[FairfieldLife] Do's Don'ts in Dealing with Gorillas
- Forwarded Message - From: Yifu Xero yifux...@yahoo.com To: Yifu Xero yifux...@yahoo.com Sent: Wednesday, October 3, 2012 5:05 PM Subject: Do's Don'ts in Dealing with Gorillas from CSM, page 9: 1. Don't eat or drink in front of a gorilla 2. Don't point at them with your finger 3. Don't use a flash camera 4. Don't touch 5. Don't go to the bathroom facing a gorilla 6. Don't look a gorilla in the eye. 7. Do enjoy one of the rarest sights in the natural world; there are only 270 wild gorillas lef on earth.
[FairfieldLife] by Marek Okron
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[FairfieldLife] Bathing Beauties, 1909
- Subject: ,,Bathing Beauties, Toronto, 1909 http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/7/69896.jpg
[FairfieldLife] : Evidence builds that meditation strengthens the brain
- - Subject: Evidence builds that meditation strengthens the brain http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120314170647.htm?utm_source=feedburnerutm_medium=feedutm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Latest+Science+News%29 Evidence Builds That Meditation Strengthens the Brain ScienceDaily (Mar. 14, 2012) — Earlier evidence out of UCLA suggested that meditating for years thickens the brain (in a good way) and strengthens the connections between brain cells. Now a further report by UCLA researchers suggests yet another benefit. Eileen Luders, an assistant professor at the UCLA Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, and colleagues, have found that long-term meditators have larger amounts of gyrification (folding of the cortex, which may allow the brain to process information faster) than people who do not meditate. Further, a direct correlation was found between the amount of gyrification and the number of meditation years, possibly providing further proof of the brain's neuroplasticity, or ability to adapt to environmental changes. The article appears in the online edition of the journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. The cerebral cortex is the outermost layer of neural tissue. Among other functions, it plays a key role in memory, attention, thought and consciousness. Gyrification or cortical folding is the process by which the surface of the brain undergoes changes to create narrow furrows and folds called sulci and gyri. Their formation may promote and enhance neural processing. Presumably then, the more folding that occurs, the better the brain is at processing information, making decisions, forming memories and so forth. Rather than just comparing meditators and non-meditators, we wanted to see if there is a link between the amount of meditation practice and the extent of brain alteration, said Luders. That is, correlating the number of years of meditation with the degree of folding. Of the 49 recruited subjects, the researchers took MRI scans of 23 meditators and compared them to 16 control subjects matched for age, handedness and sex. (Ten participants dropped out.) The scans for the controls were obtained from an existing MRI database, while the meditators were recruited from various meditation venues. The meditators had practiced their craft on average for 20 years using a variety of meditation types -- Samatha, Vipassana, Zen and more. The researchers applied a well-established and automated whole-brain approach to measure cortical gyrification at thousands of points across the surface of the brain. They found pronounced group differences (heightened levels of gyrification in active meditation practitioners) across a wide swatch of the cortex, including the left precentral gyrus, the left and right anterior dorsal insula, the right fusiform gyrus and the right cuneus. Perhaps most interesting, though, was the positive correlation between the number of meditation years and the amount of insular gyrification. The insula has been suggested to function as a hub for autonomic, affective and cognitive integration, said Luders. Meditators are known to be masters in introspection and awareness as well as emotional control and self-regulation, so the findings make sense that the longer someone has meditated, the higher the degree of folding in the insula. While Luders cautions that genetic and other environmental factors could have contributed to the effects the researchers observed, still, The positive correlation between gyrification and the number of practice years supports the idea that meditation enhances regional gyrification. Other authors of the study included Florian Kurth, Emeran A. Mayer, Arthur W.Toga, and Katherine L. Narr, all of UCLA, and Christian Gaser, University of Jena, Germany. Funding was provided by several organizations, including the National Institutes of Health. The authors report no conflict of interest.
[FairfieldLife] Shiva
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[FairfieldLife] Yog-Sothoth, Deity of the Crustaceans of Yuggoth
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1d/Yog-Sothoth_couleur.jpg Subject: Yog-Sothoth, Deity of the Crustaceans of Yuggoth Through the Gate of the Silver Key, by H.P. Lovecraft and E. Hoffman Price, 1934: It was an All-in-One and One-in-All of limitless being and self — not merely a thing of one Space-Time continuum, but allied to the ultimate animating essence of existence's whole unbounded sweep — the last, utter sweep which has no confines and which outreaches fancy and mathematics alike. It was perhaps that which certain secret cults of earth have whispered of as YOG-SOTHOTH, and which has been a deity under other names; that which the crustaceans of Yuggoth worship as the Beyond-One, and which the vaporous brains of the spiral nebulae know by an untranslatable Sign...
