New research suggests that the brains of many people
 are
 > naturally susceptible to projecting meaning onto
 meaningless
 > events and considering them omens. Unless their brains
 are
 > working more efficiently, that is, and exercising
 cognitive
 > inhibition. 
 > 
 > http://www.fastcodesign.com/3025750/evidence/the-neuroscience-of-superstition
 >   
 > http://www.fastcodesign.com/3025750/evidence/the-neuroscience-of-superstition
 >  
 > 

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Deploying Meditators for Peace

[Share Long]

Ann, it's a matter or gradation rather than either or. Meaning that pre 
glaucoma is designated by a certain level of pressure on optic nerve and above 
that is full blown glaucoma.





On Saturday, February 1, 2014 8:52 AM, "awoelfleba...@yahoo.com" 
 wrote:
 
  




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


thank you, merudanda, but for someone like me withpre glaucoma, it's better to 
avoid any asanas that feature the legs above the head. Something about 
increased pressure on optic nerve.


Aren't all of us without the manifestation of that/any disease "pre" _ 
(fill in the name of any disease here)?


On Friday, January 31, 2014 5:04 PM, merudanda  wrote:

 

>
>
>
>---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote:
>
>
>.. over 40 years, I have been drunk..was addicted to alcohol. I.. I never 
>passed out..have been lassoed. Over and over again. 
>"Though Siddhartha fled from the self a thousand times, stayed in nothingness, 
>stayed in the animal, in the stone, the return was inevitable, inescapable was 
>the hour, when he found himself back in the sunshine or in the moonlight, in 
>the shade
or in the rain, and was once again his self and Siddhartha, and again felt the 
agony of the cycle which had been forced upon him. .
>"What is meditation? What is leaving one's body? What is fasting? What is 
>holding one's breath? It is fleeing from the self, it is a short escape of the 
>agony of being a self, it is a short numbing of the senses against the pain 
>and the pointlessness of life. The same escape, the same short numbing is what 
>the driver of an ox-cart finds in the inn, drinking a few bowls of rice-wine 
>or fermented coconut-milk. Then he won't feel his self any more, then he won't 
>feel the pains of life any more, then he finds a short numbing of the senses. 
>When he falls asleep over his bowl of rice-wine, he'll find the same what 
>Siddhartha and Govinda find when they escape their bodies through long 
>exercises, staying in the non-self. This is how it is, oh Govinda." 
>H.Hesse "Siddhartha"Chapter 2 WITH THE
SAMANAS
>
>
> 
>
>
>O h my...back the memory train to the future
>She's got it
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LhkyyCvUHk
>
>A Goddess on a mountain top
>Was burning like a silver flame
>She's got it
>Her weapons were
>Her crystal eyes
>Happy Chinese New Year of the Horse
>
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbjTZW5z5rw
>
>
>

Re: [FairfieldLife] Missing Pundits

[Zoran Krneta]

They never got what Movement promised them especially payments, I remember
one pundit, he was a good one, you could saw him on most broadcasts in the
time of Global Country inauguration, he had family, he complained again and
again about the money, finally he was paid in Raams which is useless and
unrecognized currency.

[FairfieldLife] Need a status upgrade?

[cardemaister]

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/c6700998-5ce5-11e3-81bd-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2md1cxZHP
 
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/c6700998-5ce5-11e3-81bd-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2md1cxZHP

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Those who reject superstition are displaying extra brain power

[dhamiltony2k5]

Son, you got way too much “Cognitive Inhibition” for your own good.
 There is a point at which someone like you will get himself isolated from
 the general population for the extreme asocial-like behaviour that this 
presents. I am
 getting worried about the level of your skepticism for your own good and 
possibly 
 all of us as a community here. According to the research this does not seem 
healthy.
 Rick, keep an eye on this guy. We may have to bring in the Yahoo-Groups 
Guidelines
 Administration to protect ourselves and the community here,
 -Buck
 
 
 

 Science Discovers A Clear and Present Spiritual Danger:  Too Damned much 
“Cognitive Inhibition”. 
 
 

 

 

 

 mjackson74 writess:

 

 So the gist of the tale is that the Mighty Thousand Headed Purusha arrived at 
the Old Goat's house and a Hindu god showed his pleasure by letting his dick 
appear in ice for all to see. so miracles do exist.
 
 God Almighty Damn. You have to hear/see it to believe such crap exists.
 
 On Sat, 2/1/14, TurquoiseB mailto:turquoiseb@...> wrote:
 
 Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Those who reject superstition are displaying 
extra brain power
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Date: Saturday, February 1, 2014, 12:37 PM
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 
Michael Jackson 
 wrote:
 >
 > Can you expand on the icicle event? I have never heard
 that story.
 
