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Full lotus is almost always uncomfortable, for most people- when they start out. But saying it is "useless", is an absurdity. What is so "special" about full lotus? http://thetaobums.com/topic/12514-what-is-so-special-about-full-lotus/ Full Lotus is a "Mudra" for your legs. It opens the Kua, and closes the circuit/legs - opens the Perineum. Your body is tranformed into a pyramid structure. The central channel becomes highly charged. So just to discard Full Lotus because it is uncomfortable- which then makes it "useless" - is counterproductive IMO. Don't get hurt doing it- but practice it until the discomfort goes away. I stay in Full Lotus all day, and meditate in it 2 hours every night. It was uncomfortable for me too, when I first started out. Some teachers will even go as far as saying meditating in Full Lotus for 20 minutes is equal to 4 hours of Non-Full Lotus

Ok- that's an Opinion of Yours. Fixed it for you Classic texts, yogis and monks (and many posters here) would disagree with you Spotless. And So would I. If you meditated in Full Lotus for 2 hours- you might not need to meditate for 4 hours In MY Opinion.

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I always knew "Humpty Dumpty" had a lesson tucked away in there

Johns Hopkins doctors remove baby's brain tumor that contained teeth http://www.chicagotribune.com/health/bs-hs-tumor-teeth-20140228,0,7700935.story 1 2 PHOTO HERE: http://www.trbimg.com/img-53112815/turbine/bs-bs-hs-tumor-teeth-jpg-20140228/600 A rare tumor (left) found in a baby’s brain contained several teeth (right). (New England Journal of Medicine, Baltimore Sun / February 27, 2014) By Andrea K. Walker, The Baltimore Sun6:19 p.m. CST, February 28, 2014 Doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital have removed a rare tumor that contained several fully grown teeth from a baby boy's brain. The tumor was found in the then-4-month-old from West Virginia in 2012 after a pediatrician noticed that his head was unusually large for his age. Doctors wrote about the findings in an article that appeared this week in the New England Journal of Medicine. The discovery could someday help researchers trying to cure diseases or grow new organs, medical experts said. "It gives us more insight into the origins of the tumor," said Dr. Edward Ahn, a pediatric neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins who was the lead surgeon in the case. The tumor found in the child was a craniopharyngioma, a rare mass found mostly in young children that can press up against the pituitary gland and optic nerve and cause pressure in the brain, according to the National Institutes of Health. Only five other cases in medical literature found teeth in these types of tumors, Ahn said. Teeth are more commonly found in another kind of tumor, teratomas. Doctors have found many bodily structures, including fingers and even partially formed humans, in teratomas because their cells have the ability to form any kind of cell type or organ system within the tumor mass, said Dr. James T. Rutka, a pediatric neurosurgeon and chair of the University of Toronto's department of surgery who was not involved in the Maryland case. "If they are absolutely certain this is a craniopharyngioma, it would be way less common" to have teeth or any body part, said Rutka, the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Neurosurgery and a past president of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons. The baby's mother, who did not want to be identified to protect her family's privacy, said in an interview that she took her son to the pediatrician for a stuffy nose in 2012. Doctors discovered that the boy's head had grown significantly from two weeks prior when it was measured during a routine visit. An ultrasound and CT scan revealed the massive tumor, which doctors said they had to remove through surgery. "The tumor was very large and the baby was so small," Ahn said. "To do this type of surgery on a 4-month-old baby is extremely risky, but something we had to do right away." The baby's mother said: "It was absolutely terrifying. It is the scariest thing I have ever gone through." Until the surgery, doctors didn't know what kind of tumor had grown on the child's brain. Once inside the brain, Ahn discovered a solid tumor with pieces of white that he thought at first was calcium, which is not unusual in these tumors. Craniopharyngioma tumors are formed from the lining of the brain or back of the mouth and often have calcium inside but not organized into teeth, Rutka said. "We had to think twice," Ahn said. "We first thought they were flakes of calcium. When we looked at it closer, we were like, 'Those really look like teeth.' " A pathologist confirmed a week later that they were teeth. Ahn said more research is needed on craniopharyngioma tumors to determine why teeth sometimes form. "No one knows," he said. "It must be the origin of the tumor. … They might have had some common lineage with the cells that produce teeth." Dr. Narlin Beaty, a neurosurgeon at the University of Maryland Medical Center who helped research and write the New England Journal of Medicine article, said the discovery could help build on current research and theories. Copyright © 2014, The Baltimore Sun

James Rhandi acts like this Israeli Stage Magician is a "colleague" of his.

