[FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-10-24 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Ditto, Spiritually, people should speak the sweet truth. Saha Nav, satyam bruyat, priyam bruyat speak the truth, speak sweetly na bruyat satyam apriyam | don't speak truth in an unloving way priyam ca nanritam bruyat don't speak untruth in a pleasant way esha

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-10-24 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, October 24, 2014 1:32 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing. Ditto, Spiritually, people should speak the sweet truth. Saha Nav, satyam bruyat, priyam bruyat

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-10-24 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, October 24, 2014 1:32 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing. Ditto, Spiritually, people should speak the sweet truth. Saha Nav, satyam bruyat, priyam bruyat speak the truth

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-10-24 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, October 24, 2014 1:32 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing. Ditto, Spiritually, people should speak the sweet truth. Saha Nav, satyam bruyat, priyam bruyat speak

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-10-24 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, October 24, 2014 1:32 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing. Ditto, Spiritually, people should speak the sweet truth. Saha Nav, satyam bruyat, priyam

[FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-10-24 Thread curtisdeltabl...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5@... wrote : Ditto, Spiritually, people should speak the sweet truth. Saha Nav, satyam bruyat, priyam bruyat speak the truth, speak sweetly na bruyat satyam apriyam | don't speak truth in an unloving way priyam ca

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-10-24 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing. Ditto, Spiritually, people should speak the sweet truth. Saha Nav, satyam bruyat, priyam bruyat speak the truth, speak sweetly na bruyat satyam apriyam | don't speak truth in an unloving way priyam ca nanritam bruyat don't

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-10-24 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/24/2014 1:37 PM, Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Life long atheists cannot commit apostasy for there never is, nor was, anything for them to abandon. /When a person professes a belief in Buddhas, karma and reincarnation, and at the same time,

[FairfieldLife] RE: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-02-04 Thread anartaxius
Buck wrote: Om yes, and eminent scholars. FairfieldLife and Fairfield and TM is quite topical to quite a lot of people lurking. And, who do you think reads this place? Your audience? Who do you really write for when you post? Some writers should rightfully be embarrassed. -Buck An

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-02-04 Thread Share Long
Xeno, I think FFL is a microcosm of L. Do you think L is a level playing field? I do. On Tuesday, February 4, 2014 2:26 PM, anartax...@yahoo.com anartax...@yahoo.com wrote:   Buck wrote: Om yes, and eminent scholars. FairfieldLife and Fairfield and TM is quite topical to quite a lot

[FairfieldLife] RE: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-02-04 Thread awoelflebater
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anartaxius@... wrote: Buck wrote: Om yes, and eminent scholars. FairfieldLife and Fairfield and TM is quite topical to quite a lot of people lurking. And, who do you think reads this place? Your audience? Who do you really write for when you post?

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-22 Thread Richard Williams
it that way before, but I guess back in the 70's and 80's, TM WAS my religion. On Sun, 1/19/14, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Apostasy, is a terrible thing. To: Richard J. Williams FairfieldLife

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-20 Thread Share Long
Xeno, you are probably correct that it is difficult after all this time to know what Jesus actually taught. For me he embodies agape. So any teaching that deviates much from that principle, I don't trust it as coming from him. I think early on his actual teachings got hijacked for other than

[FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-19 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: LSD still comes in tabs? How would you know that? Perhaps you read about it on MSLSD. (disclaimer for the NSA snoops: I don't know nothin' bout nothin') Actually, speaking not from experience but from a fascinating article I once read on the

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-19 Thread Michael Jackson
you know, I never thought about it that way before, but I guess back in the 70's and 80's, TM WAS my religion. On Sun, 1/19/14, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Apostasy, is a terrible thing. To: Richard

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-19 Thread Share Long
Judy, first of all, I very much enjoy this kind of discussion so thank you. Secondly, I think I still have some issues with my Catholic upbringing and that those are coming into play here. Yes, I realize the two languages are expressing the same principle. But as you must well know, language

