Excellent find. This is the clip I would have posted of him in remembrance, if
I had been able to find it. I saw him do this bit live in L.A., the first and
only time I've ever seen him live, just before Mork Mindy came out. It's
the way he used to close his shows in those days. The character
Just as a comment, does anyone else find it ironic that the person who reacted
to Robin Carlsen saying she was possessed by demons and tossing her out of his
cult by going whistleblower and running to the press is now running the
blame the victim number on TMers?
Back then, she was so full of
From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
I suspect he is finding out What Dreams May Come.
Indeed. Here's a fairly well-edited tribute video compiled from images in that
lovely film, for those who don't know it:
What Dreams May Come Robin
That is good. You'll like living here. It is a great community to live in. A
lot of spirituality going on here. Great recreation and fabulous performing and
fine and folks arts too. The Domes to meditate in are one of the 7 wonders of
the world. It is just a matter of showing up for what
no one cares. :-) ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote :
Just as a comment, does anyone else find it ironic that the person who reacted
to Robin Carlsen saying she was possessed by demons and tossing her out of his
cult by going whistleblower and running to the press is now
The space outside the Mrs Doubtfire house has been turned into a shrine for
him. I am reminded about what someone recently said about Amy Winehouse's
death, that there is a certain egocentricity that takes over, in rejecting the
efforts of loved ones to help you - no one knows what I am going
you are blaming the victims and absolving the con artists and yes that includes
Marshy of all responsibility, which is what Marshy and his ilk always wanted.
If you don't want to see Marshy as a con artist, that is your point of view,
but it is not one that I share.
I make a non-jyotish
Oh hell yeah! Come on down and live here in the heart of sattva and good common
sense!
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-28587041
Guide dogs and guns
In the US, being blind is no bar to owning and carrying firearms, and the blind
people who do it say they present no danger to
On 8/12/2014 10:08 PM, steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:
When are you not thinking, breathing, living TM? I don't think ever.
You have this incredible inner process where whatever comes in, the
output is always the same. TM bad! Maharishi, bad!
On the other hand, the place is
According to the pundits on this forum all you need is a few friends and a few
planks, so why not take the challenge ?
I was not aware of the Crop Circle Challenge until just the other day, all you
have to do is replicate 'The Galaxy' crop circle in six hours and the money is
yours. All
You are one of a kind Michael. You have fashioned TM into some kind of global
monster.
Never mind that the basic technique is one of quieting the mind, and probably
not too dissimilar from other methods on the market, but somehow in your mind
this technique is going to wreak have on anyone
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : Robin
Williams - Spark of Madness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2SliEAGamw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2SliEAGamw
Robin Williams - Spark of Madness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2SliEAGamw
A fantastic quote
The thing about checking is that it isn't the end-all of the followup program
that comes with learning TM.
As Denise Denniston (co-chair of my local center) points out, the TMer has
every right to expect TM teachers to answer questions above and beyond the
checking procedure, and they should
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : you are blaming
the victims and absolving the con artists and yes that includes Marshy of all
responsibility, which is what Marshy and his ilk always wanted. If you don't
want to see Marshy as a con artist, that is your point of view,
I act like a fool all the time.
The question is: am I more of a fool after having done TM for 41 years or less
of a fool than I otherwise would be?
People definitely saw an abrupt improvement in my behavior when I learned TM.
These days, I am decidedly irregular in my practice (more
Mickey's recipe for happiness is to start the day with a tirade against all
things TM. I can't believe that anyone takes him seriously. ---In
FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, steve.sundur@... wrote : You are one of a kind
Michael. You have fashioned TM into some kind of global monster.
Never
Plus, Lawson, depending on where you live in FF, it's very walkable. And there
are lots of tree lined neighborhoods around the square to make even doing an
errand a wonderful opportunity to enjoy the beauty of the out of doors. And we
have a great local health food store that features many
That German study was based on a snowball selection of subjects...
