[FairfieldLife] Life at the speed of light
Craig Ventner just delivered a lecture stating that his company can now send human chromosomes through light transmission. So, it is possible that human beings can be sent by radio signals to another planet outside our solar system. This could be how humans in the future can colonize other galaxies without ever riding on a rocket ship. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVkPgOg7hAw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVkPgOg7hAw
[FairfieldLife] Life and Death
Hope it is all right to post this here, I myself think it fits but if the owner/moderator wants just delete this. You see, I use mantra healing, herbs, Reiki, and more. But what to do when death is on the doorstep? This is my spiritual blog where I express a recent serious life issue I had [the near loss of newborn grandchild!], and how I dealt with it, how others may find some benefit. To take or leave. Thanks: "In the Mahabharata the question is asked, What is the most wonderful thing? [Wonderful meaning surprising or filled with wonder.] The reply given was, Family, friends, and so on are dying all around everyone, yet each person thinks they themselves shall not die. This does not mean logically we do not think it. We all know with our intellect we must die. Rather, we too often live our life as if" https://harekrishnablogging.blogspot.com/2017/12/life-and-death.html https://harekrishnablogging.blogspot.com/2017/12/life-and-death.html YS, Priitaa dd
[FairfieldLife] Life after a sex cult: 'If I’m not a member of this religion any more, then who am I?'
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/11/children-of-god-church-sex-cult-texas-mexico-fbi https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/11/children-of-god-church-sex-cult-texas-mexico-fbi
[FairfieldLife] Life in the City
I decided to ride the bus to go downtown today. When I got aboard the bus, I asked the bus driver how much the fare was? He said with a smirk in his voice, "it's only $2.25." I said, "pretty soon you guys will be asking for five bucks a ride, " and proceeded to sit on one of the empty seats. Then, an automatic announcement came on in English, Chinese, then in Spanish. After a transfer to ride the light rail train and a few minutes, I eventually made it downtown. I was thinking this was the real life version of the movie, "The Blade Runner", without the eeriness and strange quality of the Hollywood version. Then, I decided to eat dinner at Lefty O'doul's, which is about 50 yards away from the cable car tracks on Powell and Geary street. The bar/restaurant is mostly staffed by Hispanic people with Irish Americans working at the bar. There's a life-size statue of Marilyn Monroe, with her billowing skirt, below the big screen TV screens which were showing the Oscars presentation. I ate and drank a cola with my roast beef dinner, but was not paying attention to the show. When I finished, I walked out of the bar and a black guy asked me what was my nationality. I said, Filipino. Then he asked half-joking, "say, I hear Marcos' son is going to win the the election in your country?" "It's a crazy ass country!" I replied with disgust and without explaining why the deceased dictator's son is predicted to win. I believe it's a form of protest by the people against the present administration of the Philippines which is still mired in poverty and government corruption. But then again, maybe not. I eventually made it home soon after, and opened a bottle of Sierra Nevada beer which I bought at the corner grocery store. I sat down to write this note with the KDFC classical radio station playing the song "Asturias", by Albaniz.
[FairfieldLife] Life in Tibet..
Fascinating article about life on the roof of the world: Forgotten Land, Defiant People - Tibet - Luminous Landscape https://luminous-landscape.com/forgotten-land-defiant-people-tibet/ https://luminous-landscape.com/forgotten-land-defiant-people-tibet/ Forgotten Land, Defiant People - Tibet - Luminous ... https://luminous-landscape.com/forgotten-land-defiant-people-tibet/ Forgotten Land, Defiant People – Tibet Ancient Tibet was comprised of three provinces, U-Tsang, Amdo and Kham. The present day Tibetan Autonomous ... View on luminous-landscape.com https://luminous-landscape.com/forgotten-land-defiant-people-tibet/ Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] Life in Tibet..
IfI were younger, I would love to see Tibet and Bhutan.
From: salyavin808 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com>
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, November 23, 2015 7:08 AM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Life in Tibet..
Fascinating article about life on the roof of the world:
Forgotten Land, Defiant People - Tibet - Luminous Landscape
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Re: [FairfieldLife] Life in Tibet..
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mdixon.6569@...> wrote : If I were younger, I would love to see Tibet and Bhutan. It must be an awesome place to visit. Not sure how I'd cope with the altitude though, or refrain from punching Chinese soldiers! From: salyavin808 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, November 23, 2015 7:08 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Life in Tibet.. Fascinating article about life on the roof of the world: Forgotten Land, Defiant People - Tibet - Luminous Landscape https://luminous-landscape.com/forgotten-land-defiant-people-tibet/ https://luminous-landscape.com/forgotten-land-defiant-people-tibet/ Forgotten Land, Defiant People - Tibet - Luminous ... https://luminous-landscape.com/forgotten-land-defiant-people-tibet/ Forgotten Land, Defiant People – Tibet Ancient Tibet was comprised of three provinces, U-Tsang, Amdo and Kham. The present day Tibetan Autonomous ... View on luminous-landscape.com https://luminous-landscape.com/forgotten-land-defiant-people-tibet/ Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] Life in Tibet..
Same here! I went on Yatra to Badrinath, Kadarnath. Gangotri. Never made it up
to Kadarnath. I had been sick about a week and the altitude was too high for me
and blood pressure too low and that was almost twenty years ago!
From: salyavin808 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com>
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, November 23, 2015 9:29 AM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Life in Tibet..
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mdixon.6569@...> wrote :
If I were younger, I would love to see Tibet and Bhutan.
It must be an awesome place to visit. Not sure how I'd cope with the altitude
though, or refrain from punching Chinese soldiers!
From: salyavin808 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com>
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, November 23, 2015 7:08 AM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Life in Tibet..
Fascinating article about life on the roof of the world:
Forgotten Land, Defiant People - Tibet - Luminous Landscape
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Forgotten Land, Defiant People – Tibet Ancient Tibet was comprised of three
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[FairfieldLife] Life from the stars?
This is cool. The Grand Designer provided his creation with a universal H2O delivery system. How thoughtful is that! Water came on an asteroid to kickstart life on Earth — and it’s happening on other planets http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/water-being-delivered-to-other-planets-in-the-same-way-as-it-was-to-earth-scientists-say-giving-hope-for-life-elsewhere-10232387.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/water-being-delivered-to-other-planets-in-the-same-way-as-it-was-to-earth-scientists-say-giving-hope-for-life-elsewhere-10232387.html Water came on an asteroid to kickstart life on Earth — a... http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/water-being-delivered-to-other-planets-in-the-same-way-as-it-was-to-earth-scientists-say-giving-hope-for-life-elsewhere-10232387.html Asteroids rich in water are flying around the universe — and could have already kicked off life on other worlds. View on www.independent.co.uk http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/water-being-delivered-to-other-planets-in-the-same-way-as-it-was-to-earth-scientists-say-giving-hope-for-life-elsewhere-10232387.html Preview by Yahoo
[FairfieldLife] Life on Mars?
This will be rather amazing if true... Nasa finds evidence of 'life on Mars' http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/nasa-finds-evidence-of-life-on-mars-9929510.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/nasa-finds-evidence-of-life-on-mars-9929510.html Nasa finds evidence of 'life on Mars' http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/nasa-finds-evidence-of-life-on-mars-9929510.html Evidence of life on Mars could have been found by Nasa's Curiosity Rover. View on www.independent.co.uk http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/nasa-finds-evidence-of-life-on-mars-9929510.html Preview by Yahoo
[FairfieldLife] Life from the Burgess shale...
Life on Earth, the 1 billion year story. We are all descended from creatures living in the sea alongside this critter. Now there's a thought... Hallucigenia revealed: The most surreal creature from strangest period in history of life on Earth http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/hallucigenia-revealed-the-most-surreal-creature-from-strangest-period-in-history-of-life-on-earth-9674546.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/hallucigenia-revealed-the-most-surreal-creature-from-strangest-period-in-history-of-life-on-earth-9674546.html Hallucigenia revealed: The most surreal creature from st... http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/hallucigenia-revealed-the-most-surreal-creature-from-strangest-period-in-history-of-life-on-earth-9674546.html If Salvadore Dali were God, he would surely have designed an animal that looked like Hallucigenia. It has been described as the most surreal creature ... View on www.independent.co.uk http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/hallucigenia-revealed-the-most-surreal-creature-from-strangest-period-in-history-of-life-on-earth-9674546.html Preview by Yahoo
[FairfieldLife] Life on Mars
Maybe inside the rocks. Will any of the enlightened members here on FFL comment on this issue? In the meantime, here's the current article discussing this possibility. http://www.examiner.com/article/1976-life-on-mars-controversy-resurrected-new-scientific-report http://www.examiner.com/article/1976-life-on-mars-controversy-resurrected-new-scientific-report
[FairfieldLife] Life in the real world
Is it the best of times or the worst of times? Things aren't so happy in the UK these days. Starved evicted: Britain’s poor now treated worse than animals http://rt.com/op-edge/uk-poor-treated-animals-398/ So it goes during this Mother of All Depressions. Perhaps the folks of PeopleVille have a solution: http://youtu.be/MbgBpldEazo Otherwise this may be the future: http://youtu.be/eaXgXf1bVXs 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: https://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/utos/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Life before birth?
