[FairfieldLife] Re: The divine feminine in a Christian society

2014-06-28 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Thanks for the "Isis" link. It's one of my fave Dylan songs and curiously isn't available on YouTube despite there being lots of cover versions. Very odd. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Shortly after posting this, I ran across this link, which expresses my thoughts in a d

[FairfieldLife] Re: The divine feminine in a Christian society

2014-06-28 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
RE "Are you guys telling me that you don't own a copy of Bob Dylan's Desire album ": I have it (one of Dylan's best - just before his bizarre turn towards born-again Xtianity) - but it's useful to have good music on your YouTube Favourites list so you can listen in while at the keyboard.

[FairfieldLife] Re: The divine feminine in a Christian society

2014-06-28 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re "kissing the anus of a cat": Count me out then - you've got to draw the line somewhere. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : On 6/28/2014 9:05 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... mailto:turquoiseb@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: As you suggest, there definitely *was* a Cathar in

[FairfieldLife] Re: For Salyavin or anyone who wants a bit of a laugh

2014-07-04 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Nice - and seems accurate to me. The accent I (and most Brits) hate the most is the Birmingham accent (check it out on your link at the 2:25 mark). Interestingly, clever-dick scholars who have analysed the rhymes used by Shakespeare (born in Stratford-on-Avon, which is close to Birmingham) belie

[FairfieldLife] Re: Gene Simmons is one screwed up dude!

2014-07-06 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re "“The 1 percent pays 80 percent of all taxes.": The flaw in that argument is that one reason the rich pay so much in tax and the poorest pay so little is that the wealthy award themselves mega bonuses while the poorest are seeing their wages decline in real terms. Increase pay at the botto

[FairfieldLife] Re: Gene Simmons is one screwed up dude!

2014-07-06 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I agree - we're at one on this. My point is that we need to increase wages for the lowest paid (which means they will also pay more in taxes) and stop the richest setting their own astronomical pay rises - and so lowering the gap between the well-off and the needy. Then the rich can't keep bragg

[FairfieldLife] Re: Gene Simmons is one screwed up dude!

2014-07-06 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
In 1930 economist John Maynard Keynes predicted the day would soon come when technological progress would mean that wealth creation would be so great we would have to work far less hours while still enjoying an improving standard of living. The danger he warned about was that those who owned ind

[FairfieldLife] Re: According to Nisargadatta

2014-07-09 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re "we, as pure awareness, do nothing": So we can't liberate ourselves - as we're just looking on. It follows that if moksha is possible it's a case of us waiting for the the three gunas to untangle themselves (as it were) and stop creating scrambled messages in our minds that give the read-o

[FairfieldLife] Re: What Would You Do?

2014-07-12 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re "What if you found out that fewer and fewer youngsters are supporting more and more retirees?": Is that necessarily bad news? The reason we need a smaller work force is because automation in manufacturing and IT in the office means fewer people can do the work that a generation ago a large

[FairfieldLife] Re: What Would You Do?

2014-07-12 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re "What would you do if you saw a drone at your bedroom window?": Yes, that sucks. What is worrying me more is this new Google glass contraption which has just started to become available in the UK. The thought of people recording the strangers they encounter in public spaces (and using face

[FairfieldLife] Jog Along Bess

2014-07-12 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Vashti Bunyan was an obscure folksy singer in Swinging London. At the end of the sixties she travelled by horse and cart to the Hebridean Islands to join a commune set up by uber-hippie (and apostle of TM) Donovan. She penned this autobiographical song about the trip. It reminds me of Blake's So

[FairfieldLife] Re: What Would You Do?

2014-07-12 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re "So I too will be recording people or drivers and crazy cyclists I encounter on the public roadways. ": Yep, in some places (Russia, for example) it's become essential to have a camera fitted to your car if you want to make an insurance claim. One day, that camera of yours might reco

[FairfieldLife] Re: What Would You Do?

2014-07-13 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re "The thought of being in the Bardo and concerned about how many views my YouTubed last words were getting": There must be a new level on the after-life planes for the present generation of narcissists who spend their days taking selfies and obsessively updating their Facebook pages.

[FairfieldLife] Re: What Would You Do?

2014-07-13 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re "You mean like "damn bicyclist!"": How about: REALITY IS A DEADLY PLACE. I HOPE THIS TRIP IS A GOOD ONE. Psych-Out (1968) Check it out from the 7:40 to 8:40 mark . . . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O540iw5xaqs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O540iw5xaqs ---In FairfieldLife@

[FairfieldLife] Re: Coolest death scene ever??

