[FairfieldLife] File - FFL Acronyms

2014-06-01 Thread FairfieldLife
BC - Brahman Consciousness BN - Bliss Ninny or Bliss Nazi CC - Cosmic Consciousness GC - God Consciousness MMY - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi OTP - Off the Program - a phrase used in the TM movement meaning to do something (such as see another spiritual teacher) considered in violation of Maharishi's p

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Mindfulness and/versus TM

2014-06-01 Thread nablusoss1008
That's the reason why headaches are widely reported after doing mindfulness. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : "When practicing mindfulness, for instance by watching the breath, one must remember to maintain attention on the chosen object of awareness, "faithfully returning back

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Mindfulness and/versus TM

2014-06-01 Thread Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
And suicides and attempted suicides and various psychotic episodes associated with TM - I'll take mindfulness any day. From: nablusoss1008 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, June 1, 2014 5:58 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Mindfulness and/v

[FairfieldLife] Re: Lurking and Researching ..FairfieldLife at Yahoo [ FFL ]

2014-06-01 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
. . Om the FFL 'message history', On the FFL main web page the 'message history' archive matrix that is organized by month and year is working again better now in this new yahoo-neo world. It reports in slim mode and you can scroll down through a month. Would be nice too if you could navig

[FairfieldLife] Re: Lurking and Researching ..FairfieldLife at Yahoo [ FFL ]

2014-06-01 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Another more or less useful feature: At the bottom of each post, there's a link that says "Show all [XXX] messages on this topic." If you click on it, that's what you'll get, a list of each post in the thread, all the way back to its beginning. It'll show you the first post to start with; scroll

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bevan and Sainthood

2014-06-01 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Well, Bevan does have a long war record. Bevan seems more like 'an old general' who will not fade away, when one looks at the record. Ypres. For people researching lurking from outside looking in on the personalities of the people inside TM now, FFL post [377120] can be useful for some perspect

[FairfieldLife] Re: Lurking and Researching ..FairfieldLife at Yahoo [ FFL ]

2014-06-01 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Note: If the list is long, it won't show you the complete list at first; there'll be another link at the bottom that says "[XXX] more messages." To get the entire list, you'll have to click on each one of those links. Also, as far as I can tell, there's no way to get back directly to the curre

[FairfieldLife] Facing fears, and killing the Buddha

2014-06-01 Thread fleetwood_macnche...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I was remembering back to the summer of 1980, I had just received my siddhis, and completed my year commitment to get them, at the awkwardly named, Kansas City Capital Of The Age Of Enlightenment. A friend of mine, a fellow sidha plebe, invited me to Santa Barbara, and I went down there, via Eug

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Mindfulness and/versus TM

2014-06-01 Thread fleetwood_macnche...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
LOL! Yes, too much "internal television", leading to eyestrain, and headaches. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : That's the reason why headaches are widely reported after doing mindfulness. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : "When practicing mindfulness, for instanc

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Mindfulness and/versus TM

2014-06-01 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
For the record, my bet is that neither the Jim-bot nor the Nabby-bot have *ever* in their lives learned or practiced any form of mindfulness meditation, as taught by a reputable teacher.  Neither of them, in fact, seems even capable of distinguishing mindfulness from forms of "concentration" med

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

2014-06-01 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
. . 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 T

[FairfieldLife] Re: Qualities of the Unified Field

2014-06-01 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
. . “It’s like watering the root and enlivening the nourishment, the sap. And the sap permeates all the fields of the tree—branches, leaves, flowers—and nourishes them.” “This in physics is called a “field effect.” The field effect is produced from the unified field of natural law. It no

[FairfieldLife] RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: A vision of Fairfield's future?

