[FairfieldLife] OT 450 Mbps?
http://nsn.com/news-events/press-room/press-releases/nsn-breaks-new-ground-with-lte-advanced-for-superior-performance-mwc14 http://nsn.com/news-events/press-room/press-releases/nsn-breaks-new-ground-with-lte-advanced-for-superior-performance-mwc14 NSN breaks new ground with LTE-Advanced for superior performance #MWC14 Espoo, Finland – February 4, 2014 Extends its commercial LTE-Advanced Carrier Aggregation to 3 carriers Shows 450 Mbps data speeds for individual users at MWC Optimizes HetNets with dynamic, load-balancing eICIC
[FairfieldLife] RE: Waking Up on the Other Side....
Most people spend a life they don't know what to do with, wishing they had another one that lasted forever. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jr_esq@... wrote: 7thray, It's a good thing you believe in an afterlife. There are some people who don't.
[FairfieldLife] RE: Robin Harfouche's trip to Heaven
Meeting Jesus in Heaven ? Why not. The only thing with this experience is that both Jesus and the Christ are back in incarnation today. Perhaps she had an experience based on something that happened on the astral levels years ago. But as the interview progress one wonders if she's just a tad unstable.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Robin Harfouche's trip to Heaven
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 wrote: Meeting Jesus in Heaven ? Why not. The only thing with this experience is that both Jesus and the Christ are back in incarnation today. Perhaps she had an experience based on something that happened on the astral levels years ago. But as the interview progress one wonders if she's just a tad unstable. What is it about people named Robin? Maybe on the subtle name and form level, Robin is a mantra that causes people who hear it repeated often to hallucinate the existence of someone named Jesus and then obsess on him. :-)
[FairfieldLife] Re: Hoffman
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/culture/hoffman-junod?click=promosrc=spr_F\ BPAGEspr_id=1456_42689796 http://www.esquire.com/blogs/culture/hoffman-junod?click=promosrc=spr_\ FBPAGEspr_id=1456_42689796 Good article quotes from the Jesuit priest who worked with Hoffman while he was filming Doubt, which coincidentally is one of my favorite movies. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/03/james-martin-philip-seymour-hof\ fman_n_4717228.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/03/james-martin-philip-seymour-ho\ ffman_n_4717228.html The priest's full article about Hoffman is available here. His points about the use of parables to evoke empathy is a good one. That is, IMO, the essence of spiritual storytelling. http://bustedhalo.com/features/the-gospel-according-to-philip-seymour-ho\ ffman http://bustedhalo.com/features/the-gospel-according-to-philip-seymour-h\ offman
[FairfieldLife] Re: Robin Harfouche's trip to Heaven
Jesus lives ! :-)
[FairfieldLife] Re: Robin Harfouche's trip to Heaven
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 wrote: Jesus lives ! :-)
[FairfieldLife] Meditation and PTS: A Warrior's Story
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jake-clark/meditation-and-pts-a-warriors-story_b_4661556.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jake-clark/meditation-and-pts-a-warriors-story_b_4661556.html
[FairfieldLife] YOU ARE INVITED: NEW YORK TOWN HALL MEDITATION
CREATIVITY, PERFORMANCE STRESS - TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2014 http://townhall.davidlynchfoundation.org/ http://townhall.davidlynchfoundation.org/
[FairfieldLife] 15 February “Catastrophe” Warned Will Shake Entire World
In 11 days we'll know http://www.eutimes.net/2014/02/15-february-catastrophe-warned-will-shake-entire-world/ http://www.eutimes.net/2014/02/15-february-catastrophe-warned-will-shake-entire-world/
[FairfieldLife] RE: 15 February “Catastrophe” Wa rned Will Shake Entire World
Better get the tinfoil hats on! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: In 11 days we'll know http://www.eutimes.net/2014/02/15-february-catastrophe-warned-will-shake-entire-world/ http://www.eutimes.net/2014/02/15-february-catastrophe-warned-will-shake-entire-world/
[FairfieldLife] Re: 15 February âCatastropheâ Wa rned Will Shake Entire World
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 wrote: Better get the tinfoil hats on! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: In 11 days we'll know http://www.eutimes.net/2014/02/15-february-catastrophe-warned-will-shake\ -entire-world/ http://www.eutimes.net/2014/02/15-february-catastrophe-warned-will-shak\ e-entire-world/
Re: [FairfieldLife] 15 February “Catastrophe” Warned Will Shake Entire World
Here is a slightly different take on the deaths - not as alarming but still calling for an investigation. http://wallstreetonparade.com/2014/02/a-rash-of-deaths-and-a-missing-reporter-%E2%80%93-with-ties-to-wall-street-investigations/ On Tuesday, February 4, 2014 7:35 AM, nablusoss1008 no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: In 11 days we'll know http://www.eutimes.net/2014/02/15-february-catastrophe-warned-will-shake-entire-world/
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Postcharismatic Fate of New Religious Movements.
I asked you: Scholars of what? From where? If they were genuine, legitimate scholars, Buck, you should be able to tell us that. If you can't, well, then we're entitled to assume you are just putting on airs and posturing to make yourself look important, as usual. Om yes, and eminent scholars. FairfieldLife and Fairfield and TM is quite topical to quite a lot of people lurking. And, who do you think reads this place? Your audience? Who do you really write for when you post? Some writers should rightfully be embarrassed. -Buck awoelflebater writes: authfriend writes: Visiting scholars?? Of what? From where? I know, right?! I mean, you don't have to be visiting in order to read the internet... Dear Dear FFL, A Special Thank You to everyone who added in to this thread as it developed. It was appreciated very much by several visiting scholars who came recently to FairfieldLife looking in on this particular subject thread. You were very helpful. Is always interesting to find the range of who the readers are of this place. Best of regards to all my colleagues here, -Buck in the Dome [ OM BTW, You can post an e-mail directly to Buck using the reply for this post and then push the little rectangle on the top right of the text box that comes up. Set the address there. ] PostCharismatic Posts w/Turq's original about Lenz/Rama http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/370519 http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/370519 w/ Melton's Intros http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/370565 http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/370565 w/ comparative comment about succession and Boards http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/370575 http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/370575 Turq's comment about NPD, http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/370589 http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/370589 Ann's qualification of leadership and NPD http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/370600 http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/370600 NPD and Charisma http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/370617 http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/370617 What's a Saint anyway? http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/370786 http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/370786 The Scholarly Consideration of Charisma, http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/370672 http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/370672 Weber's Definition of Charismatic: http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/370565 http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/370565 Graphing Data-pairs, Charismatics and Spiritual movements http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/370787 http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/370787 In Graphing data-pairs of Saints and spiritual groups; along the path we all long-timers had experience to some degree with ranges and distribution of personality narcissism in spiritual people, from ordered to disordered and with continuum of relatively saintly charismatic affect and the less than saintly spiritual behaviors. In looking at spiritual leaders or looking at spiritual groups historically I tend to draw back and place them on Cartesian paired-data graphs working two types of relative scales to get a fix on the spirituality. I find this works good as framework for placing any group or saint relatively. Weber's definition of Charismatic can be one scale. There also comes a calculus that can be seen through time with charismatics or their groups (life-cycle) for instance if you plot transformative spiritual affective-ness on one axis against the altruistic evolution of group organizational development on another. Graphing like thus one can parse variously using data-pairs of scale to sort them out relatively. For instance, https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/communal-studies-forum/BVT5Okg_nfc https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/communal-studies-forum/BVT5Okg_nfc https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!topic/communal-studies-forum/BVT5Okg_nfc https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!topic/communal-studies-forum/BVT5Okg_nfc Awoelflebater writes: How many times do I have to tell you Bucko, there are NO SUCH THINGS AS SAINTS. Get over it. Go stare your horse in the face, look in his eyes and tell me this is not the most sublime, the deepest thing you will ever see.
[FairfieldLife] I like the current mayor of Paris...
...but I would vote for his competition in the upcoming election, just on the basis of this idea: http://www.messynessychic.com/2014/02/04/metro-makeovers-for-the-abandon\ ed-stations-of-paris/ http://www.messynessychic.com/2014/02/04/metro-makeovers-for-the-abando\ ned-stations-of-paris/
[FairfieldLife] Re: I like the current mayor of Paris...
