[FairfieldLife] Re: Metering Shakti

2008-02-19 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: While I don't disagree with your shakti meter analogy, Doug, I should point out one limitation to it. One tends to meter only the things that

[FairfieldLife] Re: Attention nablusoss

2008-02-19 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ruthsimplicity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: ROFLOLSTMITB (Rollingonthefloorwithlaughterscaringthemiceinthebasement) No baby, I hang around here to get a good laugh. :-)

[FairfieldLife] Re: Even a sick man can open a health food store

2008-02-19 Thread deepaconn
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of deepaconn Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 6:20 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Even a sick man can open a

[FairfieldLife] Intelligent stuff ([FairfieldLife] Re: Stupid stuff.)

2008-02-19 Thread TurquoiseB
Hagen, suggesting a reading assignment: You will really get fever from it and your brain will be starting to work in double speed, like a horse, which cannot be harnessed anymore. Ah, that explains your writing style. :-) Peter Plichta is one of the modern representatives of these

[FairfieldLife] Intelligent stuff ([FairfieldLife] Re: Stupid stuff.)

2008-02-19 Thread Hagen J. Holtz
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hagen J. Holtz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The counterforce to gravity has already been detected by the Austrian scientist Viktor Schauberger in the beginning of the last century. He named it levitation. One of his sayings was that Newton should not have

[FairfieldLife] Re: Validity of Mahrishi's apaurusheya bhasya in the light of linguistics

2008-02-19 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ya might only need to familiarize yer self with the basic phonemic units of Sanskrit to be able to notice that it rocks! But, of course, YMMV! ;) Vowels: a, aa, i, ii, u, uu, R, RR, L, e, ai, o, au Consonants

[FairfieldLife] The Hag and Bev are NOT opposites (Re: Tony Nadir)

2008-02-19 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They're scumbags and elitists and twisted sociopaths to say the things they say while knowing all the real world contradictions to their statements. Try asking either of them a hard question as they scurry from one

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield Life as safe haven

2008-02-19 Thread Rick Archer
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Duveyoung Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 12:24 AM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield Life as safe haven Rick, I remember some gossip about Paul -- wasn't he forced to give up

[FairfieldLife] Re: Tony Nadir

2008-02-19 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutphen@ wrote: --- Samuel Gravina sgravina@ wrote: I also knew John Hagelen back then. He too was a very regular guy. He had that aristocratic

[FairfieldLife] Re: Validity of Mahrishi's apaurusheya bhasya in the light of linguistics

2008-02-19 Thread gyselsvishnu
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@ wrote: Ya might only need to familiarize yer self with the basic phonemic units of Sanskrit to be able to notice that it rocks! But, of course,

[FairfieldLife] Intelligent stuff ([FairfieldLife] Re: Stupid stuff.)

2008-02-19 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hagen J. Holtz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sometimes it is difficult to distinguish between a woo-woo and a person, who has no problems to go one step further. It seems too often as if the world was only distinguishable between the normal crazy ones (the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Intelligent stuff ([FairfieldLife] Re: Stupid stuff.)

2008-02-19 Thread Hagen J. Holtz
Sometimes it is difficult to distinguish between a woo-woo and a person, who has no problems to go one step further. It seems too often as if the world was only distinguishable between the normal crazy ones (the main stream) and the real crazy guys (those, who are not able to stand the monotony

[FairfieldLife] From Michael Morgan : My trip to India (first hand account)

2008-02-19 Thread Rick Archer
from Michael Morgan Dear Friends Jai Guru Dev Jai Guru Dev Jai Guru Dev While this is still fresh in my mind, I’d like to put down my experiences for both my meditating and non meditating friends of the last week. I don’t recommend going and returning from India in one week, but

[FairfieldLife] True Evil

2008-02-19 Thread Samuel Gravina
Posted by: Duveyoung Mon Feb 18, 2008 10:12 pm (PST) Oh, yeah, there's true evil in the world ... Edg No there isn't. It's all fake. Sam

