[FairfieldLife] Re: Invincible America Course - pressure to mood make

2007-02-06 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- Jonathan Chadwick wrote: The sax player left school to pursue his musical career, detouring along the way to be an assistant to one of the Beach Boys for a while. Actually there were two. Bob Williams, an undergrad, lived in the room next door to me in Pod 124, and played

[FairfieldLife] Re: Saints

2007-02-06 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- authfriend wrote: Just for da record, guys, as I understand it, you don't get no virgins unless you die as a martyr for Islam. Didja see this, by Steve Martin, in The New Yorker? http://tinyurl.com/2ymp7n

[FairfieldLife] Age of consent (was some godawful subject line)

2007-02-05 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- Sal Sunshine wrote: On Feb 5, 2007, at 12:42 PM, Rick Archer wrote: Precisely my point, Rick. And they were as well when all this supposedly took place. I don't know about you, but I wasn't a grown-up when I was 19. You were an adult, responsible for your own decisions, unless

[FairfieldLife] ACIM (was Re: Do non-meditators seem like wild animals)

2007-02-05 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- jyouells2000 wrote: A Course in Miracles has avoided hierarchical organizational structure and most of the structural problems we talk about here... Chapter 3 of Robert Perry's _Path of Light_, about a Course in Miracles, has been a huge influence on my worldview. Yet I'm told by a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Invincible America Course - pressure to mood make

2007-02-05 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- dhamiltony2k5 wrote: Beven and John are incredible at working to incite the loyal tru- believer and hold that crowd there. Is a study in propaganda manking and they work it hard to pull all the words and strings. Even during my MIU days I realized I needed regular reassurance

[FairfieldLife] Re: Invincible America Course - pressure to mood make

2007-02-05 Thread Patrick Gillam
Comments interleaved below. --- Jonathan Chadwick wrote: Patrick, I remember you at M.I.U. - you were a year or two ahead of me - and you were the absolute epitome of the tall-guy-in-the-shirt- and-tie: always upbeat, positive outlooking, a real leader. Hey, thanks, Jonathan.

[FairfieldLife] Craving legitimacy

2007-02-05 Thread Patrick Gillam
I missed this old column from the New York Times in which technology writer David Pogue takes Microsoft to task for manipulating, and sometimes fabricating, good reviews for its products. I post it here because it ties into the TMO's efforts to create good PR. It seems that no matter how

[FairfieldLife] Re: Llundrub, please get in touch with me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2007-01-30 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- llundrub wrote: Sorry, I work doubles, six doubles a week Kirk, where are you working these days? You may have said, but I didn't pick it up. Is your wife with you, or is life still upside-down?

[FairfieldLife] Fort Collins (was Re: FW: earl the pearl)

2007-01-27 Thread Patrick Gillam
suziezuzie wrote: I live one hour from Boulder ... Fort Collins where I live now. Fort Collins is more down to earth and was voted the best town in the US to live. It is nice without the pretentiousness of Boulder. I lived in Fort Collins for a short while in the early 1980s as

[FairfieldLife] See Pam Whitworth's exhibit

2007-01-24 Thread Patrick Gillam
I have to give a shout-out for a friend and former MIU classmate showing her art at MUM's Unity Gallery. I saw just one of the images on the web and felt confident there would be more good ones at the gallery. http://mum.edu/arts/exhibits Here's the summary from The Review: Paintings by

[FairfieldLife] Re: Artists in France

2007-01-23 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- TurquoiseB wrote: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/21/fashion/21crumb.html?_r=1emex=1169528400en=d6cb0b396528cd89ei=5087%0Aoref=slogin believe it or not Sophie (mentioned in the article) is one of the brightest, most well-adjusted kids I've ever met in my life. Go figure. I mean, go

[FairfieldLife] Ego and transparency (was Re: Is enlightenment sexist?)

