Doug,
Unfortunately, as I predicted, we have a member here, Barry, who is so
threatened by this change in moderatorship, that he is on a non stop campaign
to disrupt the new direction in which FFL is moving, at any cost.
I think it will take a while for some of the older members of FFL who left to
feel comfortable again about posting on the topics which come up, but in the
meantime, we can be assured that Barry will continue, undiminished in his
campaign to keep this from happening.
I hope we can stay the course, and maybe, Barry, will feel more comfortable
with a more civil interaction.
After all, Xeno has advised us, and I quote, (mostly),
"Barry is creative enough to adopt to the new environment at FFL"
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <turquoiseb@...> wrote :
From: "Michael Jackson mjackson74@... [FairfieldLife]"
<FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, June 12, 2015 2:30 PM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fancy that!
All I can say is that my post referenced VEBAL slapping, meaning that I would
not cut Schneider any slack for his prepsoterous claims for TM, especially his
idea that he as a cardiologist is in any way an expert or authority on any form
of psychiatry. Having watched his first "Vedic psychiatry" presentation I have
already stated here on FFL that his ideas are more TM fluff and bs.
OF COURSE you were referring to verbal slapping, and Doug knows it. He's just
being a drama queen. But it's interesting that in doing so and in calling what
you wrote a "threat," he's revealing the incredible extent of his bias against
you and people like you who don't toe the TM party line. I still have hopes
that he can get his act together and his "TM ego" out of the way and become a
truly fair moderator, but he's sure making it difficult for me to maintain that
hope.
I am pretty sure that neither Schneider nor any other TM big shot has any
desire to show up here on FFL where there are too many former TM'ers who have
stopped drinking the kool-aide and have seen the man behind the curtain. Those
guys prefer an audience who is guzzling the soporific of TM PR and so applaud
instead of asking incisive or even intelligent questions. I would however love
to see any exchanges between Hagelin and Sal and his physicist friends.
What I find most fascinating is that Doug believes that these people are such
wimps and so UNinvincible that the only way they'd agree to appear on Fairfield
Life is if he put everyone who isn't a TM TB on "moderated" status and sat
there poised with his finger on the button to make sure that no one was able to
sneak through a real question. That's pretty revealing.
I don't know what you expect would happen if one of the TM hot shots posted
here. How can you not call a liar a liar? And Marshy was a liar, and he set the
tone for all his followers.
I also expect to be the first FFL member to be banned by Dougy.
It'll be interesting to see who Doug will ban first. For example, since he's
been moderator, there is one person who has posted repeatedly to FFL *for no
other purpose than to harass another poster he doesn't like* (as he has done
consistently for over a year), violating the Yahoo Guidelines in many minor
ways in almost every post, and Doug's never said a word about it. But when YOU
use a Southern turn of phrase in an obviously funny way ("I would verbally slap
this jackass into the middle of next week"), suddenly it's a "threat."
I suspect that you and I are both high on Doug's agenda for who he had already
*planned* to ban when he took on the job of FFL moderator, so we'll probably be
"neck and neck" down the stretch until one of us finally "wins." :-) :-) :-)
From: "TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... [FairfieldLife]"
<FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, June 12, 2015 4:15 AM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fancy that!
OK, my bad. I managed to get all dyslexic while typing in the post number, and
got post 416431 instead. Sorry.
Thus I retract the things I said in my post below in points 1, 2 and 3.
I still stand behind what I said in my last paragraph, however, because if
Doug actually took what Michael said in the real post #416341 as a threat, he's
not terribly sane. Michael suggesting that he would "verbally slap" someone is
NOT a threat. Here is what Michael actually SAID, and that Doug is so biased
that he's characterizing as a "threat."
Jesus Christ. I really which I could attend. I would verbally slap this
jackass into the middle of next week. What a huckster. A cardiologist claiming
expertise in a non-existent form of psychiatry, laced with ancient superstition.
Some of you folk in Fairfield are indeed making progress in helping those who
need help with mental and emotional problems, this ass is not one of them. I
hope he gets shut down in a time soon to come.
From: "TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... [FairfieldLife]"
<FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, June 12, 2015 10:00 AM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fancy that!
From: "dhamiltony2k5@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, June 12, 2015 4:19 AM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fancy that!
MJ, FFL being categorized with Yahoo-groups as a spiritual group one would
hope that people could come in here and express their own spiritual experience
without the harassing suppression of threats being made against them.
You seem to have some parochial way in threatening people here by 'slap'.
