[FairfieldLife] For my American Friends

2006-09-14 Thread gerbal88
A friend kindly sent this to me. If it has already been posted, please forgive me for not reading all several thousand posts I have missed. (go all the way to the link at the bottom) Subject: For my American Friends Resume EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE LAW ENFORCEMENT I was

[FairfieldLife] Re: For my American Friends

2006-09-14 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yawn. Get over it. He's been president for almost 6 years now and after 8 years, he's out and can't run again. Embrace him. Love him. Send you positive thoughts and prayers to him. Well, that's good advice.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Scholarships Officially Announced (as long as Someone Else pays them)

2006-09-12 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jyouells2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer groups@ wrote: on 9/12/06 8:04 AM, TurquoiseB at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If it

[FairfieldLife] Re: Judy's right: intimidation is NOT censorship

2006-09-11 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's much worse. It's small-minded fanaticism trying to silence questioning. Judy's just what she is, a borderline personality disorder trying to get people to notice her. It's pathetic and she probably does at least

[FairfieldLife] Re: Why TM is Yoga/lite for modernity..and why that's OK!

2006-09-11 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wmurphy77 no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wmurphy77 no_reply@ wrote:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Why TM is Yoga/lite for modernity..and why that's OK!

2006-09-11 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gerbal88 no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wmurphy77 no_reply@ wrote

[FairfieldLife] Re: Free sidhis plus $500 salary for dome attendance..

2006-09-10 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From a friend: ., I want everyone to know that last night M announced a plan to pay people$500 a month to be in the dome for the Invincibility America Course,starting Sept 12th, and also, if you know anyone

[FairfieldLife] Path to 9/11 clips now available (was: Re: Judy, I am impressed!)

2006-09-10 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Free sidhis plus $500 salary for dome attendance..

2006-09-10 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunshine@ wrote: On Sep 10, 2006, at 3:31 PM, Rick Archer wrote: From a friend in the know: It's true. As of today, Sept 10th, 637 have signed up in

[FairfieldLife] Re: Free sidhis plus $500 salary for dome attendance..

2006-09-10 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gerbal88 no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer groups@ wrote: From a friend: ., I want everyone to know that last night M announced

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mayi Amma

2006-09-06 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 'Mayi Amma is hundreds of years old.. She used towalk right into the sea and stay underwater at the sea bed years onend.. The gospel according to t3rinity. Makes me wonder...when did stuff like this

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mayi Amma

2006-09-06 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 6, 2006, at 1:56 PM, gerbal88 wrote: The secrecy thing that shrouds TM is such reactionary and petty separatism doesn't help anyone. It breeds jealousy, egoism, paranoia and a general drag on evolution

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mayi Amma

2006-09-06 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 6, 2006, at 5:14 PM, gerbal88 wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunshine@ wrote: On Sep 6, 2006, at 1:56 PM, gerbal88 wrote: The secrecy thing that shrouds TM

[FairfieldLife] Re: Who is Spartacus?

2006-09-05 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunshine@ wrote: On Sep 4, 2006, at 9:32 PM, geezerfreak wrote: Good lord peoplethe paranoia! No, I am not Barry. I don't who Barry is... Uh,

[FairfieldLife] Re: I am everywhere, I am omnipresent

2006-09-05 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Paul Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Link to Satyanand page http://www.paulmason.info/gurudev/Satyanand.htm --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Paul Mason premanandpaul@ wrote: 'Swami' Sattyanand speaks on Guru Dev:- 'When in 1953 Guru Dev

[FairfieldLife] Re: Guru Dev on changing gurus

2006-09-04 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 9/4/06 2:26 PM, authfriend at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As Alex pointed out, though, the quote doesn't appear to be relevant to this group, since MMY is not the kind of personal guru that Guru Dev was

[FairfieldLife] Re: Guru Dev on changing gurus

2006-09-04 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Paul Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 'Some people say that having taken a guru you should not make another. But this doctrine is not of the shaastra, this is [just] mind's imagination. The guru is gone to for [ones own] happiness. Up until when

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi - Sage of a New Generation DVD

2006-08-28 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Paul Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yup! On this DVD Alan Waite has gone back to the original filmstock to get clearer picture quality and he has added bonus material. The Guru Dev footage is the best quality available in the marketplace (much better

[FairfieldLife] Re: Would it matter if Maharishi wasn't enlightened?

