[FairfieldLife] Re: TM makes Wikipedia list of semi-protected articles

2006-06-18 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, peterklutz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suppose it could all be seen as an enlightening example of the down side of democracy - the leat intelligent and morally most corrupt common denominator sets the standard :-) Either that or a bunch of dueling egos

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM makes Wikipedia list of semi-protected articles

2006-06-18 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, peterklutz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd rather descirbe myself as the sole catalyst, though I'd prefer to think of it in terms of shining some light in a very dark place - with the result that a variety of nocturnal ? bugs in panic realized daybreak is

[FairfieldLife] B12, once again

2006-06-18 Thread cardemaister
(Jaan Suurküla [= big (suur) village (küla; cf. Sanskrit kula)] is an M.D. of apparently Estonian ancestry.) Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 14:51:32 +0200 (CEST) From: Jaan Suurkula [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: You may have vitamin B12-deficiency Introduction Dear Friends, B12 is very important for the

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM makes Wikipedia list of semi-protected articles

2006-06-18 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, peterklutz peterklutz@ wrote: I'd rather descirbe myself as the sole catalyst, though I'd prefer to think of it in terms of shining some light in a very dark place - with the

[FairfieldLife] There she BLowe's! (YFing mahole[?] cover?)

2006-06-18 Thread cardemaister
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[FairfieldLife] Re: TM makes Wikipedia list of semi-protected articles

2006-06-18 Thread peterklutz
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, peterklutz peterklutz@ wrote: I'd rather descirbe myself as the sole catalyst, though I'd prefer to think of it in terms of shining some light in a very dark place - with

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM makes Wikipedia list of semi-protected articles

2006-06-18 Thread peterklutz
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, peterklutz peterklutz@ wrote: I suppose it could all be seen as an enlightening example of the down side of democracy - the leat intelligent and morally most corrupt common

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM makes Wikipedia list of semi-protected articles

2006-06-18 Thread peterklutz
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, peterklutz peterklutz@ wrote: I'd rather descirbe myself as the sole catalyst, though I'd prefer to think

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM makes Wikipedia list of semi-protected articles

2006-06-18 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, peterklutz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, peterklutz peterklutz@ wrote: I'd

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM makes Wikipedia list of semi-protected articles

2006-06-18 Thread peterklutz
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, peterklutz peterklutz@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-18 Thread curtisdeltablues
Remember that old bone we were chewing on? Judy: The contradiction is that according to science, your constraints, your sense of exercising an act of will to overcome them, and your enjoyment of all that are all *determined*, because the behavior of the elementary particles that make your mind,

[FairfieldLife] Zen and the Art of Creating Rube Goldberg Devices

2006-06-18 Thread TurquoiseB
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[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-18 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Remember that old bone we were chewing on? Indeed I do. I just got back home, and almost the first thing I did was haul out Quantum Questions to reread the entire The 'I' That Is God essay from which I took the

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-18 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A great example of this was when he came here, sometime in the late 70s I think, he apparently made the offhand remark that someone's sari was really nice, or something to that effect. Next time he came--most of

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-18 Thread curtisdeltablues
Great points. Thanks for taking the time. I will take a little time to make sure I let them sink in. I can't resist this one to start: The irony is that if what you're calling the group 'I' is in fact the case, it means you are infinitely more than just the currently living bodymind called

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-18 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 6/15/06 10:58 AM, jim_flanegin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife% 40yahoogroups.com , curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: This is a frequent

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-18 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Great points. Thanks for taking the time. I will take a little time to make sure I let them sink in. I can't resist this one to start: The irony is that if what you're calling the group 'I' is in fact

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-18 Thread curtisdeltablues
With the caveat that expansion beyond limitations is an action more of ongoing comprehension and appreciation, I agree that it is the details that give sweetness to life (leading me to conclude that whoever said, the devil is in the details was the devil himself). It is pretty obvious to

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-18 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Great points. Thanks for taking the time. I will take a little time to make sure I let them sink in. I can't resist this one to start: The irony is that if what you're calling the group 'I' is in fact

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-18 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip This is so abstract it's hard to get across, but do you remember I said my experience of development of consciousness was one of increasing transparency? Part of that is that limitations become transparent.

