[FairfieldLife] Wonderful World
While some of you are waxing rapt about opera ( not that there's anything wrong with that :-), I woke up in a great mood this morning with this song going through my head in glorious stereo. Nice way to wake up. I always loved this version of Sam Cooke's old classic, partly because I've always been a fan of great harmonies, but it took me a while to figure out what made it so special. See if you can figure it out, or scroll down to find out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7DK1IVnCwU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The three singers -- James Taylor, Paul Simon, and Art Garfunkel switch parts on each of the three verses, each taking a different melody line each time. The effect is...uh...wonderful.
[FairfieldLife] More Wednesday Harmony
Not everybody's cuppa tea (or, given the singer, whiskey), but definitely mine. As I said before, I'm a sucker for what Gram Parsons used to call high mountain harmony, two or more voices taking old melodies and soaring into the stratosphere with them. Few have ever done this as well as Gram did on his album Grievous Angel, singing with the then-unknown Emmylou Harris. I'm a Roy Orbison fan, but even he admitted that this is the best version of his song ever recorded: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLUPWHTaceEfeature=fvsr The classic road song,...I just love Emmylou's rise at the end: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PytxPaU6k4 A prayer, of sorts...with the ultimate Prodigal Son singing in the choir alongside the angel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERhhkjqDGsAfeature=BFalist=AL94UKMTqg-9AndbSIHNuXsqW0DsVuIK3H
[FairfieldLife] Transducing Consiousness
The Brain is a Transducer of Consciousness That allows for higher states of consciousness That experiences the totality of life. Higher states of consciousness are your birthright. http://www.globalcountry.org/videos/#video=Ryx1iz1ZlSM -Buck
[FairfieldLife] Re: More Wednesday Harmony
Couldn't agree more Barry. I'm a huge fan of both artists. Enjoy this one as my contribution to the Harmony that is Wednesday on FFL: http://youtu.be/_xX5XY49dSU --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: Not everybody's cuppa tea (or, given the singer, whiskey), but definitely mine. As I said before, I'm a sucker for what Gram Parsons used to call high mountain harmony, two or more voices taking old melodies and soaring into the stratosphere with them. Few have ever done this as well as Gram did on his album Grievous Angel, singing with the then-unknown Emmylou Harris. I'm a Roy Orbison fan, but even he admitted that this is the best version of his song ever recorded: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLUPWHTaceEfeature=fvsr The classic road song,...I just love Emmylou's rise at the end: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PytxPaU6k4 A prayer, of sorts...with the ultimate Prodigal Son singing in the choir alongside the angel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERhhkjqDGsAfeature=BFalist=AL94UKMTqg-9AndbSIHNuXsqW0DsVuIK3H
[FairfieldLife] update on Reducing Tension in the Middle East
update on Reducing Tension in the Middle East Dear Colleagues, Our Op-Ed piece on creating peace in the Middle East and throughout the world through large coherence creating groups practicing the Transcendental Meditation programs has now been published in 52 national and regional online journals and promoted on 11 independent websites. This covers a wide range of cultures and ethnicities in the Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, and Muslim worlds. In Jordan, the online magazine Alsiasi listed our article as “Popular This Week” in a sidebar next to our article. If you want to read it, you can click any link. They all say the same thing, although on a few of them the editors changed the title. If you feel it is a good idea, please forward the news on Facebook, Twitter, email, and other social media, and leave comments on one or more of the journal websites. * Reducing Tension in the Middle East David Orme-Johnson, Ph.D. and David Leffler, Ph.D. 11/25/2012 Ghana- Modern Ghana Liberia- The Liberian Dialogue Slovenia, Croatia, and Serbia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Albania, Macedonia, continental Greece (including the Peloponnesus), Bulgaria, European Turkey, and SE Romania The Balkan Chronicle[According to this publication's About Us page The Balkan Chronicle was founded...by a group of people...from the various countries of the Balkan region. For this reason, all of the locations mentioned above are included in this listing.] USA- Liberian Mandingo Association of NY: Headline News from Liberia USA and Canada -The Times of Earth 11/26/2012 Afghanistan and United Kingdom (Based in Pakistan) - United News Service Australia and Tonga- International News Magazine Cyprus - The Famagusta Gazette Greece - Geopolitics Daily News Greece - News Now Pakistan - Kashmir Watch Pakistan - The Lahore Times Pakistan - Pakistan World Tribune USA - News Blaze Romania - Aspecte Diplomatice/Diplomatic Aspects 11/27/2012 India - The Morung Express Israel- Palestine-Israel Journal of Politics, Economics and Culture Ivory Coast - Ivoire Diaspo Nepal - The International News Magazine Pakistan - The World Tribune Pakistan, South Asia, Middle East and United Kingdom- The News Tribe United Kingdom - Middle East Online USA -Maharishi University of Management 11/28/2012 Canada - Canada Standard China - China National News Denmark - Denmark News Egypt - Egypt News France - France News Germany - Germany News India - Calcutta News India - Kashmir Observer Israel - Israel Herald Israel - Israel News Ireland - Irish Sun Jordan - Alsiasi New Zealand - Auckland News Pakistan - United News Service South Africa- South Africa News South Korea - AsiaN Spain - Spain News Thailand - Thailand News 11/29/2012 South Korea - The Seoul Times 12/02/2012 Pakistan – PkArticlesHub The Op-Ed also appeared in these Regional and other Non-National Publications Arab Herald Big News Network Middle East Star Middle East News Net News Publisher News Time Africa The Moderate Voice Nastranis: A Forum for Culture of Peace and Empowerment Palestinian News The Op-Ed article was promoted at: Coherent Times Magazine Auto Balla Global Good News Humanitarian News I4U Trending News News BCC QWT News Roadrunner Sportballa The Regator: Only the Best Blogs The Uncarved Blog All the best, David David W. Orme-Johnson, PhD - From October to April 191 Dalton Dr., Santa Rosa Beach, Florida 32459 From May to September 1100 University Manor Dr., # 15B, Fairfield, Iowa, 52556 (850) 231-2866 (Home) (850) 830-5847 (Mobile) Skype: davidoj108 davidoj@... www.TruthAboutTM.comwww.Orme-JohnsonPaintings.com
Re: [FairfieldLife] Wonderful World
Thanks turq and gull for great rise and shine songs. I think Emmylou spent time in DC area getting famous. As for Wonderful World, here's a great movie version of it though the tech quality is lacking. I still wish Harrison Ford had won the Oscar for his Witness character John Book. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ka2qIgoOQX8 From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 5, 2012 2:01 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Wonderful World While some of you are waxing rapt about opera ( not that there's anything wrong with that :-), I woke up in a great mood this morning with this song going through my head in glorious stereo. Nice way to wake up. I always loved this version of Sam Cooke's old classic, partly because I've always been a fan of great harmonies, but it took me a while to figure out what made it so special. See if you can figure it out, or scroll down to find out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7DK1IVnCwU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The three singers -- James Taylor, Paul Simon, and Art Garfunkel switch parts on each of the three verses, each taking a different melody line each time. The effect is...uh...wonderful.
[FairfieldLife] Re: More Wednesday Harmony
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, laughinggull108 no_reply@... wrote: Couldn't agree more Barry. I'm a huge fan of both artists. Enjoy this one as my contribution to the Harmony that is Wednesday on FFL: http://youtu.be/_xX5XY49dSU Lovely song, and lovely tribute to her mentor and discoverer. Emmylou's talent, as commented on by so many other artists she's worked with over the years, such as Mark Knopfler, is that she's an intuitive harmonist. She doesn't need sheet music or a pre- agreement about what type of harmony she's going to add to a song, she just picks up the melody after the first verse (even if she's never heard it before) and adds the perfect harmony part. A number of musicians have this ability, including David Crosby and Graham Nash and, supposedly, Art Garfunkel, not to mention a number of Country stars. I tend to respect this *spontaneous* ability to add just the right harmony part more than I do the ability to sit down and chart out the harmonies in sheet music and then reproduce them vocally. Maybe it's a facet of that area of the brain that lights up when artists are improvising that I posted some research about earlier. You can feel it through the music. Gram was a hard-living dude whose lifestyle took him out far too early. But his influence on pop music was profound. He introduced the Byrds to his brand of high mountain harmonies, and then went on to found the seminal country-rock band The Flying Burrito Brothers, whose influence is still being felt. When he met Emmylou in a club and heard her voice, he knew immediately that he'd found his muse. I once owned an album -- very rare -- that Emmylou put out on an obscure label before she ever met Gram, and became famous in her own right. It was *terrible*. What had happened was that some lame studio exec had found her and tried to turn her into a Joni Mitchell clone. insert Ahnold's voice from Predator here Bahd idea. If you love her voice, and harmony, if you don't know her work with Mark Knopfler, or the two Trio albums she did in conjunction with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt, you should. There are some magical moments in all of them. Here are a couple from these pairings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFdxvi2rlTw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_FLLz4UN2Q --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: Not everybody's cuppa tea (or, given the singer, whiskey), but definitely mine. As I said before, I'm a sucker for what Gram Parsons used to call high mountain harmony, two or more voices taking old melodies and soaring into the stratosphere with them. Few have ever done this as well as Gram did on his album Grievous Angel, singing with the then-unknown Emmylou Harris. I'm a Roy Orbison fan, but even he admitted that this is the best version of his song ever recorded: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLUPWHTaceEfeature=fvsr The classic road song,...I just love Emmylou's rise at the end: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PytxPaU6k4 A prayer, of sorts...with the ultimate Prodigal Son singing in the choir alongside the angel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERhhkjqDGsAfeature=BFalist=AL94UKMTqg-9AndbSIHNuXsqW0DsVuIK3H
[FairfieldLife] Re: More Wednesday Harmony
Thanks Barry for the background...I could listen all day to the stories you must have hidden in that brain of yours. (Ever thought of writing a book in that vein?) Now you've got me going! Consider this my last contribution for today (at least 'til I get home from work) for the Wednesday that is Harmony on FFL. http://youtu.be/B9Ihxi6d1qw --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, laughinggull108 no_reply@ wrote: Couldn't agree more Barry. I'm a huge fan of both artists. Enjoy this one as my contribution to the Harmony that is Wednesday on FFL: http://youtu.be/_xX5XY49dSU Lovely song, and lovely tribute to her mentor and discoverer. Emmylou's talent, as commented on by so many other artists she's worked with over the years, such as Mark Knopfler, is that she's an intuitive harmonist. She doesn't need sheet music or a pre- agreement about what type of harmony she's going to add to a song, she just picks up the melody after the first verse (even if she's never heard it before) and adds the perfect harmony part. A number of musicians have this ability, including David Crosby and Graham Nash and, supposedly, Art Garfunkel, not to mention a number of Country stars. I tend to respect this *spontaneous* ability to add just the right harmony part more than I do the ability to sit down and chart out the harmonies in sheet music and then reproduce them vocally. Maybe it's a facet of that area of the brain that lights up when artists are improvising that I posted some research about earlier. You can feel it through the music. Gram was a hard-living dude whose lifestyle took him out far too early. But his influence on pop music was profound. He introduced the Byrds to his brand of high mountain harmonies, and then went on to found the seminal country-rock band The Flying Burrito Brothers, whose influence is still being felt. When he met Emmylou in a club and heard her voice, he knew immediately that he'd found his muse. I once owned an album -- very rare -- that Emmylou put out on an obscure label before she ever met Gram, and became famous in her own right. It was *terrible*. What had happened was that some lame studio exec had found her and tried to turn her into a Joni Mitchell clone. insert Ahnold's voice from Predator here Bahd idea. If you love her voice, and harmony, if you don't know her work with Mark Knopfler, or the two Trio albums she did in conjunction with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt, you should. There are some magical moments in all of them. Here are a couple from these pairings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFdxvi2rlTw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_FLLz4UN2Q --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: Not everybody's cuppa tea (or, given the singer, whiskey), but definitely mine. As I said before, I'm a sucker for what Gram Parsons used to call high mountain harmony, two or more voices taking old melodies and soaring into the stratosphere with them. Few have ever done this as well as Gram did on his album Grievous Angel, singing with the then-unknown Emmylou Harris. I'm a Roy Orbison fan, but even he admitted that this is the best version of his song ever recorded: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLUPWHTaceEfeature=fvsr The classic road song,...I just love Emmylou's rise at the end: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PytxPaU6k4 A prayer, of sorts...with the ultimate Prodigal Son singing in the choir alongside the angel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERhhkjqDGsAfeature=BFalist=AL94UKMTqg-9AndbSIHNuXsqW0DsVuIK3H
[FairfieldLife] Re: More Wednesday Harmony
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, laughinggull108 no_reply@... wrote: Thanks Barry for the background...I could listen all day to the stories you must have hidden in that brain of yours. (Ever thought of writing a book in that vein?) Now you've got me going! Consider this my last contribution for today (at least 'til I get home from work) for the Wednesday that is Harmony on FFL. http://youtu.be/B9Ihxi6d1qw LOL. I don't have all that many stories, and have already told many of the ones I do have here already. I was never a musician myself, only on the periphery of the scene back in the late 60s when some friends and I put on light shows and promoted concerts and thus hired a lot of the bands of that era. It was a really FUN time, and something that one could not easily do today -- we were hippies, after all, without any money and without insurance. We'd just scrape together enough money to hire the bands and hire a hall and hope for the best. But we got to party with the bands, and experience trickle down groupie status, so it was all worth it. I only saw Gram perform with the Byrds and the Burrito Bros, never with Emmylou. THAT would have been a pairing I'd have loved to see live. I *did* see Linda Ronstadt early, back when she was still with a group called the Stone Poneys, and occasionally dueting with a folkie friend of mine named Steve Gillette. Then of course I saw her later, after she'd become famous. She had (and seems to still have, despite the added weight) a golden set of pipes, and was seemingly incapable of missing a note. This was important, because during many of those years she was so coked up that her mind was a sieve. You know how some artists have big cheat sheets of their set lists taped to the floor of the stage? Linda had big sheets containing the *lyrics*, because she could no longer remember them. But she survived, which is a lot more than a lot of artists of her generation did. Since I woke up in harmony mode and you've gotten me thinking about those days, here's a cut from a group that had a lot of talent but a fairly short shelf life, Moby Grape: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioKodbNTljg Here is a cut from the aforementioned (and unknown to most people) folkie Steve Gillette, *much* later in life. He and his wife (I think) Cindy perform his most famous song, originally made famous by Ian Sylvia Tyson. I knew him from college, so I know the story of this song. He was a music major (Duh!), and wrote this song based on place names he'd found while hiking up in the Lake Tahoe area. He wanted to create his version of a real folk song. He submitted it to his professor as having been found in a book of old Wild West era songs, and got an A on the project. He only revealed the truth to the prof when he found he was about to submit the song to a folklore society as a new find. :-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioKodbNTljg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, laughinggull108 no_reply@ wrote: Couldn't agree more Barry. I'm a huge fan of both artists. Enjoy this one as my contribution to the Harmony that is Wednesday on FFL: http://youtu.be/_xX5XY49dSU Lovely song, and lovely tribute to her mentor and discoverer. Emmylou's talent, as commented on by so many other artists she's worked with over the years, such as Mark Knopfler, is that she's an intuitive harmonist. She doesn't need sheet music or a pre- agreement about what type of harmony she's going to add to a song, she just picks up the melody after the first verse (even if she's never heard it before) and adds the perfect harmony part. A number of musicians have this ability, including David Crosby and Graham Nash and, supposedly, Art Garfunkel, not to mention a number of Country stars. I tend to respect this *spontaneous* ability to add just the right harmony part more than I do the ability to sit down and chart out the harmonies in sheet music and then reproduce them vocally. Maybe it's a facet of that area of the brain that lights up when artists are improvising that I posted some research about earlier. You can feel it through the music. Gram was a hard-living dude whose lifestyle took him out far too early. But his influence on pop music was profound. He introduced the Byrds to his brand of high mountain harmonies, and then went on to found the seminal country-rock band The Flying Burrito Brothers, whose influence is still being felt. When he met Emmylou in a club and heard her voice, he knew immediately that he'd found his muse. I once owned an album -- very rare -- that Emmylou put out on an obscure label before she ever met Gram, and became famous in her own right. It was *terrible*. What had happened was that some lame studio exec had found her and tried to turn her into a Joni Mitchell clone. insert