[FairfieldLife] Hal Jordan's Latern Oath
http://www.majorspoilers.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10a/hal_greenlantern.jpg Subject: Hal Jordan's Latern Oath: In Brightest Day, In Darkest Night No evil shall escape my sight Let those who worship evil's might Beware my power - Green Lantern's light
[FairfieldLife] Shankara's commentary, Brahma Sutras
1008 thanks, Emptybill...your erudite scholarship and detective work has indeed paid off.! (e mailed to Jerry, below) I'd guess 40% chance of a reply. Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 7:11 PM Subject: on Shankara's commentary, Brahma Sutras Jerry: From various independent sources, the official teaching of Maharishi in regard to the fate of Self-Realized (in CC or higher) people after death is that there's no further bodily existence, gross or subtle; since the purpose of evolution has been fulfilled. Thus, the drop has merged into the Ocean of Being but there's no drop left. ... But that viewpoint is contradicted by Shankara's commentary on the Brahma Sutras, quotes below. Any comments on this topic? Thanks for your help btw, Ben Collins has put your name on the puja list for another year starting in late April, 2011. No charge, it's a gift. Sincerely and JGD, x... ...ps: note the statement that The released souls are embodied or non-embodied according to their will. Brahma Sutra summary of the final chapter: !--[if !supportEmptyParas]-- IV. 4.1 thru IV.4.3 The released jiva (soul) does not acquire any new characteristics but only manifests its true nature. IV. 4.4 The released soul stands to Brahman in the relation of non-separation. IV. 4.5 – 4.7 The characteristics of the released soul are of the nature of Brahman – i.e. solely as pure intelligence,as that is the soul's Self. IV. 4.8 - IV.4.9 The soul effects its desires by mere will (sankalpa) IV. 4.10 – 4.14 The release souls are embodied or non-embodied according to their will !--[if !supportEmptyParas]-- IV. 4.15 – 4.16 The released soul can animate several bodies at the same time. IV. 4.17 – IV. 4.21 The released soul has all the lordly powers except the powers of creation, continuance and dissolution. !--[if !supportEmptyParas]-- When he says that this is only liberation in Brahma-Loka then point out that Shankara says the jivan-mukti sees everything as Brahman but not as Shunyataa. ….
[FairfieldLife] Brahman doesn't need a cause
Subject: Brahman doesn't need a cause Mundane arguments drawn from personal experiences of causation don't necessarily apply to the universe at large, i.e. Brahman. Wiki:: (Cosmological argument) Even though causality applies to the known world, it does not necessarily apply to the universe at large. In other words, it is unwise to draw conclusions from an extrapolation of causality beyond experience.[13] On a supposed first cause. If there is a first cause, say Brahman, Krishna, Vishnu, or Whomever, why is the first cause exempt from a prior cause.? Brahman being self-caused, is not in this category of requiring an infinite regression, having existed eternally., with no cause other than Itself. On the First Cause (supposed), Wiki says regarding arguments which lead to Deism:: Identity of a First Cause An objection against the theist implication of the proposition is that even if one accepts the argument as a proof of a First Cause, it does not identify that First Cause with God. The argument does not go on to ascribe to the First Cause some of the basic attributes commonly associated with, for instance, a theisticGod, such as immanenceor omnibenevolence.[14]Rather, it simply argues that a First Cause (e.g. the Big Bang, God, or an unarticulated First Cause) must exist.[16] Furthermore, even if one chooses to accept God as the First Cause, there is an argument that God's continued interaction with the Universe is not required. This is the foundation for beliefs such as deismthat accept that a god created the Universe, but then ceased to have any further interaction with it.[17]
[FairfieldLife] Mahadhammarakkhita
Greek proselytizing venture into Sri Lanka, 2nd-century BCE; 30,000 monks led by Mahadhammarakkhita. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahadharmaraksita Bonus topics: troll spray http://www.homotron.net/images/homotron/258Troll_spray.jpg -- Bliss ninny: http://www.wormholeriders.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/V-ABC-Anna-011-576x324.jpg
[FairfieldLife] panorama of Portland
Subject: Fw: panorama of Portland 1923 http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/5/49565.jpg Bonus: troll at computer http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_KOBfqyZBB4s/TNjJxTOYsDI/BOU/yI4OL8h-hiw/s1600/forum_trolls.jpg
[FairfieldLife] Count Zinzendorf and the Moravians
From Charisma Magazine, May 2011, p. 31: In the 1700 's and 1800's another 24/7 watch [a continuous prayer group] that lasted 120 years began in Herrnhut, Germany, with Count Zinzendorf and the Moravians. It birthed the Protetant missions movement worldwide. http://www.zinzendorf.com/countz.htm -Bonus: Subject: Fw: Pilgrimage to Nowhere http://www.shambhalasun.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/pilgrimage.jpg
[FairfieldLife] Zen humor
--- Subject: Zen humor http://www.enlightened-spirituality.org/Zen_Humor.html
[FairfieldLife] Conspirators
- Subject: Conspirators fairly good movie, Conspirators (or Conspirator?) mostly about the trial, convinction, and hanging of Mary Surratt; (along with the other 3). Directed by Robert Redford, recommended if you're into history and/or Constitutional Law. Basically, presented as a gross miscarriage of justice re: Mary Surratt. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Execution_Lincoln_assassins.jpg http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/4/37178.jpg .
[FairfieldLife] William Howard Taft speaking at Manassas Court House
http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/4/37232.jpg Subject: William Howard Taft http://cariart.tripod.com/williamhtaft.jpg
[FairfieldLife] Chupacabra Goat suckers killed in Texas
Subject: Goat suckers killed in Texas http://www.zimbio.com/Photos/articles/53/Real+Chupacabra+Pictures from Helium.com, re: CHUPACABRAS: by Lynette Alice * July 14, 2010 What is being reported as a chupacabra has been killed in Texas by animal control officer Frank Hackett. Hackett has not said that he believes whatever it is he killed in the barn southwest of Fort Hood was necessarily a chupacabra, but he did say “All I know is, it wasn’t normal.” He further commented “It was ugly, real ugly. I’m not going to lie about that.”
