[FairfieldLife] Creative Intelligence

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BeholdThis day I say unto you, gird your loins and check this 
 out:
 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3peBCh2j7Qc 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3peBCh2j7Qc

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Is advaita-vedaanta falsifiable?

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The Higgs field/particles are relative and say nothing about pure 
Consciousness. The discoverers said nothing about Consciousness.
 

 
 

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

 

 The correlates of consciousness seem to show, and can be measured, but they do 
not actually show that consciousness exists, 
 

 --
 FWIW, that seems to apply also to, say, Higgs field, doesn't it?? The 
collision of protons, or whatever, creates
 rare(?) elementary particles that are predicted to be associated(?) with Higgs 
field??
 

 

 

 

 
 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Is advaita-vedaanta falsifiable?

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The answer is NO.  Pure Consciousness can't be discovered through the tools of 
modern science.  There's no objective proof for Pure Consciousnesws and no 
proof for It's 'non-existence.  If it's falsifiable, lets see the research 
paper (outside of the TM Org). PC can only be experienced for one''self.  LThe 
fact that you experience IT is insufficient evidence for IT's existence.
 Similarly, lots of people experience visions of Jesus. So what?  Again, not 
falsifiable.
 

 

[FairfieldLife] The Source of Natural Laws

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The term "basis" in Shankara's poem (Cf. Stanza 6, where he says that the 
Absolute is the "basis" of the universe.
 This is more llike a container but does not mean chains of causation.
 Natural Laws are an extension of symmetry laws (Cf. Emmy Noether and the 
Source of Natural Laws):
 

 https://www.mail-archive.com/fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com/msg357197.html 
https://www.mail-archive.com/fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com/msg357197.html
 

 Naturally, curious people would then want to know where the symmetry came 
from.  Good luck with that.

[FairfieldLife] Nirvanashatakam by Shankara

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Here it is: Six Stanzas on Nirvana by Shankara.
 Note in Stanza #6 Shankara writes "I Am the basis of the Universe" (by "I" he 
alludes to "Shiva" in the universal sense as Pure Consciousness, the Absolute.
 Or,
 The Absolute is the basis of the Universe.
 But then he would have to go on to explain the term "basis"  This term doesn't 
mean causative connections give rise to the laws of physics. In other Stanzas 
he states that the universe is "in" PC.
 Philosophers in Monism have perhaps written much on the term "basis"
 (left to the reader to research this topic).
 

 
http://www.ramakrishnavivekananda.info/vivekananda/volume_4/writings_poems/nirvanashaktam.htm
 
http://www.ramakrishnavivekananda.info/vivekananda/volume_4/writings_poems/nirvanashaktam.htm

[FairfieldLife] Six Stanzas on Nirvana by Shankara

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by Shankara.  Scroll down for the 6 Stanzas and their translation.
 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBduhdem3Os 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBduhdem3Os
 

 

 

Re: [FairfieldLife] "Elders in Transition" moving...sale this weekend!

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Chopra is wrong.  No causative connection between pure Consciousness and 
physics is known (QM or any level of physics).
 

 

Re: [FairfieldLife] "Elders in Transition" moving...sale this weekend!

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It's (ideological immunity) involves the entire MEME and all of its parts, 
reflecting back and forth with the global chakra system, particularly the heart 
chakra and what's " dear" to people; whether the TMO whole package, MMY, 
Hagelin, etc.
 People that select only a slice of the whole Meme risk being labeled a heretic.
 Example:  Deepak Chopra emphasizes the supposed connection between Quantum 
Mechanics and pure Consciousness; but he can spend a whole lecture on the 
subject without mentioning MMY or TM.  I believe he has a different Guru
 Thus, he's on the fringe of the Fairfield ideology, and might be viewed with 
suspicion if he visited there.
 He's not currently a a Maharishi TB.
 

 

[FairfieldLife] Guru Gita with NityanandaLGru

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Chanted by Larry Dale in Ganeshpuri, with videos of Nityananda, Guru of 
Muktananda
 

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

[FairfieldLife] OM Shanti OM

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Chanted at the Vedanta Center of Hollywood, CA
 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r3hyGWNa2M=PLFA77B8B8FD0B177D=6 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r3hyGWNa2M=PLFA77B8B8FD0B177D=6

[FairfieldLife] Who is Swami Sarvapriyananda?

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Monk in the Ramakrishna Order.  Currently stationed in NY.
 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kqr2RiWhcrU 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kqr2RiWhcrU
 

[FairfieldLife] Yogananda's Enlightenment experience

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(Should be relabeled Yogananda's temporary experience of Unity, since the 
experience faded out somewhat, leaving him in a dualistic state but accessible 
to the Celestial levels.
 The actual experience starts at about 6:50 and continues to about 13 min.
 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSRoFfBAzr4 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSRoFfBAzr4
 

[FairfieldLife] Ramana Maharshi;s Enlightenment Experience

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(July 17, 1896)
 

 Note: some find his terminology confusing, for example his expession "Centered 
on the I".  BY that he means "I" as the all-pervasive pure Consciousness.   7 
min video
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFzI_ofV4c8 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFzI_ofV4c8
 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Economics India

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Thx, where did King Tony get all of his $$ ?
 

 

[FairfieldLife] Re: An alternate history

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Let the truth be told!
 

 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_plates#/media/File:Joseph_Smith_receiving_golden_plates.jpg
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_plates#/media/File:Joseph_Smith_receiving_golden_plates.jpg
 

Re: [FairfieldLife] Scientists at CERN question why we exist

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You're admitting that greed and excessive sexual gratification can be part of 
the  behavior pattern of Enlightened people. (DUHsomething everybody has 
known for a long time).
 Doesn't this imply that there's some work to do on patching up MMY's "Gita" 
model of reality?  It has more holes in it than Swiss cheese.
 And by the way, where did King Tony get all of his $$ ?
 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Dr. Rosenthal, PhD, explains the key difference between Mindfulness and the Transcen dental Meditation® technique.

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Thx,  a fair study should include expert Mindfulness practitioners, not people 
chosen by the TM group.  For example, UCLA has an excellent MIndfulness group.  
Ask them to pick a candidate.  
 Without such a fair comparison leveling the playing field, this Guy's 
conclusions are only hypothetical.
 

 

Re: [FairfieldLife] Scientists at CERN question why we exist

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Thx, MMY's commentary on the Gita is much divorced from reality, since in this 
case he doesn't explain why/how some people in CC or above can exhibit such 
blatant greed in terms of $ and extracting favors from females.
 
 

[FairfieldLife] Re: the quality of research on TM

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The important point is: are more people practicing TM due to the research?  I'd 
bet that among the newcomers in the US, not a single new TM practitioner 
started due to the research.
 I'd also wager that nobody on this forum that practices TM started because of 
the research.
 More likely, it was word of mouth as a catalyst.
 The research is therefore becoming irrelevant.  Besides, its of very low 
quality.
 

 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Shiva and quantum mechanics

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Thx, excellent lecture!
 The ontological ground state as MMY states is the Self.  However, the ground 
state in physics Is something relative, the zero point energy state.
 There's no known connection between the Self and the ground state as described 
in physics.
 If there is such a connection, let's see the references outside of MMY and MUM.
 Wikipedia:
 The ground state of a quantum mechanical 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mechanics system is its lowest-energy 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy state 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stationary_state; the energy of the ground state 
is known as the zero-point energy 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-point_energy of the system. An excited state 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excited_state is any state with energy greater 
than the ground state. In the quantum field theory 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_field_theory, the ground state is usually 
called the vacuum state https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_state or the 
vacuum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum#The_quantum-mechanical_vacuum.
 If more than one ground state exists, they are said to be degenerate 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degenerate_energy_level. Many systems have 
degenerate ground states. Degeneracy occurs whenever there exists a unitary 
operator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitary_operator which acts 
non-trivially on a ground state and commutes 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commutator with the Hamiltonian 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamiltonian_(quantum_mechanics) of the system.
 According to the third law of thermodynamics 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_law_of_thermodynamics, a system at absolute 
zero https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_zero temperature 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperature exists in its ground state; thus, its 
entropy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy is determined by the degeneracy 
of the ground state. Many systems, such as a perfect crystal lattice 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_lattice, have a unique ground state and 
therefore have zero entropy at absolute zero. It is also possible for the 
highest excited state to have absolute zero 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_zero temperature 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperature for systems that exhibit negative 
temperature https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_temperature

[FairfieldLife] Re: Transcending (Einsteinian) gravity??

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But there's no evidence any TM meditator can levitate.  They need further 
investigation to find out the mechanism(s).
 