An Illustrated History of Trepanation Does this procedure fall under the heading of spiritual technology? One of the signs of accomplishment in the Tibetan practice of P'howa (used to transfer consciousness at the moment of death) is supposed to be an indentation forming in the skull at the point of the crown chackra, and in fact I have experienced this myself. Furthermore, some trepanned skulls have been found in India with holes made in points corresponding to the crown or third eye chackras, suggesting that the process may have been used with the intention of augmenting some sort of spiritual or psychic ability. Nowadays trepanation enthusiasts claim that if a hole is made in the skull the volume of blood flowing through the brain can increase because it is no longer constricted by the rigid skull. They claim that this makes them more creative and intelligent, though of course the cynic in me suggests that if these people were dumb enough to drill holes in their heads their intelligence really had nowhere to go but up. Questions you don't want to ask a Tibetan P'howa master: "Lama, can I improve my practice by using a power drill?" http://ananael.blogspot.com/2007/06/trepanation-spiritual-technology.html

people die all the time from doing stupid stunts http://thetaobums.com/topic/33814-snake-handling/ http://thetaobums.com/topic/33921-what-are-legitimate-qi-abilitiespower/page-10#entry528572 Posted 16 February 2014 - 04:19 PM The Middlesboro, Kentucky preacher who starred in a reality show about snake-handling died Saturday night after being bitten by a snake. The Middlesboro Police Department said that at around 8 p.m., they responded to a possible snake bite at the Full Gospel Tabernacle in Jesus [sic] Name church, but that its pastor, the star of the National Geographic Channel’s Snake Salvation, Jamie Coots, had already left the scene by the time they arrived. EMS responders then went to Coots’s home, where he was found suffering from what they believed was a snake bite. They attempted to administer treatment, but Coots refused on account of his belief that God would not allow him to die from a snake bite. He died at his home at approximately 10 p.m. Snake-handlers believe that their ability to hold, and occasionally dance with snakes comes from what are called “the signs of the gospels,” which are found in Mark 16: “And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.” Coots starred in Snake Salvation alongside Andrew Hamblin of the Tabernacle Church of God in Tennessee. Watch a video of the late Coots and Hamblin handing snakes from The Tennessean below. http://www.rawstory....rom-snake-bite/

LOL what have I created...

Buddha Boy Uncovered: Secret Techniques Rare film of Ram Bahadur Bamjan ("Buddha Boy") who has been meditating for 3 years without food & water. Ram Bahadur Bamjan is known by many as a reincarnation of Buddha.

This guy- has the most "power": Kenyan pastor tells women to attend church without underwear so God enters them Nairobi pastor Reverend Njohi has introduced a form of worship at his Lord’s Propeller Redemption Church in which female members of the congregation are banned from wearing underwear so God can enter their bodies easily. Describing the wearing of underwear to church by women as ungodly, Reverend Njohi warned his members of dire consequences if they secretly did so. According to one of the church’s members, last Sunday, all the female members of the congregation came to the service without any panties or bra as the pastor ordered. Mothers were advised to check their daughters when coming to church on Sundays so as to ensure their obey the edict and can receive Christ too. http://www.citifmonline.com/?p=3465

^ Randi, James (January 4, 2008). "A SIMPLIFIED ART". SWIFT January 4, 2008. James Randi Educational Foundation. Retrieved March 23, 2012. "The state of the art of spoon-bending – so beautifully demonstrated by our buddy Banachek and by Israeli magician Guy Bavli, among others – has progressed far beyond what Uri Geller first showed the media back in the 1970s."

STAN LEE SUPERHUMANS - GUY BAVLI - KINETIC MAN - MIND TELEKINESIS Jan 9, 2014 Stan Lee Superhumans featuring Guy Bavli - Master of the Mind, - KINETIC MAN - MOVING OBJECTS USING HIS MIND. Demonstration of telekinesis, power of the mind.

here's that cheater again... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYUqqBtDfh0 Shaolin warrior monk Shi Yan Ming is a Chinese national treasure. But fate has taken him far from his home—to Manhattan, where he runs his own temple. This is the story of how one man is transforming an ancient Eastern tradition into a Western sensation.