Subjects who didn't like TM for some reason were asked to provide names of
other people who didn't like TM, who were asked to provide names of other
people who didn't like TM:
TranceNet: German TM Research, 2 of 7
From: feste37 no_re...@yahoogroups.com
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2014 4:19 PM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Damn It
Mickey's recipe for happiness is to start the day with a tirade against all
things TM. I can't believe that anyone takes him seriously.
Actually, TM has very good effects on PTSD, and faster, at least for war
refugees in Uganda, then what you get with mindfulness or anything else.
The problem is that TM research is published at about 1/25th the rate that
mindfulness research is published, so for any given condition, you can
Steve, not to be too picky wicky but MJ doesn't say that TM will wreck havoc on
EVERYONE. He's made it clear that it's fine for salyavin, seemingly because sal
drinks pints in a pub and gets in fights!
Can you say: go figger...
On Wednesday, August 13, 2014 8:39 AM, steve.sun...@yahoo.com
Now tell us what you think was wrong about the 1971 Stanford Research
Institute study. Based on the short writeup below, I don't see anything odd
about their methodology -- they sent out questionnaires to 1,900 people,
selected pretty much at random from TMO lists, received replies from 47% of
I second everything Buck and Share say in this thread. Fairfield is a wonderful
place to live and it seems to get better all the time. Maybe if Lawson does
move here we should have a little welcoming party. ---In
FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote : Plus, Lawson,
depending on
Talk to the people who grew up in the idiocy of the Movement and have gotten
free of it - like those who were born and raised in Fairfield like Gina Catena
and Kyle Cleveland and lots of others - they take me seriously and I am quite
mild compared to some of those folks.
I think the theory was that all the TM teachers would gain enlightenment, etc.
and bring along the students. But while I got tired of waiting, I found that
all of my questions were answered, anyway, either by an unrelated occurrence,
someone else, additional experience, a book I may have picked
Based on two years of living there I agree Fairfield is a nice place to live -
harsh winters sometimes but nice the rest of the time - its even better if you
don't do TM.
The people I re-connected with from my time in MIU surprised me - some of them
have quit TM years ago but still live in
Good point Turq - any takers on this question, anyone willing to give a
sensible answer?
From: TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday,
Everybody who gets on here with the singular goal to tear down Maharishi and
TM, is pretty crazy. They were obsessed with Maharishi and TM when they were
integrated with the TMO, and are obsessed now, with their lack of integration
with it. There is no story, message or lesson to be learned,
Michael, you've got a moment of sanity here. Try to hold on to it. A little
bit of light is shining through. Good luck. ---In
FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : Based on two years of
living there I agree Fairfield is a nice place to live - harsh winters
sometimes but
On 8/12/2014 11:17 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
wrote:
*From:* Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Fortunately Bhairitu that idea that a person just needs a checking is
quickly becoming a misunderstanding of the past.
Me? Let's listen to the horse's mouth instead: Nisargadatta's advice on how
to get enlightened:
Q: What is meditation and what are its uses?M: As long as you are a beginner
certain formalised meditations, or prayers may be good for you.
But for a seeker for reality there is only one
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : Oh hell yeah!
Come on down and live here in the heart of sattva and good common sense!
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-28587041
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-28587041
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-28587041
Wrong on all counts - My goal has never been to tear down anyone, lest of all
liar Marshy and his sycophantic crew. My purpose on FFL was to gain info from
TM old timers to try to make sense of my time w TM. In the process I found
myself simply telling the truth that some others were ignoring
Interesting - in his lunch conversation with Francis Bennett, my friend Bill
mentioned that Bennet talked about Nissagardatta - he had some friends, older
friends who had been around Nissagargatta in the last few years of his life -
they told Bennet he was a real coarse and crude guy when he
Michael,
It's good that you think you are presenting a fair and balanced view of TM,
the TMO and MMY. It makes you rather impervious to any feedback to the
contrary.
