[FairfieldLife] Dr. Robert Lanza ; Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness Are the Keys to Understanding the Nature of the Universe
Dr. Robert Lanza ; Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness Are the Keys to Understanding the Nature of the Universe http://www.spiritscienceandmetaphysics.com/scientists-claim-that-quantum-theory-proves-consciousness-moves-to-another-universe-at-death/
[FairfieldLife] A Big Think Interview With Raj Patel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNokVyBTGy0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNokVyBTGy0
[FairfieldLife] Howard Stern Show - Interview with meditators. The Donovan Interview
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KJO841glyo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KJO841glyo
[FairfieldLife] Howard Stern Show - Interview with meditators. The Donovan Interview with Maharishi in India
About his extraordinary career, TM and with Maharishi in India http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KJO841glyo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KJO841glyo
Re: [FairfieldLife] Drink Vedic Coffee and Support Peace
You are right Buck, the TMO IS different now - it is much more of a cult than it was when I started in 1974. If you can look at these idiots wearing robes and gold crowns who practice and follow every Hindu religious observance and holiday and not see it as a cult, then you have been snorting too much sheep dip. On Sat, 2/15/14, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com dhamiltony...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Drink Vedic Coffee and Support Peace To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, February 15, 2014, 5:49 AM Shame on you MHJ. Om, First-Class Bull-Manure you Spread Wide and spread Thick here, MHJ. This TM now is not a “cult” no more as much as you might like to declare that it is. As we used to explain in the olde days, “Om no, TM is not a 'cult' like christian cults or the people's-temple may be; TM is way too dis-organized to be that. . It's about meditation and the evident scientific spiritual value of meditation”.MJ, there is something malevolent in what you do to something that is so good in itself as what is simply transcending meditation. In this new corporate-post-charismantic-era, Transcendental Meditation is plainly now different. Your commentary is clearly out of date. I appreciate that it takes a long time for the current news to travel to the hollers and plantations of South Carolina but clearly you are out of it. -Buck in the Dome mjackson74 writes: I shall begin an immediate campaign to have it removed from Whole Goods (sic) so they don't support cults. The Transcendental Meditative State of Consciousness is Found Within Restful ALERTNESS. Drink: Vedic Coffee to Support Restful ALERTNESS! http://vediccoffee.com/ ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote: I shall begin an immediate campaign to have it removed from Whole Goods so they don't support cults. On Fri, 2/14/14, Buck wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] Drink Vedic Coffee and Support Peace To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, February 14, 2014, 11:52 PM The Transcendental Meditative State of Consciousness is Found Within Restful ALERTNESS. Drink: Vedic Coffee to Support Restful ALERTNESS! http://vediccoffee.com/
[FairfieldLife] Howard Stein Show - interview with successful meditators - Jerry Seinfeld Calls In 02/04/14
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fY_ZIXNVs2k http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fY_ZIXNVs2k
[FairfieldLife] RE: Howard Stein Show - interview with successful meditators - Jerry Seinfeld Calls In 02/04/14
and this also with Jerry Seinfeld: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYkuLZuKVz4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYkuLZuKVz4
[FairfieldLife] RE: Howard Stein Show - interview with successful meditators - Jerry Seinfeld Calls In 02/04/14
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXbDJ3uBl9M http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXbDJ3uBl9M
[FairfieldLife] The Howard Stein Show: Did Paul McCartney invent heavy metal music ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcYq3vtkITU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcYq3vtkITU
[FairfieldLife] RE: Just For Those Special Brits Here At FFL
Oh dear hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way.
[FairfieldLife] RE: Just For Those Special Brits Here At FFL
Thanks, these are all better than the ones I gotbut are you saying that not everyone is like this?
[FairfieldLife] Shockingly expensive!?
http://unmonday.com/collections/shop http://unmonday.com/collections/shop 957 USD!!
[FairfieldLife] RE: Shockingly expensive!?
Loved that speaker leather case, 249.- made of finnish cows ? Not so expensive :-)
Re: [FairfieldLife] Another Astounding Few Moments
Sweet, Ann, thanks for posting and telling us about this wonderful website. On Friday, February 14, 2014 11:09 PM, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com awoelfleba...@yahoo.com wrote: For anyone who cherishes the exceptional, the courageous and the extraordinary check this out: http://www.reshareworthy.com/owen-and-haatchi-documentary/
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Troll study
Xeno, nice to know that even sociopaths have valentines. BTW, I had spanakopita for dinner last night at Dome Market! Go figure! On Friday, February 14, 2014 4:59 PM, anartax...@yahoo.com anartax...@yahoo.com wrote: According to the departed Ravi, I am a sociopath, and therefore could have no empathy whatever for your hurt feelings. |:- I do have a Valentine this day, in the common sense (female), but it's not on FFL. She just started her program, but I must fix dinner, so I have to meditate later. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote: Xeno, my feelings are hurt that you think turq has a better sense of smell than I do. Happy Valentine's Day (-: On Friday, February 14, 2014 3:21 PM, anartaxius@... anartaxius@... wrote: No. Barry and I have no private conversations. I have no knowledge of his private e-mail address or addresses, or of his current residence, though I have seen a depiction the general area he lives in, in the Netherlands, on a map and on Google Earth, since he described it in a post some time ago. I am sure he has no need to correspond with me. Button pushing does interest me. One of the tasks of spirituality is to reduce the number and sensitivity of the psychological buttons we have. Now, how many on this forum got their buttons pushed by my previous post? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote: Hmm, Xeno seems to be studying to become a troll/button-pusher. Barry must be tutoring him behind the scenes. Thank you for this autobiographical post: A new psychology paper studied the personalities of those who engage in trolling (known in some quarters as pushing buttons) on the Internet: The research, conducted by Erin Buckels of the University of Manitoba and two colleagues, sought to directly investigate whether people who engage in trolling are characterized by personality traits that fall in the so-called Dark Tetrad: Machiavellianism (willingness to manipulate and deceive others), narcissism (egotism and self-obsession), psychopathy (the lack of remorse and empathy), and sadism (pleasure in the suffering of others). Read more: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/climate_desk/2014/02/internet_troll_personality_study_machiavellianism_narcissism_psychopathy.html
Re: [FairfieldLife] Drink Vedic Coffee and Support Peace
Nope, not a cult. TM now as a corporation obviously is not a cult any more than any modern productive working corporation of employees is a 'cult'. TM and meditators as a community now are just like airline corporation employee pilots of an airline company. And they might go fly for their work wearing funny looking hats and coats too where they would go to work and pilot an airliner. And those lesser employees too as part of the corporate team who organize a flight as a gate agent or direct people as flight attendants or load luggage or maintain the corporation equipment. TM is as very modern as is any corporation in 'cult' -ure, as Maharishi himself particularly set that in motion now. TM now is not hardly as bad as you portray it. It is rapidly becoming more modern and scientific as it is of vedic origin in corporation all the time. And we don't hardly see the gold hats and robes around much outside of a small circle deep inside at the top. If there is a cult it is possibly at that level to see but you can see a lot of them avoiding the caps and robes when they can. -Buck MJwrites:You are right Buck, the TMO IS different now - it is much more of a cult than it was when I started in 1974. If you can look at these idiots wearing robes and gold crowns who practice and follow every Hindu religious observance and holiday and not see it as a cult, then you have been snorting too much sheep dip. Shame on you MHJ. Om, First-Class Bull-Manure you Spread Wide and Spread Thick here, MHJ. This TM now is not a “cult” no more as much as you might like to declare that it is. As we used to explain in the olde days, “Om no, TM is not a 'cult' like christian cults or the people's-temple may be; TM is way too dis-organized to be that. . It's about meditation and the evident scientific spiritual value of meditation”. MJ, there is something malevolent in what you do to something that is so good in itself as what is simply transcending meditation. In this new corporate-post-charismantic-era, Transcendental Meditation is plainly now different. Your commentary is clearly out of date. I appreciate that it takes a long time for the current news to travel to the hollers and plantations of South Carolina but clearly you are out of it. -Buck in the Dome mjackson74 writes: I shall begin an immediate campaign to have it removed from Whole Goods (sic) so they don't support cults. The Transcendental Meditative State of Consciousness is Found Within Restful ALERTNESS. Drink: Vedic Coffee to Support Restful ALERTNESS! http://vediccoffee.com/ http://vediccoffee.com/ ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote: I shall begin an immediate campaign to have it removed from Whole Goods so they don't support cults. On Fri, 2/14/14, Buck wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] Drink Vedic Coffee and Support Peace To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, February 14, 2014, 11:52 PM The Transcendental Meditative State of Consciousness is Found Within Restful ALERTNESS. Drink: Vedic Coffee to Support Restful ALERTNESS! http://vediccoffee.com/ http://vediccoffee.com/
[FairfieldLife] RE: Just For Those Special Brits Here At FFL
At least some of the brits can sing :-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp4339EbVn8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp4339EbVn8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uRlU81Kz0Q http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uRlU81Kz0Q http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S20yQaGSNQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S20yQaGSNQ
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Troll study
On 2/14/2014 8:48 PM, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com wrote: This places button pushers in the strictly manipulative, deceitful, egotistical, self-obsessive remorseless unempathetic category. The term 'button pusher' is frequently abused to slander opponents in heated debates and is frequently misapplied by those who are ignorant of Internet etiquette.
[FairfieldLife] RE: Just For Those Special Brits Here At FFL
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: Thanks, these are all better than the ones I gotbut are you saying that not everyone is like this? Nah, the rest of us go for stuff like cupids and hearts and gushing sentimentality.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Drink Vedic Coffee and Support Peace
You need to read up on what cults actually are before you make such statements. On Sat, 2/15/14, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com dhamiltony...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Drink Vedic Coffee and Support Peace To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, February 15, 2014, 1:02 PM Nope, not a cult. TM now as a corporation obviously is not a cult any more than any modern productive working corporation of employees is a 'cult'. TM and meditators as a community now are just like airline corporation employee pilots of an airline company. And they might go fly for their work wearing funny looking hats and coats too where they would go to work and pilot an airliner. And those lesser employees too as part of the corporate team who organize a flight as a gate agent or direct people as flight attendants or load luggage or maintain the corporation equipment. TM is as very modern as is any corporation in 'cult' -ure, as Maharishi himself particularly set that in motion now. TM now is not hardly as bad as you portray it. It is rapidly becoming more modern and scientific as it is of vedic origin in corporation all the time. And we don't hardly see the gold hats and robes around much outside of a small circle deep inside at the top. If there is a cult it is possibly at that level to see but you can see a lot of them avoiding the caps and robes when they can.-Buck MJwrites:You are right Buck, the TMO IS different now - it is much more of a cult than it was when I started in 1974. If you can look at these idiots wearing robes and gold crowns who practice and follow every Hindu religious observance and holiday and not see it as a cult, then you have been snorting too much sheep dip. Shame on you MHJ. Om, First-Class Bull-Manure you Spread Wide and Spread Thick here, MHJ. This TM now is not a “cult” no more as much as you might like to declare that it is. As we used to explain in the olde days, “Om no, TM is not a 'cult' like christian cults or the people's-temple may be; TM is way too dis-organized to be that. . It's about meditation and the evident scientific spiritual value of meditation”.MJ, there is something malevolent in what you do to something that is so good in itself as what is simply transcending meditation. In this new corporate-post-charismantic-era, Transcendental Meditation is plainly now different. Your commentary is clearly out of date. I appreciate that it takes a long time for the current news to travel to the hollers and plantations of South Carolina but clearly you are out of it.-Buck in the Dome mjackson74 writes: I shall begin an immediate campaign to have it removed from Whole Goods (sic) so they don't support cults. The Transcendental Meditative State of Consciousness is Found Within Restful ALERTNESS. Drink: Vedic Coffee to Support Restful ALERTNESS! http://vediccoffee.com/ ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote: I shall begin an immediate campaign to have it removed from Whole Goods so they don't support cults. On Fri, 2/14/14, Buck wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] Drink Vedic Coffee and Support Peace To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, February 14, 2014, 11:52 PM The Transcendental Meditative State of Consciousness is Found Within Restful ALERTNESS. Drink: Vedic Coffee to Support Restful ALERTNESS! http://vediccoffee.com/
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Troll study
Again, dingbat, pushing buttons is the term Barry uses to characterize what he does. Is he slandering himself, do you think? This places button pushers in the strictly manipulative, deceitful, egotistical, self-obsessive remorseless unempathetic category. The term 'button pusher' is frequently abused to slander opponents in heated debates and is frequently misapplied by those who are ignorant of Internet etiquette.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Drink Vedic Coffee and Support Peace
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote: You are right Buck, the TMO IS different now - it is much more of a cult than it was when I started in 1974. If you can look at these idiots wearing robes and gold crowns who practice and follow every Hindu religious observance and holiday and not see it as a cult, then you have been snorting too much sheep dip. Cult can be just another word for family. Or community. Or support system. Question, which of these do not involve cult characteristics: The military Life in a monastery Life in a fraternity or sorority membership in the Masons membership in a gang life in FF Iowa I think the word cult is so loaded and has taken on such negative connotations that people can fail to see the few positive aspects of what cults are. For many, it is just a way of life, a way to stay feeling secure and a vehicle to stay surrounded by like-minded others. It isn't always a group headed by a brainwashing leader who controls everyone's every move - but it can be. I think lots of people seek out places where they feel like they are respected, understood, accepted and where common interests are pursued. These are just some of the insecurities and weaknesses that humans exhibit in various ways and at various times. I am not defending the TMO or cults, just saying that the word cult is often used to trigger a reaction, just as is the word religion. On Sat, 2/15/14, dhamiltony2k5@... mailto:dhamiltony2k5@... dhamiltony2k5@... mailto:dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Drink Vedic Coffee and Support Peace To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, February 15, 2014, 5:49 AM Shame on you MHJ. Om, First-Class Bull-Manure you Spread Wide and spread Thick here, MHJ. This TM now is not a “cult” no more as much as you might like to declare that it is. As we used to explain in the olde days, “Om no, TM is not a 'cult' like christian cults or the people's-temple may be; TM is way too dis-organized to be that. . It's about meditation and the evident scientific spiritual value of meditation”. MJ, there is something malevolent in what you do to something that is so good in itself as what is simply transcending meditation. In this new corporate-post-charismantic-era, Transcendental Meditation is plainly now different. Your commentary is clearly out of date. I appreciate that it takes a long time for the current news to travel to the hollers and plantations of South Carolina but clearly you are out of it. -Buck in the Dome mjackson74 writes: I shall begin an immediate campaign to have it removed from Whole Goods (sic) so they don't support cults. The Transcendental Meditative State of Consciousness is Found Within Restful ALERTNESS. Drink: Vedic Coffee to Support Restful ALERTNESS! http://vediccoffee.com/ http://vediccoffee.com/ ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote: I shall begin an immediate campaign to have it removed from Whole Goods so they don't support cults. On Fri, 2/14/14, Buck wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] Drink Vedic Coffee and Support Peace To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, February 14, 2014, 11:52 PM The Transcendental Meditative State of Consciousness is Found Within Restful ALERTNESS. Drink: Vedic Coffee to Support Restful ALERTNESS! http://vediccoffee.com/ http://vediccoffee.com/
Re: [FairfieldLife] Drink Vedic Coffee and Support Peace
But big deal, they are selling yet another nostrum for those whose faith never dies - I guess they will trot out some vaidya clown to claim the ancient texts say that drinking this coffee is good for meditation. On Sat, 2/15/14, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com dhamiltony...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Drink Vedic Coffee and Support Peace To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, February 15, 2014, 1:02 PM Nope, not a cult. TM now as a corporation obviously is not a cult any more than any modern productive working corporation of employees is a 'cult'. TM and meditators as a community now are just like airline corporation employee pilots of an airline company. And they might go fly for their work wearing funny looking hats and coats too where they would go to work and pilot an airliner. And those lesser employees too as part of the corporate team who organize a flight as a gate agent or direct people as flight attendants or load luggage or maintain the corporation equipment. TM is as very modern as is any corporation in 'cult' -ure, as Maharishi himself particularly set that in motion now. TM now is not hardly as bad as you portray it. It is rapidly becoming more modern and scientific as it is of vedic origin in corporation all the time. And we don't hardly see the gold hats and robes around much outside of a small circle deep inside at the top. If there is a cult it is possibly at that level to see but you can see a lot of them avoiding the caps and robes when they can.-Buck MJwrites:You are right Buck, the TMO IS different now - it is much more of a cult than it was when I started in 1974. If you can look at these idiots wearing robes and gold crowns who practice and follow every Hindu religious observance and holiday and not see it as a cult, then you have been snorting too much sheep dip. Shame on you MHJ. Om, First-Class Bull-Manure you Spread Wide and Spread Thick here, MHJ. This TM now is not a “cult” no more as much as you might like to declare that it is. As we used to explain in the olde days, “Om no, TM is not a 'cult' like christian cults or the people's-temple may be; TM is way too dis-organized to be that. . It's about meditation and the evident scientific spiritual value of meditation”.MJ, there is something malevolent in what you do to something that is so good in itself as what is simply transcending meditation. In this new corporate-post-charismantic-era, Transcendental Meditation is plainly now different. Your commentary is clearly out of date. I appreciate that it takes a long time for the current news to travel to the hollers and plantations of South Carolina but clearly you are out of it.-Buck in the Dome mjackson74 writes: I shall begin an immediate campaign to have it removed from Whole Goods (sic) so they don't support cults. The Transcendental Meditative State of Consciousness is Found Within Restful ALERTNESS. Drink: Vedic Coffee to Support Restful ALERTNESS! http://vediccoffee.com/ ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote: I shall begin an immediate campaign to have it removed from Whole Goods so they don't support cults. On Fri, 2/14/14, Buck wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] Drink Vedic Coffee and Support Peace To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, February 14, 2014, 11:52 PM The Transcendental Meditative State of Consciousness is Found Within Restful ALERTNESS. Drink: Vedic Coffee to Support Restful ALERTNESS! http://vediccoffee.com/
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Test: Can you spot the HYPOCRISY in this Barry Wright post?
