[FairfieldLife] Re: The Stagirite Beats Up on The Veda and SCI

2012-07-04 Thread shanti2218411
This was profound and very funny at the same time.Thanks. Dear Empty Bill, You are not going to believe this, but in my conversation with the Personal God tonight, he made a remarkable admission: he told me that you, empty bill, had so got the better of him with your ironic caricature of him,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sam Harris, the Illusion of the Self

2012-05-24 Thread shanti2218411
Now that line of reasoning could be applied to all perception except that not all perception is an illusion. There are real shapes out there in the world and other physical regularities that generate reliable states in the minds of others. The reason that the status of reality cannot be applied

[FairfieldLife] Re: Consciousness and Quantum Gibberish

2012-05-21 Thread shanti2218411
First of all, on what basis would Pagels have changed his opinion? It is true Pagels trashed the TM theory of quantum mechanics. This was based on things Larry Domash had written. As I recall, Domash used the vacuum state of quantum mechanics as an analogy to explain TM, much in the way

[FairfieldLife] Re: Blackmore chats to Chopra....

2012-05-10 Thread shanti2218411
Sam Harris in a blog on consciousness said the following: The problem, however, is that no evidence for consciousness exists in the physical world.[6] Physical events are simply mute as to whether it is like something to be what they are. The only thing in this universe that attests to the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Blackmore chats to Chopra....

2012-05-09 Thread shanti2218411
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shanti2218411 shanti2218411@ wrote: Chopra seems to be referring to the notion that observation/ consciousness collapses the probability wave function which results

[FairfieldLife] Re: Blackmore chats to Chopra....

2012-05-08 Thread shanti2218411
Chopra seems to be referring to the notion that observation/ consciousness collapses the probability wave function which results in one possible superposition state becoming physically manifest.This is one of a bunch of theories that attempt to explain the weirdness of quantum mechanics.A

[FairfieldLife] Re: Number 10 and diabetes mellitus?

2012-05-05 Thread shanti2218411
Just a few comments.Whenever I hear the phrase like the real anything I really(sorry :)) want to ask what exactly the word real means in that phrase(see below) IOW the answer to what is the real universe? kinda depends on what you mean and who you are asking.With respect to diabetes, the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Deepak Chopra - Science vs Spiritualism

2012-03-12 Thread shanti2218411
Their is no current scientific theory that has testable hypotheses and that explains the origin of the universe. The truth is that a lot of theories that are currently being touted as providing an explanation of the ultimate nature of reality are either not scientific theories(i.e. cannot

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hey Rick-Electric cars dirtier than gasoline cars!?!

2012-02-15 Thread shanti2218411
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wgm4u anitaoaks4u@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: Eventually they, and other renewables - some as yet to be discovered - will and must take over. It is basically greed,stupidity and

[FairfieldLife] Re: John E. Mack; Millinons are today being approached by aliens

2012-02-10 Thread shanti2218411
In June of 1970 on a very clear summer night(there was a full moon) My mother,brother,best friend and I were walking from my mother's house to my friends car which was parked in front of the house. As we walked to the car we looked up and saw an enormous perfectly rectangular object in the

[FairfieldLife] Re: John E. Mack; Millinons are today being approached by aliens

2012-02-10 Thread shanti2218411
@yahoogroups.com, shanti2218411 shanti2218411@ wrote: In June of 1970 on a very clear summer night(there was a full moon) My mother,brother,best friend and I were walking from my mother's house to my friends car which was parked in front of the house. As we walked to the car we looked up and saw

[FairfieldLife] Re: US Is Fully Prepared

2012-01-19 Thread shanti2218411
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@... wrote: It appears that the US is pushing the envelope to make sure that Iran doesn't close the straight. In other words, the US is willing to pursue a more aggressive step as was taken in Iraq and Afghanistan. It all depends on

[FairfieldLife] Re: Collapse of the Wave Function

2012-01-07 Thread shanti2218411
Von Neumann stated(in Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics) the following regarding the collapse of the wave function. The rules of quantum mechanics are correct but there is only one system which may be treated with quantum mechanics, namely the entire material world. There

[FairfieldLife] Re: So what are US troops doing in Israel?