2014-07-13 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Leon - "This is from Mathilda" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNS9aDRqyII https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNS9aDRqyII

[FairfieldLife] Re: Yoko Ono, TM meditator

2014-07-15 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Yoko first met John Lennon at an exhibition of her art work at Indica Gallery, Mayfair, London on 7 November 1966. No TM involvement. See here: http://www.beatlesbible.com/1966/11/07/john-lennon-meets-yoko-ono/ http://www.beatlesbible.com/1966/11/07/john-lennon-meets-yoko-ono/ ---In Fairfield

[FairfieldLife] Re: Yoko Ono, TM meditator

2014-07-15 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
By the way: as a comment to the article I've linked to mentions, Lennon met Yoko on the same day Paul McCartney is alleged to have died (his lookalike is still claiming to be Paul to this day according to the urban legend)! If that hoary conspiracy amuses you watch this documentary which claims

[FairfieldLife] Give thanks to McDonald's

2014-07-15 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Freakonomics author Stephen Dubner claims a double cheeseburger from McDonald's is: “The cheapest, most nutritious and bountiful food that has ever existed in human history”. I think he's overlooking the hidden subsidies but he's right that it offers excellent value for money (if you remember

[FairfieldLife] Re: Give thanks to McDonald's

2014-07-15 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re "But that was years ago when I still ate beef.": Did you stop for health reasons - or was it moral qualms?

[FairfieldLife] Re: Give thanks to McDonald's

2014-07-15 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
When in the USA the worst fast-food I tried was the Roy Rogers chain. Yuk! I liked the Wendy products but it never caught on here in the UK. I agree about McD's though - pretty gross. Ditto Subway. KFC was the first US chain that opened restaurants in the UK (1960s) and are probably the best of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Give thanks to McDonald's

2014-07-16 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re "stop eating beef even though I knew that the beef we eat is not the milk cows adored by Indians. ": Can you answer something that has been puzzling me? If I was in an Indian restaurant (a restaurant in India I mean!) and asked for a beef madras curry would the staff recoil in horror at my

[FairfieldLife] Re: Live The Process

2014-07-19 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
The Process! Anyone remember The Process? From Wiki: "The Process Church of the Final Judgment, commonly known by non-members as the Process Church, was a religious group that flourished in the 1960s and 1970s, founded by the English couple Mary Anne and Robert DeGrimston (originally Rober

[FairfieldLife] Re: Live The Process

2014-07-19 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
For those (few) of you who are interested there was a book published recently "Love, Sex, Fear, Death: The Inside Story of The Process Church of the Final Judgment" by Timothy Wyllie (Editor) and Adam Parfrey. It's an intriguing account of life inside a cult and includes lots of original mat

[FairfieldLife] Re: Live The Process

2014-07-19 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Posting those two songs of pseudo-spirituality, "Christian" rock, reminds me of the original and still the best - Norman Greenbaum's "Spirit in the Sky". Feel that fuzz box . . . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cXrEPNvRO8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cXrEPNvRO8

[FairfieldLife] 'God' seen in photograph of clouds over Norfolk

2014-07-22 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
He doesn't look best pleased. http://tinyurl.com/nkexlp3 http://tinyurl.com/nkexlp3

[FairfieldLife] Re: What Can We Do?

2014-07-23 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re "What if you woke up in the morning and your house was the target of thousands of rockets?": Last time that happened here in London was when the V1 and V2 rockets were raining down. Then the RAF went and bombed the shit out of the sites making and launching the missiles. The primary targe

[FairfieldLife] Kustom Kar Kommandos (1965)

2014-07-27 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Phil Spector producing the Paris Sisters is a marriage made in heaven. But Kenneth Anger adding a touch of the demonic with one of his underground films is the icing on the cake. I wish today's music videos had this touch of magic . . . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFEyLVpjTCc&list=FLJad8v

[FairfieldLife] Re: An even more accurate animated history of Israel-Gaza

2014-07-28 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
It's a striking and sobering animation. The problem is that if you look at a political map of the world the frontiers are the result of a) natural geographical features, and b) military conquest. Eventually one side in a dispute has had to accept they've been defeated. The Palestinian/Israe