2007-01-18 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- TurquoiseB wrote: --- lurkernomore wrote: I had a relationship with a lady -her female instincts so finely honed that this cat and mouse game was right there out in the open, (and just beneath the surface somehow ). She nearly caught her prey, and yet I knew it was not the

[FairfieldLife] NY Times article on dome homes

2007-01-11 Thread Patrick Gillam
Dome-goers and dome alums may be amused by this article in the New York Times on geodesic dome residences. It has a half-dozen photos of various domiciles around the Unites States. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/11/garden/11domes.html The Dome Gains Weight and Settles Down By ALASTAIR

[FairfieldLife] Re: GM electric car around the corner (car dealer)

2007-01-08 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- msilver wrote: American cars are coming back in quality I wish I'd saved a chart I saw in, I believe, the New York Times, not long ago, which showed American brands surpassing everyone else for quality. They weren't consistent, though. Some brands were at the top of the list and

[FairfieldLife] Re: Attendance in Recert Course

2007-01-07 Thread Patrick Gillam
Thanks for the encouragement, Marek. I'll think about how we could rearrange furniture to make it happen. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Comment below: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Patrick Gillam jpgillam@ wrote: **snip

[FairfieldLife] Regular practice (was Re: Attendance in Recert Course)

2007-01-07 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- Peter wrote: I continue to do my complete program morning and evening. Peter, would you talk a little bit about why you're regular? I meditate to recharge my batteries for the day. If I'm feeling fresh, or I'm pressed for time, I'm not so regular as I used to be. I used to be regular

[FairfieldLife] Re: ... the *disappeared*

2007-01-07 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- Bhairitu wrote: My guru has initiated a number into tantra but few get much farther than learning the guru mantra. Bhairitu, if I may ask, have you met people who've become enlightened through their affiliation with your master? Do they maintain their affiliation with him or his

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Israel Drawing Plans for Iran Attack'

2007-01-07 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- Alex Stanley wrote: Is Israel any less doomed if Iran acquires nuclear weapons? I have a problem with these scenarios that assume Action B is a sure thing if Action A occurs. For example, people like to say the entire Middle East will be drawn into Sunni vs. Shia warfare if Iraq melts

[FairfieldLife] Re: Attendance in Recert Course

2007-01-06 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- nablusos108 wrote: --- Richard J. Williams wrote: bmorry wrote: How many people are attending the current course to become a recertified governor? there seems to be no Governors on this forum - correct me if I'm wrong. I considered myself a TM Governor until the

[FairfieldLife] WSJ arts criticism (was Re: New file)

2006-12-31 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- bob_brigante wrote: File: /File0001.jpg Uploaded by : bob_brigante Description : WSJ review of Lynch book, film You can access this file at the URL: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/files/File0001.jpg I changed the file name to: WSJ on Lynch (last

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi - Invincible America Assembly Finer Experiences

2006-12-31 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, the WSJ reviewer hated Serenity... Said it was just like a TV movie and where's that darned remote...? Ha! QED.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Enlightened Spirituality, Welcome to Spiritual Awakening

2006-12-26 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.enlightened-spirituality.org/ I see this site is an enterprise of Timothy Conway, who I thought had been a skin boy for Maharishi, but I see no reference to MMY in Tim's vita. Was I mistaken to believe he

[FairfieldLife] Re: Enlightened Spirituality, Welcome to Spiritual Awakening

2006-12-26 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig sparaig@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Patrick Gillam jpgillam@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@ wrote: http

[FairfieldLife] Re: Enlightened Spirituality, Welcome to Spiritual Awakening

2006-12-26 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- Rick Archer wrote: Tim was never in the TMO. You might be thinking that because he was in SpiritualChat. That 'splains it. Thanks.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Attn: Ceci, aka Colonel Creative Intelligence

2006-12-22 Thread Patrick Gillam
Barbara, I have to tease you about being such a space case, and commend you for having such a good friend. I'm glad you found your checkbook - especially at this time of year. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Stokes and Barbara Dickins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Review: Windows Vista