[FairfieldLife] Do-it-yourself Star Trek

2006-06-18 Thread authfriend
From the New York Times; June 18, 2006 'Star Trek' Fans, Deprived of a Show, Recreate the Franchise on Digital Video By DANNY HAKIM MASON NECK STATE PARK, Va. — Paul Sieber was wearing a Star Trek uniform in the deep Virginia woods when he found himself surrounded by a leathery-looking

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-18 Thread curtisdeltablues
I can't resist suggesting that perhaps the concept that seemed so powerful and important *was itself limited* as it existed in your mind at the time, and that at a certain point you had grown beyond what it meant to you then--but for various reasons, instead of letting the concept expand along

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-18 Thread curtisdeltablues
Does this mean that I can take my time digitally adding you to the Holy Tradition portrait? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: snip This is so abstract it's hard to get across, but do

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-18 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't resist suggesting that perhaps the concept that seemed so powerful and important *was itself limited* as it existed in your mind at the time, and that at a certain point you had grown beyond what it

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-18 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does this mean that I can take my time digitally adding you to the Holy Tradition portrait? sheesh Yeah, I think you can back-burner it for the next few lives... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-18 Thread curtisdeltablues
OK. Whatever the basis for your leaving the movement, what I find curious is that the way you talk about what you say no longer appeals to you, it wouldn't appeal to me either. It seems sort of stunted and shallow and two-dimensional and colorless, just a lot of empty words. I will have to give

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-18 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] So much of what you said seems to be a natural pattern of growing up with our ideas whatever they are. I suspect that I am neither uniquely flawed nor gifted in intellectual awareness, in or out of TMO.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-18 Thread Vaj
On Jun 18, 2006, at 5:18 PM, sparaig wrote:--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] So much of what you said seems to be a natural pattern of growing up with our ideas whatever they are.  I suspect that I am neither uniquely flawed nor gifted in

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-18 Thread curtisdeltablues
Well, you also made it sound as though anyone and everyone in the TMO was a liar as Andrew Skolnick quoted you in his JAMA article: Are you a teacher? Is it news for you that people in the movement lie, especially to reporters? I was speaking about my experience. Is it different for you?

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-18 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 18, 2006, at 5:18 PM, sparaig wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: [...] So much of what you said seems to be a natural pattern of growing up with our

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-18 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, you also made it sound as though anyone and everyone in the TMO was a liar as Andrew Skolnick quoted you in his JAMA article: Are you a teacher? Is it news for you that people in the movement lie,

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-18 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, you also made it sound as though anyone and everyone in the TMO was a liar as Andrew Skolnick quoted you in his JAMA article: Are you a teacher? Is it news for you that people in the movement lie,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-18 Thread Vaj
On Jun 18, 2006, at 5:34 PM, curtisdeltablues wrote:"Well, you also made it sound as though anyone and everyone in the TMO was a liar as Andrew Skolnick quoted you in his JAMA article:" Are you a teacher?  Is it news for you that people in the movement lie, especially to reporters?  I was

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-18 Thread curtisdeltablues
No, I was not a researcher. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 18, 2006, at 5:34 PM, curtisdeltablues wrote: Well, you also made it sound as though anyone and everyone in the TMO was a liar as Andrew Skolnick quoted you in his JAMA article:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-18 Thread Vaj
Well, no I assumed you weren't. What I was asking was there any hint that some of the research had been "fudged" for PR purposes?On Jun 18, 2006, at 6:42 PM, curtisdeltablues wrote:No, I was not a researcher. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 18, 2006,

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-18 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: Great points. Thanks for taking the time. I will take a little time to make sure I let them sink in. I can't resist this one

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-18 Thread curtisdeltablues
Both statements are accurate to my experience. Protecting the group's more controversial beliefs from outsiders did not usually cause me conflict. The end justified the means. This point was important to Andrew because he couldn't understand how a person could willfully deceive JAMA about their

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-18 Thread curtisdeltablues
I can't think of any examples of that because I believed the research was valid. Since then I have read perspectives of the research that exposes the weaknesses, but while in the group I was not interested in this perspective at all. There was never a sincere commitment to the scientific method,

[FairfieldLife] Free Will, you only think you have it!

2006-06-18 Thread matrixmonitor
Thanks, previous contributors, for posting your respective opinions on the relationship between free will and determinism; a topic in a recent New Scientist article. Regarding the question as to whether the mind aspect to free will is or can be somehow separate from the determinism of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Free Will, you only think you have it!

