[FairfieldLife] India and Beyond - message from Raja John Hagelin

2008-02-15 Thread george_deforest
[Raja John Hagelin] http://invincibleamerica.org/ India and Beyond Dear Fellow Governors, Sidhas and Meditators, I am writing to you from Allahabad, after three of the most profoundly transformational days of my life. I wanted to share with you some of the events of these days, together with a

[FairfieldLife] Mystery of Miltha (Logos -- Word)

2008-02-15 Thread cardemaister
http://www.yourarmstoisrael.org/Articles_new/notes/docs_pdfs/TheMystery Miltha.pdf However, if we look again at the verse we are studying, [John 1:1? -- card] an amazing pattern emerges as AYTOHI HWA MILTHA, or two masculine verbs linked to a feminine noun! So, if the Aramaic version of

[FairfieldLife] Re: A short list of my grievances with the movement

2008-02-15 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sandiego108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Larry inmadison@ wrote: Maharishi's model of enlightenment has always puzzled me as well - right from the Intro lecture - really, why should a true Indian sage have any

[FairfieldLife] GyPSii will be bigger than Facebook? Yeah, right...

2008-02-15 Thread cardemaister
So, what did I enjoy most? Well, meeting and interviewing Robert Redford, urbane and articulate as always, was a high point. And chatting with industry big-wigs and CEOs like Sunil Mittal of Bharti, Jim Balsillie of RIM, Samsung's Geesung Choi. And with Dan Harple of GyPSii, a mobile social

[FairfieldLife] Re: Deepak Chopra: The Maharishi Years - The Untold Story: Recollections of a Fo

2008-02-15 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did publicity work for Chopra for years. I'm on a first name basis with both his original movement publicist, Carla Linton (-Browne) and Muriel Nellis (who is still his publicist, last I heard). I know where at least

[FairfieldLife] Re: Deepak Chopra: The Maharishi Years - The Untold Story: Recollections of a Fo

2008-02-15 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One thing I recall hearing is that Chopra was hoping to include non-Ayurvedic (Chinese? Tibetan? His own?) modalities in the Maharishi Ayurveda clinics and MMY said no. This prompted Douliard to leave the Maharishi

[FairfieldLife] Re: Deepak Chopra: The Maharishi Years - The Untold Story: Recollections of a Fo

2008-02-15 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, geezerfreak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, geezerfreak geezerfreak@ wrote: Who the hell cares? He wasn't there when the Beatles were in Rishikesh.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Deepak Chopra: The Maharishi Years - The Untold Story: Recollections of a Fo

2008-02-15 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Behalf Of sparaig Nyah. Except maybe on YOUR part, to not note she's correct about this. Few people ever call Barry on his Judy obsession except to joke about it, but many make hostile remarks towards

[FairfieldLife] Re: A short list of my grievances with the movement

2008-02-15 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Larry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maharishi's model of enlightenment has always puzzled me as well - right from the Intro lecture - really, why should a true Indian sage have any concern about World Peace when he should be talking about how the world is

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Judy Turq thing

2008-02-15 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As any casual reader of FFL life might notice I am gay for both Judy and Turq. Mortal enemies, but not of mine. Turq first. Somehow early on, a feeling of brotherhood. We both got each other and decided to

[FairfieldLife] Re: youtube -- photo tribute to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

2008-02-15 Thread off_world_beings
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, geezerfreak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, geezerfreak geezerfreak@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote:

[FairfieldLife] Not Quite What I Was Planning

2008-02-15 Thread TurquoiseB
Great title for a book, great concept - describing a whole lifetime in six words: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0061374059/boingboing/ Might I suggest it as an exercise for us wordsmiths at Fairfield Life? It would be a fun antidote for the tendency to get...uh...overly wordy. Here's

[FairfieldLife] FYI: A spiritual teacher speaks about Barack Obama

2008-02-15 Thread TurquoiseB
I Dreamt That Lincoln Had a Dream: Barack Obama, the American Theodicy, and the Spirit of American Democracy by Saniel Bonder http://www.opednews.com/articles/2/opedne_saniel_b_080211_i_dreamt_that_lincol.htm The Spirit of '76 is a clarion name for the energy that suddenly arose in the year of

[FairfieldLife] One for Card -- Why Chinese user manuals in English are often so weird