2006-12-18 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- Vaj wrote: sparaig wrote: It's the commandline Mac GUI interface to the UNIX shell. Careful, you're playing with fire if you use it. An administrator account + command line = god on UNIX. No, I think you meant to say Terminal. The Console is just your system feedback

[FairfieldLife] Re: TMO compound at Vlodrop

2006-12-18 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- authfriend wrote: the most important principle of Vastu is that buildings be oriented not according to some arbitrarily defined grid, but *to the sun*, which ain't exactly unnatural. Interesting metaphor. When we align ourselves to the material world at our feet, the world looks one

[FairfieldLife] Re: TMO compound at Vlodrop

2006-12-18 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jeff Fischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: Give me New Yorkers anytime. In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig sparaig@ wrote: Gotta love that asphalt. And those trees in

[FairfieldLife] Re: Something fun at work today

2006-12-18 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had a business call this morning around how to restructure a presentation for a large orientation event. I had some ideas but didn't want to try to push my design through, so during the call I'd have an

[FairfieldLife] Re: Review: Windows Vista

2006-12-17 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- sparaig wrote: --- Vaj wrote: http://snipurl.com/1528h Several MacOS X features listed in that video were announced for Vista several years before they appeared in MacOS X. What this ^ tells me is, Windows isn't as elegant as Mac OS X, so it takes far longer to execute an idea.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Review: Windows Vista

2006-12-17 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- uns_tressor wrote: --- TurquoiseB wrote: What this ^ tells me is, Windows isn't as elegant as Mac OS X, so it takes far longer to execute an idea. Actually, that is *exactly* what you should infer. Mac OSX was built on top of an already-functional, already-elegant

[FairfieldLife] Re: Thank you for this group

2006-12-09 Thread Patrick Gillam
Greetings from New Hampshire, Maria. This is, shall we say, an eclectic gathering. Most contributors have long experience with Maharishi's Transcendental Meditation technique, but many have taken up other practices. Some of the former TMers say it was great, important and valuable. Others

[FairfieldLife] Purification and moral behavior

2006-12-09 Thread Patrick Gillam
There was some talk in a recent thread about physical purification and enlightenment. Perhaps related, here's a discussion of physical cleanliness and moral behavior. http://tinyurl.com/yhchgp From Sunday's New York Times: Virtually every culture and religion draws a link between moral and

[FairfieldLife] Wisdom of elders (was Re: David Lynch on 9-11)

2006-12-07 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- authfriend wrote: --- jim_flanegin wrote: I enjoy the effortless wisdom that older (everything's relative, right?) people have. Being around for that long, they just *know* stuff, and they don't mind sharing it. Tremendously underused resource in this society. Good book

[FairfieldLife] TM in GCP/EGG Update 4 December 2006

2006-12-04 Thread Patrick Gillam
A couple of recent events in the formal series are noteworthy: We decided to assess the Super Radiance Yogic Flying program organized by the Transcentental Meditation organization in August and September as a formal event and found a -2.5 sigma effect. The result is consistent with the

[FairfieldLife] Re: George Bush: Graciousness and compassion personified

2006-11-30 Thread Patrick Gillam
I love The Onion's take on Kerry's comedic skills, as spoofed in the president's weekly radio address for that week: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/54890 --- Peter wrote: even Bill Don't I look pretty O'Reilly clearly saw it as a blown joke.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Three things I heard

2006-11-05 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis wrote: A few years ago my wife and I were mentoring a Toastmaster Club at the Maximim Security Prison in Fort Madison. ...This man was in for life for a series of brutal rapes. Tom No chance his name is John Knox, is there? Black guy, would be about 50

[FairfieldLife] Re: HBO Voting Machines Documentary Tonight

2006-11-04 Thread Patrick Gillam
I enjoyed reading Dilbert creator Scott Adams' observations on electronic voting. http://tinyurl.com/v3pun An excerpt: I think about the history of ATMs when I hear all the nervous Nellies wetting their pants over electronic voting machines. I believe those worries are totally misplaced.

