[FairfieldLife] Re: Saying Goodbye to the Ridiculous One

2014-08-23 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
I'm a 59 year old high schooler, I'm afraid. L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill@... wrote : Everyone is wasting time directing comments to Michael that go on and on trying to contextualize his constant complaints or add comments that defend TM. The fact is that many TM

Re: [FairfieldLife] avertive millennialism

2014-08-23 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
Are you saying that MMY didn't believe his own rhetoric? L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : A smarter person than one who takes the word of a huckster over their own good common sense. When I looked at the old posters of the TM-Siddhi advertisements

[FairfieldLife] Re: Movie Time

2014-08-23 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
I've been watching a new kid's sports anime, Baby Steps. It tracks the trials and tribulations of a scholarly kid with OCD who decides he needs more exercise and discovers he has a true gift at playing tennis. As with all sports manga/anime, he rises exceptionally fast through the ranks,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What Gullible Fools We Were

2014-08-24 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
Many people balked at the TM-SIdhis and the movement splintered to some extent at that point. Some people balked at the puja being required and ACEM grew out of that. They've even started publishing studies on ACEM meditation. As far Judy? I've corresponded with her occasionally

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What Gullible Fools We Were

2014-08-24 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
Rick Archer was part of the team that came to Tucson back in the day and spoke to us about the new TM-SIdhis courses. I remember the posters as well. They were never embraced whole-heartedly by anyone here in Tucson that I am aware of but were merely passed around quietly. Certainly I

[FairfieldLife] Re: Replicating The Meissner-like Effect of Consciousness and Square Roots

2014-08-26 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
A couple of things that Raja Luis recently said that are relevant: 1) The government of Peru is apparently seriously looking at having 250,000 students learn TM. An important innovation of what they apparently will be doing is that existing school teachers will be sent to TM teacher training

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 8/1213/14-Maharishi: As we take care of ourself, the world will take of itself for us on that level

2014-08-26 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
As I pointed out and you ave comveniently forgot, a single Yoga retreat center has about 1 suicide every two years, and about 1-2% per year are mentally incapacitated for up to a month after the retreat, in a center that has accommodations for 96 people, including staff. With 40,000 TM

[FairfieldLife] Re: Replicating The Meissner-like Effect of Consciousness and Square Roots

2014-08-26 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
Well, 250,000 is just under 1% of the entire country of Peru, so if they're really interested in Maharishi Effect stuff, it would be on a national level. Unless those students were spread throughout the entire country, it would be an ok study, as far as I am concerned (assuming that it happens,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The TMO Disease: Hypochondria

2014-08-26 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
IN fact, Triguna's son took my pulse a few months after *I* had Hepatitus (got it from MY son who got it at daycare) and commented I had heat in my liver system. By the way, pulse diagnosis is part of the Maharish School curriculum. All the students practice it every day. And I believe

[FairfieldLife] Photo of Maharishi, Dwivedi and Balraj Maharishi at Brasilian conference on Natural Medicine

2014-08-27 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/t31.0-8/740410_534116559946012_743570526_o.jpg https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/t31.0-8/740410_534116559946012_743570526_o.jpg

[FairfieldLife] Re: Photo of Maharishi, Dwivedi and Balraj Maharishi at Brasilian conference on Natural Medicine

2014-08-28 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
You are absolutely correct. Another clue is the fact that Maharishi isn't named in the caption identifying everyone in the picture. I really should have been a little more aware of that, thanks. L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anartaxius@... wrote : As with many photos of

Re: [FairfieldLife] Word to Buck about TM Suicides - Was Maharishi: As we take care of ourself, the world will take of itself for us on that level

2014-08-28 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
I did watch it. It is very abstract, but I thought it was interesting nevertheless. L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : Oh, Lawson - did you watch it? I did, the entire presentation and it was nonsense. I already addressed specifics - but I will say that it

[FairfieldLife] Re: The greatest ever guitar riff

2014-08-28 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
Eh, what the heck is a guitar riff? I've been playing classical guitar for 38 years more or less. The greatest Western fretted instrumentalist was quite possibly Lutenist John Dowland. Playing his Forlorn Hope Fancy, is well, just a fancy of forlorn hope for most of us. L ---In

[FairfieldLife] Greatest lute riff ever?

