Nungali

Hmmm .... your example started off with YOU dropping the hammer on our feet .... and summarised with us 'being careful not to drop a heavy hammer on our own feet' . ? Interesting . Anyway, why is the feeling of pain the regulator of reality ... when any feeling can be illusory as well ? Regarding consensus reality , that's a better point . I remember hearing a talk from a Buddhist monk on 'illusion and reality ' , afterwards I was talking to him and he again bought up the points he made in the talk . I mentioned the point about consensus reality and he responded with ; " Well, .... yes, there IS that too . "

I was wondering when someone would bring that up . Many a time on Daobums (and elsewhere) a discussion has been had about if what we observe, in person, 'live' , with our senses is accurate, or indeed , 'real' . ...... but some forget about this when discussing the veracity of ' video' .

Ummm .... as it says " Note : whale in image closer to camera .... " here ya go , try this :

Painting . It might be old ( but on tv here now ) , maybe even 'controversial ' .... but I like watching him work . A way to do trees with lake reflection ; from 18:40

... don't you mean ' aristocat ' ?

All sorts of people .

I knew you where ridiculous , but I didnt realise it was genetic and through your whole family !

because most 'ancestry dna' type results are BS ! All these VERY obvious looking Aboriginal people here went for it and got results from all over the place with 0 aboriginal dna present .

In my next demonstration I shall break this baseball bat ..... by holding a child's ankles, moving forward while doing figure 8 twirls with him and then on the down stroke , break the bat in two with his face ..... ready ?

If you think that .... ... you must be in an altered state .

Re the bolded bit : There was contention amongst the corner refs when I won as a green against the black belt . Some didnt like my initial attack as it was not at an accepted target. Opponent was a VERY tall guy with very long limbs , he was outreaching everybody , and had been winning by relying on that advantage . He started by sticking his long arm and fist out in your face , even a side kick, your kick would not reach into him beyond his arm reach . he kept sticking it out in my face . It annoyed me so I kicked his hand , seemed the obvious solution , not that anyone taught me to do that . He went owwie owie ow ow , lost his whole body focus , hunched up and shook his hand in the air and then grabbed it with the other one , slightly stepping up and a bit forward as he did . I came in with a classic oitsuki ( being careful to retract my other (guard) hand back to hip and away from any useful guard , as I had been taught . And Frank ( ring ref ) explodes, blows his little whistle , goes into an exaggerated front stance pointing at me and screams " IPPON ! " (one pont, a kill, a win ). 2 corner judges didnt want to allow it as I kicked his hand 'not a proper target ' . Krank insisted as I was coming forward , and opponent was coming forward and I did the technique as required ( all needed to score a 'kill' ) , of course Frank held Veto, and I was awarded the win ... much to the ego fury of my opponent . Thats what I mean by 'karate as a sport ' . That guy would have creamed me on the street , but this was a sport, with rules and requirements of delivering technique 'correctly' . .... and I won 4 cheap drinking glasses in a cardboard display box with luxury car logos on them ..... whooopeee !

