Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Charlie Lutes - A series of lectures on spirituality relevant to Transcendental Meditators. - YouTube

2014-06-27 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
The mind doesn't remember pure consciousness. It notes the transition out of pure consciousness. Most people think that the TM period is uniformly some special state of consciousness, but actually it is merely a situation where CC-like physiology is more likely to be present than outside

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Charlie Lutes - A series of lectures on spirituality relevant to Transcendental Meditators. - YouTube

2014-06-27 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Minor suggested edits...  :-) From: lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, June 27, 2014 9:30 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Charlie Lutes - A series of lectures on spirituality

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Charlie Lutes - A series of lectures on spirituality relevant to Transcendental Meditators. - YouTube

2014-06-27 Thread fleetwood_macnche...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
TM-SIdhis program *always* includes TM, so there's no point in talking about things any other way. For us, true, but anyone can find a sutra. Hope your friend finds **The Answer** - lol ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, LEnglish5@... wrote : TM-SIdhis program *always* includes TM, so

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Charlie Lutes - A series of lectures on spirituality relevant to Transcendental Meditators. - YouTube

2014-06-27 Thread awoelfleba...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : Minor suggested edits... :-) From: LEnglish5@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, June 27, 2014 9:30 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Charlie Lutes - A

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Charlie Lutes - A series of lectures on spirituality relevant to Transcendental Meditators. - YouTube

2014-06-27 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
Very droll, but in fact, I was paraphrasing R. Keith Wallace's book talking about research on TM, from the original research he did in 1970, until the time the book was published. If you want to argue with R. Keith because your mental impression of what is going on is more accurate than the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Charlie Lutes - A series of lectures on spirituality relevant to Transcendental Meditators. - YouTube

2014-06-27 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
What you were doing is speaking in absolutes, as if everything you said was undeniable truth, even though it's only stuff you've been told or that you've read. It doesn't matter *who* does that -- it's equally bogus, no matter who is spouting the dogma.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Charlie Lutes - A series of lectures on spirituality relevant to Transcendental Meditators. - YouTube

2014-06-26 Thread Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
And yet Charlie was fairly vocal in saying that Marshy made a mistake in teaching the TM Sidhi program. How do you account for that? From: nablusoss1008 no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2014 7:39 AM Subject:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Charlie Lutes - A series of lectures on spirituality relevant to Transcendental Meditators. - YouTube

2014-06-26 Thread Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
The statement is a practical one - Charlie might have been a nice guy, but he was as benighted as Jerry Jarvis and all the other old timers who were wowed by Marshy's charisma. Had the Old Goat been sincere and dealt with the unstressing phenomena in a responsible way and really focused on

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Charlie Lutes - A series of lectures on spirituality relevant to Transcendental Meditators. - YouTube

2014-06-26 Thread Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Good one Sal! I wish everyone had read the old article I posted here on Jerry Jarvis - it shows just how dedicated the real True Believers are in indoctrinating everyone into TM Fantasy Land thinking. From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com To:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Charlie Lutes - A series of lectures on spirituality relevant to Transcendental Meditators. - YouTube

2014-06-26 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : The best thing you can do is get a checking to rid your system of sarcasm. Will a checking cure me of my desire to state the bleeding obvious too? It sure cured Nabby of his

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Charlie Lutes - A series of lectures on spirituality relevant to Transcendental Meditators. - YouTube

2014-06-26 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: nablusoss1008 no_re...@yahoogroups.com Only nitwits are interested in the obvious everyone else can see. Watch the tapes with Charlie Lutes and TRY to have a peek into the hidden. Not that I think it will give any meaning for you... 'It is only shallow people who do not judge by

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Charlie Lutes - A series of lectures on spirituality relevant to Transcendental Meditators. - YouTube

2014-06-26 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com   Having listened to a couple of tapes I think he sounds like an old time preacher crossed with any number of new age guru's. Maybe you had to be there to buy into whatever charisma he's supposed to have but he delivers his speeches like a second

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Charlie Lutes - A series of lectures on spirituality relevant to Transcendental Meditators. - YouTube

2014-06-26 Thread Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I know people from that era who still think Charlie was hooked into some kind of special ascended master crap and therefore thinks he was some kind of special guy, even the ones who don't do TM anymore. From: TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Charlie Lutes - A series of lectures on spirituality relevant to Transcendental Meditators. - YouTube

2014-06-26 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com I know people from that era who still think Charlie was hooked into some kind of special ascended master crap and therefore thinks he was some kind of special guy, even the ones who don't do TM anymore.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Charlie Lutes - A series of lectures on spirituality relevant to Transcendental Meditators. - YouTube

