see http://uk.yahoo.com/
by such findings?
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they find is that, in states and countries where there is a big gap between
the incomes of rich and poor, mental illness, drug and alcohol abuse
This is a book with a big idea, big enough to change political thinking, and
bigger than its authors at first intended. The problem they originally set out
to solve was why health within a population gets progressively worse further
down the social scale; they estimate that together they have
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/non-fiction/article5859108.ece
time for the US and the world to become more socialist...
One aspect of MMY's teachings that seems hopelessly unenlightened
to me was his take on democracy, which he saw as socially devisive
and irresponsible. For instance he talked disparangely about the
Labour Party in the UK, believing that mere labourers, totally
uneducated, were running the
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/7832647.stm
maybe the slogan for a FFL bus should be:
There's probably no enlightenment so don't worry and enjoy your life
certainly FFL and the TMO don't inspire much confidence
in enlightenment etc
'Anti-gravity' yoga taking off
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7820726.stm
Flying cars take to the skies
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7826330.stm
and http://uk.cars.yahoo.com/12012009/36/flying-car-takes-skies-0.html
meanwhile everyone else is crashing down fast, except TMO thinks
Pratt is her maiden name. Australian from Brisbane I think, came to
London in late 60s, was initiated there (and got me into it); shared a
flat with Veronica near Holland Park; worked in Seelisberg kitchen one
summer in early 70s with then boyfriend. Back in Australia did the
siddhis. Last I
http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?
rn=1095451ch=cl=9912874src=ukyvideo
...fusionman
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-09/ru-paa091608.php
HOUSTON -- (Sept. 16, 2008) -- Is America's red-blue divide based on
voters' physiology? A new paper in the journal Science,
titled Political Attitudes Are Predicted by Physiological Traits,
explores the link.
Rice University's
No one's mentioned the fact that weather storms are coming from the
SOUTH Come to think of it, in India the floods are coming from
the NORTH! Maybe if your town faces East you're OK?
Have missed FFL over the last holiday month (without internet
access) - but heard the news about cows
Just watching Verma talking on Maharishi Channel, back in MERU I
imagine, and seemingly all is back to normal again. Maybe was a false
alarm... He is being very productive in India - good luck to him.
http://peace-movement.net/Administrative.html
Initiations for 18 to 65 year-olds costs Rs. 900 (about £10)- don't
know whether that's a change and whether £10 worth is expensive for
Indians.. http://peace-movement.net/participation.html
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http://peace-movement.net
..
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http://peace-movement.net/Administrative.html
Just watching Bevan say leadership taken by surprise by Verma's
announcement of new organization for India and attempts to clarify it
all plus lots of statements underlining MMY's annointment of Maharaja
Nader Ram as the LEADER of his Movement as if to make a special
point. A Brutus scenario
efforts officially,
but privately must have experienced this development as a leadership
challenge. At least that's how I interpret these developments.
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for himself to
the side. I imagine that this broadcast will be repeated.
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Could you please give specific answers, claudiouk, to the following
questions:
You said: Just watching Bevan say leadership taken by surprise
Soul of Healing 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lnBiyeMNVgfeature=user
Soul of Healing 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_Wv6RURNAsfeature=related
Soul of Healing 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijgqWaZep7Mfeature=related
Soul of Healing 4
Nature supposedly knows best how to organize and it administers the
cosmos without problems. Except suffering exists everywhere you look..
Nature seems wholly mechanical and amoral in its operations. And yet
karma is supposed to be a hidden moral force which overlaps individual
lifetimes in
Timothy Leary was on the right track - provide the right supportive
conditions and the experiences are safe, meanigful and lasting...
