[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Does Shri Shri Ravi Shankar/Sell Techniques of Maharishi Maheshi Yogi?
SriSri gives chanting "Om" to one and all. Incompatible. In his meditation practice you DON'T always come back to the mantra if you are aware you aren't doing it. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > --- shukra69 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > A friend of mine has taken the whole SRI SRI > > program. it is > > incompatable with Maharishi's teaching. > > Well, I've actually taken and practice the whole of > SSRS's program along with my TM and TM siddhis program > and it is completely compatable with MMY's program. > You don't know what you're talking about. > > __ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > 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 your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Brahma-sthaana of Sweden!
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[FairfieldLife] Re: Email I just sent to an old friend who's trying to get me in the dome.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "nablus108" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gerbal88 wrote: > > > > > > Marek, Shemp, Rick, Robert ... I hope you are right, that Guru Dev's > > > demise was a natural one. Still, why would such a rumour start if > > > this was, indeed, the case. It is very much like the death of > > > > Reportedly heavy metals/toxins where found in his body. Not surpising > > if they had given him indian medicines. > > > > Generally, heavy metal poisoning takes months and years to kill you. According to my information SBS died of cancer. Apparently this is a method for leaving the body that happens to many saints. 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 your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Totalitarianism in the Dome'
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thank you for reproducing it, Robert. > > I read the entire thing and I am of two minds. > > One says that, hey, that's the Movement and in this year 2006 why > would she be so surprised that they are acting like this? This mind > says, yes, she SHOULD have lied. > > The other mind is angry that the movement does not respect its basic > tenet that you can practise any religion and still practise TM...and > visiting saints and doing all these other techniques are > religions...and as long as the people in the dome do the dome > practise, what's the harm? Well, y'know, dome practice is more than TM and the deal with TM doesn't hold with the TM- sidhis, and it was made clear that that was the case when you first learned or it was clear when *I* first learned. 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 your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: 'The Fairfield Domes/Belong To Everyone'
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert Gimbel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I remember when the domes were built; > The finest wood from Oregon was cut; > Hundreds of dedicated workers trudged in the cold winter mud; > Beam by beam it took shape; > > Maharishi came to dedicate the men's dome, the first dome; > When it was almost completed; > It was the dead of an Iowan winter and very cold and windy; > As we waited for Maharishi to leave frat 114, and bless the dome. > The pundits were shivering in the crisp, cold air, by the time Maharishi > finally showed. > He blessed the dome for all, and for all generations to come. > > I'm not sure how a handful of people got control of the dome; > And decided to keep certain people out. > I always thought the TM movement's intention was to create Unity. > This doesn't make sense; > When the intention of the movement change to: > To elitism, and separatism? > R.G. The lesser seperation is the banning of the followers of the other gurus. The greater separation is that the followers of theother gurus are pretending to still practice MMY's techniques. 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 your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Hoi Rick Archer,,, Past Life Regression.???
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > --- authfriend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I had a roommate once years ago who was very into > > New Age stuff, particularly reincarnation. She went > > weekly to consult a spiritualist and would come home > > bursting to share with me the past lives the > > spiritualist had told her about--a court fool to > > Henry IV, a slave girl of Cleopatra, the father of > > Patrick Henry, one of Walt Whitman's lovers (male), > > etc., etc. > > > > One day I asked her, "Did she tell you about your > > life as Benjamin Franklin's illegitimate daughter?" > > > > Her jaw dropped. "No, she didn't," she said. "I > > wonder > > why not? Maybe she didn't want me to know about > > that > > one for some reason. I'll have to ask her next > > time." > > I can only see the value of farting around with past > lives is not in the intellectual understanding of > them, but the unstressing of samskaras that they have > created and that are carried on in the chitta. Other > than that, who cares. > New translation of the relevant Yoga Sutra verse: by the time they are perfected in the relative, they are obstacles to samadhi... 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 your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Totalitarianism in the Dome'
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robert Gimbel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "My Dome Rejection" From Shiva Ma Ryan > > > FWD:From Shiva Ma Ryan, "My Dome Rejection" > Please share this letter I wrote to John Hagelin with anyone you > think > may benefit from it. > All Love, > Shiva Ma > > My Dome rejection > > Shiva Ma Ryan to John Hagelin > > Reading Post # 108732, was really disturbing; > What gives someone the right, to manipulate another like this. > I'm sure it's not the fault of Jeff Cohen, as he is 'Just following > orders'. > Orders sound more like Bevan's policy. > Anyway, it just reminds me of a totalitarian state, or a Facist > regime, or something not good. > No wonder the atmostphere, is not as it could be. > Stiffled and compressed; fear mongering, and control. > Why, is the only question to ask? why? > The screening process worked quite well in her case... 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 your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: "My Dome Rejection" From Shiva Ma Ryan
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "dhamiltony2k5" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > FWD:From Shiva Ma Ryan, "My Dome Rejection" > Please share this letter I wrote to John Hagelin with anyone you > think > may benefit from it. > All Love, > Shiva Ma > > My Dome rejection Er, a total nutcase, IMHO. 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 your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: 'The Fairfield Domes/Belong To Everyone'
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert Gimbel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I remember when the domes were built; > The finest wood from Oregon was cut; > Hundreds of dedicated workers trudged in the cold winter mud; > Beam by beam it took shape; > > Maharishi came to dedicate the men's dome, the first dome; > When it was almost completed; > It was the dead of an Iowan winter and very cold and windy; > As we waited for Maharishi to leave frat 114, and bless the dome. > The pundits were shivering in the crisp, cold air, by the time Maharishi finally showed. > He blessed the dome for all, and for all generations to come. > > I'm not sure how a handful of people got control of the dome; > And decided to keep certain people out. > I always thought the TM movement's intention was to create Unity. > This doesn't make sense; > When the intention of the movement change to: > To elitism, and separatism? ...oh, around 1972... > R.G. > > > > > - > Do you Yahoo!? > Next-gen email? Have it all with the all-new Yahoo! Mail Beta. > 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 your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Totalitarianism in the Dome'
Thank you for reproducing it, Robert. I read the entire thing and I am of two minds. One says that, hey, that's the Movement and in this year 2006 why would she be so surprised that they are acting like this? This mind says, yes, she SHOULD have lied. The other mind is angry that the movement does not respect its basic tenet that you can practise any religion and still practise TM...and visiting saints and doing all these other techniques are religions...and as long as the people in the dome do the dome practise, what's the harm? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robert Gimbel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" > wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robert Gimbel" > > wrote: > > > > > > "My Dome Rejection" From Shiva Ma Ryan > > > > > > > > > FWD:From Shiva Ma Ryan, "My Dome Rejection" > > > Please share this letter I wrote to John Hagelin with anyone you > > > think > > > may benefit from it. > > > All Love, > > > Shiva Ma > > > > > > My Dome rejection > > > > > > Shiva Ma Ryan to John Hagelin > > > > > > Reading Post # 108732 > was really disturbing; > > > What gives someone the right, to manipulate another like this. > > > I'm sure it's not the fault of Jeff Cohen, as he is 'Just > > following > > > orders'. > > > Orders sound more like Bevan's policy. > > > Anyway, it just reminds me of a totalitarian state, or a Facist > > > regime, or something not good. > > > No wonder the atmostphere, is not as it could be. > > > Stiffled and compressed; fear mongering, and control. > > > Why, is the only question to ask? why? > > > > ***I can't get no satisfaction > > post # 108732 has no letter in it. > > > ***> Sorry the post # was 108731, but here it is: > "My Dome Rejection" From Shiva Ma Ryan > > > > *** FWD:From Shiva Ma Ryan, "My Dome Rejection" > Please share this letter I wrote to John Hagelin with anyone you > think > may benefit from it. > All Love, > Shiva Ma > > My Dome rejection > > Shiva Ma Ryan to John Hagelin > > Aug 2 (5 days ago) > > Dear John, > I was told to e-mail you if I had any trouble getting accepted at the > dome. Hence this letter to you, because I have been faced with one of > the most difficult choices of my life. John will you PLEASE share > this > letter with Maharishi, as I want Him to know "THE REAL TRUTH" about > what has happened in Fairfield. Please read everything I have written > in this e-mail John, I have tried to be as honest and as "TRUTHFUL" > as > I can. I also have suggestions at the end of this e-mail, that may > benefit EVERYONE! > > When I applied for the course, I was told I would need more time to > be > processed. I knew I probably would not get an immediate acceptance, > because a few years ago I applied and was asked if I practiced any > techniques other than Maharishi's. I went to India with a GREAT saint > from Asam, India, Shree Maa, in 1999, and I told the man questioning > me "I had experienced EVERYTHING that India had to offer, and that > what I learned in private, I kept private. I had asked the question > to > over 600 people that I initiated, back in the seventies: "Everything > we learn in private, we keep private. Do you agree?" This answer > seemed the most truthful and appropriate to me, yet I was not > accepted then for the dome. > > This past Saturday July 29th, I was encouraged by my sister and > brother-in law and several friends at a birthday party, that I should > apply now for the dome, because they were accepting EVERYONE! > Regardless of past associations with saints or other techniques, I > was > told EVERYONE was WELCOME BACK!!! The words "All sins would be > forgiven" were used. Those words deeply pinched my heart. I have > never > considered spending time with Fully Awakened Divine Beings a sin. I > have been incredibly fortunate to travel with many saints over the > last twelve years. Each ONE I always experienced as MAHARISHI. Each > ONE, that I was BLESSED by, deepened my INCREDIBLE LOVE, RESPECT and > ETERNAL GRATITUDE to Maharishi for all that He had given me in the > past. Maharishi was my FIRST GURU!!! Yet Maharishi became > inaccessible to me. The last time I saw Him was at The 7000 Course in > 1983. My heart was longing for him, So I felt that one by one He > started sending different saints to BLESS ME!!! Over the years, I > have received the GRACE and BLESSINGS from over 15 different saints > that have visited Fairfield since 1997. In 1994 my first GREAT > BLESSING was from MOTHER MEERA, in Germany. She changed my life > forever... I have had the GREAT fortune of traveling with many of > these DIVINE BEINGS. I am so GRATEFUL for the Love and Grace I have > been given from these PURE DIVINE MANIFESTATIONS of Gods and > Goddess's. > > I want to offer my HUMBLEST GRATITUDE to Maharishi for always > remaining in my HEART of HEARTS, since November 19, 1971. I will be > in > HIS ETERNAL DEBT for the GRACE
Re: [FairfieldLife] 'The Fairfield Domes/Belong To Everyone'
Title: Re: [FairfieldLife] 'The Fairfield Domes/Belong To Everyone' on 8/7/06 11:59 PM, Robert Gimbel at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maharishi came to dedicate the men's dome, the first dome; When it was almost completed; It was the dead of an Iowan winter and very cold and windy; As we waited for Maharishi to leave frat 114, and bless the dome. The pundits were shivering in the crisp, cold air, by the time Maharishi finally showed. SSRS was one of those pundits. He wasn’t shivering though, because he had a heater blowing on him. __._,_.___ 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 Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___
[FairfieldLife] 'The Fairfield Domes/Belong To Everyone'
I remember when the domes were built; The finest wood from Oregon was cut; Hundreds of dedicated workers trudged in the cold winter mud; Beam by beam it took shape; Maharishi came to dedicate the men's dome, the first dome; When it was almost completed; It was the dead of an Iowan winter and very cold and windy; As we waited for Maharishi to leave frat 114, and bless the dome. The pundits were shivering in the crisp, cold air, by the time Maharishi finally showed. He blessed the dome for all, and for all generations to come. I'm not sure how a handful of people got control of the dome; And decided to keep certain people out. I always thought the TM movement's intention was to create Unity. This doesn't make sense; When the intention of the movement change to: To elitism, and separatism? R.G. Do you Yahoo!? Next-gen email? Have it all with the all-new Yahoo! Mail Beta. __._,_.___ 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 Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___
[FairfieldLife] Re: Hoi Rick Archer,,, Past Life Regression.???
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > --- authfriend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I had a roommate once years ago who was very into > > New Age stuff, particularly reincarnation. She went > > weekly to consult a spiritualist and would come home > > bursting to share with me the past lives the > > spiritualist had told her about--a court fool to > > Henry IV, a slave girl of Cleopatra, the father of > > Patrick Henry, one of Walt Whitman's lovers (male), > > etc., etc. > > > > One day I asked her, "Did she tell you about your > > life as Benjamin Franklin's illegitimate daughter?" > > > > Her jaw dropped. "No, she didn't," she said. "I > > wonder > > why not? Maybe she didn't want me to know about > > that > > one for some reason. I'll have to ask her next > > time." > > I can only see the value of farting around with past > lives is not in the intellectual understanding of > them, but the unstressing of samskaras that they have > created and that are carried on in the chitta. Other > than that, who cares. Seems to me it doesn't make much sense to go looking for 'em--especially through someone else's eyes!--but if they come looking for you, it's probably a good idea to at least give 'em a chance to tell you something of value. 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 your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Hoi Rick Archer,,, Past Life Regression.???
