[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield Feels the Shake from an Earthquake

2008-04-18 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Alex Stanley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "ispiritkin" wrote: > > > > I live a block and a half away from the train tracks and > > was awake at that time. I remember thinking, "That train > > sounds awfully big -- a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield Feels the Shake from an Earthquake

2008-04-18 Thread hugheshugo
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "ispiritkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Cross-correlating to the other thread on the economic effects of the > Invincible America program ~~ > I thought up a theory to explain why the numbers aren't producing what > would seem to be their expected resu

[FairfieldLife] Overposting

2008-04-18 Thread Rick Archer
Here are the overposters for last week: Spraig – 99 New Morning – 62 Vaj, Turq, and R. Williams – 51 I’ll give the last three the benefit of the doubt, because sometimes I get duplicate emails, so my count isn’t 100% accurate, but Spraig and New Morning are clearly over, and I’ll have to

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Where Have All the Flower Children Gone?

2008-04-18 Thread Rick Archer
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Stanley Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 3:20 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Where Have All the Flower Children Gone? --- In HYPERLINK "mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com"Fairfi

[FairfieldLife] thismuchleft.com

2008-04-18 Thread Louis McKenzie
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[FairfieldLife] Re: Prakashanand in NYC

2008-04-18 Thread matrixmonitor
---For one thing, a contribution of $1,000 is (was - back years ago) required for "membership". I don't know what the amount is now. Probably more. In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Alex Stanley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This morning, the FedEx truck dropped off an envelope sent by a

[FairfieldLife] Prakashanand in NYC

2008-04-18 Thread Alex Stanley
This morning, the FedEx truck dropped off an envelope sent by a successful businesswoman who used to live in Fairfield a long time ago. Inside was an invitation to an upcoming lecture being given in NYC by Swami Prakashanand Saraswati. What stood out for me was this: "This extraordinary program is

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield Feels the Shake from an Earthquake

2008-04-18 Thread Bhairitu
Alex Stanley wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "ispiritkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I live a block and a half away from the train tracks and was awake at >> that time. I remember thinking, "That train sounds awfully big -- a >> mega-train -- but no matching mega-horn blas

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield Feels the Shake from an Earthquake

2008-04-18 Thread ispiritkin
Cross-correlating to the other thread on the economic effects of the Invincible America program ~~ I thought up a theory to explain why the numbers aren't producing what would seem to be their expected results: the bliss waves are getting soaked up by the earth's crust so they don't travel as fa

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: ME and the Stock Market:: Hagelin Needs an Sound Economic Theory of ME

2008-04-18 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Apr 18, 2008, at 8:53 PM, sparaig wrote: Oh they've gotten to it--and then they just raise it, when the number is reached but miracles fail to happen. That's just human nature. It's dishonest. And it basically makes complete fools out of the very people they're supposedly trying to rea

[FairfieldLife] Re: ME and the Stock Market:: Hagelin Needs an Sound Economic Theory of ME

2008-04-18 Thread satvadude108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine wrote: > > > > On Apr 18, 2008, at 8:10 PM, dhamiltony2k5 wrote: > > > > >> > > >> George, JOOC, do you *really* believe that a certain number of > > >> people, > > >>

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield Feels the Shake from an Earthquake

2008-04-18 Thread lurkernomore20002000
4:36AM I said to my wife in the other room. "That was an earthquake" Yea", she responded. The kids upstairs felt it as well. It was pretty neat. It seems the cats were rambunctious right before or during. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Alex Stanley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >

[FairfieldLife] Re: ME and the Stock Market:: Hagelin Needs an Sound Economic Theory of ME

2008-04-18 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Apr 18, 2008, at 8:10 PM, dhamiltony2k5 wrote: > > >> > >> George, JOOC, do you *really* believe that a certain number of > >> people, > >> or any number, for that matter, sitting and thinking certain words > >> o

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: ME and the Stock Market:: Hagelin Needs an Sound Economic Theory of ME

