[FairfieldLife] Lion King like David?

[cardemaister]

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNCzSfv4hX8 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNCzSfv4hX8

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: If You Could Travel at the Speed of Light...

[Share Long]

John, I came out of the Dome and into a blizzard, white out in all directions 
and the wind is still howling!  Otherwise, a light body would sound wonderful. 
But right now, San Diego sounds like heaven!





On Thursday, January 16, 2014 4:50 PM, "jr_...@yahoo.com"  
wrote:
 
  
Share,

There's a Dr. Pillai on YouTube who claims that he can teach others how to 
attain a light body.  But if this was possible, it would appear that most 
people, like you, would prefer to go to a sunny island paradise here on earth.

Also, in history, there have been stories of Roman Catholic saints who were 
able to perform bilocation.  I would assume they would have to attain a light 
body or some unknown physical transformation in order to traverse long 
distances in an instant.

[FairfieldLife] RE: If You Could Travel at the Speed of Light...

[anartaxius]

While the trip would seem instantaneous, assuming the travelers were still 
alive to experience it, from a viewpoint outside of the ship, it would still 
take a long time, and all the radiation striking the leading end of the craft 
would seem to the occupants to hit them all at once. All the radiation in the 
line of direction is blue shifted, and the scene ahead would look distorted, 
squashed toward the point ahead and stretched out behind.
 

 The blue shifting means the the radiation is experienced at a higher frequency 
so radio waves, light becomes gamma rays and x-rays and even super-high energy 
cosmic rays hitting the occupants. No practical amount of shielding could 
protect them.
 

 The link to the following video shows some of the optical effects of 
travelling near the speed of light.
 

 
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/5733303/traveling_at_the_speed_of_light_optical_effects/
 
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/5733303/traveling_at_the_speed_of_light_optical_effects/

 

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

 Xeno,
 

 If humans could ever build a spaceship that could travel at the speed of 
light, I would assume that they would have the solution to the radiation 
problem.  IMO, the radiation problem may not be unsurmountable.  For example, a 
trip to the nearest star one light year away would be instantaneous to the 
traveler.  So, the radiation exposure would be negligible.
 

 Given this paradox, the traveler would probably not have to carry any food for 
sustenance to get to its destination at light speed.
 

 Also, the current understanding in physics is that the speed of light is the 
top speed that anything in the universe can travel.  If you traveled greater 
than the speed of light, then time would go backwards.  Since this would be 
illogical and not found in nature, most scientists believe that the speed of 
light cannot be exceeded.

[FairfieldLife] RE: Russian Mother Takes Magical Pictures of Her Two Kids With Animals On Her Farm

[awoelflebater]

 

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

 Stunning photos. The mother only got her first camera in 2013. She puts many 
professionals to shame.
 The location looks idyllic - you have to wonder what pictures a young mother 
would take who lived on a sink estate in London.
 

 This link to these incredible pictures were all over Facebook the last day or 
two. Once in a while you get something worthwhile to look at on FB and this is 
one of those things. 

[FairfieldLife] RE: Russian Mother Takes Magical Pictures of Her Two Kids With Animals On Her Farm

[s3raphita]

Stunning photos. The mother only got her first camera in 2013. She puts many 
professionals to shame.
 The location looks idyllic - you have to wonder what pictures a young mother 
would take who lived on a sink estate in London.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

[Michael Jackson]

I am still reading - its a pretty extraordinary book, to me anyway. You are 
quite the writer and should I ever be able to write to that level, I will be a 
happy man.

I am still feeling energy, sometimes with a Capital "E." Some I might expect 
such as the account of Rama allowing the golden light to glow and glow and glow 
in the room, the Buddha meditation in the Hawaiian restaurant, but some of the 
strongest Energy was when I read the chapter "Style" about  how you live your 
life when no one else is watching (and how you decorate a house) - Maybe I am 
just wanting to feel a lot so I am doing so at odd moments.

Anyhow I am gonna take a break for the night and see what tomorrow brings - 
thanks again for sharing this link - I'm getting a lot out of it.

MJ

On Thu, 1/16/14, TurquoiseB  wrote:

 Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Date: Thursday, January 16, 2014, 7:47 PM
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
   
   
   
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson 
 wrote:
 >
 > I am still feeling tons of palpable energy even as I go
 about my day. Will get back to you on that in a while.
 
 Interesting. I always wondered
 about that. 
 
 I know that I often felt incredible waves of energy while
 writing many of the stories, but I didn't know whether
 that could "communicate" or come across to someone
 who wasn't there. I've had other Rama students tell
 me that they "felt" something, but they were
 there, and thus could just be having some memory being
 triggered. 
 
 I haven't gone back and read RTM myself in quite some
 time, so it's difficult for me to even remember all that
 I wrote back then. But what I can remember is that the
 "highest" stories from my point of view were
 probably the tsakli stories (by definition some of the
 highest moments of my life) and the two scorpion stories. 
 
 > 
 > On Thu, 1/16/14, TurquoiseB turquoiseb@... wrote:
 > 
 >  Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible
 thing.
 >  To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 >  Date: Thursday, January 16, 2014, 7:21 PM
 >  
 >  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson
 
 >  wrote:
 >  >
 >  > I changed my day so I could delve into what you
 had
 >  written - I have gone through a lot of it and it
 answers
 >  most of my questions. Mainly I wanted to know if you
 thought
 >  Rama was legit in the beginning and if you witnessed
 any of
 >  the power or sidhi demonstrations he did. Obviously
 yes to
 >  both.
 >  
 >  If by "legit" you mean
 >  enlightened, I don't know. What I do know is that
 in the
 >  beginning he was a nicer guy and a better teacher, and
 was
 >  obviously going through *something*. What that
 something was
 >  I still don't know; all I know is that it radiated
 so
 >  strongly you could feel it. Meditate with the man and
 there
 >  was no issue of stopping thoughts. You couldn't
 *have*
 >  thoughts. The silence was that profound. 
 >  
 >  As for the performance of sidhis, yes I witnessed
 them, as
 >  did literally thousands of other people over the
 years, but
 >  again, I can't claim to "know what was
 >  happening." All I can say is that it DID happen
 for me,
 >  subjectively, and that it was kinda neat to see. I was
 never
 >  as wowed out as some people were by the sidhis,
 strangely
 >  enough because I stilled believed in something
 Maharishi had
 >  said earlier (and later changed his mind about), that
 sidhis
 >  did not mean enlightenment, and vice-versa. Apples
 and
 >  oranges. No relation between the two.
 >  
 >  Interestingly enough, especially given your next
 comment,
 >  the real phwam! of seeing these things was not so
 much
 >  seeing them but FEELING them. *Whatever* was going on,
 there
 >  was a palpable field of energy that surrounding it
 that just
 >  knocked my socks off. 
 >  
 >  > I had a hard time reading much of it because I
 began to
 >  feel a great deal of energy as soon as I started
 reading, I
 >  mean LOTS of energy. So I am taking the reading in
 stages.
 >  Read a little. Sweep my floors a little, clean the
 >  bathrooms, come down off the energy a little and read
 a
 >  little more. 
 >  
 >  Interesting to hear that you
 >  felt something while reading it. I certainly did
 while
 >  writing it.
 >  
 >  > Two minor questions I have are:
 >  > 
 >  > Did you know this guy? Mark Laxer
 >  
 >  Yes. We were friends in the
 >  early days, but he was one of the early defectors, and
 I
 >  just haven't run into him since. I'm sure he
 had
 >  some interesting things to say in his memoir piece
 about
 >  Rama, but I haven't read it. 
 >  
 >  > Have you ever read his book Take Me for a Ride:
 Coming
 >  of Age in a Destructive Cult Paperback?
 >  
 >  No. It's difficult for me to
 >  read other students' books about Rama, because 1)
 >  I'm not really that interest

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[FairfieldLife] RE: Happy Happy 12 January

[dhamiltony2k5]

In 1974 these predictions were validated by scientific studies showing that in 
cities where one percent of the population learned the transcendental 
Meditation technique there was a sudden decrease in crime rates.
 

 
 On 12 January 1975,

 

 As a result of scientific research conducted during the past decade on 
Transcendental Meditation, the practical aspect of the Science of Creative 
Intelligence, at more than two hundred universities and research institutes in 
different countries, including Germany, England, Canada, United States, 
Holland, India, South Africa, and Australia, involving the trends of life of 
about eleven hundred million people in the vicinity of eleven hundred World 
Plan centres in over eighty-nine countries on all continents, as endorsed and 
proclaimed by legislators, governors, mayors, educators, doctors, lawyers, 
businessmen, organizations, and individuals, and as a result of his successful 
world-wide activities, His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of the 
Science of Creative Intelligence, through the window of science, saw the coming 
dawn of the Age of Enlightenment and inaugurated it for the whole world in 
Switzerland. 
 


 "Through the window of Science we see the Dawn of the Age of Enlightenment.
 
 
 Good time for the world is coming. Now, a few people in any country will be 
able to change the destiny of their nation for all good.

 
 
 One percent of the population will be sufficient to design the direction of 
time for all happiness, progress, and fulfillment everywhere.
 
 
 I see the dawn of the Age of Enlightenment.
 
 
 
 In this scientific age, it is no longer necessary for any nation to continue 
living with problems."
 


 It was at this time that research scientists discovered that in cities where 
one percent of the population was practicing Transcendental Meditation, the 
cities' crime rates decreased. As more and more cities rose to one percent of 
the population practicing Transcendental Meditation, scientific research found 
that not only did crime decrease, but accidents, sickness, and other negative 
trends also decreased, and positivity increased. Research scientists named this 
phenomenon the Maharishi Effect in honor of Maharishi.
 

 
 With this formula, Maharishi realized that it was now easily practical to 
produce positive trends in all cities throughout the world. With this 
inspiration, Maharishi envisioned a new age dawning for mankind. On 12 January 
1975, he inaugurated the dawn of the Age of Enlightenment proclaiming, “Through 
the window of science I see the dawn of the Age of Enlightenment.”
 

 This is the time of the dawn of the Age of Enlightenment. I am only giving 
expression to the phenomenon that is taking place.
 
 
 
 One percent of the people in any country can herald the dawn of a new age for 
the whole nation by devoting only fifteen minutes of their time twice a day.
 

 It is in the hands of a few individuals in every country today to change the 
direction of time and guide the destiny of their nation for all harmony, 
happiness, and progress.
 
 It is my joy to invite everyone to come in the light of the knowledge and 
experience that the Science of Creative Intelligence provides and enjoy 
participating in this global awakening to herald the Age of Enlightenment.
 
 
 -Maharishi
 
 
 12 January 1975

[FairfieldLife] RE: Jerry Seinfeld, David Lynch to sit down for Bob Roth’s ‘Success without Stress’

[dhamiltony2k5]

Success without Stress

 

 “Stress is the black plague of the 21st century, and published research 
reveals the antidote may be meditation, not medication,” said Roth. 
“Transcendental Meditation can unlock the clarity, peace of mind, energy, 
intuition, creativity and motivation we all have within ourselves, and I am 
thrilled to have the opportunity to give SiriusXM listeners the keys to unlock 
their potential and reach their goals on Success without Stress.”

[FairfieldLife] RE: If You Could Travel at the Speed of Light...

