[FairfieldLife] Re: my generic TM response to http://www.reddit.com/r/meditation questions
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@... wrote: What I was trying to convey with my wasted my life rhetoric was just that I was acknowledging the possibility that I might be wrong. Barry and Vaj, on the other hand, seem certain that they are correct, period. I suspect that Barry, at least, had that same attitude when he was a TM teacher. Lawson, you disappoint me. I thought you were a better perceiver than this. A cultist perceiver, true, but a better one. :-) Vaj can speak for himself; he might have things he is certain about. I have nothing. Nada. Bupkus. I would suggest that you and he are far more alike than differ- ent, in that you both DO have things you're seemingly certain about, and are both willing to turn them into battles that need to be won. I do not. I have never once on this forum tried to sell or promote any technique of meditation or self development. Same with spiritual teachers. The most I have ever done is to mention things I might have encoun- tered and present my viewpoint on them, especially if they are being misrepresented by others. When it comes down to who wins the lucrative guvmint contract to supply humanity services to the military, I hope they choose to provide simple instruc- tion in BOTH some kind of sitting meditation (not neces- sarily TM, because I think they could do better for less money) and in mindfulness. If it came down to a battle between TM and mindfulness, well OF COURSE mindfulness is going to win at this point, for several practical reasons, the most important of which are that it can be taught free of any dogma or supporting indoctrination (TM cannot), and that it arrives (unlike TM) not carrying around decades of baggage as a notorious cult. In an ideal world, soldiers would have a choice of learn- ing *not* one or the other, but both. In that same ideal world (as I see it), TM teachers would be *prohibited by law* from having any contact with soldiers they'd taught the basic TM technique to, except for checking sessions. No advanced lectures, no sales pitches for the siddhis. Would YOU agree to these conditions for TM taught in groups to schoolkids and/or soldiers? If my father -- an Air Force Colonel who was in charge of procuring goods and services for most of the bases he was stationed on -- had drawn up a contract for TM to be taught onbase, that clause would definitely have been in the contract. And it would have been enforced to the letter. I think a similar contract needs to be in place for any TM course taught in large groups and paid for by a con- tracting agency such as a school or the military. I feel that, given the history of the TMO, it would be criminal of the contracting agency to NOT have such a clause in their contracts. Otherwise they put themselves in the position of exposing their students or their troops to recruiters for a cultic religion. Teach TM. Period. Leave it at TM. Period. No philosophy, no siddhis, no ayurveda, no S-V, no yagyas, no gods, no goddesses, nada. Just TM. In other words, sell only what you claim to be selling. Attempt to sell more, lose the contract. That's the way it should work. It's the only way it *CAN* work. Something needs to be written into the basic contracts to prevent TM teachers from fucking up a good thing by being what they were taught to be by Maharishi -- non-stop salespeople and evangelists.
[FairfieldLife] International Meditation Society for the Science of Creative Intelligence
why oh why oh why do I hear -yes why hear the laughter of butterflies about to flutter by International Meditation Society for the Science of Creative Intelligence [;)] http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2001/january8/12.76.html TM was founded as the International Meditation Society for the Science of Creative Intelligence in 1961.: Mere Transcendental Meditation:The basic concepts of neo-Vedanta philosophy(et Kennedy, John W; Hexham., Irving (January 8, 2001). Field of TM dreams. Christianity Today 45 (1): pp. 7479.) and now in Wiki In 1961, the Maharishi created the International Meditation Society for the Science of Creative Intelligence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendental_Meditation_technique#cite_re\ f-Kennedy_214-1
[FairfieldLife] Re: Philip Goldberg: A Big Day in the Life: When Sgt. Pepper Blew Our Minds
Because TM worked, lives were changed; because lives were changed, research was done; because the research findings were impressive, doctors and psychotherapists started recommending meditation. Within a few years, Eastern philosophy and its repertoire of mind-body practices would enter the mainstream. Spirituality in America would never be the same. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4G2RlBKbrM In mine and many other teaching-experience in beginning and in founding constructing different forms of the movement in the 60/70s not s many [:D] start TM because Sgt. Pepper defined the opulent revolutionary optimism of psychedelia and instantly spread the gospel of love, acid, Eastern spirituality and electric guitars around the globe [:D] --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@... wrote: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/philip-goldberg/sgt-peppers-lonely-hearts-\ club -band_b_1545932.html?utm_source=Alert-blogger http://www.huffingtonpost.com/philip-goldberg/sgt-peppers-lonely-hearts\ -clu b-band_b_1545932.html?utm_source=Alert-bloggerutm_medium=emailutm_camp\ aign =Email%2BNotifications utm_medium=emailutm_campaign=Email%2BNotifications
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[FairfieldLife] Re: my generic TM response to http://www.reddit.com/r/meditation questions
In fact, in the context of the DLF sponsored TM in the schools, teaching basic TM is all the teachers can do, though, if the parents choose to drag their kids to the local TM center, that's their business, isn't it, and the kids can deal with their parents' silliness on their own time. In the context of the Norwich University experiment, it's the same thing: the teachers teach, regularly show up to check meditation, and that's it. The day to day meditation sessions are overseen by the squad leader (himself a student) and, as far as I know, there's no advanced lectures in either setting. Certainly, in the US public schools, there can't be since that is what led to the Malnak v Yogi court case in the first place: introducing advanced TM theory in the public school system to a captive audience. And I agree: mindfulness training has its place, especially in the US military. The question here is mostly: given limited time resources available to people, what is the most effective use of their time, given that they have time to learn one thing and practice it regularly? Obviously, I believe that TM should be that one thing, and I believe that the Norwich University and VA studies will support my beliefs. BTW, TM is free in the public schools via the DLF and it is free to the cadets at Norwich University. And the DLF's payment goes directly to the TM teacher and not to the national or international organization, which never sees any part of it, last I heard. For kids, the DLF pays the teachers $300 per student and they do monthly checking with each student. For veterans, the DLF pays $375 per vet. The national TM organization doesn't get any money from the TM teachers as far as I know. [1 post left] L. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@ wrote: What I was trying to convey with my wasted my life rhetoric was just that I was acknowledging the possibility that I might be wrong. Barry and Vaj, on the other hand, seem certain that they are correct, period. I suspect that Barry, at least, had that same attitude when he was a TM teacher. Lawson, you disappoint me. I thought you were a better perceiver than this. A cultist perceiver, true, but a better one. :-) Vaj can speak for himself; he might have things he is certain about. I have nothing. Nada. Bupkus. I would suggest that you and he are far more alike than differ- ent, in that you both DO have things you're seemingly certain about, and are both willing to turn them into battles that need to be won. I do not. I have never once on this forum tried to sell or promote any technique of meditation or self development. Same with spiritual teachers. The most I have ever done is to mention things I might have encoun- tered and present my viewpoint on them, especially if they are being misrepresented by others. When it comes down to who wins the lucrative guvmint contract to supply humanity services to the military, I hope they choose to provide simple instruc- tion in BOTH some kind of sitting meditation (not neces- sarily TM, because I think they could do better for less money) and in mindfulness. If it came down to a battle between TM and mindfulness, well OF COURSE mindfulness is going to win at this point, for several practical reasons, the most important of which are that it can be taught free of any dogma or supporting indoctrination (TM cannot), and that it arrives (unlike TM) not carrying around decades of baggage as a notorious cult. In an ideal world, soldiers would have a choice of learn- ing *not* one or the other, but both. In that same ideal world (as I see it), TM teachers would be *prohibited by law* from having any contact with soldiers they'd taught the basic TM technique to, except for checking sessions. No advanced lectures, no sales pitches for the siddhis. Would YOU agree to these conditions for TM taught in groups to schoolkids and/or soldiers? If my father -- an Air Force Colonel who was in charge of procuring goods and services for most of the bases he was stationed on -- had drawn up a contract for TM to be taught onbase, that clause would definitely have been in the contract. And it would have been enforced to the letter. I think a similar contract needs to be in place for any TM course taught in large groups and paid for by a con- tracting agency such as a school or the military. I feel that, given the history of the TMO, it would be criminal of the contracting agency to NOT have such a clause in their contracts. Otherwise they put themselves in the position of exposing their students or their troops to recruiters for a cultic religion. Teach TM. Period. Leave it at TM. Period. No philosophy, no siddhis, no ayurveda, no S-V, no yagyas, no gods, no goddesses, nada. Just TM. In other words, sell only what you claim to be
[FairfieldLife] Re: Philip Goldberg: A Big Day in the Life: When Sgt. Pepper Blew Our Minds
Because TM worked, lives were changed; because lives were changed, research was done; because the research findings were impressive, doctors and psychotherapists started recommending meditation. Within a few years, Eastern philosophy and its repertoire of mind-body practices would enter the mainstream. Spirituality in America would never be the same. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4G2RlBKbrM In humble mine and many many others teaching-experience in beginning and in founding constructing different forms of the movement in the 60/70s not s many [:D] start TM because Sgt. Pepper defined the opulent revolutionary optimism of psychedelia and instantly spread the gospel of love, acid, Eastern spirituality and electric guitars around the globe [:D] Respecting the Hippie memoria et reminiscentia of Philip Goldberg Interfaith Minister, author of 'American Veda: How Indian Spirituality Changed the West':Could it be because sometimes even mentioning the connection in the TM-Intro was counterproductive (in the long run, at least)? Where are the Saint (Chili )Peppers in the movement now and what was their impact? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@... wrote: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/philip-goldberg/sgt-peppers-lonely-hearts-\ club -band_b_1545932.html?utm_source=Alert-blogger http://www.huffingtonpost.com/philip-goldberg/sgt-peppers-lonely-hearts\ -clu b-band_b_1545932.html?utm_source=Alert-bloggerutm_medium=emailutm_camp\ aign =Email%2BNotifications utm_medium=emailutm_campaign=Email%2BNotifications
[FairfieldLife] Celebrity TMer musicians play prom date in 1971
I just love this. But then, when it comes to TMers who are celebrities, there are only two in the world I'd like to meet, because out of the whole lot of them Dusty and Billy seem to be the only ones who are nice guys and might have cool stories to tell. Like the one about having to play a gig at a high school prom, shortly after your first single hits the Billboard Hot 100? Priceless. ZZ Top Prom: Photo Seems To Show Band At High School Dance Emerging today from the annals of the internet: a photo that appears to show ZZ Top at a school prom. The picture, available below, shows Dusty Hill, Frank Beard and Billy Gibbons as men who would appear to be in their early 20s. Though we can't verify it at this time, the photo matches up with an account of a 1971 appearance at the Little Cypress-Mauriceville High School prom http://orangeleader.com/entertainment/x681354316/ZZ-Top-band-at-71-prom\ ?keyword=topstory . That performance took place two years after the band was formed. People were actually crashing our prom, one student recounted. People were trying to sneak in anyway they could just to see these guys perform. It was really funny. UPDATE: A Redditor posted the following comment http://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/ua383/best_prom_ever_starring_ze\ e_zee_top_1969/c4ttqac , which seems to verify the Little Cypress-Mauriceville High School connection: This is from my dad's senior prom in May 1971! This was taken at Little Cypress-Mauriceville High School in Orange, Texas. Apparently some time between signing the contract to play for the dance and the actual prom itself, the band broke out big. They tried to get out of the contract, but the school couldn't find a replacement on such short notice so ZZ Top still performed. My dad said that people were climbing through the windows, crashing their prom, just to hear the band play. This was all at a really small school with a graduating class of around 100, maybe less. I'll try to get him to scan his yearbook that has this exact picture in it. The Reddit thread on which the image originally appeared http://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/ua383/best_prom_ever_starring_ze\ e_zee_top_1969/ identified the photo as being taken in 1969, but Hill didn't join the band until 1970. Were you at the prom? If so, leave a comment and we'll update our post accordingly. [zz top prom]
[FairfieldLife] Re: Philip Goldberg: A Big Day in the Life: When Sgt. Pepper Blew Our Minds
This YouTube by a certain HELTERFUCKINGSKELTER summarize IMHO the article nicely. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4G2RlBKbrM In humble mine and many many others teaching-experience in beginning and in founding constructing different forms of the movement in the 60/70s not s many [:D] start and stay-in TM because Sgt. Pepper defined the opulent revolutionary optimism of psychedelia and instantly spread the gospel of love, acid, Eastern spirituality and electric guitars around the globe [:D] Respecting the Hippie memoria et reminiscentia of Philip Goldberg Interfaith Minister, author of 'American Veda: How Indian Spirituality Changed the West':Could it be because sometimes even mentioning the connection in a non-initiate-and -run TM-Intro [;)] was counterproductive (in the long run, at least)? Where are the Saint (Chili )Peppers in the movement now and what was and is their impact? Because TM worked, lives were changed; because lives were changed, research was done; because the research findings were impressive, doctors and psychotherapists started recommending meditation. Within a few years, Eastern philosophy and its repertoire of mind-body practices would enter the mainstream. Spirituality in America would never be the same. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNrc_sa0Bjs TELL ME WHY --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@... wrote: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/philip-goldberg/sgt-peppers-lonely-hearts-\ club -band_b_1545932.html?utm_source=Alert-blogger http://www.huffingtonpost.com/philip-goldberg/sgt-peppers-lonely-hearts\ -clu b-band_b_1545932.html?utm_source=Alert-bloggerutm_medium=emailutm_camp\ aign =Email%2BNotifications utm_medium=emailutm_campaign=Email%2BNotifications
[FairfieldLife] Re: Philip Goldberg: A Big Day in the Life: When Sgt. Pepper Blew Our Minds
