Interestingly, the thing I liked the most about the Coen brothers' new
film Inside Lleywn Davis was discovering a few interviews on the Net
with the guy who produced the music for the film, T-Bone Burnett. T-Bone
is one of the great musician-producers working these days, having
produced work for
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@ wrote:
Barry, sweetie-poops, I've actually written quite a bit here about
my spiritual experiences.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anartaxius wrote:
Post numbers? (So we can read them) You must have recalled some of
these things
No he didn't.
With Jim Carrey, Barbara Bach, Peter Frampton, Joe Walsh, David Lynch
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2543128/Ringo-Starr-jumps-Jim-Carrey-shows-mock-Beatles-T-shirt-faces-Dumb-And-Dumber-characters.html
Real peace isn’t just the absence of war the legendary director tells Israeli
filmgoers via Skype, and sets the record straight on the 'Twin Peaks' rumors.
http://www.haaretz.com/culture/arts-leisure/.premium-1.569956
http://www.haaretz.com/culture/arts-leisure/.premium-1.569956
One of film's darkest directors, with help from Jerry Seinfeld and Hugh
Jackman, is shining a light by bringing meditation to everyone from PTSD
sufferers to inner-city kids.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/how-david-lynch-hugh-jackman-668785
Then either do it or shut up about it.
How many more decades of fundraising are there going to be before the TMO puts
the money it collected into an actual group that actually brings peace?
I think the whole thing is a crock of shit but it's very easy to demonstrate
but wait, they have
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 wrote:
Then either do it or shut up about it.
How many more decades of fundraising are there going to be before the
TMO puts the money it collected into an actual group that actually
brings peace?
I think the whole thing is a crock of shit
I win.
Hands down.
You're not likely to get an answer, Xeno, because Judy can't come up with any
posts in which she actually discussed her spiritual experiences. Fortunately
I saved a few excerpts from the only post in which I remember her even trying
(#362163) before she deleted it:
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For those who are French-challenged, this says, The flower-sellers of
Paris propose that you celebrate St. Valentine's Day with a 50%
discount on the second bouquet! Think of your mistress
I know, poor old Nabby, I shouldn't be so hard on him. It must be tough to keep
up the faith after all these years of disappointment. Devotion like that is a
rare thing these days. Still, anyone else who believes this crap really should
be asking themselves the same question so I won't feel too
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote:
Let's be clear: Russell Brand is a total creep. His excuse is that he's
bipolar - but Stephen Fry is also bipolar and Stephen remains a fully-paid up
human being - intelligent, warm-hearted, witty. That fact that Brand is a
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 wrote:
I know, poor old Nabby, I shouldn't be so hard on him. It must be
tough to keep up the faith after all these years of disappointment.
Devotion like that is a rare thing these days. Still, anyone else who
believes this crap really should
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OK, I get the protective services thang. If you're a
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote:
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---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote:
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@ wrote:
Barry, sweetie-poops, I've actually written quite a bit here about my
spiritual experiences.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anartaxius wrote:
Post
Of course I get it. It is just game with me though. After all, initially you
tried to weasel out of not responding, but then seem to think the better of it.
And referring to me in the third person doesn't really disguise intent either.
I regard Barry as an independent agent. If our responses
Home of all knowledge. A magical land protected by the Vedic gods and
living in accord with the Laws Of Nature. A shining beacon of the
possibilities available to lesser, far less-evolved nations. A country
into which vast and unknown sums of money extorted from faithful TMers
to create World
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdzuR4Iunuw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdzuR4Iunuw
Corporation tee-shirt, stupid bloody Tuesday.
Man, you been a naughty boy, you let your face grow long.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.
I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob.
Mister city policeman sitting
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
Of course I get it. It is just game with me though. After all,
initially you tried to weasel out of not responding, but then seem to
think the better of it. And referring to me in the third person doesn't
really disguise intent either. I regard Barry
I think the main reason Nabby touts TM is his other guru Benjy Creme has given
his bullshit esoteric stamp of approval to the Big Marshy - so if Benjy says
it, it must be true.
On Thu, 1/23/14, salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote:
Subject:
I think I may have to create a macro response if Xeno keeps stalking me and
trying to get me to engage with him: If anyone (except Xeno) wants a detailed
refutation of Xeno's dishonest trolling, just let me know.
