[FairfieldLife] Re: Jim and Rory back!

2007-12-05 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 5, 2007, at 2:29 PM, curtisdeltablues wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff rorygoff@ wrote: So could

[FairfieldLife] Re: Jim announces new role for himself.

2007-11-27 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, pranamoocher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've never understood the hostilities expressed on this board by some of its members in response to simple topics of personal experiences. I really enjoy reading Jim and Rory's ( and others') enlightened

[FairfieldLife] Re: Taking Science on Faith

2007-11-27 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander mailander111@ wrote: When I quoted G. Spencer Brown (British mathematician) in response to the Davies piece, Judy assumed I had not read the thing.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Interesting stats

2007-11-27 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of the three folks who regularly say that they are enlightened (or at the very least experiencing enlightened states of mind, even if they don't call themselves enlightened) on FFL, during the last month: * Jim

[FairfieldLife] Re: Interesting stats

2007-11-27 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: Of the three folks who regularly say that they are enlightened (or at the very least experiencing enlightened states of mind, even

[FairfieldLife] Re: Okay, true colors time (Expression of talent)

2007-11-27 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why does a beautifully vivid imagination have to be crushed with ontological importance? All the talented painters I know have detailed visions, they just don't try to label it as going to heaven. Likewise

[FairfieldLife] Re: Jim announces new role for himself.

2007-11-27 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander mailander111@ wrote: curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: I don't sense any openness to feedback here so I'll

[FairfieldLife] Re: Jim announces new role for himself.

2007-11-27 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, excellent point. I've never seen MMY actually communicate with anyone. Jim and Rory may well be enlightened, but they don't seem to have enough self-awareness to notice how they come across. Maybe they

[FairfieldLife] Re: Interesting stats

2007-11-27 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: Its a comparison of *behaviors* in several people who have stepped up to the plate here on FFL and made statements about their supposed state of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Interesting stats

2007-11-27 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff rorygoff@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: Its a comparison of *behaviors* in several people who have stepped up

[FairfieldLife] Re: Interesting stats

2007-11-27 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Until the stories are good enough TO deserve applause, you really can't expect it. But you do. And you get pissed off and defensive when it doesn't appear. That's not enlightenment, dude. That's being a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Interesting stats

2007-11-27 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nablusos: A couple of fellows are shaking their anti-TM boat where it used to be so comfy. No wonder they are upset. :-) jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: Unfortunately not upset enough to capsize

[FairfieldLife] Re: Jim announces new role for himself.

2007-11-27 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff rorygoff@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: Acid Trip and Jim and Rory [since they both seem to have missed the post]

[FairfieldLife] Re: Jim announces new role for himself.

2007-11-27 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: R: Apparently we are *all* still failing miserably :-) Yeah. Like I said, arrogant asshole. Perhaps you really think that your being an arrogant

[FairfieldLife] Re: Jim announces new role for himself.

2007-11-27 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Ergo Maharishi and Guru Dev, Brahmanada Saraswati, have also failed to liberate you John, and so they must also be arrogant assholes?? Certainly not, but what they're doing doesn't include acting like

[FairfieldLife] Re: Jim announces new role for himself.

2007-11-27 Thread jim_flanegin
snip Ok then-- I'll be an arrogant asshole IF, and only IF, you take responsibility for your failure to achieve liberation. Do we have a deal? You already ARE acting like an arrogant asshole - and my achieving or not achieving liberation is none of your business. Uh uh, sorry, the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Jim announces new role for himself.

2007-11-27 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, there is nothing I can see that isn't part of me. I know condescension because I have been guilty of it. I know what it feels like. That we are what we behold is a given. Within that given, however, there

[FairfieldLife] Re: Jim announces new role for himself.

2007-11-27 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You know, if I were enlightened, I would expect that part of my freedom, part of my meat robot's new world, would be the duty or privilege of setting folks straight about enlightenment, and if the folks want to tussle,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Jim announces new role for himself.

2007-11-27 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Every scripture has saints who kill, lie, rape, swindle, etc. in the cause of upholding the integrity of spirituality itself. Those who will not even consider that God exists are the proper targets for such low

[FairfieldLife] Re: Jim announces new role for himself.

