[FairfieldLife] Followup to Share's post about eating insects

2014-01-24 Thread TurquoiseB
Don't eat them...fly them: http://digg.com/video/this-10-second-animation-is-bound-to-make-you-smil\ e http://digg.com/video/this-10-second-animation-is-bound-to-make-you-smi\ le

Re: [FairfieldLife] We warmly invite you to join us for a weekend

2014-01-24 Thread nablusoss1008
Why not ? BTW, a brand new Tape Library is being constructed in Vlodrop to house the Sea of tapes as Maharishi called them. Donations welcome.

[FairfieldLife] RE: Being *afraid* to write about one's spiritual experience

2014-01-24 Thread nablusoss1008
Nice to read a well written piece on experiences here. Stands out from the rest, thanks for posting.

[FairfieldLife] Jargon As A Second Language: how it impedes spiritual communication

2014-01-24 Thread TurquoiseB
Michael's story about a Death Watch, Southern-Style really inspired me this morning. It reached me. It got me interested in the characters and the scenario and how things were gonna turn out...even though that was a little telegraphed by the title. :-) Being me, I started thinking about this in

Re: [FairfieldLife] We warmly invite you to join us for a weekend

2014-01-24 Thread nablusoss1008
Once being driven from the airport in Frankfurt to a lecture Maharishi commented on the high standards of the Autobahn. And who built the first Autobahns ? That's right; the Nazis. His denouncers, the impatient guru-shoppers torn in different directions in life due to the dominance of

Re: [FairfieldLife] Followup to Share's post about eating insects

2014-01-24 Thread Share Long
turq, not to get too jargony but eating insects, especially by humans, is called entomophagy. Not sure what flying insects is called. Maybe we could have a contest on FFL to devise a word for that (-:   On Friday, January 24, 2014 2:32 AM, TurquoiseB turquoi...@yahoo.com wrote:   Don't

[FairfieldLife] Re: Followup to Share's post about eating insects

2014-01-24 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote: turq, not to get too jargony but eating insects, especially by humans, is called entomophagy. Not sure what flying insects is called. Maybe we could have a contest on FFL to devise a word for that (-: Allow me to be the first to suggest

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Religion that doesn't take itself deadly seriously

2014-01-24 Thread Share Long
Seraph, one hears all sorts of interesting spiritual tidbits when one lives in FF. The tidbits are as if floating in the air, swimming in the puddles of melting snow, etc. I don't remember that there was an explanation but it made sense to me given that the feminine is the receptive in the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Followup to Share's post about eating insects

2014-01-24 Thread Share Long
You bad but LOL anyway! On Friday, January 24, 2014 6:04 AM, TurquoiseB turquoi...@yahoo.com wrote:   --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote: turq, not to get too jargony but eating insects, especially by humans, is called entomophagy. Not sure what flying insects is

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Followup to Share's post about eating insects

2014-01-24 Thread Share Long
PS I LOVE the word entomophagy and find myself strangely frustrated by the fact that I've not heard it spoken. I checked out the dictionary for the auditory clues as to pronunciation and found those mysteriously unhelpful. Ok, will now google and I just bet I can find someone saying it! PPS I

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Followup to Share's post about eating insects

2014-01-24 Thread Share Long
I LOVE Internet! http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/places/culture-places/food/us_insects/ On Friday, January 24, 2014 6:20 AM, Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com wrote:   PS I LOVE the word entomophagy and find myself strangely frustrated by the fact that I've not heard it spoken. I

[FairfieldLife] Tremendous article about the most inaccessible man on earth

2014-01-24 Thread TurquoiseB
http://www.esquire.com/features/who-is-this-bob-dylan-interview-0214?cli\ ck=promo http://www.esquire.com/features/who-is-this-bob-dylan-interview-0214?cl\ ick=promo Tremendous article from Esquire by Tom Junod about the *real* most interesting man on earth and why, after 50 years, two

