So lets see... George is born when Barack is 21 years old and he is born half
a world away. George and Barack also have 6 other siblings with different
mothers scattered about the world. Real strong family ties were established in
that scenario, I'm sure.
Dinesh is very engaging in his inter
Anyway catch SAMSARA yet, the follow up to BARAKA?
Finally opened in Portland, OR yesterday, presented in 4K on a moderate sized
screen. This film is best seen on as large a screen as possible for the
photography is very high res. 70mm and very stunning.
It lives up to its outstanding predeces
Thanks for the review of the film. Not exactly Capricorn One, but close.
About the Blu Ray player. Can you watch, for example, Daily Show episodes
using the browser feature?
Happy Holidays!
Hi, FFL'ers.
My wife, who is not a TM'er like myself, was diagnosed with rectal cancer 2
weeks ago. Looks like we caught it early, too, thank God. We will begin chemo
and radiation in probably about another week. Anyway, any healing practice
suggestions from the group out there. She has signe
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote:
>
> On 07/24/2011 10:38 AM, Mark Landau wrote:
> > Thank you, w. The best time to have written it would have been in the late
> > seventies or early eighties. It's so long, now, much of it is lost. But I
> > hear you and one never knows.
Since I took the Sidhis many moons ago, I have not followed too closely some of
the knowledge that has been coming out about other Vedic texts.
I was scanning the MUM Press online booksstore and came across several Sanskrit
books listed I am not familiar with. I was particular intrigued by the N
Before Imax there was old 3 eyes:
http://www.film-tech.com/ubb/f8/t006711.html
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote:
>
> On 07/15/2012 06:54 PM, ultrarishi wrote:
> > Before Imax there was old 3 eyes:
> >
> > http://www.film-tech.com/ubb/f8/t006711.html
> >
> >
>
> Back in the day I saw "How the West Was Won&
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote:
>
> We can hope that Obama DOES veto this law and just wasn't speaking
> through his hat. This bill is far worse than SOPA:
> http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/04/26/5-ways-cispa-could-be-worse-than-sopa-for-internet-activists/
>
> How did y
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wgm4u wrote:
>
> Low unemployment, oil exploration, low gas prices, energy independence!, AND
> for you libs, *MORE* MONEY FOR GREEN ENERGY R AND D!! OK for you Rick?
>
Okay. Great idea!
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2009/03/how-nation%E2%80%99s-only
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote:
>
> On 04/26/2012 01:06 PM, Bhairitu wrote:
> > Then why wouldn't 72 fps be the "proper speed"? Or 120 fps? I don't
> > think there is any such thing as a "proper speed" but what you can get
> > away with. 24 fps has been around since the
Wow. I am a bit beside myself, but I have been expecting it. It's
been obvious that preps have been made these past few months for a
big event.
Anyway, my love to Master and my condolences to those who given all
for the Master.
I hope the movement can reinvent itself and survive. The techniqu
Dearest TM Community,
Patti Steurer here writing you and all those on my TM Community email
list to let you know that our dear Maharishi-ji shed his human body.
It is with a heavy heart that is full of all that Maharishi has given
me (and you) including a daily experience of Pure Creative
Intellig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "lurkernomore20002000"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> "Patrick Gillam" wrote:
>
> Management guru Peter Drucker wrote that the ultimate test of an
> organization occurs at times of leadership successions. I thought of
> that last night as I saw Bevan
With the passing of MMY, it's been interesting to see the big fire
storm building around the battle between Anonymous and the Church of
Scientology. Youtube® has been a fun repository to check out for Tom
Cruise's "leaked" members' only video and all its parodies, plus the
videos from Anonymous ch
So, I guess Deepak Chopra is breathing a sigh of relief. He could
have been in Tony Nadar's position dressed up as Roger Ramjet. Among
other things I think he probably so this kind of silliness coming. It
seemed Maharishi was gromming Deepak to take over the movement. I'm
glad Deepak got out.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Dick Mays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Please note that Dr G M is an outstanding Indian Governor
> responsible for single-handedly creating the first group of 8,000
> pundits in India. He is a Maharishi-trained TM-Sidhi instructor and
> teacher of Adva
With all the Deepak and Dr.G.M. threads rolling by, I've wanted to
stop for a second and ask about MMY and his diabetes. Was this a life
long illness of his, or did this develop sometime later in life, or as
a result of the poisoning incident from 1991?
