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--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues"
<curtisdeltablues@...> wrote:
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> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" jstein@ wrote:
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> > My TM box is in storage. Haven't looked at it since I
> > packed it for my move to New Jersey 10 years ago. I have
> > several boxes like that containing papers and
> > memorabilia associated with various periods in my life.
> > Haven't looked at them in a decade either. They'll
> > probably sit there in storage along with furniture and
> > books and other crap I couldn't fit into my condo
> > apartment but might well want to get at if I ever move
> > to a larger place. But the longer I'm here, the more I
> > like it, so all of it will quite possibly sit in that
> > storage unit for the rest of my life, and my sister
> > will have to throw it out when I kick the bucket.
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> I must be more sentimental about my old things. I still visit my Dad
in my childhood home and love to knock around and bump into memories.
It could be something as simple as a notch in a table associated with a
battle with my brother or even some relic like a formaldehyde preserved
Moray eel from the days when I had a
> "laboratory" and imagined becoming a doctor. (I didn't anticipate
organic chemistry in college!) It will be very weird when I don't have
that touchstone of continuity in my life anymore. Every visit seems
like a form of therapy and gives me self perspective. But I guess the
people in our lives who have known us throughout serve that so you don't
need a whole house to take you there.
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> Speaking of old items as regression tools, I just dug out a small
leather traveling chess set I received when I was about 7. I just
started playing chess again and I knew which box of my past it was in.
Holding it and moving the pieces around brings me right back to the
feelings I had learning the game in the days before video games. I also
found a really nice wooden travel set with bone carved figures I bought
in India. Two huge jumps through my past in two similar objects. Now
that I play almost exclusively on my Ipad against a robot, I realize how
dead in comparison it would be to run across an old Ipad in a box,
compared to both these beautiful little chess sets. This is my ode to
stuff I guess, but before I get too Andy Rooney about it all, I think
I'd better bail!
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> > I do have a few TM-related books in my current library,
> > most of which I never look at, but once in a while one
> > or another of them is a useful source for a quote or
> > info related to FFL discussions (particularly MMY's
> > Gita and SBAL).
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> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues"
<curtisdeltablues@> wrote:
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> > > I haven't moved internationally so my perspective is different.
In my moves I always enjoy digging into my Maharishi box which is
usually burried under other boxes of more likely read books after the
move. I have my SCI course from High School and all different eras of
my involvement. Reading things I wrote back then, I am reminded of my
mindset and how differently I see things now. In some ways it is like a
bird visiting a cage to read the Maharishi speak ridden lines. And then
there is the manila envelope of correspondence from my movement
romances. Such idealism, so many ee cummings' poems! Halcyon days
thick with naiveté and a bizarre surety about my future in the
magical land of enlightenment. Where streams of white chocolate ran
into rivers of dark chocolate, and the wagging tails of puppies were
made of licorice, and the clouds would be made of cotton candy and some
of them would hug the ground like fog so you could reach them for a
bite...
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> > > I'm gunna keep on lugging that box around till I can't any longer.
It is too easy for me to forget that guy that I was back then. But he
is still in here somewhere, balancing idiocy with optimism. I don't
reject him, but I would rather put a bullet in my head than share a home
with him!
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> > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@>
wrote:
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> > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, awoelflebater <no_reply@>
wrote:
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> > > > > Cool, I have literally hundreds of photos from the three
> > > > > years. I was sort of the "official" photographer, especially
> > > > > of non-seminar gatherings and events. They are still in slide
> > > > > pages in the basement. I haven't looked at them in years but
> > > > > maybe one day I will convert the slides. I doubt it though.
> > > >
> > > > I like "I doubt it though." :-)
> > > >
> > > > In my life I've moved so often that I gained -- every
> > > > time I had to move it -- a fairly realistic impression
> > > > of how much baggage from the past I was carrying around
> > > > with me from town to town. One of the things that stood
> > > > out among that baggage were boxes of memorabilia (tapes,
> > > > books, videos, photos, etc.) from my various spiritual
> > > > trips.
> > > >
> > > > The TM/Maharishi box hit the dumpster way back when I
> > > > lived in Malibu. I left nothing on my bookshelves or
> > > > among my possessions from that whole era of my life. The
> > > > Rama stuff went later. I think I left the last of it in
> > > > a dumpster in the south of France. In each case, walking
> > > > away from the dumpster I felt fifty pounds lighter.
> > > >
> > > > This is not meant as an insult, although I suspect some
> > > > here might take it as one. It's my real-life experience.
> > > > Letting go of that stuff was WAY liberating.
> > > >
> > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajradhatu@> wrote:
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> > > > > > On Jan 23, 2012, at 9:57 AM, awoelflebater wrote:
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> > > > > > > sales@ Now where is that dang lightroom? Maybe
> > > > > > > at the bottom of a large pile in a room far, far away ;-)
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> > > > > > No, it's on my Mac at home. I digitized all my slides from
that time
> > > > > > period last winter.
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