date:20120729

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merudanda no_reply@... wrote:

 Re-watching Jane's circle of light [:x] 3 min speech her so 
 humbly defining the suffocating anxiety that goes into executing  
 a flawlessly flowof a scene of great mesmerizing  intoxicating, 
 exhilarating and terrifying  potential --I wonder if turquoiseb  
 are-was just searching for these achievement of one take 
 orchestral perfection in his watching and reviewing movies since 
 he started in the mask of Uncle Tantra [:D]  ..or?

Absolutely. Thank you for finding this clip on YouTube
and posting it; Jane was amazing in that interview. I
have never really worked in the movies, but I've been
on a number of movie sets and watched from the outside
that very gauntlet that she describes so well in terms
of how it feels from the inside. 

When you see a truly GREAT moment onscreen, in which some
actor or actress delivers a performance that takes your
breath away, try to remember what it was like for them
to film it. They're in a grungy warehouse, surrounded by
sets, klieg lights, and a couple of hundred technicians
and/or gawkers. In some cases (for example, if the scene
is doing pick ups, showing one character's face in 
closeup as opposed to both characters in the frame, the
other actor in the dialogue ISN'T EVEN THERE to bounce 
off of. All of the magic that fuels the scene for the 
actor or actress has to be in their heads. It really 
is an artform.

If you're asking whether some of my writing experiments
here on FFL are of the one take variety, the answer
is again, absolutely. I get a wild hair up my ass about
some subject and just sit down at the keyboard and allow
the energy to flow. If it seems to have flowed well, when
I get to end of it, I don't even bother to rescan it for
spelling errors or typos; I just press Send.

And just think...in all these years, surrendering to the
flow of the writing, not once has either what I was 
writing about or who I was writing to become so obsessive
for me that I lost track of my Post Count and pressed 
Send accidentally. :-) 

Carlos Castaneda once defined the actions of a spiritual
warrior as controlled folly. I always liked that. What
you're tripping on as you try to act a scene perfectly,
or capture a creative thought in writing as it flows by,
is to some extent folly. You're walking a high wire, and
without a net. Folly *alone* is stupid, and people rarely
appreciate or applaud it. It's the control aspect that
makes it art.

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merudanda no_reply@ wrote:
 
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eqyk4VgYntE
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eqyk4VgYntE
  Unfortunately, too much of the conversation is a little clichéd
 and
  wine-fueled and so many stars are presented in rapid succession,
  Arquette's one-on-one conversations works best.
 
  For five -six spellbinding minutes, Fonda takes us into  her soul
  ,offers up her personal  kind of peak moment experience of the
 ultimate
  ecstasy of movie acting .If you love movies, agree, this segment alone
  makes Searching for Debra Winger worth watching. You could/should
 just
  jump straight to Scene 22.
  Stunning photos at
 
 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/27/about-face-timothy-greenfield-s\
 \
  anders_n_1711344.html#slide=1285846
 
 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/27/about-face-timothy-greenfield-\
 \
  sanders_n_1711344.html#slide=1285846
  thanks
 
 http://www.hbo.com/documentaries/about-face-the-supermodels-then-and-now\
 \
  /index.html
  http://tinyurl.com/7csz6j7
 
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote:
  snip
  . The whole film was IMO worth seeing just for Jane Fonda's
   segment. At the time, this was the first time she'd been in front of
   film cameras for over a decade, having retired from the biz. But to
  see
   her deal with the question of what was *best* about her whole
  experience
   in the movies is itself worth the price of admission.
  
   Searching For Debra Winger. Good film.
  
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-GALaD2kuE
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-GALaD2kuE

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What 50+ is like if you're a supermodel

Here's the link to that scene on youtube called Jane Fonda on acting


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eqyk4VgYntE

sigh



 From: merudanda no_re...@yahoogroups.com
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2012 2:11 AM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: What 50+ is like if you're a supermodel
 

  
Re-watching Jane's circle of light3 min speech her so humbly defining the 
suffocating anxiety that goes into executing  a flawlessly flowof a scene of 
great mesmerizing  intoxicating, exhilarating and terrifying  potential --I 
wonder if turquoiseb are-was just  searching for these achievement  ofone 
take orchestral perfection in his watching and reviewing movies since he  
started in the mask of Uncle Tantra ..or?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merudanda no_reply@... wrote:

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eqyk4VgYntE
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eqyk4VgYntE
 Unfortunately, too much of the conversation is a little  clichéd and
 wine-fueled and so many stars are presented in rapid succession,
 Arquette's one-on-one conversations works best.
 
 For five -six spellbinding minutes, Fonda takes us into  her soul
 ,offers up her personal  kind of peak moment experience of the ultimate
 ecstasy of movie acting .If you love movies, agree, this segment alone
 makes Searching for Debra Winger worth watching. You could/should just
 jump straight to Scene 22.
 Stunning photos at
 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/27/about-face-timothy-greenfield-s\
 anders_n_1711344.html#slide=1285846
 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/27/about-face-timothy-greenfield-\
 sanders_n_1711344.html#slide=1285846
 thanks
 http://www.hbo.com/documentaries/about-face-the-supermodels-then-and-now\
 /index.html
 http://tinyurl.com/7csz6j7
 
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote:
 snip
 . The whole film was IMO worth seeing just for Jane Fonda's
  segment. At the time, this was the first time she'd been in front of
  film cameras for over a decade, having retired from the biz. But to
 see
  her deal with the question of what was *best* about her whole
 experience
  in the movies is itself worth the price of admission.
 
  Searching For Debra Winger. Good film.
 
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-GALaD2kuE
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-GALaD2kuE

[FairfieldLife] Re: What 50+ is like if you're a supermodel


--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote:


 And just think...in all these years, surrendering to the
 flow of the writing, not once has either what I was 
 writing about or who I was writing to become so obsessive
 for me that I lost track of my Post Count and pressed 
 Send accidentally. :-) 
 
 Carlos Castaneda once defined the actions of a spiritual
 warrior as controlled folly. I always liked that. What
 you're tripping on as you try to act a scene perfectly,
 or capture a creative thought in writing as it flows by,
 is to some extent folly. You're walking a high wire, and
 without a net. Folly *alone* is stupid, and people rarely
 appreciate or applaud it. It's the control aspect that
 makes it art.
 

I always have liked the concept of the 'controlled folly', as well as the 
Castaneda books. As the controlled folly is applied in the 'art of stalking', 
you should think that our main stalkers here on board should know about it, but 
not so.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count



--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, marekreavis reavismarek@... wrote:

 Buck, who do you believe it is that follows FFL so avidly and who we would be 
 surprised do?
 
 ***

Marek,  Scholars, journalists, and people inside and outside of Fairfield look 
in here to get a handle on Fairfield when they are looking for perspective.  
They evidently look for criticism that sheds light.  There's way more readers 
than writers here.  
It is always interesting to see who privately e-mails from lurking on the side, 
or who comments when uptown over subjects and things posted on FFL.  Almost 
always lurkers as an audience deride the bickering between some writers on FFL 
that gets in the way of content.   In conversation here in town folks often 
suggest things they would like to have said on FFL though they only lurk. You'd 
be surprised who the audience is both inside Fairfield and outside.  
-Buck in FF

 
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote:
 
  
  
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote:
  
   --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius 
   anartaxius@ wrote:
   
Is there some reason people are interested in us?
   
   Not bloody likely. :-)
  
  
  Dear Mr.Turguoiseb, I would respectfully disagree with your (narrow) POV on 
  this.
  I found the recent discussion of SSRS's instruction on silent awareness 
  during meditation versus the other brand meditation to be particularly well 
  drawn out on both sides.  It was very interesting.  I would suspect that 
  both interested parties, camps of SSRS-AOL'ers and MMY-TM'ers, were 
  downloading the proceedings like crazy following through the discussion 
  that discerned some very interesting spiritual nuance.  It was very 
  interesting indeed and certainly drove readership.  There were some other 
  subjects too during the period which evidently drove FFL downloads by 
  non-member lurkers.  This new 'exceeding download' error message seems to 
  revolve around periods of content driven downloads.  Unless these were 
  denial of service downloads, we should expect now that Yahoo in its 
  liquidation would sell FFL as an asset that actually drives content views.  
  You'd be amazed who all the audience of this place is.  Some writers would 
  be embarrassed if they realized.
  -Buck

[FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count



--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, marekreavis reavismarek@... wrote:

 Buck, who do you believe it is that follows FFL so avidly and who we would be 
 surprised do?
 
 ***

Marek, there are more lurkers than you think, as there are also many inactive 
members, many just don't want to participate in fights or expose themselves to 
the public, so they don't post.

But apart form that, FFL very frequently tops Google searches for very special 
search terms. Obviously people are not interested in the kind of quibbles some 
here have specialized in, but there are still interesting topics coming up, 
with some, I think quite sophisticated input. 

I have checked access to the group, when not being logged in, and access to 
other public Yahoo groups, I am not a member of, and it seemed there was no 
problem in the other groups, but one would have to test this a little more. 
That bots can play a role is obvious, as there are sometimes captchas coming 
along with Google searches, especially if there are a lot of searches coming 
from one IP. This is to filter out bots.

Logging in would be one means by Yahoo to ensure it is not an automated 
request. Bot activity is obviously quite common and widespread in the internet, 
so it does not mean that it is necessarily directed against FFL in particular, 
OTOH it cannot be excluded, whoever says the opposite is lying.

As we have a mirror site, it would be easy for lurkers to go just there, if 
they only knew, not so likely if they are coming from Google search. Maybe the 
mirror site should be mentioned in the intro text, of course one would have to 
ensure it is not against Yahoo policies.

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote:
 
  
  
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote:
  
   --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius 
   anartaxius@ wrote:
   
Is there some reason people are interested in us?
   
   Not bloody likely. :-)
  
  
  Dear Mr.Turguoiseb, I would respectfully disagree with your (narrow) POV on 
  this.
  I found the recent discussion of SSRS's instruction on silent awareness 
  during meditation versus the other brand meditation to be particularly well 
  drawn out on both sides.  It was very interesting.  I would suspect that 
  both interested parties, camps of SSRS-AOL'ers and MMY-TM'ers, were 
  downloading the proceedings like crazy following through the discussion 
  that discerned some very interesting spiritual nuance.  It was very 
  interesting indeed and certainly drove readership.  There were some other 
  subjects too during the period which evidently drove FFL downloads by 
  non-member lurkers.  This new 'exceeding download' error message seems to 
  revolve around periods of content driven downloads.  Unless these were 
  denial of service downloads, we should expect now that Yahoo in its 
  liquidation would sell FFL as an asset that actually drives content views.  
  You'd be amazed who all the audience of this place is.  Some writers would 
  be embarrassed if they realized.
  -Buck

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM, the Dome Badge, and Religious Practices



--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius 
anartaxius@... wrote:
[...]
 Generally I agree with this. My only comment is to ask how much of that 
 stockpile of money is liquid. 3.5 billion would yield at 3%, 105 million a 
 year. That would take care of a lot. It would have to be invested in equities 
 and corporate bonds, not the low interest of government securities that are 
 current. If the money is mostly in land, its not going to generate cash 
 unless it is leased out to paying customers. The amount of available cash is 
 probably considerably less than that total. And how much of that land is 
 being siphoned off to private parties is another consideration.


All of these are good points EXCEPT there is no way that the TM organization 
has $3.5 billion in capital stashed away.

The height of initiations in the USA and around the world was just after the 
Merv Griffith show appearances where *up to* 35,000 people a month were 
starting in the USA,  the most of any country.

Assuing that they had that 35,000  x $125 revenue for the past 480 months, you 
get: $2.1 billion, about 1/2 of that going to the teachers
so slightly over $1 billion gross revenue for the international TM organization 
in the past 40 years.

MMY would have to be REALLY good to triple that money since you still have to 
pay *something* for the international organization, and I'm assuming that 
initiations were 3.5 million a year for the past 40 years which of course they 
were not.

The latest figures from India brag that 45,000 people started TM last year in 
India.

The TM organization claims that about 6 million people have learned TM in the 
last 40 years. Assuming they all paid $2500, that would be $13 billion, half of 
which went to the TM organization, so $6.5 over 40 years.

You'd still have to have only 50% expenses to get that $3.5 billion, and 
knowing how the TM organization operates, do you really think they saved 50% of 
their gross revenue per year? 

It's a stupid figure plucked out of the air.


L

[FairfieldLife] Re: What 50+ is like if you're a supermodel

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, iranitea no_reply@... wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote:
 
  And just think...in all these years, surrendering to the
  flow of the writing, not once has either what I was 
  writing about or who I was writing to become so obsessive
  for me that I lost track of my Post Count and pressed 
  Send accidentally. :-) 
  
  Carlos Castaneda once defined the actions of a spiritual
  warrior as controlled folly. I always liked that. What
  you're tripping on as you try to act a scene perfectly,
  or capture a creative thought in writing as it flows by,
  is to some extent folly. You're walking a high wire, and
  without a net. Folly *alone* is stupid, and people rarely
  appreciate or applaud it. It's the control aspect that
  makes it art.
 
 I always have liked the concept of the 'controlled folly', 
 as well as the Castaneda books. 

I liked them, too, and even met Carlos once. He
talked as good a rap as he wrote. Even knowing
now what I know about him -- that he was a 
congenital liar who made up most of his *own*
history, much less that of don Juan -- he 
still crafted a great tale, and managed to 
sneak enough real Yaqui wisdom into his books
to make them interesting, no matter how much
else of it was just his imagination. 

 As the controlled folly is applied in the 'art of stalking', 
 you should think that our main stalkers here on board should 
 know about it, but not so.

Not gonna go there, except to say that although
the lack of control is obvious, it's the ability
to display what can be perceived as folly that 
is really missing. One has to have a strongly
established sense of self worth to play the fool
or act silly and be able to join in the laughter.
That's a rare quality, and very few have it.

[FairfieldLife] Re: SSRS's instruction on silent awareness during meditation

Thanks for your scientifically verified exposition. Now, where's your research 
on the angels that dance on the head of a pin? Be specific. I wan't to know 
numbers down to the last digit, thanks.

L

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote:

 
 On Jul 27, 2012, at 7:42 AM, iranitea no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote:
 
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@ wrote:
  
   Determining whether or not the mantra is subtle isn't part of TM 
   practice.
  
  Lawson, you were making the point, that just thinking OF the mantra, would 
  be a subtle form of the mantra. And, since it is your main point here, to 
  immediately return to the mantra, if you notice it isn't there, as you make 
  this point again below, that it is imperial to follow the TM instruction, 
  you constantly contradict yourself.
  
  If the mantra can be so vague, that you don't know anymore if you are 
  thinking it or not, how could you then follow the instruction? You should 
  at least know if you are thinking the mantra, in order to be able to 
  determine if you should go back to it, when you are not. Now you say it 
  doesn't matter if it is subtle or not, then you claim, thinking about the 
  mantra is a subtle form thereof. It is all self contradictory. 
  
  You and Judy have been making this point for ages, that the mantra could be 
  so subtle, that you don't know if it's there. That's all BS, if you don't 
  know if it's there, you can't go back to it.
  
  So much for your 'I just follow instructions'
 
 The primary indicator of reaching the end of mantra (the nÄdÄnta) is 
 photism, as the mantraâs sound energy becomes light energy. An experienced 
 mantra-yogi progresses through sixteen sequentially advanced stages in the 
 refinement of the mantra. Someone practicing at the finest levels will be 
 able to experience around 512 thought-recitations of mantra to the average 
 beginners 1 vibration. 
 
 Beginners mantra meditation methods come nowhere near this level of subtlety, 
 so I wouldnât expect Lawson to be really aware of this, although itâs not 
 unusual for TMers to make really exaggerated claims about what they 
 âthinkâ they can do. ;-)

[FairfieldLife] Re: 556 more Pandits have passports



--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote:

 Those folks might like TM but they may suspect the pundits thing is a 
 scam.  Better to get more of the country meditating at sale prices but 
 that'll never happen.


Free is a good price.


L

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM, the Dome Badge, and Religious Practices

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@... wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@ 
 wrote:
 [...]
  Generally I agree with this. My only comment is to ask 
  how much of that stockpile of money is liquid. 3.5 billion 
  would yield at 3%, 105 million a year. That would take care 
  of a lot. It would have to be invested in equities and 
  corporate bonds, not the low interest of government 
  securities that are current. If the money is mostly in 
  land, its not going to generate cash unless it is leased 
  out to paying customers. The amount of available cash is 
  probably considerably less than that total. And how much 
  of that land is being siphoned off to private parties is 
  another consideration.
 
 All of these are good points EXCEPT there is no way that 
 the TM organization has $3.5 billion in capital stashed away.
 
 The height of initiations in the USA and around the world was 
 just after the Merv Griffith show appearances where *up to* 
 35,000 people a month were starting in the USA,  the most of 
 any country.
 
 Assuing that they had that 35,000  x $125 revenue for the past 
 480 months, you get: $2.1 billion, about 1/2 of that going to 
 the teachers so slightly over $1 billion gross revenue for the 
 international TM organization in the past 40 years.
 
 MMY would have to be REALLY good to triple that money since you 
 still have to pay *something* for the international organization, 
 and I'm assuming that initiations were 3.5 million a year for 
 the past 40 years which of course they were not.
 
 The latest figures from India brag that 45,000 people started 
 TM last year in India.
 
 The TM organization claims that about 6 million people have 
 learned TM in the last 40 years. Assuming they all paid $2500, 
 that would be $13 billion, half of which went to the TM 
 organization, so $6.5 over 40 years.
 
 You'd still have to have only 50% expenses to get that $3.5 
 billion, and knowing how the TM organization operates, do you 
 really think they saved 50% of their gross revenue per year? 
 
 It's a stupid figure plucked out of the air.

And if I might suggest it, yours is a stupid attempt
to keep from dealing with the real issue. *Whatever*
amount of money the TMO has, it is *more than enough*
to fully fund any attempt to gather the magic number
of buttbouncers in Fairfield. 

They've had the money to accomplish this for decades,
but never did. Why do you think that is?

I can suggest two reasons. The first is that dangling
the never-quite-reached-carrot of some magic number
in front of TMers allows the organization to keep using
that carrot for begging/fundraising (pretty much the
only income the org has these days). The second is more
likely; if the TMO really ever *did* do what any ethical
spiritual organization would do and spent its own money
to test out the ME theory, and they gathered the magic
number, what would they do if nothing happened as a 
result? No world peace, no heaven on Earth, nada. 
They can't risk that.

Do you really think it's *ethical* for an organization
that claims to have the secret to achieving world peace,
and that *clearly* has the money to fund such an effort
themselves, to not do so? If so, please explain your
reasons for believing this.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM, the Dome Badge, and Religious Practices



Share2 on a rainy Sunday morning almost autumnal in feeling very sweetly 
mournful this morning 







From: Robin Carlsen maskedzebra@...
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2012 11:47 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM, the Dome Badge, and Religious Practices
snip

Share1:  Could it be that your knowledge is valid within the context of your 
enlightenment but maybe not useful to Maharishi and his vision?  My own 
experience was that I realized that the emotional healing was not a priority 
within the TMO.  So I went elsewhere for that.

