[FairfieldLife] Re: Alternative to Transcendental Meditation

2009-08-23 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: snip The fact that they also have scientology-like leagues of TM digital-jihadists searching blogs referring to TM and controlling Wikipedia entries, so they can interject 'their version of history and theirs alone' is not a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Alternative to Transcendental Meditation

2009-08-23 Thread WillyTex
Judy wrote: For heaven's sake, people, why do you let Vaj get away with this crap? Oh, shut yer pie hole! I've been doing this for years. Where have you been? Where I come, from silence usually indicates agreement. Where were you when I needed you with Manning, Vaj and the BluIce? Meditation

[FairfieldLife] Re: Alternative to Transcendental Meditation

2009-08-17 Thread dhamiltony2k5
Natural Stress Relief (NSR) going back into this thread, NSR seems an American project. I spoke over the weekend with someone just back from a summer in London who now was visiting FF. That person observed that an English group widely promotes alternative Transcendental Meditation there for

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Alternative to Transcendental Meditation

2009-08-17 Thread Vaj
On Aug 17, 2009, at 7:19 AM, dhamiltony2k5 wrote: Natural Stress Relief (NSR) going back into this thread, NSR seems an American project. I spoke over the weekend with someone just back from a summer in London who now was visiting FF. That person observed that an English group widely

[FairfieldLife] Re: Alternative to Transcendental Meditation

2009-08-17 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 dhamiltony...@... wrote: Natural Stress Relief (NSR) going back into this thread, NSR seems an American project. I spoke over the weekend with someone just back from a summer in London who now was visiting FF. That person observed

[FairfieldLife] Re: Alternative to Transcendental Meditation

2009-08-16 Thread dhamiltony2k5
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 dhamiltony...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis reavismarek@ wrote: I agree with you, Patrick, it really is remarkable that Maharishi was able to direct so many people into doing meditation, and on a twice

[FairfieldLife] Re: Alternative to Transcendental Meditation

2009-08-14 Thread dhamiltony2k5
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis reavisma...@... wrote: I agree with you, Patrick, it really is remarkable that Maharishi was able to direct so many people into doing meditation, and on a twice daily basis, to boot. But I think that it was just the right message and medium

[FairfieldLife] Re: Alternative to Transcendental Meditation

2009-08-12 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis reavisma...@... wrote: Vaj, you may be correct, but as a species we all seem to be far more alike than different. We all apprehend the being that we are from different angles and with different approaches, but at some point all that

[FairfieldLife] Re: Alternative to Transcendental Meditation

2009-08-11 Thread dhamiltony2k5
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: An alternative to Transcendental Meditation August 10, 6:29 PMPhoenix Alternative Religions ExaminerWayne Purdin Interesting market positioning. Now comes, Marketing the alternative Transcendental Meditation. Give

[FairfieldLife] Re: Alternative to Transcendental Meditation

2009-08-11 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 wrote: Give this to a real business school as a mass market project: Health food stores typically have alternative newspapers that list alternative and complementary health care services. I used to look at these lists regularly. I was

[FairfieldLife] Re: Alternative to Transcendental Meditation

2009-08-11 Thread Marek Reavis
I agree with you, Patrick, it really is remarkable that Maharishi was able to direct so many people into doing meditation, and on a twice daily basis, to boot. But I think that it was just the right message and medium for the time and for the people who were, for some reason, primed for both.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Alternative to Transcendental Meditation

2009-08-11 Thread Vaj
On Aug 11, 2009, at 6:05 PM, dhamiltony2k5 wrote: -- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: An alternative to Transcendental Meditation August 10, 6:29 PMPhoenix Alternative Religions ExaminerWayne Purdin Interesting market positioning. Now comes, Marketing

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Alternative to Transcendental Meditation

2009-08-11 Thread Vaj
On Aug 11, 2009, at 9:13 PM, Marek Reavis wrote: I agree with you, Patrick, it really is remarkable that Maharishi was able to direct so many people into doing meditation, and on a twice daily basis, to boot. But I think that it was just the right message and medium for the time and for

[FairfieldLife] Re: Alternative to Transcendental Meditation

2009-08-11 Thread Marek Reavis
Just today, as I was passing through security at the courthouse, I overheard one of the bailiffs use the phrase . . . it was like that was her mantra or something . . . This bailiff was unlikely to have ever done mantra meditation, and equally unlikely that the two security guards had either,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Alternative to Transcendental Meditation

2009-08-11 Thread Vaj
On Aug 11, 2009, at 10:29 PM, Marek Reavis wrote: Just today, as I was passing through security at the courthouse, I overheard one of the bailiffs use the phrase . . . it was like that was her mantra or something . . . This bailiff was unlikely to have ever done mantra meditation, and

[FairfieldLife] Re: Alternative to Transcendental Meditation

2009-08-11 Thread Marek Reavis
The Perennial Philosophy in practice. ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: On Aug 11, 2009, at 10:29 PM, Marek Reavis wrote: Just today, as I was passing through security at the courthouse, I overheard one of the bailiffs use the phrase . . . it was like

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Alternative to Transcendental Meditation

2009-08-11 Thread Vaj
I'm sorry to say Marek, but I feel illusion of a philosophia perennis as a continuing thread of generic gnosis, same-awakening, across time, as some universal spiritual awakening (for different human-folk) to be totally imaginary and anti-inner-anthemic. It goes against the grain of the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Alternative to Transcendental Meditation

2009-08-11 Thread Marek Reavis
Vaj, you may be correct, but as a species we all seem to be far more alike than different. We all apprehend the being that we are from different angles and with different approaches, but at some point all that evaporates, certainly, and what 'is' is all that remains. That's my take, at