[FairfieldLife] Re: Light therapy with gems in Maharishi Ayurveda
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, guyfawkes91 guyfawke...@...
wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante no_reply@ wrote:
On tonight's (MON Feb 2nd) Global Family Chat on the Maharishi
Channel, they talked about the new light/gem therapy in Maharishi
Ayurveda (the first line of Rig Veda says that agni/fire is the
source of gems,
I guess you mean 'ratna-dhaatama'[1] which is the superlative(?)
from 'ratna-dhaa':
ratnadhAmfn. procuring wealth , distributing riches or precious
things (%{-tama} mfn. distñdistributing great riches) RV. AV. S3Br. ;
possessing wealth RV.
1 agnim iile purohitaM
yajñasya devam Rtvijam
hotaaraM *ratnadhaatamam*
[FairfieldLife] Re: Judy, MMY was a Potentate! (new books on Maharishi ???)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, amritasyaputra amritasyapu...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, geezerfreak geezerfreak@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung no_reply@ wrote: Follow the money, Billy. See if the mantra can take the bad taste out of your mouth after you do. See how much of your objectivity you have left after that. Indeed. Follow the money..right back to the many bank accounts of the Shrivastava/Varma clan. Given Shaas' spiel, Geez, it sounds to me as if FFL might have its first Shrivastava/Varma shill. :-) Wouldn't that be a trip? Girish posting here anonymously, trying to recover a few of the lost to keep his bank accounts growing? I'm not saying that that's what's going on really, but *effectively* that's what's going on. But it's all good because it adds to the entertainment quotient for FFL. Where else in the universe, for example, could you hear someone say with a straight face: Sorry, Ben, but if a puja.net website or any other site calls Vedic Devatas Mythology (as in Vedic Mythology Podcast) they disqualify themselves from being taken seriously. Now THAT you can take seriously. Serious something, anyway. :-)
[FairfieldLife] The Name Game (was: new books on Maharishi ???)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, enlightened_dawn11 no_re...@... wrote: there are many ways of gaining enlightenment. first off, it is not an either/or proposition-- i see the process of gaining enlightenment initially like a lightbulb that flashes on, and then off, with no regular interval to its timing. an experience of enlightenment, then darkness for awile, then another flash, then darkness. eventually the light stays on, and perhaps someone feels confident enough to say, hey everyone, i am enlightened! and they begin the process of watching the lightbulb to see how far the light is shining out, and when it appears obscured, and what the public proclamation and challenge does to their ability to integrate the inner light into their outer life. and perhaps the light appears to go out again. a learning process which takes time; more integration in daily life. and after some more time, the lightbulb stays on, for good, under all circumstances, and then they have a choice to say, or not to say, i am enlightened, depending on what they feel like doing; hold themselves up as an example of enlightenment, or quietly allowing the bulb to burn bright within. so to make the assumption that because someone proclaims their enlightenment, that they will suffer a downfall, and have to start again from the beginning, is a false assumption. we as human beings learn by doing, and testing and challenging, and if we are true to ourselves and our desire for gaining enlightenment, we will eventually be successful, regardless of what we may proclaim along the way. You *do* like analogies, doncha ED? So, just as a question, pursuing this light bulb analogy, would someone who chose to comment on a turn of phrase that was last used on that forum six months before she arrived there be an extra- ordinarily bright light, capable of seeing back into the past, or more of a dim bulb? :-) Curious wannabe light bulbs want to know... I mean, if the person really CAN see back in time, that's pretty cool, eh? On the other hand, if the person is remembering the turn of phrase from, say, another incarnation, and remembers *that*, that would be pretty cool, too. On the other hand, if the person merely had adopted a new name to, say, hide actions performed while using a previous name, under which that person had announced their enlight- enment, it kinda weakens the analogy above, right? Or is it that the name change was the thing that made such extraordinary psychic seeing possible? I'm just asking a theoretical question here, ED, not making any kind of statement. The question has more to do with the larger spiritual scene than it does Fairfield Life. Think the old song The Name Game. Brahmacharya Bal Mahesh - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Sri Rajneesh - Osho. Fred Lenz - Atmananda - Rama. Franklin Jones - Bubba Free John - Da Free John - Da Love-Ananda - Da Kalki- Da Avabhasa - Avatar Adi Da Samraj. Tony Nader - Maharaja Adhiraj Raja Raam. Doesn't this sound an awful lot like Laura Bran- igan's song? Tony, Tony Bo-Bony Bonana Fanna Fo-Fony Fee-Fi-Mo Mony Tony? It also sounds to me, because so many supposedly enlightened beings have done this Name Game thing, that it's somehow essential to being per- ceived by the public *AS* enlightened. So if our dear Rick wanted to set up shop as an enlightened being, would he need to change his spiritual name to Rick, Rick Bo-Bick Bonana Fanna Fo-Fick Fee-Fi- Mo Mick? Would that help his credibility and help him ignore the horrible failings in his past that Nabby has accused him of? Again, I'm not making any kind of statement here. I'm just curious as to why so many of the folks who announce their enlightenment feel the need to change their names from time to time. Is it just an outward expression of the inner change they experienced when they realized their enlight- enment, or could it possibly have something to do with not wanting to address past actions that might be considered less than enlightened? I really don't know the answer, and am just rappin' here this morning because I find the subject inter- esting to speculate about. You seem to be very sure of the things you say here, as if you knew them in some cosmic way, beyond mere opinion. So, if you have any cosmic insights that could help me make sense of this Name Game thing, I'd appreciate it if you could pass them along. Yours in enlightenment, His Holiness Sri Barry, Barry Bo-Barry Bonana Fanna Fo-Barry Fee-Fi-Mo Marry Barry Ananda :-)
[FairfieldLife] Re: Light therapy with gems in Maharishi Ayurveda
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo richardhughes...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante no_reply@ wrote: In Switzerland all the HMOs pay for this therapy up to 80% of the cost of treatment - A sucker born every minute. And I bet it's one expensive placebo. Although the flashlight with the emerald lens (dare we say Light saber of the Age of Enlight- enment?) sounds really neat, I'm looking forward to when they realize that they could sell the actual gems themselves, as Jyotishi and Ayurveda snake-emerald salesmen do, to be worn directly against the body in jewelry or piercings, for their curative properties. More profit margin in reselling the gems themselves, too. Can't you just imagine the conversation during a consultation with a patient who has come in ask- ing for relief from his impotence: Well, Mr. G, we have checked your Jyotish chart and read your aura, and our recommendation is that the thing you need to cure your impotence is two 4-carat rubies, each attached permanently to one of your testicles, in the form of what we call Piercings of the Age of Enlightenment. You need not worry that these piercings will keep you in a permanent state of erection, because they are mantra-activated. Whenever you need to become erect (for example during the full moon following Shivaratri, the only time it is permissible for a married couple to have holy sex for the purpose of procreation), all you have to do is click your two ruby testicles together and chant, 'There is no place like OM...there is no place like OM. By the way...if the ruby testicles fail to make you erect during that particular Shivaratri, do not be concerned. That's just the Laws Of Nature showing you that this is not an appropriate action at this time. You know...the same way the Laws Of Nature keep you (and all of us) from demonstrating levitation because it just isn't the right time yet. That'll be $108,000 for each ruby, thank you. :-) On tonight's (MON Feb 2nd) Global Family Chat on the Maharishi Channel, they talked about the new light/gem therapy in Maharishi Ayurveda (the first line of Rig Veda says that agni/fire is the source of gems, gems are described in the Vedas as the Radiance of God -- Charaka Samhita says gems are second in treatment value only to mantras, and gems are ahead of herbal treatments). They use some sort of light (frequency depends on the gem involved, amethyst, emerald, etc -- seven types of gems used all told) in a flashlight-type device which shines light through 12 gems set in gold. The light is flashed on the palm of the hand (some of the photos in newspaper articles show people getting the light beam on the forehead even though the Raj people only talked about palm application), and people are reporting good experiences (some expansion of consciousness, healing of injured area, etc) in the 300 treatments at the Raj to date. The light is supposed to act on the light body of the recipient, and although there are side effects like healing, it's basically designed to remove obstacles to enlightenment values more than just wearing gems, with the goal of letting celestial light fill the body. In Switzerland all the HMOs pay for this therapy up to 80% of the cost of treatment. Ayurveda recipes including powdered gems are legal in Germany, but not yet legal in the USA. There is no inside or outside. The same light inside, the same light outside.
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[FairfieldLife] Re: Light therapy with gems in Maharishi Ayurveda
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: Although the flashlight with the emerald lens (dare we say Light saber of the Age of Enlight- enment?) sounds really neat, I'm looking forward to when they realize that they could sell the actual gems themselves, as Jyotishi and Ayurveda snake-emerald salesmen do, to be worn directly against the body in jewelry or piercings, for their curative properties. More profit margin in reselling the gems themselves, too. Can't you just imagine the conversation during a consultation with a patient who has come in ask- ing for relief from his impotence: Well, Mr. G, we have checked your Jyotish chart and read your aura, and our recommendation is that the thing you need to cure your impotence is two 4-carat rubies, each attached permanently to one of your testicles, in the form of what we call Piercings of the Age of Enlightenment. You need not worry that these piercings will keep you in a permanent state of erection, because they are mantra-activated. Whenever you need to become erect (for example during the full moon following Shivaratri, the only time it is permissible for a married couple to have holy sex for the purpose of procreation), all you have to do is click your two ruby testicles together and chant, 'There is no place like OM...there is no place like OM. By the way...if the ruby testicles fail to make you erect during that particular Shivaratri, do not be concerned. That's just the Laws Of Nature showing you that this is not an appropriate action at this time. You know...the same way the Laws Of Nature keep you (and all of us) from demonstrating levitation because it just isn't the right time yet. That'll be $108,000 for each ruby, thank you. Very Funny, Barry. It's not the same, but laser therapy has been used for years. Depending on the strength of the laser for various application many have been FDA approved. http://tinyurl.com/bcgy8k Physical Therapists, Chiropractors, Veterinarians and a few Rolfers use low level cold laser therapy for the treatment of joint and myofascial pain. Unfortunately, many of the laser products sold to the general public on the internet are scams, using led lights that have a nice glow but don't do a damn thing. You have to have enough training to know what you're looking for to avoid a rip off. Caveat emptor.