Of course I get it. It is just game with me though. After all, initially you
I have a fireplace, and sometimes burn wood, but unless a fireplace designed
for heating a room is installed, it does not make much difference to the
heating bill. In addition I have to buy wood. There are lots of trees around
but they are either on other's property, in parks, or in open space
Nice rap, but I particularly like The 'understanding' is just an
overlay on experience that eventually lets the mind feel settled in
what's going on.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
I have a fireplace, and sometimes burn wood, but unless a fireplace
designed for heating a room is
How long? Until we get one percent of the world taking quiet time to practice a
transcending meditation we are not going to stop until we achieve this and no
spiritually apathetic dried up old science-hating ignorant fools like some even
here are going to obstruct our progress towards our
Xeno, as usual all I can do is say thank you for this post; for the story of
St. Thomas; for using the word
peccadilloes so pertinently; for conveying how even wood and smog are topics
and even realities that are suffused with what I'm calling Beingness. Stay
warm...
It was minus 5 when I
I find it fascinating--we all should, actually--that Barry thinks of writing
about spiritual experiences on FFL in terms of a contest with winners and
losers, and believes that such posts should be subject to critiques by the
group.
I'd be interested to know if anyone here feels encouraged
Every word written as Yet Another Attack, Yet Another Attempt To Entice
Others On This Forum To Attack Barry (we all *should*, actually), and
Yet Another Excuse for why she's terrified to ever try to write
creatively. This is what being a long-term editor *does* to a person.
Either that, or what
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote:
Xeno, as usual all I can do is say thank you for this post; for the story of
St. Thomas; for using the word
peccadilloes so pertinently; for conveying how even wood and smog are topics
and even realities that are suffused with
Note that Barry, um, prefers not to address the issue of writing about
spiritual experiences as a contest with winners and losers, instead
characterizing my presentation of what he himself has stated as an attack.
But if you read what I wrote below, you'll see that I said nothing negative
FWIW, Thomas's awakening happened only three months before he died at the age
of 49, so he didn't get much chance to enjoy it.
Xeno, as usual all I can do is say thank you for this post; for the story
of St. Thomas
Since I started this topic, why don't I deal with the diversion created
by someone who doesn't think much of the idea? In her latest post, she
as much as admitted that the reason she doesn't write about any of her
spiritual experiences (*supposed* spiritual experiences...I think pretty
much
These are amazing. I've never seen anything like them. Check out the sunset!
http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2014/01/23/the_exhibition_spirit_opportunity_10_years_roving_across_mars_at_the_smithsonian.html
Yeah. Eventually the distinction between spiritual and not-spiritual just goes
away. But you do have to pay some attention to what you do because nature does
what it does. For example, walking behind a horse might inspire a little more
caution than usual.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,
Um, no, Barry, nice try, but no cigar. I simply don't feel that your contest
formulation is appropriate with regard to spiritual experiences. To turn them
into a narcissistic ego-battle degrades the whole notion of spirituality. That
this is what you advocate is odd indeed considering how
Buck there is no science behind this, expect fake science. Like I said and you
continue to ignore, while large segments of the world's population may be
ignorant about certain things and while most of the governments of the world
are run by greedy bastards, not everyone is completely stupid.
P.S. - How do you propose to get one percent of the world meditating when
Marshy himself couldn't do it in 60 years? And he was supposedly enlightened
and we all know from his own definition of enlightenment that when one becomes
enlightened, one gets support from all the laws of nature. So
WOW - nice find !
You get it after an unprotected anal probe from one of the Space Brothers.
:-)
Why is it that the two most ardent critics of Maharishi here on FFL also
both are anally centered ? :-)
There is a fourth possibility, that the term 'support of all the laws of
nature' has an essential meaning that is different from what assumes: a meaning
such as 'you gain control over those laws'. You can experience that the laws of
nature support your little body and the world and the
I would agree that spiritual experiences are not part of a contest, but still,
I do not recall ever having heard Judy talk of hers while I have been on FFL.
Obviously if someone did not have experiences, they might be a bit shy about
it. But Judy never appears to be shy. Here is an example
People with few or weak experiences of a spiritual nature tend to speak/write
more about it than others.
cause the subject matter makes us think of you nabby
On Thu, 1/23/14, nablusoss1008 no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote:
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: David Lynchâs remedy for Mideast peace:
Transcendental Meditation
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
I think of them more as Movement figurines.
On Thu, 1/23/14, anartax...@yahoo.com anartax...@yahoo.com wrote:
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: David Lynch’s remed y for Mideas t peace:
Transcendental Meditat ion
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
You mean like Benjy Creme?
On Thu, 1/23/14, nablusoss1008 no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote:
Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: Being *afraid* to write about one's spiritual
experience
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, January 23, 2014, 8:06
On 01/23/2014 06:45 AM, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com wrote:
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote:
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OK, I get the protective services thang. If
There are over 1500 FFL members who are good at expressing their
experience of silence on this board. :-D
On 01/22/2014 11:29 AM, TurquoiseB wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote:
On 01/22/2014 12:21 AM, TurquoiseB wrote:
*/But almost no one writes about the
You mean like, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Eckhart Tolle, Adyashanti, Yogananda,
guys like that?
