[FairfieldLife] Re: You choose

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "ruthsimplicity" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - > > > > Insurance companies also support requiring everyone to have > insurance - I think the term > > is 'Universal coverage'. Meant to sound egalitarian, and admirable. > Universal coverage > > means mo

[FairfieldLife] Re: You choose

- > > Insurance companies also support requiring everyone to have insurance - I think the term > is 'Universal coverage'. Meant to sound egalitarian, and admirable. Universal coverage > means more of the same, and forces people to obtain coverage, with the same problems > of denial of claims.

[FairfieldLife] Arizona's universal health care system...for the self-employed

I would be very interested to know if ruthsimplicity and mainstream were aware of the following state-sponsored program we have here in Arizona. Healthcare Group of Arizona provides healthcare insurance to small businesses that have employees from 1 to 50. So, like myself, I am self-employed

[FairfieldLife] Re: You choose

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "ruthsimplicity" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "mainstream20016" > wrote: > > > P > > The 'less invasive form of treatment than angioplasty' example > demonstrates the > > continued decline in quality of care, as a deca

[FairfieldLife] Re: You choose

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "ruthsimplicity" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "mainstream20016" > wrote: > > > P > > The 'less invasive form of treatment than angioplasty' example > demonstrates the > > continued decline in quality of care, as a deca

[FairfieldLife] Re: You choose

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "ruthsimplicity" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I also intended to link to this American College Physician article on > health care reform. It isn't filled with political talk, but instead > backed up by good hard data. A lot to digest, but helpful if you are

[FairfieldLife] Re: You choose

I also intended to link to this American College Physician article on health care reform. It isn't filled with political talk, but instead backed up by good hard data. A lot to digest, but helpful if you are interested in US health care.

[FairfieldLife] New file uploaded to FairfieldLife

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[FairfieldLife] New file uploaded to FairfieldLife

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[FairfieldLife] Re: You choose

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "mainstream20016" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > P > The 'less invasive form of treatment than angioplasty' example demonstrates the > continued decline in quality of care, as a decade or so ago, the same rationale for > angioplasty over cardiac artery by-pass

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[FairfieldLife] Re: MMY: from activity to silence

> bob_brigante wrote: > > Parliament of Invincible Nations of Europe > 22 November 2007, MERU, Holland > > "I feel now, that having been active for all these fifty years, > the Kriya Shakti* has woken up, and has started to show > the evidence of its waking up. At least twenty-four countries > are

[FairfieldLife] Re: You choose

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "ruthsimplicity" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "mainstream20016" > wrote: > > > > > > > > Don't assume an increase in quality care accompanies Evidenced Based > medicine. Often, > > the driving force prompting BPG's

[FairfieldLife] Re: You choose

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "mainstream20016" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Don't assume an increase in quality care accompanies Evidenced Based medicine. Often, > the driving force prompting BPG's (Best Practice Guidelines) is a deliberate effort to > maximize efficiencies. 'E

[FairfieldLife] Re: Confessions of a TV series pusher

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Stu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't know how I missed that on my radar. I always liked Joss's > Buffy. Am adding it to the Netflix que. I don't think you will be disappointed, Stu. It's really unique. > Its interesting how many short series out the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: "Maharishi Effect" Quantum-Failure Essay

According to William Blake, movements always end like this--stale, authoritarian, rigid. They begin with fiery spirit and end in ashes. He describes the process in some detail and at great depth in his "Book of Urizen," which I read when I first got my children involved with TM, and I thought

[FairfieldLife] Re: "Maharishi Effect" Quantum-Failure Essay

>--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Naw. If you're following a tradition of continuous success in deep > meditation (for example), the only evidence that has any meaning >is > whether or not you succeed at your particular practice! Most yogis > could

[FairfieldLife] MMY: from activity to silence

Parliament of Invincible Nations of Europe 22 November 2007, MERU, Holland `I feel now, that having been active for all these fifty years, the Kriya Shakti* has woken up, and has started to show the evidence of its waking up. At least twenty-four countries are invincible out of 192. So I am tem

[FairfieldLife] Re: You choose

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "ruthsimplicity" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > wrote: > > > > You nailed it. I'm reading Atul Gawande's book, Complications a > > Surgens's Notes on an Imperfect Science. He wrote that great article

[FairfieldLife] MMY: Enlightenment and the Grace of God

. At a press conference times ago I had a chance to ask MMY a question. Actually I ask about "the very last step to enlightenment", but I was presented to him in this way: Question: "How is enlightenment achieved? Is the state of enlightenment achieved by mechanical means through regular p