 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/158523  
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/158523 
 
 > 
 > On Sat, 2/1/14, TurquoiseB turquoiseb@... wrote:
 > 
 > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Those who reject superstition
 are displaying extra brain power
 > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 > Date: Saturday, February 1, 2014, 11:49 AM
 > 
 > Remember the talk of
 > "omens" when a couple of birds attacked the
 > Pope's "peace doves?" Remember when
 Maharishi
 > mistook an icicle on his balcony for Shiva? 
 > 
 > New research suggests that the brains of many people
 are
 > naturally susceptible to projecting meaning onto
 meaningless
 > events and considering them omens. Unless their brains
 are
 > working more efficiently, that is, and exercising
 cognitive
 > inhibition. 
 > 
 > http://www.fastcodesign.com/3025750/evidence/the-neuroscience-of-superstition
 >   
 > http://www.fastcodesign.com/3025750/evidence/the-neuroscience-of-superstition
 >  
 > 

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Missing Pundits

[Michael Jackson]

I am always up for being educated on the facts - I am happy to know the faculty 
get more money, and that they have health insurance of some kind. 

I wonder if that is because of the recent law courtesy of Obama that mandates 
health care for everyone - because for MANY years there was no insurance of any 
kind for staff or faculty. There is also no retirement for any of the faculty 
according to some of the people I know in Fairfield (one of whom was a long 
time staffer herself before joining Mother Divine for some years)

Don't tell me how hard it is for private universities - MIU/MUM has saved tens 
of millions of dollars over the years by not paying salaries, benefits and 
retirement to any of their faculty and staff. Had Girish and the Srivastavas 
boys and Marshy himself not siphoned off most of those millions, the university 
would be well heeled by now. 

On Sat, 2/1/14, feste37  wrote:

 Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Missing Pundits
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Date: Saturday, February 1, 2014, 1:44 PM
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
   
   
   I don't know the exact figure, but I am told
 it is much more than it used to be. MJ is not correct in
 saying there are no benefits, since the university provides
 health insurance for its faculty. Obviously, if your goal in
 life is to make a lot of money, you wouldn't choose to
 be on MUM faculty, but not everyone has such a goal. No one
 is forcing anyone to stay. If someone on faculty feels
 aggrieved or resentful at what they are receiving, they are
 free to leave. 
 
 I
 think MUM is doing a very good job in maintaining enrollment
 and keeping the university in operation. It is hard for
 private colleges at the moment. Iowa Wesleyan College, a
 liberal arts college that is just 23 miles down the road
 from MUM, has just announced that it is closing half its
 programs and laying off about 40 percent of its faculty. In
 contrast, MUM just last year started up the David Lynch MA
 in Film program, which was a great achievement.  
 
 
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 
 wrote:
 
 Is it good? So
 what is the stipend now Feste? Double, say $600? Triple?
 
 
 
 Still way below the poverty line. What will it take for
 folks to wake up and realize that the money all goes to the
 Varma and Srivastava clan? Follow the money people, follow
 the money!
 
 
 
 
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,
 Michael Jackson  wrote:
 
 >
 
 > That is good to know, but I understand they still have
 no benefits and no retirement
 
 > 
 
 > On Sat, 2/1/14, feste37 
 wrote:
 
 > 
 
 >  Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Missing Pundits
 
 >  To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 
 >  Date: Saturday, February 1, 2014, 3:34 AM
 
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 >  ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,
 
 
 >  wrote:
 
 >  
 
 >  Tell that to the
 
 >  professors who make only 300 a month and have no
 benefits
 
 >  and no retirement. Go figure
 
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 >   On Sat, 2/1/14, Richard J. Williams
 
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 >  Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Missing Pundits
 
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 >  > yeah, the money was great Richie - as a sidha, I
 got
 
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 >  $75 a month - 
 
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 sidhas
 
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 and
 
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 needing
 
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 > 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

[FairfieldLife] RE: 'Maharishi was an emperor and an ascetic'

[dhamiltony2k5]

Thanks for sharing this. This is really a very wonderful character testimonial 
from someone who was there. It deserves to be saved here on the pages of FFL 
too.
 Copy an pasted here:
 
 
 'Maharishi was an emperor and an ascetic' 
 
