[FairfieldLife] Re: The Raam

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: > > Now, wait. This sort of sounds like a set up. I say this because you have always been a proponent of the "these (supposed) states of consciousness are all subjective and can't be proven". So, why would such a declaration be important to you? It

[FairfieldLife] End the Ban on Psychoactive Drug Research

No, it's not one of those crank articles from them godless liberals and hippies and anti-TMers, it's from the editors of Scientific American: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/end-the-ban-on-psychoactive-dr\ ug-research/

[FairfieldLife] Re: For Bhairitu

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authclueless wrote: > > Well, do go "review" (i.e., read) it and let me know what you think. > I don't see anything in this post or your previous one that's relevant to the article I linked to, actually. > > << I would have to review that. But there's a

[FairfieldLife] Re: For Bhairitu

What he said. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: > > I would have to review that. But there's a problem with speculating > what Netflix does. As Barry would tell you, having worked for tech > companies, it is often not *what* they are actually doing. But any > programming j

[FairfieldLife] Re: For Bhairitu

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: > > My God, somebody get him a prescription for antipsychotics, quick. He's been having this hallucination off and on for years, but now it seems to have taken him over completely. Ahem. Please note the title of this post, written by Judy Stein about a

[FairfieldLife] Re: For Bhairitu

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: > > On 02/07/2014 10:01 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: > > > > > > On 02/06/2014 05:30 PM, ultrarishi wrote: > > > > > > > > Ra

[FairfieldLife] Re: For Bhairitu

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: > > On 02/06/2014 05:30 PM, ultrarishi wrote: > > > > Ray Donovan is intense and gritty. Just our cup of tea. Didn't > > overly pander like some cable shows with excessive tits and ass and > > violence because, after all, it's cable and it's

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Raam

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nabnuts1008 wrote: > > His mission in life is that even if one - 1 - person stops TM because of his neverending smearcampaign against the only Yogi he ever met (however briefly) - then he will feel successful. All that Barry did is make three posts this morni

[FairfieldLife] Re: For Bhairitu

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ultrarishi wrote: > > Suggestions come from all fronts. Indeed they do. That's why I cannot fathom anyone being interested in a supposed "algorithm" to categorize movies and TV to better sell them to customers. Just thinking back over the things I've enjoyed

[FairfieldLife] Re: Buck Just Turned 60

Happy birthday, Doug. This explains much...you're just a young whippersnapper. :-) Presumably your alter ego "Buck" is much older, and that's why he can refer to others here as "young'uns." :-) My advice -- both to young Doug and old Buck -- is to remember this sage advice when trying to navigate

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Raam

There is no reason that anyone should be surprised about this. The WHOLE THING -- meaning "Maharishi's teaching" and the promise of enlightenment -- has been a con since Day One. The only reason it "works" is that people who bought into it early are so ashamed to admit that they were conned that th

[FairfieldLife] Re: A case study in "maintaining" while on drugs

ways I find the whole award season heart breaking because usually all 5 nominees did fabulous work. Yet there are gonna be 4 losers! How do they deal with that? Or someone who has done great work for decades but never even been nominated?! > >> > >> > I admire the artists who

[FairfieldLife] Re: A case study in "maintaining" while on drugs

ang in there job after job, year after year, perfecting their craft, paying their dues, showing up. And my heart goes out to them too. There may be no business like show business. But it certainly requires the ability to gird up one's loins, grit one's teeth, suck it up, on a daily bas

[FairfieldLife] Re: For Bhairitu

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ultrarishi wrote: > > Lately, I've had better suggestions from members here on Fairfield Life, like Bhairtu, than from the Netflix algorithm. > > Not knowing me may be just as important as knowing me in defining and refining my tastes. Nobody really knows me

[FairfieldLife] A case study in "maintaining" while on drugs

[ Caveat emptor. This is just a rap about creativity and its sometimes association with drug use. In it I am neither advocating drugs nor condemning them...just rapping about them over coffee this morning. So try to keep your in-a-twist panties safely up your butt cracks and your ankle-biting dent

