silent thunder

I'm brian... and so's my wife!

as above, so below has always been a mantra for me. as a child, I would draw pictures of planets, orbited by smaller planets, orbited by smaller planets until they were unitelligible... then one day I got to astronomy class and went... COOL.... then another day some time later I got to physics class and atoms were introduced and I went whoa... same shit, different scale.... AWESOME!

man goes into the dr... Doc, am I going to live to 90? Doc ... well let's see... do you smoke or drink? man... no gave those up years ago. Doc... do you enjoy rich foods and red meat? man... nope gave those up as well. Doc... ok, how often do you and the missus, have sex? man... well, the usual, few times a year. Doc... ok just one more question. man.. what's that? Doc... why do you want to live to 90?

um... whoa.

psilocybin have on several occasions, opened up aspects of awareness about myself that allowed me to release decades of useless and unwanted modes of seeing and behaving. I'm profoundly grateful for the experiences, so is my family as they are the direct beneficiaries of the results http://thetaobums.com/topic/34813-gratitude-for-psilocybin-experiences/?hl=psilocybin more details in this old post of mine.

Awesome!

When I was the fight master for the Mn Shakespeare Co. some twenty odd years ago, I'd walk around Minneapolis with a bag full of foils, bastard swords, daggers, axes... bags with blades sticking out all over... it. was. awesome!

yup... you're right... man I'm going to need a bigger place.

Nope, I'm good, my collection has included, wolf hounds, american water spaniels, samoyeds, german short hairs, black labs, 6 short hair cats and one long hair, two ferrets, (one a three legged albino), multiple fish and a couple of long lived hermit crabs... though I'd love to add a duck, armadillo and whatever strange beast my wife posted on my facebook page yesterday that loved to have it's little armpits scratched...

I can't fit my cookie into the cd-rom... edit: I guess that's a 'me' problem

that is freaking awesome!

index and middle finger crossed, or a thumb pushed into to the eye socket near the nose bone... grab the larynx and pull... elbow to the sternum... keys and pens are pretty functional too and most people have one on them all the time as well. whatever gives me a chance to incapacitate and move away, but really, take my wallet, my car, my jacket whatever you want... just don't hurt an innocent while I'm in view.

death has no teeth for me dying however... that could suck for a bit, but death, na, nothing to fear.

darkness may be frequencies of light we can't perceive edit: in my experience, the brain is not the mind and certainly does not generate it... the brain is in the mind and it tunes into it like a radio.

I took the red pill

As its success grows, it invites more corruption from within... each successive generation that doesn't have to struggle to enjoy high yield lifestyles, becomes weaker and eventually falls to a culture that is hungry and forcefully working toward a higher yield. Visigoths walked right into Rome didn't they, while the majority of troops were spread out across the empire making sure taxes and resources were flowing in to support the extravagance... that said... I've never met a normal person, so I'm not sure where strange ends up on that list, if everyone is strange, isn't that normal?

which tradition is it that has nine heavens and the first is just the absence of any pain...?

I don't know about necessary, it was unavoidable. Though there were times, I could send myself into the center of the pain and it would cease to be a bother.

I lived in chronic pain for over a decade... there wasn't active cultivating in any traditional sense for me during that time, though looking back I can see how it influenced my cultivation and there were all sorts of energetic processes going on without my direction. I had several techniques I used for overwhelming the input senses to take away my ability to focus just on the pain when I was tired of pumping pain killers in my body.

perrier or some other overpriced bubbly water is my option in that setting

no

holy simultaneous post.... get out of my brain man!

although... when you're all moved in... I really do want pictures...

My response of late is... 'i want pictures' that usually garners a pause...

I have a friend with pretty harsh tinnitus. Whenever he's around we have to have something going so he can sleep at night without going bat-shit crazy. But gods... CNN? ouch... We opt for something along these lines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcJ-o_fh1B4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_313622&feature=iv&src_vid=GyUwg2fBg3k&v=i-yu4NoS1HM