[FairfieldLife] Re: The latest 'Maharishi says' from MIU news......better eat organic....

2005-10-21 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the majority of people, what is so rapid about TM other than as a belief system? Dunno. You find research on other meditation techniques of people reporting 24/7 witnessing for years at a time, or breath

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was The latest 'Maharishi says' - Now Research

2005-10-21 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your research is done by TBs within the org. and published by its own journals - Pubmed doesn't list any TMO journal. The Esalen Institute isn't a TMO affiliate. I'm assuming Esalen didn't conduct all these

[FairfieldLife] Re: The latest 'Maharishi says' from MIU news......better eat organic....

2005-10-21 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, markmeredith2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the majority of people, what is so rapid about TM

[FairfieldLife] Re: The latest 'Maharishi says' from MIU news......better eat organic....

2005-10-21 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Don't be misled by the fact that some of the TM research reference lists give the source of many studies as the Collected Papers. If you check, you'll find those are reprints of studies that were originally

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vedic Astrologer warns: Yet another hurricane

2005-10-20 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, George DeForest [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this guy out of San Francisco is doing some real good jyotish readings and daily podcasts. he expects more water damage this week... according to the planetary set-up. so, just keep meditating! george d.

[FairfieldLife] Re: The latest 'Maharishi says' from MIU news......better...

2005-10-20 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What happened to Maharishi Jyotish and Yagyas with Maharishi gem stones? How about Maharishi Rudraksha? snip 20 yrs of absurdly simplistic, vague, practically useless, contradictory and plain wrong jyotish readings by

[FairfieldLife] Re: press report: Peace Palace in Nova Scotia, Canada

2005-10-18 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 10/17/05 9:20 PM, authfriend at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was NOva Scotia - Now Flying, Hopping, Wright Brothers

2005-10-18 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do you think accounts for the phenomenon that some people *appear* not to be exerting enough muscular effort to hop as high and as

[FairfieldLife] Re: Awakening

2005-10-18 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 10/18/05 11:14 AM, sparaig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I¹ve attached 6 scanned pages from a new book by David Carse, entitled

[FairfieldLife] Re: Yogic Flying, was: press report: Peace Palace in Nova Scotia, Canada

2005-10-18 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 10/18/05 12:07 AM, bbrigante at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *** The strongest young gymnasts can only do a very poor imitation of yogic flying for a couple minutes, at which time they are

[FairfieldLife] Re: Untimely Deaths

2005-10-17 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the info Ken. Always like Sam. He had a good heart. On my TTC he got up and told a funny story-although that was not his intent-about transcending for about 4 hours one day. Though morbid obesity was the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Proclaiming Enlightenment - Now MMY developing sidhis techniques

2005-10-14 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Oh, and the techniques aren't made-up 'Patanjali' techniques. You might want to have a look at the Yoga Sutras sometime.) I have. So,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Untimely Deaths

2005-10-12 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Someone sent me the following note. Anyone care to expand upon it? I was struck a number of years by the legion of meditators, sidhas, initiators, governors, ministers, Purushas, Mother Divines, rajahs and other

[FairfieldLife] Bill Maher on Intelligent Design

2005-10-12 Thread markmeredith2002
And finally New Rule: You don't have to teach both sides of a debate, if one side is a load of crap. Now, President Bush recently suggested that public schools should teach intelligent design, alongside the theory of evolution. Because, after all, evolution is quote, just a theory. Then the

[FairfieldLife] Another Attack on Organics - Link to Send Email

2005-10-11 Thread markmeredith2002
Bush and agribusiness attempting another attack on the integrity of organic food standards. Send email to your senator via this link: http://www.demaction.org/dia/organizations/oca/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=1242 Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get

[FairfieldLife] Re: Intelligent Design - - (Was: What would happen if Hagelin...)

2005-09-29 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When asked whether evolution or creationism was true, M. said Both are. If you really look into the creationists you find they have 3 main problems with evolution: 1. E appears to invalidate certain statements of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was A scolding - Now Succession

2005-09-27 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jyouells2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jyouells2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The king and rajas will disappear overnight without money

[FairfieldLife] We are either Saints or Devils

2005-09-26 Thread markmeredith2002
Today salom.com reviews a new book titled: Judge Sewall's Apology: The Salem Witch Trials and the Forming of an American Conscience. In trying to explain the irrational witch trials, the author states: The prosecutors were engaged in the indefatigable pursuit of the either/or. They were

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars in Aid for...

