[FairfieldLife] Re: Islam and AUM

2015-03-06 Thread he...@hotmail.com [FairfieldLife]
Seems to me 'om' isn't possible in Arabic, because it only has the vowels a, i and u (all of them either short or long)... The Arabic Alphabet: Vowels http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/hist455/vowels/vowels_pres.htm The Arabic Alphabet: Vowels

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Age-Defying Effect of Long-term Meditation

2015-03-06 Thread rich...@rwilliams.us [FairfieldLife]
He said it was just like TM: Any technique that provides the ideal opportunity for transcending can be termed meditation that is transcendental. I studied this technique under Suzuki Roshi in SF - it's just like the practice of TM except in Soto Zen there is no bija mantra - instead you just

[FairfieldLife] Re: TV series reviews

2015-03-06 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Barry, tell us you'll never, ever, stop your wonderful preambles with regard to your incessant tv watching. For God's sake man, just, say, I watch 30 hours of tv a week, and I'm damn proud of it Take a cue from Budweiser, and be proud of what you are! You'll get more respect.

[FairfieldLife] Post Count Sat 07-Mar-15 00:15:10 UTC

2015-03-06 Thread FFL PostCount ffl.postco...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): 02/28/15 00:00:00 End Date (UTC): 03/07/15 00:00:00 363 messages as of (UTC) 03/06/15 23:49:50 63 richard 55 Bhairitu noozguru 48 TurquoiseBee turquoiseb 43 salyavin808 28 Michael Jackson mjackson74 15 dhamiltony2k5

[FairfieldLife] Re: Whoo Hoo at the Marshy School!

2015-03-06 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
If the exemption was made for the school, or for TMers in general (since all students at the school do TM and at least one partent does), then y ou would expect every student, or almost-every, to have the exemption, but such is not the case. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@...

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Whoo Hoo at the Marshy School!

2015-03-06 Thread Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
One of the most glaring points of the article was the last big measles outbreak in Iowa started in Fairfield, brought in by an unvaccinated person FROM INDIA. From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, March 6, 2015 4:10 PM Subject: Re:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Maybe this is why things get so screwed up?

2015-03-06 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
Robert Hand's take on science and astrology. Hand however is more into tropical or western astrology: http://www.astro.com/astrology/in_astrobyhand1_e.htm On 03/06/2015 03:32 PM, s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: */I think what you are talking about, s3raphita, is self-fulfilling

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Age-Defying Effect of Long-term Meditation

2015-03-06 Thread rich...@rwilliams.us [FairfieldLife]
You don't have to be a genius to understand anti-aging techniques. Any kind of stress relief is going to result in slowing aging. The really difficult task is age-reversal. This can on be performed by highly adept yogis like Tat Walla Baba. He was an old man that looked like a youth. He

[FairfieldLife] Re: Islam and AUM

2015-03-06 Thread rich...@rwilliams.us [FairfieldLife]
There are no bija mantras in the Rig Veda or in the Avesta. The use of bija mantras came during the rise of the tantric sects in the Gupta Age in India. There are no Arabic bija mantras. Bija mantras are used in tantric yoga, which developed after the development of the Indian sects such as

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Maybe this is why things get so screwed up?

2015-03-06 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Another area in which I think astrology could be useful is this . . . It's a commonplace amongst psychotherapists that the Unconscious is more powerful (Freudians) and wiser (Jungians) than the surface ego. Is that true? I have no idea, but let's assume it is true. The question then

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Whoo Hoo at the Marshy School!

2015-03-06 Thread Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I'm not quite so vexed with the situation. I and my siblings and virtually everyone I grew up with (I was born in 1956) had all the measles, mumps, chicken pox, all the crap you get vaccinated for these days and we all survived. I don't go so far as to believe that the world won't survive

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Whoo Hoo at the Marshy School!

2015-03-06 Thread Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Yeah I was surprised to see that more than 50% are vaccinated. I am curious to know why the reporter chose to focus in the Marshy School and Fairfield and Jefferson County when Polk County has a higher percentage of unvaccinated kids than Jefferson. From: lengli...@cox.net

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maybe this is why things get so screwed up?

2015-03-06 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I think what you are talking about, s3raphita, is self-fulfilling prophecy: Well, if going to an astrologer means your marriage is more likely to be a success that nicely makes my point. Which is? That skeptics ask is astrology true?. The more interesting question might be does astrology

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Whoo Hoo at the Marshy School!