[FairfieldLife] Re: Arthur Janov is my new hero

2014-08-01 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Janov's Primal Therapy has led a lot of people to mental breakdown also. (Google "Primal Therapy".) I'm not knocking the guy (I want us to experiment with as many therapies as possible) but there will obviously be tragedies as we learn to unravel the mysteries of the mind. On the subject of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Arthur Janov is my new hero

2014-08-01 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re "Enjoying "Utopia" season 2? "The Killing" season 4 debuted today on Netflix WI": I've not caught those series. My tastes run to the Gothic so I enjoyed Eva Green in Penny Dreadful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFXHfEqMcis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFXHfEqMcis ---In Fairfie

[FairfieldLife] Re: Arthur Janov is my new hero

2014-08-01 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Yes "Hare Krishna" is included in the lyrics but Georgie boy was suggesting that he included his personal *TM* mantra in the gibberish that runs from the last minute till the end of the song. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : On 08/01/2014 06:30 PM, s3raphita@... mailto:s3raphita

[FairfieldLife] Re: Arthur Janov is my new hero

2014-08-01 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re "that prove that any mantra, TM or otherwise, has any effect on human thinking. ": Well, yes. We don't expect meditation to alter our *thoughts* per se. We expect it to alter consciousness. If there are no double-blind studies that show meditation can alter how someone perceives the world

[FairfieldLife] Re: Arthur Janov is my new hero

2014-08-01 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re "Or what he "thought" was his mantra. ": Yes. I always enjoyed the anecdote that Mia Farrow related. It seems she sneezed during her initiation and asked MMY to repeat the syllable. He refused (!) so she always wondered afterwards if she was repeating the correct mantra. (Still, she lat

[FairfieldLife] Re: Arthur Janov is my new hero

2014-08-01 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re "BTW, "Utopia" is a UK Channel 4 series and very dark." Just took a look at the trailer. Could be a good one for me. Thanks.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Arthur Janov is my new hero

2014-08-01 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re "Someone once told me their mantra was "whig"": Are there a lot of sadistic TM teachers out there who enjoy giving their victims useless mantras? There a stories of Christians who learn TM and replace their given syllable with a word they feel comfortable with - "Love", "Jesus", "Marana

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Arthur Janov is my new hero

2014-08-01 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re "Wake up foggy headed? Clear your head with with the kapha mantra hoom though if you really want to clear it try the Ganesh mantra: om gam ganapataye namaha. Upset stomach? Use the pitta mantra. Constipation? Try the vata mantra.": We were always taught that during TM we should allow t

[FairfieldLife] Re: Arthur Janov is my new hero

2014-08-02 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re "I Am the Walrus": I'm crying Yes "Aim" and "Kring" are both excellent suggestions. Thanks - I think you might have solved a mystery that has puzzled me for ages. Pity George isn't around to confirm it.

[FairfieldLife] Re: We Were There

2014-08-02 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
My favourite Houdini trick was one time when he visited some one-horse town in the States to demonstrate his jail-breaking skill. The local sheriff locked him in the jail and everyone then waited outside the building for the great magician to emerge. All the townsfolk were there to witness the g

[FairfieldLife] Re: Arthur Janov is my new hero

2014-08-02 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re "I happen to have the Magical Mystery Tour DVD ": Ah yes - Christmas time in England. On Boxing Day in 1967 the BBC broadcast "Magical Mystery Tour". The whole family sat down to watch it and we all thought it complete rubbish and switched channels after 30 minutes. The previous Christmas

[FairfieldLife] Re: 60s Flashback Envy

2014-08-04 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
How young people *actually* danced at the Fillmore Auditorium - 1966. Looks pretty cool to me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr_KnscgBZc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr_KnscgBZc

[FairfieldLife] Re: On Being Useless

2014-08-04 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re "If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.": That's OK but needs to be balanced by this quote from Voltaire: "Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need." ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why astrology is rubbish.

2014-08-04 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re "Because we have certain individuals here who claim to have reached cosmic consciousness and yet do not believe in the existence of a Divine Being.": Isn't the Divine Being the One Self each of us is at root; the One Self which is pretending to be all the individuals we are and see? "God" isn

[FairfieldLife] Re: Why astrology is rubbish.

2014-08-04 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Think about what someone is doing who studies the occult arts. He (let us say) learns the "influence" of the positions of the seven or more planets at a person's birth. He learns the nuances of transits and beneficent or adverse angles. He learns the attributions of the Major Arcana in the Tarot

[FairfieldLife] Re: Who Killed Jim Morrison?