2012-01-07 Thread shanti2218411
Any attack on Israel that looked like it might succeed would almost certainly result in a nuclear response by Israel(which is estimated to have a stockpile of 200-400 warheads)I would think this would give any of Israel's neighbors serious doubts about how good an idea it would be to attack

[FairfieldLife] Re: The MUM Annual Fund

2011-12-31 Thread shanti2218411
Just my two cents(maybe I'm being generous with that estimate :)), Any discussion of whether god exists or not is invariably problematic due to the difficulty with defining what the word GOD means.Also it seems to me that almost any definition that you used would make it virtually impossible to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Troy Davis execution proceeds

2011-09-22 Thread shanti2218411
Whether or not Troy Davis is guilty is irrelevant to the question of whether executing a human being is a legitimate form of punishment. The justification for the death penalty rests on a # assumptions which include 1) society has the moral right to kill human

[FairfieldLife] Re: Troy Davis execution proceeds

2011-09-22 Thread shanti2218411
Sunshine salsunshine@... wrote: On Sep 22, 2011, at 7:32 PM, shanti2218411 wrote: Whether or not Troy Davis is guilty is irrelevant to the question of whether executing a human being is a legitimate form of punishment. The justification for the death penalty rests

[FairfieldLife] Re: another question for MZ, and maybe William of Occam

2011-06-30 Thread shanti2218411
MZ,it seems to me all intellectual systems fall short of direct experience in revealing the TRUTH(e.g Summa Theologiae).Apparently Thomas Aquinas thought so. The Summa Theologiae, his last and, unfortunately, uncompleted work, deals with the whole of Catholic theology. He stopped work on it

[FairfieldLife] Re: Visit with Amma

2011-06-18 Thread shanti2218411
Ravi very well put.My experience with Amma has been much more limited but like you while I have not felt ANY need to think of her as GOD I have been in awe of the love I have experienced in her presence and when I and my wife and daughter received her hug. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Morality Without Free Will -- Sam Harris

2011-05-31 Thread shanti2218411
It has been clearly demonstrated that mental activity can change how the brain(and other physical organs)function e.g biofeedback and placebo research.The latter would appear to suggest that mental choices can affect physical events.In fact a leading researcher on the question of free will and

[FairfieldLife] Re: Dennis Overbye on free will

2011-05-31 Thread shanti2218411
The majority of people discussing the free will issue are materialists.This would include the majority of people quoted in the New York Times article.Their assumption is that everything that exists can be explained completely in terms of physical matter and the laws that govern physical

[FairfieldLife] Re: On mind, spiritual experience, enlightenment, and death

2011-05-29 Thread shanti2218411
Please go to Enlightened Spirituality.org- and see page on neo-advaitin Ramesh Balsekar.It appears that Mr Balseker rather than cutting through bullshit(i.e. relative to the meaning of vedanta) interjected a significant amount of it into his talks about advaita.In addition he used the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi and Satyanand: Comments on Enlightenment Afterlife

2011-05-26 Thread shanti2218411
to authorities unless there's some corroborating evidence. Thx. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shanti2218411 kc21d@ wrote: IMHO, their never is adropseparate from the ocean(SELF). Thedrop never has an actual existence.It is only the result of the eternal SELF's creation of apparent

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi and Satyanand: Comments on Enlightenment Afterlife

2011-05-25 Thread shanti2218411
IMHO, their never is adropseparate from the ocean(SELF). Thedrop never has an actual existence.It is only the result of the eternal SELF's creation of apparent boundaries/forms i.e.individual beings.The SELF who is writing all the posts on this forum is the same SELF that exists after the

[FairfieldLife] Re: BRACOTV Launch - May 9, 2011 today at 1PM, 7PM, 11PM EST

2011-05-09 Thread shanti2218411
Rick, just curious about what you know and/or think about Braco? Kevin --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@... wrote: Awakening Within presents . . .

