Re: [FairfieldLife] Notice from Yahoo announcing maintenance on December 27th

2005-12-24 Thread Rick Archer
on 12/24/05 9:55 PM, gullible fool at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yahoo! Groups will be performing critical database maintenance on Tuesday night, December 27th from 9:00 pm - 2:00 am Wednesday (California time). During that time 25% of groups will be offline. Messages sent to affected groups

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Movement sells building for 112 Million

2005-12-24 Thread Rick Archer
on 12/24/05 10:06 PM, jyouells2000 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An investment is an investment! You are supposed to make as much money as you can from an investment. I can't see anybody objecting to that unless they are just jealous of somebody creating wealth. My only objection to the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Notice from Yahoo announcing maintenance on December 27th

2005-12-25 Thread Rick Archer
on 12/24/05 11:05 PM, Peter at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you really think Tom P. could convince some Oracle guy, out of professional courtesy, I believe the phrase went, to hack into Yahoo and delete a specific newsgroup? You'd have to be a fool to try something like that. Yahoo would

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Movement sells building for 112 Million

2005-12-25 Thread Rick Archer
on 12/25/05 1:08 AM, sparaig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The trailors have been sold? TOny's house was sold? No, just never used for their stated purposes. Vedaland was supposed to be paid for by for-profit investors. Did THEY get ripped off also? Did they see a return on their investment?

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Movement sells building for 112 Million

2005-12-25 Thread Rick Archer
on 12/25/05 10:51 AM, sparaig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was going to make a sarcastic crack here, but don't, essentially, all TMO business ventures go wrong? The only money the TMO made was from selling TM, the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Movement sells building for 112 Million

2005-12-25 Thread Rick Archer
on 12/25/05 10:38 AM, sparaig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 12/25/05 1:08 AM, sparaig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The trailors have been sold? TOny's house was sold? No, just never used for their stated

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Movement sells building for 112 Million

2005-12-25 Thread Rick Archer
on 12/25/05 11:10 AM, jyouells2000 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 12/25/05 1:08 AM, sparaig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The trailors have been sold? TOny's house was sold? No, just never used for their stated

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Movement sells building for 112 Million

2005-12-25 Thread Rick Archer
on 12/25/05 11:28 AM, sparaig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Depends on how the donation was made. Donations earmarked for a specific purpose can be revoked if that purpose isn't achieved, or even attempted. I heard it being presented as an investment opportunity, not a donation. And according

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Movement sells building for 112 Million

2005-12-25 Thread Rick Archer
Title: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Movement sells building for 112 Million on 12/25/05 12:26 PM, Sal Sunshine at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Spring time for Bevan? :) So the TMO actually guarantees the failures of its own projects? Doesnt it often seem that way? It almost seems intentional and

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Movement sells building for 112 Million

2005-12-25 Thread Rick Archer
Title: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Movement sells building for 112 Million on 12/25/05 12:53 PM, Sal Sunshine at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, it does. Every year, I'm always amazed by how they can both stay afloat and retain their accreditation, especially with all the disappearing majors, not

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: the false guru test

2005-12-26 Thread Rick Archer
on 12/26/05 8:49 AM, authfriend at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Yes, MMY is a great saint who has brought a great teaching to the world. But I suppose even a great saint can be delusional and irrationally paranoid

[FairfieldLife] Mother Divine to move soon

2005-12-26 Thread Rick Archer
Title: Mother Divine to move soon From a friend: Just got a fundraising email from someone on THMD. They have to be out by mid-January, they are thinking the 20th, and they have no clue where they will be going. Just pack and be ready. OK to post this. To subscribe, send a message to:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: the false guru test

2005-12-26 Thread Rick Archer
Title: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: the false guru test on 12/26/05 10:44 AM, Vaj at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does the CIA get involved if an international organization is handling money illegally? If so, that might explain their interest. Perhaps a Freedom of Information Act application