2008-02-15 Thread TurquoiseB
It starts early, with the blocks used to teach kids English: http://peer-see.com/blog/chumble-spuzz/2006/07/09/ :-)

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'The Transcendent Evil by John McCain'

2008-02-15 Thread do.rflex
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mr. McCain keeps describing the 'Challenge of our Time'... As the 'transcendent evil of Islamic terrorism... No one questions the evil of terrorism; There's nothing transcendental about it. It's quite a

What about your lies ? (Re: [FairfieldLife] Lies My Guru Told Me (For my own good, of course))

2008-02-15 Thread Hagen J. Holtz
Some inserted replies to out of: Lies My Guru Told Me (For my own good, of course) By Michael D. Coleman, Ph. D. (First one question in advance: What kind of PhD is this ? Is this a PhD on polemics ? J) 1. TM is a simple, scientific technique. It is simple, but it certainly is not

[FairfieldLife] Re: Not Quite What I Was Planning

2008-02-15 Thread hugheshugo
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Great title for a book, great concept - describing a whole lifetime in six words: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0061374059/boingboing/ Might I suggest it as an exercise for us wordsmiths at Fairfield

[FairfieldLife] Re: Not Quite What I Was Planning

2008-02-15 Thread hugheshugo
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, hugheshugo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: Great title for a book, great concept - describing a whole lifetime in six words: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0061374059/boingboing/

Re: What about your lies ? (Re: [FairfieldLife] Lies My Guru Told Me (For my own good, of course))

2008-02-15 Thread Peter
Dr. Coleman doesn't understand what the word scientific means. Science is not a noun, it is never an adjective, it can only be a verb. Science is a mode of inquiry. Its content is secondary. --- Hagen J. Holtz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some inserted replies to out of: Lies My Guru Told Me

What about your lies ? (Re: [FairfieldLife] Lies My Guru Told Me (For my own go

2008-02-15 Thread TurquoiseB
The whole story is in the title of this post. What is happening is two people expressing their OPINIONS. But the TM supporter feels compelled to express *his* opinion while/by calling the other person a liar. People have been looking for those things that define Maharishi's spiritual legacy?

[FairfieldLife] Re: India and Beyond - message from Raja John Hagelin

2008-02-15 Thread dhamiltony2k5
FW: From, Curious in WI if Raja Hagelin actually DOES some of the things he's suggesting, it seems will pretty much prove that Maharishi was himself the primary impediment to the revitalization of the movement and spread of TM over the last 2 decades. He had to die before anything

What about your lies ? (Re: [FairfieldLife] Lies My Guru Told Me (For my own go

2008-02-15 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The whole story is in the title of this post. What is happening is two people expressing their OPINIONS. But the TM supporter feels compelled to express *his* opinion while/by calling the other person a liar.

[FairfieldLife] comments on Maharishi's passing

2008-02-15 Thread gyselsvishnu
One interesting comment from a former governor and head of Vedic Instrute in Switserland (and now following World teacher Trust guru Parvathi Kumar): http://blog.good-will.ch/WordPress/2008/02/07/two-prophecies-of-the- past-anecdotes-with-the-maharishi The link for the obituary from Swami

What about your lies ? (Re: [FairfieldLife] Lies My Guru Told Me (For my own go

2008-02-15 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: The whole story is in the title of this post. What is happening is two people expressing their OPINIONS. But the TM supporter feels compelled

What about your lies ? (Re: [FairfieldLife] Lies My Guru Told Me (For my own go

2008-02-15 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Hagen's response is thoroughly steeped in the belief that he is RIGHT. And Coleman's diatribe isn't?? Each of his arguments are presented as if they were fact, even though what they really are opinions based on

[FairfieldLife] Re: FYI: A spiritual teacher speaks about Barack Obama

2008-02-15 Thread feste37
Looks like Saniel doesn't know what theodicy means. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I Dreamt That Lincoln Had a Dream: Barack Obama, the American Theodicy, and the Spirit of American Democracy by Saniel Bonder

[FairfieldLife] Purusha India Story

2008-02-15 Thread Rick Archer
From David Shaprio, on Purusha Dear friends, Maharishi's family, After almost 48 hours of buses, cars, cabs, planes and trains, 50 Purusha arrived at the Allahabad train station at midnight, early on the morning of February 11 and took powered vehicles to our Maharishi Ashram some 20 kilometers

[FairfieldLife] Re: One for Card -- Why Chinese user manuals in English are often so weird

2008-02-15 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It starts early, with the blocks used to teach kids English: http://peer-see.com/blog/chumble-spuzz/2006/07/09/ Hey, maybe this is the method Angela was telling us she invented!