 
 During my late teens, a few of us were sitting with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in 
Switzerland [Images 
http://search.rediff.com/imgsrch/default.php?MT=switzerland]. Maharishi was 
being briefed about some problems in the Transcendental Meditation movement in 
America. He said, "Once you are at the top, the peak, there is no plateau. So 
whoever reaches the peak has to come down." I quipped, "There is no competition 
for depth." At this, Maharishi chuckled with a twinkle in his eye.
 I have never seen someone as deep as Maharishi. Perhaps that is the reason why 
everyone-- young and old, scientists and simpletons, could relate to him. When 
Maharishi would meet with Baba Muktananda or Anandamayi Ma, people would wait 
to hear philosophical discussions. However, to everyone's amazement, they would 
just exchange pleasantries -- it was more a joyful occasion to be together. 
They never discussed about atma or paramatma.
 Maharshi had great enthusiasm and would speak for hours at a stretch. 
Sometimes he would speak on abstract Vedanta or the unified field theory of 
modern science, concepts that many would not be able to grasp. Nevertheless, 
his presence would hold people there.
 Though seemingly engaged in mundane activities all day, he always maintained 
such a depth of dispassion. Maharishi did not care for praise or criticism. He 
was gracious with all saints and swamis, even those critical of him. Whenever 
someone would express concern about bad publicity, he would reply with a smile, 
"Badnam to kab ke ho gaye."
 Maharishi always dreamt big and made grand plans to such an extent that people 
would think it was insane. Perhaps this was a technique to transcend the 
logical mind. He would quote the Bhagwat Gita, "Yo Buddhe Para Tattva Saha," 
(The self is beyond the intellect). Once, just a day before the auspicious day 
of Akshaya Tritiya (the third day after new moon in the month of May), 
Maharishi summoned the Vedic pundits. He asked them to depart at once and 
perform Bhoomi Puja (ground breaking ceremony) to establish new Vedic centres 
all across India. Though the organisation had no land in any of these areas, he 
insisted that Bhoomi Puja be done immediately. He would never take 'no' for an 
answer. Though such tasks would seem mind boggling and appear completely 
impractical, it would help a sadhak, if he rightly understood, to move beyond 
doership. He would want people to act at once and his deadline was yesterday!
 Maharishi often said, "Hathi ke do daant, ek dikhane ke liye aur doosra khane 
ke liye," (An elephant has different sets of teeth, one for show and one to 
chew with). As an acharya in public life, he would speak about meditating to 
achieve world peace -- but to those very close to him, he spoke in terms of 
maya, pure consciousness and the Vedas. While his scientific discourses 
nurtured the intellect, in his heart, Maharishi was a pure Vedantist, soaked in 
Advaita.
 Spiritual seekers often make affirmations such as "Aham Brahmasmi," (I am the 
self, in the name of self-awareness or spiritual realisation). Maharishi was 
against such affirmations, explaining that these were only at the level of 
thought, which is at the gross level, not in the realm of experience. His 
expression of Vedanta was so exquisite and subtle that only those who could 
perceive the subtlety could appreciate it. He would say, "Like oil is present 
in the seed, Vedanta is present in the Vedas."
 Meditation is the gift he gave to the world. Fifty years ago, meditation was 
not the household name that it is today. He popularised meditation and the 
Vedas. Though many would find it difficult to digest his style of functioning, 
his unique contribution to the field of spirituality remains unparalleled.
 It was not always easy to be around Maharishi. He had his own way of 
explaining and interpreting the Vedas, which many scholars would find hard to 
accept. Only one who practised meditation and had a deep understanding of 
consciousness could appreciate it. He often said that being with the Guru is 
like being in a cocoon -- you are completely protected in the Guru's aura, and 
you emerge as a butterfly soaring high.
 Maharishi was a unique combination of an emperor and an ascetic, a perfect 
disciple and a Jagadguru, a modern scientist and a deep traditionalist.
 February 11, 2008 
 Sri Sri Ravishankar is the founder of the Art of Living Foundation
 

 
 http://www.rediff.com/news/2008/feb/11guest.htm 
http://www.rediff.com/news/2008/feb/11guest.htm
 

 

 

 Sri Ravi Shankar explains why, and why it was a boon to be able to work 
closely with Maharishi.
 

 "I have never seen someone as deep as Maharishi. Perhaps that is the reason 
why everyone-- young and old, scientists an

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Deploying Meditators for Peace

[awoelflebater]

 

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

 thank you, merudanda, but for someone like me with pre glaucoma, it's better 
to avoid any asanas that feature the legs above the head. Something about 
increased pressure on optic nerve.
 
 

 Aren't all of us without the manifestation of that/any disease "pre" _ 
(fill in the name of any disease here)?
 
 On Friday, January 31, 2014 5:04 PM, merudanda  
wrote:
 
   
 

 

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

 .. over 40 years, I have been drunk..was addicted to alcohol. I.. I never 
passed out..have been lassoed. Over and over again. 
 "Though Siddhartha fled from the self a thousand times, stayed in nothingness, 
stayed in the animal, in the stone, the return was inevitable, inescapable was 
the hour, when he found himself back in the sunshine or in the moonlight, in 
the shade or in the rain, and was once again his self and Siddhartha, and again 
felt the agony of the cycle which had been forced upon him. .
"What is meditation? What is leaving one's body? What is fasting? What is 
holding one's breath? It is fleeing from the self, it is a short escape of the 
agony of being a self, it is a short numbing of the senses against the pain and 
the pointlessness of life. The same escape, the same short numbing is what the 
driver of an ox-cart finds in the inn, drinking a few bowls of rice-wine or 
fermented coconut-milk. Then he won't feel his self any more, then he won't 
feel the pains of life any more, then he finds a short numbing of the senses. 
When he falls asleep over his bowl of rice-wine, he'll find the same what 
Siddhartha and Govinda find when they escape their bodies through long 
exercises, staying in the non-self. This is how it is, oh Govinda." 
H.Hesse "Siddhartha"Chapter 2 WITH THE SAMANAS


