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I've found a couple fascinating old books by a guy named E.A. Wallis Budge written around the turn of the last century. Very straightforward about the religious practices, but the author was as tweedily British as they come. Charming read. I'm interested in the parts of a man no backchat! like the heart, soul, shadow, name, and double. I'm particularly interested in the double, the ka.

Yes, I have not done any other practices, but with his Standing I am feeling (and this sounds very silly) pregnant with myself when I am doing it. Also it seems to make me very warm and not hungry, and most remarkably, my libido temporarily goes away. I don't know if those are typical results from any taoist practice, but there you are.

That's what I'm saying--I think for women this is the complicated part, the choosing.

I'm not saying "end times" like was meant growing up under the threat of nuclear winter, I'm just saying that we are in serious danger of both upping the scale and frequency of natural disasters like flooding, earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis and volcanoes. We are deliberately introducing instability into the ecosystem. And more importantly, I am also saying that plants need stability to grow. We eat plants, and the animals we eat eat plants. We are already seeing difficulty growing food. This will increase--severely. Hurricane Ike was a low-grade hurricane. I don't think it even made it up into a Category 3. But the storm was the size of Texas and wiped out the American Gulf. I can see it here too, the weather in the past five years--it's wrong. It's just wrong. There is monsoon rain here in Boston. In the summer the heat doesn't go away at night. It was freakishly warm in the middle of winter. It's not just a few isolated incidences. Taomeow, the end result of global warming will be another ice age, as the Earth struggles to reach equilibrium. If the Greenland and Antarctic glaciers melt, it will stop the ocean currents bringing warm water North, and Europe and northern America will enter a mini ice age. It will be unpleasant. I don't think Icke has said Gore is a reptilian, but I might be wrong about that. I think he's a disinformation specialist, and is working for the powers that be. For example, take 9/11. Anybody with half a brain can see that it was an elaborate bank heist, in collusion with the US government. The stock markets were manipulated that morning, there was a federal no fly zone enforced, there was a huge cache of gold there, and an abandoned van full of gold was found heading away from the site. Osama bin Laden is Saudi, the terrorists were mostly Saudi, the event was used as a pretext to invade Iraq (full of Shia, the sworn enemies of the Sunnis--Saudis are Sunnis). Warnings of this imminent attck were pointedly ignored by the American government. The first people flown out to safety away from America, even during the post 9/11 no fly edict, were Saudis. It was an obvious collusion. Always follow the money. When billions of dollars are at stake, it's no wonder that a small group of religious crazies was found, wanting be martyrs, and somehow finding the funding to take pilot classes. No more explanation as to the method is necessary. But instead, there's all this crazy conspiracy theory all over the Internet, taking this OBVIOUS situation and making it sound like only a lunatic would believe it. The commercial airlines are said to be unmanned spy planes remote-controlled to fly into the towers, there was no actual plane at the Pentagon, etc. People get obsessed with proving that the towers were wired with explosives. The powers that be are telling the Big Lie and tying it to the truth, so that people who actually believe the truth sound ridiculous. Same thing with those whole reptilian thing. Obviously there is a cartel of extremely powerful people manipulating the markets and the politicians to gain and hoard money and power. It is as you say with the fluoride and Frankenfoods and so forth. These people want total control, all the money, and they use the same model over and over again, the ploy of the drug pusher. Get a person addicted to your drug and you can take all their money and have total control over them. So they make us sick so that we much pay them for pharmaceutical drugs, they manipulate housing prices so we have to go ridiculously in debt to them for a place to live, squelch research into alternative energy and funding for mass transit so we are forced to pay them to heat our houses and get from place to place. When as you say, 3% of the people control 97% of the wealth, it's self evident that this is done through manipulation. No further explanation necessary. But in comes this Icke person, who takes these rational, reasonable, obvious conclusions and ties them to the craziest alien Satanist reptile theories. So basically anyone pointing out the obvious is then tied to this fringe lunatic set of theories which seems to involve all the urban legends of the last century. As a bonus, he uses a lot of language that causes fear and animosity towards taoists and shamanic peoples. There is a lot in his propaganda tying the reptilians to the dragon body and kundalini rising. Shamanic peoples are depicted as anciently welcoming these reptilians. Practices like cultivation are then tied to Satanic ritual, blooddrinking, human sacrifice, baby-killing, etc. It's almost identical to the smears against Jews spread in the 1930's. But I digress. I am happy that you are not involved with all that. My main point is that although I am open to mystical experiences and visions and the sight and all, scientific information is in a different and generally more reliable category. Of course allowances must be made for the corruption of money and the manipulation by the powers that be. Tobacco science and pharmaceutical studies are by their very nature highly suspect, for example. But global warming science does not fit into that mold. It threatens that powers that be by encouraging the world to become self-sufficient, growing their own food, creating their own energy locally, cutting back on gas consumption--becoming self reliant and working for the common good. This is the exact opposite of what those in charge want, and you can see by the relentless nature of their PR campaign now to discredit global warming science. So I believe the science is genuine, particularly when one considers the remarkable worldwide consensus among scientists. Also my own observations, my gut feelings listening to the weather, the behavior of animals and plants agree. My goodness this is a long post. My apologies!

