[FairfieldLife] Re: Meditation: The Dark Side

2009-08-13 Thread Marek Reavis
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: **snip With regard to your contention that Vaj may be right that the Perennial Philosophy is an illusion, I'd just suggest that you not let your mind be so open your brains fall out. **snip to end I made no such contention.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Meditation: The Dark Side

2009-08-13 Thread Marek Reavis
: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis reavismarek@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: **snip With regard to your contention that Vaj may be right that the Perennial Philosophy is an illusion, I'd just suggest that you not let your mind

[FairfieldLife] Re: Kseniya Simonova--Ukrainian sand artist

2009-08-13 Thread Marek Reavis
A really powerful performance. Extraordinary. Thanks for that one. ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: Performing on Ukraine's Got Talent (she won). Probably the most remarkable artist I've ever seen.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Krishna Janmashtami Puja

2009-08-12 Thread Marek Reavis
It's too bad that all the schools are on summer vacation; the TM students won't get the opportunity to celebrate Krishna's birthday. ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, michael vedamer...@... wrote: Tomorrow, Thursday, 13 August will be the global Puja for Krishna

[FairfieldLife] Re: Meditation: The Dark Side

2009-08-12 Thread Marek Reavis
Raunchydog, I understand the point you're making in your post re Vaj, but it's an incorrect portrayal of my opinion of him. It did take several readings for me to understand what he was saying in the lines you quoted (below), but that was mostly due to the combination of individual terms

[FairfieldLife] Re: Meditation: The Dark Side

2009-08-12 Thread Marek Reavis
, the high-falutin' words weren't the issue for me, though I understand that they were for you. ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis reavismarek@ wrote: Raunchydog, I understand the point you're making in your post

[FairfieldLife] Re: Alternative to Transcendental Meditation

2009-08-11 Thread Marek Reavis
I agree with you, Patrick, it really is remarkable that Maharishi was able to direct so many people into doing meditation, and on a twice daily basis, to boot. But I think that it was just the right message and medium for the time and for the people who were, for some reason, primed for both.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Alternative to Transcendental Meditation

2009-08-11 Thread Marek Reavis
, but the word mantra was a term they were all familiar with. TM and its popularity injected the term into the common vernacular. That's pretty cool. ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: On Aug 11, 2009, at 9:13 PM, Marek Reavis wrote: I agree with you

[FairfieldLife] Re: Alternative to Transcendental Meditation

2009-08-11 Thread Marek Reavis
The Perennial Philosophy in practice. ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: On Aug 11, 2009, at 10:29 PM, Marek Reavis wrote: Just today, as I was passing through security at the courthouse, I overheard one of the bailiffs use the phrase . . . it was like

[FairfieldLife] Re: Alternative to Transcendental Meditation

2009-08-11 Thread Marek Reavis
all unique, each holding his/her own mythos, our own Rig Ved (but not a synthetic thought-plane projection of our imaginings of 'that'). On Aug 11, 2009, at 11:26 PM, Marek Reavis wrote: The Perennial Philosophy in practice. **

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bollywood Dance Class in FF

2009-08-10 Thread Marek Reavis
This sounds great. Would love to go to something like this. Another great thing about Fairfield. ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer r...@... wrote: From: radhika [mailto:radh...@...] Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 4:06 PM To: Undisclosed-Recipient:; Subject: please

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Relationship of Islam and 'La, la Land'...

2009-08-08 Thread Marek Reavis
Comment below: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert babajii...@... wrote: I asked an Islamic guy, on State st., Madison, about the name(s) of God, in the Islamic faith... He said, there's only one name of God: Allah Ok, what about Mohammahd, I asked..? No, he's like a prophet

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Relationship of Islam and 'La, la Land'...