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: ...but I would vote for his competition in the upcoming election, just on the basis of this idea: http://www.messynessychic.com/2014/02/04/metro-makeovers-for-the-abandon\ ed-stations-of-paris/ http://www.messynessychic.com/2014/02/04/metro-makeovers-for-the-abando\ ned-stations-of-paris/ It's the theater/concert hall that did it: If that were built, and some of my favorite small room performers were to play there, I would so be wielding my Thalys platinum card and be there in a heartbeat.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Music for Yoga and Meditation
Hariprasad Chaurasia [image: Inline image 1] Flying Beyond - Improvisations on Bamboo Flute http://youtu.be/0hMF7btkFUQ Hariprasad Chaurasia - banuri Emam and Rik Masterson - tampura Music for deep relaxation and integration of body and mind: http://www.maharishi-gandharva-veda.de/ About the Bansuri: Bamboo flute (Bansuri) is considered to be the original musical instrument, and is noted for being closest to the human singing voice. The richness from the fine nuances of pitch is accomplished by a subtle blowing technique and by partially covering the seven to eight finger holes. Each flute can only play in one scale. About the Artist: Pandit Hari Prasad Chaurasia (born 1938) is an Bansuri master of India. In 1981, in recognition of his outstanding contribution to music, he was given the National Indian Award of the Sangeet Natak Academy in New Delhi. In 1990, Hari Prasad Chaurasia received the Gaurav Puraskar (one of the most prestigious awards) from the State Government of Maharashtra, India. He also received from the President of India, the coveted Padmabhushan award. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hariprasad_Chaurasia On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 8:22 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.comwrote: Kimio Eto - Koto [image: Inline image 1] Ryoan-ji Zen Garden, Japan Yuki No Genso http://youtu.be/J7ezuG1ul2c Koto Flute - Kimio Eto and Bud Shank 1963 http://youtu.be/kTLDZVJcF7A [image: Inline image 2] Sound of the Koto: The Music of Japan by Kimio Eto Vinyl album 33 1/3 RPM The koto is a traditional Japanese stringed musical instrument, similar to the Chinese zheng, the Mongolian yatga, the Korean gayageum and the Vietnamese ðàn tranh. The koto is the national instrument of Japan. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koto_%28instrument%29 On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 7:10 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.comwrote: Ravi Shankar [image: Inline image 3] 'Festival of Indian Music' - Romantic Ragas http://youtu.be/uzKhb0ypdjA [image: Inline image 2] Ravi Shankar Ali Akbar Khan V.G. Jog Pandit Jasraj Shivkumar Sharma Hariprasad Chaurasia Sultan Khan Alla Rakha Zakir Hussain 'Music of India' http://youtu.be/-f1DNyngKVY [image: Inline image 4] 'Chants Of India' http://youtu.be/bg8uoepX4OI [image: Inline image 6] This CD is unlike anything you might ever hear. It is not so much the music of Shankar or Harrison or anyone else - it is the music of the Gods, manifested through Shankar and the talent surrounding him. - Amazon review Ravi Shankar - Performer George Harrison - Performer Angel Records - Audio CD 'Shankar Family Friends' http://youtu.be/euqihRrbtSQ [image: Inline image 5] Dark Horse Records, 33 1/3 RPM vinyl SP-22002 1973 Note: (This album is very rare and out-of-print; my copy is in near mint condition and transferred to cassette tape for listing. Not availableon Audio CD- New on vinyl: $499.00). Ravi Shankar, KBE often referred to by the title Pandit, was an Indian musician and composer who played the sitar. He has been described as the best-known contemporary Indian musician. Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravi_Shankar On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 7:53 AM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.comwrote: [image: Inline image 1] George Harrison - Wonderwall Music http://youtu.be/UllxxMkG7uI All of the tracks were composed by Harrison, and it was the first official solo album by a Beatle. It was the first album release on the newly formed Apple Records, appearing in November 1968, a few weeks before The Beatles (White Album). It would also be the first Apple record to be deleted, though it was remastered and reissued on CD in 1992. While the tracks recorded in England were made on multi-track recording machines and remixed, the Indian portions were recorded live to two-track stereo. 01. 00:00 Microbes 02. 03:43 Red Lady Too 03. 05:41 Tabla and Pakavaj 04. 06:47 In the Park 05. 10:56 Drilling a Home 06. 14:05 Guru Vandana 07. 15:11 Greasy Legs 08. 16:41 Ski-ing 09. 18:31 Gat Kirwani 10. 19:47 Dream Scene 11. 25:15 Party Seacombe 12. 29:51 Love Scene 13. 34:09 Crying 14. 35:28 Cowboy Music 15. 36:58 Fantasy Sequins 16. 38:50 On the Bed 17. 41:13 Glass Box 18. 42:20 Wonderwall to Be Here 19. 43:48 Singing Om On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 2:16 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.comwrote: Bud Shank [image: Inline image 2] Pather Panchali with Ravi Shankar http://youtu.be/oqO_DxrqX4c Ravi Shankar - Sitar Bud Shank - Flute Kanai Dutta - Tabla Nodu Mullick - Tambura Harihar Rao - Percussion Dholak Dennis Budimir - Guitar Gary Peacock - Bass Louis Hayes - Drums Bud Shank was a legend in Hollywood where he played with Stan Kenton's band, Lalo Schifrin, Gábor Szabó, Hugo Montenegro, and as a first-class session muscian. He also had a strong interest in what might now be termed world music, playing Brazilian-influenced jazz with Laurindo Almeida
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Country Chuckles
If you lend someone $20, and never see that person again, it was probably worth it. - Will Rogers On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 8:59 AM, Pundit Sir pundits...@gmail.com wrote: Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day. - Will Rogers On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 6:24 AM, Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com wrote: LOL, Richard, thanks, hope you have a good week... On Sunday, February 2, 2014 10:10 PM, Pundit Sir pundits...@gmail.com wrote: If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you. - Will Rogers On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 12:53 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.comwrote: Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes. - Will Rogers On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 7:26 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.comwrote: If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments. - Will Rogers On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 7:39 AM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.comwrote: It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.- Will Rogers On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 6:49 AM, Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com wrote: Another great Will Rogers quote, Richard, thanks On Friday, January 31, 2014 7:51 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote: It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.- Will Rogers On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.comwrote: Wonderful, LOL, thanks Richard. Thanks to Will too (-: On Friday, January 31, 2014 9:22 AM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote: Never test the depth of the water with both feet. - Will Rogers On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 8:39 AM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.comwrote: Don't be irreplaceable. If you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted.- Will Rogers On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 7:28 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.comwrote: It's always darkest before dawn. So if you're going to steal your neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it. - Will Rogers On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 5:37 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.comwrote: In case you are worried about what is going to become of the younger generation, it is going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation. On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 8:13 AM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.comwrote: Always remember you're unique. Just like everyone else.- Will Rogers On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 9:27 AM, Richard J. Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote: On 1/7/2014 6:01 PM, Richard Williams wrote: The journey of a thousand miles begins with a broken fan belt and a leaky tire. - Will Rogers
Re: [FairfieldLife] So sad
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote: I got news for you Bucky, contrary to what the TMO says and I have heard Big Bopper Bevan with my own ears say with his own lying mouth We don't have a drug problem here at MIU. There are drugs and drug dealers right on campus - have been since AT LEAST the mid -1980's and if the post on the FB page MUM Secrets are accurate, there still are. The only way MIU/MUM can't have a drug problem according to the Big Bopper is if one ignores the problem and pretends it isn't there. There was no drug problem in the early to mid 80's at MIU. There was the occasional beer that was imbibed and certainly plenty of sex but most of it performed sober. On Tue, 2/4/14, dhamiltony2k5@... mailto:dhamiltony2k5@... dhamiltony2k5@... mailto:dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] So sad To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, February 4, 2014, 4:55 AM Last month the Gov of Vermont spent his WHOLE state-of-the-state speech presentation on the drug (heroin) problem. Thank you for not selling drugs and booze to our children,-Buck Mr. Hoffman gave himself what's called a Hot Shot. If he knew the stength of the heroin that he was injecting himself then i think he may have commited suicide and if he didn't he was just unlucky. He died before he could get the needle out of his arm which leads me to believe it was probably pure heroin ( meaning it was uncut). -from NPR feedback
Re: [FairfieldLife] So sad
when I was there in 85-87, there were two guys, one a staff member, one a student who were dealing pot out of their rooms - all the people who smoked dope were aware of them - a bunch of the ESL (english as a second language people were their patrons) I found out through a friend who was buying from them. After the city cops got suspicious, the staff guy quit MIU, went to live in town and started dealing in town instead of on campus. One of the staff women I knew who had a son in MSAE told me that sometime before I arrived, an entire class of MSAE had been suspended for a time cause all of them had gotten busted - the university of course kept it quiet. Her son and a bunch of his classmates, all MSAE students, definitely were having pot parties - his mom caught him at one. You just weren't hanging out with the cool people There was no drug problem in the early to mid 80's at MIU. There was the occasional beer that was imbibed and certainly plenty of sex but most of it performed sober. On Tue, 2/4/14, dhamiltony2k5@... dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] So sad To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, February 4, 2014, 4:55 AM Last month the Gov of Vermont spent his WHOLE state-of-the-state speech presentation on the drug (heroin) problem. Thank you for not selling drugs and booze to our children,-Buck Mr. Hoffman gave himself what's called a Hot Shot. If he knew the stength of the heroin that he was injecting himself then i think he may have commited suicide and if he didn't he was just unlucky. He died before he could get the needle out of his arm which leads me to believe it was probably pure heroin ( meaning it was uncut). -from NPR feedback
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: All About Sadhus and Yogis
On 2/1/2014 4:20 PM, Bhairitu wrote: And Svoboda is even of all things a Texan! So, what would Svoboda being a Texan have to do with being a sadhu or a yogi?
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: All About Sadhus and Yogis
On 2/1/2014 3:59 PM, emptyb...@yahoo.com wrote: You should try reading the Aghora series by Svaboda. For what purpose would anyone here be reading the Aghora series by Svaboda? You can't be a sadhu or a yogi by reading a book by a guy from Texas. Go figure. Perhaps that might help you not embarrass your self so much. The embarrassment here is that you've told us exactly nothing about sadhus or yogis.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Music for Yoga and Meditation
Shamelessly hijacking Richard's thread and Subject line, I post a link for those few here who might have been intrigued by recent discussions of Rama - Fred Lenz. In his study, we meditated to music. Go figure. Some would consider that heresy; I considered it fun, and often revelatory. In the early days, we meditated mainly to other people's electronica -- Tangerine Dream, Vangelis, Jean-Michel Jarre, and that lot. When he'd gathered enough bucks and talent (the three members of Zazen, professional musicians all), he started making his own music. Some of it was experimental, to say the least, but other albums were designed *to* be meditated to. I pass it along without much comment, for those with open minds or for the ankle-biters. I still think that Samurai was pretty smokin', and that Mystery School contains some of the most conscious-bending music I've ever experienced. But that may just been because I was there, in the audiences, listening to this stuff played and recorded live, all amped up with Rama's shakti or charisma or whatever the fuck it was. I'll actually be listening to a few of these myself today, for the first time in years, just as a kind of Castanedan recollection. I wonder what they'll sound like to me, all these years on? Will they still have the phwam! they once had for me, able to shift my state of attention radically within the space of a few bars? I honestly don't know, and am looking forward to finding out... http://www.ramameditationsociety.org/resources/type/music http://www.ramameditationsociety.org/resources/type/music
[FairfieldLife] RE: 15 February “Catastrophe” Wa rned Will Shake Entire World
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: Better get the tinfoil hats on! Everyone loves a catastrophe, or at least an impending one. It makes their lives so much more meaningful... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: In 11 days we'll know http://www.eutimes.net/2014/02/15-february-catastrophe-warned-will-shake-entire-world/ http://www.eutimes.net/2014/02/15-february-catastrophe-warned-will-shake-entire-world/
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: All About Sadhus and Yogis
On 2/1/2014 4:38 PM, emptyb...@yahoo.com wrote: The pundito doesn't want to understand deeply and expansively. You're the spiritual teacher - why don't you tell us why you're wanting to be a sadhu and a yogi. Why won't you give us some spiritual advice or instruction? Is it some secret knowledge you have or some secret technique? In TM practice you only get one single bija mantra and some fertilizer to go along with it - TMers meditate twice a day for twenty minutes or maybe an hour if they practice the siddhis; and TMers can reach enlightenment in a few minutes or not longer than 5-7 years. Obviously you've gone way beyond basic TM practice. How many mantras does a person have to know in order to become enlightened and how long would it take? You've been on a spiritual path for most of your adult life, but can you fly? What is it like to be practicing up-side down tantra rituals to the Hindu demi-gods and trying to follow a Tibetan Buddhist path at the same time? Go figure.
[FairfieldLife] Dravidians rule OK?
Both Nadella (CEO, M$) and Suri (CEO, NSN) seem to be Dravidians, or are they? That is, they'd be non-IE!
