[FairfieldLife] Re: reports of levitation (was: Amma's teaching...)

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, george_deforest [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Angela Mailander wrote: Unfortunately, I can't remember the names and dates, but there are reports of levitation in the Neo-Platonic tradition, so the mysterious East is not the only source for such

[FairfieldLife] Re: reports of levitation (was: Amma's teaching...)

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, george_deforest [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Angela Mailander wrote: Unfortunately, I can't remember the names and dates, but there are reports of levitation in the Neo-Platonic tradition, so the mysterious East is not the only source for such stories.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma's teaching = why some teachers misbehave

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: People make fun of other peoples adherence to beliefs, while their own belief system is rock-solid. Left in from the original post because it seems

[FairfieldLife] First International Sanskrit Computational Linguistics Symposium

Videos and pdf's here: http://sanskrit.inria.fr/Symposium/Program.html

[FairfieldLife] VIDEO: Led Zeppelin reunion concert

Here are a few music clips of last night's Led Zeppelin reunion gig. Watch them while you can before YouTube takes them down. [Must be pirated because the sound isn't the best to say the least. IMO Robert Plant looks better without his new beard.] Click here:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma's teaching = why some teachers misbehave

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: People make fun of other peoples adherence to beliefs, while their own

[FairfieldLife] Re: VIDEO: Led Zeppelin reunion concert

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here are a few music clips of last night's Led Zeppelin reunion gig. Watch them while you can before YouTube takes them down. [Must be pirated because the sound isn't the best to say the least. IMO Robert Plant

[FairfieldLife] Re: The truth about flying, CC in 5-8, etc.

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, aztjbailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way tm-ers could somehow regroup and develop an alternative organization you would be proud of? This may be highly improbable and I was just wondering. I was deeply attached to the TMO as it was circa

[FairfieldLife] Do siddhis have ANYTHING to do with state of consciousness?

It would be silly of me not to have noticed the somewhat...uh...angry reactions that come up on this board from time to time when I talk about the weird things (siddhis) I and others exper- ienced around Rama (Frederick Lenz). Here is a speculation as to where they might be coming from. I think a

Re: [FairfieldLife] reports of levitation (was: Amma's teaching...)

Thanks for refreshing my memory. Perhaps Joe floated, perhaps not. But as for the Catholic Church being thorough in their investigations in making folks into saints (absurd on the face of it), recall Padre Pio, recently canonized, and later found to have used acid to create his famous stigmata.

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Anti-Science low-lifes

In God's Name Off is right in a way. This aspect of science is the uniqueness of this FF utopian spiritual experiment. Putting it to science. As it has gone along with MMY and the TMmovement it evidently will take the teaming and co-authoring with real universities to help make the TM

[FairfieldLife] Re: Do siddhis have ANYTHING to do with state of consciousness?

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would be silly of me not to have noticed the somewhat...uh...angry reactions that come up on this board from time to time when I talk about the weird things (siddhis) I and others exper- ienced around Rama

[FairfieldLife] Re: VIDEO: Led Zeppelin reunion concert

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah great songs. If you find LZ too hard at times, you might want to listen to this for a change: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fu5Cgb6Yy4Y Nice, thanks ! Very nice: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5cDUrVCoq8NR=1

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Anti-Science low-lifes on FFL

Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also recently we finally have meditators who are duplicating the first research into samadhi first done in the 1950's on yogis. TM has never been able to duplicate samadhi in the lab, but in the last decade we have examples of meditators goings into profoundly

Re: [FairfieldLife] The real test of the Anti-Science freaks on FFL

On Dec 12, 2007, at 1:13 AM, off_world_beings wrote: A million studies would not convince then about TM, yet it only takes about 40-50 to change my mind on TM. This is the absolute truth for me and totally proves their anti-science religious agenda to ignore science for their own pathetic

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: reports of levitation (was: Amma's teaching...)

On Dec 12, 2007, at 2:46 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: Re the Catholic Church's infallibility with regard to making people saints: Didn't a whole bunch of people get unsainted a while back? Sal

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Anti-Science low-lifes on FFL

On Dec 12, 2007, at 9:10 AM, Angela Mailander wrote: Can you give some references for this? Anything available online? Nice, succinct articles on the Alberta study: http://www.rso.ualberta.ca/news.cfm?story=62365 Link http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/bodyandhealth/story.html?

