[FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-07 Thread Bob Brigante
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 4/6/05 6:45 PM, Bob Brigante at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh, come on, he liked the incense and the public acclaim? It's ridiculous, he had avoided contact with people just as much as possible for many years

[FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-07 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bob Brigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 4/6/05 6:45 PM, Bob Brigante at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh, come on, he liked the incense and the public acclaim? It's

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-07 Thread rudra_joe
As Maharishi told the story, it took about 20 years to convince him tobecome Shankaracharya. He didn't want to do it and would keep walking awayor not showing up when they were going to do the ceremony to make him theShank. Finally they convinced him to sit still long enough to do

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-07 Thread rudra_joe
You may be right Bob, but these are theories. Your opinions. Surely you mustbe aware of the distinction between opinion and established fact. The thingthat gets everyone's goat here is that the tone of your _expression_ makes itsound like you are asserting your opinions as absolute truth.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-07 Thread Vaj
On Apr 7, 2005, at 2:01 AM, Bob Brigante wrote: This meant that Guru Dev only had to expose himself to the mud of world for a minimum amount of time (it was obviously Guru Dev's preference to stay away from the ignorant and clamorous world), just enough time to bring MMY, the educated and

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-07 Thread Peter Sutphen
--- Bob Brigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip *** What I am saying is a theory in the sense that evolution is a theory. A theory is an explanation that fits the fact situation (in a way that creationists' ideas do not). You acknowledge Guru Dev only accepting the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-07 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, rudra_joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --Why not 365, each deity has a mantra and each day, each hour even, and again there's the four elements and transcendental aspect of each mantra, that's at least 5 X 365, and those are just macro macro outer

[FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-07 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, rudra_joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I just said because the art and science of Sanskrit mantra is clearly all spelled out in a few different traditions including Kalachakra which uses the 365 degrees as Deities, which correspond of course to parts

[FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-07 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes, I can't speak to any of that -- only what has come out of *me*. If there are correlations with other views and systems, that's delightful, but I am no scholar, and have no real interest in scholarly texts and so on,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-07 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FWIW a protean alphabet did emerge (looking something like a cross between Sanskrit and Tolkien's Elvish) of 72 letters, each correlated to a ray and subray of the body, and each character an actual map of where

[FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-07 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FWIW a protean alphabet did emerge (looking something like a cross between Sanskrit and Tolkien's Elvish) of 72 letters, each

[FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-07 Thread akasha_108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, rudra_joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sure, we forget that other beings have their oown speak. Since you seem to have this cognition, Or he read it out of a book. As Bob says, choose the theory that is most consistent with the facts. To subscribe, send

[FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-07 Thread jim_flanegin
With all due respect, speaking of reading I read in one of Rory's earlier messages that he said that his knowledge is based on experience, not scholarly texts. So it knida comes down to you either believe him or you don't. Certainly your choice. Jai Guru Dev --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-07 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, rudra_joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sure, we forget that other beings have their oown speak.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-07 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FWIW a protean alphabet did emerge (looking something like a cross between Sanskrit and Tolkien's Elvish) of 72 letters, each

[FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-07 Thread akasha_108
Yes, exactly. And whats hard to believe in all his tales? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With all due respect, speaking of reading I read in one of Rory's earlier messages that he said that his knowledge is based on experience, not scholarly

[FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-07 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FWIW a protean alphabet did emerge (looking something

[FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-07 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *lol* I didn't read it out of a book, at least in the sense that you seem to mean. The letters emerged in gold out of gold, and it took a few years to hone my focus enough to make them out clearly. If I had

[FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-07 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, exactly. And whats hard to believe in all his tales? Are they any harder to believe than some of yours? Weren't you the one who spoke of being immersed in a river of Love? I dunno, Akash, sounds as if we're

[FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-07 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, rudra_joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I use Fool, I mean it as in the Aleph, look down at the dog at your foot or you'll be sorry. Yeah, nothing but a big fat zero (his a-holiness) in the middle of the whole gaudy spread. Silly means holy; The Silly

[FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-07 Thread akasha_108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *lol* I am not personally familiar with aya or entheogens, but you appear to be describing much the same thing, all right :-) Yes, you appear to be able to hallucinate on your own, quite nicely. To subscribe,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-07 Thread rudra_joe
From: Rory Goff To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 11:51 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In Fairfield

[FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-07 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *lol* I am not personally familiar with aya or entheogens, but you appear to be describing much the same thing, all right :-) Yes, you

[FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-07 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, rudra_joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I use Fool, I mean it as in the Aleph, look down at the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-07 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, rudra_joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Rory, take a Buddhist's poor advice and dedicate all this brilliance to the erasing of the suffering of all. What suffering? To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-07 Thread akasha_108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, rudra_joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Rory, take a Buddhist's poor advice and dedicate all this brilliance to the erasing of the suffering of all. What suffering? Ask

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-07 Thread Peter Sutphen
--- akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, rudra_joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Rory, take a Buddhist's poor advice and dedicate all this brilliance to the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-07 Thread rudra_joe
The suffering of others you fool. - Original Message - From: Rory Goff To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 2:47 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO --- In FairfieldLife

[FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-07 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, rudra_joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the other hand ... quest que vu voir dan la mirror. Unbelievable beauty. Makes me cry. But then we always had an inordinately high opinion of ourSelf To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL

[FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-07 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, rudra_joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The suffering of others you fool. What others? Please explain it slowly and carefully to this fool. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and

[FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-07 Thread jim_flanegin
Well said! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter Sutphen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RJ, I don't think Raja Raam Nader's name finishes with ding dong. That must be one of the newer rajas. Or maybe you just blessed him with a garland! -Peter To subscribe, send a message to:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-07 Thread Bob Brigante
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter Sutphen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Bob Brigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip *** What I am saying is a theory in the sense that evolution is a theory. A theory is an explanation that fits the fact situation (in a way

[FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-07 Thread akasha_108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bob Brigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter Sutphen wrote: I love Bob!! Come the revolution I'm pickin' him for my side. He is a ROCK! -Peter Nah, it's Peter that means rock in Latin, Its just that

[FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-07 Thread akasha_108
PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, rudra_joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right now I am eating Doritos, and yellow foods are good for prosperity. And it's after program time so I'm now having

[FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-06 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, peterklutz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Who would seriously believe that a planet of people in CC, GC, UC, BC would accept interference of 'governments' in their lives. People who have experience of how the leadership of the TMO operates vis-a-vis the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-06 Thread peterklutz
It may seem so becuase the enemy has infiltrated it. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter Sutphen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Bob Brigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Maharishi said at Seelisberg Maharishi said (1979):Only a ridiculous movement can survive. Otherwise

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-06 Thread rudra_joe
This conculsion is,. in fact, a no-brainer, too. Who would seriously believe that a planet of people in CC, GC, UC, BC would accept interference of 'governments' in their lives. People who have experience of how the leadership of the TMO operates vis-a-vis the governments of the world,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-06 Thread peterklutz
I am not sure we're in disagreement (yet) - so I'll try again.. :-) 1. I find it obvius that best government is the one that governs the least. Just as obvious I find it that the higher states of consciousness people have, the less they need to be wet nursed. 2. I find it a mistake to view

[FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-06 Thread peterklutz
What kind of society did you live in 200.000 years ago? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Irmeli Mattsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, peterklutz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Who would seriously believe that a planet of people in CC, GC, UC, BC

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-06 Thread Vaj
On Apr 6, 2005, at 8:06 AM, rudra_joe wrote: ---Maharishi has never proven that anything he said has any factual basis besides the self hypnosis of some million followers. There are no Movement Sidhas willing to put out some sidhis, including him. Including all the alleged jivan-muktis of the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-06 Thread rudra_joe
I am open to being wrong about this conclusion I have reached, but if I am I honestly don't see it.Thanks,Jim---I'm sorry for you, but to be wrong there would have to be a right, and for there to be a right in favor of the TMO in any of its programs one of them would have to be a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-06 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
I don't remember, but I have done some reading, most recently at this address: http://www.dalitstan.org/books/gowh/gowh-i.html It is just nauseating. Irmeli --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, peterklutz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What kind of society did you live in 200.000 years ago?

[FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-06 Thread peterklutz
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Irmeli Mattsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't remember, If you really want to, you can. Doing so just might give your personal evolution a nice boost. Much of what happens in our lives really don't makes sense until seen in a greater perspective,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-06 Thread Alex Stanley
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 6, 2005, at 9:55 AM, Rick Archer wrote: In English? Can it be posted here? _A Tradition of Teachers: Shankara and and the Jagagurus today_ by William Cenkner The spelling it's listed under on Amazon is A

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-06 Thread Vaj
On Apr 6, 2005, at 9:39 AM, akasha_108 wrote: a recent dissertation ? haha. I had a copy 15-20 or so years ago. It has gone into a 2nd or maybe third revison. And some, Dana for example -- I believe, can commment on how parts are not so accurate. Yeah that's when I got mine. There are some

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-06 Thread rudra_joe
Peterklutz: The TMO is a mirage; it does not exist; it's the battle field wherethe forces of light find themselves involved in a struggle with theforces of darkness. RJ: The TMO doesn't exist, and won't exist much longer, and yet won't exist again in the future. A perpetual nonmovement

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-06 Thread Rick Archer
on 4/6/05 7:09 AM, peterklutz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've never done TTC, but, as you indicate - I would find it to be in character with MMY to poke holes in other practices in a factual manner, i.e. for valid reasons - just as I would expect Him to quailty ensure the techniques taught

[FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-06 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 4/6/05 7:19 AM, peterklutz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So you're saying you remember your past lives back then? How clearly and in how much detail and how do you know you're not just fantasizing? And is it

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-06 Thread Peter Sutphen
--- Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 4/6/05 7:19 AM, peterklutz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So you're saying you remember your past lives back then? How clearly and in how much detail and how do

[FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-06 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter Sutphen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Clearest way I know of to recognize past (and future) lives is to understand they ARE in the Now. :-) You mean I'm still living in a residential hotel in Cincinnati during the depression? ;-) -Peter As

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-06 Thread rudra_joe
Clearest way I know of to recognize past (and future) lives is to understand they ARE in the Now. :-)-Yeah Boi! In fact, supposedly by seeing the karmas as they are now one can see their genesis. Certainly the karma of the Catholic Church is older than any of us and still effects us.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-06 Thread rudra_joe
Cincinnati during the depression? ;-) -PeterAs much as you ever were. ;-)good one dude, good one. clap clap, me too. I used to think of getting out, but then I noticed that the peeling paint made good folk art.To subscribe, send a message to:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Or go to:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-06 Thread peterklutz
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 4/6/05 7:19 AM, peterklutz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Irmeli Mattsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't remember, If you really want to, you can. Doing so

[FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-06 Thread peterklutz
Were there any attempts by the TMO to merge/assimilate Scientology? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 4/6/05 7:09 AM, peterklutz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've never done TTC, but, as you indicate - I would find it to be in character with

[FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-06 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, rudra_joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cincinnati during the depression? ;-) -Peter As much as you ever were. ;-) good one dude, good one. clap clap, me too. I used to think of getting out, but then I noticed that the peeling paint made good

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-06 Thread rudra_joe
RJ don't need no stinkin' nurses.--But those are the kind I prefer.To subscribe, send a message to:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/and click 'Join This Group!' To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-06 Thread Don
Rick Archer wrote: on 4/6/05 7:09 AM, peterklutz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've never done TTC, but, as you indicate - I would find it to be in character with MMY to poke holes in other practices in a factual manner, i.e. for valid reasons - just as I would expect Him to quailty

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-06 Thread Rick Archer
on 4/6/05 11:23 AM, Don at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rick Archer wrote: on 4/6/05 7:09 AM, peterklutz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've never done TTC, but, as you indicate - I would find it to be in character with MMY to poke holes in other practices in a factual manner, i.e. for valid

[FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-06 Thread jim_flanegin
So the thing is I am a seeker after the truth, Reality, as we all are. What I have found is by meditation and discrimination, the false becomes seperated from the non-false. After awhile the vibrations of both become known. Naturally after going through this process one becomes sensitive to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-06 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So the thing is I am a seeker after the truth, Reality, as we all are. What I have found is by meditation and discrimination, the false becomes seperated from the non-false. After awhile the vibrations of both

[FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-06 Thread jim_flanegin
Excellent! I have always found that healthy skepticism works wonders! I also heard that if you can imagine it, it exists. Or put another way there is nothing that can be imagined that doesn't exist. So yes, I probably do have an over-active imagination, though I am not sure what that is

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-06 Thread Don
Rick Archer wrote: on 4/6/05 11:23 AM, Don at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rick Archer wrote: on 4/6/05 7:09 AM, peterklutz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've never done TTC, but, as you indicate - I would find it to be in character with MMY to poke holes in other practices in a

