I'll comment on this just to point out something I've noticed along the Way,
and was reminded of this morning when I found an old email from a former FFL
member who left because he found the place full of people he could no longer
identify with. The reason was that they seemed to focus on and
“Through humility, soul searching, and prayerful contemplation we have gained a
new understanding of certain dogmas. The church no longer believes in a literal
hell where people suffer. This doctrine is incompatible with the infinite love
of God. God is not a judge but a friend and a lover of
Not a news article. It is a fictional story at a satirical site. .
This is a satire article, not real. Please folks over there tell that to
everyone you see posting it!
Shortly afterwards links and excerpts referencing this article were being
circulated via social media, with many of those who
Adam and Lilith
http://gnosis.org/lilith.htm http://gnosis.org/lilith.htm
http://art.net/Studios/Poets/Schlong/lilithmyth.html
http://art.net/Studios/Poets/Schlong/lilithmyth.html
--- nablusoss no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote:
“Through humility, soul searching, and prayerful contemplation
Not a news article. It is a fictional story at a satirical site. .
This is a satire article, not real. Please folks over there tell that to
everyone you see posting it!
Because shortly afterwards that posting by Erik Thorson links and excerpts
referencing this article were being circulated via
OMG, are you describing a (your)Messiah?Confirmation of what we all that know
and want to know to be true and the Vatican will lead the way in our Brave New
World. How wonderful is that? Finally a religious leader we can actually
believe will unite people in a common goal of peace and justice.
Thanks for the clarification, which made me laugh out loud because my first
reaction as I quickly skimmed the original post before clicking Next was Who
cares?
Really, who *does* care what a bunch of old men in dresses think about a work
of fiction?
But this will possibly prove to be an
now, now turq, we all know that wine drinking is merely a cultural phenomenon
in certain Mediterranean countries, nothing to do with addiction, etc.
Anyway, yes, too bad Lichtenberg can't join FFL. But hey, there's always Erik
Thorson not to mention the new Shankaracharya of the female
I heartily agree
On Thu, 2/27/14, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com wrote:
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Spiritual Experience As Porn (was: St. Gemma Galgani,
the Gem of Christ)
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Date:
I don't think you can embed youtube in yahoo mail or gmail.
I wonder how HTML5 works.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCglvcsC9Ss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCglvcsC9Ss
So what you're saying is they actually do believe in hell and Adam and Eve? And
I thought they might be catching up with the rest of us.
Compared to Mahalia Jackson, Beyoncé: all hat, no cattle??
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XlW1_lGInk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XlW1_lGInk
E.g. number 6...
That stuff about Aquinas is pretty funny. Where on earth did you come up with
it?
Historically, St. Thomas Aquinas attempted to reconcile the two viewpoints of
BEING and dualistic devotion to Jesus. But having failed to accomplish that
task on an intellectual level, he gave up the egghead
--- yifuxero yifuxero@... wrote:
A fact probably much appreciated by the MUM people: she was also a
levitator; but in the completely misguided and dishonest notions of the TM
TB at MUM and elsewhere, her capacity to levitate cannot be attributed
solely to her advancement in
You caught it, I didn't, well done MERU :-)
Well, the precipitating thing that withdrew TM from the UK'ers then was around
Maharishi being told that a bunch of TM teachers were banded together and were
teaching TM effectively outside of TM coffers. Double-dealers. In reaction
UK'er got branded scorpions and real TM was withdrawn from the
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. -
Oscar Wilde
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 11:23 AM, Richard J. Williams
pundits...@gmail.comwrote:
On 2/17/2014 4:49 PM, nablusoss1008 wrote:
A comfortable and regulated life is needed for fastest pace of
evolution. -
On 2/27/2014 2:52 AM, TurquoiseBee wrote:
they seemed to focus on and get off on *the spiritual experiences of
others*, rather than doing what is necessary to have spiritual
experiences of their own.
I tend to agree, and it's something I just don't get. I have a good
friend who now makes his
Nice find. Maharishi was less than pleased with Tony Blair, and when he got
re-elected Maharishi had enough.
'I cannot support long life and healthy life and more creativity for a
country that is constantly destroying the world. You cannot afford to feed the
scorpion, because a more healthy
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote:
OMG, are you describing a (your)Messiah?Confirmation of what we all that know
and want to know to be true and the Vatican will lead the way in our Brave New
World. How wonderful is that? Finally a religious leader we can
On 2/27/2014 2:52 AM, TurquoiseBee wrote:
me as being a lot like the spiritual counterpart of porn.
