[FairfieldLife] Re: More New Planets Found

2008-04-04 Thread hugheshugo
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 3, 2008, at 5:07 PM, hugheshugo wrote: Bent out of shape emotionally? snarky? Ill considered opinions that go against fact? Is there some projection going on here Edg? Bingo. Just wait until the

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Power Of Myth

2008-04-04 Thread ispiritkin
What a coool thread -- all 35 entries! I, for one, did not know there was a classification for my favorite kind of debating, where people don't defeat their partners but instead support the ongoing display of the fireworks. Gosh, I wish more people did this -- but without gradually spacing

[FairfieldLife] Re: More New Planets Found

2008-04-04 Thread hugheshugo
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sal, The ancient vedic literatures mention of ETs in the guise of demigods and rakshasas. The stories often tell that these demigods visited earth and other lokas with their space ships or vimanas and have a good time.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Study shows compassion meditation changes the brain

2008-04-04 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ispiritkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: Study shows compassion meditation changes the brain Thinking about other people's suffering and not just your own helps to put everything in

[FairfieldLife] Re: Beautiful, sweet, innocent -- but a creepy zombie nonetheless.

2008-04-04 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Recorded live at the Cocoanut Grove in Los Angeles in 1987 with James Burton, Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello on guitars; Jackson Browne, T-Bone Burnett, J.D. Souther, Jennifer Warnes, K.D. Lang, Bonnie

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Power Of Myth

2008-04-04 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ispiritkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What a coool thread -- all 35 entries! I thought so, too. And so I'll spend my last post of the week perpetuating it. (I think it's my last; it is by my count. If I've gone over, Rick, do not hesitate to ask me to take

[FairfieldLife] Re: More New Planets Found

2008-04-04 Thread hugheshugo
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, endlessrainintoapapercup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, hugheshugo richardhughes103@ wrote: I like to be optimistic and think there is millions of planets with life out there but I wouldn't be surprised if we were

[FairfieldLife] Re: Study shows compassion meditation changes the brain

2008-04-04 Thread claudiouk
I think you are both raising very important points. I've often thought how violent movies, TV and computer games desensitise people to violence, legitimise it and make out it's cool. You see bullying in the classroom on the screen and for sure even more copy-cat bullying then takes place in

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield on the BBC!

2008-04-04 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gruntlespam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On a side note, what's interesting about this BBC synopsis on the show, and the BBC show it self - is how the BBC now feel the need to dumb-down everything and add drama all the time. They make it seem like research

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Power Of Myth

2008-04-04 Thread ispiritkin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think that what the world needs is better quality myths. I must agree, Turq. I'm willing to stretch to accommodate somebody else's story (like most religious stories) and make it work with my viewpoint, but

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield on the BBC!

2008-04-04 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 2, 2008, at 3:28 PM, sparaig wrote: Well, the 2004 study and its sister study on the same subjects was done on people reporting 24 hour a day witnessing for at least one year. Obviously, since they are

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi didn't tell us the whole picture.... etc. etc. etc. blah-di-blah

2008-04-04 Thread gruntlespam
vote? Vote?? VOTE?? What's the matter with you man - get a grip! The only ballot paper to vote for a Raja is a check for $1 million USD :-) But seriously - thanks. I think it's all good advice - and it has been repeated endlessly by MMY and MAV etc... TM on it's own is NOT the be-all

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Study shows compassion meditation changes the brain

2008-04-04 Thread Vaj
On Apr 4, 2008, at 12:41 AM, ispiritkin wrote: Thanks for posting this, Vaj. There's a little boy, about 9 years old, right across the street from me at my new place who is heading toward serious trouble. My children told me yesterday they saw him viciously stomping on a tiny dog (who got