2014-08-28 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
Not really, but here's a true exmplar of what a REAL musician does on a fretted instrument without amplification or noise to mask the mistakes and poor technique found in 99.9% of all rock guitarists, including all the ones called great: The Most High and Mighty Christianus the Fourth, King

[FairfieldLife] Re: Pundit Killed

2014-09-04 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
Oh come ON, Michael, really? 14. Why no action or at least a courtesy visit was made to the fenced enclosure of Vedic Pandits at Fairfield, Iowa after the Vedic Pandits revolted against the atrocities of the management and was quelled with brutality by local the police and the Sheriff?

[FairfieldLife] Re: King Tony Don't Wanna Lose Da Money

2014-09-04 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
Rolls eyes, again What money? The Maharishi Foundation, USA books are open via IRS Form 990. L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : There is no joy in Mudville: http://www.cultnews101.com/2014/09/maharishi-vedic-university-ltd-v.html?spref=fb

[FairfieldLife] Re: 30th November | Channeled Info from MMY

2014-09-08 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
Well, kinda makes you wonder about Maharishi appearing in a dream to convince the woman to publish here tell-all story about their affair. L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5@... wrote : Nope. Sounds like a lot of potential counter-revolutionary spirit table-rapping

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vedanta Meditation

2014-09-08 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
Of course, TM creates a physiological state in the brain that can be interpreted from the Advaita Vedanta perspective. Maharishi claimed that such a physiological state occasionally arose spontaneously in a few people and that THESE people were the origins of the Advaita Vedanta tradition.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Established in Being, let anger take over

2014-09-16 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
Eh. Obviously they didn't handle the interviewer well. L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : Absolutely brilliant. I much needed reminder about how crazy cults can be. None of the sanitised videos carefully chosen for youtube, Oh no. Madness, megalomania

[FairfieldLife] Re: Established in Being, let anger take over

2014-09-17 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
Last I looked, Bevan's pay was inline with all other MUM faculty beside's Hagelin's: slave wages. And Bevan Morris managed to get to India when he was 18(? 20?) on his own steam around the same time as the Beatles showed up, and MMY recognized his devotion to the cause from that moment on.

Re: [FairfieldLife] thoughts on samskaras and enlightenment - CC to UC

2014-09-18 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
MIndfulness and concentrative practices disrupt the Default Mode Network of the brain, which is highly involved with self-referral processing and sense-of-self. In fact, long-term practices lead to a new style of functioning of the nervous system where the original functioning of the DMN,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why MMY's Bhagavad Gita will never be a classic.

2014-09-18 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
Hmmm? Vernon Katz was the translator and had no part in the commentary, according to him. In fact, in a video, Vernon says that he would argue with MMY about MMY's choice of words for the translation that overrode Veron's carefully devised scholarly translation, but in the battle of

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why MMY's Bhagavad Gita will never be a classic.

2014-09-18 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
Vernon Katz was translator and transcriber, not commentator. And MMY would insist that a different word be used in the translation and Katz had to oblige, so even the translation was strictly to MMY's specification even though Katz did all the original translating. L ---In

Re: [FairfieldLife] thoughts on samskaras and enlightenment - CC to UC

2014-09-18 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
Exactly. Up until now, all you could go by, as a meditation instructor was the *context* of the answers: how did the student learn in the first place? Hence MMY's extreme insistence on perfect adherence to his teaching methodology. Now, these days, you can look at how the brain is

[FairfieldLife] Gut bacteria as devas?