[FairfieldLife] Rural driving (was Re: Hey Mainstream...)

2006-11-04 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- TurquoiseB wrote: --- llundrub wrote: People is Vermont all drive the speed limit to the very mph. It's crazy. Same in Colorado. But there, if you're on a two-lane Interstate and they are going the exact speed limit and you try to pass them, they pull over into your lane to keep

[FairfieldLife] Three things I heard

2006-11-04 Thread Patrick Gillam
1. A Fairfield friend and former MIU classmate whom I admire for his level-headedness thinks this latest round of activity in Fairfield and Vedic City is the real thing. I really think this is the center of the universe, he said. I hope for the sake of his business he's right. (He develops

[FairfieldLife] Re: Three things I heard

2006-11-04 Thread Patrick Gillam
@ wrote: Patrick Gillam wrote: snip 2. Another Fairfield friend and jyotishi says Maharishi cleverly timed the arrival of the pundits to coincide with major planetary transitions that of themselves will bring noticeable changes. Saturn just transited into Scorpio, which

[FairfieldLife] Re: Three things I heard

2006-11-04 Thread Patrick Gillam
Comments interleaved below. --- Vaj wrote: Is it possible your chiropractor is biased against TM? For example, could he be from a religion that finds the use of Hinduism offensive or verboten? He's not affiliated with any religion per se, but he attributes all his prescriptions and

[FairfieldLife] Re: Three things I heard

2006-11-04 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- sparaig wrote: My doctor said last year TM had a negative two aspect, but lately the price of practice is going up - the mantras are taking more from their users. U...Yeah. And he knows this... how? I didn't ask. I'll quiz him next time, if the time permits. This level of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Three things I heard

2006-11-04 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- shukra69 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The current planetary changes would be bad for America as shown by the highly respected Grimes America chart. What is the Grimes America chart? I'd like to be among those respecting it. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Three things I heard

2006-11-04 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- Vaj wrote: if the elements are balanced, you will experience less issues with imbalances arising from your meditation practice: any meditation practice. Understood. It makes sense. That's why I do asanas before my morning meditation; to skip them is to have a crappy meditation.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Who is this MIUer?

2006-10-23 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- curtisdeltablues wrote: Bill was a very sunny, friendly guy. He did have some problem with his leg but it didn't stop him from having a hot girlfriend. (these are the details that I would remember!) Willy Mathis (sp?) was sunny guy who apparently made a point of staying out of the MIU

[FairfieldLife] Vista (was Re: Fwd: A PROGRESS REPORT)

2006-10-15 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- Vaj wrote: That's not to ignore that there are numerous features I like in XP that I'd also like to see transferred on OS X. Same here. In the end, though, I guess I dislike Windows because it's butt-ugly, and I like Apple because it's so well designed. If I'm going to spend my day

[FairfieldLife] Vista (was Re: Fwd: A PROGRESS REPORT)

2006-10-14 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- Vaj wrote: I suspect with the advent of Vista, you'll see huge numbers of people coming back to the Mac OS Vaj, what makes you say this? ^ Just curious. - a happy Macintosh user forced to use Windows at the office To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to:

[FairfieldLife] Re: cosmic ripples

2006-10-09 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- off_world_beings wrote: Stephen Hawkings recently denounced the theory that made him famous 20 years ago. What theory was that? To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups

[FairfieldLife] String theory (was Re: cosmic ripples)

2006-10-09 Thread Patrick Gillam
You physics buffs might enjoy a review of two books about string theory in a recent New Yorker. I believe the books have been reviewed elsewhere, making this post superfluous, but in case not, here you go: http://tinyurl.com/k77hc Two members of the string-theory generation have come

