--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, hermandan0 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
My take on it may be philosophically puerile, but it seems to me that
consciousness must be fundamental to creation, simply because if
there
were no consciousness, anywhere, of any sort whatsoever, there would
effectivel
My take on it may be philosophically puerile, but it seems to me that
consciousness must be fundamental to creation, simply because if there
were no consciousness, anywhere, of any sort whatsoever, there would
effectively be no creation. Not just an absence of one consciousness,
as in a person dyin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "bhairitu" wrote:
> >
>
>
> Hey, Bhairitu
>
> I used to live in the Seattle for 17 years before I left in May
> 2004. It was a nice experience over there, except for the winter
>
Even an amoeba, a one-celled animal, is not only alive, but intent on staying
alive, as Antonio Damasio put it. Even plants do what they can to stay alive,
so this is something we seem to share with all that lives. I do not think I am
afraid of death, but my body sure is and it reacts with gre
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "bhairitu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" wrote:
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> > From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > On Behalf Of Duveyoung
> > Sent: Friday, December 28, 2007 2:30 PM
> > To: Fairfiel
I can't tell to whom you are responding here, Rick.
Too much snipping.
--- Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I went to one meeting in FF where we confronted the
> electric company
> spokesperson who was there to "calm us," but
> basically he just
> lawyered up and said "trust us."
>
>
>If I hit my radio and the music goes off does that prove that the
music was produced inside the radio?As far as people under anesthesia
are concerned,infact a certain percentage of them do MOT lose
awareness. The fact that most do simply establishes that the brain
plays some kind of role in the e
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> A fish does not have a mid-brain. The reason a fish flops around in
the bottom of a boat is that he senses himself as half a fish only.
The reason is that his sense of himself comes from the pressure of the
wate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On Behalf Of Duveyoung
> Sent: Friday, December 28, 2007 2:30 PM
> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [FairfieldLife] Operation Falcon and the
A fish does not have a mid-brain. The reason a fish flops around in the bottom
of a boat is that he senses himself as half a fish only. The reason is that
his sense of himself comes from the pressure of the water on his left side and
his right side as he turns left and right. When he's in the
My questions and comments are interspersed with your text. My comments are
without quotation marks. Yours are in quotes.
Vaj: "While I would agree that consciousness, the alaya-vijnana,
is the basic substrate-conscious ness, my answer changes when you add 'of
creation'."
1) Of wh
I'll respond to your last post in some detail, but for this one, I want to know
what evidence you have that these things are possible. Have you ever seen
anyone pass his (or her) hand through a solid object? The last person I saw
try was my two-year old daughter who'd seen one too many
Caspar
On Dec 28, 2007, at 5:48 PM, cardemaister wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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implies
> a yogi would can pass his hand through matter as if it was truly an
> illusion. It's an easy claim to make, few truly and completely live
at
> that absolute a level,
--- mainstream20016 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> >
> > --- mainstream20016 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,
> bob_brigante
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Ah'll betya dollars t
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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implies
> a yogi would can pass his hand through matter as if it was truly an
> illusion. It's an easy claim to make, few truly and completely live
at
> that absolute a level, but they do IME exist. :-)
>
IMO, what would
Really makes me smile, Rick. Thanks. I loved the guy.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> By Charles F. Lutes
> As Told to Martin Zucker
>
> CHAPTER ONE
> East Meets West
>
> Nicky and I were out, as usual, taking our nightly constitutional a
On Dec 28, 2007, at 11:33 AM, Patrick Gillam wrote:
I'm curious - how many people here believe
consciousness is the fundamental substrate
of creation? If you do, what evidence do you
put forth to back up your belief?
While I would agree that consciousness, the alaya-vijnana, is the
basic su
I went to one meeting in FF where we confronted the electric company
spokesperson who was there to "calm us," but basically he just
lawyered up and said "trust us."
I was at that meeting.
And, Rick, weren't you one of the few here who responded to the Trikke
with at least some positivity? Am I r
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Gillam"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > --- Angela Mailander wrote:
> >
> > Curtis is dead right ...