On 2/14/2014 7:38 AM, steve.sun...@yahoo.com wrote: Would not unflinching honesty require a response to what appears to be a breach of this assertion, without conditions!!? To be honest, Steve, this post of Judy's is an example of Trollbaiting - the use of other trolls as an excuse for their own misbehavior, and in many cases, typecasting another user as a troll regardless of his or her intent.
[FairfieldLife] Sociological Research: Physical intimacy with strangers leads to Depression, Anxiety, low self-esteem
Sociological Research: Physical intimacy with strangers leads to Depression, Anxiety, low self-esteem As we predicted, people who engaged in more hookups had greater psychological distress. College students who recently engaged in casual sex reported lower levels of self-esteem, life-satisfaction, and happiness compared to those students who did not have casual sex in the past month. On the distress side of the equation, similarly, students who recently engaged in hookups had higher distress scores as indicated by levels of depression and anxiety. In contrast to the notion that men are okay with casual sex but women are not, we did not find sex differences in the relationships between casual sex and either distress or well-being. For both men and women engaging in true hookup sex, meaning with a casual stranger rather than a romantic partner or, even, “friend with benefits,” seemed to bode poorly for mental health and self-esteem. http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/fulfillment-any-age/ 201303/sexual-hookups-and-psychological-health http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/fulfillment-any-age/201303/sexual-hookups-and-psychological-health In the first study to investigate the issue of self-esteem and hookups, both men and women who had ever engaged in an uncommitted sexual encounter had lower overall self-esteem scores compared with those without uncommitted sexual experiences (Paul et al., 2000). The potential causal direction of the relationship between self-esteem and uncommitted sex is yet unclear (Fielder Carey, 2010; Paul et al., 2000). http://www.apa.org/monitor/2013/02/ce-corner.aspx http://www.apa.org/monitor/2013/02/ce-corner.aspx Casual sex has been glamorized in movies and on television. Casual sex websites, often accompanied with porn material, make it easy for partners to hook up. The philosophy underlying all this hype is that marriage is out; casual sex is harmless fun; everyone is doing it. This is a seriously flawed philosophy. The psychological risks are minimized. The threat of possible psychological damage is ignored. New research links casual sex to negative well-being, lower self-esteem, and higher levels of anxiety and depression... http://blog.womenshealthmag.com/scoop/casual-sex/ http://blog.womenshealthmag.com/scoop/casual-sex/
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Test: Can you spot the HYPOCRISY in this Barry Wright post?
I can't wait to see the Feeb fall for this one, even though he's perfectly well aware (as is Richard) that Barry typecasts himself as a troll, and I'm far more sinned against than sinning. If any troll deserves to be troll-baited once in awhile, it's Barry. Would not unflinching honesty require a response to what appears to be a breach of this assertion, without conditions!!? To be honest, Steve, this post of Judy's is an example of Trollbaiting - the use of other trolls as an excuse for their own misbehavior, and in many cases, typecasting another user as a troll regardless of his or her intent.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Troll study
On 2/14/2014 1:19 PM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote: A new psychology paper http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886914000324 studied the personalities of those who engage in trolling (known in some quarters as pushing buttons) on the Internet: There is a fib in this sentence: this study mentioned on Slate, failed to define the termtroll and did not use the termbutton pusher in it's description. So, what we've got here is an example of circular logic: the undefined term troll is defined as a button pusher,which remains undefined. The study found correlations, sometimes quite significant, between these traits and trolling behavior. http://www.slate.com/internet_troll_personality_study/ http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/climate_desk/2014/02/internet_troll_personality_study_machiavellianism_narcissism_psychopathy.html See the Troll FAQ: http://rwilliams.us/troll_faq.htm
[FairfieldLife] RE: Drink Vedic Coffee and Support Peace
Sorry, Buck, I already sold my soul to the good folks in Bainbridge Island, WA, who make that unbelievably good Pegasus coffee. Combined with Radiance Dairy heavy cream, it is *truly* liquid enlightenment at its very finest.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Troll study
Slate's readers are more than hip enough (as are FFLers) to know what trolling is. The actual study, I'd guess, does define it, but the text is behind a paywall. In any case, folks know it when they see it. But we can use the definition in your Troll FAQ: Troll - A person who sends duplicitous messages to get angry responses. Barry's trolling is defined by his behavior. He calls it button pushing, but it's immediately identifiable as trolling by your own definition. Even Xeno, his staunchest defender, agrees. And of course there's no fib in the Slate article. A new psychology paper studied the personalities of those who engage in trolling (known in some quarters as pushing buttons) on the Internet: There is a fib in this sentence: this study mentioned on Slate, failed to define the termtroll and did not use the termbutton pusher in it's description. So, what we've got here is an example of circular logic: the undefined term troll is defined as a button pusher,which remains undefined. The study found correlations, sometimes quite significant, between these traits and trolling behavior. http://www.slate.com/internet_troll_personality_study/ See the Troll FAQ: http://rwilliams.us/troll_faq.htm http://rwilliams.us/troll_faq.htm
Re: [FairfieldLife] Drink Vedic Coffee and Support Peace
MJ, See Weber's comments on 'cult' in Melton's Intro to The Postcharismatic Fate of New Religious Movements: http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/370565 http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/370565 Your thesis around TM being a 'cult' has a problem in that we in TM no longer have a charismatic leader of TM. We are either administrators or meditators in TM and anyone in TM is enfranchised by a little of both under Maharishi's Absolute Theories of Management and Government. You clearly are full of your own personal BS and have your ax grinding about something. I feels a sorrow for thee in thy lack of peace around this. -Buck “Which would you rather experience: living the paradox or understanding it to your satisfaction?” Not either position is mutually exclusive, or that there is a third possibility of both. MJ writes: You need to read up on what cults actually are before you make such statements. Nope, not a cult. TM now as a corporation obviously is not a cult any more than any modern productive working corporation of employees is a 'cult'. TM and meditators as a community now are just like airline corporation employee pilots of an airline company. And they might go fly for their work wearing funny looking hats and coats too where they would go to work and pilot an airliner. And those lesser employees too as part of the corporate team who organize a flight as a gate agent or direct people as flight attendants or load luggage or maintain the corporation equipment. TM is as very modern as is any corporation in 'cult' -ure, as Maharishi himself particularly set that in motion now. TM now is not hardly as bad as you portray it. It is rapidly becoming more modern and scientific as it is of vedic origin in corporation all the time. And we don't hardly see the gold hats and robes around much outside of a small circle deep inside at the top. If there is a cult it is possibly at that level to see but you can see a lot of them avoiding the caps and robes when they can. -Buck MJwrites:You are right Buck, the TMO IS different now - it is much more of a cult than it was when I started in 1974. If you can look at these idiots wearing robes and gold crowns who practice and follow every Hindu religious observance and holiday and not see it as a cult, then you have been snorting too much sheep dip. Shame on you MHJ. Om, First-Class Bull-Manure you Spread Wide and Spread Thick here, MHJ. This TM now is not a “cult” no more as much as you might like to declare that it is. As we used to explain in the olde days, “Om no, TM is not a 'cult' like christian cults or the people's-temple may be; TM is way too dis-organized to be that. . It's about meditation and the evident scientific spiritual value of meditation”. MJ, there is something malevolent in what you do to something that is so good in itself as what is simply transcending meditation. In this new corporate-post-charismantic-era, Transcendental Meditation is plainly now different. Your commentary is clearly out of date. I appreciate that it takes a long time for the current news to travel to the hollers and plantations of South Carolina but clearly you are out of it. -Buck in the Dome mjackson74 writes: I shall begin an immediate campaign to have it removed from Whole Goods (sic) so they don't support cults. The Transcendental Meditative State of Consciousness is Found Within Restful ALERTNESS. Drink: Vedic Coffee to Support Restful ALERTNESS! http://vediccoffee.com/ http://vediccoffee.com/ ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote: I shall begin an immediate campaign to have it removed from Whole Goods so they don't support cults. On Fri, 2/14/14, Buck wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] Drink Vedic Coffee and Support Peace To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, February 14, 2014, 11:52 PM The Transcendental Meditative State of Consciousness is Found Within Restful ALERTNESS. Drink: Vedic Coffee to Support Restful ALERTNESS! http://vediccoffee.com/ http://vediccoffee.com/
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[FairfieldLife] John M. Knapp: Licensing Board Ruling
I've previously posted on FFL about John Knapp who (through 2011ish) had been around the TM/anti-TM circuit for decades. Folks who were around FFL prior to 2010ish(?) are most likely familiar with Knapp. I'm pretty sure I previously stated on FFL that I would post an update once NY state made a ruling regarding Knapp's Social Work license. NY state's ruling was made on 1/14/14. NY state made the ruling public sometime in the past week. Knapp was my former cult-recovery therapist from around July, 2008, until August, 2010. Brief timeline: October, 2010: Formal complaint was filed with NY State regarding John M. Knapp. (I filed the complaint.) December, 2010: NY state opened an official investigation November, 2012: NY state held a hearing for Knapp before the licensing board. Knapp did not show. January, 2014: NY state made its official ruling. From the NY Office of Professional Discipline site: John Knapp, Bloomington, IN Profession: Licensed Master Social Worker; Lic. No. 071643; Cal. No. 26202 Regents Action Date: January 14, 2014 Action: Found guilty of professional misconduct; Penalty: Revocation. Summary: Licensee was found guilty of practicing his profession with negligence, as well as with incompetence, on more than one occasion, and of unprofessional conduct. The ruling can can be found at the following link: http://www.op.nysed.gov/opd/January2014.htm#csw http://www.op.nysed.gov/opd/January2014.htm#csw And that's that. To life, ~Carol
Re: [FairfieldLife] Drink Vedic Coffee and Support Peace
Heck TM does not even have a charismatic leader or leadership anymore. WE got administrators. It is kind of hard to have a cult without a charismatic leader that you could point to. That is defining of cults. Please see FFL post# 370565 . No, people become meditators and then freely participating in this organization because they like meditation and appreciate all the good that the transcendent meditative state provides everyone individually and collectively. Our meditating organization is here to facilitate that good. That facilitating in our case now is the work of good in progress by our new incorporation as meditators. Our corporation as it always has been is certainly about affecting a positive revolutionary radical change in all of society for everybody. Most of us in TM are pretty clear about that. Are you with us or against us in this? -U.S. Buck in the Dome MJ, See Weber's comments on 'cult' in Melton's Intro to The Postcharismatic Fate of New Religious Movements: http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/370565 http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/370565 MJ, Your thesis around TM being a 'cult' has a problem in that we in TM no longer have a charismatic leader of TM. We are either administrators or meditators in TM and anyone in TM is enfranchised by a little of both under Maharishi's Absolute Theories of Management and Government. You clearly are full of your own personal BS and have your ax grinding about something. I feels a sorrow for thee in thy lack of peace around this. -Buck “Which would you rather experience: living the paradox or understanding it to your satisfaction?” Not either position is mutually exclusive, or that there is a third possibility of both. MJ writes: You need to read up on what cults actually are before you make such statements. Nope, not a cult. TM now as a corporation obviously is not a cult any more than any modern productive working corporation of employees is a 'cult'. TM and meditators as a community now are just like airline corporation employee pilots of an airline company. And they might go fly for their work wearing funny looking hats and coats too where they would go to work and pilot an airliner. And those lesser employees too as part of the corporate team who organize a flight as a gate agent or direct people as flight attendants or load luggage or maintain the corporation equipment. TM is as very modern as is any corporation in 'cult' -ure, as Maharishi himself particularly set that in motion now. TM now is not hardly as bad as you portray it. It is rapidly becoming more modern and scientific as it is of vedic origin in corporation all the time. And we don't hardly see the gold hats and robes around much outside of a small circle deep inside at the top. If there is a cult it is possibly at that level to see but you can see a lot of them avoiding the caps and robes when they can. -Buck MJwrites:You are right Buck, the TMO IS different now - it is much more of a cult than it was when I started in 1974. If you can look at these idiots wearing robes and gold crowns who practice and follow every Hindu religious observance and holiday and not see it as a cult, then you have been snorting too much sheep dip. Shame on you MHJ. Om, First-Class Bull-Manure you Spread Wide and Spread Thick here, MHJ. This TM now is not a “cult” no more as much as you might like to declare that it is. As we used to explain in the olde days, “Om no, TM is not a 'cult' like christian cults or the people's-temple may be; TM is way too dis-organized to be that. . It's about meditation and the evident scientific spiritual value of meditation”. MJ, there is something malevolent in what you do to something that is so good in itself as what is simply transcending meditation. In this new corporate-post-charismantic-era, Transcendental Meditation is plainly now different. Your commentary is clearly out of date. I appreciate that it takes a long time for the current news to travel to the hollers and plantations of South Carolina but clearly you are out of it. -Buck in the Dome mjackson74 writes: I shall begin an immediate campaign to have it removed from Whole Goods (sic) so they don't support cults. The Transcendental Meditative State of Consciousness is Found Within Restful ALERTNESS. Drink: Vedic Coffee to Support Restful ALERTNESS! http://vediccoffee.com/ http://vediccoffee.com/ ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote: I shall begin an immediate campaign to have it removed from Whole Goods so they don't support cults. On Fri, 2/14/14, Buck wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] Drink Vedic Coffee and Support Peace To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, February 14, 2014, 11:52 PM The Transcendental Meditative