[FairfieldLife] Re: More Wednesday Harmony
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: Here is a cut from the aforementioned (and unknown to most people) folkie Steve Gillette, *much* later in life. He and his wife (I think) Cindy perform his most famous song, originally made famous by Ian Sylvia Tyson. I knew him from college, so I know the story of this song. He was a music major (Duh!), and wrote this song based on place names he'd found while hiking up in the Lake Tahoe area. He wanted to create his version of a real folk song. He submitted it to his professor as having been found in a book of old Wild West era songs, and got an A on the project. He only revealed the truth to the prof when he found he was about to submit the song to a folklore society as a new find. :-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioKodbNTljg Sorry. Bad link earlier. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJkB-dBj-HY
[FairfieldLife] Re: update on Reducing Tension in the Middle East
History shows that political resolutions cannot be achieved while tensions remain high. Deep-rooted ethnic and national stresses embedded in the collective consciousness of a region are at the basis of conflict, as in all conflicts worldwide. Unless these stresses are rooted out, destruction and killing will continue, as they have for millennia. A perennial philosophy of all major cultural traditions that there exists a transcendental field at the most fundamental level of natural law, which can be directly accessed as the silent transcendental level of the human mind. Hundreds of studies have shown that experience of transcendental consciousness breaks the chain of conditioned reflexes coming on from past behavior, as seen in reduced addictive behaviors of all kinds, decreased prison recidivism, and reduced behavioral problems in inner-city children. Although the causal mechanism is not completely understood, studies have shown that TM practice increases EEG coherence and serotonin levels of other individuals in the environment (International Journal of Neuroscience, 1989, 49(3/4):203-211; Journal of Social Behavior and Personality, 2005, 17(1):339-373). Both these biological effects predict reduced stress and increased harmony in individuals, even at a distance from the meditators. What we are suggesting is that the military of Israel, or any organization, establish such coherence- creating groups to quickly reduce tensions in the Middle East's collective consciousness. The military is traditionally the most organized aspect of society and by itself could quickly create such a group. The predicted outcome is accelerated progress towards a just, equitable, lasting peace. -Buck --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merlin vedamerlin@... wrote: update on Reducing Tension in the Middle East Dear Colleagues, Our Op-Ed piece on creating peace in the Middle East and throughout the world through large coherence creating groups practicing the Transcendental Meditation programs has now been published in 52 national and regional online journals and promoted on 11 independent websites. This covers a wide range of cultures and ethnicities in the Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, and Muslim worlds. In Jordan, the online magazine Alsiasi listed our article as âPopular This Weekâ in a sidebar next to our article. If you want to read it, you can click any link. They all say the same thing, although on a few of them the editors changed the title. If you feel it is a good idea, please forward the news on Facebook, Twitter, email, and other social media, and leave comments on one or more of the journal websites. * Reducing Tension in the Middle East David Orme-Johnson, Ph.D. and David Leffler, Ph.D. 11/25/2012 Ghana- Modern Ghana Liberia- The Liberian Dialogue Slovenia, Croatia, and Serbia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Albania, Macedonia, continental Greece (including the Peloponnesus), Bulgaria, European Turkey, and SE Romania The Balkan Chronicle[According to this publication's About Us page The Balkan Chronicle was founded...by a group of people...from the various countries of the Balkan region. For this reason, all of the locations mentioned above are included in this listing.] USA- Liberian Mandingo Association of NY: Headline News from Liberia USA and Canada -The Times of Earth 11/26/2012 Afghanistan and United Kingdom (Based in Pakistan) - United News Service Australia and Tonga- International News Magazine Cyprus - The Famagusta Gazette Greece - Geopolitics Daily News Greece - News Now Pakistan - Kashmir Watch Pakistan - The Lahore Times Pakistan - Pakistan World Tribune USA - News Blaze Romania - Aspecte Diplomatice/Diplomatic Aspects 11/27/2012 India - The Morung Express Israel- Palestine-Israel Journal of Politics, Economics and Culture Ivory Coast - Ivoire Diaspo Nepal - The International News Magazine Pakistan - The World Tribune Pakistan, South Asia, Middle East and United Kingdom- The News Tribe United Kingdom - Middle East Online USA -Maharishi University of Management 11/28/2012 Canada - Canada Standard China - China National News Denmark - Denmark News Egypt - Egypt News France - France News Germany - Germany News India - Calcutta News India - Kashmir Observer Israel - Israel Herald Israel - Israel News Ireland - Irish Sun Jordan - Alsiasi New Zealand - Auckland News Pakistan - United News Service South Africa- South Africa News South Korea - AsiaN Spain - Spain News Thailand - Thailand News 11/29/2012 South Korea - The Seoul Times 12/02/2012 Pakistan â PkArticlesHub The Op-Ed also appeared in these Regional and other Non-National Publications Arab Herald Big News Network Middle East Star Middle East News Net News Publisher News Time Africa The Moderate
Re: [FairfieldLife] Billionaires Club
I've heard that too - David Spector who now teaches something called Natural Stress Relief said that's one of the reasons he stopped teaching TM - I'd like to know the details on this too - this was one of the things that alienated a lot of long term meditators - tho the folks who believed he was enlightened all felt it was the Cosmos speaking through him so it must be a good thing From: Bill Coop williamgc...@gmail.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 5, 2012 1:24 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Billionaires Club On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 10:08 AM, mjackson74 mjackso...@yahoo.com wrote: I have heard that MMY said in the 1990's that the TM folks should only be teaching TM to the wealthy of the world. Does anyone know when and under what circumstances he said that and exactly what he said? My recollection is that he believed rich people are an influential elite, and that if they adopted TM then the rest of society would follow their lead. It's a reasonable conclusion and is the basis for a lot of modern marketing. Similarly, he forbade teachers from initiating their friends for free because he believed that people don't value anything properly unless they pay for it. But I think he said those things earlier than the 1990s.
[FairfieldLife] Re: New Video: First Place All Around
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@... wrote: Juliette scored 30.35 for 1st Place in the Gymnastics Intra-Team Competition at Fairfield Parks Rec. She placed in all events: Trampoline 2nd; Floor Exercise 2nd; Balance Beam 3rd; Parallel Bars 3rd; Vault 1st. http://youtu.be/-B8go70Z4H0 How fantastic you are able to watch her compete and to be there for her. And how versatile and gifted she is in gymnastics where you have to be good at so many things! It really does astound me how well rounded these little athletes have to be, not to mention how brave you have to be to do these things. In my small dabbling in gymnastics in high school I found I was not confident or brave enough to be willing to break my neck falling off a balance beam or parallel bars. Trampoline was the only thing I could do with any degree of confidence and lack of fear. So congratulations to Juliette!
[FairfieldLife] Re: The End of the World as we Know It
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Susan wayback71@... wrote: Emily - just catching up on the last day or so on FFL. Most scientists agree that we humans have made climate change happen much faster than it would have otherwise - at the very least we have a big part in the process. Whether we would be going thru some cyclical, natural climate change without humans on the planet is a question that, from what I understand, no one can answer. But it is not the rigth question - because there is no doubt from scientists that our actions, greenhouse gas release etc are making this happen more intensely and faster. Whether we are the sole cause or simply making it all happen faster and bigger, does not matter any more. We have to slow this down or things will be very bad for us all. At this point, the question is can we slow this down, and if so, how? If we as a planet changed how we live, things would be much better than they are going to be if we don't. But it requires major major changes in lifestyle to make much of a difference. That will not happen. So some genius science invention is the answer. Even if we change our lifestyles now the changes will continue for some time (not sure for how long). The stuff is in the air already and it is hard to go backward. There is the concept of a tipping point beyond which the changes will be inevitable and happen very very fast indeed. That tipping point is considered to be when the methane gases that are stored in tundra and underneath the seabeds is released in huge bubbles and bursts. There is tons and tons and tons of that stored. The warming of the seas will cause it to be released in vast quantities. Then things will change very very fast indeed and be unstoppable. Like a landslide. I don't mean to sound negative, but this is my understanding from what I have read. The melting of the ice at the polar caps that is happening and allowing shipping in once frozen waters - that's what is the first stage of the release of the methane stored in the tundra up there. Methane release in tundra is already happening. An article from almost 3 years ago: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jan/14/arctic-permafrost-methane So, we need brilliant scientists to work on how to counteract greenhouse gases that already are in the air and those that will be released, or to develop ways to take the heat out of the atmosphere (seeding clouds with tiny mirrors to reflect sunlight away from earth is one such project). There are people researching these things, but they worry that their solutions may affect our climate in other, unforseen ways that could also wreak havoc. This is THE issue for the planet and unless it is somehow corrected, not much else is going to be important. Life will change dramatically. I hold great hope for the scientists, but it is a race against time. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ no_reply@ wrote: Dear Buck, Please note that the grass is NOT greener on the other side of the fence. It just appears that way. Sincerely, The grass on the other side of the fence We done this to ourselves burning fossil fuels. Look at the 70 unit coal trains per day roaring through Fairfield to points east and coming back again empty every day. That black coal is carbon, beautiful nearly pure carbon. Where do you think it goes at that rate of 70 trains full a day? It is kind of elementary science. There should not even be a debate. The question now is what are we going to do about it? Plant wheat or soybeans? Which one is more drought resistant and provides more food? I got 50 acres I need to plant. It is a real question. Would seeding hay pasture and alfalfa even take in a dry hot year like last year again? The ground subsoil water is not re-charging. The People who have driven big cars and lived in mac-mansions and just go off and vacation in London and exotic places have done this to us. -Buck, out standing in his fields. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@ wrote: Wow Susan, let us not change the topic.  Curiously, do you think that we are just contributors to a planetary cycle already in process or do you think we, as humans, are the reason this process is happening?  I am posing the simplistic main question I hear when out and about. Great Question. Shows the utter failure of our public schools to teach elementary earth sciences that we should doubt what is going on. The trace of less than 'One third of one percent' of the air we breath is most all that protects and regulates our atmosphere and allows us to even
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[FairfieldLife] Re: New Video: First Place All Around
Emily Judy, thanks for watching. Taking videos and editing Juliette's progress has been a lot of fun. She watches them and critiques herself, That sucks or I can't bare to watch. She doesn't settle for less than her best, she's an 8-year old perfectionist. Her funniest comment is always about her voice, Do I sound like that? Yes, honey, you sound like a little girl and you have a lovely voice, I say. She's not convinced. She was totally revved up before the meet. While trying on five or six different leotards, deciding which to wear, she was literally bouncing off the walls and talking non-stop. Our house has become one big gymnasium. We bought a one foot high balance beam and installed a bar she uses to practice routines. There's a small rebounder/trampoline in the living room she uses to launch and flip herself onto the couch. The cushions are taking a beating but what the, hell, she's having fun. Come to think of it, a video of gymnastic stunts on household apparatus could be an interesting project. Stay tuned. Hey, Emily have fun at the beach! http://youtu.be/48ATDiKF08I --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@... wrote: Thanks Raunchy.  I think this is the most important post of the week.  I second Judy on this.  And the coach in the Santa cap was pretty cute.  Share, sorry to post my limit today; I'm a bit impulsive I'm discovering and I'm also heading to the beach for a few days.  What do you say we allow our communication to evolve organically?  Such a meaningful word, organic, or not, as the case may be.  Tee Hee. Ya'll have a nice rest of the week and really, thanks for the opera.  From: authfriend authfriend@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, December 4, 2012 8:45 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: New Video: First Place All Around  Atta GIRL!!! Boy, she's impressive. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@ wrote: Juliette scored 30.35 for 1st Place in the Gymnastics Intra-Team Competition at Fairfield Parks Rec. She placed in all events: Trampoline 2nd; Floor Exercise 2nd; Balance Beam 3rd; Parallel Bars 3rd; Vault 1st. http://youtu.be/-B8go70Z4H0
[FairfieldLife] Re: Billionaires Club
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74 mjackson74@... wrote: I have heard that MMY said in the 1990's that the TM folks should only be teaching TM to the wealthy of the world. Does anyone know when and under what circumstances he said that and exactly what he said? It was part of the post 9/11 Give me a billion dollars and I'll save the world thing and the price of TM was tripled because, rich men won't shop in a poor house. The urgency of the times meant a lot of rich donors give one million each and were rewarded with the first course taken by Marshy for years, with daily personal tuition. David Lynch was on the first millionaires course and came out of the TM closet shortly after. I don't know if Marshy got his billion but they did rather well out of it, every raja crown is a $1,000,000 donation. And they promised a refund if the pundit group to save the world never got created. Looking at the state of the world I'd be after my money back by now, what with christmas coming up.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Billionaires Club
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@... wrote: David Lynch was on the first millionaires course and came out of the TM closet shortly after. Minor correction: he was on the third course, not the first.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Billionaires Club
Either way he musta liked it a whole lot From: Alex Stanley j_alexander_stan...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 5, 2012 11:04 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Billionaires Club --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@... wrote: David Lynch was on the first millionaires course and came out of the TM closet shortly after. Minor correction: he was on the third course, not the first.