[FairfieldLife] Texas prairie dogs - unusually slender
Subject: Texas prairie dogs - unusually slender http://wild-facts.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/meerkats1.jpg
[FairfieldLife] Bridges to the Neverland
Bridges to the Neverland http://neosurrealismart.com/modern-art-prints/?artworks/bridges-to-the-neverland.htmlfullsize
[FairfieldLife] The birth of a Legend
http://neosurrealismart.com/modern-art-prints/?artworks/ghost-ship-series-the-birth-of-the-legend.htmlfullsize Subject: The Birth of a Legend
[FairfieldLife] Shakespeare quotes
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[FairfieldLife] There are more things in Heaven and earth, Horatio,...
Subject: There are more things in Heaven and earth, Horatio,... Hamlet: And therefore as a stranger give it welcome. There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. Hamlet Act 1, scene 5, 159–167 Horatio and Marcellus, though advised against it, barge into Hamlet's conversation with his father's ghost [see SOMETHING IS ROTTEN IN THE STATE OF DENMARK]. Hamlet is a little unforthcoming with the news imparted by this spirit, who is still rustling about under the stage. So it's hard to figure what Horatio and Marcellus are being asked to keep quiet, though Hamlet and the burrowing ghost (a pioner, or miner) insist. Horatio, a model of rationality, is still having a hard time swallowing the whole business. Ghosts are not the sort of beings his philosophy easily takes into account. We know that Horatio is, like Hamlet, a student at the University of Wittenberg, a notable outpost of Protestant humanism. The philosophy he studies there is probably classical—a compound of ethics, logic, and natural science. The emphasis on everyday phenomena pretty much excludes speculation about talking ghosts. Wittenberg, however, isn't just a place where sober-minded Horatios debate Aristotelian physics. In Christopher Marlowe's play of the late 1580s, Doctor Faustus, it is where the doctor lectures and, on the sideline, fraternizes with demons. ... from enotes
[FairfieldLife] Full Moon rising
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[FairfieldLife] Automatons being manipulated by the Gunas
Subject: Automatons being manipulated by the Gunas http://neosurrealism.artdigitaldesign.com/modern-artists/?artworks/digital-art/heaven-helps-us.html
[FairfieldLife] deterministic automatons
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[FairfieldLife] Lama Zopa photos
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[FairfieldLife] Chan Master Hsu Yun Calif. prairie dog
Subject: Chan Master Hsu Yun Calif. prairie dog From Wiki, re: (Hsu Yun, Guru of Chan Master Hsuan Hua and grand-Guru of Chan Master Sheng Yen): Though Chán is less well known in the West compared to Japanese Zen, the teachings of Hsu Yun have persisted within Asia, and he is still a major figure of Pure Land Buddhism in East Asia. Outside of China, the influence of his teachings is strongest in Southeast Asia, particularly in Vietnam and Myanmar, as well as the Americas, where his teachings were transmitted through well known monastic students such as Venerable Hsuan Hua and Venerable Jy Din Shakya and Venerable Fo Yuan. Chan Master Sheng Yen, granddisciple of Hsu Yun; http://www.chancenter.org/ California prairie dog.
[FairfieldLife] Was Churchill a mass murderer?
Page 6, Hinduism Today, April/May/June 2011: How Churchill Starved India The Nov. 2010 release of Madhusree Mukerjee's book, Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Raving of India during WWII, has readers reeling. Between 1939 and 1945, the British used India's entire output of timber, woolen textiles and leather goods, as well as three quarters of its steel and cement, for defense. But few know the full story. To prevent Japanese invasion, the British confiscated all forms of transport on the coast of Bengal Economies were crashing. Without boats for trade, with rice prices beyond reach, Bengalis began to starve. The British hoarded rice not only for the war effort. They blocked even humanitarian wheat shipments from other countries. Mukerjee writes, Churchill valued India so much, and hated Indian nationalists so much, that he wanted to starve them to death Over three million died.
[FairfieldLife] Bizarre fantasies and Ann's Bliss
V Wikia says Anna's Bliss is a Feeling of euphoria. Offhand, I'd say there's a former or current TM'er on the writing team (mocking the TMO and MMY in not so subtle ways). http://v.wikia.com/wiki/Bliss. Subject: Bizarre fantasies and Ann's Bliss Bizarre fantasies: http://www.startlingart.com/Viewer.asp?ImageSource=fine_artFileName=Dream_Police
[FairfieldLife] e-book on Advaita from advaita.org.uk
-- Subject: e-book on Advaita from advaita.org.uk http://www.advaita.org.uk/discourses/q_and_a/q_and_a.htm
[FairfieldLife] Dennis Waite on Neo-Advaita
--- Subject: Dennis Waite on Neo-Advaita http://www.nondualitymagazine.org/nonduality_magazine.denniswaite.interview.htm
[FairfieldLife] Pinhead Roman Sarcophagus
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[FairfieldLife] Livin' in the lap o' luxury
Subject: Livin' in the lap o' luxury http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/1560972645/ref=dp_image_z_0?ie=UTF8n=283155s=books
[FairfieldLife] reverse biological aging with PQQ
Subject: reverse biological aging with PQQ http://search.lef.org/cgi-src-bin/MsmGo.exe?grab_id=0page_id=231query=pqqhiword=pqq%20
[FairfieldLife] most important question
Subject: Fw: most important question Subject: most important question http://r9.fodey.com/2145/42b6dfec78df43f8adac1de036118433.0.gif .
