[FairfieldLife] Simon Garfunkel - America w/intro
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[FairfieldLife] Sade - the ultimate mermaid
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[FairfieldLife] Lady Gaga - Edge of Glory
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeWBS0JBNzQfeature=related I'm sorry for all these posts. I'm literally trying to save my sister. I've just re-connected with her after 15 years. She lives on the edge. So, I try not to take a shower for a couple of days before I see her and I try to relate. Because, after all, we were raised together. And, I'm the oldest. And I haven't been a supportive sister because I never learned what that meant. Robin, I'm trying to get to your post, but Reality is dictating every day. But, I want to respond, because I just don't see it. I don't see a personal *something* that created me. So, I'll get back. Love, Em.
[FairfieldLife] Gayatri prayer - recently posted
I listen to this every morning: I'm out for awhile, but more power to you all. My prayers go out to everyone on the east coastJudy, Xeno included - I haven't detached yet. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IFlaG45xM8feature=related
[FairfieldLife] A book review after my own heart
As some may have been able to tell :-), I spent a large part of my youth as a fan of science fiction and fantasy writing. I read everything I could find at the library, and other stuff found in second-hand bookstores that the libraries didn't feel worthy of putting on their shelves. And along the way I've had various favorite writers, most of them men (partly because...duh...most writers who get published are men, and especially most writers consigned to the scifi/fantasy ghetto are men). My faves have always been the soft scifi writers such as Roger Zelazny (who specialized in the reinvention of myth), Orson Scott Card (who specialized in the reinvention of religion and spirituality), and Philip K. Dick (who specialized in the reinvention of reality). But if I'm honest, my all-time favorite scifi/fantasy writer has always been (gasp) a woman -- Ursula K. Le Guin. When I moved to the L.A. area during my college years, I became a devotee of the A Change Of Hobbit bookstore, and thus got to meet and hobnob with a few of my fave writers, and/or hear them speak. Some, like Zelazny, were the kinds of public speakers who should have kept to writing, and others, like Card, could be as eloquent in speech as they were on paper. Some were fiercely intelligent, and others only posed as intelligent, more Mensa types trolling for attention. Only one writer blew me out of my socks with her combination of innate intelligence, charm, mastery of language, and above all, vision of and compassion for what it means to be human. That was Ursula Kroeber Le Guin. Under the first link at the bottom of this post is a review of a new 2-volume collection of her short writing, and the author of it seems to not only agree with me that Ursula is the best living genre/ghetto writer in the world, but one of the best writers, period. It's in her genes. Her father was one of the most famous anthropologists in the world, A.L. Kroeber, and her mother was a famous writer and social scien- tist in her own right. Ursula obviously grew up in a household that had been trained to view humans with the accuracy of a scientist, but also the compassion of a saint, and that trait has charac- terized all of her writing. She has won all the major awards in her genre many times over, and her seminal gender-busting novel The Left Hand of Darkness is still in my all-time Top Five. If you're looking for some good books to curl up with this Winter, you might do well to look into some of hers. http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2012/11/ursula_le_guin_s_the_unreal_and_the_real_collected_stories_reviewed.single.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin
[FairfieldLife] Seppo's prediction for this month!
Google translation from Mr. Seppo ( = blacksmith) Tanhua's (~ field) blog on www.astro.fi Mars triggers a change in the energies of up to full speed in November 2012 10/28/2012 November is tuned to the astrologically extremely accurate planetary patterns at the same time very beautiful, creative and destructive entity. All the forces of change triggers will take place the last week of November and it is really interesting to see how it will appear in the news media. Rewarding the whole is definitely coated in the cradle of the full pattern 27-28.11.2012. Mars will join Pluto precisely at a time when Venus will align closely to Saturn. Chiron and Neptune are exactly the positive angle, and Mars-Pluto, Venus and Saturn-groups. Something transcendent stunning in this figure is the history of the world. I just can not at all imagine what could eventually be an issue. Herääkö collective consciousness in a positive way to realize the rottenness of money in the world, the choices begin to focus on the change being carried out and to those that credit bubble in the outbreak of uncontrollable downward spiral? Awake people to realize their securities and investing in real estate, the paper quickly lose all credibility. Mars conjunction Pluto launch a very aggressive two-year period, during which the power is going to move securities concrete and life-sustaining elements. Agriculture, nature and clean water will be the most valuable asset you may already next two years. It is likely that almost all the listed companies will be removed, to a large company on the map in the next two years. The world will run the traditional self-sufficient companies with no debt and not merely on paper-based owners. The collapse of the banks will also be money to be deformed in some unpredictable manner. Consequences do not think one can not predict even approximately, so let speculation stay in these homes. Pianhan it can be seen, all that happens and how it happens. From my activation email? Worth in November, and especially at the end of the month approaches, carefully read the Venus and Mars to overtake. This important time solutions are not known, as it is now, from the great wheel turning. Yours should rotate with. View author's transits 0 comments | Comment | Report | Writing
[FairfieldLife] Re: Samavartaka Fire
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, card cardemaister@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@ wrote: Text 50 sri-bhagavan uvaca kaleh pancasahasrani varshani tishtha bhutale papani papino yani tubhyam dasyanti snanatah As an example, I'll try to fix at least those words I'm quite certain of (at least vowels): shrii-bhagavaan uvaaca kaaleh pancasahasraani varshaani tishtha bhuutale paapaani paapino yaani tubhyam dasyanti snaanatah Ignoring the long vowels almost totally destroys the supreme rhythm of Sanskrit texts... The blessed Lord said: On the earth 5,000 years of kali will be sinful and sinners will deposit their sins in you by bathing. Just for fun, Shakespeare's Sonnet number 1 (in part) written somewhat imitating the substandardity of that Sanskrit transliteration: From ferest cretures wy desir incrise, That thereby bity's ros meght never dee, But as the ripper shold by tim decess, His tender her meght ber his memore... ROFLOL!?
Re: [FairfieldLife] Lady Gaga - Edge of Glory
dear Emily, it's almost 6 am Central on Saturday morning. I just said John Newton's ancestral forgiveness prayers specifically for you and your sister. Hopefully they will help. Today, when I think of it, I'll do the short version too. I'm so glad you two have re-connected. It is an amazingly good thing. BTW, you are, IMO, one of the most supportive and compassionate people here on FFL. It's your nature. That's why you didn't have to learn it. Share From: Emily Reyn emilymae.r...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, November 3, 2012 2:23 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Lady Gaga - Edge of Glory http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeWBS0JBNzQfeature=related I'm sorry for all these posts. I'm literally trying to save my sister. I've just re-connected with her after 15 years. She lives on the edge. So, I try not to take a shower for a couple of days before I see her and I try to relate. Because, after all, we were raised together. And, I'm the oldest. And I haven't been a supportive sister because I never learned what that meant. Robin, I'm trying to get to your post, but Reality is dictating every day. But, I want to respond, because I just don't see it. I don't see a personal *something* that created me. So, I'll get back. Love, Em.
[FairfieldLife] Re: to those who use a handle on FFL to noozguru
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: Triguna told me I'm pure pitta Just occurred to me, could it that for pitta-s it's easier to awaken kuNDalinii, than for vaata-s and kapha-s? From YKU: 44-45(a). Then Agni and Apana come to (or commingle with) Prana in the heated state. Through this Agni which is very fiery, there arises in the body the flaming (or the fire) which rouses the sleeping Kundalini through its heat. (Translated by K. Narayanasvami Aiyar)
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Directory of Active Spiritual Practice Groups of Fairfield to Ann
Emily, I was neither passive nor aggressive in my question to Ann. She sent the photo to make a point about mutual trust, thus continuing our discussion. When I saw the photo, I immediately noticed how the horse's head was bowed down. For just the reasons I mention: that I'm accustomed to seeing horses in photos with their heads up. I added that I'm not an expert in horses or horse photography. Your loyalty to your friends is admirable a lot of the time. But here you have ommitted key elements of what I said. Was I questioning Ann's point about mutual trust compared to the composition of the photo? Yes. But I was asking about it and admitting my lack of knowledge thus giving her the benefit of the doubt. If by not reaching reality you mean that I'm unaware of my flaws, I assure you that I am quite aware of them. Good luck with your sister. I said the ancestral prayers for you and her before I read your other two posts. Nature organizing well. From: Emily Reyn emilymae.r...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, November 3, 2012 12:56 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Directory of Active Spiritual Practice Groups of Fairfield to Ann snip ..But I wonder if it's usual for a horse's head to be so bowed down in a photo. I'm accustomed to seeing images of horses with their head held up and their neck more relaxed looking. Nonetheless, he's a beautiful horse and you look happy. I wish you both all the best. And yes, it is possible to do that, contrary to what oxcart thinks, even if I disagree with you and or am upset with you. This also applies to Doni. PS A friend OF YOURS has expressed concern about you to me offline. And not in relation to anything I have written. To the contrary, they have expressed agreement with and encouragement for my part in our recent exchanges. Share: Can you identify the statements here that are an example of passive-aggressive behavior, couched in love and light. I know you don't see it that way, but that is how it could be perceived. If you haven't identified the parts of your personality that gravitate towards passive-aggressive behavior, you can be pitta all you want but you will never reach reality. Love, Em. From: Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, November 2, 2012 8:32 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Directory of Active Spiritual Practice Groups of Fairfield to Ann replying as Share. Where I've split your replies I've inserted Ann to show where your separated reply continues. From: awoelflebater no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, November 1, 2012 10:39 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Directory of Active Spiritual Practice Groups of Fairfield --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: Ann, you don't get it?! Nonetheless you make derogatory remarks! This is a figure of speech. I actually do get it. Share: Ann, this concept of getting it or not was of course not my main point. My main point is that because of how you express your ideas, it sounds as if you are making derogatory statements about all these groups on the list.  About a list which includes Quakers, Liberal Catholics and Sufis; yoga classes and qigong and devotional singing! Your capacity for unfounded accusations seems to know no bounds. I happy to see I'm in such good company, having also been accused by you in this way. Ann: You are taking it much too literally. Share: Actually what I'm doing is responding to your ACTUAL words. Ann: I am not criticizing individually any one teaching. I am astounded there are so many conglomerating in one spot and conjecturing on why his might be so. My theory is that there is a market for all of this, a very large, hungry market. It's about, on one level, the marketplace and the laws of supply and demand. I am just intrigued why there would be such a demand. Share: Now you are expressing astonishment. But in your initial statement you used derogatory phrases such as: traveling medicine men and side shows; what a load; and groups happy to take all for a ride. Ok, in reference to your all fine post this evening, this probably makes it all unfine again. But I could not in good conscience let go unanswered your making such derogatory and blanket statements about so many good groups of people. For God sakes, woman, you haven't even been here in how many years?! How can you say such things based on no actual experience of these actual groups?! Ann: I am not talking about the validity of any of these groups I am speaking about something much bigger. Share: It seemed you were talking about all the groups since you used plural nouns:
