Re: [FairfieldLife] Graphing the Illumined Batgap interviewees by types

2014-05-19 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: curtisdeltabl...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2014 11:54 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Graphing the Illumined Batgap interviewees by types ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote :

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: To Curtis, on witnessing

2014-05-19 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: curtisdeltabl...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, May 19, 2014 12:24 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: To Curtis, on witnessing ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote : Lawson, Curtis and

[FairfieldLife] Yoga for Endurance

2014-05-19 Thread jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Take life as it comes. Any other questions?

[FairfieldLife] Not Repsonsible

2014-05-19 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
There are many things that still surprise me about the things that long-term TM TBs believe and that I no longer believe, but I admit to having been somewhat taken aback yesterday at Lawson's seemingly unquestioning acceptance of what he was told about the nature of enlightenment. That is, that

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: To Curtis, on witnessing

2014-05-19 Thread nablusoss1008
Curtis is an amateur philosopher, we knew that already. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote : On 5/17/2014 8:29 AM, awoelflebater@... mailto:awoelflebater@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: Yes, I *do* agree with him in believing that Maharishi was WAY off in coming up with

[FairfieldLife] Another lost Maharishi teaching that was WRONG

2014-05-19 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Having picnicked peacefully with friends on a grassy lawn beside a canal yesterday and watched the folks participating in the Leiden Marathon run by, I found myself wondering what Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -- at least the one from Squaw Valley 1967 and for years afterwards, before any traces of a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Another lost Maharishi teaching that was WRONG

2014-05-19 Thread nablusoss1008
40 years after the Turq left the Movement he STILL obsess with Maharishi. And he keep trying to find new faults, this time how Maharishi protected the meditators from self-proclaimed enlightened coming to TM-centres lecturing about all kinds of nonsense and confusing the people. It seems

[FairfieldLife] Heretical Heresy

2014-05-19 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I have (so far) a low workload this week, so I'm going to take advantage of it in this cafebefore moving on to the next science article, and write a little rap extolling some of the benefits I see in the practice of meditation. Yeah, I know that such a stance might confound some who like to

Re: [FairfieldLife] Another lost Maharishi teaching that was WRONG

2014-05-19 Thread Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
He must have had some advanced esoteric techniques to keep his breath on a even keel when he was screwing all those gals in the early days. From: TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Heretical Heresy

2014-05-19 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
As a followup, I have to comment that just after writing this, one of my favorite songs came on the sound system, almost as if it were some kind of support of nature  or Castanedan omen. The song is from the latest in The Hobbit cycle of movies, and as some critics have suggested, may be

Re: [FairfieldLife] Not Repsonsible

2014-05-19 Thread Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
turq, if you were actually around long term TMers you would know how they really are about taking responsibility. Most simply live their lives as best as they can, contributing to the happiness of the world as best as they can. I find much of what you say about TMers to be very dated, not

[FairfieldLife] Re: Another lost Maharishi teaching that was WRONG

2014-05-19 Thread fleetwood_macnche...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Those heads of state are snubbing the DL because they don't want to piss off China. I researched the lineage of the DL and found out he does not have one, as so many Lamas were substituted over the years, for political purposes, there is no clear transmission of *anything* throughout the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Heretical Heresy

2014-05-19 Thread Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
turq, you said you would recommend TM with conditions. Why would you, if those conditions were met, recommend it? On Monday, May 19, 2014 5:58 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com wrote:   I have (so far) a low workload this week, so I'm going

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: To Curtis, on witnessing

2014-05-19 Thread Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
jeez, turq, if you think I'm a True Believer, then you must have a very different definition of it than I do. As for me, I don't worry or fantasize about getting enlightened or whatever. I find that life is pretty rich as it is. On Monday, May 19, 2014 1:32 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com

[FairfieldLife] Re: Heretical Heresy

2014-05-19 Thread fleetwood_macnche...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Ha-ha - Barry, all these words - You describe yourself, wrt meditation, like someone who buys a car, not to actually go anywhere, but simply to drive around aimlessly in it - and then brags about the awesome experience! LOL Now you know why it is so easy to see you have no silence, no

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: To Curtis, on witnessing

2014-05-19 Thread fleetwood_macnche...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Again, I reiterate my contention that those who seem to have the most fixed ideas of What enlightenment is on this forum are those who have never in their lives experienced it, only been told about it and fantasized about it. Again, this BS of yours - you have experienced enlightenment for