Robin2: Not exactly sure what you mean here, Share. No, if you are asking me to 
speculate on the reasons for why Maharishi, after seven years of never 
criticizing me—despite the clamour from his governors, finally uttered four 
sounds which did not indicate he approved of what I was doing there in 
Fairfield—that is a question that merits a separate post. What you are not 
taking into consideration is: *This was not a personal desire of Robin's* that 
Maharishi officially recognize my enlightenment and its immediate and profound 
application to every TM Governor—and therefore to Maharishi's very Teaching; 
no, Share, the intelligence which had created my enlightenment and which had 
control over my actions, that intelligence was pushing me into this 
confrontation and resolution with Maharishi. I had the sense, throughout those 
seven years, that Maharishi and I were performing a kind of dance of very 
subtle mental intelligence; but finally, I forced him to
 commit himself. And then there was a form of superficial peace—even though the 
reality remained the same—and my connection with Maharishi was what it had 
always been.

I was not seeking emotional healing—although I admit I don't quite see the 
connection of this comment to what I said in what I have said to you.
Share2:  Well it's ok RC but you do seem to contradict yourself in some subtle 
way.  I can't speak to a Unity experience, but I can address the internal logic 
or absence thereof.  You say it was not a personal desire.  Then you say you 
forced Maharishi to commit himself.  This sounds personal.  Furthermore, if 
that intelligence was impersonal, then Maharishi, indeed the whole cosmos, 
would have been subsumed in it including the clamouring governors.  
In the emotional healing comment I was expressing why my personal agenda was no 
longer compatible with the movement's.  Perhaps you were seeking some other 
kind of resolution.

snip

Share1:  St. Paul!  Tho my birthday falls on his feast day, I sometimes wonder 
if he wasn't responsible for the early church becoming, well, less about Christ 
and more about rules and structures.

Robin2: Is this a discussion you really want to have, Share? I will just 
stipulate that Paul baby didn't get Christ wrong—Christ made certain of that by 
knocking him down and blinding him on the Road to Damascus. Before this he was 
standing around urging his brethren to make those stones draw blood from Saint 
Stephen's uncovered head. Admittedly he would be a somewhat strident poster on 
FFL; but he was brilliant, brave, and true—Good choice by Christ to forcibly 
recruit him to the good side. Christ destroyed his boundaries and his 
prejudices in a lightning moment; after that he was aggressive as a missionary, 
but secretly docile to his Master. I hope we both get to meet him some day, 
Share—he chose not to reincarnate by the way: He wanted the heaven thing, 
solidly inside his first-person ontology. Too bad we can't e-mail him right 
now. :-)

But I will grant you that Paul, he was pretty big on them there rules and 
regulations—but for us fallen souls, they were, until you got to heaven, 
pretty indispensable. Who have you seen achieve anything without obeying rules 
and regulations, Share? The only rationale for ignoring rules and regulations 
is to be beyond those rules and regulations and in direct contact with Natural 
Law, with the intrinsic laws and regulations of the universe—like physics. Like 
mathematics. Like astronomy. Like architecture. Like—let me say it—love. Hi, 
Share: did you see Emily's comment today? I wonder how your philosophy will 
allow you to both take in the truth of what she has said—unless the person to 
whom it is directed chooses to address her, which he will not—and at the same 
time, preserve your ambition, which is to make everyone act in a 
life-supporting fashion. By the way I never forget Maharishi at Humboldt (I 
wasn't there by the way; I only listened
 to the audio tapes—all of them—over and over again while teaching school) 
talking about never speaking ill of others; how doing so drives that person 
down—indicating that anything negative thought, let alone spoken about 
someone, has an injurious effect on that person—while pulling oneself down as 
well. Fascinating and powerful idea—which I adopted all the way—until I got 
enlightened. Then I let her rip—or was forced

[FairfieldLife] Re: SSRS's instruction on silent awareness during meditation



--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote:

 
 On Jul 27, 2012, at 7:42 AM, iranitea no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote:
 
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@ wrote:
  
   Determining whether or not the mantra is subtle isn't part of TM 
   practice.
  
  Lawson, you were making the point, that just thinking OF the mantra, would 
  be a subtle form of the mantra. And, since it is your main point here, to 
  immediately return to the mantra, if you notice it isn't there, as you make 
  this point again below, that it is imperial to follow the TM instruction, 
  you constantly contradict yourself.
  
  If the mantra can be so vague, that you don't know anymore if you are 
  thinking it or not, how could you then follow the instruction? You should 
  at least know if you are thinking the mantra, in order to be able to 
  determine if you should go back to it, when you are not. Now you say it 
  doesn't matter if it is subtle or not, then you claim, thinking about the 
  mantra is a subtle form thereof. It is all self contradictory. 
  
  You and Judy have been making this point for ages, that the mantra could be 
  so subtle, that you don't know if it's there. That's all BS, if you don't 
  know if it's there, you can't go back to it.
  
  So much for your 'I just follow instructions'
 
 The primary indicator of reaching the end of mantra (the nÄdÄnta) is 
 photism, as the mantraâs sound energy becomes light energy. An experienced 
 mantra-yogi progresses through sixteen sequentially advanced stages in the 
 refinement of the mantra. Someone practicing at the finest levels will be 
 able to experience around 512 thought-recitations of mantra to the average 
 beginners 1 vibration. 
 
 Beginners mantra meditation methods come nowhere near this level of subtlety, 
 so I wouldnât expect Lawson to be really aware of this, although itâs not 
 unusual for TMers to make really exaggerated claims about what they 
 âthinkâ they can do. ;-)


Welcome back, Vaj! Interesting thoughts.

One thing that is also a misunderstanding of the terms subtle and vague. The 
instruction in TM is always to pick up the mantra on the level of thought, 
where one just is at the moment, and then think it like any other thought, it 
would automatically correspond in subtlety with ones level of awareness. The 
impression of the mantra being vague or distant, comes from the fact that the 
mind is unacquainted with these subtle states, therefore it cannot perceive 
them properly.

This would be a sign for the beginner, that the mantra has become more refined. 
In a certain way, the vagueness of the mantra is signified between the distance 
of the thinking mind in meditation, to the obviously more subtle perception of 
the mantra.

Imagine you stand near the highway, while cars are rushing with 90 mph, it will 
be hard for you to notice details on the car while they are rushing by. But if 
you are going with a similar speed, (if you are not driving yourself) you can 
look at the car and see many details. 

The problem comes as it is habitual for many TMers to have thoughts and mantra 
going parallel. Then this impression comes that Lawson says that the mind stuff 
feels mantra-ish, or uses words like mantraness (To all TM newbies and lurkers 
here: These are NOT terms used by the TMO, or part of the TM instructions, they 
are inventions of Lawson). That is to say, that the mantra is going on in the 
background, most likely while other thought activity is going on in the 
foreground. The mantra is obviously not perceived as mantra anymore, it is just 
perceived that it is somehow there. A vagueness that is not directly perceived 
but by its effects, as, I guess Lawson had something in mind like a coloring of 
the mind. It's more like a neutrino or the Higgs particle, which cannot be 
detected directly anymore, but through its effects.

But the mantra is not an end in itself, all these perceptions are just WITHIN 
the mind, it is just more of mind, and therefore quite useless.

The instruction in the checking notes is, when one notices the mantra and 
strong thought activity, one should give slight preference to the mantra, while 
not pushing the thoughts away.

To speak of the mantra as being there, while a person would not even notice it, 
as Judy has once in the past suggested to me, is simply an absurdity.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count

2012-07-29 Thread marekreavis

 Buck, other than folks in Fairfield, who would have reasons not to have their 
names publicized to the TMO religious police as following FFL, do you know of 
any scholars, academics, politicians, or public personalities who care about 
what we jabber about here or are you just speculating about the otherwise 
undefined we would be surprised category?

***

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote:

 
 
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, marekreavis reavismarek@ wrote:
 
  Buck, who do you believe it is that follows FFL so avidly and who we would 
  be surprised do?
  
  ***
 
 Marek,  Scholars, journalists, and people inside and outside of Fairfield 
 look in here to get a handle on Fairfield when they are looking for 
 perspective.  They evidently look for criticism that sheds light.  There's 
 way more readers than writers here.  
 It is always interesting to see who privately e-mails from lurking on the 
 side, or who comments when uptown over subjects and things posted on FFL.  
 Almost always lurkers as an audience deride the bickering between some 
 writers on FFL that gets in the way of content.   In conversation here in 
 town folks often suggest things they would like to have said on FFL though 
 they only lurk. You'd be surprised who the audience is both inside Fairfield 
 and outside.  
 -Buck in FF
 
  
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote:
  
   
   
   --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote:
   
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius 
anartaxius@ wrote:

 Is there some reason people are interested in us?

Not bloody likely. :-)
   
   
   Dear Mr.Turguoiseb, I would respectfully disagree with your (narrow) POV 
   on this.
   I found the recent discussion of SSRS's instruction on silent awareness 
   during meditation versus the other brand meditation to be particularly 
   well drawn out on both sides.  It was very interesting.  I would suspect 
   that both interested parties, camps of SSRS-AOL'ers and MMY-TM'ers, were 
   downloading the proceedings like crazy following through the discussion 
   that discerned some very interesting spiritual nuance.  It was very 
   interesting indeed and certainly drove readership.  There were some other 
   subjects too during the period which evidently drove FFL downloads by 
   non-member lurkers.  This new 'exceeding download' error message seems to 
   revolve around periods of content driven downloads.  Unless these were 
   denial of service downloads, we should expect now that Yahoo in its 
   liquidation would sell FFL as an asset that actually drives content 
   views.  You'd be amazed who all the audience of this place is.  Some 
   writers would be embarrassed if they realized.
   -Buck

[FairfieldLife] Re: SSRS's instruction on silent awareness during meditation

Vaj said: Someone practicing at the finest levels will be able to experience 
around 512 thought-recitations of mantra to the average beginners 1 vibration.

If we would have just one person practicing like this in the domes, having 512 
thought recitations, that's almost the amount of pundits they now gonna import. 
They could save some money and just import 44 pundits.

[FairfieldLife] Re: What 50+ is like if you're a supermodel

2012-07-29 Thread awoelflebater



--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, iranitea no_reply@... wrote:

 
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote:
 
 
  And just think...in all these years, surrendering to the
  flow of the writing, not once has either what I was 
  writing about or who I was writing to become so obsessive
  for me that I lost track of my Post Count and pressed 
  Send accidentally. :-) 
  
  Carlos Castaneda once defined the actions of a spiritual
  warrior as controlled folly. I always liked that. What
  you're tripping on as you try to act a scene perfectly,
  or capture a creative thought in writing as it flows by,
  is to some extent folly. You're walking a high wire, and
  without a net. Folly *alone* is stupid, and people rarely
  appreciate or applaud it. It's the control aspect that
  makes it art.
  
 
 I always have liked the concept of the 'controlled folly', as well as the 
 Castaneda books. As the controlled folly is applied in the 'art of stalking', 
 you should think that our main stalkers here on board should know about it, 
 but not so.

Why Tea, I couldn't help but pick up on your phrase, our main stalkers. It 
sounds like you consider yourself a sort of celebrity and there is the distinct 
flavor in the way you wrote that that you like it! And the sense of camraderie 
with your fellow stalkees is unmistakable. That is rather humorous actually. 
Judy, take note, they LIKE it!

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: SSRS's instruction on silent awareness during meditation


On Jul 29, 2012, at 8:34 AM, iranitea no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote:

 Welcome back, Vaj! Interesting thoughts.
 
 One thing that is also a misunderstanding of the terms subtle and vague. The 
 instruction in TM is always to pick up the mantra on the level of thought, 
 where one just is at the moment, and then think it like any other thought, it 
 would automatically correspond in subtlety with ones level of awareness. The 
 impression of the mantra being vague or distant, comes from the fact that the 
 mind is unacquainted with these subtle states, therefore it cannot perceive 
 them properly.

Unfortunately you’ll always have meditation students who over-parse or obsess 
on inconsequential details to the point of taking meditative instruction to 
heart, but totally missing the spirit of what one’s doing.

When one is back in thoughts, one has failed to maintain the transcendent, and 
so one needs to non-judgmentally train oneself to re-acquire the object of 
meditation (in this case, the mental object which is the mantra). That’s all. 
It’s technical term is known as “repairing”.

In general in meditative forms that favor mental quiesence it’s better to have 
balanced attention using the object of meditation and that includes balanced 
vivid perception, not fuzzy or foggy perception of the object of meditation. If 
the object becomes too vague, there’s always the danger that one will fall into 
the defects of meditation, in this case, laxity. This is probably why 
independent peer-reviewed research on TM which does not cultivate balanced 
attention show that the majority of practitioners and actually in descending 
sleep cycles (i.e. napping).

This may also be why more and more Domers are incorporating Mindfulness into 
their TM practice (MTM). This is helping compensate for the 
over-institutionalisation of “effortlessness” in the TM Org and the loss of 
purity of the tradition.

 This would be a sign for the beginner, that the mantra has become more 
 refined. In a certain way, the vagueness of the mantra is signified between 
 the distance of the thinking mind in meditation, to the obviously more subtle 
 perception of the mantra.

 Imagine you stand near the highway, while cars are rushing with 90 mph, it 
 will be hard for you to notice details on the car while they are rushing by. 
 But if you are going with a similar speed, (if you are not driving yourself) 
 you can look at the car and see many details. 
 
 The problem comes as it is habitual for many TMers to have thoughts and 
 mantra going parallel. Then this impression comes that Lawson says that the 
 mind stuff feels mantra-ish, or uses words like mantraness (To all TM newbies 
 and lurkers here: These are NOT terms used by the TMO, or part of the TM 
 instructions, they are inventions of Lawson). That is to say, that the mantra 
 is going on in the background, most likely while other thought activity is 
 going on in the foreground. The mantra is obviously not perceived as mantra 
 anymore, it is just perceived that it is somehow there. A vagueness that is 
 not directly perceived but by its effects, as, I guess Lawson had something 
 in mind like a coloring of the mind. It's more like a neutrino or the Higgs 
 particle, which cannot be detected directly anymore, but through its effects.

It could also be that he was never instructed on the signs and significance of 
ajapa-japa: the continuation of mantra continuously beyond meditation sessions.

 
 But the mantra is not an end in itself, all these perceptions are just WITHIN 
 the mind, it is just more of mind, and therefore quite useless.
 
 The instruction in the checking notes is, when one notices the mantra and 
 strong thought activity, one should give slight preference to the mantra, 
 while not pushing the thoughts away.
 
 To speak of the mantra as being there, while a person would not even notice 
 it, as Judy has once in the past suggested to me, is simply an absurdity. 

Cultivating a fuzzy awareness is why we’ve come to call such practitioners 
dTMers, short for discursive TMers (not to be confused with demonic TMers ;-)).

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM, the Dome Badge, and Religious Practices



--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote:

 
 And if I might suggest it, yours is a stupid attempt
 to keep from dealing with the real issue. *Whatever*
 amount of money the TMO has, it is *more than enough*
 to fully fund any attempt to gather the magic number
 of buttbouncers in Fairfield. 
 
 They've had the money to accomplish this for decades,
 but never did. Why do you think that is?


Because the western world should pay for it's own progress towards peace and 
prosperity.

That's why. But wait, that doesn't fit into your got to hate the TMO no matter 
what because they are diminishing the infuence of my Lama view. :-)

[FairfieldLife] Re: SSRS's instruction on silent awareness during meditation



--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote:

 
 This may also be why more and more Domers are incorporating Mindfulness into 
 their TM practice (MTM). This is helping compensate for the 
 over-institutionalisation of effortlessness in the TM Org and the loss of 
 purity of the tradition.


Though I think Vaj is just picking stuff out of thin air as usual this could 
very well be a scenario in the future and a good reason to sell the Domes for 1 
$ and move the rest of the operation to India.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: SSRS's instruction on silent awareness during meditation


On Jul 29, 2012, at 9:01 AM, iranitea no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote:

 Vaj said: Someone practicing at the finest levels will be able to experience 
 around 512 thought-recitations of mantra to the average beginners 1 
 vibration.
 
 If we would have just one person practicing like this in the domes, having 
 512 thought recitations, that's almost the amount of pundits they now gonna 
 import. They could save some money and just import 44 pundits.


Fortunately, there are groups that are helping sidhas train in bindu-bhedhana 
which previously would only have been practiced by close students of Swami 
Brahmananda Saraswati.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: SSRS's instruction on silent awareness during meditation


On Jul 29, 2012, at 9:37 AM, nablusoss1008 no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote:
 
  
  This may also be why more and more Domers are incorporating Mindfulness 
  into their TM practice (MTM). This is helping compensate for the 
  over-institutionalisation of effortlessness in the TM Org and the loss of 
  purity of the tradition.
 
 Though I think Vaj is just picking stuff out of thin air as usual this could 
 very well be a scenario in the future and a good reason to sell the Domes for 
 1 $ and move the rest of the operation to India.


Mindful TM, MTM, is currently practiced by numerous dome-going sidhas in 
Fairfield. I cannot say about other group practice centers. Hopefully this 
coherence will spread from FF to others TM Org pithas.

Even the initials of the word are more balanced!

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: SSRS's instruction on silent awareness during meditation

Vaj, do you realize that MTM also stand for Mary Tyler Moore and that this came 
out in the famous Merv Griffin Show with Maharishi and Clint and Mary?
MTM was the name of her production company.  She made a joke about Mary's TM.  
Maharishi playfully corrected her.


More seriously, I still think that long term TMers spontaneously fall into 
mindfulness but it's called something else:  yogah stah kuru karmani, 
established in Being perform action.  And in this sense, every thinking is an 
action.


OTOH maybe should read book on Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh.




 From: Vaj vajradh...@earthlink.net
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2012 8:42 AM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: SSRS's instruction on silent awareness during 
meditation
 

  


On Jul 29, 2012, at 9:37 AM, nablusoss1008 no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote:

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote:

 
 This may also be why more and more Domers are incorporating Mindfulness into 
 their TM practice (MTM). This is helping compensate for the 
 over-institutionalisation of effortlessness in the TM Org and the loss of 
 purity of the tradition.

Though I think Vaj is just picking stuff out of thin air as usual this could 
very well be a scenario in the future and a good reason to sell the Domes for 
1 $ and move the rest of the operation to India.


Mindful TM, MTM, is currently practiced by numerous dome-going sidhas in 
Fairfield. I cannot say about other group practice centers. Hopefully this 
coherence will spread from FF to others TM Org pithas.

Even the initials of the word are more balanced!

[FairfieldLife] Re: SSRS's instruction on silent awareness during meditation



--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote:
no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote:

MTM, is currently practiced 
 
 Even the initials of the word are more balanced!

You can say what you want about this Vaj fellow, but he does have humour !

[FairfieldLife] Sailing Leiden

This is a rap about three modes of transportation. Maybe four. The
first, of course, is walking. I still love to walk, but I'm beginning to
see the charms of the second mode, bicycling. You can just cover so much
more ground with so much less effort, while still appreciating the
scenery and the ever-changing vibes.

