[FairfieldLife] More Potential TM Celebrity Ads
Avoid the danger before it comes... learn TM today! Experience heaven on earth, dudes... and family values, too. Roll yourself a TM doobie today! Go ahead...make my Yuga. Learn TM and improve *your* mental clarity, too! I dreamed that I was nominated for an Emmy Award wearing only my Maidenform bra and my TM mantra. :-)
[FairfieldLife] Re: Highlights of David Lynch Foundations Night of Comedy Honoring George Shapiro
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 wrote: http://dlf.tv/2013/highlights-of-david-lynch-foundations-night-of-comedy\ -honoring-george-shapiro/ http://dlf.tv/2013/highlights-of-david-lynch-foundations-night-of-comed\ y-honoring-george-shapiro/ Rare outtakes from David Lynch's Night of Comedy: (art by David Lynch, from his recent exhibition)
[FairfieldLife] Tempus fuckit
Today, for some reason I can't quite put my finger on, I find myself in this cafe in Paris thinking about time. Slippery stuff, time. You know, in that Einsteinian sense in which sitting on a hot stove seems like eternity, but sitting for hours talking to a beautiful woman seems like a moment. Science has recently confirmed that our human perception of time is not fixed to an immutable scale -- time really *does* slow down and speed up for us. Time plays weird tricks with memory, too. Your first kiss seems like only yesterday, but try to remember what you had for lunch only yesterday. Anyway, I'm sitting here flashing back to some of my time here in Paris. I first came here when I was 15 or so, on a vacation with my family. We were living in Morocco at the time, having spent our years before Morocco living in America's Deep South. My mother had never traveled to Europe before, my father had only been overseas once, and that, too had been in Morocco. We knew nuthin'. My brothers were younger, but I was old enough to have my mind blown by Morocco. It was like stepping into a Whole Other Reality. Very little of what I had been taught that life was like was what life was like in Morocco. Very Third World, and very eye-opening. It jumpstarted my previously-asleep American brain and got me thinkin'. Been thinkin' ever since, and I genuinely thank the U.S. Air Force for providing me with that opportunity. But Paris! Seeing it for the first time was WAY eye-opening and awakening, in every sense of the word. And in ways that had to do with time. I had experienced fleeting moments of time-slippage before, in the deserts of Morocco, but in Paris the odd past-life flashbacks really started happening. Even though I was with my parents and two younger brothers, I'd catch a glimpse of an older neighborhood in Paris and just flash back for a moment or two. I had no idea what it was (and still do not today), but it was as if for a moment some part of me had time-slipped and gotten a peek into the events of another life, in another time. The same thing has happened to me many times in Paris since. It happened again last night. I went to a bistro that has a fairly interesting history, having been a favorite writing cafe of Charles Baudelaire, Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud, and François Villon. http://www.lavenusnoire.fr/a-propos/ http://www.lavenusnoire.fr/a-propos/ la Vénus Noire is a literal caveau, its walls carved out of the original limestone that forms the foundation of Paris. And sitting there listening to quiet jazz and chatting with other people, I had a few of those momentary flashbacks again. One instant I'd be there Here And Now, in a room full of Parisians in modern dress talking about modern things, and then Zap! the scene would change to the same room, with everyone dressed as they would have been in the Belle Epoque. None of these flashes lasted more than a couple of seconds, and I can't give you any meaningful insights I gained from the experience, but it was fun. Very Midnight In Paris.
[FairfieldLife] Whatever
If ever there were a link that deserved the new Net Acronym I thought up the other day, it's this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjSkfSDF6Oo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjSkfSDF6Oo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjSkfSDF6Oo
[FairfieldLife] Re: Tempus fuckit
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[FairfieldLife] Re: Tempus fuckit
[FairfieldLife] The FFL Time Travel Machine
OK, here's one that's Just For Fun. Whoever is up for it, write up your favorite time travel fantasy and post it. Where and when would you go, if you had the chance to do so? The rules are that you've done your homework first, so you speak the local language and you are dressed appropriately for the age. If you want to be, that is; if it's more your cuppa tea, you could transport back to the Middle Ages and be dressed in a Spiderman costume. :-) No rules as to whether you can change the future while you're back in the past or can't. Heck, you can even go to the future, if that floats yer boat. That's up to you. The reasons you'd pick that particular place and time are yours, too. You don't even have to mention them if you don't want to, although I think that'd be the most interesting part of the exercise. I saw a similar just-for-fun writing exercise play out on another forum, and it was FUN there. Maybe it could be here, too. Having proposed the idea and thus pretty much having to go first, I find that I have several times and places I'd love to visit, but the first that popped into my mind was to go back to 17th century Tibet. My destination would be a shabby brothel/bar in the red light district of Lhasa, and there I'd be meeting this guy, and offering to buy him a few drinks while we chatted. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6th_Dalai_Lama http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6th_Dalai_Lama I'd pick that time and place because if there is anyone from history I'd like to meet and have a great conversation with over drinks, it would be the Sixth Dalai Lama, Tsangyang Gyatso, otherwise known as the Turquoise Bee. I mean, talk about the most interesting man in the world, here's a guy who is reputedly the reincarnation of the most important Dalai Lama in history, the Great Fifth, who built the Potala Palace and restructured all of Tibet. He's found early in life and named as the new Dalai Lama. But he then refuses to take his vows as a monk and spends his days in the Potala presiding over the mundane and spiritual affairs of Tibet, but spends his evenings in the brothels of Shol-town, having affairs of another kind and writing some of the best romantic poetry ever. Interesting dude. I think we'd have a lot to talk about.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Jimi Hendrix in Stockholm
Can't stand watching and listening. Jimi looks so utterly depressed and reluctant...
[FairfieldLife] Re: The FFL Time Travel Machine
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[FairfieldLife] What do you *visualize* when you think of time?
Still on this time kick, I thought I'd ask that question of Google. So I Googled for time. This is the first one that came up: Some of the others were pretty cool, too:
Re: [FairfieldLife] What do you *visualize* when you think of time?
turq, when I think of time, I sense a flowing river. Every time (-: On Saturday, December 7, 2013 6:36 AM, TurquoiseB turquoi...@yahoo.com wrote: Still on this time kick, I thought I'd ask that question of Google. So I Googled for time. This is the first one that came up: Some of the others were pretty cool, too:
Re: [FairfieldLife] Whatever
thanks, turq, I love this, had some good LOLs watching the different reactions. The little kids are especially wonderful. How about Maya? Did she like? On Saturday, December 7, 2013 4:26 AM, TurquoiseB turquoi...@yahoo.com wrote: If ever there were a link that deserved the new Net Acronym I thought up the other day, it's this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjSkfSDF6Oo
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: 100 Great Rock Artists
Peter Gabriel [image: Inline image 1] Peter Gabriel - Steam http://youtu.be/Qt87bLX7m_o Comments: A video is packed with in-your-face symbolism to wake you up from the dream. If you can just see beyond its entertainment value. Other favorites of mine: Shock the Monkey, from Gabriel's fourth album, (the first commercial album recorded entirely to digital tape); and Digging in the Dirt. Peter Gabriel - Shock The Monkey http://youtu.be/CnVf1ZoCJSo Peter Gabriel is the founder of Genesis in 1967 with Tony Banks, Anthony Phillips, Mike Rutherford, and drummer Chris Stewart. After leaving Genesis, Gabriel went on to a successful solo career. His 1986 album, So, is his most commercially successful, and the album's biggest hit, Sledgehammer, won a record nine MTV Awards at the 1987 MTV Video Music Awards. TIME magazine named Gabriel one of the 100 most influential people in the world for his humanitarian efforts over the years with Amnesty International. His videos have won numerous awards. Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Gabriel On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 9:07 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.comwrote: The Police [image: Inline image 1] Live at Madison Square Garden, 2007 One of my favorites which was banned by the BBC. Go figure. The Police - Roxanne http://youtu.be/3T1c7GkzRQQ Another favorite of mine from the Ghost in the Machine album, 1981 - Spirits in the Material World. These two songs are what I call ear hummers - once you hear them, they keep humming in your ears for days! Their 1983 album, Synchronicity, was number one on both the UK Albums Chart and the US Billboard 200, and sold over 8 million copies in the US. The Police have won six Grammy Awards, two Brit Awards (winning Best British Group once), an MTV Video Music Award, and in 2003 were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The Police are Sting - lead vocals, bass; Andy Summers - guitar; and Stewart Copeland - drums. Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Police On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 8:40 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.comwrote: Genesis [image: Inline image 1] My favorite - Abacab, 1981, featuring the gated drum sound: Daryl Stuermer, Mike Rutherford, Tony Banks, and Phil Collins. Genesis - Abacab (Full album) http://youtu.be/KX4kpMb0mTM Genesis, is a progressive rock band, (sometimes critiqued as MOR) is among the highest-selling recording artists of all time, with approximately 150 million albums sold worldwide. Genesis was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010. Phil Collins has written a book about the Alamo in San Antonio - a good read. According to The New Rolling Stone Album Guide, Genesis has made its share of mediocre albums - perhaps even more than its share, considering how long the band has been around. But bad albums? None to speak of. Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesis_(band) 'The Book of Genesis' by Hugh Fielder, 1984 On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 9:08 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.comwrote: The Doors [image: Inline image 1] I met Jerry Jarvis at the first SIMS course and introduced him to Mike Love and Rick Stanley who were initiated in the second SIMS course. The Maharishi's' directions on how to meditate were incorporated into the Door's songs: Take it easy... and 'take it as it comes..., according to Mason. Ranked number 41 on the Rolling Stone list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. http://www.rollingstone.com/100-greatest-artists-of-all-timehttp://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-artists-of-all-time-19691231/the-doors-20110420 The Doors were the first American band to accumulate eight consecutive gold LPs. In 1993, the Doors were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, drummer John Densmore and guitarist Robby Krieger. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doors Notes: In 'Riders on the Storm' by John Densmore, it was Ray and Robbie Krieger who were initiated into TM. John Densmore, Robbie Krieger, and Ray Manzarek took the TM plunge in the spring of 1965 and were initiated by Jerry Jarvis at SIMS, which was located at 1015 Gayley Avenue in Westwood. However, there is no evidence that Jim Morrison was ever tried TM. Too bad. Work cited: 'Maharishi: The Biography' By Paul Mason Element, 1994 p. 90-91 Other titles of interest: 'Riders on the Storm' By John Densmore Bloomsbury, 1991 'Light My Fire' By Ray Manzarek Putnam, 1998 On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 8:26 PM, Richard J. Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote: You won't get any argument from me! Got all their old albums on vinyl. Thanks for the reply! On 12/4/2013 7:32 PM, s3raph...@yahoo.com wrote: Nice selection Richard. But re Pink Floyd: it's their pre-Dark Sidealbums that appeal to me. The track Echoes on their Meddle album is the pinnacle of rock as art. You've missed out one of the greatest rock bands of all time,
[FairfieldLife] Re: Whatever
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote: thanks, turq, I love this, had some good LOLs watching the different reactions. The little kids are especially wonderful. How about Maya? Did she like? I won't know until I get home next Friday. But then I'll be home for good. Or bad. Your call. :-) On Saturday, December 7, 2013 4:26 AM, TurquoiseB turquoiseb@... wrote: If ever there were a link that deserved the new Net Acronym I thought up the other day, it's this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjSkfSDF6Oo
[FairfieldLife] I think I've found my Christmas presents
Just get one of these watches. For my friends, and for myself. Think how much fun it would be whenever someone stops you and asks the time. You show it to them, and smile. If they smile back, you've done them a service. :-)
[FairfieldLife] RE: Jimi Hendrix in Stockholm
The reason I posted this was because he was in a completely different mood than usual. This could be the trip to Stockholm when he fathered a baby, perhaps this contributed to his more somber mood...
[FairfieldLife] RE: Highlights of David Lynch Foundation’s Night of Comedy Honoring George Shapiro
You have selected the more macabre images. For what reason one can only speculate,
[FairfieldLife] Re: Highlights of David Lynch Foundationâs Night of Comedy Honoring George Shapiro
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 wrote: You have selected the more macabre images. For what reason one can only speculate, My bad. Please feel free to post the up, bright, happy, and inspiring images from David Lynch's films and art, to set the record straight.
