---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
Based on my simulation program, it does not appear the eclipse will be total
even in Northern Scotland. As you mentioned last year the Faroe Islands seem to
be the place to be for a total eclipse. It is partial in Iceland and Norway,
where a th
Based on my simulation program, it does not appear the eclipse will be total
even in Northern Scotland. As you mentioned last year the Faroe Islands seem to
be the place to be for a total eclipse. It is partial in Iceland and Norway,
where a thin crescent of the Sun will still show, and everywhe
I recall you saying, that your main activity with Maya was watching movies on
Saturday mornings.
That, of course, does not surprise me.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
From: "anartaxius@... [FairfieldLife]"
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2015
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
From: "Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@... [FairfieldLife]"
To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com"
Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2015 7:40 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] FFL/The_Peak
Since 18 March to now.
FFL, 122 posts
The Peak,
Jesus Christ, I finally got what I wanted, a comprehensive explanation.
Thank you for that!
I am going to stop right now, as I have to finish some work stuff, and let
this percolate a little.
I appreciate you taking the time to flesh this out a bit.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.co
well, then your statement stands alone, and remains a mystery to me.
to paraphrase: "misrepresenting something about another person, intentionally,
or unintentionally is a good way to find out what they are all about"
I can think of a number of ways to find out what makes a person tick with
So, it's all abut Richard.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
Since 18 March to now.
FFL, 122 posts
The Peak, 24 posts
(figures are minus the skewing factor of Richard's irrelevance)
Actually Barry, it's because you are fascinating in your own sort of way.
Just as you can't stop posting about what you see as the cult mentality, I am
sort of fascinated by the mechanics of how one can start off as a seeker, and
end up a complete narcissist obsessed with an organization he la
Gawd! Sometime you can't even get in a word edgewise with all these informants
incessantly telling us about all their spiritual achievements and experiences;
posting their pundit opinions. You can tell they've been thinking these things
over in their meditations for a long period of time now.
Earth to Burmese authoritarian dummies: lighten up, kick back, stop
being control freaks and enjoy the flow of income from retirees moving
here from around the world. It's a dream city with fast wifi even.
http://gu.com/p/46hpk/sbl
-- Burma Shave
The phrase, by the way, was "Solve the age old problems of mankind, in this
generation"
Yes, it's advertising, and I don't really know of anyone who really figured it
could really transpire, but it was a slogan to motivate the troops. And I was
one who bought into it, and it did have a tran
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Ummm. Spring Time for Hitler and Germany. What wonderful memories.
From: salyavin808
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2015 3:42 PM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Bad eclipse karma...
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
Lucky he didn't ge
I posted this a while ago, but it still pertains. I don't think we can
conflate Being with Awareness.
Nisargadatta Maharaj: The seeker is he who is in search of himself. Soon he
discovers that his own body he cannot be. Once the conviction: 'I am not the
body' becomes so well grounded that he
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAwPHqKkfaA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAwPHqKkfaA
Nisargadatta Maharaj: The seeker is he who is in search of himself. Soon he
discovers that his own body he cannot be. Once the conviction: 'I am not the
body' becomes so well grounded that he can no longer feel, think and act for
and on behalf of the body, he will easily discover that he is th
" but awareness is beyond all -- being as well as not-being." Nisargadatta
"The scriptures say so, but I know nothing about it. I know myself as I am; as
I appeared or will appear is not within my experience. It is not that I do not
remember. In fact there is nothing to remember. Reincarnation i
It is the way I write. Barry was more succinct.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
You couched it like an academic theory not that it was your experience.
On 03/19/2015 02:07 PM, anartaxius@... mailto:anartaxius@... [FairfieldLife]
wrote:
I thought I was talking about my exp
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
Total eclipses that I've experience were more like a cloud obscuring the sun.
Probably perplexing if there was not a cloud in the sky at some location and in
ancient times. But after learning tantra I was supposed to spend the eclipse
time me
You couched it like an academic theory not that it was your experience.