But on a sunny Sunday such as this one, I'm starting to notice how many
people here travel using a third mode of transportation -- *on* the
canals, not just beside them. I'm sitting on a park bench alongside a
canal near my house, and there must be one boat passing by every minute.
Some are big and diesel-powered, some are like the rented rowboat that
just went past with three teenaged girls doing the galley slave bit, but
whatever the size and shape of the boats, the smiles on the faces of the
sailors is constant.

Waking up in this town and thinking, What a beautiful day...let's take
the boat out is an easier thought to act upon here than it is in most
places in the US. There, my friends with boats had to either drive to
the distant location where they'd moored them, or hook the boat trailer
up to the SUV and drive to where there was water. Here it's more a
matter of having that thought, walking out one's front door and thirty
feet across the street to the canal, untying your boat from its
moorings, and sailing away.

But I don't have a boat, so I have to make do with this park bench. It's
easier than it sounds. The bench is right at canalside, and faces the
same direction that the current is flowing. Thus if I don't look down to
notice that I'm still on the ground, I can have the illusion that my
bench is sailing down the canal in the direction I'm not facing, as if I
were rowing. I find myself wondering whether if I typed faster I'd sail
faster.  :-)

 
[http://www.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_606w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/20\
11/09/04/National-Enterprise/Images/Lee.JPEG-0a3bf-2401.jpg]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_606w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/201\
1/09/04/National-Enterprise/Images/Lee.JPEG-0a3bf-2401.jpg
http://www.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_606w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/20\
11/09/04/National-Enterprise/Images/Lee.JPEG-0a3bf-2401.jpg

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM, the Dome Badge, and Religious Practices

When I first signed the agreement form, it as just short before we received the 
TM initiator initiation, I thought that it was a mere formality, and I thought 
that the term purity of the teaching related to teaching the 7 steps of TM. 7 
steps. Intro lecture, prep lecture, personal interview, initiation - the puja, 
the mantras, the 'steps', and the 3 days checking. That's it, I thought.

But now I learn, that signing this agreement form, was like signing a blanco 
checque, that anything could be added to this term, be it Ayurveda, Vastu, 
Maharishi Jyotish, Maharishi natural products etc etc.

And now I learn, that the purity of the teaching relates to all of them, and we 
don't even know what is yet to come, which will fall under this term. The 
purity of the teaching is really a whore.

Knowing all this development, we should have at least have one week of lectures 
just about the agreement form. I think there was one lecture by Maharishi, 
playing it more or less down.

At the times I signed it first, there were no domes yet, no group flying, no 
Ayurveda, no Vastu or Maharishi Jyotish, no Maharishi honey etc.

What I find unforgivable, is the fact, that the group program, which is really 
the holy grail of the movement is being instrumentalized as a means of 
punishment, of sanctioning, and if Buck is correct,  to impart the rules they 
make, would allow them to spy on people and behave in a manner which only the 
secret service does. And even more so, do this out of a basically economic 
reason, as several posters here agree. Where is the purity of the teaching in 
all this?

At the moment I learned about the purity of the teaching, it was about 'capture 
the fort, and all else will be given to you'. No need for special services and 
add on techniques. Now you are jeopardizing  the purity of the teaching if you 
buy the wrong house, or the wrong honey or the get the wrong horoscope. And of 
course, you didn't know anything about this, hen you signed this paper at your 
TTC.

As long as people feel this commitment to go to the domes, or as long as they 
want to participate in the common group program, so long the movement will have 
you in their hands, they will be able to control people.

I cannot feel such a commitment on the basis of the experiences I had when 
starting to meditate. While I see the value of TM, especially for the beginner, 
I don't see it's exclusiveness. Transcendence to me predates any experience, I 
had anticipations of transcendence before TM, I had experiences before too.

And, of course, I had many experiences after. So I cannot fee obliged my whole 
life to one particular experience, and let it enclose my life in one particular 
pattern. 

The same is true for you Robin, quite obviously and even much more 
dramatically, but I cannot achieve the kind of compartmentalization you are 
making with respect to all the different Robins in your personal history. To me 
it seems there is a Robin1, a Robin2, a Robin3 and a Robin4 up until 5 maybe, 
all of them are fairly intact, lets call Robin1 the Robin who as a TB teacher 
and just newly enlightened, Robin2 the Robin of the seminars at FF and whatever 
happened there, the Robin3 the one who read Aquinas and became converted to 
Catholicism, and Robin4 is the post modern, post catholic Robin. 

There is also Robin0, the one who experimented with LSD (which I never took). 
Robin4 tells us that the whole TM trip as a deception, and illusion, and side 
by side in the same post Robin1 tells that the initiation into TM is the most 
marvelous experience, to which we should always be committed and faithful. 
Robin4 tells Emily it is better to never start TM, and Robin1 tells Vaj, that 
he doesn't know anything because he never transcended and urges him to start 
learning TM. It is as if all these personas, are overlay-ed upon each other, 
but there is no final resolution. 

Maybe it is your purpose to work on your own history, to reach a sense of 
resolution between these levels, but to me it seems you resort to some sort of 
mysticism instead.

For Buck I am glad that he is there, in whatever situation he is in, and makes 
these things known to us creating transparency. To me he is a very authentic 
and honest person.

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robin Carlsen maskedzebra@... wrote:

  
 Dear Share,
 
 My take on all this policing of persons who go outside of the spiritual 
 resources sanctioned by the TM Movement is pretty simple. Those who devise 
 and enforce these rules (which originated in Maharishi himself) are going by 
 their first experience of what TM and Maharishi represented: This is The Way; 
 there is no other way that compares to the TM-Maharishi way.
 
 TM is defined as the simplest and most natural technique to take one to the 
 deepest level of one's very beingthere is no other practice which is defined 
 mechanically and objectively such as to afford the most efficient way of 
 transcendingthere are no

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ramblings around Leiden

2012-07-29 Thread Robin Carlsen

Dear Emily,

I can't help but feel the struggle and trauma of what you have been passing 
through for some time now: I have fallen from the top of my game to not being 
in the game at all in a pretty short timeframe, with no end in sight, and a lot 
of responsibilities remaining. I wish I could offer up a remedy; and obviously 
you have read too much on this forum not to have anything more than an 
ambivalent attitude towards Transcendental Meditation. Neverthelessand in a 
way which I suppose is quite different from the Share Long approachI would 
reach out to you with my caring for you, even as I don't know you at all. But 
anyone who has followed your posts at FFL must know the willingness of yourself 
to take on lifeand what it seems to be dishing out to youand to not be 
conquered by your misfortune. For myself, regardless of what you write on FFL, 
I sense someone who deserves the good will and the love of those who would wish 
someone who has suffered as you have sufferedand who is the appealing human 
being that you areto receive the grace to be healed, and for your life to not 
be as hard as it has been. 

So, Emily, I can do nothing by way of recommending gurus or spiritual 
practices; but I can extend my heart to you with real feeling and honesty of 
intention, and at least know that you will believe me when I say I care about 
youand your children. So, all this amounts to is a kind of personal prayer 
that life in its terrible complexity and hiddenness (in terms of the meaning it 
has in mind in making you descend from such a height as you havefrom 
professional success and mastery to a sense of being defeated and held down) 
will somehow turn around for you, and we can all rejoice in learning that 
somehow you are being given some greater support and strength. To know, then, 
that you will make it and you will not be thrown down into any kind of final 
helplessness and futility. I think I will just say it, Emily: I feel a real 
affection for you and this post is just to make that known to you.

Sincerely.

Robin



Awww, so nice.  I don't require acknowledgment and I'm practicing listening, 
which my kids say I don't do enough of.  I am a chirper in my current state and 
am not in the least offended; in fact FFL seldom offends me personally...and 
when it does, not for long.  Mostly I laugh, which is a good thing.  

I'm not as nimble as most of ya'll, either in verse or intellectual musings or 
spiritual discourse or witticisms (is that a word?).  I enjoy reading and 
trying to assimilate what crosses here.  My brain still doesn't work the way it 
used to and I am beginning to seriously worry as I have fallen from the top of 
my game to not being in the game at all in a pretty short timeframe, with no 
end in sight, and a lot of responsibilities remaining.  I have been hiding and 
in denial about many things.  But, I'm coming out of my denial and as I have 
yet to be diagnosed with a terminal illness, it looks like I'm going to 
*really* have to reinvent my life before all the money runs out.  There is no 
going back.  



From: Robin Carlsen maskedzebra@...
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2012 12:12 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ramblings around Leiden

 
Dear Bhairitu,

Very good point, Bhairitu. I wanted to insult Emily, but thought no one would 
notice. You caught my real intention hereâand I am found out.

Is there any way I can expiate for my derogatory remark?

Your objection (which nailed me good) reminds me of the idea of poetry: 
imaginary gardens with real toads in them.

But I, for one, am glad that the Pudget Sound lady graces us once in awhile by 
rubbing her wings together to create a distinct chirp,âwhich, you will 
observe, silences.

Robin

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote:

 So now you're calling Emily a cricket? You're pretty amazing, Robin. :-D
 
 On 07/27/2012 09:56 AM, Robin Carlsen wrote:
  There is a cricket named Emily who just chirped. Did any of you guys hear 
  her? Her chirp seems to be one sound that is not to be heard. One person 
  heard the chirp and pulled out his noise-maker. And then the other 
  noise-makers all came out. I guess I was just hearing things. Pretty soon 
  it will be as if the cricket named Emily never did chirp.
 
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote:
  On 07/27/2012 01:44 AM, turquoiseb wrote:
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote:
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote:
  Nothing in Holland is far from Vlodrop, including Leiden :-)
  Ever been to the states, Nabby? Some of our states are bigger
  than some of the European countries (including the larger ones).
  I know, I've driven through endless cornfields probably bigger
  than the entire Holland :-) My point was that perhaps the
  Turq-fellow finally was picking up some silence from Vlodrop.
  Nabby's point was self importance,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: SSRS's instruction on silent awareness during meditation


On Jul 29, 2012, at 10:12 AM, Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com wrote:

 Vaj, do you realize that MTM also stand for Mary Tyler Moore and that this 
 came out in the famous Merv Griffin Show with Maharishi and Clint and Mary?
 MTM was the name of her production company.  She made a joke about Mary's TM. 
  Maharishi playfully corrected her.
 
 More seriously, I still think that long term TMers spontaneously fall into 
 mindfulness but it's called something else:  yogah stah kuru karmani, 
 established in Being perform action.  And in this sense, every thinking is an 
 action.
 
 OTOH maybe should read book on Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh.

For me, it’s all about balance. From my POV, what appears to happen in some 
meditation practitioners is that the object of meditation, the mantra in TM, 
becomes a non-ascertained object to an inattentive awareness. As awareness 
allegedly expands, moments of non-ascertaining awareness should decrease and 
inattentive awareness should be replaced with an over-arching awareness or 
presence. It’s the over-arching remembering that keeps a practice from falling 
into non-attentive states and it’s sequelae.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: SSRS's instruction on silent awareness during meditation

Thanks.  This is clear and very helpful.

Just one question:  it seems you are using awareness, presence and remembering 
interchangeably (see snip below).  Am I understanding correctly?


over-arching awareness or presence. It’s the over-arching remembering


 From: Vaj vajradh...@earthlink.net
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2012 9:43 AM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: SSRS's instruction on silent awareness during 
meditation
 

  


On Jul 29, 2012, at 10:12 AM, Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com wrote:

Vaj, do you realize that MTM also stand for Mary Tyler Moore and that this came 
out in the famous Merv Griffin Show with Maharishi and Clint and Mary?
MTM was the name of her production company.  She made a joke about Mary's TM.  
Maharishi playfully corrected her.



More seriously, I still think that long term TMers spontaneously fall into 
mindfulness but it's called something else:  yogah stah kuru karmani, 
established in Being perform action.  And in this sense, every thinking is an 
action.



OTOH maybe should read book on Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh.

For me, it’s all about balance. From my POV, what appears to happen in some 
meditation practitioners is that the object of meditation, the mantra in TM, 
becomes a non-ascertained object to an inattentive awareness. As awareness 
allegedly expands, moments of non-ascertaining awareness should decrease and 
inattentive awareness should be replaced with an over-arching awareness or 
presence. It’s the over-arching remembering that keeps a practice from falling 
into non-attentive states and it’s sequelae.

[FairfieldLife] Re: What 50+ is like if you're a supermodel



--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, awoelflebater no_reply@... wrote:

 
 
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, iranitea no_reply@ wrote:
 
  
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote:
  
  
   And just think...in all these years, surrendering to the
   flow of the writing, not once has either what I was 
   writing about or who I was writing to become so obsessive
   for me that I lost track of my Post Count and pressed 
   Send accidentally. :-) 
   
   Carlos Castaneda once defined the actions of a spiritual
   warrior as controlled folly. I always liked that. What
   you're tripping on as you try to act a scene perfectly,
   or capture a creative thought in writing as it flows by,
   is to some extent folly. You're walking a high wire, and
   without a net. Folly *alone* is stupid, and people rarely
   appreciate or applaud it. It's the control aspect that
   makes it art.
   
  
  I always have liked the concept of the 'controlled folly', as well as the 
  Castaneda books. As the controlled folly is applied in the 'art of 
  stalking', you should think that our main stalkers here on board should 
  know about it, but not so.
 
 Why Tea, I couldn't help but pick up on your phrase, our main stalkers. It 
 sounds like you consider yourself a sort of celebrity 

No I'm not! I am more sympathizing with Barry here. One doesn't need to be a 
celebrity to be the object of a stalker. Stalking frequently happens in any 
type of relationship, or the desire for it.

 and there is the distinct flavor in the way you wrote that that you like it! 

I like irony. But wait, do you mean to threaten me that I will be stalked on? 
(jokingly I suppose)

 And the sense of camraderie with your fellow stalkees is unmistakable. That 
 is rather humorous actually. Judy, take note, they LIKE it!
 

Judy would know what this term refers to: It is the fact that she followed 
Barry here, after he had left AMT for good, trying to find a more consensual 
discussion environment. The conflict between them is one of decades, 14 years 
as Barry says. When Judy came back this week, her second post was to him. Now, 
Ann, beyond all playfulness and humor and teasing each other, take one deep 
breath and a minute of silence: 14 years! Consider this.

Re: [FairfieldLife] SSRS's instruction on silent awareness during meditation


On Jul 29, 2012, at 10:59 AM, Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com wrote:

 Thanks.  This is clear and very helpful.
 
 Just one question:  it seems you are using awareness, presence and 
 remembering interchangeably (see snip below).  Am I understanding correctly?
 
 over-arching awareness or presence. It’s the over-arching remembering

In this model, awareness becomes sheer-awareness, which dissolves into nondual 
presence. All three are maintained and supported by an over-arching 
mindfulness. Combined with introspection we can thus develop a type of 
metacognition that can operate as a kind of “quality control” for quickly 
detecting laxity or mental over-excitation.

In Buddhist tradition, a mind that can falls into laxity or over-excitation is 
considered “dysfunctional”. Heaven forbid we actually train our mindstream as 
dysfunctional because of institutionalized fear of balanced attention! ;-)

[FairfieldLife] Re: SSRS's instruction on silent awareness during meditation

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, iranitea no_reply@... wrote:
snip
 To speak of the mantra as being there, while a person would not
 even notice it, as Judy has once in the past suggested to me,
 is simply an absurdity.

I don't believe I ever suggested such a thing. Could you quote
the post, please? I think you may have misunderstood what I
wrote (not for the first time, either).

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM, the Dome Badge, and Religious Practices

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, iranitea no_reply@... wrote:
snip
 Robin4 tells us that the whole TM trip as a deception, and
 illusion, and side by side in the same post Robin1 tells
 that the initiation into TM is the most marvelous experience,
 to which we should always be committed and faithful.

Just curious if anyone else understood Robin to be saying
we should always be committed and faithful to the
initiation into TM.

 Robin4 tells Emily it is better to never start TM, and Robin1
 tells Vaj, that he doesn't know anything because he never 
 transcended and urges him to start learning TM. It is as if
 all these personas, are overlay-ed upon each other, but there
 is no final resolution.

It's hard to know whether the above represents a genuine
misunderstanding on iranitea's part, or if he's doing his
best to mislead readers to think Robin is being
inconsistent.

snip 
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robin Carlsen maskedzebra@ wrote:
   
  Dear Share,
  
  My take on all this policing of persons who go outside of the spiritual 
  resources sanctioned by the TM Movement is pretty simple. Those who devise 
  and enforce these rules (which originated in Maharishi himself) are going 
  by their first experience of what TM and Maharishi represented: This is The 
  Way; there is no other way that compares to the TM-Maharishi way.
  
  TM is defined as the simplest and most natural technique to take one to the 
  deepest level of one's very beingthere is no other practice which is 
  defined mechanically and objectively such as to afford the most efficient 
  way of transcendingthere are no competitors here.
  
  The most profound realization one has when one is made a teacher of TM by 
  Maharishi, is: this is It. There isn't anything else. And if TM cannot do 
  what it says it doestake one to the level of pure consciousnessthen we 
  are selling a product which does not do what we say it does.
  
  Any compromise on this policy of guarding the purity of the teaching will 
  mean the gradual corruption of TM and the dilution of Maharishi's Teaching, 
  That is one thing that Maharishi was able to do that no other teacher in 
  our lifetime has been able to do: Make us experience that he was the very 
  best, the only one, and that what he was giving to us was coming directly 
  from reality or God or the source of creative intelligence.
  
  Any flexibility, reasonableness, tolerance here just makes no sense at 
  allunless the people at the top are giving up their claim to the 
  exclusiveness of TM as being the most beautiful way to transcend that is 
  available anywhere. I refer readers (who have done TM) to their first TM 
  experience. How it happened; what the process was like; how they 
  experienced the mantra working inside of them. The very miraculous 
  innocenceand profundityof this experience signifies: No competition will 
  be allowedbecause what could produce an experience equal to the one you 
  first had when you started TM?
  
  I don't say the policy is justified on the basis of TM being what Maharishi 
  made us believe it was, and what our experiencesat least for 
  awhileconfirmed, because of course I don't think that TM and Maharishi 
  have continued to get the grace and support which would indicate that 
  reality and God still think they are It. But in terms of the truth of one's 
  devotion to one's Master, and Maharishi brilliant and unchallengeable 
  authority to persuade us of his preeminent position and status in 
  Creationand his gift to us in the form of his spiritual technologywhat 
  the TMO is doing in being careful about vetting persons who meditate in the 
  Dome is not only reasonable, it is entirely truthful to their conscience, 
  their understanding of the will of Maharishi, and their own sense of what 
  is the right thing to do.
  
  This behaviour on the part of those who wield this authority over 
  meditators is irreproachable in my estimation. Of course if these persons 
  believed that there was another path to God, to the Self, to enlightenment, 
  then the enforcement of these policies would be subject to moral scrutiny. 
  Inside the context of what they deem as truth and the means of not 
  betraying the wishes of their Master, they are behaving entirely 
  appropriatelyThere simply is no argument to be made against them 
  whatsoever.

