[FairfieldLife] Re: Another take on Avatar
I've seen a picture of him. He looks quite caucasian to me. Of course the pic could be a fake.don't forget Off has a sense of humor and likes to mess with the heads of peoplefor all we know he could really be an eskimo raised in Australia who now lives in Scandivia and plans to retire in Cambodia. seekliberation --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_re...@... wrote: Okay, I don't hold it against you, OffWorld, if you only date within your race. But let's remember that you did indeed tell everyone on this forum that you are African-American. He did? He has always made it clear that he's Scottish. He must be a Black Scotsman then. Ask him. He'll tell you that he said it on this forum. I'm afraid, only a Scotsman would write 'snikker' instead of 'snicker'. Or could the geminate-k by chance be a feature of Ebony? Hmm (Snakker du norsk, Off?)
Re: [FairfieldLife] Meaning of caaNDaali (chaandaali)?
On Jan 11, 2010, at 1:54 AM, cardemaister wrote: According to Wiki, the Sanskrit word corresponding to Tibetan 'tummo' is 'caaNDaali'. Anyone know what the literal meaning of it is? CDSL gives only this: cANDAli m. pl. N. of a family Pravar. vi , 1. It's a code word for both kundalini and a low caste woman. It's actually spelling should be kANDAli, and it conceals the words for consonant and vowel in the letters Ka and A. For the yogin or yogini the idea is to unify these pranas and head back to the source of everything through absorption (Skt.: samadhi). In tantric terminology one can find words like sama-dhi joined together in one word to symbolize this state of union, this state of silence (sama = silent dhi = mind). Often these are hidden in word games that only initiates will recognize. One such word is Candali (Kandali). It conceals the two letters Ka and A and the words for 'consonant' and 'vowel' (kali and ali). Candali literally means a women of low caste. But in this case it refers to an actual practice of generating bliss by merging the solar and lunar channels to cause a flame to ignite in the gut, causing the amrita of the lunar centers in the brain to melt and flow down over the chakras, generating intense bliss and sensation. Staring directly into this sensation of bliss riding on top of emptiness, one can jump into the Void.
[FairfieldLife] Israel is the only apartheid regime in the Western world
Imposing Middle East Peace Henry Siegman http://www.thenation.com/directory/bios/henry_siegman , former Executive Director of the American Jewish Congress and of the Synagogue Council of America - - - January 7, 2010 - The Nation [ PETER O. ZIERLEIN ] PETER O. ZIERLEIN Israel's relentless drive to establish facts on the ground in the occupied West Bank, a drive that continues in violation of even the limited settlement freeze to which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu committed himself, seems finally to have succeeded in locking in the irreversibility of its colonial project. As a result of that achievement, one that successive Israeli governments have long sought in order to preclude the possibility of a two-state solution, Israel has crossed the threshold from the only democracy in the Middle East to the only apartheid regime in the Western world. The inevitability of such a transformation has been held out not by Israel bashers but by the country's own leaders. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon referred to that danger, as did Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who warned that Israel could not escape turning into an apartheid state if it did not relinquish almost all the territories, if not all, including the Arab parts of East Jerusalem. Olmert ridiculed Israeli defense strategists who, he said, had learned nothing from past experiences and were stuck in the mindset of the 1948 war of independence. With them, it is all about tanks and land and controlling territories and controlled territories and this hilltop and that hilltop, he said. All these things are worthless. Who thinks seriously that if we sit on another hilltop, on another hundred meters, that this is what will make the difference for the State of Israel's basic security? It is now widely recognized in most Israeli circles--although denied by Israel's government--that the settlements have become so widespread and so deeply implanted in the West Bank as to rule out the possibility of their removal (except for a few isolated and sparsely populated ones) by this or any future Israeli government unless compelled to do so by international intervention, an eventuality until now considered entirely unlikely. It is not only the settlements' proliferation and size that have made their dismantlement impossible. Equally decisive have been the influence of Israel's settler-security-industrial complex, which conceived and implemented this policy; the recent disappearance of a viable pro-peace political party in Israel; and the infiltration by settlers and their supporters in the religious-national camp into key leadership positions in Israel's security and military establishments. Olmert was mistaken in one respect, for he said Israel would turn into an apartheid state when the Arab population in Greater Israel outnumbers the Jewish population. But the relative size of the populations is not the decisive factor in such a transition. Rather, the turning point comes when a state denies national self-determination to a part of its population--even one that is in the minority--to which it has also denied the rights of citizenship. When a state's denial of the individual and national rights of a large part of its population becomes permanent, it ceases to be a democracy. When the reason for that double disenfranchisement is that population's ethnic and religious identity, the state is practicing a form of apartheid, or racism, not much different from the one that characterized South Africa from 1948 to 1994. The democratic dispensation that Israel provides for its mostly Jewish citizens cannot hide its changed character. By definition, democracy reserved for privileged citizens--while all others are kept behind checkpoints, barbed-wire fences and separation walls commanded by the Israeli army--is not democracy but its opposite. The Jewish settlements and their supporting infrastructure, which span the West Bank from east to west and north to south, are not a wild growth, like weeds in a garden. They have been carefully planned, financed and protected by successive Israeli governments and Israel's military. Their purpose has been to deny the Palestinian people independence and statehood--or to put it more precisely, to retain Israeli control of Palestine from the river to the sea, an objective that precludes the existence of a viable and sovereign Palestinian state east of Israel's pre-1967 border. A vivid recollection from the time I headed the American Jewish Congress is a helicopter trip over the West Bank on which I was taken by Ariel Sharon. With large, worn maps in hand, he pointed out to me strategic locations of present and future settlements on east-west and north-south axes that, Sharon assured me, would rule out a future Palestinian state. Just one year after the 1967 war, Moshe Dayan, then defense minister, described Israel's plan for the future of the territories as the current reality. The plan is being
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: US special envoy threatens to freeze aid to Israel
Wasn't SKM captured in Pakistan? From: authfriend jst...@panix.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sun, January 10, 2010 8:47:12 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: US special envoy threatens to freeze aid to Israel --- In FairfieldLife@ yahoogroups. com, Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@ ... wrote: Isn't that interesting, Obama wants to give foreign terrorists full American constitutional rights When they're captured on American soil.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Avatar Inspires 3D Porn
Cool. The next step will be when they use 3D for spiritual teaching. You'll be able to sit in the comfort of your own living room and see a 3D representation of some wannabee guru talking about enlightenment. It'll be SO much better than just reading books. You won't be any closer to enlightenment than you are by reading books about enlightenment, but it'll *feel* better because it'll be all 3D and all. :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, It's just a ride bill.hicks.all.a.r...@... wrote: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100110/lf_afp/usitinternetvideogamesfilmtelecomsex_20100110231932 http://tinyurl.com/y94sx8k LAS VEGAS, Nevada (AFP) A 3-D mania stoked by stunning new television sets and the blockbuster film Avatar is being embraced by a porn industry notorious for helping new technologies access homes. Bad Girls In 3D used an AVN Adult Entertainment Expo that ended Sunday in Las Vegas to unveil an unprecedented online library exclusively in the format and a first-of-a-kind turnkey digital 3-D viewing system. For several decades, the adult entertainment industry has driven adoption of every significant new entertainment delivery system - the VHS home-video craze in the 1980s, the satellite television mania in the 1990s and the present day Internet, said Bad Girls producer Lance Johnson. 