--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[I wrote:]
Beggars to describe these people was an unfortunate
choice of words. I winced a bit at it at first myself,
but then I realized what she was trying to get across
was the feeling of inadequacy on the part
As I said before, I'd vastly rather deal with a
straightforward male chauvinist pig than a fake,
hypocritical male feminist.
Now don't you worry your pretty little head about this man talk. You
will just get overwrought trying to keep up with the conversation and
it'll give ya the vapors!
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of authfriend
Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2007 11:24 AM
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rick's lady friend's cosmic knowledge
--- In HYPERLINK
On Oct 13, 2007, at 10:28 AM, authfriend wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Oct 12, 2007, at 12:34 AM, Rick Archer wrote:
snip
Are there examples in your tradition of masters
who knew all things large and small, near and far,
simultaneously…
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip
But just for a moment, try to imagine what it
*feels* like to have someone just *explode* with
his own simmering hatred of self, and aim it at
you, and put it into the most carefully-crafted
attempts to *hurt* he
On Oct 13, 2007, at 12:36 PM, Rick Archer wrote:
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of authfriend
Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2007 11:24 AM
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rick's lady friend's cosmic knowledge
--- In
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As I said before, I'd vastly rather deal with a
straightforward male chauvinist pig than a fake,
hypocritical male feminist.
Now don't you worry your pretty little head about this man talk.
You will just
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Oct 13, 2007, at 10:28 AM, authfriend wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote:
On Oct 12, 2007, at 12:34 AM, Rick Archer wrote:
snip
Are there examples in your tradition of masters
I thought it was nice of her to share her experiences here and since
she is Rick's friend it seems weird to dissect her experience here.
Bronte gave her more of a dressing down than I am comfortable with,
but some of her sentiments ring true to me.
The experiences were of the underwhelming
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I like the Maniprabha's comment on this sutra:
Gosh, I wonder why?
These siddhis [that is] the Vividness of the subtle senses
and the like in the case of one devoted to samadhi, (the fruit
of which is final bliss), are
On Oct 13, 2007, at 1:05 PM, curtisdeltablues wrote:
I can relate to this. I have this thing where I think of some
information I need from a book and when I open it randomly I often
come right to the exact page I needed. It used to happen so often
that I came to believe that it was through my
Selective memory certainly is a common component in this type of
activity; nice observation Curtis. It's also worth pointing out that
this mechanism of selecting one thing and deselecting another is
essentially a function of the ego. How spiritual is that really and
honestly? Should
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of curtisdeltablues
Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2007 12:05 PM
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rick's lady friend's cosmic knowledge
Thanks for Rick and his friend for giving us some details
On Oct 13, 2007, at 1:05 PM, authfriend wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I like the Maniprabha's comment on this sutra:
Gosh, I wonder why?
These siddhis [that is] the Vividness of the subtle senses
and the like in the case of one devoted to
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I thought it was nice of her to share her experiences here and
since
she is Rick's friend it seems weird to dissect her experience here.
Bronte gave her more of a dressing down than I am comfortable with,
but
On Oct 13, 2007, at 1:18 PM, curtisdeltablues wrote:
Selective memory certainly is a common component in this type of
activity; nice observation Curtis. It's also worth pointing out that
this mechanism of selecting one thing and deselecting another is
essentially a function of the ego. How
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Oct 13, 2007, at 1:05 PM, curtisdeltablues wrote:
I can relate to this. I have this thing where I think of some
information I need from a book and when I open it randomly I
often
come right to the exact page I
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Oct 13, 2007, at 1:05 PM, authfriend wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote:
I like the Maniprabha's comment on this sutra:
Gosh, I wonder why?
These siddhis [that is] the
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of authfriend
Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2007 10:45 AM
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rick's lady friend's cosmic knowledge
And where does it leave the new visitors, often people
On Oct 13, 2007, at 1:39 PM, jim_flanegin wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Oct 13, 2007, at 1:05 PM, curtisdeltablues wrote:
I can relate to this. I have this thing where I think of some
information I need from a book and when I open it
On Oct 13, 2007, at 11:52 AM, authfriend wrote:
The very term hysteria is derived from the Greek
word for uterus.
