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What if you can't hear "them" any more because you spent so much time shutting them up? Not that I'd have the chatter back, it's a helluva more peaceful. But I do wonder "where" they've gone and if it was an especially healthy thing to do to rid myself of them. The emotions are still there however. I'm not getting rid of those No Spockization for yours truly,no way

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Weird. Thanks Taomeow!

Interesting Susan. So how do you explain the electric blue stuff then?

I tried that "switchword" thing a few times. A bit strange. I did the "1. Chant "together" 28 times in a rhythm: TOGETHER, TOGETHER, TOGETHER, TOGETHER, TOGETHER, TOGETHER, TOGETHER, TOGETHER, TOGETHER, TOGETHER, TOGETHER, TOGETHER, TOGETHER, TOGETHER, TOGETHER, TOGETHER, TOGETHER, TOGETHER, TOGETHER, TOGETHER, TOGETHER, TOGETHER, TOGETHER, TOGETHER, TOGETHER, TOGETHER, TOGETHER, TOGETHER" part and words did spontaneously appear, but they seemed a bit strange. If I repeated the exercise, another, at first hearing, unrelated word would come up. It occurred to me that this "together together" chant might be a way of taking your subconscious associative "temperature". I'd love to know how it works. Also, when silently saying the word "together" - there seemed to be a vertical clunky "chi" movement inside my skull. That was way weird. For folks who suggest not running "chi" in their brains, this one might be one to take a miss on. I dunno. At what point do you reckon you "need" to intercept and select words? If you've gotten to the point where "monkey mind" is pretty much silent, do you need to go further and start fishing around for more stuff? If so, to what end? Thanks for your ideas!

I see. Are you suggesting that buddhism is a "logic-only" religion? That would explain a lot (to me, anyway). However, I don't agree that the action following one's own revelation about "reality" should be to go about undermining other people's - unless they've asked for it. IMO more harm than good comes of that. I know that some people might see this as "progressive" but I'm not so sure.

"If I know I'm right, then why must I prove I'm right?" You don't have to. However this is kind of interesting because to me it seems to point out that "Buddha" intentionally went about provoking others' beliefs. Now why do that? I can see why he'd do it in his own culture, but why pursue the issue with others?

"I was rather partial to Drew. He's a one of a kind. I miss his perving stories." I miss him explaining what to do about pervs.

Sure! However, if this crystal stuff has latent vibes within its very structure and someone with the appropriate skill (whatever it takes) could "read" it. That would IMO be something. And before I get "nah that's dumbass" feedback, well I'd love to hear from people that are doing this stuff ("primitive" notwithstanding) for themselves already. Past life anyone?

"What would an stranger looking for healing therapy think of The Tao Bums if they happen to click on the Dependent Origination thread" I dunno. Do you think a stranger looking for healing therapy would click on TTB's at all? I suggest not confuddling healing with moralism, then many people might be happy Personally, when I found TTB's, I think I remember looking for "qi-gong side effects" and then... ta-daaaa. Trying doing a Google search and see how often you turn up a TTB's post.

Epilsepy/K warning (yup,I reckon there might be a link :-)) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1Ta0Nu-i-Q

"i am about to start ingesting organic silica." It's pretty horrible to taste. I have some (left) in my fridge. I ended up putting it on my face. "5 quartz crystal arrowheads in the creek bed." What did you do with them?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlGPDoPCHUE

"weird personal views." Much of what I post, thanks dude DH was an interesting set of perspectives to say the least. And funnily enough, since he's been gone, certain people seem to be working twice as hard to get a rise pun intended. Anyway, I wouldn't worry, you can still go visit him over on his various blogs and such. Music Guy disappeared as well. So did Paul Walter So did... big list. TTB's seems to be a clearing house of sorts. Of sorts

Thank you

No, I meant really, can I use your quote? I asked Xakari and he said yes, hence the quote in my sig :-)

Can I quote you?

It must be hard to mod this board. "Spirituality" for me has no boundaries. But I understand that people like to be able to set off a place in their lives where whatever (awful?) things they think and do are somehow set apart ("sacred" I believe is the term?) from everything else. I personally believe that to be B$ (please don't edit). Still, if people get offended when certain words are said AND you want to convince them, probably not a useful thing. The UK (and US), I believe are learning this with "nudging"

"Which shows that some marketing people are too dumb to understand the concept of humor. (Is that sad or funny? )" It's the "Emperor's new clothes" thing. Happens all the time

"Ego is equal to Buddha. Emptiness is equal to form. Etc. Etc. " I'd sort of figured that. In fact, the more I contemplate it, the problem I see with many people is that they haven't gotten to full duality yet. Never mind the non-duality part. Walk before you run etc etc etc... ---presently walking-----

As far as I can figure (so far) superstition is an attempt to predict stuff towards the end of controlling the outcome. That our predictive capacity may have gotten more subtle, doesn't IMO/IME necessarily make our predictions any less superstitious, especially if you add a layer of believing people (including oneself) on top, maybe with a crunchy side of media and personal interests? One of the many things I like about Taoism is 5E which seems to have a pretty well established schema of phase changes. Do Taoists argue about which phase things belong to? I would posit that superstition is fire

numerology = algorhythms? So if we include numerical references to things like people, houses, rocks, plants, animals and weather in an algorhythm, do we make better algorhythms than the ones that are modelled upon more limited references?

"Even me and you." Who would've thunk it Ah, but at least I know I'm biased Whereas YOU mister... Anyhoo. What about this skull stuff? Can one make an orgone generator out of silica?

"Yes modern society loves to project it's biases back in time. Silly heathens!" "Yes modern society loves to project it's biases back in time. Silly heathens!" Hope you don't mind All one has to do is stop listening to people who are so obviously biased. Oh wait, that would be "most" people. Ok. How about listening to people and understanding where their biases come from? Why is this "historian" dude telling us what he's telling us?