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Anti-Science low-lifes on FFL

On Dec 12, 2007, at 9:10 AM, Angela Mailander wrote: Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also recently we finally have meditators who are duplicating the first research into samadhi first done in the 1950's on yogis. TM has never been able to duplicate samadhi in the lab, but in the last

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Anti-Science low-lifes on FFL

On Dec 12, 2007, at 12:56 AM, off_world_beings wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 11, 2007, at 3:10 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: What a load of self-important garbage. The only thing that could destroy science is bad science, done with

[FairfieldLife] More Sheila Chandra

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5cDUrVCoq8NR=1

[FairfieldLife] Re: More Sheila Chandra

If you want to listen only one of her this is the one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKN1NN0BBr4feature=related

[FairfieldLife] Re: Guitarist's Dream

the end part of the song-- Gonna buy this whole town/put it in my shoe/maybe give a piece to you/that's what I'm gonna do/that's what I'm gonna do etc then the Do you think I'd do that? You sooo nailed that! I wasn't even thinking about the lyrics. How obvious now that you

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma's teaching = why some teachers misbehave

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scroll back up the page to the parts where you 1) berated people for having rock-solid belief systems, 2) claimed that it was Ok with you for people to believe what they wanted, and 3) that your disbelief in flying

[FairfieldLife] Re: GB - 1, USA - 0.

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, uns_tressor uns_tressor@ wrote: We may be a bit battered this side of the pond, probably arising from the paltry TM initiation rates as a result of daft marketing policies,

[FairfieldLife] The best TM research what am (The real test of the Anti-Science freaks on FFL)

Off, There HAS been a study that you should take as authoritative, methinks, cuz, well, it's the kind of study that everyone on the planet learns how to conduct from BIRTH onwards. Millions of folks started TM; millions quit. Science was done by all of these folks: they followed the rules of

[FairfieldLife] Re:The Anti-Science low-lifes on FFL

Off world, You are way Off he mark on this one. ihave no intention of having a long running feud wit hyou ar anyone else. You dont know me or my points of view. I am not against science at all.That is a stupid, imbecilic, ill intended extrapolation. I am against suckering people into believeing a

[FairfieldLife] Re: For Richard

Angela Mailander wrote: According to sources that at least seem credible, Which sources would that be? my information is that there were exercises going on that day Over New York City? in which simulated high-jacked planes were in the air, so that people were confused about real world

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Amma's teaching = why some teachers misbehave

From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of nablusoss1008 Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 1:27 AM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Amma's teaching = why some teachers misbehave BTW: What do you call the first flight of the Wright

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma's teaching = why some teachers misbehave

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of nablusoss1008 Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 1:27 AM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Amma's teaching = why

[FairfieldLife] Do siddhis have ANYTHING to do with state of co

Barry writes snipped: Being able to perform siddhis doesn't make a person good, and being bad doesn't prevent a person from being able to do them. Used as some kind of measure of a person's enlightenment, the siddhis are just as big a failure as any other measurement you might imagine. TomT: As

Re: [FairfieldLife] Do siddhis have ANYTHING to do with state of co

Well Put Tom T **See AOL's top rated recipes (http://food.aol.com/top-rated-recipes?NCID=aoltop000304)

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma's teaching = why some teachers misbehave

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of nablusoss1008 Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 1:27 AM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Amma's teaching = why

[FairfieldLife] Brainwashing is predation

YMMV, but I see a lot of the TMO in the below. Edg http://tinyurl.com/2yelvx 3 Tools To Brainwash and Influence People Through Media `'till at last the child's mind is these suggestions, and the sum of the suggestions is the child's mind. And not the child's mind only. The adult's mind too

[FairfieldLife] Do good works without hesitation - Guru Dev

Do good works without hesitation. The jiva has been experiencing samsara for many, many births. It is only natural, therefore, that its tendencies have become worldly. To turn its tendency toward Paramatma [God] and away from samsara [worldly life] requires effort. In reality, the aim of life

[FairfieldLife] Re: For Richard

Angela Mailander wrote: I do respect the feelings for your country that you have expressed. When four of the world's premier jet fighters crash, the military pays attention. When every F-15 in the world is ordered to stay on the ground, the rumor mill gets in gear. Read more: 'The Real

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: For Richard

Richard, thanks for your courteous reply. Because of it, you deserve a well-considered answer, and you shall have it. Give me a little time, though, because I've got duties today that must be attended to. I do respect the feelings for your country that you have expressed. Angela Richard J.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Do siddhis have ANYTHING to do with state of co

He told you what you wanted to hear while he was f*cking with your mind to get you to do what he wanted. Very clever and cagey old buzzard. Tom This point relates to something Chopra said on the History Channel show. He said that MMY told him that if he didn't exaggerate, people wouldn't move

[FairfieldLife] After 500 days, positive US trends fulfill predictions for group meditation study in Iowa

After 500 days, positive US trends fulfill predictions for group meditation study in Iowa International Center for Invincible Defense In affiliation with the Global Financial Capital of New York 11 December 2007 Media Alert GOOD NEWS FROM THE INVINCIBLE AMERICA ASSEMBLY After 500

[FairfieldLife] Re: Do siddhis have ANYTHING to do with state of consciousness?