2014-09-24 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
http://universityofcalifornia.edu/news/do-gut-bacteria-rule-our-minds http://universityofcalifornia.edu/news/do-gut-bacteria-rule-our-minds Do gut bacteria rule our minds? People laugh at MMY's lecture on devas and where they consume soma and yet... The gut microbiome is apparently

[FairfieldLife] Re: World and Personal Protection Mantra

2014-09-24 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
Great, and when is his organization going to be able to train enough meditation teachers to each al 45 million school-age kids in Brazil? MMY never claimed that TM was the absolute best thing for everyone, everywhere, but when it comes to distributing meditation education on a scale of

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Success in Latin America

2014-09-25 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
All that was claimed about 8,000 (or 7,000) yogic flyers is that they would have the same effect as 1% of the world doing TM. Maharishi specifically claimed that 1% of a society doing TM would be sufficient to cause measurable changes in the entire society. I think you are forgetting that

Re: [FairfieldLife] Jerry email to John sent on Sunday

2014-09-26 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
Eh, anyone who thinks that the Movement is in MORE trouble than it was when Maharishi died is blind. The reduction in the TM fee, combined with the good press from teh DLF, the celebrity endorsements, the [slight] nod from the American Heart Association, and the ongoing phenomenal successes

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Jerry email to John sent on Sunday

2014-09-26 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
What revenue? The David Lynch Foundation is in charge of teaching TM in the public schools. The cost, last time they broke it down, was $300 per student. That's roughly the portion of the standard TM instruction fee that TM tachers normally get for teaching students. Hagelin gets $42K

[FairfieldLife] Re: AoL vs. TM?

2014-09-26 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
Perhaps, but if you check out the actual research, organization, website, etc., there seems to be far less activity for AoL than for TM. I'm not aware of any current presidents or deputy prime ministers of major countries (Brazil, Colombia, UK, and maybe India?) or former such (Mozambique

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Peter Russell: New Interview on Buddha at the Gas Pump - 06/30/2014

2014-07-01 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
Gross income from TM instruction in the USA for the Maharishi Foundation was far, FAR less than $50,000,000. About 1/10 that, and after paying TM teachers, advertising, etc., the MF netted about $800,000 for 2012. L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote :

[FairfieldLife] Re: Peter Russell: New Interview on Buddha at the Gas Pump - 06/30/2014

2014-07-01 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
I completely disagree about TM not saving the world... http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/out-the-darkness/201212/can-meditation-change-the-world http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/out-the-darkness/201212/can-meditation-change-the-world Meditation is path to peace, Mozambique

[FairfieldLife] Re: Peter Russell: New Interview on Buddha at the Gas Pump - 06/30/2014

2014-07-01 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
Well, leaving aside the Super-Radience effect, which calls for at least 8-10,000 doing the TM-Sidhis in one spot twice a day, every day, before you can have even definitely measurable effect, millions of uncoordinated TMers fall far short of the 75 million that would be required to have the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Peter Russell: New Interview on Buddha at the Gas Pump - 06/30/2014

2014-07-01 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
In fact, I think that the US TM organization has proven that it doesn't care that much about money. $800,000 is chicken feed, and they've dropped teh price on a semi-permanent basis, so obviously, money isn't as big a deal as you seem to think. As long as they can make expenses and keep

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM in the Mail

2014-07-01 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
Some people become masters of something with relatively little effort, while others can spend their entire lives attempting to master something and still not do it. The point is that what the masters of any field seem to have in common is the kind of brain wave pattern found in enlightened

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Peter Russell: New Interview on Buddha at the Gas Pump - 06/30/2014

2014-07-01 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
I'm sorry, did it sound like I was defending any aspect of the Maharishi Effect? And even within the theory of the ME, it's a Big Numbers game, regardless of what believers like to tell each other. Statistical variation of small population centers like Fairfield are going to swamp any

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Peter Russell: New Interview on Buddha at the Gas Pump - 06/30/2014

