[FairfieldLife] Well, brahma(n) and b'reshit (food for thought??)
The first prepositional phrase of the Hebrew Bible is b'reshit. It actually means in (b') [a] beginning (reshit). (There is no indefinite article in Hebrew; with the definite article, that would be something like bareshit* (b' + ha [the] + reshit)). So the first two sounds of the Hebrew Bible are (next to) identical with the first two sounds of the Sanskrit word brahma(n). The second word of the Hebrew Bible is bara. It is so called qal perfect, we believe. In addition to 'he created', depending on context, it could also be translated to 'he creates' (Hebrew verbs have a gender, as opposed to those of, say, English), or 'he shall create'. We not at all sure, but we think we once heard it claimed, that the basic meaning of the verb root for 'bara' (ברא [from right to left: bet resh aleph]) is 'to fill'. If that's the case, we thing the meaning is not that far from that of the of the root for Sanskrit 'brahman', namely 'brh', which means 'to expand'. Blah, blah, blah, (what gives?) : ) * the Hebrew preposition b' is a prefix, not an isolated(?) word!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Mary Kay Letourneau and Vili Talk
I just drew Letourneu's chart which shows that, excluding Rahu and Ketu, all of the planets are weak and placed on two signs. The Moon is debilitated in Scorpio, and six planets are placed in Aquarius. In jyotish, planets placed in Scorpio and Aquarius are weak due to past life karma. In current medical terminology, she is suffering from bi-polar disorder. At the time of her troubles, she was running the period of Venus, which was further weakened, or in a state of combustion by its close proximity to the Sun, its cosmic enemy. As such, she got in trouble with the government or the law, which are signified by the Sun, because of her sex life, signified by Venus. She is now running the period of the Sun, which apparently is giving her notoriety once again, through this special interview, by reprising her past troubles with the law. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, richard@... wrote : We should probably keep in mind that Letourneau was convicted of raping a 12-year old child in her car in the school parking lot - when she already had four children of her own. To me, that pretty much indicates a bi-polar disorder of some kind. I'm glad everything worked out, but it was kind of perverted. Go figure. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jr_esq@... wrote : The once-infamous couple talk about their 19 year relationship, which has lasted more than many marriages these days. Their children are now teenagers themselves. So, karma is indeed fathomless. Mary Kay Letourneau and Vili Fualaau Introduce Their Two Teenage Daughters on '20/20' https://www.yahoo.com/tv/s/mary-kay-letourneau-vili-fualaau-181300308.html https://www.yahoo.com/tv/s/mary-kay-letourneau-vili-fualaau-181300308.html Mary Kay Letourneau and Vili Fualaau Introduce Their Tw... https://www.yahoo.com/tv/s/mary-kay-letourneau-vili-fualaau-181300308.html With their 10th wedding anniversary coming up in May and two daughters who are now teenagers, infamous former schoolteacher Mary Kay Letourneau an... View on www.yahoo.com https://www.yahoo.com/tv/s/mary-kay-letourneau-vili-fualaau-181300308.html Preview by Yahoo
[FairfieldLife] Re: Mary Kay Letourneau and Vili Talk
We should probably keep in mind that Letourneau was convicted of raping a 12-year old child in her car in the school parking lot - when she already had four children of her own. To me, that pretty much indicates a bi-polar disorder of some kind. I'm glad everything worked out, but it was kind of perverted. Go figure. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jr_esq@... wrote : The once-infamous couple talk about their 19 year relationship, which has lasted more than many marriages these days. Their children are now teenagers themselves. So, karma is indeed fathomless. Mary Kay Letourneau and Vili Fualaau Introduce Their Two Teenage Daughters on '20/20' https://www.yahoo.com/tv/s/mary-kay-letourneau-vili-fualaau-181300308.html https://www.yahoo.com/tv/s/mary-kay-letourneau-vili-fualaau-181300308.html Mary Kay Letourneau and Vili Fualaau Introduce Their Tw... https://www.yahoo.com/tv/s/mary-kay-letourneau-vili-fualaau-181300308.html With their 10th wedding anniversary coming up in May and two daughters who are now teenagers, infamous former schoolteacher Mary Kay Letourneau an... View on www.yahoo.com https://www.yahoo.com/tv/s/mary-kay-letourneau-vili-fualaau-181300308.html Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] The madness of Chopra...
