[FairfieldLife] Ruben Bolling cartoons (was Re: Gravity refuted!)

2005-08-21 Thread Patrick Gillam
: http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/tddbArchive - PJG --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Patrick Gillam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (My response to Einstein: God *does* play

[FairfieldLife] The Caine Mutiny (was Re: press report)

2005-08-19 Thread Patrick Gillam
, although we can argue that Maharishi is acting from dementia now, he was the guy who tried to save us from our own madness, and for some of us, succeeded. - patrick --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Patrick Gillam

[FairfieldLife] Iraqi democracy: getting there from here

2005-08-19 Thread Patrick Gillam
This, from a friend: As for bringing democracy to Iraq, someone said to me the other day that its like the person driving around the countryside of Ireland looking for Dublin. When he stopped to ask a local former for directions, the farmer thought for a moment, and then said, 'The only

[FairfieldLife] The Caine Mutiny (was Re: press report)

2005-08-19 Thread Patrick Gillam
shempmcgurk wrote: As for being on the front line against the Nazis, my memory is that their boat was in the Pacific, not the Atlantic. Right you are. Greenwald is generalizing from Queeg to all career warriors everywhere. I do remember it being one of the best roles Humphrey Bogart

[FairfieldLife] The Caine Mutiny (was Re: press report)

2005-08-19 Thread Patrick Gillam
shempmcgurk wrote: Gillam wrote: Have you read the Aubrey-Maturin novels of Patrick O'Brien? Nois he the one that wrote the book Master and Commander made into the Russell Crowe movie? The very same. I shoulda referred to the movie, but didn't think of it in favor of being an

[FairfieldLife] Re: Best spiritual films of the year

2005-08-19 Thread Patrick Gillam
Rick Archer wrote: on 8/19/05 2:00 PM, shempmcgurk at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I didn't go see [Hotel Rwanda] because I can't stomach the thought of seeing yet one more movie about a holocaust... I liked it, for what it's worth. It was tough, but the overwhelming impression is of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Iraqi democracy: getting there from here

2005-08-19 Thread Patrick Gillam
here the wrong way, but it's the kind of conservative thinking that I, for one, miss among the Republicans. Hard-nosed, pragmatic realism. Not this fantasy world that Wolfowitz passed along to Cheney and Cheney smeared onto Bush. - Patrick Gillam P.S. If anyone here has read Oswald Spengler

[FairfieldLife] Re: Best spiritual films of the year

2005-08-19 Thread Patrick Gillam
shempmcgurk wrote: In reality, Che had no compunction about murdering, in cold blood, the common man and the disadvantaged. Isn't this typical of ideologues? No violence to great for the higher good? Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access

[FairfieldLife] Re: Iraqi democracy: getting there from here

2005-08-19 Thread Patrick Gillam
, but the alternatives suck worse. - 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: Best spiritual films of the year

2005-08-19 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk wrote: Yet, somehow, it is fashionable today to wear Che T-Shirts and to make movies about his early years, whether it's riding a motorcycle or singing to Madonna and the Perons. Violent fundamentalism is in! Get with it, everyone! Show you

[FairfieldLife] Re: What if ?

2005-08-18 Thread Patrick Gillam
of spiritual purpose along with the satisfactions that arise from tangible achievements. - 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] The Caine Mutiny (was Re: press report)

2005-08-18 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'We Need More Cindy Sheehan's..

2005-08-18 Thread Patrick Gillam
for a moment the school of thought which holds that all life is a lie. - 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: 'We Need More Cindy Sheehan's..

2005-08-18 Thread Patrick Gillam
authfriend wrote: Patrick Gillam wrote: Peter wrote: Korean War Vietnam War Iraq War 1 Iraq War 2 All really crappy reasons to die I suspect that veterans take umbrage against anti-war movements because the movements are saying, Your friends died for crappy

[FairfieldLife] Re: Why Cindy Sheehan is Right!

2005-08-18 Thread Patrick Gillam
shempmcgurk posted: Why Cindy Sheehan is Right! By David Duke Is this the former Klu Klux Klan leader David Duke? www.davidduke.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'We Need More Cindy Sheehan's..