[jr_esq]

Xeno,
 

 If humans could ever build a spaceship that could travel at the speed of 
light, I would assume that they would have the solution to the radiation 
problem.  IMO, the radiation problem may not be unsurmountable.  For example, a 
trip to the nearest star one light year away would be instantaneous to the 
traveler.  So, the radiation exposure would be negligible.
 

 Given this paradox, the traveler would probably not have to carry any food for 
sustenance to get to its destination at light speed.
 

 Also, the current understanding in physics is that the speed of light is the 
top speed that anything in the universe can travel.  If you traveled greater 
than the speed of light, then time would go backwards.  Since this would be 
illogical and not found in nature, most scientists believe that the speed of 
light cannot be exceeded.

[FairfieldLife] RE: Happy Happy 12 January

[dhamiltony2k5]

on 12 January 1975,

 

 As a result of scientific research conducted during the past decade on 
Transcendental Meditation, the practical aspect of the Science of Creative 
Intelligence, at more than two hundred universities and research institutes in 
different countries, including Germany, England, Canada, United States, 
Holland, India, South Africa, and Australia, involving the trends of life of 
about eleven hundred million people in the vicinity of eleven hundred World 
Plan centres in over eighty-nine countries on all continents, as endorsed and 
proclaimed by legislators, governors, mayors, educators, doctors, lawyers, 
businessmen, organizations, and individuals, and as a result of his successful 
world-wide activities, His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of the 
Science of Creative Intelligence, through the window of science, saw the coming 
dawn of the Age of Enlightenment and inaugurated it for the whole world in 
Switzerland. 
 


 "Through the window of Science we see the Dawn of the Age of Enlightenment.
 
 
 Good time for the world is coming. Now, a few people in any country will be 
able to change the destiny of their nation for all good.

 
 
 One percent of the population will be sufficient to design the direction of 
time for all happiness, progress, and fulfillment everywhere.
 
 
 I see the dawn of the Age of Enlightenment.
 
 
 
 In this scientific age, it is no longer necessary for any nation to continue 
living with problems."
 


 It was at this time that research scientists discovered that in cities where 
one percent of the population was practicing Transcendental Meditation, the 
cities' crime rates decreased. As more and more cities rose to one percent of 
the population practicing Transcendental Meditation, scientific research found 
that not only did crime decrease, but accidents, sickness, and other negative 
trends also decreased, and positivity increased. Research scientists named this 
phenomenon the Maharishi Effect in honor of Maharishi.
 

 
 With this formula, Maharishi realized that it was now easily practical to 
produce positive trends in all cities throughout the world. With this 
inspiration, Maharishi envisioned a new age dawning for mankind. On 12 January 
1975, he inaugurated the dawn of the Age of Enlightenment proclaiming, “Through 
the window of science I see the dawn of the Age of Enlightenment.”
 

 This is the time of the dawn of the Age of Enlightenment. I am only giving 
expression to the phenomenon that is taking place.
 
 
 
 One percent of the people in any country can herald the dawn of a new age for 
the whole nation by devoting only fifteen minutes of their time twice a day.
 

 It is in the hands of a few individuals in every country today to change the 
direction of time and guide the destiny of their nation for all harmony, 
happiness, and progress.
 
 It is my joy to invite everyone to come in the light of the knowledge and 
experience that the Science of Creative Intelligence provides and enjoy 
participating in this global awakening to herald the Age of Enlightenment.
 
 
 -Maharishi
 
 
 12 January 1975

[FairfieldLife] RE: If You Could Travel at the Speed of Light...

[jr_esq]

Share,
 

 There's a Dr. Pillai on YouTube who claims that he can teach others how to 
attain a light body.  But if this was possible, it would appear that most 
people, like you, would prefer to go to a sunny island paradise here on earth.
 

 Also, in history, there have been stories of Roman Catholic saints who were 
able to perform bilocation.  I would assume they would have to attain a light 
body or some unknown physical transformation in order to traverse long 
distances in an instant.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Technology

[Richard Williams]

The anti-NSA smartphone?

[image: Inline image 1]

Blackphone at Popular Mechanics

"Of course, perfect encryption (which many argue isn't even possible) is a
two-way street. Whether calling, emailing, or texting, the level of
security is dependent on what tech or services are being used on the other
end of the line."

Blackphone, the Security-First Smartphone:
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/


On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 6:57 PM, Richard Williams wrote:

> Galaxy Nexus 16GB (Unlocked)
>
> "Lack of an SD card slot and only 16GB of internal memory. This is the
> only thing that bothers me. However USB OTG solves part of this problem
> (with a special cable, you can plug in an external mass storage device --
> this does not currently work without rooting, but official support will be
> included in a future firmware update as confirmed by Google)." - Amazon
> review:
>
> http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-I9250-Galaxy-Nexus-Unlocked/
>
>
> On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 12:07 PM, Richard Williams 
> wrote:
>
>> Example of abandoned technology:
>>
>> [image: Inline image 1]
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Richard J. Williams <
>> pundits...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>  So, the Obamacare web site isn't working too well - what else is new?
>>>
>>> Sometimes it's hell working in IT - for years I tried to get the
>>> enrollment systems right at a major community college.
>>>
>>> When I first got there, they were enrolling students using paper and pen
>>> and long lines standing out in the sun. Teachers would be sitting at long
>>> tables enrolling students one by one - it took all day just to enroll in a
>>> few courses.
>>>
>>> Enrollment was hell back then!
>>>
>>> Then, we got our first PC - an IBM running on DOS. Instructors would
>>> walk all the way across campus just to look at it, not use it, just look at
>>> it. The college IT director couldn't understand what we were going to do
>>> with all that hard drive space!
>>>
>>> Today, there are over 5,000 PCs on the main campus and another 5,000
>>> spread out over twenty computer labs on five campuses.
>>>
>>> And, enrollment is still hell!
>>>
>>> The school has at least three Oracle databases for student enrollment,
>>> one for credit card payments, personal data like adds and drops, grades,
>>> and the online library database, and then the course database. Not to
>>> mention the 3,000 online courses using the Blackboard database! Who do they
>>> think is going to run all this technology with me gone? Go figure.
>>>
>>> Somebody should write ONE simple program called 'schools'. Go figure.
>>>
>>> 'Some say health-care site’s problems highlight flawed federal IT
>>> policies'
>>> Technology:
>>> http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/
>>>
>>
>>
>

[FairfieldLife] Jerry Seinfeld, David Lynch to sit down for Bob Roth’s ‘Success without Stress’

[nablusoss1008]

http://blog.siriusxm.com/2014/01/15/jerry-seinfeld-david-lynch-to-sit-down-for-bob-roths-success-without-stress/
 
http://blog.siriusxm.com/2014/01/15/jerry-seinfeld-david-lynch-to-sit-down-for-bob-roths-success-without-stress/

Re: [FairfieldLife] If You Could Travel at the Speed of Light...

[anartaxius]

 The main problem is radiation. As you approach the speed of light any 
radiation coming at you in the direction of travel increases in frequency and 
energy due to your velocity. You would quickly die of radiation exposure. The 
experience of motion is relative. If you were traveling at 1,000 times the 
speed of light (assuming that was possible) and you were in open space far 
outside the galaxy, all the other galaxies you could see would not even appear 
to change position as you watched, the distances involved are so vast.

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

 John, until I become a light being I wouldn't want to travel at the speed of 
light. I don't think my nervous system could take it. BUT if it could, then I'd 
like to some oceanside place, warm and sunny, with blue skies and gentle 
breezes. Yep, I'm ready for winter to be done!
 

 
 
 On Thursday, January 16, 2014 1:49 PM, "jr_esq@..."  wrote:
 
   Where would you go?  This question is a take off on John Hagelin's 
statement, in Rick's recent interview, that the experience of getting to 
another exoplanet about a million light years away would be instantaneous if 
you traveled at the speed of light.  However, an observer from earth would 
still see that it still takes one million light years for you to get there.  
This is a paradox, but is scientifically consistent with Einstein's theories.
 
 

 
 



 
 
 
 

[FairfieldLife] Awwww?

[cardemaister]

http://500px.com/ElenaShumilova http://500px.com/ElenaShumilova
 

 http://500px.com/ElenaShumilova

[FairfieldLife] Re: Russian Mother Takes Magical Pictures of Her Two Kids With Animals On Her Farm

[TurquoiseB]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008  wrote:
>
> http://www.boredpanda.com/animal-children-photography-elena-shumilova/


Nice find, Nabby. These are gorgeous.

[FairfieldLife] Russian Mother Takes Magical Pictures of Her Two Kids With Animals On Her Farm

[nablusoss1008]

http://www.boredpanda.com/animal-children-photography-elena-shumilova/ 
http://www.boredpanda.com/animal-children-photography-elena-shumilova/

Re: [FairfieldLife] If You Could Travel at the Speed of Light...

[Share Long]

John, until I become a light being I wouldn't want to travel at the speed of 
light. I don't think my nervous system could take it. BUT if it could, then I'd 
like to some oceanside place, warm and sunny, with blue skies and gentle 
breezes. Yep, I'm ready for winter to be done!





On Thursday, January 16, 2014 1:49 PM, "jr_...@yahoo.com"  
wrote:
 
  
Where would you go?  This question is a take off on John Hagelin's statement, 
in Rick's recent interview, that the experience of getting to another exoplanet 
about a million light years away would be instantaneous if you traveled at the 
speed of light.  However, an observer from earth would still see that it still 
takes one million light years for you to get there.  This is a paradox, but is 
scientifically consistent with Einstein's theories.

[FairfieldLife] RE: Meditation Remarkably Transforms Unruly Students in San Francisco Schools

[nablusoss1008]

You're right and it's happening fast :-)

[FairfieldLife] If You Could Travel at the Speed of Light...

[jr_esq]

Where would you go?  This question is a take off on John Hagelin's statement, 
in Rick's recent interview, that the experience of getting to another exoplanet 
about a million light years away would be instantaneous if you traveled at the 
speed of light.  However, an observer from earth would still see that it still 
takes one million light years for you to get there.  This is a paradox, but is 
scientifically consistent with Einstein's theories.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

[TurquoiseB]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson  wrote:
>
> I am still feeling tons of palpable energy even as I go about my day.
Will get back to you on that in a while.

Interesting. I always wondered about that.

I know that I often felt incredible waves of energy while writing many
of the stories, but I didn't know whether that could "communicate" or
come across to someone who wasn't there. I've had other Rama students
tell me that they "felt" something, but they were there, and thus could
just be having some memory being triggered.

I haven't gone back and read RTM myself in quite some time, so it's
difficult for me to even remember all that I wrote back then. But what I
can remember is that the "highest" stories from my point of view were
probably the tsakli stories (by definition some of the highest moments
of my life) and the two scorpion stories.