2014-07-01 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
Yes, the effect will be biggest in Fairfield... But you are using statistical analysis of the behavior of large groups of people to detect that effect, and if a single pickpocket enters the town, the number of pockets picked on a given day will likely shoot up through the roof (I assume no

Re: [FairfieldLife] Difference Between Transcendental Meditation and

2014-07-01 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
With regards to your significant other and heart attacks... It's a numbers game. Robert Scheider's research showed that for people who meditated regularly about once per day for 5 years, the incidence of mortaility dropped nearly 50% in people who had already had one heart attack. If they

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Peter Russell: New Interview on Buddha at the Gas Pump - 06/30/2014

2014-07-01 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
While these are preliminary studies, to say that TM isn't a good system is to ignore the results found in the War refugees in Uganda. In the first study, 90% of the TMers became non-symptomatic on the PTSD Scale-Civilian (PCL-C) after only 30 days practice, and remained that way at 135

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Hobby Lobby

2014-07-01 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
Hobby Lobby also invests heavily in the companies that MAKE those products. But they never petitioned the Supreme Court to allow them to change their investment strategy. Hobby Lobby is run by a bunch of hypocrites. They don't really care about these things. They just wanted to bring a

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM in the Mail

2014-07-01 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
It really shouldn't be that surprising. Enlightenment via TM is supposed to be due to being lower-stress. People that are world-class in some activity shine at least partly because they can handle stress better than the people who try just as hard but can't break into that world-class

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: A billionaire who gets it

2014-07-01 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
If you're a full-time college student working less than 25 hours/week, you pay $360, and that's before grants and scholarships from teh TM center, and any additional aid from the DLF. L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote : On 7/1/2014 11:49 AM,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Difference Between Transcendental Meditation and

2014-07-01 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
And, going out on a limb here, just a tad, EVERY POSSIBLE cause for a heart attack besides acute poisoning, is exacerbated by long-term stress. TM helps manage long-term stress, and it is pretty much a given that his chances of survival would have gone up at least a little had he been doing

Re: [FairfieldLife] Difference Between Transcendental Meditation and

2014-07-01 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
On certain measures, such as cortisol levels, that is almost certainly the case. As always, the issues is between TM and other forms of meditation, not be tween TM and sleep. Sleep is vital to your health. So is TM. The difference is that if you need sleep, you spontaneously fall

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Hobby Lobby

2014-07-01 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
Thought for the day: if privacy issues don't apply for this ruling when taking a pill, then how can they apply when having an abortion? This potentially overturns Roe v Wade, as far as insurance coverage for abortion goes. Anyone can object to any form of birth control coverage on

Re: [FairfieldLife] Difference Between Transcendental Meditation and

2014-07-01 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
Most people learn TM to address stress issues or other health issues. It's kinda a given that TMers would show certain tendencies. The way you resolve this is not via anecdote, but via studies using control groups. Better controlled studies are better, of course. L ---In

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Peter Russell: New Interview on Buddha at the Gas Pump - 06/30/2014

2014-07-02 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
Hmmm... ~8000 adults and a few thousand students learned TM in 2012. At full price, that's 8000 x 1500 = $12,000,000 + another few million for the kids. That's $15 million Max. A far cry from $50,000.000 L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote

[FairfieldLife] Re: YAS: Meditating has instant effect on reducing stress

2014-07-05 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
Norman Rosenthal led a study on TM and PTSD that found that in 2 of the 5 subjects, brain imaging showed that the abnormally active amygdala had reset after teh first meditation, and stayed that way for the rest of the study. People are desperate to find that mindfulness works, so they

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: YAS: Meditating has instant effect on reducing stress

2014-07-05 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
Eh, while the study in question by Rosenthal and company was tiny and had no control group, it was still a quite impressive finding. My point isn't so much that mindfulness doesn't have an effect on PTSD, but that the media hypes it as being very strong, while ignoring the evidence that TM's