[FairfieldLife] Obama: Cult of Personality?

2008-02-15 Thread authfriend
Obama: Cult of Personality? by Jesse Wendel I've gone to great pains to proclaim my neutrality between the candidates, and it's genuine. I like them both, and I see their differences as small. For certain, I'll vote for whomever heads the Democratic ticket this fall. Really. Some folks have

What about your lies ? (Re: [FairfieldLife] Lies My Guru Told Me (For my own go

2008-02-15 Thread TurquoiseB
Pardon the non-snippage...its' to preserve the context... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, BillyG. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: The whole story is in

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Judy Turq thing

2008-02-15 Thread Marek Reavis
I agree with Curtis, and not just because I'm so gay for him. ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As any casual reader of FFL life might notice I am gay for both Judy and Turq. Mortal enemies, but not of mine. Turq first. Somehow early on,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Not Quite What I Was Planning

2008-02-15 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, hermandan0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nothing to be done but laugh. Seeking; finding; then letting it go. (the credo of spiritual sport fishers??) I like both of these a lot. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, hugheshugo richardhughes103@ wrote:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Obama: Cult of Personality?

2008-02-15 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Feb 15, 2008, at 8:24 AM, authfriend wrote: Watching Obama reminded me VERY strongly of watching Werner Erhard, the est leader, on stage in front of tens of thousands of people in the 80s (and on videotape of Erhard at the Hollywood Bowl in the 70s.) Obama has precisely the same kind of

What about your lies ? (Re: [FairfieldLife] Lies My Guru Told Me (For my own go

2008-02-15 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hagen J. Holtz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think you are a little bit overshadowed by my metaphoric title, which for you seems to make the necessity of going into the details of my argumentation obsolete. But is this not taking the same line like that

[FairfieldLife] Re: FYI: A spiritual teacher speaks about Barack Obama

2008-02-15 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks like Saniel doesn't know what theodicy means. Mystifying. American Theodicy seems to be an established phrase, but I couldn't find many Web hits on it, and none of them really clarified what it's supposed to mean.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Not Quite What I Was Planning

2008-02-15 Thread hermandan0
Thanks Turq. Nice little topic for a thread. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, hermandan0 no_reply@ wrote: Nothing to be done but laugh. Seeking; finding; then letting it go. (the credo of spiritual sport

[FairfieldLife] Re: Not Quite What I Was Planning

2008-02-15 Thread hermandan0
Nothing to be done but laugh. Seeking; finding; then letting it go. (the credo of spiritual sport fishers??) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, hugheshugo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, hugheshugo richardhughes103@ wrote: --- In

What about your lies ? (Re: [FairfieldLife] Lies My Guru Told Me (For my own go

2008-02-15 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip But he clearly BELIEVES what hs is writing. It is his OPINION, based on having been pre- sented with both the pro and con arguments over the years. So where does Hagen's What about your lies thing come from?

[FairfieldLife] Re: Not Quite What I Was Planning

2008-02-15 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Great title for a book, great concept - describing a whole lifetime in six words: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0061374059/boingboing/ Might I suggest it as an exercise for us wordsmiths at Fairfield

What about your lies ? (Re: [FairfieldLife] Lies My Guru Told Me (For my own go

2008-02-15 Thread Hagen J. Holtz
I think you are a little bit overshadowed by my metaphoric title, which for you seems to make the necessity of going into the details of my argumentation obsolete. But is this not taking the same line like that monosyllabic professor seems to do ? He reduces his simplifications, as if only

[FairfieldLife] Re: Obama: Cult of Personality?

