[FairfieldLife] Re: Great oppurtunity for rethinking Super Radiance
Good example. An old and practicing meditator like Rick is so entrained in the transcendent and the culture of the transcendent he ought to be invited back to meditate along with the big group in some way. An old meditator like Rick could easily just be asked to join with the group and meditate. I would recommend Rick for the group meditation. I'd be glad to have someone join back in like Rick to sit with in meditation. He would be a spiritually powerful and healing element towards our field effect generation of peace in the Domes. There is a whole community of folks like Rick here and a small greying community of people who go to the Domes according to the guidelines. Your answer to the communal problem is continued dwindle in the strict preservation of the existing exclusivity. We got a problem with that position. It is called survival as a group. -Buck in the Dome The Fairfield Meditating Community: “We are a group of people who have come together and created a community for a transcendentally important common purpose, which of course is to practice the Transcendental Meditation program and the TM-Sidhi program together as a group, for the sake of bringing coherence to national and world consciousness based on balancing labor and leisure to meditate while working together for the benefit of the community. Our Super-Radiance meditating community includes families of all the TM-Meditators and TM-Sidhas in the Fairfield, Vedic City and Jefferson County area.” LE writes: Effortless transcending isn't a teaching. Effortless transcending can't be taught. It is what hopefully results from maintaining the purity of the teaching -that the student will absorb the strategy for setting up conditions for effortless transcending to occur by the time he or she finishes the 4-day TM course. ... And different people have different ideas about what is what. Rick, for example, in his interview with John Hagelin, told John that he has meditated without fail for many decades. On the other hand, Rick has said in Fairfield Life that he no longer uses TM mantras when he meditates. Is this an important distinction? Does it make a difference for practice in the Domes? Would John have agreed with Rick's statement had he known that Rick no longer uses TM mantras? Everyone interprets things differently. L Of course practically, it would be good if folks should not confuse changing policy guidelines being the equal with a changing in the purity of the teaching. Policy guidelines facilitate a teaching but are not the purity of the teaching themselves. Effortless transcending is the purity. Dealing with some of the TM-Taliban-like TM traditionalists on policy is the sort of matter not unlike dealing with a Joe Stalin. Lists get made. Good people can end up in meditator 'Siberia'. The Prime Minister is clearly the most powerful person inside all of this. Anybody have the courage to talk with him about, “the Problem”? Anybody get through to Maharaja Adhiraj Rajaraam? A change like this would have to come from a MahaRaja. Srijau@... posts: . ..rethink the policies that reduce super-radiance by banning people from the domes for competing with the movement or visiting other spiritual guru types when they are not wavering their adherence to core values concerning the TM and TM Sidhis purity Om; this memo, did it come from anybody who could actually affect change in the policy or is this more just “talking” around “the problem”? Just wondering who this came from, -Buck in the Dome srijau@... posts: Now that the introduction of Maharishi brahminism is getting a thoughtful reboot to make the participants more appreciative of Maharishi's knowledge, we have a great opportunity to rethink policies that reduce super-radiance by banning people from the domes for competing with the movement or visiting other spiritual guru types when they are not wavering their adherence to core values concerning the TM and TM Sidhis purity. .
[FairfieldLife] Re: Great oppurtunity for rethinking Super Radiance
Rick Archer is really a great example of the complexion of TM in the Fairfield meditating community and the TM movement at large. Rick's old friend John Hagelin should do something to facilitate and invite Rick back in to meditation with the group again. The field effect of the collective spiritual practice is fabulous in the group meditation. That field effect spiritual practice could be enlarged with the presence of experienced meditators like Rick. Rick could even be a good as a poster boy to bring back. Sort of like the prodigal child who went out and came home story. -Buck in the Dome ..policies that reduce super-radiance by banning people from the domes for competing with the movement or visiting other spiritual guru types when they are not wavering their adherence to core values concerning the TM and TM Sidhis purity Rick Archer is a good example. An old and practicing meditator like Rick is so entrained in the transcendent and the culture of the transcendent he ought to be invited back to meditate along with the big group in some way. An old meditator like Rick could easily just be asked to join with the group and meditate. I would recommend Rick for the group meditation. I'd be glad to have someone join back in like Rick to sit with in meditation. He would be a spiritually powerful and healing element towards our field effect generation of peace in the Domes. There is a whole community of folks like Rick here and a small greying community of people who go to the Domes according to the guidelines. LE, Your answer to the communal problem is continued dwindle in the strict preservation of the existing exclusivity. We got a problem with that position. It is called survival as a group. -Buck in the Dome The Fairfield Meditating Community: “We are a group of people who have come together and created a community for a transcendentally important common purpose, which of course is to practice the Transcendental Meditation program and the TM-Sidhi program together as a group, for the sake of bringing coherence to national and world consciousness based on balancing labor and leisure to meditate while working together for the benefit of the community. Our Super-Radiance meditating community includes families of all the TM-Meditators and TM-Sidhas in the Fairfield, Vedic City and Jefferson County area.” LE writes: Effortless transcending isn't a teaching. Effortless transcending can't be taught. It is what hopefully results from maintaining the purity of the teaching -that the student will absorb the strategy for setting up conditions for effortless transcending to occur by the time he or she finishes the 4-day TM course. ... And different people have different ideas about what is what. Rick, for example, in his interview with John Hagelin, told John that he has meditated without fail for many decades. On the other hand, Rick has said in Fairfield Life that he no longer uses TM mantras when he meditates. Is this an important distinction? Does it make a difference for practice in the Domes? Would John have agreed with Rick's statement had he known that Rick no longer uses TM mantras? Everyone interprets things differently. L Of course practically, it would be good if folks should not confuse changing policy guidelines being the equal with a changing in the purity of the teaching. Policy guidelines facilitate a teaching but are not the purity of the teaching themselves. Effortless transcending is the purity. Dealing with some of the TM-Taliban-like TM traditionalists on policy is the sort of matter not unlike dealing with a Joe Stalin. Lists get made. Good people can end up in meditator 'Siberia'. The Prime Minister is clearly the most powerful person inside all of this. Anybody have the courage to talk with him about, “the Problem”? Anybody get through to Maharaja Adhiraj Rajaraam? A change like this would have to come from a MahaRaja. -Buck Srijau@... posts: . ..rethink the policies that reduce super-radiance by banning people from the domes for competing with the movement or visiting other spiritual guru types when they are not wavering their adherence to core values concerning the TM and TM Sidhis purity Om; this memo, did it come from anybody who could actually affect change in the policy or is this more just “talking” around “the problem”? Just wondering who this came from, -Buck in the Dome srijau@... posts: Now that the introduction of Maharishi brahminism is getting a thoughtful reboot to make the participants more appreciative of Maharishi's knowledge, we have a great opportunity to rethink policies that reduce super-radiance by banning people from the domes for competing with the movement or visiting other spiritual guru types when they are not wavering their adherence to core values concerning the TM and TM Sidhis purity. .
[FairfieldLife] Tonite ;Sanskrit Reverberation and EEG 8pm MUM
Really important meeting tonite. EEG PATTERNS WHEN LISTENING TO VEDIC RECITATION DALBY HALL MAY 8th, 2014 Tonite 8pm Join Dr. Fred Travis in exploring what happens to the brain when listening to Vedic recitation compared to the practice of transcending meditation, and find out about the ongoing research program that is being developed to explore these effects. Reverberation in Spiritual Practice: ..within each individual through the practice of Transcendental Meditation and the Vedic sound reverberations, the Vedic texts recited. You can enliven the whole body, the whole physiology. ..In modern science, in order to materialize a theory, a scientist is needed. Listen to this carefully. In modern science, for a theory to be materialized, a scientist needs to put the theory to practice. In the Vedic world, in Vedic knowledge, in Vedic science, the scientist himself is the embodiment of the theory, is the embodiment of the principles, because it is self-referral in its own quality. From within itself it is Total Knowledge, it is total power, it is total activity. This is Vedic speech, Vedic reverberations, Vedic sound. Vedic sounds themselves operate. And this has given a completely new approach to perfect health. Perfect health means perfection in every field for everyone on earth. -Maharishi, inaugural address on January 12, 2000.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Tonite ;Sanskrit Reverberation and EEG 8pm MUM
You are so damned literal. Don't be a jackass. Is metaphorical Sort of like
Jesus with parables, Maharishi's talking about spiritual experience which you
obviously lack.
But hey,, the lecture is open to anybody, even Waking Down people and such
meditators in town who might not have Dome badges. Even you would be welcome if
you could behave yourself, -Buck
mjackson74 writes: Show me the people out there in MUM that are in perfect
health and I'll come too.
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Tonite ;Sanskrit Reverberation and EEG 8pm MUM
Really important meeting
tonite.
EEG PATTERNS WHEN
LISTENING TO VEDIC RECITATION
DALBY HALL
MAY 8th,
2014
Tonite
8pm
Join Dr. Fred Travis in exploring what happens
to the brain when listening to Vedic recitation compared to
the practice of transcending meditation, and find out about
the ongoing research program that is being developed to
explore these effects.
Reverberation in
Spiritual Practice:
..within each
individual through the practice of Transcendental Meditation
and the Vedic sound reverberations, the Vedic texts recited.
You can enliven the whole body, the whole
physiology.
..In modern
science, in order to materialize a theory, a scientist is
needed. Listen to this carefully. In modern science, for a
theory to be materialized, a scientist needs to put the
theory to practice. In the Vedic world, in Vedic knowledge,
in Vedic science, the scientist himself is the embodiment of
the theory, is the embodiment of the principles, because it
is self-referral in its own quality.From within itself it is
Total Knowledge, it is total power, it is total activity.
This is Vedic speech, Vedic reverberations, Vedic sound.
Vedic sounds themselves operate. And this has given
a completely new approach to perfect health. Perfect health
means perfection in every field for everyone on
earth. -Maharishi,
inaugural address on January 12,
2000.
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[FairfieldLife] Re: Tonite ;Sanskrit Reverberation and EEG 8pm MUM
Fabulous lecture tonite. Yes there is quite a significant difference between non-meditators, meditators, and advanced Patanjali meditators in brain EEG global coherence; and then listening to Sanskrit chanted slowly as Maharishi prescribed, the recitation reverberations in the subtle system evidently improving each class of coherence seemingly better than even listening to just anything else. Remarkable science of hypothesis paired testing to figure this all out. Fascinating really. Om, how our poor TM and Maharishi haters here shall eat crow**. -Buck at the Consciousness-based University **Eating crow is an American colloquial idiom http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiom,[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_crow#cite_note-oed3a-1 meaning humiliation by admitting wrongness or having been proved wrong after taking a strong position.[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_crow#cite_note-www-2 Crow http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crow is presumably foul-tasting in the same way that being proved wrong might be emotionally hard to swallow. -Wikip == Really important meeting tonite. EEG PATTERNS WHEN LISTENING TO VEDIC RECITATION DALBY HALL MAY 8th, 2014 Tonite 8pm Join Dr. Fred Travis in exploring what happens to the brain when listening to Vedic recitation compared to the practice of transcending meditation, and find out about the ongoing research program that is being developed to explore these effects. Reverberation in Spiritual Practice: ..within each individual through the practice of Transcendental Meditation and the Vedic sound reverberations, the Vedic texts recited. You can enliven the whole body, the whole physiology. ..In modern science, in order to materialize a theory, a scientist is needed. Listen to this carefully. In modern science, for a theory to be materialized, a scientist needs to put the theory to practice. In the Vedic world, in Vedic knowledge, in Vedic science, the scientist himself is the embodiment of the theory, is the embodiment of the principles, because it is self-referral in its own quality. From within itself it is Total Knowledge, it is total power, it is total activity. This is Vedic speech, Vedic reverberations, Vedic sound. Vedic sounds themselves operate. And this has given a completely new approach to perfect health. Perfect health means perfection in every field for everyone on earth. -Maharishi, inaugural address on January 12, 2000.
[FairfieldLife] Science Policy: A Great oppurtunity for rethinking Repentance Spiritually
Tb, Some of your observation here is okay but wrong thinking once again. If TM is as LE is saying here by virtue of the observable research, then TM should certainly be taught to school aged kids as public policy. If not in the schools then after school across the street. It would be anti-scientific ignorance to back down on making transcending meditation available to kids to use as ingredient in modern educational design. It would be a horrible injustice to people to keep meditation as a skillset from students on some technicality grounds like you and that guy from South Carolina are drumming up. It is not just “whatever”. I feel your carping is spiritually sinful against people and that you and that neganaut guy from South Carolina are in a position of being anti-social parasites advocating against meditation the way you do. -Buck in the Dome Great oppurtunity for rethinking Repentance Spiritually Turquoiseb writes: Whatever. Certainly, wanting to be certain that I haven't wasted 20 minutes twice a day for 40 years, is part of the issue (not to mention another 15 minutes twice-a-day doing the TM-siddhis for the past 30 years). Whatever. But... Think about it: if the effects of TM can be gained from reading a book, everyone should be reading that book. On the other hand, if what TM teachers teach is special in some sense, people need to know that too. Consider the latest research coming out of Africa on PTSD. The studies are overwhelmingly positive and are bound to show regression to the mean at least somewhat in any replications, but what if TM really CAN have such an effect consistently on certain people (at least war refugees living in Africa with no other support for stress at all) with PTSD? This is HUGE. While, objectively speaking, it would be nice if other practices had the same or better effect, MBSR is taught over a 2 month period, and researchers don't even bother doing a followup measurement on PTSD symptoms until 3 months after people complete the 8-week course, and even 20 weeks after they first start learning mindfulness practices, they still don't have as good an outcome as even the less-dramatic studies on TM and PTSD in veterans have found in a fraction of the time. I always waned to be a TM teacher, but never thought I was mentally stable enough to become one. Even so, I can help out a little bit, if the practice really is worth what the research suggests it is worth. If the practice isn't as worthwhile, I want research done that will credibly find the truth, period. And TM isn't meant to be a hypertension therapy per se so the fact that it has such benefits is very interesting. Whatever. I didn't know that Maharishi pooh-poohed aerobic exercise. I always heard engage in as much dynamic activity as possible without hurting yourself. Not true. Back in Squaw Valley he still clung to Hindu superstition that claimed that each of us humans is born with a predetermined number of breaths during our lifetime. Therefore, according to his weird way of thinking, anything that increased the breath rate (running, aerobics, swimming, etc.) was BAD for you because it expended your allotted number of breaths sooner and caused you to die sooner. I'm serious. He actually TAUGHT this hogwash, and people were gullible enough to believe it. Runners stopped running, people stopped exercising, and pretty much the only time they moved their bodies was while doing his lame set of yoga asanas. I'm pretty certain that the only exercise Maharishi ever got in his life was walking from a limo into a lecture hall. The flipside, of course, is why you care? I met you online what, 15-20 years ago? You weren't as anti-TM as you appear to be now, even though you made clear that you no longer practiced it. What changed? Nothing changed, because I wasn't anti-TM then, and am not now. I am anti cult thinking and anti bullshit and anti fraud. To me, TM fits into all of those categories. Believing that someone is against you because he is not a fan of something you identify with is just paranoia and self-importance in my book. I still hang at FFL because I'm interested in the cult mentality and I get to see so much of it here. Plus, there are occasionally topics discussed that I'm interested in. But on the whole it's a collection of crazy people, so I occasionally find it entertaining. What you don't seem to understand is that I am against TM *ever* being taught in the schools, and will be even if you produce a thousand studies showing how great it is. TM does not *belong* in U.S. schools because it's taught using a religious ceremony and because the TM teachers simply can't help themselves, and have to try to suck every prospective new TMer deeper into the cult, and thus into cult thinking. If people feel like paying for TM and actually believe it does something good for them, I have
[FairfieldLife] Re: Averting the Danger of Climate Change BEFORE it comes
research from Duke University linking increased carbon content in the atmosphere to a stronger outbreak of poison ivy in the Columbia region. Outbreaks of poison ivy, !Jeezus! that one really hits home for me. I am all in favor of remediation using all available approaches. Something needs to stop the hundred car unit-train loads of coal that roll through Fairfield to power-plants East of here. Those trains are bumper-to-bumper rolling through here all day and each night. That amount of carbon gets burned and put up in to the atmosphere everyday at the rate those trains run. Something should be done to stop those trains. -Buck mjackson74@... wrote : WASHINGTON — Jim Gandy is the chief meteorologist on WLTX in Columbia, S.C., and makes a point of incorporating links between bad weather and climate change into his daily broadcasts. “In Columbia, the only thing that separates us from hell in the summertime is a screen door,'’ he said in an interview. “And all of the climate models indicate that it’s going to get worse if we don’t do something about it.” On Tuesday, Mr. Gandy was among eight weather broadcasters invited to interview President Obama and spend the day at the White House. From Al Roker of the “Today” show to local weathermen and women from Chicago, Miami, Seattle and other cities, the handpicked guests were there, the administration hoped, to spread the word contained in a landmark new report, the National Climate Assessment, that the warming climate is causing sweeping change across the United States. Polls show that local television weathercasters are among the most trusted media figures, but there is a deep divide between those who accept the link between human activities and global warming and extreme weather and those who do not. A 2011 study by George Mason University found, for example, that just 18 percent of American television weather broadcasters believe the established science that human activities, specifically burning fossil fuels, contribute to global warming. The broadcasters at the White House on Tuesday not only accept the link, a number of them also prepare their climate-focused broadcasts with help from Climate Central, a New Jersey-based nonprofit group that creates graphics intended to convey the local impact of climate change for about 100 television stations across the country. Some Climate Central scientists were among those invited Tuesday to the White House. Also there was John Morales, who delivers weather forecasts on WTVJ in Miami and covers weather disasters for the Spanish-language Telemundo. “Recently we’ve had extreme weather events, like the strong rains in Pensacola and Tampa,” Mr. Morales said in an interview. “In January, Palm Beach County got 22 inches of rain in eight hours. That’s a once in a thousand-year event. I mention on my broadcasts that the propensity for climate change will increase with these events.” Although Mr. Obama has given several speeches about climate change, a Pew Research Center poll this year showed that Americans rank climate change 19th out of 20 in importance on a list of policy issues. The strategy of using local weathercasters to spread the word is in keeping with other White House efforts to use nontraditional media outlets to get policy messages out, said Jennifer Palmieri, the White House communications director. “Trusted messengers are hugely important,'’ Ms. Palmieri said. “No one thinks these meterologists have an agenda.” This week was not the first time a White House has tried to use local weathercasters to deliver a message on climate change. During the Clinton administration, Vice President Al Gore invited weathercasters to broadcast a climate change event from the White House South Lawn. But Paul Bledsoe, who was a top climate change communications official in the Clinton White House, did not recall it fondly. “It was a complete disaster, and it backfired,” Mr. Bledsoe said. Mr. Gore forced the weathercasters to watch his slideshow on global warming, he said, and then lectured them for failing to talk about climate change in their broadcasts. Mr. Bledsoe said that the current White House massaging of weathercaster may meet with more success — in part because the new report indicates that climate change is now having a more measurable impact on weather than it did in the 1990s. Mr. Gandy of WLTX in South Carolina, for one, does not need much convincing. Last year he reported on research from Duke University linking increased carbon content in the atmosphere to a stronger outbreak of poison ivy in the Columbia region. “That was a real eye-opener,” Mr. Gandy said, adding that the segment got a huge audience response. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/07/us/politics/using-weathercasters-to-deliver-a-climate-change-message.html?hpwrref=us
[FairfieldLife] Re: Averting the Danger of Climate Change BEFORE it comes
Corn dust? No, the corn dust is a different problem. That can be mitigated locally. Corn dust is a different thread. But the coal trains is an entirely different scale of lifestyle problem related to the danger of global climate change. This global climate change is a much deeper spiritual problem than the local corn dust problem. For everyone's welfare, something needs to stop the hundred car unit-train loads of coal that roll through Fairfield to power-plants East of here. Those trains are bumper-to-bumper rolling through here all day and each night. That amount of carbon gets burned and put up in to the atmosphere everyday at the rate those trains run. Something should be done to stop those trains. I am all in favor of remediation using all available approaches. -Buck research from Duke University linking increased carbon content in the atmosphere to a stronger outbreak of poison ivy in the Columbia region. Outbreaks of poison ivy, !Jeezus! that one really hits home for me. I am all in favor of remediation using all available approaches. mjackson74@... wrote : WASHINGTON — Jim Gandy is the chief meteorologist on WLTX in Columbia, S.C., and makes a point of incorporating links between bad weather and climate change into his daily broadcasts. “In Columbia, the only thing that separates us from hell in the summertime is a screen door,'’ he said in an interview. “And all of the climate models indicate that it’s going to get worse if we don’t do something about it.” On Tuesday, Mr. Gandy was among eight weather broadcasters invited to interview President Obama and spend the day at the White House. From Al Roker of the “Today” show to local weathermen and women from Chicago, Miami, Seattle and other cities, the handpicked guests were there, the administration hoped, to spread the word contained in a landmark new report, the National Climate Assessment, that the warming climate is causing sweeping change across the United States. Polls show that local television weathercasters are among the most trusted media figures, but there is a deep divide between those who accept the link between human activities and global warming and extreme weather and those who do not. A 2011 study by George Mason University found, for example, that just 18 percent of American television weather broadcasters believe the established science that human activities, specifically burning fossil fuels, contribute to global warming. The broadcasters at the White House on Tuesday not only accept the link, a number of them also prepare their climate-focused broadcasts with help from Climate Central, a New Jersey-based nonprofit group that creates graphics intended to convey the local impact of climate change for about 100 television stations across the country. Some Climate Central scientists were among those invited Tuesday to the White House. Also there was John Morales, who delivers weather forecasts on WTVJ in Miami and covers weather disasters for the Spanish-language Telemundo. “Recently we’ve had extreme weather events, like the strong rains in Pensacola and Tampa,” Mr. Morales said in an interview. “In January, Palm Beach County got 22 inches of rain in eight hours. That’s a once in a thousand-year event. I mention on my broadcasts that the propensity for climate change will increase with these events.” Although Mr. Obama has given several speeches about climate change, a Pew Research Center poll this year showed that Americans rank climate change 19th out of 20 in importance on a list of policy issues. The strategy of using local weathercasters to spread the word is in keeping with other White House efforts to use nontraditional media outlets to get policy messages out, said Jennifer Palmieri, the White House communications director. “Trusted messengers are hugely important,'’ Ms. Palmieri said. “No one thinks these meterologists have an agenda.” This week was not the first time a White House has tried to use local weathercasters to deliver a message on climate change. During the Clinton administration, Vice President Al Gore invited weathercasters to broadcast a climate change event from the White House South Lawn. But Paul Bledsoe, who was a top climate change communications official in the Clinton White House, did not recall it fondly. “It was a complete disaster, and it backfired,” Mr. Bledsoe said. Mr. Gore forced the weathercasters to watch his slideshow on global warming, he said, and then lectured them for failing to talk about climate change in their broadcasts. Mr. Bledsoe said that the current White House massaging of weathercaster may meet with more success — in part because the new report indicates that climate change is now having a more measurable impact on weather than it did in the 1990s. Mr. Gandy of WLTX in South Carolina, for one, does not need much convincing. Last year he
[FairfieldLife] Dien Bien Phu
1954 “The Fall of Southeast Asia.” On 7 May 1954, after a 56-day siege, the French army surrendered Dien Bien Phu: Could Vietnam have been nuked in 1954? http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27243803 http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27243803 Could Vietnam have been nuked in 1954? http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27243803 Sixty years ago this week, French troops were defeated by the Vietnamese at Dien Bien Phu - after the US Secretary of State appeared to offer them two A-bombs. View on www.bbc.com http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27243803 Preview by Yahoo
[FairfieldLife] Re: Dien Bien Phu
1954, Brahmananda Saraswati had then only recently dropped the body, and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi would be coming out of the mountains towards the West to help all humanity. -Buck in the Dome, 2014 1954 “The Fall of Southeast Asia.” On 7 May 1954, after a 56-day siege, the French army surrendered Dien Bien Phu: Could Vietnam have been nuked in 1954? http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27243803 http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27243803 Could Vietnam have been nuked in 1954? http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27243803 Sixty years ago this week, French troops were defeated by the Vietnamese at Dien Bien Phu - after the US Secretary of State appeared to offer them two A-bombs. View on www.bbc.com http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27243803 Preview by Yahoo
[FairfieldLife] Re: Spiritual Perfection -ism
As a school or category of practice in mysticism here In the West, Perfectionism spiritually has to do with refining the subtle bodies of the human body-mind system. Similar to yogas illuminating, activating or clarifying the so called chakra centers and the rise of kundalini as some Eastern practices in methodology know. -Buck I am using the word perfection, knowing that the word perfection is very much doubted on scientific ground. Perfection, scientists are afraid of talking about. But I am using the word perfection on the basis of the simple practicality of perfection in the life of everyone. I am emphasizing and making clear what I mean by perfection. I'll explain this perfection possibility open to everyone by an example of the sap in the tree. The gardener waters the root, it supplies nourishment to the root, it supplies nourishment to the sap, it enlivens the sap, and the lively sap makes every expression of it brighter. Green becomes brighter, red flowers become brighter, everything becomes better and better if the sap is lively. Like the sap in the tree, Atma or consciousness has a place in the life of anyone. The physiology is made of reverberating structures of consciousness. Professor Nader's research in physiology has already explained that it is now possible for the total value of life to be enlivened within each individual through the practice of Transcendental Meditation and the Vedic sound reverberations, the Vedic texts recited. You can enliven the whole body, the whole physiology. There is huge philosophical evidence from the Vedic Literature, and practical evidence from the research into the physiology by all disciplines of modern science. It's a very great upsurge of Total Knowledge on the level of principle, and also on the level of the practicality of those principles. In modern science, in order to materialize a theory, a scientist is needed. Listen to this carefully. In modern science, for a theory to be materialized, a scientist needs to put the theory to practice. In the Vedic world, in Vedic knowledge, in Vedic science, the scientist himself is the embodiment of the theory, is the embodiment of the principles, because it is self-referral in its own quality. From within itself it is Total Knowledge, it is total power, it is total activity. This is Vedic speech, Vedic reverberations, Vedic sound. Vedic sounds themselves operate. And this has given a completely new approach to perfect health. Perfect health means perfection in every field for everyone on earth. This perfection is being declared today at this time of inaugurating the Fourth Year of Global Administration. It's very fortunate for the whole world, for all times in the future, that we have established a program. And fortunately with the help of their computer science, the communication level of perfection of today's life will take it to every home, to every individual. Everyone is invited. I am emphasizing today a new voice after these 50 years of teaching Transcendental Meditation in the world, a voice which can bring perfection to every individual.” From Maharishi's inaugural address on January 12, 2000.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Great oppurtunity for rethinking Super Radiance
A change like this would have to come from a MahaRaja. Srijau@... posts: . ..rethink the policies that reduce super-radiance by banning people from the domes for competing with the movement or visiting other spiritual guru types when they are not wavering their adherence to core values concerning the TM and TM Sidhis purity Om; this memo, did it come from anybody who could actually affect change in the policy or is this more just “talking” around “the problem”? Just wondering who this came from, -Buck in the Dome srijau@... posts: Now that the introduction of Maharishi brahminism is getting a thoughtful reboot to make the participants more appreciative of Maharishi's knowledge, we have a great opportunity to rethink policies that reduce super-radiance by banning people from the domes for competing with the movement or visiting other spiritual guru types when they are not wavering their adherence to core values concerning the TM and TM Sidhis purity.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Great oppurtunity for rethinking Super Radiance
Of course practically, it would be good if folks should not confuse changing policy guidelines being the equal with a changing in the purity of the teaching. Policy guidelines facilitate a teaching but are not the purity of the teaching themselves. Effortless transcending is the purity. Dealing with some of the TM-Taliban-like TM traditionalists on policy is the sort of matter not unlike dealing with a Joe Stalin. Lists get made. Good people can end up in meditator 'Siberia'. The Prime Minister is clearly the most powerful person inside all of this. Anybody have the courage to talk with him about, “the Problem”? Anybody get through to Maharaja Adhiraj Rajaraam? A change like this would have to come from a MahaRaja. Srijau@... posts: . ..rethink the policies that reduce super-radiance by banning people from the domes for competing with the movement or visiting other spiritual guru types when they are not wavering their adherence to core values concerning the TM and TM Sidhis purity Om; this memo, did it come from anybody who could actually affect change in the policy or is this more just “talking” around “the problem”? Just wondering who this came from, -Buck in the Dome srijau@... posts: Now that the introduction of Maharishi brahminism is getting a thoughtful reboot to make the participants more appreciative of Maharishi's knowledge, we have a great opportunity to rethink policies that reduce super-radiance by banning people from the domes for competing with the movement or visiting other spiritual guru types when they are not wavering their adherence to core values concerning the TM and TM Sidhis purity.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Great oppurtunity for rethinking TM
The TM pundits? Re-boot? This sounds like re-education boot-camp. How about enrolling them as regular MSAE/MUM students and giving them an education too? They could come out chanting Sanskrit and also educated pundits too. That would take the responsibility for their welfare out of the hands of the current over-seers who evidently are on over-whelm, and it might be more humane and transparent as to what is going on inside there. -Buck - sri...@ymail.com writes: to be more accurate, it is only the Brahmin pundits outside of India whose program is changing, they are going to get more knowledge of Maharishi's connections between modern science and Vedic science rather (than) just a traditional Hindu perspective. I have no influence to change any policy myself I'm giving an opinion.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Raising Net Neutrality from the Dead
Is this drive-by Spam? What exactly does this have to do with the Spiritual Regeneration and FairfieldLife? -Buck raunchydog@... wrote : Email to Tom.Wheeler@... supporting net neutrality by Sandy Dockendorff: I sent an email to the FCC chairman expressing my concern about losing net neutrality. I have to give him kudos for responding - though I am not naive enough to think he sent a personal response... or that he had anything to do with sending the response. I AM concerned that this means that there are very few people actually contacting the FCC about this issue. There is very little that is more sacred to a robust democratic society than the free exchange of ideas and information. In the US today, our broadcast and print news media is owned by a mere handful of people. This, in and of itself, is wrong. Please do not compound that error by giving another handful of people the means by which to stifle communications and creativity through control of the internet. Strong voices for good are not always well funded and those who need to hear words of encouragement and knowledge most are seldom those with the means to pay to find them. Public schools and libraries are underfunded in much of the country and these are the access points for many people who do not have any other means to access the internet. Putting content behind corporate pay-walls will further erode the ability of these institutions to meet the needs of those people. In rural areas where we continue to fight to provide even the most basic access to the internet, allowing corporate entities to provide faster access to those who can pay more means many of those who cannot pay more simply cannot access content at all. This is not a free market issue. Further, the FCC is not supposed to be an advocate for corporate entities, but for the people of our country. There is nothing good to be gained by taking this action. It will not increase jobs, it will not increase access to information so people might create their own jobs, it will not promote economic growth. All it will do is decrease access to internet content for a great deal of our population, decrease competition, siphon more money from the poorer to the richer, and one more foundation of our democratic society will have been demolished. How to bring net neutrality back from the dead by Cannonfire: Contact the Commissioners via E-mail Chairman Tom Wheeler: Tom.Wheeler@... Commissioner Mignon Clyburn: Mignon.Clyburn@... Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel: Jessica.Rosenworcel@... Commissioner Ajit Pai: Ajit.Pai@... Commissioner Michael O’Rielly: Mike.O’Rielly@... To call and contact commissioner’s offices, call 1-888-225-5322. In addition, call your elected representatives. Tell them if net neutrality is ended, you will hold them accountable by withholding your vote. Both parties hope to control the senate after the mid-term elections, so you have more power than usual to let them know they are losing your vote if they fail to take action to stop the FCC proposal. The number for Congress is 202-224-3121. There's also a petition. http://www.popularresistance.org/internet-for-the-wealthy/ http://www.popularresistance.org/internet-for-the-wealthy/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Ending the Use of Dirty Fuels, Years of Living Dangerously...global warming
EarthFirst! Should be the battle cry of everyone. There should be no compromise on this. It is quite time for a radical change now. It is time for a spiritual revolution to save all life on planet earth now. As an immediate start everyone should be spending no less that a third of their 24 hour day in restful alertness in quiet time meditation. Four hours in the morning, four hours in the afternoon. This becomes critical in the remediation of the atmosphere and climate on a crowded planet now. Maharishi: It can be. Vernon: But in this age where there is so much stress and tension? Maharishi: For one thing, there could be a national policy to have an hour's silence morning and evening. An hour of silence. All the busses, all the trains, everything stops. No movement. Aeroplanes don't take off. And then a national calm hour, morning and evening for the whole country. … It could be put on an automatic basis -some automatic timing devices. Everything should be purposely put off, everything stopped. And then the workers don't go to the factory at seven o;clock -only at nine o'clock, ten o'clock. They should have some life at home -in the freshness of the mornings. p-377-8 Conversations with Maharishi, Vol I. Vernon Katz MUM Press 2001 At home, in the workplace, at school. Meditating A third of a day everyday for everyone now. The world would be so much a better place for everyone in so many ways if people everywhere would just stop to take quiet time meditation. People spending more quiet time, spent in effective spiritual practice, is really the only antidote. We simply must break the materialism of the world now. -Buck in the Dome !Picturing Armageddon! http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-27232523 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-27232523 To really mediate this, we need much better public school education using and teaching all that is scientific towards a more invincible future. Like taking more quiet time employing effective transcending meditation into the educational design of our schools, employing quiet time meditation in to our workplaces, and taking meditation in to our homes and home-life. -Buck We need a revolution in the spiritual outlook of humanity right now. This is about public education. An Entrenched Materialism of our vast human race is the problem at core. The problem is fundamentally spiritual. We Must, End the Use of Dirty Fuels, Now. .. http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-27008352 http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-27008352 The problem is way too beyond just sustainability. We are talking survival. As a species. It is quite time for a change. Radical change. -Buck in the Dome The World Simply Must End the Use of Dirty Fuels, Rampant Materialism, Hyper-Industrial Production and the Over-consumption of the consumer economies of the world at too high a level by too many people to be sustainable is the problem. sharelong60 writes: What does the Syrian war, destruction of Indonesian parks and Texas have in common? The premiere of a new Showtime series, Years of Living Dangerously, unexpectedly on global warming. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brvhCnYvxQQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brvhCnYvxQQ Its 1 hour. . Om Shanti . . .