2005-09-26 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And, by the way, all those wonderful works that you cite above? Your local Catholic Church has been doing that in your very own neighbourhood for the past several hundred years...and without the hugging and the

[FairfieldLife] Re: A scolding for Maharishi...

2005-09-26 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So you think that the TM leadership is supposed to be better than everyone else? The talks by TM leadership unequivically state that the practice of MMY's programs by an individual create ideal behavior and total support

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma Will Provide One Million U.S. Dollars in Aid for...

2005-09-26 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: These nuns were like tireless angels. Despite all the bad press the Catholic church has received in recent years, they still carry on an

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Devils Weed - Now Alcohol

2005-09-22 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My father died a severe alcholic. I'm the ADOC type that goes teatotaler. Haven't touched alcohol in over 2 decades, I think. ACOA -- I have AD on the brain -- so to speak. A governor friend who used to attend ACOA

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bush hits the booze again

2005-09-22 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 9/22/05 1:45 PM, anonymousff at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought the Bush family is from the northeast and moved to Texas to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hogs

2005-09-21 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jyouells2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jyouells2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just remember what 'Jennifer' was told about gullable

[FairfieldLife] Re: For the record - messages appear in reverse chronlogical order

2005-09-18 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bostonbob53 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Tom Pall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Robert Silbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [FairfieldLife] Don't miss this Tom! Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 23:24:42 -0500 Fuck off. So you sister likes

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'David Lynch/Raising $7Bil.for/Maharishi's Meditation Programs..'

2005-09-16 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The most interesting thing about this is that Lynch just might have a chance... You actually think he'll raise $7 billion?? OK, I bet you $1000 he won't raise $1 billion in the next year, that's 85% less than you think

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: DOME ANNOUNCEMENTS--Memorial Service for Jane Hopson

2005-09-16 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 9/16/05 8:45 AM, Peter at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 9/15/05 9:08 PM, Peter at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how did she die? Heart attack or cancer? I

[FairfieldLife] Re: Geopolitical thoughts...

2005-09-14 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Cliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: He definitely sells his point of view - quite expensively, in fact. But that's what people with good insights (or bad ones) do. It's up to the reader to decide what makes sense and what doesn't. I've always been a little

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'In Praise Of President Bush/Taking Responsibility'

2005-09-13 Thread markmeredith2002
Did anyone here actually see the video of the so-called taking responsibility? I'd hold off on any poetry about the bravery of the admission. The actual phrasing, voice inflection and body language is in contradiction to taking responsibility -- it's reminds me of a mischievious boy being forced

[FairfieldLife] Re: More Chopra

2005-09-12 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, she passed a lie detector test. She had copies of signed cc receipts. He hired a take no prisoners lawyer. He (via lawyer) refused lie detector test. I dunno. Who would you believe? I don't feel a need to

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Hey Y'all/Git Up Off Your Big Ass/ And Do Something!

2005-09-11 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert Gimbel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am so tired of people on here; Belittle-ling Maharishi, as if they had one one-millionth; Of the energy he has put into this thing, called enlightenment... Belittling is one thing, but pulling the curtain

[FairfieldLife] Re: FEMA getting $50 billion - Now FEMA Head Lies-Experience

2005-09-09 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FEMA will receive nearly all of the funds approved on Thursday -- $50 billion -- while the Defense Department will get $1.4 billion for its rescue efforts. The Army Corps of Engineers will get $400 million to

[FairfieldLife] God Bless Canada

2005-09-09 Thread markmeredith2002
Canadians Arrived In New Orleans Five Days Before The U.S. Military http://www.halifaxlive.com/artman/publish/canadians_080905_660.shtml Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma on The Dawning of Vedic Culture in India

2005-09-08 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: markmeredith wrote: I don't know anything about Indian history, but have studied european colonization and know the british were thoroughly racist and generally attempted to stamp out the culture of those

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma on The Dawning of Vedic Culture in India

2005-09-08 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Skimmed through it a long time ago -- racist, mysogynistic, and probably a few others ... worse than the old testament, I don't know??? So, we are agreed, but IF the British burned the Laws of Manu,

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Karmic Response'/'We Invade Iraq'/'Mother Nature Slams Us?'

