[FairfieldLife] More than the Will to Succeed?
More than the Will to Succeed? [ Optimism is fine, but it takes far more than a dream and optimism to succeed. ] I know it does. It also requires the will to succeed. But even that is not enough. But first must come the dream, and then the will to succeed, and then the optimism that it can be done, but then the real work starts practicing to do it. Doing the actual work that without which it could never succeed. THIS is what is meant by stop talking the talk and start walking it. Stop dreaming the dream and start making it happen. Success does not float down out the blue as a gift, you have to make it work. This means pushing on the doors of your own limitations until that door opens. Also, if at first you don't succeed then try try and try again. Give it one hundred percent of yourself. Never give up. These things are learned the hard way amigo. The only way. The time to give up is when you don't exist anymore. But if and when that time ever comes could well be a long way off. In the meantime use what you have got. Don't waste it. And don't sit around picking you nose and complain and waiting for somebody else to do it. We are the stuff that dreams are made on. Know your SELF. Dick Richardson
[FairfieldLife] Re: When the student is ready?
Thought I would look in one this strange group one more time before I kick the bucket. Things here have not changed other than for the worse. But good luck and best wishes to you sir. Merlin of Exmoor ( Dick Richardson) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jason jedi_spock@... wrote: Good evening, my good sir. ( I raise my hat ) Glad to see you here again. ( I place my hat back on my head) Ask Robin when the student is ready. He knows it better that anyone else. --- rwr dick.richardson@ wrote: When the student is ready? [ Dedem. What do you make of this famous statement, supposed to be occult, esoteric, arcane or mystical, which ever it is or all of the above? WHEN THE STUDENT IS READY THE MASTER WILL APPEAR. I ask this question Sir, because it seems to me that you by your experience ,you have debunked that statement of age old schools of Occultism and Mysticism, and even dangerous religion. A nice Sunday Sir. Here in Nigeria where I stay in the semi savannah region, it's blistering hot outside, I don't wish to have any reason to go outdoors. The cold winter must be creeping in on you over there. Well that's the way it has always been, I wish a godo could make it milder in both situations. Mind you Sir I did not say Amen. HAND Obi. ] Quite a nice day here today too Sir, and thank you for the email. A few moments ago I switched on the BBC TV News and found it was the Remembrance Day, Eleven of the hour on the eleventh of the eleventh. Contingencies there from all over the world, and of course the Commonwealth of Nations. They sure know how to put on a spectacle of pageantry, and it is very moving. And when Big Ben struck eleven and the silence of remembrance began for all those who fought and died in world wars for freedom it was not a dry eye affair. I would be happy stand among them were it not dominated by religious blurb. But they know nothing else. So I can understand that well enough. I would be quite happy to say Amen, meaning SO BE IT, but the question is SO BE IT to WHAT? I know what I would say SO BE IT to. But they don't know as to what I would say SO BE IT to. But I do. So, I look forward to the days when people can live together in peace on earth. And Amen to that. When the pupil is ready? I have to tell of what I found and nothing more, and nothing less. But in life I found that when somebody is ready and open and willing to learn then more learning comes along. Some call that mystical. I call it natural. Yes, the winter is creeping in here slowly, but like all the seasons it has its charms and works its way on things; as all seasons do. We have warm skins which we can put on to survive the cold. But I never forget that under all the snow there lays the Rose waiting its time to bloom. And it does when its time is ready. And the Last Rose of Summer is but the seed of the next one. When all seems quiet and still there is much going on which the eye does not see. As it does in all life and all manifestation. As for the `mystical insights' then it is nothing more than seeing beyond the Veil of Time. Even a Cockney kid from the slums of London can do it. One does not need a man made education for that procedure to happen. And that is the truth of it. And let it remain so for ever more. Amen to that. Best wishes to you and yours Sir, and many your country prosper. Thanks for the name by the way, I will wear it with pride and dignity. Merlin of Exmoor.
[FairfieldLife] Instigating your own death?
Instigating your own death? [ My own view currently I am 56 years old and feel I am gradually approaching old age is, like yours, that I would like to decide for myself when the appropriate time is for my life to end. I don't want to live too long when my enjoyment of life is gone and I am a burden on others, who have their own lives to lead. I would prefer a change in the UK law so that people who reach the point where they want to die (after careful reflection, and not on a whim) can apply for their own termination. This idea of applying for one's own death by filling in a Government form, has a slightly distasteful flavour to it, but here in England we cannot all be like Bill with his large calibre hand gun in his bottom drawer. I think the idea of living wills regularly updated stating that if I were to become incapacitated in body and mind such that I can no longer live a meaningful life, then my wish is for my life to be ended. Or if I retain a sound mind, I should be able to consent to my own death, in a clinic or at home, without the need to carry out the deed in secret or in violation of the law of the land. ] It makes no difference where you live, or what the law of the land is. If you want to instigate your own death you do not need assistance in it or the permission of anyone else. Just do it. But do it while you still have your faculties about you, or you will not be able to do it. But all the time you are alive you can learn. Even in the worst of times. I would recommend sticking it out until the last breath. 56? Chicken feed lad. I would also recommend stop reading `philosophers' and LIVE. THAT is how you learn. As for pain in old age then I know a bit about that, but so what? Where there is pain there is still life. As for others having to lend a hand at times then so what, you did enough in raising them all did you not. You give some and you take some. And the old can teach the young so much. IF they are open to learning. If they ain't then they will do it all the hard way. Same old same old story. Dick Richardson (England)
[FairfieldLife] Ref instigating your own death?
Ref instigating your own death? [ Dick, This is indeed scary. You are sounding like a friendly, balanced, normal person. Any chance we could get together for brew if I came over there, or you came over here? ] Sure thing amigo, that would be good. Unfortunately you would have to pay for the pints of bitter now, for I am brasic lint (skint) :- )) But there are still some great bubs around here in Somerset and I can still sink a few :- ) 75 and still roaring like a Lion :- ) The pre-war models seemed to have been made of something enduring :- ))) But I cannot get to the USA. Strange, because I have seemed to have spent the last twelve years there :- I know more Yanks then Brits now :- Merlin of the Moore
[FairfieldLife] Ref Meditation and more than Will Power?
Ref Meditation and more than Will Power? [ Right on! Something MMY and the TMorg hear too little of! Meditation *helps you* DO that, which would otherwise seem impossible. ] Well, I don't know about meditation, never done any of it. Would not touch it with a barge pole. But I have been having mystical experiences from the age of three. Never used faith, or beliefs, or religions, or gods or demons, just LIFE, that is all. And it works. I guess people do too much leaning on something and not enough time looking and being their self :- ))) If you don't use your SELF then you are up shit creek without a paddle. Good wishes to you Sir Knight. Sir Richard de Fluffy Tailed Merlin of Exmoor so dubbed :- )
[FairfieldLife] The Most Important Battle?
The Most Important Battle? [ Merlin, you mentioned that the most important external event during your life was the world war. In your view of it, and as a chess player, what was the most important logistic battle to prevent a Nazi dominated Europe? And what if they had won the war do you think? And as a chess player what did you think of Bobby Fischer? ] The greatest ever world battle is still going on, and that is the battle which I was engaged in, not WW2. It is the World battle for hearts, minds and peaceful unity devoid of tyranny. This or that culture may well take it in turns of global economic dominance for a while, but no culture will ever dominate the world, nor should it; and let alone dominate it by tyranny and dictatorship. End of story. My view of the battle of WW2 is from hindsight now, and it is long over. However, from hindsight I agree with Churchill. In order that Europe did not become Nazi there were two major battles to be won, as seen from here; and neither of them looked as though they could have been won by the forces of freedom. One was the battle of Britain and the other was the Battle of El Alemein in North Africa. They were both won by the allied forces, and against all the odds. Had they not been won then the world would not have been like it is today. One of the things which seems to be often overlooked was that WW2 was not like a chess game, for the sides were nothing like evenly balanced. It seems to be overlooked just how big and prepared the Nazi army was and how small and unprepared the allied forces were. So it was not like a chess match. It was a David and Goliath type match. Had the island of Britain fallen then Europe would have been Nazi. In 1941 Roosevelt told Churchill that the Americans hated Britain and the British Empire and they would not get involved in a foreign war. So Churchill rightly told Roosevelt that if all of Europe became Nazi it would be far more powerful and larger than the USA. Which it indeed would have been. And if united with Russia it would dominate the world for a long time to come. So, given that the USA said bollocks to Britain then after the battle of Britain was won the next most important battle was to secure the canal rout to oil fields and the southern and far eastern parts of the British Commonwealth of Nations. Hence the defence of north east Africa. Obvious and unarguable. Without food and oil coming in to Britain then it could not later fight in Europe. Hence the battle of El Alemein. You have to live through today in order to fight tomorrow. They sent the Italian army into North Africa to earn its wings and prove itself. They were routed and taken out in just a few weeks. Italy played no more part in that war. The Latin's had no heart for it anyway. Both Churchill and Hitler knew how important the Mediterranean and North Africa were. America had no idea about anything. Malta had more bombs dropped on it than London did in the blitz. So they then sent the Germans into North Africa. That was a different kettle of fish. And after quite a while of pushing and shoving on both sides the battle was won at the battle of El Alemein, and Europe was safe for a while longer. But fortunately Hitler was a mad man and he invaded Russia. It was a forgone concussion then that he would now lose the war; for he taken on far too much. And that was proved at Stalingrad. The daftest thing in the whole world war however, was that Japan invaded America. Albeit that it might not have seemed so daft at the time. But that was laughable, and the war was then over but for the shouting. But even then invading Europe was not easy. But it was done and it was won. I hope the world never undergoes anything like that again. The other war is a very different kind of war. But it is still a war. I have often wondered what the world would have been like if we had gone down in 1940 and 1941 and there was nothing to fight that Nazi machine. But the world has a short memory. And it always writes history the way it wants it written and with so much prejudice thrown in. What IF the Nazis had won the war in about 1943? Eemmm, that gives me a good idea for a novel :- ) The human spirit will never ever cow-tow to bondage for very long. So, good luck with the ongoing war against servitude. Fischer? I have been asked that before. The poor sod was mad. Pity, because he was a great chess player and could have done so much for chess in the USA. But look at the kind of life he had as a kid, and the parents. He did not have what it takes to overcome that so he went into retreat from the world and people. Tragic. Even when he died he was still a child that had never grown up. The love of Chess was not his main drive; revenge was; he hated everything and was totally paranoid. Dick Richardson
[FairfieldLife] The Question of Morality?
The Question of Morality? [ Morality is about right and wrong in terms of behaviour, or good and bad conduct; so is this found in the inner ground of being of which you speak? ] I have done this one before. But to answer your question, no it isn't. There is no such thing as behaviour there and there is no such thing as right and wrong action; or knowing right and wrong action. So, this is a human characteristic or quality here and now. But the same applies to this study yourself. Nearly every moment of every day we are faced with making decisions, and interactions with other critters. So how should one behave? Have you or have you not got something which you call a moral code of conduct? If so then how dominant is it in your life? It is sometimes called ones conscience isn't it. Assuming one gives any credence to it then could you do something which conflicts with this moral integrity? Can you live with yourself if you act in some way which is totally counter to this moral integrity which you have within you? Does this moral integrity evolve during your life? One of the major reasons which people use as an excuse for having a religion is the belief ( BE LIE ) that religion instils moral behaviour. But morality has nothing whatsoever to do with any beliefs and religion. Your moral integrity IS REAL. And to whatever degree it is activated within you. It is tied up with a person's SENSATIVITY. So, we certainly do not invent this thing. So where is its root and where does it come from? It is far deeper than the rational discursive mind. So, it is a product of the subconscious. But not as far down as the Ground of Being. So, it is an archetype, and one of those types which evolves with experience. It is not there for nothing. It is there to use. The best test of its integrity is when an action brings you absolutely nothing in return for doing it. But if you don't do it then you will know that IT IS WRONG not to do it, and you would have to live with that if you do it. So DONT look to religion for the truth of anything at all. It is ALL CRAP and nonsense. Look to yourself. For that is where IT IS. It is you which will judge you. Do it every day of your life. As for me I do use my SELF ( the part in the Ground of Being) as the litmus test for what is right and what is wrong action. So, not only do you feel it innately but you also KNOW what it is based upon and how and why it comes about. Study yourself. As I have said enough times, if you don't know you then you are boat without a rudder. So how the heck would you steer it? Dick Richardson
[FairfieldLife] Where do you hang out Merlin?
Where do you hang out Merlin? [ Where do you hang out Merlin of Exmoor? ] Exmoor would you believe :- ) Well, just on the eastern flank of it in the Parish of Stogumber. Much nicer than Tottenham don't you know. And I know both well. But if you mean in terms of Cyberspace then at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Psychognosis_Archive/ http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Psychognosis_Archive/ and also at http://www.psychognosis.net http://www.psychognosis.net/ But not for much longer ;- ) I have done my time :- ))) Hey, has this group got nothing better and more important to do than all this silly childish yelling at each other? It is worse than a kids playground. Let us hope that intelligent aliens don't find them for they will run away screaming. I had best be off, I want to die happy :- ))) Dick Richardson
[FairfieldLife] Why the need for secrecy?
Why the need for secrecy? [ If it truly is positive growth by way of mystical experiences, and therefore important, worthwhile, effective, then why the need for secrecy, underground movements, and whispers among friends in secret societies? ] There is no need. I have sure never done that or belonged to any such thing. Just say your piece in the public domain. If there are those who do not like it for some reason then they can lump it. If the censuses paradigm does not like it then let them try and to do something about it. The only thing that could prevent one is the fear of doing it owing to the reactions they might receive. As for secret societies then what is their big secret and why is it secret? If you were that interested then you could always join them and find out. The only real secret clubs would be those that nobody has ever heard of save for its members. And presumably they would have to have been invited or they would never have heard of it. Life is no secret. If it is then it makes a rotten job of keeping it secret :- ))) Merlin
[FairfieldLife] Paper Spirituality to fill a Void?
Paper Spirituality to fill a Void? [ and just like addiction to drink or drugs, religion, such as it is, is just a paper spirituality to fill a void of emptiness. They use words in a book, and a blind faith in them, to substitute for a life. Such people will never understand your kind of spirituality which is direct experience based. ] Never is a long time. But the extent to which this is true is a very sad affair. What is it that generates such a void? Is it loneliness? I cannot speak from experience about addiction to drink and drugs for I have never been there. Nor can I speak of a void, an emptiness of any kind, for I have not been there either. Neither am I a fan of the word `spirituality'. Evidence seems to suggest that many people who `have a religion' seem to be quite content with it; and who often rant and rave about the wonderful effects of it. One of the not so nice effects of having written the things which I did was in being contacted by some folks who were suicidal. But when they told me their stories there was always something there which they had been extremely shaken up by; and justifiably so. But I never did meet one who claimed that their life was empty. But then again, how many people can we meet and talk to? But of course, fundamentalists would not be reading my stuff in the first place, so my experience of them is slight indeed. Likewise is my experience of drug addicts almost nil. But I take your point well enough about `paper spirituality'. Never heard that term before :- ) But that is what `having a religion' is about isn't it what they have heard or read and firmly believe in it and have a faith in it. I find it said that anybody would live their life by proxy; and whether it turned them into drug addicts or not. Do you remember the hippy period? It fizzled out, for it was not based on anything real and substantial. Sad really. Religions will go the same way one fine day, but it just takes longer. Some people have asked me over the years why I turned my back on religion. But this is an assumption of theirs for I never did turn my back on religion. You cannot walk away from something which you never had. But I would imagine that anyone dumping their religion might well feel a void for a while. They tend to jump on to another one :- ) Question is why did they dump it :- ))) I have also met a number of people who jumped on to a religion because of some minor psychic experience; and who had had no religion previously. That is an interesting case study too. But I get the feeling that perhaps most people are into a religion because they see it as justifying morality, and having known nothing else which does that. I find that sad too. Then there is the age old question of so many things simply being tradition. That is perhaps the most effective Pied Piper of them all. It would be fascinating to see the world in a few thousand years time to see how it has all panned out :- ) rwr
[FairfieldLife] In the NOW of THEN?
In the NOW of THEN? [ You mention grabbing the day, and grabbing the full essential quality of it at that moment, each moment as they pass. You also mention that this moment, the now, will never happen again. And presumably that is the reason for grabbing it to its fullest extent at each moment as they come and go. But does not knowing full well that it will pass and never happen again deteriorate from the quality of that moment in that now? ] It would indeed be a dose of negativity in the cup of that moment if one was thinking about its passing and its not existing again. But if you were thinking about anything else at that time then by definition you are NOT grabbing that moment and living it to its fullest essential quality in the NOW. You would be spoiling the moment by writing a future or a past into it. You can only ever live one moment at a time, so take good advantage of that. Don't spoil it by adding a time that does not exist to it; no matter whether it be a past time or a future time. Doing that loses the moment AS IS. This whole point was made clear to me when living in that transcendent mode of the eternal now. (the GOB). For one could NOT think there? There was nothing to spoil THE MOMENT. The moment that never changed. Do you see? Mystical experience is a great learning device. But here on earth in TIME, one can stop thinking any time one wants to. It is not compulsory to be thinking all the time. It is while not thinking about the moment that one can LIVE it to its fullest extent. THAT is grabbing the moment. ALSO, keep in mind that moments become written on to memory and they are written AS THEY WERE lived in that moment. So, if it was not fully lived in that moment then the NOW of THEN (which you can relive in memory) is also not of the highest quality of its being. Memories are an extremely important part of the incarnate life. Not only do we have to think while here, but we have to think well, and remember well. But there are times for no thinking and no remembering while in the moment. Because they distract from it. It seems to be a natural part of the mystic life to know when and when not to think and remember. How many times each day do you stop thinking and remembering and just live that moment AS IT IS NOW? Doing that MAKES the moment. If you do not do that then you have missed the moment. And what then would go into the records? Nothing. A blank. A memory should be as sharp in the NOW as it was in the NOW of THEN. That is what I mean by grabbing the day. Today will never come back again. It is only lived ONCE. SO LEARN IT. You do not learn and record the NOW by thinking about it. You learn it by LIVING it. Experience IS the food of life. Eat well and grow by it. Dick Richardson
[FairfieldLife] The Living in the NOW?