[FairfieldLife] RE: John M. Knapp: Licensing Board Ruling
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jchwelch@... wrote: I've previously posted on FFL about John Knapp who (through 2011ish) had been around the TM/anti-TM circuit for decades. Folks who were around FFL prior to 2010ish(?) are most likely familiar with Knapp. I'm pretty sure I previously stated on FFL that I would post an update once NY state made a ruling regarding Knapp's Social Work license. NY state's ruling was made on 1/14/14. NY state made the ruling public sometime in the past week. Knapp was my former cult-recovery therapist from around July, 2008, until August, 2010. Brief timeline: October, 2010: Formal complaint was filed with NY State regarding John M. Knapp. (I filed the complaint.) December, 2010: NY state opened an official investigation November, 2012: NY state held a hearing for Knapp before the licensing board. Knapp did not show. January, 2014: NY state made its official ruling. From the NY Office of Professional Discipline site: John Knapp, Bloomington, IN Profession: Licensed Master Social Worker; Lic. No. 071643; Cal. No. 26202 Regents Action Date: January 14, 2014 Action: Found guilty of professional misconduct; Penalty: Revocation. Summary: Licensee was found guilty of practicing his profession with negligence, as well as with incompetence, on more than one occasion, and of unprofessional conduct. The ruling can can be found at the following link: http://www.op.nysed.gov/opd/January2014.htm#csw http://www.op.nysed.gov/opd/January2014.htm#csw And that's that. To life, ~Carol Thanks for the update Carol. You seem to have fought a hard battle and emerged. Not really knowing more than the simple outline of this matter I can not comment with any authority as to an opinion on whether his revocation is positive or not. What I can do is to say that you appear a strong and persistent woman who fought for the thing she believed and for that I offer you my respect and congratulations on the outcome of the board's review.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Drink Vedic Coffee and Support Peace
agin On Sat, 2/15/14, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com dhamiltony...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Drink Vedic Coffee and Support Peace To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, February 15, 2014, 4:14 PM Heck TM does not even have a charismatic leader or leadership anymore. WE got administrators. It is kind of hard to have a cult without a charismatic leader that you could point to. That is defining of cults. Please see FFL post# 370565 . No, people become meditators and then freely participating in this organization because they like meditation and appreciate all the good that the transcendent meditative state provides everyone individually and collectively. Our meditating organization is here to facilitate that good. That facilitating in our case now is the work of good in progress by our new incorporation as meditators. Our corporation as it always has been is certainly about affecting a positive revolutionary radical change in all of society for everybody. Most of us in TM are pretty clear about that. Are you with us or against us in this? -U.S. Buck in the Dome MJ, See Weber's comments on 'cult' in Melton's Intro to The Postcharismatic Fate of New Religious Movements:http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/370565 MJ, Your thesis around TM being a 'cult' has a problem in that we in TM no longer have a charismatic leader of TM. We are either administrators or meditators in TM and anyone in TM is enfranchised by a little of both under Maharishi's Absolute Theories of Management and Government. You clearly are full of your own personal BS and have your ax grinding about something. I feels a sorrow for thee in thy lack of peace around this.-Buck “Which would you rather experience: living the paradox or understanding it to your satisfaction?” Not either position is mutually exclusive, or that there is a third possibility of both. MJ writes: You need to read up on what cults actually are before you make such statements. Nope, not a cult. TM now as a corporation obviously is not a cult any more than any modern productive working corporation of employees is a 'cult'. TM and meditators as a community now are just like airline corporation employee pilots of an airline company. And they might go fly for their work wearing funny looking hats and coats too where they would go to work and pilot an airliner. And those lesser employees too as part of the corporate team who organize a flight as a gate agent or direct people as flight attendants or load luggage or maintain the corporation equipment. TM is as very modern as is any corporation in 'cult' -ure, as Maharishi himself particularly set that in motion now. TM now is not hardly as bad as you portray it. It is rapidly becoming more modern and scientific as it is of vedic origin in corporation all the time. And we don't hardly see the gold hats and robes around much outside of a small circle deep inside at the top. If there is a cult it is possibly at that level to see but you can see a lot of them avoiding the caps and robes when they can.-Buck MJwrites:You are right Buck, the TMO IS different now - it is much more of a cult than it was when I started in 1974. If you can look at these idiots wearing robes and gold crowns who practice and follow every Hindu religious observance and holiday and not see it as a cult, then you have been snorting too much sheep dip. Shame on you MHJ. Om, First-Class Bull-Manure you Spread Wide and Spread Thick here, MHJ. This TM now is not a “cult” no more as much as you might like to declare that it is. As we used to explain in the olde days, “Om no, TM is not a 'cult' like christian cults or the people's-temple may be; TM is way too dis-organized to be that. . It's about meditation and the evident scientific spiritual value of meditation”.MJ, there is something malevolent in what you do to something that is so good in itself as what is simply transcending meditation. In this new corporate-post-charismantic-era, Transcendental Meditation is plainly now different. Your commentary is clearly out of date. I appreciate that it takes a long time for the current news to travel to the hollers and plantations of South Carolina but clearly you are out of it.-Buck in the Dome mjackson74 writes: I shall begin an immediate campaign to have it removed from Whole Goods (sic) so they don't support cults. The Transcendental Meditative State of Consciousness is Found Within Restful ALERTNESS. Drink: Vedic Coffee to Support Restful ALERTNESS! http://vediccoffee.com/ ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote: I shall begin an immediate campaign to have it removed from Whole Goods so
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Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Drink Vedic Coffee and Support Peace
Coffee helps reduce kapha as does tobacco. Maybe Lynch would look like Michael Moore if he didn't drink coffee and smoke. On 02/14/2014 10:45 PM, salyavin808 wrote: Is this a joke. Are they drinking coffee to stay awake in the domes now? If anything is bound to interfere with those subtle level of awareness it's coffee. That's what I was taught anyway. Obviously it's not an official TM product but then David Lynch drinks it like it's going out of fashion. And smokes like a chimney too! I look forward to the vedic coffin nails advert... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: The Transcendental Meditative State of Consciousness is Found Within Restful ALERTNESS. Drink: Vedic Coffee to Support Restful ALERTNESS! http://vediccoffee.com/
[FairfieldLife] RE: John M. Knapp: Licensing Board Ruling
I've followed this fairly closely. Carol was not the only victim. It's excellent news that Knapp will no longer be able to use that license in a professional capacity to inflict harm on others who might seek therapy with him. Congratulations, Carol, well done. I've previously posted on FFL about John Knapp who (through 2011ish) had been around the TM/anti-TM circuit for decades. Folks who were around FFL prior to 2010ish(?) are most likely familiar with Knapp. I'm pretty sure I previously stated on FFL that I would post an update once NY state made a ruling regarding Knapp's Social Work license. NY state's ruling was made on 1/14/14. NY state made the ruling public sometime in the past week. Knapp was my former cult-recovery therapist from around July, 2008, until August, 2010. Brief timeline:October, 2010: Formal complaint was filed with NY State regarding John M. Knapp. (I filed the complaint.) December, 2010: NY state opened an official investigation November, 2012: NY state held a hearing for Knapp before the licensing board. Knapp did not show. January, 2014: NY state made its official ruling. From the NY Office of Professional Discipline site: John Knapp, Bloomington, IN Profession: Licensed Master Social Worker; Lic. No. 071643; Cal. No. 26202 Regents Action Date: January 14, 2014 Action: Found guilty of professional misconduct; Penalty: Revocation. Summary: Licensee was found guilty of practicing his profession with negligence, as well as with incompetence, on more than one occasion, and of unprofessional conduct. The ruling can can be found at the following link: http://www.op.nysed.gov/opd/January2014.htm#csw http://www.op.nysed.gov/opd/January2014.htm#csw And that's that. To life, ~Carol Thanks for the update Carol. You seem to have fought a hard battle and emerged. Not really knowing more than the simple outline of this matter I can not comment with any authority as to an opinion on whether his revocation is positive or not. What I can do is to say that you appear a strong and persistent woman who fought for the thing she believed and for that I offer you my respect and congratulations on the outcome of the board's review.
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Drink Vedic Coffee and Support Peace
I can think of less dangerous ways of reducing kapha than smoking. I suppose he can always take some amrit kalash if he gets cancer, that's bound to work... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote: Coffee helps reduce kapha as does tobacco. Maybe Lynch would look like Michael Moore if he didn't drink coffee and smoke. On 02/14/2014 10:45 PM, salyavin808 wrote: Is this a joke. Are they drinking coffee to stay awake in the domes now? If anything is bound to interfere with those subtle level of awareness it's coffee. That's what I was taught anyway. Obviously it's not an official TM product but then David Lynch drinks it like it's going out of fashion. And smokes like a chimney too! I look forward to the vedic coffin nails advert... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5@... mailto:dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: The Transcendental Meditative State of Consciousness is Found Within Restful ALERTNESS. Drink: Vedic Coffee to Support Restful ALERTNESS! http://vediccoffee.com/ http://vediccoffee.com/
Re: [FairfieldLife] Troll study
On 2/14/2014 10:32 PM, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com wrote: The button pushers are actually the ones wasting their own time while the others simply marvel at the stupidity of it. Button pushers often state extreme positions to make his or her actual beliefs seem moderate. Go figure.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Troll study
On 2/14/2014 10:47 PM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote: he is a troll, and the article's description of the troll personality fits him perfectly. Calling someone a troll makes assumptions about a writer's motives that are impossible to determine. The term troll is highly subjective, and some posts will look like trolling to some while seeming like meaningful contributions to others. Go figure.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Troll study
Trolling is the same as button-pushing. Barry himself calls what he does pushing buttons. (Third or fourth time I've pointed this out to you.) he is a troll, and the article's description of the troll personality fits him perfectly. Calling someone a troll makes assumptions about a writer's motives that are impossible to determine. The term troll is highly subjective, and some posts will look like trolling to some while seeming like meaningful contributions to others. Go figure.