 

[FairfieldLife] Star Wars: The Last Jedi

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I want Yoda back!
 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0CbN8sfihY 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0CbN8sfihY

[FairfieldLife] Re: Who is the author of our actions?

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Thx, the definitiveness of MMY's assertion as stated before is his personal 
opinion.  In the Kriya Yoga Tradition, even advanced Yogis who can leave their 
bodies at will may have karma to work out, in which case they ascend to the 
Hiranyaloka astral plane to be instructed by Sri Yukteswar.
 Available online in the Autobiography of a Yogi, chapter entitled "The 
Resurrection of Sri Yukteswar".
 ...
 "As prophets are sent on earth to help men work out their physical karma, so I 
have been directed by God to serve on an astral planet as a savior," Sri 
Yukteswar explained. "It is called Hiranyaloka or 'Illumined Astral Planet.' 
There I am aiding advanced beings to rid themselves of astral karma and thus 
attain liberation from astral rebirths. The dwellers on Hiranyaloka are highly 
developed spiritually; all of them had acquired, in their last 
earth-incarnation, the meditation-given power of consciously leaving their 
physical bodies at death. No one can enter Hiranyaloka unless he has passed on 
earth beyond the state of sabikalpa samadhi into the higher state of nirbikalpa 
Samadhi
 

 There is a similar set of assertions in the Sant Mat Tradition. 
 

  Jai Guru Sri Yukteswar
 "

[FairfieldLife] Re: YS: duHkha & viveka, part 1: definitions

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Thx for mentioning that!
 Unfortunately, given Enlightenment, say such a person is stung by 10 box jelly 
fish.  Would the person be in agony or not.  If one replies that the Self 
doesn't suffer, true; but the relative suffers, and I doubt seriously that any 
amount of "Bliss" would be sufficient to overpower the pain.
 Also, Enlightened people grow old and die like everybody else.  Some develop 
Dementia.
 MMY also said that physical death is an offense to the Divine Mother.
 

 Jai Guru Sakyamuni Buddha.
 

 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Who is the author of our actions?

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Thx, still doesn't account for the probable fact that Enlightened people can 
perform Adharmic acts on a Tamasic level such as taking advantage of women and 
extracting money from followers.
 Are you suggesting that the relative "person" is not responsible for these 
acts?
 ...
 These considerations can easily slip into Neo-Advaita, which would generate a 
false list of non-sequiturs as follows. [my comments in brackets]
 

 1. The Self is free of karma; i.e. the true Identity as pure Consciousness, as 
stated in the Upanishads.
 [true]
 2. When one realizes the Self in Unity, since the Self is free of karma, one 
is free of karma, especially the bad karma of the past and the tendency to 
generate new bad karma.
 [false. This is a Neo-Advaitic misconception in that it separates "a person" 
into dual aspects of the Self and the relative, then discards the relative 
part.  False because "a person" is both relative and Absolute together as one, 
not the Self separate from the relative. If the latter were true, then we could 
say that after E., karma is simply irrelevant and doesn't affect "us".]
 3. [another false assumption is that the Gunas automatically shift from 
possibly Tamasic to Sattvic immediately when one becomes E.  This is MMY's 
error. There's no law that says this is true. If somebody is dishonest before 
E, they must might be dishonest after E
 To conclude, MMY falsely asserts that people after E. are 1. incapable iof 
maning "mistaking" and are incapable of what might be considered evil acts such 
as taking advantage of women and extracting money from the Organization.
 MMY never addressed these obvious facts which undermine his claims as to 
freedom from karma.
 
 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Who is the author of our actions?

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Thx Jr_esq for your comment below:
 

 "MMY was saying that the TM practice can lead one to cosmic consciousness and 
enlightenment.  Thus, one is freed from the bondage of actions and Karma in 
this lifetime.  As such, it is possible to be detached or maintain Self 
consciousness permanently while engaging in actions while living here on earth. 
MMY coined the phrase, "heaven on earth."
 

 Right, that's MMY's opinion, but there are differences in some other 
Traditions.
 Also, the notion that Enlightened people are free from the bondage of karma, 
this may not be true.  The Self is already free from karma no matter what 
state, but we are talking about the relative body and subtle body.
 How about the cases of notorious Enlightened (probably) Gurus who  abuse women 
and are obviously greedy?  Are they free?  I dount it!
 

 Some example of different opinions in other Traditions:
 1. In the Sant Mat Tradition, people are not free of karma until they are able 
to travel out of the body at will, including at the time of death.
 

 2. In the Kriya Yoga Tradition,, freedom from the clutches of karma requires 
to signs of development::
 First, Enlightenment, and Second, being able to travel out of the  body at the 
time of death, (willfully and at the time of one's choosing)).  This grants the 
candidate entry into the Higher astral plane, Hiranyaloka, which is occupied by 
many types of Beings, but also those Enlightened people who have not fully 
worked out their karma.  But again, this is only for the advanced Enlightened 
people who can travel out of their bodies willfully at the time of death.  
Then, after staying in Hiranyaloka for a time and being instructed by Advanced 
Teachers such as Sri Yukteswar, only then are they able to access the Causal 
plane.
 All of this is discussed in the article "The Resurrection of Sri Yukteswar", 
(enter that into Google).  It's a Chapter in Yogananda's Autobiography of a 
Yogi.
 

 SHALOM
 ."
 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Jesus and Transcendental Meditations

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Thx, TM is quite compatible with any religion.  I'm a lapsed Catholic and 
currently a TM practitioner and a a devotee of Jesus.
 Rather than getting into a philosophical discussion on why Christian devotion 
is compatible with Advaita Vedanta, I recommend two inspiring videos.
 

 1. First, a brief 13 min video on St. John of the Cross with his own words.  
This great Catholic Saint was apparently one of the few persons (but  there are 
more, like Aquinas), who integrated "Pure Consciousness" with Christian 
devotion.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeH1QYfo3sI=10s 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeH1QYfo3sI=10s
 

 2. Another edifying video: enter "Handel's Messiah and Bible verses" into the 
Youtube field and it comes right up.   Enjoy!

[FairfieldLife] Re: "The Field Paradigm" - Free eBook on Maharishi Effect

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Thx, as usual.  As to your statement that there were no hurricanes during the 
Assembly and crime decreased, this is a correlation, not causation.  In a long 
tradition of bad science, the MUM authors continually rely on correlations 
without proving causation.  (one of their dishonest tactics).
 But let's assume the causative relationship was true.
 But it's not true now, is it?  Currently there is no "Assembly" and thus the 
TMO fails us because they failed to gather the sufficient numbers of people.
 Isn't that obvious?
 

 SHALOM
 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Who is the author of our actions?

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There's a problem with the notion of a "you".  The relative you and me doesn't 
end at the skin. There are countless karmic antecedents and interactions with 
contributing influences.
 To use an analogy, say there's a tiny whirlpool at the edge of a larger 
stream.  The whirlpool merges with the Total stream in a transitionary way such 
that we can't establish exactly where the whirlpool begins and ends.  The 
entire stream is actually the cause of the whirlpool (the latter being a part).
 Saying the Gunas is more accurate than saying a "you" since the relative you l 
is like the tiny whirlpool.
 At times, the tiny whirlpool may grow larger with smaller pools growing around 
It.
 Therefore, causation is difficult to assign to a particular body independent 
of the whole., although it's true that that "That" particular body did most of 
the acting, and is thus an agent.
 ..But not an completely independent agent. the Vegas shooter was a tiny 
whirlpool in the midst of a strem, sucking in thousands of people in a chain of 
causation.  
 All of the causes (as Gunas), came together in that guy, Stephen.  Yes, he's 
the agent, but along with countless other contributing factors.
 The  totality of those causes manifest as Gunas and is a larger type of 
whirlpool.  The energy was simply focused on his body while he fired those 
bullets.
 SHALOM

[FairfieldLife] Re: "The Field Paradigm" - Free eBook on Maharishi Effect

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Thx, I read the e-book, basically a propaganda pitch for the TM and TMSP.  
 The first 1/2 of the book covers the concept of interconnectedness along with 
some prior historical contributions such as Spinoza.
 This topic was covered long ago in much greater detail by physicist Dr. David 
Bohm and other physicists suzh as Zukav. Bohm came up with the expression 
"Implicate Order" for the Unitary field underlying all apparently separate 
objects, but especially people since the theme during the 70's was that if one 
could tap into this Field, all sorts of Siddhis would follow in their 
manifestation.
 Unfortunately, the bottom line is the results. Nopeno levitation from the 
TM practioners, but St. Thomas Aquinas could levitate, so he knew more than 
Hagelin, it seems.
 Obviously TM has positive benefits when it comes to brain wave coherence but 
that's not enough to produce Siddhis.
 In short, the TM people fail us once again, especially in light of recent 
disasters and Vegas.  So much for butt bouncing.
 