--- authfriend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had a roommate once years ago who was very into > New Age stuff, particularly reincarnation. She went > weekly to consult a spiritualist and would come home > bursting to share with me the past lives the > spiritualist had told her about--a court fool to > Henry IV, a slave girl of Cleopatra, the father of > Patrick Henry, one of Walt Whitman's lovers (male), > etc., etc. > > One day I asked her, "Did she tell you about your > life as Benjamin Franklin's illegitimate daughter?" > > Her jaw dropped. "No, she didn't," she said. "I > wonder > why not? Maybe she didn't want me to know about > that > one for some reason. I'll have to ask her next > time." I can only see the value of farting around with past lives is not in the intellectual understanding of them, but the unstressing of samskaras that they have created and that are carried on in the chitta. Other than that, who cares. > > > > > > > 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 > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com 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 your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Totalitarianism in the Dome'
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "hyperbolicgeometry" > wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" > > wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robert Gimbel" > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > "My Dome Rejection" From Shiva Ma Ryan > > > > > > > > > > > > FWD:From Shiva Ma Ryan, "My Dome Rejection" > > > > Please share this letter I wrote to John Hagelin with anyone > you > > > > think > > > > may benefit from it. > > > > All Love, > > > > Shiva Ma > > > > > > > > My Dome rejection > > > > > > > > Shiva Ma Ryan to John Hagelin > > > > > > > > Reading Post # 108732, was really disturbing; > > > > What gives someone the right, to manipulate another like this. > > > > I'm sure it's not the fault of Jeff Cohen, as he is 'Just > > > following > > > > orders'. > > > > Orders sound more like Bevan's policy. > > > > Anyway, it just reminds me of a totalitarian state, or a > Facist > > > > regime, or something not good. > > > > No wonder the atmostphere, is not as it could be. > > > > Stiffled and compressed; fear mongering, and control. > > > > Why, is the only question to ask? why? > > > > > > > Her tiny little ego is just crying out to continue its illusion > > > of 'staying alive', in the face of its pending annihilation. Not > a > > > bad thing really.. > > . > > >rephrase the above: "The TMO ego is just crying out to continue > its > > illusion of "staying alive" in the face of its pending > annihilation. > > Not a bad thing, really..." > > Rest in Peace, TMO...it's about time!...upon its well-deserved > > demise, such people (as the contributor in question) will feel no > > misgivings since attachments to the TMO...(and whatever entities > that > > entails: the dome, MMY, Bevan, tweaked statistics, dishonesty...), > > will conveniently no longer exist. Poof! Cheshire cat gone. > > abilsincludilias the conpeo0pl final > > > > and so the TMO's 'transgressions' grow stronger in your awareness, > eh? Exactly the opposite of what you wanted... ***Well, you could look at it another way: It could just be the 'ego's last stand', In other words, when something is about to fall, or end; It comes out almost exagerrated; So, this exaggerated behaviour, on both the woman's part, who wrote the letter; And the exagerrated response from the representative of the movement sounds so absurd, that it will 'fall under it's own weight', so to speak; Whenever a behavior pattern shifts, or any pattern for that matter; it seems to rear it's ugly head, greater than ever; And then seems to just collapse under it's own falsity, exposed. So, perhaps, this is what is happening not just here; In this example of the movement, and the politics of the movement. But in the politics,and political leadership, in all systems around the world. So, interesting, and transformation times we live in. But the main thing is: Not to be afraid to challenge this old power structure; As it appears weak and ready to fall. R.G. 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 your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Totalitarianism in the Dome'
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robert Gimbel" > wrote: > > > > "My Dome Rejection" From Shiva Ma Ryan > > > > > > FWD:From Shiva Ma Ryan, "My Dome Rejection" > > Please share this letter I wrote to John Hagelin with anyone you > > think > > may benefit from it. > > All Love, > > Shiva Ma > > > > My Dome rejection > > > > Shiva Ma Ryan to John Hagelin > > > > Reading Post # 108732 was really disturbing; > > What gives someone the right, to manipulate another like this. > > I'm sure it's not the fault of Jeff Cohen, as he is 'Just > following > > orders'. > > Orders sound more like Bevan's policy. > > Anyway, it just reminds me of a totalitarian state, or a Facist > > regime, or something not good. > > No wonder the atmostphere, is not as it could be. > > Stiffled and compressed; fear mongering, and control. > > Why, is the only question to ask? why? > > ***I can't get no satisfaction post # 108732 has no letter in it. ***> Sorry the post # was 108731, but here it is: "My Dome Rejection" From Shiva Ma Ryan *** FWD:From Shiva Ma Ryan, "My Dome Rejection" Please share this letter I wrote to John Hagelin with anyone you think may benefit from it. All Love, Shiva Ma My Dome rejection Shiva Ma Ryan to John Hagelin Aug 2 (5 days ago) Dear John, I was told to e-mail you if I had any trouble getting accepted at the dome. Hence this letter to you, because I have been faced with one of the most difficult choices of my life. John will you PLEASE share this letter with Maharishi, as I want Him to know "THE REAL TRUTH" about what has happened in Fairfield. Please read everything I have written in this e-mail John, I have tried to be as honest and as "TRUTHFUL" as I can. I also have suggestions at the end of this e-mail, that may benefit EVERYONE! When I applied for the course, I was told I would need more time to be processed. I knew I probably would not get an immediate acceptance, because a few years ago I applied and was asked if I practiced any techniques other than Maharishi's. I went to India with a GREAT saint from Asam, India, Shree Maa, in 1999, and I told the man questioning me "I had experienced EVERYTHING that India had to offer, and that what I learned in private, I kept private. I had asked the question to over 600 people that I initiated, back in the seventies: "Everything we learn in private, we keep private. Do you agree?" This answer seemed the most truthful and appropriate to me, yet I was not accepted then for the dome. This past Saturday July 29th, I was encouraged by my sister and brother-in law and several friends at a birthday party, that I should apply now for the dome, because they were accepting EVERYONE! Regardless of past associations with saints or other techniques, I was told EVERYONE was WELCOME BACK!!! The words "All sins would be forgiven" were used. Those words deeply pinched my heart. I have never considered spending time with Fully Awakened Divine Beings a sin. I have been incredibly fortunate to travel with many saints over the last twelve years. Each ONE I always experienced as MAHARISHI. Each ONE, that I was BLESSED by, deepened my INCREDIBLE LOVE, RESPECT and ETERNAL GRATITUDE to Maharishi for all that He had given me in the past. Maharishi was my FIRST GURU!!! Yet Maharishi became inaccessible to me. The last time I saw Him was at The 7000 Course in 1983. My heart was longing for him, So I felt that one by one He started sending different saints to BLESS ME!!! Over the years, I have received the GRACE and BLESSINGS from over 15 different saints that have visited Fairfield since 1997. In 1994 my first GREAT BLESSING was from MOTHER MEERA, in Germany. She changed my life forever... I have had the GREAT fortune of traveling with many of these DIVINE BEINGS. I am so GRATEFUL for the Love and Grace I have been given from these PURE DIVINE MANIFESTATIONS of Gods and Goddess's. I want to offer my HUMBLEST GRATITUDE to Maharishi for always remaining in my HEART of HEARTS, since November 19, 1971. I will be in HIS ETERNAL DEBT for the GRACE HE SHOWERED upon me over and over again throughout all these years. JAI GURU DEV MAHARISHI! I LOVE YOU SO MUCH. At the course office, Jeff Cohen was so sweet and kind to me on the phone, going over the guidelines for acceptance for the course. However the words he used when telling me what I needed to do, to get my badge, still penetrate me like millions of daggers in my HEART. I have not been able to shake them. {Please ask Maharishi to help me with this.} He said I would be able to get my badge if: "I SEVERED any connection I had with any saints and SEVERED the use of any techniques that they had taught me, and that I would NEVER establish a connection with them again or practice any other techniques other than Maharishi's, EVER AGAIN. And that I had to put all of this in writing, promising that I would do this. For GOD'S SAKE,
[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Totalitarianism in the Dome'
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "hyperbolicgeometry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" > wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robert Gimbel" > > wrote: > > > > > > "My Dome Rejection" From Shiva Ma Ryan > > > > > > > > > FWD:From Shiva Ma Ryan, "My Dome Rejection" > > > Please share this letter I wrote to John Hagelin with anyone you > > > think > > > may benefit from it. > > > All Love, > > > Shiva Ma > > > > > > My Dome rejection > > > > > > Shiva Ma Ryan to John Hagelin > > > > > > Reading Post # 108732, was really disturbing; > > > What gives someone the right, to manipulate another like this. > > > I'm sure it's not the fault of Jeff Cohen, as he is 'Just > > following > > > orders'. > > > Orders sound more like Bevan's policy. > > > Anyway, it just reminds me of a totalitarian state, or a Facist > > > regime, or something not good. > > > No wonder the atmostphere, is not as it could be. > > > Stiffled and compressed; fear mongering, and control. > > > Why, is the only question to ask? why? > > > > > Her tiny little ego is just crying out to continue its illusion > > of 'staying alive', in the face of its pending annihilation. Not a > > bad thing really.. > . > >rephrase the above: "The TMO ego is just crying out to continue its > illusion of "staying alive" in the face of its pending annihilation. > Not a bad thing, really..." > Rest in Peace, TMO...it's about time!...upon its well-deserved > demise, such people (as the contributor in question) will feel no > misgivings since attachments to the TMO...(and whatever entities that > entails: the dome, MMY, Bevan, tweaked statistics, dishonesty...), > will conveniently no longer exist. Poof! Cheshire cat gone. > abilsincludilias the conpeo0pl final > and so the TMO's 'transgressions' grow stronger in your awareness, eh? Exactly the opposite of what you wanted... 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 your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Totalitarianism in the Dome'
--- hyperbolicgeometry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > . > >rephrase the above: "The TMO ego is just crying out > to continue its > illusion of "staying alive" in the face of its > pending annihilation. > Not a bad thing, really..." > Rest in Peace, TMO...it's about time!...upon its > well-deserved > demise, such people (as the contributor in question) > will feel no > misgivings since attachments to the TMO...(and > whatever entities that > entails: the dome, MMY, Bevan, tweaked statistics, > dishonesty...), > will conveniently no longer exist. Poof! Cheshire > cat gone. > abilsincludilias the conpeo0pl final And that is MMY's master plan! A total collapse of everything into nothingness. No attachments, just pure shiva. > > > > > > > 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 > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com 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 your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [FairfieldLife] "My Dome Rejection" From Shiva Ma Ryan
This is really wonderful, in one great cosmic sense. Horrible for the ego though! The demons and the devas are churning the cosmic ocean to bring forth soma. What a crazy gift MMY/Shree Ma are giving her. What is she to do? I don't have a clue. But all kinds of gifts come from that cosmic ocean. But first her mind has to come to a full stop. No defense of any position. She needs to surrender to the Divine in all its crazy form so only the pure intent of her bhakti is left. --- dhamiltony2k5 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FWD:From Shiva Ma Ryan, "My Dome Rejection" > Please share this letter I wrote to John Hagelin > with anyone you > think > may benefit from it. > All Love, > Shiva Ma > > My Dome rejection > > Shiva Ma Ryan to John Hagelin > > Aug 2 (5 days ago) > > Dear John, > I was told to e-mail you if I had any trouble > getting accepted at the > dome. Hence this letter to you, because I have been > faced with one of > the most difficult choices of my life. John will you > PLEASE share > this > letter with Maharishi, as I want Him to know "THE > REAL TRUTH" about > what has happened in Fairfield. Please read > everything I have written > in this e-mail John, I have tried to be as honest > and as "TRUTHFUL" > as > I can. I also have suggestions at the end of this > e-mail, that may > benefit EVERYONE! > > When I applied for the course, I was told I would > need more time to > be > processed. I knew I probably would not get an > immediate acceptance, > because a few years ago I applied and was asked if I > practiced any > techniques other than Maharishi's. I went to India > with a GREAT saint > from Asam, India, Shree Maa, in 1999, and I told the > man questioning > me "I had experienced EVERYTHING that India had to > offer, and that > what I learned in private, I kept private. I had > asked the question > to > over 600 people that I initiated, back in the > seventies: "Everything > we learn in private, we keep private. Do you agree?" > This answer > seemed the most truthful and appropriate to me, yet > I was not > accepted then for the dome. > > This past Saturday July 29th, I was encouraged by my > sister and > brother-in law and several friends at a birthday > party, that I should > apply now for the dome, because they were accepting > EVERYONE! > Regardless of past associations with saints or other > techniques, I > was > told EVERYONE was WELCOME BACK!!! The words "All > sins would be > forgiven" were used. Those words deeply pinched my > heart. I have > never > considered spending time with Fully Awakened Divine > Beings a sin. I > have been incredibly fortunate to travel with many > saints over the > last twelve years. Each ONE I always experienced as > MAHARISHI. Each > ONE, that I was BLESSED by, deepened my INCREDIBLE > LOVE, RESPECT and > ETERNAL GRATITUDE to Maharishi for all that He had > given me in the > past. Maharishi was my FIRST GURU!!! Yet Maharishi > became > inaccessible to me. The last time I saw Him was at > The 7000 Course in > 1983. My heart was longing for him, So I felt that > one by one He > started sending different saints to BLESS ME!!! > Over the years, I > have received the GRACE and BLESSINGS from over 15 > different saints > that have visited Fairfield since 1997. In 1994 my > first GREAT > BLESSING was from MOTHER MEERA, in Germany. She > changed my life > forever... I have had the GREAT fortune of traveling > with many of > these DIVINE BEINGS. I am so GRATEFUL for the Love > and Grace I have > been given from these PURE DIVINE MANIFESTATIONS of > Gods and > Goddess's. > > I want to offer my HUMBLEST GRATITUDE to Maharishi > for always > remaining in my HEART of HEARTS, since November 19, > 1971. I will be > in > HIS ETERNAL DEBT for the GRACE HE SHOWERED upon me > over and over > again > throughout all these years. JAI GURU DEV MAHARISHI! > I LOVE YOU SO > MUCH. > > At the course office, Jeff Cohen was so sweet and > kind to me on the > phone, going over the guidelines for acceptance for > the course. > However the words he used when telling me what I > needed to do, to get > my badge, still penetrate me like millions of > daggers in my HEART. I > have not been able to shake them. {Please ask > Maharishi to help me > with this.} He said I would be able to get my badge > if: "I SEVERED > any connection I had with any saints and SEVERED the > use of any > techniques that they had taught me, and that I would > NEVER establish > a > connection with them again or practice any other > techniques other > than > Maharishi's, EVER AGAIN. And that I had to put all > of this in > writing, > promising that I would do this. For GOD'S SAKE, How > in the name of > WHOLENESS! ONENESS! DIVINITY! and SELF REALIZATION! > could I promise > that My SOUL WOULD NEVER ALLOW THAT > I could have lied and said anything that Jeff wanted > to hear, got my > badge, and no one would have known. THAT IS NOT ME, > THAT IS NOT HOW I > REPRESENT TRU
[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Totalitarianism in the Dome'
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robert Gimbel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "My Dome Rejection" From Shiva Ma Ryan > > > FWD:From Shiva Ma Ryan, "My Dome Rejection" > Please share this letter I wrote to John Hagelin with anyone you > think > may benefit from it. > All Love, > Shiva Ma > > My Dome rejection > > Shiva Ma Ryan to John Hagelin > > Reading Post # 108732 I can't get no satisfaction. post # 108732 has no letter in it. >, was really disturbing; > What gives someone the right, to manipulate another like this. > I'm sure it's not the fault of Jeff Cohen, as he is 'Just following > orders'. > Orders sound more like Bevan's policy. > Anyway, it just reminds me of a totalitarian state, or a Facist > regime, or something not good. > No wonder the atmostphere, is not as it could be. > Stiffled and compressed; fear mongering, and control. > Why, is the only question to ask? why? > 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 your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] [was Re: Number of people learning TM ] Vaj's trap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My favorite was the lingum out of the mouth trick. He wasn't even > trying on that one and everyone seemed so pleased with what he did. > Plus it was about a 10 on the gaydar scale! I love watching the crowd as he does the manifestations. They are so taken with him! > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Mason" > wrote: > > > > I completely agree that if Sai Baba has made the abuses of power he > > is accused of, then he deserves to be exposed. I have long sought > > good close-up footage of Sai handing out vibhuti, and today I have > > been able to study a variety of video clips, and I am very glad for > > this opportunity. Many thanks to whoever obtained this data and made > > it available! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning > > wrote: > > > > > > A red flag for "spin" goes up, perhaps undjusifiably so, for > > > statements like " already known for their involvement in trying to > > > bring about the public ridicule of another prominent Indian." > > > > > > On the surface, he sounds like quite the rogue. On second thought, > > do > > > all prominent indians deserve shielding if they have done some > > > un-noble things? Is someone known for their involvement in trying > > to > > > bring about the public exposure of such un-nobles necessarily a bad > > > person? > > > > > > If it was Conny Larsson, collecting mail for Linda Williams Pierce - > > - > > > who is apparently quite sick and may have others hadling her mail -- > > > then perhaps that is quite a noble thing. Apparently Conny directly > > > witnessed (and experienced?) abuses by Sai Baba -- and is > > dedicating a > > > lot of time and resources to education others about the potential > > > downside of involment with SB. Not a bad thing, is it? > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Mason" > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > I do not enter the suspicion of a conspiracy theory lightly, but > > > > whilst trying to contact one of the women I found my email to her > > > > being answered by someone already known for their involvement in > > > > trying to bring about the public ridicule of another prominent > > Indian. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Mason" > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > ... and the stories have sounded no more clear as time has > > gone > > > > > > on. > > > > > > > > > > To me, and this is not universal, I knew or was on courses with > > most > > > > > of the people in SS. To me, most were credible as people. > > Different > > > > > than say, if SS were written by strangers, or worse, the top 10 > > > > > posters on FFL. And SS collaborated explicit things I had > > heard 25 > > > > > years earlier. Thus, SS files was perhaps more credible for me > > than > > > > > for you. > > > > > > > > > > > Now to assume MMY's 'guilt' on the basis of third-hand > > material > > > > > > is very faulty. > > > > > > > > > > Its odd, to me, how people wrap "extra stuff" around more simple > > > > > events. "Guilt" ? I know you use the term loosely, but there is > > no > > > > i) > > > > > legal, and most would argue no ii) moral crime here. It may be > > an > > > > iii) > > > > > ethical abuse (younger women) but I don't buy that. Jennifer > > was, > > > > > based on her attendance at my TTC the year before, and > > appearances, > > > > > probably 23-24 at the time of her "reading mail" to MMY. > > (Though she > > > > > was was probably not mistaken as 'the chosen one' as Tom > > apparently > > > > > thought he was). > > > > > > > > > > And she, while graceful and refined, IMO, is not someone I > > would > > > > have > > > > > termed as sheltered or naive. Demure perhaps. Adults do things, > > are > > > > > responsible for their choices -- even if they regret them > > later, > > > > and > > > > > are ill-effected by them. > > > > > > > > > > Perhaps it was iv) an abuse of power -- teacher / student -- I > > have > > > > > argued that in the past -- but have recanted some. When pants > > are > > > > > down, or dhotis and dresses on the floor, power dynamics may > > > > diminish > > > > > -- or reverse, wobble, and occilate -- who has power over whom > > when > > > > > nakedness befalls? > > > > > > > > > > So who (what crazy bastards :) ) is "assuming guilt" when, at > > least > > > > > IMO, guilt is a non-issue? A more corect rendering of your > > sentence > > > > > would be, IMO, " Now to assume the truth of the allegations on > > the > > > > > basis of third-hand material is very faulty. " > > > > > > > > > > Well, even then, there is a case being made by SS, see my > > comments > > > > > above on credible sources. But mor
[FairfieldLife] Re: Hoi Rick Archer,,, Past Life Regression.???