[FairfieldLife] Spam, Spammers and Spamming the FFL list
Sure seems like it was dropped in here like some spam to dilute out the flow of the interest of this list here. Yes, on FairfieldLIfe most any topic goes related to the interest of seekers (and finders) of truth and liberation everywhere. This post coming without any attempt at context related to Fairfieldlife clearly did not seem to relate to anything here, just like spam. On Fairfieldlife we often discuss the trials and tribulations of the TM Movement. Discussions also draw from diverse teachers such as Ammachi, Eckhart Tolle, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Byron Katie, Dalai Lama, Jesus Christ, Buddha, Ramana Maharshi, Shankara, etc. Yes we all have delete keys, however towards the higher levels of our subject integrity on this Fairfieldlife list we do keep moderators on hand to guard and protect us as a community from spammers. We all should be on guard to report spam like that post to the Moderation here to keep track of. Thank you for your concern, -Buck authfriend writes: GET OFF IT, BUCK. You know who raunchy is; you know it isn't spam; and you know we're free to post anything here that others may find of interest, and that most certainly includes net neutrality Stop trying to intimidate would-be posters who don't know any better into thinking they can only post spiritual stuff. Is this drive-by Spam? What exactly does this have to do with the Spiritual Regeneration and FairfieldLife? -Buck raunchydog@... wrote : Email to Tom.Wheeler@... supporting net neutrality by Sandy Dockendorff: I sent an email to the FCC chairman expressing my concern about losing net neutrality. I have to give him kudos for responding - though I am not naive enough to think he sent a personal response... or that he had anything to do with sending the response. I AM concerned that this means that there are very few people actually contacting the FCC about this issue. There is very little that is more sacred to a robust democratic society than the free exchange of ideas and information. In the US today, our broadcast and print news media is owned by a mere handful of people. This, in and of itself, is wrong. Please do not compound that error by giving another handful of people the means by which to stifle communications and creativity through control of the internet. Strong voices for good are not always well funded and those who need to hear words of encouragement and knowledge most are seldom those with the means to pay to find them. Public schools and libraries are underfunded in much of the country and these are the access points for many people who do not have any other means to access the internet. Putting content behind corporate pay-walls will further erode the ability of these institutions to meet the needs of those people. In rural areas where we continue to fight to provide even the most basic access to the internet, allowing corporate entities to provide faster access to those who can pay more means many of those who cannot pay more simply cannot access content at all. This is not a free market issue. Further, the FCC is not supposed to be an advocate for corporate entities, but for the people of our country. There is nothing good to be gained by taking this action. It will not increase jobs, it will not increase access to information so people might create their own jobs, it will not promote economic growth. All it will do is decrease access to internet content for a great deal of our population, decrease competition, siphon more money from the poorer to the richer, and one more foundation of our democratic society will have been demolished. How to bring net neutrality back from the dead by Cannonfire: Contact the Commissioners via E-mail Chairman Tom Wheeler: Tom.Wheeler@... Commissioner Mignon Clyburn: Mignon.Clyburn@... Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel: Jessica.Rosenworcel@... Commissioner Ajit Pai: Ajit.Pai@... Commissioner Michael O’Rielly: Mike.O’Rielly@... To call and contact commissioner’s offices, call 1-888-225-5322. In addition, call your elected representatives. Tell them if net neutrality is ended, you will hold them accountable by withholding your vote. Both parties hope to control the senate after the mid-term elections, so you have more power than usual to let them know they are losing your vote if they fail to take action to stop the FCC proposal. The number for Congress is 202-224-3121. There's also a petition. http://www.popularresistance.org/internet-for-the-wealthy/ http://www.popularresistance.org/internet-for-the-wealthy/ Is this drive-by Spam? What exactly does this have to do with the Spiritual Regeneration and FairfieldLife? -Buck raunchydog@... wrote : Email to Tom.Wheeler@... supporting net neutrality by Sandy Dockendorff: I sent an email to the FCC chairman expressing my concern about losing net neutrality. I have to give him kudos for responding -
[FairfieldLife] Re: Spam, Spammers and Spamming the FFL list
Not all groups need to be open to everyone. Not every person needs to belong to every group. Groups have a right to protect themselves for the benefit of their membership. As we come together in this community group it is fine that we do not let spammers on to FFL as a moderation policy. Sincerely, -Buck Sure seems like it was dropped in here like some spam to dilute out the flow of the interest of this list here. Yes, on FairfieldLIfe most any topic goes related to the interest of seekers (and finders) of truth and liberation everywhere. This post coming without any attempt at context related to Fairfieldlife clearly did not seem to relate to anything here, just like spam. On Fairfieldlife we often discuss the trials and tribulations of the TM Movement. Discussions also draw from diverse teachers such as Ammachi, Eckhart Tolle, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Byron Katie, Dalai Lama, Jesus Christ, Buddha, Ramana Maharshi, Shankara, etc. Yes we all have delete keys, however towards the higher levels of our subject integrity on this Fairfieldlife list we do keep moderators on hand to guard and protect us as a community from spammers. We all should be on guard to report spam like that post to the Moderation here to keep track of. Thank you for your concern, -Buck authfriend writes: GET OFF IT, BUCK. You know who raunchy is; you know it isn't spam; and you know we're free to post anything here that others may find of interest, and that most certainly includes net neutrality Stop trying to intimidate would-be posters who don't know any better into thinking they can only post spiritual stuff. Is this drive-by Spam? What exactly does this have to do with the Spiritual Regeneration and FairfieldLife? -Buck raunchydog@... wrote : Email to Tom.Wheeler@... supporting net neutrality by Sandy Dockendorff: I sent an email to the FCC chairman expressing my concern about losing net neutrality. I have to give him kudos for responding - though I am not naive enough to think he sent a personal response... or that he had anything to do with sending the response. I AM concerned that this means that there are very few people actually contacting the FCC about this issue. There is very little that is more sacred to a robust democratic society than the free exchange of ideas and information. In the US today, our broadcast and print news media is owned by a mere handful of people. This, in and of itself, is wrong. Please do not compound that error by giving another handful of people the means by which to stifle communications and creativity through control of the internet. Strong voices for good are not always well funded and those who need to hear words of encouragement and knowledge most are seldom those with the means to pay to find them. Public schools and libraries are underfunded in much of the country and these are the access points for many people who do not have any other means to access the internet. Putting content behind corporate pay-walls will further erode the ability of these institutions to meet the needs of those people. In rural areas where we continue to fight to provide even the most basic access to the internet, allowing corporate entities to provide faster access to those who can pay more means many of those who cannot pay more simply cannot access content at all. This is not a free market issue. Further, the FCC is not supposed to be an advocate for corporate entities, but for the people of our country. There is nothing good to be gained by taking this action. It will not increase jobs, it will not increase access to information so people might create their own jobs, it will not promote economic growth. All it will do is decrease access to internet content for a great deal of our population, decrease competition, siphon more money from the poorer to the richer, and one more foundation of our democratic society will have been demolished. How to bring net neutrality back from the dead by Cannonfire: Contact the Commissioners via E-mail Chairman Tom Wheeler: Tom.Wheeler@... Commissioner Mignon Clyburn: Mignon.Clyburn@... Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel: Jessica.Rosenworcel@... Commissioner Ajit Pai: Ajit.Pai@... Commissioner Michael O’Rielly: Mike.O’Rielly@... To call and contact commissioner’s offices, call 1-888-225-5322. In addition, call your elected representatives. Tell them if net neutrality is ended, you will hold them accountable by withholding your vote. Both parties hope to control the senate after the mid-term elections, so you have more power than usual to let them know they are losing your vote if they fail to take action to stop the FCC proposal. The number for Congress is 202-224-3121. There's also a petition. http://www.popularresistance.org/internet-for-the-wealthy/ http://www.popularresistance.org/internet-for-the-wealthy/ Is this drive-by Spam? What exactly does
[FairfieldLife] Spiritual Perfection -ism
I am using the word perfection, knowing that the word perfection is very much doubted on scientific ground. Perfection, scientists are afraid of talking about. But I am using the word perfection on the basis of the simple practicality of perfection in the life of everyone. I am emphasizing and making clear what I mean by perfection. I'll explain this perfection possibility open to everyone by an example of the sap in the tree. The gardener waters the root, it supplies nourishment to the root, it supplies nourishment to the sap, it enlivens the sap, and the lively sap makes every expression of it brighter. Green becomes brighter, red flowers become brighter, everything becomes better and better if the sap is lively. Like the sap in the tree, Atma or consciousness has a place in the life of anyone. The physiology is made of reverberating structures of consciousness. Professor Nader's research in physiology has already explained that it is now possible for the total value of life to be enlivened within each individual through the practice of Transcendental Meditation and the Vedic sound reverberations, the Vedic texts recited. You can enliven the whole body, the whole physiology. There is huge philosophical evidence from the Vedic Literature, and practical evidence from the research into the physiology by all disciplines of modern science. It's a very great upsurge of Total Knowledge on the level of principle, and also on the level of the practicality of those principles. In modern science, in order to materialize a theory, a scientist is needed. Listen to this carefully. In modern science, for a theory to be materialized, a scientist needs to put the theory to practice. In the Vedic world, in Vedic knowledge, in Vedic science, the scientist himself is the embodiment of the theory, is the embodiment of the principles, because it is self-referral in its own quality. From within itself it is Total Knowledge, it is total power, it is total activity. This is Vedic speech, Vedic reverberations, Vedic sound. Vedic sounds themselves operate. And this has given a completely new approach to perfect health. Perfect health means perfection in every field for everyone on earth. This perfection is being declared today at this time of inaugurating the Fourth Year of Global Administration. It's very fortunate for the whole world, for all times in the future, that we have established a program. And fortunately with the help of their computer science, the communication level of perfection of today's life will take it to every home, to every individual. Everyone is invited. I am emphasizing today a new voice after these 50 years of teaching Transcendental Meditation in the world, a voice which can bring perfection to every individual.” From Maharishi's inaugural address on January 12, 2000.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Ending the Use of Dirty Fuels, Years of Living Dangerously...global warming
Climate impacts 'overwhelming' Climate impacts 'overwhelming' - UN http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-26810559 http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-26810559 Climate impacts 'overwhelming' - UN http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-26810559 Global warming is likely to have a severe, pervasive and irreversible impact, a major UN report warns. View on www.bbc.com http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-26810559 Preview by Yahoo Increasingly disruptive' across US - report http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-27296417 http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-27296417 Climate Change Already Having Broad Impact http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/05/06/310021768/new-report-finds-climate-change-already-having-broad-impact http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/05/06/310021768/new-report-finds-climate-change-already-having-broad-impact As an immediate start everyone should be spending no less that a third of their 24 hour day in restful alertness in quiet time meditation. Four hours in the morning, four hours in the afternoon. This becomes critical in the remediation of the atmosphere and climate on a crowded planet now. Maharishi: It can be. Vernon: But in this age where there is so much stress and tension? Maharishi: For one thing, there could be a national policy to have an hour's silence morning and evening. An hour of silence. All the busses, all the trains, everything stops. No movement. Aeroplanes don't take off. And then a national calm hour, morning and evening for the whole country. … It could be put on an automatic basis -some automatic timing devices. Everything should be purposely put off, everything stopped. And then the workers don't go to the factory at seven o;clock -only at nine o'clock, ten o'clock. They should have some life at home -in the freshness of the mornings. p-377-8 Conversations with Maharishi, Vol I. Vernon Katz MUM Press 2001 At home, in the workplace, at school. Meditating A third of a day everyday for everyone now. The world would be so much a better place for everyone in so many ways if people everywhere would just stop to take quiet time meditation. People spending more quiet time, spent in effective spiritual practice, is really the only antidote. We simply must break the materialism of the world now. -Buck in the Dome !Picturing Armageddon! http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-27232523 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-27232523 To really mediate this, we need much better public school education using and teaching all that is scientific towards a more invincible future. Like taking more quiet time employing effective transcending meditation into the educational design of our schools, employing quiet time meditation in to our workplaces, and taking meditation in to our homes and home-life. -Buck We need a revolution in the spiritual outlook of humanity right now. This is about public education. An Entrenched Materialism of our vast human race is the problem at core. The problem is fundamentally spiritual. We Must, End the Use of Dirty Fuels, Now. .. http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-27008352 http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-27008352 The problem is way too beyond just sustainability. We are talking survival. As a species. It is quite time for a change. Radical change. -Buck in the Dome The World Simply Must End the Use of Dirty Fuels, Rampant Materialism, Hyper-Industrial Production and the Over-consumption of the consumer economies of the world at too high a level by too many people to be sustainable is the problem. sharelong60 writes: What does the Syrian war, destruction of Indonesian parks and Texas have in common? The premiere of a new Showtime series, Years of Living Dangerously, unexpectedly on global warming. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brvhCnYvxQQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brvhCnYvxQQ Its 1 hour. . Om Shanti . . . .
[FairfieldLife] Re: Ending the Use of Dirty Fuels, Years of Living Dangerously...global warming
As an immediate start everyone should be spending no less that a third of their 24 hour day in restful alertness in quiet time meditation. Four hours in the morning, four hours in the afternoon. This becomes critical in the remediation of the atmosphere and climate on a crowded planet now. Maharishi: It can be. Vernon: But in this age where there is so much stress and tension? Maharishi: For one thing, there could be a national policy to have an hour's silence morning and evening. An hour of silence. All the busses, all the trains, everything stops. No movement. Aeroplanes don't take off. And then a national calm hour, morning and evening for the whole country. … It could be put on an automatic basis -some automatic timing devices. Everything should be purposely put off, everything stopped. And then the workers don't go to the factory at seven o;clock -only at nine o'clock, ten o'clock. They should have some life at home -in the freshness of the mornings. p-377-8 Conversations with Maharishi, Vol I. Vernon Katz MUM Press 2001 At home, in the workplace, at school. Meditating A third of a day everyday for everyone now. The world would be so much a better place for everyone in so many ways if people everywhere would just stop to take quiet time meditation. People spending more quiet time, spent in effective spiritual practice, is really the only antidote. We simply must break the materialism of the world now. -Buck in the Dome !Picturing Armageddon! http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-27232523 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-27232523 To really mediate this, we need much better public school education using and teaching all that is scientific towards a more invincible future. Like taking more quiet time employing effective transcending meditation into the educational design of our schools, employing quiet time meditation in to our workplaces, and taking meditation in to our homes and home-life. -Buck We need a revolution in the spiritual outlook of humanity right now. This is about public education. An Entrenched Materialism of our vast human race is the problem at core. The problem is fundamentally spiritual. We Must, End the Use of Dirty Fuels, Now. .. http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-27008352 http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-27008352 The problem is way too beyond just sustainability. We are talking survival. As a species. It is quite time for a change. Radical change. -Buck in the Dome The World Simply Must End the Use of Dirty Fuels, Rampant Materialism, Hyper-Industrial Production and the Over-consumption of the consumer economies of the world at too high a level by too many people to be sustainable is the problem. sharelong60 writes: What does the Syrian war, destruction of Indonesian parks and Texas have in common? The premiere of a new Showtime series, Years of Living Dangerously, unexpectedly on global warming. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brvhCnYvxQQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brvhCnYvxQQ Its 1 hour. . Om Shanti . . .
[FairfieldLife] Re: Great oppurtunity for rethinking
flowing into the pockets of lazy individuals like Bevan and Girish who are parasites living on the hard work of others. As to the effect of TMSP in groups creating world peace - get online and look up the Little Rascals episode A Lad and a Lamp and you will see that if you, Buck, go to a flea market and buy an old brass lamp, rub it and say I wish Cotton was a money, I wish Cotton was a monkey over and over and over, then take the same brass lamp, rub it during program and say I wish they was world peace, I wish they was world peace over and over and over you will find that Cotton will actually become a monkey from your lamp rubbing and wishing it so long before you will get world peace from the genie of a lamp or doing TMSP in a group. On Mon, 5/5/14, dhamiltony2k5@... mailto:dhamiltony2k5@... dhamiltony2k5@... mailto:dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: A life well lived? Consider repenting your spiritual sins and then come back and stop calling him, Marshy, Old Goat, lying son of bitch and all the other names you have called him. It is not too late,-Buck in the Dome mjackson74 declares: I say this to you Steve and all my other critics here on FFL - If Marshy was enlightened, and if the TMO does much more good in the world than harm, I am willing to believe it, and I go on record that if those things can be proven to me then I will reverse every criticism I have ever leveled against the TMO and Marshy. I will stop calling him, Marshy, Old Goat, lying son of bitch and all the other names I have called him. I will become a spokesperson for the TMO, telling my story of how I became convinced that TM is the best thing since sliced bread. I will spearhead a push to get TM in ALL middle schools, high schools, colleges, universities and trade schools in the country and in all US protectorates around the globe. I will be part of a supreme effort to get TM in every single US military facility around the world, I will ask that TM and TMSP become part of every soldier, sailor, airman, marine and coast guard basic training and I will ask that Congress pass a law that every single congressman upon becoming elected must learn TM and TMSP. I would also have it further mandated that before ANY important vote on the house and senate floor the entire congress would meditate together for half an hour. Before Buck, Nabby, Feste, Sri and Steve spontaneously ascend into heaven over the idea of all of the above, thus far I see no proof nor even any credible evidence that Marshy was enlightened, nor that the TMO does more good than harm. Mostly I see and hear evidence of quite the opposite. Stories of Marshy's arrogance, elitist attitudes, Hindu fanaticism misuse and manipulation of people, and a great deal more of both personal experience and the collective experiences of friends, acquaintances and strangers that the TMO mainly tells us that all sorts of grand things are GONE happen, they are not happening now really for a variety of reasons but they are GONE happen, so keep giving generously and keep buying abundantly all our goods, service and nostrums so all this fabulous stuff will actually happen. Mostly the Marshy did and the TMO still today tells everyone to do it and buy it just cuz we say its real and true, not because it actually is true and real and good. They ask everyone to suspend their own common sense, their own wisdom and ability to discern truth and just believe whatever they are told by the TMO especially where what the TMO says today contradicts what was said yesterday. They want everyone just to believe and pay up even when the belief is obviously superstition such as hiding under your desks during a solar eclipse As to the claims and questionable research, I have to quote the wisdom of the Turq - If TM (and its adjunct programs) were any good, they wouldn't have to lie to sell them.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Great oppurtunity for rethinking
Yep both MJ and the jedi-spock in this thread here, you'll both be known for eternity in some negative footnotes to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi by your own comparisons. Repent your ways before it is too late. -Buck What a vile comparison. You're no jedi. Not even close. -Buck in the Dome Jedi_spock writes on FFL: History is full of false prophets. MMY is no exception. Lenin predicted that communism will pave public toilets with gold.! Hitler predicted a thousand year reich. Prophet Muhammed even promised a X-rated paradise. Moses was a genocidal killer who murdered even babies. All religions and cultures are full of these kind of conmen and bandits. !Repent! !Repent You Spiritual sinner(s)! mjackson74 declares: Marshy was a liar and a fraud and his movement is an organization that perpetuates the fraud. So he deserves no consideration. Son, he deserves a Nobel Peace Prize for the work he did in the world on behalf of science, spirituality and humanity. As to your much vaunted Marshy Effect, the main effect is to keep the True Believers in a mind numbed state, and to keep their money flowing into the pockets of lazy individuals like Bevan and Girish who are parasites living on the hard work of others. As to the effect of TMSP in groups creating world peace - get online and look up the Little Rascals episode A Lad and a Lamp and you will see that if you, Buck, go to a flea market and buy an old brass lamp, rub it and say I wish Cotton was a money, I wish Cotton was a monkey over and over and over, then take the same brass lamp, rub it during program and say I wish they was world peace, I wish they was world peace over and over and over you will find that Cotton will actually become a monkey from your lamp rubbing and wishing it so long before you will get world peace from the genie of a lamp or doing TMSP in a group. You are reflecting a projection. Son, look away from the mirror! MJ, step away from the mirror! Buck offers: Son that is a fool's proposition you are offering. It is not even worth taking the time to discuss with you. Your observations may be right but your thinking is wrong. You clearly are letting yourself be bound by some past thought forms lodge in your system and holding that as hostage against your self, your immortal Soul. Something like, you are 'putting your light under a hat'. You should drop this anti-nonsense before it is too late for you. I would kindly advise that you revisit FFL post #368621 Re: [FairfieldLife] : The Interpenetrating Subtle Spiritual System, MMY's Shakti. https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/368621 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/368621 A life well lived? Consider repenting your spiritual sins and then come back and stop calling him, Marshy, Old Goat, lying son of bitch and all the other names you have called him. It is not too late,-Buck in the Dome mjackson74 declares: I say this to you Steve and all my other critics here on FFL - If Marshy was enlightened, and if the TMO does much more good in the world than harm, I am willing to believe it, and I go on record that if those things can be proven to me then I will reverse every criticism I have ever leveled against the TMO and Marshy. I will stop calling him, Marshy, Old Goat, lying son of bitch and all the other names I have called him. I will become a spokesperson for the TMO, telling my story of how I became convinced that TM is the best thing since sliced bread. I will spearhead a push to get TM in ALL middle schools, high schools, colleges, universities and trade schools in the country and in all US protectorates around the globe. I will be part of a supreme effort to get TM in every single US military facility around the world, I will ask that TM and TMSP become part of every soldier, sailor, airman, marine and coast guard basic training and I will ask that Congress pass a law that every single congressman upon becoming elected must learn TM and TMSP. I would also have it further mandated that before ANY important vote on the house and senate floor the entire congress would meditate together for half an hour. Before Buck, Nabby, Feste, Sri and Steve spontaneously ascend into heaven over the idea of all of the above, thus far I see no proof nor even any credible evidence that Marshy was enlightened, nor that the TMO does more good than harm. Mostly I see and hear evidence of quite the opposite. Stories of Marshy's arrogance, elitist attitudes, Hindu fanaticism misuse and manipulation of people, and a great deal more of both personal experience and the collective experiences of friends, acquaintances and strangers that the TMO mainly tells us that all sorts of grand things are GONE happen, they are not happening now really for a variety of
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi Effect
The Meissner Effect [ME] of consciousness coherence is a good descriptor for this phenomena too in nature. Is a remarkable discovery really and fabulous to be in the middle of a ME field effect where it occurs. One can feel quite sadly for these folks who so determinedly deny themselves in their own free will in the face of all the science, observation, and spiritual experience of the experience or the possibility of any such a field effect of consciousness coherence. Talk about bull-headed stubborn asses. Either its bad breeding or this must be something in their upbringing that they are of such a bad disposition and hyper-reactivity that they can deny and repeat such as they do with such venom and hate of the obvious good and benefits to meditating. Out-layers really. There is something going on with these apostates [likely effect of some bad upbringing or genetics] that is simply outside the normative that makes them asocial in a group. In the wider scholarly field of altruistic evolution it would make an interesting study to test the haters and deniers particularly here and around the internet for their spiritual efficaciousness, -Buck mjackson74 writes: The evidence that belies this crap the Movement puts out are the actual wars that exist all over the globe, the murders and rapes that take place in the heart of the Movement in Fairfield, a purusha man committing suicide by setting himself on fire in the basement of Marshy's home in Vlodrop, and many other suicides and attempted suicide in the TMO, the enforced slavery in Africa of children and use of child soldiers in wars there. The list goes on and on. As I have said numerous times here, the people of this world are screwed up, but they are not completely stupid. If this so-called technology worked, the people of the world would be clamoring to embrace it. In fact as I have also said here, EVERY Third World country would have ALREADY mandated that every citizen above the age of 12 practice TMSP in groups because that would make the country invulnerable to attack internally and externally. They have not, because it does not. This slavish adherence to an obviously false idea does no one any good. Yep, .the findings have been consistent across a large number of replications. As unlikely as the premise may sound, I think we have to take these studies seriously.”Ted Robert Gurr, PhD Emeritus Professor of Government and PoliticsUniversity of Maryland sri...@ymail.com writes: Permanent Peace: What's the Evidence Permanent Peace: What's the Evidence SUMMARY What’s the Evidence? View on http://www.permanentpeace.org/evidence/index.html http://www.permanentpeace.org/evidence/index.html .