The Living in the NOW? [ This is true about grabbing the day. That's why most people are not happy or at peace with themselves. They are always thinking of how it could be in the future - that they will be 'happy' in the future when they get this or that (usual material possessions or relationships with others). Or they are living in the past where they are fixated by past unpleasant events, or even injustices etc. that affected them and cannot move on. That future often never comes and their 'nows' are a summation of misery and also form a miserable memory! The past does not help them either as they cannot exact justice or whatever has made them grieve such as a loss of a loved one. Due to this misthinking they engage in further actions that tend o then spiral into self-destruction and the possible destruction of others. This does not mean that one should not think about the past or the future but only to the extent that a positive change can be made as you move forward. The other point is that we must all realize that life/human consciousness is a miracle - we are so used to it that it seems mundane. However if you were an astronaut and visited all the planets in our solar system alone and were dumped back on earth you would not ceased to be amazed at the refulgence of life. One has to defamiliarize the familiar to know this. Which mean that one must realize that behind all matter and energy lies a source that gives rise and order to this and it was not purposeless. Your current body is simply a vehicle for now. Taking these points together as Dick says grabbing the moment by a change in one's thinking pattern, of knowing that life is a miracle, that it is indeed everlasting and purposeful, that one must live in the moment by being alive to it can propel one to peace, happiness and further knowledge of ultimate reality. One does not need a guru to achieve this and what I'm saying is only a reminder; one does not need to go to a temple to know this; your self and the universe are constantly sending you a message that this is the case - if only this reality were not blocked by us. Nadeem ] Indeed so. I have been trying to plug this for years but it seems to be totally ignored. I suppose the question is, how easy is it to do that if it is not natural to one. To what degree can it be done by choice if it is not natural to one? Prior to the transcendent event I did it naturally and never even questioned it, but after the transcendent event I realised what was going on, and one was living those moments without thought. So, you just put two and two together to get the rational answer. So, as it was in Eternity I continued to do here parts off the day; especially in those special moments. In so far as I can see it then that is why I have such a good clear memory of so many past events. Imagine that the writing of a memory was likened to data being put on to a magnetic storage tape, then the quality of the tape (and the memory going on to it) are important factors in the process. But if they are recorded well then on recalling those memories it is almost like living that past NOW all over again. But they also have a deeper and more important function too. However, it is equally important that the bad memories are stored well too in order to remember WHY they were bad moments so that you don't do it again. THAT is the positive in the negative. What the hell use is any experience if it is not lived, learned, understood, and recorded for future recall? As for the bit about other known planets and then coming back here and finding this place to be the wonder of all wonders then that IS SO. This is an amazing place to be. That was another lesson well learned in transcendence and then coming back here again. There is no bloody point going there if you don't come back here again and USE it and implement those lessons learned. I keep telling them that mystical experiences is a learning process and about ones evolution. But they turn a deaf ear to it all. Both science and religions claim that such people are MAD :- ) Mad they ain't ! Different they ARE. As we live so too is it written on the sands of time in the archive of the soul AND the DNA. WE write our book, it is not written for us. Dick Richardson
[FairfieldLife] Why the need for secrecy?
Why the need for secrecy? [ If it truly is positive growth by way of mystical experiences, and therefore important, worthwhile, effective, then why the need for secrecy, underground movements, and whispers among friends in secret societies? ] There is no need. I have sure never done that or belonged to any such thing. Just say your piece in the public domain. If there are those who do not like it for some reason then they can lump it. If the censuses paradigm does not like it then let them try and to do something about it. The only thing that could prevent one is the fear of doing it owing to the reactions they might receive. As for secret societies then what is their big secret and why is it secret? If you were that interested then you could always join them and find out. The only real secret clubs would be those that nobody has ever heard of save for its members. And presumably they would have to have been invited or they would never have heard of it. Life is no secret. If it is then it makes a rotten job of keeping it secret :- ))) Merlin of Exmoor
[FairfieldLife] How we live our lives?
How we live our lives? [ As I see it the most important question for all people, religionists or not, is how we live our lives; not what we are. In which case all the mystical aspects are totally academic. ] I would imagine that many people might agree with you; for a while. But I don't. What factors are involved in how we live our lives? Why are those factors the way they are? How did those factors become the way they are? Is all that totally academic? As far as I am concerned then the question of how best to live our lives is one of the four or five main perennial questions; but it is only one of them. Can one really isolate one of them to become dominant and disregard the rest when in fact they are all linked up in one mysterious web of causal process? It could well be the case you know that I am even more concerned with the question of HOW we live our lives than you are :- ) And have been so for a very long time. But I have no intention of throwing any of the pieces of the jig-saw out of the equation and thence ignoring them. You bring up the `mystical aspects'. Do you know them? If you did then you would know the effects of them, and those effects come to dominate the way we live our lives. You seem to be ignoring that totally :- ) So how would that be totally academic in the question of how we live our lives? If one could isolate just one aspect to make it the dominant one then that would be it knowing what you are and where you come from. Ipso. Health is another of the major factors in how we live our life. So too is politics. So too is age and maturity. The chance to live here long enough to establish maturity. But the mystical life dominates those two factors. Tell me that it isn't so when you know it and live it. Take such things as love and beauty for example (essential qualities found in the Ground of our Being of what we are a mystical experience) are they not important in how we live our lives? Are they totally academic? No sir; knowing what you are and where you come from and how you fit in with it all are NOT academic, let alone totally academic. And they DO come to dominate the way we live our life; by effect. One day you might come to agree with me, but there will never come a day when I will come to agree with you. Judge a meal after you have had it, not before you have had it. Dick Richardson
[FairfieldLife] Prescriptions not Predictions?
Prescriptions not Predictions? [ If you were to stick your mystics neck out then what from your understanding of life would you say will happen to me when my time here is over? ] If I were to stick my neck out? Huh ! Thought I had done my share of that. However, you need a fortune teller not a mystic. I know nothing about my tomorrow let alone yours. My field of interest has been prescriptions for living life here not predictions for when I am not here. What would you like to happen when you are not here? The act of leaving here is what I call DEAD. Ceasing to exist is what I call Extinction. I have never known extinction. All I have known is being here and leaving here. So, what do you know? One hundred and ten percent of my interest has always been about how to live a life, and it still is. If I did not exist then I would not have to think about that. So, no problems. I would hazard a guess that the same would apply to you. My understanding about not being here has not altered since 1964. Nor have my feelings about not being here altered since then. But my feelings about being here have altered since then. My interest is in LIFE, not NOT LIFE. However, if you are constructed in much the same way as me then when you are not here, then two parts of your being will continue to exist and one part will not. But in order to find out what NOT existing is like then you had best find somebody who does not exist and ask them. As for me then I have only ever known existing. The sum of my interest (and experience) is and always has been, in existing. Existing can be very good, not too bad, and bloody horrible; depending on various factors. So, I looked into those factors. But not existing could not even be boring could it. And it could hardly contain any variations on that theme. But, your time to be NOT HERE will come soon enough. So you will find out then. As did I. I have related what it was like when I was not here. Nothing can ever alter that; for what was done was done. And what was done was fine by me. However, the tip which I would give to you would be to study life, and living it; not NOT LIFE. Extinction can never ever be anything more than a theory. But life and living it is no theory, it is a fact. As for predictions then it does not look as though there is going to be a great deal of sunshine here today. But I have known worse; and there is much to do which does not need sunshine for the doing of it. The sun cometh up and it goes down again. I arose from Eternity and went back to Eternity. And I am from Eternity for the purpose of living it here. How about you? Nice to know what you are talking about, isn't it. I meet so many who don't. Dick Richardson
[FairfieldLife] When the student is ready?
When the student is ready? [ Dedem. What do you make of this famous statement, supposed to be occult, esoteric, arcane or mystical, which ever it is or all of the above? WHEN THE STUDENT IS READY THE MASTER WILL APPEAR. I ask this question Sir, because it seems to me that you by your experience ,you have debunked that statement of age old schools of Occultism and Mysticism, and even dangerous religion. A nice Sunday Sir. Here in Nigeria where I stay in the semi savannah region, it's blistering hot outside, I don't wish to have any reason to go outdoors. The cold winter must be creeping in on you over there. Well that's the way it has always been, I wish a godo could make it milder in both situations. Mind you Sir I did not say Amen. HAND Obi. ] Quite a nice day here today too Sir, and thank you for the email. A few moments ago I switched on the BBC TV News and found it was the Remembrance Day, Eleven of the hour on the eleventh of the eleventh. Contingencies there from all over the world, and of course the Commonwealth of Nations. They sure know how to put on a spectacle of pageantry, and it is very moving. And when Big Ben struck eleven and the silence of remembrance began for all those who fought and died in world wars for freedom it was not a dry eye affair. I would be happy stand among them were it not dominated by religious blurb. But they know nothing else. So I can understand that well enough. I would be quite happy to say Amen, meaning SO BE IT, but the question is SO BE IT to WHAT? I know what I would say SO BE IT to. But they don't know as to what I would say SO BE IT to. But I do. So, I look forward to the days when people can live together in peace on earth. And Amen to that. When the pupil is ready? I have to tell of what I found and nothing more, and nothing less. But in life I found that when somebody is ready and open and willing to learn then more learning comes along. Some call that mystical. I call it natural. Yes, the winter is creeping in here slowly, but like all the seasons it has its charms and works its way on things; as all seasons do. We have warm skins which we can put on to survive the cold. But I never forget that under all the snow there lays the Rose waiting its time to bloom. And it does when its time is ready. And the Last Rose of Summer is but the seed of the next one. When all seems quiet and still there is much going on which the eye does not see. As it does in all life and all manifestation. As for the `mystical insights' then it is nothing more than seeing beyond the Veil of Time. Even a Cockney kid from the slums of London can do it. One does not need a man made education for that procedure to happen. And that is the truth of it. And let it remain so for ever more. Amen to that. Best wishes to you and yours Sir, and many your country prosper. Thanks for the name by the way, I will wear it with pride and dignity. Merlin of Exmoor.
[FairfieldLife] The Gnostic Radio Interview?
The Gnostic Radio Interview? [ You mentioned that the hour long radio interview which you did for the Gnostic program can be purchased from the source, but is there no way of hearing this without having to pay for it? ] A question I have been asked a few times actually. The file is too big to put into an email or on a Yahoo group. But when I got this new computer just over a year ago it was suggested that I hook up to the online dropbox thing to store stuff in case the computer blew up. So I did. But it has one folder which is called the public folder, but I never bothered to use it until recently, but I did put a copy of it into the dropbox public folder, so you could try opening up this hyper link, but it might well open up in another page, you could try this https://dl.dropbox.com/u/48453281/Coffee%20Cigarettes%20Gnosis%2077.mp3 https://dl.dropbox.com/u/48453281/Coffee%20Cigarettes%20Gnosis%2077.mp3\ But paying for it would assist the person in Chicago who goes to all this trouble not that I have any affinity with them; but at least they are actively seeking something. If you try the link then let me know if it works or not. It works for me. But I was sent a copy gratis and that one opens up in the iTunes player. The guy does about a twelve minute rant before the interview begins; but he does make a good interviewer. The line between here and Chicago was not to bad at all. I was not expecting the interview at that time, I thought it was the next week, so it caught off guard a bit and also while I had a bad head cold at that time, but it ain't too bad a recording. Dick Richardson
[FairfieldLife] An Act of Kindness?
An Act of Kindness? [ You mentioned that you have hope for humanity based on their inner connection to the ground of their being, and the unfolding of this implicate order, while also mentioning how rarely this connection is consciously made as yet. So such people must be very rare. Is this enough justification for any kind of hope for humanity? ] It is, yes. But it is not the only thing. Most of my life, and all the jobs which I have done for seventy years, involved me being out on the streets, as it were; involved with people on a daily basis. And as you know, I watch people. But every day on the streets I saw things that never make the news. Simple acts of kindness and caring. It is nearly everywhere you look. Somebody collapses on the street and total strangers rush to help. Why? They don't know them; they are not family or friends; they are not doctors or medics; they are not in love with this person, they don't even know them; they are not being paid for it or receiving any kind of reward for it. So why do they do it? Yes, I know well enough that crowds gather around just for curiosity. But if there were nobody else around most of them would do it too. To simply help or at least give comfort to somebody in need. Why? There is nothing in it for them. It is unconditional assistance. Why? You also see it in so many other things and ways. People taking in stray animals; all kinds of things. You also see so much of this in times of war. I sure did. In fact you see even more of it in times of war. So, what is the name for this kind of thing? I don't know. Perhaps the milk of human kindness. And this is far from rare. Personally I have never been in a position where I needed help from anyone. I have never collapsed on the street; never been involved in a road traffic accident. Never been injured in war, etc. Never really needed any help or assistance from anyone. But nonetheless I see it on the streets every day of my life. It is very inspiring. But I have indeed been shown many acts of simply unrequested kindness. Sure, these people are not mystics, nothing special about them at all, just bog standard human beings. But they inspire one. They give one hope for humanity. And they far outnumber the rogues and villains, rapists, and murderers, cheats and liars. And none of this stuff is newsworthy. But you can sure learn a lot from it. Unjustified optimism? Nope, for it is there and it is real. There is something awe inspiring in human life forms, and even though it does not always shine through. But I know it is there because I found it, and I see it in action every day. But, if you prefer to see only the negative then that is what you will see and find; and it will drag you down into an existential black pit of hopelessness and nausea. But why would you or anyone even want to see only the negative? Ask yourself that one. But it is all there to see if you open your eyes to it without any bias or prejudice. On a few occasion I have felt pissed off myself, but there was always somebody or something to bring the smile back again. No, my optimism is not unfounded. Far from it. I don't only learn from the mystical and transcendent experiences you know, I learned from having looked around me all my life. Have you not heard of the watchers from the gates of dawn? To study yourself is important. But you are not the only one. Dick Richardson
[FairfieldLife] And pause for reflection
And pause for reflection Well, maybe the events of yesterday on three of the most notoriously idiotic groups on the internet might make those who think, or hope, that any evolutionary advancement in the human collective condition will come sooner rather than later reasons for pause for thought and reflection on that. Far later is much more likely than anywhere in the near future even though evolution rumbles on SLOW. Baring miracles such as pigs flying of course. Hence the practicality of walking alone and not trying to drag a mob along with you. One can find more culture and intelligence quota painted on the walls of prehistoric caves. Give to the mob that which is befitting and due to the mob, and keep for yourself that which is your own. For they will only shit all over it. And silence is golden. rwr
[FairfieldLife] What wins
What wins [ On Psychognosis Archive Re: And pause for reflection Hi rwr and friends - Ahhh, good to reflect at this and any time. Puts things back in perspective and re-grounds a person. I just wanted to note here that from our discussions on evolution of Homo Ensophicus coming to BEING/ BECOMING and Stage 6 of the EHE/ Becoming process, ego wars are not part of it. Name calling does not compute; although the teacher is there, when the student is ready, right. The fact that something resonates with rwr's messages and poems to many many others, does no make him a guru... he does not charge nor does he get royalties from his books ;-)! I also think that evolution can happen in bursts of massive change, so hold on to your hat (ha!)! Much Love, SuZ ### ] You know, it is funny thing SuZ, but asking questions is an art par excellence. Some have it and some don't. Some, yourself included, have asked some very cute, acute, and pertinent on the nail questions. Most don't even know what to ask, hence the silence. When it comes to battle then the ONLY real battle is with oneself and all this stuff. Digesting it, synthesizes it, becoming entwined with it. What wins? Nobody has ever asked that question. Leastwise nobody over these fifty years has ever asks me that question. But what is the battle about and what wins? It is about the battle of the personality (or ego as some like to call it but not me) battling with this mystical stuff in this becoming process. It takes a long long time. What wins? Is it the mystical stuff and fifty years of such experiences, or is it the personality? It is neither. None of them win. It becomes a marriage, an all engulfing inner personalised union and enfoldment of the two I and IT. Just like mixing some dye into a jug of water. Neither wins. Neither comes to dominate. The Personality is NOT destroyed, it evolves and moves on and becomes stronger in that new unified state of being NOT lost. But indeed, yes, no matter whether it is physical evolution, social collective evolution, cultural scientific and artistic evolution, or the personal awareness evolution, there is no constant flow or velocity of change. It is indeed a fits and starts onward movement. Movement and repose, movement and repose, movement and repose. And each repose is the ideal time for reflection and digestion in the dialectical flow of Thesis, Antithesis and Synthesis. And then the new synthesis becomes the new Thesis. And on it goes again. So it is lived and found to be so. You had best prepare for a stage seven to your EHE process paper. Dick Richardson.
[FairfieldLife] A long repose?
A long repose? [ You make mention of a long repose, eighteen years, between two major blasts of new awareness, (a) the Transcendent Mystical Reunion with the SELF in eternity, the ground of being; and (b) Its resolution and fulfilment back here on earth in space and time and uniting with the physical world itself in a consummatum incarnate. Both being two new major shifts of awareness and ways of being in the world as well as out of it. What was this eighteen years of a kind of repose or stagnation like and could it be speeded up do you think? ] Yes. A repose it indeed was but certainly not a stagnation, far from it. I often say twenty years simply for round numbers but it was in fact eighteen years. Keep in mind that throughout all our life here, and not just that eighteen years, we have to get on and live it. We have to work and play and sleep, and raise the kids and feed and educate them, and also making time for our own individual interest and hobbies. None of this is pushed aside or negated, and they are in fact the best part of life and the best things. Mystics do not become hermits or monks in recluse. However, even though it WAS a repose from BIG NEW BLASTS of awareness it was the time of the MOST activity of psychic experiences, plus a few more minor mystical experiences along the way. So it was NOT a stagnation, and far from it. It was among the very best years of my life. But as were the rest of them too. So, although it may seem a repose in that sense of BIG changes of awareness happening there was not only much going on in my own daily life but ALSO that which was going on the soul/subconscious. Indeed, look as to how those initial poems leapt out, even from during sleep. It is all a part of the same process of unfolding and become consciously and subconsciously. Could the time lag between those two major stages be speed up? I can imagine them taking fifty or a hundred years. From hindsight eighteen years seems very fast. You cannot move on until you have properly digested what you have eaten and it is working for you. That is what POTENTIATION is ALL ABOUT. Could it happen in ten years? I don't know. See if you can find somebody who has known that leap in ten years. I sure have not found any. But you might. And taking one day at a time and one year at a time (and one lifetime at a time) is fine by me, I am in no hurry and it is not a race. I also love to take time out just to stand and stare. We are each our own person. Sometimes the day can wait for me, for I am busy with MY things. It is too good to miss. And I am greedy. I did not come here to sleep walk through it. Dick Richardson
[FairfieldLife] The THIRD big shift
The THIRD big shift [ Re: What wins Facinating to speculate the More in the Becoming process as we have named Homo Ensophicus for Stage 6. :-)I thank you so much for the visual of the dye in water and mix and the dialectical process... I understand. There is s much here to follow with... and now I have to go to work! The blending of the old and the ever new then the RE Newed Thesis. The Stage 6 Process goes into infinity obviously but there can always be new caveats. Thank you! SuZ ### ] Well there you go professor Suzanne V Brown ma'am, that will keep you busy for a few years GET TO IT ! You remind me of professor Abdus Salam much prettier of course. He, poor sod, died not long after we met and chatted at his home in Oxford, but he so wanted to meet up often and go into more of all this stuff. It is not often you find a top physicists and Nobel Prize winner who is also a mystic. But he was not very good on his legs at that time either. Great man, one of the best I have ever known. I aint too good on my legs now with this IPN :- ) As for that THIRD leap then a few have asked me what I think it might be, or what it might do. But I have not got there yet so I don't have a fringing clue and cannot even imagine. Happy to wait and see. But for the last thirty years there HAVE been changes, and still is going on, especially subconsciously. I am not what I was thirty years ago after that stage two blast. That is all done dusted and put to bed and lived with in daily life every day. But what comes next I don't know. For me I think it will be kicking the bucket I have had enough for now and I am weary :- ) Like old black Joe :- ) Need a different kind of a rest now. It has been long, exciting, illuminating, and wondrous, I have loved it all; but one still needs a rest from it :- ) And that does not mean just sitting over the moors and relaxing. It means something different to that. It means going. A long repose of another order. Dick Richardson
[FairfieldLife] Do you regret it?
