[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-18 Thread curtisdeltablues
Remember that old bone we were chewing on? Judy: The contradiction is that according to science, your constraints, your sense of exercising an act of will to overcome them, and your enjoyment of all that are all *determined*, because the behavior of the elementary particles that make your mind,

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-18 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Remember that old bone we were chewing on? Indeed I do. I just got back home, and almost the first thing I did was haul out Quantum Questions to reread the entire The 'I' That Is God essay from which I took the

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-18 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A great example of this was when he came here, sometime in the late 70s I think, he apparently made the offhand remark that someone's sari was really nice, or something to that effect. Next time he came--most of

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-18 Thread curtisdeltablues
Great points. Thanks for taking the time. I will take a little time to make sure I let them sink in. I can't resist this one to start: The irony is that if what you're calling the group 'I' is in fact the case, it means you are infinitely more than just the currently living bodymind called

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-18 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 6/15/06 10:58 AM, jim_flanegin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife% 40yahoogroups.com , curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: This is a frequent

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-18 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Great points. Thanks for taking the time. I will take a little time to make sure I let them sink in. I can't resist this one to start: The irony is that if what you're calling the group 'I' is in fact

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-18 Thread curtisdeltablues
With the caveat that expansion beyond limitations is an action more of ongoing comprehension and appreciation, I agree that it is the details that give sweetness to life (leading me to conclude that whoever said, the devil is in the details was the devil himself). It is pretty obvious to

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-18 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Great points. Thanks for taking the time. I will take a little time to make sure I let them sink in. I can't resist this one to start: The irony is that if what you're calling the group 'I' is in fact

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-18 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip This is so abstract it's hard to get across, but do you remember I said my experience of development of consciousness was one of increasing transparency? Part of that is that limitations become transparent.

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-18 Thread curtisdeltablues
I can't resist suggesting that perhaps the concept that seemed so powerful and important *was itself limited* as it existed in your mind at the time, and that at a certain point you had grown beyond what it meant to you then--but for various reasons, instead of letting the concept expand along

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-18 Thread curtisdeltablues
Does this mean that I can take my time digitally adding you to the Holy Tradition portrait? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: snip This is so abstract it's hard to get across, but do

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-18 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't resist suggesting that perhaps the concept that seemed so powerful and important *was itself limited* as it existed in your mind at the time, and that at a certain point you had grown beyond what it

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-18 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does this mean that I can take my time digitally adding you to the Holy Tradition portrait? sheesh Yeah, I think you can back-burner it for the next few lives... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-18 Thread curtisdeltablues
OK. Whatever the basis for your leaving the movement, what I find curious is that the way you talk about what you say no longer appeals to you, it wouldn't appeal to me either. It seems sort of stunted and shallow and two-dimensional and colorless, just a lot of empty words. I will have to give

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-18 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] So much of what you said seems to be a natural pattern of growing up with our ideas whatever they are. I suspect that I am neither uniquely flawed nor gifted in intellectual awareness, in or out of TMO.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-18 Thread Vaj
On Jun 18, 2006, at 5:18 PM, sparaig wrote:--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] So much of what you said seems to be a natural pattern of growing up with our ideas whatever they are.  I suspect that I am neither uniquely flawed nor gifted in

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-18 Thread curtisdeltablues
Well, you also made it sound as though anyone and everyone in the TMO was a liar as Andrew Skolnick quoted you in his JAMA article: Are you a teacher? Is it news for you that people in the movement lie, especially to reporters? I was speaking about my experience. Is it different for you?

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-18 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 18, 2006, at 5:18 PM, sparaig wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: [...] So much of what you said seems to be a natural pattern of growing up with our

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-18 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, you also made it sound as though anyone and everyone in the TMO was a liar as Andrew Skolnick quoted you in his JAMA article: Are you a teacher? Is it news for you that people in the movement lie,

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-18 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, you also made it sound as though anyone and everyone in the TMO was a liar as Andrew Skolnick quoted you in his JAMA article: Are you a teacher? Is it news for you that people in the movement lie,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-18 Thread Vaj
On Jun 18, 2006, at 5:34 PM, curtisdeltablues wrote:"Well, you also made it sound as though anyone and everyone in the TMO was a liar as Andrew Skolnick quoted you in his JAMA article:" Are you a teacher?  Is it news for you that people in the movement lie, especially to reporters?  I was

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-18 Thread curtisdeltablues
No, I was not a researcher. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 18, 2006, at 5:34 PM, curtisdeltablues wrote: Well, you also made it sound as though anyone and everyone in the TMO was a liar as Andrew Skolnick quoted you in his JAMA article:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-18 Thread Vaj
Well, no I assumed you weren't. What I was asking was there any hint that some of the research had been "fudged" for PR purposes?On Jun 18, 2006, at 6:42 PM, curtisdeltablues wrote:No, I was not a researcher. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 18, 2006,