[FairfieldLife] Bedtime for Democracy.
Laptop seizures by US government highlight 9/11-era climate of fear The treatment of dissidents is the true measure of how free a society is: consider today's examples from the US * [Glenn Greenwald] http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/glenn-greenwald * * Glenn Greenwald http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/glenn-greenwald * guardian.co.uk http://www.guardian.co.uk/ , Tuesday 4 December 2012 12.28 GMT * [NSA headquarters Maryland] The National Security Agency (NSA) headquarters in Fort Meade, Maryland. Among other forms of intelligence-gathering, the NSA secretly collects the phone records of millions of Americans, using data provided by telecom firms ATT, Verizon and BellSouth. Photograph: NSA/Getty Images Whenever I speak about the systematic abridgment of basic rights in the post-9/11 era, there is a point I try to make that is quite elusive yet, in my view, of unparalleled significance in understanding the implications of allowing this to happen. When a government is permitted to transgress the limits that have been imposed on its power (in the case of the US, imposed by the Constitution), the relationship between the government and the citizenry changes fundamentally. In a free society, those who wield political power fear those over whom the power is wielded: specifically, they harbor a healthy fear of what will happen to them if they abuse that power. But the hallmark of tyranny is that the opposite dynamic prevails: the citizenry fears its government because citizens know that there are no actual, meaningful limits on how power can be exercised. A nation in which liberties are systematically abused - in which limitations on state power are ignored without consequence - is one which gives rise to a climate of fear. This climate of fear, in turn, leads citizens to refrain from exercising their political rights, especially to refrain from posing meaningful challenges to government authority, because they know the government can act against them without real constraints. This is a more insidious and more effective form of tyranny than overt abridgment of rights: by inducing - intimidating - a citizenry into relinquishing their own rights out of fear, a state can maintain the illusion of freedom while barring any meaningful dissent from or challenge to its power. Here's one four-minute video clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfBUjRao7kk where I describe a personal example to illustrate how this pernicious fear climate operates; here's another slightly longer video clip http://youtu.be/bUOwqNP-zGM?t=36m44s where I elaborate on this point more. This morning, the New York Times reports on http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/04/business/court-cases-challenge-border\ -searches-of-laptops-and-phones.html?pagewanted=1_r=0hpw the US government's practice of targeting US dissidents - or those whom it believes to be engaging in dissent - with extremely invasive border searches, including seizing (and sometimes keeping for months) their laptops and other electronic data, all without any warrants. I've reported http://www.salon.com/2012/04/08/u_s_filmmaker_repeatedly_detained_at_bo\ rder/ many times http://www.salon.com/2010/11/09/manning_2/ before http://www.salon.com/2011/01/15/laptops/ on this practice and won't repeat any of that here. Instead, I want to highlight several of the examples provided by the Times as it underscores so powerfully how this climate of fear functions: Laura Poitras, a documentary filmmaker and the recipient of a 2012 MacArthur Fellowship, estimates that she has been detained more than 40 times upon returning to the United States. She has been questioned for hours about her meetings abroad, her credit cards and notes have been copied, and after one trip her laptop, camera and cellphone were seized for 41 days. Ms. Poitras said these interrogations largely subsided after a Salon article http://www.salon.com/2012/04/08/u_s_filmmaker_repeatedly_detained_at_bo\ rder/ describing her experiences was published in April, but she is editing her latest film in Europe to avoid crossing the border with her research and interviews. (The film, the third in a series about the war on terror, focuses on domestic surveillance.) 'I'm taking more and more extreme measures, to the point where I'm actually editing outside the country,' she said. Just think about that. In addition to the credentials listed by the Times, she produced a 2006 film that documented the actions and motives of anti-US insurgents in Iraq, one that was nominated for an Academy Award http://www.imdb.com/features/rto/2007/oscars for Best Documentary, and then produced a second film on radicals in Yemen. She's now working on an exposé of the US surveillance state and how domestically invasive it is, featuring a whistleblower, William Binney, who was an NSA official for 32 years (several months ago, the Times published an eight-minute preview clip of that extraordinary film
[FairfieldLife] Re: More Wednesday Harmony
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: Not everybody's cuppa tea (or, given the singer, whiskey), but definitely mine. As I said before, I'm a sucker for what Gram Parsons used to call high mountain harmony, two or more voices taking old melodies and soaring into the stratosphere with them. Still on my harmony kick, I'll pass along a different type of harmony, consisting of parallel thirds, in which each melody line can stand on its own as a separate melody, not just in conjunction with the other melody. The masters of this were, of course, the Everly Brothers. Here are a couple of more modern performers who also love good harmony -- Jackson Browne and Timothy B. Schmit (of the Eagles) -- doing their tribute to the Everlys' style: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaDYWCti5yY
[FairfieldLife] movie soundtracks
Realized recently that some of my favorite musical pieces are the original soundtracks of movies. For example, Year of Living Dangerously, the fantastic soundtrack by Vangelis begins on this trailer when Sigourney Weaver appears. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2k9d0c4sAM
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Billionaires Club
Please forgive my ignorance being relatively new here - I take it you no longer work for the TMO? From: salyavin808 fintlewoodle...@mail.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 5, 2012 11:38 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Billionaires Club --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@ wrote: David Lynch was on the first millionaires course and came out of the TM closet shortly after. Minor correction: he was on the third course, not the first. I'm happy to be corrected but are you sure? A friend of mine was on the first and he said a hollywood movie director was there but didn't name him. So maybe it was someone else and I just made the assumption when DL made his announcement. Heh, I was working for head office still when DL came out and everyone was really excited. I suggested they do a season of his movies on the Maharishi Channel, and they thought it was a great idea. I had to break it to them gently
[FairfieldLife] Why Go to Mars?
Here's a good introduction as to why: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2DNJOPMRKA As the video suggested, Mars has to be terraformed first by warming up the planet. That means earthlings would have to build factories over there to encourage climate change similar to what we are now experiencing here on earth. IMO, to be economically feasible, these factories should build products that can be sent back to earth for use and consumption. All of these can be done by robots that will be programmed to work on the planet. When the planet is warm enough, algae and moss can be planted on Mars to create more oxygen. Then trees and plants can be grown. When the planet is habitable, humans can live there. This whole plan may take a few hundred years. But it's time to start. JR
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: movie soundtracks
I sometimes have favorite pieces of music playing internally during TMSP. It doesn't bother me at all. I figure the right brain is getting a chance to express and get balanced. Especially good after all the left brain activity of posting on FFL (-: From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 5, 2012 11:04 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: movie soundtracks --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@... no_reply@... wrote: Musical intoxication is awesome - fire up a fatty and there's nothing better sometimes. But it ain't very effective as meditation, except as pallative therapy, imo. Just as a question, Jim, can I assume that like so much of what you say so authoritatively you're saying this without ever having tried the practice? Not the fattie. :-) The meditating to music thang. I'm just asking because the o in imo is more credible if you've actually tried it. Without the fattie. :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@ wrote: Realized recently that some of my favorite musical pieces are the original soundtracks of movies. For example, Year of Living Dangerously, the fantastic soundtrack by Vangelis begins on this trailer when Sigourney Weaver appears. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2k9d0c4sAM Those of a non-Tantric disposition or those who are convinced that one can only meditate in silence may not be able to get this, but back in the Rama trip we used to meditate to this. Also to other soundtrack music of a similar nature done by Tangerine Dream or Patrick O'Hearn. It was a trip, and often deeper than meditations in silence. Go figure. Here's one of my favorite Tan Dream soundtrack clips, with visuals that are just as lovely. It's called Love On A Real Train: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk30-AtiB4M The meditations I used to have (and still do, from time to time) set to soundtracks from Tangerine Dream were among the best of my life. Far from being in the least distracting, the music seems to allow a kind of flow state that very quickly results in any conscious awareness of the music going away, leaving only a strange state of silence in activity, in which any conscious awareness of the self goes away.
[FairfieldLife] Describing Communal (Meditating) Fairfield
I wrote this piece below and have been e-mailing individually to a number of scholarly folks who I met at an academic meeting studying Utopian and communal groups that I attended recently out in upstate New York. I came away with about 50 business cards from scholars who I met and talked with at the conference. I wrote this to be able to send to them something descriptive about (meditating) Fairfield, Iowa as a 'communal' group. Of course what I set out to write became longer than I intended. Here is the unabridged version with the links. I hope you'll like the Shaker comparison and I think you'll appreciate the links. Best Regards from Iowa, paste: Communal (Meditating) Fairfield, Iowa On returning home from the annual meeting I find myself wanting to catch up by sharing some links on 'communal' Fairfield, Iowa with you that might better give insight in to a scale and circumstance of the communal society I come from and have lived in for 40 years. Starting from the outside looking in on meditating Fairfield it can seem like looking at a monolith. Evidently it is easy to make assumptions about Fairfield and its meditators as it is also tough to discern what is going on inside the meditating community. But it need not be difficult at all once there are handles on it. The Fairfield meditating community has matured in time and is quite developed with many communal features to find and look at. I see Fairfield, Iowa in fact can provide a large and living laboratory for communal community scholars to look at. Beginning with Tim Miller's Communal Societies Vol. 30 No.1, 2010 paper in mind I'll give you some things further below to look at for yourselves, A Matter of Definition: Just What Is an Intentional Community? -A sense of purpose and distinctiveness, with deliberate intent to be a community -Some kind of shared living space -Some shared resources -Critical mass For communal studies scholars looking in I believe one of the best ways to understand the scale of the Fairfield Meditating community is to relate to it in a form like the old Shaker villages as organizational structure back while the Shakers were up and running. In the middle of TM is the equivalent of a Shaker 'Ministry Family' of upper administration and then elements of communal families of meditators that are in concentric circles around the middle including meditators who live well outside the middle in town but come inside to meditate also as members. The upper level is a more exclusive level (only for sake of an analogy though, they do not use that term 'ministry' to describe themselves) which currently now tends to live more exclusively out in an adjacent new town area called Maharishi Vedic City to the northwest of Fairfield proper. The university community lives more on their campus in Fairfield. The larger meditating community lives through out Fairfield and the County area either disperse singly or in meditator households in neighborhoods. Maharishi Vedic City and the university community each function with obvious communal aspect with people living together, working for their community together, housing close together, educating their kids together, socializing together, sharing resources etc. The larger surrounding meditating community also functions that way. The common thing to these Shaker-like 'families' of meditators in the Fairfield area like the Shakers is that they moved to Fairfield as meditators to be practicing meditators in something larger. In starting, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was a proponent of Transcendental Meditation for 60 years in the West and there has been a meditating community in Fairfield, Iowa for about 40 years. The Transcendental Meditation (TM) movement purchased a bankrupt college campus in Fairfield, Iowa and moved a university there in 1974. The university was teaching a wide liberal arts curricula where the students and faculty were also practicing meditators. That functioned as a unit in Fairfield for about a half decade when at a large gathering of meditators meeting with Maharishi it was suggested that folks as meditators move to the Fairfield community to be able to meditate regularly in large group meditations. That was the start of the Fairfield meditating community where meditators moved to Fairfield, Iowa generally. Through the later 1970's, 1980's, 1990's and even up to present time thousands of meditators have lived in Fairfield. Like happened with the Shakers there are now lots of projects that go along with meditating that start to be defining otherwise but still the formative communal reason here is more essentially about the spiritual practice of meditating. Hopefully this is useful as a way of looking at it. I am providing here below some source links to these elements that I think are good ways of accessing what is going on inside of a communal meditating Fairfield. The Group Meditation:
[FairfieldLife] Re: Billionaires Club
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@ wrote: David Lynch was on the first millionaires course and came out of the TM closet shortly after. Minor correction: he was on the third course, not the first. I'm happy to be corrected but are you sure? A friend of mine was on the first and he said a hollywood movie director was there but didn't name him. So maybe it was someone else and I just made the assumption when DL made his announcement. Petra was on the first, and she assures me that DL was not on her course.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: More Wednesday Harmony
On 12/05/2012 04:18 AM, turquoiseb wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, laughinggull108 no_reply@... wrote: Couldn't agree more Barry. I'm a huge fan of both artists. Enjoy this one as my contribution to the Harmony that is Wednesday on FFL: http://youtu.be/_xX5XY49dSU Lovely song, and lovely tribute to her mentor and discoverer. Emmylou's talent, as commented on by so many other artists she's worked with over the years, such as Mark Knopfler, is that she's an intuitive harmonist. She doesn't need sheet music or a pre- agreement about what type of harmony she's going to add to a song, she just picks up the melody after the first verse (even if she's never heard it before) and adds the perfect harmony part. A number of musicians have this ability, including David Crosby and Graham Nash and, supposedly, Art Garfunkel, not to mention a number of Country stars. I tend to respect this *spontaneous* ability to add just the right harmony part more than I do the ability to sit down and chart out the harmonies in sheet music and then reproduce them vocally. Maybe it's a facet of that area of the brain that lights up when artists are improvising that I posted some research about earlier. You can feel it through the music. Gram was a hard-living dude whose lifestyle took him out far too early. But his influence on pop music was profound. He introduced the Byrds to his brand of high mountain harmonies, and then went on to found the seminal country-rock band The Flying Burrito Brothers, whose influence is still being felt. When he met Emmylou in a club and heard her voice, he knew immediately that he'd found his muse. I once owned an album -- very rare -- that Emmylou put out on an obscure label before she ever met Gram, and became famous in her own right. It was *terrible*. What had happened was that some lame studio exec had found her and tried to turn her into a Joni Mitchell clone. insert Ahnold's voice from Predator here Bahd idea. If you love her voice, and harmony, if you don't know her work with Mark Knopfler, or the two Trio albums she did in conjunction with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt, you should. There are some magical moments in all of them. Here are a couple from these pairings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFdxvi2rlTw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_FLLz4UN2Q Worked a gig opening for the Byrds when Gram was in it. He was a high energy guy who never seemed to stop playing even off stage. The rest of the band hung out with Gram while I hung out with Mike Clark talking drums because he had gotten a set of Leedy's after using my Leedy set on an previous gig we did with them. Saw the Burrito Brothers a couple times and Gram's own band once. Saw EmmyLou at BumberShoot sometime in the 1990s. That was quite a show. I also have her DVD with her Spyboy band which is fusion jazz country.