Re: [FairfieldLife] Heretical Heresy

2014-05-19 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, May 19, 2014 1:19 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Heretical Heresy   turq, you said you would recommend TM with conditions. Why

Re: [FairfieldLife] The transition from BC to the state that comes after it

2014-05-19 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 5/17/2014 9:27 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: At the ATR course at which I heard it, one male TM teacher -- obviously in a fit of renewed enthusiasm at having been presented a new vision of possibilities -- pragmatically but ignorantly asked, So Maharishi, if

Re: [FairfieldLife] Graphing the Illumined Batgap interviewees by types

2014-05-19 Thread fleetwood_macnche...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Who cares what a couple of ex-TM teachers think? You guys failed, so your opinions are worth basically, nothing. If you were enlightened, then possibly, but just because you worked for Maharishi 40 years ago, we're supposed to take you seriously? Not a chance, and quit trying to pull rank...

[FairfieldLife] Re: Not Repsonsible

2014-05-19 Thread fleetwood_macnche...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Barry Wright, there is something seriously wrong with your wiring, if you equate witnessing with a lack of responsibility. Obviously your witnessing experience was very, very limited. Otherwise you would see clearly, that the permanent state of witnessing, DOES NOT OCCUR until one has reached a

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: To Curtis, on witnessing

2014-05-19 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 5/19/2014 3:49 AM, nablusoss1008 wrote: Curtis is an amateur philosopher, we knew that already. We have not seen any evidence that MUM produces good philosophers, by Curtis's own account. Do they even teach Eastern systems of philosophy such as the Six Systems? Go figure. ---In

Re: [FairfieldLife] Another lost Maharishi teaching that was WRONG

2014-05-19 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 5/19/2014 4:33 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Like so many of his teachings that fell by the wayside, this theory was carefully excised from his books and tapes to make the older ones more consistent with his latest, greatest takes on the human condition. They

Re: [FairfieldLife] Heretical Heresy

2014-05-19 Thread Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
turq wrote: If TM cost less, and were not taught by a cult whose primary goal is to recruit new members of the cult to fill its coffers, I'd be able to suggest that people learn it. So I don't agree that my question was nonsensical. In fact, I think turq's comment above indicates that he

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Another lost Maharishi teaching that was WRONG

2014-05-19 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 5/19/2014 5:47 AM, nablusoss1008 wrote: 40 years after the Turq left the Movement he STILL obsess with Maharishi. And he keep trying to find new faults, this time how Maharishi protected the meditators from self-proclaimed enlightened coming to TM-centres lecturing about all kinds of

Re: [FairfieldLife] Heretical Heresy

2014-05-19 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 5/19/2014 5:58 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: I have (so far) a low workload this week, Barry is really working late this evening - it must be midnight over there by now. Go figure. --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus

Re: [FairfieldLife] Another lost Maharishi teaching that was WRONG

2014-05-19 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 5/19/2014 5:57 AM, Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: He must have had some advanced esoteric techniques to keep his breath on a even keel when he was screwing all those gals in the early days. You got to work /really early/ today! Go figure. --- This email is

[FairfieldLife] 5/19-Maharishi: How Unity Consciousness becomes Brahman Consciousness becomes a part of Brahman

2014-05-19 Thread Dick Mays dickm...@lisco.com [FairfieldLife]
From: David Hooper davehooper...@gmail.com 5/19-Maharishi: How Unity Consciousness becomes Brahman Consciousness becomes a part of Brahman Now, in the beginning days of Unity the object of the main focus of attention is appreciated in terms of the Self. This object is seen -- the eyes fall on

Re: [FairfieldLife] Heretical Heresy

2014-05-19 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Of course your question wasn't nonsensical, Share. It was perfectly reasonable, a good question, in fact. Barry is apparently so eager to diss TMers that he misread it. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote : turq wrote: If TM cost less, and were not taught by a cult

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: To Curtis, on witnessing

2014-05-19 Thread anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Richard wrote: 'If MMY was way off, then you'd have to disagree with Immanuel Kant, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Arthur Schopenhauer and the whole of German idealism. This would be a monumental task for anyone, even someone with

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Moses and Consciousness

2014-05-19 Thread Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
 Ah, that was Jacob that wrestled with an angel  and then was renamed *Israel*. At the time of Jacobs birth , he also wrestled with his brother, grabbing his heal, trying to be the first out of the womb so that he would inherit the birth right of the *first born*. He lost that battle but

Re: [FairfieldLife] Graphing the Illumined Batgap interviewees by types

2014-05-19 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I have to say Barry, when I hear you talk about your experiences in California as as Regional or State Coordinator, it doesn't jibe with my experience in the Midwest, as it pertains to keeping people off course etc. You paint a very severe and petty picture which I do not recognize. P.S.