Re: [FairfieldLife] Fetus in fetu

2008-04-04 Thread Louis McKenzie
There was once a guy on the Joan Rivers show who was supposed to be pregnant they even tried to show the baby being born. It was bull. In any case I thought about it.Imagine no feminine in put in the baby. I did once I took a look at what a baby born to two men would look like. None of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi didn't tell us the whole picture.... etc. etc. etc. blah-di-blah

2008-04-04 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Simon Groves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello to all, I've been reading a few of the messages on fairfield life, since I joined recently, and am amazed at how much there is out there about us not being given the bigger picture, on learning TM, of how we

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi didn't tell us the whole picture.... etc. etc. etc. blah-di-blah

2008-04-04 Thread Robert
(snip) I just want to say on this, since I learned TM in 2001 my meditation experience has been generally very surface due to obstruction/head/neck/shoulders with some only very occasional pleasant relaxing experience. Some transcending (I presume) but over 7 years of meditation,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield on the BBC!

2008-04-04 Thread Vaj
On Apr 4, 2008, at 6:26 AM, sparaig wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 2, 2008, at 3:28 PM, sparaig wrote: Well, the 2004 study and its sister study on the same subjects was done on people reporting 24 hour a day witnessing for at least one

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Newsweek: The Lotus and the Synapse

2008-04-04 Thread Vaj
On Apr 3, 2008, at 5:11 PM, Patrick Gillam wrote: Tolle's latest book is chock-a-block with SCI. Fans of Maharishi would love it - except, maybe, in those parts where he makes sense of techniques I've never understood, such as watching one's breath. In truth, I had never understood the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Beautiful, sweet, innocent -- but a creepy zombie nonetheless.

2008-04-04 Thread Alex Stanley
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 3, 2008, at 1:39 PM, TurquoiseB wrote: He and another fellow named Rory used to hold forth as enlightened ones here When they weren't holding forth about how they were the reincarnations of Goehring

[FairfieldLife] The origins of mantra meditation?

2008-04-04 Thread cardemaister
As a kid I used to, when anxious, repeat some meaningless words, at least in my native language (meaningless). I guess I did that because I'm mildly/moderately obsessive-compulsive. Just occurred to me, perhaps someone has noticed the effects of repetition of meaningless sounds somewhat like

Re: [FairfieldLife] The origins of mantra meditation?

2008-04-04 Thread Angela Mailander
What you're saying makes total sense. I don't know about that directly since I got a meditation technique at age six, but I think this is a natural thing for kids to do. I think a cat's purring is mantra-like. They do it when they are relaxed, but they also do it any time they are in great pain

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi didn't tell us the whole picture.... etc. etc. etc. blah-di-blah

2008-04-04 Thread Richard J. Williams
Robert wrote: Sometimes it's good to allow the attention to go to the area of the body which feels uncomfortable; this allows your energy to heal that area. Begin to think of the mantra as a 'vibration' and allow yourself to 'witness the whole process... I don't think so, Babaji - what

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield on the BBC!

2008-04-04 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just finished watching it and I share some of your observatiosn but really thought the perfect TM family and the whole TM experience came across as pretty weird. Ah, weird - Vaj's buzzword. The weirdest person around

[FairfieldLife] Re: 10 questions that every intelligent Christian must answer

2008-04-04 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 10 questions that every intelligent Christian must answer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDHJ4ztnldQ OffWorld ...certainly a worthwhile exercise for those that believe blindly. What I also found of

[FairfieldLife] Re: More New Planets Found

2008-04-04 Thread endlessrainintoapapercup
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, hugheshugo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, endlessrainintoapapercup endlessrainintoapapercup@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, hugheshugo richardhughes103@ wrote: I like to be optimistic and think

[FairfieldLife] shareandsavetheworld

2008-04-04 Thread nablusoss1008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQcoaZNONf4feature=related

[FairfieldLife] Re: More New Planets Found

2008-04-04 Thread Richard J. Williams
Richard Hughes wrote: Discovering aliens would make my life, really I'd die a happy man. Maybe the 'aliens' are already here and you just don't know it. If any alien were smart enough to visit the earth they'd probably know all about cloning and mind transference as well as time travel and

[FairfieldLife] Re: Beautiful, sweet, innocent -- but a creepy zombie nonetheless.

