[FairfieldLife] Re: Begging money and charity

2006-01-25 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, the whole concept of people living in supposedly rarified spiritual environments supported by others turns out to be quite a lie, in the case of the 'P' or 'MD' groups, for example. I like what Rick said

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi's forecast for 2006

2006-01-25 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rick Archer wrote: This may already have been posted: Maharishi's forecast for 2006 Global Press Conference, 28.12.05 MAHARISHI: I see the destruction of the destroyers - whatever little they may have remained. I

[FairfieldLife] Shankara's supreme commentary on Giitaa 13.13

2006-01-25 Thread cardemaister
Especially the phrase an_aadimat paraM brahma which Vaishnavites, I believe,(e.g. Hare Krishnas) prefer to read like this: an_aadi matparaM brahma. English Translation of Sri Sankaracharya's Sanskrit Commentary - Swami Gambhirananda 13.13 Pravaksyami, I shall speak of, fully describe just as

[FairfieldLife] Re: Begging money and charity

2006-01-25 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- jim_flanegin wrote: It is a dreamy and sugary thought to associate some sort of gentle pious life with liberation, but in fact there is no connection at all. None. Gentle, pious living has helped me enormously in the past, so I don't discount its value. But I can't say as it

Re: [FairfieldLife] India: Mirror of Truth

2006-01-25 Thread Rick Archer
Title: Re: [FairfieldLife] India: Mirror of Truth HI Rick, please forward to FFL Dear Peter, The memoir is a faithful account of people and events from my India experience. That said, Keshava is a pseudonym for a Himalayan saint that asked me not to use his real name. There are other

[FairfieldLife] Ron's Birthday

2006-01-25 Thread Rick Archer
Title: Ron's Birthday Today is Ron Frieds Birthday. He once held the title of most frequent poster on FFL. He still lurks here. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!'

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ron's Birthday

2006-01-25 Thread Marek Reavis
Happy Birthday, Ron. The site ain't the same without you. ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Today is Ron FriedĀ¹s Birthday. He once held the title of most frequent poster on FFL. He still lurks here. Yahoo! Groups

[FairfieldLife] Re: Begging money and charity

2006-01-25 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wayback71 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I still believe that long periods of time spent meditating are wonderful.Everyone should have that chance for a few months in a lifetime. Yes, absolutely! Yahoo! Groups Sponsor

[FairfieldLife] Re: Begging money and charity

2006-01-25 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Patrick Gillam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- jim_flanegin wrote: It is a dreamy and sugary thought to associate some sort of gentle pious life with liberation, but in fact there is no connection at all. None. Gentle, pious living has

[FairfieldLife] Re: Begging money and charity

2006-01-25 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wayback71 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I still believe that long periods of time spent meditating are wonderful.Everyone should have that chance for a few months in a

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Begging money and charity

2006-01-25 Thread Peter
--- wayback71 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I still believe that long periods of time spent meditating are wonderful.Everyone should have that chance for a few months in a lifetime. I treasure the time I spent on long TM courses like teacher training or ATR's or courses. I think the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Begging money and charity

2006-01-25 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- jim_flanegin wrote: As to whether the benefit of the P group is for all, I am skeptical. It begs the question, 'what *isn't* for the benefit of all?'. Can't think of anything... Second-hand cigarette smoke? Regardless, you have a fortunate point of view! I don't discount the Purusha

[FairfieldLife] Brandon Teena Story and Fairfield connection

2006-01-25 Thread shempmcgurk
Just saw the documentary on DVD of the Brandon Teena Story which the movie Boys Don't Cry was based upon. However, unlike the movie, in real life, there was a third person murdered in the farm house: an African-American named Phillip Devine. What is curious about Devine is that he listed his

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM bonds -- too good to be true?

2006-01-25 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, uns_tressor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bbrigante [EMAIL

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi's forecast for 2006

2006-01-25 Thread Bhairitu
TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rick Archer wrote: This may already have been posted: Maharishi's forecast for 2006 Global Press Conference, 28.12.05 MAHARISHI: I see the destruction of the destroyers - whatever little they

[FairfieldLife] Re: Op-Ed on Spiritual Pollution of High-Density Hog Farms

2006-01-25 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, a_non_moose_ff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, markmeredith2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Regarding the more numerous fundamentalist

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM bonds -- too good to be true?

