[FairfieldLife] Fwd: URGENT ACTION to take - Update I just got driving back from the State Capitol on Our Bill - voting regarding opting out of smart meters with no penalty fee, etc

[Dick Mays dickm...@lisco.com [FairfieldLife]]

Forwarded from: Lisa Ashelman 


Dear Fairfield, 
We are at the 11th hour of getting our Bill into the batch of Bills that will 
be voted on Saturday night. We do still have an opening for being one of the 
Bills that gets voted on tomorrow. After tomorrow this Session is over until 
next January which will be our next chance to get a Bill passed, if we are 
lucky enough to not have gotten smart meters beforehand. 

What we need you to do immediately today (and it has to be today) is to flood 
certain members of the House and Senate with phone calls and emails insisting 
that this Bill be passed. 

The certain members to flood right now are:
- Senator Mark Chelgren, mark.chelg...@legis.iowa.gov 
 
- the President of the Senate, Senator Charles Schneider 
charles.schnei...@legis.iowa.gov  
- the House Representative Pat Grassley, 
pat.grass...@legis.iowa.gov  Head of the 
House of Representatives - Appropriations Committee - (This is not Chuck 
Grassley). 

They have the most clout and interest for this situation, and may make that 
extra effort to be sure that our Bill makes it into this last category, so 
everyone can vote “Yes” on our Bill.  

Please email these 3 people "Please consider for a Standing Bill -  the Bill 
known as -  the Resurrected Curt Hansen Bill For Freedom Of Choice Of Meter And 
The Right To Keep Our Analogs, Or Return To Our Analogs."

If anyone feels industrious - we could also email the other Legislators.  But 
probably not yet; we don’t yet even have our Bill in the priority to vote on.  
They are deciding right now on 51 Bills -  to go in Standing catagory (voting). 
Our Bill is not in that Standing catagory yet, but it is being considered. 

If anyone can do a yagya for this in such short notice…..great.
Let's pray also. Support on the subtle. Everyone should see this as done, and 
feel the joy of being done.  See it all in bliss. 

Please pass this on as much as possible - calling friends also. Will keep you 
posted. 

-- 
Lisa
Dr. Lisa Ashelman
Technologies of World Peace
(641) 469 3110

[FairfieldLife] Re: Christianity and New Age

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

Not New Age?
 TM at Vatican Conference, 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVCQJl1XVmg 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVCQJl1XVmg
 

 
 “..I have only a small
 flickering light to
 guide me in the darkness of a
 thick forest. Up comes a
 theologian and blows it
 out.”  -Denis Diderot
 

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

 Thanks for posting this. It is a remarkable document. Very mental. The mind 
certainly can come up with all kinds of rationalizations, excuses and 
perspectives to perpetuate itself.  Their defending market share by both 
defining the enemy and castigating seems a strategy of sorts of like ™ 
pro-actively tries to frame Buddhism in a place. 

 This patriarchal bottom line in their castigating contends if it don’t have 
Christ in it then the spirituality is no good. Nicene Creed. Let the 
inquisition begin.  
 

 
 And what does Catholicism have to offer? Tell us. Tell us of our friends who 
live damaged by Catholicism.  
 

 eustace10679 posts:

 

 
http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/interelg/documents/rc_pc_interelg_doc_20030203_new-age_en.html
 
http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/interelg/documents/rc_pc_interelg_doc_20030203_new-age_en.html
 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Afterlife

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

 
 Often in the funeral services conducted in the TM community Maharishi Mahesh 
Yogi's commentary of Chapter 2 verse 18 of the Bhagavad Gita may be read aloud 
with selections of adjoining translated verses that affirm transmigration.
 

 Gita Chpt II, V. 22:
 As a man casting off worn-out garments
 takes other new ones, so the dweller
 in the body casting off worn-out
 bodies takes others that are new. 
 

 Generally in public address Maharishi was the teacher of a transcendent in 
life, his teaching primarily was to the bringing of a 'heaven on earth' from 
within people while people are on earth.
 [Millenarianism (also millenarism) is the belief by a religious, social, or 
political group or movement in a coming major transformation of society, after 
which all things will be changed.]
 
 Maharishi’s public teaching was of TM as a spiritual practice primarily and he 
only would edge on the subject of transmigration. Early within his teaching in 
the West he simply did not unpack transmigration other than to quip things 
like, “..Reincarnation, is for the ignorant.”. 
 

 A more complete cosmology including transmigration appears only further down 
written in to text of commentary of the translated II.18 Bhagavad Gita verse.  
While TM’ers officially assert that TM is not a religion and US Federal 
District Court affirms this opinion, a communal feeling about transmigration as 
expressed in Vedic nomenclature is apparent in the group.   

 However, Maharishi’s own teacher Swami Brahmananda Saraswati certainly waded 
in on the subject. 
 


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

 es·cha·tol·o·gy
 
 noun
1.the part of theology concerned with death, judgment, and the final 
destiny of the soul and of humankind.
 

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

 After all, 
 

 “Things got a little heated at the Vatican this week when an Italian 
journalist reported that Pope Francis denied the existence of hell.”
 