Some interesting research with an interpretation I'm highly dubious of: http://www.psmag.com/kickers/findings-kickers/intuitions-immortality-conception-life-birth-73776/ http://www.psmag.com/kickers/findings-kickers/intuitions-immortality-conception-life-birth-73776/ There is much still to understand about the mind - like how it works - but not so much we need to leap to supernatural conclusions just yet.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Life before birth?
On 2/3/2014 7:32 AM, salyavin808 wrote: There is much still to understand about the mind The problem with reincarnation is that you get the results of your actions in this life and in future lives, but in order for karma to work, you have to have a future life for the retribution. And, obviously you have to have a previous life to get the karma in the first place. So, it's an endless cycle of reciprocity with no beginning and no end. So, in the karma theory, there is causation - everything happens for a reason - without a first cause. The question is - is there a moral reciprocity that works on the mental level of thinking? Go figure.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Life After An EMP Attack: No Power, No Food, No Transportation, No Banking And No Internet
emptybill, I've often thought about moving to a warmer place because I've been in FF when the power goes off in winter at night. Freezing to death holds no appeal! Do you have any plans for yourself and your family? On Sunday, December 8, 2013 4:23 PM, emptyb...@yahoo.com emptyb...@yahoo.com wrote: Life After An EMP Attack: No Power, No Food, No Transportation, No Banking And No Internet By Michael Snyder, on September 19th, 2011 Most Americans do not know this, but a single EMP attack could potentially wipe out most of the electronics in the United States and instantly send this nation back to the 1800s. If a nuclear bomb was exploded high enough in the atmosphere over the middle part of the country, the electromagnetic pulse would fry electronic devices from coast to coast. The damage would be millions of times worse than 9/11. Just imagine a world where nobody has power, most cars will not start, the Internet has been fried, the financial system is offline indefinitely, nobody can make any phone calls and virtually all commerce across the entire country is brought to a complete stop. A nation that does not know how to live without technology would be almost entirely stripped of it at that point. Yes, this could really happen. An EMP attack is America’s “Achilles heel”, and everyone around the world knows it. It is only a matter of time before someone uses an EMP weapon against us, and at this point we are pretty much completely unprepared. The sad thing is that we are spending hundreds of billions of dollars hunting down “terrorists” in caves on the other side of the globe and we have been told that because of “national security” it is necessary for our private areas to be touched before we are allowed to get on an airplane, but our government is doing essentially nothing to address what is perhaps our biggest security vulnerability. What would you and your neighbors do if the power went out and it did not ever come back on? What would you do if an EMP attack happened in the middle of the winter and you suddenly were not able to heat your home any longer? What would you do if all the electronics in your car got fried and you simply could not drive anywhere? What would you do if all the supermarkets in your area shut down because food could not be transported across the country anymore? What would you do if you were suddenly unable to call your family and friends for help? What would you do if you were suddenly unable to get the medicine that you needed? What would you do if your debit cards and credit cards simply did not work any longer and you could not get any of your money out of the bank? What would you do if all of these things happened all at once? A single EMP attack would be the worst disaster that the United States has ever seen by far. An electromagnetic pulse could potentially fry the vast majority of all the microchips in the United States. In an instant, nearly all of our electronic devices would be rendered useless. Yes, the federal government knows all about this. The following excerpt is from an April 2008 report by the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack…. “The consequences of lack of food, heat (or air conditioning), water, waste disposal, medical, police, fire fighting support, and effective civil authority would threaten society itself.” Most of us have become completely and totally dependent on electricity and technology. Without it, most of us would be in huge trouble. The following is how an article in the Wall Street Journal described the potential consequences of an EMP attack…. No American would necessarily die in the initial attack, but what comes next is potentially catastrophic. The pulse would wipe out most electronics and telecommunications, including the power grid. Millions could die for want of modern medical care or even of starvation since farmers wouldn’t be able to harvest crops and distributors wouldn’t be able to get food to supermarkets. Commissioner Lowell Wood calls EMP attack a “giant continental time machine” that would move us back more than a century in technology to the late 1800s. It wouldn’t be so bad if we had the knowledge and the infrastructure to live the way that they did back in the 1800s, but today that is simply not the case. Dr. William Graham was Ronald Reagan’s science adviser and the chairman of the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack. Dr. Graham believes that in the event of a large scale EMP attack, the vast majority of Americans would either freeze, starve or die from disease. According to Graham, in the aftermath of an EMP attack life in America “would probably be something that you might imagine life to be like around the late 1800s but with several times the population we had in those days, and without the ability of the country to support and sustain all those people.” Would
[FairfieldLife] Life is coming from space all the time
[FairfieldLife] Life On Ice Cream Island
As I've probably mentioned before, this month in Paris I'm staying on Île Saint-Louis, which along with the Île de la Cité is one of the two natural islands in the Seine. (There is a third, called Île aux Cygnes, but it's artificial, and does little more than provide a home for swans and the smaller prototype of the Statue Of Liberty.) When I mention that I'm staying on Île Saint-Louis, Parisians look at me the way Los Angelenos might if I'd told them I lived in Beverly Hills. Their impressions of the place are that it's full of rich, snooty people, the only ones who can afford the million-Euro apartments there. Having been here for a week or so, I beg to differ. There may, in fact, *be* a bunch of rich, snooty types living here, but I never see them on the streets. Maybe they're like rich, snooty people in other cities, and only appear on the streets long enough to be picked up by their limos and whisked off somewhere else, but I actually see fewer of them here than I might in areas of the VIth or VIIth arrondissements. The folks I run into in cafés and restaurants (and, you will see if you keep reading, ice cream joints) are pretty normal, everyday French people, *not* ostentatiously rich, and remarkably fun to interact with. The island itself is small, and looks kinda like this: There are really only three streets, and little traffic. There are a few art galleries and stores, two small markets, a number of bars and restaurants. And unlike the rest Paris -- which seems to have a church on every corner, as if the population could not endure being more than a block away from one in case they suddenly develop the need to either pray or donate money to God (whom we all know needs it so badly) -- there is only one large church, Saint-Louis-en-l'Île. The island is named for Saint Louis, otherwise known as King Louis IX of France. He's the only French king recognized by the Catholic Church as a saint, and not being Catholic myself, I'm not sure what he did to deserve this, but I suspect that he is the patron saint of ice cream. Île Saint-Louis is home to Berthillon, which serves what is rightly considered the Best Ice Cream In Paris. It started as one small establishment, but now there are at least a dozen other restaurants on the island that advertise its ice creams on their signs and awnings. Naturally, market forces being what they are, a number of wannabee competitors have appeared on the island as well, selling *their* brands of ice cream, and trying to lure away some of the people who come here daily for their ice cream fix. Ice cream is so much a part of this island's culture that I hear they even use tiny Berthillon cones in the Saint-Louis-en-l'Île Church instead of communion wafers. All of this makes me remember one of my favorite TM stories, which I have related here before (and which actually happened to a former poster here), but which I will shamelessly tell again, because I think it captures so much about the TM mindset. This guy, a TM Governor of the Age of Enlightenment whom we'll call Joe, was on an ATR course in Europe, and found that he just couldn't stomach the hot milk with cardamom he was expected to drink each night after the meeting to speed him on his way to catching the Angel Train. So he developed an alternative routine, walking out the door of his hotel and into the café across the street, where he ordered an ice cream cone. He then took it back to his room and ate it there. At a certain point on this course, This Guy We're Calling Joe suddenly received a summons to appear before the Inquisition. They didn't call it that, of course, but when he walked into the room and saw the row of course leaders wearing their cheap suits and their standard-issue German scowls, he knew he was in Deep Shit. They proceeded to lecture him about his Off The Program behavior, and threatened to not only send him home from the course if he didn't cut it out, but to put a black mark on his permanent record so that he'd never be accepted to any course in the future. At first he was concerned, as any red-blooded TM TB might be as such a terrible karmic prospect, but then he had a kind of satori experience. He suddenly realized that he was sitting in a room being grilled by a bunch of Bliss Nazis and being threatened *for the Sin Of Eating Ice Cream*. He started to laugh uncontrollably, and as I remember the story, just got up and walked out of the room, leaving them to do whatever their little black hearts told them to do. Which turned out to be a big, fat Nothing. Even *they* must have been too embarrassed by their petty tyrant behavior to make it more public. Anyway, THAT was the moment in which Joe stepped away from the TM movement, and began his exit from it. To him, there couldn't have possibly been a clearer demonstration of what it had become, and where it was going, and he wanted no part of either. The very org that had promised the field of all possibilities had become so narrow-minded and so
