[FairfieldLife] Is AI Possible?

Stephen Hawking thinks so, but adds a warning. http://blogs.marketwatch.com/themargin/2014/05/04/stephen-hawking-warns-of-our-best-and-maybe-last-creation/ http://blogs.marketwatch.com/themargin/2014/05/04/stephen-hawking-warns-of-our-best-and-maybe-last-creation/

Re: [FairfieldLife] Great oppurtunity for rethinking

Son that is a fool's proposition you are offering. It is not even worth taking the time to discuss with you. Your observations may be right but your thinking is wrong. You clearly are letting yourself be bound by some past thought forms lodge in your system and holding that as hostage against

Re: [FairfieldLife] the great founder hero

On 5/4/2014 10:03 PM, sri...@ymail.com wrote: of modern India and the Congress Party http://ofmi.org/gandhis-sexual-abuse-of-grandnieces/ > In the words of Ned Wynn, "He's the classic backward Dravidian reactionary, sexually repressed, greedy, hypocritical, and a bald-faced liar." https:/

Re: [FairfieldLife] Wise President Putin

On 5/4/2014 10:09 PM, Bhairitu wrote: > You used to berate people who quoted the New York Times. > Only if they were subscribers and paid for it. When we go to Starbucks it's either The New York Times or The Wall Street Journal. We like to see what the liberals and conservatives are saying, so

[FairfieldLife] NBA Playoffs [1 Attachment]

SAN ANTONIO --- Faced with the possibility of having a second straight season end with a Game 7 loss, the San Antonio Spurs played with emotion and let Tony Parker have some fun. http://www.newsobserver.com/parker-leads-spurs-past-mavs/

Re: [FairfieldLife] Wise President Putin

You used to berate people who quoted the New York Times. Go figure... On 05/04/2014 08:03 PM, Richard J. Williams wrote: On 5/4/2014 1:47 PM, Bhairitu wrote: Who told you that Syrian government is bombing schools and killing children? > BEIRUT, Lebanon — Organizers had worked until dawn hang

Re: [FairfieldLife] Wise President Putin

On 5/4/2014 1:47 PM, Bhairitu wrote: Who told you that Syrian government is bombing schools and killing children? > BEIRUT, Lebanon — Organizers had worked until dawn hanging children’s artwork on the wall of an elementary school in Syria’s largest city: a bright green tank under a round yello

[FairfieldLife] the great founder hero

of modern India and the Congress Party http://ofmi.org/gandhis-sexual-abuse-of-grandnieces/ http://ofmi.org/gandhis-sexual-abuse-of-grandnieces/

Re: [FairfieldLife] Wise President Putin

On 5/4/2014 1:47 PM, Bhairitu wrote: The food you eat and water you drink has glyphosates... > Addressing the important issues! --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com

Re: [FairfieldLife] Gotta Love It

On 5/4/2014 2:37 PM, Michael Jackson wrote: > Why I rejected religion and instead raised my son on Star Wars > This is funny - Stars Wars is based on a belief in "The Force." Go figure. --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avas

[FairfieldLife] Re: Great oppurtunity for rethinking

to be more accurate, it is only the Brahmin pundits outside of India whose program is changing, they are going to get more knowledge of Maharishi's connections between modern science and Vedic science rather just a traditional Hindu perspective. I have no influence to change any policy myself Im

[FairfieldLife] Re: One for those few who can admit to having been Deadheads...

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : And Barry, of course, is Oh-So-Superior to us poor benighted less-than-human losers who missed it. No "hierarchy" there, nope nope nope. He must be superior - he can walk through Amsterdam and visit multi-dimensional reality after reality

[FairfieldLife] Post Count Mon 05-May-14 00:15:06 UTC

Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): 05/03/14 00:00:00 End Date (UTC): 05/10/14 00:00:00 208 messages as of (UTC) 05/04/14 23:56:37 43 Richard J. Williams 22 steve.sundur 22 Michael Jackson 22 LEnglish5 13 dhamiltony2k5 13 curtisdeltablues 13 awoelfleb

RE: [FairfieldLife] Note to Rick Conderning his interview with Sam Harris

Jesus Christ, Rick, are you going to propose marriage to the guy, or just interview him! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : I’m going to read all of his books before even inviting him, and take notes as I go along, which I’ll share and discuss with you. Then I’ll carefully compose