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: to those who use a handle on FFL to carde
People who know me in person find it hard to believe I'm pure pitta though it might be more obvious now that I'm in Mars mahadasa! IMO, the advantage for kaphas on spiritual path is that they tend to be more grounded, less in their head. But there can be a lot of tamas guna present, inertia. The advantage for vatas is there can be a lot of sattva, but then they're so much in the head and can be scattered. Pittas can have some wonderful combo of weaknesses and strengths (-: Actually if I remember my ayurveda classes, it's best if apana vayu moves down. I've written before about Patangali Kundalini Yoga Care in Knoxville, TN, a Saraswati lineage devoted to helping people with stuck kundalinis which is what I had prior to doing their retreat in July 2009. According to their teaching my kundalini was in vajra nadi which actually goes all the way up to crown. But is very unstable and wrecks havoc on the physiology and chakras. Once it was redirected to sushumna, Kundalini Shakti went to upper brow ajna and remains there, making Her way slowly but surely and smoothly to crown chakra. That's what they teach and my experience bears out its validity. From: card cardemais...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, November 3, 2012 6:36 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: to those who use a handle on FFL to noozguru --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: Triguna told me I'm pure pitta Just occurred to me, could it that for pitta-s it's easier to awaken kuNDalinii, than for vaata-s and kapha-s? From YKU: 44-45(a). Then Agni and Apana come to (or commingle with) Prana in the heated state. Through this Agni which is very fiery, there arises in the body the flaming (or the fire) which rouses the sleeping Kundalini through its heat. (Translated by K. Narayanasvami Aiyar)
[FairfieldLife] Affluence
~~ J a i G u r u D e v Affluence doesn't means dollar's with which you are destroying the world, but drops of nectar in your Self. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
[FairfieldLife] Re: Directory of Active Spiritual Practice Groups of Fairfield
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson mjackson74@... wrote: Just curious - I have a couple of friends here in South Carolina who have been using his methods with their horses and they are very satisfied with the results - I've watched one of them doing the join-up with one of the horses in a round pen - its was pretty amazing. All of their horses are pretty normal, no abuse history or anything. They also have been convinced to use the natural hoof care - they were skeptics for years but had one horse with on-going hoof problems who had to be without shoes for months anyway, so they got a farrier who specializes in it and eventually they put all their horses on it. They do say the type of soil where the horses live makes it a viable alternative or not - they say if there is sandy soil, going shoeless just won't work - we have clay soil around here so... Barefoot is natural for horses of course but with the work we often do with them and the footing they have to work on this is often not practical or possible. And, in fact, shoes can provide needed traction and support; studs are often used in jumping or galloping on grass so you need shoes to drill the stud holes in. One positive thing about leaving a horse barefoot is the foot can theoretically grow out into a more natural shape which can allow more room for the bone structure in the foot. Whatever the case, barefoot or shod, you need a good farrier or all hell can break loose. From: awoelflebater no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, November 2, 2012 9:39 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Directory of Active Spiritual Practice Groups of Fairfield  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson mjackson74@ wrote: What do you think of Monty Roberts and his methods? Hey MJ, I have only read Monty's one book, The Man Who Listens to Horses that came out about 15 years ago and enjoyed it immensely. He seemed to be, at the time, a new and needed voice in the industry, especially the Western world of breaking horses. He has had a very big influence on the English discipline as well. Now, even in the Victoria area, there are many western trainers as well as English ones who have really picked up on his methods as well as the related and developing techniques of others to help the very large amateur group of women who take up and continue to ride well into their middle years and need all the help they can get! While I appreciate and respect this man's abilities, courage with and insight into horses, I was brought up with a very traditional British methodology of breaking, backing and educating horses. I don't choose to work with damaged, dangerous or very difficult animals, especially now that I am in my mid fifties. But thank God there are those who have the capability and the desire to do so or so many of these unfortunate animals would end up in the slaughter house. If you can't create, through proper handling, a horse who can do a job and do it safely they, like so many misunderstood and dangerous dogs, pay the ultimate price. From: awoelflebater no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, November 1, 2012 11:39 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Directory of Active Spiritual Practice Groups of Fairfield à--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@ wrote: Ann, you don't get it?!ÃâàNonetheless you make derogatory remarks! This is a figure of speech. I actually do get it. ÃâàAbout a list which includes Quakers, Liberal Catholics and Sufis; yoga classes and qigong and devotional singing!ÃâàYour capacity for unfounded accusations seems to know no bounds.ÃâàI happy to see I'm in such good company, having also been accused by you in this way. You are taking it much too literally. I am not criticizing individually any one teaching. I am astounded there are so many conglomerating in one spot and conjecturing on why his might be so. My theory is that there is a market for all of this, a very large, hungry market. It's about, on one level, the marketplace and the laws of supply and demand. I am just intrigued why there would be such a demand. Ok, in reference to your all fine post this evening, this probably makes it all unfine again.ÃâàBut I could not in good conscience let go unanswered your making such derogatory and blanket statements about so many good groups of people.ÃâàFor good sakes, woman, you haven't even been here in how many years?!ÃâàHow can you say such things based on no actual experience of these actual groups?! I am not talking about the validity of any of these groups I am speaking about something
[FairfieldLife] Re: Directory of Active Spiritual Practice Groups of Fairfield to Ann
Sorry it took me a day to get to this but was very busy organizing an awards banquet yesterday. Just a few thoughts on what you have written Share. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: replying as Share. Where I've split your replies I've inserted Ann to show where your separated reply continues. From: awoelflebater no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, November 1, 2012 10:39 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Directory of Active Spiritual Practice Groups of Fairfield  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@ wrote: Ann, you don't get it?!àNonetheless you make derogatory remarks! This is a figure of speech. I actually do get it. Share: Ann, this concept of getting it or not was of course not my main point. My main point is that because of how you express your ideas, it sounds as if you are making derogatory statements about all these groups on the list. àAbout a list which includes Quakers, Liberal Catholics and Sufis; yoga classes and qigong and devotional singing!àYour capacity for unfounded accusations seems to know no bounds.àI happy to see I'm in such good company, having also been accused by you in this way. Ann: You are taking it much too literally. Share: Actually what I'm doing is responding to your ACTUAL words. Ann: I am not criticizing individually any one teaching. I am astounded there are so many conglomerating in one spot and conjecturing on why his might be so. My theory is that there is a market for all of this, a very large, hungry market. It's about, on one level, the marketplace and the laws of supply and demand. I am just intrigued why there would be such a demand. Share: Now you are expressing astonishment. But in your initial statement you used derogatory phrases such as: traveling medicine men and side shows; what a load; and groups happy to take all for a ride.  Ok, in reference to your all fine post this evening, this probably makes it all unfine again.àBut I could not in good conscience let go unanswered your making such derogatory and blanket statements about so many good groups of people.àFor God sakes, woman, you haven't even been here in how many years?!àHow can you say such things based on no actual experience of these actual groups?! Ann: I am not talking about the validity of any of these groups I am speaking about something much bigger. Share: It seemed you were talking about all the groups since you used plural nouns: medicine MEN, side SHOWS, GROUPS happy...ride. Ã What is going on with you that you can do this? I admit, I don't understand.àààAnn: In a nutshell, here it is: The mere fact that there are so many different groups converging on this very small pinhead of real estate is a phenomenon in itself. I thought FF was a TM community. What are all these other travelling medicine shows doing there? How many teachers, teachings, spiritual paths, enlightened people, practices can/should one person pursue in a relatively short life span of, say, 72 years? If you can't see the ludicrousness of it all, laugh at it for even one split second, then nothing I am going to say here will make you consider any other viewpoint than your own. You are, for example, 63 years old and how many different techniques, teachings etc etc are you pursuing or have you investigated? And how much closer are you to whatever you see as the goal? Share: Near my beginning on FFL I wrote about my goal. That because of the trauma in my childhood, I've needed more than usual amount of emotional healing. I believe I've pursued that in a very responsible way. Those who know me in person can attest to my good sense of humor about everything. And to my gratitude for all beneficial healing tools, and even for my childhood. Ann: I can't help comparing it to what I do in my life which has been to become as accomplished as I possibly can to growing into the best horseman/person/woman that I am capable of. If I were to go to as many trainers, clinicians, coaches as there were available to me in the marketplace I would not be doing myself any favours in my discipline. I would be confusing my horse and starting and stopping so many times that it would be like treading water. Here is how it works for me: if I were to be using, say, 7-10 different coaches at any one time it would be indicative to me that I am not happy with any of them. It would say to me they are not fulfilling what I think I want in a coach. However, when I find a trainer who I end up staying with for a prolonged period of time, to the exclusion of others, it is a sure sign they are 'doing it' for me. They are the one I want to focus on. Share: I agree and this is
[FairfieldLife] For the Fox News haters
A Pew study catalogs media bias and finds MSNBC the winner! On MSNBC, the ratio of negative to positive stories on GOP candidate Mitt Romney was 71 to 3.That's not a news channel. That's a propaganda machine ... http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/tv/z-on-tv-blog/bal-pew-study-\ suggests-msnbc-really-is-more-partisan-than-fox-20121102,0,7266571.story
Re: [FairfieldLife] to those who use a handle on FFL to noozBtu and feste
