[FairfieldLife] Re: NASA ABOUT COVID-19
According to this, there's a 4.2% chance that our planet will be hit by an asteroid today. Amazing! NASA: the chance of our planet to be hit today by an asteroid is 0.042 the chance to die of covid-19 is 0.026 i go now shopping me a helmet
[FairfieldLife] question for Nabby
I've been reading up on cattle mutilations, a fascinating topic that has a lot in common with crop circles, though they're not as pretty. Are they associated with Maitreya?
[FairfieldLife] LB Shriver's birth data
Some of you might be interested in looking at LB's Jyotish chart. According to him in the Church of Ed video, he was born at 5:30 am. He was delivered in Fairfield, 20 November 1946. He has a raja yoga karaka Shani in the 10th house, aspecting Guru alone in the 1st house. Exalted Rahu and Ketu, and five grahas in the 2nd house.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Seekers and Finders: LB
LB had many admirers. I remember vividly from the last time I saw him, probably in the early '90s. Passing by me in some crowded place in Fairfield, he gave me his unique grin, the almost imperceptible lifting of one side of his mouth and full gaze that said so much while saying so little. I feel like he was a friend, though I never knew him well. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, drpsutphen drpsutphen@... wrote: Ha ha! Good to see you're alive and well incarnated as Dr. Dumbass! I decided to sign-up again because of some masochistic samskara that has become lively. I also wanted to see what people had to say about LB. Not many seem to have known him. Quite the character. -Peter
[FairfieldLife] Re: YF and back pain?
That's a reasonable assumption. Or, Maharishi was using the resting time as an opportunity to infuse soma, which itself is in short supply in modern-day life. Sama Veda does the same thing. We have plentiful agni. We need lots of soma and pure marut, which arrives to us in corrupted form all the time, particularly through EMF pollution and microwaved foods. I think Maharishi had some intuitive understanding of these matters when he designed the TM-Sidhi program, though he was probably light on the details. The marut component of group YF would explain the ME. When the Yogi, though remaining in padmasana, can rise in the air and leave the ground, then know that he has gained Vayu-Siddhi, which destroys the darkness of the world. --Shiva Samhita, III, 42 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, card cardemaister@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, at_man_and_brahman@ at_man_and_brahman@ wrote: In pre-Buddhist Ayurveda, vata, pitta, and kapha were understood to each have a source in sub-energies of prana. Marut is the etheric energy that manages and governs, giving rise to vata. Agni is the heating, activating solar energy, giving rise to pitta. Soma is the cooling, nurturing, pacifying lunar energy, giving rise to kapha. So, is the main purpose of listening to the soma-maNDala perhaps to prevent vaata becoming aggravated because of YF?? :o
[FairfieldLife] Re: YF and back pain?
In pre-Buddhist Ayurveda, vata, pitta, and kapha were understood to each have a source in sub-energies of prana. Marut is the etheric energy that manages and governs, giving rise to vata. Agni is the heating, activating solar energy, giving rise to pitta. Soma is the cooling, nurturing, pacifying lunar energy, giving rise to kapha. The YF technique directly enhances marut in the physiology. In so doing, it infuses managerial intelligence. That's why people tend to feel healthier and more balanced after YF. It's a direct Ayurvedic technique for balancing the doshas, dhatus, agnis, and malas. Whether you hop or not, the mental technique has this effect. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, card cardemaister@... wrote: Just saw a Norwegian TV program about back pain. According to it, in most cases the reason for that pain remains a mystery. One new hypothesis is that the 60 - 70 muscles in the lower back must work in synchrony, otherwise back pain might be a result. A while back got the worst BP in several years. Nothing of my usual remedies seemed to help. So decided to try YF, although don't do it regularly, it being a way too strong technique for a gynophobic Ass (Asperger) like myself. Was extremely amazed when after about 5 mins of YF, even without almost any physical movement, the pain was all but gone! Please, use yer imagination: the above hypothesis might explain, why YF could be that effective!?