2014-06-26 Thread awoelfleba...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : The statement is a practical one - Charlie might have been a nice guy, but he was as benighted as Jerry Jarvis and all the other old timers who were wowed by Marshy's charisma. Had the Old Goat been sincere and dealt with

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Charlie Lutes - A series of lectures on spirituality relevant to Transcendental Meditators. - YouTube

2014-06-26 Thread awoelfleba...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : The best thing you can do is get a checking to rid your system of sarcasm. Will a checking cure me of my

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Charlie Lutes - A series of lectures on spirituality relevant to Transcendental Meditators. - YouTube

2014-06-26 Thread awoelfleba...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : From: Michael Jackson mjackson74@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com I know people from that era who still think Charlie was hooked into some kind of special ascended master crap and therefore thinks he was some

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Charlie Lutes - A series of lectures on spirituality relevant to Transcendental Meditators. - YouTube

2014-06-26 Thread awoelfleba...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : From: nablusoss1008 no_re...@yahoogroups.com Only nitwits are interested in the obvious everyone else can see. Watch the tapes with Charlie Lutes and TRY to have a peek into the hidden. Not that I think it will give any meaning

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Charlie Lutes - A series of lectures on spirituality relevant to Transcendental Meditators. - YouTube

2014-06-26 Thread Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I admit that every quote of Oscar Wilde makes me love him more! So just for fun, I checked him out on the List of Initiates. I include a couple of others, also just for fun: Oscar Wilde, 1.6 Wordsworth 1.7 Natalie Wood 1.4 On Thursday, June 26, 2014 7:44 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Charlie Lutes - A series of lectures on spirituality relevant to Transcendental Meditators. - YouTube

2014-06-26 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 6/26/2014 6:52 AM, salyavin808 wrote: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : Thanks for posting this. Lutes was a truly interesting American and a Seer. I notice that the deserts aren't exactly blooming at the moment, did he have a specific timescale

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Charlie Lutes - A series of lectures on spirituality relevant to Transcendental Meditators. - YouTube

2014-06-26 Thread awoelfleba...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote : I admit that every quote of Oscar Wilde makes me love him more! So just for fun, I checked him out on the List of Initiates. I include a couple of others, also just for fun: Oscar Wilde, 1.6 Wordsworth 1.7 Natalie Wood 1.4

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Charlie Lutes - A series of lectures on spirituality relevant to Transcendental Meditators. - YouTube

2014-06-26 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 6/26/2014 7:18 AM, salyavin808 wrote: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : The best thing you can do is get a checking to rid your system of sarcasm. Will a checking cure me of my desire to state the bleeding obvious too? Sal is really taking this

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Charlie Lutes - A series of lectures on spirituality relevant to Transcendental Meditators. - YouTube

2014-06-26 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 6/26/2014 7:18 AM, Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: And yet Charlie was fairly vocal in saying that Marshy made a mistake in teaching the TM Sidhi program. How do you account for that? He probably thought it was just too advanced for most people, like basic

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Charlie Lutes - A series of lectures on spirituality relevant to Transcendental Meditators. - YouTube

2014-06-26 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 6/26/2014 7:22 AM, Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: The statement is a practical one - Charlie might have been a nice guy, but he was as benighted as Jerry Jarvis and all the other old timers who were wowed by Marshy's charisma. Had the Old Goat been sincere and

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Charlie Lutes - A series of lectures on spirituality relevant to Transcendental Meditators. - YouTube

2014-06-26 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 6/26/2014 7:42 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: *From:* salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : The best thing you can do is get a checking to rid your system of sarcasm. Will a checking cure me

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Charlie Lutes - A series of lectures on spirituality relevant to Transcendental Meditators. - YouTube

2014-06-26 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 6/26/2014 7:44 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: *From:* nablusoss1008 no_re...@yahoogroups.com Only nitwits are interested in the obvious everyone else can see. Watch the tapes with Charlie Lutes and TRY to have a peek into the hidden. Not that I think it will

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Charlie Lutes - A series of lectures on spirituality relevant to Transcendental Meditators. - YouTube

2014-06-26 Thread Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Richard, once again imo Maharishi had a great insight. By presenting the sidhis as a way to develop mind body coordination. Simple, unglamorous, down to earth. Not to make a reverse pun ha ha! The traditional warning is that pursuit of special powers is dangerous to genuine spiritual progress.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Charlie Lutes - A series of lectures on spirituality relevant to Transcendental Meditators. - YouTube