2005-08-18 Thread Patrick Gillam
authfriend wrote: Patrick Gillam wrote: I suspect that veterans take umbrage against anti-war movements because the movements are saying, Your friends died for crappy reasons and You've based your self-image on a lie. I think the reasons you stated for veterans opposing

[FairfieldLife] Re: Death and Dying, was Trip to Holland

2005-08-16 Thread Patrick Gillam
going through. Please accept my condolences. - 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: I Hate Maharishi

2005-08-14 Thread Patrick Gillam
really follow that thread and would appreciate an edited summary of its arguments. If anyone does it, thanks! - Patrick Gillam Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http

[FairfieldLife] Re: Focussing on Core Competencies (was Potter)

2005-08-13 Thread Patrick Gillam
detention centers that include TM in their daily schedules. Pipe dreams. - 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: Something to do with positive ions (was Conscience and consciousness)

2005-08-07 Thread Patrick Gillam
loony, from Ken Kesey's _One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest_, but in France they may follow a different taxonomy. - Patrick Gillam 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

[FairfieldLife] Re: Interesting website

2005-08-07 Thread Patrick Gillam
compassion reinforcing the story I use to hide from my true nature as a liberated being? My post sheds no light; I write this merely to give voice to what the thread has elicited in me, and to acknowledge the contributions of other thread participants. Thanks, all. - Patrick Gillam

[FairfieldLife] Re: Interesting website

2005-08-07 Thread Patrick Gillam
, pursuing MMY's purification path instead of the tough love approach of the that seminar. - Patrick Gillam 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

[FairfieldLife] Re: Interesting website

2005-08-07 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps the appropriate question is, How is what the teacher is saying affecting me? Do I find it liberating--does it inspire me to expand into it, to drop my boundaries--or do I experience it as constricting, a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Something to do with positive ions (was Conscience and consciousness)

2005-08-07 Thread Patrick Gillam
TurquoiseB wrote: Actually, in Cuckoo's Nest, it's really bull-goose loony. Wow. All these years I've had it wrong. Thus is the knowledge lost. - Patrick Gillam To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join

[FairfieldLife] Re: Interesting website

2005-08-07 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Patrick Gillam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip In our Philosophy of Science core course at MIU in 1977, David Clay deconstructed the stress theory and clarified its shortcomings

[FairfieldLife] Re: Interesting website

2005-08-07 Thread Patrick Gillam
spends being aware of awareness itself. Over time, one's awareness of the stillness grows. Or so the theory goes. My experience pretty much bears it out, so I'm willing to parrot the theory here. - Patrick Gillam To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http

[FairfieldLife] Re: Interesting website

2005-08-07 Thread Patrick Gillam
you from being enlightened TM defines stress as an overload of experience. Well, what's ignorance? It's when experience overshadows the awareness of awareness itself. Maharishi's definition of stress is a Westernized definition of ignorance. - Patrick Gillam To subscribe, send a message

[FairfieldLife] Re: Interesting website

2005-08-07 Thread Patrick Gillam
Comments interleaved below. --- sparaig wrote: --- Patrick Gillam wrote: sparaig wrote: I think there's a problem with Clay's own understanding of stress and TM, if he presented things that way: David Clay didn't define stress in any way at all. He simply summed up

[FairfieldLife] Random subject heading (was Re: unrelated subject)

2005-08-06 Thread Patrick Gillam
Comments interleaved below. Patrick Gillam wrote: Maybe Rick can find time to poll people who abstained to get their perspectives on the experience. Rick Archer wrote: Anyone can start a poll, but I'm convinced that celibacy has been very good for me. I think I needed

[FairfieldLife] Random subject heading (was Re: unrelated subject)

2005-08-06 Thread Patrick Gillam
TurquoiseB wrote: In my experience, the benefit comes from the questioning, not from finding answers. The more I ask the questions, the less I know, and the happier I seem to be. It's the Byron Katie work applied to everything. - PJG To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[FairfieldLife] Re: Where are they Now?