[FairfieldLife] MMY's Seven states of Consciousness
One of the most extensive study of the characteristics of altered states of consciousness was made by psychologist Charles Tart in the 1960s and 1970s. William James is usually credited with popularizing the idea that human consciousness flows like a stream. The most thorough account of the spiritual approach may be Ken Wilber's book The Spectrum of Consciousness, a comparison of western and eastern ways of thinking about the mind, Ken Wilber described consciousness as a spectrum with ordinary awareness at one end, and more profound types of awareness at higher levels. The mystical psychiatrist Richard Maurice Bucke distinguished between three types of consciousness: Simple Consciousness, awareness of the body, possessed by many animals; Self Consciousness, awareness of being aware, possessed only by humans; and Cosmic Consciousness, awareness of the life and order of the universe, possessed only by humans who are enlightened. According to Tart, Anything that we are aware of at a given moment forms part of our consciousness, making conscious experience at once the most familiar and most mysterious aspect of our lives. MMY has recorded a lecture describing seven states of consciousness, which follows the description according to the yoga tradition of India. MMY's description of seven states agrees with Swami Rama and Swami Sivananda Saraswati. Wilber, the father of transpersonal psychology, with brilliant clarity, depth, and synthesis explores the nature of consciousness through the seeing of the worlds greatest sages. This tour de force of the mapping of transcendental awareness is both brilliantly conceived and delivered by one of the foremost thinkers of our time. Anyone on the path of enlightenment can not afford to miss studying and assimilating the non-dual seeing of Ken Wilber. - Edward Plotkin Work cited: 'The Spectrum of Consciousness' By Ken Wilber Quest Books, 1993 pp. 3-16; 52 'States of Consciousness' by Charles Tart p. 95
[FairfieldLife] Re: Highlights of David Lynch Foundation's Night of Comedy Honoring George Shap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 wrote: You have selected the more macabre images. For what reason one can only speculate, My bad. Please feel free to post the up, bright, happy, and inspiring images from David Lynch's films and art, to set the record straight. Here, I'll start: Can't get more up than the joys of eating, right? Oh, but wait...here's another one, posted on a site called welcometotwinpeaks.com, titled The David Lynch Dining Experience. Well, I tried... :-)
Re: [FairfieldLife] Paul McCartney Ringo Starr Concert Highlights
Apparently Barry is no longer a Spiritual Guide (checker) in good standing with the TMO. On 12/6/2013 10:04 PM, Michael Jackson wrote: I told you I will, but only if Barry is the checker Do have a cheching of your meditation
[FairfieldLife] RE: Highlights of David Lynch Foundation’ s Night of Comedy Honoring George Shapiro
Generally, Lynch's films are rather dark, disturbing; that is the predominant thread that runs through his art. There are some lighter moments, and there is the film Straight Story. But basically his artistic vision, contrasted the movement's vision of what life could be, is a nightmare. If you can watch his stuff and not be repelled, then you are either fairly well along spiritually, or you are a psychopath or some other kind of deviant. Now, I like Lynch's movies, but most of my family and friends have a really hard time with them. A number of his films seem to involve people with injuries to the head. Interesting haircut he always has. People view art in different ways. Some people are content sensitive and can be totally unnerved by a great piece of art, which attempts to elicit a feeling beyond what you see. The art attempts to get you to experience something beyond your limited personal vision, but as one's internal conditioning can come into play, that conditioning might prevent a particular viewer from seeing through the immediate facade of whatever they are looking at. For David Lynch, you need a strong stomach, period. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com nablusoss1008 wrote: You have selected the more macabre images. For what reason one can only speculate,
[FairfieldLife] Re: Paul McCartney Ringo Starr Concert Highlights
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams wrote: Apparently Barry is no longer a Spiritual Guide (checker) in good standing with the TMO. That may be so, but if you'll notice, Nabby recommended below that Michael get a good cheching. I may not be a TM checker any more, but I *am* a certified Checher, recognized and ordained by the Church of Whatever The Fuck. If Michael wants a cheching, he need only show up bearing the offerings used in our non-religious (despite the name of our congregation) and non-denominational pre-cheching ceremony. He should bring fresh fruit, a tube of K-Y Jelly, three small rodents, a clean white pair of skivvies, an industrial-strength vibrator, three dwarves, Cindy Crawford, and an open mind. We'll take care of the rest... :-) On 12/6/2013 10:04 PM, Michael Jackson wrote: I told you I will, but only if Barry is the checker Nabby wrote previously: Do have a cheching of your meditation
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Paul McCartney Ringo Starr Concert Highlights
It would be more reasonable to suppose that most people who would want to learn TM these days would probably have never heard of David Lynch, and even if they started TM, would but would have heard about TM by word of mouth, and they probably would never buy a Maharishi product. In your case, it appears like if you wasted almost your entire adult life supporting cults like Scientology. You fell for Zen Master Rama, and that's a real WOW. But, it's is amazing how many famous people have started TM, but you are not one of them, although you seem to think you're important. Go figure. List of people who have learned Transcendental Meditation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Transcendental_Meditation_practitioners On 12/7/2013 1:48 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson wrote: all this blah blah blah about D Lynch and celebrities is exactly like Scientology, with about as much change in world consciousness. /I have to admit that I agree. I simply don't understand how so many can cling to the olde You should learn TM and buy our products because a few famous people do marketing approach. I think it must be because the idea originally came from Maharishi and so If Maharishi thought it up, it must be good. Seriously, folks...can you *imagine* anyone so lame as to want to spend money on Scientology because Tom Cruise and John Travolta do it? Well, now think of someone so lame as to fall for *David Lynch* as poster-pimp for TM. Here's how it must work in their minds. Wow. David Fucking *Lynch* does TM. I've seen his movies, and appreciated the strong, spiritual depth of his being as he portrayed rape, torture, misogyny, violence, lesbianism, deformity and murder onscreen. I just can't WAIT to have that level of consciousness workin' for me in *my* life! Think I'm over the top here? That IS how Nabby thinks. He's the one who keeps touting Lynch as a great artist just because he once spent a million bucks to hang with Maharishi for a month, and then only got to see him over video. I can't help imagining the ad/PR campaign that Nabby and the TMO would trot out if it turned out that Bryan Cranston was a TMer. You'd have TV ads with him wearing his signature porkpie hat, staring out at audience and saying: / */Heisenberg your mind, people. *I* am the one who knocks. /* *:-)*
[FairfieldLife] Re: Paul McCartney Ringo Starr Concert Highlights
Ignoring the jibes but tripping on the subtext of what Willy says here, can you *imagine* a sadder goal in life than to become famous? One's whole worth in life becomes measured by How many people are paying attention to me? Right now? Sounds like a foolproof recipe for misery to me... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams wrote: It would be more reasonable to suppose that most people who would want to learn TM these days would probably have never heard of David Lynch, and even if they started TM, would but would have heard about TM by word of mouth, and they probably would never buy a Maharishi product. In your case, it appears like if you wasted almost your entire adult life supporting cults like Scientology. You fell for Zen Master Rama, and that's a real WOW. But, it's is amazing how many famous people have started TM, but you are not one of them, although you seem to think you're important. Go figure. List of people who have learned Transcendental Meditation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Transcendental_Meditation_practitio\ ners On 12/7/2013 1:48 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson wrote: all this blah blah blah about D Lynch and celebrities is exactly like Scientology, with about as much change in world consciousness. /I have to admit that I agree. I simply don't understand how so many can cling to the olde You should learn TM and buy our products because a few famous people do marketing approach. I think it must be because the idea originally came from Maharishi and so If Maharishi thought it up, it must be good. Seriously, folks...can you *imagine* anyone so lame as to want to spend money on Scientology because Tom Cruise and John Travolta do it? Well, now think of someone so lame as to fall for *David Lynch* as poster-pimp for TM. Here's how it must work in their minds. Wow. David Fucking *Lynch* does TM. I've seen his movies, and appreciated the strong, spiritual depth of his being as he portrayed rape, torture, misogyny, violence, lesbianism, deformity and murder onscreen. I just can't WAIT to have that level of consciousness workin' for me in *my* life! Think I'm over the top here? That IS how Nabby thinks. He's the one who keeps touting Lynch as a great artist just because he once spent a million bucks to hang with Maharishi for a month, and then only got to see him over video. I can't help imagining the ad/PR campaign that Nabby and the TMO would trot out if it turned out that Bryan Cranston was a TMer. You'd have TV ads with him wearing his signature porkpie hat, staring out at audience and saying: */Heisenberg your mind, people. *I* am the one who knocks. /* *:-)*
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Go Out and Radiate!
Dear MJ, You been away a long time out in the world and you may not be totally aware yourself of the profound and personal success in our very real spiritual experience of the Fairfield, Iowa meditating community. For instance, it seems evident that most every illumined person that Rick Archer interviews about their personal illumination is a transcending meditator in root talking about spiritual experiences. Heck, that is just www.Batgap.com http://www.Batgap.com/ . But also one of the most very special things of meditating in the Golden Domes with the large group here is that at around 10 am most every morning after the first meditation people can get up to speak of their spiritual experiences and progress in meditation. The communal experiences of spiritual reality is a lot to exult over here in fact. There is a lot of grace and blessing that has occurred here in people's lives who stuck with it. I am only sorry that you did not stay longer with us. Though you could certainly begin again anytime. There is a great compassion in Nature for that. “Whether pure or impure, whoever opens themselves to the expanded vision of unbounded awareness gains inner and outer purity”. That is a very beautiful thing. http://www.mum.edu/public-service/invincible-america http://www.mum.edu/public-service/invincible-america It would be a great joy to have you back meditating with us, -Buck ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote: I know that there is still the mind set that no matter what M may have done that wasn't ethical, the effect of TM and TMSP is so good and so powerful, it is best to ignore or rationalize that the negative or dark side of M and the Movement is outweighed by the vast positive benefit to the individual and the world. I know there is that mind set but I don't agree with it. I do not see any evidence the group practice of TMSP is having any kind of effect of offsetting the negative energy around the world. If you take the current state of the world as evidence of Marshy effect then it is clear the Marshy Effect is either non-existent or a colossal failure. I have come to feel that TM itself seems to work well for a couple years and then for some reason the positive benefits seem to fade away. I mean even old timers like Rick don't just strictly do TM - they do other stuff. If TM is so fabulous, people would not step away from it. There have been too many suicides, too many mental breakdowns and too many high ups in the Movement whose behavior is the opposite of what you would expect from folks practicing daily the royal technique for enlightenment. That last is of great importance to me. I don't feel you can make the grandiose claims for a mental technique and have the actual results be totally off base or totally different than what is promised and still legitimately believe the technique will do what is claimed for it. When the people who have been doing TMSP the longest behave in the arrogant, elitist, unethical manner I have seen in people like Hagelin, Morris, Greg Wilson, Susan Humphries, Chris Crowell, Neal Patterson, Bill Sands, Reed Martin and so on and so forth I see that the TMSP has had the OPPOSITE effect on their behavior that it should have had. So while I admire your desire to change the world, it won't change through folks doing TM and TMSP - if it was going to do so, it would already have done it. The state to the world today is a testament to Marshy's monumental failure to make significant changes in world consciousness through his programs. Of course, I believe his real program was to make himself into a demigod in people's minds, make tons of money for himself and his family and get laid a whole bunch while he was still young enough to enjoy it, so he actually did have the effect he wanted to have, it just wasn't the effect he promoted in public. On Thu, 12/5/13,Buck wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Go Out and Radiate! To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, December 5, 2013, 3:15 PM MJ, did you miss that this was a spiritual revival movement in a muddy world filled with vasana? I feel you are being too hard on how he did it and what all we did. Like, was Christ perfect in everything? Never stubbed his toe? We could surely use some help changing the world to a better place. Give up this negativistic POV and come back to meditation with us. -Buck ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote: it is a great lecture, no question - too bad he was such a liar and scam artist and by the way, the state of the world today and the behavior of a vast majority of the world's population is proof positive that one of his core tenants and that which he bases much of his proof that meditation is so
[FairfieldLife] Re: Paul McCartney Ringo Starr Concert Highlights
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson wrote: all this blah blah blah about D Lynch and celebrities is exactly like Scientology, with about as much change in world consciousness. I have to admit that I agree. I simply don't understand how so many can cling to the olde You should learn TM and buy our products because a few famous people do marketing approach. I think it must be because the idea originally came from Maharishi and so If Maharishi thought it up, it must be good. Seriously, folks...can you *imagine* anyone so lame as to want to spend money on Scientology because Tom Cruise and John Travolta do it? Well, now think of someone so lame as to fall for *David Lynch* as poster-pimp for TM. Here's how it must work in their minds. Wow. David Fucking *Lynch* does TM. I've seen his movies, and appreciated the strong, spiritual depth of his being as he portrayed rape, torture, misogyny, violence, lesbianism, deformity and murder onscreen. I just can't WAIT to have that level of consciousness workin' for me in *my* life! Think I'm over the top here? That IS how Nabby thinks. He's the one who keeps touting Lynch as a great artist just because he once spent a million bucks to hang with Maharishi for a month, and then only got to see him over video. I can't help imagining the ad/PR campaign that Nabby and the TMO would trot out if it turned out that Bryan Cranston was a TMer. You'd have TV ads with him wearing his signature porkpie hat, staring out at audience and saying: Heisenberg your mind, people. *I* am the one who knocks. :-) Yea, errr, get Nabby. What a dolt, what a superficial idiotic thinker. My God Nabby must be some sort of robotic follower. Grab the pitch forks, storm the castle, round up the usual suspects who enjoy a good mob scene and let's get Nabby for being such an imbecile and sheep-like putz. Donja just love Barry for picking out those imbeciles that deserve a good whipping?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Highlights of David Lynch Foundations Night of Comedy Honoring George Shapiro
I take it you don't like David Lynch's work? Am I to believe you are using David Lynch as a 'beautiful opportunity' to prove TM is a hoax? Is this calculation demonstrating that if David Lynch practices TM it means MMY was a fraud and shyster? Does 1+1=3? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 wrote: http://dlf.tv/2013/highlights-of-david-lynch-foundations-night-of-comedy-honoring-george-shapiro/ http://dlf.tv/2013/highlights-of-david-lynch-foundations-night-of-comedy-honoring-george-shapiro/ Rare outtakes from David Lynch's Night of Comedy: (art by David Lynch, from his recent exhibition)
Re: [FairfieldLife] Tempus fuckit
So, you're still hanging around cafes in Paris. There's a Paris, Texas, that has a Dairy Queen that is probably every bit as interesting as the one in France. LoL! You are probably thinking of Newtonian time, a realist view; a dimension independent of events. But, time based on duration is just a subjective intellectual exercise in which humans sequence and compare events based on the linear movement of the stars. In fact, Einstein described time as space-time; a special theory of relativity. If this is an example of your scientific writings, maybe you should get some smarts: things don't move about - and change is impossible. I'm going to have to give you an F for posting this little non-sense message about your memories. It really tells us nothing about real time. You might do better trying a little time management and post something interesting to read instead of mundane cafe speculations. According to Leibnitz and Kant, time is neither an event nor a thing, and thus is not itself measurable nor can it be traveled. Heidegger believed that we do not exist inside time, we ARE time. Parmenides went further, maintaining that time, motion, and change were illusions, leading to the paradoxes of his follower Zeno. Time as an illusion is also a common theme in Buddhist thought. Maybe it's time for you to go back and read a little Zen Buddhism, which you seem to have skipped entirely when Zen Master Rama was teaching. It's a funny thing about linear time: there is the past, which we no longer have; there is present time, which is gone in a split-second; and there is the future, which hasn't arrived yet. So, what time is it, exactly? Go figure. Zen Koan: Two monks were arguing about the temple flag waving in the wind. One said, The flag moves. The other said, The wind moves. They argued back and forth but could not agree. Hui-neng, the sixth Patriarch, said: Gentlemen! It is not the flag that moves. It is not the wind that moves. It is your mind that moves. The two monks were struck with awe. On 12/7/2013 4:23 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: Today, for some reason I can't quite put my finger on, I find myself in this cafe in Paris thinking about time. Slippery stuff, time. You know, in that Einsteinian sense in which sitting on a hot stove seems like eternity, but sitting for hours talking to a beautiful woman seems like a moment. Science has recently confirmed that our human perception of time is not fixed to an immutable scale -- time really *does* slow down and speed up for us. Time plays weird tricks with memory, too. Your first kiss seems like only yesterday, but try to remember what you had for lunch only yesterday. Anyway, I'm sitting here flashing back to some of my time here in Paris. I first came here when I was 15 or so, on a vacation with my family. We were living in Morocco at the time, having spent our years before Morocco living in America's Deep South. My mother had never traveled to Europe before, my father had only been overseas once, and that, too had been in Morocco. We knew nuthin'. My brothers were younger, but I was old enough to have my mind blown by Morocco. It was like stepping into a Whole Other Reality. Very little of what I had been taught that life was like was what life was like in Morocco. Very Third World, and very eye-opening. It jumpstarted my previously-asleep American brain and got me thinkin'. Been thinkin' ever since, and I genuinely thank the U.S. Air Force for providing me with that opportunity. But Paris! Seeing it for the first time was WAY eye-opening and awakening, in every sense of the word. And in ways that had to do with time. I had experienced fleeting moments of time-slippage before, in the deserts of Morocco, but in Paris the odd past-life flashbacks really started happening. Even though I was with my parents and two younger brothers, I'd catch a glimpse of an older neighborhood in Paris and just flash back for a moment or two. I had no idea what it was (and still do not today), but it was as if for a moment some part of me had time-slipped and gotten a peek into the events of another life, in another time. The same thing has happened to me many times in Paris since. It happened again last night. I went to a bistro that has a fairly interesting history, having been a favorite writing cafe of Charles Baudelaire, Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud, and François Villon. http://www.lavenusnoire.fr/a-propos/ la Vénus Noire is a literal caveau, its walls carved out of the original limestone that forms the foundation of Paris. And sitting there listening to quiet jazz and chatting with other people, I had a few of those momentary flashbacks again. One instant I'd be there Here And Now, in a room full of Parisians in modern dress talking about modern things, and then Zap! the scene would change to the same room, with everyone dressed as they would have been in the Belle Epoque. None of
[FairfieldLife] Ministry of Homeland Security Rolls Out Armored Vehicles
They are here just for you. http://www.infowars.com/ministry-of-homeland-security-rolls-out-armored-vechiles/ http://www.infowars.com/ministry-of-homeland-security-rolls-out-armored-vechiles/
[FairfieldLife] McClintock–The Great Question: Will Our Constitution Stand?