Feste I'm the clueless one here, not you. When I composed my email address, I didn't even think of its meaning, beyond that I got to use my oft wished for nickname. Barry2, if he were still with us, would your tantric guru say that we all have masculine and feminine in us? Wonder if there's a masculine form of Ritu which I've noticed the Hindu names often have both. All this time, I've thought you were a man from India working in the US. I like Sharana as a way to Hindicize my name. I think it means sanctuary. I have a friend, ex Purusha who bought a condo at Amma's ashram and lived there a lot. But he's quite vata so can probably take the heat. Hey, amazing! I just remembered that his birthday is tomorrow! Also the 35th anniversary of my finishing the sidhis course, minus yogic flying, which I did the following year. I have heard about the driving in India. And seen it depicted in movies. Looks wild, even without driving on the so called other side. That would definitely call for some major neuroplasticity! Doesn't most of the world drive on the left side? So really we're the ones driving on the wrong side! I think the Western diet is very acidifying which would create inflammation and increase pitta. But the frantic lifestyle vitiates vata which also throws pitta off, I've heard. Between my MA in SCI and my MS in Psychology, I took about 3 months in ayurveda. Plus in FF, knowledge and info about jyotish and ayurveda and vastu bounces around in conversations. From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, November 2, 2012 10:14 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] to those who use a handle on FFL to noozguru Yes the origin of Bhairitu is from Barry2 but it is more complicated than that. When I subscribed to a.m.t my Usenet handle was Barry based on my email at the time and it was fictional name I used in a band (handle on top of handle). The three of us in the band all had fictional names and all were TM'ers and one now lives in Fairfield. Some of the folks on a.m.t started calling us Barry1 and Barry2 so I just Hindicized it to Bhairitu which in Hindi would be brother Ritu which would be weird because Ritu is a female name. So the handle is also a bit of cognitive dissonance. The tropics I was thinking of was Kerala in India. Nice communist state but you wouldn't know it because businesses thrive there and Cochin is a very modern city. Problem is they drive on the wrong side of the road in India. And then they play chicken a lot when they drive. Also spent a few days at Ammachi's ashram in Amritapuri. You could throw a rock in the US and probably hit someone with a pitta predominant constitution. On 11/02/2012 06:35 PM, Share Long wrote: laughing at the memory of when I got confirmed in Catholic Church, I was in third grade and my partner in line was a 4th grader by the name of Sharon Short. I like to think that gave the nuns a little something to chuckle at. I didn't get my nickname Share til later in life. Long was originally Longlocher. Hey, finally figured out that you are Barry2. I thought there were 2 Barrys! How about Seaside, FL? Set for The Truman Show. As for Americans living in a dream, I admit I do feel like I'm in a bit of a bubble here in FF. Though the climate features extremes in both winter and summer, there are compensations. Not the least of which is low cost of living and the safety factor. Very comforting for a single woman. And I definitely felt detached from Hurricane Sandy once I knew my family was ok. The whole time it was happening we were having the most beautiful autumn days I can remember. Like Sandy was happening on another planet! Triguna told me I'm pure pitta and based on experience, I'd say that's true. I grew up in DC, which is a hot humid climate. But recently we had some humid and cool weather here in FF. Definitely the humidity does me in! Anyway, here's an article I received on that whole topic of lots of babies 9 months after a blackout. BTW, I think ayurveda cautions against all that when there's a lot of chaos in the environment such as with a storm: http://www.care2.com/greenliving/the-link-between-storms-and-procreation.html From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, November 2, 2012 5:06 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] to those who use a handle on FFL Share is often a nickname for Sharon. I have cousins whose last name is Long. I don't know they ever knew the local Short family (who have a famous winery). They were from my aunt's first husband and may not have grown up in the area. I could easily live in the tropics where temperature year around is in the 80s. You have to put up with some monsoons but I can live in 80s degree weather and ceiling fan would
[FairfieldLife] Re: A book review after my own heart
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: As some may have been able to tell :-), I spent a large part of my youth as a fan of science fiction and fantasy writing. I read everything I could find at the library, and other stuff found in second-hand bookstores that the libraries didn't feel worthy of putting on their shelves. And along the way I've had various favorite writers, most of them men (partly because...duh...most writers who get published are men, and especially most writers consigned to the scifi/fantasy ghetto are men). My faves have always been the soft scifi writers such as Roger Zelazny (who specialized in the reinvention of myth), Orson Scott Card (who specialized in the reinvention of religion and spirituality), and Philip K. Dick (who specialized in the reinvention of reality). But if I'm honest, my all-time favorite scifi/fantasy writer has always been (gasp) a woman -- Ursula K. Le Guin. When I moved to the L.A. area during my college years, I became a devotee of the A Change Of Hobbit bookstore, and thus got to meet and hobnob with a few of my fave writers, and/or hear them speak. Some, like Zelazny, were the kinds of public speakers who should have kept to writing, and others, like Card, could be as eloquent in speech as they were on paper. Some were fiercely intelligent, and others only posed as intelligent, more Mensa types trolling for attention. Only one writer blew me out of my socks with her combination of innate intelligence, charm, mastery of language, and above all, vision of and compassion for what it means to be human. That was Ursula Kroeber Le Guin. Under the first link at the bottom of this post is a review of a new 2-volume collection of her short writing, and the author of it seems to not only agree with me that Ursula is the best living genre/ghetto writer in the world, but one of the best writers, period. It's in her genes. Her father was one of the most famous anthropologists in the world, A.L. Kroeber, and her mother was a famous writer and social scien- tist in her own right. Ursula obviously grew up in a household that had been trained to view humans with the accuracy of a scientist, but also the compassion of a saint, and that trait has charac- terized all of her writing. She has won all the major awards in her genre many times over, and her seminal gender-busting novel The Left Hand of Darkness is still in my all-time Top Five. If you're looking for some good books to curl up with this Winter, you might do well to look into some of hers. Thanks, I will. I recognise the name and thought I might have had the pleasure but a quick perusal of her website later and I can see I haven't. So I'll nip down the shops and buy the one with the cover that appeals to me most and without reading the back but the one you mention seems like a good place to start as I love vintage sci-fi anyway. http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2012/11/ursula_le_guin_s_the_unreal_and_the_real_collected_stories_reviewed.single.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin
[FairfieldLife] Re: TM Rumors
REally we could use a few more good meditators for super radiance on Tuesday. -Buck in the Dome --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: Now if that isn't a bloody waste of everyone's time, but then it is still positive-Wednesday here on FFL so I won't go in to what I think now about people who lay back and sleep for the whole time in meditation in the Dome. -Buck Which is happening due to an unhealthy lifestyle. When I was in Fairfield I was surprised to see how late many stayed up at night. And resting before Programme was rare. Yep, and lack of spiritual discipline and so without fortitude. Sit the f up and do the practice when you come to meditate. Just Lain back and laying down is so cowardly. Really the meditation is much better than it was some number of years ago when so many would so flagrantly come in and go to sleep under a blanket as their 'meditation'. There is not much of that anymore at all. People generally are more serious.I did clearly noticed people back-sliding again the other morning in meditation, it was so dullling. However I do believe it would do the program generally more good than handing out cookies at the end of meditation as people are leaving to have coffee or tea available in the coat area or yoga assana areas before people go in to meditate. Once I heard Maharishi directly tell (instruct) someone who was sleeping all the time in meditation, You've slept enough, if you fall asleep in meditation take some stimulants like coffee or tea! . That is no rumor it is gospel, I was there and I heard it. -Buck, the Apostle
[FairfieldLife] Re: TM Rumors
On Election Day bring your old Dome badge and someone will probably vouch for you at the door if you have not been in a while. According to what the science is showing it's really quite important that you come meditate with the large group. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: REally we could use a few more good meditators for super radiance on Tuesday. -Buck in the Dome --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: Now if that isn't a bloody waste of everyone's time, but then it is still positive-Wednesday here on FFL so I won't go in to what I think now about people who lay back and sleep for the whole time in meditation in the Dome. -Buck Which is happening due to an unhealthy lifestyle. When I was in Fairfield I was surprised to see how late many stayed up at night. And resting before Programme was rare. Yep, and lack of spiritual discipline and so without fortitude. Sit the f up and do the practice when you come to meditate. Just Lain back and laying down is so cowardly. Really the meditation is much better than it was some number of years ago when so many would so flagrantly come in and go to sleep under a blanket as their 'meditation'. There is not much of that anymore at all. People generally are more serious.I did clearly noticed people back-sliding again the other morning in meditation, it was so dullling. However I do believe it would do the program generally more good than handing out cookies at the end of meditation as people are leaving to have coffee or tea available in the coat area or yoga assana areas before people go in to meditate. Once I heard Maharishi directly tell (instruct) someone who was sleeping all the time in meditation, You've slept enough, if you fall asleep in meditation take some stimulants like coffee or tea! . That is no rumor it is gospel, I was there and I heard it. -Buck, the Apostle
Re: [FairfieldLife] For the Fox News haters
On 11/03/2012 07:47 AM, emptybill wrote: A Pew study catalogs media bias and finds MSNBC the winner! On MSNBC, the ratio of negative to positive stories on GOP candidate Mitt Romney was 71 to 3.That's not a news channel. That's a propaganda machine ... http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/tv/z-on-tv-blog/bal-pew-study-\ suggests-msnbc-really-is-more-partisan-than-fox-20121102,0,7266571.story Mr. Bill, news channels are entertainment these days. MSNBC and their sponsors are going after the liberal bucks. Liberals are often better educated and earn more income than the conservative crowd. Also Comcast owns the controlling share of NBC and probably doesn't want I'm going to end porn Romney in. They make a lot of money on those adult channel subscriptions. ;-)
Re: [FairfieldLife] Rudra-Soma
On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 7:53 AM, card cardemais...@yahoo.com wrote: Could it be that Sandy was a massive collective unstressing caused by Soma([full]Moon)-Rudra(storm)?? No. It was a concerted effort by Nature to punish a junkyard dog and to keep the TMO forever off of Broad and Wall streets in NYC. Also, the big banks, insurance companies and traders who brought us into the Great Recession are in NYC. Let them trade w/o electricity.The French Quarter and NOLA are next. It was also wonderful proof that state, city and nationally sponsored yagyas, Invincible America and the beloved pundits have made the US invincible. Anyone vote early? I voted two weeks ago. It looks like most people in my county voted early. I wanted to vote the straight party line but I didn't find Tupperware anywhere on the machine.I did vote for around $6 Billion worth of bond campaigns and money allocations for the People Republic of Austin. I noticed that Lance Armstrong, Austin's Patron Saint, didn't have another referendum on the ballet for the State of Texas to spend $200M to attract cancer researchers to the state. I voted against that referendum 4 years ago. The minute I heard of Lance Armstrong I decided that there was less than nothing that met the eye or ear.