2008-04-18 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Apr 18, 2008, at 8:10 PM, dhamiltony2k5 wrote: George, JOOC, do you *really* believe that a certain number of people, or any number, for that matter, sitting and thinking certain words or thoughts, can somehow affect the behavior of other individuals, who happen to be in their physical proxi

[FairfieldLife] Re: ME and the Stock Market:: Hagelin Needs an Sound Economic Theory of ME

2008-04-18 Thread dhamiltony2k5
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: > > On Apr 13, 2008, at 2:38 AM, george_deforest wrote: > > > the ME has never really been achieved significantly yet, > > thats why it seems not to work; > > > > the population of the US right now is about 303,850,000

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield Feels the Shake from an Earthquake

2008-04-18 Thread Alex Stanley
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "ispiritkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I live a block and a half away from the train tracks and was awake at > that time. I remember thinking, "That train sounds awfully big -- a > mega-train -- but no matching mega-horn blast." I'm bummed. I was fast

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield Feels the Shake from an Earthquake

2008-04-18 Thread Angela Mailander
I was awake too, but I live on the southern edge of town, so I thought hmm bomb blast somewhere. I've lived through an earthquake, but that wasn't my first thought. a --- ispiritkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I live a block and a half away from the train tracks > and was awake at > that tim

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield Feels the Shake from an Earthquake

2008-04-18 Thread ispiritkin
I live a block and a half away from the train tracks and was awake at that time. I remember thinking, "That train sounds awfully big -- a mega-train -- but no matching mega-horn blast."

[FairfieldLife] Re: to new.morning about the power of myth

2008-04-18 Thread boo_lives
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine wrote: > > > > On Apr 18, 2008, at 12:42 AM, sparaig wrote: > > > > > Look at the relative success of Maharishi School in Fairfield where > > > school teachers are p

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield Feels the Shake from an Earthquake

2008-04-18 Thread bob_brigante
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Alex Stanley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Fairfield Feels the Shake from an Earthquake > > Some Jefferson County Residents awoke this morning to the shaking of > their homes. The Jefferson County Law Center fielded several calls of > tremors in the Fairf

[FairfieldLife] Re: Where Have All the Flower Children Gone?

2008-04-18 Thread bob_brigante
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Apr 18, 2008, at 8:30 AM, new.morning wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > >> > >> > >> On Apr 18, 2008, at 1:20 AM, sparaig wrote: > >> > >>> traditionally it has no meaning: its > >>> just

[FairfieldLife] Former Clinton cabinet member, 2 ex-senators endorse Obama

2008-04-18 Thread Tom
Former Clinton cabinet member, 2 ex-senators endorse Obama By GLEN JOHNSON, Associated Press Writer BOSTON - Former Clinton Cabinet member Robert Reich on Friday endorsed Barack Obama over Hillary Rodham Clinton in the battle for the Democratic presidential nomination. Two other Democratic eld

[FairfieldLife] Vast Wasteland

2008-04-18 Thread Richard J. Williams
Broadcasters' conference showcases cutting edge technology, as well as cutting words from keynote speaker Tim Robbins: "In 1961 FCC commissioner Newton Minnow described television as a "vast wasteland" of game shows, gangsters, formula comedies and commercials. Forty-six years later, actor Ti

[FairfieldLife] Re: Where Have All the Flower Children Gone?

2008-04-18 Thread Richard J. Williams
Lawson wrote: > ...which MMY made up out of whole cloth with no > reference to his teacher's own words or to any > existing tradition... > Srish, Lawson. According to Vaj, I've been repeating the name of the Istadevata Saraswati for years, which also happens to be the name of his guru, Brahman

Re: [FairfieldLife] Fairfield Feels the Shake from an Earthquake

2008-04-18 Thread Bhairitu
Thom Hartmann read this report on his show: http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1091.htm Of course Sorcha Faal doesn't seem to have much credibility but then one wonders. Alex Stanley wrote: > Just think of all the property damage and loss of life that would have > occurred had there been no pand

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Where Have All the Flower Children Gone?