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-18 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: Great points. Thanks for taking the time. I will take a little time to make sure I let them sink in. I can't resist this one

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-18 Thread curtisdeltablues
Both statements are accurate to my experience. Protecting the group's more controversial beliefs from outsiders did not usually cause me conflict. The end justified the means. This point was important to Andrew because he couldn't understand how a person could willfully deceive JAMA about their

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-18 Thread curtisdeltablues
I can't think of any examples of that because I believed the research was valid. Since then I have read perspectives of the research that exposes the weaknesses, but while in the group I was not interested in this perspective at all. There was never a sincere commitment to the scientific method,

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-18 Thread authfriend
Vaj wrote: What I was asking was there any hint that some of the research had been fudged for PR purposes? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't think of any examples of that because I believed the research was valid. Since then I have

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-18 Thread curtisdeltablues
There are actually quite a few factual inaccuracies in that earlier alt.m.t quote. Are there any of them you'd like to correct now? Nope. But thanks for asking. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vaj wrote: What I was asking was there any hint

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-17 Thread Rick Archer
Title: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field' on 6/15/06 11:40 AM, authfriend at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am pretty sure we got this idea about his state from him. I don't think it is assumptive on our part. If you treat him in any way other then as enlightened

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-17 Thread Rick Archer
Title: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field' on 6/15/06 10:58 AM, jim_flanegin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com , curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a frequent mistake people make

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-17 Thread Rick Archer
Title: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field' on 6/15/06 11:53 AM, curtisdeltablues at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And also regarding getting escorted out, were those that this happened to respectful? Just curious, because we'd be treated similarly in any company meeting

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-16 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You made a number of new points that are helping me understand how you are seeing the quote. It will take some time for me to unpack it. I think this is worth the time. It is as good a tool as any to discuss

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-16 Thread Vaj
On Jun 16, 2006, at 1:30 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: I also remember the effect he had on other practitioners--esp. his   students--they were legendary (to put it very nicely). As I rememebr, in dharma circles, there was some mention that either   he or a student of his made the claim he was a

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-15 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That was really interesting, thanks! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote: On Jun 14, 2006, at 3:20 PM, curtisdeltablues wrote: Good points. This one interested me the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-15 Thread Vaj
On Jun 14, 2006, at 10:56 PM, coshlnx wrote:--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" [EMAIL PROTECTED]  wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" jstein@  wrote: However, there could be a good deal of semantic ambiguity here, in light of how MMY defines Unity

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-15 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 14, 2006, at 1:43 PM, TurquoiseB wrote: It was just a fascinating evening for me, watching her avoiding her own perceptions. I did not tell her before the talk that Rama could do siddhis, or to watch for them, and

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-15 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: That was really interesting, thanks! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote: On Jun 14,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-15 Thread Vaj
On Jun 15, 2006, at 8:03 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 14, 2006, at 1:43 PM, TurquoiseB wrote: It was just a fascinating evening for me, watching her avoiding her own perceptions. I did not tell her before the talk that

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-15 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 15, 2006, at 8:03 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote: Unless of course she was pissed because she realized he was using some form of suggestion... Some Buddhist

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-15 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, coshlnx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: However, there could be a good deal of semantic ambiguity here, in light of

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-15 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, coshlnx coshlnx@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote:

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-15 Thread curtisdeltablues
This is a frequent mistake people make, *assuming* that Maharishi [or another guru] is enlightened (I think psychologists refer to this phenomenon as transference), and then based on that assumption, interpret what Maharishi says as true, often misintepreting and misunderstanding what the guru

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-15 Thread curtisdeltablues
The enlightened person, according to MMY's teaching, doesn't make mistakes *from nature's perspective*; but it's entirely possible for nature to want the enlightened person to make a mistake, for nature's own unfathomable purposes (e.g., to nudge the person's followers into using their own

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-15 Thread Kirk
@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 10:21 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field' "The enlightened person,according to MMY's teaching, doesn't makemistakes *from nature's "perspective"*; but it'sentirely possible for nature to "want" theenlightened

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-15 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a frequent mistake people make, *assuming* that Maharishi [or another guru] is enlightened (I think psychologists refer to this phenomenon as transference), and then based on that assumption,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-15 Thread Kirk
and others resources, and then they call him Shiva. Ha Ha. - Original Message - From: Kirk To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 10:35 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field' 'Nature' is a fallacy. This teaching is the bane of religious

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-15 Thread curtisdeltablues
: curtisdeltablues To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 10:21 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field' The enlightened person, according to MMY's teaching, doesn't make mistakes *from nature's perspective*; but it's entirely possible for nature to want