[FairfieldLife] Some Sci-Fi Comedy
Attack of the 50 Foot Cheerleader is hilarious and a take off on 1950s sci-fi films especially the ones by Roger Corman. And maybe that's because Corman produced this one and he even has a cameo role in it along with John Landis. It also stars Sean Young, Treat Williams, Ted Raimi and a bunch of other younger actors in the main roles with Jena Sims as the 50 foot cheerleader. Available on Netflix WI: http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Attack_of_the_50_Foot_Cheerleader/70245979 Rated Not for Buck for the genre's mandatory TA. Everybody else laugh your asses off!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Some Sci-Fi Comedy
Thanks for the heads-up -- I was thinking it was cheap-ass schlock. Is it along the lines of Mars Attacks! vibe-wise? Edg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: Attack of the 50 Foot Cheerleader is hilarious and a take off on 1950s sci-fi films especially the ones by Roger Corman. And maybe that's because Corman produced this one and he even has a cameo role in it along with John Landis. It also stars Sean Young, Treat Williams, Ted Raimi and a bunch of other younger actors in the main roles with Jena Sims as the 50 foot cheerleader. Available on Netflix WI: http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Attack_of_the_50_Foot_Cheerleader/70245979 Rated Not for Buck for the genre's mandatory TA. Everybody else laugh your asses off!
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: update on Reducing Tension in the Middle East
H the story of Abraham comes to mind. Better get the Arabs to meditate to eliminate *that* stress. Seems Abraham had to banish Hagar and Ishmael from the community for being trouble makers. Ishmael went on to become the *father* of the Arabs. Isaac became the father of Israel. From: Buck dhamiltony...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 5, 2012 5:44 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: update on Reducing Tension in the Middle East History shows that political resolutions cannot be achieved while tensions remain high. Deep-rooted ethnic and national stresses embedded in the collective consciousness of a region are at the basis of conflict, as in all conflicts worldwide. Unless these stresses are rooted out, destruction and killing will continue, as they have for millennia. A perennial philosophy of all major cultural traditions that there exists a transcendental field at the most fundamental level of natural law, which can be directly accessed as the silent transcendental level of the human mind. Hundreds of studies have shown that experience of transcendental consciousness breaks the chain of conditioned reflexes coming on from past behavior, as seen in reduced addictive behaviors of all kinds, decreased prison recidivism, and reduced behavioral problems in inner-city children. Although the causal mechanism is not completely understood, studies have shown that TM practice increases EEG coherence and serotonin levels of other individuals in the environment (International Journal of Neuroscience, 1989, 49(3/4):203-211; Journal of Social Behavior and Personality, 2005, 17(1):339-373). Both these biological effects predict reduced stress and increased harmony in individuals, even at a distance from the meditators. What we are suggesting is that the military of Israel, or any organization, establish such coherence- creating groups to quickly reduce tensions in the Middle East's collective consciousness. The military is traditionally the most organized aspect of society and by itself could quickly create such a group. The predicted outcome is accelerated progress towards a just, equitable, lasting peace. -Buck --- In mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com, merlin vedamerlin@... wrote: update on Reducing Tension in the Middle East Dear Colleagues, Our Op-Ed piece on creating peace in the Middle East and throughout the world through large coherence creating groups practicing the Transcendental Meditation programs has now been published in 52 national and regional online journals and promoted on 11 independent websites. This covers a wide range of cultures and ethnicities in the Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, and Muslim worlds. In Jordan, the online magazine Alsiasi listed our article as “Popular This Week� in a sidebar next to our article. If you want to read it, you can click any link. They all say the same thing, although on a few of them the editors changed the title. If you feel it is a good idea, please forward the news on Facebook, Twitter, email, and other social media, and leave comments on one or more of the journal websites. * Reducing Tension in the Middle East David Orme-Johnson, Ph.D. and David Leffler, Ph.D. 11/25/2012 Ghana- Modern Ghana Liberia- The Liberian Dialogue Slovenia, Croatia, and Serbia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Albania, Macedonia, continental Greece (including the Peloponnesus), Bulgaria, European Turkey, and SE Romania The Balkan Chronicle[According to this publication's About Us page The Balkan Chronicle was founded...by a group of people...from the various countries of the Balkan region. For this reason, all of the locations mentioned above are included in this listing.] USA- Liberian Mandingo Association of NY: Headline News from Liberia USA and Canada -The Times of Earth 11/26/2012 Afghanistan and United Kingdom (Based in Pakistan) - United News Service Australia and Tonga- International News Magazine Cyprus - The Famagusta Gazette Greece - Geopolitics Daily News Greece - News Now Pakistan - Kashmir Watch Pakistan - The Lahore Times Pakistan - Pakistan World Tribune USA - News Blaze Romania - Aspecte Diplomatice/Diplomatic Aspects 11/27/2012 India - The Morung Express Israel- Palestine-Israel Journal of Politics, Economics and Culture Ivory Coast - Ivoire Diaspo Nepal - The International News Magazine Pakistan - The World Tribune Pakistan, South Asia, Middle East and United Kingdom- The News Tribe United Kingdom - Middle East Online USA -Maharishi University of Management 11/28/2012 Canada - Canada Standard China - China National News Denmark - Denmark News Egypt - Egypt News France - France News Germany - Germany News India - Calcutta News India - Kashmir
[FairfieldLife] Dave Brubeck Passes
And he almost by a day made to the ripe old age of 92. He's a local boy being born in nearby Concord, California. I met him a couple times and hung out with Joe Morello a bit. Brubeck popularized jazz in the 1950s with Take Five way back when people were phobic of the music. Here is the new via the hometown blog: http://claycord.com/2012/12/05/jazz-legend-former-concord-resident-dave-brubeck-dead-at-91/ His first group had Bill Smith on clarinet and I also worked with Bill at the University of Washington and hung out with him later on at TM residence courses.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Some Sci-Fi Comedy
I would say that Mars Attacks! did come to mind during film. I was also a fan of a lot of this genre during the 50s and 60s. It's definitely a spoof on the films that Corman produced. Good actors not schlock at all. Regarding Mars Attacks I always laugh when I think of how they finally did in the Martians and it was one of the first DVDs I bought when I got a DVD player. On 12/05/2012 09:51 AM, Duveyoung wrote: Thanks for the heads-up -- I was thinking it was cheap-ass schlock. Is it along the lines of Mars Attacks! vibe-wise? Edg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: Attack of the 50 Foot Cheerleader is hilarious and a take off on 1950s sci-fi films especially the ones by Roger Corman. And maybe that's because Corman produced this one and he even has a cameo role in it along with John Landis. It also stars Sean Young, Treat Williams, Ted Raimi and a bunch of other younger actors in the main roles with Jena Sims as the 50 foot cheerleader. Available on Netflix WI: http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Attack_of_the_50_Foot_Cheerleader/70245979 Rated Not for Buck for the genre's mandatory TA. Everybody else laugh your asses off!
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Some Sci-Fi Comedy
Galaxy Quest, a wonderful parody of sci fi movies but sweet too and with wonderful characters and story line. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_tm38I26Gg From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 5, 2012 12:03 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Some Sci-Fi Comedy I would say that Mars Attacks! did come to mind during film. I was also a fan of a lot of this genre during the 50s and 60s. It's definitely a spoof on the films that Corman produced. Good actors not schlock at all. Regarding Mars Attacks I always laugh when I think of how they finally did in the Martians and it was one of the first DVDs I bought when I got a DVD player. On 12/05/2012 09:51 AM, Duveyoung wrote: Thanks for the heads-up -- I was thinking it was cheap-ass schlock. Is it along the lines of Mars Attacks! vibe-wise? Edg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: Attack of the 50 Foot Cheerleader is hilarious and a take off on 1950s sci-fi films especially the ones by Roger Corman. And maybe that's because Corman produced this one and he even has a cameo role in it along with John Landis. It also stars Sean Young, Treat Williams, Ted Raimi and a bunch of other younger actors in the main roles with Jena Sims as the 50 foot cheerleader. Available on Netflix WI: http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Attack_of_the_50_Foot_Cheerleader/70245979 Rated Not for Buck for the genre's mandatory TA. Everybody else laugh your asses off!
[FairfieldLife] Re: movie soundtracks
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: Realized recently that some of my favorite musical pieces are the original soundtracks of movies. For example, Year of Living Dangerously, the fantastic soundtrack by Vangelis begins on this trailer when Sigourney Weaver appears. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2k9d0c4sAM Funny, because the film The Bounty had a Vangelis sound track which I loved. Here it is, quite haunting. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fdmmeqNeLA
[FairfieldLife] Re: Describing Communal (Meditating) Fairfield
That's a good summary. But if the scholars didn't know about TM and Fairfield, I'd be interested in knowing what were the Utopian/spiritual/intentional/communal groups that they did discuss, especially those currently in existence. Where are these groups located? Who are they? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: I wrote this piece below and have been e-mailing individually to a number of scholarly folks who I met at an academic meeting studying Utopian and communal groups that I attended recently out in upstate New York. I came away with about 50 business cards from scholars who I met and talked with at the conference. I wrote this to be able to send to them something descriptive about (meditating) Fairfield, Iowa as a 'communal' group. Of course what I set out to write became longer than I intended. Here is the unabridged version with the links. I hope you'll like the Shaker comparison and I think you'll appreciate the links. Best Regards from Iowa, paste: Communal (Meditating) Fairfield, Iowa On returning home from the annual meeting I find myself wanting to catch up by sharing some links on 'communal' Fairfield, Iowa with you that might better give insight in to a scale and circumstance of the communal society I come from and have lived in for 40 years. Starting from the outside looking in on meditating Fairfield it can seem like looking at a monolith. Evidently it is easy to make assumptions about Fairfield and its meditators as it is also tough to discern what is going on inside the meditating community. But it need not be difficult at all once there are handles on it. The Fairfield meditating community has matured in time and is quite developed with many communal features to find and look at. I see Fairfield, Iowa in fact can provide a large and living laboratory for communal community scholars to look at. Beginning with Tim Miller's Communal Societies Vol. 30 No.1, 2010 paper in mind I'll give you some things further below to look at for yourselves, A Matter of Definition: Just What Is an Intentional Community? -A sense of purpose and distinctiveness, with deliberate intent to be a community -Some kind of shared living space -Some shared resources -Critical mass For communal studies scholars looking in I believe one of the best ways to understand the scale of the Fairfield Meditating community is to relate to it in a form like the old Shaker villages as organizational structure back while the Shakers were up and running. In the middle of TM is the equivalent of a Shaker 'Ministry Family' of upper administration and then elements of communal families of meditators that are in concentric circles around the middle including meditators who live well outside the middle in town but come inside to meditate also as members. The upper level is a more exclusive level (only for sake of an analogy though, they do not use that term 'ministry' to describe themselves) which currently now tends to live more exclusively out in an adjacent new town area called Maharishi Vedic City to the northwest of Fairfield proper. The university community lives more on their campus in Fairfield. The larger meditating community lives through out Fairfield and the County area either disperse singly or in meditator households in neighborhoods. Maharishi Vedic City and the university community each function with obvious communal aspect with people living together, working for their community together, housing close together, educating their kids together, socializing together, sharing resources etc. The larger surrounding meditating community also functions that way. The common thing to these Shaker-like 'families' of meditators in the Fairfield area like the Shakers is that they moved to Fairfield as meditators to be practicing meditators in something larger. In starting, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was a proponent of Transcendental Meditation for 60 years in the West and there has been a meditating community in Fairfield, Iowa for about 40 years. The Transcendental Meditation (TM) movement purchased a bankrupt college campus in Fairfield, Iowa and moved a university there in 1974. The university was teaching a wide liberal arts curricula where the students and faculty were also practicing meditators. That functioned as a unit in Fairfield for about a half decade when at a large gathering of meditators meeting with Maharishi it was suggested that folks as meditators move to the Fairfield community to be able to meditate regularly in large group meditations. That was the start of the Fairfield meditating community where meditators moved to Fairfield, Iowa generally. Through the later 1970's, 1980's, 1990's and even up to present time thousands of meditators have lived in Fairfield. Like happened with the Shakers there are now lots
[FairfieldLife] Re: Some Sci-Fi Comedy
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: I would say that Mars Attacks! did come to mind during film. I was also a fan of a lot of this genre during the 50s and 60s. It's definitely a spoof on the films that Corman produced. Good actors not schlock at all. Regarding Mars Attacks I always laugh when I think of how they finally did in the Martians and it was one of the first DVDs I bought when I got a DVD player. Hollywood is representing organized religion and capitalism in the most perverse manner by portraying our Space Brothers as enemies of the people on this planet. Fortunately the fear they try to istall is fast falling away today.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Drought May Have Killed Sumerian Language
Looks like those Sumarians couldn't master the electric car either! From: John jr_...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, December 4, 2012 5:22 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Drought May Have Killed Sumerian Language This goes to show how climate change affect all cultures throughout history. The Mayan culture also was supposedly a victim of such change. Who will be the next? http://news.yahoo.com/drought-may-killed-sumerian-language-165436243.html
[FairfieldLife] Re: Billionaires Club
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@ wrote: David Lynch was on the first millionaires course and came out of the TM closet shortly after. Minor correction: he was on the third course, not the first. I'm happy to be corrected but are you sure? A friend of mine was on the first and he said a hollywood movie director was there but didn't name him. So maybe it was someone else and I just made the assumption when DL made his announcement. Petra was on the first, and she assures me that DL was not on her course. H, wonder who that was then
[FairfieldLife] Re: Billionaires Club
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson mjackson74@... wrote: Please forgive my ignorance being relatively new here - I take it you no longer work for the TMO? No, this wouldn't be the ideal place to hang around if I was ;-) would probably get questions asked as to my commitment to the movement's causes. Unless I went anonymous, which would never happen. From: salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 5, 2012 11:38 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Billionaires Club  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@ wrote: David Lynch was on the first millionaires course and came out of the TM closet shortly after. Minor correction: he was on the third course, not the first. I'm happy to be corrected but are you sure? A friend of mine was on the first and he said a hollywood movie director was there but didn't name him. So maybe it was someone else and I just made the assumption when DL made his announcement. Heh, I was working for head office still when DL came out and everyone was really excited. I suggested they do a season of his movies on the Maharishi Channel, and they thought it was a great idea. I had to break it to them gently
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: movie soundtracks
Here's the end theme, also beautiful vintage Vangelis. But with some cosmic visuals. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7piGHeUUS0E From: awoelflebater no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 5, 2012 12:09 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: movie soundtracks --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: Realized recently that some of my favorite musical pieces are the original soundtracks of movies. For example, Year of Living Dangerously, the fantastic soundtrack by Vangelis begins on this trailer when Sigourney Weaver appears. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2k9d0c4sAM Funny, because the film The Bounty had a Vangelis sound track which I loved. Here it is, quite haunting. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fdmmeqNeLA
[FairfieldLife] Re: movie soundtracks
Seriously dude, Barry or Billie or Cecil, or whatever your name is, wtf are you challenging me for? I don't challenge you, except to state my opinions. You got a different opinion? bfd, so to speak. I owe you nothing, and vice versa. Deal, and sometimes, just STFU and listen. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ no_reply@ wrote: Musical intoxication is awesome - fire up a fatty and there's nothing better sometimes. But it ain't very effective as meditation, except as pallative therapy, imo. Just as a question, Jim, can I assume that like so much of what you say so authoritatively you're saying this without ever having tried the practice? Not the fattie. :-) The meditating to music thang. I'm just asking because the o in imo is more credible if you've actually tried it. Without the fattie. :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@ wrote: Realized recently that some of my favorite musical pieces are the original soundtracks of movies. For example, Year of Living Dangerously, the fantastic soundtrack by Vangelis begins on this trailer when Sigourney Weaver appears. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2k9d0c4sAM Those of a non-Tantric disposition or those who are convinced that one can only meditate in silence may not be able to get this, but back in the Rama trip we used to meditate to this. Also to other soundtrack music of a similar nature done by Tangerine Dream or Patrick O'Hearn. It was a trip, and often deeper than meditations in silence. Go figure. Here's one of my favorite Tan Dream soundtrack clips, with visuals that are just as lovely. It's called Love On A Real Train: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk30-AtiB4M The meditations I used to have (and still do, from time to time) set to soundtracks from Tangerine Dream were among the best of my life. Far from being in the least distracting, the music seems to allow a kind of flow state that very quickly results in any conscious awareness of the music going away, leaving only a strange state of silence in activity, in which any conscious awareness of the self goes away.