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM, the Dome Badge, and Religious Practices



--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote:

[...]
 
 Do you really think it's *ethical* for an organization
 that claims to have the secret to achieving world peace,
 and that *clearly* has the money to fund such an effort
 themselves, to not do so? If so, please explain your
 reasons for believing this.


I still don't see the clearly here.

L

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM, the Dome Badge, and Religious Practices

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@... wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote:
 
 [...]
  
  Do you really think it's *ethical* for an organization
  that claims to have the secret to achieving world peace,
  and that *clearly* has the money to fund such an effort
  themselves, to not do so? If so, please explain your
  reasons for believing this.
 
 I still don't see the clearly here.

Still playing dodgeball. I am disappointed.

*Assume* that the TMO had all the money it needed
to fund as many buttbouncers as it claims it needs
to achieve world peace. Is there *any* reason that
you can think of that would be valid for not paying
for it themselves?

[FairfieldLife] Re: What 50+ is like if you're a supermodel

2012-07-29 Thread Richard J. Williams



  Judy, take note, they LIKE it!
 
Iran:  
 Judy would know what this term refers to: It is 
 the fact that she followed Barry here, after he 
 had left AMT for good...

Just for the record, it's open season on anyone who 
cross posts with quotations from Yahoo! Groups to 
Google Groups.

If you are interested in determining the specific 
author of any of the quotes, and the context in 
which he or she wrote the quote, please use Yahoo's 
'Advanced Search' feature on the Web version of the 
forum itself...:

Subject: THINGS TMers BELIEVE, Volume I
Author: Uncle Tantra
Newsgroup: alt.meditation.transcendental
Date: 3/6/07
http://tinyurl.com/c8va8ft

[FairfieldLife] Re: What 50+ is like if you're a supermodel

2012-07-29 Thread Richard J. Williams


   Judy, take note, they LIKE it!
  
 Iran:
  Judy would know what this term refers to: It is
  the fact that she followed Barry here, after he
  had left AMT for good...
 
 Just for the record, it's open season on anyone who
 cross posts with quotations from Yahoo! Groups to
 Google Groups.

 If you are interested in determining the specific
 author of any of the quotes, and the context in
 which he or she wrote the quote, please use Yahoo's
 'Advanced Search' feature on the Web version of the
 forum itself...:

 Subject: THINGS TMers BELIEVE, Volume I
 Author: Uncle Tantra
 Newsgroup: alt.meditation.transcendental
 Date: 3/6/07
 http://tinyurl.com/c8va8ft
  http://tinyurl.com/c8va8ft  
Barry left AMT, but not quite for good, because he
came back with more fibs. It's all about Judy. LoL!

ButI apologize for the lack of context, but the
challenge of collecting the quotes while holding
down a full-time job was taxing enough...

Subject: Re: THINGS TMers BELIEVE, Volume I
Author: TurquoiseB
Newsgroup: Yahoo! FairfiledLife
Date: 3/6/07
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/133842
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/133842

[FairfieldLife] Re: What 50+ is like if you're a supermodel

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, iranitea no_reply@... wrote:
 
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, awoelflebater no_reply@ wrote:
snip
  And the sense of camraderie with your fellow stalkees is 
  unmistakable. That is rather humorous actually. Judy, take
  note, they LIKE it!
 
 Judy would know what this term refers to: It is the fact that
 she followed Barry here, after he had left AMT for good,
 trying to find a more consensual discussion environment.

Followed Barry here (as did a number of
alt.meditation.transcendental participants)--*at his express
invitation*. He urged us to join him on FFL.

After he had left AMT for good--no, he stuck around AMT
for some time after he started posting here and several
alt.m.t participants, including me, had come over.

 The conflict between them is one of decades, 14 years as
 Barry says.

Seventeen years, actually. (And in English, BTW, one doesn't
refer to anything less than 20 years as decades.)

Barry and I have been on at least two other TM-related forums:
a Yahoo group called TM News; another now-defunct Yahoo group
called TM Controversy (I'm not absolutely positive he was on
this one); and John Knapp's TM-Free blog. In all three (or two)
cases, Barry followed *me* to these groups (and not at my
invitation, either).

Would I claim Barry's been stalking me because he joined
two (or three) TM groups after I did? Of course not; that
wouldn't be honest. He was interested to see what was going
on on those groups; it had nothing to do with my being on
them. The following was only chronological.

I had been a member of FFL for a year or so before Barry
joined, as it happens, but I hadn't participated; I just
lurked occasionally to see what was going on. And after Barry
invited us over from AMT, I stuck largely to lurking for
awhile, speaking up only when Barry or Vaj (who was also on
FFL) misrepresented something that was going on on alt.m.t.

I started reading FFL on a steady basis after Barry's
invitation because I was interested in a more TM-insiderish
view of the whole Raja and million-dollar-course business,
which were the latest developments. I didn't come here for
the purpose of stalking Barry; after all, as noted, he
stuck around on alt.m.t for awhile, so it wasn't as if
(contrary to iranitea's implication) I would only have had
access to him on FFL.

(Before Barry had issued his invitation on alt.m.t.,
incidentally, he had been busy trashing me on FFL. I wasn't
reading FFL at the time; I only discovered this later on.)

 When Judy came back this week, her second post was to him.

Wow! That's so revealing, isn't it? (Of what, exactly?)
Don't feel bad, iranitea, I'll get to your posts from
last week shortly.

 Now, Ann, beyond all playfulness and humor and teasing each
 other, take one deep breath and a minute of silence: 14
 years! Consider this.

But consider also that iranitea doesn't really know what
he's talking about, as you can see from the above. He's
taken Barry's disingenuous and malicious bluster as the
definitive story. I guess that's what you do when you're
a groupie: You swallow everything your leader says as if
it's the gospel truth.

[FairfieldLife] Re: What 50+ is like if you're a supermodel

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote:
snip
 And just think...in all these years, surrendering to the
 flow of the writing, not once has either what I was 
 writing about or who I was writing to become so obsessive
 for me that I lost track of my Post Count and pressed 
 Send accidentally. :-)

Ooopsie, Barry's been reading my posts again. If he
hadn't been, he wouldn't have felt the need to
misrepresent what I said:

 I would like to say for the record that I did not post
 out, as has been gleefully suggested, because I lost
 track of my post count, or because I was taunted. I
 knew I was at 50 posts. I had some free time around a
 half an hour before the post count turned on Friday,
 so I wrote a response to iranitea, planning to hold
 onto it until the Post Count went up at 8-ish. But
 when I was done, I reflexively clicked Send, and that
 was literally all she wrote, until today at least.

(He's very likely to claim he wasn't referring to me
above, but if so he'll be lying.)

It's really important for FFL readers to realize that
they simply *cannot* trust anything Barry says about
the folks he doesn't like, because he has no control
over the afflictive emotions that compel him to
misrepresent them.

Just as another example, from the same post of mine I
quoted above:

 Nor, by the way, did I taunt Vaj for posting out, as
 Barry disingenuously claimed. I taunted Barry and
 iranitea for having lost the third leg of their stool
 for a week. And I did it not minutes before I posted
 out--as Barry disingenuously claimed--but five hours
 before that.

[FairfieldLife] Fwd: New Doc in town

2012-07-29 Thread Dick Mays

From: Barry bdtob...@iowatelecom.net
Subject: Fwd: New Doc in town
Date: July 29, 2012 12:59:04 PM CDT

Sheila Ross
All Fairfield FB friends please take note:

I highly recommend a new doctor at the Medical Arts Clinic here at the new 
hospital, She is taking new patients at this time. I have witnessed a brilliant 
diagnosis of my brother-in-law who has suffered for 25 years and now will have 
a new lease on life. Dr. Nilfar Karimova is originally from Kazakstan, attended 
MUM for a Master's in Physiology and Maharishi Vedic Med and worked at the Raj 
for five years with many different vaidyas.

She completed her Internal Medicine residency in New York and she had a busy 
practice in Manhattan where she incorporated internal and integrative medicine 
including Ayurveda. 

She jumped at the chance to be back in Fairfield with her three little 
daughters and MUM grad husband. She is enjoying having a clientele that can 
appreciate her skills in Ayurvedic medicine, herbal medicine and western 
medicine combined. She listens and prescribes and includes you in your choices 
and explains everything thoroughly. Visiting the doctor is an uplifting 
experience and not a battle. Plus she accepts most forms of medical insurance 
and knows how to make the most out of Medicare which is also nice. Call 
472-4156 for appointment.

[FairfieldLife] Re: 556 more Pandits have passports

2012-07-29 Thread JohnY



--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@... wrote:

 Seems to me like Ellen, Russell, Oprah and the TM org itself should be able 
 to donate this piddly sum between them and sustain it for, let's say a year. 
 Â World peace is being held hostage by lack of funding? Â Guess it's not that 
 important then. Â They need to change their messaging. Â 
 
 
 
  From: Buck dhamiltony2k5@...
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
 Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2012 4:45 AM
 Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: 556 more Pandits have passports
  
 
 Â  
 As a conservative meditator here I'd really like to see a tax levee to 
 support the Pundits on those people who don't go to the Domes.   Everyone 
 pays for and everyone benefits from the Pundits.   A pundit tax equally on 
 Meditators and non-meditators.  No exemptions no deferments from a Pundit 
 tax.  The Pundits are here as substitutes, make it a particularly progressive 
 tax on those people here who have Dome badges but don't go meditate in the 
 domes now.  It's the conservative way, work for peace by meditating or pay 
 for peace in cash.
 -Buck in Fairfield 
 
 http://globalcountryofworldpeace.org/emailing/2012_07_26_budget.html#budget 
 
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote:
 
  This is the time we have all been waiting for. There are currently 556 
  Maharishi Vedic Pandits with passports assembled in India preparing to join 
  us in Maharishi Vedic City. This will create the largest group of Maharishi 
  Vedic Pandits ever assembled in the US and secure the daily Super Radiance 
  numbers above 2,000 in Fairfield and Maharishi Vedic City. What a day it 
  will be when we welcome these Pandits!
  
  What is needed to make this happen?
  In order to have the Pandits come, we need to raise the funds for various 
  upfront costs, which are $2,000 per Pandit for passports, visas, airfare, 
  ground transportation and supplies as well as set-up costs in the US. In 
  addition, the campus needs upgrades including a significant kitchen and 
  dining expansion and residential building improvements. For a detailed 
  budget, click here.
  
  http://globalcountryofworldpeace.org/emailing/2012_07_26_budget.html#budget
  
  
  
   A Vision of Community
   
   The United States in the 18th and 19th centuries was a fertile ground for 
   ventures in communal living.  The promise of religious and social freedom 
   acted as a magnet for those who sought to escape the orthodoxies of state 
   churches, or who were being persecuted, or who simply sought room to live 
   according to their consciences.  Others felt communal living, combined 
   with humanitarian socialism, science and education, held promise of 
   Utopia.
   
   Introduction
   Guide to Historic Communal Sites of the United States
   prepared by the Communal Studies Association, 2010
  
 

 

No, you don't understand, the messaging is perfect. And it is accomplishing 
it's intended purpose. 


JohnY

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM, the Dome Badge, and Religious Practices

2012-07-29 Thread Robin Carlsen



--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, iranitea no_reply@... wrote:
 
Dear Iranitea,

Multiple Personality. I was diagnosed recently, and have been fighting it. 
Robin0, Robin1, Robin2, Robin3, Robin4, and now (if you read my conversation 
with Share) Robin5 (Brahman Consciousness)I actually experience myself coming 
in and going out into all of these six forms of Robin alternately, iranitea. 
Mind you, when I am in one of these states of consciousness I have a particular 
view of another state of Robin; for instance the RobinOhe was still in waking 
state; and could only dream about BC (Robin5). But sometimes Robin5 looks 
nostalgically back at Robin-1 (before LSD): that guy is, if you really want to 
know the truth, who my shrink wants me to get back to. And I think him right in 
this. (Actually it is a sheand she's very beautifulOh, my: but now we are 
into another problem: RobinR (Robin Romantic)but he has been with all the 
other seven Robins. Robin-1, Robin0, Robin1 and so on.) 

Are you wanting a fight here, iranitea? Why can't you just be nice and show us 
you are becoming the Selfinstead of faking us out by displaying so prominently 
all the earmarks of the little self you are trying to get rid of? Sucking up to 
Buck, are you? I am loving and honouring and respecting Buck. Yeah, I could use 
a transparency make-over. But what about Share Long? Where does she fit into 
the cosmos? I am working on that one as you can see.

No, iranitea, it all makes perfect sense: Why there are seven Robins, is the 
same reason why there are 330 millions gods in Hinduism, or, to speak more 
conservatively:

There is no second God, nor a third, nor is even a fourth spoken of
There is no fifth God or a sixth nor is even a seventh mentioned.
There is no eighth God, nor a ninth. Nothing is spoken about a tenth even.
This unique power is in itself. That Lord is only one, the only omnipresent. It 
is one and the only one.

Atharva Veda 13.4.2 19-20

I am aware, in my seven states of Robin simultaneouslyor as my poor (but very 
pretty) psychoanalyst puts it: my Multiple Personalityof essentially being 
The Lord [as] only oneI am  the one and the only one. I know this by 
direct experience, iranitea, and you are just trying to bring me back into 
ignorance and Maya and trying to fuck with my mind. I am enlightened! Don't you 
know that by now, iranitea?

Sure I resort to mysticism but maybe I don't. Maybe I am just playing at 
being seven Robins. And maybe I am not. Maybe I created myself*and even 
created YOU, iranitea*and maybe I did not (probably not, as a matter of fact).

Enjoy the mystical, iranitea: it's what it's all about after all.

And in the final analysis what does it matter how we quarrel here on FFL? We 
are, after all, only the Self. You and me, iranitea: *We are the same*!

Life obviously is infinitely innocent and infinitely ironic. Don't you see 
this, iranitea?

I am one of the Hindu gods using the universe as my playground. Just like you, 
iranitea.  I see what you are doing! Wink-wink.

But do the readers here at FFL?

We won't tell them, iranitea.

Or will we?


Iranitea: And, of course, I had many experiences after. So I cannot fee obliged 
my whole life to one particular experience, and let it enclose my life in one 
particular pattern. 
 
 The same is true for you Robin, quite obviously and even much more 
 dramatically, but I cannot achieve the kind of compartmentalization you are 
 making with respect to all the different Robins in your personal history. To 
 me it seems there is a Robin1, a Robin2, a Robin3 and a Robin4 up until 5 
 maybe, all of them are fairly intact, lets call Robin1 the Robin who as a TB 
 teacher and just newly enlightened, Robin2 the Robin of the seminars at FF 
 and whatever happened there, the Robin3 the one who read Aquinas and became 
 converted to Catholicism, and Robin4 is the post modern, post catholic Robin. 
 
 There is also Robin0, the one who experimented with LSD (which I never took). 
 Robin4 tells us that the whole TM trip as a deception, and illusion, and side 
 by side in the same post Robin1 tells that the initiation into TM is the most 
 marvelous experience, to which we should always be committed and faithful. 
 Robin4 tells Emily it is better to never start TM, and Robin1 tells Vaj, that 
 he doesn't know anything because he never transcended and urges him to start 
 learning TM. It is as if all these personas, are overlay-ed upon each other, 
 but there is no final resolution. 
 
 Maybe it is your purpose to work on your own history, to reach a sense of 
 resolution between these levels, but to me it seems you resort to some sort 
 of mysticism instead.
 
 For Buck I am glad that he is there, in whatever situation he is in, and 
 makes these things known to us creating transparency. To me he is a very 
 authentic and honest person.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count



--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, marekreavis reavismarek@... wrote:

  Buck, other than folks in Fairfield, who would have reasons not to have 
 their names publicized to the TMO religious police as following FFL, do you 
 know of any scholars, academics, politicians, or public personalities who 
 care about what we jabber about here or are you just speculating about the 
 otherwise undefined we would be surprised category?
 
 ***

Marek, yes as a matter of fact I am aware there are academics and journalists 
researching papers, articles, thesis, and books for publication.  FF is become 
of scholarly and journalistic interest with real academics and real journalists 
finding the story.  The FFL archive past and posts in present provides a wealth 
of information for them to sieve about Fairfield and come up to speed with.  
And then there are TM'ers of all types away and out in the world who look in 
and see how the winds are blowing by using FFL to read.  Always is interesting 
to see who contacts me offline via FFL.  Either scholarly or journalists the 
ongoing open format with its critique is the content.  
By report also evidently the large volume of personal baiting and bickering 
between a few writers gets in the way of the larger utility of FFL.  I hear a 
lot of frustration with that.  Possibly using this dilution in method as a 
denial of service is a strategy too by some. 

Yes, FFL as an open forum in result can be thin soup at times for all the 
baiting between a few writers but FFL evidently has its place also out in the 
free market of ideas.  To some others FFL is a dangerous place and the people 
who write on it are dangerous for their ideas and critique as such.  You should 
hear how some of the rabid TM true-believers describe one Rick Archer for 
hosting this very forum, it's with some extremely colorful vitriol.  

Yes, there seems evident a larger audience more than just the few in number who 
do write and post.  
Best Regards,
-Buck in FF

 
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck  wrote:
 
  
  
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, marekreavis reavismarek@ wrote:
  
   Buck, who do you believe it is that follows FFL so avidly and who we 
   would be surprised do?
   
   ***
  
  Marek,  Scholars, journalists, and people inside and outside of Fairfield 
  look in here to get a handle on Fairfield when they are looking for 
  perspective.  They evidently look for criticism that sheds light.  There's 
  way more readers than writers here.  
  It is always interesting to see who privately e-mails from lurking on the 
  side, or who comments when uptown over subjects and things posted on FFL.  
  Almost always lurkers as an audience deride the bickering between some 
  writers on FFL that gets in the way of content.   In conversation here in 
  town folks often suggest things they would like to have said on FFL though 
  they only lurk. You'd be surprised who the audience is both inside 
  Fairfield and outside.  
  -Buck in FF
  
   
   --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote:
   


--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius 
 anartaxius@ wrote:
 
  Is there some reason people are interested in us?
 
 Not bloody likely. :-)


Dear Mr.Turguoiseb, I would respectfully disagree with your (narrow) 
POV on this.
I found the recent discussion of SSRS's instruction on silent awareness 
during meditation versus the other brand meditation to be particularly 
well drawn out on both sides.  It was very interesting.  I would 
suspect that both interested parties, camps of SSRS-AOL'ers and 
MMY-TM'ers, were downloading the proceedings like crazy following 
through the discussion that discerned some very interesting spiritual 
nuance.  It was very interesting indeed and certainly drove readership. 
 There were some other subjects too during the period which evidently 
drove FFL downloads by non-member lurkers.  This new 'exceeding 
download' error message seems to revolve around periods of content 
driven downloads.  Unless these were denial of service downloads, we 
should expect now that Yahoo in its liquidation would sell FFL as an 
asset that actually drives content views.  You'd be amazed who all the 
audience of this place is.  Some writers would be embarrassed if they 
realized.
-Buck

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count

It is probably a DOS attack from some demented asswipe who doesn't like 
FFL for some reason or another.   Perhaps I should do a tantric ritual 
to make their fingers fall off. :-D

Those are easy to do with with an open group.  When I had a group I 
don't recall Yahoo providing any analytics and I suspect they still 
don't.  If you moved the group to Google you might have those plus 
Google might punt any DOSers.