[FairfieldLife] Re: Great oppurtunity for rethinking
Om; this memo, did it come from anybody who could actually affect change in the policy or is this more just “talking” around “the problem”? Just wondering who this came from, -Buck in the Dome sri...@ymail.com posts: Now that the introduction of Maharishi brahminism is getting a thoughtful reboot to make the participants more appreciative of Maharishi's knowledge, we have a great opportunity to rethink policies that reduce super-radiance by banning people from the domes for competing with the movement or visiting other spiritual guru types when they are not wavering their adherence to core values concerning the TM and TM Sidhis purity.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Gotta Love It
Yep, I agree it is really a wonderful secular theology of the Unified Field. Was a consequent part of the rising of the Dawn of the Age of Enlightenment. And Star Wars theology also turned the baby-boom generation itself who also watched StarWars along with their kids into the measurable spiritual but not religious demographic. May the Unified Field Be with You, -Buck in the Dome Why I rejected religion and instead raised my son on Star Wars by Vishen Lakhiani May 4, 2014 I raised my son without religion. It was by design. I was raised a Hindu and my wife was raised Orthodox and Lutheran. But both of us slowly outgrew religion as we got older and instead adopted practices and beliefs consistent with our experiences in the real world. And so when Hayden was born we didn’t bother with religion at all. But we aren’t against it either. Because religion does have many beautiful aspects. And one of the biggest is that it teaches life lessons through stories. Problem is, it also conditions people to take those stories too literally. This leads to all sorts of dumb ideas that have held humanity backwards. Crimes against apostasy, treating gay people like outcasts, violation of women’s rights and even the act of not being able to enjoy a simple ham sandwich. Second, religion isn’t yet hackable. I can’t take the best of Christianity and combine it with the best of Islam and Hinduism. And to do so would cause awkward glares. There is much beauty in the teachings of Christ, the Sufism of Islam, the Bhagavad Gita or the Buddhist teachings of the Dalai Lama. Yet humanity has widely decided that religion should be absolutist. In short, pick one and stick to it for the rest of your life. Or worse – pass it on to your children through early indoctrination so they have to stick to one true path for the rest of their lives. Then repeat for generations. I want to break this pattern. So to avoid this with my son I decided to not teach my son religion at all. Hayden understands Newton’s Laws, the rotation of the planet, and gravity and electricity. At 6 he talks about atoms, DNA replication, Elon Musk’s rockets and admires Edison and the Mars Rover. Yet he has no idea what God is. This is by design. Simply because we, as a human race, don’t know what God is. And I refuse to pick ONE definition. Although I believe in God. I don’t think it’s write to teach this idea to a our child until he’s old enough to ask the right questions. It’s a fine line between education and indoctrination. So I believe that the only way to teach religion is to teach ALL religions. And I will. But only when Hayden is older and can make his own conclusions. But this left a dilemma. How then do I teach Hayden morality and lessons in life? I found the answer through Star Wars. Recently Hayden and I sat through 12 hours and all 6 Star Wars movies. It’s amazing how the mind of a 6 year old can get so engrossed with George Lucas’ fiction. But an unexpected benefit was the life lessons that I was able to share with Hayden via Star Wars. Here are the top 10 things that any parent can teach their child from Star Wars 1. Star Wars teaches you to Trust Yourself Luke: All right, I’ll give it a try. Yoda: No. Try not. Do… or do not. There is no try. [Using the Force, Yoda effortlessly frees the X-Wing from the bog] Luke: I don’t, I don’t believe it. Yoda: That is why you fail. The message here is to truly believe in yourself. Simplistic, I know. But Star Wars weaves the message into the story of Luke in such a beautiful way. We take Luke’s struggles and eventual success as parable for our own lives. 2. Star Wars teaches you to use the Power of Your Mind Hayden was fascinated by the “Force”. I explained it to him in Yoda’s words: “For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must feel the Force around you; here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere, yes.” ~ Yoda We used the metaphor of the force to teach Hayden mindfulness practices. I’d get him to close his eyes, relax and meditate. Sure he couldn’t last 90 seconds but its a start. But when Hayden fell ill, we used this same idea of the ‘force’ to teach him imagery therapy. He close his eyes and we’d ask him to visualize his lungs getting better. Hayden would do this every night before going to bed. There is a lot of evidence that imagery therapy accelerates healing. And that visualisation can help with goal setting. 3. Star Wars teaches you that We are all Connected This is very similar to Pantheism, what Richard Dawkins calls “Sexed up Atheism”. It’s the idea that all life is one and we’re all connected and that harming other lifeforms is not optimal. This is a great way to teach a child the Golden Rule. That we should
[FairfieldLife] Re: Ending the Use of Dirty Fuels, Years of Living Dangerously...global warming
Maharishi: It can be. Vernon: But in this age where there is so much stress and tension? Maharishi: For one thing, there could be a national policy to have an hour's silence morning and evening. An hour of silence. All the busses, all the trains, everything stops. No movement. Aeroplanes don't take off. And then a national calm hour, morning and evening for the whole country. … It could be put on an automatic basis -some automatic timing devices. Everything should be purposely put off, everything stopped. And then the workers don't go to the factory at seven o;clock -only at nine o'clock, ten o'clock. They should have some life at home -in the freshness of the mornings. p-377-8 Conversations with Maharishi, Vol I. Vernon Katz MUM Press 2001 At home, in the workplace, at school. Meditating A third of a day everyday for everyone now. The world would be so much a better place for everyone in so many ways if people everywhere would just stop to take quiet time meditation. People spending more quiet time, spent in effective spiritual practice, is really the only antidote. We simply must break the materialism of the world now. -Buck in the Dome !Picturing Armageddon! http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-27232523 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-27232523 To really mediate this, we need much better public school education using and teaching all that is scientific towards a more invincible future. Like taking more quiet time employing effective transcending meditation into the educational design of our schools, employing quiet time meditation in to our workplaces, and taking meditation in to our homes and home-life. -Buck We need a revolution in the spiritual outlook of humanity right now. This is about public education. An Entrenched Materialism of our vast human race is the problem at core. The problem is fundamentally spiritual. We Must, End the Use of Dirty Fuels, Now. .. http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-27008352 http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-27008352 The problem is way too beyond just sustainability. We are talking survival. As a species. It is quite time for a change. Radical change. -Buck in the Dome The World Simply Must End the Use of Dirty Fuels, Rampant Materialism, Hyper-Industrial Production and the Over-consumption of the consumer economies of the world at too high a level by too many people to be sustainable is the problem. sharelong60 writes: What does the Syrian war, destruction of Indonesian parks and Texas have in common? The premiere of a new Showtime series, Years of Living Dangerously, unexpectedly on global warming. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brvhCnYvxQQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brvhCnYvxQQ Its 1 hour. . Om Shant . . .
Re: [FairfieldLife] Great oppurtunity for rethinking
Son that is a fool's proposition you are offering. It is not even worth taking the time to discuss with you. Your observations may be right but your thinking is wrong. You clearly are letting yourself be bound by some past thought forms lodge in your system and holding that as hostage against your self, your immortal Soul. Something like, you are 'putting your light under a hat'. You should drop this anti-nonsense before it is too late for you. I would kindly advise that you revisit FFL post #368621 Re: [FairfieldLife] : The Interpenetrating Subtle Spiritual System, MMY's Shakti. https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/368621 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/368621 A life well lived? Consider repenting your spiritual sins and then come back and stop calling him, Marshy, Old Goat, lying son of bitch and all the other names you have called him. It is not too late, -Buck in the Dome mjackson74 declares: I say this to you Steve and all my other critics here on FFL - If Marshy was enlightened, and if the TMO does much more good in the world than harm, I am willing to believe it, and I go on record that if those things can be proven to me then I will reverse every criticism I have ever leveled against the TMO and Marshy. I will stop calling him, Marshy, Old Goat, lying son of bitch and all the other names I have called him. I will become a spokesperson for the TMO, telling my story of how I became convinced that TM is the best thing since sliced bread. I will spearhead a push to get TM in ALL middle schools, high schools, colleges, universities and trade schools in the country and in all US protectorates around the globe. I will be part of a supreme effort to get TM in every single US military facility around the world, I will ask that TM and TMSP become part of every soldier, sailor, airman, marine and coast guard basic training and I will ask that Congress pass a law that every single congressman upon becoming elected must learn TM and TMSP. I would also have it further mandated that before ANY important vote on the house and senate floor the entire congress would meditate together for half an hour. Before Buck, Nabby, Feste, Sri and Steve spontaneously ascend into heaven over the idea of all of the above, thus far I see no proof nor even any credible evidence that Marshy was enlightened, nor that the TMO does more good than harm. Mostly I see and hear evidence of quite the opposite. Stories of Marshy's arrogance, elitist attitudes, Hindu fanaticism misuse and manipulation of people, and a great deal more of both personal experience and the collective experiences of friends, acquaintances and strangers that the TMO mainly tells us that all sorts of grand things are GONE happen, they are not happening now really for a variety of reasons but they are GONE happen, so keep giving generously and keep buying abundantly all our goods, service and nostrums so all this fabulous stuff will actually happen. Mostly the Marshy did and the TMO still today tells everyone to do it and buy it just cuz we say its real and true, not because it actually is true and real and good. They ask everyone to suspend their own common sense, their own wisdom and ability to discern truth and just believe whatever they are told by the TMO especially where what the TMO says today contradicts what was said yesterday. They want everyone just to believe and pay up even when the belief is obviously superstition such as hiding under your desks during a solar eclipse As to the claims and questionable research, I have to quote the wisdom of the Turq - If TM (and its adjunct programs) were any good, they wouldn't have to lie to sell them. On Sun, 5/4/14, steve.sundur@... mailto:steve.sundur@... steve.sundur@... mailto:steve.sundur@... wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Great oppurtunity for rethinking To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Sunday, May 4, 2014, 1:27 PM ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : Quite simply, if Maharishi's knowledge had been worth a shit to begin with, such policies and the attitudes they spring from could never have been born in the first place. Proximity to Marshy and length of time spent both administering the Movement and doing TMSP breeds arrogance, elitism, uncaring attitudes about common people, greed and a general display of poor behavior. Or, it may be that you are extrapolating your experience to the entire organization. Not to say that there aren't plenty of examples of such, but as usual, you are not interested in anything that could be described as fair and balanced. If it doesn't fit your agenda, you simply leave it out. at the introduction of Naharishi
[FairfieldLife] Spiritual Practice makes for more Perfection
Thanks this science is an extremely important addition to the data around spirituality. -Buck in the Dome LEnglish5 offers: Fred Travis' article published in the New York Academy of Sciences that discusses the preliminary research on Cosmic Consciousness: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10./nyas.12316/full http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10./nyas.12316/full Specific research on pure consciousness discussed in that paper: Breath Suspension During the Transcendental Meditation Technique http://www.psychosomaticmedicine.org/content/44/2/133.full.pdf Electrophysiologic Characteristics of Respiratory Suspension Periods Occurring During the Practice of the Transcendental Meditation Program http://www.psychosomaticmedicine.org/content/46/3/267.full.pdf Autonomic patterns during respiratory suspensions: Possible markers of Transcendental Consciousness http://www.totalbrain.ch/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/transcendental-consciousness.pdf Correlates of stabilization of pure consciousness, aka Cosmic Consciousenss -the preliminary stage of enlightenment in TM-theory: Psychological http://www.totalbrain.ch/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/eeg-of-enlightenment.pdf http://www.totalbrain.ch/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/eeg-of-enlightenment.pdf physiological http://www.totalbrain.ch/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/brain-integration-progress-report.pdf http://www.totalbrain.ch/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/brain-integration-progress-report.pdf L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, rick@... wrote : I have this idea kicking around in my head to try to interview Sam Harris, or someone like him. An intelligent atheist, as I understand him. I’d want to read all his books first, and then hash out the likely points of discussion with you beforehand. We could do it on FFL. My perspective is very SCI-like – that intelligence is omnipresent, all-pervading, and obvious if one looks closely enough. I’m interviewing a guy named Bernardo Kastrup in a couple of months who has written a book called “Why Materialism is Baloney”, but it would be fun to interview an intelligent materialist, if that’s what Harris is, and see if we could find any common ground. What do you think?
[FairfieldLife] Science and Spirituality and Maharishi:
Observation, Hypothesis, Test; Scientific Process.. . When you get things laid out in time series of publication to look at it becomes remarkable what Maharishi was doing all along going way back. There was quite a lot of scientific process (advancement too) which got specifically propelled by Maharishi all through the years and decades. Constantly. Quite fairly this is something that distinguishes Maharishi's spiritual teaching. Observe, hypothesize, test. The science was actually driving larger policy that was initiated by Maharishi himself to be able to set up tests and explore data all along from early on. He was really quite a modern man fusing the ancient and modern in the science of collecting data, making hypothesis and testing as process of science on the spiritual; in making hypothesis based on observation in research that then drives tests and the history of the movement as science test is also a history of Transcendental Meditation [TM] dating from early in Maharishi's arrival in the West in the 1950's through the 60's, 70's, 1980's, 90's, 00's to present. “Observe, hypothesis, test”. He really persisted and in culture pulled quite a coup on religion-ists and atheists alike in a teaching of science and spirituality. -Buck Thanks this science is an extremely important addition to the data around spirituality. -Buck in the Dome LEnglish5 offers: Fred Travis' article published in the New York Academy of Sciences that discusses the preliminary research on Cosmic Consciousness: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10./nyas.12316/full http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10./nyas.12316/full Specific research on pure consciousness discussed in that paper: Breath Suspension During the Transcendental Meditation Technique http://www.psychosomaticmedicine.org/content/44/2/133.full.pdf Electrophysiologic Characteristics of Respiratory Suspension Periods Occurring During the Practice of the Transcendental Meditation Program http://www.psychosomaticmedicine.org/content/46/3/267.full.pdf Autonomic patterns during respiratory suspensions: Possible markers of Transcendental Consciousness http://www.totalbrain.ch/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/transcendental-consciousness.pdf Correlates of stabilization of pure consciousness, aka Cosmic Consciousenss -the preliminary stage of enlightenment in TM-theory: Psychological http://www.totalbrain.ch/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/eeg-of-enlightenment.pdf http://www.totalbrain.ch/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/eeg-of-enlightenment.pdf physiological http://www.totalbrain.ch/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/brain-integration-progress-report.pdf http://www.totalbrain.ch/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/brain-integration-progress-report.pdf L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, rick@... wrote : I have this idea kicking around in my head to try to interview Sam Harris, or someone like him. An intelligent atheist, as I understand him. I’d want to read all his books first, and then hash out the likely points of discussion with you beforehand. We could do it on FFL. My perspective is very SCI-like – that intelligence is omnipresent, all-pervading, and obvious if one looks closely enough. I’m interviewing a guy named Bernardo Kastrup in a couple of months who has written a book called “Why Materialism is Baloney”, but it would be fun to interview an intelligent materialist, if that’s what Harris is, and see if we could find any common ground. What do you think?
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Historic Meissner-like Effect [ME] of Peace:
Maharishi: “All don't have to meditate. Just some small percentage in society will be enough.”[281] -1968-9 “This was borne out at the end of 1974 when it was found that in cities where the number of meditators had reached one percent the crime rate decreased significantly.” Conversations with Maharishi, Vol I. Vernon Katz, MUM Press 2001 “Expansion of happiness is the purpose of life, and evolution is the process by which it is fulfilled. Life begins in a natural way, it evolves, and happiness expands. The expansion of happiness carries with it the growth of intelligence, power, creativity and everything that may be said to be of significance in life.” -The Science of Being and Art of Living -Maharishi Mahesh Yogi [1963] = = = 12 January 1977 Creating an Ideal Society: . .people currently practicing the Transcendental Meditation technique are constantly intensifying the Maharishi Effect and contributing to the Age of Enlightenment. The dawn is rising to the day. The influence of orderliness generated from the state of infinite correlation experienced during the Transcendental Meditation technique is so powerful that even one per cent of the people in society practicing the Transcendental Meditation technique is sufficient to neutralize negative tendencies and give an evolutionary direction to community life as a whole. The phenomenon of a powerful influence of harmony spreading through a whole community or nation when a small fraction of the population practices the Transcendental Meditation technique is known as the Maharishi Effect [ME]. Considering the [Maharishi] Meissner-like Effect of Increasing Coherence in systems. “Sudden sharp changes from relatively disordered to much more ordered states may be considered 'phase transitions' as described in the physical sciences. For instance, water changes from a less orderly arrangement of molecules in the liquid state to a highly ordered crystalline structure when the temperature is lowered to 0 degree C. Physicists are now beginning to explore the possible applications of phase transition models to sudden sweeping changes in individual and social systems . . Transitions to more orderly configurations are frequently mediated by the influence of a few individuals from within a population. Such effects are observed in developing systems of many sorts. For instance, in the embryo prior to the formation of any organs, a small cluster of cells is known as 'The Primary Organizer'. These few cells determine the developmental fates of the multitude of undifferentiated and unordered cells comprising the rest of the embryo.” Candace Borland, Ph.D., and Garland Landrith III, M.A., 'Improved Quality of City Life Through the Trancendental Meditation Program: Decreased Crime Rate' in Scientific Research on the Transcendental Meditation Program: Collected Papers, Vol. I, eds. David W. Orme-Johnson, Ph.D., and John T. Farrow, Ph.D., West Germany, MERU Press, 1976 As more and more cities rose to one percent of the population practicing Transcendental Meditation, scientific research found that not only did crime decrease, but accidents, sickness, and other negative trends also decreased, and positivity increased. Research scientists named this phenomenon the 'Maharishi Effect' in honor of Maharishi. As early as, “In 1960 Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of the Transcendental Meditation program, predicted that a transition in society toward a more orderly and harmonious functioning would occur when a small fraction -on the order of one percent- of a population practiced the Transcendental Meditation technique (6), and in December 1974 we found that crime rate did decrease in four midwestern U.S. Cities in which one percent of the population was practicing the TM technique.” Candace Borland, Ph.D., and Garland Landrith III, M.A., 'Improved Quality of City Life Through the Trancendental Meditation Program: Decreased Crime Rate' in Scientific Research on the Transcendental Meditation Program: Collected Papers, Vol. I, eds. David W. Orme-Johnson, Ph.D., and John T. Farrow, Ph.D., West Germany, MERU Press, 1976 12 January 1972 Maharishi inaugurated the World Plan to “eliminate the age-old problems of mankind in this generation.” Right from the beginning of his movement, Maharishi predicted that even a small number of the world's population practicing his Transcendental Meditation technique could neutralize the stress being built up in the world consciousness, thus averting conflicts and wars. In 1974 these predictions were validated by scientific studies showing that in cities where one percent of the population learned the transcendental Meditation technique there was a sudden decrease in crime rates. By 1974 more than one million people throughout the world had learned the practice of Transcendental Meditation and were
[FairfieldLife] Re: Ending the Use of Dirty Fuels, Years of Living Dangerously...global warming
People spending more quiet time, spent in spiritual practice, is really the only antidote. We simply must break the materialism of the world now. !Picturing Armageddon! http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-27232523 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-27232523 To really mediate this, we need much better public school education using and teaching all that is scientific towards a more invincible future. Like taking more quiet time employing effective transcending meditation into the educational design of our schools, employing quiet time meditation in to our workplaces, and taking meditation in to our homes and home-life. -Buck We need a revolution in the spiritual outlook of humanity right now. This is about public education. An Entrenched Materialism of our vast human race is the problem at core. The problem is fundamentally spiritual. We Must, End the Use of Dirty Fuels, Now. .. http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-27008352 http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-27008352 The problem is way too beyond just sustainability. We are talking survival. As a species. It is quite time for a change. Radical change. -Buck in the Dome The World Simply Must End the Use of Dirty Fuels, Rampant Materialism, Hyper-Industrial Production and the Over-consumption of the consumer economies of the world at too high a level by too many people to be sustainable is the problem. sharelong60 writes: What does the Syrian war, destruction of Indonesian parks and Texas have in common? The premiere of a new Showtime series, Years of Living Dangerously, unexpectedly on global warming. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brvhCnYvxQQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brvhCnYvxQQ Its 1 hour. . Om Shant . .
[FairfieldLife] Ending the Use of Dirty Fuels, Years of Living Dangerously...global warming
At home, in the workplace, at school. Meditating A third of a day everyday for everyone now. The world would be so much a better place for everyone in so many ways if people everywhere would just stop to take quiet time meditation. People spending more quiet time, spent in effective spiritual practice, is really the only antidote. We simply must break the materialism of the world now. -Buck in the Dome !Picturing Armageddon! http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-27232523 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-27232523 To really mediate this, we need much better public school education using and teaching all that is scientific towards a more invincible future. Like taking more quiet time employing effective transcending meditation into the educational design of our schools, employing quiet time meditation in to our workplaces, and taking meditation in to our homes and home-life. -Buck We need a revolution in the spiritual outlook of humanity right now. This is about public education. An Entrenched Materialism of our vast human race is the problem at core. The problem is fundamentally spiritual. We Must, End the Use of Dirty Fuels, Now. .. http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-27008352 http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-27008352 The problem is way too beyond just sustainability. We are talking survival. As a species. It is quite time for a change. Radical change. -Buck in the Dome The World Simply Must End the Use of Dirty Fuels, Rampant Materialism, Hyper-Industrial Production and the Over-consumption of the consumer economies of the world at too high a level by too many people to be sustainable is the problem. sharelong60 writes: What does the Syrian war, destruction of Indonesian parks and Texas have in common? The premiere of a new Showtime series, Years of Living Dangerously, unexpectedly on global warming. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brvhCnYvxQQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brvhCnYvxQQ Its 1 hour. . Om Shant . .