2010 and beyond will be all about 3-D. Adult expo attendees wearing active shutter glasses grinned as they immersed themselves in a Bad Girls video displayed in 3-D on a giant high-definition television. The firm's package consists of a 60-inch (152-centimeter) 3-D television; a compact computer server, and shutter glasses that synch with the screen to trick eyes into viewing in 3-D. The Bad Girls system is priced at 4,000 dollars, and a subscription to the online video library costs 20 dollars a month, according to a woman at the booth that gave only her first name, Samantha. The potential of 3-D in adult entertainment was proven decades ago by a soft-core 3-D film The Stewardess, which raked in 27 million dollars in theaters during the two years after its release in 1969, according to Johnson. Internet technologies were woven throughout an expo rife with with studios promoting products; barely-clad talent signing autographs and posing for pictures, and even a mechanical bull made into a giant phallus. A True Companion sex robot named Roxxxy priced in the thousands of dollars debuted at the show and Bone Town was shown off as the world's first action-adventure videogame. There are some virtual sex games out there, but none that actually have adventure and a storyline to them, said Maximus Baptist VIII of bonetown.com. A corporation called The Man Inc. is trying to shut down all the sex and drugs so you have to help the people of Bone Town get rid of The Man. The videogame can't be played on consoles because the companies making them target a PG audience, according to Baptist. Elsewhere on the show floor, the HotTrix company behind iBeer, iMunchies, and iBug applications for iPhones touted an App Sex Shop devoted to lascivious software for Apple's globally popular smartphones. We have a way to bring adult content to the iPhone without jail-breaking, hacking or altering your iPhone in any way, said HotTrix co-owner Steve August. Apple would not allow us to use its App Store, so we came up with our own. More than two million applications, most of them for adult videos or pictures, have been downloaded from the HotTrix shop, according to August. For the second year in a row, adult entertainment powerhouse Pink Visual saw visits to its mobile video service soar after Christmas as people turned on new iPhones and tapped into porn. Mobile has saved our (tail) this year, said Pink distribution operations manager Kim Kysar, noting that the porn industry was not spared during the economic turmoil. We took a hit when everyone else took a hit and mobile is making up the difference for us. Social networking trends are also being reflected, with an online community launched about a year ago for adult entertainers and their fans. -- Life isn't like a bowl of cherries or peaches.. it's more like a jar of jalapenos. What you do today, might burn your ass tomorrow.
RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Another take on Avatar
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of ShempMcGurk Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2010 9:59 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Another take on Avatar He must be a Black Scotsman then. Ask him. He'll tell you that he said it on this forum. I don't know what he said, but I know OffWorld (Thomas Barlow). He used to live in Fairfield. We were on campus together. He fixed our door one time. He's as white as I am. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
[FairfieldLife] From Dr. Mercola
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/01/09/Try-Meditatio n-to-Lower-Your-Blood-Pressure-and-Protect-Your-Heart.aspx http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/01/09/Try-Meditation -to-Lower-Your-Blood-Pressure-and-Protect-Your-Heart.aspx Common Relaxation Technique Can Help Lower Your Blood Pressure and Protect Your Heart Posted by: Dr. Mercola January 09 2010 | 4,653 views A just-published study suggests the practice of meditation may bring cardiovascular and mental-health benefits. The research, followed close to 300 students, half of whom practiced transcendental meditation for 20 minutes once or twice daily over three months. A subgroup of subjects in the meditation group who were at increased risk for hypertension significantly lowered their blood pressure and psychological distress, and also bolstered their coping ability. The average reduction in blood pressure in this group -- a 6.3-mm Hg decrease in the top (systolic) number of a blood pressure reading and a 4-mm Hg decrease in the lower (diastolic) number -- was associated with a 52 percent reduction in the risk of developing hypertension in the future. Meditators who were not at increased risk for hypertension saw a reduction in psychological distress, depression, and anxiety as well as increased coping ability. Sources: U.S. News World Report http://www.usnews.com/health/family-health/articles/2009/11/18/try-meditatio n-to-lower-your-blood-pressure-and-protect-your-heart.html?s_cid=rss:try-med itation-to-lower-your-blood-pressure-and-protect-your-heart American Journal of Hypertension, December 2009 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19798037?itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubm ed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed+RVDocSum http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19798037?itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pub med.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed+RVDocSumordinalpos=1 ordinalpos=1 Dr. Mercola's Comments: A just-published study suggests the practice of meditation may bring cardiovascular and mental-health benefits. The research, followed close to 300 students, half of whom practiced transcendental meditation for 20 minutes once or twice daily over three months. A subgroup of subjects in the meditation group who were at increased risk for hypertension significantly lowered their blood pressure and psychological distress, and also bolstered their coping ability. The average reduction in blood pressure in this group -- a 6.3-mm Hg decrease in the top (systolic) number of a blood pressure reading and a 4-mm Hg decrease in the lower (diastolic) number -- was associated with a 52 percent reduction in the risk of developing hypertension in the future. Meditators who were not at increased risk for hypertension saw a reduction in psychological distress, depression, and anxiety as well as increased coping ability. As the new year begins and you resolve to make healthier lifestyle choices, I strongly encourage you to add a few minutes of meditation to your daily routine. Just 20 minutes a day can begin to make a big difference in how you feel mentally, physically and emotionally. When your mind is calm and your emotions are within your control, you're in a much better position to tackle all your normal responsibilities plus the goals you've set for yourself. Feelings of stress and overwhelm that keep you stuck in unhealthy behaviors can be greatly relieved by a regular practice of meditation. As the clouds in your head clear and your anxiety is minimized, you'll be amazed at how energized and capable you feel. ... Blaine Watson's Comments (#10) Posted On Jan 09, 2010 With reference to citing TM studies and comparing them to other forms of meditation, there have been several published meta-analyses comparing the Transcendental Meditation technique to many other relaxation and meditation methods. It was statistically found that the effect size on certain variables like anxiety, and other risk factors, was twice as large with TM than with the other practices, which were no more effective than placebo. A paper, including a visual summary of the meta-analyses, Five Meta-Analyses Comparing the Transcendental Meditation Program with Other Meditation and Relaxation Techniques, can be found at TruthAboutTM.org http://TruthAboutTM.org/ . http://bit.ly/4TWDIA Neural imaging and EEG studies indicate that TM practice creates a unique brain pattern: it is the only meditation technique known to create widespread brainwave coherence. The TM technique also produces deeper rest than other practices, and studies show the technique to be more effective at reducing anxiety and depression and increasing self-actualization. A website, Ask The Doctors, discusses results from other forms of meditation and TM at http://bit.ly/5z087e. Also, take a look at some of the peer-reviewed published studies on the Transcendental Meditation technique at this site: http://bit.ly/RHgA5 Over 40 years, and 700 scientific research studies later, the TM technique continues to
[FairfieldLife] From Michael Blitz in FF
Over the holidays, my daughter Sophia's class at MSAE (Maharishi School of the Age of Enlightenment) had a basketball tournament to raise money for the senior class trip. Companies paid to sponsor teams. Referees' calls could be reversed for $25 and someone from the stands could pay $10 to shoot a foul shot instead of the person fouled. About 250 people paid $5 to watch. (Basketball is good entertainment here.) At half-time I said that if anyone would bet 10-1 odds on it, I would shoot from half court, backwards, and put up $10/shot. In other words, I shoot from half court, if I miss I pay $10, if I make it, those who take the bet each pay $100 for each one I make. Four people took up the bet. I took 10 shots. I used to be able to do this with some regularity. It had been over 5 years since I was on the court. The video, taken by the father of one of the teams' players, is of the 7th shot. It was quite a rush. Thought I would share it. Happy New Year. mdb http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9bIXlFVZ7Y
[FairfieldLife] Just in case you want to help a little to keep Native Americans from freezing this winter.