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[FairfieldLife] Caveat delirus emptor
Just to clarify for the overly serious, I am NOT suggesting that Shaas/amritasyaputra is a shill for the Shrivastava/Varma clan. I just woke up in a silly mood and felt like speculating on how funny it would be if we really had one here. Similarly, I am NOT suggesting that enlightened_ dawn11 is in any way related to the illustrious saint from the Himalayas known as Sri Enlightened Schmitened Bo-Bightened Banana Fanna Fo-Fightened Fee Fi Mo-Mightened Enlightenedananda. Again, I was just being silly. Mea culpa. And finally, and to forestall charges of practicing medicine without a license, I was NOT suggesting that attaching rubies to one's testicles as piercings was a cure for impotence. No such extreme measures are necessary; that was just me being silly again. Everyone knows that rubies work just as well to cure impotence if worn on a cock ring. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, amritasyaputra amritasyaputra@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, geezerfreak geezerfreak@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung no_reply@ wrote: Follow the money, Billy. See if the mantra can take the bad taste out of your mouth after you do. See how much of your objectivity you have left after that. Indeed. Follow the money..right back to the many bank accounts of the Shrivastava/Varma clan. Given Shaas' spiel, Geez, it sounds to me as if FFL might have its first Shrivastava/Varma shill. :-) Wouldn't that be a trip? Girish posting here anonymously, trying to recover a few of the lost to keep his bank accounts growing? I'm not saying that that's what's going on really, but *effectively* that's what's going on. But it's all good because it adds to the entertainment quotient for FFL. Where else in the universe, for example, could you hear someone say with a straight face: Sorry, Ben, but if a puja.net website or any other site calls Vedic Devatas Mythology (as in Vedic Mythology Podcast) they disqualify themselves from being taken seriously. Now THAT you can take seriously. Serious something, anyway. :-)
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Light therapy with gems in Maharishi Ayurveda
On Feb 3, 2009, at 5:16 AM, Hugo wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante no_re...@... wrote: In Switzerland all the HMOs pay for this therapy up to 80% of the cost of treatment - A sucker born every minute. And I bet it's one expensive placebo. Is this really true, Hugo? I find it hard to believe. Sal
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Re: [FairfieldLife] Light therapy with gems in Maharishi Ayurveda
Unless they come up with some controlled studies, I have never heard of such unmitigated bullshit. --- On Tue, 2/3/09, bob_brigante no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: From: bob_brigante no_re...@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Light therapy with gems in Maharishi Ayurveda To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, February 3, 2009, 12:42 AM On tonight's (MON Feb 2nd) Global Family Chat on the Maharishi Channel, they talked about the new light/gem therapy in Maharishi Ayurveda (the first line of Rig Veda says that agni/fire is the source of gems, gems are described in the Vedas as the Radiance of God -- Charaka Samhita says gems are second in treatment value only to mantras, and gems are ahead of herbal treatments). They use some sort of light (frequency depends on the gem involved, amethyst, emerald, etc -- seven types of gems used all told) in a flashlight- type device which shines light through 12 gems set in gold. The light is flashed on the palm of the hand (some of the photos in newspaper articles show people getting the light beam on the forehead even though the Raj people only talked about palm application), and people are reporting good experiences (some expansion of consciousness, healing of injured area, etc) in the 300 treatments at the Raj to date. The light is supposed to act on the light body of the recipient, and although there are side effects like healing, it's basically designed to remove obstacles to enlightenment values more than just wearing gems, with the goal of letting celestial light fill the body. In Switzerland all the HMOs pay for this therapy up to 80% of the cost of treatment. Ayurveda recipes including powdered gems are legal in Germany, but not yet legal in the USA. There is no inside or outside. The same light inside, the same light outside. To subscribe, send a message to: fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links
Re: [FairfieldLife] Light therapy with gems in Maharishi Ayurveda
On Feb 3, 2009, at 8:28 AM, Peter wrote: Unless they come up with some controlled studies, I have never heard of such unmitigated bullshit. Yeah, and maybe while they're at it, they could come up with some controlled studies to show the effect of pixie dust on your aura. Ought to be a winner. Sal
[FairfieldLife] Re: Judy, MMY was a Potentate! (new books on Maharishi ???)
magical elevator ride?! i think you have confused analogy with reality...another example, no doubt, of your confused selfless behavior. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: On Feb 2, 2009, at 8:26 PM, enlightened_dawn11 wrote: there are many ways of gaining enlightenment. first off, it is not an either/or proposition-- i see the process of gaining enlightenment initially like a lightbulb that flashes on, and then off, with no regular interval to its timing. an experience of enlightenment, then darkness for awile, then another flash, then darkness. eventually the light stays on, and perhaps someone feels confident enough to say, hey everyone, i am enlightened! and they begin the process of watching the lightbulb to see how far the light is shining out, and when it appears obscured, and what the public proclamation and challenge does to their ability to integrate the inner light into their outer life. and perhaps the light appears to go out again. a learning process which takes time; more integration in daily life. and after some more time, the lightbulb stays on, for good, under all circumstances, and then they have a choice to say, or not to say, i am enlightened, depending on what they feel like doing; hold themselves up as an example of enlightenment, or quietly allowing the bulb to burn bright within. so to make the assumption that because someone proclaims their enlightenment, that they will suffer a downfall, and have to start again from the beginning, is a false assumption. we as human beings learn by doing, and testing and challenging, and if we are true to ourselves and our desire for gaining enlightenment, we will eventually be successful, regardless of what we may proclaim along the way. Does this happen before or after the magical elevator ride?
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Name Game (was: new books on Maharishi ???)
i am as sure as -anyone else- about what i say. as for the name game thing you refer to, i don't have a clue why that happens. i've been aware of it for decades, in others. i think it is another way for the soul to test its integration, that's all. in this last post of mine, i was addressing something Vaj (hey, there's a name change, possibly, or maybe just a forum name) said about automatically equating a proclamation of enlightenment with lack of enlightenment. i don't know about what was said six months ago. what was said six months ago? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, enlightened_dawn11 no_reply@ wrote: there are many ways of gaining enlightenment. first off, it is not an either/or proposition-- i see the process of gaining enlightenment initially like a lightbulb that flashes on, and then off, with no regular interval to its timing. an experience of enlightenment, then darkness for awile, then another flash, then darkness. eventually the light stays on, and perhaps someone feels confident enough to say, hey everyone, i am enlightened! and they begin the process of watching the lightbulb to see how far the light is shining out, and when it appears obscured, and what the public proclamation and challenge does to their ability to integrate the inner light into their outer life. and perhaps the light appears to go out again. a learning process which takes time; more integration in daily life. and after some more time, the lightbulb stays on, for good, under all circumstances, and then they have a choice to say, or not to say, i am enlightened, depending on what they feel like doing; hold themselves up as an example of enlightenment, or quietly allowing the bulb to burn bright within. so to make the assumption that because someone proclaims their enlightenment, that they will suffer a downfall, and have to start again from the beginning, is a false assumption. we as human beings learn by doing, and testing and challenging, and if we are true to ourselves and our desire for gaining enlightenment, we will eventually be successful, regardless of what we may proclaim along the way. You *do* like analogies, doncha ED? So, just as a question, pursuing this light bulb analogy, would someone who chose to comment on a turn of phrase that was last used on that forum six months before she arrived there be an extra- ordinarily bright light, capable of seeing back into the past, or more of a dim bulb? :-) Curious wannabe light bulbs want to know... I mean, if the person really CAN see back in time, that's pretty cool, eh? On the other hand, if the person is remembering the turn of phrase from, say, another incarnation, and remembers *that*, that would be pretty cool, too. On the other hand, if the person merely had adopted a new name to, say, hide actions performed while using a previous name, under which that person had announced their enlight- enment, it kinda weakens the analogy above, right? Or is it that the name change was the thing that made such extraordinary psychic seeing possible? I'm just asking a theoretical question here, ED, not making any kind of statement. The question has more to do with the larger spiritual scene than it does Fairfield Life. Think the old song The Name Game. Brahmacharya Bal Mahesh - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Sri Rajneesh - Osho. Fred Lenz - Atmananda - Rama. Franklin Jones - Bubba Free John - Da Free John - Da Love-Ananda - Da Kalki- Da Avabhasa - Avatar Adi Da Samraj. Tony Nader - Maharaja Adhiraj Raja Raam. Doesn't this sound an awful lot like Laura Bran- igan's song? Tony, Tony Bo-Bony Bonana Fanna Fo-Fony Fee-Fi-Mo Mony Tony? It also sounds to me, because so many supposedly enlightened beings have done this Name Game thing, that it's somehow essential to being per- ceived by the public *AS* enlightened. So if our dear Rick wanted to set up shop as an enlightened being, would he need to change his spiritual name to Rick, Rick Bo-Bick Bonana Fanna Fo-Fick Fee-Fi- Mo Mick? Would that help his credibility and help him ignore the horrible failings in his past that Nabby has accused him of? Again, I'm not making any kind of statement here. I'm just curious as to why so many of the folks who announce their enlightenment feel the need to change their names from time to time. Is it just an outward expression of the inner change they experienced when they realized their enlight- enment, or could it possibly have something to do with not wanting to address past actions that might be considered less than enlightened? I really don't know the answer, and am just rappin' here this morning because I find the subject inter- esting to speculate about. You seem to be very sure of the things you say here, as if you
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Name Game (was: new books on Maharishi ???)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, enlightened_dawn11 no_re...@... wrote: i am as sure as -anyone else- about what i say. as for the name game thing you refer to, i don't have a clue why that happens. i've been aware of it for decades, in others. i think it is another way for the soul to test its integration, that's all. If so, Barry's soul has been doing a lot of testing over the years. Ask him how many names *he's* used. I can think of five offhand, but those are only the ones I know about.
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[FairfieldLife] Re: About Kirk
Your problem, Kirk, is that you are still posting under your own name. Thus you still have that name's karma. If, as others have done, you had merely *changed* your screen name, the magical Woo Woo powers of name and form would have *dissolved* all of your past karma, and allowed you to treat it as if it never existed. I'm not talking about the stuff *after* the @ sign, mind you. That merely indicates a change of ISP, as might happen naturally over the years for people who move a lot. No, what is important when it comes to dissolving past karma is to change the stuff *before* the @ sign. For example, if you persist in calling yourself kirk_bernha...@fictionalisp.com, you're going to have to live with Kirk Bernhardt's karma, and anything he might have said or done in the past. However, simply by changing your screen name to some- thing like i_am_really_not_kirk_hon...@fictionalisp.com, you magically *dissolve* all past karma, and can expect to be treated as a whole new person, with no nagging carryover karma from the past. I'm giving you this valuable spiritual information for free, mind you. I *could* have set myself up as a guru and charged you a shitload of money for it. Lord knows people have paid more for less in the pursuit of being able to dissolve their past karma. But I'm giving this advice away for free because I'm such a nice guy. That and I want you to think well of me when I finally do get around to sending you a bill for my services. Yours in eternally new and unblemished karma, not_responsible_for_my_acti...@fictionalisp.com --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Kirk kirk_bernha...@... wrote: A few people here have been saying shit about me like: I wouldn't trust anyone who forfieted their student loans, etc and some other bullshit (I can't remember) Anyway, Obviously the poster has been around long enough to remember some of my previous words (thanks for reading), however, your facts are mistaken. Currently I am listening to Lette Mbulu, I live in NOLA, I am a chef and have been at five venues, I still have $135,000 of unpaid principle on my student loans. I have never defaulted, nor payed it into a manageable form. As for going bankrupt, I have never done so. I was going to try to dissemble other points of contention but I really forget what they were. You see, as a chef I have spent many years learning how to forget, now it works and I forget things very quickly. It's good, it's also bad. What was another issue, oh year, how to pay for yajnas when I was broke. Yeah, good point. Actually I will publicly acknowledge the benevolence of my wife who allowed me to use my hard earned money for a year to test out some mental shenanigans related to yajnas and such. I was very lucky to be allowed to make worldwide contacts amongst puja practitioners from many traditions and pay them to perform yajnas not for myself but for many people and also on behalf of my city of New Orleans. That's right, we did not perform yajnas selfishly but for the benefit of our city after Katrina and also for the benefit of all living beings. With such a samkalpa one finds a huge wave of peace spread through all creation. I recommend this outward turning motivation for all puja practitioners lest they become trapped in their own egotism. I remember some fools after Katrina saying how NOLA should be wiped from the face of the Earth. Those are probably the same dogcraps here that every one steps in I am guessing. To you dogcraps who have only your own egotism on your mind, I have to say a big Fuck off. Mind your own fucking business.