2008-04-18 Thread Vaj
On Apr 18, 2008, at 4:05 PM, sparaig wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Apr 18, 2008, at 8:30 AM, new.morning wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: On Apr 18, 2008, at 1:20 AM, sparaig wrote: traditionally it has no meanin

[FairfieldLife] Re: Every OS Sucks [for musician/computer lovers & friends]

2008-04-18 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Yes I did know that it is based on FreeBSD. I probably would have been > based on Linux if it wasn't for the SCO fiasco. Avie Trevanian, chief engineer at NeXT, and later at Apple, helped create the Mach kernel u

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Where Have All the Flower Children Gone?

2008-04-18 Thread Vaj
On Apr 18, 2008, at 4:00 PM, sparaig wrote: > Just as TM mantras are assigned no *intellectual* meaning, once they > are learned, > they shouldn't be assigned some external representation either, and > for much > the same reason: such superficial representations may serve to > disrupt the p

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Where Have All the Flower Children Gone?

2008-04-18 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Apr 18, 2008, at 3:26 PM, sparaig wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] And with this, spare writes his 90th(!) post for the week, but who's counting? Obviously, nobody. :) Every time I attempt to use search to count my messages, it

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Where Have All the Flower Children Gone?

2008-04-18 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Apr 18, 2008, at 3:20 PM, Alex Stanley wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: And with this, spare writes his 90th(!) post for the week, but who's counting? Obviously, nobody. :) I just counted 94, which is a wee bit over the 50 post limit.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: to new.morning about the power of myth

2008-04-18 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Apr 18, 2008, at 3:15 PM, sparaig wrote: What success is that, spare? You must mean 'relative' in a really abstract sense, because just about all of what I've heard is horror stories, and I live here. Well, so yu're saying that the kids don't do well, overall? I guess that would depend

[FairfieldLife] Re: Where Have All the Flower Children Gone?

2008-04-18 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > And with this, spare writes his 90th(!) post for the week, but > who's counting? Obviously, nobody. :) > Every time I attempt to use search to count my messages, it returns an error. Are you using a different

[FairfieldLife] Re: Where Have All the Flower Children Gone?

2008-04-18 Thread Alex Stanley
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And with this, spare writes his 90th(!) post for the week, but > who's counting? Obviously, nobody. :) I just counted 94, which is a wee bit over the 50 post limit.

[FairfieldLife] Re: to new.morning about the power of myth

2008-04-18 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Apr 18, 2008, at 1:50 AM, new.morning wrote: > > > When Maharishi school graduates are among the top tier of those > > contributing in public service, government, business, the arts -- and > > are well seeded (or seated

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Every OS Sucks [for musician/computer lovers & friends]

2008-04-18 Thread Bhairitu
sparaig wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> cardemaister wrote: >> >>> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" wrote: >>> >>> Have you tried Mac OS X in the past few years? and teh UI intergration on Mac c

[FairfieldLife] Re: to new.morning about the power of myth

2008-04-18 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Apr 18, 2008, at 12:42 AM, sparaig wrote: > > > Look at the relative success of Maharishi School in Fairfield where > > school teachers are paid > > probably 1/5 that, if they are lucky. Its not JUST the quality

[FairfieldLife] Re: to new.morning about the power of myth

2008-04-18 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Apr 18, 2008, at 10:00 AM, new.morning wrote: > > > But Sal, they have TM, direct access to, > > and are the living embodiment of the Home > > of All Knowledge, The Source of All the Laws > > of Nature, are functi

[FairfieldLife] Re: Where Have All the Flower Children Gone?

2008-04-18 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When you teach TM you write down the qualities needed for a mantra. > One of them is that they are meaningless so the mind is not kept on > the surface, and one is that their effects are known to be life > supp

[FairfieldLife] Re: Where Have All the Flower Children Gone?