[FairfieldLife] Re: TV Musings

reasure concert" that I like, similar in quality and impact to the Tori Amos NPR concert I posted earlier. This one's by Mark Knopfler: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGlGBIzN2ls <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGlGBIzN2ls> > On 02/03/2014 11:41 PM, TurquoiseB wrote: > >

[FairfieldLife] Re: Music for Yoga and Meditation

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 wrote: > > I've been listening to Zazen for about an hour now. It's not my usual sort of thing but it must be rather pleasant as I have no urge to switch it off. It could have veered into shallow, anodyne new age territory but the peaks and trough

[FairfieldLife] Re: So sad

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: > > Yep. An evident lack of spiritual will; beware the friends you keep. -Buck Ahem. To quote the Fairfield Life home page, "What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out, which is the exact opposite." ~ Bertrand Russell > mjac

[FairfieldLife] Re: Music for Yoga and Meditation

Shamelessly hijacking Richard's thread and Subject line, I post a link for those few here who might have been intrigued by recent discussions of Rama - Fred Lenz. In his study, we meditated to music. Go figure. Some would consider that heresy; I considered it fun, and often revelatory. In the earl

[FairfieldLife] Re: I like the current mayor of Paris...

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "TurquoiseB" wrote: > > ...but I would vote for his competition in the upcoming election, just > on the basis of this idea: > > http://www.messynessychic.com/2014/02/04/metro-makeovers-for-the-abandon\ ed-stations-of-paris/ <http:/

[FairfieldLife] I like the current mayor of Paris...

...but I would vote for his competition in the upcoming election, just on the basis of this idea: http://www.messynessychic.com/2014/02/04/metro-makeovers-for-the-abandon\ ed-stations-of-paris/

[FairfieldLife] Re: 15 February “Catastrophe” Wa rned Will Shake Entire World

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 wrote: > > Better get the tinfoil hats on! > ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: > > In 11 days we'll know > http://www.eutimes.net/2014/02/15-february-catastrophe-warned-will-shake\ -entire-world/

[FairfieldLife] Re: Robin Harfouche's trip to Heaven

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 wrote: > > Jesus lives ! :-)

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hoffman

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: > > http://www.esquire.com/blogs/culture/hoffman-junod?click=promo&src=spr_F\ BPAGE&spr_id=1456_42689796 Good article quotes from the Jesuit priest w

[FairfieldLife] Re: Robin Harfouche's trip to Heaven

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 wrote: > > Meeting Jesus in Heaven ? Why not. The only thing with this experience is that both Jesus and the Christ are back in incarnation today. Perhaps she had an experience based on something that happened on the astral levels years ago. But

[FairfieldLife] Re: TV Musings

ainwashing them. I witnessed one such kidnapping, and testified in court about it, putting at least two of these thugs (almost all of whom were ex-cons looking for an easy living and taking advantage of fearful parents) away in prison for a while. , > ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turq

[FairfieldLife] Don't let TB sidhas see this video

They'd go running out and invest in magnetic dhotis and copper-walled flying rooms. http://truthseekerdaily.com/2014/01/here-is-what-happens-when-a-magnet-i\ s-dropped-through-a-copper-pipe-wvideo/

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amanda Knox is Found Guilty Again

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson wrote: > > Maybe you should start a FFL UK group and see what happens. You could call it "FFUK Life." :-)

[FairfieldLife] TV Musings

Just for the heck of it, because I've got the day off today and I'm sitting in a cafe right now taking advantage of the relatively clement weather and the sun, but I've gotta write about *something* for it to qualify as a "cafe writing" break, so I guess TV is it. I don't know about anyone else, b

[FairfieldLife] Re: HC grants bail to Girish Verma

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merudanda wrote: > > Any idea and/or suggestion what yagya-project for our Brahmachari Dr. Girish Ji, Hona'ble Chancellor MMYVV -martyr -of- God will/should be called and how much donation are needed? Funny. But also poignant, because I'll bet dollars to do

[FairfieldLife] Re: Life before birth?