yeah .... BUT .... Is that video an acceptable form of evidence ? The bolded bit is the key I think , and your comments about individuals ( my qualifier was : " What a history I have had with THAT mob! ) My comments where more about 'old school' and my experiences in the past . Back then it was verbotten to take the art 'way beyond' any rigid guidelines ... actually guidelines is too weak a word . [ back then I actually got third place in an open Shotokan tournament against a black belt when I was green . It was crazy, the guy was all over me and scoring ( back then a high level of control and focus was required - no full contact ) - in a real fight I would have been smashed . But none of his points where allowed - much to his building frustration - as he didnt perform his attacks EXACTLY the way the referee ( Fran Nowak ) believe they should have been technically performed . I managed to do your classic ( and very bad form , in this case ) Oitsuki ... pretty badly ... but the way it was 'required' and won . me at the end ; " I won ? " Back then much of it was political ( the JKA stuff and their trying to bring all under their regulation or you would not be recognised as 'proper' ). I realise its changed a lot now . Some have done research looking at the roots of their art . Some have incorporated some of the locks take downs and throws of old Okinawan karate - which sorta moves it away from it being Shotokan anyway . Im not saying they cant fight , nor that 'school curriculum karate' person cant fight - any one who trains to do a thing A LOT and gets real time experience will be better than one who does not . As a beginner , I trained under the then JKA all approved and recently made 3rd Dan ( which was still a big deal back then , very hard to get a 3rd dan from JKA .... if you where not Japanese) Frank Nowak , a German and the first JKA appointed non Japanese 3rd dan . His teacher was Kanazawa - the 'JKA poster boy ' ( their eidalon ) - talk about a robotic moving , ridiculously deep long stancing . military type drill sergeant . But still , he was good at it , I seen him go from a crazy low deep front stance straight into a leap over his attackers head, to hit with a back heel kick and the base of their skull . Obviously a very risky manoeuvre to try on an experienced person . - anyway , the video you posted ; look at the 'attackers' punch .... other hand pulled back at the hip when he punches ? Why do that ! ? - I mean , in THAT situation they are demonstrating . Thats exactly what I am talking about above . Most people have stopped doing that in our club , becasue I keep clipping them upside their head when they do it . However we do do that .... when we practice the technique and situation it is designed for , and then it does make sense . Regarding Rick , a lot of what he shows is pretty much what we do , I mean, a lot of his application / techniques , he has 'developed ' / discovered (?) as he says " WE dont normally think about that ." Well , I do and 'my we' does , as its all in there from the beginning . I might even venture to say Rick made Shotokan better by going back to where they got it from in the first place and 'reversed the changes they made to it ' . to make it Shotokan . Also a lot of Jap karate has re introduced weaponry back into it . Early days , you never even saw a bo . Old days in Okinawa ' karate kobudo went 'hand ' in 'hand' . I thought he missed a point about his 1 ... 2 ( moves ) at the end , thats a typical thing I see in karate .... its application might be better understood if one considers a big part of karate early influence being white crane ie , 'wings closing' - in karate ; 'cross arms ' or ' the wind up ' or as some refer to it 'loading ' ( evade, deflect, catch, direct or control ), wings open - seizing, controlling at striking ( or they can be reversed ) , we see it in the performance of nearly every 'block' , except it is 'angled ' ; inner and outer 'block' angled horizontally , upper block angled up diagonally , downward block angled down diagonally , in performance of shuto .... all through the moves actually . Oh, by the way , I am not surprised you think he can move better than many Okinawan style practitioners ..... some of them seem to have gotten 'worse' than the people I criticise ! And they teach all that standard 'school kid' stuff . Why ? becasue they have clubs and want to make money and most of their students are school kids ( that are going to drop out , so hit them with fees , uniform charge .... any charge you can think of, before they take off .... thats 'business' ... and a big reason why I refuse to charge ( or even pay my 'instructor' - I do however make a quarterly ' club donation' , to keep the thing going )

Your protest .... which I think is valid .... is more in the area of religion . For example , asking " How many times has your magic failed?" is an entirely different question to the rest of the post which is about religious ' theology / philosophy ' .... unless you are conflating the two subjects of magic and religion . I wouldn't advise that at all . And the specific term 'Magick' which you used , by definition can't 'fail you' , as it is a process of learning about life .... however, an individual could fail the 'curriculum' , but that is not the system 'failing for you ' . Well, you could see it that way I suppose : " That curriculum was no good .... it failed me ! " If you think 'Magick' is like doing 'magic tricks' or displaying siddhis , then yes, it could certainly 'fail you .'

No answers to mine above ? This 'found a bottle thing' - hearsay too . What 'finishing marks' and what do you mean by " flow over on to the next stone " ? Posting an image to what you are trying to describe would demonstrate what you mean . Google might be my friend but it still will not show me any entries about 'straw' inside the limestone blocks of the Great Pyramid .

Yes, it will appear that way if you approach this stuff the wrong way without proper instruction and guidance and get the supplementary material practices and 'realisations' that come with it . or one may , as Crowley warned : " otherwise he will be the slave of illusion, and the prey of madness. " The same applies to many other traditions eg Tibetan Buddhism ... and also apparently Christianity .

