[FairfieldLife] Re: Haley and House of the Rising Sun

2011-05-17 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@... wrote: Just saw and heard Haley sing The House of the Rising Sun. (She said it's by The Animals, but isn't it actually trad?) I think Jennifer commented on it something like: That song has never been sang so well! Whoa!

[FairfieldLife] RSi VasiSTha and niryogakSema?

2011-05-17 Thread cardemaister
In Giitaa II 45, Krishna sez to Arjuna, amongst other things: (bhava [be]) nir-yoga-kSema (aatmavaan). Dr. Ramanand Prasad's translation: (be) unconcerned (nir [niH]) with [the thoughts of] acquisition (yoga) and preservation (kSema). That seems to be an allusion at least to Rgveda VII 86, 8

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden? (Music of the Spheres)

2011-05-17 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: But in his 2010 book The Grand Design he said a deity no longer has any place in theories on the creation of the universe in the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Not seeing as well as you used to?

2011-05-17 Thread merudanda
WhoWhoWhoWhoWhoWhoWhoscrew it in WhoWhoWhoWhoWhoWhoWhonot screw it in WhoWhoWhoWhoWhoWhoWhoasking to screw it in WhoWhoWhoWhoWhoWho isWhoWhoWhoWhoWhoWho Your Holiness Turquose Bee screw it: If you know the number, you don't know where the socket is ( and Your Holiness don't know the Who-ness

[FairfieldLife] Free workshop, talks: The Whys and Hows of Fruit and Nut Tree Planting

2011-05-17 Thread Dick Mays
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[FairfieldLife] Spiritual experience induction

2011-05-17 Thread Vaj
But it is so *beautiful*!Posted: 16 May 2011 11:49 AM PDTDerren Brown (http://tinyurl.com/3dmjkf) is a "mentalist" (http://tinyurl.com/zm4yt). Here he demonstrates how easy it is to induce a false spiritual experience in someone: http://tinyurl.com/278gx7z. And all false spiritual experiences

[FairfieldLife] The Magical Puja Placebo

2011-05-17 Thread Vaj
Unhooking From Maharishi's Teachings: Laurie Interviews Sudarsha about the Puja (Ceremony) Posted by Laurie at 5/14/2011 06:17:00 PM I (Laurie) left TM 30 years ago, after 10 years in the TM movement, and I have been deprogramming myself ever since. I now believe that everything I was

[FairfieldLife] Delusion, megalomania and enlightenment

2011-05-17 Thread Vaj
Perhaps endarkenment is a better word? From Maharishi's first certified enlightened human: Although it is embarrassing for me read the stuff, Gina Catena posted on this blog my account of getting enlightened—which includes Maharishi's comment: You're somewhere in the layers of wholeness.

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Magical Puja Placebo

2011-05-17 Thread WillyTex
Vaj: ...bypassed my critical thinking, and went straight into my belief system. TM practice isn't based on beliefs, so apparenty Sudarsha was not practicing TM. In TM practice you go beyond or transcend critical thinking. Anyone who attempts to employ critical thinking while attempting to

[FairfieldLife] Re: randomness doesn't contradict deterministic causation

2011-05-17 Thread WillyTex
Quantum mechanics is deterministic, and this view entails that nothing is random. Yifu: depends on what you mean by actually... randomness doesn't contradict deterministic causation Quantum mechanics is deterministic, and this view entails that nothing is actually random.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Narrative Behind Bin Laden Fable Flip-Flops AGAIN

2011-05-17 Thread WillyTex
You know, Bhairitu, one big reason I don't trust your judgment on much of anything is how consistently wildly wrong you are in the things you say about me. You register that I disagree with you, and the rest you fantasize... Bhariritu: (Cue up Hearts and Flowers) Alex Jones is a

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Magical Puja Placebo

2011-05-17 Thread Vaj
On May 17, 2011, at 10:04 AM, WillyTex wrote: Vaj: ...bypassed my critical thinking, and went straight into my belief system. TM practice isn't based on beliefs, so apparenty Sudarsha was not practicing TM. In TM practice you go beyond or transcend critical thinking. Anyone who attempts

[FairfieldLife] Re: the IMF guy . . .