2014-06-01 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
“The younger generation grew restive, however, and demanding personal freedom and individual ownership of property. In 1898 the [Zoar] Society was disbanded and property divided up among the members.” "The Zoarites of Zoar, Ohio they got in a lot of trouble for being spiritually outside

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Vedanta, TM and Vipassana

2014-06-01 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 5/31/2014 7:13 PM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife] wrote: > Sorry Lawson, but I put in years of study about this with very real > teachers plus I also learned to teach TM. You did not and are just > making shit up. I understand you want the "home team to win" but this > ain't

[FairfieldLife] Where We Went

2014-06-01 Thread Pundit Sir pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
Yesterday, we went to this place:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Now Playing

2014-06-01 Thread Pundit Sir pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
In a Gadda Da Vida - Iron Butterfly http://youtu.be/ZCkHanF4v1w On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 7:54 PM, Pundit Sir wrote: > Simply Irresistible - Robert Palmer - Live extended mix > http://youtu.be/ou9zoChYBQs > > 33 1/3 vinyl LP, > Technics SL-1200 MK2 Direct Drive Quartz Turntable System > > > On We

[FairfieldLife] A Little MIU Story

2014-06-01 Thread Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I was talking to my Kentucky friend Bob the other day. Bob was MIU for eight years total, as a student for most of them, but he worked on staff from time to time. This is what he told me. "Yeah I was there during the Robin Carlsen years. I went to see him once, just once, out of curiosity really.

[FairfieldLife] Why white belt should be the highest rank in martial arts

2014-06-01 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
For those of you who never studied martial arts, a white belt is the rank you are given as a beginner. The rankings then progress after six months or so through a variety of gaudy colors to give the newbies a sense of progress, and then to the first real ranking, brown belt. That qualifies you a

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Mindfulness and/versus TM

2014-06-01 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 6/1/2014 6:17 AM, Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: And suicides and attempted suicides and various psychotic episodes associated with TM - I'll take mindfulness any day. > There is no evidence that basic TM practice is the cause of any attempted suicides or psychot

Re: [FairfieldLife] A Little MIU Story

2014-06-01 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
That's pretty much it. Nice story, and well-told. Put that in your pipe and smoke it, you who claim that TM is not a cult. As a former State Coordinator, I can tell you that I was instructed to similarly "keep an eye on" TM teachers in the Oregon-Washington area. I can also tell you that I fail

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Mindfulness and/versus TM

2014-06-01 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 6/1/2014 8:38 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: For the record, my bet is that neither the Jim-bot nor the Nabby-bot have *ever* in their lives learned or practiced any form of mindfulness meditation, as taught by a reputable teacher. Neither of them, in fact, see

[FairfieldLife] A great rap by Patton Oswalt

2014-06-01 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
The comedian undertakes something that could do all of us here a lot of good: Summer is upon us, and I've got a bad case of The Spurts. I've gone down an internet/Twitter/Facebook rabbit hole and I need to engineer a summer spent in nothing but humid, skin-to-air reality for myself. If I don'

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Little MIU Story

2014-06-01 Thread salyavin808
How to tell if you're in a cult #75 Seems rather fragile this invincibility, eh? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : I was talking to my Kentucky friend Bob the other day. Bob was MIU for eight years total, as a student for most of them, but he worked on staff from time to t

Re: [FairfieldLife] A Little MIU Story

2014-06-01 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
FWIW, Robin wasn't just some harmless saint folks went to see to soak up a little darshan. He was perceived by the MIU leaders to be a real threat, especially to group TM-Sidhis practice; he had dreamed up some new "sutras"--focusing on himself, I believe--that he wanted his followers to use. (

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Vedanta, TM and Vipassana

2014-06-01 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
Of course I am familiar with the EEG of TM. In fact I was a subject for a study and the University of Washington. I didn't produce alpha waves but theta. Alpha can be induced by just simple breathing techniques. Theta and delta are more indicative of advanced meditation states. Have you ev

