[FairfieldLife] Mind over matter, shameless hoax...
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Re: [FairfieldLife] Mind Blowing TM Secret Revealed
You know, it's more likely than not that he did. He was human and did things
humans do. Vyasa porked a young girl he had just met while riding in a boat
across a river. No indications he ever married her but became a baby- daddy to
Shuka Dev. People holding their *guru* on a higher pedestal than they *might*
or *might not* deserve, does more for their own evolution than it does for the
guru's reputation. I know most people on this forum laugh at or have contempt
for Biblical teaching. But the Bible teaches spiritual authority is highly
revered, even if the authority does something stupid or demeaning and
ridiculing that authority has negative consequences for the one doing the
ridiculing. In Genesis, after the flood, Noah was found by one of his sons
alone, naked and drunk, god only knows doing what. His son laughed at his
father and mocked him before his other brothers later. It's said that this son
lost favor with God and his progeny never lived to their potential. Karma is a
bitch.
From: Duveyoung no_re...@yahoogroups.com
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2015 8:37 AM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Mind Blowing TM Secret Revealed
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi had sex with his devotees.
Proof? Watch how those with zero proof react to the above statement. That's
the tell. The more vociferously someone protests, the more you can be sure
that person knows, intuitively, that the accusations BY MANY WOMEN must be true.
If you merely say that statement aloud on the MUM campus, you will be kicked
out of the movement even if it was in jest. That's how much everyone knows
it's true and how badly they want to hide the facts.
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[FairfieldLife] Mind Blowing TM Secret Revealed
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi had sex with his devotees. Proof? Watch how those with zero proof react to the above statement. That's the tell. The more vociferously someone protests, the more you can be sure that person knows, intuitively, that the accusations BY MANY WOMEN must be true. If you merely say that statement aloud on the MUM campus, you will be kicked out of the movement even if it was in jest. That's how much everyone knows it's true and how badly they want to hide the facts.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Mind Blowing TM Secret Revealed
Maybe you could check out the Vyasa story with George Hammond (www.30thnovember.com). I can't remember if Vyasa was one George's previous incarnations (he had so many), but if not, I''m he knows someone who knew Vyasa. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mdixon.6569@... wrote : You know, it's more likely than not that he did. He was human and did things humans do. Vyasa porked a young girl he had just met while riding in a boat across a river. No indications he ever married her but became a baby- daddy to Shuka Dev. People holding their *guru* on a higher pedestal than they *might* or *might not* deserve, does more for their own evolution than it does for the guru's reputation. I know most people on this forum laugh at or have contempt for Biblical teaching. But the Bible teaches spiritual authority is highly revered, even if the authority does something stupid or demeaning and ridiculing that authority has negative consequences for the one doing the ridiculing. In Genesis, after the flood, Noah was found by one of his sons alone, naked and drunk, god only knows doing what. His son laughed at his father and mocked him before his other brothers later. It's said that this son lost favor with God and his progeny never lived to their potential. Karma is a bitch. From: Duveyoung no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2015 8:37 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Mind Blowing TM Secret Revealed Maharishi Mahesh Yogi had sex with his devotees. Proof? Watch how those with zero proof react to the above statement. That's the tell. The more vociferously someone protests, the more you can be sure that person knows, intuitively, that the accusations BY MANY WOMEN must be true. If you merely say that statement aloud on the MUM campus, you will be kicked out of the movement even if it was in jest. That's how much everyone knows it's true and how badly they want to hide the facts.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Mind Blowing TM Secret Revealed
should we break out the champagne? is no one being chastised? are you making what could be considered a..joke?? what day is it? Well, it's not April 1st. wtf is going on here.. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jamesalan735@... wrote : Maybe you could check out the Vyasa story with George Hammond (www.30thnovember.com). I can't remember if Vyasa was one George's previous incarnations (he had so many), but if not, I''m he knows someone who knew Vyasa. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mdixon.6569@... wrote : You know, it's more likely than not that he did. He was human and did things humans do. Vyasa porked a young girl he had just met while riding in a boat across a river. No indications he ever married her but became a baby- daddy to Shuka Dev. People holding their *guru* on a higher pedestal than they *might* or *might not* deserve, does more for their own evolution than it does for the guru's reputation. I know most people on this forum laugh at or have contempt for Biblical teaching. But the Bible teaches spiritual authority is highly revered, even if the authority does something stupid or demeaning and ridiculing that authority has negative consequences for the one doing the ridiculing. In Genesis, after the flood, Noah was found by one of his sons alone, naked and drunk, god only knows doing what. His son laughed at his father and mocked him before his other brothers later. It's said that this son lost favor with God and his progeny never lived to their potential. Karma is a bitch. From: Duveyoung no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2015 8:37 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Mind Blowing TM Secret Revealed Maharishi Mahesh Yogi had sex with his devotees. Proof? Watch how those with zero proof react to the above statement. That's the tell. The more vociferously someone protests, the more you can be sure that person knows, intuitively, that the accusations BY MANY WOMEN must be true. If you merely say that statement aloud on the MUM campus, you will be kicked out of the movement even if it was in jest. That's how much everyone knows it's true and how badly they want to hide the facts.
[FairfieldLife] Mind reading
A while back someone posted an explanation of a mind-reading double act that had fooled the experts. These demonstrations in which the audience put random items onto a tray and then the sender asks the receiver what he's holding and she's able to tell us usually involve a simple code. What made this act so baffling was that the performer was using the one-ahead routine. It would be agreed before the show that the first item held up that night would be a credit card. The coded message used by the sender would refer to the *next* item he was going to pick up and not the one he was actually holding aloft. Geddit? Simple but effective. That routine really tickled me. However I've now come across another method that also left the experts at a loss. Sam Loyd (Yank - 19th century) used to do a routine in which he would blindfold his son and have him stand with his back to the audience. A legit deck of cards would be shuffled by an audience member (not a stooge) who would then hold up each card in turn for Sam Loyd to see. Lloyd would gaze at the card and not say a word or move a muscle and eventually his son would announce Ace of Hearts and be correct. This would continue through the pack. So how was it done? Think about it and see if you can work it out. The solution is . . . Have your tiny brains worked it out yet? Awesomely simple . . . And it is? The son never spoke a word! Sam Loyd was a ventriloquist!
[FairfieldLife] Mind of the Meditator
[Scientific American article by Matthieu Ricard, Antoine Lutz, and Richard J. Davidson, Nov. 2014, p. 43] In our Wisconsin lab, we have studied experienced practioners while they performed an advanced form of mindfulness meditation called open presence. In open presence, sometimes called pure awareness, the mind is calm and relaxed, not focused on anything in particular yet vividly clear, free from excitation or dullness. The meditator observes and is open to experience without making any attempt to interpret, change, reject or ignore painful sensation ...[the experimenters somehow induced some pain to experienced meditators, then compared the results to novices.] .We found that the intensity o0f the pain was not reduced in meditators, but it bothered them less than it did members of a control group. . Compared with novices, expert meditators' brain activity diminished in anxiety related regions - the insular cortex and the amygdala - in the period preceding the painful stimulus. . Other tests in our lab have shown that meditation training increases one's ability to better control and buffer basic physiological responses - inflammation or levels of a stress hormone - to a socially stressful task such as giving a public speech or doing mental arithmetic in front of a harsh jury. . .
[FairfieldLife] mind melding
This is an interesting experience that always happens when I practice TM with my wife. I can feel my nearly pure awareness contact hers, and then the boundary is gone, and it is simply oneness, without boundary or ownership. I always flinch mentally, just as the boundary dissolves. It is as if I am suspended in an empty room, dimly lit by blue lights, and I sense another room, this one also empty, but dimly lit by purple lights. Then, suddenly the divider between the two is gone, and it is one room. This is probably more common that it sounds, especially given Share's experience in the dome (ovals of light).
Re: [FairfieldLife] mind melding
Fleetwood, another wonderful experience: I was sitting near an open door of the
Dome. Suddenly there was a bird song. The sound of that song was inside me. And
so was my body!
From: fleetwood_macnche...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2014 8:47 AM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] mind melding
This is an interesting experience that always happens when I practice TM
with my wife. I can feel my nearly pure awareness contact hers, and then the
boundary is gone, and it is simply oneness, without boundary or ownership. I
always flinch mentally, just as the boundary dissolves. It is as if I am
suspended in an empty room, dimly lit by blue lights, and I sense another room,
this one also empty, but dimly lit by purple lights. Then, suddenly the divider
between the two is gone, and it is one room. This is probably more common that
it sounds, especially given Share's experience in the dome (ovals of light).
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Re: [FairfieldLife] mind melding
Love the birdies! There is an aggressive little hummingbird around, and I really want to get a picture of him or her, in the light, to show off its emerald feathers. A few hours ago, I was sitting outside, and the doe and her two fawns, one buck, one doe, were eating grass only about ten feet away. They were not startled, and we looked back and forth at one another. Then they slipped down the hill a little ways - I followed up to the fence, watched them and saw them energetically with my eyes closed also. Looked deeply into deer mom's eyes, and shared our common Being. Then did some mirroring of her head gestures, and gazed at the fawns too. Went on back and forth for fifteen minutes, between the four of us. It is amazing to look into a wild animal's eyes. They are pure reflections of their world, and the lessons learned. It seemed as if the doe could read my emotions, though she was also distracted by the neighborhood waking up, and ensuring the safety of her fawns. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote : Fleetwood, another wonderful experience: I was sitting near an open door of the Dome. Suddenly there was a bird song. The sound of that song was inside me. And so was my body! From: fleetwood_macncheese@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2014 8:47 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] mind melding This is an interesting experience that always happens when I practice TM with my wife. I can feel my nearly pure awareness contact hers, and then the boundary is gone, and it is simply oneness, without boundary or ownership. I always flinch mentally, just as the boundary dissolves. It is as if I am suspended in an empty room, dimly lit by blue lights, and I sense another room, this one also empty, but dimly lit by purple lights. Then, suddenly the divider between the two is gone, and it is one room. This is probably more common that it sounds, especially given Share's experience in the dome (ovals of light).
Re: [FairfieldLife] mind melding
I meant to add that yes, everything is inside us - the bridging of the subjective and objective. Once the mind stops thinking about where it is, everything is comprehended from its source, fully and completely. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote : Fleetwood, another wonderful experience: I was sitting near an open door of the Dome. Suddenly there was a bird song. The sound of that song was inside me. And so was my body! From: fleetwood_macncheese@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2014 8:47 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] mind melding This is an interesting experience that always happens when I practice TM with my wife. I can feel my nearly pure awareness contact hers, and then the boundary is gone, and it is simply oneness, without boundary or ownership. I always flinch mentally, just as the boundary dissolves. It is as if I am suspended in an empty room, dimly lit by blue lights, and I sense another room, this one also empty, but dimly lit by purple lights. Then, suddenly the divider between the two is gone, and it is one room. This is probably more common that it sounds, especially given Share's experience in the dome (ovals of light).
Re: [FairfieldLife] mind melding
OMG, Fleetwood, are we having parallel lives?! This morning coming home from
the Dome, suddenly a deer crossing B St. And it was a buck, full atlers and
everything! Then about 30 minutes later I went back to campus, again on B St.
and crossing in almost the same spot, a doe and her fawn.
Now it's snowing. And sticking! Shovel season coming early this year!
From: fleetwood_macnche...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2014 11:11 AM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] mind melding
Love the birdies! There is an aggressive little hummingbird around, and I
really want to get a picture of him or her, in the light, to show off its
emerald feathers.