[FairfieldLife] Raja redux
- Subject: Raja redux - Subject: Raja redux http://r9.fodey.com/2145/ae86f1825e964744bb29f86fd1a330a2.0.gif Looking for earth-friendly autos? Browse Top Cars by Green Rating at Yahoo! Autos' Green Center. http://autos.yahoo.com/green_center/
[FairfieldLife] Scientology Squirrel
Don't get soaked. Take a quick peek at the forecast with the Yahoo! Search weather shortcut. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/#loc_weather
[FairfieldLife] Introduction to Body Thetans, (BT's)
Subject: Introduction to Body Thetans, (BT's) http://www.xenu-directory.net/practices/bt.html Finding fabulous fares is fun. Let Yahoo! FareChase search your favorite travel sites to find flight and hotel bargains. http://farechase.yahoo.com/promo-generic-14795097
[FairfieldLife] Gorilla goals and other implants
Subject: Gorilla goals and other implants - Subject: Gorilla goals and other implants http://www.ask.com/wiki/Incident_(Scientology)?qsrc=3044#Gorilla_Goals
[FairfieldLife] Frida Kahlo
-Subject: Frida Kahlo Subject: Frida Kahlo http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-Y1M8mq8Ga4/TCPmWCFKJII/BAs/2R05PXVmcg4/s1600/460px-frida_kahlo_self_portrait.jpg
[FairfieldLife] Dumbo
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[FairfieldLife] resources for victims of Raja abuse
- Subject: resources for victims of Raja abuse http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_NUXrpV4Ao68/TLZm2D22PVI/AFA/pbLjLDm-s_o/s1600/blue-e-meter.jpg
[FairfieldLife] Sultan Suleiman at the Battle of Mohacs
- Subject: Sultan Suleiman at the Battle of Mohacs http://www.museumsyndicate.com/random.php ... If Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and other heartland states can be considered separate Countries, I'm proposing a Caliphate for that area, with a grand-Mullah to oversee the TMO, Bramasthan of America, various wannabe Hindu phonies, and the Mormons of Independence, MO, (The New Jerusalem). ... Any votes for the Ayatollah Bevan? .
[FairfieldLife] Dome of the Rock
Future of the Dome of the Rock: Subject: Dome of the Rock http://www.atlastours.net/holyland/dome_of_the_rock_inside.jpg
[FairfieldLife] The Langoliers or inevitable entropy
-- Subject: The Langoliers or inevitable entropy http://images.fanpop.com/images/image_uploads/The-Langoliers-stephen-king-72809_1024_768.jpg Subject: The Langoliers or inevitable entropy http://www.neosurrealismart.com/modern-art-prints/?artworks/the-langoliers-or-inevitable-entropy.html The Langoliers are entities that eat up the fading remnants of historical events. No telling how long it will take for the Langoliers to consume MMY (a few more years at most).. . TV dinner still cooling? Check out Tonight's Picks on Yahoo! TV.
[FairfieldLife] Blue Money Movie Junk Theatre
Subject: Blue Money Movie Junk Theatre Blue Money: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_In5M5mqIDqU/R6XwU7sP-mI/CAs/hq80w1j8QYE/s1600-h/Blue+Money+Tim+Curry.JPG Subject: Movie Junk Theatre http://moviejunktheatre.blogspot.com Bored stiff? Loosen up... Download and play hundreds of games for free on Yahoo! Games. http://games.yahoo.com/games/front
[FairfieldLife] New Testament usage of Parousia
- Subject: New Testament usage of Parousia from Wiki. New Testament usage The word is used 24 times in the New Testament.[10] Of these 5 uses refer to the coming of individuals: Stephanas, Fortunatus and Achaicus (1Co.16:17), Titus (2Co.7:6) the physical presence of Paul himself (2Co.10:10, Php.1:26, 2:12), and a 6th use to the coming of the lawless one(2Thess.2:9). The other 18 times refer 17 times to the Second Coming of Christ, and in one case to the coming of the Day of God (2Pe.3:12). .
[FairfieldLife] Showdown in Egypt
Showdown http://www.fantasygallery.net/olson/art_1_Showdown.html
[FairfieldLife] The Triumph of Death
Subject: The Triumph of Death http://www.museumsyndicate.com/item.php?item=781
[FairfieldLife] Garden of Earthly Delights
Subject: Garden of Earthly Delights Garden of Earthly Delights http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/4/34480.jpg
[FairfieldLife] Extraction of the Stone of Madness
Subject: Extraction of the Stone of Madness by H. Bosch http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/1/1733.jpg
[FairfieldLife] The Ship of Fools
Subject: The Ship of Fools http://www.museumsyndicate.com/item.php?item=1736
[FairfieldLife] Hello
-Subject: Hello
[FairfieldLife] Enchanters
Subject: Enchanters http://www.google.com/images?sa=3q=yakuza+tattoos+picturesbtnG=Search+images
[FairfieldLife] Black currant extract health benefits
-Subject: Black currant extract health benefits http://www.justtheberries.co.nz/blackcurrants.php?pg=86
[FairfieldLife] Lost Civilizations beneath Persian Gulf
-- Subject: Lost Civilization beneath Persian Gulf http://www.livescience.com/history/lost-civilization-possibly-existed-beneath-persian-gulf-101209.html - Subject: Lost Civilizations. http://www.epilogue.net/cgi/database/art/view.pl?id=107146
[FairfieldLife] Dome Numbers
Calling all Rajas and Rajinis
[FairfieldLife] Levitator Vladimir Harkonnen
Subject: Re: Levitator Vladimir Harkonnen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:McMillan_as_Harkonnen.jpg Subject: Levitator Vladimir Harkonnen Wiki: Though Herbert's novel Dune seems to describe Harkonnen's suspensor belt as simply enabling him to stand and walk upright rather than actually fly,[4] both the 1984 film and the 2000 miniseries feature the Baron utilizing the suspensors to levitate off the ground and float through the air in a flying-like manner. The later Prelude to Dune prequels also employ this floating ability. Herbert does, however, note Harkonnen floating slightly off the floor after he is killed. [11]
[FairfieldLife] Angels and Demons
Subject: Fw: Angels and Demons - Subject: Angels and Demons http://www.redbubble.com/people/surrealismart/art/1594255-1-angels-and-demons-or-angel-of-light
[FairfieldLife] Spontaneous vision of Todgal
Subject: Spontaneous vision of Todgal Todgal, or Toadgal, maybe Froggal:
[FairfieldLife] featuring Inger Edelfeldt
- Subject: featuring Inger Edelfeldt http://fan.theonering.net/middleearthtours/edelfeldt.html
[FairfieldLife] seeing the world in a multitude of shades
http://www.fantasygallery.net/demoray/art_4_dracula.html Subject: seeing the world in a multitude of shades