Do you regret it? [ You don't regret having communicated these things do you Richard? ] No, of course not. And I know well enough that over the years it has assisted a few who were in need at the time. We are all going down the same path. Even a few who were very suicidal due to their heightened sensitivity in a world such as this is. So, no, I do not regret it at all. However, I do wish that I had done it differently. I feel that I should perhaps have restricted communication to only those who communicated with me first from having read the books, and which much of it is anyway, instead of going live into the pubic doing live chat groups and thus going in COLD. I would not do that bit again. For it is a total waste of time and effort. And having said that there is the conundrum that I did meet a few there who were in need of some hints on this stuff and it came in useful for a few of them. So it isn't an easy call is it :- ) But weighing it all up, and from hindsight, and being a pragmatist, then no, I would not have done the chat groups. But, anyway, it is done now and one cannot undo it, so you move on. But after today I will only post to and communicate on the Psychognosis Archive group and on private emails. Enough is enough. BUT, if anybody does communicate in private after today then it may well be used on the group archive unless they specifically ask for it not to be, or for their name not to be used. Dick Richardson
[FairfieldLife] Whos Father??
Whos Father?? [--- In serenityandtolera...@yahoogroups.com, Tish deborahs23@... wrote: 'Forgive them Father. They don't know what they are doing'. Whose father?? Tish ] You had best go and ask him. He is on the Fairfield life group - not a nice place. I did not ask him :- ) BUT, you must surely know that some of the ancient silly fuck faces have called that bit of ourselves which exists in paradise as OUR FATHER which art in heaven. Didn't you know that? Frig me mate, where have you been hiding? Merlin
[FairfieldLife] The Father in Heaven Symbol
The Father in Heaven Symbol Actually, and with NO respect for the bastards that did it, the symbol of OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN is a very good symbolism indeed. For you see (you must get an education you know) that part of ourselves COMES FIRST. It come before the incarnate personality on earth. Why the frig don't you study yourself. A life not studied is a life wasted miss, or missus. But without that first bit of our self we would not exist. Life incarnate would not exist. Consciousness would not exist. Nothing would be known. I AM the first to be brought forth ! Don't you frigging get it yet WAKEY WAKEY rise and shine ! Time to wake up from thy slumber ma'am. However that part of us is there to find and to live it go find your SELF ! But don't look around the world or time and space for it for you will NOT find it there and you will not find it in a fucking book mate. TIS LIFE LOOK WITHIN DAMMIT ! It is INWARDS and DOWNWARDS. Not up in the fucking sky ! KNOW THY SELF ! No wonder the world is getting in the shit ! They have found no SUBSTANCE. Tis a world of money, food, greed, profit, tits, arses, booze and drugs Maybe a fucking great lump of rock ought to come and smash it all up ! Dick Richardson
[FairfieldLife] The Son of the Father Symbol
The Son of the Father Symbol And while we are on that bloody dangerous symbolism CRAP let us do the other bit, the frigging Son (not the sun) bit. I am the son (incarnate progeny) of I AM. They seem to know fuck all about the Trinity of our manifestation and being do they, blind as bats in a dark cave mate, and without radar. Talk about bloody Plato's dark cave of shadows :- They do ALL their learning from bloody silly books NOT LIFE ! They repeat things and copy each other like bloody sheep Lemmings running off the edge of a cliff. Or dancing to the tune of the Pied bloody Piper. Jasus bloody Ker-Riced the world of humanity has gone NUTS ! Here we go gathering nuts in may ! Just like groups now where they all cut and past but have fuck all to say for themselves. Let us do the other bit as well, the holy fucking ghost. That is LIFE and CONSCIOUSNESS. You will never ever ever ever find either of them !!! I AM the father and I am the son, and I AM LIFE and I AM consciousness. Gawd they are DIM aint they. I AM not a mystery and I am not a mystery but LIFE and Consciousness IS a mystery; an ETERNAL mystery. (mysticism) Know your SELF and you will know Eternity and deepest depths of THE ALL, and you will know that life and consciousness sprung up from out of the dark nebular move stuff in paradise. GO HOME and find out. It is ever waiting for you. I will be with you until the end of time and beyond. They don't understand fuck all do they ! Ppphhht:! THAT is what religion and priestcraft did for them mangled their bloody brains. And they inflict it on to their progeny. Poor bastards ! Cut the chain and walk free amigos, a New kind of man is coming Homo Ensophicus ! Dick Richardson
[FairfieldLife] No way
No way [ I think the world has been waiting for you Merlin. ] :- ) No way ! The world is waiting for the next fix, the next box of pills, the next bottle of whiskey, the next visit to the shrink, the next fuck, the next prostitute, the next profit returns. I would not touch their world with somebody else's fucking barge pole mate. The only one who was ever waiting for me to arrive here was my mother I was big :- ) And I landed here on the night of Halloween just after midnight near the witching hour PLOP! That scared the shit out of folks :- ) They tried to bomb me out of existence for the next six years but they kept missing :- ) But they sure did come close twice, two nights running in 1940. There will come lots of Merlin's my dear, and that is for sure. WE must bring back the old ways :- ) But WITHOUT SYMBOLISM ! Just tell it AS IT IS ! Have a nice day. I am going to go sit by a tree over the moors. Merlin
[FairfieldLife] If Time Ends?
If Time Ends? [ If time ends there will be nobody to know anything. ] Time will end for everybody. But not all at the same time :- ) It is not a question of IF Time ends for us all it is question as to IF it will come back again. But what TIME are you talking about? If you are talking about SPACETIME and the physical universe OUT THERE, then if that can happen once it can happen trillions of dillions of times; time and gain. But if you are talking about personal time then wait and see if it comes back for you. It came back for me :- ) Perhaps it cannot do without me ;- ) BUT you do not need spacetime or even moving time to be aware of existing. Make it clear what you are talking about eh. Or are we supposed to guess. DON'T try to fill a two pint pot with one pint of awareness. Nor judge a two pint pot from being stuck inside a one pint pot. Merlin
[FairfieldLife] But when a child comes here?
But when a child comes here? [ But when a child comes here then how could he or she be sure that it was not you here again? ] :- ) It cannot :- ) But why should it assume that it is? Assumption aint a good travelling companion mate. However, there IS a rather profound point here, so try not to miss it. In a way every child IS me in that they would all say I AM ME. I say that too, and always have. Do you see? PLUS EVERYTHING and Everyone is all connected up to the same thing in the Ground of Being. That child is not me there, but it is the I AM consciousness. Every living thing is my twin brethren. We are all made of the same stuff but strung together differently. Life and existence is so bloody clever mate ONE thing is easy to get your head around but the multiple variety is bloody astonishing. Go figure. In the meantime tis best to just live your life and be yourself and try to make the most of it and do the best which you can always, and do no harm. That is not bloody hard is it. And no matter who I bloody was or will be then I will always be ME ! Live one lifetime at a time eh, and make it one worth living. Go and leave footprints in the sands of time. Let the bastards know that you were here :- ) We are all bastards you know, we haven't got a daddy. Or a mummy for that matter. DON'T try to make everything in your own physical likeness. Enjoy the OTHERNESS. I and THOU. Merlin
[FairfieldLife] What do I define as objective?
What do I define as objective? [ What do you define as objective Richard? ] Everything that is not me. Isn't that obvious? That which I am not is objective. My body is objective, it is not me; it is OUT THERE. The world is objective, it is not me. The Ground of my Being, that transcendent timeless place, is not me, it is objective. The middle part, my soul/sub conscious workshop which connects Time to Eternity, is not me, it is objective. IF you want to find out what you are NOT then first find out what you ARE. But if it does not interest you then fuck it, read a book instead :- ) I AM nothing but conscious awareness, the lover of the loved, the knower of the known, the observer of the observed. I have no material substance, no objective substance, before time moved I AM ME. When time is no more I AM. Seeing is not me, for it is I who sees. Thinking is not me, for it is I that thinks (when in time that is). Hearing is not me, for it is me that hears. And if you are curious about the assertion of being made of three parts than that is NOT ME it is EMANATION. I pass through them. I am a journeyman, from Eternity for this purpose. Learn these thing for yourself, not second hand from me. I cannot eat or see or drink for you. I cannot understand for you. You must do it. What have you been learning all these years and where have you been learning it? Life does not charge us for learning. Nor does it demand anything of us. It is free. Even the kids in the slums amigo. You have only got to be there and be with it, and it is done. Learning is inevitable unless you deliberately block it out. When they ask me how one gets mystical experience and inner learning I ask them as to how they do not. Perhaps they have a godo who does not like them ;- ) Best dump it in which case and walk alone :- ) Pick up your bed and walk ! Dick Richardson
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Son of the Father Symbol
You cant read. The name is not Dirk. Anyway, mind your own fucking bussiness, you DONT have to read it sommy jim. Dick Richardson. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sundur@... wrote: Dirk, stand down a few notches. You're getting all riled up.
[FairfieldLife] Re: No way
No Arthur Right us :- ) No problems :- ) I am not a WW2 Vet for I was a bit too young more is the pitty, I would have loved to have stuck the cold steal up em :- ) But I was showing yanks around London during the war. They were OK, I used to gets fags, chewing gum and some sweets from them for showing them around the joint. Had a great time. But yeah, I am a pre war veteran :- ) They don't make them like that vintage any more. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sundur@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, rwr dick.richardson@ wrote: Have a nice day. I am going to go sit by a tree over the moors. That's awesome. Sounds like you don't have an issue with arthritis. You know, WWII era vet and all that.
[FairfieldLife] Why are you connected to a body Richard?
Why are you connected to a body Richard? [ Why are you connected to a body here Richard? ] Because THAT is the way it happened here mate. Read the book The Mystical Gnosis Event and the Human Situation. But it is GREAT being connected to a body. Because I can touch your skin and look into your eyes and I can feel your excited panting breath on my neck. We can have fun in the fields of gold doing all the things which the bishop says is naughty. And it is the light which shines out of your eyes which puts the stars to shame; it is the smile which you offer me that makes life worth living. Without you I am empty. I love you until the end of days. And together we can bring more here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9Zw4LeSt2wfeature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9Zw4LeSt2wfeature=related Don't forget however than in every body there is a real life person, and they FEEL. Make them feel good. Incarnation is short lived. GRAB THE DAY ! Merlin
[FairfieldLife] Fort Knox Gold?
There isn't any gold in Fort Knox, only godo lives there now. The Chinese pinched the gold for the lock was too easy to pick. Go pick some blackberries instead. Nice fresh air out there too, if you can breath any through the car fumes. What goes around comes around. Merlin --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, richardwillytexwilliams willytex@... wrote: Denise Evans: Obama has grown the debt the least of all the presidents back to Reagan... From what I've read, the president of the U.S. has no control over the national debt or how much gold is in Fort Knox, or not.
[FairfieldLife] Gold in Fort Knox?
There isn't any gold in Fort Knox, only godo lives there now. The Chinese pinched the gold for the lock was too easy to pick. Go pick some blackberries instead. Nice fresh air out there too, if you can breath any through the car fumes. Merlin
[FairfieldLife] Thought this group was about spirituality :- )
Thought this group was about spirituality :- ) Thought this groups was supposed to be about metaphysics/spirituality :- ) Huh, they aint got none of that either :- ) When the cash has gone they are out of spirit too :- ) Did your guru's fuck you all up or did you do it yourselves - DIY job ? Merlin
[FairfieldLife] Re: Michael Moore: Occupy Wall Street will only get bigger
The world was eating and having fun before the American land mass was populated. My house is older the the USA :- ) Some nations sure do fancy themselves don't they :- ) I wonder what makes them so unpopular in the big wide world. Don't think that takes much working out does it. Gung ho and Gas. Merlin the Mangy Celt --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, richardwillytexwilliams willytex@... wrote: Bhairitu: You can see the rhetoric is heating up an we may well see an American Fall... So, how are the Wall Street 'squatters' going to create more jobs so people can make more money to get the economy growing again? When we see 'America Fall' you and several million other people are going to starve to death in about thirty days. You can't buy food with paper money - it would be worthless if America were to fall. http://tinyurl.com/6cmx5ga
[FairfieldLife] Re: Thought this group was about spirituality :- )
:- ) You would not have a clue as to what is true if it crawled up your arse sonny jim. Hows about a bet that I was on this group before you were? Merlin. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, rwr dick.richardson@ wrote: Thought this group was about spirituality :- ) Big mistake. This is the Funny Farm Lounge, where some gather to watch the machinations of crazy people. True, some of the watchers are crazy, too, but that just adds to the charm of the place. :-) With all due respect, Dick, this seems to be yet another of your periodic drive-bys, cruising for attention. Have you ever considered just interacting with people as if *they* were interesting, as opposed to assuming that they'll reply to you because they think you are? Hint: you're not. Not to be rude or anything, and not being interested enough to look it up, didn't you announce on a previous FFL drive-by that you were dying? I mean, we all are, but you made it sound more short-term, and as if it were a done deal. What's up with that? If it was true, and you're in remission from whatever it was, I wish you nothing but the best. But I am curious.
[FairfieldLife] Where did Gnostics go wrong?
Where did Gnostics go wrong? [ Where do you see modern day gnostics as having gone wrong? ] I don't see them as having gone wrong at all. To have gone wrong implies that they were right before they went wrong. Were they right before they went wrong? I do see them wasting their time keep bashing away at christiannuty to see what is wrong with that instead of studying life and themselves and the phenomena of conscious experiential existence. Just wasting all their precious time and efforts mate. Never mind, weep no more my lady, weep no more today. For the old Kentucky home far away. Merlin
[FairfieldLife] Talking of guru busters Arhata Osho
Talking of guru busters Arhata Osho Given that you call yourself a guru buster mister Arhata Osho or whatever your bloody name is, that is such a big pathetic joke that I feel obliged to give you a little tip; so listen up. Somebody who does guru busting would never ever call themselves a guru buster :- ) They just do the job and then smile :- ) It is OTHERS who call them a guru buster. I know :- ) Moreover, to call yourself a guru buster would warn them that you were coming EVEN if you were one, which you aint :- ) You are just SO SILLY and out of it all. But one would not warn them that you are coming. You would play it cool to start with and get them yakking, then you would put questions to them which they could not answer, or lie in the attempt to, which is easily seen through. Man, you really are clueless. Why don't you just carry on cutting and pasting :- ) As if folks could not read the daily news for themselves :- )) Oh, and if you don't like my English Accent, as you say, then tough luck. It was our bloody language you know :- NOEL :- ) Merlin
[FairfieldLife] So scared of being busted
So scared of being busted [ I call my self my name, my teen mother discovered I could not talk, so she gave me a name, which I still arbitrarily use. When I grew up, I selected my own name! Isn't that something!! To you who espouse that you are a mystic, I suggest that 'guru buster' with no attachment to it. You are not a guru/mystic or whatever and neither am I, nor do I ever mention it. I walk silently about what I do, however, please defend your claim to be a mystic, and that it's a special position, at least from your writings you seem to think it is? I have several friends who claim they are 'enlightened' - my response is, I've seen enough of the 'enlightened' to know that's one of the last 'things' I would wish upon myself! Take away certain mental proclivities, and all I've seen is self aggrandizement. Peace be upon you! Arhata ] Oh botherrations and suffering suffertags I am so worried about being busted by a guru buster that I had better quit and keep me cake hole buttoned. Gone are the days when my heart was young and gay, Gone are my friends from the cottages away, Gone from the earth to a safer place I know, I hear their gentle voices calling Mer Lin O. I'm coming, I'm coming, for my beer is getting low, I hear their gentle voices calling Mer Lin O Why do I sleep, when my heart should fight and strain, Why do I sigh when my friends come not again? Saddened for forms now departed long ago. I hear their gentle voices calling Mer Lin O. Where are the hearts once happy and so free? The children so dear that once sat on my knee? Gone to a place where my self now has to go, I hear their gentle voices calling Mer Lin O. I'm a-coming. All down one leg and a bootfull. But until I do go then let us get at em! Actually it was NOT I who said I was a mystic or a guru buster or a gnostic or called myself Merlin. It was others. You should have been where the action was at years ago :- ) I am just a snotty nosed know nothing kid from the slums before the war. INNIT. Merlin (due respects to a very fine old song)
[FairfieldLife] Re: Thought this group was about spirituality :- )
Cutting and pasting old sayings again eh. You are indeed SO BORING. Tell me about your enightenemt. What is that? NO GUTS - GO FOR IT WINDBAG ! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: Before enlightenment we chop wood and carry water. After enlightenment we chop wood and carry water but that's really boring so we discuss politics, economics, movies, music, TV shows, sinister yogis, arm wrestling.
[FairfieldLife] You havent achieved Enlightenment yet?