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 wrote: > > Some interesting research with an interpretation I'm highly dubious of: > > http://www.psmag.com/kickers/findings-kickers/intuitions-immortality-con\ ception-life-birth-73776/

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amanda Knox is Found Guilty Again

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson wrote: > > Jesus H. Christ! If you can see the thousands upon thousands of meditators who do TM and all the ancillary programs who still have fucked up stuff happen to them and you STILL believe in all this jyotish and TM stuff then Jesus H. Ch

[FairfieldLife] Music hijacks our perception of time, and composers play with this

Fascinating article, even though I'm not enough of a musician to follow it fully. Also wonderful that modern-day tech allows musical scholars to write articles like this, with the proper musical clips to illustrate what they're talking about inserted at the proper spots for readers/listeners, just

[FairfieldLife] Re: Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 wrote: > > Try this: "We're just raindrops on a windshield Michael" : http://comediansincarsgettingcoffee.com/michael-richards-its-bubbly-time\ -jerry < http://comediansincarsgettingcoffee.com/michael-richards-its-bubbly-time\ -jerry > Not to o

[FairfieldLife] Re: Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 wrote: > > http://comediansincarsgettingcoffee.com/jay-leno-comedy-is-a-concealed-w\ eapon > > http://comediansincarsgettingcoffee.com/ > > http://comediansincarsgettingcoffee.com/howard-stern-episode-trailer As synchronicity would have it, I

[FairfieldLife] So sad

Feeling for those of us who so blazed across the sky like comet-fingers pointing to the far edges of possibility, and of human talent, only to burn out before reaching them... http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/02/02/philip-seymour-hoffman-de_n_4\ 713597.html?

[FairfieldLife] Re: Those who Reject Transcendentalism are over-burdened by Cognition Inhibition

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: > > Dear Friends, > > Maharishi's ashes are a floatin' in the Ganges, > Maharishi's ashes are a floatin' in the Ganges, > Maharishi's ashes are a floatin' in the Ganges; > And his Teaching goes flowing on. And *none* of his teaching has any more va

[FairfieldLife] 8 minutes of the most wonderfully stomach-churning video you'll ever see

Remember when Felix Baumgartner did his 39-kilometer freefall from space. Now you can ride along, thanks to GoPro. If you saw "Gravity" and it blew your mind, now watch the real thing. http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/02/01/felix-baumgartners-space-jump\ -gopro-video_n_4708296.html

[FairfieldLife] Violence In Nature

Warning! This image may be too graphic for some sensitive souls here. [https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/t1/q71/1743725_8\ 63878870308234_933737938_n.jpg] https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/t1/q71/1743725_86\ 3878870308234_933737938_n.jpg

[FairfieldLife] Re: Philip K. Dick was smarter than you, and earlier

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: > > Barry, apologies for lowering the tone of the conversation... Too late. Several people already did that by projecting their hot button pushed-ness onto satirical and funny artwork they didn't understand. :-) > ...but you did make the acquaintance

[FairfieldLife] Re: Those who reject superstition are displaying extra brain power

ge/158523> > > On Sat, 2/1/14, TurquoiseB turquoiseb@... wrote: > > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Those who reject superstition are displaying extra brain power > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Date: Saturday, February 1, 2014, 11:49 AM > >Remember the talk

[FairfieldLife] Those who reject superstition are displaying extra brain power

Remember the talk of "omens" when a couple of birds attacked the Pope's "peace doves?" Remember when Maharishi mistook an icicle on his balcony for Shiva? New research suggests that the brains of many people are naturally susceptible to projecting meaning onto meaningless events and considering th