  
 

O h my...back the memory train to the future
She's got it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LhkyyCvUHk 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LhkyyCvUHk

A Goddess on a mountain top
Was burning like a silver flame
She's got it
Her weapons were
Her crystal eyes
Happy Chinese New Year of the Horse

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbjTZW5z5rw 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbjTZW5z5rw
 












 


 

[FairfieldLife] RE: Those who reject superstition are displaying extra brain power

[awoelflebater]

 

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

 Remember the talk of "omens" when a couple of birds attacked the Pope's "peace 
doves?" Remember when Maharishi mistook an icicle on his balcony for Shiva? 

New research suggests that the brains of many people are naturally susceptible 
to projecting meaning onto meaningless events and considering them omens. 
Unless their brains are working more efficiently, that is, and exercising 
cognitive inhibition. 

 http://www.fastcodesign.com/3025750/evidence/the-neuroscience-of-superstition 
http://www.fastcodesign.com/3025750/evidence/the-neuroscience-of-superstition 
 

 I believe imagination to be a sign of a healthy and vibrant brain. Can you 
imagine going through life as a literalist? Can you imagine if there was not an 
embracing of this thing we call "imagination" - what books would there be to 
read? "Projection" onto "meaningless events" meaning is what I would call 
imagination and sometimes even recognition of something true. Super -stition 
has a lot going for it including being rather interesting, rich and mysterious. 
I love mysterious and I love the idea that most of our world exists beyond what 
we can taste, touch, smell, hear or feel viscerally. Omens, meanings, signs - I 
love it. Do I believe them all? Nah, but they are certainly fun to consider. 
And why ridicule those who allow the possibility for such alternate theories 
about events and what these events might mean? How does this threaten you to 
such an extent you find the need to belittle those with more imagination than 
you, Bawwy?
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzs_yxCqJE4 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzs_yxCqJE4

[FairfieldLife] The Seahawks’ Superbowl Advantage

[nablusoss1008]

 

 http://www.normanrosenthal.com/blog/2014/01/seahawks-yoga-meditation/ 
http://www.normanrosenthal.com/blog/2014/01/seahawks-yoga-meditation/

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Those who reject superstition are displaying extra brain power

[Michael Jackson]

So the gist of the tale is that the Mighty Thousand Headed Purusha arrived at 
the Old Goat's house and a Hindu god showed his pleasure by letting his dick 
appear in ice for all to see. so miracles do exist.

God Almighty Damn. You have to hear/see it to believe such crap exists.

On Sat, 2/1/14, TurquoiseB  wrote:

 Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Those who reject superstition are displaying 
extra brain power
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Date: Saturday, February 1, 2014, 12:37 PM
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
   
   
   
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson 
 wrote:
 >
 > Can you expand on the icicle event? I have never heard
 that story.
 
 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/158523 
 
 > 
 > On Sat, 2/1/14, TurquoiseB turquoiseb@... wrote:
 > 
 >  Subject: [FairfieldLife] Those who reject superstition
 are displaying extra brain power
 >  To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 >  Date: Saturday, February 1, 2014, 11:49 AM
 > 
 >Remember the talk of
 >  "omens" when a couple of birds attacked the
 >  Pope's "peace doves?" Remember when
 Maharishi
 >  mistook an icicle on his balcony for Shiva? 
 >  
 >  New research suggests that the brains of many people
 are
 >  naturally susceptible to projecting meaning onto
 meaningless
 >  events and considering them omens. Unless their brains
 are
 >  working more efficiently, that is, and exercising
 cognitive
 >  inhibition. 
 >  
 >  
 > http://www.fastcodesign.com/3025750/evidence/the-neuroscience-of-superstition
 >  
 >
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Philip K. Dick was smarter than you, and earlier

[awoelflebater]

 

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

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson wrote:
 >
> It will probably give you all the willies to know that Crumb did an 
> illuminated Holy Bible - not a send up , not a parody, but an illustrated 
> Bible with his art work.

 Not the entire Bible...just the book of Genesis. It's been called a 
masterwork, and stands as the *only* version of Genesis that illustrated every 
verse of the text in history. 
 