2005-09-08 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Most Americans, according to recent polls, don't think the President is to blame for a national disater. From comedian Will Durst The American people want drive through nickel beer night. The American people

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amma on The Dawning of Vedic Culture in India

2005-09-07 Thread markmeredith2002
On 9/7/05 4:56 PM, Cliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have to agree with willytex here, Rick (as far as the Brits are concerned). They are responsible for preserving much of the ancient literature they found when they arrived in India. For many, no doubt, it was to study the inferior

[FairfieldLife] Must live in sthpathya ved vastu to initiate

2005-09-05 Thread markmeredith2002
I'm not sure if this has been posted, but I've heard from good sources that there's a new rule from MMY that initiators must live in MSV proper vastu homes in order to be considered approved to initiate. I don't know if this is on top of recert. or if the recert idea is gone.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Must live in sthpathya ved vastu to initiate

2005-09-05 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, markmeredith2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure if this has been posted, but I've heard from good sources that there's a new rule from MMY that initiators must live in MSV proper vastu homes in order to be considered approved to initiate. I don't

[FairfieldLife] Re: Factcheck.org on Katrina and blame

2005-09-03 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is Bush to Blame for New Orleans Flooding? He did slash funding for levee projects. But the Army Corps of Engineers says Katrina was just too strong. I don't think it's productive to argue whether bush is responsible

[FairfieldLife] Re: Why is the Red Cross not in New Orleans?

2005-09-03 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/3/05 8:21 AM, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Red Cross could have gotten food and water and medical and other supplies into New Orleans *long* before yesterday, when the first supplies were sent in

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Time for Impeachment?'

2005-09-02 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: WATCH THE TUBE. There's on-site blogging being done here -- http://www.livejournal.com/users/interdictor/ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite

[FairfieldLife] Re: Time for Impeachment - Shared Blame

2005-09-02 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fed response to disasters is always the last to arrive. Why the NOLA officials don't have an effective mechanism in place and channel of communication with FEMA, et al is beyond me. Apparently they didn't even let the Feds

[FairfieldLife] Re: The death of american culture as we know it. This is only the beginning.

2005-09-01 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, lupidus108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am so surprised that the americans are surprised by this attack from Nature, Katrina. The Americans kill and plunder; Vietnam, Afgahanistan, etc, etc, - and now Iraq. Do they not understand that *As you sow, so shall

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Vastu of Katrina

2005-09-01 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bhairitu, A number of astrologers predicted bad times starting around the first of September. I remember one set posted here a couple months back (plus I remember hearing one for 2005 from a noted astrologer 10

[FairfieldLife] Re: The destruction of New Orleans, the purification of America

2005-08-31 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Cliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You sound like you'd probably take great delight from seeing anyone suffer who doesn't firmly hold your beliefs. Gosh - sounds an awful like Osama bin Laden, or like the Spanish Inquisitors. Don't you see where you're

[FairfieldLife] Re: Prediction - Now Peace Fund $$$

2005-08-26 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Cliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Valued by whom? Assets, unless they are cash or readily tradeable stocks or bonds, are subject to remarkably wide ranges of valuation. Something which an auditor might claim to be worth $187 million might, if push came to

[FairfieldLife] Re: slight change in directive to recerts

2005-08-26 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wayback71 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been told that recerts are not to worry about finding Maharishi Enlightenment Centers any more (space in exisiting malls which would be reconfigured). Now they are to arrange for the building of Peace Palaces.

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Request -- what are your favorite offbeat spiritual films?

2005-08-24 Thread markmeredith2002
Brief review on the spiritual aspects of the new movie Grizzly Man: http://www.theamericanscene.com/2005/08/movie-of-year-no-its-not-40-year-old.php Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Bevan and John Confronting Maharishi?'