[FairfieldLife] RE: John M. Knapp: Licensing Board Ruling
Thanks for the kind words Anne. Of course, there is a lot that happened between the lines of the brief outline. IMO (and others who were involved), Knapp's revocation is a good thing; he has harmed more than one person, including at least three ex-clients. From Knapp's online public displays, he has claimed he lost his license over at least a year ago (and that due to a lawsuit), though that isn't the case because the ruling wasn't made until January, 2014, and there was never a lawsuit. Regardless, Knapp seems to wear a lost license (or as he publicly describes himself as a defrocked therapist) as a badge of being a rebel, or something. At least now, there is a public official ruling which will make it difficult for him to get licensed again if he ever would have an interest in doing so. Thanks again. Hope you and the horses are well. :-)
[FairfieldLife] RE: John M. Knapp: Licensing Board Ruling
Interesting... when you posted earlier this morning, I Googled around to refresh my memory, and the one thing that really stood out for me was the defrocked therapist self-description he uses to promote himself. I thought it very odd that a person would accentuate the consequences of his malevolence as some kind of badge of honor. Strange guy, that one. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jchwe...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the kind words Anne. Of course, there is a lot that happened between the lines of the brief outline. IMO (and others who were involved), Knapp's revocation is a good thing; he has harmed more than one person, including at least three ex-clients. From Knapp's online public displays, he has claimed he lost his license over at least a year ago (and that due to a lawsuit), though that isn't the case because the ruling wasn't made until January, 2014, and there was never a lawsuit. Regardless, Knapp seems to wear a lost license (or as he publicly describes himself as a defrocked therapist) as a badge of being a rebel, or something. At least now, there is a public official ruling which will make it difficult for him to get licensed again if he ever would have an interest in doing so. Thanks again. Hope you and the horses are well. :-)
[FairfieldLife] RE: John M. Knapp: Licensing Board Ruling
Thanks Judy. When I received the news of the outcome, I didn't feel good. Quite the opposite. After the news sank in, I realized I felt like I just wanted to take a shower and wash it all off. I think that's probably a 'normal' reaction in such circumstances. I used music that day for the shower. http://tossandripple.blogspot.com/2014/01/artapply-as-needed-cannot-overdose.html; One of Knapp's former victims responded..And now we heal. It was a type of psychological/emotional rape that Knapp exacted upon more than one person. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote: I've followed this fairly closely. Carol was not the only victim. It's excellent news that Knapp will no longer be able to use that license in a professional capacity to inflict harm on others who might seek therapy with him. Congratulations, Carol, well done. I've previously posted on FFL about John Knapp who (through 2011ish) had been around the TM/anti-TM circuit for decades. Folks who were around FFL prior to 2010ish(?) are most likely familiar with Knapp. I'm pretty sure I previously stated on FFL that I would post an update once NY state made a ruling regarding Knapp's Social Work license. NY state's ruling was made on 1/14/14. NY state made the ruling public sometime in the past week. Knapp was my former cult-recovery therapist from around July, 2008, until August, 2010. Brief timeline:October, 2010: Formal complaint was filed with NY State regarding John M. Knapp. (I filed the complaint.) December, 2010: NY state opened an official investigation November, 2012: NY state held a hearing for Knapp before the licensing board. Knapp did not show. January, 2014: NY state made its official ruling. From the NY Office of Professional Discipline site: John Knapp, Bloomington, IN Profession: Licensed Master Social Worker; Lic. No. 071643; Cal. No. 26202 Regents Action Date: January 14, 2014 Action: Found guilty of professional misconduct; Penalty: Revocation. Summary: Licensee was found guilty of practicing his profession with negligence, as well as with incompetence, on more than one occasion, and of unprofessional conduct. The ruling can can be found at the following link: http://www.op.nysed.gov/opd/January2014.htm#csw http://www.op.nysed.gov/opd/January2014.htm#csw And that's that. To life, ~Carol Thanks for the update Carol. You seem to have fought a hard battle and emerged. Not really knowing more than the simple outline of this matter I can not comment with any authority as to an opinion on whether his revocation is positive or not. What I can do is to say that you appear a strong and persistent woman who fought for the thing she believed and for that I offer you my respect and congratulations on the outcome of the board's review.
[FairfieldLife] RE: John M. Knapp: Licensing Board Ruling
Well, I hope you're feeling better now. You got guts, kid. You did the right thing. Thanks Judy. When I received the news of the outcome, I didn't feel good. Quite the opposite. After the news sank in, I realized I felt like I just wanted to take a shower and wash it all off. I think that's probably a 'normal' reaction in such circumstances. I used music that day for the shower. http://tossandripple.blogspot.com/2014/01/artapply-as-needed-cannot-overdose.html; One of Knapp's former victims responded..And now we heal. It was a type of psychological/emotional rape that Knapp exacted upon more than one person. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote: I've followed this fairly closely. Carol was not the only victim. It's excellent news that Knapp will no longer be able to use that license in a professional capacity to inflict harm on others who might seek therapy with him. Congratulations, Carol, well done. I've previously posted on FFL about John Knapp who (through 2011ish) had been around the TM/anti-TM circuit for decades. Folks who were around FFL prior to 2010ish(?) are most likely familiar with Knapp. I'm pretty sure I previously stated on FFL that I would post an update once NY state made a ruling regarding Knapp's Social Work license. NY state's ruling was made on 1/14/14. NY state made the ruling public sometime in the past week. Knapp was my former cult-recovery therapist from around July, 2008, until August, 2010. Brief timeline:October, 2010: Formal complaint was filed with NY State regarding John M. Knapp. (I filed the complaint.) December, 2010: NY state opened an official investigation November, 2012: NY state held a hearing for Knapp before the licensing board. Knapp did not show. January, 2014: NY state made its official ruling. From the NY Office of Professional Discipline site: John Knapp, Bloomington, IN Profession: Licensed Master Social Worker; Lic. No. 071643; Cal. No. 26202 Regents Action Date: January 14, 2014 Action: Found guilty of professional misconduct; Penalty: Revocation. Summary: Licensee was found guilty of practicing his profession with negligence, as well as with incompetence, on more than one occasion, and of unprofessional conduct. The ruling can can be found at the following link: http://www.op.nysed.gov/opd/January2014.htm#csw http://www.op.nysed.gov/opd/January2014.htm#csw And that's that. To life, ~Carol Thanks for the update Carol. You seem to have fought a hard battle and emerged. Not really knowing more than the simple outline of this matter I can not comment with any authority as to an opinion on whether his revocation is positive or not. What I can do is to say that you appear a strong and persistent woman who fought for the thing she believed and for that I offer you my respect and congratulations on the outcome of the board's review.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Drink Vedic Coffee and Support Peace
On 2/15/2014 7:02 AM, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com wrote: And we don't hardly see the gold hats and robes around much outside of a small circle deep inside at the top. Most people in Fairfield and in the TMO probably don't see very many of the MUM administrators, and probably only see and interact with a few instructors - if someone is enrolled in a course. So, I'd say that someone working on staff in the cafeteria a decade ago probably wouldn't be knowing very much about the coming-and-goings of anybody wearing a gold hat and a robe around Fairfield. Apparently Michael H. Jackson is an informant - a former TM junkie who feels learning TM was one of the biggest mistakes he ever made. Go figure. 'Maharishi Marketing Time Line' Posted by Laurie at 2/09/2014 12:40:00 PM http://tmfree.blogspot.com/
[FairfieldLife] RE: John M. Knapp: Licensing Board Ruling
I don't know that he was inherently malevolent; he was (and apparently still is) a sicko, living in his own private reality. The malevolent behavior was a survival move. Doesn't make the harm he caused any the less, though. Interesting... when you posted earlier this morning, I Googled around to refresh my memory, and the one thing that really stood out for me was the defrocked therapist self-description he uses to promote himself. I thought it very odd that a person would accentuate the consequences of his malevolence as some kind of badge of honor. Strange guy, that one. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jchwelch@... wrote: Thanks for the kind words Anne. Of course, there is a lot that happened between the lines of the brief outline. IMO (and others who were involved), Knapp's revocation is a good thing; he has harmed more than one person, including at least three ex-clients. From Knapp's online public displays, he has claimed he lost his license over at least a year ago (and that due to a lawsuit), though that isn't the case because the ruling wasn't made until January, 2014, and there was never a lawsuit. Regardless, Knapp seems to wear a lost license (or as he publicly describes himself as a defrocked therapist) as a badge of being a rebel, or something. At least now, there is a public official ruling which will make it difficult for him to get licensed again if he ever would have an interest in doing so. Thanks again. Hope you and the horses are well. :-)
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Country Chuckles
Don't mess with old men, they didn't get old by being stupid. - Will Rogers On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Pundit Sir pundits...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone can fail many times, but you aren't a failure until you begin to blame somebody else. - John Burroughs On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 8:26 AM, Pundit Sir pundits...@gmail.com wrote: Doing nothing is hard to do - you never know when you're finished. - Leslie Nielsen On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 8:35 AM, Pundit Sir pundits...@gmail.com wrote: We are born naked, wet, and hungry. Then things get worse. - Will Rogers On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 9:40 PM, Pundit Sir pundits...@gmail.comwrote: Never miss a good chance to shut up. - Will Rogers On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 10:27 AM, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com wrote: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote: That's it, Richard! I'm in love with Will Rogers. Is he still alive? (-: Long dead, Share: On August 15, 1935, Rogers was on a flight to Asia with the famous pilot Wiley Post when the craft developed engine troubles and crashed near Point Barrow, Alaska http://www.history.com/topics/alaska. The crash killed both men. Rogers was only 55. On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 9:46 AM, Pundit Sir punditster@... wrote: Timing has an awful lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance. - Will Rogers On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 10:17 AM, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: Richard, I love this guy! I bet he was enlightened (-: PS Maharishi said that at the deepest level of every atom, even every atom of our body, Purusha IS Prakriti. Go figure! On Tuesday, February 11, 2014 8:14 AM, Pundit Sir punditster@... wrote: Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it. - Will Rogers On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 9:43 PM, Pundit Sir punditster@... wrote: Generally speaking, you aren't learning much when your mouth is moving. - Will Rogers On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 10:54 AM, authfriend@... wrote: So what was the good catch you said I made, Share? I don't believe you've responded to that question. Keep 'em coming Richard and thank you...
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Troll study
On 2/15/2014 8:38 AM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote: Again, dingbat, pushing buttons is the term Barry uses to characterize what he does. Is he slandering himself, do you think? Barry never equated someone being a troll with someone posting a message and pushing someone's buttons- that's a fib you made up, dingbat. A person who sends duplicitous messages to get angry responses is a troll - like the Slate report you just posted. Go figure.
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Test: Can you spot the HYPOCRISY in this Barry Wright post?
On 2/15/2014 9:02 AM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote: If any troll deserves to be troll-baited once in awhile, it's Barry. You are incorrect - Barry is a button pusher, not a troll - that's the part you made up. Button pushers are sometimes caricatured as socially inept. This is often due to the fundamental attribution error, as it is impossible to know the real traits of an individual solely from their online discourse. Indeed, since intentional button pushing posters are alleged to knowingly flout social boundaries, it is difficult to typecast them as socially inept since they have arguably proven adept at their goal which is to push your buttons. Case in point.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Drink Vedic Coffee and Support Peace
You don't need any leader to be a cult. All you need is a belief system that sets you apart from the norm. cult [kuhlt] noun 1. a particular system of religious worship, especially with reference to its rites and ceremonies. 2. an instance of great veneration of a person, ideal, or thing, especially as manifested by a body of admirers: the physical fitness http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/physical+fitness cult. 3. the object http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/object of such devotion. 4. a group or sect bound together by veneration of the same thing, person, ideal, etc. I think the belief in unified fields of consciousness being affected by your meditation for the benefit of all mankind sets you out as a cult, and that's before you get to the secret language and belief in Marshy's ultimate knowledge of life through vedic literature. We all got duped into believing it, it's how cults work, the separation from normal society, the peer group that already believes. These things work to produce fellow believers, it's only amtter of time before new meditator quits or gets to learn the lingo and becomes one of us. At our academy, and I doubt US ones were any different, we had special weekends for new meditators where the food was more normal than typical movement muck and the language and tapes were for beginners, to get them into it gently without scaring them off. I'm not saying that Marshy and the TMO sat there with a copy of How to start a cult but all the methods of indoctrination are understood by sociologists and they are all present. The first ploy is to always give knowledge lectures after meditating when the mind is at its most relaxed and pliable. You soak it up like a sponge, they even tell you not to think about it but to let it sink in unconsciously. Hmm, maybe they do have a copy of How to start a cult... But the TMO can't be classed as a destructive cult, they never make any attempt to split up families or harass former members. But it does take quite some time to deprogramme yourself from all the absurd and incredible beliefs that you pick up without realising when your defences are down.
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Drink Vedic Coffee and Support Peace
chavan prash under a different name at at premium price On Sat, 2/15/14, salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Drink Vedic Coffee and Support Peace To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, February 15, 2014, 5:20 PM I can think of less dangerous ways of reducing kapha than smoking. I suppose he can always take some amrit kalash if he gets cancer, that's bound to work... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote: Coffee helps reduce kapha as does tobacco. Maybe Lynch would look like Michael Moore if he didn't drink coffee and smoke. On 02/14/2014 10:45 PM, salyavin808 wrote: Is this a joke. Are they drinking coffee to stay awake in the domes now? If anything is bound to interfere with those subtle level of awareness it's coffee. That's what I was taught anyway. Obviously it's not an official TM product but then David Lynch drinks it like it's going out of fashion. And smokes like a chimney too! I look forward to the vedic coffin nails advert... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: The Transcendental Meditative State of Consciousness is Found Within Restful ALERTNESS. Drink: Vedic Coffee to Support Restful ALERTNESS! http://vediccoffee.com/
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: John M. Knapp: Licensing Board Ruling
not surprising that he would eventually follow in his form master's foot steps - there are others who have like Bob Fickes On Sat, 2/15/14, j_alexander_stan...@yahoo.com j_alexander_stan...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: John M. Knapp: Licensing Board Ruling To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, February 15, 2014, 5:48 PM Interesting... when you posted earlier this morning, I Googled around to refresh my memory, and the one thing that really stood out for me was the defrocked therapist self-description he uses to promote himself. I thought it very odd that a person would accentuate the consequences of his malevolence as some kind of badge of honor. Strange guy, that one. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jchwe...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the kind words Anne. Of course, there is a lot that happened between the lines of the brief outline.IMO (and others who were involved), Knapp's revocation is a good thing; he has harmed more than one person, including at least three ex-clients. From Knapp's online public displays, he has claimed he lost his license over at least a year ago (and that due to a lawsuit), though that isn't the case because the ruling wasn't made until January, 2014, and there was never a lawsuit. Regardless, Knapp seems to wear a lost license (or as he publicly describes himself as a defrocked therapist) as a badge of being a rebel, or something. At least now, there is a public official ruling which will make it difficult for him to get licensed again if he ever would have an interest in doing so.Thanks again. Hope you and the horses are well. :-)
Re: [FairfieldLife] Drink Vedic Coffee and Support Peace
particularly one that claims to have ultimate and extra special knowledge On Sat, 2/15/14, salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Drink Vedic Coffee and Support Peace To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, February 15, 2014, 6:26 PM You don't need any leader to be a cult. All you need is a belief system that sets you apart from the norm. cult [kuhlt] noun1.a particular system of religious worship, especially with reference to its rites and ceremonies.2.an instance of great veneration of a person, ideal, or thing, especially as manifested by a body of admirers: the physical fitness cult.3.the object of such devotion.4.a group or sect bound together by veneration of the same thing, person, ideal, etc. I think the belief in unified fields of consciousness being affected by your meditation for the benefit of all mankind sets you out as a cult, and that's before you get to the secret language and belief in Marshy's ultimate knowledge of life through vedic literature. We all got duped into believing it, it's how cults work, the separation from normal society, the peer group that already believes. These things work to produce fellow believers, it's only amtter of time before new meditator quits or gets to learn the lingo and becomes one of us. At our academy, and I doubt US ones were any different, we had special weekends for new meditators where the food was more normal than typical movement muck and the language and tapes were for beginners, to get them into it gently without scaring them off. I'm not saying that Marshy and the TMO sat there with a copy of How to start a cult but all the methods of indoctrination are understood by sociologists and they are all present.The first ploy is to always give knowledge lectures after meditating when the mind is at its most relaxed and pliable. You soak it up like a sponge, they even tell you not to think about it but to let it sink in unconsciously. Hmm, maybe they do have a copy of How to start a cult... But the TMO can't be classed as a destructive cult, they never make any attempt to split up families or harass former members. But it does take quite some time to deprogramme yourself from all the absurd and incredible beliefs that you pick up without realising when your defences are down.