2014-08-06 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
The comments below the article suggest that Jim didn't use smack but when he caught his wife with China White heroin he mistook it for cocaine. After taking a line and then realizing his mistake he got into a bath to try to lower his body temperature and fight off the overdose effects - alas to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Who Killed Jim Morrison?

2014-08-06 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
The comments below the article suggest that Jim never used smack but when he caught his wife with China White heroin he mistook it for cocaine. After taking a line and then realizing his mistake he got into a bath to try to lower his body temperature and fight off the overdose effects - alas t

[FairfieldLife] Re: 72 virgins

2014-08-08 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Two quotes from the article . . . "According to Shaykh ‘Abd-Allaah ibn Jibreen, who was a leading cleric and a member of the Senior Clerics Association, "This number [72] is only for men. A woman will have only one husband in Paradise, and she will be satisfied with him and will not need any

[FairfieldLife] Re: Get your Kinks out!

2014-08-08 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
It was 50 years ago . . . The Kinks' You Really Got Me was released on August 4, 1964 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq_KQYVPadQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq_KQYVPadQ

[FairfieldLife] Re: Spirituality and Psychosis

2014-08-10 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re "Apparently there is not a single scientific report that proves that the practice of TM is the cause of psychosis or any other adverse mental or medical condition. Almost all anecdotal reports indicate a preexisting condition. If there were any scientific, double-blind studies concerning TM c

[FairfieldLife] Re: Damn It

2014-08-11 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re "While its impossible to say for sure that it would have prevented it, what if Williams had learned TM during his last visit to a rehab center earlier this year?": TM has a poor record for combating depression. It's good for anxiety - which is a different issue. Given that Robin Willia

[FairfieldLife] Watch out for the N-Word

2014-05-11 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
There's been an amusing controversy here in the UK over the past days when a BBC DJ on his regular show playing vintage 78s treated his listeners to a 1932 British hit THE SUN HAS GOT HIS HAT ON. The hapless DJ didn't realize that the lyrics included the N-word - used in all innocence back in t

[FairfieldLife] Re: Watch out for the N-Word

2014-05-11 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
1932 was a good year for memorable 78s. Henry Hall released his version of TEDDY BEARS' PICNIC. This children's favourite is a forgettable, bland song in all other versions but Hall's take has to be one of the creepiest and downright sinister records ever. It was the all-time favourite record o

[FairfieldLife] Re: Lucid dreaming can be induced with an electrical current

2014-05-12 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From BBC site: Dream:ON is one of many new smartphone apps now available. Created by psychologist Richard Wiseman, the app has seen over half a million downloads in just six weeks.You choose your dream before bed, and the app plays sound cues once you've entered the right phase of sleep. "When

[FairfieldLife] Re: Watch out for the N-Word

2014-05-12 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
This story gets better and better. It transpires that the BBC DJ who was sacked for playing THE SUN HAS GOT HIS HAT ON only decided to play that song as a last-minute substitute for ABDUL ABULBUL AMIR, which a listener had requested. After listening to ABDUL the DJ felt it might cause offence. I

[FairfieldLife] Re: Watch out for the N-Word

2014-05-12 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
This story gets better and better. It transpires that the BBC DJ who was sacked for playing THE SUN HAS GOT HIS HAT ON only decided to play that song as a last-minute substitute for ABDUL ABULBUL AMIR, which a listener had requested. After listening to ABDUL the DJ felt it might cause offence.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Watch out for the N-Word

2014-05-12 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
This story gets better and better. It transpires that the BBC DJ who was sacked for playing THE SUN HAS GOT HIS HAT ON only decided to play that song as a last-minute substitute for ABDUL ABULBUL AMIR, which a listener had requested. After listening to ABDUL the DJ felt it might cause offence.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Cold reading cock up!

2014-05-20 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Middlesbrough - my home town. You can't take us northerners for a ride . . :-) The thing is this cold-reading malarkey can be done pretty effectively (eg, Derren Brown) and isn't difficult to learn so the fact that this Sally made such a hash of it suggests she might *not* be a cynical cold

[FairfieldLife] Re: Cold reading cock up!

2014-05-20 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Nice - it's the simplicity of Mulholland's method that makes it so appealing. A true artist. Here's one from the vaults . . . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F70twmRyilg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F70twmRyilg ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Perform Mulholland's mind-re

[FairfieldLife] Re: Cold reading cock up!