2011-05-17 Thread WillyTex
feste37: Why couldn't he just have ordered up a tart from an escort service, told them she had to be dressed as a maid... Bhairitu: He was just doing to the maid what the IMF has been doing to countries for years. So, you agree with Ron Paul, that we should abolish the IMF. You

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden? (Music of the Spheres)

2011-05-17 Thread WillyTex
What I'm wondering is do MUM philosophy majors really study Indian philosophy. Apparently Curtis has read Hume and Kant, but not Kapila or Shankara. curtisdeltablues: My degree was in Western philosophy so I had to read Shankara on my own. Don't give up on your night job! That's

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Magical Puja Placebo

2011-05-17 Thread WillyTex
TM practice isn't based on beliefs, so apparenty Sudarsha was not practicing TM. In TM practice you go beyond or transcend critical thinking. Anyone who attempts to employ critical thinking while attempting to practice TM will remain on the conscious thinking level - it's just

[FairfieldLife] Re: Delusion, megalomania and enlightenment

2011-05-17 Thread WillyTex
Vaj: But for God's sake, don't hold me to what I said then—written 32 years ago... If you lied for all those years, who would believe anything you say now? You sold mantras for money - you were a snake-oil salesman for the TMO and an impostor adept. Just admit it and move on, Robin!

[FairfieldLife] Re: Among the Truthers

2011-05-17 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@... wrote: Would JFK have been a Truther? You mean, because he was a cold warrior and saw the USSR as a threat, and 9/11 was obviously a communist plot? ...The very word secrecy is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are

[FairfieldLife] Re: Delusion, megalomania and enlightenment

2011-05-17 Thread whynotnow7
No Vaj, endarkenment is a stupid choice in this case. Although Mr. Carlsen had a temporary experience, that experience changed his life and challenged him to look at how he got there and where he was going. If you saw your behavior on this board from afar, perhaps you would look at yourself a

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Magical Puja Placebo

2011-05-17 Thread whynotnow7
Learning about TM and Maharishi from the ironically named TM-Free Blog is like attempting to learn about black people from the KKK. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote: Unhooking From Maharishi's Teachings: Laurie Interviews Sudarsha about the Puja (Ceremony)

[FairfieldLife] Re: Spiritual experience induction

2011-05-17 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote: But it is so *beautiful*! Posted: 16 May 2011 11:49 AM PDT Derren Brown (http://tinyurl.com/3dmjkf) is a mentalist (http:// tinyurl.com/zm4yt). Here he demonstrates how easy it is to induce a false spiritual experience in

[FairfieldLife] Re: Spiritual experience induction

2011-05-17 Thread whynotnow7
...as the crawling baby looks at the walking baby and thinks, What the f*ck does he know? Crawling is where its at! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: But it is so *beautiful*! Posted: 16 May

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: the IMF guy . . .

2011-05-17 Thread Bhairitu
On 05/17/2011 07:23 AM, WillyTex wrote: feste37: Why couldn't he just have ordered up a tart from an escort service, told them she had to be dressed as a maid... Bhairitu: He was just doing to the maid what the IMF has been doing to countries for years. So, you agree with Ron Paul, that

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Narrative Behind Bin Laden Fable Flip-Flops AGAIN

2011-05-17 Thread Bhairitu
On 05/17/2011 07:18 AM, WillyTex wrote: You know, Bhairitu, one big reason I don't trust your judgment on much of anything is how consistently wildly wrong you are in the things you say about me. You register that I disagree with you, and the rest you fantasize... Bhariritu: (Cue up Hearts

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Spiritual experience induction

2011-05-17 Thread Vaj
On May 17, 2011, at 11:43 AM, turquoiseb wrote: Here's where I might quibble with some of your language. I didn't write it, it's from Joe Kellet on TMFree.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Spiritual experience induction

2011-05-17 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote: On May 17, 2011, at 11:43 AM, turquoiseb wrote: Here's where I might quibble with some of your language. I didn't write it, it's from Joe Kellet on TMFree. Ah, that explains some of the 'tude. Thanks for clarifying.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Odd Couple Separates

2011-05-17 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@... wrote: Only after five months as Ex-Gov of California, Arnold needs to remember who's the boss on the family. Maria may have gotten more independent after his absence from the family for 8 years.