You haven't achieved Enlightenment yet? [Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Thought this group was about spirituality :- ) You mean you haven't achieved enlightenment yet? Maybe that's why you don't understand this group. :-D On 09/29/2011 09:45 AM, rwr wrote: Cutting and pasting old sayings again eh. You are indeed SO BORING. Tell me about your enightenemt. What is that? NO GUTS - GO FOR IT WINDBAG ! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/post?postID=tJNrp5ZKmgNhLIr\ bFa6DlAIlxgVAHzYSekjBnGFf8Ggu-4yrczhli4GIsWVsl4cCUx_raqqDVw50C5sm-BNTQh0\ Kv2iWzw , Bhairitunoozguru@... wrote: Before enlightenment we chop wood and carry water. After enlightenment we chop wood and carry water but that's really boring so we discuss politics, economics, movies, music, TV shows, sinister yogis, arm wrestling. ] NOPE.. Don't even know what fucking enlightenment is supposed to be :- ) I just talk about life experience and what it revealed and my feeling about it. Such as the transcendent mystical reunion and the Reciprocal that brings it all back to earth again. My first love IS politics by the way. But YOU tell us what enlightenment is. NO GUTS, GO FOR IT WINDBAG I aint got a clue what enlightenment is. BUT YOU TELL ME ! Merlin der dratted Guru Buster as ever was.
[FairfieldLife] Enlightenment is a trap?
Enlightenment is a trap? [Re: [Psychognosis_Archive] You havenât achieved Enlightenment yet? I dropped enlightenment! Living 'with' people is much more satisfying! Enlightenment is not an achievement but a state to avoid as it has nothing to do with enjoying life more.. I suggest knowing and enjoying yourself with everyday an exciting venture. 'Enlightenment' is a trap of the ego. Arhata ] Ahh, so that is what enlightenment is eh. Slap me bloody vitals I didn't know that. But anyway it aint my ball park. I talk and write about mystical experience and life not enlightenment. Anyway, feel free to tell us what it is like living with people. I have never known that. Oh you are a funny little Osho aren't you and you cant even see it :- ) Do you ware pink knickers too? Merlin
[FairfieldLife] So when are you going to bust me Guruhat?
So when are you going to bust me Guruhat? So when are you going to bust me Guruhat? I am waiting and panting in the slips. When are you going to deny what I have written and tell me what life should have been? How are you going to do that? As you have lived and known people then it should make it easy for you. You can even bring them along to help you and I will stand alone. Are you saying that the things I have written about for fifty years are lies? Prove it. Why don't you begin with the short exegesis which I did fifty years ago. Disprove it. Even if only with logical and rational words. I am awaiting buddy boy pink shoes. Merlin
[FairfieldLife] Busting Merlin?
Busting Merlin? [ It's happened. Treat yourself to a special nite out dinner, and be free of these self induced complications. I'm a painless executioner Aharat ] If you mean a night out dinner then my wife has just cooked a fine one thanks, and I have just eaten it. She got me a beer to go with it too. Nice lady. But of course you have not done it, you have not even started to bust me you idiot. You MUST begin busting me by what I first wrote for the public domain about transcendence fifty years go. So fucking read it and bust it you great twerp. Take it all apart word for word you great steaming egocentric prick ! And lots of others have known that first one too, so you aint half going to look a pink pratt :- ) Merlin
[FairfieldLife] Re: So when are you going to bust me Guruhat?
Nahh, just in a fiesty mood today and I love pulling the sperm out of the spunkless. Merlin of Exmoor. Did you know that a Merlin is a bird of prey? Maybe not. n FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, rwr dick.richardson@ wrote: So when are you going to bust me Guruhat? You seem to be fixated on that fellow, Arhata Osho. He used to post here, but he's been gone for more than two years.
[FairfieldLife] Talking of war?
Do you remember the war in the forties? Quite a big one wasnt it. How many times did you get blown out of house and home ? Shall we talk about war as they don't want to talk about mystical transcendent experiences? Or maybe your dads or grandads were here. Dick Richardson --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote:
[FairfieldLife] Two nights during the blitz
Two nights during the blitz One evening during the blitz in 1940 we (or rather they I was bit young for poker) were playing poker in the house and they thought this will amount to nothing so they stayed there in the house. We were supposed to have gone down in the Anderson shelter in the back garden by our stables in the house at Tottenham Hale. Anyway the shelter had a fucking great bomb drop on it and we would have all be dead if we were in it. But we were OK in the house. One of my fathers young brothers just got some shrapnel in his arm, that is all. The next night they thought sod this, but there was no shelter to go in, so they went down in an underground cellar in a factory across the raid (Gestetners, they made duplicating machines). Anyway, when we came up in the morning the bloody lot of it had gone. Our house and one each side of it. I still have a few things from the wreckage two antique cut glass wine decanters that were not touched and a wooden clothes horse :- ) my mother and I had no place to go and only the clothes which we stood up in; so we walked the streets. So, if we had been in the shelter either of those nights then end of time :- ) My mother was a weaver in a factory just along the road, she ran four big looms. The Stukers used to come down and machine gun them in the streets when they were going and coming from work. Great fun eh. But it only went on for six years. Man the stories I could tell :- ) My father came home on leave for a while and he said sod this and was glad when he got back to France out of the crap that rained down every day and night he thought it was too dangerous here :- ) But we smiled and got on with it. No good crying is it. Merlin
[FairfieldLife] Well what DO you want to talk about?
Well what DO you want to talk about? So, OK, if you don't want to talk about mystical experience and nice things and profound life enhancing things and you don't want to talk about the war and being hungry and all that then what do you want to talk about? I am game for anything. How about the mating habits of Three Toad Sloth's? Or what about stamp collecting? Merlin
[FairfieldLife] Or we could talk about being in the army
Or we could talk about being in the army Some of you geezers must have been in the army when you were seventeen so we could talk about that if you like. I had lots of vehicles and two of them were Yank Vehicles. A Diamond T Tank Transporter. With a sixty foot trailer and a centurion tank on it was 100 tones. Big brute. Also had one of those DUKW's which went on land or in the sea. That was fun. Also had BARV, a converted Sherman tank with high turrets which went into the sea for recovery on beach landings. Merlin
[FairfieldLife] Re: Well what DO you want to talk about?
So, the group is NOT actualy about anything then - right? :- ) I have been doing groups (over 400 of them) for over twelve years, and I have not found one that was not about something :- ) Well, I have now :- ) So this is yak for yak sake is it? Are they lonley perhaps ? Merlin --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@... wrote: There have been over a quarter millions posts (290K) since this group was founded 10 years ago.
[FairfieldLife] Back door of an army bog
Back door of an army bog Went into a karzie one day while I was in the army and some geezer wrote on the back of the door while trying to have a crap here am I broken hearted, took of me battle dress and only farted. The next day some other geezer wrote under it Hear am I mean and artful took of me PT kit and dropped a cartful. Merlin
[FairfieldLife] Did I ever tell you
Did I ever tell you Did I ever tell you the story of when I and two mates from Tottenham found a big house with twenty young women in it between the ages of seventeen and twenty. They were all from rich homes and they were all nymphomaniacs and there was only us three guys man that was fun :- ) Nights and Days of wine and roses :- ) That was very good year. Merlin
[FairfieldLife] Re: Well what DO you want to talk about?
No, I meant the stamps which started with the Penny Black. That was started by a guy from Tottenham too. And I meant the mating habits with make and female Three Toed Sloth's. It is so funny. You a lot are SOOO frigging boring so I am going up the apples and pears to get some Bo Peep an give me mince pies some slice of breast. No wonder they are going fucking bankrupt :- )) Merlin --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: Finally two topics that I know something about, I think. Just to clarify, by mating habits of Three Toed Sloth's you mean the mating that occurs naturally when a human catches one between trees on the ground and the human assumes that its lack of speed getting away and up a tree implies consent? If so I am in with a grin and have a lot to say. If it is about the mating the little slut does in the trees with other sloths, then no. Still a little bitter about that topic.
[FairfieldLife] Beyond Gnosis (1)
Beyond Gnosis (1) I could not coin the term Metagnosis because I searched and found that it has already been used for some business organisation, and I could find no other prefix which would do the job with my precise meaning of it. So, tough luck Richard. But I can still talk about it, and I will. The question being is there really any point? Probably not. But what the hell go for it and have done with it !!! It is strange too because it also correlates with the last email I had which speaks of HUMAN NATURE and changeability and will power. So I was seeking ONE word which would mean Including gnosis but well beyond it. One must begin by saying that there IS NO recognised and accepted cultural meaning of even what GNOSIS IS. What it means, what experience it is pointing to. I have my own meaning for it, and I will NOT BE MOVED. It is plain enough that over the last few millennia other people have found exactly the same thing. I have also met some people alive (through my lifetime here) who have found the same thing; albeit not many. Unlike many people I do NOT use the word GNOSTIC as applied to those who have this gnosis. I don't call them anything. I would simply say that they are with gnosis. But it plainly turns out that those who call themselves GNOSTICS are simply seeking gnosis, and are NOT with it. I have never found one of them who have gnosis. Not one. So, they have some other meaning for that word, yet they never ever ever tell you what it is and what that experience was, etc etc etc. Moreover, of the ones I have found in history who surely did seem to be with this gnosis they did not even call themselves Gnostics, and those who I have found alive then not a one of them ever called themselves anything, let alone Gnostics. Added to which you can look up ANY and ALL groups about Gnostics and not a one of them are talking about it. They have not got what I am talking about and what some others have known. But, it is to them whatever they want it to be. But not for me. So happy days and it makes the word USELESS. Just like the words The Transcendent Mystical Reunion are useless. To be continued in Beyond Gnosis part 2. Dick Richardson
[FairfieldLife] Beyond Gnosis (2)
Beyond Gnosis (2) Unlike convention will have it, that which I call gnosis IS NOT an experience! Even though it is derived during a very specific experience The Transcendent Mystical Reunion with OUR SELF in the timeless Ground of Being. The fact of this IS NOT up for debate and conjecture. It is AXIOMATIC, IRREFUTABLE and UNARGUABLE. Ipso bloody well Facto. So, for the rest of this day, sod incoming emails and addressing them, I am going to do what I WANT to do. And they can do with it what they will, and who cares. When I get serious then I get dogmatically dead serious; and no messing about. That which I call the Mystical Gnosis is not then an experience AT ALL. It is NOT the experience of the Transcendent Ground of BEING and it is not about the dark journey to it through purgation and annihilation transition process. It is not about any of this and it is not about the sum of it all. The Mystical gnosis is simply ONE THING, it is that which one KNOWS and is Conscious of WHILE THERE! And that is NOT an experience at all. It IS what one IS THERE and what one KNOWS and fully Understands there. THAT IS ALL. Gnosis means nothing else but that. In my use of the word that is. Others do not use that word for this perennial UNDERSTANDING. This gnosis is not about us out here, it is not about the world, it is not about life on earth, and it most emphatically does NOT reveal a purpose or meaning to life and existence. NO WAY ! NO WAY !!! But this is ALL OLD HAT. That event happened fifty years ago. Even the BIG one THE MYSTICAL UNION WITH THE ALL, happened thirty years ago. And that one is way beyond the mystical gnosis. Metagnosis. It is that one which reveals what life on earth is all about, and the purpose of it all and reason for Eternity even existing. Eternity is fulfilled and resolved in TIME ON EARTH. It is paradise fulfilled on earth. From Eternity for this purpose I AM. I have come to fulfil Paradise on the Earth. KNOW YOUR SELF !!! Unless you know your SELF then know nothing worth knowing! But even that one, The Consummatum Incarnate is even OLD HAT now. Thirty years in the past and all digested and all done and dusted and put to bed. And one moves on from there, as I have been trying to do for the last thirty years. And you do that, as you do all of it, on your own. So, truth is, I have as much interest in gnosis, and the mystical reunion, AND the mystical union with THE ALL ( Consummatum Incarnate) as I do in watching paint dry. It has all be eaten and used. Done and dusted, and one moves on to the next stage of being in the world. I AM, the being who lords it over paradise IS USELESS - if it cannot get out. IT DOES GET OUT ! Find out for why you are here. DON'T think it up, for thinking WILL NOT reveal it. AS for ALL your religions THEY ARE ALL RUBBISH !!! UTTER RUBBISH ! I am happy enough to talk abut all these things if somebody is interested in them and SERIOUS about it. Otherwise NOT. And I aint here to learn about gnosis or the result of in when synthesised and united with the outside world thank you very much; for that lot is all done; many years ago. And I am not the least bit interested in anybody's beliefs, religions, or opinions. What IS IS. And life and existence IS NOT relative to the observer. It all applies to all of us. Ipso bloody well Facto ! And neither is life and existence a delusion to be got rid of. They are mere sad miserable monkeys with type writers. Live well, keep positive, and be true to yourself and do no harm to others. For your SELF is a divine wonder. From Eternity for this Purpose YOU ARE. And life on earth IS GOOD and it is the most profound and amazing part of all of it. Ipso! Have a nice day. Dick Richardson
[FairfieldLife] Spontaneous Actions?
Spontaneous Actions? [ Have you ever done things, made decisions and just did it, without any thought or care about the consequences of doing it Richard? ] Yes. Many times, and throughout my whole life. And they have mostly turned out to be fabulous and wonderful moments. BUT, I don't make a habit of it :- ) I have only done it on the occasions where it was plainly obvious that it could have no ill effects or sour repercussions. In most cases I do weigh up all the possible repercussions which I can envisage and then give thought to the action and whether best to do it or not. One very typical one was one day when my second wife and I were VIRTUALLY living together and we were walking out of a pub one lunchtime. I just had this instantaneous urge to go away with her for four days alone. She had the following week off work anyway, and I could easily postpone four days of driving lessons, for there were no tests to attended to. So I said come on miss, let us go down to Cornwall for four days and sod the lot of it:- ) She said yes and asked when. I said NOW, come on, get in the car and we will go now; we can get a toothbrush on the way and I can phone up and get somebody to postpone those lessons. She was up for it :- ) Wow, what a four days that was never to be forgot :- ) And the weather was fantastic too. It seems like yesterday, but it was a frigging long time ago now :- )) They are the moments which wondrous memories are made of. And they are with you unto the end of time. Indescribable moments, feelings, joy, love, passion, freedom, and adventure for four uninterrupted solid days and nights :- ) Fantastico divino, Aaah ! :- ) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmUaycRJV6Y http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmUaycRJV6Y Merlin
[FairfieldLife] A Time for us.
A Time for us. [ Wow, that four days does sound fantastic. What can one say? You are a silly romantic : )) ] Yes, I told you from the very beginning that I was a silly romantic and an idealist and a perfectionists and a pragmatist and a happy little sod. NOTHING BUT THE BEST WILL DO :- ) All that means far far more to me Than ALL the mystical experiences put together and it should do for you too and everybody else on earth. Grab and love the day. I learned something which is so very true and so very important at a very young age (just on sixteen) and I was madly and insanely in love :- ) That lesson was THERE IS A TIME FOR US ! Forget the world occasionally, forget all the wars, the history, forget all the colds and toothaches, forget all your cares, forget the daily news, forget all the heartaches and longings, forget all other people on earth, forget all their religions and beliefs and opinions, forget the lot of it occasionally but for you and me there will be a time slot which is our own, for ever more, just for you and me alone. In all these billions of years of stuff and activity there is a time put aside just for you and me, my love. And we must live it with an explosion of passion and joy. It happens and it is irrefutable, and it IS TRUE, my love. And it will ALWAYS be true. It always was true, it is true now, and it will always be true. Learn of what is important and what IS, AS IS. Hell, I wasn't even a mystic then ! Tell your children these things. Be positive; for it is so. And if any one of them ever turns out to be the wisest person on earth then they will be like a child. Tell them this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI2rLyt1fcofeature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI2rLyt1fcofeature=related Dick Richardson
[FairfieldLife] Re: Spiritual exercises anyone?
Re: Spiritual exercises anyone? --- In dharma_gno...@yahoogroups.com, fahad18gnewprofile fahad18g@... wrote: Dear People of Dharma-gnosis!! I was interested in knowing what and which spiritual exercises do you guys do in order to exercise your faiths and beliefs about, not always necessarily God, but any other or all things?? Do you practice Yoga or meditation or prayers or saints intervention or whatever? thanx!! As for myself I have never ever had any beliefs, no spiritual exercises, no religion, no rituals, no teachers or guru's. I found myself to be existing and I just got on with it, with a great deal of fascination, passion, love and interest in what IT IS TO BE and as to what exists to be found. So I went hunting. Tally Ho and away we go! Found some amazing things along the way. GGGEAT ! They know what they can do with their religions and beliefs don't they :- ) For they just close one down and restrict one like being chained to a rock. BE FREE and role on. It is all there waiting for us. When I was young I dreamed of Highways. So I hit the road and the road of LIFE. AS IS. Dick Richardson
[FairfieldLife] Language in Eternity?