2008-02-15 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 15, 2008, at 8:24 AM, authfriend wrote: Watching Obama reminded me VERY strongly of watching Werner Erhard, the est leader, on stage in front of tens of thousands of people in the 80s (and on videotape of

What about your lies ? (Re: [FairfieldLife] Lies My Guru Told Me (For my own go

2008-02-15 Thread off_world_beings
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: The whole story is in the title of this post. What is happening is two people expressing their OPINIONS. But the TM supporter feels compelled

[FairfieldLife] Re: Deepak Chopra: The Maharishi Years - The Untold Story: Recollections of a Fo

2008-02-15 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@ wrote: On Behalf Of sparaig Nyah. Except maybe on YOUR part, to not note she's correct about this. Few people ever call Barry on his Judy obsession

[FairfieldLife] Goddess Stuff

2008-02-15 Thread Kirk
FREE GLOBAL TELECONFERENCE Join us in the very first telephone conference ever; with Master of the Living Goddess Tradition and Father of Para-Tan: The Sound of the Universe: SHRI PARAM ESWARAN This is a wonderful opportunity to share in a relaxed phone interaction with Shri

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: A short list of my grievances with the movement

2008-02-15 Thread Kirk
I have always felt that in that sense he was a true Bodhisattva. Maharishi understood that atomics brought forth a new aera of world responsibility for its future. Thus we meditated for the world, not for ourselves. Maharishi learned that from Guru Dev from the huge yajnas GD had. And Maharishi

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'After- death thoughts?

2008-02-15 Thread Kirk
A high Buddhist lama died, named Mindrolling the Third. - Original Message - From: Roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 12:40 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'After- death thoughts? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert

[FairfieldLife] Re: Not Quite What I Was Planning

2008-02-15 Thread ruthsimplicity
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Great title for a book, great concept - describing a whole lifetime in six words: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0061374059/boingboing/ Might I suggest it as an exercise for us wordsmiths at Fairfield

What about your lies ? (Re: [FairfieldLife] Lies My Guru Told Me (For my own go

2008-02-15 Thread Hagen J. Holtz
You forgot to accuse me of lying. Why should I ? You are not lying but according to my opinion not enough trying... ! J

What about your lies ? (Re: [FairfieldLife] Lies My Guru Told Me (For my own go

2008-02-15 Thread off_world_beings
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: snip But he clearly BELIEVES what hs is writing. It is his OPINION, based on having been pre- sented with both the pro and con arguments over the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: So, does TM work?

2008-02-15 Thread Kirk
I'll expand on that. TM was SOLD as a non-denominational technique when obviously it is something else, but you can still practise it without knowing where it all comes from, as I do. I think they should come out of the closet and declare their religious heritage, I always thought it

[FairfieldLife] Re: Obama: Cult of Personality?

2008-02-15 Thread martyboi
The problem with the word cult is that it is a highly loaded term: it casts an irrevocable pejorative connotation on the person with whom it is being associated – and it therefore not factually descriptive of this particular situation. In today's lexicon, it is invoked for manipulative – not

Re: [FairfieldLife] Lies My Guru Told Me (For my own good, of course)

2008-02-15 Thread Kirk
7. Because we learned meditation from Maharishi, and our lives improved from it, we owe something to Maharishi. We owe absolutely nothing to any teacher. This belief has been used to make many of us co-conspirators in the lies. I was a professor of philosophy for 18 years and my students don't owe

[FairfieldLife] Re: Deepak Chopra: The Maharishi Years - The Untold Story: Recollections of a Fo

2008-02-15 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, lurkernomore20002000 steve.sundur@ wrote: I blame Chopra for that as much as anyone. Chopra is the one who decided to become the media darling rather than sit at the feet

[FairfieldLife] Re: Deepak Chopra: The Maharishi Years - The Untold Story: Recollections of a Fo

2008-02-15 Thread curtisdeltablues
We (including Chopra himself, quite consciously --I know his publicists, remember) literally worked for years to make Deepak Chopra a household word in order to further the goals Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and the TMO and he took our work and betrayed us. But Lawson, you know what it is like to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Deepak Chopra: The Maharishi Years - The Untold Story: Recollections of a Fo

2008-02-15 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, lurkernomore20002000 steve.sundur@ wrote: I blame Chopra for that as much as anyone. Chopra is the one who

[FairfieldLife] Re: Obama: Cult of Personality?

2008-02-15 Thread authfriend
From some comments on Obama by Joseph P. Wilson (husband of Valerie Plame Wilson): Contrary to the myth of the Obama campaign, 2008 is not the year for transcendental transformation. The task for the next administration will be to repair the damage done by eight years of radical rule. And the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Obama: Cult of Personality?

2008-02-15 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, martyboi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem with the word cult is that it is a highly loaded term: it casts an irrevocable pejorative connotation on the person with whom it is being associated – and it therefore not factually descriptive of this

[FairfieldLife] Re: Obama: Cult of Personality?

