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Depression is a pretty big cash cow for the big pharma companies too. What needs to be done is develop a harmless cancer-killing version of anthrax and then market it for something else, something popular that it works for too. For example, say someone discovered a simple cure for depression and bipolar disorder, that also happened to remarkably improve libido. Let's say they wanted to bring down Big Pharma, with respect to the selling of antidepressants. If such a person tried to directly prove their simple cure worked better than antidepressants, they couldn't win, particularly against such a big army of lawyers. However, if that person made a silly spectacle of herself selling the cure for something as popular and naughty as raising libido--its use would become widespread and the need for antidepressants would go away naturally, as a matter of course.

I get that a lot! I'll stick around--I've got protection Here's the link, but I can't read it http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/299/5/513-a Here's a readable one http://blog.mlive.com/chronicle/2008/01/va...closing_in.html

Well, you asked me some questions so I will answer before I drop the topic. I think that some people are more powerful than others in this realm, just as in the physical realm some men are stronger than others. I think those people who are very strong can do as you say, try to take control of others, and of course in this realm it is very easy to wear masks. So I think that regular people can seem like demons or what have you. And also there are human archetypes there, but they are creations of people, tulpas, not something higher than humans. It's the realm of the Jungian Collective Unconscious. And also witchcraft really is a do-it-yourself religion--the complete opposite of taoism when it comes to lineage and things like that. So yes, some witches do believe in angels and demons.

I don't believe in entities, and I don't believe in hungry ghosts. Ghosts cannot feel hunger--people feel hunger. It's just other people, flawed human people, maybe simply asleep and dreaming. Sure, basic protection is a good thing to have, just like wandering around in any new lawless place--but it's just people, like you'd meet anyplace else. I don't know, maybe I'm all wet. I'm going on feel here.

Sounds like the PC muscles to me, at least that's been my experience with them--inexhaustible energy.

You picked the wrong thing to move! You have to pick something with a water affinity, which requires consciousness. Water doesn't work on earth, it works on water. There's a common thing that responds very well to that sort of thing. *sigh* I'll show you levitation! I love men so much.

Goodness! I would say I follow the "Left Hand Path" but clearly what I mean by it is very different than what is stated in this thread. I will be careful with my language from now on. For me, the Left Hand Path is not intrinsically parasitic, but rather a deep self-knowledge of one's base desires. I don't know anything about the situation discussed in this thread, but I had to say something about that.

When I go into trance I don't "channel higher beings." More like using a cosmic cellphone. It's just the 12th house, nothing all that spooky. People go there when they go to sleep; I just go there when I'm awake. It's just a community of people, that's all. I mean, I can feel the planets there too, but I can feel those out of trance when I'm awake too. The only "beings" I've met there are creatures of my own creation, tulpas. Other than that, just fellow humans. I'm not seeing what the big deal is, and I certainly don't think it's harmful in any way, at least to me. Frankly I think the eleventh house, including the Internet, can be a scarier and more harmful place, in some ways. Certainly more addictive!

Oh! I just remembered a tip--google cancer anthrax. Not much longer now, I don't think, before it is approved, and in the meantime there might be ... workarounds.

I am here for two reasons. One is you, Mistress TaoMeow, and the other is that I must do the opposite of the eighth house of secrets, and must sun my secrets in plain view, to be read by anyone who chooses. So my name is Marrena Lindberg, author of The Orgasmic Diet. My online names are Eris and zaneblue.

My goals are very different than the goals of most people here. I am not looking for non-attachment, I am not looking for total actualization or enlightenment. I'm also not looking for power. From what you posted in the other thread, you became a witch to gain power. With me it was the other way around, I became a witch to lose power. I've had some unusual experiences in my life, but the thing that finally convinced me was during my divorce, one day I was so angry at my husband I cursed him out loud while he was at work. That day a tree fell on his car. So I thought I had better brush up on witchcraft, because if it was imaginary, no harm done, but if it was real, like taking a gun to a practice range and learning how to shoot responsibly. My only goal from a religious point of view is to follow my north node, and that involves following Venus and Mercury, the two silliest lighthearted gods. I go into trance because I enjoy the company there. It's nice to converse with like minds. I don't want to be an immortal, I don't want to be enlightened, I don't want to win martial arts fights--I just want to make enough money for a comfortable retirement and to send my girls to college, have enough free time for fun, not hurt anybody, stay reasonably healthy, enjoy as much sexual pleasure as I possibly can, and watch The Colbert Report. That's about it! If I can help out in a small way to fight global warming and help social justice at home and abroad, I'm there too, but only in a very laidback way. I do the regular esbats and sabbats. Mostly my practice is spent giving away energy rather than trying to build up energy. I guess what I'm trying to say is I am a witch. I was born that way, and finally accepting who I am has made my life a whole lot easier. The moon really does influence me hugely, and the rest of the planetary transits too. It just is a good fit with me.

Well, I am a witch, and as a witch frequently go into trances. I do not do regular taoist practices. I am surprised that taoist alchemy would disconnect a person from astrological influences; usually with alchemical practice it is the opposite. I do not consider being easily hypnotized a bad thing. I am also able to easily hypnotize myself, which actually does have some beneficial health effects, when used properly. Then again, I'm not a martial artist so I don't have to worry about vulnerability during fights. By the way, Aquarius is an air sign, and almost no one gains any benefit from sun sign astrology. Astrology is based on all the planets, not just one.