Re: [FairfieldLife] Life On Ice Cream Island
Excellent Barry, thank you for sharing this - I am entitling it the Epitome of the Movement yet people still don't ask the question How can something that has no negative effects and no downside, something that produces freedom from all problems and gives one the support of all the laws of nature produce people and behavior like this? No one asks and if they do, they blame the people instead of looking twice at the technique (and its original teacher) From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, September 5, 2013 4:50 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Life On Ice Cream Island As I've probably mentioned before, this month in Paris I'm staying on Île Saint-Louis, which along with the Île de la Cité is one of the two natural islands in the Seine. (There is a third, called Île aux Cygnes, but it's artificial, and does little more than provide a home for swans and the smaller prototype of the Statue Of Liberty.) When I mention that I'm staying on Île Saint-Louis, Parisians look at me the way Los Angelenos might if I'd told them I lived in Beverly Hills. Their impressions of the place are that it's full of rich, snooty people, the only ones who can afford the million-Euro apartments there. Having been here for a week or so, I beg to differ. There may, in fact, *be* a bunch of rich, snooty types living here, but I never see them on the streets. Maybe they're like rich, snooty people in other cities, and only appear on the streets long enough to be picked up by their limos and whisked off somewhere else, but I actually see fewer of them here than I might in areas of the VIth or VIIth arrondissements. The folks I run into in cafés and restaurants (and, you will see if you keep reading, ice cream joints) are pretty normal, everyday French people, *not* ostentatiously rich, and remarkably fun to interact with. The island itself is small, and looks kinda like this: There are really only three streets, and little traffic. There are a few art galleries and stores, two small markets, a number of bars and restaurants. And unlike the rest Paris -- which seems to have a church on every corner, as if the population could not endure being more than a block away from one in case they suddenly develop the need to either pray or donate money to God (whom we all know needs it so badly) -- there is only one large church, Saint-Louis-en-l'Île. The island is named for Saint Louis, otherwise known as King Louis IX of France. He's the only French king recognized by the Catholic Church as a saint, and not being Catholic myself, I'm not sure what he did to deserve this, but I suspect that he is the patron saint of ice cream. Île Saint-Louis is home to Berthillon, which serves what is rightly considered the Best Ice Cream In Paris. It started as one small establishment, but now there are at least a dozen other restaurants on the island that advertise its ice creams on their signs and awnings. Naturally, market forces being what they are, a number of wannabee competitors have appeared on the island as well, selling *their* brands of ice cream, and trying to lure away some of the people who come here daily for their ice cream fix. Ice cream is so much a part of this island's culture that I hear they even use tiny Berthillon cones in the Saint-Louis-en-l'Île Church instead of communion wafers. All of this makes me remember one of my favorite TM stories, which I have related here before (and which actually happened to a former poster here), but which I will shamelessly tell again, because I think it captures so much about the TM mindset. This guy, a TM Governor of the Age of Enlightenment whom we'll call Joe, was on an ATR course in Europe, and found that he just couldn't stomach the hot milk with cardamom he was expected to drink each night after the meeting to speed him on his way to catching the Angel Train. So he developed an alternative routine, walking out the door of his hotel and into the café across the street, where he ordered an ice cream cone. He then took it back to his room and ate it there. At a certain point on this course, This Guy We're Calling Joe suddenly received a summons to appear before the Inquisition. They didn't call it that, of course, but when he walked into the room and saw the row of course leaders wearing their cheap suits and their standard-issue German scowls, he knew he was in Deep Shit. They proceeded to lecture him about his Off The Program behavior, and threatened to not only send him home from the course if he didn't cut it out, but to put a black mark on his permanent record so that he'd never be accepted to any course in the future. At first he was concerned, as any red-blooded TM TB might be as such a terrible karmic prospect, but then he had a kind of satori experience. He suddenly realized that he was sitting in a room being grilled
[FairfieldLife] Life in Mumbai (from VICE Ep 5)
Here is a clip from HBO's VICE episode 5 about workers in Mumbai. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc9vOnAPrr4 What the full episode shows is the trophy skyscraper mansions that billionaires there are building. Talk about income disparity. BTW, I've been to Mumbai and can confirm it is the most polluted place on earth and a good place to send climate change deniers for a couple weeks.
[FairfieldLife] Life After Life
Has anyone ever seen MMY after he died? This clip discusses the possibilities of life existing after death. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vD94OtnV5rc
[FairfieldLife] Life After Death book
by Christian apologist Dinesh D'Souza (born in Mumbai, ancestry of Goan origin - Portuguest influence). Relies heavily on Cartesian dualism to say that Descartes and others unwittingly gave philosophical support for an afterlife. ... Also mentions NDE's, saying Blackmore and others fail to account for all of the actual facts. ... Also says that the current multiverse based on string theory is fully consistent with the possibility of life beyond our physical existence. ... Claims his arguments amount to proofs. Nope!,...but persuasive.!! http://www.lifeafterdeathbook.com/
[FairfieldLife] 'Life-Long Nazi, Sheriff Joe Arpaio...'
Life-long Nazi, Sheriff Joe Arpaio...continues to 'Swear Allegiance to the Nazi Party'... 'Long Live the Fatherland of Arizona, Joe could be heard mumbling to himself.. Where's that black guy's birth cerificate Joe asked, as he was being led to the padded cell... Read more: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/06/25/sheriff_joe_arpaio_im_not_stopping_anything.html
[FairfieldLife] Life without God
A Minister loses his faith, inspired by Sam Harris. http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/life-without-god
[FairfieldLife] Life is just a stopping place
by George Grie http://neosurrealismart.com/modern-art-prints/?artworks/life-is-just-a-stopping-place.htmlfullsize
[FairfieldLife] Life Beyond Death
http://www.lifebeyonddeath.org The information on this site is a revealed body of information which was given to me as a download from the Spiritual Plane. I have no practical or philosophical arguments to support this material. And with with respect, I ask to be excused from any debate on the subject. If this material resonates with your own inner guidance, please take it and use it in your spiritual journey. Otherwise, it's not for you. All the best on your journey, BW
[FairfieldLife] Life in Iowa
The farmer knocked on the front door of the house and a little boy answered. Are your parents home? No. They're out, Sir. But if you need a tool, just go into the garage. That's not what I came here about. I need to talk about Howard getting my daughter Janice pregnant, said the farmer. I know Pa gets $500 for the bull and $50 for the pig. But you'll have to come back and talk to my Pa., said the little boy. I don't know what he gets for Howard.
[FairfieldLife] Life in Prison
Nityananda appeared to have had a good time while in prison. We don't know what his actual crime was but he says he developed many techniques for meditation during his confinement. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa_Swyxc_MIfeature=related
Re: [FairfieldLife] Life in Prison
On 09/06/2011 05:38 PM, John wrote: Nityananda appeared to have had a good time while in prison. We don't know what his actual crime was but he says he developed many techniques for meditation during his confinement. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa_Swyxc_MIfeature=related Google is your friend: http://www.dnaindia.com/bangalore/report_nithyananda-shares-prison-cell-with-disciple_1377602
[FairfieldLife] Life of Brian
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079470/quotes
[FairfieldLife] Life in the body
Dang, I lost a lamb this morning. It gestated all that time and it didn''t quite but make it in to life for long. Was a perfect little lamb. I've got a ewe looking for a lamb now. The grandmother ewe is standing with her. Natural law.
[FairfieldLife] Life without limbs
http://www.lifewithoutlimbs.org/about-nick-vujicic.php%20
[FairfieldLife] Life of the Beatles
http://lifeofthebeatles.blogspot.com/2006/06/maharishi-song.html
[FairfieldLife] Life Before Google
The Fairfield Life version of this should be I just thought of something I'd like to posture as knowing more about than I do. [Life Before Google and the Internet Comic/center/p /body/html]
[FairfieldLife] Life is here to enjoy
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=199040id=10315663119 Keep your desire turning back within and be patient. Allow the fulfillment to come to you. Gently resist the temptation to chase your dreams into the world. Pursue them in your heart until they disappear into the Self, then leave them there. It may take a little self-discipline, be simple, be kind, stay rested. Attend to your own inner health and happiness. Happiness radiates like a fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after your needs of life, it is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally, effortlessly. Life is here to enjoy. - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
[FairfieldLife] Life and Debt
This fine documentary I've long recommended which is about the IMF's effect on Jamaica is now available on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdpwkjDw3Fk And Food, Inc is also available on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1xNerb4yE8
[FairfieldLife] Life after death - more mundane than we think?