A few hours ago, I was sitting outside, and the doe and her two fawns, one
buck, one doe, were eating grass only about ten feet away. They were not
startled, and we looked back and forth at one another. Then they slipped down
the hill a little ways - I followed up to the fence, watched them and saw them
energetically with my eyes closed also. Looked deeply into deer mom's eyes, and
shared our common Being. Then did some mirroring of her head gestures, and
gazed at the fawns too. Went on back and forth for fifteen minutes, between the
four of us. It is amazing to look into a wild animal's eyes. They are pure
reflections of their world, and the lessons learned. It seemed as if the doe
could read my emotions, though she was also distracted by the neighborhood
waking up, and ensuring the safety of her fawns.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote :
Fleetwood, another wonderful experience: I was sitting near an open door of the
Dome. Suddenly there was a bird song. The sound of that song was inside me. And
so was my body!
From: fleetwood_macncheese@... [FairfieldLife]
FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2014 8:47 AM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] mind melding
This is an interesting experience that always happens when I practice TM with
my wife. I can feel my nearly pure awareness contact hers, and then the
boundary is gone, and it is simply oneness, without boundary or ownership. I
always flinch mentally, just as the boundary dissolves. It is as if I am
suspended in an empty room, dimly lit by blue lights, and I sense another room,
this one also empty, but dimly lit by purple lights. Then, suddenly the divider
between the two is gone, and it is one room. This is probably more common that
it sounds, especially given Share's experience in the dome (ovals of light).
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Re: [FairfieldLife] mind melding
Nice! They are some of the most beautiful animals, imo. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote : OMG, Fleetwood, are we having parallel lives?! This morning coming home from the Dome, suddenly a deer crossing B St. And it was a buck, full atlers and everything! Then about 30 minutes later I went back to campus, again on B St. and crossing in almost the same spot, a doe and her fawn. Now it's snowing. And sticking! Shovel season coming early this year! From: fleetwood_macncheese@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2014 11:11 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] mind melding Love the birdies! There is an aggressive little hummingbird around, and I really want to get a picture of him or her, in the light, to show off its emerald feathers. A few hours ago, I was sitting outside, and the doe and her two fawns, one buck, one doe, were eating grass only about ten feet away. They were not startled, and we looked back and forth at one another. Then they slipped down the hill a little ways - I followed up to the fence, watched them and saw them energetically with my eyes closed also. Looked deeply into deer mom's eyes, and shared our common Being. Then did some mirroring of her head gestures, and gazed at the fawns too. Went on back and forth for fifteen minutes, between the four of us. It is amazing to look into a wild animal's eyes. They are pure reflections of their world, and the lessons learned. It seemed as if the doe could read my emotions, though she was also distracted by the neighborhood waking up, and ensuring the safety of her fawns. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote : Fleetwood, another wonderful experience: I was sitting near an open door of the Dome. Suddenly there was a bird song. The sound of that song was inside me. And so was my body! From: fleetwood_macncheese@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2014 8:47 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] mind melding This is an interesting experience that always happens when I practice TM with my wife. I can feel my nearly pure awareness contact hers, and then the boundary is gone, and it is simply oneness, without boundary or ownership. I always flinch mentally, just as the boundary dissolves. It is as if I am suspended in an empty room, dimly lit by blue lights, and I sense another room, this one also empty, but dimly lit by purple lights. Then, suddenly the divider between the two is gone, and it is one room. This is probably more common that it sounds, especially given Share's experience in the dome (ovals of light).
[FairfieldLife] Mind control study
Oh oh, better send the Amazing Randi to the University of Washington! :-D http://betabeat.com/2014/11/its-now-possible-for-one-persons-brain-to-control-another-personss-movements/ Science is ever changing and never static.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Mind control study
Bhairitu, Univ of Wash must be a very cool place. The Love Lab is also located
there. They can predict with 96% accuracy which marriages will succeed and
which will not. Evidently what's necessary is a 5 to 1 ratio of positive to
negative comments.
From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, November 6, 2014 1:28 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Mind control study
Oh oh, better send the Amazing Randi to the University of Washington! :-D
http://betabeat.com/2014/11/its-now-possible-for-one-persons-brain-to-control-another-personss-movements/
Science is ever changing and never static.
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Re: [FairfieldLife] Mind Control, was 7 Techniques to Handle Toxic People
A lot of people don't know this but Neil Young is epileptic. In fact when we opened for the Springfield they asked if we could play another short set before they came on because he had just had a seizure. White Bird was recorded by It's a Beautiful Day and I knew the guitar player, Hal, from that group. Missed out though on hanging out at his place when a couple of his friends would come into town to visit: John and Yoko. On 11/04/2014 06:00 PM, fleetwood_macnche...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Thanks for the time machine. I was very influenced by bands like CCR (Fortunate Son), The Who, and Jefferson Airplane/Starship (Volunteers), by their uncompromising voice for change. Some bands only had a single or an album that made it big (ex: White Bird), but all of it was fresh and new, and there was a lot to choose from. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote : The link to the Laurel Canyon site is interesting and brought back many memories. However I wouldn't call Laural Canyon the birth of the Hippie Movement. There beatniks before that and of course bohemians WAY before that even. Tim Leary never mentioned drugs during his at the event my band opened. He talked about enlightenment and ways (other than drugs) of achieving it. Music always pushes the edge, many of the rock musicians in the 60s bands had jazz backgrounds so we put a little jazz into the music, as much as we could get away with. Thus it had a very ethereal sound. Record companies looked for bands who were a little ahead of the time. As for the protest songs they were what the record companies would let them get away with. For What It's Worth like the blog writer points out was about a clash with the police over a popular coffee house. A lot of the rock musicians were around 2-4 years older than myself and indeed some had done a stint in the military. But other than getting to see the world a little it had little impact on their music. Of course a lot of my fellow musicians were sons and daughters of dads who had served in WWII. And some knew people in high places which kept them from getting busted with drugs by getting tipped when they were hot. ;-) On 11/04/2014 12:36 PM, 'Richard J. Williams' punditster@... mailto:punditster@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: On 11/4/2014 1:22 PM, Bhairitu noozguru@... mailto:noozguru@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: Back in the late 1960s during the psychedelic era there were all kinds of crooks trying to pull mind control on folks We always suspected this and my theory is that the hippie movement was infiltrated by outside agents in a mass effort to program the whole hippie community into falling down into a rabbit hole of confusion and ribaldry so as to self-destruct. First they sent out informants like Tim Leary to try and talk us into taking psychedelic substances so as to alter our consciousness. Then, they sent in the rock singers to get us into a trance state with loud rhythm music and liberal lyrics. So, with the hippies all stoned out and getting programmed by the rock music, they became like robots controlled through suggestion and brain-washing. I mean, have you actually read the lyrics of some of those 60's protest songs?/ There is something happening here. What it is ain’t exactly clear. There's a man with a gun over there. - Stephen Stills // /It is interesting that many of the late sixties rock singers were military brats and all connected to the U.S. military. In some cases, the rock singers were previously actually in the U.S. Military. For example, Jim Morrison's father was a U.S. Navy admiral in Vietnam and Frank Zappa was a former Air Force Airman. This list of these military brats goes on and on. Go figure. *The Strange but Mostly True Story of Laurel Canyon Birth of the Hippie Generation* http://tinyurl.com/klpfdtv
Re: [FairfieldLife] Mind Control, was 7 Techniques to Handle Toxic People
On 11/5/2014 10:46 AM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife] wrote: A lot of people don't know this but Neil Young is epileptic. In fact when we opened for the Springfield they asked if we could play another short set before they came on because he had just had a seizure. /During the early years of its heyday, Laurel Canyon’s father figure is the rather eccentric personality known as Frank Zappa. Though he and his various Mothers of Invention line-ups will never attain the commercial success of the band headed by the admiral’s son, Frank will be a hugely influential figure among his contemporaries. Ensconced in an abode dubbed the ‘Log Cabin’ – which sat right in the heart of Laurel Canyon, at the crossroads of Laurel Canyon Boulevard and Lookout Mountain Avenue – Zappa will play host to virtually every musician who passes through the canyon in the mid- to late-1960s./ White Bird was recorded by It's a Beautiful Day and I knew the guitar player, Hal, from that group. Missed out though on hanging out at his place when a couple of his friends would come into town to visit: John and Yoko. On 11/04/2014 06:00 PM, fleetwood_macnche...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Thanks for the time machine. I was very influenced by bands like CCR (Fortunate Son), The Who, and Jefferson Airplane/Starship (Volunteers), by their uncompromising voice for change. Some bands only had a single or an album that made it big (ex: White Bird), but all of it was fresh and new, and there was a lot to choose from. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote : The link to the Laurel Canyon site is interesting and brought back many memories. However I wouldn't call Laural Canyon the birth of the Hippie Movement. There beatniks before that and of course bohemians WAY before that even. Tim Leary never mentioned drugs during his at the event my band opened. He talked about enlightenment and ways (other than drugs) of achieving it. Music always pushes the edge, many of the rock musicians in the 60s bands had jazz backgrounds so we put a little jazz into the music, as much as we could get away with. Thus it had a very ethereal sound. Record companies looked for bands who were a little ahead of the time. As for the protest songs they were what the record companies would let them get away with. For What It's Worth like the blog writer points out was about a clash with the police over a popular coffee house. A lot of the rock musicians were around 2-4 years older than myself and indeed some had done a stint in the military. But other than getting to see the world a little it had little impact on their music. Of course a lot of my fellow musicians were sons and daughters of dads who had served in WWII. And some knew people in high places which kept them from getting busted with drugs by getting tipped when they were hot. ;-) On 11/04/2014 12:36 PM, 'Richard J. Williams' punditster@... mailto:punditster@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: On 11/4/2014 1:22 PM, Bhairitu noozguru@... mailto:noozguru@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: Back in the late 1960s during the psychedelic era there were all kinds of crooks trying to pull mind control on folks We always suspected this and my theory is that the hippie movement was infiltrated by outside agents in a mass effort to program the whole hippie community into falling down into a rabbit hole of confusion and ribaldry so as to self-destruct. First they sent out informants like Tim Leary to try and talk us into taking psychedelic substances so as to alter our consciousness. Then, they sent in the rock singers to get us into a trance state with loud rhythm music and liberal lyrics. So, with the hippies all stoned out and getting programmed by the rock music, they became like robots controlled through suggestion and brain-washing. I mean, have you actually read the lyrics of some of those 60's protest songs?/ There is something happening here. What it is ain’t exactly clear. There's a man with a gun over there. - Stephen Stills // /It is interesting that many of the late sixties rock singers were military brats and all connected to the U.S. military. In some cases, the rock singers were previously actually in the U.S. Military. For example, Jim Morrison's father was a U.S. Navy admiral in Vietnam and Frank Zappa was a former Air Force Airman. This list of these military brats goes on and on. Go figure. *The Strange but Mostly True Story of Laurel Canyon Birth of the Hippie Generation* http://tinyurl.com/klpfdtv
Re: [FairfieldLife] Mind Control, was 7 Techniques to Handle Toxic People