[FairfieldLife] This is the fellow who contested the will of Guru Dev

2014-01-24 Thread nablusoss1008
Long championed by the Maharishi-denouncers in the West to be entitled to not only 1 but 2 Shankaracharya seats ! As the Americans say: Go figure ! :-) http://ibnlive.in.com/news/senior-priest-slaps-journalist-on-being-asked-about-narendra-modi/447283-37-64.html

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Religion that doesn't take itself deadly seriously

2014-01-24 Thread doctordumbass
Also, and more importantly, I believe that a woman takes on a man's karma when they have intercourse. Sounds like pure 24 karat bullshit, to me, derived from sexual repression, and a desire to escape the mundane existence of a dull nervous system. No offense.:-) Before Awakening,

[FairfieldLife] RE: This is the fellow who contested the will of Guru Dev

2014-01-24 Thread doctordumbass
After watching the video, perhaps the monkey was hungry for a banana, and thought the reporter's microphone was edible. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: Long championed by the Maharishi-denouncers in the West to be entitled to not only 1 but 2

Re: [FairfieldLife] Movie review: Saving Mr. Banks

2014-01-24 Thread Share Long
yeah, noozguru, I think that post of yours went in deep. I actually did not enjoy Saving Mr. Banks though I love Emma Thompson and I thoroughly enjoyed the character of her chauffeur. Spoiler alert: I think Ginty's Dad was embodied in two of Travers' fictional characters: Mr. Banks, of

[FairfieldLife] RE: Jargon As A Second Language: how it impedes spiritual communication

2014-01-24 Thread steve.sundur
Nice little rap. It is something I notice on the Batgap chat site. There are some correspondents (as Richard would say), who really nail that jargon. I have to say it always sounds good, but I ask myself, could it not be said more simply? There is basically no state of consciousness or

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Death Watch

2014-01-24 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 1/23/2014 7:02 PM, Michael Jackson wrote: at least the cousins that are still alive You didn't eat the cousins yet? Go figure.

Re: [FairfieldLife] We warmly invite you to join us for a weekend

2014-01-24 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 1/23/2014 7:21 PM, Michael Jackson wrote: I was speaking somewhat in jest So, you told a fib - do you know what happens to people who post lies and fabrications on this forum? LoL!

Re: [FairfieldLife] We warmly invite you to join us for a weekend

2014-01-24 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 1/23/2014 7:22 PM, Michael Jackson wrote: and I am willing to bet some of those talks were recorded on audio if not video How much would you be willing to wager? Has anyone ever heard a recording of MMY praising Hitler or Mussolini?

[FairfieldLife] Re: Jargon As A Second Language: how it impedes spiritual communication

2014-01-24 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: Nice little rap. It is something I notice on the Batgap chat site. There are some correspondents (as Richard would say), who really nail that jargon. I have to say it always sounds good, but I ask myself, could it not be said more simply? There

[FairfieldLife] Re: Death Watch

2014-01-24 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams wrote: On 1/23/2014 7:02 PM, Michael Jackson wrote: at least the cousins that are still alive You didn't eat the cousins yet? Go figure. OK, now that's funny. :-)

[FairfieldLife] Re: Death Watch

2014-01-24 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams wrote: On 1/23/2014 7:02 PM, Michael Jackson wrote: at least the cousins that are still alive You didn't eat the cousins yet? Go figure. OK, now that's funny. :-)

[FairfieldLife] Re: Movie review: Saving Mr. Banks

2014-01-24 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote: yeah, noozguru, I think that post of yours went in deep. I actually did not enjoy Saving Mr. Banks though I love Emma Thompson and I thoroughly enjoyed the character of her chauffeur. Harlan's rant did not sink in deep for me, and thus

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Death Watch

2014-01-24 Thread Michael Jackson
Thanks Barry - that is high praise coming from a writer like you. I have a ton of great and true stories from my mother's side of the family, but if I ever tried to get them published, I'd have to move to the moon - we have lots of cousins still living that would be highly offended if I told