Since his passing, I would like to see (but
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ultrarishi wrote:
> >
> > With all the Deepak and Dr.G.M. threads rolling by, I've wanted to
> > stop for a second and ask ab
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> > To answer you question about whether I'm a member of a cult, that
> > would be "no", unless, of course, you count the fans of Jennifer
> > Connelly and Salma Hayek, for which I am intensely guilty.
> >
>
> ...which
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "william108wm"
> wrote:
> >
> > In the midst of hearing all these stories surrounding Maharishi's
> > death and cremation, I have heard nothing about Neil Patterson. Was he
> >
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> She's a national treasure. If I had the opportunity
> to sit down over coffee and talk for several hours
> with *any* female movie star (and it's *just* coffee,
> mind you), it would probably be Salma Hayek. If she
> wer
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, grate.swan wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote:
> >
> > You're on the road to enlightenment when you stop aggravating about
> > getting there. ;-)
> >
> Ok I'll play.
>
> 60 seconds: Go
>
> You are on the road to Enlightenment
Yes.
However, the issue is NOT Pelosi, it's Rice, Rumsfeld, Bushlite, and Cheney,
the actual instigators of the criminal acts.
And yes, let's get those photos released that the ACLU is suing over.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "BillyG." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcEYv_hI3-s&feature=related
>
DEJA VU, ALL OVER AGAIN:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDgS3FE674o
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "at_man_and_brahman"
wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "at_man_and_brahman"
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Back to my original question. Does anyone
> > > recall the FFL discussion a
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, billy jim wrote:
>
> " - or that the siddhi program doesn't use Sanskrit?"
>
> I'm wondering where people got the idea that the various sutras
should be used only in a Sanskrit form? Although trained as a TM
teacher, I took my sutra training at a citizen sidd
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, I am the eternal
wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:55 PM, ultrarishi
wrote:
>
> >
> > From what I remember about my CIC course, was that I WAS surprised,
> > but not shocked that sutras were in English. But, on the tape that
Hey, good people. I've gotten some outstanding Mac advice here in the
past and as a Mac nOOb I appreciate FFL's advice in this area. My
question is in regards to installing TechTool on my MacBook Pro.
My unit is running Leopard. I went ahead and setup Boot Camp and run
Windows XP Pro on the uni
Let's see...
Birth Certificate:check
Pass Health Care: check
Help tornado victim crackers in South who didn't vote for me: check
Kill Osama bin Laden: check
What is Fox News going to talk about tomorrow? "He should have killed him
sooner"?
I am so glad this didn't happ
I have a friend who is a meditator and a fellow classmate in my thrice weekly
yoga class. She has developed a "buzzing" sensation in what we would consider
the third eye area. It comes up during yoga class when doing asanas. It comes
up when she hears chanting. And, it comes up when she sits
2 Points:
The first, is that secrets are part and parcel (to use MMY's favorite phrase
from the 50's) to the movement. Secret ceremony, secret mantra, secret sutras,
secret advance techniques. What the hell, might as well have a secret family.
I'm glad Tony has one since it might keep him m
RR: I like to show you my yogic flying.
Kiki: 60 Euros.
RR: Can I pay you Rams?
Kiki: 60 Euros. And please stop talking. You're only making me feel like a
ho, but stupid too.
Has anyone seen or heard of a book on TM called THE SHINING ONES?
I saw it mention in a book on levitation that came out circa 15 or so
years ago.
Inquiring minds want to know.
Thanks.
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My ex-wife and I became Citizens Siddhas (as they were known then)
back in 1981. Around 1985 we got divorce and during the breakup our
flying badges got lost.
In 1989 I visited Fairfield for a WPA and was issued a temp. badge for
use in the Men's Dome which I surrendered when I returned home.