Re: [FairfieldLife] About Kirk
Furthermore, in my travels we were lucky enough to fund a young new spiritual group s Dhumavathi idol on behalf of all those who go old and grey and unprotected into the night. We bought this Dhumavathi on behalf of Louisiana and the Gulf South. And also this being is proud to announche that he was the only Westerner who did the eight month long daily recitation of Saundarya Lahiri chapter. The bright new young guru Si Harshananda - ji of Kanchi held the first Saundarya Lahiri japa yajna and after it was completed the pundits of Kanchi entered all our names into a scroll and placed it the famous Anna Purna temple in Varanasi. I have been entered directly into that temple in name. This is an unusual thing for any Westerner and non-Hindu. I could go on. What really happened is that I spent close to ten thousand bucks that year for many Buddhist lamas and Hindu pandits to perform fire rituals for me for other beings as an experiement. For instance with my priest at Saraswati Jyotirlingam in Trivandrum. We had him perform Mahishamardini for an end to slavery and exploitation. Yes, this was in 2007. Next year Louisiana has first Indian Governor and we vote Gau into congress. First Vietnamese. Then Obama from seeming nowhere and he is president. It's said that the pure motivation is easily fulfilled by grace. I could go on. Okay, thanks for reading. It's not something that I have a ready audience for bragging to. Normally so I generally keep my mouth shut about it.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Name Game (was: new books on Maharishi ???)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, enlightened_dawn11 no_re...@... wrote: what are they please? Shoki, TantricOne, C_Aragon, Uncle Tantra, and the current one, TurquoiseB (all but the last were on alt.meditation.transcendental, not FFL, although he signed some of his early posts here as TurquoiseB Uncle Tantra or Unc). I'm pretty sure there was at least one more, but I can't bring it to mind. At one point, after he hadn't posted for awhile under whatever name he was using, he came back using a new name and pretended to be an entirely different person, different writing style, different personality, different gender. But he wasn't able to keep it up for very long; his Barry style crept in gradually until we all realized it was just Barry. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, enlightened_dawn11 no_reply@ wrote: i am as sure as -anyone else- about what i say. as for the name game thing you refer to, i don't have a clue why that happens. i've been aware of it for decades, in others. i think it is another way for the soul to test its integration, that's all. If so, Barry's soul has been doing a lot of testing over the years. Ask him how many names *he's* used. I can think of five offhand, but those are only the ones I know about.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Judy, MMY was a Potentate! (new books on Maharishi ???)
On Feb 2, 2009, at 11:43 PM, yifuxero wrote: --You call it epiphenomenon. I call it Celestial. A gyulus style realization, where the body simply vanishes, like Abhinavagupta and his 40 disciples, is the more celestial type of realization and has been believed to have happened in both Hindu and Buddhist inner tantra realizers. But the Jalus, the Body of Light and the Rainbow body, where non-DNA containing tissues are all that are left behind, this only is known to occur in Mahasandhi/Dzogchen, it would not be considered a celestial type of realization--but of course that depends of how you're defining celestial.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Caveat delirus emptor
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: Just to clarify for the overly serious, I am NOT suggesting that Shaas/amritasyaputra is a shill for the Shrivastava/Varma clan. I just woke up in a silly mood and felt like speculating on how funny it would be if we really had one here. Similarly, I am NOT suggesting that enlightened_ dawn11 is in any way related to the illustrious saint from the Himalayas known as Sri Enlightened Schmitened Bo-Bightened Banana Fanna Fo-Fightened Fee Fi Mo-Mightened Enlightenedananda. Again, I was just being silly. Mea culpa. And finally, and to forestall charges of practicing medicine without a license, I was NOT suggesting that attaching rubies to one's testicles as piercings was a cure for impotence. No such extreme measures are necessary; that was just me being silly again. Everyone knows that rubies work just as well to cure impotence if worn on a cock ring. Now we know from where your hatred comes... it did not work out with the ring... You take your hatred and the ring too seriously.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Name Game (was: new books on Maharishi ???)
he does have an unmistakable style, pov, whatever, though i haven't looked at his other postings, except for some that willytex referred to. perhaps i will google if i have the inclination. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, enlightened_dawn11 no_reply@ wrote: what are they please? Shoki, TantricOne, C_Aragon, Uncle Tantra, and the current one, TurquoiseB (all but the last were on alt.meditation.transcendental, not FFL, although he signed some of his early posts here as TurquoiseB Uncle Tantra or Unc). I'm pretty sure there was at least one more, but I can't bring it to mind. At one point, after he hadn't posted for awhile under whatever name he was using, he came back using a new name and pretended to be an entirely different person, different writing style, different personality, different gender. But he wasn't able to keep it up for very long; his Barry style crept in gradually until we all realized it was just Barry. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, enlightened_dawn11 no_reply@ wrote: i am as sure as -anyone else- about what i say. as for the name game thing you refer to, i don't have a clue why that happens. i've been aware of it for decades, in others. i think it is another way for the soul to test its integration, that's all. If so, Barry's soul has been doing a lot of testing over the years. Ask him how many names *he's* used. I can think of five offhand, but those are only the ones I know about.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Caveat delirus emptor
someone suggested earlier that Barry needs a girlfriend-- has a ring of truth to it... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, amritasyaputra amritasyapu...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: Just to clarify for the overly serious, I am NOT suggesting that Shaas/amritasyaputra is a shill for the Shrivastava/Varma clan. I just woke up in a silly mood and felt like speculating on how funny it would be if we really had one here. Similarly, I am NOT suggesting that enlightened_ dawn11 is in any way related to the illustrious saint from the Himalayas known as Sri Enlightened Schmitened Bo-Bightened Banana Fanna Fo-Fightened Fee Fi Mo-Mightened Enlightenedananda. Again, I was just being silly. Mea culpa. And finally, and to forestall charges of practicing medicine without a license, I was NOT suggesting that attaching rubies to one's testicles as piercings was a cure for impotence. No such extreme measures are necessary; that was just me being silly again. Everyone knows that rubies work just as well to cure impotence if worn on a cock ring. Now we know from where your hatred comes... it did not work out with the ring... You take your hatred and the ring too seriously.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Name Game (was: new books on Maharishi ???)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, enlightened_dawn11 no_reply@ wrote: i am as sure as -anyone else- about what i say. as for the name game thing you refer to, i don't have a clue why that happens. i've been aware of it for decades, in others. i think it is another way for the soul to test its integration, that's all. If so, Barry's soul has been doing a lot of testing over the years. Ask him how many names *he's* used. I can think of five offhand, but those are only the ones I know about. Another week, another post and another example of Judy's obsession with Barry.
[FairfieldLife] Re: About Kirk
Given the way people treat each other on this forum and the fact that people distort what others say, I could not imagine using my own name here. There should be a warning on this site that people feel free to libel one another and defame their businesses. Kirk, where are you working? PM me if you don't want public. I am going to be in NOLA in April. I'll sneak in your restaurant. I am the sexy gray haired woman with rhinestones on her glasses all dressed in black. Think female Deepak Chropra.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Name Game (was: new books on Maharishi ???)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, geezerfreak geezerfr...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, enlightened_dawn11 no_reply@ wrote: i am as sure as -anyone else- about what i say. as for the name game thing you refer to, i don't have a clue why that happens. i've been aware of it for decades, in others. i think it is another way for the soul to test its integration, that's all. If so, Barry's soul has been doing a lot of testing over the years. Ask him how many names *he's* used. I can think of five offhand, but those are only the ones I know about. Another week, another post and another example of Judy's obsession with Barry. Barry has temporarily switched his obsession from me to ED, so I figure the least I can do is help her out when he attacks her. But you don't mean to tell me, do you, that you missed my post yesterday pointing out that almost everything Barry said in his post about the pope regarding the pope and gay priests was false? I was sure that would provoke a scream of anguish from you, but there wasn't a peep. What a disappointment!
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Name Game (was: new books on Maharishi ???)
what are they please? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, enlightened_dawn11 no_reply@ wrote: i am as sure as -anyone else- about what i say. as for the name game thing you refer to, i don't have a clue why that happens. i've been aware of it for decades, in others. i think it is another way for the soul to test its integration, that's all. If so, Barry's soul has been doing a lot of testing over the years. Ask him how many names *he's* used. I can think of five offhand, but those are only the ones I know about.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Name Game (was: new books on Maharishi ???)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sister_Aloysius horror...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, enlightened_dawn11 no_reply@ wrote: what are they please? Shoki, TantricOne, C_Aragon, Uncle Tantra, and the current one, TurquoiseB (all but the last were on alt.meditation.transcendental, not FFL, although he signed some of his early posts here as TurquoiseB Uncle Tantra or Unc). I'm pretty sure there was at least one more, but I can't bring it to mind. At one point, after he hadn't posted for awhile under whatever name he was using, he came back using a new name and pretended to be an entirely different person, different writing style, different personality, different gender. But he wasn't able to keep it up for very long; his Barry style crept in gradually until we all realized it was just Barry. For the record, I should point out that the information above covers a period of 16 years, the same period of time that Sister Aloysius has been stalking me. :-) The first name above was from my original ISP, and not available when I changed ISPs. Three of the rest are all different screen names attached to the same email address as I remember, so contrary to what Sister Aloysius claims there was no attempt being made to hide my identity. Using publishing pen names (Uncle Tantra and Unc) that were revealed in my first week here on FFL hardly seems to fall into the category of trying to hide my identity, especially when I occasionally post links to writings under those names. :-) I will freely admit that C_Aragon was a temp address used for spoofing purposes many years ago. :-) That is the only one from which I remember doing what she suggests above. If she claims otherwise, I challenge her to provide proof of it here. ( That should keep her busy for a while. :-) Compare and contrast to a couple of people here who change their screen names and actual under- lying email addresses and then introduce them- selves with a hearty, Hi, I'm new here... To her credit, Sister Aloysius seems to have neither moved nor changed her ISP in many years, so she's been fairly stable. Also, I think she takes actual pride in having every word she's ever written being available to the throngs of imagined fans who want to search for them and read them over and over the way she does. :-) Fake screen names are a given here on FFL, for the simple reason that so many people are trying to keep their identities hidden from the TMO. That they need to do so is supremely sad; that they post anonymously is completely understand- able, and without blame of any kind. But *among ourselves*, as a group of people hang- ing around a bar in cyberspace chatting, it seems to me that something else is going on when some of our members make an active attempt to pretend to be someone else. Even Sister Aloysius has to admit that I've never done that here on FFL. I have too much respect for the other people on the forum. Others' mileage may vary, obviously. And, just to end on a light note, may I express my appreciation for one of our new members' ID and screen name -- ysoy10li. Being a Stooges fan, I can appreciate that one. :-)
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: About Kirk
Hi Ruth, feel free to look me up. PM me at my email addy if you would like to meet. I am between jobs right now. Last place I worked as chef at was called Pontchartrain Point, in Lakeview. They do a fabulous brunch. They are in Lakeview at West End and Pontchartrain Blvd. Sorry, my family has the same problem keeping up with my jobs. People visiting never know if I'll still be at the last place. Sorry, this ex-sidha has problems with burn out and 60-80 hour weeks with no off days. Burn out comes in a month I am afraid. I am still looking for a job that has sustainablitily as a cornerstone. At Pontchartrain Point I was working part time, the chef left, I took over, I broke my foot and still had to work 80 hours plus and it was really intense. It snowed here one day. No pain meds. I remember about the job a sense of shock and pain when I think back on it. Then the old chef came back and they knocked me back down to part time and then I quit under duress when the owner basically took over my station and turned his back to me, I was then, out, as it were I have an especially low tolerance to being pushed out of another person's way. 20 minutes to go before end of shift, but then I hate being pushed, out so I just left I will find another job where they respect another person. I will find another job where this mule isn't kicked hard all the time. I will find another job. I will do this over and over until I find a situation which suits me, even if such a thing is never to be found. I will keep looking. People out there who want to shove me into a cheap mold. I payed to much to be the one to break the mold to ever fit one again. - Original Message - From: ruthsimplicity no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 10:44 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: About Kirk Given the way people treat each other on this forum and the fact that people distort what others say, I could not imagine using my own name here. There should be a warning on this site that people feel free to libel one another and defame their businesses. Kirk, where are you working? PM me if you don't want public. I am going to be in NOLA in April. I'll sneak in your restaurant. I am the sexy gray haired woman with rhinestones on her glasses all dressed in black. Think female Deepak Chropra. To subscribe, send a message to: fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links
Re: [FairfieldLife] Your Modern GOP just a ridiculous bunch of clowns
We're naming this second great depression as the Republican Great Depression since the 30 years of Republican economic policies have brought it about. I would have liked to have named it the Bush Great Depression but that would have been giving Dubya a place in history and most just want him to disappear completely. Joe the Plumber was on Thom Hartmann the other and did what he knows how to do best give tips on how to keep pipes freezing in the winter. do.rflex wrote: Poll: Republicans Want Party To Be Like Sarah Palin A new Rasmussen poll further demonstrates that the GOP could be in for a long stretch in the wilderness: A majority of GOP voters now say that the party should be more like Sarah Palin. Talking Points Memo: http://snipurl.com/b83g2 === +++ Joe-the-Economist The ubiquitous Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, aka -Joe the Plumber- and -Joe the War Correspondent-, will soon add a new moniker to his profile, -Joe the Economist-. Politico reports that House GOP congressional aides decided to invite Wurzelbacher to a meeting on the stimulus in hopes that it will attract some media attention: Wurzelbacher, who became a household name during the presidential election, will be focusing his talk on the proposed stimulus package. He's apparently not a fan of the economic rescue package, according to members of the group. If nothing else, GOP aides are using the appearance to get staffers to attend the 9 a.m meeting. In case you weren't planning to attend CWG tomorrow morning, you might want to reconsider because Joe the Plumber will be joining us! Kimberly Wallner, an aide to South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint, wrote in a message to her e-mail list this afternoon. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0209/18324.html Steve Benen comments, This is what it's come to for Republican staffers in Congress. In the midst of an economic crisis, and after balking at a stimulus package, the GOP is turning to an unlicensed plumber/campaign prop to discuss legislative strategy on economic policy. http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2009_02/016722.php
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Name Game (was: new books on Maharishi ???)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: And, just to end on a light note, may I express my appreciation for one of our new members' ID and screen name -- ysoy10li. Being a Stooges fan, I can appreciate that one. :-) **end Once you made the Stooges reference, I got it. Good catch, great moniker. **
[FairfieldLife] Judith's Book
Here's what Conny Larsson says about Judith's book: As for now NO she will not, but it will all come in my book but under other name of course. Anyone knowing will have no difficulties to understan dwho is who and this goes for the other girls I have interwied also. Love and care Conny
[FairfieldLife] California is Broke!