 
 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Who is the author of our actions?

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Right, it's the Gunas.  The idea that a "you" is problematic since the 
components that comprise the relative "you" are . interconnected with the 
environment, and in a deterministic worldview the precise author can't be 
determined due to the countless contributing factors.
 Thus, the "author" as MMY says could only be the Gunas, within the context of 
the Totality and of an individual body mind, the latter often being identified 
as a direct physical agent.
 Since karma is unfathomable, that means that countless prior causes may have 
contributed to the Vegas killer's actions, and the actual physical act is the 
tip of a huge iceberg of contributing factors.
 For purposes of justice, only the direct agent is held accountable.
 

 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mantras can Rewire and Strengthen the Nervous Systems

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Thx for the excellent post.  Yes, interior experience transcending duality is a 
heretical concept, still in Catholocism, officially, but in the long run 
there's no way they can stop it. The trend of evolution is in the direction of 
nondualism.
 The conflict amounts to 1. contemplation, i.e. closing the eyes and 
contemplating some dualistic image, say of Jesus or Biblical concepts.; vs. 2. 
Meditation such as Quietism or TM in which the mind is allowed to drift on its 
own like a feather gently falling to the ground; and by "ground" we mean the 
"Ground of Being", not an image of Jesus.
 Even though heretical, the Monkis can easily get around the prohibition 
through their "Centering" idea and by combining the two approaches: 1. First, 
contemplation on Jesus, 2. along with "Centering", (alloing the mind to 
experience the true "Center": pure Consciousness.
 

 In addition the Church has a long history of silent contemplation with many 
illustrious Saints such as St. John of the Cross. If you read his statements, 
it appears he combined BOTH meditation on Jesus and Realization of pure 
Consciousness.
 So basically, on a practical level it will be impossible to separate the two 
imethods. To the Church, "Gnosis" (knowledge of the Self), is heretical since 
it's not based on exterior revelation.  They are fighting a losing battle:  
Nonduality is the wave of the future.
 

 SHALOM
 
 

[FairfieldLife] Origins of modern Christian Revivalism

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We all have seen it on TV, if not in person:  The congregation is whipped up 
into an feverish state of emotional frenzy by fiery lectures (sometimes 
beginning low but then ending in a crescendo of emotions).  By that time the 
congregants are waving their arms, some falling on the floor, others in a state 
of ecstasy.  The final stage is the "Altar Call", where people are called upon 
to make their decisions for Christ and come to the front. At this point the 
Pastor may gently press the forehead of the person in line, who then falls to 
the floor, having been "Slain in the Holy Spirit".  
 Naturally, the Pastor counts the number of participants.
 This is the state of countless Protestant Churches in the U.S, of many 
separate Sects.  The trend originated by Charles G. Finney (died in 1875).,  
 As pointed out by many Finney detractors suspicious of such emotional outburst 
(descendants of the early Calvinists), the so-called "conversions" of such 
people didn't last long, with many descending into their former sinful ways.
 

 
http://www.christianitytoday.com/history/issues/issue-20/charles-grandison-finney-father-of-american-revivalism.html
 
http://www.christianitytoday.com/history/issues/issue-20/charles-grandison-finney-father-of-american-revivalism.html
 

 Shalom

[FairfieldLife] Kundalini experiences in 18-th & 19-th century Christianity

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Examples of John Wesley, Quakers and Shakers, Baptists, and Charles Finney in 
1821; provide a curious experiential convergence to various Kundalini 
manifestations of followers of Swami Muktananda. Such manifestations include 
falling to the floor, laughing and crying, involuntary body movements, some 
resembling animals.
 

 http://www.evanwiggs.com/revival/history/riss6.html 
http://www.evanwiggs.com/revival/history/riss6.html
 

 SHALOM
 

[FairfieldLife] Dawkins - The Problem with Religion

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4 min video by Richard Dawkins.  (an appropriate topic for 9-ll)
 

 SHALOM
 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBV3eqvQPJs 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBV3eqvQPJs

[FairfieldLife] Gospel Hymns

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Gospel music and its many hymns represent the inner core of Evangelical 
Christianity.  If you think, "Amazing Grace", for example, we cannot wonder why 
the Evangelical Movement became so popular. Hymns even helped fuel the Civil 
War since while not shooting each other, both Confederates and the Union 
soldiers could engage in singing hymns.
 The great age of Hymns (17-th - 18-centuries( are covered in the first 10 min 
of this video, along with audios of some of the more important ones, such as:
 "Amazing Grace" - John Henry Newton, 1725 - 1807,
 "Christ the Lord is Risen Today" - Charles Wesley
 "Joy to the World" - Isaac Watts
 "Rock of Ages" - Augustus Toplady
 
 Compare Gospel Hymns to Vedic Hymns.  Which are more likely to win the 
popularity contest in the US?
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVhYHa-Cjcg=9=PLT8IFvbAQaujmVknoahiRYDDoZszLYEzU
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVhYHa-Cjcg=9=PLT8IFvbAQaujmVknoahiRYDDoZszLYEzU
 

 SHALOM

[FairfieldLife] Re: Types of Pietism

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Start at 40 min into the video for the section starting with John Wesley and 
Whitefield.
 

 Jai Guru George Fox

[FairfieldLife] Types of Pietism

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May be categorized as to the early Age of Enlightenment (mainly German 
Lutherasns) (17-th century) and the later period (l18-th)  being influenced by 
the founders of Methodism: John Wesley and his friend George Whitefield.
 The early period had an important evolutionary trend in that:
 Quietism (a practice of the Quakers and others), became distinct form 
"Enthusiasm" which later evolved ;into "Being Born again in the Holy Spirit", 
popular especially in Methodism and then many other sects such as the 
Pentacostals.
 Thus, we have two trends: 1. Quietism leading to Transcendental Awareness, and
 ...2. Being "Born Again" as a purely 
emotional conversion
 Those are two important trends we have today, for the most part completely at 
odds.  The second group is of course a package deal accompanied by rigid 
literal interpretations of the Bible, group confessions, the singing of Hymns, 
and Evangelistic ferver leading to religious conversions of non-Believers.
 ...
 Quietist movements OTOH, do not emphasize emotional religious conversions 
since the Essence of what occurs in Quietism is something that can be "caught" 
but not "taught".
 As to a popularity contest, Quietism and it forms are today in the extreme 
'minority, mainly due to the growth of Evangelism through John Wesley and 
George Whitefield.
 Pietism and the growth of the early Evangelical Movement through Wesley and 
Whitefield is covered in detail in this excellent video by Pastor Tom Nelson of 
Denton, TX, a graduate of the Dallsas Theological Seminary:
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_PFqLE2mrg=PLT8IFvbAQaujmVknoahiRYDDoZszLYEzU=8
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_PFqLE2mrg=PLT8IFvbAQaujmVknoahiRYDDoZszLYEzU=8
 

 SHALOM

[FairfieldLife] Re: the Scientific Quest for Enlightenment

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Thx, I assume you are referring to Wallace's article in Scientific American, 
published in the early 70's entitled "The Physiology of Meditation"
 There were no control groups in that paper, nor are there any legitimate 
control groups in any of the recent research coming from MUM.  The obvious 
candidate would be experienced Mindfulness practitioners completely independent 
of the TM Org.
 

 SHALOM
 

 

[FairfieldLife] Re: "There is no God"

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Thx, whether speculation or not, his assertion is that there is no "Creator" 
God who creates the universe and who is an all-powerful Personality like the 
Christian Yahweh or like Krishna.
 Then, he goes on to say that in his opinion, one should do away with the the 
term "God", since it implies a separate Entity, like Yahweh.
 Furthermore, OSHO goes on to say that there's something "better" than a God: 
Pure Consciousness.
 
 So what's your opinion, and why is your opinion not a speculation?
 Thanks, Shalom
 
 

[FairfieldLife] Age of Enlightenment

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The Age of Enlightenment can be dated from the Treaties of Wesphalia (May - Oct 
1648), which marked the end of the 30 Years' War between Protestants and 
Catholics, and the French Revolution, 1789
 This is an obviously important Age which included both Spiritual giants such 
as George Fox, and other thinkgs such as Newton.
 The concepts that originated during the Age of E. were crucial for the 
eventual entry of an even "higher" level of thinking represented by MMY, namely 
Advaita Vedanta.
 George Fox was a friend of Cromwell and healed the latter's Daughter. Fox 
introduced Quietism as an important component of European Piety, independent of 
the influence of the Papacy.  This freedom of thought along with Freemasonry 
influenced the Founding Fathers in the US and the French Revolution.
 

