[FairfieldLife] Re: recipe for good health

2008-01-30 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, suziezuzie msilver1951@ wrote: snip I would be really curious to know how many people on this list drink two 6oz. glasses of wine each day and can claim that they feel no

[FairfieldLife] Re: recipe for good health

2008-01-30 Thread shempmcgurk
Mark David Chapman described his shooting of John Lennon as witnessing. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, suziezuzie msilver1951@ wrote:

[FairfieldLife] Re: recipe for good health

2008-01-30 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: snip FWIW, a former boyfriend of mine who was a TMer would have profound witnessing experiences if he so much as drank a glass of beer. That's never

[FairfieldLife] Re: recipe for good health

2008-01-30 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: snip FWIW, a former boyfriend of mine who was a TMer would have profound

[FairfieldLife] Re: recipe for good health

2008-01-30 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: snip FWIW,

[FairfieldLife] Re: recipe for good health

2008-01-30 Thread Larry
snip snip What we're debating here is whether psychoactive substances such as alcohol and pot interfere with one's progress toward enlightenment. And again, you are assuming the unenlightened model, which believes that progress *has* to be made towards enlightenment. If you

[FairfieldLife] Re: recipe for good health

2008-01-30 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
Barry writes snipped: And again, you are assuming the unenlightened model, which believes that progress *has* to be made towards enlightenment. If you shift to another equally accurate model and description of the process -- that everyone is always already enlightened and that the *only* thing

[FairfieldLife] Re: recipe for good health

2008-01-29 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sorry that your body is so out of balance that it can't handle a glass of wine without becoming dull. But to believe that this disability makes you better than those who do not have such a limitation?

[FairfieldLife] Re: recipe for good health

2008-01-29 Thread TurquoiseB
Buh...buh...buh...but Curtis, you just don't understand! All these things you describe below are RELATIVE phen- omena. They have to do with the fallen aspect of life on Earth. You know, the planet that Maharishi refers to as this horrible place. How could you possibly find ANYTHING charming or

[FairfieldLife] Re: recipe for good health

2008-01-29 Thread curtisdeltablues
Maybe the spounge analagy was misplaced, but acting as an anesthetic it creates dullness. I understand the alcohol bad position and lived it for years. If that is how you enjoy to live, good for you. Dullness is the last attribute I would give alcohol's effect if you don't drink too much,

[FairfieldLife] Re: recipe for good health

2008-01-29 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I'm guessing I'm gunna get even less approval with a story of sharing a spliff with a dreadlocked Rastafarian while eating Ital food and listening to live reggae... Thought you would enjoy that list,

[FairfieldLife] Re: recipe for good health

2008-01-29 Thread curtisdeltablues
So I'm guessing I'm gunna get even less approval with a story of sharing a spliff with a dreadlocked Rastafarian while eating Ital food and listening to live reggae... Thought you would enjoy that list, and I know you have one of your own.I'm just racking up the stories for when we're parked

[FairfieldLife] Re: recipe for good health

2008-01-29 Thread Marek Reavis
Yeah, Curtis, my folks; the back stories are equally interesting. And as you can see, the red wine (and the vodka) apparently haven't diminished their capacities too much. It's just a life and every life is a story that each one of us has the opportunity to enrich every day. I always

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: recipe for good health

2008-01-29 Thread Vaj
On Jan 29, 2008, at 1:58 PM, Marek Reavis wrote: here's another story I think you might enjoy told last year to a local Saint Louis PBS station in Saint Louis, accompanied with some inexpensive red wine. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0HVg1kCpxU I always knew there was something special

[FairfieldLife] Re: recipe for good health

2008-01-29 Thread Marek Reavis
Curtis, here's another story I think you might enjoy told last year to a local Saint Louis PBS station in Saint Louis, accompanied with some inexpensive red wine. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0HVg1kCpxU ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[FairfieldLife] Re: recipe for good health

2008-01-29 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Curtis, here's another story I think you might enjoy told last year to a local Saint Louis PBS station in Saint Louis, accompanied with some inexpensive red wine. Totally blown away! Thanks for sending this Marek.

[FairfieldLife] Re: recipe for good health

2008-01-29 Thread Marek Reavis
Thanks, Vaj, but we're all just members of the lucky sperm egg club, born more or less into affluence and engendered with the desire, for some reason or another, to explore consciousness. My parents' history was so unique (and improbable) that for years I never shared it because I wanted to

[FairfieldLife] Re: recipe for good health

2008-01-29 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, lurkernomore20002000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is just too good Curtis. This piece needs wider distribution. It is along the lines of that great commericial, Beef, It's Whats For Dinner, with the Irving Berlin musical accompaniment Yeah, you

[FairfieldLife] Re: recipe for good health

2008-01-29 Thread suziezuzie
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This thread started with an article that a few glasses of wine each day with regular exercise is good for your heart.

