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Nope - it was totally different From: merudanda no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2013 1:27 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM Trivia The Dawn of SidhaMan:Superman Renounce American Citizenship more scroll down --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson wrote: No I was done with TM before there was any significant TM presence in western NC - I do remember going for my first bloc of the sidhis to Livingston Manor (the course where they had the Sidha Man/Superman poster in the lobby!) this one or these http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/275588 snip food seems to be better now== ? Sthapatya Vedic kitchen in Vedic City, Iowa. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45KOwMlDr9U
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millet (-: From: seventhray27 steve.sun...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 10:40 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM Trivia I understand. But butter and salt can go along way. I mean even just a baked potato with butter and salt is perfect. Then if you add sour cream, well that's a whole other dimension. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn wrote: Oh my goodness.  Having this vegetable over-cooked and forced down me as a child, I can say that I don't like it any way but three ways.  In heavy sauce of any kind, or with ample amounts of melted cheese, or raw, slathered in a creamy dip.  Just butter and salt will not do at all. From: seventhray27 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 8:22 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM Trivia  It's still one of my favorite dishes. At Cobb it was just cauliflower with butter and then some salt. I also like cauliflower with butter, salt and some mild cheddar melted into it. A high school girlfriend's family turned me onto that. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn wrote: Ah ha ha hathe cauliflower stands outhilarious, absolutely hilarious.  Thank you Steve.  Isn't it great how meals remain in our memory?  From: seventhray27 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 8:10 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM Trivia  The cauliflower at Cobb Mountain stands out for me. He Bhar, did you know Marla Hunt who originally hailed from SF, and was in the band, Marin County Singers, or something to that effect. She was at Cobb Mountain the same time I was, and we became friends. She even gave a performance one night which I thought was awesome. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: On 01/24/2013 06:47 PM, Michael Jackson wrote: I know this is extremely trivial, but do you remember what was the best or most fun meal you ever had on a TM course or at a TM facility? The Egg Plant Moussaka served at Cobb Mountain was wonderful. I bought their recipe book so I could make it myself and there were many other good recipes in that book (which I still have).
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No I was done with TM before there was any significant TM presence in western NC - I do remember going for my first bloc of the sidhis to Livingston Manor (the course where they had the Sidha Man/Superman poster in the lobby!) and one day for breakfast they served grits! And they were cooked properly! And yes there were a bunch of Yankees who had no idea of what it was or how to eat it - I overheard a staff guy who was was evidently from the south tell someone else to slap anyone who attempted to put sugar or honey on them. Worst TM food for me was the Chinese stir fired veggies at MIU - they were actually not bad when they first came out of the big kitchen, but due to all the cooks being hot to participate in evening program, the dinners were supposed to be finished cooking at around 4 or 4:30 in the afternoon - so the food sat in warmers for about 3 hours before anyone ate anything and that stuff was turned to veggie mush - everyone hated it. Due to international (meaning Marsh-he and the Srivastavas boys) demanding more and more money from MIU in 1986 - 87, the quality of the ingredients got more and more poor (since the kitchen director was directed to slash his budget as much a possible so he ordered the cheapest and therefore crummiest ingredients possible) the quality of the food was going downhill - when I first arrived at MIU I was a committed vegetarian of about 5 years - by the time I left I had begun to eat meat just to have a break from the lousy food - the first thing I ate was fried chicken from some mom and pop place there in Fairfield - can't remember the place's name. An example of how the budget slashing affected the bakery - we often made apple pies or apple crisp or apple brown betty - at first we used fresh apples, washed, and cored them right in the bakery, and cut them up - labor intensive but worth it, especially if they got Braeburns or something like that - then all the fresh apples were replaced with big ass cans of already peeled and cut up apples - at least they got the ones packed in water instead of syrup From: laughinggull108 no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 11:10 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM Trivia ALL the food at the Manor when it was ASCI under Bill Deknatel, including the chicken and fish in the non-vegetarian line. Remember the juice room? And how about those unlimited steamed artichokes for lunch? In those days, money was no object particularly as far as food was concerned. Actually, I'd be more interested in the worst food at a TMO facility. MJ, did you ever visit the MVU in Asheville before it was sold? If so, does cheesecake ring a bell? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson wrote: I know this is extremely trivial, but do you remember what was the best or most fun meal you ever had on a TM course or at a TM facility?