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: the false guru test

2005-12-26 Thread Rick Archer
on 12/26/05 11:28 AM, authfriend at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think there must have been something to hang his delusional hat on. I hope it wasn't pure paranoid fantasy! You know, back in the early '70s, all us leftist young folks were constantly suspecting the CIA of tapping our phones,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Ethics is a requirement for Enlightenment

2005-12-26 Thread Rick Archer
Title: Re: [FairfieldLife] Ethics is a requirement for Enlightenment on 12/26/05 11:41 AM, Vaj at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ethics won't get you Enlightened. But without Ethics you will not get Enlightened. Want to know why? The happy dream of Samsara: feeling good by doing good. The

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: the false guru test

2005-12-26 Thread Rick Archer
on 12/26/05 12:30 PM, shempmcgurk at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mr friend from Canada (MIU graduate) was in Guyana at the time of Jonestown (he was teaching TM) and, ironically, the government there thought he and the other TM teachers were CIA! Shortly AFTER Jonestown, Maharishi sent David

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: the false guru test

2005-12-26 Thread Rick Archer
on 12/26/05 12:52 PM, authfriend at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I have no problem with you or anyone else believing that. Me, I don't

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: the false guru test

2005-12-26 Thread Rick Archer
on 12/26/05 1:54 PM, sparaig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not generally. Are you talking about the attempts to avoid paying taxes. Par for the course in some parts of the world. The CIA wouldn't bother with that kind of thing since literally EVERYONE does it. Smuggling of cash across

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: the false guru test

2005-12-26 Thread Rick Archer
on 12/26/05 2:22 PM, sparaig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OTOH,it seems implausible that Bush could have missed 9/11 even though Israeli students (intelligence officers?) knew about it far enough in advance to be filming it as it happened. They did? Have you seen those films? Are they online,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ethics is a requirement for Enlightenment

2005-12-26 Thread Rick Archer
on 12/26/05 4:14 PM, Alex Stanley at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ethics won't get you Enlightened. But without Ethics you will not get Enlightened. Want to know why? The happy dream of Samsara: feeling good by doing good.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: the false guru test

2005-12-26 Thread Rick Archer
on 12/26/05 7:35 PM, shempmcgurk at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Prez Carter (he of the faith-healing sister who was himself an evangelical Christian: http://www.alternet.org/story/18378/ ) was clearly an enemy of the TMO, so it's not much of a stretch to understand that he probably ordered the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: the false guru test

2005-12-26 Thread Rick Archer
on 12/26/05 8:52 PM, sparaig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Par for the course during that time. Why do you think it was so easy to pay off the Spanish officials? It was the common thing to do. Probably still is. Even worse in India. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Season's Greetings from Interfaith Charities International

2005-12-26 Thread Rick Archer
on 12/26/05 9:05 PM, sparaig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's perfectly plausible that some bored ultra-rich, extremely famous, extremely eccentric, black singer might dabble in ALL of TM- associated practices without making it his religion... Who are you referring to? Michael Jackson?

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: the false guru test

2005-12-26 Thread Rick Archer
on 12/26/05 10:01 PM, bbrigante at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...and the evidence that the CIA did indeed infiltrate the TMO is? * Well, I just read Burn before reading by Carter's CIA chief, Admiral

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ethics is a requirement for Enlightenment

2005-12-27 Thread Rick Archer
on 12/27/05 9:13 AM, markmeredith2002 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's also how it seems to be done everywhere by tmers who have worked closely with mmy. A recent example in Canada being Governors Corp, headed up by former personal secretaries John Cowhig and his buddy and by tm-sidhis

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Season's Greetings from Interfaith Charities International

2005-12-27 Thread Rick Archer
on 12/27/05 9:44 AM, Patrick Gillam at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- authfriend wrote: Gillam wrote: Yet people in the know tell me [the mantra] is an ishta-deva -- the god one prays most (Wikipedia). People in *what* know? People with knowledge of what? I can't cite posts, but I