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > --- Jason Spock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Sir Rick Archer, I found this comment in > > another forum. What is your opinion on this.?? > > > >"" I find it amusing that everyone who > > 'regresses' to a past life seems to have led an > > exciting existence as a nobleman, diplomat, > > courtesan, soldier, pirate, painter, musician, etc. > > Nobody ever seems to discover that they were a > > filthy ignorant peasant who led a dreary, brutal > > life and died of an infected cut at the age of 28. > drummer> Makes ya wonder what happened to the souls of > all > > those slaves who built the pyramids and such."" > > SSRS has a procedure called the "Eternity > Process" that is done on a one to one basis with > someone trained by him in the process. You > experientially allow yourself to "unstress" specific > samskaras from past lives. I did it about 2 years ago. > Very interesing process. You're not hypnotized and no > content suggestions are made to you. And by the way, I > happened to be one of those slaves that built the > pyramids, Congratulations. You're the first person I've ever heard relate a past live experience in which the past life wasn't a King or an emperor or someone special, like Abraham Lincoln. A lowly slave? How pedestrian of you... > but I fell off one of the blocks and > fractured my skull and died. I was 18. At least it was > in my chitta. Another interesting thing was to > experience various people that I'm related too today > popping up in various guises in different past lives. > For instance, in a a past life in Norway in the mid > 1800's my youngest daughter is now my wife and my > oldest son is now my father. In that life he drowned > at about the age of 10. Now, is all this true and > actually past lives. I don't have a clue, but it is > amazing at all the naratives the unrole in the > awareness with this process. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > - > > See the all-new, redesigned Yahoo.com. Check it > out. > > > __ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > 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 your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Totalitarianism in the Dome'
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robert Gimbel" > wrote: > > > > "My Dome Rejection" From Shiva Ma Ryan > > > > > > FWD:From Shiva Ma Ryan, "My Dome Rejection" > > Please share this letter I wrote to John Hagelin with anyone you > > think > > may benefit from it. > > All Love, > > Shiva Ma > > > > My Dome rejection > > > > Shiva Ma Ryan to John Hagelin > > > > Reading Post # 108732, was really disturbing; > > What gives someone the right, to manipulate another like this. > > I'm sure it's not the fault of Jeff Cohen, as he is 'Just > following > > orders'. > > Orders sound more like Bevan's policy. > > Anyway, it just reminds me of a totalitarian state, or a Facist > > regime, or something not good. > > No wonder the atmostphere, is not as it could be. > > Stiffled and compressed; fear mongering, and control. > > Why, is the only question to ask? why? > > > Her tiny little ego is just crying out to continue its illusion > of 'staying alive', in the face of its pending annihilation. Not a > bad thing really.. . >rephrase the above: "The TMO ego is just crying out to continue its illusion of "staying alive" in the face of its pending annihilation. Not a bad thing, really..." Rest in Peace, TMO...it's about time!...upon its well-deserved demise, such people (as the contributor in question) will feel no misgivings since attachments to the TMO...(and whatever entities that entails: the dome, MMY, Bevan, tweaked statistics, dishonesty...), will conveniently no longer exist. Poof! Cheshire cat gone. abilsincludilias the conpeo0pl final 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 your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: 7750 people learned TM in the U.S. last year - Vaj's Errors and Tricks to deny it
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ffia1120 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Dean Goodman > wrote: > > [Big Snip] > > But one's emotional interpretation depends on what spin you're trying > to give it > > [Big Snip] > > REASONABLE ESTIMATE: 7750 PEOPLE LEARNED TM IN THE U.S. THIS PAST YEAR I think you're about 7,000 people too high. > > > > Back to our main story: > > In my original post (and now amended to use the higher initiation num- > > bers), I went on to take this fact (number of local initiations) and > ex- > > pand upon it: 50 initiations here times 155 similar TM-teaching loca- > > tions around the country (see www.tm.org) = 7750 people starting TM in > > the U.S. this past year (not counting the black market initiations). > > Since the Movement is so good at blowing its own horn -- I think most > people would agree they've got it down to a science -- why aren't they > talking it up, issuing press releases and telling all the Invincible > America course participants about these initiation numbers? > > Why, at 35+ years on, would the Movement suddenly stop blowing its own > horn about the success of the recertified teachers? > > The Movement has a major credibility issue not only with those who do > not follow it any longer, but even the TBs are cynical or at least wary > of claims made by the TMO -- even if the claims are true. > > One case in point: Any idea when those pundits are going to show up in > FF? I was recently cleaning out some saved e-mails and found one from > Diane Comey announcing: "The Pundits Are Coming" So where are they? > A lot of the faithful who would truly LIKE to be faithful have lost > faith and moved on. > 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 your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Hoi ShempMcGurk, Maharishi wanted Capitalism to Go.???
I would be very saddened if he said he wanted it to go...I do remember a quote by him saying that Capitalism is the next to go (apparently he said this after the fall of communism). Wonderful article, by the way. India needs to abandon the horrible direction Mahatma Gandhi steered India into and get rid of central planning. Here in America, Indians are at the forefront and hold the best positions in all the high tech jobs. They are a great success. I have heard the following saying: Indians are successful everywhere except India. Now, perhaps, after India follows the advice in this article, they will be successful in India, too! You know what they say --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jason Spock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Antidote > > End to central planning > Thursday July 27 2006 16:49 IST > > by Sauvik Chakraverti > > O a central planner, the problem is simple: resources are `given' and these have to be `allocated' according to known `priorities'. > > However, to those who believe in free markets, the problem is different. Resources are not `given' to any one mind. The resources themselves, and the knowledge of their potential alternative uses, are entirely scattered amongst the populace. The solution, then, is to allow each individual perfect liberty with which to carry out his own plans regarding consumption, investment, saving and so on, completely outside government control. Instead of Manmohan, Montek & Co, let's have each citizen as a free planner of his own economic life: one billion free individuals as purposeful economic agents. > > Note that this dispersed and disaggregated individual planning is instrumental in getting us all our daily needs. Fruits and vegetables are abundantly available to us because the decisions to grow, to wholesale, to retail and to buy are all separately taken by millions of free individuals. No one mind planned how many mangoes will be bought or sold in any market or at any price. Individual orchard owners, individual wholesalers and individual retailers took independent, competitive decisions based on their own plans. Hence mangoes are abundantly available. > > If there had been a Ministry of Mangoes, we wouldn't get any, because a single mind cannot obtain the `knowledge' required for the task. Central planning fails for precisely this reason: we don't get roads, electricity and water because all these are being planned. With free markets, all these would be abundant as independent businessmen made independent investments and attempted to supply our needs. This is already visible now, when phones, cars, motorcycles and scooters are abundantly available: these were scarce under planning. As Milton Friedman cautioned: ``If you give the Sahara Desert to the government, there will be a shortage of sand in five years.'' As another Nobel laureate, Friedrich Hayek warned, ``Where governments plan, the private plans of citizens fail.'' > > The sheer marvel of the free market is that it enables us to use resources and knowledge without any conscious mind controlling it. The market mechanism and the price system that guides it are not of human design and do not need human guidance. (They could do with more human appreciation of their wonder and indispensability!) They enable us to extend the span of our utilisation of resources far, far beyond the control of any single mind. The marvel of the free market enables us to solve the problem of resource allocation without the need for any conscious direction. We can throw out government planning. Further, the price system provides the necessary inducements to each individual to do desirable things like using resources `economically' (like save on petrol when prices rise) without anyone having to tell him what to do. For this understanding, humanity owes a great debt to Friedrich August von Hayek. > > One of the most curious decisions of the Nobel Prize committee was making Hayek share the 1974 Economics prize with the high priest of central planning for Third World countries, Gunnar Myrdal. The Indian government then hugely felicitated Myrdal, bestowing on him the Jawaharlal Nehru award. Hayek was entirely ignored by Bharat Sarkar. Why? > > Gunnar Myrdal believed that the poor people of the Third World were hopelessly so, unable to take rational economic decisions in the market and therefore in need of these decisions being taken for them by an `intellectual-moral elite': central planners. Expertise made them an intellectual elite; and their immunity to the profit motive that guides businessmen made them a moral elite. Myrdal believed that central planners of Third World countries like India were Platonic Guardians. The masses of ordinary people were illiterate and irrational, or just plain stupid. > > If Gunnar Myrdal had ever stepped into any Third World market, he would have seen there that the poorest people scout
[FairfieldLife] Dalai Lama Quote: on existence.
Note: forwarded message attached. __Do You Yahoo!?Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com __._,_.___ 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 Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___ --- Begin Message --- Title: Snow Lion Publications Newsletter Dalai Lama Quote of the Week How then does the mistaken idea, that things exist from their own side, operate? Whatever appears to the mind appears as if it existed truly from its own side. ...Now if the object existed as it appears to you, then, when you searched for it, you could actually find a real [object]. So, we must ask ourselves whether or not this object, when searched for, is to be found or not. If the object is not found when it is searched for, we must conclude that it does not exist from its own side, that when the label is applied to its basis, it is not so labeled because the basis somehow bears within it something which is the object. At this point, one must conclude that the object does not exist as it appears to, but then, one may wonder whether it exists at all. Things, however, are not utterly non-existent. They do exist nominally. So things do exist, but they do not exist from the side of the basis of the label. And hence, though they do exist, because they do not exist within the object itself, they must exist only as they are labeled by the subject (the conceptual mind, for example). There is no other way for the object to exist apart from the way it is posited by conceptual thought. This is then what we mean when we say that all phenomena are merely labeled by conceptual thought. However, things do not appear to us as if they were mere conceptually labeled entities. Instead, they appear as if they existed from their own side. Therefore, it is a mistake to think that things exist as they appear. --from Answers: Discussions with Western Buddhists by The Dalai Lama, edited by Jose Ignacio Cabezon, published by Snow Lion Publications * * * * * * Have you read the latest articles in the new edition of the Snow Lion Newsletter yet? SNOW LION PUBLICATIONS is dedicated to the preservation of Tibetan Buddhism and culture by publishing books about this great tradition. Tibetan culture is seriously endangered in its homeland and is striving to continue outside of Tibet. To support this effort, in addition to publishing and distributing books, Snow Lion offers a wide range of dharma items, purchased primarily from Tibetans in exile. These include visual art and ritual objects, statues and thangkas, videos, traditional music, and many gift items offered through our webstore and newsletter--over 2000 items--the largest selection anywhere. To browse the complete list go to www.snowlionpub.com and select any of the categories in left-hand margin. When you choose to purchase from Snow Lion you are directly supporting the large effort to publish more Buddhist texts and help the Tibetan people. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT. ANSWERS:Discussions with Western Buddhistsby The Dalai Lama,edited by José Ignacio Cabezónmore... Contact Us: N. America: (800) 950-0313 Worldwide: (607) 273-8519 By Mail: PO Box 6483, Ithaca, NY 14851 USA By Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] New Items Available Online: New Books New Dharma Items Gifts 2006 Calendars General Catalog: www.snowlionpub.com Sign Up: Receive Snow Lion's Weekly Quotes and Quarterly E-newsletter at the List Management Center -- Snow Lion Publications is happy to send you a weekly quote from various Tibetan Buddhist teachers. Visit our website for these related items: 2
[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Totalitarianism in the Dome'
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robert Gimbel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "My Dome Rejection" From Shiva Ma Ryan > > > FWD:From Shiva Ma Ryan, "My Dome Rejection" > Please share this letter I wrote to John Hagelin with anyone you > think > may benefit from it. > All Love, > Shiva Ma > > My Dome rejection > > Shiva Ma Ryan to John Hagelin > > Reading Post # 108732, was really disturbing; > What gives someone the right, to manipulate another like this. > I'm sure it's not the fault of Jeff Cohen, as he is 'Just following > orders'. > Orders sound more like Bevan's policy. > Anyway, it just reminds me of a totalitarian state, or a Facist > regime, or something not good. > No wonder the atmostphere, is not as it could be. > Stiffled and compressed; fear mongering, and control. > Why, is the only question to ask? why? > Her tiny little ego is just crying out to continue its illusion of 'staying alive', in the face of its pending annihilation. Not a bad thing really... 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 your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] 'Totalitarianism in the Dome'
"My Dome Rejection" From Shiva Ma Ryan FWD:From Shiva Ma Ryan, "My Dome Rejection" Please share this letter I wrote to John Hagelin with anyone you think may benefit from it. All Love, Shiva Ma My Dome rejection Shiva Ma Ryan to John Hagelin Reading Post # 108732, was really disturbing; What gives someone the right, to manipulate another like this. I'm sure it's not the fault of Jeff Cohen, as he is 'Just following orders'. Orders sound more like Bevan's policy. Anyway, it just reminds me of a totalitarian state, or a Facist regime, or something not good. No wonder the atmostphere, is not as it could be. Stiffled and compressed; fear mongering, and control. Why, is the only question to ask? why? 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 your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: "My Dome Rejection" From Shiva Ma Ryan
FWD:From Shiva Ma Ryan, "My Dome Rejection" > Please share this letter I wrote to John Hagelin with anyone you > think > may benefit from it. > All Love, giant, humungours, ginormous snip >Shiva Ma Ryan > {formerly Jeanne Lynn Ryan or {Jeanne Ryan Borden- {married name} Nice to see someone who, (by her own declarations) has moved beyond all attachments. Oh yea. That's obvious. lurk > > 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 your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] "My Dome Rejection" From Shiva Ma Ryan
FWD:From Shiva Ma Ryan, "My Dome Rejection" Please share this letter I wrote to John Hagelin with anyone you think may benefit from it. All Love, Shiva Ma My Dome rejection Shiva Ma Ryan to John Hagelin Aug 2 (5 days ago) Dear John, I was told to e-mail you if I had any trouble getting accepted at the dome. Hence this letter to you, because I have been faced with one of the most difficult choices of my life. John will you PLEASE share this letter with Maharishi, as I want Him to know "THE REAL TRUTH" about what has happened in Fairfield. Please read everything I have written in this e-mail John, I have tried to be as honest and as "TRUTHFUL" as I can. I also have suggestions at the end of this e-mail, that may benefit EVERYONE! When I applied for the course, I was told I would need more time to be processed. I knew I probably would not get an immediate acceptance, because a few years ago I applied and was asked if I practiced any techniques other than Maharishi's. I went to India with a GREAT saint from Asam, India, Shree Maa, in 1999, and I told the man questioning me "I had experienced EVERYTHING that India had to offer, and that what I learned in private, I kept private. I had asked the question to over 600 people that I initiated, back in the seventies: "Everything we learn in private, we keep private. Do you agree?" This answer seemed the most truthful and appropriate to me, yet I was not accepted then for the dome. This past Saturday July 29th, I was encouraged by my sister and brother-in law and several friends at a birthday party, that I should apply now for the dome, because they were accepting EVERYONE! Regardless of past associations with saints or other techniques, I was told EVERYONE was WELCOME BACK!!! The words "All sins would be forgiven" were used. Those words deeply pinched my heart. I have never considered spending time with Fully Awakened Divine Beings a sin. I have been incredibly fortunate to travel with many saints over the last twelve years. Each ONE I always experienced as MAHARISHI. Each ONE, that I was BLESSED by, deepened my INCREDIBLE LOVE, RESPECT and ETERNAL GRATITUDE to Maharishi for all that He had given me in the past. Maharishi was my FIRST GURU!!! Yet Maharishi became inaccessible to me. The last time I saw Him was at The 7000 Course in 1983. My heart was longing for him, So I felt that one by one He started sending different saints to BLESS ME!!! Over the years, I have received the GRACE and BLESSINGS from over 15 different saints that have visited Fairfield since 1997. In 1994 my first GREAT BLESSING was from MOTHER MEERA, in Germany. She changed my life forever... I have had the GREAT fortune of traveling with many of these DIVINE BEINGS. I am so GRATEFUL for the Love and Grace I have been given from these PURE DIVINE MANIFESTATIONS of Gods and Goddess's. I want to offer my HUMBLEST GRATITUDE to Maharishi for always remaining in my HEART of HEARTS, since November 19, 1971. I will be in HIS ETERNAL DEBT for the GRACE HE SHOWERED upon me over and over again throughout all these years. JAI GURU DEV MAHARISHI! I LOVE YOU SO MUCH. At the course office, Jeff Cohen was so sweet and kind to me on the phone, going over the guidelines for acceptance for the course. However the words he used when telling me what I needed to do, to get my badge, still penetrate me like millions of daggers in my HEART. I have not been able to shake them. {Please ask Maharishi to help me with this.} He said I would be able to get my badge if: "I SEVERED any connection I had with any saints and SEVERED the use of any techniques that they had taught me, and that I would NEVER establish a connection with them again or practice any other techniques other than Maharishi's, EVER AGAIN. And that I had to put all of this in writing, promising that I would do this. For GOD'S SAKE, How in the name of WHOLENESS! ONENESS! DIVINITY! and SELF REALIZATION! could I promise that My SOUL WOULD NEVER ALLOW THAT I could have lied and said anything that Jeff wanted to hear, got my badge, and no one would have known. THAT IS NOT ME, THAT IS NOT HOW I REPRESENT TRUTH AND DIVINITY. I DO NOT, AND I WILL NOT, EVER LIE to achieve a small gain in the present, who would I be lying to ONLY MY SELF When Jeff was explaing to me how Maharishi said that one should not cross the river in two boats, it causes confusion. I told him: "I AM NO LONGER IN THE BOAT, I AM ON THE ISLAND I AM ENJOYING THE GOAL. I PARKED MY BOAT ON THE SIDE OF THE SHORE, MANY YEARS AGO, AND LEFT IT THERE!" There are other people in Fairfield in the same place that I AM. We are not nor could we ever again "BE CONFUSED" We are SELF REFERRAL NOW!!! No mistakes CAN be made. I LISTEN TO MY GOD SELF ALWAYS... My OWN INNER VOICE SPEAKS TO ME ALWAYS!!! I AM not MAHARISHI or MOVEMENT REFERRAL anymore. The same SELF that is in ALL BEINGS, IN THE ONENESS OF ALL BEINGS, IN THAT SELF LUMINOUS SELF, TH
[FairfieldLife] Re: 7750 people learned TM in the U.S. last year - Vaj's Errors and Tricks to deny it
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ffia1120 wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Dean Goodman > > wrote: > > > [Big Snip] > > > But one's emotional interpretation depends on what spin you're trying > > to give it > > > > [Big Snip] > > > > REASONABLE ESTIMATE: 7750 PEOPLE LEARNED TM IN THE U.S. THIS PAST YEAR > > Actutally, I think Michael's analysis had one glaring error: the vast majority of the people > who learned TM in SE Florida probably came from the tiny segment in the richest part, > which is MMY's stated intent anyway. > > To estimate how many initiations there have been in the past year, estimate the number of > "filthy rich" or at least soiled rich in the area, and go from there. > > > [...] > > > One case in point: Any idea when those pundits are going to show up in > > FF? I was recently cleaning out some saved e-mails and found one from > > Diane Comey announcing: "The Pundits Are Coming" So where are they? > > A lot of the faithful who would truly LIKE to be faithful have lost > > faith and moved on. > > > > MMY's plans for Vedic City call for it to become the Hindu Mecca of the USA. The pundits > will certainly get there ASAP, but who can say when that will be. We're talking Maharishi > Time here, and who nows how the Timeless measures time? Did the world get created in 7 > days, or 7 eons? > literally in the blink of an eye. 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 your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield/MVC Course Photos
> Some great minds tried flying on the way back to the states on the > > jet. Stewardesses quite alarmed. > > > > Seat-belted into a airplane seat is not too different than a wheel > > chair I suppose. > > > I witnessed that on several flights. One in particular. It looked like > several hundred people having an epileptic seizure. The flight attendants > were alarmed indeed. Ah yes. When Governors ruled the world. Or at least we thought we did. lurk > 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 your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Hoi Rick Archer,,, Past Life Regression.???