2008-04-04 Thread Richard J. Williams
Eric wrote: Quite nice, although he occasionally seems to me have some minor problems with keeping the rhythm absolutely steady. Maybe so - check this out: Stevie Ray Vaughn and Double Trouble: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bxiH8G0XIE Stevie Ray Vaughn - Voodoo Chile_Pt.I (Extended

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi didn't tell us the whole picture.... etc. etc. etc. blah-di-blah

2008-04-04 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gruntlespam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Even reading stuff here at FFL can be a BIG help. Stops you becoming a fanatic, and too attached to MMY and the TMO. Too atttached to MMY ? It did occur to some that you are a minor fool, a trier, a wannabe. If

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi didn't tell us the whole picture.... etc. etc. etc. blah-di-blah

2008-04-04 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gruntlespam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: vote? Vote?? VOTE?? What's the matter with you man - get a grip! The only ballot paper to vote for a Raja is a check for $1 million USD :-) But seriously - thanks. I think it's all good advice - and it

[FairfieldLife] Take your brother's need as the measure for your actions

2008-04-04 Thread nablusoss1008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SU7qn3Miyofeature=related

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Barry the elitist poser

2008-04-04 Thread Rick Archer
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of nablusoss1008 Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 5:13 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Barry the elitist poser Rick; do you have a classics selection on this board ? If so put this post

[FairfieldLife] 'McCain Voted Against King Holiday'

2008-04-04 Thread Robert
So, he's a racist? Oh, well... - You rock. That's why Blockbuster's offering you one month of Blockbuster Total Access, No Cost.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Beautiful, sweet, innocent -- but a creepy zombie nonetheless.

2008-04-04 Thread Duveyoung
Curtis, I gotta hand it to you when you come back at me with, you know, sanity. In the face of my exaggerations and shrillings, your responses are balanced, untriggered for the most part, and insightful. Now, let's see if I can find something you wrote to chew on. curtisdeltablues wrote: snip

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi didn't tell us the whole picture.... etc. etc. etc. blah-di-blah

2008-04-04 Thread gruntlespam
try to find your own path, your own ground from where you can expose the NewAgeSpeak which you love. Desperately trying to delude TM'ers will get you nowhere as they are established in their practise. ...and ...er what exactly is the NewAgeSpeak? Perhaps: Joytish, SV with the east

[FairfieldLife] Re:The origins of mantra meditation?

2008-04-04 Thread Surya
But are there really any meaningless sounds? Surya

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re:The origins of mantra meditation?

2008-04-04 Thread Angela Mailander
What do you mean by meaning? Merely designation? Then, yes, there are sounds that do not have any designation. But meaning is broader than that. In its broadest sense, any human sound, i.e. any sound a human being can make, can never be quite meaningless. a --- Surya [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[FairfieldLife] Re: Newsweek: The Lotus and the Synapse

2008-04-04 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, BillyG. wgm4u@ wrote: I like where you're going with this Vaj, true Samadhi or (transcending, which most meditators, and other groups as well) seldom achieve, is a very high

[FairfieldLife] Re: More New Planets Found

2008-04-04 Thread John
Richard, Your comments are very deep and provocative. Although the subject is about the future, you have raised the same questions that the ancient rishis of India have grappled with. Those are: who are we as humans? How does one distinguish the real from a dream or illusion? What is

[FairfieldLife] Re:The origins of mantra meditation?

2008-04-04 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do you mean by meaning? Merely designation? Then, yes, there are sounds that do not have any designation. But meaning is broader than that. In its broadest sense, any human sound, i.e. any sound a human

[FairfieldLife] Re: Cost of life vs. quality of life

2008-04-04 Thread dhamiltony2k5
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: Thanks for making this point Jeffry. In dismissing FF you ( others do it too) assume that wealth is happiness. Yet there are a lot of folks living very fine lives as 'transcendentalists' here living under

[FairfieldLife] Re: Beautiful, sweet, innocent -- but a creepy zombie nonetheless.