[FairfieldLife] The Quaker Meditators in Fairfield, Iowa

2014-01-24 Thread dhamiltony2k5
The group meditations in Fairfield, Iowa were long, large and twice daily then. As the transcendental meditators generally arrived in Fairfield, Iowa during the mid and late 1970's and throughout the 1980's the Fairfield group meditations then were large and inclusive of the whole TM

Re: [FairfieldLife] The Quaker Meditators in Fairfield, Iowa

2014-01-24 Thread wleed3
well stated Buck thanks 4 deleting the offensive one from Ur reply post very up beat positive In a message dated 01/24/14 09:55:07 Eastern Standard Time, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com writes: The group meditations in Fairfield, Iowa were long, large and twice daily then. As the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Movie review: Saving Mr. Banks

2014-01-24 Thread Share Long
turq, I especially like your point about critiquing any story by its own internal beauty rather than its adherence to facts which are well nigh impossible to ascertain, especially from the dim past. Spoiler alert: Anyway, I thought the movie was going to focus on a writer attempting to

[FairfieldLife] RE: Pope: Cultivating Consciousness is NOT the same thing as Morality.

2014-01-24 Thread dhamiltony2k5
Acquiring virtue. Did you know that hard-boiling eggs in water with some salt sprinkled in the boiling water helps make shucking the egg shells off easier? When did you acquire that particular lesson in life? From whom? You were born with that knowledge? When have you learned otherwise about

[FairfieldLife] Where Do the gods Exist?

2014-01-24 Thread jr_esq
They exist in our consciousness. That's why people see these subtle beings while in altered states of consciousness induced by drugs or while in the dream state of consciousness and in samadhi. IMO, this phenomenon cannot be ignored as a scientific fact nor be dismissed as a fantasy. As

[FairfieldLife] Re: Great Rock Hits of the Past

2014-01-24 Thread Richard Williams
Robert Palmer [image: Inline image 1] Robert Palmer - Addicted To Love http://youtu.be/XcATvu5f9vE Motive 8 - Rare Steve Rodway remix 1997 http://youtu.be/tWIj8YLeUGk Simply Irresistible http://youtu.be/UrGw_cOgwa8 Letterman Live http://youtu.be/VvZcJ04k9Sw Bad Case Of Loving You - Live in

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Ah, Mother India

2014-01-24 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 1/23/2014 7:38 PM, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com wrote: Not everyone in India is a gang rapist. Bawwy is a simple guy and doesn't do well with complexity. Plus, he loves to make the world a worse place to be. He lives for it, stir up the poop and encourage others to be at each other's throats.

[FairfieldLife] RE: Jargon As A Second Language: how it impedes spiritual communication

2014-01-24 Thread doctordumbass
...something I notice on the Batgap chat siteI have to say it always sounds good, but I ask myself, could it not be said more simply? There is basically no state of consciousness or experience they haven't had Hey Steve - Maharishi was speaking from his own experience when he

[FairfieldLife] Netflix is planning a substantial European expansion

2014-01-24 Thread merudanda
After establishing an EU footprint in the U.K. and Ireland, the Nordic territories and, most recently, the Netherlands, 2014 Netflix truly goes big in Europe with Germany and France added to the U.K.group, will have a presence in Europe's three largest TV territories They plan to take costs

Re: [FairfieldLife] We warmly invite you to join us for a weekend

2014-01-24 Thread anartaxius
If Michael J has pointed out things M really said, this does not reflect on you Buck as a love of truth. Maharishi did really seem to have a totalitarian mindset, a top down, there is a king, under whom there are subjects, subject to the will of the king. If M praised Hitler and you would

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Advaita is about inherent freedom

2014-01-24 Thread Richard Williams
emptybill: As usual, you are really only interested in spouting off what you have read. However, what you have read is not deep and comprehensive and it shows in your amateurish identifications of the influences between separate traditions. Get back to us when you get some time for reading