[FairfieldLife] Re: recipe for good health

2008-01-29 Thread lurkernomore20002000
This is just too good Curtis. This piece needs wider distribution. It is along the lines of that great commericial, Beef, It's Whats For Dinner, with the Irving Berlin musical accompaniment --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe the

[FairfieldLife] Re: recipe for good health

2008-01-29 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, lurkernomore20002000 steve.sundur@ wrote: This is just too good Curtis. This piece needs wider distribution. It is along the lines of that great commericial,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: recipe for good health

2008-01-29 Thread Vaj
On Jan 29, 2008, at 9:28 PM, suziezuzie wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This thread started with an article that a few glasses of wine each day with

[FairfieldLife] Re: recipe for good health

2008-01-29 Thread lurkernomore20002000
Could be the beef commerical, or maybe the VISA commerical. One bottle very dry Virginia wine $14.00. One bottle Czech Pilslner $8.00. Chatting with your old man about South Pacific Theatre--Priceless This is just too good Curtis. This piece needs wider distribution. It is along the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: recipe for good health

2008-01-29 Thread Vaj
On Jan 29, 2008, at 9:38 PM, Vaj wrote: Author Ken Wilber claims to have been in continuous witnessing for years, but in one of his books (a spiritual diary of a years time) he claimed the witness was not experienced after drinking fair amounts of wine with his new girlfriend. On

[FairfieldLife] Re: recipe for good health

2008-01-29 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, suziezuzie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I would be really curious to know how many people on this list drink two 6oz. glasses of wine each day and can claim that they feel no difference in the experience of deep meditation. If you drink right before

[FairfieldLife] Re: recipe for good health

2008-01-29 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, suziezuzie msilver1951@ wrote: snip I would be really curious to know how many people on this list drink two 6oz. glasses of wine each day and can claim that they feel no

[FairfieldLife] Re: recipe for good health

2008-01-28 Thread bob_brigante
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ruthsimplicity ruthsimplicity@ wrote:

[FairfieldLife] Re: recipe for good health

2008-01-28 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ruthsimplicity ruthsimplicity@ wrote: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1706768,00.html? cnn=yes * Alcohol is a poison and every drop you drink

[FairfieldLife] Re: recipe for good health

2008-01-28 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ruthsimplicity ruthsimplicity@

[FairfieldLife] Re: recipe for good health

2008-01-28 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ruthsimplicity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: And you believing that alcohol is a bad thing doesn't make alcohol a bad thing. :-) A balanced life is a good thing. Be active, drink a

[FairfieldLife] Re: recipe for good health

2008-01-28 Thread ruthsimplicity
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And you believing that alcohol is a bad thing doesn't make alcohol a bad thing. :-) A balanced life is a good thing. Be active, drink a little, eat a moderate amount. Meditate. Don't work too hard. Do good. Be

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: recipe for good health

2008-01-28 Thread MDixon6569
In a message dated 1/28/08 11:16:34 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A balanced life is a good thing. Be active, drink a little, eat a moderate amount. Meditate. Don't work too hard. Do good. Be kind. See the difference between this prescription and Bob's

[FairfieldLife] Re: recipe for good health

2008-01-28 Thread suziezuzie
I always considered alcohol as an apathetic, which when absorbed into the spunge like material of the brain, anesthetizes or numbs the brain cells. The brain has been described as the most complex creation in the universe so does anesthetizing it make sense?. It's true that brain cells well

[FairfieldLife] Re: recipe for good health

2008-01-28 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, suziezuzie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I always considered alcohol as an apathetic, which when absorbed into the spunge like material of the brain, anesthetizes or numbs the brain cells. The brain has been described as the most complex creation in the

[FairfieldLife] Re: recipe for good health

2008-01-28 Thread Duveyoung
suziezuzie My daughter who attends university told me that when her friends come up to her drunk or high, she tells them, you're high or stoned, don't waste my time, get yourself in order and then come back and we'll talk. Edg: Would your daughter also say that to someone who's tamping down

[FairfieldLife] Re: recipe for good health

2008-01-28 Thread Marek Reavis
Amen, Ruth. It doesn't have to one thing or the other; we're all just looking for the line that defines our life and then follow it with the least amount of hullabaloo. ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ruthsimplicity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,

[FairfieldLife] Re: recipe for good health

2008-01-28 Thread curtisdeltablues
I'm sorry that your body is so out of balance that it can't handle a glass of wine without becoming dull. But to believe that this disability makes you better than those who do not have such a limitation? Turq, I'm thinking it may be because our brains are not made of a spunge like

[FairfieldLife] Re: recipe for good health

2008-01-28 Thread suziezuzie
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sorry that your body is so out of balance that it can't handle a glass of wine without becoming dull. But to believe that this disability makes you better than those who do not have such a limitation?

[FairfieldLife] Re: recipe for good health

2008-01-27 Thread bob_brigante
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ruthsimplicity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1706768,00.html? cnn=yes * Alcohol is a poison and every drop you drink weakens the heart muscle, but skid row winos have arteries as smooth as a baby's