[FairfieldLife] Re: Regulations and Restrictions

2005-12-13 Thread Patrick Gillam
From Sadguru Sookti Sangraha, Sri Ganapathi Sachchidananda Swamiji Naama Sankeertan, Pooja, Homa, reading of the scriptures, Pranaayama, Yogasanaas etc. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister wrote: Whew! If one ain't sure where to place long (diirgha) vowels, one

[FairfieldLife] Re: A perspective on Tom Pall

2005-12-11 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- drpetersutphen wrote: This is what is amazing about Tom P. On one hand he can post these incredibly racist and antisemetic posts, but then he can act with great compassion towards others. In fact Rick Archer posted a comment about Tom bringing an African American person to see Amma. So,

[FairfieldLife] Re: HaHo9?

2005-12-10 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is Hanuman Hoffman Nine a (former) TMer? Hanuman, you've had some time to answer, but I see no reply. In your silence I'll respond for you, if I may. The answer is Yes! And I imagine the former part applies.

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Emotional Healing'

2005-12-09 Thread Patrick Gillam
What do you guys think is the connection between the individual and collective consciousness? I've often felt that my individual evolution is in thrall to the collective, just as my income usually depends on the larger economy. Your remarks below consider only individual power, independent

[FairfieldLife] Re: Yagna By Choice. It Works

2005-12-09 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- Rick Archer wrote: A friend of mine told me a very funny story about being called up in front of his high school class to speak when he happened to have an erection. At what point in high school does a male *not* have an erection? Yahoo! Groups Sponsor

[FairfieldLife] Men and women (was Re: Yagna By Choice)

2005-12-08 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- TurquoiseB wrote: I find the concept of women thinking of a man as a good catch because of his income more offensive than any of the racist epithets attributed here to Tom. You're offended by women who think of finding a good catch, or offended by the person who looks upon women in

[FairfieldLife] Re: President of Iran/Ramakrishna

2005-12-08 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- lurkernomore wrote: Don't you hate it when the President of Iran, (see today's Drudge Report), kinda looks like a young Ramakrishna. Or check this out: babyfaced Taliban men, some of them looking for all the world like the dearest souls you'd want to meet: http://tinyurl.com/ahd23

[FairfieldLife] Re: Dark night of the soul described

2005-12-04 Thread Patrick Gillam
Joseph Campbell discusses the link between mental illness and spiritual journeys in Schizophrenia, the Inward Journey, a chapter in _Myths To Live By_. Another person to comment on this topic would be Dr. Pete. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ---

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hurdy Gurdy Man revealed

2005-12-01 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- Vaj wrote: the most spiritual of the Beatles, George, put it plainly in his own autobiography when he said that TM was just too simplistic. After all, he was interested in enlightenment. So he dumped it as a method and moved on to something better. What did George next embrace

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hurdy Gurdy Man revealed

2005-11-30 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Patrick Gillam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Brahman wrote: in today's New York Times is a book review of the newly-released autobiography of Donovan

[FairfieldLife] Re: ? for Judy

2005-11-29 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- lurkernomore wrote: She said there is no fuck in vanilla. I said, Maam, that's what I've been trying to tell you. There is no FUCKINVANILLA. You totally had me going, Lurkman. Well done. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hurdy Gurdy Man revealed

2005-11-29 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- Brahman wrote: in today's New York Times is a book review of the newly-released autobiography of Donovan, the popular 60's singer/song-writer. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/28/books/28masl.html Interesting line from the review: [Donovan] adds his version of what has turned out to be

[FairfieldLife] Re: ? for Judy

2005-11-25 Thread Patrick Gillam
Replies interleaved below. --- Gillam wrote: Just wondering, Judy, would you be interested in a live, in-person satsang at any venue? Judy wrote: Do you mean satsang as in sit around informally with spiritual compatriots and yakking about experiences and stuff? Or do you mean a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Rick, you can post this from a friend'

2005-11-16 Thread Patrick Gillam
*** Swami G has a website: http://kundalinisupport.com/ this isn't like signing up for a new course . a new college class.. Unfortunately this is how sadhakas are viewing Diksha and entering a path . oh it's just another type of learning and more is better ... No it