2008-04-04 Thread Marek Reavis
Edg, just gotta say that everytime I think that you've irrevocably gone over the edge, you come back with something like this reply to Curtis (and by extension, to Turq) that is near total redemption. Gotta love it. Jai ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi didn't tell us the whole picture.... etc. etc. etc. blah-di-blah

2008-04-04 Thread boyboy_8
HI Simon, Just a few thoughts. In my view there is no guarentee of any positive result from any meditation technique, bar none. We bring our entire being to the meditational table and who knows what we need to work on? You might go through all kinds of changes before you see more back to

[FairfieldLife] Re: More New Planets Found

2008-04-04 Thread John
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, hugheshugo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@ wrote: Sal, The ancient vedic literatures mention of ETs in the guise of demigods and rakshasas. The stories often tell that these demigods visited

Re: [FairfieldLife] The origins of mantra meditation?

2008-04-04 Thread Bhairitu
My tantra guru believes that mantras evolved through trial and error and not by some cognition by superior beings. I believe too that most mantras were designed for ayurveda to balance doshas and borrowed by the sages. The underlying principle for how mantras work can be found in ayurveda.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re:The origins of mantra meditation?

2008-04-04 Thread Bhairitu
sparaig wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do you mean by meaning? Merely designation? Then, yes, there are sounds that do not have any designation. But meaning is broader than that. In its broadest sense, any human sound,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Cost of life vs. quality of life

2008-04-04 Thread Bhairitu
TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for making this point Jeffry. In dismissing FF you ( others do it too) assume that wealth is happiness. Yet there are a lot of folks living very fine lives as 'transcendentalists'

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Beautiful, sweet, innocent -- but a creepy zombie nonetheless.

2008-04-04 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Apr 4, 2008, at 1:40 PM, Marek Reavis wrote: Edg, just gotta say that everytime I think that you've irrevocably gone over the edge, you come back with something like this reply to Curtis (and by extension, to Turq) that is near total redemption. The meds kicked in, Marek. Gotta love it.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Newsweek: The Lotus and the Synapse

2008-04-04 Thread Vaj
On Apr 4, 2008, at 2:27 PM, sparaig wrote: The TM finding that samadhi is basically simple alpha offends many people, but fits in with what you're saying though. I don't know that it offends anyone, it's just not simply correct. And EEG isn't really a good way to measure what the

[FairfieldLife] selfishness and exploitation

2008-04-04 Thread claudiouk
Happened to watch snippets of two programmes tonight - rather disturbing. First MMY tape, quite an early one, on M channel, around 18:40 GMT. Some quotes will give the flavour: funnily enough, this is the story of love; no-one loves anybody; all currents of love directed by self, for self, to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Barry the elitist poser

2008-04-04 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sandiego108 sandiego108@ wrote: More on Elitists: snip Rick; do you have a classics selection on this board ? If so put this post of sandiego108 into it, if not create

[FairfieldLife] Re:The origins of mantra meditation?

2008-04-04 Thread Richard J. Williams
Surya wrote: But are there really any meaningless sounds? Bija mantras are sounds, but they are supposed to be meaningless to TMers. Bija mantras are not found in any standard Sanskrit lexicon. Most bijas are derived from sounds found in nature. For example, the bija 'phat' - the 'crack',

[FairfieldLife] Re: More New Planets Found

2008-04-04 Thread hugheshugo
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, endlessrainintoapapercup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, hugheshugo richardhughes103@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, endlessrainintoapapercup endlessrainintoapapercup@ wrote: --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: selfishness and exploitation