2007-11-27 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do not feel offended. Your condescension was never directed at me, I just happened to notice it and also noticed honest efforts on the part of others to make you aware of it. So I thought I'd put in my two

[FairfieldLife] Re: Jim announces new role for himself.

2007-11-27 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Jim doesn't want to kill or swindle -- that's a good sign that he's not going to spontaneously manifest those dynamics, but, don't kid yourself, like all of us, he'd kill anyone holding a knife to his child's throat

[FairfieldLife] Re: Interesting stats

2007-11-27 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff rorygoff@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff rorygoff@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote: If

[FairfieldLife] Re: Taking Science on Faith

2007-11-26 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning no_reply@ wrote: Oh, goodie. Story time. Tell us the one again about the infinitely radiant Pride. Ot the ones where particlees collide in this big chamber and

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi announces new role for himself.

2007-11-26 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: It would be an interesting thing in my opinion to have a Meditation Smack-down Match, in which advanced practitioners of several

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi announces new role for himself.

2007-11-26 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would be an interesting thing in my opinion to have a Meditation Smack-down Match, in which advanced practitioners of several techniques sit in a room together and go for samadhi, each of them hooked up to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Taking Science on Faith

2007-11-26 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim: from the perspective of dense waking state, it does sound ludicrous doesn't it? I'd stick to material science if I were you. On a serious note Jim: If you can understand this you will understand

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi announces new role for himself.

2007-11-26 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LOL! good one! Yes, enlightenment is one big fantasy, designed to make those who have worked so hard to achieve this state feel good and disassociate from Reality! Whoo HA! See if you can sell that

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi announces new role for himself.

2007-11-26 Thread jim_flanegin
from birth who gains sight have to learn to see? Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 26, 2007, at 2:47 PM, jim_flanegin wrote: I doubt that very much Curtis. There are people on this forum that would and do renounce the reality of enlightenment

[FairfieldLife] Re: Taking Science on Faith

2007-11-26 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff rorygoff@ wrote: Excuse me, Dr. Pete; I mean to say, maybe you have forgotten what the world looks like to those who don't know they are No-one yet? Questioning

[FairfieldLife] Re: Taking Science on Faith

2007-11-26 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: When you say, actually tickled and stirred Me, don't you mean with a particular sensation of bliss? The reason I ask is that I find

[FairfieldLife] Re: Taking Science on Faith

2007-11-26 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Turq's condescension apparently escaped your sensitivity to being offended-- which leads to an obvious conclusion-- that you are not offended by comments which no matter how condescending, are in line with your

[FairfieldLife] Re: Expression of talent

2007-11-26 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, aztjbailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.tinyurl.com/yxewot WOW! Great find!!! Thank you for sharing this!

[FairfieldLife] Re: Jim announces new role for himself.

2007-11-26 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The thing about being enlightened that I personally don't like all that much is that I am surrounded by unenlightened idiots. How could this have happened? I'm incarnate in a sea of idiots reflecting all that

[FairfieldLife] Re: Taking Science on Faith

2007-11-26 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: Interesting observations-- I don't really get what you mean when you say incarnate and experience from the inside out, if need be (which

[FairfieldLife] Re: Jim announces new role for himself.

2007-11-26 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: BTW do you believe that the rapture of Christianity

[FairfieldLife] Re: Everybody's a Dr. these days

2007-11-26 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 26, 2007, at 9:03 PM, Rick Archer wrote: Dr. Joel Wysong They're really scraping the bottom of the barrel with some of these. Sal Encroaching on your territory, are they Sal?

[FairfieldLife] Re: Jim announces new role for himself.

2007-11-26 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: Yes, I am completely lacking in perfect intellignence. You though have apparently perfected it! I am also as you say incapable

[FairfieldLife] Re: Jim announces new role for himself.

2007-11-26 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote

[FairfieldLife] Re: Jim announces new role for himself.

2007-11-26 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: Don't try to lay your moodmaking crap on me buddy. I am not condemning you, or me, if you want to see it that way- just calling you on your

[FairfieldLife] Re: Jim announces new role for himself.

