[FairfieldLife] Re: CBS Sunday Morning

2006-04-10 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote: On Apr 9, 2006, at 7:36 PM, anon_couscous_ff wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote: Then Fred will have done his

[FairfieldLife] Re: CBS Sundy Morning

2006-04-10 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jyouells2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig sparaig@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote: You can't help but wonder if it was marketing for the MSAE whose numbers are

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Where Is 'One Nation Under God?'

2006-04-10 Thread Robert Gimbel
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert Gimbel babajii_99@ wrote: Where is the feeling of One nation under God? Where has it gone. How can a President create Unity; With a 33% approval of the people?

[FairfieldLife] Re: CBS Sunday Morning = we believe what we want to believe

2006-04-10 Thread amarnath
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Go figure. The things some people will believe if they tell them to themselves long enough... my two cents is that we believe what we want to believe and it really is optional; the main thing is ~ how does our

[FairfieldLife] Re: CBS Sunday Morning

2006-04-10 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote: On Apr 9, 2006, at 7:36 PM, anon_couscous_ff wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote: Then Fred will have done his

[FairfieldLife] tidn't tknow vwat to tink

2006-04-10 Thread at_man_and_brahman
My understanding of the Muktanda/Maharishi hug incident is that Muktananda startled Maharishi with an insistent hug, and that Maharishi later commented, laughing, i tid not tknow vwat to tink! To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Darshan -- we believe what we want to believe

2006-04-10 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, amarnath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: ... Go figure. The things some people will believe if they tell them to themselves long enough... my two cents is that we believe what we want to

[FairfieldLife] Re: CBS Sunday Morning

2006-04-10 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig sparaig@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: snip Go figure. The things some people will believe if they tell them to themselves

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Where Is 'One Nation Under God?'

2006-04-10 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert Gimbel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig sparaig@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert Gimbel babajii_99@ wrote: Where is the feeling of One nation under God? Where has it gone.

[FairfieldLife] Re: CBS Sunday Morning

2006-04-10 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig sparaig@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: snip Go figure. The things some people will believe if they tell them to

[FairfieldLife] Re: CBS Sunday Morning

2006-04-10 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig sparaig@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: snip Go figure. The things some people will believe if they tell them to themselves

[FairfieldLife] Re: CBS Sunday Morning

2006-04-10 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] It's one of the things I find most humorous about True Believers -- their ability to deny that they are True Believers while actively *demonstrating* what they are to anyone who has eyes. :-) Of course, Barry

[FairfieldLife] Re: CBS Sunday Morning

2006-04-10 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig sparaig@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: snip Go figure. The things some people will believe if they tell them to themselves

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: CBS Sunday Morning = we believe what we want to believe

2006-04-10 Thread Rick Archer
on 4/10/06 2:07 AM, amarnath at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: we should strive to avoid fixating on our beliefs ~ which can become our greatest obstacles to our true nature. A woman who attended our Wed. night satsang for the first time last week reported the experience that for the last several

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Where Is 'One Nation Under God?'

2006-04-10 Thread Robert Gimbel
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert Gimbel babajii_99@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig sparaig@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert Gimbel babajii_99@ wrote:

[FairfieldLife] Re: CBS Sunday Morning = we believe what we want to believe

2006-04-10 Thread Robert Gimbel
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 4/10/06 2:07 AM, amarnath at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: we should strive to avoid fixating on our beliefs ~ which can become our greatest obstacles to our true nature. A woman who attended our Wed. night

[FairfieldLife] Re: CBS Sunday Morning

2006-04-10 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig sparaig@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: snip Go figure.

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Where Is 'One Nation Under God?'