2008-02-15 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Yeah, road to hell, good intentions, and we all go down the tubes with a smooth talking hippy who can't get anything done in Washington -- I get that, but for you to side with Hillary without mentioning her very

[FairfieldLife] Re: Deepak Chopra: The Maharishi Years - The Untold Story: Recollections of a Fo

2008-02-15 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, abutilon108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm thankful to Deepak for sharing his personal experiences with Maharishi and the circumstances of his leaving the movement. Of course, it's a beautifully written piece, and seems quite straightforward and honest.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Deepak Chopra: The Maharishi Years - The Untold Story: Recollections of a Fo

2008-02-15 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, lurkernomore20002000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I blame Chopra for that as much as anyone. Chopra is the one who decided to become the media darling rather than sit at the feet of the guru. The entire thing with the rajas and whatnot is obviously a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Obama: Cult of Personality?

2008-02-15 Thread Duveyoung
Judy, You seem firmly in Hillary's camp. Firm enough anyway. As someone who specializes in dotting i's and crossing t's, I just don't know how you can be silent about the 11th hour pardons of Bill, Bill's do-nothingness about the African genocidal slaughter, the sleazoid business dealings, the

[FairfieldLife] was: Deepak Chopra . now: thanks for return of posting limit

2008-02-15 Thread mainstream20016
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (snip). I guess the wisdom of posting limits has been proven once again. one more day of this. The temporary period of reflection on MMY's passing, and unlimited posts, was great, and likewise, the return to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Deepak Chopra: The Maharishi Years - The Untold Story: Recollections of a Fo

2008-02-15 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] The fact that you can overcome it now and limit your number of posts and yet claimed for years that you couldn't *because* of the brain dys- function makes it applicable. I claimed that my ADHD made itimpossible

[FairfieldLife] Re: Deepak Chopra: The Maharishi Years - The Untold Story: Recollections of a Fo

2008-02-15 Thread authfriend
Lawson, I just sent you an email to whatever email address you have registered with Yahoo (i.e., I sent it via the Web site).

[FairfieldLife] Blaine Watson: 1994

2008-02-15 Thread Rick Archer
In 1982 Maharishi asked us to make ourselves expert in Jyotish, the Vedanga of astrology. A few of us took the instruction to heart. For me, this was the beginning of decades of complications in my reputation and relationship with the administration of his movement. It seems the

[FairfieldLife] Re: youtube -- photo tribute to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

2008-02-15 Thread curtisdeltablues
Curtis said: You're a dick I said: No, that would be you Curtis because only talentless people criticize non-profit innocent work. No-one with talent would do that. It is one thing to criticize professional work, but to act like an art-critic for simple expressions is just the sign of a complete

[FairfieldLife] Re: Deepak Chopra: The Maharishi Years - The Untold Story: Recollections of a Fo

2008-02-15 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We (including Chopra himself, quite consciously --I know his publicists, remember) literally worked for years to make Deepak Chopra a household word in order to further the goals Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and

[FairfieldLife] Re: FYI: A spiritual teacher speaks about Barack Obama

2008-02-15 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ruthsimplicity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: Anybody have any idea? I think he found a new cool word and wanted to use it. I also see from a google search that the word is used in the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Deepak Chopra: The Maharishi Years - The Untold Story: Recollections of a Fo

2008-02-15 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I'm just trying to point out that Lawson's seem- ingly noble stance ain't quite as noble as he'd like to portray. Using his line of reasoning, everyone who ever contributed big bucks to one of Maharishi's

[FairfieldLife] Re: FYI: A spiritual teacher speaks about Barack Obama

2008-02-15 Thread ruthsimplicity
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anybody have any idea? I think he found a new cool word and wanted to use it. I also see from a google search that the word is used in the context of making sense of suffering of black people, but it really seems

[FairfieldLife] Re: Deepak Chopra: The Maharishi Years - The Untold Story: Recollections of a Fo

2008-02-15 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: We (including Chopra himself, quite consciously --I know his publicists, remember) literally worked for years to make Deepak

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: One for Card -- Why Chinese user manuals in English are often so weird

