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[FairfieldLife] Mike Jenkins: New Interview on Buddha at the Gas Pump - 05/11/2017

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Re: [FairfieldLife] Fairfield’s Crisis of M editator Numbers in the Dome

2017-05-11 Thread Sal Sunshine salsunshineini...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife] 
On May 11, 2017, at 10:55 AM, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] 
 wrote:


As an advocating force behind meditation monitoring,
Raja Bob LoPinto,  someone was saying LoPinto is not a TM teacher?

Who cares Doug.  I mean, come on, you really don’t have anything more important 
to worry about?

Sheesh man, get a life.

Is that true?
Minister of Finance and Planning: Raja Bob LoPinto
Deputy Minister: Dr. Markus Gerber
http://www.globalcountry.org/wp/ministries/ 




---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

e-mail asks, Is this more just a matter of principle?
People choose not to be on these programs because they are monitored?
It reaches in and affects the practice of meditation for those sitting in the 
domes?
 
Spreadsheets of the long term attendance data and its graphs show empirically 
what has happened. The communal narratives certainly describe it. More recently 
in committee meetings other minds more versed in Vedic Science figured the ill 
effect of monitoring’s connection out.  From cultivated Mother Divine and IAA 
alumni and those current on the grant programs evidently in report there is a 
fear and hurt that is put in people by the monitoring. All this taken together 
becomes compelling evidence that monitoring the way it is done is ‘deeply’ 
offending to the practice of meditation.  The data shows there a need now for 
acknowledging the policy problem and remediating it.

A more recent interview tells of someone intentionally working at throwing the 
observers off (during meditation) by constantly changing outward patterns 
during practice and the hopping performance so there is no trend to record.  

We found the same thing before in the couple of years of committee work prior 
to the former University President’s removal which also collected these 
narratives related to student (MSAE, MIU & MUM) experience.  Same offending 
problem which then got identified as a policy problem and remediated. Work in 
progress. -



---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

By e-mail:

"They" actually do that??? Ie monitor meditation  WTF

What is this "physical monitoring"? Are they walking around checking to see if 
you're awake? Hopping?

 Money clearly is primary as a corrupting force in the ruin of the system here.
 
Now, in an abundance of fear for my own Dome badge status I can neither confirm 
or deny here that there are monitors hired in both Domes to have their eyes 
open during meditation observing and making records of parameters of how the 
grantees meditate. That spreadsheets are made. That Grantees who are not 
productive within parameters as meditators are consulted with and may be 
dropped from the grant, so it is said. I can neither confirm or deny I have 
seen this. I do hear firsthand narratives of assembly meditators quitting the 
assembly no longer going to the dome meditation having disliked being followed 
to the toilets, being forced to hop for hours by guideline and such or 
harangued to give ‘number one’ experiences of meditating. Some broken hearted 
(energy system) demoralization from the experience. 

Qualitatively I can vouch that generally people are actually sitting up 
attending more to meditate now than before there was monitoring of the grant $. 
Possibly this one aspect of more people actually sitting up and meditating is a 
general benefit of the greater expectations in monitoring. Before the 
monitoring of the grant the meditating community with its Domes were well known 
for its TM sleepers “dosing for dollars”. Quite evidently there now is a lot 
more meditating going on per dollar granted for meditating than before but a 
spiritual hurt otherwise here has been great. 

Not like it used to be but the Domes even with their incredibly attrited 
numbers are still powerfully activated spiritual places to meditate. That a 
meditator would live in Fairfield and not go to the Dome meditation? God save 
the Domes.

Succinct Action Steps for Dr. Hagelin to Engage

Group conversations and committee summaries:

Top of list: Re-articulate Communal Mission

Dissolve all the Meditation Monitoring System(s). Get the movement out of all 
the biz of monitoring people (students, faculty, grantees, citizens, old 
initiators/govs of TSR) and their meditations.

Dissolve the IAA grant program as it is currently.  Re-Start a World Peace 
Assembly for those who can.

