[FairfieldLife] Re: Dying the Christian Science way

"The founder and leader of the church, Mary Baker Eddy, taught that disease was unreal" Ah, beware dogmatic extremists! I can recall when I lived in Mentmore Towers in the mid 80s (British TMHQ), there was a word sometimes used for those few chaps who refused any form of medical

[FairfieldLife] Re: excellent doc on Christ

"FINDING GOD IN CHRIST " An address given by a Christ messenger through the deep trance mediumship of Miss Winifred Moyes, at the Greater World Circle, 15 Nightingale Square, London, SW12, on Sunday, 1st February, 1925. "That brings me down

RE: [FairfieldLife] Does the universe have a purpose?

I concur that this explanatory account, i.e. of physical creation through the Agency of the Christ Universal, with reference to the individual Jesus of Galilee appearance - may not fit closely with theological ideas of conservative Christians but it fits closely with oft repeated theological

RE: [FairfieldLife] Does the universe have a purpose?

There is no video to be referred to as the extract I have used is taken from a series of books entitled The Life Beyond The Veil first published in 1920 (given during the Fist World War), which received a fairly large readership due to Lord Northcliffe, proprietor of the national newspaper the

RE: [FairfieldLife] Does the universe have a purpose?

According to Patañjali: prakaasha-kriyaa-sthiti-shiilaM, bhuutendriyaatmakaM bhogaapavargaarthaM dRSyam. Thank you for this interesting and thought-provoking thought. In the physical universe we have elements and activity with apparent stability throughout, and we have a concrete

[FairfieldLife] Approaching Easter Commemoration

For anyone who may have an interest, for the upcoming Good Friday release of the local paper where I live, I have placed the following extract because, I believe, times of spiritual commemoration and remembrance place the heart and mind in a certain receptive state to make infinite truth more

[FairfieldLife] Re: Paradigm Shifters: Science of Climate Wreckage & Meditating

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : email: ..members of Mother Divine and to Members of Purusha and every person who was close to Maharishi (MMY) confided in us that foretold that the impending phase-transition from Kali-Yuga into full blown Sat-Yuga would occur between 2020

[FairfieldLife] Re: Of Yogic Flying..

“It is the experience and inner experience of flying” Then perhaps it would have been wiser in this day and age to have evolved the terminology to “Inner Flying” from its very introduction. Perhaps the term “Inner Flying” would not then mislead the non-participator who is but a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Of Yogic Flying..

“It is the experience and inner experience of flying” Then perhaps it would have been wiser in this day and age to have evolved the terminology to “Inner Flying” from its very introduction. Perhaps the term “Inner Flying” would not then mislead the non-participator who is but a witness to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Of Yogic Flying..

“It is the experience and inner experience of flying” Then perhaps it would have been wiser in this day and age to have evolved the terminology to “Inner Flying” from its very introduction. Perhaps the term “Inner Flying” would not then mislead the non-participator who is a but witness

[FairfieldLife] Good Friday 2018

For anyone who may be interested in such things, this is an extract I placed in the Personal column of the local newspaper today, Good Friday. Perhaps unfortunately, the text appears quite small in the newspaper due to the not inconsiderable cost – but I expect anyone interested in the

[FairfieldLife] Re: "Leavers"

Or perhaps fear has never been born in the absence of duality? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Duality is born of fear. Corollary perhaps is Unity is born from a state of no fear.

[FairfieldLife] Re: "Leavers"

Or perhaps fear has never been born in the absence of non-duality? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Duality is born of fear. Corollary perhaps is Unity is born from a state of no fear.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Jewish(?) Ivanka: last trump??

If such bizarre tricks of the human mind can come up with this English ‘revelation’ from the Greek word σάλπιγγι (salpingi), then Heaven help the straying sheep from the English-speaking shepherds! (Somebody please remind the preacher that he’s really waiting for President Salpingi). ---In

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi Jyotish Council's Tips for Eclipse

I thought for a moment JP Sears was going to say that as beings of spirit no longer seeking signs from material phenomena we are no longer like animals with no choice but to shiver with fright and panic at unusual but natural earthly changes, and therefore we are no longer associating with

[FairfieldLife] Re: HAPPY WEEKEND WITH 10 BEST VIDEOS ON TM

No friend, I do not belittle Maharishi or his achievements in any manner, rather do I hold reverent love for him and gratitude for his presence on Earth in a body of flesh, even though I disagree with some of his claims. It is not difficult to follow his chosen path and see in outline why