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Season's Greetings from Interfaith Charities International

2005-12-27 Thread Rick Archer
on 12/27/05 12:44 PM, Patrick Gillam at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- authfriend wrote: The more abstract the understanding of the nature of devas, the less religious they seem. Sort of like Christ the divine/human center of the Christian religion, versus the universal Christ as a mode of

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: the false guru test - CIA and TMO

2005-12-27 Thread Rick Archer
on 12/27/05 12:45 PM, TurquoiseB at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Honestly, I think Barry should reflect the internal dynamic that causes him to lash out at a calm and rational discussion of TMO history that may or may

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Season's Greetings from Interfaith Charities International

2005-12-27 Thread Rick Archer
on 12/27/05 1:31 PM, shempmcgurk at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Although on a Rishikesh TTC, Maharishi did say that you eventually do perceive the deity associated with your mantra. Wow. Then that kinda confirms my experience which I related in another post... He also said that

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: the false guru test - CIA and TMO

2005-12-27 Thread Rick Archer
on 12/27/05 1:34 PM, markmeredith2002 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Related issues: Why MMY hated Carter and blamed him for spying, but loved Reagan. And Nixon. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Season's Greetings from Interfaith Charities International

2005-12-27 Thread Rick Archer
on 12/27/05 2:05 PM, authfriend at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Although on a Rishikesh TTC, Maharishi did say that you eventually do perceive the deity associated with your mantra. Sure. But is it an actual personified being, or is it how one's own perception translates the abstraction into

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Season's Greetings from Interfaith Charities International

2005-12-27 Thread Rick Archer
on 12/27/05 2:23 PM, jyouells2000 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: He also said that eventually your mantra goes on perpetually, whether or not you're meditating. Reminds me of something Irmeli described. Began to notice that on TTC in 1976. Tried to ask about it. Course leaders didn't have

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Season's Greetings from Interfaith Charities International

2005-12-27 Thread Rick Archer
on 12/27/05 2:30 PM, bbrigante at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ** Because the correct use of the mantra in TM requires that no meaning be assigned to the mantra during the practice of TM -- what meanings people want to assign or not assign outside of meditation has nothing to do

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Season's Greetings from Interfaith Charities International

2005-12-27 Thread Rick Archer
on 12/27/05 2:38 PM, Rick Archer at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 12/27/05 2:30 PM, bbrigante at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ** Because the correct use of the mantra in TM requires that no meaning be assigned to the mantra during the practice of TM -- what meanings people want

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Season's Greetings from Interfaith Charities International

2005-12-27 Thread Rick Archer
on 12/27/05 2:42 PM, bbrigante at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd rephrase this: whether or not you believe or perceive that your mantra is associated with some being, if it is, it is. You can rephrase as you please, but you are well aware that the correct practice of

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Season's Greetings from Interfaith Charities International

2005-12-27 Thread Rick Archer
on 12/27/05 2:51 PM, bbrigante at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And although on some superficial level it may be true that the vibratory influence of the mantra causes TM to work, ultimately, the benefits result from aligning oneself with the impulse of intelligence or Devata that the mantra

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: the false guru test - CIA and TMO

2005-12-27 Thread Rick Archer
on 12/27/05 3:02 PM, shempmcgurk at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 12/27/05 1:34 PM, markmeredith2002 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Related issues: Why MMY hated Carter and blamed him for spying, but loved Reagan

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Season's Greetings from Interfaith Charities International

2005-12-27 Thread Rick Archer
on 12/27/05 3:55 PM, Patrick Gillam at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Rick Archer wrote: And although on some superficial level it may be true that the vibratory influence of the mantra causes TM to work, ultimately, the benefits result from aligning oneself with the impulse of intelligence

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: the false guru test - CIA and TMO

2005-12-27 Thread Rick Archer
on 12/27/05 4:13 PM, shempmcgurk at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: More specifically, he was in favor of sending as many blacks as possible to Viet Nam. He said the karma of that war was between the blacks and the Chinese. Really? Where did you hear this? He told Curly Smith, and Curly told