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-19 Thread anartaxius
I would agree with this. In my own life, from childhood on, the tendency to invoke metaphysical explanations steadily declined, until now everything is immediate, direct, no need for an explanation of something out-of-sight. That is for experience. As far as the rational mind is concerned,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-18 Thread Michael Jackson
/14, steve.sun...@yahoo.com steve.sun...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing. To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, January 18, 2014, 1:35 AM   I was talking

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-18 Thread Richard Williams
emptybill: Robin never was interested in a classical Vedantic assessment of his so-called “enlightenment”. That's because MMY didn't present TM in a classical assessment of enlightenment. MMY's sadhana is based on yoga practice. If it was Vedantic MMY would have emphasized the Vedantic notion

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-18 Thread Richard Williams
it. On Fri, 1/17/14, Richard J. Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing. To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, January 17, 2014, 6:05 PM On 1/17/2014 9:46 AM, Michael Jackson wrote

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-18 Thread Richard Williams
Ann: I guess my point here is that it takes enablers to allow certain individuals to spiral out of control. When you put someone on some sort of pedestal it can really screw them up, whether they are holy men or holy women or the Justin Biebers and Miley Cyrus' of the world. Feed the ego like

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-18 Thread Richard Williams
/14, authfriend@... authfriend@... wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing. To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, January 17, 2014, 4:18 PM Really fine post, Michael, very thoughtful. Based on what I've read, I'm not sure enlightenment experiences

[FairfieldLife] RE: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-18 Thread awoelflebater
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote: Ann: I guess my point here is that it takes enablers to allow certain individuals to spiral out of control. When you put someone on some sort of pedestal it can really screw them up, whether they are holy men or holy women

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-18 Thread Richard Williams
* Did Rama leave a suicide note?* ** What you need to understand about Rama is that he believed in reincarnation and karma. Rama's suicide note is contained in his own writings. According to Rama, the spirit doesn't die when the body dies - your spirit goes into the Tibetan Bardo state for a few

[FairfieldLife] RE: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-18 Thread s3raphita
It was pretty clearly a suicide, according to the person who was with him and attempted to join him. She survived, he didn't. : A suicide pact! Well, the fact she survived nicely makes my point that trying to overdose on Valium is a dumb idea. He owned a gun so he had a more effective

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-18 Thread Share Long
Richard, many times turq has expressed, maybe in different words, this idea that followers actually enable leaders. At least once he has said that followers are even more responsible. On Saturday, January 18, 2014 8:45 AM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote:   Ann: I guess my

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-18 Thread Share Long
emptybill, following up on your last sentence below, how is it possible for a teacher to cheat a disciple out of the self-evaluations necessary for real sadhana. Surely the disciple has some say in the matter. Do you think this is what happened to Robin? On Friday, January 17, 2014 8:58

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-18 Thread nablusoss1008
According to Mr. Benjamin Crème the state of evolution of Lenz at the time of death was 1,3. In other words far from enlightened. He was at a lower level than John Lennon (1,6) and Frank Zappa (1,4) but higher than Marilyn Monroe (0,9) and Elvis Presley (0,8)

[FairfieldLife] RE: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-18 Thread emptybill
Prof. P. Dog sez: MMY's sadhana is based on yoga practice. If it was Vedantic, MMY would have emphasized the Vedantic notion of maya, which is not real, yet not unreal. Your view of Vedanta is that it is Maya-vada ... a teaching about Maya. This is a classical misrepresentation that

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-18 Thread Michael Jackson
If you mean the kind of scientific objectivity that the TMO uses, anything goes. On Sat, 1/18/14, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing. To: Richard J. Williams FairfieldLife

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-18 Thread authfriend
If I may comment, presumably the disciple doesn't know any better. How can the disciple demand something he or she doesn't know is necessary? FWIW, I've always thought Maharishi didn't give Robin the help he needed after he'd had this profoundly transformative experience on the mountain.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-18 Thread Share Long
Judy, I don't think self evaluation is something that a disciple needs to demand. In my experience, life makes it obvious when self evaluation is needed! On second thought, I think empty meant that if the guru emphasizes experience, meaning spiritual experience, then the disciple will go with

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-18 Thread awoelflebater
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote: If I may comment, presumably the disciple doesn't know any better. How can the disciple demand something he or she doesn't know is necessary? FWIW, I've always thought Maharishi didn't give Robin the help he needed after he'd

[FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-18 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson wrote: if you don't understand how people make excuses for then own behavior then you need more life experience - do you think just because someone says something, they are being truthful, including with themselves? I think Judy's trying to

[FairfieldLife] RE: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-18 Thread emptybill
LSD still comes in tabs? How would you know that? Perhaps you read about it on MSLSD. (disclaimer for the NSA snoops: I don't know nothin' bout nothin')

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-18 Thread authfriend
Maybe your experience isn't the be-all and end-all for everybody, Share, not to mention that you haven't had the sort of sudden profoundly transformative experience Robin had. In any case, Robin got all kinds of positive feedback; nobody questioned his enlightenment. Life didn't make it

[FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-18 Thread authfriend
I knew Barry wouldn't be able to resist the opportunity to demonize Robin and me after I commented on Michael's post. I also knew he'd fuck it up badly, which is precisely what he's done. He thinks he can divine what I'm trying to say without having read what I actually said (or what Robin

[FairfieldLife] RE: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-18 Thread emptybill
MMY was not a personal guru and said so many times. How could he, with so many followers? At my TTC in Fiuggi, there were over 2,000 teachers. Just getting the mantras of initiation took about 1-1/2 hours of waiting to go through the whole process. A personal guru (like Shri Yukteshwar)

[FairfieldLife] RE: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-18 Thread emptybill
And finally, I find the notion that one should never feel shame for one's mistakes contemptible. I feel shame that your mistaken notion is contemptible.

[FairfieldLife] RE: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-18 Thread authfriend
How many followers did Maharishi have who had an experience similar to Robin's of popping into what seemed to be Unity Consciousness without any warning in the space of a minute or two? It's one thing not to give personal attention to thousands of grunts slogging along with their sadhana.

[FairfieldLife] RE: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-18 Thread nablusoss1008
Muktananda said Maharishi wasn't a personal Guru because he was taking care of (being the Guru of) the whole world.

[FairfieldLife] RE: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-18 Thread emptybill
So many World Teachers ... SBS, MMY and Robin. How many world teachers does it take to liberate everyone? None.

[FairfieldLife] RE: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-18 Thread authfriend
The first way of repentance is condemnation of sins. 'You must declare your own sins first that you may be justified.' Wherefore also the prophet said 'I said, I will speak out, my transgression to the Lord, and You remitted the iniquity of my heart.' Condemn yourself therefore for your own

[FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-18 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: MMY was not a personal guru and said so many times. How could he, with so many followers? At my TTC in Fiuggi, there were over 2,000 teachers. Just getting the mantras of initiation took about 1-1/2 hours of waiting to go through the whole process.

[FairfieldLife] RE: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-18 Thread doctordumbass
Works for me. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: Muktananda said Maharishi wasn't a personal Guru because he was taking care of (being the Guru of) the whole world.

[FairfieldLife] RE: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-18 Thread emptybill
This is the essence of confession (a renewal of baptism). It was originally a practice that started with ordinary people seeking out desert monastics who spent their live in askesis. Only later was it usurped by priests whose actual job was just the rite of absolution. The belief of the

[FairfieldLife] RE: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-18 Thread authfriend
Right. So my mistake in being contemptuous of the idea that one should never feel shame for one's mistakes is what, exactly? Obviously one shouldn't be wallowing in shame after having been absolved, but if one isn't feeling any shame to start with, why would one seek absolution? This

[FairfieldLife] RE: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-18 Thread emptybill
Judy - it was a play upon and between words and meaning. You should've gotten it. And finally, I find the notion that one should never feel shame for one's mistakes contemptible. I feel shame that your mistaken notion is contemptible.

