--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote:
On May 27, 2012, at 1:44 AM, cardemaister wrote:
Vaj, puhlze, relax! You seem to be taking this stuff
way too seriously! :o
FYI, the last sentence
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jason jedi_spock@... wrote:
Global Consciousness Project
http://noosphere.princeton.edu/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Consciousness_Project
http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=USv=RojTua3coto
When human consciousness
svastika: sandhi for 'su + asti' (well [it] is) with the suffix -ka?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptybill@... wrote:
Yep, nice swastikas throughout these photos.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Yifu yifuxero@ wrote:
Shambhavi Chopra:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote:
On May 27, 2012, at 2:12 PM, sparaig wrote:
Suggesting people check out TM is not recruiting, and giving a response
in terms of TM theory, or do you think it is?
From what I saw, you posted what I�ve previously
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote:
On May 27, 2012, at 2:12 PM, sparaig wrote:
Suggesting people check out TM is not recruiting, and giving a
response in terms of TM theory, or do you
An interesting point. The difference is that TM teachers aren't dealing with
people who have accepted an entire cultural tradition behind meditation
practices and can only directly talk about TM, rather than the rest of the
tradition. I mean, that's the difference between a religion and a
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@ wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote:
On May 27, 2012, at 1:44 AM, cardemaister wrote:
Vaj, puhlze, relax! You seem to
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote:
On May 27, 2012, at 2:12 PM, sparaig wrote:
Suggesting people check out TM is not recruiting, and
giving a response in terms of TM theory, or do you think
Actually, Unc, my response is taking the existing scientific research on
various forms of meditation, AND the existing commonly accepted categories, and
twisting it around to fit my own definition.
Neither the TM researchers nor the Buddhist researchers, make the distinctions
I make. I base
The best of those singing in their own language:
1. (2nd of all) Buranovskiye Babushki (Buranovskian Grannies)
Language: Udmurt (refrain in English), 480 000, Uralic / Finno-Ugric
2. (3rd) eljko Joksimovi#263;, Language: Serbian, 9M, Indo-European /
Balto-Slavic
3. (5th): Rona
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote:
[...]
Lawson, I took the time to respond to you in a couple
of posts earlier today. My suspicion is that you will
react to the things I said unbelievingly, as if That's
not really me he's describing...I *don't* come across
I did some checking. The USA subsidizes oil at somewhere between 70 cents and
$3.50 per barrel. There's about 20 gallaons of gas obtained per barrel.
Assuming that 1/2 the subsidies are for gasoline, that works out to somewhere
between 1.5 and 7.5 cents subsidy per gallon of gasoline, so you
Subtle but real effects of consciousness are important scientifically, but
their real power is more direct. They encourage us to make essential, healthy
changes in the great systems that dominate our world. Large scale group
consciousness has effects in the physical world. Knowing this, we can
Basicaly, there are two major categories of meditation.
Active and Passive. TM is passive meditation. These two
major categories can be further sub-divided based on their
characteritics.
The fact that TM increases Alpha and decreases Gamma might
be good for health and immune system. The
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jason jedi_spock@... wrote:
Basicaly, there are two major categories of meditation.
Active and Passive. TM is passive meditation. These two
major categories can be further sub-divided based on their
characteritics.
The fact that TM
Buck, the fact that a single person sitting close to a
Random Number Generator RNG, can change the pattern of the
numbers generated by his thoughts and emotions is certainly
a significant discovery.
However, Roger Nelson thinks this 'field of consciousness'
is very weak in general.
Only
Love/ Eldfjall:At the heart of life and death not for an American
audience?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5Hr3eJc88w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZ5MqJwP6AQ
Haneke's Love may be marked as a shift away from his preoccupation
with violence eg.The White Ribbon and 2005's Hidden, IMHO choose
Michael Haneke's Amour Love wins Palme d'Or film prize at
Cannesâ
as expected
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wOJg2n-Mww
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merudanda no_reply@... wrote:
Love/ Eldfjall:At the heart of life and death not for an American
audience?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote:
[...]
Lawson, I took the time to respond to you in a couple
of posts earlier today. My suspicion is that you will
react to the things I said unbelievingly,
Michael Haneke's Amour Love wins Palme d'Or film prize at
Cannes,Europe as expected
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wOJg2n-Mww
The jury, presided over by former Palme d'Or winner Nanni Moretti, gave
the chief award to Haneke, saying the jury was not unanimous on any of
the awards, but that many
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jason jedi_spock@ wrote:
Basicaly, there are two major categories of meditation.
Active and Passive. TM is passive meditation. These two
major categories can be further
Sanskrit has three degrees of vowel length: short (hrasva: a, i, u, etc.), long
(diirgha: aa [A, â...], ii, uu, etc.) and overlong
(pluta: a3 [aaa...], i3, u3).
One of the rare modern languages with that same feature seems
to be the funny Finnish, namely Estonian (for whom Finnish
sounds like
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jason jedi_spock@... wrote:
Buck, the fact that a single person sitting close to a
Random Number Generator RNG, can change the pattern of the
numbers generated by his thoughts and emotions is certainly
a significant discovery.