[FairfieldLife] In medicine, what's old tends to become New Age again...

2014-05-19 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Introducing the Maharishi™ Ayurveda™ Blow Smoke Up Your Ass™ technique: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/05/origin-expression-blow-smoke-ass/ :-)

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: To Curtis, on witnessing

2014-05-19 Thread awoelfleba...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : From: curtisdeltablues@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, May 19, 2014 12:24 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: To Curtis, on witnessing ---In

[FairfieldLife] FFL Thread-jacking or Subject-jacking

2014-05-19 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Thread-jacking or Subject-jacking yep, it is an incredibly rude obliviousness to others that people should hijack threads and continue to drive on without adjusting the subject line. Another symptom of bad upbringing and the decay of ethical virtue in the world. -Buck noozguru writes:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Graphing the Illumined Batgap interviewees by types

2014-05-19 Thread Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
So you are disagreeing with Barry - does that also mean you are skeptical of the experiences Curtis relates on these same issues? From: steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, May

[FairfieldLife] Re: Another lost Maharishi teaching that was WRONG

2014-05-19 Thread awoelfleba...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : Having picnicked peacefully with friends on a grassy lawn beside a canal yesterday and watched the folks participating in the Leiden Marathon run by, I found myself wondering what Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -- at least the one from

Re: [FairfieldLife] Graphing the Illumined Batgap interviewees by types

2014-05-19 Thread awoelfleba...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : From: curtisdeltablues@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2014 11:54 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Graphing the Illumined Batgap interviewees by types

Re: [FairfieldLife] Graphing the Illumined Batgap interviewees by types

2014-05-19 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I know nothing about Rymer, but what you describe of his interactions with Maharishi was also true of Robin. There was no conflict between Robin and Maharishi until he showed up with his group (of mostly TM teachers) in Fairfield--seven years or so after he had first claimed enlightenment--and

[FairfieldLife] Re: Not Repsonsible

2014-05-19 Thread awoelfleba...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fleetwood_macncheese@... wrote : Barry Wright, there is something seriously wrong with your wiring, if you equate witnessing with a lack of responsibility. Obviously your witnessing experience was very, very limited. Otherwise you would see clearly,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Witnessing

2014-05-19 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Interestingly, neither of you addressed my point about Xeno's paragraph, much less refuted it. Xeno is obviously not a TM-TB. When he describes his own experience, he's clearly not rehashing Maharishi's teaching. But the paragraph I quoted from his post (below) is an instance of Knowledge is

[FairfieldLife] Re: Not Repsonsible

2014-05-19 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Wrong by what criteria? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : There are many things that still surprise me about the things that long-term TM TBs believe and that I no longer believe, but I admit to having been somewhat taken aback yesterday at Lawson's seemingly

[FairfieldLife] Re: FFL Thread-jacking or Subject-jacking

2014-05-19 Thread awoelfleba...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5@... wrote : Thread-jacking or Subject-jacking yep, it is an incredibly rude obliviousness to others that people should hijack threads and continue to drive on without adjusting the subject line. Another symptom of bad upbringing and the

[FairfieldLife] Wired.com debunks lucid dreaming study

2014-05-19 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Psychologists Give People Control of Their Dreams Using Brain Stimulation. Really? | Science Blogs | WIRED http://www.wired.com/2014/05/psychologists-give-people-control-of-their-dreams-using-brain-stimulation-really/?cid=social_20140512_23745144

Re: [FairfieldLife] Heretical Heresy

2014-05-19 Thread awoelfleba...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote : turq wrote: If TM cost less, and were not taught by a cult whose primary goal is to recruit new members of the cult to fill its coffers, I'd be able to suggest that people learn it. So I don't agree that my question was

Re: [FairfieldLife] Graphing the Illumined Batgap interviewees by types

2014-05-19 Thread awoelfleba...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote : I know nothing about Rymer, but what you describe of his interactions with Maharishi was also true of Robin. There was no conflict between Robin and Maharishi until he showed up with his group (of mostly TM teachers) in