[FairfieldLife] Re: For Curtis

2006-10-08 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- curtisdeltablues wrote: I had never heard Southern Culture on the Skids, thanks. ...I knew Tim from my MIU class. What - one of the musicians is a 'ru? To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This

[FairfieldLife] Display ad: Yogic Flyers - America Needs You

2006-10-07 Thread Patrick Gillam
As I wadded up pages of the Boston Globe of Wednesday, October 4, to make a fire, I saw the advertisement in the upper right corner of page A11: (photo) (six men hopping in the air) (headline) Yogic Flyers - America Needs You. (body copy) To crown the Nation with

[FairfieldLife] Re: Display ad: Yogic Flyers - America Needs You

2006-10-07 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- Rick Archer rote: Gillam wrote: I wonder what kind of response they're getting. Rick, do you know anyone who would know? You could call the number in the ads and ask them. The ad has two URLs, but no phone number. To be honest, I don't expect anyone knows how effective the

[FairfieldLife] Re: For Curtis

2006-10-07 Thread Patrick Gillam
Curtis, if you have a thing for Little Debbie, you might want to add Camel Walk to your repertoire. You know it? By Southern Culture on the Skids? opening line: Baby, will you eat that there snack cracker in your special outfit for me, please? P.S. Back in the day, Fairfield entrepreneur

[FairfieldLife] Maharishi bowing out?

2006-10-02 Thread Patrick Gillam
Is this a swan song? I just read this from John Hagelin: Last night, Maharishi addressed America and handed over responsibility for completing this phase transition to 'the leaders of the movement.' By that, Maharishi meant you and me—all of us. Here's the full text: WE ARE RESPONSIBLE NOW

[FairfieldLife] Re: Foley would have been better off having sex with the page...

2006-10-02 Thread Patrick Gillam
Seen this yet, from the New York Times? Mr. Foley was a big supporter of President Clinton's impeachment. Part of his thing was, `What do we tell the children?' recalls the longtime Clinton aide Paul Begala. Apparently, we'll tell them in a sexually explicit e-mail. http://tinyurl.com/g9dsd

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amazon.com: The Maharishi Effect: A Personal Journey Through the Movement That Transformed American Spirituality: Books: Geoff Gilpin

2006-10-01 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- Peter wrote: Is this one of the Gilpin's from Iowa City whose family ran a paint store up there? --- Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or http://tinyurl.com/jal3q I asked the same question some time back, and the answer was no. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL

[FairfieldLife] Re: Gas prices

2006-09-24 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- shempmcgurk wrote: Anything by Thomas Learsy: http://tinyurl.com/hjvlv Which explains gullible_fool's citation of futures trading... Thanks. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!'

[FairfieldLife] Islamofascism? Or Islamomarxism?

2006-09-24 Thread Patrick Gillam
For the politics junkies in the room, I found this interesting. It's from a short interview with UK historian Niall Ferguson: IDEAS: How do you understand radical Islamism? Is it, as some say, the successor to Marxism? FERGUSON: It is. The great category error of our time is to equate radical

[FairfieldLife] Re: Gas prices

2006-09-24 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- authfriend wrote: --- nablus108 wrote: Judy, is this relevant on a spiritual board ? Um, this was a response to Shemp. Ask him. Also, nablus, the usual rules about staying on topic don't apply here. We talk about whatever we want. That's why I asked about gas prices here. As you

[FairfieldLife] Gas prices

2006-09-23 Thread Patrick Gillam
Hey, has anybody here read a good explanation for falling gasoline prices in the United States? I don't see how supply is any higher or demand any lower, which would be the purest explanations. Other explanations include superradiance and a conspiracy to re-elect Republicans, but I'd prefer

[FairfieldLife] Re: Gas prices

2006-09-23 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- at_man_and_brahman wrote: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14891597/ --- Gillam wrote: I don't see how supply is any higher or demand any lower, which would be the purest explanations. Okay, now I see. Thanks! To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Gas prices

