That was at an ayurvedic conference held at UC Berkeley in the spring of 2002. Interesting thing about that conference was I was standing out in the hallway when a session finished and there was this woman with a group following her to the expo hall for book signing. I didn't know who it was at the time but it was Naomi Campbell who is appearing these days on the FOX series "Empire".
On 03/17/2015 12:41 PM, Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:
what do you think of the Thomas Ashley Farrand books? ------------------------------------------------------------------------*From:* "Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>*To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Tuesday, March 17, 2015 2:47 PM *Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Well, well, well.Meditation isn't forever. At some point that third eye *is* open and will remain open regardless of whether you meditate or not. IOW, "you're there." In that state I call it "pure consciousness on demand."Last week I recommended Swami Radha's book "Mantras Words of Power". She was a German woman who studied with a Swami Sivananda. Even Sivananda's books went into different methods of meditation. Ever wonder why it was okay for kids to use a "walking mantra" but not recommended for adults? Of course you can meditate with eyes open. And I frequently write about what I call "adjunct" mantras, particularly the ones for ayurveda. These can be used in additional to whatever practice you do be it TM or otherwise though maybe they'll throw you out of the domes if you let them know you use them.The ayurvedic mantras are very standard but not taught by MAPI (that I know of). If you've developed a degree of silence then you can evaluate mantras yourself. They're very useful to correct an imbalance. Of you might need to know a bit about ayurveda first.Point is a lot of this stuff, which Swami Radha points out, is for beginners. My tantra guru said the same thing. The main purpose of asanas is to develop the ability to sit in a half lotus pose for a long time. After a while the pose doesn't even matter.Why would I want to date at my age? I don't even have the karma for relationships. Any attempt gets thwarted mysteriously. My life's complicated enough right now to deal with such things. I'm cleaning house so I can put it on the market and get my equity and capital gains out of it. I don't need a 4 bedroom house. I want to downsize things.I also watch stuff on my TV a little differently than some folks because of working in the entertainment industry. For instance, I am monitoring the "CSI Cyber" show to see what they are presenting to their audience. It's very cartoonish and that's why the acting is stilted. Similarly l like to watch very low budget "found footage" movies to see what young folks are up to with the medium. Some of it's very entertaining and good story telling.I hang around the house because what work I do have is done at home. That's why I liked to go out to places like Starbucks to hang out and chat with locals. But folks aren't going there anymore nor even the locally owned shops. The economy is crashing down despite the lies the government gives you.On 03/17/2015 11:19 AM, rich...@rwilliams.us <mailto:rich...@rwilliams.us> [FairfieldLife] wrote:The point is that you and the other Barry seem to spend way too much time hanging around the house watching a boob tube and apparently you can't get a date, yet both of you are making tantric yogi status claims. Face it, niether of you seem to practicing any yoga poses or even meditating on your third eye.Of course there's nothing wrong with watching TV and movies on Saturday night. It's just that tantric yogis aren't supposed to be laying around in bed watching TV or movies by themselves - they are supposed to be practicing tantric yoga and meditation like normal spiritual householders with their family.It's not complicated.---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com <mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>, <noozguru@...> <mailto:noozguru@...> wrote :You have a family and kids if I'm not mistaken? Your lifestyle then differs a bit from many of us here. Also we don't watch TV "per se". Most of us are watching shows and movies at our convenience via streaming. It's a bit of a different world. Some of us work at computers all day and for me to watch a few things on a big screen TV in the evening is better on my eyes than reading a book. It may seem to some that "TV" is more important than it really is to us. My social lifestyle has been in a state of flux. Some of the folks I used to hang out with at Starbucks can no longer afford it and neither can I. I can tell that Starbucks is feeling the pinch due to the promos and what things they change about their member program. This is happening to a lot of US business including even McDonalds (which I don't frequent). Needless to say I feel a bit pissed because even my simple low cost extras have been stolen from me. And because I started studying economics back in the late 1970s I know what has happened and why I should be pissed. The majority should be too but most are like in a sleepwalking fantasy land.It was not a big pick up truck that I purchased. It was a midsize, of what previously was a small size, before the 2015 redesign. I've been very pleased with it, especially coming off a very basic work truck with few amenities. That truck purchased in 2008 with the recession in mind, also served it's purpose well. Thanks for asking.Your post I read suggested you were going to do this because of low gas prices and unless your local dealer was having a blowout to reduce stock during the low prices it might not have been a good purchase unless it's something you really need. I wouldn't trust the energy companies at all with their gas pricing. But then I live in a refinery town where the chatter is more about what is really going on. I see folks driving pickups as dick extensions. They appear to never be used to haul anything. Even a friend who is a contractor drives a small pickup.---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com <mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>, <noozguru@...> <mailto:noozguru@...> wrote : Negativity or reality? And what's wrong with TV (and movie) reviews? Lots of folks here watch TV. Are they supposed to be spending their evenings reading the Gita? BTW, did you buy that big pickup truck? On 03/16/2015 07:22 AM, steve.sundur@... <mailto:steve.sundur@...