[FairfieldLife] Selfless Consciousness Without Faith Sam Harris

http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/sam_harris/2007/01/consciousn\ ess_without_faith_1.html Selfless Consciousness Without Faith I recently spent an afternoon on the northwestern shore of th

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: "Maharishi Effect" Quantum-Failure Essay

On Dec 30, 2007, at 4:46 PM, Angela Mailander wrote: I knew Bentov. His sister-in-law was a close friend, and she told me how he had told her sister, his wife, that a plane he was scheduled to take to a conference would crash and that everyone on board would be killed. His wife said, "Ha

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: "Maharishi Effect" Quantum-Failure Essay

I knew Bentov. His sister-in-law was a close friend, and she told me how he had told her sister, his wife, that a plane he was scheduled to take to a conference would crash and that everyone on board would be killed. His wife said, "Have you thought of driving to that conference?" He said, "No

[FairfieldLife] Re: "Maharishi Effect" Quantum-Failure Essay

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I can see how, given experiences like that, we might be > tempted to say that “creation” or the “universe” or “multiverse” or whatever > you want to call it emerges from a field of pure consciousness,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Confessions of a TV series pusher

I don't know how I missed that on my radar. I always liked Joss's Buffy. Am adding it to the Netflix que. Its interesting how many short series out there that are more interesting than most movies to watch. In the last few weeks I have enjoyed, Big Love about the polygamist family in Utah, In t

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: "Maharishi Effect" Quantum-Failure Essay

On Dec 30, 2007, at 3:33 PM, Angela Mailander wrote: I can see how, given experiences like that, we might be tempted to say that “creation” or the “universe” or “multiverse” or whatever you want to call it emerges from a field of pure consciousness, but I stand with Curtis: Such experience

[FairfieldLife] Confessions of a TV series pusher

Mea cupla. I confess. I have sunk to the level of the schoolyard drug pusher. And man! was it fun! Because I have two extra bedrooms in my place in Sitges, I invited a friend from Paris, who seemed much in need of a chillout break, to come and do so here in Sitges for a week over the Christmas a

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: "Maharishi Effect" Quantum-Failure Essay

What did angels look like? Different every time. The first time I saw the phenomenon I can’t but call “angel,” I was fifteen years old. I’d rigged a large coffee can and a Bunsen burner in the garage to make a small kiln and was enameling on copper. I like translucent enamels best, but if you

[FairfieldLife] Connecting virtue & inner experience, TM-Jihad

> "curtisdeltablues" wrote: "I think your criteria of connecting virtues with inner experiences is valid although a lot of post have been devote to the idea that you can't. Any state that doesn't show improvement in how a person treats others seems highly suspect to me." Doug writing: Yeah, peopl

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: "Maharishi Effect" Quantum-Failure Essay

On Dec 30, 2007, at 1:24 PM, mrfishey2001 wrote: The new contemplative science will function no differently the old; both are formal representations – references, they point to something else. The difference is between having pain and hearing about pain. One is certain, the other arguable - the

[FairfieldLife] Re: "Maharishi Effect" Quantum-Failure Essay

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics > students in the third or fourth year of graduate school... It is my > task to convince you not to turn away because you don't understand it. > You

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: "Maharishi Effect" Quantum-Failure Essay

On Dec 30, 2007, at 2:29 PM, dhamiltony2k5 wrote: >Vaj wrote: > > > > Since subtlety of meditation and the length or depth of meditation >are > measurable, presumably we can have some physical measurement. Yes, and on that basis we do come back to: The future for the 21st century is research

[FairfieldLife] Re: You choose

Thanks for the link! The guy is (dare I say it) enlightening. I have his second book too, Better, A Surgeon's Notes on Performance. I want to read everything this guy writes so I really appreciate the article link. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

[FairfieldLife] Re: "Maharishi Effect" Quantum-Failure Essay

>Vaj wrote: > > > > Since subtlety of meditation and the length or depth of meditation >are > measurable, presumably we can have some physical measurement. Yes, and on that basis we do come back to: The future for the 21st century is research published in respected peer-reviewed scientific

[FairfieldLife] Re: You choose

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You nailed it. I'm reading Atul Gawande's book, Complications a > Surgens's Notes on an Imperfect Science. He wrote that great article > in the New Yorker about the checklist. He says that doctors are > living