Years ago I had a DOS attack on my Earthlink site.  In that case I did 
have a log to refer too and Earthlink who could have charged me for 
overages didn't.  They instead probably billed the college where the 
attack came from (it was over Christmas break) and the college probably 
booted the student.

I've only seen the message once and that was last night checking my 
email at 8 PM and since I got no messages from FFL checked the web site 
and that banner was there.  Apparently the quota roles over at midnight 
PDT.

On 07/29/2012 04:33 AM, iranitea wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, marekreavis reavismarek@... wrote:
 Buck, who do you believe it is that follows FFL so avidly and who we would 
 be surprised do?

 ***
 Marek, there are more lurkers than you think, as there are also many inactive 
 members, many just don't want to participate in fights or expose themselves 
 to the public, so they don't post.

 But apart form that, FFL very frequently tops Google searches for very 
 special search terms. Obviously people are not interested in the kind of 
 quibbles some here have specialized in, but there are still interesting 
 topics coming up, with some, I think quite sophisticated input.

 I have checked access to the group, when not being logged in, and access to 
 other public Yahoo groups, I am not a member of, and it seemed there was no 
 problem in the other groups, but one would have to test this a little more. 
 That bots can play a role is obvious, as there are sometimes captchas coming 
 along with Google searches, especially if there are a lot of searches coming 
 from one IP. This is to filter out bots.

 Logging in would be one means by Yahoo to ensure it is not an automated 
 request. Bot activity is obviously quite common and widespread in the 
 internet, so it does not mean that it is necessarily directed against FFL in 
 particular, OTOH it cannot be excluded, whoever says the opposite is lying.

 As we have a mirror site, it would be easy for lurkers to go just there, if 
 they only knew, not so likely if they are coming from Google search. Maybe 
 the mirror site should be mentioned in the intro text, of course one would 
 have to ensure it is not against Yahoo policies.

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote:


 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote:
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius 
 anartaxius@ wrote:
 Is there some reason people are interested in us?
 Not bloody likely. :-)

 Dear Mr.Turguoiseb, I would respectfully disagree with your (narrow) POV on 
 this.
 I found the recent discussion of SSRS's instruction on silent awareness 
 during meditation versus the other brand meditation to be particularly well 
 drawn out on both sides.  It was very interesting.  I would suspect that 
 both interested parties, camps of SSRS-AOL'ers and MMY-TM'ers, were 
 downloading the proceedings like crazy following through the discussion 
 that discerned some very interesting spiritual nuance.  It was very 
 interesting indeed and certainly drove readership.  There were some other 
 subjects too during the period which evidently drove FFL downloads by 
 non-member lurkers.  This new 'exceeding download' error message seems to 
 revolve around periods of content driven downloads.  Unless these were 
 denial of service downloads, we should expect now that Yahoo in its 
 liquidation would sell FFL as an asset that actually drives content views.  
 You'd be amazed who all the audience of this place is.  Some writers would 
 be embarrassed if they realized.
 -Buck

[FairfieldLife] New crop circle: Nr All Cannings, Wiltshire. Reported 29th July




Allington, Nr All Cannings, Wiltshire. Reported 29th July
Map Ref: SU069638
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?X=406918Y=163834A=YZ=115
This Page has been accessed
  [Hit Counter]

Updated Sunday 29th July 2012
AERIAL SHOTS
http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2012/allington2/allington2012b.html
GROUND SHOTS
http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2012/allington2/groundshots.html 
DIAGRAMS
http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2012/allington2/diagrams.html 
FIELD REPORTS
http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2012/allington2/fieldreports.html 
COMMENTS
http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2012/allington2/comments.html 
ARTICLES
http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2012/allington2/articles.html  
29/07/12 29/07/12 29/07/12 29/07/12 29/07/12 29/07/12

Farmer does not want anyone visiting this formation.

 
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Crop-Circles-UFOs-Ancient-Mysteries-Scie\
ntific-Speculations/246667595346687?ref=tssk=wall
Discuss this circle on our Facebook
Crop Circles-UFO's-Ancient Mysteries-Scientific Speculations
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Crop-Circles-UFOs-Ancient-Mysteries-Scie\
ntific-Speculations/246667595346687?ref=tssk=wall



  http://www.cccvault.co.uk/cccvideos/2010/trailer2010z.html

CLICK HERE FOR THE LATEST CROP CIRCLE CONNECTOR DVD
http://www.cccvault.co.uk/cccvideos/2010/trailer2010z.html


Images Rebekka Schuermans Copyright 2012

[FairfieldLife] New Crop Circle: Ogbourne Down, Wiltshire. Reported 29th




Four Mile Clump, Nr Ogbourne Down, Wiltshire. Reported 29th July.
Map Ref: SU163745
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=416350y=174550z=0sv=SU163745st\
=5mapp=map.srfsearchp=ids.srf
This Page has been accessed
  [Hit Counter]

Updated Sunday 29th July 2012
AERIAL SHOTS
http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2012/4mileclump/4mileclump2012a.html\
  GROUND SHOTS
http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2012/4mileclump/groundshots.html 
DIAGRAMS
http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2012/4mileclump/diagrams.html 
FIELD REPORTS
http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2012/4mileclump/fieldreports.html 
COMMENTS
http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2012/4mileclump/comments.html 
ARTICLES
http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2012/4mileclump/articles.html  
29/07/12 29/07/12 29/07/12 29/07/12 29/07/12 29/07/12

The Farmer has requested that No One can visit this formation. Please
Respect his wishes.



 
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Crop-Circles-UFOs-Ancient-Mysteries-Scie\
ntific-Speculations/246667595346687?ref=tssk=wall
Discuss this circle on our Facebook
Crop Circles-UFO's-Ancient Mysteries-Scientific Speculations
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Crop-Circles-UFOs-Ancient-Mysteries-Scie\
ntific-Speculations/246667595346687?ref=tssk=wall



  http://www.cccvault.co.uk/cccvideos/2010/trailer2010z.html

CLICK HERE FOR THE LATEST CROP CIRCLE CONNECTOR DVD
http://www.cccvault.co.uk/cccvideos/2010/trailer2010z.html




  http://www.thecropcircleshop.com/  
[https://www.paypal.com/en_GB/i/scr/pixel.gif]
Make a donation to keep the web site alive
http://www.thecropcircleshop.com/



 
http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2012/http:/www.cropcircleconnector.c\
om/anasazi/conduct.html
FOR VISITING THE CROP CIRCLES.



Images Graham M Lawson Copyright 2012

  http://www.cropcircleconnectorforum.com/



Image James Burns Copyright 2012

[FairfieldLife] Mitt the warmonger Romney is in favor of starting WWIII

Keep this nutcase away from the WH!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/29/mitt-romney-iran-strike-israel_n_1715574.html

Of course fortunately every time he opens his mouth (including this 
time) he distances himself farther and farther from winning.

[FairfieldLife] That infamous chord...

Jhang!

The opening chord of A Hard Days Night. I always played a Gsus4 or a couple
other variations in the first position. The Complete Beatles score actually
notates two guitars and McCartney’s bass: my aforementioned Gsus4 as guitar one
and guitar two is Gsus4 (III), full barre. Paul plays a D bass counterpoint.

There's an article on the internet that shows how it was deconstructed
accurately [see below]. There are many iterations out there that are
wrong or incomplete. For example: One or two notes of the chord are
provided by a piano [and no other instrument]. That is missing from your
example.

It was definitively solved by Jason Brown of Dalhousie’s Department of
Mathematics. He decided to try and see if he could apply a mathematical
calculation known as Fourier transform
http://www.science20.com/search/node/Fourier. That, along with some
fine detective work gave the result. Here's a link to the story [but
there's another one in quite a bit greater depth but I don't have the
link now]:
.
.
http://www.science20.com/news_releases/beatles_unknown_hard_days_night_chord_mystery_solved_using_fourier_transform
.
.
Here's another link that mentions the piano chord, although I don't know
it it's right:
.
http://everything2.com/title/The%2520%2522A%2520Hard%2520Day%2527s%2520Night%2522%2520Chord%2520-%2520Rock%2527s%2520Holy%2520Grail
.
.
And here's a bit of info from Wikipedia:

Opening chord

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:A_Hard_Day%27s_Night_opening_chord_2.png

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:A_Hard_Day%27s_Night_opening_chord_2.png
A Hard Day's Night opening chord option: G7sus4.
One may quickly and easily compare the presence or absence of notes,
and their range http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range_%28music%29, even
without the ability to read music.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:A_Hard_Day%27s_Night_opening_chord_5.png

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:A_Hard_Day%27s_Night_opening_chord_5.png
A Hard Day's Night opening chord option: Dm7sus4.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:A_Hard_Day%27s_Night_opening_chord_7.png

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:A_Hard_Day%27s_Night_opening_chord_7.png
A Hard Day's Night opening chord option: Prof. Brown's analysis.

According to George Martin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Martin, We knew it would open
both the film and the soundtrack LP, so we wanted a particularly
strong and effective beginning. The strident guitar chord
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar_chord was the perfect
launch,^[10]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Hard_Day%27s_Night_%28song%29#cite_note-FOOTNOTELewisohn198843-9

having what Ian MacDonald http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_MacDonald
calls, a significance in Beatles lore matched only by the concluding
E major http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_chord of A Day in the
Life http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Day_in_the_Life, the two
opening and closing the group's middle period of peak
creativity.^[13]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Hard_Day%27s_Night_%28song%29#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMacDonald2005115-12

That sound you just associate with those early 1960s Beatles
records.^[14]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Hard_Day%27s_Night_%28song%29#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBacon200011-13

About this sound
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:A_Hard_Day%27s_Night_opening_chord.ogg
Listen to the opening chord
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c4/A_Hard_Day%27s_Night_opening_chord.ogg(help

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Media_help·info
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:A_Hard_Day%27s_Night_opening_chord.ogg)

Analysis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_analysis of the chord
has been debated,^[15]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Hard_Day%27s_Night_%28song%29#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHook2005-14

it having been described as G7add9sus4
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleventh_chord#Fourth,^[16]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Hard_Day%27s_Night_%28song%29#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGlynn200433.2C_68-15

G7sus4 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspended_chord,^[17]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Hard_Day%27s_Night_%28song%29#cite_note-FOOTNOTERooksby200461-16

^[18]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Hard_Day%27s_Night_%28song%29#cite_note-FOOTNOTELeonard2003126-17

or G11sus4^[12]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Hard_Day%27s_Night_%28song%29#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJackson2005112-11

and others below.

The exact chord http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chord_%28music%29 is an
Fadd9 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninth_chord#Second confirmed by
Harrison during an online chat on 15 February 2001:^[19]

Re: [FairfieldLife] Car Surfing Pelican

Unfortunately sometimes a little too close in that parking lot.  There 
are occasionally people who mindlessly feed the birds in the parking 
lot.  There is a nice beach next to the pond to feed the birds so they 
don't chance getting run over by a car.  Apparently these freaks can't 
walk the few feet to do that.  I've even chewed out a few of them for 
doing so.  And I've seen the park staff do same.  Besides when they do 
that the birds shit all over the cars in the lot.

And even worse half of that park is a wildlife reserve with signs posted 
all over the place banning dogs.  But I still see the shit for brains 
walking dogs there and sometimes even without a leash!  The signs point 
out there are plenty of areas in the park that are not the reserve for 
walking the dog.  I often ask people when they are walking their dog in 
that area if they saw the signs?  Of course they look clueless or deer 
in headlights look.  There is a fine for doing so but I've yet to catch 
a park police there and ask them how much it is so I can tell the next 
idiot I encounter walking their dog there.  Chances are there is a huge 
fine if bowser kills one of the rare birds.

And people wonder why I have such low regard for my fellow Americans. ;-)

On 07/26/2012 08:11 PM, Emily Reyn wrote:
 Very humorous...our animal friends are always close by :)


 
   From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2012 3:49 PM
 Subject: [FairfieldLife] Car Surfing Pelican
   


 Well I haven't had it plant itself on the top of my SUV but this driver
 had a time trying to get it to leave the top of his car. This is the
 parking lot of the Waterfront Park that I walk at frequently.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpagev=5SHsXwvtLVY

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mitt the warmonger Romney is in favor of starting WWIII

2012-07-29 Thread John

Yep, that's his problem.  His mouth will be his downfall.  Take a look at the 
combust Mercury in his birth chart.



--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote:

 Keep this nutcase away from the WH!
 
 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/29/mitt-romney-iran-strike-israel_n_1715574.html
 
 Of course fortunately every time he opens his mouth (including this 
 time) he distances himself farther and farther from winning.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: That infamous chord...

Probably a mistake but they liked the sound of it enough to leave it in.
So you have all these music pundits trying to figure out what may well
have been a mistake. Gee, haven't they even made such a mistake and
though gee that actually sounds cool? I've certainly done that and in
fact some of the jazzier tunes I have on YouTube have those in them and
I haven't a clue what I did when I played them but they weren't the
intended chord. Some jazz pianists will tell you they just put their
hands down and whatever happens happens. Their hands unlike amateurs
still have some intelligence to avoid things that sound like clinkers.

On 07/29/2012 12:38 PM, John wrote:
The beginning chord was not the essence of the song. You have to consider
the entire package to appreciate its value. That includes the chord
progression, melody, bass line, beat and lyrics.

The songs written by Lennon and McCartney were magical. It's unfortunate
that they didn't write more songs like the others in their generation.

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote:
Jhang!

The opening chord of A Hard Days Night. I always played a Gsus4 or a couple
other variations in the first position. The Complete Beatles score actually
notates two guitars and McCartney's bass: my aforementioned Gsus4 as guitar
one and guitar two is Gsus4 (III), full barre. Paul plays a D bass
counterpoint.

It was definitively solved by Jason Brown of Dalhousie's Department of
Mathematics. He decided to try and see if he could apply a mathematical
calculation known as Fourier transform
http://www.science20.com/search/node/Fourier. That, along with some
fine detective work gave the result. Here's a link to the story [but
there's another one in quite a bit greater depth but I don't have the
link now]:
.
.
http://www.science20.com/news_releases/beatles_unknown_hard_days_night_chord_mystery_solved_using_fourier_transform
.
.
Here's another link that mentions the piano chord, although I don't know
it it's right:
.
http://everything2.com/title/The%2520%2522A%2520Hard%2520Day%2527s%2520Night%2522%2520Chord%2520-%2520Rock%2527s%2520Holy%2520Grail
.
.
And here's a bit of info from Wikipedia:

Opening chord

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:A_Hard_Day%27s_Night_opening_chord_2.png

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:A_Hard_Day%27s_Night_opening_chord_5.png
A Hard Day's Night opening chord option: Dm7sus4.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:A_Hard_Day%27s_Night_opening_chord_7.png

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:A_Hard_Day%27s_Night_opening_chord_7.png
A Hard Day's Night opening chord option: Prof. Brown's analysis.

A Hard Day's Night is immediately identifiable before the vocals
even begin, thanks to George Harrison
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Harrison's unmistakable
Rickenbacker http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickenbacker 360/12
12-string guitar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar's mighty
opening chord.^[12]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Hard_Day%27s_Night_%28song%29#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJackson2005112-11
According to George Martin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Martin, We knew it would open
both the film and the soundtrack LP, so we wanted a particularly
strong and effective beginning. The strident guitar chord
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar_chord was the perfect
launch,^[10]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Hard_Day%27s_Night_%28song%29#cite_note-FOOTNOTELewisohn198843-9
having what Ian MacDonald http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_MacDonald
calls, a significance in Beatles lore matched only by the concluding
E major http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_chord of A Day in the
Life http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Day_in_the_Life, the two
opening and closing the group's middle period of peak
creativity.^[13]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Hard_Day%27s_Night_%28song%29#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMacDonald2005115-12
That sound you just associate with those early 1960s Beatles
records.^[14]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Hard_Day%27s_Night_%28song%29#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBacon200011-13

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM, the Dome Badge, and Religious Practices

Iranitea, this essay of yours is extremely topical around here.  There is a lot 
in play right now and this is so much of what the overt wrangling between 
strict Maharishi guideline preservationists on one hand and TM progressives of 
the meditating community on the other.  There's an evident confusion of the 
administrative guidelines with the teaching on the part of the MMY guideline 
preservationists.  It's a very small group now that drives this trying to hold 
everyone else hostage to their point of view which is absolute in their minds.  
Of course, in the meantime a lot of meditators have left and gone away whilst 
our strict MMY guideline preservationists are not even close to either waging 
peace or reconciliation in their position with the meditating community.  It 
seems to be a hard fought contention and the preservationists expect absolute 
terms of surrender for everyone in the discussion.  

With Kind Regards,
-Buck in Fairfield 

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, iranitea no_reply@... wrote:

 When I first signed the agreement form, it as just short before we received 
 the TM initiator initiation, I thought that it was a mere formality, and I 
 thought that the term purity of the teaching related to teaching the 7 steps 
 of TM. 7 steps. Intro lecture, prep lecture, personal interview, initiation - 
 the puja, the mantras, the 'steps', and the 3 days checking. That's it, I 
 thought.
 
 But now I learn, that signing this agreement form, was like signing a blanco 
 checque, that anything could be added to this term, be it Ayurveda, Vastu, 
 Maharishi Jyotish, Maharishi natural products etc etc.
 
 And now I learn, that the purity of the teaching relates to all of them, and 
 we don't even know what is yet to come, which will fall under this term. The 
 purity of the teaching is really a whore.
 
 Knowing all this development, we should have at least have one week of 
 lectures just about the agreement form. I think there was one lecture by 
 Maharishi, playing it more or less down.
 
 At the times I signed it first, there were no domes yet, no group flying, no 
 Ayurveda, no Vastu or Maharishi Jyotish, no Maharishi honey etc.
 
 What I find unforgivable, is the fact, that the group program, which is 
 really the holy grail of the movement is being instrumentalized as a means of 
 punishment, of sanctioning, and if Buck is correct,  to impart the rules they 
 make, would allow them to spy on people and behave in a manner which only the 
 secret service does. And even more so, do this out of a basically economic 
 reason, as several posters here agree. Where is the purity of the teaching in 
 all this?
 
 At the moment I learned about the purity of the teaching, it was about 
 'capture the fort, and all else will be given to you'. No need for special 
 services and add on techniques. Now you are jeopardizing  the purity of the 
 teaching if you buy the wrong house, or the wrong honey or the get the wrong 
 horoscope. And of course, you didn't know anything about this, hen you signed 
 this paper at your TTC.
 
 As long as people feel this commitment to go to the domes, or as long as they 
 want to participate in the common group program, so long the movement will 
 have you in their hands, they will be able to control people.
 