The first big shoe of the Republican Great Depression falls. Things are about to get interesting here. http://rawstory.com/news/2008/California_goes_broke_halts_3.5_billion_0202.html
Re: [FairfieldLife] California is Broke!
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote: The first big shoe of the Republican Great Depression falls. Things are about to get interesting here. http://rawstory.com/news/2008/California_goes_broke_halts_3.5_billion_0202.html Come now. This is Obama's watch. It's the Democratic Great Depression. We've named problems after the current administration before.
[FairfieldLife] Two Weeks from Today
Analog television becomes a thing of the past. Though the Senate has voted to delay it Congress didn't agree. Personally we should just get on with the DTV transition. If people aren't ready now they won't be in June either. Some areas like Hawaii have already made the transition with no problem and apparently Redding up north of me has too. And if there would have been a problem the rednecks in the Redding area would have raised hell. Here's a funny video on the transition: http://www.broadcastingcable.com/video/DTV_VIDEOS/1000-Spike_Feresten_Takes_On_the_DTV_Delay.php
[FairfieldLife] Namkhai Norbu
Hey Peeps, I am not here to proselytize. Really, No! I am not. But as alot of you have done over time in sharing the words of your mentors you obviously felt that they helped you immensely. So also I, and through Namkhai Norbu and those of his ilk. The Dzogchen Tertons. And Lamas. Start their methods by taking reality as the supreme reality and are not playing for second spot ever in liberation. Namkhai Norbu whose name means something like 'twirling space' or something perhaps Vaj could say more. This Dzogchen stays in my heart and is always refreshing quite instantly. It's for jnana what TM was for transcendence I believe where one works with clarity of the elements in the here and now. Instantly. This is the tenet of the system. Very clear and instantaneous. How? Through simple visualization and mantra, also jnana and pragya. One learns a simple key turn of Dharma as based in instantaneous positive intention to benefet all one immediately opens and releases the contents of their identity into the Absolute. So instant open freedom through a key turn of pragya. How to do this? I am not a Dzogchen master, nay not even a student very well really, and maybe not so much even a student of the Choegyal's. I have nonetheless heard him and see the distillation of Dzogchen that he has created and who knows? He - Namkhai Norbu - may be the one Dzogchen master that time recalls. Just as perhaps Maharishi might be remembered in his Shankara or Smriti Smarta aspect as Mahesh, right? Involving his liberation in the common affairs of the day. Such a thing is even more remote in Dzogchen it being only the last hundred years the teaching were even allowed. Probably with the advent of the Thee Kongtruls. Not even the Theosophists had open Dzogchen transmissions so they were bought to reify the teachings into their highly intellectual Theosophical nonsense! Nonetheless, we all owe them a debt in clearing the way for the teachings of the East to flow West. In some way we are all Theosophists, even those who owe no allegiance to any specific deity. In Sri Vidya they say one had completed some certain hundreds of thousand of japs on each deity before presuming to go for the whole Shodashi, if one is lucky. Few Westerners at all ever take simple diksha in to the Goddess Shakti traditions though that is where TM owes its allegience. What then if a very pure lineage was still around which taught Sri Vidya, the basis of TM , taught its distillation would anyone go for it? Probably not. The taste which TM brought of oneself as fluttering light rays and union of sun and moon, as transcendence from ones hostile environment, etc, all these mind states, we have researched and then we have a feeling for the essence, and sometimes then we don't even want any more teachings. Well surely then that's how I feel nowadays is quite full of teachings. I presume to add that Dzogchen is a very sweet dessert and totally finishes off the meal. Anyway Namkhai Norbu gives some open webcasts here http://www.dzogchencommunity.net/webcast/index.php?Listen But the restricted are where the meat and bones are at and the gristle. Soon, very soon is a topic of great interest to me on restricted broadcast called the Yeshe Khadroi or Jnanadakini. It's an extra special transmission and I recommend it for all as this transmission is also for Queen of Bliss Dakini and is related to Saraswati and Vedic Cognition or third eye and all those things. So try to get in touch or become a member there or look into it as it's probably worth the small fee. I am really only here sharing this personal stuff with you peeps because I love you guys and wish for you all to advance to the highest akanishta while still here, which is a leap of prajna and jnana. I am a bit tired of hearing all the seemingly nihilistic Neoadvaitinism, which for all its talk of God seems dry and remote. Dzogchen is the seeming opposite of formal Theravadin Buddhism, but then again as a Theravadin might quip, in Buddha there is no mention of dryness or aloneness. Jnanadakini is not exactly experience of Jnanas from Theravadin concept. For discussion of this further I am no expert but I'm sure Vaj might share something if he feels the audience is worthy. Well, he must or he would not have spent so much quality time with you all. Anyway if I ever did any of youse a favor then pointing this out to you would be it. Love - Kirk
Re: [FairfieldLife] California is Broke!
Fairfield Lifer wrote: On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote: The first big shoe of the Republican Great Depression falls. Things are about to get interesting here. http://rawstory.com/news/2008/California_goes_broke_halts_3.5_billion_0202.html Come now. This is Obama's watch. It's the Democratic Great Depression. We've named problems after the current administration before. LOL! Nope all the result of 30 years of Reaganomics. Obama has nothing to do with it. I don't recall that the Great Depression of the 1930's was named The Democratic Great Depression. It too had to do with bad Republican policies. Trickle down just made us all peons.
[FairfieldLife] Re: California is Broke!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Fairfield Lifer fairfield.li...@... wrote: On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote: The first big shoe of the Republican Great Depression falls. Things are about to get interesting here. http://rawstory.com/news/2008/California_goes_broke_halts_3.5_billion_0202.html Come now. This is Obama's watch. It's the Democratic Great Depression. We've named problems after the current administration before. It's amazing how thoroughly ignorant of how economics works republicans turned out to be. I guess if I marry a woman who has kids then I must have gotten her pregnant?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Light therapy with gems in Maharishi Ayurveda
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante no_re...@... wrote: In Switzerland all the HMOs pay for this therapy up to 80% of the cost of treatment - A sucker born every minute. And I bet it's one expensive placebo. On tonight's (MON Feb 2nd) Global Family Chat on the Maharishi Channel, they talked about the new light/gem therapy in Maharishi Ayurveda (the first line of Rig Veda says that agni/fire is the source of gems, gems are described in the Vedas as the Radiance of God -- Charaka Samhita says gems are second in treatment value only to mantras, and gems are ahead of herbal treatments). They use some sort of light (frequency depends on the gem involved, amethyst, emerald, etc -- seven types of gems used all told) in a flashlight- type device which shines light through 12 gems set in gold. The light is flashed on the palm of the hand (some of the photos in newspaper articles show people getting the light beam on the forehead even though the Raj people only talked about palm application), and people are reporting good experiences (some expansion of consciousness, healing of injured area, etc) in the 300 treatments at the Raj to date. The light is supposed to act on the light body of the recipient, and although there are side effects like healing, it's basically designed to remove obstacles to enlightenment values more than just wearing gems, with the goal of letting celestial light fill the body. In Switzerland all the HMOs pay for this therapy up to 80% of the cost of treatment. Ayurveda recipes including powdered gems are legal in Germany, but not yet legal in the USA. There is no inside or outside. The same light inside, the same light outside.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Light therapy with gems in Maharishi Ayurveda
On Feb 2, 2009, at 11:42 PM, bob_brigante wrote: On tonight's (MON Feb 2nd) Global Family Chat on the Maharishi Channel, they talked about the new light/gem therapy in Maharishi Ayurveda (the first line of Rig Veda says that agni/fire is the source of gems, gems are described in the Vedas as the Radiance of God -- Charaka Samhita says gems are second in treatment value only to mantras, and gems are ahead of herbal treatments). They use some sort of light (frequency depends on the gem involved, amethyst, emerald, etc -- seven types of gems used all told) in a flashlight- type device which shines light through 12 gems set in gold. The light is flashed on the palm of the hand (some of the photos in newspaper articles show people getting the light beam on the forehead even though the Raj people only talked about palm application), and people are reporting good experiences (some expansion of consciousness, healing of injured area, etc) in the 300 treatments at the Raj to date. The light is supposed to act on the light body of the recipient, and although there are side effects like healing, it's basically designed to remove obstacles to enlightenment values more than just wearing gems, with the goal of letting celestial light fill the body. In Switzerland all the HMOs pay for this therapy up to 80% of the cost of treatment. Ayurveda recipes including powdered gems are legal in Germany, but not yet legal in the USA. There is no inside or outside. The same light inside, the same light outside. http://tinyurl.com/c5swrs Sal
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Judy, MMY was a Potentate! (new books on Maharishi ???)