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi's Vedic Science

2011-05-01 Thread shanti2218411
@yahoogroups.com, shanti2218411 kc21d@ wrote: I think the main problem with the TMO's use of unified field theory is ,as I think you pointed out, that there is no empirically supported unified field theory.In addition even if consciousness is somehow related to physical reality(something

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi's Vedic Science

2011-04-30 Thread shanti2218411
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@... wrote: since it would appear that consciousness is a subset, a property of material existence, Just a comment, that consciousness can be interpreted to be a subset, a property of material existence does not mean

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi's Vedic Science

2011-04-30 Thread shanti2218411
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@ wrote: however these weird quantum effects have also been observed or recorded by machinery, which we presume is not conscious, at least not in any way like us, and we only find out what the machine recorded

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi's Vedic Science

2011-04-30 Thread shanti2218411
, shanti2218411 kc21d@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@ wrote: however these weird quantum effects have also been observed or recorded by machinery, which we presume is not conscious, at least not in any way like us, and we only find out what the machine

[FairfieldLife] Re: Subtle energy awareness and Deep Transcendence

2011-04-02 Thread shanti2218411
FWIW anxiety is a sx of many different psychological disorders. The tx of anxiety would largely be based on what the underlying disorder is.A simple phobia would be treated in much different fashion than would the anxiety that is associated with a terminal illness.A considerable

[FairfieldLife] Re: HHDL: Free will

2011-03-23 Thread shanti2218411
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Yifu yifuxero@... wrote: thx, that's not a proof. You're saying we exist since we exist. But you haven't proven the first exist. The problem with these types of discussions is that they require the people having the discussion to agree on how to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Shit, shinola, mud...hmmm...which is which?

2011-03-12 Thread shanti2218411
Everything we call real is made of things we cannot regard as real Niels Bohr --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willytex@... wrote: emptybill: You forget that the Upanishads were all esoterica within the teaching of the Brahmana-s and the Shrauta-s. They

[FairfieldLife] Re: Shit, shinola, mud...hmmm...which is which?

2011-03-12 Thread shanti2218411
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one Albert Einstein Consciousness... is the phenomenon where by the universe's very existence is made known Roger Penrose Every man's world picture is and always remains a construct of his own mind and cannot be proved to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Film Mini-Review: The Adjustment Bureau

2011-03-06 Thread shanti2218411
Thanks for the info. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shanti2218411 kc21d@ wrote: I also thought the movie was well done.I thought it made the point that much of what we do in this life is determined

[FairfieldLife] Re: Film Mini-Review: The Adjustment Bureau

2011-03-05 Thread shanti2218411
I also thought the movie was well done.I thought it made the point that much of what we do in this life is determined by factors which are givens e.g. our family of origin etc.It also made the point that it is possible to over come those factors through intense desire and effort( the matt

[FairfieldLife] VA, PTSD and Meditation

2011-02-23 Thread shanti2218411
FYI, The VA Central Office just communicated that they are asking for proposals for a meditation based Tx program for PTSD.This appears to indicate that they believe that there is evidence that meditation will be helpful in treating PTSD.As I had mentioned in an earlier post, Prolonged

[FairfieldLife] Re: Quantum Entanglement and Mantras

2011-02-21 Thread shanti2218411
There are several theorists that propose that quantum mechanical processes affect brain function in non-trivial ways.One example is Penrose and Hameroff's theory re how quantum entanglement is significant in the function of microtubules(a component of neurons) .They further suggest that the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Quantum Entanglement and Mantras

2011-02-21 Thread shanti2218411
to develop a link between the physical/objective and the mental/subjective. It's a hard gap to bridge! --- On Mon, 2/21/11, shanti2218411 kc21d@... wrote: From: shanti2218411 kc21d@... Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Quantum Entanglement and Mantras To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com

[FairfieldLife] Re: Quantum Entanglement and Mantras

2011-02-21 Thread shanti2218411
to hypothesis formulation and research. That is a good thing. You understand this, but most ru's don't have a clue about scientific thinking and readily use metaphor as if it's scientific fact. Such as coherent brain waves produce coherent thinking. WTF? --- On Mon, 2/21/11, shanti2218411

[FairfieldLife] Re: Quantum Entanglement and Mantras

2011-02-21 Thread shanti2218411
factors almost certainly are involved in how meditation affects people. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote: On Feb 21, 2011, at 6:48 PM, shanti2218411 wrote: what we don't know about how the brain relates to the mind is a domain many orders of magnitude