I remember when 'after the gold rush' came out, and it was like who IS this guy? I've liked that he blazes trails, like getting into electronic music and grunge, too. I like Crazy Horse too. Absolutely fell in love with the ethereal sound of Its A Beautiful Day, with similar sounds from Fairport Convention, early Fleetwood Mac, and Joni and Joan. Then the 'drama bands'; Yes, King Crimson, Jethro Tull, great stuff! I remember when my wife and I first got together, late 90's, going to a long gone club with a decent tequila bar, called the Phoenix, in SJ, and there was an aztec psychedelic rock band playing for a few nights - smoke machine, so you could just see the band members in the mist, with traditional dress, playing insistent drums and long guitar solos. Very cool, and after a few shots, very danceable until closing - ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote : A lot of people don't know this but Neil Young is epileptic. In fact when we opened for the Springfield they asked if we could play another short set before they came on because he had just had a seizure. White Bird was recorded by It's a Beautiful Day and I knew the guitar player, Hal, from that group. Missed out though on hanging out at his place when a couple of his friends would come into town to visit: John and Yoko. On 11/04/2014 06:00 PM, fleetwood_macncheese@... mailto:fleetwood_macncheese@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: Thanks for the time machine. I was very influenced by bands like CCR (Fortunate Son), The Who, and Jefferson Airplane/Starship (Volunteers), by their uncompromising voice for change. Some bands only had a single or an album that made it big (ex: White Bird), but all of it was fresh and new, and there was a lot to choose from. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... mailto:noozguru@... wrote : The link to the Laurel Canyon site is interesting and brought back many memories. However I wouldn't call Laural Canyon the birth of the Hippie Movement. There beatniks before that and of course bohemians WAY before that even. Tim Leary never mentioned drugs during his at the event my band opened. He talked about enlightenment and ways (other than drugs) of achieving it. Music always pushes the edge, many of the rock musicians in the 60s bands had jazz backgrounds so we put a little jazz into the music, as much as we could get away with. Thus it had a very ethereal sound. Record companies looked for bands who were a little ahead of the time. As for the protest songs they were what the record companies would let them get away with. For What It's Worth like the blog writer points out was about a clash with the police over a popular coffee house. A lot of the rock musicians were around 2-4 years older than myself and indeed some had done a stint in the military. But other than getting to see the world a little it had little impact on their music. Of course a lot of my fellow musicians were sons and daughters of dads who had served in WWII. And some knew people in high places which kept them from getting busted with drugs by getting tipped when they were hot. ;-) On 11/04/2014 12:36 PM, 'Richard J. Williams' punditster@... mailto:punditster@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: On 11/4/2014 1:22 PM, Bhairitu noozguru@... mailto:noozguru@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: Back in the late 1960s during the psychedelic era there were all kinds of crooks trying to pull mind control on folks We always suspected this and my theory is that the hippie movement was infiltrated by outside agents in a mass effort to program the whole hippie community into falling down into a rabbit hole of confusion and ribaldry so as to self-destruct. First they sent out informants like Tim Leary to try and talk us into taking psychedelic substances so as to alter our consciousness. Then, they sent in the rock singers to get us into a trance state with loud rhythm music and liberal lyrics. So, with the hippies all stoned out and getting programmed by the rock music, they became like robots controlled through suggestion and brain-washing. I mean, have you actually read the lyrics of some of those 60's protest songs? There is something happening here. What it is ain’t exactly clear. There's a man with a gun over there. - Stephen Stills It is interesting that many of the late sixties rock singers were military brats and all connected to the U.S. military. In some cases, the rock singers were previously actually in the U.S. Military. For example, Jim Morrison's father was a U.S. Navy admiral in Vietnam and Frank Zappa was a former Air Force Airman. This list of these military brats goes on and on. Go figure. The Strange but Mostly True Story of Laurel Canyon Birth of the Hippie Generation http://tinyurl.com/klpfdtv
[FairfieldLife] Mind Control, was 7 Techniques to Handle Toxic People
On 11/4/2014 1:22 PM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife] wrote: Back in the late 1960s during the psychedelic era there were all kinds of crooks trying to pull mind control on folks We always suspected this and my theory is that the hippie movement was infiltrated by outside agents in a mass effort to program the whole hippie community into falling down into a rabbit hole of confusion and ribaldry so as to self-destruct. First they sent out informants like Tim Leary to try and talk us into taking psychedelic substances so as to alter our consciousness. Then, they sent in the rock singers to get us into a trance state with loud rhythm music and liberal lyrics. So, with the hippies all stoned out and getting programmed by the rock music, they became like robots controlled through suggestion and brain-washing. I mean, have you actually read the lyrics of some of those 60's protest songs?/ There is something happening here. What it is ain’t exactly clear. There's a man with a gun over there. - Stephen Stills /It is interesting that many of the late sixties rock singers were military brats and all connected to the U.S. military. In some cases, the rock singers were previously actually in the U.S. Military. For example, Jim Morrison's father was a U.S. Navy admiral in Vietnam and Frank Zappa was a former Air Force Airman. This list of these military brats goes on and on. Go figure. *The Strange but Mostly True Story of Laurel Canyon Birth of the Hippie Generation* http://tinyurl.com/klpfdtv http://tinyurl.com/klpfdtv
Re: [FairfieldLife] Mind Control, was 7 Techniques to Handle Toxic People
The link to the Laurel Canyon site is interesting and brought back many memories. However I wouldn't call Laural Canyon the birth of the Hippie Movement. There beatniks before that and of course bohemians WAY before that even. Tim Leary never mentioned drugs during his at the event my band opened. He talked about enlightenment and ways (other than drugs) of achieving it. Music always pushes the edge, many of the rock musicians in the 60s bands had jazz backgrounds so we put a little jazz into the music, as much as we could get away with. Thus it had a very ethereal sound. Record companies looked for bands who were a little ahead of the time. As for the protest songs they were what the record companies would let them get away with. For What It's Worth like the blog writer points out was about a clash with the police over a popular coffee house. A lot of the rock musicians were around 2-4 years older than myself and indeed some had done a stint in the military. But other than getting to see the world a little it had little impact on their music. Of course a lot of my fellow musicians were sons and daughters of dads who had served in WWII. And some knew people in high places which kept them from getting busted with drugs by getting tipped when they were hot. ;-) On 11/04/2014 12:36 PM, 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: On 11/4/2014 1:22 PM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife] wrote: Back in the late 1960s during the psychedelic era there were all kinds of crooks trying to pull mind control on folks We always suspected this and my theory is that the hippie movement was infiltrated by outside agents in a mass effort to program the whole hippie community into falling down into a rabbit hole of confusion and ribaldry so as to self-destruct. First they sent out informants like Tim Leary to try and talk us into taking psychedelic substances so as to alter our consciousness. Then, they sent in the rock singers to get us into a trance state with loud rhythm music and liberal lyrics. So, with the hippies all stoned out and getting programmed by the rock music, they became like robots controlled through suggestion and brain-washing. I mean, have you actually read the lyrics of some of those 60's protest songs?/ There is something happening here. What it is ain’t exactly clear. There's a man with a gun over there. - Stephen Stills // /It is interesting that many of the late sixties rock singers were military brats and all connected to the U.S. military. In some cases, the rock singers were previously actually in the U.S. Military. For example, Jim Morrison's father was a U.S. Navy admiral in Vietnam and Frank Zappa was a former Air Force Airman. This list of these military brats goes on and on. Go figure. *The Strange but Mostly True Story of Laurel Canyon Birth of the Hippie Generation* http://tinyurl.com/klpfdtv
Re: [FairfieldLife] Mind Control, was 7 Techniques to Handle Toxic People
Thanks for the time machine. I was very influenced by bands like CCR (Fortunate Son), The Who, and Jefferson Airplane/Starship (Volunteers), by their uncompromising voice for change. Some bands only had a single or an album that made it big (ex: White Bird), but all of it was fresh and new, and there was a lot to choose from. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote : The link to the Laurel Canyon site is interesting and brought back many memories. However I wouldn't call Laural Canyon the birth of the Hippie Movement. There beatniks before that and of course bohemians WAY before that even. Tim Leary never mentioned drugs during his at the event my band opened. He talked about enlightenment and ways (other than drugs) of achieving it. Music always pushes the edge, many of the rock musicians in the 60s bands had jazz backgrounds so we put a little jazz into the music, as much as we could get away with. Thus it had a very ethereal sound. Record companies looked for bands who were a little ahead of the time. As for the protest songs they were what the record companies would let them get away with. For What It's Worth like the blog writer points out was about a clash with the police over a popular coffee house. A lot of the rock musicians were around 2-4 years older than myself and indeed some had done a stint in the military. But other than getting to see the world a little it had little impact on their music. Of course a lot of my fellow musicians were sons and daughters of dads who had served in WWII. And some knew people in high places which kept them from getting busted with drugs by getting tipped when they were hot. ;-) On 11/04/2014 12:36 PM, 'Richard J. Williams' punditster@... mailto:punditster@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: On 11/4/2014 1:22 PM, Bhairitu noozguru@... mailto:noozguru@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: Back in the late 1960s during the psychedelic era there were all kinds of crooks trying to pull mind control on folks We always suspected this and my theory is that the hippie movement was infiltrated by outside agents in a mass effort to program the whole hippie community into falling down into a rabbit hole of confusion and ribaldry so as to self-destruct. First they sent out informants like Tim Leary to try and talk us into taking psychedelic substances so as to alter our consciousness. Then, they sent in the rock singers to get us into a trance state with loud rhythm music and liberal lyrics. So, with the hippies all stoned out and getting programmed by the rock music, they became like robots controlled through suggestion and brain-washing. I mean, have you actually read the lyrics of some of those 60's protest songs? There is something happening here. What it is ain’t exactly clear. There's a man with a gun over there. - Stephen Stills It is interesting that many of the late sixties rock singers were military brats and all connected to the U.S. military. In some cases, the rock singers were previously actually in the U.S. Military. For example, Jim Morrison's father was a U.S. Navy admiral in Vietnam and Frank Zappa was a former Air Force Airman. This list of these military brats goes on and on. Go figure. The Strange but Mostly True Story of Laurel Canyon Birth of the Hippie Generation http://tinyurl.com/klpfdtv
Re: [FairfieldLife] Mind, was Curtis's declining brain functioning
Richard, was this the same philosophy professor whose final exam was one word:
Why?
The only student who got an A+ for the exam responded: Why not?
From: 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, November 2, 2014 12:50 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Mind, was Curtis's declining brain functioning
On 11/2/2014 6:19 AM, nablusoss1008 wrote:
Progress is based on how much the individual is able to challenge his
individual karma which to varying degree is resisting change. Every Teacher
knows you can't just push a button and then all of a sudden you are alright.
Maharishi said that inspiring stuff to inspire, not that he for a minute
believed it was possible for everyone knowing how much internal resistence
there can be in a student. Same With Yogananda, same with all Teachers.
Progress is the responsebility of the individual, not the Teacher. Blaming the
teacher just expose an immature soul.
Sometimes you learn things not through words but by actions.
In my Philosophy 101 class the teacher asked everyone if they thought things
move or were static - I said something like thoughts don't move, that ideas and
thoughts are just point-instants in the mind or something like that.
The teacher wadded up a page of notebook paper and threw it at me hitting me
on the head. Go figure.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote :
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote :
The anger and self-loathing the naysayers have is based on that.
It doesn't trouble you that Willytex is talking complete and utter bollocks
as usual? Why can't you follow your own arguments?
Not having much progress after years of practise is based on how their brains
are wired and general karma.
So the technique isn't as effective as claimed? If everyone thinks that, why
do you get annoyed when someone points it out?
Then they blame the teacher for their misery and end up using an internet
forum to vent their anger. What a joke.