On Feb 2, 2009, at 8:26 PM, enlightened_dawn11 wrote: there are many ways of gaining enlightenment. first off, it is not an either/or proposition-- i see the process of gaining enlightenment initially like a lightbulb that flashes on, and then off, with no regular interval to its timing. an experience of enlightenment, then darkness for awile, then another flash, then darkness. eventually the light stays on, and perhaps someone feels confident enough to say, hey everyone, i am enlightened! and they begin the process of watching the lightbulb to see how far the light is shining out, and when it appears obscured, and what the public proclamation and challenge does to their ability to integrate the inner light into their outer life. and perhaps the light appears to go out again. a learning process which takes time; more integration in daily life. and after some more time, the lightbulb stays on, for good, under all circumstances, and then they have a choice to say, or not to say, i am enlightened, depending on what they feel like doing; hold themselves up as an example of enlightenment, or quietly allowing the bulb to burn bright within. so to make the assumption that because someone proclaims their enlightenment, that they will suffer a downfall, and have to start again from the beginning, is a false assumption. we as human beings learn by doing, and testing and challenging, and if we are true to ourselves and our desire for gaining enlightenment, we will eventually be successful, regardless of what we may proclaim along the way. Does this happen before or after the magical elevator ride?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Judy, MMY was a Potentate! (new books on Maharishi ???)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@ wrote: From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of nablusoss1008 Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 5:43 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Judy, MMY was a Potentate! (new books on Maharishi ???) we all looked to Maharishi as God. Maharishi did not; He simply stated that I am a normal human being Maybe you should have taken him at his word, Nabby. I did from day one. Never have I met a person more ready to reach out to humanity. Never have I seen a person more down to earth, someone who wanted to be a friend with all living creatures. Except, of course, cats. He certainly is a friend of friends for those fortunate souls for all eternity. Why ? Because he had gone that path, He knows what unstressing is. And He certainly knew Liberation; a freedom He above all wanted to share with His friends This He only could do as a normal person. Probably the first normal person in the Age if Enlightenment If you truly view him as a normal human being why do you capitalize the pronoun he whenever you refer to him? Just wondering.
Re: [FairfieldLife] California is Broke!
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Fairfield Lifer wrote: On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote: The first big shoe of the Republican Great Depression falls. Things are about to get interesting here. http://rawstory.com/news/2008/California_goes_broke_halts_3.5_billion_0202.html Come now. This is Obama's watch. It's the Democratic Great Depression. We've named problems after the current administration before. LOL! Nope all the result of 30 years of Reaganomics. Obama has nothing to do with it. I don't recall that the Great Depression of the 1930's was named The Democratic Great Depression. It too had to do with bad Republican policies. Trickle down just made us all peons. A foreigner pegged it really well on Slashdot.org in a discussion on H1Bs. Year after year the US kept preaching free trade. Year after year it was a race to the bottom. Give up protection of your economy in favor of the free flow of commerce. Each step along the way a new country became poorer. Finally it's the US's turn to visit the bottom. It was so gradual in the US that people just didn't seem to notice. Both parents had to work to keep the household afloat where before they didn't. Actually, it was packaged masterfully. Packaged in terms of womens rights and feminism. It wasn't that women /had/ to work, though really they did, it was that they had to be fulfilled as women and have the same rights as men. And men worked. Now comes the flood of posts proclaiming that the US should not be richer than other nations. If there are poor subsistence farmers in India or Africa then the US should not expect to have the economy it used to have. Share the poverty. Except of course of the monied class. Predictable as Spring rain.
[FairfieldLife] New video: Palestinian students learn Transcendental Meditation through David Lynch Foundation grants.
Fwd: Palestinian students learn Transcendental Meditation through David Lynch Foundation grants. See interviews at http://www.mum.edu/videos/palestine_peace_project. Jai Guru Dev Craig Shaw Research Librarian Office of Admissions Maharishi University of Management Fairfield, IA 52557 cs...@mum.edu Phone:(641) 472-7000 x4021 Consciousness-Based education http://www.mum.edu
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Name Game (was: new books on Maharishi ???)
On Feb 3, 2009, at 1:25 PM, TurquoiseB wrote: As noted by my use of gender in the previous paragraph, I also obviously have no problem with her being a woman. Dawn is, after all, a female name, and she has certainly not corrected anyone who has assumed that she is as female in gender as her screen name. I don't, in fact, see how her posts -- and the logic and clarity of thought expressed in them -- could possibly have come from a man. At least not a heterosexual man. Maybe she's both. Maybe she came here at first as a man, but then had a little, um, operation, and... presto! Now she's a woman. Well, stranger things have happened. Although, admittedly, probably not much stranger. Sal
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Name Game (was: new books on Maharishi ???)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: While your comment about having a life is apropos, I have a bone to pick with the good Sister's claim about me attacking ED (enlightened_dawn11). I don't understand what the fuss is about. me either- i don't feel attacked by you, and if in the future you feel like attacking me, have at it-- all's fair in love and internet forums, as far as i am concerned.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Name Game (was: new books on Maharishi ???)
keep guessing Sal, and if you do it often enough, it may even fill that great big empty hole you call a life. or just go out and snap some pictures... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunsh...@... wrote: On Feb 3, 2009, at 1:25 PM, TurquoiseB wrote: As noted by my use of gender in the previous paragraph, I also obviously have no problem with her being a woman. Dawn is, after all, a female name, and she has certainly not corrected anyone who has assumed that she is as female in gender as her screen name. I don't, in fact, see how her posts -- and the logic and clarity of thought expressed in them -- could possibly have come from a man. At least not a heterosexual man. Maybe she's both. Maybe she came here at first as a man, but then had a little, um, operation, and... presto! Now she's a woman. Well, stranger things have happened. Although, admittedly, probably not much stranger. Sal
[FairfieldLife] Yes, these are actually part of the Stimulus package
Just coincidental of course that Obama was the junior US Senator from Illinois. The first expenditure is proof that Obama is not a Muslim. In Muslim tradition pork is not hillel, be it $2 billion worth or not. • $2 billion earmark to re-start FutureGen, a near-zero emissions coal power plant in Illinois that the Department of Energy defunded last year because it said the project was inefficient. • A $246 million tax break for Hollywood movie producers to buy motion picture film. • $650 million for the digital television converter box coupon program. • $88 million for the Coast Guard to design a new polar icebreaker (arctic ship). • $448 million for constructing the Department of Homeland Security headquarters. • $248 million for furniture at the new Homeland Security headquarters. • $600 million to buy hybrid vehicles for federal employees. • $400 million for the Centers for Disease Control to screen and prevent STD's. • $1.4 billion for rural waste disposal programs. • $125 million for the Washington sewer system. • $150 million for Smithsonian museum facilities. • $1 billion for the 2010 Census, which has a projected cost overrun of $3 billion. • $75 million for smoking cessation activities. • $200 million for public computer centers at community colleges. • $75 million for salaries of employees at the FBI. • $25 million for tribal alcohol and substance abuse reduction. • $500 million for flood reduction projects on the Mississippi River. • $10 million to inspect canals in urban areas. • $6 billion to turn federal buildings into green buildings. • $500 million for state and local fire stations. • $650 million for wildland fire management on forest service lands. • $1.2 billion for youth activities, including youth summer job programs. • $88 million for renovating the headquarters of the Public Health Service. • $412 million for CDC buildings and property. • $500 million for building and repairing National Institutes of Health facilities in Bethesda, Maryland. • $160 million for paid volunteers at the Corporation for National and Community Service. • $5.5 million for energy efficiency initiatives at the Department of Veterans Affairs National Cemetery Administration. • $850 million for Amtrak. • $100 million for reducing the hazard of lead-based paint. • $75 million to construct a security training facility for State Department Security officers when they can be trained at existing facilities of other agencies. • $110 million to the Farm Service Agency to upgrade computer systems. • $200 million in funding for the lease of alternative energy vehicles for use on military installations.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Name Game (was: new books on Maharishi ???)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: And, just to end on a light note, may I express my appreciation for one of our new members' ID and screen name -- ysoy10li. Yes. But very soon you will suspect he is Jim. Who is Jim? I I think ysoy10li is to be congrat- ulated on the cleverness of his/her screen name, whoever it is. But since you have brought up the issue of mis- taken identity, I have to apologize for calling Judy Sister Aloysius in two previous posts. That must have been a Freudian slip on my part, having watched the film Doubt five times in recent days as part of writing about it. I apologize for the mistake and am sure that she understands that it *was* a mistake. Surely no one on this forum could ever mistake the char- acter that Meryl Streep plays in the film for our own Ms. Stein. Mea culpa.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Judith's Book
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer r...@... wrote: Here's what Conny Larsson says about Judith's book: As for now NO she will not, but it will all come in my book but under other name of course. Cowards digging their own future graves, running after money, it's a neverending yet tragic story. I know these fellows swarming around the honey-bee, never being on the programme, mostly chatting nonsense, never being able to even the least amount of self-restraint or discipline. Sal's selfrevealing stories from Switzerland about the unablity to follow even the simplest of instructions comes to mind. Gold diggers comes to mind, and yes ofcourse; paul mason, the King of Gold Diggers. Now connie larsson is competing for the throne. I hope his book, if you want to call the odessey of white trash a book, also includes stories from his abused childhood explaining his hatred towards any figure of authority later in life. Poor soul.
[FairfieldLife] love poems from Rumi, for this Valentine
To all of you that feel the call to explore the endless potential of love, journey now with love's greatest student and master the 13th century mystic poet of Persia : Jelaluddin Rumi. Rumi's incredible, profound verses invite us to experience a love beyond our senses, beyond time, beyond language: a love that removes all boundaries and answers all desire. Sina Yasavolian recites selections of Nader Khalili's translations in a graceful, lyrical dance to an original musical score by Hamoon Tehrani . His music awakens our hearts as Sina's soothing voice and Rumi's sensitive words transport our spirits to a place of union with the infinite divine presence. In her readings, Sina exhibits a deep respect and understanding of Rumi's writing, which she generously shares with us. Do more than listen to this poetry and music; let it color your soul. You can buy and download these music, directly from this site. hope you enjoy it. you can visite these web site for the CD. http://trueloverumi.com/shop.html http://cdbaby.com/cd/sina2 http://www.amazon.com/Rumis-Love-Sina/dp/B0012DKIBU/ref=sr_1_35?ie=UTF8s=musicqid=1233635484sr=8-35 love and light Sina
Re: [FairfieldLife] California is Broke!
Fairfield Lifer wrote: On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Fairfield Lifer wrote: On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote: The first big shoe of the Republican Great Depression falls. Things are about to get interesting here. http://rawstory.com/news/2008/California_goes_broke_halts_3.5_billion_0202.html Come now. This is Obama's watch. It's the Democratic Great Depression. We've named problems after the current administration before. LOL! Nope all the result of 30 years of Reaganomics. Obama has nothing to do with it. I don't recall that the Great Depression of the 1930's was named The Democratic Great Depression. It too had to do with bad Republican policies. Trickle down just made us all peons. A foreigner pegged it really well on Slashdot.org in a discussion on H1Bs. Year after year the US kept preaching free trade. Year after year it was a race to the bottom. Give up protection of your economy in favor of the free flow of commerce. Each step along the way a new country became poorer. Finally it's the US's turn to visit the bottom. It was so gradual in the US that people just didn't seem to notice. Both parents had to work to keep the household afloat where before they didn't. Actually, it was packaged masterfully. Packaged in terms of womens rights and feminism. It wasn't that women /had/ to work, though really they did, it was that they had to be fulfilled as women and have the same rights as men. And men worked. Now comes the flood of posts proclaiming that the US should not be richer than other nations. If there are poor subsistence farmers in India or Africa then the US should not expect to have the economy it used to have. Share the poverty. Except of course of the monied class. Predictable as Spring rain. The US is 7% of the worlds population and yet consumed 25% of the it's resources. The bill had to become due sometime. But we lived high on the hog, bought gas guzzling cars and monster homes because we could when people should have bought within their means. We may just wind up living in a simpler world somewhat resembling the 1970s but with some of the technology we've created in the meantimes. Yup, free trade simply meant the rich pillaging and plundering so they could still be kings of the hill. Bastards.