Carbon Dioxide May Explain 'Near Death Experiences' ScienceDaily (Apr. 7, 2010) Near death experiences (NDEs), reported to include sensations such as life flashing before the eyes, feelings of peace and joy, and apparent encounters with mystical entities, may be caused by raised levels of carbon dioxide in the blood. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access journal Critical Care investigated the unexplained events in 52 cardiac arrest patients. Zalika Klemenc-Ketis worked with a team of researchers from the University of Maribor, Slovenia, to examine patients who reported NDEs. She said, Several theories explaining the mechanisms of NDEs exist. We found that in those patients who experienced the phenomenon, blood carbon dioxide levels were significantly higher than in those who did not. Of the 52 patients, 11 reported NDEs. Their occurrence did not correlate with patients' sex, age, level of education, religious belief, fear of death, time to recovery or drugs given during resuscitation. They were more common in people who had previously experienced NDEs. According to Klemenc-Ketis, Our study adds new and important information to the field of NDE phenomena. The association with carbon dioxide has never been reported before, and deserves further study. From: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/04/100407192448.htm http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/04/100407192448.htm
[FairfieldLife] Life-like evolution in a test tube
http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/3325/life-evolution-a-test-tube by Wilson da Silva Cosmos Online SAN DIEGO: Can life arise from nothing but a chaotic assortment of basic molecules? The answer is a lot closer following a series of ingenious experiments that have shown evolution at work in non-living molecules. For the first time, scientists have synthesized RNA enzymes – ribonucleic acid enzymes also known as ribozymes - that can replicate themselves without the help of any proteins or other cellular components. What’s more, these simple nucleic acids can act as catalysts and continue the process indefinitely. *'Immortal' molecules* “There’s nothing in biology in this system: no proteins, no cells, no biological matter. We just provide them with the building blocks,” said molecular biologist Gerald Joyce of the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego. “They’re just molecules, so they do what they do until they run out of substrate. And this will go for ever – it’s an immortal molecule, if you like,” he told a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in San Diego. Since he and colleague Tracey Lincoln first succeeded in creating this artificial genetic system that can undergo self-sustained replication and evolution last year, the molecules have changed dramatically as they evolve better and better solutions. *Survival of the fittest* The researchers began with ribozymes known to occur naturally, and put these in a growth medium, heated them and allowed the ribozymes to replicate until they had exhausted their fuel – usually within an hour. The team then extracted a random subset, and put them in a new medium: ribozymes then competed with each other to consume as much of the medium as possible. Eventually more successful ribozymes came to dominate the culture, and as the process continued, the ribozymes – undergoing evolution - grew in complexity, blindly finding solutions that made them more successful. “The key thing is it replicates itself, and passes information from parent to progeny down the line,” Joyce told *Cosmos Online*. “There’s roughly 30 bits of information passed. Some functions are more fit than others, and those that are more fit ‘breed’ more, and are perpetuated more efficiently, and so it goes Darwinian.” The ultimate goal is to create genetic systems that behave like life, and are for all intents ‘life’ as we know it, but arose without using biological systems. “The aim is to create systems that have inventive capabilities, that can develop novel solutions to challenges posed by the environment. But that we don’t have yet,” he said. “What we do have is a self-sustained chemical system that undergoes Darwinian evolution. *Synthetic genetic systems* “They are synthetic genetic systems, and they are evolving. But they’re not living because they don’t yet show the capacity to invent a whole cloth of functions. “The idea is to given them enough information wherewithal [genetic building blocks] so they can start inventing their own solutions rather than just optimising existing solutions,” he added. Joyce said it was not practical to synthesize the more complex DNA-based life we know from scratch; it’s too complex and probably beyond today’s science. But it is conceivable to start with a much more basic form of life-like molecules based on RNA, and use evolution to build on them. *RNA world hypothesis * Many scientists believe that early life was based on RNA and predated the arrival of life based on deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and proteins. RNA, which can both store information like DNA as well as act as an enzyme like proteins, and may have supported pre-cellular life. A lading proponent of the so-called ‘RNA world’ hypothesis, Joyce believes that RNA-based catalysis and information storage may have been the first step in the evolution of cellular life. *Follow Cosmos on Twitter! twitter.com/cosmosmagazine* -- I've got nothing against God. It's his fan club I can't stand.
[FairfieldLife] 'Life is like a Coin...'
Life is like a coin... You may spend it, any way you wish... But, once it's spent, it's gone... R.g.
[FairfieldLife] Life-sized blue whale on the Web
This is a *life-sized* image of a blue whale. You can scan the creature's entire body by moving your cursor around the image. Or drag the little red box in the inset. http://www.wdcs.co.uk/media/flash/whalebanner/content_pub_en.html
[FairfieldLife] Life As It Is
Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove. - Ashleigh Brilliant I'm not quite sure who or what Ashleigh Brilliant is, or was, but I catch his meaning, and I approve. One of the main differences I perceive between the TM view of life and its possible meaning or purpose and that of other spiritual traditions I tend to prefer is that TMers -- on the whole -- seem illcontent with Life As It Is, whereas many other spiritual seekers do not. Strong Buddhists and Taoists I've met seem content with Here And Now, and do their best to make the best of what Here And Now presents them. In contrast, if you look even at the sampling of TM thought we see on this forum, many if not most of the things said about the world by its adherents are anything *but* content with Here And Now. They're more about long- ing for someday and all that mythical someday promises. If they're more blissed-out, someday becomes Any day now. But it's still not Here And Now...it's always off in some theoretical future. And the import of Any day now is that things are not right Here And Now. There is an assumption that the world they perceive around them is *broken*, not right, and that they must do something -- anything -- to CHANGE that world, or change themselves, to make both of them right. This early morning in Sitges, watching the street cleaners do their thing from this cafe table, I find myself underwhelmed by this tendency to view the world as something that needs work because it doesn't live up to their fantasies about what it should be, and to disapprove of it and reject it as beneath them *until* it lives up to their fantasies. Sitges is a tourist town. Tourists -- especially young tourists and even more especially English tourists, of whom we get more than our fair share -- tend to get rowdy and drunk on a Saturday night. Thus if one wakes up early on a Sunday morning and strolls out to find a cafe in which to have a nice cuppa java, one finds the street full of crap. Litter, bottles, paper fast-food wrappings and occasionally even real crap. The streets look as if thousands of people had been so wrapped up in having a good time that they just threw their crap anywhere they felt like throwing it. And, of course, looking at the streets, there is no doubt that this is litter-ally true. And then the street cleaners spring into action. Sitges has the best street cleaning crews in the world. At 08:00 the streets are a mess; by 09:00 they are clean and pris- tine and scrubbed as clean as if no one had ever walked on them. There is no question that the world *appears* better after the street cleaners have done their thing. It is aesthetically more pleasing. But is it really any better? Does the street have more Buddha-nature or Tao or Brahman or God to it after a good sweeping and scrubbing than it did before? I think not. I think that God (if I believed in such a fictional entity) was as present in the dirty streets of Sitges on my walk to this cafe as it will be in the clean streets of Sitges as I walk home. Superficially, the streets look better. Superficially, Fairfield, Iowa looks to some like Heaven On Earth. Superficially, if you bounce on your butt with other butt- bouncers before reading the morning papers, the world is better as a result of you doing so. Superficially. But the world really doesn't give much of a shit about your puny notions of better or worse, of right and just not right yet. The world just is. It's been my experience that the people who have gained some sense of comfort with *how* it is in the Here And Now are happier than those who have not, those who are always seeking some mythical Then when things will all be better. That does not mean that these people do not spend some of their time as metaphorical street cleaners, trying to make Here And Now more pleasant for themselves and other people, only that their sense of self and their sense of meaning DOES NOT DEPEND on that mythical better. They are them-selves in the litter of post-Saturday night reveling, and they are them-selves in the pristine clean- liness of a tourist town pretending that it's always litter-free. They have the ability to appreciate the Buddha-nature of Here And Now *in* the Here And Now, and not constantly live in hope of some mythical Then. Life as TMers wish for it might be neat, although I suspect that their vision of Heaven On Earth would be (in the words of Leonard Cohen) as boring as heaven on a Saturday night. I suspect that the real heaven, if one exists, has a few street cleaning crews of its own, and that they're as busy Sunday mornings cleaning up after night-before revelers as the street cleaning crews of Sitges are. I *hope* that the denizens of heaven party down from time to time, and don't just sit around playing harps and polishing their haloes. And I *certainly* hope that the residents of the real heaven, if one exists, have gotten over
[FairfieldLife] Life is Bliss
Life is Bliss: watch?v=LxQgXgS5G3cfeature=re lated OffWorld
[FairfieldLife] Life is Bliss
Life is Bliss: http://www.youtube.com/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxQgXgS5G3c http://www.youtube.com/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxQgXgS5G3c OffWorld