[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi Effect
Yep, .the findings have been consistent across a large number of replications. As unlikely as the premise may sound, I think we have to take these studies seriously.” Ted Robert Gurr, PhD Emeritus Professor of Government and Politics University of Maryland Permanent Peace: What's the Evidence http://www.permanentpeace.org/evidence/index.html http://www.permanentpeace.org/evidence/index.html Permanent Peace: What's the Evidence http://www.permanentpeace.org/evidence/index.html SUMMARY What’s the Evidence? The fall of the Berlin Wall View on www.permanentpeac... http://www.permanentpeace.org/evidence/index.html Preview by Yahoo
[FairfieldLife] Re: In Transcendentalism,
WE ARE A LIVING EXPRESSION OF the TRANSCENDENT'S PERFECTION. Every individual is a living expression of a perfection of the Unified Field, in wholeness, power, creativity, and joy. We have within us the pattern of perfection and the ability to bring it into manifestation. Today, and every day, have the opportunity to be God the Unified Field manifest in expression. By fully being all who you are, demonstrate the Unified Field Transcendent in our own unique ways. Offer love and kindness, peace and acceptance to others as a saint. Act with honor and integrity and live a joyous and fulfilling life. We are made in the image and likeness of the God Field the Transcendent Unified Field, a living expression of Natural Law here to express, as fully, a divine nature of Being. Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Unified Field incarnate within you, which you have from from the Transcendent?—1 Corinthians 6:19 Jai Gurus Dev. Paraphrasing from Daily Word, -Buck BLESS THIS GLORIOUS PLANET AND ALL THAT LIVE UPON IT. In Genesis we read, “In the beginning, of the Unified Field came the heavens and the earth … Then in vibration the Unified Field Transcendent felt, ‘Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land’ … in Self-referral the Unified Field saw all that it had made in natural law, and it was very good.” Today we express our deep gratitude to the Unified Field Transcendent for this planet and all its glory. To show our appreciation, we take care of our earthly home, start to garden, plant a tree, or pick up garbage around our community, enjoy a walk in nature or meditate at sunrise and at sunset. We bless the Earth by caring for it and respecting its delicate balance, which allows all life to coexist in harmony and flourish in abundance. Jai Guru Dev. Paraphrasing from Daily Word, -Buck I bow my knees before the Field, from whom every family in heaven and on earth takes its name.—Ephesians 3:14-15 REJOICE IN THE UNIFIED FIELD CHRIST TRANSCENDENT WITHIN. This Easter, rejoice in Jesus Christ for demonstrating that no worldly tomb can imprison the living, loving, eternal Unified Field. No matter what the circumstances, the resurrecting power of the Unified Field within restores and uplifts us. Thank you, Jesus Christ, for showing us the way to resurrection. Paraphrasing the Daily Word, -Buck in the Dome I am the resurrection and the life.—John 11:25 Good Friday signifies the day on which Jesus was crucified and laid in the tomb. It symbolizes the process of transformation followed by resurrection. One can see it as a time for Being in the Unified Field transcendent and enter into a higher state of consciousness as we release what no longer serves our spirit. This day we prepare for our own transformation as we enter the Silence of our Meditation. In this sacred space we go beyond anything separating us from that love of the Unified Field. At meditation in the Unified Field Transcendent, we reawaken to spiritual nature and become one with the light and life of that the indwelling Christ. One with the Christ of the Unified Field and our Being. Paraphrasing the Daily Word, -Buck in the Dome Now there was a garden in the place where he was crucified, and in the garden there was a new tomb in which no one had ever been laid.—John 19:41 My soul, be on guard; Ten thousand foes arise; The hosts of sin are pressing hard To draw thee from the skies. Om watch and meditate; The battle ne'er give o'er; Re-new it boldly ev'ry day, And help the Unified Field implore. Om watch and fight and meditate; The battle ne'er give o'er; Re-new it boldly ev'ry day, And help the Unified Field implore. Ne'er think the vic-t'ry won, Nor lay thine armor down; Thy arduous work will not be done Till thou obtain thy crown. Fight on, my soul, Till death shall bring thee home; It'll take thee, At thy parting breath, To merge in the abode of the Unified Field. -Old 1781 George Heath paraphrase When in need of guidance, go directly to the source of wisdom, the Unified Field Transcendent. Close the eyes and go into the Self. Gently release the chatter in the mind, letting thoughts drift away like faint clouds sweeping across a blue sky. Settling into this silent place of peace, find the all-knowing self-referral of the Unified Field. Recognize its wisdom as an inner knowing and feeling of peace in renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the will of the Unified Field -what is good and acceptable and perfect. -Paraphrasing from Daily Word Jai Guru Dev, -Buck Welcome all ye friends of the Transcendent, Welcome to the meditation. Venture wholly on the Unified Field Come and with Its people go. Om, Yet we come in common duty, Down beneath the waves we go; Om the bliss, the heavenly beauty, The Unified Field is experienced so. Om Come,
[FairfieldLife] Sam Harris is a practicing transcending MEDITATOR afterall
Okay, fine, so now you and Sam Harris are atheistic transcendentalists in experience without poetry. And by your own experience, in shorthand, a “substitutor meditator” in spiritual practice, Evidently like Sam Harris. Welcome back, -Buck Curtisdeltablues writes: Buck writes: Yes, evidently Harris is a transcending meditator even as a Buddhist! That is wonderful. -Buck in the Dome Did you see that even CurtisDeltaBlues is a transcending meditator now that way too? It's all the same Unified Field once you get going. C: Although Sam Harris practices a form of meditation that came from the Buddhist traditions he does not self identify himself as a Buddhist. Harris: Given the degree to which religion still inspires human conflict, and impedes genuine inquiry, I believe that merely being a self-described “Buddhist” is to be complicit in the world’s violence and ignorance to an unacceptable degree. - See more at: http://www.samharris.org/site/full_text/killing-the-buddha/#sthash.Hbqbm55C.dpuf http://www.samharris.org/site/full_text/killing-the-buddha/#sthash.Hbqbm55C.dpuf Again Harris; As students of the Buddha, we should dispense with Buddhism. - See more at: http://www.samharris.org/site/full_text/killing-the-buddha/ http://www.samharris.org/site/full_text/killing-the-buddha/ As students of the Buddha, we should dispense with Buddhism. - See more at: http://www.samharris.org/site/full_text/killing-the-buddha/#sthash.Hbqbm55C.dpuf http://www.samharris.org/site/full_text/killing-the-buddha/#sthash.Hbqbm55C.dpuf As students of the Buddha, we should dispense with Buddhism. - See more at: http://www.samharris.org/site/full_text/killing-the-buddha/#sthash.Hbqbm55C.dp http://www.samharris.org/site/full_text/killing-the-buddha/#sthash.Hbqbm55C.dpuf Harris is an enthusiastic supporter of the kill the Buddha if you meet him on the road POV. http://www.samharris.org/site/full_text/killing-the-buddha/#sthash.Hbqbm55C.dpuf As students of the Buddha, we should dispense with Buddhism. - See more at: http://www.samharris.org/site/full_text/killing-the-buddha/#sthash.Hbqbm55C.dpuf http://www.samharris.org/site/full_text/killing-the-buddha/#sthash.Hbqbm55C.dpuf As students of the Buddha, we should dispense with Buddhism. - See more at: http://www.samharris.org/site/full_text/killing-the-buddha/#sthash.Hbqbm55C.dpuf http://www.samharris.org/site/full_text/killing-the-buddha/#sthash.Hbqbm55C.dpufI think there are some useful distinctions to be made in these experiences. Lumping them all together under a banner of physics poetry is unlikely to result in our understanding the differences between these experiences, and I believe those distinctions could be useful. And not in some triumphalist one is better than another, but perhaps people may need different techniques depending on the results they are seeking or even some personal variables that we will never understand if we throw them all together. Plus I believe there is some brain study research that supports the idea that there really are differences between meditations types neurologically. From my limited experience it already seems that there are major differences between the goals of different techniques as well as completely different shaping of the interpretation of the experience and its meaning depending on the belief support system. This may have an as yet unknown effect on the experiences themselves. I am advocating epistemological humbleness as we try to understand ourselves through these different practices without coming to the lab with a set theory about what any of this means. That is a huge difference between our approaches to meditation practices. I am as skeptical of the Buddhist interpretation of meaning as I am the Hindus. I think we can do better with a fresh look outside these presumptions. B: I was reading a discourse recently by Guru Dev and he was urging people to just do it, meditate and it [the transcendence] will become more familiar. It is very beautiful in nature that way. -Buck C: He might have been more experimental in his personal life but in his role as the Hindu Pope he represents the exact opposite of the perspective I am seeking on this topic.But perhaps you can refer to me as a 'substituter rather than a quitter from now on. I appreciate your open mindedness I really do. sharelong60 writes: Richard, sense of self vanishing and having greater well being sounds like what happens during TM! On Thursday, May 1, 2014 7:10 PM, Richard J. Williams punditster@... wrote: On 5/1/2014 3:26 PM, curtisdeltablues@... wrote: Any tips or insights, especially since you have a TM history and might know the issues TMers might have would be welcome. According to Harris, by paying close attention to moment-to-moment conscious experience, it is possible to make our sense of self vanish and thereby uncover a new state of personal
[FairfieldLife] CDB's and Sam Harris are practicing transcending MEDITATORs afterall
It is wonderful that you are meditating again. -Buck CurtisDeltaBlues [CDB] writes: I've been doing a mindfulness meditation the last month. I think I finally figured it out and how to do it in place of TM. Before the TM machine would just start up, but that is not happening now and the experience is distinctly different. I have noticed a lot of differences in how it makes me feel in activity from TM. In particular I am very pleased with the no coming out quality, even though the inner experience is as much of a shift of state in another way from what TM is. I'll keep at it as I find it very enjoyable in itself and it has not lead to any dissociation with my feelings in the way that TM seems to create. I have gone through a couple of cycles of doing TM and dropping it in the last few years due to not liking where it takes me. I'm glad I was able to figure out the differences so I can enjoy this as a new practice. i have purposely stayed away from reading much about it except to get a start with the practice. I am enjoying a practice without much of a model to shape it. I have a vague sense that I am becoming more aware of what right now means as a place to live my life from. That is about it. Probably too early to tell how I will feel about this meditation in a few months, but so far so good. I've been practicing 10 minutes with eyes closed and 5 with eyes open which is a contrast to my TM practice. It is engaging my mind MORE in the world, more awareness both during and after. It is distinctly different in orientation but just as pleasant as a version of gourmet consciousness. I always loved the experience of TM too, just not all the side effects. I don't really know how it will all turn out as we learn more about these practices from neuroscience, which one is better for me or not. I just know that I am all TMed up and am enjoying another approach to a state of mind to improve my mental orientation. I think it is worth a try to groove this in for a while to gain some of the benefits unique to this kind of practice. Any tips or insights, especially since you have a TM history and might know the issues TMers might have would be welcome. -CDB https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/382236 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/382236 Okay, fine, so now you and Sam Harris are atheistic transcendentalists in experience without poetry. And by your own experience, in shorthand, a “substitutor meditator” in spiritual practice, Evidently like Sam Harris. Welcome back, -Buck Curtisdeltablues writes: Buck writes: Yes, evidently Harris is a transcending meditator even as a Buddhist! That is wonderful. -Buck in the Dome Did you see that even CurtisDeltaBlues is a transcending meditator now that way too? It's all the same Unified Field once you get going. C: Although Sam Harris practices a form of meditation that came from the Buddhist traditions he does not self identify himself as a Buddhist. Harris: Given the degree to which religion still inspires human conflict, and impedes genuine inquiry, I believe that merely being a self-described “Buddhist” is to be complicit in the world’s violence and ignorance to an unacceptable degree. - See more at: http://www.samharris.org/site/full_text/killing-the-buddha/#sthash.Hbqbm55C.dpuf http://www.samharris.org/site/full_text/killing-the-buddha/#sthash.Hbqbm55C.dpuf Again Harris; As students of the Buddha, we should dispense with Buddhism. - See more at: http://www.samharris.org/site/full_text/killing-the-buddha/ http://www.samharris.org/site/full_text/killing-the-buddha/ As students of the Buddha, we should dispense with Buddhism. - See more at: http://www.samharris.org/site/full_text/killing-the-buddha/#sthash.Hbqbm55C.dpuf http://www.samharris.org/site/full_text/killing-the-buddha/#sthash.Hbqbm55C.dpuf As students of the Buddha, we should dispense with Buddhism. - See more at: http://www.samharris.org/site/full_text/killing-the-buddha/#sthash.Hbqbm55C.dp http://www.samharris.org/site/full_text/killing-the-buddha/#sthash.Hbqbm55C.dpuf Harris is an enthusiastic supporter of the kill the Buddha if you meet him on the road POV. http://www.samharris.org/site/full_text/killing-the-buddha/#sthash.Hbqbm55C.dpuf As students of the Buddha, we should dispense with Buddhism. - See more at: http://www.samharris.org/site/full_text/killing-the-buddha/#sthash.Hbqbm55C.dpuf http://www.samharris.org/site/full_text/killing-the-buddha/#sthash.Hbqbm55C.dpuf As students of the Buddha, we should dispense with Buddhism. - See more at: http://www.samharris.org/site/full_text/killing-the-buddha/#sthash.Hbqbm55C.dpuf http://www.samharris.org/site/full_text/killing-the-buddha/#sthash.Hbqbm55C.dpufI think there are some useful distinctions to be made in these experiences. Lumping them all together under a banner of
[FairfieldLife] CDB and Sam Harris are practicing transcending MEDITATORs afterall
Om.. Promoting Petulance and Suffering? That would be shear and incredible ignorance and vile on your part. It's just bad science, bad spirituality and bad behavior. Even with all your fancy philosophy you clearly don't understand what you are saying. Don't play with Mother Nature, as the saying goes. -Buck in the Dome Turquoiseb writes: Curtisdeltablues writes: Buck writes: It is wonderful that you are meditating again. C: Glad you approve Buck. I am hopeful that you will be equally supportive of my new practice of doing sunyama on the phrase world petulance, suffering and war for a few minutes after each meditation. I am thinking of forming a group so we can all do this together. Tb: I am even more proactive, and am collecting funds to sponsor a yagya promoting world petulance, suffering and war. I'm sure Buck will want to participate, just as he felt others here at FFL would want to participate in his. :-) Okay, fine, so now you and Sam Harris are atheistic transcendentalists in experience without poetry. And by your own experience, in shorthand, a “substitutor meditator” in spiritual practice, Evidently like Sam Harris. Welcome back, -Buck Curtisdeltablues writes: Buck writes: Yes, evidently Harris is a transcending meditator even as a Buddhist! That is wonderful. -Buck in the Dome Did you see that even CurtisDeltaBlues is a transcending meditator now that way too? It's all the same Unified Field once you get going. C: Although Sam Harris practices a form of meditation that came from the Buddhist traditions he does not self identify himself as a Buddhist. CurtisDeltaBlues [CDB] writes: I've been doing a mindfulness meditation the last month. I think I finally figured it out and how to do it in place of TM. Before the TM machine would just start up, but that is not happening now and the experience is distinctly different. I have noticed a lot of differences in how it makes me feel in activity from TM. In particular I am very pleased with the no coming out quality, even though the inner experience is as much of a shift of state in another way from what TM is. I'll keep at it as I find it very enjoyable in itself and it has not lead to any dissociation with my feelings in the way that TM seems to create. I have gone through a couple of cycles of doing TM and dropping it in the last few years due to not liking where it takes me. I'm glad I was able to figure out the differences so I can enjoy this as a new practice. i have purposely stayed away from reading much about it except to get a start with the practice. I am enjoying a practice without much of a model to shape it. I have a vague sense that I am becoming more aware of what right now means as a place to live my life from. That is about it. Probably too early to tell how I will feel about this meditation in a few months, but so far so good. I've been practicing 10 minutes with eyes closed and 5 with eyes open which is a contrast to my TM practice. It is engaging my mind MORE in the world, more awareness both during and after. It is distinctly different in orientation but just as pleasant as a version of gourmet consciousness. I always loved the experience of TM too, just not all the side effects. I don't really know how it will all turn out as we learn more about these practices from neuroscience, which one is better for me or not. I just know that I am all TMed up and am enjoying another approach to a state of mind to improve my mental orientation. I think it is worth a try to groove this in for a while to gain some of the benefits unique to this kind of practice. Any tips or insights, especially since you have a TM history and might know the issues TMers might have would be welcome. -CDB https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/382236 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/382236
[FairfieldLife] Re: Lurking and Searching FairfieldLife on Yahoo [ FFL ]
The old FFL index still sort of works with Neo. Yahoo- groups truncates now-adays at 64K but this link to the old index seems in tack still. https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/352508 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/352508 As Authfriend points out, You can right click over links and open in a new tab and still come back to the index without losing your place. One workaround is if you find a message you want to read on the list of search hits, instead of left-clicking on the link to the message to open it directly, right-click on it, then click Open in New Tab (this is in Windows 7 using Chrome; not sure if there's a Mac equivalent, but as I recall IE had a similar option). Read the message in the new tab, and close or save it or whatever when you're done. You'll then be back in the list you were perusing and still be where you were instead of being thrown back to the beginning. Within 'messages' on the FFL page I find typing in a word to search in to the box at the top of the page starts something as a search. Then that gets you the opportunity for, “advanced search” that comes with the results of the first search. Once you get going that can narrow down. But each time it kicks you back out to square one. Neo is quite miserable. Any other suggestions to lurkers to help with searches? -Buck
[FairfieldLife] An Index to FFL
The old FFL index still sort of works with Neo. Yahoo- groups truncates now-adays at 64K but this link seems in tack still. https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/352508 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/352508 Right click over links and open in a new tab and come back to the index without losing your place.
[FairfieldLife] But are they Really Educated? and Prepared Spiritually?
But did they learn to meditate? Did they learn an effective transcending meditation while they were in school? -U.S. Buck in the Dome Only 13% of “pre-boomers” 25- to 32-year-olds in 1965 had a college degree; of the “early” boomers who were age 25 to 32 in 1979, 24% held college degrees. Baby boomers were more highly educated than any previous generation. Millennials – those age 25 to 32 now– are the most highly educated generation in American history: 34% have at least a bachelor’s degree. -Pew Research
[FairfieldLife] Re: But are they Really Educated? and Prepared Spiritually?
Millennial, but hardly Millenarian by most any measure 'cept for some indigos coming through. Transcending Meditation skipped almost an entire generation and set the dawn way back. It is stunning to see the materialism and shear spiritual ignorance of the less than 40 year olds out in the world. Poor upbringings, they are not better than their parents and elders. Millennials are today, 25-to-32 years old. This evident lack of spiritual practice in this generation needs to be corrected our Generation X coming along. Fast. Science should guide public policy on this, -Buck But did they learn to meditate? Did they learn an effective transcending meditation while they were in school? -U.S. Buck in the Dome Only 13% of “pre-boomers” 25- to 32-year-olds in 1965 had a college degree; of the “early” boomers who were age 25 to 32 in 1979, 24% held college degrees. Baby boomers were more highly educated than any previous generation. Millennials – those age 25 to 32 now– are the most highly educated generation in American history: 34% have at least a bachelor’s degree. -Pew Research
[FairfieldLife] The Spiritual Blessings of Natural Law
Forward: I am sponsoring this yagna for our family …. Thursday, May 1Akshaya Tritiya – Day of Lasting Achievements 1 pm Lakshmi Kubera homa, Sarva Devata Gayatri Homa The word Akshaya literally means one that never diminishes, and the day is believed to bring good luck and success. It represents eternal prosperity for any new beginnings made or valuables bought on this day. Laskhmi Kubera homam bestows a person to multiply the income in different ways. In addition, one can be able to reduce the negative effects of planets in a horoscope. Another advantage is that it shows ways for eliminating the karmic problems to ensure progress levels in life. Sarva Devata Gayatri Homa: This homa invokes all the gods and is performed to overcome obstacles, conquer hurdles, and prevent legal problems. Other benefits of this powerful homa include: wealth, health, prosperity, protection, marital harmony, good education and spiritual knowledge, healthy children, peace, and enlightenment. Donation/Sponsorship$31/individual $41/family Friday, May 2 Akshaya Tritiya – Day of Lasting Achievements ( The celebration continues…..) 7pm Lakshmi Narayan Puja Lakshmi Narayan Puja is performed for prosperity, material abundance, and spiritual prosperity and to remove troubles that prevent us from starting a spiritual path or business. Lord Vishnu known as Narayan and Lakshmi is the divine spouse of Lord Vishnu. Lakshmi is the Hindu Goddess of good fortune and beauty and is known as the Goddess of wealth and prosperity. If you need help with finances, job and success, it is said that Lakshmi can deliver fortune into devotee's life. Donation/Sponsorship $21/individual 31/family Saturday, May 3Sri Adi Sankara Jayanti - Adi Shankaracharaya Birthday 7 pm Adi Shankaracharya Puja Sri Adi Shankaracharya is considered an incarnation of Shiva and the world's greatest Guru (Jagathguru). He purified Vedic knowledge by teaching discernment and he instituted the worship of deities as worshipping different forms of the one God. About 2500 years ago when the people were not living in accord with their inherent spirituality, all the gods and rishis went to Kailash and pleaded with Lord Shiva to revive the world. Lord Shiva agreed to their request and informed them that he would be born into this world. Adi Shankaracharya was born to the Nambudri Brahmin couple, Shivaguru and Aryamba, in a little village, called Kaladi, in Kerala. The couple had remained childless for a long time and prayed for children. Shiva is said to have appeared to the couple in a dream and promised them a choice of one son who would be short-lived, but the most brilliant philosopher of his day, or many sons who would be mediocre at best. The couple opted for a brilliant, but short-lived son, and thereby Shankara was born. All temple events are always free and everyone is welcome to attend. However if you would like to personally sponsor, please let us know ahead of time - by phone or email. You do not have to be present at the temple to sponsor. Donations can also be made online thru PAYPAL (www.paypal.com http://www.paypal.com/). Our account name is srideviman...@yahoo.com mailto:srideviman...@yahoo.com. Your donations of fruit, flowers, ghee, milk, yogurt, incense, etc. are always appreciated. We look forward to seeing you at the temple and appreciate your ongoing support. Namaste, Sri Devi Mandir 800 W. Burlington, Fairfield, IA (641) 469-6041
[FairfieldLife] Harris is a practicing transcending MEDITATOR afterall
Yes, evidently Harris is a transcending meditator even as a Buddhist! That is wonderful. -Buck in the Dome Did you see that even CurtisDeltaBlues is a transcending meditator now that way too? It's all the same Unified Field once you get going. I was reading a discourse recently by Guru Dev and he was urging people to just do it, meditate and it [the transcendence] will become more familiar. It is very beautiful in nature that way. -Buck sharelong60 writes: Richard, sense of self vanishing and having greater well being sounds like what happens during TM! On Thursday, May 1, 2014 7:10 PM, Richard J. Williams punditster@... wrote: On 5/1/2014 3:26 PM, curtisdeltablues@... wrote: Any tips or insights, especially since you have a TM history and might know the issues TMers might have would be welcome. According to Harris, by paying close attention to moment-to-moment conscious experience, it is possible to make our sense of self vanish and thereby uncover a new state of personal well-being. 'The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason' by SamHarris W.W. Norton Company, 2004 p. 214 --
[FairfieldLife] Re: Heaven on Earth for all Humankind
And then the accelerating problem; the aggregating farm monopolies bull-dozing farmsteads that once housed livestock. .. Bull-dozing of the mixed farms, farms consolidated and dozed down, just to get a few more acres to grow more gasohol for cars. Yesterday I drove by a farm north of Fairfield, Iowa a ways out on the Pleasant Plain road where they were taking down a farm's field fence, out with dozers rolling up rods of good field fence just to be able to plow up to the road edge and plant more gasohol. Livestock gone. We are witnessing the end of an epoch. With the demise and succession of the WWII generation farmer of 360 acre farms and the consolidation to 720acres and 1080acre farms to 3, 4, 7,16,000 acre holdings comes the end of very many humans being much close at all to any animal husbandry with large mammals anymore. You can see this now compared even to five and ten years ago at the County level and State Fairs. There are not nearly any animal projects now with the end of mixed agricultural family farming and the collapse of those farmsteads out on the landscape. Farm operation is all going to growing gasohol and corporate animal feeding. It is really quite stunning to see the collapse of diversified agriculture in such a short period of time. Care-taking large animals has always been an important practical and spiritual schooling in humanity, a laboratory cultivating in skill sets towards being a good human being. It just does not work well with animals unless you are a good person. Taking care of animals is always an exercise in humanity. Any effective leader of humanity in history it seems characteristically was once a care-taker of large animals, a sheep or goat herder child, herdsmen with cows, bullocks, horses, elephants. Just using a buggy horse to drive the long district court circuit like an Abraham Lincoln. With equines, like a Grant, Churchill, Marshall, Pershing, Patton, Truman, Eisenhower, Reagan each. ...practiced at being good at being a good human being in skill sets taking care of animals in nature. That has mostly come to and end. Inside of 50 years this is a huge change in the relationship of humans with large nature. Now great leadership is only incubated and left to come out of what? Internet and social media forums, social -science, law and business schools, and some on-the-job or interning experience. May the Unified Field Transcendent help us. I hope always that city people will support small farming and people who raise livestock on their own independent of the corporations. The opening of America to small farms and the opportunity for ownership was always what made America what it was. In the last few years with this aggregation taking place in large corporate agriculture and land-holding consolidation that has ended. May the Unified Field Transcendent God save the country, -Buck Authfriend writes: Those sure are some gorgeous Jerseys they've got. They make the huge hulking Holsteins that supply supermarket milk look like ungainly monsters. (Not the Holsteins' fault; they were bred that way to give as much milk as possible. But it isn't anywhere as good as milk from Jerseys.) A beautiful key to creating Heaven on Earth for all mankind, the proper treatment of the cows http://www.universalfields.org/index.html http://www.universalfields.org/index.html Jai Jai Jai Jai Jai Maharishi-ji!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count Fri 02-May-14 00:15:08 UTC
So, how many of these 29 posters on FFL are regular practitioners of a transcending meditation? Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): 04/26/14 00:00:00 End Date (UTC): 05/03/14 00:00:00 534 messages as of (UTC) 05/02/14 00:10:25 65 Richard J. Williams 65 Michael Jackson 51 nablusoss1008 47 dhamiltony2k5 40 Bhairitu 29 salyavin808 29 TurquoiseBee 27 authfriend 23 awoelflebater 23 Share Long 21 LEnglish5 14 Mike Dixon 13 steve.sundur 13 jr_esq 12 Rick Archer 10 merudanda 10 curtisdeltablues 7 jedi_spock 7 j_alexander_stanley 7 cardemaister 5 Duveyoung 4 srijau 4 Pundit Sir 3 s3raphita 1 yifuxero 1 ultrarishi 1 azgrey 1 FairfieldLife 1 Dick Mays Posters: 29 Saturday Morning 00:00 UTC Rollover Times = Daylight Saving Time (Summer): US Friday evening: PDT 5 PM - MDT 6 PM - CDT 7 PM - EDT 8 PM Europe Saturday: BST 1 AM CEST 2 AM EEST 3 AM Standard Time (Winter): US Friday evening: PST 4 PM - MST 5 PM - CST 6 PM - EST 7 PM Europe Saturday: GMT 12 AM CET 1 AM EET 2 AM For more information on Time Zones: www.worldtimezone.com
[FairfieldLife] Re: Harris is a practicing transcending MEDITATOR afterall
Katha Upanishad: “The Self is without sound, without touch and without form…You will know the Self when your senses are still, your mind is at peace, and your heart is pure.” What a great historical quote, I don't even have to fix it so it can be read comfortably by the modern secular mind. -Buck: Yes, evidently Harris is a transcending meditator even as a Buddhist! That is wonderful. -Buck in the Dome Did you see that even CurtisDeltaBlues is a transcending meditator now that way too? It's all the same Unified Field once you get going. I was reading a discourse recently by Guru Dev, Maharishi's master and he was urging people to just do it, meditate and it [the transcendence] will become more familiar. It is very beautiful in nature that way. -Buck sharelong60 writes: Richard, sense of self vanishing and having greater well being sounds like what happens during TM! On Thursday, May 1, 2014 7:10 PM, Richard J. Williams punditster@... wrote: On 5/1/2014 3:26 PM, curtisdeltablues@... wrote: Any tips or insights, especially since you have a TM history and might know the issues TMers might have would be welcome. According to Harris, by paying close attention to moment-to-moment conscious experience, it is possible to make our sense of self vanish and thereby uncover a new state of personal well-being. 'The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason' by SamHarris W.W. Norton Company, 2004 p. 214 --
[FairfieldLife] Re: Veda, Vedic Cities.. . ..Living the Golden Age!
Vedic-Capitalism, raise capital in the West and move it to accounts in India. Properly so; “The study of the Vedic Literature is of no value without the perspective of Maharishi Mahesha Yogi's Dharma. Certainly there is no need for Maharishi Mahesha Yogi, the greatest RIshi, to be in any way, validated or justified by any tradition or text, rather it is the tradition or text that can only be made properly understood through understanding by Maharishi's perspective including the sound value of the Vedic literature, and the reading of Veda in Sanskirt for the development of consciousness.” -srijau@... https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/381392 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/381392 IN THE NAME OF VEDA CONTEMPORARY USES OF VEDIC TEXTS IN INDIA AND ABROAD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE PARIS 14-15 MAY 2014 ORGANIZATION Caterina Guenzi (EHESS) and Raphaël VOIX (CNRS) Composed between the fifteenth and the fifth century BCE, the Vedas - literally Knowledge - are a Sanskrit corpus considered by most Hindus as a non-human revelation, and whose transmission has for centuries been reserved to a socio-religious elite, the Brahmins. Throughout brahmanic literature the authority of the Vedas is recognized as supreme. In the nineteenth century, as part of the construction of an Indian national identity during the colonial period, some reform movements transformed them into the reference texts for a Hinduism conceived of as a unitary religion. They also read and interpreted the Vedas as a religion that, unlike Christianity, contained truths compatible with the achievements of modern science. Although the content of the Vedas focuses mainly on the celebration of sacrifice, nowadays we witness a proliferation of texts and discourses which put references to the Vedas into play in the most diverse areas. The attribution of the term “Vedic” is now used to legitimate all sorts of knowledge and practices. Thus, we hear of “Vedic architecture”, “Vedic astrology”, “Vedic ecology”, “Vedic mathematics”, “Ayur-Veda” (Vedic medicine), “Vedic socialism and communism”, and even “Vedic management”. The visibility of these phenomena increased with recent attempts by Hindu nationalists, when they were in power, to introduce these new fields into school and university systems, both in India and abroad. This political operation raised significant ideological issues and led to a huge controversy about the legitimacy of these different fields. Despite their visibility, both in India and Anglo-Saxon countries, and despite the controversies that they generated, these discourses and practices have received only marginal attention from the social sciences, and have moreover never been the topic of a study where they are considered jointly. This international conference aims to bridge this gap by bringing together ethnologists who have observed the birth and dissemination of these phenomena in their field studies. The participation of historians and Sanskrit scholars will help us to put the historical dimension of these events into perspective, while specialists of other cultural arenas, who face similar phenomena of appeal to texts, will shed light on the regional specificity of these observed social facts. During the conference, the primary task will be to understand the scope of these phenomena, by examining the social identity of the actors involved: which groups or individuals contribute to the production of these new forms of knowledge? To whom are they addressed? Who are the intermediaries involved in the propagation of these ideas? Which groups contest the legitimacy of these discourses? In particular, we shall attempt to understand how these groups organize themselves institutionally (sects, associations, university); their political, religious and associative networks; as well as their relationship with figures in the Hindu nationalist movement. The sociological investigation of these figures shall necessarily take into consideration the role of Indian diaspora and its transnational networks. Central to our investigation is a focus on the content of these “new” forms of knowledge, and the legitimation strategies that go along with them. Although it takes particular forms in the modern world, referencing the Vedas is actually an ancient way to affirm the validity of knowledge . How are contemporary ways of referring to the Vedas as a legitimating authority different from ancient ways? In what ways does the attribution “Vedic” help to legitimate particular ways of knowing? This will lead us to question the role of textual authority in contemporary Hinduism and its uses as a way of forging new religious identities. If modern science as epistemological authority was amply used by Hindu reformers during colonial times to prove the
[FairfieldLife] Re: Veda, Vedic Cities.. . ..Living the Golden Age!