Are you sure you even exist? Maybe you're just imagining life. :-D My experience is that there is a field that permeates everything and what everything is made of. It's like a screen which a picture is projected on. Your mileage may vary. But then maybe I don't exist either and am just imagining FFL, Sal, Turq, MJ and the rest including Chopra. On 04/10/2015 12:27 PM, salyavin808 wrote: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote : I would say that Steven Newton must have fallen on his head from a apple tree (or it's a pen name). Poor ignorant guy needs to try some meditation and yoga probably and maybe in 15 lifetimes he'll experience enlightenment. Uh the moon doesn't exist unless someone sees it is just an existential riddle. Perhaps Steven dropped out of college too soon. :-D Actually it's something the early quantum physicists thought might be true (But did they really believe it?). The problem was the idea of the observer collapsing a waveform was taken to mean that there wasn't anything there unless there was /someone /looking at something but it's really any interference from anything, including other atoms. Take an atom away from interference and it just sits there all fuzzy like. What it might mean is that there are infinite universes all sharing atoms and we see the one we are in because everything in this universe interferes with everything else. Parallel worlds. Multiverse. Most odd - unless it's real. Or there's another explanation. But Deepak can relax, we won't suffer the disaster of the moon disappearing if everyone falls asleep or watches TV instead of one of us keeping an eye on the heavens... And quite where any of it would fit in with Deepak's ramblings is beyond me. On 04/10/2015 10:44 AM, salyavin808 wrote: I’ve never done anything to Deepak Chopra. At least, not in this lifetime. Perhaps I’ve mocked his surrealistically bizarre anti-science pronouncements among my friends a few times, or a few thousand times. How could I not when he tweeted that his personal meditation caused an earthquake http://mashable.com/2010/04/04/deepak-chopra-earthquake/ or claimed that the moon doesn’t exist http://www.skepticblog.org/2010/03/23/does-the-moon-exist/ unless someone sees it? Chopra is so on the fringe, it’s actually fun to read him usually—picture me with tears in my eyes, emitting cackles like Mozart’s braying laugh in /Amadeus/. But when he goes after evolution, it starts to feel personal—and less amusing. Chopra believes there is some “consciousness” that flows through the universe—an energy field created by all living things, surrounding us and penetrating us, binding the galaxy together…no, wait, that’s the Force I’m thinking of. Chopra’s notion of consciousness has more in common with that of the charlatan book /The Secret/, which says if you just /think/ really hard you can change reality. (A lot of children engage in this magical thinking, but as they mature they outgrow it—apparently with some exceptions.) So perhaps this universal consciousness helped Chopra sense my negative energy. At a recent conference in New Delhi he reportedly said: Charles Darwin was wrong http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/india-today-conclave-2015-deepak-chopra-motivation-guru-author-darwin/1/423746.html. Consciousness is key to evolution and we will soon prove that. Why does he have to hurt my brain like this—what have I ever done to him? Darwin “wrong”? Consciousness directing evolution? Evolution being affected by the thinking of beings that haven’t yet evolved, in some sort of tachyon-induced time warp? His words quantum-entangle my mind in a synergistic charlie foxtrot of howling madness. There's more: Why Does Deepak Chopra Hate Me? | NCSE http://ncse.com/blog/2015/04/why-does-deepak-chopra-hate-me-0016257 image http://ncse.com/blog/2015/04/why-does-deepak-chopra-hate-me-0016257 Why Does Deepak Chopra Hate Me? | NCSE http://ncse.com/blog/2015/04/why-does-deepak-chopra-hate-me-0016257 I’ve never done anything to Deepak Chopra. At least, not in this lifetime. View on ncse.com http://ncse.com/blog/2015/04/why-does-deepak-chopra-hate-me-0016257 Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] The madness of Chopra...
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote : Are you sure you even exist? Maybe you're just imagining life. :-D My experience is that there is a field that permeates everything and what everything is made of. It's like a screen which a picture is projected on. Your mileage may vary. But then maybe I don't exist either and am just imagining FFL, Sal, Turq, MJ and the rest including Chopra. I would say your experience is more your interpretation of what you imagine your experience to be. I am fairly sure I exist in some way, and I also think everyone else does - the reason being is that there appear to be a lot of people who are more intelligent than me. If I was somehow creating reality I must be holding back things that I don't understand for other parts of my creation to invent. So either we are all really here or I'm insane or else I'm a masocist. I'm going to Occams razor this and conclude there are some people on the other end of my broadband connection talking to me! On 04/10/2015 12:27 PM, salyavin808 wrote: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com mailto:no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... mailto:noozguru@... wrote : I would say that Steven Newton must have fallen on his head from a apple tree (or it's a pen name). Poor ignorant guy needs to try some meditation and yoga probably and maybe in 15 lifetimes he'll experience enlightenment. Uh the moon doesn't exist unless someone sees it is just an existential riddle. Perhaps Steven dropped out of college too soon. :-D Actually it's something the early quantum physicists thought might be true (But did they really believe it?). The problem was the idea of the observer collapsing a waveform was taken to mean that there wasn't anything there unless there was someone looking at something but it's really any interference from anything, including other atoms. Take an atom away from interference and it just sits there all fuzzy like. What it might mean is that there are infinite universes all sharing atoms and we see the one we are in because everything in this universe interferes with everything else. Parallel worlds. Multiverse. Most odd - unless it's real. Or there's another explanation. But Deepak can relax, we won't suffer the disaster of the moon disappearing if everyone falls asleep or watches TV instead of one of us keeping an eye on the heavens... And quite where any of it would fit in with Deepak's ramblings is beyond me. On 04/10/2015 10:44 AM, salyavin808 wrote: I’ve never done anything to Deepak Chopra. At least, not in this lifetime. Perhaps I’ve mocked his surrealistically bizarre anti-science pronouncements among my friends a few times, or a few thousand times. How could I not when he tweeted that his personal meditation caused an earthquake or claimed that the moon doesn’t exist unless someone sees it? Chopra is so on the fringe, it’s actually fun to read him usually—picture me with tears in my eyes, emitting cackles like Mozart’s braying laugh in Amadeus. But when he goes after evolution, it starts to feel personal—and less amusing. Chopra believes there is some “consciousness” that flows through the universe—an energy field created by all living things, surrounding us and penetrating us, binding the galaxy together…no, wait, that’s the Force I’m thinking of. Chopra’s notion of consciousness has more in common with that of the charlatan book The Secret, which says if you just think really hard you can change reality. (A lot of children engage in this magical thinking, but as they mature they outgrow it—apparently with some exceptions.) So perhaps this universal consciousness helped Chopra sense my negative energy. At a recent conference in New Delhi he reportedly said: Charles Darwin was wrong. Consciousness is key to evolution and we will soon prove that. Why does he have to hurt my brain like this—what have I ever done to him? Darwin “wrong”? Consciousness directing evolution? Evolution being affected by the thinking of beings that haven’t yet evolved, in some sort of tachyon-induced time warp? His words quantum-entangle my mind in a synergistic charlie foxtrot of howling madness. There's more: Why Does Deepak Chopra Hate Me? | NCSE Why Does Deepak Chopra Hate Me? | NCSE I’ve never done anything to Deepak Chopra. At least, not in this lifetime. View on ncse.com Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] The madness of Chopra...