Who needs one anyway? It's been outdated by the Great One. He'll protect us! http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/12/05/Exclusive-McClintock-The-Great-Question-Will-Our-Constitution-Stand http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/12/05/Exclusive-McClintock-The-Great-Question-Will-Our-Constitution-Stand
Re: [FairfieldLife] The Rent is Too Damn HIGH ...no ITS JUST RIGHT NOT 2 HIGH ITS THE MARKET PRICE EXACTLY
WHAT!? Probably the last thing I need is to buy a house just so I could be close to a golden dome. I already sold my shack out in Hays County and rented a house down in San Antonio. I'll probably sell Dad's place on the lake when he is gone. I'm still in Texas for two reasons: no personal income tax and I like live music venues. I'm paying $400 a month for rent down here, and the rent is still too damn high! On 12/6/2013 10:35 PM, William Leed wrote: BUILD A HOME RENT IT OR BUY OIL STOCKS, SAVE SOME $$ THEN BECOME AN OWNER! wITH PROFITS IF U CHOOSE TO MAKE THEM BE HAPPY IN THE DOME! ENJOY THE RIDE BE MORE HAPPY POSITIVE LOOK 4 THE SUN THE PROFITS
[FairfieldLife] RE: Paul McCartney Ringo Starr Concert Highlights
The UK TM site listing meditating celebs mentions that Oprah Winfrey meditates twice daily with *all* her staff members at Harpo studios. Does that mean it is a requirement to get a job at Harpo Productions to be a meditator? Isn't that like insisting everyone must be Roman Catholic?
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Highlights of David Lynch Foundation’s Night of Comedy Honoring George Shapiro
There's no need to speculate: Barry hates David Lynch because Judy loves TM. Barry's prejudice is obvious to almost anyone - it's all about Judy. It's that simple. Lynch has won France's César Award for Best Foreign Film twice, as well as the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and a Golden Lion award for lifetime achievement at the Venice Film Festival. The French government awarded him the Legion of Honor, the country's top civilian honor, as a Chevalier in 2002 and then an Officier in 2007,while that same year, The Guardian described Lynch as the most important director of this era. So much for Barry's film reviews - lite weight fer sure! Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lynch 'Catching the Big Fish' by David Lynch Tarcher, 2007 Amazon review by Nathan Andersen: There are some remarkable insights to be gleaned from this short treatise on the process of creation, by one of our most creative and challenging filmmakers. It is very well written, in a simple and economical style that manages to deliver much more of interest than many much larger volumes on the subject of creation. The book consists of a series of apparently disconnected (but in fact well ordered) reflections on his own life, his work as a filmmaker, his practice as a meditator, and on the larger themes of creation and of human motivation and of relation between the conscious and unconscious mind and the role of art in revealing truth. On 12/7/2013 7:35 AM, nablusoss1008 wrote: You have selected the more macabre images. For what reason one can only speculate,
[FairfieldLife] RE: MMY#39;s Seven states of Consciousness
Re The mystical psychiatrist Richard Maurice Bucke distinguished between three types of consciousness: Simple Consciousness, awareness of the body, possessed by many animals; Self Consciousness, awareness of being aware, possessed only by humans; and Cosmic Consciousness, awareness of the life and order of the universe, possessed only by humans who are enlightened.: Bucke's experience of CC only lasted a minute or so. Some of his friends later advised him to try Indian yoga to learn how to replicate the experience. He wasn't interested. It wasn't that he didn't believe that yoga/meditation could alter someone's state but he regarded it as too much like taking heaven by storm. It was evolution of the race that would gradually produce more enlightened humans - in the same way that self consciousness had naturally arisen out of simple consciousness. Was he right? It's striking that Gopi Krishna (of kundalini fame), living in India and spending a lifetime on the spiritual quest, said that he'd only ever met two people he regarded as fully awakened. One was an anonymous sadhu who emerged from a forest about whom we know nothing; the other was Ramana Maharshi. Now one thing we do know about Maharshi is that he achieved his awakening spontaneously and *not* as a result of doing yoga/meditation or other spiritual exercises. So he was a natural mystic in Bucke's sense. Maybe the anonymous sadhu was a natural also. Perhaps we should all be more relaxed about the spiritual trip and just let Mother Nature take her course. She probably knows better than us what it's all about.
Re: [FairfieldLife] McClintock–The Great Question: Will Our Constitution Stand?
You can say what you want about Barack Obama, but you better leave Hillary Clinton out of the conversation unless you want to get clobbered real bad. You have been warned! If the GOP doesn't get their act together, we may be voting for Joe Biden, if we vote at all. Obama: ‘Biden Will Go Down In History As One Of The Best Vice Presidents Ever’ http://washington.cbslocal.com/obama-biden/ http://washington.cbslocal.com/2013/12/06/obama-biden-will-go-down-in-history-as-one-of-the-best-vice-presidents-ever/ On 12/7/2013 8:49 AM, emptyb...@yahoo.com wrote: Who needs one anyway? It's been outdated by the Great One. He'll protect us!
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: 100 Great Rock Artists
The Rolling Stones [image: Inline image 1] The Rolling Stones - Start Me Up - Official Promo http://youtu.be/SGyOaCXr8Lw Where to begin? I first saw the Stones at the San Antonio State Fair back in 1964, which Bill Wyman described as a disaster. They were booed off the stage and a troupe of monkeys returned to the stage. Then, in 1965 I met them in Los Angeles when they came in to see Doug Sahm (The Sir Douglas Quintet) perform at The Trip on the Sunset Strip. So, I almost grew up with this band. I missed the Altamont concert, although I was only fifty miles away - and that's probably a good thing. The last time I saw the Stones live was in 2011 when they toured Texas and stayed at the Palacio del Rio hotel in downtown San Antonio. Mick Jagger and his then girlfriend Marrianne Faithful were initiated into TM in 1967 at Bangor, Wales, UK, according to Mason. Let's just say the Stones are The world's greatest rock roll band. [image: Inline image 3] The Rolling Stones were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989, and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2004. Ranked fourth on the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time according to Rolling Stone Magazine. Current members Mick Jagger – lead and backing vocals, harmonica, guitars, bass, keyboards, percussion (1962–present) Keith Richards – guitars, bass, keyboards, backing and lead vocals, percussion (1962–present) Charlie Watts – drums, percussion (1963–present) Ronnie Wood – guitars, bass, saxophone, drums, backing vocals. Work cited: 'Maharishi: The Biography' by Paul Mason p. 109 Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rolling_Stones http://blog.chron.com/40yearsafter/2011/06/stones-roll-into-san-antonio/ 'Stoned' by Andrew Loog Oldham St. Martin's Griffin, 2000. Egan, Sean (2006). The Rough Guide to the Rolling Stones. London: Penguin. ISBN 1-84353-719-2. On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 7:13 AM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.comwrote: Peter Gabriel [image: Inline image 1] Peter Gabriel - Steam http://youtu.be/Qt87bLX7m_o Comments: A video is packed with in-your-face symbolism to wake you up from the dream. If you can just see beyond its entertainment value. Other favorites of mine: Shock the Monkey, from Gabriel's fourth album, (the first commercial album recorded entirely to digital tape); and Digging in the Dirt. Peter Gabriel - Shock The Monkey http://youtu.be/CnVf1ZoCJSo Peter Gabriel is the founder of Genesis in 1967 with Tony Banks, Anthony Phillips, Mike Rutherford, and drummer Chris Stewart. After leaving Genesis, Gabriel went on to a successful solo career. His 1986 album, So, is his most commercially successful, and the album's biggest hit, Sledgehammer, won a record nine MTV Awards at the 1987 MTV Video Music Awards. TIME magazine named Gabriel one of the 100 most influential people in the world for his humanitarian efforts over the years with Amnesty International. His videos have won numerous awards. Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Gabriel On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 9:07 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.comwrote: The Police [image: Inline image 1] Live at Madison Square Garden, 2007 One of my favorites which was banned by the BBC. Go figure. The Police - Roxanne http://youtu.be/3T1c7GkzRQQ Another favorite of mine from the Ghost in the Machine album, 1981 - Spirits in the Material World. These two songs are what I call ear hummers - once you hear them, they keep humming in your ears for days! Their 1983 album, Synchronicity, was number one on both the UK Albums Chart and the US Billboard 200, and sold over 8 million copies in the US. The Police have won six Grammy Awards, two Brit Awards (winning Best British Group once), an MTV Video Music Award, and in 2003 were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The Police are Sting - lead vocals, bass; Andy Summers - guitar; and Stewart Copeland - drums. Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Police On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 8:40 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.comwrote: Genesis [image: Inline image 1] My favorite - Abacab, 1981, featuring the gated drum sound: Daryl Stuermer, Mike Rutherford, Tony Banks, and Phil Collins. Genesis - Abacab (Full album) http://youtu.be/KX4kpMb0mTM Genesis, is a progressive rock band, (sometimes critiqued as MOR) is among the highest-selling recording artists of all time, with approximately 150 million albums sold worldwide. Genesis was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010. Phil Collins has written a book about the Alamo in San Antonio - a good read. According to The New Rolling Stone Album Guide, Genesis has made its share of mediocre albums - perhaps even more than its share, considering how long the band has been around. But bad albums? None to speak of. Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesis_(band) 'The Book of Genesis' by Hugh Fielder, 1984 On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 9:08 PM, Richard Williams
[FairfieldLife] RE: I think I#39;ve found my Christmas presents
Love it! I'm buying one. Reminds me that I hate it when in an unfamiliar area of town I stop to consult a street guide posted up by the local authorities and it *doesn't* have one of those You Are Here arrows on it. If I knew where I already was I wouldn't need the map.
[FairfieldLife] RE: For all romantics out there
Yes that's a cute duo piece. I reckon The Paris Sisters' version of I Love How You Love Me cuts deeper. (Another Phil Spector masterstroke.) http://tinyurl.com/nqqu65x http://tinyurl.com/nqqu65x
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Paul McCartney Ringo Starr Concert Highlights
excellent and funny too Barry! On Sat, 12/7/13, TurquoiseB turquoi...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Paul McCartney Ringo Starr Concert Highlights To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, December 7, 2013, 7:48 AM --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson wrote: all this blah blah blah about D Lynch and celebrities is exactly like Scientology, with about as much change in world consciousness. I have to admit that I agree. I simply don't understand how so many can cling to the olde You should learn TM and buy our products because a few famous people do marketing approach. I think it must be because the idea originally came from Maharishi and so If Maharishi thought it up, it must be good. Seriously, folks...can you *imagine* anyone so lame as to want to spend money on Scientology because Tom Cruise and John Travolta do it? Well, now think of someone so lame as to fall for *David Lynch* as poster-pimp for TM. Here's how it must work in their minds. Wow. David Fucking *Lynch* does TM. I've seen his movies, and appreciated the strong, spiritual depth of his being as he portrayed rape, torture, misogyny, violence, lesbianism, deformity and murder onscreen. I just can't WAIT to have that level of consciousness workin' for me in *my* life! Think I'm over the top here? That IS how Nabby thinks. He's the one who keeps touting Lynch as a great artist just because he once spent a million bucks to hang with Maharishi for a month, and then only got to see him over video. I can't help imagining the ad/PR campaign that Nabby and the TMO would trot out if it turned out that Bryan Cranston was a TMer. You'd have TV ads with him wearing his signature porkpie hat, staring out at audience and saying: Heisenberg your mind, people. *I* am the one who knocks. :-)
Re: [FairfieldLife] More Potential TM Celebrity Ads
Goddamn that is funny! On Sat, 12/7/13, TurquoiseB turquoi...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] More Potential TM Celebrity Ads To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, December 7, 2013, 8:21 AM Avoid the danger before it comes... learn TM today! Experience heaven on earth, dudes... and family values, too. Roll yourself a TM doobie today! Go ahead...make my Yuga. Learn TM and improve *your* mental clarity, too! I dreamed that I was nominated for an Emmy Award wearing only my Maidenform bra and my TM mantra. :-)
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Paul McCartney Ringo Starr Concert Highlights
I'm partial to his ability to do so, yeah. On Sat, 12/7/13, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com awoelfleba...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Paul McCartney Ringo Starr Concert Highlights To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, December 7, 2013, 2:35 PM ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson wrote: all this blah blah blah about D Lynch and celebrities is exactly like Scientology, with about as much change in world consciousness. I have to admit that I agree. I simply don't understand how so many can cling to the olde You should learn TM and buy our products because a few famous people do marketing approach. I think it must be because the idea originally came from Maharishi and so If Maharishi thought it up, it must be good. Seriously, folks...can you *imagine* anyone so lame as to want to spend money on Scientology because Tom Cruise and John Travolta do it? Well, now think of someone so lame as to fall for *David Lynch* as poster-pimp for TM. Here's how it must work in their minds. Wow. David Fucking *Lynch* does TM. I've seen his movies, and appreciated the strong, spiritual depth of his being as he portrayed rape, torture, misogyny, violence, lesbianism, deformity and murder onscreen. I just can't WAIT to have that level of consciousness workin' for me in *my* life! Think I'm over the top here? That IS how Nabby thinks. He's the one who keeps touting Lynch as a great artist just because he once spent a million bucks to hang with Maharishi for a month, and then only got to see him over video. I can't help imagining the ad/PR campaign that Nabby and the TMO would trot out if it turned out that Bryan Cranston was a TMer. You'd have TV ads with him wearing his signature porkpie hat, staring out at audience and saying: Heisenberg your mind, people. *I* am the one who knocks. :-)Yea, errr, get Nabby. What a dolt, what a superficial idiotic thinker. My God Nabby must be some sort of robotic follower. Grab the pitch forks, storm the castle, round up the usual suspects who enjoy a good mob scene and let's get Nabby for being such an imbecile and sheep-like putz. Donja just love Barry for picking out those imbeciles that deserve a good whipping?