2006-01-25 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 1/17/06 3:01:08 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I weep. When you've been dealing with

[FairfieldLife] Re: Again India does it

2006-01-25 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sparaig wrote: How many of these are from judy or myself? Mone - most of them were posted by John Manning, Barry Wright, and Steve Perino, your pals over on Usenet. H, I get along with John OK,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sidhas Welcome barbecue sign

2006-01-25 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There was a web URL called PETA.org, which stood for that. PETA (the othere one) won a court battle for the URL. The guy who owned

[FairfieldLife] Re: Again India does it

2006-01-25 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jason Spock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Indians are the world's biggest copy-cats. India's greatest Super-hero, Shaktimaan is a combination of Superman and Flash-Gordon. Superman is a Jewish superhero taken from the myth of the gollem, and

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy January 12th

2006-01-25 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a teacher I admired once said so aptly, It's a DOS planet.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Op-Ed on Spiritual Pollution of High-Density Hog Farms

2006-01-25 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, a_non_moose_ff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, markmeredith2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Regarding the more numerous fundamentalist

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM bonds -- too good to be true?

2006-01-25 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jyouells2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 1/17/06 1:22 PM, shempmcgurk at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Yes-Men are the villains... Isn't there SOMEONE around him

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM bonds -- too good to be true?

2006-01-25 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- sparaig wrote: Someone died because they didn't have policies in place to handle that kind of person I understood the policies were indeed in place. The people implementing the policies didn't see the danger. They thought their actions in accord with the policy were adequate.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Again India does it

2006-01-25 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sparaig wrote: How many of these are from judy or myself? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: MMY - Tyrant Crackpot! Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental Date: 11 Nov 2005 11:18:10

[FairfieldLife] Re: Op-Ed on Spiritual Pollution of High-Density Hog Farms

2006-01-25 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wayback71 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 1/17/06 4:44 PM, TurquoiseB at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Absolutely. If it weren't true, the Left Behind series of books would not

[FairfieldLife] Re: Op-Ed on Spiritual Pollution of High-Density Hog Farms

2006-01-25 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 1/17/06 4:44 PM, TurquoiseB at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Absolutely. If it weren't true, the Left Behind series of books would not be the huge sellers they are. Modern-day (that is to say, so perverted as to

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Deeksha, Shaktipat and PowerTouch

2006-01-25 Thread Bhairitu
Richard J. Williams wrote: Bhairitu wrote: My teacher has decided that since people have an interest in learning to give shaktipat... So, your teacher, a former Indian pilot, will teach me how to give the shaktipat? Are you suggesting that there's some kind of mind-altering

Re: [FairfieldLife] Deeksha, Shaktipat and PowerTouch

2006-01-25 Thread Bhairitu
gullible fool wrote: I think you may have your Maas mixed up. Unless I missed something I don't see anything about Sai Ma teaching such courses. Also I believe the ones that do have a couple extra zeros behind the 55. :) Only one Sai Maa comes up in a yahoo or google search, so it

[FairfieldLife] Details of Creation

2006-01-25 Thread bbrigante
14Dec2005 The Details of Creation on the Level of Direct Subjective Experience Dr Hagelin: `Thank you, Maharishi. There is obviously an extremely unique opportunity for the press to declare eureka today. `Maharishi, the world's foremost quantum physicists have developed highly successful

[FairfieldLife] Re: Begging money and charity

2006-01-25 Thread bbrigante
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- wayback71 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I still believe that long periods of time spent meditating are wonderful.Everyone should have that chance for a few months in a lifetime. I treasure the time I spent

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ron's Birthday

2006-01-25 Thread Peter
Happy Birthday Ron! We miss you big guy. This might be a tough neighborhood, but you are well loved here. Stop by once in a while for a beer and a cigarette, okay? ;-) --- Marek Reavis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Happy Birthday, Ron. The site ain't the same without you. ** --- In

Re: [FairfieldLife] There's No Place Like Home for the Hollandaise...

2006-01-25 Thread Peter
Tell him to go visit my namesake, the town of Zutphen. Dirk von Zutphen came to this country in 1642. --- Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is official. We had our choice of either going to the Brahmasthan of India for a couple of months and then going to Holland when some of the new

Re: [FairfieldLife] Details of Creation

2006-01-25 Thread Vaj
If we didn't already know he was senile this would just be echolalia. If I hear one more regurgitation of AGNI as the course of creation, I'll hurl. Really. On Jan 25, 2006, at 4:14 PM, bbrigante wrote: 14Dec2005 The Details of Creation on the Level of Direct Subjective Experience Dr

[FairfieldLife] Re: Details of Creation

2006-01-25 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If we didn't already know he was senile this would just be echolalia. Echolalia: The involuntary parrotlike repetition (echoing) of a word or phrase just spoken by another person.

[FairfieldLife] Remember Edward Tarabilda?

2006-01-25 Thread bdadvaitin
I just came across a book in a health food store in Portland, Maine by Edward Tarabilda entitled, Ayurveda Revolutionized. I remember him when I was a first year student at MIU back in 1975-1976. It mentions that he co-founded The Institute for Wholistic Education which is based in Twin Lakes, WI.