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-18 Thread Share Long
emptybill, I think it's appropriate to feel guilt about wrong doing and to make amends. But imo shame is toxic. It says that there's something fundamentally wrong with the person rather than that they did something wrong. On Saturday, January 18, 2014 12:42 PM, emptyb...@yahoo.com

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-18 Thread authfriend
That's your personal definition of shame, Share. You're making an arbitrary distinction between feeling guilt and feeling shame. My dictionary says shame is: a painful emotion caused by consciousness of guilt, shortcoming, or impropriety I'd say if you are unable or refuse to feel pain

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-18 Thread Share Long
Judy, my distinction between shame and guilt comes from contemporary psychology and I agree with your last sentence. On Saturday, January 18, 2014 1:03 PM, authfri...@yahoo.com authfri...@yahoo.com wrote:   That's your personal definition of shame, Share. You're making an arbitrary

[FairfieldLife] RE: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-18 Thread authfriend
Say, emptybill, did you ever think about the possibility of actually answering a question rather than delivering yourself of faux koans? Because your persistent nonanswers leave one with the sense that you don't have any answers, you're just spouting off at random with no concern for making

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-18 Thread authfriend
It's still an arbitrary distinction, Share. Shame need not involve the sense that there's something wrong with you rather than that there was something wrong with what you did. And anyway, the sense that there's nothing wrong with you is delusionary. If there were nothing wrong with you,

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-18 Thread Share Long
Judy, contemporary psychologists find it useful to distinguish between guilt which is healthy and shame which is toxic, where shame indicates feeling that one is fundamentally wrong, bad, defective. On Saturday, January 18, 2014 1:31 PM, authfri...@yahoo.com authfri...@yahoo.com wrote:  

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-18 Thread authfriend
Did you not read what I wrote, Share? The distinction in terms of words is arbitrary. Shame isn't inherently toxic, and guilt isn't inherently healthy. You can redefine the words all you want, but all you're saying is that one shouldn't feel that one is fundamentally wrong, bad, defective (or

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-18 Thread Share Long
Judy, this is where I part company with Catholicism, the belief that people are defective at their core. I don't think this is a healthy belief and I doubt that Jesus taught it. I left the Church when they said it was no longer a mortal sin to eat meat on Friday. I realized how arbitrary

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-18 Thread authfriend
I do believe I said Christianity, not Catholicism, Share. I'm astonished you weren't aware that it's Christian doctrine across the board. As I said, if we weren't defective, there'd have been no need for God to send Jesus to redeem us and make us acceptable in God's sight. I'm not saying

[FairfieldLife] RE: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-18 Thread emptybill
The Dancing Fool - by Kilgore Trout A flying saucer creature named Zog arrived on Earth to explain how wars could be prevented and how cancer could be cured. He brought the information from Margo, a planet where the natives conversed by means of farts and tap dancing. Zog landed at night

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-18 Thread Share Long
Judy, true you said Christianity but my personal experience is with Catholicism. I still think it's unhealthy to think that humans are defective by nature and I don't believe that Jesus taught that. On Saturday, January 18, 2014 3:50 PM, authfri...@yahoo.com authfri...@yahoo.com wrote:  

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-18 Thread anartaxius
There are a few splinter Christian churches that do not follow the idea that we are inherently sinful, but are instead, inherently good. One such church is the Unity Church of Practical Christianity. On the other hand the majority of Christian flavours do indeed seem to regard our species as

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-18 Thread authfriend
And I never said you should believe it. Why are you repeating yourself? If you don't think you stand in need of redemption, that's fine with me. Judy, true you said Christianity but my personal experience is with Catholicism. I still think it's unhealthy to think that humans are defective

[FairfieldLife] RE: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-18 Thread emptybill
I live in the City of Unity. I did a number of residence courses at Unity Village - back in the old days. Unity Village is a fabulous facility but now there are a number of other Unity facilities - such as Unity Temple on the Plaza and Unity Church of Overland Park. Unity Temple on the

[FairfieldLife] RE: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-18 Thread awoelflebater
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill@... wrote: LSD still comes in tabs? How would you know that? Empty always asking the really important questions... Perhaps you read about it on MSLSD. (disclaimer for the NSA snoops: I don't know nothin' bout nothin')

[FairfieldLife] RE: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-18 Thread dhamiltony2k5
Wow, I just googled, Unity Temple on the Plaza. I want to come see this as 'field' study of communal groups. Is it a cult? There was a Unity Church here in Fairfield for a while but it seemed that it fell in to a parting of ways between spiritual meditators here and ideological stick in the

[FairfieldLife] RE: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-18 Thread emptybill
Not a cult but rather a church. Most Christian don't consider it Christian because it isn't the exclusionary type with which they identity.