 It's obviously hard to see MMY coming to the West via a Catholic country.  The 
US and the UK were fertile ground to the new, revolutionary teachings of MMY.
 

 Jai Guru George Fox and thanks also the O. Cromwell!
 Below: Catholics and Protestants coming together at the Treaty of Westphalia, 
agreeing not to blow each other's heads off (a good first step)
 

 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_of_Westphalia#/media/File:Westfaelischer_Friede_in_Muenster_(Gerard_Terborch_1648).jpg
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_of_Westphalia#/media/File:Westfaelischer_Friede_in_Muenster_(Gerard_Terborch_1648).jpg

[FairfieldLife] "There is no God"

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4 min lecture by OSHO: "There is no God"
 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31WdaBusl2Q 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31WdaBusl2Q
 

 Jai Sakyamuni Buddha

[FairfieldLife] J. Krishnamurti vs OSHO

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoCQkT3fZyk 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoCQkT3fZyk

[FairfieldLife] Flatliners

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Remake of the 1990 film.  A group of experimenters induce near death in order 
to travel out of the body.
 At first all goes well with enhanced abilities upon returning, but then they 
start bringing back evil influences/entities.
 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_4gKgj8i54 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_4gKgj8i54

[FairfieldLife] Personhood

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 "
 "If everything is seen in terms of pure consciousness, that is not the 
viewpoint of a person."
 

 Comment: [right, but when such persons are extracting sexual favors from 
female "insiders" and accumulating stores of hidden wealth, they are NOT seeing 
activity in terms of pure Consciousness (in the relative sense) Pure 
Consciousness is an ontological position regardless of the content of activity. 
The content of activity may continue unabated, through the usual stripes of the 
Gunas, and be labeled "good" or "bad" behavior in a relative sense.
 The solution to this propensity to A-Dharmic behavior? Simple: set your sights 
on a superior goal: dissolving the body into pure Light.
 A-Dharmic behavior is not an impediment to Realization of the no-self. But 
would such behavior be allowed in the context of the superior goal? (I doubt 
it).]
 Give up the false notion that realization of Pure Consiousness is some 
ultimate state of evolution.]
 

 Jai Guru Sakyamuni Buddha

[FairfieldLife] Personal Enlightenment

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Comments on
 1. The personal individuality gets switched out of its central position.
 

 [True, but switching it out doesn't eliminate it. There are notorious cases of 
egregious behavior among some probably Enlightened people, with abusive 
behavior continuing after E. We can conclude that a. such persons were not 
"really" Enlightened, or b. The switching out of individuality from its former 
central position (only an idea in the mind), is irrelevant when it comes to 
abusive behavior such as extracting sexual favors from (especially) females and 
some males, and  exhibiting egregious greedy behavior
 

 Thus, though (1) is true, it by no means eliminates the "Personal" in 
Enlightenment.  That's the evidence!]
 [back to the Chopping wood and carrying water.]
 

 2. To counter the above rebuttal, some Gurus resort to the "Crazy Wisdom" 
excuse which is total BS.  Crazy behavior is simply Crazy, Enlightened or not.
 

 

Re: [FairfieldLife] Incense used in puja

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Used at SIMS in the 70's - from the Anand Dhoop factory in India.
 SHALOM

[FairfieldLife] W.E. Harding Bio

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Author of early 1960's book "On Having No Head", W.E. Harding, presented by 
BATGAPper Richard Lang.:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q3VacEvh8M 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q3VacEvh8M
 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Can the enlightened beings go to Mars, and other

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Thx, somewhat separate types of Siddhis and examples of people who may 
demonstrate (or have) such abilities: 1. Remote viewing, 2. out of body travel, 
and 3. physical teleportation
 ...
 1. Remote viewing.  Master John Douglas claims to be able to acquire knowledge 
of anything in the universe, I.e. any "entity" (but I would challenge him to 
prove the Riemann Hypothesis).
 .
 2. Out of body travel.  This is the Siddhi practiced by Adepts in the Sant Mat 
Tradition, such as Sant Rajinder Singh:  But this is not a horizontal travel to 
another physical place, (which they would regard as pointless); but rather to 
the highest of the subtle dimensions, then the Transcendent.
 http://tinyurl.com/y88epkbp http://tinyurl.com/y88epkbp
 ..
 3. Physical teleportation. Swami Satyeswarananda (lives in San Diego), claims 
to have been teleported many hundreds of miles when he was in the company of 
Babaji.  Babaji surrounded them both with an astral Palace, and then teleported 
them in the Palce a great distance in N. India.
 

 SHALOM
 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Can the enlightened beings go to Mars, and other

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Right, but based on the evidence, not all Enlightened people can perform 
controlled out of body travel.
 Such travels can be categorized into two levels: (maybe more): 1. travels to 
actual places with the astral body, say to Mars.  This would be a horizontal 
type of travel.
 A vertical type of travel would be to higher dimensions.  
 Legitimate NDE's might fall into either or both categories.  First, the person 
in an astral body may float above the physical and pass through the walls, then 
seeing landscapes outside.
 Then, typically the person might see a tunnel then travel into a brilliant 
light.
 ...
 btw, such travel would have to be instantaneous regardless of whether to "a 
place" such as Mars or to a higher dimension.
 The distance  between the Milky Way Galaxy and the Andromeda Galaxy is 2.5 
million Light Years.  FTL travel would be the only way to get there, not 
subject to the ordinary physical limit of the speed of light.
 ...
 I hereby challenge ANY Batgapper to travel out of his/her body to the 
Andromeda Galaxy, find a planet with intelligent beings, then give a full 
report.
 

 

[FairfieldLife] Re: mega rich mantra??

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Thx, that's not a good mantra in my experience. Doesn't work.  I've seen that 
Guru twice.  He's a mantra hawker with nothing much to offer.  Try the 9 planet 
mantra or the Gayatri manta.
 

 
 

 

[FairfieldLife] Hugues de Payns

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(11070  - 1136), Cofounder and first Grand Master of the Knights Templar.
 After being crushed by the Papacy in league with certain collaborators in 
(basically) a land grab of the Templars property, the survivors went 
underground (sometimes literally) as Masons;; and through their efforts, many 
of the large European Cathedrals were built.
 This Movement evolved into the Freemasons, and they along with the Quakers, 
played a major role in establishing the basic principles of American life prior 
to the 19-th century.
 The first part of the 19-th century was in a state of flux with the likes of 
Andrew Jackson, with emphasis on Western US expansion.
 A major change gooke place in the middle of the 19-th century with the rise of 
Methodism, an import from England; which by the early 19-th century became 
increasingly Fundamentalist with overtones of S. Baptist ideology.
 In view of the widespread virtual takeover of much of the U.S. by religious 
Fundamentalists, it ppears that heroic people like David Lynch have their work 
cut out for them.
 

 

 http://tinyurl.com/ybaj5se8 http://tinyurl.com/ybaj5se8
 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hans Laurentius - Buddha at the Gas Pump Interview

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I watched the video.  This guy's an interesting, intelligent character but also 
a typical boiler plate Neo-Advaitin. Reminds me of the ginger bread cookies my 
Mom used to make when I was a kid.  The same cutter makes identical ginger 
people.
 Implying that all have the same story, there's no separateness, etc.
 True, but the separateness occupies a place within the Unity.
 

 Shalom

[FairfieldLife] Advaita Vedanta, Spinoza, and Panetheism

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This quote from Wikipedia should clarify some points of possible confusion seen 
in various Youtube contributors regarding pantheism and Spinoza, as well as 
Hinduism.:(entry on Pantheism)
 In another Wikipedia entry, we note that Linguist and Vedic scholar Max 
Mueller was the first to point out the similarity between Spinoza and Advaita 
Vedanta.
 Thus, Spinoza = Advaita Vedanta,
 Bht misunderstanding arises in the entries regarding pantheism.  (that the 
cosmos is God).  Not completely correct.  The cosmos has two aspects, Purusha, 
(unchanging Being) and Prakriti (Nature)  The two aspects are simultaneously 
one and different.  Purusha is unchanging, Prakriti is ever-changing.  Thus, 
advocates of pantheism leave out the "Being" part of the Cosmos, what Spinoza 
called substance. Buddhists call it emptiness or Shunyata. From Wikipedia:
 

