[FairfieldLife] Re: Success in the "early" TM era
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "yifuxero" wrote: > > OTOH, one can argue that the TM perspective will win out in the long run - > hundreds of years into the future, because the belief systems holding the > Fundies together are in essence (imo) much superstititious nonsense. > >From a historical point of view, TM has been extremely successful so far. I do >not foresee, however, that it will challenge Christianity or Islam; rather it >will provide an alternative, and through its success influence future >developments in the monotheistic religions which are not going to be able to >ignore it. -emf
[FairfieldLife] David Lynch and initiations fees.
Sorry for being dated, but I just came across this February Guardian article http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/jan/27/david-lynch-meditation where it says: "Beloved of hippie celebrities everywhere since the 1960s, TM's expensive teaching courses risked it being priced into oblivion until Lynch was credited with persuading Maharishi Mahesh Yogi - to whom he became close in 2003 after paying $1m to participate in the guru's four-week "Millionaire's Enlightenment Course" - to radically reduce the TM learning fee so that more younger people could learn the practice." I was unaware that David Lynch had persuaded Maharishi to "radically reduce the TM learning fee". Actually, I first heard of the fee sales last January - to $1500 until September for now. Does anybody have more information about this? When did it start? And what fees are agreed upon by the David Lynch Foundation and the movement for the scholarship initiations of students? I didn't know about David Lynch being in the Millionaire's Enlightenment Course either. That explains a few things. So that's how Lynch managed to represent the meditators at the top circles of the movement, where normally you have to be a governor or more to participate. It's nice to know that there is someone representing the meditators' point of view up there. As for "TM's expensive teaching courses risked it being priced into oblivion" it was clear. It is not surprising what John Hagelin in his recent email writes: "The number of adults learning the Transcendental Meditation® technique this year has almost tripled â" and this month more people learned than in any month in the past 15 years!" What *is* surprising is that he goes on to say that: "The new TM.org website, the national media from our April Change Begins Within Benefit Concert with Paul McCartney and friends, and our reduced course fees have produced a sharp rise of interest." The new TM.org website! What was wrong with the old one in the first place? Whom is he trying to fool? I would bet that the new website played nil role in the sharp rise of interest. And the Concert without the reduced fees would have produced much less impressive results in initiation numbers. emf
[FairfieldLife] Rajas and domains
Since I wasn't able to find on the web a list of the rajas and their domains, I created one based on information from the Maharishi Family Chats and post it below for the record. Maybe someone who has a suitable webpage would like to reprint it there. -emf 01 Antonio Bartolome 001 Andorra Antonio Bartolome 002 Angola Antonio Bartolome 003 Cape Verde Antonio Bartolome 004 Equatorial Guinea Antonio Bartolome 005 Guinea-Bissau Antonio Bartolome 006 Mozambique Antonio Bartolome 007 Portugal Antonio Bartolome 008 Sao Tome & Principe Antonio Bartolome 009 Spain 02 Bjarne Landsfeldt 010 Bosnia & Herzegovina Bjarne Landsfeldt 011 Czech Republic Bjarne Landsfeldt 012 Denmark Bjarne Landsfeldt 013 Malta Bjarne Landsfeldt 014 Russia Bjarne Landsfeldt 015 Slovakia Bjarne Landsfeldt 016 Turkmenistan 03 Bob LoPinto 017 Gambia Bob LoPinto 018 Lesotho Bob LoPinto 019 Oman Bob LoPinto 020 Philippines Bob LoPinto 021 Senegal Bob LoPinto 022 South Africa Bob LoPinto 023 Viet Nam 04 Bruce Plaut 024 Ethiopia Bruce Plaut 025 Nigeria Bruce Plaut 026 Samoa Bruce Plaut 027 Seychelles Bruce Plaut 028 Swaziland Bruce Plaut 029 Sweden Bruce Plaut 030 Tanzania 05 Dean Dodrill031 Austria Dean Dodrill032 Azerbaijan Dean Dodrill033 Croatia Dean Dodrill034 Guinea Dean Dodrill035 Macedonia, Former Yugoslav Republic Dean Dodrill036 Moldova Dean Dodrill037 Romania Dean Dodrill038 Sudan 06 Emanuel Schiffgens 039 Bangladesh Emanuel Schiffgens 040 Central African Republic Emanuel Schiffgens 041 Germany Emanuel Schiffgens 042 Iran Emanuel Schiffgens 043 Monaco Emanuel Schiffgens 044 Nauru Emanuel Schiffgens 045 Saudi Arabia Emanuel Schiffgens 046 Ukraine 07 Felix Kaegi 047 Albania Felix Kaegi 048 Djibouti Felix Kaegi 049 Liechtenstein Felix Kaegi 050 Malawi Felix Kaegi 051 Serbia Felix Kaegi 052 Slovenia Felix Kaegi 053 Switzerland 08 Graham de Freitas 054 Benin Graham de Freitas 055 Botswana Graham de Freitas 056 Grenada Graham de Freitas 057 Mali Graham de Freitas 058 Norway Graham de Freitas 059 Togo Graham de Freitas 060 Trinidad & Tobago Graham de Freitas 061 Uganda 09 Harris Kaplan 062 India 10 Ior Guglielmi 063 Bahrain Ior Guglielmi 064 Greece Ior Guglielmi 065 Kazakhstan Ior Guglielmi 066 Kuwait Ior Guglielmi 067 Niger Ior Guglielmi 068 Papua New Guinea Ior Guglielmi 069 San Marino Ior Guglielmi 070 Sri Lanka 11 John Hagelin071 USA 12 John Konhaus072 Chad John Konhaus073 Egypt John Konhaus074 Hungary John Konhaus075 Jamaica John Konhaus076 Japan John Konhaus077 Kyrgyzstan John Konhaus078 Somalia John Konhaus079 Uzbekistan 13 Jose Luis 080 Argentina Jose Luis 081 Bolivia Jose Luis 082 Brazil Jose Luis 083 Chile Jose Luis 084 Colombia Jose Luis 085 Costa Rica Jose Luis 086 Cuba Jose Luis 087 Dominican Republic Jose Luis 088 Ecuador Jose Luis 089 El Salvador Jose Luis 090 Guatemala Jose Luis 091 Guyana Jose Luis 092 Honduras Jose Luis 093 Mexico Jose Luis 094 Nicaragua Jose Luis 095 Panama Jose Luis 096 Paraguay Jose Luis 097 Peru Jose Luis 098 Suriname Jose Luis 099 Uruguay Jose Luis 100 Venezuela 14 Kingsley Brooks 101 Afghanistan Kingsley Brooks 102 Georgia Kingsley Brooks 103 Israel Kingsley Brooks 104 Korea, Democratic Peoples Republic Kingsley Brooks 105 Korea, Republic Kingsley Brooks 106 Marshall Islands Kingsley Brooks 107 Micronesia Kingsley Brooks 108 Nepal 15 Lucien Mansour 109 Belgium Lucien Mansour 110 Congo, Democratic Republic Lucien Mansour 111 Dominica Lucien Mansour 112 Gabon Lucien Mansour 113 Haiti Lucien Mansour 114 Lebanon Lucien Mansour 115 Luxembourg Lucien Mansour 116 Syria 16 Mariano Facipieri 117 Eritrea Mariano Facipieri 118 Ghana Mariano Facipieri 119 Italy Mariano Facipieri 120 Ivory Coast Mariano Facipieri 121 Madagascar Mariano Facipieri 122 Sierra Leone
[FairfieldLife] India moves to protect traditional medicines from foreign patents
India moves to protect traditional medicines from foreign patents India fights to protect ancient treatments from western pharmaceutical companies * Randeep Ramesh * guardian.co.uk, Sunday 22 February 2009 16.04 GMT [Yoga could become 'public property' to prevent it becoming a brand. Photograph: Sonny Tumbelaka/AFP/Getty Images] In the first step by a developing country to stop multinational companies patenting traditional remedies from local plants and animals, the Indian government has effectively licensed 200,000 local treatments as "public property" free for anyone to use but no one to sell as a "brand". The move comes after scientists in Delhi noticed an alarming trend â" the "bio-prospecting" of natural remedies by companies abroad. After trawling through the records of the global trademark offices, officials found 5,000 patents had been issued â" at a cost of at least $150m (£104m) â" for "medical plants and traditional systems". "More than 2,000 of these belong to the Indian systems of medicine ⦠We began to ask why multinational companies were spending millions of dollars to patent treatments that so many lobbies in Europe deny work at all," said Dr Vinod Kumar Gupta, who heads the Traditional Knowledge Digital Library, which lists in encyclopaedic detail the 200,000 treatments. The database, which took 200 researchers eight years to compile by meticulously translating ancient Indian texts, will now be used by the European Patent Office to check against "bio-prospectors". Gupta points out that in Brussels alone there had been 285 patents for medicinal plants whose uses had long been known in the three principal Indian systems: ayurveda, India's traditional medical treatment; unani, a system believed to have come to India via ancient Greece; and siddha, one of India's oldest health therapies, from the south. Researchers found that in Europe one company had patented an Indian creeping plant known as Brahmi â" Bacopa monnieri â" for a memory enhancer. Another patent was awarded for aloe vera for its use as a mouth ulcer treatment. "We have shown the authorities that ayurveda, unani and siddha medicinal uses were known in India. We would like the patents therefore lifted," said Gupta. In the past India has had to go to court to get patents revoked. Officials say that to lift patents from medicines created from turmeric and neem, an Indian tree, it spent more than $5m. In the case of the neem patent, the legal battle took almost 10 years. "We won because we proved these were part of traditional Indian knowledge. There was no innovation and therefore no patent should be granted," said Gupta. Yoga, too, is considered a traditional medicine and one that is already a