[FairfieldLife] Not your usual pirate

2014-06-01 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
"Hannibal" finished it's second season a week ago so Friday night NBC launched "Crossbones", a series based on the pirate Blackbeard. It stars John Malkovich as Blackbeard. I'm usually not into this genre be decided to give it a try watching it on Hulu+. This may well be a series worth watchi

Re: [FairfieldLife] A great rap by Patton Oswalt

2014-06-01 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
Oswalt often shows up playing a very wide variety of characters from a complete goof to a diabolical villain. Seems to be a very busy actor these days. On 06/01/2014 08:15 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: The comedian undertakes something that could do all of us he

Re: [FairfieldLife] A Little MIU Story

2014-06-01 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
What I noticed about the "TM Gestapo" is that they were mediocre people who began showing up after the AofE courses who were not a part of the "spiritual crowd" of TM'ers. Perhaps they were jealous and saw that their only niche was to play "cop" for the TMO. Most of us rejected them as jokes

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Mindfulness and/versus TM

2014-06-01 Thread fleetwood_macnche...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Truly a waste of time, except for wankers. All of these medieval meditation techniques, like this 'mindfulness', introduced by the delusional, as a panacea for modern life. Could it get any weirder?? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : That's right, haven't tried nor am I going t

Re: [FairfieldLife] Not your usual pirate

2014-06-01 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I watched the full season of the recent STARZ series "Black Sails," also about pirates, and wound up thinking more of it than I did the first episode of "Crossbones." The writing of the latter seemed scattered, as if the writers didn't really understand what their concept was. Malcovich was int

Re: [FairfieldLife] A Little MIU Story

2014-06-01 Thread fleetwood_macnche...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Yes, I became very aware of the big fish in little pond syndrome, and the below average DNA of the pond, itself, about the same time I was considering TTC. Kinda good that the self-righteous aggrandizers took over for awhile. Idealism would not have sustained the TMO, through thick and thin, whe

[FairfieldLife] What We Saw

2014-06-01 Thread Pundit Sir pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
Yesterday, we saw this VW van in South San Antonio. The van had a current inspection and registration tag on the windshield - apparently it's a daily driver to deliver tamales in the neighborhood.

Re: [FairfieldLife] A Little MIU Story

2014-06-01 Thread Pundit Sir pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
We know you should be taking baby steps, but what about Bob? Baby Steps Clip: http://youtu.be/p3JPa2mvSQ4 On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 9:42 AM, Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: > > > I was talking to my Kentucky friend Bob the other day. Bob was MIU for > eight years total

[FairfieldLife] Your own personal EEG device

2014-06-01 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
First off a disclaimer that I don't have connection with this company but these are fairly inexpensive devices. Perhaps FFL'ers could get them and report in their daily brainwave activity. We could even replace the Postcount with it. Perhaps call it "The Lawson Index". :-D http://neurosky.com

Re: [FairfieldLife] What We Saw

2014-06-01 Thread Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Richard, I love it! Thanks for posting. On Sunday, June 1, 2014 11:38 AM, "Pundit Sir pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]" wrote:   Yesterday, we saw this VW van in South San Antonio. The van had a current inspection and registration tag on the windshield - apparently it's a daily driv

[FairfieldLife] Re: Your own personal EEG device

2014-06-01 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
They're a useless toy. The ultra-low-end professional-level EEG setup that Fred Travis uses for his demos have 19 EEG electrodes + reference electrodes. This thing has ONE ELECTRODE. You can't even test a single EEG coherence pair (for that you need 2 EEG electrodes). From the product

Re: [FairfieldLife] A Little MIU Story

2014-06-01 Thread Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
He still does TM, is a bit sad about the behavior of the TMO and was surprised at the pundit riot -he teaches English at some Catholic College in Kentucky.  He's got some good stories about seeing people freak out (as in major unstressing) He knew and worked with Brain Henchcliff who committed

[FairfieldLife] Re: Your own personal EEG device

2014-06-01 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
F3, F4, P3, P4... for Alaric's demo. L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : They're a useless toy. The ultra-low-end professional-level EEG setup that Fred Travis uses for his demos have 19 EEG electrodes + reference electrodes. This thing has ONE ELECTRODE. You can't ev