2008-04-18 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Apr 18, 2008, at 1:20 AM, sparaig wrote: > > > traditionally it has no meaning: its > > just a sound whose effects are known to be good. > > > Actually, traditionally, it does have a meaning as is witnessed by > th

Re: [FairfieldLife] fundamentals of evolution

2008-04-18 Thread Angela Mailander
Was it an inter-racial marriage? I had a class of college students who told me that white folks were made by God and black folks descended from apes. The same class was about equally divided into two groups. One group believed that Jonah was swallowed by a whale because the Bible said so. The o

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Where Have All the Flower Children Gone?

2008-04-18 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Apr 18, 2008, at 3:00 PM, sparaig wrote: it's actually YOUR problem, not mine. That you don't see WHY it might be your problem, suggests that you, like someone else here, never "got" TM either, but here's a hint: Just as TM mantras are assigned no *intellectual* meaning, once they are le

[FairfieldLife] Re: Where Have All the Flower Children Gone?

2008-04-18 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Apr 18, 2008, at 8:30 AM, new.morning wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > >> > >> > >> On Apr 18, 2008, at 1:20 AM, sparaig wrote: > >> > >>> traditionally it has no meaning: its > >>> just

[FairfieldLife] Re: Where Have All the Flower Children Gone?

2008-04-18 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "hugheshugo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "hugheshugo" > wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Richard J. Williams" > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Actually, traditionally, it does have a meaning > > >

[FairfieldLife] Re: Where Have All the Flower Children Gone?

2008-04-18 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Apr 18, 2008, at 8:47 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote: > > >>> traditionally it has no meaning: its > >>> just a sound whose effects are known to be good. > >>> > > Vaj wrote: > >> Actually, traditionally, it does have a

[FairfieldLife] fundamentals of evolution

2008-04-18 Thread matrixmonitor
a little girl asked her mother, "How did the human race appear?" The mother answered, "God made Adam and Eve and they had children and so was all mankind made." Two days later the girl asked her father the same question. The father answered, "Many years ago there were monkeys from whi

[FairfieldLife] Re: Every OS Sucks [for musician/computer lovers & friends]

2008-04-18 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > cardemaister wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" wrote: > > > >> > >> Have you tried Mac OS X in the past few years? > >> > >> and teh UI intergration on Mac computers is still superior to that

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Where Have All the Flower Children Gone?

2008-04-18 Thread Angela Mailander
Thanks for adding that to my comment Bhairitu. I thought about mentioning that same thing, but my mind isn't working well due to sleep deprivation. The impulses are real enough, and the personification as "gods" or "angels" may be appropriate in the sense that they correspond to Jungian (pashyant

[FairfieldLife] advice needed

2008-04-18 Thread matrixmonitor
Dear Abby, I am a 60-year-old woman who is married to a man who acts like he hates me. In public, he pretends he loves me and talks about how wonderful I am. But in private, he shakes his finger in my face and calls me the 'B' word. He constantly tells me how ugly I am without make-up. I've t

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Where Have All the Flower Children Gone?

2008-04-18 Thread Bhairitu
The Hindu gods are about as real as the guy in the sky that the Christians believe in. They are analogies. If one believes there are laws of physics then just think of those gods as a analogies to forces at the very low levels of physics. Yup, I know that is the spiel that the TMO gives but

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Where Have All the Flower Children Gone?

2008-04-18 Thread Angela Mailander
I'll add my ditto. Even if we say that the mantras are the names of gods, we shouldn't jump to easy conclusions about how mantra meditation is really a Hindu religious practice. We should first ask a few questions about exactly what is meant by the term "gods," especially if we are dealing with a

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Gadgetry's Golden Rule?

2008-04-18 Thread Bhairitu
Richard J. Williams wrote: > Bhairitu wrote: > >> Because I got the Harmony remote I needed to finally >> fix my setup to handle component switching better. >> >> > For true component switching you'll be needing to get > a new Yamaha RX-Z11 reciever. That way, you can use > the great Ya

[FairfieldLife] Re: Where Have All the Flower Children Gone?