Yeah, which is why when it's taken out, it's still called a
hysterectomy.
They really should come up with another word. Uterectomy, anyone?
Sal
If you try hard enough and really work at it, you can explain away
anything, by first building a comfortable conceptual model in your
mind, and then dismissing it. I used to do it all the time.
You just did it again to my explanation for my experience. My
conceptual model just doesn't
On Oct 13, 2007, at 1:20 PM, Rick Archer wrote:
I think she’s writing one. I’ll let you know if and when it gets
published. A guy in the satsang who’s experiences seem to be “more
advanced” than hers is also writing one – or co-writing one with a
published author. You’ll know about that
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Oct 13, 2007, at 11:52 AM, authfriend wrote:
The very term hysteria is derived from the Greek
word for uterus.
Yeah, which is why when it's taken out, it's still called a
hysterectomy.
They really should
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of Vaj
Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2007 12:59 PM
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rick's lady friend's cosmic knowledge
On Oct 13, 2007, at 1:20 PM, Rick Archer wrote:
I think she’s
Note: forwarded message attached.
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Dear Bronte Baxter,
Thanks for posting that passionate piece challenging basic assumptions on the
nature and
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[I wrote, quoting Bronte:]
And where does it leave the new visitors, often people
disillusioned or questioning TM, looking for a safe place
to talk about and share experiences? They can't do it at
Fairfield Life,
On Oct 13, 2007, at 1:48 PM, authfriend wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Oct 13, 2007, at 1:05 PM, authfriend wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote:
I like the Maniprabha's comment on this sutra:
Gosh, I
On Oct 13, 2007, at 2:08 PM, Rick Archer wrote:
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Vaj
Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2007 12:59 PM
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rick's lady friend's cosmic knowledge
On Oct 13, 2007, at
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Oct 13, 2007, at 1:20 PM, Rick Archer wrote:
snip
published author. You'll know about that one too. AFAIK,
neither of these people are trying to position themselves
to be a pubic guru
You mean, a guru like you've been
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Oct 13, 2007, at 1:48 PM, authfriend wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote:
On Oct 13, 2007, at 1:05 PM, authfriend wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, yifuxero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Scientific Creationism and the Science of Creative Intelligence
Robert M. Price
snip
But the beneficial changes attributed to TM are
not universally accepted by scientists. Some researchers have been
unable to
From my friend, who has been lurking:
Hi there,
Glad that I stirred the pot.
What I wrote is my truth. Others you and I both know have this same
truth. You asked me to elaborate to you and I gladly did, with the
truth. It is a private thing outside of the group that I would never
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of authfriend
Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2007 1:34 PM
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rick's lady friend's cosmic knowledge
--- In HYPERLINK
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Oct 13, 2007, at 1:20 PM, Rick Archer wrote:
snip
published author. You'll know about that one too. AFAIK,
neither of these people are trying to position themselves
to be a pubic guru
You mean, a guru like
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of authfriend
Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2007 2:12 PM
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rick's lady friend's cosmic knowledge
--- In HYPERLINK
0
Namaste - Siddhis come as a matter of course - but development of Siddhis is
not what
the path is about - it is about entering the Best of the Siddhis which is
Realization where all conditioned knowledge is at an end. Siddhis are signposts
along the
way. Maha Shanti OM
(Reply)
Comment below:
**
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
**snip**
I AM interested in people who exhibit an abundance of esteemed human
virtures. If your or anyone's def or experience of E yields an
overflowing of those, I am all ears. If not, if
An addendum:
Also, a very salient point left out that I always stress to the group and
others is that it is not the experience that we are looking for, it is what
it brings to us in the form of knowledge that matters. Focus on the
knowledge not the experience. When one finds him/herself connected
To see reality is as simple as to see one's face in a mirror. Only the
mirror must be clear and true. A quiet mind, undistorted by desires and
fears, free from ideas and opinions, clear on all the levels, is needed to
reflect the reality. Be clear and quiet, alert and detached, all else will
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
To see reality is as simple as to see one's face in a mirror. Only the
mirror must be clear and true. A quiet mind, undistorted by desires
and fears, free from ideas and opinions, clear on all the levels, is
needed to
Bronte wrote some weeks back:And where does it leave the new
visitors, often people disillusioned
or questioning TM, looking for a safe place to talk about and share
experiences? They can't do it at Fairfield Life, unless they want to
be fried and eaten for breakfast.