2006-09-23 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- sparaig wrote: It's future's trading all the way down... ; - ) To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Intellect

2006-09-19 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- Michael Dean Goodman wrote: heart has a feeling - an attraction or repulsion - then the whole rest of the individuality (the intellect, and its servants, the mind and senses) go out and FIND evidence to support, to validate, that belief. Our photography teacher at MIU, whose name

[FairfieldLife] Re: Intellect

2006-09-19 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- Michael Dean Goodman wrote: heart has a feeling - an attraction or repulsion - then the whole rest of the individuality (the intellect, and its servants, the mind and senses) go out and FIND evidence to support, to validate, that belief. Our photography teacher at MIU, whose name

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi supports the Republicans

2006-09-17 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- MDixon wrote: In a message dated 9/16/06 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I heard on the radio yesterday that public support for George W. Bush and the Republican Party is trending up, thanks in part to falling gasoline prices. When I heard that, I thought of all those rosy Age of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Intellect

2006-09-17 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- Peter wrote: Has anyone had a clear experience of ritam bhara pragya? I ask because I would love to hear about your experience. I've only had one clear experience of rhitam bhara pragya (RBP) and that was before I started TM. Peter, yesterday evening, after we had

[FairfieldLife] Re: Intellect

2006-09-16 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- Peter wrote: Has anyone had a clear experience of ritam bhara pragya? I ask because I would love to hear about your experience. I've only had one clear experience of rhitam bhara pragya (RBP) and that was before I started TM. I only knew what it was several years later on TTC when MMY

[FairfieldLife] Re: Intellect

2006-09-16 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- Peter wrote: Ritam bhara pragya The intent to know something gives rise to the immediate fulfillment of that intent clearly and completely. I haven't had clear, diagram-like knowledge, but I certainly have had answers come upon asking a question. Once I asked a co-worker how a

[FairfieldLife] Maharishi supports the Republicans

2006-09-16 Thread Patrick Gillam
I heard on the radio yesterday that public support for George W. Bush and the Republican Party is trending up, thanks in part to falling gasoline prices. When I heard that, I thought of all those rosy Age of Enlightenment News reports from the Global Country of World Peace, crediting TM

[FairfieldLife] Re: Back to the Domes, 2001

2006-09-13 Thread Patrick Gillam
Comments interleaved below. --- sparaig wrote: --- dhamiltony2k5 wrote: --- Patrick wrote: What is the story on 'rus who could go to the domes, but don't? ... Do people still believe that superradiance can make a difference? Apparently they notice how the town feels,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Back to the Domes, 2001

2006-09-12 Thread Patrick Gillam
What is the story on 'rus who could go to the domes, but don't? Does any one reason stand out? Are there enough people to make a difference in the dome numbers, or have most canned their TM-Sidhi programs? Do people still believe that superradiance can make a difference? An individual's

[FairfieldLife] GCP/EGG Update, Sept. 8, 2006

2006-09-10 Thread Patrick Gillam
Does anyone here get Roger Nelson's periodic email updates? He's the Princeton researcher into collective consciousness. His recent email mentioned a number of organizations readers here may find interesting, such as The Society for Scientific Exploration, which Nelson says stretches the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mischievous?

2006-09-09 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Using simplified navajo-code) Sovelsin ideaa, jonka sain tokavikasta Shiva-suutra'sta (naasikaantar-madhya-saMyamaat...etc) muihin TM-siddhi- suutr'iin Whoa, what a difference it did make! :0 All right,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ultimate car commercial

2006-08-31 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- Peter wrote: --- Alex Stanley wrote: There's also the Rube Goldberg Honda commercial: http://tinyurl.com/leh5z I remember reading an article about that commercial when it first came out, and it was also not CGI. They just did take after take after take, for hours on

[FairfieldLife] Geeky question

2006-08-25 Thread Patrick Gillam
Is there an IT industry term for software that enables other applications to work together more successfully? For example, let's say you want to file Outlook email in a job folder with other documents related to a given project. Or say you want to compare computer-aided drawings produced by