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robert Gimbel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Gillam" > wrote: > > > > --- Peter wrote: > > > > > > SSRS has a procedure called the "Eternity > > > Process" that is done on a one to one basis with > > > someone trained by him in the process. You > > > experientially allow yourself to "unstress" specific > > > samskaras from past lives. I did it about 2 years ago. > > > > Is this a widely available, fee-based process? Are there > prerequisites? > > > > There's a guy, named Ron Scolastico, who used to do a lot of; > 'Past Life Readings', for people in the Fairfield comminuty. > Here's his website: > http://www.ronscolastico.com/ > Has anyone had any experience with Ron? 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 your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Hoi Rick Archer,,, Past Life Regression.???
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Gillam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Peter wrote: > > > > SSRS has a procedure called the "Eternity > > Process" that is done on a one to one basis with > > someone trained by him in the process. You > > experientially allow yourself to "unstress" specific > > samskaras from past lives. I did it about 2 years ago. > > Is this a widely available, fee-based process? Are there prerequisites? > There's a guy, named Ron Scolastico, who used to do a lot of; 'Past Life Readings', for people in the Fairfield comminuty. Here's his website: http://www.ronscolastico.com/ 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 your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield/MVC Course Photos
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "lurkernomore20002000" > wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > > wrote: > > > > > > They made me feel like when I looked around at the crowd at the > > Bonnie > > > Raitt concert this Summer: "When did we all get so old?" > > > > > > > > Yea, with all this new construction, I hope they're creating wheel > > chair access. Looks like we're going to need it. You just know > > someone is going to come up with a device for "flying" in their wheel > > chairs before too long. > > Some great minds tried flying on the way back to the states on the > jet. Stewardesses quite alarmed. > > Seat-belted into a airplane seat is not too different than a wheel > chair I suppose. > Back in the day when I hopped regularly instead of twitched, I used to do program in my car. Some guy came up and asked if I needed him to call an ambulance... 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 your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] [was Re: Number of people learning TM ] Vaj's trap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > on 8/7/06 4:32 PM, Paul Mason at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I have been practising transcendental meditation regularly for well > > over three decades now, but that has not made me a 'true believer'. > > But, I am a firm believer about one thing at least and that is in > > using proper methodology for the purposes of detection work. > > > I believe that as time goes on, the evidence will become more convincing, > and you¹ll end up revising your opinion. You might already have done so, had > you had the conversations I¹ve had. > So, who is a more credible witness, Anita Hill, or Clarence Thomas? Why? 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 your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Hoi Rick Archer,,, Past Life Regression.???
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer wrote: > > > It may > > be, though, that the recent lifetimes of people nearing enlightenment in > > this lifetime (many on this forum) have been more interesting. > > Why? When cleaning out a garbage can, it usually gets smellier near > the bottom, almost empty, can. :) > Ancient Chinese curse (blessing?): may you live in interesting times. Perhaps we tend to remember the most interesting lifetimes because the others are, well, boring. OTOH, the "best" TM experience isn't memorable at all, so perhaps we're confusing exciting with most evolutionary and the ones who trudged through life as pyramid builders got the most done during that lifetime and recall it the least. 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 your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: 7750 people learned TM in the U.S. last year - Vaj's Errors and Tricks to deny it
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ffia1120 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Dean Goodman > wrote: > > [Big Snip] > > But one's emotional interpretation depends on what spin you're trying > to give it > > [Big Snip] > > REASONABLE ESTIMATE: 7750 PEOPLE LEARNED TM IN THE U.S. THIS PAST YEAR Actutally, I think Michael's analysis had one glaring error: the vast majority of the people who learned TM in SE Florida probably came from the tiny segment in the richest part, which is MMY's stated intent anyway. To estimate how many initiations there have been in the past year, estimate the number of "filthy rich" or at least soiled rich in the area, and go from there. [...] > One case in point: Any idea when those pundits are going to show up in > FF? I was recently cleaning out some saved e-mails and found one from > Diane Comey announcing: "The Pundits Are Coming" So where are they? > A lot of the faithful who would truly LIKE to be faithful have lost > faith and moved on. > MMY's plans for Vedic City call for it to become the Hindu Mecca of the USA. The pundits will certainly get there ASAP, but who can say when that will be. We're talking Maharishi Time here, and who nows how the Timeless measures time? Did the world get created in 7 days, or 7 eons? 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 your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: "God of the Genome"
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > > I think he means "non-zero probability" > > > that human beans will witness one of God's interventions. > > > > Small pet peeve: its human beings, not beans. :) > > I'm talking about human beans, actually. > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk-9--UFtyI > > But, yes, thank you for the dalmation correction. > > Um, apparently not. > 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 your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: 7750 people learned TM in the U.S. last year - Vaj's Errors and Tricks to deny it
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Dean Goodman > wrote: > > > Vaj I say to you, with a big smile on my face: > > Ya know, Michael, you really could stand to drop the > "big smile" thing when you know you're about to tear > somebody (albeit deservedly) into little shreds, at > least unless you make it clear it isn't a *friendly* > smile but one of anticipation, i.e., that you're > looking forward to the tearing process. > > Otherwise it makes you look very unpleasantly > hypocritical, which rather tends to detract from the > effectiveness of your tirade. > "Shit-eating grin" might have been more accurate... 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 your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Hoi Rick Archer,,, Past Life Regression.???
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > > > > > There was a study I read about years ago--but didn't > > > > note the citation info--that (as I recall) had around > > > > 1,000 subjects (from the U.S., I believe), randomly > > > > chosen, a statistically significant sample. > > > > > > Samples themselves are not usually "statitically significant". > > > > > > I would have thought an editor would not care to continue to make > the same language mistakes. Opps! You mean "Oops," I think. 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 your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Judy says: Drop the hypocritical smile (was Re: 7750 people learned TM...)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Dean Goodman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > authfriend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Michael Dean Goodman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Vaj I say to you, with a big smile on my face: > > [huge snip] > > > Ya know, Michael, you really could stand to drop the > > "big smile" thing when you know you're about to tear > > somebody (albeit deservedly) into little shreds, at > > least unless you make it clear it isn't a *friendly* > > smile but one of anticipation, i.e., that you're > > looking forward to the tearing process. > > > > Otherwise it makes you look very unpleasantly > > hypocritical, which rather tends to detract from the > > effectiveness of your tirade. > My smile was actually none of your business, Judy (I don't mean > that rudely - just literally). It was between Vaj and myself. Well, actually, Michael, anything you post on a forum such as this becomes the business of anyone who reads it. > I know that you feel an irresistible compulsion to point out > and "correct" situations that appear, to you, to be dishonest or > hypocritical - but what you perceived here was simply a mis- > perception by you, a mistake. There was NO dishonesty or > hypocrisy. Now that you know that, You mean, now that I know that's how you want to portray it. > I'd suggest two actions would be in order: > > a. An apology to me - for shooting from the hip before you actually > inquired into and understood what was really going on. I might consider apologizing if I found your explanations convincing, but I don't. > b. A vow from you to direct your anti-dishonesty compulsion > elsewhere. > > Don't start with me! You've only done that one time, years ago, > and got smashed. Remember, she who attacks first is guaranteed > to lose. Michael, remember, you don't intimidate me in the slightest. When you get into nuclear-attack mode and attempt to pull rank, you don't "smash" anybody, you just make yourself look overwrought. And putting a "smile" on your attacks, however you choose to rationalize it, makes you look insincere as well, as if you didn't even have the courage of your convictions. This feeble behavior is in such stark contrast to the wisdom you're capable of conveying when you're calm and collected that it tends to destroy any confidence one might have had in the wisdom to start with. That's what I was attempting to point out to you. You had a terrific case that Vaj had made an utter fool of himself. All you needed to do was set out the facts, and finish up with the bit of dead-on analysis of Vaj's posts that I complimented you on in another post. The "smile" bit and the superfluous flailing around--not to mention the ridiculous posturing in *this* post--just ruins the effect. Ask your editor what s/he thinks. If s/he's any good, I suspect s/he'll agree. 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 your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield/MVC Course Photos
Title: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield/MVC Course Photos on 8/7/06 8:00 PM, new.morning at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com , "lurkernomore20002000" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com , "curtisdeltablues" > wrote: > > > > They made me feel like when I looked around at the crowd at the > Bonnie > > Raitt concert this Summer: "When did we all get so old?" > > > > > Yea, with all this new construction, I hope they're creating wheel > chair access. Looks like we're going to need it. You just know > someone is going to come up with a device for "flying" in their wheel > chairs before too long. Some great minds tried flying on the way back to the states on the jet. Stewardesses quite alarmed. Seat-belted into a airplane seat is not too different than a wheel chair I suppose. I witnessed that on several flights. One in particular. It looked like several hundred people having an epileptic seizure. The flight attendants were alarmed indeed. __._,_.___ 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 Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___
[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield/MVC Course Photos
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "lurkernomore20002000" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > wrote: > > > > They made me feel like when I looked around at the crowd at the > Bonnie > > Raitt concert this Summer: "When did we all get so old?" > > > > > Yea, with all this new construction, I hope they're creating wheel > chair access. Looks like we're going to need it. You just know > someone is going to come up with a device for "flying" in their wheel > chairs before too long. Some great minds tried flying on the way back to the states on the jet. Stewardesses quite alarmed. Seat-belted into a airplane seat is not too different than a wheel chair I suppose. 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 your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [FairfieldLife] [was Re: Number of people learning TM ] Vaj's trap
Title: Re: [FairfieldLife] [was Re: Number of people learning TM ] Vaj's trap on 8/7/06 6:41 PM, Paul Mason at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I completely agree that if Sai Baba has made the abuses of power he is accused of, then he deserves to be exposed. I have long sought good close-up footage of Sai handing out vibhuti, and today I have been able to study a variety of video clips, and I am very glad for this opportunity. Many thanks to whoever obtained this data and made it available! I got it in an email I received from Conny. __._,_.___ 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 Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___
[FairfieldLife] Re: Hoi Rick Archer,,, Past Life Regression.???
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > > > There was a study I read about years ago--but didn't > > > note the citation info--that (as I recall) had around > > > 1,000 subjects (from the U.S., I believe), randomly > > > chosen, a statistically significant sample. > > > > Samples themselves are not usually "statitically significant". > > I would have thought an editor would not care to continue to make the same language mistakes. Opps! 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 your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Hoi Rick Archer,,, Past Life Regression.???
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > > > There was a study I read about years ago--but didn't > > > note the citation info--that (as I recall) had around > > > 1,000 subjects (from the U.S., I believe), randomly > > > chosen, a statistically significant sample. > > > > Samples themselves are not usually "statitically significant". > > good. continue to write incorrectly 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 your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Hoi Rick Archer,,, Past Life Regression.???
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > There was a study I read about years ago--but didn't > > note the citation info--that (as I recall) had around > > 1,000 subjects (from the U.S., I believe), randomly > > chosen, a statistically significant sample. > > Samples themselves are not usually "statitically significant". 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 your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Judy says: Drop the hypocritical smile (was Re: 7750 people learned TM...)
HAHAHA. Thats one of the best parodies I have ever read Michael. Kudos. You captured the bombasic volcanic ego-type perfectly. So nanced with subtle detail of those global-sized egos, totally devoid of self-reflection, taking themselves so so seriously. Really marvelous work. And that on top of the earlier hugely funny parody of the hyper-obsessive types that feel the need to respond in huge torrents of mind-numbing excessive detail to defend even the slightest transgressions on their fragile egos - which are usually mostly in their own mind to begin with -- oblivious to all traces of social gracefulness. Great work. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Dean Goodman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > authfriend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Michael Dean Goodman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Vaj I say to you, with a big smile on my face: > > [huge snip] > > > Ya know, Michael, you really could stand to drop the > > "big smile" thing when you know you're about to tear > > somebody (albeit deservedly) into little shreds, at > > least unless you make it clear it isn't a *friendly* > > smile but one of anticipation, i.e., that you're > > looking forward to the tearing process. > > > > Otherwise it makes you look very unpleasantly > > hypocritical, which rather tends to detract from the > > effectiveness of your tirade. 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 your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield/MVC Course Photos
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > They made me feel like when I looked around at the crowd at the Bonnie > Raitt concert this Summer: "When did we all get so old?" > > Yea, with all this new construction, I hope they're creating wheel chair access. Looks like we're going to need it. You just know someone is going to come up with a device for "flying" in their wheel chairs before too long. lurk > > > > > > __ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > 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 your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] [was Re: Number of people learning TM ] Vaj's trap
Quite, the expression on his face was what was taking my attention too. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My favorite was the lingum out of the mouth trick. He wasn't even > trying on that one and everyone seemed so pleased with what he did. > Plus it was about a 10 on the gaydar scale! > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Mason" > wrote: > > > > I completely agree that if Sai Baba has made the abuses of power he > > is accused of, then he deserves to be exposed. I have long sought > > good close-up footage of Sai handing out vibhuti, and today I have > > been able to study a variety of video clips, and I am very glad for > > this opportunity. Many thanks to whoever obtained this data and made > > it available! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning > > wrote: > > > > > > A red flag for "spin" goes up, perhaps undjusifiably so, for > > > statements like " already known for their involvement in trying to > > > bring about the public ridicule of another prominent Indian." > > > > > > On the surface, he sounds like quite the rogue. On second thought, > > do > > > all prominent indians deserve shielding if they have done some > > > un-noble things? Is someone known for their involvement in trying > > to > > > bring about the public exposure of such un-nobles necessarily a bad > > > person? > > > > > > If it was Conny Larsson, collecting mail for Linda Williams Pierce - > > - > > > who is apparently quite sick and may have others hadling her mail -- > > > then perhaps that is quite a noble thing. Apparently Conny directly > > > witnessed (and experienced?) abuses by Sai Baba -- and is > > dedicating a > > > lot of time and resources to education others about the potential > > > downside of involment with SB. Not a bad thing, is it? > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Mason" > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > I do not enter the suspicion of a conspiracy theory lightly, but > > > > whilst trying to contact one of the women I found my email to her > > > > being answered by someone already known for their involvement in > > > > trying to bring about the public ridicule of another prominent > > Indian. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Mason" > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > ... and the stories have sounded no more clear as time has > > gone > > > > > > on. > > > > > > > > > > To me, and this is not universal, I knew or was on courses with > > most > > > > > of the people in SS. To me, most were credible as people. > > Different > > > > > than say, if SS were written by strangers, or worse, the top 10 > > > > > posters on FFL. And SS collaborated explicit things I had > > heard 25 > > > > > years earlier. Thus, SS files was perhaps more credible for me > > than > > > > > for you. > > > > > > > > > > > Now to assume MMY's 'guilt' on the basis of third-hand > > material > > > > > > is very faulty. > > > > > > > > > > Its odd, to me, how people wrap "extra stuff" around more simple > > > > > events. "Guilt" ? I know you use the term loosely, but there is > > no > > > > i) > > > > > legal, and most would argue no ii) moral crime here. It may be > > an > > > > iii) > > > > > ethical abuse (younger women) but I don't buy that. Jennifer > > was, > > > > > based on her attendance at my TTC the year before, and > > appearances, > > > > > probably 23-24 at the time of her "reading mail" to MMY. > > (Though she > > > > > was was probably not mistaken as 'the chosen one' as Tom > > apparently > > > > > thought he was). > > > > > > > > > > And she, while graceful and refined, IMO, is not someone I > > would > > > > have > > > > > termed as sheltered or naive. Demure perhaps. Adults do things, > > are > > > > > responsible for their choices -- even if they regret them > > later, > > > > and > > > > > are ill-effected by them. > > > > > > > > > > Perhaps it was iv) an abuse of power -- teacher / student - - I > > have > > > > > argued that in the past -- but have recanted some. When pants > > are > > > > > down, or dhotis and dresses on the floor, power dynamics may > > > > diminish > > > > > -- or reverse, wobble, and occilate -- who has power over whom > > when > > > > > nakedness befalls? > > > > > > > > > > So who (what crazy bastards :) ) is "assuming guilt" when, at > > least > > > > > IMO, guilt is a non-issue? A more corect rendering of your > > sentence > > > > > would be, IMO, " Now to assume the truth of the allegations on > > the > > > > > basis of third-hand material is very faulty. " > > > > > > > > > > Well, even then, there is a case being made by SS, see my > > comments > > > > > above on credible sources. But more importantly, even
[FairfieldLife] Judy says: Drop the hypocritical smile (was Re: 7750 people learned TM...)