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Advaita is about inherent freedom

2014-01-24 Thread Richard Williams
Kashmiri Trika is not and never has been influenced by Shankara's Kevela Advaita. Kashmere Trika was incorporated into the Madukya Upanishad, Gaudapada and Shankara. In fact, many of the terms used in Kashmere Shaivism mean the very same thing as in the Gaudapada's karika and in Mandukya

[FairfieldLife] Robert Palmer and his Women

2014-01-24 Thread jr_esq
Bhairitu, This is the band that reminded me of the video that you made on YouTube. Robert Palmer was dressed in a black suit and so were the women in his band. http://music.yahoo.com/video/robert-palmer-girls-today-003611538.html

Re: [FairfieldLife] We warmly invite you to join us for a weekend

2014-01-24 Thread Michael Jackson
From some posts I copied from FFL: A Swiss friend told me that several years ago she was on a course in Austria, and Satayand also characterized Hitler as a great leader. In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@s... wrote: This is from a Jewish friend who was full-time in the TMO for

[FairfieldLife] China Warns Foreign Planes

2014-01-24 Thread jr_esq
China has been belligerent lately with its neighboring countries, especially with its self-declared boundaries both in the air and at sea. This national attitude is understandable when one analyzes the national natal chart of China. Specifically, the country has a debilitated Mars in the

Re: [FairfieldLife] We warmly invite you to join us for a weekend

2014-01-24 Thread Bhairitu
Yes, I recall the audio and/or videos where Maharishi said this back in the 1970s plus one of those thick gold fringed books had the statement too. Of course there have been lots of tyrants who have unified countries and often at the point of a gun they hand to bullies in uniform. There's a

[FairfieldLife] Una Noche

2014-01-24 Thread Bhairitu
I've written about movies made in Cuba and here is a recently made one about some teenagers who try to flee the country via raft to Miami. Just for seeing what life is like in Cuba and not necessarily entirely because of the communist government but probably more due to stinky old rich

Re: [FairfieldLife] We warmly invite you to join us for a weekend

2014-01-24 Thread nablusoss1008
Do notice that all this gossip is from people who have left the Movement and might hold several grunges towards it. That Rick Archer post negativity here from anonymous friends is nothing new and will happen again.

[FairfieldLife] Now you too can be a guru

2014-01-24 Thread Bhairitu
You too can be a guru with the new web domain extension .guru. http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-new-internet-addresses-20140124,0,1802905.story Better grab one now, Willy. :-D

Re: [FairfieldLife] Where Do the gods Exist?

2014-01-24 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 1/24/2014 9:54 AM, jr_...@yahoo.com wrote: Where Do the gods Exist? How many gods are there Yajnavalkya? He answered,...As many as are mentioned in the Hymn to All the Gods, namely, three hundred and three, and three thousand and three.. Yes, but just how many gods are there,

[FairfieldLife] RE: We warmly invite you to join us for a weekend

2014-01-24 Thread nablusoss1008
They get an invitation from the Grand Master of Fabrications Himself to do an interview at Batgap ?

[FairfieldLife] Re: Classical Masterpieces

2014-01-24 Thread Richard Williams
We enjoyed the San Antonio Symphony's performance of Dvorak Seventh Symphony at the restored old Majestic Theater theater downtown. Featuring Nancy Zhou as soloist on Dvorak's Violin Concerto, under the direction of Music Director Sebastian Lang-Lessing. [image: Inline image 1] Symphony No. 7 in

Re: [FairfieldLife] China Warns Foreign Planes

2014-01-24 Thread Bhairitu
What China chart are you using? With the disruption of the global economy and climate one doesn't really need a horoscope to see things are falling apart. The real problem was the failure to accommodate a global population of 7 billion plus and the stinginess of a small number of stinky old

Re: [FairfieldLife] We warmly invite you to join us for a weekend

2014-01-24 Thread Bhairitu
Sorry Nabby, but irregardless of how folks feel about TM, many DO recall MMY saying the stuff about Hitler. Like I said, I feel it is mainly due to cultural differences. There are folks in India back in the 30's and 40s who thought that Nazism was a good thing and wrote about it. On

Re: [FairfieldLife] Where Do the gods Exist?