I don't know a thing about martial arts, but in Western astrology there are four elements--earth, air, fire and water. From what I can tell, using chi to fight is attacking on the water and air levels. A person who had a lot of water and air planets in their chart would be susceptible, but a person who was mostly fire or earth would not. For example, I am Pisces rising, a water sign, which means I interact with the world on a water level. I am VERY easily hypnotized. I am so easily hypnotized I go under during movies with hypnosis scenes. For someone like me, having an opponent with these powers would be formidable indeed. Fortunately I also have a lot of earth underneath, so I have a balance. I think it quite likely that students who had a lot of water energy would be attracted to such a master, and of course it would be a very earthy fiery person who would be attracted by the thought of challenging a chi master like that.

Hmphth! I bet I could knock you down with the energy I can shoot out of my chest. Weaker sex my Aunt Fanny. I think women are more like funnels, they just give right back to the male any energy given, except in a higher, more concentrated form (although the semen itself gives a sustenance to keep from being utterly drained after a heart chakra outpouring). But even without a man giving me energy I am self-sustaining--I just need a man to pour out to. I have endless easy energy. It's just on my own I need a little recuperation time after a heart chakra orgasm, to regenerate from vaginal orgasms.

But what about those of us who like it there?

I started liking that video, but then I didn't. It looked like he was teaching some way of using a regular orgasm to somehow trigger a crown chakra orgasm. And sure, I guess a crown chakra orgasm can last a half hour (not that you'd be looking at your watch). When I had mine it was around twenty minutes, I think. I guess it's what you like. For me the crown chakra orgasm was a loss of self and becoming one with the entire cosmos, filled with love and light, filled isn't even the right word because that implies a distinct vessel, when the feeling is one of unbroken continuity, particularly with all living things. But I prefer the feel of a sixth chakra orgasm, where there is an intensely strong sense of self and an even stronger sense of the other person, a sense of otherness coming together in indescribable intimacy, two made one, to know the other person in a Biblical sense! I think through the experience of a crown chakra orgasm one experiences a union with all creation, but it is only through a sixth chakra orgasm that one experinces a union with the creator, the divine manifesting in one's partner. That's what I prefer. Like the old Lutheran hymn goes, "God in man made manifest." Drew, what you are saying makes very little sense to me, undoubtedly because I'm a pagan rather than a taoist. Food is very good! That's a handy skill to have, particularly in times of famine, but not one that I would seek out! Are there really all that many people who can take energy from a person when it's up above the neck? Jing energy down below the navel, sure, and certainly heart energy, but I think above then neck it would take a powerful wizard to take that energy from you if you didn't want to give it. And a wizard that powerful wouldn't be deterred by physical isolation. This is impertinent of me to say, but your talk of feeling like a baby maybe triggered it. I have an instinct like a mother taking care of a baby who is startling too much--wrapping him up tightly in a blanket with a warm hat and holding him tight, pressed up against warm soft flesh with comforting milk smells. Yes, Mal, that was the worst of the crown chakra orgasm! It killed my sex drive and all sense of fear for a couple weeks! Why people do that to themselves voluntarily I do not know!

Men! *resists urge to post naughty picture of Aurora Snow*

I disagree with both of you! Mantis, at your age it is unhealthy to go for two months without masturbating. And Drew, I think the sixth chakra is a boy thing. Girls can do it too, just like we can ejaculate through our urethra, but it's not natural to us. I think the male and female together describe a figure 8 with the sexual energy pathway. Men have ejaculatory energy coming from their second chakra, their testicles, and their sixth chakra, their third eye. Women have ejaculatory energy coming from their fourth chakra, the heart, going both up and down, depending on the direction of the triggering energy from the male (energy from intercourse goes up, in a pure and light and loving way, energy from touching the sixth chakras together goes down....WAY down ).

Honest pagans are generally pretty upfront that there is no pagan lineage, unless you are dealing with something like santeria or pow-wow. Modern wicca is mostly ripped off wholesale from the Masons and Rosicrucians and suchlike. This is the scientist in me talking, not the witch. I think not chi itself but an awareness of chi comes with robust omega-3 fatty acid levels in the body. It might be an eye-opener for you to at least take high-dose fish oil and a multivitamin for six months. See dosages and medical disclaimers in my diet thread. http://www.thetaobums.com/index.php?s=&amp...ost&p=23783

Sixth chakra horns!

Oh! I was looking for something with a little more heft, a length and girthiness! Not that I'm in the market for a man with horns, but I am horn-curious. I want to learn more.

Buddy, I'd like you to try my diet for six months. I think it might change your perspective on some things.

But I didn't have a heart chakra orgasm into the computer, I was just being flirty. Now I'm confused. Maybe I'm leaking? I have one or two heart chakra orgasms a day, but I'm careful now to send them to a tulpa, where they won't do any mischief. I have strengthened that bond through spellwork so there is strong protection, so I was strong enough to come back here. I am very curious about everything relating to men's sixth chakra experiences, and of course I'm always very horny, but I am trying to be on the up and up, no jing-stealing or anything like that.

growth shmowth! Although safety is always important.

Hm. From my perspective, I generate sexual energy by having lots of vaginal orgasms, as long as I don't ejaculate. Flexing orgasms from flexing the PC muscle, in particular, seem to be good for generating this energy. After a while I need to ejaculate the energy through my chest, the pressure builds up and I get the female equivalent of tantric blue balls or something. I can get rid of it by G-spot ejaculation orgasms, but it's better to have a heart chakra orgasm. I sometimes have heart chakra orgasms into men's chests without them knowing, but however I unload, I'm always fully drained of energy afterwards unless I've got a vagina full of semen. That keeps me in balance. You don't have to give me reasons for why I like the stuff! Might as well explain the reasons why a baby likes her mother's milk! I'm hungry for it. Frankly I think men are hungry for the female heart energy too, I have learned to be careful when and where I unload. But tell me more about your sixth chakra!