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Season's Greetings from Interfaith Charities International

2005-12-27 Thread Rick Archer
on 12/27/05 4:25 PM, authfriend at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 12/27/05 2:05 PM, authfriend at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Although on a Rishikesh TTC, Maharishi did say that you eventually do perceive the deity

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Season's Greetings from Interfaith Charities International

2005-12-27 Thread Rick Archer
on 12/27/05 5:54 PM, Patrick Gillam at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Rick Archer wrote: Maharishi always said, and we said in lectures, that you could transcend on any sound but that the mantras, due to their life-supporting vibratory quality, provided benefits that other sounds didn't

[FairfieldLife] How I learned TM

2005-12-27 Thread Rick Archer
Title: How I learned TM Just wrote this to a friend. Thought Id get more mileage of out it and post it here: I had been aware of enlightenment for about a year and seeking it in a muddled way through drugs. One night I was tripping on LSD for about the 25th time, alone in my room, and I

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ethics is a requirement for Enlightenment

2005-12-28 Thread Rick Archer
on 12/28/05 7:05 AM, sparaig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Cowhig now has a job walking around in the forest looking for pieces of wood suitable for making guitars. Sounds like a nice job to me. Who does he work for? Don't know. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor

FW: [FairfieldLife] Canada Restricts Import of Ayurvedic Medicines Due to High Heavy Metal Content

2005-12-28 Thread Rick Archer
, at 10:19 AM, Rick Archer wrote: -- Forwarded Message From: Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 07:41:39 -0500 To: Unmoderated INO mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [FairfieldLife] Canada Restricts Import of Ayurvedic Medicines Due to High

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: How I learned TM

2005-12-28 Thread Rick Archer
on 12/28/05 10:09 AM, authfriend at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I didn't notice any particularly dramatic changes after starting TM, but my father apparently did. A lifelong, card-carrying Americans for Democratic Action liberal, he declared that henceforward he would vote for any politician

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Season's Greetings from Interfaith Charities International

2005-12-28 Thread Rick Archer
Title: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Season's Greetings from Interfaith Charities International on 12/28/05 10:19 AM, Vaj at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My first impession was that they had been instructed in or were doing on their own, 16-limbed worship of their devata (or similar worship). This is

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: How I learned TM

2005-12-28 Thread Rick Archer
on 12/28/05 10:59 AM, jim_flanegin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ended up dying by falling down drunk and hitting his head on the sidewalk. Just curious if you ever sense his presence now that he is gone? The day he died, I didn't know he had died, but I was having an extraordinarily blissful

Re: [FairfieldLife] Aspects of mantra (was something else)

2005-12-28 Thread Rick Archer
Title: Re: [FairfieldLife] Aspects of mantra (was something else) on 12/28/05 11:00 AM, Vaj at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well repeating an ishta mantra is considered mental worship. Transcendence is just trying to unite with that (mental) form. The end result of that worship is that one

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: How I learned TM

2005-12-28 Thread Rick Archer
on 12/28/05 11:31 AM, authfriend at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sorry to hear that, Rick, that's very sad. At least he had some happiness from TM in the meantime. He was one of those troubled geniuses. A gifted professional artist - irrepressively creative in many ways in addition to his

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: How I learned TM

2005-12-28 Thread Rick Archer
on 12/28/05 11:55 AM, authfriend at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Damn. How *anyone* can handle the horrors of war is beyond me. You must have to kill part of yourself in order to be able to kill others. In a sense it's to his credit--if not his benefit--that he couldn't handle it. Probably

Re: [FairfieldLife] Aspects of mantra (was something else)

2005-12-28 Thread Rick Archer
Title: Re: [FairfieldLife] Aspects of mantra (was something else) on 12/28/05 2:36 PM, Vaj at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 28, 2005, at 12:34 PM, Rick Archer wrote: For some fascinating accounts of profound experiences related to Devas, temples, and yogis in India, see Steve Briggs new