Judy wrote
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of authfriend
Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2007 2:12 PM
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rick's lady friend's
Queenie wrote:
What I wrote is my truth. It is a private thing outside of the group that I
would never
otherwise share with anyone but my closest friends and relatives. I
was asked to expand on my truth, and I did. I would never post to FFL
anything like this because of the inability
She wrote:
An addendum: Also, a very salient point left out that I always stress to the
group and
others is that it is not the experience that we are looking for, it is what
it brings to us in the form of knowledge that matters. Focus on the
knowledge not the experience. When one finds
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Oct 13, 2007, at 1:20 PM, Rick Archer wrote:
I think she's writing one. I'll let you know if and when it
gets
published. A guy in the satsang who's experiences seem to
be more
advanced than hers is also writing
Angela wrote:
My two cents worth is that I like this discussion and so I'm with you,
Bronte. It's a real discussion. I don't much care for belonging to a petting
zoo.
Bronte writes:
Angela baby, come on over to Fairfield Life. You'll like it. It's the Wild
West of ideas. Very
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of jim_flanegin
Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 10:34 AM
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: What we know
It
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bronte Baxter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Bronte wrote some weeks back:
And where does it leave the new visitors, often people
disillusioned or questioning TM, looking for a safe place
to talk about and share experiences? They can't do it at
Fairfield
On Oct 13, 2007, at 2:34 PM, authfriend wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Oct 13, 2007, at 1:20 PM, Rick Archer wrote:
snip
published author. You'll know about that one too. AFAIK,
neither of these people are trying to position themselves
to
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From my friend, who has been lurking:
Hi there,
Glad that I stirred the pot.
What I wrote is my truth. Others you and I both know have this
same
truth. You asked me to elaborate to you and I gladly did,
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip
Gotta go. A sweet young thing is walking by my window, and I want
to get my drool on.
Lurk:
I've been away for a few days, but Edg, thanks for making me laugh.
FTR, I related to your views on Off's comments. I
On Oct 13, 2007, at 2:57 PM, BillyG. wrote:
It's actually what my teachers from this tradition have taught me
and
of course it has a textually and lineal basis as well.
I may or may not be of some help here, but, perhaps the warning is
there to remind one that the siddhis should only be
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Oct 13, 2007, at 2:57 PM, BillyG. wrote:
It's actually what my teachers from this tradition have taught
me
and
of course it has a textually and lineal basis as well.
I may or may not be of some help here,
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Oct 13, 2007, at 1:48 PM, authfriend wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote:
On Oct 13, 2007, at 1:05 PM, authfriend wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj
In Diksha Initiation a Sat-Guru (true god-man) gives you some of his
God Consciousness, in regular Initiation any human teacher can give
you a meditation technique.
The difference is in Diksha Initiation the initiate must *qualify* for
the experience by his past spiritual sadhana (practice), and
On Oct 13, 2007, at 7:37 PM, jim_flanegin wrote:
Don't do this, be careful about this, watch how this and that goes,
warning against this...Absent common sense, why be so concerned
about this practice and that? Such thinking reeks of dogma to me.
LOL, no it's not dogma Jim, it's the
Jude darlin', if you want to see me as a hypocrite, that's your right. I stand
on what I wrote. If you can't see the difference between telling a person they
are dog's offel that has been eaten and regurgitated (what I was referring to
in those quoted statements, among similar things) and what
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bronte Baxter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jude darlin', if you want to see me as a hypocrite, that's your
right. I stand on what I wrote. If you can't see the difference
between telling a person they are dog's offel that has been eaten and
regurgitated
ater all these years of doing tm and if regular and sincere with it, I would
submit there is a
good chance that one would move rapidly by taking diksha under the terms
specified
below.
my experience dictates that it is different to have the initiation by the
diciple compared
with the sat
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Oct 13, 2007, at 7:37 PM, jim_flanegin wrote:
Don't do this, be careful about this, watch how this and that
goes,
warning against this...Absent common sense, why be so concerned
about this practice and that? Such
On Oct 13, 2007, at 8:41 PM, jim_flanegin wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Oct 13, 2007, at 7:37 PM, jim_flanegin wrote:
Don't do this, be careful about this, watch how this and that
goes,
warning against this...Absent common sense, why be so
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
after all these years of doing tm and if regular and sincere with
it, I would submit there is a
good chance that one would move rapidly by taking diksha under the
terms specified
below.
