date:20131012

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote:

For I ran a tea house:
Now this is an example of the joy and exuberance of activity. That orangutan
is CRAZY!!

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10201359076552535amp;set=vb.1042328132amp;type=2amp;theater

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10201359076552535set=vb.1042328132type=2theater

[FairfieldLife] Who?

2013-10-12 Thread cardemaister

Another prominent south-Indian (Tamil), who:

Venkataraman was popular, good at sports, mischievous, and was very
intelligent with an exceptional memory which enabled him to succeed in school
without having to put in very much effort. He had a couple of unusual traits.
When he slept, he went into such a deep state of unconsciousness that his
friends could physically assault his body without waking him up. He also had an
extraordinary amount of luck. In team games, whichever side he played for
always won. This earned him the nickname 'Tanga-kai', which means 'golden
hand'.[web 6]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramana_Maharshi#cite_note-autogenerated2-26
When Venkataraman was about 11, his father sent him to live with his paternal
uncle Subbaiyar in Dindigul because he wanted his sons to be educated in
English so they would be eligible to enter government service, and only Tamil
was taught at the village school in Tiruchuzhi. In 1891, when his uncle was
transferred to Madurai http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madurai, Venkataraman and
his elder brother Nagaswami moved with him. In Dindigul, Venkataraman attended
a British School.
In 1892, Venkataraman's father Sundaram Iyer suddenly fell seriously ill and
unexpectedly died several days later at the age of 42.[15]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramana_Maharshi#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKrishna_BikshuYear_unknown-27
For some hours after his father's death he contemplated the matter of death,
and how his father's body was still there, but the 'I' was gone from it.

[FairfieldLife] RE: Who?

Btw. Ramana Maharshi got his title / name by Ganapathy Shastri Muni, also
called Nayana, a Shri Vidya practitioner from Andhra Pradesh. He was the first
one to make Ramana known to a larger audience within India. After finding his
guru in Ramana, he composed a 1000 versed poem, which was actually transmitted
to him by Ramana, called Uma Sahasranam. The first book about Ramana he
composed, in verse form, representing QA, was called Ramana Gita, still at
Virupaksha times.

http://the-wanderling.com/ganapati_muni.html

Ganapathi Muni had disciples of his own, one was Kapali Shastry, another Shri
Vidya practitioner and tantric.

After Nayana died, Kapali Shastri switched from Ramana to the Aurobindo Ashram,
becoming a disciple of Mirra Alfassa. He also had a disciple of his own, M.P.
Pundit, who later became a personal secretary of Mirra Alfassa. He wrote many
books correlating tantra to Sri Aurobindos philosophy. I mention this because
of their Shri Vidya association, and because of the link Kapali Shastri
presented between Aurobindo and Ramana, as he was still revisiting and speaking
with Ramana after switching to Aurobindo. Also, one of the chapters in Ramana
Gita are questions of Kapali pertaining to Shakti in the light of Ramanas
teaching. I like this link between two worlds, the tantric Shakti world of
Aurobindo, and the Kevala Advaita world of Ramana, represented by these persons.

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote:

Another prominent south-Indian (Tamil), who:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Public Transportation

Public transportation here in the South in general is pretty primitive and 
pathetic - in South Carolina in particular. The only real public transpo is the 
bus system that runs in the larger cities (if you can call them cities) - not 
very clean, not very efficient and absolutely viewed in the public mind as a 
conveyance for lower class people. 

On Sat, 10/12/13, turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote:

 Subject: [FairfieldLife] Public Transportation
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Date: Saturday, October 12, 2013, 6:19 AM

 So I'm sitting here in this cafe that promised Wifi and
 didn't deliver,

 wondering what I can write about, and I discover that my
 mind is still

 savoring my bus ride here to Place d'Italie. It was FUN.
 I got a seat,

 which is nice, and then I just kicked back watching the
 people on the

 bus with me. They were neat. They made me smile.

 In the US, they would have tended to be mostly lower class.
 Cars and

 car-dependent city designs have ensured that most of the
 middle class

 have cars. And the upper crust wouldn't be caught dead
 on a city bus or

 a subway.

 Here, it's not like that, except at the very top of the
 upper class.

 I've seen well-dressed, obviously well-to-do people on
 the Metros and

 buses. Heck, I've seen famous people on the Metros and
 buses. So you get

 a wide range -- from poor to lower class to middle class to
 the

 occasional upper class person, all getting across Paris via
 public

 transportation.

 There's a lot of Paris to have to get across. This is
 not a small city.

 And even if you have a car, on most routes you can get there
 faster on

 public transportation. Also, *when* you get there, you
 don't have to

 worry about finding a place to park your car. Parking spaces
 in Paris

 are so rare as to be increasingly considered mythical.

 So it's a no-brainer here -- if you have an important
 business meeting

 or a romantic date across town and you want to get there on
 time -- to

 decide whether you should drive your car or take public
 transportation.

 You just hop on the Metro. They're very reliable, and
 they'll get you

 there on time.

 I've never had a car when living in Paris, and don't
 see the need of

 having one now. Back home in the Netherlands, I have a car
 but it has

 sat unused for months now. Public transportation is just so
 much more

 convenient, and in the long run, cheaper.

 But those are just the pragmatic reasons for preferring
 public

 transportation, at least in Europe. The more important
 reason for me is

 that it's more FUN. I am endlessly fascinated by people,
 of every class,

 so riding the buses and trains and Metros that constitute
 public

 transportation in France and the Netherlands provides me
 with a

 never-ending canvas of great people to watch.

 The buses and Metros of Paris are like a genetic and
 cultural frog in a

 blender. Given the number of immigrants in the past few
 decades, Paris

 today looks like Casablanca did when I was growing up there.
 The faces I

 see are a mix of French and North African, with growing
 numbers of black

 Africans, Muslims from places other than North Africa, and
 Asians. Paris

 is a cultural zoo. Add to that the cross-class nature of
 Paris public

 transit, and you've got a zoo worth savoring. I
 sometimes feel as if I

 should be sitting there with a container of popcorn in my
 lap, it's so

 much like a movie.

 You learn so much.

 There are still young people in the world who get up and
 give their

 seats to an older person. There are street toughs whose
 style is to look

 like they're ready to kill you, but who leap across a
 Metro car to block

 the subway doors closing on a hapless fellow commuter. There
 are

 remarkable acts of both kindness (common) and rudeness
 (rare). There are

 occasional dramas, and even the occasional cops-and-robbers
 flick as

 some pickpocket runs down the Metro platform, pursued by the
 gendarmes.

 These are straight out of early Truffaut movies, so much so
 that I find

 myself looking around to discover where the cameras are
 placed.

 And there are the *visuals* of the Metro, ferchrissakes.
 Some of the

 Metro stops are nothing short of stunning, architecturally,
 even the

 now-aging ones. For examples of that, rent
 Amelie and watch it again.

 Jeunet's shots of the Metro stations and train stations
 of Paris are

 jaw-droppingly beautiful. Yes, they're color-enhanced,
 but IMO that's

 just him presenting the visuals of Paris to others the way
 *he* sees

 them. All glow-y, full of light, full of life.

 I see them the same way. Although my Day Job may from time
 to time get

 boring, my commutes to and from work never do. I've only
 seen a couple

 of movies in the

RE: Re: Re: Re: [FairfieldLife] Pricing TM to Teach [more] Meditators

Now I find this interesting - I had never heard that M told the Rajas not to 
mix with others. Not that I doubt your word, but what is the provenance of that 
info? Did he tell 'em just not to do program with non-rajas, or not to 
socialize or what? 

From non-meditators to non-initiators to non-governors and who would-a thunk 
it, even the governors have become nons as non-rajas.

On Fri, 10/11/13, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com dhamiltony...@yahoo.com wrote:

 Subject: RE: Re: Re: Re: [FairfieldLife] Pricing TM to Teach [more] Meditators
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Date: Friday, October 11, 2013, 4:06 PM
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
   
   
    Jeez, did you
 read the
 article?  The science shows rich people to enclave and
 thereby they
 tend to lack empathy for other groups while others live and
 work in
 community and consequently tend to live with more empathy
 towards
 others.  That simply is the elements of the TM movement
 community
 also.  It just is.  The TM-Rajas were told as part of their
 deal
 specifically to not mix with the rest of us.  A very few
 have come to
 meditate in the Dome.  But most do not. To themselves they
 aren't
 part of it really.  Evidently there is a scientific problem
 there
 with themselves and it reflects in how they continue to
 price TM and
 the vigor of the larger TM meditation movement.-Buck 
 
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,
 fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote:
 
 yes, but I was talking
 about my own experience rather than research. Also Mark
 Twain comes to mind: all generalizations are false,
 including this one.
 
  
  
  On Friday, October
 11, 2013 10:48 AM, s3raphita@...
 s3raphita@... wrote:
 
  
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
   
   
   Re It's not
 my experience that ALL rich people care less, nor that all
 poor people care more.:Yes, there's evidence showing
 that poor people are actually more generous with their money
 (proportionately) than the wealthy. In fact, one of the
 degrading aspects of poverty isn't so much that you
 don't have enough for yourself but that you can't
 help or, for that matter, entertain others.
 
 
 ---In
 FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,
 fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote:
 
 Buck, it's not my experience that ALL rich
 people care less, nor that all poor people care more. I
 think such generalizations cause more polarizing which is
 not IMO what is needed!
 
 
  
  On Friday, October 11, 2013 8:47 AM,
 dhamiltony2k5@...
  dhamiltony2k5@... wrote:
  
   
  
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
   
   
    You know,
 Maharishi was
 very able to adapt course to circumstances as he went along.
  It is
 certainly time for the TM-Rajas to adapt course so the
 movement can
 teach once again.  I am reminded of the time that Maharishi
 was in
 Fairfield as the Domes were being built.  One morning he
 came in to
 the group meditation over at the campus field house and sat
 with it. 
 He got to talking with the group there.  Someone asked about
 the Age
 of Enlightenment technique and Maharishi asked if everyone
 did not
 have it?  On seeing hands go up for those who did not he
 then said
 everyone should have it.  That day arrangements were made
 for people
 then to get it.   That was done, no money charged for an
 $850
 technique.  Bevan taught it to people then for
 free. 
 
 ---In
 FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,
 fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote:
 
 And who
 made that decision to create the Rajas? Your
 much vaunted Marshy - says a lot don't it?
 
 
 
  
  On Friday, October 11, 2013 12:15 AM,
 dhamiltony2k5@... dhamiltony2k5@...
 wrote:
 
  
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
   
   
   “Rich
 people just care less,”
 Well
 then, pretty obviously the TM-Rajas being pre-select for
 wealth are
 too remote to understand the
 problem.
 
 
 
 
 Since
 the 1970s, the gap between the rich and everyone else has
 skyrocketed. Income inequality is at its highest level in a
 century.
 This widening gulf between the haves and have-less troubles
 me, but
 not for the obvious reasons. Apart from the financial
 inequities, I
 fear the expansion of an entirely different gap, caused by
 the
 inability to see oneself in a less advantaged person’s
 shoes.
 Reducing the economic gap may be impossible without also
 addressing
 the gap in
 empathy.
 
 
 
 
 This
 has profound implications for societal behavior and
 government
 policy. Tuning in to the needs and feelings of another
 person is a
 prerequisite to empathy, which in turn can lead to
 understanding,
 concern and, if the circumstances are right, compassionate
 action.
  
 
 
 
 
 
 “Turning
 a blind eye. Giving someone the cold shoulder. Looking down
 on
 people. Seeing right through
 them.
 
 These
 metaphors for condescending or dismissive behavior are more
 than just
 descriptive. They suggest, to a surprisingly accurate
 extent, the
 social distance between those with greater power and

[FairfieldLife] RE: Another Of My Usual

2013-10-12 Thread merudanda

It all began when Suryia the orangutan was so depressed after losing his
parents that he wouldn’t eat and didn’t respond to any medical treatments.
Veterinarians were even worried that he would die from sadness. But that all
changed the day Suryia met a homeless hound dog named Roscoe...

..here the extended The Institute of Greatly Endangered and Rare Species
(TIGERS) in Myrtle Beach-Mama Monkey Family version

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDStH49W5Hklist=PLE6W9mpv5QmvNbxPQyEUTrz5ZhqS9GZf8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDStH49W5Hklist=PLE6W9mpv5QmvNbxPQyEUTrz5ZhqS9GZf8
just in case you want to go to their book signing

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2006531/Unlikely-friendship-orangutan-dog.html

happy ending sure

---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote:

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote:

For I ran a tea house:
Now this is an example of the joy and exuberance of activity. That orangutan
is CRAZY!!

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10201359076552535amp;set=vb.1042328132amp;type=2amp;theater

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10201359076552535set=vb.1042328132type=2theater

[FairfieldLife] News of the Strange

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/12/us/seeking-a-bridge-between-western-science-and-eastern-faith-with-the-Dalai-Lama.html?hpw

[FairfieldLife] RE: Public Transportation

2013-10-12 Thread j_alexander_stanley

I would ride the Richland-Fairfield metro line, except it runs right underneath 
our house, without stopping.
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote:

 
 
 Anyway, that's just what I felt like rapping about this evening. What
 about the rest of you? We've got posters here from all over the world.
 When you're at home, wherever that is, do you tend to drive or take
 advantage of public transportation? If the latter, are any of you weird
 enough to appreciate it the way I do?

RE: RE: Re: Re: Re: [FairfieldLife] Pricing TM to Teach [more] Meditators

2013-10-12 Thread dhamiltony2k5

 MJ, those Raja guidelines were once published and hashed out on FFL before 
your time here. They were in notes that Kingsley Brooks had from a meeting 
delineating how Rajas should be conducting themselves. Their guidelines were in 
the archive here but given the way nemo has no good search tool it would be 
difficult to procure them now from FFL. In fact that last time I looked I 
sensed that the legal department had it removed from FFL as private 
correspondence. It was a really good archival communication from a time that 
ought to be preserved somewhere. But in keeping with a theme of this thread, it 
just spoke to the tendency for the movement rich to insulate themselves from 
the larger community anyway; like move to be with themselves in Boone, 
Jacksonville, Jackson Hole, Vlodrop or California neighborhoods.
  
 
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote:

 Now I find this interesting - I had never heard that M told the Rajas not to 
mix with others. Not that I doubt your word, but what is the provenance of that 
info? Did he tell 'em just not to do program with non-rajas, or not to 
socialize or what? 
 
 From non-meditators to non-initiators to non-governors and who would-a thunk 
it, even the governors have become nons as non-rajas.
 
 On Fri, 10/11/13, dhamiltony2k5@... mailto:dhamiltony2k5@... 
dhamiltony2k5@... mailto:dhamiltony2k5@... wrote:
 
 Subject: RE: Re: Re: Re: [FairfieldLife] Pricing TM to Teach [more] Meditators
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Date: Friday, October 11, 2013, 4:06 PM
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  Jeez, did you
 read the
 article? The science shows rich people to enclave and
 thereby they
 tend to lack empathy for other groups while others live and
 work in
 community and consequently tend to live with more empathy
 towards
 others. That simply is the elements of the TM movement
 community
 also. It just is. The TM-Rajas were told as part of their
 deal
 specifically to not mix with the rest of us. A very few
 have come to
 meditate in the Dome. But most do not. To themselves they
 aren't
 part of it really. Evidently there is a scientific problem
 there
 with themselves and it reflects in how they continue to
 price TM and
 the vigor of the larger TM meditation movement.-Buck 
 
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,
 fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com mailto:fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote:
 
 yes, but I was talking
 about my own experience rather than research. Also Mark
 Twain comes to mind: all generalizations are false,
 including this one.
 
 
 
 On Friday, October
 11, 2013 10:48 AM, s3raphita@...
 s3raphita@... wrote:
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Re It's not
 my experience that ALL rich people care less, nor that all
 poor people care more.:Yes, there's evidence showing
 that poor people are actually more generous with their money
 (proportionately) than the wealthy. In fact, one of the
 degrading aspects of poverty isn't so much that you
 don't have enough for yourself but that you can't
 help or, for that matter, entertain others.
 
 
 ---In
 FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,
 fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com mailto:fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote:
 
 Buck, it's not my experience that ALL rich
 people care less, nor that all poor people care more. I
 think such generalizations cause more polarizing which is
 not IMO what is needed!
 
 
 
 On Friday, October 11, 2013 8:47 AM,
 dhamiltony2k5@...
 dhamiltony2k5@... wrote:
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  You know,
 Maharishi was
 very able to adapt course to circumstances as he went along.
 It is
 certainly time for the TM-Rajas to adapt course so the
 movement can
 teach once again. I am reminded of the time that Maharishi
 was in
 Fairfield as the Domes were being built. One morning he
 came in to
 the group meditation over at the campus field house and sat
 with it. 
 He got to talking with the group there. Someone asked about
 the Age
 of Enlightenment technique and Maharishi asked if everyone
 did not
 have it? On seeing hands go up for those who did not he
 then said
 everyone should have it. That day arrangements were made
 for people
 then to get it. That was done, no money charged for an
 $850
 technique. Bevan taught it to people then for
 free. 
 
 ---In
 FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,
 fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com mailto:fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote:
 
 And who
 made that decision to create the Rajas? Your
 much vaunted Marshy - says a lot don't it?
 
 
 
 
 On Friday, October 11, 2013 12:15 AM,
 dhamiltony2k5@... dhamiltony2k5@...
 wrote:
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 “Rich
 people just care less,”
 Well
 then, pretty obviously the TM-Rajas being pre-select for
 wealth are
 too remote to understand the
 problem.
 
 
 
 
 Since
 the 1970s, the gap between

Re: RE: Re: Re: Re: [FairfieldLife] Pricing TM to Teach [more] Meditators

so that brings up a couple questions - do you remember exactly what they were 
told - I mean was it to not live with or socialize with those of lower ranks? 
and I have never heard of a raja deal in Jackson Hole - is there a meditator 
community there now?





On Saturday, October 12, 2013 8:06 AM, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com 
dhamiltony...@yahoo.com wrote:
 
  
 MJ,
those Raja guidelines were once published and hashed out on FFL
before your time here.  They were in notes that Kingsley Brooks had
from a meeting delineating how Rajas should be conducting themselves. Their 
guidelines were in the archive here but given the way nemo has
no good search tool it would be difficult to procure them now from
FFL.  In fact that last time I looked I sensed that the legal
department had it removed from FFL as private correspondence.  It was
a really good archival communication from a time that ought to be
preserved somewhere.   But in keeping with a theme of this thread,
it just spoke to the tendency for the movement rich to insulate
themselves from the larger community anyway; like move to be with
themselves in Boone, Jacksonville, Jackson Hole, Vlodrop or
California neighborhoods.
 
 


---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote:


Now I find this interesting - I had never heard that M told the Rajas not to 
mix with others. Not that I doubt your word, but what is the provenance of that 
info? Did he tell 'em just not to do program with non-rajas, or not to 
socialize or what? 

From non-meditators to non-initiators to non-governors and who would-a thunk 
it, even the governors have become nons as non-rajas.


