[FairfieldLife] Re: Evangelical Christianity

2006-01-24 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 1/22/06 6:37:14 P.M. Central Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Whenever I meet born-again Christians who start to prostelitize me, I > ask them right up front: Do you believe that unless I

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Deeksha, Shaktipat and PowerTouch

2006-01-24 Thread gullible fool
> Candles? Are you saying that the diksha givers light > parafin candles > in front of Sai Ma? This must be a typo - you're > supposed to burning > only camphor in front of Sai Maa. I said the *Bhagavan* diksha givers light the candles. --- "Richard J. Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > g

[FairfieldLife] Re: Deeksha, Shaktipat and PowerTouch

2006-01-24 Thread Richard J. Williams
gullible fool wrote: > > I think you may have your Maas mixed up. Unless I > > missed something I > > don't see anything about Sai Ma teaching such > > courses. Also I believe > > the ones that do have a couple extra zeros behind > > the 55. :) > > Only one Sai Maa comes up in a yahoo or goog

[FairfieldLife] Re: Deeksha, Shaktipat and PowerTouch

2006-01-24 Thread Richard J. Williams
Bhairitu wrote: > My teacher has decided that since people have an > interest in learning to give shaktipat... > So, your teacher, a former Indian pilot, will teach me how to give the shaktipat? Are you suggesting that there's some kind of mind-altering transcendental experience to be had or that

Re: [FairfieldLife] Maharishi's forecast for 2006

2006-01-24 Thread Bhairitu
Rick Archer wrote: >This may already have been posted: > >Maharishi's forecast for 2006 >Global Press Conference, 28.12.05 > >MAHARISHI: I see the destruction of the destroyers >- whatever little they may have remained. I see the >dawn of a new fortune for mankind. I see human race >rising to a l

Re: [FairfieldLife] Deeksha, Shaktipat and PowerTouch

2006-01-24 Thread gullible fool
> I think you may have your Maas mixed up. Unless I > missed something I > don't see anything about Sai Ma teaching such > courses. Also I believe > the ones that do have a couple extra zeros behind > the 55. :) Only one Sai Maa comes up in a yahoo or google search, so it appears that there

[FairfieldLife] Re: Begging money and charity

2006-01-24 Thread wayback71
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > on 1/24/06 3:49 PM, wayback71 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > There is another thing to remember about asking for ongoing support, > > especially with > > Purusha and MD. Part of this process for them involves wri

[FairfieldLife] Re: Begging money and charity

2006-01-24 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 24, 2006, at 4:13 PM, wayback71 wrote: > > > We are on the same page, Sal.  I too stopped giving ( and i never gave > > all that much), and > > one reason was the lack of honesty, the sense that everyone w

[FairfieldLife] Re: Begging money and charity

2006-01-24 Thread wayback71
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > on 1/24/06 3:49 PM, wayback71 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > There is another thing to remember about asking for ongoing support, > > especially with > > Purusha and MD. Part of this process for them involves wri

Re: [FairfieldLife] Deeksha, Shaktipat and PowerTouch

2006-01-24 Thread Bhairitu
In our tradition there are four levels: low, medium, high and very high. I know you once mentioned something you saw in some books but that is not the same tradition. Vaj wrote: > The other inevitable question is what level of shaktipat are we > talking about? > > On Jan 24, 2006, at 9:52 AM

[FairfieldLife] Re: Begging money and charity

2006-01-24 Thread Nelson
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Irmeli Mattsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > The thing that's fascinating to me is the "trickle- > > down craziness" involved with this. It's not just a > > case of some

Re: [FairfieldLife] India: Mirror of Truth

2006-01-24 Thread Vaj
Which one? The siddha above Jyotir Math?On Jan 24, 2006, at 11:07 AM, Peter wrote:I've been reading Steve Brigg's book, "India: Mirror of Truth" over the last few days. I really enjoy all his adventures, but one story struck me as unusual in that it didn't relly sound truthful. For those of you w

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi's forecast for 2006

2006-01-24 Thread anonyff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My forcast for 2006: Stuff will happen. More of some > stuff and less of other stuff. 2006 will look alot > like 2005 except it will be one year later. Barry and > Judy will get married. Off-world will leave for his > home p