> authfriend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Dean Goodman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Vaj I say to you, with a big smile on my face: [huge snip] > Ya know, Michael, you really could stand to drop the > "big smile" thing when you know you're about to tear > somebody (albeit deservedly) into little shreds, at > least unless you make it clear it isn't a *friendly* > smile but one of anticipation, i.e., that you're > looking forward to the tearing process. > > Otherwise it makes you look very unpleasantly > hypocritical, which rather tends to detract from the > effectiveness of your tirade. Judy, There is a principle in the martial arts, that whoever strikes first loses. Because to strike at another takes you off your center, re- your imbalance, and opens you up. The impulse that pushes you to take action, to strike out at another, takes you down the path of a specific energy, a specific possibility - and takes you out of the place of all possibilities. A master warrior knows that as soon as you feel that desire come up, and then yield to it and let it turn into action, you've already lost. I DID have a big smile on my face when I wrote that line to Vaj. I wasn't being hypocritical in the slightest. Nor was the smile either "friendly" or "one of anticipation...of looking forward to the tearing process". Those are your words, reflecting the options that you con- ceive of having in that situation. Your choice of words reflects a lot about your inner state. But I wasn't feeling either of those. I was feeling very centered, and enjoying the cosmic inevitability of it all. Vaj chose, foolishly, to play his game with me. He's never done that before. In all these years, he's never directly responded to any post of mine, never really commented on one, except obliquely. But yesterday he did, for the first time, directly engage me. And so, like a samurai sword master feels when some challenger steps out of their own center and takes a few impotent swipes at him with their sword, and the samurai master witnesses the inevitability of his own oncoming response, the fo- cused slash of his own sword reflecting the karma of the foolish attacker right back at him, and the master smiles at both his own centeredness, and his opponent's blatant uncenteredness, and at the cosmic humor of the laws of nature involved - in that way I smiled as I found myself starting to reply to Vaj. Try to understand that kind of smile. My smile was actually none of your business, Judy (I don't mean that rude- ly - just literally). It was between Vaj and myself. Vaj gets a rush out of knocking people off their center, out of making people feel "not-OK", out of intimidating people. He knew what my words "with a big smile on my face" really meant. They meant, to him, that he was not successful, that I didn't feel off-center, or not-OK, or intimidated. They meant, to him, that he was not successful, and that I was not going to engage him from that weakened position that he likes to put people in. My smile meant, to him, that I accepted his challenge, and since he stepped off center to challenge me first, since he yielded to his own deep needs and constrictions, he was going to get whooped. And Judy, I don't remember asking you for coaching on my writing style. I already have a wonderful editor, and use him extensively. I know that you feel an irresistible compulsion to point out and "cor- rect" situations that appear, to you, to be dishonest or hypocritical - but what you perceived here was simply a mis-perception by you, a mis- take. There was NO dishonesty or hypocrisy. Now that you know that, I'd suggest two actions would be in order: a. An apology to me - for shooting from the hip before you actually inquired into and understood what was really going on. b. A vow from you to direct your anti-dishonesty compulsion elsewhere. Don't start with me! You've only done that one time, years ago, and got smashed. Remember, she who attacks first is guaranteed to lose. Sincere questions are welcome; commentary on the substantive content of my posts is welcome; non-consensual attempts to bring me into alignment with your conception of honesty and non-hypocrisy are NOT welcome. Be forewarned - I have no patience for that. Namaste, Michael PARA - THE CENTER FOR REALIZATION Michael Dean Goodman, Ph.D., D.D., Director Boca Raton (Palm Beach County) Florida 561-350-3930 (messages received 24 hours a day) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spiritual guide (ashtanga yoga/meditation, tantra, vedanta, ayur veda...) Counselor * Author * Speaker/Educator Satsang * Workshops & Retreats * Classes * Private Educational Sessions Clients and programs throughout the United States, Europe, and India Working in person or by phone Free initial consultation to discuss your needs and goals To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Ya
[FairfieldLife] [was Re: Number of people learning TM ] Vaj's trap
My favorite was the lingum out of the mouth trick. He wasn't even trying on that one and everyone seemed so pleased with what he did. Plus it was about a 10 on the gaydar scale! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Mason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I completely agree that if Sai Baba has made the abuses of power he > is accused of, then he deserves to be exposed. I have long sought > good close-up footage of Sai handing out vibhuti, and today I have > been able to study a variety of video clips, and I am very glad for > this opportunity. Many thanks to whoever obtained this data and made > it available! > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning > wrote: > > > > A red flag for "spin" goes up, perhaps undjusifiably so, for > > statements like " already known for their involvement in trying to > > bring about the public ridicule of another prominent Indian." > > > > On the surface, he sounds like quite the rogue. On second thought, > do > > all prominent indians deserve shielding if they have done some > > un-noble things? Is someone known for their involvement in trying > to > > bring about the public exposure of such un-nobles necessarily a bad > > person? > > > > If it was Conny Larsson, collecting mail for Linda Williams Pierce - > - > > who is apparently quite sick and may have others hadling her mail -- > > then perhaps that is quite a noble thing. Apparently Conny directly > > witnessed (and experienced?) abuses by Sai Baba -- and is > dedicating a > > lot of time and resources to education others about the potential > > downside of involment with SB. Not a bad thing, is it? > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Mason" > > wrote: > > > > > > I do not enter the suspicion of a conspiracy theory lightly, but > > > whilst trying to contact one of the women I found my email to her > > > being answered by someone already known for their involvement in > > > trying to bring about the public ridicule of another prominent > Indian. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Mason" > > > > > wrote: > > > > > ... and the stories have sounded no more clear as time has > gone > > > > > on. > > > > > > > > To me, and this is not universal, I knew or was on courses with > most > > > > of the people in SS. To me, most were credible as people. > Different > > > > than say, if SS were written by strangers, or worse, the top 10 > > > > posters on FFL. And SS collaborated explicit things I had > heard 25 > > > > years earlier. Thus, SS files was perhaps more credible for me > than > > > > for you. > > > > > > > > > Now to assume MMY's 'guilt' on the basis of third-hand > material > > > > > is very faulty. > > > > > > > > Its odd, to me, how people wrap "extra stuff" around more simple > > > > events. "Guilt" ? I know you use the term loosely, but there is > no > > > i) > > > > legal, and most would argue no ii) moral crime here. It may be > an > > > iii) > > > > ethical abuse (younger women) but I don't buy that. Jennifer > was, > > > > based on her attendance at my TTC the year before, and > appearances, > > > > probably 23-24 at the time of her "reading mail" to MMY. > (Though she > > > > was was probably not mistaken as 'the chosen one' as Tom > apparently > > > > thought he was). > > > > > > > > And she, while graceful and refined, IMO, is not someone I > would > > > have > > > > termed as sheltered or naive. Demure perhaps. Adults do things, > are > > > > responsible for their choices -- even if they regret them > later, > > > and > > > > are ill-effected by them. > > > > > > > > Perhaps it was iv) an abuse of power -- teacher / student -- I > have > > > > argued that in the past -- but have recanted some. When pants > are > > > > down, or dhotis and dresses on the floor, power dynamics may > > > diminish > > > > -- or reverse, wobble, and occilate -- who has power over whom > when > > > > nakedness befalls? > > > > > > > > So who (what crazy bastards :) ) is "assuming guilt" when, at > least > > > > IMO, guilt is a non-issue? A more corect rendering of your > sentence > > > > would be, IMO, " Now to assume the truth of the allegations on > the > > > > basis of third-hand material is very faulty. " > > > > > > > > Well, even then, there is a case being made by SS, see my > comments > > > > above on credible sources. But more importantly, even with > credible > > > > sources, i don't have terribly strong opinions that the stories > are > > > > true or not. I look at it, as many of the uncertainties in life, > > > > probabilistically. > > > > > > > > Much more importantly, i don't have strong reactions one way or > > > > another if SS is true or not. To me, the impact of the stories > being > > > > true is not large for me. I figure a yogi knows something more > than
[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield/MVC Course Photos
They made me feel like when I looked around at the crowd at the Bonnie Raitt concert this Summer: "When did we all get so old?" --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sal, I had the same response. It felt really nice > looking at those photos. > > --- Sal Sunshine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Nice pictures, George, thanks for posting them! > > Almost feels like old > > times, looking at those. I hope whoever is there is > > having good > > experiences and will want to come back. Please post > > any others you > > come across. > > > > Sal > > > > > __ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > 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 your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Hoi Rick Archer,,, Past Life Regression.???
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Gillam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Peter wrote: > > > > SSRS has a procedure called the "Eternity > > Process" that is done on a one to one basis with > > someone trained by him in the process. You > > experientially allow yourself to "unstress" specific > > samskaras from past lives. I did it about 2 years ago. > > Is this a widely available, fee-based process? Are there prerequisites? > You have to have had past lives. 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 your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Hoi Rick Archer,,, Past Life Regression.???
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There was a study I read about years ago--but didn't > note the citation info--that (as I recall) had around > 1,000 subjects (from the U.S., I believe), randomly > chosen, a statistically significant sample. Samples themselves are not usually "statitically significant". Finings are, or are not. That is, a finding that has only 5% chance of being false, is often termed a statitically significant finding. A threshold sample size is needed for given significance level (95%), for a given "error term" -- the often heard "+- 3% accuracy". For example, the "real" figure for the population has a 95% chance of being within -3% to + 3% of the sample mean (average of the sample). The larger the sample size, the better. Better in terms of tighter error term for a given level of significance. Though there is a tradeoff of cost and increased sample size. The former being linear, the latter exponential. Thus the cost per extra unit reduction in error term is always increasing. >They were > put under hypnosis and asked to remember their past > lives. > > The *vast* majority of these people recalled lives as > brown-skinned people working in the fields. Only a very > few--three or four, I think--remembered lives in > identifiable historical periods, much less exciting > existences. > > I keep hoping I'll come across a reference to this > study somewhere to get a fix on the details. I > doubt the study was published anywhere. I do recall > that the researchers made a big effort to be as > scientific as possible--the hypnotic inductions and > the questions asked during hypnosis were the same for > all subjects; the evaluations of their reports were > not done by the researchers themselves, so the study > was single-blind, at least; and so on. > > I *think* I recall that the researchers' hypothesis > was that most of the subjects would improbably recall > thrilling lives in historically identifiable periods > and were astonished that they did not. > > I had a roommate once years ago who was very into > New Age stuff, particularly reincarnation. She went > weekly to consult a spiritualist and would come home > bursting to share with me the past lives the > spiritualist had told her about--a court fool to > Henry IV, a slave girl of Cleopatra, the father of > Patrick Henry, one of Walt Whitman's lovers (male), > etc., etc. > > One day I asked her, "Did she tell you about your > life as Benjamin Franklin's illegitimate daughter?" > > Her jaw dropped. "No, she didn't," she said. "I wonder > why not? Maybe she didn't want me to know about that > one for some reason. I'll have to ask her next time." > 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 your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] [was Re: Number of people learning TM ] Vaj's trap
I completely agree that if Sai Baba has made the abuses of power he is accused of, then he deserves to be exposed. I have long sought good close-up footage of Sai handing out vibhuti, and today I have been able to study a variety of video clips, and I am very glad for this opportunity. Many thanks to whoever obtained this data and made it available! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A red flag for "spin" goes up, perhaps undjusifiably so, for > statements like " already known for their involvement in trying to > bring about the public ridicule of another prominent Indian." > > On the surface, he sounds like quite the rogue. On second thought, do > all prominent indians deserve shielding if they have done some > un-noble things? Is someone known for their involvement in trying to > bring about the public exposure of such un-nobles necessarily a bad > person? > > If it was Conny Larsson, collecting mail for Linda Williams Pierce - - > who is apparently quite sick and may have others hadling her mail -- > then perhaps that is quite a noble thing. Apparently Conny directly > witnessed (and experienced?) abuses by Sai Baba -- and is dedicating a > lot of time and resources to education others about the potential > downside of involment with SB. Not a bad thing, is it? > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Mason" > wrote: > > > > I do not enter the suspicion of a conspiracy theory lightly, but > > whilst trying to contact one of the women I found my email to her > > being answered by someone already known for their involvement in > > trying to bring about the public ridicule of another prominent Indian. > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning > > wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Mason" > > > wrote: > > > > ... and the stories have sounded no more clear as time has gone > > > > on. > > > > > > To me, and this is not universal, I knew or was on courses with most > > > of the people in SS. To me, most were credible as people. Different > > > than say, if SS were written by strangers, or worse, the top 10 > > > posters on FFL. And SS collaborated explicit things I had heard 25 > > > years earlier. Thus, SS files was perhaps more credible for me than > > > for you. > > > > > > > Now to assume MMY's 'guilt' on the basis of third-hand material > > > > is very faulty. > > > > > > Its odd, to me, how people wrap "extra stuff" around more simple > > > events. "Guilt" ? I know you use the term loosely, but there is no > > i) > > > legal, and most would argue no ii) moral crime here. It may be an > > iii) > > > ethical abuse (younger women) but I don't buy that. Jennifer was, > > > based on her attendance at my TTC the year before, and appearances, > > > probably 23-24 at the time of her "reading mail" to MMY. (Though she > > > was was probably not mistaken as 'the chosen one' as Tom apparently > > > thought he was). > > > > > > And she, while graceful and refined, IMO, is not someone I would > > have > > > termed as sheltered or naive. Demure perhaps. Adults do things, are > > > responsible for their choices -- even if they regret them later, > > and > > > are ill-effected by them. > > > > > > Perhaps it was iv) an abuse of power -- teacher / student -- I have > > > argued that in the past -- but have recanted some. When pants are > > > down, or dhotis and dresses on the floor, power dynamics may > > diminish > > > -- or reverse, wobble, and occilate -- who has power over whom when > > > nakedness befalls? > > > > > > So who (what crazy bastards :) ) is "assuming guilt" when, at least > > > IMO, guilt is a non-issue? A more corect rendering of your sentence > > > would be, IMO, " Now to assume the truth of the allegations on the > > > basis of third-hand material is very faulty. " > > > > > > Well, even then, there is a case being made by SS, see my comments > > > above on credible sources. But more importantly, even with credible > > > sources, i don't have terribly strong opinions that the stories are > > > true or not. I look at it, as many of the uncertainties in life, > > > probabilistically. > > > > > > Much more importantly, i don't have strong reactions one way or > > > another if SS is true or not. To me, the impact of the stories being > > > true is not large for me. I figure a yogi knows something more than > > me > > > about energy flows. And its his business. And even if not, i don't > > > walk out on other teachers and mentors because they banged a 24- yr > > old > > > attractive blonde. For some, I actually silently applaud. > > > > > > > So for me the problem I have with the 'Sexy Sadie' file is not > > about > > > > whether it has been published, just that it does not 'scan' well. > > > > > > Thats not a universal problem, thats a problem you have with them. > > > > > > > In > > > > fact
[FairfieldLife] Re: "God of the Genome"
After careful examination, I concur. There is nothing wrong with that back. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I thought this dalmation (spelling per caption) was particularly cute. > > Curtis, you may want to look closely at the dog's friend. No evidence > of disc damage from yogic flying that i can see. > > http://hometown.aol.com/trademarkanimal/images/dalmation,%20bill%20blass.jpg > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > > > > > > I think he means "non-zero probability" > > > > > that human beans will witness one of God's interventions. > > > > > > > > Small pet peeve: its human beings, not beans. :) > > > > > > I'm talking about human beans, actually. > > > > > > > But, yes, thank you for the dalmation correction. > > > > > > Um, apparently not. > > > > Well a LOT of people, make my mistake > > > > > http://images.google.com/images?q=dalmation+&hl=en&hs=ziB&lr=&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&sa=X&oi=images&ct=title > > > > Popular usage may soon change the "old" spelling. :) > > > > Anyway, read what I mean, not what I say (or spell). :) > > > 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 your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Hoi Rick Archer,,, Past Life Regression.???
