--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunsh...@... wrote:
On Aug 4, 2010, at 10:18 PM, TurquoiseB wrote:
Bottom line for me is that I consider him a very,
very, very, VERY ordinary person who overstepped
his capabilities and reaped the karma of doing so.
Hmmm...not
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunshine@ wrote:
On Aug 4, 2010, at 10:18 PM, TurquoiseB wrote:
Bottom line for me is that I consider him a very,
very, very, VERY ordinary person who
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote:
he never showed an ounce of
interest in real, in-depth study of the things he
purported to teach, stopping at the most superficial,
surface levels of most of them, and his narcissism
was such that he could stand no view of
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote:
snip
He wasn't terribly smart except in how to manipulate
people and make money, he never showed an ounce of
interest in real, in-depth study of the things he
purported to teach, stopping at the most superficial,
surface
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 8:26 AM, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltabl...@yahoo.com
wrote:
You had to be on board and play along. You had to have the phrases of the
system memorized to spout at the right times.
What is supposed to be real, authentic, Number One experiences people write
up, get
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchy...@... wrote:
Right wing organizations and whackadoodle Mormons who
baptized dead Jews but can't wrap their heads around gay
marriage, got Prop 8 passed in California but today Judge
Walker ruled against Prop 8 by upholding The Equal
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltabl...@...
wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote:
he never showed an ounce of
interest in real, in-depth study of the things he
purported to teach, stopping at the most superficial,
Jon Stewart explains Anchor babies:
http://tonightsforecastdark.blogspot.com/2010/08/daily-show-anchor-babies.html
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchy...@... wrote:
Right wing organizations and whackadoodle Mormons who baptized dead Jews but
can't wrap their heads around
Looking at the superficial aspects of a yogi, saint, sadhu, mukti, is like
looking at a smudge on a glass and thinking Its all smudge. The same for
looking at anyone actually.
(Something that is eye-opening, is to watch some who focus on the totality of
the person, not the smudge.)
Its not
Forgot your pills today I see.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willy...@... wrote:
Joe:
I hope others weigh in on this topic
since it remains one of great interest
to those of us who devoted a chunk of
our lives to him and his cause...
Oh, Jezzus! Talk about
You live in a cemetery?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willy...@... wrote:
It must get really lonely being you Willy.
Joe:
A nut in his hut.
Thanks for all your support, Joe. Some people
just feel better when they have someone to talk
to. It IS lonely at the
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain no_re...@... wrote:
Looking at the superficial aspects of a yogi, saint, sadhu, mukti,
So how do you know if a person is this special type? In particular what made
you conclude that Maharishi was?
is like looking at a smudge on a glass and
Rick, I don't live in SF, it's 30 miles away. It's such a bother to go
there that I've haven't in ages. And I'm not going out of my way to see
some nut who claims that light beings are here to save the world.
Sounds a bit too New Whirled Odor to me or maybe TMO.
I wouldn't even go if he were
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchy...@... wrote:
Peel me off the floor, I can't stop laughing. Living Honestly is Barry's
sermon of the day? Really? Turn about is fair play. As Barry goes gently
into that good night let's remember him for having lived honestly as a
It was fun! I remember we were ordered to arrange for a Yogic Flying
Competition i Oslo, MMY said that 10 youngsters from India should come and show
Yogic Flying. Of course, they never came, so we had to use local flyers that
hardly could jump. All the Press was there, so the biggest
Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline- Bork's
thesis in the book is that American and more generally Western culture is in a
state of decline and that the cause of this decline is modern liberalism and
the rise of the New Left.
Bork contends that the rough beast
On Aug 5, 2010, at 10:32 AM, curtisdeltablues wrote:
Who cares who or what MMY was?
I do for one. He was an interesting guy.
I agree~~fascinating.
Which is one reason we're all still gabbing away
about him.
The sole question of import was, IMO, did you get something of value in your
So what do you now claim to know about the bardo?
You just read this shit in a book, even though you only believe in
direct experience. You don't believe anything written in books -
remember?
Or did you just die and are now resurrected? That would be much more
interesting.
If so, then did one
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunsh...@... wrote:
I did, Curtis~~totally selflessly.