2007-11-26 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff rorygoff@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: Don't try to lay your moodmaking crap on me buddy. I am not condemning

[FairfieldLife] Re: Jim announces new role for himself.

2007-11-26 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff rorygoff@ wrote

[FairfieldLife] Re: Jim announces new role for himself.

2007-11-26 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff rorygoff@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote

[FairfieldLife] Re: Jim announces new role for himself.

2007-11-26 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff rorygoff@ wrote: Ahh, but you see, Jim, he *is* condemning *you* -- trying desperately to find and prove flaws in you so he won't have to look up to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Jim announces new role for himself.

2007-11-26 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nice story. lol! my stomach hurts!!!

[FairfieldLife] Re: Jim announces new role for himself.

2007-11-26 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning no_reply@ wrote: Nice story. lol! my stomach hurts!!! RUN!!! FFL has been hijacked by the Goal itself!!! RUN!!! LOL!!!Enlightenment is here

[FairfieldLife] Re: Taking Science on Faith

2007-11-25 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff rorygoff@ wrote: I wrote a paper on this very subject while working on my Master's at Harvard Divinity School... That was in 1980 or so, right after constant

[FairfieldLife] Re: Taking Science on Faith

2007-11-25 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff rorygoff@ wrote: I wrote a paper on this very subject while working on my Master's at Harvard Divinity School... That was in 1980 or so, right after constant

[FairfieldLife] Re: Taking Science on Faith

2007-11-25 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff rorygoff@ wrote: Yes, nicely put (if I do say so mySelf *lol*); the omnipresent gold- light/angels/deities/etc. would be the subjective (and by that I mean real)

[FairfieldLife] Re: Taking Science on Faith

2007-11-25 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff rorygoff@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning no_reply@ wrote: Oh, goodie. Story time. Tell us the one again about the infinitely

[FairfieldLife] Re: Taking Science on Faith

2007-11-25 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: It occurred to me while writing my previous reply that it must sound like quite a foreign language to some. Nonetheless to be able to clarify

[FairfieldLife] Re: Taking Science on Faith

2007-11-25 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As for those who ridicule such dialogues, it occurs to me that if they find themselves fortunate enough to experience the death of all illusion, their previous ridicule might be a somewhat humbling and

[FairfieldLife] Re: Taking Science on Faith

2007-11-25 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: if they find themselves fortunate enough to experience the death of all illusion, their previous ridicule might be a somewhat humbling

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi announces new role for himself.

2007-11-24 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff rorygoff@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: I remain open to the claim from some folks that they no longer perceive a

[FairfieldLife] Invincibility sucks (was Re: IMO from this point on the USA went downhill)

2007-11-24 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: Here's the honest truth -- some people are offended by certain words. I use those words from time to time so that I can identify those people and

[FairfieldLife] Invincibility sucks (was Re: IMO from this point on the USA went downhill)

2007-11-24 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Same dynamic of separation, exclusivity, specialness, cliques, condescention, boundaries and elitism. A lesson well learned in the TMO. Damned if they are not effective! Its all in your mind, kiddo!

[FairfieldLife] Invincibility sucks (was Re: IMO from this point on the USA went downhill)

2007-11-24 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning no_reply@ wrote: Same dynamic of separation, exclusivity, specialness, cliques

[FairfieldLife] Re: Top Ten Signs You're a Fundamentalist Christian

2007-11-22 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: I think you forgot the part where they just aren't evolved enough to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Top Ten Signs You're a Fundamentalist Christian

2007-11-22 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: I think you forgot the part where they just aren't evolved enough to understand you. But they will be someday, by which time you'll have evolved to ZC

[FairfieldLife] Re: Top Ten Signs You're a Fundamentalist Christian

2007-11-22 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff rorygoff@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: I

[FairfieldLife] Re: Top Ten Ways You Know You're a TM fundie

2007-11-21 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 10 - You consider Bevan Morris, John Hagelin and Tony Nader sex symbols. 9 - You actually believe TM is the fastest boat. 8 - You believe that theoretical quantum physics actually can explain consciousness and

[FairfieldLife] Re: Top Ten Ways You Know You're a TM fundie

2007-11-21 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote: 10 - You consider Bevan Morris, John Hagelin and Tony Nader sex