[FairfieldLife] Posting Limits reminder and hints

2008-02-19 Thread TurquoiseB
For the benefit of the newcomers to Fairfield Life. As you may have heard discussed, even if you didn't get the FAQ that discusses it, there is a posting limit here of 50 posts per week. The week is from midnight Friday thru the following midnight on Friday, Fairfield time. The count starts over

[FairfieldLife] Re: Guru Siddhi

2008-02-19 Thread gyselsvishnu
A guru is a teacher on any subject. A realised being is very hard to define.I would go with some definitions from the Bhagavad Gita, one is 'Shtita prajna': one whose intellect is stable or established beyond duality. The other is: 'seeing the Self in al beings and all beings in the Self'.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Tony Nadir

2008-02-19 Thread cardemaister
Here in my hometown lives (lived?) a guy from India, a guy, who has a very common Muslim Christian [huh?] name. For some reason he doesn't seem to like using his forename, so he goes by his family name, hwich happens to be 'Nadir'...

Re: [FairfieldLife] Intelligent stuff ([FairfieldLife] Re: Stupid stuff.)

2008-02-19 Thread Hagen J. Holtz
Indeed I meant playing doctor regarding your concerns now, I confess, it is very difficult to disentangle who took whom amongst us in what manner serious Therefore let us prefer to say from now on, in case we do not find any non-ambiguous conclusion, woo-woo ! (instead of Jai Guru Dev

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: FW: My Dinner With Doctor Mahapatra

2008-02-19 Thread pratap Mahapatra
Hi, I am not Dr. Mahapatra's relative. I just happen to have the same surname. His native place is about 25 miles from my native place. P Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of geezerfreak Sent: Monday,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Castro retires to work on the Vedas

2008-02-19 Thread Peter
Shemp, thanks for the hilarious title thread! --- shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If there is any justice in the world, he'll go to heaven really quickly, too. http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080219/D8UTC77G2.html To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [FairfieldLife] Even a sick man can open a health food store

2008-02-19 Thread Peter
--- Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of deepaconn Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 6:20 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Even a sick man can open a health food store I

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Validity of Mahrishi's apaurusheya bhasya in the light of linguistics

2008-02-19 Thread Peter
No, I'm not suggesting that. What I suggest is a cup of hot chai for this go nowhere purely in vain conversation! --- Zoran Krneta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are suggesting that there is a Brahman on one side which can be known through transcendental knowledge and on the other side is

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Guru Siddhi

2008-02-19 Thread Peter
I like the understanding that guru is more a function than a person. There are many Realized people, but very few guru's. The two people that I have encountered that have functioned as satgurus are Maharishi and Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. Both radiate (or in one case radiated!) a palpable Divine

[FairfieldLife] Castro retires to work on the Vedas

2008-02-19 Thread shempmcgurk
If there is any justice in the world, he'll go to heaven really quickly, too. http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080219/D8UTC77G2.html

[FairfieldLife] Re: Castro retires to work on the Vedas

2008-02-19 Thread uns_tressor
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If there is any justice in the world, he'll go to heaven really quickly, too. The truth is that he's heard that there is a vacancy at the top of the TMO. Uns.

[FairfieldLife] Re: From Michael Morgan : My trip to India (first hand account)

2008-02-19 Thread Patrick Gillam
from Michael Morgan We were close enough to see the golden urn containing Maharishi’s ashes and see the water rising out the last of his remains into the river. Quite a Vedic recitation, then a 5 minute silent meditation, and we were done. One the way back Laurie was

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Tony Nadir

2008-02-19 Thread gullible fool
I was part of the Cambridge center and knew John. It was powerful sitting next to him in the flying wall at the times I did that. I could feel the intense energy. I also knew Tony. I also knew Sam Gravina. --- Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From:

[FairfieldLife] Ever wonder where Mark Twain got this idea?