[FairfieldLife] Re: BG XIII 13, PITA of some Vaishnavas? Part 1

2011-05-17 Thread emptybill
Madhusuudana says: Pravaks.yaami, I shall clearly (pra), thoroughly, speak; of tat, that; yat jñeyam, which is to be known by a seeker of liberation. In order to draw the attention of the hearer, the Lord, eulogizing it by mentioning its results, says; jñaatvaa, by knowing; yat, which, the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Not seeing as well as you used to?

2011-05-17 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merudanda no_reply@... wrote: WhoWhoWhoWhoWhoWhoWhoscrew it in WhoWhoWhoWhoWhoWhoWhonot screw it in WhoWhoWhoWhoWhoWhoWhoasking to screw it in WhoWhoWhoWhoWhoWho isWhoWhoWhoWhoWhoWho Your Holiness Turquose Bee screw it: If you know the number, you

[FairfieldLife] Re: Spiritual experience induction

2011-05-17 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: But it is so *beautiful*! Posted: 16 May 2011 11:49 AM PDT Derren Brown (http://tinyurl.com/3dmjkf) is a mentalist (http:// tinyurl.com/zm4yt). Here he

[FairfieldLife] David Lynch shares cover space with androgynous model

2011-05-17 Thread turquoiseb
No particular relevance...just thought it was interesting to see who the TM Poster Boy shares magazine covers with lately. One wonders whether this magazine will be permissible whackoff material in Purusha dorms because Lynch is mentioned on the cover? :-)

[FairfieldLife] Re: Odd Couple Separates

2011-05-17 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@ wrote: Only after five months as Ex-Gov of California, Arnold needs to remember who's the boss on the family. Maria may have gotten more independent after his absence

[FairfieldLife] Re: Delusion, megalomania and enlightenment

2011-05-17 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, whynotnow7 whynotnow7@... wrote: No Vaj, endarkenment is a stupid choice in this case. Although Mr. Carlsen had a temporary experience, that experience changed his life and challenged him to look at how he got there and where he was going. If you

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Delusion, megalomania and enlightenment

2011-05-17 Thread Rick Archer
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of nablusoss1008 Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 12:45 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Delusion, megalomania and enlightenment --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com

[FairfieldLife] FYI: The Reflex Response to Protesters in the UAE

2011-05-17 Thread nablusoss1008
FYI: The Reflex Response to Protesters in the UAEBy Raj http://rajpatel.org/author/raj/ on 05/16/2011 in Uncategorized http://rajpatel.org/category/uncategorized/ The mercenaries who brought you Blackwater are now bringing their particular brand of executive solutions to protests in the Middle

[FairfieldLife] Re: Narrative Behind Bin Laden Fable Flip-Flops AGAIN

2011-05-17 Thread WillyTex
Alex Jones is a radical right-winger - Jones makes most Republicans look like mainstream moderates. Go figure. Bhairitu: What is your definition of a radical right winger? Someone who is a 'truther' and believes that 9/11 was an inside job conspiracy, like Alex Jones, who is a

[FairfieldLife] Re: BG XIII 13, PITA of some Vaishnavas? Part 1

2011-05-17 Thread WillyTex
cardemaister: (And we are afraid almost no-one understands what the fak we are trying to explain...) B. Mullquist understands.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Delusion, megalomania and enlightenment

2011-05-17 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@... wrote: snip Nabby: I found Maharishi's comment interesting: You're somewhere in the layers of wholeness. I'd like to hear that excate quote because it does not ring a bell of being something he would say. Maharishi did not waste

Re: [FairfieldLife] Scott Werner will be at the library tonight - Monday

2011-05-17 Thread Sal Sunshine
On May 16, 2011, at 12:40 PM, Rick Archer wrote: Scott Werner will be at the Fairfield Public library tonight – 7:30pm. He is amazing. I mean amazing. Did I mention he is amazing? He is a healer and his energy is the most fluid unstuck joyful happy flowing of anyone. He is a happy