2008-04-04 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, claudiouk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Happened to watch snippets of two programmes tonight - rather disturbing. First MMY tape, quite an early one, on M channel, around 18:40 GMT. Some quotes will give the flavour: funnily enough, this is the story of

[FairfieldLife] Re: selfishness and exploitation

2008-04-04 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, claudiouk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Happened to watch snippets of two programmes tonight - rather disturbing. First MMY tape, quite an early one, on M channel, around 18:40 GMT. Some quotes will give the flavour: funnily enough, this is the story of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Newsweek: The Lotus and the Synapse

2008-04-04 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 4, 2008, at 2:27 PM, sparaig wrote: The TM finding that samadhi is basically simple alpha offends many people, but fits in with what you're saying though. I don't know that it offends anyone, it's just

[FairfieldLife] Re:The origins of mantra meditation?

2008-04-04 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sparaig wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander mailander111@ wrote: What do you mean by meaning? Merely designation? Then, yes, there are sounds that do not have any designation. But

[FairfieldLife] Re: The origins of mantra meditation?

2008-04-04 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My tantra guru believes that mantras evolved through trial and error and not by some cognition by superior beings. I believe too that most mantras were designed for ayurveda to balance doshas and borrowed by the

[FairfieldLife] Re: More New Planets Found

2008-04-04 Thread hugheshugo
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard, Your comments are very deep and provocative. Although the subject is about the future, you have raised the same questions that the ancient rishis of India have grappled with. Those are: who are we as

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: More New Planets Found

2008-04-04 Thread Angela Mailander
Last time I read an animal-language study it was about dolphins and how they'd learned over a hundred or so human words. It was also determined that they clearly have a language and a sense of self. They refer to each other by name, they gossip, and they recognize themselves and each other in

[FairfieldLife] Re: More New Planets Found

2008-04-04 Thread hugheshugo
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard Hughes wrote: Discovering aliens would make my life, really I'd die a happy man. Maybe the 'aliens' are already here and you just don't know it. If any alien were smart enough to visit the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Cost of life vs. quality of life

2008-04-04 Thread Richard J. Williams
Bhairitu wrote: I almost missed this thread because of the hijacking. For the past ten years I've been living near Austin, Texas, and close to Radiance, home of the Maharishi Golden Dome and the Superradiance Program. On a clear day I can see all the way to Motorola and Dell Computer. If I

[FairfieldLife] Re: More New Planets Found

2008-04-04 Thread Richard J. Williams
Maybe the 'aliens' are already here and you just don't know it. If any alien were smart enough to visit the earth they'd probably know all about cloning and mind transference as well as time travel and parallel universes. Richard Hughes wrote: This is true, but discovering

[FairfieldLife] Re: More New Planets Found

2008-04-04 Thread hugheshugo
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last time I read an animal-language study it was about dolphins and how they'd learned over a hundred or so human words. It was also determined that they clearly have a language and a sense of self. They refer

[FairfieldLife] Re: More New Planets Found

2008-04-04 Thread hugheshugo
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe the 'aliens' are already here and you just don't know it. If any alien were smart enough to visit the earth they'd probably know all about cloning and mind transference as well as time

[FairfieldLife] Re: More New Planets Found

2008-04-04 Thread Richard J. Williams
Richard Hughes wrote: But, I think of myself as a realist, that is I assume the world is pretty much as it appears, obviously like everyone else my only contact with outside reality is via my senses and there lies the problem. According to my Professor, A.J. Bahm, there are six

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: More New Planets Found

2008-04-04 Thread Angela Mailander
I hadn't heard of the theory, but it makes immediate sense. I've often thought there must have been a lot of water in our past because of the lack of hair and the subcutaneous fat. Long hair on women makes sense in that it floats and a kid can grab it. Same for boobs. How to nurse a baby if

[FairfieldLife] Re: Free Tibet!