2008-02-19 Thread shempmcgurk
Remember in Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court when the Yankee goes back in time and just when he's about to be killed he threatens to blot out the sun because he knows a solar eclipse is about to happen? This is where Twain must have gotten the idea: from:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ned Wynn's Book, was: Three predictions

2008-02-19 Thread Vaj
On Feb 18, 2008, at 3:47 PM, Richard J. Williams wrote: Shemp wrote: I read it about 10 years ago. But, it's interesting. In over 300 pages covering TTCs in India, Spain, and Italy over the course of nearly five years, with Ned supposedly carry the skin around, being the door boy, and

[FairfieldLife] 'Hillary's Black Supporters Bewildered'

2008-02-19 Thread Robert
You can see the confusion on some of their faces, hear the concern in their voices. How in the world do we deal with this? Hillary Clinton's black supporters -- especially the most prominent ones -- hadn't expected their candidate to be in a dogfight right now. They thought Barack Obama was

[FairfieldLife] Re: Guru Siddhi

2008-02-19 Thread gyselsvishnu
A 'true' guru has indeed a radiating quality. I also experienced it with Maharishi while posing a question to him in Holland. When he was looking at me, it was like a vast ocean of tranquility rolling over me. Some time ago I had a personal chat with Sri Sri Ravi Shankar in the Euro parliament

[FairfieldLife] The Veda in Scandinavia

2008-02-19 Thread Rick Archer
From Blaine Watson We were in Seelisberg for Guru Purnimah in the summer of 1982. Some time after the full moon celebration Maharishi was meeting with us in the large lecture hall and began to discuss the Veda. One of the teachers from Finland stood up and asked Maharishi if he would like to

[FairfieldLife] Yawgig playing? : D

2008-02-19 Thread cardemaister
http://www.gypsii.com/place.cgi?op=viewid=48937

[FairfieldLife] The Hag and Bev are NOT opposites (Re: Tony Nadir)

2008-02-19 Thread Duveyoung
Knob, You astound me with the regularity of your wicked snarking. You're a true genius of besmirchingness. Is there nothing so low that you will not say it? Are you as insane as you present? Or, are you merely the doppleganger of another poster here who uses your mask to utter such crud --

[FairfieldLife] Re: Attention nablusoss

2008-02-19 Thread hugheshugo
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ruthsimplicity ruthsimplicity@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: Do you think that the TMOs, or any specific TMO, has any

[FairfieldLife] Re: Is Barak Obama Maitreya?

2008-02-19 Thread Duveyoung
Curtis, Good find! Good find! Man, I'm just so afraid of the masses investing in Obama with such a spiritual hope. Do you agree that he's got so much power now that something's wrong with this picture for Obama to have gotten this far? I'm being paranoid here, but listen: this guy has the

[FairfieldLife] If the world wants to be healed, here's one cure that works for all.

2008-02-19 Thread Duveyoung
http://www.stservicemovie.com/ Rick sent me the above -- not sure if he already posted it here. Look at the sweetness that life can sprout anywhere -- like a flower in a crack in the sidewalk. When I think of all the time I waste experiencing things which cannot lift me upsigh This

[FairfieldLife] Re: Attention nablusoss

2008-02-19 Thread hugheshugo
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, hugheshugo richardhughes103@ wrote: Do you think that the TMOs have a duty to tell the truth if in fact they do disclose how money is spent? Absolutely not.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Guru Siddhi

2008-02-19 Thread Peter
--- gyselsvishnu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A 'true' guru has indeed a radiating quality. I also experienced it with Maharishi while posing a question to him in Holland. When he was looking at me, it was like a vast ocean of tranquility rolling over me. Great description of Maharishi's

[FairfieldLife] Westerners Sai Maa, at the Funeral

2008-02-19 Thread dhamiltony2k5
Western TM Devotees Sai Maa, at the funeral. FW: e-mail eye-witness at the funeral: paste After a few minutes of running down the street, chasing after the car, I was suddenly flagged down by a woman on my left, who had just gotten out of her car, to get my attention, she was waving both of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Validity of Mahrishi's apaurusheya bhasya in the light of linguistics

2008-02-19 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gyselsvishnu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of my teachers, Swami Premananda, a native Tamil speaker, claims that Tamil developed out of the experience of Amrita in the throat. THE Swami Premananda who Benjamin Creme claims to be the heir to the throne

[FairfieldLife] Is Barak Obama Maitreya?

2008-02-19 Thread curtisdeltablues
http://tinyurl.com/2etw2c Nabby, big news! Ahead of schedule Maitreya as busted his move! Get Creme on the horn, he is out of the loop. Judy, don't miss this!