2009-08-08 Thread Marek Reavis
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert babajii...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis reavismarek@ wrote: Comment below: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert babajii_99@ wrote: I asked an Islamic guy, on State st., Madison, about

[FairfieldLife] Sitting Quietly, Doing Something

2009-07-17 Thread Marek Reavis
NYTimes, 7.16.9. http://happydays.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/16/sitting-quietly-doing-something/ or, http://snipurl.com/nfegx

[FairfieldLife] Aurora Borealis

2009-07-16 Thread Marek Reavis
A page with several animated still shots of auroras in Alaska. The homw site is full of gorgeous images of Northern Lights and spectacular Alaska. http://www.auroradude.com/animationpage.html or, http://snipurl.com/ncozr

[FairfieldLife] Kuroshio Sea at the Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium

2009-07-16 Thread Marek Reavis
A four-and-a-half minute video of the stunning, nearly 2-million gallon tank, The Kuroshio Sea, with pleasant audio accompaniment by Barcelona. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7deClndzQw or, http://snipurl.com/nd7g7 P.S. This is only the second-largest aquarium tank.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Kuroshio Sea at the Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium

2009-07-16 Thread Marek Reavis
** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis reavismarek@ wrote: A four-and-a-half minute video of the stunning, nearly 2-million gallon tank, The Kuroshio Sea, with pleasant audio accompaniment by Barcelona

[FairfieldLife] Bursting the bubble of ignorance (was Re: Ignorance in High Society?)

2009-07-15 Thread Marek Reavis
Beautiful photographs. To see for the first time how that particular event happens, step by step, after a lifetime of seeing bubbles bursting is really satisfying. Thanks. ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John

[FairfieldLife] Sunday Morning Drive To College Cove

2009-07-15 Thread Marek Reavis
Here's an inconsequential narrative, but it's illustrated with seven photos that I'm putting into a new album in the Photos section (College Cove), and they are the actual story, or at least, worth looking at for their own sake. These comments only augment them with place names and anecdotal

[FairfieldLife] Rice Paddy Art

2009-07-12 Thread Marek Reavis
The 2009 crop at the peak of its artistic yield. http://www.pinktentacle.com/2009/07/rice-paddy-art/ or, http://snipurl.com/n38j2

[FairfieldLife] Excellent Optical Illusion

2009-07-12 Thread Marek Reavis
No bent or diagonal lines; rows and columns all perfectly perpendicular. http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SqhhJb_P3Kk/R3hXizzEMWI/ACI/mf5nL9mi9Ro/s1600-h/bent+lines+illusion+trimmed.jpg or, http://snipurl.com/n38s3

[FairfieldLife] Re: Rice Paddy Art

2009-07-12 Thread Marek Reavis
It is cool stuff, isn't it, Raunchy? It would seem that the aliens haven't figured out the technology to do crop circles in rice paddies, yet. Marek ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchy...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis reavismarek

[FairfieldLife] An Antartica year in 6 minutes

2009-07-12 Thread Marek Reavis
Time lapse video of a year's passage in and around McMurdo Bay, Antartica. The last few minutes are particularly stunning. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TemK6CF6lF0feature=player_embedded or, http://snipurl.com/n3hqp **

[FairfieldLife] Re: Rice Paddy Art

2009-07-12 Thread Marek Reavis
** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis reavismarek@ wrote: It is cool stuff, isn't it, Raunchy? It would seem that the aliens haven't figured out the technology to do crop circles in rice paddies, yet

[FairfieldLife] Re: Rice Paddy Art

2009-07-12 Thread Marek Reavis
(several score) don't appear to have been particularly difficult to make, and the aesthetic they reveal seems emminently human, rather than non-human. ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis reavismarek@ wrote

[FairfieldLife] Re: Rice Paddy Art

2009-07-12 Thread Marek Reavis
Thanks for the site, I'll check it out sometime. ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis reavismarek@ wrote: Judy, I haven't looked into the technical stuff, though I know that you have

[FairfieldLife] Re: YouTube video - Guru Dev sings 'Shri Charpata Panjarika Stotram'

2009-07-10 Thread Marek Reavis
The Bhaja Govindam's authorship is attributed to Adi Shankara, the standard bearer and presumed embodiment of Vedanta. Whatever teachings it contains would presumably be consistent with Shankara's vedantic philosophy and worldview. ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, BillyG. wg...@...

[FairfieldLife] Re: Cause of obesity in the tmorg

2009-07-10 Thread Marek Reavis
Excellent and simple common sense, Alex, and the application of common sense to most problems yields practical solutions. Eat properly, eat less, and exercise more. Most people don't seem to understand how often they have to engage in regular physical exercise to maintain a trim and healthy

[FairfieldLife] Homeopathy parody

2009-07-09 Thread Marek Reavis
A 2-minute satire from British tv. http://www.videosift.com/video/Homeopathic-A-E-Mitchell-Webb

[FairfieldLife] Re: Homeopathy parody + There is no God.