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Season's Greetings from Interfaith Charities International

2005-12-28 Thread Rick Archer
All experience comes and goes, no matter how sublime, but the source of these experiences, the Awareness, doesn't come and go. By going nowhere, continue to experience having arrived. By not taking one step in any direction, you arrive instantly. You arrive by not going anywhere. Just stay

Re: [FairfieldLife] How I learned TM

2005-12-28 Thread Rick Archer
Title: Re: [FairfieldLife] How I learned TM on 12/28/05 4:49 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I learned TM on August 22nd 1970. I pursued a degree in engineering and went to work for NASA. After working on the Shuttle for three years and designing the o-rings I moved on and

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: How I learned TM

2005-12-28 Thread Rick Archer
on 12/28/05 6:08 PM, sparaig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did he ever go 12-step? TM is wonderful, yadda, yadda, but MMY often (always?) added that it was good to address specific illnesses with medicine (and other treatments) rather than use TM as a cure-all (at least inthe short-run). He

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: How I learned TM

2005-12-28 Thread Rick Archer
on 12/28/05 6:07 PM, shempmcgurk at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Weren't the o-rings the cause of the Challenger disaster? I think Columbus was the later disaster, caused by damage to tiles... You're right. I had the names mixed up. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Empiricism vs. Theory

2005-12-29 Thread Rick Archer
on 12/29/05 3:38 AM, sparaig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I find that discussing experiences enlivens them. Maharishi prescribed it for that reason too, in certain contexts. That might be, but I doubt he had FFL in mind as one of those contexts! Does FFL have to be officially approved

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: How I learned TM

2005-12-29 Thread Rick Archer
on 12/29/05 8:05 AM, Peter at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 12/28/05 6:08 PM, sparaig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did he ever go 12-step? TM is wonderful, yadda, yadda, but MMY often (always?) added that it was good to address specific illnesses

Re: [FairfieldLife] The new night technique?

2005-12-29 Thread Rick Archer
on 12/29/05 7:47 AM, Vaj at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just got the advert on the new night technique now being taught. In what form did you get it? Can you post it? Anyone know what this one is? Maybe they're going to finally teach Gaudapada? What does that mean? The first advanced

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: New disease in Scorpionland

2005-12-29 Thread Rick Archer
on 12/29/05 9:21 AM, authfriend at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Widespread alcoholism is probably more destructive of the social fabric than a small percentage of murderous nutters. We've got plenty of both. And meth use is now epidemic. 6 months of it does as much damage as many years of hard

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Empiricism vs. Theory

2005-12-29 Thread Rick Archer
on 12/29/05 9:28 AM, authfriend at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 12/29/05 3:38 AM, sparaig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I find that discussing experiences enlivens them. Maharishi prescribed it for that reason too

Re: [FairfieldLife] The new night technique?

2005-12-29 Thread Rick Archer
Title: Re: [FairfieldLife] The new night technique? on 12/29/05 9:33 AM, Vaj at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The oral tradition of Gaudapada contains a nighttime technique/upaya for facilitating and integrating CC (turiyatita). It's in the tradition of Shankaracharyas, the Holy trad. We've

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The new night technique?

2005-12-29 Thread Rick Archer
Title: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The new night technique? on 12/29/05 10:29 AM, Vaj at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 29, 2005, at 11:25 AM, Ingegerd wrote: What is Gaudapada? Shankara's masters master (his grandmaster). I actually got two night techniques, one at Estes Park as my 2nd

[FairfieldLife] JFAN meeting Jan 3 to sign petition

2005-12-29 Thread Rick Archer
Title: JFAN meeting Jan 3 to sign petition -- Forwarded Message From: JFAN [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 11:02:29 -0800 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: JFAN meeting Jan 3 to sign petition Dear JFAN friends: On this Tuesday, January 3rd, there will be a meeting at 7:15 pm at

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The new night technique?