Language in Eternity? You say that this part of you, this being in the timeless eternity mode of existence, could not think, could not talk, could not remember anything, knew nothing of this world at all ? That is correct. But you say that toward the end of that experience a thought came to you I must now go? It was actually YOU must now go. But otherwise correct yes. Yet this came to you, it was not the you there that simply thought it? That is correct, it seemed to be an objective communication. It came TO me I did not think it up. I could not think there. It even took a while to understand it time began to move, even there. But that language, that communication is words, language, and what is more it is in English; something from this world? That is correct. And I speak and understand no other language. Not even interested in them. So from whence did it come then? Obviously it came from a part of me something OUT THERE from ITS point of reference. The SOUL, or Subconscious which joins those two dimensions. I have told you that all three of these dimensions are joined up. But do you actually know for sure that it came from there? No, nothing actually reveals where it came from. But where else could it have come from. There isn't anywhere else. Some alien critter who communicates in English and gate crashes eternity? :- ) Communication is TWO WAY, not ONE-WAY. Up and down the vortex of Emanation. Study yourself, all three parts. There is nobody else in here. Just ME. Merlin
[FairfieldLife] Re: Language in Eternity
Re: Language in Eternity [ Re: Language in Eternity? Good morning Merlin - This is an absolutely fascinating post; rich with thought provoking and re-membering stuff. Two things come to mind: 1. EEers/EHEers of mystical and/or near death experiences often remark that they/ we intuit/ hear / Know communication in their native language, e.g., English. Much of the time it is NOT a voice per se as much as a Knowing which is concept translated into our words--- prelanguage into language such as we humans do. 2. Do each of us humans have a Vortex of Emanation that are all (of us) connected at the Ground of Being? Leon's theory is in here too. I Know you have addressed this before. Thanks for this deep experiential post included below which makes me re-call my own Experience with words from a timeless place. Love, SuZ ### ] Thank Ker-Riced for an intelligent communication ! It seems to me SuZ that there are many things which make humans different from other critters which we find here, not to mention an opposing thumb and the ability of human type language for communication. I get rather annoyed when I hear people calling us ANIMALS. Some animals are a bloody sight better. I use the term Vortex (Double Vortex actual) of Emanation, as opposed to just Emanation simply because this Emanation of Energy and Consciousness is WIDER at the TOP than it is at the bottom. The deeper you go down the less variety there is and the further you come up the more variety there is hence the multitude on the surface of life. Thus this Emanation is like an upside-down pyramid structure. If other human beings (and animals) do not have this then how the frig did they get here? Going home IS going back down that vortex of ones emanation. Yeah, those who have near death experiences have journeyed down that vortex a little way. But not very far. Back in the middle to late sixties and the seventies when I was doing these bits with various organisations both the NDE lot and the Mystical experience lot were at loggerheads with each other. I told them both that the silly bastards were both talking about the same thing; and I told them to mention it at their next Mystics and Scientist conference in the USA. But did they? Nahhh ! And they both wondered why I would not go when invited ! One of them even offered to pay for me to go. Huh ! You might as well talk to a barn door mate. The only difference being that the Mystics go all the way down to the bottom and NDE'ers DON'T. They come back here before they get there. But it WAS on the same bloody journey. GAWD they are thick ! To know your SELF you have to leave this world behind. To know this world you must first leave it behind. They never learn do they. I gave up talking to NDE'ers bloody years ago. Waste of time. If one were NOT connected to the life force in the Ground of Being then they would not be alive and conscious :- ) As for that communication in the Ground of Being (you must now be going) then it was not verbal, no sounds, no voice. That place is utter perfect SILENCE. There are no people there. But it was still a communication, and one GOT the message, and the understanding gradually came. As for intuition then ALL tuition and learning is done IN HERE, not OUT THERE. Consciousness does not dwell OUT THERE, it dwells IN HERE. All experience happens IN HERE, even if it is experience of OUT THERE. We cannot get OUT THERE, we are IN HERE stuff. It is impossible to know what is OUT THERE other than by ones sensory communication with it. And throughout our individual evolution in the becoming process then the senses are enhanced and opened up to more like a wider radar screen. Hence becoming aware of more and more. This is a fascinating question where could all that end? Well, if ever we get there then we will know :- ) But there sure is a long way for homo sapiens to go. Also keep in mind that the Ground of Being (the place and space there) is OUT THERE from the reference point of the Observer, the SELF. I AM NOT THAT PLACE. I AM that consciousness and being that dwells there. It is a DUALITY, I and IT. That is how consciousness is constructed, as a perceiver of duality. It is consciousness and personal life which segregates us from the ALL. If it didn't then there would be no ME and no consciousness and no life, no existence, no observer of anything. Do religions tell you of these things which we live through and find? Does Science? NO NO NO ! LIFE does it. HUH, you were ONLY one that answered that email :- ) It doesn't surprise me in the least. Oh, by the way, I put your EHE paper about potentiation and becoming on the Dharma-Gnosis group archives. I wonder if any of the gnostics will read it ;- ) I doubt it. Merlin
[FairfieldLife] Where do you hang out?
Where do you hang out? [ Where do you hang out Richard or mister Merlin? ] If you mean where am I living then I live on Exmoor in West Somerset, South West England, and have done so since I left Tottenham in North London when I was Seventeen to go in the army. Fell in love with the place, it is purr-fection incarnate, essence made into form. If you mean website then it is http://www.psychognosis.net/ http://www.psychognosis.net/ If you mean what groups I post too then they are http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Psychognosis_Archive/ http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Psychognosis_Archive/ This one above is my own and it is an archive. http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Primordial_Quest/ http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Primordial_Quest/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Asisian_Knights/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Asisian_Knights/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Mystical-Experience-the-Mystical-Life/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Mystical-Experience-the-Mystical-Life/ http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Living_Mystics/ http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Living_Mystics/ and just for a while at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Dharma_Gnosis/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Dharma_Gnosis/ You cannot talk to dead mystics amigo and they cannot argue back. They are no good here now. But most people like dead mystics more simply because they cannot argue back. But live ones DO. Hence my archive group for kids yet to come. Dick Richardson
[FairfieldLife] Walking?
Walking? [ Thich Nhat Hanh: The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth in the present moment, to appreciate the peace and beauty that are available now. Gnostic Tom. ] Nearly ten years ago now somebody on a yahoo group asked me what the most wondrous mystical experience EVER was. I told them that it was to sit under a tree in the sunshine, with not a care in the world, and to watch the world around you and listen to the kids laughing. They said Dick, that is not a mystical experience, you are nuts. I told them it was and I was banned from the group. There is nothing anywhere (known to me) more amazing, wondrous, impossible, than being right here and now. They do not seem to know that all mystical and transcendent experience does a circle and comes back here again - GROUNDED. I could not agree with you more on that one. rwr
[FairfieldLife] What if you did come back here again?
What if you did come back here again? [ What if you really did come back here again Richard, what would you really like to be if you did? ] Oh slap me bloody vitals mate, here we go again IFS :- ) I would not be the least bit surprised IF I did come back here again. BUT, I would never know it would I :- ) It would be a new baby born onto the world. I would not know that it was AGAIN would I. I would not know that this life force was once Merlin of Exmoor I am glad to say :- ) But, to play your game of IF. OK, in all truth I would like to come back like this a human being, a male one, with all my faculties about me. Born into a family that loved you and cared about you and did their best for you. I would like to get a reasonably good education as a child (which I never had in the slums of London during the war) and to be encouraged to bring out of me whatever was the best in there; and to wave the rest. I would want to meet a fair damsel in the glen and settle down and produce ten kids. I would like to be born a bit smarter than I was born, and not in quite so much poverty and dark times and hardship. For me, all that would be PERFECTION. That is all. But I am sure that I would do the same then as I did this time, to give it MY ALL. What am I without it. I sure would not want to be ME for ME sake. That aint my ball park. If you DO NOT live for something other than you then you are already DEAD. Do I think or feel that I might be? No. I do not think about it at all, and I do not give a hoot either way. What will be will be. And this time around was GOOD, wonderful, sublime ! That is enough for me mate. I lived and I loved. It was DONE. Nothing can ever ever ever undo that. Ipso. Merlin
[FairfieldLife] Re: Free Will v Human Nature
Re: Free Will v Human Nature [Re: Free Will v Human Nature? There is no such thing as THE human nature. BUT, wouldn't you agree that there are human tendencies? Ella ] It isn't so much a question of as to whether there is or isn't a vast range of potential, and existing, human tendencies, abilities, potentials and capacities, for it is obvious that there IS; and many of which are shared to this or that degree, it is more a question of as to if any of them are permanent and unchanging. Modern man looks quite a bit like homo species which went before it, but they are not the same are they. Is there a STUCK, never to be changed, Human Nature??? I doubt if we will ever walk upside down on clouds. I doubt if we will ever drink water through our ears. But fine, let us talk about these human tendencies, and have you ever seen two identical human beings? And do we want to be Borg Clones in a collective ? Would you like to be the same as somebody else? I would end it all and let them do it :- ))) Also, I am certainly NOT implying that freedom of choice in some of our actions ALTERS Homo as a species, but it sure can alter oneself slightly even during one lifetime. And we do pass stuff on genetically don't we. Tis called evolution of Incarnation. That means change. rwr
[FairfieldLife] A Better question than Oblivion
A Better question than Oblivion [ Did you ever wonder what goes on during that oblivion inbetween annihilation and that resurrection back into the primordial Ground of Being Richard? ] Yes of course I have, many times, fifty years ago. But some of what goes on is obvious, but we will come back to that in a mo. But first there is a better question than what goes on during that oblivion of consciousness, and that question is as to WHAT is happening to the body and the brain while the owner is away during that whole paradisiacal timeless reunion event. I was a way for three hours so what was going on with the body and brain? For me there was not only no world but while there I knew nothing about worlds or time or ever having existed in it. I was just lording over paradise mate :- ) Had somebody have come into the room during that three hours then I guess it would have looked as though I was asleep with my eyes open, or in a coma maybe :- ) But there was only a cat there. But plainly the body was breathing for that three hours because it was fine when I got back :- ) But what was going on INSIDE? I have to smile when watching a computer close down when there are files uploading don't pull the plug out because files are being uploaded: uploading nine of ten :- ) After transcendence one is NOT the same again. Stuff is added, Senses are honed up. One has MORE than there was when one left. Mysterious innit. Science doesn't tell them this; religions doesn't tell them this? They don't tell them fuck all mate. That is why they call it mysticism mate :- ) However, back to the oblivion bit. First; When consciousness is totally switched off, gone, dead as a parrot, aint there no more, then ten seconds would be the same as ten million years. Time and space is not applicable where there is no consciousness. True, in the paradise bit there IS time, but it don't move and there is no change there in the Ground of Being. Tis everlasting eternal bliss and love mate :- ) So one cannot KNOW (experientially) what goes on during that moment of Oblivion prior to the resurrection of consciousness back into our primordial state of being. But imagine this of you dare During the journey to it (the dark journey through the vortex of our emanation, or the soul crossing the river Styx) that is a process of purgation; stuff being stripped away from us (the world is the first thing to go by the way). Now, the last conscious thing one is aware of is being Annihilated (not a particularly nice experience but never mind). Some call it death mate. But not I. However, imagine being conscious while all temporality is being ripped away from you? Not quite the same as having a tooth yanked out. But all time, all memory, all personality, ALL RIPPED AWAY from you? Would you like to be consciousness during that? Annihilation is a wonderful and clever thing amigo. I am glad I was not conscious of that bit :- ) But, but but, what is going on IN the body during all that. Mystics have thus far only been concerned with what they experience while away - - I AINT ! I am interested in Man Incarnate, for that is THE BEST BIT. Primordial consciousness cannot do fuck all until it is released to out here on earth. IPSO. They can keep heaven and eternity, I like Time, the physical bits and being able to do things FREEDOM from Paradise ! The best thing that ever happened to me was getting the boot from Paradise nice though it is. Chew the bones out of it, it has fuck all to do with religions they don't know any of this. Neither does science, neither does Psychology and neither do bloody guru's lying fuck faces mate. And the day that the last bishop chokes to death on the intestines of the last capitalist will be a good day for life on earth. A great Wonder is Man and LIFE. I AM ever tied to the cross of Time and Eternity. (X) And I AM the meeting ground of inner and outer dimensions. Ipso. Dick Richardson
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Fall of Man from the Garden of Paradise
No. By Priestcraft I mean those morons who concocted the Middle East and Roman religions for political reasons. The governors of churchianity. The spiritual Mafia. You know who I mean. The Sausage machine owners. rwr --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Yifu yifuxero@... wrote: By Priests, do you mean Druid Priests? http://www.bilderberg.org/druids.jpg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, rwr dick.richardson@ wrote: The Fall of Man from the Garden of Paradise Or in other words why do we get booted out of Paradise? Is it true? Oh yeah, and how. But it aint like the religions of priestcraft tell it :- ) A POX ON THEM ! I knew just before leaving that I was getting slung out of the idyllic paradesium of Eternity in the GROUND OF BEING. And it WAS a little scary because one did not know what `TIME TO GO' meant. What is `go'? There is nowhere else, only here! Not so, there was some place else to go EARTH. But whilst there I had lost all memory of here. But when it was over I was back here again, Just where I had left off before going there except three hours had passed. So I missed a tick three hours actually. Hence a Miss-Tick :- ) FUN innit. You HAVE to laugh. Anyway, if you want to know WHY we are booted out of Paradise then read the Mystical Gnosis Event and the Human Situation. IT IS FREE at the Psychognosis website. Psychognosis means The Knowledge of SELF. FREE! That means no charge. I AM FREE ! I AM no longer a captive of Paradise. My job is to help make this place a better place for kids to live it. And it aint easy. Is anyone going to help. I cant do it. So, get a grip of yourself and pull all three parts together. And then we can all get it done. Ipso bloody well Facto Amigos. Dick Richardson a Miss-Tick.
[FairfieldLife] Something for Lurkers to read?
Something for Lurkers to read? [ Hi Dick, I don't have a yahoo group. I'm not surprised its being ignored. But its something for the lurkers to read. Name removed.] :- ) You and I, and other people, cannot give anybody else MORE. But life can, and does. I detest the saying that one cannot turn a Pint Pot into a Quart Pot, and it is very condescending, and people are not Pint Pots. However, I discovered many years ago when I was still young that there IS Power in the Word. As any catalysts might be. But even that degree of effect (and which is small per capita of a population at any one time) can only work on those who are well, kind of hovering on the brink of change anyway. But, like anything else, if you don't try something then you aint going to achieve anything :- ) That one gets back all the crap imaginable in the meantime is irrelevant. I just laugh at it. But one at least threw some pebbles into the pond, and they might create a few waves that ripple for a while. If it only ever helps one then that is better than nothing isn't it. But it will infuriate millions and that is for sure :- ) They have such a vested interest in their Be-Wishes and their gods and demons :- ) I don't care. Dick Richardson.
[FairfieldLife] The Aldeen Ordinance
The Aldeen Ordinance Who watches the Watchers? Or who Scrutinises the Authorities? The Aldeen Ordinance Steering Committee are the Watchers and the Authority. But who watches them? And how? And how does one really maintain a secret organisation? There are ways. The Aldeen Ordinance contains within it the Darsinian Inheritance and also the Culbone Files. Dick Richardson
[FairfieldLife] Dick you are awesome
Dick you are awesome -- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray wrote . [ Dick, you are awesome. And too awesome I suppose to speak plain english. I can just picture you on a rock outcropping, white hair blowing in the wind, a far off look in your eyes, wearing some kind of white robe, which is also blowing the breeze. Am I wrong on this.? Can I get an amen? ] :- ) Not far off I guess :- ) I don't know about awesome though. As for my speaking plain English then I thought that I did, and most other folks seem to think so too. Maybe it is you who is sitting on some isolated rock mate : - ) Mind you, I would not blame you if your were; and I could sure understand why. But, you know, you have to exist on this world as it IS whilst you are on it. All else is pretence and BULLSHIT. One can try to encourage alteration to a few things here and there, but there is about as much chance of effecting any change as there is of pigs flying and pissing beer in my jug as they go by. INNIT. No white robes amigo. But if you want to send one over for me then fine. The address is Merlin's Cave Exmoor. Actually there is a picture of me sitting on a Trig Point way up on the moors if you are interested in taking a peek. It is in the photo section of one of the groups http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Psychognosis_Archive/ http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Psychognosis_Archive/ http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Primordial_Quest/ http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Primordial_Quest/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Asisian_Knights/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Asisian_Knights/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Mysteries_of_the_Occult/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Mysteries_of_the_Occult/ Keep smiling. Dick Richardson.
[FairfieldLife] Re: In the Mind of
http://www.psychognosis.net/ http://www.psychognosis.net/ Your wish is my command sir. Dick Richardson. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sundur@... wrote: Dick, this is so profound. This is most profound thing I have read since Hugh Prather's Notes to Myself when I was in high school. Really you should compile these thoughts into a book. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, rwr dick.richardson@ wrote: In the Mind of
[FairfieldLife] The SELF and the self
The SELF and the self [ What do you mean by SELF? Do you mean the Soul? ] No. The Soul or subconscious mind is not a `me', not an experiencer, not an observer of the observed. It is a factory, a machine shop and an archive of experience encoded. It is the workhorse of incarnation and manifestation and extension by emanation. It is also our pipe line and conduit back to eternity when the SELF ( I AM ) exist and is found again. Transmigrating back through the Soul is the crossing of the River Styx and valley of the shadow of death. It is where your life here is being recorded. The self is the me here, the personality in time and space. The SELF is the me which exists in that timeless domain at the other side of the River Styx through the Soul and out the other side. The journey through the Soul IS a journey, and it takes time. And you can only go there alone, and you can take nothing with you except consciousness and your memories. Nothing else. The worst part of that journey is the LIMBO part. Movement stops for a while there whilst you judge yourself and your past life. When done you move on again. Limbo is not scary, just a bit boring. The most scary part of the journey is the moving out of the soul into the SELF. So meeting your SELF initially is the most scary part. But no big deal. IT is done in an all consuming white light. The light of annihilation. When the self meets the SELF (two in that field) then comes ANNIHILATION, and the self has GONE. There only remains the SELF, and the SELF is the owner and observer of the paradise of the eternal mode of BEING. THAT is the SELF. It is the real YOU. If it could speak it would say `I AM'. But it cannot speak and it cannot even think. Thinking is a temporal phenomena of the self, NOT the SELF. The SELF just sees, KNOWS and UNDERSTANDS. But I, the self, can speak on its behalf. And when I do it is called Synetic Dialogue. All explained in the book. So I can know the self and the SELF. But the self cannot know the SELF and the SELF cannot know the self. But I can know both. That is one of the reasons as to why it is called MYSTERY. Or Mysticism. But the thing is you see it that I am BOTH, I am the self and that SELF. So, it is also quite simple really to understand. The self is an emanation from the SELF via the soul/subconscious. Many have known it. But it is quite a long inward dark journey. Like going back down through the stuff of all matter and consciousness. That IS what is happening. Some call that journey The Quest. It works. It reveals the SELF. All religion was once based on it until priestcraft stole it and made it their own, and offered paradise for a prize if you did what they told you. So they became the key holders to Eternity; HOME. That is Politics and corruption. So, KNOW THY SELF. So, when the self journeys back to from whence it (I) comes from then there is a RE-UNION. Some call it the Mystical Re-Union (I call it HOME). However, there is something far more important than that and folks don't seem to speak or write of it, and that is the UNION on earth in space and time when the SELF unites with self here on earth that my friend is BIG Mysticism, not merely going home to find out again what we are. But in the UNION here on earth it is not only a UNION of the self and the SELF but also of LIFE and the ALL. THAT is the big one. And it happens HERE. Eternity is not about eternity it is about EXISTENCE and time and space. Know thy SELF. It is all there to know. But those who do not ask questions and do not seek, then they find nothing. And why should they? If you don't work then you don't get. And if they are not interested in what they are then they are not going to seek. Who cares. It is their life. Also, most of them seem to prefer learning from books not life. You will not find you and life in a book. Even the very best of books is only hearsay. NOT your experience of life. Read books by all means, but then put them to bed and start living LIFE for real. It works. But neither is it necessary to read any books. The only books I had read prior to finding my SELF were chess books, and they did not help in this endeavour. But neither did they do any harm like some books do. And you know which ones I mean. RELIGION ! However, not to worry, for your time here WILL END. You could prepare yourself for that by living it here whilst you are here. For that is what it is for. The only advice I would offer is DO NOT carry REMORSE with you into LIMBO. You will see as to why when you are there. In our beginning, before Time existed, there was only Light, Life, consciousness, knowing, and love, in Eternity. And then Time came into being in darkness. And the darkness knew not the light and comprehended it not. Spirituality is the subconscious search for our Primordial Root, our Beginning. It is irrelevant as to whether a person is a religion lover or a science lover, it is all the same quest, and the same
[FairfieldLife] Mystical Esoteric and Arcane
Mystical Esoteric and Arcane Try many groups under such headings and what are they talking about? Daily politics, opinions, beliefs, religions, theories, so called ancient mysteries, likes and dislikes, indeed anything other than their experience of the DEPTHS of their being. And what are the implications of that? And when you do speak of them then at best you get blanks looks. And at worst. Oh well, never mind. It does make one wonder as to how much longer it will all remain underground and how long Home Ensophicus will wait in the wings for the culture and paradigm to change. DON'T hold your breath, for it is going to be a long time yet. Dick Richardson
[FairfieldLife] The Bind
The Bind It has been said that there is no fear greater than the fear of happiness. For if you had it then you might lose it, and that would be worse than never having had it. But an even greater fear than that is the fear of learning something, for if you do then you will have to undo so much of what you thought that you had learned. But the greatest fear of all is the fear of letting go of all your fears, for if you do then there will be nothing to cling to for safety; and you will be FREE. But fear does not want to be FREE. There is nothing restrictive, imprisoning, binding and self punishing in human nature that is not based upon fear. The fear to live and the fear to die. But it can be overcome. rwr http://www.psychognosis.net/ http://www.psychognosis.net/
[FairfieldLife] Which Tube Station?