From a FF resident who spends a lot of time out in S. Dakota helping the Native Americans Subject: Just in case you want to help a little to keep Native Americans from freezing this winter. Just in case you want to donate a little via phone/credit card, the office is open now Monday to Friday. I called Saturday from NJ and connection( to leave message ) was not good; today Monday connection was very good. If you wish to donate for Propane Gas to keep Native Americans from freezing this winter, call 605-867-5199, http://us2.ixquick.com/do/metasearch.pl?cat=websc=nolanguage=englishquery=%2BLakota+%2BPlains+%2BPropane+1987+Po+Box%2C+Whiteclay+Pine+Ridge+69365+57770 Lakota Plains Propane, 1987 Po Box, Whiteclay, Pine Ridge, 69365, 57770US Tell them that this is for Martha American Horse family in Sharps Corner. The minimum amount of propane that can be delivered is $120. You can donate as little or as much as you want, but it will not be delivered until it reaches $120. Temba has been helping the Martha American Horse family for the last two winters. Please let Temba( tembaspir...@hotmail.com http://us.mc500.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=tembaspir...@hotmail.com ) know when you donate so he can keep track of things. You can see the pictures of the children @ http://www.naturescompassion.com/ that u are helping. Temba says, “this family was orphaned and we spent the entire summer with them 2009.” Temba has been helping one family at a time. More families can be helped depending on response. Please contact Temba Spirits @ tembaspir...@hotmail.com http://us.mc500.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=tembaspir...@hotmail.com
[FairfieldLife] The Alameda (California) Weehawken (New Jersey) Burrito Tunnel
http://www.idlewords.com/2007/04/the_alameda-weehawken_burrito_tunnel.htm Who can imagine New York City without the Mission burrito? Like the Yankees, the Brooklyn Bridge or the bagel, the oversize burritos have become a New York institution. And yet it wasn’t long ago that it was impossible to find a good burrito of any kind in the city. As the 30th anniversary of the Alameda-Weehawken burrito tunnel approaches, it’s worth taking a look at the remarkable sequence of events that takes place between the time we click “deliver” on the burrito.nyc.us.gov website and the moment that our hot El Farolito burrito arrives in the lunchroom with its satisfying pneumatic hiss. The story begins in any of the three dozen taquerias supplying the Bay Area Feeder Network, an expansive spiderweb of tubes running through San Francisco’s Mission district as far south as the “Burrito Bordeaux” region of Palo Alto and Mountain View. Electronic displays in each taqueria light up in real time with orders placed on the East Coast, and within minutes a fresh burrito has been assembled, rolled in foil, marked and dropped down one of the small vertical tubes that rise like organ pipes in restaurant kitchens throughout the city. Once in the tubes, it’s a quick dash for the burritos across San Francisco Bay. Propelled by powerful bursts of compressed air, the burritos speed along the same tunnel as the BART commuter train, whose passengers remain oblivious to the hundreds of delicious cylinders whizzing along overhead. Within twelve minutes, even the remotest burrito has arrived at its final destination, the Alameda Transfer Station, where it will be prepared for its transcontinental journey. Ever since Isaac Newton first described the laws of gravity in 1687, scientists have known that the quickest route between two points is along a straight line through the Earth’s interior. Through the magic of gravity, any object dropped into such a “chord tunnel” at one end will emerge exactly 42 minutes later at the other end, no matter the distance. But for hundreds of years, the technical challenges of building such a tunnel were so daunting that it remained a theoretical curiosity. Only at the start of the 20th century did the idea become technically feasible, and to this day the tunnel linking the East Bay with New Jersey remains the only structure of its kind in the world. From the outside, the Alameda facility looks like any other industrial building. Behind a chain link razor wire fence sits a windowless white hangar some three stories tall, surrounded by a strip of green lawn. If you could see underground, however, you’d see that the building sits at the center of a converging nexus of burrito pipes. High pressure pneumatic tubes from all over the Bay Area emerge in the center of the facility, spilling silvery burritos onto a high-speed sorting line. The metal-jacketed burritos look like oversize bullets, and the conveyor belts that move them through the facility resemble giant belts of delicious ammunition. Within a few seconds of arrival the burritos have been bar coded, checked for balance and round on a precision lathe, and then flash-frozen with liquid nitrogen. The mouth of the tunnel is a small concrete arch in the side of a nearby hill, about as glamorous as an abandoned railway tunnel. Yet if you could open the airlocks and stare down its length with a telescope, you would see airplanes on final approach to Newark Airport, three thousand miles away! To reduce drag on the burritos to a minimum, the tunnel must be kept in near-vacuum with powerful pumps. At the tunnel’s deepest point the burritos will be traveling nearly two kilometers a second - even the faintest whiff of air would quickly drag them to a stop. The launch tube for the burritos lies just under the tunnel mouth and looks like what it is: an enormous gun. Every four seconds a ‘slug’ of ten burritos, white with frost, ratchets into the breech. A moment later it flies into the tunnel with a loud hiss of compressed gas, and the lights dim briefly as banks of powerful electromagnets accelerate the burritos to over two hundred miles an hour. By the time they pass Stockton three minutes later the burritos will be traveling faster than the Concorde, floating on an invisible magnetic cushion as they plunge into the lithosphere. No one who built the Alameda-Weehawken tunnel had quite this future in mind for it. The tunnel had its origins in the early 1900’s as an ambitious project for speeding mail delivery between New York City and the booming Pacific port of San Francisco. The telegraph and railroad had linked the city to the East Coast, but transferring documents, currency, securities and diplomatic correspondence across the country was still a slow affair fraught with danger. In 1911, the celebrated British civil engineer Basil Mott approached the plutocrat Andrew W. Mellon with an audacious plan to build a straight-line tunnel 2500 miles long connecting New York
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[FairfieldLife] Re: 1957
1976 (continued) Maharishi inaugurates the World Government Of the Age of Enlightenment, a non-political, Non-religious global organization, with sovereignty In the domain of consciousness, authority in the invincible power Of Natural Law, and activity in purifying world Consciousness with the participation of the people of over 120 countries and with 1,200 Maharishi Capitals of the Age of Enlightenment around the world. 1976 Maharishi's Year of Government Maharishi introduced the TM-Sidhi program and starts to train Governors of the Age of Enlightenment to function from the Unified Field of all the Laws of Nature to purify world consciousness. 1975 Maharishi's Year of the Dawn of the Age of Enlightenment With the discovery of the Maharishi Effect the profound nature of Maharishi's Creative Intelligence is further validated. The Maharishi Effect demonstrates that the collective life of a society or nation can be fully developed and enriched through a small proportion of the population practicing Maharishi's Transcendental Meditation. 1975 (continued) The 'Maharishi Effect' establishes a new formula for the creation of an ideal society, free from crime and problems. With this, Maharishi envisions the dawn of a new age for humankind- the Age of Enlightenment. On January 12, Maharishi inaugurates the Dawn of the Age of Enlightenment for the whole world in Switzerland, and travels to all six continents inaugurating the Dawn of the Age of Enlightenment for each continent. The Dawn of the Age of Enlightenment brings the first wave of fulfillment of Maharishi's World Plan. Maharishi establishes Maharishi European Research University to monitor the rise of the Age of Enlightenment in all parts of the world, and to investigate the full range of possibilities inherent in human consciousness. 1974 Maharishi's Year of Achievement of the World Plan The Discovery of the Maharishi Effect: one percent of the population practicing the Transcendental Meditation program in any city reduces negative tendencies, such as crime, accident, and sickness rates, and increases positive tendencies throughout society. 1973 Maharishi's Year of Action for the World Plan More than 2,000 World Plan Centers are established in all parts of the world, offering courses in the Science of Creative Intelligence. 1972 Maharishi's Year of the World Plan. Maharishi inaugurates the World Plan to solve the age-old problems of mankind in this generation, with 2,000 newly trained teachers of the Science of Creative Intelligence. 1971 Maharishi's Year of Science of Creative Intelligence Maharishi formulates the Science of Creative Intelligence as the scientific theory for the development of higher states of consciousness, which naturally develop through the practice of Transcendental Meditation. Maharishi establishes Maharishi Interantional University in the U.S.A. to serve as a model of ideal education in the world. 1970 Maharishi's Year of Scientific Research First scientific research on Transcendental Meditation, identifying the physiological correlates of higher states of consciousness. With this research Transcendental Meditation gains worldwide publicity and inspires scientists throughout the world to research into the wide range of benefits resulting from Transcendental Meditation. 1969 Maharishi's Year of Supreme Consciousness Maharishi comments extensively on the Brahma Sutras, the texbook of Vedant, the aspect of Vedic literature which provides complete knowledge of Unity Consciousness, the pinnacle of human evolution. 1968 Maharishi's Year of Students Students International Meditation Society is founded in many countries. 1967 Maharishi's Year of Unity Consciousness Maharishi explains experiences of Transcendental Meditation in terms of Unity Consciousness. Maharishi inaugurates the first European Meditation Academy in Bremen, Germany 1966 Maharishi's Year of Academy of Meditation In the year of the great Kumbha Mela in Allahabad, India, Maharishi inaugurates the first International Academy of Meditation, Shankaracharya Nagar, Rishikesh, India, with the second International Transcendental Meditation Teacher Training Course.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Just in case you want to help a little to keep Native Americans from freezing this winter.