[FairfieldLife] Conditional Existence, essay by Greg Goode
Subject: Conditional Existence, essay by Greg Goode from the Greg Goode website: Conventional Existence So how do things exist if they don’t exist inherently? According to the Buddhist teachings, things exist in an everyday, non-inherent, dependent way. Our mode of existence is dependent on many things, such as the causes and conditions that give rise to us, the components that make us up, and the ways we are cognized and categorized. According to the teachings, we are not separate and independent entities, but rather we exist in dependence on webworks of relations and transactions. For example, we can say that a bottle of milk exists in a dependent, conventional way because you can go to the store, lift the bottle of milk off the shelf, pay for it, and bring it home. It exists in dependence on its surroundings, its having been manufactured, and in relation to the actions of the store employees and yourself. The bottle of milk is not found to exist independently of these things. It is taught that all things are empty and dependent like this. That includes people and all other living beings, as well as consciousness and unconsciousness; pleasure and pain; time and space; cause and effect; good and bad; logic and math; language, meaning and reference; art, commerce and science; planets, boulders and bridges; unicorns and Sherlock Holmes; energy, thoughts, feelings, and bodily sensations. Whatever exists is said to exist conventionally, but not inherently.
[FairfieldLife] Practicing Sahaj Samadhi
- Subject: Practicing Sahaj Samadhi thx everyone for the excellent points! I would dispute the existence of choiceless awareness, or doership without regard to consequences. Take an Enlightened person who both before and after E. works as a commodities trader. Is somebody saying that after E. there's no choice as to trades, and their outcome? If not, he'd be out on the street without a job. He'd better perform! (and be very concerned about the outcome of choices) ... Also, a case can be made as to the same component of non-doership for those in complete ignorance of the Self. Various components of the mind (the separate Ego) in such a state are misidentified. However, the misidentification is only apparent, so that such persons are only apparently deluded. OK, now we say that E. people are not deluded, while the ignorant folk are apparently deluded. However, whether not-deluded or apparently deludedced; these references apply to something relative. ... Some relative component of an Enlightened persons says I know the Self; whereas the other says I don't know the Self, what is IT?. ... Both are simply assertions in the conditional realm of existence, the first having an experiential component of Self. The bottom line is that the ignorant person's assertion is equally the Self as conditioned existence. ... If the color of a blue wall is really blue even though a person says it's red; that doesn't change the blueness. Ignorant assertions abound, apparently - even among the Enlightened! (thinking of certain Gurus). :
[FairfieldLife] people who knew everything
2 persons [supposedly] with 200+ IQ: Goethe and Da Vinci. Another source mentions Napoleon. Another list, bottom: people who knew everything [the sum total of academic knowledge available at that time]. - http://www.eoht.info/page/IQ%3A+200+(%C2%B1)+candidates IQ: 200 (±) candidatesThis is a featured page IQ scale (ceiling fitted) The Cox (1926) Buzan (1994) ten anchor-point geniuses, a basic measuring stick to potential candidate 200-range IQ individuals. In intellectual categorizations, IQ: 200 (±) candidates are those that do not have specific previously estimated or tested IQs, but which whose retrospect intellectual life-long accomplishments would intuitively seem to merit an intellectual quotient, possibly, in the 200 range, plus or minus, via comparative extrapolation of those of those established 200-range IQs. This being based on the premise that one can assign any individual, historical or present, a natural number (1, 2, 3, 4, 5 …) said to represent the “relative brightness or intelligence” of that person. This page, which is a work-in-progress, being a precipitate of the IQ: 200+ and IQ: 225+ pages, discusses on this topic. A starting point point includes IQ: 200+ thread discussions (IQ: 200+ page threads or category IQ: 200+), sections from the IQ: 200+ page, e.g. last person to know everything group, internet discussions, hundreds of comments given on the popular 2009 video IQ | Smartest person ever, and 2007-2010 polling to both scientists and general public, on the question of who are the three smartest people of all time. [1] Goethe-Da Vinci range The main sources for 200-range IQ estimates are from the research done by Cox (1926) and Buzan (1994). The consensus of these two geniuses lists indicates, diagrammed above, indicate that there are only two uniformly agreed-upon 200-range IQ individuals to have ever lived: Leonardo Da Vinci (IQCB=200) and Johann Goethe (IQCB=213). Goethe is also one of the six individuals said to have known everything; and Da Vinci comes in second place in colloquial polls as to who is the smartest person of all time. These two minds give us a ruler with with which to compare and make potential estimates of other possible overlooked high-end IQ candidates. Cox-Buzan Anchor Point IQs 213 200 194 193 183 180 178 178 177 172 Goethe (75px) Goethe (1749-1832) Leonardo da Vinci Da Vinci (1452-1519) Gottfried Leibniz (75px) Leibnitz (1646-1716) Isaac Newton (75px) Newton (1643-1727) Galileo Galileo (1564-1642) John Stuart Mill Mill (1806-1873) Descartes 75 Descartes (1596-1650) Michelangelo Michelangelo (1475-1564) Spinoza Spinoza (1632-1677) Faraday Faraday (1791-1867) People Said to Have Known Everything Athanasius Kircher 75 Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680) Thomas Young 75 Thomas Young (1733-1829) Goethe 75 new Johann Goethe (1749-1823) Alexander Humboldt 75 Alexander Humboldt (1769-1859) Joseph Leidy 75 Joseph Leidy (1823-1891) Thorstein Veblen 75 Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929)
[FairfieldLife] Dome numbers
Conjectures on MMY's influence wrt the Shah and other characters. What's the evidence for these laughable statements?