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-15 Thread Vaj
On Jun 14, 2006, at 7:43 PM, sparaig wrote:--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 14, 2006, at 3:20 PM, curtisdeltablues wrote: Good points. This one interested me the most: "rather by recognizing that mysticism is completely beyond science." It is beyond

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-15 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a frequent mistake people make, *assuming* that Maharishi [or another guru] is enlightened (I think psychologists refer to this phenomenon as transference), and then based on that assumption,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-15 Thread Kirk
ce in a while. - Original Message - From: curtisdeltablues To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 10:21 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field' "The enlightened person, according to MMY's teaching, doesn't make mistakes *from nature

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-15 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, coshlnx coshlnx@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote:

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-15 Thread jim_flanegin
@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 10:21 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field' The enlightened person, according to MMY's teaching, doesn't make mistakes *from nature's perspective*; but it's entirely possible for nature to want the enlightened person

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-15 Thread Vaj
On Jun 15, 2006, at 2:20 AM, sparaig wrote:--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That was really interesting, thanks!  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote: On Jun 14, 2006, at 3:20 PM, curtisdeltablues wrote: Good

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-15 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Kirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So many people here considering themselves freethinking TMers who have gotten away from the cultish mentality, and yet, like a grain of sand in an oyster, people have made a pearl out of the utter mythical nonsense that MMY

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-15 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The enlightened person, according to MMY's teaching, doesn't make mistakes *from nature's perspective*; but it's entirely possible for nature to want the enlightened person to make a mistake, for nature's own

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-15 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: This is a frequent mistake people make, *assuming* that Maharishi [or another guru] is enlightened (I think psychologists refer to

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-15 Thread curtisdeltablues
And also regarding getting escorted out, were those that this happened to respectful? Just curious, because we'd be treated similarly in any company meeting if openly challenging a CEO disrespecfully- not making any assumptions here, just gethering info. Thanks You make a good point here.

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-15 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 15, 2006, at 2:20 AM, sparaig wrote: snip Well, let's see, Ken Wilber, a rather superficial (sorry Judy) philosopher who has had a few grad-level QM courses as part of his work in biology, concludes that QM

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-15 Thread curtisdeltablues
Did your wife perhaps have some doubts about whether you were enlightened? Yeah, that was it. She had way too much counter-evidence! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-15 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And also regarding getting escorted out, were those that this happened to respectful? Just curious, because we'd be treated similarly in any company meeting if openly challenging a CEO disrespecfully- not making

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-15 Thread Peter
--- jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Kirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So many people here considering themselves freethinking TMers who have gotten away from the cultish mentality, and yet, like a grain of sand in an oyster, people have made

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-15 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: Just because he said he was enlightened, why did they believe it? This is a deep point. I'm sure you know all about Lifton's

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-15 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig sparaig@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: That was really interesting, thanks! --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-15 Thread curtisdeltablues
I don't know 'Lifton' or what that refers to. My take on why people ascribe stuff to their teachers is they want to personalize their own inner transformation, and the teacher is a convenient...target? lol. I'm sure this is true in many relationships. I think when he adopted the name Maharishi,

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-15 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 14, 2006, at 7:43 PM, sparaig wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote: On Jun 14, 2006, at 3:20 PM, curtisdeltablues wrote: Good points. This one interested me the most:

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-15 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, coshlnx coshlnx@ wrote: ---

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-15 Thread Kirk
MMY=Shiva...You didn't know that? Who else could hebe? Sudra Mahesh Varma __._,_.___ To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-15 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I've always interpretted no mistake as meaning that a mistake is something that detracts from one's evolution towards higher states of consciousness. I'll bet you a zillion dollars you can't come up with an

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-15 Thread Sal Sunshine
A great example of this was when he came here, sometime in the late 70s I think, he apparently made the offhand remark that someone's sari was really nice, or something to that effect. Next time he came--most of the women were wearing saris, and he couldn't believe it and wanted to know why. Sal

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-15 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Kirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MMY=Shiva...You didn't know that? Who else could he be? Sudra Mahesh Varma I vote for Bob's Big Boy! checkered overalls and everything. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Yahoo!

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-15 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know 'Lifton' or what that refers to. My take on why people ascribe stuff to their teachers is they want to personalize their own inner transformation, and the teacher is a convenient...target? lol.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-15 Thread Vaj
On Jun 15, 2006, at 1:34 PM, sparaig wrote:--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 14, 2006, at 7:43 PM, sparaig wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote:On Jun 14, 2006, at 3:20 PM, curtisdeltablues wrote: Good points. This

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-15 Thread Kirk
Flippancy isn't neccesarily a sense of humour. It's more a state of egoic conceit. - Original Message - From: jim_flanegin To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 12:46 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field' --- In FairfieldLife