> [FairfieldLife] wrote:FFL has come into the same fate that befell Alt.meditation, mostly just a pool of negativity (and TV reviews) ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com <mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>, <anartaxius@...> <mailto:anartaxius@...> wrote : What do you conceive the spiritual process to be? As far as I can see everyone is following it to a lesser or greater degree, unconsciously or consciously, lackadaisically or with focus. It seems to me Turq focuses on the pitfalls of the process, the things that lead one astray, he does not talk much about the positive aspects of the process, but that does not mean they are not there in his awareness. Opposition stimulates creativity and intelligence. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com <mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>, <steve.sundur@...> <mailto:steve.sundur@...> wrote : I'm sorry you don't realize what you sound like here. You really don't understand the spiritual process, and as such, you've ended up in some lonely back water. You have a couple people here who think you are on to something. Everyone else has written you off. As Feste suggested, best to stick with TV reviews. BTW, we know what excessive TV watching does to the brain. Why not check out some peer review studies along those lines. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com <mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>, <turquoiseb@...> <mailto:turquoiseb@...> wrote : */Cultist, cure thyself. You and Steve-o seem to feel no compunctions about projecting your "They hate Maharishi" fantasies onto Michael and I. T'ain't true, at least in my case. How is that NOT "assigning us beliefs, emotions, and motivations?" /* */ /* */I don't consider myself "obsessed" with Maharishi and/or the TM movement. If I'm obsessed with anything, it's cults and cultists in general. I find them fascinating, no matter what the cult. On FFL, I *admit* to sometimes posting things that have the intention of helping long-term TMers realize what cultists they have become, by pointing out how strongly they *react* to the things I post. I have been hoping YOU would learn from this, but so far you haven't. /* */ /* */But I didn't even do that in this case. All I did was do a couple of 10-second Google searches that show that the TMO's latest buzzphrase in their latest propaganda ("global repair mechanism") is ripped off from one of the current "buzzword du jour" you can find in a number of scientific, medical, and IT articles and papers. And how did you react to that? By trying to demonize ME. AGAIN. /* */ /* */What am I to *think* about this, other than you got your cultist buttons pushed? AGAIN. /* */ /* */Here's a challenge for you, Feste. As a long-time TMer who claims not to be a cultist and who in fact seems to be affronted by the very notion that I suggest you're one, how do you react to the propaganda piece by David Orme-Johnson that srijau just posted, claiming that (per TM dogma) "TM never does any harm." Was that YOUR experience, in all of the years you spent in the TM movement? It certainly wasn't mine. /* */ /* */For example, long before the Sidhis appeared, I was on a course in which several dozen people were placed in special "twitching groups" and forced to sit together at the front of the lecture hall because they were twitching and spasming and shouting uncontrollably all the time, 24/7, even when not in meditation. It looked and sounded like a convention of people suffering from Tourette's Syndrome. I personally know that this condition persisted in many of these people for months or years after they went home from this course, and that there had never been any sign of such an affliction before they went to that TTC course. Are you going to join with Orme-Johnson and tell me that TM was not the *cause* of all of this? Just wondering.../* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *From:* feste37 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> <mailto:no_re...@yahoogroups.com> *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com <mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> *Sent:* Monday, March 16, 2015 3:03 AM *Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Well, well, well. You seem to live in a fantasy world, a world all your own, in which other people are there simply to play the roles you choose to assign to them. You invent for them beliefs, emotions, and motivations that bear no relation to reality at all. It's kinda sad. Maybe you should stick to reviewing television programs. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com <mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>, <turquoiseb@...> <mailto:turquoiseb@...> wrote : */Michael asked a question, and I did two 10-second Google searches to find the answer. That's "obsession?" /* */ /* */It occurs to me that what the two cultists below are *really* upset about is that all it took was 20 seconds to prove how full of shit the TM movement is in the crafting of its propaganda. :-)/* */ /* */Or maybe they were both about to lie and claim that the phrase "global repair mechanism" was taught to them on their TTC courses and has been used in TM literature for ages, and my 20 seconds of Googling made that impossible. :-)/* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *From:* feste37 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> <mailto:no_re...@yahoogroups.com> ** The level of obsession is indeed remarkable, Seventh. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com <mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>, <steve.sundur@...> <mailto:steve.sundur@...> wrote : You guys crack me up. I haven't read any of the dozens of pages you've been writing about your favorite subject - just noticing that you just endlessly write about it. Keep it up. It gives you something to fill your days! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com <mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>, <turquoiseb@...> <mailto:turquoiseb@...> wrote : */It's a newly-invented buzzword, Michael. If you do a Google search for the exact phrase "global repair mechanism" plus the exact phrase "transcendental meditation," it shows up only on several MUM web pages with recent revision dates, and on one Dutch site (nl.tm.org). /* */ /*