RE: [FairfieldLife] Note to Rick Conderning his interview with Sam Harris

One more thing Rick. The fact that you are reading his books already places you in an elite category of people he interacts with. So much of his time when he debates people is hacking through the forest of people who have not read what he has written, quoting people who have misconstrued what

RE: [FairfieldLife] Note to Rick Conderning his interview with Sam Harris

Hey Rick, Great plan. His books aren't too long I think you will motor through them pretty quickly. His first was his longest I think. I have no doubt you will do more than justice to him but will have POV he will enjoy interacting with. It will be important to have read the book that is comin

RE: [FairfieldLife] Note to Rick Conderning his interview with Sam Harris

I’m going to read all of his books before even inviting him, and take notes as I go along, which I’ll share and discuss with you. Then I’ll carefully compose an invitation letter, which I’ll bounce off you also. So it may even be a year before the interview happens, if he agrees to one. But I wo

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ending the Use of Dirty Fuels, Years of Living Dangerously...global warming

Maharishi: It can be. Vernon: But in this age where there is so much stress and tension? Maharishi: For one thing, there could be a national policy to have an hour's silence morning and evening. An hour of silence. All the busses, all the trains, everything stops. No movement. Aeroplanes don't

[FairfieldLife] Re: Gotta Love It

Yep, I agree it is really a wonderful secular theology of the Unified Field. Was a consequent part of the rising of the Dawn of the Age of Enlightenment. And Star Wars theology also turned the baby-boom generation itself who also watched StarWars along with their kids into the measurable "s

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: To Curtis - Sam Harris

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : I still think you're painting with too broad a brush when you use the term "society." Some elements of society take the position you describe, but others do not. C: Seems like a reasonable objec

[FairfieldLife] Karen Tate: New Interview on Buddha at the Gas Pump - 05/03/2014

blog updates from Buddha at the Gas Pump If you are not doing so already, please consider donating a minimum of $1 or $2 per month to help offset basic monthly expenses associated with hosting, MailChimp, etc. Of

[FairfieldLife] Re: One for those few who can admit to having been Deadheads...

And Barry, of course, is Oh-So-Superior to us poor benighted less-than-human losers who missed it. No "hierarchy" there, nope nope nope. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : ...or human. These are a few moments of one of the "unsung heroes" of the Grateful Dead finally bei

[FairfieldLife] One for those few who can admit to having been Deadheads...

...or human. These are a few moments of one of the "unsung heroes" of the Grateful Dead finally being recognized for what he brought to their mystique. If you weren't ever there, don't even bother to read further...you won't get it, because you missed it entirely. For those of you who were, hop

[FairfieldLife] Gotta Love It

Why I rejected religion and instead raised my son on Star Wars by Vishen Lakhiani May 4, 2014 I raised my son without religion. It was by design. I was raised a Hindu and my wife was raised Orthodox and Lutheran. But both of us slowly outgrew religion as we got older and instead adopted

Re: [FairfieldLife] Wise President Putin

On 05/04/2014 10:41 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote: On 5/4/2014 11:44 AM, Bhairitu wrote: Syria isn't bombing you, Richard, but Monsanto *is. *So check your math. > Syria bombing schools and killing children is more important to me that Monsanto selling GMOs in Russia. That's what I figure.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Great oppurtunity for rethinking

Om; this memo, did it come from anybody who could actually affect change in the policy or is this more just “talking” around “the problem”? Just wondering who this came from, -Buck in the Dome sri...@ymail.com posts: "Now that the introduction of Maharishi brahminism is getting a though

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Uncle Tantra Tour Of Amsterdam

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Yesterday was really fun. I got to be the "tour guide" on a person's first walking tour of Amsterdam. I have a certain affinity for that city, having first gone there to teach meditation for free during the Rama days, and having had a great ti

Re: [FairfieldLife] Wise President Putin

On 5/4/2014 11:44 AM, Bhairitu wrote: Syria isn't bombing you, Richard, but Monsanto *is. *So check your math. > Syria bombing schools and killing children is more important to me that Monsanto selling GMOs in Russia. That's what I figure. * *On 05/04/2014 09:43 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Wise President Putin

The "Jewish registration" story turns out to have been what amounts to a hoax, Michael. A flyer with the announcement that Jews must register was distributed in one town in the Ukraine by three masked gunmen, but nobody has been able to determine where it originated--certainly not from Putin. In