a certainly nice article -nice-Latin nescius ignorant, incapable, equivalent to ne- negative prefix + sci- (stem of scīre to know; see science)Origin:12501300; Middle English: foolish, stupid Old French: silly, simple --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merudanda no_reply@... wrote: This YouTube by a certain HELTERFUCKINGSKELTER summarize IMHO the article nicely. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4G2RlBKbrM In humble mine and many many others teaching-experience in beginning and in founding constructing different forms of the movement in the 60/70s not s many [:D] start and stay-in TM because Sgt. Pepper defined the opulent revolutionary optimism of psychedelia and instantly spread the gospel of love, acid, Eastern spirituality and electric guitars around the globe [:D] Respecting the Hippie memoria et reminiscentia of Philip Goldberg Interfaith Minister, author of 'American Veda: How Indian Spirituality Changed the West':Could it be because sometimes even mentioning the connection in a non-initiate-and -run TM-Intro [;)] was counterproductive (in the long run, at least)? Where are the Saint (Chili )Peppers in the movement now and what was and is their impact? Because TM worked, lives were changed; because lives were changed, research was done; because the research findings were impressive, doctors and psychotherapists started recommending meditation. Within a few years, Eastern philosophy and its repertoire of mind-body practices would enter the mainstream. Spirituality in America would never be the same. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNrc_sa0Bjs TELL ME WHY --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@ wrote: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/philip-goldberg/sgt-peppers-lonely-hearts-\ \ club -band_b_1545932.html?utm_source=Alert-blogger http://www.huffingtonpost.com/philip-goldberg/sgt-peppers-lonely-hearts\ \ -clu b-band_b_1545932.html?utm_source=Alert-bloggerutm_medium=emailutm_camp\ \ aign =Email%2BNotifications utm_medium=emailutm_campaign=Email%2BNotifications
[FairfieldLife] Re: Celebrity TMer musicians play prom date in 1971
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: I just love this. But then, when it comes to TMers who are celebrities, there are only two in the world I'd like to meet, because out of the whole lot of them Dusty and Billy seem to be the only ones who are nice guys and might have cool stories to tell. Like the one about having to play a gig at a high school prom, shortly after your first single hits the Billboard Hot 100? Priceless. ZZ Top Prom: Photo Seems To Show Band At High School Dance Emerging today from the annals of the internet: a photo that appears to show ZZ Top at a school prom. The picture, available below, shows Dusty Hill, Frank Beard and Billy Gibbons as men who would appear to be in their early 20s. Though we can't verify it at this time, the photo matches up with an account of a 1971 appearance at the Little Cypress-Mauriceville High School prom http://orangeleader.com/entertainment/x681354316/ZZ-Top-band-at-71-prom\ ?keyword=topstory . That performance took place two years after the band was formed. People were actually crashing our prom, one student recounted. People were trying to sneak in anyway they could just to see these guys perform. It was really funny. UPDATE: A Redditor posted the following comment http://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/ua383/best_prom_ever_starring_ze\ e_zee_top_1969/c4ttqac , which seems to verify the Little Cypress-Mauriceville High School connection: This is from my dad's senior prom in May 1971! This was taken at Little Cypress-Mauriceville High School in Orange, Texas. Apparently some time between signing the contract to play for the dance and the actual prom itself, the band broke out big. They tried to get out of the contract, but the school couldn't find a replacement on such short notice so ZZ Top still performed. My dad said that people were climbing through the windows, crashing their prom, just to hear the band play. This was all at a really small school with a graduating class of around 100, maybe less. I'll try to get him to scan his yearbook that has this exact picture in it. The Reddit thread on which the image originally appeared http://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/ua383/best_prom_ever_starring_ze\ e_zee_top_1969/ identified the photo as being taken in 1969, but Hill didn't join the band until 1970. Were you at the prom? If so, leave a comment and we'll update our post accordingly. [zz top prom] Well, at least Frank doesn't seem to have a Beard... LoL!
[FairfieldLife] Re: International Meditation Society for the Science of Creative Intelligence
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merudanda no_reply@... wrote: why oh why oh why do I hear -yes why hear the laughter of butterflies about to flutter by International Meditation Society for the Science of Creative Intelligence [;)] http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2001/january8/12.76.html TM was founded as the International Meditation Society for the Science of Creative Intelligence in 1961.: Mere Transcendental Meditation:The basic concepts of neo-Vedanta philosophy(et Kennedy, John W; Hexham., Irving (January 8, 2001). Field of TM dreams. Christianity Today 45 (1): pp. 7479.) and now in Wiki In 1961, the Maharishi created the International Meditation Society for the Science of Creative Intelligence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendental_Meditation_technique#cite_re\ f-Kennedy_214-1 Meru, I been called a lot of things but never a 'neo-Vedantain'. -Buck in the Dome
[FairfieldLife] Re: ATT: BUCK
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote: Very nice blog post: a journalist takes part in a Civil War reenactment in Tennessee. The contingent from Iowa gets a lot of space: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/30/extra-strength-re-enacting/ http://tinyurl.com/c5kv23d Thanks for the heads-up post. I had heard about this. They certainly did it up righteous. Set a standard. In the 'western theatre' here I have always looked at the Mississippi River and thought we should arrive that way at some of the events along the River. The re-enacting community is going through the series of 150- anniversaries. Camping in costume with history as a theme. -Buck in the Dome
[FairfieldLife] Re: Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: Yes I caught that too. I enjoyed this Taps link a lot. I also liked the side link that Youtube then offered of all the bugle calls. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hbfl-afsfLsfeature=related When I was a younger meditator I was in the cavalry. I rode with a guy who was like this bugler. Only the guy did it bugling continuously from the saddle riding next to the officers relaying their commands. You'd be in awe just watching the guy bugle that way while on the move even in skirmish. One time we were assigned to support an artillery gun with its crew pulled by six mules. The gun crew with their mules would deploy their gun and we would screen them while they ran and fired their gun. Our company formed skirmish lines ahead of them and would open and close the line as they would load, fire, reload and then re-set the gun with their mule hitch. The whole thing was large choreography ongoing between them and us. The whole time our bugler was bugling the commands of our officers as he rode with them shifting with us. The guy was incredible, both in great quick mind and a dexterity in so many ways. -Buck in the Dome Thanks Buck. I never realized there were so many calls or that the bugler was responsible for communicating commands to such an extent. Yep, the bugle in the pre-electronic age communication. In the cavalry line moving the bugle was very much integral to it. Imagine a hundred horses and troopers to a company, ten companies to a regiment and three regiments to a brigade. The 'evolutions of the drill' on horseback moving groups of horsemen around are a beautiful sight to behold and fabulously glorious to be in the middle of when they are well practiced, led and executed. It becomes dressage in motion or the highest of 'western' riding in expression. It is just beautiful to be in the middle of the human and animal of it. A trained and experienced warhorse is something special to know in life. I've been blessed in my life. -Buck in the Dome My brother played a trumpet. I could squeak out a few notes, and then my cheeks would hurt. A bugle is way more difficult. There aren't any keys or valves, you rely on lip action. My brother learned to play trumpet at Higgins Elementary School in Detroit, which is just half a block from a fabulous old cemetery, Woodmere Cemetery. Our family burial plot is there, but besides that, it holds many memories for me. I almost drove my boyfriend's car into a pond learning to drive, scared the ducks. There are crypts and mausoleums, ornate headstone as well as many simple markers, slightly raised from the ground. The landscaping is beautiful. It has an amazing variety of trees, perfect for the grade school leaf collection I gathered and pressed between sheets of wax paper. The coolest leaf ever was the Ginkgo. Every Memorial Day, the kids took a short walk from the school to the gravesite of the soldiers who died in WWI and WWII, a hillside dotted with rows and rows of white crosses. One year my brother had his picture in the newspaper. He was dressed in his adorable blue Cub Scout uniform on the hillside of white crosses. He played taps for the soldiers on Memorial Day. I wonder if he thought about that moment today as I have. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@ wrote: I learned something as wellthe words safety, honor, closure, sacred stand out.  It is a thoughtful tune, no doubt.  Prayer is prayer, in the end.  From: Buck To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, May 28, 2012 4:59 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@ wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nhtr5J00ntA Emily, thought full link. Thanks. It's the day and the holiday too. I am remembering also old friends and comrades who have gone before us. In TM There have been a lot of old initiators, great meditators, gone before and in this year just even past. There was a really nice Memorial Day public service this morning on the Fairfield square. It was extremely appropriate, except possibly for some of the non-secular praying by mainline Christian clergy types brought in to try to further solemnize an already solemn and well done public civic event. They could have left the clergy out as being a needlessly divisive element in a civic program. Or gotten a Rabbi, Muslim, Hindoo, and Buddhist to share equal time. -Buck in the Dome
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[FairfieldLife] Re: International Meditation Society for the Science of Creative Intelligence
lol Neo-Vedanta Buck [:D] This will now stuck On you Seems shifting attention from FFL to Wikipedia becomes more and more entertaining: International Meditation Society for the Science of Creative Intelligencemissing the --uhh-mmh-President's name :Swami Sri Sri Henry Nyburg-ananda ? or President :Swami Sri Sri Charlie Lutes-ananda? or even President :Swami Sri Sri Dr. John S. Hislop-ananda? lol yea man Neo-Vedanta Buck This will now stuck On you [:D] Wikipedia relied on and quoted these sources and was again quoted here on this very very FFL forum as a fact Neo-Vedanta Buck you as a conservative American (meditator?) and unified-field-cavalry-man you will not question the authority of the Christianity Todaymagazine ? Will-y You? And its founder * Billy Graham who is taking the conservative theological position but a definite liberal approach to social problems only ?or * Irving Hexham Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada,elected Fellow of the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies at the University of Calgary and author of Forget about academic fraud? Were you sexually harassed? incl.'The Origin of Yogic Religions,' , ? Will(y) You? Irving Hexham http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Hexham http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/search.html?query=Irving+Hexham+|x=\ 7y=6 www.christianitytoday.com How about a unified-field-cavalry attack http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE1huPYerp0 or with real(Trojan ) horses against hex...@ucalgary.ca (Irving Hexham's email) against the Germans--uh -Canada- uhhh-UK Apologetics with War Horse http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuuPswprbws something to sit up mindful: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7dSmMMcsvU ? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merudanda no_reply@ wrote: why oh why oh why do I hear -yes why hear the laughter of butterflies about to flutter by International Meditation Society for the Science of Creative Intelligence [;)] http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2001/january8/12.76.html TM was founded as the International Meditation Society for the Science of Creative Intelligence in 1961.: Mere Transcendental Meditation:The basic concepts of neo-Vedanta philosophy(et Kennedy, John W; Hexham., Irving (January 8, 2001). Field of TM dreams. Christianity Today 45 (1): pp. 7479.) and now in Wiki In 1961, the Maharishi created the International Meditation Society for the Science of Creative Intelligence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendental_Meditation_technique#cite_re\ \ f-Kennedy_214-1 Meru, I been called a lot of things but never a 'neo-Vedantain'. -Buck in the Dome
[FairfieldLife] Re: International Meditation Society for the Science of Creative Intelligence
lol Neo-Vedanta Buck [:D] This will now stuck On you Seems shifting attention from FFL to Wikipedia becomes more and more entertaining: International Meditation Society for the Science of Creative Intelligencemissing the --uhh-mmh-President's name :Swami Sri Sri Henry Nyburg-ananda ? or President :Swami Sri Sri Charlie Lutes-ananda? or even President :Swami Sri Sri Dr. John S. Hislop-ananda? lol yea man Neo-Vedanta Buck This will now stuck On you [:D] Wikipedia relied on and quoted these sources and was again quoted here on this very very FFL forum as a fact Neo-Vedanta Buck you as a conservative American (meditator?) and unified-field-cavalry-man you will not question the authority of the Christianity Todaymagazine ? Will-y You? And its founder * Billy Graham who is taking the conservative theological position but a definite liberal approach to social problems only ?or * Irving Hexham Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada,elected Fellow of the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies at the University of Calgary and author of Forget about academic fraud? Were you sexually harassed? incl.'The Origin of Yogic Religions,' , ? Will(y) You? Irving Hexham http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Hexham http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/search.html?query=Irving+Hexham+|x=\ 7y=6 www.christianitytoday.com How about a unified-field-cavalry attack http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE1huPYerp0 or with real(Trojan ) horses against hexham@... (Irving Hexham's email at ucalgary.ca) against the Germans--uh -Canada- uhhh-UK Apologetics Hexham with War Horse http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuuPswprbws something to sit up mindful: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7dSmMMcsvU ? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merudanda no_reply@ wrote: why oh why oh why do I hear -yes why hear the laughter of butterflies about to flutter by International Meditation Society for the Science of Creative Intelligence [;)] http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2001/january8/12.76.html TM was founded as the International Meditation Society for the Science of Creative Intelligence in 1961.: Mere Transcendental Meditation:The basic concepts of neo-Vedanta philosophy(et Kennedy, John W; Hexham., Irving (January 8, 2001). Field of TM dreams. Christianity Today 45 (1): pp. 7479.) and now in Wiki In 1961, the Maharishi created the International Meditation Society for the Science of Creative Intelligence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendental_Meditation_technique#cite_re\ \ f-Kennedy_214-1 Meru, I been called a lot of things but never a 'neo-Vedantain'. -Buck in the Dome
[FairfieldLife] Re: my generic TM response to http://www.reddit.com/r/meditation questions
Susan: Maharishi taped the 33 lessons for the SCI course in June of 1972 in Fiuggi Fonte, Italy. This is a fact. My point was that MMY talked about the 'Science of Being' and made films and recordingd since at least 1959; later he called it 'SCI', but there's nothing in SCI that MMY covered before. But, in 1964 when I was with JJ at SIMS there were many recordings available in which the science was explained. How could Barry have missed out on the science part? Back when I started TM, there was no science to back it up. That only began to appear long after I'd learned TM... MMY created the International Meditation Society for the Science of Creative Intelligence back in 1961 and 1971 was termed by SIMS as Maharishi's Year of Science of Creative Intelligence. The Second International Symposium on the Science of Creative Intelligence was held in 1971 at the Humboldt State University campus in California. When I started TM with back in 1964 at SIMS, SCI was already a sophisticated thirty-three section course. You must have been sleeping. R.K. Wallace's TM research article appeared in Scientific American magazine in 1972. The Relaxation Response by Herbert Benson was published in 1975.