 And a mighty work it is:
 http://pointcounterpointblog.com/2012/08/genesis-crumb/ 
http://pointcounterpointblog.com/2012/08/genesis-crumb/

 > 
> On Sat, 2/1/14, awoelflebater@... awoelflebater@... wrote:
> 
> Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: Philip K. Dick was smarter than you, and earlier
> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Saturday, February 1, 2014, 2:46 AM
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> ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@
> wrote:
> 
> I always found Crumb's
> "comix" disturbing, violent and misogynistic. I
> particularly hated the Fritz the Cat animated
> film.A vision of life so cynical has to be
> a complete dead end. 
> His
> graphics are ugly, grotesque and leave me feeling rather
> bereft. I always wonder what is inside someone that allows
> for this strange hideousness to become manifest, and in
> comic book form no less. Nope, not where I like to put my
> attention. Maybe it's a guy thing - those nipples were
> always so plump and engorged looking.
>

[FairfieldLife] Re: Missing Pundits

[feste37]

I don't know the exact figure, but I am told it is much more than it used to 
be. MJ is not correct in saying there are no benefits, since the university 
provides health insurance for its faculty. Obviously, if your goal in life is 
to make a lot of money, you wouldn't choose to be on MUM faculty, but not 
everyone has such a goal. No one is forcing anyone to stay. If someone on 
faculty feels aggrieved or resentful at what they are receiving, they are free 
to leave. 

 

 I think MUM is doing a very good job in maintaining enrollment and keeping the 
university in operation. It is hard for private colleges at the moment. Iowa 
Wesleyan College, a liberal arts college that is just 23 miles down the road 
from MUM, has just announced that it is closing half its programs and laying 
off about 40 percent of its faculty. In contrast, MUM just last year started up 
the David Lynch MA in Film program, which was a great achievement.  

 

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

 Is it good? So what is the stipend now Feste? Double, say $600? Triple?
 
 Still way below the poverty line. What will it take for folks to wake up and 
realize that the money all goes to the Varma and Srivastava clan? Follow the 
money people, follow the money!
 
 
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 
Michael Jackson  wrote:
 >
 > That is good to know, but I understand they still have no benefits and no 
 > retirement
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 > On Sat, 2/1/14, feste37  mailto:no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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 > Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Missing Pundits
 > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
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 > wrote:
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 > Tell that to the
 > professors who make only 300 a month and have no benefits
 > and no retirement. Go figure
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 > On Sat, 2/1/14, Richard J. Williams
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 > Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Missing Pundits
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[FairfieldLife] INVASION USA

[emptybill]

How the GOP lost Middle America
 Pat Buchanan explains impact of Republican Party 'selling its soul to the 
multinationals'
 
 Read more at 
http://www.wnd.com/2014/01/how-the-gop-lost-middle-america/#mKd2GFGPIAU0zcoA.99 
http://www.wnd.com/2014/01/how-the-gop-lost-middle-america/#mKd2GFGPIAU0zcoA.99

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Country Chuckles

[Richard Williams]

"It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without
your help."- Will Rogers


On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 6:49 AM, Share Long  wrote:

>
>
> Another great Will Rogers quote, Richard, thanks
>
>
>
>
>   On Friday, January 31, 2014 7:51 PM, Richard Williams <
> pundits...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  "It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a
> warning to others."- Will Rogers
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Share Long  wrote:
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>  Wonderful, LOL, thanks Richard. Thanks to Will too (-:
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>
>   On Friday, January 31, 2014 9:22 AM, Richard Williams <
> pundits...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  "Never test the depth of the water with both feet." - Will Rogers
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 8:39 AM, Richard Williams wrote:
>
> "Don't be irreplaceable. If you can't be replaced, you can't be
> promoted."- Will Rogers
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 7:28 PM, Richard Williams wrote:
>
> "It's always darkest before dawn. So if you're going to steal your
> neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it." - Will Rogers
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 5:37 PM, Richard Williams wrote:
>
> In case you are worried about what is going to become of the younger
> generation, it is going to grow up and start worrying about the younger
> generation.
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 8:13 AM, Richard Williams wrote:
>
> "Always remember you're unique. Just like everyone else."- Will Rogers
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 9:27 AM, Richard J. Williams 
> wrote:
>
> On 1/7/2014 6:01 PM, Richard Williams wrote:
>
> "The journey of a thousand miles begins with a broken fan belt and a leaky
> tire." - Will Rogers
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[FairfieldLife] RE: Secret Doctrines

[emptybill]

Yer so right. 

"Let's review what we know."

Yep, there's nothing here to know and apparently you got nothing out of it.

"Are we agreed so far?".

Yep, we all agree - nothing here in the beginning, the  middle or the end..

[FairfieldLife] RE: Those who reject superstition are displaying extra brain power

[dhamiltony2k5]

Science Discovers A Clear and Present Spiritual Danger:  Too Damned much 
“Cognitive Inhibition”.
 