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It was just one lie and she looked me right in the eye when she told it to me and in the next two minutes I saw with my own eyes that what she had told me was a lie - not a big thing, but it made me realize just how much of a soul mate she was to Greg From: seventhray27 steve.sun...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 11:46 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM Trivia I'm sorry to hear she was like that. I had little interaction with her. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson wrote: He musta shrunk by the time I met him - I am only 5' 10 and he was distinctly shorter than me - kind of skinny - in fact I always thought his twit of a wife Georgina could have easily knocked him down had she a mind to - instead she just acted above everyone else and told me lies. From: Ann To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 11:12 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM Trivia  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray27 wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson wrote: I know this is extremely trivial, but do you remember what was the best or most fun meal you ever had on a TM course or at a TM facility? Two stand out. Arosa sometime around '77 or '78. The chef was Michael, from Germany. He made some potatoes (chunks) that he fried in pure butter. Just awesome. Then in Courcheval at the first six month course. Same chef. Gulob Jamons made from fresh milk boiled down, instead powdered milk. It took him all day. The thing about Arosa, and I've mentioned this before, Greg Wilson nearly single handedly destroyed that course by stealing food, and being the ring leader of guys playing tricks on the chef. He became angry and resentful. To have the best chef in the movement at that time was awesome, and this goofball nearly ruined it. What is he doing now anyway.? I think he was involved in some oil deal in Canada. I don't feel kindly towards him at all. I remember Greg Wilson from MIU. I remember him as tall, blond and not bad looking. But if he came between you and a good meal then I can understand your resentment. I loved the food at MIU '75-'80. The students would just gorge on the pizzas on pizza night and they seemed to always have ice cream with chocolate sauce and lots of granola at hand so I think I had a sunday practically every night. No one went hungry, let's put it that way.
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Man! When did that happen? what year I mean? From: Alex Stanley j_alexander_stan...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 9:58 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM Trivia --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson wrote: I know this is extremely trivial, but do you remember what was the best or most fun meal you ever had on a TM course or at a TM facility? Unfortunately, there is only one meal at MIU that stands out in my memory: the time I got food poisoning and puked all day long. After that, I got a little fridge and a hot plate and cooked all my own food in my room.
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that is hilarious! From: authfriend authfri...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 10:11 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM Trivia --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson wrote: I know this is extremely trivial, but do you remember what was the best or most fun meal you ever had on a TM course or at a TM facility? I've posted this before--maybe even twice--but it's such a good story I'm going to haul it out again. It's not about the meal itself but what happened during the meal, so I figure it's close enough to what you asked about: I was staying at the TM facility in Asbury Park some years back; it was a pretty fancy hotel that the TMO had bought and was running *as* a hotel for regular guests, as well as housing various TM administrative folks and course participants. The TMers' food, all vegetarian, was prepared in the downstairs kitchen, but there was a bigger kitchen upstairs that cooked for the guests. One night I was sitting at a table of TM-lifers during dinner. The hotel was hosting a big Bar Mitzvah bash upstairs. One of the MA-V technicians, a big galoot of a guy with a heart of gold who regarded the blissninnies with good-humored bepuzzlement, had gone up to the guest kitchen to see if he could cadge some real food from one of the cooking staff, a friend of his. We were sitting there eating our lentils and rice and curried cauliflower when he strolled back into the dining room bearing a big platter. He came up to the table and set down the platter, on which rested a huge hunk of very rare steak. You'd have thought there was a severed human hand on the platter. The TM-lifers all gasped audibly, and one of the more delicate of the ladies actually gave out a little shriek. (This was totally spontaneous; these folks probably hadn't even laid eyes on a piece of meat for years, and that bloody slab must have been a shocking sight.) The poor MA-V tech stared at the horrified faces, bewildered. Then everybody started laughing, practically falling out of their chairs. We laughed until we cried--including the MA-V guy, once he realized folks weren't laughing at *him* but at their own bizarre reaction to his dinner. It was one of the best group laughs I've ever had the pleasure to participate in.