2009-07-09 Thread Marek Reavis
Mitchell and Webb are great. These two clips are my first introduction to them and they seem to be directly in the Monty Python lineage. Thanks. Marek ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo richardhughes...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis reavismarek

[FairfieldLife] Re: Homeopathy parody

2009-07-09 Thread Marek Reavis
I love the end when they have another round of homeopathic lager. Man, that's strong stuff! ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stan...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis reavismarek@ wrote: A 2-minute satire from British tv

[FairfieldLife] Smart Crow video

2009-07-08 Thread Marek Reavis
We've written about these guys before, but here's a video that illustrates just how brainy crows are. This is a first-time experience for the crow; food in a basket in the tube that he can't reach; a straight piece of wire that doesn't help . . . until the crow takes it out, bends one end into

[FairfieldLife] Re: Britian just an average joe...........was Most violent countries in Europe?

2009-07-05 Thread Marek Reavis
@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com , Marek Reavis reavismarek@ wrote: Robbery is defined pretty much the same throughout the U.S., the taking from the person of another by force or fear. By definition it's a violent crime. It is not included in the violent crime statistics

[FairfieldLife] Re: Dali Disney short

2009-07-04 Thread Marek Reavis
. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis reavismarek@ wrote: A completed-in-1999, 6-minute short animation began by Salvador and Walt in 1946. An 18-second portion of the film, right near the end, was the only actual work done at that time. The rest was done from storyboards

[FairfieldLife] Re: Dali Disney short

2009-07-04 Thread Marek Reavis
, Marek Reavis reavismarek@ wrote: When I was little, Dali just blew me away, both his visual extravagance and his technique, which at that time was so far beyond anything I could imagine being able to achieve myself. Those turtle creatures from the 18-second portion of the film

[FairfieldLife] Re: Dali Disney short

2009-07-04 Thread Marek Reavis
) and Toc Fetch (tocfetch.com). ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis reavismarek@ wrote: A completed-in-1999, 6-minute short animation began by Salvador and Walt in 1946. An 18-second portion of the film

[FairfieldLife] Re: Dali Disney short

2009-07-04 Thread Marek Reavis
. ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stan...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis reavismarek@ wrote: Two current practitioners of surrealism I'd recommend are Tricia Cline (triciacline.com) I remember when Tricia and her sister lived

[FairfieldLife] UCLA study on meditation

2009-07-04 Thread Marek Reavis
Another small study with 22 meditators of zazen, vippassana, samatha, and other meditation techniques showing specific differences in brain physiology from non-meditators. http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/how-to-build-a-bigger-brain-91273.aspx?id or, http://snipurl.com/ls506

[FairfieldLife] Re: Britian just an average joe...........was Most violent countries in Europe?

2009-07-04 Thread Marek Reavis
Robbery is defined pretty much the same throughout the U.S., the taking from the person of another by force or fear. By definition it's a violent crime. In California it is one of many enumerated serious and violent crimes; crimes that are strikes. The Department of Justice crimes statistics

[FairfieldLife] Dali Disney short

2009-07-03 Thread Marek Reavis
A completed-in-1999, 6-minute short animation began by Salvador and Walt in 1946. An 18-second portion of the film, right near the end, was the only actual work done at that time. The rest was done from storyboards, sketches and the input from one of the chief animators whose job it was to

[FairfieldLife] Another recommendation

2009-07-03 Thread Marek Reavis
Hibi no neiro, a wonderfully creative 4-minute short. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfBlUQguvyw or, http://snipurl.com/lqje3

[FairfieldLife] Mantra study - Oprah.com

2009-07-01 Thread Marek Reavis
A 3-page summary at Oprah.com of a small study done in 2006. http://www.oprah.com/article/spirit/emotionalhealth/spirit_meditation_mantra_b1 or http://snipurl.com/l981n

[FairfieldLife] Irrepressible

2009-06-04 Thread Marek Reavis
Video, 3 minutes long, worth it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRw1-y1Txxs or http://snipurl.com/jfbwp