2014-01-24 Thread Bhairitu
Like I said recently they are a *metaphor* as many an Indian intellectual will tell you. Remember that Maharishi liked to boil it down to the *absolute and relative*. That's known as the impersonal school. Some of us grabbed the free ISKCON books (that George Harrison paid for) and had fun

[FairfieldLife] RE: Now you too can be a guru

2014-01-24 Thread doctordumbass
Holy Shit! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote: You too can be a guru with the new web domain extension .guru. http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-new-internet-addresses-20140124,0,1802905.story

[FairfieldLife] RE: Now you too can be a guru

2014-01-24 Thread authfriend
That's one of the new ones, .holyshit. Holy Shit! You too can be a guru with the new web domain extension .guru. http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-new-internet-addresses-20140124,0,1802905.story http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-new-internet-addresses-20140124,0,1802905.story

Re: [FairfieldLife] We warmly invite you to join us for a weekend

2014-01-24 Thread Michael Jackson
Don't they have the idea of Truth shall set you free in Germany??? On Fri, 1/24/14, nablusoss1008 no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] We warmly invite you to join us for a weekend To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date:

[FairfieldLife] Messy fingers

2014-01-24 Thread Bhairitu
A few years back I used to refill the ink cartridge for an HP 3500 which I had bought at Target for a mere $30. The cartridges themselves cost $32. It's the old razor/razor blade scam which unfortunately exists with most printers today. A couple years ago I got tired of the ink supposedly

Re: [FairfieldLife] We warmly invite you to join us for a weekend

2014-01-24 Thread Michael Jackson
It has been said by some who knew Marshy that he was an ardent Hindu - the fact that much of Nazi philosophy was based on Hindu principles may have made M warm towards Adolph. There are a good many things available on the Hindu underpinnings of the Nazi state. Here are a couple of excerpts

[FairfieldLife] RE: We warmly invite you to join us for a weekend

2014-01-24 Thread cardemaister
FWIW, who / what the f*uck protected Hitler: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_attempts_on_Adolf_Hitler http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_attempts_on_Adolf_Hitler

Re: [FairfieldLife] China Warns Foreign Planes

2014-01-24 Thread jr_esq
Bhairitu, I researched the inauguration date of Red China's nationhood, which is October 1, 1949; 15:01 hrs; Beijing, China. This would make the lagna in Capricorn. Mars is debilitated in Cancer, and Venus is swakshetra in Libra.

Re: [FairfieldLife] We warmly invite you to join us for a weekend

2014-01-24 Thread nablusoss1008
You're sorry ? Right, you claimed it was Satyanand and NOT Maharishi that made that comment. You should be sorry

[FairfieldLife] Documentary Film on Science Spirituality

2014-01-24 Thread fhuguenard
Dear ones, Please enjoy my latest thought provoking documentary film on Science Spirituality: http://www.cultureunplugged. com/documentary/watch-online/ play/50597/Beyond-Reason http://www.cultureunplugged.com/documentary/watch-online/play/50597/Beyond-Reason My films are

Re: [FairfieldLife] China Warns Foreign Planes

2014-01-24 Thread Bhairitu
Thanks! On 01/24/2014 01:27 PM, jr_...@yahoo.com wrote: Bhairitu, I researched the inauguration date of Red China's nationhood, which is October 1, 1949; 15:01 hrs; Beijing, China. This would make the lagna in Capricorn. Mars is debilitated in Cancer, and Venus is swakshetra in Libra.

