--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote:
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> On 07/18/2011 08:19 AM, metoostill wrote:
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> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seventhray1" wrote:
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> >> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "metoostill"
> >&
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seventhray1" wrote:
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> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "metoostill"
> wrote:
> > More to the point many inner circle re-certified TM teachers living in
> FF and out of town have recently suffered devast
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Tom Pall wrote:
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> On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 4:25 PM, Bhairitu wrote:
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> > The FDA wants to outlaws supplements formulated after 1994. I guess
> > that means that ancient ayurvedic formulas will be exempt but don't
> > count on it...
> >
> >
> Always blame
> The topic of dark yogis will come up here in the near future, as a major
> academic work has just been published, and many of us off list are reading it
> with great interest.
Name of the academic work please?
> >
> > I see it differently. My understanding from all the years within the TMO
> > was that TM was supposed to be the best way, but certainly not the only way
> > to immortality, enlightenment etc. MMY said TM was the fastest way, but
> > other ways could get you there eventually. Also, t
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote:
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> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote:
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> > FYI, one technique to *identify* a cult apologist
> > I learned from "Columbo" on TV. You just mention
> > the term and see who replies angrily.
> >
> > Duh. The cult
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote:
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> On Jan 5, 2011, at 2:53 PM, Marcio wrote:
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> > wow very good Vaj thank you so much ... :) :) :) :)
>
> If you mean true in that they were at one time given by the TMO, yes.
>
> But they are not the mantras of the devatas which are more trad
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "WillyTex" wrote:
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> > > The justification for charging would be that if a fee is
> > > charged, more resources can be brought to bear to bring the
> > > teaching / thing to more...
> > >
> TurquoiseB:
> > And why would one want that?
> >
> "The mo
-- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues"
wrote:
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> When I bought into Maharishi's deal I was 16 years old. I was recruited
> right in my own private high school, with the adults asleep at the wheel. So
> given the naivete of youth, I have nothing to be ashamed of. And in the
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote:
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> On Mar 7, 2010, at 10:35 PM, metoostill wrote:
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> > As to what Vaishnavas believe, yes Vishnu features large, as you
> > pointed out yourself, proposing meaning, as I had. Vishnu features
> > so large that th
f system, but a
> number of different belief systems centered around Vishnu, the ones who don't
> know that will think "wow, that's interesting." The others will think "wow,
> what a bunch of BS."
>
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "meto
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote:
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> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "metoostill" wrote:
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> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote:
> > >
> > > --- In FairfieldLife@yaho
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 wrote:
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> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote:
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> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "metoostill" wrote:
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> > > As to repudiated Vedanta, Prak
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote:
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> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "metoostill" wrote:
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> > As to repudiated Vedanta, Prakashanand has commented
> > of his time as SBS's attendant that SBS was, while
> > S
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "WillyTex" wrote:
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> metoo:
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> > ...he later repudiated Vedanta
> >
> Vaishnavas have their own interpretation of
> Vedanta (those who follow the Upanishads).
>
> A Very Brief Outline of the South Asian Systems
> of Philosophy and Heterodox Epistemol
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John" wrote:
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> Why does this happen so frequently?
>
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100304/ap_on_re_as/as_india_temple_stampede
>
I'm not sure if anyone picked up on this but as a matter of cult trivia this
was at the India ashram of Kripalu Maharaj, th
I note a lot of no response posts so I thought I would put up a review I did of
last week's Lost to up the cultural relevance of our cafe society. The show
seemed particularly relevant to our community and its intellectual trajectory.
LOST Feb 16, 2010 Season 6 Episode 4 The Substitute
Down th
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 wrote:
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifp_SVrlurY&feature=related
>
That was awesome, thanks for the post!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "WillyTex" wrote:
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> me:
> > Hey it is Saturday night...
> >
> Couldn't get a date?
>
Married with children.
home a few minutes later and Mom gives you a warm smile that says "that's our
secret, Dad should mind his own business" and that's the last that is ever said
on the subject.
9. After his death it was revealed that Strom Thurmond and a black maid, Carrie
Butler, had a daughter whom
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues"
wrote:
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> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "metoostill" wrote:
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> You rock.
>
>Hey it is Saturday night. And back at you for that Cult of Personality video.
Anybody have a name for the Mrs. or an address yet? Dying to know. There were
Popes in the middle ages who had children too, kept them in Vegas I think, you
know, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sexually_active_popes
I wonder was Tony:
1. Tryi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "lurkernomore20002000"
wrote:
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> Jesuuus Christ. Maybe some day I'll have the patience or attention span to
> see what is written here. But not today.
>
This week's very best line, had to laugh out loud when I read it, thanks for
that!
Whole thing
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote:
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I am astounded not to see the actual parallels between the TMO and Lost
mentioned here. Down in the hatch in Season I Desmond is resetting the magic
number 108 onto a terminal and thinks if he stops the world as he knows it will
end. B
> This has all the makings of a schism a la the Guru Maharaj Ji of the mid
> '70s who was the 13-year-old guru whose mother disowned him thus
> destroying their movement forever, kinda like Khruschev's Stalin
> revelations of the mid '50s which resulted in 80% of the members of the
> US Communist P
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote:
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> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "metoostill" wrote:
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> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote:
> > >
> > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoo
O
> > spin*, assuming that what we're being told is the gospel
> > truth.
> >
> > I find that hilarious, frankly.