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-18 Thread Share Long
Judy, once again I think it is a matter of language choice. I would say that I need to fully realize my fundamental unity with the divine, with all of creation. Rather than that I stand in need of redemption. For me, each of these wordings has its own flavor or tone. I prefer the former wording

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-18 Thread authfriend
But you don't seem able to see that while the language is different, it's the same fundamental idea. Redemption for Christians is the Beatific Vision, being at one with God forever. We are not born in that state; we are defective in that respect. You weren't born in the state of full

[FairfieldLife] RE: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-18 Thread dhamiltony2k5
Empty, In their Unity Temple on the Plaza complex in the Kansas City area do they have open silent group transcending non-denominal meditation time, something like Quiet Time meditations? Do you need a badge to sit meditating with the group if you happen to be visiting Kansas City? I'd like

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-18 Thread Richard Williams
Share: What I reject is the idea that we are defective in our core, by our very nature. I guess that makes me apostate! Well, it looks like it's settled then: MJ and the TurqoiseB were the real True Believers, whose religion was TM - - the only apostates left on the forum. It looks like nobody

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-18 Thread s3raphita
Re People take words much too literally: That's my view. I think the original founders of the world religions were talking about a change in consciousness. They had an insight (ie in - sight). The unwashed masses take the words as a description of the objective world out there. As the

[FairfieldLife] RE: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-18 Thread emptybill
http://www.nelson-atkins.org/ http://www.nelson-atkins.org/ http://www.nelson-atkins.org/ http://www.unitytemple.com/healing/hmedit.asp http://www.unitytemple.com/healing/hmedit.asp http://www.martydybiczphd.com/Pages/MeditationSchedule.aspx

[FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-17 Thread TurquoiseB
: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing. To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, January 16, 2014, 7:47 PM --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson wrote: I am still feeling tons of palpable energy even as I go about my day. Will get back to you

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-17 Thread Michael Jackson
. If my experience is any indication, you have achieved that third level for sure. On Fri, 1/17/14, TurquoiseB turquoi...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing. To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-17 Thread Richard Williams
for talking and thanks for writing about Rama and all the other things you wrote about. On Thu, 1/16/14, Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing. To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-17 Thread dhamiltony2k5
Turq, How did it go in the Rama group in the longer Aftermath of Rama doing himself in? Proly lots of immediate shock and trauma but there was existent a form of organization before he died and is there any vestige of a group afterward? Before he died there were some who spoke for the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-17 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: Turq, How did it go in the Rama group in the longer Aftermath of Rama doing himself in? I honestly don't know, except for the few people I remained in contact with, primarily over the Internet. For some of them, even though I knew they shared my

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-17 Thread Michael Jackson
to Disney. On Fri, 1/17/14, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing. To: Richard J. Williams FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, January 17, 2014, From what I've

[FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-17 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson wrote: Bottom line for me is that all this has taught me the definition of enlightenment M gave out is flawed if not downright incorrect, and yes that includes the source material of the vedas which I feel was the pontifications of a bunch

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-17 Thread Michael Jackson
was really created for to begin with. And that is what I think of that. On Fri, 1/17/14, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing. To: Richard J. Williams FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-17 Thread authfriend
: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing. To: Richard J. Williams FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, January 17, 2014, 1:55 PM Well, I thought fer sure you'd say that Rama was a con man and a fake

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-17 Thread awoelflebater
Michael wrote: I feel the Universe has nearly infinite if not infinite experiences we can all have, and the so-called higher states of awareness or enlightened perception, including all the celestial perception stuff is just another experience among a plethora of experiences. I agree. I

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-17 Thread Richard J. Williams
such an experience was what FFL was really created for to begin with. And that is what I think of that. On Fri, 1/17/14, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing. To: Richard J. Williams

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-17 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 1/17/2014 9:46 AM, Michael Jackson wrote: It looks like you've changed your mind about the bun-hopping-levitation too. I have no idea why you would say that. Well, it's settled then - humans can fly and levitate; we have several eye-witnesses on the forum who can testify to this. So, I