[FairfieldLife] Re: Diksha report from Texas

2005-11-16 Thread Patrick Gillam
That night I woke up with my heart chakra feeling like it was in a stainless steel vice. Did some sedona and other work around it and it released. One can also find relief by reading the taos. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to

[FairfieldLife] Re: vedic city election speculation

2005-11-09 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- George DeForest wrote: i read in todays FF Ledger, a whopping 30 ppl cast their votes in Maharishi Vedic City. in an official climate of damn democracy, i guess that makes them the rebel activists? George, you raise in interesting question. Indeed, why does Maharishi Vedic City have

[FairfieldLife] Re: Letter from Farrokh

2005-11-02 Thread Patrick Gillam
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 08:26:14 -0500 To: Raja Michael Dillbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Farrokh Ruffina Anklesaria [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Your activities You and your cohorts should not bother to call us unless you have been specifically instructed by Maharishiji to do so.

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM Introduction

2005-11-01 Thread Patrick Gillam
Comments interleaved below. An anonymous TM teacher wrote: the $2,500 course fee is infinitesimally small in comparison to what you'll get from regular practice of Transcendental Meditation. I tell you truthfully that you can't begin to even imagine it! Can't imagine what? How

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi on Government, was: Dome total numbers

2005-10-24 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The reason [Maharishi] doesn't like democracies is that he doesn't consider the common man qualified to have a say in governmental policy. He thinks that individuals should just concern themselves with their

[FairfieldLife] Re: Untimely Deaths Man in the fire

2005-10-17 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- hanumanhoffman9 wrote: In a previous post it was mentioned about a from Ritam Corp. who fell into a fire. That man was Steven Hauring. One of the sweetest men ever. This was at the Cedar Creek Lodge, a number of men who had enjoyed the Sterling Men's weekend were participating in a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Untimely Deaths

2005-10-12 Thread Patrick Gillam
Ed Goldfinger was felled by heart failure in the mid-90s or so. He was what, 50? Was Ed Tarabilda in his 50s? Sandy Kopff was 47 when her car slid into an oncoming truck between Fairfield and Ottumwa. I'm told the accident was one she was trying to avoid by virtue of having been warned by a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Untimely Deaths

2005-10-12 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- Peter Sutphen wrote: --- Patrick Gillam wrote: Sandy Kopff was 47 when her car slid into an oncoming truck between Fairfield and Ottumwa. I'm told the accident was one she was trying to avoid by virtue of having been warned by a jyotishi. She had been in a car accident a few

[FairfieldLife] Re: Proclaiming one's enlightenment

2005-10-12 Thread Patrick Gillam
When I read this yesterday I intended to post it as its own thread, but it seems apt here. This is the opening to Chapter Seven of _How Green Was My Valley_, by Richard Llewellyn, first published in 1939. The narrator, Huw, had a terrible mishap the night before. I woke up in the bed

[FairfieldLife] David Lynch on public radio

2005-09-26 Thread Patrick Gillam
I just heard Director David Lynch is going to talk about his quest to teach Transcendental Meditation in the schools today on Here and Now, a program produced by WBUR in Boston. I imagine it'll be at the end of the hour-long program. In Iowa, Here and Now broadcasts over KUNI at 90.9FM from

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Devils Weed - Now Alcohol

2005-09-22 Thread Patrick Gillam
-wheat, Whole Earth types. The school my kids attend, on the other hand, is in its early 30s, and attracts a lot of mainstreamers. Perhaps the older Rama organization attracted young people seeking parent symbols. - Patrick Gillam Yahoo! Groups Sponsor

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Devils Weed - Now Alcohol

2005-09-22 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- mark meredith wrote: TM true believers are very different from christian TBs in terms of the surface beliefs but I feel the underlying emotional motivations for belonging to such groups are very similar. I used to feel a kinship with the fundies, and was amused by the similarity in our

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Devils Weed - Now Alcohol

2005-09-22 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Patrick Gillam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- mark meredith wrote: TM true believers are very different from christian TBs in terms of the surface beliefs but I feel