billion-dollar industry in the US. Gupta said the Indian government had already asked the US to register yoga as a "well-known" mark and raised concerns over the 130 yoga-related patents issued. "We want no one to appropriate the yoga brand for themselves. There are 1,500 asanas [yogic poses] and exercises given in our ancient texts. We are transcribing these so they too cannot be appropriated by anyone. "We have had instances where people have patented a yoga technique by describing a certain temperature. This is simply wrong." India is also unusual in that it has seven national medical systems â" of which modern medicine is but one. Almost four-fifths of India's billion people use traditional medicine and there are 430,000 ayurvedic medical practitioners registered by the government in the country. The department overseeing the traditional medical industry, known as Ayush, has a budget of 10bn rupees ($260m). India's battle to protect its traditional treatments is rooted in the belief that the developing world's rich biodiversity is a potential treasure trove of starting material for new drugs and crops. Gupta said that it costs the west $15bn and 15 years to produce a "blockbuster drug". A Âpatent lasts for 20 years, so a pharmaceutical company has just five years to recover its costs â" which makes conventional treatments expensive. "If you can take a natural remedy and isolate the active ingredient then you just need drug trials and the marketing. Traditional medicine could herald a new age of cheap drugs." Medicines ancient and modern Ginger: Patented to treat obesity. However, officials have found that in a Siddha preparation, extracts of ginger root are used in a treatment for obesity Citrus peel extract: Patented to treat skin disorders and injuries. Recorded in Ayurvedic texts as a key ingredient to treat skin diseases Phyllanthus amarus (Himalayan stem herb): Patented "for the inhibition of the replication of a nucleosidic inhibitor resistant retrovirus and/or a non-nucleosidic inhibitor-resistant retrovirus, wherein said retrovirus is an HIV." Indian traditional texts show the drug is used for immuno-suppressive emaciating diseases Brassica rapa (mustard): Patented to normalise bowel functi
[FairfieldLife] Malaysia backs down from yoga ban
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081126/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_malaysia_islam_yoga Malaysia backs down from yoga ban Wed Nov 26, 5:28 am ET KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) â" Malaysia's prime minister said on Wednesday Muslims should still take up yoga, reversing an outright ban that has drawn widespread protests amid concerns over growing Islamic fundamentalism in the multiracial nation. Malaysia's National Fatwa Council, comprising Islamic scholars, told Muslims at the weekend to avoid yoga because it uses Hindu prayers that could erode Muslims' faith. But the decision drew a sharp rebuke from many Muslims and even Malaysia's sultans, or hereditary rulers, who said that they should be consulted on any matters involving Islam. Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi moved to contain the damage, telling the national news agency Bernama that Muslims could carry on doing yoga but minus the chanting. "I wish to state that a physical regime with no elements of worship can continue, meaning, it is not banned. I believe that Muslims are not easily swayed into polytheism," he said. Just before Abdullah spoke, the eldest son of the ruler of the central Negeri Sembilan state took the government to task over the yoga ruling. "Islam is a progressive religion and the ulama (scholars) should be confident of the followers' faith rather than micro-managing their way of life," Tunku Naquiyuddin told a luncheon. "If I go to a church or a Buddhist temple, is there any fear of me converting? ... Where do we draw the line?" the online version of the Star newspaper quoted him as saying. The yoga fatwa ruling came hot on the heels of another edict against young Muslim women wearing trousers. Fatwas or religious edicts are not legally binding, but they are highly influential in Malaysia, where Malay-Muslims form just over half of the country's 27 million people. The fatwa council has said that by wearing trousers, girls risked becoming sexually active "tomboys." Gay sex is outlawed in Malaysia. Malaysia's sizeable minorities include ethnic Chinese and Indians who practice either Christianity, Buddhism or Hinduism. (Reporting by Jalil Hamid)
[FairfieldLife] Re: Keeping the High Happening for the New Meditator
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "mainstream20016" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A friend is having very good experiences as a brand new TM > meditator. I think I recall from an SCI Course tape that a new > meditator will remain regular in his TM practise if the new > meditator is inspired by, and incorporates, a vision of his future > established in higher states of consciousness. > What would you suggest to a new meditator that might mitigate the > tendency of new meditators to abandon the practice ? I have to suggest something different. As I detail in my website http://www.geocities.com/emfril/tm/project.html I have come to the conclusion that there is a specific point in time (a few months after initiation) that something unusually positive happens to the new meditator. The problem is that so far this Maharishi effect on the meditator's life is still based on anecdotal evidence. And certainly I wouldn't expect you, without having any personal experience of it, to have confidence in it. So I would suggest that without making a big thing about it and without making any claims that might risk the meditators faith in TM, and since you don't have any experience on this either, casually tell your friend something to the effect that there is a crazy guy who thinks that something positive happens when one meditates regularly about 1% of one's life, and that it might be interesting to check the hypothesis out anyway; and 2 or 3 of days after the predicted day, without making a big fuss about it, find out (I would dare say *what happened*, but for now let's say) if something did in fact happen. In the few cases of friends and acquaintances I have had the chance to check out over the years (I am just a TMer, not a TM teacher), in all cases something unusual and positive *did* happen, something that one would never have imagined to connect with the TM practice. It is my opinion though that it is connected to the TM practice and that it is prominent enough to be predictable, and that the effect of pointing it out by making a successful prediction is to expand the meditators awareness of the positive effects of regular TM practice and enhance the new meditators confidence in it, thus contributing to the stabilization of the practice. They may hesitate to believe that the event is connected, but they won't be able to forget the possibility that it may be... JGD, Eustace -- The M-Meter Project Website http://www.geocities.com/emfril/tm/project.html
[FairfieldLife] Rajas and domains
Where can I find a list of all the rajas and their domains? -emf -- The M-Meter Project Website http://www.geocities.com/emfril/tm/project.html
[FairfieldLife] Americans are being robbed of their votes
Americans are being robbed of their votes Don't trust the opinion polls The scale of voter disenfranchisement in America could put the Republicans back in the White House o Peter Tatchell o guardian.co.uk, o Monday October 20 2008 21.30 BST The US presidential election will not be free and fair, because millions of electors will either not be allowed to vote or will not have their votes properly counted. It could cost Barack Obama the White House, even if he wins most of the votes on November 4. This sensational claim is based on research by the New York Times (NYT) and BBC Newsnight, which found that in some states for every new voter registered in the last couple of months, two voters have been removed â" negating Obama's massive voter registration drive. This voter purging could mean fewer people voting next month than voted in 2004. In Colorado, for example, which has seen a significant population increase since the last presidential election, the state has recorded a net loss of nearly 100,000 voters from its rolls since 2004. Louisiana, Michigan and Colorado are deleting registered voters from the rolls within 90 days of a federal election, which is illegal except when voters die, notify the authorities that they have moved out of state, or have been declared unfit to vote. This widespread electoral malpractice is independently corroborated by a Newsnight investigation by Greg Palast. He reminds us that in the 2004 presidential election, between 1.6 and three million votes were cast but never counted, according to the US Election Assistance Commission. This is easily enough votes to have changed the outcome of the poll and put John Kerry in the White House. Palast says that almost three million voters have already been purged from the voter rolls â" mostly poor and black voters who are more likely to vote Democrat. During elections in New Mexico earlier this year, one in nine voters found that their names had disappeared from the voter rolls. In Colorado, the disenfranchisement is even greater, with 20% of voters being purged. It has happened before. During the 2004 presidential election one in four