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Veda in Scandinavia

2008-02-19 Thread Ingegerd
An interesting thing about Laplanders or The Saami, is that they can heal people with sounds. It is an old tradition given from the family members in one generation to the family members in the next generation. They can stop a blood stream by using sounds. They say that they read over the

[FairfieldLife] Re: From Michael Morgan : My trip to India (first hand account)

2008-02-19 Thread curtisdeltablues
Now I must mention in this tradition women are not allowed at the cremation site. The idea is that for their own protection, it would be better not to be in the area to witness this event. I can tell you that being there as a man, it brings up the full range of feelings. However you might think of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Validity of Mahrishi's apaurusheya bhasya in the light of linguistics

2008-02-19 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would that be the Throne of the King of Pedophilia? I don't know. But perhaps that's just the kind of imaginary dark Court that would be perfect for you.

[FairfieldLife] MMY and Diabetes

2008-02-19 Thread ultrarishi
With all the Deepak and Dr.G.M. threads rolling by, I've wanted to stop for a second and ask about MMY and his diabetes. Was this a life long illness of his, or did this develop sometime later in life, or as a result of the poisoning incident from 1991? Since his passing, I would like to see

[FairfieldLife] Re: Metering Shakti

2008-02-19 Thread new . morning
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: While the idea of venturing to Fairfield and actually meeting some of the fine people I've met on this list appeals to me, a lot, at the same time that is balanced by my distaste for...sorry to say it...going to America.

[FairfieldLife] Re: From Michael Morgan : My trip to India (first hand account)

2008-02-19 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: from Michael Morgan Dear Friends Jai Guru Dev Jai Guru Dev Jai Guru Dev While this is still fresh in my mind, I’d like to put down my experiences for both my meditating and non meditating friends of the

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Validity of Mahrishi's apaurusheya bhasya in the light of linguistics

2008-02-19 Thread Rick Archer
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of nablusoss1008 Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 9:37 AM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Validity of Mahrishi's apaurusheya bhasya in the light of linguistics --- In HYPERLINK

[FairfieldLife] Re: Tony Nadir

2008-02-19 Thread geezerfreak
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gullible fool [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was part of the Cambridge center and knew John. It was powerful sitting next to him in the flying wall at the times I did that. I could feel the intense energy. I also knew Tony. I also knew Sam Gravina.

[FairfieldLife] The Hag and Bev are NOT opposites (Re: Tony Nadir)

2008-02-19 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Knob, You astound me with the regularity of your wicked snarking. You're a true genius of besmirchingness. Is there nothing so low that you will not say it? Are you as insane as you present? Or, are you merely

[FairfieldLife] Re: Westerners Sai Maa, at the Funeral

2008-02-19 Thread curtisdeltablues
Excellent story! These first person accounts have added a lot lately. Ma also told me before she left, that when she first arrived in the hall, they were all talking about only letting the Indians view Maharishi's body, and not the Westerners. I'm guessing this is just the beginning of this

[FairfieldLife] Re: True Evil

2008-02-19 Thread Duveyoung
Sam, Are you merely noting that all is illusion, or do you really believe that the massive amount of murdering that is going on in this world is merely a set of data that needs your new take on evil being the hand of God doing somehthing 'good' but that is beyond human conprehension? Edg --- In

[FairfieldLife] Pots of gold at the end of rainbows (Intelligent stuff)

2008-02-19 Thread Duveyoung
Hagen, I'm an inventor. I developed over 200 ideas to various stages of prototyping, and even a few got onto the store shelves. Mostly toys, games, puzzles and a few electronic devices. I created half a dozen or so new information handling technologies which seem magical the first time you're

[FairfieldLife] Re: Validity of Mahrishi's apaurusheya bhasya in the light of linguistics

2008-02-19 Thread gyselsvishnu
I won't go into polemics regarding Premananda. A few points: he is in no way associated with Sai Baba. He seems to appreciate Ammachi much more than Sai Baba. He is in jail at the moment but it is all politics. Having followed the 'case' at close hand, he was not involved in any criminal act,

[FairfieldLife] Re: From Michael Morgan : My trip to India (first hand account)