On Fri, 10/11/13, dhamiltony2k5@... dhamiltony2k5@... wrote:

Subject: RE: Re: Re: Re: [FairfieldLife] Pricing TM to Teach [more] Meditators
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, October 11, 2013, 4:06 PM
















 









 Jeez, did you
read the
article?  The science shows rich people to enclave and
thereby they
tend to lack empathy for other groups while others live and
work in
community and consequently tend to live with more empathy
towards
others.  That simply is the elements of the TM movement
community
also.  It just is.  The TM-Rajas were told as part of their
deal
specifically to not mix with the rest of us.  A very few
have come to
meditate in the Dome.  But most do not. To themselves they
aren't
part of it really.  Evidently there is a scientific problem
there
with themselves and it reflects in how they continue to
price TM and
the vigor of the larger TM meditation movement.-Buck 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,
fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote:

yes, but I was talking
about my own experience rather than research. Also Mark
Twain comes to mind: all generalizations are false,
including this one.



On Friday, October
11, 2013 10:48 AM, s3raphita@...
s3raphita@... wrote:

 









Re It's not
my experience that ALL rich people care less, nor that all
poor people care more.:Yes, there's evidence showing
that poor people are actually more generous with their money
(proportionately) than the wealthy. In fact, one of the
degrading aspects of poverty isn't so much that you
don't have enough for yourself but that you can't
help or, for that matter, entertain others.


---In
FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,
fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote:

Buck, it's not my experience that ALL rich
people care less, nor that all poor people care more. I
think such generalizations cause more polarizing which is
not IMO what is needed!



On Friday, October 11, 2013 8:47 AM,
dhamiltony2k5@...
dhamiltony2k5@... wrote:


 









 You know,
Maharishi was
very able to adapt course to circumstances as he went along.
It is
certainly time for the TM-Rajas to adapt course so the
movement can
teach once again.  I am reminded of the time that Maharishi
was in
Fairfield as the Domes were being built.  One morning he
came in to
the group meditation over at the campus field house and sat
with it. 
He got to talking with the group there.  Someone asked about
the Age
of Enlightenment technique and Maharishi asked if everyone
did not
have it?  On seeing hands go up for those who did not he
then said
everyone should have it.  That day arrangements were made
for people
then to get it.   That was done, no money charged for an
$850
technique.  Bevan taught it to people then for
free. 

---In
FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,
fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote:

And who
made that decision to create the Rajas? Your
much vaunted Marshy - says a lot don't it?




On Friday, October 11, 2013 12:15 AM,
dhamiltony2k5@... dhamiltony2k5@...
wrote:

 









“Rich
people just care less,”
Well
then, pretty obviously the TM-Rajas being pre-select for
wealth are
too remote to understand the
problem.




Since
the 1970s, the gap between the rich and everyone else has
skyrocketed. Income inequality is at its highest level in a
century.
This widening gulf

RE: Re: RE: Re: Re: Re: [FairfieldLife] Pricing TM to Teach [more] Meditators

2013-10-12 Thread dhamiltony2k5

It is interesting.  There was an exodus of upper-middle-class meditators in the 
1990's and through the 00's as it became apparent that the work of the movement 
then was mostly about liberating money from them as a class.  Many of them have 
moved back now because they did not find community out in those trendy places 
of other wealthy people. The larger meditating community of Fairfield as 
community' is an especially nice place.  It seems people are coming back from 
out there arriving everyday and the remark they frequently make is about the 
coming back to community.  -Buck in the Dome
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote:

 so that brings up a couple questions - do you remember exactly what they were 
told - I mean was it to not live with or socialize with those of lower ranks? 
and I have never heard of a raja deal in Jackson Hole - is there a meditator 
community there now?
 

 
 
 On Saturday, October 12, 2013 8:06 AM, dhamiltony2k5@... dhamiltony2k5@... 
wrote:
 
MJ, those Raja guidelines were once published and hashed out on FFL before 
your time here. They were in notes that Kingsley Brooks had from a meeting 
delineating how Rajas should be conducting themselves. Their guidelines were in 
the archive here but given the way nemo has no good search tool it would be 
difficult to procure them now from FFL. In fact that last time I looked I 
sensed that the legal department had it removed from FFL as private 
correspondence. It was a really good archival communication from a time that 
ought to be preserved somewhere. But in keeping with a theme of this thread, it 
just spoke to the tendency for the movement rich to insulate themselves from 
the larger community anyway; like move to be with themselves in Boone, 
Jacksonville, Jackson Hole, Vlodrop or California neighborhoods.
   
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: 
Now I find this interesting - I had never heard that M told the Rajas not to 
mix with others. Not that I doubt your word, but what is the provenance of that 
info? Did he tell 'em just not to do program with non-rajas, or not to 
socialize or what? From non-meditators to non-initiators to non-governors and 
who would-a thunk it, even the governors have become nons as non-rajas. 
 On Fri, 10/11/13, 
dhamiltony2k5@... mailto:dhamiltony2k5@... dhamiltony2k5@... 
mailto:dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: Subject: RE: Re: Re: Re: [FairfieldLife] 
Pricing TM to Teach [more] Meditators To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, October 11, 2013, 4:06 PM
Jeez, did you read the article? The science shows rich people to enclave and 
thereby they tend to lack empathy for other groups while others live and work 
in community and consequently tend to live with more empathy towards others. 
That simply is the elements of the TM movement community also. It just is. The 
TM-Rajas were told as part of their deal specifically to not mix with the rest 
of us. A very few have come to meditate in the Dome. But most do not. To 
themselves they aren't part of it really. Evidently there is a scientific 
problem there with themselves and it reflects in how they continue to price TM 
and the vigor of the larger TM meditation movement.-Buck ---In 
FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 
fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com mailto:fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: 
yes, but I was talking about my own experience rather than research. Also Mark 
Twain comes to mind: all generalizations are false, including this one. On 
Friday, October 11, 2013 10:48 AM, s3raphita@... s3raphita@... wrote:   Re 
It's not my experience that ALL rich people care less, nor that all poor 
people care more.:Yes, there's evidence showing that poor people are actually 
more generous with their money (proportionately) than the wealthy. In fact, one 
of the degrading aspects of poverty isn't so much that you don't have enough 
for yourself but that you can't help or, for that matter, entertain others. 
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 
fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com mailto:fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: 
Buck, it's not my experience that ALL rich people care less, nor that all poor 
people care more. I think such generalizations cause more polarizing which is 
not IMO what is needed! On Friday, October 11, 2013 8:47 AM, 
dhamiltony2k5@... dhamiltony2k5@... wrote:You know, Maharishi was very 
able to adapt course to circumstances as he went along. It is certainly time 
for the TM-Rajas to adapt course so the movement can teach once again. I am 
reminded of the time that Maharishi was in Fairfield as the Domes were being 
built. One morning he came in to the group meditation over at the campus field 
house and sat with it. He got to talking with the group there. Someone asked 
about the Age of Enlightenment

RE: RE: RE: Re: Re: Re: Re: [FairfieldLife] Pricing TM to Teach [more] Meditators

2013-10-12 Thread doctordumbass

it was a different article - the one about wealthy people being less empathetic 
and considerate, when faced with the problems of others.
  
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote:

 O.K.  It works.  Emily may not post often.   
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote:

 Second try.  
 

 What I found most amusing about this conversation was that the article Share 
only apparently read the title of was by Daniel Goleman.  LOL. 
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote:

 Share feebles:
 
  Judy, if I were you,
  with your various imbalances and delusions, I'm sure I
  wouldn't want to last even as long as 10
  minutes!
 
 LOL.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Public Transportation

2013-10-12 Thread Mike Dixon

Too many metrosexuals on the buses here.

From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Friday, October 11, 2013 11:19 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Public Transportation

So I'm sitting here in this cafe that promised Wifi and didn't deliver,
wondering what I can write about, and I discover that my mind is still
savoring my bus ride here to Place d'Italie. It was FUN. I got a seat,
which is nice, and then I just kicked back watching the people on the
bus with me. They were neat. They made me smile.

In the US, they would have tended to be mostly lower class. Cars and
car-dependent city designs have ensured that most of the middle class
have cars. And the upper crust wouldn't be caught dead on a city bus or
a subway.

Here, it's not like that, except at the very top of the upper class.
I've seen well-dressed, obviously well-to-do people on the Metros and
buses. Heck, I've seen famous people on the Metros and buses. So you get
a wide range -- from poor to lower class to middle class to the
occasional upper class person, all getting across Paris via public
transportation.

There's a lot of Paris to have to get across. This is not a small city.
And even if you have a car, on most routes you can get there faster on
public transportation. Also, *when* you get there, you don't have to
worry about finding a place to park your car. Parking spaces in Paris
are so rare as to be increasingly considered mythical.

So it's a no-brainer here -- if you have an important business meeting
or a romantic date across town and you want to get there on time -- to
decide whether you should drive your car or take public transportation.
You just hop on the Metro. They're very reliable, and they'll get you
there on time.

I've never had a car when living in Paris, and don't see the need of
having one now. Back home in the Netherlands, I have a car but it has
sat unused for months now. Public transportation is just so much more
convenient, and in the long run, cheaper.

But those are just the pragmatic reasons for preferring public
transportation, at least in Europe. The more important reason for me is
that it's more FUN. I am endlessly fascinated by people, of every class,
so riding the buses and trains and Metros that constitute public
transportation in France and the Netherlands provides me with a
never-ending canvas of great people to watch.

The buses and Metros of Paris are like a genetic and cultural frog in a
blender. Given the number of immigrants in the past few decades, Paris
today looks like Casablanca did when I was growing up there. The faces I
see are a mix of French and North African, with growing numbers of black
Africans, Muslims from places other than North Africa, and Asians. Paris
is a cultural zoo. Add to that the cross-class nature of Paris public
transit, and you've got a zoo worth savoring. I sometimes feel as if I
should be sitting there with a container of popcorn in my lap, it's so
much like a movie.

You learn so much.

There are still young people in the world who get up and give their
seats to an older person. There are street toughs whose style is to look
like they're ready to kill you, but who leap across a Metro car to block
the subway doors closing on a hapless fellow commuter. There are
remarkable acts of both kindness (common) and rudeness (rare). There are
occasional dramas, and even the occasional cops-and-robbers flick as
some pickpocket runs down the Metro platform, pursued by the gendarmes.
These are straight out of early Truffaut movies, so much so that I find
myself looking around to discover where the cameras are placed.

And there are the *visuals* of the Metro, ferchrissakes. Some of the
Metro stops are nothing short of stunning, architecturally, even the
now-aging ones. For examples of that, rent Amelie and watch it again.
Jeunet's shots of the Metro stations and train stations of Paris are
jaw-droppingly beautiful. Yes, they're color-enhanced, but IMO that's
just him presenting the visuals of Paris to others the way *he* sees
them. All glow-y, full of light, full of life.

I see them the same way. Although my Day Job may from time to time get
boring, my commutes to and from work never do. I've only seen a couple
of movies in the theater since I've been working here, and part of the
reason is that I sit through two movies every day on the way to and from
work. I don't need to pay 10 Euros or more to see one in a theater.
Although I do occasionally miss the popcorn; there are dismayingly few
popcorn vendors in the Paris Metro system.

Anyway, that's just what I felt like rapping about this evening. What
about the rest of you? We've got posters here from all over the world.
When you're at home, wherever that is, do you tend to drive or take
advantage of public transportation? If the latter, are any of you weird
enough to appreciate it the way I do?

RE: RE: RE: Re: Re: Re: [FairfieldLife] Pricing TM to Teach [more] Meditators

 Buck wrote:
 
  MJ, those Raja guidelines were once published and hashed out on FFL before 
your time here. They were in notes that Kingsley Brooks had from a meeting 
delineating how Rajas should be conducting themselves. Their guidelines were in 
the archive here but given the way nemo has no good search tool it would be 
difficult to procure them now from FFL.
 

 This what you're referring to? 
 

 http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/topics/264038 
http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/topics/264038

 

 I just searched for Kingsley Brooks. (Vaj found it on Wikileaks, BTW.)
 

 In fact that last time I looked I sensed that the legal department had it 
removed from FFL as private correspondence.
 

 Yahoo's legal department? Why would they care?
  

 

 

  It was a really good archival communication from a time that ought to be 
preserved somewhere. But in keeping with a theme of this thread, it just spoke 
to the tendency for the movement rich to insulate themselves from the larger 
community anyway; like move to be with themselves in Boone, Jacksonville, 
Jackson Hole, Vlodrop or California neighborhoods.
  
 
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote:

 Now I find this interesting - I had never heard that M told the Rajas not to 
mix with others. Not that I doubt your word, but what is the provenance of that 
info? Did he tell 'em just not to do program with non-rajas, or not to 
socialize or what? 
 
 From non-meditators to non-initiators to non-governors and who would-a thunk 
it, even the governors have become nons as non-rajas.

RE: RE: Re: Re: Re: Re: [FairfieldLife] Pricing TM to Teach [more] Meditators

Emily wrote:
  
 What cracked me up about all this was that the article Share apparently only 
read the title of was by Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence she 
considers a classic.  LOL.  
 

 That is hilarious. I never noticed.
 

 Excellent way to start the day, with a belly laugh!

RE: RE: RE: RE: Re: Re: Re: Re: [FairfieldLife] Pricing TM to Teach [more] Meditators

No, that's the one Buck cited, the one by Goleman in the NYTimes. Emily's quite 
right.
 

 DoctorDumbass wrote:
 
 it was a different article - the one about wealthy people being less 
empathetic and considerate, when faced with the problems of others.
  
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote:

 O.K.  It works.  Emily may not post often.   
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote:

 Second try.  
 

 What I found most amusing about this conversation was that the article Share 
only apparently read the title of was by Daniel Goleman.  LOL. 
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote:

 Share feebles:
 
  Judy, if I were you,
  with your various imbalances and delusions, I'm sure I
  wouldn't want to last even as long as 10
  minutes!
 
 LOL.

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Another Of My Usual

2013-10-12 Thread Ann Woelfle Bater

On Saturday, October 12, 2013 2:08:38 AM, iranitea no_re...@yahoogroups.com
wrote:

That first video I posted was a mistake but glad you liked them. And of course
I never implied you didn't like to move but I had no idea you liked to walk on
your hands - maybe that's what happens when you meditate too long - you can't
tell your head from your tail!

I really like elephants, I was riding on one when I was in a wild life park in
India, seeing tigers in the free wild life. I was lucky, we saw 11 tigers on
one day, four of them from the elephant. One time I was walking in a procession
at the Kumbha Mela, and suddenly had the feeling of a presence walking next to
me. I looked and it was an elephant. He walked alone, and so conscious in the
whole crowd, that you would never have the fear he would run you over. They are
so controlled and gently!
Elephants are beyond amazing. So smart, so herd oriented, so social and
incredibly powerful in their presence. A real example of the sacredness
possible in a being. You are very lucky to have been around them - touched them.

It's not an either or. Great saints /meditators like Ramana Maharshi loved
animals and had them all around them. Go to the Ramana Ashram in
Tiruvanamallai, and you will see Samadhi shrines of his pet animals, a cow, a
dog, a peacock. Anyway, the place is full of peacocks.
Of course those who spend their lives meditating are not precluded from loving
and enjoying anything on this planet including animals. I would think they
might be more inclined to appreciate them if they are, in fact, touching on the
deeper aspects of creation and themselves during all this meditating. If you
couldn't come to adore and recognize the rest of the living, breathing world as
precious and astounding as one's own existence then meditation is worthless.
But thanks for sharing, Ann. I never get any feeling of ill will or
aggressiveness from you, besides the fact, that we have different orientations
and opinions, and I appreciate that. I'm sure, if we met outside of FFL, we
just could be friends.
I am glad to hear you say this. It is rarely my intention to appear aggressive
or mean. I'll give a poke where a poke is due and I have never tolerated any
unwarranted abuse against myself or others so other than that I'm a fairly
nice person! Of course Barry claims I'm a Mean Girl which I take as a personal
badge of honour coming from him.

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote:

For I ran a tea house:
Now this is an example of the joy and exuberance of activity. That orangutan is
CRAZY!!

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10201359076552535amp;set=vb.1042328132amp;type=2amp;theater

[FairfieldLife] RE: Public Transportation

2013-10-12 Thread awoelflebater

 
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote:

 So I'm sitting here in this cafe that promised Wifi and didn't deliver,
 wondering what I can write about, and I discover that my mind is still
 savoring my bus ride here to Place d'Italie. It was FUN. I got a seat,
 which is nice, and then I just kicked back watching the people on the
 bus with me. They were neat. They made me smile.
 
 In the US, they would have tended to be mostly lower class. Cars and
 car-dependent city designs have ensured that most of the middle class
 have cars. And the upper crust wouldn't be caught dead on a city bus or
 a subway.
 
 Here, it's not like that, except at the very top of the upper class.
 I've seen well-dressed, obviously well-to-do people on the Metros and
 buses. Heck, I've seen famous people on the Metros and buses. So you get
 a wide range -- from poor to lower class to middle class to the
 occasional upper class person, all getting across Paris via public
 transportation.
 
 There's a lot of Paris to have to get across. This is not a small city.
 And even if you have a car, on most routes you can get there faster on
 public transportation. Also, *when* you get there, you don't have to
 worry about finding a place to park your car. Parking spaces in Paris
 are so rare as to be increasingly considered mythical.
 
 So it's a no-brainer here -- if you have an important business meeting
 or a romantic date across town and you want to get there on time -- to
 decide whether you should drive your car or take public transportation.
 You just hop on the Metro. They're very reliable, and they'll get you
 there on time.
 
 I've never had a car when living in Paris, and don't see the need of
 having one now. Back home in the Netherlands, I have a car but it has
 sat unused for months now. Public transportation is just so much more
 convenient, and in the long run, cheaper.
 
 But those are just the pragmatic reasons for preferring public
 transportation, at least in Europe. The more important reason for me is
 that it's more FUN. I am endlessly fascinated by people, of every class,
 so riding the buses and trains and Metros that constitute public
 transportation in France and the Netherlands provides me with a
 never-ending canvas of great people to watch.
 
 The buses and Metros of Paris are like a genetic and cultural frog in a
 blender. Given the number of immigrants in the past few decades, Paris
 today looks like Casablanca did when I was growing up there. The faces I
 see are a mix of French and North African, with growing numbers of black
 Africans, Muslims from places other than North Africa, and Asians. Paris
 is a cultural zoo. Add to that the cross-class nature of Paris public
 transit, and you've got a zoo worth savoring. I sometimes feel as if I
 should be sitting there with a container of popcorn in my lap, it's so
 much like a movie.
 
 You learn so much.
 
 There are still young people in the world who get up and give their
 seats to an older person. There are street toughs whose style is to look
 like they're ready to kill you, but who leap across a Metro car to block
 the subway doors closing on a hapless fellow commuter. There are
 remarkable acts of both kindness (common) and rudeness (rare). There are
 occasional dramas, and even the occasional cops-and-robbers flick as
 some pickpocket runs down the Metro platform, pursued by the gendarmes.
 These are straight out of early Truffaut movies, so much so that I find
 myself looking around to discover where the cameras are placed.
 