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Mindfulness and/versus TM

2014-06-01 Thread salyavin808
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Truly a waste of time, except for wankers. All of these medieval meditation techniques, like this 'mindfulness', introduced by the delusional, as a panacea for modern life. Could it get any weirder?? I wish I was as certain of just one thing a

Re: [FairfieldLife] Why white belt should be the highest rank in martial arts

2014-06-01 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 6/1/2014 9:49 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: I think that's sad, "achieving" a state in which one believes that one really doesn't have anything more to learn. I'd prefer to hang with the white belts any day, because they're willing to learn more, and *build upo

[FairfieldLife] Friends Journal article, The TM Diaspora...

2014-06-01 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
2003, (Though my mother's side of the family is old Iowa Quaker (Whittier- Springville, Ia. via Flushing, Oh. and the Carolinas) and runs directly back to England, I am not currently really versed or participating in things Quaker. My own interests are more abstract. However, I thought you

Re: [FairfieldLife] Why white belt should be the highest rank in martial arts

2014-06-01 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 6/1/2014 9:49 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: For those of you who never studied martial arts, a white belt is the rank you are given as a beginner. > A white belt is the belt you get when you buy a karate uniform. The first class I attended was when my parents w

Re: [FairfieldLife] A Little MIU Story

2014-06-01 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
The EEG measures I have seen from practicing the TM-Sidhis as part of the Invincible America project say that not only was he sorta wrong, he was majorly wrong about the TM-SIdhis. Maharishi was 100% (and then some!!!) correct about the long-term effects, meditation-wise. Look at the b

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Mindfulness and/versus TM

2014-06-01 Thread anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : That's right, haven't tried nor am I going to. A Buddhist technique that gives headaches to large number of people is not only a waste of time but probably harmful. === People practising TM also report headaches and head pressure during and

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Mindfulness and/versus TM

2014-06-01 Thread nablusoss1008
Stranger indeed, the latest is that the strainers getting headaches while trying to get their minds "full" will be required to wear funny hats: http://www.google.no/imgres?imgurl=https://lh5.ggpht.com/zsULfqG_kp723o4xYECC5atq-GFcvP-7REqYl4cdT3y7XorQGvqAvbu-hfcbikQuuQ%253Dw300&imgrefurl=https:/

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Mindfulness and/versus TM

2014-06-01 Thread nablusoss1008
Stranger indeed, the latest is that the strainers getting headaches while trying to get their minds "full" will be required to wear funny hats: http://www.google.no/imgres?imgurl=https://lh5.ggpht.com/zsULfqG_kp723o4xYECC5atq-GFcvP-7REqYl4cdT3y7XorQGvqAvbu-hfcbikQuuQ%253Dw300&imgrefurl=https:/

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

2014-06-01 Thread 'Rick Archer' r...@searchsummit.com [FairfieldLife]
Rick should get someone much more scholarly [with credentials] to discern and categorize the interviewees spiritually if Rick is going to publish a categorical list like that and not just let some earnest friend go work on it. First, Rick really ought to pull the list from the Batgap page ri

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Mindfulness and/versus TM

2014-06-01 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: salyavin808 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Truly a waste of time, except for wankers. All of these medieval meditation techniques, like this 'mindfulness', introduced by the delusional, as a panacea for modern life. Could it get any weirder?? I wish I was as certain o

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Your own personal EEG device

2014-06-01 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Gawd, you're even elitist about *EEG machines*, which have nothing whatsoever to do with meditation. :-) From: "lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, June 1, 2014 7:21 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Your own pers

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Your own personal EEG device

2014-06-01 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
If you actually read the thread, you'll see that at this point it's talking about the effects of different kinds of meditation on the practitioners' EEGs. Bhairitu suggested getting a "personal EEG device" to check what happens with your EEG when you meditate. Lawson is pointing out that such de

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Your own personal EEG device

2014-06-01 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
No serious researcher uses EEG to measure the effects of things on the brain any more. They use fMRI. Only low-rent researchers who can't get grants or afford more up-to-date equipment rely on EEGs, or cite them.   If you actually read the thread, you'll s

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mindfulness; the Guru as mantra - Let 'er rip, or not?