Would pushing the 'moderate' button over your membership status here better
provide safe space for spiritual people to come forward on FFL with their
experiences? For instance I should think it valuable to also have Robert
Schneider or someone from his office come on here and express their feelings in
conversation here, without threat of abuse. Threat exampled within FFL post
#416341 as what evidently was a slurring rant and an invasion of someone's
privacy, using FFL as a vehicle.
OK, Doug, here is another example that demonstrates how incapable you are (so
far) of moderating this group fairly:
1. The post you cite (#416341) is *not even from Michael*. It's from
serious_richard. You care so little about facts that you aren't even careful
enough to point to the *right* post you feel is a "threat."
2. The content of Michael's that was encapsulated inside the post you pointed
to is *also* not a "threat" in any way. He said, "Even if I say that Marshy was
a liar, cheat, fraud and con artist and that he was a serial womanizer?" In the
recent past, you replied to Michael saying that you didn't feel that such a
statement was cause for moderation, and NOW you're pointing to it as a
"threat?" WTF, man.
3. What Michael posted (as a query, we should all remember) was NOT a
"slurring rant and an invasion of someone's privacy," as you claim above in
your last sentence. There actually IS ample evidence -- both in the mainstream
media and in the FFL archives -- that Maharishi WAS a liar, a cheat, a fraud, a
con artist, and a serial womanizer. The fact that some don't choose to believe
this evidence does not mean that evidence is not true. So again, Michael
stating actual *facts* based on freely-available evidence cannot be construed
as a "slur," let alone a "threat."
Doug, you've really got to work on cleaning up YOUR act before you can ever
expect anyone to accept you as a fair and honorable moderator. BOTH of the
posts I have taken the trouble to comment on this morning indicate that you are
anything BUT fair. Your bias is obvious. I honestly hope that you are able to
get it under control.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mjackson74@...> wrote :
And let's face it, if I came on like gangbusters here and touted my spiritual
experiences, the mob would tear my descriptions asunder.....as has been done to
every single person who has come here to report suchlike.
I am only aware of Brother Jim aka Dr. Dumbass - who else claimed spiritual
awareness/awakening/enlightenment and received a stout thrashing as a result?
From: Duveyoung <no_re...@yahoogroups.com>
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, June 9, 2015 4:21 PM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fancy that!
I'm thinking over here that having had an "experience" does not validate "as
necessarily true" the thoughts that arise afterwards. We see most folks here
thinking otherwise -- that is: they think that their thoughts MUST be resonant
with the ultimate reality of their recent experience.
To have seen someone levitate doesn't make one's subsequent thoughts about
levitation necessarily true. Even the person who levitates can be expected to
have but a mere abstraction for an explanation that is open to every sort of
nay-saying.
Relativity being such a dynamic, if one knows this, hypocrisy of a deeper
degree is needed to validate one's thoughts and yet invalidate the subsequent
thoughts of others -- others that had differing experiences.
Nabby is a very very sincere poster, for instance, yet we found him being
bonked by those who claim to not personally have such blinkeredness when it is
obvious to all that everyone is blinkered in some IMPORTANT and PROFOUND manner.
Stone, glass house and all that. No one gets to toss the first stone. Or the
second.
I would expect that someone who found fault in others for being a true believer
and "running with it," would be especially careful to underline ones obvious
conflict of interests.
As for me being inside my head and not having had experiences. Harrumph.
While this assertion is not couched in the normal cruel-troll manner of
FFL-past, it does seem to accuse me of being spiritually bereft of the basic
information needed to be clear about spirituality. Only I could know if that's
true -- to assert it as true is to do a one-upman-ship deal. I claim that
this kind of insinuation is AGAINST THE GUIDELINES.
And let's face it, if I came on like gangbusters here and touted my spiritual
experiences, the mob would tear my descriptions asunder.....as has been done to
every single person who has come here to report suchlike.
This is the place where prophets come to not be honored....heh heh.
And, by the way, I have had and continue to have some very profound moments
when all my abstractions align -- with a wonderful congruence -- with my heart
and thought stream. Moment by moment, if I wish to do so, I can suss out from
my flow of consciousness perfect examples of the concepts I hold dear.
Doesn't make me correct, but I sure do have experiences. I'll walk this back:
everyone has great experiences -- even if they've never personally noted such.