Are these people meditators? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer r...@... wrote: From a FF resident who spends a lot of time out in S. Dakota helping the Native Americans Subject: Just in case you want to help a little to keep Native Americans from freezing this winter. Just in case you want to donate a little via phone/credit card, the office is open now Monday to Friday. I called Saturday from NJ and connection( to leave message ) was not good; today Monday connection was very good. If you wish to donate for Propane Gas to keep Native Americans from freezing this winter, call 605-867-5199, http://us2.ixquick.com/do/metasearch.pl?cat=websc=nolanguage=englishquery=%2BLakota+%2BPlains+%2BPropane+1987+Po+Box%2C+Whiteclay+Pine+Ridge+69365+57770 Lakota Plains Propane, 1987 Po Box, Whiteclay, Pine Ridge, 69365, 57770US Tell them that this is for Martha American Horse family in Sharps Corner. The minimum amount of propane that can be delivered is $120. You can donate as little or as much as you want, but it will not be delivered until it reaches $120. Temba has been helping the Martha American Horse family for the last two winters. Please let Temba( tembaspir...@... http://us.mc500.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=tembaspir...@... ) know when you donate so he can keep track of things. You can see the pictures of the children @ http://www.naturescompassion.com/ that u are helping. Temba says, âthis family was orphaned and we spent the entire summer with them 2009.â Temba has been helping one family at a time. More families can be helped depending on response. Please contact Temba Spirits @ tembaspir...@... http://us.mc500.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=tembaspir...@...
[FairfieldLife] Re: Just in case you want to help a little to keep Native Americans from freezing this winter.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 dhamiltony...@... wrote: Are these people meditators? More important, do they have tidy hair? You wouldn't want to inadvertently help to keep a slattern from freezing, would you? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@ wrote: From a FF resident who spends a lot of time out in S. Dakota helping the Native Americans Subject: Just in case you want to help a little to keep Native Americans from freezing this winter.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Just in case you want to help a little to keep Native Americans from freezing this winter.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: Are these people meditators? More important, do they have tidy hair? You wouldn't want to inadvertently help to keep a slattern from freezing, would you? Anybody want to take bets on how many more posts Barry will throw away on this before he can let go of his attachment to it? I'll bet at least three more. He's still good and stuck.
[FairfieldLife] The Beach Boy leave Big Love
Last night was the 4th season opener of Big Love on HBO. For those not familiar with the series it's about a polygamist Morman family in Salt Lake. It features a set of fine actors Bill Paxton as the husband and owner of a large hardware store, Jeanne Tripplehorn as wife #1, Chloe Sevigny as wife #2 and Ginnifer Goodwin as wife #3. A whole host of actors round things out including Harry Dean Stanton whose acting was a little stiff in the opening episode. Anyway for the first three season the Beach Boys God Only Knows played behind the opening credits. But season 4 has a new titles opening. You might think such a series to be boring but it isn't at all. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0421030/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Just in case you want to help a little to keep Native Americans from freezing this winter.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: Are these people meditators? More important, do they have tidy hair? You wouldn't want to inadvertently help to keep a slattern from freezing, would you? Anybody want to take bets on how many more posts Barry will throw away on this before he can let go of his attachment to it? I'll bet at least three more. More like three hundred. It's a magic word. Every time anyone on this forum hears it, they'll remember the time Judy was so out of control trying to support one of her insupportable theories that she called a woman a slut just because her hair was uncombed. Personally, I think that the more people laugh at her, the better it'll be for her. So she should look at the repetition of this magic word as a form of therapy. :-) :-) :-)
RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Just in case you want to help a little to keep Native Americans from freezin
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of dhamiltony2k5 Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 11:11 AM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Just in case you want to help a little to keep Native Americans from freezing this winter. Are these people meditators? Probably not. Temba is an ex-con Amma devotee who devotes all his time to helping the homeless, Native Americans, etc. He hasn't learned TM himself, so I doubt that he has arranged for them to do so. I guess they're all going to hell.