2006-04-10 Thread anon_couscous_ff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert Gimbel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Many people are becoming afraid of the vacumn they feel in the lack of leadership, misdirection, lieing, scandal, manipulation, and the lack of any unity in the U.S. Congress, and the lack of anything getting done

[FairfieldLife] Re: CBS Sunday Morning = we believe what we want to believe

2006-04-10 Thread anon_couscous_ff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: She said that she can't think or say much of anything without instantly realizing that it's opposite is also true. Did Tom suddenly jump up and exclaim, I see non-snakes everywhere ?

[FairfieldLife] Re: CBS Sunday Morning

2006-04-10 Thread anon_couscous_ff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's just extraordinary to me that folks let him get away with this. This assumes that anyone takes him seriously. I only read him, occasionally, for the humor: how one person can see life in such a twisted way, a

[FairfieldLife] The story behind the photo of Swami Muktananda hugging Maharishi

2006-04-10 Thread Michael Dean Goodman
Dear Fairfield Lifers, In the past few days, someone posted a photo of Swami Muktananda hug- ging Maharishi. I was there at this famous meeting in 1976 between these two, and here's what I remember: Swami Muktananda was traveling on tour throughout Europe with a large entourage of his

[FairfieldLife] astrologers in Fairfield?

2006-04-10 Thread feste37
Does anyone know of any good astrologers, either Jyotish or Western, in Fairfield, who would do a reading for a fee? To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit

[FairfieldLife] Re: The story behind the photo of Swami Muktananda hugging Maharishi

2006-04-10 Thread TurquoiseB
While this is a sweet story from a TM TB-kind of point of view, just to balance it I should report verbatim the view of the same event that a good friend of mine whom I know from the Rama trip told me. He was in Swami Muktananda's entourage at the time, and thus was in the same room that Michael

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The story behind the photo of Swami Muktananda hugging Maharishi

2006-04-10 Thread Vaj
On Apr 10, 2006, at 10:31 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: Muktananda supposedly said, quote: He seemed nice, but desperately in need of a hug. And maybe some shakipat? To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This

Re: [FairfieldLife] astrologers in Fairfield?

2006-04-10 Thread Rick Archer
on 4/10/06 9:27 AM, feste37 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of any good astrologers, either Jyotish or Western, in Fairfield, who would do a reading for a fee? There's a very good one coming today. Amma's Jyotishi, named Prasannan. But he charges $50. I think all the appointments

Re: [FairfieldLife] The story behind the photo of Swami Muktananda hugging Maharishi

2006-04-10 Thread Rick Archer
on 4/10/06 9:04 AM, Michael Dean Goodman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Never having seen Maharishi touched, especially so enthusiastical- ly and explosively, we asked him something naive like Wasn't it strange to have someone touching you like that - how do you main- tain your purity?

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: CBS Sunday Morning = we believe what we want to believe

2006-04-10 Thread Rick Archer
on 4/10/06 8:49 AM, anon_couscous_ff at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: She said that she can't think or say much of anything without instantly realizing that it's opposite is also true. Did Tom suddenly jump up and

[FairfieldLife] Re: CBS Sunday Morning = we believe what we want to believe

2006-04-10 Thread anon_couscous_ff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And then all 35 of us took off our clothes and jello-wrestled. Wow. Now theres an image thats bound to shock or scare one into enlightenment. :) Yahoo! Groups Sponsor

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Where Is 'One Nation Under God?'

2006-04-10 Thread Rick Archer
on 4/10/06 8:47 AM, anon_couscous_ff at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert Gimbel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Many people are becoming afraid of the vacumn they feel in the lack of leadership, misdirection, lieing, scandal, manipulation, and the lack of any

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: CBS Sunday Morning = we believe what we want to believe

2006-04-10 Thread Rick Archer
on 4/10/06 7:04 AM, Robert Gimbel at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps the Bliss that's always talked about accompanying the state of Enlightenment, according to Maharishi; Has something to do with the instant realization of opposites; Almost that you can take any side on any position;

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: CBS Sunday Morning = we believe what we want to believe