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-06 Thread Don
Rick Archer wrote: on 4/6/05 10:40 AM, peterklutz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Were there any attempts by the TMO to merge/assimilate Scientology? Not that I know of. Nor did I ever hear MMY explain how he had gotten such a favorable impression of L. Ron Hubbard. Hearing that MMY

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-06 Thread Rick Archer
on 4/6/05 12:04 PM, jim_flanegin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Excellent! I have always found that healthy skepticism works wonders! I also heard that if you can imagine it, it exists. Or put another way there is nothing that can be imagined that doesn't exist. So if I imagine that little

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-06 Thread Don
Rick Archer wrote: on 4/6/05 11:54 AM, peterklutz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Technique versus content.. Is it useful to compare a meditation technique and a person using it with a driver and a car? Yes, there are different kinds of cars, but what determines who wins the race

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-06 Thread Don
Rick Archer wrote: on 4/6/05 12:14 PM, Don at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rick Archer wrote: on 4/6/05 10:40 AM, peterklutz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Were there any attempts by the TMO to merge/assimilate Scientology? Not that I know of. Nor did I ever hear MMY explain how he

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-06 Thread Rick Archer
on 4/6/05 12:26 PM, Don at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rick Archer wrote: on 4/6/05 12:14 PM, Don at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rick Archer wrote: on 4/6/05 10:40 AM, peterklutz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Were there any attempts by the TMO to merge/assimilate Scientology? Not that I

[FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-06 Thread jim_flanegin
How many bedrooms? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 6, 2005, at 1:01 PM, jim_flanegin wrote: He works with unceasingly from his throne on Brahmaloka Old news. He's now in a condo. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-06 Thread rudra_joe
- From: Don To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 12:23 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO Rick Archer wrote: on 4/6/05 7:09 AM, peterklutz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've never done

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-06 Thread Vaj
On Apr 6, 2005, at 2:46 PM, jim_flanegin wrote: How many bedrooms? 108 I believe To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-06 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 4/6/05 11:23 AM, Don at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rick Archer wrote: on 4/6/05 7:09 AM, peterklutz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've never done TTC, but, as you indicate - I would find it to be in

[FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-06 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 4/6/05 12:04 PM, jim_flanegin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Excellent! I have always found that healthy skepticism works wonders! I also heard that if you can imagine it, it exists. Or put another way

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-06 Thread Rick Archer
on 4/6/05 1:55 PM, shempmcgurk at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 4/6/05 12:04 PM, jim_flanegin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Excellent! I have always found that healthy skepticism works wonders! I also heard that if

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-06 Thread Rick Archer
on 4/6/05 1:52 PM, shempmcgurk at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The logic appeals to me too. But I've now met and read too many people doing well on other spiritual paths to believe, as I once did, that TM corners the spiritual marketplace. What does cornering the spiritual marketplace mean?

[FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-06 Thread Bob Brigante
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 4/6/05 7:16 AM, jim_flanegin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I completely agree. What I was exploring in that larger message was a logical link between Guru Dev's desire to enlighten the Earth and His selection

[FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-06 Thread Bob Brigante
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, that is my understanding. I want to be clear that I am not trying to convince others about this. I heard somewhere that Guru Dev could've done it Himself but it would've been too easy for Him; not enough

[FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-06 Thread jim_flanegin
Thanks for the correlation regarding Krishna in the Gita. I just looked it up. Jim --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bob Brigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, that is my understanding. I want to be

[FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-06 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 6, 2005, at 2:46 PM, jim_flanegin wrote: How many bedrooms? 108 I believe Good one. What's your take on the signicance of 108? My current understanding (open to revision) is 9 Lokas X 12 Aditya/Archetypes =

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-06 Thread Vaj
On Apr 6, 2005, at 6:55 PM, Rory Goff wrote: Good one. What's your take on the signicance of 108? My current understanding (open to revision) is 9 Lokas X 12 Aditya/Archetypes = 108 Loka-Archetypes. (I am more familiar with the 144 as compassing a more fractal or holographic approach to the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-06 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, rudra_joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 4 padas of 27 nakshatras or phases of the moon/mind/heart nadis. Hey, thanks, RJ! Some stuff on the mechanics of the nakshatras popped up some time back; didn't think to look at a quad-unfoldment of them. (May tie in