Misery? It's the people with sense of internal logical consistency I feel
sorry for round here. If you were still a devotee after all that time,
striving for something you already had, I would honestly think that it was
maybe you that had a serious mental condition.
That we are already enlightened isn't Marshy's teaching, that's just Willy's
make believe to excuse his own lack of evolution. You guys ought to own the
knowledge and stop contradicting yourselves all the time. Steve even thinks
that he isn't the same as me and MJ even though he doesn't believe it all
either!
When was the last time a True Believer made sense round here? Go figure...
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote :
On 10/31/2014 5:15 PM, salyavin808 wrote:
I was angry, because I honestly thought that someone in his condition should
not be allowed to appear like that in public without help or any sort of
explanation, what were they thinking over in Vlodrop?
Over here in the USA, your prejudice is called ageism and it is unlawful.
Everyone is free tor say whatever they want, regardless of their age. The real
question is not what were they thinking over in Vlodrop - the question is, what
were you thinking watching Maharishi videos after twenty years of not getting
the enlightenment?
You still sound angry - probably because you didn't get enlightened in 5-7
years, or even 20.
If you were still a devotee after all that time, striving for something you
already had, I would honestly think that it was maybe you that had a serious
mental condition.
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[FairfieldLife] Mind, was Curtis's declining brain functioning
On 11/2/2014 6:19 AM, nablusoss1008 wrote: Progress is based on how much the individual is able to challenge his individual karma which to varying degree is resisting change. Every Teacher knows you can't just push a button and then all of a sudden you are alright. Maharishi said that inspiring stuff to inspire, not that he for a minute believed it was possible for everyone knowing how much internal resistence there can be in a student. Same With Yogananda, same with all Teachers. Progress is the responsebility of the individual, not the Teacher. Blaming the teacher just expose an immature soul. /Sometimes you learn things not through words but by actions. // // //In my Philosophy 101 class the teacher asked everyone if they thought things move or were static - I said something like thoughts don't move, that ideas and thoughts are just point-instants in the mind or something like that. // // //The teacher wadded up a page of notebook paper and threw it at me hitting me on the head. Go figure./ ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : / The anger and self-loathing the naysayers have is based on that. / / / /It doesn't trouble you that Willytex is talking complete and utter bollocks as usual? Why can't you follow your own arguments?/ / / /Not having much progress after years of practise is based on how their brains are wired and general karma. / / / So the technique isn't as effective as claimed? If everyone thinks that, why do you get annoyed when someone points it out? / / /Then they blame the teacher for their misery and end up using an internet forum to vent their anger. What a joke. / / / Misery? It's the people with sense of internal logical consistency I feel sorry for round here. //If you were still a devotee after all that time, striving for something you already had, I would honestly think that it was maybe you that had a serious mental condition.// // // That we are already enlightened isn't Marshy's teaching, that's just Willy's make believe to excuse his own lack of evolution. You guys ought to own the knowledge and stop contradicting yourselves all the time. Steve even thinks that he isn't the same as me and MJ even though he doesn't believe it all either! When was the last time a True Believer made sense round here? Go figure... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote : On 10/31/2014 5:15 PM, salyavin808 wrote: I was angry, because I honestly thought that someone in his condition should not be allowed to appear like that in public without help or any sort of explanation, what were they thinking over in Vlodrop? //Over here in the USA, your prejudice is called ageism and it is unlawful. Everyone is free tor say whatever they want, regardless of their age. /The real question is not what were they thinking over in Vlodrop - the question is, what were you thinking watching Maharishi videos after twenty years of not getting the enlightenment? / /You still sound angry - probably because you didn't get enlightened in 5-7 years, or even 20. / If you were still a devotee after all that time, striving for something you already had, I would honestly think that it was maybe you that had a serious mental condition./// // /
[FairfieldLife] Mind Control and Trance, was The Meissner Effect
On 8/20/2014 7:57 PM, Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: then it needs to be applied universally - plenty of people have defamed me, YOU are not a real person - everyone knows that /Michael Jackson/ is dead - you are just a straw man put up because you are easy to knock down. You are a mere plant reporting back to a science writer. YOU don' exist except as a figment of your own imagination - a legend in your own mind. If you worked on staff at MIU like you claim, then you ARE the TMO. Is there anything you can say that would prove you are not still under their mind control? How did you get out of that pod without them catching you and forcing you back into the bakery? Everyone knows they have a fence around the golden dome. You didn't just walk out of that dome on your own - they probably sent you, programmed to wake up thirty years later and start trying to put us in reverse mind control by posting false flag messages to confuse us. Barry, Curtis, Edg, Sal and so on - and who was it suggested that we, the neganauts be killed with drone strikes? *From:* dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Wednesday, August 20, 2014 8:54 PM *Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] The Meissner Effect of Consciousness and its spiritual Darshan The Dawn of a New Age There should be rules against posting willful malicious defamation like MJ quite evidently does publicly on the internet, as on FFL. Actually there are some group rules: “*Don't be unkind. *Exploitative or degrading comments are not welcome in Groups. Also not welcome are belligerence, insults, slurs, profanity.. ” Yep, MJ's is pure and methodical malicious defamation of a spiritual people and group, with intent. Punditster writes MJ: You sound kind of defensive this morning! Why not just admit that you are a fink and an informant trying to cause trouble by planting false-flag messages and reporting to Barry the science writer? Go figure. His just saying that good peer-review published science on meditation and spirituality is no good is evident ignorant hogwash. It is part of his defaming of TM pure and simple. What he publishes is not even grey-water, it is pure straight manure runoff. -Buck Look, his first facts as premise in these recent attempts at historical fiction are simply wrong. For instance, Bevan actually has lost weight. -Buck MJ posts innuendo? Way more than that, what MJ posts is pure and straight defamation. -Buck sharelong60writes: Michael, you used innuendo to make two very damaging allegations about a leader of the TMO. I simply asked if you were actually accusingthat person of those allegations. punditster writes: salyavin808 wrote: sharelong60 writes: Michael, it sounds like you're accusing John Cowig of starting that fire. Are you? How would a court see it? If it wasn't just a load of mythologising crap dreamt up by someone in the TMO that is. I'm just going to accuse someone, somewhere of bullshitting. If Marshy could see into the future I think the TMO would have worked out a /lot /differently... Straw man argument. For those unfamiliar with the term, /a straw man argument/ is a common type of argument that someone brings out to intentionally misrepresent the original topic of the argument. If two people are arguing and one person is losing dramatically, they may attempt to subtly change what the argument was about in the first place. The logic is that, if the person can't win the argument on his or her own merits while discussing the original topic, perhaps they would have better luck by changing the topic being talked about altogether. It's a common tactic among the anonymous people who argue about religion on social media. mjackson74 writes: 20 minutes before the fire started??? How the hell did he know it was going to start in 20 minutes unless he started it himself? And wasn't it nice of him to make sure the meditators got out but not the non-meditators? True age of enlightenment behavior. *From:* nablusoss1008 no_re...@yahoogroups.com mailto:no_re...@yahoogroups.com *To:*
[FairfieldLife] Mind reading by machine?
This is amazing. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2591882/We-know-thinking-Groundbreaking-mind-reading-experiment-reconstructs-faces-people-looking-brain-scans.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2591882/We-know-thinking-Groundbreaking-mind-reading-experiment-reconstructs-faces-people-looking-brain-scans.html
[FairfieldLife] Mind?
I'd like to learn what was Maharishi's definition of mind (citta, manas), if any!
[FairfieldLife] Mind over matter?
It is said he should've been dead long ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmy_Kilmister http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZrntE3vNe8 (Blimey, that drummer is RELY DRUNKEN?? LoL!)
[FairfieldLife] Mind boggling!?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rISjBGOtHhs :D
Re: [FairfieldLife] Mind-To-Mind vs. Personality-To-Personality
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0j2dVuhr6s From: Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, January 4, 2013 5:08:57 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Mind-To-Mind vs. Personality-To-Personality Turq, I think your analysis is a good starting point but would have to be filled out a bit to reflect the richness of writing styles that one encounters on FFL. I'm thinking a 3x3 grid. Predominant content: ideas, people, events. Predominant style: Mental, emotional, somatic. Even such a schematic does not do justice to the writing of many posters here. And just to throw another ingredient in the stew, I do think there is a general difference between men and women both in style and content. Lastly, if we were to do a little experiment, all write anonymously on the same topic, leaving out any of our go to phrases like Richard's Go figure and LOL, I bet many of us could identify each other's writing. From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, January 4, 2013 3:34 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Mind-To-Mind vs. Personality-To-Personality OK, now here's a potentially interesting topic for discussion. Or, at least I think it might be onewhich is several people on this forum's cue to click Next now. :-) What triggered this rap was noticing that some on this forum seem to repeatedly try to turn the discussions between themselves and other posters into Personality-To-Personality discussions. Such people seem to thrive on finding out as much as possible about the other people's lives and families and backstories and presentstories as possible, and basically interacting on a very personal and thus personality-driven level, as if they would if they met face-to-face. Not that there's anything wrong with that. It's just that I'm comparing and contrasting this approach to communication on the Net -- which is, after all, a remarkably NON-face-to-face medium -- to other approaches I've seen on other Net forums, and occasionally on this one. That latter approach is, as I see it, more based in Mind-To-Mind than it is Personality-To-Personality. Those who pursue this latter approach seem to relate to others almost as if they're really communicating Mind-To-Mind, on the *level* of Mind and Ideas, without all of that Personality-To-Personality shit getting in the way. NOT that either approach is better than the other, or superior to any other. I just noticed the different approaches tonight, that's all. Carry on...it's just a rap...
Re: [FairfieldLife] Mind-To-Mind vs. Personality-To-Personality
Well, this makes more sense. I couldn't figure out what Turq and Share were saying in this exchange; I'll try harder. From: Bob Price bobpri...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, January 5, 2013 9:36 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Mind-To-Mind vs. Personality-To-Personality http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0j2dVuhr6s From: Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, January 4, 2013 5:08:57 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Mind-To-Mind vs. Personality-To-Personality Turq, I think your analysis is a good starting point but would have to be filled out a bit to reflect the richness of writing styles that one encounters on FFL. I'm thinking a 3x3 grid. Predominant content: ideas, people, events. Predominant style: Mental, emotional, somatic. Even such a schematic does not do justice to the writing of many posters here. And just to throw another ingredient in the stew, I do think there is a general difference between men and women both in style and content. Lastly, if we were to do a little experiment, all write anonymously on the same topic, leaving out any of our go to phrases like Richard's Go figure and LOL, I bet many of us could identify each other's writing. From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, January 4, 2013 3:34 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Mind-To-Mind vs. Personality-To-Personality OK, now here's a potentially interesting topic for discussion. Or, at least I think it might be onewhich is several people on this forum's cue to click Next now. :-) What triggered this rap was noticing that some on this forum seem to repeatedly try to turn the discussions between themselves and other posters into Personality-To-Personality discussions. Such people seem to thrive on finding out as much as possible about the other people's lives and families and backstories and presentstories as possible, and basically interacting on a very personal and thus personality-driven level, as if they would if they met face-to-face. Not that there's anything wrong with that. It's just that I'm comparing and contrasting this approach to communication on the Net -- which is, after all, a remarkably NON-face-to-face medium -- to other approaches I've seen on other Net forums, and occasionally on this one. That latter approach is, as I see it, more based in Mind-To-Mind than it is Personality-To-Personality. Those who pursue this latter approach seem to relate to others almost as if they're really communicating Mind-To-Mind, on the *level* of Mind and Ideas, without all of that Personality-To-Personality shit getting in the way. NOT that either approach is better than the other, or superior to any other. I just noticed the different approaches tonight, that's all. Carry on...it's just a rap...