Re: [FairfieldLife] The Uncle Tantra Tour Of Amsterdam

On 5/4/2014 9:08 AM, TurquoiseBee wrote: Anyway, for those on this forum who seem to delight in thinking up weirdly perverse theories of "What Turq/Barry/Uncle Tantra does for fun," this is the reality. Probably tamer than what you imagined, n'est-ce pas? > So, you went for a walk in town. Nic

Re: [FairfieldLife] Wise President Putin

And guess what else Russia in the supposedly purusha yogic flyer inspired sattva is banning? Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has signed a decree banning foreign same-sex couples -- as well as single people from countries where same-sex marriages are legal -- from adopting Russian childre

Re: [FairfieldLife] Great oppurtunity for rethinking

C'mon Stevie! I can be a great asset to the TMO! So prove all this stuff to me and I will become one. As to being bitter you are projecting your own bitterness on me. I have long ago gotten over any I had towards lying blowhard marshy and his movement. Now I simply report the facts.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Wise President Putin

Syria isn't bombing you, Richard, but Monsanto *is. *So check your math. * *On 05/04/2014 09:43 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote: On 5/4/2014 11:11 AM, Bhairitu wrote: The US is unwise because companies like Monsanto have so many legislators in their pocket. They fool the people into believing t

Re: [FairfieldLife] Wise President Putin

On 5/4/2014 11:11 AM, Bhairitu wrote: The US is unwise because companies like Monsanto have so many legislators in their pocket. They fool the people into believing that food prices are going to skyrocket just because of a little labeling on a package of food. The evil is amongst us and it is

Re: [FairfieldLife] Wise President Putin

The US is unwise because companies like Monsanto have so many legislators in their pocket. They fool the people into believing that food prices are going to skyrocket just because of a little labeling on a package of food. The evil is amongst us and it is those who value profit over everythin

Re: [FairfieldLife] Wise President Putin

On 5/4/2014 9:18 AM, Michael Jackson wrote: > I'm sure the people in the Ukraine will be thrilled to know this as > they are coming under the thumb of the Russian dictator > Apparently the majority of people living in Eastern Ukraine and the Crimea are of Russian descent and speak Russian. You

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: To Curtis - Sam Harris

On 5/4/2014 10:25 AM, TurquoiseBee wrote: They actually don't *get* that they look down on atheists as much as they do, and that this fact pervades their speech/writing. > According to what I've read, Sam Harris is opposed to the use of the word atheist, because it is not very defined. The word

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: To Curtis - Sam Harris

Just a friendly comment from the peanut gallery. You may think you don't have a hair trigger in this regard, but you might be mistaken. You also might want to examine which issues push your buttons and see if your reactions to the posting about such issues are in proportion to what is a

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: To Curtis - Sam Harris

Comments below... Bingo. One of the things that I don't think a number of theists or quasi-theists or theists-in-denial-that-they're-theists Oh, you forgot to list the nontheists, like moi. don't "get" on this forum is that what they call atheists barging into an otherwise pleasant c

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Wise President Putin

hoo boy ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : If you a stupid enough or insane enough to believe that the banning of GMO's is proof of the ME when Putin is invading another country and requiring Jews to register as Jews then you need to go check into your local state mental hospital

Re: [FairfieldLife] Great oppurtunity for rethinking

On 5/4/2014 8:27 AM, steve.sun...@yahoo.com wrote: Proximity to Marshy and length of time spent both administering the Movement and doing TMSP breeds arrogance, elitism, uncaring attitudes about common people, greed and a general display of poor behavior. Or, it may be that you are extrapolati

Re: [FairfieldLife] Great oppurtunity for rethinking

Slow down, slow down! I don't really care what you do. Quit making such grand proclamations. I've an idea. At the risk of sounding like I'm preaching, why don't you work on number one a bit, and just see you have some pockets of bitterness you need to smooth out. n'est 'ce pas. (-; ---In

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: One last set of thoughts for Curtis

Richard, I wonder if the whole hierarchical thing happened because homeo sapiens stood up on two legs! Then the tendency to think of development as being ONLY a vertical process took over. I now tend to think of human development as a multi directional process, thinking of the brain as maybe ha