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Troll study
What Barry does and calls pushing buttons not only fits your own definition of trolling, he himself describes it as an attempt to elicit angry responses. And it's been very well documented that the posts are duplicitous. Nor, of course, is hhe Slate report duplicitous in any sense. Again, dingbat, pushing buttons is the term Barry uses to characterize what he does. Is he slandering himself, do you think? Barry never equated someone being a troll with someone posting a message and pushing someone's buttons- that's a fib you made up, dingbat. A person who sends duplicitous messages to get angry responses is a troll - like the Slate report you just posted. Go figure.
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Test: Can you spot the HYPOCRISY in this Barry Wright post?
Wrongo. Barry is a troll. If any troll deserves to be troll-baited once in awhile, it's Barry. You are incorrect - Barry is a button pusher, not a troll - that's the part you made up. Button pushers are sometimes caricatured as socially inept. This is often due to the fundamental attribution error, as it is impossible to know the real traits of an individual solely from their online discourse. Indeed, since intentional button pushing posters are alleged to knowingly flout social boundaries, it is difficult to typecast them as socially inept since they have arguably proven adept at their goal which is to push your buttons. Case in point.
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: John M. Knapp: Licensing Board Ruling
You didn't know Knapp. He followed his own twisted footsteps. not surprising that he would eventually follow in his form master's foot steps - there are others who have like Bob Fickes On Sat, 2/15/14, j_alexander_stanley@... mailto:j_alexander_stanley@... j_alexander_stanley@... mailto:j_alexander_stanley@... wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: John M. Knapp: Licensing Board Ruling To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, February 15, 2014, 5:48 PM Interesting... when you posted earlier this morning, I Googled around to refresh my memory, and the one thing that really stood out for me was the defrocked therapist self-description he uses to promote himself. I thought it very odd that a person would accentuate the consequences of his malevolence as some kind of badge of honor. Strange guy, that one. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jchwelch@... mailto:jchwelch@... wrote: Thanks for the kind words Anne. Of course, there is a lot that happened between the lines of the brief outline.IMO (and others who were involved), Knapp's revocation is a good thing; he has harmed more than one person, including at least three ex-clients. From Knapp's online public displays, he has claimed he lost his license over at least a year ago (and that due to a lawsuit), though that isn't the case because the ruling wasn't made until January, 2014, and there was never a lawsuit. Regardless, Knapp seems to wear a lost license (or as he publicly describes himself as a defrocked therapist) as a badge of being a rebel, or something. At least now, there is a public official ruling which will make it difficult for him to get licensed again if he ever would have an interest in doing so.Thanks again. Hope you and the horses are well. :-)
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What I Did Today
Yesterday we went to this place: [image: Inline image 4] The San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo http://www.sarodeo.com/ [image: Inline image 2] Heart - The San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo Friday, February 14th 2014 http://www.sarodeo.com/entertainers/prca-rodeo-w-heart Notes: The San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo has been around since 1950. But, the whole town is based on cattle trails. One location called Five Points is where a drunk cowboy once fell off his horse. Spaniards founded the San Antonio Missions - apparently the very first rodeo may have been when Jose left the gate to the stable open by mistake, causing the very first round up (rodeo). Go figure. [image: Inline image 3] On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Pundit Sir pundits...@gmail.com wrote: We also picked up some wine at this place. [image: Inline image 1] On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 1:10 PM, Pundit Sir pundits...@gmail.com wrote: We went by this place a few days ago to get some beer. [image: Inline image 1] On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 1:00 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.comwrote: We went to this place yesterday: [image: Inline image 1] On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 6:33 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.comwrote: Today we went to this place: [image: Inline image 1] They have a good cheese selection: [image: Inline image 2] [image: Inline image 3] On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 10:59 AM, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com wrote: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote: We went to this place yesterday - they have some boots for sale. That's a whole lotta shit stompers in one place. I prefer shopping in smaller, boutique-y stores though. I always have people coming into my strictly English tack store asking where to buy cowboy boots because Victoria doesn't have anywhere that sells them. Next time I'll send them to Texas. [image: Inline image 1] Cavender's Boot City [image: Inline image 2] Tony Lama, Justin, Lucchese, Laredo On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 6:13 PM, Richard Williams punditster@...wrote: Today, we went to this place: [image: Inline image 2] On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Richard Williams punditster@...wrote: * I read through this post, bemused by it, but I didn't notice until I'd gotten almost all the way to the end of it that part of my mind was still saying, What's a car? :-)* You probably don't even need a car over there - in fact, it would be a problem. Over, here a car is just another tool for most people. Without one, I'd be dead in the water. Some people who are rich probably drive cars just for fun and pleasure, like my neighbor, who doesn't drive these cars much - there just for shows. I inherited the Eldorado from Mom. She bought it new off the show room floor and it's been garaged it's whole life. She still had a driver's license at age 86, but hadn't driven in about ten years. So, one day I just took it - I'm using it for highway driving. I put some new tires on it and a new disc brakes. You can't get anything these days for a car like that - maybe $1500. The AC still works and it has cruise control. Also, it has a kick-ass Delco Bose sound system with CD player inside. Sweet! [image: Inline image 1] On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 11:54 AM, TurquoiseB turquoiseb@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote: noozguru et al, small country, flat land. And no snow or ice on the roads and bike paths! *Ahem. Only pussies leave their bikes at home when it snows. * * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMv3OB6XHvQ*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMv3OB6XHvQ*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMv3OB6XHvQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMv3OB6XHvQ* On Sunday, December 29, 2013 11:11 AM, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: Small country, flat land. On 12/29/2013 07:43 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: Uh oh. I think I've achieved one of those milestones along the path to You know you're in danger of becoming Dutch when... consciousness. I read through this post, bemused by it, but I didn't notice until I'd gotten almost all the way to the end of it that part of my mind was still saying, What's a car? :-) http://whowhatwhy.com/2013/04/09/learning-from-the-netherlands-about-bikes/
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Now Playing
[image: Inline image 1] Alan Jackson, Clint Black, George Strait, Jimmy Buffett, Kenny Chesney, and Toby Keith Margaritaville - Alan Jackson - Jimmy Buffet http://youtu.be/LascX14s_EY On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 6:38 PM, Pundit Sir pundits...@gmail.com wrote: Willie Nelson On the Road Again http://youtu.be/1TD_pSeNelU [image: Inline image 1] Vintage JVC PL-10 Direct Drive 1978 On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 9:38 PM, Pundit Sir pundits...@gmail.com wrote: Best known for her 1977 country-pop crossover hit song, Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue, she accumulated 20 number one country hits during the 1970s and 1980s (18 on Billboard and 2 on Cashbox) with six albums certified Gold by the RIAA. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Gayle Too Many Lovers (Not enough love) http://youtu.be/W0EQlXG2q3s [image: Inline image 1] Crystal Gayle's Greatest Hits (1983) http://youtu.be/30b-UKwYCRE On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Pundit Sir pundits...@gmail.com wrote: The dB's - Wake up,that time is gone. [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 Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Pundit Sir pundits...@gmail.comwrote: Now playing: Get ready for a tribal beat stomp dance down at the Techno Club with DJ Pseudo Buddha. Work it! [image: Inline image 1] How Ya Doin? Factory Mix - Beat Your Meat (Move Your Body 2) 1994 http://youtu.be/edSWATUnxwc On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Pundit Sir pundits...@gmail.comwrote: One Dove [image: Inline image 1] One Dove - White Love (Psychic Masterbation) - from Platinum on Black Vol 1 http://youtu.be/pqIsWexYD74 White Love - One Dove - Video http://youtu.be/5Z_hcAQz1Rw One Dove was a Scottish alternative dance music group active in the early 1990s, consisting of Dot Allison, Ian Carmichael and Jim McKinven. One Dove: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Dove On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 9:27 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote: 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 pundits...@gmail.com 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 pundits...@gmail.com 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
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: John M. Knapp: Licensing Board Ruling
I read plenty of his stuff and followed his troubles when patients began to complain - I watched him blame everyone but himself and he certainly did use Marshy's playbook in some respects to get his hands on women. On Sat, 2/15/14, authfri...@yahoo.com authfri...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: John M. Knapp: Licensing Board Ruling To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, February 15, 2014, 7:15 PM You didn't know Knapp. He followed his own twisted footsteps. not surprising that he would eventually follow in his form master's foot steps - there are others who have like Bob Fickes On Sat, 2/15/14, j_alexander_stanley@... j_alexander_stanley@... wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: John M. Knapp: Licensing Board Ruling To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, February 15, 2014, 5:48 PM Interesting... when you posted earlier this morning, I Googled around to refresh my memory, and the one thing that really stood out for me was the defrocked therapist self-description he uses to promote himself. I thought it very odd that a person would accentuate the consequences of his malevolence as some kind of badge of honor. Strange guy, that one. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jchwelch@... wrote: Thanks for the kind words Anne. Of course, there is a lot that happened between the lines of the brief outline.IMO (and others who were involved), Knapp's revocation is a good thing; he has harmed more than one person, including at least three ex-clients. From Knapp's online public displays, he has claimed he lost his license over at least a year ago (and that due to a lawsuit), though that isn't the case because the ruling wasn't made until January, 2014, and there was never a lawsuit. Regardless, Knapp seems to wear a lost license (or as he publicly describes himself as a defrocked therapist) as a badge of being a rebel, or something. At least now, there is a public official ruling which will make it difficult for him to get licensed again if he ever would have an interest in doing so.Thanks again. Hope you and the horses are well. :-)
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Drink Vedic Coffee and Support Peace
Om, it is better to drink a cup of coffee than fall asleep in meditation. -Buck I can think of less dangerous ways of reducing kapha than smoking. I suppose he can always take some amrit kalash if he gets cancer, that's bound to work... noozguru writes: Coffee helps reduce kapha as does tobacco. Maybe Lynch would look like Michael Moore if he didn't drink coffee and smoke. On 02/14/2014 10:45 PM, salyavin808 wrote: Is this a joke. Are they drinking coffee to stay awake in the domes now? If anything is bound to interfere with those subtle level of awareness it's coffee. That's what I was taught anyway. Obviously it's not an official TM product but then David Lynch drinks it like it's going out of fashion. And smokes like a chimney too! I look forward to the vedic coffin nails advert... U.S.Buck Writes: The Transcendental Meditative State of Consciousness is Found Within Restful ALERTNESS. Drink: Vedic Coffee to Support Restful ALERTNESS! http://vediccoffee.com/ http://vediccoffee.com/
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Drink Vedic Coffee and Support Peace
Do they witness the sleep? If so they are going deeper with delta rather than experiencing just alpha or theta brain waves. On 02/15/2014 12:04 PM, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com wrote: *Om, it is better to drink a cup of coffee than fall asleep in meditation.* *-Buck* I can think of less dangerous ways of reducing kapha than smoking. I suppose he can always take some amrit kalash if he gets cancer, that's bound to work... noozguru writes: Coffee helps reduce kapha as does tobacco. Maybe Lynch would look like Michael Moore if he didn't drink coffee and smoke. On 02/14/2014 10:45 PM, salyavin808 wrote: Is this a joke. Are they drinking coffee to stay awake in the domes now? If anything is bound to interfere with those subtle level of awareness it's coffee. That's what I was taught anyway. Obviously it's not an official TM product but then David Lynch drinks it like it's going out of fashion. And smokes like a chimney too! I look forward to the vedic coffin nails advert... U.S.Buck Writes: The Transcendental Meditative State of Consciousness is Found Within Restful ALERTNESS. Drink: Vedic Coffee to Support Restful ALERTNESS! http://vediccoffee.com/
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Drink Vedic Coffee and Support Peace
Yup, like a mixture of cinnamon, ginger and a dash of cloves will help. Also toss in a little cayenne pepper as long as it doesn't aggravate pitta. They're learning more about benefits of coffee though. You drink black tea instead? Amrit Kalash is also tri-doshic and an anti-oxidant. On 02/15/2014 09:20 AM, salyavin808 wrote: I can think of less dangerous ways of reducing kapha than smoking. I suppose he can always take some amrit kalash if he gets cancer, that's bound to work... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote: Coffee helps reduce kapha as does tobacco. Maybe Lynch would look like Michael Moore if he didn't drink coffee and smoke. On 02/14/2014 10:45 PM, salyavin808 wrote: Is this a joke. Are they drinking coffee to stay awake in the domes now? If anything is bound to interfere with those subtle level of awareness it's coffee. That's what I was taught anyway. Obviously it's not an official TM product but then David Lynch drinks it like it's going out of fashion. And smokes like a chimney too! I look forward to the vedic coffin nails advert... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5@... mailto:dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: The Transcendental Meditative State of Consciousness is Found Within Restful ALERTNESS. Drink: Vedic Coffee to Support Restful ALERTNESS! http://vediccoffee.com/
Re: [FairfieldLife] Troll study
On 2/15/2014 9:33 AM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote: Slate's readers are more than hip enough (as are FFLers) to know what trolling is. Applying the term troll is subjective. Some readers may see a message as informative and a contribution to a discussion - others may see the same message as trolling. The term trolling can be used as a perjorative - in which case, your posting the Slate article and directing it at Barry's button pushing proclivities, could be construed as trolling itself. You trolled us - now you've got us upset! And, you included a fib about Barry and his button pushing, which is not the same thing as trolling. Maybe we should review the Troll FAQ: In Internet slang, a troll is a person who sows discord on the Internet by starting arguments or upsetting people,[1] by posting inflammatory,[2] extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community (such as a forum, chat room, or blog), either accidentally[3][4] or with the deliberate intent of provoking readers into an emotional response[5] or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion. http://en.wikipedia.org/Troll/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_%28Internet%29
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Drink Vedic Coffee and Support Peace
I used to witness sleep. Really weird experience, not at the time but looking back after waking. At the time it's the most natural thing in the world but it's impossible to imagine how you can be properly fast asleep but blissfully awake and aware. Those were interesting days for me, it really felt like progress was happening. Why does it stop, where does it all go? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote: Do they witness the sleep? If so they are going deeper with delta rather than experiencing just alpha or theta brain waves. On 02/15/2014 12:04 PM, dhamiltony2k5@... mailto:dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: Om, it is better to drink a cup of coffee than fall asleep in meditation. -Buck I can think of less dangerous ways of reducing kapha than smoking. I suppose he can always take some amrit kalash if he gets cancer, that's bound to work... noozguru writes: Coffee helps reduce kapha as does tobacco. Maybe Lynch would look like Michael Moore if he didn't drink coffee and smoke. On 02/14/2014 10:45 PM, salyavin808 wrote: Is this a joke. Are they drinking coffee to stay awake in the domes now? If anything is bound to interfere with those subtle level of awareness it's coffee. That's what I was taught anyway. Obviously it's not an official TM product but then David Lynch drinks it like it's going out of fashion. And smokes like a chimney too! I look forward to the vedic coffin nails advert... U.S.Buck Writes: The Transcendental Meditative State of Consciousness is Found Within Restful ALERTNESS. Drink: Vedic Coffee to Support Restful ALERTNESS! http://vediccoffee.com/ http://vediccoffee.com/
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: John M. Knapp: Licensing Board Ruling
On 2/15/2014 11:16 AM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote: *It's excellent news that Knapp will no longer be able to use that license in a professional capacity * We got rid of John Knapp, now all we have to do is get rid of the impostor Michael Jackson. Maybe MJ could go over to posting with Mike Dougheny and Robin Carlsen at TM-Free. LoL!