But then, try to look too hard at real world metrics for the organization,
because you may suffer from the 'ol CD. We see
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : From: feste37
no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday,
August 13, 2014 4:19 PMSubject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Damn It
Mickey's recipe for happiness is to start the day with a tirade against all
things
Hey Edg, thanks for sharing this.
But does it not sound like just another means for the mind to transcend?
I mean, it looks like the end result is no thoughts, I guess, pure awareness.
Any comment on this? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,
no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : Me? Let's
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : Based on two
years of living there I agree Fairfield is a nice place to live - harsh winters
sometimes but nice the rest of the time - its even better if you don't do TM.
The people I re-connected with from my time in MIU surprised
feste, I second this idea.
On Wednesday, August 13, 2014 9:45 AM, feste37 no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote:
I second everything Buck and Share say in this thread. Fairfield is a wonderful
place to live and it seems to get better all the time. Maybe if Lawson does
move here we should
On 8/12/2014 11:29 AM, Duveyoung wrote:
I taught a guy who was pre-nutzoid. Even in the three-days checking
he was giving responses that were not handled by the checking notes.
I had him down to 3 minutes of mantra and then feeling the body for
the rest of the 20 minutes -- this is the
well here is another
One of my buddies - a MIU grad and post grad said this about one of his
professors - one Susan Andersen
She taught many of my classes, and helped me get my Masters degree.
She is a wonderful and kind person. many students favorite teacher.
Good to know not all MIU
Brain dead?! Michael, read your first sentence to have a perfect example of
that! Cognitive dissonance in a nutshell! And imo, you long ago stopped trying
to make sense of your TM experience and slipped and slid into your one man cult
junkie fashion!
On Wednesday, August 13, 2014 10:48 AM,
I don't know where the post is, sure it could be found in the archives.
However, it really wasn't any different than what we find in the Gita when
Krishna tells Arjuna not to worry or feel remorse for all the people*HE* has
condemned to die. The Swaroop contains visions of millions of people
could be - Ego LOVES Reasons and Purpose. Nonetheless, you hard timers all
sound a few cans short of a six pack. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,
mjackson74@... wrote : Wrong on all counts - My goal has never been to tear
down anyone, lest of all liar Marshy and his sycophantic crew. My
On 8/12/2014 11:34 AM, Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
wrote:
beautiful, MJ, and wishing this for all the creatures in the universe...
It's sort of like a zen koan, Share.
Isaiah 11:7 - The cow will feed with the bear, their young will lie
down together, and the lion will
Yeah, sure, of course -- any technique has to reduce thinking. TM does it, and
being mindful does it. Whether one does it better than the other, can't say.As
for what impact transcending has on personality, I'd say: unknowable...might be
profound or insignificant. Add zero to any number and
That he is not to be taken seriously became obvious with days of his arrival.
Mickey's recipe for happiness is to start the day with a tirade against all
things TM. I can't believe that anyone takes him seriously. ---In
FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, awoelflebater@... wrote : ---In
On 8/13/2014 8:39 AM, steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:
You are one of a kind Michael. You have fashioned TM into some kind of
global monster.
Never mind that the basic technique is one of quieting the mind, and
probably not too dissimilar from other methods on the market, but
Even on campus?
From: awoelfleba...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2014 12:03 PM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Moving to Fairfield, Iowa
---In
On 8/13/2014 11:31 AM, nablusoss1008 wrote:
That he is not to be taken seriously became obvious with days of his
arrival. Mickey's recipe for happiness is to start the day with a
tirade against all things TM. I can't believe that anyone takes him
seriously.
So, it's settled then: we do
little correction FWIW ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, steve.sundur@...
wrote : Michael,
It's good that you think you are presenting a fair and balanced view of TM,
the TMO and MMY. It makes you rather impervious to any feedback to the
contrary.
But then, try not to look too hard at
On 8/13/2014 7:55 AM, Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com
[FairfieldLife] wrote:
you are blaming the victims and absolving the con artists and yes that
includes Marshy of all responsibility, which is what Marshy and his
ilk always wanted. If you don't want to see Marshy as a con artist,
Ad
Hey Edg, good answer.