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What bothers them is that there is a strong like- lihood that Rama was a bit of a charlatan and a bit of a rogue and *none* of the things that they visualize when they think of an enlightened teacher, AND YET HE COULD

[FairfieldLife] Re: For Richard

Excellent post Richard. I look forward to Angela's response. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Angela Mailander wrote: I do respect the feelings for your country that you have expressed. When four of the world's premier jet fighters

Re: [FairfieldLife] The real test of the Anti-Science freaks on FFL

Vaj wrote: On Dec 12, 2007, at 1:13 AM, off_world_beings wrote: A million studies would not convince then about TM, yet it only takes about 40-50 to change my mind on TM. This is the absolute truth for me and totally proves their anti-science religious agenda to ignore science for their own

[FairfieldLife] Re: Brainwashing is predation

With any given object, or person or concept - we 'seduce ourselves' to construct a narrative and formula useful to complete thoughts . . such as French Silk Pie = whatever or TMO = whatever you want to plug in Whether these narratives and formulas come from the outside world, such as the media or

[FairfieldLife] *It's a Man's World* - by James Brown Pavarotti

WOW! If you haven't seen this yet, tie yourself to your seat or you'll get blown out of it. The late James Brown and the late Luciano Pavarotti singing It's A Man's World. I'm told this was a benefit concert in Italy in 2004. ~~ Hoffmania http://tinyurl.com/aw758 Video:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Do siddhis have ANYTHING to do with state of co

Why a woman would stay in an abusive relationship is something I'm something of an expert in, and I'm sure that this time Judy won't but in with her rude oneupmanship games. I never got into the TMO because I saw it as a cult. I saw that it was doing some good things, but I saw too many

[FairfieldLife] Re: *It's a Man's World* - by James Brown Pavarotti

Dude what a find! Like a wouldn't it be crazy if... discussion at closing time. This comes off as a more natural pairing than some of his pop duets. I think Luciano was down with every word of this song. I read that he tried to kiss every woman in the room, wherever he was. This lead me down

[FairfieldLife] GO RON PAUL ! ! !

Check out Ron Paul's 11.3 million raised this quarter, and he never picked up a phone or attended a fundraiser to do it -- all done by grassroots people on the side. In Alaska, a poll just showed him first for Republicans, and about 7% above the next candidate. He is at least 3rd in polls

Re: [FairfieldLife] After 500 days, positive US trends fulfill predictions for group meditation study in Iowa

This is a great example of the vodoo-science of the TMO. To simply claim, post hoc, that you predicted things would get better and then look at the historical record and find things that got better is absurd. Tell me now, what things will get better in the future, be specific, and at least attempt

[FairfieldLife] Re: After 500 days, positive US trends fulfill predictions for group meditation

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a great example of the vodoo-science of the TMO. To simply claim, post hoc, that you predicted things would get better and then look at the historical record and find things that got better is absurd. Tell me now,

[FairfieldLife] Re: *It's a Man's World* - by James Brown Pavarotti

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dude what a find! Like a wouldn't it be crazy if... discussion at closing time. This comes off as a more natural pairing than some of his pop duets. I think Luciano was down with every word of this song. I

[FairfieldLife] Re: GO RON PAUL ! ! !

I think it would be very cool if Ron got the nom, but on the 15th Kucinich is doing his send me money on the 15th thingy. I doubt he'll beat any of Ron's money totals, but I'm giving Kucinich $100 just so I can look in the mirror and say I did one small thing for my political beliefs besides

[FairfieldLife] Inside Scoop: Osama bin Laden May Have Been Found!

Popular documentary journalist, Morgan Spurlock, has shot more than 800 hours of digital video revealing his pursuit of the most wanted person on the planet: Osama bin Laden. http://Has-Osama-Bin-Laden-Been-Found.has.it/http://has-osama-bin-laden-been-found.has.it/ *Osama*: Is he a saint to his

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Amma's teaching = why some teachers misbehave

My only argument was that just because there is no evidence that there ever lived a man named Jesus who died on the cross does not mean that no such man ever lived. I did not go another step further and claim that therefore Jesus did exist. There is no evidence that he did. That he did not

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma's teaching = why some teachers misbehave

I think, Angela, you may have this just backwards: because there is no evidence that Jesus existed, there is no proof that he did exist. Angela Mailander wrote: This is elementary logic: absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Argumentum ad ignorantium: a fallacious argument.

[FairfieldLife] Kucinich banned from Iowa debate and other democratic functions -- OUTRAGEOUS

Kucinich booted from Iowa debate By Klaus Marre | Posted 12/12/07 9:15 AM [ET] December 12, 2007 Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D) is being excluded from this week's Iowa presidential debate because he has not rented office space in the Hawkeye State, his campaign said Wednesday. The Des Moines

[FairfieldLife] Re: GO RON PAUL ! ! !