On 03/19/2015 02:07 PM, anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:
I thought I was talking about my experience. A theory will never match
experience, a theory just makes a verbal or mathematical
representation for the mi
I thought I was talking about my experience. A theory will never match
experience, a theory just makes a verbal or mathematical representation for the
mind, it represents a step down from experience, sometimes a very big step
down. It creates a way to express experience to another mind, like squ
Total eclipses that I've experience were more like a cloud obscuring the
sun. Probably perplexing if there was not a cloud in the sky at some
location and in ancient times. But after learning tantra I was supposed
to spend the eclipse time meditating to increase shakti. Exceptions
would be i
Yes, but they will stop talking if there isn't a verbal blur around the idea. I
just like to muck around in it. Once it is clear, the hierarchy can be
dismissed, and one can make a cup of coffee (which I just did, and which was
better than the Dunkin Donuts coffee I had at a mall earlier today,
But you are discussing theory not experience. What if the theory
doesn't match the experience?
On 03/19/2015 01:38 PM, anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:
I would say awareness experiences what the nervous system is conscious
of; you do not experience awareness, it 'gives' being to w
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
Lucky he didn't get eaten alive. That's demonstrated in the first few minutes
of the series "Fortitude" and why people around the arctic carry rifles and try
to stay aware from polar bears.
I bet it ruined his holiday. I wish I'd booked a w
I would say awareness experiences what the nervous system is conscious of; you
do not experience awareness, it 'gives' being to whatever is experienced. This
is fine cut gobbledygook in the use of words. Awareness is not self-reflective,
but allows self-reflectiveness to be experienced. The is n
For the record I was debating this:
Edg: This is the constant teaching of Nisargadatta throughout his
talks: awareness is not consciousness.
On 03/19/2015 01:01 PM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com
[FairfieldLife] wrote:
*/Why are you guys discussing -- and Edg melting down over -- such
pe
Why are you guys discussing -- and Edg melting down over -- such petty
differences?
In N's original statement, there are no elements of good/better, better/best or
any of that shit. He spoke about three *equivalences* -- the world as it
appears as seen through the mind, the world as seen from be
Read what I wrote to Xeno. Ever consider that Nisargadatta may be
WRONG? He was a simple man and maybe misused some words by conflating
"awareness" with "being."
Tell us instead what you experience rather than being a spectator to
some guru.
On 03/19/2015 12:27 PM, Duveyoung wrote:
Says
Lucky he didn't get eaten alive. That's demonstrated in the first few
minutes of the series "Fortitude" and why people around the arctic carry
rifles and try to stay aware from polar bears.
Let's hope the elite who run the world and are quite a bit superstitious
don't elect to start a war tomo
Do you experience awareness? I'm sure you do or you would be residing
up on a hill with some stone markers or in an urn somewhere. So tell me
how can you experience awareness without consciousness? I think this is
an issue of semantics. Does Nisargadatta mean conflate "awareness" with
"bein
From: "anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]"
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2015 8:12 PM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Barry Wright's nar-ci-fan-ta-stun-ted world
Those posts do 'feel' like Jim. Someone who is talking to Barry in a
familiar voice, not like
This may be the proof for biological life in the planet.
Leak in Mars Rover Curiosity's Wet Chemistry Test Finds Organics
http://www.space.com/28869-curiosity-rover-mars-wet-chemistry-organics.html
http://www.space.com/28869-curiosity-rover-mars-wet-chemistry-organics.html
Leak in Ma
My head is on my shoulders. Your head's view may differ FROM INSIDE YOUR ASS.
Why the fucking harsh tonality, Turq?
Jesus fucking Christ almighty it's hard to post anything here without some sick
fuck trying to make the posting out to be a proof of the poster's insanity,
immorality, or low I
Says you.
Nisargadatta's words, if true, disagree with your opinion. He clearly
indicates that he see three levels of identity and that consciousness is the
least of the three.