Shorten the morning and evening long program by letting attendees out of the 
Domes by 11:45am and 6:15pm so our meditators could be eating and networking in 
sync with the larger meditating community around them. Axe the time spent on 
the puja and the 10am ‘number one’ experience meeting in the middle of the 
morning meditation.
Worst than just being spartan the grant program as it has been administered 
turns these people into renunciate sanyasis in our midsts.

Stop the daily

[FairfieldLife] “Women of Vision” Awards from David Lynch Foundation

2017-05-11 Thread email4you mikemail4...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] 

http://www.golocalprov.com/lifestyle/rafaelian-giselle-roberts-receive-women-of-vision-awards-from-david-lynch
Model, entrepreneur and activist Gisele Bündchen, co-anchor of Good Morning 
America Robin Roberts; and founder and CEO of ALEX and ANI Carolyn Rafaelian 
were among the women recognized Tuesday in New York City by the David Lynch 
Foundation (DLF), a global charitable organization that addresses the epidemic 
of trauma and toxic stress amongst at-risk populations.
  

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield’s Crisis of M editator Numbers in the Dome

2017-05-11 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] 
As an advocating force behind meditation monitoring,
 Raja Bob LoPinto,  someone was saying LoPinto is not a TM teacher?
 Is that true?
 Minister of Finance and Planning: Raja Bob LoPinto
 Deputy Minister: Dr. Markus Gerber
 http://www.globalcountry.org/wp/ministries/ 
http://www.globalcountry.org/wp/ministries/
 



---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 e-mail asks, Is this more just a matter of principle?
 People choose not to be on these programs because they are monitored?
 It reaches in and affects the practice of meditation for those sitting in the 
domes?
 
 Spreadsheets of the long term attendance data and its graphs show empirically 
what has happened. The communal narratives certainly describe it. More recently 
in committee meetings other minds more versed in Vedic Science figured the ill 
effect of monitoring’s connection out.  From cultivated Mother Divine and IAA 
alumni and those current on the grant programs evidently in report there is a 
fear and hurt that is put in people by the monitoring. All this taken together 
becomes compelling evidence that monitoring the way it is done is ‘deeply’ 
offending to the practice of meditation.  The data shows there a need now for 
acknowledging the policy problem and remediating it.

 A more recent interview tells of someone intentionally working at throwing the 
observers off (during meditation) by constantly changing outward patterns 
during practice and the hopping performance so there is no trend to record.  

 We found the same thing before in the couple of years of committee work prior 
to the former University President’s removal which also collected these 
narratives related to student (MSAE, MIU & MUM) experience.  Same offending 
problem which then got identified as a policy problem and remediated. Work in 
progress. -




---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 By e-mail:

 "They" actually do that??? Ie monitor meditation  WTF

 What is this "physical monitoring"? Are they walking around checking to see if 
you're awake? Hopping?

 Money clearly is primary as a corrupting force in the ruin of the system here.
 
 Now, in an abundance of fear for my own Dome badge status I can neither 
confirm or deny here that there are monitors hired in both Domes to have their 
eyes open during meditation observing and making records of parameters of how 
the grantees meditate. That spreadsheets are made. That Grantees who are not 
productive within parameters as meditators are consulted with and may be 
dropped from the grant, so it is said. I can neither confirm or deny I have 
seen this. I do hear firsthand narratives of assembly meditators quitting the 
assembly no longer going to the dome meditation having disliked being followed 
to the toilets, being forced to hop for hours by guideline and such or 
harangued to give ‘number one’ experiences of meditating. Some broken hearted 
(energy system) demoralization from the experience. 

 Qualitatively I can vouch that generally people are actually sitting up 
attending more to meditate now than before there was monitoring of the grant $. 
 Possibly this one aspect of more people actually sitting up and meditating is 
a general benefit of the greater expectations in monitoring. Before the 
monitoring of the grant the meditating community with its Domes were well known 
for its TM sleepers “dosing for dollars”. Quite evidently there now is a lot 
more meditating going on per dollar granted for meditating than before but a 
spiritual hurt otherwise here has been great. 