--- Peter wrote: > > SSRS has a procedure called the "Eternity > Process" that is done on a one to one basis with > someone trained by him in the process. You > experientially allow yourself to "unstress" specific > samskaras from past lives. I did it about 2 years ago. Is this a widely available, fee-based process? Are there prerequisites? 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 your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [FairfieldLife] [was Re: Number of people learning TM ] Vaj's trap
Title: Re: [FairfieldLife] [was Re: Number of people learning TM ] Vaj's trap on 8/7/06 6:03 PM, Paul Mason at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do not enter the suspicion of a conspiracy theory lightly, but whilst trying to contact one of the women I found my email to her being answered by someone already known for their involvement in trying to bring about the public ridicule of another prominent Indian. You tried to reach Judith through Conny Larsson, who is a Sai Baba debunker. And on that basis you doubt all the Sexy Sadie information? __._,_.___ 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 Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___
[FairfieldLife] Re: "God of the Genome"
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning > wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Um, apparently not. > > > > > > > > Well a LOT of people, make my mistake > > > > http://images.google.com/images? > q=dalmation+&hl=en&hs=ziB&lr=&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en- > US:official&sa=X&oi=images&ct=title> > > > > > > > Yes, that's what I said. That's why I made the > > > correction, you see. > > > > But the 4000 mispelled dogs are sure cute, arent' they? > > Yeah, sorry you were offended by my correction. Offended? Where did I say offended. You are making things up! READ what I wrote! :) (a note for the parody-imparied -- the above is a parody.) > > > > 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 your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] [was Re: Number of people learning TM ] Vaj's trap
A red flag for "spin" goes up, perhaps undjusifiably so, for statements like " already known for their involvement in trying to bring about the public ridicule of another prominent Indian." On the surface, he sounds like quite the rogue. On second thought, do all prominent indians deserve shielding if they have done some un-noble things? Is someone known for their involvement in trying to bring about the public exposure of such un-nobles necessarily a bad person? If it was Conny Larsson, collecting mail for Linda Williams Pierce -- who is apparently quite sick and may have others hadling her mail -- then perhaps that is quite a noble thing. Apparently Conny directly witnessed (and experienced?) abuses by Sai Baba -- and is dedicating a lot of time and resources to education others about the potential downside of involment with SB. Not a bad thing, is it? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Mason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I do not enter the suspicion of a conspiracy theory lightly, but > whilst trying to contact one of the women I found my email to her > being answered by someone already known for their involvement in > trying to bring about the public ridicule of another prominent Indian. > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning > wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Mason" > > wrote: > > > ... and the stories have sounded no more clear as time has gone > > > on. > > > > To me, and this is not universal, I knew or was on courses with most > > of the people in SS. To me, most were credible as people. Different > > than say, if SS were written by strangers, or worse, the top 10 > > posters on FFL. And SS collaborated explicit things I had heard 25 > > years earlier. Thus, SS files was perhaps more credible for me than > > for you. > > > > > Now to assume MMY's 'guilt' on the basis of third-hand material > > > is very faulty. > > > > Its odd, to me, how people wrap "extra stuff" around more simple > > events. "Guilt" ? I know you use the term loosely, but there is no > i) > > legal, and most would argue no ii) moral crime here. It may be an > iii) > > ethical abuse (younger women) but I don't buy that. Jennifer was, > > based on her attendance at my TTC the year before, and appearances, > > probably 23-24 at the time of her "reading mail" to MMY. (Though she > > was was probably not mistaken as 'the chosen one' as Tom apparently > > thought he was). > > > > And she, while graceful and refined, IMO, is not someone I would > have > > termed as sheltered or naive. Demure perhaps. Adults do things, are > > responsible for their choices -- even if they regret them later, > and > > are ill-effected by them. > > > > Perhaps it was iv) an abuse of power -- teacher / student -- I have > > argued that in the past -- but have recanted some. When pants are > > down, or dhotis and dresses on the floor, power dynamics may > diminish > > -- or reverse, wobble, and occilate -- who has power over whom when > > nakedness befalls? > > > > So who (what crazy bastards :) ) is "assuming guilt" when, at least > > IMO, guilt is a non-issue? A more corect rendering of your sentence > > would be, IMO, " Now to assume the truth of the allegations on the > > basis of third-hand material is very faulty. " > > > > Well, even then, there is a case being made by SS, see my comments > > above on credible sources. But more importantly, even with credible > > sources, i don't have terribly strong opinions that the stories are > > true or not. I look at it, as many of the uncertainties in life, > > probabilistically. > > > > Much more importantly, i don't have strong reactions one way or > > another if SS is true or not. To me, the impact of the stories being > > true is not large for me. I figure a yogi knows something more than > me > > about energy flows. And its his business. And even if not, i don't > > walk out on other teachers and mentors because they banged a 24-yr > old > > attractive blonde. For some, I actually silently applaud. > > > > > So for me the problem I have with the 'Sexy Sadie' file is not > about > > > whether it has been published, just that it does not 'scan' well. > > > > Thats not a universal problem, thats a problem you have with them. > > > > > In > > > fact many years ago I had the same feeling about Erik Von > Daniken's > > > books, and then I watched a documentary which took his claims > apart ... > > > > So you have a history of problems in this area. > > "very interesting..." :) > > > > > In the case of the allegations about MMYs sexuality it is not > that I > > > disbelieve all the claims made, > > > > Ok, a shift in positions? > > > > > just that I doubt MMY ever had actual > > > sexual intercourse with a woman (however close he might have > come). > > > > OK. So if he, naked, was about to have intercourse with a naked > > willing 24-yrold participant, but didn't -- is that a huge >
[FairfieldLife] Re: Hoi Rick Archer,,, Past Life Regression.???
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > on 8/7/06 3:30 PM, Jason Spock at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Sir Rick Archer, I found this comment in another forum. What is your > > opinion on this.?? > > > > > > > > "" I find it amusing that everyone who 'regresses' to a past life seems > > to have led an exciting existence as a nobleman, diplomat, courtesan, soldier, > > pirate, painter, musician, etc. Nobody ever seems to discover that they were > > a filthy ignorant peasant who led a dreary, brutal life and died of an > > infected cut at the age of 28. Makes ya wonder what happened to the souls of > > all those slaves who built the pyramids and such."" > > > Not sure why you¹d want my opinion, but I tend to agree with the above. > ³Most men live lives of quiet desperation,² thus most people¹s past lives > are probably as dreary as their current one, maybe more so, if you agree > with MMY¹s comment that the past is always a lesser developed state. It may > be, though, that the recent lifetimes of people nearing enlightenment in > this lifetime (many on this forum) have been more interesting. There was a study I read about years ago--but didn't note the citation info--that (as I recall) had around 1,000 subjects (from the U.S., I believe), randomly chosen, a statistically significant sample. They were put under hypnosis and asked to remember their past lives. The *vast* majority of these people recalled lives as brown-skinned people working in the fields. Only a very few--three or four, I think--remembered lives in identifiable historical periods, much less exciting existences. I keep hoping I'll come across a reference to this study somewhere to get a fix on the details. I doubt the study was published anywhere. I do recall that the researchers made a big effort to be as scientific as possible--the hypnotic inductions and the questions asked during hypnosis were the same for all subjects; the evaluations of their reports were not done by the researchers themselves, so the study was single-blind, at least; and so on. I *think* I recall that the researchers' hypothesis was that most of the subjects would improbably recall thrilling lives in historically identifiable periods and were astonished that they did not. I had a roommate once years ago who was very into New Age stuff, particularly reincarnation. She went weekly to consult a spiritualist and would come home bursting to share with me the past lives the spiritualist had told her about--a court fool to Henry IV, a slave girl of Cleopatra, the father of Patrick Henry, one of Walt Whitman's lovers (male), etc., etc. One day I asked her, "Did she tell you about your life as Benjamin Franklin's illegitimate daughter?" Her jaw dropped. "No, she didn't," she said. "I wonder why not? Maybe she didn't want me to know about that one for some reason. I'll have to ask her next time." 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 your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: "God of the Genome"
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning > > wrote: > > > > > > > Um, apparently not. > > > > > > Well a LOT of people, make my mistake > > http://images.google.com/images? q=dalmation+&hl=en&hs=ziB&lr=&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en- US:official&sa=X&oi=images&ct=title> > > > > Yes, that's what I said. That's why I made the > > correction, you see. > > But the 4000 mispelled dogs are sure cute, arent' they? Yeah, sorry you were offended by my correction. > 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 your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] [was Re: Number of people learning TM ] Vaj's trap
I do not enter the suspicion of a conspiracy theory lightly, but whilst trying to contact one of the women I found my email to her being answered by someone already known for their involvement in trying to bring about the public ridicule of another prominent Indian. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Mason" > wrote: > > ... and the stories have sounded no more clear as time has gone > > on. > > To me, and this is not universal, I knew or was on courses with most > of the people in SS. To me, most were credible as people. Different > than say, if SS were written by strangers, or worse, the top 10 > posters on FFL. And SS collaborated explicit things I had heard 25 > years earlier. Thus, SS files was perhaps more credible for me than > for you. > > > Now to assume MMY's 'guilt' on the basis of third-hand material > > is very faulty. > > Its odd, to me, how people wrap "extra stuff" around more simple > events. "Guilt" ? I know you use the term loosely, but there is no i) > legal, and most would argue no ii) moral crime here. It may be an iii) > ethical abuse (younger women) but I don't buy that. Jennifer was, > based on her attendance at my TTC the year before, and appearances, > probably 23-24 at the time of her "reading mail" to MMY. (Though she > was was probably not mistaken as 'the chosen one' as Tom apparently > thought he was). > > And she, while graceful and refined, IMO, is not someone I would have > termed as sheltered or naive. Demure perhaps. Adults do things, are > responsible for their choices -- even if they regret them later, and > are ill-effected by them. > > Perhaps it was iv) an abuse of power -- teacher / student -- I have > argued that in the past -- but have recanted some. When pants are > down, or dhotis and dresses on the floor, power dynamics may diminish > -- or reverse, wobble, and occilate -- who has power over whom when > nakedness befalls? > > So who (what crazy bastards :) ) is "assuming guilt" when, at least > IMO, guilt is a non-issue? A more corect rendering of your sentence > would be, IMO, " Now to assume the truth of the allegations on the > basis of third-hand material is very faulty. " > > Well, even then, there is a case being made by SS, see my comments > above on credible sources. But more importantly, even with credible > sources, i don't have terribly strong opinions that the stories are > true or not. I look at it, as many of the uncertainties in life, > probabilistically. > > Much more importantly, i don't have strong reactions one way or > another if SS is true or not. To me, the impact of the stories being > true is not large for me. I figure a yogi knows something more than me > about energy flows. And its his business. And even if not, i don't > walk out on other teachers and mentors because they banged a 24-yr old > attractive blonde. For some, I actually silently applaud. > > > So for me the problem I have with the 'Sexy Sadie' file is not about > > whether it has been published, just that it does not 'scan' well. > > Thats not a universal problem, thats a problem you have with them. > > > In > > fact many years ago I had the same feeling about Erik Von Daniken's > > books, and then I watched a documentary which took his claims apart ... > > So you have a history of problems in this area. > "very interesting..." :) > > > In the case of the allegations about MMYs sexuality it is not that I > > disbelieve all the claims made, > > Ok, a shift in positions? > > > just that I doubt MMY ever had actual > > sexual intercourse with a woman (however close he might have come). > > OK. So if he, naked, was about to have intercourse with a naked > willing 24-yrold participant, but didn't -- is that a huge distinction > for you compared to if he did? > > > Actually, for the record, I suspect > > "I suspect" are key words. Pure opinion, no fact. Much less persuasive > than the SS files. > > > that most if not all the material > > currently circulating about MMYs alleged sexuality has been put about > > solely to discredit MMY, > > haha. i smell a conspiracy theory. > > And your suspicions have little basis in the actual history of the > genesis of the files. > > > simple as that, a rather ramshackle attempt > > at cocking a snoot at him, rather than an orchestrated attack, but > > perhaps a mixture of both. > > Any other possblities? > > Perhaps to share information one found interesting? > > Perhaps to provide some material, which along wit h so much other > material, experiences, knowledge, allows others to make up their minds > on things? > 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 your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLi
[FairfieldLife] Re: 7750 people learned TM in the U.S. last year - Vaj's Errors and Tricks to deny it
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Michael, > > Do you recall a few weeks ago when Israel started bombing Lebanon > and many political pundits from Europe and the Arab world said: > Israel may have been justified in attacking Hezbollah but their > response is disproportionate? > > Well, you doth protest too much. Get over it; even if YOUR figures > are right about initiations, the numbers SUCK. > > So don't be so defensive. The TMO is, basically, dead. Now, you > and I both as regular TMers may be unhappy about that but going > overboard in your defense of a horrible marketing approach on the > part of the TMO and MMY (one that's been going on for the better > part of the last 25 years) is sad. Michael doesn't think the numbers are important, Shemp, remember? The only reason he went through this exercise is to demonstrate that Vaj doesn't know what he's talking about. 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 your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: "God of the Genome"
I thought this dalmation (spelling per caption) was particularly cute. Curtis, you may want to look closely at the dog's friend. No evidence of disc damage from yogic flying that i can see. http://hometown.aol.com/trademarkanimal/images/dalmation,%20bill%20blass.jpg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > > > > I think he means "non-zero probability" > > > > that human beans will witness one of God's interventions. > > > > > > Small pet peeve: its human beings, not beans. :) > > > > I'm talking about human beans, actually. > > > > > But, yes, thank you for the dalmation correction. > > > > Um, apparently not. > > Well a LOT of people, make my mistake > > http://images.google.com/images?q=dalmation+&hl=en&hs=ziB&lr=&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&sa=X&oi=images&ct=title > > Popular usage may soon change the "old" spelling. :) > > Anyway, read what I mean, not what I say (or spell). :) > 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 your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: "God of the Genome"
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning > wrote: > > > > > Um, apparently not. > > > > Well a LOT of people, make my mistake http://images.google.com/images?q=dalmation+&hl=en&hs=ziB&lr=&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&sa=X&oi=images&ct=title> > Yes, that's what I said. That's why I made the > correction, you see. But the 4000 mispelled dogs are sure cute, arent' they? 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 your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] [was Re: Number of people learning TM ] Vaj's trap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Mason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... and the stories have sounded no more clear as time has gone > on. To me, and this is not universal, I knew or was on courses with most of the people in SS. To me, most were credible as people. Different than say, if SS were written by strangers, or worse, the top 10 posters on FFL. And SS collaborated explicit things I had heard 25 years earlier. Thus, SS files was perhaps more credible for me than for you. > Now to assume MMY's 'guilt' on the basis of third-hand material > is very faulty. Its odd, to me, how people wrap "extra stuff" around more simple events. "Guilt" ? I know you use the term loosely, but there is no i) legal, and most would argue no ii) moral crime here. It may be an iii) ethical abuse (younger women) but I don't buy that. Jennifer was, based on her attendance at my TTC the year before, and appearances, probably 23-24 at the time of her "reading mail" to MMY. (Though she was was probably not mistaken as 'the chosen one' as Tom apparently thought he was). And she, while graceful and refined, IMO, is not someone I would have termed as sheltered or naive. Demure perhaps. Adults do things, are responsible for their choices -- even if they regret them later, and are ill-effected by them. Perhaps it was iv) an abuse of power -- teacher / student -- I have argued that in the past -- but have recanted some. When pants are down, or dhotis and dresses on the floor, power dynamics may diminish -- or reverse, wobble, and occilate -- who has power over whom when nakedness befalls? So who (what crazy bastards :) ) is "assuming guilt" when, at least IMO, guilt is a non-issue? A more corect rendering of your sentence would be, IMO, " Now to assume the truth of the allegations on the basis of third-hand material is very faulty. " Well, even then, there is a case being made by SS, see my comments above on credible sources. But more importantly, even with credible sources, i don't have terribly strong opinions that the stories are true or not. I look at it, as many of the uncertainties in life, probabilistically. Much more importantly, i don't have strong reactions one way or another if SS is true or not. To me, the impact of the stories being true is not large for me. I figure a yogi knows something more than me about energy flows. And its his business. And even if not, i don't walk out on other teachers and mentors because they banged a 24-yr old attractive blonde. For some, I actually silently applaud. > So for me the problem I have with the 'Sexy Sadie' file is not about > whether it has been published, just that it does not 'scan' well. Thats not a universal problem, thats a problem you have with them. > In > fact many years ago I had the same feeling about Erik Von Daniken's > books, and then I watched a documentary which took his claims apart ... So you have a history of problems in this area. "very interesting..." :) > In the case of the allegations about MMYs sexuality it is not that I > disbelieve all the claims made, Ok, a shift in positions? > just that I doubt MMY ever had actual > sexual intercourse with a woman (however close he might have come). OK. So if he, naked, was about to have intercourse with a naked willing 24-yrold participant, but didn't -- is that a huge distinction for you compared to if he did? > Actually, for the record, I suspect "I suspect" are key words. Pure opinion, no fact. Much less persuasive than the SS files. > that most if not all the material > currently circulating about MMYs alleged sexuality has been put about > solely to discredit MMY, haha. i smell a conspiracy theory. And your suspicions have little basis in the actual history of the genesis of the files. > simple as that, a rather ramshackle attempt > at cocking a snoot at him, rather than an orchestrated attack, but > perhaps a mixture of both. Any other possblities? Perhaps to share information one found interesting? Perhaps to provide some material, which along wit h so much other material, experiences, knowledge, allows others to make up their minds on things? 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 your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: 7750 people learned TM in the U.S. last year - Vaj's Errors and Tricks to deny it