[FairfieldLife] Life is Bliss
Life is Bliss: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxQgXgS5G3c http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxQgXgS5G3c OffWorld
[FairfieldLife] Life is change
Early Photos of Celebrities Boys; http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5977/1136/1600/pictures-of-celebrities-as-kids1.jpg Girls: http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5977/1136/400/pictures-of-celebrities-as-kids2.jpg
Re: [FairfieldLife] Life span calculator
Mine came out 78. Some of the questions are a little lame though because it is based on dark ages allopathic beliefs. There was another one I took a few years back that was based more on insurance actuarials and I came out 69 on that one. --- On Sat, 10/25/08, bob_brigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: bob_brigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [FairfieldLife] Life span calculator To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, October 25, 2008, 3:08 AM http://moneycentral .msn.com/ investor/ calcs/n_expect/ main.asp Moi: 90 (but Jyotish says 79)
[FairfieldLife] Life span calculator
http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/calcs/n_expect/main.asp Moi: 90 (but Jyotish says 79)
[FairfieldLife] Life in Shemp's Kleptocracy
Michael Hudson is a former Wall Street economist. Here is an excerpt from an interview with him: The economy has polarized to the point where the wealthiest 10% now own 85% of the nation’s wealth. Never before have the bottom 90% been so highly indebted, so dependent on the wealthy. From their point of view, their power has exceeded that of any time in which economic statistics have been kept. You have to realize that what they’re trying to do is to roll back the Enlightenment, roll back the moral philosophy and social values of classical political economy and its culmination in Progressive Era legislation, as well as the New Deal institutions. They’re not trying to make the economy more equal, and they’re not trying to share power. Their greed is (as Aristotle noted) infinite. So what you find to be a violation of traditional values is a re-assertion of pre-industrial, feudal values. The economy is being set back on the road to debt peonage. The Road to Serfdom is not government sponsorship of economic progress and rising living standards; it’s the dismantling of government, the dissolution of regulatory agencies, to create a new feudal-type elite. The former Soviet Union provides a model of what the neoliberals would like to create. Not only in Russia but also in the Baltic States and other former Soviet republics, they created local kleptocracies, Pinochet-style. In Russia, the kleptocrats founded an explicitly Pinochetista party, the Party of Right Forces (“Right” as in right-wing). Read the full interview here: http://counterpunch.org/whitney08292008.html 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/ * 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: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * 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] Life w/o Religion is like a boat w/o a rudder...
MMY never meant to end Religion but for many TM meditators it has become *TM 'in lieu' of Religion*, and this is a big mistake! The guidelines of True Religion are inestimable in their usefulness for human evolution, after all, without a guide or map to scale a tall mountain how much longer will it take you by trial and error? Some of the TM'ers I have known have consequently relied solely on TM to improve their lives and don't even bother consulting scripture or moral guidelines, after all that's just supposed to happen naturally, right? But how long will it take for TM to 'kick in' and deliver what is promised? MMY once said it could take a million years to reach CC unless you come to courses, that was in Fuiggi. My advice is, in order to quicken your spiritual evolution mind the principles and guidelines of Religion; in Yoga they are found in the first two limbs of Patanjali's ashtanga (8) Yoga, the Yamas and Niyamas or the prescriptions and proscriptions of spiritual life...good luck. So in a way, inadvertently MMY lessened Religion in meditators lives by under-emphasizing it's value in spiritual life, unfortunate! and why it pays to be prudent in all your dealings with spiritual 'masters' and 'guides', never give up your objectivity less you become morally lazy and end up reaping the unfortunate consequences at the end of your life in some purgatorial hell of some sort.God sent Religion to save you from such dire circumstances!
[FairfieldLife] Life On Mars
To All: Using the vedic criteria for promoting life, the environment must have the five primary elements present. These are water, earth, fire, air, and ether. In one of his commentaries, Prabhupada believed that there's life on the Moon because the five primary elements are present in the lunar landscape. IMO, he also might have implied that if there are no biological life present, there may be spiritual beings living there as written in the various vedic literature. Similarly, by all evidence gathered so far, the five primary elements are certainly present on Mars. Therefore, there is a good likelihood that biological organisms are existing on the planet. If not biological, intelligent Martians may be present there, as depicted in the science fiction TV special, The Martian Chronicles, many years ago. :) JR
[FairfieldLife] Life in Texas
Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love. ~~ Butch Hancock
[FairfieldLife] Life Expectancy Calculator
A friend sent me this link: http://www.peterrussell.com/Odds/RealAge.php. I like how the website compiles the effects of many variables impacting our life expectancy. http://www.peterrussell.com/Odds/RealAge.php It clarifies these variables, and can help us become more aware of many choices we can make to improve our health and longevity. Enjoy, Dick P.S. My friend's 58 years old, and the website estimates he'll live to 100. I recently turned 60, and it says I'll live to 101.
[FairfieldLife] Life in tune with natural law
-Original Message- From: Blaine Watson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2008 9:19 AM To: undisclosed-recipients: Subject: life in tune with natural law In 1982, after we returned from a teaching trip in India, Maharishi met with us to discuss our experiences in India. As we were going around from group to group the usual comments were heard; how beautiful the country is, how generous and spiritually minded are the people and how receptive etc. I got up and told Maharishi that our ability to attune ourselves to the local laws of nature seemed to increase as we progressed from town to town on our tour. I was with a team of 4, 2 americans and 2 Canadians, and we were touring Karnataka, which, to this day, i feel is the most peaceful, quiet, traditional and beautiful of all the states of India. Our experience was that of novices when we first arrived, not knowing where to go, not knowing who to see. After about the 3rd town we began to find that things were beginning to be organized for us and it became a lot easier. We were somehow more quickly finding the people we needed to find, being put in contact with those who would be most interested and helpful so that by the time we were ready to move on to the 4th town, everything in the 4th town was already arranged for us, all the meetings set up, all the schools ready and waiting to receive us. It was remarkable. We arrived and were immediately taken to the home of one of the most well known lawyers in that town, a Brahmin of great intellect, and he had already set up everything for us even to the extent of letting everyone know that we would prefer hot milk instead of tea and biscuits when we came for a meeting. This was actually quite cute because everywhere we went it became apparent that there was a competition going on to see who could give us the most tasty milk preparation. It was truly wonderful and I had credited ourselves with our ability to adjust to the local laws of nature more easily as we went along. As I was speaking it was obvious that Maharishi was paying attention and getting ready to say something so I stopped talking on that note. He said 'No. No. It is the other way around. The local laws of nature were adjusting to you. You are governors of the trends of time and natural law will respond to you.' In that one moment, that one small sentence he turned our worlds inside out and upside down. He always spoke of life in tune with natural law and support of nature so I thought that this must be what it is like. You are in tune with natural law and moving with nature but he said what seemed to be the complete opposite here, that being in tune with natural law means that nature moves with you. He went on to say, and i don't remember if this was in this particular session or a subsequent one that 'everyone is their own universe and everyone is right from their own point of view'. I had a chance to continue this conversation later that year in Switzerland. He was taking questions and speaking on jyotish and ritam bara pragya, that intellect which knows only the truth. I had been having this experience, related also to the experience in India, where I would have a thought and almost immediately the thought would manifest or the desire be fulfilled. I was on the mike and told him this experience and asked him 'Am i intuiting this or am i creating it? Am I only intuiting something that is already there and simply being attuned to it as it were or am I actually calling it into being?' The confusion was there because of what he had told us earlier in Germany about nature responding to us rather than the other way around. He answered very simply by saying 'At this level intuition and creation are one and the same thing but you are the creator. It would not exist without you.' No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.20.9/1295 - Release Date: 2/23/2008 9:35 PM 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/ * 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: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * 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/
Re: [FairfieldLife] Life in tune with natural law
He answered very simply by saying 'At this level intuition and creation are one and the same thing but you are the creator. It would not exist without you.' There's an old Sci-Fi writer named Daniel Galouye. Who wrote a book called 'Infinite Man,' on this topic. Quite ahead of it's time as it were, back in the day. He wrote a better book called , Scourge of Screamers, about the Earth crossing some cosmic median, sort of like the 'Galactic Center' stuff. Okay. whatever 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/ * 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: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * 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] Life is meant to be lived, not thought about.