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: To Curtis - Sam Harris

From: "curtisdeltabl...@yahoo.com" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, May 4, 2014 4:47 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: To Curtis - Sam Harris   C: One of the problems I learned from our Feser discussions is that atheists don't care about obscure ontological arguments about

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: One last set of thoughts for Curtis

On 5/4/2014 6:22 AM, TurquoiseBee wrote: But by that very preferring, you raise the state of no hierarchy to the top of the heap of states! For *me*, Share. I didn't try to sell it to you. > It's kind of difficult to write computer code without using a hierarchy. Go figure. The first codin

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Wise President Putin

On 5/4/2014 9:21 AM, Michael Jackson wrote: > If you a stupid enough or insane enough to believe that the banning of > GMO's is proof of the ME > Non sequitur. It does not follow that banning GMO's is proof of the ME, or that not banning GMO's is stupid or insane. > when Putin is invading anoth

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: One last set of thoughts for Curtis

Curtis, for me there is already a sense that human choice is an illusion: in the sense that life force, or whatever one might call it, is driving everything, even our neural firings! Probably even that nano second I mentioned before, when a smoker decides to go for a walk rather than light a cig

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: American Buddhists celebrate "no self"

On 5/4/2014 12:05 AM, Michael Jackson wrote: > Eckhart Tolle does not practice meditation, in fact he claims that > meditation can be a hindrance to awakening. > The dictionary term "meditation" means simply "to think things over." Based on this definition, everyone who is awake and thinks about

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: One last set of thoughts for Curtis

Glad you had a great trip to the big A ! This is very interesting and I think you have put your finger on the most important issue that makes this topic fascinating to me. I hope there is this kind of choice point and am open to the idea that there might be techniques (perhaps meditation) that

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: To Curtis - Sam Harris

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : I still think you're painting with too broad a brush when you use the term "society." Some elements of society take the position you describe, but others do not. C: Seems like a reasonable objection. J: And the negative reaction to criticism

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: One last set of thoughts for Curtis

Jedi, but why are we here to understand? Is it not at least to survive? Survive so that we can develop fully which is what I think we're here to do. Whatever the heck that will mean!   All this discussion brings to my mind one of my favorite Maharishi ideas: save the psychology. Which I think

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: One last set of thoughts for Curtis

On 5/4/2014 1:39 AM, TurquoiseBee wrote: Possibly, possibly not. I have to admit that it was a really great day, and that getting to know this lady was the most fun I've had in a long time. You know that thing where two people just make each other laugh...that happened, so no complaints from my

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi Effect

On 5/4/2014 12:12 AM, Michael Jackson wrote: > The evidence that belies this crap the Movement... > Well, we know what MJ does on Saturday evenings. Go figure. --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi Effect

You get funnier by the minute! On Sun, 5/4/14, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi Effect To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Sunday, May 4, 2014, 2:08 PM  

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Wise President Putin

If you a stupid enough or insane enough to believe that the banning of GMO's is proof of the ME when Putin is invading another country and requiring Jews to register as Jews then you need to go check into your local state mental hospital. On Sun, 5/4/

Re: [FairfieldLife] Wise President Putin

I'm sure the people in the Ukraine will be thrilled to know this as they are coming under the thumb of the Russian dictator and the Jews especially who are now being required to register as a precursor to God knows what. Jai Guru Stupidity. On Sun, 5

Re: [FairfieldLife] Great oppurtunity for rethinking

I say this to you Steve and all my other critics here on FFL - If Marshy was enlightened, and if the TMO does much more good in the world than harm, I am willing to believe it, and I go on record that if those things can be proven to me then I will reverse every criticism I have ever leveled aga

[FairfieldLife] The Uncle Tantra Tour Of Amsterdam

Yesterday was really fun. I got to be the "tour guide" on a person's first walking tour of Amsterdam. I have a certain affinity for that city, having first gone there to teach meditation for free during the Rama days, and having had a great time doing it. I even wrote a few of the stories in Ro

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi Effect

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : You are so funny sometimes! I have to admit, I never thought of it before, but eating ice cream will have as much effect on world peace as doing TMSP in the Domes. So how do you account for the fact that Buck, Nabby, Sri, and a lot of the folks

[FairfieldLife] 10 Scientific Studies Proving GMOs Harmful To Human Health

http://www.collective-evolution.com/2014/04/08/10-scientific-studies-proving-gmos-can-be-harmful-to-human-health/ http://www.collective-evolution.com/2014/04/08/10-scientific-studies-proving-gmos-can-be-harmful-to-human-health/ RAJA John Fagan - central to the victory over GMOs - Thank you M