[FairfieldLife] Revelations from '08 Campaign - Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton
CBS 60 Minutes - Revelations from the 2008 Campaign Anderson Cooper Reports On A New Book -Game Change- by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann That Reveals New Details From The Obama And McCain Campaigns - Cooper also interviews McCain campaign manager Steve Schmidt From CBS: (According to the authors) (i)t turns out Hillary Clinton was so confident she would become president, that a full year before the election she had already started planning for her transition into the White House. That's in a new book by reporters Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, who have also brought details to light about the Republican campaign; some of them directly contradict what Sarah Palin wrote in her book. In public, Palin looked like the game changer McCain had wanted, but in private, the authors say she was struggling to learn too much too fast. Her foreign policy tutors are literally taking her through, 'This is World War I, this is World War II, this is the Korean War. This is the how the Cold War worked.' Steve Schmidt had gone to them and said, 'She knows nothing,' Heilemann told Cooper. A week later, after the convention was over, she still didn't really understand why there was a North Korea and a South Korea. She was still regularly saying that Saddam Hussein had been behind 9/11. And, literally, the next day her son was about to ship off to Iraq. And when they asked her who her son was going to fight, she couldn't explain that. [ . . . ] Asked how Palin responded after McCain asked her to be his vice president, Schmidt said, She was very calm. Nonplussed. I said, 'You don't seem nervous at all about this.' And she said, 'No, it's God's plan.' Watch the full interview [13 minutes runtime]: http://snipurl.com/u1pwq [www_cbs_com]
[FairfieldLife] LINK CORRECTION Revelations from '08 Campaign - Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton
You can find the video here: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/01/07/60minutes/main6067628.shtml --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rf...@... wrote: CBS 60 Minutes - Revelations from the 2008 Campaign Anderson Cooper Reports On A New Book -Game Change- by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann That Reveals New Details From The Obama And McCain Campaigns - Cooper also interviews McCain campaign manager Steve Schmidt From CBS: (According to the authors) (i)t turns out Hillary Clinton was so confident she would become president, that a full year before the election she had already started planning for her transition into the White House. That's in a new book by reporters Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, who have also brought details to light about the Republican campaign; some of them directly contradict what Sarah Palin wrote in her book. In public, Palin looked like the game changer McCain had wanted, but in private, the authors say she was struggling to learn too much too fast. Her foreign policy tutors are literally taking her through, 'This is World War I, this is World War II, this is the Korean War. This is the how the Cold War worked.' Steve Schmidt had gone to them and said, 'She knows nothing,' Heilemann told Cooper. A week later, after the convention was over, she still didn't really understand why there was a North Korea and a South Korea. She was still regularly saying that Saddam Hussein had been behind 9/11. And, literally, the next day her son was about to ship off to Iraq. And when they asked her who her son was going to fight, she couldn't explain that. [ . . . ] Asked how Palin responded after McCain asked her to be his vice president, Schmidt said, She was very calm. Nonplussed. I said, 'You don't seem nervous at all about this.' And she said, 'No, it's God's plan.' Watch the full interview [13 minutes runtime]: http://snipurl.com/u1pwq [www_cbs_com]
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Fine Art Of Not Knowing
Passed along from Marek, who discovered it, a neat video in which Richard Feynman, Carl Sagan, S. James Gates, Jr., and Freeman Dyson discuss the very thing I was trying to get at in my reply to Doug this morning. What is it we know? What is it we even *can* know? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbtgNTmNuIw That is fine as wishy-washy conjecture, but known is our experience when we have it and that spiritual experience can be very clear for what it is. Spiritual experience, when you have it, that is fact at that time. Not clear you don't really know, then there likely is just some un-stressing going on and more cultivation is needed and some more to come to know by experience about it. Steps of spiritual progress through knowledge and experience of where and how to look. A good teacher and textbook evidently can be helpful along the way. The extraordinary modern progression of things human though is that the physiological correlates of spiritual experience can now be pointed at too. But further, that there is and has been experience that comes from collective spiritual practice just as real to those who do it. And so too that science with it. That there is an evident collective value to cultivating spiritual experience. That there is a difference between meditators and non-meditators by experience and evident science. Just is. Is not elitist, just fact. The modern policy implication: Meditate you sinners, it may take some discipline! The world evidently will be a better place as you come to it. Jai Guru Dev, -D Would seem by the gravity of the science and experience to warrant a need for more severe discipline of practice by those who would know better. Who should know better. Come back to meditation. If you can't come to meditation, at least hire a replacement to go in your place.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Just in case you want to help a little to keep Native Americans from freezin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer r...@... wrote: Temba is an ex-con Amma devotee... Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra. Temba, his arms wide! Shaka, when the walls fell.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Just in case you want to help a little to keep Native Americans from freezing this winter.
On Jan 11, 2010, at 10:07 AM, Rick Archer wrote: From a FF resident who spends a lot of time out in S. Dakota helping the Native Americans Subject: Just in case you want to help a little to keep Native Americans from freezing this winter. Instead of spending time trying to help families one at a time, how about some activism to get the government to do what governments are supposed to do--better the lives of its citizens, or at the very least keep them from dying unnecessarily? Sal
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Just in case you want to help a little to keep Native Americans from freezin
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stan...@yahoo.com wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer r...@... wrote: Temba is an ex-con Amma devotee... Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra. Temba, his arms wide! Shaka, when the walls fell. The Intertubes is getting a bit too weird when there's a Wikipedia entry for the Tamarian language. -- Life isn't like a bowl of cherries or peaches.. it's more like a jar of jalapenos. What you do today, might burn your ass tomorrow.
RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Just in case you want to help a little to keep Native Americans from freezin
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Alex Stanley Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 12:34 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Just in case you want to help a little to keep Native Americans from freezin --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com , Rick Archer r...@... wrote: Temba is an ex-con Amma devotee... Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra. Temba, his arms wide! Shaka, when the walls fell. Had no idea what you were talking about, but found a reference here: http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Tamarian_language
RE: [FairfieldLife] Just in case you want to help a little to keep Native Americans from freezing th
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Sal Sunshine Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 12:50 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Just in case you want to help a little to keep Native Americans from freezing this winter. On Jan 11, 2010, at 10:07 AM, Rick Archer wrote: From a FF resident who spends a lot of time out in S. Dakota helping the Native Americans Subject: Just in case you want to help a little to keep Native Americans from freezing this winter. Instead of spending time trying to help families one at a time, how about some activism to get the government to do what governments are supposed to do--better the lives of its citizens, or at the very least keep them from dying unnecessarily? Sal Good idea, and probably people are doing that. But this is what Temba feels motivated and qualified to do.
Re: [FairfieldLife] From Dr. Mercola
Judy said Mercola is a quack a little while back. Rick Archer wrote: http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/01/09/Try-Meditatio n-to-Lower-Your-Blood-Pressure-and-Protect-Your-Heart.aspx http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/01/09/Try-Meditation -to-Lower-Your-Blood-Pressure-and-Protect-Your-Heart.aspx Common Relaxation Technique Can Help Lower Your Blood Pressure and Protect Your Heart Posted by: Dr. Mercola January 09 2010 | 4,653 views A just-published study suggests the practice of meditation may bring cardiovascular and mental-health benefits. The research, followed close to 300 students, half of whom practiced transcendental meditation for 20 minutes once or twice daily over three months. A subgroup of subjects in the meditation group who were at increased risk for hypertension significantly lowered their blood pressure and psychological distress, and also bolstered their coping ability. The average reduction in blood pressure in this group -- a 6.3-mm Hg decrease in the top (systolic) number of a blood pressure reading and a 4-mm Hg decrease in the lower (diastolic) number -- was associated with a 52 percent reduction in the risk of developing hypertension in the future. Meditators who were not at increased risk for hypertension saw a reduction in psychological distress, depression, and anxiety as well as increased coping ability. Sources: U.S. News World Report http://www.usnews.com/health/family-health/articles/2009/11/18/try-meditatio n-to-lower-your-blood-pressure-and-protect-your-heart.html?s_cid=rss:try-med itation-to-lower-your-blood-pressure-and-protect-your-heart American Journal of Hypertension, December 2009 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19798037?itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubm ed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed+RVDocSum http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19798037?itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pub med.