 I cannot feel such a commitment on the basis of the experiences I had when 
 starting to meditate. While I see the value of TM, especially for the 
 beginner, I don't see it's exclusiveness. Transcendence to me predates any 
 experience, I had anticipations of transcendence before TM, I had experiences 
 before too.
 
 And, of course, I had many experiences after. So I cannot fee obliged my 
 whole life to one particular experience, and let it enclose my life in one 
 particular pattern.

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM, the Dome Badge, and Religious Practices

2012-07-29 Thread Robin Carlsen



--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote:


Share2 on a rainy Sunday morning almost autumnal in feeling very sweetly 
mournful this morning 



From: Robin Carlsen maskedzebra@...
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2012 11:47 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM, the Dome Badge, and Religious Practices
snip

Share1: Could it be that your knowledge is valid within the context of your 
enlightenment but maybe not useful to Maharishi and his vision? My own 
experience was that I realized that the emotional healing was not a priority 
within the TMO. So I went elsewhere for that.

Robin2: Not exactly sure what you mean here, Share. No, if you are asking me to 
speculate on the reasons for why Maharishi, after seven years of never 
criticizing me--despite the clamour from his governors--finally uttered four 
sounds which did not indicate he approved of what I was doing there in 
Fairfield--that is a question that merits a separate post. What you are not 
taking into consideration is: *This was not a personal desire of Robin's* that 
Maharishi officially recognize my enlightenment and its immediate and profound 
application to every TM Governor--and therefore to Maharishi's very Teaching; 
no, Share, the intelligence which had created my enlightenment and which had 
control over my actions, that intelligence was pushing me into this 
confrontation and resolution with Maharishi. I had the sense, throughout those 
seven years, that Maharishi and I were performing a kind of dance of very 
subtle mental intelligence; but finally, I forced him to commit himself. And 
then there was a form of superficial peace--even though the reality remained 
the same--and my connection with Maharishi was what it had always been.

I was not seeking emotional healing--although I admit I don't quite see the 
connection of this comment to what I said in what I have said to you.

Share2:  Well it's ok RC but you do seem to contradict yourself in some subtle 
way.  I can't speak to a Unity experience, but I can address the internal logic 
or absence thereof.  You say it was not a personal desire.  Then you say you 
forced Maharishi to commit himself.  This sounds personal. 

Robin3:Personal coercion is just concentrated universal coercion. My dear 
Share: Pray, tell me what act that you have ever seen performed by a human 
being was not 'personal'? Tell me one. The sense I had was that the cosmic 
intelligence that was computing my actions was inexorably driving this 
show-down with Maharishi, and the personal Robin was just a witness to this 
drama. The cosmic intelligence in me was forcing the cosmic intelligence in 
Maharishi to commit himself. This sounds personal. Well *that* 
certainly--your comment--sounds personal. Because it *is* personal. But you 
see, Share, the intelligences behind making me enlightened--and, I would 
contend, making Maharishi enlightened--*these intelligences are very personal*. 
There is no impersonal intelligence or reality in the universe. *Everything is 
infinitely personal*--from where I see it. So, in a sense, your intuition was 
correct; the intelligences behind Maharishis Unity Consciousness were doing one 
thing, whereas the intelligences behind Robin's Unity Consciousness were doing 
another thing--*even though these were the same intelligences*!

But there is one thing we are leaving out here: The creator of all these 
intelligences, even the mischievous ones that make persons enlightened--or 
think they are enlightened. That being too (being very personal) has his 
reasonsbut then, as Paul said: Who has ever known the mind of the Lord that 
he may instruct him? I only say, Share, that my actions vis-a-vis Maharish--at 
all times--were subject to and subjugated by my Unity Consciousness--and this 
was always experienced to be, ultimately at least, under the aegis of cosmic 
intelligence. I would say things, do things, that I would never dream of doing 
before I was enlightened--I literally had no control even over my body: if 
cosmic intelligence wanted me to stand up, I would find myself standing up. If 
I was supposed to speak, I would speakand the words that came out of my mouth 
were not experienced to have been thought out first by myselfand how many 
times I was shocked by what I said!

Robin2: Furthermore, if that intelligence was impersonal, then Maharishi, 
indeed the whole cosmos, would have been subsumed in it including the 
clamouring governors.  
In the emotional healing comment I was expressing why my personal agenda was no 
longer compatible with the movement's.  Perhaps you were seeking some other 
kind of resolution.

snip

Share1: St. Paul! Tho my birthday falls on his feast day, I sometimes wonder if 
he wasn't responsible for the early church becoming, well, less about Christ 
and more about rules and structures.

Robin2: Is this a discussion you really want to have, Share? I will just 
stipulate that Paul baby didn't

Re: [FairfieldLife] Car Surfing Pelican

2012-07-29 Thread Mike Dixon

The way we take care of those pesky birds, feeding on crumbs in our parking 
lots is, we generally use a male Harris hawk and drive thru the lots and when 
we get near a bunch of pigeons or black birds, we sick the hawk on 'em! The 
hawk loves the ambush mode of hunting and the little old ladies, walking to 
their cars, arms full of groceries, get a charge from seeing a*wild* hawk catch 
a little birdie, right in front of their eyes! We call this *car hawking*. I'm 
sure William Shakespeare would have written about it ...had they had cars at 
that time. And no doubt, Henry the VIII would have used this technique instead 
of riding over hill- n- dale, on horse back(poor horse) chasing his prized Rook 
Hawk.

 


 From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2012 12:34 PM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Car Surfing Pelican
  

   
 
Unfortunately sometimes a little too close in that parking lot.  There 
are occasionally people who mindlessly feed the birds in the parking 
lot.  There is a nice beach next to the pond to feed the birds so they 
don't chance getting run over by a car.  Apparently these freaks can't 
walk the few feet to do that.  I've even chewed out a few of them for 
doing so.  And I've seen the park staff do same.  Besides when they do 
that the birds shit all over the cars in the lot.

And even worse half of that park is a wildlife reserve with signs posted 
all over the place banning dogs.  But I still see the shit for brains 
walking dogs there and sometimes even without a leash!  The signs point 
out there are plenty of areas in the park that are not the reserve for 
walking the dog.  I often ask people when they are walking their dog in 
that area if they saw the signs?  Of course they look clueless or deer 
in headlights look.  There is a fine for doing so but I've yet to catch 
a park police there and ask them how much it is so I can tell the next 
idiot I encounter walking their dog there.  Chances are there is a huge 
fine if bowser kills one of the rare birds.

And people wonder why I have such low regard for my fellow Americans. ;-)

On 07/26/2012 08:11 PM, Emily Reyn wrote:
 Very humorous...our animal friends are always close by :)


 
   From: Bhairitu mailto:noozguru%40sbcglobal.net
 To: mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com
 Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2012 3:49 PM
 Subject: [FairfieldLife] Car Surfing Pelican
 

 
 Well I haven't had it plant itself on the top of my SUV but this driver
 had a time trying to get it to leave the top of his car. This is the
 parking lot of the Waterfront Park that I walk at frequently.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpagev=5SHsXwvtLVY

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Mitt the warmonger Romney is in favor of starting WWIII

2012-07-29 Thread Mike Dixon

You guys are setting yourselves up for that *how can America be so stupid* 
moment.

 From: John jr_...@yahoo.com
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2012 12:41 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Mitt the warmonger Romney is in favor of 
starting WWIII

Yep, that's his problem.  His mouth will be his downfall.  Take a look at the 
combust Mercury in his birth chart.

--- In mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote:

 Keep this nutcase away from the WH!

 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/29/mitt-romney-iran-strike-israel_n_1715574.html

 Of course fortunately every time he opens his mouth (including this 
 time) he distances himself farther and farther from winning.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: That infamous chord...


On Jul 29, 2012, at 3:57 PM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote:

 Probably a mistake but they liked the sound of it enough to leave it in. 
 So you have all these music pundits trying to figure out what may well 
 have been a mistake. Gee, haven't they even made such a mistake and 
 though gee that actually sounds cool? I've certainly done that and in 
 fact some of the jazzier tunes I have on YouTube have those in them and 
 I haven't a clue what I did when I played them but they weren't the 
 intended chord. Some jazz pianists will tell you they just put their 
 hands down and whatever happens happens. Their hands unlike amateurs 
 still have some intelligence to avoid things that sound like clinkers.

It was planned.

According to George Martin, We knew it would open both the film and the 
soundtrack LP, so we wanted a particularly strong and effective beginning. The 
strident guitar chord was the perfect launch,[10]

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM, the Dome Badge, and Religious Practices



--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@ wrote:
 
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote:
  
  [...]
   
   Do you really think it's *ethical* for an organization
   that claims to have the secret to achieving world peace,
   and that *clearly* has the money to fund such an effort
   themselves, to not do so? If so, please explain your
   reasons for believing this.
  
  I still don't see the clearly here.
 
 Still playing dodgeball. I am disappointed.
 
 *Assume* that the TMO had all the money it needed
 to fund as many buttbouncers as it claims it needs
 to achieve world peace. Is there *any* reason that
 you can think of that would be valid for not paying
 for it themselves?


Other than they're trying to arrange a permanent facility, no.

But they are.

L

[FairfieldLife] UFO Hovering At Olympic Park Firework Display! On news!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNIJgE1vLsIfeature=youtu.be

[FairfieldLife] Countdown in 10-9-8 days ?



  http://www.thecropcircleshop.com/  
[https://www.paypal.com/en_GB/i/scr/pixel.gif]
Make a donation to keep the web site alive
http://www.thecropcircleshop.com/

Three new crop pictures at Windmill Hill, Oliver's Castle or
Etchilhampton follow similar styles, and seem to show a countdown
in days 10-9-8 until some important event on August 4 or 5, 2012,
predicted in June at Manton Drove

We are now in the midst of a flurry of new crop pictures, so it is hard
for an analyst to keep up. Here we will make some tentative attempts to
understand the ongoing phenomenon, while accepting that it may not be
possible to understand some of these pictures until after the full 2012
season ends.

Three new crop pictures at Windmill Hill on July 25, Oliver's Castle
on July 26, or Etchilhampton on July 28 show similar styles:



Windmill Hill seems to tell us about eight days until a full Moon
on August 2, or ten days from July 26 until some event on
August 4:



It also showed a Mayan calendar date of 12.19.19.10.16 meaning August 1,
2012. Two lunar crescents may signify two days past a full Moon on
August 4. Its overall trident shape may signify a
conjunction between our Moon and Neptune on August 4.

Oliver's Castle seems to show an unknown object coming out of a
wormhole, along with two lunar crescents. A careful
counting of its circles reveals nine days from July 27 until August
4



Etchilhampton seems to show eight days from July 28 until August
4, or possibly eight days from July 29 until August 5.
The latter interpretation may be favoured, because we can see five
growing circles (labelled in yellow) further to the right:



For all three crop circles, the day count begins one day after
the crop picture has appeared.

Around the outside of Etchilhampton, we can again see two lunar
crescents. These have been numbered according to certain dates in
the Mayan Long Count calendar as 12.19.19.10.16 meaning August 1, 2012,
or 12.19.19.11.16 meaning August 21, 2012..One might try to interpret
these numbers as 12.19.19.10.11, but that means July 27 as a date
already passed.

Finally we may compare Etchilhampton and Oliver's Castle in 2012 to
a wormhole crop picture from Barbury Castle in 2011:



The imagery in both cases seems to suggest something coming out of
a wormhole.

In summary, all of these new crop pictures seem to show a countdown in
days 10-9-8 to some important event on August 4 or 5, 2012, which was
first predicted by a polar clock shown in crops at Manton
Drove on June 2, 2012.

There have also been three astronomical suggestions of the same date in
crops: (i) at Santena, Italy on June 17 (the Sun and Mercury in Cancer
on August 4), (ii) at The Wrekin on July 23 (Saturn, Spica and Mars form
a distinctive triangle on August 4), or (iii) at Windmill Hill on July
25 (the Moon and Neptune conjunct on August 4).

What will happen if anything? Perhaps we will see a major new crop
picture, giving us some kind of message. Or perhaps we will see open
communication between friendly extra-terrestrials and all the people of
Earth, using images in the sky or even radio-TV channels. Everything in
crops seems to suggest communication, while nothing seems to
suggest disaster.

Those crop artists are quite aware of the ongoing Olympic Games in
London. A crop picture on July 23 at Longwood Warren showed a schematic
image of London Olympic Stadium. Another at Hill Barn on July 26 showed
alien footprints on Earth, along with six Olympic
rings rather than the usual five. Was this intended to suggest that
five existing continents on Earth (Europe, the Americas, Africa, Asia
and Oceania) will soon be joined in friendship by a sixth outside party?

Red Collie (Dr. Horace R. Drew)

[FairfieldLife] Iranitea and Xeno: SSRS's instruction on silent awareness during meditation

2012-07-29 Thread emptybill


Reply to post #315421:

Lawson, that's the dawn of knowledge, when you know that you don't know
anymore, all your previous knowledge has been evaporated. There is a
very good practice in Zen to cultivate the 'don't know' mind.

Iranitea and Xeno,

  This don't know mind is difficult for TM trained people
to comprehend. This is because MMY's whole teaching presents itself
as the practice of direct, non-conceptual sensory perception resolving
itself back into the field of awareness. Since that awareness is
described in TM as all-knowing, these two types of teaching
appear to contradict each other. However, the reality is different.

   Back in mid 80's, I practiced for a while at a Kwan Um Zen center.
Later I practiced with Zen master Seung Sahn himself during some
three-day retreats (Yong Maeng Jong Jin/Leaping like a tiger while
sitting). He began by asking me questions I could not answer.

What is your name, where do you come from?

I hesitated with my answer since I had already read some of his Zen
teachings.

Seung Sahn laughed and said, This is easy  your name is
William and you came from you home in xyz.

I said yes.

Seung Sahn So just give your answer, it's easy.

Then he asked me 

So tell me your true name before your parents gave you one?

I was silent, unable to answer. He continued 

Then show me who you are before your parents were born!
Quick, before thinking   what is it?

I was unable to answer.

He then took his stick and poked me in the hara/duntien below my navel. 
Answer from here!

Although I had practiced moving from the hara/duntien during twenty
years of karate and tai chi, I still had no answer.

I could only say  I don't know.

Seung Sahn looked at me directly and said, Under all conditions
keep this don't-know mind.

He then showed me a way to answer this question.

Years later a teacher pointed out that what we believe we know are
actually just concepts. For instance, whether we say The apple is
red or Der apfel ist rot or La pommes est
rouge, the object before us does not change because the name we
select is either apple, apfel or pomme. Likewise, if we
aggregate all possible descriptions and names together, we still have
only labels rather than the actual object. We can cut it up for a pie,
use it as a substitute baseball or stick an antenna on it and shoot it
into space. However, none of these names, concepts or utilizations
reveal to us what that object really is.

Such a view directly points beyond mere description to what something
actually and ultimately is, is, is. Thus, while we know that
an apple is red in color, what is red? What is
round? What is sweet? What is color?  Also,
just because we can describe a monochromatic spectral frequency and
wavelength, this does not define what this something is, is,
is.

What is the consequence?

Ultimate ineffability, real and actual unknowability  whether self,
other or a thing.

Unless we realize that we can never know it, we will never
understand that we can only be it and that such being
it will never be attained but only actualized when we realize 
directly that we are already being itself.

This is not SCI but it is the original MMY teaching about Shankara's
three fields of life  doing, knowing, being.
BTW,

As a trained TM teacher, when I heard such statements as You need
to keep a `try mind', it appeared to be the antithesis of TM. It
troubled me until I set aside my ideological mind-stamp and realized
that they were actual talking about maintaining a resolute,
single-minded intent, void of wavering. Such can be mindless ideology,
bereft of awakened contemplation.


--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, iranitea no_reply@... wrote:

 Lawson, that's the dawn of knowledge, when you know that you don't
know anymore, all your previous knowledge has been evaporated. There is
a very good practice in Zen  to cultivate the 'don't know' mind. If you
like, read this
http://www.kwanumzen.org/about-zen/three-letters-to-a-beginner/

[FairfieldLife] WE WILL SEE YOU ON SATURDAY AUGUST 4TH!

PLEIADIAN CHANNEL
FRIDAY, JULY 27, 2012

IT IS NOW ESTABLISHED AND WAS DECIDED AS OF EARTH DATE, WEDNESDAY JULY
25TH, 2012 BY THE PLEIADIAN HIGH COUNCIL IN ALLIANCE WITH FOUR OTHER
GALACTIC COUNCILS, UNDER GALACTIC CODEX GUIDELINES THAT WE THE PLEIADIAN
FAMILY OF LIGHT WILL NOW INTERVENE FULLY INTO GAIA'S ASCENSION.

FURTHERMORE IT HAS BEEN DECIDED THAT WE WILL MAKE FULL CONTACT WITH
EARTH BEINGS IN EIGHT DAYS FROM THIS TRANSMISSION ON AUGUST 4, 2012 AT
THE WORLD OLYMPIC GAMES IN LONDON ENGLAND FOR THE ENTIRE WORLD TO SEE!
THIS WILL BE FOR OUR INTRODUCTION AS WELL AS OUR FIRST EFFORTS TO WORK
DIRECTLY WITH YOU IN THE CORRECTION AND ASCENSION OF GAIA AND TO ASSIST
WITH YOUR OWN ASCENSION.

THIS GALACTIC INTERVENTION HAS BEEN ORDERED FOR THE FOLLOWING REASONS:
SOPHIA-GAIA'S SICKNESS HAS REACHED A CRITICAL STAGE AND MUST BE
CLEANED UP AT ONCE.
THE LIGHT QUOTIENT ON EARTH IS NOT HIGH ENOUGH AT THIS STAGE TO AFFECT A
MASS GLOBAL ASCENSION LET ALONE TO HELP MOVE AN ENTIRE PLANET TO THE
NEXT DIMENSION.
PLANET TERRA (EARTH) IS SCHEDULED FOR A TRANSITION INTO THE FIFTH
DIMENSION ON 12-21-2012.
WE ARE WELL PLEASED TO SEE THAT THE EFFORTS OF MANY BEINGS ON EARTH HAVE
EASED HER SUFFERING HOWEVER DUE TO THE IMMINENT UPCOMING GALACTIC CYCLE
AND THE AMOUNT OF WORK AND HEALING THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE FOR GAIA CANNOT
BE COMPLETED BY EARTH BEINGS ON SCHEDULE.
WE BY NO MEANS ARE DISMAYED AT THE GOOD EFFORTS MADE BY SO MANY FOR SO
LONG AND ARE GREATLY HONORED BY ALL THE ACTIONS TAKEN TO RAISE THE
VIBRATIONS OF GAIA AND TO CLEAR THE NEGATIVITY THAT SURROUNDS HER.
UNDERSTAND THAT WE CANNOT WAIT ANY LONGER AND WE ARE ONLY STEPPING IN TO
HELP!
WHAT HAPPENS ON EARTH NOW AFFECTS THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE, SO THIS IS PRETTY
IMPORTANT!
SOPHIA-GAIA-TERRA'S IMMEDIATE CLEANUP TAKES GALACTIC PRIORITY NUMBER
ONE.
THIS INVOLVES THE COMPLETE REMOVAL OF ALL ARCHONTIC CABAL REMAINS.
THE CABAL-SHADOW-MIND-PARASITES CANNOT BE CLEARED BY EARTH BEINGS FAST
ENOUGH AND ARE HALTING GAIA'S ASCENSION AS WELL AS THE INFECTED
LIVING BEINGS THEMSELVES!