Sounds good . Putting two heads together better than banging one against the wall Indeed , and at times I have been in that situation , but as you know , the money earned in that situation can be channelled into 'what we will' . But certainly less than ideal . I am STILL learning that . I think, once 'the ball gets rolling' it gains momentum and other things start magically manifesting to assist one ..... or we could say 'dreams start coming true at an increasing rate ' I have experienced this . Just one single example : ( Oh, and I should add , no matter how much of an idiot I am , it doesnt seem to impact on this process ! ) During our hell court case , more than 2 years long , although it we trounced them , like in any long and gruelling fight , there are times when you feel pressure , stress , need a break .... Also it was not that clear then , my mind was saying ' What if we DO loose ? EVERYONE ( for some God damn reason ! ) seemed to be turning against us , even some of the many people we helped over the years - except for two and saying we are going to loose , even 'friends' , soliciters , etc . What if I loose my beautiful abode - what will I do then , where will I live , I have no money ... I will be cast out, destitute , an old street person with health problems But then .... what the hell am I doing ! MY life has never been like that .... things have always 'manifested ' in some strange and unusual way for me . Stop being an idiot Nungers ! You know 'Big Mum' ( as my indigenous teacher calls her ) is looking out for you . So I get back to my old self and think ... so what if I loose it all, thats happened more than once and I ended up better off . I know everyone says they are no rentals and they are crazily high amounts .... but I think I just look online and see what IS available .... ... a 'Lodge' / defunct 'bed and breakfast ' .... up on the mountain ..... at THAT price ? Must be mistake . So me and friend go to check it out . WOW ! Amazing place , I peek through a window " Thats MY room right there. " We ring up .... Oh, MANY people are on the queue for that , but we somehow get to visit the owner , we click, they decide to bump us in ahead of any others . I wont detail how good it was as the main thing is ; one day I drove PAST it , all other times I would drive out, one way to the local town , or drive out , the other way, to see some friends . But this day I went from town to friends , drove past the house and .... wait a minute ! Drive back and do it again . Then it hit me ! This is the place I drove past on my visit to the area before I moved here 30 years ago and I noticed it, stopped and admired it and thought 'What a fantastic place ... and it just resonates with me, like I belong here . Oh what I would give to be able to live in a place like that .... even temporarily , but that seems impossible . I was living in my 'dream house' And that isnt the only thing like that , that happened , there has been many of them . Some times , to a seemingly trivial and material level : the motorcycle ( old retro version ) , I realised after I bought it , is exactly the same sort of motorcycle I dreamed about having as a teen ... I forgot all about that , but now somehow I have one . ( and the reason for that is , I never really needed money before, but I sure thought it might be handy and fun to have some ! ) At the beginning of our court case , they also threatened to take everything I had ... but after investigation they realised I had nothing personally owned ( worth anything to them ) so I was declared a 'man of straw' - a legal term which means basically 'forget it, he's a bum, not worth the trouble of shaking him upside down, only a few cents will fall out ) . The after the case and we won, and after the appeal and we won .. and after it was all finished and settled THEN I got, totally out the blue a multi hundred thousand dollar inheritance . - that now, they cant touch ! Who is working this all out ? ! Many have wondered why 'someone like me ' , never responsible , planning, or saving , ended up where I am . And also interesting is that I did all this stuff , not for any 'karmic reward ' ... it just happened , or I was drawn towards it for other reasons ; things like working with refugee relocation, nursing the elderly , cooking nurturing and feeding people , one could even say being a tarot reader all those years , or time spent as a masseur . I was never interested in charging for it though . And that leads me to another factor ; past life 'accoutrement ' , what we bring with us , I am supposing some experience (or karma ) along these lines already ..... I think it might be a bit hard to get to this stage of realisation or 'fluking' ( ) in one life time . What I mean by this is ... if someone is a BRILLIANT carpenter , they might have carpentry experience before this life ? hang on a minute ! That sounds like what is happening to me ! Surely I am not man of virtue !