[FairfieldLife] Re: recent published research

Why did methadone-related deaths decrease when all other opioid-related deaths increased during the period 2007-2010? Can this decrease in methadone-related deaths be attributed to a large group practicing the Transcendental Meditation technique and its advanced program, the TM-Sidhi

[FairfieldLife] Re: HAPPY WEEKEND WITH 10 BEST VIDEOS ON TM

https://tmhome.com/books-videos/history-channel-documentary-on-maharishi-mahesh-yogi https://tmhome.com/books-videos/history-channel-documentary-on-maharishi-mahesh-yogi @ 41:50 by Geoff Gilpin, author of “The Maharishi Effect” “When I came back in 2000, TM was almost an afterthought. I

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ved in Human Physiology Clarity of pandit's sound vibration

MP3 sound file: https://archive.org/download/40AspectsOfVedaInPhysiology/40AspectsOfVedaAndVedicLiteratureInTheHumanPhysiology.mp3 https://archive.org/download/40AspectsOfVedaInPhysiology/40AspectsOfVedaAndVedicLiteratureInTheHumanPhysiology.mp3 "Those who practice the TM-Sidhi

[FairfieldLife] Easter-tide

For anyone who might be interested, I put this excerpt in the Personal column of our local paper for Good Friday. It seems to me that Traditionalism creates obstacles and obscures the more optimistic view from those who should receive it… Extract from “WHAT DOES RESURRECTION MEAN FOR THE

[FairfieldLife] Re: recent published research

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-03/muom-fsf030917.php https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-03/muom-fsf030917.php “The researchers first calculated a baseline trend for monthly fatality rates during 2002-2006, and then used time series intervention analysis to compare

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[FairfieldLife] Clarity of pandit's sound vibration

I thought it sensible and desirable to be able to listen to this work as an audio file on a media device with the eyes closed. I therefore created an mp3 file, filtered out the awful background noise (buzzing/humming), then passed the file through an echo reduction plug-in. Note: If

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: new Maharishi Effect article published

"The study found that group practice of the Transcendental Meditation® and TM-Sidhi® program by participants in the Invincible America Assembly at Maharishi University of Management (MUM) was associated with a 20.6% reduction of US motor vehicle fatalities over the four-year period 2007–2010…

[FairfieldLife] Shake the Dice

I had a natural break form a serious spiritual project so just for fun I invented a new prediction science. Dice are thrown on a board (surrounded by sides) and the board is shaken gently while thinking of a person - and the vibrations create an interpretable result. The board has 81

[FairfieldLife] I think I'll move to that chair

When I used to live in a 'TM Academy' (before the powers-that-be decided to sell the English buildings) a friend, one of the ‘Perusha Governors’, told me that some of them (resident Perusha Governors) had been shown a video of Maharishi lifting up and out of one chair and floating over to

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Call to Spiritual Order,Rally Now to Meditation!

Well, forgive this voicing of a different viewpoint, but this one's personal opinion is that one genuine disciplined meditator meditating regularly amongst 100 non-meditators is more effective in society than 100 meditators meditating amongst themselves - although there is certainly a

[FairfieldLife] Re: David Lynch Foundation Jamaica

Thanks, quite simply there needs to be an understanding given for those who cannot swallow the whole package of the old school dogma because of their own spiritual make-up, an avenue that brings to them this simple healing power through TM and yet allows their spirit to be free to follow the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fw: Fwd: Special Jyotish Alert from the Global Council of Jyotish Experts

From this person’s point of view, for what it is worth, I find the association of Jyotish with the basic meditation techniques off-putting, something which turns me away from the Movement as it is. I think that this association limits the ‘Movement’ (if I may still call it that) because some

Re: [FairfieldLife] Shorthand, Jyotish Dates

“just for the record, the fact that we have tides doesn't validate the notion of "vibrational influence of the heavenly bodies on subtle systems of the human being." What the tides validate is the gravitational influence of the moon on the oceans.” This is precisely the thought that

[FairfieldLife] Re: Nutrient Content in Food Has Dramatically Declined

I wonder why Magnesium is not included in their list, it also appears to be having a hard time getting into plants!