However, Roger
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@ wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote:
[...]
Lawson, I took the time to respond to you in a couple
of posts earlier today.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@ wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jason jedi_spock@ wrote:
Basicaly, there are two major categories of meditation.
Active and Passive. TM is
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jason jedi_spock@... wrote:
Buck, the fact that a single person sitting close to a
Random Number Generator RNG, can change the pattern of the
numbers generated by his thoughts and emotions is certainly
a significant discovery.
However, Roger
Of course, I inform people about TM. However, in
order to get people to understand that TM is
different than what otbers are talking about in
the forums, I have to explain things.
turquoiseb:
I can list several techniques I have encountered
that I feel are *NO* different than
Subtle but real effects of consciousness are important
scientifically, but their real power is more direct. They
encourage us to make essential, healthy changes in the
great systems that dominate our world. Large scale group
consciousness has effects in the physical world.
http://celestialdestinations.in/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxa7Z6NCgqgfeature=share
Looks like some wonderful facilities and a good vibe all around. It would be a
treat to spend a month rounding again; the old courses were pretty wonderful,
at least in my memory.
***
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@... wrote:
http://celestialdestinations.in/
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@... wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxa7Z6NCgqgfeature=share
Nice!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote:
snip
To follow up -- with, really, the idea in mind of trying
to be helpful --
No. No, that isn't the idea Barry had in mind. The
idea Barry had in mind was to put Lawson down, to
make him feel bad about himself and bad about
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@...
wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxa7Z6NCgqgfeature=share
Nice!
Beautiful Laxhmi !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTdwrs_TzcA
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, marekreavis reavismarek@... wrote:
Looks like some wonderful facilities and a good vibe all around. It would be
a treat to spend a month rounding again; the old courses were pretty
wonderful, at least in my memory.
***
--- In
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jason jedi_spock@... wrote:
Buck, the fact that a single person sitting close to a
Random Number Generator RNG, can change the pattern of the
numbers generated by his thoughts and emotions is certainly
a significant discovery.
However, Roger
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, marekreavis reavismarek@ wrote:
Looks like some wonderful facilities and a good vibe all around. It would
be a treat to spend a month rounding again; the old courses were
Great cartoon! Wanted to say hi. I noticed on the web your posting from Jan
3, 2009 about TTC in Vitale and Biarritz. I was on that course, was cool to
see a communication from another participant. Are you open to any further
conversation(s) about since then?
--- In
That's funny. If it was the 1975-76 course (moved from Vittel to
Biarritz in December) I was on that one too. I see Vittel has grown a
bit from touring around via Google Maps. ;-)
On 05/28/2012 08:23 AM, ckrr777 wrote:
Great cartoon! Wanted to say hi. I noticed on the web your posting from
On 05/28/2012 08:03 AM, nablusoss1008 wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanleyj_alexander_stanley@...
wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008no_reply@ wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxa7Z6NCgqgfeature=share
Nice!
Beautiful Laxhmi !
A REALLY GREAT INTERVIEW WITH MAHARISHI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIWqJ8tJ8JU
~~
Christianity,
Transcendental Meditation
and Religion explained by
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIWqJ8tJ8JU
Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano)
Peter Pears (tenor)
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone)
The Bach Choir
London Symphony Chorus
Highgate School Choir
Melos Ensemble
London Symphony Orchestra
Benjamin Britten cond.
Pt 3-3 is the more easily listened to, IMHO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nhtr5J00ntA
Sure the intention of Memorial Day was to honor soldiers who had fallen
in war and rememberances and ceremonies have been held yearly. But what
I've been noticing is the MSM really emphasizing the war aspect of the
weekend much more this year than usual. Are they getting the populace
all
On May 28, 2012, at 3:17 AM, sparaig wrote:
I mean, someone who has 170 papers listed in pubmed can't really be used to
counter Vaj's impression that TM research is a steaming turd
This is what’s called the logical fallacy of appealing to authority or
argumentum ad verecundiam I do
If you've got HBO this film with Clive Owen and Nicole Kidman debuts
tonight. I've got it set to record on my DVR and will watch tomorrow
night. The movie follows Hemingway's romance Gellhorn starting with the
Spanish Civil War. The interesting thing is that the Bay Area stood in
for a lot
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jason jedi_spock@ wrote:
Basicaly, there are two major categories of meditation.
Active and Passive. TM is passive meditation. These two
major categories can be further sub-divided based
On May 28, 2012, at 6:01 AM, sparaig wrote:
IN fact, Yoga is subsidence of mind-fluctuation.
Gamma EEG, by definition, is mind fluctuation. The fact that, in some
contexts, it can be described as the exact opposite by someone in a given
state, doesn't change the fact that Gamma EEG is a
On May 28, 2012, at 8:39 AM, sparaig wrote:
Compassion meditation, mindfulness, etc, are all proudly touted as bringing
about increases in Gamma EEG. According to researchers, this is their most
important affect.