[FairfieldLife] Cyprus: TV, radio interviews bring T M to a wide audience
Cyprus: TV, radio interviews bring Transcendental Meditation to a wide audience by Global Good News staff writer Global Good News 28 May 2012 In addition to visiting five universities on the island of Cyprus, Dr Bevan Morris gave several television and radio interviews during his time there. Dr Morris, president of Maharishi University of Management, toured Cyprus with the same purpose as in every location on his recent tour of Africa and other Mediterranean countries. The tour was designed to bring the knowledge and technologies of consciousness of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi—including the Transcendental Meditation Programme—to the attention of the leadership of the country, as a means of solving problems and promoting permanent peace and prosperity. To this end, he met with local and national media outlets to talk about these programmes. In northern Cyprus, the part of the island affiliated with Turkey, Dr Morris gave one radio and two television interviews. About one interview he commented that the journalist 'was very interested, very curious' about the whole programme. Dr Morris also went to a television station in the city of Nicosia. He noted that the experience of being interviewed is always an interesting one. 'As [the reporter] is listening you can feel their mind shift from being an interviewer to being a human being, and they begin to think, ''I should do this [Transcendental Meditation] because it just sounds so important.'' ' That television show 'goes out on cable television in Turkey and anywhere Turkic people are, which is all through central Asia. So [the interview] may have had fairly far-reaching influence.' As well as giving media interviews, Dr Morris also had a meeting with the president of northern Cyprus, adding that the president's translator had travelled and studied in Iowa, USA, and felt an instant connection with the delegation representing Maharishi University of Management, which is located in Fairfield, Iowa. The president listened closely to the presentation, Dr Morris said. Theodore Pizanis, director of the Transcendental Meditation Programme in southern Cyprus, commented upon Dr Morris's visit as a catalyst for promoting harmony and integration in the country. 'We look forward to materializing all these things . . . in both the north and the south, and working together to make the island a peaceful, harmonious, and well-integrated place again.' © Copyright 2012 Global Good News®
[FairfieldLife] Sign Petition on Water Meter Opt Out: Status Report
-- Forwarded Message From: Brian Horsfield brhorsfi...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 07:45:22 -0500 To: Fairfield SafeMeters fairfieldsafemet...@gmail.com Subject: Water Meter Opt Out: Status Report I copy below the email from Michael Halley regarding the status of the opt out plan. Fairfield residents who want to opt out of the city's preferred choice of the Neptune E-Coder radio read water meter will be given the choice to opt out to the Neptune touchpad meter for an extra fee described below. This Touchpad option is what most Fairfield residents have now and is offered as an opt out to the E-Coder in another city, St Paul MN for no extra charge. See http://dl.dropbox.com/u/19769476/StPaulPioneer.pdf The City Council's proposal will be given 2 more public readings at the next 2 City Council meetings (held every 2 weeks). You are very welcome to come and comment. You can also email or phone your City Council member, contact info posted at: http://cityoffairfieldiowa.com/index.aspx?nid=114 My personal view is that the Touchpad option should be free, and should be the preferred choice of the City not the E-Coder. The cost savings haven't been clearly presented, we are told it costs the City $100 to purchase plus $75 an hour to have a touchpad installed and $10 extra a month to read it, but will cost the customer nothing to have the E-Coder installed as this is the preferred meter the City wants to use. The touchpad requires a meter reader to walk up to the house and touch a pad on the exterior of the house to get a reading once a month, instead of getting a reading transmitted to the truck passing in the street once a month in the case of the E-Coder. They anticipate if all homes had E-Coders the city would need to employ one meter reader instead of two. The longer term option the City is interested in due to the opposition to the E-Coder is the wired solution using the internet or phone lines to transmit the data. This is actually quite complex and requires a deep collaboration and cooperation amongst 4 parties involved: 1) The meter manufacturers: Neptune and Badger. (they may not be cooperative if they see this as a competition to the higher priced E-Coder) 2) A specialist firm supplying equipment to extract data from the meters for wired transmission 3) The Waterworks Dept accounting system 4) The Customer, with many different types of phone and internet hardware systems, and some homes that have no internet or landline phone. My opinion is that Touchpad is the best of the available options right now, and the cost savings of eliminating one meter reader's job must be offset against the health risks to customers of having E-Coders pulsing RF signals every 14 seconds inside their home, and also the higher cost of purchasing and installing these more sophisticated meters. Against these costs I think the cost of a years salary for a meter will be small in comparison. The petition is still open and closing in on 10% of Fairfield residents now. Please encourage your friends to sign. And check often as I am posting regular news updates there at: http://www.change.org/petitions/fairfield-city-council-please-offer-safer-al ternatives-to-the-neptune-e-coder-water-meter or the shortened version: http://tinyurl.com/FairfieldSmartMeterPetition http://tinyurl.com/FairfieldSmartMeterPetition Thanks for supporting Safer Water Meters in Fairfield! Brian Brian Horsfield, PhD. http://tinyurl.com/FairfieldSmartMeterPetition E-mail: fairfieldsafemet...@gmail.com Dear All, Tuesday night the city council voted unanimously to move the wireless meter opt-out program from its first to second of three readings. This is the first step in addressing citizen concerns about possible health effects from the meters. Our opt out program should be ready to go in the next few weeks. The second step is to look at possibilities of using a wired system of meter reading, replacing the need for any wireless meters. We council members on the Environment Committee will continue to work with a spokesperson from the citizen meter group on exploring affordable wired options that can fit within the waterworks department's budget. We will keep everyone posted on our progress as things unfold. My request to all of you is to please respect the process and refrain from sending emotionally-charged, alarmist messages to your elected officials. We all want to protect our citizens' rights, which is why we're moving so quickly on the opt-out program. The secondary goal of finding an alternative to all wireless meters will most likely come to fruition by allowing work to be done through the proper channels (i.e. citizens to committee, committee to waterworks dept, etc.). I sincerely want to find a solution that everyone can feel good about so please be supportive of our work towards that solution. Thank you all for having the courage and conviction to express your views on this topic. We, your public servants, will continue to work
[FairfieldLife] Meditate and Radiate, The Golden Dome Program.
The 'Meissner effect' is an expulsion of a magnetic field from a superconductor during its transition to the superconducting state. The ME.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: New movie: Memorial Day Celebration
On 05/30/2012 10:13 PM, raunchydog wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitunoozguru@... wrote: On 05/29/2012 08:48 PM, raunchydog wrote: I graduated from the Flip. After talking to the guys at Best Buy I decided to get a Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX30V instead of a clunky camcorder that doesn't take good pictures. The Sony zooms to 20X, it has terrific resolution, 18.2 mega pixels. It's perfect for short clips. I finally got the hang of Windows Movie Maker, and I'm feeling more confident trying out fancier effects. It turns out WMM is actually less cumbersome to use than Flip editor. http://youtu.be/iVuqYEjWLjQ Nice. I wonder why Sony doesn't do 24fps? Everyone else does. And they didn't give you at least a SE of their editor (as stripped down version of Vegas)? I downloaded Sony's editing software. The file organizer was similar to windows live photo gallery, but it was wonky, files appeared and disappeared for no apparent reason, nothing was where I thought it was supposed to be. Strike one. Sony linked to a Youtube editing demo, which recommended giving access to my entire collection of photos and videos for online storage. Strike two. I'm adverse to anything cloud. Here's the kicker: the editor needs a play station in order to work. Cost, $244. Strike three! I recently shopped and compared video editors and decided against getting one. I figured that since there would be a learning curve with anything I purchased, I might as well suck it up and learn how to use Windows Movie Maker for free. Now that I'm feeling my oats and Windows Movie Maker has been showing me a good time, I've ditched Flip for a better looking 18.2 mega pixel high resolution hottie, a sweet young thing that can Zoom 20X and never get tired. Sorry Flip, Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX30V is just too sexy, too sexy for my love. I never liked the Sony software either other than it DID have color curves in it which is a very powerful tool for adjusting colors. Their consumer level product is Sony Movie Studio and Vegas is probably the one they wanted you to buy for $244 though it is usually more like $500. Any editor is going to have it's learning curve but once learned becomes very powerful. BTW, I know someone who was on the project team for that editor and told me it was a mess under the hood. :-D Adobe Premiere was my first editor and updates were quite cheap for awhile. It was buggy though and would crash occasionally. But it had a lot of nice features and movies are being edited with it these days. My main editor for quite awhile stretching into the HD period was Ulead Media Studio Pro which made frame editing great. But Ulead more or less discontinued the product and then Corel bought them. Since Magix Movie Magic Plus was cheap I tried it and I now used version 17 of that which cost all of $20 but has a lot of features. I have also used the Avid consumer editor which I didn't like either. Avid seemed to have no clue about how to do a consumer product though they are big standard in feature films and TV editing. To give you an idea of the candy store I have a mere 8 miles away where I can pick up deals on stuff here's Fry's ad. It is electronics store based on the slim profit margin supermarket model. No wonder, the Fry's family who are from this town, started out running a grocery chain and later started adding electronics then sold off the grocery chain and focused on electronics. http://frys.com/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Meditate and Radiate, The Golden Dome Program.