On 04/10/2015 01:04 PM, salyavin808 wrote: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote : Are you sure you even exist? Maybe you're just imagining life. :-D My experience is that there is a field that permeates everything and what everything is made of. It's like a screen which a picture is projected on. Your mileage may vary. But then maybe I don't exist either and am just imagining FFL, Sal, Turq, MJ and the rest including Chopra. I would say your experience is more your interpretation of what you imagine your experience to be. So you say! But no, I don't have to imagine it any more than I have to imagine the sky. It's just there. You mean it isn't for you? Maybe you need a new mantra. :-D I am fairly sure I exist in some way, and I also think everyone else does - the reason being is that there appear to be a lot of people who are more intelligent than me. If I was somehow creating reality I must be holding back things that I don't understand for other parts of my creation to invent. So either we are all really here or I'm insane or else I'm a masocist. I'm going to Occams razor this and conclude there are some people on the other end of my broadband connection talking to me! On 04/10/2015 12:27 PM, salyavin808 wrote: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com mailto:no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... mailto:noozguru@... wrote : I would say that Steven Newton must have fallen on his head from a apple tree (or it's a pen name). Poor ignorant guy needs to try some meditation and yoga probably and maybe in 15 lifetimes he'll experience enlightenment. Uh the moon doesn't exist unless someone sees it is just an existential riddle. Perhaps Steven dropped out of college too soon. :-D Actually it's something the early quantum physicists thought might be true (But did they really believe it?). The problem was the idea of the observer collapsing a waveform was taken to mean that there wasn't anything there unless there was /someone /looking at something but it's really any interference from anything, including other atoms. Take an atom away from interference and it just sits there all fuzzy like. What it might mean is that there are infinite universes all sharing atoms and we see the one we are in because everything in this universe interferes with everything else. Parallel worlds. Multiverse. Most odd - unless it's real. Or there's another explanation. But Deepak can relax, we won't suffer the disaster of the moon disappearing if everyone falls asleep or watches TV instead of one of us keeping an eye on the heavens... And quite where any of it would fit in with Deepak's ramblings is beyond me. On 04/10/2015 10:44 AM, salyavin808 wrote: I’ve never done anything to Deepak Chopra. At least, not in this lifetime. Perhaps I’ve mocked his surrealistically bizarre anti-science pronouncements among my friends a few times, or a few thousand times. How could I not when he tweeted that his personal meditation caused an earthquake http://mashable.com/2010/04/04/deepak-chopra-earthquake/ or claimed that the moon doesn’t exist http://www.skepticblog.org/2010/03/23/does-the-moon-exist/ unless someone sees it? Chopra is so on the fringe, it’s actually fun to read him usually—picture me with tears in my eyes, emitting cackles like Mozart’s braying laugh in /Amadeus/. But when he goes after evolution, it starts to feel personal—and less amusing. Chopra believes there is some “consciousness” that flows through the universe—an energy field created by all living things, surrounding us and penetrating us, binding the galaxy together…no, wait, that’s the Force I’m thinking of. Chopra’s notion of consciousness has more in common with that of the charlatan book /The Secret/, which says if you just /think/ really hard you can change reality. (A lot of children engage in this magical thinking, but as they mature they outgrow it—apparently with some exceptions.) So perhaps this universal consciousness helped Chopra sense my negative energy. At a recent conference in New Delhi he reportedly said: Charles Darwin was wrong http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/india-today-conclave-2015-deepak-chopra-motivation-guru-author-darwin/1/423746.html. Consciousness is key to evolution and we will soon prove that. Why does he have to hurt my brain like this—what have I ever done to him? Darwin “wrong”? Consciousness directing evolution? Evolution being affected by the thinking of beings that haven’t yet evolved, in some sort of tachyon-induced time warp? His words quantum-entangle my mind in a synergistic charlie foxtrot of howling madness. There's more: Why Does Deepak Chopra Hate Me? | NCSE http://ncse.com/blog/2015/04/why-does-deepak-chopra-hate-me-0016257
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: ~~~~~~~~~~ about friendship ~~~~~~~~~~~
From: s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, April 9, 2015 10:18 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: ~~ about friendship ~~~ Pretentious, moi? Re If you are going to name things that cannot be conceptualised, why not give it a name that nobody can understand or figure out rather than one that has obvious personal, societal, philosophical, and religious connotations for most people?: I could say The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao. Indeed, I do sometimes say that! Hint: best to pronounce it Dao as that sounds more impressive to the great unwashed who can be fooled into assuming you've really studied this philosophy. ;-) But Tao is a foreign word. Why not use The One or The Absolute or, er, The Godhead? It doesn't do any harm if you're aware that language has developed to deal with the relative world so using English to talk about what lies beyond all concepts can never be more than a finger pointing at the Moon. Eckhart isn't misled by the word Godhead - neither am I. It's pointing towards an experience (which isn't an experience!) rather than a proper noun. 'God' is derived from a foreign word too, whose entomology is a bit uncertain, but the original word, a verb, may have meant 'to pour' or 'to libate' I'm a special case, as happens. I enjoy reading texts which throw in terminology like this sample . . . We pray that we may come unto this Darkness which is beyond light, and, without seeing and without knowing, to see and to know that which is above vision and knowledge through the realization that by not-seeing and by unknowing we attain to true vision and knowledge; and thus praise, superessentially, it that is superessential. I enjoy reading texts like this too, sometimes (= not all the time). Try and explain that to a logical positivist! But I suspect that you can see what the writer is trying to get across and that he is twisting the language into something closer to poetry than philosophy in his desperation. His language overloads our ability to unravel it so you're either launched in the general direction he intends or are left stranded! I like that kind of nonsense because it teases me out of thought. The logical positivists like Ayer and Carnap likened metaphysical language to poetry or music, that from the standpoint of understanding, it's nonsense, but it conveys something on the level of feeling. Non-verbal information, but of course about what you can never specifically say. Re An experience that is non-verbal and cannot be described renders all words concerning it nonsense. Nothing you could say about it could possibly be true.: Indeed. What he's talking about is beyond the true and the false! Beyond what exists and what doesn't exist. Is it therefore nonsense = not worth wasting time on? Or nonsense = leave sense behind because there's something (which isn't a thing) that is more important than your everyday experience leads you to suspect? For the one seeking that elusive, damned thing we call enlightenment, one might consider that the term 'beyond' might also be another red herring that leads astray. Exactly where will the result be if you find it? By the way, Eckhart invents many, many neologisms in his writings. If anyone has any interest in the man I recommend Meister Eckhart: Mystic as Theologian by Robert K.C. Forman. Forman has been a keen transcendental meditator for many years and (although MMY only gets mentioned once in a single sentence) Forman's analysis of Eckhart's medieval sermons shows his path parallels MMY's ideas of the progression from Transcendental Consciousness, to Cosmic Consciousness, to God consciousness. I have thought about this progression, but not everyone seems to experience these things in this particular order or this particular number of divisions. If you take the WC | TC CC GC UC | BC sequence and divide it up with those vertical bars, the middle section (TC CC GC UC) would likely be called Makkyo (ghosts) by the Zen people, where it corresponds with the middle phrase in 'before enlightenment mountains are mountains and rivers are rivers, when seeking enlightenment mountains are not mountains and rivers are not rivers, after enlightenment, mountains are mountains and rivers are rivers'. Also if you take the outer terms (WC and BC) this corresponds with mountains just being mountains and rivers, rivers, and also the phrase, 'before enlightenment chop wood, carry water, after enlightenment chop wood, carry water'. This would seem to imply (assuming you think the Zen description has something to it) that if you get the desired result, you not only have not gone anywhere, nor have acquired anything new, but rather that nothing at all happened; that the desires, the exhilaration, the terminology, the hopes that one has, when seeking, are all ghosts, a delusion perhaps. Most
Re: [FairfieldLife] The madness of Chopra...