[FairfieldLife] Re: Yagna by Choice -- They knew all about me and my life

2005-09-17 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- Peter wrote: Tom, if you aren't reading anything on this newsgroup, then why are you posting on it? I, for one, had expressed interest in how his yagyas were working. I believe a few others also asked to be kept informed. - Patrick Gillam Yahoo! Groups

[FairfieldLife] Founders Day events - no badges needed

2005-09-16 Thread Patrick Gillam
Anyone going to these events? I'd be interested to read a report. Friday Lunch - still a few seats available Founders Day Alumni Reunion Event Luncheon! Friday afternoon from around 12:00 - 1:15 p.m. Join us for lunch at Annapurna (Student Union) and share

[FairfieldLife] Re: Objectification and De-objectification of Women

2005-09-15 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- TurquoiseB wrote: When I first meet a woman I find myself attracted to, it is her *aura* that attracts me. ... I guess I'm just an aura lecher. :-) Does this lead to aural sex? Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your

[FairfieldLife] Re: FFL Guidelines

2005-09-15 Thread Patrick Gillam
listmembers rise up in a social action this way. That in itself may be adequate feedback as to what degree of discord this community will tolerate. Ah'm agin bannings. They smack of the very elitism that so many of us disdain about the TMO. - Patrick Gillam Yahoo

[FairfieldLife] Re: Objectification and De-objectification of Women

2005-09-14 Thread Patrick Gillam
There's a school of thought which holds that all of life in ignorance is yearning for healing, for wholeness. I meant the phrase healing power of awareness in that sense. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Patrick

[FairfieldLife] Re: Objectification and De-objectification of Women

2005-09-14 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Patrick Gillam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- sparaig wrote: It is the distortion of male- female relationships that is the problem. Well, a lot of ordinary television

[FairfieldLife] Course in Miracles worldview (was Re: Objectification)

2005-09-14 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- TurquoiseB wrote: --- Patrick Gillam wrote: You know how SCI sees creation in layers? In the Course, these are the layers, from the surface to the core: - Nice guy, trying to get by, impinged upon by circumstances. - Raging maniac angry at the world - Scheming ego, looking

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye Mom.

2005-09-14 Thread Patrick Gillam
mother. Now I see where your writing talent comes from. But can you cook? Please accept my condolences. - Patrick Gillam Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http

[FairfieldLife] Re: Geopolitical thoughts...

2005-09-14 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, markmeredith2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Cliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: He definitely sells his point of view - quite expensively, in fact. But that's what people with good insights (or bad ones) do. It's up to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Geopolitical thoughts... redux

2005-09-14 Thread Patrick Gillam
Your points below, Mark, get a thorough treatment in Robert Merry's _Sands of Empire_, which I posted some remarks about some weeks ago. If you can spare the time, you might enjoy Merry's summary of two competing paradigms, the Idea of Progress vs. the Cycles of History. - Patrick Gillam

[FairfieldLife] Re: Objectification and De-objectification of Women

2005-09-14 Thread Patrick Gillam
the evils of strip clubs: it depends on what you bring to it. Criminy. With all my hammering of personal responsibility, I sound like a conservative. - Patrick Gillam www.itellyousell.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your

[FairfieldLife] Re: Objectification and De-objectification of Women

2005-09-14 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- jyouells2000 wrote: - Patrick Gillam www.itellyousell.com Like the website! Thanks, John. Send me some clients and I'll leave you alone around here. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make

[FairfieldLife] Objectification vs. exploitation (was Re: Nakedness Before God)

2005-09-13 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Patrick Gillam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know a guy who worked for a while at a Wal-Mart distribution center in Raymond, New Hampshire. ... My friend was reviewed periodically

[FairfieldLife] Objectification vs. exploitation (was Re: Nakedness Before God)

2005-09-13 Thread Patrick Gillam
work, which is highly emotional, and ordinary labor, which is mostly physical. Just intellectual games, but engaging. - Patrick Gillam Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http

[FairfieldLife] Re: Objectification and De-objectification of Women

2005-09-13 Thread Patrick Gillam
I'm liberal with the tips. Is this relationship distorted? - Patrick Gillam Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM

[FairfieldLife] Re: Objectification and De-objectification of Women

2005-09-13 Thread Patrick Gillam
. Others are saying Christ can operate in a strip club, no problem. That's what I'm taking away, anyway -- I know how people hate to have words put in their mouths. If I got it wrong, though, forgive me. I don't mean to attack you. Honest! - Patrick Gillam Yahoo