2006-08-28 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Paul Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Turquoise, you name Sattyanand as being the source of the quote about MMY being told to go and meditate, and not to teach. Did you hear this from Sattyanand himself or from someone else? Can you remember anything

[FairfieldLife] Re: Becoming in Tune with One's Teacher's Thinking

2006-08-28 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wayback71 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gerbal, I am guessing that at this point, Judy and Sparaig read and respond to each other's posts, but not many other people do - at least not regularly. snip Hi, Way -- I'm just getting caught up since I looked

[FairfieldLife] Re: Becoming in Tune with One's Teacher's Thinking

2006-08-28 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jyouells2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig sparaig@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer groups@ wrote: on 8/26/06 3:28 PM, gerbal88 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I really think

[FairfieldLife] Re: Becoming in Tune with One's Teacher's Thinking

2006-08-28 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 27, 2006, at 5:02 PM, gerbal88 wrote: Thanks to you and Sal and a few others, I think there might be hope for sorthing through the huge pile of crap Mahesh sold us and winnowing out the something of value

[FairfieldLife] Re: Becoming in Tune with One's Teacher's Thinking

2006-08-28 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: He did say this [become in tune with my thinking] explicitly. Many times. On International Staff it was very much in the air. At Poland Spring, he said ³right now I¹m saying one things and 1,000 things are

[FairfieldLife] Re: Does Judy Have A Life?

2006-08-28 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, geezerfreak geezerfreak@ wrote: This day for Judy Stein was no different from most. Up at 7am...time for the first condescending I'm smarter than you post of the day. Now

[FairfieldLife] Re: Would it matter if Maharishi wasn't enlightened?

2006-08-28 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 8/28/06 1:31 PM, gerbal88 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There were also many complaints about Sattyanand not knowing The Teaching as well as he should have: which, I guess translates as we big egoed

[FairfieldLife] Re: Would it matter if Maharishi wasn't enlightened?

2006-08-28 Thread gerbal88
with Sattyanand. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gerbal88 no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Paul Mason premanandpaul@ wrote: Turquoise, you name Sattyanand as being the source of the quote about MMY being told to go and meditate, and not to teach. Did

[FairfieldLife] Re: Would it matter if Maharishi wasn't enlightened?

2006-08-28 Thread gerbal88
on any of the forums. He gave me an advanced technique in Rishikesh, unfortunately I never thought to interview him. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gerbal88 no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Paul Mason premanandpaul@ wrote: Turquoise, you

[FairfieldLife] Re: Becoming in Tune with One's Teacher's Thinking

2006-08-27 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 8/26/06 3:28 PM, gerbal88 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I really think that in Mahesh's mind, if he could hussle for Guru Dev, then how hard could it be for a couple of his flunkies to set up hotels for 600

[FairfieldLife] Re: Would it matter if Maharishi wasn't enlightened?

2006-08-27 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Paul Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On my TTC, Paul, Mahesh said again and again: the actor can play god better than god. -- He was, of course, talking about himself and the joke was on us because we didn't get it. Mahesh could fool anybody and usually

[FairfieldLife] Re: Becoming in Tune with One's Teacher's Thinking

2006-08-27 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wasn't there, of course, but just from your quote I wouldn't be sure he was referring to attuning yourselves to his thinking in any case, so much as that eventually you would all be in the same state of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Becoming in Tune with One's Teacher's Thinking

2006-08-27 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutphen@ wrote: For me, if I just took MMY's personality and surface behavior I'd have dismissed MMY and the TMO sometime in the late 70's. However I have been

[FairfieldLife] Re: Would it matter if Maharishi wasn't enlightened?

