[FairfieldLife] Fairfield Friends, your Daily Inspiration - The May Issue of The Daily Inspiration

2005-05-09 Thread The Daily Inspiration
Title: Template The May Hardcopy Issue - The Moment The Daily Inspiration in hardcopy delivered monthly to your door A doorway to your inner wisdom. The

[FairfieldLife] Re:Costs of our programs

2005-05-09 Thread marwincornyarmand
Yes. the People that I teach have very good experiences. Most of them are transcending clearly from the first meditation in the initiating process. I have been initiating from 1975, and the experiences are stronger for every year. The people I initiate today has stronger experiences than the

[FairfieldLife] 'Indian saints were right'

2005-05-09 Thread George DeForest
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[FairfieldLife] more Global Good News

2005-05-09 Thread claudiouk
India cleaning up its act... Public relief no longer tolerated By Narayan Bareth BBC News, Jaipur Proper sanitation is a problem across South Asia The municipal corporation in the western Indian city of Jaipur has announced a bold initiative to prevent urination on the streets. It is

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Samadhi in CC, GC or UC [was: This stuff never gets old...Maharishi vs. the movement]

2005-05-09 Thread Vaj
On May 6, 2005, at 9:03 AM, Alex Stanley wrote: How is purity determined? A quick Google search says Patanjali lived somewhere between 200 BC and 200 AD. How does one determine whether one interpretation of an ancient religious scripture is more pure or correct than another? The idea of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Murder at Maharishi school in India -- update

2005-05-09 Thread off_world_beings
The whole point to what I had to say before was that school administrators were rightly arrested, because they ignored the pleas of students who were chronically having their lunches stolen, an intolerable situation that will eventually blossom into violence. Ah, your probably right. I concede.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Hate to say I told you so.

2005-05-09 Thread Llundrub
Honestly Paul, I can't remember having said that though I'm sure it was so. I used to talk alot.When I came off student purusha I had a fire under my butt to accomplish the stuff that I had set aside for a couple years. Like having some fun. I actually had given up listening to music for

[FairfieldLife] more GGN: communist principles succeed in Kerala, India

2005-05-09 Thread claudiouk
A non Vedic approach.. democratic, anti caste, grass-roots etc but it works... http://www.yesmagazine.com/article.asp?ID=871 Summer 2004 Issue: What Is The Good Life? Little Cash, Lots of Riches by David Reynolds Having lived in Central America in a home with a dirt floor and candle

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Hate to say I told you so.

2005-05-09 Thread Zdravko Baselli
Very right said.at_man_and_brahman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kirk Bernhardt was in my pod. Though everyonehad prearranged that this pod would be a "quiet"building, Kirk took it upon himself to fill the wholebuilding with his super-loud music from downstairs. He was generally despised in the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Something I found Out

2005-05-09 Thread Peter Sutphen
As I've always said, bliss is stupidand highly addicting. It needs to be transcended chop chop. --- Llundrub [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Addiction to bliss is not enlightenment. Everyday we come upon a million mistakes. To error is human. But many people who practice a road of bliss

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Murder at Maharishi school in India -- update

2005-05-09 Thread Peter Sutphen
--- off_world_beings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bbrigante Within a month after I started working at MIU in December of 1974, a guy named Joe Lambert ran through the plate glass window next to the entrance door of the dining hall, and he was

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Murder at Maharishi school in India -- update

2005-05-09 Thread Peter Sutphen
--- off_world_beings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The MHI in Mt. Pleasant is still open, but nowhere near the size it used to be: http://das.hre.iowa.gov/open_class_nurse.html#mtpleasantmhi I worked there briefly in the 70s -- Sure Bob. You were working there. Then

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hate to say I told you so.

2005-05-09 Thread at_man_and_brahman
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Llundrub [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank for the words. I don't really remember your face. I do not have one, or at least did not have one then. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/

Re: [FairfieldLife] 'Indian saints were right'

2005-05-09 Thread MDixon6569
Yesterday morning on Fox NewsChannel ask the doctor segment ,the doctor spoke about this study and spoke very glowingly of the regular practice of TM or any other meditation and emphasized that it need to be practiced regularly twice a day for 20 minutes He said that one of his relatives

[FairfieldLife] What I love

2005-05-09 Thread Rick Archer
A comment from another friend: What I love about these new rules about who is a gov or teacher or who isn't I mean really... If a local meditator asks WHY, shouldn't we just speak the truth? That we didn't pay $4000 to go to a two week course to learn how to market TM and other TM related

[FairfieldLife] New Madrid Focal Mechanisms: the late awful visitation of Providence in this place and vicinity.