The 'Meissner effect' is an expulsion of a magnetic field from a superconductor during its transition to the superconducting state. The ME. Civic virtue is the cultivation of habits of personal living that are claimed to be important for the success of the community.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps
Right...sorry. I'm not clear on why meditators are separated by gender (unless it is the distraction factor), but assume it heralds back to Hindu philosophy/dogma. It's alright though..the question is not relevant as I haven't done any research to answer it myself. From: Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 5:31 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps It was a joke in answer to someone's concern that people are sleeping in the Dome. From: Emily Reyn emilymae.r...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 6:57 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps And *why* would that matter? Sounds like a distraction to me. From: marekreavis reavisma...@sbcglobal.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 1:17 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps Share, I agree, a co-ed dome would be the answer. *** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: Oy, Surfer Dude, I also go to the Dome, albeit the women's. I don't sleep but I do get dozy sitting up. Heck even the high schoolers are laying down and sleeping. What's their excuse I'd like to know. In any case, IA people are real spiritual warriors in my opinion. How they do it day after day, year after year is beyond me. So hats off to them. PS Maybe a co-ed Dome would help people stay awake (-: From: marekreavis reavismarek@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 12:34 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps  Buck, apparently no one on this list goes to the domes to meditate except you. Why don't you assign yourself the job of meditation overseer and whip the spiritual slugs, as you call them, into shape. You know, shape up or ship out. Don't be easy on them, either. Isn't your Unified Field a wrathful and vengeful god? Marek in the water. *** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: You know, both from experience and evidently the science I am full of hope for the Dome group meditation program but damit, some overseer needs to be going along and summarily ask the nodders masquerading as meditators to leave the dome. What a bunch of nodding duds. Spiritual slugs. There it was again, an area of the dome I sat in this morning has fifteen people sitting, only a third of them were awake. Jeezus. It's this way up and down the line further. Two thirds to three quarters asleep at their posts. There should at least be black tea service at the Dome before meditation or kick the sleepers and nodders out as the drag they are on world consciousness. Contribute or get out. Sit the heck up and meditate or go home, -Buck in the Dome --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@ wrote: That is sooo funny and sooo perfect.  No excuse! :) From: merudanda no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 1:18 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps  keisaku?? xiaang(rï¾Æ'｡ng) baan- kyï¾…è¡Å'aku I know people who say that they love going to the dome because they sleep so well there. A rather arrogant attitude, IMO. Nablusoss is correct on that. I think it is incredibly disrespectful of the whole group meditation whence some would come in and just lay down. Yep it's just a wont of character in those laying down in the Dome during meditation.Shows a blight of character. It's like they just give up. This needs a General Patton to come along and slap them up on the side of their dumb knuckle heads. Help them get their spiritual self-respect back. -Buck in the Dome --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@ wrote: From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of nablusoss1008 Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2012 12:55 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com , Rick Archer rick@ wrote: Om, dare we use the words, Sit up and 'mindfully' attend to the meditation. ? I've been
[FairfieldLife] Eating well: Moringa on Dr. Oz Show
Dear friends, We often hear the lies about how productive GMO food is, or how necessary pesticides are. In reality, there are many plants who are - by nature - resilient and can adapt to different climates and flourish even if there are parasites around. But guess what, information about these source of green, sustainable food are often hidden from the main-stream media. Is it because, in the information age of Internet, no one knows about it? Or because they prefer to keep us ignoring these healthy, sustainable and affordable options? Please share with us other plants etc. with high nutrition value and that can be grown for personal use, on a small scale. We are compiling a list of them. Also, please share this email with your closests friends, because you are the only one who can. If you don't, the stream of information stops here. Thanks. For now, we released a book (free as we write) about Moringa Oleifera. It is one of the most useful tree in the world. With highly nutritious leaves,it provides significant amounts of beta-carotene, Vitamin C, Vitamin A, protein, iron and potassium. It is GMO-free, does not require pesticides and it grows with little/no fertilizers (for small scale, personal use). The more we learn and share about it online, the more mainstream media will have to talk about it. It has been featured on Dr. Show in April 2012, a video can be found on http://tinyurl.com/MoringaDrOz You can discover how you can benefit from Moringa Oleifera, and get an overview of how to grow it if you decide to, with the book (free as we write): http://tinyurl.com/MoringaOleiferaBook Thanks for reading and sharing. Jai Guru Dev.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@... wrote: Right...sorry.  I'm not clear on why meditators are separated by gender (unless it is the distraction factor), but assume it heralds back to Hindu philosophy/dogma.  It's alright though..the question is not relevant as I haven't done any research to answer it myself.  Emily, you got it. There was an element of logistical privacy practicality, also PR and rumors about what was going on inside, and there is an element of caste and dis-empowering by divide-and-conquer in running a large movement. It's a small top-down organization where the top and access was strictly limited, actively doled out and a lot of subjugating happening in process. Someone was saying the other day, no it was not a cult, it is a culture. Like with so much, people dealt with the dissonance in their own way and filter the annoying stuff. In consequence notice the TM movement is a tiny tight remnant of what it once was. From: Share Long sharelong60@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 5:31 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps  It was a joke in answer to someone's concern that people are sleeping in the Dome. From: Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 6:57 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps  And *why* would that matter?  Sounds like a distraction to me.  From: marekreavis reavismarek@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 1:17 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps  Share, I agree, a co-ed dome would be the answer. *** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@ wrote: Oy, Surfer Dude, I also go to the Dome, albeit the women's.àI don't sleep but I do get dozy sitting up.àHeck even the high schoolers are laying down and sleeping.àWhat's their excuse I'd like to know. In any case, IA people are real spiritual warriors in my opinion.àHow they do it day after day, year after year is beyond me.àSo hats off to them. PSàMaybe a co-ed Dome would help people stay awake (-: From: marekreavis reavismarek@ To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 12:34 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps àBuck, apparently no one on this list goes to the domes to meditate except you. Why don't you assign yourself the job of meditation overseer and whip the spiritual slugs, as you call them, into shape. You know, shape up or ship out. Don't be easy on them, either. Isn't your Unified Field a wrathful and vengeful god? Marek in the water. *** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: You know, both from experience and evidently the science I am full of hope for the Dome group meditation program but damit, some overseer needs to be going along and summarily ask the nodders masquerading as meditators to leave the dome. What a bunch of nodding duds. Spiritual slugs. There it was again, an area of the dome I sat in this morning has fifteen people sitting, only a third of them were awake. Jeezus. It's this way up and down the line further. Two thirds to three quarters asleep at their posts. There should at least be black tea service at the Dome before meditation or kick the sleepers and nodders out as the drag they are on world consciousness. Contribute or get out. Sit the heck up and meditate or go home, -Buck in the Dome --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@ wrote: That is sooo funny and sooo perfect. ÃâàNo excuse! :) From: merudanda no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 1:18 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps Ãâàkeisaku?? xiaang(rïþÃ'ïýáng) baan- kyïþââ¬Â¦Ã¨Ã¡à 'aku I know people who say that they love going to the dome because they sleep so well there. A rather arrogant attitude, IMO. Nablusoss is correct on that. I think it is incredibly disrespectful of the whole group meditation whence some would come in and just lay down. Yep it's just a wont of character in those laying down in the Dome during meditation. Shows a blight of
[FairfieldLife] GURU PURNIMA 2012 Global Summer Assembly
https://www.mgcwp.org/ico/emailing/2012-06-30-GURU_PURNIMA/2012-06-30-GURU_PURNIMA.html GURU PURNIMA 2012 Global Summer Assembly web page | PDF Click to image to see the video presentation Global Summer Assembly The Rajas, Raj Rajeshwaris, and Ministers of the Global Country of World Peace warmly invite all Governors, Sidhas, and Meditators from all countries to participate in the Global Summer Assembly, celebrating the full sunshine of Pure Knowledge at MERU, Holland. * Full Assembly (29 June – 15 July) includes all programmes detailed in this announcement. * Phase 1 of the Assembly (29 June – 8 July) will also include a special conference for all National Directors under the guidance of Maharaja Adhiraj Rajaraam, Guru Purnima celebrations on 3 July including Rudrabhishek Peace Yagya by Maharishi Vedic Pandits. Also on 29, 30 June, and 1 July everyone will enjoy fabulous Maharishi Gandharva Veda concerts. * Short Assembly (29 June – 4 July) will include Guru Purnima celebrations on 3 July including Rudrabhishek Peace Yagya, and from 29 June to 1 July, fabulous Maharishi Gandharva Veda concerts. * GMDO Directors and ladies who would like to participate in the all-ladies assembly can enjoy an enlightening GMDO Fifth International Congress 2012 (22 – 28 June) with the Raj Rajeshwaris and Mother Divine. Participants will have the option to extend and attend the Guru Purnima assemblies described above. Daily Highlights * Group Programme—‘Every individual should be full of life, very highly energetic with the light of life from within, and then all advancement in every field of man's concern will be possible. For this opportunity, for this possibility of human existence that man could be advancing more, he could be more—he could accept the challenge of time and would not give in to defeat of advancement and progress, no. Progress will be more and more, advancement will be more and more, civilization will be better and better, and for this we ring the bell of every home, “come on, meditate”.’ —Maharishi * Daily Enlightening Historic Video Lectures by Maharishi * Recitations by the Maharishi Vedic Pandits—Enlivening the impulses of Creative Intelligence that reside in your own self-referral awareness by enjoying daily recitations performed by Maharishi Vedic Pandits. Guru Purnima Day at MERU—3 July 2012 A Warm Invitation for Your Presence at The Annual Global Celebration of Guru Purnima— Celebrating the Eternal Vedic Tradition of Knowledge Featuring Rudrabhishek Yagya for World Peace Guru Purnima is that special full moon day in the year when we come together to offer all our gratitude and our year’s achievements to Guru Dev, Maharishi, and the Holy Tradition of Masters. Participants at the MERU Assembly will have the unique opportunity to attend global Guru Puja and enjoy an historic GuruPurnima address by Maharishi. An additional highlight of the Assembly will be live performance of a Rudrabhishek Peace Yagya by Maharishi Vedic Pandits. This will be performed outside in front of Maharishi’s House on a stage over the pond with the audience comfortably seated in a covered grandstand and surrounded by the beautiful natural environment of the Meinweg Forest. Rudrabhishek is that powerful Yagya which is especially vital for creating peace in the world and connects the flow of human life on earth with its silent source in the field of the Transcendent—the field of eternal peace. Global National Directors’ Conference—29 June – 8 July National Directors and the 12 Directors of the Global Country of World Peace from all countries are invited to join this conference to offer their achievements and enliven the future success of Maharishi's Movement everywhere. The Global Conference from 29 June – 8 July will be presided overby Maharaja Adhiraj Rajaraam. Prime Minister Bevan Morris will guide the proceedings in the presence of the Rajas and Ministers. ‘Let us be together, let us eat together, let us be vital together, let us be radiating truth, radiating the light of life. Never shall we denounce anyone, never entertain negativity.’ —Taittiriya Upanishad The conference will have a rich programme and include many presentations on different subjects. This will be a great opportunity for National Directors to consolidate and strengthen their countries' activities in the presence of their Rajas. Global Mother Divine Organisation Fifth International Congress, 22 – 28 June 2012 with option to extend and attend the Guru Purnima Assembly as a special guest of GMDO The Raj Rajeshwaris of the Global Country of World Peace warmly welcome all lady Governors, Sidhas, and Meditators to join us for our Fifth International Congress of the Global Mother Divine Organisation (GMDO). We hope that every country will send a delegation,
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps
To that I'd say that the question might be relevant even if you haven't done any research on it. Asking is a form of research, yes? From: Emily Reyn emilymae.r...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2012 11:32 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps Right...sorry. I'm not clear on why meditators are separated by gender (unless it is the distraction factor), but assume it heralds back to Hindu philosophy/dogma. It's alright though..the question is not relevant as I haven't done any research to answer it myself. From: Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 5:31 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps It was a joke in answer to someone's concern that people are sleeping in the Dome. From: Emily Reyn emilymae.r...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 6:57 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps And *why* would that matter? Sounds like a distraction to me. From: marekreavis reavisma...@sbcglobal.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 1:17 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps Share, I agree, a co-ed dome would be the answer. *** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: Oy, Surfer Dude, I also go to the Dome, albeit the women's. I don't sleep but I do get dozy sitting up. Heck even the high schoolers are laying down and sleeping. What's their excuse I'd like to know. In any case, IA people are real spiritual warriors in my opinion. How they do it day after day, year after year is beyond me. So hats off to them. PS Maybe a co-ed Dome would help people stay awake (-: From: marekreavis reavismarek@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 12:34 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps  Buck, apparently no one on this list goes to the domes to meditate except you. Why don't you assign yourself the job of meditation overseer and whip the spiritual slugs, as you call them, into shape. You know, shape up or ship out. Don't be easy on them, either. Isn't your Unified Field a wrathful and vengeful god? Marek in the water. *** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: You know, both from experience and evidently the science I am full of hope for the Dome group meditation program but damit, some overseer needs to be going along and summarily ask the nodders masquerading as meditators to leave the dome. What a bunch of nodding duds. Spiritual slugs. There it was again, an area of the dome I sat in this morning has fifteen people sitting, only a third of them were awake. Jeezus. It's this way up and down the line further. Two thirds to three quarters asleep at their posts. There should at least be black tea service at the Dome before meditation or kick the sleepers and nodders out as the drag they are on world consciousness. Contribute or get out. Sit the heck up and meditate or go home, -Buck in the Dome --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@ wrote: That is sooo funny and sooo perfect.  No excuse! :) From: merudanda no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 1:18 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps  keisaku?? xiaang(rï¾Æ'｡ng) baan- kyï¾…è¡Å'aku I know people who say that they love going to the dome because they sleep so well there. A rather arrogant attitude, IMO. Nablusoss is correct on that. I think it is incredibly disrespectful of the whole group meditation whence some would come in and just lay down. Yep it's just a wont of character in those laying down in the Dome during meditation.Shows a blight of character. It's like they just give up. This needs a General Patton to come along and slap them up on the side of their dumb knuckle heads. Help them get their spiritual self-respect back. -Buck in the Dome --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@ wrote: From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of nablusoss1008 Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2012 12:55 PM