>
> Apologies, Metoostill. I'd forgotten you had said earlier
> you thought the chances that MMY knew about it at all were
> only 50/50
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote:
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> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote:
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> > A guy who will deny the existence of *his own
> > wife and kids* and keep them hidden for 8 years
> > because of "Maharishisez" is never going to do
> > anything in his e
If this one flies, its off to the races. "Maharishiji asked that I wait until
you were ready before telling you...[insert statement here]." Sadly many of my
dear family and friends are in this community. When they/we transited from
thinking we could and might fly to we are flying, in the abse
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote:
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> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues"
> wrote:
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> though, how that jibes with the necessity to keep the
> Royal Family secret is a puzzler. (And keeping the
> marriage itself secret, for two and a half years bef
Tony married with 2 daughters? So far a rumor, and maybe a practical joke.
Regardless, and on a more serious note, Tony Nader was a physician and in a
position to advise Maharishi on his health. After Maharishi's early 1980's
subsequently disclosed heart attack his physician would have been uni
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote:
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> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "metoostill" wrote:
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> > Can anyone share an official source for this as it could be
> > a practical joke?
>
> All I can say is that if it's
Can anyone share an official source for this as it could be a practical joke?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jason wrote:
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> Try telling this to people caught in Nazi holocaust, Partition riots,
> Khemer rouge genocide in Cambodia, Stalinist purge in Soviet Union, Cancer
> patients, children suffering from mal-nutrition in third world countries etc
>
> Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:12:39 -0500
> Subject: Message to Invincible America from Raja John Hagelin
> From: Invincible America
>
> No hurricanes - No hurricanes or tropical storms penetrated U.S. borders.
> Crime Rate Plummets-On July 20, the Washington Post reported,
> "Violent crime has pl
This NYTimes article illustrates humorously some of the pointed differences
between Hinduism and Buddhism, ones that we see playing out in the
philosophically Hindu Fairfield community, and in the way Maharishi dealt with
his own health, mortality, and self portrait; and that are specific to the
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" wrote:
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> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "metoostill" wrote:
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> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" wrote:
> > >
> > > Is some aspect of ayurvedic medicine
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" wrote:
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> Is some aspect of ayurvedic medicine religious because tradition says it was
> presented to some vaidya by a god?
>
Umm, uh, well...huh?? Not sure where you are going with that one :)
(smiley face added to reduce f-word road rage, as w
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante wrote:
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> http://snipurl.com/iyubq [adventuresintranscendentalmeditation_blogspot_com]
>
Sometimes its easier to see things through analogy. Without passing judgement
on the action. To get an idea of how it looks from the outside.
Imagine a
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "geezerfreak" wrote:
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> The truth was that nothing was true. Guru Sri Chinmoy was a fabrication
> dreamed and designed by a young and churlish Bangladeshi intent on
> hypnotizing the world. He had manufactured his image as a modern swami, his
> own present
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "guyfawkes91" wrote:
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>
> > As I've written mucho times, about $500 million has been transferred
> > from the Maharishi Global Development Fund to TMO offshore bank acc'ts
> > over the past 8 yrs or so.
>
> References are required. Can you point us to all
For Catholics, Heaven Moves a Step Closer (from today's NY Times)
"The announcement in church bulletins and on Web sites has been greeted with
enthusiasm by some and wariness by others. But mainly, it has gone over the
heads of a
vast generation of Roman Catholics who have no idea what it means
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, enlightened_dawn11 wrote:
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> thanks for bringing this up-- something which i have been thinking
> about as well lately. i think the beauty and power of the bubble
> diagram is that it suddenly made consciousness comprehensible in a
> simple and elegant way
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues"
wrote:
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> I think this yogic identification theory is totally bogus. It is a
> made-up problem. I am not identified with any object of perception.
> I can be passionate about some things, but trying to paint that as
> some kind nonspir
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote:
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> IMO, the most magical and liberating three words
> in the entire spiritual lexicon: "I don't know."
>
I liked your post and felt some congruence with it. For those uncomfortable
with its seeming
finality, a gentler form might be "I mi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Richard J. Williams"
wrote:
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> > > Psilocybin research fits pretty well.
> > >
> uns wrote:
> > "What if..." enquiry should have included
> > the message "...without turning the subject
> > into a deluded acid head".
> >
> Some western people just can't de
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Richard J. Williams"
wrote:
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> metoostill wrote:
> > I found this fascinating and on the same topic(s).
> > Hindu fundamentalism arguing back at Buddhism (in
> > circa 200BC, a whole millennia before Shankara)...
>
I found this fascinating and on the same topic(s). Hindu fundamentalism
arguing back at
Buddhism (in circa 200BC, a whole millennia before Shankara). The historic
players are
fairly irrelevant (although it is fascinating to come to know the antagonistic
nature of the
debate between opposing
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ruthsimplicity wrote:
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> As to whether TM produces regular transcendence, it depends on the person and
> how,
as you say, you define transcendence. I have asked people about their
experiences. Some
say they never transcend. Many who quit early probably
From: David Orme-Johnson [mailto:davi...@...]
> Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 2:06 PM
> To: David Orme-Johnson
> Subject: Letters on TM from religious/spiritual leaders
> Dear Colleagues,
"The fact that the TM program has been derived from an ancient
tradition in India and revived by a man
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "raunchydog" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Beth wrote:
> > No they are not they are simply Christians who like to parade around
> as Jews in order to convert real Jews. Beth Bridges (new here)
>
> Beth, Welcome to FF Lif
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