~~ Brahmachari Satyanand
Re: [FairfieldLife] Life On Mars
In a message dated 2/10/08 7:08:23 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Great series, with fine performances by John Simm as the guy who's become unstuck in time, by Philip Glenister as his superior in the 1973 police department, and by Liz White as a female 1973 cop (which in the Britain of the 70s is equivalent to being a secretary or someone to bring the tea) with a B.A. in Psychology who is the only person in that time that Sam can talk to. She doesn't believe him, but she tries to help anyway. Wonderful exercise in What is reality? He should have gone to teacher training then and saved his money from initiating during the Merv wave! **Biggest Grammy Award surprises of all time on AOL Music. (http://music.aol.com/grammys/pictures/never-won-a-grammy?NCID=aolcmp00300025 48)
[FairfieldLife] Life On Mars
For those of you who enjoy quality television series, this one's a real gem. An oddball gem, but a gem. Unfortunately, you folks in the US probably won't be able to find this one at Netflix unless it carries Region 2 DVDs; this one was never released in the US. The basic scenario is about a modern-day (2006) British cop who, in the process of trying to track down a serial killer who may have abducted his own girlfriend, is accidentally hit by a car and knocked out. When he wakes up, it's 1973. He's wearing 1973 clothes and living in a shabby 1973 Manchester flat and showing up for work at a 1973 police station, where he is expected to solve crimes. The series is a little like Mad Men in that it deals with the cognitive dissonance what it's like to be a cop in 1973 vs. what it's like in 2006. But the cognitive dissonance is a lot deeper than that, because Sam doesn't have a clue what is really going on. Is he crazy and still in 2006 and hallucin- ating all of this? Is he in a coma in 2006 and dreaming all of this? Is he really here in 1973 and all this is real and dreaming/hallucinating the stuff about 2006? The only thing Sam knows is that his day-to-day life *in* 1973 *seems* to be real, and he is expected to get up every morning and solve crimes. So he does. Great series, with fine performances by John Simm as the guy who's become unstuck in time, by Philip Glenister as his superior in the 1973 police department, and by Liz White as a female 1973 cop (which in the Britain of the 70s is equivalent to being a secretary or someone to bring the tea) with a B.A. in Psychology who is the only person in that time that Sam can talk to. She doesn't believe him, but she tries to help anyway. Wonderful exercise in What is reality?
Re: [FairfieldLife] Life On Mars
TurquoiseB wrote: For those of you who enjoy quality television series, this one's a real gem. An oddball gem, but a gem. Unfortunately, you folks in the US probably won't be able to find this one at Netflix unless it carries Region 2 DVDs; this one was never released in the US. The basic scenario is about a modern-day (2006) It's available on BBC America. I watched the first season a year ago OnDemand and some of this season. Yup, it's a fun series though drags a bit sometimes. And guess what? Just like The Office there is going to be a US version on ABC developed by David Kelley. It may have been delayed because of the strike: http://imdb.com/title/tt0787490/ I watched a cool movie the other night on DVD called Great World of Sound which is a little indie film about a couple guys playing salesmen for a song shark company. The story is based on the director's dad who was a radio DJ and when out of work one time took a job with one of these companies and only found out they were song sharks when checked to see if any of the radio stations were getting the singles which they weren't. Well done and shot as a mockumentary. The funny thing was I was watching this weeks Lost and the new character Charlotte is the same actress that plays the lead character's wife in the film http://imdb.com/title/tt0826547/
[FairfieldLife] Life without Maharishi
Here is an interesting interview from 2006 where a reporter asked M about what the world would be like without M: Here is a Question from Arthur Max, Associated Press reporter who in a February 1st 2006 Press Conference, asked Maharishi this question: QUESTION: Maharishi, so many gurus, people like yourself have given so much thought to the direction of the world and have tried to lead great numbers of people in their direction. But by the very nature of their personalities and their own thinking, one has to wonder what happens to their Movements when they’re no longer around. Would you like to speculate on what will happen to the ideas of the Maharishi whenever the day comes when he’s not here to give us his own personal thoughts? MAHARISHI: Doesn't matter. There is a phrase; Man is the master of his own destiny. So the destiny of every man doesn't depend on the existence of Maharishi or his absence. Man is the master of his own destiny. Maharishi is showing a way. Who comes on the lighted way, he'll get to the target, he'll get to the goal of the way, those who don't, they don't, that's all. Man has a choice. Education is so very limited today. Whether this generation understands the words of Maharishi or not. Those who will understand will be better off, they'll be the master of their own destiny. Others will remain slaves of circumstances and situations, doesn't matter. Maharishi's message does not remain limited to his physical body. This is the message that was there before the body of Maharishi, and it will remain there when the body of Maharishi will not come up. So these are waste of thoughts, no? No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.20.2/1270 - Release Date: 2/10/2008 12:21 PM
[FairfieldLife] Life in Fairfield
Well, if this is Life in Fairfield then it sure goes past a fair lick does it not, like it is on paranoid overdrive :- Where are they mum? Oh they went that way son, did you miss them then? What did they say mum? Dunno son, there was too much noise at the time. Jim.
[FairfieldLife] Life is bliss, and the life is being lived as hell
selection from MMY press conference 5/9/07 www.globalgoodnews.com/education-news-a.html?art=1179172947245292 The words of totality The words of the totality, the totality of knowledge in the Sanskrit language are such beautiful words. They say: Nirgun nirakar, Sagun sakar [Nirguna nirakara saguna sakara]. One talks of complete abstract, and complete abstract is complete concrete. So this and this -- complete abstract, it's complete concrete. One, a complete infinity. Infinity is completely one. Infinity is completely many. So between the two, between the two, one is determined between the two. It's a very delightful system of educating the children. Education is a fraud When we [Maharishi] were studying on this or this, I was wondering where I am going? What is all this? What is all this? There is no beginning and no end to the education. And [when] there is no beginning, there is no end to education, we call it a fraud. It's not educating. So all education so far, in the light of this total education, has been completely useless and a fraud, and it was misguiding the people. I'm very frank about it. Education was opposite to what it should be. So far. Total education Now here is total education, capable of being handled in one syllable, in one word, and within that word -- details, details, detail, detail, until no more detail is possible in the abstract, unmanifest field -- Nirgun nirakar sagun sakar . Nirgun nirakar means completely beyond everything, and completely beyond everything is that concrete experience, Reality, Totality. This is the field of Total Knowledge, but so far the whole thing was a fraud. It was a fraud. That is why [there is] this fraudulent world everywhere. That is why [it is] the time of all misery opposite to life. Life is bliss, and the life is being lived as hell. In the Kali-Yuga, the darkness of the age, the Dark Age. The Dark Age, Kali-Yuga. Dawn of the daylight But even in the Dark Age there is a sample of reality; there is a night, darkness of the night, and there is a dawn of the daylight. Darkness and light, darkness and light. This shows that if anyone is caught up in the night, he has only to know that it's coming to an end. Night is not a lasting thing. Ignorance is not a lasting thing, and this is the time when ignorance is being replaced by complete Total Knowledge. Dr Hagelin speaks Vedic wisdom on the level of the wisdom of modern science So the whole future of the world, as far as education is concerned, is so bright and so full of hope, absolutely. I congratulate you, Dr Hagelin, you are able to speak Vedic Wisdom on the level of wisdom of modern science. Wisdom of modern science is made on physical enquiry, physical enquiry -- open to the senses, open to the senses. Aham vishvam But Dr Hagelin has realized the basis of the senses. Senses require [something] physical, some physical ears and eyes and all that, but the basis of this is mind; more abstract [is the] intellect, more abstract the ego. More abstract ego, individual, come on the level of cosmic ego. 'That is the field of A-ham, I am 'A'. I am totality. I am Total Veda. I am the Constitution of the Universe. And I am the expression of the Constitution in terms of the universe. Aham vishwam, Aham vishwam, I am the universe, I am the universe. Before I am the universe, I am myself; I am totality. Totality means I am abstract, I am concrete; concrete, abstract, concrete, abstract, concrete. One, many, many, one, many. Point, infinity, point, infinity, point, infinity. That is Aham. That I am. Aham. And that is Brahm, totality. That is universality. I am the universe, I am the Veda, Total Knowledge.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Life is bliss, and the life is being lived as hell
On May 22, 2007, at 7:45 PM, george_deforest wrote: Now here is total education, capable of being handled in one syllable, in one word, and within that word -- details, details, detail Is that anything like--location, location, and location?