2014-06-26 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 6/26/2014 8:50 AM, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : The statement is a practical one - Charlie might have been a nice guy, but he was as benighted as Jerry Jarvis and all the other old timers who were wowed by

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Charlie Lutes - A series of lectures on spirituality relevant to Transcendental Meditators. - YouTube

2014-06-26 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 6/26/2014 8:50 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: *From:* Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com I know people from that era who still think Charlie was hooked into some kind of special ascended master crap and therefore

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Charlie Lutes - A series of lectures on spirituality relevant to Transcendental Meditators. - YouTube

2014-06-26 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 6/26/2014 10:38 AM, Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Richard, once again imo Maharishi had a great insight. By presenting the sidhis as a way to develop mind body coordination. Simple, unglamorous, down to earth. Not to make a reverse pun ha ha! The traditional warning

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Charlie Lutes - A series of lectures on spirituality relevant to Transcendental Meditators. - YouTube

2014-06-26 Thread nablusoss1008
1.6 for Oscar Wild is pretty good actually and more than I expected. When checking the list you will find that many world famous artists was round-about the same point of evolution when they popped, and it is far, far above average for mankind. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Charlie Lutes - A series of lectures on spirituality relevant to Transcendental Meditators. - YouTube

2014-06-26 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
Because Charley believed the modern tradition. You don't find the same warnings about Yogic Flying and other Siddhis in older sources, as far as I can tell. In fact, the Shiva Samhita says that practice of Yogic Flying destroys the darkness of the world. L ---In

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Charlie Lutes - A series of lectures on spirituality relevant to Transcendental Meditators. - YouTube

2014-06-26 Thread anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
What do you consider the modern tradition? The Shiva Samhita is generally thought to have been composed somewhere between 1600 to 1800 CE though one translator thinks it was composed perhaps around 1500 CE. This is hardly an old document, having been written long after the classic Vedic works.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Charlie Lutes - A series of lectures on spirituality relevant to Transcendental Meditators. - YouTube

2014-06-26 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
That was a bit flippant of me, wasn't it? Cardmeister has already gone into detail about how different commentators interpret the warning differently. The most straightforward interpretation is that only the sense-related siddhis are impediments to samadhi. Maharishi takes a broader

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Charlie Lutes - A series of lectures on spirituality relevant to Transcendental Meditators. - YouTube

2014-06-26 Thread fleetwood_macnche...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Personally, I am glad I had done TM, and some rounding, before I was exposed to the TM-Siddhis Programme. Without that foundation, built from meditation, the experiences can be a bit unsettling, to say the least. I would not mess around with sidhis, without that initial stability. With it, no

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Charlie Lutes - A series of lectures on spirituality relevant to Transcendental Meditators. - YouTube

2014-06-26 Thread fleetwood_macnche...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
George: I think it moved. Jerry: Moved? George: It may have moved, I don't know. Jerry: I'm sure it didn't move. George: It moved! It was imperceptible but I felt it. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, awoelflebater@... wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Charlie Lutes - A series of lectures on spirituality relevant to Transcendental Meditators. - YouTube

2014-06-26 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
TM-SIdhis program *always* includes TM, so there's no point in talking about things any other way. A freind of mine thought that Yogic Flying was the most important thing you could ever do, so he would cut out TM and the rest of the TM-SIdhis if he was short on time. I thought he was

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Charlie Lutes - A series of lectures on spirituality relevant to Transcendental Meditators. - YouTube

2014-06-26 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Ha!, that's funny Ann. BTW, the colloidal silver has worked very well in the little patch of psoriasis or dry skin below my knee. I've had that patch for about 20 years and during that time managed to go to the skin doctor a couple of times. In both cases they gave me a topical ointment

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Charlie Lutes - A series of lectures on spirituality relevant to Transcendental Meditators. - YouTube

2014-06-26 Thread anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
1. Now if pure consciousness is transcendent and non-physical, no EEG pattern would ever reveal it, since no evidence of consciousness could ever be discovered scientifically as science only measures physical things. Thus all evidence that scientific evidence can somehow support the contention

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Charlie Lutes - A series of lectures on spirituality relevant to Transcendental Meditators. - YouTube

2014-06-26 Thread awoelfleba...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, steve.sundur@... wrote : Ha!, that's funny Ann. BTW, the colloidal silver has worked very well in the little patch of psoriasis or dry skin below my knee. I've had that patch for about 20 years and during that time managed to go to the skin doctor a