registered Ohio voters turned up at the polling booth only to discover that their names were not on the voter roll, an exclusion rate of 25%. Democrat leaders are too high on their "Yes we can" hype to kick up a fuss about this massive disenfranchisement of their voters. They naively assume that Obama's poll lead will give him victory, regardless of the election bias. It might. But then, again, it might not. Another form of voter exclusion is happening in Michigan, where 62,000 lower income families, mostly Democrat supporters, face losing their homes to foreclosure. Loss of residence means losing their voting address and their right to vote. Many of the evictions are being orchestrated by a foreclosure company that supports the Republican party. Michigan isn't alone. In several crucial swing states, including Nevada and Florida, foreclosures and the consequent loss of voting rights could affect the outcome and decide the presidency. Election bias doesn't stop there. The Republican strategist Karl Rove has backed a new law requiring voters to show photo ID at the polling booth. One in ten US citizens don't have photo ID. Among African Americans it is one in five. This requirement will disenfranchise millions of poor, elderly and black Americans, who tend to vote Democrat. In one swing state, Indiana, an estimated 100,000 African-Americans may lose their right to vote. A combination of voter roll purging and photo ID requirement could be enough to swing the presidential election in favour of John McCain â" even if Barack Obama has a substantial opinion poll lead on election day. Writing in Rolling Stone magazine this month, Palast and the civil rights lawyer Robert Kennedy Jr, JFK's nephew, have revealed how voting irregularities in 2004 were enough to steal the presidency for the Republicans. He has also demonstrated that the electronic voting machines that will be used in the November 4 election are not reliable and accurate, and that they are vulnerable to hacking. Moreover, he shows that three of the four companies that supply voting machines and count the votes have close links with the Republican party. Their meticulously researched expose and documentary catalogue evidence that the Republicans may have already stolen the 2008 presidential vote. "If Democrats are to win the 2008 election," Kennedy and Palast conclude, "they must not simply beat John McCain at the polls â" they must beat him by a margin that exceeds the level of GOP [Republican] vote tampering." http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/oct/20/republicans-voting
[FairfieldLife] Re: URGENT MESSAGE FROM RAJA HAGELIN
ritical time, with the economic > stability of the world hanging in the balance, I > urge everyone in Iowa and everyone in the country > to recommit to fly together in large groups. Reaching 2,500 would not influence statistically significantly Europe and Asia. > Needless to say, I am deeply appreciative of how > much you are already doing with the knowledge > Maharishi has given us to create a new world of > peace, happiness, and prosperity for everyone. Me too. > However, at this time, I ask you to do more. > Please join the Invincible America Assembly if > you have not already done so. And if you can't, > please be sure to fly every day, twice a day, in > a large group! > > Thank you� and with best wishes for your health, happiness and > enlightenment, > > Jai Guru Dev > > John Hagelin, Ph.D. > Raja of Invincible America > > P.S. Buried in the media tsunami of dire economic > news has been a series of stunningly positive > reports about the reduced tensions and violence > in nuclear hotspots-and the dramatic turnaround > in America's relationships with once hostile > nations. For example, North Korea, described a > short while ago by the U.S. as a member of the > "Axis of Evil," is now forging friendlier ties > with America and has been removed from our > government's list of state-sponsored terrorists. Taking North Korea off the list of state-sponsored terrorists, something that according to our agreements we should have done before we were forced to do so, could be due to the rise of the coherence in the US I suppose, but we will never know. > At the same time, violence and war deaths have > dropped sharply in Iraq and there has been a > palpable diffusion of tensions between the U.S. > and Iran. > > Finally, on the domestic front, as the grueling > presidential campaign draws to a close, negative > campaigning-which dominated the news as recently > as a week ago-is now being soundly rejected by > voters, who instead are demanding from the > candidates a positive, more enlightened vision of > the nation's future along with a more substantive > (and proven, prevention-oriented) approach to the > nation's pressing problems. Sincerely, were the numbers in the domes to drop tomorrow below 1750, I would be greatly worrying about what might happen until the elections day and after... > Maharishi said it was inevitable that the world > would rise to invincibility. The only question > was how long it would take. That choice has been > left up to us. We can make this current phase > transition as fast and as smooth as possible for > everyone-by flying together in large groups to > create coherent, invincible national and world > consciousness. > > Let us all join together now, and fly in the biggest groups > possible! > > <http://invincibleamerica.org/unsubscribe/>Click here to unsubscribe JGD, Eustace -- ~ O The M-Meter Project Website o Check your TM and AT initiation dates . http://www.geocities.com/emfril/tm/project.html _
[FairfieldLife] Re: URGENT MESSAGE FROM RAJA HAGELIN
d this is why, > at this critical time, with the economic > stability of the world hanging in the balance, I > urge everyone in Iowa and everyone in the country > to recommit to fly together in large groups. Reaching 2,500 would not influence statistically significantly Europe and Asia. > Needless to say, I am deeply appreciative of how > much you are already doing with the knowledge > Maharishi has given us to create a new world of > peace, happiness, and prosperity for everyone. Me too. > However, at this time, I ask you to do more. > Please join the Invincible America Assembly if > you have not already done so. And if you can't, > please be sure to fly every day, twice a day, in > a large group! > > Thank you� and with best wishes for your health, happiness and > enlightenment, > > Jai Guru Dev > > John Hagelin, Ph.D. > Raja of Invincible America > > P.S. Buried in the media tsunami of dire economic > news has been a series of stunningly positive > reports about the reduced tensions and violence > in nuclear hotspots-and the dramatic turnaround > in America's relationships with once hostile > nations. For example, North Korea, described a > short while ago by the U.S. as a member of the > "Axis of Evil," is now forging friendlier ties > with America and has been removed from our > government's list of state-sponsored terrorists. Taking North Korea off the list of state-sponsored terrorists, something that according to our agreements we should have done before we were forced to do so, could be due to the rise of the coherence in the US I suppose, but we will never know. > At the same time, violence and war deaths have > dropped sharply in Iraq and there has been a > palpable diffusion of tensions between the U.S. > and Iran. > > Finally, on the domestic front, as the grueling > presidential campaign draws to a close, negative > campaigning-which dominated the news as recently > as a week ago-is now being soundly rejected by > voters, who instead are demanding from the > candidates a positive, more enlightened vision of > the nation's future along with a more substantive > (and proven, prevention-oriented) approach to the > nation's pressing problems. Sincerely, were the numbers in the domes to drop tomorrow below 1750, I would be greatly worrying about what might happen until the elections day and after... > Maharishi said it was inevitable that the world > would rise to invincibility. The only question > was how long it would take. That choice has been > left up to us. We can make this current phase > transition as fast and as smooth as possible for > everyone-by flying together in large groups to > create coherent, invincible national and world > consciousness. > > Let us all join together now, and fly in the biggest groups > possible! > > <http://invincibleamerica.org/unsubscribe/>Click here to unsubscribe JGD, Eustace -- ~~~ O The M-Meter Project Website o Check your TM and AT initiation dates . http://www.geocities.com/emfrilingos/tm/project.html ___
[FairfieldLife] Re: Global Family Chat website?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Eustace" wrote: > > > > What happened to the Global Family Chat website > > (http://www.globalcountry.net/EasyWeb.asp?pcpid=1470) ? I can't find > > it a couple of days now... > > > > Eustace > > > > -- > > The MOU schedule is here: > > http://mou.org/maharishi_channel/schedule/n_america_grid.html > > > MOU is here on ch. 3 (including chat programs): > > http://www.maharishichannel.org/ Right. Sorry, I was referring to the archive. The link I mentioned is on the www.maharishichannel.org webpage (Global Country of World Peace video archives) and is broken... Eustace -- It ain't THAT, babe! - A radical reinterpretation http://www.geocities.com/itaintme_babe/itaintme.html
[FairfieldLife] Global Family Chat website?