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Inside China: Nuclear submarines capable of widespread attack on U.S.
In Fairfield, Iowa we are proly okay or safe enough from what will be a West coast radiation fall-out plume. It would be in the red Chinese interests to not radiate their farm land in Iowa. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote: I would think 2.3 billion would be a bit of a large number for the US and then that would probably take rolling in things like yoga classes offered at fitness centers. And if global, India would really skew the numbers. :-D It's like their looking for a next big thing. On 12/06/2013 10:51 AM,Buck wrote: Yes, Bhairitu is entirely right, it clearly is not just some new-agers consuming some spiritual trinkets. It is a much larger problem. However, we do know from the example of the Meissner Effect [ME] that just a few of us can change things; even the course of history. Yep, frivolous consumerism is seriously perilous in so many ways. We evidently all just need more Self-discipline around both our incessant materialism and then actually taking the time for meditation. Taking quiet time twice a day at the least to practice a transcending meditation. -Buck ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... mailto:noozguru@... wrote: I think that $230 billion a year is globally not the US. Otherwise there would new age shops on every corner. Many in this area have closed up since the 1990s. And also I think they are folding not necessarily new age in to their count such as environmental items. On 12/06/2013 04:22 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: In the meanwhile, let's hold the chinese reds off by staying current on our payments of consumer debt to them. Prudently let us tighten the belt, spend a lot more time meditating and a lot less time and credit on frivolous consumer goods. I wouldn't hold your breath. Americans spend over $230 billion a year on New Age products: http://specialtyretail.com/issue/2003/10/retail-products/retail-product-features/new_age_products/ And that doesn't even include the $10.4 billion per year market in seminars and self-improvement programs. http://www.marketresearch.com/Marketdata-Enterprises-Inc-v416/Self-Improvement-Products-Services-7284574/ http://www.marketresearch.com/Marketdata-Enterprises-Inc-v416/Self-Improvement-Products-Services-7284574/ There's a sucker reborn every minute. - Sri Parmahansa Boddhisatva Barnum
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Paul McCartney Ringo Starr Concert Highlights
Goddamn! Maybe I better ask Curtis or someone else - I' don't believe I cotton to such doings a'tall!!! On Sat, 12/7/13, TurquoiseB turquoi...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Paul McCartney Ringo Starr Concert Highlights To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, December 7, 2013, 2:04 PM --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams wrote: Apparently Barry is no longer a Spiritual Guide (checker) in good standing with the TMO. That may be so, but if you'll notice, Nabby recommended below that Michael get a good cheching. I may not be a TM checker any more, but I *am* a certified Checher, recognized and ordained by the Church of Whatever The Fuck. If Michael wants a cheching, he need only show up bearing the offerings used in our non-religious (despite the name of our congregation) and non-denominational pre-cheching ceremony. He should bring fresh fruit, a tube of K-Y Jelly, three small rodents, a clean white pair of skivvies, an industrial-strength vibrator, three dwarves, Cindy Crawford, and an open mind. We'll take care of the rest... :-) On 12/6/2013 10:04 PM, Michael Jackson wrote: I told you I will, but only if Barry is the checker Nabby wrote previously: Do have a cheching of your meditation
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Go Out and Radiate!
Buck when they get up to sing the glory of their spiritual experiences, do they get to say how grand it felt to have the monitors putting a measuring stick next to their asses to see if they are hopping high enough? On Sat, 12/7/13, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com dhamiltony...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Go Out and Radiate! To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, December 7, 2013, 2:26 PM Dear MJ,You been away a long time out in the world and you may not be totally aware yourself of the profound and personal success in our very real spiritual experience of the Fairfield, Iowa meditating community. For instance, it seems evident that most every illumined person that Rick Archer interviews about their personal illumination is a transcending meditator in root talking about spiritual experiences. Heck, that is just www.Batgap.com . But also one of the most very special things of meditating in the Golden Domes with the large group here is that at around 10 am most every morning after the first meditation people can get up to speak of their spiritual experiences and progress in meditation. The communal experiences of spiritual reality is a lot to exult over here in fact. There is a lot of grace and blessing that has occurred here in people's lives who stuck with it. I am only sorry that you did not stay longer with us. Though you could certainly begin again anytime. There is a great compassion in Nature for that. “Whether pure or impure, whoever opens themselves to the expanded vision of unbounded awareness gains inner and outer purity”. That is a very beautiful thing. http://www.mum.edu/public-service/invincible-america It would be a great joy to have you back meditating with us, -Buck ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote: I know that there is still the mind set that no matter what M may have done that wasn't ethical, the effect of TM and TMSP is so good and so powerful, it is best to ignore or rationalize that the negative or dark side of M and the Movement is outweighed by the vast positive benefit to the individual and the world. I know there is that mind set but I don't agree with it. I do not see any evidence the group practice of TMSP is having any kind of effect of offsetting the negative energy around the world. If you take the current state of the world as evidence of Marshy effect then it is clear the Marshy Effect is either non-existent or a colossal failure. I have come to feel that TM itself seems to work well for a couple years and then for some reason the positive benefits seem to fade away. I mean even old timers like Rick don't just strictly do TM - they do other stuff. If TM is so fabulous, people would not step away from it. There have been too many suicides, too many mental breakdowns and too many high ups in the Movement whose behavior is the opposite of what you would expect from folks practicing daily the royal technique for enlightenment. That last is of great importance to me. I don't feel you can make the grandiose claims for a mental technique and have the actual results be totally off base or totally different than what is promised and still legitimately believe the technique will do what is claimed for it. When the people who have been doing TMSP the longest behave in the arrogant, elitist, unethical manner I have seen in people like Hagelin, Morris, Greg Wilson, Susan Humphries, Chris Crowell, Neal Patterson, Bill Sands, Reed Martin and so on and so forth I see that the TMSP has had the OPPOSITE effect on their behavior that it should have had. So while I admire your desire to change the world, it won't change through folks doing TM and TMSP - if it was going to do so, it would already have done it. The state to the world today is a testament to Marshy's monumental failure to make significant changes in world consciousness through his programs. Of course, I believe his real program was to make himself into a demigod in people's minds, make tons of money for himself and his family and get laid a whole bunch while he was still young enough to enjoy it, so he actually did have the effect he wanted to have, it just wasn't the effect he promoted in public. On Thu, 12/5/13,Buck wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Go Out and Radiate! To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, December 5, 2013, 3:15 PM MJ, did you miss that this was a spiritual revival movement in a muddy world filled with vasana? I feel you are being too hard on how he did it and what all we did. Like, was Christ perfect in everything?
[FairfieldLife] RE: I think I#39;ve found my Christmas presents
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote: Love it! I'm buying one. Reminds me that I hate it when in an unfamiliar area of town I stop to consult a street guide posted up by the local authorities and it *doesn't* have one of those You Are Here arrows on it. If I knew where I already was I wouldn't need the map. Funny. You must not have a smart phone with a GPS on it. Me neither. I always carry a map when in unfamiliar territory; looking at it a few times gives me a mental map of the geography and what the main thoroughfares are, in case I get lost. And, I like to see the bigger picture at a scale that I can read. At least your local authorities post street guides.
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: MMY#39;s Seven states of Consciousness
One thing you have to consider is that the practice of TM, or any other yoga technique, is NOT the cause of enlightenment - TM just provides the ideal opportunity for the awakening. No technique is going to cause a person to become enlightened, even if you practice yoga for years and years. You are only going to get as much enlightenment as you are going to get. But, you only have to ingest LSD or some other alkaloid once in order to realize that there are altered states of consciousness. Once you do that, you will probably never forget it. LoL! According to yoga theory, you build up samskaras due to karma - the actions in this life and in your past lives. You can remove the samskaras through tapas - burning off the accumulated layers of past actions. But, yoga will not remove all the samskaras - there's always a trace of karma because you still maintain a human body which requires food, coarse or fine, and thoughts and volitions. There is always an innate clinging to life which is human nature. Patanjali says that the ideal state for awakening is the cessation of thoughts; you simply have to *isolate* the Purusha from the prakriti and then realization can occur on it's own, or not. SBS compared enlightement to Light (Brahman). The Absolute is already there; it doesn't require anything else to illuminate it because it is an already established ultimate reality. The enlightened state is described in the Indian rice analogy: you can remove the chaff and it's still rice paddy. In this day and age hardly anyone reads or understands the Sanskrit scriptures. The only hope for enlightenment today is to practice karma yoga - giving up the fruits of your labor for the common good, like Nelson Mandela, and having the good fortune to meet a qualified teacher. In the final analysis though, nobody is going to give you enlightenment - you earn it, and sometimes, by the grace of the gods, you realize your true nature. May the gods be with you! As in a pond, when its influx of water has been blocked, dries up gradually through evaporation and use, so karmic matter, which has been acquired through millions of lives, is erased through tapas; there is no further unflux (Wallah Sutra, I.4.). On 12/7/2013 9:25 AM, s3raph...@yahoo.com wrote: Re The mystical psychiatrist Richard Maurice Bucke distinguished between three types of consciousness: Simple Consciousness, awareness of the body, possessed by many animals; Self Consciousness, awareness of being aware, possessed only by humans; and Cosmic Consciousness, awareness of the life and order of the universe, possessed only by humans who are enlightened.: Bucke's experience of CC only lasted a minute or so. Some of his friends later advised him to try Indian yoga to learn how to replicate the experience. He wasn't interested. It wasn't that he didn't believe that yoga/meditation could alter someone's state but he regarded it as too much like taking heaven by storm. It was evolution of the race that would gradually produce more enlightened humans - in the same way that self consciousness had naturally arisen out of simple consciousness. Was he right? It's striking that Gopi Krishna (of kundalini fame), living in India and spending a lifetime on the spiritual quest, said that he'd only ever met two people he regarded as fully awakened. One was an anonymous sadhu who emerged from a forest about whom we know nothing; the other was Ramana Maharshi. Now one thing we do know about Maharshi is that he achieved his awakening spontaneously and *not* as a result of doing yoga/meditation or other spiritual exercises. So he was a natural mystic in Bucke's sense. Maybe the anonymous sadhu was a natural also. Perhaps we should all be more relaxed about the spiritual trip and just let Mother Nature take her course. She probably knows better than us what it's all about.
[FairfieldLife] RE: Activist Meditators, Doing Some Things..Good for Others.
Meditators, Doing Good for Others.. http://caritasseeds.com/aboutus.html http://caritasseeds.com/aboutus.html http://caritasseeds.com/ http://caritasseeds.com/ ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: Meditators, Doing Good for Others.. http://responsibletechnology.org/ http://responsibletechnology.org/
Re: [FairfieldLife] The Rent is Too Damn HIGH ...no ITS JUST RIGHT NOT 2 HIGH ITS THE MARKET PRICE EXACTLY
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote: WHAT!? Probably the last thing I need is to buy a house just so I could be close to a golden dome. I already sold my shack out in Hays County and rented a house down in San Antonio. I'll probably sell Dad's place on the lake when he is gone. I'm still in Texas for two reasons: no personal income tax and I like live music venues. I'm paying $400 a month for rent down here, and the rent is still too damn high! You are complaining about 400 a month? Yep, you are suited for the boondocks. On 12/6/2013 10:35 PM, William Leed wrote: BUILD A HOME RENT IT OR BUY OIL STOCKS, SAVE SOME $$ THEN BECOME AN OWNER! wITH PROFITS IF U CHOOSE TO MAKE THEM BE HAPPY IN THE DOME! ENJOY THE RIDE BE MORE HAPPY POSITIVE LOOK 4 THE SUN THE PROFITS
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Tempus fuckit
But, did they follow you over to Rama and what did they think of you doing so? Just curious. On 12/7/2013 10:09 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson wrote: Just curious - did your brothers or any other family members get into TM at any point? One brother and my mother not only learned TM, but became TM teachers. Go figure.
[FairfieldLife] RE: quot;sweet truthquot; a fundamental misunderstanding
As this current and next generation of David Lynch-TM'ers take the helm from us TM elders as we rotate out of the front lines in the next few years may be this more honest iteration of the sweet-truth hymn could become the new TM prayer that gets said before meals and invoked before meetings instead of that old Saha Nav version the elder administration is currently so fond of keeping in place. Just might help and encourage people to rise up to new levels of integrity that the TM movement has not necessarily been known for. As our south American christian FFL member says here, “Think of that.” There is hope and our hope for good is in the new generation, -Buck This “Speak the Sweet-truth” thing is real interesting to look back at. Like the bending in our TM translation and repeating of the Saha Nav hymn to a cultural end. Cardmeister worked that over a while ago here. It was kind of shocking seeing the translation then to discover a manipulation in what was a scriptural hymn. Seems to explain a lot about the old culture of TM inside. That culture now seems to be changing as TM gets run more openly by committee processes based more practically on merit and less by an authoritarianism in theocratic feelings about people and things. In watching it seems the Prime Minister of the Global Country is still proly the most powerful authoritarian left of the old guard. Saha Nav, -Buck May be Yahoo could adapt this in to their yahoo-groups guidelines: satyam bruyat, priyam bruyat speak the truth, speak sweetly na bruyat satyam apriyam | don't speak truth in an unloving way priyam ca nanritam bruyat don't speak untruth in a pleasant way esha dharmah sanatanah || this is the eternal law Paul, you may appreciate the dissonances in the TM Saha Nav hymn too. Cardmeister worked that over in translation too. See these, http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/342542 http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/342542 this link to the Saha Nav post by Cardemaister fra Finland about the more proper translation of the TM Saha Nav hymn:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/302944 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/302944 In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, psimdars@... wrote: This verse is from the Manu Smriti (4.138): Original translation: satyaM brUyAt priyaM brUyAt speak the truth, speak sweetly na brUyAt satyam apriyam | don't speak truth that is unpleasant priyaM ca nAnRRitaM brUyAt don't speak untruth that is pleasant eSha dharmaH sanAtanaH || this is the eternal law the Literal translation is: truth speak, lovingly speak don't speak truth unloving lovingly untruth don't speak this is law eternal My enhanced translation satyam bruyat, priyam bruyat speak the truth, speak sweetly na bruyat satyam apriyam | don't speak truth in an unloving way priyam ca nanritam bruyat don't speak untruth in a pleasant way esha dharmah sanatanah || this is the eternal law I'm certain that the shloka is talking about how to speak the truth not the quality of the truth itself. That is, it's not the truth that is to be sweet or not, truth is truth.. but it is HOW you say it that is the rule. the key word you in the first three lines is priyam this is derived from the word prem which means love, so I feel it is appropriate to translate priyam as lovingly, although sweetly, pleasantly are not far off. But I have to emphasize that this shloka doesn't not say that one should, under any circumstances, not tell the truth, but it is guiding one to say the truth in a pleasant way. The truth must be told (satyam eva jayate truth alone triumphs) ca means and (used very differently in Sanskrit than English / not a connective word) ritam is another word for truth nan negation no or not bruyat means speak or say priyam ca nanritam bruyat don't speak a pleasant untruth The word ca echoes the repetitive logic from earlier line (meaning don't) nanritam means untrurth priyam is used here to describe a way of speaking, not nature of the truth. Therefore it should mean lovingly The reason I think this is a fundamental issue is that people may feel that you should never tell someone something they don't want to hear. But that is not what it says. You can tell your friend that he didn't win the election or you can rub his nose in it and call him a loser. The fact (or truth) is the same but the way you say it is different. If you only tell people what they want to hear, you create bubble mentality. People will live in a bubble they create because they only want to hear what they want to hear. That is NOT speaking the sweet truth as defined in the Manu Smriti.