2005-12-29 Thread Rick Archer
Title: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The new night technique? on 12/29/05 11:10 AM, Vaj at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 29, 2005, at 11:52 AM, Rick Archer wrote: I actually got two night techniques, one at Estes Park as my 2nd technique, one on my 6-month course. Neither of them was what you

[FairfieldLife] Do You or a Friend Have Diabetes?

2005-12-29 Thread Rick Archer
Title: Do You or a Friend Have Diabetes? Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DO YOU HAVE DIABETES? DO YOU KNOW SOMEONE WHO DOES ? We are seeking 5 diabetic adults that are TYPE II, INSULIN-DEPENDENT to participate in a 30-Day alternative health study at a health

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Your favourite deity...in chocolate!

2005-12-30 Thread Rick Archer
on 12/30/05 8:16 PM, authfriend at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.chocolatedeities.com/deities.php Shemp, that's a great find! Their products are spectacular. Check out the close-ups of the Mayan Calendar

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Moscow: worse than Carter

2005-12-30 Thread Rick Archer
on 12/30/05 11:35 PM, Peter at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used to meditate in O'hare waiting for my Ottumwa flight and most of the time a Hare Krishna would spot me and start talking to me. I'd kindly tell them to come back after I finished meditating. Their books had good pictures though!

[FairfieldLife] Motion Picture Scripts Database

2005-12-31 Thread Rick Archer
You movie buffs might find this useful: NHNE News List Current Members: 1388 Subscribe/unsubscribe/archive info at the bottom of this message. MOTION PICTURE SCRIPTS DATABASE By André Soares Cinema Minima December 31, 2005

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: Denmark Wooow !! ( from the black list to heaven)

2005-12-31 Thread Rick Archer
on 12/31/05 3:03 PM, mrsatva at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The world's first gay rajas, huh? You think the purusha Rajas are not gay ? I thougt 90% of Purushas are ? Some are, but I don't think the percentage is much higher than the national average. In my case it worked verry well. But

Re: [FairfieldLife] FW: Newsflash: We are invited to Vlodrop!

2005-12-31 Thread Rick Archer
on 12/31/05 3:48 PM, gullible fool at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rick, you left out the part where we're all invited to pay their way. Hadn't heard that part. Did someone hit you up? Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Join modern day disciples reach the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: Denmark Wooow !! ( from the black list to heaven)

2005-12-31 Thread Rick Archer
on 12/31/05 4:26 PM, mrsatva at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 12/31/05 3:03 PM, mrsatva at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The world's first gay rajas, huh? You think the purusha Rajas are not gay ? I thougt 90

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: Denmark Wooow !! ( from the black list to heaven)

2006-01-01 Thread Rick Archer
on 1/1/06 9:35 AM, mrsatva at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Because it got too weird for people, or what ? Probebly all the reasons why people are leaving the TMO... I have been thinking about it for quit some time now and I thing the main reasons are to many scratches in the heart. One of

[FairfieldLife] Purusha leaving...

2006-01-01 Thread Rick Archer
Title: Purusha leaving... Happy New Year! Purusha in North Carolina got an interesting New Year's present, just before going into Silence.   We found out where we are going and when.  We leave for Vlodrop on the 9th or 10th, depending on what flights can be arranged.  Apparently enough

Re: [FairfieldLife] Purusha leaving...

2006-01-01 Thread Rick Archer
on 1/1/06 3:52 PM, Peter at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is that Dick Sweinhart? Yes Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Purusha leaving...