> 
> On Thu, 1/16/14, TurquoiseB turquoiseb@... wrote:
>
>  Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.
>  To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
>  Date: Thursday, January 16, 2014, 7:21 PM
>
>  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson
>  wrote:
>  >
>  > I changed my day so I could delve into what you had
>  written - I have gone through a lot of it and it answers
>  most of my questions. Mainly I wanted to know if you thought
>  Rama was legit in the beginning and if you witnessed any of
>  the power or sidhi demonstrations he did. Obviously yes to
>  both.
>
>  If by "legit" you mean
>  enlightened, I don't know. What I do know is that in the
>  beginning he was a nicer guy and a better teacher, and was
>  obviously going through *something*. What that something was
>  I still don't know; all I know is that it radiated so
>  strongly you could feel it. Meditate with the man and there
>  was no issue of stopping thoughts. You couldn't *have*
>  thoughts. The silence was that profound.
>
>  As for the performance of sidhis, yes I witnessed them, as
>  did literally thousands of other people over the years, but
>  again, I can't claim to "know what was
>  happening." All I can say is that it DID happen for me,
>  subjectively, and that it was kinda neat to see. I was never
>  as wowed out as some people were by the sidhis, strangely
>  enough because I stilled believed in something Maharishi had
>  said earlier (and later changed his mind about), that sidhis
>  did not mean enlightenment, and vice-versa. Apples and
>  oranges. No relation between the two.
>
>  Interestingly enough, especially given your next comment,
>  the real phwam! of seeing these things was not so much
>  seeing them but FEELING them. *Whatever* was going on, there
>  was a palpable field of energy that surrounding it that just
>  knocked my socks off.
>
>  > I had a hard time reading much of it because I began to
>  feel a great deal of energy as soon as I started reading, I
>  mean LOTS of energy. So I am taking the reading in stages.
>  Read a little. Sweep my floors a little, clean the
>  bathrooms, come down off the energy a little and read a
>  little more.
>
>  Interesting to hear that you
>  felt something while reading it. I certainly did while
>  writing it.
>
>  > Two minor questions I have are:
>  >
>  > Did you know this guy? Mark Laxer
>
>  Yes. We were friends in the
>  early days, but he was one of the early defectors, and I
>  just haven't run into him since. I'm sure he had
>  some interesting things to say in his memoir piece about
>  Rama, but I haven't read it.
>
>  > Have you ever read his book Take Me for a Ride: Coming
>  of Age in a Destructive Cult Paperback?
>
>  No. It's difficult for me to
>  read other students' books about Rama, because 1)
>  I'm not really that interested in the guy these days,
>  and 2) what they experienced was what *they* experienced. It
>  may or may not map to my experience, and neither of us is
>  "right" about what we saw and experienced, or what
>  we think of him. We just saw and experienced what we
>  experienced, that's all.
>
>  > If so is it accurate?
>
>  Can't help you. As I said, I
>  haven't read it.
>
>  > That's all - back to the energy now and thanks for
>  talking and thanks for writing about Rama and all the other
>  things you wrote about.
>  > 
>  > On Thu, 1/16/14, Michael Jackson mjackson74@ wrote:
>  >
>  >  Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a
>  terrible thing.
>  >  To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
>  >  Date: Thursday, January 16, 2014, 4:02 PM
>  >
>
>  >Thanks Barry - I am gonna read what you have
>  >  written and if I have any questions after that,
>  I'll
>  >  send 'em.
>  >
>  >  Got a busy day today, but I intend to start reading it
>  later
>  >  tonight.
>  >
>  >  
>  >
>  >  On Thu, 1/16/14, TurquoiseB turquoiseb@
>  >  wrote:
>  >
>  >  Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible
>  thing.
>  >
>  >   T

[FairfieldLife] RE: Meditation transforms roughest San Francisco schools

[nablusoss1008]

Invite DLF to come to your city !

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

[Michael Jackson]

I am still feeling tons of palpable energy even as I go about my day. Will get 
back to you on that in a while.

On Thu, 1/16/14, TurquoiseB  wrote:

 Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Date: Thursday, January 16, 2014, 7:21 PM
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
   
   
   
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson 
 wrote:
 >
 > I changed my day so I could delve into what you had
 written - I have gone through a lot of it and it answers
 most of my questions. Mainly I wanted to know if you thought
 Rama was legit in the beginning and if you witnessed any of
 the power or sidhi demonstrations he did. Obviously yes to
 both.
 
 If by "legit" you mean
 enlightened, I don't know. What I do know is that in the
 beginning he was a nicer guy and a better teacher, and was
 obviously going through *something*. What that something was
 I still don't know; all I know is that it radiated so
 strongly you could feel it. Meditate with the man and there
 was no issue of stopping thoughts. You couldn't *have*
 thoughts. The silence was that profound. 
 
 As for the performance of sidhis, yes I witnessed them, as
 did literally thousands of other people over the years, but
 again, I can't claim to "know what was
 happening." All I can say is that it DID happen for me,
 subjectively, and that it was kinda neat to see. I was never
 as wowed out as some people were by the sidhis, strangely
 enough because I stilled believed in something Maharishi had
 said earlier (and later changed his mind about), that sidhis
 did not mean enlightenment, and vice-versa. Apples and
 oranges. No relation between the two.
 
 Interestingly enough, especially given your next comment,
 the real phwam! of seeing these things was not so much
 seeing them but FEELING them. *Whatever* was going on, there
 was a palpable field of energy that surrounding it that just
 knocked my socks off. 
 
 > I had a hard time reading much of it because I began to
 feel a great deal of energy as soon as I started reading, I
 mean LOTS of energy. So I am taking the reading in stages.
 Read a little. Sweep my floors a little, clean the
 bathrooms, come down off the energy a little and read a
 little more. 
 
 Interesting to hear that you
 felt something while reading it. I certainly did while
 writing it.
 
 > Two minor questions I have are:
 > 
 > Did you know this guy? Mark Laxer
 
 Yes. We were friends in the
 early days, but he was one of the early defectors, and I
 just haven't run into him since. I'm sure he had
 some interesting things to say in his memoir piece about
 Rama, but I haven't read it. 
 
 > Have you ever read his book Take Me for a Ride: Coming
 of Age in a Destructive Cult Paperback?
 
 No. It's difficult for me to
 read other students' books about Rama, because 1)
 I'm not really that interested in the guy these days,
 and 2) what they experienced was what *they* experienced. It
 may or may not map to my experience, and neither of us is
 "right" about what we saw and experienced, or what
 we think of him. We just saw and experienced what we
 experienced, that's all. 
 
 > If so is it accurate?
 
 Can't help you. As I said, I
 haven't read it. 
 
 > That's all - back to the energy now and thanks for
 talking and thanks for writing about Rama and all the other
 things you wrote about.
 > 
 > On Thu, 1/16/14, Michael Jackson mjackson74@... wrote:
 > 
 >  Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a
 terrible thing.
 >  To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 >  Date: Thursday, January 16, 2014, 4:02 PM
 >  
 
 >Thanks Barry - I am gonna read what you have
 >  written and if I have any questions after that,
 I'll
 >  send 'em. 
 >  
 >  Got a busy day today, but I intend to start reading it
 later
 >  tonight.
 >  
 >  
 >  
 >  On Thu, 1/16/14, TurquoiseB turquoiseb@...
 >  wrote:
 >  
 >  Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible
 thing.
 >  
 >   To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 >  
 >   Date: Thursday, January 16, 2014, 8:21 AM
 >  
 >   --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson
 
 >  
 >   wrote:
 >  
 >   > I would like to have a conversation with you
 about
 >  your
 >   time with Rama if you are willing. I am more than
 happy to
 >   do it privately if you like cause I know some on here
 are
 >   going to revile you no matter what you say. So can
 we
 >  talk?
 >  
 >   
 >  
 >   I don't mind, as long as you
 >  
 >   understand a few things at the outset. First, I
 rarely
 >  even
 >  
 >   think about the dude any more, except when something
 >  
 >   triggers a memory, as something you said in one of
 your
 >  
 >   posts did yesterday. Second, I don't waste my
 time
 >  
 >   either condemning or defending him -- he was what he
 was,
 >  
 >   and I don't much care what an

[FairfieldLife] RE: Meditation transforms roughest San Francisco schools

[jr_esq]

Nabs,
 

 They should adopt a TM program in the Oakland, CA school district as well.  
Since most of the violence in that city are committed by teenagers,  the ME 
could reduce significantly the crimes and homicide of that city.
 

 As matter of fact, cities with high crime rates, like Detroit, Chicago and 
Washington DC, should introduce TM in their school programs too.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

[TurquoiseB]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson  wrote:
>
> I changed my day so I could delve into what you had written - I have
gone through a lot of it and it answers most of my questions. Mainly I
wanted to know if you thought Rama was legit in the beginning and if you
witnessed any of the power or sidhi demonstrations he did. Obviously yes
to both.

If by "legit" you mean enlightened, I don't know. What I do know is that
in the beginning he was a nicer guy and a better teacher, and was
obviously going through *something*. What that something was I still
don't know; all I know is that it radiated so strongly you could feel
it. Meditate with the man and there was no issue of stopping thoughts.
You couldn't *have* thoughts. The silence was that profound.

As for the performance of sidhis, yes I witnessed them, as did literally
thousands of other people over the years, but again, I can't claim to
"know what was happening." All I can say is that it DID happen for me,
subjectively, and that it was kinda neat to see. I was never as wowed
out as some people were by the sidhis, strangely enough because I
stilled believed in something Maharishi had said earlier (and later
changed his mind about), that sidhis did not mean enlightenment, and
vice-versa. Apples and oranges. No relation between the two.

Interestingly enough, especially given your next comment, the real
phwam! of seeing these things was not so much seeing them but FEELING
them. *Whatever* was going on, there was a palpable field of energy that
surrounding it that just knocked my socks off.

> I had a hard time reading much of it because I began to feel a great
deal of energy as soon as I started reading, I mean LOTS of energy. So I
am taking the reading in stages. Read a little. Sweep my floors a
little, clean the bathrooms, come down off the energy a little and read
a little more.

Interesting to hear that you felt something while reading it. I
certainly did while writing it.

> Two minor questions I have are:
>
> Did you know this guy? Mark Laxer

Yes. We were friends in the early days, but he was one of the early
defectors, and I just haven't run into him since. I'm sure he had some
interesting things to say in his memoir piece about Rama, but I haven't
read it.

> Have you ever read his book Take Me for a Ride: Coming of Age in a
Destructive Cult Paperback?

No. It's difficult for me to read other students' books about Rama,
because 1) I'm not really that interested in the guy these days, and 2)
what they experienced was what *they* experienced. It may or may not map
to my experience, and neither of us is "right" about what we saw and
experienced, or what we think of him. We just saw and experienced what
we experienced, that's all.

> If so is it accurate?

Can't help you. As I said, I haven't read it.

> That's all - back to the energy now and thanks for talking and thanks
for writing about Rama and all the other things you wrote about.
> 
> On Thu, 1/16/14, Michael Jackson mjackson74@... wrote:
>
>  Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.
>  To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
>  Date: Thursday, January 16, 2014, 4:02 PM
>

>Thanks Barry - I am gonna read what you have
>  written and if I have any questions after that, I'll
>  send 'em.
>
>  Got a busy day today, but I intend to start reading it later
>  tonight.
>
>  
>
>  On Thu, 1/16/14, TurquoiseB turquoiseb@...
>  wrote:
>
>  Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.
>
>   To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
>
>   Date: Thursday, January 16, 2014, 8:21 AM
>
>   --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson
>
>   wrote:
>
>   > I would like to have a conversation with you about
>  your
>   time with Rama if you are willing. I am more than happy to
>   do it privately if you like cause I know some on here are
>   going to revile you no matter what you say. So can we
>  talk?
>
>
>
>   I don't mind, as long as you
>
>   understand a few things at the outset. First, I rarely
>  even
>
>   think about the dude any more, except when something
>
>   triggers a memory, as something you said in one of your
>
>   posts did yesterday. Second, I don't waste my time
>
>   either condemning or defending him -- he was what he was,
>
>   and I don't much care what anyone thinks about him.
>
>
>
>   Third, however, and as you say, if we do it here you can
>
>   expect a lot of "piling on" from stalkers here.
>
>   They'll do it for various reasons. Some will start
>
>   piling on when they hear tales of thousands of his
>  students
>
>   witnessing siddhis they've *still* only read about,
>
>   after 30 years of pursuing them and after paying thousands
>
>   of dollars to supposedly learn them. Some will pile on
>
>   because they don't like me, and they mistakenly
>  believe
>
>   that if they diss a former teacher I still have some
>
>   positive feelings ab

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

[Michael Jackson]

I changed my day so I could delve into what you had written - I have gone 
through a lot of it and it answers most of my questions. Mainly I wanted to 
know if you thought Rama was legit in the beginning and if you witnessed any of 
the power or sidhi demonstrations he did. Obviously yes to both.