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Dean Goodman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, in response to what Michael Dean > > Goodman wrote about the number of TM initiations in SE Florida and > > extrapolating them to make a guess at the number of initiations na- > > tionally: > > [big snip of Michael's original post] > > >>Toward the end of his post, Michael said: > > >>I don't have any reason to believe that my local area is all that > >>different from many other areas with recertified teachers around the > >>country. > > > > Vaj replies: > > > It would depend on the area. I have a home there and have lived on > > and off in the "Gold Coast" of FL for the last 30 years. > > > > It's one of the wealthiest areas of the country. > > OPENING REMARKS Dear Michael, Do you recall a few weeks ago when Israel started bombing Lebanon and many political pundits from Europe and the Arab world said: Israel may have been justified in attacking Hezbollah but their response is disproportionate? Well, you doth protest too much. Get over it; even if YOUR figures are right about initiations, the numbers SUCK. So don't be so defensive. The TMO is, basically, dead. Now, you and I both as regular TMers may be unhappy about that but going overboard in your defense of a horrible marketing approach on the part of the TMO and MMY (one that's been going on for the better part of the last 25 years) is sad. I'm embarrassed for you. Let it go. > > Dear Vaj, > > My general reaction to your clever but feeble attempt to negate my remarks, > to do your typical "one-upsmanship" routine, to create a cloud of words that > play upon misunderstanding and misdirection, to mislead people that the num- > ber of TM initiations is lower than I intelligently estimated in order to > promote your anti-TM agenda - Vaj I say to you, with a big smile on my face: > > Do you need reading glasses? > Or are you from another planet - and English is a remote language for you? > Or is your need to manifest negativity toward anything "TM" so intensely > gripping that you'll toss your integrity to the wind? > > Somehow you pretend you are "replying" to what I wrote, but it feels like > you didn't actually slow down, read it, and take in the obvious meaning. > You just used my remarks as a jumping off point to spread negativity, > doubt, and misinformation. You are one slippery, dark dude. > > > VAJ CLAIMS HE'S AN EXPERT ON SE FLORIDA - WRONG! > > Let's actually shine the light of awareness on your "reply": > > 1. You say that you've lived on and off in the "Gold Coast" of Florida > for the last 30 years. > > I assume you're saying that, in order to establish, as usual, that you are > more 'expert' on the topic at hand (the demographics of SE Florida) than I > or anyone else, even though I live here full-time, have for years, and I'm > a very intelligent person who networks here extensively, regularly travels > the whole area, publishes newsletters and creates events throughout the > area, and loves paying attention to socio-economic details. > > So you're going to contradict me, and "correct" me about local socio- > economics? This should be good for a few laughs... Let's have at it. ;) > > If we actually take a slightly deeper look at your words, you just appear > foolish, not 'expert'. This is what I notice about so many of your posts: > you have a veneer of expertise, an appearance of knowledge, but it's just > smoke and mirrors, just illusion. Poke a little into the words and there's > no substance there. "Where's the beef?" > > a. By your own words, you admit that you're a "snow bird", an on- and- > off northern visitor who dabbles at Florida life when it's cold up north, > and you admit you live on the "Gold Coast". I'm assuming that, like > many snow birds, especially those who live along the ocean, that maybe > you don't see much of the other 98% of SE Florida, and maybe you inter- > act quite a lot with other snow birds and not permanent Floridians... > because you seem so ignorant about SE Florida in your remarks here. > > > VAJ CLAIMS SE FLORIDA IS AMONG THE WEALTHIEST AREA'S IN THE U.S. - WRONG! > > b. My original post was very clear. I wrote about the initiations in a > big, 3 county metro area - Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach Counties - > running at least 100 miles long by 15 miles wide (1500 sq. miles), encom- > passing 6 million people. You couldn't have missed that point. > > Yet, you cleverly tried to mislead people by pretending that I was talking > about the "Gold Coast" region - a very small, wealthy subsection of the > much bigger area that I clearly stated I was describing. The Gold Coast > is an expression used down here for an area of prime, super-high- priced > land running along or near the ocean, often filled with expensive high > rises or mansions, and the most liberal definition would includ
[FairfieldLife] Re: Number of people learning TM (was: Victory Beef or War?)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" > > wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > "> Enjoying pain implies empathy, just inverted." > > > > > > > > No. That is not how they are processing it according to this > > > > author. A sadist may operate the way you describe, from empathy. > > > > But the result is that sociopaths experience pleasure in > > tormenting > > > > others as if it is a game and they are winning. Are you arguing > > > > points from a book you haven't read? > > > > > > I believe he was commenting on what *you* said, > > > actually: "Wherever they are they take delight > > > in tormenting people." You did read the book, > > > right? > > > > > > Also Sal's remark (although she hasn't read the > > > book): > > > > > > "Right, most just live for the thrill of > > > tormenting others, in either petty or much > > > larger ways, whatever they can get away with." > > > > > > Neither of these characterizations shows up in > > > any of the material I've read about sociopathy. > > > > > > To the extent that sociopaths "torment" people, > > > they do it as a way of getting something they > > > want from them; they don't do it just for the > > > fun of it. The "delight" is in getting what they > > > wanted, not in seeing the other person in pain. > > > That was Lawson's point, I think. > > > > > > You seem to know the field well. > > > > The vacuum left by Barry is now being filled by Shemp... > Nah, I don't have either the patience or the attention span to give her anything other than the opportunity to be my straight man. 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 your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [FairfieldLife] Fairfield/MVC Course Photos
Sal, I had the same response. It felt really nice looking at those photos. --- Sal Sunshine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nice pictures, George, thanks for posting them! > Almost feels like old > times, looking at those. I hope whoever is there is > having good > experiences and will want to come back. Please post > any others you > come across. > > Sal > __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com 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 your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] [was Re: Number of people learning TM ] Vaj's trap
I'd be happy to revise my opinion, I am not attached one way or the other on this subject. Same with 'where did the TM teaching come from?', I don't have a fixed outcome in mind for that either, though I suspect that MMY's teachings were fairly predictably Hindu, until he got close to the USA. Coincidentally, it was then that he opted for the 'fixed donations' route too. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > on 8/7/06 4:32 PM, Paul Mason at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I have been practising transcendental meditation regularly for well > > over three decades now, but that has not made me a 'true believer'. > > But, I am a firm believer about one thing at least and that is in > > using proper methodology for the purposes of detection work. > > > I believe that as time goes on, the evidence will become more convincing, > and you¹ll end up revising your opinion. You might already have done so, had > you had the conversations I¹ve had. > 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 your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [FairfieldLife] [was Re: Number of people learning TM ] Vaj's trap
Title: Re: [FairfieldLife] [was Re: Number of people learning TM ] Vaj's trap on 8/7/06 4:32 PM, Paul Mason at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been practising transcendental meditation regularly for well over three decades now, but that has not made me a 'true believer'. But, I am a firm believer about one thing at least and that is in using proper methodology for the purposes of detection work. I believe that as time goes on, the evidence will become more convincing, and you’ll end up revising your opinion. You might already have done so, had you had the conversations I’ve had. __._,_.___ 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 Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___
Re: [FairfieldLife] Hoi Rick Archer,,, Past Life Regression.???
--- Jason Spock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sir Rick Archer, I found this comment in > another forum. What is your opinion on this.?? > >"" I find it amusing that everyone who > 'regresses' to a past life seems to have led an > exciting existence as a nobleman, diplomat, > courtesan, soldier, pirate, painter, musician, etc. > Nobody ever seems to discover that they were a > filthy ignorant peasant who led a dreary, brutal > life and died of an infected cut at the age of 28. drummer> Makes ya wonder what happened to the souls of all > those slaves who built the pyramids and such."" SSRS has a procedure called the "Eternity Process" that is done on a one to one basis with someone trained by him in the process. You experientially allow yourself to "unstress" specific samskaras from past lives. I did it about 2 years ago. Very interesing process. You're not hypnotized and no content suggestions are made to you. And by the way, I happened to be one of those slaves that built the pyramids, but I fell off one of the blocks and fractured my skull and died. I was 18. At least it was in my chitta. Another interesting thing was to experience various people that I'm related too today popping up in various guises in different past lives. For instance, in a a past life in Norway in the mid 1800's my youngest daughter is now my wife and my oldest son is now my father. In that life he drowned at about the age of 10. Now, is all this true and actually past lives. I don't have a clue, but it is amazing at all the naratives the unrole in the awareness with this process. > > > > > - > See the all-new, redesigned Yahoo.com. Check it out. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com 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 your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: 7750 people learned TM in the U.S. last year - Vaj's Errors and Tricks to de
Michael's formula is 155 centers x 50 avg initiations. The 155 centers with recerts seems high - I'm talking about really active centers, not just an address/phone. The recert course had a little over 200 CPs as I remember, and about 1/3 were staff who were going back to staff jobs, so that leaves about 155. Every single recert I know who went out to teach TM has since come back due to inability to support themselves. The ones I know who are still out are focused on real estate work, not initiations. Obviously I don't know the vast majority of recerts, but assuming some are teaching as couples I just don't see how you get 155 active centers run by recerts. Michael goes to great length to show that his area of 6 million is about average financially. The pop. of the US is about 50 times greater than his area, so if his area really is average then you could estimate total US initiations at 50 x 50 avg initiations, or 2550 total. Who knows if SE Florida is average as for as TM initiations go? I think Michael mentioned in the past that an MD and his wife were the recerts there -- if that's right then they would represent an above average quality level of intro lecturer, at least as important as the financial demographics. Of course, there would be no need for debate if the TMO released figures. Didn't someone post some info on the official number of inititations last year? Can anyone find this info?? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Dean Goodman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, in response to what Michael Dean > > Goodman wrote about the number of TM initiations in SE Florida and > > extrapolating them to make a guess at the number of initiations na- > > tionally: > > [big snip of Michael's original post] > > >>Toward the end of his post, Michael said: > > >>I don't have any reason to believe that my local area is all that > >>different from many other areas with recertified teachers around the > >>country. > > > > Vaj replies: > > > It would depend on the area. I have a home there and have lived on > > and off in the "Gold Coast" of FL for the last 30 years. > > > > It's one of the wealthiest areas of the country. > > OPENING REMARKS > > Dear Vaj, > > My general reaction to your clever but feeble attempt to negate my remarks, > to do your typical "one-upsmanship" routine, to create a cloud of words that > play upon misunderstanding and misdirection, to mislead people that the num- > ber of TM initiations is lower than I intelligently estimated in order to > promote your anti-TM agenda - Vaj I say to you, with a big smile on my face: > > Do you need reading glasses? > Or are you from another planet - and English is a remote language for you? > Or is your need to manifest negativity toward anything "TM" so intensely > gripping that you'll toss your integrity to the wind? > > Somehow you pretend you are "replying" to what I wrote, but it feels like > you didn't actually slow down, read it, and take in the obvious meaning. > You just used my remarks as a jumping off point to spread negativity, > doubt, and misinformation. You are one slippery, dark dude. > > > VAJ CLAIMS HE'S AN EXPERT ON SE FLORIDA - WRONG! > > Let's actually shine the light of awareness on your "reply": > > 1. You say that you've lived on and off in the "Gold Coast" of Florida > for the last 30 years. > > I assume you're saying that, in order to establish, as usual, that you are > more 'expert' on the topic at hand (the demographics of SE Florida) than I > or anyone else, even though I live here full-time, have for years, and I'm > a very intelligent person who networks here extensively, regularly travels > the whole area, publishes newsletters and creates events throughout the > area, and loves paying attention to socio-economic details. > > So you're going to contradict me, and "correct" me about local socio- > economics? This should be good for a few laughs... Let's have at it. ;) > > If we actually take a slightly deeper look at your words, you just appear > foolish, not 'expert'. This is what I notice about so many of your posts: > you have a veneer of expertise, an appearance of knowledge, but it's just > smoke and mirrors, just illusion. Poke a little into the words and there's > no substance there. "Where's the beef?" > > a. By your own words, you admit that you're a "snow bird", an on-and- > off northern visitor who dabbles at Florida life when it's cold up north, > and you admit you live on the "Gold Coast". I'm assuming that, like > many snow birds, especially those who live along the ocean, that maybe > you don't see much of the other 98% of SE Florida, and maybe you inter- > act quite a lot with other snow birds and not permanent Floridians... > because you seem so ignorant about SE Florida in your remarks here. > > > VAJ CLAIMS SE FLORIDA IS AMONG THE WEALTHIEST AREA'S IN THE U.S. - WRONG! > > b. My original post was very clear. I wrote
[FairfieldLife] Re: Hoi Rick Archer,,, Past Life Regression.???
I don't recall being incarnated as a human before, however, I have long suspected I have been a bear, however one of my brothers tells me we were brothers before (in the Panjab), so who knows, perhaps he was a bear too? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer wrote: > > > It may > > be, though, that the recent lifetimes of people nearing enlightenment in > > this lifetime (many on this forum) have been more interesting. > > Why? When cleaning out a garbage can, it usually gets smellier near > the bottom, almost empty, can. :) > 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 your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] [was Re: Number of people learning TM ] Vaj's trap
I have been practising transcendental meditation regularly for well over three decades now, but that has not made me a 'true believer'. But, I am a firm believer about one thing at least and that is in using proper methodology for the purposes of detection work. The whole sex scandal story about MMY has made extremelely dodgey reading since the first claims filtered through into the public domain, and the stories have sounded no more clear as time has gone on. Now to assume MMY's 'guilt' on the basis of third-hand material is very faulty. So for me the problem I have with the 'Sexy Sadie' file is not about whether it has been published, just that it does not 'scan' well. In fact many years ago I had the same feeling about Erik Von Daniken's books, and then I watched a documentary which took his claims apart and then confronted the man (who wriggled uncomfortably, made a few shifty comments and retreated into silence looking very frightened indeed). In the case of the allegations about MMYs sexuality it is not that I disbelieve all the claims made, just that I doubt MMY ever had actual sexual intercourse with a woman (however close he might have come). Actually, for the record, I suspect that most if not all the material currently circulating about MMYs alleged sexuality has been put about solely to discredit MMY, simple as that, a rather ramshackle attempt at cocking a snoot at him, rather than an orchestrated attack, but perhaps a mixture of both. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Mason" > wrote: > > > > > But perhaps Peter is correct when he > > > suggested the problem lies in the fact that the core topics about > >> TM > > > & MMY have already been dealt with, over and over again. > > > > > > WEeel > > > The stuff that has already been dealt with is often dealt with in a > > piss-poor manner. > > Peter and Paul are referring to quite a large volume of posts written > prior to your arrival. Did you go through the archives and read them all? > > ... > > > My impression is, this turns out to be the quality of reference that > > people here use to hash > > out these points "over and over again." > > Opps. Your impression? You mean you are saying a generally wonderful > set of posts and exchanges, and/or their references, is piss-poor -- > and you have not even read them? Oh My! > > > BTW, Wiki isn't considered the most reliable of online sources of > info, and by Wiki rules, > > NONE of the Sexy Sadie files is admissable as a reference because > it's not published > > anywhere. > > I assume Wiki would not rely on your impressions either. Since they > are um "piss-poor". > > But your Wiki reference is instersting. Is your logic stream leading > you to conclude that if something is not published, it is unreliable? > If not, why did you bring up the Wiki reference? > > Do you know what is in your refrigerator? Or what your GF, if and when > you have one, likes? Are these things published anywhere? Is your > informatin for such matters relaible? > 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 your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: "God of the Genome"
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > > > > I think he means "non-zero probability" > > > > that human beans will witness one of God's interventions. > > > > > > Small pet peeve: its human beings, not beans. :) > > > > I'm talking about human beans, actually. > > > > > But, yes, thank you for the dalmation correction. > > > > Um, apparently not. > > Well a LOT of people, make my mistake Yes, that's what I said. That's why I made the correction, you see. 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 your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] [was Re: Number of people learning TM ] Vaj's trap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" wrote: > > > Or even by those who insist that their new belief > > > system be well supported, > > People insist that others support their own personal belief systems? Obviously not. See if you can think of another way to read it. 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 your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re:of the DC course
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning wrote: > > > Thus, if it were "Mother of all Palaminos" -- it would be scary. > > Mother of all Dalmations -- less so -- but um discomforting. > > (Minor pet peeve because it's such a common error: > Dalmatian, not Dalmation. Oh, er, and it's > palomino, not palamino.) Exploratory tangent: What does precise spelling matter, if the meaning is clear? Did you think I was referring to a different breed, perhaps different species, other than Dalmatians. like those tanzanian birds the "Dalmations" (a made up species). And did you think I was not referring to a horse, despite the prior horse contextual reference, and that I was perhaps referring to something other than a palomino horse -- like perhaps a palamino olive? :) 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 your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Hoi Rick Archer,,, Past Life Regression.???
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It may > be, though, that the recent lifetimes of people nearing enlightenment in > this lifetime (many on this forum) have been more interesting. Why? When cleaning out a garbage can, it usually gets smellier near the bottom, almost empty, can. :) 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 your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: "God of the Genome"
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > > I think he means "non-zero probability" > > > that human beans will witness one of God's interventions. > > > > Small pet peeve: its human beings, not beans. :) > > I'm talking about human beans, actually. > > > But, yes, thank you for the dalmation correction. > > Um, apparently not. Well a LOT of people, make my mistake http://images.google.com/images?q=dalmation+&hl=en&hs=ziB&lr=&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&sa=X&oi=images&ct=title Popular usage may soon change the "old" spelling. :) Anyway, read what I mean, not what I say (or spell). :) 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 your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Hoi Rick Archer,,, Past Life Regression.???
Recent studies also indicate that they were suffering from Chronic Malaria. The were extremely weakened by Malaria and were suffering from constant fatigue. cardemaister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 20:59:26 -Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Hoi Rick Archer,,, Past Life Regression.??? According to some recent studies, the pyramids were NOTbuilt by slaves Jason Spock ...> wrote:>> Sir Rick Archer, I found this comment in another forum. What is your opinion on this.??> > "" I find it amusing that everyone who 'regresses' to a past life seems to have led an exciting existence as a nobleman, diplomat, courtesan, soldier, pirate, painter, musician, etc. Nobody ever seems to discover that they were a filthy ignorant peasant who led a dreary, brutal life and died of an infected cut at the age of 28. Makes ya wonder what happened to the souls of all those slaves who built the pyramids and such.""> Talk is cheap. Use Yahoo! Messenger to make PC-to-Phone calls. Great rates starting at 1¢/min. __._,_.___ 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 Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___
Re: [FairfieldLife] Hoi Rick Archer,,, Past Life Regression.???