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps
Maybe dividing by gender was just an easy way to avoid having to build one gigantic Dome. From: Buck dhamiltony...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2012 11:56 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@... wrote: Right...sorry.  I'm not clear on why meditators are separated by gender (unless it is the distraction factor), but assume it heralds back to Hindu philosophy/dogma.  It's alright though..the question is not relevant as I haven't done any research to answer it myself.  Emily, you got it. There was an element of logistical privacy practicality, also PR and rumors about what was going on inside, and there is an element of caste and dis-empowering by divide-and-conquer in running a large movement. It's a small top-down organization where the top and access was strictly limited, actively doled out and a lot of subjugating happening in process. Someone was saying the other day, no it was not a cult, it is a culture. Like with so much, people dealt with the dissonance in their own way and filter the annoying stuff. In consequence notice the TM movement is a tiny tight remnant of what it once was. From: Share Long sharelong60@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 5:31 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps  It was a joke in answer to someone's concern that people are sleeping in the Dome. From: Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 6:57 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps  And *why* would that matter?  Sounds like a distraction to me.  From: marekreavis reavismarek@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 1:17 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps  Share, I agree, a co-ed dome would be the answer. *** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@ wrote: Oy, Surfer Dude, I also go to the Dome, albeit the women's. I don't sleep but I do get dozy sitting up. Heck even the high schoolers are laying down and sleeping. What's their excuse I'd like to know. In any case, IA people are real spiritual warriors in my opinion. How they do it day after day, year after year is beyond me. So hats off to them. PS Maybe a co-ed Dome would help people stay awake (-: From: marekreavis reavismarek@ To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 12:34 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps  Buck, apparently no one on this list goes to the domes to meditate except you. Why don't you assign yourself the job of meditation overseer and whip the spiritual slugs, as you call them, into shape. You know, shape up or ship out. Don't be easy on them, either. Isn't your Unified Field a wrathful and vengeful god? Marek in the water. *** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: You know, both from experience and evidently the science I am full of hope for the Dome group meditation program but damit, some overseer needs to be going along and summarily ask the nodders masquerading as meditators to leave the dome. What a bunch of nodding duds. Spiritual slugs. There it was again, an area of the dome I sat in this morning has fifteen people sitting, only a third of them were awake. Jeezus. It's this way up and down the line further. Two thirds to three quarters asleep at their posts. There should at least be black tea service at the Dome before meditation or kick the sleepers and nodders out as the drag they are on world consciousness. Contribute or get out. Sit the heck up and meditate or go home, -Buck in the Dome --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@ wrote: That is sooo funny and sooo perfect.  No excuse! :) From: merudanda no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 1:18 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps  keisaku?? xiaang(rï¾Æ'｡ng) baan- kyï¾…è¡Å'aku I know people who say that they love going to the dome because they sleep so well there. A
[FairfieldLife] Re: Eating well: Moringa on Dr. Oz Show
I'm gonna let this one slide, but it's a wee bit more along the lines of a commercial advertisement than I like. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fraakind fraakind@... wrote: Dear friends, We often hear the lies about how productive GMO food is, or how necessary pesticides are. In reality, there are many plants who are - by nature - resilient and can adapt to different climates and flourish even if there are parasites around. But guess what, information about these source of green, sustainable food are often hidden from the main-stream media. Is it because, in the information age of Internet, no one knows about it? Or because they prefer to keep us ignoring these healthy, sustainable and affordable options? Please share with us other plants etc. with high nutrition value and that can be grown for personal use, on a small scale. We are compiling a list of them. Also, please share this email with your closests friends, because you are the only one who can. If you don't, the stream of information stops here. Thanks. For now, we released a book (free as we write) about Moringa Oleifera. It is one of the most useful tree in the world. With highly nutritious leaves,it provides significant amounts of beta-carotene, Vitamin C, Vitamin A, protein, iron and potassium. It is GMO-free, does not require pesticides and it grows with little/no fertilizers (for small scale, personal use). The more we learn and share about it online, the more mainstream media will have to talk about it. It has been featured on Dr. Show in April 2012, a video can be found on http://tinyurl.com/MoringaDrOz You can discover how you can benefit from Moringa Oleifera, and get an overview of how to grow it if you decide to, with the book (free as we write): http://tinyurl.com/MoringaOleiferaBook Thanks for reading and sharing. Jai Guru Dev.
[FairfieldLife] Sunday afternoon: Dr. Morris to speak on his tour of Africa
During our IA Assembly's Experience Meeting, Bevan said this meeting should be open to our Community. From: MUM Development Office developm...@mum.edu Subject: Sunday afternoon: Dr. Morris to speak on his tour of Africa Date: May 31, 2012 11:35:41 AM CDT Dr. Bevan Morris will speak to the community this Sunday afternoon, June 3, at 1:30 p.m. in Dalby Hall, showing slides of his recent 100-day tour of 14 African nations and 5 Mediterranean nations. During his tour, Dr. Morris met with two presidents, a prime minister, two meditating former presidents, 16 ministers and deputy ministers, and many other government leaders and educators -- and found an unparalleled level of receptivity to Consciousness-Based education and Maharishi's other programs. He also visited our Consciousness-Based schools in various countries in Africa. Come and enjoy the stories and pictures of this remarkable journey.
[FairfieldLife] Re: International Meditation Society for the Science of Creative Intelligence
merudanda: In 1961, the Maharishi created the International Meditation Society for the Science of Creative Intelligence The definitive presentation of TM (1) as interpreted by the founder of the Science of Creative Intelligence (2) recorded live at Jones Hall, on Saturday, at 7:42 p.m. October 20, in Houston, Texas 1972. The practice is to bring the transcendental conciousness out into activity. The practice establishes a permanent state of unbounded bliss conciousness (1). I owe all this knowledge to my Master. It is his teaching (2). - MMY 1. A Promise for the Family of Man 'An Introduction to SCI' By Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Live, Jones Hall, Houston, 1972 VHS Video, 60 min. Color. MIU Historic Film Series 2. Ibid. Video. VHS. Color. 60 min. Historic Film Series Maharishi International University
[FairfieldLife] Re: Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps
Someone is going to get a thesis out of it sooner or later. Women and Transcendental Meditation. For instance, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/311037 There's some books being researched and written on TM. So far not much interest on the particular history of TM and gender. I'm thinking some of the professional writers here in their free time, Turqb?, could pencil an abstract on the subject as a guide. -Buck in the Dome http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/311037 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: Maybe dividing by gender was just an easy way to avoid having to build one gigantic Dome. From: Buck To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2012 11:56 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@ wrote: Right...sorry. àI'm not clear on why meditators are separated by gender (unless it is the distraction factor), but assume it heralds back to Hindu philosophy/dogma. àIt's alright though..the question is not relevant as I haven't done any research to answer it myself. àEmily, you got it. There was an element of logistical privacy practicality, also PR and rumors about what was going on inside, and there is an element of caste and dis-empowering by divide-and-conquer in running a large movement. It's a small top-down organization where the top and access was strictly limited, actively doled out and a lot of subjugating happening in process. Someone was saying the other day, no it was not a cult, it is a culture. Like with so much, people dealt with the dissonance in their own way and filter the annoying stuff. In consequence notice the TM movement is a tiny tight remnant of what it once was. From: Share Long sharelong60@ To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 5:31 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps àIt was a joke in answer to someone's concern that people are sleeping in the Dome. From: Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@ To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 6:57 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps àAnd *why* would that matter? àSounds like a distraction to me. àFrom: marekreavis reavismarek@ To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 1:17 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps àShare, I agree, a co-ed dome would be the answer. *** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@ wrote: Oy, Surfer Dude, I also go to the Dome, albeit the women's.ÃâàI don't sleep but I do get dozy sitting up.ÃâàHeck even the high schoolers are laying down and sleeping.ÃâàWhat's their excuse I'd like to know. In any case, IA people are real spiritual warriors in my opinion.ÃâàHow they do it day after day, year after year is beyond me.ÃâàSo hats off to them. PSÃâàMaybe a co-ed Dome would help people stay awake (-: From: marekreavis reavismarek@ To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 12:34 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps ÃâàBuck, apparently no one on this list goes to the domes to meditate except you. Why don't you assign yourself the job of meditation overseer and whip the spiritual slugs, as you call them, into shape. You know, shape up or ship out. Don't be easy on them, either. Isn't your Unified Field a wrathful and vengeful god? Marek in the water. *** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: You know, both from experience and evidently the science I am full of hope for the Dome group meditation program but damit, some overseer needs to be going along and summarily ask the nodders masquerading as meditators to leave the dome. What a bunch of nodding duds. Spiritual slugs. There it was again, an area of the dome I sat in this morning has fifteen people sitting, only a third of them were awake. Jeezus. It's this way up and down the line further. Two thirds to three quarters asleep at their posts. There should at least be black tea service at the Dome before meditation or kick the sleepers and nodders out as the drag they are on world consciousness.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@ wrote: Right...sorry.  I'm not clear on why meditators are separated by gender (unless it is the distraction factor), but assume it heralds back to Hindu philosophy/dogma.  It's alright though..the question is not relevant as I haven't done any research to answer it myself.  Emily, you got it. Yes, you did. It's based on Hindu philosophy and dogma. Separation of the sexes has been a facet of the TMO since the mid-70s. ATR (advanced courses for TM teachers) and teacher training courses in Europe have been held at different facilities for men and women (I refuse to use the TM euphemism ladies) pretty much without exception since that time. In the US, back when I ran the Regional Office that coordinated in-residence courses for TMers during that period of time, International Staff in Switzerland (read Bliss Nazis) demanded that we segregate our courses as well. We refused, for pragmatic as well as moral reasons. For example, the facilities we dealt with would have ceased working with us if we'd asked them to violate state laws by creating segregated courses. International staff even at one point wanted us to prevent married couples from sharing a room; they became apoplectic over the phone when we told them that the facilities we worked with had no problem with unmarried couples (or gay couples) sharing a room. We may have been TBs at the time, but even most of the TBs hated the Bliss Nazis. :-) There was an element of logistical privacy practicality, also PR and rumors about what was going on inside... Not all of them were rumors. :-) Not in flying domes, which did not come into existence until I was leaving the TMO, but on non-segregated ATR courses in the US there was a completely normal indulgence in...uh... fraternization and sex. On my last such course at Cobb Mountain in Northern California, many participants noted that they went there rather than to Europe because We can get laid here, and we can't there. It was the Seventies, before AIDS and before the Indian prudery had taken over the TMO completely. :-) ...and there is an element of caste and dis-empowering by divide-and-conquer in running a large movement. What Buck is trying NOT to say is that women have *never* had any position of power within the TMO. Segregating the women physically was a reflection of this reality more than it was a strategy for enforcing it. It's a small top-down organization where the top and access was strictly limited, actively doled out and a lot of subjugating happening in process. Someone was saying the other day, no it was not a cult, it is a culture. I disagree. It was, and remains, a cult. YMMV. Like with so much, people dealt with the dissonance in their own way and filter the annoying stuff. Another way of saying this is that most people just STFU and accepted it, because of the all-important mantra Maharishisez. In consequence notice the TM movement is a tiny tight remnant of what it once was. And yet, still the same as it ever was. From: Share Long sharelong60@ To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 5:31 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps It was a joke in answer to someone's concern that people are sleeping in the Dome. From: Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@ To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 6:57 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps  And *why* would that matter?  Sounds like a distraction to me.  From: marekreavis reavismarek@ To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 1:17 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps  Share, I agree, a co-ed dome would be the answer. *** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@ wrote: Oy, Surfer Dude, I also go to the Dome, albeit the women's.àI don't sleep but I do get dozy sitting up.àHeck even the high schoolers are laying down and sleeping.àWhat's their excuse I'd like to know. In any case, IA people are real spiritual warriors in my opinion.àHow they do it day after day, year after year is beyond me.àSo hats off to them. PSàMaybe a co-ed Dome would help people stay awake (-: From: marekreavis reavismarek@ To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 12:34 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding
[FairfieldLife] Re: Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: Someone is going to get a thesis out of it sooner or later. Women and Transcendental Meditation. For instance, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/311037 There's some books being researched and written on TM. So far not much interest on the particular history of TM and gender. I'm thinking some of the professional writers here in their free time, Turqb?, could pencil an abstract on the subject as a guide. -Buck in the Dome See the post that follows this one, Buck. If you still want me to write such a book, get back to me. :-) I've encountered very few spiritual movements that treated women as badly, and with as little respect, as the TMO.