[FairfieldLife] Two more for Feste et al.
From a blog post on the demise of alt-weeklies: For reasons I’ve already laid out, when you report for an alt-weekly, you have to go deep. You have to figure out the not-obvious story. You have to become an engaging storyteller, not just a sharp transcriber. The editorial staff is small. (When I worked at the New Haven Advocate, the most full-time editorial staffers we ever had was seven, and that didn’t last long.) Your beat is broad. You need to learn your history, fast, so you know what to ask about and who to talk to. In general, you need to get really good. Really. Goddamned. Good. http://itsbrianlarue.wordpress.com/2013/11/27/goodbye-advocate-weekly/ http://itsbrianlarue.wordpress.com/2013/11/27/goodbye-advocate-weekly/ A snippet from a long essay on smarm: Let's pause here to say: Joe Lieberman. Joe. Lieberman. Joe Lieberman! If you would know smarm, look to Joe Lieberman. http://gawker.com/on-smarm-1476594977 http://gawker.com/on-smarm-1476594977 This makes three examples now of the convention that Feste and others here have declared doesn't exist (one of whom actually accused me of lying about it).
[FairfieldLife] RE: The FFL Time Travel Machine
Just one place? Aw, how could I choose between Mesopotamia during the heyday of Babylon and the late Mesozoic in North America? All those Triceratops and Velociraptors! That hanging gardens! I am allowed to take my camera right? Ok, how about Israel about 40,000 years ago, we could sit on a hill and watch the first human beings walk out of Africa. And if they're late we could do a bit of snorkelling. Or we could go forward a few million years and see what the human race turns into. Or not. And the pyramids in Egypt just after they were finished, all shiny white limestone and a nice gold cap on top, must been rather impressive. Rome during the time of Cicero. See the Doors at the Whisky a go go in '67. Tell Van Gogh he'll be popular one day, honest. Find out what stonehenge was actually for. But you can tell I never get hold of a time machine because I would have gone here: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/07/02/stephen-hawking-time-travel_n_1643488.html http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/07/02/stephen-hawking-time-travel_n_1643488.html Too late now
[FairfieldLife] RE: Go Out and Radiate!
Take your pick - invite Shiva-Shakti into your heart or Jesus into your heart. Just remember though - Allah is already there waiting to throw you into the eternal fire. After all, you are indeed an unbeliever (kafir). The TMO translation: “Whether pure or impure, whoever opens themselves to the expanded vision of unbounded awareness gains inner and outer purity” The Sanskrit transliteration: (aatma shuddhi – self purification) apavitraH pavitro vaa sarvaavasthaa.n gato.api vaa . yaH smaretpu.nDariikaakShaM sa baahyaabhya.ntaraH shuchiH (from haribhaktivilasa ch3 v37, garu.Da puraaNa (Garuda Purana) and 1st line in siva samhita 4:33) Whether filtered or unfiltered, whether all dwellings get purified, remember the lotus-eyed (Vishnu) to get inner and outer purify. The sources for the puja as a whole as declared by Paul Mason's Acharya Vandana Puja: Trotakacharya http://everything2.com/title/Trotakacharya's famous guru-paramparA http://everything2.com/title/paramparA Selected verses from the gurustotra http://everything2.com/title/gurustotra that every Indian who studies with a guru knows by heart A short middle verse used by Sanskrit http://everything2.com/title/Sanskrit students for recitation practice which invites Shiva http://everything2.com/title/Shiva and Shakti to take up residence in the performer's heart. 1. http://everything2.com/title/Trotakacharya ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: Dear MJ, You been away a long time out in the world and you may not be totally aware yourself of the profound and personal success in our very real spiritual experience of the Fairfield, Iowa meditating community. For instance, it seems evident that most every illumined person that Rick Archer interviews about their personal illumination is a transcending meditator in root talking about spiritual experiences. Heck, that is just www.Batgap.com http://www.Batgap.com/ . But also one of the most very special things of meditating in the Golden Domes with the large group here is that at around 10 am most every morning after the first meditation people can get up to speak of their spiritual experiences and progress in meditation. The communal experiences of spiritual reality is a lot to exult over here in fact. There is a lot of grace and blessing that has occurred here in people's lives who stuck with it. I am only sorry that you did not stay longer with us. Though you could certainly begin again anytime. There is a great compassion in Nature for that. “Whether pure or impure, whoever opens themselves to the expanded vision of unbounded awareness gains inner and outer purity”. That is a very beautiful thing. http://www.mum.edu/public-service/invincible-america http://www.mum.edu/public-service/invincible-america It would be a great joy to have you back meditating with us, -Buck ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote: I know that there is still the mind set that no matter what M may have done that wasn't ethical, the effect of TM and TMSP is so good and so powerful, it is best to ignore or rationalize that the negative or dark side of M and the Movement is outweighed by the vast positive benefit to the individual and the world. I know there is that mind set but I don't agree with it. I do not see any evidence the group practice of TMSP is having any kind of effect of offsetting the negative energy around the world. If you take the current state of the world as evidence of Marshy effect then it is clear the Marshy Effect is either non-existent or a colossal failure. I have come to feel that TM itself seems to work well for a couple years and then for some reason the positive benefits seem to fade away. I mean even old timers like Rick don't just strictly do TM - they do other stuff. If TM is so fabulous, people would not step away from it. There have been too many suicides, too many mental breakdowns and too many high ups in the Movement whose behavior is the opposite of what you would expect from folks practicing daily the royal technique for enlightenment. That last is of great importance to me. I don't feel you can make the grandiose claims for a mental technique and have the actual results be totally off base or totally different than what is promised and still legitimately believe the technique will do what is claimed for it. When the people who have been doing TMSP the longest behave in the arrogant, elitist, unethical manner I have seen in people like Hagelin, Morris, Greg Wilson, Susan Humphries, Chris Crowell, Neal Patterson, Bill Sands, Reed Martin and so on and so forth I see that the TMSP has had the OPPOSITE effect on their behavior that it should have had. So while I admire your desire to change the world, it won't change through folks doing TM and TMSP - if it was going to do so, it would
[FairfieldLife] RE: MMY#39;s Seven states of Consciousness
---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote: One thing you have to consider is that the practice of TM, or any other yoga technique, is NOT the cause of enlightenment - TM just provides the ideal opportunity for the awakening. No technique is going to cause a person to become enlightened, even if you practice yoga for years and years. You are only going to get as much enlightenment as you are going to get. But, you only have to ingest LSD or some other alkaloid once in order to realize that there are altered states of consciousness. Once you do that, you will probably never forget it. LoL! According to yoga theory, you build up samskaras due to karma - the actions in this life and in your past lives. You can remove the samskaras through tapas - burning off the accumulated layers of past actions. But, yoga will not remove all the samskaras - there's always a trace of karma because you still maintain a human body which requires food, coarse or fine, and thoughts and volitions. There is always an innate clinging to life which is human nature. Patanjali says that the ideal state for awakening is the cessation of thoughts; you simply have to *isolate* the Purusha from the prakriti and then realization can occur on it's own, or not. SBS compared enlightement to Light (Brahman). The Absolute is already there; it doesn't require anything else to illuminate it because it is an already established ultimate reality. The enlightened state is described in the Indian rice analogy: you can remove the chaff and it's still rice paddy. In this day and age hardly anyone reads or understands the Sanskrit scriptures. The only hope for enlightenment today is to practice karma yoga - giving up the fruits of your labor for the common good, like Nelson Mandela, and having the good fortune to meet a qualified teacher. In the final analysis though, nobody is going to give you enlightenment - you earn it, and sometimes, by the grace of the gods, you realize your true nature. May the gods be with you! As in a pond, when its influx of water has been blocked, dries up gradually through evaporation and use, so karmic matter, which has been acquired through millions of lives, is erased through tapas; there is no further unflux (Wallah Sutra, I.4.). On 12/7/2013 9:25 AM, s3raphita@... mailto:s3raphita@... wrote: Re The mystical psychiatrist Richard Maurice Bucke distinguished between three types of consciousness: Simple Consciousness, awareness of the body, possessed by many animals; Self Consciousness, awareness of being aware, possessed only by humans; and Cosmic Consciousness, awareness of the life and order of the universe, possessed only by humans who are enlightened.: Bucke's experience of CC only lasted a minute or so. Some of his friends later advised him to try Indian yoga to learn how to replicate the experience. He wasn't interested. It wasn't that he didn't believe that yoga/meditation could alter someone's state but he regarded it as too much like taking heaven by storm. It was evolution of the race that would gradually produce more enlightened humans - in the same way that self consciousness had naturally arisen out of simple consciousness. Was he right? It's striking that Gopi Krishna (of kundalini fame), living in India and spending a lifetime on the spiritual quest, said that he'd only ever met two people he regarded as fully awakened. One was an anonymous sadhu who emerged from a forest about whom we know nothing; the other was Ramana Maharshi. Now one thing we do know about Maharshi is that he achieved his awakening spontaneously and *not* as a result of doing yoga/meditation or other spiritual exercises. So he was a natural mystic in Bucke's sense. Maybe the anonymous sadhu was a natural also. Perhaps we should all be more relaxed about the spiritual trip and just let Mother Nature take her course. She probably knows better than us what it's all about. One thing is for sure, everybody has enough trouble as it is just living the state of consciousness they are in. Most don't seem ready to move onto the jogging state of things because they are too busy stumbling and falling down. Don't you have to know how to walk before you can run? Or maybe getting elevated prematurely to the next level could avoid so much, well, messiness.
[FairfieldLife] RE: The Rent is Too Damn High!
---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, emilymaenot@... wrote: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote: WHAT!? Probably the last thing I need is to buy a house just so I could be close to a golden dome. I already sold my shack out in Hays County and rented a house down in San Antonio. I'll probably sell Dad's place on the lake when he is gone. I'm still in Texas for two reasons: no personal income tax and I like live music venues. I'm paying $400 a month for rent down here, and the rent is still too damn high! You are complaining about 400 a month? Yep, you are suited for the boondocks. I get the distinct impression Richard is a real Cheaper McCheapersen. On 12/6/2013 10:35 PM, William Leed wrote: BUILD A HOME RENT IT OR BUY OIL STOCKS, SAVE SOME $$ THEN BECOME AN OWNER! wITH PROFITS IF U CHOOSE TO MAKE THEM BE HAPPY IN THE DOME! ENJOY THE RIDE BE MORE HAPPY POSITIVE LOOK 4 THE SUN THE PROFITS
[FairfieldLife] You've got mail - problems.
It looks like the beginning of the end for Yahoo. Yahoo SUCKS! We're experiencing some technical difficulties...three days. http://downdetector.com/status/yahoo-mail 'Yahoo users outraged over redesign' http://nypost.com/2013/10/17/youve-got-mail-problems/ http://nypost.com/2013/10/17/youve-got-mail-problems-yahoo-users-outraged-over-redesign/
Re: [FairfieldLife] The Rent is Too Damn HIGH ...no ITS JUST RIGHT NOT 2 HIGH ITS THE MARKET PRICE EXACTLY
Obviously Richard, the problem is you need to type in all upper case then everything will be fine. :-D On 12/06/2013 08:35 PM, William Leed wrote: BUILD A HOME RENT IT OR BUY OIL STOCKS, SAVE SOME $$ THEN BECOME AN OWNER! wITH PROFITS IF U CHOOSE TO MAKE THEM BE HAPPY IN THE DOME! ENJOY THE RIDE BE MORE HAPPY POSITIVE LOOK 4 THE SUN THE PROFITS -Original Message- From: Richard J. Williams pundits...@gmail.com To: FairfieldLife FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Fri, Dec 6, 2013 7:38 pm Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] The Rent is Too Damn High! Today we went to the grocery store to get a few things and return about a hundred plastic bags. In the parking lot I turned left to find a parking slot and there was this yahoo in a big truck heading toward me, GOING THE WRONG WAY, driving a Ford F-350 with dual wheels on back. At first I said You **fukin **#@*^^!!!#@*%$#%@ SOB! Then, I realized the poor guy was not only real dumb and half blind and confused, but he was probably driving the only vehicle he owned and paying $600 a month in payments, just to go get a six-pack of beer and a carton of cigarettes at the store. Go figure. So then, in the Christmas spirit, I said: you **fukin **#@*^^!!!#@*%$#%@ poor bastard! and backed up, causing a traffic jam in front of the store. Then, on the way home at a stop light, a guy dressed in overalls with a styrofoam cup in his hand tried to hit us up for some spare change. So, still in the Christmas spirit, I rolled down the window and said real nice: We don't have any cash - we're living on credit cards. Sorry we can't donate anything - I know it looks like I'm rich because I'm driving a shiny new car, but this where all our money is going, just so we can get to the store to buy some beer and a few canned goods! LoL! When we got home, the Salvation Army called on the telephone to ask if we could donate anything and to leave it on the front porch FRIDAY THE 13th. You can't make this stuff up! The rent is too damn high! On 12/6/2013 3:10 PM, Bhairitu wrote: I used to change the oil myself on my '77 Subaru wagon. But it is a messy job and required a custom oil filter. Current oil changes at the local shop up the street who now do my Subaru maintenance is $40. How much time depends on how busy they are but the longest wait would be about an hour. I watch the oil to see how dirty it is. However I have yet to reach the miles they put on the sticker a year ago. Everything I need is a short trip around here so I don't rack up miles and they always kid me about all the driving I do. I heard a report the other day on why car prices have exceeded inflation over the years and the bottom line was.. you got it... profit. Adding air bags do not add much to the price though companies use safety features as a reason. In 1973 I bought a new Datsun wagon for a mere $1800. I put the figure for my '77 Subaru wagon in an inflation calculator and my $2800 '77 should only cost around $11K these days adjusted for inflation. OTOH, the other day I ordered a new keyless remote for the '98 Subaru since the second of the original pair was beginning to fall apart. A few years back I looked online and found that the price for a remote was around $70. This time I found one online for my year and model for only $15 including shipping. It was easy to setup and works great. On 12/06/2013 11:40 AM, Richard Williams wrote: Our car dealer says we should be changing the oil in our new car every 3,000 miles, in order to insure the warranty. We can do this by driving out to the dealership, waiting in line, and either leaving the car, or wait in the waiting room, and then pay $55. It usually takes more than an hour, if you get there real early during the week. The last time I had the oil changed at 10,000 miles, I took the car to Jiffy Lube - it took only about twenty minutes and I paid them $65. They talked me into getting synthetic oil - Royal Purple. They tried to sell me an air filter for $18 - but I declined. According to Click Clack, The Tappit Brothers, you can go over 6,000 miles between oil changes. I've always been fond of Texaco oil. I get almost all of my oil from either Spindletop or from the Permian Basin. Dad goes 5,000, because it's easy to remember the numbers. One guy, a car mechanic, once told me that oil never breaks down - all you have to do is change the oil filter and add a quart of oil. Go figure. So, this time I took the car to Pep Boys for the oil change: $19.95 for Pennzoil, with a discount coupon, and half an hour waiting. And, I bought my own filter for $12.95 and put it on myself. The rent is too damn high!