[FairfieldLife] Re: California is Broke!
Hey, idea here: Since CA has successfully -- for the most part -- spit in the face of the Feds about the marijuana laws for years, how's 'bout CA passing legalization finally to get the state's cash crop producing tax revenues? They could charge the same street price and pocket most of the profits instead of, you know, 10 Mexican-mafiosos and one white guy getting all the middleman profits. They've softened up the Feds who now only do token raids in CA. I'm told that in CA there's a sprinkling of vending machines on the street that'll dispense the dope right there to ya even if a cop is standing next to you who'll do nothing. So that's pretty in-your-face, right now, and legalization would only seem to be a bit more. I guess Prop 15ers can have about three pounds of the stuff at any moment whereas even a seed in other states has at times put folks away for LIFE. With Obama and Phelps being the most recent high profilers who have added even more legitimacy to the use, it looks to be a done deal if Schwartzy goes for ithimself a once-upon-a-time-user. The bad news: if passed, the law will draw all the smokers to CA and there's goes the whole west coast into the drink from the added weight. Edg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote: Fairfield Lifer wrote: On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote: Fairfield Lifer wrote: On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote: The first big shoe of the Republican Great Depression falls. Things are about to get interesting here. http://rawstory.com/news/2008/California_goes_broke_halts_3.5_billion_0202.html Come now. This is Obama's watch. It's the Democratic Great Depression. We've named problems after the current administration before. LOL! Nope all the result of 30 years of Reaganomics. Obama has nothing to do with it. I don't recall that the Great Depression of the 1930's was named The Democratic Great Depression. It too had to do with bad Republican policies. Trickle down just made us all peons. A foreigner pegged it really well on Slashdot.org in a discussion on H1Bs. Year after year the US kept preaching free trade. Year after year it was a race to the bottom. Give up protection of your economy in favor of the free flow of commerce. Each step along the way a new country became poorer. Finally it's the US's turn to visit the bottom. It was so gradual in the US that people just didn't seem to notice. Both parents had to work to keep the household afloat where before they didn't. Actually, it was packaged masterfully. Packaged in terms of womens rights and feminism. It wasn't that women /had/ to work, though really they did, it was that they had to be fulfilled as women and have the same rights as men. And men worked. Now comes the flood of posts proclaiming that the US should not be richer than other nations. If there are poor subsistence farmers in India or Africa then the US should not expect to have the economy it used to have. Share the poverty. Except of course of the monied class. Predictable as Spring rain. The US is 7% of the worlds population and yet consumed 25% of the it's resources. The bill had to become due sometime. But we lived high on the hog, bought gas guzzling cars and monster homes because we could when people should have bought within their means. We may just wind up living in a simpler world somewhat resembling the 1970s but with some of the technology we've created in the meantimes. Yup, free trade simply meant the rich pillaging and plundering so they could still be kings of the hill. Bastards.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Namkhai Norbu
--Outstanding! a refreshing elixer and respite; away from the Nihilistic Neo-Advaita. All glory to the Triple Jewel. - In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Kirk kirk_bernha...@... wrote: Hey Peeps, I am not here to proselytize. Really, No! I am not. But as alot of you have done over time in sharing the words of your mentors you obviously felt that they helped you immensely. So also I, and through Namkhai Norbu and those of his ilk. The Dzogchen Tertons. And Lamas. Start their methods by taking reality as the supreme reality and are not playing for second spot ever in liberation. Namkhai Norbu whose name means something like 'twirling space' or something perhaps Vaj could say more. This Dzogchen stays in my heart and is always refreshing quite instantly. It's for jnana what TM was for transcendence I believe where one works with clarity of the elements in the here and now. Instantly. This is the tenet of the system. Very clear and instantaneous. How? Through simple visualization and mantra, also jnana and pragya. One learns a simple key turn of Dharma as based in instantaneous positive intention to benefet all one immediately opens and releases the contents of their identity into the Absolute. So instant open freedom through a key turn of pragya. How to do this? I am not a Dzogchen master, nay not even a student very well really, and maybe not so much even a student of the Choegyal's. I have nonetheless heard him and see the distillation of Dzogchen that he has created and who knows? He - Namkhai Norbu - may be the one Dzogchen master that time recalls. Just as perhaps Maharishi might be remembered in his Shankara or Smriti Smarta aspect as Mahesh, right? Involving his liberation in the common affairs of the day. Such a thing is even more remote in Dzogchen it being only the last hundred years the teaching were even allowed. Probably with the advent of the Thee Kongtruls. Not even the Theosophists had open Dzogchen transmissions so they were bought to reify the teachings into their highly intellectual Theosophical nonsense! Nonetheless, we all owe them a debt in clearing the way for the teachings of the East to flow West. In some way we are all Theosophists, even those who owe no allegiance to any specific deity. In Sri Vidya they say one had completed some certain hundreds of thousand of japs on each deity before presuming to go for the whole Shodashi, if one is lucky. Few Westerners at all ever take simple diksha in to the Goddess Shakti traditions though that is where TM owes its allegience. What then if a very pure lineage was still around which taught Sri Vidya, the basis of TM , taught its distillation would anyone go for it? Probably not. The taste which TM brought of oneself as fluttering light rays and union of sun and moon, as transcendence from ones hostile environment, etc, all these mind states, we have researched and then we have a feeling for the essence, and sometimes then we don't even want any more teachings. Well surely then that's how I feel nowadays is quite full of teachings. I presume to add that Dzogchen is a very sweet dessert and totally finishes off the meal. Anyway Namkhai Norbu gives some open webcasts here http://www.dzogchencommunity.net/webcast/index.php?Listen But the restricted are where the meat and bones are at and the gristle. Soon, very soon is a topic of great interest to me on restricted broadcast called the Yeshe Khadroi or Jnanadakini. It's an extra special transmission and I recommend it for all as this transmission is also for Queen of Bliss Dakini and is related to Saraswati and Vedic Cognition or third eye and all those things. So try to get in touch or become a member there or look into it as it's probably worth the small fee. I am really only here sharing this personal stuff with you peeps because I love you guys and wish for you all to advance to the highest akanishta while still here, which is a leap of prajna and jnana. I am a bit tired of hearing all the seemingly nihilistic Neoadvaitinism, which for all its talk of God seems dry and remote. Dzogchen is the seeming opposite of formal Theravadin Buddhism, but then again as a Theravadin might quip, in Buddha there is no mention of dryness or aloneness. Jnanadakini is not exactly experience of Jnanas from Theravadin concept. For discussion of this further I am no expert but I'm sure Vaj might share something if he feels the audience is worthy. Well, he must or he would not have spent so much quality time with you all. Anyway if I ever did any of youse a favor then pointing this out to you would be it. Love - Kirk
[FairfieldLife] Re: New video: Palestinian students learn Transcendental Meditation through David Lynch Foundation grants.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Dick Mays dickm...@... wrote: Fwd: Palestinian students learn Transcendental Meditation through David Lynch Foundation grants. See interviews at http://www.mum.edu/videos/palestine_peace_project. Jai Guru Dev Craig Shaw Research Librarian Office of Admissions Maharishi University of Management Fairfield, IA 52557 cs...@... Phone:(641) 472-7000 x4021 Consciousness-Based education http://www.mum.edu Hallelujah...
[FairfieldLife] Re: New video: Palestinian students learn Transcendental Meditation through David Lynch Foundation grants.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, BillyG. wg...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Dick Mays dickmays@ wrote: Fwd: Palestinian students learn Transcendental Meditation through David Lynch Foundation grants. See interviews at http://www.mum.edu/videos/palestine_peace_project. Jai Guru Dev Craig Shaw Research Librarian Office of Admissions Maharishi University of Management Fairfield, IA 52557 cshaw@ Phone:(641) 472-7000 x4021 Consciousness-Based education http://www.mum.edu Hallelujah... We'd all be better off if the Israelis learned en-mass. They might go up a few grades in moral development and hand back the land they've stolen.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: California is Broke!
I don't know of any medical marijuana vending machines, Edg. I think someone was pulling your leg. But most people I talk to who smoke the stuff are getting medical marijuana. However California is often at odds with the Feds over the medical marijuana stuff. Plus we don't get back as much Federal money as we should from our taxes. So maybe the solution is that California, being the 8th largest economy in the world, should just become another country. As far as the state being broke the problem is that the Dems want to raise taxes, on the rich, and the Republicans oppose that. That's why no budget has been passed. And we have $40 billion prison budget that could be slashed by letting off people in there for petty crimes like pot possession. Seems the state's Prison Industrial Complex is as much of a problem as the Military Industrial Complex. Duveyoung wrote: Hey, idea here: Since CA has successfully -- for the most part -- spit in the face of the Feds about the marijuana laws for years, how's 'bout CA passing legalization finally to get the state's cash crop producing tax revenues? They could charge the same street price and pocket most of the profits instead of, you know, 10 Mexican-mafiosos and one white guy getting all the middleman profits. They've softened up the Feds who now only do token raids in CA. I'm told that in CA there's a sprinkling of vending machines on the street that'll dispense the dope right there to ya even if a cop is standing next to you who'll do nothing. So that's pretty in-your-face, right now, and legalization would only seem to be a bit more. I guess Prop 15ers can have about three pounds of the stuff at any moment whereas even a seed in other states has at times put folks away for LIFE. With Obama and Phelps being the most recent high profilers who have added even more legitimacy to the use, it looks to be a done deal if Schwartzy goes for ithimself a once-upon-a-time-user. The bad news: if passed, the law will draw all the smokers to CA and there's goes the whole west coast into the drink from the added weight. Edg
[FairfieldLife] Re: New video: Palestinian students learn Transcendental Meditation through David Lynch Foundation grants.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, guyfawkes91 guyfawke...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, BillyG. wgm4u@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Dick Mays dickmays@ wrote: Fwd: Palestinian students learn Transcendental Meditation through David Lynch Foundation grants. See interviews at http://www.mum.edu/videos/palestine_peace_project. Jai Guru Dev Craig Shaw Research Librarian Office of Admissions Maharishi University of Management Fairfield, IA 52557 cshaw@ Phone:(641) 472-7000 x4021 Consciousness-Based education http://www.mum.edu Hallelujah... We'd all be better off if the Israelis learned en-mass. They might go up a few grades in moral development and hand back the land they've stolen. A massive initiative towards raising the collective consciousness with TM through students in the region, including israelis, might well be the steppingstone Maitreya needs for resolving this deadlock. All glory to David Lynch, Maharishi and the Masters ! http://www.lynchdocumentary.com/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Light therapy with gems in Maharishi Ayurveda
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_re...@...
wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, guyfawkes91 guyfawkes91@
wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante no_reply@
wrote:
On tonight's (MON Feb 2nd) Global Family Chat on the Maharishi
Channel, they talked about the new light/gem therapy in
Maharishi
Ayurveda (the first line of Rig Veda says that agni/fire is the
source of gems,
I guess you mean 'ratna-dhaatama'[1] which is the superlative(?)
from 'ratna-dhaa':
ratnadhA mfn. procuring wealth , distributing riches or
precious
things (%{-tama} mfn. distñdistributing great riches) RV. AV.
S3Br. ;
possessing wealth RV.
1 agnim iile purohitaM
yajñasya devam Rtvijam
hotaaraM *ratnadhaatamam*
***
Yep, ratna means jewel, a common name for girls in India:
http://www.behindthename.com/name/ratna
[FairfieldLife] Jacques Uijen
A friend wants to know.. Whatever happened to Jack Uijen, who used to be national leader for Holland?
