Just precisely what relevant education does Larry Hagman have? Boffing a genie in outtakes?!
He's a disgrace to the proud uniform of genie-owning astronauts everywhere.
Put him on the list too (and not the list of those waiting for ANOTHER liver).
Maybe he's hitting the sauce again, or maybe just trying to remind the world that he used to be somebody. ;)
These arrogant batards are beginning to get to me. Everyone has an opinion, usually misguided, and they bash our country and our President all over the world. No wonder foreign countries hate us with these jerks running us down all the time. Shame on them. I hope Jeannie turns him into the braying donkey he is!
As I posted on another Hagman thread: 'Amazing. Hagman cannot be well. That or he's tying to get into a threesome with Helen Thomas and Molly Ivins....'
Well, he is right about one thing. We are being led to fascism. If the patriot bill doesn't scare ya....
But about the war, these Marxist imbeciles make me sick. We were hit first and hit hard, and it was our civilians that were hit... deliberately. That alone is enough to convince me that every terrorist supporting regime in the world needs to be vaporized.
My only question is this: Why are we framing the war against Iraq in the context of old Desert Storm news? Why isn't it being waged in response to 9/11? Isn't that the real reason for this war? Why has Bush been drawn into this silly game of justifying a war with Iraq based on non compliance with UN resolutions, when the only evidence we need to wipe out Saddam is the fact that he supports, directly and indirectly, Islamic terrorism.
Islamic terrorists hit us on 9/11. All Islamic terrorist must pay for that attack. Saddam supports Islamic terrorism. He must go. It's that simple.
Unless, of course, it wasn't Islamic terrorists that hit us? hmmmmmmmmmm
Why should ANYONE pay ANY attention to what a has been leftist actor has to say?! The Germans might listen but most Americans wouldn't give him a second thought.
FWIW, Hagman's homepage proudly touts him as a spokesman for The Ojai Foundation, a New Age retreat north of Los Angeles. Ojai's "history" page may give some insight into the fevered mind of Mr. Hagman.
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http://www.ojaifoundation.org/history.html
Our History
The Ojai Foundation is located on a 40-acre ridge of semi-wilderness land at the foot of the majestic Los Padres Mountains in Southern California, ninety minutes north of Los Angeles. The Foundation is on a section of a larger property stewarded by the Happy Valley Foundation. This land was purchased in 1927 by visionary Theosophist Annie Besant to provide for an eclectic community devoted to artistic, agricultural, and educational projects that would encourage an international culture in a spiritual climate.
The first of these institutions, the Happy Valley School, was established in 1946 by a group of educators (including Aldous Huxley and Krishnamurti) to promote a Socratic and non-competitive learning experience. In 1975, the Happy Valley Foundation invited Human Dimensions West, a non-profit organization exploring the interface between science and spirituality, to conduct a research project on a 40-acre ridge top of the land. In 1979 anthropologist Joan Halifax (then research assistant to mythologist Joseph Campbell) was asked to lead this organization in a new direction, which was then renamed the Ojai Foundation.
Dr. Halifax, with a rich background of direct study with shamans, Zen masters, Tibetan Lamas, and spiritual leaders from around the world, had recently published two books, now classics in the field; Shaman: The Wounded Healer, and Shamanic Voices. Her international connections with indigenous peoples and her Western academic connections helped to draw an extraordinary faculty to the rustic camp conditions at the Foundation.
Throughout the 1980s, the Ojai Foundation was the setting for a unique experiment in community living, education, and spiritual practice. A distinctive aspect of its programs was the resident community's commitment to dissolving the barriers between faculty, staff, and workshop participants through Council Process, a universal communication process derived from earth traditions. In the practice of Council, each person learns to offer speech or silence from their heart, not the head, and to listen with full attention. In Council, there are no fixed leaders or followers; the group's process is the primary guide. Many teachers found participating in Council with their peers and colleagues, while being witnessed by an audience, a most inspiring and creative practice.
The faculty over these years included: Joseph Campbell, R.D. Lang, Rupert Sheldrake, Jill Purce, Ralph Abraham, Terence McKenna, Ralph Metzner, Francis Huxley, Andrew Weil, Heyemosts Storm, Jose Arguelles, Joanna Macy, and many Native American, Tibetan, Zen, and Judeo-Christian teachers.
The many "firsts" of the Ojai Foundation included: several of the Men's Gatherings with the poet Robert Bly (author of Iron John); Women's Gatherings and conferences whose faculty included Mary Catherine Bateson, Naomi Newman, Deena Metzger, Tsultrim Allione, Vicki Noble, Riane Eisler, Terry Tempest Williams, Laura Simms, and others; and conferences on cutting-edge topics such as chaos theory, hospice work, plant shamanism and ethnobotany, psycho-immunology, dream research, and mind-body studies. The Foundation was also one of the first institutions in North America to explore the ongoing dialogue between Tibetan and Native American spirituality, (an exploration undertaken at the request of elders from both lineages). Several of the first American retreats led by noted peace activist and Vietnamese Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh were also held at the Foundation.
After Dr. Joan Halifax left in 1990 to found the Upaya Foundation in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the Foundation was administered by a Board of Trustees, co-chaired by educators Jack Zimmerman and Virginia Coyle, who had worked with the Foundation since its earliest days. Zimmerman and Coyle have played a central role in developing and disseminating Council Process. Under their direction, the Foundation's work with the Crossroads High School in Santa Monica, ongoing since the early 1980s, spread to include numerous private and public schools, both middle and senior level. Teachers and administrators have praised this work as vital in helping young people develop basic life skills through clear communication.
One school in the public sector, Palms Middle School in Los Angeles, has made a strong commitment to Council Process.There are now over one thousand children, representing nearly 30 different languages and ethnic groups, sitting in Council every week at Palms. Their teachers and Council facilitators receive their training at the Ojai Foundation. Every season, representatives from the sixth and eigth-grade student body come to the Foundation for retreat and deeper study of Council.
In addition to Council trainings and young person's programs, the Foundation maintains an active, adult Retreat Program with private hermitages dotted throughout the oak trees. The Foundation's beautiful pottery studio and kiln also help support an Artists' retreat program.
Recent developments on the land include a new road, a caretakers' residence, and a Ropes Outdoor Leadership Training course. Grants have also been received from the Threshold Foundation to create a Fellowship Fund for training Council leaders serving within the school system.
The Board of Directors, currently co-chaired by educators/therapists Jack Zimmerman and Lola Rae Long, has recently begun exploring carrying the work with Council and rites-of-passage into the corporate world. Over the past several years,Council has been introduced to a wide variety of communities, organizations and businesses including the Reiki Alliance, the Xerox Corporation and the Spirit Rock Meditation Center. The Way of Council, a book written by Jack Zimmerman in collaboration with Virginia Coyle was published in 1996, and has been helpful in taking this practice out into the world.
The original commitment to exploring traditional and indigenous people's spirituality continues today. Each year, there are group spiritual retreats ranging from Sufi studies to Buddhist meditation to Native American-led sweatlodge ceremonies. Several of the staff and Board members guide individuals on solo retreats and offer longer solitary Wilderness Fasting Retreats in nearby wilderness areas.