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote : On 04/10/2015 01:04 PM, salyavin808 wrote: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... mailto:noozguru@... wrote : Are you sure you even exist? Maybe you're just imagining life. :-D My experience is that there is a field that permeates everything and what everything is made of. It's like a screen which a picture is projected on. Your mileage may vary. But then maybe I don't exist either and am just imagining FFL, Sal, Turq, MJ and the rest including Chopra. I would say your experience is more your interpretation of what you imagine your experience to be. So you say! But no, I don't have to imagine it any more than I have to imagine the sky. It's just there. You mean it isn't for you? Maybe you need a new mantra. :-D Like the sky, my conscious experience needs an explanation. The difference here is that my prefered explanation doesn't involve anything mystical or unified. Our experience of the sky is probably the same but we just have different ascribations for what happens subjectively. Cool, I invented another new word! On 04/10/2015 12:27 PM, salyavin808 wrote: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com mailto:no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... mailto:noozguru@... wrote : I would say that Steven Newton must have fallen on his head from a apple tree (or it's a pen name). Poor ignorant guy needs to try some meditation and yoga probably and maybe in 15 lifetimes he'll experience enlightenment. Uh the moon doesn't exist unless someone sees it is just an existential riddle. Perhaps Steven dropped out of college too soon. :-D Actually it's something the early quantum physicists thought might be true (But did they really believe it?). The problem was the idea of the observer collapsing a waveform was taken to mean that there wasn't anything there unless there was someone looking at something but it's really any interference from anything, including other atoms. Take an atom away from interference and it just sits there all fuzzy like. What it might mean is that there are infinite universes all sharing atoms and we see the one we are in because everything in this universe interferes with everything else. Parallel worlds. Multiverse. Most odd - unless it's real. Or there's another explanation. But Deepak can relax, we won't suffer the disaster of the moon disappearing if everyone falls asleep or watches TV instead of one of us keeping an eye on the heavens... And quite where any of it would fit in with Deepak's ramblings is beyond me. On 04/10/2015 10:44 AM, salyavin808 wrote: I’ve never done anything to Deepak Chopra. At least, not in this lifetime. Perhaps I’ve mocked his surrealistically bizarre anti-science pronouncements among my friends a few times, or a few thousand times. How could I not when he tweeted that his personal meditation caused an earthquake or claimed that the moon doesn’t exist unless someone sees it? Chopra is so on the fringe, it’s actually fun to read him usually—picture me with tears in my eyes, emitting cackles like Mozart’s braying laugh in Amadeus. But when he goes after evolution, it starts to feel personal—and less amusing. Chopra believes there is some “consciousness” that flows through the universe—an energy field created by all living things, surrounding us and penetrating us, binding the galaxy together…no, wait, that’s the Force I’m thinking of. Chopra’s notion of consciousness has more in common with that of the charlatan book The Secret, which says if you just think really hard you can change reality. (A lot of children engage in this magical thinking, but as they mature they outgrow it—apparently with some exceptions.) So perhaps this universal consciousness helped Chopra sense my negative energy. At a recent conference in New Delhi he reportedly said: Charles Darwin was wrong. Consciousness is key to evolution and we will soon prove that. Why does he have to hurt my brain like this—what have I ever done to him? Darwin “wrong”? Consciousness directing evolution? Evolution being affected by the thinking of beings that haven’t yet evolved, in some sort of tachyon-induced time warp? His words quantum-entangle my mind in a synergistic charlie foxtrot of howling madness. There's more: Why Does Deepak Chopra Hate Me? | NCSE Why Does Deepak Chopra Hate Me? | NCSE I’ve never done anything to Deepak Chopra. At least, not in this lifetime. View on ncse.com Preview by Yahoo
[FairfieldLife] Re: The madness of Chopra...