On Spiritual Experience As Porn:
We already know you believe in Buddhas, or at least one Buddha, and that
you believe your personal spirit goes into a kind of bardo state
after the body dies.
On 2/27/2014 6:07 AM, Michael Jackson wrote:
I heartily agree
So, why are you reading so much porn? Do you have any spiritual
experiences to report, or are you just going to read about Barry's
spiritual experiences on his Road Trip Mind? Go figure.
On 2/27/2014 7:41 AM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote:
*That stuff about Aquinas is pretty funny. Where on earth did you come
up with it?*
Where is Robin when we really need him? From what I've read posted here,
Robin probably knew more about Thomas Aquinas than any other informant
on FFL. Maybe
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote:
On 2/27/2014 2:52 AM, TurquoiseBee wrote:
they seemed to focus on and get off on *the spiritual experiences of others*,
rather than doing what is necessary to have spiritual experiences of their own.
I tend to agree, and
See what I mean about the idiots self-identifying when they get their buttons
pushed? :-)
From: TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2014 12:17 PM
Subject: Re:
PSIE. Barry's hallucinating again. Anybody see anything here that fits
his prediction?
See what I mean about the idiots self-identifying when they get their
buttons pushed? :-)
From: TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@...
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
You aren't the only one Buck, I remember going to collect someone from Vlodrop
who was leading a course at our academy and he was terrified of coming to
England. After all the complete horseshit he'd been spoonfed by Marshy and his
minions in that climate of grovelling hysteria that permeated
See? There's another one. :-)
Hint: suddenly feeling the need to dump on someone who hasn't mentioned you
specifically is pretty indicative of having had yer buttons pushed. Not to
mention holding a grudge. :-) :-) :-)
From: authfri...@yahoo.com
It's a very nice place to visit. However, I became very sick a couple days
later. It started with the Delhi-belly but got much worse, some kind of virus
which put me in a bed for about a week. After coming home, I thought about the
foolish things I did there, like bathing in the hot spring
While I get your point, my last visit to London WAS characterized by watching
young people fighting in the streets and vomiting beer all over each other,
often both at the same time. :-)
From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com
To:
If worse comes to worst and nobody's buttons got pushed, Barry will heroically
step up to the plate and fulfill his own predictions. All it takes is a gentle
nudge. ;-)
See? There's another one. :-)
Hint: suddenly feeling the need to dump on someone who hasn't mentioned you
specifically is
Dear Merudanda and Sanyam Shrivastava; an interesting parallel to TM with
arrest of mega Korean evangelist on big-time embezzlement indictment.
Noteworthy is that others inside their particular church brought and pressed
theft charges against their leader and the state prosecutors were then
Um well, OK there's a bit of that. But don't tell Buck.
This guy I mentioned from Vlodrop actually thought we were all going to be
like that, as though Marshy's idea of British foreign policy was just an
extension of our animal need to fight and destroy the world. It was bizarre and
a
turq, I'm sort of with you on this because I'm more of a do er than a be er.
OTOH, I recognize that some people really are be ers, if you know what I mean.
Like the Mary and Martha story in the New Testament, just to give you a little
literary reference (-:
And I think the universe is big
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I have no earthly idea who Mary and Martha are, except that I once saw a folk
duo by that name back in the 60s, and they weren't very good. :-)
What I'm talking about is the difference between people whose idea of
spiritual practice seems to be reading about Other People's spiritual
practice
Ok, turqB, there are trail blazers and trail followers. Again, isn't the
universe big enough for both types?!
And to be more clear, when I was talking about screwing things up, I wasn't
referring to the spiritual realm but to the material realm. But now I think,
are they really two? And can
On Feb 26, 2014, at 7:32 PM, Raja John Hagelin developm...@mum.edu
mailto:developm...@mum.edu wrote:
http://communications.tm.org/2014/images/2014_02_21_ICGFairfield-1.jpg
http://communications.tm.org/2014/images/2014_02_21_ICGFairfield-2.jpg
This then proves that TM and TMSP are ineffective at changing collective
awareness. If it were possible the scorpion activities would not have
happened to begin with what with all the YF's in England and surrounding
countries.
On Thu, 2/27/14,
Many praises to you Sal for this post!