[FairfieldLife] Re: Philip K. Dick was smarter than you, and earlier

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson wrote: > > It will probably give you all the willies to know that Crumb did an illuminated Holy Bible - not a send up , not a parody, but an illustrated Bible with his art work. Not the entire Bible...just the book of Genesis. It's been called

[FairfieldLife] Re: Tori

. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73zZD-tiHeU <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73zZD-tiHeU> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "TurquoiseB" wrote: > > Here's a musician that I'd bet Willy is not likely to post about. :-) > > Watching the Bruce Cockburn-rel

[FairfieldLife] Tori

Here's a musician that I'd bet Willy is not likely to post about. :-) Watching the Bruce Cockburn-related videos I posted earlier got me thinking about the many times I have seen him perform live. One of the weirdest such times was the gig in which he opened for Tori Amos. It shouldn't have worked

[FairfieldLife] Mindmovies

YouTube artist JohnEBMcC does the best job of anyone I've ever seen at doing justice to the mindmovies of Bruce Cockburn's music in visual images. Most of the photographs in his montages he took himself, on his road trips (like Bruce's) to Mali, to the Amazon, to wherever. Enjoy. Use Me While You

[FairfieldLife] Re: Philip K. Dick was smarter than you, and earlier

e, and has been since the 60s. He meditates every day, using his own method, and when it comes down to kicking back (without the hash) and discussing pretty much any aspect of spirituality -- Eastern or Western -- he can more than hold his own. > >

[FairfieldLife] Re: Deploying Meditators for Peace

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: > > People drink to transcend self, to get away from the image of themselves. So in that sense, that activity is the same as transcending in TM. The small self is transcended when you pass out, the activity of drinking ceases. I would say instead, whet

[FairfieldLife] Philip K. Dick was smarter than you, and earlier

If you don't know his work, you should. As you read this article, be sure to click on the first link, which takes you to the graphic version of one of his spiritual visions created by my friend Robert Crumb. http://www.businessinsider.com/philip-k-dick-predictions-2014-1

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Historic Meissner-like Effect [ME] of Peace:

process, "Go grok yourself." :-) > On Friday, January 31, 2014 11:25 AM, TurquoiseB turquoiseb@... wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: > > > > I do not see how it would be possible to have such a choice forced on me by another entity. It is not possible to

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Historic Meissner-like Effect [ME] of Peace:

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: > > I do not see how it would be possible to have such a choice forced on me by another entity. It is not possible to understand this without the experience. Understanding is secondary, and to a large extent arbitrary. Look at how many ways an attempted

[FairfieldLife] Re: Deploying Meditators for Peace

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: > > And, were I to become an alcoholic, and not use any other whiskey than Jack Daniels, would that make me the most self-sufficient drunk among drunks? To be truly "self-sufficient" as a whiskey drinker "TM-style," you'd have to be drinking only Macal

[FairfieldLife] What a computer sees when it watches 2001 and the Matrix

Benjamin Grosser wondered what a computer would see if it could be taught to watch movies and comment on them. And the results are as fascinating as the movies it watched. The American Beauty clip is stunning. Other "this is the way the AI from 'Her' saw it" movie clips at this site include Incepti

[FairfieldLife] Re: Win 8 blues...NOT!

igated to FFL, and sure enough, what I saw was Neo. But then I just logged in on that screen, and I was right back to the old interface. Go figure. > -------- > On Fri, 1/31/14, TurquoiseB turquoiseb@... wrote: > > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Win 8

[FairfieldLife] Re: Missing Pundits

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: > > Barry, your comment appears to be a complete non sequitur to what I wrote. Did you actually read it? Or did you just make another of your OPSIE assumptions? Ooopsie. Your narcissism is showing again. I was speaking to Raunchy, in case she w

[FairfieldLife] Re: Deploying Meditators for Peace

rged for TM), or you're stuck with the same old same old "basic TM" for the rest of your life. That sure sounds like "self-sufficiency" to me. Not! > On Friday, January 31, 2014 7:29 AM, TurquoiseB turquoiseb@... wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share