[FairfieldLife] Prayers to Padre Pio - testimonials
Subject: Prayers to Padre Pio - testimonials http://www.padrepiodevotions.org/testimonials.asp
[FairfieldLife] crosshairs
Subject: Crosshairs http://thepoliticalcarnival.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/crosshairs.png
[FairfieldLife] With TM there's no need to suffer
[FairfieldLife] PQQ for brain injuries
Subject: RE: PQQ (pyrroloquinoline quinone) protection from brain damage Thank you for your advice. Best regards, G. Michael Lemole, Jr., M.D. Chief, Division of Neurosurgery University of Arizona 1501 N Campbell Avenue, Room 4310 tel: (520)626-2164 fax: (520)626-8313 email: mlem...@surgery.arizona.edu PO Box 245070 Tucson, Arizona, 85724-5070 From:Yifu Xero [mailto:yifux...@yahoo.com] Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 12:23 PM To: Michael Lemole Subject: PQQ (pyrroloquinoline quinone) protection from brain damage Dear Dr. Lemole: This substance may be helpful in cases of brain damage. Article in Life Extension, Feb 2011, states ...an essential coenzyme called pyrroloquinoline quinone or PQQ has been shown to induce mitochondrial biogenesis - the growth of new mitochondria in aging cells. Numerous research articles are cited, including a team at UCLA. Sincerely, PS: (I don't market products and have no connection to any Co. marketing this); but fyi, PQQ is available from Life Extension. Subject:PQQ (pyrroloquinoline quinone) protection from brain damage Life Extension article at http://www.tinyurl.com/4sox9t2 PQQ protects brain cells against damage following ischemia-reperfusion injury—the inflammation and oxidative damage that result from the sudden return of blood and nutrients tissues deprived of them by stroke.45 Given immediately before induction of stroke in animal models, PQQ significantly reduces the size of the damaged brain area.46 This finding implies that if a person were to suffer a temporary loss of cerebral blood flow due to cardiac arrest, stroke, or trauma, that having PQQ in their body would afford considerable protection against permanent brain damage.
[FairfieldLife] Communism most intelligent political system
Communism is the most intelligent political system ...The Mahareeshee ...
[FairfieldLife] Maharishi's Lila
Maharishi's gameplan from the very beginningdestruction of the TM Movement; and ultimately, restricting access to the practice of TM for large numbers of people. (by increasing the price beyond the level dictated by supply and demand). ... The Age of Enlightenment (Heaven on Earth); will be postponed to another era beyond ours. A pity, and tragically demonic.
[FairfieldLife] reincarnation
[FairfieldLife] Domes = Death Star
Subject: Domes = Death Star Subject: Domes = Death Star The Domes are types of Death Stars (Imperial moons with powerful lasers used to destroy whole planets). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DeathStar2.jpg Only in the case of the Domes, your Soul will be destroyed by demons, not planets. http://www.fantasygallery.net/nordstrand/art_0_ghostly-attendance.html
[FairfieldLife] Many TM Sidhis Versions
Here's a good one, courtesy of Old Sparky and General Electric: get lit up like a light bulb.
[FairfieldLife] Invisibility Sutra
Invisibility Sutra:
[FairfieldLife] Catechism R' Us as Parrot food
Re: Statement about Parrot food (did I spell that correctly?). Anyway, this type of input can be of worth. The fact that it comes from a parrot doesn't equate (in all instances) to a devalued benefit. In fact, the benefits of TM are enhanced by a succession of Gurus repeating the same rituals and mantras in a parrot-like fashion, from Guru to disciple without much change. ... The changeless character of the rituals and mantras going back centuries or millenia acts to enhance the Shakti level. (Gregorian chants for example). Also, the fact that parts of the religious aspect accompanying techniques may be purely mythological likewise, may be irrelevant insofar as acting as a vehicle for Shakti.
[FairfieldLife] Advanced techniques fertilizers
Mario: Various contributors have laid out the options for you, and you need to choose and stop complaining about the $$. That's the way it is. But you're making a big mistake sticking ONLY with TM. Get in sync with Ramana Maharshi. In the meantime, just preface your mantra with Sri. That's the advanced technique, as already stated by Willytex. Save your money. ... American saying If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
[FairfieldLife] Meditator leaves the physical?
May he go into the Light, escorted by Angels, and into the Arms of Jesus the Savior..
[FairfieldLife] Advanced fertilizers
Right Marcio, be nicea demon may be poking you.