2014-06-01 Thread emptyb...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
So where did you learn & practice Shikan taza & for how long?

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Your own personal EEG device

2014-06-01 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I doubt that's the case, but at any rate, MUM's EEG equipment is hardly "low-rent." And your comment here is a non sequitur to the one I was responding to. Sounds to me as if you're being elitist... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : No serious researcher uses EEG to measure t

[FairfieldLife] One for Bharitu (or other nerds)

2014-06-01 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I seem to remember that you liked "Silicon Valley," which I found too silly to bother with. Here's another one for your perusal. Check out "Halt and Catch Fire," the new AMC series starring Lee Pace (from "Pushing Daisies"). The IMDB description is "Set in the early 1980s, series dramatizes

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Mindfulness and/versus TM

2014-06-01 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
Of course there's the case of of the Principal of the all-girls Buddhist school in Thailand, who became a TM teacher herself because so many students were complaining of headaches after learning more modern ("traditional") Buddhist techniques. L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wro

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Your own personal EEG device

2014-06-01 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
Remains to be seen. We used to check for alpha using a biofeedback device. There are also other companies selling personal EEG devices. Yes, I know the universities have medical quality devices. And BTW, I knew Fred Travis when he was at the SIMS TM center near the University of Washington.

Re: [FairfieldLife] One for Bharitu (or other nerds)

2014-06-01 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
Unfortunately AMC is pay access only for me unless they've posted the pilot for free (and probably not). I liked Kevin's Smith's "Comic Book Men" but refuse to pay as much for a half-hour show as a full hour show streaming. I ran into a race condition problem recently trying to run javascript

Re: [FairfieldLife] Why white belt should be the highest rank in martial arts

2014-06-01 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 6/1/2014 9:49 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: I'd prefer to hang with the white belts any day, because they're willing to learn more, and *build upon* the things they've already learned. The lady I had drinks with in New York -- who had two black belts to her c

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Your own personal EEG device

2014-06-01 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
Actually, you're wrong. People who try to figure out what the brain is doing use all sorts of different machines, hopefully on the same subjects, maybe even at the same time, or very close to the same time (in the case of EEG + something else ). EEG measures tiny electrical currents in

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Your own personal EEG device

2014-06-01 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
Well, it's not the higehst-quality either. Up until the partnership with the folk at the Key-Institute, MUM didn't have real access to the best possible analysis of EEG, so it didn't really matter. Now that they are partnering on a regular basis (or so I hear) perhaps a high-def EEG machine w

[FairfieldLife] Re: Why white belt should be the highest rank in martial arts

2014-06-01 Thread anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : For those of you who never studied martial arts, a white belt is the rank you are given as a beginner... I have a black belt, but not because I have studied martial arts. It just holds up my pants.

[FairfieldLife] Re: One for Bharitu (or other nerds)

2014-06-01 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
Idon't believe that was an actual command (not intentionally at least), but just a description of what sometimes happened (hopefully not the catch fire part, but you never know)... L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : I seem to remember that you liked "Silicon Valley," which

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Your own personal EEG device

2014-06-01 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
Here's a 14 channel personal EEG. Two models, one for $299 and one for $750 (haven't had time to see if they both have 14 channels). http://emotiv.com/eeg/features.php On 06/01/2014 10:27 AM, lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife] wrote: F3, F4, P3, P4... for Alaric's demo. L ---In FairfieldL

[FairfieldLife] Plan 9's Finno-Ugric "dominance"