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Witnessing the Great Transcendent

2014-07-05 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
Where's you evidence that Girish has any control over any property on the MUM campus? L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : I can't wait for Girish to sell MUM and the Domes out from under you. From: dhamiltony2k5@... [FairfieldLife]

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: YAS: Meditating has instant effect on reducing stress

2014-07-06 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
You already learned TM, so we can't tell if people who learn meditation from Chopra's own teachers have teh same results. Chopra isn't interested in conducting science to validate his claims, either. At least, it is really hard to find any published research on Primordial Sound Meditation.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: YAS: Meditating has instant effect on reducing stress

2014-07-06 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
Stress is the ultimate anti-spiritual thing. In fact, I would argue that it is the ONLY anti-spiritual thing. Yoga is the subsidence of mind fluctuations. and mind-flutuations are brought about by past experience that interferes with our ability to deal with the present moment -that is,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: YAS: Meditating has instant effect on reducing stress

2014-07-06 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
Maharishi once defined spiritual growth as balanced, that is, wholisitic growth simultaneously for mental, physical and emotional well-being. In other words, non-wholeness = anti-spiritual. L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote : Lawson, I think Maharishi

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: YAS: Meditating has instant effect on reducing stress

2014-07-06 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
You seem to think that TM mantras are what makes TM special. I would say it is the mantra + how TM is taught. And the most important side-effect of TM mantras is that it becomes more charming as the mental activity becomes more refined. CHopra's mantras may well have this effect as

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: YAS: Meditating has instant effect on reducing stress

2014-07-06 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
That might be. Now go to Uganda and teach! L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote : The teaching of TM is not unique. There is nothing special about TM other than it's high price. On 07/06/2014 02:04 PM, LEnglish5@... mailto:LEnglish5@... [FairfieldLife] wrote:

Re: [FairfieldLife] TM in America and Levi Butler

2014-07-07 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
I read the intro online. Oddly, while it mentions that meditating city councilmen have been elected, it neglects to mention that the mayor is a meditator and has been the mayor for 12 years. I suspect that that would kinda make his take that there's major divisions in the town over the

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM Won't Solve it

2014-07-08 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
You assert this but what little evidence there is says differently. Now, we can't possibly know if a specific incident attributed to PTSD could have been prevented by learning TM, or mindfulness, or any other therapy thought to affect PTSD in a positive way, but, assuming that the actions

Re: [FairfieldLife] Meditating has instant effect on reducing stress

2014-07-08 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
the TM organization has never been able to produce a single person they can point to as having become enlightened as a result of their technique. You mean, other than the published physiological and psychological research on the people meeting the TM criterion for being in CC for at least a

Re: [FairfieldLife] Meditating has instant effect on reducing stress

2014-07-08 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
Or perhaps others have muddied ideas about enlightenment? L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote : On 07/08/2014 09:10 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... mailto:turquoiseb@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: From: Bhairitu noozguru@... mailto:noozguru@... [FairfieldLife]

[FairfieldLife] Re: 70?!

2014-07-11 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
Is that the official TM centers or a renegade organization? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister@... wrote : http://www.meditation.de/center-liste http://www.meditation.de/center-liste

Re: [FairfieldLife] Palin Wants Obama Impeached

2014-07-11 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
Just to put things in perspective: Bush: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_bush_job_approval-904.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_bush_job_approval-904.html Obama:

[FairfieldLife] Inauguration of the National Director Assembly for Guru Purnima 2014

2014-07-12 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
Archive play http://www.maharishichannel.in/archives/2012_video_files/01_2012/2012_play.php Archive play http://www.maharishichannel.in/archives/2012_video_files/01_2012/2012_play.php the player will be placed here View on www.maharishichannel.in

