[FairfieldLife] Buddhist View Regarding AI and the Singularity

2017-02-21 Thread jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyFYFjESkWU 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyFYFjESkWU

[FairfieldLife] 2029: Year of the Singularity

2017-02-21 Thread jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] 
Ray Kurweil and Neil Degrasse Tyson talk about the future of AI.
 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyFYFjESkWU 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyFYFjESkWU

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vying for #1 Spiritual Experiences..

2017-02-21 Thread yifux...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] 
Another levitating Saint, relatively modern (died in 1903): Saint Gemma Galgani.
 Still waiting to hear about the TM "experiences".
 

 http://www.stgemmagalgani.com/2009/01/life-of-st-gemma-galgani.html 
http://www.stgemmagalgani.com/2009/01/life-of-st-gemma-galgani.html

[FairfieldLife] Re:Disordered 'Spiritual' narcissism: 'He said he could do what he wanted': the scandal that rocked Bikram yoga

2017-02-21 Thread srijau 
You are really self-indulging here in a lot of misguided judgemental-ism and 
triumphalism. Show a little more grace and discretion and care for the unity of 
the community. You are the one being ugly and crass here.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vying for #1 Spiritual Experiences..

2017-02-21 Thread yifux...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] 
Thx, so what was the experience? 
 fyi: among all of the more than 200 claimed cases of Catholic levitators, 
there's not a single record of a public display.  Witnesses to the such 
levitations spied on the Saints as they were in an ecstatic trace state.  
'After returning to the ground, the Saints typically stated they had no 
recollection of the experience
 Another characteristic of many Saints was the visible glow of Light enveloping 
their bodies and a glow around their heads.  Again, evidence for this has come 
through fellow Monks perhaps passing by the room of a Saint and seeing Light 
coming from under the door, or them opening the door and spying on them.
  .  
 I'm skeptical as to the benefits of public displays of "experiences".  I've 
seen/heard that before and it generally backfires in some way.  They'll find 
out!
 The testimonies on BatGap fall into different categories and generalizations 
would be improper at this time.

[FairfieldLife] Re:Disordered 'Spiritual' narcissism: 'He said he could do what he wanted': the scandal that rocked Bikram yoga

2017-02-21 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] 

 Several years ago we had some narcissistic disordered ‘spiritual’ people visit 
FFL, we also had some people who had been in some of the infamous spiritual 
groups with NPD’ed leaders share perspective on their experience, and more 
recently watched Rick Archer let one NPD'ed hang out to dry in his Batgap 
interviews.  

 In the last couple of years I was glad for the insight which people here on 
FFL gave throughout in their critique and takedown of the ‘spiritual’ 
ND’edPersonality. Some of that insight was helpful in the process that brought 
the change of leadership to the University here. 

 In some of the discussion here on FFL it was pointed out that narcissists will 
fall down when their practical performance in life is actually looked at. 
..That organizations or groups can protect themselves from the ND’edPerson by 
having clarity in missions, job descriptions and performance evaluation. ..the 
bigger the narcissist the harder the fall that can come.  

 Performance is basically what turned the president here out in that case. What 
were more formative values to the group guided and prevailed in the process by 
looking at all the metrics of performance. It became pretty clear that a change 
of leadership was needed for the essential survival of the group.   
 


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 Jeezus X-mas, so much unbridled narcissism.
 

 The cat should have a bell hung on it when it goes out into the garden..
 This evidently is the age of narcissism,

 ..words do inflict psychic, emotional and sometimes lead to other kinds of 
injuries.
 

 Entitlement and Hate Speech reined in, under the law explained.. 
 http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2017/02/20/hate-speech-law 
http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2017/02/20/hate-speech-law
 



 

 GREAT article for insight.. 
 

 eustace10679 writes:

 
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https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/feb/18/bikram-hot-yoga-scandal-choudhury-
 
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/feb/18/bikram-hot-yoga-scandal-choudhury-what-he-wanted

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[FairfieldLife] Re: Vying for #1 Spiritual Experiences..

2017-02-21 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] 
For some the assembly format of sharing the number one meditational or 
spiritual experience also can serve a means of being seen in an otherwise 
mostly anonymous group (Top-down patriarchal). And of course of human nature 
this can roll over into being of a type of heady specialness for the ego of the 
individual or group.  
 A friend recounts her sharing her experience at the microphone and it was 
declared a number one over the mic and in her coming away from the mic through 
the Dome was greeted with congratulations, people holding her hand, some kissed 
her hand. She is seen now and there is some confidence there that might not 
have been there before. 
 

 

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 The discernment of  Number One Experiences generally gets programmed into 
three levels of experience as they are told and then commented on. 

 Yeah, and that dang Joseph at Cupertino always was an attention getter trying 
to be special, a real pain in the ass in the monastery community.  Levitation 
practice here is not in itself necessarily programmed as a number one spiritual 
experience. 
 

 yifuxero writes:

 

 Any accounts of levitation?
 