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-17 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 1/17/2014 9:34 AM, Michael Jackson wrote: I view Amma as a huckster, but I don't deny people have pleasant and powerful experiences with her. I view M as a huckster, but the one time I saw him in person, I had what stands today as one of the most powerful, amazing experiences of

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-17 Thread Michael Jackson
I must say I agree with everything you said. On Fri, 1/17/14, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com awoelfleba...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing. To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, January 17, 2014, 4

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-17 Thread Michael Jackson
Rama may have done, as the Brits say. M never demonstrated cause he couldn't do it. On Fri, 1/17/14, Richard J. Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing. To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-17 Thread Michael Jackson
yep, it can happen. Same with Chuck Anderson On Fri, 1/17/14, Richard J. Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing. To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, January 17, 2014, 6:13 PM

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-17 Thread steve.sundur
with Chuck Anderson On Fri, 1/17/14, Richard J. Williams punditster@... mailto:punditster@... wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing. To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday

[FairfieldLife] RE: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-17 Thread s3raphita
Re Guy croaked himself.: Did Rama leave a suicide note? If not, it seems a funny way to commit suicide. Some reports claim he took 80–150 Valium. Valium comes in 2mg, 5mg and 10mg strengths. Assume (tops) he took 150 x 10mg = 1,500mg diazepam. People have taken 2,000mg of valium and had no

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-17 Thread emptybill
Michael sez: Robin's experience was that his actions were, as it were, dictated by cosmic forces, rather than that he could just do whatever he felt like. His experience was that he could not do other than what he did, even though at times there was some aspect of himself that didn't want

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-17 Thread authfriend
emptybill, this is a seriously skewed version of Robin's story. Just for one thing, you write, Rather he just wanted to espouse his chosen narrative about how he was deluded by 'cosmic entities' but was now free of them. More of the old - 'I didn’t fail … I was fooled' as you also pointed

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-17 Thread awoelflebater
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote: emptybill, this is a seriously skewed version of Robin's story. Just for one thing, you write, Rather he just wanted to espouse his chosen narrative about how he was deluded by 'cosmic entities' but was now free of them. More

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-17 Thread authfriend
Ann wrote: Here is how I see it, in a nutshell. Empty can only interpret what Robin's experience was or wasn't based on his book learning or his own interpretation of book learning and teachers who 'told him so'. Robin had an experience and he has analyzed what that actually was, based

[FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-17 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: Re Guy croaked himself.: Did Rama leave a suicide note? If not, it seems a funny way to commit suicide. Some reports claim he took 80â€150 Valium. Valium comes in 2mg, 5mg and 10mg strengths. Assume (tops) he took 150 x 10mg = 1,500mg diazepam.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-16 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson wrote: I would like to have a conversation with you about your time with Rama if you are willing. I am more than happy to do it privately if you like cause I know some on here are going to revile you no matter what you say. So can we talk?

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-16 Thread Richard Williams
On 1/16/2014 2:21 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: it'll push my hot buttons the same way me saying things about MMY pushes theirs, So, you got your buttons pushed. Now you're throwing Rama under the bus just like you threw MMY under the bus. You spent almost half of your adult life studying with these

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-16 Thread Michael Jackson
: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing. To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, January 16, 2014, 8:21 AM   --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson wrote: I would like to have

[FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-16 Thread authfriend
As Barry knows, by far the majority of the, er, reviling with regard to Barry's stint with Lenz has been in connection with Barry's hypocrisy in using his experience with Lenz to stalk TMers and others he doesn't like (see the example in red below, just one of many such). Third, however,

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-16 Thread Share Long
. On Wed, 1/15/14, anartaxius@... anartaxius@... wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: Apostasy, is a terrible thing. To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Wednesday, January 15, 2014, 4:58 AM 'Apostasy is the formal disaffiliation from or abandonment or renunciation

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

2014-01-16 Thread Michael Jackson
things you wrote about. On Thu, 1/16/14, Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing. To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, January 16, 2014, 4:02 PM

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