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote:
People with few or weak experiences of a spiritual nature tend to speak/write
more about it than others.
If you've seen American Pie you probably remember the Michele
character and her speech pattern:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH619vxtNdo
Back then it would have been known as Valley Speak and of course the
movie was mocking it. Fast forward and it has been relabeled Upspeak
(Brits call it
Yes, absolutely what we need are numbers meditating now. Evidently one percent
of the total for a change. And not let these ignorant anti-science,
anti-meditation, meditation-quitters and -haters and non-meditators get in the
way of and dissuade progress for us all. Talk about a null set bunch
Yogananda certainly did to aspire a love of God in others.
Maharishi never did because it wasn't necessary since experience of meditation
over time itself is inspirational and because He didn't want attention to
Himself as a person. Amongst many, many other reasons.
I have no idea what
Does such a term even exist ? The question arises since both Michael Jackson
(!) and the Turq seem to be more than usual anally focused.
Examples from MJ are numerous, here's the Turq today:
You get it after an unprotected anal probe from one of the Space Brothers.
:-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XU4ZA7W_Rc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XU4ZA7W_Rc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UO5L6d61Pg0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UO5L6d61Pg0
Highlights from Healing and Empowering Women
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jD8j-CBg-pg
This is a strange movie for *me* to be reviewing, and even stranger to
be reviewing positively, but react to it positively I did. After all,
it's a Disney movie, and worse, it's *about* Walt Disney, someone whose
sensibilities with regard to fairy tales and the dilution of them I do
not admire.
Nabby, those others also talk extensively about spiritual experience and
enlightenment. Maybe some who have experiences talk about them, and some do
not. I just thought it was a peculiar generalisation you made. My experience
about people who talk of their own experiences is it creates a
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
Nabby, those others also talk extensively about spiritual experience
and enlightenment. Maybe some who have experiences talk about them, and
some do not. I just thought it was a peculiar generalisation you made.
My experience about people who talk of
It can work both ways. A nice experience can be uplifting but it can also make
the listener wonder if he's doing something wrong since he never experienced
anything in that direction.
If someone, like is often done here, is talking excessively about silence it
does nothing more than
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote:
On 01/23/2014 06:45 AM, awoelflebater@... mailto:awoelflebater@... wrote:
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,
turquoiseb@... mailto:turquoiseb@... wrote:
I enjoyed this movie too. I think it may have been a special challenge for Emma
Thompson to play someone so uptight, so closed in. I did not know that Travers
was even worse as a human being than as Thompson played her out.
One of my earliest spiritual epiphanies occurred in the parking lot
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
Nabby, those others also talk extensively about spiritual experience and
enlightenment. Maybe some who have experiences talk about them, and some do
not. I just thought it was a
s3raphita:
Richard Williams thinks that Katy Perry and Howard Stern are role models
for his children!
So, what's wrong with Katy Perry?
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 9:00 PM, s3raph...@yahoo.com wrote:
Let's be clear: Russell Brand is a total creep. His excuse is that he's
bipolar - but
It would be nice if it truly worked that way but it doesn't. For
instance one thing they've recently learned that if you exercise the
body will quickly return to it's metabolic rate and not stay somewhat
elevated as previously assumed. Some people can lose weight more easily
than others.
http://deltaskymag.delta.com/Sky-Extras/Favorites/Heather-Graham.aspx
http://deltaskymag.delta.com/Sky-Extras/Favorites/Heather-Graham.aspx
What about that Harlan Ellison review on YouTube I pointed to a month
ago? And we get to thank Disney for the lame DMCA, oh eyepatch. ;-)
On 01/23/2014 01:08 PM, TurquoiseB wrote:
*/This is a strange movie for *me* to be reviewing, and even stranger
to be reviewing positively, but react to
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This course is for those practising Transcendental Meditation
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Not everyone in India is a gang rapist.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote:
Home of all knowledge. A magical land protected by the Vedic gods and living
in accord with the Laws Of Nature. A shining beacon of the possibilities
available to lesser, far less-evolved
Singer and pop-celebrity Katy Perry has revealed to Britain’s Marie Claire
http://www.marieclaire.co.uk/ magazine that she begins every day with a
Transcendental Meditation session to prepare her for work:
“I start the day with Transcendental Meditation
If they promise to show some of the old black and white videos of Marshy
praising Hitler, I'll go on the course. I would love to see how well we would
all transcend after watching Marshy praise Der Fuhrer and Mussolini, and Robert
Mugabe, and Marcos - p'raps they'll show the video of Marshy
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I have told some funny stories, all true, here on FFL. This one is not so
funny, but nonetheless still true. This happened when I was about six years
old. And it was, and still stands today as a strange experience. It was one of
my first experiences of death.