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Name Game (was: new books on Maharishi ???)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sister_Aloysius horrornun@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, enlightened_dawn11 no_reply@ wrote: what are they please? Shoki, TantricOne, C_Aragon, Uncle Tantra, and the current one, TurquoiseB (all but the last were on alt.meditation.transcendental, not FFL, although he signed some of his early posts here as TurquoiseB Uncle Tantra or Unc). I'm pretty sure there was at least one more, but I can't bring it to mind. At one point, after he hadn't posted for awhile under whatever name he was using, he came back using a new name and pretended to be an entirely different person, different writing style, different personality, different gender. But he wasn't able to keep it up for very long; his Barry style crept in gradually until we all realized it was just Barry. For the record, I should point out that the information above covers a period of 16 years, the same period of time that Sister Aloysius has been stalking me. :-) Exhibit A of Barry's obsession with me. Every forum we've ever both been on, I was there first, with the sole exception of FFL, and that was at Barry's invitation. Yet he hallucinates that I've been stalking him. (Not to mention his, uh, confusion of me with Sister Aloysius, about whom he's been obsessing here for days.) The first name above was from my original ISP, and not available when I changed ISPs. Three of the rest are all different screen names attached to the same email address as I remember, so contrary to what Sister Aloysius claims there was no attempt being made to hide my identity. Using publishing pen names (Uncle Tantra and Unc) that were revealed in my first week here on FFL hardly seems to fall into the category of trying to hide my identity, especially when I occasionally post links to writings under those names. :-) And more obsessional hallucination. I never claimed he was using the names to hide his identity, with one exception, which he goes on to confirm: I will freely admit that C_Aragon was a temp address used for spoofing purposes many years ago. :-) That is the only one from which I remember doing what she suggests above. If she claims otherwise, I challenge her to provide proof of it here. ( That should keep her busy for a while. :-) Since I didn't and wouldn't claim otherwise, unfortunately I'll have to find something else to do.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Jacques Uijen
last I heard he was a follower of the Diksha system --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer r...@... wrote: A friend wants to know.. Whatever happened to Jack Uijen, who used to be national leader for Holland?
[FairfieldLife] Higher Crime Rates among all Religions!?
Crime rates among the 'spiritual/conscious' are near 'zero'! Arhata Religion associated with Higher crime rates!! | The Rational ...14 posts - Last post: Feb 2, 2008I think the study is not suggesting that religion leads or causes crime. This just debunks the notion that evolution has caused social ... www.rationalresponders.com/forum/sapient/new http://www.freedomofspeech.netfirms.com/
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Name Game (was: new books on Maharishi ???)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, geezerfreak geezerfr...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, geezerfreak geezerfreak@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, enlightened_dawn11 no_reply@ wrote: i am as sure as -anyone else- about what i say. as for the name game thing you refer to, i don't have a clue why that happens. i've been aware of it for decades, in others. i think it is another way for the soul to test its integration, that's all. If so, Barry's soul has been doing a lot of testing over the years. Ask him how many names *he's* used. I can think of five offhand, but those are only the ones I know about. Another week, another post and another example of Judy's obsession with Barry. Barry has temporarily switched his obsession from me to ED, so I figure the least I can do is help her out when he attacks her. But you don't mean to tell me, do you, that you missed my post yesterday pointing out that almost everything Barry said in his post about the pope regarding the pope and gay priests was false? I was sure that would provoke a scream of anguish from you, but there wasn't a peep. What a disappointment! I have a life Judy. I don't hang around here every day until I post out. So no, I didn't see the post you refer to. Geez, I understand how difficult it is for you to see your good buddy repeatedly exposed as a liar and a phony. It's only natural you'd want to protect him and strike back at his critics. You've invested too much in the relationship to do otherwise; you'd have to admit to yourself that you fell for his act. But, you know, if anybody could get him to change his behavior and start living in reality with the rest of us, it would be you. There's a valuable human being in there under all the solipsistic self-protective garbage. Why don't you give it a shot, see if you can convince him it's safe to come out? You'd be doing us all a favor, yourself included, and him most of all.
[FairfieldLife] The Star of Hope above Manhatten
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyKw1PVXFhw
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Name Game (was: new books on Maharishi ???)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: And, just to end on a light note, may I express my appreciation for one of our new members' ID and screen name -- ysoy10li. Yes. But very soon you will suspect he is Jim. Why certainly not. I thought Enlightened Dawn might be Sandiego. I miss him.
[FairfieldLife] A message of Hope. Pasadena, USA, January 12. 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62Nk-zSJCzkfeature=related
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prosperity and spirituality
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, I am the eternal l.shad...@... wrote: OK, I got it. Maharishi told us that the eight limbs of Yoga are really the legs of a table. Pull one, you pull the whole table and the other limbs go with the table. I don't remember that, you mean all you have to do is practice *any ONE* of the limbs and you get the benefit of the other 7? Also I don't remember him saying that, (not that he didn't). But what about prosperity? I remember the wry jokes about an initiator having a $100 suit and a $100 car. OK, cool. It was all happening so very fast. It was something you could overlook, despite it seeming a little strange that 200% of life didn't include the ability to purchase dinner when the gang went out or gasoline to drive home afterwards. What /does/ one say about a seeker who can't stay in business but is very excited about their spiritual seeking and are even happy to share it with you? If the person comes up with a story that sounds like the world of commerce is stacked against them, which is why they need to start a new business every month, are we to overlook that and just pay attention to their newest spiritual find? Myself, I've seen prosperity as part and parcel of my spiritual seeking. More prosperity, more wealth, more integration with pure consciousness. Though I scoff at the campaign of IA to get people to come, if even for the week end, so they can prosper when they return home, I can definitely say that it works for me. But maybe I'm looking where I shouldn't. Potential inconsistencies should only be observed in me and not in others.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Bearack Obama!
On Feb 3, 2009, at 4:48 PM, Arhata Osho wrote: Animals that were formerly self-sufficient are now showing signs of belonging to the Democratic Party, as they have apparently learned to just sit and wait for the government to step in and provide for their care and sustenance. This photo is of a Democrat black bear in Montana nicknamed by the Wildlife Department as ... 'Bearack Obama'! Alright, now this is funny. Sal
[FairfieldLife] Re: Two Weeks from Today
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote: Analog television becomes a thing of the past. Though the Senate has voted to delay it Congress didn't agree. Personally we should just get on with the DTV transition. If people aren't ready now they won't be in June either. Some areas like Hawaii have already made the transition with no problem and apparently Redding up north of me has too. And if there would have been a problem the rednecks in the Redding area would have raised hell. Here's a funny video on the transition: http://www.broadcastingcable.com/video/DTV_VIDEOS/1000-Spike_Feresten_Takes_On_the_DTV_Delay.php I've always loved the timing of this: it's just after the new administration goes in, right after the Super Bowl and just before the Oscars!
Re: [FairfieldLife] Prosperity and spirituality
I am the eternal wrote: OK, I got it. Maharishi told us that the eight limbs of Yoga are really the legs of a table. Pull one, you pull the whole table and the other limbs go with the table. But what about prosperity? I remember the wry jokes about an initiator having a $100 suit and a $100 car. OK, cool. It was all happening so very fast. It was something you could overlook, despite it seeming a little strange that 200% of life didn't include the ability to purchase dinner when the gang went out or gasoline to drive home afterwards. What /does/ one say about a seeker who can't stay in business but is very excited about their spiritual seeking and are even happy to share it with you? If the person comes up with a story that sounds like the world of commerce is stacked against them, which is why they need to start a new business every month, are we to overlook that and just pay attention to their newest spiritual find? Myself, I've seen prosperity as part and parcel of my spiritual seeking. More prosperity, more wealth, more integration with pure consciousness. Though I scoff at the campaign of IA to get people to come, if even for the week end, so they can prosper when they return home, I can definitely say that it works for me. But maybe I'm looking where I shouldn't. Potential inconsistencies should only be observed in me and not in others. Prosperity came when I walked away from TM and started doing mantras with OM.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prosperity and spirituality
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, I am the eternal l.shad...@... wrote: An entire Humboldt residence course tape (which later became a MERU tape with Pacabel and the duck floating by) was devoted to this. Unlike many of the tapes, I don't recall this tape starting off with a question to Maharishi. Maharishi said that there had been a misinterpretation of Patanjali. No need to learn each of the 8 limbs of yoga. Master one. And since you're already on the easiest limb... Yes, I remember him saying that, but, that's a little different than the way you originally posted it, it reminds me of his saying about the 4 legged chair where you grab one leg and the other 3 come along. Did you know MMY also said in his Bhagavad Gita appendix on Yoga that with the continuous practice of all these limbs, or means, simultaneously the state of Yoga grows simultaneously in all the eight spheres of life, MMY Gita HB page 363. The most interesting part is he used the term *means*, each step being a technique in and of itself recommended by Maharishi Patanjali, apparently. Personally I think one must practice all 8 as MMY suggested here. Go figure.. But I ask the question again. Even Jesus told his disciples to consider the lilies in the field, to not complain that someone had stolen your cloak, that all will be provided. So the question remains. If someone's business fails every month and they have an excuse and eventual another new business for a month, should we get excited about the spiritual path they're excited about?
[FairfieldLife] Depression: call a Lifeline
Subject: Depression I was depressed last night so I called Lifeline...Got a freakin' call center in Pakistan . I told them I was suicidal. They got allexcited and asked if I could drive a truck. http://www.freedomofspeech.netfirms.com/
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Name Game (was: new books on Maharishi ???)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, geezerfreak geezerfreak@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, enlightened_dawn11 no_reply@ wrote: i am as sure as -anyone else- about what i say. as for the name game thing you refer to, i don't have a clue why that happens. i've been aware of it for decades, in others. i think it is another way for the soul to test its integration, that's all. If so, Barry's soul has been doing a lot of testing over the years. Ask him how many names *he's* used. I can think of five offhand, but those are only the ones I know about. Another week, another post and another example of Judy's obsession with Barry. Barry has temporarily switched his obsession from me to ED, so I figure the least I can do is help her out when he attacks her. But you don't mean to tell me, do you, that you missed my post yesterday pointing out that almost everything Barry said in his post about the pope regarding the pope and gay priests was false? I was sure that would provoke a scream of anguish from you, but there wasn't a peep. What a disappointment! I have a life Judy. I don't hang around here every day until I post out. So no, I didn't see the post you refer to.