2008-04-18 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Shiring is just a poor transliteration. The Harvard-Kyoto > transliteration (used for Sanskrit) is srIM which would be pronounced > sreeng or often shreeng--the bija of Lakshmi or "Shree". In this case > the mantra i

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Where Have All the Flower Children Gone?

2008-04-18 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Apr 18, 2008, at 1:24 PM, feste37 wrote: Very nice post, Richard. I agree with you completely. When I taught TM I never told people that the mantras were "meaningless sounds" If I had a dime for every time I heard that, feste... and nor was I ever asked to say that. I told them that the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Where Have All the Flower Children Gone?

2008-04-18 Thread curtisdeltablues
When you teach TM you write down the qualities needed for a mantra. One of them is that they are meaningless so the mind is not kept on the surface, and one is that their effects are known to be life supporting. Am I the only teacher who remembers this? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "fe

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: to new.morning about the power of myth

2008-04-18 Thread Vaj
On Apr 18, 2008, at 1:50 AM, new.morning wrote: When Maharishi school graduates are among the top tier of those contributing in public service, government, business, the arts -- and are well seeded (or seated) as professors at the top universities, you will have quite a compelling case. It's

[FairfieldLife] Re: Where Have All the Flower Children Gone?

2008-04-18 Thread feste37
Very nice post, Richard. I agree with you completely. When I taught TM I never told people that the mantras were "meaningless sounds" and nor was I ever asked to say that. I told them that the mantras were sounds, the effects of which are known, and that that was what was important, rather than an

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Where Have All the Flower Children Gone?

2008-04-18 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Apr 18, 2008, at 10:28 AM, Richard M wrote: Wrong. TM does not require that you know the meaning of your mantra, in fact they want you to believe it's a "meaningless sound". But it's simply not true. Why spread lies when we don't have to? This seems a bit harsh and hostile to me. In TM yo

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: to new.morning about the power of myth

2008-04-18 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Apr 18, 2008, at 10:00 AM, new.morning wrote: But Sal, they have TM, direct access to, and are the living embodiment of the Home of All Knowledge, The Source of All the Laws of Nature, are functioning from the Field of All Possibilities, And live in the global center of Coherence and the ME

[FairfieldLife] Re: Where Have All the Flower Children Gone?

2008-04-18 Thread Richard J. Williams
Vaj wrote: > Shiring is just a poor transliteration... > Actually, there are no valid transliterations of bija mantras. All true bijas are given in an esoteric initiation - there's no translation or transliteration possible. Bija mantras are given in diksha - they can mean anything the guru want

[FairfieldLife] Fairfield Feels the Shake from an Earthquake

2008-04-18 Thread Alex Stanley
Just think of all the property damage and loss of life that would have occurred had there been no pandits in Vedic City! http://www.fairfieldiowaradio.com/news.cfm Fairfield Feels the Shake from an Earthquake Some Jefferson County Residents awoke this morning to the shaking of their homes. The J

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Where Have All the Flower Children Gone?

2008-04-18 Thread Vaj
On Apr 18, 2008, at 12:54 PM, hugheshugo wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "hugheshugo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Richard J. Williams" wrote: Actually, traditionally, it does have a meaning as is witnessed by the numerous bija dictionarie

[FairfieldLife] Re: Gadgetry's Golden Rule?

2008-04-18 Thread Richard J. Williams
Bhairitu wrote: > Because I got the Harmony remote I needed to finally > fix my setup to handle component switching better. > For true component switching you'll be needing to get a new Yamaha RX-Z11 reciever. That way, you can use the great Yamaha remote that is included, which switches audio

[FairfieldLife] Re: Where Have All the Flower Children Gone?

2008-04-18 Thread Richard J. Williams
Richard Hughes wrote: > Apologies to any TM folk who are upset by me > glibly posting my, secret and never to be spoken > aloud, mantra here but I'm interested in where it > came from. > The TM bija mantras are derived from the tantric Sri Vidya tradition of Karnataka. Swami Brahmananda Saras

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Where Have All the Flower Children Gone?