Re: [FairfieldLife] So sad
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote: when I was there in 85-87, there were two guys, one a staff member, one a student who were dealing pot out of their rooms - all the people who smoked dope were aware of them - a bunch of the ESL (english as a second language people were their patrons) I found out through a friend who was buying from them. After the city cops got suspicious, the staff guy quit MIU, went to live in town and started dealing in town instead of on campus. One of the staff women I knew who had a son in MSAE told me that sometime before I arrived, an entire class of MSAE had been suspended for a time cause all of them had gotten busted - the university of course kept it quiet. Her son and a bunch of his classmates, all MSAE students, definitely were having pot parties - his mom caught him at one. You just weren't hanging out with the cool people Cool was what I left behind in high school and the first University I attended before transferring to MIU in '75. There was no drug problem in the early to mid 80's at MIU. There was the occasional beer that was imbibed and certainly plenty of sex but most of it performed sober. On Tue, 2/4/14, dhamiltony2k5@... dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] So sad To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, February 4, 2014, 4:55 AM Last month the Gov of Vermont spent his WHOLE state-of-the-state speech presentation on the drug (heroin) problem. Thank you for not selling drugs and booze to our children,-Buck Mr. Hoffman gave himself what's called a Hot Shot. If he knew the stength of the heroin that he was injecting himself then i think he may have commited suicide and if he didn't he was just unlucky. He died before he could get the needle out of his arm which leads me to believe it was probably pure heroin ( meaning it was uncut). -from NPR feedback
[FairfieldLife] Re: Hoffman
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/culture/hoffman-junod?click=promosrc=spr_FBPAGEspr_id=1456_42689796 http://www.esquire.com/blogs/culture/hoffman-junod?click=promosrc=spr_FBPAGEspr_id=1456_42689796 Good article quotes from the Jesuit priest who worked with Hoffman while he was filming Doubt, which coincidentally is one of my favorite movies. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/03/james-martin-philip-seymour-hoffman_n_4717228.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/03/james-martin-philip-seymour-hoffman_n_4717228.html The priest's full article about Hoffman is available here. His points about the use of parables to evoke empathy is a good one. That is, IMO, the essence of spiritual storytelling. http://bustedhalo.com/features/the-gospel-according-to-philip-seymour-hoffman http://bustedhalo.com/features/the-gospel-according-to-philip-seymour-hoffman Dammit, I figured he was a gentle and lovely human being and these two articles confirm this. Now it is all even a greater loss. Talent, youth and decency all left on the bathroom floor. I haven't seen Doubt, I think it's time.
Re: [FairfieldLife] So sad
Yep. An evident lack of spiritual will; beware the friends you keep. -Buck mjackson74 writes: when I was there in 85-87, there were two guys, one a staff member, one a student who were dealing pot out of their rooms - all the people who smoked dope were aware of them - a bunch of the ESL (english as a second language people were their patrons) I found out through a friend who was buying from them. After the city cops got suspicious, the staff guy quit MIU, went to live in town and started dealing in town instead of on campus. One of the staff women I knew who had a son in MSAE told me that sometime before I arrived, an entire class of MSAE had been suspended for a time cause all of them had gotten busted - the university of course kept it quiet. Her son and a bunch of his classmates, all MSAE students, definitely were having pot parties - his mom caught him at one. You just weren't hanging out with the cool people There was no drug problem in the early to mid 80's at MIU. There was the occasional beer that was imbibed and certainly plenty of sex but most of it performed sober. Buck wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] So sad Last month the Gov of Vermont spent his WHOLE state-of-the-state speech presentation on the drug (heroin) problem. Thank you for not selling drugs and booze to our children,-Buck Mr. Hoffman gave himself what's called a Hot Shot. If he knew the stength of the heroin that he was injecting himself then i think he may have commited suicide and if he didn't he was just unlucky. He died before he could get the needle out of his arm which leads me to believe it was probably pure heroin ( meaning it was uncut). -from NPR feedback
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: All About Sadhus and Yogis
On 2/2/2014 1:41 PM, emptyb...@yahoo.com wrote: Vedic Chhandas and bijâkshara-s don't work - for the deaf or damn fools. Nor do books about Tantra sadhana. You can use any mnemonic device as a an aid to meditation - symbols, sounds, images, visualizations. There are no bija mantras in the Rig Veda - I don't even know why you brought that up. You're not even making any sense. The Tantras are books! There are only two things that are incumbent on a sadhu or a yogi: you must be meditating on your bija mantra at least twice a day: in the morning when the sun comes up, and in the evening when the sun goes down. Meditating for some time, one gets established permanently in the state of being. And then, wherever the mind goes one is established in that Self no matter what one does here or there; it doesn't matter when one is established in the Self. And, that state comes after some time from going deep inside and coming out. With this practice one gets established permanently in the Self, and then whatever you do you are not separate from the Self... - Tat Walah Baba, Rishikesh 1969
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: All About Sadhus and Yogis
On 2/2/2014 1:51 PM, Bhairitu wrote: First off the early levels of tantra have nothing to do with sex and even if the cremation grounds ritual is required to be an archaya some paths (including mine) have replacements for that. Even wine can be replaced by fruit juice in tantric rituals. Bet you didn't know that! There is no substitute for actual tantric ritual coitus - anybody who says that sex has no part in tantra is deceiving themselves - sex has everything to do with tantra. Tantra is for householders, not for monks or nuns. Apparently you're not reading the Kama Sutra. My advice to you would be get in shape and attach yourself to a real live shakti - before your palms grow hair. It's not complicated.
[FairfieldLife] Re: So sad
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: Yep. An evident lack of spiritual will; beware the friends you keep. -Buck Ahem. To quote the Fairfield Life home page, What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out, which is the exact opposite. ~ Bertrand Russell mjackson74 writes: when I was there in 85-87, there were two guys, one a staff member, one a student who were dealing pot out of their rooms - all the people who smoked dope were aware of them - a bunch of the ESL (english as a second language people were their patrons) I found out through a friend who was buying from them. After the city cops got suspicious, the staff guy quit MIU, went to live in town and started dealing in town instead of on campus. One of the staff women I knew who had a son in MSAE told me that sometime before I arrived, an entire class of MSAE had been suspended for a time cause all of them had gotten busted - the university of course kept it quiet. Her son and a bunch of his classmates, all MSAE students, definitely were having pot parties - his mom caught him at one. You just weren't hanging out with the cool people There was no drug problem in the early to mid 80's at MIU. There was the occasional beer that was imbibed and certainly plenty of sex but most of it performed sober.
[FairfieldLife] RE: Waking Up on the Other Side....
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, steve.sundur@... wrote: after a drug overdose. I am just speculating that it might go something like this. Wht the fuck, where am I!? Uh, dude, you've passed over What the fuck are you talking about. I've got to pick up my kids in a few minutes Uh, you're not going to see your kids anymore. You've passed on son No, I didn't. I was just taking a hit. It was no big deal Well you went a little overboard. See for yourself No, no, that can't be right. Really, I can kick this stuff Well, maybe next time dude. Maybe next time. I'll leave you be for a while so you can see what see what the scene's like that you left behind After a while I'll come and see how you are doing, and we can make some plans Reflecting... God Damnit, God Damnit. Why did I have to do this shit Actually, I was thinking about this myself. This is why this has a tragic element for me; I am pretty sure, can't tell you exactly why and I could be very wrong, that Phillip didn't mean to die. There have been plenty of overdoses that didn't mean to die, but dead they are. I had just been listening to NPR coming home from work and hearing about the increase in deaths due to heroin laced with fentanyl and then the very next day I hear of Phillip's death. I guess we can only conjecture on what the death experience would be having overdosed and, unwittingly at that. Is there confusion? Fear? Is one stuck between living and dying somewhere on some plane? Or is one simply deader than a doornail with nothing to show for it but a flaccid corpse with drug paraphernalia sticking out of one's arm?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Music for Yoga and Meditation
I've been listening to Zazen for about an hour now. It's not my usual sort of thing but it must be rather pleasant as I have no urge to switch it off. It could have veered into shallow, anodyne new age territory but the peaks and troughs seem to keep it lively. The musicianship is better than your average new age band too. I could probably listen to it all day. In some ways it sounds like a band I used to go and see called Ozric Tentacles, they were (indeed still are) a bunch of drug influenced psycho rockers. But they did an album of magic mushroom inspired music and that might make you enlightened also, but might give you flashbacks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gHSbIifmek http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gHSbIifmek Ah, that really takes me back ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote: Shamelessly hijacking Richard's thread and Subject line, I post a link for those few here who might have been intrigued by recent discussions of Rama - Fred Lenz. In his study, we meditated to music. Go figure. Some would consider that heresy; I considered it fun, and often revelatory. In the early days, we meditated mainly to other people's electronica -- Tangerine Dream, Vangelis, Jean-Michel Jarre, and that lot. When he'd gathered enough bucks and talent (the three members of Zazen, professional musicians all), he started making his own music. Some of it was experimental, to say the least, but other albums were designed *to* be meditated to. I pass it along without much comment, for those with open minds or for the ankle-biters. I still think that Samurai was pretty smokin', and that Mystery School contains some of the most conscious-bending music I've ever experienced. But that may just been because I was there, in the audiences, listening to this stuff played and recorded live, all amped up with Rama's shakti or charisma or whatever the fuck it was. I'll actually be listening to a few of these myself today, for the first time in years, just as a kind of Castanedan recollection. I wonder what they'll sound like to me, all these years on? Will they still have the phwam! they once had for me, able to shift my state of attention radically within the space of a few bars? I honestly don't know, and am looking forward to finding out... http://www.ramameditationsociety.org/resources/type/music http://www.ramameditationsociety.org/resources/type/music
[FairfieldLife] Re: Music for Yoga and Meditation
I suspect most folks would say that whether listening to music while meditating is appropriate depends on the specific type of meditation. Shamelessly hijacking Richard's thread and Subject line, I post a link for those few here who might have been intrigued by recent discussions of Rama - Fred Lenz. In his study, we meditated to music. Go figure. Some would consider that heresy; I considered it fun, and often revelatory.
[FairfieldLife] RE: 15 February “Catastrophe” Wa rned Will Shake Entire World
Nabby has been promising us stuff like this for years. Contact with aliens, the unveiling of the new world teacher (not Robin, I think), world peace, world enlightenment, world chaos etc... Poor chap never seems to realise that a prediction has come and gone without coming true.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Music for Yoga and Meditation
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 wrote: I've been listening to Zazen for about an hour now. It's not my usual sort of thing but it must be rather pleasant as I have no urge to switch it off. It could have veered into shallow, anodyne new age territory but the peaks and troughs seem to keep it lively. Part of it may have been the tough taskmaster approach that Rama took to his students, in Zazen's case being the rather...uh...aggressive recording and creative schedule he set for them and that they -- to their credit -- fulfilled. I've lost count, but I think that they recorded at least 20 full albums of music in the space of about ten years. I won't bore anyone here by repeating what I said about them in an earlier chapter of Road Trip Mind, so for those interested, here's that link: http://www.ramalila.net/RoadTripMind/rtm28.html http://www.ramalila.net/RoadTripMind/rtm28.html I've only recently discovered this resource of well-mastered, well-rendered-digitally music on the web, and so I'm discovering it at the same time everyone else is. I listened to a few songs since my first post, and a few still stand out for me as consciousness-changers. They include, for the curious, Samurai Samurai's Victory Song, Tantra Rama's Song, and Mystery School the first 4 minutes of Mystery School. That's Rama. When I saw the album list on the page I URLed earlier, I was weirded out because one of the best of the albums IMO was not listed. It was called Canyons Of Light, and it painted a musical portrait of many of the places of power in the American Southwest in which we had experienced desert trips with Rama. Clicking around, I discovered that it has been preserved at another link on the same site, and with video of the places in question, too. Such a deal. http://www.ramameditationsociety.org/canyons-light-cayman-blue http://www.ramameditationsociety.org/canyons-light-cayman-blue All these years later, and there is still some truth in the Rama one-liner I quoted at the end of my RTM story above, I am mainly in the music. Whatever constitutes best when discussing a fallible, ordinary human being, he brought it to his music. Some of that best seems still to be there for me, all these years on...