[FairfieldLife] Re: TM Rumors
You know the time is getting short to get a badge processed with any recommendations you should need for the group meditation on Tuesday. However, if you have an old badge try coming to the doors and just see if someone could vouch for you to join. It is real important we try together for the large numbers however we might. Come in, sit up and meditate together. -Buck --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: On Election Day bring your old Dome badge and someone will probably vouch for you at the door if you have not been in a while. According to what the science is showing it's really quite important that you come meditate with the large group. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: REally we could use a few more good meditators for super radiance on Tuesday. -Buck in the Dome --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: Now if that isn't a bloody waste of everyone's time, but then it is still positive-Wednesday here on FFL so I won't go in to what I think now about people who lay back and sleep for the whole time in meditation in the Dome. -Buck Which is happening due to an unhealthy lifestyle. When I was in Fairfield I was surprised to see how late many stayed up at night. And resting before Programme was rare. Yep, and lack of spiritual discipline and so without fortitude. Sit the f up and do the practice when you come to meditate. Just Lain back and laying down is so cowardly. Really the meditation is much better than it was some number of years ago when so many would so flagrantly come in and go to sleep under a blanket as their 'meditation'. There is not much of that anymore at all. People generally are more serious.I did clearly noticed people back-sliding again the other morning in meditation, it was so dullling. However I do believe it would do the program generally more good than handing out cookies at the end of meditation as people are leaving to have coffee or tea available in the coat area or yoga assana areas before people go in to meditate. Once I heard Maharishi directly tell (instruct) someone who was sleeping all the time in meditation, You've slept enough, if you fall asleep in meditation take some stimulants like coffee or tea! . That is no rumor it is gospel, I was there and I heard it. -Buck, the Apostle
[FairfieldLife] Re: For the Fox News haters
Barry-2 Advocacy journalism became the goal in post-70's America, since the powers that pee determined that objectivity was a non-existent phenomenon. Since objectivity was impossible and the specter of the 1930's totenkopf has faded with the death of Dr. Joseph Göbbels, what was left but natural propagandizing? MSNBC is the current incarnation of that trend. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: On 11/03/2012 07:47 AM, emptybill wrote: A Pew study catalogs media bias and finds MSNBC the winner! On MSNBC, the ratio of negative to positive stories on GOP candidate Mitt Romney was 71 to 3.That's not a news channel. That's a propaganda machine ... http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/tv/z-on-tv-blog/bal-pew-study-\ \ suggests-msnbc-really-is-more-partisan-than-fox-20121102,0,7266571.story Mr. Bill, news channels are entertainment these days. MSNBC and their sponsors are going after the liberal bucks. Liberals are often better educated and earn more income than the conservative crowd. Also Comcast owns the controlling share of NBC and probably doesn't want I'm going to end porn Romney in. They make a lot of money on those adult channel subscriptions. ;-)
Re: [FairfieldLife] to those who use a handle on FFL to noozBtu and feste
No, most of the world drives on the right hand side. Many of the countries that drive on the left are former British colonies. This practice evolves from all thing because of jousting! You needed to hold the spear in your right hand for aim. Perhaps sometime in the future the left hand countries will become right hand but probably not without a lot of accidents as a result of the changeover. Good reason for automated cars. ;-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-_and_left-hand_traffic What is the western diet? The regional diet around here would be Mexican which actually agrees with me. When I was in India I ordered items off the back pages of the menu at restaurants. Those pages had Chinese food on them. Indian food was just a bit too spicy for me. In the west the Indian restaurants make food for white folks which is not quite the same as you get in India. One thing I immediately noticed was the difference in rice. Deepak Chopra in one of his videos explained that the western diet is actually fairly vata balancing with the predominance of sweet, salty and sour tastes. I'm pitta-kapha constitutionally but kapha goes high very easily. When ayurveda began to take off in the west people thought that tri-dosha was the goal but now it is restoring your constitution. I also approach this from other disciplines including yin and yang concepts (much simpler than ayurveda) and the western biochemical individuality and metabolic typing. All good tools for maintaining health. I like to listen Dr. Gary Null's show mornings. I've been reading his stuff since the 1970s. But he advocates veganism these days (in spite of advocating things like ayurveda) and sounds like he is going crazy. Vegans always sound hungry and they are because they're starving. A vegan diet is a good method for cleansing but not for long term. Our ancestors made sure of that by morphing us into omnivores. Similarly a low-carb high protein diet is good for toning and fast weight reduction but most nutritionally oriented practitioners say only use it for two weeks. On 11/03/2012 07:58 AM, Share Long wrote: Feste I'm the clueless one here, not you. When I composed my email address, I didn't even think of its meaning, beyond that I got to use my oft wished for nickname. Barry2, if he were still with us, would your tantric guru say that we all have masculine and feminine in us? Wonder if there's a masculine form of Ritu which I've noticed the Hindu names often have both. All this time, I've thought you were a man from India working in the US. I like Sharana as a way to Hindicize my name. I think it means sanctuary. I have a friend, ex Purusha who bought a condo at Amma's ashram and lived there a lot. But he's quite vata so can probably take the heat. Hey, amazing! I just remembered that his birthday is tomorrow! Also the 35th anniversary of my finishing the sidhis course, minus yogic flying, which I did the following year. I have heard about the driving in India. And seen it depicted in movies. Looks wild, even without driving on the so called other side. That would definitely call for some major neuroplasticity! Doesn't most of the world drive on the left side? So really we're the ones driving on the wrong side! I think the Western diet is very acidifying which would create inflammation and increase pitta. But the frantic lifestyle vitiates vata which also throws pitta off, I've heard. Between my MA in SCI and my MS in Psychology, I took about 3 months in ayurveda. Plus in FF, knowledge and info about jyotish and ayurveda and vastu bounces around in conversations. From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, November 2, 2012 10:14 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] to those who use a handle on FFL to noozguru Yes the origin of Bhairitu is from Barry2 but it is more complicated than that. When I subscribed to a.m.t my Usenet handle was Barry based on my email at the time and it was fictional name I used in a band (handle on top of handle). The three of us in the band all had fictional names and all were TM'ers and one now lives in Fairfield. Some of the folks on a.m.t started calling us Barry1 and Barry2 so I just Hindicized it to Bhairitu which in Hindi would be brother Ritu which would be weird because Ritu is a female name. So the handle is also a bit of cognitive dissonance. The tropics I was thinking of was Kerala in India. Nice communist state but you wouldn't know it because businesses thrive there and Cochin is a very modern city. Problem is they drive on the wrong side of the road in India. And then they play chicken a lot when they drive. Also spent a few days at Ammachi's ashram in Amritapuri. You could throw a rock in the US and probably hit someone with a pitta predominant constitution. On 11/02/2012 06:35 PM,
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: For the Fox News haters
And a good reason to disallow Corprica to own so much of the media. On 11/03/2012 11:15 AM, emptybill wrote: Barry-2 Advocacy journalism became the goal in post-70's America, since the powers that pee determined that objectivity was a non-existent phenomenon. Since objectivity was impossible and the specter of the 1930's totenkopf has faded with the death of Dr. Joseph Göbbels, what was left but natural propagandizing? MSNBC is the current incarnation of that trend. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: On 11/03/2012 07:47 AM, emptybill wrote: A Pew study catalogs media bias and finds MSNBC the winner! On MSNBC, the ratio of negative to positive stories on GOP candidate Mitt Romney was 71 to 3.That's not a news channel. That's a propaganda machine ... http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/tv/z-on-tv-blog/bal-pew-study-\ \ suggests-msnbc-really-is-more-partisan-than-fox-20121102,0,7266571.story Mr. Bill, news channels are entertainment these days. MSNBC and their sponsors are going after the liberal bucks. Liberals are often better educated and earn more income than the conservative crowd. Also Comcast owns the controlling share of NBC and probably doesn't want I'm going to end porn Romney in. They make a lot of money on those adult channel subscriptions. ;-)
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Directory of Active Spiritual Practice Groups of Fairfield to Ann
Alright, thank you for explaining. I was just demonstrating the fact that one's own perception and others' perceptions of what you or I write, for example, can differ and sometimes it's useful to carry the conversation out longer than the first sentence, so to speak. Thank you for your prayers for my sister. I am applying everything I have learned here and of myself to try and stay with her in her reality and support her in not giving up - she has a right to exist and sometimes it gets down to that for some of us. I am holding an enormous amount of pain for us right now, and will be leaving for a couple of months, shortly, but not quite yet :) I am not quite finished. From: Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, November 3, 2012 4:37 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Directory of Active Spiritual Practice Groups of Fairfield to Ann Emily, I was neither passive nor aggressive in my question to Ann. She sent the photo to make a point about mutual trust, thus continuing our discussion. When I saw the photo, I immediately noticed how the horse's head was bowed down. For just the reasons I mention: that I'm accustomed to seeing horses in photos with their heads up. I added that I'm not an expert in horses or horse photography. Your loyalty to your friends is admirable a lot of the time. But here you have ommitted key elements of what I said. Was I questioning Ann's point about mutual trust compared to the composition of the photo? Yes. But I was asking about it and admitting my lack of knowledge thus giving her the benefit of the doubt. If by not reaching reality you mean that I'm unaware of my flaws, I assure you that I am quite aware of them. Good luck with your sister. I said the ancestral prayers for you and her before I read your other two posts. Nature organizing well. From: Emily Reyn emilymae.r...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, November 3, 2012 12:56 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Directory of Active Spiritual Practice Groups of Fairfield to Ann snip ..But I wonder if it's usual for a horse's head to be so bowed down in a photo. I'm accustomed to seeing images of horses with their head held up and their neck more relaxed looking. Nonetheless, he's a beautiful horse and you look happy. I wish you both all the best. And yes, it is possible to do that, contrary to what oxcart thinks, even if I disagree with you and or am upset with you. This also applies to Doni. PS A friend OF YOURS has expressed concern about you to me offline. And not in relation to anything I have written. To the contrary, they have expressed agreement with and encouragement for my part in our recent exchanges. Share: Can you identify the statements here that are an example of passive-aggressive behavior, couched in love and light. I know you don't see it that way, but that is how it could be perceived. If you haven't identified the parts of your personality that gravitate towards passive-aggressive behavior, you can be pitta all you want but you will never reach reality. Love, Em. From: Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, November 2, 2012 8:32 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Directory of Active Spiritual Practice Groups of Fairfield to Ann replying as Share. Where I've split your replies I've inserted Ann to show where your separated reply continues. From: awoelflebater no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, November 1, 2012 10:39 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Directory of Active Spiritual Practice Groups of Fairfield --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: Ann, you don't get it?! Nonetheless you make derogatory remarks! This is a figure of speech. I actually do get it. Share: Ann, this concept of getting it or not was of course not my main point. My main point is that because of how you express your ideas, it sounds as if you are making derogatory statements about all these groups on the list.  About a list which includes Quakers, Liberal Catholics and Sufis; yoga classes and qigong and devotional singing! Your capacity for unfounded accusations seems to know no bounds. I happy to see I'm in such good company, having also been accused by you in this way. Ann: You are taking it much too literally. Share: Actually what I'm doing is responding to your ACTUAL words. Ann: I am not criticizing individually any one teaching. I am astounded there are so many conglomerating in one spot and conjecturing on why his might be so. My theory is that there is a market for all of