Re: [FairfieldLife] Troll study
On 2/15/2014 11:31 AM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote: Trolling is the same as button-pushing. You are incorrect and you are just trying to push our buttons! Button Pusher: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Button_pusher
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Troll study
On 2/15/2014 1:10 PM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote: fits your own definition of trolling, he himself describes it as an attempt to elicit angry responses. Please cite any post where I have trolled this forum. Thank you. If not, maybe you should just keep your pie hole shut about the trolling.
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Test: Can you spot the HYPOCRISY in this Barry Wright post?
On 2/15/2014 1:12 PM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote: Wrongo. Barry is a troll. This is an attempt at attention-seeking: Judy seeks to dominate the thread by inciting anger, and effectively hijacking the topic at hand - all marks of the troll. Go figure.
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: John M. Knapp: Licensing Board Ruling
I knew John Knapp , but not well, and it was before he left the TM movement by a number of years, so he was still a 'good little boy' then. My knowledge of him therefore does not have relevance to Carol's situation which I am glad seems to have been resolved in her favour, though she still has to deal with the memories. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote: I read plenty of his stuff and followed his troubles when patients began to complain - I watched him blame everyone but himself and he certainly did use Marshy's playbook in some respects to get his hands on women. On Sat, 2/15/14, authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: John M. Knapp: Licensing Board Ruling To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, February 15, 2014, 7:15 PM You didn't know Knapp. He followed his own twisted footsteps. not surprising that he would eventually follow in his form master's foot steps - there are others who have like Bob Fickes On Sat, 2/15/14, j_alexander_stanley@... j_alexander_stanley@... wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: John M. Knapp: Licensing Board Ruling To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, February 15, 2014, 5:48 PM Interesting... when you posted earlier this morning, I Googled around to refresh my memory, and the one thing that really stood out for me was the defrocked therapist self-description he uses to promote himself. I thought it very odd that a person would accentuate the consequences of his malevolence as some kind of badge of honor. Strange guy, that one. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jchwelch@... wrote: Thanks for the kind words Anne. Of course, there is a lot that happened between the lines of the brief outline.IMO (and others who were involved), Knapp's revocation is a good thing; he has harmed more than one person, including at least three ex-clients. From Knapp's online public displays, he has claimed he lost his license over at least a year ago (and that due to a lawsuit), though that isn't the case because the ruling wasn't made until January, 2014, and there was never a lawsuit. Regardless, Knapp seems to wear a lost license (or as he publicly describes himself as a defrocked therapist) as a badge of being a rebel, or something. At least now, there is a public official ruling which will make it difficult for him to get licensed again if he ever would have an interest in doing so.Thanks again. Hope you and the horses are well. :-)
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Beatles review from London Times, 1963
I'm sure the Beatles were amused with the review. Whether they themselves knew what the reviewer was talking about would be another matter. There is this tendency for record company PR people to cover up any formal training. I do seem to recall that both George and Paul had some music lessons. Back in that time period they may have even listened a bit to jazz and picked up some tips from teachers and fellow musicians. Going from the tonic to the flatted 6th key works nicely and provides a refreshing sounding modulation plus you can just return back to the tonic without it being jarring. Modes were also being played with by jazz musicians and rock musicians would sometimes experiment with jazz elements to come up with new ideas. On 02/14/2014 07:32 PM, s3raph...@yahoo.com wrote: Remarkably prescient review for a band that had only just started to make waves. Makes a salutary contrast to my many dismissals of new bands over the years that later became huge! But even I had my moments. I loved this track from Hotlegs the pre-10cc name chosen by Godley and Creme. I saw these guys showed promise though everyone else said the song was crap . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN5m2nppq8Qamp;list=FLJad8vN225Nr5hDIzlEOYMA
[FairfieldLife] Drinking Vedic Coffee and Discerning 'Cult' from 'Sect'
No, most of what you are offering as definition technically is about sects. Cults form around charismatic persons. Sects form out of specialness, exception or differentiation as in different denominations of protestantism or catholicism or denominations or types of meditation. Those are sects. Sects are around fragmentation and cults are around persons as charismatics. For instance, If someone really 'charismatic', like earlier defined by Weber, like a Robin were to show up in Fairfield, Iowa and take off a bunch of meditators as his followers by force and power of personality then we're talking cult, as a sect. That is different than the different sects of people out teaching meditations and some others out there teaching other things they've learned. -Buck in the Dome Salyavin808 writes: You don't need any leader to be a cult. All you need is a belief system that sets you apart from the norm.
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: John M. Knapp: Licensing Board Ruling
OK. I'm not aware of any stories of sexual hanky-panky with Knapp, actually. I don't believe that was the problem Carol had with him. As I understand it, hers was more a matter of genuine psychological rape (as opposed to the kind Share fantasized from Robin). I read plenty of his stuff and followed his troubles when patients began to complain - I watched him blame everyone but himself and he certainly did use Marshy's playbook in some respects to get his hands on women. On Sat, 2/15/14, authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: John M. Knapp: Licensing Board Ruling To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, February 15, 2014, 7:15 PM You didn't know Knapp. He followed his own twisted footsteps. not surprising that he would eventually follow in his form master's foot steps - there are others who have like Bob Fickes On Sat, 2/15/14, j_alexander_stanley@... j_alexander_stanley@... wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: John M. Knapp: Licensing Board Ruling To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, February 15, 2014, 5:48 PM Interesting... when you posted earlier this morning, I Googled around to refresh my memory, and the one thing that really stood out for me was the defrocked therapist self-description he uses to promote himself. I thought it very odd that a person would accentuate the consequences of his malevolence as some kind of badge of honor. Strange guy, that one. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jchwelch@... wrote: Thanks for the kind words Anne. Of course, there is a lot that happened between the lines of the brief outline.IMO (and others who were involved), Knapp's revocation is a good thing; he has harmed more than one person, including at least three ex-clients. From Knapp's online public displays, he has claimed he lost his license over at least a year ago (and that due to a lawsuit), though that isn't the case because the ruling wasn't made until January, 2014, and there was never a lawsuit. Regardless, Knapp seems to wear a lost license (or as he publicly describes himself as a defrocked therapist) as a badge of being a rebel, or something. At least now, there is a public official ruling which will make it difficult for him to get licensed again if he ever would have an interest in doing so.Thanks again. Hope you and the horses are well. :-)
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: John M. Knapp: Licensing Board Ruling
I should add: It's kind of sad. From what I read on TM-Free back when Knapp was running it, he had a considerable degree of psychological insight and gave some good advice to folks struggling with their TM experience. OK. I'm not aware of any stories of sexual hanky-panky with Knapp, actually. I don't believe that was the problem Carol had with him. As I understand it, hers was more a matter of genuine psychological rape (as opposed to the kind Share fantasized from Robin). I read plenty of his stuff and followed his troubles when patients began to complain - I watched him blame everyone but himself and he certainly did use Marshy's playbook in some respects to get his hands on women. On Sat, 2/15/14, authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: John M. Knapp: Licensing Board Ruling To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, February 15, 2014, 7:15 PM You didn't know Knapp. He followed his own twisted footsteps. not surprising that he would eventually follow in his form master's foot steps - there are others who have like Bob Fickes On Sat, 2/15/14, j_alexander_stanley@... j_alexander_stanley@... wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: John M. Knapp: Licensing Board Ruling To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, February 15, 2014, 5:48 PM Interesting... when you posted earlier this morning, I Googled around to refresh my memory, and the one thing that really stood out for me was the defrocked therapist self-description he uses to promote himself. I thought it very odd that a person would accentuate the consequences of his malevolence as some kind of badge of honor. Strange guy, that one. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jchwelch@... wrote: Thanks for the kind words Anne. Of course, there is a lot that happened between the lines of the brief outline.IMO (and others who were involved), Knapp's revocation is a good thing; he has harmed more than one person, including at least three ex-clients. From Knapp's online public displays, he has claimed he lost his license over at least a year ago (and that due to a lawsuit), though that isn't the case because the ruling wasn't made until January, 2014, and there was never a lawsuit. Regardless, Knapp seems to wear a lost license (or as he publicly describes himself as a defrocked therapist) as a badge of being a rebel, or something. At least now, there is a public official ruling which will make it difficult for him to get licensed again if he ever would have an interest in doing so.Thanks again. Hope you and the horses are well. :-)
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: John M. Knapp: Licensing Board Ruling
Judy, based on my own experience and the validation I received from several who experienced Robin in person, I am confident of the validity of what I accused Robin of. On Saturday, February 15, 2014 3:14 PM, authfri...@yahoo.com authfri...@yahoo.com wrote: OK. I'm not aware of any stories of sexual hanky-panky with Knapp, actually. I don't believe that was the problem Carol had with him. As I understand it, hers was more a matter of genuine psychological rape (as opposed to the kind Share fantasized from Robin). I read plenty of his stuff and followed his troubles when patients began to complain - I watched him blame everyone but himself and he certainly did use Marshy's playbook in some respects to get his hands on women. On Sat, 2/15/14, authfriend@... authfriend@... wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: John M. Knapp: Licensing Board Ruling To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, February 15, 2014, 7:15 PM You didn't know Knapp. He followed his own twisted footsteps. not surprising that he would eventually follow in his form master's foot steps - there are others who have like Bob Fickes On Sat, 2/15/14, j_alexander_stanley@... j_alexander_stanley@... wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: John M. Knapp: Licensing Board Ruling To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, February 15, 2014, 5:48 PM Interesting... when you posted earlier this morning, I Googled around to refresh my memory, and the one thing that really stood out for me was the defrocked therapist self-description he uses to promote himself. I thought it very odd that a person would accentuate the consequences of his malevolence as some kind of badge of honor. Strange guy, that one. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jchwelch@... wrote: Thanks for the kind words Anne. Of course, there is a lot that happened between the lines of the brief outline.IMO (and others who were involved), Knapp's revocation is a good thing; he has harmed more than one person, including at least three ex-clients. From Knapp's online public displays, he has claimed he lost his license over at least a year ago (and that due to a lawsuit), though that isn't the case because the ruling wasn't made until January, 2014, and there was never a lawsuit. Regardless, Knapp seems to wear a lost license (or as he publicly describes himself as a defrocked therapist) as a badge of being a rebel, or something. At least now, there is a public official ruling which will make it difficult for him to get licensed again if he ever would have an interest in doing so.Thanks again. Hope you and the horses are well. :-)
[FairfieldLife] RE: Drink Vedic Coffee and Support Peace
As usual this coffee seems to have a premium price. I can get Organic coffee 10oz for about $7.00 at the local supermarket instead of 8 oz for about $13 for 'Vedic' coffee so it is more than double the cost, a typical movement overcharge. Exactly what do the Vedas say about coffee? I bet nothing at all. According to Wikipedia '[t]he earliest credible evidence of either coffee drinking or knowledge of the coffee tree appears in the middle of the 15th century, in the Sufi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sufi Muslim monasteries around Mocha http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mocha,_Yemen in Yemen'. That is long after all the Vedic liturature was written. So coffee is not really associated with the term 'Vedic' at all. As for coffee interfering with subtle levels of awareness, it sort of depends on how 'embodied' one experiences things. When the mind thinks consciousness is embodied, then how the body feels is strongly reflected in what you feel. When you are not identified with the body so much, coffee does not have that much effect on what is thought of as subtle. Having 'subtle awareness' is really a conceptual device to help one settle down, to become aware of things that might interfere with meditation etc. But when consciousness equals being in experience, subtle really does not make much sense since everything has that value so the differentiation between gross and subtle is seen as not significant. But it can be very important for people learning to meditate and for a number of years after that. I tend to drink regular coffee and Irish breakfast tea, which is pretty strong. Still caffeine can affect the body, so lately I have been tapering down on the stronger stuff in the evening, it just depends on whether I want to shift into the sleep state at midnight or 3am.
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: John M. Knapp: Licensing Board Ruling
Ah, if Robin was a therapist, I think it would safer to load all six chambers of a revolver, put it to your head, and pull the trigger.