2006-04-10 Thread Rick Archer
on 4/10/06 10:00 AM, anon_couscous_ff at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And then all 35 of us took off our clothes and jello-wrestled. Wow. Now theres an image thats bound to shock or scare one into enlightenment. :)

[FairfieldLife] Re: The story behind the photo of Swami Muktananda hugging Maharishi

2006-04-10 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 10, 2006, at 10:31 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: Muktananda supposedly said, quote: He seemed nice, but desperately in need of a hug. And maybe some shakipat? Maybe. Jim (my friend) was totally into Muktananda at that

Re: [FairfieldLife] The story behind the photo of Swami Muktananda hugging Maharishi

2006-04-10 Thread Sal Sunshine
Nice account. But just out of curiosity, Michael, deep, Vedic knowledge has accomplished exactly what? In science or any other field. Sal On Apr 10, 2006, at 9:04 AM, Michael Dean Goodman wrote: He also spoke quite forcefully about the ig- norance and superficiality of Western science when

[FairfieldLife] Re: The story behind the photo of Swami Muktananda hugging Maharishi

2006-04-10 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 4/10/06 9:04 AM, Michael Dean Goodman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Never having seen Maharishi touched, especially so enthusiastically and explosively, we asked him something naive like Wasn't it strange to

[FairfieldLife] Re: CBS Sunday Morning = we believe what we want to believe

2006-04-10 Thread anon_couscous_ff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 4/10/06 7:04 AM, Robert Gimbel at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Beyond the emotions is the Bliss? Can one be in Bliss, while being angry, disgusted or bored? Yes, although those would only describe one's

[FairfieldLife] Re: CBS Sunday Morning = we believe what we want to believe

2006-04-10 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anon_couscous_ff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer fairfieldlife@ wrote: And then all 35 of us took off our clothes and jello-wrestled. Wow. Now theres an image thats bound to shock or scare one into

[FairfieldLife] Re: The story behind the photo of Swami Muktananda hugging Maharishi

2006-04-10 Thread anon_couscous_ff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm just reporting the experience of a fellow I once swapped what did you do before you ran into Rama stories with. And then you swapped who did you do before you ran into Rama stories, undoubtedly. To

[FairfieldLife] Re: CBS Sundy Morning

2006-04-10 Thread jyouells2000
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jyouells2000 jyouells@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig sparaig@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote: You can't help

[FairfieldLife] Re: The story behind the photo of Swami Muktananda hugging Maharishi

2006-04-10 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anon_couscous_ff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: I'm just reporting the experience of a fellow I once swapped what did you do before you ran into Rama stories with. And then you swapped

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The story behind the photo of Swami Muktananda hugging Maharishi

2006-04-10 Thread Sal Sunshine
That's why everybody dropped out--because it turned into (or MMY allowed it to be turned into) this heavy, formal, Fundamentalist environment where everyone was treated in a condescending manner, not to mention having their pockets picked at every available opportunity. Kind of hard to have fun

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The story behind the photo of Swami Muktananda hugging Maharishi

2006-04-10 Thread Rick Archer
Another interesting tidbit to the story is that the reason Muk came to visit is that John Gray and Billy Clayton were going to see him and getting Shaktipat when we went up to S. Fallsburg to hang out at the TMO facility next door. (Those two, two others, and myself were sent to NJ in the summer

[FairfieldLife] Re: The story behind the photo of Swami Muktananda hugging Maharishi

2006-04-10 Thread anon_couscous_ff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anon_couscous_ff no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: I'm just reporting the experience of a fellow I once swapped what did

[FairfieldLife] Re: astrologers in Fairfield?