Re: [FairfieldLife] A book review after my own heart
I used to inhale it all too - Asimov, A.E. Van Vogt, Phillip K. Dick - “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.” ― Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon He holds, I think, the distinction ofbeing the science fiction author who has had more of his short stories and novels made into movies than any other sci fi author in history: including Blade Runner and Minority Report. I have to admit I was mighty partial to Bradbury when I was a kid - Dandelion Wine and Something Wicked This Way Comes - man oh man! From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, November 3, 2012 5:23 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] A book review after my own heart As some may have been able to tell :-), I spent a large part of my youth as a fan of science fiction and fantasy writing. I read everything I could find at the library, and other stuff found in second-hand bookstores that the libraries didn't feel worthy of putting on their shelves. And along the way I've had various favorite writers, most of them men (partly because...duh...most writers who get published are men, and especially most writers consigned to the scifi/fantasy ghetto are men). My faves have always been the soft scifi writers such as Roger Zelazny (who specialized in the reinvention of myth), Orson Scott Card (who specialized in the reinvention of religion and spirituality), and Philip K. Dick (who specialized in the reinvention of reality). But if I'm honest, my all-time favorite scifi/fantasy writer has always been (gasp) a woman -- Ursula K. Le Guin. When I moved to the L.A. area during my college years, I became a devotee of the A Change Of Hobbit bookstore, and thus got to meet and hobnob with a few of my fave writers, and/or hear them speak. Some, like Zelazny, were the kinds of public speakers who should have kept to writing, and others, like Card, could be as eloquent in speech as they were on paper. Some were fiercely intelligent, and others only posed as intelligent, more Mensa types trolling for attention. Only one writer blew me out of my socks with her combination of innate intelligence, charm, mastery of language, and above all, vision of and compassion for what it means to be human. That was Ursula Kroeber Le Guin. Under the first link at the bottom of this post is a review of a new 2-volume collection of her short writing, and the author of it seems to not only agree with me that Ursula is the best living genre/ghetto writer in the world, but one of the best writers, period. It's in her genes. Her father was one of the most famous anthropologists in the world, A.L. Kroeber, and her mother was a famous writer and social scien- tist in her own right. Ursula obviously grew up in a household that had been trained to view humans with the accuracy of a scientist, but also the compassion of a saint, and that trait has charac- terized all of her writing. She has won all the major awards in her genre many times over, and her seminal gender-busting novel The Left Hand of Darkness is still in my all-time Top Five. If you're looking for some good books to curl up with this Winter, you might do well to look into some of hers. http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2012/11/ursula_le_guin_s_the_unreal_and_the_real_collected_stories_reviewed.single.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin
Re: [FairfieldLife] A book review after my own heart
Absolutely my favorite Ray Bradbury: the one about time traveling, a concept I love anyway. On the day of a big election, some friends travel back in time to a prehistoric rain forest with the company that offers the service. The company has constructed paths through all the places where time travelers can go. The one rule is: Do not step off the path. For some reason the friends lose track of time and in order to avoid missing the ride back to the present day world, they have to make a mad dash back to the time travel spaceship. In the process of running frantically, one of them accidently sets the heel of his foot off the path. When the friends had left for their time travel adventure, the good guy had been resoundingly winning the election. When they return, the really bad guy has won instead. The last line of the story is something like this: And in a prehistoric rain forest, at the edge of a man made path, one yellow butterfly lies crushed into the mud. Whoa! Still gives me goose bumps... From: Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, November 3, 2012 2:18 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] A book review after my own heart I used to inhale it all too - Asimov, A.E. Van Vogt, Phillip K. Dick - “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.” ― Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon He holds, I think, the distinction ofbeing the science fiction author who has had more of his short stories and novels made into movies than any other sci fi author in history: including Blade Runner and Minority Report. I have to admit I was mighty partial to Bradbury when I was a kid - Dandelion Wine and Something Wicked This Way Comes - man oh man! From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, November 3, 2012 5:23 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] A book review after my own heart As some may have been able to tell :-), I spent a large part of my youth as a fan of science fiction and fantasy writing. I read everything I could find at the library, and other stuff found in second-hand bookstores that the libraries didn't feel worthy of putting on their shelves. And along the way I've had various favorite writers, most of them men (partly because...duh...most writers who get published are men, and especially most writers consigned to the scifi/fantasy ghetto are men). My faves have always been the soft scifi writers such as Roger Zelazny (who specialized in the reinvention of myth), Orson Scott Card (who specialized in the reinvention of religion and spirituality), and Philip K. Dick (who specialized in the reinvention of reality). But if I'm honest, my all-time favorite scifi/fantasy writer has always been (gasp) a woman -- Ursula K. Le Guin. When I moved to the L.A. area during my college years, I became a devotee of the A Change Of Hobbit bookstore, and thus got to meet and hobnob with a few of my fave writers, and/or hear them speak. Some, like Zelazny, were the kinds of public speakers who should have kept to writing, and others, like Card, could be as eloquent in speech as they were on paper. Some were fiercely intelligent, and others only posed as intelligent, more Mensa types trolling for attention. Only one writer blew me out of my socks with her combination of innate intelligence, charm, mastery of language, and above all, vision of and compassion for what it means to be human. That was Ursula Kroeber Le Guin. Under the first link at the bottom of this post is a review of a new 2-volume collection of her short writing, and the author of it seems to not only agree with me that Ursula is the best living genre/ghetto writer in the world, but one of the best writers, period. It's in her genes. Her father was one of the most famous anthropologists in the world, A.L. Kroeber, and her mother was a famous writer and social scien- tist in her own right. Ursula obviously grew up in a household that had been trained to view humans with the accuracy of a scientist, but also the compassion of a saint, and that trait has charac- terized all of her writing. She has won all the major awards in her genre many times over, and her seminal gender-busting novel The Left Hand of Darkness is still in my all-time Top Five. If you're looking for some good books to curl up with this Winter, you might do well to look into some of hers. http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2012/11/ursula_le_guin_s_the_unreal_and_the_real_collected_stories_reviewed.single.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin
[FairfieldLife] Re: Samavartaka Fire
This translation of BV Purana by an anonymous Iskcon devotee is not precise, to say the least. In no way is this text apt to give a prediction about a coming golden age. Check with a Sanskrit specialist about this. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@... wrote: From a friend: _ Re Samavartaka Fire, below: I haven't had any confirmation of the comment attributed to Maharishi, and I don't have any further information on who the Jyotishis are that have predicted it to come in Feb. 2013. From what I have seen on the internet, it seems that the predictions of a phase transition fall sometime during the next 2 years. What is encouraging is the actual quote that 2 people sent me from one of the Puranas that predicts the 10,000 year Age of Enlightenment to begin 5,000 years into Kali Yuga, which is where we are now. The Sanskrit transliteration and the English translation of the 10 verses are below the original email: _ THE SAMAVARTAKA FIRE From the Brahma Vaivarta Purana Krishna said to Ganga (Gangamata, the Ganges personified as a goddess). Five thousand years from this date, within the span of Kali Yuga, there will be respite from this terrible age. There will be a golden age of 10,000 years. Jyotishis have calculated that it will come on February 2013 and call it the Samavartaka Fire, a solar cleansing of the earth. Both the Mayan Calendar and the Samavartaka Fire predictions were done at least 5,000 years ago, but there is some dispute about the accuracy of the Mayan calendar end-date. These predictions were done on opposite sides of the earth at the same time. The time in between ages is called Pralaya where there is often a time of strife. Someone on Purusha asked Maharishi about the Mayan calendar end-date, and he said, It's a little off. _ The following are ten verses from the Brahma-vaivarta Purana that were spoken by Lord Krishna to Mother Ganga just before the beginning of Kali yuga (the age of quarrel and strife). Kali yuga began approximately five thousand years ago, and it has a duration of 432,000 years, leaving us with 427,000 till the end of the present age. [For a description of Kali yuga, please read the related article Predictions for the age of Kali.] Within this 432,000 year period, there is a period of 10,000 years that will be a golden age. That golden age is being described below by Lord Sri Krishna. This text is taken from the Brahma-vaivarta Purana. Text 49 bhagarathy uvaca he natha ramanashreshtha yasi golokamuttamam asmakam ka gatishcatra bhavishyati kalau yuge Ganges said: O protector, Supreme enjoyer, on your departure for the perfect abode, Goloka, thereafter what will be my situation in the age of kali? Text 50 sri-bhagavan uvaca kaleh pancasahasrani varshani tishtha bhutale papani papino yani tubhyam dasyanti snanatah The blessed Lord said: On the earth 5,000 years of kali will be sinful and sinners will deposit their sins in you by bathing. Text 51 man-mantropasakasparshad bhasmibhutani tatkshanat bhavishyanti darsanacca snanadeva hi jahnavi Thereafter by the sight and touch of those who worship me by my mantra, all those sins will be burnt. Text 52 harernamani yatraiva puranani bhavanti hi tatra gatva savadhanam abhih sarddham ca shroshyasi There will be chanting of the name of Hari and reading of the [Bhagavata] Purana. Reaching such a place, attentively hear. Text 53 purana shravanaccaiva harernamanukirtanat bhasmibhutani papani brahma-hatyadikani ca Sinful reactions including the killing of a brahmana can be nullified by hearing the Purana and chanting of the names of Hari in the manner of devotees. Text 54 bhasmibhutani tanyeva vaishnavalinganena ca trinani shushkakashthani dahanti pavako yatha Just as dry grass is burnt by fire, by the embrace of My devotees all sins are burnt. Text 55 tathapi vaishnava loke papani papinamapi prithivyam yani tirthani punyanyapi ca jahnavi O Ganges, the whole planet will become a pilgrimage sight by the presence of My devotees, even though it had been sinful. Text 56 madbhaktanam sharireshu santi puteshu samtatam madbhaktapadarajasa sadyah puta vasundhara In the body of my devotees remains eternally [the purifier]. Mother earth becomes pure by the dust of the feet of my devotees. Text 57 sadyah putani tirthani sadyah putam jagattatha manmantropasaka vipra ye maducchishtabhojinah It will be the same in the case of pilgrimage sights and the whole world. Those intelligent worshipers of my mantra who partake My remnants will purify everything. Text 58 mameva nityam dhyayante
[FairfieldLife] Huge crowd for Romney/Ryan at Red Rocks, Colorado