2006-08-27 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess my questions for the group as a whole are: 1. *Is* it important to you to believe that Maharishi was/is enlightened? At the time, I think it made me feel really special that *I* was so special as to have found a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Becoming in Tune with One's Teacher's Thinking

2006-08-27 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 27, 2006, at 9:07 AM, authfriend wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunshine@ wrote: On Aug 27, 2006, at 2:29 AM, authfriend wrote: P.S.: Notice, once again, that Barry has

[FairfieldLife] Re: Becoming in Tune with One's Teacher's Thinking

2006-08-27 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What you are putting forth basically means the end of any and all honest communication. Wow, you hit that one out of the park Sal. High five. What would have taken me pages summed up in one short phrase.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Becoming in Tune with One's Teacher's Thinking

2006-08-27 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wayback71 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gerbal, I am guessing that at this point, Judy and Sparaig read and respond to each other's posts, but not many other people do - at least not regularly. snip mutual admiration society, now nice for them To

[FairfieldLife] Re: Becoming in Tune with One's Teacher's Thinking

2006-08-26 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ingegerd marwincornyarmand@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, geezerfreak geezerfreak@ wrote: Is that cos Guru Dev is competition

[FairfieldLife] Re: Becoming in Tune with One's Teacher's Thinking

2006-08-26 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, chaim_laib [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: I *never* encountered any teaching in the TM context about blind devotion to one's teacher or becoming in tune with one's teacher's thinking as

[FairfieldLife] Re: Becoming in Tune with One's Teacher's Thinking

2006-08-26 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jyouells2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ingegerd marwincornyarmand@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, geezerfreak geezerfreak@

[FairfieldLife] Re: Time for a new terror alert

2006-08-17 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Real bad news for Bush: DETROIT - A federal judge ruled Thursday that the government's warrantless wiretapping program is unconstitutional and ordered an immediate halt to it. Read the rest here:

[FairfieldLife] Re: I found this rather interesting

2006-08-16 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Paul Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quite, but it would be nice to know where the ruby yantra is now. It would be educational to see what it looked like, anyone got an idea of how big/small it was. Hi, Paul, when I was in India in the 70's I met many

[FairfieldLife] Re: From a MUM web page,,sparaig

2006-08-14 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sigh. The ME is used to explain why MMY isn't trying to get massive numbers of people to learn TM, and the Raja thing certainly turns people off and MMY knows this. I find it amazing how people will twist

[FairfieldLife] Re: From a MUM web page

2006-08-14 Thread gerbal88
@yahoogroups.com, gerbal88 no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: Sigh. The ME is used to explain why MMY isn't trying to get massive numbers of people to learn TM, and the Raja thing certainly turns people off and MMY knows

[FairfieldLife] Re: From a MUM web page,,sparaig

2006-08-14 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bill (William)Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't help but wonder,,,When does aggressive marketing and cavalier scientific study practises cross the line and become an active attempt to de-fraud and thus become a crimminal activitiy on an

[FairfieldLife] Re: From a MUM web page,,sparaig

2006-08-14 Thread gerbal88
bend them to glorify yourself and show others what fools they are. The Lawyers will make it Legal. We'll use Science to prove it. Just give them some nice candies and they'll be fine. The Actor can play god better than god. The s--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gerbal88 no_reply@ wrote

[FairfieldLife] Re: From a MUM web page

2006-08-14 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 8/14/06 1:17 PM, gerbal88 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I still have the photos of me dressed up like the various personages in the holy tradition. Hari, Mahesh's cook, helped me do the sari type drapery. I did

[FairfieldLife] Re: From a MUM web page,,sparaig, authfriend

2006-08-14 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bill (William)Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I think really doesn't matter on the universal scale of things. Afterall who am I? Nor do the unassailable fininacial foundations found on a limited physical plane in an infinite universe. As

[FairfieldLife] Re: From a MUM web page,,sparaig

2006-08-14 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bill (William)Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gerbal88 no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bill (William)Simmons unclewas@ wrote: Perhaps MMY played hooky from class the day

[FairfieldLife] Re: From a MUM web page,,sparaig, authfriend

2006-08-14 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bill (William)Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bill (William)Simmons unclewas@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,

[FairfieldLife] Re: From a MUM web page,,sparaig, authfriend

2006-08-14 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bill (William)Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gerbal88 no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bill (William)Simmons unclewas@ wrote: For some reason, Bill, you reminded me of another