Yes, as you correctly surmised, one
Judy, I never suggested we take all the vinegar and passion out of FFL. Nor do
I have an issue with superficial vulgarity. When it gets really deep, I find
that offensive, but that was not the criteria I suggested we judge flaming by.
Just something I find personally distasteful.
One
From Angela of the Wednesday night satsang again:
Note: forwarded message attached.
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Bronte, baby, when I first got shut down
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bronte Baxter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Judy, I never suggested we take all the vinegar and passion out of
FFL. Nor do I have an issue with superficial vulgarity. When it gets
really deep, I find that offensive, but that was not the criteria I
suggested
Died Thursday at the age of 72 of a heart attack.
Piece in the New York Times about devotees
gathering in Briarwood, Queens, to pay their
respects, and about the devotee community
there:
http://tinyurl.com/2us9hr
Excerpt:
Followers several hundred of them have built a utopian existence
in
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Died Thursday at the age of 72 of a heart attack.
Piece in the New York Times about devotees
gathering in Briarwood, Queens, to pay their
respects, and about the devotee community
there:
http://tinyurl.com/2us9hr
his music is a joke!
We are s lucky MMY didn't torture us with this crap! Thank you
for posting this. The Sitar or Bean instrument was my favorite. I'm
not sure which it was but he was such a douche for making people
listen to him play that badly. I can't believe musical geniuses like
curtis delta blues wrote:
My source for this information is
Gilovich's How We Know What Isn't So,
the fallibility of human reason in everyday life,
who studies human cognitive errors at Cornell.
From the Amazon Books descriptions:
From Publishers Weekly [review] ...
From Kirkus
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
An addendum:
Also, a very salient point left out that I always stress to the
group and
others is that it is not the experience that we are looking for, it
is what
it brings to us in the form of knowledge that
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
his music is a joke!
We are s lucky MMY didn't torture us with this crap!
Ha,hacount your blessings! :-)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Died Thursday at the age of 72 of a heart attack.
.
my highest respects to a beautiful God-Realized being.
I attended a few of his peace concerts and always felt
His Deep Peace and Love in my heart
a friend of
On Oct 13, 2007, at 11:03 PM, curtisdeltablues wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
An addendum:
Also, a very salient point left out that I always stress to the
group and
others is that it is not the experience that we are looking for, it
is
All The Beatles UK LP releases compressed at 800%
into a one-hour MP3:
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2007/10/the-complete-be.html
Scroll down for links to MP3s of several of the songs
decompressed back to tempo. They're *really* weird.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
All The Beatles UK LP releases compressed at 800%
into a one-hour MP3:
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2007/10/the-complete-be.html
Scroll down for links to MP3s of several of the songs
decompressed back to tempo.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote:
All The Beatles UK LP releases compressed at 800%
into a one-hour MP3:
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2007/10/the-complete-be.html
Scroll
I may be being inconsistent, Judy. I dont think hypocritical, because that
implies conscious adherence to ones inconsistency. Where I am wrong (and I
often am), I do want to change. I know something is wrong here, but I dont
know what.
You are clearly angry at me. I think I get why.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bronte Baxter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip
Bronte, who started the talk that led to the damn new rule, gives
herself permission to rip into people. Where's the justice in the
universe, right?
snip
I say no flame ocurred. For the record, I enjoy seeing
From Angela of the Wednesday night satsang again: Note: forwarded to
Bronte and Posted
snip
Though I have seen some wisdom in this group, I have also seen too
much pompous shit, and with that, I am outa here.
This is like a drive by shooting. Like this lady ever posted, and
now she
This was a request from Chris Busch of the David Lynch
Foundation
as a
correction to the piece that I had forwarded you about the
school
principal
of the year award:
The school principal did not publicly attribute his
school's
success, nor
his
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