Re: [FairfieldLife] We warmly invite you to join us for a weekend

2014-01-24 Thread Bhairitu
Nope, never said it was Satyanand. You have me confused with someone else. On 01/24/2014 01:33 PM, nablusoss1008 wrote: You're sorry ? Right, you claimed it was Satyanand and NOT Maharishi that made that comment. You should be sorry

[FairfieldLife] RE: We warmly invite you to join us for a weekend

2014-01-24 Thread nablusoss1008
Correct, but you did write: many DO recall MMY saying the stuff about Hitler. Without a reference to whom that many might be. That's slander. To your credit you don't post from a friend who wish to be anonymous like a certain Rick Archer does.

Re: [FairfieldLife] We warmly invite you to join us for a weekend

2014-01-24 Thread nablusoss1008
Correct, but you did write: many DO recall MMY saying the stuff about Hitler. Without a reference to whom that many might be. That's slander. To your credit you don't post from a friend who wish to be anonymous like a certain Rick Archer does, FFL's Grand Master of Deception.

Re: [FairfieldLife] We warmly invite you to join us for a weekend

2014-01-24 Thread nablusoss1008
Correct, but you did write: many DO recall MMY saying the stuff about Hitler. Without a reference to whom that many might be or what the stuff is all about. That's slander. To your credit you don't post from a friend who wish to be anonymous like a certain Rick Archer does, FFL's Grand Master

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Great Country Classics

2014-01-24 Thread Richard Williams
Garth Brooks [image: Inline image 1] Two Of A Kind Working On A Full House http://youtu.be/xIaUxNuO0dY Garth Brooks integrated rock elements into his recordings to produce progressive country music. He is the best-selling recording artist in the United States since 1991 ahead of the Beatles,

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Great Country Classics

2014-01-24 Thread Richard Williams
[image: Inline image 1] Two Of A Kind Working On A Full House - Trey Laymon cover http://youtu.be/eX0JcMWgENg On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 5:45 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.comwrote: Garth Brooks [image: Inline image 1] Two Of A Kind Working On A Full House

[FairfieldLife] Post Count Sat 25-Jan-14 00:15:03 UTC

2014-01-24 Thread FFL PostCount
Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): 01/18/14 00:00:00 End Date (UTC): 01/25/14 00:00:00 596 messages as of (UTC) 01/24/14 23:54:42 58 Share Long 56 authfriend 51 TurquoiseB 51 Richard Williams 50 dhamiltony2k5 45 Bhairitu 43 nablusoss1008 43

[FairfieldLife] Re: Popular Music Greats

2014-01-24 Thread Richard Williams
Joe South [image: Inline image 3] Rose Garden http://youtu.be/klHkXsalMDE Games People Play http://youtu.be/MAGyENr3_44 [image: Inline image 1] Joe South (February 28, 1940 - September 5, 2012) was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. Best known for his songwriting, South won the

[FairfieldLife] RE: Documentary Film on Science Spirituality

2014-01-24 Thread dhamiltony2k5
What a fabulous video. Yes, so science as a process gives us what we know and taking what know we then make policy as to what we should do. Therefore science tells us what we should do, like meditate. Science in process then Crafts rational laws that apply in systems and control the universe we

[FairfieldLife] Cowboy Breakfast

2014-01-24 Thread Richard Williams
The largest cowboy breakfast on the planet! [image: Inline image 1] Photo By Billy Calzada/San Antonio Express-News Volunteers cook up breakfast Friday January 24, 2014 at the annual Cowboy Breakfast at the parking lot of Cowboys Dancehall. The event unofficially kicks off the San Antonio Stock

[FairfieldLife] Why Mars Rover Has Lasted

2014-01-24 Thread jr_esq
Probably this shows that it's possible for humans to live there with some ingenuity. Perhaps plant foods can be grown over there under a temperature-controlled dome for protection against the severe cold. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/most-well-made-american-vehicle-185918089.html

Re: [FairfieldLife] We warmly invite you to join us for a weekend

2014-01-24 Thread Bhairitu
Don't quit your day job to be a lawyer. What is your day job anyway? TM Fanatic? :-D On 01/24/2014 03:38 PM, nablusoss1008 wrote: Correct, but you did write: many DO recall MMY saying the stuff about Hitler. Without a reference to whom that many might be or what the stuff is all about.