2005-08-23 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert Gimbel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why do you suppose, Maharishi chose Bevan and John to represent him? Do ya thunk, that it might just be because; They would never

[FairfieldLife] Re: Respecting Maharishi requires absolute belief

2005-08-21 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another letter was printed the next week by another person entitled Meditators aren't deluded - nonbelievers are. I'll try to post that tomorrow. One wonders if there

[FairfieldLife] Re: Respecting Maharishi requires absolute belief

2005-08-21 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder if there is a relationship between Shinzen Young's theory of 'poly-spiritual' and 'mono-spiritual' and seekers' assumptions about whether they will ever realize their own enlightenment. The distinction made by Young

[FairfieldLife] Re: Quotes from repubs when Clinton went to war

2005-08-19 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: did any of the quotes in question compare Clinton to Hitler or call him the worst terrorist on the planet? Nope. Has any Democratic

[FairfieldLife] Re: any news is good news?

2005-08-18 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert Gimbel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would assume that most of this money ends up lining the already bulging pockets of the usual contractors and their no-bid contracts, arms dealers, security companies, and other shadowy figures, that rob from the

[FairfieldLife] Re: any news -- privatization

2005-08-18 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 8/17/05 9:48 PM, lurkernomore20002000 at [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[FairfieldLife] Re: Defending the Status Quo

2005-08-17 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gullible fool [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last week Kelly Kirkpatrick did try with an editorial published on the Fairfield Ledger's opinion page (Thurs Aug11-05). It was a noteworthy piece to pop up on the opinion page because it does show a mind

[FairfieldLife] Re: Global reconstruction

2005-08-17 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is all a non sequitur. My comment was with regard to the notion that S-V buildings would all look alike. This whole discussion reminds me of fanatic christians arguing whether millions of people are going to float

[FairfieldLife] Re: Global reconstruction

2005-08-17 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] Of course. I was just elaborating on the wide variety of designs for the houses idea. It seems to me the principles are flexible enough that you could design an S-V building in virtually any style, or invent your own.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Trip to Holland

2005-08-16 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 8/15/05 4:36 AM, Irmeli Mattsson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *** I wonder if they really met MMY in person or did that meeting happen also through videoconference? Videoconference big snip He is

[FairfieldLife] Re: Trip to Holland

2005-08-16 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder what would really happen if the TMO got enough money for its plans to rebuild the world? My guess is pretty much nothing! It's gotten quite a bit of money recently - over $100 million on millionaire and raj

[FairfieldLife] Re: Trip to Holland

2005-08-16 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I would like to ask all the awakened ones on this group about how many have had similar stories in their lives, and how many were already awake when they happened? How's your bliss while standing in your

[FairfieldLife] Re: I Hate - Lineages

2005-08-15 Thread markmeredith2002
The common understanding of the 1000s of initiators made in the 60s and 70s was that MMY was given the knowledge of TM from Guru Dev and that the knowledge regarding mantras, selection of mantras, and instruction in TM had been preserved orally by the Holy Tradition and that is why we always do

[FairfieldLife] Re: I Hate - Lineages

2005-08-15 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't care that much about lineages as I don't really understand them esoterically, but I agree that it's very odd that MMY has been so vague as to where the specific practice TM came from. Why??

[FairfieldLife] Re: I Hate - Lineages

2005-08-15 Thread markmeredith2002
and direct. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, markmeredith2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't care that much about lineages as I

[FairfieldLife] Re: American karma

2005-08-12 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Robert Gimbel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --I heard that Maharishi stopped coming to the United States, because he felt it had become too dangerous here, and he didn't want to be sacrificed in that way.(as he has

[FairfieldLife] Re: Focussing on Core Competencies (was Potter)

2005-08-12 Thread markmeredith2002
MMY put a lot of focus on the govt and to a lesser extent businesses in Wash DC in the 80s and early 90s. Some of us who worked professionally in gov't and businees there were advising special purusha and other tmo groups that were charged with getting programs going. We advised the tmo to adopt

[FairfieldLife] Re: World's tallest tower planned in India- link attached

2005-08-11 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was CONJUNCTION: Now MMY Recerts Sat Yuga

2005-08-09 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Couldn't agree more. I really want jyotish to be accurate, but its

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was CONJUNCTION: Now MMY Recerts Sat Yuga

2005-08-09 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- mrfishey2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: markmeredith2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Funny how the TMO went from celebrating its creating sat yuga and eliminating all problems on earth to warning people

[FairfieldLife] Re: Have you gotten paid?