2005-08-06 Thread Patrick Gillam
to a lot of careers, I think, as green people found themselves doing more than they ever could have done had they been in school or worked entry-level jobs. - Patrick Gillam --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.markkornhauser.com/html/about.htm

[FairfieldLife] Re: Interesting website

2005-08-06 Thread Patrick Gillam
, Judy? Are you being sarcastic? Densely, Patrick Gillam What I saw as Hillary listened to one person's story of suffering was subtle and difficult to convey: I could clearly see and feel that Hillary was seeing this person as consciousness itself, free of all limiting definitions of mind

[FairfieldLife] Re: Holland Report

2005-08-05 Thread Patrick Gillam
Responses interleaved below. Patrick Gillam wrote: I still don't understand how Sat Yuga could have dawned in the first place; I thought its coming depended on superradiance numbers, pundit thresholds and other contributors to a rising collective consciousness -- thresholds

[FairfieldLife] Random subject heading (was Re: unrelated subject)

2005-08-05 Thread Patrick Gillam
people at that time, celibacy was a good thing. Maybe Rick can find time to poll people who abstained to get their perspectives on the experience. - Patrick Gillam P.S. I've only been following these discussions with one eye, but it's fascinating to see how we read meanings into things. It's

[FairfieldLife] Conscience and consciousness (was Re: Clown Suits)

2005-08-04 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Llundrub [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rory (I think): *lol* Very nice! Apparently, if you want to work with a whole population of trespassers, you may have the best luck if you come from your heart and visualize the deva of that population, perhaps as a

[FairfieldLife] Conscience and consciousness (was Re: Clown Suits)

2005-08-03 Thread Patrick Gillam
for strangers? Even in the depths of ignorance, Unity tries to live in us each day. - Patrick Gillam 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

[FairfieldLife] Conscience and consciousness (was Re: Clown Suits)

2005-08-03 Thread Patrick Gillam
- Patrick Gillam wrote Unity tries to live in us each day. Jeff Fischer wrote: Isn't Unity what we are, rather than something that lives in us? Isn't that what we're trying to realize? To the ignorant, unity is something trying to get out, to make itself known, to stop being

[FairfieldLife] Please recommend software

2005-08-02 Thread Patrick Gillam
that downloads faster. My designer is all set to give me copies of his Adobe products, but I'd just as soon stay legal. Karma, you know -- this is for my portfolio. If you'd like to reply off-list to keep the clutter down, I'm sure everyone will appreciate it. Thank you kindly! - Patrick Gillam

[FairfieldLife] Re: Pa. Gov. candidate Scranton in TM trouble?

2005-08-01 Thread Patrick Gillam
religious cult would be, what? The Amish? Mennonites? Quakers? What else do they have in Pennsylvania? - Patrick Gillam 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

[FairfieldLife] Re: Pa. Gov. candidate Scranton in TM trouble?

2005-08-01 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Patrick Gillam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter wrote: I love the term, pseudo-religious cult. Is the religious pseudo or is the cult pseudo or is the the religious cult

[FairfieldLife] Re: Pa. Gov. candidate Scranton in TM trouble?

2005-08-01 Thread Patrick Gillam
Peter wrote: Pseudo goats? Which reminds me of what the conceited emperor wears: pseudo clothes! Ba-dum BUM! - PJG 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

[FairfieldLife] Re: Laptop demo of the 5th!

2005-07-30 Thread Patrick Gillam
cardemaister wrote: It certainly is worth yer while to watch the lap top demo of the 5th day of guru-puurNimaa! The crash and thunder and all! Hey am duH kham a naagatam! Cardemaster, you got me stumped. What are you saying? Thanks. - Patrick Gillam To subscribe, send a message

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sex with Goats -- a growing trend

2005-07-30 Thread Patrick Gillam
Patrick O'Brian has a scene in one of his early Aubrey/Maturin novels in which Jack tells Stephen that crewmen convicted of fornicating with the livestock must be hanged -- along with the animal in question. Stephen clarifies that Jack may, at his discretion as captain, be lenient, a

[FairfieldLife] Survey: How are you doing?