Which Tube Station? [ Hi Dick. Which tube station? Finchley Central, West or East Finchley? I know that Gravel Hill in Church End Finchley is the boundary from the Ice Age. Any idea which station though? I live in the area and was born right near Woodside Park station in N. Finchley. Amazing that we have four tube stations in one North London area. Jane ] It would be the one nearest to Colney Hatch Lane (we won't talk about Colney Hatch Lane) Jane. Man, I could tell some stories about Aly Paly, Friern Barnet and New Southgate Even Tottenham outside the Royal on a Saturday night was more peaceful; well just a bit :- ) Tell me, is there still a pub called the Northern Star around New Southgate? I used to sing in a pub there when I was fifteen. Yikes Tally Ho Corner and away we go ! It was peaceful to get in the Army :- ) Merlin of Exmoor.
[FairfieldLife] Happiness is state of being that you can never lose?
Happiness is state of being that you can never lose? [ Just a thought, Merlin . Happiness is a state of being, not something to be owned, traveled to, earned or consumed (Denis Waitley), it isn't something dependent on outside influences or people it is a personal state of contentment with yourself and the world around you. This state of existence and living is a choice and no one can take that away from you and is something you can never lose Just about everything in life IS a choice that includes fear. Fear is a smoke screen, an excuse, a roadblock to our own success and freedom. Letting it go is a CHOICE. We also choose how to act, react and perceive things. All begins and ends with YOU. ~Tracey ] Well, Tracey ma'am, unlike some I have never judged anything by way of thoughts. I judge everything I encounter by way of experience and how it FEEL it. That requires no thinking. You just KNOW. Knowing is superior to thinking. That which I have never experienced then I cannot feel anything about it not judge it. During my existence I have known times of ecstatic happiness, and many times of a good and average happiness, and a few times of being not so happy. And feeling sad on a few occasions. So one can lose it. You cannot switch it on and off for oneself no more than one can switch love on and off for oneself. If there were a pill for them then the manufactures would be in big business. Moreover, looking around you; do you not see so many people looking for happiness? Why would one look for something which is not missing? I would also just mention that if thoughts were the judge of happiness then how come one is so happy (and can feel it) where thoughts cannot exist? In the paradesium of the Ground of our Being? So how come that then? No thoughts can judge it, for you cannot think there. IPSO. You CAN think about it afterwards. But that is NOT the same thing as BEING THERE. However, let us just stick to our life here. Does it not take something other than the observer to make one happy or sad? If all your friends and lovers and children dropped dead at the same moment and your body was covered in weeping pussy blisters and sores, and your head was aching something rotten and there was no food or anything to drink then would you be happy? Be HONEST ! I sure would not be happy. Resigned to it maybe, accept it, but NOT HAPPY about it. By general disposition throughout this life I have been of a happy nature and disposition. But it does fluctuate. Maybe we are constructed different. But if I was always ecstatically happy then why would we seek change and betterment in the world? I am NOT happy with the socio-political systems on this world. However, and all that said, happiness is not even along the same line of causal process as fear. A good friend of mine once said to me whilst I was still quite young and he was quite a bit older, `The great thing to seek is contentedness'. So I said him, `What, like a Cow chewing the cud in a field'? Cows are not going to get much done other than turning grass into milk by internal alchemy. I have never ever sought happiness, let alone contentedness. I would not know where or how to seek happiness if it were not there. But happiness has been there most of the time. Don't ever recall contentedness ever being there :- ) There are always things to get done that need to be done. I have not got time to be a Cow in field. But if happiness is with you all the time and all the days of your life, and you have known no sad times, then most people will sure envy you. So would I. Oh, by the way, I DON'T judge LIFE, happiness, or anything else, by what somebody has said in a book. I don't need to, for I am ALIVE. And judgement is unavoidable. I judge EVERYTHING which I ever encounter. It isn't a choice. Dick Richardson
[FairfieldLife] Re: In the Mind of
Well thank you kindly sir that is mighty gracious of you. The name by the way is Richard or Dick. not Dickji. I will send you the address of a really good optician in exchange for your kindness sir. In the meantime get well and truly STUFFED ! But then again it seems that you already are well and truly stuffed. We will not mention as to what with. And yeah, some minds do get confused very easily don't they :- ) Dick Richardson. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Yogi raviyogi@... wrote: Dickji, Sorry I don't have too many posts left for this week so couldn't comment in detail. But I have been so impressed I had to comment. The references you have provided are really excellent because I got so confused with your writings that I'm convinced you will have greater success if you team up with up another person right up your alley - Vaj, the Vakrabuddhi, the resident master of intellectual self deception. I'm so glad you have found FFL, the one stop shop for Intellectile Dsyfunction disorder, I'm glad you are finally getting help for it and Welcome Aboard !!! P.S -On Friday I'll forward you the research article by Dr. Ravi Yogi, Psy.D, UC Berekely, the pioneer on Intellectile Dysfunction Disorder - for laymen - an inability to get rid of an erection caused by intellectual fascination. His success stories include many on this this such as Vaj, Turq and Curtis. Good luck
[FairfieldLife] Re: In the Mind of
I was on this group for a while a good few years ago, Sal, so some of the emails must be there. But in the files section I placed a file which was first written nearly fifty years ago now. It is called EXEGESIS. It is an Exegesis (which was originaly only written for me as a reminder in case I came to forget any of it) of one experiences one evening when I was twenty four. It lasted for three hours. During the period my consciousness travelled through that darkness and then into a light at the end of the tunnel of the proverbial River Styx. In that light there was a symbolism of a guardian to what lay beyond it. They used to call them cherubs or gargoils. Anyway I went beyond that light and the into another white light where all archetypes ended, and also to did Time and Space, and me. It was the light of ANNIHILATION. And then I was gone. Dead, was no more. But then I came back into consciousness again, in a transcendent mode of being which was pure primordial; where time and change did not encroach upon its encompass - an Eternal Paradesium. I describe it down to the last T in the EXEGESIS. I was ther for about 2.5 hours GMT, from just after 7 to just after 10 in the evening. But whilst there it was ETERNITY. But then as it was ending I was a little in fear, for I knew that I was going somewhere, but there was no place eles to go. ONLY there existed. And then I was back here again. That was only ONE of many esoteric experiences I had between the ages of three and forty five. It is all in the book - Psychognosis. But that part of the experience, one night, is in the EXEGESIS in the files section of this group. Best wishes Dick. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunshine@... wrote: Good stuff, Dick. Post some of your own words more often. Sal
[FairfieldLife] Re: In the Mind of
That 'Paradise' experience is nothing new or unique; people have known it since we lived in caves. It was ruined by preistcraft however for political power vested interest. The ONLY thing new which all my experieces seemed to talk about was the Consummatum Incarnate and the coming of Homo Ensophicus. See also the SSM Model by Leon Neihouse which is also in the files section here from way back. Dick --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Yifu yifuxero@... wrote: thx, for the interesting Exegesis! Matches the Sant Mat types of experiences and the ultimate result. (Cf. the online works of Kirpal Singh): http://gallery.me.com/arranstephens#100020/Kirpal-20Kanpur-2067-20SMbgc\ olor=black --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, rwr dick.richardson@ wrote: I was on this group for a while a good few years ago, Sal, so some of the emails must be there. But in the files section I placed a file which was first written nearly fifty years ago now. It is called EXEGESIS. It is an Exegesis (which was originaly only written for me as a reminder in case I came to forget any of it) of one experiences one evening when I was twenty four. It lasted for three hours. During the period my consciousness travelled through that darkness and then into a light at the end of the tunnel of the proverbial River Styx. In that light there was a symbolism of a guardian to what lay beyond it. They used to call them cherubs or gargoils. Anyway I went beyond that light and the into another white light where all archetypes ended, and also to did Time and Space, and me. It was the light of ANNIHILATION. And then I was gone. Dead, was no more. But then I came back into consciousness again, in a transcendent mode of being which was pure primordial; where time and change did not encroach upon its encompass - an Eternal Paradesium. I describe it down to the last T in the EXEGESIS. I was ther for about 2.5 hours GMT, from just after 7 to just after 10 in the evening. But whilst there it was ETERNITY. But then as it was ending I was a little in fear, for I knew that I was going somewhere, but there was no place eles to go. ONLY there existed. And then I was back here again. That was only ONE of many esoteric experiences I had between the ages of three and forty five. It is all in the book - Psychognosis. But that part of the experience, one night, is in the EXEGESIS in the files section of this group. Best wishes Dick. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunshine@ wrote: Good stuff, Dick. Post some of your own words more often. Sal
[FairfieldLife] The Fall of Man from the Garden of Paradise
The Fall of Man from the Garden of Paradise Or in other words why do we get booted out of Paradise? Is it true? Oh yeah, and how. But it aint like the religions of priestcraft tell it :- ) A POX ON THEM ! I knew just before leaving that I was getting slung out of the idyllic paradesium of Eternity in the GROUND OF BEING. And it WAS a little scary because one did not know what `TIME TO GO' meant. What is `go'? There is nowhere else, only here! Not so, there was some place else to go EARTH. But whilst there I had lost all memory of here. But when it was over I was back here again, Just where I had left off before going there except three hours had passed. So I missed a tick three hours actually. Hence a Miss-Tick :- ) FUN innit. You HAVE to laugh. Anyway, if you want to know WHY we are booted out of Paradise then read the Mystical Gnosis Event and the Human Situation. IT IS FREE at the Psychognosis website. Psychognosis means The Knowledge of SELF. FREE! That means no charge. I AM FREE ! I AM no longer a captive of Paradise. My job is to help make this place a better place for kids to live it. And it aint easy. Is anyone going to help. I cant do it. So, get a grip of yourself and pull all three parts together. And then we can all get it done. Ipso bloody well Facto Amigos. Dick Richardson a Miss-Tick.
[FairfieldLife] In the Mind of
In the Mind of I have often thought it to be more pragmatic to come to know the deep mysteries of our own Mind and Consciousness, and our emanation, before worrying too much as to what the Mind of another is like and what is going on in there. And of course the Relationship between our own Mind and that of ALL things, or The ALL. Perhaps that is why some folks used to say Know Thy SELF. We certainly run Deep and Silent. And in that Silence so much can be learned. What do you think? What have you found? Dick Richardson
[FairfieldLife] Enlightenment Makes You Thoughtless
Actually this is NOT a theory at all, it is a fact of experience - for those who have known it. Knowledge, Innate Understanding, and Vision, yet no possibility to think. Thinking requires Time, but in the domain of the SELF time and change do not exist there. One can of course think when one comes back here again - and one then has more to think about :- ) Not everybody calls it enlightenment however. I don't either, and never have since I found it one evening for three hours in 1964. THAT was a shock to be sure. But you get over the shock and then Synthesise it all. THAT is the hard bit. Well, for a while anyway. But it comes. Dick Richardson.
[FairfieldLife] The Leaf on the Tree.
The Leaf on the Tree. (Original date of writing this is now forgotten in the mists of time) Given that science believes, and teaches their belief to the young as facts, that we are an accidental epiphenomenon of an unexpected outcrop of chaotic creation; and given that the spiritually inclined do not know quite what to believe, then I offer the following, and for both aspects of the community to give some thought to; if they wish to think on more. To rip something down without putting anything in its place, leaves a vacuum. But to merely fill a vacuum with yet another unsubstantiated story would be no better, indeed even worse, than the vacuum itself. For at least in a vacuum of knowledge and understanding one would thence seek for a truth until found, and irrespective of what that truth turned out to be. But where does one look for truth? And to where does one look for the truth of this or that thing? Well, that which I offer here and for now, and only in symbolic form here, is proved to us to be true by life itself. So I offer here a mere analogy, and one which both science and many religions like to use themselves the tree of life. Imagine then that you were a leaf on a tree. Observation initially suggests that you grew on the branch: an end product of a long series of mysterious forces which results in you, the leaf, perilously attached by a thread to the tree of life for your short term sustenance for existence thereon. One day the wind will blow and your connection to the tree of life will end; and you will revert back to the oblivion from whence you came. You, the conscious leaf, can see many other such leaves on that tree, and see also the body of the tree itself. But where is it all going to: what is it all for; is there any point or meaning to the tree and all the little leafs on it? The leafs come, and the leafs fall and go, to rot on the ground. Indeed, why does even the tree of life exist? Is it simply to bring forth little bits of foliage that make a colourful show for a short while and then pass into the void of nothing? Thus it is that the leaf sits firmly attached to the tree for a season and simply blows around in the random actions of the wind; and sometimes wondering as to why it has to be made conscious to fulfil this silly cosmological function at all. But one day something very strange and different happens. A different kind of wind blows; and the little leaf is very disorientated for a while. For instead of the leaf looking outward its perception is turned inward. It sees not the tree and all the other foliage, nor the sky nor anything of the outer world; but only that of an inner well of blackness and void. But vision is suddenly restored, taken over by some other eye, an eye unknown to the leaf hitherto, and one which begins to move inward and downward through `nothing'. Down and down, onward and onward down into an abyss of blackness, but which is interspersed with some visions along the way, light and colours in visions not understood by the leaf at that time. That which the leaf `was' travels into the leaf, down into the branch of the tree; down the inside of the trunk of the tree, down, down through the roots of the tree itself and thence beyond the tree and into the ground itself; the very ground from which the tree itself grew from. And the leaf knew that it was home; the realm from whence it came and has its origin and eternal existence. And the leaf realised that it was not a leaf at all, but rather the very sap which gives it existence; and which pays no resemblance to the leaf at all; for the leaf was always nothing more than a dead thing, a vehicle, a shell for the sap to view the finished product of the tree itself. So too is it with consciousness. Consciousness is not a man or a woman, or an animal or bird, it is a primordial cosmic energy, and the very first emanation from the point of no duration or extension; time cannot whither it nor custom stale its delight. Before the tree ever was, the sap existed; before time ever emanated into existence, the mind was. That which they call spirit, is consciousness. That which they call the soul is the tree trunk, the universe of time and space. That which they call the personality is but a seasonal outcrop of the sap of eternal life. And when the sap returned back up through the tree and back into the leaf from whence it had been, then it smiled at its neighbouring colleagues who were oh so worried about being blown off the tree of time . Not to worry, for you are not from this universe at all; know thy self; for you are the first thing ever brought forth from no created thing, and long before the tree ever existed. And the sap of the leaf also knew as to why it existed, for it had been home and remembered what it was for and from whence it came and why. But all the other little bits of foliage creased themselves laughing until just prior to their leaf being blown off the tree and the sap
[FairfieldLife] Re: Enlightenment Makes You Thoughtless
IT HAPPENS. QED. rwr --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Yifu yifuxero@... wrote: contradicts MMY. You're saying no possibility, but MMY's dogma is infinite possibility, or the field of all possibilities. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, rwr dick.richardson@ wrote: Actually this is NOT a theory at all, it is a fact of experience - for those who have known it. Knowledge, Innate Understanding, and Vision, yet no possibility to think. Thinking requires Time, but in the domain of the SELF time and change do not exist there. One can of course think when one comes back here again - and one then has more to think about :- ) Not everybody calls it enlightenment however. I don't either, and never have since I found it one evening for three hours in 1964. THAT was a shock to be sure. But you get over the shock and then Synthesise it all. THAT is the hard bit. Well, for a while anyway. But it comes. Dick Richardson.