[FairfieldLife] Re: From a MUM web page,,sparaig

2006-08-14 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, markmeredith2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: Hi G, I think you are on to something with his contempt for his own followers. Have you seen the comparison of the

[FairfieldLife] Re: From a MUM web page

2006-08-14 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gerbal88 no_reply@ wrote: snip No, but Mahesh is incredibly narcissistic: his name on everything, more and more things. The mind does, as he so cunningly informed us

[FairfieldLife] Re: From a MUM web page,,sparaig

2006-08-14 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bill (William)Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hope you will take your friends advice and not only write down your experiences but share them with the world. Though it is true that I am an outsider the man MMY and the organisation has still managed

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Maharishi Effect'- How it works...'

2006-08-13 Thread gerbal88
Hi, Curtis -- Barry Markovsky called TM a stealth religion. I think that is quite apt considering how he and his minions have suckered so many ordinary folks into paying for the absurd claims of opportunistic Maheshism. *If something good happens, we are responsible; otherwise, we blame people

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Maharishi Effect'- How it works...'

2006-08-13 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gerbal88 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Curtis -- Barry Markovsky called TM a stealth religion. I think that is quite apt considering how he and his minions have suckered so many ordinary folks into paying for the absurd claims of opportunistic

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Maharishi Effect'- How it works...'

2006-08-13 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 8/13/06 4:44 PM, gerbal88 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I can find any of those documents, I'll add them to the TMO the Odd Side in the Files section. G I found some interesting documents. The PDF

[FairfieldLife] Re: From a MUM web page

2006-08-13 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bill (William)Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I cut and pasted this claim from a MUM web page claiming that Where as little as 1% of population is practising TM the trend of rising crime rates is REVERSED. Bill, I think your observation is

[FairfieldLife] Re: Why the need???

2006-08-12 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bill (William)Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't seem to come up with a rational reason to spend a great portion of my life in meditation. What gets accomplished? What gets created? I'm not trying to be argumentative here or confrontational, I

[FairfieldLife] Re: Why the need???

2006-08-12 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bill (William)Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you gerbal88 She often said to me,,,Why are you with me, I have nothing to offer. I always found that to be a very said reflection of ones self worth. And yet she claims to be on such a high

[FairfieldLife] Re: Why the need???

2006-08-12 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gerbal88 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bill (William)Simmons unclewas@ wrote: Thank you gerbal88 She often said to me,,,Why are you with me, I have nothing to offer. Bill -- FWIIW, I have added two files to TMO

[FairfieldLife] Re: Why the need???

2006-08-12 Thread gerbal88
It has come to my attention that some out there have difficulty reding. Below are the exact words I used, for those of you who might have been daydreaming. You will notice I didn't say CHECKER. The Instructor asks this question on the day of initiation and again during the 3 days of checking.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Researcher say transcendental meditation lessens brain's pain

2006-08-10 Thread gerbal88
I agree, Steven, it really is like trying to reason with fundamentalists of whatever ilk. Wouldn't dream of it; but for the benefit of those who haven't gone over to THAT dark side, you and I and some others do try to make it clear just how idiotic TM has become as a religion (the stealth

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ask MMY

2006-08-09 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 1, 2006, at 5:09 PM, sparaig wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, blissbunn1 blissbuni@ wrote: How about one of you eloquent writers who are in the dome these days ask the question about a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Researcher say transcendental meditation lessens brain's pain response

2006-08-09 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Researcher say transcendental meditation lessens brain's pain response So, how valuable is this? you are a long time TMer and you have your hand on a hot stove and you don't respond until what, you smell your flesh

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Has the 'Flying Technique/Diverted the Goal of Attainment of Samadhi?'

2006-08-08 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert Gimbel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It has occurred to me, that in Maharishi Patajali's writings; On the Yoga Sutras, that he seems to warn about the 'Super-normal Abilities, Or Siddhis, as an adjunct, but not the goal. And Maharishi used to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Number of people learning TM (was: Victory Beef or War?)