[FairfieldLife] Bush radio addresses at theonion.com

2005-09-13 Thread Patrick Gillam
I'm probably way behind the curve on this one, but have people listened to these satires of the president's weekly radio addresses? http://www.theonion.com/content/radioaddress I find them risible, to say the least. - Patrick Gillam Yahoo! Groups Sponsor

[FairfieldLife] Re: More Chopra (The Dark Vs. The Light)

2005-09-12 Thread Patrick Gillam
(and I'm saying this to a guy who gives sex workshops), I'd be interested in reading what you have to say about the energies you've had to manage as a result of money and power. - Patrick Gillam Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your

[FairfieldLife] Re: More Chopra

2005-09-12 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/12/05 3:36 PM, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: He tried to BS the initiator who found him there, that he was there for his sake...as if to save him and other stray initiators. Felt to me as if there was some

[FairfieldLife] Re: More Chopra

2005-09-12 Thread Patrick Gillam
totally beyond anything your average real estate agent ever has to suffer. - Patrick Gillam Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB

[FairfieldLife] Kirk's okay (was Re: Nakedness Before God)

2005-09-12 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, vashtirama [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't gone back through enough posts yet to learn if Kirk was in New Orleans and if so, if he's ok? Vashti, Kirk posted this report: Saved Through Dzogchen A few months back I sought Dzogchen Protector practices

[FairfieldLife] Objectification vs. exploitation (was Re: Nakedness Before God)

2005-09-12 Thread Patrick Gillam
intend to keep. - Patrick Gillam --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you define what you mean by exploitation? Maybe its a semantic problem in my not being able to see the exploitive aspect of dancers. Is choice the key factor for you? So

[FairfieldLife] Another poem (was Re: what a snippy group)

2005-09-09 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you are not a relable source of information. Go back to Langley, you rakshasa poo-poo head! http://tinyurl.com/d4hoc Child Development, by Billy Collins As sure as prehistoric fish grew legs and sauntered off the

[FairfieldLife] Another poem (was Re: what a snippy group)

2005-09-09 Thread Patrick Gillam
stoned together. He was funny then, and he's funny now. :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Patrick Gillam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you are not a relable source of information. Go back

[FairfieldLife] Practical uses of flashing - for Tom Pall

2005-09-09 Thread Patrick Gillam
from the New York Times: Some holdouts seem intent on keeping alive the distinct and wild spirit of this city. In the French Quarter, Addie Hall and Zackery Bowen found a unusual way to make sure that police officers regularly patrolled their house. Ms. Hall, 28, a bartender, flashed her

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: [Transcendental_Meditation] Global Press Conference: Aug. 24, 2005

2005-09-09 Thread Patrick Gillam
the nephews be burning in hell or something? If they're not suffering, can we presume that (1) karma isn't instant, or (2) they didn't take the money? - Patrick Gillam Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: [Transcendental_Meditation] Global Press Conference: Aug. 24, 2005

2005-09-09 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Patrick Gillam Funny, but I've never consider the ethical or karmic ramifications of Maharishi's nephews skimming all that money for their own purposes. In Maharishi's universe

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: [Transcendental_Meditation] Global Press Conference: Aug. 24, 2005

2005-09-09 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- authfriend wrote: I suspect it's one of his quasi-gnomic statements I love this. Quasi-gnomic. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: [Transcendental_Meditation] Global Press Conference: Aug. 24, 2005

2005-09-09 Thread Patrick Gillam
and keep a generous vig for their trouble. This, or simple mismanagement, is what sent Earl Kaplan over the edge, if the posts here are to be believed. - Patrick Gillam Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make

[FairfieldLife] Re: Consciousness of pundits matters

2005-09-08 Thread Patrick Gillam
. But then I think of the civil contributors, and figure maybe there's hope. I suppose it take all sorts, but I don't like having to listen to it. Indeed, you do not have to listen to it. Bob. All contributors are identified. You can know from experience that Patrick Gillam has nothing to contribute

[FairfieldLife] Re: In Praise of Price-Gouging

2005-09-08 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shemp, you'll love this... Read the whole column at: http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/printjs20050907.shtml http://tinyurl.com/9jruh As long as we're discussing the merits of higher prices, Slate

[FairfieldLife] Re: Is Vastu really correct, or of value?