[FairfieldLife] Mind-To-Mind vs. Personality-To-Personality
OK, now here's a potentially interesting topic for discussion. Or, at least I think it might be onewhich is several people on this forum's cue to click Next now. :-) What triggered this rap was noticing that some on this forum seem to repeatedly try to turn the discussions between themselves and other posters into Personality-To-Personality discussions. Such people seem to thrive on finding out as much as possible about the other people's lives and families and backstories and presentstories as possible, and basically interacting on a very personal and thus personality-driven level, as if they would if they met face-to-face. Not that there's anything wrong with that. It's just that I'm comparing and contrasting this approach to communication on the Net -- which is, after all, a remarkably NON-face-to-face medium -- to other approaches I've seen on other Net forums, and occasionally on this one. That latter approach is, as I see it, more based in Mind-To-Mind than it is Personality-To-Personality. Those who pursue this latter approach seem to relate to others almost as if they're really communicating Mind-To-Mind, on the *level* of Mind and Ideas, without all of that Personality-To-Personality shit getting in the way. NOT that either approach is better than the other, or superior to any other. I just noticed the different approaches tonight, that's all. Carry on...it's just a rap...
Re: [FairfieldLife] Mind-To-Mind vs. Personality-To-Personality
Turq, I think your analysis is a good starting point but would have to be filled out a bit to reflect the richness of writing styles that one encounters on FFL. I'm thinking a 3x3 grid. Predominant content: ideas, people, events. Predominant style: Mental, emotional, somatic. Even such a schematic does not do justice to the writing of many posters here. And just to throw another ingredient in the stew, I do think there is a general difference between men and women both in style and content. Lastly, if we were to do a little experiment, all write anonymously on the same topic, leaving out any of our go to phrases like Richard's Go figure and LOL, I bet many of us could identify each other's writing. From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, January 4, 2013 3:34 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Mind-To-Mind vs. Personality-To-Personality OK, now here's a potentially interesting topic for discussion. Or, at least I think it might be onewhich is several people on this forum's cue to click Next now. :-) What triggered this rap was noticing that some on this forum seem to repeatedly try to turn the discussions between themselves and other posters into Personality-To-Personality discussions. Such people seem to thrive on finding out as much as possible about the other people's lives and families and backstories and presentstories as possible, and basically interacting on a very personal and thus personality-driven level, as if they would if they met face-to-face. Not that there's anything wrong with that. It's just that I'm comparing and contrasting this approach to communication on the Net -- which is, after all, a remarkably NON-face-to-face medium -- to other approaches I've seen on other Net forums, and occasionally on this one. That latter approach is, as I see it, more based in Mind-To-Mind than it is Personality-To-Personality. Those who pursue this latter approach seem to relate to others almost as if they're really communicating Mind-To-Mind, on the *level* of Mind and Ideas, without all of that Personality-To-Personality shit getting in the way. NOT that either approach is better than the other, or superior to any other. I just noticed the different approaches tonight, that's all. Carry on...it's just a rap...
Re: [FairfieldLife] mind boggling
On 08/25/2012 02:54 PM, Vaj wrote: On Aug 25, 2012, at 12:14 AM, awoelflebater no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: So Xeno writes the other day to Judy: I feel Barry is more spiritually advanced than Robin This alone made my head spin. But just, for example, take a look at Robin's commentary to Emily after she took his quiz yesterday (post 317866) and explain to me how you could possibly argue for this point Xeno. What exactly is your definition of spiritual? Maybe it is something I don't want to aspire to or can view as a positive thing if that is your assessment. If spirituality has anything whatsoever to the quality of heart, openness, willingness to understand, desire to be transformed by truth and life, sensitivity to other living creatures then, dear Xeno, I think you have miscalculated badly - your assertion has missed the mark. Thanks Ann! That was the correct answer! You win the Clueless Guru Enabler Award for 2012 - congratulations! Yes, Ann you’ll stand side by side with the person who poured the punch in Guyana for Jim Jones, the Srivistava thugs that threatened the Kaplans and the priest who collected young boys for Sai Baba! Now these are some big shoes to fill Ann, I’m not sure if you’re up to it. While many past Guru Enablers were forced to wile away countless days in prisons or recovery units, you’re unique in that you’re still somewhat functional - and the only one (so far) declared Demonic by a Catholic version of Werner Erhard (someone cue the Keith Jarrett...). Bravo! You forgot Squeaky Fromme. ;-) To subscribe, send a message to: fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com 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: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: fairfieldlife-dig...@yahoogroups.com fairfieldlife-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: fairfieldlife-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [FairfieldLife] mind boggling
Emily Reyn: I found that an interesting statement, to say the least. Here is a snip to Judy from Xeno that partially addressed the statement. Have a good one. Actually, Curtis is probably the most spiritually advanced, at least on this list. He's creative and seems to be a lot smarter than either Robin or Barry - the proof has been already posted, so anyone who wants to can read it can do so. I'm impressed with Curtis's music and writing and he seems to be one of the more qualified TMers posting here. Apparently Curtis got a degree from MUM and was the president of a TMO facility for many years. Of all the respondents on this group, Curtis is more believeable with stattus claims in the TMO. I have a hard time imagining Barry being a spiritual teacher and Vaj doesn't even seem to be a TMer. BillyG seems to be an authentic TM Teacher - I wouldn't be surprised if Billy is still in good relations with the SRM! Apparently, I'm the only TMer posting here that still does program in large groups at a Golden Dome. Go figure. And how did you do on the test Judy? In his absence I gave Barry 100% by taking the test for him. I feel Barry is more spiritually advanced than Robin, and if I had to pick him or Robin as a teacher, Barry would be the better choice because he does not care who I am, and would not put up with spiritual nonsense from me. That does not mean he would be the best teacher for me, just more useful than Robin. At any time in one's life, a teacher, a book, a movie, any experience that moves you along even if that source is just a tenth fraction more 'advanced' than you, it does the job. A great master, if such exist certainly would be useful if one can be found, but as long as progress is made anything will do. In the end progress is illusory but that is the cosmic joke. The punch line of spirituality takes longer to get than any other joke in the universe, at least as far as humans are concerned. The butt of the joke is personal ontology. thought I was the only TMer posting here
Re: [FairfieldLife] mind boggling
Hi Richard, Buck is in the men's Dome and I'm in the women's in Fairfield. Mr. Soss seems to be a TMer as does Ms. RaunchyD. Not sure of anyone else. Does anyone really care who's most creative or most spiritually advanced? What does it matter? Either you enjoy someone's writing or you don't. Why does it have to be more than that? I love Xeno's point that anyone or anything can be a spiritual teacher. In fact I'd go so far as to say everyone and everything is a spiritual teacher. Ken Keyes used to say that everything in life is either for our enjoyment or our growth. I love the simplicity of that. Share From: Richard J. Williams rich...@rwilliams.us To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2012 9:05 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] mind boggling Emily Reyn: I found that an interesting statement, to say the least. Here is a snip to Judy from Xeno that partially addressed the statement. Have a good one. Actually, Curtis is probably the most spiritually advanced, at least on this list. He's creative and seems to be a lot smarter than either Robin or Barry - the proof has been already posted, so anyone who wants to can read it can do so. I'm impressed with Curtis's music and writing and he seems to be one of the more qualified TMers posting here. Apparently Curtis got a degree from MUM and was the president of a TMO facility for many years. Of all the respondents on this group, Curtis is more believeable with stattus claims in the TMO. I have a hard time imagining Barry being a spiritual teacher and Vaj doesn't even seem to be a TMer. BillyG seems to be an authentic TM Teacher - I wouldn't be surprised if Billy is still in good relations with the SRM! Apparently, I'm the only TMer posting here that still does program in large groups at a Golden Dome. Go figure. And how did you do on the test Judy? In his absence I gave Barry 100% by taking the test for him. I feel Barry is more spiritually advanced than Robin, and if I had to pick him or Robin as a teacher, Barry would be the better choice because he does not care who I am, and would not put up with spiritual nonsense from me. That does not mean he would be the best teacher for me, just more useful than Robin. At any time in one's life, a teacher, a book, a movie, any experience that moves you along even if that source is just a tenth fraction more 'advanced' than you, it does the job. A great master, if such exist certainly would be useful if one can be found, but as long as progress is made anything will do. In the end progress is illusory but that is the cosmic joke. The punch line of spirituality takes longer to get than any other joke in the universe, at least as far as humans are concerned. The butt of the joke is personal ontology. thought I was the only TMer posting here
Re: [FairfieldLife] mind boggling
On Aug 25, 2012, at 12:14 AM, awoelflebater no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: So Xeno writes the other day to Judy: I feel Barry is more spiritually advanced than Robin This alone made my head spin. But just, for example, take a look at Robin's commentary to Emily after she took his quiz yesterday (post 317866) and explain to me how you could possibly argue for this point Xeno. What exactly is your definition of spiritual? Maybe it is something I don't want to aspire to or can view as a positive thing if that is your assessment. If spirituality has anything whatsoever to the quality of heart, openness, willingness to understand, desire to be transformed by truth and life, sensitivity to other living creatures then, dear Xeno, I think you have miscalculated badly - your assertion has missed the mark. Thanks Ann! That was the correct answer! You win the Clueless Guru Enabler Award for 2012 - congratulations! Yes, Ann you’ll stand side by side with the person who poured the punch in Guyana for Jim Jones, the Srivistava thugs that threatened the Kaplans and the priest who collected young boys for Sai Baba! Now these are some big shoes to fill Ann, I’m not sure if you’re up to it. While many past Guru Enablers were forced to wile away countless days in prisons or recovery units, you’re unique in that you’re still somewhat functional - and the only one (so far) declared Demonic by a Catholic version of Werner Erhard (someone cue the Keith Jarrett...). Bravo!
Re: [FairfieldLife] mind boggling
*OMG..run, Vaj, the liar's back..* On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Vaj vajradh...@earthlink.net wrote: ** On Aug 25, 2012, at 12:14 AM, awoelflebater no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: So Xeno writes the other day to Judy: I feel Barry is more spiritually advanced than Robin This alone made my head spin. But just, for example, take a look at Robin's commentary to Emily after she took his quiz yesterday (post 317866) and explain to me how you could possibly argue for this point Xeno. What exactly is your definition of spiritual? Maybe it is something I don't want to aspire to or can view as a positive thing if that is your assessment. If spirituality has anything whatsoever to the quality of heart, openness, willingness to understand, desire to be transformed by truth and life, sensitivity to other living creatures then, dear Xeno, I think you have miscalculated badly - your assertion has missed the mark. Thanks Ann! That was the correct answer! You win the Clueless Guru Enabler Award for 2012 - congratulations! Yes, Ann you’ll stand side by side with the person who poured the punch in Guyana for Jim Jones, the Srivistava thugs that threatened the Kaplans and the priest who collected young boys for Sai Baba! Now these are some big shoes to fill Ann, I’m not sure if you’re up to it. While many past Guru Enablers were forced to wile away countless days in prisons or recovery units, you’re unique in that you’re still somewhat functional - and the only one (so far) declared Demonic by a Catholic version of Werner Erhard (someone cue the Keith Jarrett...). Bravo!