Vedic Cows: http://www.universalfields.org/index.html http://www.universalfields.org/index.html Vedic-Capitalism, Raise altruistic capital in the West and move it to accounts in India. Properly so; “The study of the Vedic Literature is of no value without the perspective of Maharishi Mahesha Yogi's Dharma. Certainly there is no need for Maharishi Mahesha Yogi, the greatest RIshi, to be in any way, validated or justified by any tradition or text, rather it is the tradition or text that can only be made properly understood through understanding by Maharishi's perspective including the sound value of the Vedic literature, and the reading of Veda in Sanskirt for the development of consciousness.” -srijau@... https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/381392 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/381392 IN THE NAME OF VEDA CONTEMPORARY USES OF VEDIC TEXTS IN INDIA AND ABROAD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE PARIS 14-15 MAY 2014 ORGANIZATION Caterina Guenzi (EHESS) and Raphaël VOIX (CNRS) Composed between the fifteenth and the fifth century BCE, the Vedas - literally Knowledge - are a Sanskrit corpus considered by most Hindus as a non-human revelation, and whose transmission has for centuries been reserved to a socio-religious elite, the Brahmins. Throughout brahmanic literature the authority of the Vedas is recognized as supreme. In the nineteenth century, as part of the construction of an Indian national identity during the colonial period, some reform movements transformed them into the reference texts for a Hinduism conceived of as a unitary religion. They also read and interpreted the Vedas as a religion that, unlike Christianity, contained truths compatible with the achievements of modern science. Although the content of the Vedas focuses mainly on the celebration of sacrifice, nowadays we witness a proliferation of texts and discourses which put references to the Vedas into play in the most diverse areas. The attribution of the term “Vedic” is now used to legitimate all sorts of knowledge and practices. Thus, we hear of “Vedic architecture”, “Vedic astrology”, “Vedic ecology”, “Vedic mathematics”, “Ayur-Veda” (Vedic medicine), “Vedic socialism and communism”, and even “Vedic management”. The visibility of these phenomena increased with recent attempts by Hindu nationalists, when they were in power, to introduce these new fields into school and university systems, both in India and abroad. This political operation raised significant ideological issues and led to a huge controversy about the legitimacy of these different fields. Despite their visibility, both in India and Anglo-Saxon countries, and despite the controversies that they generated, these discourses and practices have received only marginal attention from the social sciences, and have moreover never been the topic of a study where they are considered jointly. This international conference aims to bridge this gap by bringing together ethnologists who have observed the birth and dissemination of these phenomena in their field studies. The participation of historians and Sanskrit scholars will help us to put the historical dimension of these events into perspective, while specialists of other cultural arenas, who face similar phenomena of appeal to texts, will shed light on the regional specificity of these observed social facts. During the conference, the primary task will be to understand the scope of these phenomena, by examining the social identity of the actors involved: which groups or individuals contribute to the production of these new forms of knowledge? To whom are they addressed? Who are the intermediaries involved in the propagation of these ideas? Which groups contest the legitimacy of these discourses? In particular, we shall attempt to understand how these groups organize themselves institutionally (sects, associations, university); their political, religious and associative networks; as well as their relationship with figures in the Hindu nationalist movement. The sociological investigation of these figures shall necessarily take into consideration the role of Indian diaspora and its transnational networks. Central to our investigation is a focus on the content of these “new” forms of knowledge, and the legitimation strategies that go along with them. Although it takes particular forms in the modern world, referencing the Vedas is actually an ancient way to affirm the validity of knowledge . How are contemporary ways of referring to the Vedas as a legitimating authority different from ancient ways? In what ways does the attribution “Vedic” help to legitimate particular ways of knowing? This will lead us to question the role of textual authority in contemporary Hinduism and its uses as a way of forging new religious identities.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi interview excerpts
..the revolution of millenarianism it was, -Buck in the Dome Definition of MILLENARIANISM 2. .. belief in a coming ideal society and especially one created by revolutionary action. Also see discussion of TM and Millenarianism: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/369282 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/369282 Nablusoss1008 writes: I've sat in on a few of these interviews and must say I agree. Some of them were totally hilarious because no matter how negative the journalist was Maharishi would turn it into a happy event. It was astounding to watch how he was able turn even the most sour of souls around into a happy face. I love that the guy Maharishi had such spirit and pluck. This interview with him The Man is really fun to read through. It captures the spark and light of the guy. Thanks, I liked reading it and hearing again his voice and humor in that. He was amazingly on, patient, and consistent throughout his whole travels with this. Reading this is like watching the benevolent revolutionary in control of things. He could certainly play it like a fiddle. What a fun time in the revolution of millenarianism it was, -Buck in the Dome dickmays forwards: REPORTER: You're not doing much to disabuse me of the notion that you're just a P.T. Barnum of the psychic set. MAHARISHI: What does this mean? REPORTER: That you're a natural salesman. MAHARISHI: Very right. I think I have something salable. REPORTER: What are you selling? MAHARISHI: Natural law and the simplest level of consciousness where everything is spontaneously supported by nature. If people buy this product, they're better off. * * * * * * * REPORTER: Why don't you raise money and distribute it to needy people? Would this not be a more effective way to bring about change? MAHARISHI: No, no, it's not the money that can make one happy. REPORTER: How can Third World people think about their consciousness when they're hungry? MAHARISHI: By using that hardware of the cosmic computer, if they use their brain properly -- this is the Technology of the Unified Field -- the infinity of nature will make them capable of not only earning their ordinary bread but very first-class bread. * * * * * * * REPORTER: What do you think about the arms race and nuclear war? MAHARISHI: Arms race will not be the cause of nuclear war. Stress will be the cause of nuclear war. Stress is the greatest enemy of life, and that we can eliminate completely. * * * * * * * REPORTER: You have written that by meditating, man brings out his own sense of divinity in himself. MAHARISHI: Right, we can talk divinity. REPORTER: What about someone like Hitler. If he had meditated? MAHARISHI: He would have been more positive. REPORTER: You really think you can change people's natures by meditating? MAHARISHI: The world is already a changed situation. One would not know what would have happened between the power blocs if Transcendental Meditation was not raising the consciousness of the world. * * * * * * * REPORTER: What do you do for play? MAHARISHI: The whole life is play. REPORTER: What do you do for amusement? MAHARISHI: Oh, this is great amusement when I talk about the unified field, laws of nature, when I hear so many people are starting the courses. I am doing two things. One, creating a softness in world consciousness. Second, training leadership. * * * * * * * REPORTER: Is what you are doing a game? MAHARISHI: It's a game. REPORTER: Do you ever sit back and say, 'I've been playing this game for 25 years. I'm a millionaire. Gee, I'm a good player?' MAHARISHI: I don't play in the past. I always play in the present for a good future. * * * * * * * REPORTER: Do you want to take over the world? MAHARISHI: I have taken over already! REPORTER: How do you expect people to take you seriously? MAHARISHI: I don't because that is damage to my own message. Serious means under stress. REPORTER: You don't think that you're just pulling off a beautiful job of fooling people? MAHARISHI: Those people who don't know better are always fools, but they will become better thinkers, better knowers with this message. REPORTER: Are you a snake-oil salesman? MAHARISHI: What is a snake oil? REPORTER: A panacea. Something that will solve all the ills of the world. MAHARISHI: Then this is it! * * * * * * * REPORTER: If we sent in an outside person not connected with you to take pictures [of Yogic Flying]? MAHARISHI: No one is not connected with me. REPORTER: Where did you get your modesty? MAHARISHI: It's simplicity. * * * * * * * REPORTER: Do people create when they're sitting around feeling happiness bubble up? How do you explain geniuses like Dostoevski who lived a miserable life and created very much? MAHARISHI: He could have created much more if the environment was less stressed. REPORTER: But he wrote about stress. He would have had nothing to write
[FairfieldLife] Re: Ending the Use of Dirty Fuels, Years of Living Dangerously...global warming
!Pictures of Armageddon! http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-27232523 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-27232523 To really mediate this, we need much better public school education using and teaching all that is scientific towards a more invincible future. Like taking more quiet time employing effective transcending meditation into the educational design of our schools, employing quiet time meditation in to our workplaces, and taking meditation in to our homes and home-life. -Buck We need a revolution in the spiritual outlook of humanity right now. This is about public education. An Entrenched Materialism of our vast human race is the problem at core. The problem is fundamentally spiritual. We Must, End the Use of Dirty Fuels, Now. .. http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-27008352 http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-27008352 The problem is way too beyond just sustainability. We are talking survival. As a species. It is quite time for a change. Radical change. -Buck in the Dome The World Simply Must End the Use of Dirty Fuels, Rampant Materialism, Hyper-Industrial Production and the Over-consumption of the consumer economies of the world at too high a level by too many people to be sustainable is the problem. sharelong60 writes: What does the Syrian war, destruction of Indonesian parks and Texas have in common? The premiere of a new Showtime series, Years of Living Dangerously, unexpectedly on global warming. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brvhCnYvxQQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brvhCnYvxQQ Its 1 hour. . Om Shant . .
[FairfieldLife] Re: Human Spirituality and Collapse of the Wave Function
As this documentary tells, there evidently is some lot of spiritual cultivation going on and even becoming more frequent as the internet shares, connects and reveals this phenomena world-wide. There is a community of folks who live in Fairfield proficient in doing this. In its way this is also where the Fairfield meditating community has gone on to. There frankly is a lot of evident spiritual voltage in the community of the people of this place. This documentary is a good overview of that, -Buck Yep; this is really a Brilliant presentation of all that is modern in the world. Now we are getting to the apex of Knowledge in the world. Is a Powerfully present model of spirituality and spiritual progress ultimately being in the refinement of bio-consciousness in the human body-mind complex. 100Mv or more, should be the battle cry of the forces of illumination over the dullness of egnorance! May the Force of the Unified Field be with You! !Power to the People with more science education and meditation and spirituality everywhere! -Buck in the Dome Dear FFL, Let's change the original subject heading of this thread. Yogic flying seems way too inflammatory and distracting to have in a discussion like this. To be helpful to the larger subject I am going to drop the 'YF' from the subject line on this thread. This thread deserves to be much more than that. Heck, both Patanjali and our own Guru Dev Brahmananda Saraswati themselves dissuaded people from pursuing sidhis. !OMG-the-Unified Field! Bio-consciousness, and the human body voltage of the heart in the soularplex of human spirituality. The opening Conspiracy theory aside and and also the announcer- documentary voice tone with tension of the music score of the video aside, what a fabulous Sunday morning video to watch. The straight ahead fusion of science-based-evidence, theory and spirituality experience will certainly drive the FFL meditation and spirituality haters here nuts. But the subject title of this thread is not encompassing enough. This is way more than YF as the video presents It. TM and patanjali in the TM-sidhis are certainly good introductions but as this video argues in presentation, they are only the start. I should like to hear, Maharaja Adhiraj Rajaraam elaborate and elucidate more on this the next time he is visiting us in Fairfield. -Buck Cardemaister Offers: Mind Science Kept Hidden Documentary.WE ARE VIBRATIONAL BEINGS.Law of attraction/vibes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjpCKZ7cEoYlist=FLJq4dWKwstYaCOzEgEWZU-A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjpCKZ7cEoYlist=FLJq4dWKwstYaCOzEgEWZU-A Mind Science Kept Hidden Documentary.WE ARE VI... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjpCKZ7cEoYlist=FLJq4dWKwstYaCOzEgEWZU-A TAKE YOU POWER BACK AND BE IN CONTROL OF AND CREATE YOUR LIFE! LINKS UPDATES! (^_^)/ as of April 2014 effective and simple! ALL THE INFO B... View on youtube.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjpCKZ7cEoYlist=FLJq4dWKwstYaCOzEgEWZU-A Preview by Yahoo
RE: [FairfieldLife] Questions for Rick
Yes, very fairly answered. Rick represents a lot of the FF meditating community in those answers. You missed important TM questions though like, when and where initiated, who was your initiator, which TTC, when and where did you learn the TM-Sidhis, which courses with Maharishi did you attend? When and where were you on Purusha? Special courses or projects? Carry the skin? Carry money? You also forgot to ask him about his Mother's maiden name and the last four digits of his SS#. Enquiring Minds Want Illumination and to Know, It All, -Buck in the Dome Duveyoung writes: Thanks for the answers, Rick. Some surprised me. Ya done some good. Edg Ya done some good. Edg ultrarishi writes: Sorry to learn about the crap John Black had to go through before becoming a raja. I did program at the Palo Alto TM center back in the mid 80's to early 90's before moving away from the Bay Area. I always found John to be extremely hard working and dedicated to the TM cause. That center was on lean times for years and by shear force of will and some mediocre support from others in the area he kept Palo Alto going.
[FairfieldLife] Rick Archer and Waking Down in Public -Sunday, May 11, 7:30-9 p.m.
Om, do the Waking Down people support going to be with the group meditation in the Domes? What is their position relative to the community Dome meditation? I am not sure I even want a 1 dollar donation to go to Waking Down of Fairfield if they are not in support of the larger group meditation, -Buck Rick Archer writes: Something Fax Gilbert and I are going to do. Buddha at the Gas Pump (BATGAP) founder Rick Archer will himself be interviewed by Fax Gilbert on Sunday, May 11 7:30-9 p.m., at the Fairfield Public Library. The interview is sponsored by Waking Down of Fairfield. ($5 donation) BATGAP is an internationally acclaimed series of dialogues where Rick posts in-depth discussions (at batgap.com/) with awakened and awakening people ranging from local Fairfielders to notable spiritual teachers from around the world. Since 2010, Rick has posted over 225 of these sessions and has seen his program grow in prestige and popularity with each passing year. Because of his exposure to the wide range of awakening modalities and spiritual teachings alive in the world today, Rick is uniquely situated to comment on what’s going on out there. It promises to be a rich evening.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Brahmachari Girish Varma Ji is to be praised
Thanks very much, friends. I appreciate your support here a lot. Lot of these cranks here don't have hardly anything to do with Fairfield or meditating now. nablusoss1008 writes, Very nice Buck, continue ! And don't let the TM-haters in here get to you. Awoelflebater writes: ..There is not one thing that Buck said that Bawwy is addressing. Read it again Bawwy and this time s-l-o-w-l-y. Buck offers: Yes, I am quite satisfied with my meditation. MY FAITH IS STRONG by Virtue of Experience AND MY LIFE [Perfectly] SUCCESSFUL by the Natural Law of the Unified Field. -Buck in the Dome turquoiseb writes Sure it is, Buck. That's why you spend so much time on an obscure Internet forum writing diatribes about Bevan and the other people in charge of the TM movement, all under a pseudonym. If that's [Perfectly] SUCCESSFUL in your book, you might consider returning it to the bookseller for a refund. :-) awoelflebater writes: Bawwy seems to be having reading difficulties here. There is not one thing that Buck said that Bawwy is addressing. Read it again Bawwy and this time s-l-o-w-l-y. .
[FairfieldLife] Re: [Fairfield Life] Brahmachari Girish Varma Ji is to be praised
A lot of folks left the active meditating movement a long time ago, don't live here and it seems have not visited back neither in some while. Communal meditating Fairfield,Iowa and the meditating university community today now are vital spiritual places that any of you who don't live here may not know. -Buck in the Dome Thanks very much, friends. I appreciate your support here a lot. Lot of these cranks here don't have hardly anything to do with Fairfield or meditating now. nablusoss1008 writes, Very nice Buck, continue ! And don't let the TM-haters in here get to you. Awoelflebater writes: ..There is not one thing that Buck said that Bawwy is addressing. Read it again Bawwy and this time s-l-o-w-l-y. Buck offers: Yes, I am quite satisfied with my meditation. MY FAITH IS STRONG by Virtue of Experience AND MY LIFE [Perfectly] SUCCESSFUL by the Natural Law of the Unified Field. -Buck in the Dome turquoiseb writes Sure it is, Buck. That's why you spend so much time on an obscure Internet forum writing diatribes about Bevan and the other people in charge of the TM movement, all under a pseudonym. If that's [Perfectly] SUCCESSFUL in your book, you might consider returning it to the bookseller for a refund. :-) . awoelflebater writes: Bawwy seems to be having reading difficulties here. There is not one thing that Buck said that Bawwy is addressing. Read it again Bawwy and this time s-l-o-w-l-y. .
[FairfieldLife] Re: [Fairfield Life] Brahmachari Girish Varma Ji
Despite the escapades of Girish Varma as TMO Trustee and Apostle and his stone-throwing pundits, one of the best and most important posts about the TM movement and communal meditating Fairfield, Iowa now for its insight is to see the post Rick Archer made a while ago: #374777 Yahoo Groups https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/374777 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/374777 Yahoo Groups https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/374777 Yahoo! Groups offers free mailing lists, photo file sharing, group calendars and more. Discuss hot topics, share interests, join online communities. View on yahoo.com https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/374777 Preview by Yahoo Rehabilitating Girish; if they are going to keep Girish Varma as one of the twelve trustee apostles of the whole thing then one would hope that in the rehabilitation of Girish to Brahmachari that he could be brought to Fairfield and speak directly with the meditating community here. The modern day last trial of Socrates? May be even be part of the symposium planned by Maharaja Adhiraj Rajaraam for next fall in Fairfield, Iowa. Girish should be given a fair chance to defend himself before the people of the meditating movement, -Buck facebook.com/BrahmachariGirishJi Brahmachari Girish Ji https://www.facebook.com/BrahmachariGirishJi https://www.facebook.com/BrahmachariGirishJi Brahmachari Girish Ji https://www.facebook.com/BrahmachariGirishJi Fanpage of Girish Chandra Varma, respectfully known as Brahmachari Girish Ji by one of his devotees... View on facebook.com https://www.facebook.com/BrahmachariGirishJi Preview by Yahoo A lot of folks left the active meditating movement a long time ago, don't live here and it seems have not visited back neither in some while. Communal meditating Fairfield,Iowa and the meditating university community today now are vital spiritual places that any of you who don't live here may not know. -Buck in the Dome Thanks very much, friends. I appreciate your support here a lot. Lot of these cranks here don't have hardly anything to do with Fairfield or meditating now. nablusoss1008 writes, Very nice Buck, continue ! And don't let the TM-haters in here get to you. Awoelflebater writes: ..There is not one thing that Buck said that Bawwy is addressing. Read it again Bawwy and this time s-l-o-w-l-y. Buck offers: Yes, I am quite satisfied with my meditation. MY FAITH IS STRONG by Virtue of Experience AND MY LIFE [Perfectly] SUCCESSFUL by the Natural Law of the Unified Field. -Buck in the Dome turquoiseb writes Sure it is, Buck. That's why you spend so much time on an obscure Internet forum writing diatribes about Bevan and the other people in charge of the TM movement, all under a pseudonym. If that's [Perfectly] SUCCESSFUL in your book, you might consider returning it to the bookseller for a refund. :-) . awoelflebater writes: Bawwy seems to be having reading difficulties here. There is not one thing that Buck said that Bawwy is addressing. Read it again Bawwy and this time s-l-o-w-l-y. .
[FairfieldLife] Re: New York TM teaching is maxed out
LA and the West Coast is maxed out for teachers teaching Transcendental Meditation too. I got interviewed recently by a west coast journalist who was saying that it seems everyone who is anyone out there is starting TM too. We seem to be getting beyond generation X, the lost generation that Maharishi skipped over. -Buck srijau writes: also in several other parts of the US it is not possible to keep up with demand with the current amount of teachers.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi interview excerpts
I love that the guy Maharishi had such spirit and pluck. This interview with him The Man is really fun to read through. It captures the spark and light of the guy. Thanks, I liked reading it and hearing again his voice and humor in that. He was amazingly on, patient, and consistent throughout his whole travels with this. Reading this is like watching the benevolent revolutionary in control of things. He could certainly play it like a fiddle. What a fun time in the revolution of millenarianism it was, -Buck in the Dome dickmays forwards: REPORTER: You're not doing much to disabuse me of the notion that you're just a P.T. Barnum of the psychic set. MAHARISHI: What does this mean? REPORTER: That you're a natural salesman. MAHARISHI: Very right. I think I have something salable. REPORTER: What are you selling? MAHARISHI: Natural law and the simplest level of consciousness where everything is spontaneously supported by nature. If people buy this product, they're better off. * * * * * * * REPORTER: Why don't you raise money and distribute it to needy people? Would this not be a more effective way to bring about change? MAHARISHI: No, no, it's not the money that can make one happy. REPORTER: How can Third World people think about their consciousness when they're hungry? MAHARISHI: By using that hardware of the cosmic computer, if they use their brain properly -- this is the Technology of the Unified Field -- the infinity of nature will make them capable of not only earning their ordinary bread but very first-class bread. * * * * * * * REPORTER: What do you think about the arms race and nuclear war? MAHARISHI: Arms race will not be the cause of nuclear war. Stress will be the cause of nuclear war. Stress is the greatest enemy of life, and that we can eliminate completely. * * * * * * * REPORTER: You have written that by meditating, man brings out his own sense of divinity in himself. MAHARISHI: Right, we can talk divinity. REPORTER: What about someone like Hitler. If he had meditated? MAHARISHI: He would have been more positive. REPORTER: You really think you can change people's natures by meditating? MAHARISHI: The world is already a changed situation. One would not know what would have happened between the power blocs if Transcendental Meditation was not raising the consciousness of the world. * * * * * * * REPORTER: What do you do for play? MAHARISHI: The whole life is play. REPORTER: What do you do for amusement? MAHARISHI: Oh, this is great amusement when I talk about the unified field, laws of nature, when I hear so many people are starting the courses. I am doing two things. One, creating a softness in world consciousness. Second, training leadership. * * * * * * * REPORTER: Is what you are doing a game? MAHARISHI: It's a game. REPORTER: Do you ever sit back and say, 'I've been playing this game for 25 years. I'm a millionaire. Gee, I'm a good player?' MAHARISHI: I don't play in the past. I always play in the present for a good future. * * * * * * * REPORTER: Do you want to take over the world? MAHARISHI: I have taken over already! REPORTER: How do you expect people to take you seriously? MAHARISHI: I don't because that is damage to my own message. Serious means under stress. REPORTER: You don't think that you're just pulling off a beautiful job of fooling people? MAHARISHI: Those people who don't know better are always fools, but they will become better thinkers, better knowers with this message. REPORTER: Are you a snake-oil salesman? MAHARISHI: What is a snake oil? REPORTER: A panacea. Something that will solve all the ills of the world. MAHARISHI: Then this is it! * * * * * * * REPORTER: If we sent in an outside person not connected with you to take pictures [of Yogic Flying]? MAHARISHI: No one is not connected with me. REPORTER: Where did you get your modesty? MAHARISHI: It's simplicity. * * * * * * * REPORTER: Do people create when they're sitting around feeling happiness bubble up? How do you explain geniuses like Dostoevski who lived a miserable life and created very much? MAHARISHI: He could have created much more if the environment was less stressed. REPORTER: But he wrote about stress. He would have had nothing to write about if there hadn't been stress. MAHARISHI: One could write about a pond, but that doesn't justify the existence of the pond or its utility. * * * * * * * REPORTER: But you claim credit for meditating suffering away? MAHARISHI: Right. Exactly. REPORTER: Have you no shame? MAHARISHI: No shame, no weakness, no failure. End of interview ~Washington Post -- November 1983~ * * * * * * * Jai Guru Dev .
[FairfieldLife] Re: Heaven on Earth for all Mankind
Yesterday I drove by a farm north of Fairfield, Iowa a ways out on the Pleasant Plain road where they were taking down a farm's field fence, out with dozers rolling up rods of good field fence just to be able to plow up to the road edge and plant more gasohol. Livestock gone. We are witnessing the end of an epoch. With the demise and succession of the WWII generation farmer of 360 acre farms and the consolidation to 720acres and 1080acre farms to 3, 4, 7,16,000 acre holdings comes the end of very many humans being much close at all to any animal husbandry with large mammals anymore. You can see this now compared even to five and ten years ago at the County level and State Fairs. There are not nearly any animal projects now with the end of mixed agricultural family farming and the collapse of those farmsteads out on the landscape. Farm operation is all going to growing gasohol and corporate animal feeding. It is really quite stunning to see the collapse of diversified agriculture in such a short period of time. Care-taking large animals has always been an important practical and spiritual schooling in humanity, a laboratory cultivating in skill sets towards being a good human being. It just does not work well with animals unless you are a good person. Taking care of animals is always an exercise in humanity. Any effective leader of humanity in history it seems characteristically was once a care-taker of large animals, a sheep or goat herder child, herdsmen with cows, bullocks, horses, elephants. Just using a buggy horse to drive the long district court circuit like an Abraham Lincoln. With equines, like a Grant, Churchill, Marshall, Pershing, Patton, Truman, Eisenhower, Reagan each. ...practiced at being good at being a good human being in skill sets taking care of animals in nature. That has mostly come to and end. Inside of 50 years this is a huge change in the relationship of humans with large nature. Now great leadership is only incubated and left to come out of what? Internet and social media forums, social -science, law and business schools, and some on-the-job or interning experience. May the Unified Field Transcendent help us. I hope always that city people will support small farming and people who raise livestock on their own independent of the corporations. The opening of America to small farms and the opportunity for ownership was always what made America what it was. In the last few years with this aggregation taking place in large corporate agriculture and land-holding consolidation that has ended. May the Unified Field Transcendent God save the country, -Buck in the Dome Authfriend writes: Those sure are some gorgeous Jerseys they've got. They make the huge hulking Holsteins that supply supermarket milk look like ungainly monsters. (Not the Holsteins' fault; they were bred that way to give as much milk as possible. But it isn't anywhere as good as milk from Jerseys.) A beautiful key to creating Heaven on Earth for all mankind, the proper treatment of the cows http://www.universalfields.org/index.html http://www.universalfields.org/index.html Jai Jai Jai Jai Jai Maharishi-ji!
[FairfieldLife] Re: YF and collapse of the wave function?