[FairfieldLife] Re: Missing Pundits

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "TurquoiseB" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: > > > > Raunchy, I've been reading all the posts about the pandits and I > haven't seen any posts here that discredit the news story's claim

[FairfieldLife] Re: Missing Pundits

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "TurquoiseB" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: > > > > Raunchy, I've been reading all the posts about the pandits and I > > haven't seen any posts here that discredit the news story's cla

[FairfieldLife] Re: Missing Pundits

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: > > Raunchy, I've been reading all the posts about the pandits and I haven't seen any posts here that discredit the news story's claim of missing pandits per se. But Rick posted a letter from Hagelin to contributors to the pandit project giving a pretty

[FairfieldLife] Win 8 blues...NOT!

Well, my old Acer laptop finally gave up the ghost the other day. It had been growling at me for some time, and finally just went dark and wouldn't restart, although the hard drive was spinning up. I figured out that the growling was the fan, not the drive (fortunate, because I was able to take it

[FairfieldLife] Inaccessibility

Carlos Castaneda should have used these photos to teach about his concept of "inaccessibility." It would have made things clearer. http://www.viralnova.com/camouflaged-animals/ I love the common baron caterpillar (below), but the last guy wins the C

[FairfieldLife] Re: Deploying Meditators for Peace

a liability and will hold you back, and at that point you need to reclaim the direction of your life and form an independent understanding. You cannot be creative if you are hemmed in by others' rules and concepts. > > > ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@ wrote: > > &

[FairfieldLife] Re: Deploying Meditators for Peace

* to "leave the herd" to find oneself, or one's Self. The issue is whether the teacher *allows* students to do that. If you get the feeling that independent thought and a failure to do exactly what the teacher says is "not allowed," IMO it's time to beat feet and get

[FairfieldLife] Re: Deploying Meditators for Peace

d parcel of Buck's whole schtick. It feels weird to those of us who no longer think that way because it's based in fear: "Never leave the herd." > ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@ wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 wrote

[FairfieldLife] Re: Deploying Meditators for Peace

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 wrote: > > Why not just be happy that you've got a nice little technique that makes you feel happy and relaxed, why does it have to be the most ultimate thing of any kind ever? In one phrase, because Maharishi's idea of enlightenment was always "

[FairfieldLife] AoE in Iowa: Tractor Square Dancing for Buck

Really. Who can deny now that the Age of Enlightenment is upon us? http://modernfarmer.com/2014/01/tractor-square-dancers/

[FairfieldLife] Movie review: "The Counselor"

OK, let's start with the "dream crew." Written by Cormac McCarthy, author of "No Country For Old Men" and "The Road." Directed by Ridley Scott. The cast of actors he's directing include Michael Fassbender, Penelope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Bruno Ganz, Rosie Perez, Ruben Blades, Natalie Dormer, Dean Norr

[FairfieldLife] The Q Test

This five-second test claims to be able to tell whether you are a good liar or not. I think this claim seriously misses the point, but that it is an interesting test anyway, and it only takes a minute to watch the whole thing and five seconds to test yourself. http://digg.com/video/this-5-second-t

[FairfieldLife] Re: NSR and BM of the M-Ch?

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: > > God bless you Judy. God bless you. It is good of her to define things for us. People interpret things the way they see them, and if that disagrees with her interpretation, it's a LIE. Therefore, she gets -- nay *has* -- to "correct" them. Also, i

[FairfieldLife] Zero Theorem

The trailer for Terry Gilliam's new movie: http://digg.com/video/the-trailer-for-terry-gilliams-zero-theorem-has-fi\ nally-arrived

[FairfieldLife] Walking to the edge of the universe

OK, this is officially one of the coolest and oddest things I've run across in quite some time: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/27/edge-of-minecraft_n_4676047.htm\ l A guy named Kurt J. Mac has been doing a "walk