 Comparison with non-Christian religions[edit 
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pantheism=edit=10]
 Some 19th-century theologians thought that various pre-Christian religions and 
philosophies were pantheistic.
 They thought Pantheism was similar to the ancient Hindu[14] 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantheism#cite_note-Worman-14:pp. 618 philosophy 
of Advaita https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advaita (non-dualism) to the extent 
that the 19th-century German Sanskritist Theodore Goldstücker 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Goldst%C3%BCcker remarked that Spinoza's 
thought was "... a western system of philosophy which occupies a foremost rank 
amongst the philosophies of all nations and ages, and which is so exact a 
representation of the ideas of the Vedanta, that we might have suspected its 
founder to have borrowed the fundamental principles of his system from the 
Hindus."[48 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantheism#cite_note-48
 

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[FairfieldLife] Philosophical Arguments for Monotheism

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From Gotquestion.org:  By Monotheism, the writer refers to a Biblical type of 
God, not the "God" of Monism, Advaita Vedanta and Spinoza use the term God, but 
the Deity in this article is the Creator God,  usually Male and dispensing (at 
times) bizarre ordinances, like slavery is OK and stoning people is just fine.
 Lets review the arguments and look for flaws: [my comments in brackets]
 
 
Philosophical/Theological arguments for Monotheism - There are many 
philosophical arguments for the impossibility of there being more than one God 
in existence. Many of these depend a great deal on one’s metaphysical position 
concerning the nature of reality. Unfortunately, in an article this short it 
would be impossible to argue for these basic metaphysical positions and then go 
on to show what they point to regarding monotheism, but rest assured that there 
are strong philosophical and theological grounds for these truths that go back 
millennia (and most are fairly self-evident). Briefly, then, here are three 
arguments one might choose to explore:

 1. If there were more than one God, the universe would be in disorder because 
of multiple creators and authorities, but it is not in disorder; therefore, 
there is only one God.
  [right, there are many "Gods", like Ganesh, Kali, etc, and as MMY pointed 
out, they are personal expressions of various specific laws of nature. And, in 
fact , the world IS in disorder].
 
 2. Since God is a completely perfect being, there cannot be a second God, for 
they would have to differ in some way, and to differ from complete perfection 
is to be less than perfect and not be God.
 [Right, but the writer confuses a definition of a hypothetical God with 
reality, and provides no evidence for the existence of a "perfect being" or 
Personality. Calling the Angry God of the O.T. "perfect", is total BS..But the 
send part - that other candidates to Goodhood don't exist, would probably be 
true. If anything is "perfect", it would have to be Spinoza's God (i.e. 
Substance, or what MMY calls Being. But Being (as "God" must truly be the ONLY 
God since that Being is coextensive with the Multivers/Cosmos].
 

 3. Since God is infinite in His existence, He cannot have parts (for parts 
cannot be added to reach infinity). If God’s existence is not just a part of 
Him (which it is for all things which can have existence or not), then He must 
have infinite existence. Therefore, there cannot be two infinite beings, for 
one would have to differ from the other.[This statement is true, and Spinoza 
uses a similar argument for the existence of Substance, or Being-In-Itself.  
However, since the writer in this article is referring to the Biblical God, the 
notion that this God is "Infinite" is solely based on Biblical statements and 
is lacking in evidence. OTOH, Spinoza's God (Substance) is Absolutely Infinite 
since It's coextensive with the Cosmos/ Multiverse].

 Someone may wish to argue that many of these would not rule out a sub-class of 
“gods,” and that is fine. Although we know this to be untrue biblically, there 
is nothing wrong with it in theory. In other words, God could have created a 
sub-class of “gods,” but it just happens to be the case that He did not. If He 
had, these “gods” would only be limited, created things—probably a lot like 
angels (Psalm 82 https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Ps%2082). This does not hurt the 
case for monotheism, which does not say that there cannot be any other spirit 
beings—only that there cannot be more than one God
 [Not quite correct since the Commandment says "Thou shalt have no other Gods 
before Me". Such goods could very well be competitors of the Biblical God, thus 
undermining the latter's Infinite nature.}
 

 SHALOM

[FairfieldLife] Re: Henotheism in Hinduism

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Thx, the online sources are not in agreement, possibly because the writers fail 
to understand Advaita Vedanta. As to Henotheism, the Wikipedia post has it 
right, in that one (like Shankara) can accept the tenet: "Brahman is the world, 
the world is Brahman", along with the label "God".
 Personally, I prefer the Buddhist perspective in not calling existence (Cf. 
MMY's SBAL) "God", even though MMY used the term in one small book.  But in the 
broadest sense, Shakara's worldview can be called Henotheism
 As to the similarity between Shankara's Advaita Vedanta and Spinoza, the 
famous linguist Max Mueller was the first to point this out, but the similarity 
extends only to what Spinoza called "Substance" (or Being-In-Itself).  This is 
the same as MMY's "Being", and possibly that of Aristotle, although the latter 
wasn't a Monist.
 In the West, humanity would have to wait until Plotinus to encounter true 
non-dual Monism.
 (But alas, no connection to Quietism.)
 Spinoza was a further advance, but his approach was through rationalism, and 
he also failed to get the connection to Quietism.  But a contemporary of his, 
George Fox, did get the connection.
 

 https://www.gotquestions.org/henotheism.html 
https://www.gotquestions.org/henotheism.html

[FairfieldLife] Henotheism in Hinduism

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As I see this, close to Advaita Vedanta but doesn't go far enough into Absolute 
Monism.  But Mahayana Buddhism goes in further in dispensing with the idea of 
"God" altogether.
 From Wikipedia:
 

 Hinduism[edit 
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Henotheism=edit=3] 
Further information: Hindu views on monotheism 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_views_on_monotheism and History of Hinduism 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Hinduism
 To what is One They call him Indra, Mitra, Varuna, Agni,
 and he is heavenly-winged Garutman.
 To what is One, sages give many a title.



— Rigveda https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigveda 1.164.46
 Transl: Klaus Klostermaier 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Klostermaier[12] 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henotheism#cite_note-12[13] 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henotheism#cite_note-13
 Henotheism was the term used by scholars such as Max Müller 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_M%C3%BCller to describe the theology of Vedic 
religion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_Vedic_religion.[14] 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henotheism#cite_note-max-14[2] 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henotheism#cite_note-taliaferro78-2 Müller noted 
that the hymns of the Rigveda https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigveda, the oldest 
scripture of Hinduism, mention many deities, but praises them successively as 
the "one ultimate, supreme God", alternatively as "one supreme Goddess",[15] 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henotheism#cite_note-15 thereby asserting that 
the essence of the deities was unitary (ekam 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekam), and the deities were nothing but 
pluralistic manifestations of the same concept of the divine (God).[2] 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henotheism#cite_note-taliaferro78-2[5] 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henotheism#cite_note-alonp370-5[6] 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henotheism#cite_note-fahlbusch524-6
 The Vedic era conceptualization of the divine or the One, states Jeaneane 
Fowler, is more abstract than a monotheistic God, it is the Reality behind and 
of the phenomenal universe.[16] 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henotheism#cite_note-jeaneanefowler43-16 The 
Vedic hymns treat it as "limitless, indescribable, absolute principle", thus 
the Vedic divine is something of a panentheism 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panentheism rather than simple henotheism.[16] 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henotheism#cite_note-jeaneanefowler43-16 In late 
Vedic era, around the start of Upanishadic age (~800 BCE), theosophical 
speculations emerge that develop concepts which scholars variously call 
nondualism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nondualism or monism 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monism, as well as forms of non-theism and 
pantheism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantheism.[16] 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henotheism#cite_note-jeaneanefowler43-16[17] 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henotheism#cite_note-17[18] 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henotheism#cite_note-18 An example of the 
questioning of the concept of God, in addition to henotheistic hymns found 
therein, are in later portions of the Rigveda, such as the Nasadiya Sukta 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasadiya_Sukta.[19] 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henotheism#cite_note-19 Hinduism 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinduism calls the metaphysical absolute concept 
as Brahman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahman, incorporating within it the 
transcendent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendence_(religion) and 
immanent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanence reality.[20] 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henotheism#cite_note-20[21] 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henotheism#cite_note-21[22] 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henotheism#cite_note-22 Different schools of 
thought interpret Brahman as either personal 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_god, impersonal or transpersonal. Ishwar 
Chandra Sharma describes it as "Absolute Reality, beyond all dualities of 
existence and non-existence, light and darkness, and of time, space and 
cause."[23] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henotheism#cite_note-23
 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Key to levitation

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Thx, on MMY levitating, no evidence for this, otherwise Charlie Lutes would 
have mentioned it.  MMY might have been able to influence people at a distance 
through projecting Shakti. (two instances mentioned by Charlie.
 Nabby is not a reliable witness to the truth, being a TB in Benjamin Crème and 
"Maitreya".
 On why MMY inaugurated the Siddhis program when nobody can do them?  Simple. 
It was a mistake on his part.
 Jai Guru Jesus
 

 
 

[FairfieldLife] Key to levitation

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In the RC Church history, there are over 200 levitators.  I've read as many 
biographies as I could get my hands on.  In all cases, the prerequisite 
ingredient is out of body travel, what the Saints call "Going into Ecstasy.".
 Thus, there is 1. Frogic travel, 2. Yogic travel, and 3. Out of body travel.
 Typically, the Saint having gone into Ecstasy (while at prayer alone in a 
room, or in Church at the altar)), is unaware that such an experience is taking 
place.  An observer may see the Saint in a kneeling position or lying down. 
Some have reported that in the case of the 17-th century Saint Stanislaus 
Papczynski, his eyes rolling up and down, back and forth uncontrollably and 
apparently unconscious.
 