!OMG-the-Unified Field! Bio-consciousness, and the human body voltage of the heart in the soularplex of human spirituality. The opening Conspiracy theory aside and and also the announcer- documentary voice tone with tension of the music score of the video aside, what a fabulous Sunday morning video to watch. The straight ahead fusion of science-based-evidence, theory and spirituality experience will certainly drive the FFL meditation and spirituality haters here nuts. But the subject title of this thread is not encompassing enough. This is way more than YF as the video presents It. TM and patanjali in the TM-sidhis are certainly good introductions but as this video argues in presentation, they are only the start. I should like to hear, Maharaja Adhiraj Rajaraam elaborate and elucidate more on this the next time he is visiting us in Fairfield. -Buck Cardemaister Offers: Mind Science Kept Hidden Documentary.WE ARE VIBRATIONAL BEINGS.Law of attraction/vibes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjpCKZ7cEoYlist=FLJq4dWKwstYaCOzEgEWZU-A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjpCKZ7cEoYlist=FLJq4dWKwstYaCOzEgEWZU-A Mind Science Kept Hidden Documentary.WE ARE VI... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjpCKZ7cEoYlist=FLJq4dWKwstYaCOzEgEWZU-A TAKE YOU POWER BACK AND BE IN CONTROL OF AND CREATE YOUR LIFE! LINKS UPDATES! (^_^)/ as of April 2014 effective and simple! ALL THE INFO B... View on youtube.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjpCKZ7cEoYlist=FLJq4dWKwstYaCOzEgEWZU-A Preview by Yahoo
[FairfieldLife] Human Spirituality and Collapse of the Wave Function
Let's change the subject heading of this thread. Yogic flying seems way too inflammatory and distracting to have in a discussion like this. To be helpful to the larger subject I am going to drop the 'YF' from the subject line on this thread. This thread deserves to be much more than that. Heck, both Patanjali and our own Guru Dev Brahmananda Saraswati themselves dissuaded people from pursuing sidhis. !OMG-the-Unified Field! Bio-consciousness, and the human body voltage of the heart in the soularplex of human spirituality. The opening Conspiracy theory aside and and also the announcer- documentary voice tone with tension of the music score of the video aside, what a fabulous Sunday morning video to watch. The straight ahead fusion of science-based-evidence, theory and spirituality experience will certainly drive the FFL meditation and spirituality haters here nuts. But the subject title of this thread is not encompassing enough. This is way more than YF as the video presents It. TM and patanjali in the TM-sidhis are certainly good introductions but as this video argues in presentation, they are only the start. I should like to hear, Maharaja Adhiraj Rajaraam elaborate and elucidate more on this the next time he is visiting us in Fairfield. -Buck Cardemaister Offers: Mind Science Kept Hidden Documentary.WE ARE VIBRATIONAL BEINGS.Law of attraction/vibes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjpCKZ7cEoYlist=FLJq4dWKwstYaCOzEgEWZU-A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjpCKZ7cEoYlist=FLJq4dWKwstYaCOzEgEWZU-A Mind Science Kept Hidden Documentary.WE ARE VI... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjpCKZ7cEoYlist=FLJq4dWKwstYaCOzEgEWZU-A TAKE YOU POWER BACK AND BE IN CONTROL OF AND CREATE YOUR LIFE! LINKS UPDATES! (^_^)/ as of April 2014 effective and simple! ALL THE INFO B... View on youtube.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjpCKZ7cEoYlist=FLJq4dWKwstYaCOzEgEWZU-A Preview by Yahoo
[FairfieldLife] Re: Human Spirituality and Collapse of the Wave Function
Yep; this is really a Brilliant presentation of all that is modern in the world. Now we are getting to the apex of Knowledge in the world. Is a Powerfully present model of spirituality and spiritual progress ultimately being in the refinement of bio-consciousness in the human body-mind complex. 100Mv or more, should be the battle cry of the forces of illumination over the dullness of egnorance! May the Force of the Unified Field be with You! !Power to the People with more science education and meditation and spirituality everywhere! -Buck in the Dome Dear FFL, Let's change the original subject heading of this thread. Yogic flying seems way too inflammatory and distracting to have in a discussion like this. To be helpful to the larger subject I am going to drop the 'YF' from the subject line on this thread. This thread deserves to be much more than that. Heck, both Patanjali and our own Guru Dev Brahmananda Saraswati themselves dissuaded people from pursuing sidhis. !OMG-the-Unified Field! Bio-consciousness, and the human body voltage of the heart in the soularplex of human spirituality. The opening Conspiracy theory aside and and also the announcer- documentary voice tone with tension of the music score of the video aside, what a fabulous Sunday morning video to watch. The straight ahead fusion of science-based-evidence, theory and spirituality experience will certainly drive the FFL meditation and spirituality haters here nuts. But the subject title of this thread is not encompassing enough. This is way more than YF as the video presents It. TM and patanjali in the TM-sidhis are certainly good introductions but as this video argues in presentation, they are only the start. I should like to hear, Maharaja Adhiraj Rajaraam elaborate and elucidate more on this the next time he is visiting us in Fairfield. -Buck Cardemaister Offers: Mind Science Kept Hidden Documentary.WE ARE VIBRATIONAL BEINGS.Law of attraction/vibes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjpCKZ7cEoYlist=FLJq4dWKwstYaCOzEgEWZU-A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjpCKZ7cEoYlist=FLJq4dWKwstYaCOzEgEWZU-A Mind Science Kept Hidden Documentary.WE ARE VI... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjpCKZ7cEoYlist=FLJq4dWKwstYaCOzEgEWZU-A TAKE YOU POWER BACK AND BE IN CONTROL OF AND CREATE YOUR LIFE! LINKS UPDATES! (^_^)/ as of April 2014 effective and simple! ALL THE INFO B... View on youtube.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjpCKZ7cEoYlist=FLJq4dWKwstYaCOzEgEWZU-A Preview by Yahoo
[FairfieldLife] Re: Heaven on Earth for all Mankind
I hope always that city people will support small farming and people who raise livestock on their own independent of the corporations. The opening of America to small farms and the opportunity for ownership was always what made America what it was. In the last few years with this aggregation taking place in large corporate agriculture and land-holding consolidation that has ended. May the Unified Field Transcendent God save the country, -Buck in the Dome Authfriend writes: Those sure are some gorgeous Jerseys they've got. They make the huge hulking Holsteins that supply supermarket milk look like ungainly monsters. (Not the Holsteins' fault; they were bred that way to give as much milk as possible. But it isn't anywhere as good as milk from Jerseys.) A beautiful key to creating Heaven on Earth for all mankind, the proper treatment of the cows http://www.universalfields.org/index.html http://www.universalfields.org/index.html Jai Jai Jai Jai Jai Maharishi-ji!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Heaven on Earth for all Mankind
...practiced at being good at being a good human being in skill sets taking care of animals in nature. That has mostly come to and end. Inside of 50 years this is a huge change in the relationship of humans with large nature. Now great leadership is only incubated and left to come out of what? Internet and social media forums, social -science and business schools, and some on-the-job or interning experience. May the Unified Field Transcendent help us. I hope always that city people will support small farming and people who raise livestock on their own independent of the corporations. The opening of America to small farms and the opportunity for ownership was always what made America what it was. In the last few years with this aggregation taking place in large corporate agriculture and land-holding consolidation that has ended. May the Unified Field Transcendent God save the country, -Buck in the Dome Authfriend writes: Those sure are some gorgeous Jerseys they've got. They make the huge hulking Holsteins that supply supermarket milk look like ungainly monsters. (Not the Holsteins' fault; they were bred that way to give as much milk as possible. But it isn't anywhere as good as milk from Jerseys.) A beautiful key to creating Heaven on Earth for all mankind, the proper treatment of the cows http://www.universalfields.org/index.html http://www.universalfields.org/index.html Jai Jai Jai Jai Jai Maharishi-ji!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Heaven on Earth for all Mankind
Care-taking large animals has always been an important practical and spiritual schooling in humanity, a laboratory cultivating in skill sets towards being a good human being. It just does not work well with animals unless you are a good person. Taking care of animals is always an exercise in humanity. Any effective leader of humanity in history it seems characteristically was once a care-taker of large animals, a sheep or goat herder child, herdsmen with cows, bullocks, horses, elephants. Just using a buggy horse to drive the long district court circuit like an Abraham Lincoln. With equines, like a Grant, Churchill, Marshall, Pershing, Patton, Truman, Eisenhower, Reagan each. ...practiced at being good at being a good human being in skill sets taking care of animals in nature. That has mostly come to and end. Inside of 50 years this is a huge change in the relationship of humans with large nature. Now great leadership is only incubated and left to come out of what? Internet and social media forums, social -science, law and business schools, and some on-the-job or interning experience. May the Unified Field Transcendent help us. I hope always that city people will support small farming and people who raise livestock on their own independent of the corporations. The opening of America to small farms and the opportunity for ownership was always what made America what it was. In the last few years with this aggregation taking place in large corporate agriculture and land-holding consolidation that has ended. May the Unified Field Transcendent God save the country, -Buck in the Dome Authfriend writes: Those sure are some gorgeous Jerseys they've got. They make the huge hulking Holsteins that supply supermarket milk look like ungainly monsters. (Not the Holsteins' fault; they were bred that way to give as much milk as possible. But it isn't anywhere as good as milk from Jerseys.) A beautiful key to creating Heaven on Earth for all mankind, the proper treatment of the cows http://www.universalfields.org/index.html http://www.universalfields.org/index.html Jai Jai Jai Jai Jai Maharishi-ji!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Brahmachari Girish Varma Ji is to be praised
Rehabilitating Girish; if they are going to keep Girish Varma as one of the twelve trustee apostles of the whole thing then one would hope that in the rehabilitation of Girish to Brahmachari that he could be brought to Fairfield and speak directly with the meditating community here. The modern day last trial of Socrates? May be even be part of the symposium planned by Maharaja Adhiraj Rajaraam for next fall in Fairfield, Iowa. Girish should be given a fair chance to defend himself before the people of the meditating movement, -Buck Brahmachari Girish Ji https://www.facebook.com/BrahmachariGirishJi https://www.facebook.com/BrahmachariGirishJi Brahmachari Girish Ji https://www.facebook.com/BrahmachariGirishJi Fanpage of Girish Chandra Varma, respectfully known as Brahmachari Girish Ji by one of his devotees... View on facebook.com https://www.facebook.com/BrahmachariGirishJi Preview by Yahoo LEnglish5 writes: I don't speak any Indian language, but none of the English reports I have seen (including the links below) say that Girish has that kind of wealth, only that he is part of a 12-member committee that has control of that wealth (12,000 acres). And of course, if you actually look at the figures, the estimates of how much the land is worth is obviously exaggerated: the largest single item is the old Maharishi Ayurveda complex which now lies in utter disrepair. In its hey-day, it was meant to be The Raj on a grand scale: a complex of hospitals and hostels with 3200 5-star hotel rooms meant to provide an absolutely nourishing environment for those unfortunate people who were deemed terminal by Western medicine but could be saved due to the miraculous superiority of Ayurvedic treatments. When the masses of terminally ill patients did what Western treatment said would happened, and died by the thousands, Maharishi told the TM movement to walk away from the halls of death (or words to that effect) and the complex fell into complete ruin. It ain't worth $1.5 billion and there's no way it will ever be because it wasn't built as a 5-star *resort* but as a 5-star *hospital* and there's no way 3200 tourists at-a-time are going to want to pay 5-star prices to say in that particular region for any length of time. Without the promised miracle cures of Ayurveda, it is a completely worthless venture. L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : Maharishi through billions at the guy but only 8% of His assets. He is after all family and he deserved a chance. It was a personal Yagya from His side. Everything else went to the Brahmananda Saraswathi Trust. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : ... according to some publication and report Girish Chandra Varma(GCV) owns himself only 7000 crore worth of property. (7000 crore rupees or 1.5 Billion US )... http://www.nriapnews.com/usnewsvideo.php?vidtype=10idx=vardaat-girish-chandra-varmas-property-2014-01-02 http://www.nriapnews.com/usnewsvideo.php?vidtype=10idx=vardaat-girish-chandra-varmas-property-2014-01-02 http://www.indianrealestateforum.com/real-estate-noida/t-ats-one-hamlet-noida-9981-page272.html http://www.indianrealestateforum.com/real-estate-noida/t-ats-one-hamlet-noida-9981-page272.html http://business.highbeam.com/435215/article-1P2-33094038/yogi-disciples-contort-his-legacy-just-four-years-after http://business.highbeam.com/435215/article-1P2-33094038/yogi-disciples-contort-his-legacy-just-four-years-after http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/maharishi-mahesh-yogi-rs-6-crore-fortune/1/201925.html. http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/maharishi-mahesh-yogi-rs-6-crore-fortune/1/201925.html. ...tax records? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, LEnglish5@... wrote : By the way, why does everyone say that GIrish Varma is a billionaire? Has anyone seen his bank accounts or tax records? L just wait for result of land grab charges and investigation BTW people who loves MMY are trying to distance themselves from him for yearsyou seems to be quite out of touch Lord L. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emilymaenot@... wrote : What *you* have said doesn't make any sense at all. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : Girish is a billionaire. It doesn't make much sense that he would have to resort to threats to have sex. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, LEnglish5@... wrote : Dunno anything about Girish Varma except that many people who are hostile to Maharishi are also hostile to him. The accusation of rape is interesting because the behavior allegedly lasted for about 15 years, and involved the wife of his assistant being invited to accompany her husband on trips so that Varma would be able to access the room of the husband and wife whenever he wanted while the husband was doing errands for Varma. According to the wife,
[FairfieldLife] Re: Heaven on Earth for all Mankind
We are witnessing the end of an epoch. With the demise and succession of the WWII generation farmer of 360 acre farms and the consolidation to 720acres and 1080acre farms to 3, 4, 7,16,000 acre holdings comes the end of very many humans being much close at all to any animal husbandry with large mammals anymore. You can see this now compared even to five and ten years ago at the County level and State Fairs. There are not nearly any animal projects now with the end of mixed agricultural family farming and those farmsteads out on the landscape. Farm operation is all going to growing gasohol and corporate animal feeding. It is really quite stunning to see the collapse of diversified agriculture in such a short period of time. Care-taking large animals has always been an important practical and spiritual schooling in humanity, a laboratory cultivating in skill sets towards being a good human being. It just does not work well with animals unless you are a good person. Taking care of animals is always an exercise in humanity. Any effective leader of humanity in history it seems characteristically was once a care-taker of large animals, a sheep or goat herder child, herdsmen with cows, bullocks, horses, elephants. Just using a buggy horse to drive the long district court circuit like an Abraham Lincoln. With equines, like a Grant, Churchill, Marshall, Pershing, Patton, Truman, Eisenhower, Reagan each. ...practiced at being good at being a good human being in skill sets taking care of animals in nature. That has mostly come to and end. Inside of 50 years this is a huge change in the relationship of humans with large nature. Now great leadership is only incubated and left to come out of what? Internet and social media forums, social -science, law and business schools, and some on-the-job or interning experience. May the Unified Field Transcendent help us. I hope always that city people will support small farming and people who raise livestock on their own independent of the corporations. The opening of America to small farms and the opportunity for ownership was always what made America what it was. In the last few years with this aggregation taking place in large corporate agriculture and land-holding consolidation that has ended. May the Unified Field Transcendent God save the country, -Buck in the Dome Authfriend writes: Those sure are some gorgeous Jerseys they've got. They make the huge hulking Holsteins that supply supermarket milk look like ungainly monsters. (Not the Holsteins' fault; they were bred that way to give as much milk as possible. But it isn't anywhere as good as milk from Jerseys.) A beautiful key to creating Heaven on Earth for all mankind, the proper treatment of the cows http://www.universalfields.org/index.html http://www.universalfields.org/index.html Jai Jai Jai Jai Jai Maharishi-ji!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Funding for Pundits Pulled
Seems like a lot of responsibility placed in the hands of one mere mortal? What a trip! Are the foundation/corporate boards of trustees strong enough to remove the guy from anything for anything? A second chance, I'd like to be a believer in the guy. Thus wondering for the welfare of TM, the TMO and Fairfield with this Girish I would like to hear from Maharaja Adhiraj Rajaraam and the Prime Minister of the Global Country of World Peace as to our relationship with Girish Chandra Varma now. Like, how is it going inside now? What are their thoughts about Girish with a little transparency, -Buck https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/381393 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/381393 https://www.facebook.com/BrahmachariGirishJi https://www.facebook.com/BrahmachariGirishJi https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/381710 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/381710 http://www.vedicpandits.org/initiative.html http://www.vedicpandits.org/initiative.html Merudanda reports: Training and employment of Vedic Pandits is being carried out by Maharishi Veda Vigyan Vishwa Vidya Peeth, a charitable trust in India. The management team for these charities in India is led by Dr. Girish Chandra Varma. Dr Varma is Director General of the Maharishi Capital of World Peace in the Brahmasthan of India, Chancellor of Maharishi University of Management, Chhattisgarh, and as Chancellor of Maharishi Vidya Mandir Schools group has provided the executive direction over the establishment and operation of a private school system with 160 schools and 88,000 students. See Maharishi Vedic Pandits throwing flower over him, chanting and praying https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/topics/371899 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/topics/371899
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Funding for Pundits Pulled
It evidently is a lot of Greek dramat material to scroll and view through. I am still digesting Girish's facebook page. It seems there is a lot of weight saddled on that poor man's shoulders. -Buck Brahmachari Girish Ji https://www.facebook.com/BrahmachariGirishJi https://www.facebook.com/BrahmachariGirishJi Brahmachari Girish Ji https://www.facebook.com/BrahmachariGirishJi Fanpage of Girish Chandra Varma, respectfully known as Brahmachari Girish Ji by one of his devotees... View on facebook.com https://www.facebook.com/BrahmachariGirishJi Preview by Yahoo mjackson74 writes: Ah you don't need all that Buck! We have it straight from Nabby that Girish is as pure as the driven snow. Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Funding for Pundits Pulled Seems like a lot of responsibility placed in the hands of one mere mortal? What a trip! Are the foundation/corporate boards of trustees strong enough to remove the guy from anything for anything? A second chance, I'd like to be a believer in the guy. Thus wondering for the welfare of TM, the TMO and Fairfield with this Girish I would like to hear from Maharaja Adhiraj Rajaraam and the Prime Minister of the Global Country of World Peace as to our relationship with Girish Chandra Varma now. Like, how is it going inside now? What are their thoughts about Girish with a little transparency, -Buck https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/381393 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/381393 https://www.facebook.com/BrahmachariGirishJi https://www.facebook.com/BrahmachariGirishJi https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/381710 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/381710 http://www.vedicpandits.org/initiative.html http://www.vedicpandits.org/initiative.html Merudanda reports: Training and employment of Vedic Pandits is being carried out by Maharishi Veda Vigyan Vishwa Vidya Peeth, a charitable trust in India.The management team for these charities in India is led by Dr. Girish Chandra Varma. Dr Varma is Director General of the Maharishi Capital of World Peace in the Brahmasthan of India, Chancellor of Maharishi University of Management, Chhattisgarh, and as Chancellor of Maharishi Vidya Mandir Schools group has provided the executive direction over the establishment and operation of a private school system with 160 schools and 88,000 students.See Maharishi Vedic Pandits throwing flower over him, chanting and praying https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/topics/371899 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/topics/371899 .
[FairfieldLife] Funding for Pundits Pulled
Dear FFL; The other morning Dr. Bevan Morris as our Prime Minister of the Global Country of World Peace announced that the Howard Settle Foundation is pulling its remaining support for the pundit/Invincible America project. Others shall pick up the slack. -Buck in the Dome http://www.vedicpandits.org/initiative.html http://www.vedicpandits.org/initiative.html
[FairfieldLife] Old Ships of Zion
The old Unity movement and their Unity Village in Kansas City as has been a case also with the Transcendental Meditation movement and Fairfield, Iowa evidently were great introductions to spiritual transcendentalism and a unity in the transcendental state by experience of what practical spirituality in life comes of the Unified Field. The Unity movement at its time evidently was that as an introduction at its time like with TM coming along more recently has been. Both Unity and TM providing an experiential critique of materialism in their time. It is interesting how transcending can be taught to and has been taught to in different times. I was harmony singing over the lunch hour yesterday with some other conservative Fairfield meditators here and we sang this old hymn that came from the Shaker spiritual movement where the text is rejoicing in the efficacy of their movement then when they were teaching transcendence as spiritual practice in their system at that time. An Old Ship of Zion: SH 79 The Old Ship of Zion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg7lmXSqfKA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg7lmXSqfKA SH 79 The Old Ship of Zion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg7lmXSqfKA This is a little scrappy at points, but it's still good fun, especially the third verse. View on youtube.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg7lmXSqfKA Preview by Yahoo It seems every generation or two, probably all through human time someone comes and re-expresses the ultimate teaching of transcendence as spirituality in life that way. Like the Unity movement in its time or TM in our time. Sometimes the teaching stays individuated like with Emerson and sometimes it propagates in groups or even in to popular movement. It is all the same based on experience of the absolute. This expression and re-expression in self-referral transcendental spiritual experience of the Unified Field becomes the real story of the progression of all our manifest destiny in American history. Cultivating the transcendence in human experience meditating evidently is very American. Cultivation of the transcendent state is ultimate spirituality and teaching it is revolutionary action in the face of materialism. Subverting people's experience of the transcendent is nothing less than counter-revolutionary, anti-scientific and anti-American spiritual ignorance, -Buck in Meditating Fairfield, Iowa The Fairfield Meditating Community: “We are a group of people who have come together and created a community for a transcendentally important common purpose, which of course is to practice the Transcendental Meditation program and the TM-Sidhi program together as a group, for the sake of bringing coherence to national and world consciousness based on balancing labor and leisure to meditate while working together for the benefit of the community. Our Super-Radiance meditating community includes families of all the TM-Meditators and TM-Sidhas in the Fairfield, Vedic City and Jefferson County area.”
[FairfieldLife] Re: Brahmachari Girish Varma Ji is to be praised
Om, a few Rupees here and a few Rupees there and pretty soon we're talking real Rupees! -Buck By the way, why does everyone say that GIrish Varma is a billionaire? Has anyone seen his bank accounts or tax records? -L 1,5 Billion US? That is only 8 percent? Maharishi [threw] billions at the guy but only 8% of His assets. He is after all family and he deserved a chance. It was a personal Yagya from His side. Everything else went to the Brahmananda Saraswati Trust. -Oh. Dateline, Merudanda on the scene offers: ... according to some publication and report Girish Chandra Varma(GCV) owns himself only 7000 crore worth of property. (7000 crore rupees or 1.5 Billion US )... http://www.nriapnews.com/usnewsvideo.php?vidtype=10idx=vardaat-girish-chandra-varmas-property-2014-01-02 http://www.nriapnews.com/usnewsvideo.php?vidtype=10idx=vardaat-girish-chandra-varmas-property-2014-01-02 http://www.indianrealestateforum.com/real-estate-noida/t-ats-one-hamlet-noida-9981-page272.html http://www.indianrealestateforum.com/real-estate-noida/t-ats-one-hamlet-noida-9981-page272.html http://business.highbeam.com/435215/article-1P2-33094038/yogi-disciples-contort-his-legacy-just-four-years-after http://business.highbeam.com/435215/article-1P2-33094038/yogi-disciples-contort-his-legacy-just-four-years-after http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/maharishi-mahesh-yogi-rs-6-crore-fortune/1/201925.html. http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/maharishi-mahesh-yogi-rs-6-crore-fortune/1/201925.html. ...tax records? LEnglish5 writes: By the way, why does everyone say that GIrish Varma is a billionaire? Has anyone seen his bank accounts or tax records? L just wait for result of land grab charges and investigation BTW people who loves MMY are trying to distance themselves from him [ GCV ] for yearsyou seems to be quite out of touch Lord L. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emilymaenot@... wrote : What *you* have said doesn't make any sense at all. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : Girish is a billionaire. It doesn't make much sense that he would have to resort to threats to have sex. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, LEnglish5@... wrote : Dunno anything about Girish Varma except that many people who are hostile to Maharishi are also hostile to him. The accusation of rape is interesting because the behavior allegedly lasted for about 15 years, and involved the wife of his assistant being invited to accompany her husband on trips so that Varma would be able to access the room of the husband and wife whenever he wanted while the husband was doing errands for Varma. According to the wife, this allowed Varma to have sex with her over a period of 15 years whenever her husband went out. The wife kept her mouth shut on the threat that her husband and she would lose their jobs if she said anything. The husband says that he knew nothing of the arrangement until about a year or so ago when he was fired, and his wife was fired, thereupon she confessed the arrangement to him and they went to the police. This is India we are talking about, so I nave no idea how plausible the scenario is within that culture. L .
[FairfieldLife] New Book on Meditating Fairfield, Iowa
Geoff, are you a meditator? Nice review. I read another reviewer that says of the new book that while heavily footnoted the book and the author suffers from the lack of back-stories and too much objectivity as a straight journalist. However, I am glad a real and professional journalist came along to the story now while so many interviews could be collected from the first, or eye-witness generation. There have been other authors and academics show up looking to write their story of it in their way. By contrast with them I have been wont-ing for a real journalist to show up for a long time. Joseph Weber appears is that journalist. It [meditating Fairfield, Iowa] is a fabulous story in human nature. The scholarly world is just waking up to it. This new book will help bring more qualified people to it and other books will likely follow too. We've been in Fairfield as a meditating community for over 40 years and that community is not going to leave anytime soon. The story is not over, -Buck in the Dome The Fairfield Meditating Community: “We are a group of people who have come together and created a community for a transcendentally important common purpose, which of course is to practice the Transcendental Meditation program and the TM-Sidhi program together as a group, for the sake of bringing coherence to national and world consciousness based on balancing labor and leisure to meditate while working together for the benefit of the community. Our Super-Radiance meditating community includes families of all the TM-Meditators and TM-Sidhas in the Fairfield, Vedic City and Jefferson County area.” geoff.gilpin writes: Hi, everyone. Michael Jackson already mentioned my blog (thanks, Michael!), but I thought I's stop in with a personal invitation. I hope you'll all pay a visit to Reason and Magic, Where Skeptics and Believers Find Common Ground, at geoffgilpin.com http://www.geoffgilpin.com. Discussion topics include psychedelic science and culture, drug policy, and skeptical mysticism. There's even some stuff about the TM movement, including my review of Joseph Weber's new book Transcendental Meditation in America: How a New Age Movement Remade a Small Town in Iowa.
[FairfieldLife] Re: New Book on Meditating Fairfield, Iowa
“Geoff is a MIU grad who never got the sidhis. The Maharishi Effect, his memoir, is killer.” Weber did a lot to make his book interesting, Transcendental Meditation in America: How a New Age Movement Remade a Small Town in Iowa. . http://www.uiowapress.org/books/2014-spring/transcendental-meditation-america.htm http://www.uiowapress.org/books/2014-spring/transcendental-meditation-america.htm -gleaning from e-mail sent on the side. .. -Buck Geoff, are you a meditator? Nice review. I read another reviewer that says of the new book that while heavily footnoted the book and the author suffers from the lack of back-stories and too much objectivity as a straight journalist. However, I am glad a real and professional journalist came along to the story now while so many interviews could be collected from the first, or eye-witness generation. There have been other authors and academics show up looking to write their story of it in their way. By contrast with them I have been wont-ing for a real journalist to show up for a long time. Joseph Weber appears is that journalist. It [meditating Fairfield, Iowa] is a fabulous story in human nature. The scholarly world is just waking up to it. This new book will help bring more qualified people to it and other books will likely follow too. We've been in Fairfield as a meditating community for over 40 years and that community is not going to leave anytime soon. The story is not over, -Buck in the Dome The Fairfield Meditating Community: “We are a group of people who have come together and created a community for a transcendentally important common purpose, which of course is to practice the Transcendental Meditation program and the TM-Sidhi program together as a group, for the sake of bringing coherence to national and world consciousness based on balancing labor and leisure to meditate while working together for the benefit of the community. Our Super-Radiance meditating community includes families of all the TM-Meditators and TM-Sidhas in the Fairfield, Vedic City and Jefferson County area.” geoff.gilpin writes: Hi, everyone. Michael Jackson already mentioned my blog (thanks, Michael!), but I thought I's stop in with a personal invitation. I hope you'll all pay a visit to Reason and Magic, Where Skeptics and Believers Find Common Ground, at geoffgilpin.com http://www.geoffgilpin.com. Discussion topics include psychedelic science and culture, drug policy, and skeptical mysticism. There's even some stuff about the TM movement, including my review of Joseph Weber's new book Transcendental Meditation in America: How a New Age Movement Remade a Small Town in Iowa.