[FairfieldLife] Post Count
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[FairfieldLife] About Gandhi (Re: Light therapy with gems in Maharishi Ayurveda)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_re...@... wrote: Maharishi not only supported seing these healers, He named them Psychic Surgeons thus elevating them to the status they fully deserve. Too bad you and Maharishi never got the popular book among 10 year olds here in the US: Amazing Magic with a Thumb tip. This nonsense has already been exposed so many time you and Maharishi might as well be promoting snake handling. I have photographs of Mr. Orbito having his arm up to his elboe firmly placed into my belly. Let me guess...he pulled some chicken guts out of his thumb tip or from the rag he uses to wipe his hands between revealing the chicken guts and then Nabby felt much better! He had his hand in you up to his elbow alright Nabby but it didn't need a magical incision. Mr. Orbito told me that the greatest effect of this particular kind of healing was to strengthen the devotion to God. It is called faith healing. Very popular in countries with low literacy rates. Falling for this obvious scam is a new low in gullibility for both you and Maharishi. He is also attempting to justify his con with a spiritual dodge. It increases faith by using low level parlor magic. People who have never studied magic are amazed by the stupidest tricks. All it takes is for someone to have the low ethics to pretend their tricks are real. But for someone who has studied magic you can SEE them doing it! It is no surprise that you are also bamboozled by Sai Baba Nabby, it is the exact same technique used to produce his magical powder which he gets from the cloth that he uses to wipe his hands between producing more. At least some of the surgeons use a thumb tip with makes it a better trick although, still transparently obvious to anyone who isn't trying hard to believe that they are seeing REAL magic! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, boo_lives boo_lives@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung no_reply@ wrote: Thanks for the full story Duv. I didn't know the guy with gems was pushing himself as an alternative guru. That explains better mmy telling initiators to go to hell, which at the time shocked me too. Also, you mention briefly seeing a philippino psychic surgeon. I wonder what you thought about it and was in the philippines? It was curious to me that MMY okayed MD and purusha going to see them. Maharishi not only supported seing these healers, He named them Psychic Surgeons thus elevating them to the status they fully deserve. I have photographs of Mr. Orbito having his arm up to his elboe firmly placed into my belly. Are they more effective than certain other traditions of healing ? Probably not. Mr. Orbito told me that the greatest effect of this particular kind of healing was to strengthen the devotion to God.
[FairfieldLife] Fantastic DNA animation
Wonderful animation, really advanced my understanding of what DNA is and how it works. 7 minutes long. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PKjF7OumYo
[FairfieldLife] About Gandhi (Re: Light therapy with gems in Maharishi Ayurveda)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, boo_lives boo_li...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung no_reply@ wrote: Thanks for the full story Duv. I didn't know the guy with gems was pushing himself as an alternative guru. That explains better mmy telling initiators to go to hell, which at the time shocked me too. Also, you mention briefly seeing a philippino psychic surgeon. I wonder what you thought about it and was in the philippines? It was curious to me that MMY okayed MD and purusha going to see them. Maharishi not only supported seing these healers, He named them Psychic Surgeons thus elevating them to the status they fully deserve. I have photographs of Mr. Orbito having his arm up to his elboe firmly placed into my belly. Are they more effective than certain other traditions of healing ? Probably not. Mr. Orbito told me that the greatest effect of this particular kind of healing was to strengthen the devotion to God.
[FairfieldLife] love poems from Rumi, for this Valentine
To all of you that feel the call to explore the endless potential of love, journey now with love's greatest student and master the 13th century mystic poet of Persia : Jelaluddin Rumi. Rumi's incredible, profound verses invite us to experience a love beyond our senses, beyond time, beyond language: a love that removes all boundaries and answers all desire. Sina Yasavolian recites selections of Nader Khalili's translations in a graceful, lyrical dance to an original musical score by Hamoon Tehrani . His music awakens our hearts as Sina's soothing voice and Rumi's sensitive words transport our spirits to a place of union with the infinite divine presence. In her readings, Sina exhibits a deep respect and understanding of Rumi's writing, which she generously shares with us. Do more than listen to this poetry and music; let it color your soul. You can buy and download these music, directly from this site. hope you enjoy it. you can visite these web site for the CD. http://trueloverumi.com/shop.html http://cdbaby.com/cd/sina2 http://www.amazon.com/Rumis-Love-Sina/dp/B0012DKIBU/ref=sr_1_35?ie=UTF8s=musicqid=1233635484sr=8-35 love and light Sina
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Prosperity and spirituality
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 4:38 PM, BillyG. wg...@yahoo.com wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, I am the eternal l.shad...@... wrote: OK, I got it. Maharishi told us that the eight limbs of Yoga are really the legs of a table. Pull one, you pull the whole table and the other limbs go with the table. I don't remember that, you mean all you have to do is practice *any ONE* of the limbs and you get the benefit of the other 7? Also I don't remember him saying that, (not that he didn't). But what about prosperity? I remember the wry jokes about an initiator having a $100 suit and a $100 car. OK, cool. It was all happening so very fast. It was something you could overlook, despite it seeming a little strange that 200% of life didn't include the ability to purchase dinner when the gang went out or gasoline to drive home afterwards. What /does/ one say about a seeker who can't stay in business but is very excited about their spiritual seeking and are even happy to share it with you? If the person comes up with a story that sounds like the world of commerce is stacked against them, which is why they need to start a new business every month, are we to overlook that and just pay attention to their newest spiritual find? Myself, I've seen prosperity as part and parcel of my spiritual seeking. More prosperity, more wealth, more integration with pure consciousness. Though I scoff at the campaign of IA to get people to come, if even for the week end, so they can prosper when they return home, I can definitely say that it works for me. But maybe I'm looking where I shouldn't. Potential inconsistencies should only be observed in me and not in others. An entire Humboldt residence course tape (which later became a MERU tape with Pacabel and the duck floating by) was devoted to this. Unlike many of the tapes, I don't recall this tape starting off with a question to Maharishi. Maharishi said that there had been a misinterpretation of Patanjali. No need to learn each of the 8 limbs of yoga. Master one. And since you're already on the easiest limb... But I ask the question again. Even Jesus told his disciples to consider the lilies in the field, to not complain that someone had stolen your cloak, that all will be provided. So the question remains. If someone's business fails every month and they have an excuse and eventual another new business for a month, should we get excited about the spiritual path they're excited about?
[FairfieldLife] Folk theory of Guru-based Spirituality
I disagree that some of these are folk theories. In any event, I found the list at guruphiliac: Folk Theory of Guru-Based Spirituality Enlightenment can be transmitted supernaturally Enlightenment is the culmination of something Enlightenment entails knowing everything Enlightenment causes all thought to cease Enlightenment is love Only a guru can bestow enlightenment The guru is within yourself Being God means having some or all of God's powers Because you are God, you can affect things by thought alone Because you are connected to everything, you can affect things by thought alone Everything is connected You are guided by a higher self You create your own reality Everything in the world is an illusion Divinity can be subverted by the flesh Good and evil are forces locked in an eternal struggle Good always prevails Things will be better in the future Things were better in the past People and things can be holy Ancient wisdom is better A just, omnipotent God exists Everything happens according to a Plan You'll get back every good and bad thing you do Sex is a loss to the spirit Sex is a boon to the spirit Technology is harmful Only the heart knows what is true The mind is an enemy of the spirit The spirit is an energy Personality survives death
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Name Game (was: new books on Maharishi ???)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: And, just to end on a light note, may I express my appreciation for one of our new members' ID and screen name -- ysoy10li. Yes. But very soon you will suspect he is Jim.
[FairfieldLife] Re: California is Broke!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung no_re...@... wrote: Hey, idea here: Since CA has successfully -- for the most part -- spit in the face of the Feds about the marijuana laws for years, how's 'bout CA passing legalization finally to get the state's cash crop producing tax revenues? They could charge the same street price and pocket most of the profits instead of, you know, 10 Mexican-mafiosos and one white guy getting all the middleman profits. An excellent idea, Edg. May I submit in support of it the statistics from the Netherlands, last time I was there. (Some years ago now.) At the time, the govern- ment had been asked to justify its tolerance of marijuana by the French, who were trying to portray Holland as a drug culture to distract attention from the fact that much of the world's heroin still comes through Marseilles. The Dutch, staid as ever, pointed out that the revenues that they receive from taxing and regulating the tolerance of marijuana pay for almost all of the Netherlands' well-rated health care program for its citizens. And y'know...if having all that dope around had ruined the vibe of the place all that much, do you think that famous spiritual teachers would be based there?
[FairfieldLife] Prosperity and spirituality
OK, I got it. Maharishi told us that the eight limbs of Yoga are really the legs of a table. Pull one, you pull the whole table and the other limbs go with the table. But what about prosperity? I remember the wry jokes about an initiator having a $100 suit and a $100 car. OK, cool. It was all happening so very fast. It was something you could overlook, despite it seeming a little strange that 200% of life didn't include the ability to purchase dinner when the gang went out or gasoline to drive home afterwards. What /does/ one say about a seeker who can't stay in business but is very excited about their spiritual seeking and are even happy to share it with you? If the person comes up with a story that sounds like the world of commerce is stacked against them, which is why they need to start a new business every month, are we to overlook that and just pay attention to their newest spiritual find? Myself, I've seen prosperity as part and parcel of my spiritual seeking. More prosperity, more wealth, more integration with pure consciousness. Though I scoff at the campaign of IA to get people to come, if even for the week end, so they can prosper when they return home, I can definitely say that it works for me. But maybe I'm looking where I shouldn't. Potential inconsistencies should only be observed in me and not in others.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prosperity and spirituality
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, I am the eternal l.shad...@... wrote: But I ask the question again. Even Jesus told his disciples to consider the lilies in the field, to not complain that someone had stolen your cloak, that all will be provided. So the question remains. If someone's business fails every month and they have an excuse and eventual another new business for a month, should we get excited about the spiritual path they're excited about? Capture the forth and all the territories that belongs to it will be yours. Business may be, for several reasons, excluded.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Two Weeks from Today
film_man_pdx wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote: Analog television becomes a thing of the past. Though the Senate has voted to delay it Congress didn't agree. Personally we should just get on with the DTV transition. If people aren't ready now they won't be in June either. Some areas like Hawaii have already made the transition with no problem and apparently Redding up north of me has too. And if there would have been a problem the rednecks in the Redding area would have raised hell. Here's a funny video on the transition: http://www.broadcastingcable.com/video/DTV_VIDEOS/1000-Spike_Feresten_Takes_On_the_DTV_Delay.php I've always loved the timing of this: it's just after the new administration goes in, right after the Super Bowl and just before the Oscars! Except that the date has moved several times. It was supposed to have happened two years ago.
[FairfieldLife] About Gandhi (Re: Light therapy with gems in Maharishi Ayurveda)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltabl...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: I have photographs of Mr. Orbito having his arm up to his elboe firmly placed into my belly. Let me guess...he pulled some chicken guts out of his thumb tip or from the rag he uses to wipe his hands between revealing the chicken guts and then Nabby felt much better! He had his hand in you up to his elbow alright Nabby but it didn't need a magical incision. Not only that Curtis, but Mr. Orbito had his hands up to his elbows in a completely different orifice of Nabbys. A loose fit no doubt.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Advaitic Sleep Yoga
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: On Feb 2, 2009, at 12:26 PM, sparaig wrote: For me the TM explanation and the TM research seems far more consonant with my own experiences over the years than yours. And you know my experience how? Reading error. MY experience is consonant with the TM theory. Your theory isn't consonant with my experience. What theory are you referring to? The one I mentioned before... L
[FairfieldLife] Re: Judy, MMY was a Potentate! (new books on Maharishi ???)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, BillyG. wgm4u@ wrote: perhaps after all MMY was just human, true it would have been nice had he said so!! He did. MMY: I'm just a normal human being Bevan: Well today we certainly got a new definition of a normal human being - Vlodrop, 1999 MMY's normal was someone in CC L.
[FairfieldLife] Re: new books on Maharishi ???
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ruthsimplicity no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: On Feb 2, 2009, at 2:13 AM, sparaig wrote: Median income for physics PHD with 20+ years of experience: $125,000 ANd Hagelin isn't any old median physicist, despite what people here like to pretend. He's been out of the field for how long? And with a tarnished reputation for peddling pseudoscience? I'd be amazed if he could get an entry level job. I doubt any non-TMO university would hire him at this point. RIght... And how many world famous theories is your name associated with Lawson
[FairfieldLife] Nina Simone - I Feel Good
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[FairfieldLife] Re: Nina Simone - I Feel Good
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis reavisma...@... wrote: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6xtaa_feeling-good-nina-simone_music or http://tinyurl.com/68ze63 Worthwhile. Yes - Thankyou ;) JohnY