[FairfieldLife] In Memoriam, Larry White
FW: dear friends i heard this evening that larry white passed away recently at his home in keosauqua. he had struggled with pain and chronic infections as a result of an accident many years ago when he was a young man. his energy and remaining health had declined steadily over the last year. larry had apparently prepared himself for his transition...alone. his body was found by neighbors. a memorial service will be held in may, on or around the date of his birthday. i will send out more information as i hear more. i will always remember the joy of singing with larry...his heart-felt baritone/tenor was a delight to hear and 'meet' in the architecture of a song. you could hear his love of life, his love for the Divine when he sang. he loved singing with our little clan of shape note singers and we loved him. he is one of our tenors on our latest CD throne of grace, December 2012. I like to think of him singing praises in heaven! and, yes, we will miss him very very much. love and all blessings, When death comes and whispers to me, Thy days are ended, let me say to him, I have lived in love and not in mere time. He will ask, Will thy songs remain? I shall say, I know not, but this I know that often when I sang I found my eternity. ~ from Fireflies by Rabindranath Tagore
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: All About Sadhus and Yogis
On 2/2/2014 4:46 PM, emptyb...@yahoo.com wrote: Indian Tantra was transgressive in practice ... so coitus with a low-caste or non-caste woman was a one of the means for breaking the severe behavioral commandants and restrictions of Hindu life. Every sexual act, whether conjugal or otherwise, is transgressive to a certain degree and all secret sexual activity between husband and wife is antinomian to a certain degree. The only sure-fire way to make sure you are using all the tools in your tantra toolbox is to get the real thing, the whole thing - not just mood-making with some imagined shaktis and/or with some murti idols. So, lets review what we know: The Tantras - manuals of practice - were composed during the Golden Age of Hinduism, during the Gupta period (320-650 AD). Tantra is based on positioning and placement. The basic notion of tantra is polarity - the division of cosmic energy. The Sanskrit term tantra comes from the root words tan - to weave and tra - a tool. So, tantra is a tool for weaving the opposing forces that animate the universe. Tantrais a way of thinking and acting that includes a microcosmic and macrocosmic correlation - in Hinduism shiva-shakti. Any person who aspires for spiritual expansion or does a spiirtual practice, using yogic techniques or something concrete, is a Tantric. The entire universe is composed of sexual energy - the goal of tantric practice is to channel that energy, within the human microcosm, in creative and emancipatory ways in order to obtain freedom from bondage.
[FairfieldLife] RE: 15 February “Catastrophe” Wa rned Will Shake Entire World
You are not paying attention
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Amanda Knox is Found Guilty Again
you are still either an idiot, or someone with reading comprehension problems - I obviously was not bashing the TM'ERs - I was pointing out the very obvious fact that TM's adjunct money making programs don't work as advertised On Tue, 2/4/14, Richard J. Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Amanda Knox is Found Guilty Again To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, February 4, 2014, 4:35 PM On 2/3/2014 7:20 AM, Michael Jackson wrote: If you can see the thousands upon thousands of meditators who do TM and all the ancillary programs who still have fucked up stuff happen to them Never ever, pass up an opportunity to bash TMers whenever a tragedy is mentioned. Go figure.
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Amanda Knox is Found Guilty Again
On 2/3/2014 7:20 AM, Michael Jackson wrote: If you can see the thousands upon thousands of meditators who do TM and all the ancillary programs who still have fucked up stuff happen to them Never ever, pass up an opportunity to bash TMers whenever a tragedy is mentioned. Go figure.
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: All About Sadhus and Yogis
Completely unnecessary to achieve enlightenment. On 02/04/2014 07:16 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote: On 2/2/2014 1:51 PM, Bhairitu wrote: First off the early levels of tantra have nothing to do with sex and even if the cremation grounds ritual is required to be an archaya some paths (including mine) have replacements for that. Even wine can be replaced by fruit juice in tantric rituals. Bet you didn't know that! There is no substitute for actual tantric ritual coitus - anybody who says that sex has no part in tantra is deceiving themselves - sex has everything to do with tantra. Tantra is for householders, not for monks or nuns. Apparently you're not reading the Kama Sutra. My advice to you would be get in shape and attach yourself to a real live shakti - before your palms grow hair. It's not complicated.
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: All About Sadhus and Yogis
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote: On 2/2/2014 1:51 PM, Bhairitu wrote: First off the early levels of tantra have nothing to do with sex and even if the cremation grounds ritual is required to be an archaya some paths (including mine) have replacements for that. Even wine can be replaced by fruit juice in tantric rituals. Bet you didn't know that! There is no substitute for actual tantric ritual coitus - anybody who says that sex has no part in tantra is deceiving themselves - sex has everything to do with tantra. Tantra is for householders, not for monks or nuns. Apparently you're not reading the Kama Sutra. My advice to you would be get in shape and attach yourself to a real live shakti - before your palms grow hair. It's not complicated. Funny post, Ricky. But how come no one seems to know what Tantra is all about around here? Sex, no sex, sex drinking fruit juice, to wear mittens or not to wear mittens (based on the hirsute nature of one's palms), I mean what gives? I thought all you guys were experts. What's all that time reading and sitting in lecture halls amounted to? Confusion, apparently, that's what.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: TV Musings
Blacklist is one of the better shows this season. A few weeks ago it was revealed that Harry Lennix was hired to groom Obama. I tried another episode of Person of Interest but felt it was still too formulaic. I gave Atlas Shrugged II a watch last night because there has been some noise particularly by a bank CEO that it is being used as a handbook for economic collapse. Sometimes I wonder how these people become CEOs. Even Alex Jones in relationship to that article said that Ayn Rand was a nutcase. She sure had a warped idea of the role of government. Mikey would probably like it though since theres lots about taking other peoples money in it. So maybe part of the reason you didn't like Holy Smoke was it was about a cult kidnapper? Though they did sorta eke revenge on him. On 02/03/2014 11:41 PM, TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife a...@yahoogroups.com, wrote: Of your shows, I'm watching Person of Interest and Justified. Another show that I've been enjoying is The Blacklist. Unfortunately, my enthusiasm is starting to wane in that the James Spader character is the only one who holds any interest for me; better writing and casting could have made it a much better show. */In my original rap I forgot to mention The Following, which I've been...uh...following mainly because of James Purefoy as the resident psychopath/cult leader. He's genuinely chilling, and scarily familiar in terms of NPD Gone Wild. Even though it's technically Kevin Bacon's series, as with Hannibal (Mads Mikkelsen in that case) it's the Bad Guy who makes it all happen. I may check out The Blacklist, even though the IMDB synopsis doesn't seem to suggest that it's really about blacklisting. That would interest me more, because after all, I and a number of friends from the Rama trip really *have* been blacklisted. Back in the day, a number of parents angry that their sons or daughters weren't doing what they wanted them to do with their lives got together with the then-CAN (Cult Awareness Network) and started trying to actively put a number of teachers they considered (sometimes rightly) as cult leaders out of business. They would plant negative articles about them in the press, and in the case of the Rama - Fred Lenz trip, they tried to dry up their source of income by making it difficult for the students to find work. Thus one day in New York, I arrived at my job at a Wall Street trading firm to find a box on top of my desk with all my personal stuff in it. I was carefully watched by a security guard as I gathered up my stuff, turned in my badges and IDs, and was marched to the door. It turns out that my name had appeared on a blacklist circulated to IT employers in New York, identifying about 200 of Rama's students as cultists and potential cyberterrorists. Most employers didn't bother to check on the legitimacy of this blacklist, and just fired the people whose names they found on it, or refused to hire them. In my case it turned out OK, because the company at least honored the terms of my contract and gave me two months' pay. Since I found another gig less than a week later, that was just gravy, and so I didn't mind. But I had friends who were out of work for months until we managed to hire private detectives, get copies of the list, and create a minor ruckus in the press and in the Human Resources community about what was being done, by whom, and why. Then the blacklist faded away as quickly as it appeared. But still it was a nasty piece of business. Less nasty than the actual kidnappings by deprogrammers paid $25K a pop by the parents to abduct their adult children and de-brainwash them by brainwashing them. I witnessed one such kidnapping, and testified in court about it, putting at least two of these thugs (almost all of whom were ex-cons looking for an easy living and taking advantage of fearful parents) away in prison for a while. /* , ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote: Just for the heck of it, because I've got the day off today and I'm sitting in a cafe right now taking advantage of the relatively clement weather and the sun, but I've gotta write about *something* for it to qualify as a cafe writing break, so I guess TV is it. I don't know about anyone else, but TABB (Time After Breaking Bad) has been a real bitch. That series was so consistently excellent that it really gave you something to look forward to every week. About the only mainstream shows that have managed to fill that I'll watch them every week no matter what void are Justified, True Detective, Person Of Interest, and Lost Girl. I still give Agents Of Shield a try from time to time, hoping it will get better, but so far it hasn't. Sigh. Among new shows that I've stumbled upon, I'm giving a UK series called The Musketeers a shot, but I doubt I'll continue. I'm also watching a series about pirates called Black Sails. This one I may continue
[FairfieldLife] Re: Music for Yoga and Meditation
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 wrote: I've been listening to Zazen for about an hour now. It's not my usual sort of thing but it must be rather pleasant as I have no urge to switch it off. It could have veered into shallow, anodyne new age territory but the peaks and troughs seem to keep it lively. Part of it may have been the tough taskmaster approach that Rama took to his students, in Zazen's case being the rather...uh...aggressive recording and creative schedule he set for them and that they -- to their credit -- fulfilled. I've lost count, but I think that they recorded at least 20 full albums of music in the space of about ten years. I won't bore anyone here by repeating what I said about them in an earlier chapter of Road Trip Mind, so for those interested, here's that link: http://www.ramalila.net/RoadTripMind/rtm28.html http://www.ramalila.net/RoadTripMind/rtm28.html I've only recently discovered this resource of well-mastered, well-rendered-digitally music on the web, and so I'm discovering it at the same time everyone else is. I listened to a few songs since my first post, and a few still stand out for me as consciousness-changers. They include, for the curious, Samurai Samurai's Victory Song, Tantra Rama's Song, and Mystery School the first 4 minutes of Mystery School. That's Rama. When I saw the album list on the page I URLed earlier, I was weirded out because one of the best of the albums IMO was not listed. It was called Canyons Of Light, and it painted a musical portrait of many of the places of power in the American Southwest in which we had experienced desert trips with Rama. Clicking around, I discovered that it has been preserved at another link on the same site, and with video of the places in question, too. Such a deal. http://www.ramameditationsociety.org/canyons-light-cayman-blue http://www.ramameditationsociety.org/canyons-light-cayman-blue Oh dear, just a tad too elevator-ish for my taste. No highs, no lows, no texture, no nuance. Musical pablum. All these years later, and there is still some truth in the Rama one-liner I quoted at the end of my RTM story above, I am mainly in the music. Whatever constitutes best when discussing a fallible, ordinary human being, he brought it to his music. Some of that best seems still to be there for me, all these years on...