Consciousness cannot have a process it labels "awareness," but awareness is
never dependent upon consciousness. A
There's some dangerous influences coming from the heavens for North Europeans
tomorrow.
This poor guy didn't listen to the sages of old and look what happened. Take
heed of the omens.
Tourist survives polar bear attack while camping for solar eclipse
http://www.independent.co.uk/n
Nisargadatta is using the words awareness and consciousness in specific,
technical ways. In his view consciousness is a sub-property of awareness.
Awareness is pure being, and consciousness 'emerges' from that. Much in the
same way M said 'when pure consciousness becomes conscious', or something
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
Didn't "Utopia" have a solution for this? :-D
Yes indeed. If I remember correctly I probably won't need to keep checking the
worldometer every month to see if it's been implemented.
On 03/19/2015 10:12 AM, salyavin808 wrote:
I l
Those posts do 'feel' like Jim. Someone who is talking to Barry in a familiar
voice, not like someone who has not been here before. So if ak_ak is not Jim,
what other poster that has been here could it be? Not too many posters talk
incessantly about how badly Barry's life is going. Yeah, as if B
From: "Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]"
To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com"
Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2015 7:40 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] FFL/The_Peak
Since 18 March to now.
FFL, 122 posts
The Peak, 24 posts
(figures are minus the skewing factor of Rich
From: Duveyoung
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2015 7:19 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] 37 words
Q: But when you look at yourself, what do you see?
Nisargadatta: It depends how I look. When I look through the mind, I see
numberless people. When I look bey
Didn't "Utopia" have a solution for this? :-D
On 03/19/2015 10:12 AM, salyavin808 wrote:
I love looking at this every now and again and watching how the fast
the planet is filling up. 160,300 extra mouths to feed so far today!
World Population Clock: 7 Billion People (2015) - Worldometers
You can't have awareness without consciousness. Without being conscious
there is nothing to be aware of.
On 03/19/2015 11:19 AM, Duveyoung wrote:
*Q:* But when you look at yourself, what do you see?
*Nisargadatta:* It depends how I look. When I look through the mind,
I see numberless peo
Since 18 March to now.
FFL, 122 posts
The Peak, 24 posts
(figures are minus the skewing factor of Richard's irrelevance)
Q: But when you look at yourself, what do you see?
Nisargadatta: It depends how I look. When I look through the mind, I see
numberless people. When I look beyond the mind, I see the witness. Beyond the
witness there is the infinite intensity of emptiness and silence.
Edg: This is the con
I saw 2001 in 1968 in San Francisco. I rather liked the film because it was
largely visual. Kubrick was deliberately cool, showing how the human race,
after a vigorous beginning, had all of its fervour sapped by its own
technology, it had become jaded. One reviewer at that time said the film was
From: "steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]"
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2015 1:49 PM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Barry Wright's nar-ci-fan-ta-stun-ted world
Well, honestly, I find this rather fascinating, and really, hoping I can
learn something
I love looking at this every now and again and watching how the fast the
planet is filling up. 160,300 extra mouths to feed so far today!
World Population Clock: 7 Billion People (2015) - Worldometers
http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/
http://www.worldometers.info/world-p
From: "steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]"
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2015 1:49 PM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Barry Wright's nar-ci-fan-ta-stun-ted world
Well, honestly, I find this rather fascinating, and really, hoping I can
learn something f
On 03/19/2015 09:27 AM, salyavin808 wrote:
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
I saw 2001 in 1968 at the Cinerama is Seattle. The print may have been
70mm not the three strip Cinerama. But I'm not a big fan of the film
as it seemed a bit stiff and cold.
Ah, that's the Kubrick
In high school I was not a rock fan and only played it for the money.
My choice was jazz concerts and saw Dave Brubeck in 1962 in Seattle and
later that summer Errol Garner at the World's Fair (a record was
released of that concert). In my senior year saw Brubeck once again and
helped Joe Mor
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
I saw 2001 in 1968 at the Cinerama is Seattle. The print may have been 70mm
not the three strip Cinerama. But I'm not a big fan of the film as it seemed a
bit stiff and cold.