2006-04-10 Thread feste37
Thanks, Rick. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 4/10/06 9:27 AM, feste37 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of any good astrologers, either Jyotish or Western, in Fairfield, who would do a reading for a fee? There's a very good one

[FairfieldLife] Re: The story behind the photo of Swami Muktananda hugging Maharishi

2006-04-10 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anon_couscous_ff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anon_couscous_ff no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote:

[FairfieldLife] Re: CBS Sunday Morning = we believe what we want to believe

2006-04-10 Thread anon_couscous_ff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anon_couscous_ff no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer fairfieldlife@ wrote: And then all 35 of us took off our clothes and jello-wrestled.

[FairfieldLife] Re: The story behind the photo of Swami Muktananda hugging Maharishi

2006-04-10 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While this is a sweet story from a TM TB-kind of point of view, just to balance it I should report verbatim the view of the same event that a good friend of mine whom I know from the Rama trip told me. He was in Swami

[FairfieldLife] Re: The story behind the photo of Swami Muktananda hugging Maharishi

2006-04-10 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: While this is a sweet story from a TM TB-kind of point of view, just to balance it I should report verbatim the view of the same event that a good

[FairfieldLife] Re: The story behind the photo of Swami Muktananda hugging Maharishi

2006-04-10 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nice account. But just out of curiosity, Michael, deep, Vedic knowledge has accomplished exactly what? In science or any other field. Sal Ask Hagelin's associates who worked with him after he modified

[FairfieldLife] Re: The story behind the photo of Swami Muktananda hugging Maharishi

2006-04-10 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer fairfieldlife@ wrote: on 4/10/06 9:04 AM, Michael Dean Goodman at Tantra@ wrote: Never having seen Maharishi touched, especially so enthusiastically and

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The story behind the photo of Swami Muktananda hugging Maharishi

2006-04-10 Thread Vaj
On Apr 10, 2006, at 11:49 AM, sparaig wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nice account. But just out of curiosity, Michael, deep, Vedic knowledge has accomplished exactly what? In science or any other field. Sal Ask Hagelin's

[FairfieldLife] Re: The story behind the photo of Swami Muktananda hugging Maharishi

2006-04-10 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig sparaig@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: While this is a sweet story from a TM TB-kind of point of view, just to balance it

[FairfieldLife] Re: CBS Sundy Morning

2006-04-10 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jyouells2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig sparaig@ wrote: [...] There is no generic sense inthe USA. Well the CBS writer lowercased them and didn't use the circle around the R thing. You think that was

[FairfieldLife] Re: Darshan -- we believe what we want to believe

2006-04-10 Thread amarnath
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, amarnath anatol_zinc@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: ... Go figure. The things some people will believe if they tell them to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Darshan -- we believe what we want to believe

2006-04-10 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, amarnath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, amarnath anatol_zinc@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: ... Go

[FairfieldLife] The Straight Poop

2006-04-10 Thread anon_couscous_ff
I went to this fantastic new group the other night. Its called Neo-Poop. I highly recommend it. They give you the straight poop, right from the horses mouth, so to speak. Its lead by a guy named Poop-a-ji. His darshan is incredible. It is so strong, you can even smell it. I was dazed and dazzled

[FairfieldLife] FW: a non-meeting ?

2006-04-10 Thread Rick Archer
Title: FW: a non-meeting ? From a friend in Germany: Dear Rick, I like your contributions, but the Goodman`s account is so poor. Not from his side. He writes enthusiastic. But two super-guys meet, and Mr. M. can only sit still, closed eyes ? And there is a contest, who can win in sitting

[FairfieldLife] Halfway Up the Mountain: The Error of Premature Claims to Enlightenment

2006-04-10 Thread anon_couscous_ff
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0934252912/sr=8-1/qid=1144687805/ref=sr_1_1/104-1423200-8312725?%5Fencoding=UTF8 I came across an interesting book. Fool's gold exists because there is real gold, coined Rumi. Here author and anthropologist Mariana Caplan herself extracts valuable nuggets from

[FairfieldLife] Re: FW: a non-meeting ?