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: 15 February “Catastrophe” Wa rned Will Shake Entire World
Turns out tinfoil hats might be useful to protect you from all the extra radio waves we've got going. Though it might be more sheik to line a baseball cap with a copper dish scrubber. :-D On 02/04/2014 04:57 AM, salyavin808 wrote: Better get the tinfoil hats on! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: In 11 days we'll know http://www.eutimes.net/2014/02/15-february-catastrophe-warned-will-shake-entire-world/
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: All About Sadhus and Yogis
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote: On 2/2/2014 4:46 PM, emptybill@... mailto:emptybill@... wrote: Indian Tantra was transgressive in practice ... so coitus with a low-caste or non-caste woman was a one of the means for breaking the severe behavioral commandants and restrictions of Hindu life. Every sexual act, whether conjugal or otherwise, is transgressive to a certain degree and all secret sexual activity between husband and wife is antinomian to a certain degree. The only sure-fire way to make sure you are using all the tools in your tantra toolbox is to get the real thing, the whole thing - not just mood-making with some imagined shaktis and/or with some murti idols. So, lets review what we know: The Tantras - manuals of practice - were composed during the Golden Age of Hinduism, during the Gupta period (320-650 AD). Tantra is based on positioning and placement. The basic notion of tantra is polarity - the division of cosmic energy. The Sanskrit term tantra comes from the root words tan - to weave and tra - a tool. So, tantra is a tool for weaving the opposing forces that animate the universe. Tantrais a way of thinking and acting that includes a microcosmic and macrocosmic correlation - in Hinduism shiva-shakti. Any person who aspires for spiritual expansion or does a spiirtual practice, using yogic techniques or something concrete, is a Tantric. The entire universe is composed of sexual energy - the goal of tantric practice is to channel that energy, within the human microcosm, in creative and emancipatory ways in order to obtain freedom from bondage. Couldn't sticking one's wet finger into a light socket accomplish this as well?
Re: [FairfieldLife] OT 450 Mbps?
While they love to gouge us in the US for just 12 mbps. The WRONG PEOPLE run the telecoms! On 02/04/2014 12:22 AM, cardemais...@yahoo.com wrote: http://nsn.com/news-events/press-room/press-releases/nsn-breaks-new-ground-with-lte-advanced-for-superior-performance-mwc14 NSN breaks new ground with LTE-Advanced for superior performance #MWC14 Espoo, Finland – February 4, 2014 * Extends its commercial LTE-Advanced Carrier Aggregation to 3 carriers * Shows 450 Mbps data speeds for individual users at MWC * Optimizes HetNets with dynamic, load-balancing eICIC
Re: [FairfieldLife] 15 February “Catastrophe” Warned Will Shake Entire World
The banker suicides have been mainstream news not UFO reports stuff. Not unusual considering the massive criminal behavior of the major banks and thats why I call them banksters. At some point the US will default because you can only take things so far and the dollar will collapse. That is just a logical outcome. It's been delayed by all kinds of attempts at damage control, the first being of course the 2008 bailout. We'd be better off without these huge banking institutions and to start over again with new economic principles giving everyone a chance instead of a few elite. On 02/04/2014 05:08 AM, Michael Jackson wrote: Here is a slightly different take on the deaths - not as alarming but still calling for an investigation. http://wallstreetonparade.com/2014/02/a-rash-of-deaths-and-a-missing-reporter-%E2%80%93-with-ties-to-wall-street-investigations/ On Tuesday, February 4, 2014 7:35 AM, nablusoss1008 no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: In 11 days we'll know http://www.eutimes.net/2014/02/15-february-catastrophe-warned-will-shake-entire-world/
[FairfieldLife] RE: 15 February “Catastrophe” Wa rned Will Shake Entire World
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: Nabby has been promising us stuff like this for years. Contact with aliens, the unveiling of the new world teacher (not Robin, I think), world peace, world enlightenment, world chaos etc... Poor chap never seems to realise that a prediction has come and gone without coming true. Hope springs eternal...
[FairfieldLife] Re: TV Musings
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: Blacklist is one of the better shows this season. A few weeks ago it was revealed that Harry Lennix was hired to groom Obama. I tried another episode of Person of Interest but felt it was still too formulaic. There is no question but that POI is formulaic, but I'm addicted because of the possibility of seeing Amy Acker from time to time. I really like the lady. :-) I gave Atlas Shrugged II a watch last night because there has been some noise particularly by a bank CEO that it is being used as a handbook for economic collapse. Sometimes I wonder how these people become CEOs. Even Alex Jones in relationship to that article said that Ayn Rand was a nutcase. She sure had a warped idea of the role of government. Mikey would probably like it though since theres lots about taking other peoples money in it. I'll pass. American politics -- and for that matter, American concerns -- rarely concern me these days, much less entertain me. So maybe part of the reason you didn't like Holy Smoke was it was about a cult kidnapper? Though they did sorta eke revenge on him. It's been quite a few years since I saw it, but as I remember the thing that set my teeth on edge was that it seemed to be a completely *unrealistic* portrayal of the deprogrammer thang. I suspect Jane Campion was projecting her feminist womyn ethic onto things, assuming (oddly like the women she would look down on who think the same thing about the men they marry or hook up with) that a deprogramming victim could turn the tables on her captor and deprogram *him*. That, plus the film contained the worst performances by both Kate Winslet and Harvey Keitel ever. Until the US remake of Life On Mars, that is. Keitel took it over the top with that one. :-) BTW, and a total non-sequitur that will drive the sequitur-impaired up the wall :-), I just discovered another YouTube treasure concert that I like, similar in quality and impact to the Tori Amos NPR concert I posted earlier. This one's by Mark Knopfler: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGlGBIzN2ls http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGlGBIzN2ls On 02/03/2014 11:41 PM, TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife a...@yahoogroups.com, wrote: Of your shows, I'm watching Person of Interest and Justified. Another show that I've been enjoying is The Blacklist. Unfortunately, my enthusiasm is starting to wane in that the James Spader character is the only one who holds any interest for me; better writing and casting could have made it a much better show. */In my original rap I forgot to mention The Following, which I've been...uh...following mainly because of James Purefoy as the resident psychopath/cult leader. He's genuinely chilling, and scarily familiar in terms of NPD Gone Wild. Even though it's technically Kevin Bacon's series, as with Hannibal (Mads Mikkelsen in that case) it's the Bad Guy who makes it all happen. I may check out The Blacklist, even though the IMDB synopsis doesn't seem to suggest that it's really about blacklisting. That would interest me more, because after all, I and a number of friends from the Rama trip really *have* been blacklisted. Back in the day, a number of parents angry that their sons or daughters weren't doing what they wanted them to do with their lives got together with the then-CAN (Cult Awareness Network) and started trying to actively put a number of teachers they considered (sometimes rightly) as cult leaders out of business. They would plant negative articles about them in the press, and in the case of the Rama - Fred Lenz trip, they tried to dry up their source of income by making it difficult for the students to find work. Thus one day in New York, I arrived at my job at a Wall Street trading firm to find a box on top of my desk with all my personal stuff in it. I was carefully watched by a security guard as I gathered up my stuff, turned in my badges and IDs, and was marched to the door. It turns out that my name had appeared on a blacklist circulated to IT employers in New York, identifying about 200 of Rama's students as cultists and potential cyberterrorists. Most employers didn't bother to check on the legitimacy of this blacklist, and just fired the people whose names they found on it, or refused to hire them. In my case it turned out OK, because the company at least honored the terms of my contract and gave me two months' pay. Since I found another gig less than a week later, that was just gravy, and so I didn't mind. But I had friends who were out of work for months until we managed to hire private detectives, get copies of the list, and create a minor ruckus in the press and in the Human Resources community about what was being done, by whom, and why. Then the blacklist faded away as quickly as it appeared. But still it was a nasty piece of business. Less nasty than the actual
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Ultimate Techno Tracks
Tribal Dance Night at the Techno Club It's techno DJ night at the Armadillo World Headquarters in Austin - three thousand hardcore techno fans crowd a city-club celebrating the re-birth of genuine techno. On Friday nights techno addicts from all over the Midwest unite to indulge in their favorite techno dance tunes. Bursting onto the dance hall at 9:00 pm with the DJs who set the dance floor on fire with a sea of sweat and body energies writhing and swaying in a dance frenzy until the sun comes up. If you're not going to dance, why did you come to the dance party? [image: Inline image 2] The Official Techno Club Compilation Vol 2 (CD1) Tribal Sundown - (Babmix) - Club http://youtu.be/MovNmpKBixI [image: Inline image 1] 'How to DJ Right: The Art and Science of Playing Records' by Frank Broughton Grove Press, 2003 On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 10:08 PM, Pundit Sir pundits...@gmail.com wrote: One Dove [image: Inline image 1] One Dove - White Love (Psychic Masterbation) http://youtu.be/pqIsWexYD74 White Love - One Dove - Video http://youtu.be/5Z_hcAQz1Rw One Dove was a Scottish alternative dance music group active in the early 1990s, consisting of Dot Allison, Ian Carmichael and Jim McKinven. One Dove: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Dove On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.comwrote: [image: Inline image 1] Force Legato - System - Techno Trax Vol.1 - 1991 http://youtu.be/FSy-VInn2DM On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.comwrote: Mortin Subotnick We recently went to see Morton Subotnick in San Antonio celebrating his 80th birthday with a residency and performance Feb. 21-23 at the Urban 15, 2500 S Presa St. We've been fans of Subotnick since we met him in San Francisco at the Art Academy. I didn't know you were into elctronic music. Me, I'm into Industrial Techno EDM - electronic dance music. It's weird to call electronic music bleep music, but before the digital age of the MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface). Go figure. [image: Inline image 3] Morton Subotnick at Urban 15. Morton Subotnick is an American composer of electronic music, best known for his Silver Apples of the Moon, the first electronic work commissioned by a record company, Nonesuch. He was one of the founding members of California Institute of the Arts where he taught for many years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton_Subotnick Silver Apples of the Moon http://youtu.be/9HoljsO22qA [image: Inline image 1] 'Legendary musician to perform at Urban 15 Studio' San Antonio Express-News: http://www.mysanantonio.com/Legendary-musician-to-perform-at-Urban-15-Studiohttp://www.mysanantonio.com/default/article/Legendary-musician-to-perform-at-Urban-15-Studio-4269327.php 'Legendary Subotnick in town' San Antonio Express-News: http://www.mysanantonio.com/Legendary-Subotnick-in-townhttp://www.mysanantonio.com/default/article/Night-Lights-Legendary-Subotnick-in-town-4295183.php Spotlight: Early electronica' San Antonio Express-News: http://www.mysanantonio.com/Spotlight-Early-electronicahttp://www.mysanantonio.com/default/article/Spotlight-Early-electronica-4275164.php Minilogue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58BHEAleNHs On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 7:45 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.comwrote: Example of a professional production environment: [image: Inline image 1] FX - Test Tone - Techno Trax - Volume 1 Part I http://www.youtube.com/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXNXWCfJ-N8feature=sharelist=PL7rwDSLdOxlcsEtfFbqQ5J_jAs7C84oC3index=1 Die Anfänge - Techno Trax - Part I http://www.youtube.comhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr6N-bNyAgAfeature=sharelist=RDTr6N-bNyAgA [image: Inline image 2] Techno is a form of electronic dance music (EDM) that emerged in Detroit, Michigan, in the United States during the mid-to-late 1980s. The first recorded use of the word techno in reference to a specific genre of music was in 1988. Many styles of techno now exist, but Detroit techno is seen as the foundation upon which a number of subgenres have been built. Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Techno 'Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey' by B. Brewster F. Broughton Avalon, 2006
Re: [FairfieldLife] 15 February “Catastrophe” Warned Will Shake Entire World
That's right Bhairitu, and the root-cause is capitalism, not the banksters. The time for smoothing things over is long time passed. Capitalism will be replaced with a fundamentally more just system, a process that has been going on for decades. You almost have to be as reactionary and narrowminded as salyavin not to see it happening before our very eyes. There are even millions who deny that climate changes exsist and refuse to believe it will have any consequences for the level of the sea and living-conditions for billions of people. Two different aspects of change, but both will radically alter how we live on this planet. Now that communism is gone the next to go is capitalism -Maharishi, 1989
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Amanda Knox is Found Guilty Again
And according to astrology MJ will keep on this level for at least 6 more years. God help us all ;-)
[FairfieldLife] Occupy The Farm - Help finish this film!