[FairfieldLife] Re: ACTIVE Need for More Meditation, Chemtrails Discussed At United Nations, Must Watch For All Non-belivers
Meditate and live simply that others may simply live. -Buck in the Dome For so many good reasons folks everywhere should be actively spending much more time in silence and transcendent meditation. There needs to be much more discipline around this. It is about survival of the species and planet as a place for spiritual life in the human form. People need to respect this problem a whole lot more, -Buck, in the Dome Yes Absolutely, Nablusoss. Meditate and act. The larger problem needs much more spiritual activism to solve. It needs to start with much better public education in science and much more quiet time meditation in the school and workday for all its good reasons. nablusoss1008 writes: That's right Buck but Maharishi always stressed meditation AND action. Unless you start protesting about what is going on it will, eh.. go on. Yes again, more fundamentally to curb this problem people need to be active spending much more time in meditation and much less time producing and consuming widgets and stuff in their own miserably ignorant material lives. sharelong60 writes: I agree Buck that all problems are ultimately spiritual problems. But still, I go to the dentist if I have a toothache. I liked that Dr. Nader was also advising people to be practical about challenges. Ultimately the contrail problem is spiritual. -Buck yikes, Nablusoss, between the chemtrails and the GMO crops, they're poisoning the bejeezus out of the planet and us all. Plus themselves! Fear, no terror, must be at the basis of such lunacy. I guess it's just another step in the evolutionary process (-: What came from the UN-meeting, if you had bothered to listen, was that aluminum is thought to cool down the earths temperature by reflecting back sunlight. Hence the chemtrails, mostly from military and governmental aircrafts. That aluminum also is highly poisonous to humans since it enters the bloodstream through the drinking-water and hinders the root of trees to absorb water is considered a minor side-effect. Sounds farfetched. It all sounds farfetched. Aircraft exhaust is bad enough anyway but to add things to it to try and control the atmosphere would be stupid. You'd need to test an area first and they can't even get permission for that. It would have to go through congress and the EU, that would take forever and there are more scientists against geo-engineering than there are for it. Can you imagine what the courts would do to you if you were found to be carrying out potentially dangerous experiments without authorisation? You be strung up. and you expect us to believe all government departments are doing it? It's a conspiracy theory. Save your protest energy for something that's actually happening. Jeesus folks this is evident earth science, Stop Geo-engineering Man-made haze in the atmosphere. Stop Atmospheric dumping and further commercialized un-regulated testing to privately affect Mitigation for climate change, Stop the Geo-engineering like putting sulfur, iron and aluminum dust in the sky? Reducing Photosynthesis and reducing solar power? Cirrus and man-made clouds changing climate in contrails, 4k kilometers long and persisting 20 hours? Non-comercial jets? Bursting contrail streams reducing solar power to the earth. This all is enough data and observation that I am now willing to be a contrail hypothesis believer by virtue of a better understanding the problem now. Thanks for that UN presentation link at the bottom of this. -Buck, out standing in his fields !Cap pollution at its source! No money-market schemes to further add to the problem. This is the second time you demand others to watch and explain videos or photos for you to understand simple ideas. If you weren't so infinitely lazy you would have known the reason why chemtrails have been going on for decades already. Salyavin808 writes: Don't worry Nabby I found it: http://rense.com/general79/chem.htm http://rense.com/general79/chem.htm Chemtrails are an attempt by the world's governments to create plasma in the atmosphere so their laser weapons can fire better. They aren't just vapour from aircraft engines. Very funny Sal, so you think the US Government needs a permission ? Is it stupid, yes of course it is but it's been going on for so long, since the early 80's so don't expect any admission of fault anytime soon. Only mass-awareness from the grassroots with rallies and general strikes etc. can stop this. Let's hope the Americans haven't become too duped to do something about it. I didn't think the US govt had admitted that global warming was happening? Certainly not as far back as the 1980's. Every administration since would have to agree with the idea and secretly carry on. As usual with these government conspiracy theories, the amount of people who would have to know is enormous. It makes it
[FairfieldLife] Re: In Transcendentalism,
BLESS THIS GLORIOUS PLANET AND ALL THAT LIVE UPON IT. In Genesis we read, “In the beginning, of the Unified Field came the heavens and the earth … Then in vibration the Unified Field Transcendent felt, ‘Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land’ … in Self-referral the Unified Field saw all that it had made in natural law, and it was very good.” Today we express our deep gratitude to the Unified Field Transcendent for this planet and all its glory. To show our appreciation, we take care of our earthly home, start to garden, plant a tree, or pick up garbage around our community, enjoy a walk in nature or meditate at sunrise and at sunset. We bless the Earth by caring for it and respecting its delicate balance, which allows all life to coexist in harmony and flourish in abundance. Jai Guru Dev. Paraphrasing from Daily Word, -Buck I bow my knees before the Field, from whom every family in heaven and on earth takes its name.—Ephesians 3:14-15 REJOICE IN THE UNIFIED FIELD CHRIST TRANSCENDENT WITHIN. This Easter, rejoice in Jesus Christ for demonstrating that no worldly tomb can imprison the living, loving, eternal Unified Field. No matter what the circumstances, the resurrecting power of the Unified Field within restores and uplifts us. Thank you, Jesus Christ, for showing us the way to resurrection. Paraphrasing the Daily Word, -Buck in the Dome I am the resurrection and the life.—John 11:25 Good Friday signifies the day on which Jesus was crucified and laid in the tomb. It symbolizes the process of transformation followed by resurrection. One can see it as a time for Being in the Unified Field transcendent and enter into a higher state of consciousness as we release what no longer serves our spirit. This day we prepare for our own transformation as we enter the Silence of our Meditation. In this sacred space we go beyond anything separating us from that love of the Unified Field. At meditation in the Unified Field Transcendent, we reawaken to spiritual nature and become one with the light and life of that the indwelling Christ. One with the Christ of the Unified Field and our Being. Paraphrasing the Daily Word, -Buck in the Dome Now there was a garden in the place where he was crucified, and in the garden there was a new tomb in which no one had ever been laid.—John 19:41 My soul, be on guard; Ten thousand foes arise; The hosts of sin are pressing hard To draw thee from the skies. Om watch and meditate; The battle ne'er give o'er; Re-new it boldly ev'ry day, And help the Unified Field implore. Om watch and fight and meditate; The battle ne'er give o'er; Re-new it boldly ev'ry day, And help the Unified Field implore. Ne'er think the vic-t'ry won, Nor lay thine armor down; Thy arduous work will not be done Till thou obtain thy crown. Fight on, my soul, Till death shall bring thee home; It'll take thee, At thy parting breath, To merge in the abode of the Unified Field. -Old 1781 George Heath paraphrase When in need of guidance, go directly to the source of wisdom, the Unified Field Transcendent. Close the eyes and go into the Self. Gently release the chatter in the mind, letting thoughts drift away like faint clouds sweeping across a blue sky. Settling into this silent place of peace, find the all-knowing self-referral of the Unified Field. Recognize its wisdom as an inner knowing and feeling of peace in renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the will of the Unified Field -what is good and acceptable and perfect. -Paraphrasing from Daily Word Jai Guru Dev, -Buck Welcome all ye friends of the Transcendent, Welcome to the meditation. Venture wholly on the Unified Field Come and with Its people go. Om, Yet we come in common duty, Down beneath the waves we go; Om the bliss, the heavenly beauty, The Unified Field is experienced so. Om Come, ye meditators of the Global Country, Follow It beneath the wave. Meditate, an' Know the Transcendent, Resurrected proclaim Its power to save. -Buck, on Palm Sunday Eve Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Unified Field! Hosanna in the highest heaven!—Paraphrasing, Matthew 21:9 Palm Sunday commemorates Jesus’ triumphant entry into Jerusalem. The multitudes that awaited Jesus’ arrival cried, “Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord!” The thoughts we think, the cells in our bodies, and the events in our lives are like the multitudes who waited for Jesus: Everything in us waits for the appearance of the Christ—the Spirit of God in our midst—and shouts with joy at its arrival. If, for any reason, we are discouraged or in need, we recognize the Christ Spirit as it appears in our hearts and our consciousness. We feel uplifted. Through the power of the Christ transcendent within, our lives are transformed. -paraphrasing from Daily Word, By
[FairfieldLife] Re: Chemtrails Discussed At United Nations, Must Watch For All Non-belivers
!Cap pollution at its source! No money-market schemes to further add to the problem. -Buck This is the second time you demand others to watch and explain videos or photos for you to understand simple ideas. If you weren't so infinitely lazy you would have known the reason why chemtrails have been going on for decades already. Salyavin808 writes: Don't worry Nabby I found it: http://rense.com/general79/chem.htm http://rense.com/general79/chem.htm Chemtrails are an attempt by the world's governments to create plasma in the atmosphere so their laser weapons can fire better. They aren't just vapour from aircraft engines. At least there's a reason... So are you going to explain it or not? nablusoss1008 writes Sounds farfetched. What came from the UN-meeting, if you had bothered to listen, was that aluminum is thought to cool down the earths temperature by reflecting back sunlight. Hence the chemtrails, mostly from military and governmental aircrafts. That aluminum also is highly poisonous to humans since it enters the bloodstream through the drinking-water and hinders the root of trees to absorb water is considered a minor side-effect.: I wouldn't say it was discussed more like one person droning on about an absurd conspiracy theory. Why would the US government be poisoning the air? Turq writes: It's Easter, do the Americans finally Creep to the Cross ? http://truththeory.com/2014/04/20/chemtrails-discussed-at-united-nations-must-watch-for-all-non-belivers/?fb_action_ids=1413968658874169fb_action_types=og.likes http://truththeory.com/2014/04/20/chemtrails-discussed-at-united-nations-must-watch-for-all-non-belivers/?fb_action_ids=1413968658874169fb_action_types=og.likes
[FairfieldLife] Re: Chemtrails Discussed At United Nations, Must Watch For All Non-belivers
This all is enough data and observation that I am now willing to be a contrail hypothesis believer by virtue of a better understanding the problem now. Thanks for that UN presentation link at the bottom of this. -Buck, out standing in his fields !Cap pollution at its source! No money-market schemes to further add to the problem. This is the second time you demand others to watch and explain videos or photos for you to understand simple ideas. If you weren't so infinitely lazy you would have known the reason why chemtrails have been going on for decades already. Salyavin808 writes: Don't worry Nabby I found it: http://rense.com/general79/chem.htm http://rense.com/general79/chem.htm Chemtrails are an attempt by the world's governments to create plasma in the atmosphere so their laser weapons can fire better. They aren't just vapour from aircraft engines. At least there's a reason... So are you going to explain it or not? nablusoss1008 writes Sounds farfetched. What came from the UN-meeting, if you had bothered to listen, was that aluminum is thought to cool down the earths temperature by reflecting back sunlight. Hence the chemtrails, mostly from military and governmental aircrafts. That aluminum also is highly poisonous to humans since it enters the bloodstream through the drinking-water and hinders the root of trees to absorb water is considered a minor side-effect.: I wouldn't say it was discussed more like one person droning on about an absurd conspiracy theory. Why would the US government be poisoning the air? Turq writes: It's Easter, do the Americans finally Creep to the Cross ? http://truththeory.com/2014/04/20/chemtrails-discussed-at-united-nations-must-watch-for-all-non-belivers/?fb_action_ids=1413968658874169fb_action_types=og.likes http://truththeory.com/2014/04/20/chemtrails-discussed-at-united-nations-must-watch-for-all-non-belivers/?fb_action_ids=1413968658874169fb_action_types=og.likes
[FairfieldLife] Re: Chemtrails Discussed At United Nations, Must Watch For All Non-belivers
Jeesus folks this is evident earth science, Stop Geo-engineering Man-made haze in the atmosphere. Stop Atmospheric dumping and further commercialized un-regulated testing to privately affect Mitigation for climate change, Stop the Geo-engineering like putting sulfur, iron and aluminum dust in the sky? Reducing Photosynthesis and reducing solar power? Cirrus and man-made clouds changing climate in contrails, 4k kilometers long and persisting 20 hours? Non-comercial jets? Bursting contrail streams reducing solar power to the earth. This all is enough data and observation that I am now willing to be a contrail hypothesis believer by virtue of a better understanding the problem now. Thanks for that UN presentation link at the bottom of this. -Buck, out standing in his fields !Cap pollution at its source! No money-market schemes to further add to the problem. This is the second time you demand others to watch and explain videos or photos for you to understand simple ideas. If you weren't so infinitely lazy you would have known the reason why chemtrails have been going on for decades already. Salyavin808 writes: Don't worry Nabby I found it: http://rense.com/general79/chem.htm http://rense.com/general79/chem.htm Chemtrails are an attempt by the world's governments to create plasma in the atmosphere so their laser weapons can fire better. They aren't just vapour from aircraft engines. At least there's a reason... So are you going to explain it or not? nablusoss1008 writes Sounds farfetched. What came from the UN-meeting, if you had bothered to listen, was that aluminum is thought to cool down the earths temperature by reflecting back sunlight. Hence the chemtrails, mostly from military and governmental aircrafts. That aluminum also is highly poisonous to humans since it enters the bloodstream through the drinking-water and hinders the root of trees to absorb water is considered a minor side-effect.: I wouldn't say it was discussed more like one person droning on about an absurd conspiracy theory. Why would the US government be poisoning the air? Turq writes: It's Easter, do the Americans finally Creep to the Cross ? http://truththeory.com/2014/04/20/chemtrails-discussed-at-united-nations-must-watch-for-all-non-belivers/?fb_action_ids=1413968658874169fb_action_types=og.likes http://truththeory.com/2014/04/20/chemtrails-discussed-at-united-nations-must-watch-for-all-non-belivers/?fb_action_ids=1413968658874169fb_action_types=og.likes
[FairfieldLife] Re: Chemtrails Discussed At United Nations, Must Watch For All Non-belivers
Ultimately the contrail problem is spiritual. -Buck yikes, Nablusoss, between the chemtrails and the GMO crops, they're poisoning the bejeezus out of the planet and us all. Plus themselves! Fear, no terror, must be at the basis of such lunacy. I guess it's just another step in the evolutionary process (-: What came from the UN-meeting, if you had bothered to listen, was that aluminum is thought to cool down the earths temperature by reflecting back sunlight. Hence the chemtrails, mostly from military and governmental aircrafts. That aluminum also is highly poisonous to humans since it enters the bloodstream through the drinking-water and hinders the root of trees to absorb water is considered a minor side-effect. Sounds farfetched. It all sounds farfetched. Aircraft exhaust is bad enough anyway but to add things to it to try and control the atmosphere would be stupid. You'd need to test an area first and they can't even get permission for that. It would have to go through congress and the EU, that would take forever and there are more scientists against geo-engineering than there are for it. Can you imagine what the courts would do to you if you were found to be carrying out potentially dangerous experiments without authorisation? You be strung up. and you expect us to believe all government departments are doing it? It's a conspiracy theory. Save your protest energy for something that's actually happening. Jeesus folks this is evident earth science, Stop Geo-engineering Man-made haze in the atmosphere. Stop Atmospheric dumping and further commercialized un-regulated testing to privately affect Mitigation for climate change, Stop the Geo-engineering like putting sulfur, iron and aluminum dust in the sky? Reducing Photosynthesis and reducing solar power? Cirrus and man-made clouds changing climate in contrails, 4k kilometers long and persisting 20 hours? Non-comercial jets? Bursting contrail streams reducing solar power to the earth. This all is enough data and observation that I am now willing to be a contrail hypothesis believer by virtue of a better understanding the problem now. Thanks for that UN presentation link at the bottom of this. -Buck, out standing in his fields !Cap pollution at its source! No money-market schemes to further add to the problem. This is the second time you demand others to watch and explain videos or photos for you to understand simple ideas. If you weren't so infinitely lazy you would have known the reason why chemtrails have been going on for decades already. Salyavin808 writes: Don't worry Nabby I found it: http://rense.com/general79/chem.htm http://rense.com/general79/chem.htm Chemtrails are an attempt by the world's governments to create plasma in the atmosphere so their laser weapons can fire better. They aren't just vapour from aircraft engines. Very funny Sal, so you think the US Government needs a permission ? Is it stupid, yes of course it is but it's been going on for so long, since the early 80's so don't expect any admission of fault anytime soon. Only mass-awareness from the grassroots with rallies and general strikes etc. can stop this. Let's hope the Americans haven't become too duped to do something about it. I didn't think the US govt had admitted that global warming was happening? Certainly not as far back as the 1980's. Every administration since would have to agree with the idea and secretly carry on. As usual with these government conspiracy theories, the amount of people who would have to know is enormous. It makes it unlikely that they could all keep it secret. t's a conspiracy theory. Save your protest energy for something that's actually happening. HaHa ! At least there's a reason... So are you going to explain it or not? nablusoss1008 writes Sounds farfetched. What came from the UN-meeting, if you had bothered to listen, was that aluminum is thought to cool down the earths temperature by reflecting back sunlight. Hence the chemtrails, mostly from military and governmental aircrafts. That aluminum also is highly poisonous to humans since it enters the bloodstream through the drinking-water and hinders the root of trees to absorb water is considered a minor side-effect.: I wouldn't say it was discussed more like one person droning on about an absurd conspiracy theory. Why would the US government be poisoning the air? Turq writes: It's Easter, do the Americans finally Creep to the Cross ? http://truththeory.com/2014/04/20/chemtrails-discussed-at-united-nations-must-watch-for-all-non-belivers/?fb_action_ids=1413968658874169fb_action_types=og.likes http://truththeory.com/2014/04/20/chemtrails-discussed-at-united-nations-must-watch-for-all-non-belivers/?fb_action_ids=1413968658874169fb_action_types=og.likes
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Chemtrails Discussed At United Nations, Must Watch For All Non-belivers
Yes again, more fundamentally to curb this problem people need to be active spending much more time in meditation and much less time producing and consuming widgets and stuff in their own miserably ignorant material lives. sharelong60 writes: I agree Buck that all problems are ultimately spiritual problems. But still, I go to the dentist if I have a toothache. I liked that Dr. Nader was also advising people to be practical about challenges. Ultimately the contrail problem is spiritual. -Buck yikes, Nablusoss, between the chemtrails and the GMO crops, they're poisoning the bejeezus out of the planet and us all. Plus themselves! Fear, no terror, must be at the basis of such lunacy. I guess it's just another step in the evolutionary process (-: What came from the UN-meeting, if you had bothered to listen, was that aluminum is thought to cool down the earths temperature by reflecting back sunlight. Hence the chemtrails, mostly from military and governmental aircrafts. That aluminum also is highly poisonous to humans since it enters the bloodstream through the drinking-water and hinders the root of trees to absorb water is considered a minor side-effect. Sounds farfetched. It all sounds farfetched. Aircraft exhaust is bad enough anyway but to add things to it to try and control the atmosphere would be stupid. You'd need to test an area first and they can't even get permission for that. It would have to go through congress and the EU, that would take forever and there are more scientists against geo-engineering than there are for it. Can you imagine what the courts would do to you if you were found to be carrying out potentially dangerous experiments without authorisation? You be strung up. and you expect us to believe all government departments are doing it? It's a conspiracy theory. Save your protest energy for something that's actually happening. Jeesus folks this is evident earth science, Stop Geo-engineering Man-made haze in the atmosphere. Stop Atmospheric dumping and further commercialized un-regulated testing to privately affect Mitigation for climate change, Stop the Geo-engineering like putting sulfur, iron and aluminum dust in the sky? Reducing Photosynthesis and reducing solar power? Cirrus and man-made clouds changing climate in contrails, 4k kilometers long and persisting 20 hours? Non-comercial jets? Bursting contrail streams reducing solar power to the earth. This all is enough data and observation that I am now willing to be a contrail hypothesis believer by virtue of a better understanding the problem now. Thanks for that UN presentation link at the bottom of this. -Buck, out standing in his fields !Cap pollution at its source! No money-market schemes to further add to the problem. This is the second time you demand others to watch and explain videos or photos for you to understand simple ideas. If you weren't so infinitely lazy you would have known the reason why chemtrails have been going on for decades already. Salyavin808 writes: Don't worry Nabby I found it: http://rense.com/general79/chem.htm http://rense.com/general79/chem.htm Chemtrails are an attempt by the world's governments to create plasma in the atmosphere so their laser weapons can fire better. They aren't just vapour from aircraft engines. Very funny Sal, so you think the US Government needs a permission ? Is it stupid, yes of course it is but it's been going on for so long, since the early 80's so don't expect any admission of fault anytime soon. Only mass-awareness from the grassroots with rallies and general strikes etc. can stop this. Let's hope the Americans haven't become too duped to do something about it. I didn't think the US govt had admitted that global warming was happening? Certainly not as far back as the 1980's. Every administration since would have to agree with the idea and secretly carry on. As usual with these government conspiracy theories, the amount of people who would have to know is enormous. It makes it unlikely that they could all keep it secret. t's a conspiracy theory. Save your protest energy for something that's actually happening. HaHa ! At least there's a reason... So are you going to explain it or not? nablusoss1008 writes Sounds farfetched. What came from the UN-meeting, if you had bothered to listen, was that aluminum is thought to cool down the earths temperature by reflecting back sunlight. Hence the chemtrails, mostly from military and governmental aircrafts. That aluminum also is highly poisonous to humans since it enters the bloodstream through the drinking-water and hinders the root of trees to absorb water is considered a minor side-effect.: I wouldn't say it was discussed more like one person droning on about an absurd conspiracy theory. Why would the US government be poisoning the air? Turq
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Chemtrails Discussed At United Nations, Must Watch For All Non-belivers
Yes Absolutely, Nablusoss. Meditate and act. The larger problem needs much more spiritual activism to solve. It needs to start with much better public education in science and much more quiet time meditation in the school and workday for all its good reasons. nablusoss1008 writes: That's right Buck but Maharishi always stressed meditation AND action. Unless you start protesting about what is going on it will, eh.. go on. Yes again, more fundamentally to curb this problem people need to be active spending much more time in meditation and much less time producing and consuming widgets and stuff in their own miserably ignorant material lives. sharelong60 writes: I agree Buck that all problems are ultimately spiritual problems. But still, I go to the dentist if I have a toothache. I liked that Dr. Nader was also advising people to be practical about challenges. Ultimately the contrail problem is spiritual. -Buck yikes, Nablusoss, between the chemtrails and the GMO crops, they're poisoning the bejeezus out of the planet and us all. Plus themselves! Fear, no terror, must be at the basis of such lunacy. I guess it's just another step in the evolutionary process (-: What came from the UN-meeting, if you had bothered to listen, was that aluminum is thought to cool down the earths temperature by reflecting back sunlight. Hence the chemtrails, mostly from military and governmental aircrafts. That aluminum also is highly poisonous to humans since it enters the bloodstream through the drinking-water and hinders the root of trees to absorb water is considered a minor side-effect. Sounds farfetched. It all sounds farfetched. Aircraft exhaust is bad enough anyway but to add things to it to try and control the atmosphere would be stupid. You'd need to test an area first and they can't even get permission for that. It would have to go through congress and the EU, that would take forever and there are more scientists against geo-engineering than there are for it. Can you imagine what the courts would do to you if you were found to be carrying out potentially dangerous experiments without authorisation? You be strung up. and you expect us to believe all government departments are doing it? It's a conspiracy theory. Save your protest energy for something that's actually happening. Jeesus folks this is evident earth science, Stop Geo-engineering Man-made haze in the atmosphere. Stop Atmospheric dumping and further commercialized un-regulated testing to privately affect Mitigation for climate change, Stop the Geo-engineering like putting sulfur, iron and aluminum dust in the sky? Reducing Photosynthesis and reducing solar power? Cirrus and man-made clouds changing climate in contrails, 4k kilometers long and persisting 20 hours? Non-comercial jets? Bursting contrail streams reducing solar power to the earth. This all is enough data and observation that I am now willing to be a contrail hypothesis believer by virtue of a better understanding the problem now. Thanks for that UN presentation link at the bottom of this. -Buck, out standing in his fields !Cap pollution at its source! No money-market schemes to further add to the problem. This is the second time you demand others to watch and explain videos or photos for you to understand simple ideas. If you weren't so infinitely lazy you would have known the reason why chemtrails have been going on for decades already. Salyavin808 writes: Don't worry Nabby I found it: http://rense.com/general79/chem.htm http://rense.com/general79/chem.htm Chemtrails are an attempt by the world's governments to create plasma in the atmosphere so their laser weapons can fire better. They aren't just vapour from aircraft engines. Very funny Sal, so you think the US Government needs a permission ? Is it stupid, yes of course it is but it's been going on for so long, since the early 80's so don't expect any admission of fault anytime soon. Only mass-awareness from the grassroots with rallies and general strikes etc. can stop this. Let's hope the Americans haven't become too duped to do something about it. I didn't think the US govt had admitted that global warming was happening? Certainly not as far back as the 1980's. Every administration since would have to agree with the idea and secretly carry on. As usual with these government conspiracy theories, the amount of people who would have to know is enormous. It makes it unlikely that they could all keep it secret. t's a conspiracy theory. Save your protest energy for something that's actually happening. HaHa ! At least there's a reason... So are you going to explain it or not? nablusoss1008 writes Sounds farfetched. What came from the UN-meeting, if you had bothered to listen, was that aluminum is thought to cool down the earths temperature by reflecting back
[FairfieldLife] Re: Brahmachari Girish Varma Ji is to be praised?
Guru-Shishya? BJP administration? So was he [ Girish Varma ] convicted on the charges or not? Has he had a trial on the charges? Had to forfeit the $800K bail, or not? Who got the money back, if anyone? What do you know? So, what is our relationship with this Girish Varma, the Maharishi Schools in India and the pundit program now and the TM.org? Got any links to journalism, articles that would clarify his state? Does he represent TM still? He is still the Indian partner of the larger TM movement? A trustee? Just wondering, -Buck, an old and practitioner Western TM meditator in Fairfield, Iowa. srijau@ymail.comwrites: Honorable Ex-Minister of Higher Education, Shri Mukesh Nayak Ji (Congress)praises His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Ji for spreading Vedic Knowledge world-wide. He assures that Brahmachari Girish Varma Ji has all capabilities to take Maharishi's Vedic knowledge programmes to everyone in the world. He said Brahmachari Girish Ji is a true representative of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Ji. Brahmachari Girish Ji had an unique Guru-Shishya relationship with His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Ji which is incomparable and to be praised. Jai Girish Ji! https://www.facebook.com/BrahmachariGirishJi https://www.facebook.com/BrahmachariGirishJi now just wait for BJP administation!
[FairfieldLife] ACTIVE Need for More Meditation, Chemtrails Discussed At United Nations, Must Watch For All Non-belivers
For so many good reasons folks everywhere should be actively spending much more time in silence and transcendent meditation. There needs to be much more discipline around this. It is about survival of the species and planet as a place for spiritual life in the human form. People need to respect this problem a whole lot more, -Buck in the Dome Yes Absolutely, Nablusoss. Meditate and act. The larger problem needs much more spiritual activism to solve. It needs to start with much better public education in science and much more quiet time meditation in the school and workday for all its good reasons. nablusoss1008 writes: That's right Buck but Maharishi always stressed meditation AND action. Unless you start protesting about what is going on it will, eh.. go on. Yes again, more fundamentally to curb this problem people need to be active spending much more time in meditation and much less time producing and consuming widgets and stuff in their own miserably ignorant material lives. sharelong60 writes: I agree Buck that all problems are ultimately spiritual problems. But still, I go to the dentist if I have a toothache. I liked that Dr. Nader was also advising people to be practical about challenges. Ultimately the contrail problem is spiritual. -Buck yikes, Nablusoss, between the chemtrails and the GMO crops, they're poisoning the bejeezus out of the planet and us all. Plus themselves! Fear, no terror, must be at the basis of such lunacy. I guess it's just another step in the evolutionary process (-: What came from the UN-meeting, if you had bothered to listen, was that aluminum is thought to cool down the earths temperature by reflecting back sunlight. Hence the chemtrails, mostly from military and governmental aircrafts. That aluminum also is highly poisonous to humans since it enters the bloodstream through the drinking-water and hinders the root of trees to absorb water is considered a minor side-effect. Sounds farfetched. It all sounds farfetched. Aircraft exhaust is bad enough anyway but to add things to it to try and control the atmosphere would be stupid. You'd need to test an area first and they can't even get permission for that. It would have to go through congress and the EU, that would take forever and there are more scientists against geo-engineering than there are for it. Can you imagine what the courts would do to you if you were found to be carrying out potentially dangerous experiments without authorisation? You be strung up. and you expect us to believe all government departments are doing it? It's a conspiracy theory. Save your protest energy for something that's actually happening. Jeesus folks this is evident earth science, Stop Geo-engineering Man-made haze in the atmosphere. Stop Atmospheric dumping and further commercialized un-regulated testing to privately affect Mitigation for climate change, Stop the Geo-engineering like putting sulfur, iron and aluminum dust in the sky? Reducing Photosynthesis and reducing solar power? Cirrus and man-made clouds changing climate in contrails, 4k kilometers long and persisting 20 hours? Non-comercial jets? Bursting contrail streams reducing solar power to the earth. This all is enough data and observation that I am now willing to be a contrail hypothesis believer by virtue of a better understanding the problem now. Thanks for that UN presentation link at the bottom of this. -Buck, out standing in his fields !Cap pollution at its source! No money-market schemes to further add to the problem. This is the second time you demand others to watch and explain videos or photos for you to understand simple ideas. If you weren't so infinitely lazy you would have known the reason why chemtrails have been going on for decades already. Salyavin808 writes: Don't worry Nabby I found it: http://rense.com/general79/chem.htm http://rense.com/general79/chem.htm Chemtrails are an attempt by the world's governments to create plasma in the atmosphere so their laser weapons can fire better. They aren't just vapour from aircraft engines. Very funny Sal, so you think the US Government needs a permission ? Is it stupid, yes of course it is but it's been going on for so long, since the early 80's so don't expect any admission of fault anytime soon. Only mass-awareness from the grassroots with rallies and general strikes etc. can stop this. Let's hope the Americans haven't become too duped to do something about it. I didn't think the US govt had admitted that global warming was happening? Certainly not as far back as the 1980's. Every administration since would have to agree with the idea and secretly carry on. As usual with these government conspiracy theories, the amount of people who would have to know is enormous. It makes it unlikely that they could all keep it secret. t's a conspiracy
[FairfieldLife] Re: Are the TM Rajas An Offshoot?
Yep, that Dr. Hagelin did not wear the gold foil hat and robe is extremely interesting for TM-watchers. Also of note, some of the other TM-Raja who did not but who were there in the crowd is noteworthy also as for who did not go for the hazing of the meeting at this point. What was MAR thinking and those other few guys doing that? It is a small group inside TM really. Our Mayor of Vedic City coming in along with this entourage and sitting too in front of the group looking like a news-reel incarnation of a white suited bloated Field Marshal was a little haunting of something too. He and the Raja of the Raj were the only ones now dressed in that white-creme suit special look. Overall it was a good meeting with the meditating community but evidently it was not exactly your normal meditator knowledge meeting. You had to be there to see it, -Buck sparaig writes: The Rajas are people who paid $1 million to become the administrators of the TM organization at the highest level, or who managed to get someone to pay that money for them. As I understand it, a requirement to be a raja was not simply that you pay the money but that you be willing to wear the funny hat. Apparently that hat requirement has ben relaxed at least somewhat, but since Tony abu Nader gets to rewrite the rules as he sees fit, that isn't all that a big deal if he choses not to wear his crown in public appearances. The fact that John Hagelin didn't wear HIS crown as Raja of North America is more interesting, but again, Tony Nader gets to write the rules and it if is OK with him... Of course, John Hagelin might be an exception to the rule in several ways as he can wear any of 4 hats (that I am aware of): Raja John Hagelin: Professor/Director John Hagelin; President of the David Lynch Foundation, John Hagelin; Chairman of the board of directors of the Maharishi Foundation, John Hagelin. The other guys seem happy or at least comfortable with wearing their hats in public, but then again, most of them don't make many public appearances outside TM organization functions while King Tony and Raja John are very much in the public eye by comparison. L Share writes: “The Rajas are just a weird offshoot of a main organization”. So why the gold foil hats and robes, now? What were they thinking the other night coming, sitting and leaving in their processional in and out of the meeting in full WTF-regalia? Generally groups can both live and die by their own specialness. The social-science field of altruistic evolution proly has a lot to say about that. This TM group has been killing itself off over the long years by cultivating extra-specialness within it. And, this cultivating specialness of the Rajas now? Does a larger meditating community want to belong to that or have that represent it? It all seems more like a hazing than anything else. It was interesting to see who [which Raja] were not wearing the gold crown and robe git-up at the meeting. That itself proly took some courage to do. -Buck Yes, the Raja part of TM is such a small circle in TM and of the larger TM community but people do wonder if they are going to keep doing it. When you talk to meditators in the community there is a general disheartenment that those guys wear that stuff representing the movement and the meditating community here. Generally you ask people here if they are meditators and the meditators respond saying, “yes, but not that.. .”, pointing in the general direction of campus and Vedic City. 7Ray27 writes: Hey Michael, Most of what I know about the school comes from the annual publication I get listing achievements and donors about and to MUM.. (and yes, I am listed as making a small donation) But as I understand it Craig Pearson is the administrative head of the school. Now, whether he takes his orders from the Rajas, or Bevan, or if is able to work independently, I don't know. I do happen to know someone higher up in the school administration and talk to him very infrequently. But the impression I get is that those administrators handle to day to day running, without a lot of direct oversight or interference from the rajas. Of course, in the same publication, they also list the trustees of the university. They are many, and very few (if any) are rajas, IIRC. So, that may offer a different perspective than the one you are offering. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : an offshoot? What are you smoking? Let's see - the leader of the Movement, King-Pin Tony CALLS himself not only a king but the BIG king, he wears robes and a big ass gold crown - all the other leaders including Bevan are all robe and crown wearers - these asses RUN the Movement - if the rajas aren't in charge who is? The fact that you can't accept these guys have become the face of the new Movement is indicative of just how deep your denial
[FairfieldLife] Re: Veda, Vedic Cities.. . ..Living the Golden Age!