 Not like it used to be but the Domes even with their incredibly attrited 
numbers are still powerfully activated spiritual places to meditate. That a 
meditator would live in Fairfield and not go to the Dome meditation? God save 
the Domes.

 Succinct Action Steps for Dr. Hagelin to Engage
 

Group conversations and committee summaries: 
 Top of list: Re-articulate Communal Mission

 Dissolve all the Meditation Monitoring System(s). Get the movement out of all 
the biz of monitoring people (students, faculty, grantees, citizens, old 
initiators/govs of TSR) and their meditations.

 Dissolve the IAA grant program as it is currently.  Re-Start a World Peace 
Assembly for those who can.

 Shorten the morning and evening long program by letting attendees out of the 
Domes by 11:45am and 6:15pm so our meditators could be eating and networking in 
sync with the larger meditating community around them. Axe the time spent on 
the puja and the 10am ‘number one’ experience meeting in the middle of the 
morning meditation.
 Worst than just being spartan the grant program as it has been administered 
turns these people into renunciate sanyasis in our midsts.

 Stop the daily Puja Performance as part of the Dome meditation program

 Stop the 10:00am ‘number one experience’ sessions. Make that meeting now 
separate from the meditating of the group.


 Get the Dome WPA meditation down

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield’s Crisis of M editator Numbers in the Dome

2017-05-11 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] 
As an advocating force behind meditation monitoring,
 Raja Bob LoPinto,  someone was saying LoPinto is not a TM teacher?
 Is that true?
 Minister of Finance and Planning: Raja Bob LoPinto
 Deputy Minister: Dr. Markus Gerber
 http://www.globalcountry.org/wp/ministries/ 
http://www.globalcountry.org/wp/ministries/
 



---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 e-mail asks, Is this more just a matter of principle?
 People choose not to be on these programs because they are monitored?
 It reaches in and affects the practice of meditation for those sitting in the 
domes?
 
 Spreadsheets of the long term attendance data and its graphs show empirically 
what has happened. The communal narratives certainly describe it. More recently 
in committee meetings other minds more versed in Vedic Science figured the ill 
effect of monitoring’s connection out.  From cultivated Mother Divine and IAA 
alumni and those current on the grant programs evidently in report there is a 
fear and hurt that is put in people by the monitoring. All this taken together 
becomes compelling evidence that monitoring the way it is done is ‘deeply’ 
offending to the practice of meditation.  The data shows there a need now for 
acknowledging the policy problem and remediating it.

 A more recent interview tells of someone intentionally working at throwing the 
observers off (during meditation) by constantly changing outward patterns 
during practice and the hopping performance so there is no trend to record.  

 We found the same thing before in the couple of years of committee work prior 
to the former University President’s removal which also collected these 
narratives related to student (MSAE, MIU & MUM) experience.  Same offending 
problem which then got identified as a policy problem and remediated. Work in 
progress. -




---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 By e-mail:

 "They" actually do that??? Ie monitor meditation  WTF

 What is this "physical monitoring"? Are they walking around checking to see if 
you're awake? Hopping?

 Money clearly is primary as a corrupting force in the ruin of the system here.
 
 Now, in an abundance of fear for my own Dome badge status I can neither 
confirm or deny here that there are monitors hired in both Domes to have their 
eyes open during meditation observing and making records of parameters of how 
the grantees meditate. That spreadsheets are made. That Grantees who are not 
productive within parameters as meditators are consulted with and may be 
dropped from the grant, so it is said. I can neither confirm or deny I have 
seen this. I do hear firsthand narratives of assembly meditators quitting the 
assembly no longer going to the dome meditation having disliked being followed 
to the toilets, being forced to hop for hours by guideline and such or 
harangued to give ‘number one’ experiences of meditating. Some broken hearted 
(energy system) demoralization from the experience. 

 Qualitatively I can vouch that generally people are actually sitting up 
attending more to meditate now than before there was monitoring of the grant $. 
 Possibly this one aspect of more people actually sitting up and meditating is 
a general benefit of the greater expectations in monitoring. Before the 
monitoring of the grant the meditating community with its Domes were well known 
for its TM sleepers “dosing for dollars”. Quite evidently there now is a lot 
more meditating going on per dollar granted for meditating than before but a 
spiritual hurt otherwise here has been great. 