2005-09-06 Thread Patrick Gillam
. Are there not statistical means by which researchers can cull influences other than the variable being studied? For example, the superradiance research tried to filter out weather, seasonal cycles of crime and other factors that could have queered the data. - Patrick Gillam

[FairfieldLife] Re: The facts about 'The Maharishi' biography

2005-09-06 Thread Patrick Gillam
I've heard it was Mark Twain (who else?) who said writing is a great way to get rich and a terrible way to earn a living. - Patrick Gillam www.itellyousell.com --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Premanand Paul Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is a fallacy that there is usually much

[FairfieldLife] Re: Pundit housing for Katrina refugees?

2005-09-06 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I emailed a friend of mine up at MUM to ask whether he thought the 500 pundit rooms might be used for refugee housing. He said that all the

[FairfieldLife] Re: To set The Beatles' TM record straight

2005-09-05 Thread Patrick Gillam
Sadie file came into being, the Mia Farrow/ Maharishi story was an isolated incident I was inclined to dismiss. Now I've read enough to dismiss the Farrow incident not as unlikely, but as overkill. I've read enough that I don't need it. - Patrick Gillam --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com

[FairfieldLife] Re: To set The Beatles' TM record straight

2005-09-05 Thread Patrick Gillam
another's that the whole seventies sex scenario strikes me as extremely plausible. I've simply had a shift in what I'm willing to believe. - Patrick Gillam Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Greta Dissed by Two Ex-Presidents'

2005-09-05 Thread Patrick Gillam
. - Patrick Gillam Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Human Storm'/Refugees/Stream Across U.S.'

2005-09-05 Thread Patrick Gillam
, Rob, it would have been too obvious. As it is, very clever. - Patrick Gillam Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM

[FairfieldLife] Re: nature backlash?

2005-09-02 Thread Patrick Gillam
kind of hard for me to blame him for making awailable stuff that, in my heart, I wanted him to share. - Patrick Gillam Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com

[FairfieldLife] Re: nature backlash?

2005-09-02 Thread Patrick Gillam
that (1) you absolutely must have this latest thing (amrit, gems, a new house) if you are to make anything of your time on earth, and (2) it's gonna cost ya. Utlimately, my friends just walked away. --- Patrick Gillam wrote: Ii will say this: back in the day, there was a buzz among TM

[FairfieldLife] Re: nature backlash?

2005-09-02 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- shempmcgurk wrote: --- Patrick Gillam wrote: It's kind of hard for me to blame him for making awailable stuff that, in my heart, I wanted him to share. That would be true if you view MMY as a head waiter whose job it is to cater to your every whim. Or if I view myself

[FairfieldLife] Re: The destruction of New Orleans, the purification of A...

2005-09-02 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 9/1/05 7:40:18 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm not being coy here. I truly would like for one of you -- maybe both of you -- to explain how anti-war activities show hatred

[FairfieldLife] Re: Kalki and Jacques Uijen, the former national leader of the Dutch TM Movement

2005-09-02 Thread Patrick Gillam
What's this Living in Joy scene all about? Anybody here done this? Thanks. - Patrick Gillam --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, medwards520 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From a friend: My friend knows Joques well

[FairfieldLife] Re: The destruction of New Orleans, the purification of A...

2005-09-02 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 9/2/05 1:14:45 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I do believe that was during the Vietnam War, not the

[FairfieldLife] Re: The destruction of New Orleans, the purification of A...

2005-09-01 Thread Patrick Gillam
PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Patrick Gillam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

[FairfieldLife] Re: The destruction of New Orleans, the purification of A...

2005-09-01 Thread Patrick Gillam
. Bush 41 managed it by being a good manager. Clinton thrived on it, being who he is. As for Bush 43 (to get back at digging at W), I don't see the innate resources that would help him cope. - Patrick Gillam Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast

[FairfieldLife] Re: The destruction of New Orleans, the purification of A...