2008-02-19 Thread Kalliope108
I'm also a fan of the rule of thumb. Extra credit for anyone who knows where that phrase comes from! * Why, of course, we know that: It's the rule that makes it quite legal to beat your wife (for her own good, naturally) as long as the stick is no wider that your thumb. -- Kalliope

[FairfieldLife] Short interview in Newsweek with David Lynch

2008-02-19 Thread nablusoss1008
Claire Hoffman, Newsweek I gave him a call at his production office here in Los Angeles and see what he was thinking about the day after the death of his guru. Me: How are you David? How are you feeling? David: I'm doing OK, Claire, it is a big day, was a big day yesterday. Me: Do you feel

[FairfieldLife] Re: Validity of Mahrishi's apaurusheya bhasya in the light of linguistics

2008-02-19 Thread gyselsvishnu
Yes, indeed the Benjamin Creme Premananda but Premananda is in no way associated with Creme or endorse his views. Once we were discussing Maitryea. Without overhearing us, Premananda passed by and said: Maitreya is in your heart. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 [EMAIL

[FairfieldLife] Re: Validity of Mahrishi's apaurusheya bhasya in the light of linguistics

2008-02-19 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gyselsvishnu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I won't go into polemics regarding Premananda. A few points: he is in no way associated with Sai Baba. Yet another who appears to know The Truth. I wish I was like you, how simple everything would be :-) Swami

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Tony Nadir

2008-02-19 Thread Peter
--- Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Samuel Gravina Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 9:14 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Tony Nadir I also knew John Hagelen back then.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Attention nablusoss

2008-02-19 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, hugheshugo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ruthsimplicity ruthsimplicity@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008

[FairfieldLife] Re: Attention nablusoss

2008-02-19 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, hugheshugo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, hugheshugo richardhughes103@ wrote: Do you think that the TMOs have a duty to tell the truth if

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Veda in Scandinavia

2008-02-19 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From Blaine Watson We were in Seelisberg for Guru Purnimah in the summer of 1982. Some time after the full moon celebration Maharishi was meeting with us in the large lecture hall and began to discuss the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Validity of Mahrishi's apaurusheya bhasya in the light of linguistics

2008-02-19 Thread gyselsvishnu
- I don´t pretend to know the truth but accusations of rape and murder happening in a small ashram commumity where the guru lived a completely open and public life,allways in the lime light very few eye witnesses buy this. And the association with Sai Baba only exists in mr. Creme´s mind.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Is Barak Obama Maitreya?

2008-02-19 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Curtis, Good find! Good find! Man, I'm just so afraid of the masses investing in Obama with such a spiritual hope. Do you agree that he's got so much power now that something's wrong with this picture for Obama

[FairfieldLife] Documentary on youtube

2008-02-19 Thread nablusoss1008
http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=qPGafwv2CvU

[FairfieldLife] Re: From Michael Morgan : My trip to India (first hand account)

2008-02-19 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Morgan wrote: Now I must mention in this tradition women are not allowed at the cremation site. The idea is that for their own protection, it would be better not to be in the area to witness this event.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Validity of Mahrishi's apaurusheya bhasya in the light of linguistics

2008-02-19 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gyselsvishnu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - I don´t pretend to know the truth but accusations of rape and murder happening in a small ashram commumity where the guru lived a completely open and public life,allways in the lime light very few eye

[FairfieldLife] Re: Attention nablusoss

2008-02-19 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, hugheshugo richardhughes103@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, hugheshugo

[FairfieldLife] Re: Attention nablusoss

2008-02-19 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, hugheshugo richardhughes103@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@

[FairfieldLife] Re: Attention nablusoss

2008-02-19 Thread ruthsimplicity
Thank you for taking my questions seriously and answering them. Ruthie Oops! I am almost out of posts for the week. I guess that means I better get back to work!

[FairfieldLife] Re: Is Barak Obama Maitreya?