Deepak Chopra can't be considered a fringe thinker because he is espousing the same ideas as Advaita Vedanta, which is main-stream idealist philosophy. This may be a new notion for some people, who have not read their history, but Chopra's position, like all transcendentalists, is that consciousness is the ultimate reality; without conscious you wouldn't even exist. As a non-dualist, he thinks that everything is mind-made or mentally constructed. Again, this is an ancient philosophical outlook, based probably on the Buddhist Yogacara and Vijnanavada (Consciousness Only School). It's not complicated, but you got it all backwards - it's the pure consciousness that creates the mundane matter, not the other way around. I. Kant, the transcendental idealist, got the same idea without even reading the works of Shankaracharya (8th century AD), but for some reason you seem to refuse to get educated - you don't even seem to be well-grounded in Western philosophy. Go figure. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : I’ve never done anything to Deepak Chopra. Non sequitur. You've probably never even met Deepak Chopra in person. LoL! At least, not in this lifetime. There's just no way that billionaire Deepak Chopra, M.D., can compare to all your knowledge about the spiritual life and all the sciences and your fortune in savings. LoL! Perhaps I’ve mocked his surrealistically bizarre anti-science pronouncements among my friends a few times, or a few thousand times. Non sequitur. How could I not when he tweeted that his personal meditation caused an earthquake http://mashable.com/2010/04/04/deepak-chopra-earthquake/ or claimed that the moon doesn’t exist http://www.skepticblog.org/2010/03/23/does-the-moon-exist/ unless someone sees it? Non sequitur. Chopra is so on the fringe, it’s actually fun to read him usually—picture me with tears in my eyes, emitting cackles like Mozart’s braying laugh in Amadeus. Non sequitur. But when he goes after evolution, it starts to feel personal—and less amusing. Non sequitur. Chopra believes there is some “consciousness” that flows through the universe—an energy field created by all living things, surrounding us and penetrating us, binding the galaxy together…no, wait, that’s the Force I’m thinking of. Chopra’s notion of consciousness has more in common with that of the charlatan book The Secret, which says if you just think really hard you can change reality. Non sequitur. (A lot of children engage in this magical thinking, but as they mature they outgrow it—apparently with some exceptions.) Non sequitur. So perhaps this universal consciousness helped Chopra sense my negative energy. At a recent conference in New Delhi he reportedly said: Non sequitur. Charles Darwin was wrong http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/india-today-conclave-2015-deepak-chopra-motivation-guru-author-darwin/1/423746.html. Consciousness is key to evolution and we will soon prove that. Why does he have to hurt my brain like this—what have I ever done to him? Darwin “wrong”? Consciousness directing evolution? Evolution being affected by the thinking of beings that haven’t yet evolved, in some sort of tachyon-induced time warp? His words quantum-entangle my mind in a synergistic charlie foxtrot of howling madness. There's more: Why Does Deepak Chopra Hate Me? | NCSE http://ncse.com/blog/2015/04/why-does-deepak-chopra-hate-me-0016257 http://ncse.com/blog/2015/04/why-does-deepak-chopra-hate-me-0016257 Why Does Deepak Chopra Hate Me? | NCSE http://ncse.com/blog/2015/04/why-does-deepak-chopra-hate-me-0016257 I’ve never done anything to Deepak Chopra. At least, not in this lifetime. View on ncse.com http://ncse.com/blog/2015/04/why-does-deepak-chopra-hate-me-0016257 Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] The madness of Chopra...
If consciousness means self-consciousness, then it cannot be identified by logic with the human body. Animals also possess a physical body, but not rational consciousness. If consciousness is a property of the body, it must be perceived like other material properties. That's what I figure - it's not complicated. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote : I would say that Steven Newton must have fallen on his head from a apple tree (or it's a pen name). Poor ignorant guy needs to try some meditation and yoga probably and maybe in 15 lifetimes he'll experience enlightenment. Non sequitur. Uh the moon doesn't exist unless someone sees it is just an existential riddle. Consciousness is neither seen, smelled, tasted, touched or heard. Consciousness is private and cannot be shared by others - it is the very constructed character of knowing - knowledge is structured in consciousness. This is the Hindu non-dual Advaita Vedanta and to the same extent, the view of the Consciousness Only School of Tibetan Buddhism. Perhaps Steven dropped out of college too soon. :-D Non sequitur. On 04/10/2015 10:44 AM, salyavin808 wrote: I’ve never done anything to Deepak Chopra. At least, not in this lifetime. Perhaps I’ve mocked his surrealistically bizarre anti-science pronouncements among my friends a few times, or a few thousand times. How could I not when he tweeted that his personal meditation caused an earthquake or claimed that the moon doesn’t exist http://www.skepticblog.org/2010/03/23/does-the-moon-exist/ unless someone sees it? Chopra is so on the fringe, it’s actually fun to read him usually—picture me with tears in my eyes, emitting cackles like Mozart’s braying laugh in Amadeus. But when he goes after evolution, it starts to feel personal—and less amusing. Chopra believes there is some “consciousness” that flows through the universe—an energy field created by all living things, surrounding us and penetrating us, binding the galaxy together…no, wait, that’s the Force I’m thinking of. Chopra’s notion of consciousness has more in common with that of the charlatan book The Secret, which says if you just think really hard you can change reality. (A lot of children engage in this magical thinking, but as they mature they outgrow it—apparently with some exceptions.) So perhaps this universal consciousness helped Chopra sense my negative energy. At a recent conference in New Delhi he reportedly said: Charles Darwin was wrong. Consciousness is key to evolution and we will soon prove that. Why does he have to hurt my brain like this—what have I ever done to him? Darwin “wrong”? Consciousness directing evolution? Evolution being affected by the thinking of beings that haven’t yet evolved, in some sort of tachyon-induced time warp? His words quantum-entangle my mind in a synergistic charlie foxtrot of howling madness. There's more: Why Does Deepak Chopra Hate Me? | NCSE Why Does Deepak Chopra Hate Me? | NCSE I’ve never done anything to Deepak Chopra. At least, not in this lifetime. View on ncse.com Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] The madness of Chopra...