[FairfieldLife] Re: movie soundtracks
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@... no_reply@... wrote: Seriously dude, Barry or Billie or Cecil, or whatever your name is, wtf are you challenging me for? I don't challenge you, except to state my opinions. You got a different opinion? bfd, so to speak. I owe you nothing, and vice versa. Deal, and sometimes, just STFU and listen. Yeah, I figured you'd never actually tried it. Thanks. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ no_reply@ wrote: Musical intoxication is awesome - fire up a fatty and there's nothing better sometimes. But it ain't very effective as meditation, except as pallative therapy, imo. Just as a question, Jim, can I assume that like so much of what you say so authoritatively you're saying this without ever having tried the practice? Not the fattie. :-) The meditating to music thang. I'm just asking because the o in imo is more credible if you've actually tried it. Without the fattie. :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@ wrote: Realized recently that some of my favorite musical pieces are the original soundtracks of movies. For example, Year of Living Dangerously, the fantastic soundtrack by Vangelis begins on this trailer when Sigourney Weaver appears. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2k9d0c4sAM Those of a non-Tantric disposition or those who are convinced that one can only meditate in silence may not be able to get this, but back in the Rama trip we used to meditate to this. Also to other soundtrack music of a similar nature done by Tangerine Dream or Patrick O'Hearn. It was a trip, and often deeper than meditations in silence. Go figure. Here's one of my favorite Tan Dream soundtrack clips, with visuals that are just as lovely. It's called Love On A Real Train: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk30-AtiB4M The meditations I used to have (and still do, from time to time) set to soundtracks from Tangerine Dream were among the best of my life. Far from being in the least distracting, the music seems to allow a kind of flow state that very quickly results in any conscious awareness of the music going away, leaving only a strange state of silence in activity, in which any conscious awareness of the self goes away.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Some Sci-Fi Comedy
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: Galaxy Quest, a wonderful parody of sci fi movies but sweet too and with wonderful characters and story line. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_tm38I26Gg Thoroughly enjoyed Galaxy Quest, can you go wrong with Alan Rickman? The BBC did a good send up of sci-fi fandom with Cruise of the Gods, about a TV series that relly wasn't very good but had loads of adoring fans. The now out of work stars hate it but need the money and so do a fan cruise. I couldn't find a link to anything other than trailers as the BBC seems to want you to buy a copy of the DVD for some reason. But Steve Coogan is doing a remake for cinema which might be well worth the effort even though you might need some familiarity with English TV's low budget sci-fi. This is one of the BBC's best efforts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A979tZLaKhQ Loved it when I was a kid, still do as it happens.
[FairfieldLife] Re: movie soundtracks
I disagree - putting people in imagined boxes to your satisfaction, is not the same as knowing the truth - whatevz. Peace, out. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ no_reply@ wrote: Seriously dude, Barry or Billie or Cecil, or whatever your name is, wtf are you challenging me for? I don't challenge you, except to state my opinions. You got a different opinion? bfd, so to speak. I owe you nothing, and vice versa. Deal, and sometimes, just STFU and listen. Yeah, I figured you'd never actually tried it. Thanks. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ no_reply@ wrote: Musical intoxication is awesome - fire up a fatty and there's nothing better sometimes. But it ain't very effective as meditation, except as pallative therapy, imo. Just as a question, Jim, can I assume that like so much of what you say so authoritatively you're saying this without ever having tried the practice? Not the fattie. :-) The meditating to music thang. I'm just asking because the o in imo is more credible if you've actually tried it. Without the fattie. :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@ wrote: Realized recently that some of my favorite musical pieces are the original soundtracks of movies. For example, Year of Living Dangerously, the fantastic soundtrack by Vangelis begins on this trailer when Sigourney Weaver appears. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2k9d0c4sAM Those of a non-Tantric disposition or those who are convinced that one can only meditate in silence may not be able to get this, but back in the Rama trip we used to meditate to this. Also to other soundtrack music of a similar nature done by Tangerine Dream or Patrick O'Hearn. It was a trip, and often deeper than meditations in silence. Go figure. Here's one of my favorite Tan Dream soundtrack clips, with visuals that are just as lovely. It's called Love On A Real Train: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk30-AtiB4M The meditations I used to have (and still do, from time to time) set to soundtracks from Tangerine Dream were among the best of my life. Far from being in the least distracting, the music seems to allow a kind of flow state that very quickly results in any conscious awareness of the music going away, leaving only a strange state of silence in activity, in which any conscious awareness of the self goes away.
[FairfieldLife] Senator Ashley Judd?
Rumors that film star Ashley Judd is considering a run for Senate in her native Kentucky are solidifying. Politico reported Tuesday that Judd has spoken to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and a Democratic pollster about a possible challenge to Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY). Judd, an unabashed progressive activist, attended the Democratic National Convention this year as a delegate from Tennessee, where she currently lives. Should she decide to run, it won’t be difficult to determine where she stands on crucial policy issues. More here: http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/12/04/1277471/ashley-judd/ To subscribe, send a message to: fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com 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/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: fairfieldlife-dig...@yahoogroups.com fairfieldlife-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: fairfieldlife-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Senator Ashley Judd?
Saw this earlier - Simply awesome - loved her in anything she's done - intense - hope she makes it. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: Rumors that film star Ashley Judd is considering a run for Senate in her native Kentucky are solidifying. Politico reported Tuesday that Judd has spoken to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and a Democratic pollster about a possible challenge to Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY). Judd, an unabashed progressive activist, attended the Democratic National Convention this year as a delegate from Tennessee, where she currently lives. Should she decide to run, it won't be difficult to determine where she stands on crucial policy issues. More here: http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/12/04/1277471/ashley-judd/
[FairfieldLife] Foundation Online Auction
The David Lynch Foundation raises funds and provide grants for the implementation of scientifically proven stress-reducing modalities, including Transcendental Meditation, for such at-risk populations. http://www.charitybuzz.com/auctions/dlf
[FairfieldLife] Re: Billionaires Club
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@ wrote: David Lynch was on the first millionaires course and came out of the TM closet shortly after. Minor correction: he was on the third course, not the first. I'm happy to be corrected but are you sure? A friend of mine was on the first and he said a hollywood movie director was there but didn't name him. So maybe it was someone else and I just made the assumption when DL made his announcement. Petra was on the first, and she assures me that DL was not on her course. H, wonder who that was then Commercially much bigger than DL, artistically not so much.
[FairfieldLife] Online Yoga Asanas
Maharishi Yoga Asanas: Vedic Exercise to Enliven Mind-Body Coordination to Support Pure Awareness, the State of Yoga http://elearning.mum.edu/maharishi-yoga-asanas-online-course.php
[FairfieldLife] Re: Dave Brubeck Passes
He was ahead of his time. Even today, most people find it hard to play and appreciate Take Five. Musicians today would hardly think of composing a song in 9/8 beat as he did in Blue Rondo. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: And he almost by a day made to the ripe old age of 92. He's a local boy being born in nearby Concord, California. I met him a couple times and hung out with Joe Morello a bit. Brubeck popularized jazz in the 1950s with Take Five way back when people were phobic of the music. Here is the new via the hometown blog: http://claycord.com/2012/12/05/jazz-legend-former-concord-resident-dave-brubeck-dead-at-91/ His first group had Bill Smith on clarinet and I also worked with Bill at the University of Washington and hung out with him later on at TM residence courses.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Foundation Online Auction
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@... wrote: The David Lynch Foundation raises funds and provide grants for the implementation of scientifically proven stress-reducing modalities, including Transcendental Meditation, for such at-risk populations. http://www.charitybuzz.com/auctions/dlf What do they mean including TM? Surely they aren't backing two horses are they?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Senator Ashley Judd?
That's going to be a tough row to hoe. She will be going against an established Republican in Mitch McConnel. Also, Kentucky is one of the loyal Red states in the national political spectrum. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: Rumors that film star Ashley Judd is considering a run for Senate in her native Kentucky are solidifying. Politico reported Tuesday that Judd has spoken to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and a Democratic pollster about a possible challenge to Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY). Judd, an unabashed progressive activist, attended the Democratic National Convention this year as a delegate from Tennessee, where she currently lives. Should she decide to run, it won't be difficult to determine where she stands on crucial policy issues. More here: http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/12/04/1277471/ashley-judd/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Drought May Have Killed Sumerian Language
Apparently so! The best they could do was invent the Baghdad battery. Even then, they couldn't light up the world. JR --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@... wrote: Looks like those Sumarians couldn't master the electric car either! From: John jr_esq@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, December 4, 2012 5:22 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Drought May Have Killed Sumerian Language  This goes to show how climate change affect all cultures throughout history. The Mayan culture also was supposedly a victim of such change. Who will be the next? http://news.yahoo.com/drought-may-killed-sumerian-language-165436243.html
[FairfieldLife] What will happen on 21 December 2012 the end of the Mayan calendar?
Benjamin Creme: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B51IMrFnDKk
[FairfieldLife] Re: New Video: First Place All Around
She's a potential member of the USA Olympic team. Also, kudos to Cheetos Productions for an outstanding film presentation. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@... wrote: Juliette scored 30.35 for 1st Place in the Gymnastics Intra-Team Competition at Fairfield Parks Rec. She placed in all events: Trampoline 2nd; Floor Exercise 2nd; Balance Beam 3rd; Parallel Bars 3rd; Vault 1st. http://youtu.be/-B8go70Z4H0
[FairfieldLife] Re: What will happen on 21 December 2012 the end of the Mayan calendar?
The Mayan civilization collapsed before the Spaniards came. However, it is true that many Indians died because of diseases brought by the Conquistadores. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@... wrote: Benjamin Creme: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B51IMrFnDKk
[FairfieldLife] Re: Bedtime for Democracy.
We have here the coming of Big Brother with a different twist. The terrorists have made it obligatory for governments to take active measures to protect lives and its way of living. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@... wrote: Laptop seizures by US government highlight 9/11-era climate of fear The treatment of dissidents is the true measure of how free a society is: consider today's examples from the US * [Glenn Greenwald] http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/glenn-greenwald * * Glenn Greenwald http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/glenn-greenwald * guardian.co.uk http://www.guardian.co.uk/ , Tuesday 4 December 2012 12.28 GMT * [NSA headquarters Maryland] The National Security Agency (NSA) headquarters in Fort Meade, Maryland. Among other forms of intelligence-gathering, the NSA secretly collects the phone records of millions of Americans, using data provided by telecom firms ATT, Verizon and BellSouth. Photograph: NSA/Getty Images Whenever I speak about the systematic abridgment of basic rights in the post-9/11 era, there is a point I try to make that is quite elusive yet, in my view, of unparalleled significance in understanding the implications of allowing this to happen. When a government is permitted to transgress the limits that have been imposed on its power (in the case of the US, imposed by the Constitution), the relationship between the government and the citizenry changes fundamentally. In a free society, those who wield political power fear those over whom the power is wielded: specifically, they harbor a healthy fear of what will happen to them if they abuse that power. But the hallmark of tyranny is that the opposite dynamic prevails: the citizenry fears its government because citizens know that there are no actual, meaningful limits on how power can be exercised. A nation in which liberties are systematically abused - in which limitations on state power are ignored without consequence - is one which gives rise to a climate of fear. This climate of fear, in turn, leads citizens to refrain from exercising their political rights, especially to refrain from posing meaningful challenges to government authority, because they know the government can act against them without real constraints. This is a more insidious and more effective form of tyranny than overt abridgment of rights: by inducing - intimidating - a citizenry into relinquishing their own rights out of fear, a state can maintain the illusion of freedom while barring any meaningful dissent from or challenge to its power. Here's one four-minute video clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfBUjRao7kk where I describe a personal example to illustrate how this pernicious fear climate operates; here's another slightly longer video clip http://youtu.be/bUOwqNP-zGM?t=36m44s where I elaborate on this point more. This morning, the New York Times reports on http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/04/business/court-cases-challenge-border\ -searches-of-laptops-and-phones.html?pagewanted=1_r=0hpw the US government's practice of targeting US dissidents - or those whom it believes to be engaging in dissent - with extremely invasive border searches, including seizing (and sometimes keeping for months) their laptops and other electronic data, all without any warrants. I've reported http://www.salon.com/2012/04/08/u_s_filmmaker_repeatedly_detained_at_bo\ rder/ many times http://www.salon.com/2010/11/09/manning_2/ before http://www.salon.com/2011/01/15/laptops/ on this practice and won't repeat any of that here. Instead, I want to highlight several of the examples provided by the Times as it underscores so powerfully how this climate of fear functions: Laura Poitras, a documentary filmmaker and the recipient of a 2012 MacArthur Fellowship, estimates that she has been detained more than 40 times upon returning to the United States. She has been questioned for hours about her meetings abroad, her credit cards and notes have been copied, and after one trip her laptop, camera and cellphone were seized for 41 days. Ms. Poitras said these interrogations largely subsided after a Salon article http://www.salon.com/2012/04/08/u_s_filmmaker_repeatedly_detained_at_bo\ rder/ describing her experiences was published in April, but she is editing her latest film in Europe to avoid crossing the border with her research and interviews. (The film, the third in a series about the war on terror, focuses on domestic surveillance.) 'I'm taking more and more extreme measures, to the point where I'm actually editing outside the country,' she said. Just think about that. In addition to the credentials listed by the Times, she produced a 2006 film that documented the actions and motives of anti-US insurgents in Iraq, one that was nominated for an Academy Award http://www.imdb.com/features/rto/2007/oscars for Best Documentary, and
RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Senator Ashley Judd?