2014-05-20 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
folie a deux : that's a new one for me. I like it. A shared psychosis in which symptoms of a delusional belief are transmitted from one individual to another. Google gives: "An extensive review of the literature reveals cases of folie à trois, folie à quatre, folie à famille (all family membe

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM is a Cult?

2014-05-22 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re : "Watching old tapes of all of us around Robin during seminars is downright excruciating. ": Can you post the clips on YouTube for the rest of us to enjoy?

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi devotee strikes at heart of capital punishment

2014-05-24 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Execution by lethal injection seems one of the creepiest means of killing someone as it is obviously a perversion of medical practice. Whereas if you are executed by firing squad that is clearly an extension of military procedure. In a TV documentary in 2007, former Member of Parliament Michae

[FairfieldLife] Europe spirals downwards

2014-05-24 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
We're all doomed I tell you. From today's Telegraph: Italy's national statistics office will include estimated dealings from drugs, arms trafficking and prostitution in its GDP figures from now on. This move should increase Italy’s economy by at least 1.3 per cent in the first year, helping it

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi devotee strikes at heart of capital punishment

2014-05-24 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re "That's the way I want to go if I have to be killed. Fast and absolute with the crunch of the sword or blade.": Me too but there are disturbing reports of people remaining conscious for a few moments after being guillotined so it might be worth doing some research before ticking this option

[FairfieldLife] Re: Another suicide in FF

2014-05-25 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re "TM has negative effects for some people and this keeps getting ignored and swept under the rug.": I suspect you are right for "some people" but on any specific problem like depression rates; anxiety rates . . . and on the current topic of suicides, the only reliable test is to compare TMe

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi devotee strikes at heart of capital punishment

2014-05-25 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re "The problem with *rehabilitation* is, that you have to want to be rehabilitated. Not very likely if you've grown up as the scum of the earth, which most people are that commit heinous crimes. Not impossible, just not probable. At what cost and what guarantees the rehabilitation works.": I

[FairfieldLife] Nice work if you can get it

2014-05-26 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
In a public gazing session, Braco stands on a podium and silently looks at the members of the audience for a period of five to ten minutes.Supporters say that during the gaze time they can feel tingling, see energy or a golden aura, experience peace or relief from pain. Believers say Braco's phy

[FairfieldLife] Re: Scorpionland Style Parking

2014-05-28 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Plod are bit thick sometimes. This story is from a few years back but shows how the police care more for the crooks than the victims . . . Miss Klass, a former singer with the pop group Hear'Say, was in her kitchen in the early hours of Friday when she saw two teenagers behaving suspiciously in

[FairfieldLife] Any dead people in the Dome?

2014-05-28 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From The Daily Telegraph: Indian court asked to rule on whether Hindu guru dead or meditating The family and followers of one of India's wealthiest Hindu spiritual leaders are fighting a legal battle over whether he is dead or simply in a deep state of meditation. His Holiness Shri Ashutosh

[FairfieldLife] Re: Most powerful Shiva mantra

2014-05-28 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Thanks. I enjoyed listening to that. I wonder how much of the *musical* composition (not the lyric) is traditional and how much it changes with the passing years and fashions. Here's a blast from (pop's) past: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h10_ZxLQJHg&list=PL9BE2818AEF703CD1&index=8 http

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM is a Cult?

2014-05-30 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re "I've seen someone levitate. Many times. In many settings . . .": This is Rama we're talking about, no? What I was meaning to ask you before was: did Rama ever give his followers (or just you perhaps) instructions on how they also could levitate? Did Rama claim to be utilising Patanjali's

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM is a Cult?

2014-06-01 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Right, thanks! Clearly I was never enlightened in any of my past lives - or in this one either. But then, this could be my first ever life! If someone learns meditation in their first incarnation maybe they are a shoo-in to make Bodhisattva grade in double quick time . . . ---In FairfieldLife@

[FairfieldLife] Godfather of Ecstasy dies

2014-06-03 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Alexander Shulgin, the American chemist known as the “godfather of ecstasy” for introducing the world to the party drug after first testing the compound on himself, has died aged 88. Mr Shulgin discovered, synthesised and sampled more than 200 psychedelic drug compounds during the 1960s and

[FairfieldLife] Re: "No Effort" means no need for self-reflexive monitoring

2014-06-04 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
How do you know it is the mantra you're remembering? (This isn't a deep philosophical query.) Say your mantra is "potato" and you *hear* yourself repeating "potahto" then you'd be relaxed about that as we are encouraged to allow the syllable to mutate without trying to think it clearly. So the m

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vedanta, TM and Vipassana

2014-06-04 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re "There's no monitoring required to "do" TM. In fact, you can get lost for hours in thought if you have mental health problems as I do, and still be "doing" TM correctly.": I have wondered if people with OCD or similar obsessive habits can think a mantra "effortlessly" !