[FairfieldLife] life
Hi I hope each of you will take the time to read my story and respond as this is going on in our world and I joined this group hoping to meet and get positive input as well as educate some to how the laws are screwing over your people like yourselves and others in this country. In December 2005, my son went to a Des Moines, Iowa teen club for sixteen to twenty year olds. He was sixteen there he met a girl who told him she was almost sixteen. They hooked up. April 2006 this young lady ran away from home again she had troubles with a new stepfather and was being rebellious. A friend advised her to tell cops she was pregnant and scared to go home. Well they took her home and upon further questioning she admitted she lied about being pregnant to piss her mom off. Two weeks later my son was questioned feeling he had no reason to lie he told the truth as taught. After admitting to sex twice when they met at the club the officer told him well son she lied to you she is only thirteen. We were outraged and shocked one would of never guessed but the officer told us the parents did not want to press charges so we could go home just steer clear of the girl. May 3, 2006 my son at age seventeen now was walking home from a friends house and arrested on a felony warrant on two counts of sex abuse against a child. He was charged as an Adult. He spent the night in jail til we saw a judge the following morning who immediately O.R. my son to me with a stern warning to be at all court appearances. We met with son's public defender who told us when we said we wanted a jury trial we could not win a trial by jury simply because Iowa law says a thirteen year old cannot legally consent to sex even tho consensual the law says she is not mature enough. I was aghast and asked him as well as the District Attorney who sat near by if this same child went into her school with a loaded gun and killed a few peers would the law still say she did not know what she was doing? Of course no answer! We tried to move this back to juvenile court, time dragged out for weeks and juvenile probation officer recommended to keep my son's case in adult court feeling no time to rehabilitate the individual. Again rehabilitate from what? The fact he was lied too? Fact is it was consensual? Fact he is a kid facing twenty years ? On October 20, 2006 my son was offered a plea being told if he refused he get prison time. He was told it be a deferred judgment/adjudication and no registration as a sex offender since under law a deferred adjudication is not a conviction. Five minutes before court we learned Iowa had a new law even on a deferred one must register as a offender. He was angry and mad and yes a seventeen year old boy faced the judge crying and sobbing unsure what the heck was happening n life and why this was happening when the girl lied to him and the club let her in so how was he to know how old she truly was. Not like kids ask each other for proof of age upon meeting. The judge thankfully realized my son was a emotional wreck and talked to him making sure he used words a boy of seventeen could understand not the big legal terms the D.A. was tossing at him in court. He was put on deferred adjudication for two years probation supervised on one count of Lude or Lascivious Acts with a Child. Second sex abuse third degree be dropped once he completed treatment. He must register by Iowa law for ten years. Just told him if he did his probation the charges be dismissed no plea would ever be entered into record under this plea and he expunge his records in two years. So ask one self how can they make a boy register ten years for a non conviction? Well we moved to Oklahoma where we came from when we arrive din Iowa less then a year before. Now my son is a lifetime registered offender under OK law cause they can change the charge to meet OK criteria. So he is considered aggravated and registers every ninety days. My son has to abide for the rest of his life residency laws (no living near schools, parks, daycares, churches, playgrounds), he was kicked out of school and cannot get his GED cause they are all at school campuses here. (Thankfully Gus Blackwell a Rep here said it was illegal and a couple weeks ago got him back in a GED tutor program where the school pays for the tutor at the police dept til my son is ready for the test). He has bee told if he has a daughter he will have to go to reunification court to live with his child, if he marry's he has to get permission by a judge, he can never attend any of his children's school events as long as he is a RSO etc. So I joined groups to share my son's story ad to meet intelligent folks like yourself who can use their minds to help me fight these laws. Make Iowa and other states stop this from happening to young teen boys who had consensual sex with a girl. The Adam Walsh Act signed by Bush last year has a section 111 in it for these type
[FairfieldLife] Life in Fairfield is all bliss
Police and Sheriff Reports 2/19/07 From the weekend police log: Yuriy Chernenko, 29, of Fairfield reported theft in the fifth degree at the MUM building 140, room 322. Sergiy Gudoshyn reported serious assault at MUM building 143, room 208. The incident is under investigation, and warrants were requested for Yuriy Chernenko, 29, of Fairfield.
RE: [FairfieldLife] Life in Fairfield is all bliss
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 11:27 AM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Life in Fairfield is all bliss Police and Sheriff Reports 2/19/07 From the weekend police log: Yuriy Chernenko, 29, of Fairfield reported theft in the fifth degree at the MUM building 140, room 322. Sergiy Gudoshyn reported serious assault at MUM building 143, room 208. The incident is under investigation, and warrants were requested for Yuriy Chernenko, 29, of Fairfield. The Russians are restless. Vodka withdrawal.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Life in Fairfield is all bliss
In a message dated 2/13/07 11:45:13 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Barry asked about life in Fairfield so thought I would summarize the latest happenings. Two former Purusha guys have died of cancer in the last two weeks. One former Purusha deeply depressed and threatened with eviction from the all aluminum ideal trailer park on campus took a very messy way out the exit. One other former purusha is locked in the phsych ward in Iowa City for trashing his trailer and then starting on the trailer of the lady who lived door. One meditator pulls a bungled bank robbery and is caught almost immediately. Other than that not much happening here. More pundits are coming. Look what more we might have to look forward too. No names are given in order to preserve the privacy of any who might care. Tom Obviously, Fairfield is gong through a phase transition.
[FairfieldLife] Life in Fairfield is all bliss
Police and Sheriff Reports From the overnight police log: Theft was reported at the women's dome at MUM campus. A two-vehicle accident occurred when Ruth Wiederkehr, of Fairfield was traveling westbound on Golden Dome Way, and lost control on the snowy roadway. Wiederkehr crossed the centerline and struck a vehicle driven by Julia Deornellas, of Fairfield that was traveling eastbound on Golden Dome Way. Geraldine Stevens, of Batavia was injured.