2014-06-01 Thread cardemais...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Maila Nurmi (my-lah noor-me), born in Petsamo Finland 1922, orig. Maila Elizabeth Syrjäniemi. Bela Lugosi, born in Lugos 1882, then Hungary, now Lugoj, Romania; orig. Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Your own personal EEG device

2014-06-01 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
And a comparison chart on the numerous person EEG devices: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_consumer_brain%E2%80%93computer_interfaces On 06/01/2014 10:27 AM, lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife] wrote: F3, F4, P3, P4... for Alaric's demo. L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wro

[FairfieldLife] Celibacy and kaivalya??

2014-06-01 Thread cardemais...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Wikipedia: The English word celibacy derives from the Latin caelibatus, "state of being unmarried", from Latin caelebs, meaning "unmarried". This word derives from two Proto-Indo-European http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_language stems, *kaiwelo- "alone" and *lib(h)s- "living".[

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Your own personal EEG device

2014-06-01 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
Yeah, that's a lot better. I don't know what the significance is of 14 vs 19 leads... It looks like they're ignoring most of teh central (Cx) and parietal (Px) input positions, but not sure what that would do for measuring TM or other meditation practices. L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoog

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Your own personal EEG device

2014-06-01 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
That's an odd chart. What does measuring "8 mental states" mean? That there are 8 electrodes over parts of the brain associated with mental processes? Odd way of putting it. L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : And a comparison chart on the numerous person EEG devices

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Your own personal EEG device

2014-06-01 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Even the low-end ones are pretty damned expensive, though. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Well, it's not the higehst-quality either. Up until the partnership with the folk at the Key-Institute, MUM didn't have real access to the best possible analysis of EEG, so it didn't reall

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM is a Cult?

2014-06-01 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Right, thanks! Clearly I was never enlightened in any of my past lives - or in this one either. But then, this could be my first ever life! If someone learns meditation in their first incarnation maybe they are a shoo-in to make Bodhisattva grade in double quick time . . . ---In FairfieldLife@

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Historic Meissner-like Effect [ME] of Peace:

2014-06-01 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
. . Maharishi: “All don't have to meditate. Just some small percentage in society will be enough.”[281] -1968-9 “This was borne out at the end of 1974 when it was found that in cities where the number of meditators had reached one percent the crime rate decreased significantly.” Conversatio

[FairfieldLife] Re: Science and Spirituality and Maharishi:

2014-06-01 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
. . Observation, Hypothesis, Test; Scientific Process.. . When you get things laid out in time series of publication to look at it becomes remarkable what Maharishi was doing all along going way back. There was quite a lot of scientific process (advancement too) which got specifical

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Your own personal EEG device

2014-06-01 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
There's an OpenEEG project that you might want to look into. http://openeeg.sourceforge.net/ On 06/01/2014 02:30 PM, lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife] wrote: That's an odd chart. What does measuring "8 mental states" mean? That there are 8 electrodes over parts of the brain associated with m

[FairfieldLife] Re: An Old Index to FFL

2014-06-01 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Yahoo Groups Neo it seems truncates posts at 64KB. Older versions of the Index are not truncated. This one seems to be 'unabridged' by neo-truncation.. https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/352508 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conv

[FairfieldLife] Sri M Interview

2014-06-01 Thread jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
This is a fascinating interview. Has anyone heard of this yogi before? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOxHkyx40v8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOxHkyx40v8

[FairfieldLife] Lightmint vs EEG claptrap

2014-06-01 Thread emptyb...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Apparently none of the posters on this thread read the short article by Swartz about the difference between mindfulness and awakening to the innate awareness that makes us what we are. The actual discussion by James Swartz was about the difference between the practice of Buddhist Vipassana

[FairfieldLife] Re: Lightmint vs EEG claptrap

2014-06-01 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
EEG doesn't tell us anything about dreaming either, except that it's occurring, based on subjective reports when sleeping subjects are awakened. IOW, the EEG signatures of people who are dreaming are identifiable as such. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Apparently none of the po