 Second necessary ingredient in the case of the RC levitators is devotion to 
Jesus and or Mary.
 Levitators in the Kriya Yoga tradition have an unsually advanced mastery of 
Breath, leading to out of body travel or levitation.
 It's not surprising that the Dome "levitators" have only reached the Frogic 
stage.  They have no mastery when it comes to out of body travel, are not 
devoted to Jesus and Mary, and have no mastery over Breath, as do the advanced 
Kriya Yoga practitioners.
 

 

[FairfieldLife] Spinoza's God

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Einstein said that his God is the God of Spinoza,.  The latter said that 
"existence" is god,. MMY uses the word "Being".
 But Spinoza never quite got the connection between Quietism and the 
Transcendent, although some of the methods he mentions in "Ethics" are similar 
to Mindfulness techniques.
 On the whole, George Fox's approach is more developed than that of Spinoza., 
the latter emphasizing a more mental approach, whereas Quietism allows the mind 
to transcend itself.
 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZUq14hUp_k 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZUq14hUp_k

[FairfieldLife] Ravi and Anoushka Shankar

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10 min sitar concert.
 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xB_X9BOAOU 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xB_X9BOAOU

[FairfieldLife] Re: Robert Saltzman - Buddha at the Gas Pump Interview

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Great exchange of ideas, highly recommended for those interested in the nature 
of how people really know what's true.  Saltzman's short answer: "I don't 
know".  His provocative but healthful cynicism regarding various Non-Dual 
teachers such as Adyashanti and Gangaji has led him to conclude that very few 
of such teachers are Awakened.
 But then, he says he's Awakened! (nice).
 Though his fellow is a philosophical and psychological genius who spent some 
years as a Non-Dual teacher, he winds up denying that career but then speaks 
from the pov of a Non-Dual teacher!  So go figure that one out.
 Also, he says "Robert" (his relative self) has beliefs, but he doesn't.  This 
is absurd.  Obviously, pure Consciousness is free of beliefs, and as the Self, 
can't have them.  But this artificially separates the "Robert" from the pure 
Consciousness Self, which is a form of dualism.
 He thus contradicts himself.  He claims to be a Non-Dualist but can't escape 
dualism; and winds up being another Neo-Advaitic teacher like the Gurus he 
criticizes:  Gangaji and Adyashanti.
 

 

[FairfieldLife] Real voice of Swami Vivekananda

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oehA-7BVN8 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oehA-7BVN8

[FairfieldLife] Nityananda of Ganeshpuri

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Muktananda's Guru, Nityananda, appeared out of nowhere, apparently already 
Enlightened since birth. Never had a Guru.
 As tradition has it, performed many miracles as a young man such as 
manifesting candies for children out of thin air.  Eventually quit performing 
miracles when many people can to him asking for winning lottery ticket numbers.
 Didn't give lectures or formal talks, but rather spoke in short statements 
more like utterances.His sayings were compiled by devotees and form the book, 
Chidakasha Gita; part of which is online.
 

 

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[FairfieldLife] Throne of God experience

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The "Throne of God" is an expression representing the Judaeo-Christian Deity 
YHVH, but also may include visions by Christians of the Throne of YHVH and 
Jesus. (it's a package deal apparently).
 Most of the Batgap people seem to believe they have reached a certain level 
(if we can use that word since Consciousness isn't a "level") of 
accomplishment, sufficiently notable and worthy of an appearance in Youtube 
accompanied by the sale of books describing their "accomplishment":.
 But I dont' see the point in going around saying "I'm Awakened" and then not 
showing much in the way of demonstrable Siddhis.  Few of the Batgap people can 
even come close to Master John Douglass in terms of psychic abilities.
 If the Batgap people are so great, I hereby challenge ANY of them to describe 
a "Throne of God" experience in which they leave their physical bodies and 
travel to the Judaeo-Christian realm, and then seeing right beform them, the 
Radiant Form of YAHWEH, (YHVH).
 The original source for the Throne of God experinces, is the prototypical 
description by Ezekiel, but the Midieval Kaballists also held the Throne of God 
experience in high esteem.
 Let's see if any of the Batgappers can describe having had such an experience.
 
https://www.google.com/search?q=pictures+of+the+throne+of+god=isch=G7nATxx9XDyatM%253A%253BpeEsSiMKjEIn4M%253Bhttps%25253A%25252F%25252Fwww.youtube.com%25252Fwatch%25253Fv%2525253D8WXzVmuO5QM=iu=m=G7nATxx9XDyatM%253A%252CpeEsSiMKjEIn4M%252C_=__KVxrD_kRyjcdNtZO8JNfehTfvlw%3D=1920=935=0ahUKEwikweGegYDVAhVYwGMKHedrCNcQyjcIOw=sSBkWeSkDtiAjwPn16G4DQ#imgrc=G7nATxx9XDyatM:=1499734200791
 
https://www.google.com/search?q=pictures+of+the+throne+of+god=isch=G7nATxx9XDyatM%253A%253BpeEsSiMKjEIn4M%253Bhttps%25253A%25252F%25252Fwww.youtube.com%25252Fwatch%25253Fv%2525253D8WXzVmuO5QM=iu=m=G7nATxx9XDyatM%253A%252CpeEsSiMKjEIn4M%252C_=__KVxrD_kRyjcdNtZO8JNfehTfvlw%3D=1920=935=0ahUKEwikweGegYDVAhVYwGMKHedrCNcQyjcIOw=sSBkWeSkDtiAjwPn16G4DQ#imgrc=G7nATxx9XDyatM:=1499734200791
 

[FairfieldLife] Eckhart Tolle

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Eckhart Tolle says that in some rare cases, people at death can go through  a 
beautiful transition; but he gives no though to sonsidering what happens to the 
life force after that.
 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izPN40OpJhY 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izPN40OpJhY
 

 SHALOM

RE: [FairfieldLife] Can the Human Brain be Improved?

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IMO, about 10% of the Batgap people are very impressive, perhaps led by Harri 
Aalto. (looking forward to his second book).  I don't see the point in making a 
claim for Awakening but then no following through with something to "show" for 
it.  After all, there are an infinite number of things to consider before 
Awakening, but only ONE thing to consider at the transition (That everything's 
Pure Consciousness - "The World is Brahman, Brahman is the World"), but where 
is the revelation as to the infinite number of things to accomplish after the 
transition. Is it sufficient for people to go around saying, "I'm Awakened, I'm 
Awakened, I'm Awakened.".
 

 In addition to the visions of Shiva, I'd like to hear somebody who has had a 
"Throne of God" experience, as mentioned by the Kaballists. (as mentioned by 
Ezekiel in the Hebrew Scriptures).
 How about somebody like Kirpal Singh and others in the Sant Mat Tradtiion who 
are capable of traveling out of their bodies at will?
 At the very miniimum level of accomplishment, some people believe that there 
are structures made by Intelligent Agents on the Moon and Mars.  I challenge 
ANY of the Batgappers to astral travel to the Moon and Mars, then give a full 
report on whether their are, or are not such structures.
 Apart from such a simple task from supposedly Enlightened people, NO, I do not 
want to continually hear about how you're Awakened and I'm not buying your 
books.
 
 

[FairfieldLife] Yogananda with Ramana Maharshi

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35 sec video: Yogananda with Ramana Maharshi and Paul Brunton
 

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

[FairfieldLife] Om Namah Shivaya Guruve

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By Krishna Das, with Anandamayi Ma:
 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZw-qF09Nws 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZw-qF09Nws

[FairfieldLife] In Praise of Root Vegetables

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The Kingsmen praise the root vegetables in "Jolly Green Giant"
 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSlUq2dCOEA 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSlUq2dCOEA

[FairfieldLife] More Superpowers

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Justice League, 2017, with Gal Gadot (Wonder Woman) and Ben Afleck.  A DC 
attempt to assume dominance in the Super Power field, over Marvel. (they 
usually fail, but Wonder Woman did well). Might as well milk a cow for all it's 
worth, but risky. People may get tired of the Justice League.
 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2n-OZBwr6Q 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2n-OZBwr6Q

[FairfieldLife] Need for Nanotechnology?