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: John M. Knapp: Licensing Board Ruling
Xeno, it was Judy who implied a comparison between Robin and the therapist Knapp. Probably she was just being a troll! On Saturday, February 15, 2014 3:48 PM, anartax...@yahoo.com anartax...@yahoo.com wrote: Ah, if Robin was a therapist, I think it would safer to load all six chambers of a revolver, put it to your head, and pull the trigger.
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: John M. Knapp: Licensing Board Ruling
I'm sure you're confident, Share. Unfortunately, that doesn't change the picture. The people you spoke to knew Robin 30+ years ago, when he was quite a different person and did a lot of harm, and they had plenty of motivation to encourage you to believe he had mistreated you. We didn't see any such thing here, not even remotely; if anything, the reverse was the case. I stand by my contention that psychological rape was your malignant fantasy (as several others here asserted as well). Judy, based on my own experience and the validation I received from several who experienced Robin in person, I am confident of the validity of what I accused Robin of. On Saturday, February 15, 2014 3:14 PM, authfriend@... authfriend@... wrote: OK. I'm not aware of any stories of sexual hanky-panky with Knapp, actually. I don't believe that was the problem Carol had with him. As I understand it, hers was more a matter of genuine psychological rape (as opposed to the kind Share fantasized from Robin). I read plenty of his stuff and followed his troubles when patients began to complain - I watched him blame everyone but himself and he certainly did use Marshy's playbook in some respects to get his hands on women. On Sat, 2/15/14, authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: John M. Knapp: Licensing Board Ruling To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, February 15, 2014, 7:15 PM You didn't know Knapp. He followed his own twisted footsteps. not surprising that he would eventually follow in his form master's foot steps - there are others who have like Bob Fickes On Sat, 2/15/14, j_alexander_stanley@... j_alexander_stanley@... wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: John M. Knapp: Licensing Board Ruling To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, February 15, 2014, 5:48 PM Interesting... when you posted earlier this morning, I Googled around to refresh my memory, and the one thing that really stood out for me was the defrocked therapist self-description he uses to promote himself. I thought it very odd that a person would accentuate the consequences of his malevolence as some kind of badge of honor. Strange guy, that one. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jchwelch@... wrote: Thanks for the kind words Anne. Of course, there is a lot that happened between the lines of the brief outline.IMO (and others who were involved), Knapp's revocation is a good thing; he has harmed more than one person, including at least three ex-clients. From Knapp's online public displays, he has claimed he lost his license over at least a year ago (and that due to a lawsuit), though that isn't the case because the ruling wasn't made until January, 2014, and there was never a lawsuit. Regardless, Knapp seems to wear a lost license (or as he publicly describes himself as a defrocked therapist) as a badge of being a rebel, or something. At least now, there is a public official ruling which will make it difficult for him to get licensed again if he ever would have an interest in doing so.Thanks again. Hope you and the horses are well. :-)
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Drink Vedic Coffee and Support Peace
Caffeine will deplete B vitamins so good to take some if you like to drink coffee or stimulating teas (even Green tea). It's not advocated for vata types (nor pittas) unless your sub dosha is kapha. On 02/15/2014 01:42 PM, anartax...@yahoo.com wrote: As usual this coffee seems to have a premium price. I can get Organic coffee 10oz for about $7.00 at the local supermarket instead of 8 oz for about $13 for 'Vedic' coffee so it is more than double the cost, a typical movement overcharge. Exactly what do the Vedas say about coffee? I bet nothing at all. According to Wikipedia '[t]he earliest credible evidence of either coffee drinking or knowledge of the coffee tree appears in the middle of the 15th century, in the Sufi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sufi Muslim monasteries around Mocha http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mocha,_Yemen in Yemen'. That is long after all the Vedic liturature was written. So coffee is not really associated with the term 'Vedic' at all. As for coffee interfering with subtle levels of awareness, it sort of depends on how 'embodied' one experiences things. When the mind thinks consciousness is embodied, then how the body feels is strongly reflected in what you feel. When you are not identified with the body so much, coffee does not have that much effect on what is thought of as subtle. Having 'subtle awareness' is really a conceptual device to help one settle down, to become aware of things that might interfere with meditation etc. But when consciousness equals being in experience, subtle really does not make much sense since everything has that value so the differentiation between gross and subtle is seen as not significant. But it can be very important for people learning to meditate and for a number of years after that. I tend to drink regular coffee and Irish breakfast tea, which is pretty strong. Still caffeine can affect the body, so lately I have been tapering down on the stronger stuff in the evening, it just depends on whether I want to shift into the sleep state at midnight or 3am.
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: John M. Knapp: Licensing Board Ruling
Says Xeno the Troll, who is into saying extremely ugly things these days, and has not the vaguest notion of what kind of therapist Robin might have been (now, not 30 years ago). (Ironically, Xeno has convinced himself that he's in a position to advance FFLers' spiritual development by, among other things, attempting to push their buttons.) Ah, if Robin was a therapist, I think it would safer to load all six chambers of a revolver, put it to your head, and pull the trigger.
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: John M. Knapp: Licensing Board Ruling
Judy, the people who agreed with you were the ones who usually agree with you. Whereas the people from outside FFL who supported me purposefully came onto FFL to do so and had zero motivation to do so, other than to validate what I had said and thus offer support. I believe Ann remains friends with some of those people and I doubt she would do so if they had negative intentions towards Robin. As well, there are people on FFL who understood what I meant by my accusation and did not find it malign. On Saturday, February 15, 2014 3:53 PM, authfri...@yahoo.com authfri...@yahoo.com wrote: I'm sure you're confident, Share. Unfortunately, that doesn't change the picture. The people you spoke to knew Robin 30+ years ago, when he was quite a different person and did a lot of harm, and they had plenty of motivation to encourage you to believe he had mistreated you. We didn't see any such thing here, not even remotely; if anything, the reverse was the case. I stand by my contention that psychological rape was your malignant fantasy (as several others here asserted as well). Judy, based on my own experience and the validation I received from several who experienced Robin in person, I am confident of the validity of what I accused Robin of. On Saturday, February 15, 2014 3:14 PM, authfriend@... authfriend@... wrote: OK. I'm not aware of any stories of sexual hanky-panky with Knapp, actually. I don't believe that was the problem Carol had with him. As I understand it, hers was more a matter of genuine psychological rape (as opposed to the kind Share fantasized from Robin). I read plenty of his stuff and followed his troubles when patients began to complain - I watched him blame everyone but himself and he certainly did use Marshy's playbook in some respects to get his hands on women. On Sat, 2/15/14, authfriend@... authfriend@... wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: John M. Knapp: Licensing Board Ruling To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, February 15, 2014, 7:15 PM You didn't know Knapp. He followed his own twisted footsteps. not surprising that he would eventually follow in his form master's foot steps - there are others who have like Bob Fickes On Sat, 2/15/14, j_alexander_stanley@... j_alexander_stanley@... wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: John M. Knapp: Licensing Board Ruling To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, February 15, 2014, 5:48 PM Interesting... when you posted earlier this morning, I Googled around to refresh my memory, and the one thing that really stood out for me was the defrocked therapist self-description he uses to promote himself. I thought it very odd that a person would accentuate the consequences of his malevolence as some kind of badge of honor. Strange guy, that one. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jchwelch@... wrote: Thanks for the kind words Anne. Of course, there is a lot that happened between the lines of the brief outline.IMO (and others who were involved), Knapp's revocation is a good thing; he has harmed more than one person, including at least three ex-clients. From Knapp's online public displays, he has claimed he lost his license over at least a year ago (and that due to a lawsuit), though that isn't the case because the ruling wasn't made until January, 2014, and there was never a lawsuit. Regardless, Knapp seems to wear a lost license (or as he publicly describes himself as a defrocked therapist) as a badge of being a rebel, or something. At least now, there is a public official ruling which will make it difficult for him to get licensed again if he ever would have an interest in doing so.Thanks again. Hope you and the horses are well. :-)
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: John M. Knapp: Licensing Board Ruling
Judy, you are the troll in this situation, for bringing Robin and me into the thread about Carol and Knapp. On Saturday, February 15, 2014 4:00 PM, authfri...@yahoo.com authfri...@yahoo.com wrote: Says Xeno the Troll, who is into saying extremely ugly things these days, and has not the vaguest notion of what kind of therapist Robin might have been (now, not 30 years ago). (Ironically, Xeno has convinced himself that he's in a position to advance FFLers' spiritual development by, among other things, attempting to push their buttons.) Ah, if Robin was a therapist, I think it would safer to load all six chambers of a revolver, put it to your head, and pull the trigger.
[FairfieldLife] RE: John M. Knapp: Licensing Board Ruling
LOL - Good for you! I just read this - I knew JK from the Movement days - 1978 - He always acted like a big shot, and missed out on all the fun. Sounds like he decided to turn into a codependent power-tripping ass-hole, next.Thanks for hanging in there. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jchwelch@... wrote: Thanks Judy. When I received the news of the outcome, I didn't feel good. Quite the opposite. After the news sank in, I realized I felt like I just wanted to take a shower and wash it all off. I think that's probably a 'normal' reaction in such circumstances. I used music that day for the shower. http://tossandripple.blogspot.com/2014/01/artapply-as-needed-cannot-overdose.html; One of Knapp's former victims responded..And now we heal. It was a type of psychological/emotional rape that Knapp exacted upon more than one person. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote: I've followed this fairly closely. Carol was not the only victim. It's excellent news that Knapp will no longer be able to use that license in a professional capacity to inflict harm on others who might seek therapy with him. Congratulations, Carol, well done. I've previously posted on FFL about John Knapp who (through 2011ish) had been around the TM/anti-TM circuit for decades. Folks who were around FFL prior to 2010ish(?) are most likely familiar with Knapp. I'm pretty sure I previously stated on FFL that I would post an update once NY state made a ruling regarding Knapp's Social Work license. NY state's ruling was made on 1/14/14. NY state made the ruling public sometime in the past week. Knapp was my former cult-recovery therapist from around July, 2008, until August, 2010. Brief timeline:October, 2010: Formal complaint was filed with NY State regarding John M. Knapp. (I filed the complaint.) December, 2010: NY state opened an official investigation November, 2012: NY state held a hearing for Knapp before the licensing board. Knapp did not show. January, 2014: NY state made its official ruling. From the NY Office of Professional Discipline site: John Knapp, Bloomington, IN Profession: Licensed Master Social Worker; Lic. No. 071643; Cal. No. 26202 Regents Action Date: January 14, 2014 Action: Found guilty of professional misconduct; Penalty: Revocation. Summary: Licensee was found guilty of practicing his profession with negligence, as well as with incompetence, on more than one occasion, and of unprofessional conduct. The ruling can can be found at the following link: http://www.op.nysed.gov/opd/January2014.htm#csw http://www.op.nysed.gov/opd/January2014.htm#csw And that's that. To life, ~Carol Thanks for the update Carol. You seem to have fought a hard battle and emerged. Not really knowing more than the simple outline of this matter I can not comment with any authority as to an opinion on whether his revocation is positive or not. What I can do is to say that you appear a strong and persistent woman who fought for the thing she believed and for that I offer you my respect and congratulations on the outcome of the board's review.
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Test: Can you spot the HYPOCRISY in this Barry Wright post?
Sort of lost my interest in this discussion Judy once I realized, (once again), that your unflinching honesty has so many conditions attached. And really, I think Barry's observations have you (and Robin) pegged perfectly. I am sorry about that and I hope I've met your expectations with my reply. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote: I can't wait to see the Feeb fall for this one, even though he's perfectly well aware (as is Richard) that Barry typecasts himself as a troll, and I'm far more sinned against than sinning. If any troll deserves to be troll-baited once in awhile, it's Barry. Would not unflinching honesty require a response to what appears to be a breach of this assertion, without conditions!!? To be honest, Steve, this post of Judy's is an example of Trollbaiting - the use of other trolls as an excuse for their own misbehavior, and in many cases, typecasting another user as a troll regardless of his or her intent.
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: John M. Knapp: Licensing Board Ruling
The folks here who saw you misuse the term psychological rape for your own malign ends might well have thought you invented it and therefore might have been suspicious of Carol's account. I wanted to ensure they didn't make that mistake. Judy, you are the troll in this situation, for bringing Robin and me into the thread about Carol and Knapp. On Saturday, February 15, 2014 4:00 PM, authfriend@... authfriend@... wrote: Says Xeno the Troll, who is into saying extremely ugly things these days, and has not the vaguest notion of what kind of therapist Robin might have been (now, not 30 years ago). (Ironically, Xeno has convinced himself that he's in a position to advance FFLers' spiritual development by, among other things, attempting to push their buttons.) Ah, if Robin was a therapist, I think it would safer to load all six chambers of a revolver, put it to your head, and pull the trigger.
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: John M. Knapp: Licensing Board Ruling
Judy, I find the people on FFL to be intelligent and well read and I highly doubt that anyone here thought I invented the term. Nor do I think they would be suspicious of Carol regardless of what they thought of me. On Saturday, February 15, 2014 4:20 PM, authfri...@yahoo.com authfri...@yahoo.com wrote: The folks here who saw you misuse the term psychological rape for your own malign ends might well have thought you invented it and therefore might have been suspicious of Carol's account. I wanted to ensure they didn't make that mistake. Judy, you are the troll in this situation, for bringing Robin and me into the thread about Carol and Knapp. On Saturday, February 15, 2014 4:00 PM, authfriend@... authfriend@... wrote: Says Xeno the Troll, who is into saying extremely ugly things these days, and has not the vaguest notion of what kind of therapist Robin might have been (now, not 30 years ago). (Ironically, Xeno has convinced himself that he's in a position to advance FFLers' spiritual development by, among other things, attempting to push their buttons.) Ah, if Robin was a therapist, I think it would safer to load all six chambers of a revolver, put it to your head, and pull the trigger.