[FairfieldLife] Re: Emotion Junkies (was New Age Elements of the Third Reich)

2007-11-20 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Certainly a large percentage of the experiences claimed as enlightenment by Jim and Rory fall into the category of just some overwhelming emotion. snip Wow-- you nailed it Turq! lol

[FairfieldLife] Re: Emotion Junkies (was New Age Elements of the Third Reich)

2007-11-20 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning no_reply@ wrote: snip Certainly a large percentage of the experiences claimed as enlightenment

[FairfieldLife] Re: Emotion Junkies (was New Age Elements of the Third Reich)

2007-11-20 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff rorygoff@ wrote: Yes, exactly. Valuing Hours long samadhi is still just clinging to another experience... I don't care what you two clowns argue about to defend

[FairfieldLife] Re: New Age-Like Elements and the Third Reich

2007-11-20 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, hugheshugo richardhughes103@ wrote: I have reached a conclusion on the Hitler conspiracies, I think it's all caused by fear. Fear that if Hitler wasn't possessed/in league

[FairfieldLife] Re: Emotion Junkies (was New Age Elements of the Third Reich)

2007-11-20 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff rorygoff@ wrote: Yes, exactly. Valuing Hours long samadhi is still just clinging to another

[FairfieldLife] Re: New Age-Like Elements and the Third Reich

2007-11-20 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, hugheshugo richardhughes103

[FairfieldLife] Re: Emotion Junkies (was New Age Elements of the Third Reich)

2007-11-20 Thread jim_flanegin
: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: snip Certainly a large percentage of the experiences claimed as enlightenment by Jim and Rory fall into the category

[FairfieldLife] Bitches, Dream Sequences, and Miro (was Re: Emotion Junkies)

2007-11-20 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@ wrote: If all you're looking for is stupid human shakti tricks, then Rory is probably not the one to seek out for a fix. But, he's

[FairfieldLife] Re: Empty Bill's claims about alamabana

2007-11-19 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 19, 2007, at 11:05 AM, Angela Mailander wrote: How can you possibly know what others experience or do not experience? I understand your point and I agree that expectation muddies the waters of meditation,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Empty Bill's claims about alamabana

2007-11-19 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: R: In THIS context, any tradition, even a practical one is baloney. We don't die by acquiring more and more, we die by ourselves, naked and Alone. Vaj vajranatha@ wrote: I don't know about you, but I

[FairfieldLife] Re: Type of Yoga (was Chopra's )

2007-11-19 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: snip Says the selfproclaimed expert Vaj who never even practised

[FairfieldLife] Re: Empty Bill's claims about alamabana

2007-11-19 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: As we see from this world's great religions, lifetimes can be spent deciding what to wear, what color, drape of fabric, what shoes to put

[FairfieldLife] Re: Empty Bill's claims about alamabana

2007-11-19 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, hugheshugo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote: On Nov 19, 2007, at 12:14 PM, Angela Mailander wrote: So, it is possible, and I find I often know what someone else is thinking. But there

[FairfieldLife] Re: A reply to Vaj's claims about alamabana (was Chopra's Intent)

2007-11-19 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams willytex@ wrote: Bill wrote: Vaj mashes together Vedantic, Tantric and Dzogchen concepts to critique TM but without giving due reference to the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Empty Bill's claims about alamabana

2007-11-19 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, hugheshugo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, hugheshugo richardhughes103@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote

[FairfieldLife] Re: Empty Bill's claims about alamabana

2007-11-19 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: But there are literally millions of TMers. Would anyone like to guess how many people practice TM in the world? I think we

[FairfieldLife] Re: Empty Bill's claims about alamabana

2007-11-19 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, matrixmonitor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ---I don't get it. In reply to the statement that if people waste their lives watching the NFL and drinking beer, Rory said This could be just what the doctor ordered. Sounds like somebody wants to have it

[FairfieldLife] Re: Empty Bill's claims about alamabana

2007-11-19 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote: On Nov 19, 2007, at 11:01 AM, do.rflex wrote: I go by *experience*, not TMO propaganda. TM instruction is TMO propaganda. You cannot be