[FairfieldLife] Re: "No Effort" means no need for self-reflexive monitoring

2014-06-04 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re Funny you should mention that. On my TTC when MMY came to make us teachers he also gave out advanced techniques. On the flight back home folks were running around asking "do you remember the mantra that MMY gave you for an advanced technique?" A number of people could not or were confused

[FairfieldLife] Re: "No Effort" means no need for self-reflexive monitoring

2014-06-05 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re "Gee, in my understanding, you get only one bija mantra when you're initiated. The advanced techniques aren't new bija mantras, they're actual Sanskrit words that you use with your original bija mantra.": Aha! As I never learned an "advanced technique" I see I've been referring to the addi

[FairfieldLife] Re: "No Effort" means no need for self-reflexive monitoring

2014-06-06 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re "Almost everyone in India where TM got started knows that the TM mantras are sounds found in nature and are related to the devas. For example, the bija 'phat' is the 'crack', 'pop' sound made by an India two-stroke motor rikshaw, heard all over Delhi - phata-phata.": Very droll. Re "Li

[FairfieldLife] Re: "No Effort" means no need for self-reflexive monitoring

2014-06-06 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re my own message: "Can the Samyama technique be used in such a "magical" way for personal aggrandisement or does its spiritual basis automatically nullify any such attempt to pervert its aims?": No one responded to this but it's a genuine query. Can Samyama/sidhi techniques not be expanded b

[FairfieldLife] Stripped-down rock

2014-06-08 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Neat song here from the boys from Canvey Island - Dr Feelgood. The lyric is carried by an insistent staccato beat: . . . Got up, I walked out To the car, start it up Feel bad, sad night I never saw a red light . . . "Milk and Alcohol" - reminds me of those whisky hot toddies we us

[FairfieldLife] The emotional kick of pop

2014-06-08 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Maggie Gyllenhaal is seduced by Will Ferrell's plodding rendition of Wreckless Eric's Whole Wide World. This scene has real charm and power. I appreciate that the director had the guts to go for it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mmq0bEWINSo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mmq0bEWINSo

[FairfieldLife] Laughter Yoga Therapy . . .

2014-06-09 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
. . . with Dr Madan Kataria in Mumbai. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxHGJMy8KFg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxHGJMy8KFg

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mosul Falls to Militants

2014-06-11 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re "Americans are just fed up with sending their sons and daughters over there in order to get killed for reasons beyond the defense of this country. ": On this issue, I wonder if a solution could be the use of mercenary troops. That is, the Third World is full of young men you would jump at t

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Mosul Falls to Militants

2014-06-12 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
The jihadis looted over $400 million from Mosul's banks. Some grunts in the Iraqi Army could have stopped for all of ten minutes to help themselves before hightailing it out of town. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csv1wXOr5tY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csv1wXOr5tY

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mosul Falls to Militants

2014-06-13 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
To be fair to the grunts of the Iraqi Army: on BBC News tonight there was an interview with a common soldier and he was saying that he and his fellow soldiers were ready to fight but the officers were the first to abandon their posts - including senior ranks stripping off their uniforms hoping t

[FairfieldLife] Re: White Christian America’s Waning Cultural Influence

2016-07-12 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re Ann's "I have as much sympathy and empathy with "White Christian America" as I do with that bullfighter": Would you say: "I have as much sympathy and empathy with Black American Muslims as I do with that bullfighter" ? No you wouldn't. Aren't whites getting "paranoid" because they

[FairfieldLife] Re: RoP?

2016-07-17 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
That's the kind of info I'd rather not know about. There is precedent: after WWII the US government suppressed details of the Japanese torture of American PoWs. On PC speak, Stephen Fry makes his protest here . . . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJQHakkViPo https://www.youtube.com/watch?

[FairfieldLife] Re: Jurassic Park: our feathered friends...