[FairfieldLife] Re: my generic TM response to http://www.reddit.com/r/meditation questions
marekreavis: And despite the TMO/MUM declaration that SCI was founded in 1970, that is apocryphal rewrite of history, I believe... Apparently a lot of SIMS folks don't realize that SCI had been a part of MMY's SRM program by 1964. So, MMY created the International Meditation Society for the Science of Creative Intelligence in 1961. 'Transcendental Meditation technique' http://tinyurl.com/7tmc7nz The SCI 'tapes' were recorded in 1972 and before that hundreds of hours of film. But, somehow Barry missed out on all the science! Go figure. An Annotated Reference: On the level of common sense we INFER that there must be something underlying all activity. We are POSTULATING that at the basis of creation there is an unbounded reservoir of energy and intelligence (1). Deep at the source of thought is unbounded bliss conciousness. The mind takes that direction spontaneously, NOT through practice. I am empahasizing the effortlessnes of Transcendental Meditation. It is NOT the practice of taking that direction. NOT THE PRACTICE (2). It is the nature of the mind to move in a direction of greater happiness. The practice is NOT NEEDED to reach the goal. - MMY 1. 'A Promise for the Family of Man' 'An Introduction to SCI' Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Audio Cassette, 60 min. SIMS Film and Tape Library 1972 2. Ibid. Audio Cassette Tape. 60 min. MIU Film and Tape Library
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It's a small top-down organization where the top and access was strictly limited, actively doled out and a lot of subjugating happening in process. Someone was saying the other day, no it was not a cult, it is a culture... turquoiseb: I disagree. It was, and remains, a cult. YMMV. Now isn't that the pot calling the kettle black! From Pat: You seem like some typical cult casualty of the sixties and seventies,most of your youth in cults, first Rama then TM, now some weird cynical Tantra where you hide behind smilies to cover up your bitterness and agression while dumping your cynical opinions on everyone. You still maintain phantasies about TM and Rama at the same time attacking both. At least Willytex believes he has found something authentic and has stuck by it all these years and does not have the agression and bitterness you have. At least he is consistent; he might even have taken something in TM and found something authentic for himself, who knows. You are one mixed up sad old man embittered because you never found the holy grail you were falsely promised by your gurus. I doubt you will ever find anything authentic spiritually for yourself; you need some guru to indoctrinate you with false promises; then you whinge like a baby when you have invested all the time and money in your gurus and believe you have not got your candy. You are cult fodder Unc. always wondering about your image and status, a herd mentality follower with a simplistic mind behind all the tantra stuff. Hence your simplistic childish remarks dividing people up into losers and winners based on whether they go out before or after ten pm. Image and status and how you are perceived are all important to you Unc. Read more: Subject: Re: To Unc Author: Pat Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental Date: August 10, 2003 7:40 am http://tinyurl.com/7j7pgcw
[FairfieldLife] Re: Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: Someone is going to get a thesis out of it sooner or later. Women and Transcendental Meditation. For instance, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/311037 There's some books being researched and written on TM. So far not much interest on the particular history of TM and gender. I'm thinking some of the professional writers here in their free time, Turqb?, could pencil an abstract on the subject as a guide. -Buck in the Dome See the post that follows this one, Buck. If you still want me to write such a book, get back to me. :-) I've encountered very few spiritual movements that treated women as badly, and with as little respect, as the TMO. Well, a quick read of yours and a search of the FFL archive someone is going to cut their academic teeth on something 'gender and TM': http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/168923 -Buck
[FairfieldLife] Re: Women and the Transcendental Meditation movement.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: Annual Conference, 2012 Conference Theme: Women in Communes and Related Issues of Boundedness, Identity, and Standing OCTOBER 4 6, 2012 http://www.communalstudies.org/annualconference The Communal Studies Association publishes a scholarly journal twice yearly (spring and fall) containing peer-reviewed articles on communal groups past and present, with an emphasis on those in the United States. http://www.communalstudies.org/journal A Call for papers to be published: To examine the lives of women in communes, we invite papers that might address, but are not limited to, such topics as: How were standards of gender constructed in communes and how did they differ from dominant, outside constructs? What were women's expectations and experiences of community life? How do researchers get that information? Did the women have access to personal and/or political power? Did women experience greater or reduced opportunities for education and self-development in communes? To what extent did communal women control their own bodies and duties? How were decisions madefor them or by them? The Communal Studies Association publishes a scholarly journal twice yearly (spring and fall) containing peer-reviewed articles on communal groups past and present, with an emphasis on those in the United States. http://www.communalstudies.org/journal
[FairfieldLife] Re: Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@ wrote: Right...sorry.  I'm not clear on why meditators are separated by gender (unless it is the distraction factor), but assume it heralds back to Hindu philosophy/dogma.  It's alright though..the question is not relevant as I haven't done any research to answer it myself.  Emily, you got it. Yes, you did. It's based on Hindu philosophy and dogma. Separation of the sexes has been a facet of the TMO since the mid-70s. ATR (advanced courses for TM teachers) and teacher training courses in Europe have been held at different facilities for men and women (I refuse to use the TM euphemism ladies) pretty much without exception since that time. In the US, back when I ran the Regional Office that coordinated in-residence courses for TMers during that period of time, International Staff in Switzerland (read Bliss Nazis) demanded that we segregate our courses as well. We refused, for pragmatic as well as moral reasons. For example, the facilities we dealt with would have ceased working with us if we'd asked them to violate state laws by creating segregated courses. International staff even at one point wanted us to prevent married couples from sharing a room; they became apoplectic over the phone when we told them that the facilities we worked with had no problem with unmarried couples (or gay couples) sharing a room. We may have been TBs at the time, but even most of the TBs hated the Bliss Nazis. :-) There was an element of logistical privacy practicality, also PR and rumors about what was going on inside... Not all of them were rumors. :-) Not in flying domes, which did not come into existence until I was leaving the TMO, but on non-segregated ATR courses in the US there was a completely normal indulgence in...uh... fraternization and sex. On my last such course at Cobb Mountain in Northern California, many participants noted that they went there rather than to Europe because We can get laid here, and we can't there. It was the Seventies, before AIDS and before the Indian prudery had taken over the TMO completely. :-) Well, as we've learned from the David Wants to Fly video, evidently the problem was from the top-down back in those days. Yep, obviously free-love was so out of control then that more proper spiritual moral values needed to be re-instilled. It seems to his credit that he brought an end to the wont promiscuity and brought things around. ...and there is an element of caste and dis-empowering by divide-and-conquer in running a large movement. What Buck is trying NOT to say is that women have *never* had any position of power within the TMO. Segregating the women physically was a reflection of this reality more than it was a strategy for enforcing it. It's a small top-down organization where the top and access was strictly limited, actively doled out and a lot of subjugating happening in process. Someone was saying the other day, no it was not a cult, it is a culture. I disagree. It was, and remains, a cult. YMMV. Like with so much, people dealt with the dissonance in their own way and filter the annoying stuff. Another way of saying this is that most people just STFU and accepted it, because of the all-important mantra Maharishisez. In consequence notice the TM movement is a tiny tight remnant of what it once was. And yet, still the same as it ever was. From: Share Long sharelong60@ To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 5:31 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps It was a joke in answer to someone's concern that people are sleeping in the Dome. From: Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@ To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 6:57 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps  And *why* would that matter?  Sounds like a distraction to me.  From: marekreavis reavismarek@ To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 1:17 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps  Share, I agree, a co-ed dome would be the answer. *** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@ wrote: Oy, Surfer Dude, I also go to the Dome, albeit the women's.àI don't sleep but I do get dozy sitting up.àHeck even the high schoolers are laying down and
[FairfieldLife] Re: Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@... wrote: Right...sorry. I'm not clear on why meditators are separated by gender (unless it is the distraction factor), but assume it heralds back to Hindu philosophy/dogma. Theoretically, males and females have a different quality of vibes. That's not exactly an esoteric idea, but in the TM context (and some other spiritual contexts as well) it has practical implications not generally found in the nonspiritual context. The vibe differences are particularly important for group practice of the TM-Sidhis, since the purpose of the practice is to generate coherence (i.e., in the collective consciousness, both among practitioners and in the outside world). Presumably the coherence is more powerful if the folks in the group generating it have similar vibes to begin with. If men and women were to practice in the same group, their respective vibes would not be in perfect harmony, and the coherence generated by the practice would therefore not be as powerful. As I understand it, it's fine for a man and a woman in a committed relationship to do their practice together because the nature of that relationship harmonizes their contrasting vibes. Not sure about other family relationships--a mother and a son, for instance. Maybe someone else knows. (This assumes they're practicing by themselves rather than in a big group.) In addition to this, when it comes to the Yogic Flying part of the practice, there's also an element similar to the reasons some women might not feel entirely comfortable working out in a gym along with men. Hopping is often not very graceful, and men in particular tend to make various undignified noises (although the directive for both men and women is to make as little noise as possible). The sheer physicality of it would be distracting in a mixed-gender group. When I learned Yogic Flying at MUM (then MIU), I was very scornful of the notion that men's and women's vibes would conflict enough to warrant separation. We were seated on opposite sides of the auditorium for lectures; men and women weren't supposed to associate with each other even during our free time. (The Yogic Flying part of the TM- Sidhis course lasted for only two weeks, so I figured I could live with it, silly as it was.) At some point after the first week--we'd been doing lots of meditation--I was out strolling after lunch with a few of my female buddies when we ran into several of the men, also out strolling. One of the women knew one of the men, and we all stopped while they had a conversation. Entirely unexpectedly and to my complete astonishment, I had a very powerful sense of my own vibes being almost violently disrupted by the vibes from these men, even though I was just standing by, not interacting with them. Hard to describe, but unmistakeable and quite unpleasant. I could hardly wait until the conversation was finished and my buddies and I could walk away. And these were perfectly inoffensive men, not brutish or crude in any way. So I had to conclude there might be a basis for keeping men and women separated on TM courses or during heavy-duty practice, as with the TM-Sidhis. I didn't like it much, but I'd had a very vivid demonstration of it. I hasten to add that that sense of disruption around men didn't last once the course was over, thank goodness. Having been immersed in meditation for days at a time must have somehow enhanced my sensitivity to the differences in male and female vibes on that level. As to the ordinary, non-esoteric vibes in everyday life, as they say, Vive la différence!  It's alright though..the question is not relevant as I haven't done any research to answer it myself.  From: Share Long sharelong60@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 5:31 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps  It was a joke in answer to someone's concern that people are sleeping in the Dome. From: Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 6:57 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps  And *why* would that matter?  Sounds like a distraction to me.  From: marekreavis reavismarek@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 1:17 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps  Share, I agree, a co-ed dome would be the answer. *** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@ wrote: Oy, Surfer Dude, I also go to the Dome, albeit the women's.àI don't sleep but I do get dozy sitting up.àHeck even the high schoolers are laying down and sleeping.àWhat's
[FairfieldLife] Re: Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps
turquoiseb: On my last such course at Cobb Mountain in Northern California, many participants noted that they went there rather than to Europe because We can get laid here, and we can't there. So, that's why you quit ATR and moved to Europe. Buck: Yep, obviously free-love was so out of control then that more proper spiritual moral values needed to be re-instilled... Yep, but Turq can still dream! So I'm in this dream, being systematically seduced by a buncha women who are using their obvious sex appeal to get me interested in their spiritual trip. Because I'm a weak-willed s.o.b., even in the dream plane, I go along with it, hoping to score a piece of astral... Read more: Subject: Strange lucid dream for Jer :-) Author: Uncle Tantra Newsgroups: alt.dreams.castaneda Date: September 10, 2002 12:10 pm http://tinyurl.com/7ovfwgp