2005-08-07 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, pibssmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone heard this rumor that prefab buildings for the Peace Palaces on on boats as we speak to the US for various site around the country? How true is this anyway to verify it? From where I dont know. I guess time

[FairfieldLife] Re: Pa. Gov. candidate Scranton in TM trouble?

2005-08-01 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 8/1/05 12:04 PM, akasha_108 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps pseudo-non-religion fits better. That is, its claimed to not

[FairfieldLife] Re: Pundits sighted in Vedic City!!!!!!

2005-08-01 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bbrigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, folks, there are 45 actual live pundits on the ground in Vedic City, and the claim is that the group will continue to increase 15 pundits at a time. Although this is a very good thing for Vedic City and environs,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Pa. Gov. candidate Scranton in TM trouble?

2005-08-01 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 8/1/05 2:56:23 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Indeed. Right up into the 1960s, Democrats such as segregationist Al Gore, Sr. were still against equal rights for blacks. The

[FairfieldLife] Grand Gestures (was Re: MMY still plans worlds tallest building)

2005-07-29 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ingegerd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems that some Kings and Emperors and Dictators are afraid to be forgotten when they die, so they build something in the world to be

[FairfieldLife] Grand Gestures (was Re: MMY still plans worlds tallest building)

2005-07-28 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, George DeForest [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yahoo! Alerts Yahoo! News - My Alerts - Edit Alert Wednesday, July 27, 2005 5: 13 PM PDT World's tallest tower planned in

[FairfieldLife] Re: Real Estate in FF Poll

2005-07-28 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm curious what the MSV houses are going for in Ffld. snip MSV houses in Ffld range from 400 sq.ft. trailers to Earl Kaplan's taj mahal like mansion, with everything in between, so there's no avg. price. MSV houses have sold

[FairfieldLife] Re: Real Estate in FF Poll

2005-07-28 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Llundrub [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: lets face it even if things were different who is going to be around in 20 years Sharalyn. (If shit doesn't hit the fan first) Surely, this is not Sharalyn of Fairfield Community Kiosk fame using such

[FairfieldLife] Re: Digest Number 3343

2005-07-27 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, steven klayman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anonymousff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good morning all. Early this morning Steve Shimer passed away of Hodgkin's disease. He had become an acupuncturist and had been

[FairfieldLife] Re: the Kiosk and a world where everything CAN be positve

2005-07-27 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gullible fool [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone who is so brainwashed that she thinks of critics as enemies deserves only my pity. That's my version of behaving kindly.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Purport of MMY's Bhahavad Gita...

2005-07-26 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Llundrub [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: authfriend To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 10:19 AM Subject:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Purity of the teaching (was Honest answers)

2005-07-22 Thread markmeredith2002
Ditto to the posts below -- MMY can do whatever he wants with his org. and I don't know anyone whining because they can't do other techniques in the dome, which is not what the banning is about anyway. We're having a discussion to explain to ourselves why an org we've devoted so much of our lives

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy- Sat Yug to Everyone...or ('Maharishi's actions:... v ery Symbolic?')

2005-07-22 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert Gimbel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Maharishi seeks to make man (and woman) Divine; same as

[FairfieldLife] Re: Honest answers (was comments on Gable's editorial)

2005-07-22 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're still missing the point. Lawson isn't talking about strategies, he's talking about the need MMY perceives to preserve the purity of oral instruction in the techniques. There's no debate about the oral

[FairfieldLife] Re: Honest answers (was comments on Gable's editorial)

2005-07-22 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Look, I'm not defending any of this. I wouldn't even defend some of the implementation of the measures to actually protect the purity of the oral instruction. I *do* defend that principle, however, and there

[FairfieldLife] Re: Honest answers (was comments on Gable's editorial)

2005-07-21 Thread markmeredith2002
The idea that the TMO couldn't evolve into the same self satisfied and self righteous institution as the Church is bogus because TMO is already many millions of light years ahead in terms of numbers and basic influence than Jesus was during his life. There is no certainty, but there is a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Purity of the teaching (was Honest answers)

2005-07-21 Thread markmeredith2002
What exactly is purity of the teaching? Go to see 5 different Maharishi Jyotishis and you'll get 5 different readings using 5 different approaches, but if a jyotishi trained at maharishi jyotish courses and using his training faithfully decides to stop giving the right % of his revenues to the

[FairfieldLife] Re: DID....BILL....GATES....LEARN....TM ! ! ! ????