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Ideal Home Theater

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: > > Funny you should mention that, because just a few days ago, I moved my exercise bike from the living room, where it sat unused in front of the 50" Sony, to my office. Since I mostly watch stuff on my office PC, I figured I'd be more likely to use th

[FairfieldLife] Re: More on the Missing Pundits

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson wrote: > > that's too rough even for me! :-) > > On Tue, 1/28/14, TurquoiseB turquoiseb@... wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson > wrot

[FairfieldLife] Re: More on the Missing Pundits

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson wrote: > > The very fact that you have a group of people who are supposed to be in Fairfield saving the world and they have to be kept fenced in behind barbed wire should tell you more than the pipe dream of TMSP Created World Peace - but I rec

[FairfieldLife] Re: Predator Bars

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson wrote: > > I thought this was a brilliant piece of writing Barry. Thanks, I guess. It was pretty much "stream of consciousness," written fast and off the top of my head, and then posted without even an edit pass. So it might be weak in many wa

[FairfieldLife] Re: More on the Missing Pundits

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: > > Friends; Shrinkage naturally happens in any organization. Certainly not every person needs to belong to or is suited to every organization. That some of these people would jump the fence could be expected given the amazing opportunity in life that

[FairfieldLife] Re: Where Do the gods Exist?

Following up, because it's an interesting set of speculations: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "TurquoiseB" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: > > ... > > This broadens out into a wider debate on "Egomaniac Godmen who had >

[FairfieldLife] Re: A brawl worth watching

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: > > We're waiting for your "Spiritualness and Justin Bieber" post. Don't > let Willy beat you to it with an "All About Justin Bieber" topic. :-D Ask and ye shall receive. :-) [https://scontent-a-ams.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/q71/1507162_1

[FairfieldLife] Re: Where Do the gods Exist?

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: > > Coming back to Barry's post: "'I've seen a number of people have strong experiences of "being enlightenment," and then afterwards "back off" and run away from any sadhana (spiritual practice, such as meditation) that would make "being enlightenment"

[FairfieldLife] Minilogue -- a lovely video about creativity and making music

This may appeal more to Bhairitu and Doctordumbass and Card, who as I understand it all make music. But I think it will also appeal to anyone interested in the creative process, and what enables creativity to flow. In the 14-minute video, the two Swedish members of the electronic music group Minil

[FairfieldLife] Predator Bars

I'm laboring under a tremendous deadline this week. I have to produce *all* of the Web content for a client for February *before* February. So I have to finish about three times the number of articles, blogs, and press releases for them as usual. To turn the pressure into fun, I decided to try to n

[FairfieldLife] Re: Are You Sure You Exist?

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 wrote: > > "Question of the day: how do you know you exist?" > > I typed this. Typed what? :-)

[FairfieldLife] Re: Are You Sure You Exist?

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: > > Question of the day: how do you know you exist? My Descartesian answer: I post obvious trollbait, and some people are so stupid and so attached as to get their hot buttons pushed by it and feel that they "have" to reply. :-) :-) :-)

[FairfieldLife] Re: The New Maharishi Effect: 10% Missing Pundits

I simply cannot wait to see how the TM and TMO apologists here deal with this, and try to make excuses for it. Items I'd like to see them deal with are highlighted in red below. Can you say "We told you so?" We did, many times here on FFL. You didn't listen. The most fascinating part for me is th

[FairfieldLife] Re: The New Maharishi Effect: 10% Missing Pundits

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Joe" wrote: > > http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2014/01/indian-vedic-students-go-missing-u\ s-20141275127398488.html Now THAT is an article we're not likely to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Where Do the gods Exist?

rate. Just as a question, how can embarrassment happen without attachment? If you have no self and no image of self to protect or defend, how can you possibly be embarrassed, no matter what it does? > ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@ wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yaho

[FairfieldLife] Re: Where Do the gods Exist?