Got an image to demonstrate this ? 'Have' trowel marks ... or have things that look like trowel marks ? People describe the 'scoop marks' around the obelisk as looking like a big ice cream scoop had scrapped out bits of rock . of course, even if we had such a mechanised scoop and tried it .... no way would the surface look like that ( it would be fractured and broken, even ice cream will do that if you scoop it out - look closely at the surface , it isnt smooth at all. ). Even in this video here , they suggest the 'scooper' would have to be some huge type of abrasive 'belt sander' , but that 'belt sander would not have a flat surface , as a 'scoop' is deeper in the middle - so a belt sander that has a convex base plate ..... as we go on and look further into it, the ore the idea falls apart . Some of the blocks certainly LOOK LIKE they where once malleable and then set . I spent a LOT of time in the past looking into this and particularly Davidovit's ideas ... he is an engineer has replicated the process he believes they used and made a scad of bucks out of it ( geopolymer for deep site nuclear waste containment and burial ) .... but his ideas start to fall apart as well, the more we go into them . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Davidovits I cant find any reference to that whatsoever . I think you we need a citation for that ... otherwise its just ' hearsay' .

Went to local shop today ; 'Good' Friday. I heard shop guy reminding younger assistant ; 'Remember today is Good Friday , we can not sell alcohol today, its illegal ." Me ; " It is ? " ... Apparently so . I could have bought it yesterday and got shit faced today But no BUYING it today .... as if people didnt have a stash ready . No , no drinking alcohol , its Easter .... instead you should be eating a chocolate egg that came from a rabbit .

My friend loves the red dragon fruit I grow .... easter , but is trying to watch her weight, so I carefully trimmed the 'flaps' off the outside of the fruit and made it egg shaped and wrapped it in foil , for her 'easter egg ' . Then she never showed up - guess I have it for breakfast . - I bet the easter bunny is glad that he does not have to lay these

I persevered .... wish I hadn' t Same same , I have seen it all before . They keep hitting on a few good points , but sometimes , nearly every sentence uttered could be disputed ... too much to go through on that one. Sometimes , previous premises suggested , later somehow turn into facts that further extrapolations are then drawn from and presented as valid . Then again, at times he follows up his assertions with , maybe not, others dont think so ... but I dont agree .. ... so, a matter of personal opinion . Worse is the diversion into glossed over points , where we are told they are fully explained in other episodes of the series ( more 1 1/2 hr long vids ! Also, we can find out by following the directions at the beginning , the money / advertising part , that goes for some time , a thing he says he doesnt usually do, but in this case .... well, he does . " Lion cloth wearing savages " , he describes the ancient Egyptians ( Late Kingdom ) as . The Late Kingdom holds some of the most advanced .... ( ahh forget it ! Its plainly a loaded statement ! ... and it doesnt do his presentation any good . ) Its a shame as he does make some good points and at times asks good focused questions . I agree with him about the silly experiments some archaeologists have tried to replicate things , some of them are REALLY bad . He also makes a point that archaeologists only go on the evidence they find ; the see the marks, they find the 'pounding balls ' , they find no other tools so they assume the method . Well, that's what archaeologists do .... they are not supposed to make theories beyond physical evidence they find . The V.O. admits however that 'its all speculation" on video's part ( 54:40 ) Conclusions ? - The most likely solution is it was some type of advanced tool or machine that was designed so as to leave the effects and marks we see - and that the 'orthodox' explanation is too fantastic and unrealistic . ( I personally think that the 'advanced tool' we have no evidence of is rather fantastic . They make a point that the same marks are on stone work at other places and countries . Well, at those places and times , they only had similar technology to New Kingdom Egypt , so that isnt surprising . What is surprising is the suggestion that they might all have had this 'advanced tool' , that in all these other places there is no record of either . Some secret advanced hidden technology tool , mega hard granite rock scrapper , that is used in different countries , with similar technology levels , sometimes separated by 1000s of years , that leaves no other trace other than the marks in the rocks that they presume must be left by a tool that made similar marks ( they do show a few ideas and admit none of them would have been suitable) . To me that is just as silly as them showing how hard it is to use a pounder by showing soft western tourists trying it out , or themselves or modern archaeologists ... too hard , it hurt , etc etc . Well go look in some mines and places where , admittedly with iron picks and shovels navvies and miners did amazing feats of engineering , and suffered and died from it , with no more than picks and shovels and wheel barrows .... and in recent history too ! . " I only lasted a few minutes at it " ... they didnt even address the possabilities of relays of people , it isnt impossible that people swapped jobs every 1/2 hr or 15 mins .... lots of other options possible all through their complaints about logical impossibility are not mentioned either . From 0;55 on you will hear the standard explanation ... rave , all familiar , as before , replete with holes of logic all through it . So just go to there and watch 10 mins if you want the gist of this video . ( As to why this idea of his - and others ideas , its 'standard fare - is imprtant to us , he doesnt say ... but he will be making a video about that in the future ) I' ve addresses all this before here in a few posts , so go there for the info . OR I will soon have a 3 hr video coming out where I read all those posts to you . or you could buy my book coming out . I also offer tours where you can pay for my holiday get a 'discount price' for booking early ; Egypt ... or the Egypt / South America package ( with a stop off for a bit in Columbia ) . PS . dont bother with the last 8 mins - merchandising T- shirts , etc - why didnt I think of that ?

