Birch

How did that happen?

Folks, you may both wish to step away from the keyboards at this time. It's a suggestion at this point. I offer it as such. At the same time I'd also like to remind everyone that personal attacks are against forum rules. K on behalf of the moderation team

Everyone on the TTB's is different, and practicing different things. Some amount of trouble is expected when different people, practicing different things compare notes. The most recent things I read about mediumship was that it was tricky territory and better to be discerning, but not that what was being experienced was in any way 'unreal' or due to interior vs exterior beings. I mean half the time stuff gets picked up from others or the environment anyway and we call it 'ours' when there's a pretty good chance it's not actually ours. I'm looking at you, stupid TV script. Grandmaster P seemed to be doing the medium thing. Maybe he'll be around in a while. ---opinion etc--

Here's an interesting article (related) http://www.primal-page.com/sorotzki.htm

Some kind of 'meta-cognitive' thing. That's about it.

Happy Birthday Sean!

"It's amazing how sensitive most people really aren't" I've been consistently surprised at this too. Qi-gong also ramped up sensitivity for me.

I get full meridian activations with some things. Not fun, but at least i know what's the what. Look into 'sore points', maybe trigger points as well?

No tiger here:-) I think I've met someone who speaks like you do before. So I'll bow out.

Not the intent Cheping. You're in no way obliged to respond to my thinking out loud:-)

I agree. Would be nice if the relationship between them were a bit better articulated.

Time for a nap then.

Yeah I had a couple of experiences with it (sleepwalking) ages ago that I would attribute to Kundalini syndrome. It messed up lots of things but demessed them as well - if that makes any sense? I've also read that sleeping pills can increase the incidence of sleepwalking. From the article 'People who take SSRIs or sleeping pills are much more likely to sleepwalk at least twice a month than those who don’t.' Read more: http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2012/05/the-science-of-sleepwalking/#ixzz2O0p9bCet (On a side note, that was pretty cool when I copy-pasted the quote and the link to the article automatically got pasted with it...)

Welcome!

Shiftiness?

Of course not. We're on the forum pretty much every day

Awww Apech. Sorry to hear it. This thread is sort of fluffyness with some very serious not fluffy in the middle.

"Leaving us to cry when we are without resources is the way to instill a sense of hopelessness/lack of trust/seeds of depression and fatalism." My mom seemed quite proud of it actually. She told me it was the 'done thing'. She told me I would 'scream my head off' for hours and she would just let me 'get on with it'. Many years later, I did try (gently at first) a few times to point out how cruel that was but she stuck to her 'done thing' guns and got quite upset that I would suggest it was cruel. I can't say specifically whether it was that period of my life or the other numerous episodes of contempt and neglect and invalidation that really did a number on me. But like Drew's post suggests, generations of moms have been convinced that it's the right thing to do.

There are people working in urban settings to improve the relationships with nature. I thought I'd mention that part. And they're working hard at it. I think if we say to ourselves that urban life is not any kind of ecology and that the only ecology is to be found away from urban settings, that's a misunderstanding. Here's an interesting idea http://realty.com/housing-news/detroit-changing-entire-city-into-farmland/

I'm quite surprised that a "1%er" would live alone. I would suggest that such people are even more imbricated in relationships of mutual dependence and obligation than others. They probably don't enjoy being reminded of it. I wonder if that's where some of the disdain comes from? I'm not directing anything specifically at you Chenping. Just thinking aloud.

"If you havent created the conditions for something, wish all you want, its not going to do a damned thing! " I agree with this. I think there might be a view in 'manifestation' circles that all it takes is for an individual to self-centeredly wish and the goal will happen. Whereas I think magicians work on creating or improving the conditions, including the ones inside their skulls.

Yes, there's been a bit of the warm-fluffies:-)

Hey Manitou, Thanks for sharing your story. I don't think your intention is negative at all:-) I do think, I maintain, however, that the belief-system of a healer shouldn't be imposed upon the person asking for help (I'm assuming they asked!) I'm very far from having a 'victim' mindset. In fact the last thing that I would have found helpful, when help was needed was for anyone to assume that about me. It's very hard to explain:-) If you wish, at some other point I can get into the details of how I understand things. I was much more, and still am, interested in the truth of what happened. To me the truth of it is more important than adopting any kind of stance or beliefs about matters. I don't know if that's helpful to you in your work at all but I offer it in that sense:) One of the more positive aspects of cultivation has been IMO/IME the destruction of the wounded self ( we could talk at length but I do consider that 'ego' is the shell I built around myself to survive the abuse. It just had very sharp edges). It was very difficult. Sometimes it still is difficult, but I'm pretty happy when I look at the changes:-) I'm still more interested in truth more than anything else though. I reckon, even if got super siddhis, I still would prefer truth to them. --opinion etc--

Welcome!

Welcome!