I had a hard time reading much of it because I began to feel a great deal of 
energy as soon as I started reading, I mean LOTS of energy. So I am taking the 
reading in stages. Read a little. Sweep my floors a little, clean the 
bathrooms, come down off the energy a little and read a little more. 

Two minor questions I have are:

Did you know this guy? Mark Laxer

Have you ever read his book Take Me for a Ride: Coming of Age in a Destructive 
Cult Paperback?

If so is it accurate?

That's all - back to the energy now and thanks for talking and thanks for 
writing about Rama and all the other things you wrote about.

On Thu, 1/16/14, Michael Jackson  wrote:

 Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Date: Thursday, January 16, 2014, 4:02 PM
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
   
   
   Thanks Barry - I am gonna read what you have
 written and if I have any questions after that, I'll
 send 'em. 
 
 
 
 Got a busy day today, but I intend to start reading it later
 tonight.
 
 
 
 On Thu, 1/16/14, TurquoiseB 
 wrote:
 
 
 
 Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.
 
  To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 
  Date: Thursday, January 16, 2014, 8:21 AM
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
   
 
  
 
  
 
  
 

 
  
 
  
 
  
 

 

 

 
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson 
 
  wrote:
 
  >
 
  > I would like to have a conversation with you about
 your
 
  time with Rama if you are willing. I am more than happy to
 
  do it privately if you like cause I know some on here are
 
  going to revile you no matter what you say. So can we
 talk?
 
  
 
  I don't mind, as long as you
 
  understand a few things at the outset. First, I rarely
 even
 
  think about the dude any more, except when something
 
  triggers a memory, as something you said in one of your
 
  posts did yesterday. Second, I don't waste my time
 
  either condemning or defending him -- he was what he was,
 
  and I don't much care what anyone thinks about him. 
 
  
 
  Third, however, and as you say, if we do it here you can
 
  expect a lot of "piling on" from stalkers here.
 
  They'll do it for various reasons. Some will start
 
  piling on when they hear tales of thousands of his
 students
 
  witnessing siddhis they've *still* only read about,
 
  after 30 years of pursuing them and after paying thousands
 
  of dollars to supposedly learn them. Some will pile on
 
  because they don't like me, and they mistakenly
 believe
 
  that if they diss a former teacher I still have some
 
  positive feelings about, it'll push my hot buttons the
 
  same way me saying things about MMY pushes theirs, and
 thus
 
  I'll react and get into one of the Robin-like
 
  "confrontations" with them they so hope for. 
 
  
 
  That's not gonna happen, so we might as well do it
 here.
 
  :-) But I'll warn you ahead of time that my attention
 
  span for "things Rama-related" is pretty damned
 
  short these days, so if you have questions, make the first
 
  few "count," because at some point I'll get
 
  tired of the whole thing and bail. :-)
 
  
 
  That said, ask anything you want, and I'll do my best
 to
 
  answer your questions as honestly as I wrote "Road
 Trip
 
  Mind." That would be a good place to start if you are
 
  actually curious about the dude. I wrote it to get the
 
  Rama-monkey off my back, and it worked. I don't
 actually
 
  have a great deal more to say about the guy than I said in
 
  that book. 
 
  
 
  http://www.ramalila.net/RoadTripMind/index.html
 
   
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
   
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 

 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: John Hagelin: New Interview on Buddha at the Gas Pump - 01/14/2014

[Michael Jackson]

I know some people like that - they continue to do TM because they "know its 
valuable" mainly cause they believe M was enlightened and they think they'll 
get there if they do what he said do

On Thu, 1/16/14, Bhairitu  wrote:

 Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: John Hagelin: New Interview on Buddha at the 
Gas Pump - 01/14/2014
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Date: Thursday, January 16, 2014, 5:05 PM
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
   
   
   
   
   
 Not only that
 the people having these
   experiences are probably wondering why others
 aren't.  I have a
   friend who has been doing TM for years but claims to
 have only
   transcended twice.  Huh?
 
   
 
   On 01/15/2014 04:08 PM, Rick Archer wrote:
 
 
 
    
   
   
 
  
   
 
   From:
   FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
   [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com]
 On
 Behalf Of jr_...@yahoo.com
 
   Sent: Wednesday, January 15,
 2014 2:50 PM
 
   To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 
   Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife]
 RE: John
   Hagelin: New Interview on Buddha at
 the Gas Pump -
   01/14/2014 
 
   
  
      
   
 
   
 Bhairitu, 
    
 IMO,
 these experiences of "celestial
 beings" may be
 due to hynogogia, a state of
 consciousness in
 between sleep and waking.  It would
 appear that
 meditation, for some people, may
 enhance or
 extend hynogogia into the waking
 state.  Thus,
 they appear to see or hallucinate
 visions in
 conjunction with ordinary activities
 during the
 day. 
 The
 folks I referred to in the interview
 see them
 all the time, very clearly, in the
 waking state.
 Although since they’re in an
 enlightened state,
 or whatever you’d like to call it,
 it’s not
 really the waking state. It’s what
 Maharishi
 predicted in his 7-states model:
 refined,
 “celestial” perception. Subtle
 or “celestial”
 beings are all around us, or in a
 parallel
 dimension. Most people just can’t
 see them
 because their perception is not
 sufficiently
 refined. 
   
 
   
 
   
   
   
   
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Hackers

[authfriend]

There were "five and dime" stores back when prices for the stuff they sold were 
that low. By the time I was shopping in Woolworth's and Newberry's in the '50s, 
"five and dime" was already way out of date due to inflation, although the term 
was still used by the older generation. And they had departments and regular 
stock that they ordered, unlike most of today's dollar stores. (Woolworth's had 
a terrific "notions" department, for instance--thread and needles and pins and 
yarn and hooks-and-eyes--including drawers and drawers full of Simplicity 
patterns for home sewers.)
 

 I doubt dollar stores have ever made more of a profit than five-and-dimes. In 
most cases the dollar stores' goods are not "costlier" (and many of the stores, 
around here at least, are quite small, much smaller than the old 
five-and-dimes). I don't think you're taking inflation into account; the dollar 
stores' business model is very different than that of the five-and-dimes.
 

 There used to be "five and dime" stores too.  Dollar stores probably arise out 
of the fact that bigger stores wanted to devote their precious shelf space to 
costlier hence more profitable items.  It appears that Dollar Tree eliminates 
vendors coming in to stock the shelves so a Dollar Tree truck just delivers all 
the inventory.  The companies who set up deals with Dollar Tree probably just 
send their truckload(s) to a central warehouse. This obviously eliminates a lot 
of cost.
 
 There also appear to be jobbers who supply the independent dollar stores in 
much the same way.  Difference is that some of these stores will have 
additional items priced at more than a dollar.  We just lost the nearby 
independent that just stocked dry goods not food like Dollar Tree.  There was 
something said about the town council having something to do with pushing them 
out while a steak house went in to the location. More taxes from a steak house 
than a dollar store.
 
 On 01/16/2014 07:47 AM, Share Long wrote:
 
   Ann, I think dollar stores began with the idea that everything in the store 
cost one dollar. That idea has not been realized. Instead I think it's proved 
itself to be a clever marketing device to get people to come into the store and 
shop, thinking they're saving money.
 
 
 
 
 On Thursday, January 16, 2014 8:18 AM, "awoelflebater@..." 
mailto:awoelflebater@...  mailto:awoelflebater@... wrote:
 
   
 
 
 
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 
 mailto:sharelong60@... wrote:
 
 Richard, I love the Dollar General in FF. The manager is really nice. We also 
have Family Dollar. But my favorite is Dollar Tree which we don't have in FF 
but there is one in Annapolis and I shop there when I'm visiting my family. 
These dollar stores are a new development in my life and I have NO idea what's 
going on with that!
 
 
 It always makes me laugh that these types of cheapo stores are called "Dollar" 
stores because any store that handles US or Canadian currency are technically 
"dollar" stores.
 
 
 
 
 On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 9:57 AM, Richard J. Williams  
mailto:punditster@... wrote:
 
   On 1/15/2014 9:24 AM, Share Long wrote:
 > Richard, here's my debit card adventure, a card which I NEVER use. 
 > Except I had to in order to purchase gifts cards from the grocery 
 > store here. They wouldn't let me use my credit card! That didn't seem 
 > right to me but I went along with it because I was eager to finish my 
 > Christmas shopping! I think I'm a slave to convenience.
 >
 Yes, we used to use our debit card at stores and at the gas station. 
 After reading about the the online hackers at Target and Neiman-Marcus 
 we won't be using our debit cards there any more! Now, we just use the 
 credit card at SAKS and get cash out of the ATM at the bank for shopping 
 at the Dollar General, which is only a few blocks away. Go figure.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Hackers

[Share Long]

noozguru, when I was a little girl, my Granny would take me to Woolworth's in 
Upper Marlboro, MD, yes Marlboro country! and give me a dollar to buy comic 
books for reading while she was taking a nap. Even back then, I could stretch a 
dollar like nobody's business! 


I hadn't made that connection between five and dimes and dollar stores but it 
makes sense. 




On Thursday, January 16, 2014 11:06 AM, Bhairitu  wrote:
 
  
There used to be "five and dime" stores too.  Dollar stores probably arise out 
of the fact that bigger stores wanted to devote their precious shelf space to 
costlier hence more profitable items.  It appears that Dollar Tree eliminates 
vendors coming in to stock the shelves so a Dollar Tree truck just delivers all 
the inventory.  The companies who set up deals with Dollar Tree probably just 
send their truckload(s) to a central warehouse. This obviously eliminates a lot 
of cost.

There also appear to be jobbers who supply the independent dollar
  stores in much the same way.  Difference is that some of these
  stores will have additional items priced at more than a dollar. 
  We just lost the nearby independent that just stocked dry goods
  not food like Dollar Tree.  There was something said about the
  town council having something to do with pushing them out while a
  steak house went in to the location. More taxes from a steak house
  than a dollar store.