[FairfieldLife] Re: The will of God

2011-01-29 Thread shanti2218411
To me this is one of those discussions which IMHO can't actually be resolved.People who are awake' will experience reality ,whatever the hell that is :), as non dual, people who are notawake will experience reality as separate from the self, I think the mistake is thinking that one state is

[FairfieldLife] Re: The will of God

2011-01-29 Thread shanti2218411
clearly illustrated in addiction.BTW a book that presents a simple but effective way of working through resistance is The Myth of Stress' by Andrew Bernstein(sp?). --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoff rorygoff@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shanti2218411 kc21d@ wrote

[FairfieldLife] Re: The will of God

2011-01-29 Thread shanti2218411
: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shanti2218411 kc21d@ wrote: I agree.I am a psychologist and after having seen thousands of clients, I have no doubt that one of the most fundamental mistakes people make is thinking reality should be than what it is at this moment. Denial of what

[FairfieldLife] Re: The will of God

2011-01-29 Thread shanti2218411
Cognitive therapy is based on the perspective that what a person is thinking directly affects their mood and behavior.Tx consists of an attempt to help a person recognize whether the thought they are having e.g. my future is hopeless is connected to their depressed mood Through a a process of

[FairfieldLife] Re: The will of God

2011-01-29 Thread shanti2218411
Thanks, shanti. It's good to know that being Awake isn't a prerequisite for having common sense. If being awake' was a prerequisite for having common sense then obviously very few people would have common sense OTOH maybe being awake is a prerequisite for common sense since a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Thoughtful article/book about Hell

2010-08-29 Thread shanti2218411
One day a man named Joe died and went before the judgment seat where GOD was seated with the Book of Life.In the book was everything that Joe had done in his life.As GOD went through the Book he kept shaking his head and sayingoh Joe have you been bad.GOD said this over and over and until

[FairfieldLife] Re: physicist Lawrence Krauss on Chopra and TM

2010-08-24 Thread shanti2218411
Paradox; not just mentally paradoxical but innately unfathomable. If there are some actual levitators, they are relying on Shakti, which is relative. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shanti2218411 kc21d@ wrote: Krauss makes a good point re Chopra et al, however, ultimately he is just

[FairfieldLife] Re: physicist Lawrence Krauss on Chopra and TM

2010-08-23 Thread shanti2218411
Krauss makes a good point re Chopra et al, however, ultimately he is just as clueless as they are,something I'm not sure he understands. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@ wrote: ยป It

[FairfieldLife] Re: Chopra ordained as Buddhist

2010-08-11 Thread shanti2218411
I have always had mixed feelings about Chopra.I first met him in his medical office in Mass in 1987.He taught me the psycho-physiological(bliss) technique but I also went a couple of times for health problems.During that period I was going through some pretty heavy unstressing and he told me

[FairfieldLife] Masters and libido

2010-08-08 Thread shanti2218411
Re Maharishi difficulties with staying celibate and/or not sexually exploiting female disciples. A number of other enlightened masters have apparently also had this problem.This list would include; Swami Rama Amrit Desai Ramesh Balsekar

[FairfieldLife] Re: You couldn't make it up.

2007-01-07 Thread shanti2218411
-Excellent point!Kevin Hijacked? According to the home page this forum is for discussing pretty much any topic. But I happen to think the link I posted here should be interesting to anyone of a spiritual nature because it demonstrates how desperate people can be to protect

[FairfieldLife] Re: Scandal hits Gangaji

2006-10-13 Thread shanti2218411
Thanks new morning that was very very funny.A good way to start the day!Kevin While I am sure what they are doing is all good, when reading the letter I sort of felt like it was a parody of how a new age group would deal with a sex scandal. Maybe something on SNL. Or a John Stewart

[FairfieldLife] Re: Can the enlightened make mistakes? was: Mon

2006-02-05 Thread shanti2218411
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob Brigante writes: The centerpiece of Vedic culture is total awareness -- if you seek that, the ugliness you refer to goes away: i.e., stay tuned for the Sat Yuga. Tom T: Once one wakes up