[FairfieldLife] Re: Coldest Antarctic June Ever Recorded

2014-07-12 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
Oh nos, the world's average temperature must be lower than ever, as well. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : Coldest Antarctic June Ever Recorded http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/07/12/coldest-antarctic-june-ever-recorded/ Posted on July 12, 2014

Re: [FairfieldLife] Robots will Take Over by 2045

2014-07-12 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
Well, the count in human lives is secondary. The primary mission of a military is to win, period. L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jr_esq@... wrote : Richard, Most armies, including the USA, do not want to fight a fair war. They want to stage a fight where they can have an

Re: [FairfieldLife] Living a spiritual and artistic life

2014-07-13 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
You have apparently missed the scientific research that Fred Travis published more thn 10 years ago on people who were reporting being in CC consistently for at least a year. This article discusses the theory and research on pure consciousness during TM and the theory and research on the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Living a spiritual and artistic life

2014-07-13 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
Very good points. The IRS Form 990s of the Maharishi Foundation, USA, and the David Lynch Foundation, give a pretty good idea of where money has been spent since those organizations were founded, but both of them are recent creations. L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Living a spiritual and artistic life

2014-07-13 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
And yet, witnessing sleep is a hallmark of being in CC... And where did I say that CC was the end-all of enlightenment? I generally describe the people that Fred studies as those who are in the beginning stages of the first of several higher states collectively called enlightenment. I

[FairfieldLife] Re: Prayer for former TM'ers

2014-07-14 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
I don't know the source of this story, but I think I have the gist of it: Once, there was a man who hated Lord Shiva with all his heart. Every day, without fail, he would walk past the local shrine where all the devotees lay prostrate in worship, and that man would spit as he walked past.

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM - INFOGRAPHIC

2014-07-14 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
For me, the instructions are deliberately vague and open-ended. The meditator develops an intuition of what it means to think a mantra without effort. Maharishi's own explanation is that by the third day [of the Three Night's Checking], it should be 'fairly clear' what it means to think a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Is this guy for real?

2014-07-15 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
40,000 TM teachers allegedly met with Maharishi at some point before they officially became TM teachers. They're everywhere. L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, c309@... wrote : He claims he was with Maharishi.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Is this guy for real?

2014-07-16 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
I would say that the guy who was linked to is definitely no longer an active TM teacher, yes... L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : Except for the ones who quit. And there are quite a lot of them. From: LEnglish5@... [FairfieldLife]

Re: [FairfieldLife] Sgt Robert Dean Breaks His Cosmic Top Secret Security Oath - The Assessment - Classified Ufo Study

2014-07-16 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
There's such a thing as Cosmic Top Secret. It merely means a blanket security clearance where the person is assigned. In other words, they have an official need to know about anything they are interested in at the specific facility they are assigned to. It's usually given to inspectors

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bad news for Edg -- Thor has been been lost his job...to a woman

2014-07-16 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
Hey, the original THor character was banished to Earth in human form and condemned to a mortal life as a crippled doctor until he proved that he was worthy, so being deemed unworthy is nothing new. In a more recent (still 20+ years ago I think) storyline, Thor's hammer was wield for a while

Re: [FairfieldLife] Another Malaysian Flight Crashes

2014-07-17 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
Your lluck IS your skill is apparently a common Japanese saying -or at least, I've heard it many times in anime. L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote : Luck is just another word for karma. On 07/17/2014 11:56 AM, anartaxius@... mailto:anartaxius@... [FairfieldLife]

Re: [FairfieldLife] Michael Jackson, was Just so you know

2014-07-20 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
Devraha Baba - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devraha_Baba https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devraha_Baba Devraha Baba - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devraha_Baba Devraha Baba (died in 19 May 1990), also spelled Deoraha

[FairfieldLife] Re: What's learned from books stays in books

2014-07-21 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
The way that can be 'wayed' is not the Way. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, soundofstillness@... wrote : OK, so there may have been a moment since first hearing this thought that I may have had some degree of understanding of what it meant. But at this moment in time I don't understand

[FairfieldLife] So are teh Howard and Alice Settle grants available again?