[FairfieldLife] Re: Delusion, megalomania and enlightenment

2011-05-17 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@... wrote: From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of nablusoss1008 Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 12:45 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Delusion, megalomania

[FairfieldLife] Re: randomness doesn't contradict deterministic causation

2011-05-17 Thread Yifu
the question of randomness in QM has not been fully resolved. Check out the numerous online resources. Here's a blog: (noting especially the sentence Again, nobody really knows the answer to this). ok, so let's say i believe that quantum mechanics is truly random. how is it, then, the the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Narrative Behind Bin Laden Fable Flip-Flops AGAIN

2011-05-17 Thread Bhairitu
On 05/17/2011 11:08 AM, WillyTex wrote: Alex Jones is a radical right-winger - Jones makes most Republicans look like mainstream moderates. Go figure. Bhairitu: What is your definition of a radical right winger? Someone who is a 'truther' and believes that 9/11 was an inside job

[FairfieldLife] Post hoc ergo propter hoc?

2011-05-17 Thread cardemaister
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_effects_of_coffee Seems to me there might be several instances of some kind of post hoc ergo propter hoc -fallacy there...

Re: [FairfieldLife] David Lynch shares cover space with androgynous model

2011-05-17 Thread Bhairitu
On 05/17/2011 10:27 AM, turquoiseb wrote: No particular relevance...just thought it was interesting to see who the TM Poster Boy shares magazine covers with lately. One wonders whether this magazine will be permissible whackoff material in Purusha dorms because Lynch is mentioned on the cover?

[FairfieldLife] Re: Spiritual experience induction

2011-05-17 Thread curtisdeltablues
I'm getting that old Criss Angel vibe here,a room full of confederates. As much as I learned from and enjoyed NLP, there is a group in it makes this kind of idiotic claim about the power of hypnosis. People don't shift into a trance states instantly. They also don't become suggestible

[FairfieldLife] Re: Delusion, megalomania and enlightenment

2011-05-17 Thread whynotnow7
I found Maharishi's comment interesting: You're somewhere in the layers of wholeness. I'd like to hear that exact quote because it does not ring a bell of being something he would say. Maharishi did not waste time on platitudes. Who isn't somewhere in the layers of wholeness ? Exactly.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Delusion, megalomania and enlightenment

2011-05-17 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@ wrote: snip Nabby: I found Maharishi's comment interesting: You're somewhere in the layers of wholeness. I'd like to hear that excate quote because it does not

[FairfieldLife] Re: Odd Couple Separates

2011-05-17 Thread John
Barry, Now that the secret is out, there may be other stories as to what Arnold had been doing in Sacramento during after work while Maria lived in Los Angeles. JR PS I didn't use jyotish to make the statements in my earlier post. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb

[FairfieldLife] Re: Spiritual experience induction

2011-05-17 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: I'm getting that old Criss Angel vibe here,a room full of confederates. I'm glad you ran this down. Part of my feeling of creepiness was a vague sense that something just wasn't kosher about the whole setup,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Odd Couple Separates

2011-05-17 Thread John
Judy, Maria is apparently undergoing a very bad period, given the fact that her parents have recently died, in addition to Arnold's misbehaviour(s). Her faith will certainly be tested. As a Catholic, she would have to weigh the serious option of getting a divorce from the ex-Governator. JR

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Among the Truthers

2011-05-17 Thread Mike Dixon
Oh well, either way, damned if we do, damned if we don't. They can keep my CIA check if it helps the cause, just don't f**k with my Social Security!  snicker back From: authfriend jst...@panix.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Mon, May 16, 2011

Re: [FairfieldLife] Among the Truthers

2011-05-17 Thread Mike Dixon
LOL! Thank God you've got a sense of humor! From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Mon, May 16, 2011 1:52:37 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Among the Truthers   My KGB wire arrived on time. You still get check rather

[FairfieldLife] Re: Delusion, megalomania and enlightenment

2011-05-17 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, whynotnow7 whynotnow7@... wrote: I found Maharishi's comment interesting: You're somewhere in the layers of wholeness. I'd like to hear that exact quote because it does not ring a bell of being something he would say. Maharishi did not waste time on