[FairfieldLife] Re: Can the enlightened make mistakes? was: Mon

2006-02-05 Thread shanti2218411
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tom T: Once one wakes up one realizes that it has always been Sat Yuga and always will be for the awake. Never has been anything else but Sat Yuga. Tom T Kevin shanti2218411 writes

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ego in Enlightenment and Enlightened Ironies

2006-01-08 Thread shanti2218411
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, it does sound a bit odd, but the problem is that there is no subjective self or me that any word points to. So you can say, I'm cold, but there is no I, there's just cold. I have not been posting lately but

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Selection from FFL Greatest Hits: you may

2005-11-23 Thread shanti2218411
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter I think it can be understood using the concept of dharma. Within the context of waking state there is a foundational dharma of

[FairfieldLife] Re: no person in Enlightenment?

2005-11-23 Thread shanti2218411
-Actually Adi Da is a pretty good example of someone who is enlightenedand who acts in a narcissistic anti-social fashion. This is of course assuming he has actually transcended the expereince of an individual self.I do agree with the proposition that the basis of action post enlightenment is the

[FairfieldLife] Thanks for comments on Promordial Sounds

2005-07-14 Thread shanti2218411
Just wanted to thanks those of you who gave me input re the promordial sounds technique.Kevin To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Health care as a relative phenomenon

2005-07-12 Thread shanti2218411
--Having worked at a VA hospital the last 18 yrs I have witnessed a major change in how the VA operates.Just one example is a state of the art computer system which blew the the mind of our last Joint commission survey team.In addition there are constant ongoing performance improvement

[FairfieldLife] Re: Scientology: Is it a Cost-Effective Treatment for Depression?

2005-07-11 Thread shanti2218411
--- Comments below: Snipe Benson illustrates via exhaustive case studies and anonymous examples the power of what has been etc The book doesn't appear to be about placebo effects of drugs, but about mind body effects of parayer, meditation and remembering wellness And doesn't appear

[FairfieldLife] Re: placebo effects

2005-07-11 Thread shanti2218411
there are alot of people who are being prescribed medications that don't need them.Kevin In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter Sutphen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Jeff Fischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shanti2218411 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One

[FairfieldLife] Re: placebo effects

2005-07-11 Thread shanti2218411
In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shanti2218411 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of the most powerful elements of any effective treatment whether psychiatric or medical is HOPE.The instillation of hope will frequently

[FairfieldLife] Re: placebo effects

2005-07-11 Thread shanti2218411
).Kevin - In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nobody can *prove* a negative--Logic 101. Sal On Jul 11, 2005, at 6:46 PM, shanti2218411 wrote: ---Sal cite me one reference from a scientific journal,medical or psychiatric textbook which asserts

[FairfieldLife] Re: placebo effects

2005-07-11 Thread shanti2218411
to use medication.Kevin -- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anonymousff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shanti2218411 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ---Sal cite me one reference from a scientific journal,medical or psychiatric textbook which asserts that the effect

[FairfieldLife] Re: Scientology: Is it a Cost-Effective Treatment for Depression?

2005-07-11 Thread shanti2218411
, at 9:36 PM, shanti2218411 wrote: --I have provided psychotherapy to hundreds of people with a dx of some type of depression I don't care if you've provided it for the entire *planet.* Unless you have personally experienced the serious effects of depression yourself, your opinion

[FairfieldLife] Re: placebo effects

2005-07-11 Thread shanti2218411
of psychotherapy. In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anonymousff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shanti2218411 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: maybe you could cite ONE peer reviewed medical journal that doesn't as a rule require the use of a placebo control

[FairfieldLife] Re: placebo effects

2005-07-11 Thread shanti2218411
wellbutrin has become the anti-smoking drug Zyban.In any case believing that medical science is going to end all disease anytime soon is pretty much delusional.Kevin -- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anonymousff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shanti2218411 [EMAIL

[FairfieldLife] Re: False and Damaging Statements about SSRIs

2005-07-11 Thread shanti2218411
- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anonymousff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anonymousff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shanti2218411 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also I don't think there is anything like universal agreement re

[FairfieldLife] Re: placebo effects

2005-07-11 Thread shanti2218411
that based on what I have seen with pts the SRRIs do provide significant therapeutic effects for manny pts .Kevin In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anonymousff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shanti2218411 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ---Annon I was responding

[FairfieldLife] Re: Scientology: Is it a Cost-Effective Treatment for Depression?