 
 So, the practical take-away from this research is that skeptics here suffer 
from “Cognitive Inhibition”. Too damned much “Cognitive Inhibition” evidently 
is a very sad state of diagnosis frequently leading to spiritual depression 
such like we see expressed so often on FFL. More research is needed on this 
condition to be able to protect people from the deleterious effects of this 
dangerous state in their spiritual lives. 
 
 
 "A recent issue of Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (via BPS 
Research Digest)
 suggests that skeptics possess greater powers of cognitive inhibition. 
 
 
 Our brains evidently infer greater meaning from random events in an 
instinctual way. 
 
 
 "Cognitive inhibition, that is, suppressing or overriding spontaneously 
occurring mental processes, may thus be the mechanism that, when working 
efficiently, controls our natural intuitions and explains why supernatural 
interpretations seem so natural for some people and yet others find them quite 
strange,"  
 
 
 There are caveats involved. In this case, since creativity also relies on 
reduced cognitive inhibition (introducing the mind to new ideas), it's possible 
that believer brain activity was just the creative process in motion. A larger 
lingering question is why (and how) people can shift from believer to skeptic 
and back."
 
 
 
 
 
 -Buck, a meditator outstanding in his field.
 

 

 To FFL,
 

 Turquoiseb posts:

 


 http://www.fastcodesign.com/3025750/evidence/the-neuroscience-of-superstition 
http://www.fastcodesign.com/3025750/evidence/the-neuroscience-of-superstition 

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Country Chuckles

[Share Long]

Another great Will Rogers quote, Richard, thanks





On Friday, January 31, 2014 7:51 PM, Richard Williams  
wrote:
 
  
"It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to 
others."- Will Rogers




On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Share Long  wrote:

 
>  
>Wonderful, LOL, thanks Richard. Thanks to Will too (-:
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>On Friday, January 31, 2014 9:22 AM, Richard Williams  
>wrote:
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>  
>"Never test the depth of the water with both feet." - Will Rogers
>
>
>
>On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 8:39 AM, Richard Williams  wrote:
>
>"Don't be irreplaceable. If you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted."- 
>Will Rogers
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>>
>>
>>On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 7:28 PM, Richard Williams  
>>wrote:
>>
>>"It's always darkest before dawn. So if you're going to steal your neighbor's 
>>newspaper, that's the time to do it." - Will Rogers
>>>
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>>>On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 5:37 PM, Richard Williams  
>>>wrote:
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>>>In case you are worried about what is going to become of the younger 
>>>generation, it is going to grow up and start worrying about the younger 
>>>generation.




On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 8:13 AM, Richard Williams  
wrote:

"Always remember you're unique. Just like everyone else."- Will Rogers
>
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>On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 9:27 AM, Richard J. Williams  
>wrote:
>
>On 1/7/2014 6:01 PM, Richard Williams wrote:
>>
>>"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a broken fan belt and a 
>>leaky tire." - Will Rogers
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[FairfieldLife] Re: Those who reject superstition are displaying extra brain power

[TurquoiseB]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson  wrote:
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> Can you expand on the icicle event? I have never heard that story.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/158523


> 
> On Sat, 2/1/14, TurquoiseB turquoiseb@... wrote:
>
>  Subject: [FairfieldLife] Those who reject superstition are displaying
extra brain power
>  To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
>  Date: Saturday, February 1, 2014, 11:49 AM
>
>Remember the talk of
>  "omens" when a couple of birds attacked the
>  Pope's "peace doves?" Remember when Maharishi
>  mistook an icicle on his balcony for Shiva?
>
>  New research suggests that the brains of many people are
>  naturally susceptible to projecting meaning onto meaningless
>  events and considering them omens. Unless their brains are
>  working more efficiently, that is, and exercising cognitive
>  inhibition.
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> 
http://www.fastcodesign.com/3025750/evidence/the-neuroscience-of-superst\
ition

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Re: [FairfieldLife] Those who reject superstition are displaying extra brain power

[Michael Jackson]

Can you expand on the icicle event? I have never heard that story.

On Sat, 2/1/14, TurquoiseB  wrote:

 Subject: [FairfieldLife] Those who reject superstition are displaying extra 
brain power
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Date: Saturday, February 1, 2014, 11:49 AM

   
   Remember the talk of
 "omens" when a couple of birds attacked the
 Pope's "peace doves?" Remember when Maharishi
 mistook an icicle on his balcony for Shiva? 
 