[FairfieldLife] TM in business - Brasil

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[FairfieldLife] Re: Wise President Putin

Just a little note: I feel like when when mentioning Shikantaza meditation, as when mentioning the Saint, "May Peace Be Upon Him", that Shikantaza should not have to stand alone. You understand of course. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Ok Michael, you wanted proof, there

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: One last set of thoughts for Curtis

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : To demean points of view he disagrees with is high on Barry's list of personal values. Er, I mean, preferences... Compulsions. Rhetorical question. No need to reply. I was just amused that neither you nor Share can conceive of h

[FairfieldLife] Re: Wise President Putin

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Ok Michael, you wanted proof, there you have it! The ME in spades. I did meditate twice this week, and I think that may have pushed us over the edge. And hey, I am not discounting, for a second, not for a second, the beneficial effect of Sh

[FairfieldLife] A Proven Security Strategy

http://ny.thedailydigest.org/2014/04/27/proven-security-strategy-end-crisis-middle-east/ http://ny.thedailydigest.org/2014/04/27/proven-security-strategy-end-crisis-middle-east/ Complete and total World Peace is not so far away due to the work of people like Bob Roth, David Leffler, GCWP P.M

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi Effect

You are so funny sometimes! I have to admit, I never thought of it before, but eating ice cream will have as much effect on world peace as doing TMSP in the Domes. So how do you account for the fact that Buck, Nabby, Sri, and a lot of the folks in the Domes believes the Marshy Effect is real? --

[FairfieldLife] Re: Wise President Putin

Ok Michael, you wanted proof, there you have it! The ME in spades. I did meditate twice this week, and I think that may have pushed us over the edge. And hey, I am not discounting, for a second, not for a second, the beneficial effect of Shikantaza meditation, which of course is a Japanese t

[FairfieldLife] Re: One last set of thoughts for Curtis

> > > > My guess is that having preferences or hierarchies is hard wired into > > > > us for survival value. > > > I disagree. I see nothing wrong with preference or believing in > > > hierarchies, but I definitely don't see them as the same thing. Despite > > > your attempt at what you

Re: [FairfieldLife] Great oppurtunity for rethinking

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Quite simply, if "Maharishi's knowledge" had been worth a shit to begin with, such policies and the attitudes they spring from could never have been born in the first place. Proximity to Marshy and length of time spent both administering the Mo

[FairfieldLife] Wise President Putin

It’s Official – Russia Completely Bans GMOs thank you President Putin and Prime Minister Medvedev. Jai Maharishi! Jai Raja Fagan! Jai Maharaja! Jai Guru Deva!

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: One last set of thoughts for Curtis

To demean points of view he disagrees with is high on Barry's list of personal values. Er, I mean, preferences... Rhetorical question. No need to reply. I was just amused that neither you nor Share can conceive of having a preference without the presence of some kind of hierarchy. I

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: One last set of thoughts for Curtis

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Rhetorical question. No need to reply. I was just amused that neither you nor Share can conceive of having a preference without the presence of some kind of hierarchy. I would suggest that this is pretty limited thinking. But if it makes you

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: One last set of thoughts for Curtis

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : My guess is that having preferences or hierarchies is hard wired into us for survival value. I disagree. I see nothing wrong with preference or believing in hierarchies, but I definitely don't

Re: [FairfieldLife] Great oppurtunity for rethinking

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Quite simply, if "Maharishi's knowledge" had been worth a shit to begin with, such policies and the attitudes they spring from could never have been born in the first place. Proximity to Marshy and length of time spent both administering the Mo

[FairfieldLife] America's disease of racism

http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Silence+broken+Americas+quiet+bigotry/9803645/story.html http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Silence+broken+Americas+quiet+bigotry/9803645/story.html

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi Effect

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : The evidence that belies this crap the Movement puts out are the actual wars that exist all over the globe, the murders and rapes that take place in the heart of the Movement in Fairfield, a purusha man committing suicide by setting himself on

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: One last set of thoughts for Curtis

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : My guess is that having preferences or hierarchies is hard wired into us for survival value. I disagree. I see nothing wrong with preference or believing in hierarchies, but I definitely don't see them as the same thing. Despite your attempt at