2005-05-09 Thread Rick Archer
Title: New Madrid Focal Mechanisms: the late awful visitation of Providence in this place and vicinity. Link to account of New Madrid earthquake, preceded by comments by Doug Hamilton Doug and Jennifer Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the late awful visitation of Providence in this place

[FairfieldLife] Christianity

2005-05-09 Thread Rick Archer
Title: Christianity Sunday Sermonette Posted by James Wolcott ...has Christianity, in fact, stood for a better morality than that of its rivals and opponents? I do not see how any honest student of history can maintain that this is the case. Chistianity has been distinguished from other

Re: [FairfieldLife] Bye bye Brits/Scorpions Need Nectar

2005-05-09 Thread Peter Sutphen
--- Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip here it is, from my friend in the UK: snip M has shut down all TM teaching in the UK. He wasn't impressed that Tony Blair got back in at Thursdays election. So much negative influence here - teaching TM like feeding nectar to scorpions

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Murder at Maharishi school in India -- update

2005-05-09 Thread Peter Sutphen
--- bbrigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I worked there briefly in the 70s -- the facility was so old that it still had shackles built into the wall where they used to chain up patients, now they're chemically restrained. I talked about TM with a few staff there at the time, but

Re: [FairfieldLife] Bye bye Brits/Scorpions Need Nectar

2005-05-09 Thread Llundrub
Yeah, from any perspective it just don't make too good sense, huh. - Original Message - From: Peter Sutphen To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 11:35 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Bye bye Brits/Scorpions Need Nectar --- Rick

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Murder at Maharishi school in India -- update

2005-05-09 Thread Peter Sutphen
--- bbrigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Within a month after I started working at MIU in December of 1974, a guy named Joe Lambert ran through the plate glass window next to the entrance door of the dining hall, and he was sent to the mental hospital in Mt. Pleasant, where many

[FairfieldLife] Re: Something I found Out

2005-05-09 Thread Rick
It's nice that you have found this out. Learning is such a beautiful unfolding. Your typing seems to be improving also or maybe you are just taking more time to correct the mistakes. There is one thing that you do not seem to have learned though and that is that you cannot know what another

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: CIA and the Movement

2005-05-09 Thread Peter Sutphen
--- TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is it that when cults fail that their leaders inevitably blame plots, conspiracies and the CIA for their failures? Probably because cults pander to an existing sense of elitism in the followers. What can enhance that elitism more than

Re: [FairfieldLife] Bye bye Brits/Scorpions Need Nectar

2005-05-09 Thread Rick Archer
on 5/9/05 11:35 AM, Peter Sutphen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But don't scorpions need nectar? This is like saying you're only going to be compassionate to people who are nice to you! You bring the strongest light to bear in the darkest places, right? We should triple our efforts in the UK

Re: [FairfieldLife] Bye bye Brits/Scorpions Need Nectar

2005-05-09 Thread MDixon6569
In a message dated 5/9/05 11:58:43 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And who's the roadrunner? Meep Meep! everybody that sees him coming! To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye bye Brits/Scorpions Need Nectar

2005-05-09 Thread anonymousff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter Sutphen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip here it is, from my friend in the UK: snip M has shut down all TM teaching in the UK. He wasn't impressed that Tony Blair got back in at Thursdays

Re: [FairfieldLife] Christianity

2005-05-09 Thread MDixon6569
In a message dated 5/9/05 11:22:33 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: "...has Christianity, in fact, stood for a better morality than that of its rivals and opponents? I do not see how any honest student of history can maintain that this is the case. Isn't this

[FairfieldLife] Re: Samadhi in CC, GC or UC [was: This stuff never gets old...Maharishi vs. the movement]

2005-05-09 Thread anonymousff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 6, 2005, at 9:03 AM, Alex Stanley wrote: How is purity determined? A quick Google search says Patanjali lived somewhere between 200 BC and 200 AD. How does one determine whether one interpretation of an ancient