2005-07-29 Thread Patrick Gillam
have an audience of spiritually-oriented people here, I have to ask: how's business? Thanks. - Patrick Gillam 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

[FairfieldLife] Re: Expectations

2005-07-29 Thread Patrick Gillam
to read you here until that book is done. Such are my expectations. - Patrick Gillam 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: http

[FairfieldLife] Re: Expectations

2005-07-29 Thread Patrick Gillam
to you. Good luck, and get lost. - PJG --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Llundrub [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hahah - Original Message - From: Patrick Gillam To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 10:59 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Expectations

[FairfieldLife] Re: Survey: How are you doing?

2005-07-29 Thread Patrick Gillam
work-related malaise others might be experiencing as an excuse on your own behalf. Was that understandable? I will, of course, save this e-mail for personal relection at moments when there is little work on my desk! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Patrick Gillam [EMAIL PROTECTED

[FairfieldLife] Re: Survey: How are you doing?

2005-07-29 Thread Patrick Gillam
Llundrub wrote: So if I'm correct, he said take Byron Katie and shove her up your ass? Yeah. As I said, he's a pal. 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

[FairfieldLife] Grand Gestures (was Re: MMY still plans worlds tallest building)

2005-07-28 Thread Patrick Gillam
to Wal-Mart and all the other stores that now dominate retailing. Think of all the vaastu-compliant buildings built by now-closed businesses in Fairfield. For all of you laboring in cramped, inadequate quarters, be thankful. - Patrick Gillam To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Former Meditator Creates High-Tech Enlightenment...'

2005-07-27 Thread Patrick Gillam
ask Perry. - Patrick Gillam 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: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Levitation/has anyone heard of anyone reaching 2nd stage flying?

2005-07-27 Thread Patrick Gillam
preventing our awakening to what is already there, talking about the mistake of the intellect and what have you. In short, for me, it might be fairer to fault my understanding than MMY's attempts to straighten it out. - Patrick Gillam To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED

[FairfieldLife] GCP/EGG update July 25 2005

2005-07-26 Thread Patrick Gillam
Poster's note: Roger Nelson's Global Consciousness Project has been mentioned a few times in this forum. Now it has a Yahoo group, noted below, along with some other links that may interest some here. So I'm posting the newsletter below. - Patrick Gillam

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Former Meditator Creates High-Tech Enlightenment...'

2005-07-26 Thread Patrick Gillam
working with Gangaji. So it's not as if he hasn't spent time with the real deal before clapping on the headphones and getting synched. - Patrick Gillam --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Llundrub [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I detest the website. How disgustingly commercial. Is this what

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Levitation/has anyone heard of anyone reaching 2nd stage flying?

2005-07-26 Thread Patrick Gillam
in grokking these teachings to all my years of TM. Jai Guru Dev. - Patrick Gillam 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: http

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Levitation/has anyone heard of anyone reaching 2nd stage flying?

2005-07-26 Thread Patrick Gillam
Peter Sutphen wrote: --- Patrick Gillam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Byron Katie isn't much good at showing me how my ego screws up my life, but she is a genius at bursting the beliefs that make life difficult. I see BK as very clearly revealing the attachment points

[FairfieldLife] Re: Levitation-Part II

2005-07-25 Thread Patrick Gillam
had more to do with whom Jesus chose to appear before than who had the ability to perceive his post-crucifiction body. I've wondered as I've dipped into these discussions of sidhis and perception whether the dynamics discussed here explain the intermittency of those Jesus sightings. - Patrick

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Levitation/has anyone heard of anyone reaching 2nd stage flying?

2005-07-25 Thread Patrick Gillam
. Then, with grace, you may wake up. - Patrick Gillam 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: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Levitation/has anyone heard of anyone reaching 2nd stage flying?