Duveyoung wrote: Still, I don't hear these guys saying often enough how they would reverse what BushCo has done to all the laws with signing statements, outright disobediance, and cramming every federal bureaucracy with cronies done to the second or third levels -- it'll be tough to

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: For Richard

Dear Richard, I’d like to begin with your statement: “I find that offensive that 3000 people died at the hands of elements within our own government. And I've seen no evidence to support such a claim.” I would find it offensive also. But if the woman you love might have cancer, you

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vedic architecture - the power of life-giving principles

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Dick Mays [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.bleepingherald.com/dec2007/vedic-architecture Vedic architecture - the power of life-giving principles by Cate Montana On October 25, 2003, a fire began near the mountain town of Ramona in San Diego

Re: [FairfieldLife] Vedic architecture - the power of life-giving principles

What a big pile of ridiculous shit! What about all the vedic houses that burned? What about all the failed businesses in vedic houses. Just a huge stinking pile of cult crap. Interesting story, but pure shit nonethe less. --- Dick Mays [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[FairfieldLife] Re: reports of levitation (was: Amma's teaching...)

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, george_deforest [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Angela Mailander wrote: Unfortunately, I can't remember the names and dates, but there are reports of levitation in the Neo-Platonic tradition, so the mysterious East is not the only source for such stories.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vedic architecture - the power of life-giving principles

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What a big pile of ridiculous shit! What about all the vedic houses that burned? What about all the failed businesses in vedic houses. Just a huge stinking pile of cult crap. Interesting story, but pure shit nonethe less.

[FairfieldLife] Walk Hard clip: the Beatles with Maharishi spoofed

youtube preview of the upcoming rediculous comedy: Walk Hard: the Dewey Cox Story. featured in this clip: the Beatles visit to Maharishi http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooX8nHa5rrc

[FairfieldLife] Kundalini-The path of transcending.

As MMY describes it there are distinct 'markers' on the path of transcending and MMY calls them milestones on the path of kundalini. These milestones are the chakras which have distinct sounds and experiences associated with them recorded by individuals who have experienced them and apparently are

[FairfieldLife] Re: Kundalini-The path of transcending.

--Right...it's about time somebody stated that. BillyG:...you are sss...on target! - In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, BillyG. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As MMY describes it there are distinct 'markers' on the path of transcending and MMY calls them milestones on the path of kundalini.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Kundalini-The path of transcending.

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, matrixmonitor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --Right...it's about time somebody stated that. BillyG:...you are sss...on target! - In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, BillyG. wgm4u@ wrote: As MMY describes it there are distinct 'markers' on the path

[FairfieldLife] Ron Paul highlights from Iowa debate

Ron Paul highlights from Iowa debate: http://youtube.com/watch?v=gh6z3zO3bXM OffWorld

[FairfieldLife] Re: The real test of the Anti-Science freaks on FFL

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 12, 2007, at 1:13 AM, off_world_beings wrote: A million studies would not convince then about TM, yet it only takes about 40-50 to change my mind on TM. This is the absolute truth for me and totally proves

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The real test of the Anti-Science freaks on FFL

Off, you amaze me! What makes you think I'm anti-science? off_world_beings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 12, 2007, at 1:13 AM, off_world_beings wrote: A million studies would not

[FairfieldLife] How Dubya paid for a month in Iraq

http://blogs.wsj.com/numbersguy/when-quarters-add-up-to-billions-237/

[FairfieldLife] Pope v Gore

http://tinyurl.com/2t4nzy

[FairfieldLife] Re: Do siddhis have ANYTHING to do with state of consciousness?

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would be silly of me not to have noticed the somewhat...uh...angry reactions that come up on this board from time to time when I talk about the weird things (siddhis) I and others exper- ienced around Rama

[FairfieldLife] Re: Do siddhis have ANYTHING to do with state of consciousness?

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would be silly of me not to have noticed the somewhat...uh...angry reactions that come up on this board from time to time when I talk about the weird things (siddhis) I and others exper- ienced around Rama

[FairfieldLife] Re: The real test of the Anti-Science freaks on FFL

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Off, you amaze me! What makes you think I'm anti-science? Angela, If I were you I wouldn't take Off's comments as having anything to do with you. I think he is a smart. somtimes entertaining guy, but he is

Re: [FairfieldLife] Do siddhis have ANYTHING to do with state of consciousness?

Well, of course, proximity to enlightenment will facilitate siddhis, sought or not. For some people, the burgeoning presence of siddhis is a confirmation that god exists, or leads them in that direction, that the love they've been searching for has finally come to reside in their heart, and the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Do siddhis have ANYTHING to do with state of consciousness?

Any more exactitude to the answer, especially down to a yes/no is too much ensconced in a materialistic worldview. The rarity of siddhis makes them more mysterious, it's the loving intimacy that matters most, devotion. When it comes to demonstrating sidhis, yes/no is the ONLY criteria that