So now you've met one. :)
I was specifically excluding the saints Sal, I know you and Maharishi were
selfless!
I think getting something of value from any experience is from our own
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Joe geezerfr...@... wrote:
You live in a cemetery?
Hilarious! Good one, Joe.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willytex@ wrote:
It must get really lonely being you Willy.
Joe:
A nut in his hut.
Thanks for
We all deeply care about who MMY was for us. Love him, hate him or anything in
between we've never experienced anybody like this. We deeply invested in MMY
and by default the TMO. For me MMY will always be a profound paradox. I deeply
love the guy and I'm also mildly pissed at him. I wish, as
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptyb...@... wrote:
So what do you now claim to know about the bardo?
You just read this shit in a book, even though you only believe in
direct experience. You don't believe anything written in books -
remember?
;-)
What fun! (But I think
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutp...@... wrote:
We all deeply care about who MMY was for us. Love him, hate him or anything
in between we've never experienced anybody like this.
Quite so.
I have my little list though.
Jimi
'nuff said
George Best
Nice post Tex.
Let Vicious Bitchcious choke on his/her/its own vomit.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willy...@... wrote:
Joe:
I hope others weigh in on this topic
since it remains one of great interest
to those of us who devoted a chunk of
our lives to him and his
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutp...@... wrote:
Nice one Dr. Pete. These descriptions remind me of the kind of posts that came
out at the time of his death.
I think he know how we felt about him how could he have missed our adoration?
I tend to think that he had created
Curtis,
I generally enjoy reading your posts. That is except between you and
Judy because I just don't have time for it all.
You do appear to me to disfavor MMY to the inverse extent that you
played the TMO game. Like or dislike ... so what? It's endless in this
world.
However, I don't imagine
Dear Friends,
Could those of you with email lists please send this on? And if it
sounds like anyone you know, please let them know we have their dog.
Thanks.
Found: 1 Pug, light-colored, male, with a dark patch on the back of
it's neck. Found an hour or so ago in the area of S 2nd St.
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com]
On Behalf Of Dick Mays
Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2010 1:33 PM
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Fwd: Lost dog
Dear Friends,
Could those of you with email lists please send this on? And if
On Monday afternoon, August 2, 2010, Dorothy Drees got her dome badge back,
after being barred for over a year from the meditation dome on the campus at
Maharishi University. She had been thrown out of the dome for receiving hugs
from Ammachi, and for telling the truth when asked by the M.U.M.
From: Rick Archer r...@searchsummit.com
She found the owner.
From: Dick Mays [mailto:dickm...@lisco.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2010 1:33 PM
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Fwd: Lost dog
Dear Friends,
Could those of you with email lists please send this on? And if it
sounds
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer r...@... wrote:
Friends and strangers alike were thrilled to welcome Dorothy back to the
dome when she arrived for Monday evening's program. Upon arriving in the
dome shoe room, Dorothy reportedly said to one friend, I didn't kiss
anybody's
Why would she try so hard when the very fact that she'd been banned was proof
enough that the course office was (peopled as it has been all these years by
sold-outs whose service to the movement has presumably garnered their being
perfect exponents of all that is good about the effects of
(BTW if you do see me on my deathbed would you mind hooking me up with
the Huxley exit strategy? I'm sure a bit of psychedelics at the end will
fill in any gaps I may have missed along the way!)
Quite funny. But there is no *way*.
And by the way, you'll have to email Mr. Joe Entheogenic off-line
While awaiting Barium's Bardo revelations, I began to consider my
former incarnations here on the wild planet. Watching it is just so
primal.
I take great pride in my lowly origins, even lower than the ordinary
maggot. As a former shit-eating larva, I do in fact claim a super-rapid
ascent
Damn Curtis! That might be your best post ever!
That mirrors my own perspective perfectly but I could never say it as
succinctly as you. Bravo.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltabl...@...
wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptybill@ wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutp...@... wrote:
We all deeply care about who MMY was for us. Love him, hate
him or anything in between we've never experienced anybody
like this.
Speak for yer self, Doc. You do not speak for me.
I have met people who make Maharishi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, PaliGap compost...@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptybill@ wrote:
So what do you now claim to know about the bardo?