2008-04-18 Thread Vaj
On Apr 18, 2008, at 12:25 PM, Richard M wrote: This seems a bit harsh and hostile to me. Why would the truth seem "harsh and hostile" to you? Vaj - An attentive reader would notice that the reference of the word "this" in my statement was not "truth". It was your comments. I am sure you k

[FairfieldLife] Re: Gadgetry's Golden Rule?

2008-04-18 Thread Richard J. Williams
> > > Not so, my cables cancel out high frequency radio > > > waves, > > > > > Most humans can't even hear high frequency radio > > waves, Richard. > > Richard Hughes wrote: > True, but you hear their absence with a more natural > and much clearer sound. > Maybe so. Thanks for all the informati

[FairfieldLife] Re: Virtue of policy - specific example of oil drilling

2008-04-18 Thread ispiritkin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "ispiritkin" wrote: > It can be a nice theoretical construct -- but when it > comes to replacing such regulations with something > that achieves the same effect, but with more "freedom" > -- it usua

[FairfieldLife] Re: Where Have All the Flower Children Gone?

2008-04-18 Thread hugheshugo
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "hugheshugo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Richard J. Williams" > wrote: > > > > > > > > Actually, traditionally, it does have a meaning > > > > > > as is witnessed by the numerous bija dictionaries > > > > > > which

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Gadgetry's Golden Rule?

2008-04-18 Thread Bhairitu
Richard J. Williams wrote: > Richard J. Williams wrote: > >> "For the record: Pricey, so-called high-end >> cables and wiring—speaker, HDMI, DVI, Firewire, >> RCA, USB, you name it—no matter what, are an >> out-and-out scam." >> >> > Monster Cables: > 3.3ft HDMI ($119.99) > > Monoprice C

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Every OS Sucks [for musician/computer lovers & friends]

2008-04-18 Thread Bhairitu
cardemaister wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> Have you tried Mac OS X in the past few years? >> >> and teh UI intergration on Mac computers is still superior to that >> > on Windows or Linux. X- > >> WIndows GUI's are a joke comp

[FairfieldLife] Re: Where Have All the Flower Children Gone?

2008-04-18 Thread Richard M
> > This seems a bit harsh and hostile to me. > Why would the truth seem "harsh and hostile" to you? Vaj - An attentive reader would notice that the reference of the word "this" in my statement was not "truth". It was your comments. I am sure you know that actually.

[FairfieldLife] Needing advice......... TM & "Holosync"

2008-04-18 Thread simon.groves123
Hello, I hope someone can help...I'm needing some advice, I am experiencing difficulties with 'pain thresholds' and although I understand I can still meditate (TM) in pain, the whole pain thing is quite challenging to say the least in the area of discomfort thresholds in and out of TM. Holosy

[FairfieldLife] Re: Where Have All the Flower Children Gone?

2008-04-18 Thread hugheshugo
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Richard J. Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Actually, traditionally, it does have a meaning > > > > > as is witnessed by the numerous bija dictionaries > > > > > which define their meanings in some detail. > > > > > > > > > Nonsense. > > > >

[FairfieldLife] Re: Gadgetry's Golden Rule?

2008-04-18 Thread hugheshugo
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Richard J. Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > "For the record: Pricey, so-called high-end > > > cables and wiring—speaker, HDMI, DVI, Firewire, > > > RCA, USB, you name it—no matter what, are an > > > out-and-out scam." > > > > Richard Hughes wro

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Where Have All the Flower Children Gone?

2008-04-18 Thread Vaj
On Apr 18, 2008, at 11:28 AM, Richard M wrote: Wrong. TM does not require that you know the meaning of your mantra, in fact they want you to believe it's a "meaningless sound". But it's simply not true. Why spread lies when we don't have to? This seems a bit harsh and hostile to me. Why wo

[FairfieldLife] Re: Where Have All the Flower Children Gone?