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-05-30 Thread Marek Reavis
, but I agree that it's appropriate should that be so. ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis reavismarek@ wrote: Jay Randolph Coplin, in his dissertation on the history of the SRM, writes that in an interview

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-05-30 Thread Marek Reavis
) of the Shankaracharya lineage of Shantanand. The only thing I ever heard Maharishi say about it was that people started using it, and he didn't object. ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: On May 29, 2009, at 10:59 PM, Marek Reavis wrote: Jay Randolph Coplin, in his

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-05-30 Thread Marek Reavis
Not necessarily, but that's not the point. However he got the honorific, Maharishi certainly felt it was appropriate and never demurred. Many agreed with him and lots didn't. ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: On May 30, 2009, at 9:57 AM, Marek Reavis

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-05-30 Thread Marek Reavis
entirely on his own initiative. ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: On May 30, 2009, at 3:25 PM, Marek Reavis wrote: Not necessarily, but that's not the point. However he got the honorific, Maharishi certainly felt it was appropriate and never demurred

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-05-29 Thread Marek Reavis
Jay Randolph Coplin, in his dissertation on the history of the SRM, writes that in an interview with the then-Shankaracharya of Jyotir Math, Vasudevananda (the successor to Guru Dev's successor, Shantanand, and predecessor of the current Shankaracharya, Vishnudevananda, in Shantanand's line) --

[FairfieldLife] Re: Rain (was:Mantra and Devata-One and the same)

2009-05-14 Thread Marek Reavis
The post from the Buddhist blog (below) reminded me of an article by Oliver Sacks in the New Yorker in July of '03. Relevant to rain is the last paragraph in this excerpt from that article: A dozen years ago, I was sent an extraordinary book called Touching the Rock: An Experience of

[FairfieldLife] Get out the vote! (Re: Sexy Time)

2009-05-06 Thread Marek Reavis
Edg, thank you for the kind words. You have a raw honesty that is wholly admirable. And as you've pointed out in earlier posts, it takes some time to become accustomed to the personalities that populate this forum. Some of my own early impressions of posters have softened over time. It's

[FairfieldLife] Re: Just a hint, for those not averse to antibiotics

2009-04-27 Thread Marek Reavis
As re the apocalypse (from Wired): http://snipurl.com/gu9o2 ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: I am NOT a doomsday or apocalypse freak. I do NOT get off on imagining the worst as a way of feeling self-important. However, I am also the son of a man

[FairfieldLife] Re: Has anyone seen the movie 'Earth' ?

2009-04-25 Thread Marek Reavis
Thank you for the heads-up. The trailer was excellent; I'm planning on catching the movie tonight. ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rf...@... wrote: Wow! I just watched the trailer here: http://disney.go.com/disneynature/

[FairfieldLife] Evelien Lohbeck

2009-04-25 Thread Marek Reavis
Perhaps you've seen this, but if you haven't yet, you ought to. As on reviewer said, Not to be missed. http://vimeo.com/4116727 **

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Science Of Spiritual Marketing (Is kneeling *ever* just kneeling)

2009-04-19 Thread Marek Reavis
Yes, same for me. Good discussion. ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, grate.swan no_re...@... wrote: Marek, Thanks for your feedback on this and related posts. They have helped me further my thinking. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis reavismarek@ wrote

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Science Of Spiritual Marketing (Is kneeling *ever* just kneeling)

2009-04-19 Thread Marek Reavis
...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis reavismarek@ wrote: Yes, same for me. Good discussion. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, grate.swan no_reply@ wrote: Marek, Thanks for your feedback on this and related posts. They have helped me further

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Science Of Spiritual Marketing (Is kneeling *ever* just kneeling)

2009-04-19 Thread Marek Reavis
the religion hook. ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: On Apr 19, 2009, at 12:04 PM, Marek Reavis wrote: So if you look at TM in the schools (not the DLF initiative, but programs that use public school facilities or staff to facilitate TM), you can

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Science Of Spiritual Marketing (Is kneeling *ever* just kneeling)

2009-04-19 Thread Marek Reavis
(1984) 465 U.S. 668.) The Supreme Court has never defined what religion is, but it has ruled that religious beliefs don't have to be theistic. (Torasco v. Watkins (1961) 367 U.S. 488.) ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams willy...@... wrote: Marek Reavis wrote

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharaja Adiraja Rajaram speaks about religion and teaching etc

2009-04-19 Thread Marek Reavis
I practice TM daily. And although the practice alone may not be a religion, the TMO promotes a religious worldview and a religious philosophy along with the meditation. You don't have to buy into the larger TMO picture, but it's definitely pushed, and it's fundamentally religious in nature.