[FairfieldLife] Links
Links Not many of you I doubt, but if anyone here is interested in small groups which stick more to the point and with far less email traffic then feel free to join these Take part, lurk, whatever http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Mysteries_of_the_Occult/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Mysteries_of_the_Occult/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Asisian_Knights/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Asisian_Knights/ http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Primordial_Quest/ http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Primordial_Quest/ http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Psychognosis_Archive/ http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Psychognosis_Archive/ http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/The_Aldeen_Ordinance/ http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/The_Aldeen_Ordinance/ rwr
[FairfieldLife] Re: Enlightenment Makes You Thoughtless
No doubt. But it is also unlikely that rocks can KNOW and UNDERSTAND their Primordial and Arcane existence, and also unlikely that they love like the I AM part of me in Eternity loves. It is also unlikely that rocks can see. I AM can see. And it is also unlikely that rocks have that Perennial BASE Wisdom which we all have in that Ground of Being. Best not judge it or scoff until you have known it. You CANNOT stay here for ever, your time is limited here. Wait and see what comes. Knowledge and understanding is NOT dependent on thinking. But thinking can think about finding it and the go on the quest of finding it - BEFORE curtain fall. Found it IS. Know Thy SELF. Do not confuse it with the self. Dick Richardson --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Yifu yifuxero@... wrote: what happens...no thoughts? That's only temporary. But it's likely rocks have no thoughts. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, rwr dick.richardson@ wrote: IT HAPPENS. QED. rwr --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Yifu yifuxero@ wrote: contradicts MMY. You're saying no possibility, but MMY's dogma is infinite possibility, or the field of all possibilities. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, rwr dick.richardson@ wrote: Actually this is NOT a theory at all, it is a fact of experience - for those who have known it. Knowledge, Innate Understanding, and Vision, yet no possibility to think. Thinking requires Time, but in the domain of the SELF time and change do not exist there. One can of course think when one comes back here again - and one then has more to think about :- ) Not everybody calls it enlightenment however. I don't either, and never have since I found it one evening for three hours in 1964. THAT was a shock to be sure. But you get over the shock and then Synthesise it all. THAT is the hard bit. Well, for a while anyway. But it comes. Dick Richardson.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Enlightenment Makes You Thoughtless
If you have any questions of me than feel free to ask away. But I am not going to speak via other people or for them - only myself and my experience of it. I am not a teacher or a guru I just write about what I found over the last seventy years. They can all do the same. I have nothing to sell. I have no beliefs, no religion, only experience of having existed for seventy three years (that I know of). IT WORKS. And it was good. A great Wonder is Man, the meeting ground of inner and outer dimensions; and ever tied to cross of Time and Eternity. (x) The Encircled Saltire Cross symbolises this. NOT that it needs symbolising. But it is a quick sign. And as is found on the ancient Culbone Stone. They knew what they were on about too. Dick. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Yifu yifuxero@... wrote: thx, interesting and inspirational! Too many unanswered questions. For example, if somebody becomes Self-Realized then drops the body. According to Jerry Jarvis and others, that being the case, one's primary goal of existence has been fulfilled and no subtle bodies would be needed after physical death. (then, no existence). Others say that Enlightened people...Buddhas, whatever; maintain subtle bodies for the purpose of helping humanity for an indefinite period of time. ... iow, Jerry says poof, no more relative existence (no subtle bodies). What's your take on this? Thx. How would non-existence be superior to being a rock? Since rocks are equally the Self compared to humans, then what's the purpose of evolution if the goal is non-existence in the relative sense? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, rwr dick.richardson@ wrote: No doubt. But it is also unlikely that rocks can KNOW and UNDERSTAND their Primordial and Arcane existence, and also unlikely that they love like the I AM part of me in Eternity loves. It is also unlikely that rocks can see. I AM can see. And it is also unlikely that rocks have that Perennial BASE Wisdom which we all have in that Ground of Being. Best not judge it or scoff until you have known it. You CANNOT stay here for ever, your time is limited here. Wait and see what comes. Knowledge and understanding is NOT dependent on thinking. But thinking can think about finding it and the go on the quest of finding it - BEFORE curtain fall. Found it IS. Know Thy SELF. Do not confuse it with the self. Dick Richardson --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Yifu yifuxero@ wrote: what happens...no thoughts? That's only temporary. But it's likely rocks have no thoughts. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, rwr dick.richardson@ wrote: IT HAPPENS. QED. rwr --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Yifu yifuxero@ wrote: contradicts MMY. You're saying no possibility, but MMY's dogma is infinite possibility, or the field of all possibilities. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, rwr dick.richardson@ wrote: Actually this is NOT a theory at all, it is a fact of experience - for those who have known it. Knowledge, Innate Understanding, and Vision, yet no possibility to think. Thinking requires Time, but in the domain of the SELF time and change do not exist there. One can of course think when one comes back here again - and one then has more to think about :- ) Not everybody calls it enlightenment however. I don't either, and never have since I found it one evening for three hours in 1964. THAT was a shock to be sure. But you get over the shock and then Synthesise it all. THAT is the hard bit. Well, for a while anyway. But it comes. Dick Richardson.
[FairfieldLife] Determined Destiny or Not
Determined Destiny or Not Lord Phoenix The part of your experience regarding the baby, from your description of it, certainly sounds like it can be categorised as an OBE. However, there is far more to all the things which you say there than just that isn't there. Personally I do not feel that what you are experiencing there has got anything to do with being invaded by some other being, just other facets and potentials of your self in your own BECOMING and unfolding process. Personal evolution; by way of learning and understanding by way of direct experience. Archetypes in action. However, the really big question which you are raising here is as to Determined or NOT, isn't it. Or even PRE-determined. This IS a knotty old problem isn't it. Let us first just take us here on this world in temporal consciousness. IF I stick my hand in the fire then doing that is going to have consequences isn't it. Not very nice ones in this case. Prior to my hand going in a fire I had heard that doing this was not a good idea. But I did not KNOW what it was like until my hand did get caught up in fire. True enough, NOT NICE, and best avoided. So, you tell your kids to keep away from the fire. Good advice. Sit by it but don't get IN IT :- ) So, is BURNING pre-determined? It is certainly the effect of getting in the fire isn't it. Have you ever known anybody get in the fire and have no nasty effects from having done so? I haven't. So, cause and effect. And we learn to keep out of the fire, and we learn not to build cities on tectonic fault lines, on top of active volcanoes, or in flood plains, don't we. Well, eventually maybe. But causal events of this nature DOES NOT mean that SOMEBODY determined it. However, what about these other TWO factors of our being? The Totally Transcendent bit and the BRIDGE bit in the middle? How did that Transcendent bit (the bit in that eternal paradisiacal condition) ever arise there? The experience of it is that one just bubbled up out of the stuff which exists there, and one can see that stuff whilst there. It is all around one. But one CANNOT see ones self, or the SELF. The STUFF is just like a vast NEBULA of - - STUFF :- ) But in and among this STUFF is ME I AM. It is AXIOMATIC. IT (me, I AM) does NOT know how it got there. This is way I categorical assert that there will ALWAYS be MYSTERY. I know well enough how I got there (the little me here), for I went there and RE-UNITED with my SELF. I can also describe the journey to it just fine. However, how did I AM get there? I DON'T KNOW. It just always is and was according to the experience. There is no time and change there. If there is no time and change there then how could IT pop up there? Before existing there there is no BEFORE or AFTER. The I AM KNOWS what it knows, and no more. It knows what it knows by way of cognitively existing. Is the existence of I AM pre-determined? Huh ! I would say that it is the effect of what that STUFF does. But the only consciousness in that mode of being and that realm, IS ME. I AM. There is no other KNOWN. But what about unconscious STUFF? The place is full of it. What is it? It is not MADE, it is not brought forth by some other causation. So, all I can say is that it is the POTENTIAL. The primordial STUFF. However, and all this is really rather piffling to what one finds later. In this world there is so much unconscious stuff isn't there, lava, rocks, stones and pebbles, and so much more. Yet, what I found in the Consummatum Incarnate is also found in ALL that stuff. Chew the bones out of that one :- ) So, what the frigging hell is it? It is NO THING MADE. And yet it is what makes life worth living it is the THOU of the I THOU equation. The OBSERVED of the OBSERVER. The dancing partner. Without THOU what the hell is existing worth? NOTHING! In the Paradesium of Eternity it is exactly THE SAME as it is here. The I (I AM) and that which it IS NOT. It is a oneness in and of a dualistic dance. The I AM is NOT in love with itself for that is not love. Love is ALWAYS I and Thou. What is the I AM in love with? Not easy to answer that one. But it is not really IN love with anything, IT IS LOVE. It loves BEING. It is not in love with its environment, the place and the stuff there, even though that is all wonderful. But I AM LOVE. So, how the hell did all this get there? I don't know :- ) I am a pragmatist. IT IS THERE. That I KNOW. How it got there I DON'T know. I could say who the hell cares, I don't. And there is NO way of finding out. Hence there will ALWAYS be mystery. However, none of all this even mentions the MIDDLE part. That, to me, is the biggest MYSTERY of all this stuff. The bit that joins Eternity to Earth; or Eternity to Time and Changing events. But I am not going into any of that here. So, cause and effect, what is determined and what isn't. Some effects are plainly determined by way of what stuff IS and what it does and the potentials which it has.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Determined Destiny or Not
Suffering? How can one exist in a physical form without a little suffering and pain at times. But it is not there all the time is it. And all the time, with learning and technology, we get a little better each decade at helping to ease pain and the associated suffering it can bring. But most people put up with a little pain at times. What is the problem? Anyway, human beings cause more suffering and tears than natural forces do. Also, we all have the option to commit suicide if it gets too bad. So no problem. But surely there is far less pain, suffering and tears now than there was five hundred years ago. Dick --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Yifu yifuxero@... wrote: interesting! ...but doesn't resolve questions pertaining to suffering. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, rwr dick.richardson@ wrote: Determined Destiny or Not Lord Phoenix The part of your experience regarding the baby, from your description of it, certainly sounds like it can be categorised as an OBE. However, there is far more to all the things which you say there than just that isn't there. Personally I do not feel that what you are experiencing there has got anything to do with being invaded by some other being, just other facets and potentials of your self in your own BECOMING and unfolding process. Personal evolution; by way of learning and understanding by way of direct experience. Archetypes in action. However, the really big question which you are raising here is as to Determined or NOT, isn't it. Or even PRE-determined. This IS a knotty old problem isn't it. Let us first just take us here on this world in temporal consciousness. IF I stick my hand in the fire then doing that is going to have consequences isn't it. Not very nice ones in this case. Prior to my hand going in a fire I had heard that doing this was not a good idea. But I did not KNOW what it was like until my hand did get caught up in fire. True enough, NOT NICE, and best avoided. So, you tell your kids to keep away from the fire. Good advice. Sit by it but don't get IN IT :- ) So, is BURNING pre-determined? It is certainly the effect of getting in the fire isn't it. Have you ever known anybody get in the fire and have no nasty effects from having done so? I haven't. So, cause and effect. And we learn to keep out of the fire, and we learn not to build cities on tectonic fault lines, on top of active volcanoes, or in flood plains, don't we. Well, eventually maybe. But causal events of this nature DOES NOT mean that SOMEBODY determined it. However, what about these other TWO factors of our being? The Totally Transcendent bit and the BRIDGE bit in the middle? How did that Transcendent bit (the bit in that eternal paradisiacal condition) ever arise there? The experience of it is that one just bubbled up out of the stuff which exists there, and one can see that stuff whilst there. It is all around one. But one CANNOT see ones self, or the SELF. The STUFF is just like a vast NEBULA of - - STUFF :- ) But in and among this STUFF is ME I AM. It is AXIOMATIC. IT (me, I AM) does NOT know how it got there. This is way I categorical assert that there will ALWAYS be MYSTERY. I know well enough how I got there (the little me here), for I went there and RE-UNITED with my SELF. I can also describe the journey to it just fine. However, how did I AM get there? I DON'T KNOW. It just always is and was according to the experience. There is no time and change there. If there is no time and change there then how could IT pop up there? Before existing there there is no BEFORE or AFTER. The I AM KNOWS what it knows, and no more. It knows what it knows by way of cognitively existing. Is the existence of I AM pre-determined? Huh ! I would say that it is the effect of what that STUFF does. But the only consciousness in that mode of being and that realm, IS ME. I AM. There is no other KNOWN. But what about unconscious STUFF? The place is full of it. What is it? It is not MADE, it is not brought forth by some other causation. So, all I can say is that it is the POTENTIAL. The primordial STUFF. However, and all this is really rather piffling to what one finds later. In this world there is so much unconscious stuff isn't there, lava, rocks, stones and pebbles, and so much more. Yet, what I found in the Consummatum Incarnate is also found in ALL that stuff. Chew the bones out of that one :- ) So, what the frigging hell is it? It is NO THING MADE. And yet it is what makes life worth living it is the THOU of the I THOU equation. The OBSERVED of the OBSERVER. The dancing partner. Without THOU what the hell is existing worth? NOTHING! In the Paradesium of Eternity it is exactly THE SAME as it is here. The I (I AM) and that which it IS NOT. It is a oneness in and of a dualistic dance. The I AM is NOT in love
[FairfieldLife] Re: Determined Destiny or Not
Learning has assisted in helping suffering - not eliminating it altogether. It can go a long way yet. What has suffering got to to with I AM ? NOTHING. It was you who brought the suffering bit up. What has this got to do with MMY teaching? I am interested in what life teaches us by living it and what it reveals to us - not some set piece of rhetoric off the supermarket shelf by some so called guru. LIFE TEACHES US. It is the ONLY teacher. Go with the flow. IF the guru was correct then where the hell did her or she get it from if not life? Come on, let us keep it real. Dick. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Yifu yifuxero@... wrote: So, you're saying learning and technology are the solutions to suffering. What does the I AM have to do with it...the question of suffering? Thx. And how about intermediate non-physical agents, and the possible role of Shakti, pointing to traditional Yagyas. Do or can such agents alleviate suffering? You don't seem to be too familiar with the teachings of MMY. Haven't you heard of his expression Heaven on Earth? How about bad karma. If somebody has a storehouse of bad karma, can it be whittled down further? If so, how. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, rwr dick.richardson@ wrote: Suffering? How can one exist in a physical form without a little suffering and pain at times. But it is not there all the time is it. And all the time, with learning and technology, we get a little better each decade at helping to ease pain and the associated suffering it can bring. But most people put up with a little pain at times. What is the problem? Anyway, human beings cause more suffering and tears than natural forces do. Also, we all have the option to commit suicide if it gets too bad. So no problem. But surely there is far less pain, suffering and tears now than there was five hundred years ago. Dick --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Yifu yifuxero@ wrote: interesting! ...but doesn't resolve questions pertaining to suffering. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, rwr dick.richardson@ wrote: Determined Destiny or Not Lord Phoenix The part of your experience regarding the baby, from your description of it, certainly sounds like it can be categorised as an OBE. However, there is far more to all the things which you say there than just that isn't there. Personally I do not feel that what you are experiencing there has got anything to do with being invaded by some other being, just other facets and potentials of your self in your own BECOMING and unfolding process. Personal evolution; by way of learning and understanding by way of direct experience. Archetypes in action. However, the really big question which you are raising here is as to Determined or NOT, isn't it. Or even PRE-determined. This IS a knotty old problem isn't it. Let us first just take us here on this world in temporal consciousness. IF I stick my hand in the fire then doing that is going to have consequences isn't it. Not very nice ones in this case. Prior to my hand going in a fire I had heard that doing this was not a good idea. But I did not KNOW what it was like until my hand did get caught up in fire. True enough, NOT NICE, and best avoided. So, you tell your kids to keep away from the fire. Good advice. Sit by it but don't get IN IT :- ) So, is BURNING pre-determined? It is certainly the effect of getting in the fire isn't it. Have you ever known anybody get in the fire and have no nasty effects from having done so? I haven't. So, cause and effect. And we learn to keep out of the fire, and we learn not to build cities on tectonic fault lines, on top of active volcanoes, or in flood plains, don't we. Well, eventually maybe. But causal events of this nature DOES NOT mean that SOMEBODY determined it. However, what about these other TWO factors of our being? The Totally Transcendent bit and the BRIDGE bit in the middle? How did that Transcendent bit (the bit in that eternal paradisiacal condition) ever arise there? The experience of it is that one just bubbled up out of the stuff which exists there, and one can see that stuff whilst there. It is all around one. But one CANNOT see ones self, or the SELF. The STUFF is just like a vast NEBULA of - - STUFF :- ) But in and among this STUFF is ME I AM. It is AXIOMATIC. IT (me, I AM) does NOT know how it got there. This is way I categorical assert that there will ALWAYS be MYSTERY. I know well enough how I got there (the little me here), for I went there and RE-UNITED with my SELF. I can also describe the journey to it just fine. However, how did I AM get there? I DON'T KNOW. It just always is and was according to the experience. There is no time and change
[FairfieldLife] SERENDIPITY
SERENDIPITY (Dedicated to William A. Taylor-Fraser) When the insubstantial pageant fades and leaves not a rack behind of things that come and go in time, other than my mind; then maybe it can come to pass that I'll return to see such quintessential essence in form as the river Badgworthy. And like the slopes that rise and fall along the Quantock ridge; the mists that ring the Exmoor combes and the Barle at Landacre bridge. The misty paths that garland the feet of Dunkery at dawn, the solitude of Anstey plain, like Paradise redrawn. Where best to be, I think at times, in Paradise or here, among the finished products fields where purpose is made clear ? Such choice is one so hard to make; and glad that it's not mine; but would be nice, me thinks, again to come here one more time. Be then in no hurry to return from whence you came! so much there is to do on Earth which sets the heart aflame. The mystic path of life entails such wonders thus to see; and all the things that come our way! such... Serendipity !!! * * * rwr
[FairfieldLife] Moments of High Saturation
Moments of High Saturation Whilst still on the subject of Quality. Let us liken this to ourselves being like a jug, a pint glass, and that a pint glass is only being fulfilled and fulfilling life when it is full up to a certain level with the stuff that goes into a pint glass. Let us say that the stuff which is going into the pint glass is called Wonderment. In this I do not mean sitting wondering about things I mean wonderful full of wonder. You know what I mean well enough. What is the daily dose of this nectar for the average person on earth? How full is their glass on an average day? Nobody can know that but for themselves, for it is private stuff. Let us say that if the glass is half full then one is living a wonderful enough life. Let us say that perhaps on any average day the average person is running on one quarter full, and that is fine, OK, good enough. Let us say that if it runs down to one eighth full then one is thinking about doing something to try and brighten the day and cheer themselves up. What if the glass is empty? What if the glass is empty day after day for a long time? How do they feel then? What do they do then? How does one feel when the glass is three quarters full? How does one feel on the day when the glass is full up to the brim and cannot take any more? How does one feel when there is a cloud burst of this stuff and the glass is not only full up but it is spilling all over the top running down the outside and the glass itself is standing up to its neck in the stuff, inner and outer? I only knew that once, for about one hour. It was too much and I could not take any more of it, I could not handle it; could not cope with it. Not up to it. In the book I called that day the Consummatum Incarnate. You can read about it there if you are interested. But since that day the glass has always remained full, every day. Albeit not splashing all over the sides, for I cannot cope with that. One day maybe, if I am ever turned into a two pint glass. But even that would have overflowed that day. How much of this stuff is there? Where does it come from? Well, I found a few of the answers, but let us not go into that here. But this of course raises the question as to what if the glass has a lid on it, and the glass itself refuses to open that lid or let it be opened. Then plainly none of the stuff can get in. However, you think about that if the cap fits. But life cannot get in unless it is allowed in. A good measure of this stuff on an average daily basis is half full. Why? Because we have things to do, things which we have to get on with out of needs must. The grass must be cut, the hay gathered in, the kids fed, the dishes washed; so many things. And with the glass half full then one can get ones mind and concentration around other things, and get them done. One cannot do that yet with a full galls. Fully fledged Home Ensophicus could cope with that. But not Homo Sapiens. But despite all that, and true though it is, it must be reasonably common for all people to have those brief moments in life where the glass is more of less full up; and if only for a moment or an hour or two. You must have known such moments sublime amid the day. That alone, and without all the mystical and transcendent highlights, is enough to keep one going. A good many people commit suicide for this or that reason usually known only to themselves, and it can get black and empty at times for all or at least most people. Why don't they all kill themselves? I don't think it is really due to a fear of doing it but rather due to the hope that tomorrow, just around the next bend, the sun might be shining. For they have tasted it before. It can and does come back. And we can leave this world with a smile when that time inevitably comes of its own accord. Never fear, for the STUFF is near, and the river flows back to the sea. Dick Richardson