 And there are the *visuals* of the Metro, ferchrissakes. Some of the
 Metro stops are nothing short of stunning, architecturally, even the
 now-aging ones. For examples of that, rent Amelie and watch it again.
 Jeunet's shots of the Metro stations and train stations of Paris are
 jaw-droppingly beautiful. Yes, they're color-enhanced, but IMO that's
 just him presenting the visuals of Paris to others the way *he* sees
 them. All glow-y, full of light, full of life.
 
 I see them the same way. Although my Day Job may from time to time get
 boring, my commutes to and from work never do. I've only seen a couple
 of movies in the theater since I've been working here, and part of the
 reason is that I sit through two movies every day on the way to and from
 work. I don't need to pay 10 Euros or more to see one in a theater.
 Although I do occasionally miss the popcorn; there are dismayingly few
 popcorn vendors in the Paris Metro system.
 
 Anyway, that's just what I felt like rapping about this evening. What
 about the rest of you? We've got posters here from all over the world.
 When you're at home, wherever that is, do you tend to drive or take
 advantage of public transportation? If the latter, are any of you weird
 enough to appreciate it the way I do?
 

 Pretty much any European city demands one take public transport - it's the 
only way to get anywhere. NYC is the one other place in the US

Re: [FairfieldLife] Public Transportation

turq, Vancouver has wonderful public transportation. At least it was wonderful 
during the 2010 winter Olympics. Buses and trams full of people from all over 
the world, mostly young, delighted to be in a beautiful city during a thrilling 
event. As for me, I was falling in love so was also riding a wave of 
enthusiasm.

 Almost four years later, my ex beloved and I are caring friends. It feels good 
too, but in a different way than falling in love. As for public transportation, 
FF's is a little bus that people can summon for free. But it's nice to tip the 
driver. I've used it about 3 times in 10 years.

I walk to most of my errands. The trees turned about two weeks ago, almost
 overnight. It is still sweater weather, no bulky down coats needed yet. The 
sunlight is golden as it filters through unfallen leaves rustled by a breeze 
that shifts from west to north. At night I sleep with the window open. The 
sound of those leaves makes a perfect lullaby. Hmmm, off topic?!





On Saturday, October 12, 2013 1:19 AM, turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com 
wrote:
 
  

So I'm sitting here in this cafe that promised Wifi and didn't deliver,
wondering what I can write about, and I discover that my mind is still
savoring my bus ride here to Place d'Italie. It was FUN. I got a seat,
which is nice, and then I just kicked back watching the people on the
bus with me. They were neat. They made me smile.

In the US, they would have tended to be mostly lower class. Cars and
car-dependent city designs have ensured that most of the middle class
have cars. And the upper crust wouldn't be caught dead on a city bus or
a subway.

Here, it's not like that, except at the very top of the upper class.
I've seen well-dressed, obviously well-to-do people on the Metros and
buses. Heck, I've seen famous people on the Metros and buses. So you get
a wide range -- from poor to lower class to middle class to the
occasional upper class person, all getting across Paris via public
transportation.

There's a lot of Paris to have to get across. This is not a small city.
And even if you have a car, on most routes you can get there faster on
public transportation. Also, *when* you get there, you don't have to
worry about finding a place to park your car. Parking spaces in Paris
are so rare as to be increasingly considered mythical.

So it's a no-brainer here -- if you have an important business meeting
or a romantic date across town and you want to get there on time -- to
decide whether you should drive your car or take public transportation.
You just hop on the Metro. They're very reliable, and they'll get you
there on time.

I've never had a car when living in Paris, and don't see the need of
having one now. Back home in the Netherlands, I have a car but it has
sat unused for months now. Public transportation is just so much more
convenient, and in the long run, cheaper.

But those are just the pragmatic reasons for preferring public
transportation, at least in Europe. The more important reason for me is
that it's more FUN. I am endlessly fascinated by people, of every class,
so riding the buses and trains and Metros that constitute public
transportation in France and the Netherlands provides me with a
never-ending canvas of great people to watch.

The buses and Metros of Paris are like a genetic and cultural frog in a
blender. Given the number of immigrants in the past few decades, Paris
today looks like Casablanca did when I was growing up there. The faces I
see are a mix of French and North African, with growing numbers of black
Africans, Muslims from places other than North Africa, and Asians. Paris
is a cultural zoo. Add to that the cross-class nature of Paris public
transit, and you've got a zoo worth savoring. I sometimes feel as if I
should be sitting there with a container of popcorn in my lap, it's so
much like a movie.

You learn so much.

There are still young people in the world who get up and give their
seats to an older person. There are street toughs whose style is to look
like they're ready to kill you, but who leap across a Metro car to block
the subway doors closing on a hapless fellow commuter. There are
remarkable acts of both kindness (common) and rudeness (rare). There are
occasional dramas, and even the occasional cops-and-robbers flick as
some pickpocket runs down the Metro platform, pursued by the gendarmes.
These are straight out of early Truffaut movies, so much so that I find
myself looking around to discover where the cameras are placed.

And there are the *visuals* of the Metro, ferchrissakes. Some of the
Metro stops are nothing short of stunning, architecturally, even the
now-aging ones. For examples of that, rent Amelie and watch it again.
Jeunet's shots of the Metro stations and train stations of Paris are
jaw-droppingly beautiful. Yes, they're color-enhanced, but IMO that's
just him presenting the visuals of Paris to others the way *he* sees
them. All glow-y, full of light, full of life.

I see them the same

Re: [FairfieldLife] Yaqui Vastu

dear Richard, well may your entire home be a Zone of Tranquility (-:
thanks for another lovely photo.




On Friday, October 11, 2013 2:45 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.com 
wrote:
 
  
We are thinking about a modest home - one with an interior courtyard garden for 
the Zone of Tranquility.

Spanish style house exterior courtyard front door:
http://www.cococozy.com/



Spanish style house exterior courtyard front door:
http://www.cococozy.com/2010/06/see-this-house-spanish-revived-for.html





On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com wrote:

 
  
Thanks, Richard, nice topic. You may remember that some of the FF vastu homes 
are made of straw bales; some off the grid; some just eco friendly. I love 
this idea of building in harmony with the surrounding land.







On Friday, October 11, 2013 10:40 AM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.com 
wrote:
 
  
Years ago I was very impressed with the home designs of Buckminiter Fuller. I 
once visited Colorado to see solar, self sufficient homes. 



http://www.livingearthconstruction.com/


There's a nice house in San Antonio designed by the famous architect O'neil 
Ford:






http://www.mysanantonio.com/outside-in-in-an-O-Neil-Ford-1369441.php



Several years ago we drove up to Fairfield to look at some of the vastu 
designed homes. I've also looked at homes that employ Asian Feng Shui designs 
and we drove to New Mexico and Arizona to look around at places that have a 
Southwest design.


According to what I've read, there's a lady down in Brazil that is building 
her house out of concrete. Has anybody ever wondered how much their home 
weighs? Go figure.


Most people don't get to design their own dwelling - they buy or rent already 
built homes or apartments. I know a guy up in Austin that lives in a daub and 
wattle shack out on the road to erewhon - ever since his wife left him he 
does't even care about where he throws his dirty socks. LoL!


So, Rita and I are designing our own house. It's going to be based on Yaqui 
Vastu principles. It's not complicated.


The first thing you have to do is find a suituable place to build and then 
follow the natural flow of the physical terrain, so that you find a good 
balance of man-made and the natural landscape. The second thing you have to do 
is decide on pier and beam, or slab foundation. It's all about placement and 
positioning.


So, what is Yaqui Vastu?


Yaqui Vastu teaches alignment, placement, and the relationship of physical 
space in relation to man and nature. How we build our homes and how we set up 
the interior of our shelters has a dramatic impact on our way of living. 


An essential part of any vastu living home is a zone of tranquility.

[FairfieldLife] Were the First Artists Mostly Women?

Three-quarters of handprints in ancient cave art were left by women, study
finds.

Women made most of the oldest-known cave art paintings, suggests a new
analysis of ancient handprints. Most scholars had assumed these ancient artists
were predominantly men, so the finding overturns decades of archaeological
dogma.

Archaeologist Dean Snow of Pennsylvania State University analyzed hand
stencils found in eight cave sites in France and Spain. By comparing the
relative lengths of certain fingers, Snow determined that three-quarters of the
handprints were female.

Archaeologists have found hundreds of hand stencils on cave walls across the
world. Because many of these early paintings also showcase game animals—bison,
reindeer, horses, woolly mammoths—many researchers have proposed that they were
made by male hunters, perhaps to chronicle their kills or as some kind of
“hunting magic” to improve success of an upcoming hunt. The new study suggests
otherwise.

In most hunter-gatherer societies, it’s men that do the killing. But it’s
often the women who haul the meat back to camp, and women are as concerned with
the productivity of the hunt as the men are, Snow said. It wasn’t just a
bunch of guys out there chasing bison around.

Experts expressed a wide range of opinions about how to interpret Snow’s new
data, attesting to the many mysteries still surrounding this early art.

Hand stencils are a truly ironic category of cave art because they appear to
be such a clear and obvious connection between us and the people of the
Paleolithic, said archaeologist Paul Pettitt of Durham University in England.
“We think we understand them, yet the more you dig into them you realize how
superficial our understanding is.”

http://museumofclassicalantiquities.tumblr.com/post/63652239781/archaeology-were-the-first-artists-mostly

[FairfieldLife] Herb chart

2013-10-12 Thread Duveyoung

http://www.tasteofherbs.com/fe/57309-taste-of-herbs-flavor-wheel?orid=99918opid=8

Re: [FairfieldLife] ATT: Bharitu

Thanks, I saw that a little earlier in the day.  Of course the Nixon 
administration proposed the Guaranteed Annual Income.  Alaska pays its 
residents profits from oil leases.  I know the idea twiddles the minds 
of conservatives but what are you going to do if there really are no 
jobs for everyone?  Let's hope that Switzerlands bills pass and it goes 
viral in the world.


On 10/11/2013 06:42 PM, judy stein wrote:


Swiss to vote on 2,500 franc basic income for every adult

(Reuters) - Switzerland will hold a vote on whether to introduce a 
basic income for all adults, in a further sign of growing public 
activism over pay inequality since the financial crisis.


A grassroots committee is calling for all adults in Switzerland to 
receive an unconditional income of 2,500 Swiss francs ($2,800) per 
month from the state, with the aim of providing a financial safety net 
for the population.


Organizers submitted more than the 100,000 signatures needed to call a 
referendum on Friday and tipped a truckload of 8 million five-rappen 
coins outside the parliament building in Berne, one for each person 
living in Switzerland.


Under Swiss law, citizens can organize popular initiatives that allow 
the channeling of public anger into direct political action. The 
country usually holds several referenda a year.


In March, Swiss voters backed some of the world's strictest controls 
on executive pay, forcing public companies to give shareholders a 
binding vote on compensation.


A separate proposal to limit monthly executive pay to no more than 
what the company's lowest-paid staff earn in a year, the so-called 
1:12 initiative, faces a popular vote on November 24.


The initiative's organizing committee said the basic income could 
partly be financed through money from social insurance systems in 
Switzerland.


The timing of the vote has yet to be announced, pending official 
guidance from the government.


http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/04/us-swiss-pay-idUSBRE9930O620131004

Re: [FairfieldLife] Herb chart

Thanks, Edg. I don't know which I like best, the herb chart or the magnifying 
gizmo (-:





On Saturday, October 12, 2013 10:48 AM, Duveyoung no_re...@yahoogroups.com 
wrote:
 
  
http://www.tasteofherbs.com/fe/57309-taste-of-herbs-flavor-wheel?orid=99918opid=8

Re: [FairfieldLife] Public Transportation

As I've posted before, Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) ain't so rapid.  
Right now there is a possibility of another strike which will make 
things really worse.  Much at issue aren't so much union wages but 
safety.  Back in the day they probably thought they had the state of 
the art public transportation idea, except that it is too expensive to 
extend into the whole area.  And train and trolley tracks got torn up 
and even now used as hiking trails.  So we can't do the much cheaper 
light rail.


In the 1990s I lived across the street from a BART station.  Where I 
worked was also across the street from a BART station but I rarely took 
it.  That was because my job sometimes required driving out to other 
businesses.  And gas was so cheap and my car so fuel efficient it 
actually cost more to ride BART.  I would occasionally take BART into 
the city (San Francisco) because parking, like Paris, is shitty 
there.  But I would occasionally drive there on weekends when downtown 
is like a ghost town.


America is carville.  The car manufacturers wanted it that way. It is 
also spread out.  And California has a lot weird and winding roads 
probably drawn up with it was part of Mexico.  Not too easy to do mass 
transit with those.


On 10/11/2013 11:19 PM, turquoiseb wrote:



So I'm sitting here in this cafe that promised Wifi and didn't deliver,
wondering what I can write about, and I discover that my mind is still
savoring my bus ride here to Place d'Italie. It was FUN. I got a seat,
which is nice, and then I just kicked back watching the people on the
bus with me. They were neat. They made me smile.

In the US, they would have tended to be mostly lower class. Cars and
car-dependent city designs have ensured that most of the middle class
have cars. And the upper crust wouldn't be caught dead on a city bus or
a subway.

Here, it's not like that, except at the very top of the upper class.
I've seen well-dressed, obviously well-to-do people on the Metros and
buses. Heck, I've seen famous people on the Metros and buses. So you get
a wide range -- from poor to lower class to middle class to the
occasional upper class person, all getting across Paris via public
transportation.

There's a lot of Paris to have to get across. This is not a small city.
And even if you have a car, on most routes you can get there faster on
public transportation. Also, *when* you get there, you don't have to
worry about finding a place to park your car. Parking spaces in Paris
are so rare as to be increasingly considered mythical.

So it's a no-brainer here -- if you have an important business meeting
or a romantic date across town and you want to get there on time -- to
decide whether you should drive your car or take public transportation.
You just hop on the Metro. They're very reliable, and they'll get you
there on time.

I've never had a car when living in Paris, and don't see the need of
having one now. Back home in the Netherlands, I have a car but it has
sat unused for months now. Public transportation is just so much more
convenient, and in the long run, cheaper.

But those are just the pragmatic reasons for preferring public
transportation, at least in Europe. The more important reason for me is
that it's more FUN. I am endlessly fascinated by people, of every class,
so riding the buses and trains and Metros that constitute public
transportation in France and the Netherlands provides me with a
never-ending canvas of great people to watch.

The buses and Metros of Paris are like a genetic and cultural frog in a
blender. Given the number of immigrants in the past few decades, Paris
today looks like Casablanca did when I was growing up there. The faces I
see are a mix of French and North African, with growing numbers of black
Africans, Muslims from places other than North Africa, and Asians. Paris
is a cultural zoo. Add to that the cross-class nature of Paris public
transit, and you've got a zoo worth savoring. I sometimes feel as if I
should be sitting there with a container of popcorn in my lap, it's so
much like a movie.

You learn so much.

There are still young people in the world who get up and give their
seats to an older person. There are street toughs whose style is to look
like they're ready to kill you, but who leap across a Metro car to block
the subway doors closing on a hapless fellow commuter. There are
remarkable acts of both kindness (common) and rudeness (rare). There are
occasional dramas, and even the occasional cops-and-robbers flick as
some pickpocket runs down the Metro platform, pursued by the gendarmes.
These are straight out of early Truffaut movies, so much so that I find
myself looking around to discover where the cameras are placed.

And there are the *visuals* of the Metro, ferchrissakes. Some of the
Metro stops are nothing short of stunning, architecturally, even the
now-aging ones. For examples of that, rent Amelie and watch it again.
Jeunet's shots of the Metro stations and train stations of

Re: [FairfieldLife] Public Transportation

I admit I've long wished the US had a coast to coast fast train and a car train 
at that, maybe making 3 or so stops along the way. I've traveled in train a few 
times and thoroughly enjoyed it.





On Saturday, October 12, 2013 11:17 AM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
 
  
As I've posted before, Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) ain't so rapid.  Right now 
there is a possibility of another strike which will make things really worse.  
Much at issue aren't so much union wages but safety.  Back in the day they 
probably thought they had the state of the art public transportation idea, 
except that it is too expensive to extend into the whole area.  And train and 
trolley tracks got torn up and even now used as hiking trails.  So we can't do 
the much cheaper light rail.

In the 1990s I lived across the street from a BART station.  Where
  I worked was also across the street from a BART station but I
  rarely took it.  That was because my job sometimes required
  driving out to other businesses.  And gas was so cheap and my car
  so fuel efficient it actually cost more to ride BART.  I would
  occasionally take BART into the city (San Francisco) because
  parking, like Paris, is shitty there.  But I would occasionally
  drive there on weekends when downtown is like a ghost town.

America is carville.  The car manufacturers wanted it that way. 
  It is also spread out.  And California has a lot weird and winding
  roads probably drawn up with it was part of Mexico.  Not too easy
  to do mass transit with those.

On 10/11/2013 11:19 PM, turquoiseb wrote:

  

So I'm sitting here in this cafe that promised Wifi and
  didn't deliver,
wondering what I can write about, and I discover that my
  mind is still
savoring my bus ride here to Place d'Italie. It was FUN. I
  got a seat,
which is nice, and then I just kicked back watching the
  people on the
bus with me. They were neat. They made me smile.

In the US, they would have tended to be mostly lower
  class. Cars and
car-dependent city designs have ensured that most of the
  middle class
have cars. And the upper crust wouldn't be caught dead on
  a city bus or
a subway.

Here, it's not like that, except at the very top of the
  upper class.
I've seen well-dressed, obviously well-to-do people on the
  Metros and
buses. Heck, I've seen famous people on the Metros and
  buses. So you get
a wide range -- from poor to lower class to middle class
  to the
occasional upper class person, all getting across Paris
  via public
transportation.

There's a lot of Paris to have to get across. This is not
  a small city.
And even if you have a car, on most routes you can get
  there faster on
public transportation. Also, *when* you get there, you
  don't have to
worry about finding a place to park your car. Parking
  spaces in Paris
are so rare as to be increasingly considered mythical.

So it's a no-brainer here -- if you have an important
  business meeting
or a romantic date across town and you want to get there
  on time -- to
decide whether you should drive your car or take public
  transportation.
You just hop on the Metro. They're very reliable, and
  they'll get you
there on time.

I've never had a car when living in Paris, and don't see
  the need of
having one now. Back home in the Netherlands, I have a car
  but it has
sat unused for months now. Public transportation is just
  so much more
convenient, and in the long run, cheaper.

But those are just the pragmatic reasons for preferring
  public
transportation, at least in Europe. The more important
  reason for me is
that it's more FUN. I am endlessly fascinated by people,
  of every class,
so riding the buses and trains and Metros that constitute
  public
transportation in France and the Netherlands provides me
  with a
never-ending canvas of great people to watch.

The buses and Metros of Paris are like a genetic and
  cultural frog in a
blender. Given the number of immigrants in the past few
  decades, Paris
today looks like Casablanca did when I was growing up
  there. The faces I
see are a mix of French and North African, with growing
  numbers of black
Africans, Muslims from places other than North Africa, and
  Asians. Paris
is a cultural zoo. Add to that the cross-class nature of
  Paris public
transit, and you've got a zoo worth savoring. I sometimes
  feel as if I
should be sitting there with a container of popcorn in my
  lap, it's so
much like a movie.

You learn so much.

There are still young people in the world who get up and

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Rent is Too Damn High!