[FairfieldLife] Marcio: Advanced Technique Fertilizers
Marcio: You should have explained first: you practice TM but want the benefits of advanced techniques. Fine; but you're on the wrong track, and to use an American idiom, You're barking up the wrong tree. Sorry, but true. Don't waste your time on the TM advanced techniques, since there's something better. RAMANA MAHARSHI. ... Forget the emphasis on the technology and seed mantra controversies for a minute. Identify the main, important component of what's desired in advanced techniques, with full consideration of the words of wisdom of many contributors to this forum, and that includes those with whom one may disagree with (since I value Vaj's other's statementshelps me on my own learning curve). At any rate, some key words are tantric and global (i.e. the targeting principle along with the whole picture); but this will be left to future discussions. For now, concentrate on enhancing your SHAKTI level, since the Dome experience is ultimately about ME ; that is SHE; standing for SHE the Goddess (personification of Shakti) and with SE = the SHAKTI Effect. But even without a Personified Goddess, Saivite Traditions (e.g. Muktananda's SYDA) and Ramana Maharshi (Arunachala Shiva); generate HUGE amounts of Shakti if one listens to the CD audios of Pundits in those Traditions. You can get such powerful CD's from Arunachala.org in NY. Where do you live? Maybe they can mail to you. Get Veda Parayana evening...has the Rudram, the most powerful Shiva chant. Don't forget The Sage of Arunachala, a vidio CD. ... You need to get in sync with the powerful Morphogenetic field of Ramana Maharshi. It's like getting (figuratively speaking) sucked into a huge global Black Hole. Only the Blackness is the Black of Kali. Do it!. Get those tapes and forget the TM advanced techniques.
[FairfieldLife] Dragon egg
Subject: Dragon egg http://www.fantasygallery.net/campus/art_6_dragon-egg.html
[FairfieldLife] proposed new Raja hats
--- Subject: proposed new Raja hats http://www.fantasygallery.net/pukac/art_9_Incognita.html
[FairfieldLife] Advanced technique fertilizers
Subject: Advanced technique fertilizers Seventhray says: Re: About Advanced Techniques fertilizers Has it occurred to you that Vaj does not respond to these speculations, or questions, and that by continually bringing them up you only enhance his stature as a critic of the TM movement. When it comes to eastern schools of meditation and spiritual paths he seems quite knowledgeable. I have no way of knowing if his knowledge is on target or skewed. But only a few occassions have I seen people successfully challenge him. My reply: Thx, very good points to consider!...but to parse: a. Vaj doesn't respond. That's because he's never been initiated into TMhe can't respond with no knowledge of the subject. b. Enhances his stature...; yea, right...as a loser. c. when it comes to Eastern Schools he knows a lot. True, in some academic sense; but he's still lacking in direct knowledge of TM, since his remarks on the subject don't match people's experiences, as to a statistical generalization. (he cherry picks the tail end of the distribution). d. His knowledge skewed? Ans: VERY, when it comes to TM.; although he may know a lot about Norbu Rinpoche, a genuine Buddhist Saint imo. (a fine feather in Vaj's cap). e. People rarely challenge him successfully. I'd say his lack of direct experience with TM speaks for itself, so he's a pushover in that regard..
[FairfieldLife] Vipassana retreats not necessary
Retreats not necessary. Just get some audio CD's of Pundits at Ramana Maharshi's Ashram chanting various mantras. Very powerful. Save yourself the trouble of falling asleep at a retreat and getting a sore butt. Available from Arunachala.org in NY.
[FairfieldLife] Espionage Act of 1917, Sedition Act of 1918
-Subject: Espionage Act of 1917, Sedition Act of 1918 Includes disloyal, scurrilous, and abusive language. btw - Woodrow Wilson, a favorite target of Glenn Beck's. No wonder. http://www.answers.com/topic/espionage-act-1917-and-sedition-act-1918
[FairfieldLife] Millennia
- --- Subject: Millennia http://www.fantasygallery.net/jerde/art_4_Millennia.html
[FairfieldLife] Yogic flyer on a Finnish horse
http://www.fantasygallery.net/chang/art_1_faerie-steed.html
[FairfieldLife] Spiritual Succession in Sant Mat [2 Attachments]
-Subject: Spiritual Succession in Sant Mat Spiritual succession in Sant Mat
[FairfieldLife] Levitator Daniel Douglas Home
- Subject: Levitator Daniel Douglas Home http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/89860034/Hulton-Archive
[FairfieldLife] Sarah Palin's core beliefs
From Newsweek, Aug 16, 2010, Palinism 101 by Jacob Weisberg: Is her babble scary, or just funny? As far as I can tell, Sarah Palin has four core beliefs: 1. Things go better with God 2. Yay, Alaska! 3. Let's drill that sucker. 4. Curse you, political establishment. Palinisms occur when Palin expresses one of these views in her idiosyncratically involuted syntax (It is from Alaska that we send those out to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia); when she expresses two or more of them in combination (God's will has to be cone, in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that...or Bushisms, which I collected for many years, often hinged on a single grammatical or factual eror. Palinisms, by contrast, consist of a unitary stream of patriotic, populist blather. I'ts like Fox News without the punctuation. End quote from Weisberg. More quotes from the web from other sources: I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. -- Umberto Eco (1932-) Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. -- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. -- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855) ... All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. -- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) 1.2 billion - 1/5th of the world's population - live in poverty. -- UNICEF Informational Card
[FairfieldLife] featuring - Edel Quinn
Edel Quinn (1907 - 1944), the woman who never complained. http://www.philadelphiasenatus.com/edel_quinn.htm