2008-02-15 Thread Angela Mailander
Judy, it's not the same at all, but thanks for the link. If you look at it carefully, you'll see that there is no way you could get kids to generate their own 100% error-free English sentences in as short a time as our kids in China did: six months of practice for a mere 45 minutes per week.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Deepak Chopra: The Maharishi Years - The Untold Story: Recollections of a Fo

2008-02-15 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: [...] The fact that you can overcome it now and limit your number of posts and yet claimed for years that you couldn't *because* of the brain dys-

[FairfieldLife] Re: One for Card -- Why Chinese user manuals in English are often so weird

2008-02-15 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Judy, it's not the same at all, but thanks for the link. I didn't provide the link, Barry did. And I know it's not your thing. I was cracking wise, you see.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Deepak Chopra: The Maharishi Years - The Untold Story: Recollections of a Fo

2008-02-15 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Chopra is whatever he is. I DON'T CARE. What is becoming apparent, however, is what YOU and the others who are writing hundreds of lines to FFL demonizing him are. Angry, vindictive, obsessed, and above all,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Deepak Chopra: The Maharishi Years - The Untold Story: Recollections of a Fo

2008-02-15 Thread jyouells2000
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, abutilon108 abutilon108@ wrote: I'm thankful to Deepak for sharing his personal experiences with Maharishi and the circumstances of his leaving the movement. Of course, it's a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Obama: Cult of Personality?

2008-02-15 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, martyboi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, in politics the phrase cult of personality has a specific meaning that is only distantly related to the common meaning of cult. Words and phrases are created and modified with different implications,

[FairfieldLife] Re: So, does TM work?

2008-02-15 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Kirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll expand on that. TM was SOLD as a non-denominational technique when obviously it is something else, but you can still practise it without knowing where it all comes from, as I do. I think they should come out of the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: One for Card -- Why Chinese user manuals in English are often so weird

2008-02-15 Thread Angela Mailander
Yes, I do see that you were cracking wise (I love that expression you just invented). I just thought I'd take the opportunity to explain what I was actually up to. - Original Message From: authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008

[FairfieldLife] Re: Obama: Cult of Personality?

2008-02-15 Thread Duveyoung
Judy, I believe in a Judy who addresses issues. Where is she now? I raised several concepts that you've simply brushed aside as idiotic. That's a personal comment about my brain's ability to be logical that is unfounded by anything I've ever posted here. I can be wrong, badly wrong, but I am

[FairfieldLife] Re: Obama: Cult of Personality?

2008-02-15 Thread martyboi
Actually, in politics the phrase cult of personality has a specific meaning that is only distantly related to the common meaning of cult. Words and phrases are created and modified with different implications, meanings and intents based on historical events and social phenomenon -which is

[FairfieldLife] Re: Deepak Chopra: The Maharishi Years - The Untold Story: Recollections of a Fo

2008-02-15 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just one of those wonderful double standards-- er, I mean, contradictions--that Curtis is so fond of, I guess. Or more technically gay for. However I am just as gay for your wicked sense of humor Judy so

[FairfieldLife] Re: Obama: Cult of Personality?

2008-02-15 Thread Duveyoung
Judy, How do you explain Hillary's not voting on the issue of telcom immunity? http://tinyurl.com/2ceckv Don't you think that that's a tell about her general stance on the Bill of Rights? - Would Hillary find anything wrong with this spy satellite project?

[FairfieldLife] Re: Deepak Chopra: The Maharishi Years - The Untold Story: Recollections of a Fo

2008-02-15 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jyouells2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I had the opportunity to exchange a few sentences with Dr. Chopra not too long after he left the TMO. He essentially said the same thing. Iindicating that the JAMA lawsuit was the final straw. That was my

[FairfieldLife] Re: One for Card -- Why Chinese user manuals in English are often so weird

2008-02-15 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I do see that you were cracking wise (I love that expression you just invented). Can't take credit for it. My father used to use it all the time (and I don't think *he* invented it).

[FairfieldLife] Re: Deepak Chopra: The Maharishi Years - The Untold Story: Recollections of a Fo

2008-02-15 Thread curtisdeltablues
Just one of those wonderful double standards-- er, I mean, contradictions--that Curtis is so fond of, I guess. Or more technically gay for. However I am just as gay for your wicked sense of humor Judy so please don't feel gay deprived. My beef with Chopra revolved around him giving me a magic

[FairfieldLife] Re: FYI: A spiritual teacher speaks about Barack Obama

2008-02-15 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, george_deforest [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: authfriend jstein@ wrote: Anybody have any idea? ruthsimplicity wrote: I think he found a new cool word and wanted to use it. I also see from a google search that the word is used in the context

[FairfieldLife] Re: Obama: Cult of Personality?