What happened to the Global Family Chat website (http://www.globalcountry.net/EasyWeb.asp?pcpid=1470) ? I can't find it a couple of days now... Eustace -- It ain't THAT, babe! - A radical reinterpretation http://www.geocities.com/itaintme_babe/itaintme.html
[FairfieldLife] Re: Dow Jones, How Low Can You Go?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Eustace" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "The Secret" > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John" wrote: > > > > > > > > > > To All: > > > > > > > > > > The major indicator of stock market activity is dancing the limbo > > > > > rock. As of 12:20 PM PST, DJI has gone down another 350 points or > > > > > so. Clearly, the national consciousness is confused of how to > > > > > interpret the current situation. Perhaps, panic is a better way to > > > > > explain it. > > > > > > The more Pundits in Fairfield the faster your unbalanced system of > > > selfish economics will disappear. > > > > > > "Now that communism is gone the next to go is capitalism" > > > - Maharishi, 1989 > > > > > > Your capitalism is being destroyed by Nature. Get used to the idea. > > > > > > > Has anybody yet tried to see if the numbers in FF to the unraveling of > > the present (?) economic system correlate? The first indication that > > the effects of the superradiance might not be what we had expected > > might had been last June's floods... > > > > I'm a great believer in the Law of Fives: the human mind is able to > find patterns everywhere. > > > Lawson Maybe, but some patterns are more convincing than others. And some, like the effects of the Maharishi effect, have been proven to be *not* coincidental. For someone so inclined and adequately qualified, I think it would be worth the effort to see if some statistically significant correlation can be established. Shiva's blessings come in disguise, if you know what I mean. What is the Law of Fives anyway? Eustace -- It ain't THAT, babe! - A radical reinterpretation http://www.geocities.com/itaintme_babe/itaintme.html
[FairfieldLife] Re: Dow Jones, How Low Can You Go?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "The Secret" > wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John" wrote: > > > > > > To All: > > > > > > The major indicator of stock market activity is dancing the limbo > > > rock. As of 12:20 PM PST, DJI has gone down another 350 points or > > > so. Clearly, the national consciousness is confused of how to > > > interpret the current situation. Perhaps, panic is a better way to > > > explain it. > > The more Pundits in Fairfield the faster your unbalanced system of > selfish economics will disappear. > > "Now that communism is gone the next to go is capitalism" > - Maharishi, 1989 > > Your capitalism is being destroyed by Nature. Get used to the idea. > Has anybody yet tried to see if the numbers in FF to the unraveling of the present (?) economic system correlate? The first indication that the effects of the superradiance might not be what we had expected might had been last June's floods...
[FairfieldLife] Yoga May [!] Help Treat Depression, Anxiety Disorders
Yoga May Help Treat Depression, Anxiety Disorders By E.J. Mundell HealthDay Reporter Thu Jun 7, 11:46 PM ET THURSDAY, June 7 (HealthDay News) -- Yoga's postures, controlled breathing and meditation may work together to help ease brains plagued by anxiety or depression, a new study shows. Brain scans of yoga practitioners showed a healthy boost in levels of the neurotransmitter gamma-aminobutyric (GABA) immediately after a one-hour yoga session. Low brain levels of GABA are associated with anxiety and depression, the researchers said. "I am quite sure that this is the first study that's shown that there's a real, measurable change in a major neurotransmitter with a behavioral intervention such as yoga," said lead researcher Dr. Chris Streeter, assistant professor of psychiatry and neurology at the Boston University School of Medicine. She believes yoga could prove a useful tool to help people battling depression and anxiety disorders. "We're not advocating that they chuck their medication, but I would advise that they could use it as an adjunct and see how they are doing," Streeter said. Her team published its findings in the May issue of the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. In the study, the Boston researchers used high-tech magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging to gauge levels of GABA in the brains of eight long-time yoga practitioners and 11 non-practitioners. The participants were healthy, and none was diagnosed with a major psychiatric condition. Brain scans were taken before the beginning of the experiment. Then, the yoga group was asked to engage in the meditative practice for 60 minutes, while the non-yoga group simply read. The researchers then re-scanned each participant's brain, looking specifically at GABA levels. "We showed a 27 percent increase in the brain GABA levels of those doing yoga -- a really significant increase," Streeter said. No such change was noted in the non-practitioners who had just read. She said the style or school of yoga practiced didn't seem to matter. "We had hatha, ashtanga, bikram, vinyasa, and kripalu" practitioners included in the yoga group, Streeter said, "and many had been trained in several different schools." According to Streeter, "this all gives us one of the mechanisms by which yoga may be having a beneficial effect. There could be other mechanisms." But another expert pointed to what he considered flaws in the research. Zindel Segal, chairman of psychotherapy and a professor of psychology and psychiatry at the University of Toronto, has for years studied the use of behavioral interventions to alleviate psychological woes. He said the Boston researchers were to be commended for using brain scan imaging technologies to investigate the effectiveness of these techniques. But he questioned why the yoga group was simply compared to a sedentary reading group and not to another movement-based group. "Exercise itself may have some effects on GABA, so I think in this study, you'd really want that comparison," he said. Including such a control group would make it clear that it was yoga and not just an hour of physical exertion that was responsible for the brain changes. He also pointed out that all of the people in the study were mentally healthy, and clinical depression and anxiety disorders involve more than the "daily fluctuations in stress and tension" that healthy individuals are prone to. "We know that yoga can have a profound effect" on smoothing out life's daily ups and downs, Segal said. "But so does working out on a Stairmaster for an hour." Segal also questioned the role of GABA in depression. While it may play a role in anxiety disorders, "GABA is not one of the main neurotransmitters that seems to be a part of the depression story," he said. Other neurochemicals -- most notably serotonin -- play much bigger roles in the disorder, he said. None of this means that the study's findings are without merit, Segal said. "In fact," he said, "we have a program called 'mindfulness-based cognitive therapy,' where we do use yoga, as well as mindfulness meditation," as therapeutic tools. Streeter's findings "suggest the need for more study of these practices," he said. Streeter agreed that her study is probably just a beginning. "I think what's important about this study is that it shows that by using really cutting-edge neuroimaging technology, we can measure real changes in the brain with behavioral interventions -- changes that are similar to those that we see with pharmacologic treatments," she said. Would other mind-body practices -- Tai Chi, for example -- produce similar effects? "I think that's very possible," Streeter said. "I suspect that all roads lead up the mountain."