Re: [FairfieldLife] India: Mirror of Truth

2006-01-24 Thread Vaj
It seemed like an encounter with a yogi who had perfected the illusory body. You really can't tell them (in many ways) from an encounter with a physical person. Yet there is, on reflection,  elements that reveal otherwise. I had the same impression as those where I met beings in illusory bodies.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Begging money and charity

2006-01-24 Thread Rick Archer
on 1/24/06 3:49 PM, wayback71 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > There is another thing to remember about asking for ongoing support, > especially with > Purusha and MD. Part of this process for them involves writing letters and > emails to their > donors - giving inside and on the spot info about

[FairfieldLife] The Dalai Lama at Stanford free

2006-01-24 Thread Vaj
http://itunes.stanford.edu/ Craving, Suffering and Choice: Spiritual and Scientific Explorations of Human Experience Part I 1:55:25 His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama, Various Medical School and Buddhist Professors and Scholars The Dalai Lama at StanfordFree Craving, Sufferi

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Begging money and charity

2006-01-24 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Jan 24, 2006, at 4:13 PM, wayback71 wrote: We are on the same page, Sal.  I too stopped giving ( and i never gave all that much), and one reason was the lack of honesty, the sense that everyone was pretending to one degree or another. The other reason I stopped is because I felt the entire T

[FairfieldLife] Re: Begging money and charity

2006-01-24 Thread wayback71
We are on the same page, Sal. I too stopped giving ( and i never gave all that much), and one reason was the lack of honesty, the sense that everyone was pretending to one degree or another. The other reason I stopped is because I felt the entire TMO was off-track regarding money on every le

Re: [FairfieldLife] Deeksha, Shaktipat and PowerTouch

2006-01-24 Thread Bhairitu
You will have to ask Swami Abhayanand that. Define the levels. Vaj wrote: > The other inevitable question is what level of shaktipat are we > talking about? > > On Jan 24, 2006, at 9:52 AM, Bhairitu wrote: > >> I think you may have your Maas mixed up. Unless I missed something I >> don't see

Re: [FairfieldLife] Deeksha, Shaktipat and PowerTouch

2006-01-24 Thread Bhairitu
How's that? Peter wrote: >No, your teacher did... :-) > >--- Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>Did you drop something on his foot? >> >>Peter wrote: >> >> >> >>>Jesus wept >>> >>>--- Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> My teacher has decided that si

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Begging money and charity

2006-01-24 Thread Sal Sunshine
This assumes, wrongly IMO, that the people doing the giving want phony, "glowing" reports--in effect, mood-making over anything of substance. When I was a donor I would have given anything for a little honesty. It was the feeling of donating to a seriously flawed cause and to people who refu

[FairfieldLife] Re: Begging money and charity

2006-01-24 Thread wayback71
There is another thing to remember about asking for ongoing support, especially with Purusha and MD. Part of this process for them involves writing letters and emails to their donors - giving inside and on the spot info about what is going on in the TMO. It is sweet and really involves the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Deeksha, Shaktipat and PowerTouch

2006-01-24 Thread Vaj
The other inevitable question is what level of shaktipat are we talking about?On Jan 24, 2006, at 9:52 AM, Bhairitu wrote:I think you may have your Maas mixed up.  Unless I missed something I  don't see anything about Sai Ma teaching such courses.  Also I believe  the ones that do have a couple e

[FairfieldLife] Re: Catur-shataani-catur!

2006-01-24 Thread bbrigante
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > http://www.trancenet.org/secrets/sutras > > 404 > > Interesting...? > ** the site has been defunct for years, but it's all archived at the wayback machine: http://tinyurl.com/8t4u4

[FairfieldLife] Re: Catur-shataani-catur!