2008-04-04 Thread Richard J. Williams
The incident, which will cast a shadow of Beijing plans to reopen the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, to tourists by May 1, came as the authorities appeared to have regained control of the vast parts of China that have large ethnic Tibetan populations. Full story: 'Chinese police kill eight after

[FairfieldLife] Re: selfishness and exploitation

2008-04-04 Thread claudiouk
The very existence of words like selfishness and altruism points to an important distinction. A psychopath would be at one extreme, a Ghandi at another. Saying that love is all about feeding the self is not something you'd want to teach children in school about - the whole point of

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Newsweek: The Lotus and the Synapse

2008-04-04 Thread Vaj
On Apr 4, 2008, at 4:04 PM, sparaig wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 4, 2008, at 2:27 PM, sparaig wrote: The TM finding that samadhi is basically simple alpha offends many people, but fits in with what you're saying though. I don't know

[FairfieldLife] Re: More New Planets Found

2008-04-04 Thread hugheshugo
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard Hughes wrote: But, I think of myself as a realist, that is I assume the world is pretty much as it appears, obviously like everyone else my only contact with outside reality is via my senses

[FairfieldLife] Re: More New Planets Found

2008-04-04 Thread hugheshugo
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . Aliens are anyone you don't agree with - the ones who try to brain-wash you into believing that there are any other worlds 'out there'. Wait a minute, do you think me or anyone else is trying to

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: selfishness and exploitation

2008-04-04 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Apr 4, 2008, at 5:00 PM, claudiouk wrote: The very existence of words like selfishness and altruism points to an important distinction. A psychopath would be at one extreme, a Ghandi at another. Saying that love is all about feeding the self is not something you'd want to teach children in

[FairfieldLife] Re: The origins of mantra meditation?

2008-04-04 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My tantra guru believes that mantras evolved through trial and error and not by some cognition by superior beings. I believe too that most mantras were designed for ayurveda to balance doshas and borrowed by the

[FairfieldLife] Re: More New Planets Found

2008-04-04 Thread John
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hadn't heard of the theory, but it makes immediate sense. I've often thought there must have been a lot of water in our past because of the lack of hair and the subcutaneous fat. Long hair on women makes

[FairfieldLife] Re: selfishness and exploitation

2008-04-04 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, claudiouk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The very existence of words like selfishness and altruism points to an important distinction. A psychopath would be at one extreme, a Ghandi at another. Saying that love is all about feeding the self is not something

[FairfieldLife] Re: Newsweek: The Lotus and the Synapse

2008-04-04 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 4, 2008, at 4:04 PM, sparaig wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: On Apr 4, 2008, at 2:27 PM, sparaig wrote: The TM finding that samadhi is basically simple alpha offends

[FairfieldLife] Re: More New Planets Found

2008-04-04 Thread John
Sounds interesting, I shall check out the book. I would never deny complex emotion in other animals as it's a primitive way of letting yourself know if things are going well. I'm happy to consider myself an ape, but I'm aware there are differences between us and chimps, I just don't

[FairfieldLife] Re: More New Planets Found

2008-04-04 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I read somewhere that the DNA difference between a semian and a human is one percent. Perhaps, this is the reason why the Catholic Church is very sensitive about issues relating to cloning and biological

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield on the BBC!

2008-04-04 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 4, 2008, at 6:26 AM, sparaig wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: On Apr 2, 2008, at 3:28 PM, sparaig wrote: Well, the 2004 study and its sister study on the same subjects

[FairfieldLife] 'More Reflections'

2008-04-04 Thread Robert
Friday, April 04, 2008The World is as We Are... (two) Maharishi Namaste Originally uploaded by saeed_tm I’ve not commented here about the passing of Maharishi on February 6th. I haven’t felt compelled to. But, the other evening after work I climbed up into the attic, pulled out the box

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Newsweek: The Lotus and the Synapse

2008-04-04 Thread Vaj
Sorry I believe this is my last post tonight and awhile since I'm gone till monday. ... On Apr 4, 2008, at 7:33 PM, sparaig wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 4, 2008, at 4:04 PM, sparaig wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj

[FairfieldLife] 'Ringo Reflects'

2008-04-04 Thread Robert
Ringo is going off the record with Home Box Office. The Fab Four drummer discusses what it was like to be a member of the biggest rock band of all time, the heyday of Beatlemania and his solo career, with Dave Stewart during Ringo Starr: Off The Record, which debuts May 2 at 11 p.m. (ET/PT).