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: To Curtis, on witnessing

2014-05-19 Thread anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Ann, There is a certain etiquette regarding 'enlightenment'. I think it is OK to attempt to describe one's own experiences, but it is a mine field to try to characterise someone else's because there is the always present probability of misunderstanding the language they are using to describe

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: To Curtis, on witnessing

2014-05-19 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.comTo: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com   Ann, There is a certain etiquette regarding 'enlightenment'. I think it is OK to attempt to describe one's own experiences, but it is a mine field to try to characterise someone

Re: [FairfieldLife] 5/19-Maharishi: How Unity Consciousness becomes Brahman Consciousness becomes a part of Brahman

2014-05-19 Thread Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Dick, thanks so much for posting this. I now receive these directly but it's fun to see it on FFL too! On Monday, May 19, 2014 7:15 AM, Dick Mays dickm...@lisco.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com wrote:   From: David Hooper davehooper...@gmail.com 5/19-Maharishi: How Unity

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Another lost Maharishi teaching that was WRONG

2014-05-19 Thread nablusoss1008
The utter failure of his hero the D.Lama to be received by ANY European government the last couple of weeks must really have gotten to poor Turq, so far two frantic anti-Maharishi posts today must be a new record low even for him. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote :

[FairfieldLife] Re: Another lost Maharishi teaching that was WRONG

2014-05-19 Thread nablusoss1008
Nevertheless there finally is a growing understanding that Maharishi was right: the D. Lama is only a politician, and a failed one too who has been able to do nada for Tibet. Most people, at least over here seem to be fed up with that Lama, threats of economical sanctions from China or not.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: To Curtis, on witnessing

2014-05-19 Thread Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I notice that sometimes when I'm feeling really happy, that can slip over into smugness. But if I think of someone or something for which I feel grateful, the smugness dissolves. So far it's been impossible to feel grateful and smug at the same time. I'm grateful for that (-: On Monday, May

[FairfieldLife] Coffee Rust

2014-05-19 Thread Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Just a little news that proves the idea of 8,000 yogic flyers doing anything positive in Latin America is a joke. http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/money/2014/05/09/central-american-fungus-cripples-coffee-crop-may-affect-us-prices/ Central American Fungus Cripples Coffee Crop, May A... A

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: To Curtis, on witnessing

2014-05-19 Thread awoelfleba...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anartaxius@... wrote : Ann, There is a certain etiquette regarding 'enlightenment'. I think it is OK to attempt to describe one's own experiences, but it is a mine field to try to characterise someone else's because there is the always present

Re: [FairfieldLife] Fw: 8 of the World's Most Beautiful Gardens, How Your Mind Impacts Your Metabolism, Is Gluten 'Sensitivity' Real?

2014-05-19 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
Thinking definitely effects but unfortunately just not enough to correct a long term imbalance. Tonifying = to tone up the body. For instance I knew a TM teacher who was a former university varsity football player who drug himself around trying live on a vegetarian diet. He could only work 4

[FairfieldLife] Re: Not Repsonsible

2014-05-19 Thread fleetwood_macnche...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Ha! Barry, or, Mr. Mellow as we call him, has tried his usual strategies against things I assert, that he does not want to hear. In order: 1. Try to make it all about me - negatively. 2. Do a 180 on his previous opinions, now that he has to defend them. and finally, 3. Go away for

Re: [FairfieldLife] Yoga for Endurance

2014-05-19 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
That's what my mother always told me. But also said, sometimes you gotta take the bull by the horns. :-D On 05/19/2014 12:04 AM, jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Take life as it comes. Any other questions?

Re: [FairfieldLife] Graphing the Illumined Batgap interviewees by types

2014-05-19 Thread fleetwood_macnche...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Thanks for speaking up, Steve. I am so tired, as if it isn't obvious, of Barry, who quit the TMO 40 years ago, after having failed both his students, and himself. He then casts these false memories about, as if they were gold, and should be taken Very Seriously. Give me a break - Very

[FairfieldLife] Re: Coffee Rust

2014-05-19 Thread awoelfleba...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : Just a little news that proves the idea of 8,000 yogic flyers doing anything positive in Latin America is a joke. You are, apparently, a very literal-minded man MJ.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What do Ginger Baker and black coffee have in common?