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-15 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 15, 2006, at 1:34 PM, sparaig wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote: On Jun 14, 2006, at 7:43 PM, sparaig wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-15 Thread Bhairitu
Peter wrote: --- jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Kirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So many people here considering themselves freethinking TMers who have gotten away from the cultish mentality, and yet, like a grain of sand in an

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-15 Thread curtisdeltablues
[Quoting Schroedinger:] Let us see whether we cannot draw the correct, noncontradictory conclusion from the following two premises: (i) My body functions as a pure mechanism according to the Laws of Nature [determinism]. ME: This is about the physical body. (ii) Yet I know, by

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-15 Thread jim_flanegin
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 12:46 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field' --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Kirk kirk_bernhardt@ wrote: MMY=Shiva...You didn't know that? Who else could he be? Sudra Mahesh Varma I vote

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-15 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig sparaig@ wrote: snip Also, I'm not at all sure what Wilber says in this vein contradicts Hagelin. I think

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-15 Thread Vaj
On Jun 15, 2006, at 3:31 PM, sparaig wrote:--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 15, 2006, at 1:34 PM, sparaig wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote:On Jun 14, 2006, at 7:43 PM, sparaig wrote: --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-15 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Quoting Schroedinger:] Let us see whether we cannot draw the correct, noncontradictory conclusion from the following two premises: (i) My body functions as a pure mechanism according to the Laws of

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-15 Thread Kirk
OK- but I was being seriously absurd- there's a place for that I thought...---Oh, yes, that's okay then. __._,_.___ To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!'

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-15 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Kirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK- but I was being seriously absurd- there's a place for that I thought... ---Oh, yes, that's okay then. Just to clarify, Peter had asked who else Maharishi could be? I thought that the way he asked the question

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-15 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: [Quoting Schroedinger:] Let us see whether we cannot draw the correct, noncontradictory conclusion from the following two

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-15 Thread Kirk
So you see, I was being seriously absurd. Maybe it worked, and maybe it didn't. Just a little bit of fun. ---I think we both missed the mark and that he meant that everybody is Shiva. __._,_.___ To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-15 Thread Vaj
On Jun 15, 2006, at 3:31 PM, sparaig wrote:--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 15, 2006, at 1:34 PM, sparaig wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote: On Jun 14, 2006, at 7:43 PM, sparaig wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-15 Thread Vaj
On Jun 15, 2006, at 9:28 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: I can see how a magical display would make more sense, esp.   if inner qualities were lacking. It makes sense if you weren't there. If you were  there, it seems a lot like someone trying to cling  to his preconceptions.  :-)  In this case what it

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-15 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig sparaig@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: [...] I was going by the talk, which was represented as showing that anyone who talks

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-15 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Kirk kirk_bernhardt@ wrote: OK- but I was being seriously absurd- there's a place for that I thought... ---Oh, yes, that's okay then. Just to clarify, Peter

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-15 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Kirk kirk_bernhardt@ wrote: OK- but I was being seriously absurd- there's a place for that I

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-15 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig sparaig@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: [...] I was

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-15 Thread Vaj
On Jun 15, 2006, at 7:23 PM, sparaig wrote:--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" sparaig@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" jstein@ wrote: [...] I was going by the talk, which was

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-15 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: [Quoting Schroedinger:] Let us see whether we cannot

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-15 Thread curtisdeltablues
You made a number of new points that are helping me understand how you are seeing the quote. It will take some time for me to unpack it. I think this is worth the time. It is as good a tool as any to discuss the relationship of mind and body and the possibility for universal consciousness. The

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-15 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 15, 2006, at 9:28 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: I can see how a magical display would make more sense, esp. if inner qualities were lacking. It makes sense if you weren't there. If you were there, it seems a lot like

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-14 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've seen people sit and watch someone levitate and admit it verbally as it happens and then get up and leave the room and then claim the next day that it never happened, and that they had never said such a thing.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-14 Thread Kirk
This reification of a concept of some 'nature' is a fallacy. After enlightenment, there is not much ownership, it is just easier to do what nature wants because it is easiest to support nature, and in turn nature supports us. I know it sounds crazy, but it is simply the way it is. So

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-14 Thread Kirk
The fully enlightened people alive right now are all dead.---Not so. __._,_.___ To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-14 Thread Kirk
Yes, of course. And the experience of Self realization is nothing more than reaching a level of functioning where this is unimpeded. Nothing more than just that. "Practice makes perfect".This idea of a level of functioning is a fallacy. How can there be an up or a down in spacetime?

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-14 Thread Kirk
Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 12:27 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field' --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh, OK- Got it. So my question back is, what practical difference in your life would it make if you witness

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Clarifying The Energy Field'

2006-06-14 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Kirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, of course. And the experience of Self realization is nothing more than reaching a level of functioning where this is unimpeded. Nothing more than just that. Practice makes perfect. This idea of a level of

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