2005-09-01 Thread Patrick Gillam
and the military? Am I hearing you right? I can't tell if you're serious or just baiting Judy. - Patrick Gillam Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA

[FairfieldLife] Re: New Vastu Policy for TM courses

2005-08-31 Thread Patrick Gillam
of the purity of the teaching. And it embodies the sclerosis of TM orthodoxy. Thanks, Maharishi, for TM. I was lucky to get in on it when I did. - Patrick Gillam Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo

[FairfieldLife] Re: The destruction of New Orleans, the purification of America

2005-08-31 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- markmeredith wrote: TB christians find the thought of billions of people who believe differently being murdered by God spiritually inspiring. Makes me want to get one of those Betty Bowers bumper stickers that says, Flatter Jesus or he'll torture you in hell.

[FairfieldLife] Re: The destruction of New Orleans, the purification of America

2005-08-31 Thread Patrick Gillam
liberty *or* give me death with these people. It's give me liberty *and* give me death. - Patrick Gillam --- Tom Pall wrote: I detect that there is an embodiment of evil in New Orleans, ever since my first visit. Voodo, Santaria evil. Evil deeds piled up upon evil deads for centuries

[FairfieldLife] Re: New Vastu Policy for TM courses

2005-08-31 Thread Patrick Gillam
at the beginning and in the middle invariably disappoints at the end, as well. - Patrick Gillam Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB

[FairfieldLife] Re: The destruction of New Orleans, the purification of A...

2005-08-31 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- Rick Archer wrote: Are rescuers routinely chopping through all the roofs to see if anyone is in there? *All* the roofs? God help them. It can't be done. - Patrick Gillam Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo

[FairfieldLife] Re: New Vastu regs for TM instruction

2005-08-31 Thread Patrick Gillam
Jim, were Karen and Larry Slates involved in the Kansas City Capital project when you were there? I got to know them when I went to grad school at Mizzou. Never met anyone on the Capital project, though. Before my time. - Patrick Gillam --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin

[FairfieldLife] Re: Barry Wright's letter to the editor

2005-08-31 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- off_world_beings wrote: Maharishi has a technique that ANYONE (any layman or yogi) anywhere can practice. (*sigh*) If only anyone could learn. - Patrick Gillam Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups

[FairfieldLife] Re: Katrina, global warming and JFK, Jr.

2005-08-31 Thread Patrick Gillam
climatologist of Oregon has pointed out, so has the frequency of hailstorms in the U.S. (see Changnon and Changnon) and cyclones throughout the world (Gulev, et al.). Thanks for this perspective, Shemp. Always glad to hear from the science crowd. - Patrick Gillam Yahoo

[FairfieldLife] Re: Letter I'm going to submit to the editor of the Fairfield Ledger

2005-08-30 Thread Patrick Gillam
Very good, Rick! I'm sure you've spoken for a lot of people -- many of whom will tell you so in the days after publication. Isn't it funny how fulfilling it is to see one's own feelings expressed by good writers and speakers? - Patrick Gillam --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick

[FairfieldLife] Kirk (was Re: VERY bad news re Katrina)

2005-08-29 Thread Patrick Gillam
. The address was kirk underscore bernhardt at cox dot net. - Patrick Gillam Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM

[FairfieldLife] Re: Letter I'm going to submit to the editor of the Fairfield Ledger

2005-08-29 Thread Patrick Gillam
Rick, have you revised your letter yet again? I'm curious to see where it's headed. - Patrick Gillam --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nice letter. Much more diplomatic than I tend to be. Also, it implies that I am still part of the TM movement, and I

[FairfieldLife] Re: Letter I'm going to submit to the editor of the Fairfield Ledger

2005-08-29 Thread Patrick Gillam
people. Good luck, and thanks for entering the fray. - Patrick Gillam --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 8/29/05 1:27 PM, Patrick Gillam at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rick, have you revised your letter yet again? I'm curious to see where it's

[FairfieldLife] Rumor check

2005-08-27 Thread Patrick Gillam
Is anyone following Maharishi's weekly conferences? I'm told Maharishi said recently that, by 2011, only one billion people would be living on the planet in a survival-of-the- fittest situation. - Patrick Gillam Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get