2006-08-06 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought you were referring to the MIU geniuses who claimed that I had never meditated correctly after I left the movement. Curtis, I do not remember if I repeated this incident here at FFL. When Mahesh first

[FairfieldLife] Re: Number of people learning TM (was: Victory Beef or War?)

2006-08-06 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Really has a lot to do with not knowing what you're doing and using people as guinea pigs. In traditional yogic flying, the entire first stage is from a standing, bent-knee position and done as a step/jump

[FairfieldLife] Re: Number of people learning TM (was: Victory Beef or War?)

2006-08-06 Thread gerbal88
to act like teenagers, all those lush hormones and so on? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gerbal88 no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: I thought you were referring to the MIU geniuses who claimed that I had never

[FairfieldLife] Re: Number of people learning TM (was: Victory Beef or War?)

2006-08-06 Thread gerbal88
a likable personality, or at least the ability to predent one. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 8/6/06 1:44 PM, gerbal88 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife% 40yahoogroups.com , curtisdeltablues

[FairfieldLife] Re: Number of people learning TM (was: Victory Beef or War?)

2006-08-06 Thread gerbal88
. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gerbal88 no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: Great story! It sounds like you had the MMY job with Guru Dev for a while, reading his mail, how interesting. Paul Marashall, who was an M

[FairfieldLife] Re: Number of people learning TM (was: Victory Beef or War?)

2006-08-06 Thread gerbal88
/06 2:53 PM, gerbal88 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gerbal, I¹m curious who you are. I presume you¹re maintaining anonymity intentionally. Are you on this list of MMY¹s personal secretaries?: Dr. Hyslop ­ ended up with Sai Baba Charlie Lutes Jerry Jarvis - he did it intermittently

[FairfieldLife] Re: Number of people learning TM (was: Victory Beef or War?)

2006-08-06 Thread gerbal88
flattery, and beware the pity play. Above all, she writes, when a sociopath is beckoning, do not join the game. It is the ruthless versus the rest of us, and The Sociopath Next Door will show you how to recognize and defeat the devil you know. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gerbal88

[FairfieldLife] Re: MMY's secretaries

2006-08-06 Thread gerbal88
, gerbal88 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the list. How did it come about, I wonder. I put it together about a year ago, on a whim. As it was forming, I sent it to several of the people on it ­ Shannon, Rob, Mark Landau ­ and they filled in some blanks. To subscribe, send

[FairfieldLife] Re: Number of people learning TM (was: Victory Beef or War?)

2006-08-06 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gerbal88 no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: I think it is great that you got to that level of exposure

[FairfieldLife] Re: Number of people learning TM (was: Victory Beef or War?)

2006-08-05 Thread gerbal88
Hi, Michael -- It is interesting to note these figures. I am surprised because, at least to me, $3000 or whatever the present fee is seems really high. But people are attracted both by the message and the mystique of TM. Back in the old days, when Mahesh was on the Merv Griffin show, we simply

[FairfieldLife] Re: Email I just sent to an old friend who's trying to get me in the dome.

2006-08-05 Thread gerbal88
Marek, Shemp, Rick, Robert ... I hope you are right, that Guru Dev's demise was a natural one. Still, why would such a rumour start if this was, indeed, the case. It is very much like the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, or JFK. There are some loose ends, or the appearance of loose ends and,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Number of people learning TM (was: Victory Beef or War?)

2006-08-05 Thread gerbal88
safer. The God of Abraham guiding his accursed people out of Egypt is pure MYTH. No evidence of it exists. gerbal88 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2006 20:46:51 - Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Number of people learning TM (was: Victory Beef or War?) Hi

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Maharishi Never Charged/For Yoga Asanas or Pranayama'

2006-08-04 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig sparaig@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer groups@ wrote: on 8/4/06 7:21 AM, Robert Gimbel at babajii_99@ wrote: I never recall

[FairfieldLife] Re: Email I just sent to an old friend who's trying to get me in the dome.