2006-04-10 Thread at_man_and_brahman
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From a friend in Germany: Dear Rick, I like your contributions, but the Goodman`s account is so poor. Not from his side. He writes enthusiastic. But two super-guys meet, and Mr. M. can only sit still,

[FairfieldLife] Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment

2006-04-10 Thread anon_couscous_ff
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0971435251/ref=pd_sim_b_1/104-1423200-8312725?%5Fencoding=UTF8v=glancen=283155 I see too that Jed McKenna has a new book (new to me). Has anyone figured out who this guy is writing under thus pseudo-name? The mark of the true master is that he can express a

[FairfieldLife] Re: The story behind the photo of Swami Muktananda hugging Maharishi

2006-04-10 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer fairfieldlife@ wrote: on 4/10/06 9:04 AM, Michael Dean Goodman at Tantra@ wrote: Never having seen Maharishi touched, especially so enthusiastically and

[FairfieldLife] Re: Halfway Up the Mountain: The Error of Premature Claims to Enlightenment

2006-04-10 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anon_couscous_ff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0934252912/sr=8- 1/qid=1144687805/ref=sr_1_1/104-1423200-8312725?%5Fencoding=UTF8 I came across an interesting book. Fool's gold exists because there is real gold, coined Rumi.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Halfway Up the Mountain: The Error of Premature Claims to Enlightenment

2006-04-10 Thread TurquoiseB
Thanks for the heads-up. I may try to find this book, even though I have to admit that I enjoyed the blurb about the book much less than I enjoyed SeeOtter's review of it (the first reader review below). I mean, this is just way cool writing. I enjoyed the whole review, but one line in it

[FairfieldLife] Re: Halfway Up the Mountain: The Error of Premature Claims to Enlightenment

2006-04-10 Thread anon_couscous_ff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I mean, this is just way cool writing. I enjoyed the whole review, but one line in it just cracked me right up and made me spit my kir all over my screen: This book seems to be reinforcing the laborious duality that

[FairfieldLife] Summer By The Pool Reading List (was Re: Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment)

2006-04-10 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anon_couscous_ff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0971435251/ref=pd_sim_b_1/104- 1423200-8312725?%5Fencoding=UTF8v=glancen=283155 I see too that Jed McKenna has a new book (new to me). Has anyone figured out who this guy is

[FairfieldLife] Summer By The Pool Reading List (was Re: Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment)

2006-04-10 Thread anon_couscous_ff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey couscous, I know we've had our disagreements and all, No problem with that. Every day is a new morning. but damned if you haven't made me buy two books in one day. :-) I am a secret rep for Amazon. :)

[FairfieldLife] Re: CBS Sunday Morning

2006-04-10 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I said to Lawson: TMer-bashing, gross dishonesty, and egregious hypocrisy. Thanks for proving my point, Barry. Just one small reminder to those who may have forgotten (because goodness knows, no one who remembers is

[FairfieldLife] Summer By The Pool Reading List (was Re: Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment)

2006-04-10 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip If anyone else has suggestions for really off the wall spiritual shit (you know what I'm like), post away. I really am looking for a summer's worth of cafe reading. Thanks in advance. http://tinyurl.com/rv33s

[FairfieldLife] Summer By The Pool Reading List (was Re: Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment)

2006-04-10 Thread anon_couscous_ff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: snip If anyone else has suggestions for really off the wall spiritual shit (you know what I'm like), post away. I really am looking for a summer's

[FairfieldLife] 1491

2006-04-10 Thread anon_couscous_ff
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/140004006X/sr=8-1/qid=1144693369/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-1423200-8312725?%5Fencoding=UTF8 This is one of the best, and most mind-blowing, myth shattering books that I have read in a while. (Available on audible.com) Editorial Reviews Amazon.com 1491 is not so much the

[FairfieldLife] Re: The story behind the photo of Swami Muktananda hugging Maharishi

2006-04-10 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anon_couscous_ff no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: I'm just reporting the experience of a fellow I once swapped what did