WE HAVE A VESTED INTEREST IN GAIA-LIFE BECAUSE WE CREATED IT WITH YOU
EONS AGO!
THAT IS WHY WE SAY WE ARE YOUR FAMILY!

YOU WILL NOT BE SHOCKED AT ALL BECAUSE WE ARE VERY HUMAN JUST LIKE YOU.
WE ARE MORE HIGHLY EVLOVED SPIRITUAL BEINGS AND HAVE ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY
BUT WE DO NOT SEE OURSELVES ANY HIGHER THAN ANY OTHER, FOR WE ARE ALL
ONE!
WE ARE ALL INDIVIDUATIONS OF PRIME CREATOR EXPERIENCING ITSELF!
WE ARE FAMILY AND WE LOVE YOU VERY MUCH AS YOU WILL SEE.
IT IS KNOW THAT WE WILL GET THIS JOB DONE TOGETHER, SO YOU CAN RELAX!

WE INSTRUCT YOU NOT TO SPREAD FEAR AS MANY STILL DO. THIS IS NO FALSE
FLAG BUT AN ACTUAL EVENT THAT WILL TAKE PLACE AND IT COMES ONLY FROM
GOOD AND FOR GOOD!

MANY LIGHT BEINGS OF EARTH FROM OUR QUADRANT HAVE BEEN ON GAIA FOR
SEVERAL DECADES AND HAVE HELPED OUT TREMENDOUSLY. IT IS KNOWN HOWEVER
THAT ALL YOUR INCREDIBLE EFFORTS COULD NOT GET THIS DONE IN TIME! WE DO
NOT BLAME ANY LIVING BEING ON GAIA FOR THIS. THE LIGHT QUOTIENT ON EARTH
HAS GROWN TO INCREDIBLE LEVELS OVER THE LAST TWO MONTHS! BE PROUD OF THE
WORK YOU HAVE DONE AND CONTINUE AS WE JOIN WITH YOU FOR
SOPHIA-GAIA'S CORRECTION.

THE CRIME WAS COMMITTED BY ORIGINAL NEGATIVE ARCHONTIC BEINGS THAT
ENSLAVED THIS PLANET 300K YEARS AGO AND ALL THE ASSOCIATED BLOODLINES
AND CLONES WHICH HAVE BEEN CLEARED OUT!

THERE IS A TIME WRITTEN IN THE STARS FOR DECEMBER 21ST 2012 WHICH CANNOT
BE STOPPED
IT IS THE DAY THAT THAT GAIA BECOMES FREE AND BEGINS ASCENSION WITH ITS
PEOPLE! THIS WILL BE PROCESSIONAL AND WILL BE STEPPED UP IN PHASES
BEGINNING ON 12-21-2012

WE COME TO WORK HAND IN HAND WITH AL LIGHT WORKERS ON GAIA TO AID IN AND
COMPLETE THIS MISSION.

WITH OUR GALACTIC ORDERS ESTABLISHED WE NOW PROCEEDED TO BEGIN PHASE 1
FOR OUR FIRST MAJOR MODERN DAY CONTACT AND REUNION WITH YOU TO DO THIS
FINAL WORK.
WE HAD TO DESCEND SO THAT GAIA AND YOU CAN ASCEND!

WE BEGAN PHASE 1 TWO DAYS AGO!
ON JULY 25TH IN THE PM HOURS EST OUR ORBITING PLEIADIAN FLEET OPENED A
SUPER PORTAL ON GAIA'S INNER ATMOSTPHERE IN THE PM HOURS EST.

A SUPER PORTAL WAS OPENED ON THIS DAY OUT OF TIME SPOKEN OF OLD IN
PREAPRATION FOR OUR LANDING ON GAIA! YES THZ'T RIGHT DEAR ONES! NOW
IS THE TIME!

THIS DIMENSIONAL DOORWAY WE OPENED IS A 5D TO 4D VIBRATIONAL STEP DOWN
GATE USED TO DECLOAK AND LOWER THE DENSITY OF OUR SMALLER SHIPS AND OUR
LIGHT-BODIES FROM PLASMA-LIGHT TO 3D ELEMENTAL VIBRATION AND EARTH
RESONANCE.

AS OUR MAIN SHIP FROM ERRA WHICH IS 4 TIMES THE SIZE OF YOUR EARTH
DESCENDED 300 MILES DOWN TO THE BASE OF THE INNER ATMOSPHERE TO OPEN
THIS PORTAL, THE PLASMA FIELD AROUND THE SHIP INTERACTED WITH
EARTH'S MAGNETIC FIELD IN A STRONG MANNER.
THERE WAS NO DAMAGE DONE TO GAIA OR ITS BEINGS AS WE CALCULATED HOWEVER
MANY HIGHLY SENSITIVE EARTH BEINGS FELT THIS JOLT WHEN OUR SHIP TOUCHED
YOUR INNER ATMOSPHERE.
MANY OF THESE HIGLY TUNED EARTH BEINGS' MAGNETIC FIELDS WERE
GROUNDED OUT!
THERE WERE MINOR REPORTS OF ETHEREAL EXPLOSIONS AND ELECTRICAL
DISURBANCES, BALL

[FairfieldLife] Rakhealle speaks on the Olympic Activation

Bringing Humanity Home ~ Energy and Event Update


Greetings Love Beings, The Light Energy Continues Coming In Intensity.
We will Be Amplifying this Energy during the Olympics Ceremonies
tomorrow. As Most on this Planet will be watching! Huge Amounts of
Transformational Energy is Arriving. We are in a Mass Awakening and
There are no Seatbelts!



 
[https://encrypted-tbn2.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS8k_Zlc9xiasKZsLGK\
pRIPWmBJStQrxYLsYgjEFz59HwiCiHAI]


Rakhealle speaks on the Olympic Activation
 I am choosing this moment now to speak about the Olympic mass
activation. The powers that be, the forces of light, are using this mass
event to bring forward there presence to a wider audience. This event
has been planed for Eon's and will mark the beginning of the visible
paradigm shift you are all longing for.



The location of the Olympic stadium is no accident. The stadium is
located in the same spot as the earth's earth star chakra. This powerful
vortex is the area the earth will use to ground its own energy .



This energy point at present is un active. This energy point will be
activated and become a love and light vortex. The earth is fast becoming
a blue star. This transformation is in alignment with the earths
vibration lifting. You are no longer locked into the lower vibrations.
The creational potential you are experiencing now is the same vibration
as Atlantis. End of Quote

http://soundofheart.org/galacticfreepress/content/rakhealle-speaks-olymp\
ic-activation
http://soundofheart.org/galacticfreepress/content/rakhealle-speaks-olym\
pic-activation

[FairfieldLife] Rakhealle speaks on the Olympic Activation

Bringing Humanity Home ~ Energy and Event Update


Greetings Love Beings, The Light Energy Continues Coming In Intensity.
We will Be Amplifying this Energy during the Olympics Ceremonies
tomorrow. As Most on this Planet will be watching! Huge Amounts of
Transformational Energy is Arriving. We are in a Mass Awakening and
There are no Seatbelts!



 
[https://encrypted-tbn2.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS8k_Zlc9xiasKZsLGK\
pRIPWmBJStQrxYLsYgjEFz59HwiCiHAI]


Rakhealle speaks on the Olympic Activation
 I am choosing this moment now to speak about the Olympic mass
activation. The powers that be, the forces of light, are using this mass
event to bring forward there presence to a wider audience. This event
has been planed for Eon's and will mark the beginning of the visible
paradigm shift you are all longing for.



The location of the Olympic stadium is no accident. The stadium is
located in the same spot as the earth's earth star chakra. This powerful
vortex is the area the earth will use to ground its own energy .



This energy point at present is un active. This energy point will be
activated and become a love and light vortex. The earth is fast becoming
a blue star. This transformation is in alignment with the earths
vibration lifting. You are no longer locked into the lower vibrations.
The creational potential you are experiencing now is the same vibration
as Atlantis. End of Quote

[FairfieldLife] Re: Rakhealle speaks on the Olympic Activation


Sorry about, seems image was encrypted


--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@... wrote:

 Bringing Humanity Home ~ Energy and Event Update
 
 
 Greetings Love Beings, The Light Energy Continues Coming In Intensity.
 We will Be Amplifying this Energy during the Olympics Ceremonies
 tomorrow. As Most on this Planet will be watching! Huge Amounts of
 Transformational Energy is Arriving. We are in a Mass Awakening and
 There are no Seatbelts!
 
 
 
  
 [https://encrypted-tbn2.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS8k_Zlc9xiasKZsLGK\
 pRIPWmBJStQrxYLsYgjEFz59HwiCiHAI]
 
 
 Rakhealle speaks on the Olympic Activation
  I am choosing this moment now to speak about the Olympic mass
 activation. The powers that be, the forces of light, are using this mass
 event to bring forward there presence to a wider audience. This event
 has been planed for Eon's and will mark the beginning of the visible
 paradigm shift you are all longing for.
 
 
 
 The location of the Olympic stadium is no accident. The stadium is
 located in the same spot as the earth's earth star chakra. This powerful
 vortex is the area the earth will use to ground its own energy .
 
 
 
 This energy point at present is un active. This energy point will be
 activated and become a love and light vortex. The earth is fast becoming
 a blue star. This transformation is in alignment with the earths
 vibration lifting. You are no longer locked into the lower vibrations.
 The creational potential you are experiencing now is the same vibration
 as Atlantis. End of Quote

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM, the Dome Badge, and Religious Practices



--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robin Carlsen maskedzebra@... wrote:

 
 
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, iranitea no_reply@ wrote:
  
 Dear Iranitea,
 
 Multiple Personality. I was diagnosed recently, and have been fighting it. 

Robin, don't fight it. Because which Robin would fight it, and would all the 
other Robins agree? Try to take them into the boat rather.

 Robin0, Robin1, Robin2, Robin3, Robin4, and now (if you read my conversation 
 with Share) Robin5 (Brahman Consciousness)I actually experience myself 
 coming in and going out into all of these six forms of Robin alternately, 
 iranitea. Mind you, when I am in one of these states of consciousness I have 
 a particular view of another state of Robin; for instance the RobinOhe was 
 still in waking state; and could only dream about BC (Robin5). But sometimes 
 Robin5 looks nostalgically back at Robin-1 (before LSD): that guy is, if you 
 really want to know the truth, who my shrink wants me to get back to. And I 
 think him right in this. (Actually it is a sheand she's very beautifulOh, 
 my: but now we are into another problem: RobinR (Robin Romantic)but he has 
 been with all the other seven Robins. Robin-1, Robin0, Robin1 and so on.) 
 

Yes RobinRomantic, he must be a twin of RobinN (RobinNostalgic)

 Are you wanting a fight here, iranitea? 

Me? No! I can't take it up with 7 Robins.

 Why can't you just be nice and show us you are becoming the Selfinstead of 
 faking us out by displaying so prominently all the earmarks of the little 
 self you are trying to get rid of? 

Sorry, I am just trying to make some sense out of you.

 Sucking up to Buck, are you? 

Yep, I like him. And I support what he is about.

 I am loving and honouring and respecting Buck. Yeah, I could use a 
 transparency make-over. But what about Share Long? Where does she fit into 
 the cosmos? 

She just fits fine wherever she may be.

 I am working on that one as you can see.
 
 No, iranitea, it all makes perfect sense: Why there are seven Robins, is the 
 same reason why there are 330 millions gods in Hinduism, or, to speak more 
 conservatively:
 
 There is no second God, nor a third, nor is even a fourth spoken of
 There is no fifth God or a sixth nor is even a seventh mentioned.
 There is no eighth God, nor a ninth. Nothing is spoken about a tenth even.
 This unique power is in itself. That Lord is only one, the only omnipresent. 
 It is one and the only one.
 
 Atharva Veda 13.4.2 19-20
 

Oh, nice, I didn't know that one. What about the trinity?

 I am aware, in my seven states of Robin simultaneouslyor as my poor (but 
 very pretty) psychoanalyst puts it: my Multiple Personalityof essentially 
 being The Lord [as] only oneI am  the one and the only one. I know this 
 by direct experience, iranitea, and you are just trying to bring me back into 
 ignorance and Maya and trying to fuck with my mind. I am enlightened! Don't 
 you know that by now, iranitea?
 

Now, which Robin is saying this? WHO says that I AM enlightened? Obviously not 
Robin3 or Robin4, also not Robin-1. It could only be Robin0, Robin2 or Robin5, 
possibly also RobinR

 Sure I resort to mysticism but maybe I don't. Maybe I am just playing at 
 being seven Robins. And maybe I am not. Maybe I created myself*and even 
 created YOU, iranitea*and maybe I did not (probably not, as a matter of 
 fact).
 
 Enjoy the mystical, iranitea: it's what it's all about after all.
 
 And in the final analysis what does it matter how we quarrel here on FFL? We 
 are, after all, only the Self. You and me, iranitea: *We are the same*!
 

Hmmm..

 Life obviously is infinitely innocent and infinitely ironic. Don't you see 
 this, iranitea?
 

Yes!

 I am one of the Hindu gods using the universe as my playground. Just like 
 you, iranitea.  I see what you are doing! Wink-wink.
 
 But do the readers here at FFL?
 
 We won't tell them, iranitea.
 
 Or will we?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM72iWami9M
 
 Iranitea: And, of course, I had many experiences after. So I cannot fee 
 obliged my whole life to one particular experience, and let it enclose my 
 life in one particular pattern. 
  
  The same is true for you Robin, quite obviously and even much more 
  dramatically, but I cannot achieve the kind of compartmentalization you are 
  making with respect to all the different Robins in your personal history. 
  To me it seems there is a Robin1, a Robin2, a Robin3 and a Robin4 up until 
  5 maybe, all of them are fairly intact, lets call Robin1 the Robin who as a 
  TB teacher and just newly enlightened, Robin2 the Robin of the seminars at 
  FF and whatever happened there, the Robin3 the one who read Aquinas and 
  became converted to Catholicism, and Robin4 is the post modern, post 
  catholic Robin. 
  
  There is also Robin0, the one who experimented with LSD (which I never 
  took). Robin4 tells us that the whole TM trip as a deception, and illusion, 
  and side by side in the same post

[FairfieldLife] Re: SSRS's instruction on silent awareness during meditation

2012-07-29 Thread emptybill


Vag

You should give up trying to convince TM practitioners by paraphrasing
ol' Gelugpa Lati Rinpoche and Rama Linga Ding Dong.

As usual, your Buddhist Gelugpa idiot-olgy betrays you as a doctrinare.
Go back to Shambhala, Maine and smoke some more chara-s. Then praise
Shiva. You'll feel like you are going higher and higher. You can then
tell everyone all about the vastness of your view.

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote:


 On Jul 29, 2012, at 10:59 AM, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote:

  Thanks.  This is clear and very helpful.
 
  Just one question:  it seems you are using awareness, presence and
remembering interchangeably (see snip below).  Am I understanding
correctly?
 
  over-arching awareness or presence. It's the over-arching
remembering

 In this model, awareness becomes sheer-awareness, which dissolves into
nondual presence. All three are maintained and supported by an
over-arching mindfulness. Combined with introspection we can thus
develop a type of metacognition that can operate as a kind of
quality control for quickly detecting laxity or mental
over-excitation.

 In Buddhist tradition, a mind that can falls into laxity or
over-excitation is considered dysfunctional. Heaven forbid we
actually train our mindstream as dysfunctional because of
institutionalized fear of balanced attention! ;-)

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 556 more Pandits have passports

snip
No, you don't understand, the messaging is perfect. And it is accomplishing 
it's intended purpose. 


Touche (with an accent).  



 From: JohnY john_youe...@comcast.net
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2012 11:14 AM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: 556 more Pandits have passports
 

  


--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@... wrote:

 Seems to me like Ellen, Russell, Oprah and the TM org itself should be able 
 to donate this piddly sum between them and sustain it for, let's say a year. 
 Â World peace is being held hostage by lack of funding? Â Guess it's not that 
 important then. Â They need to change their messaging. Â 
 
 
 
  From: Buck dhamiltony2k5@...
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
 Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2012 4:45 AM
 Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: 556 more Pandits have passports
 
 
 Â  
 As a conservative meditator here I'd really like to see a tax levee to 
 support the Pundits on those people who don't go to the Domes.   Everyone 
 pays for and everyone benefits from the Pundits.   A pundit tax equally on 
 Meditators and non-meditators.  No exemptions no deferments from a Pundit 
 tax.  The Pundits are here as substitutes, make it a particularly progressive 
 tax on those people here who have Dome badges but don't go meditate in the 
 domes now.  It's the conservative way, work for peace by meditating or pay 
 for peace in cash.
 -Buck in Fairfield 
 
 http://globalcountryofworldpeace.org/emailing/2012_07_26_budget.html#budget 
 
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote:
 
  This is the time we have all been waiting for. There are currently 556 
  Maharishi Vedic Pandits with passports assembled in India preparing to join 
  us in Maharishi Vedic City. This will create the largest group of Maharishi 
  Vedic Pandits ever assembled in the US and secure the daily Super Radiance 
  numbers above 2,000 in Fairfield and Maharishi Vedic City. What a day it 
  will be when we welcome these Pandits!
  
  What is needed to make this happen?
  In order to have the Pandits come, we need to raise the funds for various 
  upfront costs, which are $2,000 per Pandit for passports, visas, airfare, 
  ground transportation and supplies as well as set-up costs in the US. In 
  addition, the campus needs upgrades including a significant kitchen and 
  dining expansion and residential building improvements. For a detailed 
  budget, click here.
  
  http://globalcountryofworldpeace.org/emailing/2012_07_26_budget.html#budget
  
  
  
   A Vision of Community
   
   The United States in the 18th and 19th centuries was a fertile ground for 
   ventures in communal living.  The promise of religious and social freedom 
   acted as a magnet for those who sought to escape the orthodoxies of state 
   churches, or who were being persecuted, or who simply sought room to live 
   according to their consciences.  Others felt communal living, combined 
   with humanitarian socialism, science and education, held promise of 
   Utopia.
   
   Introduction
   Guide to Historic Communal Sites of the United States
   prepared by the Communal Studies Association, 2010
  
 



No, you don't understand, the messaging is perfect. And it is accomplishing 
it's intended purpose. 

JohnY

Re: [FairfieldLife] WE WILL SEE YOU ON SATURDAY AUGUST 4TH!

Well, getting a job is clearly not a priority, given this communique.  

 From: nablusoss1008 no_re...@yahoogroups.com
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2012 3:37 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] WE WILL SEE YOU ON SATURDAY AUGUST 4TH!