Re: [FairfieldLife] Great oppurtunity for rethinking

Quite simply, if "Maharishi's knowledge" had been worth a shit to begin with, such policies and the attitudes they spring from could never have been born in the first place. Proximity to Marshy and length of time spent both administering the Movement and doing TMSP breeds arrogance, elitism, unc

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: One last set of thoughts for Curtis

Comments below... Because the thing is, humans, at a fundamental level, cannot prefer or value more highly, what they even unconsciously hold as detrimental. Nonsense. People do this all the time, continue behaviors that they consciously *know* are detrimental to them. Their position within an

[FairfieldLife] Re: American Buddhists celebrate "no self"

Stanford research paper? Do you mean the recent AHRQ meta-analysis of the effects of meditation on anxiety? I responded in the comment section to the Scientific American blog entry about it: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-meditation-overrated/ http://www.scientificamerican.c

[FairfieldLife] Re: Great oppurtunity for rethinking

sorry I meant "opportunuity" and "Maharishi" brahminism

[FairfieldLife] Great oppurtunity for rethinking

Now that the introduction of Naharishi brahminism is getting an thoughtful "reboot" to make the participants more appreciative of Maharishi's knowledge, we have a great opportunity to rethink policies that reduce supperradiance by banning people from the domes for "competing" with the movement o

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi Effect

The Meissner Effect [ME] of consciousness coherence is a good descriptor for this phenomena too in nature. Is a remarkable discovery really and fabulous to be in the middle of a ME field effect where it occurs. One can feel quite sadly for these folks who so determinedly deny themselves in their

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: One last set of thoughts for Curtis

good points Share. what the Turq doesn't realize I think is that on some level, whether he wants to acknowledge it or not, is that his life is driven to gain more understanding, as is the same as most people. It is, as you say hard wired into us. And the funny thing is, that once you start

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Re-Facilitating a Future and the New TM Movement:

Let me reply on behalf of Michael. "Ha! Proves It!. Just what we all suspected! Marshy tricked us all. Told us our meditation was the most important activity for the movement. But no, it was the kitchen activity. No doubt this was just a ploy on the his part to make us pay more for kitche

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: One last set of thoughts for Curtis

turq, I think it's hardwired into all life forms to survive and procreate. And any conditioning or teaching that happens after birth, is derived from that particular species acquired *knowledge* regarding both. And yes, people do what's detrimental all the time. But I think this indicates the pr

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: One last set of thoughts for Curtis

From: Share Long To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" Sent: Sunday, May 4, 2014 1:13 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: One last set of thoughts for Curtis   turq, I think most humans have a hierarchy, if only in that they have preferred states. Your preferred state  is to view all condit

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: One last set of thoughts for Curtis

Curtis, just to add the ideas of a Buddhist, Tara Goleman-Bennett in whose book I first encountered the notion that the brain's neural pathways are like ruts in a dirt road. The more we go down a specific direction, the deeper that rut becomes so that we're even more likely to take that directio

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: One last set of thoughts for Curtis

turq, I think most humans have a hierarchy, if only in that they have preferred states. Your preferred state  is to view all conditions as equal in value. But by that very preferring, you raise the state of no hierarchy to the top of the heap of states! Because the thing is, humans, at a fundame

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: One last set of thoughts for Curtis

Great information, anartaxius. Wolfram's theories kinda mesh with mine, in that I don't see any *need* to postulate free will when both the complexity and the seeming order we see around us can just as easily be explained by random collisions within a somewhat-ordered but fundamentally random sy

[FairfieldLife] Re: American Buddhists celebrate "no self"

Speaking purely for myself, TM is different to other forms of meditation but the effects of the other types my be be more useful if you have the sort of health issues that TM claims (but fails) to address. And may be more useful anyway.. Mindfulness can be highly beneficial for anxiety and

[FairfieldLife] Word of God = = biija-mantra??

Heb. 4:12 12 For the word of God is living and operative, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and penetrating to the division of soul and spirit, both of joints and marrow, and a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. 12 For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: One last set of thoughts for Curtis

From: "curtisdeltabl...@yahoo.com" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, May 3, 2014 5:24 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: One last set of thoughts for Curtis   Barry, Your post is on point for a few reasons. One, I am crazy about proprioceptive exercises. My living room looks