2014-07-25 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
Invincible America: FAQ http://www.invincibleamerica.org/faq.html#scholarships Invincible America: FAQ http://www.invincibleamerica.org/faq.html#scholarships Frequently Asked Questions The ABSOLUTE NATIONAL REQUIREMENT of the UNITED STATES: 2,000 Yogic Flyers For an Invincible America

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS MEDITATION

2014-07-25 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
Maharishi's own expositions about enlightenment could be seen as supporting what Michael says, but even when I was a starry-eeyed 19 year old taking it for the first time, I realized that reality and theory were very far apart. Now that we have a more nuanced perspective of what CC is like

[FairfieldLife] The Eleventh World Association for Vedic Studies (WAVES) conference at MUM

2014-08-01 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
WAVES- Home http://www.wavesinternational.net/D_Pages/Home.aspx http://www.wavesinternational.net/D_Pages/Home.aspx WAVES- Home http://www.wavesinternational.net/D_Pages/Home.aspx View on www.wavesin... http://www.wavesinternational.net/D_Pages/Home.aspx Preview by Yahoo

Re: [FairfieldLife] The Eleventh World Association for Vedic Studies (WAVES) conference at MUM

2014-08-01 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
U... I don't think a single session (there are abuot) has Ayurveda, letalone Maharishi Ayurveda, as the topic. This is Vedic Studies, not Ayurvedic Studies. You're confusing WAVES with another conference happening soon at MERU. WAVES is completely independent of TM and

[FairfieldLife] Re: Arthur Janov is my new hero

2014-08-01 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
I did a web-search. None of Janov's research is indexed in pubmed, and as far as I can tell, he only published about it in his book. This is hardly science in the normal sense of the word, where replications by others is supposed to be, at least in principle, possible. If you don't

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Eleventh World Association for Vedic Studies (WAVES) conference at MUM

2014-08-02 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
I'm wrong about there not being ANY sessons of about Ayureveda. There have been several so far, including 1 or 2 that have showed up in the online broadcast of the plenary (attended by all the members) sessions: http://sanskritlibrary.org/download/pms/schedule.pdf

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Eleventh World Association for Vedic Studies (WAVES) conference at MUM

2014-08-02 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
All the plenary session videos thus far appear to be archived on this page, but that situation could change at any time: WAVES Conference: Aug 2nd 1st by Maharishi University of Management http://new.livestream.com/mum/events/3226432 http://new.livestream.com/mum/events/3226432

Re: [FairfieldLife] Tony Nader wife

2014-08-03 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
Um King is generally a hereditary position and in fact, I recall that Maharishi emphasized that when he talked about Tony abu Nader. In fact, for a very long time,. I was wondering how the heck King Tony was going to have kids if he was totally celibate. And it turns out he

Re: [FairfieldLife] Tony Nader wife

2014-08-04 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
You guys are fond of quoting newspaper articles claiming teh TM organization is worth billions. That's a pretty hefty kingdom, if it really is worth that much, and whoever controls the crown, controls whatever the asserts are wroth. As an aside, anyone ever wonder at how silly people

Re: [FairfieldLife] Tony Nader wife

2014-08-04 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
In fact, according to what I have heard, Girish Varma attempted to wrest control of the Indian TM organization away from Tony abu Nader, but both sides agreed to let Swami Vasudevananda Saraswati (the Shankaracharya the TM organization recognizes) be the aribrator for the disupute, and after

Re: [FairfieldLife] For The Turq and his Superiors

2014-08-05 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
Huh. Arab comes from Abraham, and Arabs and Jews are both considered Semitic peoples. In fact, some Bedouins believe that they are descended from Jews living in the region who converted to Islam: Bedouin Sheikh: My People are of Jewish Descent