But, what in a succinct way, is the real and what is the unreal, if you
don't mind me asking?
Is it that all the particles are suffused by waves, and the waves are suffused
by pure beingness? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,
no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : Yeah,
Message from Glenn Close:Robin Williams was my friend. He was the star of the
first movie I ever did called The World According To Garp. It was his second
feature film and he was wildly popular because of his years in the TV show,
Mork and Mindy. George Roy Hill was our director and he believed
Taking advantage of our landlords' full range of TV channels, I thought I'd
overcome my distrust of Marvel movies this evening and watch The Wolverine.
I've always liked Hugh Jackman, and have always thought he was born for the
role, so his character is one of the few from the Marvel Universe
If you've been following this final season of True Blood you had to be
rolling on the floor about the televangelist's wife becoming a
Buddhist despite the fact that here guru appeared to be Hindu teaching
yoga and of course she was sleeping with him. That actress pulls off
that comic role
I had an odd experience today. I know that there is a lot of talk and paranoia
on the Internet these days about how much guvmints know about us, and whether
they should know that much, but it's never really concerned me because I've
always assumed that I was too boring for any guvmint to become
Wonderful Ann. What Carrie Fisher said is front and center on Yahoo, but I'll
post it because her tribute is also very touching...
Carrie Fisher on Robin Williams: 'He Was the Opposite of Selfish'
Yeah, I noticed that. Silly. I've been tolerating it because I actually have a
kind of perverse crush on the actress who plays the televangelist. She's got a
kind of Southern Girl evil charm that turns me on. :-)
I've actually been enjoying the tidying up of all the loose ends nature of
this
Robin William's Last Gift
Robin and I were friends. Not intimate, because he was very shy when he was
not performing. Still, I spent many birthdays and holidays at his home with
Marsha and the children, and he showed up at my 70th birthday to say Hello
and wound up mesmerizing my relatives with a
Rick, where did you find this?---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, rick@...
wrote : Robin William’s Last GiftRobin and I were friends. Not intimate,
because he was very shy when he was not performing. Still, I spent many
birthdays and holidays at his home with Marsha and the children, and he
Peter Coyote’s Wisdom Regarding Robin Williams’ Suicide
http://theaposition.com/robertfagan/golf/personalities/12077/peter-coyotes-wisdom-regarding-robin-williams-suicide
http://theaposition.com/robertfagan/golf/personalities/12077/peter-coyotes-wisdom-regarding-robin-williams-suicide
From: azgrey no_re...@yahoogroups.com
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2014 10:03 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Peter Coyote on Robin Williams
Rick, where did you find this?---
I needed to pass this along, too, so I did a Google search and found:
Peter
I suspect the matching process works more like this: your face is
categorized by certain general features. Thus the search doesn't bother
with faces on file that don't match that category and just searches on
ones that do and possibly filter out sub categories that don't match
too. Thus
If there is any such thing as an awareness after death of the world you
just left Robin is probably having a very big palms to face moment. He
probably never considered such a reaction as the public has had. Not
exactly a grand exit.
On 08/13/2014 01:12 PM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com
The brain has specialized hardware that is hardwired to make recognition of
faces easier.
As far as I know, facial recognition is considered very much a pure
connectionist thing where inputs get processed in a completely mechanistic way
in the classical neural network sense that that features
A perfect example of me not reading carefully.
You are talking about a computerized NSA facial recognition search, NOT about
how the brain recognizes faces.
Face palm, runs out of room crying piteously.
L
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, LEnglish5@... wrote : The brain has
Eh, Yogis can be Buddhists can be womanizers.
L
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote : If you've been
following this final season of True Blood you had to be rolling on the floor
about the televangelist's wife becoming a Buddhist despite the fact that here
guru appeared to
Nothing terribly wrong with the methodology except that responses to the survey
were self-selected, so perhaps, one way, or another, the responses were NOT
indicative of the majority of people who do TM.