[FairfieldLife] mind boggling
So Xeno writes the other day to Judy: I feel Barry is more spiritually advanced than Robin This alone made my head spin. But just, for example, take a look at Robin's commentary to Emily after she took his quiz yesterday (post 317866) and explain to me how you could possibly argue for this point Xeno. What exactly is your definition of spiritual? Maybe it is something I don't want to aspire to or can view as a positive thing if that is your assessment. If spirituality has anything whatsoever to the quality of heart, openness, willingness to understand, desire to be transformed by truth and life, sensitivity to other living creatures then, dear Xeno, I think you have miscalculated badly - your assertion has missed the mark.
Re: [FairfieldLife] mind boggling
I found that an interesting statement, to say the least. Here is a snip to Judy from Xeno that partially addressed the statement. Have a good one. And how did you do on the test Judy? In his absence I gave Barry 100% by taking the test for him. I feel Barry is more spiritually advanced than Robin, and if I had to pick him or Robin as a teacher, Barry would be the better choice because he does not care who I am, and would not put up with spiritual nonsense from me. That does not mean he would be the best teacher for me, just more useful than Robin. At any time in one's life, a teacher, a book, a movie, any experience that moves you along even if that source is just a tenth fraction more 'advanced' than you, it does the job. A great master, if such exist certainly would be useful if one can be found, but as long as progress is made anything will do. In the end progress is illusory but that is the cosmic joke. The punch line of spirituality takes longer to get than any other joke in the universe, at least as far as humans are concerned. The butt of the joke is personal ontology. From: awoelflebater no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 9:14 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] mind boggling So Xeno writes the other day to Judy: I feel Barry is more spiritually advanced than Robin This alone made my head spin. But just, for example, take a look at Robin's commentary to Emily after she took his quiz yesterday (post 317866) and explain to me how you could possibly argue for this point Xeno. What exactly is your definition of spiritual? Maybe it is something I don't want to aspire to or can view as a positive thing if that is your assessment. If spirituality has anything whatsoever to the quality of heart, openness, willingness to understand, desire to be transformed by truth and life, sensitivity to other living creatures then, dear Xeno, I think you have miscalculated badly - your assertion has missed the mark.
[FairfieldLife] Mind and Life XXIV
Mind and Life XXIV: An Insider View By David Vago, Ph.D. I woke up the morning of April 24, 2012 thinking, “There will not be many days like this in my life. I will be giving a talk to His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, along with five of my Contemplative Science colleagues and friends.” My heart fills with joy and gratitude when I think about the opportunity. The six of us represented hundreds of young investigators, like ourselves, all inspired by the Dalai Lama. The meeting was particularly significant because, after 25 years of dialogue with His Holiness, it was the first time junior-level investigators were given the opportunity to share their research with him. We represent a new generation of scientists who are willing to examine some of the more difficult and even taboo aspects of deep contemplative transformation. As such, we are right in the center of an emerging paradigm shift for science. All aspects of basic and clinical science and society are now infused with mindfulness. Mindfulness represents more than its literal definition. It represents the paradigm shift towards investigating the mind from the first-person perspective—the new introspection. It is the key to the door of consciousness for all scientists to explore and the public to embrace for mental health. His Holiness’ Feedback The six of us were chosen to represent the Francisco J. Varela Awards program, the primary catalyst for seeding the field with young scientists investigating contemplative practice. Each of us brought something unique to the table from all across the globe. The room was filled with board members and guests surrounding us like proud parents and transmitting their wisdom. His Holiness was very attentive and present with each one of us as we took turns presenting our most relevant research in the short amount of time allotted. Although brief, the conference was a humbling honor. One by one, we filled our 20 minutes completely, summarizing our findings in only a few slides, and the feedback from His Holiness was invaluable. To each of us, he provided some sense of recognition and appeared to place high importance on the work we all are doing. I kept thinking that if His Holiness thought my models of Mindfulness are “quite good,” I should be able to provide my reviewers with that reference! He ended our time together with a lasting set of strongly emphasized remarks that none of us will be able to dismiss. With a firm finger he pointed to each one of us and led the charge like a football coach before the big game. He said that each one of us is responsible for reducing suffering in this world. We must continue doing rigorous research for the benefit of the world. I guess we know what we’ll be doing for the next 35 years! Truly inspiring. Mind and Life XXIV presenters: Thorsten Barnhofer, Ph.D., Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College, London (on effect of mind training on depression); thorsten.barnho...@psych.ox.ac.uk Willoughby Britton, Ph.D., Brown University Medical School (on the nature and phenomenology of meditation-related difficulties); willoughby_brit...@brown.edu Norman Farb, Ph.D., Rothman Research Institute, Philodelphia (on distinct brain systems supporting conscious experience); nor...@aclab.ca Baljinder Sahdra, Ph.D., University of Western Sydney, Australia (on effect of nonattachment); b.sah...@uws.edu.au David Vago, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School/Brigham Women’s Hospital (Process models for specific meditative practices that cultivate mindfulness); dv...@partners.org Helen Weng, M.S., University of Wisconsin, Madison (on the effects of compassion meditation on the brain and altruistic behavior); hw...@wisc.edu
[FairfieldLife] Mind/Body Therapy
Mind-body medicine recognises our thoughts play a significant role in establishing and restoring our health. Such a thought-body link-up has been widely explored and documented by scientific researchers, most notably through studies into the placebo effect the effective use of dummy treatments with no inherent chemical value... Read more: 'Could the mind play a bigger role in healthcare?' The Independent UK, Monday, 26 March 2012 http://tinyurl.com/7vkek77 http://tinyurl.com/7vkek77 http://www.magerempowerment.com/v2/blog/?p=313 'Mind/Body Therapy Improves Wellness' http://www.magerempowerment.com/v2/blog/?p=313 http://www.magerempowerment.com/v2/blog/?p=313
[FairfieldLife] Mind Meld
by Dennis Larkins http://www.startlingart.com/Viewer.asp?ImageSource=fine_artFileName=Mind_Meld-150res
[FairfieldLife] Mind-Modeling
One of Rama's sayings that I still believe is useful was about the value of admiration. He taught that focusing on another person and admiring their good qualities was a useful spiritual tool, because this process caused those same qualities to grow in us. I think this is true. What you focus on you become. Unfortunately, IMO there is a potential down side to this, for example when you focus on another person who has many admirable good qualities, but also a host of...uh...less good qualities. Do you pick *them* up as well as a result of focusing on them? Do these lesser traits start to grow in you the same way the admirable qualities do? I think the answer is Yes. Maharishi used to speak in terms of learning to think like him, and I don't think I'm alone here in saying that we managed to do so. You pretty much had to to be a full-time TM teacher, or work on staff. It was like a subtle (rarely conscious but often subconscious) TM form of What would Jesus do? as practiced by Christians. You'd model your thinking and to some extent your actions based on what you'd seen in your teacher. Ditto with Rama. He actually had a buzz-phrase for this process, and called it mind-modeling. Is it any surprise then, years later, that I look at lists of DSM-IV traits used to diagnose things like Narcissistic Personality Disorder, traits that to me seem to apply to spiritual teachers I have known, and notice that I've picked up more than a few of those same traits? Duh. Yes, I picked up some admirable things from focusing on Maharishi and Rama for all those years, but I think I picked up a lot of their baggage as well. Add that to my own baggage, and I'm pretty convinced that I'll never run out of things to work on in my mindfulness practice. :-) What do you guys think? Can you identify with this at all? If so, are there things you feel that you picked up from Maharishi or other spiritual teachers, as a result of mind-modeling, using them as models? This phenomenon explains much about the spiritual marketplace to me, and how clerks at the Bodhi Tree bookstore, for instance, can nail which teacher a customer studies with just by looking at them and talking with them. They're relating the ways that the students look and talk to the teachers themselves, and looking for elements of mind-modeling. If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, they might say, chances are it studies with Swami Duckananda.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Mind-Modeling
Excellent topic. Some mind-modeling I may have done with Maharishi and Krishnamurtii: 1. The power of costume. If you want to close a deal in the eastern hemisphere make sure your tie is well into three figures. Although my closet is now filled with expensive suits I never wear I learned from M K at a young age the power of appearance in a commercial negotiation and many other kinds of transactions. As an expat I was amazed how much final outcomes were impacted by appearance. I have no doubt, I would not have been able to take my first two wives hostage if I'd dressed the way I dress now. 2. Be humble in dealings with Arabs, Asians and Brits. I learned from MK to treat all transactions with these ethnic groups as a learning experience and if I started thinking I was getting the upper hand in a transaction I needed reconsider what I was smoking or drinking at the time. In a negotiation, not only do these groups not: leave anything on the table”, as often as not, if you’re not being humble, they don't bother to even leave the table which you would swear was there a minute ago. And not to forget when Maharishi obtained his degree, India was the British Raj and the theosophists bought K the best British education money could buy although some of the Dons at Oxford wondered out loud if he was retarded. 3. Function follows form. Contrary to everything I was taught as a child, I learned from MK that what I say is so much less important than how I say it. That the silver tongued devil always gets the worm no matter what time he gets out of bed. My theory is that it was when they first met the Brits that the Chinese started referring to Caucasians as Guai Lo (white devils). 4.A good story is much more important than the company you keep. I have no idea what I believe or don't believe about what Maharishi taught me---after 40 years its a work in progress. That said, I mind-modeled from MK's behaviour that a a good story is much more important than the company you keep. As an example, I would point out the fact that someone too the right of Attila the Hun (Maharishi) was able to convince someone to the left of Trotsky (John Lennon) to spent time with him in India near a river with a lot of bugs and terrible food based on a story about a place called The Absolute. Of course you could point out that with to attainment of a knighthood and billionaire status for Macca and Yoko Lennon's socialism was pretty soft centred to start with. 5. Most people do not want the burden of taking responsibility for themselves. I learned from MK that most people would prefer you to agree with them than burden them with the truth. Also that there are pots of money to be made offering people a system, or non system in the case of K, that allows them to avoid all the nasty bits of their existence. Things like fear, boredom, stupidity, failure, homeliness, betrayal, intolerance, and resentment (I think I'll stop this one here since I want to send this post today). 6. Money is the only meaningful metric for valuing a human being. When I met MK I was a committed hippy and by the time our association ended seven years later I was a Reaganaut who thought the only way to get to heaven was with a platinum AMEX, a gold Rolex and the best looking car ---or wife---in the garage. If food, clothing, shelter and the people you hang with are indicators---than everything about MK screamed money and commerce. I’m embarrassed to admit I was well into my forties before I realized that money has nothing to do with the rarity of an individual and irony of irony billionaires are a better indicator of the end of a civilization then its advancement. Anyone who has traveled knows there are no shortage of wealthy people in Mexico, India and the Philippines although there is a very visible shortage of the type of middle class that made this country what it is. 7. Extremism in the defence of consciousness is no vice! It was not until I was older that I realized thatnothing new under the sun” also applied to MK hanging with elites and in M's case extreme right wing nut jobs. That it was no coincidence that Hitler and many in the National Socialists (talk about CD in a party name) stole the swastika from the east, were vegetarians, believed in astrology and generally put a premium on most eastern spirituality. At one time or other MK helped my mind model itself on many of these fronts, including politics, -although I was a bit of a punter with the right wing stuff. From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 4:16:45 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Mind-Modeling One of Rama's sayings that I still believe is useful was about the value of admiration. He taught that focusing on another person and admiring their good qualities was a useful spiritual tool, because this process caused those same qualities to grow in us. I think
[FairfieldLife] Mind Games
From: The Lennon Sutras We're playing those mind games together Pushing barriers, planting seeds Playing the mind guerilla Chanting the Mantra: Peace on Earth We all been playing mind games forever Some kinda druid dude's lifting the veil. Doing the mind guerilla Some call it the search for the grail Love is the answer and you know that for sure Love is flower you got to let it you got to let it grow So keep on playing those mind games together Faith in the future outta the now You just can't beat on those mind guerillas Absolute elsewhere in the stones of your mind Yeah we're playing those mind games forever Projecting our images in space and in time Yes is the answer and you know that for sure Yes is the surrender you got to let it you got to let it go, So keep on playing those mind games together Doing the ritual dance in the sun... Millions of mind guerrillas... Putting their soul power to the karmic wheel, Keep on playing those mind games forever, Raising the spirit of peace and love, not war, (I want you to make love, not war, I know you've heard it before)
[FairfieldLife] Mind of an Entrepeneur
Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, speaks about his ideas. He's a good example of how to be creative with the least effort. And, he does not like to have the government get involved in any business endeavors. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpZEmpOwPkgfeature=related
RE: [FairfieldLife] Mind of an Entrepeneur
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of John Sent: Friday, July 30, 2010 5:15 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Mind of an Entrepeneur Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, speaks about his ideas. He's a good example of how to be creative with the least effort. And, he does not like to have the government get involved in any business endeavors. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpZEmpOwPkg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpZEmpOwPkgfeature=related feature=related Malcolm Gladwell devoted a chapter to him in The Tipping Point.