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Science Of Spiritual Marketing (Is kneeling *ever* just kneeling)

2009-04-18 Thread Marek Reavis
Richard, the phrase in need of a kneel got me laughing so hard -- thanks for that. Kneeling is such an intentional posture; and the idea that it's just a posture, merely equivalent with any other, and that a person would assume that pose immediately following a religious(-type) ceremony (and

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Science Of Spiritual Marketing (Is kneeling *ever* just kneeling)

2009-04-18 Thread Marek Reavis
This might be the best summary rap about the movement. And you accurately described the arc of my own start in the TMO, too, uncanny. That's almost exactly the way I came into, and felt about, the movement. That is, of course, the one big reason why FFL is valuable -- not a lot of folk have

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Science Of Spiritual Marketing (Is kneeling *ever* just kneeling)

2009-04-18 Thread Marek Reavis
and grades, would that justify teaching it or having the students practice it at school? No, not under the federal Constitution. This is exactly the same thing. ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, grate.swan no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Science Of Spiritual Marketing (Is kneeling *ever* just kneeling)

2009-04-18 Thread Marek Reavis
: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis reavismarek@ wrote: Richard, the phrase in need of a kneel got me laughing so hard -- thanks for that. Kneeling is such an intentional posture; and the idea that it's just a posture, merely equivalent with any other, and that a person would assume

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Science Of Spiritual Marketing (Is kneeling *ever* just kneeling)

2009-04-18 Thread Marek Reavis
students. ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis reavismarek@ wrote: snip If the saying of the Catholic rosary had provable, scientifically veriafiable effects on student's attitudes and grades, would

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Science Of Spiritual Marketing (Is kneeling *ever* just kneeling)

2009-04-18 Thread Marek Reavis
[Correction: sentence should read: TM is religion based, *not* just religion derived.] --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis reavisma...@... wrote: Judy, you accurately describe the attitude that I, as an intiator, tried to project to initiates who did not kneel when cued to do

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Science Of Spiritual Marketing (Is kneeling *ever* just kneeling)

2009-04-18 Thread Marek Reavis
. The last time I initiated someone, I was very upfront with my actual attitudes and feelings. ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: On Apr 18, 2009, at 11:36 AM, Marek Reavis wrote: Richard, the phrase in need of a kneel got me laughing so hard -- thanks

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Science Of Spiritual Marketing (Is kneeling *ever* just kneeling)

2009-04-18 Thread Marek Reavis
) in their plan to teach it in the high schools. ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, grate.swan no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis reavismarek@ wrote: GrateSwan, I think you're slicing the baloney too thin, There are interesting if not important

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Science Of Spiritual Marketing (Is kneeling *ever* just kneeling)

2009-04-18 Thread Marek Reavis
@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis reavismarek@ wrote: snip TM is religion based, [not] just religion derived. You can practice the meditation without the religion, but under the federal Constitution, the meditation instruction is unquestionably a religious ceremony. I cannot imagine the TMO

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Science Of Spiritual Marketing (Is kneeling *ever* just kneeling)

2009-04-18 Thread Marek Reavis
. ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis reavismarek@ wrote: IMO, I would expect that someone saying the rosary (essentially a collection of hail marys and our fathers) would be getting many of the same

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Science Of Spiritual Marketing (Is kneeling *ever* just kneeling)

2009-04-18 Thread Marek Reavis
principle. I feel differently about that position now. ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis reavismarek@ wrote: The picture of Guru Dev has a halo, too, sitting on a throne decorated with specific

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Science Of Spiritual Marketing (Is kneeling *ever* just kneeling)

2009-04-18 Thread Marek Reavis
to be disallowed. IMO. ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis reavismarek@ wrote: You miss my point: the practice can't be done on or off campus until the student is initiated into the practice. The initiation

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Science Of Spiritual Marketing (Is kneeling *ever* just kneeling)