[FairfieldLife] Life in Fairfield is all bliss
Sorry Barry I sometimes like to focus on some of the real stuff that goes on here in addition to the other stuff. On the other hand the best thing I can say about our little town is the intense amount of connectivity. Every whereever you go you find yourself connecting with folks that have come into your life again. A short story from Saturday at Revelations coffee/book shop. A nice young lady comes over to participate in the ongoing Satsang that seems to happen there most afternoons. LB takes one look at her and declares that he knows her and they then do the dance of how and when. After a few moments he can not remember but she finally dregs up the question about what about India. This lady has just moved to FF to do an advanced degree and has never been here before and has never been really in the movement. Learned TM in 1985 and then kind of moved to the sidelines. Turns out she asks LB about a specific temple he visited in 1998 and yahoo they finally get the connection point. They had a conversation about TM in India and they both remembered that one fleeting few minutes and now reconnected. THings like that go on all the time. After a while it just seems ordinary. As one of my friends liked to say, We are all from the class of Enlightenment in town for our class reunion. I have only been here 8 years and it does have a lot going for it. I am not sure that you could find an ongoing daily Satsang with such a large and diverse crowd that ebbs and flows in and out of Revelations in any other town. Maybe I am biased but it has a lot going for it if you are looking for a hip spiritual town. See Dougs list of events and although I don't go to many I know some of the folks in other events and they are all sincere and quite interested in helping everyone along the path. It is worth stopping in and savoring the blend of a very fine stew. Hope to see Ya, would love to spend some time exploring the fine backgound of your experience and your wisdom. Tom
Re: [FairfieldLife] Life in Fairfield is all bliss
And bank robberies too! We only get murders down here in Florida. --- tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry Barry I sometimes like to focus on some of the real stuff that goes on here in addition to the other stuff. On the other hand the best thing I can say about our little town is the intense amount of connectivity. Every whereever you go you find yourself connecting with folks that have come into your life again. A short story from Saturday at Revelations coffee/book shop. A nice young lady comes over to participate in the ongoing Satsang that seems to happen there most afternoons. LB takes one look at her and declares that he knows her and they then do the dance of how and when. After a few moments he can not remember but she finally dregs up the question about what about India. This lady has just moved to FF to do an advanced degree and has never been here before and has never been really in the movement. Learned TM in 1985 and then kind of moved to the sidelines. Turns out she asks LB about a specific temple he visited in 1998 and yahoo they finally get the connection point. They had a conversation about TM in India and they both remembered that one fleeting few minutes and now reconnected. THings like that go on all the time. After a while it just seems ordinary. As one of my friends liked to say, We are all from the class of Enlightenment in town for our class reunion. I have only been here 8 years and it does have a lot going for it. I am not sure that you could find an ongoing daily Satsang with such a large and diverse crowd that ebbs and flows in and out of Revelations in any other town. Maybe I am biased but it has a lot going for it if you are looking for a hip spiritual town. See Dougs list of events and although I don't go to many I know some of the folks in other events and they are all sincere and quite interested in helping everyone along the path. It is worth stopping in and savoring the blend of a very fine stew. Hope to see Ya, would love to spend some time exploring the fine backgound of your experience and your wisdom. Tom 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 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Now that's room service! Choose from over 150,000 hotels in 45,000 destinations on Yahoo! Travel to find your fit. http://farechase.yahoo.com/promo-generic-14795097
[FairfieldLife] Life in Fairfield is all bliss
Barry asked about life in Fairfield so thought I would summarize the latest happenings. Two former Purusha guys have died of cancer in the last two weeks. One former Purusha deeply depressed and threatened with eviction from the all aluminum ideal trailer park on campus took a very messy way out the exit. One other former purusha is locked in the phsych ward in Iowa City for trashing his trailer and then starting on the trailer of the lady who lived door. One meditator pulls a bungled bank robbery and is caught almost immediately. Other than that not much happening here. More pundits are coming. Look what more we might have to look forward too. No names are given in order to preserve the privacy of any who might care. Tom
[FairfieldLife] Life has to be unlimited
12 January, 2007 In a global celebration by satellite television and the Internet, His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi inaugurated the Year of Capital of Global Raam Raj. Today Maharishi presided over the worldwide inauguration of the Year of Capital of Global Raam Rajto be established in the Brahmasthan of India, geographical centre of India, by the end of July on Guru Purnima Day. From this centre of world peace, 16,000 Vedic Pandits will create an influence of peace, progress, and prosperity for every nation, through their daily routine of Yoga and Yagyatimeless procedures expressing the Will of God to restore balance in Nature and create Heaven on Earth for all generations to come. Following the global Puja to Shri Guru Dev, Maharishi's Master, Maharishi declared that our administrator of Raam Raj, His Majesty Maharaja Nader Raam, First Sovereign Ruler of the Global Country of World Peace, is now deeply over-flooded with the blessings of Guru Dev. Just as rivers come to irrigate a whole field, these blessings of Total Knowledge, the Constitution of the Universe, have flowed onto Raja Raam from Guru Dev and through Raja Raam to all of us and to the whole world. Today Maharishi said that the administration of life in the world will now be complete for everyone. Today the whole field of experience has blossomed into that richness of Total Knowledge that every aspect of life, small or big, here, there, and everywhere, will be flooded with bliss. Life has the potential of the ocean and it can never be satisfied with drops, or flowing in streams; it has to be unlimited, unbounded, unfathomable bliss, totality of life. Maharishi explained that Raam Raj is the administration of totality. Totality is in all expressions of lifematerial, mental, ego, and cosmic ego, and in all the variety of human behaviour and the world. The creativity and sustenance of every level of life is included in the totality. Life is a complete whole, and that system of administration that educates the people to live life in its complete wholeness is the administration of Brahm, totality, Raam Raj. Vedic history, Maharishi said, presents that reign of Raama time of ideal life on earthwhich now, with the Grace of Guru Dev, is coming up to be the living reality of all mankind through the administration of our dear Maharaja Nader Raam, who has been blessed with Guru Dev's blessing in order to have the total field of life on earth in terms of the total potential of life, Bliss Consciousness. This potential of everything is human potential, divine potential, the Will of God. To awaken this reality of life in everyone born on earth will be the administration of Maharaja Raja Raam. Administrators should be competent to bestow anything to anyone who desires anythingand anything is a possibility in the transcendental, unmanifest field. In the most silent avenue of one's Being, everything is a possibility, and this is the state of life that will be opened for everyone in the world, Maharishi said. Copyright © 2007 Global Good News(sm) Service.
[FairfieldLife] 'Life in the Super-Max?'
I am thinking the people who end up at this prison, must be the worse of the worse? People who have caused so much pain to others, so much inhumanity, that society has decided to lock them away, way away...for this life... I guess it's just karma: such intention to cause so much harm and pain; Produces a reaction for one to have time to ponder and perhaps realize and experience the pain, that's been caused; This is how karma is balanced... 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] 'Life is Bliss'- Businessportal24 (Pressemitteilung) - Bad Lausick,Germany
Pressefächer Deutsche Nachrichten Agentur Maharishi's Message "LIFE IS BLISS" Echoes from the Rooftop of the World TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Editorial by Uttam Maharjan in The Rising Nepal, Gorkhapatra Today, health is a major concern as people have become more and more materialistic and consumeristic with the result that their lifestyles have changed drastically. People have also sacrificed spiritual values in pursuit of materialism. There is a lot of eating with less exercise. It is said that an individual should walk at least one hour a day. With human interest diverting to sedentary lifestyles such as watching TV and playing video games, human health has suffered. We can find couch potatoes and people of a suchlike nature in almost every home. It is essential that human beings should engage in some forms of exercise or meditation. There are many forms of meditation dating back to ancient times. Transcendental meditation (TM) is one such example. TM was propounded by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in 1957. TM, which is as old as the Rigveda, is a simple, natural and effortless technique of meditation based in part on Hindu meditation. It is scientific, systematic and repeatable with veritable results. It aims at exposing higher levels of unconsciousness inherent in human beings in a state of latency. Since the 1960s when Maharishi Yogi converted the Beatles, TM has been very popular in the West. Maharishi Mahesh Yogis motto is life is bliss. TM aims at making human life blissful by overcoming problems of life. People who practise TM around the world have appreciated this motto as they have been able to lead a life free from stress, tension, angst and Weltschmerz. To fathom how TM works, it would be germane to mention what the mind experiences during TM. The mind experiences finer and finer levels of a thinking process and, in doing so, reaches the sources of thought and is immersed in the self. The self, which reflects unbounded awareness and pure intelligence, is the ultimate reality that governs all processes of life. TM is an experience just like love, joy and happiness and coordinates the body and mind. It leads to a state where the mind comes into direct contact with the sources of thought. The sources of thought are a field of pure intelligence called transcendental consciousness. People experience umpteen thoughts every day. The sources of thought are within them and are responsible for thoughts and their actions. But people may be unaware of this. Thoughts are supported by intelligence, creativity and drive. These are the hallmarks of the sources of thought. TM is a mental process of reaching transcendental consciousness that enables people to experience infinite sources of intelligence creativity and drive. When such sources are entrapped within them, people grow more and more intelligent, creative and energetic. Meditation and all forms of yoga were grossly misinterpreted and misused in the past. It is Maharishi Yogi who systematised and streamlined TM and revised it in its purest form. Maharishi Yogi has removed all tags of mysticism and religion from TM. That is why, TM has nothing to do with any mysticism, religion, faith or creed. This is a very important aspect of TM. During meditation, people experience a thought. Thinking requires no efforts, but it takes place at what is known as gross conscious level. TM leads people to a silent level of awareness. At the gross conscious level, background noise disturbs people. While thinking, millions of neurons out of billions in the brain get active. They keep on disturbing the mind. During TM, de-excitation of the neurons takes place, bringing down the background noise to a silent level called a state of restful alertness. This helps in releasing tension and stress from the nervous system. It is axiomatic that when people are free from stress and tension, they tend to be creative and productive. TM, therefore, gives rise to creativity and productivity. Dr Robert Keith Wallace, of the USA, conducted research on TM for the first time. According to him, during TM, the mind is fully alert, but the body is at deep rest, which is deeper than sleep. This state of the body and mind is called restful alertness. Since then, independent scientific researches on TM have been conducted over 600 times in 30 countries. There are several benefits of TM. Psychologists hold that people use only 5 to 15 per cent of their mental potential. During TM, the potential can be used up to 100 per cent. As such, by enhancing mental potential to the fullest, TM can improve learning ability, problem-solving capacity, academic performance, productivity, job performance and satisfaction, interpersonal relations and clear and unruffled thinking. Similarly, TM has several physical as well as mind-body benefits to offer. TM provides deep rest, removing deep-seated stress and anxiety and increases physical, psychological and sociological adaptability,
[FairfieldLife] Life in Fairfield, What An Experience! -- What Are You Experiencing?
An easy request of our Fairfield residents and campus participants: What's life like at MUM and how have you experienced being enrolled with or dealing with the University? Dharma Mitra [EMAIL PROTECTED] Helping you Say It With Panache! - Copywriting - Editing - Publishing - Publicity - 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/