[FairfieldLife] Mind Life Autumn newsletter
link to download 22 Years of Achievement Mind and Life Dialogues The titles of these dialogues between the Dalai Lama and leading scientists show the range of topics that the Mind and Life Institute has explored. For more details on these conferences, please go to www.mindandlife.org. Mind and Life Institute • 7007 Winchester Circle, Suite 100 • Boulder, CO 80301 Phone: 303-530-1940 • Email: i...@mindandlife.org • Website: www.mindandlife.org © Copyright 2009 The Mind and Life Institute. All Rights Reserved. •2010: Altruism and Compassion in Economic Systems: A Dialogue at the Interface of Economics, Neuroscience and Contemplative Sciences, co-sponsored by the University of Zurich •2009: Educating World Citizens for the 21st Century: Educators, Scientists and Contemplatives Dialogue on Cultivating a Healthy Mind, Brain and Heart, co-sponsored by Harvard University Graduate School of Education, Stanford University School of Education, Pennsylvania State University College of Education, University of Virginia Curry School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education, George Washington University Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, University of Michigan School of Education, the American Psychological Association and the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning •2009: Attention, Memory, and the Mind •2008: Latest Findings in Contemplative Neuroscience •2008: Investigating the Mind-Body Connection: The Science and Clinical Applications of Meditation, hosted by Mayo Clinic •2007: Mindfulness, Compassion and the Treatment of Depression, co-sponsored by Emory University •2007: The Universe in a Single Atom •2005: Investigating the Mind: The Science and Clinical Applications of Meditation, co-sponsored by Johns Hopkins Medical University and Georgetown Medical Center •2004: Neuroplasticity: The Neuronal Substrates of Learning and Transformation •2003: Investigating the Mind: Exchanges between Buddhism and Biobehavioral Science on How the Mind Works, co-sponsored by the McGovern Institute at Massachusetts Institute of Technology •2002: The Nature of Matter, The Nature of Life •2001: Transformations of Mind, Brain and Emotion at the University of Wisconsin •2000: Destructive Emotions •1998: Epistemological Questions in Quantum Physics and Eastern Contemplative Sciences at Innsbruck University •1997: The New Physics and Cosmology •1995: Altruism, Ethics, and Compassion •1992: Sleeping, Dreaming, and Dying •1990: Emotions and Health •1989: Dialogues between Buddhism and the Neurosciences •1987: Dialogues between Buddhism and the Cognitive Sciences Mind and Life Research Initiatives • Mind and Life Summer Research Institute — A week-long residential science retreat for 200 scientists, clinicians, contemplative scholar/practitioners and philosophers from around the world, working together to develop new fields of science and studies that examine the effects of contemplative practice and mental training on brain, behavior, philosophy, religious studies and the humanities. This is an annual program of the Mind and Life Institute and was begun in June, 2004, and has continued yearly since then. • Mind and Life Francisco J. Varela Research Grant Program— providing small research grants to investigate hypotheses developed at the ML Summer Research Institute. 10 to 15 Varela Awards are given yearly. • Mind and Life Education Research Network— exploring how to bring the benefits of mental training in clarity, calmness and kindness to children. • Mind and Life Education Research Network Grant Program— providing research grants for pilot studies designed to address fundamental issues related to the measurement, feasibility, ande effects of mindfulness-based programs designed for children, adolescents, and their teachers.
[FairfieldLife] Mind boggling word for the day: Bugchasing
Came across a word today while discussing a new HIV Phase I trial. When the question of who would volunteer for the clinical trials arose, someone volunteered the bugchasers. No, these aren't kids who chase after fireflies with bottles at night. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bug_chasers It is a diverse world.
[FairfieldLife] Mind and Life Institute Overview
Today, in the first decade of the 21st century, science and spirituality have the potential to be closer than ever...May each of us, as a member of the human family, respond to the moral obligation to make this collaboration possible. This is my heartfelt plea. -His Holiness the Dalai Lama http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2qrZKlop24
[FairfieldLife] Mind and Life 18
Over the next five days, for five and a half hours a day, His Holiness the Dalai Lama and 10 scientists, philosophers, scholars and contemplatives from North America, Europe and India will sit together in an intimate dialogue entitled: Mind and Life XVIII: Attention, Memory and Mind: A Synergy of Psychological, Neuroscientific, and Contemplative Perspectives. Mind and Life staff members are blogging from the event. Please visit the blog regularly for updates as it unfolds this week: www.mindandlife.org/blog . You are welcome to post comments, share the blog with others, sign up for RSS feeds which will alert you to new blog updates, and create a link from your web site to the blog. This historic meeting is the 18th in a series of international science dialogues that have been organized by the Mind and Life Institute, www.mindandlife.org , which was co-founded by the Dalai Lama in 1987. From very modest beginnings, the Mind and Life Institute has become a world leading organization, stimulating the scientific research on the effects of meditation and contemplative practice on the mind and brain and in the prevention and treatment of disease. These dialogues have also contributed toward a deep engagement between modern science and the world's living contemplative traditions, especially Buddhism. Future Mind and Life dialogues are planned for Washington DC in October, 2009. Please visit the event web site at www.EducatingWorldCitizens.org ; Zurich, Switzerland in April 2010 and New Delhi in November 2010.
[FairfieldLife] 'Mind over Matter Experiment'
http://theintentionexperiment.ning.com/
[FairfieldLife] Mind control websites
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/13/fashion/13psych.html
Re: [FairfieldLife] Mind control websites
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 4:46 PM, bob_brigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/13/fashion/13psych.html Myself, I don't like watching football. I can't stand it when the team goes into a huddle and talks about me.
[FairfieldLife] Mind Reading (: Trancenet Alert!)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John M. Knapp, LMSW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In cognitive therapy attributing thoughts, feelings, and motives to others is called mind reading. It's considered a cognitive distortion. It's thought to lead to pain and dysfunction for a lot of people. Can you elaborate on that? Its a key point that appears to me to be a root of the negative harping that occurs here. In life also, but I find an unusually high ratio here. And are you had formal training in or involved with cognitive therapy professionally? Any thoughts on why those connected to TM and TMO past or present still have these tendencies -- and perhaps more so than average relative to the larger population? Education doesn't appear to diminish it -- surprisingly. I wonder if the feeling of knowingness brings greater gullibility and confidence that one actually cann accurately thoughts, feelings, and motives of people that they have never met, have no serious information on background etc. All from some posts. Greater than average gullibility may be a common characteristic of long termers in the TMO. I wonder if that characteristic -- if it is actually greater than normal, contributes to that SIMS assuredness and even arrogance that one actually knows another's thoughts, feelings, and motives without knowing the person well (and even then its quite iffy). Or do you find yourself becoming angry, even unhappy? When some are told their Kreskin like abilities to remotely read the minds of strangers is corrected by the subject -- anger does seem to arise -- name calling and even more mind reading -- imputing more and deeper motives or internal ills to the person.
[FairfieldLife] Mind Medicine
http://www.alumni.berkeley.edu/California/200803/ellison.aspMind medicineBY KATHERINE ELLISONScientists have launched the largest study to date on whether meditation can produce positive changes in the brain, right down to the molecular level.At the Shambhala Mountain Center, a 600-acre Buddhist retreat nestled at 8,000 feet in the Colorado Rockies, UC Davis neuroscientist Clifford Saron and his team were busy gathering what amounted to more than 2,300 hours of data from physiological tests and interviews. Ambling outside, smiling blissfully despite the chilly late-year winds, were a few of the research subjects themselves—members of a group totaling 64, from the United States, Thailand, the Netherlands, and points in between.On the Road to Shambhala: It may look like Tibet, but the Great Stupa of Dharmakaya (top left) is actually located high in the Colorado Rockies, at the Shambhala Mountain Center (above), where scientists are conducting extensive tests (top right) to better understand the effect of meditation on the brain.Stupa, Meditation: Adeline Von Waning; Electrodes: Courtesy of Clifford Saron.The scientists and their guinea pigs converged in this small valley just south of the Wyoming border, in a locale best known for the 108-foot-tall Great Stupa of Dharmakaya, a sacred Buddhist monument that is the largest of its kind in North America. For 3 months—from September to December—and for as many as 12 hours a day, participants paid some extraordinary attention to attention. They learned to focus on the flow of their breath, donning rubber skullcaps wired with dozens of electrodes to test their cognitive and emotional skills, while samples of their blood and saliva were periodically taken.A researcher at the Center for Mind and brain, Saron and his crew—including the study's contemplative director, B. Alan Wallace, a popular Buddhist author and former translator for the Dalai Lama—invested their time and more than $1 million in research funding. They examined whether meditation can lead to lasting changes in a subject's well-being—changes visible right down to a person's molecular makeup. Preliminary results show the intensive training did indeed improve performance, as compared with a control group, for both short-term and sustained attention, Saron says.The study, called the Shamatha Project after a Tibetan school of meditation training, represents the most comprehensive research yet performed on the effect of meditation on the mind. The project turned a patch of semi-wilderness into ground zero for a new wave of Western enthusiasm with East Asian meditative practices, just as scientists at leading U.S. universities, including Berkeley, are beginning to focus on "positive" sentiments such as concentration, love, and compassion."Meditation has been demystified, to the point where it is now being studied very seriously by very serious scientists," says Berkeley psychology professor Robert Levenson, a Shamatha Project consultant. In recent years, Levenson has carried out his own research into meditation, including blasting a French Buddhist monk with noise to gauge his startle reflex. (The reflex was there, Levenson reports, but significantly muted by some meditation techniques.)continues...