She's sharp as a tack. Recently got a Harvard degree. Wouldn't it be cool if she bumped McConnell (who always looks severely constipated)? From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Bhairitu Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2012 2:02 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Senator Ashley Judd? Except that McConnell and his ilk are falling out of sorts. Look at the flack Boehner is taking from his own party. Especially after Mitt Who? lost. The GOP looks like it wants to clean it's house of extremists and tea partiers. On 12/05/2012 11:39 AM, John wrote: That's going to be a tough row to hoe. She will be going against an established Republican in Mitch McConnel. Also, Kentucky is one of the loyal Red states in the national political spectrum. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com , Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: Rumors that film star Ashley Judd is considering a run for Senate in her native Kentucky are solidifying. Politico reported Tuesday that Judd has spoken to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and a Democratic pollster about a possible challenge to Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY). Judd, an unabashed progressive activist, attended the Democratic National Convention this year as a delegate from Tennessee, where she currently lives. Should she decide to run, it won't be difficult to determine where she stands on crucial policy issues. More here: http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/12/04/1277471/ashley-judd/
[FairfieldLife] Re: New Video: First Place All Around
Congratulations RD! I can feel the love and pride that you have for your grandchild (grandchildren?). Is she going to be the US's next Gabbie and have Alicia Keyes write a song about her (i.e. This Girl is on Fire, that I absolutely love)? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@... wrote: Juliette scored 30.35 for 1st Place in the Gymnastics Intra-Team Competition at Fairfield Parks Rec. She placed in all events: Trampoline 2nd; Floor Exercise 2nd; Balance Beam 3rd; Parallel Bars 3rd; Vault 1st. http://youtu.be/-B8go70Z4H0
[FairfieldLife] Re: movie soundtracks
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: Here's the end theme, also beautiful vintage Vangelis. But with some cosmic visuals. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7piGHeUUS0E Yes, this is a great segment as well, I'm glad you posted the link because afterwards I saw the end theme and I wished I had included it but you did it for me! From: awoelflebater no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 5, 2012 12:09 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: movie soundtracks  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@ wrote: Realized recently that some of my favorite musical pieces are the original soundtracks of movies. For example, Year of Living Dangerously, the fantastic soundtrack by Vangelis begins on this trailer when Sigourney Weaver appears. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2k9d0c4sAM Funny, because the film The Bounty had a Vangelis sound track which I loved. Here it is, quite haunting. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fdmmeqNeLA
[FairfieldLife] Re: Senator Ashley Judd?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@... wrote: She's sharp as a tack. Recently got a Harvard degree. Wouldn't it be cool if she bumped McConnell (who always looks severely constipated)? Now that you've mentioned it. She's actually prettier than McConnel by a longshot. :) From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Bhairitu Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2012 2:02 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Senator Ashley Judd? Except that McConnell and his ilk are falling out of sorts. Look at the flack Boehner is taking from his own party. Especially after Mitt Who? lost. The GOP looks like it wants to clean it's house of extremists and tea partiers. On 12/05/2012 11:39 AM, John wrote: That's going to be a tough row to hoe. She will be going against an established Republican in Mitch McConnel. Also, Kentucky is one of the loyal Red states in the national political spectrum. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com , Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: Rumors that film star Ashley Judd is considering a run for Senate in her native Kentucky are solidifying. Politico reported Tuesday that Judd has spoken to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and a Democratic pollster about a possible challenge to Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY). Judd, an unabashed progressive activist, attended the Democratic National Convention this year as a delegate from Tennessee, where she currently lives. Should she decide to run, it won't be difficult to determine where she stands on crucial policy issues. More here: http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/12/04/1277471/ashley-judd/
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Foundation Online Auction
No they aren't - its just bullshit PR to make it look like they have a wider range of modalities to offer people - unless they are slyly referring to the ancillary programs of the TMO - you know, levitation, Hindu fire offerings, climbing into a house through the east facing window cuz the house door faces south - stuff like that From: salyavin808 fintlewoodle...@mail.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 5, 2012 2:37 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Foundation Online Auction --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@... wrote: The David Lynch Foundation raises funds and provide grants for the implementation of scientifically proven stress-reducing modalities, including Transcendental Meditation, for such at-risk populations. http://www.charitybuzz.com/auctions/dlf What do they mean including TM? Surely they aren't backing two horses are they?
[FairfieldLife] Re: What will happen on 21 December 2012 the end of the Mayan calendar?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@... wrote: The Mayan civilization collapsed before the Spaniards came. However, it is true that many Indians died because of diseases brought by the Conquistadores. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: Benjamin Creme: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B51IMrFnDKk I think Mr. Creme's point is that 21.december 2012 will be just another day like all other days and that the Age of Enlightenment must be brought to earth by all people. He mocks the whole idea of this day being special and pokes fun at the New Age phenomena. Amongst other things Mr. Creme said: Mayans died out, that doesn't mean that humanity is going to die. It doesn't mean anything at all except that nothing spreads faster or further than a really good rumour. It's fantasy. What it does, if there is any benefit in it at all, is that it focusess the aspirations and expectations of millions of people for some higher life. But it doesn't come on the 21. december, it comes from your actions, humanity's actions all over the world. I'm bored with the glamour of anybody who believes in the New Age, believe in it by all means, but we have to make the New Age, it doesn't fall from the sky readymade on the 21. december. It's made by human hand, human foot, human nerve, human imagination, and human trust in Maitreya and the Masters. That's how it will be made.
[FairfieldLife] Re: More Wednesday Harmony
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: Not everybody's cuppa tea (or, given the singer, whiskey), but definitely mine. As I said before, I'm a sucker for what Gram Parsons used to call high mountain harmony, two or more voices taking old melodies and soaring into the stratosphere with them. Still on my harmony kick, I'll pass along a different type of harmony, consisting of parallel thirds, in which each melody line can stand on its own as a separate melody, not just in conjunction with the other melody. The masters of this were, of course, the Everly Brothers. Here are a couple of more modern performers who also love good harmony -- Jackson Browne and Timothy B. Schmit (of the Eagles) -- doing their tribute to the Everlys' style: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaDYWCti5yY Now you've done it Barry! If Bob Dylan was the poet of the 60s, then Jackson Browne gave him a run for his money in the 70s. Then there was Fogelberg...we wore HomeFree out the summer of '72 when we needed a smooth finish to an evening of hardy partying (if you get what I mean). The first cut off that first album: http://youtu.be/-_9qixMYrOg RIP Danny Boy...
[FairfieldLife] Re: Foundation Online Auction
Have you even bothered to look at the David Lynch Foundation website? They are doing an amazing amount of good work. You seem locked into a childish cynicism that helps nothing and nobody, not even yourself. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson mjackson74@... wrote: No they aren't - its just bullshit PR to make it look like they have a wider range of modalities to offer people - unless they are slyly referring to the ancillary programs of the TMO - you know, levitation, Hindu fire offerings, climbing into a house through the east facing window cuz the house door faces south - stuff like that From: salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 5, 2012 2:37 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Foundation Online Auction  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: The David Lynch Foundation raises funds and provide grants for the implementation of scientifically proven stress-reducing modalities, including Transcendental Meditation, for such at-risk populations. http://www.charitybuzz.com/auctions/dlf What do they mean including TM? Surely they aren't backing two horses are they?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Senator Ashley Judd?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: Rumors that film star Ashley Judd is considering a run for Senate in her native Kentucky are solidifying. Politico reported Tuesday that Judd has spoken to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and a Democratic pollster about a possible challenge to Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY). Judd, an unabashed progressive activist, attended the Democratic National Convention this year as a delegate from Tennessee, where she currently lives. Should she decide to run, it won't be difficult to determine where she stands on crucial policy issues. More here: http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/12/04/1277471/ashley-judd/ I've always liked Ashley Judd, and she seems to have escaped all the drama and dysfunction known as the Judds (although I love their music). Ashley always comes across as a woman with a whole lotta' dignity, sex appeal, common sense, and intelligence. I hope she wins!
[FairfieldLife] Re: movie soundtracks
I agree Share on that piece of music from Year of Living Dangerously. Hauntingly beautiful, to say the least. And Linda Hunt...WOW! Here's a better clip where the music comes through loud and clear: http://youtu.be/vsBOxDM_Vek Thanks for the reminder... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: Realized recently that some of my favorite musical pieces are the original soundtracks of movies. For example, Year of Living Dangerously, the fantastic soundtrack by Vangelis begins on this trailer when Sigourney Weaver appears. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2k9d0c4sAM
[FairfieldLife] Re: Some Sci-Fi Comedy
Another excellent find Share, and one of my all-time favorites, sci fi or otherwise. So much heart shown through in that movie...I never tire of watching it. Funny too! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: Galaxy Quest, a wonderful parody of sci fi movies but sweet too and with wonderful characters and story line. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_tm38I26Gg From: Bhairitu noozguru@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 5, 2012 12:03 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Some Sci-Fi Comedy  I would say that Mars Attacks! did come to mind during film. I was also a fan of a lot of this genre during the 50s and 60s. It's definitely a spoof on the films that Corman produced. Good actors not schlock at all. Regarding Mars Attacks I always laugh when I think of how they finally did in the Martians and it was one of the first DVDs I bought when I got a DVD player. On 12/05/2012 09:51 AM, Duveyoung wrote: Thanks for the heads-up -- I was thinking it was cheap-ass schlock. Is it along the lines of Mars Attacks! vibe-wise? Edg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: Attack of the 50 Foot Cheerleader is hilarious and a take off on 1950s sci-fi films especially the ones by Roger Corman. And maybe that's because Corman produced this one and he even has a cameo role in it along with John Landis. It also stars Sean Young, Treat Williams, Ted Raimi and a bunch of other younger actors in the main roles with Jena Sims as the 50 foot cheerleader. Available on Netflix WI: http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Attack_of_the_50_Foot_Cheerleader/70245979 Rated Not for Buck for the genre's mandatory TA. Everybody else laugh your asses off!
[FairfieldLife] Whoa , suuria (Sun) makes rock melt!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0_nuvPKIi8
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Foundation Online Auction
I have looked at it quite a bit - I was merely pointing out that as far as I can see, they only use TM as their modality - and if you believe that the Big M was a great guy and all he did was and is good I can't help you - I know the Lynch Foundation being a front for the TMO is gonna say they do grand things, but from experience I am not so convinced that all their work is good, nor that TM is as fine as they claim, and I am especially leery of using TM as a remedy for PTSD - I know a bit about both TM and PTSD and given the unstressing phenomenon that we all know exists I believe there are other meditations that better fit the bill for people with combat related stress. Of course you won't agree, but I believe it is neither childish nor cynical to expect results when results are promised. It is not cynical to be honest about a group who has for years left a trail of unfulfilled promises with plenty of bad behavior on top. I know that you and others like you like TM but to believe all that is claimed for it is living a nice but child-like fantasy. We sit and use our TM mantra, we have experiences of clear transcending, later we begin to have bliss, both in and out of meditation and experiences of what have been described as CC, GC and UC. Thus we feel that it is all Maha said it was and it will bring enlightenment. And we give a free pass to M and his top people when their behavior belies the experiences we have within - as in how can someone who has been meditating so long and administers the Movement do something like that? We make innumerable excuses for them. I once believed that Maha was enlightened and everything that the Movement did was for the long range goal of global enlightenment and world peace. And much of what he and the TMO did made no sense under that belief. When I came to realize that Maharishi was not enlightened, he had great charisma, great energy, lots of knowledge and in my opinion was a genius in some respects, yet he was not enlightened and he was allowing his ego to make what could have been a world changing movement into an ego based structure to cater to his desire to be deified, flow money in large amounts to him and get him all the ladies he wanted (yep, I believe that he did have sex with lots of women, thanks in fact to my participation here on FFL) then everything he and the movement had ever done made perfect sense. The proof is in the pudding. If TM is as great as it is advertised - and mind you I have had plenty of experiences of transcending, and lots of CC and GC experiences and some Unity along the way since the first year or so of TM - if it is as effective as advertised how do you explain the behavior of the TMO leaders and not just the top level but pretty much all the way through the organization? If TM brings one into Pure Awareness and repeated experiences of same lead to the ego becoming erased and all thought, feeling, desire and action is Cosmic in nature and upholds all the laws of nature, why do so many of the TMO managers and leaders who have done TM for decades consistently display unloving, non-compassionate and oftentimes spiteful, deceitful controlling behavior? I feel that to ignore the fruits of the practice of TM which in this case is behavior on the part of people you would expect to behave in a exemplary fashion doing just the opposite, in fact displaying behavior which is not life supporting is living a child-like fantasy - that we just do as we are told, don't mind where the money goes and everything will be heaven in the end. Apologies to those who like Wednesday to be reserved for things other than this. From: feste37 fest...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 5, 2012 5:51 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Foundation Online Auction Have you even bothered to look at the David Lynch Foundation website? They are doing an amazing amount of good work. You seem locked into a childish cynicism that helps nothing and nobody, not even yourself. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson mjackson74@... wrote: No they aren't - its just bullshit PR to make it look like they have a wider range of modalities to offer people - unless they are slyly referring to the ancillary programs of the TMO - you know, levitation, Hindu fire offerings, climbing into a house through the east facing window cuz the house door faces south - stuff like that From: salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 5, 2012 2:37 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Foundation Online Auction  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: The David Lynch Foundation raises funds and provide grants for the implementation of scientifically proven stress-reducing modalities, including
[FairfieldLife] Re: More Wednesday Harmony
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, laughinggull108 no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: Not everybody's cuppa tea (or, given the singer, whiskey), but definitely mine. As I said before, I'm a sucker for what Gram Parsons used to call high mountain harmony, two or more voices taking old melodies and soaring into the stratosphere with them. Still on my harmony kick, I'll pass along a different type of harmony, consisting of parallel thirds, in which each melody line can stand on its own as a separate melody, not just in conjunction with the other melody. The masters of this were, of course, the Everly Brothers. Here are a couple of more modern performers who also love good harmony -- Jackson Browne and Timothy B. Schmit (of the Eagles) -- doing their tribute to the Everlys' style: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaDYWCti5yY Now you've done it Barry! If Bob Dylan was the poet of the 60s, then Jackson Browne gave him a run for his money in the 70s. Then there was Fogelberg...we wore HomeFree out the summer of '72 when we needed a smooth finish to an evening of hardy partying (if you get what I mean). The first cut off that first album: http://youtu.be/-_9qixMYrOg RIP Danny Boy... Couldn't resist closing out this Wednesday of Harmony with two more offerings from Dan Fogelberg, again from his first album: http://youtu.be/XdFqqJvL-2Q http://youtu.be/Fmbx4Y1UmbA He may have been the most underrated musical poet of the 70s...