[FairfieldLife] Re: Something I found Out

2005-05-09 Thread jim_flanegin
Hi Rick, Brilliant post! Thank you! Once realizing the below to be true, I am working with as peter s. put it so wonderfully, our, in this case my, 'flavors of consciousness', including my perception of other people. And as Jed McKenna concluded so aptly upon meeting his sister for lunch, the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye bye Brits/Scorpions Need Nectar

2005-05-09 Thread anonymousff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Llundrub [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, from any perspective it just don't make too good sense, huh. esp compassion - Original Message - From: Peter Sutphen To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 11:35 AM

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Samadhi in CC, GC or UC [was: This stuff never gets old...Maharishi vs. the movement]

2005-05-09 Thread Vaj
On May 9, 2005, at 1:21 PM, anonymousff wrote: ok, how do we know that you say is what traditional samkhya-charyas actually say , maybe you understand samkhya-charyas in a different way that they intended. (I'm more referring to their philosophy/system ) Make sure they are carrying a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Something I found Out

2005-05-09 Thread anonymousff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Llundrub [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Addiction to bliss is not enlightenment. you are right, but if you aware of the above is it still a problem? reading thru your post it seems to me that you suggest that bliss clutters one moral view and reasoning, I

[FairfieldLife] Re: Samadhi in CC, GC or UC [was: This stuff never gets old...Maharishi vs. the movement]

2005-05-09 Thread anonymousff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 9, 2005, at 1:21 PM, anonymousff wrote: ok, how do we know that you say is what traditional samkhya-charyas actually say , maybe you understand samkhya-charyas in a different way that they intended. (I'm more

[FairfieldLife] Re: more GGN: communist principles succeed in Kerala, India

2005-05-09 Thread lupidus108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, claudiouk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A non Vedic approach.. democratic, anti caste, grass-roots etc but it works... http://www.yesmagazine.com/article.asp?ID=871 Summer 2004 Issue: What Is The Good Life? Little Cash, Lots of Riches by David

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye bye Brits

2005-05-09 Thread off_world_beings
This is great! I lucked out again. I've been toying with the idea of taking TTC, but one thing that puts me off is that Maharishi will probably send me back to Britain to teach. NO WAY Maharishi. (and anyway I could onlly be part time for a while anyway...and that won't work no more) --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye bye Brits/Scorpions Need Nectar

2005-05-09 Thread feste37
Not sure that coyote is right. But MMY's decision about the UK sounds childish and spiteful, the sort of response one would expect not from a sage but from a petty dictator whose ego has been offended. Absurd really. I wish MMY wouldn't follow politics at all. It seems ridiculous to allow such

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hate to say I told you so.

2005-05-09 Thread lupidus108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Zdravko Baselli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Very right said. at_man_and_brahman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Kirk Bernhardt was in my pod. Though everyone had prearranged that this pod would be a quiet building, Kirk took it upon himself to fill the whole

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Samadhi in CC, GC or UC [was: This stuff never gets old...Maharishi vs. the movement]

2005-05-09 Thread Vaj
On May 9, 2005, at 1:47 PM, anonymousff wrote: exactly my point. Well, that was for you. Anyone else could use common sense. Unless you were thick as a brick, you'd know right off something ain't right with what I was lead to believe--the contrast is pretty marked. To subscribe, send a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Christianity

2005-05-09 Thread easyone200
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 5/9/05 11:22:33 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ...has Christianity, in fact, stood for a better morality than that of its rivals and opponents? I do not see how any honest student

[FairfieldLife] Re:Costs of our programs

2005-05-09 Thread jim_flanegin
Thank you. What this train if thought reminds me of is when Maharishi was asked in the early days how he would enlighten the world and he said he would duplicate himself. (I'm sure Bob B. or Rick A. have the exact quote) And how can one be a duplicate of Maharishi *under* the TMO?? must be

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Bye bye Brits/Scorpions Need Nectar

2005-05-09 Thread Peter Sutphen
I believe it is my wishful thinking that designates MMY as a coyote in the tradition of the American Indian, a trickster who stirs things up and causes all sorts of troubles. But I believe what really has happened is that MMY suffers from dementia: the irrational thought process, burts of

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re:Costs of our programs

2005-05-09 Thread Peter Sutphen
Good observation! --- jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you. What this train if thought reminds me of is when Maharishi was asked in the early days how he would enlighten the world and he said he would duplicate himself. (I'm sure Bob B. or Rick A. have the exact quote) And