Re: [FairfieldLife] Jimi Hendrix in Stockholm
Perhaps he had Stockholm Syndrome? ;-) On 12/07/2013 03:32 AM, cardemais...@yahoo.com wrote: Can't stand watching and listening. Jimi looks so utterly depressed and reluctant...
Re: [FairfieldLife] What do you *visualize* when you think of time?
4/4 Of course there is also 5/4, 6/8, 11/16 On 12/07/2013 04:36 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: Still on this time kick, I thought I'd ask that question of Google. So I Googled for time. This is the first one that came up: Some of the others were pretty cool, too:
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: MMY#39;s Seven states of Consciousness
Take it easy, baby Take it as it comes Don't move too fast And you want your love to last Oh, you've been movin' much too fast... As written by Will Jennings and Steve Winwood; sung by Jim Morrison; Track 4, Side 2; The Doors. General Comment: I'm not real sure how it fits (haven't thought about it) but the shooting arrows at the sun closely parallels Hercules shooting an arrow at Helio, the charioteer of the sun, in an attempt to strike back at the excessive heat in the Libyan desert, while Hercules was on his 10th labor. I feel quite certain that Morrison would be familiar with this reference (anyone who knows about The Journey to the End of the Night is pretty far into literary influences), and how it relates to mythical heroes (demi-god, in this case) being forceful in life. http://songmeanings.com/songs/view/4927/ http://songmeanings.com/songs/view/4927/ The Doors - Take It As It Comes http://youtu.be/Vp_tjYszBmQ On 12/7/2013 11:02 AM, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com wrote: Perhaps we should all be more relaxed about the spiritual trip and just let Mother Nature take her course. She probably knows better than us what it's all about.
[FairfieldLife] RE: The FFL Time Travel Machine
Yahoo is losing my posts. Maybe it will show up later. Second. Try. I like the period thing, period! Salvayin, this was too funny. To repeat, Too late now, and now, and now, and now.
[FairfieldLife] I Like UG
*All gurus are welfare organizations providing petty experiences to their followers. The guru game is a profitable industry; try and make two million dollars a year any other way. - U G Krishnamurti
Re: [FairfieldLife] You've got mail - problems.
I don't like the new changes either. On Saturday, December 7, 2013 9:11 AM, Richard J. Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote: It looks like the beginning of the end for Yahoo. Yahoo SUCKS! We're experiencing some technical difficulties...three days. http://downdetector.com/status/yahoo-mail 'Yahoo users outraged over redesign' http://nypost.com/2013/10/17/youve-got-mail-problems-yahoo-users-outraged-over-redesign/
[FairfieldLife] RE: MMY#39;s Seven states of Consciousness
Perhaps we should all be more relaxed about the spiritual trip and just let Mother Nature take her course. She probably knows better than us what it's all about. What utter ecco-babble this is. Terra Mater is a Viscious Bitchious with no heart, no conscience and no real intelligence. Maybe we should also reinstate human sacrifice and return to matriarchy's good graces. Yeah ... that's it. You offer yourself first and then we'll sit around making up slogans praising you.
[FairfieldLife] RealTime WWII Tweets from 1941
The Japanese are just taking off from the carrier fleet, en route to Pearl Harbor. Read from the bottom up...then go to: https://twitter.com/RealTimeWWII https://twitter.com/RealTimeWWII And follow the attack in 1941 real time. My mother was around six months pregnant with me when Pearl Harbor took place. WW2 Tweets from 1941 @RealTimeWWII https://twitter.com/RealTimeWWII1h https://twitter.com/RealTimeWWII/status/409379055364890624 7.49AM Japanese Commander Mitsuo Fuchida now over unsuspecting Pearl Harbor- radios To ra, to ra, to ra- Surprise attack achieved. Expand https://twitter.com/RealTimeWWII/status/409379055364890624 Reply https://twitter.com/RealTimeWWII# Retweet https://twitter.com/RealTimeWWII# Favorite https://twitter.com/RealTimeWWII# More WW2 Tweets from 1941 @RealTimeWWII https://twitter.com/RealTimeWWII1h https://twitter.com/RealTimeWWII/status/409369232032296961 To coincide with surprise strike on Pearl Harbor, Japan simultaneously attacking Thailand, Philipines, UK colonies Singapore Hong Kong. Expand https://twitter.com/RealTimeWWII/status/409369232032296961 Reply https://twitter.com/RealTimeWWII# Retweet https://twitter.com/RealTimeWWII# Favorite https://twitter.com/RealTimeWWII# More WW2 Tweets from 1941 @RealTimeWWII https://twitter.com/RealTimeWWII1h https://twitter.com/RealTimeWWII/status/409366749830606848 Japanese Army have invaded Malaya: 5000 troops storming up beaches at Kota Bharu, in withering hail of fire from British Indian defenders. Expand https://twitter.com/RealTimeWWII/status/409366749830606848 Reply https://twitter.com/RealTimeWWII# Retweet https://twitter.com/RealTimeWWII# Favorite https://twitter.com/RealTimeWWII# More WW2 Tweets from 1941 @RealTimeWWII https://twitter.com/RealTimeWWII2h https://twitter.com/RealTimeWWII/status/409361612252786688 Roosevelt has been given decrypted Japanese messages ordering ambassador to break off diplomatic relations; very long- he hasn't read it all Expand https://twitter.com/RealTimeWWII/status/409361612252786688 Reply https://twitter.com/RealTimeWWII# Retweet https://twitter.com/RealTimeWWII# Favorite https://twitter.com/RealTimeWWII# More WW2 Tweets from 1941 @RealTimeWWII https://twitter.com/RealTimeWWII2h https://twitter.com/RealTimeWWII/status/409355406830350336 Dawn just breaking over Pacific. To check direction, Japanese pilots have tuned in to US radio station from Honolulu, playing dance music. Expand https://twitter.com/RealTimeWWII/status/409355406830350336 Reply https://twitter.com/RealTimeWWII# Retweet https://twitter.com/RealTimeWWII# Favorite https://twitter.com/RealTimeWWII# More WW2 Tweets from 1941 @RealTimeWWII https://twitter.com/RealTimeWWII2h https://twitter.com/RealTimeWWII/status/409354126804267008 6.10AM 1st wave of 183 Japanese planes taking off from carrier fleet. Target is 370km south: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. pic.twitter.com/sc0MHNawMS http://t.co/sc0MHNawMS https://twitter.com/RealTimeWWII/status/409354126804267008/photo/1/large
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: 100 Great Rock Artists
Doug Sahm [image: Inline image 1] Sir Douglas Quintet - She's About A Mover http://youtu.be/XboE3_7KZ3Y Taking advantage of the British invasion! This song has a unique, haunting sound - a credit to Augie Meyers' signature playing on a Vox organ that I had to lug around in a U-Haul for two months in 1965. Notes: Back in 1964 I met Doug Sahm at the Blue Note Lounge in San Antonio, Texas back in 1964. Sahm was a child prodigy in country music - he first sang on the radio at the age of five. Sahm became a significant figure in roots rock and other genres. Sahm was proficient on dozens of musical instruments. He was a friend of Bob Dylan who played on one his albums. In 1965 I worked for Sahm as his sound assistant and roadie on a tour arranged by the William Morris Agency out of Los Angeles. I was at the Cow Palace with Sahm in 1965 at on a Beach Boys tour, featuring The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, and The Birds. Sahm still owes me over $1000 for that gig - may he RIP. We attended Sham concerts dozens of times over the years in San Antonio, San Francisco, and Austin. The last time I heard from him was a phone message when he lived in Austin: Get in touch with me if you want to talk about baseball or somthin'. Sahm was a big baseball fan. Sir Douglas Quintet: His first hit was She's About a Mover featuring a 12-bar blues structure and was followed by The Rains Came, which was played on radio all over L.A. at the time I moved there with my ex-wife, Sally Mann, who later was married the late Spencer Dryden of the New Riders of the Purple Sage. I was good friends with Johnny Perez, who played maracas and saxophone in the early days of the band. The Sir Douglas Quintet had a hit with Mendocino, which is kind of corny, but fun to listen to. My favorite Quintet album is Sir Douglas Quintet + 2 = Honkey Blues on Smash Records. A friend of mine, Charles Winans, did the album cover. Sir Douglas Quintet - Austin City Limits http://youtu.be/PqpgZqUAWmg Texas Tornados: You've probably heard of New Kids on the Block - here's The Old Guys in the Street. The Texas Tornados is a Tejano band. Its music is a fusion of rock, country and various Mexican styles. Freddy Fender, Flaco Jiménez, Augie Meyers, and Doug Sahm, with Louie Ortega, Speedy Sparks and Ernie Durawa. This is Tex-Mex at it's best! That's me in the hat doin' the two step! Texas Tornados, Who Were You Thinking Of? - Gruene Hall, 1992 http://youtu.be/L6ON9tlAQ-8 Sahm, Meyers and Jiménez are from the San Antonio area. Their 2005 Live from Austin album was a recording of a 1990 performance on the TV series Austin City Limits. The Texas Tornados won a Grammy Award in 1991. Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Sahm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Douglas_Quintet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Tornados On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 9:32 AM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.comwrote: The Rolling Stones [image: Inline image 1] The Rolling Stones - Start Me Up - Official Promo http://youtu.be/SGyOaCXr8Lw Where to begin? I first saw the Stones at the San Antonio State Fair back in 1964, which Bill Wyman described as a disaster. They were booed off the stage and a troupe of monkeys returned to the stage. Then, in 1965 I met them in Los Angeles when they came in to see Doug Sahm (The Sir Douglas Quintet) perform at The Trip on the Sunset Strip. So, I almost grew up with this band. I missed the Altamont concert, although I was only fifty miles away - and that's probably a good thing. The last time I saw the Stones live was in 2011 when they toured Texas and stayed at the Palacio del Rio hotel in downtown San Antonio. Mick Jagger and his then girlfriend Marrianne Faithful were initiated into TM in 1967 at Bangor, Wales, UK, according to Mason. Let's just say the Stones are The world's greatest rock roll band. [image: Inline image 3] The Rolling Stones were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989, and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2004. Ranked fourth on the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time according to Rolling Stone Magazine. Current members Mick Jagger – lead and backing vocals, harmonica, guitars, bass, keyboards, percussion (1962–present) Keith Richards – guitars, bass, keyboards, backing and lead vocals, percussion (1962–present) Charlie Watts – drums, percussion (1963–present) Ronnie Wood – guitars, bass, saxophone, drums, backing vocals. Work cited: 'Maharishi: The Biography' by Paul Mason p. 109 Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rolling_Stones http://blog.chron.com/40yearsafter/2011/06/stones-roll-into-san-antonio/ 'Stoned' by Andrew Loog Oldham St. Martin's Griffin, 2000. Egan, Sean (2006). The Rough Guide to the Rolling Stones. London: Penguin. ISBN 1-84353-719-2. On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 7:13 AM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.comwrote: Peter Gabriel [image: Inline image 1] Peter Gabriel - Steam http://youtu.be/Qt87bLX7m_o Comments: A
[FairfieldLife] Labyrinth
Stumbling onto this film today, after puzzling over the nature of time earlier, and even bringing up some of my short past-life flashbacks, is synchronistic, to say the least. I found it after catching a glimpse of an actress with a striking face on French TV. Discovering her name and stalking her to the IMDB, I discovered that she was Irish, and that she'd also starred in a UK TV series I'd never heard of named Labyrinth. No, not the older film of the same name, a more recent series, from 2012. Investigating further, I found that it had been executive produced by none other than Ridley Scott and Tony Scott. Unable to stop digging into it by this time, I then discovered that the series is based on a very popular novel I'd never heard of by the same name, and that the novel itself was based on Cathar history, myth, and legend. That pretty much nailed it, so I downloaded it, and have just finished watching it. Great, it's not. But good, and entertaining, it was, especially because much of it was filmed in Carcassonne and Montsegur and in other Cathar strongholds and areas that I know intimately from having been there many times. It's basically a Dan Brown-like riff, combining modern-day characters with their counterparts 800 years ago. Cathar history it ain't, but it's better than a lot of Neo-Cathar fantasies I've read, even though it can't avoid the cliche of making the supposed treasure of Montsequr the holy grail. Besides, it was only two episodes of an hour and a half each, so it was an interesting way to spend the day. It's probably available on DVD or Bluray if anyone is interested. If nothing else, you'll get to see what the Cathar country I'm so enamored with in the south of France looks like. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzBdoNeAzHw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzBdoNeAzHw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzBdoNeAzHw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzBdoNeAzHw
[FairfieldLife] RE: 100 Great Rock Artists
Talking about Austin City: did you ever see The 13th Floor Elevators? They intrigued me because they pioneered both the raw garage approach to recording and the psychedelic soundscape. They're one of those bands most people today won't know but who were amazingly influential over the long term. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPBJsdE9V14 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPBJsdE9V14
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: The FFL Time Travel Machine
Emily - It looks like the beginning of the end for Yahoo. You've got mail - problems. Go figure - three days. Maybe it's time to switch to Google Mail. It works for me. We're experiencing some technical difficulties... http://downdetector.com/status/yahoo-mail 'Yahoo users outraged over redesign' http://nypost.com/2013/10/17/youve-got-mail-problems-yahoo-users-outraged-over-redesign/ On 12/7/2013 11:58 AM, emilymae...@yahoo.com wrote: Yahoo is losing my posts. Maybe it will show up later. Second. Try. I like the period thing, period! Salvayin, this was too funny. To repeat, Too late now, and now, and now, and now.