[FairfieldLife] Re: The story behind the photo of Swami Muktananda hugging Maharishi

2006-04-10 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer fairfieldlife@ wrote: on 4/10/06 9:04 AM, Michael Dean Goodman at Tantra@ wrote: Never

[FairfieldLife] Re: The story behind the photo of Swami Muktananda hugging Maharishi

2006-04-10 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anon_couscous_ff no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote:

[FairfieldLife] Re: The story behind the photo of Swami Muktananda hugging Maharishi

2006-04-10 Thread shempmcgurk
Thanks. Great recounting of something I heard about 30 years ago and always wanted to know more about! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Dean Goodman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Fairfield Lifers, In the past few days, someone posted a photo of Swami Muktananda hug-

[FairfieldLife] Re: The story behind the photo of Swami Muktananda hugging Maharishi

2006-04-10 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anon_couscous_ff no_reply@

[FairfieldLife] Re: The story behind the photo of Swami Muktananda hugging Maharishi

2006-04-10 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Like Rashomon, we all see and interpret situations from the way we want to see it. I have no problem whatsover with this statement. If that Muktananda follower was hanging around Barry and birds of a feather flock

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Straight Poop

2006-04-10 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anon_couscous_ff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I went to this fantastic new group the other night. Its called Neo- Poop. I highly recommend it. They give you the straight poop, right from the horses mouth, so to speak. Its lead by a guy named Poop-a-ji. His

[FairfieldLife] Re: The story behind the photo of Swami Muktananda hugging Maharishi

2006-04-10 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig sparaig@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig sparaig@ wrote: --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: The story behind the photo of Swami Muktananda hugging Maharishi

2006-04-10 Thread anon_couscous_ff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote:

[FairfieldLife] Re: The story behind the photo of Swami Muktananda hugging Maharishi

2006-04-10 Thread anon_couscous_ff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig sparaig@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Straight Poop

2006-04-10 Thread anon_couscous_ff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anon_couscous_ff no_reply@ wrote: I went to this fantastic new group the other night. Its called Neo- Poop. I highly recommend it. They give you the straight poop, right from

[FairfieldLife] Re: The story behind the photo of Swami Muktananda hugging Maharishi

2006-04-10 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anon_couscous_ff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk

[FairfieldLife] Re: The story behind the photo of Swami Muktananda hugging Maharishi

2006-04-10 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anon_couscous_ff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig sparaig@ wrote:

[FairfieldLife] Re: The story behind the photo of Swami Muktananda hugging Maharishi

2006-04-10 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: Maybe you had slept with the same women as Muktananda did... If so, none of them mentioned it to me. And when you think of it, not

[FairfieldLife] Re: The story behind the photo of Swami Muktananda hugging Maharishi

2006-04-10 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anon_couscous_ff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig sparaig@ wrote: ---

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The story behind the photo of Swami Muktananda hugging Maharishi

2006-04-10 Thread Rick Archer
on 4/10/06 1:56 PM, shempmcgurk at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If Yahoo! had a proper search engine like Googles advanced group search I could point you to the messages where she talked about it. Message 16650 and vicinity. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to:

[FairfieldLife] Re: The story behind the photo of Swami Muktananda hugging Maharishi

2006-04-10 Thread anon_couscous_ff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :-) Karen Blasdale, you silly fool! Who is she? A very nice, funny and hot early LA SIMS UCLA girl, a la 1966, who amongst other things, dated Elvis Presley, took a daily swim in the MIU Santa Barbara pool

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The story behind the photo of Swami Muktananda hugging Maharishi

2006-04-10 Thread Rick Archer
on 4/10/06 1:56 PM, shempmcgurk at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Karen Blasdale, you silly fool! Who is she? Very pretty and intelligent woman who did some of the early research on TM. Died of brain cancer a few years ago. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to:

[FairfieldLife] Re: The story behind the photo of Swami Muktananda hugging Maharishi