[FairfieldLife] Hot off the UK presses

2005-05-09 Thread Rick Archer
According to reliable sources: MMY has said no more teaching in England, has closed the Maharishi School at Skelmersdale. All Governors should get out of the country within two weeks. All because Blair was elected. He said no use feeding milk to vipers, reportedly. To subscribe, send a

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Something I found Out

2005-05-09 Thread Llundrub
Addiction to bliss is not enlightenment.you are right, but if you aware of the above is it still a problem?reading thru your post it seems to me that you suggest that blissclutters one moral view and reasoning, I disagree.I do see the danger that you pointing but the danger is not

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re:Costs of our programs

2005-05-09 Thread Llundrub
And how can one be a duplicate of Maharishi *under* the TMO?? must be ex-TMO, without hating it.Jim To be like Maharishi one must have known and spent time with Guru Dev. There could be no substitute. All else is fallacy. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye bye Brits

2005-05-09 Thread claudiouk
Any psychiatrists in FFL willing to speculate on MMY's sanity? CIA, now scorpions.. persecutory phantasies, paranoia.. delusions of grandeur re creating countries and annointing kings.. UK election result (and NLP failures generally) as personal rejection, responded with childish petulance and

[FairfieldLife] Re: Samadhi in CC, GC or UC [was: This stuff never gets old...Maharishi vs. the movement]

2005-05-09 Thread anonymousff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 9, 2005, at 1:47 PM, anonymousff wrote: exactly my point. Well, that was for you. Anyone else could use common sense. Unless you were thick as a brick, you'd know right off something ain't right with what I

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM article

2005-05-09 Thread lupidus108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bbrigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.themoderatevoice.com/posts/1115126515.shtml Some even reported out of body experiences. (If you don't know what an out of body experience is, think about Dennis Kucinich and Alan Keyes...wait: I think

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye bye Brits

2005-05-09 Thread lupidus108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, claudiouk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any psychiatrists in FFL willing to speculate on MMY's sanity? CIA, now scorpions.. persecutory phantasies, paranoia.. delusions of grandeur re creating countries and annointing kings.. UK election result (and NLP

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye bye Brits/Scorpions Need Nectar

2005-05-09 Thread jim_flanegin
Very clearly stated, lupidus108. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, lupidus108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wish someone in England would say, I'm sorry, Maharishi, we love our country and we're going to carry on doing what we can do improve it. The britons in particular are

[FairfieldLife] Re:Costs of our programs

2005-05-09 Thread jim_flanegin
Yes, and please keep in mind that to know and spend time with Guru Dev is available to everyone here. Try to reach him and see if he shows up. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Llundrub [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And how can one be a duplicate of Maharishi *under* the TMO?? must be

[FairfieldLife] RE: Costs of our programs

2005-05-09 Thread marwincornyarmand
I do not want to be a duplicate of MMY. I am a woman, I appreciate Democracy, love freedom and have great respect of the Veda and Guru Dev. Ingegerd Yes, and please keep in mind that to know and spend time with Guru Dev is available to everyone here. Try to reach him and see if he shows up.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Something I found Out

2005-05-09 Thread George DeForest
. Llundrub wrote: Addiction to bliss is not enlightenment. the maharishi has said paradoxically: Bliss is not blissful. i think in that statement, he is referring to a more mature state, beyond addiction to blissful-ness. The ultimate bliss is qualityless. To subscribe, send a message

[FairfieldLife] Re: Christianity

2005-05-09 Thread TurquoiseB
Nice post, Rick. This, in an odd way, is exactly the subject I have been trying (unsuccessfully, because it's a snakepit) on alt.meditation.transcendental. My theory, which is not entirely mine (it has its antecedents in traditional Buddhism and other traditions) is that there is something

[FairfieldLife] Heavenly Mountain sale

2005-05-09 Thread andrasayer
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[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye bye Brits/Scorpions Need Nectar

2005-05-09 Thread TurquoiseB
M has shut down all TM teaching in the UK. He wasn't impressed that Tony Blair got back in at Thursdays election. So much negative influence here - teaching TM like feeding nectar to scorpions (I think I got that right - you get the idea). All teachers should go to other

[FairfieldLife] Re: CIA and the Movement

2005-05-09 Thread TurquoiseB
Peter: Why do you keep reading my posts? Because they're interesting? The only TM-oriented forum I was familiar with before was alt.m.t. on the Usenet. It's fascinating to find a new set of thinkers with TM in common (and little else) out there in cyberspace. Are you out to get me, you

