Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: How I learned TM

2005-12-29 Thread Peter
--- Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 12/28/05 6:08 PM, sparaig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did he ever go 12-step? TM is wonderful, yadda, yadda, but MMY often (always?) added that it was good to address specific illnesses with medicine (and other treatments) rather than use

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: How I learned TM

2005-12-29 Thread Rick Archer
on 12/29/05 8:05 AM, Peter at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 12/28/05 6:08 PM, sparaig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did he ever go 12-step? TM is wonderful, yadda, yadda, but MMY often (always?) added that it was good to address specific illnesses

[FairfieldLife] Re: How I learned TM

2005-12-28 Thread feste37
Nice. Here's my story. When I started TM in the 1960s I was a high school dropout, smoking 20 cigarettes a day, drinking, working in a dead-end office job. You could say I was heading for a life of exceptional mediocrity. Within 4 months of starting TM (which cost me one week's wages, by the

[FairfieldLife] Re: How I learned TM

2005-12-28 Thread authfriend
I didn't notice any particularly dramatic changes after starting TM, but my father apparently did. A lifelong, card-carrying Americans for Democratic Action liberal, he declared that henceforward he would vote for any politician who practiced TM, *even if s/he were a Republican*. You'd have had

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: How I learned TM

2005-12-28 Thread Rick Archer
on 12/28/05 10:09 AM, authfriend at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I didn't notice any particularly dramatic changes after starting TM, but my father apparently did. A lifelong, card-carrying Americans for Democratic Action liberal, he declared that henceforward he would vote for any politician

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: How I learned TM

2005-12-28 Thread Rick Archer
on 12/28/05 10:59 AM, jim_flanegin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ended up dying by falling down drunk and hitting his head on the sidewalk. Just curious if you ever sense his presence now that he is gone? The day he died, I didn't know he had died, but I was having an extraordinarily blissful

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: How I learned TM

2005-12-28 Thread Rick Archer
on 12/28/05 11:31 AM, authfriend at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sorry to hear that, Rick, that's very sad. At least he had some happiness from TM in the meantime. He was one of those troubled geniuses. A gifted professional artist - irrepressively creative in many ways in addition to his

[FairfieldLife] Re: How I learned TM

2005-12-28 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I didn't notice any particularly dramatic changes after starting TM, but my father apparently did. A lifelong, card-carrying Americans for Democratic Action liberal, he declared that henceforward he would vote for any

[FairfieldLife] Re: How I learned TM

2005-12-28 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 12/28/05 11:31 AM, authfriend at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sorry to hear that, Rick, that's very sad. At least he had some happiness from TM in the meantime. He was one of those troubled geniuses. A

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: How I learned TM

2005-12-28 Thread Rick Archer
on 12/28/05 11:55 AM, authfriend at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Damn. How *anyone* can handle the horrors of war is beyond me. You must have to kill part of yourself in order to be able to kill others. In a sense it's to his credit--if not his benefit--that he couldn't handle it. Probably

[FairfieldLife] Re: How I learned TM

2005-12-28 Thread bbrigante
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 12/28/05 4:49 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I learned TM on August 22nd 1970. I pursued a degree in engineering and went to work for NASA. After working on the Shuttle for three years and

[FairfieldLife] Re: How I learned TM

2005-12-28 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 12/28/05 10:09 AM, authfriend at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I didn't notice any particularly dramatic changes after starting TM, but my father apparently did. A lifelong, card-carrying Americans for Democratic

[FairfieldLife] Re: How I learned TM

2005-12-28 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 12/28/05 4:49 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I learned TM on August 22nd 1970. I pursued a degree in engineering and went to work for NASA. After working on the Shuttle for three years and

[FairfieldLife] Re: How I learned TM

2005-12-28 Thread lurkernomore20002000
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I learned TM on August 22nd 1970. I pursued a degree in engineering and went to work for NASA. After working on the Shuttle for three years and designing the o-rings I moved on and went to work for Firestone Tire. My design

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: How I learned TM

2005-12-28 Thread Rick Archer
on 12/28/05 6:08 PM, sparaig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did he ever go 12-step? TM is wonderful, yadda, yadda, but MMY often (always?) added that it was good to address specific illnesses with medicine (and other treatments) rather than use TM as a cure-all (at least inthe short-run). He

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: How I learned TM

2005-12-28 Thread Rick Archer
on 12/28/05 6:07 PM, shempmcgurk at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Weren't the o-rings the cause of the Challenger disaster? I think Columbus was the later disaster, caused by damage to tiles... You're right. I had the names mixed up. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor

[FairfieldLife] Re: How I learned TM

2005-12-27 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just wrote this to a friend. Thought I¹d get more mileage of out it and post it here: I had been aware of enlightenment for about a year and seeking it in a muddled way through drugs. One night I was tripping on