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Share..Ha ha...that *is* humorous. Re: relevance. I didn't want to pose a question that is easily discovered by a simple google search (if that was the case). It's like asking a 100 level question in a 400 level class, because one didn't bother to do the homework, for example. My observation is that the vast majority of participants on this forum are quite intelligent, intellectual, experienced and well-educated in their various passions/practices - at least well enough to have hearty debates on the various aspects of spirituality. I arrived here through a different channel and have stayed because I get a fair amount out of the forum, even without having the specific context. And, it helped pull me out of a pretty severe physical, mental and emotional collapse and attendant depression a year ago to where I am now - mostly by letting it all wash over and trying to read what was being written and follow the threads. Overall, I find this place encouraging in many ways, challenging, informative, real, patient (at least with me) and endlessly humorous. What Xeno said recently in his response to my post about starting Qi Gong was for me, brilliant, and spot on in terms of what I need to be doing at this point in my life. Thank you also for sending me that link. From: Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2012 10:03 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps Maybe dividing by gender was just an easy way to avoid having to build one gigantic Dome. From: Buck dhamiltony...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2012 11:56 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@... wrote: Right...sorry.  I'm not clear on why meditators are separated by gender (unless it is the distraction factor), but assume it heralds back to Hindu philosophy/dogma.  It's alright though..the question is not relevant as I haven't done any research to answer it myself.  Emily, you got it. There was an element of logistical privacy practicality, also PR and rumors about what was going on inside, and there is an element of caste and dis-empowering by divide-and-conquer in running a large movement. It's a small top-down organization where the top and access was strictly limited, actively doled out and a lot of subjugating happening in process. Someone was saying the other day, no it was not a cult, it is a culture. Like with so much, people dealt with the dissonance in their own way and filter the annoying stuff. In consequence notice the TM movement is a tiny tight remnant of what it once was. From: Share Long sharelong60@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 5:31 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps  It was a joke in answer to someone's concern that people are sleeping in the Dome. From: Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 6:57 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps  And *why* would that matter?  Sounds like a distraction to me.  From: marekreavis reavismarek@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 1:17 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps  Share, I agree, a co-ed dome would be the answer. *** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@ wrote: Oy, Surfer Dude, I also go to the Dome, albeit the women's. I don't sleep but I do get dozy sitting up. Heck even the high schoolers are laying down and sleeping. What's their excuse I'd like to know. In any case, IA people are real spiritual warriors in my opinion. How they do it day after day, year after year is beyond me. So hats off to them. PS Maybe a co-ed Dome would help people stay awake (-: From: marekreavis reavismarek@ To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 12:34 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps  Buck, apparently no one on this list goes to the domes to meditate except you. Why don't you assign yourself the job of meditation overseer and whip the spiritual slugs, as you call them, into shape. You know, shape up or ship out. Don't be easy on them, either. Isn't your Unified Field a wrathful and
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Yes, you did. It's based on Hindu philosophy and dogma. At least one tantric teacher, David Deida, used to teach that Hindu puritanism actually was not native at all. It was foisted on them by the great foisters, the British. From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2012 1:29 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@ wrote: Right...sorry.  I'm not clear on why meditators are separated by gender (unless it is the distraction factor), but assume it heralds back to Hindu philosophy/dogma.  It's alright though..the question is not relevant as I haven't done any research to answer it myself.  Emily, you got it. Yes, you did. It's based on Hindu philosophy and dogma. Separation of the sexes has been a facet of the TMO since the mid-70s. ATR (advanced courses for TM teachers) and teacher training courses in Europe have been held at different facilities for men and women (I refuse to use the TM euphemism ladies) pretty much without exception since that time. In the US, back when I ran the Regional Office that coordinated in-residence courses for TMers during that period of time, International Staff in Switzerland (read Bliss Nazis) demanded that we segregate our courses as well. We refused, for pragmatic as well as moral reasons. For example, the facilities we dealt with would have ceased working with us if we'd asked them to violate state laws by creating segregated courses. International staff even at one point wanted us to prevent married couples from sharing a room; they became apoplectic over the phone when we told them that the facilities we worked with had no problem with unmarried couples (or gay couples) sharing a room. We may have been TBs at the time, but even most of the TBs hated the Bliss Nazis. :-) There was an element of logistical privacy practicality, also PR and rumors about what was going on inside... Not all of them were rumors. :-) Not in flying domes, which did not come into existence until I was leaving the TMO, but on non-segregated ATR courses in the US there was a completely normal indulgence in...uh... fraternization and sex. On my last such course at Cobb Mountain in Northern California, many participants noted that they went there rather than to Europe because We can get laid here, and we can't there. It was the Seventies, before AIDS and before the Indian prudery had taken over the TMO completely. :-) ...and there is an element of caste and dis-empowering by divide-and-conquer in running a large movement. What Buck is trying NOT to say is that women have *never* had any position of power within the TMO. Segregating the women physically was a reflection of this reality more than it was a strategy for enforcing it. It's a small top-down organization where the top and access was strictly limited, actively doled out and a lot of subjugating happening in process. Someone was saying the other day, no it was not a cult, it is a culture. I disagree. It was, and remains, a cult. YMMV. Like with so much, people dealt with the dissonance in their own way and filter the annoying stuff. Another way of saying this is that most people just STFU and accepted it, because of the all-important mantra Maharishisez. In consequence notice the TM movement is a tiny tight remnant of what it once was. And yet, still the same as it ever was. From: Share Long sharelong60@ To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 5:31 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps It was a joke in answer to someone's concern that people are sleeping in the Dome. From: Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@ To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 6:57 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps  And *why* would that matter?  Sounds like a distraction to me.  From: marekreavis reavismarek@ To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 1:17 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps  Share, I agree, a co-ed dome would be the answer. *** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@ wrote: Oy, Surfer Dude, I also go to the Dome, albeit the women's. I don't sleep but I do get dozy sitting up. Heck even the high schoolers are laying down and sleeping. What's their excuse I'd like to know. In any case,
[FairfieldLife] Re: Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: Yes, you did. It's based on Hindu philosophy and dogma. At least one tantric teacher, David Deida, used to teach that Hindu puritanism actually was not native at all. It was foisted on them by the great foisters, the British. More accurately, when the British took over India, the continued their tradition of strict enforcement of local laws and customs, which included enforcement of Hindu Caste Law, which, until then, had been mostly custom encouraged by the Brahmin caste, but ignored by virtually everyone. Before the British took over, it was quite common for people to marry upwards into a higher caste, or to migrate to another part of the country so that they could ply a new trade, thereby establishing themselves as being part of a different caste. However, with the central authority and records-keeping of the British, this became much more difficult, and Indian culture and tradition stagnated. Before the British, only the Brahmin caste had an interest in rigid control. After the British, far more people thought it was the real Hindu way of doing things and started telling on each other for doing what was a tradition that probably was far closer to the original caste system than what the Brahmins insisted was proper. BTW, as far as separation of sexes during yogic flying goes, regardless of any religious/cultural baggage, it makes perfect sense: People are far more inhibited in behavior and movement when they are in the presence of the opposite sex, and very few of us are dignified in how we bounce around, and trying to remain dignified would be counter to spontaneity which is part of TM-sidhis practice. [see ya all Saturday -last post] L From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2012 1:29 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@ wrote: Right...sorry. àI'm not clear on why meditators are separated by gender (unless it is the distraction factor), but assume it heralds back to Hindu philosophy/dogma. àIt's alright though..the question is not relevant as I haven't done any research to answer it myself. àEmily, you got it. Yes, you did. It's based on Hindu philosophy and dogma. Separation of the sexes has been a facet of the TMO since the mid-70s. ATR (advanced courses for TM teachers) and teacher training courses in Europe have been held at different facilities for men and women (I refuse to use the TM euphemism ladies) pretty much without exception since that time. In the US, back when I ran the Regional Office that coordinated in-residence courses for TMers during that period of time, International Staff in Switzerland (read Bliss Nazis) demanded that we segregate our courses as well. We refused, for pragmatic as well as moral reasons. For example, the facilities we dealt with would have ceased working with us if we'd asked them to violate state laws by creating segregated courses. International staff even at one point wanted us to prevent married couples from sharing a room; they became apoplectic over the phone when we told them that the facilities we worked with had no problem with unmarried couples (or gay couples) sharing a room. We may have been TBs at the time, but even most of the TBs hated the Bliss Nazis. :-) There was an element of logistical privacy practicality, also PR and rumors about what was going on inside... Not all of them were rumors. :-) Not in flying domes, which did not come into existence until I was leaving the TMO, but on non-segregated ATR courses in the US there was a completely normal indulgence in...uh... fraternization and sex. On my last such course at Cobb Mountain in Northern California, many participants noted that they went there rather than to Europe because We can get laid here, and we can't there. It was the Seventies, before AIDS and before the Indian prudery had taken over the TMO completely. :-) ...and there is an element of caste and dis-empowering by divide-and-conquer in running a large movement. What Buck is trying NOT to say is that women have *never* had any position of power within the TMO. Segregating the women physically was a reflection of this reality more than it was a strategy for enforcing it. It's a small top-down organization where the top and access was strictly limited, actively doled out and a lot of subjugating happening in process. Someone was saying the other day, no it was not a cult, it is a culture. I disagree. It was, and remains, a cult. YMMV. Like with so much, people dealt with the dissonance in their own way
[FairfieldLife] Re: Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps
For starters, Finnish women are, I believe notoriously keenly interested in foreign men, probably because 60 percent of Finnish *men* (but not women) are not-so-attractive descendants of Siberian mammoth hunters. During my siddhis block, or whatever, a Polish immigrant governor was playfully attacked by a female wanna-be-siddhaa. In addition to the above mentioned reason, it might be that the attractiveness of a male TM-sidha is greatly enhanced because of his yogic practices, as mentioned in at least yogatattvopaniSat (yoga-tattva-upanishad): 54. As a frog moves by leaps, so the Yogin sitting in the Padma posture moves on the earth. With a (further) increased practice, he is able to rise from the ground. 55. He, while seated in Padma posture, levitates. There arises to him the power to perform extraordinary feats. 56. He does (or should) not disclose to others his feats of great powers (in the path). Any pain small or great, does not affect the Yogin. 57. Then excretions and sleep are diminished; tears, rheum in the eye, salivary flow, sweat and bad smell in the mouth do not arise in him. 58-60. With a still further practice, he acquires great strength by which he attains Bhuchara Siddhi, which enables him to bring under his control all the creatures that tread this earth; tigers, Sarabhas (an animal with eight legs), elephants, with bulls or lions die on being struck by the palm of the Yogin. He becomes as beautiful as the god of love himself. 61-62. All females being taken up with the beauty of his person will desire to have intercourse with him. If he so keeps connection, his virility will be lost; so abandoning all copulation with women, he should continue his practice with great assiduity. By the preservation of the semen, a good odour pervades the body of the Yogin. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@ wrote: Right...sorry. I'm not clear on why meditators are separated by gender (unless it is the distraction factor), but assume it heralds back to Hindu philosophy/dogma. Theoretically, males and females have a different quality of vibes. That's not exactly an esoteric idea, but in the TM context (and some other spiritual contexts as well) it has practical implications not generally found in the nonspiritual context. The vibe differences are particularly important for group practice of the TM-Sidhis, since the purpose of the practice is to generate coherence (i.e., in the collective consciousness, both among practitioners and in the outside world). Presumably the coherence is more powerful if the folks in the group generating it have similar vibes to begin with. If men and women were to practice in the same group, their respective vibes would not be in perfect harmony, and the coherence generated by the practice would therefore not be as powerful. As I understand it, it's fine for a man and a woman in a committed relationship to do their practice together because the nature of that relationship harmonizes their contrasting vibes. Not sure about other family relationships--a mother and a son, for instance. Maybe someone else knows. (This assumes they're practicing by themselves rather than in a big group.) In addition to this, when it comes to the Yogic Flying part of the practice, there's also an element similar to the reasons some women might not feel entirely comfortable working out in a gym along with men. Hopping is often not very graceful, and men in particular tend to make various undignified noises (although the directive for both men and women is to make as little noise as possible). The sheer physicality of it would be distracting in a mixed-gender group. When I learned Yogic Flying at MUM (then MIU), I was very scornful of the notion that men's and women's vibes would conflict enough to warrant separation. We were seated on opposite sides of the auditorium for lectures; men and women weren't supposed to associate with each other even during our free time. (The Yogic Flying part of the TM- Sidhis course lasted for only two weeks, so I figured I could live with it, silly as it was.) At some point after the first week--we'd been doing lots of meditation--I was out strolling after lunch with a few of my female buddies when we ran into several of the men, also out strolling. One of the women knew one of the men, and we all stopped while they had a conversation. Entirely unexpectedly and to my complete astonishment, I had a very powerful sense of my own vibes being almost violently disrupted by the vibes from these men, even though I was just standing by, not interacting with them. Hard to describe, but unmistakeable and quite unpleasant. I could hardly wait until the conversation was finished and my buddies and I could walk away. And these were perfectly inoffensive men, not brutish or crude in any
[FairfieldLife] Re: Eating well: Moringa on Dr. Oz Show
This tree is also called horseradish tree in many places. The leaves, roots and pods are prepared and eaten in different ways. I ate quite a lot of this plant when I was in traveling around the Philippines (PI). There, it is often served with steamed/boiled fish, sort of like spinach - and is similar in texture/flavor. In PI, it grows everywhere like (ahem...) a weed. One thing I notice about PI, is once you get away from the large cities - the poor people are extremely healthy, muscular, fit and long-lived (Did I mention happy?). (Fish, veggies,fruit, sweet potato just a little rice). I did buy some moringa last week at the local Asian Market in the Bay Areajust for kicks. It was five dollars for a small branch. I do not believe in magic foods anymore, but,I think we all (Americans) probably need to eat more leaves and stuff...