Right now, the number of hungry people in the US has grown to a record 49 million people according the USDA. http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/occupy-the-farm http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/occupy-the-farm
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: 15 February “Catastrophe ” Wa rned Will Shake Entire World
The problem with tinfoil hats is that any RF that enters from below will be reflected and concentrated into a focal point inside the head. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Turns out tinfoil hats might be useful to protect you from all the extra radio waves we've got going. Though it might be more sheik to line a baseball cap with a copper dish scrubber. :-D On 02/04/2014 04:57 AM, salyavin808 wrote: Better get the tinfoil hats on! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com mailto:no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: In 11 days we'll know http://www.eutimes.net/2014/02/15-february-catastrophe-warned-will-shake-entire-world/ http://www.eutimes.net/2014/02/15-february-catastrophe-warned-will-shake-entire-world/
Re: [FairfieldLife] 15 February “Catas trophe” Warned Will Shake Entire World
What I see is the downfall of capitalism before our very eyes.
Re: [FairfieldLife] 15 February “Catas trophe” Warned Will Shake Entire World
Is that what you are seeing before your eyes? The replacement of capitalism with something fairer? And by the US government at that! What I see in the world is the constant retrenchment of capitalist principles, it's just getting worse and worse. “There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.” ― Warren Buffett http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/756.Warren_Buffett ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: That's right Bhairitu, and the root-cause is capitalism, not the banksters. The time for smoothing things over is long time passed. Capitalism will be replaced with a fundamentally more just system, a process that has been going on for decades. You almost have to be as reactionary and narrowminded as salyavin not to see it happening before our very eyes. There are even millions who deny that climate changes exsist and refuse to believe it will have any consequences for the level of the sea and living-conditions for billions of people. Two different aspects of change, but both will radically alter how we live on this planet. Now that communism is gone the next to go is capitalism -Maharishi, 1989
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Amanda Knox is Found Guilty Again
According to you Obammy and Company will have instituted a new economic world order by then and will control everything and everyone - what will be interesting for all here on FFL is where the TMO will fall in such a NWO. Will Girish, the Srivastavas boys, Bevan, High King Tony and Hagelin ingratiate themselves with the NWO? Offer to use TM to keep the masses soporific so they will be satisfied with the NWO in exchange for a free hand and a piece of the pie? Or will David Lynch and his boys begin to advertise TM as a way of freeing yourself from the suffocating restraints of the NWO? On Tue, 2/4/14, nablusoss1008 no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Amanda Knox is Found Guilty Again To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, February 4, 2014, 5:40 PM And according to astrology MJ will keep on this level for at least 6 more years. God help us all ;-)
Re: [FairfieldLife] 15 February “Catas trophe” Warned Will Shake Entire World
Just as Maharishi predicted
[FairfieldLife] Re: Music for Yoga and Meditation
Inoffensively tinkly, by me. http://www.ramameditationsociety.org/canyons-light-cayman-blue http://www.ramameditationsociety.org/canyons-light-cayman-blue Oh dear, just a tad too elevator-ish for my taste. No highs, no lows, no texture, no nuance. Musical pablum.
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Amanda Knox is Found Guilty Again
Those pesky planets! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: And according to astrology MJ will keep on this level for at least 6 more years. God help us all ;-)
Re: [FairfieldLife] 15 February “Catas trophe” Warned Will Shake Entire World
while I agree that the current system only benefits the very wealthy and not even all of them, the proposed Feb 15th catastrophe which by the way has not ever shown up in any documented look at any of Snowden's released documents, the Feb `15th deal would seem to be the epitome of capitalism, not its downfall. On Tue, 2/4/14, nablusoss1008 no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] 15 February “Catas trophe” Warned Will Shake Entire World To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, February 4, 2014, 6:52 PM Just as Maharishi predicted
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: TV Musings
On 02/04/2014 09:22 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: I gave Atlas Shrugged II a watch last night because there has been some noise particularly by a bank CEO that it is being used as a handbook for economic collapse. Sometimes I wonder how these people become CEOs. Even Alex Jones in relationship to that article said that Ayn Rand was a nutcase. She sure had a warped idea of the role of government. Mikey would probably like it though since theres lots about taking other peoples money in it. /*I'll pass. American politics -- and for that matter, American concerns -- rarely concern me these days, much less entertain me. */ It's a bad movie anyway. I gave it one star on Netflix and that was generous. I just wanted to get an overview of the storyline that has been discussed without reading the damn dry book. Be sure you don' watch ANY Hollywood movies or TV shows then. :-D
Re: [FairfieldLife] 15 February “Catas trophe” Warned Will Shake Entire World
That's because most dummies think free enterprise is capitalism. IOW, owning your own business is capitalism. So you're a capitalist if you sell crystals at the new age fair? That's free enterprise capitalism and the dummies fear they won't be able to do such if capitalism dies. Not so but the elite know the dummies think this and make sure they keep believing such a myth. Tax away billionaires, break up large corporations including the banks and the world will be much, much better off. And indeed is the US is the orgy parlor of capitalism. On 02/04/2014 10:28 AM, salyavin808 wrote: Is that what you are seeing before your eyes? The replacement of capitalism with something fairer? And by the US government at that! What I see in the world is the constant retrenchment of capitalist principles, it's just getting worse and worse. “There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.” ― Warren Buffett http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/756.Warren_Buffett ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: That's right Bhairitu, and the root-cause is capitalism, not the banksters. The time for smoothing things over is long time passed. Capitalism will be replaced with a fundamentally more just system, a process that has been going on for decades. You almost have to be as reactionary and narrowminded as salyavin not to see it happening before our very eyes. There are even millions who deny that climate changes exsist and refuse to believe it will have any consequences for the level of the sea and living-conditions for billions of people. Two different aspects of change, but both will radically alter how we live on this planet. Now that communism is gone the next to go is capitalism -Maharishi, 1989
Re: [FairfieldLife] 15 February “Catas trophe” Warned Will Shake Entire World
And indeed is the US is the orgy parlor of capitalism. - Bhairitu But some of the very best orgyin' goes on over there in Merrry Olde England (sorry Sal) On Tue, 2/4/14, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] 15 February “Catas trophe” Warned Will Shake Entire World To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, February 4, 2014, 7:33 PM That's because most dummies think free enterprise is capitalism. IOW, owning your own business is capitalism. So you're a capitalist if you sell crystals at the new age fair? That's free enterprise capitalism and the dummies fear they won't be able to do such if capitalism dies. Not so but the elite know the dummies think this and make sure they keep believing such a myth. Tax away billionaires, break up large corporations including the banks and the world will be much, much better off. And indeed is the US is the orgy parlor of capitalism. On 02/04/2014 10:28 AM, salyavin808 wrote: Is that what you are seeing before your eyes? The replacement of capitalism with something fairer? And by the US government at that! What I see in the world is the constant retrenchment of capitalist principles, it's just getting worse and worse. “There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.” ― Warren Buffett ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: That's right Bhairitu, and the root-cause is capitalism, not the banksters. The time for smoothing things over is long time passed. Capitalism will be replaced with a fundamentally more just system, a process that has been going on for decades. You almost have to be as reactionary and narrowminded as salyavin not to see it happening before our very eyes. There are even millions who deny that climate changes exsist and refuse to believe it will have any consequences for the level of the sea and living-conditions for billions of people. Two different aspects of change, but both will radically alter how we live on this planet. Now that communism is gone the next to go is capitalism -Maharishi, 1989
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: 15 February “Catastrophe ” Wa rned Will Shake Entire World
Theres an old Sci-Fi Channel movie called Control Factor with Adam Baldwin and Elizabeth Berkeley about control through RF and the Baldwin character runs into a guy who suggests lining his baseball cap with the copper scrubbing material. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=896uluXOv1s On 02/04/2014 09:54 AM, j_alexander_stan...@yahoo.com wrote: The problem with tinfoil hats is that any RF that enters from below will be reflected and concentrated into a focal point inside the head. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Turns out tinfoil hats might be useful to protect you from all the extra radio waves we've got going. Though it might be more sheik to line a baseball cap with a copper dish scrubber. :-D On 02/04/2014 04:57 AM, salyavin808 wrote: Better get the tinfoil hats on! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com mailto:no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: In 11 days we'll know http://www.eutimes.net/2014/02/15-february-catastrophe-warned-will-shake-entire-world/
[FairfieldLife] RE: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.
Buck wrote: Om yes, and eminent scholars. FairfieldLife and Fairfield and TM is quite topical to quite a lot of people lurking. And, who do you think reads this place? Your audience? Who do you really write for when you post? Some writers should rightfully be embarrassed. -Buck An eminent scholar is well known in his/her field of expertise, and some are well know outside of their field. By the criterion you have listed here so far, I could be an eminent scholar. So what are the field or fields of expertise of these people, and who are they, and why would they be interested in us anyway? I mean FFL is a place where level-headed people and psychos, and the intelligent impaired can meet on a level playing field.