[FairfieldLife] Re: Samadhi in CC, GC or UC [was: This stuff never gets old...Maharishi vs. the movement]

2005-05-09 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anonymousff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 9, 2005, at 1:21 PM, anonymousff wrote: ok, how do we know that you say is what traditional samkhya-charyas actually say , maybe you

[FairfieldLife] Re: Costs of our programs

2005-05-09 Thread TurquoiseB
Ingegerd: I do not want to be a duplicate of MMY. I am a woman, I appreciate Democracy, love freedom and have great respect of the Veda and Guru Dev. I do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; I seek the things they sought. - Basho To subscribe, send a

[FairfieldLife] Re:Costs of our programs

2005-05-09 Thread jim_flanegin
Wonderful! I'd absolutely love to hear about the experiences you have had with Guru Dev. Wonderful! I have known and spent a lot of time with Guru Dev. No joke. Have you not? To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye bye Brits/Scorpions Need Nectar

2005-05-09 Thread lupidus108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, claudiouk [EMAIL PROTECTED] MMY punishing UK for Blair has nothing to do with the old British empire! Of course it has. Blair, along with Bush, is directly responsible for the slaughter of ten thousands of civilians in Iraq. In the same way as the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Christianity

2005-05-09 Thread jim_flanegin
yeah agreed, its the stupid ego confusing the purest with the best. Some drinkers like beer, others tequila, others vodka, and still others pure 100% grain alcohol. Which drink is the best? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I'm of the opinion

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye bye Brits/Scorpions Need Nectar

2005-05-09 Thread jim_flanegin
Excellent! If I may, western university = mental chaos --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, lupidus108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dream on, but keep in mind that brainwashing from western universities is highly dangerous and a hazard to your mind. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL

[FairfieldLife] Re: Christianity

2005-05-09 Thread TurquoiseB
Jim: yeah agreed, its the stupid ego confusing the purest with the best. Or just their particular taste for the best. Some drinkers like beer, others tequila, others vodka, and still others pure 100% grain alcohol. Which drink is the best? The best for the individual seeker? Unc To

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Bye bye Brits/Scorpions Need Nectar

2005-05-09 Thread Peter Sutphen
I don't know if you're serious or not (no smiley face to help with the irony...) but I'll assume you are: --- Zdravko Baselli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter, speaking such words about Maharishi, who gave you and others The highest knowledge in the universe, is very wrong, Wrong? Calling MMY

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: CIA and the Movement

2005-05-09 Thread Peter Sutphen
Ah, you called us thinkers, that is your first mistake. We're polemicists. -Peter --- TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter: Why do you keep reading my posts? Because they're interesting? The only TM-oriented forum I was familiar with before was alt.m.t. on the Usenet. It's

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Bye bye Brits/Scorpions Need Nectar

2005-05-09 Thread Peter Sutphen
Gee, pretty soon we're all going to be talking about what a great time we had in the Middle Ages. I mean, life as a serf wasn't all that bad, you know. Three hots and a cot and all. --- jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Excellent! If I may, western university = mental chaos --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye bye Brits/Scorpions Need Nectar

2005-05-09 Thread jim_flanegin
Now that's a depressing thought! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter Sutphen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gee, pretty soon we're all going to be talking about what a great time we had in the Middle Ages. I mean, life as a serf wasn't all that bad, you know. Three hots and a cot and all.

[FairfieldLife] Einar Olsen: You Are Invited to Our Wedding Reception Tuesday May 10

2005-05-09 Thread Rick Archer
Dear Friends, Nature is moving in a progressive wave and this has been responsible not only for our enjoying the Recertification Course and becoming partners to create two Peace Palaces and a Maharishi Enlightenment Center in San Antonio but also our decision to be married. We know a general

[FairfieldLife] Re: CIA and the Movement

2005-05-09 Thread TurquoiseB
Peter: Ah, you called us thinkers, that is your first mistake. We're polemicists. Not a bad place to start, IMO. :-) Ya gotta start trusting yourself somewhere. Unc To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM article

2005-05-09 Thread Peter Sutphen
God, lup, don't you ever get tired of spouting all this Maitreya shit as if it is some sort of self-evident truth? Its a story you tell yourself to make yourself feel good. You never doubt it or critique it for one moment. Doesn't that give you pause? Did you ever consider that it might not be