2014-05-19 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
BTW, this documentary is excellent. I highly recommend it to those interested in the era and what an unusual character Baker is. He never has thought of himself as a rock drummer but a jazz drummer. In fact I recall that one of my drum teachers pointed out that Baker was not playing the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Coffee Rust

2014-05-19 Thread fleetwood_macnche...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I, for one, would like to see us Americans drink less coffee. It IS psychoactive, and we may just have less of a frenzy, in general, if we slowed down the caffeine intake a bit. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, awoelflebater@... wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: To Curtis, on witnessing

2014-05-19 Thread fleetwood_macnche...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
In the case of Jim, he is simply playing, toying with Barry. He knows it gets to him. I don't think Jim takes himself that seriously and if you read his recent posts he is simply taking it over the top to push the envelope to see what comes out of others - an alleged favourite tactic of

Re: [FairfieldLife] Fw: 8 of the World's Most Beautiful Gardens, How Your Mind Impacts Your Metabolism, Is Gluten 'Sensitivity' Real?

2014-05-19 Thread fleetwood_macnche...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I remember hearing in nutrition class, the average protein requirement is 60 grams a day - I need more like a hundred, and can't do strict veggy - need meat at least once a week. When I worked for the movement I craved sugar constantly because I wasn't getting enough protein - got plenty of

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What do Ginger Baker and black coffee have in common?

2014-05-19 Thread salyavin808
I heard a good story about Ginge, don't know if it's true but apparently he used to work in a bank and one day told the manager that he was quitting to become a famous drummer. The manager said but you don't play drums, and Ginge replied, not yet! He came across as a total asshole in a

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: To Curtis, on witnessing

2014-05-19 Thread salyavin808
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fleetwood_macncheese@... wrote : In the case of Jim, he is simply playing, toying with Barry. He knows it gets to him. I don't think Jim takes himself that seriously and if you read his recent posts he is simply taking it over the top to push the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Graphing the Illumined Batgap interviewees by types

2014-05-19 Thread nablusoss1008
Thanks for this correction Steve. The Turq has claimed inside info on something that happened 40 years ago, and why ? Because the others have either moved on or are still around but shun this blog. The Turq is simply stuck in stuff he didn't understand AND that happened 2 generations ago. I

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What do Ginger Baker and black coffee have in common?

2014-05-19 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
Yes, he is quite acerbic. A true pitta! In fact you'll notice in the trailer at the end he is hitting the guy doing the documentary with his cane. I saw him play with the Cream and Stevie Winwood but never met the guy. If I did I'm sure we would have sat around talking drums. BTW, I see

Re: [FairfieldLife] Fw: 8 of the World's Most Beautiful Gardens, How Your Mind Impacts Your Metabolism, Is Gluten 'Sensitivity' Real?

2014-05-19 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
In 1972 when an ND told me I couldn't be a vegetarian because I was already showing signs of anemia after just two weeks of trying a veggie diet, he also told me that most people could get by one eating animal protein two or three times a week. On some of the political boards the vegan

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Moses and Consciousness

2014-05-19 Thread jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Mike, That was a good catch you made. Nonetheless, my point is that there is a lot of wisdom in the OT texts if one looks at it from both the literal and symbolic sense. IMO, however, the Jews are still taking the coming of the messiah, as prophesied by Isaiah and the other prophets, in

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What do Ginger Baker and black coffee have in common?

2014-05-19 Thread salyavin808
You live next door to Johnny Rotten? Poor you! I've got a live Cream DVD and they are superb but he isn't me favourite drummer, too skittery for me, I prefer the solidity of John Bonham. Cream were better than the sum of their parts I think, I never liked Clapton much afterwards either.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Not Repsonsible

2014-05-19 Thread Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Barry hit the nail on the head. This post is pure gold. The idea of enlightenment that MMY states in his commentary in the Gita and elsewhere is the underlying driving force behind the race to enlightenment for the majority of meditators, that and the supposed end of suffering, acquisition

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: To Curtis, on witnessing

2014-05-19 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
The reason you get attacked, Barry, is that you're so fucking nasty in sharing your great wisdom with us. You make all kinds of gratuitously demeaning assumptions about the TMers here, many if not most of which are simply not true; and you consistently exalt yourself as superior. Plus which,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: To Curtis, on witnessing

2014-05-19 Thread fleetwood_macnche...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
wink, wink, nudge, nudge...Ooooh, speaking volumes and all that - what a weak-minded and lazy response, Sal. Shows us where your allegiance lies, on this issue; another wanker, being drawn in by the other two. Have you also had very limited witnessing experience, no established silence