 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_of_Cupertino#/media/File:San_Giuseppe_da_Copertino_si_eleva_in_volo_alla_vista_della_Basilica_di_Loreto.jpg
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_of_Cupertino#/media/File:San_Giuseppe_da_Copertino_si_eleva_in_volo_alla_vista_della_Basilica_di_Loreto.jpg
 

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 Something quite fair to admire about the meditation Assembly is that like most 
other projects that Maharishi undertook he used the facility of the project to 
have scientists conduct science research in to the effects of meditation.  From 
the beginning of the IAA that too has been going on all along with research on 
individuals and research on the collective of the Assembly.  

 
 Quite a lot of advancement has been made in replication of previous study. 
That has been a large part of what it was about and then going further.  

 Certainly people have experience with the meditation to study. The Domes it 
seems are fabulous activated places to meditate. In fact they have been a 
treasure trove to conduct science research in.  Putting the organization and 
some of its personality and antics aside the research is currently still the 
case ongoing. 

Some of the research has been to study people who describe experiencing higher 
states of consciousness/presence.  From the standpoint of applying science 
research the ‘number one’ category of description becomes relevant to finding 
the subject. There quite evidently is a reality to it.  -JaiGuruYou 

 

 emily.mae50 writes:

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 I couldn't find any shiny people, except for John Hagelin.  He's pretty shiny. 
 This caught my eye from 2008. 

 http://www.invincibleamerica.org/emailing/2008_10_26.html 
http://www.invincibleamerica.org/emailing/2008_10_26.html
 

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 For some years a daily feature of the Invincible America Assembly meditation 
(IAA) in the Domes is to break mid-morning for a few minutes and have people 
share what came to be dubbed their ‘number one’ experience from their 
meditation practice or as result of the practice. These are self described 
experiences.  People can come up to the microphone to relate their experience 
if they wish to and some acknowledgement and commentary is given by Bevan or 
other ™-Sidhis admins. 
 

 The course of personal experiences that people choose to share can range. 
Through time there has developed a jargon relevant to the participants that is 
come out of the process.  
 

 Participants on the assembly can like the sharing and comments a lot and be 
enthusiastic about it as a feature of the assembly. It serves as a type of 
discernment or clarifying about people’s experiences in these long meditations 
of the IAA. It works as a type of checking process for folks on the program.   
 

 As context, take a look around the IAA web page.  The “Assembly” has been an 
ongoing meditation program for over a decade now. Some people look pretty shiny 
for being attenders in the Domes and their experiences evidently can reflect 
that.  http://www.invincibleamerica.org/ http://www.invincibleamerica.org/
 

 

 yifuxero writes:

 

 A numbering system is problematic given the large numbers of Traditions, each 
with its own set of priorities. An easy solution to the philosophical problem 
of "Awakening" vs relative experiences:  simply erase the vs and insert "and".  
Problem solved.
 

 In early Jewish mysticism (100 BCE - 1000 CE), the highest priority among many 
pioneers was a "Throne of God" experience: a vision of the Throne of God 
(YHVH), or an astral projection ascent to that "realm" of existence.  This goal 
seems to leave out the

[FairfieldLife] Spiritual narcissism: 'He said he could do what he wanted': the scandal that rocked Bikram yoga

2017-02-21 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] 
Jeezus X-mas, so much unbridled narcissism.
 

 The cat should have a bell hung on it when it goes out into the garden..
 This evidently is the age of narcissism,

 ..words do inflict psychic, emotional and sometimes lead to other kinds of 
injuries.
 

 Entitlement and Hate Speech reined in, under the law explained.. 
 http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2017/02/20/hate-speech-law 
http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2017/02/20/hate-speech-law
 



 

 GREAT article for insight.. 
 

 eustace10679 writes:

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

 
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/feb/18/bikram-hot-yoga-scandal-choudhury-
 
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/feb/18/bikram-hot-yoga-scandal-choudhury-what-he-wanted

[FairfieldLife] Spiritual Narcissism: 'He said he could do what he wanted': the scandal that rocked Bikram yoga

2017-02-21 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] 

 Jeezus X-mas, so much unbridled narcissism.
 

 The cat should have a bell hung it when it goes out into the garden..
 This evidently is the age of narcissism,

 ..words do inflict psychic, emotional and sometimes lead to other kinds of 
injuries.
 

 Entitlement and Hate Speech reined in, under the law explained.. 
 http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2017/02/20/hate-speech-law 
http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2017/02/20/hate-speech-law
 

 



 

 GREAT article for insight.. 

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

 
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/feb/18/bikram-hot-yoga-scandal-choudhury-
 
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/feb/18/bikram-hot-yoga-scandal-choudhury-what-he-wanted