On Thu, 2/27/14, salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote:
Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: A Red Letter Day for England
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, February 27, 2014, 3:12 PM
The high pressure over California finally broke up and now we are having
monsoon rains and will be going into next week or hopefully longer so
American can eat this summer. ;-)
If what you are saying is true Buck then it proves a couple things.
First that Maharshy was a lying sob - if he was pissed at the TM teachers who
had gone maverick and claimed the blame was on the British government, he was a
lying, petulant piss ant who ineffectually tried to get revenge on
Crops are grown in other states you know. Where you think all them peaches come
from?
On Thu, 2/27/14, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
Subject: [FairfieldLife] The monsoons have arrived
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday,
Around here the Central Valley. :-D
On 02/27/2014 09:19 AM, Michael Jackson wrote:
Crops are grown in other states you know. Where you think all them
peaches come from?
On Thu, 2/27/14, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
Subject:
Did you post this via email? This shows embedded on Neo both mobile and
desktop. I think the links I posted via email also did that. I do note
that Neo is using some different emoticon code because the standard ones
aren't showing as graphics on Neo.
On 02/27/2014 04:45 AM,
Response in blue, below:
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jr_esq@... wrote:
Xeno,
My reply is highlighted in red below:
anartaxius@... wrote:
The reason I posted the link is that it took the position that the universe
came from nothing, is essentially nothing. No idea of cosmic
I've noticed something interesting, now that I too have been Neo'd. When
replying to others' posts I tend to use mail, but when starting a new thread
it's often easier to just use Neo. Several times when I have done this (the
latter...Neo) I have pasted in a link to a video and -- to my
That's good news for my garden here in SF. Last night, we had plenty of rain.
So, I don't have to water the plants until next week as part of my water
conservation measure.
This is a wonderful story. At the back of my mind, I even have hazy memories of
having met a Doug Preston (the author) when I lived in Santa Fe. I certainly
know many of the people he writes about, especially the Tibetans with a shop on
Canyon Road. I can look around the room I'm currently
Actually that's been the case since way back when, for many weeks. Those of us
using Neo could see the embedded videos--including those in your posts--but you
couldn't.
Here's one of yours from December:
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/367390
Thoroughly delightful story, turq, thanks for posting...
I became of fan of HHDL when I first saw Seven Years In Tibet.
On Thursday, February 27, 2014 12:54 PM, turquoi...@yahoo.com
turquoi...@yahoo.com wrote:
This is a wonderful story. At the back of my mind, I even have hazy memories
On 2/27/2014 8:47 AM, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com wrote:
I wonder why, do you think he gets off on hearing about them or just
wants an opportunity to tell us all how stupid we are for talking
about them as if they were important?
Some people just feel better when they have someone to talk to. Go
Xeno,
This is the first part of my reply below:
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anartaxius@... wrote:
Response in blue, below:
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jr_esq@... wrote:
Xeno,
My reply is highlighted in red below:
anartaxius@... wrote:
The reason I posted
On 2/27/2014 9:29 AM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote:
*If worse comes to worst and nobody's buttons got pushed, Barry will
heroically step up to the plate and fulfill his own predictions. All
it takes is a gentle nudge. ;-)*
*
*It may be a brain problem situation in his head. Go figure.*
*
On 2/27/2014 10:17 AM, TurquoiseBee wrote:
And what makes you think that you could possibly screw things up in
the realm of spiritual experience?
After seeing Rama levitate himself, you might be thinking that you could
fly yourself up in the air and hover in front of a large crowd of people
The older he gets, the easier it is to push his buttons. I mean, how often has
he suddenly felt the need to dump on someone who hasn't mentioned him
specifically? But he's always had a brain problem situation...uh...in his head
(where else?). If worse comes to worst and nobody's buttons got
I apologize, in advance, but he sounds like a simpleton. I find it odd, that
westerners are delighted, when a person from a technically backward culture,
comes to the US, and expresses childlike delight at our modern wonders. What's
next, HHDL inspects a parking meter?
---In
So MUCH water to make up - If we can do this solidly for the next two months,
we'll be OK.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote:
The high pressure over California finally broke up and now we are having
monsoon rains and will be going into next week or hopefully longer
Did you ever go to MERU just to visit I mean?
On Thu, 2/27/14, salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote:
Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: A Red Letter Day for England
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, February 27, 2014, 3:12 PM
According to the forecast you may not have to water next week either.
On 02/27/2014 10:48 AM, jr_...@yahoo.com wrote:
That's good news for my garden here in SF. Last night, we had plenty
of rain. So, I don't have to water the plants until next week as part
of my water conservation measure.