Re: [FairfieldLife] Not Repsonsible

2014-05-19 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
One more time: What if what has been described as enlightenment in the past has *absolutely nothing* to do with personality or behavior? What if, just as those who described it in the past have said, it is purely about consciousness, having the ability to directly perceive eternality 24/7,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: To Curtis, on witnessing

2014-05-19 Thread salyavin808
Funny thing this, I do TM twice a day and have never felt demeaned by a Barry rap on the TMO, in fact I agree with a lot of it as I worked there too and saw much unwitting (perhaps) cultish behaviour and plain gullibility and stupidity from my fellow devotees. Much of B's three posts on

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Heretical Heresy

2014-05-19 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 5/19/2014 6:29 AM, fleetwood_macnche...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: I am joined in this company by a few other often-demonized voices on this forum, from Curtis to Sam Harris who (gasp) may not have any use for the notion of God or devotion to a path supposedly leading to some

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: To Curtis, on witnessing

2014-05-19 Thread fleetwood_macnche...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
But Judy, don't you see the pious little halo above his head? I love it when he pulls his Saint Barry trip - the last resort. Let's see, he's tried shooting the messenger, flip-flopping like a fish on a boat bottom, doubling down, reversing course, reloading, and shooting the messenger,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: To Curtis, on witnessing

2014-05-19 Thread fleetwood_macnche...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Barry is hardly the one to be pointing fingers at others, because of their life-style or behavior. Sure the TMO is screwed up in some ways. We all know that. However, Barry just uses that as an excuse to trot out the same old crap. The beef I have with him, is, he is badly confused with

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What do Ginger Baker and black coffee have in common?

2014-05-19 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
Nope, not Johnny Rotten. A couple years back I started seeing this guy at the nearby Nob Hill Supermarket. Then a few months back a friend who built some of the homes in my neighborhood told me he built a big one behind me for a doctor and the doctor sold it to a rock star. A couple weeks

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Moses and Consciousness

2014-05-19 Thread Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Right, Jews, orthodox Jews, are still waiting for Messiah and Christians, the second coming. Both Christian and Jews will be looking for what you described that Jews were looking for in the first place, Lion of Judah, the judge, leveler of scores, restoring righteousness etc etc . However,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Fw: 8 of the World's Most Beautiful Gardens, How Your Mind Impacts Your Metabolism, Is Gluten 'Sensitivity' Real?

2014-05-19 Thread fleetwood_macnche...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
vegetarian - schmegetarian - seems like a convenient excuse for hand-wringing, and navel-gazing, by some. Which reminds me, my newly favorite burger joint, is open for lunch... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote : In 1972 when an ND told me I couldn't be a vegetarian

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Heretical Heresy

2014-05-19 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 5/19/2014 6:29 AM, fleetwood_macnche...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: If TM cost less, and were not taught by a cult whose primary goal is to recruit new members of the cult to fill its coffers, I'd be able to suggest that people learn it. 180. Go figure. --- This email is free from

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: To Curtis, on witnessing

2014-05-19 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Demeaning the TMO is one thing. Demeaning the TMers here is quite another. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : Funny thing this, I do TM twice a day and have never felt demeaned by a Barry rap on the TMO, in fact I agree with a lot of it as I worked there

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Heretical Heresy

2014-05-19 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 5/19/2014 6:29 AM, fleetwood_macnche...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Witnessing, schmitnessing. Minor brain fart, not worth focusing on much... It might be a good time to define what we mean by witnessing. Witness: To see, hear, or experience something firsthand, that serves as

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What do Ginger Baker and black coffee have in common?

2014-05-19 Thread salyavin808
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote : Nope, not Johnny Rotten. A couple years back I started seeing this guy at the nearby Nob Hill Supermarket. Then a few months back a friend who built some of the homes in my neighborhood told me he built a big one behind me for a

Re: [FairfieldLife] Another lost Maharishi teaching that was WRONG

2014-05-19 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
Prattle. On 5/19/2014 4:33 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Having picnicked peacefully with friends on a grassy lawn beside a canal yesterday and watched the folks participating in the Leiden Marathon run by, I found myself wondering what Maharishi Mahesh Yogi --

Re: [FairfieldLife] Another lost Maharishi teaching that was WRONG

2014-05-19 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 5/19/2014 4:33 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Having picnicked peacefully with friends on a grassy lawn beside a canal yesterday and watched the folks participating in the Leiden Marathon run by... So, you're a /witness/ to some folks running by a canal