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed+RVDocSumordinalpos=1 ordinalpos=1 Dr. Mercola's Comments: A just-published study suggests the practice of meditation may bring cardiovascular and mental-health benefits. The research, followed close to 300 students, half of whom practiced transcendental meditation for 20 minutes once or twice daily over three months. A subgroup of subjects in the meditation group who were at increased risk for hypertension significantly lowered their blood pressure and psychological distress, and also bolstered their coping ability. The average reduction in blood pressure in this group -- a 6.3-mm Hg decrease in the top (systolic) number of a blood pressure reading and a 4-mm Hg decrease in the lower (diastolic) number -- was associated with a 52 percent reduction in the risk of developing hypertension in the future. Meditators who were not at increased risk for hypertension saw a reduction in psychological distress, depression, and anxiety as well as increased coping ability. As the new year begins and you resolve to make healthier lifestyle choices, I strongly encourage you to add a few minutes of meditation to your daily routine. Just 20 minutes a day can begin to make a big difference in how you feel mentally, physically and emotionally. When your mind is calm and your emotions are within your control, you're in a much better position to tackle all your normal responsibilities plus the goals you've set for yourself. Feelings of stress and overwhelm that keep you stuck in unhealthy behaviors can be greatly relieved by a regular practice of meditation. As the clouds in your head clear and your anxiety is minimized, you'll be amazed at how energized and capable you feel. ... Blaine Watson's Comments (#10) Posted On Jan 09, 2010 With reference to citing TM studies and comparing them to other forms of meditation, there have been several published meta-analyses comparing the Transcendental Meditation technique to many other relaxation and meditation methods. It was statistically found that the effect size on certain variables like anxiety, and other risk factors, was twice as large with TM than with the other practices, which were no more effective than placebo. A paper, including a visual summary of the meta-analyses, Five Meta-Analyses Comparing the Transcendental Meditation Program with Other Meditation and Relaxation Techniques, can be found at TruthAboutTM.org http://TruthAboutTM.org/ . http://bit.ly/4TWDIA Neural imaging and EEG studies indicate that TM practice creates a unique brain pattern: it is the only meditation technique known to create widespread brainwave coherence. The TM technique also produces deeper rest than other practices, and studies show the technique to be more effective at reducing anxiety and depression and increasing self-actualization. A website, Ask The Doctors, discusses results from other forms of meditation and TM at http://bit.ly/5z087e. Also, take a look at some of the peer-reviewed published studies on the
[FairfieldLife] Re: Just in case you want to help a little to keep Native Americans from freezing th
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer r...@... wrote: From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Sal Sunshine Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 12:50 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Just in case you want to help a little to keep Native Americans from freezing this winter. On Jan 11, 2010, at 10:07 AM, Rick Archer wrote: From a FF resident who spends a lot of time out in S. Dakota helping the Native Americans Subject: Just in case you want to help a little to keep Native Americans from freezing this winter. Instead of spending time trying to help families one at a time, how about some activism to get the government to do what governments are supposed to do--better the lives of its citizens, or at the very least keep them from dying unnecessarily? Sal Good idea, and probably people are doing that. But this is what Temba feels motivated and qualified to do. Fine, though one wonders there must be tribal councils, Indian gambling casinos, their Indian Agent through the BIA, and certainly Christian charity groups doing good works up there who are on location. In the long run would not money be better served from here giving to the David Lynch Foundation?
Re: [FairfieldLife] From Dr. Mercola
On Jan 11, 2010, at 2:17 PM, Bhairitu wrote: Judy said Mercola is a quack a little while back. Esp. when touting junk science like in these articles. Even the most recent studies use health education for a control. Not that impressive. There was however an excellent article in the new Current Psychiatry on meditation, depression and anxiety which is quite well done. It labels what's controlled and what not. Good, evidence-based medicine. No wonder some insurance companies reimburse for it: http://www.currentpsychiatry.com/article_pages.asp?AID=8164
[FairfieldLife] Re: Just in case you want to help a little to keep Native Americans from freezing this winter.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: Are these people meditators? More important, do they have tidy hair? You wouldn't want to inadvertently help to keep a slattern from freezing, would you? Anybody want to take bets on how many more posts Barry will throw away on this before he can let go of his attachment to it? I'll bet at least three more. More like three hundred. It's a magic word. Every time anyone on this forum hears it, they'll remember the time Judy was so out of control trying to support one of her insupportable theories that she called a woman a slut just because her hair was uncombed. Actually, what they'll remember is the time Barry became so freaked out over his inability to Get Judy that he tried to pretend she called a woman a slut because her hair was uncombed when she'd obviously done nothing of the kind. Don't let me stop you, Toots. You go right ahead. I'll just keep count. I should start at 10 considering all your posts so far, but I'll give you a break. This is One. chortle
[FairfieldLife] Re: From Dr. Mercola
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote: Judy said Mercola is a quack a little while back. You beat me to it. Rick Archer wrote: http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/01/09/Try-Meditatio n-to-Lower-Your-Blood-Pressure-and-Protect-Your-Heart.aspx http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/01/09/Try-Meditation -to-Lower-Your-Blood-Pressure-and-Protect-Your-Heart.aspx Common Relaxation Technique Can Help Lower Your Blood Pressure and Protect Your Heart Posted by: Dr. Mercola January 09 2010 | 4,653 views A just-published study suggests the practice of meditation may bring cardiovascular and mental-health benefits. The research, followed close to 300 students, half of whom practiced transcendental meditation for 20 minutes once or twice daily over three months. A subgroup of subjects in the meditation group who were at increased risk for hypertension significantly lowered their blood pressure and psychological distress, and also bolstered their coping ability. The average reduction in blood pressure in this group -- a 6.3-mm Hg decrease in the top (systolic) number of a blood pressure reading and a 4-mm Hg decrease in the lower (diastolic) number -- was associated with a 52 percent reduction in the risk of developing hypertension in the future. Meditators who were not at increased risk for hypertension saw a reduction in psychological distress, depression, and anxiety as well as increased coping ability. Sources: U.S. News World Report http://www.usnews.com/health/family-health/articles/2009/11/18/try-meditatio n-to-lower-your-blood-pressure-and-protect-your-heart.html?s_cid=rss:try-med itation-to-lower-your-blood-pressure-and-protect-your-heart American Journal of Hypertension, December 2009 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19798037?itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubm ed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed+RVDocSum http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19798037?itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pub med.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed+RVDocSumordinalpos=1 ordinalpos=1 Dr. Mercola's Comments: A just-published study suggests the practice of meditation may bring cardiovascular and mental-health benefits. The research, followed close to 300 students, half of whom practiced transcendental meditation for 20 minutes once or twice daily over three months. A subgroup of subjects in the meditation group who were at increased risk for hypertension significantly lowered their blood pressure and psychological distress, and also bolstered their coping ability. The average reduction in blood pressure in this group -- a 6.3-mm Hg decrease in the top (systolic) number of a blood pressure reading and a 4-mm Hg decrease in the lower (diastolic) number -- was associated with a 52 percent reduction in the risk of developing hypertension in the future. Meditators who were not at increased risk for hypertension saw a reduction in psychological distress, depression, and anxiety as well as increased coping ability. As the new year begins and you resolve to make healthier lifestyle choices, I strongly encourage you to add a few minutes of meditation to your daily routine. Just 20 minutes a day can begin to make a big difference in how you feel mentally, physically and emotionally. When your mind is calm and your emotions are within your control, you're in a much better position to tackle all your normal responsibilities plus the goals you've set for yourself. Feelings of stress and overwhelm that keep you stuck in unhealthy behaviors can be greatly relieved by a regular practice of meditation. As the clouds in your head clear and your anxiety is minimized, you'll be amazed at how energized and capable you feel. ... Blaine Watson's Comments (#10) Posted On Jan 09, 2010 With reference to citing TM studies and comparing them to other forms of meditation, there have been several published meta-analyses comparing the Transcendental Meditation technique to many other relaxation and meditation methods. It was statistically found that the effect size on certain variables like anxiety, and other risk factors, was twice as large with TM than with the other practices, which were no more effective than placebo. A paper, including a visual summary of the meta-analyses, Five Meta-Analyses Comparing the Transcendental Meditation Program with Other Meditation and Relaxation Techniques, can be found at TruthAboutTM.org http://TruthAboutTM.org/ . http://bit.ly/4TWDIA Neural imaging and EEG studies indicate that TM practice creates a unique brain pattern: it is the only meditation technique known to create widespread brainwave coherence. The TM technique also produces deeper rest than other practices, and studies show the technique to be more effective at reducing anxiety and depression and increasing self-actualization. A website,
[FairfieldLife] Re: Just in case you want to help a little to keep Native Americans from freezing th
get the government to do what governments are supposed to do--better the lives of its citizens, or at the very least keep them from dying unnecessarily? Sal Good idea, and probably people are doing that. But this is what Temba feels motivated and qualified to do. Fine, though one wonders there must be tribal councils, Indian gambling casinos, their Indian Agent through the BIA, and certainly Christian charity groups doing good works up there who are on location. In the long run would not money be better served from here giving to the David Lynch Foundation? How are the pundits here doing up in the FEMA trailers? Has the international red cross been in there to check on their state of being?