I suppose I might have at that
Thanks for posting the information,but you failed to point out the
similarities:
Shankara's Advaita claims to be based on the Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita
and the Brahma Sutras, but many scholars such as Sharma and Raju have noted
that Shankara shows many signs of influence from Mahayana
Om Dear MJ, that is an appalling blaspheme that you may burn in hell for. As a
practicing conservative Transcendental Meditation meditator and satisfied
customer of the Maharishi, I am completely offended by your comments. I am
going to delete your words from this thread right now to save you
On 1/23/2014 5:46 PM, Michael Jackson wrote:
I'd love to watch that one whilst we have a bit of spotted dick or
drowned baby.
Has anyone on this list ever heard of MMY appearing in a black and white
film or video praising Hitler or Mussolini?
TurquoiseB:
You sit on your ass all day and eat junk food as you drive, what can you
expect?
You mean like sitting on your ass all day at a computer in your bedroom
eating French food? LoL!
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 8:40 AM, TurquoiseB turquoi...@yahoo.com wrote:
authfrined:
Wonderful piece, Michael, beautifully done.
Much better than the short story he told about eating the spotted dick and
the dead baby. LoL!
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 6:37 PM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote:
*Wonderful piece, Michael, beautifully done.*
I have told some funny
On 1/23/2014 6:33 PM, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com wrote:
I am completely offended by your comments. I am going to delete your
words from this thread right now to save you from your sin damaging
your spiritual subtle system any further.
You better watch out, Buck - Judy thinks his stories are
Om, best FFL post of January 2014.
Makes you think really hard about things.
I'll get back to you about this later.
Actually, I have to go out and help wrap a body
at a nursing home for a departed soul now.
-Buck
thank you and it is all true - good thing my kin folk don't read this forum or
they would be pissed - at least the cousins that are still alive - esp
L.W.'s kids - they would come after me for calling their daddy a drunk and a
philanderer, but he was.
I was speaking somewhat in jest, although those who were around him in the old
days say he did praise them both, especially when speaking to German or
Austrian groups - he certainly did praise Marcos and Mugabe - that crap is a
matter of record in the so-called Global Good News archives.
and I am willing to bet some of those talks were recorded on audio if not
video, and are in the Movement's tape archives, but of course they will never
allow them to be seen now.
On Fri, 1/24/14, Richard J. Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote:
spotted dick and drowned baby are both types of English puddings
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Death Watch
To: Richard J. Williams FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, January 24, 2014, 12:43 AM
Wonderful piece, Michael, beautifully
done.Much better than the short
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote:
Not everyone in India is a gang rapist.
Bawwy is a simple guy and doesn't do well with complexity. Plus, he loves to
make the world a worse place to be. He lives for it, stir up the poop and
encourage others to be at each
Re So, what's wrong with Katy Perry?
Not a lot I confess. My apologies to Katy for slagging her off. She strikes me
as a fun girl and has brought a lot of pleasure into our drab lives! I'm
especially pleased she's finding TM an important plus in her life.
I picked on her as her biggest
An experience is something that has a beginning and has an ending. That applies
as much to spiritual experiences as to any other. A truly transcendental
event is outside time and so cannot begin or end. What could that be? Well how
about awareness itself? That never ends (even in sleep!).
Re Share's Also, and more importantly, I believe that a woman takes on a man's
karma when they have intercourse.:
That's an intriguing speculation. Where have you encountered that suggestion
before? (And why shouldn't a man take on a woman's karma when a couple make
love?) Of course, the
As usual, you are really only interested in spouting off what you have read.
However, what you have read is not deep and comprehensive and it shows in your
amateurish identifications of the influences between separate traditions.
You read about these influences from the common arena of
12 January 1977
Creating an Ideal Society:
. .people currently practicing the Transcendental Meditation technique are
constantly intensifying the Maharishi Effect and contributing to the Age of
Enlightenment. The dawn is rising to the day.
The influence of orderliness generated from
You know at the time of death a lot of support to the release of departing
souls can be given if folks are sympathetic to what is spiritually going on.
Sounds like those folks there down south then were just ignorant or unfamiliar
with what could be done, doing their best personally in grieving
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
I enjoyed this movie too. I think it may have been a special challenge
for Emma Thompson to play someone so uptight, so closed in. I did not
know that Travers was even worse as a human being than as Thompson
played her out.
Emma started out in the
Excellent story, Michael, and beautifully told. You bring back to me so
many memories of childhood in the South, and the strangely mannered (but
comforting) ways that people acted there. Your descriptions of the
people, always including who they're related to the way that people in
the South
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