[FairfieldLife] Re: Foundation Online Auction
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@... wrote: Have you even bothered to look at the David Lynch Foundation website? They are doing an amazing amount of good work. You seem locked into a childish cynicism that helps nothing and nobody, not even yourself. Bingo ! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson mjackson74@ wrote:
[FairfieldLife] Re: What will happen on 21 December 2012 the end of the Mayan calendar?
Thanks for this link. I liked seeing his kindly face. Mr Crème, not too bad at fantasy himself, seems to have hit it well on the head this time. All the same I am laying in generator petrol to help run things, just in case!
[FairfieldLife] Re: The End of the World as we Know It
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Susan wayback71@ wrote: Emily - just catching up on the last day or so on FFL. Most scientists agree that we humans have made climate change happen much faster than it would have otherwise - at the very least we have a big part in the process. Whether we would be going thru some cyclical, natural climate change without humans on the planet is a question that, from what I understand, no one can answer. But it is not the rigth question - because there is no doubt from scientists that our actions, greenhouse gas release etc are making this happen more intensely and faster. Whether we are the sole cause or simply making it all happen faster and bigger, does not matter any more. We have to slow this down or things will be very bad for us all. At this point, the question is can we slow this down, and if so, how? If we as a planet changed how we live, things would be much better than they are going to be if we don't. But it requires major major changes in lifestyle to make much of a difference. That will not happen. So some genius science invention is the answer. Even if we change our lifestyles now the changes will continue for some time (not sure for how long). The stuff is in the air already and it is hard to go backward. There is the concept of a tipping point beyond which the changes will be inevitable and happen very very fast indeed. That tipping point is considered to be when the methane gases that are stored in tundra and underneath the seabeds is released in huge bubbles and bursts. There is tons and tons and tons of that stored. The warming of the seas will cause it to be released in vast quantities. Then things will change very very fast indeed and be unstoppable. Like a landslide. I don't mean to sound negative, but this is my understanding from what I have read. The melting of the ice at the polar caps that is happening and allowing shipping in once frozen waters - that's what is the first stage of the release of the methane stored in the tundra up there. Methane release in tundra is already happening. An article from almost 3 years ago: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jan/14/arctic-permafrost-methane Yes, it is already happening, faster and faster. Thanks for the link, Xeno. Oy So, we need brilliant scientists to work on how to counteract greenhouse gases that already are in the air and those that will be released, or to develop ways to take the heat out of the atmosphere (seeding clouds with tiny mirrors to reflect sunlight away from earth is one such project). There are people researching these things, but they worry that their solutions may affect our climate in other, unforseen ways that could also wreak havoc. This is THE issue for the planet and unless it is somehow corrected, not much else is going to be important. Life will change dramatically. I hold great hope for the scientists, but it is a race against time. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ no_reply@ wrote: Dear Buck, Please note that the grass is NOT greener on the other side of the fence. It just appears that way. Sincerely, The grass on the other side of the fence We done this to ourselves burning fossil fuels. Look at the 70 unit coal trains per day roaring through Fairfield to points east and coming back again empty every day. That black coal is carbon, beautiful nearly pure carbon. Where do you think it goes at that rate of 70 trains full a day? It is kind of elementary science. There should not even be a debate. The question now is what are we going to do about it? Plant wheat or soybeans? Which one is more drought resistant and provides more food? I got 50 acres I need to plant. It is a real question. Would seeding hay pasture and alfalfa even take in a dry hot year like last year again? The ground subsoil water is not re-charging. The People who have driven big cars and lived in mac-mansions and just go off and vacation in London and exotic places have done this to us. -Buck, out standing in his fields. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@ wrote: Wow Susan, let us not change the topic.  Curiously, do you think that we are just contributors to a planetary cycle already in process or do you think we, as humans, are the reason this process is happening?  I am posing the simplistic main question I hear when out and about. Great Question. Shows the utter
[FairfieldLife] Re: Foundation Online Auction
Many words, no wisdom. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson mjackson74@... wrote: I have looked at it quite a bit - I was merely pointing out that as far as I can see, they only use TM as their modality - and if you believe that the Big M was a great guy and all he did was and is good I can't help you - I know the Lynch Foundation being a front for the TMO is gonna say they do grand things, but from experience I am not so convinced that all their work is good, nor that TM is as fine as they claim, and I am especially leery of using TM as a remedy for PTSD - I know a bit about both TM and PTSD and given the unstressing phenomenon that we all know exists I believe there are other meditations that better fit the bill for people with combat related stress. Of course you won't agree, but I believe it is neither childish nor cynical to expect results when results are promised. It is not cynical to be honest about a group who has for years left a trail of unfulfilled promises with plenty of bad behavior on top. I know that you and others like you like TM but to believe all that is claimed for it is living a nice but child-like fantasy. We sit and use our TM mantra, we have experiences of clear transcending, later we begin to have bliss, both in and out of meditation and experiences of what have been described as CC, GC and UC. Thus we feel that it is all Maha said it was and it will bring enlightenment. And we give a free pass to M and his top people when their behavior belies the experiences we have within - as in how can someone who has been meditating so long and administers the Movement do something like that? We make innumerable excuses for them. I once believed that Maha was enlightened and everything that the Movement did was for the long range goal of global enlightenment and world peace. And much of what he and the TMO did made no sense under that belief. When I came to realize that Maharishi was not enlightened, he had great charisma, great energy, lots of knowledge and in my opinion was a genius in some respects, yet he was not enlightened and he was allowing his ego to make what could have been a world changing movement into an ego based structure to cater to his desire to be deified, flow money in large amounts to him and get him all the ladies he wanted (yep, I believe that he did have sex with lots of women, thanks in fact to my participation here on FFL) then everything he and the movement had ever done made perfect sense. The proof is in the pudding. If TM is as great as it is advertised - and mind you I have had plenty of experiences of transcending, and lots of CC and GC experiences and some Unity along the way since the first year or so of TM - if it is as effective as advertised how do you explain the behavior of the TMO leaders and not just the top level but pretty much all the way through the organization? If TM brings one into Pure Awareness and repeated experiences of same lead to the ego becoming erased and all thought, feeling, desire and action is Cosmic in nature and upholds all the laws of nature, why do so many of the TMO managers and leaders who have done TM for decades consistently display unloving, non-compassionate and oftentimes spiteful, deceitful controlling behavior? I feel that to ignore the fruits of the practice of TM which in this case is behavior on the part of people you would expect to behave in a exemplary fashion doing just the opposite, in fact displaying behavior which is not life supporting is living a child-like fantasy - that we just do as we are told, don't mind where the money goes and everything will be heaven in the end. Apologies to those who like Wednesday to be reserved for things other than this. From: feste37 feste37@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 5, 2012 5:51 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Foundation Online Auction  Have you even bothered to look at the David Lynch Foundation website? They are doing an amazing amount of good work. You seem locked into a childish cynicism that helps nothing and nobody, not even yourself. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson mjackson74@ wrote: No they aren't - its just bullshit PR to make it look like they have a wider range of modalities to offer people - unless they are slyly referring to the ancillary programs of the TMOà- you know, levitation, Hindu fire offerings, climbing into a house through the east facing window cuz the house door faces south - stuff like that From: salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@ To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 5, 2012 2:37 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Foundation Online Auction à--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,
[FairfieldLife] Re: Foundation Online Auction
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@ wrote: Have you even bothered to look at the David Lynch Foundation website? They are doing an amazing amount of good work. You seem locked into a childish cynicism that helps nothing and nobody, not even yourself. Bingo ! BTW; excessive spiritism is supposedly leading to all sorts undesirable mental states, unstabilities being one of them and evident in the fellow mentioned. mjackson74@ wrote:
[FairfieldLife] Re: Describing Communal (Meditating) Fairfield
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@... wrote: That's a good summary. Thanks. It is interesting that you responded first to this. I actually was thinking of asking you to help me edit this particular paper for this particular scholarly audience. I pushed ahead anyway and they seem quite pleased with this as an entry in to the subject of TM and Fairfield for discussion. -Buck But if the scholars didn't know about TM and Fairfield, I'd be interested in knowing what were the Utopian/spiritual/intentional/communal groups that they did discuss, especially those currently in existence. Where are these groups located? Who are they? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: I wrote this piece below and have been e-mailing individually to a number of scholarly folks who I met at an academic meeting studying Utopian and communal groups that I attended recently out in upstate New York. I came away with about 50 business cards from scholars who I met and talked with at the conference. I wrote this to be able to send to them something descriptive about (meditating) Fairfield, Iowa as a 'communal' group. Of course what I set out to write became longer than I intended. Here is the unabridged version with the links. I hope you'll like the Shaker comparison and I think you'll appreciate the links. Best Regards from Iowa, paste: Communal (Meditating) Fairfield, Iowa On returning home from the annual meeting I find myself wanting to catch up by sharing some links on 'communal' Fairfield, Iowa with you that might better give insight in to a scale and circumstance of the communal society I come from and have lived in for 40 years. Starting from the outside looking in on meditating Fairfield it can seem like looking at a monolith. Evidently it is easy to make assumptions about Fairfield and its meditators as it is also tough to discern what is going on inside the meditating community. But it need not be difficult at all once there are handles on it. The Fairfield meditating community has matured in time and is quite developed with many communal features to find and look at. I see Fairfield, Iowa in fact can provide a large and living laboratory for communal community scholars to look at. Beginning with Tim Miller's Communal Societies Vol. 30 No.1, 2010 paper in mind I'll give you some things further below to look at for yourselves, A Matter of Definition: Just What Is an Intentional Community? -A sense of purpose and distinctiveness, with deliberate intent to be a community -Some kind of shared living space -Some shared resources -Critical mass For communal studies scholars looking in I believe one of the best ways to understand the scale of the Fairfield Meditating community is to relate to it in a form like the old Shaker villages as organizational structure back while the Shakers were up and running. In the middle of TM is the equivalent of a Shaker 'Ministry Family' of upper administration and then elements of communal families of meditators that are in concentric circles around the middle including meditators who live well outside the middle in town but come inside to meditate also as members. The upper level is a more exclusive level (only for sake of an analogy though, they do not use that term 'ministry' to describe themselves) which currently now tends to live more exclusively out in an adjacent new town area called Maharishi Vedic City to the northwest of Fairfield proper. The university community lives more on their campus in Fairfield. The larger meditating community lives through out Fairfield and the County area either disperse singly or in meditator households in neighborhoods. Maharishi Vedic City and the university community each function with obvious communal aspect with people living together, working for their community together, housing close together, educating their kids together, socializing together, sharing resources etc. The larger surrounding meditating community also functions that way. The common thing to these Shaker-like 'families' of meditators in the Fairfield area like the Shakers is that they moved to Fairfield as meditators to be practicing meditators in something larger. In starting, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was a proponent of Transcendental Meditation for 60 years in the West and there has been a meditating community in Fairfield, Iowa for about 40 years. The Transcendental Meditation (TM) movement purchased a bankrupt college campus in Fairfield, Iowa and moved a university there in 1974. The university was teaching a wide liberal arts curricula where the students and faculty were also practicing meditators. That functioned as a unit in Fairfield for about a half decade when at a large gathering of meditators
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[FairfieldLife] Re: What will happen on 21 December 2012 the end of the Mayan calendar?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, David fiskedavid@... wrote: Thanks for this link. I liked seeing his kindly face. Mr Crème, not too bad at fantasy himself, seems to have hit it well on the head this time. All the same I am laying in generator petrol to help run things, just in case! No harm in having a good generator :-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5hqej9fM70
[FairfieldLife] Re: Foundation Online Auction
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson mjackson74@... wrote: snip Apologies to those who like Wednesday to be reserved for things other than this. For the record: There are a few here who think it's fun to pretend there is some sort of group preference or even group agreement or rule that nothing negative can be posted on Wednesdays. There was no such preference or agreement. Someone made the *suggestion* awhile back, and a few folks liked it, but there were also strenuous objections to having special days of any kind. The upshot was that everyone continues to be free to post whatever they want whenever they want, without apology.