2009-04-18 Thread Marek Reavis
promotion in the schools, even under the DLF. ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis reavismarek@ wrote: But you miss my point, which is that you *can* say with the Catholic rosary, that we're giving you all

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Science Of Spiritual Marketing (Is kneeling *ever* just kneeling)

2009-04-18 Thread Marek Reavis
of checking, most likely the third day. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis reavismarek@ wrote: Deceptive in the sense that there was a hidden agenda. Maharishi's original and lasting intention was to spiritually regenerate the world. TM was the original and fundamental

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Science Of Spiritual Marketing (Is kneeling *ever* just kneeling)

2009-04-18 Thread Marek Reavis
most other indications to the contrary. ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, grate.swan no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis reavismarek@ wrote: Correct, mantras are not prayers; that was not my point. And although they are semantically meaningless

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Science Of Spiritual Marketing (Is kneeling *ever* just kneeling)

2009-04-18 Thread Marek Reavis
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, grate.swan no_re...@... wrote: **snip If student independently elects and applies to a charter school that is upfront that: i) it has a silent time, and ii) DLF will teach students for free off campus for those who elect to do so, that would appear to

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Science Of Spiritual Marketing (Is kneeling *ever* just kneeling)

2009-04-18 Thread Marek Reavis
was out there and percolating in the 60s and 70s. Lots of folks were riding on that kind of energy, and most of the TM initiators were riding that same wave. ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis reavismarek

[FairfieldLife] Scientific American article. . .

2009-04-15 Thread Marek Reavis
. . . on the decriminalization of street drugs in Portugal. In the face of a growing number of deaths and cases of HIV linked to drug abuse, the Portuguese government in 2001 tried a new tack to get a handle on the problem—it decriminalized the use and possession of heroin, cocaine,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Is this lecture being taught in today's highschools?

2009-04-14 Thread Marek Reavis
Most evil things aren't done by evil people, they're mostly done by clerks and minor functionaries, minuted by committee, stamped and approved by the relevant authorities. Well said, Guy, and important to realize. ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, guyfawkes91 guyfawke...@... wrote:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happiness is relative

2009-04-12 Thread Marek Reavis
Just to piggyback on this post as the bird threads are winding down, and because it involves a chicken. . . When first living in Davis when my (now former) spouse was beginning her residency and I was being the househusband so the kids would have a parent at home, I worked part-time at a

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Wannabee TM Teacher Test

2009-04-11 Thread Marek Reavis
** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchy...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis reavismarek@ wrote: Comment below: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: **snip And since this is my last comment

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Wannabee TM Teacher Test

2009-04-11 Thread Marek Reavis
Totally agree. I love this stuff. ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltabl...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis reavismarek@ wrote: Thanks for Ruby's story, RaunchyDog. It's cool how these little dinosaurs can have

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hawk Cam

2009-04-11 Thread Marek Reavis
the beaches of the Olympic Peninsula. (In and around Port Angeles, not very far from where Arhata lives in Port Townsend, Washington.) ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchy...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis reavismarek@ wrote: Yeah, I

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Wannabee TM Teacher Test

2009-04-11 Thread Marek Reavis
/J2BBQDBLRE9BV69NCJ.jpg] Chi Chi loves Tu Tu --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, geezerfreak geezerfreak@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis reavismarek@ wrote: Thanks for Ruby's story

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hawk Cam

2009-04-10 Thread Marek Reavis
at the bottom end, dumped out the few remaining cheetos and quickly gobbled them up while the gull stood there, looking on incredulously. It was beautiful. Marek ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard M compost...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis reavismarek

[FairfieldLife] Marek -- Consider this beast too (Re: Hawk Cam)

2009-04-10 Thread Marek Reavis
. Ignoring them is my general rule, but occasionaly I'm prompted to comment as I did this time. Thanks, brother. Marek ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung no_re...@... wrote: Marek Reavis wrote: When I lived in Davis there were a few people I met who hunted with hawks

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Wannabee TM Teacher Test

2009-04-10 Thread Marek Reavis
Comment below: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_re...@... wrote: **snip And since this is my last comment of this week, just a quick remark to you Marek: It's nice that you have observed that I do not use harsh words as often as before, nor do I ask Edg to get back

[FairfieldLife] Hawk Cam

2009-04-09 Thread Marek Reavis
A small videocam strapped to a hawk. Almost 8 minutes long. The final swoop and dive hits the spot. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APViUODDhT0