Workers' wages buy less and less. In fact, workers have lost purchasing
power during the past half-century. Comparing prices to wages, the
Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose more than six times from 1965 to
2011---while the minimum wage rose less than five times.

'Measured In Gold, The Story Of American Wages Is An Ugly One'
Forbes:
http://www.forbes.com/realspin/gold
http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2013/10/09/measured-in-gold-the-story-of-american-wages-is-an-ugly-one/

On 10/11/2013 11:28 AM, Bhairitu wrote:

Okay, I have a Google Nexus phone, but it wasn't free but I didn't
pay what the telcos say it costs when they offered it as a contract
phone. I bought it direct from Google Play and they update the phone
OS when the latest OS comes out (eat your heart out Alex).

But I don't chatter much on phones. I mainly communicate via email.
BTW, I owned my first cellphone back in the early 1990s. I paid $20 a
month for 60 minutes of talk. Today I pay $30 a month for 100 minutes
of talk, unlimited texting (which I rarely do) and 5 GB of 4G data
which I use though only around 1/2 GB a month. Go figure. The plan
is a prepay too (no contract).

The Nexus is GSM so if I want to move to another GSM carrier I just
get their SIM card and install it. And the phone acts as a remote
for the Chromecast.

I have Medicare Part A only. I won't pay for the B part nor for
supplemental. If I have a medical emergency I figure I'll negotiate a
lower fee from the provider (you can do that BTW).

Look into what Uninted Health Care pays their CEO BTW. His salary is
too damn high! We not only need a minimum wage but a maximum wage too.

On 10/11/2013 07:11 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote:

There's an old guy I know who lives up in Austin - he has a Virgin
Mobile 'pay as you go' cell phone. It's a Samsung flip phone - simple
operation and it was free. Now that's better!

When he needs to talk he can buy some minutes at the store - he can
buy a $10 or $20 top-up card. The old guy is only spending a few
dollars every three months on his phone! Now this is really funny -
the guy doesn't have anyone to talk to much, but he can pay for his
phone as he goes. LoL!

The big problem is that the rent's too damn high!

The old guy is on Medicare, Part A and Part B, and he's got
UnitedHealth Care as a supplement.

'Thousands of doctors fired by United HealthCare'
News8:
http://www.wtnh.com/news/health/thousands-of-doctors-fired-by-united-healthcare

On 10/10/2013 10:14 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote:
The rent is just too damn high! The rent bill is up; the electric
bill is up; the water bill is up; the cable TV bill is up. These
days it costs forty bucks just to take a date out for a drink and
dinner at Sam's Burger Joint! Go figure.

Now, the medical insurance bill is going up?

Not to mention fixing the price - so that younger people pay more to
keep the premiums down for the older folks.

If we had a single payer system for medical care, the federal
government would pay all medical expenses for everyone. So, how much
would the rent go up with a government paid health care system?

Go figure.

If I am elected, I promise a job for everyone so they can make a
decent living wage and pay their own medical insurance bills. That's
my ticket - to create jobs to make money and lower medical care
expenses.

The trouble is that loss aversion also militates against buying
insurance. Especially if you don't make a lot of money--and many
young people don't--writing that premium check is painful if not
prohibitive.

'The Young and the Clueless'
Wall Street Journal:
http://online.wsj.com/article
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303796404579097192784900688.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_MIDDLETopOpinion

On 10/10/2013 7:41 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote:
It looks like New York and New Jersey have some of the highest
taxes in the U.S.

And, the rent is too damn high!

...six of the top 10 states with the best business climate are
western states, bolstered at least in part by new revenues from
energy production that allows them to reduce other types of taxes.

'Western U.S. best for business, Tax Foundation says'
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2013/10/09/western-u-s-best-for-business-tax-foundation-says/

On 10/4/2013 9:27 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote:
So, when I returned the two cable boxes to Time-Warner and to
terminate the HD and DVR service, I asked them how much would it
cost just to have basic cable. The guy said they would have to
send out a technician to put a 'trap' on the line to filter out
the other channels, so I told them to close the account. It's
Friday and the cable is still active, but I have powered antennas
from the Shack anyway. Go figure.

The rent is too damn high!

This week I took my daughter's PT Cruiser in to the dealership
because she said the front was 'wobbling' at 35-40 mph. The
service

Re: [FairfieldLife] Public Transportation

We have an Amtrak station here.  I looked into traveling up to Seattle 
that way but it was actually more expensive than taking a plane.  When I 
was a kid I traveled from here back up to Portland on a train.  I would 
bet the route has not changed much.  I got to see a lot of fir trees.


On 10/12/2013 09:28 AM, Share Long wrote:
I admit I've long wished the US had a coast to coast fast train and a 
car train at that, maybe making 3 or so stops along the way. I've 
traveled in train a few times and thoroughly enjoyed it.




On Saturday, October 12, 2013 11:17 AM, Bhairitu 
noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
As I've posted before, Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) ain't so rapid.  
Right now there is a possibility of another strike which will make 
things really worse.  Much at issue aren't so much union wages but 
safety.  Back in the day they probably thought they had the state of 
the art public transportation idea, except that it is too expensive 
to extend into the whole area.  And train and trolley tracks got torn 
up and even now used as hiking trails.  So we can't do the much 
cheaper light rail.


In the 1990s I lived across the street from a BART station.  Where I 
worked was also across the street from a BART station but I rarely 
took it.  That was because my job sometimes required driving out to 
other businesses.  And gas was so cheap and my car so fuel efficient 
it actually cost more to ride BART.  I would occasionally take BART 
into the city (San Francisco) because parking, like Paris, is shitty 
there.  But I would occasionally drive there on weekends when downtown 
is like a ghost town.


America is carville.  The car manufacturers wanted it that way.  It is 
also spread out.  And California has a lot weird and winding roads 
probably drawn up with it was part of Mexico.  Not too easy to do mass 
transit with those.


On 10/11/2013 11:19 PM, turquoiseb wrote:


So I'm sitting here in this cafe that promised Wifi and didn't deliver,
wondering what I can write about, and I discover that my mind is still
savoring my bus ride here to Place d'Italie. It was FUN. I got a seat,
which is nice, and then I just kicked back watching the people on the
bus with me. They were neat. They made me smile.

In the US, they would have tended to be mostly lower class. Cars and
car-dependent city designs have ensured that most of the middle class
have cars. And the upper crust wouldn't be caught dead on a city bus or
a subway.

Here, it's not like that, except at the very top of the upper class.
I've seen well-dressed, obviously well-to-do people on the Metros and
buses. Heck, I've seen famous people on the Metros and buses. So you get
a wide range -- from poor to lower class to middle class to the
occasional upper class person, all getting across Paris via public
transportation.

There's a lot of Paris to have to get across. This is not a small city.
And even if you have a car, on most routes you can get there faster on
public transportation. Also, *when* you get there, you don't have to
worry about finding a place to park your car. Parking spaces in Paris
are so rare as to be increasingly considered mythical.

So it's a no-brainer here -- if you have an important business meeting
or a romantic date across town and you want to get there on time -- to
decide whether you should drive your car or take public transportation.
You just hop on the Metro. They're very reliable, and they'll get you
there on time.

I've never had a car when living in Paris, and don't see the need of
having one now. Back home in the Netherlands, I have a car but it has
sat unused for months now. Public transportation is just so much more
convenient, and in the long run, cheaper.

But those are just the pragmatic reasons for preferring public
transportation, at least in Europe. The more important reason for me is
that it's more FUN. I am endlessly fascinated by people, of every class,
so riding the buses and trains and Metros that constitute public
transportation in France and the Netherlands provides me with a
never-ending canvas of great people to watch.

The buses and Metros of Paris are like a genetic and cultural frog in a
blender. Given the number of immigrants in the past few decades, Paris
today looks like Casablanca did when I was growing up there. The faces I
see are a mix of French and North African, with growing numbers of black
Africans, Muslims from places other than North Africa, and Asians. Paris
is a cultural zoo. Add to that the cross-class nature of Paris public
transit, and you've got a zoo worth savoring. I sometimes feel as if I
should be sitting there with a container of popcorn in my lap, it's so
much like a movie.

You learn so much.

There are still young people in the world who get up and give their
seats to an older person. There are street toughs whose style is to look
like they're ready to kill you, but who leap across a Metro car to block
the subway doors closing on a hapless fellow commuter. There are

[FairfieldLife] RE: Were the First Artists Mostly Women?

Interesting - you learn something new every day but the mystery deepens.

National Geographic had this intriguing story:

Prehistoric peoples chose places of natural resonant sound to draw their famed
cave sketches, according to new analyses of paleolithic caves in France. In at
least ten locations, drawings of horses, bison, and mammoths seem to match
locations that focus, amplify, and transform the sounds of human voices and
musical instruments. In the cave of Niaux in Ariège, most of the remarkable
paintings are situated in the resonant Salon Noir, which sounds like a
Romanesque chapel, said Iegor Reznikoff, an acoustics expert at the University
of Paris who conducted the research. The sites would therefore have served as
places of natural power, supporting the theory that decorated caves were
backdrops for religious and magical rituals.

---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote:

Three-quarters of handprints in ancient cave art were left by women, study
finds.

Experts expressed a wide range of opinions about how to interpret Snow’s new
data, attesting to the many mysteries still surrounding this early art.

http://museumofclassicalantiquities.tumblr.com/post/63652239781/archaeology-were-the-first-artists-mostly

Re: [FairfieldLife] Public Transportation

About 50 years ago, I traveled from Frostburg, MD in the mountains to DC Union 
Station. Lots of trees at the beginning. Lots of govt buildings at the end. But 
Union Station is quite beautiful as are some other parts of DC. 


The passenger trains traveling east that go through FF end up in Chicago. They 
are not reliable time-wise so if one has a plane to catch out of O'Hara, it's 
better to take the bus. And at least the bus stops in FF. The closest train 
stops are 30 minutes away, Ottumwa to the west and Mt. Pleasant to the east. 
Friends have taken that train, the California Zephyr, to Denver, and then all 
the way to the Pacific Northwest. I think it's an all night journey. I don't 
think it's the Orient Express!




On Saturday, October 12, 2013 11:50 AM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
 
  
We have an Amtrak station here.  I looked into traveling up to Seattle that way 
but it was actually more expensive than taking a plane.  When I was a kid I 
traveled from here back up to Portland on a train.  I would bet the route has 
not changed much.  I got to see a lot of fir trees.

On 10/12/2013 09:28 AM, Share Long wrote:

  
I admit I've long wished the US had a coast to coast fast train and a car 
train at that, maybe making 3 or so stops along the way. I've traveled in 
train a few times and thoroughly enjoyed it.






On Saturday, October 12, 2013 11:17 AM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net 
wrote:
 
  
As I've posted before, Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) ain't so rapid.  Right 
now there is a possibility of another strike which will make things really 
worse.  Much at issue aren't so much union wages but safety.  Back in the day 
they probably thought they had the state of the art public transportation 
idea, except that it is too expensive to extend into the whole area.  And 
train and trolley tracks got torn up and even now used as hiking trails.  So 
we can't do the much cheaper light rail.

In the 1990s I lived across the street
  from a BART station.  Where I worked
  was also across the street from a BART
  station but I rarely took it.  That
  was because my job sometimes required
  driving out to other businesses.  And
  gas was so cheap and my car so fuel
  efficient it actually cost more to
  ride BART.  I would occasionally take
  BART into the city (San Francisco)
  because parking, like Paris, is shitty
  there.  But I would occasionally drive
  there on weekends when downtown is
  like a ghost town.

America is carville.  The car
  manufacturers wanted it that way.  It
  is also spread out.  And California
  has a lot weird and winding roads
  probably drawn up with it was part of
  Mexico.  Not too easy to do mass
  transit with those.

On 10/11/2013 11:19 PM, turquoiseb
  wrote:

  

So I'm sitting here in this cafe
that promised Wifi and didn't
deliver,
wondering what I can write
about, and I discover that my
mind is still
savoring my bus ride here to
Place d'Italie. It was FUN. I
got a seat,
which is nice, and then I just
kicked back watching the people
on the
bus with me. They were neat.
They made me smile.

In the US, they would have
tended to be mostly lower class.
Cars and
car-dependent city designs have
ensured that most of the middle
class
have cars. And the upper crust
wouldn't be caught dead on a
city bus or
a subway.

Here, it's not like that, except
at the very top of the upper
class.
I've seen well-dressed,
obviously well-to-do people on
the Metros and
buses. Heck, I've seen famous
people on the Metros and buses.

[FairfieldLife] RE: ATT: Bharitu

Re Let's hope that Switzerland's bills pass and it goes viral in the world.:
 I hope it passes also. Even if it ends in tears we'll all have learnt a great 
deal from the experiment.
 

 Nixon proposing a Guaranteed Annual Income was news to me. So the idea appeals 
to those on the right? Yes, indeed. I looked at Wiki and found some surprising 
names that came up with similar proposals: Napoleon Bonaparte, Friedrich Hayek 
and Milton Friedman!
 

 Social Credit theoreticians also had a similar idea and their theory appealed 
to Ezra Pound, TS Eliot, Aldous Huxley, Hilaire Belloc, GK Chesterton, Robert 
A. Heinlein and Robert Anton Wilson. Looks like we're in good company.

 

---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote:

 Thanks, I saw that a little earlier in the day.  Of course the Nixon 
administration proposed the Guaranteed Annual Income.  Alaska pays its 
residents profits from oil leases.  I know the idea twiddles the minds of 
conservatives but what are you going to do if there really are no jobs for 
everyone?  Let's hope that Switzerlands bills pass and it goes viral in the 
world.
 
 On 10/11/2013 06:42 PM, judy stein wrote:
 
   Swiss to vote on 2,500 franc basic income for every adult
 
 (Reuters) - Switzerland will hold a vote on whether to introduce a basic 
income for all adults, in a further sign of growing public activism over pay 
inequality since the financial crisis.
 
 A grassroots committee is calling for all adults in Switzerland to receive an 
unconditional income of 2,500 Swiss francs ($2,800) per month from the state, 
with the aim of providing a financial safety net for the population.
 
 Organizers submitted more than the 100,000 signatures needed to call a 
referendum on Friday and tipped a truckload of 8 million five-rappen coins 
outside the parliament building in Berne, one for each person living in 
Switzerland.
 
 Under Swiss law, citizens can organize popular initiatives that allow the 
channeling of public anger into direct political action. The country usually 
holds several referenda a year.
 
 In March, Swiss voters backed some of the world's strictest controls on 
executive pay, forcing public companies to give shareholders a binding vote on 
compensation.
 
 A separate proposal to limit monthly executive pay to no more than what the 
company's lowest-paid staff earn in a year, the so-called 1:12 initiative, 
faces a popular vote on November 24.
 
 The initiative's organizing committee said the basic income could partly be 
financed through money from social insurance systems in Switzerland.
 
 The timing of the vote has yet to be announced, pending official guidance from 
the government.
 
 http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/04/us-swiss-pay-idUSBRE9930O620131004 
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/04/us-swiss-pay-idUSBRE9930O620131004

[FairfieldLife] RE: RE: Were the First Artists Mostly Women?

Love it. If both this and the other story are true, it would mean the women
doing the cave paintings were likely priestesses and/or shamans. The mental
image--both visually and in terms of the type of energy involved--is so
different from the one I've had up to now that it gives me chills up my spine.
And it must say some important things about the nature of the society outside
the caves as well.

I'll never look at cave paintings the same way again.

Do you have a link to the Nat Geo story about the acoustics in the caves? Or
was what you quoted all there was to it?

Seraphita wrote:

Interesting - you learn something new every day but the mystery deepens.

National Geographic had this intriguing story:

---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote:

Three-quarters of handprints in ancient cave art were left by women, study
finds.

Experts expressed a wide range of opinions about how to interpret Snow’s new
data, attesting to the many mysteries still surrounding this early art.

http://museumofclassicalantiquities.tumblr.com/post/63652239781/archaeology-were-the-first-artists-mostly

[FairfieldLife] RE: RE: RE: Were the First Artists Mostly Women?

Link to Nat Geo
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/07/080702-cave-paintings.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/07/080702-cave-paintings.html

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote:

I'll never look at cave paintings the same way again.

Do you have a link to the Nat Geo story about the acoustics in the caves? Or
was what you quoted all there was to it?

Seraphita wrote:

Interesting - you learn something new every day but the mystery deepens.

National Geographic had this intriguing story:

---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote:

Three-quarters of handprints in ancient cave art were left by women, study
finds.

Experts expressed a wide range of opinions about how to interpret Snow’s new
data, attesting to the many mysteries still surrounding this early art.

http://museumofclassicalantiquities.tumblr.com/post/63652239781/archaeology-were-the-first-artists-mostly

Re: [FairfieldLife] Public Transportation

Around here, there's one thing you can do if you have a car - you can get
out of town! LoL!

If there is one thing that keeps me in the U.S., other than the freedom, is
to be able to go anywhere I want to, anytime I want to, and be there with
the least effort.

It's all a matter of placement and positioning.

So, if you're going to have to work at a desk in a cubicle all day in the
city, at least be able to get away ASAP. TGIF!

[image: Inline image 2]


On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 1:19 AM, turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.comwrote:

 **



 So I'm sitting here in this cafe that promised Wifi and didn't deliver,
 wondering what I can write about, and I discover that my mind is still
 savoring my bus ride here to Place d'Italie. It was FUN. I got a seat,
 which is nice, and then I just kicked back watching the people on the
 bus with me. They were neat. They made me smile.

 In the US, they would have tended to be mostly lower class. Cars and
 car-dependent city designs have ensured that most of the middle class
 have cars. And the upper crust wouldn't be caught dead on a city bus or
 a subway.

 Here, it's not like that, except at the very top of the upper class.
 I've seen well-dressed, obviously well-to-do people on the Metros and
 buses. Heck, I've seen famous people on the Metros and buses. So you get
 a wide range -- from poor to lower class to middle class to the
 occasional upper class person, all getting across Paris via public
 transportation.

 There's a lot of Paris to have to get across. This is not a small city.
 And even if you have a car, on most routes you can get there faster on
 public transportation. Also, *when* you get there, you don't have to
 worry about finding a place to park your car. Parking spaces in Paris
 are so rare as to be increasingly considered mythical.

 So it's a no-brainer here -- if you have an important business meeting
 or a romantic date across town and you want to get there on time -- to
 decide whether you should drive your car or take public transportation.
 You just hop on the Metro. They're very reliable, and they'll get you
 there on time.

 I've never had a car when living in Paris, and don't see the need of
 having one now. Back home in the Netherlands, I have a car but it has
 sat unused for months now. Public transportation is just so much more
 convenient, and in the long run, cheaper.

 But those are just the pragmatic reasons for preferring public
 transportation, at least in Europe. The more important reason for me is
 that it's more FUN. I am endlessly fascinated by people, of every class,
 so riding the buses and trains and Metros that constitute public
 transportation in France and the Netherlands provides me with a
 never-ending canvas of great people to watch.

 The buses and Metros of Paris are like a genetic and cultural frog in a
 blender. Given the number of immigrants in the past few decades, Paris
 today looks like Casablanca did when I was growing up there. The faces I
 see are a mix of French and North African, with growing numbers of black
 Africans, Muslims from places other than North Africa, and Asians. Paris
 is a cultural zoo. Add to that the cross-class nature of Paris public
 transit, and you've got a zoo worth savoring. I sometimes feel as if I
 should be sitting there with a container of popcorn in my lap, it's so
 much like a movie.