[FairfieldLife] The Shuttered room
http://io9.com/photogallery/LoveArt/1002402561 and HP Lovecraft: http://io9.com/photogallery/loveart/1002402574/
[FairfieldLife] Beach Boys
--Subject: Beach Boys During the 1960s and early 1970s practitioners of the technique began to be seen as part of the then current counter-culture phenomenon. Also during that time, a number of celebrities that included The Beatles,[19] the Beach Boys, (including singer Mike Love,[20] who became a TM teacher) and singer-songwriterDonovan, who befriended Maharishi and put his picture on the back cover of his A Gift from a Flower to a Garden album, Alot of the Beatles White Album was written in India while with the Maharishi. The song Back In the USRR was written there by paul but mike love said he gave Paul some ideas on how to make the Beatles song with The Beach Boys sound. John Lennon said he had heard the Maharishi had made some improper advances towards young girls and left. The other major factor referring to John is that when they were leaving for India his first wife Cynthia did not make it through the crowds and that was the last John saw her. Out of this era the strangest thing is that it Was the Beach Boys who took the Maharishi on tour and they went to the south of the USA and were boo off of stage with him. The Beach boys did write a few songs on the TM methods throughout the years. from bradcoweb.com
[FairfieldLife] Stupa consecration
--- Subject: Stupa consecration http://www.facebook.com/photo_search.php?oid=20477164744view=all
[FairfieldLife] featuring Ecklonia Cava
Now available from Swansons in Fargo ND. I may get somelooks like a great product. $7.00 for 30 caps. (relatively expensive but that's the cheapest this product gets. Undergoes specialized patented processing and is imported from Korea. The Superior Polyphenol Antioxidant Many Times Stronger Than Green Tea Extract Ecklonia Cava Extract: Polyphenol / Phlorotannin Derived from Brown Algae Ecklonia Cava Extract known as (ECE) is a standardized organic complex of unique aquatic molecules that come from a specific species of brown algae (Ecklonia cava). Polyphenols are a group of chemical compounds found in plants, recognized by the presence of more than one phenol cluster per molecule. ECE represents a unique category of polyphenols normally called phlorotannins. Their unique polyphenolic structure endows them with biological activities which are not found in ground-based plants. Various physiological activities have been evaluated in both the individual compounds that we find in ECE and in the more complex forms through in vitro, in vivo and clinical studies. Millions on Research Dr. Haengwoo Lee and his team have spent over 32 million dollars on research, from in vitro to animal and human studies. Much of the work has been done in Korea, and some was done at the University of Washington. Ecklonia cava has been found to be a very impressive therapeutic supplement for a wide variety of health conditions. THE SUPER ANTIOXIDANT The potency of an antioxidant is often determined by its molecular structure, which is made up of rings. These rings provide the antioxidant function. Most flavonoids generally have three connected rings. ECE has up to eight interconnected rings, making its free-radical scavenging ability 10-100 times more powerful than other polyphenols. It is considerably stronger than green tea catechins. Variable Antioxidant Profiles of ECE Ecklonia Cava’s strength against various free radicals is known to be highly potent. ECE itself and its individual components have demonstrated potent reducing power and scavenging activities against free radicals such as oxidized LDL (bad cholesterol) and peroxynitrite (a powerful free radical that appears to play a major role in many disease processes). A Longer Half-Life ECE is a distinctive polyphenol in that it has a very long half-life (remains in the body longer). This is because ECE is a ocean-based polyphenol that is 40% fat-soluble. practically all other polyphenols are derived from land-based plants and are water-soluble. The half-life of ECE is up to 12 hours, compared to 30 minutes for water-soluble, land-based polyphenols. Because it is fat-soluble, ECE also has the ability to cross the blood-brain barrier. The Research of Martin Pall, Ph.D. Peroxynitrite is the most notorious of the free radicals incriminated by Martin Pall, Ph.D.'s groundbreaking research on multiple chemical sensitivity, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, post traumatic stress disorder, Gulf War syndrome, and fourteen other conditions. Peroxynitrite plays a main role in Dr. Pall’s mechanism, along with NF-kappaB (an important inflammatory mediator). ECE has been found to reduce NF-kappaB as well. Safety Ecklonia Cava Extract is derived from an edible specie of brown algea that is harvested from the waters off the coast of Japan, Korea and China. A unique patented water extraction process is used to discard all unecessary plant materials and stringent microbiological tests are done before it is authenticated to be totally safe for human consumption. Thousands of people throughout Asia have been consuming this specie of algea for centuries. All studies indicate that there are no toxicity at any level. Numerous clinical tests have been done and no adverse effects have been found at any human dose level of 1-10mg/kg.
[FairfieldLife] Psychedelic art of Hans Taeger
(from the 70's, apparently LSD inspired): http://www.iol.ie/~taeger/psydicky/psydicky.html
[FairfieldLife] Chapel of Sacred Mirrors
Neat! click on to the lower panel to access the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors (CoSM)
[FairfieldLife] Vaj's contribution to the Golden Letters
Well done! http://www.angelfire.com/vt/vajranatha/goldenletters.html
[FairfieldLife] Kaziranga National park
Kaziranga national park, India http://www.tripadvisor.com/LocationPhotos-g858488-w3-Kaziranga_National_Park_Assam.html#18816041
[FairfieldLife] featuring: Caterina Fake
Caterina Fake, Flickr co-founder. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caterina_Fake