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> Dear Fairfield Lifers,
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> For the well-being and continuity of our group, I post the
> following information, from today's New York Times news reports:
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> Annoying someone via the internet is now a federa
This would have to be THE MOTHER OF ALL MOVES!
Isn't there a Maharishi Vedic Mother Trucker Technology of the Vastu
available for this operated by Raja Uhaulananda.
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Blessings from
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I, too, think that using the term "spiritual incest" creates a
slipperly slope and changes the focus of what is going on which is
why I change the subject name to Mahesh rather than Maharishi and
women.
I choose not to think of this as a Guru and chela or spiritual
father and disciple situatio
I know from my own experience that the Dark Night of the Soul
experience was based on not doing alot of housekeeping first.
Primarily, I needed to work on developing a self before I give up the
self.
Codependents and Adult Children of Alcoholics, and the like, are very
common on the elightenm
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FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Tom T:
> Those in the movement get really good at step 11. Sought through
> prayer and meditation to etc,
> The basic pproblem is that ultimately you have to do all 12 steps.
You
> can not tran
Over the years I've wondered several things about how teachers were
compensated. Were they salaried "back in the day" of all the Merv
Griffin initiations, or were they paid on commission?
Also, we the applications that we all filled out, were they
qualified at some national or international of
Speaking of edited versions of MMY's lectures, etc... A number of
years ago I was watching a video on KSCI with Maharishi rambling on
about some topic that now escapes. What captured my attention was
that it appeared MMY's last meal apparently didn't agree with him, so
there would be these pau
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "L B Shriver"
> [...]
> Now it is
> > difficult to find the faintest shred of evidence that the world is
> being "saved". So the Dream
> > is Over, and the disappointment for man
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> In any case, of course you have to discriminate and
> make evolutionary decisions; that isn't what I mean
> by "judgmentalism." You can say, e.g., I choose to
> do THIS rather than THAT, without saying, They're
>
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jyouells2000" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >
> > on 1/2/06 9:28 AM, sparaig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > > Different cultures define "caring" in different ways. The TM
My wife, my sister, my mom, and I all took the 23andme.com test this past year.
It was fun.
Basically I am 99% Northern European English / Irish decent, which, when you
look at me, sends pretty much obvious. What was very cool, though, was I had
0.1% sub Saharan African in my DNA. My mom was
Hillary's outfit reminded me of Dr. Evil from the Austin Powers' movies or the
source element, Dr. No.
Trumped reminded me of the Mormon toddler next door who is always getting time
outs for misbehavior.
My favorite line today from the pundits is from Keith Olberman saying Trump is
Releasing a political story on a Friday is known as a news dump.
Sorking wrote an episode of the West Wing about how this was a strategy to hide
big stories by releasing them at a time when folks are concerned with movies
and ball games or that it gets buried in a deluge of many stories.
Take O
It's amazing how much the Internet has become part of this election cycle. The
biggest take away from this is how ill prepared and ignorant the key players in
this cluster fuck have been. Trump is obviously oblivious to the "cyber" world
is knows jack shit. Hillary on the one hand benefits fr
This documentary is quite good. Watched it earlier in the week. It's also on
Amazon Prime.and youtube.
I'm getting a "This video was removed by the user" message on youtube. What
was clip?
Recruitment.
While I would hate to see the Union breakup, I would love to see a referendum
on the ballot in Calfiornia just so it can flex its muscle a little in front of
the rest of the country. Most Republican states I heard get more in Federal
money than they pay into the system via taxes. California gi
Trump is trying the old "Go Big or Go Home" strategy with his administration.
Sucker punched everyone with no honeymoon period for the press, fed agencies,
and our allies. And while we are getting buyer's remorse and suddenly waking
up the morning after the questionable pick up at 2AM for chea
Thanks for the tip on the Naga documentary on Netflix. I'll give it a look.
They sure gave it a brutal 1 star rating, but I'll still watch. I like to see
programming of this nature.