[FairfieldLife] Girl leaves mother to be ¡child of our times¢
Girl leaves mother to be 'child of our times'First posted 01:37am (Mla time) May 14, 2006By TJ BurgonioInquirerEditor's Note: Published on page A1 of the May 14, 2006 issue of thePhilippine Daily InquirerTHROUGHOUT college at the University of the Philippines in the late1960s and even afterward, Molly stayed away from protest rallies.Not that she detested mass actions, she said. It was just that she wasmore into meditation.Thus, only her own convictions and spirituality prepared her for theday her own teenaged daughter Erika quit high school to go underground.But Molly, a widow juggling her time between family and business, didnot fall apart. She accepted Erika's decision and let her go, albeitwith a heavy heart.And thanks to regular meditation, she learned to accept Erika's longabsences, broken only by lightning visits, for six years - andultimately her daughter's death in Bicol on March 29, the 37thfounding anniversary of the communist New People's Army.Erika was only 20 then. She would have turned 21 last May 8."The day she joined the movement, she was no longer our daughter. Shewas the daughter of the society at large. She had a role to play in society," Molly, now 57, said in an interview at a coffee shop in Quezon City. She requested that she be identified only by her nickname."Remember the Kahlil Gibran saying, 'We are not children of ourparents; we are children of the times'?" she said.Degree of commitmentMolly was aware of her daughter's involvement in activist work at theUP Integrated School in Quezon City, where she attended high school.She did not, however, know "the degree of Erika's commitment" untilmuch later.Erika was only 13 or 14 then, but Molly, a fine arts graduate, saidshe never "dictated" to the child what to do with her life.She said she had always treated Erika and her five other children as"co-equals."Molly said she could not recall Erika reading books on, say, the Cubanrevolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara, but had expected her to be drawnto such works "because in a public school like UP, they were moreaware of social issues.""We had an agreement that if she wanted to let off steam, she shouldjust do it at UP," the mother said.A couple of years later, when Molly saw on TV the familiar smilingface with the chubby cheeks and slit eyes in the middle of a hugeprotest rally, she was not alarmed."I brought up my children to be aware of others and to do what theybelieved in, as long as they were ready to stand by it, and they knewthe consequences," she said.But the footage - which disturbed some friends and relatives - prompted a serious talk between mother and daughter.Said Molly: "When we talked, she knew how to answer. I believed whatshe was saying, and that she knew what she was doing and was aware ofthe consequences."It was so hard because when she answered me ... [I knew] deep downthat she was saying the right things."Self-criticismBy Molly's account, Erika was born in 1985 to middle-class parents whoran a furniture export business.The fourth in a brood of six, she attended an exclusive preschool inMakati City and finished grade school at the Colegio de San Agustinbefore moving to UPIS.As a child, she was prone to tantrums; she would slump on the floor ifshe did not get her way, kicking and screaming until she was hoarse.But when she turned 10, three years after her father died of a heartattack, she consciously "criticized" herself because she felt thateveryone disliked her. It was, Molly recalled, a huge transformation.The day she brought home a classmate physically abused by his fatherand expressed her intention to bring the case to the attention of thebarangay chair remains fresh in the family memory.It was not long before Erika quit school in her junior year in 2001and prepared for a "two-week exposure" in the countryside.As Erika was leaving, Molly told the maid to go after her. But sheflashed her impish grin and waved until the tricycle she was riding indisappeared from view.Like going on vacation"It was so light; it was like she was just going on vacation in Lagunaor Cavite," the mother recalled.Stopping her would have been next to impossible: "I couldn't convinceher otherwise. Whether I liked it or not, she left. I couldn't tie herdown to the house, even if I wanted to. It was that strong in her."It was never the same again for the family.For the next few years, Erika would arrive at the family home inQuezon City at ungodly hours and leave as she came, never staying longenough to go to the mall or to the beach with her siblings."She would just pack up and leave," Molly said. "Once, she remindedme, 'Didn't you tell us, ma, that children are just visitors in ahouse?' How could you argue with that?"It took some time, emotional wrangling and reflection before Mollylearned to accept the role she had to play for "this particularchild," as well as the hard facts that Erika was "no longer ours" andthat "whatever she was doing, it was her purpose.""It was hard; you had to have som
[FairfieldLife] Long-Awaited Medical Study Questions the Power of Prayer
The New York Times Long-Awaited Medical Study Questions the Power of Prayer By BENEDICT CAREY Published: March 31, 2006 Prayers offered by strangers had no effect on the recovery of people who were undergoing heart surgery, a large and long-awaited study has found. And patients who knew they were being prayed for had a higher rate of post-operative complications like abnormal heart rhythms, perhaps because of the expectations the prayers created, the researchers suggested. Because it is the most scientifically rigorous investigation of whether prayer can heal illness, the study, begun almost a decade ago and involving more than 1,800 patients, has for years been the subject of speculation. The question has been a contentious one among researchers. Proponents have argued that prayer is perhaps the most deeply human response to disease, and that it may relieve suffering by some mechanism that is not yet understood. Skeptics have contended that studying prayer is a waste of money and that it presupposes supernatural intervention, putting it by definition beyond the reach of science. At least 10 studies of the effects of prayer have been carried out in the last six years, with mixed results. The new study was intended to overcome flaws in the earlier investigations. The report was scheduled to appear in The American Heart Journal next week, but the journal's publisher released it online yesterday. In a hurriedly convened news conference, the study's authors, led by Dr. Herbert Benson, a cardiologist and director of the Mind/Body Medical Institute near Boston, said that the findings were not the last word on the effects of so-called intercessory prayer. But the results, they said, raised questions about how and whether patients should be told that prayers were being offered for them. "One conclusion from this is that the role of awareness of prayer should be studied further," said Dr. Charles Bethea, a cardiologist at Integris Baptist Medical Center in Oklahoma City and a co-author of the study. Other experts said the study underscored the question of whether prayer was an appropriate subject for scientific study. "The problem with studying religion scientifically is that you do violence to the phenomenon by reducing it to basic elements that can be quantified, and that makes for bad science and bad religion," said Dr. Richard Sloan, a professor of behavioral medicine at Columbia and author of a forthcoming book, "Blind Faith: The Unholy Alliance of Religion and Medicine." The study cost $2.4 million, and most of the money came from the John Templeton Foundation, which supports research into spirituality. The government has spent more than $2.3 million on prayer research since 2000. Dean Marek, a chaplain at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., and a co-author of the report, said the study said nothing about the power of personal prayer or about prayers for family members and friends. Working in a large medical center like Mayo, Mr. Marek said, "You hear tons of stories about the power of prayer, and I don't doubt them." In the study, the researchers monitored 1,802 patients at six hospitals who received coronary bypass surgery, in which doctors reroute circulation around a clogged vein or artery. The patients were broken into three groups. Two were prayed for; the third was not. Half the patients who received the prayers were told that they were being prayed for; half were told that they might or might not receive prayers. The researchers asked the members of three congregations St. Paul's Monastery in St. Paul; the Community of Teresian Carmelites in Worcester, Mass.; and Silent Unity, a Missouri prayer ministry near Kansas City to deliver the prayers, using the patients' first names and the first initials of their last names. The congregations were told that they could pray in their own ways, but they were instructed to include the phrase, "for a successful surgery with a quick, healthy recovery and no complications." Analyzing complications in the 30 days after the operations, the researchers found no differences between those patients who were prayed for and those who were not. In another of the study's findings, a significantly higher number of the patients who knew that they were being prayed for 59 percent suffered complications, compared with 51 percent of those who were uncertain. The authors left open the possibility that this was a chance finding. But they said that being aware of the strangers' prayers also may have caused some of the patients a kind of performance anxiety. "It may have made them uncertain, wondering am I so sick they had to call in their prayer team?" Dr. Bethea said. The study also found that more patients in the uninformed prayer group 18 percent suffered major complications, like heart attack or stroke, compared with 13 percent in the group that did not receive prayers. In their report, the researchers suggested that this finding might also be
[FairfieldLife] Ramsey Clark's NewYear's Message