2005-07-10 Thread shanti2218411
--I have provided psychotherapy to hundreds of people with a dx of some type of depression( there are multiple types of depression eg Major Depressive Disorder,Dysthymia, etc).There are numerous possible causes for depression eg developmental,biological,enviormental.The state of the art re

[FairfieldLife] Re: Scientology: Is it a Cost-Effective Treatment for Depression?

2005-07-10 Thread shanti2218411
--- I just wanted to add re the benefit vs cost of taking medication for depression tbat ALL treatments for depression can have a downside or side effects including psychotherapy.I believe people need to be as well informed as possible re what the treatment options for depression are and the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mother of dead GI wants to Destroy Bush

2005-07-07 Thread shanti2218411
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anti Kerry people like to argue that the wounds were minor therefore

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mother of dead GI wants to Destroy Bush

2005-07-07 Thread shanti2218411
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shanti2218411 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for responding to a thread that was dropped a couple of days ago but I was on vocation for two weeks and when I was reading some of the posts for the last two weeks I felt like I really wanted to resond

[FairfieldLife] Re: CC is Baby Awakening

2005-06-19 Thread shanti2218411
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter Sutphen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- shanti2218411 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ---Actually I think your response makes my point since for you my description of my experience of unboundedbess changingisn't really real,but really

[FairfieldLife] Re: CC is Baby Awakening

2005-06-18 Thread shanti2218411
---Part of the problem of sharing expereince is that when someone tries to share their experience they must do so through their interpretative system.Futher complicating this is tha fact that terms like unboundedness may mean one thing to one person and something else to another person(even if

[FairfieldLife] Re: CC is Baby Awakening

2005-06-18 Thread shanti2218411
expereinces. Kevin In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shanti2218411 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ---Part of the problem of sharing expereince is that when someone tries to share their experience they must do so through

[FairfieldLife] Re: CC is Baby Awakening

2005-06-18 Thread shanti2218411
is difficult to say since any attempt to convey an experience in words is bound to fall short.Kevin - In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shanti2218411 [EMAIL

[FairfieldLife] Re: CC is Baby Awakening

2005-06-17 Thread shanti2218411
--It would be helpful in these discussions for there to be a common definition for terms being used egreal.When this word is it may mean something very different from one person to another. So for me the statement the ego is not real is an absurd statement thats because of how I

[FairfieldLife] Re: CC is Baby Awakening

2005-06-17 Thread shanti2218411
PROTECTED] wrote: --- shanti2218411 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --It would be helpful in these discussions for there to be a common definition for terms being used egreal.When this word is it may mean something very different from one person to another. So for me

[FairfieldLife] Purity of the teaching (was Re: Lenz -- Sex and Business Practices / Ethics)

2005-06-16 Thread shanti2218411
--I think rather than trying todefeatp.t.ie make them look ridiculous Castaneda was trying to make the point that the petty tyrants in our life(that is people who have power and abuse it eg bosses etc)are people from whom we can learn how not to be emotionally reactive or self important (the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Desires and Enlightenment

2005-06-11 Thread shanti2218411
--Vaj,obviously you have no way of knowing what will happen to meditators who have been witnessing for a prolonged period if they stop meditating.In my own case which have I have discussed previously in other posts the practice of TM and TMSP resulted in the awakening of kundalini(I came to the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Desires and Enlightenment

2005-06-09 Thread shanti2218411
Comment below: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter Sutphen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Ego arises out of identification. Consciousness identifies with the body and the mind to create a sense of individuality. When this identification is no longer occuring there is no ownership of

[FairfieldLife] Re: EU - message from Global County

2005-06-07 Thread shanti2218411
@yahoogroups.com, Jeff Fischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shanti2218411 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Jeff,what did you do at the mannor?I worked in the MIU Press mail room with Walter Runyon(sp?)et al,saw that talent show it waa great! Kevin I

[FairfieldLife] Re: EU - message from Global County

2005-06-07 Thread shanti2218411
@yahoogroups.com, Jeff Fischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shanti2218411 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Jeff,what did you do at the mannor?I worked in the MIU Press mail room with Walter Runyon(sp?)et al,saw that talent show it waa great! Kevin I