Re: [FairfieldLife] Yoga for Endurance

2014-05-19 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 5/19/2014 2:04 AM, jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Take life as it comes. The Doors - Take It As It Comes http://youtu.be/Vp_tjYszBmQ --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com

[FairfieldLife] Re: Coffee Rust

2014-05-19 Thread j_alexander_stan...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Infidel, you'll have to pry the Pegasus organic espresso roast from my cold, dead hands. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fleetwood_macnche...@yahoo.com wrote : I, for one, would like to see us Americans drink less coffee. It IS psychoactive, and we may just have less of a frenzy, in

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What do Ginger Baker and black coffee have in common?

2014-05-19 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
Real drummers use all kinds of grips. It is a little hard to play thumbs up (often called French grip) matched on a set as Rich mentions but then you can hold the left the same as the right with the palms down with works well on a set. The left hand grip came about trying to play a marching

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Moses and Consciousness

2014-05-19 Thread jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Mike, Let me back track a little bit to the OT writings. Among the Hebrews, there is no doubt that they accepted the stories in the Torah in the historical and literal sense. But, IMO, Moses had already introduced the concept of consciousness as the basis of knowledge in Genesis and

Re: [FairfieldLife] Yoga for Endurance

2014-05-19 Thread jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Bhairitu, There's nothing wrong with what your mother said. She is or was a wise woman, whatever the case may be. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote : That's what my mother always told me. But also said, sometimes you gotta take the bull by the horns. :-D On

Re: [FairfieldLife] Yoga for Endurance

2014-05-19 Thread jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Richard, The Doors obviously had a different interpretation of this yoga. Carry on. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote : On 5/19/2014 2:04 AM, jr_esq@... mailto:jr_esq@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: Take life as it comes. The Doors - Take It As It Comes

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Moses and Consciousness

2014-05-19 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 5/18/2014 3:58 PM, Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: I believe the Bible is a text about the development and understanding of Consciousness within the Hebrew culture. It might be easier to understand this Biblical quote in the light of shared traditions common along

[FairfieldLife] Re: Coffee Rust

2014-05-19 Thread fleetwood_macnche...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
That stuff is like crack - I used to get a double-espresso sometimes at an Italian cafe in the Bay Area, and it would give me endless amounts of energy...until it didn't. - sometimes, rarely, I'll still get one. Mostly I drink Oregon brand Chai and the stuff is good - They chintzed out on the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Moses and Consciousness

2014-05-19 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 5/18/2014 12:23 PM, jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: The manna discussed in Exodus was supposedly the excretions on the leaves of a certain plant... Merkur traces a long line of historical figures who knew of Manna's secret but dared only make cryptic references to it for fear of

Re: [FairfieldLife] Not Repsonsible

2014-05-19 Thread Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I wasn't commenting on what Barry had previously said on other forums - I was and am addressing what he said here, today. And if you want to throw down on someone for changing their story, whey not start with Mahesh Prasad Varmint. O, all yew need is TM. Just meditate twice a day. Never

Re: [FairfieldLife] Not Repsonsible

2014-05-19 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Comments below... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : I wasn't commenting on what Barry had previously said on other forums You didn't know that he had said this. - I was and am addressing what he said here, today. And if you want to throw down on someone

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Moses and Consciousness

2014-05-19 Thread jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Richard, IMO, the jury is still out on the validity of McKenna's work on psychedelic plants. I fear that these plants can give delusions and contribute to deluded ideas about the real world as did the Aztec priests who concluded that their gods must be appeased daily by sacrificing human

Re: [FairfieldLife] Not Repsonsible

2014-05-19 Thread fleetwood_macnche...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
LOL - Yes! I had forgotten all about these: plastic vedic observatory models - not to make light of your issue, but wtf was that Vedic Observatory Garden?! Did anyone actually visit it, and did it work? Just seemed like a really odd and esoteric bit of the Movement. ---In

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: To Curtis, on witnessing

2014-05-19 Thread fleetwood_macnche...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Hi 'M, I responded earlier, but perhaps hit cancel instead of send, so, like I said - Pick-axe - next to a sledge hammer, my favorite demo tool - have taken out some serious root systems with one. And, yes, I am living in a trailer park, in my RV, in Chico, which I enjoy - it is like living in

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