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-07/jhmi-seo062608.php
Spiritual effects of hallucinogens persist,
Johns Hopkins researchers report
Related report
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-06/icl-sct061308.php
Scientists have confirmed for the first time that an important
component of early genetic material which has been found in meteorite
fragments is extraterrestrial in origin, in a paper published on June
15, 2008
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7452363.stm
State Governor Chet Culver said that with nine rivers at near record
levelsHe has declared 55 out of Iowa's 99 counties state disaster
areas
Maybe this is common knowledge but I recently came across a statement
in a TMO website (I'd have to find it again..) that warned people not
to teach TM outside the organization because doing so
karmically binds the teacher to the student until the latter
reaches enlightenment; whereas the
http://urel.binghamton.edu/PressReleases/2008/May-Jun%2008/5-2%
20Selfish.html
Binghamton, N.Y. -- Just as religions dwell upon the eternal battle
between good and evil, angels and devils, evolutionary theorists
dwell upon the eternal battle between altruistic and selfish
behaviors in the
A new perspective on this from two physicists their computer model
http://www.newstatesman.com/200209020014
NS Essay - The science of inequality
Mark Buchanan,Published 02 September 2002
You always knew that the rich got richer through no merit of their
own, didn't you? Now, with the aid of
http://www.psychologicalscience.org/media/releases/2008/tabibnia.cfm
Is fairness simply a ruse, something we adopt only when we secretly
see an advantage in it for ourselves? Â Many psychologists have in
recent years moved away from this purely utilitarian view, dismissing
it as too
, claudiouk claudiouk@
wrote:
Happened to watch snippets of two programmes tonight - rather
disturbing. First MMY tape, quite an early one, on M channel,
around
18:40 GMT. Some quotes will give the flavour: funnily enough,
this is
the story of love; no-one loves anybody; all currents
, claudiouk claudiouk@
wrote:
Happened to watch snippets of two programmes tonight - rather
disturbing. First MMY tape, quite an early one, on M channel,
around
18:40 GMT. Some quotes will give the flavour: funnily enough,
this is
the story of love; no-one loves anybody; all currents
Yes the husband was standing there not saying anything but the
situation, with BBC cameras invading your privacy, would create an
artificial and unrepresentative impression. Personally I liked the
wife who did smile(!) and talked about her practice of TM in a family
of six quite humbly and
self, at the expense of others, the badder.
Can't see why this seems so controversial in FF!
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The very existence of words like selfishness and altruism points
to
an important distinction. A psychopath would be at one
I think you are both raising very important points. I've often
thought how violent movies, TV and computer games desensitise people
to violence, legitimise it and make out it's cool. You see bullying
in the classroom on the screen and for sure even more copy-cat
bullying then takes place in
Happened to watch snippets of two programmes tonight - rather
disturbing. First MMY tape, quite an early one, on M channel, around
18:40 GMT. Some quotes will give the flavour: funnily enough, this is
the story of love; no-one loves anybody; all currents of love directed
by self, for self, to
sometimes seem less compassionate and
altruistic than ideally I'd like them to be. I also had in mind my
previous post about bullying and compassion..
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Happened
or more.
But as I mention above, the research about part of the cortex
actually thickening
by around .1mm to .2mm is simply astonishing. A demostratable
physical change
of substance - not just lines on a graph or MRI scans.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, claudiouk claudiouk@
wrote
How about:
Transcendental Meditation Effective In Reducing High Blood Pressure,
Study Shows
ScienceDaily (Dec. 5, 2007) People with high blood pressure may
find relief from transcendental meditation, according to a definitive
new meta-analysis of 107 published studies on stress reduction
Good synopsis and points. Actually the TM part seemed rather
insubstantial and the general impression came across that all the
scientific claims for TM (for cardiovascular effects, for instance)
did not amount to much when properly reviewed. The following piece
from BBC Health News is all about
Towards the end MMY was clearly irritated by Chopra - I remember
seeing a video where Chopra was speaking to the camera and MMY was in
the background and clearly noticeable were subtle side to side
movements of his jaw or face. Basically unlike Hagelin who talks
about Physics in a way MMY
Right now TMO like babes in the wood, having lost the parents. Most
likely the instinct for survival and security will draw the key
leaders together, especially as MMY left them in a clear hierarchy of
his choosing. And for a while they'll carry on doing and saying
things as before, as if MMY
On 29 July 2007, Bolivia achieved the number of Yogic Flyers required
to crown the country with Invincibility. Almost 500 students, staff
and teachers practicing Maharishi's Vedic Technologies of
Consciousness twice a day at three schools in Bolivia are proud to
create national invincibility.