[FairfieldLife] Stories told
Stories told It is amazing isn't it. For fifty years now I have been sharing stories of the mystical and transcendent nature of our being which are revealed to us by way of direct personal experience. It has stirred a lot of waters out there. However, for years many have been saying write an autobiography. No way, it cannot be done. And how boring it would be not only to write it but to read it. The average day in the life of a nobody mystic. Just like anybody else's average day. But occasionally I have told bits of, in the books and in emails to groups and emails in private to people. You must have know all this yourselves if you are mystics too. But it is ironic, for when one days that, tell of just normal daily events in ones life, they tell out for more. Truly they do. You give them all this mystical and transcendent stuff for years, and yet when you talk of a few days here and there in your life they yell for more :- ) I don't get it :- ) Oh, and by the way, mystics do not sit in white robes contemplating on their belly button. Here is a typical example of just one I posted the other day and may wanted more of it; it is only short . Another Memoir The days of home made beer communists backgammon divorce and teenage queenies. Some title eh :- ) Tis all true though. It covers about a two year period, way back when. For academic purposes only I had joined the British Communist Party, just to see what these people were really like and what they were all about. As I have mentioned before they were a great bunch, mostly professionals etc, and they knew damn well that socialism would never take in this country, so it was just a pipe dream and they all knew it. We used to meet up in various pubs and in each others home. One of the other young ones there (most were well into middle age) was the husband of my future wife whom I had not yet met :- ) It was at the time when I had decided to go, leave home, get a divorce, and set up a place of my own, for the two kids were now old enough and I had had enough of it for eighteen years. But one night, in the wee small hours, whilst driving some geezers taxi for him I picked up this young woman, with two blokes, and I thought WOW and it was a POW! :- ) She told me that she was coming to my Driving School. Fair enough most people around there did. And you know, one thing leads to another and bobs your flipping uncle :- ) She was after a divorce too, and only nineteen. Wow! But her husband whom I had met at the Communist Party meets took a bit of dim view of it when I told him I was going off with his wife. But all three of us used to go out for a meal and a drink in the evenings together, and play pool and snooker et al. I quite liked him, although he was not very nice to her and a bit of a druggie. Anyway, we did our thing and went off to live together in a basement flat which she called the Hobbit Hole. It was a bit of a hole as well, and as damp as damp could bloody get. But we had a fantastic kitchen and living room. All we had was cushions which she had made and a new Hi-Fi system which I had brought ad hoc (still got it and it's working fine). Both my kids used to come around and the oldest one came to live there with us. Also my best friend was always there. All the driving instructors and local nurses used to come around for a meal and drinks, and also all the local communists and many chess players from the area :- ) It was hilarious. Then of course my daughter then pushing seventeen met this young guy and he and his brothers and mates came too. Talk about a quiet little elopement :- ) This bloody pop music used to blare out from these kids there all day and most of the night on my hi-fi system, Gawd it was noisy :- ) We also had thirteen cats there. This was all a bit of a shock to me really because I had been living a very normal and respectable life :- ) But I did not mind, it was fun and something different. One day this kid asked me if he could marry my daughter and I said no not bloody likely for you are both too young. But they did, and they both came to live with us :- ) They are still married and with two grown up kids :- ) I also became an advisor to a pop group with a female singer who were all tied in with this crowd. That was fun, and they were quite good too. But the best of the lot was when we were alone. But I ain't going to tell you about that. Leave it to your imagination. When our first two kids were old enough to come to a weeding (about five and two) we got married. We did not tell anybody. Didn't intend to get married but we thought it best for the kids. No, mystics do not sit around in white robes contemplating on their belly button. They grab the day and live it. They were good days too, as were all the rest of them each in very different ways. The army was fun too, but that is another story, and many years before that one. Personally I think mystics are a little bit wicked. Don't you? Write an
[FairfieldLife] Re memories of times past
Re memories of times past [ Yes! Great fun! More, more!!! Love, Hillary ] :- ))) That email brought quite a lot of feed-back. I don't know, it is bloody amazing innit, you write about these off the beaten track experiences which reveal parts of us which are not too readily accessible yet profound and most pooh-pooh it all and laugh at it, and yet when writing about common daily events in ones life they want more :- ))) I doubt very much that my normal daily life is any more interesting than anybody else's, and some folks lives are far more interesting. The only biography that I can remember reading (because it was the only one I read) was Winni Churchill's. I never liked the guy because he was a Capitalist and aristocratic bastard, but I did like him really, he was so funny, and he had the opportunity to do a few things. And he smoked a cigar whilst eating his dinner :- ) And during the war of course he did have what it took to motivate and inspire people bit of a magician :- ) But as for us normal bods, well I don't know, it is all much of a muchness isn't it. Even if I began telling a story of past times to any of the children or grandchildren they would all run out screaming boring boring boring ! :- ) Never once, ever, have any of them asked to hear about anything. I used to ask my gran what it was like living in that huge family of sailors back in the eighteen hundreds and I was dead interested. Oh well ! But in one sense I tend to agree with the implication of what you are saying, in that I find normal daily life on earth to be MORE PROFOUND than swanning around in that transcendent paradesium. My vote, like my feet, are ON THE GROUND. I guess that makes me an odd odd-ball :- ) Unlike religionists I would not thank the forces that shape our being for what it is going to do but for what it has done, and not for paradise, but for the earth and FREEDOM. I wonder if there is another odd odd-ball like me around :- ) I doubt it. I keep telling them that a day in the fields of gold with a lover is far better than paradise. They are both real, but one is in the flesh, and it is fleeting, and the other isn't. No, let them have paradise I will have the earth. If there is anything `magic' in existence IT IS HERE AND NOW. And it doesn't take money to love life and have fun. They don't get it do they. What do you want to hear about old mate? Dick
[FairfieldLife] The Inner Life and Quality
The Inner Life and Quality Without a doubt this is the hardest thing to try and write about, for it is all about QUALITY, and how does one quantify that. It is about the inner life and how one is feeling and relating to it all. It is about the effect which things have on us on our inside. That is what we live, the inside, that IS our life. I cannot live out there. I cannot even get out there. Put any one hundred people in front of Big Ben, or any location on earth, and they all see the same thing (forget the bit about some might be colour blind etc) it is the same reality for all of us. But what effect does it have on you? That is the whole hub and crux of it. It is not the thing, it is the effect. I often tell people that those profound mystical encounters have not changed me (they taught me more) but they have not really changed me, for I have always been the same. The effect of experiencing things in daily life is the same today as it was when I was born here, or as early as I can remember anyway two years of age. This is ones EXISTENTIAL life. It IS the relationship between the observer and the observed. It is what it does to us on the inside and how it makes us FEEL. We have to FEEL it all. It IS a dance, it is a love affair. It is a kiss. It is a union. One can count trees, one can measure distances and time, one can weigh potatoes, but how do we measure, count, weigh, QUALITY? ! It cant be done. There is a scale for earth tremors. There is no scale for quality, love, beauty, dancing with the all, and the FEELING it. You cannot teach this, you cannot give it away; but there IT IS. What does science tell you about this? What does psychology tell you about this? What do religions tell you about this? NOTHING! What does believing anything have to do with it? NOTHING ! What does yakety-yak have to do with it? NOTHING. I tell folks, quite honestly, as it happened, that it was the QUALITY, this dancing with life, which CAUSED those mystical and transcendent experiences. But they want measurement, how to's, a system. There is no system. It is simply like attracting like. It is the STUFF causing the STUFF. I cannot for the life of me see why they cannot see it. But they are looking at books, looking at history, looking at icons, looking at other people. They are looking at the WRONG stuff. They ought to be looking at the stuff out there and the stuff in here; and being WITH IT. Go out in the dinner hour and sit on a bench in the park. Do you see what I see? Do you FEEL what I FEEL ? You cannot give it away, and even though words can describe many things and tell many stories the cannot tell of QUALITY. Quality is sacrosanct, personal, private and secret; axiomatic yet incommunicable, unutterable. So, when you are telling a story about something, and which is easy enough, you still cannot give away the Quality which was enshrined in it at the time. I mentioned in the chapter on Essences, that this QUALITY is always there, even in the memory of this or that event. In fact the quality is just as good, if not even better, in the memory than in the event at the time. Why? Easy. Because at the time other things can distract from the moment and the thing, perhaps like a car horn sounding, but in memory they cannot. Nothing distracts from the quality in memory. So, you see, it is not just what we see, like Big Ben or the mists which garland the feet of Dunkery at dawn, but rather as to how all this STUFF takes one, grabs one by the balls and the very fibre of our being and tosses us around in a dance and swoon of inner excitement, and love. Who needs paradise for it is also in a rose, a kiss, a foggy damp day on the moors. It is rain dropping in a puddle, the silent kiss of snow falling upon snow on a silent night. It is the sun reflecting on the wings of a skylark. It is a moon beam dancing in her hair. It is LIFE. It is EVERYWHERE and everything. It is BEING. Do you see what I mean ? Do you see what I see? Do you feel what I feel ? It is good. But how do you tell it. It cant be done. I think the modern world calls it fantasising. Huh ! Maybe they are jealous :- ))) But, you know, all this is FREE. All you have to do is to be there. And we are there. What more can one say. Dick
[FairfieldLife] Excitation to the Nth Degree
Excitation to the Nth Degree I have always told it, it is all about movement and repose, movement and repose, and Excitation take place both in movement and in repose, and in Time and in Eternity. Was I kicked around the Cosmos? Was I dragged? Did I go of my own accord? Tell you the truth I don't really know and I don't care, for it makes no difference to the effect and the living of it. But let us forget for now all the mystical and transcendent journey bits and stick with daily life. What was the best bit? The highest octane bit? It cannot be answered for there was not one, most of it was like it. But, keep in mind that Excitation can and does take place in the quiet times as well as the busy and exciting times. Flying high in a balloon or flying a helicopter, no difference to me than sitting around the fire alone on yuletide eve when the kids have gone to bed and one contemplates on their excitement for the following day ones cup overflows with joy. How can one tell it. But what about the war, all the bombs for six years, the hardship, no home for a while, no shoes, hardly any food? It makes no difference, for the excitation and joys were still there. Can you imagine how wonderful it is when somebody invited you into their house for cup of tea and a sandwich? All the front doors were open and we could just walk in. Can you imagine how wonderful it is when somebody gives you an old pair of shoes? One still woke up of a morning (if still alive) and was in awe of the long shadows the early morning sun made across the street and the excitement about getting out there and going on more adventures. This stuff was not lacking amid the bombs, death, depravation, no, it was there then just as it is there now. Never confuse the darkness of the outer with the light of the inner. Don't let the darkness make you dark. Don't let the world spoil your life. So, which were the best bits? None of it all of it. But each different in their own way, their own season, their own time. Why measure the joys of a child against the joys of a man. It avails one nothing to do so. It is the body that ages you know, not me and not consciousness, and not the joy of being. These things don't age and wrinkle up. One could also rightly say that when young it was also made exciting by way of being all new and fresh and the road ahead was open to one, and the adventure lay ahead in the unknown. But likewise can one say from hindsight that the joy of reflection from hindsight is just as good, if not even better, for one went down those open roads, did it, it happened, one was there, tis done, not in the unknown of the future, one KNOWS it, one has gnosis of it all because one was there. Mystics are hypersensitive gits, young or old, it does not change. And it is this hyper sensitivity that permits one to feel such heights and depths and this lets it all in to one and allows that excitation to be. Not only does it revel the deeper senses but it also hones and sharpens up the five external senses so that one sees more, hears more, smells more, tastes more. This is the liberation of the five external senses, and they are latent in everybody. You just have to use them, that is all. It all comes with package of our incarnate being. Why look a gift horse in the mouth. Grab what life gives you and use it. What bits would one like to go back and live through again? None of it, for it would be no better the second time around than it was the first. But you can live through it all again by just remembering it. Any time you want to. And when you do then you smile, and think, that was good. But it is all learning for the digesting of. We live and learn. Life incarnate is still evolving, changing, becoming the more that it can in form in time and space. But our input to it is our contribution to it. It does not need just a kiss and smile, it needs your backbone, your work, swat tears and pain and all the muscles in your body and brain and heart. IT needs YOU. That is the great lesson isn't it. IT needs US to dance with IT and push it inward into the yet unknown. Don't tell your children that they have been given LIFE, tell them that they ARE LIFE, and a great wonder is Man. Know your self and then come to learn that which you are NOT. For that which you are NOT is what makes Man that which he is and makes it worth living. Have a good and useful life. Dick Richardson Exmoor West Somerset UK
[FairfieldLife] Re: Re memories of times past
Yes, alas you are right, so many of them are so petty and all they have to offer the world is moaning and complaining, or talking about what movie they saw yesterday or repeating what all can read on the news. They are so fucking boring. Like old hags grinning at a hanging. They must be every young in a different way. Just look the other way. Yes, I knew a bit about the dark side and it sure did give balance, and then you know what is good. Try to tell them and they then ignore it all and carry on talking about fish and chips. He ho! :- ) Their time will come, none are left behind. Merlin of Exmoor --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Don Miller pod1...@... wrote: yes, exactly dick, People think that I like soaring in my paraglider because I do it often and have for 24 years. The fact is that I really loath flying. If always feels dangerious and hostile to me. What happens is that when I return to the mother earth, I give her a kiss, even if in spirit, and feel sooo gracious to be secure on the ground again... just like everyone else, except that others are petty. They feel bored and feel as if they have some god given right to whin and complain, whereas I just feel a warm gratefullness for whatever life dishes out in the moment. I had a back injury from my paragliding actvities a month ago. Excruciating pain in general, but when it lets off, even for a moment, a feeling of bliss and happiness of unusual intensity. But why, I am still the same self? The dark side- Freedom, the sky, outer space, the unknown, things dissolving, infinite sadness, and of course the secondary eddy currents of hatred and evil that arise in people. The light side- Gravity, mother earth, security, things comming together, unification, bliss. To think that one can understand or use the light side without a good understanding of the dark side is incorrect. The light side is the direction, yes, but he dark side should not be ignored, and even manipulated at times, but maintained out of the corner of the eye, like the rear view mirror. It is not the direction, but it contains essential important information that makes the light side everything that it has the potential to be. Saludos, Don From: rwr dick.richard...@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thu, July 1, 2010 6:59:19 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re memories of times past  Re memories of times past [ Yes! Great fun! More, more!!! Love, Hillary ] :- ))) That email brought quite a lot of feed-back.  I don't know, it is bloody amazing innit, you write about these off the beaten track experiences which reveal parts of us which are not too readily accessible yet profound and most pooh-pooh it all and laugh at it, and yet when writing about common daily events in ones life they want more :- ))) I doubt very much that my normal daily life is any more interesting than anybody else's, and some folks lives are far more interesting. The only biography that I can remember reading (because it was the only one I read) was Winni Churchill's.  I never liked the guy because he was a Capitalist and aristocratic bastard, but I did like him really, he was so funny, and he had the opportunity to do a few things. And he smoked a cigar whilst eating his dinner :- )  And during the war of course he did have what it took to motivate and inspire people â bit of a magician :- ) But as for us normal bods, well I don't know, it is all much of a muchness isn't it. Even if I began telling a story of past times to any of the children or grandchildren they would all run out screaming â boring boring boring ! :- )  Never once, ever, have any of them asked to hear about anything. I used to ask my gran what it was like living in that huge family of sailors back in the eighteen hundreds and I was dead interested.  Oh well ! But in one sense I tend to agree with the implication of what you are saying, in that I find normal daily life on earth to be MORE PROFOUND than swanning around in that transcendent paradesium. My vote, like my feet, are ON THE GROUND. I guess that makes me an odd odd-ball :- ) Unlike religionists I would not thank the forces that shape our being for what it is going to do but for what it has done, and not for paradise, but for the earth and FREEDOM.  I wonder if there is another odd odd-ball like me around :- ) I doubt it. I keep telling them that a day in the fields of gold with a lover is far better than paradise. They are both real, but one is in the flesh, and it is fleeting, and the other isn't.  No, let them have paradise I will have the earth. If there is anything `magic' in existence IT IS HERE AND NOW.  And it doesn't take money to love life and have fun.  They don't get it do they.  What do you want to hear about old mate? Dick Â
[FairfieldLife] Going to the UK
Going to the UK [ Hello Dick, I am going to go to UK in the near future. Tell me Dick where in UK is the best area to start a new live? Is better to choice a town or a countryside? Unfortunately, I do not have some relations in UK. I would like to know what do you advice me, please? Tell me what would you do if you were on my position? I do not go to UK without any idea of what to expect. Thank you very much for your kindly reply and advice. Regards,] Where to start a new life in the UK? Wow. How does one address this question. If I recall you are nineteen or perhaps twenty now. When I was that age I could go out any day, even in the lunch hour, and get a job anywhere doing almost anything I wanted to have a go at. And I did well, a few years younger actually; but the prospects were still there for quite some time after that. But now? Well things have changed and jobs are not so easy to come by, not by a long chalk. Not only that but the place is full of frigging foreigners :- ) What would I do if it were me (today but at your age) in that situation. I would be wanting to go into the country somewhere far away from the maddening crowd and the din and the noise. But, today, you are not very likely to find a job there. You might, but I would not bank on it. If you were going to go to a City then I would recommend London first and Bristol second, or maybe even Bath if you could get work there. Southampton is another reasonable choice and I know that it has a large Polish community there. That might be something worth thinking about because they could help you out a great deal. So, maybe that might be your best bet. It is also quite near the New Forrest National Park which is rather nice. Other than that I don't really know what to say for I have no idea what you really want to do and as to how your personality is for fitting in to this or that. But, give Southampton some thought at least in the meantime and check it out on the internet. Oh, I was just thinking are you any good a football? :- ) They need somebody to teach them how right now :- ) But good luck and best wishes. Dick.
[FairfieldLife] What is wrong with you lot?
What is wrong with you lot? You not only seem to want to fight the world but also each other. It makes the UNITED states a mockery. If you have nothing important, or even encouraging to say, why not put a sock in it. Don't you get on each others wick day in and day out prattling crap by the gallon load? I have never done it but I thought you lot were into meditation and relaxation. Why not get back to it, it might cheer you up a bit and take all those dark clouds away. You ain't going to change the world by yakking at each other and running everybody down. Don't try to change the world, try to change yourself. That might change the world. rwr