2006-06-18 Thread matrixmonitor
---Forgot to paste in the paragraph. Here it is: Free will - you only think you have it 04 May 2006 Zeeya Merali Magazine issue 2550 Underneath the uncertainty of quantum mechanics could lie a deeper reality in which, shockingly, all our actions are predetermined WE MUST believe in free

[FairfieldLife] Re: Free Will, you only think you have it!

2006-06-18 Thread curtisdeltablues
Interesting, I would like to read the rest. Can you help me with the mind body question? In Essence, Buddhist is Naturalist but not necessarily materialist; but Buddhists are not inclined to separate mind from matter. Do they think of it like the traditions that posit a mental body? --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: Free Will, you only think you have it!

2006-06-18 Thread matrixmonitor
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues . Can you help me with the mind body question? In Essence, Buddhist is Naturalist but not necessarily materialist; but Buddhists are not inclined to separate mind from matter. Do they think of it like the traditions that posit a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Free Will, you only think you have it!

2006-06-18 Thread curtisdeltablues
Thanks man, that was really interesting. or, if one refers to the Judaic Hebrew texts (Ec: 9:5), the Soul IS the body, since when you're dead, you're in the grave, eaten by worms So now I'm Jewish above the waist too! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, matrixmonitor [EMAIL

[FairfieldLife] Converting analog audio to digital

2006-06-18 Thread Rick Archer
Title: Converting analog audio to digital Im taking tabla lessons and I record them. How can I patch a regular analog tape recorder into my Mac or PC so as to create mp3s of each separate rhythm Im studying? What hardware and software do I need? Would I be better off getting a digital tape

[FairfieldLife] Re: Converting analog audio to digital

2006-06-18 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I¹m taking tabla lessons and I record them. How can I patch a regular analog tape recorder into my Mac or PC so as to create mp3¹s of each separate rhythm I¹m studying? What hardware and software do I need? Would I be

[FairfieldLife] Re: Free Will, you only think you have it!

2006-06-18 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, matrixmonitor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I left the article at home and forgot my password, so I can only copy what's in the Newscientist website: the first paragraph. I sure would love it if you could copy in more when you have access to the article

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-18 Thread authfriend
Vaj wrote: What I was asking was there any hint that some of the research had been fudged for PR purposes? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't think of any examples of that because I believed the research was valid. Since then I have

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-18 Thread curtisdeltablues
There are actually quite a few factual inaccuracies in that earlier alt.m.t quote. Are there any of them you'd like to correct now? Nope. But thanks for asking. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vaj wrote: What I was asking was there any hint

[FairfieldLife] The Corruptibles!

2006-06-18 Thread Bhairitu
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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Converting analog audio to digital

2006-06-18 Thread Rick Archer
Title: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Converting analog audio to digital Thanks. I dont have an iPod and Id rather no buy one. Can I just go to Radio Shack and buy something that would let me patch my cheap tape recorder into my Mac or PC? If I accomplished that step, what software would I need to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Converting analog audio to digital

2006-06-18 Thread curtisdeltablues
I think you can use a line in cable that connects your headphone jack of your recorder, to the mic jack on your computer. You use your PC recorder to make a wave file. Most computer soundcards can record.It will be a wave file though so you need a converter if you need it to be MP3. But for

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Converting analog audio to digital

2006-06-18 Thread Rick Archer
Title: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Converting analog audio to digital on 6/18/06 10:42 PM, curtisdeltablues at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think you can use a line in cable that connects your headphone jack of your recorder, to the mic jack on your computer. You use your PC recorder to make a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Converting analog audio to digital

2006-06-18 Thread curtisdeltablues
Have you ever used the PC recorder from your built-in computer mic? The line in uses the same system. But is may be too short a recording for your needs. To split it up you do need some audio editing software. I use Sound Forge but that is overkill for your needs here. There must be some

[FairfieldLife] Re: Converting analog audio to digital

2006-06-18 Thread at_man_and_brahman
Get Amadeus, first off. Then, a quick-n-dirty a/d converter is the iMic. I use a superior Edirol UA-1A connected to a mixing board. On your Mac, create a new user that has no haxies running. Run Amadeus from that personality so that your hard drive is as unbusy as possible while you are