[FairfieldLife] FISA (was Re: Something fishy)

2006-08-20 Thread Patrick Gillam
? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Patrick Gillam jpgillam@ wrote: --- authfriend wrote: --- Gillam wrote: What do the Bushies have against getting a court order under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance

[FairfieldLife] FISA (was Re: Something fishy)

2006-08-20 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- authfriend wrote: --- Peter wrote: I wished someone had asked Gonzales why, if the executive branch found FISA to be inadequate in combating terrorism, they did not address this problem to the legislative branch and seek modifications to FISA or a wholey new court adequate to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Something fishy about alleged Jonbenet murderer

2006-08-20 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- MDixon wrote: Presidents always have to follow the law. However the question is, is there any wiggle room in that law under extraordinary circumstances such as war. The presidential legal teams think there is. Remember Lincoln suspended Habius corpus, shut down the Maryland

[FairfieldLife] Re: Well, shaantiH!

2006-08-20 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- Rick Archer wrote: It may be someone¹s karma to suffer, but we don¹t have to choose to deliver it to them. On the contrary, we can make it our karma to relieve them of suffering. One of my big frustrations has been my seeming inability to refrain from kicking people bearing kick me

[FairfieldLife] FISA (was Re: Something fishy)

2006-08-19 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- authfriend wrote: --- Gillam wrote: What do the Bushies have against getting a court order under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act? In all the kerfuffle, I've yet to hear why they don't want to follow the process already set up for such stuff. They claim it takes

[FairfieldLife] Re: Train Noise in Fairfield

2006-08-18 Thread Patrick Gillam
From: Bill Blackmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 16:41:28 -0500 A couple of years ago (give or take a little) some local residents asked the City Council to consider a solution that would have allowed trains to pass through Ff. without honking. On a few evenings a while

[FairfieldLife] FISA (was Re: Something fishy)

2006-08-18 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- authfriend wrote: *Nobody* is against wiretapping suspected terrorists, domestic or otherwise. What do the Bushies have against getting a court order under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act? In all the kerfuffle, I've yet to hear why they don't want to follow the process

[FairfieldLife] Re: Rashtra Gita

2006-08-16 Thread Patrick Gillam
I like that Schweizer Psalm, too. Anybody know what that is? The iTunes Music Store turned up nothing under that name. --- authfriend wrote: --- bob_brigante wrote: http://www.fairtalk.com/RashtraGita/ Whoa! I had to stop listening after a minute; it was spacing me right out.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hoi Rick Archer,,, Past Life Regression.???

2006-08-07 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- Peter wrote: SSRS has a procedure called the Eternity Process that is done on a one to one basis with someone trained by him in the process. You experientially allow yourself to unstress specific samskaras from past lives. I did it about 2 years ago. Is this a widely available,

[FairfieldLife] Re: BREATHTAKING EXPERIENCES!

2006-08-03 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- Ingegerd wrote: I know TM-Teachers that really want to participate the Course, and has never touched any other spiritual leader, than MMY. But they can not go, because they have to be accepted by the national Course Office, and to sign a stupid Agreement Form with the TMO, which they

[FairfieldLife] Re: Interesting Doonesbury

2006-07-29 Thread Patrick Gillam
It's interesting to me that this forum shows no consensus as to whether superradiance works. Most of us have fond memories of big courses. Most of us thought at one time superradiance was valid. I've run across variations of the theory outside the TM organization. Yet the sense of the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Interesting Doonesbury

2006-07-29 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- ITurquoiseB wrote: My take on superradiance and the ME would have to be, I don't know. ... I think that there is a possibility that a group of people sitting together practicing their normal meditation technique might generate a similar energy, and effect -- whatever it is. I could

[FairfieldLife] UNH (ws Re: First Men on Moon)