2008-02-19 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung no_reply@ wrote: Curtis, Good find! Good find! Man, I'm just so afraid of the masses investing in Obama with such a spiritual hope. Do you agree that he's

[FairfieldLife] Re: Attention nablusoss

2008-02-19 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ruthsimplicity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for taking my questions seriously and answering them. Ruthie Oops! I am almost out of posts for the week. I guess that means I better get back to work! Don't worry. Rick has extended the

[FairfieldLife] Mostly lurking with a question

2008-02-19 Thread netineti3
I have been lurking since the passing, from time to time as such allows. I used to live in FF for many years and involved with the TMO since 1971. I had a great intitation experience and became a teacher/governor 1974-1976. Sidhi course. (no siddhis) Travelled in various capacities..World peace

[FairfieldLife] Re: MMY and Diabetes

2008-02-19 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ultrarishi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With all the Deepak and Dr.G.M. threads rolling by, I've wanted to stop for a second and ask about MMY and his diabetes. Was this a life long illness of his, or did this develop sometime later in life, or as a result

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mostly lurking with a question

2008-02-19 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, netineti3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been lurking since the passing, from time to time as such allows. I used to live in FF for many years and involved with the TMO since 1971. I had a great intitation experience and became a teacher/governor

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mostly lurking with a question

2008-02-19 Thread Duveyoung
If the TM mantras are the names of gods, then repeating the mantra is a form of bhakti, and as one gets more subtle, then the worshipping song is ever more powerful. What else is transcending if not gaining ever greater clarity about the song of songs -- OM? OM is the hymn of the universe that's

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mostly lurking with a question

2008-02-19 Thread do.rflex
No other way by which yogis may attain the Brahma is more easy and auspicious that the way of devotion to the Exalted Lord, the Soul in all that is. Only by that steadfastness of mind which is gained by concentrating it on Me through intense and sustained dvotion can men in this world

[FairfieldLife] Re: MMY and Diabetes

2008-02-19 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just as there wasn't any CIA incident. There where many, even bombattacs, arson and armed hitmen. All foiled by Mother Nature. :-)

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mostly lurking with a question

2008-02-19 Thread curtisdeltablues
One thing those who spew the negative towards other can count on... Your Karmic debt is one of bad tastes. Uh oh. Not this teaching again. How come everyone knows all about my karmic debt but my tax guy when I try to deduct for it? Leaving Fairfield was so freeing of the illusions we had

[FairfieldLife] Re: MMY and Diabetes

2008-02-19 Thread Duveyoung
Rule of law? Rule of law? Don't make me laugh. I was screwed by a business partner. I went to the Iowa State Attorney; he said, It would cost the state $50,000 to audit the books and get the proof that this guy has embezzled, so unless you can pretty much give us a smoking gun of some merit,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mostly lurking with a question

2008-02-19 Thread Alex Stanley
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, netineti3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been lurking since the passing, from time to time as such allows. I used to live in FF for many years and involved with the TMO since 1971. I had a great intitation experience and became a teacher/governor

[FairfieldLife] Re: Validity of Mahrishi's apaurusheya bhasya in the light of linguistics

2008-02-19 Thread Richard J. Williams
Zoran wrote: You are suggesting that there is a Brahman on one side which can be known through transcendental knowledge and on the other side is everything else like ego, mind, senses... etc. According to Shankara, we can only know Brahman through transcendental knowledge; everything else

[FairfieldLife] Re: Validity of Mahrishi's apaurusheya bhasya in the light of linguistics

2008-02-19 Thread Richard J. Williams
Peter wrote: No, I'm not suggesting that. What I suggest is a cup of hot chai for this go nowhere purely in vain conversation! In vain because you don't understand the basic tenets of Indian philosophy? Maybe you should just stick to subjects you know something about, such as repressed

[FairfieldLife] Re: MMY and Diabetes

2008-02-19 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ultrarishi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ultrarishi no_reply@ wrote: With all the Deepak and Dr.G.M. threads rolling by, I've wanted to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ned Wynn's Book, was: Three predictions

2008-02-19 Thread Richard J. Williams
matrix wrote: --and I've never seen the other side of the Moon. Based on your sense of sight, and your knowledge of physics and astronomy, you might *infer* that there is an 'other side to the Moon'. But without you actually seeing it with your own eyes, you could not say with 100% accuracy

[FairfieldLife] Deepak Chopra: The Audacity of Enlightenment - Politics on The Huffington Post