[FairfieldLife] Re: Rumor check

2005-08-27 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- Patrick Gillam wrote: Is anyone following Maharishi's weekly conferences? I'm told Maharishi said recently that, by 2011, only one billion people would be living on the planet in a survival-of-the-fittest situation. Peter wrote: You got a problem with 'dat? Not at all! Bring

[FairfieldLife] Re: Darshan, was Vlodrop report

2005-08-27 Thread Patrick Gillam
the wakefulness in the room, and there's darshan that's about shakti, or energy. Different things? - Patrick Gillam Vaj wrote: It's been interesting to watch this whole idea of darshan as something important develop. From my perspective, it's largely an artifact of spiritual materialism and one

[FairfieldLife] Reconstructing the World

2005-08-26 Thread Patrick Gillam
Today I received the message below from Jennine Fellmer, Maharishi University of Management director of expansion. Main points: - This is year 1,955,855,107. - World leaders are deaf to Maharishi's message because they've subjected themselves to drugs, alcohol, poisonous foods and

[FairfieldLife] Re: In Search of the Spiritual

2005-08-23 Thread Patrick Gillam
and spirituality. In this celebrity-soaked culture, God is the ultimate star. - Patrick Gillam Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA

[FairfieldLife] Re: Defending the Status Quo

2005-08-23 Thread Patrick Gillam
authfriend wrote: With such an overwhelmingly major change on the horizon, whose outcome none of us can predict, why not bide our time and withhold judgment? Sounds like a prescription for living one's entire life. - PJG Yahoo! Groups Sponsor

[FairfieldLife] Re: Defending the Status Quo

2005-08-23 Thread Patrick Gillam
Comments below. authfriend wrote: With such an overwhelmingly major change on the horizon, whose outcome none of us can predict, why not bide our time and withhold judgment? --- Patrick Gillam wrote Sounds like a prescription for living one's entire life. --- TurquoiseB

[FairfieldLife] Re: Jail for Robertson?

2005-08-23 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- shempmcgurk wrote: Remember that school is still out on who was behind Oswald's killing of Kennedy and there is a very real possiblity that it was CAstro's revenge for Kennedy attempting to kill him. For a fictional yet plausible explanation of the Kennedy assassination, read _Tears

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Back in the Day' (1975-1977)

2005-08-21 Thread Patrick Gillam
on. Interesting to see the milestones near each of those 7-year points, too. The first teacher training course in '61 or '62, the Beatles in '68, the TM-Sidhis in '76 and '77, the Taste of Utopia gathering in '83... - Patrick Gillam Yahoo! Groups Sponsor

[FairfieldLife] Ministry of Reshelving

2005-08-21 Thread Patrick Gillam
, Current Events and U.S. History. Here's a picture of a note a Minister left on a shelf that formerly held the books: http://tinyurl.com/ds6gb See more photos and an explanation at www.flickr.com/groups/reshelving. See a blog entry at http://tinyurl.com/72w4t. Uncensored, I am, Patrick Gillam

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Is Bush Planning on Re-Instituting the Draft?'

2005-08-21 Thread Patrick Gillam
. At risk of spoiling the revelation for future readers, the criterion has everything to do with the men's families. - Patrick Gillam Passing stranger, go tell the Lacedaemonians that here we lie, obedient to their laws. - epitaph for the Greeks at Thermopylae

[FairfieldLife] Re: Gravity refuted!

2005-08-21 Thread Patrick Gillam
between transcending and relative life. As a former professor of mine was fond of saying, That's a testable proposition. How would you design a study to test it? - Patrick Gillam Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo

[FairfieldLife] Re: Gravity refuted!

2005-08-21 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (My response to Einstein: God *does* play dice with the universe, but He can calculate the odds to infinity.) Regarding that famous Einstein quotation, have you seen this? http://tinyurl.com/c4yn2 (May require a pass to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Meditators aren't deluded - nonbelievers are

2005-08-21 Thread Patrick Gillam
Seriously, Peter, where do you take issue with Topliffe's arguments? You dismiss his facts? All of them? Some? Thanks. - Patrick Gillam Peter wrote: Thanks, Laurence, you fundie nut bag! Letter to the editor of the Fairfield Ledger by Laurence Topliffe, August 18

<    3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   11   >