[FairfieldLife] Re: More Opera 12.04.12
Wonderful performances. That mad scene should be a snap-shot for men thinking these divas would be simple to deal with by a fool - a snap-shot of their own bloody corpse that is. Feste, be warned. They wouldn't just cut your heart out but also put a grenade under your body to greet anyone rolling you over. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@... wrote: Three Netrebko videos... Quando m'en vo (Musetta's Waltz) from Puccini's La Boheme (Not such a great aria for a concert performance; you really need the staging for it to come across, but she sings it nicely.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWnWivspwRE Sempre libera from Verdi's Traviata (From the new Met modern-dress production--a rather outre interpretation of Violetta, but it shows off her acting ability.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFJJ1zFBWgYfeature=endscreenNR=1 Mad Scene from Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor (Lucia has just killed her bridegroom. A conventional production, but the staging of this scene is excellent, and her performance is blood-chilling. It's a long scene, over 10 minutes.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX2r8ps9pUg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptybill@ wrote: Hah! Yeah she's like napalm. But image living with someone with such talent and charisma. Might easily end up like the performance by Dmitri Hvorostovsky and Renee Fleming in post #328213. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@ wrote: Hotter than hot! There definitely was some cleavage, btw. You must have nodded off before they got it, you poor old bastard. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptybill@ wrote: Oh yeah? Here is an Anna Netrebko interview where she shows no cleavage but ... it also is so hot. No wonder that video with Dmitri stopped before their actual kiss. But it was on the other video that I saw ... And the audience loved it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreenNR=1v=UgpVoMPGbUA http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreenNR=1v=UgpVoMPGbUA --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@ wrote: Nice, but not enough cleavage, which is an essential part of a female opera singerâs repertoire, donât you think? In this regard, the divine Cecilia does not disappoint in the following clip, especially given the tantalizing possibility of a wardrobe malfunction, which unfortunately not quite happen (but watch the shoulder strap): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaKX21earkk (Oh, yes, the aria is good too.) My favorite Cecilia is this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2IeGgk_06I Itâs an aria from a Vivaldi opera and she uses it as an encore. Itâs breathtaking, sensational. I defy anyone to keep still while they watch it. Itâs Baroque rock. And just look at her face when she is finished. Cecilia is the sort of voluptuous Italian woman that men would love to have in the kitchen and bedroom. She might be a bit of a handful though. Elina G made a great Sesto in the live Met telecast of Clemenza di Tito at the weekend. She is so hot. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptybill@ wrote: Two of the best mezzo-sopranos, Elina Garanca and Anna Netrebko, sing the famous Flower duet (Lakm� Delibes). Doesn't hurt that they're both as beautiful as the blossoms to which they give song. No wonder men are so easily spellbound. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf42IP__ipw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf42IP__ipw Also, Dmitri Hvorostovsky and Renee Fleming in a fabulous performance in the palace at St. Petersburg (a duet from Verdi's Il Travatore). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV9rE61kodwfeature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV9rE61kodwfeature=related
[FairfieldLife] Re: movie soundtracks
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: I sometimes have favorite pieces of music playing internally during TMSP. It doesn't bother me at all. Just another thought. snip --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: Those of a non-Tantric disposition or those who are convinced that one can only meditate in silence may not be able to get this Noise is no barrier to meditation.
[FairfieldLife] Re: More Opera 12.04.12
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptybill@... wrote: Wonderful performances. That mad scene should be a snap-shot for men thinking these divas would be simple to deal with by a fool - a snap-shot of their own bloody corpse that is. Feste, be warned. They wouldn't just cut your heart out but also put a grenade under your body to greet anyone rolling you over. I know. Mess with them and you're history. That's why I adore them so much. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@ wrote: Three Netrebko videos... Quando m'en vo (Musetta's Waltz) from Puccini's La Boheme (Not such a great aria for a concert performance; you really need the staging for it to come across, but she sings it nicely.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWnWivspwRE Sempre libera from Verdi's Traviata (From the new Met modern-dress production--a rather outre interpretation of Violetta, but it shows off her acting ability.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFJJ1zFBWgYfeature=endscreenNR=1 Mad Scene from Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor (Lucia has just killed her bridegroom. A conventional production, but the staging of this scene is excellent, and her performance is blood-chilling. It's a long scene, over 10 minutes.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX2r8ps9pUg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptybill@ wrote: Hah! Yeah she's like napalm. But image living with someone with such talent and charisma. Might easily end up like the performance by Dmitri Hvorostovsky and Renee Fleming in post #328213. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@ wrote: Hotter than hot! There definitely was some cleavage, btw. You must have nodded off before they got it, you poor old bastard. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptybill@ wrote: Oh yeah? Here is an Anna Netrebko interview where she shows no cleavage but ... it also is so hot. No wonder that video with Dmitri stopped before their actual kiss. But it was on the other video that I saw ... And the audience loved it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreenNR=1v=UgpVoMPGbUA http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreenNR=1v=UgpVoMPGbUA --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@ wrote: Nice, but not enough cleavage, which is an essential part of a female opera singerâs repertoire, donât you think? In this regard, the divine Cecilia does not disappoint in the following clip, especially given the tantalizing possibility of a wardrobe malfunction, which unfortunately not quite happen (but watch the shoulder strap): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaKX21earkk (Oh, yes, the aria is good too.) My favorite Cecilia is this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2IeGgk_06I Itâs an aria from a Vivaldi opera and she uses it as an encore. Itâs breathtaking, sensational. I defy anyone to keep still while they watch it. Itâs Baroque rock. And just look at her face when she is finished. Cecilia is the sort of voluptuous Italian woman that men would love to have in the kitchen and bedroom. She might be a bit of a handful though. Elina G made a great Sesto in the live Met telecast of Clemenza di Tito at the weekend. She is so hot. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptybill@ wrote: Two of the best mezzo-sopranos, Elina Garanca and Anna Netrebko, sing the famous Flower duet (Lakm� Delibes). Doesn't hurt that they're both as beautiful as the blossoms to which they give song. No wonder men are so easily spellbound. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf42IP__ipw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf42IP__ipw Also, Dmitri Hvorostovsky and Renee Fleming in a fabulous performance in the palace at St. Petersburg (a duet from Verdi's Il Travatore). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV9rE61kodwfeature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV9rE61kodwfeature=related
[FairfieldLife] Re: Foundation Online Auction
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson mjackson74@... wrote: I have looked at it quite a bit - I was merely pointing out that as far as I can see, they only use TM as their modality - and if you believe that the Big M was a great guy and all he did was and is good I can't help you - I know the Lynch Foundation being a front for the TMO is gonna say they do grand things, but from experience I am not so convinced that all their work is good, nor that TM is as fine as they claim, and I am especially leery of using TM as a remedy for PTSD - I know a bit about both TM and PTSD and given the unstressing phenomenon that we all know exists I believe there are other meditations that better fit the bill for people with combat related stress. Of course you won't agree, but I believe it is neither childish nor cynical to expect results when results are promised. It is not cynical to be honest about a group who has for years left a trail of unfulfilled promises with plenty of bad behavior on top. I know that you and others like you like TM but to believe all that is claimed for it is living a nice but child-like fantasy. We sit and use our TM mantra, we have experiences of clear transcending, later we begin to have bliss, both in and out of meditation and experiences of what have been described as CC, GC and UC. Thus we feel that it is all Maha said it was and it will bring enlightenment. And we give a free pass to M and his top people when their behavior belies the experiences we have within - as in how can someone who has been meditating so long and administers the Movement do something like that? We make innumerable excuses for them. I once believed that Maha was enlightened and everything that the Movement did was for the long range goal of global enlightenment and world peace. And much of what he and the TMO did made no sense under that belief. When I came to realize that Maharishi was not enlightened, he had great charisma, great energy, lots of knowledge and in my opinion was a genius in some respects, yet he was not enlightened and he was allowing his ego to make what could have been a world changing movement into an ego based structure to cater to his desire to be deified, flow money in large amounts to him and get him all the ladies he wanted (yep, I believe that he did have sex with lots of women, thanks in fact to my participation here on FFL) then everything he and the movement had ever done made perfect sense. The proof is in the pudding. If TM is as great as it is advertised - and mind you I have had plenty of experiences of transcending, and lots of CC and GC experiences and some Unity along the way since the first year or so of TM - if it is as effective as advertised how do you explain the behavior of the TMO leaders and not just the top level but pretty much all the way through the organization? If TM brings one into Pure Awareness and repeated experiences of same lead to the ego becoming erased and all thought, feeling, desire and action is Cosmic in nature and upholds all the laws of nature, why do so many of the TMO managers and leaders who have done TM for decades consistently display unloving, non-compassionate and oftentimes spiteful, deceitful controlling behavior? I feel that to ignore the fruits of the practice of TM which in this case is behavior on the part of people you would expect to behave in a exemplary fashion doing just the opposite, in fact displaying behavior which is not life supporting is living a child-like fantasy - that we just do as we are told, don't mind where the money goes and everything will be heaven in the end. Apologies to those who like Wednesday to be reserved for things other than this. No apologies necessary MJ. I don't know enough about any of this to know if you are right or wrong or if Feste is right or wrong but when you write I feel it mostly comes from a very unreactive and experienced place within yourself and therefore when I read your posts they feel thoughtful and balanced. So even if they could be refuted I have to respect what you say because HOW you are saying it DESERVES respect. I think you have had a tremendous amount of history with TM and the movement in a number of capacities and so I give credence to your viewpoint. It may be off the charts on the true or false scale but you have earned every right to say what you feel. For me, your meaning is often transcended by where you are coming from. From: feste37 feste37@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 5, 2012 5:51 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Foundation Online Auction  Have you even bothered to look at the David Lynch Foundation website? They are doing an amazing amount of good work. You seem locked into a childish cynicism that helps nothing and nobody, not
[FairfieldLife] Re: movie soundtracks
and sometimes it is not noise at all - though whatever it is, as you say, it can be transcended easily, just as I got rid of my hiccups last night - lol - used the [TM] mantra to drop below the impulse causing them, and that, as they say, was that. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@ wrote: I sometimes have favorite pieces of music playing internally during TMSP. It doesn't bother me at all. Just another thought. snip --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: Those of a non-Tantric disposition or those who are convinced that one can only meditate in silence may not be able to get this Noise is no barrier to meditation.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Online Yoga Asanas
I used to have a piece of paper with the asanas, as taught at residence courses, drawn out, including the sequence, and timing. Do you know of a link to it, on-line? If not, no worries. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@... wrote: Maharishi Yoga Asanas: Vedic Exercise to Enliven Mind-Body Coordination to Support Pure Awareness, the State of Yoga http://elearning.mum.edu/maharishi-yoga-asanas-online-course.php
[FairfieldLife] Re: movie soundtracks
Hey, Doc. This is the first time I heard of anyone other than me say they use the TM mantra to get rid of hiccups. It's something I discovered as a new meditator. I rarely get hiccups but when I do, it works rather quickly. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@... no_reply@... wrote: and sometimes it is not noise at all - though whatever it is, as you say, it can be transcended easily, just as I got rid of my hiccups last night - lol - used the [TM] mantra to drop below the impulse causing them, and that, as they say, was that. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@ wrote: I sometimes have favorite pieces of music playing internally during TMSP. It doesn't bother me at all. Just another thought. snip --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: Those of a non-Tantric disposition or those who are convinced that one can only meditate in silence may not be able to get this Noise is no barrier to meditation.
[FairfieldLife] Loan for TM was well worth it
Meditation brought an inner sunshine back into my life http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/health/2012/1204/1224327432119.html
[FairfieldLife] Re: Describing Communal (Meditating) Fairfield
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@ wrote: That's a good summary. Thanks. It is interesting that you responded first to this. I actually was thinking of asking you to help me edit this particular paper for this particular scholarly audience. I pushed ahead anyway and they seem quite pleased with this as an entry in to the subject of TM and Fairfield for discussion. -Buck But if the scholars didn't know about TM and Fairfield, I'd be interested in knowing what were the Utopian/spiritual/intentional/communal groups that they did discuss, especially those currently in existence. Where are these groups located? Who are they? At the meeting were specialists in different communal groups and aspects of different groups. Oneida, Harmonists, Amana, Shakers, Icarians, Mormons, Synanon, new religions and contemporary religious and secular communities, Camphill, the Twelve Tribes, City of David, Kibitz, and some other particular contemporary cloistered groups had papers delivered about them. There was a paper given considering quantitative measurement of the notion of sustainability in communal groups using a contemporary 'intentional community' group that is just to our south over the border in Missouri, the intentional community of Dancing Rabbit. The conference had papers on many different aspects of utopian community. Sociologists, anthropologists, ethno-musicologists, economists, religious studies, and historians. The meeting was all extremely interesting as a communal comparison for our own group. It's a meeting of an old scholarly association and the meeting was very professionally and well done. This was the second year I've attended as someone coming from (meditating) Fairfield. -Buck --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: I wrote this piece below and have been e-mailing individually to a number of scholarly folks who I met at an academic meeting studying Utopian and communal groups that I attended recently out in upstate New York. I came away with about 50 business cards from scholars who I met and talked with at the conference. I wrote this to be able to send to them something descriptive about (meditating) Fairfield, Iowa as a 'communal' group. Of course what I set out to write became longer than I intended. Here is the unabridged version with the links. I hope you'll like the Shaker comparison and I think you'll appreciate the links. Best Regards from Iowa, paste: Communal (Meditating) Fairfield, Iowa On returning home from the annual meeting I find myself wanting to catch up by sharing some links on 'communal' Fairfield, Iowa with you that might better give insight in to a scale and circumstance of the communal society I come from and have lived in for 40 years. Starting from the outside looking in on meditating Fairfield it can seem like looking at a monolith. Evidently it is easy to make assumptions about Fairfield and its meditators as it is also tough to discern what is going on inside the meditating community. But it need not be difficult at all once there are handles on it. The Fairfield meditating community has matured in time and is quite developed with many communal features to find and look at. I see Fairfield, Iowa in fact can provide a large and living laboratory for communal community scholars to look at. Beginning with Tim Miller's Communal Societies Vol. 30 No.1, 2010 paper in mind I'll give you some things further below to look at for yourselves, A Matter of Definition: Just What Is an Intentional Community? -A sense of purpose and distinctiveness, with deliberate intent to be a community -Some kind of shared living space -Some shared resources -Critical mass For communal studies scholars looking in I believe one of the best ways to understand the scale of the Fairfield Meditating community is to relate to it in a form like the old Shaker villages as organizational structure back while the Shakers were up and running. In the middle of TM is the equivalent of a Shaker 'Ministry Family' of upper administration and then elements of communal families of meditators that are in concentric circles around the middle including meditators who live well outside the middle in town but come inside to meditate also as members. The upper level is a more exclusive level (only for sake of an analogy though, they do not use that term 'ministry' to describe themselves) which currently now tends to live more exclusively out in an adjacent new town area called Maharishi Vedic City to the northwest of Fairfield proper. The university community lives more on their campus in Fairfield. The larger meditating community lives through out
[FairfieldLife] Re: movie soundtracks
Cool! Also works for dispelling insomnia, and persistent illusions.:-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@... wrote: Hey, Doc. This is the first time I heard of anyone other than me say they use the TM mantra to get rid of hiccups. It's something I discovered as a new meditator. I rarely get hiccups but when I do, it works rather quickly. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ no_reply@ wrote: and sometimes it is not noise at all - though whatever it is, as you say, it can be transcended easily, just as I got rid of my hiccups last night - lol - used the [TM] mantra to drop below the impulse causing them, and that, as they say, was that. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@ wrote: I sometimes have favorite pieces of music playing internally during TMSP. It doesn't bother me at all. Just another thought. snip --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: Those of a non-Tantric disposition or those who are convinced that one can only meditate in silence may not be able to get this Noise is no barrier to meditation.
[FairfieldLife] John McAfee Arrested in Guatemala
He appears to be confident in escaping the Belize police who wanted to question him about the murder of his neighbor. We'll find out how this story ends sooner or later. http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/john-mcafee-arrested-guatemala-entering-country-illegally/story?id=17884312