2006-01-24 Thread bbrigante
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > http://www.trancenet.org/secrets/sutras > > 404 > > Interesting...? > they've been out of biz for years, but it's all archived at the wayback machine: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Deeksha, Shaktipat and PowerTouch

2006-01-24 Thread Peter
No, your teacher did... :-) --- Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did you drop something on his foot? > > Peter wrote: > > >Jesus wept > > > >--- Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > >>My teacher has decided that since people have an > >>interest in learning to > >>give sha

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi's forecast for 2006

2006-01-24 Thread Peter
My forcast for 2006: Stuff will happen. More of some stuff and less of other stuff. 2006 will look alot like 2005 except it will be one year later. Barry and Judy will get married. Off-world will leave for his home planet and Anon will enter a deep, deep samadhi and only giggle when asked questions

Re: [FairfieldLife] India: Mirror of Truth

2006-01-24 Thread Peter
--- Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on 1/24/06 10:07 AM, Peter at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I've been reading Steve Brigg's book, "India: > Mirror > > of Truth" over the last few days. I really enjoy > all > > his adventures, but one story struck me as unusual > in > > that it d

Re: [FairfieldLife] India: Mirror of Truth

2006-01-24 Thread Rick Archer
on 1/24/06 10:07 AM, Peter at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've been reading Steve Brigg's book, "India: Mirror > of Truth" over the last few days. I really enjoy all > his adventures, but one story struck me as unusual in > that it didn't relly sound truthful. For those of you > who have read the b

[FairfieldLife] Re: Catur-shataani-catur!

2006-01-24 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Alex Stanley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > http://www.trancenet.org/secrets/sutras > > > > 404 > > > > Interesting...? > > Not too long ago, TranceNut was toast (

[FairfieldLife] Bush is a saint (joke)

2006-01-24 Thread Sal Sunshine
President Bush was scheduled to visit the Methodist Church outside Washington as part of his campaign to restore his poll standings.   Karl Rove made a visit to the Methodist Bishop, and said to him "We've been getting a lot of bad publicity among Methodists because of Bush's position on stem ce

[FairfieldLife] Re: Catur-shataani-catur!

2006-01-24 Thread Alex Stanley
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > http://www.trancenet.org/secrets/sutras > > 404 > > Interesting...? Not too long ago, TranceNut was toast (domain name had lapsed, I think), and they must not have it completely restored. That has always been an

Re: [FairfieldLife] Deeksha, Shaktipat and PowerTouch

2006-01-24 Thread Bhairitu
Peter wrote: >--- gullible fool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>You *could* pay three thousand dollars for this >>class, >>plus maybe a thousand dollars for a hotel, and maybe >>five hundred dollars to get to the San Francisco Bay >>Area. >> >>Or, you could learn to give diksha from the Sai

Re: [FairfieldLife] Deeksha, Shaktipat and PowerTouch

2006-01-24 Thread Bhairitu
Did you drop something on his foot? Peter wrote: >Jesus wept > >--- Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>My teacher has decided that since people have an >>interest in learning to >>give shaktipat that he will offer a course on it >>right here in the US. >>We call the technique Power

Re: [FairfieldLife] Deeksha, Shaktipat and PowerTouch

2006-01-24 Thread Bhairitu
I think you may have your Maas mixed up. Unless I missed something I don't see anything about Sai Ma teaching such courses. Also I believe the ones that do have a couple extra zeros behind the 55. :) And yes the actual process is quite simple but the preparation and traininig for the issues

[FairfieldLife] India: Mirror of Truth

2006-01-24 Thread Peter
I've been reading Steve Brigg's book, "India: Mirror of Truth" over the last few days. I really enjoy all his adventures, but one story struck me as unusual in that it didn't relly sound truthful. For those of you who have read the book, I'm curious if you had the same experience. _

[FairfieldLife] Catur-shataani-catur!

2006-01-24 Thread cardemaister
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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The great lie of Quantum Physics and Consciousness

2006-01-24 Thread Rick Archer
on 1/24/06 7:29 AM, markmeredith2002 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In their public filings, nonprofits must list their 3 highest paid > employees. In the last one I saw, Hagelin was listed at $120,000. In > addition he has his Institute which I think is another source of > donations-income. I as

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi's forecast for 2006

2006-01-24 Thread anonyff
Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This may already have been posted: > > Maharishi's forecast for 2006 > Global Press Conference, 28.12.05 > > MAHARISHI: I see the destruction of the destroyers > - whatever little they may have remained. I see the > dawn of a new fortune for mankind. I