[FairfieldLife] Re: "Maharishi Effect" Quantum-Failure Essay

>--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Gillam" ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: > > I'm curious - how many people here believe > consciousness is the fundamental substrate > of creation? If you do, what evidence do you > put forth to back up your belief? > yeah, that's my experience & don'

[FairfieldLife] Re: You choose

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You nailed it. I'm reading Atul Gawande's book, Complications a > Surgens's Notes on an Imperfect Science. He wrote that great article > in the New Yorker about the checklist. Atul Gawande is one of my fa

[FairfieldLife] Re: "Maharishi Effect" Quantum-Failure Essay

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "dhamiltony2k5" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "dhamiltony2k5" > > wrote: > > > > > > essay "Quantum Consciousness, Quantum Miracles, Quantum Failure." > >It's > > > availab

[FairfieldLife] Re: You choose

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "wayback71" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A great article, and in today's New York Times the same author reported that a > government agency has just shut down all these incredibly effective programs that use > the new checklists!! It is considered "resear

[FairfieldLife] Re: You choose

You nailed it. I'm reading Atul Gawande's book, Complications a Surgens's Notes on an Imperfect Science. He wrote that great article in the New Yorker about the checklist. He says that doctors are living in a "right stuff" mentality and they don't want the lowly minions to have the power to remin

[FairfieldLife] Re: "Maharishi Effect" Quantum-Failure Essay

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since subtlety of meditation and the length or depth of meditation are measurable, presumably we can have some physical measurement. But can physical instruments capture the full breadth of what a person can experience? I th

[FairfieldLife] Re: You choose

> > > Far too many people die of infections incurred while > > > hospitalized. New emphasis on sanitary practices such > > > as washing hands is helping. > > > > There was a great article in the New Yorker a few weeks ago that > > indicated that just the use of a checklist in ICUs saved a lot o

[FairfieldLife] Re: "Maharishi Effect" Quantum-Failure Essay

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Personal experience however subtle does not by itself count as evidence. It > might satisfy you to see what you see. I have seen what I can only call angels, but does that mean angels exist? While the expe

[FairfieldLife] Re: You choose

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "ruthsimplicity" > wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > I know someone who went in for a routine operation an

[FairfieldLife] Re: Benezir Bhutto

I would call this fact-free fantasy with little understanding or knowledge of the situation in Pakistan or what the U.S. would like to achieve there. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Louis McKenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well lets think about it, if u choose. The Bush administration

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: "Maharishi Effect" Quantum-Failure Essay

On Dec 30, 2007, at 10:29 AM, Angela Mailander wrote: Personal experience however subtle does not by itself count as evidence. It might satisfy you to see what you see. I have seen what I can only call angels, but does that mean angels exist? While the experience is groovy to the max, I

[FairfieldLife] Re: "Maharishi Effect" Quantum-Failure Essay

>--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "dhamiltony2k5" > wrote: > > > > essay "Quantum Consciousness, Quantum Miracles, Quantum Failure." >It's > > available here: > > > > http://www.geoffgilpin.com/pdfs/Quantum-Failure.pdf > > >"ruthsimplicity" wrote:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Benezir Bhutto

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Louis McKenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well lets think about it, if u choose. The Bush administration has plans of > dismantling what they call Alqueda before he leaves office. He has working agreements and some sort of control over Pakistan throug

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Ron Paul's Delusion'

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > To me the most interesting thing Lincoln said about the war was that he was not so much fighting the South as he was fighting Rome. Since he is currently again in incarnation and living in Washington DC you

Re: [FairfieldLife] Eugene O'Neill's play: WAS Re: "Maharishi Effect" Quantum-Failure Essay

Thanks, Curtis, the feeling is mutual. - Original Message From: curtisdeltablues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2007 11:51:24 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Eugene O'Neill's play: WAS Re: "Maharishi Effect" Quantum-Failure Essay

[FairfieldLife] 'Til Tuesday - Coming Up Close

Nice... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7xX3lQ3qms

Re: [FairfieldLife] 'Ron Paul's Delusion'

To me the most interesting thing Lincoln said about the war was that he was not so much fighting the South as he was fighting Rome. - Original Message From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2007 8:39:56 AM Subject: Re:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: "Maharishi Effect" Quantum-Failure Essay

Personal experience however subtle does not by itself count as evidence. It might satisfy you to see what you see. I have seen what I can only call angels, but does that mean angels exist? While the experience is groovy to the max, I wouldn't call it evidence. Some folks might be tempted to

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Pope Goes 'Out on a Limb?'