I taught at the local Steiner school for a while - year 10 ( great kids ! , I knew most of them outside of school anyway ) I introduced some of these ideas with them ( to save them from 'vocational 'guidance' and careers of shop assistants ) ; " You kids, each one of you, is unique and individual and have a potential genius to express in your special field . " I explained a bit, they got curious , some started talking about what they wanted to do and where they wanted to go . But one kid didnt like the whole thing , he protested that he already knew and was already doing it , and he would after schooling shift into that as his career , along with continued study in that field . It was to be a gardener , supplying bio-dynamic produce . He had already started , his father had been doing it and he had loved it from an early age ... a few of the above indications where present , but most of all , he was sure in himself this was his life's path . And who are we to say not ! An important aspect is to NOT interfere with other wills , if you did , it would be a 'magical declaration' or 'spell' that you dont believe others have the right to express their wills, so then, neither do you . Anyway, thats just some thoughts off the top of my head , and its probably already too much for most to bother reading . OR I could finish with a quote from Crowley " Now that my lecture is finished , I open the floor to questions about what you where preoccupied thinking about, or reacting to, instead of what I was actually saying "

Another type of Daoist aspect is , in the raising of children , to be relaxed and let things sort themselves out as they do ... an indication of a path might only be for one set of experience relevant to the whole (as in my case ) In raising children ;" do not build a pool for a goat nor a pen for a shark" . Be aware of any indication they show that might be an interest, a curiosity or a development , support it and nurture it , be on guard not to FORCE them in ANY direction . Let it unfold naturally . We could also look backwards in our life for indications of any current confirmations as to the path we are on eg . I partook of an unusual 'off shoot' rite ( let's say ) , it was VERY good , and potent , the Master of the Lodge was excellent ! But, as it is in western occultism ( and in Ancient Egyptian symbolism , which I just commented on earlier here today ) their regalia can seem a real strange concoction of clumped together symbolism . We ended up having a conversation , much like this one , and he laughed and showed me a photo of himself , VERY young , looking a little confused , on a stage with other kids all dressed up, and him dressed in a costume like the one he was wearing in lodge ! WTF is that ? It was a school play , he was stuck into a particular role , they didnt have the exact costume so they had concocted that out of what they had . - This might seem a strange 'indication ' but I have seen it many times ; the really good nurse that played all day long in her toy nurses uniform as a kid , etc . Some might say the influence of things programmed them into a career ; giving the kid a nurses uniform or me seeing the window dresser influenced influenced us become a nurse ; a (let's call it a ) 'set designer ' (as part of my 'skill set' ) . But .... I saw and was interested in all sorts of things .... I dont remember much about all of them and I never became a jackhammer guy (used to LOVE watching them ) , and so on . The woman that was a nurse had other clothes and 'dress ups ' , but none appealed to her so much . There are a whole lot of reasons why we might loose awareness of our True Will , I wont go into that now . But some had it worked out at an early age ....

(... having trouble with computer and internet ... loosing text .... I will post in small blocks ) .... push you in the river , you manage to hit every hidden stepping stone , stumble to the other side and fall on a silk cushion with a cocktail in your hand ! "