2006-07-29 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was attending the University of New Hampshire in Durham, NH. What brought you to UNH, Peter? - Patrick in New Hampshire To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ho'oponopono

2006-07-27 Thread Patrick Gillam
Hey Peter, how about testing this in your practice? Seriously. ---Peter wrote: Yes, and the flying sutra allows us to gently lift-off and fly through the air with the secondary effect of purifying world consciousness. --- Rory Goff wrote: HO'OPONOPONO by Joe Vitale Two years

[FairfieldLife] Re: Invincible America Course News

2006-07-26 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- Peter wrote: As I've mentioned before, I think TM people will join SSRS in droves after MMY drops the body. Do the Art of Living people have these big courses the way the TMO does? My wife and daughter visited Amma in Boston last week. Had a great time in the bazaar. Consulted a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Dibs

2006-07-25 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- new.morning wrote: John Lennon was right: Well the Ukraine girls really knock me out They leave the west behind Paul sings it, so my guess is Paul wrote it. I believe that's the way it worked. Although the wit is certainly more Lennonesque than McCartneyesque. Minor quibble.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Dibs

2006-07-25 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- Paul Mason wrote: Yeah, Paul McCarney wrote 'Back in the USSR' but as Beachboy Mike Love claims to have contributed to the lyrics I figure it was more of a collaboration than The Beatles 'doing' the Beachboys. Even better! It explains a lot. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL

[FairfieldLife] Re: Interesting phenomena on thread : Flying vs. Hopping

2006-07-25 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- Alex Stanley wrote: Lifts that involve a lot of the large muscle groups have that effect. For me, it's deadlifts; they are *such* a rush. Ahnold said somewhere that lifting weights made him feel as if he's coming (his word). I guess there'd be some positive reinforcement to work out if

[FairfieldLife] Re: ' Dr. Hagelin´s rally/ Maharishis strategy...' Who's Sorry Now?'

2006-07-25 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- Robert Gimbel wrote: A song comes to mind: By » WILLIE NELSON » Who's Sorry Now? I guess it's my day to be the composer cop. It's important to me that writers get credit. Who's Sorry Now was a hit in the Big Band era composed by Bert Kalmar, Ted Synder and Harry Ruby. Willie

[FairfieldLife] Re: Thin soup and engaging in non-stop vandalism, on FFL?

2006-07-24 Thread Patrick Gillam
Responses interleaved below. --- new.morning wrote: Many TMers, most Ru residents of FF -- past and present - are or have been, at times, effected by myths and the lack of critical thinking. ... Guilty as charged. Lincoln is esteemed highly -- yet he plunged the nation into a war of

[FairfieldLife] Martyrs (was Re: Voodoo TM or TM Program)

2006-07-17 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- curtisdeltablues wrote: I agree with your point that blending crazy beliefs and explosives takes the whole discussion out of the theoretical and into the world of holy shit! --- Dave bikemaster@ wrote: with people strapping on bombs and blowing themselves up in coffee houses

[FairfieldLife] Re: America's first war

2006-07-15 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- shempmcgurk wrote: Did you know that fighting Muslims is a long established tradition of the USA? Indeed, the very first war America engaged in -- initiated not by Congress but by Thomas Jefferson who sent the Marines -- was against a Muslim nation: the Ottoman Empire. I believe the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Stabbed in the Back!

2006-07-14 Thread Patrick Gillam
It's interesting to see the victim's mindset revealed in people who present themselves as staunch and courageous. In particular I appreciated the appraisal of the POW-MIA flags, which have always given me the willies. Thanks for the link. --- authfriend wrote: Terrific article from the

[FairfieldLife] Re: For any of us who think that war is noble, or necessary...

2006-07-13 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- MDixon6569 wrote: I wonder if Poland ever thought war was necessary. The no appeasement camp always cites Hitler and 1939 as the reason why we shouldn't appease aggressive dictators, but that school of thought neglects the true cause of World War II, which was World War I. And the

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