Roughly 10,000 people packed into the concert venue with thousands more turned away at the door. GOP nominees pack Red Rocks Amphitheatre to capacity - The Denver Post http://www.denverpost.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsnlDAc4zUQfeature=related
[FairfieldLife] Re: A book review after my own heart
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: Absolutely my favorite Ray Bradbury: the one about time traveling, a concept I love anyway. On the day of a big election, some friends travel back in time to a prehistoric rain forest with the company that offers the service. The company has constructed paths through all the places where time travelers can go. The one rule is: Do not step off the path. For some reason the friends lose track of time and in order to avoid missing the ride back to the present day world, they have to make a mad dash back to the time travel spaceship. In the process of running frantically, one of them accidently sets the heel of his foot off the path. When the friends had left for their time travel adventure, the good guy had been resoundingly winning the election. When they return, the really bad guy has won instead. The last line of the story is something like this: And in a prehistoric rain forest, at the edge of a man made path, one yellow butterfly lies crushed into the mud. Whoa! Still gives me goose bumps... Sounds like a great story, also feels like it's happened a few times already. From: Michael Jackson mjackson74@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, November 3, 2012 2:18 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] A book review after my own heart  I used to inhale it all too - Asimov, A.E. Van Vogt, Phillip K. Dick - âReality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.â â Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon He holds, I think, the distinction ofbeing the science fiction author who has had more of his short stories and novels made into movies than any other sci fi author in history: including Blade Runner and Minority Report. I have to admit I was mighty partial to Bradbury when I was a kid - Dandelion Wine and Something Wicked This Way Comes - man oh man! From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, November 3, 2012 5:23 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] A book review after my own heart  As some may have been able to tell :-), I spent a large part of my youth as a fan of science fiction and fantasy writing. I read everything I could find at the library, and other stuff found in second-hand bookstores that the libraries didn't feel worthy of putting on their shelves. And along the way I've had various favorite writers, most of them men (partly because...duh...most writers who get published are men, and especially most writers consigned to the scifi/fantasy ghetto are men). My faves have always been the soft scifi writers such as Roger Zelazny (who specialized in the reinvention of myth), Orson Scott Card (who specialized in the reinvention of religion and spirituality), and Philip K. Dick (who specialized in the reinvention of reality). But if I'm honest, my all-time favorite scifi/fantasy writer has always been (gasp) a woman -- Ursula K. Le Guin. When I moved to the L.A. area during my college years, I became a devotee of the A Change Of Hobbit bookstore, and thus got to meet and hobnob with a few of my fave writers, and/or hear them speak. Some, like Zelazny, were the kinds of public speakers who should have kept to writing, and others, like Card, could be as eloquent in speech as they were on paper. Some were fiercely intelligent, and others only posed as intelligent, more Mensa types trolling for attention. Only one writer blew me out of my socks with her combination of innate intelligence, charm, mastery of language, and above all, vision of and compassion for what it means to be human. That was Ursula Kroeber Le Guin. Under the first link at the bottom of this post is a review of a new 2-volume collection of her short writing, and the author of it seems to not only agree with me that Ursula is the best living genre/ghetto writer in the world, but one of the best writers, period. It's in her genes. Her father was one of the most famous anthropologists in the world, A.L. Kroeber, and her mother was a famous writer and social scien- tist in her own right. Ursula obviously grew up in a household that had been trained to view humans with the accuracy of a scientist, but also the compassion of a saint, and that trait has charac- terized all of her writing. She has won all the major awards in her genre many times over, and her seminal gender-busting novel The Left Hand of Darkness is still in my all-time Top Five. If you're looking for some good books to curl up with this Winter, you might do well to look into some of hers. http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2012/11/ursula_le_guin_s_the_unreal_and_the_real_collected_stories_reviewed.single.html
[FairfieldLife] Re: For the Fox News haters
Hyour so hright kommrade! Better that our brave commy-czars tell the little folk what they need to know. No more so-called ideals of the petite bourgeoisie --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: And a good reason to disallow Corprica to own so much of the media. On 11/03/2012 11:15 AM, emptybill wrote: Barry-2 Advocacy journalism became the goal in post-70's America, since the powers that pee determined that objectivity was a non-existent phenomenon. Since objectivity was impossible and the specter of the 1930's totenkopf has faded with the death of Dr. Joseph Göbbels, what was left but natural propagandizing? MSNBC is the current incarnation of that trend. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: On 11/03/2012 07:47 AM, emptybill wrote: A Pew study catalogs media bias and finds MSNBC the winner! On MSNBC, the ratio of negative to positive stories on GOP candidate Mitt Romney was 71 to 3.That's not a news channel. That's a propaganda machine ... http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/tv/z-on-tv-blog/bal-pew-study-\ \ \ suggests-msnbc-really-is-more-partisan-than-fox-20121102,0,7266571.story Mr. Bill, news channels are entertainment these days. MSNBC and their sponsors are going after the liberal bucks. Liberals are often better educated and earn more income than the conservative crowd. Also Comcast owns the controlling share of NBC and probably doesn't want I'm going to end porn Romney in. They make a lot of money on those adult channel subscriptions. ;-)
[FairfieldLife] Re: A book review after my own heart
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson mjackson74@... wrote: I used to inhale it all too - Asimov, A.E. Van Vogt, Phillip K. Dick - âReality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.â â Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon He holds, I think, the distinction ofbeing the science fiction author who has had more of his short stories and novels made into movies than any other sci fi author in history: including Blade Runner and Minority Report. I have to admit I was mighty partial to Bradbury when I was a kid - Dandelion Wine and Something Wicked This Way Comes - man oh man! I'm not sure if you can get this series stateside: http://sfbook.com/sf-masterworks.htm I'm working my way through them slowly but surely. They were chosen by current sci-fi writers as the cream of the crop and I've not been disappointed yet. Some real gems hidden away, I never would have discovered Robert Silverberg without this list as so much sci-fi is crap. I stopped buying new stuff ages ago as you really can't tell if most books are good by their covers as the publishers just tend to put a freaky robot on the front whatever it's about, but these you can buy with confidence. From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, November 3, 2012 5:23 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] A book review after my own heart  As some may have been able to tell :-), I spent a large part of my youth as a fan of science fiction and fantasy writing. I read everything I could find at the library, and other stuff found in second-hand bookstores that the libraries didn't feel worthy of putting on their shelves. And along the way I've had various favorite writers, most of them men (partly because...duh...most writers who get published are men, and especially most writers consigned to the scifi/fantasy ghetto are men). My faves have always been the soft scifi writers such as Roger Zelazny (who specialized in the reinvention of myth), Orson Scott Card (who specialized in the reinvention of religion and spirituality), and Philip K. Dick (who specialized in the reinvention of reality). But if I'm honest, my all-time favorite scifi/fantasy writer has always been (gasp) a woman -- Ursula K. Le Guin. When I moved to the L.A. area during my college years, I became a devotee of the A Change Of Hobbit bookstore, and thus got to meet and hobnob with a few of my fave writers, and/or hear them speak. Some, like Zelazny, were the kinds of public speakers who should have kept to writing, and others, like Card, could be as eloquent in speech as they were on paper. Some were fiercely intelligent, and others only posed as intelligent, more Mensa types trolling for attention. Only one writer blew me out of my socks with her combination of innate intelligence, charm, mastery of language, and above all, vision of and compassion for what it means to be human. That was Ursula Kroeber Le Guin. Under the first link at the bottom of this post is a review of a new 2-volume collection of her short writing, and the author of it seems to not only agree with me that Ursula is the best living genre/ghetto writer in the world, but one of the best writers, period. It's in her genes. Her father was one of the most famous anthropologists in the world, A.L. Kroeber, and her mother was a famous writer and social scien- tist in her own right. Ursula obviously grew up in a household that had been trained to view humans with the accuracy of a scientist, but also the compassion of a saint, and that trait has charac- terized all of her writing. She has won all the major awards in her genre many times over, and her seminal gender-busting novel The Left Hand of Darkness is still in my all-time Top Five. If you're looking for some good books to curl up with this Winter, you might do well to look into some of hers. http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2012/11/ursula_le_guin_s_the_unreal_and_the_real_collected_stories_reviewed.single.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin
[FairfieldLife] Re: Samavartaka Fire
The Brahmvaivarta is a typical sectarian Vaishnava purana. It is full of krishna is the supreme god, all the rest are only demi-gods. ISKON translations are actually sectarian interpretations nothing more. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nayakanayaka nayaka@... wrote: This translation of BV Purana by an anonymous Iskcon devotee is not precise, to say the least. In no way is this text apt to give a prediction about a coming golden age. Check with a Sanskrit specialist about this. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@ wrote: From a friend: _ Re Samavartaka Fire, below: I haven't had any confirmation of the comment attributed to Maharishi, and I don't have any further information on who the Jyotishis are that have predicted it to come in Feb. 2013. From what I have seen on the internet, it seems that the predictions of a phase transition fall sometime during the next 2 years. What is encouraging is the actual quote that 2 people sent me from one of the Puranas that predicts the 10,000 year Age of Enlightenment to begin 5,000 years into Kali Yuga, which is where we are now. The Sanskrit transliteration and the English translation of the 10 verses are below the original email: _ THE SAMAVARTAKA FIRE From the Brahma Vaivarta Purana Krishna said to Ganga (Gangamata, the Ganges personified as a goddess). Five thousand years from this date, within the span of Kali Yuga, there will be respite from this terrible age. There will be a golden age of 10,000 years. Jyotishis have calculated that it will come on February 2013 and call it the Samavartaka Fire, a solar cleansing of the earth. Both the Mayan Calendar and the Samavartaka Fire predictions were done at least 5,000 years ago, but there is some dispute about the accuracy of the Mayan calendar end-date. These predictions were done on opposite sides of the earth at the same time. The time in between ages is called Pralaya where there is often a time of strife. Someone on Purusha asked Maharishi about the Mayan calendar end-date, and he said, It's a little off. _ The following are ten verses from the Brahma-vaivarta Purana that were spoken by Lord Krishna to Mother Ganga just before the beginning of Kali yuga (the age of quarrel and strife). Kali yuga began approximately five thousand years ago, and it has a duration of 432,000 years, leaving us with 427,000 till the end of the present age. [For a description of Kali yuga, please read the related article Predictions for the age of Kali.] Within this 432,000 year period, there is a period of 10,000 years that will be a golden age. That golden age is being described below by Lord Sri Krishna. This text is taken from the Brahma-vaivarta Purana. Text 49 bhagarathy uvaca he natha ramanashreshtha yasi golokamuttamam asmakam ka gatishcatra bhavishyati kalau yuge Ganges said: O protector, Supreme enjoyer, on your departure for the perfect abode, Goloka, thereafter what will be my situation in the age of kali? Text 50 sri-bhagavan uvaca kaleh pancasahasrani varshani tishtha bhutale papani papino yani tubhyam dasyanti snanatah The blessed Lord said: On the earth 5,000 years of kali will be sinful and sinners will deposit their sins in you by bathing. Text 51 man-mantropasakasparshad bhasmibhutani tatkshanat bhavishyanti darsanacca snanadeva hi jahnavi Thereafter by the sight and touch of those who worship me by my mantra, all those sins will be burnt. Text 52 harernamani yatraiva puranani bhavanti hi tatra gatva savadhanam abhih sarddham ca shroshyasi There will be chanting of the name of Hari and reading of the [Bhagavata] Purana. Reaching such a place, attentively hear. Text 53 purana shravanaccaiva harernamanukirtanat bhasmibhutani papani brahma-hatyadikani ca Sinful reactions including the killing of a brahmana can be nullified by hearing the Purana and chanting of the names of Hari in the manner of devotees. Text 54 bhasmibhutani tanyeva vaishnavalinganena ca trinani shushkakashthani dahanti pavako yatha Just as dry grass is burnt by fire, by the embrace of My devotees all sins are burnt. Text 55 tathapi vaishnava loke papani papinamapi prithivyam yani tirthani punyanyapi ca jahnavi O Ganges, the whole planet will become a pilgrimage sight by the presence of My devotees, even though it had been sinful. Text 56 madbhaktanam sharireshu santi puteshu samtatam madbhaktapadarajasa sadyah puta vasundhara In the body of my devotees remains eternally [the purifier]. Mother earth becomes pure by the dust of the feet of my devotees. Text 57