2005-07-25 Thread Patrick Gillam
jim_flanegin wrote: Challenge ruthlessly, non-stop, every concept and idea and feeling of yourself and your world and everyone in it, until there is nothing left. Then you will wake up. That's how you did it, Jim? - Patrick Gillam To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED

[FairfieldLife] Re: some insights

2005-07-24 Thread Patrick Gillam
of marketing should not stop Maharishi and the remaining believers to try this last fling. Counterintuitive actions work sometimes. - Patrick Gillam --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Missed a meeting with the new TM teacher here in Tucson, but learned

[FairfieldLife] Re: Welcome Sat Yuga

2005-07-24 Thread Patrick Gillam
at threshold levels for any length of time. Yet here, Maharishi says, is Sat Yuga. How'd it happen? Does he ascribe this achievement to anything? Were those thresholds more for a smooth transition than for ensuring the transition happened in the first place? Thanks in advance. - Patrick Gillam

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Levitation/has anyone heard of anyone reaching 2nd stage flying?

2005-07-24 Thread Patrick Gillam
, and masterful. For a fun read and simple tricks you can do to amaze your friends, pick up the Klutz book of magic. It's witty and clever and shows how much skill goes into misdirecting an audience. - Patrick Gillam To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM Haiku (was Jewish Haiku)

2005-07-23 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cute, but none of these have a kijo (season word) in them. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kigo Handful of asters Sounds that give way to silence Where are the students? To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL

[FairfieldLife] Welcome Sat Yuga

2005-07-23 Thread Patrick Gillam
to greet the rising moon. I don't suppose anything like that happened in Fairfield? It sounded like fun! Loopy, but fun. - Patrick Gillam 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] Conny Larrson's book

2005-07-23 Thread Patrick Gillam
Ingegerd wrote: Conny Larssons book is for sale, telling what happens when men and women [are] gathered in the same place. I have not read the book. But it has send some waves of chock among the Sidhas in Norway Ingegerd, it's book about Sai Baba, yes? - Patrick Gillam

[FairfieldLife] Re: Conny Larrson's book

2005-07-23 Thread Patrick Gillam
Maybe L B would like to translate and publish it in the United States. - PJG --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ingegerd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Patrick Gillam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ingegerd wrote: Conny Larssons book is for sale

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM Haiku (was Jewish Haiku)

2005-07-23 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: old man's portrait hangs in empty domes and centers no laughter, no light Cute, but none of these have a kijo (season word) in them.

[FairfieldLife] Purity of the teaching (was Honest answers)

2005-07-21 Thread Patrick Gillam
would hope we could hear your answer, Off World. - Patrick Gillam 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: http://groups.yahoo.com

[FairfieldLife] Re: Purity of the teaching (was Honest answers)

2005-07-21 Thread Patrick Gillam
off_world_beings wrote: I think you need to answer the question I asked several posts back about keeping the purity of the teaching. Patrick Gillam wrote: Yes, this is the Big Question. Around here, people seem to have answered it in a number of ways: Judy Stein

[FairfieldLife] Female Siddhas, Dakinis, etc.

2005-07-21 Thread Patrick Gillam
While looking for somethign else, I stumbled across the list below. It dovetails with a discussion in another thread, so I thought I'd post it for the Chick Power types in the crowd. found at http://tinyurl.com/94b6u 108 Female Siddhas, Dakinis, Yoginis and Tantric Adepts Recently a famous

[FairfieldLife] Tantrics

2005-07-21 Thread Patrick Gillam
I've read one or two people here describe themselves as tantrics. What do you mean when you say that? No hidden agenda. Just want tantra defined by someone who might be able to put it in context for me. Thanks. - Patrick Gillam To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go

[FairfieldLife] Re: Purity of the teaching (was Honest answers)

2005-07-21 Thread Patrick Gillam
in meditation. I expect that program is no more. - Patrick Gillam 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: http://groups.yahoo.com

[FairfieldLife] Re: Purity of the teaching (was Honest answers)

2005-07-21 Thread Patrick Gillam
was deceiving myself. Now, as you suggested I do, Off World, I'm examing my belief that the purity of Maharishi's teaching depends upon some behavior of mine. This discussion is all about me. Maharishi has nothing to do with it. Thanks for your input. - Patrick Gillam To subscribe, send a message

[FairfieldLife] Re: was Email - Now comments on Gable's editorial

2005-07-20 Thread Patrick Gillam
question implies, I'm not seeing them. I've reposted Erik's op-ed piece below as a reference. - Patrick Gillam July 14, 2005 The Fairfield Ledger Opinion A tale of two gurus Could the Transcendental Meditation movement learn a thing or two from 'the Hugging Saint'? By Erik Gable Rick Archer

[FairfieldLife] TM teachers: fact or fiction?