2005-07-20 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It only makes sense if those people are practicing other programs or techniques during their time in the dome. That is what I mean't, and it is the reason they do it. OffWorld It is not the reason they

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM teachers: fact or fiction?

2005-07-20 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wmurphy77 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is that true??? Recertified? Actually it's a good idea, also the TMorg should have had refresher courses for Initiators long ago, but that's just yet another thing the TMorg dropped the ball on! BTW, the

[FairfieldLife] Re: DID....BILL....GATES....LEARN....TM ! ! ! ????

2005-07-20 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter Sutphen [...] It only makes sense if those people are practicing other programs or techniques during their time in the dome. The TMO, however, is punishing people who visit

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hey.... Eric Gable..?

2005-07-19 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do us all a favor, and as a reporter, by hook or by crook, devise a way to ask G W Bush how many mercenaries are there on the ground in Iraq? They are highly paid with sign up bonuses in the $200,000 to 300,000

[FairfieldLife] Re: new coronation photos- Many!

2005-07-19 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter Sutphen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the surface the whole thing looks absurd. But I'm sure if you were there the vibes would be incredible. Based on some of the facial expressions, I agree. Are you kidding? Ingegerd The

[FairfieldLife] Re: Figuring out MMY......

2005-07-19 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter Sutphen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip MMY is quite enlightened, to say the least. The surface behaviors only impact the mind. That's our karma and it's very important to

[FairfieldLife] Re:was Email - Now comments on Gable's editorial

2005-07-18 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think Mark needs to read my post (Post 62940) to understand the context and reasons why it is being discussed, and hopefully Rick will tell us the full story behind this article ( I just found oout that the

[FairfieldLife] Re:was Email - Now comments on Gable's editorial

2005-07-18 Thread markmeredith2002
- Original Message - From: feste37 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 9:53 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Email from an old friend This is interesting. It seems that despite his protests that he means the movement no ill, Rick Archer does in fact

[FairfieldLife] Re: Notes from the Field

2005-07-14 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don¹t know who the ³Bob² is who wrote this: Can't believe intelligent adults are still drinking this kool-aid. I used to write this childish PR, almost word for word, to friends in the field when I was on CEG here 25

[FairfieldLife] [was Re: This is a religious war] causes of terrorism

2005-07-13 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Llundrub [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, the connection between poverty and terrorism has been proven time and time again. The 9/11 pilots were the exception, not the rule. snip I don't think it's poverty per se, but the huge discrepency in the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mike Love the TM song

2005-07-12 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Premanand Paul Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dennis Wilson (RIP) was more than just the drummer for the Beachboys, which considering the era and the expectations, he did most adequately. But the Beachboys were not an instrumental group, they offered up

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mata Amritanandamayi vs. Karunamayi: two avatars of the Divine Mother

2005-07-11 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, lurkernomore20002000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://webhome.idirect.com/~aum108/amma.html Rick, So Amma does not speak english? How do the events go? Is there a traditional

[FairfieldLife] Re: Pink Floyd great !.............The Who...INCREDIBLE ! ! !

2005-07-03 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AOL, whatever else one may think of them, did a bang-up job of Webcasting *all* of the major concerts. As far as I can tell, all of that

[FairfieldLife] Re: Pink Floyd great !.........Music Yagyas

2005-07-03 Thread markmeredith2002
I didn't expect much from a 20 yr anniversary of live-aid, but almost every band went all-out and the huge crowds seemed extremely peaceful and happy grooving in the sunshine and under the stars. Plus last night Santana gave a free concert to over 100,000 in Chicago and the Fairfield square was

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