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: For the Fox News haters
Just want to make sure that you don't think the corporations are better at running the country. That would put you in the Mussolini camp and we know what happened to him. ;-) On 11/03/2012 01:36 PM, emptybill wrote: Hyour so hright kommrade! Better that our brave commy-czars tell the little folk what they need to know. No more so-called ideals of the petite bourgeoisie --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: And a good reason to disallow Corprica to own so much of the media. On 11/03/2012 11:15 AM, emptybill wrote: Barry-2 Advocacy journalism became the goal in post-70's America, since the powers that pee determined that objectivity was a non-existent phenomenon. Since objectivity was impossible and the specter of the 1930's totenkopf has faded with the death of Dr. Joseph Göbbels, what was left but natural propagandizing? MSNBC is the current incarnation of that trend. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: On 11/03/2012 07:47 AM, emptybill wrote: A Pew study catalogs media bias and finds MSNBC the winner! On MSNBC, the ratio of negative to positive stories on GOP candidate Mitt Romney was 71 to 3.That's not a news channel. That's a propaganda machine ... http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/tv/z-on-tv-blog/bal-pew-study-\ \ \ suggests-msnbc-really-is-more-partisan-than-fox-20121102,0,7266571.story Mr. Bill, news channels are entertainment these days. MSNBC and their sponsors are going after the liberal bucks. Liberals are often better educated and earn more income than the conservative crowd. Also Comcast owns the controlling share of NBC and probably doesn't want I'm going to end porn Romney in. They make a lot of money on those adult channel subscriptions. ;-)
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: A book review after my own heart
thanks for posting that - I have read about half of those - Lord of Light - that is a good one! I was always really a fan of Jack Vance too mostly because of The Last Castle (won both Hugo and Nebula awards) From: salyavin808 fintlewoodle...@mail.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, November 3, 2012 4:52 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: A book review after my own heart --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson mjackson74@... wrote: I used to inhale it all too - Asimov, A.E. Van Vogt, Phillip K. Dick - “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.” ― Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon He holds, I think, the distinction ofbeing the science fiction author who has had more of his short stories and novels made into movies than any other sci fi author in history: including Blade Runner and Minority Report. I have to admit I was mighty partial to Bradbury when I was a kid - Dandelion Wine and Something Wicked This Way Comes - man oh man! I'm not sure if you can get this series stateside: http://sfbook.com/sf-masterworks.htm I'm working my way through them slowly but surely. They were chosen by current sci-fi writers as the cream of the crop and I've not been disappointed yet. Some real gems hidden away, I never would have discovered Robert Silverberg without this list as so much sci-fi is crap. I stopped buying new stuff ages ago as you really can't tell if most books are good by their covers as the publishers just tend to put a freaky robot on the front whatever it's about, but these you can buy with confidence. From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, November 3, 2012 5:23 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] A book review after my own heart As some may have been able to tell :-), I spent a large part of my youth as a fan of science fiction and fantasy writing. I read everything I could find at the library, and other stuff found in second-hand bookstores that the libraries didn't feel worthy of putting on their shelves. And along the way I've had various favorite writers, most of them men (partly because...duh...most writers who get published are men, and especially most writers consigned to the scifi/fantasy ghetto are men). My faves have always been the soft scifi writers such as Roger Zelazny (who specialized in the reinvention of myth), Orson Scott Card (who specialized in the reinvention of religion and spirituality), and Philip K. Dick (who specialized in the reinvention of reality). But if I'm honest, my all-time favorite scifi/fantasy writer has always been (gasp) a woman -- Ursula K. Le Guin. When I moved to the L.A. area during my college years, I became a devotee of the A Change Of Hobbit bookstore, and thus got to meet and hobnob with a few of my fave writers, and/or hear them speak. Some, like Zelazny, were the kinds of public speakers who should have kept to writing, and others, like Card, could be as eloquent in speech as they were on paper. Some were fiercely intelligent, and others only posed as intelligent, more Mensa types trolling for attention. Only one writer blew me out of my socks with her combination of innate intelligence, charm, mastery of language, and above all, vision of and compassion for what it means to be human. That was Ursula Kroeber Le Guin. Under the first link at the bottom of this post is a review of a new 2-volume collection of her short writing, and the author of it seems to not only agree with me that Ursula is the best living genre/ghetto writer in the world, but one of the best writers, period. It's in her genes. Her father was one of the most famous anthropologists in the world, A.L. Kroeber, and her mother was a famous writer and social scien- tist in her own right. Ursula obviously grew up in a household that had been trained to view humans with the accuracy of a scientist, but also the compassion of a saint, and that trait has charac- terized all of her writing. She has won all the major awards in her genre many times over, and her seminal gender-busting novel The Left Hand of Darkness is still in my all-time Top Five. If you're looking for some good books to curl up with this Winter, you might do well to look into some of hers. http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2012/11/ursula_le_guin_s_the_unreal_and_the_real_collected_stories_reviewed.single.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin
[FairfieldLife] Re: TM Rumors
Meditating all together on Tuesday, even if you are an old meditator and your badge is not current or may be you don't have one, then do plan anyway on being there meditating at the Domes even out in the parking lot together with the larger group. That would be helpful to the whole. You know the time is getting short to get a badge processed with any recommendations you should need for the group meditation on Tuesday. However, if you have an old badge try coming to the doors and just see if someone could vouch for you to join. It is real important we try together for the large numbers however we might. Come in, sit up and meditate together. -Buck --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: On Election Day bring your old Dome badge and someone will probably vouch for you at the door if you have not been in a while. According to what the science is showing it's really quite important that you come meditate with the large group. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: REally we could use a few more good meditators for super radiance on Tuesday. -Buck in the Dome --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: Now if that isn't a bloody waste of everyone's time, but then it is still positive-Wednesday here on FFL so I won't go in to what I think now about people who lay back and sleep for the whole time in meditation in the Dome. -Buck Which is happening due to an unhealthy lifestyle. When I was in Fairfield I was surprised to see how late many stayed up at night. And resting before Programme was rare. Yep, and lack of spiritual discipline and so without fortitude. Sit the f up and do the practice when you come to meditate. Just Lain back and laying down is so cowardly. Really the meditation is much better than it was some number of years ago when so many would so flagrantly come in and go to sleep under a blanket as their 'meditation'. There is not much of that anymore at all. People generally are more serious.I did clearly noticed people back-sliding again the other morning in meditation, it was so dullling. However I do believe it would do the program generally more good than handing out cookies at the end of meditation as people are leaving to have coffee or tea available in the coat area or yoga assana areas before people go in to meditate. Once I heard Maharishi directly tell (instruct) someone who was sleeping all the time in meditation, You've slept enough, if you fall asleep in meditation take some stimulants like coffee or tea! . That is no rumor it is gospel, I was there and I heard it. -Buck, the Apostle
[FairfieldLife] Re: TM Rumors
Certainly the science is saying that it is very evident that proximity is important in the super radiance of the Meissner Effect (M.E.) in consciousness. Come out on Tuesday and help with the large group.Get there early , we expect a large turn out and parking may be limited outside the Domes. -Buck Meditating all together on Tuesday, even if you are an old meditator and your badge is not current or may be you don't have one, then do plan anyway on being there meditating at the Domes even out in the parking lot together with the larger group. That would be helpful to the whole. You know the time is getting short to get a badge processed with any recommendations you should need for the group meditation on Tuesday. However, if you have an old badge try coming to the doors and just see if someone could vouch for you to join. It is real important we try together for the large numbers however we might. Come in, sit up and meditate together. -Buck --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: On Election Day bring your old Dome badge and someone will probably vouch for you at the door if you have not been in a while. According to what the science is showing it's really quite important that you come meditate with the large group. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: REally we could use a few more good meditators for super radiance on Tuesday. -Buck in the Dome --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: Now if that isn't a bloody waste of everyone's time, but then it is still positive-Wednesday here on FFL so I won't go in to what I think now about people who lay back and sleep for the whole time in meditation in the Dome. -Buck Which is happening due to an unhealthy lifestyle. When I was in Fairfield I was surprised to see how late many stayed up at night. And resting before Programme was rare. Yep, and lack of spiritual discipline and so without fortitude. Sit the f up and do the practice when you come to meditate. Just Lain back and laying down is so cowardly. Really the meditation is much better than it was some number of years ago when so many would so flagrantly come in and go to sleep under a blanket as their 'meditation'. There is not much of that anymore at all. People generally are more serious.I did clearly noticed people back-sliding again the other morning in meditation, it was so dullling. However I do believe it would do the program generally more good than handing out cookies at the end of meditation as people are leaving to have coffee or tea available in the coat area or yoga assana areas before people go in to meditate. Once I heard Maharishi directly tell (instruct) someone who was sleeping all the time in meditation, You've slept enough, if you fall asleep in meditation take some stimulants like coffee or tea! . That is no rumor it is gospel, I was there and I heard it. -Buck, the Apostle
[FairfieldLife] Time for Hillary Clinton to resign in shame for incompetence!