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Is there a need for Nanotechnology in the transhumanist model of evolution? No. 
Kurzweil is a nutcase, and the recent series on the Natgeo channel "Year 
Million": - exploring various possibilities in the distance future, has a major 
flaw: Make that three flaws:
 

 1. First flaw is that the more desirable (for most) choice in the distant 
future would be to upload one's "consciousness" onto a virtual reality type of 
internet, while the physical body is stored someplace.
 IMO Dumbest idea I've ever heard of.  Those TV producers are assuming that 
one's identity is solely memories, and if one can tap into the brain 
mechanically, those memories constitute the "you"; and given time, technology 
will provide the means of uploading the memories into what they called The 
HIVE: (a shared virtual reality world that everybody on earth is invited to get 
into).
 

 2. Next problem: leaving the physical body behind somewhere. (this could get 
messy). Obviously inspired by the Matrix movies.  Leave me out of that world.
 

 3. Third major flaw.  It assumes that Descartes dualism (the Soul can be 
separate from the body). is false and that only Naturalism is the real model 
(that only physical matter exists as information.).  Then, their phoney logic 
jumps from the "information" part (the "you" is only the information contained 
in memories), to an eternal "you" in the HIVE world (a shared Internet virtual 
world).
 

 An alternative to the "Year Million" model of living in the Internet HIVE is 
the Sant Mat model: develop the ability to travel outside the physical body to 
anyplace in the multiverse.  Then, when the physical body naturally dies, one 
is free to live in any subtle realm (only returning to the physical world by 
choice as an Avatar).
 

 SHALOM 
 

RE: [FairfieldLife] Can the Human Brain be Improved?

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Thx, about a dozen of the Batgappers have extraordinary psychic abilities, 
impressive in my book.  As to the rest, most are boring Neo-Advaitins having 
only one message: everything is pure Consciousness. That's only one statement 
of fact, while what comes after (or before) that Realization taking place only 
once, is an Infinity of possibilities including exploration of other galaxies 
and universes. 
 As a next step on the evolutionary ladder, try shifting the focus from "Pure 
Consciousness" to Neg-Entropy, i.e. as an individual Soul, consider two 
choices: 1. Dissolving completely into Nothingness with no more further 
relative bodies. 2. Infinite continuum of evolution viewing the "Soul" (subtle 
body) as an active Agent for doing good in the world for countless eons to 
come, perhaps even forever.  
 That's the choice:
 1. No existence, or
 2  Eternal relative existence using one or more Subtle bodies.
 The notion of Lesh Avidya or whatever they call it (a remnant of ignorance 
needed to maintain a celestial relative existence), is completely bogus.  The 
Absolute can not be more or less 100% Absolute, whether there's a body there or 
not. Sustaining a body is not dependent on "Ignorance". Ramana Maharshi once 
stated that he had 20 subtle bodies operating on different planes of existence, 
simultaneously
 As a first step using the Neg-Entropic model, consider the Siddhi of out of 
body travel to anyplace in the multiverse.  That's the goal of Gurus in the 
Sant Mat Tradition, like Kirpal Singh.
 

 

  

[FairfieldLife] Vivaldi

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Vivaldi rendition  of Gloria in Excelsis Deo
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhhYIZJj6rk 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhhYIZJj6rk
 

[FairfieldLife] George Harrison: Govinda

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B46rjU_q_cM 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B46rjU_q_cM

[FairfieldLife] Harrison & Shankar with Anandamayima

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George Harrison and Ravi Shankar:
 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vxSv-SdFA8 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vxSv-SdFA8
 

[FairfieldLife] Is the Sphinx Anubis?

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Some researchers believe that the original Sphinx was a crouching Anubis.  For 
one thing, the present human head doesn't match the size of the Sphinx's body, 
leading researchers that a human head was carved out later.
 Another possibility is a lion, but Anubis provides a better hypothesis, 
matching the popularity of Anubis Guardians in the Egyptian culture.
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anubis#/media/File:Tutanhkamun_jackal.jpg 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anubis#/media/File:Tutanhkamun_jackal.jpg
 

 

[FairfieldLife] Sri Sri Guru Astaka

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Sung by Swami Prabhupada:
 

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

[FairfieldLife] Art of Ellen Love Vaman

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https://www.pinterest.com/ellenlovevaman/art-of-ellen-vaman-angels-ascended-masters-sacred-/
 
https://www.pinterest.com/ellenlovevaman/art-of-ellen-vaman-angels-ascended-masters-sacred-/
 

[FairfieldLife] Solar eclipse, Aug 21, 2017

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Map of areas covered by the eclipse: (covers NE U.S. through the SE).
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXZRfaLWCQo 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXZRfaLWCQo
 .
 

 

[FairfieldLife] Kundalini raising mantra

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Mahamritunjaya mantra chanted along with pics of Sri Anandamayima.
 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkVFNyHv60o 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkVFNyHv60o

[FairfieldLife] Re: What is Conscionable, in TM?

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Thx, the development of the Polyvagal nervous system (physical representation 
of empathy and  compassion); appears to be (or can be) somewhat independent of 
the states of Consciousness mentioned by MMY.
 Thus, it does not necessarily follow that a person in (CC, UC) is well 
developed in regard to empathy, compassion, and free from Narcissistic 
tendencies. 
 

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[FairfieldLife] Featuring Ana Werner

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Christian "Seer" Ana Werner  Had encounters with her Guardian Angel at an early 
age.  Developed the ability to see energy fields, perform healings, and travel 
into the Realm of Jesus 
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6b-0q_YPzJU 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6b-0q_YPzJU 25 min interview conducted by Sid 
Roth.
 .
 (A typical case of the display of Siddhis without considering Pure 
Consciousness and the quest for Enlightenment.) Just my opinion: follow in the 
footsteps of George Fox, since he represented a. Quietism, b. 
Transcendentalism, and c. Many Siddhis, such as healings. Thus, the complete 
package.
 What the TMO is offering is an incomplete package since they offer a. and b. 
but haven't succeeded in demonstrating any Siddhis. If they have, lets see the 
videos.
 As to the ME (The Shakti Effect), George Fox radiated tremendous Spiritual 
Power, even healing the Daughter of Oliver Cromwell.
 The TMO - only more opioid deaths since they have failed to gather enough Dome 
participants to any any appreciable effect on the dire situation.
 

 

[FairfieldLife] Re: In Statistical Truth, The Call to Spiritual Order,Rally Now to Meditation!

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Thx, I agree with you on those assessments.  The fact that there is no agreed 
upon standard for measuring the Shakti (basically since few people can even 
perceive it clearly), should not deter one's efforts to promote the ME 
(Shakti-Effect), since the positive effects are obvious.  (the exact degree of 
those benefits is open to question).
 

  

[FairfieldLife] Re: In Statistical Truth, The Call to Spiritual Order,Rally Now to Meditation!

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Re "not the replicating studies of recent times"  This statement is problematic 
since whether from long ago or recent times, the TMO has not shown that subtle 
energies operating in the ME (Shakti) can be measured at all.  While it's true 
that certain people with psychic abilities (e.g. in the past, Leadbeater and at 
present, John Douglas), even these experiences are subjective and the property 
of rare individuals.
 Either the Shakti can a. not be measured at all  b. can be cognized but not 
quantified or c. can be measured and quantified with a matchine.  None of these 
cases applies since assuming Hagelin is behind most of the claims for the ME, 
his statement on Batgap as to psychic abilities shows that he's not 
particularly adept in that regard
 So, if neither Hagelin or the other Administrators have any special psychic 
powers, and they haven't yet discovered a machine that can measure the Shakti, 
then: there  are no alternatives and the claims as to ME are wildly speculative 
and without a scientific basis.
 As to statistical replication, one must eliminate all other possible Shakti 
effects as candidates.
 The research on the physiological effects of TM is in a separate category and 
has its own faults, chiefly the failure to compare the results with experienced 
Mindfulness practitioners.
 