[FairfieldLife] Re: Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@... wrote: For starters, Finnish women are, I believe notoriously keenly interested in foreign men, probably because 60 percent of Finnish *men* (but not women) are not-so-attractive descendants of Siberian mammoth hunters. During my siddhis block, or whatever, a Polish immigrant governor was playfully attacked by a female wanna-be-siddhaa. A finnish fellow presented his ex-girlfriend on a course and wanted me to have her with the words; mokkava vittu or something like that. I declined even though she was very beautiful. I never understood his words anyway :-)
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--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, FFL PostCount ffl.postcount@... wrote: Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): Sat May 26 00:00:00 2012 End Date (UTC): Sat Jun 02 00:00:00 2012 327 messages as of (UTC) Thu May 31 22:23:33 2012 49 sparaig LEnglish5@... A manual count of my own Gmail feed says this is correct. So, you have one more post for the week. Use it well, young Skywalker.
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[FairfieldLife] Re: Meditate and Radiate, The Golden Dome Program.
The 'Meissner effect' is an expulsion of a magnetic field from a superconductor during its transition to the superconducting state. The ME. Civic virtue is the cultivation of habits of personal living that are claimed to be important for the success of the community. You know, the Domes are really an extraordinary place to meditate. It's there in the spiritual experience and so too says the science now. '..the words safety, honor, closure, sacred stand out.'
[FairfieldLife] Re: Meditate and Radiate, The Golden Dome Program.
The 'Meissner effect' is an expulsion of a magnetic field from a superconductor during its transition to the superconducting state. The ME. Civic virtue is the cultivation of habits of personal living that are claimed to be important for the success of the community. You know, the Domes are really an extraordinary place to meditate. It's there in the spiritual experience and so too says the science now. '..the words safety, honor, closure, sacred stand out.' To me an old guard meditator I find it a complete blight of character in some meditators who would come to live here in Fairfield and not make use of the Domes. Not contribute. That people would even quit and then move away certainly gives one pause also. But, to live in Fairfield and not go to the Dome for meditation while here? That's a poverty of spirit and lack of civic virtue. That's bad. -Buck in the Dome
[FairfieldLife] Re: Sunday afternoon: Dr. Morris to speak on his tour of Africa
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Dick Mays dickmays@... wrote: During our IA Assembly's Experience Meeting, Bevan said this meeting should be open to our Community. When's he going to let someone else be President of the University? Isn't 'Prime Minister' enough and wouldn't president 'emeritus' president cover it? You know, give the actual job title to someone who would do something with it. Maybe give it to the person who is actually doing the job. Like, let it go to a dedicated real academic from within the university community? From: MUM Development Office development@... Subject: Sunday afternoon: Dr. Morris to speak on his tour of Africa Date: May 31, 2012 11:35:41 AM CDT Dr. Bevan Morris will speak to the community this Sunday afternoon, June 3, at 1:30 p.m. in Dalby Hall, showing slides of his recent 100-day tour of 14 African nations and 5 Mediterranean nations. During his tour, Dr. Morris met with two presidents, a prime minister, two meditating former presidents, 16 ministers and deputy ministers, and many other government leaders and educators -- and found an unparalleled level of receptivity to Consciousness-Based education and Maharishi's other programs. He also visited our Consciousness-Based schools in various countries in Africa. Come and enjoy the stories and pictures of this remarkable journey.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Meditate and Radiate, The Golden Dome Program.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: The 'Meissner effect' is an expulsion of a magnetic field from a superconductor during its transition to the superconducting state. The ME. Civic virtue is the cultivation of habits of personal living that are claimed to be important for the success of the community. You know, the Domes are really an extraordinary place to meditate. It's there in the spiritual experience and so too says the science now. '..the words safety, honor, closure, sacred stand out.' To me an old guard meditator I find it a complete blight of character in some meditators who would come to live here in Fairfield and not make use of the Domes. Not contribute. That people would even quit and then move away certainly gives one pause also. But, to live in Fairfield and not go to the Dome for meditation while here? That's a poverty of spirit and lack of civic virtue. That's bad. -Buck in the Dome In this Yoga, O joy of the Kurus, the resolute intellect is one- pointed, but many-branched and endlessly diverse are the intellects of the irresolute. II:41
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps
You see now, how funny is that as a comment, without even exploring the veracity of it. *Extremely*, and so apropo in so many contexts. From: Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2012 1:13 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps Yes, you did. It's based on Hindu philosophy and dogma. At least one tantric teacher, David Deida, used to teach that Hindu puritanism actually was not native at all. It was foisted on them by the great foisters, the British. From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2012 1:29 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@ wrote: Right...sorry.  I'm not clear on why meditators are separated by gender (unless it is the distraction factor), but assume it heralds back to Hindu philosophy/dogma.  It's alright though..the question is not relevant as I haven't done any research to answer it myself.  Emily, you got it. Yes, you did. It's based on Hindu philosophy and dogma. Separation of the sexes has been a facet of the TMO since the mid-70s. ATR (advanced courses for TM teachers) and teacher training courses in Europe have been held at different facilities for men and women (I refuse to use the TM euphemism ladies) pretty much without exception since that time. In the US, back when I ran the Regional Office that coordinated in-residence courses for TMers during that period of time, International Staff in Switzerland (read Bliss Nazis) demanded that we segregate our courses as well. We refused, for pragmatic as well as moral reasons. For example, the facilities we dealt with would have ceased working with us if we'd asked them to violate state laws by creating segregated courses. International staff even at one point wanted us to prevent married couples from sharing a room; they became apoplectic over the phone when we told them that the facilities we worked with had no problem with unmarried couples (or gay couples) sharing a room. We may have been TBs at the time, but even most of the TBs hated the Bliss Nazis. :-) There was an element of logistical privacy practicality, also PR and rumors about what was going on inside... Not all of them were rumors. :-) Not in flying domes, which did not come into existence until I was leaving the TMO, but on non-segregated ATR courses in the US there was a completely normal indulgence in...uh... fraternization and sex. On my last such course at Cobb Mountain in Northern California, many participants noted that they went there rather than to Europe because We can get laid here, and we can't there. It was the Seventies, before AIDS and before the Indian prudery had taken over the TMO completely. :-) ...and there is an element of caste and dis-empowering by divide-and-conquer in running a large movement. What Buck is trying NOT to say is that women have *never* had any position of power within the TMO. Segregating the women physically was a reflection of this reality more than it was a strategy for enforcing it. It's a small top-down organization where the top and access was strictly limited, actively doled out and a lot of subjugating happening in process. Someone was saying the other day, no it was not a cult, it is a culture. I disagree. It was, and remains, a cult. YMMV. Like with so much, people dealt with the dissonance in their own way and filter the annoying stuff. Another way of saying this is that most people just STFU and accepted it, because of the all-important mantra Maharishisez. In consequence notice the TM movement is a tiny tight remnant of what it once was. And yet, still the same as it ever was. From: Share Long sharelong60@ To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 5:31 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps It was a joke in answer to someone's concern that people are sleeping in the Dome. From: Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@ To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 6:57 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps  And *why* would that matter?  Sounds like a distraction to me.  From: marekreavis reavismarek@ To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 1:17 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of
[FairfieldLife] Re: Meditate and Radiate, The Golden Dome Program.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: The 'Meissner effect' is an expulsion of a magnetic field from a superconductor during its transition to the superconducting state. The ME. Civic virtue is the cultivation of habits of personal living that are claimed to be important for the success of the community. You know, the Domes are really an extraordinary place to meditate. It's there in the spiritual experience and so too says the science now. '..the words safety, honor, closure, sacred stand out.' To me an old guard meditator I find it a complete blight of character in some meditators who would come to live here in Fairfield and not make use of the Domes. Not contribute. That people would even quit and then move away certainly gives one pause also. But, to live in Fairfield and not go to the Dome for meditation while here? That's a poverty of spirit and lack of civic virtue. That's bad. -Buck in the Dome In this Yoga, O joy of the Kurus, the resolute intellect is one- pointed, but many-branched and endlessly diverse are the intellects of the irresolute. G,II:41 When they quit and move away I can't remember their names.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps
Very interesting and it does make sense in terms of vibes. [I won't comment on coherence, of course :)] Outside of the meditation context, the difference in vibes also holds true, energetically, IMHO. From: authfriend jst...@panix.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2012 12:20 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@... wrote: Right...sorry. I'm not clear on why meditators are separated by gender (unless it is the distraction factor), but assume it heralds back to Hindu philosophy/dogma. Theoretically, males and females have a different quality of vibes. That's not exactly an esoteric idea, but in the TM context (and some other spiritual contexts as well) it has practical implications not generally found in the nonspiritual context. The vibe differences are particularly important for group practice of the TM-Sidhis, since the purpose of the practice is to generate coherence (i.e., in the collective consciousness, both among practitioners and in the outside world). Presumably the coherence is more powerful if the folks in the group generating it have similar vibes to begin with. If men and women were to practice in the same group, their respective vibes would not be in perfect harmony, and the coherence generated by the practice would therefore not be as powerful. As I understand it, it's fine for a man and a woman in a committed relationship to do their practice together because the nature of that relationship harmonizes their contrasting vibes. Not sure about other family relationships--a mother and a son, for instance. Maybe someone else knows. (This assumes they're practicing by themselves rather than in a big group.) In addition to this, when it comes to the Yogic Flying part of the practice, there's also an element similar to the reasons some women might not feel entirely comfortable working out in a gym along with men. Hopping is often not very graceful, and men in particular tend to make various undignified noises (although the directive for both men and women is to make as little noise as possible). The sheer physicality of it would be distracting in a mixed-gender group. When I learned Yogic Flying at MUM (then MIU), I was very scornful of the notion that men's and women's vibes would conflict enough to warrant separation. We were seated on opposite sides of the auditorium for lectures; men and women weren't supposed to associate with each other even during our free time. (The Yogic Flying part of the TM- Sidhis course lasted for only two weeks, so I figured I could live with it, silly as it was.) At some point after the first week--we'd been doing lots of meditation--I was out strolling after lunch with a few of my female buddies when we ran into several of the men, also out strolling. One of the women knew one of the men, and we all stopped while they had a conversation. Entirely unexpectedly and to my complete astonishment, I had a very powerful sense of my own vibes being almost violently disrupted by the vibes from these men, even though I was just standing by, not interacting with them. Hard to describe, but unmistakeable and quite unpleasant. I could hardly wait until the conversation was finished and my buddies and I could walk away. And these were perfectly inoffensive men, not brutish or crude in any way. So I had to conclude there might be a basis for keeping men and women separated on TM courses or during heavy-duty practice, as with the TM-Sidhis. I didn't like it much, but I'd had a very vivid demonstration of it. I hasten to add that that sense of disruption around men didn't last once the course was over, thank goodness. Having been immersed in meditation for days at a time must have somehow enhanced my sensitivity to the differences in male and female vibes on that level. As to the ordinary, non-esoteric vibes in everyday life, as they say, Vive la différence!  It's alright though..the question is not relevant as I haven't done any research to answer it myself.  From: Share Long sharelong60@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 5:31 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps  It was a joke in answer to someone's concern that people are sleeping in the Dome. From: Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 6:57 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps  And *why* would that matter?  Sounds like a distraction to me.  From: marekreavis reavismarek@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditate and Radiate, The Golden Dome Program.
IMO, the attractiveness of Fairfield is due to its eclectic nature, emphasis on eclectic. You are a part of that. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink. OR, People, like horses, will only do what they have a mind to do. The reason you can't remember the names of those that left may be due to old age. Ha. Are you taking Lion's Mane yet? http://www.mushroomscience.com/products/lions-mane-mushroom/ From: Buck dhamiltony...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2012 7:46 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditate and Radiate, The Golden Dome Program. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: The 'Meissner effect' is an expulsion of a magnetic field from a superconductor during its transition to the superconducting state. The ME. Civic virtue is the cultivation of habits of personal living that are claimed to be important for the success of the community. You know, the Domes are really an extraordinary place to meditate. It's there in the spiritual experience and so too says the science now. '..the words safety, honor, closure, sacred stand out.' To me an old guard meditator I find it a complete blight of character in some meditators who would come to live here in Fairfield and not make use of the Domes. Not contribute. That people would even quit and then move away certainly gives one pause also. But, to live in Fairfield and not go to the Dome for meditation while here? That's a poverty of spirit and lack of civic virtue. That's bad. -Buck in the Dome In this Yoga, O joy of the Kurus, the resolute intellect is one- pointed, but many-branched and endlessly diverse are the intellects of the irresolute. G,II:41 When they quit and move away I can't remember their names.