[FairfieldLife] Re: Christianity

2005-05-09 Thread jim_flanegin
Absoultely. The judgement of what is best is purely subjective, whereas the determination of what is purest can be measured by its effectiveness. By the way the only time I ever saw a turquoise bee was on the island of Java. How did you come by the name? Jim --- In

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Bye bye Brits/Scorpions Need Nectar

2005-05-09 Thread Vaj
I read an article on 'the overworked American', and medieval serfs worked less hours and had more vacation time than the average American todayso much for progress! On May 9, 2005, at 4:51 PM, Peter Sutphen wrote: Gee, pretty soon we're all going to be talking about what a great time we

Re: [FairfieldLife] Einar Olsen: You Are Invited to Our Wedding Reception Tuesday May 10

2005-05-09 Thread Llundrub
Congrats Einar and Mary, Bonne Journey! - Original Message - From: Rick Archer To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 3:51 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Einar Olsen: You Are Invited to Our Wedding Reception Tuesday May 10 Dear

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye bye Brits/Scorpions Need Nectar

2005-05-09 Thread anonymousff
It seems to me that the karma line of reasoning isn't very worthwhile. The Hindu tradition tells us that the course of karma is unfathomable. That implies to me that nothing definitive can ever be said about it, even amongst those who subscribe to the theory. To do moreso is to claim more

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye bye Brits/Scorpions Need Nectar

2005-05-09 Thread Zdravko Baselli
Pitty on you. You need very good psihyatric urgently. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter Sutphen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know if you're serious or not (no smiley face to help with the irony...) but I'll assume you are: --- Zdravko Baselli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye bye Brits/Scorpions Need Nectar

2005-05-09 Thread jim_flanegin
As he has said, the world is his family. He will raise it with all of the love and wisdom with which any father aspires to raise his family. Jim --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anonymousff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems to me that the karma line of reasoning isn't very worthwhile.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Bye bye Brits/Scorpions Need Nectar

2005-05-09 Thread Vaj
On May 9, 2005, at 5:13 PM, anonymousff wrote: It seems to me that the karma line of reasoning isn't very worthwhile. The Hindu tradition tells us that the course of karma is unfathomable. That implies to me that nothing definitive can ever be said about it, even amongst those who subscribe

[FairfieldLife] Re: Christianity

2005-05-09 Thread TurquoiseB
Jim: Absoultely. The judgement of what is best is purely subjective, whereas the determination of what is purest can be measured by its effectiveness. By the way the only time I ever saw a turquoise bee was on the island of Java. How did you come by the name? It's an admitted ripoff of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye bye Brits/Scorpions Need Nectar

2005-05-09 Thread off_world_beings
Thats heavy Peter. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter Sutphen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know if you're serious or not (no smiley face to help with the irony...) but I'll assume you are: --- Zdravko Baselli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter, speaking such words about

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Bye bye Brits/Scorpions Need Nectar

2005-05-09 Thread Rick Archer
The assumption implicit in the thinking of some of the participants in this thread seems to be that allowing or disallowing TM to be taught in a country would make a whit of difference in that country's destiny. How many people are being taught in the UK now? What difference could it possibly make

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye bye Brits/Scorpions Need Nectar

2005-05-09 Thread off_world_beings
Thats heavy Peter. I'll deconstruct it later, and bring you back up to love. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter Sutphen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know if you're serious or not (no smiley face to help with the irony...) but I'll assume you are: --- Zdravko Baselli [EMAIL

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye bye Brits/Scorpions Need Nectar

2005-05-09 Thread TurquoiseB
It seems to me that the karma line of reasoning isn't very worthwhile. The Hindu tradition tells us that the course of karma is unfathomable. That implies to me that nothing definitive can ever be said about it, even amongst those who subscribe to the theory. It is only certain aspects

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Indian saints were right'

2005-05-09 Thread bbrigante
Not all the papers are getting things right -- in today's Los Angeles Times health section http://www.latimes.com/features/health/ : Longevity's mantra by Daniel Costello, Times Staff Writer Practicing Transcendental Meditation — a technique involving intense breathing exercises and the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Bye bye Brits/Scorpions Need Nectar

2005-05-09 Thread Rick Archer
on 5/9/05 4:20 PM, Zdravko Baselli at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pitty on you. You need very good psihyatric urgently. He is one (clinical psychologist) To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!'