For all we know, the people who didn't respond were actually worse off than
the ones who
Surveys where less than 1/2 of the people respond can't be used to say anything
about the 50%+ of the people who didnt' bother.
Otherwise, you could conclude from the fact that a tiny percent of the people
who who get them, take Nigerian email scams seriously, that everyone in the
world is
I resemble that remark.
Unfortunately, I do.
OCD R US.
L
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fleetwood_macncheese@... wrote :
Everybody who gets on here with the singular goal to tear down Maharishi and
TM, is pretty crazy. They were obsessed with Maharishi and TM when they were
Wolverine's fascination with all things Japanese has been part of the Marvel
universe for a very long time. As I said, you sell the entire genre short based
on he lowest common denominator stuff meant for little kids. Since modern
comics can cost just as much as a paperback book, the artists
Share,
He's got two sets of logic, two sets of rules.
Once you realize that, everything makes sense.
Absent that, you are left scratching your head.
Bring it to his attention, and
it's.. #@%^*%$^ Willy Tex
He will never run out of
Lawson, when you wrote that part about the Polgar sisters, did you know that
Judit announced her retirement today?
On Wednesday, August 13, 2014 5:17 PM, lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com wrote:
A perfect example of me not reading carefully.
You are
Steve, he probably has a soft spot for you too. Well, after you know who (-:
On Wednesday, August 13, 2014 5:35 PM, steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com wrote:
Share,
He's got two sets of logic, two sets of rules.
Once you realize that, everything makes
Richard, I just saw a video of a bird feeding treats to a dog! So sweet...
On Wednesday, August 13, 2014 11:20 AM, 'Richard J. Williams'
pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com wrote:
On 8/12/2014 11:34 AM, Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
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You would probably want to watch the episode I'm referring to and you
would have palms face for a different reason. :-D
On 08/13/2014 03:13 PM, lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife] wrote:
Eh, Yogis can be Buddhists can be womanizers.
L
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote :
by Shankar Mahadevan
This is how I talk to myself.a lot.oftenEverything is indicative
of the real, but awareness is the only aspect of reality that is always
available -- since it is the self, -- and this distinction is axiomatic and
informs my intellect's inverted pyramid of conceptuality. Ergo:
So soon? WHY?
She's in her 40's, right?
L
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote : Lawson, when
you wrote that part about the Polgar sisters, did you know that Judit announced
her retirement today?
On Wednesday, August 13, 2014 5:17 PM, LEnglish5@...
Such profound insights from...
...such a noisy brain...
;-)
L
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : This
is how I talk to myself.a lot.oftenEverything is indicative of the
real, but awareness is the only aspect of reality that is always
She's only 38.
:-(
World’s greatest female chess player Judit Polgar retires
http://www.livemint.com/Consumer/XqUmBlhIVnhbLkaahYtovN/Worlds-greatest-female-chess-player-Judit-Polgar-retires.html
This is the local drum corps, which just won it's 16th world
championship. They are quite something to see and hear in person.
http://youtu.be/7YutfWHOLNE
And I would be remiss if I didn't include this clip:
http://youtu.be/9REea3LoNcg
On 08/13/2014 06:46 PM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
wrote:
This is the local drum corps, which just won it's 16th world
championship. They are quite something to see and hear in person.
I appreciate this - I have seen most of the Xmen movies and enjoyed them all -
but this one for some reason I skipped - I'll check it out now.
From: TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
To:
Okay Edg, thanks for this. It sounds pretty boiler plate, presented in that
distinctive Edg fashion, which, of course, I like.
It sounds like you have a pretty good groove going on, although I always
thought you did.
Apropos of nothing, you really blew me away when you first arrived on the
8/1213/14-Maharishi: As we take care of ourself, the world will take of itself
for us on that level
All desires will always be on the level of what we deserve. Whatever the level
of consciousness, desires will be on that level. So we don't have to worry much
about desires. What we have to look
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