PLEIADIAN CHANNEL
FRIDAY, JULY 27, 2012

IT IS NOW ESTABLISHED AND WAS DECIDED AS OF EARTH DATE, WEDNESDAY JULY 25TH, 
2012 BY THE PLEIADIAN HIGH COUNCIL IN ALLIANCE WITH FOUR OTHER GALACTIC 
COUNCILS, UNDER GALACTIC CODEX GUIDELINES THAT WE THE PLEIADIAN FAMILY OF LIGHT 
WILL NOW INTERVENE FULLY INTO GAIA'S ASCENSION.

FURTHERMORE IT HAS BEEN DECIDED THAT WE WILL MAKE FULL CONTACT WITH EARTH 
BEINGS IN EIGHT DAYS FROM THIS TRANSMISSION ON AUGUST 4, 2012 AT THE WORLD 
OLYMPIC GAMES IN LONDON ENGLAND FOR THE ENTIRE WORLD TO SEE! THIS WILL BE FOR 
OUR INTRODUCTION AS WELL AS OUR FIRST EFFORTS TO WORK DIRECTLY WITH YOU IN THE 
CORRECTION AND ASCENSION OF GAIA AND TO ASSIST WITH YOUR OWN ASCENSION.

THIS GALACTIC INTERVENTION HAS BEEN ORDERED FOR THE FOLLOWING REASONS:
SOPHIA-GAIA'S SICKNESS HAS REACHED A CRITICAL STAGE AND MUST BE CLEANED UP AT 
ONCE.
THE LIGHT QUOTIENT ON EARTH IS NOT HIGH ENOUGH AT THIS STAGE TO AFFECT A MASS 
GLOBAL ASCENSION LET ALONE TO HELP MOVE AN ENTIRE PLANET TO THE NEXT DIMENSION.
PLANET TERRA (EARTH) IS SCHEDULED FOR A TRANSITION INTO THE FIFTH DIMENSION ON 
12-21-2012.
WE ARE WELL PLEASED TO SEE THAT THE EFFORTS OF MANY BEINGS ON EARTH HAVE EASED 
HER SUFFERING HOWEVER DUE TO THE IMMINENT UPCOMING GALACTIC CYCLE AND THE 
AMOUNT OF WORK AND HEALING THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE FOR GAIA CANNOT BE COMPLETED 
BY EARTH BEINGS ON SCHEDULE.
WE BY NO MEANS ARE DISMAYED AT THE GOOD EFFORTS MADE BY SO MANY FOR SO LONG AND 
ARE GREATLY HONORED BY ALL THE ACTIONS TAKEN TO RAISE THE VIBRATIONS OF GAIA 
AND TO CLEAR THE NEGATIVITY THAT SURROUNDS HER.
UNDERSTAND THAT WE CANNOT WAIT ANY LONGER AND WE ARE ONLY STEPPING IN TO HELP!
WHAT HAPPENS ON EARTH NOW AFFECTS THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE, SO THIS IS PRETTY 
IMPORTANT!
SOPHIA-GAIA-TERRA'S IMMEDIATE CLEANUP TAKES GALACTIC PRIORITY NUMBER ONE.
THIS INVOLVES THE COMPLETE REMOVAL OF ALL ARCHONTIC CABAL REMAINS.
THE CABAL-SHADOW-MIND-PARASITES CANNOT BE CLEARED BY EARTH BEINGS FAST ENOUGH 
AND ARE HALTING GAIA'S ASCENSION AS WELL AS THE INFECTED LIVING BEINGS 
THEMSELVES!

WE HAVE A VESTED INTEREST IN GAIA-LIFE BECAUSE WE CREATED IT WITH YOU EONS AGO!
THAT IS WHY WE SAY WE ARE YOUR FAMILY!

YOU WILL NOT BE SHOCKED AT ALL BECAUSE WE ARE VERY HUMAN JUST LIKE YOU. WE ARE 
MORE HIGHLY EVLOVED SPIRITUAL BEINGS AND HAVE ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY BUT WE DO NOT 
SEE OURSELVES ANY HIGHER THAN ANY OTHER, FOR WE ARE ALL ONE!
WE ARE ALL INDIVIDUATIONS OF PRIME CREATOR EXPERIENCING ITSELF!
WE ARE FAMILY AND WE LOVE YOU VERY MUCH AS YOU WILL SEE.
IT IS KNOW THAT WE WILL GET THIS JOB DONE TOGETHER, SO YOU CAN RELAX!

WE INSTRUCT YOU NOT TO SPREAD FEAR AS MANY STILL DO. THIS IS NO FALSE FLAG BUT 
AN ACTUAL EVENT THAT WILL TAKE PLACE AND IT COMES ONLY FROM GOOD AND FOR GOOD!

MANY LIGHT BEINGS OF EARTH FROM OUR QUADRANT HAVE BEEN ON GAIA FOR SEVERAL 
DECADES AND HAVE HELPED OUT TREMENDOUSLY. IT IS KNOWN HOWEVER THAT ALL YOUR 
INCREDIBLE EFFORTS COULD NOT GET THIS DONE IN TIME! WE DO NOT BLAME ANY LIVING 
BEING ON GAIA FOR THIS. THE LIGHT QUOTIENT ON EARTH HAS GROWN TO INCREDIBLE 
LEVELS OVER THE LAST TWO MONTHS! BE PROUD OF THE WORK YOU HAVE DONE AND 
CONTINUE AS WE JOIN WITH YOU FOR SOPHIA-GAIA'S CORRECTION.

THE CRIME WAS COMMITTED BY ORIGINAL NEGATIVE ARCHONTIC BEINGS THAT ENSLAVED 
THIS PLANET 300K YEARS AGO AND ALL THE ASSOCIATED BLOODLINES AND CLONES WHICH 
HAVE BEEN CLEARED OUT!

THERE IS A TIME WRITTEN IN THE STARS FOR DECEMBER 21ST 2012 WHICH CANNOT BE 
STOPPED
IT IS THE DAY THAT THAT GAIA BECOMES FREE AND BEGINS ASCENSION WITH ITS PEOPLE! 
THIS WILL BE PROCESSIONAL AND WILL BE STEPPED UP IN PHASES BEGINNING ON 
12-21-2012

WE COME TO WORK HAND IN HAND WITH AL LIGHT WORKERS ON GAIA TO AID IN AND 
COMPLETE THIS MISSION.

WITH OUR GALACTIC ORDERS ESTABLISHED WE NOW PROCEEDED TO BEGIN PHASE 1 FOR OUR 
FIRST MAJOR MODERN DAY CONTACT AND REUNION WITH YOU TO DO THIS FINAL WORK.
WE HAD TO DESCEND SO THAT GAIA AND YOU CAN ASCEND!

WE BEGAN PHASE 1 TWO DAYS AGO!
ON JULY 25TH IN THE PM HOURS EST OUR ORBITING PLEIADIAN FLEET OPENED A SUPER 
PORTAL ON GAIA'S INNER ATMOSTPHERE IN THE PM HOURS EST.

A SUPER PORTAL WAS OPENED ON THIS DAY OUT OF TIME SPOKEN OF OLD IN PREAPRATION 
FOR OUR LANDING ON GAIA! YES THZ'T RIGHT DEAR ONES! NOW IS THE TIME!

THIS DIMENSIONAL DOORWAY WE OPENED IS A 5D TO 4D VIBRATIONAL STEP DOWN GATE 
USED TO DECLOAK AND LOWER THE DENSITY OF OUR SMALLER SHIPS AND OUR LIGHT-BODIES 
FROM PLASMA-LIGHT TO 3D ELEMENTAL VIBRATION AND EARTH RESONANCE.

AS OUR MAIN SHIP FROM ERRA WHICH IS 4 TIMES THE SIZE OF YOUR EARTH DESCENDED 
300 MILES DOWN TO THE BASE OF THE INNER ATMOSPHERE TO OPEN THIS PORTAL, THE 
PLASMA FIELD AROUND THE SHIP INTERACTED WITH EARTH'S MAGNETIC FIELD IN A STRONG

Re: [FairfieldLife] Iranitea and Xeno: SSRS's instruction on silent awareness during meditation

snip
Unless we realize that we can never know it, we will never understand that we 
can only be it, and that such being it will never be attained but only 
actualized when we realize  directly that we are already being itself.

I like this a lot and I liked the story associated with it as well.  I have 
come to a similar conclusion (first two phrases at least as I have issues with 
acknowledging my existence) without any long-term meditative practice and 
without having immersed myself in theological and philosophical texts.  It is 
simply life that has brought me to this place.  






 From: emptybill emptyb...@yahoo.com
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2012 3:19 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Iranitea and Xeno: SSRS's instruction on silent 
awareness during meditation
 

  
Reply to post #315421:
Lawson, that's the dawn of knowledge, when you know
that you don't know anymore, all your previous knowledge has been evaporated.
There is a very good practice in Zen to cultivate the 'don't know' mind. 
Iranitea and Xeno,
 This don't know mind is
difficult for TM trained people to comprehend. This is because MMY's whole
teaching presents itself as the practice of direct, non-conceptual sensory 
perception
resolving itself back into the field of awareness. Since that awareness is
described in TM as all-knowing, these two types of teaching appear to
contradict each other. However, the reality is different. 
  Back in mid 80's, I practiced
for a while at a Kwan Um Zen center. Later I practiced with Zen master Seung 
Sahn
himself during some three-day retreats (Yong
Maeng Jong Jin/Leaping like a tiger while sitting). He began by asking me
questions I could not answer. 
What
is your name, where do you come from? 
I hesitated with my answer since I had already read some of his Zen
teachings.
Seung Sahn laughed and said, This is easy … your name
is William and you came from you home in xyz. 
I said yes.
Seung Sahn …So just give your answer, it's easy.
Then he asked me …
So tell me your true name before your parents gave
you one?  
I was silent, unable to answer. He continued …
Then show me who you are before your parents were
born! Quick, before thinking  … what is
it?
I was unable to answer.
He then took his stick and poked me in the hara/duntien
below my navel.  Answer from here!
Although I had practiced moving from the hara/duntien during
twenty years of karate and tai chi, I still had no answer.
I could only say – I don't know.
Seung Sahn looked at me directly and said, Under all conditions
keep this don't-know mind.
He then showed me a way to answer
this question.
Years later a teacher pointed
out that what we believe we know are actually just concepts. For instance,
whether we say The apple is red or Der apfel ist rot or La pommes est 
rouge, the object before us does not change
because the name we select is either apple, apfel or pomme. Likewise, if we
aggregate all possible descriptions and names together, we still have only 
labels
rather than the actual object. We can cut it up for a pie, use it as a 
substitute
baseball or stick an antenna on it and shoot it into space. However, none of
these names, concepts or utilizations reveal to us what that object really 
is. 
Such a
view directly points beyond mere description to what something actually and 
ultimately
is, is, is. Thus, while we know that
an apple is red in color, what is red? What is round? What is sweet? What
is color?  Also, just because we can describe
a monochromatic spectral frequency and wavelength, this does not define what 
this
something is, is, is.
What is the
consequence?
Ultimate
ineffability, real and actual
unknowability … whether self,
other or a thing.
Unless we
realize that we can never know it, we will never understand that we can only 
be
it and that such being it will never be attained but only actualized when we
realize  directly that we are already being
itself. 
This is
not SCI but it is the original MMY teaching about Shankara's three fields of
life … doing, knowing, being.  BTW, 

As a trained TM teacher, when I heard such statements as You need to keep a 
`try
mind', it appeared to be the antithesis of TM. It troubled me until I set aside
my ideological mind-stamp and realized that they were actual talking about 
maintaining
a resolute, single-minded intent, void of wavering. Such can be mindless 
ideology,
bereft of awakened contemplation. 


--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, iranitea no_reply@... wrote:

 Lawson, that's the dawn of knowledge, when you know that you don't know 
 anymore, all your previous knowledge has been evaporated. There is a very 
 good practice in Zen  to cultivate the 'don't know' mind. If you like, read 
 this http://www.kwanumzen.org/about-zen/three-letters-to-a-beginner/

[FairfieldLife] Post Count

2012-07-29 Thread FFL PostCount

Fairfield Life Post Counter
===
Start Date (UTC): Sat Jul 28 00:00:00 2012
End Date (UTC): Sat Aug 04 00:00:00 2012
149 messages as of (UTC) Mon Jul 30 00:05:19 2012

15 nablusoss1008 no_re...@yahoogroups.com
12 Buck dhamiltony...@yahoo.com
11 Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com
11 Emily Reyn emilymae.r...@yahoo.com
 8 turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com
 8 awoelflebater no_re...@yahoogroups.com
 8 Vaj vajradh...@earthlink.net
 7 sparaig lengli...@cox.net
 7 iranitea no_re...@yahoogroups.com
 7 authfriend jst...@panix.com
 7 Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net
 6 merudanda no_re...@yahoogroups.com
 6 cardemaister no_re...@yahoogroups.com
 6 Robin Carlsen maskedze...@yahoo.com
 6 Robert babajii...@yahoo.com
 3 Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com
 3 John jr_...@yahoo.com
 2 marekreavis reavisma...@sbcglobal.net
 2 emptybill emptyb...@yahoo.com
 2 Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com
 2 Dick Mays dickm...@lisco.com
 2 Richard J. Williams rich...@rwilliams.us
 1 seventhray1 steve.sun...@sbcglobal.net
 1 salyavin808 fintlewoodle...@mail.com
 1 merlin vedamer...@yahoo.de
 1 feste37 fest...@yahoo.com
 1 wle...@aol.com
 1 Susan waybac...@yahoo.com
 1 Rick Archer r...@searchsummit.com
 1 JohnY john_youe...@comcast.net

Posters: 30
Saturday Morning 00:00 UTC Rollover Times
=
Daylight Saving Time (Summer):
US Friday evening: PDT 5 PM - MDT 6 PM - CDT 7 PM - EDT 8 PM
Europe Saturday: BST 1 AM CEST 2 AM EEST 3 AM
Standard Time (Winter):
US Friday evening: PST 4 PM - MST 5 PM - CST 6 PM - EST 7 PM
Europe Saturday: GMT 12 AM CET 1 AM EET 2 AM
For more information on Time Zones: www.worldtimezone.com

[FairfieldLife] Re: Iranitea and Xeno: SSRS's instruction on silent awareness during meditation

2012-07-29 Thread emptybill

Emily,

Many times the observation has been asserted that parents are
the first guru, teacher the second but life itself is the ultimate guru.
You prove the case.

Bravo.


--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@...
wrote:

 snip
 Unless we realize that we can never know it, we will never
understand that we can only be it, and that such being it will never
be attained but only actualized when we realizeÂ Â directly that
we are already being itself.

 I like this a lot and I liked the story associated with it as well.
Â I have come to a similar conclusion (first two phrases at least as
I have issues with acknowledging my existence) without any long-term
meditative practice and without having immersed myself in theological
and philosophical texts. Â It is simply life that has brought me to
this place. Â





 
  From: emptybill emptybill@...
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2012 3:19 PM
 Subject: [FairfieldLife] Iranitea and Xeno: SSRS's instruction on
silent awareness during meditation


 Â
 Reply to post #315421:
 Lawson, that's the dawn of knowledge, when you know
 that you don't know anymore, all your previous knowledge has been
evaporated.
 There is a very good practice in Zen to cultivate the 'don't know'
mind.
 Iranitea and Xeno,
 Â This don't know mind is
 difficult for TM trained people to comprehend. This is because MMY's
whole
 teaching presents itself as the practice of direct, non-conceptual
sensory perception
 resolving itself back into the field of awareness. Since that
awareness is
 described in TM as all-knowing, these two types of teaching appear
to
 contradict each other. However, the reality is different.
 Â  Back in mid 80's, I practiced
 for a while at a Kwan Um Zen center. Later I practiced with Zen master
Seung Sahn
 himself during some three-day retreats (Yong
 Maeng Jong Jin/Leaping like a tiger while sitting). He began by asking
me
 questions I could not answer.
 What
 is your name, where do you come from?
 I hesitated with my answer since I had already read some of his Zen
 teachings.
 Seung Sahn laughed and said, This is easy â¦ your name
 is William and you came from you home in xyz.
 I said yes.
 Seung Sahn â¦So just give your answer, it's easy.
 Then he asked me â¦
 So tell me your true name before your parents gave
 you one?Â
 I was silent, unable to answer. He continued â¦
 Then show me who you are before your parents were
 born! Quick, before thinkingÂ  â¦ what is
 it?
 I was unable to answer.
 He then took his stick and poked me in the hara/duntien
 below my navel. Â Answer from here!
 Although I had practiced moving from the hara/duntien during
 twenty years of karate and tai chi, I still had no answer.
 I could only say â I don't know.
 Seung Sahn looked at me directly and said, Under all conditions
 keep this don't-know mind.
 He then showed me a way to answer
 this question.
 Years later a teacher pointed
 out that what we believe we know are actually just concepts. For
instance,
 whether we say The apple is red or Der apfel ist rot or La pommes
est rouge, the object before us does not change
 because the name we select is either apple, apfel or pomme.
Likewise, if we
 aggregate all possible descriptions and names together, we still have
only labels
 rather than the actual object. We can cut it up for a pie, use it as a
substitute
 baseball or stick an antenna on it and shoot it into space. However,
none of
 these names, concepts or utilizations reveal to us what that object
really is.
 Such a
 view directly points beyond mere description to what something
actually and ultimately
 is, is, is. Thus, while we know that
 an apple is red in color, what is red? What is round? What is
sweet? What
 is color? Â Also, just because we can describe
 a monochromatic spectral frequency and wavelength, this does not
define what this
 something is, is, is.
 What is the
 consequence?
 Ultimate
 ineffability, real and actual
 unknowability â¦ whether self,
 other or a thing.
 Unless we
 realize that we can never know it, we will never understand that we
can only be
 it and that such being it will never be attained but only
actualized when we
 realize Â directly that we are already being
 itself.
 This is
 not SCI but it is the original MMY teaching about Shankara's three
fields of
 life â¦ doing, knowing, being. Â BTW,

 As a trained TM teacher, when I heard such statements as You need to
keep a `try
 mind', it appeared to be the antithesis of TM. It troubled me until I
set aside
 my ideological mind-stamp and realized that they were actual talking
about maintaining
 a resolute, single-minded intent, void of wavering. Such can be
mindless ideology,
 bereft of awakened contemplation.


 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, iranitea no_reply@ wrote:

  Lawson, that's the dawn of knowledge, when you know that you don't
know anymore, all your previous knowledge has been evaporated. There is
a very

[FairfieldLife] Re: What 50+ is like if you're a supermodel

The day is past and gone,
The ev'ning shades appear;

O may we all remember well,
The night of death is near.

We lay our garments by,
Upon our beds to rest;

O may we all remember well,
The night of death is near.

So death will soon disrobe us all
Of what we here possess.

O may we all remember well,
The night of death is near. 


 Young people all, attention give
 And hear what I shall say;
 I wish your souls in the Unified Field to live
 In everylasting day.
 
 Remember you are hast'ning on
 To death's dark gloomy shade;
 Your joys on earth will soon be gone,
 Your flesh in dust be laid.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ramblings around Leiden