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You may want to resolve this argument over PMs. This thread has already been reported for derailing so don't make more unnecessary work for the moderator team please.

Very much love the singing in this one

Some Mayan music. Beside the music, the dancing here is inspiring

I think I know what you mean. Didn't go into an obe when I had these, always stopped. Interesting. Any idea how is this different from the black&white light tunnel type?

When you did obe did you just continue in the rainbow tunnel/bridge?

Just my opinion: I don't think I have a reason use them, but then again I value grounding more than random exploration. Everyone's experience may differ.

What is salvation?

I think he's making a really good recovery considering the desperation he was at in his boxing days. He's giving us these stories of his past because he is changing from that and wants to change even more.

70% nightmares sounds crazy. What do these people eat, how is their daily rhytm like, how do they relate to their fellow humans? ....etc

I don't have many nightmares, but when I do I drop back into half-sleep and relive the situation fixing the stressful situation. They never come back.

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Good: the banana I just ate Bad: today's weather

I wouldn't go to the news for health information and you are right there are contradictory studies. Here is more reason to train your intuition instead of studies and news articles: http://www.aaup.org/article/big-food-big-agra-and-research-university Talking about functional foods for example: [emphasis mine]

Warden Steward note I think there is too much focus on Vitalii here and if it continues moderation action is inevitable... if discussion becomes heated it will be locked and options considered. My personal commentary Representing a school in a diplomatic way is the best anyone can do on the internet... the way to lead is by example. Here we have people who follow "taoisms" that often I am amazed at some people have arrived at but by being here I choose to respect them because of the explanatory gap. I am always learning even if it just to know I am not like they are. Perhaps it's an issue of sensing different things, destiny if you will to find the type of teacher you need. If we keep available choices the right people will choose the right ones for them.

I think going offtopic is fine now as Brian noted above. Moral issues and such are within the new topic. There is alot of room for misinterpretation when someone feels strongly about a topic. I will admit I'm not the most moral person on the larger scale. It's easier to keep focus when focusing on immediate issues, but I will respect anyone that wants to make some kind of difference even if I don't agree with them.

Eating out is hell with any real dietary limitations and often feels like you're rude or a burden to other people if they take responsible for the food. I don't think refusing food is good manner in any culture. On the other hand if you can adapt and accept something from a friend who took trouble make food it's good. With strict no-grain it's very hard not to be a difficult person in these kinds of situations. What I got from that is ... having a reason others can understand is always good way gain acceptance. That's some good food for thought. Hehe. Unfortunately religious reasons are considered very awkward for anything in the kind of secular enviroment without any major religious groups limiting their diet. Regarding using your body as a laboratory, changing between very different diets and experimenting can be very taxing and incredibly hard to understand long-term effects for most diets. One thing I've recently found to be true was that introducing new foods or reintroducing old ones it's good to take your to get your body to adjust to them and start with smaller amounts. Whenever I stopped eating something(even chocolate or just breakfast cereals) it always felt like my body was missing something important, I would go into a hunting mode so to speak. Alternatives rarely satisfy if you get into that and there is a need to have willpower to avoid binging...

While it looks interesting... I have to ask who is the author?

Regarding food and diet as rebellion, I have found that my going against the grain with a no gluten diet was actually more countercultural than vegetarianism and more difficult to do in practice. Alot of foods in my cultural backround are based on wheat and rye. Luckily the anti-carb fad here is helping the situation a bit. To comment on the love thing... So how do we heal people who have not been loved or are not loved today? My idea is we can go an extra step for them and try to understand them and what they are going through. There is plenty of opportunity to show the human side to people who are worse off then us.

Ok if this fine let's continue. There was some confusion I think about being countercultural and choosing vegetarianism. Personal choice doesn't necessarily mean you are being countercultural. Some people may choose vegetarianism for spiritual reasons nothing to do with veganism for example. If you lump everyone whose chosen to be a vegetarian with the hostile crowd you are doing everyone a disservice.

I thought the Mo Pai warned him not to use their name before and he agreed??

ChiDragon I tried to be diplomatic about not spamming, but you still continue and derail the thread. Consider this a steward warning to stop spam and quoting your own oneliners here is the same. You may feel strongly about qi being just breathing and literal modern understanding being superior but that doesn't excuse you to try ruin the discussion for everyone.

There was a new rule made on TTB against spamming. Let's not turn this one into a oneliner spamfest and keep focus on the topic at hand.

To the OP: Some threads also seem broken because posts that may have contained insults/derailing are now in the pit. I've read some that seem to have an opening post and then continue from quotes that seem to come from nowhere. I agree it can be confusing but bear with it.