[FairfieldLife] Re: SCI Insurance Group
http://local.yahoo.com/info-16652379-cohen-nadine-sidha-national-insurance-group-fairfield --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bill Coop wrote: Does anyone remember the SCI Insurance Group? It was a health insurance plan active in Fairfield in the early 1980s. Only open to people who'd been meditating for more than six months could enroll. A couple of thousand people signed up. Dick Alexander may have been one of the people involved. It's hard to say when it went out of operation (late 1980s?), or what happened to it. Does anyone know?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Devraha Baba - About Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
To my understanding, the man on the left side of the picture was Brahmarishi Devrat, a Rig Ved pandit, not Devraha Baba. Two different people. Devraha Baba lived up in a hut on stilts. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote: Srijau, thank you so much for this and especially for the photo which touches my heart so. They're holding hands. So tender. From: srijau@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, February 1, 2013 8:57 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Devraha Baba - About Maharishi Mahesh Yogi  Devraha Baba would often say that there is a Gyan Yuga coming in the midst of Kali Yuga, starting from a transition period from 2000 to 2020, and that His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi is the one creating it. Understand the significance of this august personage: wondersofyog.blogspot.com/2010/08/devraha-baba-saint-who-survived-250.html http://www.flickr.com/photos/yves-mthp/2304641410/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Regarding My Condition
LB, you have my prayers. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, L BS wrote: Dear Friends on Fairfield Life: ...snip... ;-) L B S
[FairfieldLife] Global Consciousness Project
from the FWIW Department: http://noosphere.princeton.edu See The Mayan Calendar link on the right side of the page
[FairfieldLife] Re: A Permanent Group of 1000 Pundits has been Established in America!
If this group is established, why are the numbers at www.invincibleamerica.org/tallies/ so pitiful? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: Listen to their chanting:http://www.nationalyagya.org/videos.html#video=epFYCRS71Mw [Videos]
[FairfieldLife] Robin's bullet points
Robin, Paul here I have some questions for you. I'm big on recapping premises. Let's recap some of yours. There is such a beast as unity consciousness. Maharishi convinced many that he was sufficiently established therein both to teach about it authoritatively and to ascertain whether others had entered said state. You entered unity consciousness, as defined by Maharishi. Maharishi confirmed that you had entered unity consciousness, thereby putting his own authority regarding unity consciousness on the line as your drama unfolded. Unity consciousness felt great, with its heaping tablespoon of power, integrity, and bliss. After some years, the writings of Thomas Aquinas and some other Catholic saints convinced you that unity consciousness is irreconcilable with Reality. By extension, added power, integrity, and bliss are unnatural and undesirable elements of the human condition; less power, integrity, and bliss are better. Unity consciousness consists of having one's free will taken over by one or more outside entities (Mother, Vedic gods, and so on), presumably to further its(their) agenda, rather than your own. Varieties of unity consciousness, or analogous states, can be had through a similar handover of free will and individuality to other outside entities (Allah, perhaps), as happened with Khomeini. These states may or may not feel great or be blissful, but they are at least powerful and integrated, again as exemplified by Khomeini. Through an act of will, you deconstructed your unity consciousness and have regained waking state consciousness. In so doing, your power, integrity, and bliss are now no longer in the red zone, and have returned to comfortably puny levels. There are more premises your actions and writing have outlined, but these are the ones salient to what you've written below. Before I continue, are these premises accurately stated? You write voluminously, and I'm trying to help clarify your essential points lying behind all the words and stories. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robin Carlsen maskedzebra@... wrote: I couldn't help but feel embarrassed and concerned when I saw this excerpt from one of my books (strongly discountenanced by the way: I don't like any of them: they should all be burned!) posted at FFL. And I would like to say a few thingsnot in my defense, but in explanation for how it could come to be that I would write so enthusiastically and uncritically about someone like Ayatollah Khomeini. Now I have gone on the record to say that my Unity Consciousness experience was both very real (enlightenment does exist, it is an actual 'style of functioning' of the nervous system as Maharishi has claimed: enlightenment, then, is both a mechanical and metaphysical state of consciousness: and I believe it can be objectively determined; that is, one can apply criteria to decide whether someone is enlightened or not enlightened) and yet an hallucination. When I speak of Unity Consciousness as a hallucination I mean that it produces an essentially unreal apprehension of the universe, of oneself, of reality. Even though that experience is like nothing anyone has ever known, even on LSD (I remember in the moment when I was actually becoming enlightened thinking: Well, this is what LSD was pointing towards): It is so much more profound (than LSD), and it carries with it the imprimatur of what appears to be the very intelligence of the cosmos. And it takes away from oneself the sense of the primacy of volitional action; that is, one's actions appear to conform to Maharishi's principle of spontaneous right actionwithout even the capacity to make those actions existentially selective. That is, originating in choice, deliberation, arbitrariness. Unity Consciousness means apprehending oneself as unified with what seems to be reality, while simultaneously finding oneself governed in one's behaviour by that same reality, a reality which is deeper and more intelligent and more all-encompassing than the individual awareness which determined one's life before enlightenment. Now when the Iranian students seized the American Embassy in Tehran in September 1979 I recognized *from within my Unity Consciousness*, from within the hallucination of my enlightenment, that something essentially religious as opposed to something merely political was happening. These young Iranians seemed to be acting out of a religious experience of the objective truthfulness of Shi'a Islam, and a conviction therefore that they were doing the will of God (Allah:I believe there may be a difference however :-) ) in taking these American diplomats and embassy personnel hostageagainst all international law. In a sense I felt their
[FairfieldLife] Re: Robin's bullet points
Vaj, As I said, Robin can be parsed along numerous meridians, but I chose what was salient to what I want to discuss with him. I'm seeking to define the Cliff's Notes RC. Robin raises fascinating issues, at least to me. In order to think them through more, I need more clarity, and these bullet points are a start. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote: On Jun 19, 2012, at 5:09 PM, at_man_and_brahman@... wrote: Robin, Paul here I have some questions for you. I'm big on recapping premises. Let's recap some of yours. There is such a beast as unity consciousness. Maharishi convinced many that he was sufficiently established therein both to teach about it authoritatively and to ascertain whether others had entered said state. You entered unity consciousness, as defined by Maharishi. Maharishi confirmed that you had entered unity consciousness, thereby putting his own authority regarding unity consciousness on the line as your drama unfolded. Unity consciousness felt great, with its heaping tablespoon of power, integrity, and bliss. After some years, the writings of Thomas Aquinas and some other Catholic saints convinced you that unity consciousness is irreconcilable with Reality. By extension, added power, integrity, and bliss are unnatural and undesirable elements of the human condition; less power, integrity, and bliss are better. Unity consciousness consists of having one's free will taken over by one or more outside entities (Mother, Vedic gods, and so on), presumably to further its(their) agenda, rather than your own. Varieties of unity consciousness, or analogous states, can be had through a similar handover of free will and individuality to other outside entities (Allah, perhaps), as happened with Khomeini. These states may or may not feel great or be blissful, but they are at least powerful and integrated, again as exemplified by Khomeini. Through an act of will, you deconstructed your unity consciousness and have regained waking state consciousness. In so doing, your power, integrity, and bliss are now no longer in the red zone, and have returned to comfortably puny levels. There are more premises your actions and writing have outlined, but these are the ones salient to what you've written below. Before I continue, are these premises accurately stated? You write voluminously, and I'm trying to help clarify your essential points lying behind all the words and stories. Nice list AB, but sheesh how could you leave out that he could see and expunge demons from TMers (and others)?!
[FairfieldLife] The strange and curious case of Robin Carlsen
Robin, You continue to intrigue me, and I'm so glad you've stopped back by. Have you considered the fine art of paragraphing? Although the Robin-esque writing style pretty much requires one long paragraph per post, perhaps your occasionally hitting the return key twice after finishing a thought would increase your readership. Anyway, you continue to provide me with opportunities to reexamine most of my assumptions about the nature of things. Perhaps on this go-around, a renewed call to have you on Rick's show would yield fruit? You would, without doubt, be the most interesting interview he'd ever do.