On Aug. 16, a cable went to the State Department describing the imminent danger, saying the compound could not defend itself against a coordinated attack. The cable was sent to Hillary Clinton and signed by Ambassador Chris Stevens. On Sept. 11, Ambassador Stevens died in a coordinated attack on the Benghazi compound by elements of Ansar al-Sharia and al-Qaida. http://www.humanevents.com/2012/11/02/buchanan-the-smoking-gun-of-the-benghazi-cover-up/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Time for Hillary Clinton to resign in shame for incompetence!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wgm4u no_reply@... wrote: On Aug. 16, a cable went to the State Department describing the imminent danger, saying the compound could not defend itself against a coordinated attack. The cable was sent to Hillary Clinton and signed by Ambassador Chris Stevens. On Sept. 11, Ambassador Stevens died in a coordinated attack on the Benghazi compound by elements of Ansar al-Sharia and al-Qaida. http://www.humanevents.com/2012/11/02/buchanan-the-smoking-gun-of-the-benghazi-cover-up/ This is what happens when you put politically correct ideologues in power-4 dead! She needs to go!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Qualities of the Unified Field
Infinite Silence Pure Knowledge Infinite Organizing Power Perfect Orderliness Infinite Creativity Purifying Immortality Nourishing Evolutionary Omnipresence Ominiscience Ominipotence Bountiful Discriminating Infinite Dynamism
[FairfieldLife] Post Count
Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): Sat Nov 03 00:00:00 2012 End Date (UTC): Sat Nov 10 00:00:00 2012 53 messages as of (UTC) Sat Nov 03 23:45:20 2012 10 Buck dhamiltony...@yahoo.com 9 Emily Reyn emilymae.r...@yahoo.com 6 Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com 5 Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net 4 wgm4u no_re...@yahoogroups.com 4 emptybill emptyb...@yahoo.com 3 salyavin808 fintlewoodle...@mail.com 3 card cardemais...@yahoo.com 2 turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com 2 awoelflebater no_re...@yahoogroups.com 2 Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com 1 nayakanayaka nay...@gmx.net 1 merlin vedamer...@yahoo.de 1 Tom Pall thomas.p...@gmail.com Posters: 14 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: TM Rumors
Remember on Sat. Nite to set the clock back one hour and on Tuesday not to set the country back 50 years. Meditators, remember also that social security benefits will pay for you to stay meditating in the Domes in your retirement years. Vote your pocket-book on Election Day to help keep the group meditation numbers up and sustain the Domes in Fairfield. -Buck in the Dome Certainly the science is saying that it is very evident that proximity is important in the super radiance of the Meissner Effect (M.E.) in consciousness. Come out on Tuesday and help with the large group.Get there early , we expect a large turn out and parking may be limited outside the Domes. -Buck Meditating all together on Tuesday, even if you are an old meditator and your badge is not current or may be you don't have one, then do plan anyway on being there meditating at the Domes even out in the parking lot together with the larger group. That would be helpful to the whole. You know the time is getting short to get a badge processed with any recommendations you should need for the group meditation on Tuesday. However, if you have an old badge try coming to the doors and just see if someone could vouch for you to join. It is real important we try together for the large numbers however we might. Come in, sit up and meditate together. -Buck --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: On Election Day bring your old Dome badge and someone will probably vouch for you at the door if you have not been in a while. According to what the science is showing it's really quite important that you come meditate with the large group. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: REally we could use a few more good meditators for super radiance on Tuesday. -Buck in the Dome --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: Now if that isn't a bloody waste of everyone's time, but then it is still positive-Wednesday here on FFL so I won't go in to what I think now about people who lay back and sleep for the whole time in meditation in the Dome. -Buck Which is happening due to an unhealthy lifestyle. When I was in Fairfield I was surprised to see how late many stayed up at night. And resting before Programme was rare. Yep, and lack of spiritual discipline and so without fortitude. Sit the f up and do the practice when you come to meditate. Just Lain back and laying down is so cowardly. Really the meditation is much better than it was some number of years ago when so many would so flagrantly come in and go to sleep under a blanket as their 'meditation'. There is not much of that anymore at all. People generally are more serious.I did clearly noticed people back-sliding again the other morning in meditation, it was so dullling. However I do believe it would do the program generally more good than handing out cookies at the end of meditation as people are leaving to have coffee or tea available in the coat area or yoga assana areas before people go in to meditate. Once I heard Maharishi directly tell (instruct) someone who was sleeping all the time in meditation, You've slept enough, if you fall asleep in meditation take some stimulants like coffee or tea! . That is no rumor it is gospel, I was there and I heard it. -Buck, the Apostle
[FairfieldLife] Re: Lady Gaga - Edge of Glory
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: dear Emily, it's almost 6 am Central on Saturday morning. I just said John Newton's ancestral forgiveness prayers specifically for you and your sister. Hopefully they will help. Today, when I think of it, I'll do the short version too. I'm so glad you two have re-connected. It is an amazingly good thing. BTW, you are, IMO, one of the most supportive and compassionate people here on FFL. It's your nature. That's why you didn't have to learn it. Share From: Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, November 3, 2012 2:23 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Lady Gaga - Edge of Glory  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeWBS0JBNzQfeature=related I'm sorry for all these posts.  I'm literally trying to save my sister.  I've just re-connected with her after 15 years.  She lives on the edge.  So, I try not to take a shower for a couple of days before I see her and I try to relate.  Because, after all, we were raised together.  And, I'm the oldest.  And I haven't been a supportive sister because I never learned what that meant.  Robin, I'm trying to get to your post, but Reality is dictating every day.  But, I want to respond, because I just don't see it.  I don't see a personal *something* that created me.  So, I'll get back.  Love, Em.  Dear Emily, maybe I missed something or maybe I didn't but what I understand is you are off to offer love and support and energy to your younger sister who is teetering on the edge of either life or sanity. I wish you strength and courage and the inner fortitude to give what you can to her and, in turn, take what she can offer, even unknowingly to you. I believe in God and I don't know if you do but if there is one I am convinced he/she/it will be present in this, what sounds like a formidable challenge but also a potential release or transformation, because that is how I believe life works. I will be thinking of you and missing your presence here but you have much more important things to attend to.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Directory of Active Spiritual Practice Groups of Fairfield
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptybill@... wrote: If I remember from the pic you posted here, your schnozoloa wasn't quite so prominent. Must be the pinocchio effect. You should see it now! Getting even bigger all the time... [fbPhotosSnowliftCaption] Got them big stories up for display? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, awoelflebater no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptybill@ wrote: When the blossom shrivels - it can then reveal the bitter shrew. Actually, an elephant shrew. It's an old story... mythologized throughout the history of Western culture. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@ wrote: Ann, you don't get it?! Nonetheless you make derogatory remarks! About a list which includes Quakers, Liberal Catholics and Sufis; yoga classes and qigong and devotional singing! Your capacity for unfounded accusations seems to know no bounds. I happy to see I'm in such good company, having also been accused by you in this way. Ok, in reference to your all fine post this evening, this probably makes it all unfine again. But I could not in good conscience let go unanswered your making such derogatory and blanket statements about so many good groups of people. For good sakes, woman, you haven't even been here in how many years?! How can you say such things based on no actual experience of these actual groups?! What is going on with you that you can do this? I admit, I don't understand.   From: awoelflebater no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, November 1, 2012 8:43 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Directory of Active Spiritual Practice Groups of Fairfield  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson mjackson74@ wrote: Well as negative as I have been about TMO and MMY, I have to say I am surprised at the number and breadth of what is going on in Fairfield today - it was hidden and underground in the 80's. I have to admit it must have been the TM infusion that created the kernel around which all the other energy formed. I think these travelling medicine men and side shows recognize an opening (Fairfield Iowa) when they see one. Good Lord, what a load. Is there shoulder room in that town? And the townies back in the early 70's thought it was crazy when MIU moved in. I have to say I don't get it, not one little bit. And one more thing, the title of this post seems a tad generous. Shall we call it instead, Directory of Active Groups Happy to Take You All For a Ride. From: wgm4u no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, November 1, 2012 7:13 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Directory of Active Spiritual Practice Groups of Fairfield àWOW, it's become a literal smorgasbord of Religions! Probably not what MMY or the tmorg had in mind, but then, TM ain't a Religions so, what would you expect? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: Spiritual Practice Groups of Fairfield Directory of Active Fairfield Spiritual Practice Groups Outside of Fairfield, people intently ask, What is going on in Fairfield? The spiritual, utopian side of Fairfield is something they are wondering about. Fairfield has become recognized as a spiritual Mecca of sorts, ranking with Sedona, Arizona, Boulder and Crestone, Colorado, Ashville, North Carolina and the like. Within these past four decades, Fairfield spiritual practice groups have matured, giving this community a rich, new face. The long-time Fairfield meditating community today is its own center for spiritual practice. The breadth of spiritual practice groups in Fairfield is now a unique feature of our town in the 21st Century. ___Alphabetical: A Course in Miracles, Mondays 7:30 pm. Local contact: 472-7148. The Afternoon Satsang, at Revelations Coffee Shop. North room 2:30pm most days. Spiritual experience and understanding. Ammachi Fairfield Satsang Ammachi Fairfield weekly schedule of meditation, chanting, and bhajans. http://amma-fairfield.org/ contact: 472-8563 or 472-9336 Art of Living Foundation -Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Meditation and program schedule in Fairfield. 472-9892 http://us.artofliving.org/index.html Babaji Group: Local contact: 472-9952 Bapuji Group
[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield's Golden Millenarian Domes, the New Millenarian Domes
Let all who would wish to see Millenium begin, Come out and be separate from sinners and sin. As soon as the churches are redeemed from sin, The day of the Millenium will surely begin. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: Millenarianism. Well then, more accurately ours would be the 'Fairfield Golden New Millenarianism Domes'. ..is the belief by a religious, social, or political group or movement in a coming major transformation of society, after which all things will be changed,.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millenarianism Definition of MILLENNIALISM: millenarianism. Definition of MILLENARIANISM: Belief in a coming ideal society and especially one created by revolutionary action. Definition of MILLENNIALIST : millenarian Definition of MILLENNIUM : a period of great happiness or human perfection. Definition of MILLENARIAN : one that believes in a millennium Hence, the Golden New Millenarian Domes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Domes --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: Fairfield's Golden Domes superseding the old one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Dome
[FairfieldLife] Satya)full-might on about 22nd June 2017 . There is no overnight change
other Vaishnava's with similar dates, closer in conception to MMY (Shunya Vaisnavas): The transition also includes transition of Kali Yuga to Satya Yuga. The temple has been built for the Satya Yuga. Satya, which is stepping in slowly, will have its foot established with full-might on about 22nd June 2017 . There is no overnight change anticipated in this extremely difficult Yuga Karma (duty and work of the era). Mahapurusha Shri Shri Achyutananda Goswami has hinted in his Bhabisya Malikâ (an oracle about the events of the future), that this Yuga Karma game will be played in secrecy (Shunya Khela or The Game of Shunya) with a Sandhi Kâla (i.e. with a transition period) of about 12 years.http://www.garoiashram.org/english/garoi_jtemple.html elsewhere on this site they state that: Kalki is not an individual riding a white horse but is really the sum of all the devotees of Krishna -and -Krishna and Durga are the same. Praying Durga will also amount to praying 'The Almighty'.http://www.garoiashram.org/english/babaslife.html There is some other famous similar predictions in India that mention MMY explicitly. btw The Raja of Latin America recently said that one single group of flyers in Latin America might reach 8000 in December. Pretty much right on time by the prophecy of the predominant ethnicity involved.
[FairfieldLife] Hybrid VW
I have a VW Golf GTI which I love. I have been waiting for VW to come out with a hybrid. I like to think of myself as relatively green. It appears they have finally manufactured one, but alas, not in the Golf but the Jetta. Still, it looks promising. http://www.montrealgazette.com/research-car/First+drive+2013+Volkswagen+Jetta+Hybrid/7483940/story.html
[FairfieldLife] Re: For the Fox News haters
The only real news channel out there is The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and Stephen Colbert. Faux News and MSNBC (Misinformationists Specializing in Nothing But Crap) are probably at opposite ends of the spectrum. Yeah, MSNBC is completely bias against Romney with 71 bad stories followed by 3 good. But i'm sure Faux News is the same ratio, only opposite end. Jon Stewart, who I used to think was very biased against conservatives, is actually very democratic in his portrayal of stupidity in politics. It makes no difference if you are liberal or conservative, if you're stupid he will point it out. He has bashed Obama on numerous occasions as well as all the Republicans. seekliberation