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: 15 February “Catastrophe ” Wa rned Will Shake Entire World
Maybe Nabby meant that an 'apostrophe' will shake the world on February 15.
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.
Xeno, I think FFL is a microcosm of L. Do you think L is a level playing field? I do. On Tuesday, February 4, 2014 2:26 PM, anartax...@yahoo.com anartax...@yahoo.com wrote: Buck wrote: Om yes, and eminent scholars. FairfieldLife and Fairfield and TM is quite topical to quite a lot of people lurking. And, who do you think reads this place? Your audience? Who do you really write for when you post? Some writers should rightfully be embarrassed. -Buck An eminent scholar is well known in his/her field of expertise, and some are well know outside of their field. By the criterion you have listed here so far, I could be an eminent scholar. So what are the field or fields of expertise of these people, and who are they, and why would they be interested in us anyway? I mean FFL is a place where level-headed people and psychos, and the intelligent impaired can meet on a level playing field.
[FairfieldLife] RE: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anartaxius@... wrote: Buck wrote: Om yes, and eminent scholars. FairfieldLife and Fairfield and TM is quite topical to quite a lot of people lurking. And, who do you think reads this place? Your audience? Who do you really write for when you post? Some writers should rightfully be embarrassed. Yes, they should, Buck. I love this image of eminent scholars - who in their right eminence would be found hanging around here? -Buck An eminent scholar is well known in his/her field of expertise, and some are well know outside of their field. By the criterion you have listed here so far, I could be an eminent scholar. So what are the field or fields of expertise of these people, and who are they, and why would they be interested in us anyway? I mean FFL is a place where level-headed people and psychos, and the intelligent impaired can meet on a level playing field.
[FairfieldLife] Please Vote for Vivian and Spread the Word!
For those of you who don't know Derek (or Vivian), Derek is a physician in Fairfield who, along with his wife, Sara, moved here to raise their children and to school them at Maharishi School, MSAE. For a time he was also the consulting physician at Hospice of Washington County where I do work. Vivian is a cute, bright and intelligent child. She just happens to be vegan! I've already voted for her. Paul From: Derek Anderson [mailto:dereknander...@yahoo.com] Subject: Please Vote for Vivian and Spread the Word! Greetings! Vivian is in the running for Cutest Vegan of 2014, but she needs your votes and support to make it into the final round (initial voting started yesterday). Please vote for her and spread the word to all of your family and friends. Here are links to her voting page and a special video message from Vivian. Thanks! --Derek http://features.petakids.com/cutest-vegan-kids-contest/Contestant.aspx?cid= 10683r=1f=0m=0t=females=0k http://features.petakids.com/cutest-vegan-kids-contest/Contestant.aspx?cid=1 0683r=1f=0m=0t=females=0k= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfePPkZBqEM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfePPkZBqEM
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Country Chuckles
Don't squat with your spurs on.- Will Rogers On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 8:34 AM, Pundit Sir pundits...@gmail.com wrote: If you lend someone $20, and never see that person again, it was probably worth it. - Will Rogers On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 8:59 AM, Pundit Sir pundits...@gmail.com wrote: Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day. - Will Rogers On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 6:24 AM, Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com wrote: LOL, Richard, thanks, hope you have a good week... On Sunday, February 2, 2014 10:10 PM, Pundit Sir pundits...@gmail.com wrote: If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you. - Will Rogers On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 12:53 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.comwrote: Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes. - Will Rogers On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 7:26 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.comwrote: If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments. - Will Rogers On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 7:39 AM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.comwrote: It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.- Will Rogers On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 6:49 AM, Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.comwrote: Another great Will Rogers quote, Richard, thanks On Friday, January 31, 2014 7:51 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote: It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.- Will Rogers On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.comwrote: Wonderful, LOL, thanks Richard. Thanks to Will too (-: On Friday, January 31, 2014 9:22 AM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote: Never test the depth of the water with both feet. - Will Rogers On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 8:39 AM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.comwrote: Don't be irreplaceable. If you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted.- Will Rogers On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 7:28 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.comwrote: It's always darkest before dawn. So if you're going to steal your neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it. - Will Rogers On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 5:37 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.comwrote: In case you are worried about what is going to become of the younger generation, it is going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation. On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 8:13 AM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.comwrote: Always remember you're unique. Just like everyone else.- Will Rogers On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 9:27 AM, Richard J. Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote: On 1/7/2014 6:01 PM, Richard Williams wrote: The journey of a thousand miles begins with a broken fan belt and a leaky tire. - Will Rogers
Re: [FairfieldLife] 15 February “Catas trop he” Warned Will Shake Entire World
No need to apolgise old chap, they are fucking us over good and proper! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote: And indeed is the US is the orgy parlor of capitalism. - Bhairitu But some of the very best orgyin' goes on over there in Merrry Olde England (sorry Sal) On Tue, 2/4/14, Bhairitu noozguru@... mailto:noozguru@... wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] 15 February “Catas trophe” Warned Will Shake Entire World To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, February 4, 2014, 7:33 PM That's because most dummies think free enterprise is capitalism. IOW, owning your own business is capitalism. So you're a capitalist if you sell crystals at the new age fair? That's free enterprise capitalism and the dummies fear they won't be able to do such if capitalism dies. Not so but the elite know the dummies think this and make sure they keep believing such a myth. Tax away billionaires, break up large corporations including the banks and the world will be much, much better off. And indeed is the US is the orgy parlor of capitalism. On 02/04/2014 10:28 AM, salyavin808 wrote: Is that what you are seeing before your eyes? The replacement of capitalism with something fairer? And by the US government at that! What I see in the world is the constant retrenchment of capitalist principles, it's just getting worse and worse. “There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.” ― Warren Buffett ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com mailto:no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: That's right Bhairitu, and the root-cause is capitalism, not the banksters. The time for smoothing things over is long time passed. Capitalism will be replaced with a fundamentally more just system, a process that has been going on for decades. You almost have to be as reactionary and narrowminded as salyavin not to see it happening before our very eyes. There are even millions who deny that climate changes exsist and refuse to believe it will have any consequences for the level of the sea and living-conditions for billions of people. Two different aspects of change, but both will radically alter how we live on this planet. Now that communism is gone the next to go is capitalism -Maharishi, 1989
[FairfieldLife] RE: Waking Up on the Other Side....
Re Most people spend a life they don't know what to do with, wishing they had another one that lasted forever.: That's actually quite profound! I thought it might be a quote but couldn't trace it via Google. Well done you.
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: All About Sadhus and Yogis
On 2/4/2014 11:09 AM, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com wrote: Couldn't sticking one's wet finger into a light socket accomplish this as well? This could easily be tested. There is simply nothing to compare to the enjoyment and enlightenment one can get in a sexual relationship with a spouse. That's the whole thing - nothing gets left out when you're a householder tantric. At some point these two guys have to come down from their cloud and get their feet on the ground - this is not a game or a pastime for casual study - it's the real thing: relationships - what they do to you, and what you do back.
[FairfieldLife] The poison of market forces - Interview with Benjamin Creme’s Master by Patricia Pitchon
An interview with the Master –, analysing the effects of a new dispensation in which greed will be replaced by social harmony and interdependence, thereby transforming the world and ending the rule of market forces. http://www.share-international.org/archives/economics/ec_pppoison.htm http://www.share-international.org/archives/economics/ec_pppoison.htm
[FairfieldLife] Re: Nobody is missing.
Haglin did say 5% in his response letter... so is he an ass also? lol
Re: [FairfieldLife] 15 February “Catas trop he” Warned Will Shake Entire World
Heywood Jablowme says: 04/02/2014 at 6:01 pm And when none of this happens, you are all free to line up and kiss my taint and know that I will be once again, laughing at the conspiracy crowd that never seems to get anything right. Nothing funnier than batshiat crazy conspiracy people.
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: All About Sadhus and Yogis
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote: On 2/4/2014 11:09 AM, awoelflebater@... mailto:awoelflebater@... wrote: Couldn't sticking one's wet finger into a light socket accomplish this as well? This could easily be tested. There is simply nothing to compare to the enjoyment and enlightenment one can get in a sexual relationship with a spouse. That's the whole thing - nothing gets left out when you're a householder tantric. At some point these two guys have to come down from their cloud and get their feet on the ground - this is not a game or a pastime for casual study - it's the real thing: relationships - what they do to you, and what you do back. Yuppers, I'll drink to that.
Re: [FairfieldLife] 15 February “Catas trop he” Warned Will Shake Entire World
Good ol' times is Jolly Ol' England: http://youtu.be/3gxI4ToNKGQ On 02/04/2014 01:33 PM, salyavin808 wrote: No need to apolgise old chap, they are fucking us over good and proper! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote: And indeed is the US is the orgy parlor of capitalism. - Bhairitu But some of the very best orgyin' goes on over there in Merrry Olde England (sorry Sal) On Tue, 2/4/14, Bhairitu noozguru@... mailto:noozguru@... wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] 15 February “Catas trophe” Warned Will Shake Entire World To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, February 4, 2014, 7:33 PM That's because most dummies think free enterprise is capitalism. IOW, owning your own business is capitalism. So you're a capitalist if you sell crystals at the new age fair? That's free enterprise capitalism and the dummies fear they won't be able to do such if capitalism dies. Not so but the elite know the dummies think this and make sure they keep believing such a myth. Tax away billionaires, break up large corporations including the banks and the world will be much, much better off. And indeed is the US is the orgy parlor of capitalism. On 02/04/2014 10:28 AM, salyavin808 wrote: Is that what you are seeing before your eyes? The replacement of capitalism with something fairer? And by the US government at that! What I see in the world is the constant retrenchment of capitalist principles, it's just getting worse and worse. “There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.” ― Warren Buffett ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com mailto:no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: That's right Bhairitu, and the root-cause is capitalism, not the banksters. The time for smoothing things over is long time passed. Capitalism will be replaced with a fundamentally more just system, a process that has been going on for decades. You almost have to be as reactionary and narrowminded as salyavin not to see it happening before our very eyes. There are even millions who deny that climate changes exsist and refuse to believe it will have any consequences for the level of the sea and living-conditions for billions of people. Two different aspects of change, but both will radically alter how we live on this planet. Now that communism is gone the next to go is capitalism -Maharishi, 1989
[FairfieldLife] Economic injustice and social upheaval: Is sharing the answer? Interview with Benjamin Creme
We are also seeing the collapse of economic totalitarianism. The economic system, largely based on market forces, is approaching its death. There is a third totalitarianism yet to break up: religious totalitarianism. Religious totalitarianism is reaching the acme of its power. We see that in the rise of fundamentalist groups in all religions, even in the tolerant Buddhist and Hindu faiths. It is expressed in Islam very powerfully today and in Christianity too. It will be the last to disappear, but eventually totalitarianism in the churches will go. Then humanity will know freedom for the first time: political freedom, economic freedom and justice, and freedom of thought and belief. http://www.share-international.org/archives/economics/ec_mleconomic.htm http://www.share-international.org/archives/economics/ec_mleconomic.htm From the July 1993 issue of Share International.