2006-08-04 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ingegerd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wayback71 wayback71@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer groups@ wrote: on 8/4/06 8:14 AM, nablus108 at nablus108@ wrote: Did Mitterrand

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi Mahesh Bhogi

2006-07-27 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just out of curiosity, what's l'Affaire Gerbal all about here? You suddenly come out of lurkdom to launch a nuclear attack on me. What did I ever do to you? Maybe he's made the mistake of reading your

[FairfieldLife] Re: Yogic Flyers Story on Yahoo and Raw Story

2006-07-26 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060726/lf_afp/mideastconflictisrael_06072 6151442 On Raw Story you can leave comments: www.rawstory.com Thanks, Barry, would never have know about this. As a friend of mine likes to say

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi Mahesh Bhogi

2006-07-26 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gerbal88 no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: huge snip The Nazi imaging is too obvious. That's why I

[FairfieldLife] Re: Yogic Flyers Story on Yahoo and Raw Story

2006-07-26 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gerbal88 no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060726/lf_afp/mideastconflictisrael_0607 2 6151442

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi Mahesh Bhogi

2006-07-26 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gerbal88 no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gerbal88 no_reply@ wrote

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi Mahesh Bhogi

2006-07-26 Thread gerbal88
: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gerbal88 no_reply@ wrote: snip I have no problem with people doing TM

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi's name

2006-06-30 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 29, 2006, at 9:37 PM, Rick Archer wrote: on 6/29/06 8:19 PM, off_world_beings at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You got nothing. You are just looking for attention, but will find something to make up that is

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi's name

2006-06-30 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gerbal88 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote: On Jun 29, 2006, at 9:37 PM, Rick Archer wrote: on 6/29/06 8:19 PM, off_world_beings at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You got nothing. You

[FairfieldLife] [was Re: Maharishi's name] Weasel shite

2006-06-30 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gerbal88 no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gerbal88 no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote: On Jun

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi's name

2006-06-29 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gerbal88 no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gerbal88 no_reply@ wrote

[FairfieldLife] Re: Eternally Supportless Pure Consciousness and the Liberation of Individuality

2006-06-29 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 28, 2006, at 8:37 PM, authfriend wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote: On Jun 28, 2006, at 4:03 PM, authfriend wrote: --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi's name

2006-06-29 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 6/28/06 5:26 PM, gerbal88 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I caught Mahesh in a highly compromising activity early in my TM stint. I simply could not admit to myself that what I saw meant exactly what I knew

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi's name

2006-06-29 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 6/29/06 4:15 PM, gerbal88 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife% 40yahoogroups.com , Rick Archer groups@ wrote: on 6/28/06 5:26 PM, gerbal88 at [EMAIL

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi's name

2006-06-29 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 6/29/06 6:33 PM, gerbal88 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife% 40yahoogroups.com , Rick Archer groups@ wrote: on 6/29/06 4:15 PM, gerbal88 at [EMAIL

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi's name

2006-06-28 Thread gerbal88
It's a silly and pointless exercise in futiity. Mahesh's secrecy policy is the modus operandi that drove the early Movement. The rather mundane fact that his mother named him Mahesh probably has some significance in all this, but who actually cares. What kind of maharishi or, for that matter,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi's name

2006-06-28 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One thing MMY has never done is accept a formal disciple, as far as I can tell. And, of course, there's Sattyanand, Devindra and Guru Bev (Bevin became a brahmachari, probably one of the very few westerners if

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi's name

2006-06-28 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutphen@ wrote: Seems like MMY likes all the benefits of having disciples, but he accepts none of the reponsibility of having disciples. sounds like saying

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi's name

2006-06-28 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gerbal88 no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutphen@ wrote

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi's name

2006-06-28 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gerbal88 no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutphen@ wrote

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi's name

2006-06-28 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 6/28/06 10:23 AM, gerbal88 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife% 40yahoogroups.com , curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: One thing MMY has never

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Rehabilitating and Constructive Endeavour

2006-05-27 Thread gerbal88
Paul's book about Mahesh is quite good, although I simply got tired of reading about Mahesh. I have been shy of Wikipedia simply because of its edit-ability, but I cannot imagine Paul taking liberties with facts or misusing edit-ability to his own ends. Everyone should read his bio of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Domash

2006-05-21 Thread gerbal88
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote: [snip] The Furher Mahesh effect. You can't even spell Führer.

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