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Srila Prabhupada

George Harrison is reported as saying in an interview with Mukunda (1982): “One of the main differences between silent meditation and chanting is that silent meditation is rather dependent on concentration, but when you chant, it’s more of a direct connection with God.” In my own

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Is TM a New Religion? The Federal District Court

I read a lot of the TM-free site last year and I can understand why some people feel the way they do in regard to MMY and his latter years’ emphasis upon it being essential to have such things as the correct architecture for “a man to be right” when originally all that was needed was the do the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Maharishi Thumb Drive

[quote] Would be nice if someone had a server and could figure out how to download the file to folks. It is a big file. 22+mb. [/quote] Forgive me if somebody has already suggested a free large file-share storage site. Usually you can just send an email to someone that links directly to the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Did Jesus Christ Say He is the Unified Field?

I'm not going to be drawn into definitions of Self, as such, as everyone is right in the truth they have had revealed. I personally don't follow a tradition but I do have a way of enlivening my spiritual instinct, if you will. Pine scent, lovely! I think I know what you mean. It seems a little

[FairfieldLife] Re: Did Jesus Christ Say He is the Unified Field?

...adoration becomes loving adoration loving adoration becomes awe and loving adoration awe and loving adoration becomes awe, reverence and loving adoration which is deep and abiding love for the Supreme

[FairfieldLife] Re: Did Jesus Christ Say He is the Unified Field?

…or the availability to adore the One Supreme Being through His Spiritual Christ, no other Way except in name and comprehension Taking a first-century (named in his honour!) rabbi as a symbol of The One Self is fine - as long as you realise that he is only one symbol among many others. The

[FairfieldLife] Re: Did Jesus Christ Say He is the Unified Field?

I have come to see an overall picture a bit like this. There are ordained and necessary stepping stones across the dangerous swell to the bank on the other side, all made with slightly different patterns in order to bring the eager wayfarer and dedicated pilgrim to the safety of dry land. They

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Activist Meditators and A day of silent prayer ..Meditation 's Going Mainstream

Hi. I have personally experienced that the practice of Transcendental Meditation has very deep healing powers and actively promote it (in the right context i would use the adjective 'miraculous'). However, I recently had to find an alternative for people at work that was free from any

[FairfieldLife] Re: Harbingers continue to manifest!

Millions of books sold? I suppose millions of people like to feel shivers in order to further develop a zombie-like consciousness? I saw this recently on a forum and thought it shows well what the mind can come up with to make millions think ‘prophecy’ or 'spiritual science'. It seems that

[FairfieldLife] Re: Good Friday Message of Divine Love

Well, for anyone who might have an interest and without any further additions which might cause upset, this is the entry I put in the Personal column of our local paper last year on Good Friday [quite apt for Sunday Morn]... Peace Extract from "LESSER CALVARIES”, spoken by the Unnamed Scribe

[FairfieldLife] Good Friday Message of Divine Love

I always remember Maharishi saying that Love will conquer the world. For anyone who may have an interest, I have put the following extract in the Personal column of our local newspaper this Good Friday morning. This is for the thousands who have been left in the dark because they have

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The 1980's TM Peace Projects

I remember Mentmore Towers [UK] emptying of all the Perusha governors etc. who lived in it after they each raised some money and then they all popped off to the Philippines for a month or so. I was left to cook for just one person other than myself as far as I remember. I heard they swept

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM Originalists v Progressive Practitioners, The TM Movement Community

I'd say there's been a "black night of the soul" for many of us regarding M's teaching. Indeed...and yet how much more marvellous are the first rays of early morning set against the darkest of nights, with the full brightness of day yet to come! Through the line behind the pioneering attitude

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM Originalists v Progressive Practitioners, The TM Movement Community

“I don't recall that on my TTC ('72) that we were trained to be as deceptive as upfronter is suggesting.” I’m sorry if you thought I was suggesting that TM teachers were “trained to be as deceptive”. My point, in a nutshell, is that before this practice was ironed out (thank you

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM Originalists v Progressive Practitioners, The TM Movement Community

“Teacher briefly glances at initiation form to check the criteria for mantra selection (age and/or sex) and to preserve the illusion of personal mantra selection.” In other words, alter the truth that mantra selection is based solely on age and sex and create an illusion that it is

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM Originalists v Progressive Practitioners, The TM Movement Community

I sincerely thank the disciplic line responsible for the meditation that has brought me to a world in this world that I could not even have dreamt of. How grateful am I! However, I do not agree with much of the certain knowledge spoken by the masters that comes from the East except in