THAT 1 INCH PUNCH WAS LIKE 3 INCHES! Superhuman Shifu Shi Yan Ming Facebook = UNLIKE!

Those two guys- those 2 Shaolin Monks- performed on video- without a disguise- they must want fame and fortune! WHAT ARE THEY TRYING TO PROVE?? HUGE EGOS, THOSE GUYS!

And this guy: Superhuman Shifu Shi Yan Ming's Killer punch. is also a Shaolin Monk- who says he uses his Qi for his punching power. But, TaoBums can say/will say- there are plenty of guys who can hit hard that never use/practiced Qi.

This is a Shaolin Monk. He does feats of "unbreakableness" He says he uses Qi to help him do this. ____________ However, if he posted on TaoBums- people here would say: -I could do that too without chi -He has a hard head- -buildup of scar tissue- -his head is empty -he has tough skin -he has a lot of callous which protects him -how do we know that iron is not really cardboard? -I always do that and I don't even do ChiKung/NeiGung/KungFu/Eat Rice/ etc., -Look, If you want something real... -ITS PHYSICS! -some people are born with high pain threshold -he is used to pain because his mom and dad beat him up a lot as a kid -those spears have no points! -dude I have a video of me doing that when I was 6 years old -he is grounded- so of course he can do that - he is not doing reverse breathing, so impossible - did he write a book? -how come he can't make fire?!? -that's not a real drill -prove that's real electricity! -check his I.P. number! he must post here! - he said `eh yah-- but, he should have said `yah eh - but what else can he do??? -those computer monitors are fake -WHAT LEVEL IS HE???????? - I only like Bruce Lee, not Stan Lee ________ STAN LEE SUPERHUMANS THE UNBREAKABLE MAN http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmdO8Kdbym0

even creepier... the first comment on that article- on the science site has a guy saying: John Bryan · Top Commenter · Capella University My dad had teeth, etc. growing in his cancerous prostate tumor (he passed on shortly after). We all thought it was weird at the time but we were told it was not that uncommon.

I was reading about this just now in a Buddhist book

check this out -while you have the power tools out: how to cut the lingual frenulum as a necessary prerequisite for the kechari mudra http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khecar%C4%AB_mudr%C4%81