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/30/598293419/pope-to-world-hell-does-exist
 
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/30/598293419/pope-to-world-hell-does-exist
 

 





  

[FairfieldLife] Re: Christianity and New Age

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

“..I have only a small
 flickering light to
 guide me in the darkness of a
 thick forest. Up comes a
 theologian and blows it
 out.”  -Denis Diderot
 

 

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

 Thanks for posting this. It is a remarkable document. Very mental. The mind 
certainly can come up with all kinds of rationalizations, excuses and 
perspectives to perpetuate itself.  Their defending market share by both 
defining the enemy and castigating seems a strategy of sorts of like ™ 
pro-actively tries to frame Buddhism in a place. 

 This patriarchal bottom line in their castigating contends if it don’t have 
Christ in it then the spirituality is no good. Nicene Creed. Let the 
inquisition begin.  
 

 
 And what does Catholicism have to offer? Tell us. Tell us of our friends who 
live damaged by Catholicism.  
 

 eustace10679 posts:

 

 
http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/interelg/documents/rc_pc_interelg_doc_20030203_new-age_en.html
 
http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/interelg/documents/rc_pc_interelg_doc_20030203_new-age_en.html
 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Spiritual Morality and its Moral Compass

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

You ask about morality? Among spiritual people, like meditators, morality has 
to do with what enhances their spirituality and neutral activity or immorality 
goes in the other direction to that which degrades spirituality on a scale of 
things. Guru Dev in his high erudite mind and his folk way taught practically 
to this. Maharishi did not unpack it very far other than to teach the 
transcendent.  
 Ten commandments and Golden Rules by normative culture practically 
operationalize spiritual morality when looked at in the way of what is 
enhancing to spiritual progress or not. Criminal law otherwise then protects a 
safety of the spiritual psycho-physiology system of individuals and society at 
large from asocial behavior and will correct or separate the asocial from the 
general population as needed. Different societies do this in effect 
differently, but commonly the badly asocial get separated out (jail, banished 
or more).  ‘Removed from the gene pool’, as some would say. 

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

 Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s teacher, (Guru Dev)Swami Brahmananda Saraswati was 
both nuanced and practical in his talks about this subject of discernment and 
spiritual morality. He taught of character and morality too as they relate to 
human spiritual evolution. Once you get in to the discourses and find his voice 
in them the teaching is practical spirituality told with a sense of humor too.  

 Teaching #19 
 The false man can get no peace even if he is as rich as Kubera (God of Wealth) 
himself.. 
 
 Because of the absence of dharma in education, people's ability to 
discriminate between do's and don'ts has weakened. People think that whatever 
they are doing is correct. The belief, "I'll go to hell if I sin," has almost 
vanished. Because of this, falsehood has exploded in society nowadays. People 
seem to think that the meaning of life is to just attain sensory pleasures. 
Further, people have become unconcerned about the means by which they obtain 
the wealth necessary to have these sensory pleasures. Even so, it is certain 
(niścita) that engaging in wrong dealings for the purpose of earning money will 
never result in peace.  
 Lack of good company (satsaïg) has increased characterlessness. Nowadays 
people do not believe they can manage without resorting to dishonesty 
(beãmanã), and they have no faith in the future or in Vi÷vambhara.64 Have faith 
in Paramàtmà, and conduct your affairs honestly. By doing so, you will feel 
satisfied in this life, and satisfaction is the true form of happiness. As it 
is said, santoùa paramaü sukham.65 A liar cannot be peaceful in this life even 
if he is as rich as Kubera. He will always be doubtful and his heart will burn 
[anxiously]. Thus he will not be happy in this world, and even in the other 
world, he will be ruined. 
 
 

 

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

 What is Conscionable?
 

 Those voices recorded on all sides of the Rajneeshpuram documentary are such 
studies in dynamic of trust: from a trusting ‘benefit of doubt’ to extending 
trust, to violating trust. Bad character in trust evidently is consequently 
hurtful spiritually as it happens.   
 

 Teaching #22 
 “Honor those who deserve honor, disdain those who deserve disdain. 
 
 Mingling with characterless people is like listening to the Gãtagovinda or 
Sårsàgar from a whore. If you drink water from the Ganges, take it from where 
the stream is clean; don't drink Ganges water flowing from a gutter. If a 
teacher is of good character, then listen to him. If you follow the words of a 
characterless person, it only serves to magnify your own lack of character. 
 The character of a Bhagavàn devotee must be exceedingly good. You should 
understand that if someone is of poor character, he is not a [real] devotee, 
and is just putting on a show to cheat people. Save yourself from such 
deceitful people, and save innocent pious people from them. 
 

 Only he who is endowed with character is fit to be respected. A sweetmeat 
(laóóå) made of bad ghee will be crooked and bad; but when made of pure ghee, 
its shape will be good. If somebody declares that he is spreading devotional 
teachings of Bhagavàn, then he should have an impeccable character. Only then 
will people know that through devotion to Bhagavàn (the Transcendent), all past 
sins can be destroyed and present problems can be overcome.  
 
 
 As a matter of principle, one should reject those deserving rejection and 
honor those deserving honor. If unworthy people are honored, then their number 
will increase and their stench will spoil society.”  -Swami Brahmananda 
Saraswati, Maharishi’s teacher. 
 

 

 

 Of Spiritual morality and ethical behavior,
 

 inside Swami Brahmananda Saraswati's discourses the importance of moral 
behavior and the company we keep is very much a thread that runs through his 
satsanga.