2005-07-20 Thread Patrick Gillam
program any more. - Patrick Gillam 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: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM teachers: fact or fiction?

2005-07-20 Thread Patrick Gillam
Patrick Gillam wrote: TM teachers must be recertified to remain TM teachers. wmurphy77 wrote: Is that true??? Recertified? Unless they've been recertified, people who were once qualified to teach the Transcendental Meditation technique of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi are not to teach

[FairfieldLife] Bannings (was Re: DID....BILL....GATES)

2005-07-20 Thread Patrick Gillam
persona non grata there. I'm thinking of Shri Shri Ravi Shankar exponents Sid Slagter and Larry Kline, for example. Now, I could be wrong -- it could be they chose not to attend. But the word at the time was, they weren't welcome. - Patrick Gillam To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL

[FairfieldLife] Reporting on MUM (was Email)

2005-07-20 Thread Patrick Gillam
. But the possibility deserves tracking. - Patrick Gillam --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah. Perhaps Erik will now turn his investigative skills to, say, the attitude of local churches

[FairfieldLife] Honest answers (was comments on Gable's editorial)

2005-07-20 Thread Patrick Gillam
if not to find an impediment to admission? - Patrick Gillam 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: http://groups.yahoo.com/group

[FairfieldLife] Re: Good article from Slate on Hubbard

2005-07-19 Thread Patrick Gillam
Followup post below. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Our summer of Tom Cruise's madness and Katie Holmes' creepy path toward zombie bridedom has been a useful reminder of how truly strange Scientology is. By now those interested in the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Email from an old friend

2005-07-19 Thread Patrick Gillam
sparaig wrote: I think your participation on this forum suggests a certain amount of holding on concerning all things TM and TMO and MMY. Couldn't there be many other reasons for participating in this forum? - Patrick Gillam To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go

[FairfieldLife] Re: new coronation photos- Many!

2005-07-19 Thread Patrick Gillam
that, should I ever attain rajahood, I would not have to shave mine. - Patrick Gillam 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

[FairfieldLife] Re: new coronation photos- Many!

2005-07-19 Thread Patrick Gillam
Peter Sutphen wrote: It was a kick to see my old classmate Bob LoPinto in the photos. - Patrick Gillam Patrick, when did you attend MIU? I attended '74 to '78. I was happy to to see ol' bliss ninny Bob up there. I didn't know him that well. I think he was a few years behaind me

[FairfieldLife] Re: new coronation photos- Many!

2005-07-19 Thread Patrick Gillam
Peter Sutphen wrote: The collective samkalpa (intent) would produce very powerful effects for the participants. Imagine a mass the lasted for seven days with the sincere offering of heart and mind to the Divine by all the participants. All pure hearts, pure minds with clear intent. That

[FairfieldLife] Re:was Email - Now comments on Gable's editorial

2005-07-18 Thread Patrick Gillam
its material on the Web. Thanks. - Patrick Gillam 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: http://groups.yahoo.com/group

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield Ledger, Chronicling FF life, the lady saints arrive '05

2005-07-17 Thread Patrick Gillam
in larger budgets. Having made that analogy, I'll leave it to Lawson to explain what he means. - Patrick Gillam 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

[FairfieldLife] Re: Guru Purnima Invitation

2005-07-15 Thread Patrick Gillam
Rick Archer wrote: I heard they were organizing a charter. I wonder if they'll fill it. TurquoiseB wrote: Ya never know. The turnout might surprise us all, one way or another. Unc, you could biff over to Vlodrop and report on the event for us, could you not? - Patrick Gillam