Title: Re: [FairfieldLife] Hoi Rick Archer,,, Past Life Regression.??? on 8/7/06 3:30 PM, Jason Spock at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sir Rick Archer, I found this comment in another forum. What is your opinion on this.?? "" I find it amusing that everyone who 'regresses' to a past life seems to have led an exciting existence as a nobleman, diplomat, courtesan, soldier, pirate, painter, musician, etc. Nobody ever seems to discover that they were a filthy ignorant peasant who led a dreary, brutal life and died of an infected cut at the age of 28. Makes ya wonder what happened to the souls of all those slaves who built the pyramids and such."" Not sure why you’d want my opinion, but I tend to agree with the above. “Most men live lives of quiet desperation,” thus most people’s past lives are probably as dreary as their current one, maybe more so, if you agree with MMY’s comment that the past is always a lesser developed state. It may be, though, that the recent lifetimes of people nearing enlightenment in this lifetime (many on this forum) have been more interesting. __._,_.___ 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 Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___
[FairfieldLife] [was Re: Number of people learning TM ] Vaj's trap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > > I've been told that the TBers have ruined the list. I guess no-one > > likes to hear their NEW > > > belief-system challenged by people who embrace the old one... to develop a whole beleif system, an new epistimology perhaps, about TM, or "non"TM? What kind of person actually does that? On this list i find a whole spctrum of experiences, logic, faith, hope, dogma, analysis, cognitive errors and ego barricades about TM or "nonTM" -- but few if any "belief systems. Do these systems begin with basic axioms? And work out to postulates? > > Or even by those who insist that their new belief > > system be well supported, People insist that others support their own personal belief systems? Even assuming that you mean beliefs and and not belief systems, i don't see a lot of insistance that "others must believe my beliefs". Granted, there is at times a lot of odd fist pounding, irrationality, name calling, rudeness, cognitive and factual errors, etc. And at times, rarer than in the past, there are great expressions of facts, reason and well digested/inner-interpreted experiences. A lot of what is going on here, IMO, is people working out and refining their own beliefs -- as they attempt to show others the merits of a particular view. And if you you don't believe me, I will throw a tantrum . I INSIST you believe ME! :) 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 your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Hoi Rick Archer,,, Past Life Regression.???
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jason Spock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Sir Rick Archer, I found this comment in another forum. What is your opinion on this.?? > >"" I find it amusing that everyone who 'regresses' to a past life seems to have led an exciting existence as a nobleman, diplomat, courtesan, soldier, pirate, painter, musician, etc. Nobody ever seems to discover that they were a filthy ignorant peasant who led a dreary, brutal life and died of an infected cut at the age of 28. Makes ya wonder what happened to the souls of all those slaves who built the pyramids and such."" > According to some recent studies, the pyramids were NOT built by slaves > > > > - > See the all-new, redesigned Yahoo.com. Check it out. > 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 your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: 7750 people learned TM in the U.S. last year - Vaj's Errors and Tricks to deny it
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Dean Goodman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [Big Snip] > But one's emotional interpretation depends on what spin you're trying to give it [Big Snip] REASONABLE ESTIMATE: 7750 PEOPLE LEARNED TM IN THE U.S. THIS PAST YEAR > > Back to our main story: > In my original post (and now amended to use the higher initiation num- > bers), I went on to take this fact (number of local initiations) and ex- > pand upon it: 50 initiations here times 155 similar TM-teaching loca- > tions around the country (see www.tm.org) = 7750 people starting TM in > the U.S. this past year (not counting the black market initiations). Since the Movement is so good at blowing its own horn -- I think most people would agree they've got it down to a science -- why aren't they talking it up, issuing press releases and telling all the Invincible America course participants about these initiation numbers? Why, at 35+ years on, would the Movement suddenly stop blowing its own horn about the success of the recertified teachers? The Movement has a major credibility issue not only with those who do not follow it any longer, but even the TBs are cynical or at least wary of claims made by the TMO -- even if the claims are true. One case in point: Any idea when those pundits are going to show up in FF? I was recently cleaning out some saved e-mails and found one from Diane Comey announcing: "The Pundits Are Coming" So where are they? A lot of the faithful who would truly LIKE to be faithful have lost faith and moved on. 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 your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Hoi ShempMcGurk, Maharishi wanted Capitalism to Go.???
AntidoteEnd to central planning Thursday July 27 2006 16:49 IST by Sauvik ChakravertiO a central planner, the problem is simple: resources are given and these have to be allocated according to known priorities. However, to those who believe in free markets, the problem is different. Resources are not given to any one mind. The resources themselves, and the knowledge of their potential alternative uses, are entirely scattered amongst the populace. The solution, then, is to allow each individual perfect liberty with which to carry out his own plans regarding consumption, investment, saving and so on, completely outside government control. Instead of Manmohan, Montek & Co, lets have each citizen as a free planner of his own economic life: one billion free individuals as purposeful economic agents. Note that this dispersed and disaggregated individual planning is instrumental in getting us all our daily needs. Fruits and vegetables are abundantly available to us because the decisions to grow, to wholesale, to retail and to buy are all separately taken by millions of free individuals. No one mind planned how many mangoes will be bought or sold in any market or at any price. Individual orchard owners, individual wholesalers and individual retailers took independent, competitive decisions based on their own plans. Hence mangoes are abundantly available. If there had been a Ministry of Mangoes, we wouldnt get any, because a single mind cannot obtain the knowledge required for the task. Central planning fails for precisely this reason: we dont get roads, electricity and water because all these are being planned. With free markets, all these would be abundant as independent businessmen made independent investments and attempted to supply our needs. This is already visible now, when phones, cars, motorcycles and scooters are abundantly available: these were scarce under planning. As Milton Friedman cautioned: If you give the Sahara Desert to the government, there will be a shortage of sand in five years. As another Nobel laureate, Friedrich Hayek warned, Where governments plan, the private plans of citizens fail. The sheer marvel of the free market is that it enables us to use resources and knowledge without any conscious mind controlling it. The market mechanism and the price system that guides it are not of human design and do not need human guidance. (They could do with more human appreciation of their wonder and indispensability!) They enable us to extend the span of our utilisation of resources far, far beyond the control of any single mind. The marvel of the free market enables us to solve the problem of resource allocation without the need for any conscious direction. We can throw out government planning. Further, the price system provides the necessary inducements to each individual to do desirable things like using resources economically (like save on petrol when prices rise) without anyone having to tell him what to do. For this understanding, humanity owes a great debt to Friedrich August von Hayek. One of the most curious decisions of the Nobel Prize committee was making Hayek share the 1974 Economics prize with the high priest of central planning for Third World countries, Gunnar Myrdal. The Indian government then hugely felicitated Myrdal, bestowing on him the Jawaharlal Nehru award. Hayek was entirely ignored by Bharat Sarkar. Why? Gunnar Myrdal believed that the poor people of the Third World were hopelessly so, unable to take rational economic decisions in the market and therefore in need of these decisions being taken for them by an intellectual-moral elite: central planners. Expertise made them an intellectual elite; and their immunity to the profit motive that guides businessmen made them a moral elite. Myrdal believed that central planners of Third World countries like India were Platonic Guardians. The masses of ordinary people were illiterate and irrational, or just plain stupid. If Gunnar Myrdal had ever stepped into any Third World market, he would have seen there that the poorest people scout around most energetically to get the best deals. Poor people bargain hard while the rich get easily conned! Like all socialists, including Amartya Sen, Myrdal believed that angelic superminds served the state while the people were dumb and dumber. Myrdal supported central planning; Amartya supports education: both believe that knowledge exists in the state and that the ignorant people are in need of this knowledge. The state should plan the economy; the state should educate the people. The state is a fount of knowledge. Today, it is time to recognise the fact that it is this socialist state that is ignorant. Our shoddy public administration proves it. Its education is but propaganda: What else is the subject called Indian Economics, by which the young are forced to study every 5-Year Plan ever made, from the 1st to the 11th? On the other hand, the people
[FairfieldLife] Re: "God of the Genome"
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > > I think he means "non-zero probability" > > > that human beans will witness one of God's interventions. > > > > Small pet peeve: its human beings, not beans. :) > > I'm talking about human beans, actually. Pinto, garbonzo, black, mung or kidney? > > But, yes, thank you for the dalmation correction. > > Um, apparently not. Damn! :) I knew, again, I should have looked it up. Dalmation. > 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 your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] [was Re: Number of people learning TM ] Vaj's trap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning wrote: > > > > I assume Wiki would not rely on your impressions either. Since they > > are um "piss-poor". > > True enough. Wikipedia requires some kind of citation for everything. There are quite a > few guidelines for what can be said and how it must be cited and what kind of citations are > acceptable. i am not challenging you on the rules, but i read a lot of wikipedia, and there LOTS of statements without cites. In time, more cites come. But articles without exhastive cites are not, generally, deleted. Articles get better over time. i find Wiki to be an incredible resourse. And I love their related projects. WikiBooks -- textbooks on many of not all subjects eventually -- free of charge, and instantly distributable. WikiSource -- free online text content WikiCommons -- free online media content And my favorite Wikiversity -- developing -- but eventually on-line lectures, course materials, tests, certification, etc, for all disciplines. potentially, a free, on-line, university education for anyone world wide. > > > > But your Wiki reference is instersting. Is your logic stream leading > > you to conclude that if something is not published, it is unreliable? > > If not, why did you bring up the Wiki reference? > > Just to point out that the dependence on the Sexy Sadie and other such material ... doesn't even rise to the level of relibability a > Wikipedia entry. i got it. as to SS material being " used to justify much of what is said here" --- see below. Your perspective is quite different than mine on the material being used as "justification" and "attacks" > > > > Do you know what is in your refrigerator? Or what your GF, if and when > > you have one, likes? Are these things published anywhere? Is your > > informatin for such matters relaible? > > > > Is such information used to justify attacks on people and organizations? Is such used to > justify the arguments made in favor of such attacks? i don't know if you textually attack ex-GFs or not. :) However, while I am sure you can cite examples of the SS material being used to "justify attacks on people and organizations" -- i don't think thats the majority use. If I am typical, I read it, said ok, "interesting" -- raised some issues about bias and perspective (Ned comes to mind) -- and then went ahead with my day. I didn't use the material to attack M or the TMO. I doubt more than a handful of readers use it that way. Except of course the "sociopaths" :) 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 your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Yogic-flying damages Vertebrae, discs and knees - -
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jason Spock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I knew some adverse side-effects would come out of >Yogic-flying. Compressed Discs and injured Vertebrae. >That is why I always said Sudharshana Kriya is much >safer. Has anybody sued the TM-org on this.?? >Criminal negligence.?? Gordon Bennet. Get a grip. Take responsibility for your life. We all know the warning signs of physical activity that could cause problems. Or, alternatively, give up skate boarding, swimming, jogging, looking out of train windows, cycling, walking, going out, staying in. Uns. 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 your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Hoi Rick Archer,,, Past Life Regression.???
Sir Rick Archer, I found this comment in another forum. What is your opinion on this.?? "" I find it amusing that everyone who 'regresses' to a past life seems to have led an exciting existence as a nobleman, diplomat, courtesan, soldier, pirate, painter, musician, etc. Nobody ever seems to discover that they were a filthy ignorant peasant who led a dreary, brutal life and died of an infected cut at the age of 28. Makes ya wonder what happened to the souls of all those slaves who built the pyramids and such."" See the all-new, redesigned Yahoo.com. Check it out. __._,_.___ 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 Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___
[FairfieldLife] Re: "God of the Genome"
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > I think he means "non-zero probability" > > that human beans will witness one of God's interventions. > > Small pet peeve: its human beings, not beans. :) I'm talking about human beans, actually. > But, yes, thank you for the dalmation correction. Um, apparently not. 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 your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] [was Re: Number of people learning TM ] Vaj's trap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Mason" > wrote: > > > > > But perhaps Peter is correct when he > > > suggested the problem lies in the fact that the core topics about > >> TM > > > & MMY have already been dealt with, over and over again. > > > > > > WEeel > > > The stuff that has already been dealt with is often dealt with in a > > piss-poor manner. > > Peter and Paul are referring to quite a large volume of posts written > prior to your arrival. Did you go through the archives and read them all? > A good portion of them actually. It took almost forever. Do you recall a period on this forum when I was responding to articles posted several yaers ago? > ... > > > My impression is, this turns out to be the quality of reference that > > people here use to hash > > out these points "over and over again." > > Opps. Your impression? You mean you are saying a generally wonderful > set of posts and exchanges, and/or their references, is piss-poor -- > and you have not even read them? Oh My! Those that I read, and I read a lot. > > > BTW, Wiki isn't considered the most reliable of online sources of > info, and by Wiki rules, > > NONE of the Sexy Sadie files is admissable as a reference because > it's not published > > anywhere. > > I assume Wiki would not rely on your impressions either. Since they > are um "piss-poor". True enough. Wikipedia requires some kind of citation for everything. There are quite a few guidelines for what can be said and how it must be cited and what kind of citations are acceptable. > > But your Wiki reference is instersting. Is your logic stream leading > you to conclude that if something is not published, it is unreliable? > If not, why did you bring up the Wiki reference? Just to point out that the dependence on the Sexy Sadie and other such material that is used to justify much of what is said here doesn't even rise to the level of relibability a Wikipedia entry. > > Do you know what is in your refrigerator? Or what your GF, if and when > you have one, likes? Are these things published anywhere? Is your > informatin for such matters relaible? > Is such information used to justify attacks on people and organizations? Is such used to justify the arguments made in favor of such attacks? 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 your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: 7750 people learned TM in the U.S. last year - Vaj's Errors and Tricks to deny it
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Dean Goodman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Vaj I say to you, with a big smile on my face: Ya know, Michael, you really could stand to drop the "big smile" thing when you know you're about to tear somebody (albeit deservedly) into little shreds, at least unless you make it clear it isn't a *friendly* smile but one of anticipation, i.e., that you're looking forward to the tearing process. Otherwise it makes you look very unpleasantly hypocritical, which rather tends to detract from the effectiveness of your tirade. 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 your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: "God of the Genome"
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think he means "non-zero probability" > that human beans will witness one of God's interventions. Small pet peeve: its human beings, not beans. :) But, yes, thank you for the dalmation correction. 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 your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Yogic-flying damages Vertebrae, discs and knees - -
I knew some adverse side-effects would come out of Yogic-flying. Compressed Discs and injured Vertebrae. That is why I always said Sudharshana Kriya is much safer. Has anybody sued the TM-org on this.?? Criminal negligence.?? MarkMeredith2002 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Exactly my experience too. What are "core training workouts"? I'mgradually healing my back but have some ways to go. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues"...> wrote:> One of the first indications that all was not cool in the Emerald City> was when I was still flying and a chiropractor took my back X-rays> after I had thrown my back out. He said " So how long have you been> jogging?" I explained to him how I was practicing flying and he> explained to me the implications on my vertebrae by sitting in full> lotus and bouncing on my butt, even on foam. He showed me how that posture actually takes you butt cheeks away from protecting the spine during flying so that I was compressing my discs. It was very> visible, my bottom discs were compressed like a marathon runners. He tried to explain the implications of my behavior but, of course, I was> too enlightened for his advise at the time. I don't know if discs can> recover from such a stress but my back is great these days from all> the core training workouts I do so I can't assess if I sustained any> long term damage. What was interesting for me was that I saw my> compressed discs at the time and still continued to practice flying> until I got out of the mindset that I was doing cosmic good for> myself. I remember the sickening feeling that perhaps MMY and his> crew did not understand the implications of his program on people's> backs and I might have set myself up for a very painful old age. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Many people have injured knees and backs. My wife had to havesurgery on one knee, injured while hopping. on 8/5/06 4:13 PM, Jason Spock at [EMAIL PROTECTED].. wrote:> > Sore butts certainly yes. Has anybody developed hernia or any other> complication from this.?? See the all-new, redesigned Yahoo.com. Check it out. __._,_.___ 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 Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___
[FairfieldLife] Prudhoe Bay pipeline shut down
BP: Pipeline closing may last for months By MARY PEMBERTON, Associated Press Writer BP PLC said Monday it will replace 73 percent of the pipelines from the nation's largest oil field and that production could be closed for weeks or months, crimping the nation's oil supplies at a time of peak demand. BP, the world's second-largest oil company, began shutting down the pipelines on Monday and said it would replace 16 miles of the 22 miles of transit pipeline it operates in the Prudhoe Bay field following a leak discovered Sunday. Company officials told a news conference they did not immediately know how much it would cost to replace the lines. They will continue to keep the oil field closed and bring parts back into service once it's safe to do so. Once complete, the shutdown will cut production by 400,000 barrels a day, about 2.6 percent of supply including imports, according to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. The news drove oil prices up by $2 a barrel and boosted gasoline prices. "BP deeply regrets it has been necessary for us to take this drastic action," said Bob Malone, chairman of BP America. Read more at Yahoo News: http://tinyurl.com/fv7w8 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 your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] [was Re: Number of people learning TM ] Vaj's trap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Mason" wrote: > > > But perhaps Peter is correct when he > > suggested the problem lies in the fact that the core topics about >> TM > > & MMY have already been dealt with, over and over again. > > WEeel > The stuff that has already been dealt with is often dealt with in a > piss-poor manner. Peter and Paul are referring to quite a large volume of posts written prior to your arrival. Did you go through the archives and read them all? ... > My impression is, this turns out to be the quality of reference that > people here use to hash > out these points "over and over again." Opps. Your impression? You mean you are saying a generally wonderful set of posts and exchanges, and/or their references, is piss-poor -- and you have not even read them? Oh My! > BTW, Wiki isn't considered the most reliable of online sources of info, and by Wiki rules, > NONE of the Sexy Sadie files is admissable as a reference because it's not published > anywhere. I assume Wiki would not rely on your impressions either. Since they are um "piss-poor". But your Wiki reference is instersting. Is your logic stream leading you to conclude that if something is not published, it is unreliable? If not, why did you bring up the Wiki reference? Do you know what is in your refrigerator? Or what your GF, if and when you have one, likes? Are these things published anywhere? Is your informatin for such matters relaible? 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 your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/