[FairfieldLife] Re: EU - message from Global County

2005-06-07 Thread shanti2218411
: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shanti2218411 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ---I also started in fall of 75 and I also did the work study TTC phase I in late 75/early 76(can't remember exact dates).It was a great place while I was there ie indoor pool,food was pretty good and all in all

[FairfieldLife] Re: EU - message from Global County

2005-06-06 Thread shanti2218411
--- Jeff,what did you do at the mannor?I worked in the MIU Press mail room with Walter Runyon(sp?)et al,saw that talent show it waa great! Kevin but I entered it in the oratory contest to be read as a straight poem. I got on stage and acted really nervous, clearing my throat, bobblling

[FairfieldLife] Re: MMY - Celibacy - the Truth!

2005-06-05 Thread shanti2218411
--Very well said annon.Kevin n FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anonymousff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder how many reading FFL can relate experientially to what Guy Banner had to say about celibacy? I personally never had such an amazing experience with Maharishi as Guy described.

[FairfieldLife] Re: TMO ishta mantras in India

2005-06-04 Thread shanti2218411
--Comment below: In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter Sutphen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree with Sparaig here. That ego is the precise obstacle to realization. There can not be an ego an realization

[FairfieldLife] Re: Meditate for a Fee or for Free

2005-06-02 Thread shanti2218411
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shanti2218411 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No mirror, no dust... No body,no enlightment. How

[FairfieldLife] Re: Meditate for a Fee or for Free

2005-06-02 Thread shanti2218411
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shanti2218411 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shanti2218411 [EMAIL PROTECTED

[FairfieldLife] Re: Meditate for a Fee or for Free

2005-06-02 Thread shanti2218411
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And therein lies the problem. WHO is confounded with WHAT. WHAT is always an object of pereception, while WHO is pure consciousness. Without the WHAT aka body ,form there can be no perception nor any

[FairfieldLife] Re: Meditate for a Fee or for Free

2005-06-02 Thread shanti2218411
value for the one who is enlightened but I think that is as far as it goes.Kevin In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter Sutphen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- shanti2218411 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

[FairfieldLife] Re: Meditate for a Fee or for Free

2005-05-31 Thread shanti2218411
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No mirror, no dust... No body,no enlightment. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit

[FairfieldLife] Re: Meditate for a Fee or for Free

2005-05-30 Thread shanti2218411
could be described using the term unstressing.Kevin In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shanti2218411 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Comment below --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED

[FairfieldLife] Re: Meditate for a Fee or for Free

2005-05-29 Thread shanti2218411
their intentions are.Kevin In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had a similar exzperience. It was quite a carrot. keeping me meditating in the mud for years afterwards, seeking a repeat! ha-ha! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shanti2218411 [EMAIL

[FairfieldLife] Re: Meditate for a Fee or for Free

2005-05-29 Thread shanti2218411
Comment below --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Beautiful unstressing. What does that mean? Any thoughts, feelings, images, etc., during TM are *ALWAYS* unstressing. If you were stress free, you'd be enlightened, and have no-thought,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Meditate for a Fee or for Free

2005-05-28 Thread shanti2218411
I also did not learm them(at)in the order they are listed at this site,although I'm not sure it makes that much of a difference, [EMAIL PROTECTED], gullible fool [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Get your free advanced techniques here! http://minet.org/mantras.html Looks a bit off, though,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Meditate for a Fee or for Free

2005-05-28 Thread shanti2218411
--I had a very powerful expereince of shakti during my initiation (although I had no clue that was what it was at the time)I have no doubt whatsoever that this would not have been the case had I simply started using the mantra from a book(or web site).Kevin FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Meditate for a Fee or for Free

2005-05-28 Thread shanti2218411
In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shanti2218411 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --I had a very powerful expereince of shakti during my initiation (although I had no clue that was what it was at the time) What did

[FairfieldLife] Re: Meditate for a Fee or for Free

2005-05-28 Thread shanti2218411
which would not likely come a book.Kevin In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shanti2218411 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --As I began to think the mantra silently to myself(during my initiation) I started to become aware

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