Given the human karma of the ego daily dying-into-sleep, being reborn in
dreams, and then coming back to life in the morning, what isn't magical? To
diss others for not describing it "well" or "logically" or "intuitively
acceptably," is at least juvenile and probably an act of aggression.....and
AGAINST THE GUIDELINES.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <turquoiseb@...> wrote :
Edg, because you're so...uh...edgy and all, I suspect you'll take my quickie
response below as if it was intended as some kind of affront, and it really
wasn't. I was just taking advantage of these "revalidated FFL guidelines" vibes
to just be honest.
To expand on this a bit, to be honest I've always gotten the impression from
your writing that your approach to most spiritual topics is intellectual, as
opposed to experiential. When you get into how much you know about Advaita, for
example, my impression is that this is stuff that you "know" -- intellectually
-- about Advaita, but without ever having experienced the states of
consciousness that are being written about. Correct me if I'm wrong about this.
I say this not to take a dig at you but to point out a possible distinction
between the two of us. I haven't just read about and thought about the basic
principle of Tantra -- the peaceful co-existence of complete opposites -- I've
*lived* it. I've spent fourteen years with Rama -- and all the time since --
living it.
Please try to remember who you're talking to here.
I write science articles for a living. I have a strong feel for what science
considers "real" in this world and what it does not.
At the same time, *I cannot deny my own experience*.
While knowing all of this about science, I have personally witnessed many of
the siddhis you have only read about. I have sat in the desert -- or in a
Dennys along a California highway -- and watched someone just gently lift up
off the ground (or the naugahyde Dennys benches) and float in the air for a
while.
The morning after experiencing something like that, if you are a bit of a
cynical scientist like myself, you tend to wake up thinking, "OK, what the fuck
was that?"
I still don't know.
All I know is that I experienced it, in states of mind that were as high and
clear as I have ever experienced in this incarnation, and that were completely
free from the effects of any kinds of drugs, and that for me it all really
fuckin' happened.
I am NOT saying that I know exactly *what* happened. What I'm saying is that
*something* fairly extraordinary happened, and that until someone proves to me
exactly what it was, I'm going to go easy on myself for not getting all anal
about what is "real" and what isn't.
That "real" enough for you, dude? :-)
From: "TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... [FairfieldLife]"
<FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 9, 2015 8:53 PM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fancy that!
I have *absolutely no problem* with such seeming contradictions.
If you do, I would suggest that they just might be *your* problems. :-)
From: Duveyoung <no_re...@yahoogroups.com>
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, June 9, 2015 8:49 PM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Fancy that!
Barry -- you are on record here being quite against most "magical thinking,"
but here we find you being quite the believer. "That explained quite a few of
my dreams during the period I lived there. :-)" Would this be hypocrisy or
you just playing loose with "what's real?" I ask this in the fullest sincerity
to honor the recently re-validated FFL guidelines.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <turquoiseb@...> wrote :
Excellent.
A few years ago, before we actually moved from Spain to the Netherlands, my
odd extended family and I spent a month living in Amsterdam in a house we'd
rented there. It was a really cool house, with multiple floors and a grand
piano and a great kitchen, but at the same time there was always something
"off" about it. So I asked around the neighborhood and found that it had in
previous centuries been an asylum for crazy women. That explained quite a few
of my dreams during the period I lived there. :-)
From: salyavin808 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com>
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, June 9, 2015 8:02 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Fancy that!
In the late '90's the TMO acquired a mansion in a highly sought after part of
London. Namely Kensington palace gardens. It was a fabulous house, right
opposite Kensington palace. Huge place with double iron gates and a massive
ballroom.
It faced east too. The heads of the movement all lived there and all said how
amazing the perfect vastu felt. I lived there too for a while, just helping out
the media department. Great place to stay as the big knobs sure knew how to
live, bespoke silk carpets and the best food eaten off mahogany tables.
The idea was that they'd use it to wine and dine the rich and famous thus
spreading TM to the top of society, as was Marshy's wish at the time. "The rich
won't eat in a poor house" he said, they sure didn't here! Not that all that
many came. Hardly any in fact, but the intention was a good one if you approve
of that sort of elitism. I didn't but staying there made a nice change from our
draughty, cold and empty mansion in the Bedfordshire countryside.
But as I was finishing my book on The Great Escape I was reminded that the
house had a rather more chequered history than expected. It was owned and used
by MI6 to interrogate captured Nazi officers during and after WW2. Including
the masterminds of the massacre that wiped out 50 allied airmen in 1944.
Fancy that, I might have slept in a room that was once occupied by a terrified
Gestapo murderer who sat awake all night dreading his fate at the hands of a
war crimes tribunal. I wonder if they appreciated the vastu at all?