What’s your source for this statement that this is their most important
On May 28, 2012, at 8:42 AM, sparaig wrote:
I don't know about anyone's enlightenment. However, self isn't an experience
of activity. It is, as the Yoga Sutras say, the subsidence of mind
fluctuations. If a technique increases effort, then by definition, it
increases gamma EEG, which, by
On May 28, 2012, at 3:28 PM, Xenophaneros Anartaxius wrote:
This in turn may suggest that the more practiced the monks are in focusing
their attention during meditation, the less mental (and thus, brain) effort
they have to exert in order to achieve a focused meditative state. Their
On May 28, 2012, at 7:40 AM, turquoiseb wrote:
For example, if your pompous statement that self
realization via techniques that increase gamma EEG
is impossible were true, you have just declared
that *almost all of the teachers regarded by history
as enlightened* were not. Buddha practiced
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@... wrote:
...[I] am about to take up Qi Gong. Â My nervous system is a mess and perhaps
this will get me to a place where I can move forward faster. Â
Emily,
I think this is good you are going to try something to settle down
In linguistics, virâma (viraama, virAma, etc.) refers to this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virama
In the YS, that word appears in I 18:
viraama-pratyaya-abhyaasa-puurvaH saMskaara-sheSo 'nyaH
(...saMskaara-sheSaH; anyaH).
We just realized that Alistair Shearer might be one of the
few
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote:
On May 28, 2012, at 3:17 AM, sparaig wrote:
I mean, someone who has 170 papers listed in pubmed can't really be used to
counter Vaj's impression that TM research is a steaming turd
This is what�s called the logical
To follow up -- with, really, the idea in mind of
trying to be helpful --
authfriend:
No. No, that isn't the idea Barry had in mind. The
idea Barry had in mind was to put Lawson down, to
make him feel bad about himself and bad about TM...
It would be helpful to know what
Except, this is an unnatural state. Turiya is said to be the basis of waking,
dreaming and sleeping. In meditation, it is where the subject and object have
MERGED, leaving only the subject. Your description is of a situation where the
object of attention is the only thing there, rather than the
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--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote:
On May 28, 2012, at 8:39 AM, sparaig wrote:
Compassion meditation, mindfulness, etc, are all proudly touted as bringing
about increases in Gamma EEG. According to researchers, this is their most
important affect.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote:
On May 28, 2012, at 3:28 PM, Xenophaneros Anartaxius wrote:
This in turn may suggest that the more practiced the monks are in focusing
their attention during meditation, the less mental (and thus, brain) effort
they
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote:
On May 28, 2012, at 3:28 PM, Xenophaneros Anartaxius wrote:
This in turn may suggest that the more practiced the monks are in
focusing their
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@... wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nhtr5J00ntA
Emily, thought full link. Thanks. It's the day and the holiday too. I am
remembering also old friends and comrades who have gone before us. In TM There
have been
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--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@... wrote:
I was talking about Self and Self realization during meditation, EEG is
radically different during TM pure consciousness as compared to compassion
meditation, and the changes continue outside of meditation as well.
You are
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote:
On May 28, 2012, at 8:42 AM, sparaig wrote:
I don't know about anyone's enlightenment. However, self isn't an
experience of activity. It is, as the Yoga Sutras say, the subsidence of
mind fluctuations. If a technique
One wonders why the US military would release this operation to the news media.
It smells like a psychological ploy to play on the mind of the young dictator
of North Korea.
http://news.yahoo.com/us-commandos-parachuted-n-korea-report-212356834.html
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote:
Not sure of the relevance here.
In any case, as neuroscientists so often do, he's focusing
on what appears on the little television set in the brain
rather than on who is watching the television.
That is funny but has
I learned something as wellthe words safety, honor, closure, sacred stand
out. It is a thoughtful tune, no doubt. Prayer is prayer, in the end.
From: Buck dhamiltony...@yahoo.com
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, May 28, 2012 4:59 PM
Yes I caught that too.
I enjoyed this Taps link a lot. I also liked the side link that Youtube then
offered of all the bugle calls.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hbfl-afsfLsfeature=related
When I was a younger meditator I was in the cavalry. I rode with a guy who was
like this bugler.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote:
Not sure of the relevance here.
In any case, as neuroscientists so often do, he's focusing
on what appears on the little television set in the brain
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote:
Yes I caught that too.
I enjoyed this Taps link a lot. I also liked the side link
that Youtube then offered of all the bugle calls.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hbfl-afsfLsfeature=related
The changes in pitch are all
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius
anartaxius@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote:
On May 28, 2012, at 8:42 AM, sparaig wrote:
I don't know about anyone's enlightenment. However, self isn't an
experience of
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius
anartaxius@... wrote:
Judy, this is a continuation from your post #309893, which I was not able to
address at the time.
Dr Kevin Nelson described the near-death experience of Pam Reynolds, which he
described as 'astounding'.
The morning sun shines from the east,
And spreads its glories to the west;
All nations with its beams are blest,
Where'er the radiant light appears.
So science spreads its lucid ray
O'er lands which long in darkness lay;
Subtle but real effects of consciousness are important
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