International Action Center A New Year's Message from Ramsey Clark Jan. 1, 2006 Dear friends, The year 2005 brought new hardships but also new hope to the people of the world. Hope because the Bush administration has shown itself before the world to be lawless, cruel and brutal but also inept and incompetent. In Iraq the Pentagon has shown it is incapable of repressing a growing resistance from the Iraqi people. Meanwhile the government has been caught running torture camps inside Iraq and outsourcing torture around the world. The people of the U.S. have decided the war is unjust and not worth the price in Iraqi lives or the sacrifice of our youth. Young people are refusing to enlist in the military in sufficient numbers to carry on the illegal occupation and continuing assault on the Iraqi people. In New Orleans the government did nothing for a week while the city drowned. Now more than four months later tens of thousands remain homeless. More and more of the population is outraged by the crimes emanating from the White House and are enlisting in the campaign to stop those crimes. Under these conditions the International Action (IAC) has been a major organizing force. The IAC has persevered in mobilizing opposition to these policies, not only in their work this past year, but for the last 15 years it has consistently worked to oppose criminal and immoral U.S. military adventures. In August 1990 when the murderous sanctions against the Iraqi people were adopted, those now active in the IAC, still resisting the U.S. assault on Panama, mobilized to stop the anticipated U.S. aggression. This work accelerated during the 1991 U.S.-led war against Iraq, and led to the IAC's founding. Since that time, the IAC has mobilized, held meetings, and educated millions, produced videos and books--translated to many languages--and helped to organize massive demonstrations in coalition with others to oppose U.S. aggressive actions against Iraq. It has organized international campaigns against the use of illegal radioactive depleted uranium weapons and rallied broad campaigns against the death penalty. The IAC is a unique organization of activists and educators. It has developed a worldwide reputation for its brave opposition to U.S. war, militarism and interventions from Venezuela to Haiti and Cuba, from Palestine to Yugoslavia and now Iran and Korea. It has stood up when others were afraid of being demonized and isolated by the most powerful propaganda machine the world has ever known. Now we must do more. Our plans for 2006 are bold and challenging. An initial focus is March 18-19, 2006 which will mark the third anniversary of the start of the Bush administration's criminal war and occupation of Iraq, which has taken the lives of over 100,000 defenseless women, men, and children, and continues to bring devastation of untold magnitude. The IAC is committed to peace actions in New York City, and in cities across the country, coordinated with movements and countries around the globe. All in concert on March 18-19 will call for all U.S. troops to be brought home from Iraq immediately. We must stop the Bush Administration from stealing Iraqi oil through oil production-sharing agreements with the U.S. puppet regime-- giving the lion's share of oil profits to U.S. oil companies; this is the real reason for the U.S. occupation and regime change. To preserve our Constitution, we must impeach President Bush and his principal cohorts in crime. This is a big agenda on which the peaceful and humane future of our country depends. Working together to end this criminal war must be our New Year's Resolution for 2006--our challenge and our commitment. The IAC will continue this work tirelessly in the coming year. We depend on your help. Together we shall overcome. Ramsey Clark http://www.iacenter.org Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM ~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Slobodan Milosevic opening statement book
This book would be very useful to those who can't understand Maharishi's political views but would *sincerely* like to do so. -Eustace - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Workers World New book gives different view of U.S. destruction of Yugoslavia By Paddy Colligan Published Dec 22, 2005 8:49 PM "The Defense Speaks for History and the Future: Opening defense statement at The Hague by President of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milosevic with an introduction by Ramsey Clark" published by the International Action Center, 2005. 120 pp. $19.95 Does this sound like a book to miss? Well, even if you do buy it, would you let it languish on your bookshelf, without reading it? If you followed either course of action, you would miss out on a remarkable document. In fact, you would be react ing precisely as U.S. administrations from Bush Sr. to Clinton to Bush Shrub have planned. The demonization of Presi dent Milosevic has been so thorough that even those on the side of the working class may not expect him to be the source of historical insight. This is a pity, as he has been a major political figure for many years in Yugoslavia, a once significant workers' state. This remarkable little book gives a lucid overview of the complex history of the Balkans from World War II to the present. It includes an analysis of the roots of the tragic inter-ethnic violence and the way inter-imperialist rivalries have played out in the (now) former Yugoslavia. At times it is quite detailed and examines arguments primarily familiar to those who have closely followed the region's political twists and turns. More often it offers difficult to find and valuable background information that makes the region comprehensible. Often books that are translations are awkward and convoluted. Not this book. It is an excellent and authoritative translation of Milosevic's opening statement, which he delivered in Serbo-Croatian before the fraudulent International Criminal Court for the former Yugo slavia. The writing is clear and even elegant. It is an achievement that Milosevic was able to produce this in his isolated incarceration in Scheveningen Prison in The Hague. Part of Milosevic's opening statement reads, "An untruthful, distorted picture of what happened in the territory of the former Yugoslavia was created in internation al public opinion over a long period of time with clear political intentions. These charges represent an unscrupulous mani pulation of lies, a perversion of law, a defeat of morals, and an extreme distortion of history. Everything has been turned upside down in order to shield from responsibility those who are truly responsible for the tragic events, to render the wrong judgments and to draw the wrong conclusions about the nature and background of the war against Yugoslavia." It is worth our time to read Milo sevic's book so we can more fully understand what the U.S. has done to Yugo slaviathis scenario of systematically demonizing, dismantling and destroying countries that won't do Washington's bidding continues to be the modus operandi of U.S. governments. This article is copyright under a Creative Commons License. Workers World, 55 W. 17 St., NY, NY 10011 http://www.workers.org Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM ~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Fidel Castro and TM / Bob Dylan
Dear faste37, jim, and all others who appreciated my analysis.
In my opinion there can be little doubt that Dylan had the Vietnam war
in mind, whatever he may have said afterwards, he wouldn't have
admitted it if someone had confronted him with this interpretation
anyway. It fits perfectly only with the antiwar theme. Can you think
of any woman who would have asked her lover to close his heart for
her? And do you have any doubt what the prevailing opinion about the
song would have been in the sixties had even one person thought of
this interpretation? Somehow that had to be far beyond the frame of
reference of those living in the United States at the time, and maybe
it's no coincidence that it had to wait to be deciphered by someone
who was not born here.
And a couple of things of secondary I didn't include in the analysis
that I think you may find interesting:
"Someone who will die for you *and more*". What more would a lover
ask? The ultimate ideal of romantic love is the self-sacrifice for
one's lover. But there is something more than a soldier is asked to do
in war: to kill, sometimes even innocent women and children
("collateral damage"). Being asked to risk your life for your country
is one thing; being asked to kill women and children, something done
regularly in a war, is another. Many who wouldn't object to the first
would certainly object to the second.
Another point: "Go melt back in the night". This seems to be a direct
reference to another song written for the American flag: "Oh, say can
you see, by the dawn's early light...". But then it was the dawn, by
1964 it was dark...
Also: The album came out on May 2, 1964 (I may be a day off). "By
coincidence", on that same day the largest until then antiwar
demonstration took place at the UN
(http://lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Resources/Primary/Manifestos/PL_M2d_manifesto.html)
So the antiwar sentiment "was in the air" during the previous few
months, and Dylan, who was so much in tune with his times, was
certainly well aware of it; I would even bet that he knew some of the
participants of the demonstration, and no doubt some they were among
his audience.
So, I am happy I helped you appreciate the song in a fresh light, If
only I could decipher more Dylan songs... But that is not something
you pursue, it just comes to you when you least expect it.
Peace,
Eustace
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "feste37" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Excellent analysis. That this was an anti-war song had never
> occurred to me before, but seems obvious now.
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Eustace" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
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>
> >
> > (From http://www.geocities.com/itaintme_babe/itaintme.html)
> >
> > _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/
> >
> > LITERARY CRITICISM
> >
> > IT AIN'T ME, BABE
> >
> > by Bob Dylan
> >
> > Go 'way from my window,
> > Leave at your own chosen speed.
> > I'm not the one you want, babe,
> > I'm not the one you need.
> > You say you're lookin' for someone
> > Who's never weak but always strong,
> > To protect you an' defend you
> > Whether you are right or wrong,
> > Someone to open each and every door,
> >
> > But it ain't me, babe,
> > No, no, no, it ain't me, babe,
> > It ain't me you're lookin' for, babe.
> >
> > Go lightly from the ledge, babe,
> > Go lightly on the ground.
> > I'm not the one you want, babe,
> > I will only let you down.
> > You say you're lookin' for someone
> > Who will promise never to part,
> > Someone to close his eyes for you,
> > Someone to close his heart,
> > Someone who will die for you an' more,
> >
> > But it ain't me, babe,
> > No, no, no, it ain't me, babe,
> > It ain't me you're lookin' for, babe.
> >
> > Go melt back in the night,
> > Everything inside is made of stone.