Personally I don't think the PRACTICE of TM, whatever the mantra
sounds are related to in Sanskrit scripture, is any problem for a
devotee of other religions. The mantra is meant to be a vehicle for
transcending, the ultimate goal of which is a merging with the ONE
ABSOLUTE DIVINITY. All
Judy you said you always got your money's worth, as it were, from
doing good, in the form of feeling better (or less bad) about
yourself--there was always some reward, as you suggest, some element
of selfishness involved, no matter how profound one's capacity for
empathy.
Surely with altruism
I've been surprised by the bad press this London Meditation Centre is
getting from FFL especially as another posting expressed hopes that
David Lynch might be a catalyst for a more secular revival of TM,
given that the TMO is now openly broadcasting it's religiousity and
cultness on all
Never was myself a TM teacher and personally I WAS interested in
MMY's commentary on the Gita and his SBAL - as an underlying
universal spiritual perspective to the practice of TM, but one which
was not forced down your throat (unless perhaps you became a
teacher?). Because of that it WAS OK
and keyboard,
thereby taking full advantage of the faster PC (and save me having to
buy a new monitor at least)?
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Instead of buying a new laptop is it possible to just buy a faster
desktop PC base unit (without monitor
Instead of buying a new laptop is it possible to just buy a faster
desktop PC base unit (without monitor or keyboard) and then access this
unit from anywhere in the house from my old laptop (which then becomes
the wireless keyboard and monitor for the unit)?? I've got XP Home on
my laptop. I
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7151920.stm
Single brain cell's power shown
There could be enough computing ability in just one brain cell to
allow humans and animals to feel, a study suggests.
The brain has 100 billion neurons but scientists had thought they
needed to join forces in
http://www.slide.com/r/lhBmAL5h1z-QgA6UpVotXjVbtLu42c61
long way to invincibility...
What did Dr Jose Luis Alvarez Roset do before becoming a Raja?
Of all the key figures in the TMO he strikes me as the most
genuinely spiritual (and most successful Raja by far). Anybody know
anything about his backround (couldn't find anything on google)?
You mentioned earlier your own experience of both the infinite Self
background bliss and of the relative self, not seeing any
contradictions. Why isn't it the relative self in the background
going about it's usual business and the infinite Self that is the
centre of gravity identity, as one
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6960612.stm
Experts have found a way to trigger an out-of-body experience in
volunteers. The experiments, described in the Science journal, offer
a scientific explanation for a phenomenon experienced by one in 10
people.
Two teams used virtual reality
Recently the London Mayor has been trying to persuade people to stop
buying bottled water as ordinary tap water was perfectly good and did
not have the high carbon footprint of transported bottled water.
But in Global Family Chat yesterday there was a mention of Vedic water -
presumably
There is a loss of experience when one slips into sleep - if during
this time there is transcendental consciousness there is no
recollection of it. In meditation the loss and recovery of experience
happens during a shorter period and one becomes aware of this change
or gap. But interestingly
I remember a TM teacher commenting on Kundalini TM - maybe after
some video where MMY talked about other systems - emphasizing
the naturalness of spiritual unfoldment with TM in contrast with
the more forceful and potentially more destabilizing
Kundalini methods taught elsewhere.. Seems like
Seems rather simplistic to me - like saying vegetarianism = 50%
spirituality... There are striking Vastu Similarities between
Indian and Incan / Mayan Sacred Structures..
http://www.vastu-design.com/ht-article.htm
.. doesn't seem to have fostered much natural law in those Vastu
dwellers, what
I see what you mean about the 2,000 figure. Perhaps I heard it
wrong.. interesting your link to invincibleamerica tallies - why have
the Washington figures dried up - abandoned project?
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claudiouk wrote:
What
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Shame on you..
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is this what MMY thinks will soon be reported by world press?
http
Shame on you..
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is this what MMY thinks will soon be reported by world press?
http://www.seethru.co.uk/goodle/goodle3.htm#
On a more serious note - some of the developments reported in Global
Family Chat are pretty
is this what MMY thinks will soon be reported by world press?
http://www.seethru.co.uk/goodle/goodle3.htm#
On a more serious note - some of the developments reported in Global
Family Chat are pretty encouraging. Things are beginning to happen,
after decades of stagnation..
your universe doesn't interfere with mine - I find it does!
Or, even if you are just in MY universe, how come then I can't get
rid of you, if I want to. (nb YOU here stands for anything - eg
suffering etc). If I create my universe then it's gone out of
control, like in a scary SciFi movie.