You just read this shit in a book, even though you only believe in
direct experience. You don't
Who's the Raja of North America? John, Kingsley? Because this is the kind of
stuff we need to see more of. Screw Bevan and his evil minions!
--- On Thu, 8/5/10, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltabl...@yahoo.com wrote:
From: curtisdeltablues curtisdeltabl...@yahoo.com
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re:
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com]
On Behalf Of Peter
Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2010 4:53 PM
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield Breaking news
Who's the Raja of North America? John, Kingsley? Because this is
On Aug 5, 2010, at 1:40 PM, Rick Archer wrote:
Friends and strangers alike were thrilled to welcome Dorothy back to the dome
when she arrived for Monday evening’s program.
Did she bring her ruby slippers with her?
Upon arriving in the dome shoe room, Dorothy reportedly said to one friend,
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunsh...@... wrote:
On Aug 5, 2010, at 1:40 PM, Rick Archer wrote:
Friends and strangers alike were thrilled to welcome Dorothy back
to the dome when she arrived for Monday evening's program.
Did she bring her ruby slippers with
--- On Thu, 8/5/10, Rick Archer r...@searchsummit.com wrote:
From: Rick Archer r...@searchsummit.com
Subject: RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield Breaking news
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, August 5, 2010, 6:35 PM
From: FairfieldLife@
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Who the heck is Dorothy Drees and of what import is she, unless only
here to illustrate the supreme benevolence of the Golden Dome
administrators?
Inquiring Minds want to know...
Must there not be a dozen more of the Drees of the world who had been
kicked out of the Molding Dome and what of their
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain no_re...@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willytex@ wrote:
It's our way of providing the opportunity
for others to work off their karma by
saying things about us and making fun of
our spiritual path - it's a
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willy...@... wrote:
Right, 'Bhairitu', you're posting under a
pseudonym, but I'm the one that is scared.
Point, Willytex
and yet he does post under his real identity, or at least everyone knows
who he is.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Joe geezerfr...@... wrote:
...and that electricity-less hut in the country.
A nut in his hut.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, azgrey no_reply@ wrote:
Thus Spake Pall(-:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Tom Pall thomas.p...@... wrote:
There's been a lot said that Maharishi didn't change. What he was with
Guru Dev he was later on. I agree. The Indian merchant class makes the
guys who brought down the world economy with their
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote:
Bottom line for me is that I consider him a very,
very, very, VERY ordinary person who overstepped
his capabilities and reaped the karma of doing so.
If he was this ordinary, then why are you talking about him, and the
What's with this DEVCO gestapo in FF? And what's with all the fear they seem to
generate as a result of their investigations of peoples private lives?
I would like to think that the vast majority of meditators in the TM community
in FF would rise up say we reject this ridiculous behavior. Does
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willy...@... wrote:
All you can say about the guy is that you
knew him, or not. You spent all of two or
three minutes alone with him face-to-face.
I knew the guy better than any of you did,
and I loved the guy - at least he had a
positive
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willy...@... wrote:
Oh well, at least you have Seroquel.
Can you send me one of yours?
azgrey:
Boy, you *are* a Texan aren't you?
See, Ray, it works almost every time!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willy...@... wrote:
I've posted over 6,000 messages since 1998 on
Google Groups and Yahoo! Groups in order to
help people, but it has been really slow
going lately, except for Joe - he really wants
some help, apparently. Get it out Joe!
On Aug 5, 2010, at 8:17 PM, Joe wrote:
What's with this DEVCO gestapo in FF? And what's with all the fear they seem
to generate as a result of their investigations of peoples private lives?
I would like to think that the vast majority of meditators in the TM
community in FF would rise up
Ray, I'd say you're pretty invested in your view of things and seeing people in
a certain way. Sort of troubles you, it seems, for someone to offer a contrary
opinion. Why might that be?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sun...@... wrote:
--- In
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues
curtisdeltabl...@... wrote:
The second point about not allowing people in the room who disagreed
reveals how flimsily the whole thing was held together intellectually.
You had to be on board and play along.
That's fine. That's a fair
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 8:16 PM, seventhray1 steve.sun...@sbcglobal.netwrote:
Ok, that's it. I'm liking Richard's posts more and more.