Lately, I have been watching a ton of documentaries on Netflix, amazon, and
Showtime. 2 on showtime that were
About 10 minutes into Naga I turned on the subtitle and found that much of what
people were speaking was translated into English that the narrator was not
mentioning. So the first holy man was actually going on quite a bit about how
the ass is star stuff (shades of Sagan) and that he is coverin
Then there's this ingenuity...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avF6GHyyk5c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avF6GHyyk5c
OR...
https://youtu.be/ELD2AwFN9Nc https://youtu.be/ELD2AwFN9Nc
It's also a bogus jobs program. Since we DO manufacture defense weapons here
this becomes a reinvestment in the stateside economy. Unfortunately, it pretty
fucking sad that all we make are instruments of death.
'Murica: Morally Bankrupt.
Tim Ferris though is kind of a bad meditator. I've been listening to his
podcast for years. He seems to only do the morning meditation and usually for
about 5-10 minutes.
My feeling is that vanity projects like going to Mars are going to get dumped
pretty quickly as the American economy spirals downward under the Republicans.
They are directing essentially all cash into the 1% and killing any safety net.
What has been outsourced or shipped overseas will never r
Hell, no!
As a non Catholic outsider, I've seen this Pope as one of the best
respresentatives of their faith. The Church has issue most of them coming from
its lack of acknowledging the reality of the modern world. This Pope gets it.
And he gets it in a way that also seems to convey the mess
I'm glad you put out this book and that I am reading it now. I took up TM in
1975 while in college. I am part of the Merv way of initiations from that era.
By in large my 40+ years of TM and the Sidhis has been smooth. However,
several months into being a meditator I developed kriyas. Nothin
Here is a link I got from Dr. Rhonda Patrick about how their is a gut-brain
interaction related to the syndromes of Parkinson's Disease that was affected
by vagus nerve severing.
Mind Body Interaction coolness.
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-find-another-sign-that-parkinson-s-starts-
Thanks for mention these in relation to Parkinson's.
Once again, this proves that we are ruled by idiots in congress and the justice
dept. since the therapeutic benefit of these items is definitely there. But,
what would Big Pharma do if it couldn't make toxic garbage that is given an
unfair
Trump is done and it is just a matter of time. The Republicans are going to
try to ride out the bad optics of the situation so they can get as much of
their corporate and billionaire overlords' agenda through, but they will cave
to impeachment eventually. My reason for this is that they are ta
i think Comey, Clapper, and others are parsing this investigation of tRUmp a
bit fine. Technically, tRUmp is NOT under investigation as a specific focus
and thus deniable. However, he IS under investigation since he is part of the
organization campaign that IS a focus of investigation. They a
Fact: Capitalism does not connote or denote Liberty or Democracy. See China,
for example.
Fact: Capitalism works against Free Markets, thus limiting "membership" it its
wealthy elite.
Fact: Capitalism is destructive to representative governments. The obscene
money thrown at politicians is
I was wondering if TM Initiators have to use a specific incense for puja. I
have noticed over the decades that the incense in the pujas I've been part of
seem consistently the same type even though I have had many different teachers
in different parts of the country perform the ceremony.
I've
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmSsXoPxi0M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmSsXoPxi0M
When MMY started on his "give me that old time Veda, give me that old time
Veda" routine to help return India to an ancient theocracy, etc., I really
thought he was missing the whole point of his programs.
Veda had its chance and it obviously blew it because poor old Bharat got
conquered... a
Speaking of cult movies... 2 of the best cult documentaries I've seen on
Netflix in past 30 days have been The Unbelievers, with scientistst Richard
Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss, and Particle Fever. Both are very exciting and
very sobering in terms of how science has to fight and struggle in a s
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
Dan, Hulu's business model is different form Netflix. Netflix does not show
ads and people expect this with their Hulu+ subscription. You get no ads on
Hulu+ with movies and they have the Criterion Collection. The problem with TV
shows is so
So, to come in late to this conversation about the privitization of water I'd
like to offer up a suggestion.
A friend of mine from high school, Deborah Kaufman and her husband made a great
documentary about this issue in 2004. It used to be available on streaming but
is no longer unfortunately.