Ah, that's the Kubrick trademark. I like it as it gives a weirdly
Sorry to hear about your friend. Here in the SF Bay Area we seem to be
having those kinds of train deaths daily now. Must be a lot of
depressed people out there. The cost of living keeps getting higher and
we hear about the impending doom of the drought, possibly the worst in
recorded history
I saw 2001 in 1968 at the Cinerama is Seattle. The print may have been
70mm not the three strip Cinerama. But I'm not a big fan of the film as
it seemed a bit stiff and cold.
Speaking of Seattle I got a kick out of "iZombie" because it is set in
Seattle. The TV station in the pilot episode i
So, you've posted Jim's real name and reported him to the cops. Thanks for
dispelling any doubt that you're an informant. That's enough to cause anyone to
leave the group. Some people will stoop to almost any level in order to win a
religious debate, down to and including outing someone and ca
God rest his soul. I am sorry; suicide hits hard; harder when close to home.
One cannot truly know what another's internal world is like, if they don't want
you to know. We are all actors.
Thank you for reminding me to put that book on my list. The list is so long.
I didn't read for se
"You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you
start a religion." - L. Ron Hubbard
L. Ron Hubbard - Wikiquote http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/L._Ron_Hubbard
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/L._Ron_Hubbard
L. Ron Hubbard - Wikiquote http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/L._Ron
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
Anyway, I suspect he'll try to keep this up for a while, because it's getting
him what he really wants, which is attention.
salyavin808
Whoever they are they are certainly bitter and twisted and clearly
dysfunctional enough to be a long t
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
From: salyavin808
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
I've gotta agree with you, Michael. It really "feels" like Jim, for several
reasons.
First, of course, is the level of obsession he has with me. The only person
who has
Hard to believe really, it sounds like an urban legend like catching an STD
off a toilet seat. Are their that many coke heads out there?
Contaminated banknotes caused bus driver to test positive for cocaine
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/mar/19/contaminated-banknotes-caused-bus-driv
From: salyavin808
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
I've gotta agree with you, Michael. It really "feels" like Jim, for several
reasons.
First, of course, is the level of obsession he has with me. The only person who
has *ever* been more obsessed with me than Jim Flanegin was Jud
Enjoy your coffee, xeno.
yes, Barry does post other content, than the "usual".
on the other hand, I feel his positive contributions are overshadowed by that
other, "usual", content.
I mean, Barry has stated on numerous occasions that what he likes to do, what
he feels is his mission, i
Michael,
I'm wishing you the best. I hope that other pursuits may fill your day other
than your obsession with TM. (-:
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
TM should solve all problems.
I am afraid to inform you that it does not.
which means that idiot Steve is admitting
Well, honestly, I find this rather fascinating, and really, hoping I can learn
something from it.
This notion that if people are challenged in an unreasonable way it can turn
into a "teaching moment"
On the other hand, maybe you have a point, and really I am not trying to be
duplicitous h
Barry is not the only person posting here. I think he provides consistent
opposition to the true believer syndrome and its associated flaky thinking.
There is a certain element of humour he provides, because true believers tend
to have a distinct lack of humour when their beliefs are challenged.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
I've gotta agree with you, Michael. It really "feels" like Jim, for several
reasons.
First, of course, is the level of obsession he has with me. The only person
who has *ever* been more obsessed with me than Jim Flanegin was Judy.
Bu
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
In my local Starbucks this evening I asked one of the staff where one of the
regular customers had gone. Peter - a Scot who was there almost every night -
was always very boisterous and friendly so his absence was noticeable. I was
expecting to
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TM should solve all problems.