I'm not understanding all the dissing Willie's getting, however. Willie
makes a lot of sense to me. I don't agree with him completely, but he makes
a lot of
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com]
On Behalf Of pranamoocher
Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2010 7:24 PM
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield Breaking news
Who the heck is Dorothy Drees and of what import is she,
DEVCO is the (get this) The Department for the Development of Consciousness.
They're the folks who grant and revoke dome badges. The TM gestapo branch. The
friendly folks who do things like drive all the way to Chicago to write down
the license plate numbers of FF people who go to see Amma.
If
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer r...@... wrote:
Friends and strangers alike were thrilled to welcome Dorothy back to
the
dome when she arrived for Monday evening's program. Upon arriving in
the
dome shoe room, Dorothy reportedly said to one friend, I didn't kiss
anybody's
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com]
On Behalf Of Sal Sunshine
Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2010 8:26 PM
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield Breaking news
What's DEVCO again?
The Department for the Development of
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung no_re...@... wrote:
Boy, if I wasn't just such a dupe, I'd be launching a three pound rock
her way. I guess that's an improvement Edg, because you are usually
recommending some form of punitive action, usually worse than this. I
love ya, but,
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote:
Babe is definitely not in Kansas any more.
No, they put lipstick on Babe, and she moved up north.
-- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sun...@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues
curtisdeltablues@ wrote:
The second point about not allowing people in the room who disagreed
reveals how flimsily the whole thing was held together
Richard, have you seen those master fisherman with a line with multiple hooks
and a fish on each onecan I get an amen on that?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willy...@... wrote:
Oh well, at least you have Seroquel.
Can you send me one of
Can you provide an example?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Joe geezerfr...@... wrote:
Ray, I'd say you're pretty invested in your view of things and seeing people
in
a certain way. Sort of troubles you, it seems, for someone to offer a contrary
opinion. Why might that be?
--- In
curtisdeltablues curtisdeltabl...@... wrote:
That said I'll bet if you hang with the Donald you get the same deal. But
guys like him don't usually posture themselves as intellectuals. You know
what you are getting upfront.
I'm not a celebrity watcher, but I enjoy the ocassional write
If we don't think it's worth bothering with
then most likely, as we're dying, we'll end
up tormented by What the fuck was it all
for?
TurquoiseB:
...if you spend your last moments on this
rock thinkin' What the fuck was it all for?
you've wasted your life far more than I have.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sun...@... wrote:
curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote:
That said I'll bet if you hang with the Donald you get the same deal. But
guys like him don't usually posture themselves as intellectuals. You know
what you are
Steve,
When a specter takes amphetamine, it feels powerful and struts around
like a rakshasa. When a specter takes an entheogen, it feels godlike and
commanding. It acts like an asura, determined to interject anywhere.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sun...@...
wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltabl...@...
wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain no_reply@ wrote:
Looking at the superficial aspects of a yogi, saint, sadhu, mukti,
So how do you know if a person is this special type? In particular
Strength of the Donald...
Strength of the Donald...
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues
curtisdeltabl...@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sundur@
wrote:
curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote:
That said I'll bet if you hang
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, pranamoocher bh...@... wrote:
Strength of the Donald...
Strength of the Donald...
Excellent, I've been using lightness of hair comb-over but half the time I
end up doing sunyama on Jerry Jarvis by mistake.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutp...@... wrote:
We all deeply care about who MMY was for us.
In what way. He was a teacher, he was a mentor for some, a friend for some. Are
you seeing it more complicated than that?
Love him, hate him or anything in between we've never
seventhray1 wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willy...@... wrote:
Right, 'Bhairitu', you're posting under a
pseudonym, but I'm the one that is scared.
Point, Willytex
Nothing wrong with using handles and probably wise when it comes to FFL.
Wow Emptybill. Your just so damn high and superior.
What's a lowly person like me to do?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptyb...@... wrote:
Dudette, it that it?
I got more reflection about life from my daughter when she was 13. But
then again her mom died when she was six
Jesus Fart, you could say the same of Hitler if he was your guru. So you give
your Guru a pass, no matter what his actions, is that what you're telling us?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain no_re...@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutphen@ wrote:
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