> > There's nothing in here moving
> > An' anyway I'm not alone.
> > You say you're looking for someon
[FairfieldLife] Re: IAC Statement on Saddam Hussein's Trial
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 12/10/05 6:58:07 P.M. Central Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > The trial of Saddam Hussein, which has opened with much > international publicity, is a desperate attempt to justify and > convey some legitimacy on the criminal U.S. invasion and occupation > of Iraq. It is an effort to demoralize and divide the resistance > to the occupation. It has nothing to do with justice or truth. > > All the political forces internationally that have opposed the > 15-year-long U.S. war on Iraq--which has included starvation > sanctions, bombing and invasion--should also oppose all the > efforts to justify the continued occupation, including the present > trial of the former Iraqi leader and seven members of his > government. > > > > > We love you Sara! With articles like yours and the Cindy Sheehans, > Nancy Pelosis John Murthas et al, middle America can take a good > hard look at who is lying and telling the truth and who really has > the best interest of the country in mind. Poor Saddam! just a good > 'ol boy never meanin' no harm. > Dear MDixon6569. I would like to clarify the my main reason of posting IAC's statement is to expose the members of this group to alternate views, not readily available through the mainstream US mass media, by making use of the wonderful electronic medium. My personal opinion as a historian, in case you are interested, is that history's verdict will be that Saddam Hussein was a mediocre Third World leader, not clever enough not to be deceived into believing that US would help him prevail over Iran and that US didn't mind if he invaded Kuwait. His and the Baathis party's internal record was mixed. On the positive side was the nationalization of the mineral wealth of his country and the use of the profits, at least in part, to raise the health and education level of his people, as well as the social position of the women. On the negative side, he was undoubtedly ruthlessness against his enemies. But in final analysis by far the the main indictment against him is that he did not learn from his experience of the Iraq-Iran war and fell for a second time in the intricate trap we had set for him (named most appropriately by Middle Easterners "Operation Desert Trap"), bringing eventually, through the US invasion, untold suffering to his people, and necessitating a second heroic anti-colonization struggle. Cheers, Eustace Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~--> Need Help? Get Help! Tools and Strategies for Healthy Drug-Free Living. http://us.click.yahoo.com/wI.OUB/dbOLAA/d1hLAA/0NYolB/TM ~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Fidel Castro and TM / Bob Dylan
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
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> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk"
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Eustace"
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > wrote:
...
> And, of course, as a result of the works of anti-war, anti-American
> people like yourself, America pulled out of Vietnam and then the
> REAL killing and suffering started in SouthEast Asia: more people
> died in the 2 years following the U.S. pullout than during the
> entire 14 years of American involvement.
Dear "shempmcgurk".
Impossible to argue with you! How many hours a day do you watch FOX?
Never mind, forget it, it doesn't really matter, only a fool would
ever expect to change your political, and historical, views without
looking for root causes, and you are taking good care of that yourself
by meditating regularly. But maybe you would find edifying this
literary analysis I wrote years ago.
Jay Guru Dev,
Eustace
(From http://www.geocities.com/itaintme_babe/itaintme.html)
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LITERARY CRITICISM
IT AIN'T ME, BABE
by Bob Dylan
Go 'way from my window,
Leave at your own chosen speed.
I'm not the one you want, babe,
I'm not the one you need.
You say you're lookin' for someone
Who's never weak but always strong,
To protect you an' defend you
Whether you are right or wrong,
Someone to open each and every door,
But it ain't me, babe,
No, no, no, it ain't me, babe,
It ain't me you're lookin' for, babe.
Go lightly from the ledge, babe,
Go lightly on the ground.
I'm not the one you want, babe,
I will only let you down.
You say you're lookin' for someone
Who will promise never to part,
Someone to close his eyes for you,
Someone to close his heart,
Someone who will die for you an' more,
But it ain't me, babe,
No, no, no, it ain't me, babe,
It ain't me you're lookin' for, babe.
Go melt back in the night,
Everything inside is made of stone.
There's nothing in here moving
An' anyway I'm not alone.
You say you're looking for someone
Who'll pick you up each time you fall,
To gather flowers constantly
An' to come each time you call,
A lover for your life an' nothing more,
But it ain't me, babe,
No, no, no, it ain't me, babe,
It ain't me you're lookin' for, babe.
IT AIN'T THAT , BABE!
In July 1992, while driving back to Hartford with a friend after the
"Tribute to Woody Guthrie" concert in Central Park and listening to
Bob Dylan, my companion made some comment about the song "It Ain't Me,
Babe". It seems that somehow his remark and the lingering inspiration
from the concert set me thinking, because a few days later I suddenly
came to an startling insight into the meaning of the song's lyrics.
The song has been understood variously as a cynical love song or as
referring to Dylan's relationship with his audience; however, it is
actually a political song. It clearly refers to the war in Vietnam and
to the American flag, which the poet lets go from his window ("Go 'way
from my window"), subsequently falls on the ledge ("Go lightly from
the ledge, babe"), and finally to the ground ("Go lightly on the
ground"); the verse "Leave at your own chosen speed" is a poetic
description of the swinging motion of the falling flag.
The lines "To protect you and defend you/Whether you are right of
wrong" refer to actual battle situations and to the then raging dirty
war; the same theme of the unjustness of the war we find again later:
"Someone to close his eyes for you, Someone to close his heart" (a
rather unusual request coming from a woman, to say the least). The
verses "Someone who will die for you and more" and "Who'll pick you up
each time you fall" should be construed literally and not
metaphorica
[FairfieldLife] IAC Statement on Saddam Hussein's Trial
The Trial of Saddam Hussein / Anti-war Movement Must Reject Colonial 'Justice' By Sara Flounders, co-director of the International Action Center The trial of Saddam Hussein, which has opened with much international publicity, is a desperate attempt to justify and convey some legitimacy on the criminal U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq. It is an effort to demoralize and divide the resistance to the occupation. It has nothing to do with justice or truth. All the political forces internationally that have opposed the 15-year-long U.S. war on Iraq--which has included starvation sanctions, bombing and invasion--should also oppose all the efforts to justify the continued occupation, including the present trial of the former Iraqi leader and seven members of his government. Regardless of the wide spectrum of political views on the character of Saddam Hussein's government, it is essential to oppose this U.S. justification for the war. To be silent on this issue is to give credibility to a U.S.-created phony court at the giant U.S. command center called the Green Zone. The U.S. government has no right to have even one soldier in Iraq. It has no right to bomb, sanction or starve the Iraqi people. It has no right to impose a colonial government or to establish courts in Iraq. It has no more right to decide the fate of Saddam Hussein than it does to control the oil and resources of Iraq. The detention of Saddam Hussein and his co-defendants, along with tens of thousands of other Iraqis, is all based on a criminal, illegal war of aggression. The Iraqi Special Tribunal and the trial of Saddam Hussein are also a violation of international law. The Geneva Convention, to which Washington is a signatory, explicitly forbids an occupying power from creating courts. In addition, the trial itself, along with the total isolation of the defendants and denial of all visitation and legal rights violates the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights. The defense lawyers who have stepped forward have been threatened and intimidated. Two lawyers on the defense team have been assassinated. Today in Iraq there is no judicial system. There are no codes, no laws, no courts. There still is no agreement on a constitution. The entire structure of the Iraqi state was destroyed. In its place is only the most brutal form of outright military domination. The Iraqi Special Tribunal has been illegitimate since its very formation. It is a creation of L. Paul Bremer III of the U.S., former head of the Coalition Provisional Authority--the illegal, occupying power. Bremer initially appointed Salem Chalabi, the nephew of Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Chalabi, to organize and lead the court. Chalabi had returned to Iraq from exile with the aid of U.S. tanks in April 2003. He opened a law office to draft the new laws that have reopened Iraq to foreign capital, in collaboration with the law firm of former Defense Undersecretary Douglas Feith, a war profiteer, an ideologue of the Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld cabal and a principal architect of the war. Bremer also appointed the tribunal judges. The funding and the personnel are totally controlled by U.S. forces. The U.S. Congress has appropriated $128 million to fund the court. Of course, the court has no jurisdiction over crimes committed by