I am afraid to inform you that it does not.
which means that idiot Steve is admitting Marshy was a liar
From: "anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]"
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2015 9:07 AM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Barry
Isn't this just like a paranoid cultist - say something they don't like or ask
them a question they don't like and they ignore you and/or route your messages
to their trash bin and then try to get the rest of the forum to shun you.
Typical cultist behavior - the truth hurts I guess. Go figure.
Actually, this is a fib - Judy never *claimed* to have "won" a religious
debate with anyone, unless you consider Judy calling you a fibber is a win,
when it is really just Judy stating a fact.
You're the only cultist on this forum that cares much about DOJ. That's because
you ARE the TMO cult
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
Just to follow up on this.
Yes, xeno, you can still have difficult days, even if you practice TM, which I
try to do once a day.
Perhaps you struggle under the assumption, as some others here do, that TM
should solve all problems.
I am afr
Barry, please, please, answer me. (-: Are you delusional?
TM's reputation is being harmed among the ten people who post here, a couple
of lurkers, and your all important lurking reporter?
Is he compiling evidence for some kind of treatise, yet to be publlished,
because his output has be
Quite. I do like a good cartoon, you can say so much with that single panel
format. I used to cut them out of papers and put them in a scrap book, I had
hundreds but got out of the habit sadly and I don't know where they are all
stored. I think there should be a cartoon museum in London.
---I
oh, that I had the time to do a search combining "turquoiseb" with the phrase,
"cult", or "cult apologist".
tens of thousands hits by now?
maybe, I don't even want to know. it's rather sad to see this level of
obsession.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
I suspect a LOT o
Thanks, Buck. Just doing what comes naturally and Jai Guru Dev to you too! Yep,
this world is only going to change if we change it.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
Dear ReVerseArrow; tonite they are giving Maharishi Awards in celebration to
distinguished citizens of the larger
I can't remember mine. The first I remember was one of those all day affairs
where band after band played in an outdoor venue. Leon Russel as the headliner,
tho the real gem was Goose Creek Symphony. By the time Russel and his band took
stage, he was so drunk and doped up he couldn't remember th
Single, yes. Live in a two bedroom house. Never been in the hills except to
visit. I aspire to one day be as good a writer as the Turquoise Bee. He is to
FFL as Socrates was to Athenian society.
From: ak_ak_0828
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2015 10:55 P
Wow. Marshy awards. To be given an "award" in the name of a fraud and huckster.
What an honor. Are you getting any Marshy awards for your dedication to the
group Program? and your years of service in the FF community? Or are you still
waiting to see if they'll let you back in the Golden Dome of
Goddammit Barry, haven't you already gotten Jim Flanegin aka Jose "Enlightened"
Dawn kicked out of FFL?
Now you are telling me that crook is still around and has hacked in to my
account? This is confusing Barry, please help; I need some of that magnanimity
of yours as well.
---In Fairfield
I suspect a LOT of TB TMers here miss Judy. The reason, of course, is that she
was one of the only TM supporters here willing to address actual issues when
critics brought them up. When it came to cult apologetics, she was Queen,
because she usually had the intellect and the language skills to a
I've gotta agree with you, Michael. It really "feels" like Jim, for several
reasons.
First, of course, is the level of obsession he has with me. The only person who
has *ever* been more obsessed with me than Jim Flanegin was Judy.
But second, and the clincher, is the fact that these posts are
Wow Barry this is impressive.
What drama, intrigue, the brilliance of Barry Wright--the honest, moral
upright citizen of the world.
Assisting the CIA, Interpol and Yahoo in nabbing the International criminal,
the master of Cyber Alias Obfuscation.
Accused of illegal theft and transfer
My first concert was seeing Ray Charles -- it was 1959 or so, and in the town
of his birth, Albany, Georgia. I was 13, and one of the only white faces in the
hall. Very memorable experience.
From: "Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]"
To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com"
I really like your description of The_Leak as "an old folks home for the
spiritually timid." That's it, in a nutshell.
From: "Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]"
To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com"
Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2015 9:31 PM
Subject: Re: [Fairf
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