2008-04-18 Thread Richard M
> Wrong. TM does not require that you know the meaning of your mantra, > in fact they want you to believe it's a "meaningless sound". > But it's simply not true. Why spread lies when we don't have to? This seems a bit harsh and hostile to me. In TM you are given a word that you have probably

RE: [FairfieldLife] to new.morning about the power of myth

2008-04-18 Thread Rick Archer
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ispiritkin Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 10:48 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] to new.morning about the power of myth I spent a while responding to your post on "The Power of Myth," but th

[FairfieldLife] Dudjom - from Kirk

2008-04-18 Thread Rick Archer
From: Kirk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 10:12 AM To: Rick Archer Subject: Dudjom Hey Rick, this very powerful cycle of Dzogchen teachings of Dudjom lineage of Tibetan Buddhist empowerments is being given free and open to all in Austin next month. Could you mention

[FairfieldLife] Re: Where Have All the Flower Children Gone?

2008-04-18 Thread Richard J. Williams
> > > > Actually, traditionally, it does have a meaning > > > > as is witnessed by the numerous bija dictionaries > > > > which define their meanings in some detail. > > > > > > > Nonsense. > > > Vaj wrote: > > Give me your mantra, I'll tell you it's meaning and > > quote the text it came from.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Where Have All the Flower Children Gone?

2008-04-18 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "ispiritkin" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "ispiritkin" wrote: > > > > For me, because of the

[FairfieldLife] Re: to new.morning about the power of myth

2008-04-18 Thread new . morning
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Apr 18, 2008, at 12:42 AM, sparaig wrote: > > > Look at the relative success of Maharishi School in Fairfield where > > school teachers are paid > > probably 1/5 that, if they are lucky. Its not JUST the quality

[FairfieldLife] Re: Virtue of policy - specific example of oil drilling

2008-04-18 Thread new . morning
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "ispiritkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "ispiritkin" wrote: > > > To me, the central question to determine the virtue > > > of a policy is its ratio of volun

[FairfieldLife] Re: Where Have All the Flower Children Gone?

2008-04-18 Thread Richard J. Williams
Vaj wrote: > Wrong. TM does not require that you know the > meaning of your mantra, in fact they want you > to believe it's a "meaningless sound". > Wrong. In no TM introductory lecture have I ever heard of the TM mantra referred to as a "meaningless sound". In fact, the TM bija mantras are alwa

[FairfieldLife] Stages of samaadhi according to Taimni

2008-04-18 Thread cardemaister
http://www.gypsii.com/place.cgi?op=viewattach&id=60466

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Slain 23 yr old reporter'

2008-04-18 Thread Richard J. Williams
Robert wrote: > 'Slain 23 yr old reporter'... > Confirmation bias refers to a type of selective thinking whereby one tends to notice and to look for what confirms one's beliefs, and to ignore, not look for, or undervalue the relevance of what contradicts one's beliefs. You forgot to mention th

[FairfieldLife] Re: Virtue of policy - specific example of oil drilling

2008-04-18 Thread Richard J. Williams
spiritkin wrote: > Consider the people who are affected by, say, oil > drilling -- > Yes, let's consider the people who buy foreign oil and as long as we are at it, lets discuss the people who buy foreign cars. Most of the oil I use comes from Spindletop or the Permian Basin. I drive an energ

[FairfieldLife] 'Slain 23 yr old reporter'

2008-04-18 Thread Robert
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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Where Have All the Flower Children Gone?

2008-04-18 Thread Vaj
On Apr 18, 2008, at 9:23 AM, Vaj wrote: On Apr 18, 2008, at 8:47 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote: traditionally it has no meaning: its just a sound whose effects are known to be good. Vaj wrote: Actually, traditionally, it does have a meaning as is witnessed by the numerous bija dictionarie

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Where Have All the Flower Children Gone?