On 01/16/2014 07:47 AM, Share Long wrote:

  
>Ann, I think dollar stores began with the idea that everything in the store 
>cost one dollar. That idea has not been realized. Instead I think it's proved 
>itself to be a clever marketing device to get people to come into the store 
>and shop, thinking they're saving money.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>On Thursday, January 16, 2014 8:18 AM, "awoelfleba...@yahoo.com" 
> wrote:
> 
>  
>
>
>
>
>---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote:
>
>
>Richard, I love the Dollar General in FF. The manager is really nice. We also 
>have Family Dollar. But my favorite is Dollar Tree which we don't have in FF 
>but there is one in Annapolis and I shop there when I'm visiting my family. 
>These dollar stores are a new development in my life and I have NO idea what's 
>going on with that!
>
>
>It always makes me laugh that these types of cheapo stores are called "Dollar" 
>stores because any store that handles US or Canadian currency are technically 
>"dollar" stores.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 9:57 AM, Richard J. Williams  
>wrote:
> 
>  
> 
>>On 1/15/2014 9:24 AM, Share Long wrote:
>>> Richard,
  here's my
  debit card
  adventure, a
  card which I
  NEVER use. 
>>> Except I
  had to in
  order to
  purchase gifts
  cards from the
  grocery 
>>> store
  here. They
  wouldn't let
  me use my
  credit card!
  That didn't
  seem 
>>> right to
  me but I went
  along with it
  because I was
  eager to
  finish my 
>>> Christmas
  shopping! I
  think I'm a
  slave to
  convenience.
>>>
>>Yes, we used
  to use our
  debit card at
  stores and at
  the gas
  station. 
>>After reading
  about the the
  online hackers
  at Target and
  

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: John Hagelin: New Interview on Buddha at the Gas Pump - 01/14/2014

[Bhairitu]

Not only that the people having these experiences are probably wondering 
why others aren't.  I have a friend who has been doing TM for years but 
claims to have only transcended twice.  Huh?


On 01/15/2014 04:08 PM, Rick Archer wrote:


*From:*FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
[mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] *On Behalf Of *jr_...@yahoo.com

*Sent:* Wednesday, January 15, 2014 2:50 PM
*To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
*Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: John Hagelin: New Interview on 
Buddha at the Gas Pump - 01/14/2014


Bhairitu,

IMO, these experiences of "celestial beings" may be due to hynogogia, 
a state of consciousness in between sleep and waking.  It would appear 
that meditation, for some people, may enhance or extend hynogogia into 
the waking state.  Thus, they appear to see or hallucinate visions in 
conjunction with ordinary activities during the day.


The folks I referred to in the interview see them all the time, very 
clearly, in the waking state. Although since they’re in an enlightened 
state, or whatever you’d like to call it, it’s not really the waking 
state. It’s what Maharishi predicted in his 7-states model: refined, 
“celestial” perception. Subtle or “celestial” beings are all around 
us, or in a parallel dimension. Most people just can’t see them 
because their perception is not sufficiently refined.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Hackers

[Bhairitu]

There used to be "five and dime" stores too.  Dollar stores probably 
arise out of the fact that bigger stores wanted to devote their precious 
shelf space to costlier hence more profitable items.  It appears that 
Dollar Tree eliminates vendors coming in to stock the shelves so a 
Dollar Tree truck just delivers all the inventory.  The companies who 
set up deals with Dollar Tree probably just send their truckload(s) to a 
central warehouse. This obviously eliminates a lot of cost.


There also appear to be jobbers who supply the independent dollar stores 
in much the same way.  Difference is that some of these stores will have 
additional items priced at more than a dollar. We just lost the nearby 
independent that just stocked dry goods not food like Dollar Tree.  
There was something said about the town council having something to do 
with pushing them out while a steak house went in to the location. More 
taxes from a steak house than a dollar store.


On 01/16/2014 07:47 AM, Share Long wrote:
Ann, I think dollar stores began with the idea that everything in the 
store cost one dollar. That idea has not been realized. Instead I 
think it's proved itself to be a clever marketing device to get people 
to come into the store and shop, thinking they're saving money.




On Thursday, January 16, 2014 8:18 AM, "awoelfleba...@yahoo.com" 
 wrote:




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

Richard, I love the Dollar General in FF. The manager is really nice. 
We also have Family Dollar. But my favorite is Dollar Tree which we 
don't have in FF but there is one in Annapolis and I shop there when 
I'm visiting my family. These dollar stores are a new development in 
my life and I have NO idea what's going on with that!


It always makes me laugh that these types of cheapo stores are called 
"Dollar" stores because any store that handles US or Canadian currency 
are technically "dollar" stores.




On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 9:57 AM, Richard J. Williams 
 wrote:


On 1/15/2014 9:24 AM, Share Long wrote:
> Richard, here's my debit card adventure, a card which I NEVER use.
> Except I had to in order to purchase gifts cards from the grocery
> store here. They wouldn't let me use my credit card! That didn't
seem
> right to me but I went along with it because I was eager to
finish my
> Christmas shopping! I think I'm a slave to convenience.
>
Yes, we used to use our debit card at stores and at the gas station.
After reading about the the online hackers at Target and
Neiman-Marcus
we won't be using our debit cards there any more! Now, we just use
the
credit card at SAKS and get cash out of the ATM at the bank for
shopping
at the Dollar General, which is only a few blocks away. Go figure.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Peeling The Onion

[Bhairitu]

Dude, not everyone likes peeling onions. :-D

On 01/16/2014 01:45 AM, TurquoiseB wrote:


*/When writing a mini-review of HBO's new "True Detective" the other 
day, I found myself using a phrase I use a lot when referring to great 
literature, movies, and TV. I said that the character development was 
like peeling away the layers of an onion -- layer after layer after 
layer after layer, through seemingly never-ending layers.


That is the thing that turns me on most in good writing, whether that 
writing is destined to appear on the written page or onscreen. My 
favorite novelist is a lady named Dorothy Dunnett, who is by many 
people's standards (meaning not just mine) the grandmaster of 
onion-peeling. In her classic set of novels "The Lymond Chronicles," 
when we first meet Francis Crawford, Earl of Lymond, we do so with the 
words "Drama entered, mincing like a cat." And Francis is *larger than 
life*, from moment one. He is so fuckin' interesting and so flamboyant 
and so clever that you think you've got him "bagged." Aha!, you 
say...this is one of those great Sir Walter Scott-like heroes, and we 
know what to expect of him and from him. You haven't got a clue. 3,000 
pages later Lady Dunnett can pull something out of her hat that you 
*never saw coming* about Francis Crawford, something that shakes you 
and rocks you back in your reading chair and makes you think, "OMG, 
now I have to go back and reread the entire series again!" That's my 
"holy grail" of good character development. And why I have installed 
Dorothy at the top of my personal pyramid of great writers of the 
English language.


But this isn't a rap about language. It's a rap about this concept of 
"peeling the onion," and how it relates to me this morning on one of 
my Writing Days Off to a different kind of writing -- writing on the 
Internet. I can already feel that this may turn into a fairly long, 
off-the-top-of-my-head rap, so if you have a short attention span, you 
might want to click Next now. :-)


When thinking about this "peeling the onion" thing w.r.t. the two 
leads of "True Detective," I started thinking about what it is that 
makes me *like them*, to *want* to peel the onion of these characters' 
personalities and find out more about them. And what I've come up with 
is WYSIWYG. What You See Is What You Get.


Neither of the two characters spend much time apologizing for who they 
are, or "defending" who they think they are. They are both rude, 
opinionated, stubborn, and bloody brilliant...in very different ways. 
But at almost every moment you get the feeling that this character is 
fully "in the moment." They're not pretending to be *anybody*, or 
*anything*. They're just being who they are.


There is a certain charisma that comes from this 'tude. We see it on 
the Internet, too. Some posters on Internet forums are pretty damned 
WYSIWYG. They're just being who they are, in the moment, writing from 
the seat of their pants because doing that is FUN. Think Curtis. 
People respond to that here-and-now-ness, and it becomes a kind of Net 
signature, or Netcharisma. Some folks got it, and some don't, and you 
(or at least I) tend to want to "get to know" the folks who got it. 
You want to peel the onion and learn more about them.


The others, not so much. You get an intuitive feel (or at least I do) 
through the medium of writing for which writers are comfortable 
*being* who they are in the moment, and which are not. The latter tend 
to (in my experience) defend themselves a lot. They get offended when 
someone doesn't see them the way that they like to believe people 
"should" see them. So they also tend to turn conversations into 
arguments, to "prove" that their view of who they are is the "right" 
view. They've got an image to project, and to protect.


In my experience, long conversations with the latter are simply not a 
productive use of one's precious time on this planet. BORING.


The interesting onions are the ones that are interesting on every 
layer. During the course of six novels we are presented with not one 
Francis Crawford but *hundreds* of them. Many are as different from 
one another as night is to day. But they're *all* interesting, and 
each of the in-the-moment incarnations of Francis has charisma 
*because* he's in the moment. He's drawing on the power of being fully 
in that moment, and just being himself, and that radiates.


My favorite posters on the Internet are like that. They write to the 
forums they write to FOR FUN. They're in the moment, and having FUN 
with it. And after the moments are over, they don't spend a fuck of a 
lot of time "defending" them, or arguing about them. They just write 
what they write and let it stand. With these folks I can have great 
long conversations, and enjoy them. It turns into a kind of Netjazz, 
two people equally in the moment and equally having fun with it just 
rapping to see where the conversation goes. If both parties are 
interesting onions, 

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Religion that doesn't take itself deadly seriously

[Share Long]

Fascinating, Richard and I appreciate how you show the connections among Wicca 
and tantra and shamanism and siddhis. 




On Tuesday, January 14, 2014 8:08 AM, Richard J. Williams 
 wrote:
 
  
On 1/14/2014 6:46 AM, Share Long wrote:
> All women have some witch in them
>
One physical existence of Materia Mater - Mother Nature, (not to deny 
the existence of the Sky Gods, Gauda, etc.) Wicca in a nutshell: the 
ability to cause change at will.

Henotheism is the worship of one God, Mother Nature, without reference 
to the rest. All the polytheistic Sky Gods are personifications of the 
forces of Mother Nature - all the other Gods are worshiped, that deserve 
to be worshiped: the Sky itself, the Sun, the Moon, the Dawn; trees, 
rocks, totems, poles, rocks, and fetishes.

According to Delia, a self-described Wiccan on Google Groups, explained 
Wicca as as set of practices, with no theology of its own. In this 
sense, Wicca is tantric - what works, works. A Wiccan is able to become 
immortal like the gods themselves - through a process of yoga. A Wiccan 
is then a siddha, a person who is able to transcend the limitations of 
the physical world. A tantric siddha adept like Rama Lenz can fly; fill 
lecture halls with golden light; walk through walls; make themselves 
invisible; and attain immortality. A Wiccan is thus a shaman, from the 
indian prakrit, shramana, a striver.

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

[Share Long]

Xeno, it's now 2014 and I still love your writing and that's all I have to say 
which really doesn't do this piece of yours justice but there we are!





On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 2:43 PM, "anartax...@yahoo.com" 
 wrote:
 
  
Apostasy is one of the  techniques you may use for spiritual advancement, 
because it gets you out of thinking that what you are thinking is true rather 
than an opinion or a pointer. 

Spiritual jargon's intent is to create an environment of special vocabulary 
that can be used as information and strategies for getting out from under 
belief and experiencing life as direct here and now experience, life without 
labels and judgment (you can still make up judgments of course but you know you 
are full of it when you do so, and unfortunately you may have to act on such 
judgments sometimes). 