> > consciousness is produced by the brain
> > is, so far, incontrovertible for the
> > reasons he states.
>
> Just to clarify the brain's role
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "mainstream20016"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter wrote:
> >
> >
> > --- mainstream20016 wrote:
> >
> > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Ah'll betya dollars to don
They've had a snow Trikke called the Skki for a couple years now.
Just saw a video of a guy who never skied or snowboarded getting on a
Skki and going right down the hill in pretty good control.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=gbHebPg9_Vs
As for my paranoia, chances are pretty good that if I get pi
By Charles F. Lutes
As Told to Martin Zucker
CHAPTER ONE
East Meets West
Nicky and I were out, as usual, taking our nightly constitutional along
Ventura Boulevard. For me, the walking was good exercise and a relaxing form
of therapy, an attempt to flush out the tension built up during a day o
> --- Angela Mailander wrote:
>
> Curtis is dead right ...
> consciousness is produced by the brain
> is, so far, incontrovertible for the
> reasons he states.
Just to clarify the brain's role
in the two two schools of thought:
If consciousness arises from matter,
the brain produces conscio
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of Duveyoung
Sent: Friday, December 28, 2007 2:30 PM
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Operation Falcon and the Looming Police State
The below article, though obviously heavily slanted with imaginar
The below article, though obviously heavily slanted with imaginary
fears-of-the-future, nevertheless is a clear presentation of what is
now set up to function at a moment's notice. I find it chilling, and
so now I am moved another notch closer to expecting the worst to
happen before the elections.
Thanks for a question that saves us from drivel.
What proof could there be that consciousness the fundamental
substrate of creation? If it is, it
would lie beyond proof by definition on the general principle embodied in “We
don’t know who invented water, but we know it wasn’t a fish.” Even so,
>--- Duveyoung wrote:
>
> I believe that consciousness is the
> substrate of creation, but that it
> is merely a PROCESS in the relative. ...
> my evidence is my own experience of
> thoughtlessness. When
> thought -- especially conceptual
> thought -- is not "there," yet it
> can be found th
> And, yeah, Madonna was born with a red aura and has sex on the brain,
You bought her carefully crafted image? Madonna is about power not
sex IMO. Her sexual posturing was always of the NYC gay club scene
variety.
> but I find her "career risking" support of Kabbalah to be genuine.
The caree
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Christ climbed down from his bare tree this year and played poker
with Shiva. They smoked fine Cuban cigars and drank expensive single
malt liquors and played the music really loud. And finally, when the
moon had set, and t
The funny thing is that I felt connected to this guy's message, and I
have resonated with many Kabbalah constructs. Not that I'm spinning a
dreidel as a precuser to meditation, but my brain loves the taste of
the concept of "sacred meaning appearing in 'anything deeply
studied.'" I think the Sefir
With Dennis Kucinich unlikely to get the nom, Ron Paul looms larger to
me -- if only to get power back to the states/people. Ron's reasons
for letting the states run thing may be twisted by racism etc., but it
is the will of the people that will be expressed if Ron wins -- not
Ron's favorite littl
I believe that consciousness is the substrate of creation, but that it
is merely a PROCESS in the relative. The Absolute is not merely
consciousnesseven though consciousness is the bestestmostest
symbol for the Absolute.
Ramana equated "mind" as merely "a thought happening" -- so his
definiti
I think consciousness emerges from matter functioning in a certain
way. My evidence is that even the slightest shift in brain
functioning can eliminate consciousness altogether. I would love to
have a person who claims their consciousness will exist after death
take a test of being put under anes
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On Behalf Of nablusoss1008
> Sent: Friday, December 28, 2007 12:05 PM
> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ammachi In God
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of nablusoss1008
Sent: Friday, December 28, 2007 12:05 PM
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ammachi In God's Name in wmv format
--- In HYPERLINK
"mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com"Fairfield
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> For those who want to download the clips of Ammachi In God's Name,
> The original wmv file:
>
> HYPERLINK
> "http://public.box.net/tomgull86806"http://public.box.net/tomgull86806
>
> It's probably a tiny bit cleare
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Gillam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> I'm curious - how many people here believe
> consciousness is the fundamental substrate
> of creation? If you do, what evidence do you
> put forth to back up your belief?