[FairfieldLife] Re: There's No Place Like Home for the Hollandaise...

2006-01-25 Thread lurkernomore20002000
--- . It's the end of an era for our 9-1/2-year stint in Boone. Starting Feb. 1 we will be history. Yet we may well be back in a year or so. Some land purchase is being finalized a couple of hours SW of here, still in the NC mountains and, according to our sources, equally scenic and

Re: [FairfieldLife] Remember Edward Tarabilda?

2006-01-25 Thread Vaj
On Jan 25, 2006, at 7:03 PM, bdadvaitin wrote:I just came across a book in a health food store in Portland, Maineby Edward Tarabilda entitled, "Ayurveda Revolutionized." I rememberhim when I was a first year student at MIU back in 1975-1976.It mentions that he co-founded "The Institute for

Re: [FairfieldLife] Remember Edward Tarabilda?

2006-01-25 Thread Bhairitu
bdadvaitin wrote: I just came across a book in a health food store in Portland, Maine by Edward Tarabilda entitled, Ayurveda Revolutionized. I remember him when I was a first year student at MIU back in 1975-1976. It mentions that he co-founded The Institute for Wholistic Education which is based

[FairfieldLife] Re: [NgakpaZhonnuKhang] apotropaic use of iron

2006-01-25 Thread Vaj
I think a lot of people miss that before man knew how to mine and smelt iron what his basic source of iron was: meteoritic iron. We would all do well to take a look a Eliade's _The Forge and the Crucible_. The few meteors that survive the drop to earth all seem to contain a mix of predominantly

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: There's No Place Like Home for the Hollandaise...

2006-01-25 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Jan 25, 2006, at 6:48 PM, lurkernomore20002000 wrote: > It's the end of an era for our 9-1/2-year stint in Boone. Starting > Feb. 1 we will be history. Yet we may well be back in a year or so. > Some land purchase is being finalized a couple of hours SW of here, > still in the NC

Re: [FairfieldLife] Remember Edward Tarabilda?

2006-01-25 Thread Vaj
On Jan 25, 2006, at 7:03 PM, bdadvaitin wrote:I just came across a book in a health food store in Portland, Maine by Edward Tarabilda entitled, "Ayurveda Revolutionized." I remember him when I was a first year student at MIU back in 1975-1976. It mentions that he co-founded "The Institute for

[FairfieldLife] Re: Remember Edward Tarabilda?

2006-01-25 Thread bdadvaitin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 25, 2006, at 7:03 PM, bdadvaitin wrote: I just came across a book in a health food store in Portland, Maine by Edward Tarabilda entitled, Ayurveda Revolutionized. I remember him when I was a first year student

[FairfieldLife] Re: Op-Ed on Spiritual Pollution of High-Density Hog Farms

2006-01-25 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- sparaig wrote: Bush and many members of his administration couldn't get a job as a seargant at a missile silo. This goes on the list of keeper quotes. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with

[FairfieldLife] Intention revisited

2006-01-25 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- Vaj wrote: It proved to me that if the underlying and deepest motivation was not pure, the result would ultimately reflect this. Therefore it was always important to check your own motivation. It forms the basis of all action in the relative. Is there a way to retire an originating

Re: [FairfieldLife] Intention revisited

2006-01-25 Thread Jamshad Ghanbar
This is a great deal of intention ! Very Very nice - is't it?Patrick Gillam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Vaj wrote: It proved to me that if the underlying and deepest motivation was not pure, the result would ultimately reflect this. Therefore it was always important to "check" your own

[FairfieldLife] Re: Intention revisited

2006-01-25 Thread matrixmonitor
---Undoing intention, (or any karma): the trick is the amount of effort; but there's a mantra designed for dissolving karma which is Thiru Neela Kantam (meaning Holy Blue Throat - a reference to Shiva). You chant the mantra and at the same time imagining the bad karma as a type of liquid. Shiva

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM bonds -- too good to be true?

2006-01-25 Thread Jamshad Ghanbar
The big selfsparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jyouells2000" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 1/17/06 1:22 PM, shempmcgurk at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Yes-Men are the

[FairfieldLife] KHOE now online

2006-01-25 Thread bbrigante
MUM radio KHOE is now online: http://www.khoe.org/ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM

[FairfieldLife] Benjamin Creme and the Maitreya fraud

2006-01-25 Thread Vaj
http://tinyurl.com/bkxfd 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 Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send

Re: [FairfieldLife] KHOE now online

2006-01-25 Thread Rick Archer
on 1/25/06 10:30 PM, bbrigante at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MUM radio KHOE is now online: http://www.khoe.org/ Those of you out of town will enjoy this station. They play some good music - right now it sounds like Leo Kottke - and talks by Maharishi, Bevan, Hagelin, etc. that will undoubtedly