[FairfieldLife] Re: The great lie of Quantum Physics and Consciousness

2006-01-24 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "markmeredith2002" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > On Jan 23, 2006, at 1:52 PM, markmeredith2002 wrote: > > > > > Maybe his reputation within the theoretical physicists > > > com

[FairfieldLife] Re: Deeksha, Shaktipat and PowerTouch

2006-01-24 Thread Alex Stanley
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > --- gullible fool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > You *could* pay three thousand dollars for this class, > > > plus maybe a thousand do

[FairfieldLife] Re: The great lie of Quantum Physics and Consciousness

2006-01-24 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "markmeredith2002" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Being a TMO celebrity would probably be more fun than being a > > physicist...esp. with the groupies--young yoginis. > > > > I wonder how much he gets paid? > > In their public filings, nonprofits must

[FairfieldLife] Re: The great lie of Quantum Physics and Consciousness

2006-01-24 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Jan 23, 2006, at 1:52 PM, markmeredith2002 wrote: > > > Maybe his reputation within the theoretical physicists community has > > been damaged, but is that such a big deal. Hagelin gets paid well, > > gets lots of atten

[FairfieldLife] No epicycles!

2006-01-24 Thread cardemaister
For a particular day, once the day count has been determined, the Surya Siddhanta describes how to determine the celestial longitude (measured along the ecliptic) of the particular body (Sun, Moon, or planet) in question. The longitude is calculated by first calculating the mean longitude for

[FairfieldLife] Shri Lankan AV in Finland, pics

2006-01-24 Thread cardemaister
http://www.srilanka.fi/kuvat.htm English pages are under construction... Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM ---

[FairfieldLife] Re: Begging money and charity

2006-01-24 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Irmeli Mattsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The thing that's fascinating to me is the "trickle- > > down craziness" involved with this. It's not just a > > case of some laz

[FairfieldLife] Re: Deeksha, Shaktipat and PowerTouch

2006-01-24 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- gullible fool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > You *could* pay three thousand dollars for this class, > > plus maybe a thousand dollars for a hotel, and maybe > > five hundred dollars to get to the San Francisco Bay > >

[FairfieldLife] Begging money and charity

2006-01-24 Thread Irmeli Mattsson
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The thing that's fascinating to me is the "trickle- > down craziness" involved with this. It's not just a > case of some lazy fucks realizing that there is an > easy way to avoid working, and that it's called > beggin

[FairfieldLife] Pituitary gland??

2006-01-24 Thread cardemaister
Shiva-suutra III 44, part: naasikaantarmadhyasaMyamaat... (naasika-antar-madhya-saMyamaat) >From sanyama on the pituitary gland (nose-interior-middle?)... http://www.indiana.edu/~rcapub/images/Pituitary.jpg Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~--> Join mo

[FairfieldLife] Interesting lines from Tantraaloka!

2006-01-24 Thread cardemaister
tatsthaM vicaarayet khaM khaM khasthaM khasthena saMvishet khaM khaM tyaktvaa khamaaruhya khasthaM khaM coccarediti I think "kham" in pronounced almost exactly like English "come". Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~--> Join modern day disciples reach the d

Re: [FairfieldLife] Deeksha, Shaktipat and PowerTouch

2006-01-24 Thread Peter
--- gullible fool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You *could* pay three thousand dollars for this > class, > plus maybe a thousand dollars for a hotel, and maybe > five hundred dollars to get to the San Francisco Bay > Area. > > Or, you could learn to give diksha from the Sai Maa > master teac

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Seven Levels of the "Gap"

2006-01-24 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes indeedee :-). Tantraloka. Hi, Vaj! Sorry, I haven't read that translation earlier. Which chapter and verse of Tantraaloka? (tantra + aaloka: the light of tantra?) > > On Dec 19, 2005, at 8:52 AM, Peter wrote: > > > Oh

[FairfieldLife] The Eight Noble Truths of Buddhism

2006-01-24 Thread TurquoiseB
The Eight Noble Truths of Buddhism * 1. You do not talk about Buddhism. 2. You do not talk about Buddhism. 3. If someone says "stop," goes limp, or taps out, the meditation is over. 4. Only two guys to a meditation. 5. One meditation at a time. 6. No shirts, no shoes, no undies. 7. Me