do so, is injurious, and a waste of time. Your behavior is a perfect example. > > ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@ wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ wrote: > > > > "If spiritual masters were regulated by the advertisin

[FairfieldLife] Re: "Non-attachment" vs. "Noggin-attachment"

And you should believe what *I* have to say about non-attachment, because *I* have established such a track record of not being attached here on Fairfield Life. *I* mean, all those times I lost it and lashed out, insulting people and calling them names because they didn't buy my enlightened act...t

[FairfieldLife] Blah blah and blah blah of the blah-blah? (was Re: NSR and BM of the M-Ch?)

I have a slight skin condition, so right now I think I will go an apply a layer of (CH2)7(CO2H)2 to the affected area so that the proximal and distal surfaces of the application are minimised. Can anyone here recommend an alternative to this? > > > ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t

[FairfieldLife] Re: Where Do the gods Exist?

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@... wrote: > > "If spiritual masters were regulated by the advertising standards authority wouldn't they be fined for their false promises of "bliss consciousness"?" > > If anything, they should be fined, for, on the one hand, holding out the pro

[FairfieldLife] Re: Where Do the gods Exist?

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 wrote: > > Not quite. There are still black holes it's just the idea of how the event horizon (point of no return) works. With quantum effects it is currently thought to allow information back into the universe, but for you and me it's still certai

[FairfieldLife] Blah blah and blah blah of the blah-blah? (was Re: NSR and BM of the M-Ch?)

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote: > > Buck, I also enjoy Carde's posts though I don't understand most of them. He seems very independent and thus likely to continue here, yay, no matter how anyone responds to his stuff. I enjoy many of them, too, even though I understand non

[FairfieldLife] Blah blah and blah blah of the blah-blah? (was Re: NSR and BM of the M-Ch?)

27;t as good as you are. I'm just pointing out that pretty much NO ONE responds to your rants as they are. Do you think that maybe...just perhaps...the way you're writing them might have something to do with that? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "TurquoiseB" wrote: > > -

[FairfieldLife] Blah blah and blah blah of the blah-blah? (was Re: NSR and BM of the M-Ch?)

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: > > Om Dear Turq, I am concerned about you. It seems evident you are becoming somewhat obsessed and and even hung-up on this particular thought form around jargon that you would seek to suppress people's writing use of jargon around here on a list that

[FairfieldLife] Re: Where Do the gods Exist?

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@... wrote: > > Barry wrote: > As Xeno said recently, I have given up even seeking "experiences." They come, they go...big whoop. The only thing that seems to be relevant to "living a spiritual life" is to embrace them as they come *and* as they g

[FairfieldLife] Re: Where Do the gods Exist?

gt; I have some other nice experiences, but they seem to sneak in the back door, so it is more of a gentle progression. I am not looking for anything, but I do notice some changes taking place. As Xeno said recently, I have given up even seeking "experiences." They come, they go...b

[FairfieldLife] Blah blah and blah blah of the blah-blah? (was Re: NSR and BM of the M-Ch?)

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: > > Anyone know if NSR uses exclusively the biija-mantra of the muulaadhaara-cakra > (beej mantra of the muladharachakra)? I know you're talking to a select group of language and TM nerds, Card, but given the discussions about jargon and buzzwords rece

[FairfieldLife] Re: Where Do the gods Exist?

nds, or stuff like that, but all of those things are "safe" because it's still the SOS (same old self) doing them. But being *without* that self, and actually being without a self, period? That's perceived as scary by most people, even the ones who have been touting the goal of

[FairfieldLife] Murmuration

Even birds can be creative. http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/83823165/

[FairfieldLife] Re: A brawl worth watching

e does. :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "TurquoiseB" wrote: > > You all know how I feel about arguments. They are at best ego-tantrums, > and at worst boring ego-tantrums. On the other hand, if the egos are > interesting, the argument might prove interesting for a few

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