But the pointer 'all this is total nonsense' gets dropped out of the picture 
very early on. Even in TM Maharishi talked about 'removing a thorn with a 
thorn' using 'words of ignorance to remove ignorance' - that's the teaching - 
whatever the teaching, the teaching has the probability to become part of the 
problem you think you need to get rid of if you forget this pointer, that 
essentially the teaching, the words, the ideas, the concepts, is not the 
reality you are seeking.

A teaching is an attempt (because as we see teachings often fail and fail 
miserably) to encode its intended target (the experience of reality) within the 
morass of our mental fantasies.It is like malware that wipes the hard drive of 
your computer clean so that nothing on it is recoverable. If it works it is 
self erasing, and if it fails we have ideologies and religions and the day to 
day life of humanity in all its warring misery. Apostasy is the result of 
successful spiritual investigation.

Falling into a cult mentality is pretty easy because in some ways we seem to be 
hard wired for it. Certain things can be learned much faster this way, just by 
believing instead of being curious, sceptical, investigative, experimental. But 
at some point in our maturity this tendency starts to work against us and we 
remain stunted if we do not find a way around this tendency to believe in an 
unconscious way.

Even if you are surrounded by people who seem to be most like you, if you go 
deep enough you find that what is in their mind (as they relate it to you) has 
often major discrepancies with what you think. That is a clue that what we 
think may not be so real as we thought. The tendency is to think he or she is 
wrong or they are wrong. It usually never occurs to us that we areall wrong, 
that there is something inherently unsteady, unreliable with our view of life.

That is because what is in our head is just model, a set of symbols about 
experience. Life can be modeled in so many ways, but these ways are not the 
life we live. The life we live day to day is just pure experience, it's not 
necessary to explain it all the time to ourselves or others. Fun or misery, 
it's all we have. It's not a requirement for life that everybody else in the 
world follow our particular way of thinking. It should be clear being on FFL 
that no one here is ever in complete agreement with anyone else (which means 
someone is going to disagree with this tripe I am writing). 

Spiritual systems and politics are the worst when it comes to our inner 
fantasies. Apostasy is a way out of the trap. Stay flexible, inquisitive, 
switch brands once in a while. Apostasy in its more general meaning is the way 
a cult stigmatises one who leaves the cult - its name calling basically - an 
attempt to cast a shadow on them, to ruin them. But to the one labeled 
'apostate' it is freedom. Of course one might be an idiot and fall into another 
trap. But if you are a good apostate, you will eventually worm your way out of 
those traps set to capture the mind in Fantasyland.

Now I'm going for a walk in the park, no thinking. (Remember TM people, the 
process is designed to take experience out of the thinking mind, out of all 
those trite, expansive, stupid, intelligent, ridiculous and sublime thoughts. 
If you have to think about truth, you will never find out what the word 
implies, what it is intended to point to, and if you do eventually find out 
someday, maybe the very next thing you do will be to have a beer, or maybe you 
will pick your nose and exclaim, hmmm.)


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


--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson  wrote:

>
>> of course they are lying about it - that's their stock in trade
>
>The sadder reality, Michael, one that you may not be aware of from personal 
>experience (or may...that is for you to say) is that they *aren't* lying. 
>Except to themselves. 

One of the aspects of the disciple mindset (or cult mindset if you prefer) is 
that people who have bought into a shitload of dogma laid on them by teachers 
they now revere almost as infallible and as near-gods (think MMY) have an 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

[authfriend]

As Barry knows, by far the majority of the, er, "reviling" with regard to 
Barry's stint with Lenz has been in connection with Barry's hypocrisy in using 
his experience with Lenz to stalk TMers and others he doesn't like (see the 
example in red below, just one of many such).
 

 Third, however, and as you say, if we do it here you can expect a lot of 
"piling on" from stalkers here. They'll do it for various reasons. Some will 
start piling on when they hear tales of thousands of his students witnessing 
siddhis they've *still* only read about, after 30 years of pursuing them and 
after paying thousands of dollars to supposedly learn them. Some will pile on 
because they don't like me, and they mistakenly believe that if they diss a 
former teacher I still have some positive feelings about, it'll push my hot 
buttons the same way me saying things about MMY pushes theirs, and thus I'll 
react and get into one of the Robin-like "confrontations" with them they so 
hope for. 

Just for the record, when I comment on one of Barry's posts, it is NOT in the 
hope of getting into a "confrontation" with him. That's one of Barry's many 
narcissistic fantasies. I'm happy to express my opinions and let them stand as 
such without any "reaction" from him.
 

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Hackers

[Share Long]

Ann, I think dollar stores began with the idea that everything in the store 
cost one dollar. That idea has not been realized. Instead I think it's proved 
itself to be a clever marketing device to get people to come into the store and 
shop, thinking they're saving money.





On Thursday, January 16, 2014 8:18 AM, "awoelfleba...@yahoo.com" 
 wrote:
 
  




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


Richard, I love the Dollar General in FF. The manager is really nice. We also 
have Family Dollar. But my favorite is Dollar Tree which we don't have in FF 
but there is one in Annapolis and I shop there when I'm visiting my family. 
These dollar stores are a new development in my life and I have NO idea what's 
going on with that!

It always makes me laugh that these types of cheapo stores are called "Dollar" 
stores because any store that handles US or Canadian currency are technically 
"dollar" stores.





On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 9:57 AM, Richard J. Williams  
wrote:
 
  
On 1/15/2014 9:24 AM, Share Long wrote:
>> Richard, here's my debit card adventure, a card which I NEVER use. 
>> Except I had to in order to purchase gifts cards from the grocery 
>> store here. They wouldn't let me use my credit card! That didn't seem 
>> right to me but I went along with it because I was eager to finish my 
>> Christmas shopping! I think I'm a slave to convenience.
>>
>Yes, we used to use our debit card at stores and at the gas station. 
>After reading about the the online hackers at Target and Neiman-Marcus 
>we won't be using our debit cards there any more! Now, we just use the 
>credit card at SAKS and get cash out of the ATM at the bank for shopping 
>at the Dollar General, which is only a few blocks away. Go figure.
>

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Hackers

[Share Long]

Good points, Judy





On Thursday, January 16, 2014 10:04 AM, "authfri...@yahoo.com" 
 wrote:
 
  
I can't speak for every single dollar store in the U.S., but at the ones I've 
shopped in, you most certainly can save money if you're selective about what 
you buy, and sometimes you can find terrific bargains. I haven't seen any signs 
in the stores I've patronized that any scamming is going on. Some of the goods 
are low-quality crap that you wouldn't buy anywhere, but as far as I've been 
able to tell, none of the prices is inflated. And most are, in fact, a dollar.


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


Ann, I think dollar stores began with the idea that everything in the store 
cost one dollar. That idea has not been realized. Instead I think it's proved 
itself to be a clever marketing device to get people to come into the store and 
shop, thinking they're saving money.





On Thursday, January 16, 2014 8:18 AM, "awoelflebater@..."  
wrote:
 
  

>
>
>
>---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote:
>
>
>Richard, I love the Dollar General in FF. The manager is really nice. We also 
>have Family Dollar. But my favorite is Dollar Tree which we don't have in FF 
>but there is one in Annapolis and I shop there when I'm visiting my family. 
>These dollar stores are a new development in my life and I have NO idea what's 
>going on with that!
>
>
>It always makes me laugh that these types of cheapo stores are called "Dollar" 
>stores because any store that handles US or Canadian currency are technically 
>"dollar" stores.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 9:57 AM, Richard J. Williams  
>wrote:
> 
>  
>On 1/15/2014 9:24 AM, Share Long wrote:
>>> Richard, here's my debit card adventure, a card which I NEVER use. 
>>> Except I had to in order to purchase gifts cards from the grocery 
>>> store here. They wouldn't let me use my credit card! That didn't seem 
>>> right to me but I went along with it because I was eager to finish my 
>>> Christmas shopping! I think I'm a slave to convenience.
>>>
>>Yes, we used to use our debit card at stores and at the gas station. 
>>After reading about the the online hackers at Target and Neiman-Marcus 
>>we won't be using our debit cards there any more! Now, we just use the 
>>credit card at SAKS and get cash out of the ATM at the bank for shopping 
>>at the Dollar General, which is only a few blocks away. Go figure.
>>
>
>

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Hackers

[authfriend]

I can't speak for every single dollar store in the U.S., but at the ones I've 
shopped in, you most certainly can save money if you're selective about what 
you buy, and sometimes you can find terrific bargains. I haven't seen any signs 
in the stores I've patronized that any scamming is going on. Some of the goods 
are low-quality crap that you wouldn't buy anywhere, but as far as I've been 
able to tell, none of the prices is inflated. And most are, in fact, a dollar.
 

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

 Ann, I think dollar stores began with the idea that everything in the store 
cost one dollar. That idea has not been realized. Instead I think it's proved 
itself to be a clever marketing device to get people to come into the store and 
shop, thinking they're saving money.
 

 
 
 On Thursday, January 16, 2014 8:18 AM, "awoelflebater@..."  
wrote:
 
   

 

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

 Richard, I love the Dollar General in FF. The manager is really nice. We also 
have Family Dollar. But my favorite is Dollar Tree which we don't have in FF 
but there is one in Annapolis and I shop there when I'm visiting my family. 
These dollar stores are a new development in my life and I have NO idea what's 
going on with that!
 

 It always makes me laugh that these types of cheapo stores are called "Dollar" 
stores because any store that handles US or Canadian currency are technically 
"dollar" stores.
 

 
 
 On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 9:57 AM, Richard J. Williams  
wrote:
 
   On 1/15/2014 9:24 AM, Share Long wrote:
 > Richard, here's my debit card adventure, a card which I NEVER use. 
 > Except I had to in order to purchase gifts cards from the grocery 
 > store here. They wouldn't let me use my credit card! That didn't seem 
 > right to me but I went along with it because I was eager to finish my 
 > Christmas shopping! I think I'm a slave to convenience.
 >
 Yes, we used to use our debit card at stores and at the gas station. 
 After reading about the the online hackers at Target and Neiman-Marcus 
 we won't be using our debit cards there any more! Now, we just use the 
 credit card at SAKS and get cash out of the ATM at the bank for shopping 
 at the Dollar General, which is only a few blocks away. Go figure.
 
 
 

 






 
 
 
 









 
 

 
 



 
 
 
 

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

[Michael Jackson]

Thanks Barry - I am gonna read what you have written and if I have any 
questions after that, I'll send 'em. 

Got a busy day today, but I intend to start reading it later tonight.

On Thu, 1/16/14, TurquoiseB  wrote:

 Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Date: Thursday, January 16, 2014, 8:21 AM
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
   
   
   
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson 
 wrote:
 >
 > I would like to have a conversation with you about your
 time with Rama if you are willing. I am more than happy to
 do it privately if you like cause I know some on here are
 going to revile you no matter what you say. So can we talk?
 
 I don't mind, as long as you
 understand a few things at the outset. First, I rarely even
 think about the dude any more, except when something
 triggers a memory, as something you said in one of your
 posts did yesterday. Second, I don't waste my time
 either condemning or defending him -- he was what he was,
 and I don't much care what anyone thinks about him. 
 