 New research suggests that the brains of many people are
 naturally susceptible to projecting meaning onto meaningless
 events and considering them omens. Unless their brains are
 working more efficiently, that is, and exercising cognitive
 inhibition. 
 
 http://www.fastcodesign.com/3025750/evidence/the-neuroscience-of-superstition 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Philip K. Dick was smarter than you, and earlier

[Michael Jackson]

You are right, it was the book Genesis

On Sat, 2/1/14, TurquoiseB  wrote:

 Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Philip K. Dick was smarter than you, and earlier
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Date: Saturday, February 1, 2014, 10:12 AM
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
   
   
   
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson 
 wrote:
 >
 > It will probably give you all the willies to know that
 Crumb did an illuminated Holy Bible - not a send up , not a
 parody, but an illustrated Bible with his art work.
 
 Not the entire Bible...just the
 book of Genesis. It's been called a masterwork, and
 stands as the *only* version of Genesis that illustrated
 every verse of the text in history. 
 
 > 
 > On Sat, 2/1/14, awoelflebater@... awoelflebater@...
 wrote:
 > 
 >  Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: Philip K. Dick was
 smarter than you, and earlier
 >  To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 >  Date: Saturday, February 1, 2014, 2:46 AM
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 >  wrote:
 >  
 >  I always found Crumb's
 >  "comix" disturbing, violent and
 misogynistic. I
 >  particularly hated the Fritz the Cat animated
 >  film.A vision of life so cynical has to be
 >  a complete dead end. 
 >  His
 >  graphics are ugly, grotesque and leave me feeling
 rather
 >  bereft. I always wonder what is inside someone that
 allows
 >  for this strange hideousness to become manifest, and
 in
 >  comic book form no less. Nope, not where I like to put
 my
 >  attention. Maybe it's a guy thing - those nipples
 were
 >  always so plump and engorged looking.
 >
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Deploying Meditators for Peace

[Share Long]

thank you, merudanda, but for someone like me with pre glaucoma, it's better to 
avoid any asanas that feature the legs above the head. Something about 
increased pressure on optic nerve.





On Friday, January 31, 2014 5:04 PM, merudanda  wrote:
 
  




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


.. over 40 years, I have been drunk..was addicted to alcohol. I.. I never 
passed out..have been lassoed. Over and over again. 
"Though Siddhartha fled from the self a thousand times, stayed in nothingness, 
stayed in the animal, in the stone, the return was inevitable, inescapable was 
the hour, when he found himself back in the sunshine or in the moonlight, in 
the shade or in the rain, and was once again his self and Siddhartha, and again 
felt the agony of the cycle which had been forced upon him. .
"What is meditation? What is leaving one's body? What is fasting? What is 
holding one's breath? It is fleeing from the self, it is a short escape of the 
agony of being a self, it is a short numbing of the senses against the pain and 
the pointlessness of life. The same escape, the same short numbing is what the 
driver of an ox-cart finds in the inn, drinking a few bowls of rice-wine or 
fermented coconut-milk. Then he won't feel his self any more, then he won't 
feel the pains of life any more, then he finds a short numbing of the senses. 
When he falls asleep over his bowl of rice-wine, he'll find the same what 
Siddhartha and Govinda find when they escape their bodies through long 
exercises, staying in the non-self. This is how it is, oh Govinda." 
H.Hesse "Siddhartha"Chapter 2 WITH THE SAMANAS


 


O h my...back the memory train to the future
She's got it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LhkyyCvUHk

A Goddess on a mountain top
Was burning like a silver flame
She's got it
Her weapons were
Her crystal eyes
Happy Chinese New Year of the Horse

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbjTZW5z5rw

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Secret Doctrines

[Share Long]

thanks, Richard, wonderful explanation from nothingness about nothingness for 
the sake of nothingess, all via Maharishi (-:





On Friday, January 31, 2014 10:32 PM, Richard Williams  
wrote:
 
  
Everything Has Its Basis in Nothing



MMY at Vlodrop, NE


The thing is, everything has its basis in nothing. I am not talking poetry just 
now, I am talking physics. Everything has its basis in NOTHING. We see a big 
tree - thousands of leaves and branches and flowers and fruits. What it the 
basis of a tree? The basis of a tree is: hollowness - within the seed. And 
hollowness within the seed is nothingness, from where the whole tree springs. 
So that thing is very clear, that everything comes up from nothing. 
Transcendental Meditation is the experience of nothingness.

But that nothingness is like the hollowness of the bunyan seed which has the 
basis of all the innumerable expressions. The thing is that my hand comes up, 
my eyes begin to see, my ears begin to hear. Where is 'I'? Hmmm? 'I' is that 
nothingness which sees through the eyes, through the ears, it moves the hands. 
That, in the Vedic terminology, is called 'devata'. 

'Devata', if we want to translate, we say 'creative intelligence'. Devata is 
that infinite field of creativity - and different fields of creativity, within 
the hollowness of the seed. From within, the leaves come up, the branches come 
up, the flowers come up. These are different devatas which bring out the 
leaves, which bring out the flowers, which bring up. It's a different 
terminology. It's a different terminology which gives ex-
pression to the values of nothingness. So let us know for all time that 
nothingness. We can call it in any term, but it's nothingness, it's 
abstraction, it's unmanifest reality.