My diet helps with anorexia and bulimia and promotes positive body image. The Orgasmic Diet, Marrena Lindberg, Random House publisher.

I shouldn't be posting in this thread, although I suppose I am now an honorary taoist since I am doing Wuji standing. I think it might be different for women than for men. Surrendering is a natural thing for women, at least at first. Some may get so broken and damaged from surrendering that they lose the ability, but in general I think it is easy for us. In my own case I think the difficulty is having the wisdom to discern to whom one should surrender. I think that's one of the fundamental tasks of women, to learn how to make good choices. It certainly is the case in the rest of the animal kingdom--ladies' choice!

Taomeow, are you saying Reptilian Reptilians? As in David Icke Reptilians! This isn't me saying it, this is a large group of scientists saying these things, the global warming end-of-world scenarios. There are too many people in that mix with too great a consensus to chalk it up to natal charts. I can post links if you like. Actually there's something very simple that could be done that would buy us a little time: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/a-siegel/ene...g_b_128545.html

China will be in trouble early on--simple science. If the Tibetan glaciers melt completely, there will be no steady source of water. This will lead to famine and riots. Unless the Greenland glaciers melt away first, in which case the floods and earthquakes and volcanoes will come. This is not apocalyptic raving, it is clear-eyed science. I am less optimistic about the Earth's ability to bounce back quickly. Still, I am practicing the Wuji standing. It does work. I am not an experienced cultivator so I don't know if all systems work this way, but his system does.

This is the Age of Aquarius, time of sudden violent change, and also the brotherhood of man. I like to keep up hope, that we have a chance to avert this terrible thing coming by everyone working together. What will happen if we don't is very simple--the Greenland and Antarctic glaciers will melt into the ocean. These two events will indeed trigger what your master foresaw--obviously there will be terrible flooding, and the sudden removal of such a great weight on the earth's South Pole will cause the tectonic plates of the earth to shift suddenly, triggering earthquakes and possibly volcanoes. The thing I really worry about is the melting of the permafrost in Russia that could lead to a sudden methane release that might kill most life on earth. The other things certainly a lot of people will die, but a few will survive. With methane, everything might end. There is no way to save money to prepare for this. Obviously living away from the coast and away from fault lines will help, but there will be famine and civil war with all the refugees. What you need to do is to fight now to avert this terrible thing. We are fighting here against petroleum and coal companies as much as we can, but soon China will exceed America in carbon dioxide emissions. If the matrix can organize to fight new coal plants being built, that could help. Li Jiong is not alarmist when Al Gore is saying the exact same thing. Thank goodness for this current economic crisis, it will slow emissions growth!

No. No, no, no. If you are going to take kitchen sink herbals, almost always a bad idea, certainly don't take them with your multivitamin! If you want to take herbals, why not do TCM? Get something custom? In my opinion, no one should take damiana every day as a vitamin, even in small amounts.

Well, first off I think the forces of darkness are simply focused on the wrong things. Just like big corporations should be focused on recycling garbage and transforming energy, so I think the more esoteric forces of darkness need to focus more on balance and transforming and rebirth rather than hoarding and growing. They are important and useful! And an earthy mundane example--maggot wound healing http://www.healthaffairs.uci.edu/som/patho...man/home_pg.htm Second, I'm trying to keep a figure eight with my energy circulation, bring the energy back down from my head, and I think dark forces are useful for that. I can get it up to my head no problem now. I'm just saying dark forces could use a little love!

I'm a witch, not a taoist. I embrace darkness, turn away from the light, and actively seek "endarkenment."

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How about the beings? That's just a way to get them to say howdy, isn't it?

Glad to hear all of those things!

xeno, that's totally unnecessary. Half the forum has tried this Kunlun and posted their experiences with it in their practice journals and also in the discussion forum. Chris doesn't need to blog.

On the Internet, conflict brings attention. The more eyeballs reading about Max, the better for your cause, even with people saying idiotic things about him and you.

I think I know how to eat to increase jing, and then you can change it into something else.

Somehow I missed this. Yes and yes!

Women are rather stretchy! You know, I think I've been asked this question a thousand times at this point. The long and short of it is this--on the one hand, no. If a man can pound the CDS, he can pound the CDS. That's all that's needed for a CDS orgasm, and I can have the same orgasm with a Betty's barbell as I can from my jildo that's as long as my forearm. However, how a woman feels about a man influences her dopamine, and dopamine determines the pleasure felt from vaginal sensation. So yes, who the man is has something to do with the CDS orgasm.

That's a bet you would lose

I have a number of strapons, if that's what you're asking.

From wikipedia "In Egyptian mythology, Hathor (Pronounced Hah-Thor) (Egyptian for house of Horus) was originally a personification of the Milky Way, which was seen as the milk that flowed from the udders of a heavenly cow. " Hathor is known for cheering up Ra by her lewd naked comical dancing. Now really, I am what you would call a dildo expert, and I have never ever seen a dildo with crossbars. This is Hathor's sistrum