My position, and the position of Chopra, and most idealistic transcendentalists, is that we infer, from the fact of being self-conscious, that consciousness itself is the ultimate reality - because without consciousness, we would not exist. It's not complicated. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote : I would say that Steven Newton must have fallen on his head from a apple tree (or it's a pen name). Poor ignorant guy needs to try some meditation and yoga probably and maybe in 15 lifetimes he'll experience enlightenment. Uh the moon doesn't exist unless someone sees it is just an existential riddle. Perhaps Steven dropped out of college too soon. :-D ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sa...@yahoogroups.com wrote : Actually it's something the early quantum physicists thought might be true (But did they really believe it?). The material world is a false projection or superimposition upon pure consciousness which is the real. Like I.Kant, we accept that inference is a valid means of knowledge. Thoughts and ideas, not being material objects, cannot be perceived; they can only be inferred or in some cases, intuited by using logic. The problem was the idea of the observer collapsing a waveform was taken to mean that there wasn't anything there unless there was someone looking at something but it's really any interference from anything, including other atoms. Take an atom away from interference and it just sits there all fuzzy like. Non sequitur. What it might mean is that there are infinite universes all sharing atoms and we see the one we are in because everything in this universe interferes with everything else. Parallel worlds. Multiverse. Most odd - unless it's real. Or there's another explanation. Non sequitur. But Deepak can relax, we won't suffer the disaster of the moon disappearing if everyone falls asleep or watches TV instead of one of us keeping an eye on the heavens... Non sequitur. And quite where any of it would fit in with Deepak's ramblings is beyond me. On 04/10/2015 10:44 AM, salyavin808 wrote: I’ve never done anything to Deepak Chopra. At least, not in this lifetime. Perhaps I’ve mocked his surrealistically bizarre anti-science pronouncements among my friends a few times, or a few thousand times. How could I not when he tweeted that his personal meditation caused an earthquake or claimed that the moon doesn’t exist http://www.skepticblog.org/2010/03/23/does-the-moon-exist/ unless someone sees it? Chopra is so on the fringe, it’s actually fun to read him usually—picture me with tears in my eyes, emitting cackles like Mozart’s braying laugh in Amadeus. But when he goes after evolution, it starts to feel personal—and less amusing. Chopra believes there is some “consciousness” that flows through the universe—an energy field created by all living things, surrounding us and penetrating us, binding the galaxy together…no, wait, that’s the Force I’m thinking of. Chopra’s notion of consciousness has more in common with that of the charlatan book The Secret, which says if you just think really hard you can change reality. (A lot of children engage in this magical thinking, but as they mature they outgrow it—apparently with some exceptions.) So perhaps this universal consciousness helped Chopra sense my negative energy. At a recent conference in New Delhi he reportedly said: Charles Darwin was wrong. Consciousness is key to evolution and we will soon prove that. Why does he have to hurt my brain like this—what have I ever done to him? Darwin “wrong”? Consciousness directing evolution? Evolution being affected by the thinking of beings that haven’t yet evolved, in some sort of tachyon-induced time warp? His words quantum-entangle my mind in a synergistic charlie foxtrot of howling madness. There's more: Why Does Deepak Chopra Hate Me? | NCSE Why Does Deepak Chopra Hate Me? | NCSE I’ve never done anything to Deepak Chopra. At least, not in this lifetime. View on ncse.com Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: ~~~~~~~~~~ about friendship ~~~~~~~~~~~
We already know that Barry called the police on us, but do black people in SC really talk like that? Is that why they get shot in the back? Maybe we should just leave the police out of this religious debate and avoid mocking blacks people too. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : Yep Barry is good at that - I have thus far spared everyone from the Southern dialect expressions except for the few stories I have posted. Thank you. We do have civil rights in the USA so you're not supposed to be discriminating against people based on their skin-color, religion, or national origin. From: s3raphita@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, April 9, 2015 3:41 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: ~~ about friendship ~~~ Re a Chicago sunroof: The great thing about having Barry on this group is that he teaches us Brits unusual, idiosyncratic Yank expressions. Unfortunately, I can't see me ever having to use this one. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : From: Michael Jackson mjackson74@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, April 8, 2015 1:40 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: ~~ about friendship ~~~ I love the way Bevan and King Tony freak out at the end and esp Big Bopper Bevan has a look on his face as tho this reporter has just blasphemed against God Himself. Are you watching Better Call Saul? Bevan's face looks like the reporter has just given Maharishi a Chicago sunroof. :-) :-) :-) From: TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com From: TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Maharishi's giggling was -- as you suggest -- a passive-aggressive way to derail questions he didn't want to deal with and pretend to be unfazed by them. I wish I had a link to that video clip towards the end of his life when some reporter tried to keep asking about the Beatles. At first he tried to laugh it off and pull his giggling routine again, but when the reporter wouldn't stop asking about the Beatles Maharishi finally lost it and got angry at him and revealed how much his ego was affronted by someone asking about the Beatles instead of him. Here it is. It's one of the rare interviews in which the TMO pre-screening process didn't keep the reporter from actually asking hard questions. The interview (Maharishi in another room entirely) starts at about the 40 second mark and continues throughout the clip. Maharishi Exposed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGc1yTDU8Fs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGc1yTDU8Fs Maharishi Exposed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGc1yTDU8Fs View on www.youtube.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGc1yTDU8Fs Preview by Yahoo You can imagine how much I like this Australian interviewer's 'tude. He's clearly a no-bullshit kinda guy having people pour buckets of bullshit over him and tell him it's Kool-Aid, and he ain't drinkin' the Kool-Aid. He also isn't buying a minute of it. He keeps puncturing the TMO fantasy-balloons and bringing the blissninnies down to earth. One of my favorite moments at about the 3:00 minute mark shows him sitting in a chair forced to watch a bunch of TM butt-bouncers *clearly* using their muscle power to bounce back and forth on a bunch of slabs of foam. Bevan -- the proverbial 900 pound gorilla in the room -- is sitting there next to him with a big THIS will convince this guy and make him feel the *awe* he should feel towards us look on his face. Meanwhile, the reporter is sitting there alternating between being bored and amazed that anyone would consider this outrageous display impressive. Afterwards, interviewing one of the bouncing blissninnies, the BN says, When I do this I feel tremendous bliss...I could do this [hop like this] for hours -- back and forth. The reporter just says, But why would you? :-) Jump to about 5:20, when the reporter (via video) speaks the *obvious* to Maharishi, that the Beatles established his reputation to the world. NOT much giggling from the giggling guru. Instead, he starts to grow clearly angry and tries to browbeat the reporter into talking about what he wants instead of these damned Beatles. Jump to the 11:00 mark, in which the reporter asks him more hard questions, and Maharishi reacts very badly indeed, especially in reaction to the question, Can you fly yourself? At that point, the cult toadies cut the connection and Sir Bevan the Bloated tries to usher him out of the room using the same uber-gay wave-your-hand gesture he'd use to convince someone to kneel during TM instruction. This is one of the most damning exposes I've ever seen about TM, but my point in reposting it