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: John M. Knapp: Licensing Board Ruling
Oh, yes, right, the old Barry canard: people who express the same views I do about something don't think for themselves and just follow my lead in hopes that I'll praise them, no matter what I say. That never carried any weight, and it hasn't improved with age. Of course those people who came onto FFL (how many were there, exactly? We know about Lord Knows and Bill and Brahmi; any others?) had the motivation to take revenge on Robin after what he'd done to them 30 years ago. I'll let Ann respond to your suppositions about her, but I'd be astonished if she would break off a friendship because the friend had negative intentions toward Robin. She's a bigger person than that. And yes, there were people here who were sufficiently at odds with today's Robin that they would encourage you to do him dirt by accusing him unfairly (including Xeno). Judy, the people who agreed with you were the ones who usually agree with you. Whereas the people from outside FFL who supported me purposefully came onto FFL to do so and had zero motivation to do so, other than to validate what I had said and thus offer support. I believe Ann remains friends with some of those people and I doubt she would do so if they had negative intentions towards Robin. As well, there are people on FFL who understood what I meant by my accusation and did not find it malign. On Saturday, February 15, 2014 3:53 PM, authfriend@... authfriend@... wrote: I'm sure you're confident, Share. Unfortunately, that doesn't change the picture. The people you spoke to knew Robin 30+ years ago, when he was quite a different person and did a lot of harm, and they had plenty of motivation to encourage you to believe he had mistreated you. We didn't see any such thing here, not even remotely; if anything, the reverse was the case. I stand by my contention that psychological rape was your malignant fantasy (as several others here asserted as well). Judy, based on my own experience and the validation I received from several who experienced Robin in person, I am confident of the validity of what I accused Robin of. On Saturday, February 15, 2014 3:14 PM, authfriend@... authfriend@... wrote: OK. I'm not aware of any stories of sexual hanky-panky with Knapp, actually. I don't believe that was the problem Carol had with him. As I understand it, hers was more a matter of genuine psychological rape (as opposed to the kind Share fantasized from Robin). I read plenty of his stuff and followed his troubles when patients began to complain - I watched him blame everyone but himself and he certainly did use Marshy's playbook in some respects to get his hands on women. On Sat, 2/15/14, authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: John M. Knapp: Licensing Board Ruling To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, February 15, 2014, 7:15 PM You didn't know Knapp. He followed his own twisted footsteps. not surprising that he would eventually follow in his form master's foot steps - there are others who have like Bob Fickes On Sat, 2/15/14, j_alexander_stanley@... j_alexander_stanley@... wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: John M. Knapp: Licensing Board Ruling To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, February 15, 2014, 5:48 PM Interesting... when you posted earlier this morning, I Googled around to refresh my memory, and the one thing that really stood out for me was the defrocked therapist self-description he uses to promote himself. I thought it very odd that a person would accentuate the consequences of his malevolence as some kind of badge of honor. Strange guy, that one. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jchwelch@... wrote: Thanks for the kind words Anne. Of course, there is a lot that happened between the lines of the brief outline.IMO (and others who were involved), Knapp's revocation is a good thing; he has harmed more than one person, including at least three ex-clients. From Knapp's online public displays, he has claimed he lost his license over at least a year ago (and that due to a lawsuit), though that isn't the case because the ruling wasn't made until January, 2014, and there was never a lawsuit. Regardless, Knapp seems to wear a lost license (or as he publicly describes himself as a defrocked therapist) as a badge of being a rebel, or something. At least now, there is a public official ruling which will make it difficult for him to
[FairfieldLife] RE: Drinking Vedic Coffee and Discerning 'Cult' from 'Sect'
Potayto, potahto.
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: John M. Knapp: Licensing Board Ruling
I do on occasion. On Sat, 2/15/14, Richard J. Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: John M. Knapp: Licensing Board Ruling To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, February 15, 2014, 8:54 PM On 2/15/2014 11:16 AM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote: It's excellent news that Knapp will no longer be able to use that license in a professional capacity We got rid of John Knapp, now all we have to do is get rid of the impostor Michael Jackson. Maybe MJ could go over to posting with Mike Dougheny and Robin Carlsen at TM-Free. LoL!
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: John M. Knapp: Licensing Board Ruling
what do you think Marsh's gals felt when he used 'em - bliss? I know some did. at least Judith Borque says she was happy and all that - but all of them??? On Sat, 2/15/14, authfri...@yahoo.com authfri...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: John M. Knapp: Licensing Board Ruling To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, February 15, 2014, 9:14 PM OK. I'm not aware of any stories of sexual hanky-panky with Knapp, actually. I don't believe that was the problem Carol had with him. As I understand it, hers was more a matter of genuine psychological rape (as opposed to the kind Share fantasized from Robin). I read plenty of his stuff and followed his troubles when patients began to complain - I watched him blame everyone but himself and he certainly did use Marshy's playbook in some respects to get his hands on women. On Sat, 2/15/14, authfriend@... authfriend@... wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: John M. Knapp: Licensing Board Ruling To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, February 15, 2014, 7:15 PM You didn't know Knapp. He followed his own twisted footsteps. not surprising that he would eventually follow in his form master's foot steps - there are others who have like Bob Fickes On Sat, 2/15/14, j_alexander_stanley@... j_alexander_stanley@... wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: John M. Knapp: Licensing Board Ruling To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, February 15, 2014, 5:48 PM Interesting... when you posted earlier this morning, I Googled around to refresh my memory, and the one thing that really stood out for me was the defrocked therapist self-description he uses to promote himself. I thought it very odd that a person would accentuate the consequences of his malevolence as some kind of badge of honor. Strange guy, that one. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jchwelch@... wrote: Thanks for the kind words Anne. Of course, there is a lot that happened between the lines of the brief outline.IMO (and others who were involved), Knapp's revocation is a good thing; he has harmed more than one person, including at least three ex-clients. From Knapp's online public displays, he has claimed he lost his license over at least a year ago (and that due to a lawsuit), though that isn't the case because the ruling wasn't made until January, 2014, and there was never a lawsuit. Regardless, Knapp seems to wear a lost license (or as he publicly describes himself as a defrocked therapist) as a badge of being a rebel, or something. At least now, there is a public official ruling which will make it difficult for him to get licensed again if he ever would have an interest in doing so.Thanks again. Hope you and the horses are well. :-)
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Drink Vedic Coffee and Support Peace
Oh come on! Why are you so negative!?! Don't you know that everyone who wants the world to be at peace, with every man, woman and child living their dharma must start the day sipping a cup of vedic java, after taking their morning spoonful of amrit kalash whilst staring at their plastic vedic observatory?? Its for world peace for goodness sakes On Sat, 2/15/14, anartax...@yahoo.com anartax...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: Drink Vedic Coffee and Support Peace To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, February 15, 2014, 9:42 PM As usual this coffee seems to have a premium price. I can get Organic coffee 10oz for about $7.00 at the local supermarket instead of 8 oz for about $13 for 'Vedic' coffee so it is more than double the cost, a typical movement overcharge. Exactly what do the Vedas say about coffee? I bet nothing at all. According to Wikipedia '[t]he earliest credible evidence of either coffee drinking or knowledge of the coffee tree appears in the middle of the 15th century, in the Sufi Muslim monasteries around Mocha in Yemen'. That is long after all the Vedic liturature was written. So coffee is not really associated with the term 'Vedic' at all. As for coffee interfering with subtle levels of awareness, it sort of depends on how 'embodied' one experiences things. When the mind thinks consciousness is embodied, then how the body feels is strongly reflected in what you feel. When you are not identified with the body so much, coffee does not have that much effect on what is thought of as subtle. Having 'subtle awareness' is really a conceptual device to help one settle down, to become aware of things that might interfere with meditation etc. But when consciousness equals being in experience, subtle really does not make much sense since everything has that value so the differentiation between gross and subtle is seen as not significant. But it can be very important for people learning to meditate and for a number of years after that. I tend to drink regular coffee and Irish breakfast tea, which is pretty strong. Still caffeine can affect the body, so lately I have been tapering down on the stronger stuff in the evening, it just depends on whether I want to shift into the sleep state at midnight or 3am.
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Test: Can you spot the HYPOCRISY in this Barry Wright post?
Translation: Just as I predicted, he fell for it. No, Stevie-boy, you didn't disappoint my expectations. Anyone who thinks Barry's observations have me and Robin pegged perfectly is so out of touch with reality, he'd fall for anything. Sort of lost my interest in this discussion Judy once I realized, (once again), that your unflinching honesty has so many conditions attached. And really, I think Barry's observations have you (and Robin) pegged perfectly. I am sorry about that and I hope I've met your expectations with my reply. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote: I can't wait to see the Feeb fall for this one, even though he's perfectly well aware (as is Richard) that Barry typecasts himself as a troll, and I'm far more sinned against than sinning. If any troll deserves to be troll-baited once in awhile, it's Barry. Would not unflinching honesty require a response to what appears to be a breach of this assertion, without conditions!!? To be honest, Steve, this post of Judy's is an example of Trollbaiting - the use of other trolls as an excuse for their own misbehavior, and in many cases, typecasting another user as a troll regardless of his or her intent.
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: John M. Knapp: Licensing Board Ruling
Huh? What are you responding to in my post? I can't make the connection. I didn't say anything about how the women Maharishi played around with felt. what do you think Marsh's gals felt when he used 'em - bliss? I know some did. at least Judith Borque says she was happy and all that - but all of them??? On Sat, 2/15/14, authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: John M. Knapp: Licensing Board Ruling To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, February 15, 2014, 9:14 PM OK. I'm not aware of any stories of sexual hanky-panky with Knapp, actually. I don't believe that was the problem Carol had with him. As I understand it, hers was more a matter of genuine psychological rape (as opposed to the kind Share fantasized from Robin). I read plenty of his stuff and followed his troubles when patients began to complain - I watched him blame everyone but himself and he certainly did use Marshy's playbook in some respects to get his hands on women. On Sat, 2/15/14, authfriend@... authfriend@... wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: John M. Knapp: Licensing Board Ruling To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, February 15, 2014, 7:15 PM You didn't know Knapp. He followed his own twisted footsteps. not surprising that he would eventually follow in his form master's foot steps - there are others who have like Bob Fickes On Sat, 2/15/14, j_alexander_stanley@... j_alexander_stanley@... wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: John M. Knapp: Licensing Board Ruling To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, February 15, 2014, 5:48 PM Interesting... when you posted earlier this morning, I Googled around to refresh my memory, and the one thing that really stood out for me was the defrocked therapist self-description he uses to promote himself. I thought it very odd that a person would accentuate the consequences of his malevolence as some kind of badge of honor. Strange guy, that one. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jchwelch@... wrote: Thanks for the kind words Anne. Of course, there is a lot that happened between the lines of the brief outline.IMO (and others who were involved), Knapp's revocation is a good thing; he has harmed more than one person, including at least three ex-clients. From Knapp's online public displays, he has claimed he lost his license over at least a year ago (and that due to a lawsuit), though that isn't the case because the ruling wasn't made until January, 2014, and there was never a lawsuit. Regardless, Knapp seems to wear a lost license (or as he publicly describes himself as a defrocked therapist) as a badge of being a rebel, or something. At least now, there is a public official ruling which will make it difficult for him to get licensed again if he ever would have an interest in doing so.Thanks again. Hope you and the horses are well. :-)
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: John M. Knapp: Licensing Board Ruling
On 2/15/2014 4:43 PM, Michael Jackson wrote: what do you think Marsh's gals felt when he used 'em - bliss? Why would you be wanting to know?
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: John M. Knapp: Licensing Board Ruling
We disagree that they might have found your accusation so impossibly unjustified that they would have become suspicious of anyone who used it. Remember, everybody here saw what went on between you and Robin. Judy, I find the people on FFL to be intelligent and well read and I highly doubt that anyone here thought I invented the term. Nor do I think they would be suspicious of Carol regardless of what they thought of me. On Saturday, February 15, 2014 4:20 PM, authfriend@... authfriend@... wrote: The folks here who saw you misuse the term psychological rape for your own malign ends might well have thought you invented it and therefore might have been suspicious of Carol's account. I wanted to ensure they didn't make that mistake. Judy, you are the troll in this situation, for bringing Robin and me into the thread about Carol and Knapp. On Saturday, February 15, 2014 4:00 PM, authfriend@... authfriend@... wrote: Says Xeno the Troll, who is into saying extremely ugly things these days, and has not the vaguest notion of what kind of therapist Robin might have been (now, not 30 years ago). (Ironically, Xeno has convinced himself that he's in a position to advance FFLers' spiritual development by, among other things, attempting to push their buttons.) Ah, if Robin was a therapist, I think it would safer to load all six chambers of a revolver, put it to your head, and pull the trigger.
[FairfieldLife] RE: Drink Vedic Coffee and Support Peace
Yes, it was very important to me for a long time. Especially when I learned the sidhis, my body got so sensitive I couldn't walk next to a busy road or use glue, but coffee and garlic drove me insane. Glad I got over that little phase, life was an exercise in discipline back then, totally pure home cooked food, bed at 10pm, asanas twice a day, I was super-sidha and no mistake! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anartaxius@... wrote: As usual this coffee seems to have a premium price. I can get Organic coffee 10oz for about $7.00 at the local supermarket instead of 8 oz for about $13 for 'Vedic' coffee so it is more than double the cost, a typical movement overcharge. Exactly what do the Vedas say about coffee? I bet nothing at all. According to Wikipedia '[t]he earliest credible evidence of either coffee drinking or knowledge of the coffee tree appears in the middle of the 15th century, in the Sufi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sufi Muslim monasteries around Mocha http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mocha,_Yemen in Yemen'. That is long after all the Vedic liturature was written. So coffee is not really associated with the term 'Vedic' at all. As for coffee interfering with subtle levels of awareness, it sort of depends on how 'embodied' one experiences things. When the mind thinks consciousness is embodied, then how the body feels is strongly reflected in what you feel. When you are not identified with the body so much, coffee does not have that much effect on what is thought of as subtle. Having 'subtle awareness' is really a conceptual device to help one settle down, to become aware of things that might interfere with meditation etc. But when consciousness equals being in experience, subtle really does not make much sense since everything has that value so the differentiation between gross and subtle is seen as not significant. But it can be very important for people learning to meditate and for a number of years after that. I tend to drink regular coffee and Irish breakfast tea, which is pretty strong. Still caffeine can affect the body, so lately I have been tapering down on the stronger stuff in the evening, it just depends on whether I want to shift into the sleep state at midnight or 3am.
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: John M. Knapp: Licensing Board Ruling
On 2/15/2014 4:47 PM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote: I didn't say anything about how the women Maharishi played around with felt. There sure are a lot of trolls on FFL today. Go figure. It's a cry for help for sure: A FFL troll disrupting a conversation about the trolls that post to TM-Free. Probably a sure indication of some past disturbing situations regarding family, relationships, substances, teachers and schools. Go figure.