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: Maharishi Jyotishis on next 4-5 weeks ~ Important time for coherence in consciousness

Perhaps one reason why there is not 100% attendance is because a lot of people do not actually believe that what they are being told in such a matter-of-fact way is accurate and factual. A meditator continues to meditate because they have a clear and subjectively recognisable benefit from

[FairfieldLife] Re: >> Russia Will be World’s Largest Supplier of Healthy Organic Food

Perhaps Mr Putin thinks that promoting organic food will redress the balance of some other home grown activities (which I’m sure Maharishi was not contemplating when he said that “Russia will be your rescue”? In 2012, Rosoboronexport (Russia's exports/imports of defense-related and dual

[FairfieldLife] Re: The True Face of Jesus

If you take a look at the picture, do you think the FBI would suspect him as a terrorist? http://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/a40399/jesus-real-face/ http://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/a40399/jesus-real-face/ Interesting article. It is food for thought. “He hath no form nor comeliness;

Re: [FairfieldLife] Hear, Hear

I don't think there is one thing that is "the answer". Or to put my point another way perhaps, for some people Vedic knowledge and philosophy, Buddhism, humanism or whatever may provide the answers, there are beautiful attempts at explaining Life - but for me it is lacking as it does not

Re: [FairfieldLife] Hear, Hear

I don't think "judging" is the word. I see it as his willingness to move past what he sees as limited/narrow/ blinkered thinking and embracing something bigger and, for him, better. It reads positive to me, not negative. It reads as if this man, a pastor, is willing to dissect and understand

Re: [FairfieldLife] Hear, Hear

Then comes the increase of another aspect of realisation or revelation of Truth among individuals aligned to that group, which meets with varying degrees of opposition from the larger body as interfering, groundless based on existing modes of proof, meddling, even threatening. The greater the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fat shaming

The extract shows that initially, very restricted food has health benefits (not for elderly folk particularly) but brings disease eventually (This is of interest to me as I was born in Jersey, Channel Islands, 15 years after the ‘Occupation’).

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fat shaming

Interesting. ‘Everything in moderation’ applies to famine too. The extract shows that initially, restricted food can have healthy benefits (except for elderly folk) but brings disease eventually (This is of interest to me as I was born in Jersey, Channel Islands, 15 years after the

[FairfieldLife] Re: YF'ing Yogic Flying Evidently is Out

I always thought that 1% did seem to be too nice a round arbitrary figure to take literally. I want to thank the community. I have not spoken to anyone in the TM world for nearly 3 decades (what? where did that time go?) except for a short moment in the foyer of the hospital in which I

[FairfieldLife] Re: YF'ing Yogic Flying Evidently is Out

Well, prior to that time, I had already taken the TM-Sidhis course when living and working in a UK TM Academy. This meeting was an invite to a certain commercial enterprise for the general public to which the mention of meditation was part of the sales talk, but it would not be ethical to

[FairfieldLife] Re: YF'ing Yogic Flying Evidently is Out

Thanks for this. I remember attending a meeting in the ‘80s by a couple who were among the first ‘flyers’ in the UK, who announced that a Sidha was a ‘superior being’, as in a ‘superior being’ to others. The reaction in the room from those more of my age group was one of disbelief that

[FairfieldLife] Re: YF'ing Yogic Flying Evidently is Out

Ah yes, while the meditation brings inner rewards beyond description, I find that the material world hardly ever gives me the 200% ideal, perhaps my inner being and my physical mind have very different ideas of what's good for me... I even join the longer checkout queue sometimes as it seems to

[FairfieldLife] Re: YF'ing Yogic Flying Evidently is Out

Yes you are right, it was a bit strange, one of those MLM things, my friends were friendly outgoing folk so it suited them but not my kind of thing being more of the quiet monkish type at the time but I was living in their home so went. I remember containing laughter though.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Life in Tibet..

Some Buddhist meditators are clearly serene from their meditation practices. It does seem unfair to the point of appearing dishonest to put down all other forms of meditation. In the ‘80s, after leaving the British TM HQ, being open-minded I also tried chanting for years on the beads

[FairfieldLife] Re: Armageddon news...

Babylon Bible Prophecy ISIS Secrets Revealed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhLTT85Ite8=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhLTT85Ite8=youtu.be Babylon Bible Prophecy ISIS Secrets Revealed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhLTT85Ite8=youtu.be The Truth Bible Students have been