[FairfieldLife] Re: Murder at Maharishi school in India -- update

2005-05-09 Thread bbrigante
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter Sutphen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- off_world_beings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bbrigante Within a month after I started working at MIU in December of 1974, a guy named Joe Lambert ran through

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye bye Brits/Scorpions Need Nectar

2005-05-09 Thread anonymousff
Thanks for the discourse, vaj. If we take karma to be cause and effect, as in Newton's third law of motion for every action there is an opposite and equal reaction, then we could call western science a systematic study of karma insofar as it is visible to the senses and the instruments of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye bye Brits/Scorpions Need Nectar

2005-05-09 Thread off_world_beings
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The assumption implicit in the thinking of some of the participants in this thread seems to be that allowing or disallowing TM to be taught in a country would make a whit of difference in that country's destiny.

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Indian saints were right'

2005-05-09 Thread off_world_beings
Los Angeloes is a lost cause. Too much pollution. It is fuddling their brains. I suspect there is not one intelligent person in LA. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bbrigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not all the papers are getting things right -- in today's Los Angeles Times health

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Bye bye Brits/Scorpions Need Nectar

2005-05-09 Thread Llundrub
Atomics aren't horrible as they're the key to the space industry which will in the future allow a bunch of more souls to incarnate in higher form without burdening this planet. If this wasn't the motivation for their development then so be it. How often do we do things for one reason and

[FairfieldLife] Re: Christianity

2005-05-09 Thread jim_flanegin
I can see why. He is a wonderful man. I just watched a TV program last night called Dreaming of Tibet and it had the Dalai Lama on there-- so humble and straight forward and in a good mood and friendly. Also spoke about China taking over Tibet and how Tibetans see this as a karma, and DL has

[FairfieldLife] Re: Murder at Maharishi school in India -- update

2005-05-09 Thread bbrigante
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter Sutphen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- off_world_beings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The MHI in Mt. Pleasant is still open, but nowhere near the size it used to be: http://das.hre.iowa.gov/open_class_nurse.html#mtpleasantmhi

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye bye Brits/Scorpions Need Nectar

2005-05-09 Thread Zdravko Baselli
Then he needs two very good psychiatrists. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 5/9/05 4:20 PM, Zdravko Baselli at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pitty on you. You need very good psihyatric urgently. He is one (clinical psychologist) To subscribe,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Christianity

2005-05-09 Thread Llundrub
Fucking Awesome. Thank you for this. - Original Message - From: TurquoiseB To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 4:35 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Christianity Jim: Absoultely. The judgement of what is best is purely subjective,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Murder at Maharishi school in India -- update

2005-05-09 Thread bbrigante
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter Sutphen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- bbrigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I worked there briefly in the 70s -- the facility was so old that it still had shackles built into the wall where they used to chain up patients, now they're

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye bye Brits/Scorpions Need Nectar

2005-05-09 Thread anonymousff
Rick, I'm the author of the anon post below. I agree with you entirely. I hope that it didn't appear that I thought M's Brit pronouncement would make any difference. My goal was to show the originator of the British karma idea that it didn't hold much water. On the other hand, could make some

[FairfieldLife] Re: Christianity

2005-05-09 Thread off_world_beings
Hi, I'm a 10 year old girl reading this board. What does f##king mean Llundrub? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Llundrub [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fucking Awesome. Thank you for this. - Original Message - From: TurquoiseB To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Murder at Maharishi school in India -- update

2005-05-09 Thread bbrigante
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter Sutphen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- bbrigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Within a month after I started working at MIU in December of 1974, a guy named Joe Lambert ran through the plate glass window next to the entrance door of

[FairfieldLife] Re: more GGN: communist principles succeed in Kerala, India

2005-05-09 Thread bbrigante
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, lupidus108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, claudiouk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A non Vedic approach.. democratic, anti caste, grass-roots etc but it works... http://www.yesmagazine.com/article.asp?ID=871 Summer

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Christianity

2005-05-09 Thread MDixon6569
In a message dated 5/9/05 1:34:55 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm not sure what time period you are speaking of but most countries were religious entities in the past ,state and church were one. Something that is again being pushed in this country today.

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