 

[FairfieldLife] Guru Ratings

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Both pos and neg feedbacks re: MMY to Sarlo.:
 

 http://www3.telus.net/public/sarlo/Fmahesh.htm 
http://www3.telus.net/public/sarlo/Fmahesh.htm

[FairfieldLife] Chicken bone broth

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Chicken bone broth has numerous health benefits, including helping heal leaky 
gut syndrome.
 Available in powdered form from Swanson's Vitamins, product JR 304.
 Here's an article by Dr. Axe:
 

 
https://draxe.com/the-healing-power-of-bone-broth-for-digestion-arthritis-and-cellulite/
 
https://draxe.com/the-healing-power-of-bone-broth-for-digestion-arthritis-and-cellulite/

[FairfieldLife] Re: Guru Scandals

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Thx, nice to hear from you.
 My first exposure to MMY's indescretions was in 1972.  I was working at SIMS 
in Westwood, and while talking to a coworker who happened to be MMY's barber, 
he volunteered an incident in which (he stated), he was walking past MMY's room 
and the door was slightly opened.  He looked in a saw MMY in the physical 
embrace of a female, i.e. a sexual embrace. That's a second hand account, since 
I was not the observer. 
 Of course, one can have 3rd, 4-th, etc - hand enoucnters which become 
diminished in credibility.
 However, due to the integrity of the first witness, - the barber -, (an 
upstanding person), I believed and now believe the account was real.
 

 

[FairfieldLife] Guru Scandals

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MMY is #10 on the list.


 
http://theyogalunchbox.co.nz/a-compehrensive-list-of-yoga-scandals-involving-gurus-sex-and-other-inappropriate-behaviour/
 
http://theyogalunchbox.co.nz/a-compehrensive-list-of-yoga-scandals-involving-gurus-sex-and-other-inappropriate-behaviour/

[FairfieldLife] Rice bran oil benefits

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Rich in Vit  E (both form - Tocotrienols and Tocopherols).
 

 https://www.organicfacts.net/health-benefits/oils/rice-bran-oil.html 
https://www.organicfacts.net/health-benefits/oils/rice-bran-oil.html

[FairfieldLife] Oregano oil health benefits

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http://www.globalhealingcenter.com/natural-health/10-uses-organic-oregano-oil/ 
http://www.globalhealingcenter.com/natural-health/10-uses-organic-oregano-oil/
 

[FairfieldLife] Re: FF Meditating Community, Life in the Body..

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Sorry, that's "almost died in 2015", not 1925. Took me about 45 days to get 
onto the road of recovery, starting with an increase in life force enabling me 
go get out of the trap of absolute exhaustion.  That's the first step: Life 
Force, - something modern medicine doesn't even recognize.
 A kidney disease meltdown isn't a desirable condition, to say the least, since 
the body is flooded with its own toxins leading to a downward spiral of more 
organ damage, more toxins, more damage, etc.
 OM Shalom
 I don't ordinary advocate Standard Process products but will in this case in 
the event Tim is able to read this e mail.  Order some of the products 
immediately.  Don't forget the Black Cumin seed oil capsules.
 

[FairfieldLife] Re: FF Meditating Community, Life in the Body..

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Re: Tim Hunter. , I;'m familiar with kidney failure - almost died in 1925 but 
recovered by drinking lots of water and taking certain supplements.  
Unfortunately, as long as one is a. physically in a hospital or hospice 
setting, or b. under the "care" of a physician, one can forget about a 
recovery.  Simply but unfortunately put, there's no cure in mainstream medicine 
for kidney failure, and the longer he stays in the Hospital, the higher his 
chances for death..
 I recommend starting with Black Cumin seed oil, 4X per day (an Ayurvedic 
remedy).  Black cumin seeds were also found in King Tut's tomb and are 
mentioned in the Bible.
 I'll send some mantric energy his way.
 SHALOM,
 

 

[FairfieldLife] History of Black Cumin seed oil

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Black cumin seeds - found in King Tut's tomb. Popular in ancient and modern 
Middle Eastern countries and in India.  Has numerous benefits. (Black Cumin 
seed oil - available from Swanson's Vitamins). One of the active ingredients is 
thymoquinone.  Plugging that into Pub Med brings up hundreds of applications 
for improving health.
 

 https://theblessedseed.com/history-of-black-seed/ 
https://theblessedseed.com/history-of-black-seed/
 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Utopia

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Precisely!  Just to take one problem: opioid addition.  If there were 
sufficient Dome numbers, then they failed to offset the thousands of deaths. 
But if there weren't enough Dome numbers, then it's the fault of the MUM 
Administrators for not getting the Domes filled. In either case, a dismal 
failure.
 There are a host of other seemingly intractable problems, such as the nutcase 
in N. Korea and (if you live in a large City, the hordes of homeless people on 
the streets, every 30 yards or so by walking. L.A. has its own mini-City of the 
homeless.
 

 

[FairfieldLife] Re: More on cool VAGUS Nerve actions

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Note: if you enter Cannabidiol into the Pub Med field, there are 1721 articles 
shown for treating a wide variety of diseases, most in some way connected to 
nervous system disorders but also the dopaminergic neuronal system (which may 
malfunction in Parkinsons').
 

 Another substance with potential for treating many ailments is thymoquinone, 
the active ingredient in Black Cumin seed oil (Nigella Sativa, an Ayurvedic 
remedy, but available throughout he Middle East and S. Western Asia.
 

 "Thymoquinone" has 713 entries in Pub Med, but if you enter "Thymoquinone 
Parkinson's" into the field, 7 articles come up.  There is a remarkable overlap 
between the influences of Thymoquinone and Cannabidiol.
 

 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=thymoquinone++Parkinson%27s 
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=thymoquinone++Parkinson%27s

[FairfieldLife] Re: More on cool VAGUS Nerve actions

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Thx for the interesting article.  Another semi-separate but complementary 
"axis" is the Endocannabinoid system which is comprised of CBD (cannabinpod ) 
receptors in the brain and nervous system.  In a nutshell, by way of example, 
the symptoms of Parkinson's can be lessened by smoking MJ or taking the 
non-psyocative ingredient CBD (legal and available without a Rx).
 

 https://scienceofparkinsons.com/tag/cannabidiol/ 
https://scienceofparkinsons.com/tag/cannabidiol/
 

 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Captagon: The Drug of Choice by ISIS Fighters

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Thx, interesting drug.  What the Jihadi's should take is the drug "krokodil" 
(Crocodile, since its eats away the flesh.  People taking it have a life 
expectancy of 2 years).  This would be appropriate for the Isis Jihadis.
 

 http://heavy.com/news/2013/09/krokodil-flesh-eating-drug-photos-pictures/ 
http://heavy.com/news/2013/09/krokodil-flesh-eating-drug-photos-pictures/

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield’s Crisis of Meditator Numbers in the Dome

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Probability assessment:  What's the probability that (in view of the results so 
far), that any tactic on your part or any expenditure of mental effort will 
result in an increase in the dome numbers?  If close to zero, why waste any 
time worrying about?
 

 Serenity prayers, composed by Reinhold Niebuhr, (1892 - 1971) and used 
frequently in his 1930's sermons.:
 

 http://www.beliefnet.com/prayers/protestant/addiction/serenity-prayer.aspx 
http://www.beliefnet.com/prayers/protestant/addiction/serenity-prayer.aspx

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The amazing story of Suzanne Segal

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Thx.everybody for the outstanding comments.  The question has come up many 
times re: the value and dangers of sharing "experiences" including claims as to 
Enlightenment.  Don't be shy, I will value everybody's testimonials and claims 
without putting anybody down with one exception.  I have a zero tolerance for 
"Neo-Advaita" and will call people out whenever possible (or, I will ignore 
them as in most of the Batgappers).
 

 I no longer have Suzanne's excellent book, but it appears that she was 
approaching Self-Realizaiton as defined by Ramana Maharshi (may be MMY's 
Brahman Consciousness); and I'm reminded of Ramana's Self-Realization 
experience of July 17, 1896:
 All of a sudden and without prior formal meditative practice, he felt like he 
was "dying" and using the words "as if dead" he apparently slipped into or fell 
into (as he says) Self-Realization or complete non-dual Reality.
 However, he apparently never shared any type of confusion, unpleasant Kundalin 
experience (or even a prior Kundalini experience); and none of the Ongological 
crises had by Suzanne.  Just the Self, from that day to his death.
 The apparent confusion Suzanne expressed and it's remedy as she approached 
physical death may have been caused by the Neo-Advaitic fallacy: that there's 
no relative self, no ordinary ego, no experience, no karma, etc etc, no no 
noto the point of denying all of  relative existence. It's easy to see how 
some claimants to E. can easily fall into this last snare of Maya.
 Then, just before her death, she quit denying her relative identity as 
"Suzanne" and got out of the Neo-Advaitic trap. The typical message of 
Neo-Advaita is that people should give up their "story" (personal relative 
history and identity and "Just Be".  No techniques necessary - just Be.  That's 
the message of the main proponent of Neo-Advaita in the 20-th century: HWL 
Poonja and his many disciples such as Andrew Cohen and Gangaji.
 ymmv