2015-03-06 Thread Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
They're not doing it by diet and prayer - they are doing it by TMSP and yagya! Not to mention amrit kalash! From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, March 6, 2015 4:31 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Whoo Hoo at the Marshy School!

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Age-Defying Effect of Long-term Meditation

2015-03-06 Thread jamesalan...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
This is all fine and good, but I'm assuming that it is copied from some article or other and is clearly not your writing. A few days ago, I pointed out the clear degeneration of your writing by comparing your posts in the last year to those from several years ago. Do you accept that there is

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Age-Defying Effect of Long-term Meditation

2015-03-06 Thread anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Buck You realise this is not a TM study. It has been shown that mindfulness meditation thickens the frontal cortex, so a result such as this might be expected. The study says the meditators 'were recruited from various venues in the greater Los Angeles area', so the study likely has a mix of

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Age-Defying Effect of Long-term Meditation

2015-03-06 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Sal, I feel from long experience around this that an ideal combination is there in a mindfulness combined with transcendent meditation like in the essential practice of the TM-Sidhis. The science seems to appreciate that too. Do not give up your transcending meditation in process, yet. As

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Age-Defying Effect of Long-term Meditation

2015-03-06 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Good point, Xeno. I was going to comment that (ironically, in a post about age-related brain atrophy), when I started reading it I knew immediately that the text of Buck's post wasn't written by him and was lifted verbatim from the article. How? The language made sense. Therefore, given

[FairfieldLife] The Age-Defying Effect of Long-term Meditation

2015-03-06 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Jai Guru Dev, While overall life expectancy has been increasing, the human brain still begins deteriorating after the first two decades of life and continues degrading further with increasing age. Thus, techniques that diminish the negative impact of aging on the brain are desirable.. Much

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Age-Defying Effect of Long-term Meditation

2015-03-06 Thread anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I usually meditate about an hour, but sometimes longer, three times a day more or less. My meditations are a mix of mindfulness, some TM, and whatever it strikes my fancy to invent. I don't follow a rigid schedule, I don't care if I miss a meditation, basically I just like to sit quietly now

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Age-Defying Effect of Long-term Meditation

2015-03-06 Thread salyavin808
Very interesting. I'm sure glad I do a bit of mindfulness every day to take advantage of these brain-age improving effects. I wonder how much is enough though and should I drop TM entirely to concentrate on it? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5@... wrote : Jai Guru Dev,

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Age-Defying Effect of Long-term Meditation

2015-03-06 Thread anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I think this is a good recommendation. Meditation is not a cure-all for the effects of ageing though it can help. People age at different rates. As I said I experience this myself. And a few people in my family and relatives showed all sorts of cognitive decline as they approached 90 years old,

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Age-Defying Effect of Long-term Meditation

2015-03-06 Thread salyavin808
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5@... wrote : Sal, I feel from long experience around this that an ideal combination is there in a mindfulness combined with transcendent meditation like in the essential practice of the TM-Sidhis. The science seems to appreciate that too.

[FairfieldLife] Whoo Hoo at the Marshy School!

2015-03-06 Thread Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
A few schools have large pools of unvaccinated kids |   | |   | |   |   |   |   |   | | A few schools have large pools of unvaccinated kidsMaharishi School in Fairfield is only one where less than half of students are vaccinated. | | | | View on www.desmoinesregi... | Preview by Yahoo | | | |  

[FairfieldLife] Neo Search

2015-03-06 Thread anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I get an error message in Neo whenever I try any kind of a search by date. The Yahoo groups archive still works however, but it seems that only the previous 10 years of posts are searchable, perhaps the posts before that have been deleted, or made unsearchable to cut down on storage and CPU

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Age-Defying Effect of Long-term Meditation

2015-03-06 Thread salyavin808
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anartaxius@... wrote : I usually meditate about an hour, but sometimes longer, three times a day more or less. My meditations are a mix of mindfulness, some TM, and whatever it strikes my fancy to invent. I don't follow a rigid schedule, I don't care if

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Age-Defying Effect of Long-term Meditation

2015-03-06 Thread anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I could not agree more. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 wrote : I agree, I was a most dedicated TMer for many years. I wore it as a badge of pride that I'd never missed a prog in 10 years! But it felt like a necessity at the time, I'm not sure if that was pure hunger for

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Age-Defying Effect of Long-term Meditation

2015-03-06 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
It doesn't matter, most meditation techniques will slow aging because they are calming. On 03/06/2015 04:34 AM, anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Buck You realise this is not a TM study. It has been shown that mindfulness meditation thickens the frontal cortex, so a result such

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Maybe this is why things get so screwed up?