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Fine Art Of Not Knowing
Passed along from Marek, who discovered it, a neat video in which Richard Feynman, Carl Sagan, S. James Gates, Jr., and Freeman Dyson discuss the very thing I was trying to get at in my reply to Doug this morning. What is it we know? What is it we even *can* know? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbtgNTmNuIw That is fine as wishy-washy conjecture, but known is our experience when we have it and that spiritual experience can be very clear for what it is. Spiritual experience, when you have it, that is fact at that time. Not clear you don't really know, then there likely is just some un-stressing going on and more cultivation is needed and some more to come to know by experience about it. Steps of spiritual progress through knowledge and experience of where and how to look. A good teacher and textbook evidently can be helpful along the way. The extraordinary modern progression of things human though is that the physiological correlates of spiritual experience can now be pointed at too. But further, that there is and has been experience that comes from collective spiritual practice just as real to those who do it. And so too that science with it. That there is an evident collective value to cultivating spiritual experience. That there is a difference between meditators and non-meditators by experience and evident science. Just is. Is not elitist, just fact. The modern policy implication: Meditate you sinners, it may take some discipline! The world evidently will be a better place as you come to it. Jai Guru Dev, -D Would seem by the gravity of the science and experience to warrant a need for more severe discipline of practice by those who would know better. Who should know better. To come back to meditation. If you can't come to meditation, at least hire a replacement to go in your place. Islam uses lashes to get people to temple. Given this science now on spiritual experience and meditation which is coming out, is it getting time to explore aspects of their model? They don't seem to have any peer review on the effectiveness of their prayer, but they sure get people to turn out for their programs.
[FairfieldLife] Re: A Christmas Story!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Dick Mays dickm...@... wrote: [snip] Only Maharishi could have avoided such a potential catastrophe. Jai Guru Dev, Ken Only a cult-addled mind could write such a thing. Dearest Kenny: even if true do you not get it that writing such a thing does more to saddle the TMO with the cult label than anything else? Do you not remember the days when every major city in North America would initiate, like 50 people each Saturday? Now a major city is lucky to get 25 a year! It's because people like you make us into a cult...and people run, not walk, away from us.
[FairfieldLife] Re: US special envoy threatens to freeze aid to Israel
Mike Dixon wrote: Wasn't SKM captured in Pakistan? Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was captured in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, on March 1, 2003. But he is being tried in a civilian court in New York City, although he is an enemy combatant who is being held at Guantanamo Bay by the U.S. Military.
[FairfieldLife] Soul Mates in the News
[FairfieldLife] Re: US special envoy threatens to freeze aid to Israel
Isn't that interesting, Obama wants to give foreign terrorists full American constitutional rights When they're captured on American soil. Judy: P.S.: Kinda like Bush gave Richard Reid, the shoe bomber, his full American constitutional rights... Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was captured in Pakistan. He was an enemy combatant who got tortured 183 times by the C.I.A. at a secret detention site. So, now he will be tried in a civilian court in New York City. If he had full American constitutional rights he would have already have been freed, since there's not one shred of evidence that wasn't obtained without coercion, that is presentable in a U.S. Court, that he committed any crimes in the U.S. Apparently 'Khalid Sheikh Mohammed' isn't even his real name. By rights, we should be paying him, since we shot a drone at him, and tried to murder him, which is illegal under international law. How is that going to play out in a public trial? If he had been tried by a military court, he would already be dead by now. That's the point.
[FairfieldLife] Re: A Christmas Story!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ShempMcGurk shempmcg...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Dick Mays dickmays@ wrote: [snip] Only Maharishi could have avoided such a potential catastrophe. Jai Guru Dev, Ken It's because people like you make us into a cult...and people run, not walk, away from us. Without Maharishis initiative on this and many other occasions perhaps they would not be able to run ?
[FairfieldLife] Re: US special envoy threatens to freeze aid to Israel
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willy...@... wrote: snip If he had full American constitutional rights he would have already have been freed, since there's not one shred of evidence that wasn't obtained without coercion, that is presentable in a U.S. Court, that he committed any crimes in the U.S. You mean, aside from his formal, on-the-record plea to be allowed, along with four of his fellow detainees, to plead guilty to the charges against him? http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/09/us/09gitmo.html
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: US special envoy threatens to freeze aid to Israel
Was his formal plea made before or after he was marandised? If it was before, it should be thrown out and not allowed as evidence of guilt. From: authfriend jst...@panix.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Mon, January 11, 2010 3:11:29 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: US special envoy threatens to freeze aid to Israel --- In FairfieldLife@ yahoogroups. com, WillyTex willy...@.. . wrote: snip If he had full American constitutional rights he would have already have been freed, since there's not one shred of evidence that wasn't obtained without coercion, that is presentable in a U.S. Court, that he committed any crimes in the U.S. You mean, aside from his formal, on-the-record plea to be allowed, along with four of his fellow detainees, to plead guilty to the charges against him? http://www.nytimes. com/2008/ 12/09/us/ 09gitmo.html
[FairfieldLife] Re: US special envoy threatens to freeze aid to Israel
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@... wrote: Was his formal plea made before or after he was marandised? If it was before, it should be thrown out and not allowed as evidence of guilt. Don't think Bush was into Mirandizing the detainees.
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[FairfieldLife] Re: US special envoy threatens to freeze aid to Israel
If he had full American constitutional rights he would have already have been freed, since there's not one shred of evidence that wasn't obtained without coercion, that is presentable in a U.S. Court, that he committed any crimes in the U.S. You mean, aside from his formal, on-the-record plea to be allowed, along with four of his fellow detainees, to plead guilty to the charges against him? http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/09/us/09gitmo.html Key words here: torture and coercion. Confessions made uner torture are not admissible in U.S. courts. It's against civil and human rights laws listed in the U.S. Constitution. If you were tortured by the CIA you might say anything. Not to mention the extreme rendition, which is against international law. Confessions mean nothing when you just got a drone trying to kill you and your entire family. Everyone knows that KSM always wanted to make himself look good. But his 'confession' will never stand, because it's inadmissable in court.