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hawk Cam

2009-04-09 Thread Marek Reavis
...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis reavismarek@ wrote: A small videocam strapped to a hawk. Almost 8 minutes long. The final swoop and dive hits the spot. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APViUODDhT0 Nice video, but the music is so poor that Curtis could

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hawk Cam

2009-04-09 Thread Marek Reavis
** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis reavismarek@ wrote: A small videocam strapped to a hawk. Almost 8 minutes long. The final swoop and dive hits the spot. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APViUODDhT0

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hawk Cam

2009-04-09 Thread Marek Reavis
tube. I hadn't seen the one you sent before. --- On Fri, 4/10/09, Marek Reavis reavisma...@... wrote: From: Marek Reavis reavisma...@... Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Hawk Cam To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, April 10, 2009, 12:21 AM Turq, thanks. My main

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hawk Cam

2009-04-09 Thread Marek Reavis
** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis reavismarek@ wrote: A small videocam strapped to a hawk. Almost 8 minutes long. The final swoop and dive hits the spot. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hawk Cam

2009-04-09 Thread Marek Reavis
manuver through a forest at such a high rate of speed. Mike --- On Fri, 4/10/09, Marek Reavis reavisma...@... wrote: From: Marek Reavis reavisma...@... Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Hawk Cam To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, April 10, 2009, 12:48 AM Mike

[FairfieldLife] Re: Raam Navami - Friday, 3 April

2009-04-02 Thread Marek Reavis
Perhaps they will share videos of the TMO's celebrations of Lord Rama's birthday at the David Lynch concert. That would put a lid on all the controversy. ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, michael vedamer...@... wrote:             Tomorrow, Friday, will be Raam Navami

[FairfieldLife] Re: Paxil (anti-shy drug)

2009-03-31 Thread Marek Reavis
Comment below: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: On Mar 31, 2009, at 9:12 AM, Kirk wrote: Vaj, still it! I can tell you the two things aren't similar sensations. Well, maybe similar but they effect different parts of the brain. But keep

[FairfieldLife] Barcelona in 1908

2009-03-29 Thread Marek Reavis
A charming 7-minute YouTube video taken from a trolley car along different routes in Barcelona about 100 years ago. http://tinyurl.com/c4t8f2 or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJdwzY1o7k8

[FairfieldLife] Re: Barcelona in 1908

2009-03-29 Thread Marek Reavis
made over the intervening years. ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis reavismarek@ wrote: A charming 7-minute YouTube video taken from a trolley car along different routes in Barcelona about 100 years

[FairfieldLife] Re: Broken down in Striped Butte Valley

2009-03-24 Thread Marek Reavis
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, yifuxero yifux...@... wrote: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bcgreeneiv/641082502/ ** Death Valley is one entirely beautiful place. I've backpacked several times at the north end, east of Big Pine around the big Eureka sand dunes and the Panamint Range.

[FairfieldLife] 3 Delightful Links

2009-03-19 Thread Marek Reavis
First, from Improv Everywhere, a great performance art group; this one more subtle than some other of their work, but nonetheless, a real gem. http://improveverywhere.com/2009/03/18/subway-art-gallery-opening/ or, http://snipurl.com/e59ka Next, a YouTube link to LED-augmented, extreme sheep

[FairfieldLife] Re: Meditation and Drug-use Pollicy

2009-03-07 Thread Marek Reavis
Thanks, Sal. ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunsh...@... wrote: Marek Reavis reavismarek@ wrote: Most people who've been participants in the criminal justice system as defendants, have had pretty shitty lives, are used to be shit on, and frequently

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eliminate Congress?

2009-03-06 Thread Marek Reavis
Appealing in many respects, but scary, too, inasmuch as it would allow what William Burke referred to as the tyranny of the majority, which the current system of republican government and the checks and balances of the three branches of government in the US Constitution, keeps more or less at

[FairfieldLife] Check out this guy's portfolio

2009-03-03 Thread Marek Reavis
Clark Little, a fellow who takes photos similar to the ones Rick posted of the celestial pictures of Iowa; but Little finds his heaven in the barrel, which is perfectly understandable. http://www.clarklittlephotography.com/main/gallery_images?type=2

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