[FairfieldLife] Re: An Obsure Post to Unc: Its a Wonderful World

2005-07-14 Thread Patrick Gillam
saying, 'I love you.' My eyes tear up just writing the lyric. - Patrick Gillam 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: http

[FairfieldLife] Re: Notes from the Field

2005-07-14 Thread Patrick Gillam
I imagine that donation is sold as something of a yagya -- a sacrifice that garners the goodwill of the gods. - Patrick Gillam --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 7/13/05 9:31 PM, David Hawthorne at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The University has

[FairfieldLife] Re: Chopra-Primordial Sounds

2005-07-14 Thread Patrick Gillam
it much at all any more. Can't say why. Maybe it's from doing it lying down. - Patrick Gillam --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ingegerd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I received my first Primodial Sound, many years ago from Dr. Chopra. The sound was for thhe head and neck, and Dr. Chopra said

[FairfieldLife] Re: Welcoming Sat Yuga Incredible times coming

2005-07-14 Thread Patrick Gillam
barada nikto, and John said, Come back in three days for checking. - Patrick Gillam 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

[FairfieldLife] Re: Health care as a relative phenomenon

2005-07-12 Thread Patrick Gillam
much one's level of consciousness enters into one's political leanings. That would make an interesting research project for some institution that studies growth of consciousness and tries to relate it to social trends. Know of any such place? - Patrick Gillam To subscribe, send a message

[FairfieldLife] Re: these terrorists are never satisfied.

2005-07-12 Thread Patrick Gillam
, which prompts hallucinations, which lead to religions. Under that theory, LSD might simply compound the problem by generating another religion. - Patrick Gillam To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join

[FairfieldLife] Maharishi effect (was Re: Unprecedented Nature Support?)

2005-07-08 Thread Patrick Gillam
further examination. - Patrick Gillam Peter Sutphen wrote: the null hypothesis must be rejected to prove the research correct. In the Maharishi Effect (ME) research the null hypothesis is that any reduction of negative trends is by chance. Most of the ME research has methodological problems

[FairfieldLife] Maharishi effect (was Re: Unprecedented Nature Support?)

2005-07-08 Thread Patrick Gillam
the research. So I ask these questions to see what others have to say. - Patrick Gillam 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: http

[FairfieldLife] Maharishi effect (was Re: Unprecedented Nature Support?)

2005-07-08 Thread Patrick Gillam
, and not everything maps. - Patrick Gillam 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: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe

[FairfieldLife] Maharishi effect (was Re: Unprecedented Nature Support?)

2005-07-08 Thread Patrick Gillam
, and question whether that moral behavior is all it's cracked up to be. - Patrick Gillam An aside: Fundamentalists like to talk about absolute standards for moral behavior. But the relativists among us, pussies that we are, aren't comfortable with such absolutes. So we derive an entire

[FairfieldLife] Maharishi effect (was Re: Unprecedented Nature Support?)

2005-07-08 Thread Patrick Gillam
studies extant at the time (1978 or '79) and pronounced 25% to be junk, 50% to be of common rigor and 25% to be tight, solid research. Can't remember who reported that, however. Makes a big difference whether Keith Wallace said it or a graduate student said it. - Patrick Gillam

[FairfieldLife] Maharishi effect (was Re: Unprecedented Nature Support?)

2005-07-08 Thread Patrick Gillam
Judy Stein quotes: Stage 1 Punishment/Obedience - Consequentialism. This stage is characterized by avoidance of punishment and unquestioning deference to power as values in themselves. Simple Hedonism. snip stage 7, where univeral concern for humanity is combined with a concern for all

[FairfieldLife] Re: More animation

2005-07-08 Thread Patrick Gillam
Rick Crukstrom wrote: the beanie wasn't strapped on and now I'm all anxious thinking that at some point it's going to come off and the poor little guy is going to crash to the ground. That bugged me too! Humpty Dumpty syndrome. - PJG To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL

[FairfieldLife] Yahoo post delays

2005-07-07 Thread Patrick Gillam
.) This second message appeared quickly, with little delay. The first, longer post appeared early this morning, about 17 hours after first posting it. Hence my redundant posts. - Patrick Gillam To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group

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