[FairfieldLife] Re: US special envoy threatens to freeze aid to Israel
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willy...@... wrote: If he had full American constitutional rights he would have already have been freed, since there's not one shred of evidence that wasn't obtained without coercion, that is presentable in a U.S. Court, that he committed any crimes in the U.S. You mean, aside from his formal, on-the-record plea to be allowed, along with four of his fellow detainees, to plead guilty to the charges against him? http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/09/us/09gitmo.html Key words here: torture and coercion. Confessions made uner torture are not admissible in U.S. courts. This plea wasn't made under torture.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Fine Art Of Not Knowing
Passed along from Marek, who discovered it, a neat video in which Richard Feynman, Carl Sagan, S. James Gates, Jr., and Freeman Dyson discuss the very thing I was trying to get at in my reply to Doug this morning. What is it we know? What is it we even *can* know? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbtgNTmNuIw That is fine as wishy-washy conjecture, but known is our experience when we have it and that spiritual experience can be very clear for what it is. Spiritual experience, when you have it, that is fact at that time. Not clear you don't really know, then there likely is just some un-stressing going on and more cultivation is needed and some more to come to know by experience about it. Steps of spiritual progress through knowledge and experience of where and how to look. A good teacher and textbook evidently can be helpful along the way. The extraordinary modern progression of things human though is that the physiological correlates of spiritual experience can now be pointed at too. But further, that there is and has been experience that comes from collective spiritual practice just as real to those who do it. And so too that science with it. That there is an evident collective value to cultivating spiritual experience. That there is a difference between meditators and non-meditators by experience and evident science. Just is. Is not elitist, just fact. The modern policy implication: Meditate you sinners, it may take some discipline! The world evidently will be a better place as you come to it. Jai Guru Dev, -D Would seem by the gravity of the science and experience to warrant a need for more severe discipline of practice by those who would know better. Who should know better. To come back to meditation. If you can't come to meditation, at least hire a replacement to go in your place. Islam uses lashes to get people to temple. Given this science now on spiritual experience and meditation which is coming out, is it getting time to explore aspects of their model? They don't seem to have any peer review on the effectiveness of their prayer, but they sure get people to turn out for their programs. Skipping prayer on three consecutive Fridays: three lashes. The whip, according to the booklet, must be made of rattan a quarter to a third of an inch thick. ... each as long as a cane and snappy as a flyswatter. National Geographic 10-09
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Fine Art Of Not Knowing
Passed along from Marek, who discovered it, a neat video in which Richard Feynman, Carl Sagan, S. James Gates, Jr., and Freeman Dyson discuss the very thing I was trying to get at in my reply to Doug this morning. What is it we know? What is it we even *can* know? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbtgNTmNuIw That is fine as wishy-washy conjecture, but known is our experience when we have it and that spiritual experience can be very clear for what it is. Spiritual experience, when you have it, that is fact at that time. Not clear you don't really know, then there likely is just some un-stressing going on and more cultivation is needed and some more to come to know by experience about it. Steps of spiritual progress through knowledge and experience of where and how to look. A good teacher and textbook evidently can be helpful along the way. The extraordinary modern progression of things human though is that the physiological correlates of spiritual experience can now be pointed at too. But further, that there is and has been experience that comes from collective spiritual practice just as real to those who do it. And so too that science with it. That there is an evident collective value to cultivating spiritual experience. That there is a difference between meditators and non-meditators by experience and evident science. Just is. Is not elitist, just fact. The modern policy implication: Meditate you sinners, it may take some discipline! The world evidently will be a better place as you come to it. Jai Guru Dev, -D Would seem by the gravity of the science and experience to warrant a need for more severe discipline of practice by those who would know better. Who should know better. To come back to meditation. If you can't come to meditation, at least hire a replacement to go in your place. Islam uses lashes to get people to temple. Given this science now on spiritual experience and meditation which is coming out, is it getting time to explore aspects of their model? They don't seem to have any peer review on the effectiveness of their prayer, but they sure get people to turn out for their programs. Skipping prayer on three consecutive Fridays: three lashes. The whip, according to the booklet, must be made of rattan a quarter to a third of an inch thick. ... each as long as a cane and snappy as a flyswatter. National Geographic 10-09 2012, is coming. Get thee to meditation, so says the science.
[FairfieldLife] Simple questions that New Agers avoid
http://www.debunkingskeptics.com/Debunking_New_Age.htm List of questions for those who believe that thoughts create reality, which they seem to avoid for some reason. When I ask them, they tend to either avoid the question or go off into some irrelevant rant and then re-confirming that thought creates reality principle without even addressing any of my points directly. How strange. I would have expected better from so called truth seekers. Nevertheless, here is the list. 1. If thoughts create reality, then how come we can't fly or walk through walls or move mountains with our thoughts? How come even if I believed 100 percent that I could pass through a solid wall, I'd still bump my head if I tried? 2. If thoughts create reality, then how come it's possible to trip or slip on banana peels? Wouldn't our assumption that it was safe to walk there create a trouble-free walk? 3. If thoughts create reality, then why did the Titanic sink when everyone thought it was unsinkable? 4. If thoughts create reality, then why are there surprises in life? Why do both optimists and pessimists experience events that turn out better or worse than they expected? Shouldn't they have manifested whatever they expected? 5. If thoughts create reality, then why do most things not go according to plan? By planning, wouldn't your thoughts generated during the plan create the reality in which things went exactly according to plan? 6. Is there any objective reality? If not, then how come you can bring a brown table into a room full of people, yet everyone will see the same thing, without you telling them what it is? And even if you told them it was a blue table, they'd still see a brown table. Doesn't that indicate that the brown table has an existence in objective reality? 7. To what degree do thoughts create reality? Are there any limits? If so, then why doesn't Wayne Dyer or Deepak Chopra define any? And aren't they misleading people into thinking that their thoughts are all powerful by not doing so? Or do they have a vested non-spiritual interest in promoting this concept? If there are no limits, then why can't you materialize and dematerialize matter in the physical universe like Q in Star Trek The Next Generation? 8. Another variant of this principle is that expectations create reality as well. In other words Expectations manifest. You attract what you think about. What you expect will be drawn to you. And what you fear also will manifest. Now if that's true, then how come most things don't go according to plan and how come expectations often fail? 9. If expectations create reality then how come we don't always get what we expect? How come there are so many let downs and disappointments in life? 10. Another variant of this is that you will manifest what you fear as Wayne Dyer like to put it. If that's so, why aren't children who are afraid of the boogie man at night don't actually get harmed or taken by one? And how come children afraid of monsters under their bed don't get eaten or killed by them? How come people who get scared after watching a horror movie don't manifest the creatures from the movie into real life? How come Dracula, Werewolves, Frankenstein, Jason or Freddy Krueger haven't manifested into reality yet? 11. If we manifest what we fear, then how come many of our fears don't come to pass and turn out to be just due to an overactive imagination? 12. How come when the year 2000 came, many feared that a Y2K bug might wreak havoc in society by causing many crucial computer systems to shut down, yet the scare turned out to be nothing? How come their collective fears didn't manifest? 13. Do you really believe that if you drank cyanide or muriatic acid and believed 100 percent that it was just plain water, that it wouldn't harm you? I hope not! 14. Since a lot of you folks also believe that how you see yourself and what you think you are will be how others see you and what others think you are, then do you really believe that if you walked into the Pentagon and believed 100 percent that you were the President of the United States, that everyone there would think that you are The President? And what if I believed that I was Superman or Batman? Would everyone believe it too? 15. And what if an ugly fat woman walks around in public like she is super hot and sexy, and believing as such in her mind 100 percent? Would everyone then think she was super hot and sexy and desire her? Or that she was delusional? And what about the people in the insane asylum who believe they are Napoleon or Jesus Christ? Does society accept their claims? Do they then become that and become the ruler or savior of the world?