 You learn so much.

 There are still young people in the world who get up and give their
 seats to an older person. There are street toughs whose style is to look
 like they're ready to kill you, but who leap across a Metro car to block
 the subway doors closing on a hapless fellow commuter. There are
 remarkable acts of both kindness (common) and rudeness (rare). There are
 occasional dramas, and even the occasional cops-and-robbers flick as
 some pickpocket runs down the Metro platform, pursued by the gendarmes.
 These are straight out of early Truffaut movies, so much so that I find
 myself looking around to discover where the cameras are placed.

 And there are the *visuals* of the Metro, ferchrissakes. Some of the
 Metro stops are nothing short of stunning, architecturally, even the
 now-aging ones. For examples of that, rent Amelie and watch it again.
 Jeunet's shots of the Metro stations and train stations of Paris are
 jaw-droppingly beautiful. Yes, they're color-enhanced, but IMO that's
 just him presenting the visuals of Paris to others the way *he* sees
 them. All glow-y, full of light, full of life.

 I see them the same way. Although my Day Job may from time to time get
 boring, my commutes to and from work never do. I've only seen a couple
 of movies in the theater since I've been working here, and part of the
 reason is that I sit through two movies every day on the way to and from
 work. I don't need to pay 10 Euros or more to see one in a theater.
 Although I do occasionally miss the popcorn; there are dismayingly few
 popcorn vendors in the Paris Metro system.

 Anyway, that's just

[FairfieldLife] RE: RE: RE: RE: Were the First Artists Mostly Women?

Thanks for the link. Last two paragraphs:

In rare instances, cave images include highly stylized females who appear to
be dancing or enigmatic, part-animal 'sorcerer' figures engaging in what seem
to be transformational dances.
'This is therefore an artistic connection between dance and art. Perhaps in
this case the art is recording specific ritual events,' Pettitt said. 'It is
inconceivable that such rituals would have taken place in silence.'
Seraphita wrote:

Link to Nat Geo
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/07/080702-cave-paintings.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/07/080702-cave-paintings.html

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote:

I'll never look at cave paintings the same way again.

Do you have a link to the Nat Geo story about the acoustics in the caves? Or
was what you quoted all there was to it?

Seraphita wrote:

Interesting - you learn something new every day but the mystery deepens.

National Geographic had this intriguing story:

---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote:

Three-quarters of handprints in ancient cave art were left by women, study
finds.

Experts expressed a wide range of opinions about how to interpret Snow’s new
data, attesting to the many mysteries still surrounding this early art.

http://museumofclassicalantiquities.tumblr.com/post/63652239781/archaeology-were-the-first-artists-mostly

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Shamans and Don Juan Matus

It's not really about Castaneda - we already pretty much discussed that 
over on Usenet : alt.dreams.castaneda


And, it's more about Shamans than Don Juan Matus. It's more about 
Shamanism as a influence on the Siddha tradition in India, where an 
influence from the shaman substratum may be assumed.


Indian Elements of Shamanism:

1) Induced ecstasy through chanting
2) Recovery of lost souls
3) Flight to the spiritual sky
4) Use of the magical drum
6) Shaman as Psyhchopomp
7) The cosmic mountain as axis mundi
9) Use of fire and flame as magical heat

On 10/11/2013 7:02 PM, s3raph...@yahoo.com wrote:


I don't wish to be the bearer of bad news but if  Carlos Castaneda is 
a hero of yours you might want to watch this BBC documentary What 
happens when anthropology goes bad? The last in this series of great 
yarns from the world of anthropology is a story of sex, drugs and a 
long-lost body in the desert.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXl95ZaYe3Q



---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote:

They don't call Native Americans Indians for nothing, since they all 
came from Asia in the first place. Go figure.


According to what I've read, a recent study of a 40,000 year old 
skeleton from  China showed that early modern humans present in the 
Beijing area 40,000 y ago were related to the ancestors of many 
present-day Asians as well as Native Americans.


So, what is a shaman anyway?

A shaman is anybody who contacts a spirit world while in an altered 
state of consciousness.


The idea is based  on the notion that the visible world is of the 
senses is pervaded by invisible forces or spirits which affect the 
lives of living people. Shamans can reach altered states of 
consciousness in order to encounter and interact with the spirit world 
and channel transcendental energies.


For me there is only the traveling on the paths that have heart, on 
any path that may have heart. There I travel, and the only worthwhile 
challenge for me is to traverse its full length. And there I 
travel—looking, looking, breathlessly. - Don Juan Matus


Only known photography of Don Juan Matus:

Inline image 1

RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Shamans and Don Juan Matus

Re It's not really about Castaneda:
 

 OK - fair enough. The BBC docu I linked to is worth a look though. It briefly 
touches on Castaneda's life but concentrates on the disappearances (and 
presumed suicides) of his female fans Florinda Donner, Taisha Abelar, Amalia 
Marquez and Kylie Lundahl . Typical cult-like fall-out.
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote:

 It's not really about Castaneda - we already pretty much discussed that over 
on Usenet : alt.dreams.castaneda
 
 And, it's more about Shamans than Don Juan Matus. It's more about Shamanism as 
a influence on the Siddha tradition in India, where an influence from the 
shaman substratum may be assumed.
 
 Indian Elements of Shamanism:
 
 1) Induced ecstasy through chanting 
 2) Recovery of lost souls
 3) Flight to the spiritual sky 
 4) Use of the magical drum 
 6) Shaman as Psyhchopomp 
 7) The cosmic mountain as axis mundi 
 9) Use of fire and flame as magical heat
 
 On 10/11/2013 7:02 PM, s3raphita@... mailto:s3raphita@... wrote:
 
   I don't wish to be the bearer of bad news but if  Carlos Castaneda is a hero 
of yours you might want to watch this BBC documentary What happens when 
anthropology goes bad? The last in this series of great yarns from the world of 
anthropology is a story of sex, drugs and a long-lost body in the desert.
 
 
 
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXl95ZaYe3Q 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXl95ZaYe3Q
 
 
 
 ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com mailto:fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, 
punditster@... mailto:punditster@... wrote:
 
 They don't call Native Americans Indians for nothing, since they all came 
from Asia in the first place. Go figure.
 
 
 According to what I've read, a recent study of a 40,000 year old skeleton from 
 China showed that early modern humans present in the Beijing area 40,000 y 
ago were related to the ancestors of many present-day Asians as well as Native 
Americans. 
 
 So, what is a shaman anyway?
 
 
 
 A shaman is anybody who contacts a spirit world while in an altered state of 
consciousness. 
 
 
 The idea is based  on the notion that the visible world is of the senses is 
pervaded by invisible forces or spirits which affect the lives of living 
people. Shamans can reach altered states of consciousness in order to encounter 
and interact with the spirit world and channel transcendental energies.
 
 
 For me there is only the traveling on the paths that have heart, on any path 
that may have heart. There I travel, and the only worthwhile challenge for me 
is to traverse its full length. And there I travel—looking, looking, 
breathlessly. - Don Juan Matus
 
 
 
 Only known photography of Don Juan Matus:

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Public Transportation

Sometimes I wonder how people get by. It's all we can do just to drive 
to the local Safeway and pack in enough food to last a week for a large 
family, and we have a Chevy van!


So, let's say you're married and have two or three children. How are you 
going to get to the store - on foot or on the bus - how you gonna pack 
it in?


If you've got a large family, I guess you could use backpacks or a tote 
bags, but that's going way too much work for me, just to get a snack or 
two. How much does it take to feed two or three teenage boys these days? 
Go figure.


Well, I guess if you're a single, all you need to eat is a few bananas 
for breakfast, and you can eat a slice of pizza at a sidewalk cafe for 
dinner. LoL!



On 10/12/2013 8:53 AM, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com wrote:




---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com 
wrote:


So I'm sitting here in this cafe that promised Wifi and didn't deliver,
wondering what I can write about, and I discover that my mind is still
savoring my bus ride here to Place d'Italie. It was FUN. I got a seat,
which is nice, and then I just kicked back watching the people on the
bus with me. They were neat. They made me smile.

In the US, they would have tended to be mostly lower class. Cars and
car-dependent city designs have ensured that most of the middle class
have cars. And the upper crust wouldn't be caught dead on a city bus or
a subway.

Here, it's not like that, except at the very top of the upper class.
I've seen well-dressed, obviously well-to-do people on the Metros and
buses. Heck, I've seen famous people on the Metros and buses. So you get
a wide range -- from poor to lower class to middle class to the
occasional upper class person, all getting across Paris via public
transportation.

There's a lot of Paris to have to get across. This is not a small city.
And even if you have a car, on most routes you can get there faster on
public transportation. Also, *when* you get there, you don't have to
worry about finding a place to park your car. Parking spaces in Paris
are so rare as to be increasingly considered mythical.

So it's a no-brainer here -- if you have an important business meeting
or a romantic date across town and you want to get there on time -- to
decide whether you should drive your car or take public transportation.
You just hop on the Metro. They're very reliable, and they'll get you
there on time.

I've never had a car when living in Paris, and don't see the need of
having one now. Back home in the Netherlands, I have a car but it has
sat unused for months now. Public transportation is just so much more
convenient, and in the long run, cheaper.

But those are just the pragmatic reasons for preferring public
transportation, at least in Europe. The more important reason for me is
that it's more FUN. I am endlessly fascinated by people, of every class,
so riding the buses and trains and Metros that constitute public
transportation in France and the Netherlands provides me with a
never-ending canvas of great people to watch.

The buses and Metros of Paris are like a genetic and cultural frog in a
blender. Given the number of immigrants in the past few decades, Paris
today looks like Casablanca did when I was growing up there. The faces I
see are a mix of French and North African, with growing numbers of black
Africans, Muslims from places other than North Africa, and Asians. Paris
is a cultural zoo. Add to that the cross-class nature of Paris public
transit, and you've got a zoo worth savoring. I sometimes feel as if I
should be sitting there with a container of popcorn in my lap, it's so
much like a movie.

You learn so much.

There are still young people in the world who get up and give their
seats to an older person. There are street toughs whose style is to look
like they're ready to kill you, but who leap across a Metro car to block
the subway doors closing on a hapless fellow commuter. There are
remarkable acts of both kindness (common) and rudeness (rare). There are
occasional dramas, and even the occasional cops-and-robbers flick as
some pickpocket runs down the Metro platform, pursued by the gendarmes.
These are straight out of early Truffaut movies, so much so that I find
myself looking around to discover where the cameras are placed.

And there are the *visuals* of the Metro, ferchrissakes. Some of the
Metro stops are nothing short of stunning, architecturally, even the
now-aging ones. For examples of that, rent Amelie and watch it again.
Jeunet's shots of the Metro stations and train stations of Paris are
jaw-droppingly beautiful. Yes, they're color-enhanced, but IMO that's
just him presenting the visuals of Paris to others the way *he* sees
them. All glow-y, full of light, full of life.

I see them the same way. Although my Day Job may from time to time get
boring, my commutes to and from work never do. I've only seen a couple
of movies in the theater since I've been working here, and part of the
reason is that I sit

[FairfieldLife] RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: Were the First Artists Mostly Women?

Curiouser and curiouser. I'm with you when you say: I'll never look at cave
paintings the same way again. It's remarkable how something as simple - and
boring - as measuring finger lengths can result in one's preconceptions being
completely overturned.

Of course, in a decade hence some smart aleck might produce new findings
suggesting the caves were actually the paleolithic equivalent of a lap-dancing
bar!

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote:

Thanks for the link. Last two paragraphs:

Link to Nat Geo
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/07/080702-cave-paintings.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/07/080702-cave-paintings.html

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote:

I'll never look at cave paintings the same way again.

Do you have a link to the Nat Geo story about the acoustics in the caves? Or
was what you quoted all there was to it?

Seraphita wrote:

Interesting - you learn something new every day but the mystery deepens.

National Geographic had this intriguing story:

---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote:

Three-quarters of handprints in ancient cave art were left by women, study
finds.

Experts expressed a wide range of opinions about how to interpret Snow’s new
data, attesting to the many mysteries still surrounding this early art.

http://museumofclassicalantiquities.tumblr.com/post/63652239781/archaeology-were-the-first-artists-mostly

Re: [FairfieldLife] Public Transportation

Last week I rode downtown on one of these:

[image: Inline image 1]


On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com wrote:

 **


 About 50 years ago, I traveled from Frostburg, MD in the mountains to DC
 Union Station. Lots of trees at the beginning. Lots of govt buildings at
 the end. But Union Station is quite beautiful as are some other parts of
 DC.

 The passenger trains traveling east that go through FF end up in Chicago.
 They are not reliable time-wise so if one has a plane to catch out of
 O'Hara, it's better to take the bus. And at least the bus stops in FF. The
 closest train stops are 30 minutes away, Ottumwa to the west and Mt.
 Pleasant to the east. Friends have taken that train, the California Zephyr,
 to Denver, and then all the way to the Pacific Northwest. I think it's an
 all night journey. I don't think it's the Orient Express!


   On Saturday, October 12, 2013 11:50 AM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net
 wrote:

   We have an Amtrak station here.  I looked into traveling up to Seattle
 that way but it was actually more expensive than taking a plane.  When I
 was a kid I traveled from here back up to Portland on a train.  I would bet
 the route has not changed much.  I got to see a lot of fir trees.

 On 10/12/2013 09:28 AM, Share Long wrote:


 I admit I've long wished the US had a coast to coast fast train and a car
 train at that, maybe making 3 or so stops along the way. I've traveled in
 train a few times and thoroughly enjoyed it.



   On Saturday, October 12, 2013 11:17 AM, Bhairitu
 noozg...@sbcglobal.net noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote:

   As I've posted before, Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) ain't so rapid.
 Right now there is a possibility of another strike which will make things
 really worse.  Much at issue aren't so much union wages but safety.  Back
 in the day they probably thought they had the state of the art public
 transportation idea, except that it is too expensive to extend into the
 whole area.  And train and trolley tracks got torn up and even now used as
 hiking trails.  So we can't do the much cheaper light rail.

 In the 1990s I lived across the street from a BART station.  Where I
 worked was also across the street from a BART station but I rarely took
 it.  That was because my job sometimes required driving out to other
 businesses.  And gas was so cheap and my car so fuel efficient it actually
 cost more to ride BART.  I would occasionally take BART into the city
 (San Francisco) because parking, like Paris, is shitty there.  But I would
 occasionally drive there on weekends when downtown is like a ghost town.

 America is carville.  The car manufacturers wanted it that way.  It is
 also spread out.  And California has a lot weird and winding roads probably
 drawn up with it was part of Mexico.  Not too easy to do mass transit with
 those.

 On 10/11/2013 11:19 PM, turquoiseb wrote:



 So I'm sitting here in this cafe that promised Wifi and didn't deliver,
 wondering what I can write about, and I discover that my mind is still
 savoring my bus ride here to Place d'Italie. It was FUN. I got a seat,
 which is nice, and then I just kicked back watching the people on the
 bus with me. They were neat. They made me smile.

 In the US, they would have tended to be mostly lower class. Cars and
 car-dependent city designs have ensured that most of the middle class
 have cars. And the upper crust wouldn't be caught dead on a city bus or
 a subway.

 Here, it's not like that, except at the very top of the upper class.
 I've seen well-dressed, obviously well-to-do people on the Metros and
 buses. Heck, I've seen famous people on the Metros and buses. So you get
 a wide range -- from poor to lower class to middle class to the
 occasional upper class person, all getting across Paris via public
 transportation.

 There's a lot of Paris to have to get across. This is not a small city.
 And even if you have a car, on most routes you can get there faster on
 public transportation. Also, *when* you get there, you don't have to
 worry about finding a place to park your car. Parking spaces in Paris
 are so rare as to be increasingly considered mythical.

 So it's a no-brainer here -- if you have an important business meeting
 or a romantic date across town and you want to get there on time -- to
 decide whether you should drive your car or take public transportation.
 You just hop on the Metro. They're very reliable, and they'll get you
 there on time.

 I've never had a car when living in Paris, and don't see the need of
 having one now. Back home in the Netherlands, I have a car but it has
 sat unused for months now. Public transportation is just so much more
 convenient, and in the long run, cheaper.

 But those are just the pragmatic reasons for preferring public
 transportation, at least in Europe. The more important reason for me is
 that it's more FUN. I am endlessly fascinated by people, of every class,
 so riding the buses and trains and Metros

Re: [FairfieldLife] Public Transportation

Very colorful, Richard. FF could definitely use something like that to continue 
its efforts in becoming a tourist destination. But I like your car too.




On Saturday, October 12, 2013 1:56 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.com 
wrote:
 
  
Last week I rode downtown on one of these:





On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com wrote:

 
  
About 50 years ago, I traveled from Frostburg, MD in the mountains to DC Union 
Station. Lots of trees at the beginning. Lots of govt buildings at the end. 
But Union Station is quite beautiful as are some other parts of DC. 



The passenger trains traveling east that go through FF end up in Chicago. They 
are not reliable time-wise so if one has a plane to catch out of O'Hara, it's 
better to take the bus. And at least the bus stops in FF. The closest train 
stops are 30 minutes away, Ottumwa to the west and Mt. Pleasant to the east. 
Friends have taken that train, the California Zephyr, to Denver, and then all 
the way to the Pacific Northwest. I think it's an all night journey. I don't 
think it's the Orient Express!




On Saturday, October 12, 2013 11:50 AM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net 
wrote:
 
  
We have an Amtrak station here.  I looked into traveling up to Seattle that 
way but it was actually more expensive than taking a plane.  When I was a kid 
I traveled from here back up to Portland on a train.  I would bet the route 
has not changed much.  I got to see a lot of fir trees.

On 10/12/2013 09:28 AM, Share Long wrote:

  
I admit I've long wished the US had a coast to coast fast train and a car 
train at that, maybe making 3 or so stops along the way. I've traveled in 
train a few times and thoroughly enjoyed it.






On Saturday, October 12, 2013 11:17 AM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net 
wrote:
 
  
As I've posted before, Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) ain't so rapid.  Right 
now there is a possibility of another strike which will make things really 
worse.  Much at issue aren't so much union wages but safety.  Back in the day 
they probably thought they had the state of the art public transportation 
idea, except that it is too expensive to extend into the whole area.  And 
train and trolley tracks got torn up and even now used as hiking trails.  So 
we can't do the much cheaper light rail.

In the 1990s I lived across the street
  from a BART station.  Where I worked
  was also across the street from a BART
  station but I rarely took it.  That
  was because my job sometimes required
  driving out to other businesses.  And
  gas was so cheap and my car so fuel
  efficient it actually cost more to
  ride BART.  I would occasionally take
  BART into the city (San Francisco)
  because parking, like Paris, is shitty
  there.  But I would occasionally drive
  there on weekends when downtown is
  like a ghost town.

America is carville.  The car
  manufacturers wanted it that way.  It
  is also spread out.  And California
  has a lot weird and winding roads
  probably drawn up with it was part of
  Mexico.  Not too easy to do mass
  transit with those.