 Third, however, and as you say, if we do it here you can
 expect a lot of "piling on" from stalkers here.
 They'll do it for various reasons. Some will start
 piling on when they hear tales of thousands of his students
 witnessing siddhis they've *still* only read about,
 after 30 years of pursuing them and after paying thousands
 of dollars to supposedly learn them. Some will pile on
 because they don't like me, and they mistakenly believe
 that if they diss a former teacher I still have some
 positive feelings about, it'll push my hot buttons the
 same way me saying things about MMY pushes theirs, and thus
 I'll react and get into one of the Robin-like
 "confrontations" with them they so hope for. 
 
 That's not gonna happen, so we might as well do it here.
 :-) But I'll warn you ahead of time that my attention
 span for "things Rama-related" is pretty damned
 short these days, so if you have questions, make the first
 few "count," because at some point I'll get
 tired of the whole thing and bail. :-)
 
 That said, ask anything you want, and I'll do my best to
 answer your questions as honestly as I wrote "Road Trip
 Mind." That would be a good place to start if you are
 actually curious about the dude. I wrote it to get the
 Rama-monkey off my back, and it worked. I don't actually
 have a great deal more to say about the guy than I said in
 that book. 
 
 http://www.ramalila.net/RoadTripMind/index.html
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

[FairfieldLife] RE: The Supreme Awakening

[dhamiltony2k5]

Published in 2014

 

 Throughout history, great men and women have described exalted experiences of 
extraordinary wakefulness, freedom, and bliss — as different from our ordinary 
waking experience as waking is from dreaming. Laozi, Plato, Rūmī, St. Teresa of 
Avila, Emerson, Emily Dickinson, Black Elk, Einstein — people of all times and 
places have described experiences that rank among the most inspiring in all of 
literature.
 The Supreme Awakening offers a rich collection of these experiences 

Re: [FairfieldLife] Meditation transforms roughest San Francisco schools

[Michael Jackson]

Oh thank you Nabby Nabby - I enjoyed reading the comments on this fluff PR 
piece immensely. Most of the people posting seem very wise to the TMO's 
crap-ola.

On Thu, 1/16/14, nablusoss1008  wrote:

 Subject: [FairfieldLife] Meditation transforms roughest San Francisco schools
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Date: Thursday, January 16, 2014, 11:43 AM
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
   
   
   
 While Quiet Time is no panacea, it's a
 game-changer for many students who otherwise might have
 become dropouts. That's reason enough to make meditation
 a school staple, and not just in San Francisco.
 
http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/openforum/article/Meditation-transforms-roughest-San-Francisco-5136942.php
 David L. Kirp, a professor of
 public policy at UC Berkeley, is the author of
 "Improbable Scholars: The Rebirth of a Great American
 School District and a Strategy for
 America's Schools."
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

[FairfieldLife] RE: RYOT news + action !

[dhamiltony2k5]

I like the big picture. The work they at David Lynch Foundation are doing is 
fabulous. Long may he live and long may his work on spreading the good of 
meditation outlive him on earth.
 
 -Buck  

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sherlock: His Last Vow

[awoelflebater]

 

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

 Oopsie. Not so perfect a metaphor, given that his ex-girlfriends 
presumably thought he was a really neat dude before he dumped them. Also not so 
perfect given that he presumably liked them too at first, rather than having 
been "stalking" them since he first encountered them.
 

 I think Barry needs a little more coffee before he's able to make any sense.
 

 I think he maybe needs less, the guy won't shut up this morning. I had to 
bypass at least three long screeds before I could get past it all. Contrary to 
what Bawwy thinks, I don't read all his stuff, far from it.
 

 

 Jeffrey's rap about and term for ex-girlfriends who refuse to admit that they 
have been dumped and turn into stalkers is the perfect metaphor for the 
situation I find myself in on FFL. He called them "unflushables," drawing a 
parallel to those occasional giant turds that refuse to go forth gracefully out 
of one's life.  :-)

 

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Hackers

[awoelflebater]

 

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

 Richard, I love the Dollar General in FF. The manager is really nice. We also 
have Family Dollar. But my favorite is Dollar Tree which we don't have in FF 
but there is one in Annapolis and I shop there when I'm visiting my family. 
These dollar stores are a new development in my life and I have NO idea what's 
going on with that!
 

 It always makes me laugh that these types of cheapo stores are called "Dollar" 
stores because any store that handles US or Canadian currency are technically 
"dollar" stores.
 

 
 
 On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 9:57 AM, Richard J. Williams  
wrote:
 
   On 1/15/2014 9:24 AM, Share Long wrote:
 > Richard, here's my debit card adventure, a card which I NEVER use. 
 > Except I had to in order to purchase gifts cards from the grocery 
 > store here. They wouldn't let me use my credit card! That didn't seem 
 > right to me but I went along with it because I was eager to finish my 
 > Christmas shopping! I think I'm a slave to convenience.
 >
 Yes, we used to use our debit card at stores and at the gas station. 
 After reading about the the online hackers at Target and Neiman-Marcus 
 we won't be using our debit cards there any more! Now, we just use the 
 credit card at SAKS and get cash out of the ATM at the bank for shopping 
 at the Dollar General, which is only a few blocks away. Go figure.
 
 
 

 
 





 
 
 
 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sherlock: His Last Vow

[authfriend]

Oopsie. Not so perfect a metaphor, given that his ex-girlfriends presumably 
thought he was a really neat dude before he dumped them. Also not so perfect 
given that he presumably liked them too at first, rather than having been 
"stalking" them since he first encountered them.
 

 I think Barry needs a little more coffee before he's able to make any sense.
 

 

 Jeffrey's rap about and term for ex-girlfriends who refuse to admit that they 
have been dumped and turn into stalkers is the perfect metaphor for the 
situation I find myself in on FFL. He called them "unflushables," drawing a 
parallel to those occasional giant turds that refuse to go forth gracefully out 
of one's life.  :-)

 

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

[Richard Williams]

On 1/16/2014 2:21 AM, TurquoiseB wrote:

> it'll push my hot buttons the same way me saying things about MMY pushes
theirs,
>
So, you got your buttons pushed. Now you're throwing Rama under the bus
just like you threw MMY under the bus. You spent almost half of your adult
life studying with these two guys. If what you've been posting here for the
past ten years is any indication, almost all your own efforts on the
spiritual path were a total waste of time. I only mentioned Rama because
you were making fun of MMY all the time - I actually like the Rama guy - I
wish you could have turned out to think more them, but I guess you got
mixed up over there in France. Go figure.


On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 2:21 AM, TurquoiseB  wrote:

>
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson wrote:
> >
> > I would like to have a conversation with you about your time with Rama
> if you are willing. I am more than happy to do it privately if you like
> cause I know some on here are going to revile you no matter what you say.
> So can we talk?
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> *I don't mind, as long as you understand a few things at the outset.
> First, I rarely even think about the dude any more, except when something
> triggers a memory, as something you said in one of your posts did
> yesterday. Second, I don't waste my time either condemning or defending him
> -- he was what he was, and I don't much care what anyone thinks about him.
> Third, however, and as you say, if we do it here you can expect a lot of
> "piling on" from stalkers here. They'll do it for various reasons. Some
> will start piling on when they hear tales of thousands of his students
> witnessing siddhis they've *still* only read about, after 30 years of
> pursuing them and after paying thousands of dollars to supposedly learn
> them. Some will pile on because they don't like me, and they mistakenly
> believe that if they diss a former teacher I still have some positive
> feelings about, it'll push my hot buttons the same way me saying things
> about MMY pushes theirs, and thus I'll react and get into one of the
> Robin-like "confrontations" with them they so hope for. That's not gonna
> happen, so we might as well do it here. :-) But I'll warn you ahead of time
> that my attention span for "things Rama-related" is pretty damned short
> these days, so if you have questions, make the first few "count," because
> at some point I'll get tired of the whole thing and bail. :-)That said, ask
> anything you want, and I'll do my best to answer your questions as honestly
> as I wrote "Road Trip Mind." That would be a good place to start if you are
> actually curious about the dude. I wrote it to get the Rama-monkey off my
> back, and it worked. I don't actually have a great deal more to say about
> the guy than I said in that book. *
> *http://www.ramalila.net/RoadTripMind/index.html*
> 
>
>
>
>
>   
>

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Hackers

[Share Long]

Richard, I love the Dollar General in FF. The manager is really nice. We also 
have Family Dollar. But my favorite is Dollar Tree which we don't have in FF 
but there is one in Annapolis and I shop there when I'm visiting my family. 
These dollar stores are a new development in my life and I have NO idea what's 
going on with that!





On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 9:57 AM, Richard J. Williams 
 wrote:
 
  
On 1/15/2014 9:24 AM, Share Long wrote:
> Richard, here's my debit card adventure, a card which I NEVER use. 
> Except I had to in order to purchase gifts cards from the grocery 
> store here. They wouldn't let me use my credit card! That didn't seem 
> right to me but I went along with it because I was eager to finish my 
> Christmas shopping! I think I'm a slave to convenience.
>
Yes, we used to use our debit card at stores and at the gas station. 
After reading about the the online hackers at Target and Neiman-Marcus 
we won't be using our debit cards there any more! Now, we just use the 
credit card at SAKS and get cash out of the ATM at the bank for shopping 
at the Dollar General, which is only a few blocks away. Go figure.

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Sherlock: His Last Vow

[Share Long]

Seraph, over the years I've enjoyed reading different versions of the Arthurian 
legend, especially the Merlin aspects. Mary Stewart's is my favorite: The 
Crystal Cave, The Hollow Hills, The Last Enchantment, etc. but I also enjoyed 
Mists of Avalon and the series by...senior moment, can't remember his name or 
any book title! Anyway, I thoroughly enjoy hearing a story told by different 
authors. Each telling enriches my experience of the others.

As for Sherlock, my introduction to the character left me with a prejudice 
against him. Then much later I read a novel in which he's married! Then I liked 
him a little better (-:





On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 8:54 PM, "s3raph...@yahoo.com" 
 wrote:
 
  
We're going to have to agree to disagree on this series. And opinion seems 
equally divided on the comments below on-line reviews.
For me, the whole point of the Holmes stories was to see the great man solving 
crimes. This series is far too involved in the characters of Holmes's immediate 
circle and is way too self indulgent. Watson's wife, Mary, is scarcely 
mentioned in the original Conan-Doyle stories; here she's become a central 
character and has out-stayed her welcome. Another example of the series being 
too much up itself is that the parents of Sherlock are played by Benedict 
Cumberbatch's real-life parents; and Watson's wife is played by Martin 
Freeman's real-life partner! Ugh!

And can you buy Sherlock as a seducer of women? He's not James Bond.
I watch the series as it does have some excellent set pieces. In this last 
episode the internal dialogue following Sherlock’s shooting was brilliant. And 
Charles Augustus Magnussen as Holmes's foe has to be one of the creepiest 
villains I've seen - even disturbingly perverse. (Pity we won't see him again.)

The BBC also had a tie-in documentaryTimeshift: How to be Sherlock Holmes: The 
Many Faces of a Master Detective about the screen versions of Sherlock Holmes 
since 1900 which shows how our perception of the detective is as much 
influenced by film as by those Conan Doyle stories (and The Strand Magazine 
illustrations). Worth a look and available on BBC iPlayer for free.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03pzsd9

[FairfieldLife] RYOT news + action !