[FairfieldLife] RE: Cowboy Breakfast

2014-01-24 Thread jr_esq
Many years ago we were in El Paso, TX for business. Just outside of town, there was a restaurant ranch that offered hearty meals. To this day, I have not eaten a steak dinner as huge as the one cooked in that place. We also went across the Rio Grande to visit Juarez, before it became a war

Re: [FairfieldLife] Where Do the gods Exist?

2014-01-24 Thread jr_esq
Richard, It's possible that everything that we see and not see here in this universe is only a dream by the Knower.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Where Do the gods Exist?

2014-01-24 Thread jr_esq
Bhairitu, There's an Indian guru by the name of Dr. Pillai who calls these gods, including those recognized in Egypt, as archetypes. Whatever they may be, some humans were able to perceive them in one way or another. And, apparently the humans who saw them perceived them to have some

Re: [FairfieldLife] Where Do the gods Exist?

2014-01-24 Thread Michael Jackson
I know some people who have done ayuhuasca, they say it is quite a demanding experience. On Sat, 1/25/14, jr_...@yahoo.com jr_...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Where Do the gods Exist? To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: MMY and Siddha Tradtions

2014-01-24 Thread Richard Williams
MMY - Yogi and Seer: So, you think that the Adi Shankaracharya of Sringeri not only initiated disciples into Sri Vidya practices, but said: Worship of Sri Chakra is a must for the Swamis of the peetha. And, as noted, not by householders, but by Swamis? Sri Vidya practice consists of tantric yoga

[FairfieldLife] RE: Ah, Mother India

2014-01-24 Thread s3raphita
Re The TurquoiseB is a downer, fer sure!: Yet turquoise is a beautiful colour and stone. This is what I read from a Google search: Perhaps the oldest stone in man’s history, the talisman of kings, shamans, and warriors. It is a stone of protection, strong and opaque, yet soothing to the

[FairfieldLife] RE: Jargon As A Second Language: how it impedes spiritual communication

2014-01-24 Thread steve.sundur
Good points Jim. And I think that perhaps I need to be a little more open minded because for me, I can't understand why anyone would really even want to talk about those experiences. I feel that I have some nice experiences too, but it's not really anything I'd want to share, ala Judy's point.

[FairfieldLife] RE: Advaita is about inherent freedom

2014-01-24 Thread emptybill
Apparently you can't understand what you read. Gaudapada in Mandukya Karika, 4.99; “naitad buddhena bhasitam” (this was not expressed by Buddha). Shankara comments: The nature of the supreme reality is free from the differences of knowledge, known and knower, and is without a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Jargon As A Second Language: how it impedes spiritual communication

2014-01-24 Thread steve.sundur
Well, I say this for Michael's benefit mostly, and I've mentioned this before. I read the transcripts of two interviews with Fred Lenz, aka Rama, and I was most impressed with them. And that's a capital M. I believe the second interview was sometime into the whole affair, and my perception

[FairfieldLife] RE: Great Rock Hits of the Past

2014-01-24 Thread s3raphita
Don't know who to thank more: Robert Palmer for his effortlessly stylish persona or Terence Donovan for his brilliant direction of the iconic video. R.I.P. to both of them. And the models played their parts to perfection also. Addicted to Love gets a thumbs up from me.

[FairfieldLife] Fighting for a Failed War

2014-01-24 Thread jr_esq
It appears that Karzai has secretly made a deal with the Taliban to kick the Americans out of Afghanistan. By doing so, he gets to live in peace in his country or continue as president while the Taliban takes a de facto rule of certain regions of Afghanistan. It's unfortunate that the

[FairfieldLife] RE: Where Do the gods Exist?