On 10/11/2013 11:19 PM, turquoiseb
  wrote:

  

So I'm sitting here in this cafe
that promised Wifi and didn't
deliver,
wondering what I can write
about, and I discover that my
mind is still
savoring my bus ride here to
Place d'Italie. It was FUN. I
got a seat,
which is nice, and then I just
kicked back watching the people
on the
bus with me. They were neat.
They made me smile.

In the US, they would have
tended to be mostly lower class.
Cars and
car-dependent city designs have
ensured that most of the middle
class
have cars. And the upper crust
wouldn't be caught dead on a
city bus or
a subway.

Here, it's not like that, except

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Shamans and Don Juan Matus

Possession by spirits, although documented in a great many shamanisms, 
does not seem to have been a primary and essential element. Rather, it 
suggests a phenomenon of degeneration; for the supreme goal of the 
shaman is to abandon his body and rise to heaven or descend into hell, 
not to let himself be 'possessed' by his assisting spirits, by demons or 
the souls of the dead; the shaman's ideal is to master these spirits, 
not to let himself be occupied by them (320).


Work cited:

Yoga : Immortality and Freedom
by Mircea Eliade
Princeton University Press, 1970

On 10/12/2013 1:38 PM, s3raph...@yahoo.com wrote:


Re It's not really about Castaneda:


OK - fair enough. The BBC docu I linked to is worth a look though. It 
briefly touches on Castaneda's life but concentrates on the 
disappearances (and presumed suicides) of his female fans Florinda 
Donner, Taisha Abelar, Amalia Marquez and Kylie Lundahl . Typical 
cult-like fall-out.




---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com 
wrote:


It's not really about Castaneda - we already pretty much discussed 
that over on Usenet : alt.dreams.castaneda


And, it's more about Shamans than Don Juan Matus. It's more about 
Shamanism as a influence on the Siddha tradition in India, where an 
influence from the shaman substratum may be assumed.


Indian Elements of Shamanism:

1) Induced ecstasy through chanting
2) Recovery of lost souls
3) Flight to the spiritual sky
4) Use of the magical drum
6) Shaman as Psyhchopomp
7) The cosmic mountain as axis mundi
9) Use of fire and flame as magical heat

On 10/11/2013 7:02 PM, s3raphita@... mailto:s3raphita@... wrote:

I don't wish to be the bearer of bad news but if  Carlos Castaneda is 
a hero of yours you might want to watch this BBC documentary What 
happens when anthropology goes bad? The last in this series of great 
yarns from the world of anthropology is a story of sex, drugs and a 
long-lost body in the desert.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXl95ZaYe3Q



---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com 
mailto:fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... 
mailto:punditster@... wrote:


They don't call Native Americans Indians for nothing, since they 
all came from Asia in the first place. Go figure.


According to what I've read, a recent study of a 40,000 year old 
skeleton from  China showed that early modern humans present in the 
Beijing area 40,000 y ago were related to the ancestors of many 
present-day Asians as well as Native Americans.


So, what is a shaman anyway?

A shaman is anybody who contacts a spirit world while in an altered 
state of consciousness.


The idea is based  on the notion that the visible world is of the 
senses is pervaded by invisible forces or spirits which affect the 
lives of living people. Shamans can reach altered states of 
consciousness in order to encounter and interact with the spirit 
world and channel transcendental energies.


For me there is only the traveling on the paths that have heart, on 
any path that may have heart. There I travel, and the only worthwhile 
challenge for me is to traverse its full length. And there I 
travel—looking, looking, breathlessly. - Don Juan Matus


Only known photography of Don Juan Matus:

Inline image 1

[FairfieldLife] RE: Yaqui Vastu

2013-10-12 Thread emptybill

The Yanqui all natural terra-form home from West Texas.

---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote:

dear Richard, well may your entire home be a Zone of Tranquility (-:
thanks for another lovely photo.

On Friday, October 11, 2013 2:45 PM, Richard Williams punditster@... wrote:

We are thinking about a modest home - one with an interior courtyard garden
for the Zone of Tranquility.

Spanish style house exterior courtyard front door:
http://www.cococozy.com/
http://www.cococozy.com/2010/06/see-this-house-spanish-revived-for.html

Spanish style house exterior courtyard front door:
http://www.cococozy.com/2010/06/see-this-house-spanish-revived-for.html
http://www.cococozy.com/2010/06/see-this-house-spanish-revived-for.html

On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Share Long sharelong60@...
mailto:sharelong60@... wrote: Thanks, Richard, nice topic. You may remember
that some of the FF vastu homes are made of straw bales; some off the grid;
some just eco friendly. I love this idea of building in harmony with the
surrounding land.
On Friday, October 11, 2013 10:40 AM, Richard Williams punditster@...
mailto:punditster@... wrote:
Years ago I was very impressed with the home designs of Buckminiter Fuller.
I once visited Colorado to see solar, self sufficient homes.

http://www.livingearthconstruction.com/ http://www.livingearthconstruction.com/

There's a nice house in San Antonio designed by the famous architect O'neil
Ford:

http://www.mysanantonio.com/outside-in-in-an-O-Neil-Ford-1369441.php
http://www.mysanantonio.com/real_estate/article/Spaces-Bringing-the-outside-in-in-an-O-Neil-Ford-1369441.php

Several years ago we drove up to Fairfield to look at some of the vastu
designed homes. I've also looked at homes that employ Asian Feng Shui designs
and we drove to New Mexico and Arizona to look around at places that have a
Southwest design.

According to what I've read, there's a lady down in Brazil that is building
her house out of concrete. Has anybody ever wondered how much their home
weighs? Go figure.

Most people don't get to design their own dwelling - they buy or rent already
built homes or apartments. I know a guy up in Austin that lives in a daub and
wattle shack out on the road to erewhon - ever since his wife left him he
does't even care about where he throws his dirty socks. LoL!

So, Rita and I are designing our own house. It's going to be based on Yaqui
Vastu principles. It's not complicated.

The first thing you have to do is find a suituable place to build and then
follow the natural flow of the physical terrain, so that you find a good
balance of man-made and the natural landscape. The second thing you have to do
is decide on pier and beam, or slab foundation. It's all about placement and
positioning.

So, what is Yaqui Vastu?

Yaqui Vastu teaches alignment, placement, and the relationship of physical
space in relation to man and nature. How we build our homes and how we set up
the interior of our shelters has a dramatic impact on our way of living.

An essential part of any vastu living home is a zone of tranquility.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Public Transportation

Do you take the bike or ride in the car to get to the dome?

[image: Inline image 1]


On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com wrote:

 **


 Very colorful, Richard. FF could definitely use something like that to
 continue its efforts in becoming a tourist destination. But I like your car
 too.


   On Saturday, October 12, 2013 1:56 PM, Richard Williams 
 pundits...@gmail.com wrote:

  Last week I rode downtown on one of these:

 [image: Inline image 1]


 On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.comwrote:

 **

  About 50 years ago, I traveled from Frostburg, MD in the mountains to DC
 Union Station. Lots of trees at the beginning. Lots of govt buildings at
 the end. But Union Station is quite beautiful as are some other parts of
 DC.

 The passenger trains traveling east that go through FF end up in Chicago.
 They are not reliable time-wise so if one has a plane to catch out of
 O'Hara, it's better to take the bus. And at least the bus stops in FF. The
 closest train stops are 30 minutes away, Ottumwa to the west and Mt.
 Pleasant to the east. Friends have taken that train, the California Zephyr,
 to Denver, and then all the way to the Pacific Northwest. I think it's an
 all night journey. I don't think it's the Orient Express!


   On Saturday, October 12, 2013 11:50 AM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net
 wrote:

   We have an Amtrak station here.  I looked into traveling up to Seattle
 that way but it was actually more expensive than taking a plane.  When I
 was a kid I traveled from here back up to Portland on a train.  I would bet
 the route has not changed much.  I got to see a lot of fir trees.

 On 10/12/2013 09:28 AM, Share Long wrote:


 I admit I've long wished the US had a coast to coast fast train and a car
 train at that, maybe making 3 or so stops along the way. I've traveled in
 train a few times and thoroughly enjoyed it.



   On Saturday, October 12, 2013 11:17 AM, Bhairitu
 noozg...@sbcglobal.net noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote:

   As I've posted before, Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) ain't so rapid.
 Right now there is a possibility of another strike which will make things
 really worse.  Much at issue aren't so much union wages but safety.  Back
 in the day they probably thought they had the state of the art public
 transportation idea, except that it is too expensive to extend into the
 whole area.  And train and trolley tracks got torn up and even now used as
 hiking trails.  So we can't do the much cheaper light rail.

 In the 1990s I lived across the street from a BART station.  Where I
 worked was also across the street from a BART station but I rarely took
 it.  That was because my job sometimes required driving out to other
 businesses.  And gas was so cheap and my car so fuel efficient it actually
 cost more to ride BART.  I would occasionally take BART into the city
 (San Francisco) because parking, like Paris, is shitty there.  But I would
 occasionally drive there on weekends when downtown is like a ghost town.

 America is carville.  The car manufacturers wanted it that way.  It is
 also spread out.  And California has a lot weird and winding roads probably
 drawn up with it was part of Mexico.  Not too easy to do mass transit with
 those.

 On 10/11/2013 11:19 PM, turquoiseb wrote:



 So I'm sitting here in this cafe that promised Wifi and didn't deliver,
 wondering what I can write about, and I discover that my mind is still
 savoring my bus ride here to Place d'Italie. It was FUN. I got a seat,
 which is nice, and then I just kicked back watching the people on the
 bus with me. They were neat. They made me smile.

 In the US, they would have tended to be mostly lower class. Cars and
 car-dependent city designs have ensured that most of the middle class
 have cars. And the upper crust wouldn't be caught dead on a city bus or
 a subway.

 Here, it's not like that, except at the very top of the upper class.
 I've seen well-dressed, obviously well-to-do people on the Metros and
 buses. Heck, I've seen famous people on the Metros and buses. So you get
 a wide range -- from poor to lower class to middle class to the
 occasional upper class person, all getting across Paris via public
 transportation.

 There's a lot of Paris to have to get across. This is not a small city.
 And even if you have a car, on most routes you can get there faster on
 public transportation. Also, *when* you get there, you don't have to
 worry about finding a place to park your car. Parking spaces in Paris
 are so rare as to be increasingly considered mythical.

 So it's a no-brainer here -- if you have an important business meeting
 or a romantic date across town and you want to get there on time -- to
 decide whether you should drive your car or take public transportation.
 You just hop on the Metro. They're very reliable, and they'll get you
 there on time.

 I've never had a car when living in Paris, and don't see the need of
 having one now. Back

[FairfieldLife] RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: Were the First Artists Mostly Women?

Seraphita wrote:
 
 Curiouser and curiouser. I'm with you when you say: I'll never look at cave 
paintings the same way again. It's remarkable how something as simple - and 
boring - as measuring finger lengths can result in one's preconceptions being 
completely overturned.
 

 What really gets me is that apparently it never occurred to anybody who was 
studying and writing about the paintings that the artists might not all have 
been men (let alone that most of them may have been women). It was just assumed 
they were men, until now.
 

 We've known for some time about the difference in index-versus-ring-finger 
lengths between male and female, but nobody thought to use that knowledge to 
investigate who the hand-prints belonged to.
 

 I wonder if this was known back then; it could conceivably have been a bit of 
folk wisdom. I'm fantasizing that the women created the hand-prints to make 
sure it would be clear to later viewers who had done the paintings. ;-)
 

 Of course, in a decade hence some smart aleck might produce new findings 
suggesting the caves were actually the paleolithic equivalent of a lap-dancing 
bar! 

 

 Oy...
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote:

 Thanks for the link.  Last two paragraphs:
 

 In rare instances, cave images include highly stylized females who appear to 
be dancing or enigmatic, part-animal 'sorcerer' figures engaging in what seem 
to be transformational dances.
 'This is therefore an artistic connection between dance and art. Perhaps in 
this case the art is recording specific ritual events,' Pettitt said. 'It is 
inconceivable that such rituals would have taken place in silence.'
 Seraphita wrote:

Link to Nat Geo
 http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/07/080702-cave-paintings.html 
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/07/080702-cave-paintings.html 
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote:

 Love it. If both this and the other story are true, it would mean the women 
doing the cave paintings were likely priestesses and/or shamans. The mental 
image--both visually and in terms of the type of energy involved--is so 
different from the one I've had up to now that it gives me chills up my spine. 
And it must say some important things about the nature of the society outside 
the caves as well.
 

 I'll never look at cave paintings the same way again.
 

 Do you have a link to the Nat Geo story about the acoustics in the caves? Or 
was what you quoted all there was to it?
 

 Seraphita wrote:
 
 Interesting - you learn something new every day but the mystery deepens.  
 

 National Geographic had this intriguing story:
 

 Prehistoric peoples chose places of natural resonant sound to draw their famed 
cave sketches, according to new analyses of paleolithic caves in France. In at 
least ten locations, drawings of horses, bison, and mammoths seem to match 
locations that focus, amplify, and transform the sounds of human voices and 
musical instruments. In the cave of Niaux in Ariège, most of the remarkable 
paintings are situated in the resonant Salon Noir, which sounds like a 
Romanesque chapel, said Iegor Reznikoff, an acoustics expert at the University 
of Paris who conducted the research. The sites would therefore have served as 
places of natural power, supporting the theory that decorated caves were 
backdrops for religious and magical rituals.

 

---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote:

 Three-quarters of handprints in ancient cave art were left by women, study 
finds.

 

 Women made most of the oldest-known cave art paintings, suggests a new 
analysis of ancient handprints. Most scholars had assumed these ancient artists 
were predominantly men, so the finding overturns decades of archaeological 
dogma.
 

 Archaeologist Dean Snow of Pennsylvania State University analyzed hand 
stencils found in eight cave sites in France and Spain. By comparing the 
relative lengths of certain fingers, Snow determined that three-quarters of the 
handprints were female.
 

 Archaeologists have found hundreds of hand stencils on cave walls across the 
world. Because many of these early paintings also showcase game animals—bison, 
reindeer, horses, woolly mammoths—many researchers have proposed that they were 
made by male hunters, perhaps to chronicle their kills or as some kind of 
“hunting magic” to improve success of an upcoming hunt. The new study suggests 
otherwise.
 

 In most hunter-gatherer societies, it’s men that do the killing. But it’s 
often the women who haul the meat back to camp, and women are as concerned with 
the productivity of the hunt as the men are, Snow said. It wasn’t just a 
bunch of guys out there chasing bison around.
 

 Experts expressed a wide range of opinions about how to interpret Snow’s new 
data, attesting to the many mysteries still surrounding this early art.
 

 Hand stencils are a truly ironic category of cave art because they

Re: [FairfieldLife] Public Transportation

I drive to the Dome in my 2006 Honda Civic which was #1 in its class that year. 
She has manual transmission, a sunroof and no GPS, all at my request (-:
Hmmm, in the movies, such limos have well stocked refrigerators...




On Saturday, October 12, 2013 2:17 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.com 
wrote:
 
  
Do you take the bike or ride in the car to get to the dome?





On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com wrote:

 
  
Very colorful, Richard. FF could definitely use something like that to 
continue its efforts in becoming a tourist destination. But I like your car 
too.




On Saturday, October 12, 2013 1:56 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.com 
wrote:
 
  
Last week I rode downtown on one of these:







On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com wrote:

 
  
About 50 years ago, I traveled from Frostburg, MD in the mountains to DC 
Union Station. Lots of trees at the beginning. Lots of govt buildings at the 
end. But Union Station is quite beautiful as are some other parts of DC. 



The passenger trains traveling east that go through FF end up in Chicago. 
They are not reliable time-wise so if one has a plane to catch out of O'Hara, 
it's better to take the bus. And at least the bus stops in FF. The closest 
train stops are 30 minutes away, Ottumwa to the west and Mt. Pleasant to the 
east. Friends have taken that train, the California Zephyr, to Denver, and 
then all the way to the Pacific Northwest. I think it's an all night journey. 
I don't think it's the Orient Express!




On Saturday, October 12, 2013 11:50 AM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net 
wrote:
 
  
We have an Amtrak station here.  I looked into traveling up to Seattle that 
way but it was actually more expensive than taking a plane.  When I was a kid 
I traveled from here back up to Portland on a train.  I would bet the route 
has not changed much.  I got to see a lot of fir trees.

On 10/12/2013 09:28 AM, Share Long wrote:

  
I admit I've long wished the US had a coast to coast fast train and a car 
train at that, maybe making 3 or so stops along the way. I've traveled in 
train a few times and thoroughly enjoyed it.






On Saturday, October 12, 2013 11:17 AM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net 
wrote:
 
  
As I've posted before, Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) ain't so rapid.  Right 
now there is a possibility of another strike which will make things really 
worse.  Much at issue aren't so much union wages but safety.  Back in the 
day they probably thought they had the state of the art public 
transportation idea, except that it is too expensive to extend into the 
whole area.  And train and trolley tracks got torn up and even now used as 
hiking trails.  So we can't do the much cheaper light rail.

In the 1990s I lived across the street
  from a BART station.  Where I worked
  was also across the street from a BART
  station but I rarely took it.  That
  was because my job sometimes required
  driving out to other businesses.  And
  gas was so cheap and my car so fuel
  efficient it actually cost more to
  ride BART.  I would occasionally take
  BART into the city (San Francisco)
  because parking, like Paris, is shitty
  there.  But I would occasionally drive
  there on weekends when downtown is
  like a ghost town.

America is carville.  The car
  manufacturers wanted it that way.  It
  is also spread out.  And California
  has a lot weird and winding roads
  probably drawn up with it was part of
  Mexico.  Not too easy to do mass
  transit with those.

On 10/11/2013 11:19 PM, turquoiseb
  wrote:

  

So I'm sitting here in this cafe
that promised Wifi and didn't
deliver,
wondering what I can write
about, and I discover that my
mind is still
savoring my bus ride here to
Place d'Italie. It was FUN. I
got a seat,
which is nice, and then I just
kicked back watching the people
on the
bus with me. They were neat.
They made me smile.

In the US, they would have

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Yaqui Vastu

It's all a matter of positioning and placement.

Geomancy is at least half a million years old, dating from early Homo
Sapiens. Images of 'Mater' dating from 30,000 B.C.E. were placed in small
wall recesses in homes, in order to insure vitality and abundance.

All traditional cultures have their own systems of geomantic placement.
There are many solutions that nature has provided in the way of housing,
such as cocoons, shells, webs, nests and dens, which are but a few examples
of natural geomancy.

Thus, geomancy is inherent and vital to life and survival. In human
society, geomancy is a part of our animal heritage and the result of
continuing improvement in human dwelling construction.

People have always developed shelters and homes in concert with nature.
Tree houses, caves, cliff dwellings, and commanding views are some examples
of universal geomancy.

Buckminister Fuller 'Dymaxion' House at the Henry Ford Museum:

[image: Inline image 1]

Geomancy can be defined as The skillfull use of the best available
knowledge in order to create the most suitable conditions for living and
working. Geomancy involves the awareness of how the ways of construction,
orientation, and placement affect our environment and thus our own daily
activities and relations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_house

On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 2:15 PM, emptyb...@yahoo.com wrote:

The Yanqui all natural terra-form home from West Texas.