2015-03-06 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I think what you are talking about, s3raphita, is self-fulfilling prophecy. From: s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, March 6, 2015 3:26 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Maybe this is why things get so

Re: [FairfieldLife] Religious Bias Suit against a Church School loses in US Court

2015-03-06 Thread rich...@rwilliams.us [FairfieldLife]
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : If you are referring to me Dougy, you are as usual off base and plain wrong headed. According to my sources at MUM, a Michael Jackson was never employed on campus. This is a matter of record - I don't see your name on the golden

Re: [FairfieldLife] Maybe this is why things get so screwed up?

2015-03-06 Thread rich...@rwilliams.us [FairfieldLife]
From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com This is really the problem. If we had never heard of astrology and you were to propose it as a scientifically credible system now, what would the evidence look like? Would you say that everything we know about psychology is wrong and all

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Age-Defying Effect of Long-term Meditation

2015-03-06 Thread Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I only remember M speaking about Buddhist meditation once. In general he didn't seem to be very impressed but he did say that there was one technique he that he liked. It was the walking meditation that is common among monks. As he described it, one places the attention on each foot step. The

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Age-Defying Effect of Long-term Meditation

2015-03-06 Thread rich...@rwilliams.us [FairfieldLife]
If you are doing TM then obviously you are praying to the Hindu gods. There is nothing wrong with this - millions of people do it every day. If you want to believe in Buddha's that's up to you. Just realize that you are never going to fly or levitate. It's not complicated. ---In

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Age-Defying Effect of Long-term Meditation

2015-03-06 Thread rich...@rwilliams.us [FairfieldLife]
Speaking of making sense, some of us want to know is how Rama was able to levitate and rise up slowly off of a couch at Denny's. It just doesn't make any sense. I mean, if this had actually happened, then it would have been mentioned on alt.sci.skeptic, right? Human suspension in mid-air with

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Age-Defying Effect of Long-term Meditation

2015-03-06 Thread rich...@rwilliams.us [FairfieldLife]
The practice of mindfulness is the same thing as practicing meditation. I've practiced both under teachers so I can speak from experience. Meditation is nothing more than sitting down and thinking things over. It's as simple as that. There's no tm and no mindfulless - there is only thinking, or

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Age-Defying Effect of Long-term Meditation

2015-03-06 Thread rich...@rwilliams.us [FairfieldLife]
Maybe we should take a look at your contributions to the forum. LoL! http://tinyurl.com/n6ukxv8 http://tinyurl.com/n6ukxv8 I've been posting here since 2003 and published thousands of messages, so anyone can read what I've posted. You can read a small selection here. I'd put mine up against

[FairfieldLife] Re: Whoo Hoo at the Marshy School!

2015-03-06 Thread rich...@rwilliams.us [FairfieldLife]
It's up to the parents to decide if and when to medicate their own children. This is a long-standing parenting right in the USA. We don't need no federal government making up rules for us, when the state has already determined that parents cannot be forced to administer any medication to their

[FairfieldLife] TV series reviews

2015-03-06 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Three new shows that I'd never heard of before appeared on my feed today, and because my work for the week was done and it was raining cats and frogs outside and I didn't want to go out in it, I stayed in and watched the first episode of each of them, and will duly report on my experience here.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Whoo Hoo at the Marshy School!

2015-03-06 Thread salyavin808
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : A few schools have large pools of unvaccinated kids http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/iowa-poll/2015/02/28/maharishi-school-fairfield-vaccinations/24193179/

Re: [FairfieldLife] TV series reviews

2015-03-06 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
I just finished screen recording Dig since Hulu only has rights to a web showing. VUDU apparently has the first episode free but I couldn't see how to select it but it's probably miss-numbered and listed as an extra. Another new series is CBS's Cyber with Patricia Arquette. I watched it

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Whoo Hoo at the Marshy School!

2015-03-06 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
OTOH, I wouldn't be surprised that people who have been observing healthful practices for years, not eating bad food with chemicals and preservatives might have severe reactions to vaccines which contain a lot of crap in them. You spend years raising your kids to be healthy and then you're

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Whoo Hoo at the Marshy School!

2015-03-06 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
On 03/06/2015 01:31 PM, salyavin808 wrote: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote : On 03/06/2015 01:10 PM, salyavin808 wrote: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... mailto:noozguru@... wrote : OTOH, I

Re: [FairfieldLife] A bee as a flower might see it

2015-03-06 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
Though this was probably not of much interest to the usual denizens here except for Alex and a few others, I thought I might mention my other camera experiments. Another thing I learned from my main system was to move that camera to the entrance to my house away from the street. This street

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Whoo Hoo at the Marshy School!