But
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6711071.stm
Misery: the secret to happiness
The key to a happy relationship could be accepting that some
miserable times are unavoidable, experts say.
Therapists from California State University and Virginia Tech
University say accepting these problems is
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/6704767.stm
Norway rated most peaceful nation
A study has ranked Norway as the most peaceful country and Iraq as
the least in a survey of 121 countries.
The Global Peace Index, compiled by the Economist Intelligence Unit,
looked at 24 factors to determine
:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, claudiouk claudiouk@
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/6704767.stm
Norway rated most peaceful nation
***
It is now, but Norway was one of the homelands of the Vikings, who -
-
apparently looking for lebensraum, ravaged a large area
maybe they should look at effects of vedic chants on water next..
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6684701.stm
Firm makes 'healing super-water'
US scientists have developed super-oxidised water which they say
speeds up wound healing. Oculus, the Californian firm which developed
the water -
points across time does not make a valid
study. What you indicate, in terms of legit research,
is meaningless. The TMO essentially never designs
these ME studies properly.
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Just listening to Global Family Chat report from
Holland - very
impressive
Just listening to Global Family Chat report from Holland - very
impressive developments since the establishment of a permanent group of
400 flyers in April 2006. On 52 statistical indicators the trends since
then have moved unexpectedly (in a conventional sense)in more
positive direction. For
Tony Blair's one success in his 10-year tenure is his fostering of
peaceful developments in Northern Ireland (in co-operation with the
Irish government)which have resulted in an extraordinary peace between
die-hard opponents - now actually sharing power together. A Berlin wall
experience.. But
Sorry sinhlnx, I'm finding it harder to follow your points than
Hagelin's! And you're not even using any quantum maths!
strictly relative principles, akin to the Buddhist principles of
interconnectedness and dependent origination - MMY consistently
identifies the Unified Field with the
and understanding. So what
conclusions are you making from your premises as expressed in your
posting (apart from questioning mine, I mean)?
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Claudiouk,
Please tell me the definitions you'd have for consciousness, the
Absolute
as truthful as
any lie a brain can tell.
Edg
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, claudiouk claudiouk@
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you're no Jack Kennedy - not sure what THAT means.. no I'm
Claudio.
I'm sure we all have our own views on these matters and how far
our
definitions are fuzzy, and how
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20070515/tpl-us-health-government-politics-
10170b4.html
More surprising UK ranking good, yet here we think we're in crisis.
We think France, for instance, is better looked after..
Is Consciousness the Unified Field? - if consciousness is truly
most fundamental, there IS a need to relate it to the most
fundamental laws of physics, because presently it is being ignored
altogether. As for the limits and incomprehensibility of Hagelin's
metaphors or equivalences, surely the
I think MMY has achieved his own goals - he has elaborated his
teachings to a maximum degree of detail and (according to him)
effectiveness; and he has multiplied himself in the thousands of
devotees leading his organization, who really think and talk like him
now and will carry on doing so
A lot of good points have been made about ways of handling suffering
eg Marek's concerning putting the attention away from suffering, on
attention itself - hence manage to transcend suffering; or by
embracing suffering/demons eg Rory or Jim. I can see the wisdom in
all this. Am also impressed
] wrote:
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wrote:
snip
On the other hand this veil of ignorance forgetting
implicated in the unified field itself (therefore preceding
karma and personal sin) might give rise to Laws of Nature
that themselves only APPEAR intelligent
constantly crossing and recrossing the gap of ignorance might imply
therefore that something is lacking in UNITY? Never saw the sense of
the purpose of life as expansion of happiness by going into
ignorance.. if the happiness is in the return to Unity, why wander
off in the first place??
---
, claudiouk claudiouk@
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constantly crossing and recrossing the gap of ignorance might
imply
therefore that something is lacking in UNITY? Never saw the
sense
of
the purpose of life as expansion of happiness by going into
ignorance.. if the happiness is in the return
happiness via the Relative these mechanics
simply insure that the outcome inevitably is a FAILURE!! One has to
question, therefore, the intelligence or sanity at the root of
creation..
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claudiouk wrote
@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis
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Quick comment below:
**
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, claudiouk claudiouk@
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'So both diversification and unification ... when the two come
to
awareness then the hiding, the cover, also comes to awareness. So
:
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Is there ever a real audience present I wonder, of non-
meditators.