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Among the Truthers

2011-05-17 Thread Mike Dixon
Yeah yeah, you know , like that Being thing the Maharishi used to talk about, we're all connected! Or sumpin like dat. From: authfriend jst...@panix.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Mon, May 16, 2011 2:18:13 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Among the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Spiritual experience induction

2011-05-17 Thread curtisdeltablues
I think it was David Copperfield who started this crowd stooge program and it has done a lot of damage to the art of magic IMO. Doug Henning's biggest contribution to the art was that he restored credibility to magic on TV by not using any camera trickery. He is really revered by modern

[FairfieldLife] DOME ANNOUNCEMENTS--Richard Beymer/David Lynch movie -- correction: Sat. Night

2011-05-17 Thread Dick Mays
[Thanks to those alert readers who sent emails -- the film will be on Saturday, May 21] David Lynch Follows His Master's Footsteps Richard Beymer's Special Encore Feature Presentation Dalby Hall in Argiro Center on Saturday, May 21st at 7:30pm In December 2009, Richard Beymer traveled with

[FairfieldLife] Re: Scott Werner will be at the library tonight - Monday

2011-05-17 Thread feste37
Sometimes what people say about healers isn't quite what those healers say about themselves. This answers some of your questions, but note that Scott Werner does not say he cured his own cancer through some mystical experience, unless that experience was the miracle of finding this woman.

[FairfieldLife] The Infamous Stringdusters | Fairfield Arts Convention Center

2011-05-17 Thread Rick Archer
Rick - please send out to your vast e-mail network. We discovered this band at a music festival in Colorado. They are a great and rising band. Lot of talent and leaves the audience foot stomping and dancing in their seats. Fairfield was lucky to get them!!! Regards, Phil

[FairfieldLife] Re: Spiritual experience induction

2011-05-17 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: Give me a close up of Doug's hands turning a dollar bill into a hundred right in front of my eyes any day over these overproduced extravaganzas! And after the commercial David is going to make the Statue

[FairfieldLife] Re: Spiritual experience induction

2011-05-17 Thread authfriend
Another thing: We didn't hear from any of the subjects as to what their alleged conversion experiences were *like*. One minute they don't believe in God, the next minute they do. What was their subjective experience in between that created such a radical change? Plus which, they were *too calm*.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden? (Music of the Spheres)

2011-05-17 Thread John
Yifu, 3. Anyway, due to various limitations, pure math can often expand faster than experimental, leaving us with such hypotheses as BRANES; i.e. sheets of pre-existing matter/energy fields which collide, generating Big Bangs. This is a typical string-theory outcome that Hagelin might have

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-Bye Bin Laden? (Music of the Spheres)

2011-05-17 Thread Yifu
...on the statement in the field of consciousness. Everything is already in the field of consciousness AS MEST (matter, energy, space, and time). If you mean by Consciousness, Being, this is not a field. The latter term in physics refers to something relative, pursuant to the discoveries of

[FairfieldLife] Re: David Lynch shares cover space with androgynous model

2011-05-17 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: No particular relevance...just thought it was interesting to see who the TM Poster Boy shares magazine covers with lately. One wonders whether this magazine will be permissible whackoff material in Purusha dorms because

[FairfieldLife] Re: Delusion, megalomania and enlightenment

2011-05-17 Thread Yifu
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_WsFaF8VsHhc/TJ-F__Utx6I/ABQ/tdITImqRIEA/s1600/Sandwich2.jpg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@... wrote: From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of nablusoss1008 Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2011

[FairfieldLife] Re: David Lynch shares cover space with androgynous model

2011-05-17 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: No particular relevance...just thought it was interesting to see who the TM Poster Boy shares magazine covers with lately. One wonders whether this

[FairfieldLife] Post Count

2011-05-17 Thread FFL PostCount
Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): Sat May 14 00:00:00 2011 End Date (UTC): Sat May 21 00:00:00 2011 289 messages as of (UTC) Tue May 17 23:25:17 2011 39 authfriend jst...@panix.com 24 Yifu yifux...@yahoo.com 21 turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com 21