Re: [FairfieldLife] For The Turq and his Superiors

2014-08-05 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
Thanks for that. Bad etymological resources on my end, obviously. Even so, the connection between desert people who lived in the area where the people of Israel came from, and, well, the people of Israel shouldn't be that big a surprise. I tell people that many palestinians are probably

[FairfieldLife] Re: Science and the Meissner Effect of Consciousness as Field

2014-08-06 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
When have I strongly defended the ME research and when have I 'come around to claim that it doesn't show what it says it shows? L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5@... wrote : Thanks LEnglish5

Re: [FairfieldLife] Mental Health in the Fairfield and Meditating Communities

2014-08-07 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
I dont' know about the TMO creating a mental health clinic for Fairfield, but Robert Schneider gave a plenary presentation last weekend about mental health therapies from a Vedic perspective. This sounds like the barest inkling of an admission of an issue that needs to be addressed. L

[FairfieldLife] Vedic Psychology: talk by Richard Schneider at WAVES conference

2014-08-09 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
Starts about 49 minutes into the 4th video from the top: WAVES Conference: 7/31 to 8/2 by Maharishi University of Management http://new.livestream.com/mum/events/3226432 http://new.livestream.com/mum/events/3226432 WAVES Conference: 7/31 to 8/2 by Maharishi University ...

[FairfieldLife] Re: Spirituality and Psychosis

2014-08-10 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
TM is different from most other forms of meditation in how the brain reacts to the practice. You can pontificate all you want, but measurable physical activity trumps philosophy every time, or so I believe. Here's a fine example of how far apart two practices can be, both of which are

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Spirituality and Psychosis

2014-08-10 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
Saying that I'm wrong doesn't make me wrong. I can cite study after study showing a consistent EEG pattern for TM. I can cite study after study showing a consistent, but different-than-TM, EEG pattern for mindfulness. I can cite study after study showing a consistent, but

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Spirituality and Psychosis

2014-08-10 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
The latest research proposed for TM and PTSD will actually measure gene expression differences in the test subjects to see if that has any effect on how well they do with various practices: TM, Health Education, Prolonged Exposure therapy. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25066921

[FairfieldLife] Re: Psychiatric Problems Precipitated by Transcendental Meditation

2014-08-11 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
38 years later, there's a well-known psychiatric disorder called Relaxation Induced Anxiety (formerly known as paradoxical anxiety) that is associated, not just with meditation practice, but with any period of relaxation. Maharishi's model of stress release may or may not explain such extreme

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Spirituality and Psychosis

2014-08-11 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
A few studies on Ch'an and Zen seen to show the same general pattern. On the other hand, other studies on CH'an and Zen don't. This goes along with the idea that teaching meditation is generally an art, and Maharishi's greatest accomplishment was to create technicians who could produce

[FairfieldLife] Re: D Lynch Bull

2014-08-11 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
Hostility probably has more to do with whether or not an individual gets financial aid from the DLF than people realize. Abusively demanding financial aid from someone who is willing to help is a sure way to make them less inclined to help you. On the other hand, sincerely explaining that

[FairfieldLife] Re: Quiet Time Meditating

2014-08-11 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
Who can say? As yet, no-one has reliably documented the effect on individuals from group meditation practice of any kind. The simple research proposal I made to John Hagelin a few months ago hasn't been done yet, at elast partly because research on microstates during TM hasn't been published

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Austin, Nevada or Bust

2014-08-11 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
I've lived in Tucson for 50 years, since 1960 (spent 5 years overseas). Tucson is beloved by many people, but I can assure you that it's not really all that great compared to some places. L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote : John, Tuscon is supposed to be my

[FairfieldLife] Re: A film by a TM teacher

2014-08-11 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
A blog entry by the same person (randomly found, I wasn't hunting for him, just for hits on Transcendental Meditation): eucharistandmission: Unethical practise at Dominican Educational Instituions http://eucharistandmission.blogspot.com/2014/08/unethical-practise-at-dominican.html

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