2008-02-15 Thread authfriend
Briefly-- --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Judy, How do you explain Hillary's not voting on the issue of telcom immunity? http://tinyurl.com/2ceckv Don't you think that that's a tell about her general stance on the Bill of Rights? No, I think

[FairfieldLife] Re: Obama: Cult of Personality?

2008-02-15 Thread Duveyoung
My replies in blue: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung no_reply@ wrote: Judy, I believe in a Judy who addresses issues. Where is she now? I raised several concepts that you've simply brushed aside

[FairfieldLife] Re: Blaine Watson: 1994

2008-02-15 Thread boyboy_8
Wow. What a story. I am unsure if your concluding perspective on Jyotish is that it's all mumbo-jumbo or it has a valid basis for being taken seriously? All the best, Fred --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In 1982 Maharishi asked us to make

[FairfieldLife] Re: youtube -- photo tribute to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

2008-02-15 Thread Duveyoung
Off, Don't quit -- your meds seem to be working today! Edg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: Curtis said: You're a dick I said: No, that would be you

[FairfieldLife] Corrections to Dr Chopra's article on The Maharishi Years - the Untold Story

2008-02-15 Thread Dick Mays
Please note that Dr G M is an outstanding Indian Governor responsible for single-handedly creating the first group of 8,000 pundits in India. He is a Maharishi-trained TM-Sidhi instructor and teacher of Advanced Techniques. Farrokh Ruffina Dear Friends: I am an Indian physician who was

[FairfieldLife] Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster

2008-02-15 Thread Rick Archer
HYPERLINK http://www.venganza.org/http://www.venganza.org/ In case you have let too much precious time pass since being touched by His noodly appendage. Be sure to check out the hate mail: http://www.venganza.org/category/hate-mail/. No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free

[FairfieldLife] Re: Obama: Cult of Personality?

2008-02-15 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Judy, I believe in a Judy who addresses issues. Where is she now? I raised several concepts that you've simply brushed aside as idiotic. That's a personal comment about my brain's ability to be logical that is

[FairfieldLife] Re: Deepak Chopra: The Maharishi Years - The Untold Story: Recollections of a Fo

2008-02-15 Thread curtisdeltablues
BTW, did you pay a $700 check made out to Deepak Chopra or was it made out to the non-profit Maharishi Ayurveda Fund (MAF)? Good question, I can't remember. I may have a paper trail somewhere. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: FYI: A spiritual teacher speaks about Barack Obama

2008-02-15 Thread george_deforest
authfriend jstein@ wrote: Anybody have any idea? ruthsimplicity wrote: I think he found a new cool word and wanted to use it. I also see from a google search that the word is used in the context of making sense of suffering of black people, but it really seems out of place in his

[FairfieldLife] Correction to Dr Chopra's article on The Maharishi Years - the Untold Story

2008-02-15 Thread Terton Zeno
Note: forwarded message attached. - Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage.---BeginMessage--- _ From: F R Anklesaria [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 12:42 PM To: Jerry Jarvis, IAR Subject: Correction to

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Corrections to Dr Chopra's article on The Maharishi Years - the Untold Stor

2008-02-15 Thread Angela Mailander
Well, we've got at least two versions of the events. This does not tell us that either version corresponds to the facts, however. Medical records can be falsified--and I've seen this done on more than one occasion. So the medical records would not necessarily tell us the truth either. And

[FairfieldLife] Re: Deepak Chopra: The Maharishi Years - The Untold Story: Recollections of a Fo

2008-02-15 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Lawson wrote:] BTW, did you pay a $700 check made out to Deepak Chopra or was it made out to the non-profit Maharishi Ayurveda Fund (MAF)? Good question, I can't remember. I may have a paper trail somewhere.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Selfless Service (was Re: Deepak Chopra)

2008-02-15 Thread Angela Mailander
This debate about whether or not good works (in whose opinion are they good?) get you there is part of the Christian tradition also. But if karma is indeed unfathomable (and it seems to be the case in principle) then how could we possibly know what does and what does not get anyone there?

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