2006-01-01 Thread Rick Archer
on 1/1/06 3:59 PM, bbrigante at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My guess is that this is only a visit on the part of Purusha (Mother Divine has indicated that their visit to Vlodrop is just that, and they're moving back to Livinston Manor). The small group of 20 or 30 Purusha will move into the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: Denmark Wooow !! ( from the black list to heaven)

2006-01-02 Thread Rick Archer
on 1/2/06 7:02 AM, mrsatva at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you think the majority of the day to day heartless behavior can be explaned by stress releese ? (Not talking about MMY, Beven..., talking about normal meditators, siddhas, teachers) MMY and Bevan set the example. I don't have any

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: Denmark Wooow !! ( from the black list to heaven)

2006-01-02 Thread Rick Archer
on 1/2/06 9:28 AM, sparaig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Different cultures define caring in different ways. The TMO's founder is Hindu, and charity work isn't always the top of the list for Hindus, I guess due to the reincarnation/karma thing. Amma's a Hindu, and it's at the top of her list.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: Denmark Wooow !! ( from the black list to heaven)

2006-01-02 Thread Rick Archer
on 1/2/06 10:43 AM, markmeredith2002 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 1/2/06 9:28 AM, sparaig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Different cultures define caring in different ways. The TMO's founder is Hindu, and charity

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: Denmark Wooow !! ( from the black list to heaven)

2006-01-02 Thread Rick Archer
on 1/2/06 12:51 PM, shempmcgurk at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 1/2/06 9:28 AM, sparaig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Different cultures define caring in different ways. The TMO's founder is Hindu, and charity work

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: Denmark Wooow !! ( from the black list to heaven)

2006-01-02 Thread Rick Archer
on 1/2/06 2:11 PM, shempmcgurk at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But I do accept the premise that TM works and does everything that is claimed that it does. But what the TMO has been doing for the past 25 years has, in my opinion, been directly at odds with promulgating TM Then I guess TM

[FairfieldLife] Rule for DNR discretionary authority

2006-01-02 Thread Rick Archer
Title: Rule for DNR discretionary authority See call to action at the bottom. -- Forwarded Message From: Francis Thicke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 09:27:28 -0600 To: 'Francis Thicke' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Rule for DNR discretionary authority Thanks to all who sent

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: Denmark Wooow !! ( from the black list to heaven)

2006-01-02 Thread Rick Archer
on 1/2/06 5:22 PM, sparaig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 1/2/06 2:11 PM, shempmcgurk at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But I do accept the premise that TM works and does everything that is claimed that it does

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: Denmark Wooow !! ( from the black list to heaven)

2006-01-02 Thread Rick Archer
on 1/2/06 5:50 PM, shempmcgurk at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's why the NLP was a horrible disaster for the TMO. They should NEVER have done it, it was wrong, and it was just another nail in the coffin of what was once a great movement. I pretty much agree with you, but Maharishi said he

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: Denmark Wooow !! ( from the black list to heaven)

2006-01-02 Thread Rick Archer
on 1/2/06 7:44 PM, jyouells2000 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, markmeredith2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think teaching TM is a good thing, but when I think about the TMO I'm reminded of this quote from Jung: Hysterical self-deceivers... pretend to be

Re: [FairfieldLife] New York Times: Playboy Makes Move in India

2006-01-02 Thread Rick Archer
Meanwhile, prostitution, including the use of kidnapped children, is rampant. Amma was gearing up to do something about the problem when the tsunami hit and she had to deal with that. Just recently, she's begun to turn her attention to this again. She talked about this in Vaju's living room the

[FairfieldLife] Heather Graham

2006-01-02 Thread Rick Archer
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[FairfieldLife] From a fellow in Hamburg

2006-01-03 Thread Rick Archer
Title: From a fellow in Hamburg Hi Rick, I just read this post about the NLP on the Fairfield group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/83812 and had an answer to that. http://members.fortunecity.com/daojoerg/tmo1.html The newest understanding that I have from my own

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: Denmark Wooow !! ( from the black list to heaven)

2006-01-03 Thread Rick Archer
on 1/3/06 2:35 AM, shukra69 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does it? Amma insists that her meditation be taught for free. Course participants may be asked for $10-$30 Participants in the Amma meditation teaching here in Toronto are charged about $250CND That seems extravagant, and out of tune