[FairfieldLife] Re: for Judy

2007-11-18 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander mailander111@ wrote: Then you failed in your job. You should have been taking a bunch of us to Valhalla. Only when we're truly dead. Many of us

[FairfieldLife] Re: Type of Yoga (was Chopra's )

2007-11-18 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Laya-yoga. Laya-yoga is a path that had died centuries ago according to several Hindu yogins I've known, but has been re-written about since the British colonial era. Now that it has been written

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM and Improved Behavior

2007-11-14 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff rorygoff@ wrote: snip... the distinction between sattva and purusha, or judging it's a really, really *good* movie vs. actually freeing oneself from belief in the

[FairfieldLife] The Proximity Factor (was Re: TM and Improved Behavior)

2007-11-14 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Same thing in a *legitimate* teacher or being who is having *legitimate* subjective experiences of higher states of consciousness, in my opinion. In the moment, the subjective experience they are having of Unity

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM and Improved Behavior

2007-11-14 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff rorygoff@ wrote: (P.S. It looks as though you've apparently chosen yet again to ignore the main point of the post: the distinction between sattva and purusha, or

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM and Improved Behavior

2007-11-14 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff rorygoff@ wrote

[FairfieldLife] Re: Jim Done

2007-11-14 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Flanegin – 40 posts for the week. Cool it bro'. Done.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Deepak Chopra and Mike Myers on Sundance Channel

2007-11-13 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Snip And it's all because of the bottom-line marketing approach used by Maharishi since Day One, that TM is the best. That is *so* much the *foundation* of everything TM that anything that challenges this idea just

[FairfieldLife] Re: Deepak Chopra and Mike Myers on Sundance Channel

2007-11-13 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If Jim is really an example of 'enlightenment' it shows me that 'enlightened' people can still be sycophantic, biased, amoral colossal assholes. And it shows me John that you are full of condemnation and judgment. He

[FairfieldLife] Re: Deepak Chopra and Mike Myers on Sundance Channel

2007-11-13 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Isn't the whole premise of Maharishi's vision that TM is supposed to lead to enlightened behavior? Never heard that one. That it's supposed to enable its long-time followers to act in accord with the laws of

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM and Improved Behavior

2007-11-13 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: snip Isn't the whole premise of Maharishi's vision that TM is supposed

[FairfieldLife] Re: Deepak Chopra and Mike Myers on Sundance Channel

2007-11-13 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 13, 2007, at 5:28 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: Barry is talking about the larger situation, not Chopra in particular, and Judy knows it. In fact, that's why she's trying to *distract* from the larger situation, and

[FairfieldLife] Re: Deepak Chopra and Mike Myers on Sundance Channel

2007-11-13 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: If Jim is really an example of 'enlightenment' it shows me that 'enlightened

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM and Improved Behavior

2007-11-13 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM and Improved Behavior

2007-11-13 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: I detest that expression enlightened behavior because it attempts to signify a state which is all about eternal, universal immortal

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM and Improved Behavior

2007-11-13 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 13, 2007, at 6:51 PM, Rory Goff wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote: It's more than a premise IMO. Hang around enough saints and you begin to recognize a spontaneous quality

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM and Improved Behavior

2007-11-13 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 13, 2007, at 9:17 PM, jim_flanegin wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote: On Nov 13, 2007, at 6:51 PM, Rory Goff wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM and Improved Behavior

2007-11-13 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rory Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote: On Nov 13, 2007, at 9:41 PM, Rory Goff wrote: Speaking of editing, perhaps you missed the editor's gentle hint the first time around: the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Solving the global warming problem overnight

2007-11-12 Thread jim_flanegin
Not as a general statement of favorable conditions, but as an absolute, yes. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, put like that, doesn't the notion of best possible incarnation on this planet lose its meaning? jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED

[FairfieldLife] Re: Solving the global warming problem overnight

2007-11-12 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then my original question about your obligations as a favored white dude still stands. But, maybe, in America the ancient European tradition of noblesse oblige has lost its relevance. Too bad. I'm in a good

[FairfieldLife] Re: Deepak Chopra and Mike Myers on Sundance Channel

2007-11-12 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: [snip] Rubbish. This Chopra fellow was kicked out because of

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