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Very very funny. You see, there is something magical gained with communal meals. Meals prepared in the ski lodge with many families participating are always better than not. Sorry Alex for your experience - my daughter got food poisoning from one of the best Thai restaurants in Seattle - she can never go back. From: Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 7:17 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM Trivia that is hilarious! From: authfriend authfri...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 10:11 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM Trivia --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson wrote: I know this is extremely trivial, but do you remember what was the best or most fun meal you ever had on a TM course or at a TM facility? I've posted this before--maybe even twice--but it's such a good story I'm going to haul it out again. It's not about the meal itself but what happened during the meal, so I figure it's close enough to what you asked about: I was staying at the TM facility in Asbury Park some years back; it was a pretty fancy hotel that the TMO had bought and was running *as* a hotel for regular guests, as well as housing various TM administrative folks and course participants. The TMers' food, all vegetarian, was prepared in the downstairs kitchen, but there was a bigger kitchen upstairs that cooked for the guests. One night I was sitting at a table of TM-lifers during dinner. The hotel was hosting a big Bar Mitzvah bash upstairs. One of the MA-V technicians, a big galoot of a guy with a heart of gold who regarded the blissninnies with good-humored bepuzzlement, had gone up to the guest kitchen to see if he could cadge some real food from one of the cooking staff, a friend of his. We were sitting there eating our lentils and rice and curried cauliflower when he strolled back into the dining room bearing a big platter. He came up to the table and set down the platter, on which rested a huge hunk of very rare steak. You'd have thought there was a severed human hand on the platter. The TM-lifers all gasped audibly, and one of the more delicate of the ladies actually gave out a little shriek. (This was totally spontaneous; these folks probably hadn't even laid eyes on a piece of meat for years, and that bloody slab must have been a shocking sight.) The poor MA-V tech stared at the horrified faces, bewildered. Then everybody started laughing, practically falling out of their chairs. We laughed until we cried--including the MA-V guy, once he realized folks weren't laughing at *him* but at their own bizarre reaction to his dinner. It was one of the best group laughs I've ever had the pleasure to participate in.
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Oh my god - you remember that far back? Must have been a helluva puke session. Glad you survived to figure out how to count the posts for us. I graduated high school in 1980. From: Alex Stanley j_alexander_stan...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 8:00 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM Trivia Either 1983 or 1984. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson wrote: Man! When did that happen? what year I mean? From: Alex Stanley To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 9:58 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM Trivia  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson wrote: I know this is extremely trivial, but do you remember what was the best or most fun meal you ever had on a TM course or at a TM facility? Unfortunately, there is only one meal at MIU that stands out in my memory: the time I got food poisoning and puked all day long. After that, I got a little fridge and a hot plate and cooked all my own food in my room.
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Ah ha ha hathe cauliflower stands outhilarious, absolutely hilarious. Thank you Steve. Isn't it great how meals remain in our memory? From: seventhray27 steve.sun...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 8:10 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM Trivia The cauliflower at Cobb Mountain stands out for me. He Bhar, did you know Marla Hunt who originally hailed from SF, and was in the band, Marin County Singers, or something to that effect. She was at Cobb Mountain the same time I was, and we became friends. She even gave a performance one night which I thought was awesome. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: On 01/24/2013 06:47 PM, Michael Jackson wrote: I know this is extremely trivial, but do you remember what was the best or most fun meal you ever had on a TM course or at a TM facility? The Egg Plant Moussaka served at Cobb Mountain was wonderful. I bought their recipe book so I could make it myself and there were many other good recipes in that book (which I still have).
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Ah, so a year or two before I arrived - so it wasn't my baking that did it - excellent! From: Alex Stanley j_alexander_stan...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 11:00 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM Trivia Either 1983 or 1984. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson wrote: Man! When did that happen? what year I mean? From: Alex Stanley To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 9:58 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM Trivia  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson wrote: I know this is extremely trivial, but do you remember what was the best or most fun meal you ever had on a TM course or at a TM facility? Unfortunately, there is only one meal at MIU that stands out in my memory: the time I got food poisoning and puked all day long. After that, I got a little fridge and a hot plate and cooked all my own food in my room.