[FairfieldLife] Post Count Mon 02-Jun-14 00:15:08 UTC

2014-06-01 Thread FFL PostCount ffl.postco...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): 05/31/14 00:00:00 End Date (UTC): 06/07/14 00:00:00 202 messages as of (UTC) 06/01/14 23:50:14 33 dhamiltony2k5 27 'Richard J. Williams' punditster 20 TurquoiseBee turquoiseb 16 LEnglish5 14 Michael Jackson mjackson74

[FairfieldLife] Car Talk

2014-06-01 Thread Pundit Sir pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]

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2014-06-01 Thread Pundit Sir pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
Grab your boards and ropes and finish-up those beers! We only have a few short hours of darkness left to get this thing done before it gets light out, so turn off all your headlamps and don't break a single stalk of the crop as we walk in and out and while we are working all night long in the darkn

Re: [FairfieldLife] Why white belt should be the highest rank in martial arts

2014-06-01 Thread Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Succinctly and beautifully written, Richard, thank you. On Sunday, June 1, 2014 12:52 PM, "'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]" wrote:   On 6/1/2014 9:49 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: For those of you who never studied martial arts, a

Re: [FairfieldLife] Celibacy and kaivalya??

2014-06-01 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
The goal of Raja yoga is kaivalya (isolation) of the Purusha from the prakriti. /"Or, to look from another angle, the power of pure consciousness settles in its own pure nature."/ — Kaivalya Pada: Sutra 35. > On 6/1/2014 4:27 PM, cardemais...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Wikipedia: The

Re: [FairfieldLife] Celibacy and kaivalya??

2014-06-01 Thread Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Richard, I still disagree with you about this alleged separation of Purusha and Prakriti being the ultimate goal of yoga. Maybe it's a temporary goal but I think the ultimate goal is to realize that Purusha IS Prakriti. Even in this quote, the  word power I think, refers to Prakriti. So the quot

Re: [FairfieldLife] Celibacy and kaivalya??

2014-06-01 Thread emilymae...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
This description considers them separate, reflective of a dualistic philosophy. "In the Samkhya tradition there is purusha and there is prakriti, and these two are as separate as the clockmaker and the clock. Purusha is the soul, the Self, pure consciousness, and the only source of conscious

Re: [FairfieldLife] Celibacy and kaivalya??

2014-06-01 Thread Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Beautiful photo, Emily and to Richard too, this dualism is certainly true of one level of reality. But I'll go with Maharishi on this and he has explained that even in every cell of our body, at the deepest level, Purusha IS Prakriti. This is sometimes depicted by those sacred pictures from Indi

Re: [FairfieldLife] Why white belt should be the highest rank in martial arts

2014-06-01 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Hate to say it, but a lot of what he wrote was cribbed from an Amazon reader review of a book on karate: http://www.amazon.com/Zen-Karate-Randall-Bassett/dp/0446781649 http://www.amazon.com/Zen-Karate-Randall-Bassett/dp/0446781649 Check out the review by H. Asbury. ---In FairfieldLife@

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Mindfulness; the Guru as mantra - Let 'er rip, or not?

2014-06-01 Thread Pundit Sir pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 6/1/2014 1:46 PM, emptyb...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: > So where did you learn practice Shikan taza for how long? > FYI: I sat with Suzuki Roshi at the SFZC for a year in 1968 and with Jokusho Kwong-roshi since 1969 whenever I visit my daughter who lives in Sonoma, so it's been 46 years

Re: [FairfieldLife] Celibacy and kaivalya??

2014-06-01 Thread Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Richard, yoga comes from root meaning yoked or union. Are you saying that the goal of union is to separate?! On Sunday, June 1, 2014 8:12 PM, "'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]" wrote:   The goal of Raja yoga is kaivalya (isolation) of the Purusha from the prakri

Re: [FairfieldLife] Celibacy and kaivalya??