[FairfieldLife] Re: David Lynch shares cover space with androgynous model

2011-05-17 Thread whynotnow7
Are you saying Barry finds David Lynch HOT?? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: No particular relevance...just thought it

[FairfieldLife] Dirty Linen in Colorado

2011-05-17 Thread emptybill
BORN IN TIBET, AGAIN -- THE EXILE OF THE TWELFTH TRUNGPA TULKU There are certain haters of MMY here on FFL who laud the Buddhist techniques and training of Chogyam Trungpa along with his former organization, Vajardhatu and its successor organization, Shambhala. Little do they know that the

[FairfieldLife] Cases of Authenticity

2011-05-17 Thread Yifu
Swami Brahmananda and other disciples of Ramakrishna http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b9/Alambazar_Math_1896.jpg ...Once, I was at the Ramakrishna Temple bookstore in Hollywood in the 70's and mentioned Maharishi to a devotee there; who first thought I meant Maharshi (since Swami

[FairfieldLife] Re: Spiritual experience induction

2011-05-17 Thread whynotnow7
I went to Doug Henning's wedding and couldn't figure out how he pulled that off either. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: Give me a close up of Doug's hands turning a dollar

[FairfieldLife] Reincarnation in Buddhism and Hinduism

2011-05-17 Thread Yifu
from Yahoo Ask: am writing a comparative analyisis essay about vendantic and Buddhist philosophies focusing in on atman and anatman. The problem I am addressing is reincarnation. I am having trouble explaining reincarnation for vedanta/hindu. I know for Buddhism one has to renouce all

[FairfieldLife] Re: Spiritual experience induction

2011-05-17 Thread Yifu
http://blog.davidhoyle.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/doug_henning.jpg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, whynotnow7 whynotnow7@... wrote: I went to Doug Henning's wedding and couldn't figure out how he pulled that off either. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@

[FairfieldLife] Re: Dirty Linen in Colorado

2011-05-17 Thread WillyTex
emptybill: Dirty Linen in Colorado Apparently the first consort of Chogyam Trunpa Mukpo was one Kunchok Palden, who lived in a Tibetan refugee village in India. She got knocked up by Mukpo, who then moved to England where he married Lady Diana, thus the Mukpo became perhaps the first

[FairfieldLife] Re: Spiritual experience induction

2011-05-17 Thread WillyTex
Give me a close up of Doug's hands turning a dollar bill into a hundred right in front of my eyes any day over these overproduced extravaganzas! And after the commercial David is going to make the Statue of Liberty DISAPPEAR Yawn. turquoiseb: My closest (literally) exposure to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Scott Werner will be at the library tonight - Monday

2011-05-17 Thread Alex Stanley
Interestingly enough, Hulda Clark died of cancer. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@... wrote: Sometimes what people say about healers isn't quite what those healers say about themselves. This answers some of your questions, but note that Scott Werner does not say he

[FairfieldLife] Is Guru a 4-Letter Word? by Mariana Caplan : iEvolve: Center for World Spirituality

2011-05-17 Thread Rick Archer
http://www.ievolve.org/2011/05/is-guru-a-4-letter-word-the-need-for-discernm ent-on-the-spiritual-path/

[FairfieldLife] Re: Scott Werner will be at the library tonight - Monday

2011-05-17 Thread Yifu
She was L. Ron Hubbard of cancer healers. Instead of engrams, patients have parasites. Instead of an e-meter, they are treated with a Zapper.: Wiki: Major methods and topicsDiet Cleanup: Clark said that food and supplements were sullied by contaminants such as heavy metals, byproducts in

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Magical Puja Placebo

2011-05-17 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willytex@... wrote: There are no belief system required to practice TM and there is no belief to believe in, in order to practice TM. There are no belief systems required in the TM introductory lectures. Religious beliefs are not a

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Magical Puja Placebo

2011-05-17 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, whynotnow7 whynotnow7@... wrote: Learning about TM and Maharishi from the ironically named TM-Free Blog is like attempting to learn about black people from the KKK. Not quite logical. Many posters now writing on the TM-Free blog learned TM, were