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Oh my goodness. Having this vegetable over-cooked and forced down me as a child, I can say that I don't like it any way but three ways. In heavy sauce of any kind, or with ample amounts of melted cheese, or raw, slathered in a creamy dip. Just butter and salt will not do at all. From: seventhray27 steve.sun...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 8:22 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM Trivia It's still one of my favorite dishes. At Cobb it was just cauliflower with butter and then some salt. I also like cauliflower with butter, salt and some mild cheddar melted into it. A high school girlfriend's family turned me onto that. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn wrote: Ah ha ha hathe cauliflower stands outhilarious, absolutely hilarious.  Thank you Steve.  Isn't it great how meals remain in our memory?  From: seventhray27 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 8:10 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM Trivia  The cauliflower at Cobb Mountain stands out for me. He Bhar, did you know Marla Hunt who originally hailed from SF, and was in the band, Marin County Singers, or something to that effect. She was at Cobb Mountain the same time I was, and we became friends. She even gave a performance one night which I thought was awesome. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: On 01/24/2013 06:47 PM, Michael Jackson wrote: I know this is extremely trivial, but do you remember what was the best or most fun meal you ever had on a TM course or at a TM facility? The Egg Plant Moussaka served at Cobb Mountain was wonderful. I bought their recipe book so I could make it myself and there were many other good recipes in that book (which I still have).
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I never liked him either for reasons I have posted here in the past few months - I never heard of the Arosa thing, but it doesn't surprise me. From: seventhray27 steve.sun...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 11:05 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM Trivia --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson wrote: I know this is extremely trivial, but do you remember what was the best or most fun meal you ever had on a TM course or at a TM facility? Two stand out. Arosa sometime around '77 or '78. The chef was Michael, from Germany. He made some potatoes (chunks) that he fried in pure butter. Just awesome. Then in Courcheval at the first six month course. Same chef. Gulob Jamons made from fresh milk boiled down, instead powdered milk. It took him all day. The thing about Arosa, and I've mentioned this before, Greg Wilson nearly single handedly destroyed that course by stealing food, and being the ring leader of guys playing tricks on the chef. He became angry and resentful. To have the best chef in the movement at that time was awesome, and this goofball nearly ruined it. What is he doing now anyway.? I think he was involved in some oil deal in Canada. I don't feel kindly towards him at all.
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He musta shrunk by the time I met him - I am only 5' 10 and he was distinctly shorter than me - kind of skinny - in fact I always thought his twit of a wife Georgina could have easily knocked him down had she a mind to - instead she just acted above everyone else and told me lies. From: Ann awoelfleba...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 11:12 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM Trivia --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray27 wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson wrote: I know this is extremely trivial, but do you remember what was the best or most fun meal you ever had on a TM course or at a TM facility? Two stand out. Arosa sometime around '77 or '78. The chef was Michael, from Germany. He made some potatoes (chunks) that he fried in pure butter. Just awesome. Then in Courcheval at the first six month course. Same chef. Gulob Jamons made from fresh milk boiled down, instead powdered milk. It took him all day. The thing about Arosa, and I've mentioned this before, Greg Wilson nearly single handedly destroyed that course by stealing food, and being the ring leader of guys playing tricks on the chef. He became angry and resentful. To have the best chef in the movement at that time was awesome, and this goofball nearly ruined it. What is he doing now anyway.? I think he was involved in some oil deal in Canada. I don't feel kindly towards him at all. I remember Greg Wilson from MIU. I remember him as tall, blond and not bad looking. But if he came between you and a good meal then I can understand your resentment. I loved the food at MIU '75-'80. The students would just gorge on the pizzas on pizza night and they seemed to always have ice cream with chocolate sauce and lots of granola at hand so I think I had a sunday practically every night. No one went hungry, let's put it that way.
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I'm currently reading the book Mindsight by Dr. Daniel J. Siegel, UCLA professor who specializes in integrating different aspects of mindfulness training into his psychotherapy practice. He's been finding that the physical brain, both its structure and its chemistry, can be healed even of conditions that are genetically based. It's an accessible and encouraging book. In other sources I've read that there are cellular connections between the brain and the heart and the stomach. Though we talk about thoughts and emotions and sensations, I think these distinctions are coming to be understood as perhaps less real or useful then we once thought they were. From: Jason jedi_sp...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, November 12, 2012 7:19 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM trivia --- card cardemaister@... wrote: When does the nervous system lose its ability to experience happiness? It's the brain that experiences happiness. It's an emotion. The nervous system only transmits pleasure which is a sensation.