2014-06-01 Thread emilymae...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I don't know enough to disagree. I didn't know what either were so looked them up out of curiosity. Your belief is consistent with a "non-dual" paradigm. On these sacred pictures, which half is male and which half is female? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Beautiful photo,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Celibacy and kaivalya??

2014-06-01 Thread Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Emily if you google on ShivaShakti, you'll get some images which I don't know how to post. Male on right... On Sunday, June 1, 2014 8:50 PM, "emilymae...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" wrote:   I don't know enough to disagree.  I didn't know what either were so looked them up out of curiosi

Re: [FairfieldLife] Why white belt should be the highest rank in martial arts

2014-06-01 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 6/1/2014 8:09 PM, Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Succinctly and beautifully written, Richard, thank you. > If you are going to achieve consistent, meaningful results in your quest for defensive self-culture, you are going to have to cultivate a series of specialized

Re: [FairfieldLife] Why white belt should be the highest rank in martial arts

2014-06-01 Thread emilymae...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I thought it might be cribbed too, but couldn't find it. "Richard! Be honest! " ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Hate to say it, but a lot of what he wrote was cribbed from an Amazon reader review of a book on karate: http://www.amazon.com/Zen-Karate-Randall-Bassett/dp/

Re: [FairfieldLife] Celibacy and kaivalya??

2014-06-01 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 6/1/2014 8:18 PM, Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Richard, I still disagree with you about this alleged separation of Purusha and Prakriti being the ultimate goal of yoga. Maybe it's a temporary goal but I think the ultimate goal is to realize that Purusha IS Prakriti

Re: [FairfieldLife] Celibacy and kaivalya??

2014-06-01 Thread emilymae...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
You can post the link, right? I was just teasing...:) This guy who "developed" Yin Yoga, Bernie Clark, is pretty funny. "The union of purusha and prakriti was a horrible mistake. This unfortunate marriage should never have happened. The only remedy: a fast and thorough divorce! Like

Re: [FairfieldLife] Why white belt should be the highest rank in martial arts

2014-06-01 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Sad. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : I thought it might be cribbed too, but couldn't find it. "Richard! Be honest! " ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Hate to say it, but a lot of what he wrote was cribbed from an Amazon reader review of a book on karate:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Celibacy and kaivalya??

2014-06-01 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 6/1/2014 8:36 PM, Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: this dualism is certainly true of one level of reality. But I'll go with Maharishi on this and he has explained that even in every cell of our body, at the deepest level, Purusha IS Prakriti. > Purusha has the /appeara

Re: [FairfieldLife] Why white belt should be the highest rank in martial arts

2014-06-01 Thread emilymae...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Now Share knows who to attribute to her opinion that it was "succinctly and beautifully written". ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Sad. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : I thought it might be cribbed too, but couldn't find it. "Richard! Be honest! " --

Re: [FairfieldLife] Why white belt should be the highest rank in martial arts

2014-06-01 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 6/1/2014 8:44 PM, authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Hate to say it, but a lot of what he wrote was cribbed from an Amazon reader review of a book on karate: http://www.amazon.com/Zen-Karate-Randall-Bassett/dp/0446781649 Check out the review by H. Asbury. > Check out this revie

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Little MIU Story

2014-06-01 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I forget Sal, who is it that claims TM did not, of does not have some cultish elements about it? I mean, I know you have a minor orgasm when you come upon some new example. I left before the Robin Carlson period, but I imagine he created quite a challenge to the existing structure. So, I am

Re: [FairfieldLife] Why white belt should be the highest rank in martial arts

2014-06-01 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
> > our ability to control the content of our mind under stress; > > and our ability to remove ourselves as a "target" by our > > behavior and mindset. > > On 6/1/2014 9:07 PM, authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Sad. > You are supposed to read the messages BEFORE you post your comment

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