---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote:

dear Richard, well may your entire home be a Zone of Tranquility (-:
thanks for another lovely photo.

On Friday, October 11, 2013 2:45 PM, Richard Williams punditster@...
wrote:

We are thinking about a modest home - one with an interior courtyard
garden for the Zone of Tranquility.

Spanish style house exterior courtyard front door:
http://www.cococozy.com/http://www.cococozy.com/2010/06/see-this-house-spanish-revived-for.html

[image: Inline image 2]

Spanish style house exterior courtyard front door:
http://www.cococozy.com/2010/06/see-this-house-spanish-revived-for.html

On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote:

Thanks, Richard, nice topic. You may remember that some of the FF vastu
homes are made of straw bales; some off the grid; some just eco friendly. I
love this idea of building in harmony with the surrounding land.

On Friday, October 11, 2013 10:40 AM, Richard Williams punditster@...
wrote:

Years ago I was very impressed with the home designs of Buckminiter
Fuller. I once visited Colorado to see solar, self sufficient homes.

http://www.livingearthconstruction.com/

There's a nice house in San Antonio designed by the famous architect
O'neil Ford:

[image: Inline image 1]

http://www.mysanantonio.com/outside-in-in-an-O-Neil-Ford-1369441.phphttp://www.mysanantonio.com/real_estate/article/Spaces-Bringing-the-outside-in-in-an-O-Neil-Ford-1369441.php

Several years ago we drove up to Fairfield to look at some of the vastu
designed homes. I've also looked at homes that employ Asian Feng Shui
designs and we drove to New Mexico and Arizona to look around at places
that have a Southwest design.

According to what I've read, there's a lady down in Brazil that is
building her house out of concrete. Has anybody ever wondered how much
their home weighs? Go figure.

Most people don't get to design their own dwelling - they buy or rent
already built homes or apartments. I know a guy up in Austin that lives in
a daub and wattle shack out on the road to erewhon - ever since his wife
left him he does't even care about where he throws his dirty socks. LoL!

So, Rita and I are designing our own house. It's going to be based on
Yaqui Vastu principles. It's not complicated.

The first thing you have to do is find a suituable place to build and then
follow the natural flow of the physical terrain, so that you find a good
balance of man-made and the natural landscape. The second thing you have to
do is decide on pier and beam, or slab foundation. It's all about placement
and positioning.

So, what is Yaqui Vastu?

Yaqui Vastu teaches alignment, placement, and the relationship of physical
space in relation to man and nature. How we build our homes and how we set
up the interior of our shelters has a dramatic impact on our way of living.

An essential part of any vastu living home is a zone of tranquility.

[FairfieldLife] #5# Take Advantage of Every Opportunity

2013-10-12 Thread Paulo Barbosa

  To Reflect...

  Take Advantage of Every Opportunity

  preach the Word; be ready in season and out of season (2
  Timothy 4:2).


  During a terrible storm, young Charles Spurgeon
  took refuge in a Methodist Chapel. The sermon was preached by a deacon with 
little instruction who frequently repeated some common phrases. However, 
Spurgion, there and then, opened his heart to Jesus, 
later to become one of the best-known preachers
 of all times.


  How many people do we meet along the way, every day, in all places, in 
different situations? What value to we give them? Do we treat them with 
indifference that we judge to be normal, or do we take the
opportunity to talk to them about salvation in
Jesus, of forgiveness of sins and eternal life?
  How many annointed preachers might be within our reach without our knowing it?


  Sometimes we forget that the Lord called us to be His disciples, proclaimers 
of the Good News, witnesses to the transformation that only He can operate in 
the life of men. Many times we ignore the possibility
that God caused such people to pass thro
ugh our lives, so we would share with them the joy that one day we found when 
we opened our hearts to the Saviour. It is time to begin living the Christian 
life that the Lord expects us to live, putting 
aside the inertia so common in Christians today.


  If we do not know how to preach the Gospel, the Holy Spirit will give life to 
our words. If we feel weak and impotent before the world, the Lord will be our 
strength. If what we say seems of no importance
to our hearers, let us be persistent, someth
ing will happen and the name of the Lord will be lifted up and glorified.


  There are people, like Spurgeon, needing God. There are people, still 
unknown, that God wants to use powerfully. There are people, like us, who 
should do their part, sowing the Word with passion and
determination, so that many can know the Truth and
 be blessed with salvation and eternal life with God.


  Do not lose any opportunities. Let the Lord shine in your life.

Paulo Barbosa
A blind in Internet

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: Were the First Artists Mostly Women?


It makes sense - women probably were the first to tame fire as well.

The very first use of human controlled fire, circa 50,000 BCE, in 
relation to human a dwelling, was the controlled use of fire sticks.


Contrary to popular opinion, it is quite possible that ancient women 
invented shamanism through the ritual use and placement of flame in the 
dwelling.


Apparently, the first use of fire by women was not for warmth, nor for 
cooking food, but instead, fire was placed in the 'hearth' as a fetish 
or symbolic gadget in order to attract a mate.


On 10/12/2013 1:44 PM, s3raph...@yahoo.com wrote:


Curiouser and curiouser. I'm with you when you say: I'll never look 
at cave paintings the same way again. It's remarkable how something 
as simple - and boring - as measuring finger lengths can result in 
one's preconceptions being completely overturned.



Of course, in a decade hence some smart aleck might produce new 
findings suggesting the caves were actually the paleolithic equivalent 
of a lap-dancing bar!




---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com 
wrote:


Thanks for the link.  Last two paragraphs:


In rare instances, cave images include highly stylized females who 
appear to be dancing or enigmatic, part-animal 'sorcerer' figures 
engaging in what seem to be transformational dances.


'This is therefore an artistic connection between dance and art. 
Perhaps in this case the art is recording specific ritual events,' 
Pettitt said. 'It is inconceivable that such rituals would have taken 
place in silence.'


Seraphita wrote:

Link to Nat Geo

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/07/080702-cave-paintings.html 





---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com 
wrote:


Love it. If both this and the other story are true, it would mean the 
women doing the cave paintings were likely priestesses and/or shamans. 
The mental image--both visually and in terms of the type of energy 
involved--is so different from the one I've had up to now that it 
gives me chills up my spine. And it must say some important things 
about the nature of the society outside the caves as well.



I'll never look at cave paintings the same way again.


Do you have a link to the Nat Geo story about the acoustics in the 
caves? Or was what you quoted all there was to it?



Seraphita wrote:


Interesting - you learn something new every day but the mystery deepens.


National Geographic had this intriguing story:


Prehistoric peoples chose places of natural resonant sound to draw 
their famed cave sketches, according to new analyses of paleolithic 
caves in France. In at least ten locations, drawings of horses, bison, 
and mammoths seem to match locations that focus, amplify, and 
transform the sounds of human voices and musical instruments. In the 
cave of Niaux in Ariège, most of the remarkable paintings are situated 
in the resonant Salon Noir, which sounds like a Romanesque chapel, 
said Iegor Reznikoff, an acoustics expert at the University of Paris 
who conducted the research. The sites would therefore have served as 
places of natural power, supporting the theory that decorated caves 
were backdrops for religious and magical rituals.




---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote:

Three-quarters of handprints in ancient cave art were left by women, 
study finds.



Women made most of the oldest-known cave art paintings, suggests a new 
analysis of ancient handprints. Most scholars had assumed these 
ancient artists were predominantly men, so the finding overturns 
decades of archaeological dogma.



Archaeologist Dean Snow of Pennsylvania State University analyzed hand 
stencils found in eight cave sites in France and Spain. By comparing 
the relative lengths of certain fingers, Snow determined that 
three-quarters of the handprints were female.



Archaeologists have found hundreds of hand stencils on cave walls 
across the world. Because many of these early paintings also showcase 
game animals—bison, reindeer, horses, woolly mammoths—many researchers 
have proposed that they were made by male hunters, perhaps to 
chronicle their kills or as some kind of “hunting magic” to improve 
success of an upcoming hunt. The new study suggests otherwise.



In most hunter-gatherer societies, it’s men that do the killing. But 
it’s often the women who haul the meat back to camp, and women are as 
concerned with the productivity of the hunt as the men are, Snow 
said. It wasn’t just a bunch of guys out there chasing bison around.



Experts expressed a wide range of opinions about how to interpret 
Snow’s new data, attesting to the many mysteries still surrounding 
this early art.



Hand stencils are a truly ironic category of cave art because they 
appear to be such a clear and obvious connection between us and the 
people of the Paleolithic, said archaeologist Paul Pettitt of Durham 
University in England. “We think we understand them, yet the more you 
dig

[FairfieldLife] RE: Were the First Artists Mostly Women?

2013-10-12 Thread Duveyoung

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/cave_of_forgotten_dreams/

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote:

Three-quarters of handprints in ancient cave art were left by women, study
finds.

Experts expressed a wide range of opinions about how to interpret Snow’s new
data, attesting to the many mysteries still surrounding this early art.

http://museumofclassicalantiquities.tumblr.com/post/63652239781/archaeology-were-the-first-artists-mostly

RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Another Of My Usual

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote:

On Saturday, October 12, 2013 2:08:38 AM, iranitea no_re...@yahoogroups.com
wrote:

Hi Ann. Thanks for all the three videos. I saw them all. Of course I know
the joy of movement! What did you think? Come on, I have been walking on my
hands half of my life, as a kid and also as an adult, I still do it! But IMHO
these are two topics, getting vairagya through meditation, loving the bliss of
meditation, and enjoying movement, like dancing for example, or any type of
creative expression btw..
That first video I posted was a mistake but glad you liked them. And of course
I never implied you didn't like to move but I had no idea you liked to walk on
your hands - maybe that's what happens when you meditate too long - you can't
tell your head from your tail!

Lol, but you are wrong, I started walking on my hands when I was 8 years old. I
started my own self-made meditation when I was 15, and TM when I was 16.

You can also meet them in Indian temples. You have to give them a coin, so that
they 'bless' you with their trunk. And while looking for a coin, they
investigate the contents of your bag.

Actually this is very true, you become much more sensitive to any sensory
input, in a very subtle way, when you do a lot of meditation, also when you
live celibate.

But thanks for sharing, Ann. I never get any feeling of ill will or
aggressiveness from you, besides the fact, that we have different orientations
and opinions, and I appreciate that. I'm sure, if we met outside of FFL, we
just could be friends.
I am glad to hear you say this. It is rarely my intention to appear aggressive
or mean. I'll give a poke where a poke is due and I have never tolerated any
unwarranted abuse against myself or others so other than that I'm a fairly
nice person! Of course Barry claims I'm a Mean Girl which I take as a personal
badge of honour coming from him.

You should do so, it certainly is. Actually it's just satirizing a certain type
of piling on behavior. No need to take it absolutely serious. ---In
FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: For I ran
a tea house:
Now this is an example of the joy and exuberance of activity. That orangutan
is CRAZY!!

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10201359076552535amp;set=vb.1042328132amp;type=2amp;theater

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10201359076552535set=vb.1042328132type=2theater

[FairfieldLife] RE: RE: Were the First Artists Mostly Women?

2013-10-12 Thread emilymaenot

I was going to post this as well. This movie on the Chauvet Cave was
excellent; it leaves one wanting more.

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote:

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/cave_of_forgotten_dreams/

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote:

Three-quarters of handprints in ancient cave art were left by women, study
finds.

Experts expressed a wide range of opinions about how to interpret Snow’s new
data, attesting to the many mysteries still surrounding this early art.

http://museumofclassicalantiquities.tumblr.com/post/63652239781/archaeology-were-the-first-artists-mostly

Re: [FairfieldLife] Cutting the Cable Tip

Today the Chromecast is running much better.  Much, much better.  Last 
Saturday I made a comment to a friend about Fry's selling a 55 TV for 
$499.  I said, but who has ever heard of TCL?  Duh, turns out they are 
one of the top 4 TV manufacturers in the world and have only  recently 
set up shop in the US.   Of course the $499 deal was only good for last 
Saturday... and again today.


I have all kinds of streaming devices around here and of course 
mentioned I got a Chromecast the other day.  I don't need a smart TV.  
BUT, most of the major manufacturers aren't making dumb TVs anymore.  
And you pay extra for the smartness.  For those who don't know,  a 
smart TV comes with apps and wifi built in. Turns out the TCL was a 
dumb TV but doing some research got good reviews.


So I just finished first assembling the stand I bought with it. The 
stand was only $129 but I noticed that most all the sets at Frys were on 
it and if they trust it then it is good enough for me.  Then the TV was 
assembled which consists of just attaching the stand that comes with 
it.  Then hoisting the thing on the main stand which will also house the 
center speaker and BD players (I have two of them) plus the AV Receiver 
(I have a surround system with Klipsch speakers).


Turned on the TV and switch to the Chromecast which came up 
beautifully.  Grabbed my Android phone and ran the Netflix app and 
started a movie and clicked on the Chromecast button and viola! the 
movie was on the TV and looks like the SuperHD feed too!  Next the Hulu+ 
app will be added to the phone.  Great stuff!


On 10/10/2013 04:09 PM, Bhairitu wrote:


Went out and got a Chromecast to play with.  Now with my 13 year old 
TV it is not going to work very well as the set doesn't support 
1080p.  But it did run in the messy display where about 4 screens are 
overlaid but sorta readable.  But Chromecast works!  I can select 
streams from my phone, tablet, desktops and laptops. So it is all set 
up when I get the new set.



On 10/10/2013 09:29 AM, Bhairitu wrote:


I've watched a couple movies on HuluPlus with no commercials.  Those 
were for rent on Amazon and VUDU.  The latter two use better 
encoding as HuluPlus looks a bit like it was run through ffmpeg with 
the fast conversion preset.  I also watched this week's episode of 
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D on HuluPlus but it has commercials though no 
more than one minute's worth per break which is tolerable.


Today the cable gets cut and the DVR back to Comcast. We pay way too 
much for entertainment.  I tried to keep my bill managed but some 
folks pay over $200 a month.  My broadband and phone is on another 
service.


On 10/09/2013 03:49 PM, Richard J. Williams wrote:


Got it and thanks. Works for me!

On 10/9/2013 4:22 PM, Bhairitu wrote:


If you don't have HuluPlus and have PayPal there is a one month free
trial of HuluPlus if you sign up with your PayPal account. I was
surprised at the number of shows I figured that might have to 
rent on

Amazon are actually available with the subscription.
http://dealnews.com/Hulu-Plus-1-Month-Trial-for-free-with-Pay-Pal/855642.html

RE: RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Another Of My Usual

Iranitea wrote:
 
Ann wrote:
   Of course Barry claims I'm a Mean Girl which I take as a personal badge of 
   honour coming
   from him.

 
 You should do so, it certainly is. Actually it's just satirizing a certain 
 type of piling on
   behavior. No need to take it absolutely serious. 

 Especially since Barry himself does far more piling on than anyone else here.

RE: RE: RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Another Of My Usual








  
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote:

 Iranitea wrote:
 
Ann wrote:
   Of course Barry claims I'm a Mean Girl which I take as a personal badge of 
   honour coming
   from him.
 














 
  You should do so, it certainly is. Actually it's just satirizing a certain 
  type of piling on
   behavior. No need to take it absolutely serious. 
 
 Especially since Barry himself does far more piling on than anyone else here.

[FairfieldLife] Post Count Sun 13-Oct-13 00:15:03 UTC

2013-10-12 Thread FFL PostCount

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  7 Share Long 
  6 s3raphita
  6 emilymaenot
  5 iranitea 
  5 dhamiltony2k5
  5 Richard J. Williams 
  4 Richard Williams 
  4 Michael Jackson 
  4 Bhairitu 
  2 emptybill
  2 cardemaister
  2 awoelflebater
  2 Duveyoung 
  2 Ann Woelfle Bater 
  1 turquoiseb 
  1 merudanda 
  1 judy stein 
  1 j_alexander_stanley
  1 doctordumbass
  1 Paulo Barbosa 
  1 Mike Dixon 
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Re: [FairfieldLife] Cutting the Cable Tip

Got the Hulu Plus, the Chromecaster, and the Roku - and I've got me an
antenna at the Shack- $40.00. Now I can pull in some free UHF and VHF HD to
watch on my TV. It's a powered antenna with a gain control and a green LED
light. Highly rated by Consumer Reports.

According to what I've read, a Terk AM-100 is better for a radio antenna -
works well during the day and even better at night. I once knew an old man
that had a short-wave radio up in his attic. He had a motorized directional
antenna up on his roof. Sweet!

These days you can get a decent AM-FM World Band Radio made by Grundig -
with a built in telescoping antenna.

They don't make AM radios like they used to - these days it's just an
afterthought. I mean do you know anyone in the Bay Area that listen to AM
radio? Everyone in Iowa probably listens to Garrison Keeler on FM. Go
figure.

When I was a teenaged kid, I used to listen to AM radio at night on my
Delco car radio. I really liked listening to Wolfman Jack broadcasting from
XERF-AM at Ciudad Acuña down in Mexico. I could hear it all the way to San
Antonio and Abilene.

With 250,000 watts you could hear the master blaster all the way to New
York City - you would never lose the station driving all the way across the
U.S.

You should hear what kids are listening to these days on their radios! WHAT
IS THAT!?




On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 6:09 PM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote:

 **


 Went out and got a Chromecast to play with.  Now with my 13 year old TV it
 is not going to work very well as the set doesn't support 1080p.  But it
 did run in the messy display where about 4 screens are overlaid but sorta
 readable.  But Chromecast works!  I can select streams from my phone,
 tablet, desktops and laptops. So it is all set up when I get the new set.



 On 10/10/2013 09:29 AM, Bhairitu wrote:



  I've watched a couple movies on HuluPlus with no commercials.  Those
 were for rent on Amazon and VUDU.  The latter two use better encoding as
 HuluPlus looks a bit like it was run through ffmpeg with the fast
 conversion preset.  I also watched this week's episode of Agents of
 S.H.I.E.L.D on HuluPlus but it has commercials though no more than one
 minute's worth per break which is tolerable.

 Today the cable gets cut and the DVR back to Comcast.  We pay way too much
 for entertainment.  I tried to keep my bill managed but some folks pay over
 $200 a month.  My broadband and phone is on another service.

 On 10/09/2013 03:49 PM, Richard J. Williams wrote:



  Got it and thanks. Works for me!

 On 10/9/2013 4:22 PM, Bhairitu wrote:



 If you don't have HuluPlus and have PayPal there is a one month free
 trial of HuluPlus if you sign up with your PayPal account. I was
 surprised at the number of shows I figured that might have to rent on
 Amazon are actually available with the subscription.

 http://dealnews.com/Hulu-Plus-1-Month-Trial-for-free-with-Pay-Pal/855642.html

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: ATT: Bharitu


Marshall Brain on how to do this in the US including funding it:
http://marshallbrain.com/25000.htm

On 10/12/2013 10:33 AM, s3raph...@yahoo.com wrote:


Re Let's hope that Switzerland's bills pass and it goes viral in the 
world.:


I hope it passes also. Even if it ends in tears we'll all have learnt 
a great deal from the experiment.



Nixon proposing a Guaranteed Annual Income was news to me. So the idea 
appeals to those on the right? Yes, indeed. I looked at Wiki and found 
some surprising names that came up with similar proposals: Napoleon 
Bonaparte, Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman!