 Not like it used to be but the Domes even with their incredibly attrited 
numbers are still powerfully activated spiritual places to meditate. That a 
meditator would live in Fairfield and not go to the Dome meditation? God save 
the Domes.

 Succinct Action Steps for Dr. Hagelin to Engage
 

Group conversations and committee summaries: 
 Top of list: Re-articulate Communal Mission

 Dissolve all the Meditation Monitoring System(s). Get the movement out of all 
the biz of monitoring people (students, faculty, grantees, citizens, old 
initiators/govs of TSR) and their meditations.

 Dissolve the IAA grant program as it is currently.  Re-Start a World Peace 
Assembly for those who can.

 Shorten the morning and evening long program by letting attendees out of the 
Domes by 11:45am and 6:15pm so our meditators could be eating and networking in 
sync with the larger meditating community around them. Axe the time spent on 
the puja and the 10am ‘number one’ experience meeting in the middle of the 
morning meditation.
 Worst than just being spartan the grant program as it has been administered 
turns these people into renunciate sanyasis in our midsts.

 Stop the daily Puja Performance as part of the Dome meditation program

 Stop the 10:00am ‘number one experience’ sessions. Make that meeting now 
separate from the meditating of the group.


 Get the Dome WPA meditation down

[FairfieldLife] Re: Swamiji's daughter...

2017-05-11 Thread he...@hotmail.com [FairfieldLife] 

 Here she explains, whe she calls herself Swamiji's daughter...
 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsfJvzKWHFA 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsfJvzKWHFA

[FairfieldLife] Re: Swamiji's daughter...

2017-05-11 Thread he...@hotmail.com [FairfieldLife] 

 Nice speech about sadaashivatva ("always-shivaness"):
 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwfHdlvvIOM 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwfHdlvvIOM

 

 Dravidian southern Indians seem to be way more effective than Indo-european 
northern Indians?
 Wasn't the Great Shankara Himself Dravidian??

[FairfieldLife] Swamiji's daughter...

2017-05-11 Thread he...@hotmail.com [FairfieldLife] 


 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY7F3ebIsDI 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY7F3ebIsDI

[FairfieldLife] Re: Difference between siddhi-s and shakti-s

2017-05-11 Thread he...@hotmail.com [FairfieldLife] 

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 In contest it is interesting the Guru Dev (Brahmananda Saraswati gives a 
similar cautionary critique in his discourses about the Sidhis. Patanjali 
cautions in the Yoga Sutras.  
 

 -
 

 IMNSHO, that suutra (te samaadhaav upasargaa, vyutthaane siddhayaH) solely 
refers to the previous suutra (on the divine hearing, touch, etc), not at all 
to all the other the siddhi-suutras. Patañjali seems to emphasize that by using 
a finite verb form (jaayante), which (finite forms) are almost non-existent in 
yoga-suutras, and probably many other suutras, too.

[FairfieldLife] Maharishi: Precious time for the world

2017-05-11 Thread Dick Mays dickm...@lisco.com [FairfieldLife] 
 

 
“This is a very precious time for the world. Everything depends on how our 
awareness is; just don’t let it be shaken. Our awareness is the basis of all 
these transformations.   More than ever before, time demands we remain 
completely ourselves. It is a very tender, delicate time for us—we should not 
become angry, indifferent, or sad; we should just be like an ocean. The 
evolutionary power is waking up. We shake it, then leave it; then after some 
time shake it again. Each time a new level of purity, awakening is added.”

~ Maharishi

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield’s Crisis of M editator Numbers in the Dome

2017-05-11 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] 
e-mail asks, Is this more just a matter of principle?
 People choose not to be on these programs because they are monitored?
 It reaches in and affects the practice of meditation for those sitting in the 
domes?
 