Introduction to trepanation Trepanation is the practice of making a hole in the skull in order to improve the brain pulsations and hence the overall well being. A trepan is the instrument used for making a hole in the skull bone. It is sometimes spelled trephine. The idea is to pump up the brainbloodvolume. It's known that one's level of consciousness is directly related to the volume of blood in one's brain. As a result, trepanners say, one feels happier and more energetic. The practice of trepanation has been around since the Stone Age. Trepanation is the oldest surgical procedure practiced by mankind. At no time had evidence been found that brain surgery was the intention of this procedure. To the contrary, evidence shows that from the very earliest trepanations elaborate care was taken not to penetrate below the level of the bone membrane. Care was taken not to penetrate through the dura matter. Care was taken not to damage the brain. Procedure of trepanation and its effects on the body An instrument called a trepan is used to make the hole. Throughout history, the trepanning tool has developed dramatically, evolving from a crude hunk of sharpened flint in prehistoric times to a hand-cranked auger in the first century to, nowadays, an electric drill. Anyway, the trepan goes into your skull and a chunk of bone is extracted. You bandage yourself up and eventually the skin heals over, leaving only a small indentation to show for the hole in your head. The idea is to pump up your brainbloodvolume. Your level of consciousness, goes Huges' theory, is directly related to the volume of blood in your brain. Babies have naturally high brainbloodvolume, being born with a soft spot at the top of their heads, the fontanel, that gives the brain room to pulse. When you look at a baby's head, you can actually see the pliant tissue at the fontanel throbbing with the baby's heartbeat, pumping oxygen through the brain. Within the first year, though, that soft tissue hardens into bone. And therein lies the problem. Once the fontanel seals off, your brain has no proper vent through which to breathe. To make matters worse, the upright stance you adopt as a toddler allows gravity to pull blood away from your head, the beginning of a lifelong drain. Pulsation decreases. Brainbloodvolume plummets. You get lethargic, estranged, depressed. By opening up that hole one may reverse nature's wayward development and return the skull to its original condition. As a result, trepanners say, you'll be happier, more energetic and less prone to crippling bouts of ennui. You'll ascend to the child's plane of acute consciousness from which you disembarked to enter the lowly malaise of adulthood. Though doctors disagree and say it's dangerous. You expose your precious brain, you remove God's covering, there's a risk of infection and all sorts of other problems. Brain doctors seem to view this invasion of the cranium's hallowed realm as a violation of some universal taboo. More to the point, they don't approve of amateurs dipping their fingers into the neurochemical soup. But they readily agree on one point: a hole is the starting point for all neurosurgical procedures. Trepanation is performed, for example, to evacuate hemorrhages and to relieve pressure in the cranial cavity caused by cerebral ulcers. But, for neurosurgeons, the hole is a means to an end, and they put the bone back in place. Trepanation was practiced on every continent through every time period and by every race of mankind until the advent of brain surgery in this century. Doctors give this medical advice to people that trepanation was done in past centuries for superstitious, magical or religious reasons. They generally look on trepanation as a practice akin to blood letting. They scoff at it. They deny that trepanation could have a reasonable basis. They fear that to practice trepanation would demean their professional status. They have stated that they wouldn't undertake it if their lives depended on it. And further, trepanation can't be investigated by any individual doctor because a board must be set up to approve all research projects connected to universities and hospitals. However trepanation doesn't go away. It is ingrained in our history. The ancestors of modern Europeans, the Battle-Ax people, were prodigious trepanners as well as were all other ancient peoples. There is an extensive scientific literature on trepanation both in medicine and anthropology. The risk to benefit ratio would have to have been very favorable for the practice to have been so widely practiced but official investigators haven't been able to see that there is a both a rationale and a benefit to this procedure. There seems to be a deliberate intent amongst them not to see, maybe even a conspiracy, that there is a benefit to making a hole in the skull bone. This is understandable though because if doctors and scientists recognized the benefit they would be obliged to announce to the world that upright walking humans need a hole in the head! It's unlikely that doctors will be stepping forward with this announcement anytime soon so in the meantime the public will have to educate itself and then educate the doctors. http://www.trepanationguide.com/

The Countess Who Had Drilled A Hole In Her Head In the early 1970s, 23-year-old Amanda Feilding drilled a hole in her skull with a dentist's electric drill, wearing a tight pair of close-fitting glasses so the blood wouldn't get into her eyes. She then bandaged herself up and went out to a restaurant to have a steak. It's called trepanning — the ancient practice of drilling a hole in the skull to give the brain more oxygen. In a more metaphysical sense, advocates of trepanation see the eventual fusing of the bones at the top of the skull in adults to be a closing-off of vital energy, creativity, and spirituality – something that the boring of a new hole in the cranium will fix. As such, trapanning is seen as another method of mind-expansion along the lines of LSD and so on. Feilding getting ready to air out her brain One might say that Feilding, now Countess of Wemyss, is the Timothy Leary of trepanning. She regards her body as, in her words, "my laboratory." She ran for British Parliament twice, on the platform "Trepanation for the National Health," and is also the founder of the Trepanation Trust and The Beckley Foundation. The Beckley Foundation logo The Beckley Foundation supports research into different modalities of mind expansion, including cannibis and trepanation, as well as advocates drug legalisation. According to the Beckley Foundation website: "The Foundation is working at the frontiers of the renaissance of psychedelic research. It is also undertaking pioneering research into cerebral circulation and its impact on the aging process, including possible ways to counteract some of its debilitating effects. Collaborative work initiated by the Foundation has brought about not only the first research into LSD with human participants since prohibition, but also the first explanation of the physiology underlying the beneficial effects of the ancient procedure of trepanation." It is interesting to note the use of the all-seeing eye/Eye of Ra in both the foundation's logo as well as the icon for its "About Us" page. Such imagery, coupled with the mythic/masonic symbol of the double-headed eagle, suggests that the Beckley Foundation sees itself as not just crusaders in the field of mind-expansion research but as carrying on ancient mystery traditions. Many such traditions speak of a "third eye" in the middle of our foreheads (a.k.a. the pineal gland) that, once "activated," give us special psychic abilities and other cool X-Men stuff. The theme of drilling holes in one's head can also be found in several films, most notably Scanners... Pi... and, a particular favorite here in these parts, The Amazing Burt Wonderstone... Don't try this at home, Kids.