[nablusoss1008]

http://www.ryot.org/cause/david-lynch-foundation 
http://www.ryot.org/cause/david-lynch-foundation

[FairfieldLife] Meditation transforms roughest San Francisco schools

[nablusoss1008]

 

 While Quiet Time is no panacea, it's a game-changer for many students who 
otherwise might have become dropouts. That's reason enough to make meditation a 
school staple, and not just in San Francisco.
 

 
http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/openforum/article/Meditation-transforms-roughest-San-Francisco-5136942.php
 
http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/openforum/article/Meditation-transforms-roughest-San-Francisco-5136942.php
 

 David L. Kirp 
http://www.sfgate.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=opinion%2Fopenforum&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22David+L.+Kirp%22,
 a professor of public policy at UC Berkeley, is the author of "Improbable 
Scholars: The Rebirth of a Great American School District and a Strategy for 
America's Schools."

[FairfieldLife] This is your (last) chance to help honor Ringo Starr

[nablusoss1008]

https://www.urgencynetwork.com/campaigns/2325/change-begins-within-ringo-starr/ 
https://www.urgencynetwork.com/campaigns/2325/change-begins-within-ringo-starr/

[FairfieldLife] The Supreme Awakening

[nablusoss1008]

 Experiences of Enlightenment Throughout Time — And how to Cultivate Them 
http://www.mumpress.com/books/other-authors/1tsa.html 
http://www.mumpress.com/books/other-authors/1tsa.html

[FairfieldLife] Ah, the French

[TurquoiseB]

Sometimes I miss their 'tude.

http://qz.com/167231/its-true-the-french-really-dont-care-if-you-cheat-o\
n-your-spouse/

[FairfieldLife] Peeling The Onion

[TurquoiseB]

When writing a mini-review of HBO's new "True Detective" the other day,
I found myself using a phrase I use a lot when referring to great
literature, movies, and TV. I said that the character development was
like peeling away the layers of an onion -- layer after layer after
layer after layer, through seemingly never-ending layers.

That is the thing that turns me on most in good writing, whether that
writing is destined to appear on the written page or onscreen. My
favorite novelist is a lady named Dorothy Dunnett, who is by many
people's standards (meaning not just mine) the grandmaster of
onion-peeling. In her classic set of novels "The Lymond Chronicles,"
when we first meet Francis Crawford, Earl of Lymond, we do so with the
words "Drama entered, mincing like a cat." And Francis is *larger than
life*, from moment one. He is so fuckin' interesting and so flamboyant
and so clever that you think you've got him "bagged." Aha!, you
say...this is one of those great Sir Walter Scott-like heroes, and we
know what to expect of him and from him. You haven't got a clue. 3,000
pages later Lady Dunnett can pull something out of her hat that you
*never saw coming* about Francis Crawford, something that shakes you and
rocks you back in your reading chair and makes you think, "OMG, now I
have to go back and reread the entire series again!" That's my "holy
grail" of good character development. And why I have installed Dorothy
at the top of my personal pyramid of great writers of the English
language.

But this isn't a rap about language. It's a rap about this concept of
"peeling the onion," and how it relates to me this morning on one of my
Writing Days Off to a different kind of writing -- writing on the
Internet. I can already feel that this may turn into a fairly long,
off-the-top-of-my-head rap, so if you have a short attention span, you
might want to click Next now. :-)

When thinking about this "peeling the onion" thing w.r.t. the two leads
of "True Detective," I started thinking about what it is that makes me
*like them*, to *want* to peel the onion of these characters'
personalities and find out more about them. And what I've come up with
is WYSIWYG. What You See Is What You Get.

Neither of the two characters spend much time apologizing for who they
are, or "defending" who they think they are. They are both rude,
opinionated, stubborn, and bloody brilliant...in very different ways.
But at almost every moment you get the feeling that this character is
fully "in the moment." They're not pretending to be *anybody*, or
*anything*. They're just being who they are.

There is a certain charisma that comes from this 'tude. We see it on the
Internet, too. Some posters on Internet forums are pretty damned
WYSIWYG. They're just being who they are, in the moment, writing from
the seat of their pants because doing that is FUN. Think Curtis. People
respond to that here-and-now-ness, and it becomes a kind of Net
signature, or Netcharisma. Some folks got it, and some don't, and you
(or at least I) tend to want to "get to know" the folks who got it. You
want to peel the onion and learn more about them.

The others, not so much. You get an intuitive feel (or at least I do)
through the medium of writing for which writers are comfortable *being*
who they are in the moment, and which are not. The latter tend to (in my
experience) defend themselves a lot. They get offended when someone
doesn't see them the way that they like to believe people "should" see
them. So they also tend to turn conversations into arguments, to "prove"
that their view of who they are is the "right" view. They've got an
image to project, and to protect.

In my experience, long conversations with the latter are simply not a
productive use of one's precious time on this planet. BORING.

The interesting onions are the ones that are interesting on every layer.
During the course of six novels we are presented with not one Francis
Crawford but *hundreds* of them. Many are as different from one another
as night is to day. But they're *all* interesting, and each of the
in-the-moment incarnations of Francis has charisma *because* he's in the
moment. He's drawing on the power of being fully in that moment, and
just being himself, and that radiates.

My favorite posters on the Internet are like that. They write to the
forums they write to FOR FUN. They're in the moment, and having FUN with
it. And after the moments are over, they don't spend a fuck of a lot of
time "defending" them, or arguing about them. They just write what they
write and let it stand. With these folks I can have great long
conversations, and enjoy them. It turns into a kind of Netjazz, two
people equally in the moment and equally having fun with it just rapping
to see where the conversation goes. If both parties are interesting
onions, *wherever* it goes is likely to be an interesting layer of the
onion.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

[TurquoiseB]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson  wrote:
>
> I would like to have a conversation with you about your time with Rama
if you are willing. I am more than happy to do it privately if you like
cause I know some on here are going to revile you no matter what you
say. So can we talk?

I don't mind, as long as you understand a few things at the outset.
First, I rarely even think about the dude any more, except when
something triggers a memory, as something you said in one of your posts
did yesterday. Second, I don't waste my time either condemning or
defending him -- he was what he was, and I don't much care what anyone
thinks about him.

Third, however, and as you say, if we do it here you can expect a lot of
"piling on" from stalkers here. They'll do it for various reasons. Some
will start piling on when they hear tales of thousands of his students
witnessing siddhis they've *still* only read about, after 30 years of
pursuing them and after paying thousands of dollars to supposedly learn
them. Some will pile on because they don't like me, and they mistakenly
believe that if they diss a former teacher I still have some positive
feelings about, it'll push my hot buttons the same way me saying things
about MMY pushes theirs, and thus I'll react and get into one of the
Robin-like "confrontations" with them they so hope for.

That's not gonna happen, so we might as well do it here. :-) But I'll
warn you ahead of time that my attention span for "things Rama-related"
is pretty damned short these days, so if you have questions, make the
first few "count," because at some point I'll get tired of the whole
thing and bail. :-)

That said, ask anything you want, and I'll do my best to answer your
questions as honestly as I wrote "Road Trip Mind." That would be a good
place to start if you are actually curious about the dude. I wrote it to
get the Rama-monkey off my back, and it worked. I don't actually have a
great deal more to say about the guy than I said in that book.

http://www.ramalila.net/RoadTripMind/index.html

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sherlock: His Last Vow

[TurquoiseB]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote:
>
> We're going to have to agree to disagree on this series. And opinion
seems equally divided on the comments below on-line reviews.
>  For me, the whole point of the Holmes stories was to see the great
man solving crimes. This series is far too involved in the characters of
Holmes's immediate circle and is way too self indulgent. Watson's wife,
Mary, is scarcely mentioned in the original Conan-Doyle stories; here
she's become a central character and has out-stayed her welcome. Another
example of the series being too much up itself is that the parents of
Sherlock are played by Benedict Cumberbatch's real-life parents; and
Watson's wife is played by Martin Freeman's real-life partner! Ugh!
>  And can you buy Sherlock as a seducer of women? He's not James Bond.
>  I watch the series as it does have some excellent set pieces. In this
last episode the internal dialogue following Sherlock’s shooting
was brilliant. And Charles Augustus Magnussen as Holmes's foe has to be
one of the creepiest villains I've seen - even disturbingly perverse.
(Pity we won't see him again.)

OK, I've had my coffee now, so I will try to give your post a better
reply. :-)

Yes, the bottom line is that we will have to agree to disagree. But
that's probably because I appreciate Steven Moffat's schtick as what it
is -- jazz.

Did you ever see his series "Jekyll?" In that one he did the same thing,
taking the classic Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde story, putting it into a
modern setting, and (most important IMO) *having some fun with it*. What
he does is IMO closest to jazz in that he takes a familiar plot
(melody), establishes it in the opening bars so that the audience knows
what is being riffed on, and then fucks with it, taking it into new and
more interesting directions. Like jazz itself, some in the audience can
follow these riffs and explorations, and some cannot.

On another level, where is the fun in doing a remake of a popular
entertainment crafted for the sensibilities of people in another era
that was completely different from ours? Conan Doyle's tales were aimed
at the people of his time, and *at that time* they were new and
interesting. Here was a detective using the new (at the time) scientific
method to solve crimes, as opposed to the brute force method used by
most of the real police and detectives of the time.

Plus, back in that day it was easier to craft a "whodunnit" because
audiences had not seen hundreds or thousands of them in their lifetimes
and thus been trained how to figure out whodunnit in the first few pages
or chapters. In my case, I've seen so many movies, read so many classic
whodunnits, and watched so many TV detective series that if I *can't*
figure out whodunnit by the halfway point of the show, it's a rarity. It
almost never happens, because writers, actors, and directors "telegraph"
their intentions, even when they're trying not to. It takes real
out-of-the-box writing, acting, and directing to fool me...the only
example I can think of at this moment being the brilliant film "The
Usual Suspects." Most writers and directors simply aren't good enough at
misdirection to craft a whodunnit for modern times that is effective and
yet still entertaining.

But that word "entertaining" is still key. Conan Doyle and Stevenson
wrote *popular entertainment for their times*. Moffat takes the
originals, and turns them into equally popular entertainment for *his*
time, and my bet is that he's doing it as much for his *own* benefit as
the audience's. Where is the FUN or challenge of "doing a remake?"
BORING. But take the basic scenario and riff on it as jazz, and it
becomes FUN.

I'll agree with you that Lars Mikkelsen (older brother of Mads
Mikkelsen, so good in "Hannibal") was a great villain. He was *much*
more interesting to me than the series' Moriarty. I didn't mind all the
jazz explorations of the characters around Sherlock and his own
character because (as I've said many times) I'm more interested in good
character development than in plot.That's where the writing "rubber
meets the road" IMO.

Moffat's always been good with characters. My first experience with him
was with his classic comedy series "Coupling." On the surface, it was a
blatant ripoff of the American show "Cheers," with a number of friends
hanging around one joint and interacting. But IMO it was *much* better
than "Friends," and better written, funnier, and more clever. And part
of the reason was that the characters were real *characters*. I've been
lamenting lately no longer being able to find a certain clip from
"Coupling" on YouTube, because Jeffrey's rap about and term for
ex-girlfriends who refuse to admit that they have been dumped and turn
into stalkers is the perfect metaphor for the situation I find myself in
on FFL. He called them "unflushables," drawing a parallel to those
occasional giant turds that refuse to go forth gracefully out of one's
life.  :-)

Anyway, I like Moffat. Yes, he tends to