[FairfieldLife] RE: The FFL Time Travel Machine
I'm assuming I have a return ticket? If not forget it; I couldn't bear to live somewhere without modern bathrooms. I might go for the Crucifixion of a first-century rabbi - and stick around the tomb over the next few days to see if I noticed anything odd. A previous suggestion of the pyramids in Egypt just after they were finished would be close to the top of my preferences.
[FairfieldLife] RE: I think I#39;ve found my Christmas presents
You must not have a smart phone with a GPS on it. No I don't. But that's a good point. From here on in, everyone will have GPS and will no longer need street guides. People will no longer enjoy the fun of getting lost.
[FairfieldLife] Re: 100 Great Rock Artists
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: Talking about Austin City: did you ever see The 13th Floor Elevators? They intrigued me because they pioneered both the raw garage approach to recording and the psychedelic soundscape. They're one of those bands most people today won't know but who were amazingly influential over the long term. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPBJsdE9V14 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPBJsdE9V14 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPBJsdE9V14 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPBJsdE9V14 Absofuckinglutely. I distinctly remember when their album first came out; it was like a bit of a revolution -- the *first* psychedelic album, ever. They got their record out and into the hands of acidheads long before The Grateful Dead or Jefferson Airplane or any of the other head bands did. I saw them once in San Francisco, at the Avalon. Boy, that was a scene. Stoned Haight Ashbury hippie acidheads dancing around to the sounds of -- essentially -- a Texas garage band, performing better psychedelic rock than their own local head bands were putting out. Thanks for the trip (so to speak) down memory lane. :-)
[FairfieldLife] RE: I Like UG
Ugh ...
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Tempus fuckit
Yep that's what I meant - and thank you for the post you put here today - I got a lot of laughs from some of them. On Sat, 12/7/13, TurquoiseB turquoi...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Tempus fuckit To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, December 7, 2013, 4:22 PM --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson mjackson74@... wrote: How are they with it now? Neither meditates, if that's what you're asking.
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: 100 Great Rock Artists
Oh, yeah! The Elevators, with Roky Erikson and jug player Tommy Hall, who used to play at the old Vulcan Gas Company in Austin back in 1965 - that's where I met my ex-wife, Sally Mann. I also met Janis Joplin at the Vulcan on South Congress Street. Before I split up with Sally we saw the Elevators at The Fillmore West and The Avalon Ballroom when we moved out to San Francisco. They were a very cool band to dance to live, but like a lot of other guys, really hooked on ecstasy or something, probably weed. Go figure. Thanks for the memories! [image: Inline image 1] 13th Floor Elevators - Youre Gonna Miss Me http://youtu.be/47SI1FddVqY Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_Floor_Elevators On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 1:29 PM, s3raph...@yahoo.com wrote: Talking about Austin City: did you ever see The 13th Floor Elevators? They intrigued me because they pioneered both the raw garage approach to recording and the psychedelic soundscape. They're one of those bands most people today won't know but who were amazingly influential over the long term. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPBJsdE9V14
[FairfieldLife] Re: The FFL Time Travel Machine
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: I'm assuming I have a return ticket? If not forget it; I couldn't bear to live somewhere without modern bathrooms. Ha. LOL. That's honest. I could toy with the idea of time-traveling back to the Middle Ages, but I know enough about the period to know what it *smelled like*. No plumbing, nary a deodorant in sight, and people never bathed. I might go for the Crucifixion of a first-century rabbi - and stick around the tomb over the next few days to see if I noticed anything odd. A previous suggestion of the pyramids in Egypt just after they were finished would be close to the top of my preferences. I could probably get off on going back to Paris during the period Chris Moore wrote about in Sacre Bleu. I'd become what he got to be in his imagination writing the novel -- a time-traveling mecene (patron of the arts), supporting painters like Van Gogh and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, just so you could occasionally watch them paint. And party with them, of course. :-)
[FairfieldLife] RE: MMY#39;s Seven states of Consciousness
Terra Mater is a Viscious Bitchious with no heart: That's no way to speak of your mom. She gave us our hearts, consciences and intelligence. We didn't arrive here from some other reality. Anyway, mothers always want their offspring to do better for themselves so she would be delighted if you turn into a exemplar for the rest of us.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Inside China: Nuclear submarines capable of widespread attack on U.S.
Buck, not to mention all their exchange students, etc. at MUM and in the Domes! On Saturday, December 7, 2013 10:08 AM, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com dhamiltony...@yahoo.com wrote: In Fairfield, Iowa we are proly okay or safe enough from what will be a West coast radiation fall-out plume. It would be in the red Chinese interests to not radiate their farm land in Iowa. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote: I would think 2.3 billion would be a bit of a large number for the US and then that would probably take rolling in things like yoga classes offered at fitness centers. And if global, India would really skew the numbers. :-D It's like their looking for a next big thing. On 12/06/2013 10:51 AM,Buck wrote: Yes, Bhairitu is entirely right, it clearly is not just some new-agers consuming some spiritual trinkets. It is a much larger problem. However, we do know from the example of the Meissner Effect [ME] that just a few of us can change things; even the course of history. Yep, frivolous consumerism is seriously perilous in so many ways. We evidently all just need more Self-discipline around both our incessant materialism and then actually taking the time for meditation. Taking quiet time twice a day at the least to practice a transcending meditation. -Buck ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote: I think that $230 billion a year is globally not the US. Otherwise there would new age shops on every corner. Many in this area have closed up since the 1990s. And also I think they are folding not necessarily new age in to their count such as environmental items. On 12/06/2013 04:22 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: In the meanwhile, let's hold the chinese reds off by staying current on our payments of consumer debt to them. Prudently let us tighten the belt, spend a lot more time meditating and a lot less time and credit on frivolous consumer goods. I wouldn't hold your breath. Americans spend over $230 billion a year on New Age products: http://specialtyretail.com/issue/2003/10/retail-products/retail-product-features/new_age_products/ And that doesn't even include the $10.4 billion per year market in seminars and self-improvement programs. http://www.marketresearch.com/Marketdata-Enterprises-Inc-v416/Self-Improvement-Products-Services-7284574/ There's a sucker reborn every minute. - Sri Parmahansa Boddhisatva Barnum
Re: [FairfieldLife] McClintock–The Great Question: Will Our Constitution Stand?
That IRS scandal I was outraged about is no big deal. - Barack Obama http://dailycaller.com/2013/12/06/aclj-obama-was-one-of-the-outraged-about-targeting-before-he-wasnt/ The IRS Scandal, Day 212: http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2013/12/the-irs-scandal-5.html On 12/7/2013 8:49 AM, emptyb...@yahoo.com wrote: Who needs one anyway? It's been outdated by the Great One. He'll protect us! http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/12/05/Exclusive-McClintock-The-Great-Question-Will-Our-Constitution-Stand
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Whatever
turq, probably it'll be a mix of good and bad. But I'm sure being a tantric, you'll make the most of both (-: Internet down at home. Am at library catching up. Battery to fiber optic gizmo might not be fixed til Monday! Bye for now... On Saturday, December 7, 2013 7:22 AM, TurquoiseB turquoi...@yahoo.com wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote: thanks, turq, I love this, had some good LOLs watching the different reactions. The little kids are especially wonderful. How about Maya? Did she like? I won't know until I get home next Friday. But then I'll be home for good. Or bad. Your call. :-) On Saturday, December 7, 2013 4:26 AM, TurquoiseB turquoiseb@... wrote: If ever there were a link that deserved the new Net Acronym I thought up the other day, it's this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjSkfSDF6Oo
[FairfieldLife] RE: MMY#39;s Seven states of Consciousness
You forgot the best part ... Maybe we should also reinstate human sacrifice and return to matriarchy's good graces. Yeah ... that's it. You offer yourself first and then we'll sit around making up slogans praising you.
[FairfieldLife] Re: MMY's Seven states of Consciousness
MMY's Seven States of Consciousness [image: Inline image 1] The Seven States of Consciousness: Los Angeles at World Pacific Studios, 1967. Transcript from vinyl recording. Historic Lectures Mahesh Yogi on World Pacific Records In this 1967 recording, Mahesh Yogi describes how his meditation can establish higher states of consciousness beyond those normally experienced in waking, dreaming, and deep-sleep. The experience and understanding of higher states of consciousness unfolds the full possibilities of human life - life lived in complete fulfillment. MMY explains that beyond the familiar states of waking, dreaming, and sleeping are four higher states of consciousness-transcendental consciousness, cosmic consciousness, God consciousness, and unity consciousness-each bringing a new dimension of experience, knowledge, and fulfillment. The Seven States of Consciousness, excerpt.: The practice of Transcendental Meditation, which is a simple, natural method, to bring our conscious mind deep within the thinking process, and tap the source of a thought. The source of thought is a reservoir of energy and intelligence. The reason I gave was very rational, very obvious, that a thought flows, due to energy it flows. And always flows in a specific direction. It is the intelligence that gives direction to a thought. So every thought is built up of energy and intelligence. And because thoughts after thoughts are coming from within, so that area which is the source of all thought must be a necessarily be an inexhaustible reservoir of energy and intelligence. Therefore, in order to improve man's energy and intelligence it is only necessary that his conscious mind reaches that area of the source of thought and thereby is filled with great energy and intelligence. This is how we can improve the ability and the efficiency of any man in a very natural way. And thereby, giving him a chance to be more efficient in life, to be more productive in life, more creative in life, and yet do not accumulate stress and strain. It is vital that we do something so that the people of our age do not gather stress and strain. Otherwise, if a man feels more responsible in society, wants to produce more, the result is, that he undertakes to do more and more and with the result that he gathers stress and strain and eventually dies of heart failure. I don't know how far it is true, there are companies in the states, that the sales manager doesn't live longer that two, three years. He get lots of hundred of thousand every month but his life is just two, three years. Can't sustain that constant pressure. This shows that it is absolutely necessary for all those who aspire for greater improvement and greater accomplishment in life, to not only engage in increasing activity, but at the same time, improve the efficiency increase your energy. Our enthusiasm to accomplish brings us to entertain more and more activity, but our increasing will not be at the cost of our life, if we remain balanced; if we increase energy and intelligence in the proportion we increase our activity. Transcendental meditation not only improves the capacity of man on the mental level, on the psychological level, but also improves the ability of nervous system. Because, it is the state of nervous system which has a corresponding state of consciousness. The mind thinks as nervous system behaves. If the nervous system is functioning normally, then the thinking is very clear, aspirations are good, all thoughts are powerful and right and productive. But if the nervous system is strained then it is not functioning normally, it just can't, and when it doesn't function normally then the aspirations are distorted, thoughts are very unclear, productivity is low, and in such a state, tensions naturally will be increasing all the time. Therefore, what we concluded was that Transcendental Meditation is one simple, natural technique, whereby, the nervous system could be strengthened to function normal, and this normal functioning of nervous system will produce a normal state of consciousness. If the body is functioning normally, normal function means, all the physical structure is pure, at the same time, the structure is evenly functioning, on both levels. On the material level and on the structural level. The ability of nervous system will be normal and such a normal state of nervous system will produce normal state of consciousness. A normal state of consciousness will be full potentiality of the mind for every thought. Psychology shows that we are using only a small portion of the mind. Full expansion of the mental capacity in order that the thought is as powerful as it can possible be. This can happen only to a normally functioning nervous system. Transcendental Meditation is that technique. All that I have been speaking and all that I will speak, is the result of personal experience of thousands of people in all countries. And people belonging to all classes, all
[FairfieldLife] Re: Tempus fuckit
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson wrote: Yep that's what I meant - and thank you for the post you put here today - I got a lot of laughs from some of them. Thanks for getting the laughter. I woke up in the silliest damned mood I've awakened in in months. *Everything* I found on the Net made me laugh, so I indulged in SC (sillly consciousness) for a number of posts.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Ministry of Homeland Security Rolls Out Armored Vehicles
Jeez, emptybill, watching The Hunger Games, I feel in sych with this pic. Scary! On Saturday, December 7, 2013 8:44 AM, emptyb...@yahoo.com emptyb...@yahoo.com wrote: They are here just for you. http://www.infowars.com/ministry-of-homeland-security-rolls-out-armored-vechiles/
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Tempus fuckit
Richard, I think turq's Mom is deceased. On Saturday, December 7, 2013 10:32 AM, Richard J. Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote: But, did they follow you over to Rama and what did they think of you doing so? Just curious. On 12/7/2013 10:09 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson wrote: Just curious - did your brothers or any other family members get into TM at any point? One brother and my mother not only learned TM, but became TM teachers. Go figure.