Properly so; “The study of the Vedic Literature is of no value without the perspective of Maharishi Mahesha Yogi's Dharma. Certainly there is no need for Maharishi Mahesha Yogi, the greatest RIshi, to be in any way, validated or justified by any tradition or text, rather it is the tradition or text that can only be made properly understood through understanding by Maharishi's perspective including the sound value of the Vedic literature, and the reading of Veda in Sanskirt for the development of consciousness.” -sri...@ymail.com https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/381392 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/381392 IN THE NAME OF VEDA CONTEMPORARY USES OF VEDIC TEXTS IN INDIA AND ABROAD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE PARIS 14-15 MAY 2014 ORGANIZATION Caterina Guenzi (EHESS) and Raphaël VOIX (CNRS) Composed between the fifteenth and the fifth century BCE, the Vedas - literally Knowledge - are a Sanskrit corpus considered by most Hindus as a non-human revelation, and whose transmission has for centuries been reserved to a socio-religious elite, the Brahmins. Throughout brahmanic literature the authority of the Vedas is recognized as supreme. In the nineteenth century, as part of the construction of an Indian national identity during the colonial period, some reform movements transformed them into the reference texts for a Hinduism conceived of as a unitary religion. They also read and interpreted the Vedas as a religion that, unlike Christianity, contained truths compatible with the achievements of modern science. Although the content of the Vedas focuses mainly on the celebration of sacrifice, nowadays we witness a proliferation of texts and discourses which put references to the Vedas into play in the most diverse areas. The attribution of the term “Vedic” is now used to legitimate all sorts of knowledge and practices. Thus, we hear of “Vedic architecture”, “Vedic astrology”, “Vedic ecology”, “Vedic mathematics”, “Ayur-Veda” (Vedic medicine), “Vedic socialism and communism”, and even “Vedic management”. The visibility of these phenomena increased with recent attempts by Hindu nationalists, when they were in power, to introduce these new fields into school and university systems, both in India and abroad. This political operation raised significant ideological issues and led to a huge controversy about the legitimacy of these different fields. Despite their visibility, both in India and Anglo-Saxon countries, and despite the controversies that they generated, these discourses and practices have received only marginal attention from the social sciences, and have moreover never been the topic of a study where they are considered jointly. This international conference aims to bridge this gap by bringing together ethnologists who have observed the birth and dissemination of these phenomena in their field studies. The participation of historians and Sanskrit scholars will help us to put the historical dimension of these events into perspective, while specialists of other cultural arenas, who face similar phenomena of appeal to texts, will shed light on the regional specificity of these observed social facts. During the conference, the primary task will be to understand the scope of these phenomena, by examining the social identity of the actors involved: which groups or individuals contribute to the production of these new forms of knowledge? To whom are they addressed? Who are the intermediaries involved in the propagation of these ideas? Which groups contest the legitimacy of these discourses? In particular, we shall attempt to understand how these groups organize themselves institutionally (sects, associations, university); their political, religious and associative networks; as well as their relationship with figures in the Hindu nationalist movement. The sociological investigation of these figures shall necessarily take into consideration the role of Indian diaspora and its transnational networks. Central to our investigation is a focus on the content of these “new” forms of knowledge, and the legitimation strategies that go along with them. Although it takes particular forms in the modern world, referencing the Vedas is actually an ancient way to affirm the validity of knowledge . How are contemporary ways of referring to the Vedas as a legitimating authority different from ancient ways? In what ways does the attribution “Vedic” help to legitimate particular ways of knowing? This will lead us to question the role of textual authority in contemporary Hinduism and its uses as a way of forging new religious identities. If modern science as epistemological authority was amply used by Hindu reformers during colonial times to prove the universal value of Hinduism, how are the “Vedic” and the “scientific”
Re: [FairfieldLife] Maharishi Mahesh is Shiva incarnated on the earth
Nice blog. I enjoyed reading it. Those were fun times. MJ, I am sorry that you are so angry that you can not appreciate them now. Rick Archer once asked Ammachi about spiritual dissonance of different teachers. She asked, did you gain anything of value? He affirmed he did. She gave a good answer then, “If you are walking along and find a diamond in a pile of shit what do you do?” .. . “Pick it out and wash it off.” was her answer. .. . Sage advice. It seems sad you just keep stepping in the shit and track it all around now. -Buck mjackson74 writes: Its this kind of shit that makes people realize the extreme cult thinking that can take place in the TM Movement - thank you for posting and confirming the cult mentality srijau mailto:srijau@...wrote: Rajas were part of this Lila as narrated by Linga Purana https://www.facebook.com/MaharishiVedicCookingschool/posts/10152084286875835 https://www.facebook.com/MaharishiVedicCookingschool/posts/10152084286875835 Subject: [FairfieldLife] Maharishi Mahesh is Shiva incarnated on the earth To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Monday, April 21, 2014, 3:08 AM .
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Student Housing and More
Om, hands down Bevan is the most powerful person in it. He cuts through the whole organizational flowchart. Strategically for the good of the succession of the place it would be nice to have Bevan go President Emeritus of the university now and give the job of President for someone else to use and do, like Craig Pearson. The MUM board of Trustee should act on this with some spine. Let Craig Pearson be President for a while, he is so prepared. That would be a timely and a good transition to make now. -Buck mjackson74 writes: Well, if there were a disagreement between Big Bopper Bevan and Craig Pearson about some aspect of MUM's running, who do you think would win the argument? On Mon, 4/21/14, steve.sundur@... mailto:steve.sundur@... steve.sundur@... mailto:steve.sundur@... wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Student Housing and More To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Monday, April 21, 2014, 10:26 AM Hey Michael, Most of what I know about the school comes from the annual publication I get listing achievements and donors about and to MUM.. (and yes, I am listed as making a small donation) But as I understand it Craig Pearson is the administrative head of the school. Now, whether he takes his orders from the Rajas, or Bevan, or if is able to work independently, I don't know. I do happen to know someone higher up in the school administration and talk to him very infrequently. But the impression I get is that those administrators handle to day to day running, without a lot of direct oversight or interference from the rajas. Of course, in the same publication, they also list the trustees of the university. They are many, and very few (if any) are rajas, IIRC. So, that may offer a different perspective than the one you are offering. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : an offshoot? What are you smoking? Let's see - the leader of the Movement, King-Pin Tony CALLS himself not only a king but the BIG king, he wears robes and a big ass gold crown - all the other leaders including Bevan are all robe and crown wearers - these asses RUN the Movement - if the rajas aren't in charge who is? The fact that you can't accept these guys have become the face of the new Movement is indicative of just how deep your denial runs. On Sun, 4/20/14, steve.sundur@... steve.sundur@... wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Student Housing and More To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Sunday, April 20, 2014, 10:12 PM I think it's called the World Wide Web. The Rajas are just a weird offshoot of the main organization. I'm not sure what direct connection the Rajas have to academic life. As for due diligence during the time you were involved in the organization and people looking at it now, it's sort of like indicting the Collective Papers for being so low on Amazon's Book list compared to the guy's book that just came out about the murder of his fellow MUM student. A lot has changed in thirty years. The world just doesn't turn exactly the way you want it to Michael. You have to get used to that fact. Despite your earnest efforts to defeat the organization in every way you can, you may end up being frustrated. But I'm sure you'll stay at it. It appears to be quite a preoccupation for you. And really, if truth be told, it seems to have come on heels of your other failed spiritual ventures. Perhaps all that frustration got all balled up, and this is now the result. Just sayin' ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : You must be living with your head in the sand Share - the TMO masks a great deal of what it does from the outside observer including those who are prospective students. I have told the story of how I just a few months ago had a good talk with a young man and his mother. The boy was intent on going to MUM - they had been to visitors weekend and didn't even know anything about the rajas! I had been in the TM mindset for 10 years before I went to MIU and I had no idea of the stupid crap I would have to put up with while on staff - no one does unless they have been on staff or as a student. On Sun, 4/20/14, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Student Housing and More To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com; FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Sunday, April 20, 2014, 9:28 PM salyavin, in this day and age, however
Re: [FairfieldLife] Maharishi Mahesh is Shiva incarnated on the earth
[and, go on your way].. Nice blog. I enjoyed reading it. Those were fun times. MJ, I am sorry that you are so angry that you can not appreciate them now. Rick Archer once asked Ammachi about spiritual dissonance of different teachers. She asked, did you gain anything of value from them? He affirmed he did. She gave a good answer then, “If you are walking along and find a diamond in a pile of shit what do you do?” .. . “Pick it out and wash it off, and go on your way.” was her answer. .. . Sage advice. It seems sad you just keep stepping in the shit and track it all around now. -Buck mjackson74 writes: Its this kind of shit that makes people realize the extreme cult thinking that can take place in the TM Movement - thank you for posting and confirming the cult mentality srijau mailto:srijau@...wrote: Rajas were part of this Lila as narrated by Linga Purana https://www.facebook.com/MaharishiVedicCookingschool/posts/10152084286875835 https://www.facebook.com/MaharishiVedicCookingschool/posts/10152084286875835 Subject: [FairfieldLife] Maharishi Mahesh is Shiva incarnated on the earth To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Monday, April 21, 2014, 3:08 AM ..
[FairfieldLife] Re: Veda, Vedic Cities.. . ..Living the Golden Age!
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE PARIS 14-15 MAY 2014 ORGANIZATION Caterina Guenzi (EHESS) and Raphaël VOIX (CNRS) Composed between the fifteenth and the fifth century BCE, the Vedas - literally Knowledge - are a Sanskrit corpus considered by most Hindus as a non-human revelation, and whose transmission has for centuries been reserved to a socio-religious elite, the Brahmins. Throughout brahmanic literature the authority of the Vedas is recognized as supreme. In the nineteenth century, as part of the construction of an Indian national identity during the colonial period, some reform movements transformed them into the reference texts for a Hinduism conceived of as a unitary religion. They also read and interpreted the Vedas as a religion that, unlike Christianity, contained truths compatible with the achievements of modern science. Although the content of the Vedas focuses mainly on the celebration of sacrifice, nowadays we witness a proliferation of texts and discourses which put references to the Vedas into play in the most diverse areas. The attribution of the term “Vedic” is now used to legitimate all sorts of knowledge and practices. Thus, we hear of “Vedic architecture”, “Vedic astrology”, “Vedic ecology”, “Vedic mathematics”, “Ayur-Veda” (Vedic medicine), “Vedic socialism and communism”, and even “Vedic management”. The visibility of these phenomena increased with recent attempts by Hindu nationalists, when they were in power, to introduce these new fields into school and university systems, both in India and abroad. This political operation raised significant ideological issues and led to a huge controversy about the legitimacy of these different fields. Despite their visibility, both in India and Anglo-Saxon countries, and despite the controversies that they generated, these discourses and practices have received only marginal attention from the social sciences, and have moreover never been the topic of a study where they are considered jointly. This international conference aims to bridge this gap by bringing together ethnologists who have observed the birth and dissemination of these phenomena in their field studies. The participation of historians and Sanskrit scholars will help us to put the historical dimension of these events into perspective, while specialists of other cultural arenas, who face similar phenomena of appeal to texts, will shed light on the regional specificity of these observed social facts. During the conference, the primary task will be to understand the scope of these phenomena, by examining the social identity of the actors involved: which groups or individuals contribute to the production of these new forms of knowledge? To whom are they addressed? Who are the intermediaries involved in the propagation of these ideas? Which groups contest the legitimacy of these discourses? In particular, we shall attempt to understand how these groups organize themselves institutionally (sects, associations, university); their political, religious and associative networks; as well as their relationship with figures in the Hindu nationalist movement. The sociological investigation of these figures shall necessarily take into consideration the role of Indian diaspora and its transnational networks. Central to our investigation is a focus on the content of these “new” forms of knowledge, and the legitimation strategies that go along with them. Although it takes particular forms in the modern world, referencing the Vedas is actually an ancient way to affirm the validity of knowledge . How are contemporary ways of referring to the Vedas as a legitimating authority different from ancient ways? In what ways does the attribution “Vedic” help to legitimate particular ways of knowing? This will lead us to question the role of textual authority in contemporary Hinduism and its uses as a way of forging new religious identities. If modern science as epistemological authority was amply used by Hindu reformers during colonial times to prove the universal value of Hinduism, how are the “Vedic” and the “scientific” articulated in contemporary discourses and practices? Participants will also be asked to investigate whether the attribution “Vedic” is always used in a “Hindu” context or whether it can be a purely commercial term used to sell the “exotic” and the “ancient” within India— as in the case of the Vedic City under construction by the Shri Infratech group in Greater Noida. Similarly, the conference will deal with the economy that is generated as these ideas spread. Besides the ideological dimension, commercial concerns seem to be at the heart of these new phenomena. “The attribution “Vedic” has important commercial implications that should be attentively examined. The Vedas are nowadays sold as a commercial item, in the form of printed texts, recorded mantras (CD, DVD), or
[FairfieldLife] Are the TM Rajas An Offshoot?
Share writes: “The Rajas are just a weird offshoot of a main organization”. So why the gold foil hats and robes, now? What were they thinking the other night coming, sitting and leaving in their processional in and out of the meeting in full WTF-regalia? Generally groups can both live and die by their own specialness. The social-science field of altruistic evolution proly has a lot to say about that. This TM group has been killing itself off over the long years by cultivating extra-specialness within it. And, this cultivating specialness of the Rajas now? Does a larger meditating community want to belong to that or have that represent it? It all seems more like a hazing than anything else. It was interesting to see who [which Raja] were not wearing the gold crown and robe git-up at the meeting. That itself proly took some courage to do. -Buck 7Ray27 writes: Hey Michael, Most of what I know about the school comes from the annual publication I get listing achievements and donors about and to MUM.. (and yes, I am listed as making a small donation) But as I understand it Craig Pearson is the administrative head of the school. Now, whether he takes his orders from the Rajas, or Bevan, or if is able to work independently, I don't know. I do happen to know someone higher up in the school administration and talk to him very infrequently. But the impression I get is that those administrators handle to day to day running, without a lot of direct oversight or interference from the rajas. Of course, in the same publication, they also list the trustees of the university. They are many, and very few (if any) are rajas, IIRC. So, that may offer a different perspective than the one you are offering. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : an offshoot? What are you smoking? Let's see - the leader of the Movement, King-Pin Tony CALLS himself not only a king but the BIG king, he wears robes and a big ass gold crown - all the other leaders including Bevan are all robe and crown wearers - these asses RUN the Movement - if the rajas aren't in charge who is? The fact that you can't accept these guys have become the face of the new Movement is indicative of just how deep your denial runs. sundur@... mailto:steve.sundur@... wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Student Housing and More I think it's called the World Wide Web. The Rajas are just a weird offshoot of the main organization. I'm not sure what direct connection the Rajas have to academic life. As for due diligence during the time you were involved in the organization and people looking at it now, it's sort of like indicting the Collective Papers for being so low on Amazon's Book list compared to the guy's book that just came out about the murder of his fellow MUM student. A lot has changed in thirty years. The world just doesn't turn exactly the way you want it to Michael. You have to get used to that fact. Despite your earnest efforts to defeat the organization in every way you can, you may end up being frustrated. But I'm sure you'll stay at it. It appears to be quite a preoccupation for you. And really, if truth be told, it seems to have come on heels of your other failed spiritual ventures. Perhaps all that frustration got all balled up, and this is now the result. Just sayin' mjackson74 wrote : You must be living with your head in the sand Share - the TMO masks a great deal of what it does from the outside observer including those who are prospective students. I have told the story of how I just a few months ago had a good talk with a young man and his mother. The boy was intent on going to MUM - they had been to visitors weekend and didn't even know anything about the rajas! I had been in the TM mindset for 10 years before I went to MIU and I had no idea of the stupid crap I would have to put up with while on staff - no one does unless they have been on staff or as a student. Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Student Housing and More To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com; FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Sunday, April 20, 2014, 9:28 PM salyavin, in this day and age, however could a person join a utopian cult without realizing it?! Sounds to me like someone who didn't do their due diligence. And if it's really as bad as the blogger claims, wouldn't he have noticed the trailer park etc. when he first arrived. Plenty of time to get money back or not enroll at all. I doubt that the blog is telling his part in all this. The students at MUM now are very different than the students who were at MIU in 1975. Back then many were TM teachers and or had already been meditating for a few years. Californians! Nowadays they're into David Lynch or
[FairfieldLife] Re: Veda, Vedic Cities.. . ..Living the Golden Age!
IN THE NAME OF VEDA CONTEMPORARY USES OF VEDIC TEXTS IN INDIA AND ABROAD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE PARIS 14-15 MAY 2014 ORGANIZATION Caterina Guenzi (EHESS) and Raphaël VOIX (CNRS) Composed between the fifteenth and the fifth century BCE, the Vedas - literally Knowledge - are a Sanskrit corpus considered by most Hindus as a non-human revelation, and whose transmission has for centuries been reserved to a socio-religious elite, the Brahmins. Throughout brahmanic literature the authority of the Vedas is recognized as supreme. In the nineteenth century, as part of the construction of an Indian national identity during the colonial period, some reform movements transformed them into the reference texts for a Hinduism conceived of as a unitary religion. They also read and interpreted the Vedas as a religion that, unlike Christianity, contained truths compatible with the achievements of modern science. Although the content of the Vedas focuses mainly on the celebration of sacrifice, nowadays we witness a proliferation of texts and discourses which put references to the Vedas into play in the most diverse areas. The attribution of the term “Vedic” is now used to legitimate all sorts of knowledge and practices. Thus, we hear of “Vedic architecture”, “Vedic astrology”, “Vedic ecology”, “Vedic mathematics”, “Ayur-Veda” (Vedic medicine), “Vedic socialism and communism”, and even “Vedic management”. The visibility of these phenomena increased with recent attempts by Hindu nationalists, when they were in power, to introduce these new fields into school and university systems, both in India and abroad. This political operation raised significant ideological issues and led to a huge controversy about the legitimacy of these different fields. Despite their visibility, both in India and Anglo-Saxon countries, and despite the controversies that they generated, these discourses and practices have received only marginal attention from the social sciences, and have moreover never been the topic of a study where they are considered jointly. This international conference aims to bridge this gap by bringing together ethnologists who have observed the birth and dissemination of these phenomena in their field studies. The participation of historians and Sanskrit scholars will help us to put the historical dimension of these events into perspective, while specialists of other cultural arenas, who face similar phenomena of appeal to texts, will shed light on the regional specificity of these observed social facts. During the conference, the primary task will be to understand the scope of these phenomena, by examining the social identity of the actors involved: which groups or individuals contribute to the production of these new forms of knowledge? To whom are they addressed? Who are the intermediaries involved in the propagation of these ideas? Which groups contest the legitimacy of these discourses? In particular, we shall attempt to understand how these groups organize themselves institutionally (sects, associations, university); their political, religious and associative networks; as well as their relationship with figures in the Hindu nationalist movement. The sociological investigation of these figures shall necessarily take into consideration the role of Indian diaspora and its transnational networks. Central to our investigation is a focus on the content of these “new” forms of knowledge, and the legitimation strategies that go along with them. Although it takes particular forms in the modern world, referencing the Vedas is actually an ancient way to affirm the validity of knowledge . How are contemporary ways of referring to the Vedas as a legitimating authority different from ancient ways? In what ways does the attribution “Vedic” help to legitimate particular ways of knowing? This will lead us to question the role of textual authority in contemporary Hinduism and its uses as a way of forging new religious identities. If modern science as epistemological authority was amply used by Hindu reformers during colonial times to prove the universal value of Hinduism, how are the “Vedic” and the “scientific” articulated in contemporary discourses and practices? Participants will also be asked to investigate whether the attribution “Vedic” is always used in a “Hindu” context or whether it can be a purely commercial term used to sell the “exotic” and the “ancient” within India— as in the case of the Vedic City under construction by the Shri Infratech group in Greater Noida. Similarly, the conference will deal with the economy that is generated as these ideas spread. Besides the ideological dimension, commercial concerns seem to be at the heart of these new phenomena. “The attribution “Vedic” has important commercial implications that should be attentively examined. The Vedas are nowadays sold as a
[FairfieldLife] Re: documentary Brahmchari Ashutosh has made about the Vedic schools:
Very nice. Looks like our money has been honestly spent. That is re-assuring. I like all the traditional folk singing too. -Buck Brahmchari Ashutosh, also known as Urs Strobel from Switzerland Vedic Schools in the Himalayas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsw2vdhuano https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsw2vdhuano
[FairfieldLife] Re: Student Housing and More
This student's critique is hardly entirely fair. I have a number of friends who live in Utopia Park and love it. Many have lived there for years creating their own real nice domiciles. It works good for some quite by choice. The campus facility is work in progress all the time that takes Time and money in the relative. http://www.mum.edu/masterplan http://www.mum.edu/masterplan What does the kid expect, perfection? Obviously this student is an entitled little shit to come along in to something that he/she has no sense for the culture of. With the vile broadsides the kid lacks any sense of humility with this blogging. Shame on him/her, -Buck in the Dome
[FairfieldLife] Lurking and Searching FairfieldLife on Yahoo [ FFL ]
Any Technique to share? How do folks search the Fairfieldlife @ yahoo-groups archive now given the change with YahooNeo? The old search engine worked great with searches to get you to within an area of posts to be able to quickly scroll up and down to follow threads. This new engine sucks entirely and really wrecks an aspect of a product they had before that brought people to yahoo. A couple weeks ago I had a scholar who was reading FFL come to FF for visit from out in the world in getting ready to go to a academic conference asking how I search the archive to research. This last week I had a journalist working on a feature independently contact me ask the same thing in conversation. How do you search the FFL message archive? Within 'messages' on the FFL page I find typing in a word to search in to the box at the top of the page starts something as a search. Then that gets you the opportunity for, “advanced search” that comes with the results of the first search. Once you get going that can narrow down. But each time it kicks you back out to square one. Neo is quite miserable. Any other suggestions to lurkers to help with searches? -Buck
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Student Housing and More
Then Double shame on him, he is old enough to know better.. . Make waves, but make waves when they can help, or he is just cranky by nature and just makes waves and troubles for others regardless. http://www.mum.edu/master-plan/purpose http://www.mum.edu/master-plan/purpose -Buck ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : he is a married Navy veteran Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Student Housing and More To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Sunday, April 20, 2014, 2:25 PM This student's critique is hardly entirely fair. I have a number of friends who live in Utopia Park and love it. Many have lived there for years creating their own real nice domiciles. It works good for some quite by choice. The campus facility is work in progress all the time that takes Time and money in the relative. http://www.mum.edu/masterplan http://www.mum.edu/masterplan What does the kid expect, perfection? Obviously this student is an entitled little shit to come along in to something that he/she has no sense for the culture of. With the vile broadsides the kid lacks any sense of humility with this blogging. Shame on him/her,-Buck in the Dome
[FairfieldLife] Defending what are the *benefits* of the Unified Field Transcendent
Fair points, Authfriend. By example in Marek Reavis, I always admired his comments here about his career and experience as a Public Defender attorney giving voice and representation on behalf of those who can not or are not able. I often admire your work here too that way. There is a lot of conscience in that, possibly except but for the volume of some of the threads.. . Public Defending is a lot like exploring and giving representation here on FFL to ideas held by some people that one might not even like, just for all of us to see the light of their day. As a forum here it should be a better discussion for everyone here if some real TM true-believers could come forward and be here speaking freely for themselves of their own point of view. Mostly whenever they do show up on FFL they get cut off at the knees in the bar-fight cross-fire of apostates here for the vile and hateful lack of a due and civil consideration of the Tru-believer by the cynicisms of the apostates. It can be trying at times but quite rewarding work to adequately represent TM here; but I do my best to stand up for the under-voiced TM tru-believer here for good, -U.S. Buck in the Dome authfriend writes: In the minds of a few on FFL, the only reason to defend a person (or group, or idea) that is being treated unfairly is that one fully supports that person (or group, or idea). Therefore, if one defends Maharishi or the TMO, one is ipso facto a cultist. If one defends theism, one is ipso facto a believer in God. IOW, there can be no basis for objecting to unfairness per se, on its own terms (whether deliberate, due to malice, or inadvertent, due to ignorance). One never, ever stands up for what one perceives to be right unless one has a personal investment in specifically protecting who/whatever is being wronged from unjust criticism or attack. This stance has the advantage of making ethical choices much easier: You don't have to worry about being unfair; you don't have to worry about dismissing without consideration arguments for whatever you're against. There's no reason ever to rethink your opposition on the basis of input from a different perspective, because such input is--again, on its face--always tainted by bias. (Not that perfect objectivity is ever possible, of course, but it's not necessary to evaluate degrees of objectivity.) The disadvantage of this stance is that sometimes you are confronted by serious cognitive dissonance--as in the case, for example, of a person who must be a cultist because they defend Maharishi from what they consider unfair attack, but who also is sharply critical of Maharishi for his philandering with his female followers. A corollary to all this is that there is no basis for anyone to take a devil's advocate position simply for the intellectual exercise. From Wikipedia: In common parlance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parlance, a devil's advocate is someone who, given a certain argument http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument, takes a position they do not necessarily agree with (or simply an alternative position from the accepted norm), for the sake of debate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_the_sake_of_argument or to explore the thought further. In taking this position, the individual taking on the devil's advocate role seeks to engage others in an argumentative discussion process. The purpose of such a process is typically to test the quality of the original argument and identify weaknesses in its structure, and to use such information to either improve or abandon the original, opposing position. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil%27s_advocate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil%27s_advocate Just something to think about on a Monday morning... On 4/19/2014 6:09 PM, emilymaenot@... wrote: I just laugh at your obsession with using poor dead Fred as a baseball bat to hit Barry over the head with. Yes, it is funny - I use poor dead Fred as a baseball bat every time Barry uses poor dead Marshy as a baseball. LoL! At least Richard can admit to being a cultist, and to what triggers his use of cult tactics. .
[FairfieldLife] Om Jerusalem
Jerusalem Map and then a Quick video tour: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-26934435 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-26934435
[FairfieldLife] Re: In Transcendentalism,
REJOICE IN THE UNIFIED FIELD CHRIST TRANSCENDENT WITHIN. This Easter, rejoice in Jesus Christ for demonstrating that no worldly tomb can imprison the living, loving, eternal Unified Field. No matter what the circumstances, the resurrecting power of the Unified Field within restores and uplifts us. Thank you, Jesus Christ, for showing us the way to resurrection. Paraphrasing the Daily Word, -Buck in the Dome I am the resurrection and the life.—John 11:25 Good Friday signifies the day on which Jesus was crucified and laid in the tomb. It symbolizes the process of transformation followed by resurrection. One can see it as a time for Being in the Unified Field transcendent and enter into a higher state of consciousness as we release what no longer serves our spirit. This day we prepare for our own transformation as we enter the Silence of our Meditation. In this sacred space we go beyond anything separating us from that love of the Unified Field. At meditation in the Unified Field Transcendent, we reawaken to spiritual nature and become one with the light and life of that the indwelling Christ. One with the Christ of the Unified Field and our Being. Paraphrasing the Daily Word, -Buck in the Dome Now there was a garden in the place where he was crucified, and in the garden there was a new tomb in which no one had ever been laid.—John 19:41 My soul, be on guard; Ten thousand foes arise; The hosts of sin are pressing hard To draw thee from the skies. Om watch and meditate; The battle ne'er give o'er; Re-new it boldly ev'ry day, And help the Unified Field implore. Om watch and fight and meditate; The battle ne'er give o'er; Re-new it boldly ev'ry day, And help the Unified Field implore. Ne'er think the vic-t'ry won, Nor lay thine armor down; Thy arduous work will not be done Till thou obtain thy crown. Fight on, my soul, Till death shall bring thee home; It'll take thee, At thy parting breath, To merge in the abode of the Unified Field. -Old 1781 George Heath paraphrase When in need of guidance, go directly to the source of wisdom, the Unified Field Transcendent. Close the eyes and go into the Self. Gently release the chatter in the mind, letting thoughts drift away like faint clouds sweeping across a blue sky. Settling into this silent place of peace, find the all-knowing self-referral of the Unified Field. Recognize its wisdom as an inner knowing and feeling of peace in renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the will of the Unified Field -what is good and acceptable and perfect. -Paraphrasing from Daily Word Jai Guru Dev, -Buck Welcome all ye friends of the Transcendent, Welcome to the meditation. Venture wholly on the Unified Field Come and with Its people go. Om, Yet we come in common duty, Down beneath the waves we go; Om the bliss, the heavenly beauty, The Unified Field is experienced so. Om Come, ye meditators of the Global Country, Follow It beneath the wave. Meditate, an' Know the Transcendent, Resurrected proclaim Its power to save. -Buck, on Palm Sunday Eve Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Unified Field! Hosanna in the highest heaven!—Paraphrasing, Matthew 21:9 Palm Sunday commemorates Jesus’ triumphant entry into Jerusalem. The multitudes that awaited Jesus’ arrival cried, “Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord!” The thoughts we think, the cells in our bodies, and the events in our lives are like the multitudes who waited for Jesus: Everything in us waits for the appearance of the Christ—the Spirit of God in our midst—and shouts with joy at its arrival. If, for any reason, we are discouraged or in need, we recognize the Christ Spirit as it appears in our hearts and our consciousness. We feel uplifted. Through the power of the Christ transcendent within, our lives are transformed. -paraphrasing from Daily Word, By the virtue and a grace in our experience as Transcendentalists we welcome the Transcendent on Earth. With joy, we welcome the Transcendent—the spirit of the Unified Field in the midst of the human physiology. Jai Guru Dev, -Buck in the Dome Om Shanti, . . .