I just love how all the bad-actors are pointing fingers at each other. Here's
more:
http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/03/level-3-and-cogent-ask-fcc-for-protection-against-isp-tolls/
http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/03/level-3-and-cogent-ask-fcc-for-protection-against-isp-tolls/
My feel
Sorry to learn about the crap John Black had to go through before becoming a
raja. I did program at the Palo Alto TM center back in the mid 80's to early
90's before moving away from the Bay Area. I always found John to be extremely
hard working and dedicated to the TM cause. That center was
Enjoy the fruit!
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/07/08/325796731/globe-trotting-gmo-bananas-arrive-for-their-first-test-in-iowa
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/07/08/325796731/globe-trotting-gmo-bananas-arrive-for-their-first-test-in-iowa
So, in theory, all of what he said below may be true in a karmic way and in
plain mental health. However, I also know that this leads to another problem
which when there isn't negative feedback in a system, the system tends to not
self correct. Since MMY was all about self referral, the movemen
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
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I truly think it was The Merv Griffin Show that got the biggest wave of
adherents. It was Middle America, not hippies like moi that Merv's audience
was appealing to and those folks became the mainstay. Also, the movement had a
good infrastructure in place at that time to intiate folks by the 1
Why do you think all those foam mattresses that are covered with bed linens are
in the Domes? And I won't even get into Advance Techniques here!
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Kind of reminds me of...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0tTT_87Hh8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0tTT_87Hh8
Having worked in the corporate world for decades, I came to realize that
corporations function much like cults as well.
Was there more than one mantra or puja on the Primordial Sound cassette?
Along the lines of Dan Harris, he was a guest this week on Joe Rogan's show in
an expansive and off the chain interview.
https://youtu.be/QtPs6Kuqjs0 https://youtu.be/QtPs6Kuqjs0
Cultural approbation is a garbage term. I mean, come on, should we stop using
algebra because ancient Islamic cultures invented it.
The so called HIndu Indian culture incorporated many cultures in its evolution
that it would be hard for them to claim total originality in their essence.
And j
I just love it when billionaire tech genius like Mr. Musk miss the obvious.
Earth is in trouble because its resources are being depleted by
over-population. Over population is the driver for global warming,etc.
Why don't we invest HERE and convince people there are enough people already.
By t
This is pretty good so far. I've watched the first episode and started in on
the second. I have lived in Oregon since 1993 and it's interesting watching
and listening to the "survivors" of the situation from the local perspective.
Our local PBS station did a really good 2 part documentary on
So, if the devatas are part of our digestive track, could they be part of the
microbiome? Are they feeding on BHB (beta hydroxbuterate)?
If ever there was a True Mantra for politics, it is "follow the money".
Huxley said, "behind every fortune is a crime".
I was initiated in San Francisco in 1975 during the Merv Wave. Does anyone
know what happened to the various teachers in San Francisco between 1975 and
1980?
One of my favorite personalities at the center was Catherine (Katherine?)
Lyons.
I may have mentioned this here before, but I did have the 23andme genome test
done for my mother, my, and myself. It turns out we all have about 3.1 % in
our family's heritage. So... be nice to me... or I'll eat ya'.
I'm thinking fava beans with a nice Chianti tonight.
Here's the picture from
This looks like one of the failures at the top of management where they think
"well... we own this property and it paid for itself before, so let's do it
again". The 1959 classic is perfect just the way it is that they can't really
do justice to it in a remake. If you look at the chariot race
Why does this look like bad Bollywood (I know, bad Bollywood is redundant).
Jesus. CERN administrators need to get a life. This is a fabulous prank. Why
does genius and inquiry have to be divorced from comedy. I am a big fan of
Richard Feynman. He was quite the prankster at Los Alamos during the
development of the atom bomb. Constantly got arrested from various har
Actually, at this point in the election, as much as an anti-GMO advocate that I
am, I don't want to hear about it from Hilliry. I just want her to win, not
because I am a fanboy (not even close), I just think she will do less damage
and maybe some good as president. Trump is a sociopath and a
You might be interested in the work of Stephen Porges and his Polyvagal Theory.
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