[FairfieldLife] Re: question for Barry regarding the Merv Griffin Show
Barry-ji, I've continued to research this. There were two shows in 1975, one that was filmed during Easter week and the one later in the year you were at (I believe in October). Merv had Maharishi, Ellen Corby, Harold Bloomfield, and Senator Arlen Gregorio on. Merv said that he practiced TM and that Clint Eastwood led him to it. On the later show, at which you guarded the backstage door, the guests were Maharishi, Clint Eastwood, Mary Tyler Moore, Congressman Richard Nolan, and Dr. Bernard Glueck. It was then that Merv said, The man I told you about on the last show --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, at_man_and_brahman at_man_and_brahman@ wrote: Merv was speaking directly to Maharishi when he said this, not to the audience. It was as though Maharishi had been on some previous show and had been told about Clint then. It didn't make sense. You're asking ME to explain something about Maharishi not making any sense? :-) I assume it was just show biz. Maharishi had met Clint the night before at his hotel; I know because I was the door guard and was the one who let Clint in. I have no idea what Merv may be referring to. There was certainly no previous show. Just to follow up, because I understand that you are honestly curious, I have no explanation for you. It could be that Merv simply misspoke. Or it could be that the meeting he and Clint had with Maharishi in his hotel room the night before was in his mind a show. Merv did arrive first, and would have talked about the other guests before Clint arrived. Also, in person Merv was a little more flamboyant and less closeted than he was on his show, so if he did misspeak, the meeting at the Beverly Wilshire might have been a show for him. I'm pretty sure he'd never met Maharishi before that night, although as you can tell he knew Clint well from Carmel. Can't help you out on anything more than this. I got roped into driving Clint and working door duty because I worked for the Western Regional Office at the time. I never really talked to either Maharishi or Merv during the whole visit, and Clint was as taciturn in person as he is in his movies, so we exchanged maybe a dozen sentences in total. That said, Clint struck me as a very real guy, very natural and unaffected. I've seen him on more recent talk shows and I'm always struck by his memory; he seems to be able to remember the names of every person who ever worked with him on any of his films, stretching back to the early days. He has a rep in the industry as never going a day over schedule or a dollar over budget on his movies, and as an all- around good guy to work with or for. Unlike the poor Dr. Harold Bloomfield, who was on the same show, Clint's life and work presents a very good case for the efficacy of TM. I have friends who live in Carmel and they tell me that Clint often drops in to the small jazz club he owns there and sits in with whatever band is playing. He supposedly plays a mean piano. Maharishi's appearance took place in October. Apparently, it was rerun in December because I learned TM the following January after seeing it, along with a bunch of other people here in Indianapolis. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, at_man_and_brahman at_man_and_brahman@ wrote: Given that you were there, perhaps you can answer a question, or make a good guess. At 1:18, Merv is about to introduce Clint. He says, The man I told you about on the last show What last show is he talking about? This was the first time Maharishi had been on the show. I assume he was talking about yesterday's show. The rare thing wasn't that Maharishi was on the show; he was such a publicity slut that he'd have appeared on Dancing With The Stars if it had been running then. :-) What was rare was that Clint Eastwood was on the show. Clint hated talk shows and had never done one before. The only reason he agreed to be on this show, even for his neighbor in Carmel Merv Griffin, was for the opportunity to meet MMY. Don't forget that at the time Clint was the biggest box office star in the world.
[FairfieldLife] King Tony's weighty research
I was on a Natural Law Party candidate training course with John Hagelin and Harold Bloomfield in Boone in the mid-90s. This was shortly after Tony received his weight in gold. They joked that they should try to get *their* weight in gold--apparently, at least Hagelin was more than a bit jealous--given that they were pretty heavy at the time, compared to little Tony. I'm the only person in the world who would remember that moment. While I agree that he seems to be a pretty swell fellow, see message 218749 and following regarding Tony's research. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: snip No one on this forum really knows whether it was a PR thing, or whether Dr. Nader actually got to keep some or all of the value of the gold. The research mentioned in the gold-giving ceremony could easily refer to doing one's program and getting insights or cognitions from that (research on the sutras). So, he could have kept the gold and used the money to allow himself to live and do program all day. It sounds as if he and his family have lived quite well in Paris - but that could be due to factors other than his own earnings. Or maybe he did take home a bundle - it sounds as if MMY really did want to honor him and his work. If he did, that is certainly not the same way that most others were treated financially in the TMO. But Nader is obviously a brilliant man and has applied a good deal of his energy to trying to make parallels between Vedic scriptures and some aspects of science. Maybe they made him up well for the taping, but he sure does seem to have a glow about him. I hope he is doing well, consciousness-wise. He spent a huge amount of time in Maharishi's presence, which must have had some powerful effects. At this point in his life, if he does anything, I would guess that he is going to move ahead within the tradition he knows and loves, and try to develop things further. Nothing wrong with that. Ok, I think gold was worth approx $300 an ounce when the ceremony occurred. If Tony weighed say 180 pounds at that time, and there are 16 ounces in a pound, that is $4,800 per pound of weight. Total value at that time was $864,000. Not at all an outrageous sum to award to someone for years and years of work even after earning a PhD etc. and to further carry them through future years of research as well. However, at today's value of gold (about $1500 or so) that is over $4 million, a hefty sum. But all this happened about 10 years ago, didn't it? No, he ain't no 180 pounds. He ain't no sheep-sheerer neither and not worked at a real job in a long time. I'd wager a 105-pound shrimp wet. But I still like him regardless. I'd be in his corner rooting and I don't need none of his gold neither. He's a knockout spiritual teacher. He is in fact a pretty swell guy. You people are just being negative, again. -Buck in FF