2006-04-10 Thread anon_couscous_ff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Who would play Auntie Entity? Rindy Schwartz? :-) Karen Blasdale, you silly fool! I defer to anoncouscousananda. When the man's right, he's right. Which is far more frequently than you can

[FairfieldLife] Re: The story behind the photo of Swami Muktananda hugging Maharishi

2006-04-10 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 4/10/06 1:56 PM, shempmcgurk at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If Yahoo! had a proper search engine like Googles advanced group search I could point you to the messages where she talked about it. Message 16650

[FairfieldLife] Re: The story behind the photo of Swami Muktananda hugging Maharishi

2006-04-10 Thread anon_couscous_ff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer fairfieldlife@ wrote: on 4/10/06 1:56 PM, shempmcgurk at shempmcgurk@ wrote: If Yahoo! had a proper search engine like Googles advanced group search I

[FairfieldLife] Re: The story behind the photo of Swami Muktananda hugging Maharishi

2006-04-10 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anon_couscous_ff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: :-) Karen Blasdale, you silly fool! Who is she? A very nice, funny and hot early LA SIMS UCLA girl, a la 1966, who amongst

[FairfieldLife] Re: The story behind the photo of Swami Muktananda hugging Maharishi

2006-04-10 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anon_couscous_ff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: Message 16650 and vicinity. Wow. That's like 80,000 messages ago! We talk alot. 40,000 were Sparaig's. 20,000 were judy

[FairfieldLife] Re: The story behind the photo of Swami Muktananda hugging Maharishi

2006-04-10 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig sparaig@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig sparaig@ wrote: --- In

Re: [FairfieldLife] Summer By The Pool Reading List (was Re: Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment)

2006-04-10 Thread Vaj
On Apr 10, 2006, at 1:48 PM, TurquoiseB wrote: If anyone else has suggestions for really off the wall spiritual shit (you know what I'm like), post away. I really am looking for a summer's worth of cafe reading. Thanks in advance. Sky Dancer : The Secret Life Songs of the Lady Yeshe

[FairfieldLife] Summer By The Pool Reading List (was Re: Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment)

2006-04-10 Thread TurquoiseB
Many thanks. Know the first two all too well already, will look into the other ones... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 10, 2006, at 1:48 PM, TurquoiseB wrote: If anyone else has suggestions for really off the wall spiritual shit (you know what

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The story behind the photo of Swami Muktananda hugging Maharishi

2006-04-10 Thread Vaj
On Apr 10, 2006, at 11:07 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 10, 2006, at 10:31 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: Muktananda supposedly said, quote: He seemed nice, but desperately in need of a hug. And maybe some shakipat? Maybe.

[FairfieldLife] Summer By The Pool Reading List (was Re: Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment)

2006-04-10 Thread anon_couscous_ff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 10, 2006, at 1:48 PM, TurquoiseB wrote: If anyone else has suggestions for really off the wall spiritual shit (you know what I'm like), post away. I really am looking for a summer's worth of cafe reading.

[FairfieldLife] Re: so called 'death'

2006-04-10 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anon_couscous_ff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anon_couscous_ff no_reply@ wrote: As i said previously, the breaking of IT into infinite flow

[FairfieldLife] we're pretty far down the river. Ain't it about time we decide where we're going

2006-04-10 Thread anon_couscous_ff
Davy Crockett: I've been doing some thinking. George Russel: Me, too. You know, we're pretty far down the river. Ain't it about time we decide where we're going? Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor

[FairfieldLife] Characteristics of Enlightenment

2006-04-10 Thread anon_couscous_ff
Davy Crockett: I'm half-horse, half-alligator and a little attached with snapping turtle. I've got the fastest horse, the prettiest sister, the surest rifle and the ugliest dog in Texas. My father can lick any man in Kentucky... and I can lick my father. I can hug a bear too close for comfort and

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