[FairfieldLife] Mary Kay Letourneau and Vili Talk
The once-infamous couple talk about their 19 year relationship, which has lasted more than many marriages these days. Their children are now teenagers themselves. So, karma is indeed fathomless. Mary Kay Letourneau and Vili Fualaau Introduce Their Two Teenage Daughters on '20/20' https://www.yahoo.com/tv/s/mary-kay-letourneau-vili-fualaau-181300308.html https://www.yahoo.com/tv/s/mary-kay-letourneau-vili-fualaau-181300308.html Mary Kay Letourneau and Vili Fualaau Introduce Their Tw... https://www.yahoo.com/tv/s/mary-kay-letourneau-vili-fualaau-181300308.html With their 10th wedding anniversary coming up in May and two daughters who are now teenagers, infamous former schoolteacher Mary Kay Letourneau an... View on www.yahoo.com https://www.yahoo.com/tv/s/mary-kay-letourneau-vili-fualaau-181300308.html Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] Netflix TV review: Daredevil
It'll have to be very very good to even be good at all, given that Daredevil is
to the Marvel Universe what Aquaman is to the DC Universe.
From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, April 10, 2015 1:44 PM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Netflix TV review: Daredevil
You mean preview not review since it isn't available until the 20th.
:-D
On 04/10/2015 10:02 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
wrote:
I've ranted here before about how I am SO not a Marvel fanboy, or even a
comics fanboy. But I kinda liked this one. Maybe it's that it's so dark --
literally, because the blind protagonist gives the cinematographers the
opportunity for a lot of dark, high-contrast shots. Maybe it's that back when I
was into karate I was really into the myth of the blind martial artist, whose
other senses were so honed that he could kick ass anyway. I even used to
practice my karate katas blindfolded, to see what it would be like. So I kinda
like Matt Murdock -- blind defense attorney by day, crime-fighting blind
vigilante by night. He's earnestly and fairly believable played by Charlie Cox.
Then again, maybe it's because one of the stars of the series is Deborah Ann
Woll.
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Oh God, you gotta read this one about Chopra!
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Subject: [FairfieldLife] The madness of Chopra...
I’ve never done anything to Deepak Chopra. At least, not in this lifetime.
Perhaps I’ve mocked his surrealistically bizarre anti-science pronouncements
among my friends a few times, or a few thousand times. How could I not when he
tweeted that his personal meditation caused an earthquake or claimed that the
moon doesn’t exist unless someone sees it? Chopra is so on the fringe, it’s
actually fun to read him usually—picture me with tears in my eyes, emitting
cackles like Mozart’s braying laugh in Amadeus. But when he goes after
evolution, it starts to feel personal—and less amusing. Chopra believes there
is some “consciousness” that flows through the universe—an energy field created
by all living things, surrounding us and penetrating us, binding the galaxy
together…no, wait, that’s the Force I’m thinking of. Chopra’s notion of
consciousness has more in common with that of the charlatan book The Secret,
which says if you just think really hard you can change reality. (A lot of
children engage in this magical thinking, but as they mature they outgrow
it—apparently with some exceptions.)So perhaps this universal consciousness
helped Chopra sense my negative energy. At a recent conference in New Delhi he
reportedly said:
Charles Darwin was wrong. Consciousness is key to evolution and we will soon
prove that.
Why does he have to hurt my brain like this—what have I ever done to him?
Darwin “wrong”? Consciousness directing evolution? Evolution being affected by
the thinking of beings that haven’t yet evolved, in some sort of
tachyon-induced time warp? His words quantum-entangle my mind in a synergistic
charlie foxtrot of howling madness. There's more:Why Does Deepak Chopra Hate
Me? | NCSE
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Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): 04/04/15 00:00:00 End Date (UTC): 04/11/15 00:00:00 307 messages as of (UTC) 04/10/15 22:21:20 46 TurquoiseBee turquoiseb 35 salyavin808 33 richard 33 Michael Jackson mjackson74 33 Bhairitu noozguru 21 s3raphita 21 LEnglish5 12 jr_esq 12 Mike Dixon mdixon.6569 10 srijau 8 anartaxius 6 wayback71 6 emptybill 6 dhamiltony2k5 5 aryavazhi 4 yifuxero 4 hepa7 3 email4you mikemail4you 2 jason_green2 2 Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius 1 tradewyndsnet 1 geezerfreak 1 eustace10679 1 Duveyoung 1 'Rick Archer' rick Posters: 25 Saturday Morning 00:00 UTC Rollover Times = Daylight Saving Time (Summer): US Friday evening: PDT 5 PM - MDT 6 PM - CDT 7 PM - EDT 8 PM Europe Saturday: BST 1 AM CEST 2 AM EEST 3 AM Standard Time (Winter): US Friday evening: PST 4 PM - MST 5 PM - CST 6 PM - EST 7 PM Europe Saturday: GMT 12 AM CET 1 AM EET 2 AM For more information on Time Zones: www.worldtimezone.com
[FairfieldLife] Re: AYP (sample)
it was an oral culture, everything was passed on through memorization, also it is a guru lineage culture, the sutras are more of a way of keeping the knowledge complete than detailed, the guru explains what the sutras don't, often you need the guru to really make sense or use of sutras.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Netflix TV review: Daredevil
Indeed it was a global launch so an eyepatch shouldn't have been needed in much of Europe. A member of another forum I'm on was the audio mixer on 11 of the episodes. http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/apr/10/netflix-daredevil-california-headquarters On 04/10/2015 03:16 PM, Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: It'll have to be very very good to even be good at all, given that Daredevil is to the Marvel Universe what Aquaman is to the DC Universe. *From:* Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Friday, April 10, 2015 1:44 PM *Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] Netflix TV review: Daredevil You mean preview not review since it isn't available until the 20th. :-D On 04/10/2015 10:02 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com mailto:turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: */I've ranted here before about how I am SO not a Marvel fanboy, or even a comics fanboy. But I kinda liked this one. Maybe it's that it's so dark -- literally, because the blind protagonist gives the cinematographers the opportunity for a lot of dark, high-contrast shots. Maybe it's that back when I was into karate I was really into the myth of the blind martial artist, whose other senses were so honed that he could kick ass anyway. I even used to practice my karate katas blindfolded, to see what it would be like. So I kinda like Matt Murdock -- blind defense attorney by day, crime-fighting blind vigilante by night. He's earnestly and fairly believable played by Charlie Cox. Then again, maybe it's because one of the stars of the series is Deborah Ann Woll. /* */ /* */MARVEL'S DAREDEVIL Trailer (2015) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQzRs6UCbuI/* image https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQzRs6UCbuI MARVEL'S DAREDEVIL Trailer (2015) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQzRs6UCbuI View on www.youtube.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQzRs6UCbuI Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] The madness of Chopra...