Seems to me that the Pope has co-opted BushCo's plan to scare the people into compliant silence about the War on Terror and gain new powers that the people are willing to grant during times of danger. The Pope is jealous and has hundreds of millions of folks that he's now going to mold into the sa

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Benezir Bhutto

Well lets think about it, if u choose. The Bush administration has plans of dismantling what they call Alqueda before he leaves office. He has working agreements and some sort of control over Pakistan through Musharaf, so Bhutto was a big threat to that control. So she was killed..WHo di

[FairfieldLife] Re: "Maharishi Effect" Quantum-Failure Essay

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Dec 29, 2007, at 8:20 PM, shempmcgurk wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "ruthsimplicity" > > wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > T

Re: [FairfieldLife] Eugene O'Neill's play: WAS Re: "Maharishi Effect" Quantum-Failure Essay

--- curtisdeltablues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela > Mailander > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > The sea is like that. I've crossed the Atlantic > four times by ship, > and every time there were experiences like that. > The time we watched > the SS

Re: [FairfieldLife] 'Ron Paul's Delusion'

In a message dated 12/30/07 5:05:05 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lincoln fought the civil war, not to free the slaves, But to save the Union. Without the Union of the United States of America; WWII, theoretically could have been won by the nazis. So, you could say: Lin

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: "Maharishi Effect" Quantum-Failure Essay

On Dec 29, 2007, at 8:20 PM, shempmcgurk wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "ruthsimplicity" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: > > > > > > > The universe, as far as I can tell, IS mystery. > > The word "mystery" could well be a syn

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: "Maharishi Effect" Quantum-Failure Essay

On Dec 29, 2007, at 8:18 PM, Patrick Gillam wrote: omments interleaved below. > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Dec 28, 2007, at 11:33 AM, Patrick Gillam wrote: > > > I'm curious - how many people here believe > > consciousness is the fundamental s

[FairfieldLife] Re: "Maharishi Effect" Quantum-Failure Essay

More rapping on this subject, not because I have any answers or want to argue, but because it's fun... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Gillam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >--- shempmcgurk wrote: > > > > --- ruthsimplicity wrote: > > > > > > --- TurquoiseB wrote: > > > > > > > >

[FairfieldLife] Re: [Killing Time] SS: What Emancipation is NOT! Part 3

>> > > > V 74 > > > > A view of Emancipation disputed. > > > >Aph. 74.* Emancipation is not a manifestation of joy; because > > there p. 376 are no properties [in Soul, as, e.g., in the shape of > > joy]. > > > >a. There belongs to Soul no property in the shape of joy, or in > >

[FairfieldLife] 'Ron Paul's Delusion'

Lincoln fought the civil war, not to free the slaves, But to save the Union. Without the Union of the United States of America; WWII, theoretically could have been won by the nazis. So, you could say: Lincoln was guided by the Divine Hand. R.Gimbel Seattle,WA --

[FairfieldLife] Re: [Killing Time] SS: What Emancipation is NOT! Part 2

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > V 74 > > A view of Emancipation disputed. > >Aph. 74.* Emancipation is not a manifestation of joy; because > there p. 376 are no properties [in Soul, as, e.g., in the shape of > joy]. > >a. There belo

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ammachi In God's Name in wmv format

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of nablusoss1008 > Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2007 5:54 PM > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ammach

[FairfieldLife] [Killing Time] SS: What Emancipation is NOT! Part 1

V 74 A view of Emancipation disputed. Aph. 74.* Emancipation is not a manifestation of joy; because there p. 376 are no properties [in Soul, as, e.g., in the shape of joy]. a. There belongs to Soul no property in the shape of joy, or in the shape of manifestation; and the essence [of

[FairfieldLife] Re: "Maharishi Effect" Quantum-Failure Essay

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Gillam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >--- shempmcgurk wrote: > > > > --- ruthsimplicity wrote: > > > > > > --- TurquoiseB wrote: > > > > > > > > The universe, as far as I can tell, IS mystery. > > > > The word "mystery" could well be a synonym FOR >

[FairfieldLife] Re: "Maharishi Effect" Quantum-Failure Essay

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Gillam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > These days I've pretty much lost interest in > spiritual pursuits, seeing as the arts convey > the same knowledge and experience so much > more elegantly. Hear, hear. People occasionally make fun of me becaus

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Pope Goes 'Out on a Limb?'

Where great minds see just the everyday issues of everyday life, small minds have to imagine enemies, and conspiracies, and demons and Satan "behind" these issues. In general, I think you can judge a person's state of mental health by how he sees the problems of life. The more he sees them as mer