In the Vedic terms: nirgun nirakar. Nirgun nirakar - without any quality, 
without any shape. It's the field of the unmanifest. The field of the 
unmanifest is that unified field, where all the diverse values are present, not 
in the physical form, but in the form of abstract memories. In the Vedic terms 
they say smritis. In the smritis all the memories are there in the unmanifest. 
All the memories are there in the unmanifest, the same way as all the memories 
of the leaves, branches, flowers, fruits, they're all there in the nothingness 
within the hollowness of the seed.

So we should KNOW to give importance to nothingness. And then we have in our 
grip the totality. By grabbing on to nothingness, to transcendental 
consciousness - which is abstraction, nothingness - we say self-referral 
consciousness, self-referral consciousness, self-referral intelligence, where 
all the different values are there in the unmanifest state. Transcendental 
Meditation takes us to experience that nothingness.

An experience of nothingness is that experience which utilizes total physiology 
of the brain. Total physiology is put to use, is put to function, in the 
experience of that nothingness, which is the field of all knowledge, all 
action, all dynamism - the field of total natural law. And we say the field of 
the light of God, almighty God, the light of almighty God. So when we say 
'nothingness', we mean there is no boundaries, there is no distinctions, there 
is nothing in isolation, there is one unified platform - unbounded nothingness. 
And there - different qualities of creative intelligence - different qualities 
of creative intelligence. 

In the Vedic literature - Shiva, Vishnu, Ganapati, Surya - all these different, 
different devatas - huge amount of devatas, devatas, devatas, devatas, devatas. 
They are the expressions of different qualities of creative intelligence. So 
let us know forever that if there is anything that should be known, it is 
nothingness that has to be known. And transcendental meditation is that 
nothingness which is the seat of all the laws of Nature, the seat of all 
possibilities - where all these wrong things, negative things of the dark ages, 
all that will disappear.

Source:
http://www.tmbulletin.net/



On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 9:14 AM, Richard J. Williams  
wrote:

On 12/31/2013 10:35 PM, emptyb...@yahoo.com wrote:
>
>> Back to the usual clap-trap.
>>
>
Without enlightenment, there's no Buddha. Without Buddha, there's no Buddhism. 
You're not even making any sense, Bill.
>
>The historical Buddha wrote nothing, and the language that he spoke is no 
>longer extant. This being the case, a person such as yourself could hardly 
>know what the Buddha taught about much of anything about ay secret doctrines. 
>Apparently you can't even understand any Tibetan. Go figure.
>
>However, based on the research of learned scholars such as Robert Thurman, we 
>can infer that the Buddha maintained a strict silence on the matters of the 
>first cause. Not for nothing did they call the Buddha the Shakya the Muni,  
>"the silent sage" of the Shakya clan. It's just not enough to declare all the 
>historians to be "clap-trap". You've got to at least makes sense if 

[FairfieldLife] Those who reject superstition are displaying extra brain power

[TurquoiseB]

Remember the talk of "omens" when a couple of birds attacked the Pope's
"peace doves?" Remember when Maharishi mistook an icicle on his balcony
for Shiva?

New research suggests that the brains of many people are naturally
susceptible to projecting meaning onto meaningless events and
considering them omens. Unless their brains are working more
efficiently, that is, and exercising cognitive inhibition.

http://www.fastcodesign.com/3025750/evidence/the-neuroscience-of-superst\
ition
 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Philip K. Dick was smarter than you, and earlier

[TurquoiseB]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson  wrote:
>
> It will probably give you all the willies to know that Crumb did an
illuminated Holy Bible - not a send up , not a parody, but an
illustrated Bible with his art work.

Not the entire Bible...just the book of Genesis. It's been called a
masterwork, and stands as the *only* version of Genesis that illustrated
every verse of the text in history.

> 
> On Sat, 2/1/14, awoelflebater@... awoelflebater@... wrote:
>
>  Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: Philip K. Dick was smarter than you, and
earlier
>  To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
>  Date: Saturday, February 1, 2014, 2:46 AM
>
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>  ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@
>  wrote:
>
>  I always found Crumb's
>  "comix" disturbing, violent and misogynistic. I
>  particularly hated the Fritz the Cat animated
>  film.A vision of life so cynical has to be
>  a complete dead end.Â
>  His
>  graphics are ugly, grotesque and leave me feeling rather
>  bereft. I always wonder what is inside someone that allows
>  for this strange hideousness to become manifest, and in
>  comic book form no less. Nope, not where I like to put my
>  attention. Maybe it's a guy thing - those nipples were
>  always so plump and engorged looking.
>