The Netflix joke video was emailed to FFL using Thunderbird and it shows
embedded on Neo.
On 02/27/2014 10:39 AM, TurquoiseBee wrote:
I've noticed something interesting, now that I too have been Neo'd.
When replying to others' posts I tend to use mail, but when starting a
new thread it's
Thankfully we still have green lawns, and haven't turned on the sprinklers for
months, now. Seems like every time the grass really starts to parch, we get a
good drenching. Not enough for the Central Valley, I know, but at least no dust
bowl here, so far.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,
No, I worked at UK HQ for about a year before getting fed up with it, I just
wasn't what they were looking for and couldn't put my heart into it, you have
to be a believer several orders higher than I was. I was only in it for the
enlightenment, I couldn't care less about the World Plan - I
Hi Everyone,
So, I've been a lurker for a while; however, I've just found something
interesting to share:
Shanti Ashrama in California
http://sfvedanta.org/the-society/history/shanti-ashrama-history/
http://sfvedanta.org/the-society/history/shanti-ashrama-historical-overview/
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jr_esq@... wrote:
Xeno,
This is the first part of my reply below:
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anartaxius@... wrote:
Response in blue, below:
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jr_esq@... wrote:
Xeno,
My reply is highlighted
The climate science new term is climate disruption which is indeed
what we are seeing. So this could even last into June with some
occasional. One scientist said that farmers are going to need to adjust
for such disruption rather expect the same weather patterns year after
year. Thing is
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Outside St. Alban's Episcopal Church in Davidson, North Carolina rests a
sculpture, so realistic that from not too far a distance, it appears to be
an actual, living homeless man sleeping on a bench. It's a piece by
sculptor Timothy P. Schmalz entitled, Homeless Jesus. As
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Chris Isaak Baby did a Bad Bad Thing
http://youtu.be/a7a35GnfPTc
I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took
out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again. - Oscar Wilde
On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 8:49 AM, Pundit Sir pundits...@gmail.com wrote:
Don't let yesterday use up too much of today. - Will Rogers
On Sat, Feb 22, 2014
Secret documents reveal - 'Yahoo webcam images from millions of users
intercepted by GCHQ'
What's Up With That?
* Optic Nerve program collected Yahoo webcam images in bulk
* 1.8m users targeted by UK agency in six-month period alone
* Yahoo: 'A whole new level of violation of our users' privacy'
Inside the Cloud Giants
Rackspace's UK cloud datacentre:
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Rackspace's Slough-based datacentre houses the hardware for its UK cloud,
along with the other servers rented by its customers. It has 1,600 racks in
place, of which 120 support its cloud.
Joan Baez, Diamonds and Rust - Live, 1975
http://youtu.be/GGMHSbcd_qI
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Brahmachari Satyanand on Guru Dev's 'nirvana':
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Brahmachari 'Swami' Satyanand speaking c1967
http://www.paulmason.info/gurudev/Satyanand.htm
On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 8:51 AM, Pundit Sir pundits...@gmail.com wrote:
The late Brahmacharya Satyanand had been a disciple of
Searching for Sugar Man
This last tells the story of Rodriguez, a Detroit native who recorded two
excellent albums in 1970 1971. Two South Africans set out to discover
what happened to their unlikely musical hero, the mysterious 1970s rock 'n'
roller, Rodriguez.
Göbekli Tepe
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Acheological dig: Göbekli Tepe, which at eleven thousand years old makes it
six and a half thousand years older than the Great Pyramid, five and a
half thousand years older than the earliest known cuneiform texts, and
about a thousand years older than the
Tips on Saving
My Mother used to save quarters. I guess she grew up during the depression
so she knew the value of a dollar. She would empty Dad's pockets of change
and keep all the quarters rolled up in paper rolls, under her bed. When she
passed away we found over $5,000 in rolled quarters
And, um, I don't like to mention it, since it is a sore subject, but, I really
wish there was a way to reduce the flow to S. Cal. It IS a desert, and de-sal
is the way to go, instead of channeling Sierra water hundreds of miles south.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote:
This evening, I stumbled across http://www.jungle-eye.com/art/
http://www.jungle-eye.com/art/ and found the gallery fascinating and beautiful -
Yesterday I was writing an article and found occasion to remember and write
about the concept of laughter as therapy. Voila, this morning I logged on to
the Net and found this. I pass the list along without comment, except to point
out that if you find yourself in need of a psychic, energetic,
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