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: Denmark Wooow !! ( from the black list to heaven)

2006-01-03 Thread Rick Archer
on 1/3/06 7:31 AM, Peter at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On my TTC MMY said that if he ever became involved in politics, that we should know that it wasn't him. Some people think that the current MMY is a walk-in. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Join

[FairfieldLife] Tariq Ali and Robin Blackburn: the Lost John Lennon Interview

2006-01-03 Thread Rick Archer
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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: Was Denmark Wooow !! Now MMY in Politics

2006-01-03 Thread Rick Archer
on 1/3/06 11:24 AM, lupidus108 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Speculations - right ! You do not even know if Maharishi had a heartatacc Deepak Chopra told the story in some detail. He was there at the time. He has also had cataract surgery, prostate surgery, and other things. He has a human body

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM costs $3.30 a day for 2 years.

2006-01-03 Thread Rick Archer
on 1/3/06 7:38 PM, off_world_beings at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How stupid. Childish. Pathetic too. Attacking the poster because you can't get around the argument that TM only costs $3.30 a day for 2 years, and that there is no argument they can come up with to counter it. They are truely

[FairfieldLife] Cost of Amma's IAM meditation

2006-01-03 Thread Rick Archer
Title: Cost of Amma's IAM meditation Response from the main teacher of IAM in the US, to the rumor that the Toronto folks were charging $250 for instruction: This is groundless rumor. No one has taught an IAM class and charged such a fee. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM costs $3.30 a day for 2 years.

2006-01-03 Thread Rick Archer
on 1/3/06 8:50 PM, off_world_beings at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: People learn TM in India. Many people, I know some of them. I also know people who have learned for free or virtually nothing in 3rd world countries. Many schoolchildren too learn. 400+ Buddhist monks just learned TM in

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: Was Denmark - Now Strange TB Situation

2006-01-03 Thread Rick Archer
on 1/3/06 10:07 PM, Peter at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TM was for a particular group of souls incarnating at a certain time. Notice how young people, for the most part, aren't spiritual? I certainly know some who are. Do you think that spiritual young people form a smaller percentage of the

[FairfieldLife] Spiritual Children, Was Denmark - Now Strange TB Situation

2006-01-03 Thread Rick Archer
on 1/3/06 10:18 PM, a_non_moose_ff at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thats funny (odd). So many (and many posts) comment on how special and spiritual the younger generation(s) are. And if there is a heaven on earth, sat yuga thing happening, would we expect that waves of spiritual souls or

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ramana Maharishi's 4 Technologies of Evolution (was: The New Advaitins)

2006-01-04 Thread Rick Archer
on 1/4/06 4:05 AM, Robert Gimbel at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I remember when Maharishi used to come to Fairfield, everything would change; the whole enviornment would adjust/shift. To have someone in the area, in Brahman Consciousness is quite something; being in his presence being the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ramana Maharishi's 4 Technologies of Evolution (was: The New Advaitins)

2006-01-04 Thread Rick Archer
on 1/4/06 7:06 AM, Peter at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: He was also hounded by the local sheriff last time he came, who tried to serve him with a soepena, but was somehow blocked by Lenny Goldman (the lawyer). I saw the sheriff try to find MMY in frat 151 to hand him a subpoena. I don't

[FairfieldLife] JFAN Petition

2006-01-04 Thread Rick Archer
Title: JFAN Petition This email pertains to those who live in Fairfield, and it is not humorous. Fairfield is threatened by the proliferation of CAFOs, or hog factory farms. No feeling person could avoid being horrified by a glimpse of the lives the hogs live inside these facilities, and many

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM costs $3.30 a day for 2 years.

2006-01-04 Thread Rick Archer
on 1/4/06 9:14 AM, off_world_beings at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it only at MUM that you can take out a student loan to learn TM? I think you can live anywhere and get it, by applying through MUM somehow. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Join modern

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