2008-02-19 Thread Rick Archer
HYPERLINK http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deepak-chopra/the-audacity-of-enlighten_b_872 05.htmlhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/deepak-chopra/the-audacity-of-enlighte n_b_87205.html No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ned Wynn's Book, was: Three predictions

2008-02-19 Thread Richard J. Williams
But, it's interesting. In over 300 pages covering TTCs in India, Spain, and Italy over the course of nearly five years, with Ned supposedly carry the skin around, being the door boy, and managing the TTCs, not once did Ned mention anything about seeing the Marshy being in bed with any

[FairfieldLife] Re: Validity of Mahrishi's apaurusheya bhasya in the light of linguistics

2008-02-19 Thread Richard J. Williams
Peter wrote: Brahman is known to Brahman. It has not been established that there is a category, Brahman - that's just a theory found described in the Indian scriptures. There is no scientific foundation for supposing that there is a 'Brahman' that actually exists somewhere. Brahman, as a

[FairfieldLife] Posting Limits, was: Attention nablusoss

2008-02-19 Thread Rick Archer
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of shempmcgurk Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 1:08 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Attention nablusoss --- In HYPERLINK

[FairfieldLife] Re: MMY and Diabetes

2008-02-19 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rule of law? Rule of law? Don't make me laugh. I was screwed by a business partner. I went to the Iowa State Attorney; he said, It would cost the state $50,000 to audit the books and get the proof that this guy

[FairfieldLife] Re: MMY and Diabetes

2008-02-19 Thread ultrarishi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ultrarishi no_reply@ wrote: With all the Deepak and Dr.G.M. threads rolling by, I've wanted to stop for a second and ask about MMY and his diabetes. Was this a life long

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mostly lurking with a question

2008-02-19 Thread Larry
OMG, not another used-to-be TMer who gave it up because he / she couldn't handle a few obstacles. f those shastras. Most of the opinions given are just musings of the egoistic mind and have no basis in what is Truth. Do people seek siddhis for power? If so, this is a quality of Asuras,

[FairfieldLife] Guru Dev ...they have no concern for what is wicked and what is sacred

2008-02-19 Thread do.rflex
The way of the group of those who believe in nirguNa [without qualities alone] spread more wickedness because these people do not accept the manifest form of Bhagavan [God] and suppose that the niraakaara [formless] cannot see or hear. So they do their mind's desires; they have no concern for

[FairfieldLife] Re: Did Maharishi move in with Jesus?

2008-02-19 Thread Richard J. Williams
There are no enlightened beings in heaven. Those who have reached the enlightened stage are Siddhas. They dwell in Siddhaloka; they are the immortal, the perfected. That's what enlightened means: perfected. You forgot to write or so I've read here Tex. No, I didn't forget - that's why

[FairfieldLife] Re: MMY and Diabetes

2008-02-19 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ultrarishi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: To answer you question about whether I'm a member of a cult, that would be no, unless, of course, you count the fans of Jennifer Connelly

[FairfieldLife] Re: MMY and Diabetes

2008-02-19 Thread ultrarishi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To answer you question about whether I'm a member of a cult, that would be no, unless, of course, you count the fans of Jennifer Connelly and Salma Hayek, for which I am intensely guilty. ...which leads to two

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Is Barak Obama Maitreya?

2008-02-19 Thread Bhairitu
nablusoss1008 wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Curtis, Good find! Good find! Man, I'm just so afraid of the masses investing in Obama with such a spiritual hope. Do you agree that he's got so much power now that something's

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Validity of Mahrishi's apaurusheya bhasya in the light of linguistics

2008-02-19 Thread Zoran Krneta
According to Shankara, we can only know Brahman through transcendental knowledge; everything else experienced through the senses is an appearance only. If you are standing for Advaita it can't be Brahman and everyting else, that's mayavada platform... Mayavadins are not pur monists. Brahman

[FairfieldLife] Re: Does anyone here actually think that any of the Indian clan even do TM?

2008-02-19 Thread netineti3
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ruthsimplicity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: If you were a member of the Shrivastava or Varma family and living in India and were raking in all that dough over the past 30 years, you

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