Re: [FairfieldLife] 15 February “Catas trop he” Warned Will Shake Entire World
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj8RIEQH7zA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj8RIEQH7zA
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[FairfieldLife] What Hagelin should have explored
What happens after death - that's what he should have talked about. (imo): . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAH0UGZ9-0Q http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAH0UGZ9-0Q
[FairfieldLife] The Afterlife of Billy Fingers
Must reading for those interested in what lies beyond the physical. ... http://redwheelweiser.com/downloads/afterlifebilly.pdf http://redwheelweiser.com/downloads/afterlifebilly.pdf . This one differs from typical NDE accounts since Billy actually died at age 62, hit by a car. After some time, his sister started getting messages from him over the course of a year. Of course, one might challenge the authenticity of such messages, but feel read the accounts for yourself. They are very convincting. ... In any event, the basic pattern of what unfolds reminds me of the Tibetan Book, of the Dead, and what stages one might go through on the journey to the Clear Light. That is, if one makes it that far without being attracted to the lure of the astral planes and the gravity of former attachments. Feel free to skip to the end, where the Sister gives an account of the end of the story: Billy making it into the Clear Light through the help of Chenrezig. This is interesting in that Billy displayed no apparent attachment to any form of Deity or Yidam worship in his physical life; and in fact led a life of debauchery. Then, how to explain the appearance of Chenrezig in spite of zero religious affiliation or practeces on his part? In my mind, the favorable outcome of Billy's journey must have been due to devotion to Chenrezig in a previous lifetime (a hypothesis not mentioned in the book).
[FairfieldLife] RE: Waking Up on the Other Side....
Re increase in deaths due to heroin laced with fentanyl : That's a possible explanation. Another is that the heroin he injected is was purer - stronger - than the usual stuff doing the rounds and he should have used a smaller dose. But stronger/purer heroin is more desirable than heroin cut with filler - as long as you're aware of what you're injecting. I knew a Scottish smack addict who confided to me one time that whenever he heard of a junkie dying of an overdose his first thought was never sympathy but was always: I wonder who the dead addict bought that batch from? and Can I get my hands on some for myself .
[FairfieldLife] RE: Waking Up on the Other Side....
Re increase in deaths due to heroin laced with fentanyl : That's a possible explanation. Another is that the heroin he injected was purer - stronger - than the usual stuff doing the rounds and he should have used a smaller dose. But stronger/purer heroin is more desirable than heroin cut with filler - as long as you're aware of what you're injecting. I knew a Scottish smack addict who confided to me one time that whenever he heard of a junkie dying of an overdose his first thought was never sympathy but was always: I wonder who the dead addict bought that batch from? and Can I get my hands on some for myself .
[FairfieldLife] RE: Waking Up on the Other Side....
Not exactly along the lines of what you are saying, but it seems like there was a mad rush to find the dealers who sold him the drug. I wonder, really, why that would be? What are they guilty of besides engaging in an illegal transaction. They didn't kill him, did they? The drug appears to have been properly labeled. The dude just offed himself. I'm sure not intentionally, but as you say sometimes happens, he pushed it just a tad too far. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote: Re increase in deaths due to heroin laced with fentanyl : That's a possible explanation. Another is that the heroin he injected was purer - stronger - than the usual stuff doing the rounds and he should have used a smaller dose. But stronger/purer heroin is more desirable than heroin cut with filler - as long as you're aware of what you're injecting. I knew a Scottish smack addict who confided to me one time that whenever he heard of a junkie dying of an overdose his first thought was never sympathy but was always: I wonder who the dead addict bought that batch from? and Can I get my hands on some for myself .
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Nobody is missing.
Not for saying that, but yes for other reasons. On Tue, 2/4/14, Toby Walker tobyw...@gmail.com wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Nobody is missing. To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, February 4, 2014, 10:39 PM Haglin did say 5% in his response letter... so is he an ass also? lol
Re: [FairfieldLife] 15 February “Catas trop he” Warned Will Shake Entire World
I laughed like hell when I read this - I haven't heard the word taint since my city cop step-father used to use it back in the 1970's! On Tue, 2/4/14, cardemais...@yahoo.com cardemais...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] 15 February “Catas trop he” Warned Will Shake Entire World To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, February 4, 2014, 10:47 PM Heywood Jablowme says: 04/02/2014 at 6:01 pm And when none of this happens, you are all free to line up and kiss my taint and know that I will be once again, laughing at the conspiracy crowd that never seems to get anything right. Nothing funnier than batshiat crazy conspiracy people.
[FairfieldLife] RE: Waking Up on the Other Side....
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, steve.sundur@... wrote: Not exactly along the lines of what you are saying, but it seems like there was a mad rush to find the dealers who sold him the drug. I wonder, really, why that would be? What are they guilty of besides engaging in an illegal transaction. They didn't kill him, did they? The drug appears to have been properly labeled. The dude just offed himself. I'm sure not intentionally, but as you say sometimes happens, he pushed it just a tad too far. Drug dealers are slimy profiteers and yes, they sort of did kill him. These amoral assholes prey on all celebrities and non-celebrities alike but there are so many things available to famous people - drugs being just one out of the many perks - dealers are so eager to be able to boast about supplying A-listers. You have to be really strong to resist what is so easy to obtain when you are famous. So, yes, I do think the suppliers should be tracked down. Just like the doctor (Conrad Murray) who administered propofol to Michael Jackson; he was just a drug dealer in the end and he was imprisoned for it. In this world there are those who are predators and those who are easy victims. I do not believe whoever supplied Philip with heroin is as sorry for his death as he/she/they is scared that he/she/they is/are going to get caught ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote: Re increase in deaths due to heroin laced with fentanyl : That's a possible explanation. Another is that the heroin he injected was purer - stronger - than the usual stuff doing the rounds and he should have used a smaller dose. But stronger/purer heroin is more desirable than heroin cut with filler - as long as you're aware of what you're injecting. I knew a Scottish smack addict who confided to me one time that whenever he heard of a junkie dying of an overdose his first thought was never sympathy but was always: I wonder who the dead addict bought that batch from? and Can I get my hands on some for myself .
[FairfieldLife] RE: Waking Up on the Other Side....
Re There was a mad rush to find the dealers who sold him the drug.: My thoughts exactly. If the pusher is caught he's going to have the book thrown at him. Prepare yourself for some cringe-making playing to the gallery in the court as the dealer is cast as the scum of the earth. Hoffman was a fully-paid-up adult and has to take responsibility for his own actions. What led him to addiction can only be known by his close family and friends and I'm not in the business of judging his choices (though his now not being there for his children is the real tragedy). One psychologist who specialised in drug users came to the conclusion that those who allow drugs to dominate their lives are essentially *selfish*. Although that sounds simplistic and judgemental it has the ring of truth to it as far as I'm concerned. I first seriously noticed Hoffman in The Talented Mr. Ripley which remains one of my very favourite modern films. Playing an obnoxious Yank abroad he dominated every scene he appeared in. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq462kfFKI8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq462kfFKI8
[FairfieldLife] RE: Waking Up on the Other Side....
Wow Anne. No doubt you can look at it that way. And I can't dispute what you are saying. But where do you draw the line? Distillers? Tobacco companies? They are profiteers as well, no? I certainly agree that the temptations for celebrities are greater in that they have the means to indulge a habit if they are susceptible that way. In fact, I marvel that a celebrity can resist temptations. But I guess, for many simply the fame may be enough, as long as they get enough hits that way. But caveat emptor still rules. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, awoelflebater@... wrote: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, steve.sundur@... wrote: Not exactly along the lines of what you are saying, but it seems like there was a mad rush to find the dealers who sold him the drug. I wonder, really, why that would be? What are they guilty of besides engaging in an illegal transaction. They didn't kill him, did they? The drug appears to have been properly labeled. The dude just offed himself. I'm sure not intentionally, but as you say sometimes happens, he pushed it just a tad too far. Drug dealers are slimy profiteers and yes, they sort of did kill him. These amoral assholes prey on all celebrities and non-celebrities alike but there are so many things available to famous people - drugs being just one out of the many perks - dealers are so eager to be able to boast about supplying A-listers. You have to be really strong to resist what is so easy to obtain when you are famous. So, yes, I do think the suppliers should be tracked down. Just like the doctor (Conrad Murray) who administered propofol to Michael Jackson; he was just a drug dealer in the end and he was imprisoned for it. In this world there are those who are predators and those who are easy victims. I do not believe whoever supplied Philip with heroin is as sorry for his death as he/she/they is scared that he/she/they is/are going to get caught ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote: Re increase in deaths due to heroin laced with fentanyl : That's a possible explanation. Another is that the heroin he injected was purer - stronger - than the usual stuff doing the rounds and he should have used a smaller dose. But stronger/purer heroin is more desirable than heroin cut with filler - as long as you're aware of what you're injecting. I knew a Scottish smack addict who confided to me one time that whenever he heard of a junkie dying of an overdose his first thought was never sympathy but was always: I wonder who the dead addict bought that batch from? and Can I get my hands on some for myself .
[FairfieldLife] RE: Waking Up on the Other Side....
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote: snip One psychologist who specialised in drug users came to the conclusion that those who allow drugs to dominate their lives are essentially *selfish*. Although that sounds simplistic and judgemental it has the ring of truth to it as far as I'm concerned. Let's face it. He died with his lover still attached. I first seriously noticed Hoffman in The Talented Mr. Ripley which remains one of my very favourite modern films. Playing an obnoxious Yank abroad he dominated every scene he appeared in. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq462kfFKI8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq462kfFKI8
[FairfieldLife] RE: Waking Up on the Other Side....
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, steve.sundur@... wrote: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote: snip One psychologist who specialised in drug users came to the conclusion that those who allow drugs to dominate their lives are essentially *selfish*. Although that sounds simplistic and judgemental it has the ring of truth to it as far as I'm concerned. Let's face it. He died with his lover still attached. You speak true enough. For the addict, his/her addiction, the poison of choice, is the best friend in the world. It is the thing they will give up all else to have, at least for a while. It always amazes me the heroism involved in overcoming addiction. It is so difficult; it is really one of the ultimate tests of strength. I first seriously noticed Hoffman in The Talented Mr. Ripley which remains one of my very favourite modern films. Playing an obnoxious Yank abroad he dominated every scene he appeared in. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq462kfFKI8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq462kfFKI8
[FairfieldLife] RE: Waking Up on the Other Side....
Looks like they got the dealers, but they can't be prosecuted for Hoffman's death in New York State. And there isn't going to be some big public Trial of the Century. Hoffman was no innocent. Have the book thrown at him?? You're sounding like a bad TV cop show. Ever heard of plea bargains? Re There was a mad rush to find the dealers who sold him the drug.: My thoughts exactly. If the pusher is caught he's going to have the book thrown at him. Prepare yourself for some cringe-making playing to the gallery in the court as the dealer is cast as the scum of the earth.