In
the middle of listening to the live conference - MMY speaking at
the
moment. Just listening for my own benefit it's OK I guess - I'm
keeping
that might
distract from the essential message. Just an opinion..
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From: claudiouk claudiouk@
Date: Wed May 9, 2007 2:28 pm
Subject: recent conference webcast doubts claudiouk
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--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, claudiouk claudiouk@
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I think you are very brave to freely think these thoughts and
publish them. You are getting me worried - maybe that explains
why
hardly anyone seems to be responding to my posts lately, apart
from
So will Britain now be forgiven???
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6639945.stm
Supposing we wanted to create self-sustaining large yogic flying
groups of 400, 1000, 2000, or maximum 10,000 - without government
involvement and support.. what kind of enterprises would be suitable
for such a project? I'm not myself into business so wouldn't really
have a clue. I did have
Is there ever a real audience present I wonder, of non-meditators. In
the middle of listening to the live conference - MMY speaking at the
moment. Just listening for my own benefit it's OK I guess - I'm
keeping in touch with developments; occasionally there is something
new or that makes more
Myths about the developing world (with INCREDIBLE graphics)!!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4237353244338529080q=genre%
3Adocumentary+duration%3Along
With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, Hans Rosling debunks a
few myths about the developing world. Rosling is professor of
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7678538942425297587q=vedic
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6628613.stm
anywhere near Central Uni???
Dr Girish Chandra Varma, Director-General of the Maharishi World
Capital of Peace at the Brahmasthan of India, performs Vedic Puja to
inaugurate Raam Nomi, Brahmasthan of India, 27-29 March 2007
I thought it was only proper pandits who were supposed to do Vedic
pujas etc.. Is Girish a Brahmin,
http://www.slate.com/id/2165004/
How to wire your brain for religious ecstasy. By John Horgan
Posted Thursday, April 26, 2007, at 7:19 AM ET
Eight years ago, I flew to Laurentian University in Midwestern Canada
to test a gadget that some journalists called the God machine. The
device consisted
just heard they are hoping to buy the land used previously for US base,
in Berlin. But Berlin is not central Germany, surely... I suppose
there would be no point having a Central University in Siberia
somewhere, for Russia either. But then the whole concept
of centrality is somehow flawed
All the leaders in the Movement now are men - unlike the early days
when there were as many female initiators. No female Raja equivalents
are in prominence - except as Raja companions, described as mothers
of a domain. Vedic ideas about the role of women were based on a pre-
industrial society
I have two daughters myself - have been a very involved father,
finding parenting a learning, rewarding and sublime experience in its
own right. I want my daughters to have equal opportunities in the
world of work. The female contribution in the workplace nowadays is
essential both technically
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6599041.stm
By contrast, MMY is sounding increasingly much older than his years. So
much so that lately on Maharishi Channel only a picture of him appears
as he speaks and he sounds as if he's on his last legs, voice croaking
and memory failing. Or is he?
http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/index.php?feed=Sciencearticle=UPI-1-
20070412-13515700-bc-us-energytransfer.xml
U.S. scientists have discovered how, through photosynthesis, solar
energy is transferred across molecular systems with nearly 100-
percent efficiency.
Researchers at the U.S.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6584229.stm
'Kryptonite' discovered in mine
Kryptonite is no longer just the stuff of fiction feared by caped
superheroes. A new mineral matching its unique chemistry - as
described in the film Superman Returns - has been identified in a
mine in Serbia.
interesting end in
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOW2wIFhioo
interesting beginning:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-jRqM3hCJc
tried sending this before but seems to have flown away altogether...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6563639.stm
What can the Danes teach us about happiness?
Danes are the happiest people in Europe, a survey suggests. But what
is the secret of their contentedness?
Something is markedly unrotten in the state of Denmark.
Asked to rate both their happiness
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6567329.stm
guns, bombs = means of destruction
32 killed in US - terrible - a mad guy perhaps
over 100 killed DAILY in Iraq - horrific - an insane situation for
sure
Is there a parallel? Gun laws don't help; neither do endless Hollywod
movies and
is NOT through arming people with guns,
but arming them with finer CONSCIOUSNESS anyway
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6567329
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