U.S. forces in the invasion and occupation! Role of demonization The trial underway now is part of the sustained U.S. effort to totally demonize Saddam Hussein. This has been an essential part of the 15-year war on Iraq. U.S. propaganda has relentlessly described Hussein as an evil madman, a brutal dictator and a threat to the entire planet who was poised to strike with nuclear, chemical or biological weapons within minutes. He was charged with having a role in 9/11 and being in league with al-Qaeda. Both Republicans and Democrats knew this was a fraud. U.S. bombs had destroyed Iraq's entire industrial capacity. But no politician was willing to challenge the demonization. Every U.S. war against oppressed peoples and nations has begun with saturating the entire civilian population with war propaganda that so demonized the leader of the targeted population that any crime was treated as acceptable and beyond question. This has been true since the wars against Native populations and the demonization of Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, Geronimo and many, many other Indigenous leaders, up to the leaders of every progressive or revolutionary struggle over the past 50 years. It doesn't matter how mild or committed to non-violence the leader is. Consider the case of the kidnapped former priest, President Jean-Bertrand Aristide of Haiti, who was charged with corruption, drug running and gang violence. Today President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran are increasingly portrayed as madmen, dictators and evil incarnate. Since the days of the Roman Empire, victor's justice has meant humiliation, degradation
[FairfieldLife] Re: Fidel Castro and TM
You are probably right. World government and raja rhetoric certainly wouldn't do. But a research project to evaluate the benefits of a simple alternative medicine technique might be another story. -Eustace --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Castro wouldn't let SSRS in the country several years > ago. I doubt he'd let the TMO with its world > government and raja rhetoric into the country for > anything. > > --- Eustace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Several years ago TMO had considered Fidel Castro > > the personification > > of the Invincibility principle, or something like > > that. It was quite > > appropriate given the more than 400, if I remember > > correctly, > > assassination attempts against his person organized > > by the CIA and the > > Miami mafia... Anyway, if you do a search on a > > recent speech he gave: > > > > http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0512/S00120.htm > > > > you will find that he uses several time the verb > > "meditate", once > > "meditation", and once "transcendental" (in a > > context where the use of > > the word was kink of artificial and certainly not > > necessitated). A > > reasonable explanation would be that the efforts of > > TMO to reach him > > had, after all, some effect, at some (conscious or > > unconscious) level. > > I think people in the TMO should know about this. I > > don't think that > > suggesting that Cuba organize a group of yogic > > flyers would be such a > > good idea... It takes a lot of believing for the > > uninitiated and has > > not worked even in much richer countries. But Cuba > > has excellent > > medicine. Maybe some research project could be > > proposed that the Cuban > > doctors would be interested to participate in or > > carry out... > > > > It would be great if they would couple their "El > > pueblo/ unido/ jamas > > sera vencido!" (The people united will never be > > defeated) with > > "Yogastah kuru karmani". > > > > JGD, > > > > Eustace Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~--> Dying to be thin? Anorexia. Narrated by Julianne Moore. http://us.click.yahoo.com/abEMxA/sbOLAA/d1hLAA/0NYolB/TM ~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Fidel Castro and TM
Several years ago TMO had considered Fidel Castro the personification of the Invincibility principle, or something like that. It was quite appropriate given the more than 400, if I remember correctly, assassination attempts against his person organized by the CIA and the Miami mafia... Anyway, if you do a search on a recent speech he gave: http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0512/S00120.htm you will find that he uses several time the verb "meditate", once "meditation", and once "transcendental" (in a context where the use of the word was kink of artificial and certainly not necessitated). A reasonable explanation would be that the efforts of TMO to reach him had, after all, some effect, at some (conscious or unconscious) level. I think people in the TMO should know about this. I don't think that suggesting that Cuba organize a group of yogic flyers would be such a good idea... It takes a lot of believing for the uninitiated and has not worked even in much richer countries. But Cuba has excellent medicine. Maybe some research project could be proposed that the Cuban doctors would be interested to participate in or carry out... It would be great if they would couple their "El pueblo/ unido/ jamas sera vencido!" (The people united will never be defeated) with "Yogastah kuru karmani". JGD, Eustace Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~--> Does he tell you he loves you when he hits you? Abuse. Narrated by Halle Berry. http://us.click.yahoo.com/HcoraC/rbOLAA/d1hLAA/0NYolB/TM ~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Maharishi plans four peace palaces for TM activities article
The story made it to AP. -emf http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05339/617369.stm Maharishi plans four peace palaces for TM activities Monday, December 05, 2005 By Steve Levin, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Pittsburgh is unique in many ways, but if the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi has anything to say about it, in a few years, the Steel City will be no different from Aberdeen, S.D., Kenosha, Wis., or 2,997 other cities around the world. That's because in the future, at four sites in and around Allegheny County, four marble-clad, two-story Maharishi Peace Palaces will be constructed at an estimated cost of $3 million each. The India-born Maharishi, who introduced Transcendental Meditation to the world in 1959, has set a goal of building Peace Palaces in the world's 3,000 largest cities. The palaces, built in harmony with natural law, or Sthapatya Veda, range in size from 5,000 square feet to 30,000 square feet, and will offer Maharishi-inspired spas, Vedic Vibration Technology, exhibition halls, classrooms, a wide range of products and, of course, TM, including Yogic Flying. Pittsburgh's Peace Palaces will be co-directed by Ralph Emmerich and Lisa Ashelman, both of whom have doctorates in world peace from Maharishi European Research University in Vlodrop, Holland. Both are certified teachers of Transcendental Meditation. Mr. Emmerich, a Churchill native, has been in Pittsburgh since January and hired a real estate agent six months ago to help identify potential sites for the Peace Palaces. He said yesterday that one site in Allegheny County has been purchased, but declined to say where. It has been tough to find suitable properties, he said. "Most of the properties that come up are outside of Pittsburgh," said Mr. Emmerich, a 1978 graduate of Churchill High School, now Woodland Hills High School. He said Pittsburgh has numerous geographic challenges, such as rivers and steep slopes, to the tenets of Vedic architecture, which are derived from the Sanskrit texts of the Sthapatya Veda. It's believed health benefits and good fortune can be designed directly into a home's foundation, based upon, among other factors, the direction a building faces and the spatial relationship of rooms to each other. "It gets very nitpicky when you get down to details," Mr. Emmerich said. There are fewer details so far when it comes to explaining how the Peace Palaces will be funded. Mr. Emmerich said the primary sources will be developers, private donations, bank loans and World Peace Bonds through the tax-exempt Global Country of World Peace. According to its Web site, the Global Country of World Peace was created "to establish global world peace by unifying all nations in happiness, prosperity, invincibility and perfect health, while supporting the rich diversity of our world family." More than 6 million people worldwide practice TM. Practitioners and some scientific research report that the technique, in which an individual spends 20 minutes meditating twice a day, can result in greater creativity and increased energy. Mr. Emmerich first tried TM to alleviate his allergies by reducing stress. He said he noticed a difference within three weeks. He later ran a TM center in Squirrel Hill from 1986 to 1987. He and Ms. Ashelman are holding two introductory lectures at the Holiday Inn Express, 20 S. 10th St., South Side, at 7 p.m. on Dec. 15 and at noon and 7 p.m. on Dec. 16. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] With the Beatles Author Radio Interview
This is an interesting interview with the author of the book. Both the interviewer and the interviewee are ex-TMers; their attitude is not negative (though they could have been better updated), and the telephone calls are also interesting, especially one about the reversal of aging (at 11'40"; if someone can get that guy's name please let me know since he says we will be on the radio again later this month). -Eustace = WNYC The Brian Lehrer Show February '68 Thursday, November 10, 2005 Six months after the Summer of Love, a young reporter named Lewis Lapham traveled to India to participate in a gathering that included celebrities like The Beatles and Mia Farrow, and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, a proponent of transcendental meditation. In a new book, he shares the true story of the legendary confab. Listen: http://wnyc.vo.llnwd.net/o1/bl/bl111005d.mp3 Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