2008-04-18 Thread Vaj
On Apr 18, 2008, at 8:47 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote: traditionally it has no meaning: its just a sound whose effects are known to be good. Vaj wrote: Actually, traditionally, it does have a meaning as is witnessed by the numerous bija dictionaries which define their meanings in some detai

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: to new.morning about the power of myth

2008-04-18 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Apr 18, 2008, at 12:42 AM, sparaig wrote: Look at the relative success of Maharishi School in Fairfield where school teachers are paid probably 1/5 that, if they are lucky. Its not JUST the quality of the teachers that is important: its the quality of the students they are teaching. Wha

[FairfieldLife] Re: Virtue of policy - specific example of oil drilling

2008-04-18 Thread ispiritkin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "ispiritkin" wrote: > > To me, the central question to determine the virtue > > of a policy is its ratio of voluntary action versus > > mandatory action. Voluntary action means a person > > is their

[FairfieldLife] Re: Where Have All the Flower Children Gone?

2008-04-18 Thread R.G.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Apr 18, 2008, at 1:20 AM, sparaig wrote: > > > traditionally it has no meaning: its > > just a sound whose effects are known to be good. > > > Actually, traditionally, it does have a meaning as is witnessed by > th

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Where Have All the Flower Children Gone?

2008-04-18 Thread Vaj
On Apr 18, 2008, at 8:30 AM, new.morning wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Apr 18, 2008, at 1:20 AM, sparaig wrote: traditionally it has no meaning: its just a sound whose effects are known to be good. Actually, traditionally, it does have a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Gadgetry's Golden Rule?

2008-04-18 Thread Richard J. Williams
Richard J. Williams wrote: > "For the record: Pricey, so-called high-end > cables and wiring—speaker, HDMI, DVI, Firewire, > RCA, USB, you name it—no matter what, are an > out-and-out scam." > Monster Cables: 3.3ft HDMI ($119.99) Monoprice Cables: 6ft HDMI 1.2a ($4.79) Blue Jeans Cables: HDMI

[FairfieldLife] Hunting for Witches...'

2008-04-18 Thread Robert
by Marsha West Witchcraft on the Home Shopping Network? March 31, 2008 12:00 PM EST Last week I received an email from a pastor asking if I’d help inform the public of the Home Shopping Network’s participation in peddling witchcraft. Included in Dr. Greg Allen’s email was a letter addressed t

[FairfieldLife] Re: Where Have All the Flower Children Gone?

2008-04-18 Thread Richard J. Williams
> > traditionally it has no meaning: its > > just a sound whose effects are known to be good. > > Vaj wrote: > Actually, traditionally, it does have a meaning as > is witnessed by the numerous bija dictionaries which > define their meanings in some detail. > Nonsense.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Where Have All the Flower Children Gone?

2008-04-18 Thread new . morning
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Apr 18, 2008, at 1:20 AM, sparaig wrote: > > > traditionally it has no meaning: its > > just a sound whose effects are known to be good. > > > Actually, traditionally, it does have a meaning as is witnessed by > th

[FairfieldLife] Re: Where Have All the Flower Children Gone?

2008-04-18 Thread new . morning
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "ispiritkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "ispiritkin" wrote: > > > For me, because of the way I see my sage do TM, I feel > > > like a larger commitment to the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Where Have All the Flower Children Gone?

2008-04-18 Thread new . morning
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "ispiritkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "ispiritkin" wrote: > > > So far, TM has not given the answers I would be > > > satisfied with, so I have not stepped

[FairfieldLife] 'Hillary's Witchcraft has Superdelegates Confused'

2008-04-18 Thread Robert
Must be the old Clinton black-magic... Has 'em all confused, I reckons... Billy Bob and Hill and Chelsea, And that weird couple: The Carville's, I wouldn't trust those people with anything, really. It's like 'The Screw-tape Letters'... Watching Clinton's strategy... Elitism at it's finest!

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Where Have All the Flower Children Gone?

2008-04-18 Thread Vaj
On Apr 18, 2008, at 1:20 AM, sparaig wrote: traditionally it has no meaning: its just a sound whose effects are known to be good. Actually, traditionally, it does have a meaning as is witnessed by the numerous bija dictionaries which define their meanings in some detail.

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