2015-03-06 Thread salyavin808
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote : OTOH, I wouldn't be surprised that people who have been observing healthful practices for years, not eating bad food with chemicals and preservatives might have severe reactions to vaccines which contain a lot of crap in them. You

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Whoo Hoo at the Marshy School!

2015-03-06 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
On 03/06/2015 01:10 PM, salyavin808 wrote: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote : OTOH, I wouldn't be surprised that people who have been observing healthful practices for years, not eating bad food with chemicals and preservatives might have severe reactions to

[FairfieldLife] TM WAVE

2015-03-06 Thread email4you mikemail4...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Whoo Hoo at the Marshy School!

2015-03-06 Thread rich...@rwilliams.us [FairfieldLife]
--In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote : OTOH, I wouldn't be surprised that people who have been observing healthful practices for years, not eating bad food with chemicals and preservatives might have severe reactions to vaccines which contain a lot of crap in them. You

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Whoo Hoo at the Marshy School!

2015-03-06 Thread salyavin808
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote : On 03/06/2015 01:10 PM, salyavin808 wrote: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... mailto:noozguru@... wrote : OTOH, I wouldn't be surprised that people who have been

[FairfieldLife] Re: Whoo Hoo at the Marshy School!

2015-03-06 Thread rich...@rwilliams.us [FairfieldLife]
Good points made by the reporter - like how can u have a religious exemption when TM is not a religion!! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sa...@yahoogroups.com wrote : Those who choose to ignore the mistakes of the past are doomed to repeat them. Non sequitur. I liked this bit:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Whoo Hoo at the Marshy School!

2015-03-06 Thread salyavin808
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote : On 03/06/2015 01:31 PM, salyavin808 wrote: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... mailto:noozguru@... wrote : On 03/06/2015 01:10 PM, salyavin808 wrote: ---In

[FairfieldLife] The future of warfare is here!

2015-03-06 Thread salyavin808
Let's arm our new generation of autonomous killer robots with these. What could possibly go wrong? But seriously, what would a single swipe with this across a battlefield do to your eyes? This new laser beam can stop a running car from a mile away

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Whoo Hoo at the Marshy School!

2015-03-06 Thread salyavin808
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : I'm not quite so vexed with the situation. I and my siblings and virtually everyone I grew up with (I was born in 1956) had all the measles, mumps, chicken pox, all the crap you get vaccinated for these days and we all survived.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Maybe this is why things get so screwed up?

2015-03-06 Thread salyavin808
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote : Another area in which I think astrology could be useful is this . . . It's a commonplace amongst psychotherapists that the Unconscious is more powerful (Freudians) and wiser (Jungians) than the surface ego. Is that true? I have

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Maybe this is why things get so screwed up?

2015-03-06 Thread salyavin808
This guy sounds like he has an idea that he wants to be true but doesn't know how to fit it in to the world so that other people might think he's onto something. It's interesting how he thinks antipathy towards astrology is a blindness due to prevailing dogma and isn't part of the scientific

[FairfieldLife] Suffer little children..

2015-03-06 Thread salyavin808
Depressing little article about religious privilege, but fascinating that this carries on so far into the 21st century in the world's richest, smartest country... Faith-Healer Parents Who Let Their Child Die Should Go to Jail

[FairfieldLife] India's daugher video

2015-03-06 Thread eustace10679
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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Whoo Hoo at the Marshy School!

2015-03-06 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
On 03/06/2015 01:50 PM, salyavin808 wrote: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote : On 03/06/2015 01:31 PM, salyavin808 wrote: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... mailto:noozguru@... wrote : On

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Whoo Hoo at the Marshy School!

2015-03-06 Thread rich...@rwilliams.us [FairfieldLife]
People who have been watching their health usually have strong immune systems. On 03/06/2015 01:10 PM, salyavin808 wrote: So the Marshy school kids are going to be immune and show the way for the rest of us? I think I hear nature laughing as the viruses mutate Non sequitur. It's

[FairfieldLife] Re: TV series reviews

2015-03-06 Thread rich...@rwilliams.us [FairfieldLife]
Well, I guess we know what Barry does on Friday nights. LoL! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : Three new shows that I'd never heard of before appeared on my feed today, and because my work for the week was done and it was raining cats and frogs outside and I didn't