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-06 Thread Vaj
On Apr 6, 2005, at 7:19 PM, Rory Goff wrote: I was hoping for a breakdown of the mechanics behind them, but this is most helpful. You would need to receive transmission of the kalachakra-tantra and then get a lung (reading transmission) to read the texts. Otherwise read the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-06 Thread black7788
I LIKE THAT - Original Message - From: Vaj To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 7:37 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO On Apr 6, 2005, at 7:19 PM, Rory Goff wrote: I

[FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-06 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: These are related to the lunar and solar channels which when joined transform karmic prana into jnanic (transcendental) prana. These channels are the ascending and descending star-signs of the year. The inner zodiac.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-06 Thread wayback71
: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 4/6/05 7:16 AM, jim_flanegin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I completely agree. What I was exploring in that larger message was a logical link between Guru Dev's desire to enlighten the Earth and His

[FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-06 Thread Bob Brigante
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wayback71 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 4/6/05 7:16 AM, jim_flanegin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I completely agree. What I was exploring in that larger message

[FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-06 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 4/6/05 1:52 PM, shempmcgurk at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The logic appeals to me too. But I've now met and read too many people doing well on other spiritual paths to believe, as I once did, that TM corners

[FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-06 Thread jim_flanegin
Jai Guru Dev, Bob. Thanks, Jim --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bob Brigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wayback71 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 4/6/05

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-06 Thread rudra_joe
Yes, sure -- for some reason, I never thought of linking the two concepts together like that. (I instead looked into mantras for 144 subcategories of the Solar wheel, each covering 2.5 days, and went on in that direction, working out various layers of macro-micro correlation from the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-06 Thread Rick Archer
on 4/6/05 6:29 PM, wayback71 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ** Bob Brigante wrote: There was no reason for Guru Dev to abandon his life of bliss in the forest unless it was his intention to give householders of the world the opportunity to enjoy that bliss, too. Bob, you

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-06 Thread Rick Archer
on 4/6/05 7:21 PM, shempmcgurk at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's a lesson in the SCI course where M says TM is the only way, but he goes on to say that anything which transcends it's own activity is TM. Are you sure he used the word only? I remember him saying TM is the way

[FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-05 Thread Bob Brigante
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Paul Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 'The initiation took place in front of a picture of Guru Dev and I was told that I should consider neither my initiator nor Maharishi Mahesh Yogi as my spiritual teacher but the Guru Dev himself.' - Dinesh Khare

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-05 Thread Rick Archer
on 4/5/05 4:16 PM, Bob Brigante at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The real reason why little difference (to date) is found between the behavior of meditators and non-meditators is that the early adopters of TM have been disproportionately crackpot, which is just the nature of early adopters of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-05 Thread peterklutz
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Paul Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Gradually I am coming to realise that he now seems to speak an entirely different language, a language I cannot respect, a voice against democracy. snip FWIW.. you're not the only one to first have raised on

[FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-05 Thread Bob Brigante
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 4/5/05 4:16 PM, Bob Brigante at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The real reason why little difference (to date) is found between the behavior of meditators and non-meditators is that the early adopters of TM have

[FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-05 Thread anonymousff
Bob, you can on mentioning TM as what is sound as the best technique on earth or very close to it. Correct me if I'm wrong. surely you know that are other technique that preceded TM and MMY that also use meditation at their basis. Would you humour me and clear why do you see TM technique as the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-05 Thread lurkernomore20002000
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bob Brigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Bobananda is displeased with your lack of obeisance...stand under a tree during the next thunderstorm... Dude, you are beginning to display a downright sense of humor. I mean, I remember when it seemed

[FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-05 Thread Rory Goff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would you count yourself among the early adopters, Bob, or are you somehow an exception to your own generality? *** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bob Brigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-05 Thread m2smart4u2000
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, lurkernomore20002000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bob Brigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Bobananda is displeased with your lack of obeisance...stand under a tree during the next thunderstorm...

[FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-05 Thread wayback71
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would you count yourself among the early adopters, Bob, or are you somehow an exception to your own generality? ***

[FairfieldLife] Re: Paul Mason, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Guru Dev, TM The TMO

2005-04-05 Thread jim_flanegin
Hi, With all due respect, something about your statement is confusing to me. If in fact Guru Dev's intent is to bring about the Sat Yuga, Age of Enlightenment, etc. (which I believe that it is, because nuclear annihilation remains the only other option), I don't understand why He would

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