2014-01-24 Thread s3raphita
Re I know some people who have done ayuhuasca, they say it is quite a demanding experience.: Any drug that makes its partakers vomit (eg, heroin and ayahuasca) I assume is our body's way of telling us this isn't a good idea. I did try DMT a few times (an ingredient in ayahuasca) which gives

Re: [FairfieldLife] Where Do the gods Exist?

2014-01-24 Thread jr_esq
MJ, From what I've seen on the video documentaries, the ayuhuasca users get sick to their stomach during the trip. But they do see or experience strange visions.

[FairfieldLife] RE: Fighting for a Failed War

2014-01-24 Thread s3raphita
What a shit-hole Afghanistan has become. It used to be a hippie haven a long, long time ago. Check out these pictures of women in Afghanistan pre-Taliban . . . http://dangerousminds.net/comments/it_didnt_always_suck_to_be_a_woman_in_afghanistan

[FairfieldLife] RE: Jargon As A Second Language: how it impedes spiritual communication

2014-01-24 Thread doctordumbass
Hey Steve - yeah, I am grateful that I am able to find people, from time to time, with whom I can discuss my experiences. I don't do it simply to hear different perspectives, or flavors, but, rather as a quicker way to learn about something, and make progress. Simply that it is another person,

[FairfieldLife] RE: Where Do the gods Exist?

2014-01-24 Thread jr_esq
S3, Since you took DMT, what did you personally experience? How did you feel? Did you see any visions?

[FairfieldLife] RE: Jargon As A Second Language: how it impedes spiritual communication

2014-01-24 Thread steve.sundur
Jim, thanks for your reply. I understand what you are saying. And I gotta say, it sounds like you've got a damn fine plan! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: Hey Steve - yeah, I am grateful that I am able to find people, from time to time, with whom I

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: David Lynch’s remed y for Mideas t peace: Transcendental Meditat ion

2014-01-24 Thread jr_esq
Michael, This is excellent writing. You should write a book about your youth while growing up in the South. Who knows, it could be a best seller.

Re: [FairfieldLife] We warmly invite you to join us for a weekend

2014-01-24 Thread dhamiltony2k5
Anartaxius; Lack of stability, not necessarily. You are making that up and projecting it. As a meditating Iowa livestock man I got my spiritual feet on the ground in life proly more than most meditators around here. Context is everything when people quote like MJ is trying to do on

Re: [FairfieldLife] We warmly invite you to join us for a weekend

2014-01-24 Thread Richard Williams
So, are there any black and white videos on YouTube that show MMY praising Hitler or Mussolini? On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 8:39 PM, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com wrote: Anartaxius; Lack of stability, not necessarily. You are making that up and projecting it. As a meditating Iowa livestock man I

Re: [FairfieldLife] Jargon As A Second Language: how it impedes spiritual communication

2014-01-24 Thread Richard Williams
* the overuse of spiritual jargon.* ** Speaking of jargon, what is spiritual? From what I've read, spiritual means believing in spirit beings. Just explain it without the jargon. Thanks. On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 3:45 AM, TurquoiseB turquoi...@yahoo.com wrote:

[FairfieldLife] RE: Fighting for a Failed War

2014-01-24 Thread jr_esq
S3, It goes to show how the Taliban destroyed the country in the guise of religion. They became the breeding ground for Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: MMY and Siddha Tradtions

2014-01-24 Thread dhamiltony2k5
RW, Good descriptive paragraph. That is my experience. Thanks for the put to words and posting it here, -Buck RW writes, According to Brooks, The srividya, because it consists of indestructible seed syllables (bijaksara) rather than words, transcends such mundane considerations as semantic

Re: [FairfieldLife] Where Do the gods Exist?

2014-01-24 Thread Richard Williams
It is possible that everything we see and not see in this universe is only a dream, but it is also possible that a dream is real while it lasts. There isn't anything we do in the waking state that we cannot do in the dream state. In dreams we can run and jump; tables are tables; and we can consult