 Spreadsheets of the long term attendance data and its graphs show empirically 
what has happened. The communal narratives certainly describe it. More recently 
in committee meetings other minds more versed in Vedic Science figured the ill 
effect of monitoring’s connection out.  From cultivated Mother Divine and IAA 
alumni and those current on the grant programs evidently in report there is a 
fear and hurt that is put in people by the monitoring. All this taken together 
becomes compelling evidence that monitoring the way it is done is ‘deeply’ 
offending to the practice of meditation.  The data shows there a need now for 
acknowledging the policy problem and remediating it.

 A more recent interview tells of someone intentionally working at throwing the 
observers off (during meditation) by constantly changing outward patterns 
during practice and the hopping performance so there is no trend to record.  

 We found the same thing before in the couple of years of committee work prior 
to the former University President’s removal which also collected these 
narratives related to student (MSAE, MIU & MUM) experience.  Same offending 
problem which then got identified as a policy problem and remediated. Work in 
progress. -




---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 By e-mail:

 "They" actually do that??? Ie monitor meditation  WTF

 What is this "physical monitoring"? Are they walking around checking to see if 
you're awake? Hopping?

 Money clearly is primary as a corrupting force in the ruin of the system here.
 
 Now, in an abundance of fear for my own Dome badge status I can neither 
confirm or deny here that there are monitors hired in both Domes to have their 
eyes open during meditation observing and making records of parameters of how 
the grantees meditate. That spreadsheets are made. That Grantees who are not 
productive within parameters as meditators are consulted with and may be 
dropped from the grant, so it is said. I can neither confirm or deny I have 
seen this. I do hear firsthand narratives of assembly meditators quitting the 
assembly no longer going to the dome meditation having disliked being followed 
to the toilets, being forced to hop for hours by guideline and such or 
harangued to give ‘number one’ experiences of meditating. Some broken hearted 
(energy system) demoralization from the experience. 

 Qualitatively I can vouch that generally people are actually sitting up 
attending more to meditate now than before there was monitoring of the grant $. 
 Possibly this one aspect of more people actually sitting up and meditating is 
a general benefit of the greater expectations in monitoring. Before the 
monitoring of the grant the meditating community with its Domes were well known 
for its TM sleepers “dosing for dollars”. Quite evidently there now is a lot 
more meditating going on per dollar granted for meditating than before but a 
spiritual hurt otherwise here has been great. 

 Not like it used to be but the Domes even with their incredibly attrited 
numbers are still powerfully activated spiritual places to meditate. That a 
meditator would live in Fairfield and not go to the Dome meditation? God save 
the Domes.

 Succinct Action Steps for Dr. Hagelin to Engage
 

Group conversations and committee summaries: 
 Top of list: Re-articulate Communal Mission

 Dissolve all the Meditation Monitoring System(s). Get the movement out of all 
the biz of monitoring people (students, faculty, grantees, citizens, old 
initiators/govs of TSR) and their meditations.

 Dissolve the IAA grant program as it is currently.  Re-Start a World Peace 
Assembly for those who can.

 Shorten the morning and evening long program by letting attendees out of the 
Domes by 11:45am and 6:15pm so our meditators could be eating and networking in 
sync with the larger meditating community around them. Axe the time spent on 
the puja and the 10am ‘number one’ experience meeting in the middle of the 
morning meditation.
 Worst than just being spartan the grant program as it has been administered 
turns these people into renunciate sanyasis in our midsts.

 Stop the daily Puja Performance as part of the Dome meditation program

 Stop the 10:00am ‘number one experience’ sessions. Make that meeting now 
separate from the meditating of the group.


 Get the Dome WPA meditation down to two long programs for anyone who would 
take the time.

 Advocate largely for the larger group meditation by the practice of 
transcendent meditative experience along with the science, and not through 
disciplinary punitive means of judging or monitoring of practice while 
meditating, the level of fealty of faith or belief, or the individual lives of 
members. 

 Done.


---In

[FairfieldLife] Re: Countering a Post-Modern Spiritual Disabling of the Human Being..