2015-07-19 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re "Did you know Dawkins learned TM?": What! Richard Dawkins learnt (was initiated) into Transcendental Meditation © TM ® ? Have you a link supporting that claim? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : ---In FairfieldLif

[FairfieldLife] Re: Jurassic Park: our feathered friends...

2015-07-19 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re "Did you know Dawkins learned TM?": What! Richard Dawkins learnt (was initiated into) Transcendental Meditation © TM ® ? Have you a link supporting that astonishing claim? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : ---

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM and secondary impotence?

2015-07-19 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Can I recommend TM to a - I believe - fairly young man, to try to treat secondary impotence caused by - he believes - his use of SSRI's?? There's zero evidence that TM cures impotence. Problems with potency caused by popping SSRI's are count

[FairfieldLife] Brits win latest war against Krauts

2015-07-20 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
All is fair in love and war. New investigation finds British tourists are waking early to beat their German rivals to the best spots by the pool. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/11752433/Britons-winning-war-of-beach-towels-against-Germans.html http://www.telegraph.co

[FairfieldLife] Re: Most Earthlike Planet May Have Been Discovered

2015-07-23 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Another Earth? If life springs up wherever conditions are favourable then this should be a promising location. If it's vacant real estate then it could be colonised by our descendants millions of years from now. Or if there are aliens already squatting the land we can colonise it a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Most Earthlike Planet May Have Been Discovered

2015-07-23 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re "If any ETs are found in the near future, they could be descendants of human beings": Yes, time-distortion effects could result in some interesting consequences like us mistaking "future humans" for aliens. I guess they'd look on us as we look on this newly discovered Amazonian tribe that

[FairfieldLife] Re: Most Earthlike Planet May Have Been Discovered

2015-07-24 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re "A monkey typing letters at random on a typewriter could eventually write the works of Shakespeare": I suspect there are a lot of monkeys contributing to the many social media sites who have yet to be found out . . . ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : If the u

[FairfieldLife] On the Road again

2015-07-25 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Interactive map showing the routes taken in American Lit's most iconic road trips, including On the Road, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test . . . http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-obsessively-detailed-map-of-american-literatures-most-epic-road

[FairfieldLife] Alien life on Jupiter?

2015-07-25 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
The European Space Agency announces it is has joined forces with Airbus (!) to develop a new space probe to look for extra-terrestrial existence on the icy moons of Jupiter. Things are hotting up in our search for aliens . . . http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/space/11762634/Hunt-for-ali

[FairfieldLife] Darkness, my good friend

2015-07-27 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
BBC Radio had a programme today - South Africa Unplugged - about the continuing crisis as the national electricity generator, Eskom, struggles to provide an adequate power supply and rolling blackouts hit the country on a regular basis. It's the usual dismal tale of government failure. The

[FairfieldLife] Open Windows (2014)

2015-07-31 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Here's a movie that will be featured in a future edition of Rough Guide to Cult Movies. The reviews have been cruel - two-stars being generous - but I think they're unkind to an original idea executed with some panache. A fan (Elijah Wood) is drawn into a twisted chase when he decides to spy

[FairfieldLife] Re: Could there be an Alien Jesus?

2015-08-01 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Perhaps alien "people" haven't fallen - in the theological sense - so don't need a saviour? Are aliens sinless quite naturally? But if they have "fallen" then it seems unfair that only humans get the Son of God on a short visit and aliens are left to stew in their own juices. ---In Fairfiel

[FairfieldLife] Re: Could there be an Alien Jesus?

2015-08-01 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
There was a celebrated anthology of sci-fi stories back in the sixties (I forget the title but one story was Ray Bradbury's Frost and Fire) . One of the tales dealt with an expeditionary space patrol in which the crew had to determine whether a planet was safe or to be avoided by humans. They

[FairfieldLife] Re: Could there be an Alien Jesus?

2015-08-02 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re "The appearance or communication with ETs will definitely change the paradigm of all religions here on Earth. ": Abso-bloody-lutely. Christianity is the religion that would face the biggest hurdle because of its claim to uniqueness and the importance of historical events; unless each a

[FairfieldLife] HitchBOT is dead

2015-08-03 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
HitchBOT, the cheerful hitchhiking robot that had made cross-country trips across Canada, the Netherlands and Germany, had intended to travel across the United States as well. Instead, it survived all of 300 miles on the mean streets of the U.S.A. Two weeks after beginning its U.S. trip in Bosto

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