>
> I'm inclined to say consciousness
For those who want to download the clips of Ammachi In God's Name,
The original wmv file:
HYPERLINK
"http://public.box.net/tomgull86806"http://public.box.net/tomgull86806
It's probably a tiny bit clearer than the YT one.
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--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> --- mainstream20016 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Ah'll betya dollars to donuts this fire was
> > another guy who didn't get
> > > the memo a
When my wife and I were living in Frat 114, one day I smelled gas, so I went
downstairs and found that there was a gas line in the laundry room with
nothing connected to it, but it wasn’t capped off in any way. It had a
stopcock that someone had turned on, and gas was gushing out of it. The
whole b
I'm curious - how many people here believe
consciousness is the fundamental substrate
of creation? If you do, what evidence do you
put forth to back up your belief?
I'm inclined to say consciousness is indeed
primary, and matter secondary, as Deepak
Chopra phrased it. But I can't cite any
really
"This search for Truth - for the key that makes sense of life, for the
deep, mysterious something which connects all of creation - has never
stopped, never even paused, for a moment.
And here we are again. It's important to understand that this is who
we are. You and I are seekers on a
--- mainstream20016 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Ah'll betya dollars to donuts this fire was
> another guy who didn't get
> > the memo and after abhyanga, put a sesame oil
> soaked cloth in the
> > dryer, a
Gore Milks Cash Cow, Sego May Run Again: What France Is Reading
Review by Jorg von Uthmann
Dec. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Climate-change skeptics are taking a beating
these days even in France, where people long resisted the green
creed.
Paris bookstores brim with guidebooks -- including one shaped like
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "yifuxero" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> -right. Even Charlie is now convinced (as I tried to tell him long
> ago) that "the goods" can't be found with this particular Guru, in
> any sense of some final conclusion; beyond a mere technique. Early
> XMas mo
Curtis wrote (snipped):
"So many assumptions, so
little time."
I think you nailed that one, Curtis. Plus the guy has this really annoying and
patronizing vibe to him. If the universe is expanding, and I think it must be
to contain us, then knowing all is never possible. If it were, it would s
In Swami Paramahansa Yogananda's Bhagavad Gita, Swami Yogananda begins
where MMY's leaves off! If you want to get the real message of the
Bhagavad Gita read this one. I've read them both and I'm sorry to
say, Swami Yogananda's is far superior. I almost didn't pick it off
the bookshelf thinking I h
Narrated slide show:
http://www.csmonitor.com/slideshows/2007/eco_lasvegas/
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "dhamiltony2k5"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> essay "Quantum Consciousness, Quantum Miracles, Quantum Failure."
It's
> available here:
>
> http://www.geoffgilpin.com/pdfs/Quantum-Failure.pdf
>
What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "yifuxero" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> -Have I "got it"? No. Here's my Guru, who's yours?
> http://www.buddhanet.net/masters/hsuan_hua.htm
>
Never had one - don't think I ever will, thank you.
>
> -- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "mainstream2001
>From a 1992 article in the Ron Paul Political Report:
Indeed, it is shocking to consider the uniformity of opinion
among blacks in this country. Opinion polls consistently show that
only about 5% of blacks have sensible political opinions, i.e. support
the free market, individual liber
One of the siddhis mentioned in Vibhuuti-paada
of Yoga-darshana is puruSa-jñaanam. How can
it be upasarga to samaadhi? :D
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Ah'll betya dollars to donuts this fire was another guy who didn't get
> the memo and after abhyanga, put a sesame oil soaked cloth in the
> dryer, a repeated cause of fires in FF:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/2b5hm4
>
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung wrote:
> >
> > http://www.perceivingreality.com/
> >
> > H, I love this presentation.
> >
> > Except for the gotcha. It insults one just as the Amway shti
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