[FairfieldLife] MIND SET: A tribute to Maharishi -- Chopra
Printed from The Times of India -Breaking news, views. reviews, cricket from across India MIND SET: A tribute to Maharishi 10 Feb 2008, 0009 hrs IST Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was a great sage (TOI Photo) It was in 1985, two years after a trip to Rishikesh, that I got an opportunity to meet Maharashi. A young psychologist at Harvard, who was doing a study on the benefits of Transcendental Meditation for older people, told me about Maharishi's visit to America for a conference after several years. My wife, Rita and I decided to attend it. It was a dark auditorium with over five hundred people and we, with great difficulty, managed to get a glimpse of the Maharishi. He was on the stage, dressed in white silk and seated in the lotus position on a divan. He rarely stirred, and even from a distance, one could see the immaculate stillness in him. As he talked, he gestured with a flower in his hand. His voice was unusually varied, rising and falling, often breaking out in a laugh. He spent several hours discussing the revival of Ayurveda with various doctors and Indian pundits. It sounded interesting, but we had a plane to catch. As discreetly as we could, Rita and I walked out. On our way out, we stopped for a glass of water, then began to make our way through the lobby. At that moment, the doors to the hall opened and out came Maharishi. He walked fast and a group of people trailed behind him, but without warning he veered away from where they were going, towards the elevator and walked right up to Rita and me. He picked out a long-stemmed red rose from the flower bouquet he was holding and handed it to Rita, then picked another and handed it to me. Can you come up? he asked us. Feeling a little dazed, I looked over at Rita. We were both thinking about our flight home half an hour later. I didn't know what to say. We have a plane to catch, Maharishi, I said. He laughed. Oh, can't you come up? he said again. We decided to go and upstairs we found ourselves in a conference room decorated from floor to ceiling in pink. We sat on overstuffed pink chairs; Maharishi sat in the lotus position on a white divan, the only non-pink furniture in the room. Rita and I had seen his picture many times, so he seemed familiar to us already, except that his untrimmed monk's beard now had a wider ribbon of white in the middle. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi is a name that suggests a story. Like kabir, maharishi, is a word. It combines maha or great and rishi or sage. The part of the name that we would call a given name is Mahesh. And yogi means in union. A man named Mahesh has attained union and become a great sage. As he chatted with us, I could not even think of paying attention to anyone else. Without any effort, my mind had fallen silent. No thoughts moved through it, and there wasn't the usual ricochet of stray impressions - just silence. This seemed an extraordinary pleasant state to be in, because I felt completely unself. I felt no desire to look important or to impress Maharishi. I could have even sat sky-clad and not been embarrassed. Maharishi asked us about what we did and I said that I was a doctor and that I had practiced TM for four years. He then asked, Do you know a lot about Ayurveda? I shook my head. You should learn, he said, because it is such a simple way of approaching medicine. Everything around us is change, but it all takes place against a background that is unchanging. Against everything in the relative world is a background of the absolute. Ayurveda says that behind mortality is the aspect of immortality. The goal of Ayurveda is to restore this multiplicity to that absolute, to unity. Consciousness is our link back to the unchanging, he explained, because our consciousness rises from the absolute in the same way that plants, rocks, and all physical things arise. The raw material for everything in the universe is consciousness. Nature thinks the way we do, he said. Maharishi said, Everything is orderly because everything is intelligence. Food is intelligence and the plants are intelligence. What we take in as nourishment we convert to our own intelligence. Sickness is interrupted intelligence, but we can bring it back into line. That's all we do from our side. Nature takes care of it. Listening to Maharishi was a remarkable experience. He was stitching together, very simply and deftly, a new world. After a few hours our meeting came to an end. As a parting gesture he very carefully picked out two more roses. He must have scrutinised a dozen before he found the right ones. He asked us to give them to our children. We took one last glimpse of him in the pink room, and the next minute we were alone in the elevator. As happy as Rita and I felt, our thoughts turned to the plane that had taken off two hours earlier. On an impulse, we went to the airport anyway. There were no later flights, we were told, but by chance, all the earlier flights had been delayed on the eastern corridor, and our plane was
[FairfieldLife] Mind vs. Brain
In an article in the NY Times magazine today about the growing role that neuroscience is playing in law, Stephen J. Morse, professor of law and psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania, is quoted as saying: I'm a thoroughgoing materialist, who believes that all mental and behavioral activity is the causal product of physical events in the brain. Fair enough. But he's also quoted as follows: Suppose neuroscience could reveal that reason actually plays no role in determining human behaviorSuppose I could show you that your intentions and your reasons for your actions are post hoc rationalizations that somehow your brain generates to explain to you what your brain has already done without your conscious participation. Who is the you to whom the brain is purportedly offering this explaination? Who is the you who is not consciously participating in what the brain generates? Don't Morse's references to this mysterious you constitute an implicit recognition that there's *more* to mind than brain, contradicting his thoroughgoing materialist self-characterization? Maybe he was just speaking imprecisely to make a point. And without your conscious participation is the article writer's contribution, possibly a clumsy paraphrase of something Morse went on to say to clarify the quoted statement. But I'm intrigued. I've seen this sort of apparent contradiction from materialists before, as if some part of them *knew* there was a you that isn't encompassed by brain but had simply excluded it from their theorizing, only to let it slip out in unguarded moments.
[FairfieldLife] mind reading
O lny srmat poelpe can raed tihs. I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat l tteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! Ifyoucan raed tihs psastion !! __._,_.___ To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch to Fully Featured Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe __,_._,___
Re: [FairfieldLife] 'Mind War by Valley/Aquino- How We Got Brainwashed on Iraq'
Is this by the famous Satanist Michael Aquino, founder of the infamous Temple of Set? Are you a follower of his? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Aquino On May 8, 2006, at 7:26 AM, Robert Gimbel wrote: Excerpt from Mind War... 'The impact of even these minor techniques of MindWar was remarkable. A psychological climate of enexorable U.S. victory was created and sustained in both the United States and Iraq, which accelerated that victory on the ground. From: From PSYOP to Mind War: The Psychology of Victory By Colonel Paul E.Valley (foxnews.com) Major Michael A. Aquino (ret) PSYOP Research Analysis Team Leader To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS Maharishi university of management Maharishi mahesh yogi Ramana maharshi YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[FairfieldLife] Mind Modelling
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: The interesting thing about this discussion is that according to MMY, he took this same path with Guru Dev of attuning one's thinking to that of the teacher. If it's true that when you do this, you take on all the qualities of mind of the teacher, what does that say about the qualities of MMY's mind that are so often criticized here? Go back and read the discussion. No one ever suggested that it was an all-or-nothing process, or that everyone is successful at modeling the mind of their teacher. I know that all I meant to suggest is that it's something that one works at over a long period of time -- years, or decades. And not everyone is successful at doing it. I would suggest that Maharishi wasn't particularly successful at doing it, since one of his first actions after Guru Dev's death was to not obey what he'd told him to do (that is, go into seclusion, and not teach). In addition, the effects of mind-modeling only last so long. After almost fifty years, I suspect that Maharishi has had an opportunity to pick up a few kinks of his own. :-) I take a different slant on mind modelling. It has little if anyting to do with content. Its a process of structuring freedom, of dissolving all inner boundaries, attachments and sanskaras. When that is done, content happens. It may be like the teachers', it may be a quite new angle. Ricks example of those around him now I think is false. They are works in progress. Better examples are SSRS. Perhaps Chopra. For more finsihed works. Look at the holy tradition. Was each master a clone of his master? Hardly, it seems. What is passed down is consciousness awakened to itself. Content is not the thing. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM ~- 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: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Mind Life Institute Conference With Dalai Lama On Science and Clinical Applications of Meditation
Mind Life Institute Conference With Dalai Lama On Science and Clinical Applications of Meditation Nov. 8-10 In Washington DC; Georgetown and Johns Hopkins Co-Sponsor Mind Life Institute, Co-Founded by the Dalai Lama, Says Summer Research Institute Explores Mind, Behavior Brain Function to Nurture Scientific Exploration PRWeb Press Release Newswire July 13, 2005 Adam Engle, Chairman and co-founder with the Dalai Lama of the Mind and Life Institute, said meditation is used in treatment of stress, pain and other chronic diseases but applications only touch the surface. Washington, DC (PRWEB) July 13, 2005 -- The Mind and Life Institute announced that the Mind Life XIII: The Science and Clinical Applications of Mediation public dialogue with the Dalai Lama and leading scientists is set for November 8-10 in Washington DC at the DAR Constitution Hall. Adam Engle, Chairman and co-founder with the Dalai Lama of the Mind and Life Institute, said, Meditation has begun to be used in the treatment of stress, pain and other chronic diseases, but the applications have only touched the surface. The conference will build on the growing interest in meditation in medicine and biomedical science. Leaders in science and related disciplines will share their views with the Dalai Lama and the public. The Mind Life XIII conference is co-sponsored by Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Georgetown University Medical Center. The public meeting is expected to attract thousands, including members of science and related disciplines and the general public interested in practices of meditation by Buddhists and other contemplatives relating to the data and disciplines of Western science. The November meeting will be the second public dialogue with the Dalai Lama. The previous 11 private conferences took place in India, Europe and the United States since 1987 and seven books have been published about those discussions. In 2003, The McGovern Institute at MIT co-sponsored the first public meeting, held on the MIT campus. The XIV Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, gave a directional challenge to the Mind and Life Institute to explore the means by which people can create and maintain a healthy mind. A recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, he is regarded worldwide for his leadership about universal responsibility, love, compassion and kindness. The Dalai Lama feels through a better understanding of meditation and scientific applications that people can be helped to find inner happiness and lead to a more peaceful world. He will be traveling to the United States from his home in India and will remain in the U.S. for a short time after the Mind and Life Institute meeting for other engagements, including a major speech at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience and a public talk at the MCI Center in Washington DC. The Dalai Lama is head of the Tibetan government-in-exile and is revered as the leader of Tibetan Buddhism. Engle said, With the advent of sophisticated brain imaging technology, the area of science investigating the brain and mind is growing exponentially and is where genomic research was decades ago. The potential applications for the benefit of mankind are plentiful. When the Dalai Lama co-founded the Mind and Life Institute to give direction and momentum to this area of scientific exploration of meditative practices, he opened vistas of opportunity for individuals and society. The Mind and Life Institute is a non-profit organization dedicated to creating a working collaboration and research partnership between modern science and Buddhism and other contemplative traditions to better understand the nature of reality and investigating the mind. About the Sponsor and Co-sponsors The Mind and Life Institute, based in Boulder, CO, is a 501 C3 non-profit organization co-founded in 1987 by the Dalai Lama, entrepreneur Adam Engle and an acclaimed neuroscientist, the late Franciso J. Varela, to create a rigorous dialogue and research collaboration between modern science and Buddhism. The Mind and Life Institute operates through four divisions: Meetings and Dialogues, Publications, Scientific Education and Research Grants and Sponsorship. Since 2000, the focus of MLI has been the creation of a new interdisciplinary field of science that asks and answers the question: how do we create and maintain a healthy mind? For more information visit the websites, www.mindandlife.org and www.investigatingthemind.org or contact Brian Dobson at Dobson Communications at 203-894-9240. Georgetown University Medical Center is an internationally recognized academic medical center in Washington, DC, with a three-part mission of research, teaching and patient care (through its partnership with MedStar Health). Its mission is carried out with a strong emphasis on public service and a dedication to the Catholic, Jesuit principle of cura personalis-or care of the whole person. The Medical Center includes the
[FairfieldLife] Mind
Right NOW... First there is an I -- then there is no I -- then there is. Second there is a mind--then there is no mind--then there is. Third there is a mountain--then there is no mountain--then there is. Right NOW... or NOT! 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: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