Can anyone post any logical proof that there was once a Big Bang, proving that the universe was once in a very high density state and then it exploded from a singularity. Thanks. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : Oh God, you gotta read this one about Chopra! Superstition | Uncertainty Blog http://uncertaintyblog.com/category/superstition/ http://uncertaintyblog.com/category/superstition/ Superstition | Uncertainty Blog http://uncertaintyblog.com/category/superstition/ Posts about Superstition written by theuncertaintyblog View on uncertaintyblog.com http://uncertaintyblog.com/category/superstition/ Preview by Yahoo From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, April 10, 2015 1:44 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] The madness of Chopra... I’ve never done anything to Deepak Chopra. At least, not in this lifetime. Perhaps I’ve mocked his surrealistically bizarre anti-science pronouncements among my friends a few times, or a few thousand times. How could I not when he tweeted that his personal meditation caused an earthquake http://mashable.com/2010/04/04/deepak-chopra-earthquake/ or claimed that the moon doesn’t exist http://www.skepticblog.org/2010/03/23/does-the-moon-exist/ unless someone sees it? Chopra is so on the fringe, it’s actually fun to read him usually—picture me with tears in my eyes, emitting cackles like Mozart’s braying laugh in Amadeus. But when he goes after evolution, it starts to feel personal—and less amusing. Chopra believes there is some “consciousness” that flows through the universe—an energy field created by all living things, surrounding us and penetrating us, binding the galaxy together…no, wait, that’s the Force I’m thinking of. Chopra’s notion of consciousness has more in common with that of the charlatan book The Secret, which says if you just think really hard you can change reality. (A lot of children engage in this magical thinking, but as they mature they outgrow it—apparently with some exceptions.) So perhaps this universal consciousness helped Chopra sense my negative energy. At a recent conference in New Delhi he reportedly said: Charles Darwin was wrong http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/india-today-conclave-2015-deepak-chopra-motivation-guru-author-darwin/1/423746.html. Consciousness is key to evolution and we will soon prove that. Why does he have to hurt my brain like this—what have I ever done to him? Darwin “wrong”? Consciousness directing evolution? Evolution being affected by the thinking of beings that haven’t yet evolved, in some sort of tachyon-induced time warp? His words quantum-entangle my mind in a synergistic charlie foxtrot of howling madness. There's more: Why Does Deepak Chopra Hate Me? | NCSE http://ncse.com/blog/2015/04/why-does-deepak-chopra-hate-me-0016257 http://ncse.com/blog/2015/04/why-does-deepak-chopra-hate-me-0016257 Why Does Deepak Chopra Hate Me? | NCSE http://ncse.com/blog/2015/04/why-does-deepak-chopra-hate-me-0016257 I’ve never done anything to Deepak Chopra. At least, not in this lifetime. View on ncse.com http://ncse.com/blog/2015/04/why-does-deepak-chopra-hate-me-0016257 Preview by Yahoo ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : Oh God, you gotta read this one about Chopra! Superstition | Uncertainty Blog http://uncertaintyblog.com/category/superstition/ http://uncertaintyblog.com/category/superstition/ Superstition | Uncertainty Blog http://uncertaintyblog.com/category/superstition/ Posts about Superstition written by theuncertaintyblog View on uncertaintyblog.com http://uncertaintyblog.com/category/superstition/ Preview by Yahoo From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, April 10, 2015 1:44 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] The madness of Chopra... I’ve never done anything to Deepak Chopra. At least, not in this lifetime. Perhaps I’ve mocked his surrealistically bizarre anti-science pronouncements among my friends a few times, or a few thousand times. How could I not when he tweeted that his personal meditation caused an earthquake http://mashable.com/2010/04/04/deepak-chopra-earthquake/ or claimed that the moon doesn’t exist http://www.skepticblog.org/2010/03/23/does-the-moon-exist/ unless someone sees it? Chopra is so on the fringe, it’s actually fun to read him usually—picture me with tears in my eyes, emitting cackles like Mozart’s braying laugh in Amadeus. But when he goes after evolution, it starts to feel personal—and less amusing. Chopra believes there is some “consciousness” that flows through the universe—an energy field created by all living things, surrounding us and penetrating us, binding the galaxy together…no, wait, that’s the Force I’m thinking of. Chopra’s notion of consciousness