[FairfieldLife] 'Ringo Starr to reflect on Maharishi'

2008-04-04 Thread Robert
Ringo Stars On HBO Fab Four Drummer Makes ‘Off The Record’ Appearance By Mike Reynolds -- Multichannel News, 4/4/2008 9:41:00 AM Ringo is going off the record with Home Box Office. The Fab Four drummer discusses what it was like to be a member of the biggest rock band of all time, the heyday

[FairfieldLife] 'Hillary Needs Mo' $$$, Please?!

2008-04-04 Thread Robert
Hillary Billy Jeff still need mo moolah? Why? What's up with that? - You rock. That's why Blockbuster's offering you one month of Blockbuster Total Access, No Cost.

[FairfieldLife] Re: 10 questions that every intelligent Christian must answer

2008-04-04 Thread off_world_beings
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings no_reply@ wrote: 10 questions that every intelligent Christian must answer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDHJ4ztnldQ OffWorld ...certainly a

[FairfieldLife] The path to liberation is *eight fold*.....

2008-04-04 Thread BillyG.
Maharishi only teaches a *six fold* path, thereby rendering it less effective!! Even MMY concedes all eight means of Maharishi Patanjali's eight fold path must be practiced simultaneously, (direct quote from Gita appendix under Yoga). Most TM'ers have got a boat with 1 and 1/2 paddles, you'll get

[FairfieldLife] Re: More New Planets Found

2008-04-04 Thread endlessrainintoapapercup
Angela, I'm scanning the posts, trying to catch up, and your comment about floating boobs totally got my attention. The image of plump women drifting in the water, their hair streaming out behind them, their boobs floating, and their fat, naked babies nursing...I wish I could paint it. It really

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The origins of mantra meditation?

2008-04-04 Thread Bhairitu
BillyG. wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My tantra guru believes that mantras evolved through trial and error and not by some cognition by superior beings. I believe too that most mantras were designed for ayurveda to balance doshas and

[FairfieldLife] Re: More New Planets Found

2008-04-04 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, hugheshugo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams willytex@ wrote: Richard Hughes wrote: Discovering aliens would make my life, really I'd die a happy man. Maybe the 'aliens' are already here and

[FairfieldLife] Re: The origins of mantra meditation?

2008-04-04 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So which came first the mantras or the alphabet? Are you speaking of Devanagri and how about Pali which is even older? Of course all alphabets are just symbols for sounds so the sounds had to come first, right? All

[FairfieldLife] Re: More New Planets Found

2008-04-04 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe the 'aliens' are already here and you just don't know it. If any alien were smart enough to visit the earth they'd probably know all about cloning and mind transference as well as time

[FairfieldLife] Re: selfishness and exploitation

2008-04-04 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, claudiouk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The very existence of words like selfishness and altruism points to an important distinction. A psychopath would be at one extreme, a Ghandi at another. Saying that love is all about feeding the self is not

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'More Reflections'

2008-04-04 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Friday, April 04, 2008The World is as We Are... (two) Maharishi Namaste Originally uploaded by saeed_tm I've not commented here about the passing of Maharishi on February 6th. I haven't felt compelled to. But,

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Hillary Needs Mo' $$$, Please?!

2008-04-04 Thread John
IMO, it's not the money that matters for them. It's the power and notoriety. At the most optimistic, they're self actualizing, using Maslov's term. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hillary Billy Jeff still need mo moolah? Why? What's up with that?