2017-05-11 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] 


 #
 Postmodernism is largely a reaction to the assumed certainty of scientific, or 
objective, efforts to explain reality.
 #

 The word "bling" refers to any unnecessary accumulation of metal 
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=metal or jewellery which 
impresses the simple-minded. 

 Materialism, she says, is the new spirituality.

 ..there's been a shift in values — from "hard work, and thrift, and frugality 
and modesty" to "bling and showing off and narcissism."

 projecting wealth is more important than ever.
 "I think the backdrop of these 25 years is that we've never had more 
inequality and we've never had less social mobility," she says. "So, in a way, 
fictitious social mobility — bling and presentation — has replaced real social 
mobility ... because it's all you can get."
 
http://www.npr.org/2017/05/10/527429299/dont-be-fooled-generation-wealth-is-more-about-wanting-than-having
 
http://www.npr.org/2017/05/10/527429299/dont-be-fooled-generation-wealth-is-more-about-wanting-than-having

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 
 FW: 
 "Our current life is beset by a cacophony of alarming and, at times, ominous 
noise. Cognizant of this scourge, Amma urged her disciples in the USA to 
conduct sessions of silent meditation.   In sustained silence, our senses 
become more acute and attuned to see the world around us with greater clarity.  
 

 ..sustained periods of silence allow us to garner our energy -inner and outer- 
to calm our nerves and develop a dispassionate perspective on life and its 
challenges. The sound of silence becomes a harmonious symphony."
  
 
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 In the midsts of so much materialism..
 Relative deprivation:
 An ambient stressor in the collective spiritual body, 
 a lack of fulfillment, the lack of peace. 
 But it is an elegant explanation for so much of the turmoil of the current 
political climate, when many groups seem to fear they could be losing out on 
what they once had.
 ..threaten to take something away from people that they think should be 
theirs, and they get mad.
 That gap — between what people think they should get and what they think they 
will realistically get — creates discontent, he writes, and that discontent "is 
the basic, instigating condition for participants in collective violence."

 
 
http://www.npr.org/2017/02/06/513306355/the-theory-that-explains-the-anger-of-our-political-moment
 
http://www.npr.org/2017/02/06/513306355/the-theory-that-explains-the-anger-of-our-political-moment
 

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 
 Fear and the spiritual 'body politic'..
 ..the people of a nation, state, or society considered collectively as an 
organized group of citizens.

 “We have more than a political problem. We have an emotional problem, in that 
this moment scares us. It scares us. We have a psychological problem in that we 
are all being bullied in this moment. We have a spiritual problem in that hate 
has been harnessed for political purposes,” she said.
 Sanders echoed her remarks. “If you think that you don’t have the answers, 
trust me, you are not alone,” he said. “What is imperative as never before is 
that we really think this thing through, because the stakes are so 
extraordinary for this country and for the world. And on behalf of my seven 
grandchildren, and the children all over this planet: We cannot fail.”

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Notes from the morning Fairfield, Iowa Coffee Haus Satsangs, after meditation. 
This morning’s notes are about ambient collective Fear, the Energy of these 
times:  
 Running conversation,
 There is a tremendous amount of fear in the collective. Fear of not having 
enough and that whatever people have, rich or poor, what they have might be 
taken away.
 ..Kali Yuga is about lies, power and fear. This is a time where the throat has 
become a weapon of the lower chakras. Weaponized. Unregulated by the heart. 
 ..Doing energy work on wall street people, they are a lot as mushroom shaped 
men. Their energy fields present as mushroom shaped, mushroom shaped men 
‘empowered’ in business with large upper mental fields that are nothing but 
black and grey. Nothing lit in the brow, they are hollow in the middle fields 
and disconnected from the lower fields.  They look like a mushroom top with 
stick legs.   It is a signature of the times. Big mental fields, causal, and 
not much to support it.  In the bankers and powerful of wall street it is 
common. No heart field. Without the heart field online there is no mediating 
between the upper and lower fields. They are cut off from each other, 
disconnected. It is a signature. 
 In this the throat has become weaponized between the upper fields and lower, 
unregulated in fear. 
 ..The heart is the capacity to look outside oneself.Like Jesus saying in 
the Bible