Re: [FairfieldLife] The Rent is Too Damn HIGH ...no ITS JUST RIGHT NOT 2 HIGH ITS THE MARKET PRICE EXACTLY
Richard, $400 rent?! That's it! You get no more sympathy from me! On Saturday, December 7, 2013 11:17 AM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Obviously Richard, the problem is you need to type in all upper case then everything will be fine. :-D On 12/06/2013 08:35 PM, William Leed wrote: BUILD A HOME RENT IT OR BUY OIL STOCKS, SAVE SOME $$ THEN BECOME AN OWNER! wITH PROFITS IF U CHOOSE TO MAKE THEM BE HAPPY IN THE DOME! ENJOY THE RIDE BE MORE HAPPY POSITIVE LOOK 4 THE SUN THE PROFITS -Original Message- From: Richard J. Williams pundits...@gmail.com To: FairfieldLife FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Fri, Dec 6, 2013 7:38 pm Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] The Rent is Too Damn High! Today we went to the grocery store to get a few things and return about a hundred plastic bags. In the parking lot I turned left to find a parking slot and there was this yahoo in a big truck heading toward me, GOING THE WRONG WAY, driving a Ford F-350 with dual wheels on back. At first I said You **fukin **#@*^^!!!#@*%$#%@ SOB! Then, I realized the poor guy was not only real dumb and half blind and confused, but he was probably driving the only vehicle he owned and paying $600 a month in payments, just to go get a six-pack of beer and a carton of cigarettes at the store. Go figure. So then, in the Christmas spirit, I said: you **fukin **#@*^^!!!#@*%$#%@ poor bastard! and backed up, causing a traffic jam in front of the store. Then, on the way home at a stop light, a guy dressed in overalls with a styrofoam cup in his hand tried to hit us up for some spare change. So, still in the Christmas spirit, I rolled down the window and said real nice: We don't have any cash - we're living on credit cards. Sorry we can't donate anything - I know it looks like I'm rich because I'm driving a shiny new car, but this where all our money is going, just so we can get to the store to buy some beer and a few canned goods! LoL! When we got home, the Salvation Army called on the telephone to ask if we could donate anything and to leave it on the front porch FRIDAY THE 13th. You can't make this stuff up! The rent is too damn high! On 12/6/2013 3:10 PM, Bhairitu wrote: I used to change the oil myself on my '77 Subaru wagon. But it is a messy job and required a custom oil filter. Current oil changes at the local shop up the street who now do my Subaru maintenance is $40. How much time depends on how busy they are but the longest wait would be about an hour. I watch the oil to see how dirty it is. However I have yet to reach the miles they put on the sticker a year ago. Everything I need is a short trip around here so I don't rack up miles and they always kid me about all the driving I do. I heard a report the other day on why car prices have exceeded inflation over the years and the bottom line was.. you got it... profit. Adding air bags do not add much to the price though companies use safety features as a reason. In 1973 I bought a new Datsun wagon for a mere $1800. I put the figure for my '77 Subaru wagon in an inflation calculator and my $2800 '77 should only cost around $11K these days adjusted for inflation. OTOH, the other day I ordered a new keyless remote for the '98 Subaru since the second of the original pair was beginning to fall apart. A few years back I looked online and found that the price for a remote was around $70. This time I found one online for my year and model for only $15 including shipping. It was easy to setup and works great. On 12/06/2013 11:40 AM, Richard Williams wrote: Our car dealer says we should be changing the oil in our new car every 3,000 miles, in order to insure the warranty. We can do this by driving out to the dealership, waiting in line, and either leaving the car, or wait in the waiting room, and then pay $55. It usually takes more than an hour, if you get there real early during the week. The last time I had the oil changed at 10,000 miles, I took the car to Jiffy Lube - it took only about
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: MMY's Seven states of Consciousness
emptybill, are you saying that human sacrifice was a unique feature of matriarchy?! Nothing like that when the patriarchs took over?! On Saturday, December 7, 2013 2:10 PM, emptyb...@yahoo.com emptyb...@yahoo.com wrote: You forgot the best part ... Maybe we should also reinstate human sacrifice and return to matriarchy's good graces. Yeah ... that's it. You offer yourself first and then we'll sit around making up slogans praising you.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The FFL Time Travel Machine
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 wrote: Just one place? Aw, how could I choose between Mesopotamia during the heyday of Babylon and the late Mesozoic in North America? All those Triceratops and Velociraptors! That hanging gardens! I am allowed to take my camera right? Actually, no, you're not. Since I made up the rules for this exercise, I get to make up this one. You DO get to come back to the place/time you started from. But while you're gone, no cameras, no video, no recording devices of any kind. When you DO come back, all that you have to convince anyone else of where/when you were and what you experienced there is your own word, your own ability to tell the story of your experience. I think that's fair. That's what witnessing siddhis is like. :-) Ok, how about Israel about 40,000 years ago, we could sit on a hill and watch the first human beings walk out of Africa. And if they're late we could do a bit of snorkelling. That's good, a moment worth being there for. Or we could go forward a few million years and see what the human race turns into. Or not. I may be the guy making up the rules, but even I haven't figured out what happens if you time-travel to another time and there's no there there. :-) And the pyramids in Egypt just after they were finished, all shiny white limestone and a nice gold cap on top, must been rather impressive. Rome during the time of Cicero. See the Doors at the Whisky a go go in '67. Been there, done that. :-) Even punched out Jim Morrison once, but that wasn't at the Whisky. Tell Van Gogh he'll be popular one day, honest. Ha. I read your post *after* reading and replying to s3raphita's earlier, and mentioning wanting to go back to Paris during the Belle Epoche and be Van Gogh's patron. Synchronicity, dude. :-) Find out what stonehenge was actually for. What if it was an ornamental outhouse? :-) But you can tell I never get hold of a time machine because I would have gone here: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/07/02/stephen-hawking-time-travel_n\ _1643488.html http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/07/02/stephen-hawking-time-travel_\ n_1643488.html Maybe you did, but I went back later and chatted up Hawking the whole time so he never saw you. :-)
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: MMY's Seven states of Consciousness
Nice quotes, Richard and I love the zen koan in another one of your posts. Ok, I'm going home now and finish watching The Hunger Games. No Internet at home. Boo hoo! But good tapas too (-: On Saturday, December 7, 2013 10:18 AM, Richard J. Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote: One thing you have to consider is that the practice of TM, or any other yoga technique, is NOT the cause of enlightenment - TM just provides the ideal opportunity for the awakening. No technique is going to cause a person to become enlightened, even if you practice yoga for years and years. You are only going to get as much enlightenment as you are going to get. But, you only have to ingest LSD or some other alkaloid once in order to realize that there are altered states of consciousness. Once you do that, you will probably never forget it. LoL! According to yoga theory, you build up samskaras due to karma - the actions in this life and in your past lives. You can remove the samskaras through tapas - burning off the accumulated layers of past actions. But, yoga will not remove all the samskaras - there's always a trace of karma because you still maintain a human body which requires food, coarse or fine, and thoughts and volitions. There is always an innate clinging to life which is human nature. Patanjali says that the ideal state for awakening is the cessation of thoughts; you simply have to *isolate* the Purusha from the prakriti and then realization can occur on it's own, or not. SBS compared enlightement to Light (Brahman). The Absolute is already there; it doesn't require anything else to illuminate it because it is an already established ultimate reality. The enlightened state is described in the Indian rice analogy: you can remove the chaff and it's still rice paddy. In this day and age hardly anyone reads or understands the Sanskrit scriptures. The only hope for enlightenment today is to practice karma yoga - giving up the fruits of your labor for the common good, like Nelson Mandela, and having the good fortune to meet a qualified teacher. In the final analysis though, nobody is going to give you enlightenment - you earn it, and sometimes, by the grace of the gods, you realize your true nature. May the gods be with you! As in a pond, when its influx of water has been blocked, dries up gradually through evaporation and use, so karmic matter, which has been acquired through millions of lives, is erased through tapas; there is no further unflux (Wallah Sutra, I.4.). On 12/7/2013 9:25 AM, s3raph...@yahoo.com wrote: Re The mystical psychiatrist Richard Maurice Bucke distinguished between three types of consciousness: Simple Consciousness, awareness of the body, possessed by many animals; Self Consciousness, awareness of being aware, possessed only by humans; and Cosmic Consciousness, awareness of the life and order of the universe, possessed only by humans who are enlightened.: Bucke's experience of CC only lasted a minute or so. Some of his friends later advised him to try Indian yoga to learn how to replicate the experience. He wasn't interested. It wasn't that he didn't believe that yoga/meditation could alter someone's state but he regarded it as too much like taking heaven by storm. It was evolution of the race that would gradually produce more enlightened humans - in the same way that self consciousness had naturally arisen out of simple consciousness. Was he right? It's striking that Gopi Krishna (of kundalini fame), living in India and spending a lifetime on the spiritual quest, said that he'd only ever met two people he regarded as fully awakened. One was an anonymous sadhu who emerged from a forest about whom we know nothing; the other was Ramana Maharshi. Now one thing we do know about Maharshi is that he achieved his awakening spontaneously and *not* as a result of doing yoga/meditation or other spiritual exercises. So he was a natural mystic in Bucke's sense. Maybe the anonymous sadhu was a natural also. Perhaps we should all be more relaxed about the spiritual trip and just let Mother Nature take her course. She probably knows better than us what it's all about.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The FFL Time Travel Machine
I would have liked to have been present when Diotima taught Socrates everything he knew about love. But of course, with all the modern conveniences! On Saturday, December 7, 2013 2:32 PM, TurquoiseB turquoi...@yahoo.com wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 wrote: Just one place? Aw, how could I choose between Mesopotamia during the heyday of Babylon and the late Mesozoic in North America? All those Triceratops and Velociraptors! That hanging gardens! I am allowed to take my camera right? Actually, no, you're not. Since I made up the rules for this exercise, I get to make up this one. You DO get to come back to the place/time you started from. But while you're gone, no cameras, no video, no recording devices of any kind. When you DO come back, all that you have to convince anyone else of where/when you were and what you experienced there is your own word, your own ability to tell the story of your experience. I think that's fair. That's what witnessing siddhis is like. :-) Ok, how about Israel about 40,000 years ago, we could sit on a hill and watch the first human beings walk out of Africa. And if they're late we could do a bit of snorkelling. That's good, a moment worth being there for. Or we could go forward a few million years and see what the human race turns into. Or not. I may be the guy making up the rules, but even I haven't figured out what happens if you time-travel to another time and there's no there there. :-) And the pyramids in Egypt just after they were finished, all shiny white limestone and a nice gold cap on top, must been rather impressive. Rome during the time of Cicero. See the Doors at the Whisky a go go in '67. Been there, done that. :-) Even punched out Jim Morrison once, but that wasn't at the Whisky. Tell Van Gogh he'll be popular one day, honest. Ha. I read your post *after* reading and replying to s3raphita's earlier, and mentioning wanting to go back to Paris during the Belle Epoche and be Van Gogh's patron. Synchronicity, dude. :-) Find out what stonehenge was actually for. What if it was an ornamental outhouse? :-) But you can tell I never get hold of a time machine because I would have gone here: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/07/02/stephen-hawking-time-travel_n_1643488.html Maybe you did, but I went back later and chatted up Hawking the whole time so he never saw you. :-)
[FairfieldLife] RE: The FFL Time Travel Machine
Even punched out Jim Morrison once Care to elaborate?
[FairfieldLife] Re: The FFL Time Travel Machine
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, I wrote: Even punched out Jim Morrison once --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita replies: Care to elaborate? So as not to tell the same story again, here's a link to a conversation with Curtis in which I told the story earlier. The back story of how I wound up telling the Jim Morrison story starts towards the bottom, but the Jim story is towards the end of the topmost post. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/306104 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/306104
[FairfieldLife] Re: The FFL Time Travel Machine
I followed the Jim link. So you have touched the flesh of a demi-god! Rock gigs in those days could be pretty violent places. Too much testosterone, booze and drugs. Re: As an afterthought, The Doors were *by far* the worst band of the era. Ray Manzarek could play an acceptable keyboard combo . . . but Robbie could barely play his guitar. He had to work out all of his parts beforehand . . . The drummer was adequate, but barely. They had risen to fame based only on Morrison's image and his bad songwriting.: The songs on the first two LPs were special. OK, When the Music's Over and The End were a bit overwrought but the other tracks stand up well today. End of the Night still gives me goose bumps. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjY3nfvkJ0Y http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjY3nfvkJ0Y Manzarek also did some decent work as a producer with LA punk band X.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The FFL Time Travel Machine
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita wrote: The songs on the first two LPs were special. OK, When the Music's Over and The End were a bit overwrought but the other tracks stand up well today. End of the Night still gives me goose bumps. You'd like a coffeehouse in Amsterdam (yeah...that kind of coffeehouse) called The Doors Cafe. All Doors, all the time. Really. That's all they play, non-stop, nearly 24/7, to throngs of stoned-out Doors fanatics. :-)
[FairfieldLife] Re: The FFL Time Travel Machine
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita wrote: The songs on the first two LPs were special. OK, When the Music's Over and The End were a bit overwrought but the other tracks stand up well today. End of the Night still gives me goose bumps. You'd like a coffeehouse in Amsterdam (yeah...that kind of coffeehouse) called The Doors Cafe. All Doors, all the time. Really. That's all they play, non-stop, nearly 24/7, to throngs of stoned-out Doors fanatics. :-) Here's a question for you, since you seem *incredibly* knowledgeable about American Hippie Era Music for a Brit. Did you ever get into Tim Buckley? I saw Tim a number of times before he burned out, and I think he was a real phenomenon. What reminded me of him was the discussion about Jim Morrison. I've always seen them (possibly because I saw both of them perform live a few times each) as kinda mirror images of each other. Both waxed poetic. They didn't talk -- in their everyday speech or in their songs -- the way that other people talked. Both of them were also almost jazzy in their onstage performances, allowing the feelings of the moment to dictate where and to what song and in what key they went next. But, on the whole, and IMO, Jim seemed to follow the promptings of his dark side in those performances, and Tim tried his best to steer things to more up images and lyrics. Interesting, in retrospect, that both of them wound up sacrificing themselves on the altar of drugs. Here -- in keeping with spending my day delving back into past incarnations watching Labyrinth -- is one of my all-time favorites of his, one of the loveliest songs I know of written about multi-incarnational love. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ0f5_rz4u4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ0f5_rz4u4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ0f5_rz4u4
[FairfieldLife] Re: The FFL Time Travel Machine
As your rules don't allow one to change the future, I wouldn't want to go back and meet an earlier version of myself. Not being able to offer advice or change the odds behind the scenes would be cruel. If youth only knew: if age only could. - Henri Estienne (1470 - 1520)
[FairfieldLife] Re: The FFL Time Travel Machine
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: As your rules don't allow one to change the future, I wouldn't want to go back and meet an earlier version of myself. Not being able to offer advice or change the odds behind the scenes would be cruel. If youth only knew: if age only could. - Henri Estienne (1470 - 1520) I replay one of the silly graphics I posted earlier. If your older, wiser self had thought there was anything it just *had* to offer you advice on, doncha think it might have done it by now?
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: MMY#39;s Seven states of Consciousness
The Romans were horrified by the practice of human sacrifice which they found during their conquests. They not only banned it but also persecuted anyone found practicing it. The Roman ideal was the Spartan civilization of heroic men performing valiant deeds in battle. Think of the movie Gladiator where not even a trace of Christian sentiments intruded. The Minoans apparently practiced some degree of ritual human sacrifice. You know the type. Like what the women practice here on FFL.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The FFL Time Travel Machine
Curiously, I didn't become aware of him until his son Jeff became popular. I don't know why I missed him - the trouble is there was just too much good music around during that period and you were spoilt for choice.