Social Credit theoreticians also had a similar idea and their theory 
appealed to Ezra Pound, TS Eliot, Aldous Huxley, Hilaire Belloc, GK 
Chesterton, Robert A. Heinlein and Robert Anton Wilson. Looks like 
we're in good company.




---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote:

Thanks, I saw that a little earlier in the day.  Of course the Nixon 
administration proposed the Guaranteed Annual Income.  Alaska pays its 
residents profits from oil leases.  I know the idea twiddles the minds 
of conservatives but what are you going to do if there really are no 
jobs for everyone?  Let's hope that Switzerlands bills pass and it 
goes viral in the world.


On 10/11/2013 06:42 PM, judy stein wrote:


Swiss to vote on 2,500 franc basic income for every adult

(Reuters) - Switzerland will hold a vote on whether to introduce a 
basic income for all adults, in a further sign of growing public 
activism over pay inequality since the financial crisis.


A grassroots committee is calling for all adults in Switzerland to 
receive an unconditional income of 2,500 Swiss francs ($2,800) per 
month from the state, with the aim of providing a financial safety 
net for the population.


Organizers submitted more than the 100,000 signatures needed to call 
a referendum on Friday and tipped a truckload of 8 million 
five-rappen coins outside the parliament building in Berne, one for 
each person living in Switzerland.


Under Swiss law, citizens can organize popular initiatives that allow 
the channeling of public anger into direct political action. The 
country usually holds several referenda a year.


In March, Swiss voters backed some of the world's strictest controls 
on executive pay, forcing public companies to give shareholders a 
binding vote on compensation.


A separate proposal to limit monthly executive pay to no more than 
what the company's lowest-paid staff earn in a year, the so-called 
1:12 initiative, faces a popular vote on November 24.


The initiative's organizing committee said the basic income could 
partly be financed through money from social insurance systems in 
Switzerland.


The timing of the vote has yet to be announced, pending official 
guidance from the government.


http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/04/us-swiss-pay-idUSBRE9930O620131004

[FairfieldLife] Remember to sing the NSA a lullaby as you drift off

2013-10-12 Thread emptybill

[FairfieldLife] A Case of the Uglies

Rita and I are thinking about getting rid of our old furniture and getting
some new stuff, even though I already told her the rent's too damn high.
When I was a single guy back in 1970, I had a bean bag chair to sit in and
a foam slab to lie on. Go figure.

Now I know a guy that used to teach at a community college and his wife
still works at a big insurance company. They went out and bought a Lazy Boy
chair at John Williams for $3,000. WHAT!?

So, I designed this chaise lounge online at Haverty's, but it sucks.

So, that pretty much says it all. LoL!

[image: Inline image 1]

[FairfieldLife] RE: Shamans and Don Juan Matus

2013-10-12 Thread nelsonriddle2001

Interesting observation that.
 Did they turn red after they got here and, they must have all left together as 
there don't seem to be any left there from what I have heard.
  
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote:

 They don't call Native Americans Indians for nothing, since they all came 
from Asia in the first place. Go figure.
 

According to what I've read, a recent study of a 40,000 year old skeleton from  
China showed that early modern humans present in the Beijing area 40,000 y ago 
were related to the ancestors of many present-day Asians as well as Native 
Americans. 

 So, what is a shaman anyway?

 

 A shaman is anybody who contacts a spirit world while in an altered state of 
consciousness. 
 

 The idea is based  on the notion that the visible world is of the senses is 
pervaded by invisible forces or spirits which affect the lives of living 
people. Shamans can reach altered states of consciousness in order to encounter 
and interact with the spirit world and channel transcendental energies.
 

 For me there is only the traveling on the paths that have heart, on any path 
that may have heart. There I travel, and the only worthwhile challenge for me 
is to traverse its full length. And there I travel—looking, looking, 
breathlessly. - Don Juan Matus
 
 

 Only known photography of Don Juan Matus:

[FairfieldLife] All About Sadhus and Yogis

Concerning the twelve marks of a sadhu: hand applied, by every yogi, it
would be a cause of concern if any marks were to appear to be 'perfectly
applied' by using a mirror. Those marks are applied during the sanctified
bathing, and must never be applied with using a mirror, nor even by looking
at oneself in the reflection of their water pot.

Also for the yogis who apply 'ash', who usually claim to be serving a
delineation of a Rudra attitude, that those marks which appear as three
lines of white ash can never be 'straight across the forehead
horizontally'. If the ash mark appears as three equal width lines, applied
with open three fingers, then the sadhu is probably an impostor, and should
be ignored.

Sometimes the actual mark may appear to be some sort of messy smear where a
simile of three lines appear to be. The vertical 'U-shaped' marks of
devotional service vary in a large variety, but they must never have any
lower 'stem' to the 'U' such as to make it a 'Y'. It may have a series of
marks inside the U, and a dot below the U, as also the ash marks may also
have marks centered within it, and a dot below it.

It is also permissible for the sadhu to apply such marks with only 'water',
and thus nothing would be seen remaining. You can ask those who appear
without marks, as to what type, and in what manner they apply their
devotional service designations, if you are not sure about this.

This latter mark seems to me, to be cosmetic, but it is apparently, one of
the primary credentials to be validated in a Sadhu, that is, a 'Good
Fellow'.

Next - All About Yogis.

[FairfieldLife] RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: A vision of Fairfield#39;s future?

2013-10-12 Thread dhamiltony2k5

 Communal meditating Fairfield, Iowa deservedly is in very good company 
alongside these other historical American groups rooted in Quietism and piety 
in facilitating its spiritual practice.
 -Buck in the Dome
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote:

  TM and Quietist Pietistic [meditating] Fairfield, Iowa
 in companion as with other historic places like
 for instance on the Registry of National Historic Places, organized here A to 
Z..
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote:

  Other Meissner Effect [ME] group meditators...
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote:

  Amana Colonies
 Long Meissner Effect group meditations every day.
 http://amanacolonies.com/pages/about-amana-colonies/history.php 
http://amanacolonies.com/pages/about-amana-colonies/history.php
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote:

 Brook Farm
 http://www.mass.gov/eea/docs/dcr/parks/boston/brookfarmbrochure.pdf 
http://www.mass.gov/eea/docs/dcr/parks/boston/brookfarmbrochure.pdf 
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote:

  Pleasant Hill,
 Half hour silent meditation twice a day and daily group Meissner Effect [ME] 
meditations 
 http://www.shakervillageky.org/ http://www.shakervillageky.org/ 
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote:

  Whittier, Iowa Hicksite Quakers,
 National Registry of Historic Places; 
 Settlement era 
 Iowa Meissner Effect [ME] Group Meditation:
 
https://sites.google.com/site/ffhamfampage/clients/whittier-quaker-meeting-house
 
https://sites.google.com/site/ffhamfampage/clients/whittier-quaker-meeting-house
 
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote:

  Zoar
 
http://www.ohiohistory.org/museums-and-historic-sites/museum--historic-sites-by-name/zoar-village
 
http://www.ohiohistory.org/museums-and-historic-sites/museum--historic-sites-by-name/zoar-village
 
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote:

  [Pietist, belief in the power of individual meditation [Quietism] on the 
divine [Unified Field] – a direct, individual approach to the ultimate 
spiritual reality of the [Unified Field] – ]
 
 

---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5@... wrote:

 In a coming future, meditating Fairfield, Iowa very likely shall also come to 
be on the National Registry of Historic Places along with other important 
spiritual practice communities of American and Western history. 
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote:

 Going forward meditating Fairfield, Iowa is blazing still its contemporary and 
revolutionary commentary on 21st Century materialism and spiritual and 
religious American community. Jai Brahmananda Saraswati!
 -Buck, in the Dome 
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote:

  Yes, meditating Fairfield as a spiritual practice community was never 
conceived an amusement park. Even right now it is a living artifact of 20th 
Century American spiritual experience and community.
  

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote:

 Feste37 makes a very important distinction here. Fairfield clearly is even now 
a historic American pietist spiritual practice community rooted in the 
practices of Quietism. 
 -Buck 
 

 Feste37 writes, “Fairfield is not a theme park, dummy.” 
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote:

 Fairfield is not a theme park, dummy.  

 

---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote:

 
http://www.messynessychic.com/2013/10/04/holy-land-usa-before-after-the-abandoned-christian-theme-park/
 
http://www.messynessychic.com/2013/10/04/holy-land-usa-before-after-the-abandoned-christian-theme-park/

[FairfieldLife] The Shankaracharya of Jyotirmath

Allahabad, January 10, 2001

The brass band gave a standing ovation to the triumphant entry of
Vasudevanand Saraswati. The Shankarcharya sat on high gold-coloured
throne with four of his men standing beside him as flag-bearers on the
Triveni Sangam Marg. The throne was being carried on a tractor trolley
that moved slowly towards the Akahara area in Sector 7 of the Mahakumbh.

The Shankaracharya raised his right hand to bless the thousands of the
people who stood by to watch his entrance. It was like a recreation of a
historical scene, the entry of a king or an emperor. Only the tunes -
mainly film songs - played by the band were out of place. But the devotees
could not care less.

Another sadhu was sitting on his throne wearing sunglasses. On being asked
his name, he handed over his business card, which read:

Shri 1008 Mahant Vishnu Devanandji
Dera Baba Atmandand Ashram
Himachal Pradesh

[FairfieldLife] Our Spiritual Tradition

Our Mantra Yoga tradition begins with the Lord Narayana, the first
meditator, who thought the first thought and set in motion this science of
sound vibration. The thought sounds or mantras were cognized in ancient
India by the rishis, that is, the seers of the science of sound, the first
psychic pioneers of consciousness.
In the Mantra Yoga tradition the first yogi was Yajnavalkhya, who cognized
the first bija mantra, and passed this teaching to his daughter Shakti.

According to the Tantras, bija mantras are shorthand for a complete
description of the universe in the mind of Sri Saraswati, the Goddess of
Wisdom, Learning and Knowledge. So, sounds, ergo language, was the primal
vibration of Vac, that is, the Lord of human speech, who formed the first
bija mantras.

In a long line of illustrious masters comes this Mantra Yoga tradition from
Vasistha and Parashara.

So, lets review the TMer sampradaya:

The TM teachers puja to SBS clearly states the desciplic succession from
Shakti via the Jyotirlinga hence to Badarayana, to Gauda, to Govinda, hence
to Shankara, founder of the Jyotirmatha, hence to Trotaka and on down to
Brahmanand Saraswati and hence to Shantanand, hence down to Vasudevananda
Saraswati, the current Shankaracharya of Jyotirmath.

Narayana
Padma Bhava
Vasishtha
Shakti
Parashara
Badarayana
Shudadeva
Gaudapapda
Govinda
Shankara
Trotaka
Brahmanand
Shantanand
Vishnudevananda
Vasudevananda

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Shamans and Don Juan Matus

Apparently, the proto-Shiva discovered in the Indus Valey is the 
original horned god of world mythology, Lord of Animals. This tradition 
originated in South India about 4,000 B. C. and then spread to North 
India via the Indus Valley Civilization. By all accounts, this early 
South Indian tradition was Shamanistic in nature and Totemic in 
character, based on a belief in the Fertility and the Tree of Plenty, 
which was inherited from Southeast Asia.


When the Vedic Aryans arrived in what is now Pakistan, having come from 
the steppes of Eurasia, by way of Asia Minor, the Aryan, that is, the 
Indo-European speaking people, adopted many traditions from the native 
population, such as the worship of the Shiva/Rudra, and worship of the 
Goddess of Fertility, the Bhairav/Durga nexus.



On 10/12/2013 8:48 PM, nelsonriddle2...@yahoo.com wrote:


Interesting observation that.
 Did they turn red after they got here and, they must have all left 
together as there don't seem to be any left there from what I have heard.




---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com 
wrote:


They don't call Native Americans Indians for nothing, since they all 
came from Asia in the first place. Go figure.


According to what I've read, a recent study of a 40,000 year old 
skeleton from  China showed that early modern humans present in the 
Beijing area 40,000 y ago were related to the ancestors of many 
present-day Asians as well as Native Americans.


So, what is a shaman anyway?

A shaman is anybody who contacts a spirit world while in an altered 
state of consciousness.


The idea is based  on the notion that the visible world is of the 
senses is pervaded by invisible forces or spirits which affect the 
lives of living people. Shamans can reach altered states of 
consciousness in order to encounter and interact with the spirit world 
and channel transcendental energies.


For me there is only the traveling on the paths that have heart, on 
any path that may have heart. There I travel, and the only worthwhile 
challenge for me is to traverse its full length. And there I 
travel—looking, looking, breathlessly. - Don Juan Matus


Only known photography of Don Juan Matus:

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Re: [FairfieldLife] Remember to sing the NSA a lullaby as you drift off


You just had to broadcast your IP address on the internet, didn't you?

The Obama administration, which unsuccessfully sought to get Snowden 
returned from Russia where he has been granted asylum, is known to 
maintain a list of terrorists for killing via drone strike. U.S. 
citizens have not only found their way onto that list, some have been 
killed.


'Former NSA/CIA Chief Jokes About Putting Edward Snowden on Obama’s Kill 
List'
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/ 
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/10/04/former-nsacia-chief-jokes-about-putting-edward-snowden-on-obamas-kill-list/


On 10/12/2013 8:40 PM, emptyb...@yahoo.com wrote:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Public Transportation

This is what I mean when I say get out of town quick:

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http://www.vosizneias.com/fastest-us-highway-with-85-mph-limit/http://www.vosizneias.com/113118/2012/09/06/austin-tx-texas-to-open-fastest-us-highway-with-85-mph-limit/

My Project Car:
http://www.rwilliams.us/cad/ http://www.rwilliams.us/cad/index.htm

1995 Cadillac Eldorado inherited from my late mother. I couldn't get
anything for it, so I started to use it as a daily driver several years
ago. It's a sweet ride - 22 mpg on Premium fuel. I'm sure it would do 100
easy, with the 32 valve V8 under the hood. I'll probably put it on Craig's
List when I do the downshifting.

On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com wrote:

I drive to the Dome in my 2006 Honda Civic which was #1 in its class that
year. She has manual transmission, a sunroof and no GPS, all at my request
(-:
Hmmm, in the movies, such limos have well stocked refrigerators...

On Saturday, October 12, 2013 2:17 PM, Richard Williams
pundits...@gmail.com wrote:

Do you take the bike or ride in the car to get to the dome?

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On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com wrote:

Very colorful, Richard. FF could definitely use something like that to
continue its efforts in becoming a tourist destination. But I like your car
too.

On Saturday, October 12, 2013 1:56 PM, Richard Williams
pundits...@gmail.com wrote:

Last week I rode downtown on one of these:

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On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.comwrote:

About 50 years ago, I traveled from Frostburg, MD in the mountains to DC
Union Station. Lots of trees at the beginning. Lots of govt buildings at
the end. But Union Station is quite beautiful as are some other parts of
DC.

The passenger trains traveling east that go through FF end up in Chicago.
They are not reliable time-wise so if one has a plane to catch out of
O'Hara, it's better to take the bus. And at least the bus stops in FF. The
closest train stops are 30 minutes away, Ottumwa to the west and Mt.
Pleasant to the east. Friends have taken that train, the California Zephyr,
to Denver, and then all the way to the Pacific Northwest. I think it's an
all night journey. I don't think it's the Orient Express!

On Saturday, October 12, 2013 11:50 AM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net
wrote:

We have an Amtrak station here. I looked into traveling up to Seattle
that way but it was actually more expensive than taking a plane. When I
was a kid I traveled from here back up to Portland on a train. I would bet
the route has not changed much. I got to see a lot of fir trees.

On 10/12/2013 09:28 AM, Share Long wrote:

I admit I've long wished the US had a coast to coast fast train and a car
train at that, maybe making 3 or so stops along the way. I've traveled in
train a few times and thoroughly enjoyed it.

On Saturday, October 12, 2013 11:17 AM, Bhairitu
noozg...@sbcglobal.net noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote:

As I've posted before, Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) ain't so rapid.
Right now there is a possibility of another strike which will make things
really worse. Much at issue aren't so much union wages but safety. Back
in the day they probably thought they had the state of the art public
transportation idea, except that it is too expensive to extend into the
whole area. And train and trolley tracks got torn up and even now used as
hiking trails. So we can't do the much cheaper light rail.

In the 1990s I lived across the street from a BART station. Where I
worked was also across the street from a BART station but I rarely took
it. That was because my job sometimes required driving out to other
businesses. And gas was so cheap and my car so fuel efficient it actually
cost more to ride BART. I would occasionally take BART into the city
(San Francisco) because parking, like Paris, is shitty there. But I would
occasionally drive there on weekends when downtown is like a ghost town.

America is carville. The car manufacturers wanted it that way. It is
also spread out. And California has a lot weird and winding roads probably
drawn up with it was part of Mexico. Not too easy to do mass transit with
those.

On 10/11/2013 11:19 PM, turquoiseb wrote:

So I'm sitting here in this cafe that promised Wifi and didn't deliver,
wondering what I can write about, and I discover that my mind is still
savoring my bus ride here to Place d'Italie. It was FUN. I got a seat,
which is nice, and then I just kicked back watching the people on the
bus with me. They were neat. They made me smile.

In the US, they would have tended to be mostly lower class. Cars and
car-dependent city designs have ensured that most of the middle class
have cars. And the upper crust wouldn't be caught dead on a city bus or
a subway.

Here, it's not like that, except at the very top

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Who?


It's not complicated.

According to Gaudapada and Shankara, the external world has no existence 
independent of consciousness. Ajativada, or the doctrine of 
no-origination, is the fundamental doctrine of Adwaita.


Gaudapaada is one of the most important figures in Indian philosophy 
since it is he who successfully reconciles orthodox thought with its 
prime opponent of the day - Buddhism.


Gaudapada:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaudapada

On 10/12/2013 9:56 PM, emptyb...@yahoo.com wrote:


/Tea House sez:/

//

/Oh empty, and now I thought, you had put all this information 
carefully together, what an act, but actually you just lifted it from 
here .../


What B.S. Why should I restate the obvious? Are you be incapable of 
doing a 30 second Google search? Maybe you thought I was suggesting 
that I “akasha-gamana’ed” myself to Arunchala to consult with Ramana’s 
Maha-samadhi for the low-down. Well I’m here to tell you that /of 
course/ that’s what happened … didn’t you do the same? Yep, He told me 
that you and Prairie Dog were both Shaktas like Ganapati and Kapali 
Shastri. He also said you two were incapable of understanding Kevala 
Advaita ‘cause you were still trying to get “lighten-mint”. He added … 
what’d you expect of Shakta-s that expect Adya-Mom to give them Big 
Samadhi-s, claim they were now 'lightened and then change their 
diapers too?

[FairfieldLife] RE: RE: Who?

emptybill wrote:
 (snip)

  Grudges? WTF. We’re “attempting” to have a conversation here. Give up the 
  Judy-
  isms. Or is that your standard fall back?

 
Actually grudges is a Barry-ism, not a Judy-ism. Mr. Fluffy Tea picked it up 
from him.

[FairfieldLife] RE: Our Spiritual Tradition