Captain Mar-Vell

... What about a book exchange? I'm in the UK too, south London. ...

... Great contributions here. Thank you very much NotVoid for the information on The Rhine Research Centre. Rhine Stone Cow Boy. ...

... Aha! States of relative confusion and clarity follow one another. Observe the flow, man. I love this place. It's kinda super cool. Like me. Er, motivation for practising? To love and be of service is what I desire. And maybe one more little thing too. ...

... I read somewhere that "wrathful dharma protectors" typically present in compassionate aspect. ie only rarely do they get a little wrathful. ...

... Indeed that was an interesting post! Welcome to The Tao Bums! ...

... Thanks for the advice. The thing is, Trunk, that my own improvised spiritual practices have proved, lets say, extremely effective. The Way is revealed in the action of Life itself. All of life is an initiation process, from one "level" to another. Skilful means are worth meditating upon. Sometimes I think my "improv boat" is the most effective "system" on earth. But it was kinda unique to my life, so I don't see how it could be systematised. ...

... The military are likely way ahead of any of us here. Or maybe not. On edit: Perhaps it rests on the following question; ...

... Exactly so. ...

... Dizzying is right. The array of formal practices available, and the sources of information. I find I naturally do movements and actions, even quite complicated things over long periods of time, ritualistic things, exercises, all sorts of things. But I just end up doing them. It's difficult to explain. I wonder now though, whether to investigate one of these formal sets of traditional movements and practices. In the spirit of disinterested scientific enquiry, to observe the effects. I would invite comments, advice and speculation. ...

... Genie in a body. No-one, nothing can stop me! I'm liking it already. Great clip CT! The chap seems to have a good handle on the emerging new paradigm(s). I gotta say, yes and no. What about, say, a "spiritual experience" that makes your skull catch fire, blasts all the thoughts from your head, lifts you bodily from your death bed essentially, heals you, shakes you and makes you dance like a puppet, makes your joints snap, crackle and pop, makes you dance the dance of shiva, puts you in contact with higher realms, blasts every cell of your body, effects a mysterious transformation of mind body and soul, pours insights and knowledge into your skull, produces wracking pains thereafter and paranoid delusions and mind numbing, stomach clenching, heart stopping fear which takes you to the edge of insanity and back. And which quite possibly in some mysterious way remakes all of reality. What about that sort of "spiritual experience?" I shouldn't say these things... ...

... I will try leaving the chat up, it kicks out after an inactive timer. So, I might be around. If you can bear it. I may give out occult secrets for free/ramble inanely. Or much worse. Who knows? ...

... The rudder is indeed a fine analogy. Whose hand doth rest upon the tiller? What the grist? And who the miller? I sometimes feel I steer between dimensions. ...

... Well fancy that. I like you Rara! I hope you are listening to Argus, it's a great album. Jon Anderson, though, he some sort of saint of prog rock. As a matter of fact, I might never forgive Squire. I'm talking about Yes, possibly the greatest band in history. But Jon and Rick did this amazing album together too, and toured it right into Croydon. The Living Tree. Yggdrasil. Staff of Life. Wake Man and a Sun. ...

... Taomeow, you adept fer sure. You da best. By the way, I often get the impression I have a strange effect on the world around me. My synchs may not be spoken of, They are not spoken of enough. In truth, I speak of nothing else. Their sound be that of ringing bells. So, what the hell exactly is going on, taomeow? might edit soonish ...

... Nice story, rainbowvein! Rara, I hail from the north west rather than the north east. The real reason for the structure of line 9 is to make it scan with eight beats (sounding out "the" would add two extra beats). Or maybe I was just channelling Heathcliff. Before I forget, just one coinkydink from the countless catalogue that I am bedeviled with. On 17/02/14 I posted this; http://thetaobums.com/topic/931-what-are-you-listening-to/page-201#entry524827 Time to Crank Up the Wish Bone Ash. The following day, I receive in the post, a flyer from the Fairfield Halls in Croydon advertising a Wishbone Ash gig. Never before had I received a gig flyer in the post from anywhere. I was astonished to find out that Wishbone Ash were still touring. Coincidentally, The Fairfield Halls is where I swear to God I received some sort of spiritual transmission from Jon Anderson when he and Rick Wakeman played the Living Tree tour there. Anyone want to go see Wishbone Ash in Croydon? ...

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... And if Mara rises up against you, you in a heap a trouble! ...

... Great. That really made me smile. Actually some syncs are beyond cosmic lattice correspondence type meaning. They really appear orchestrated by a "higher intelligence." It's a grand tale, my friends. Full of sound and fury, maybe, but signifying everything. Maybe I should go meditate on this. Or I could give an account of some of my own most mysterious synchs... ...

... Jigsaw pieces is a great analogy. A puzzle. Is the following relevant, I almost put it in that thread on luck; http://halcyonhierophant.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/29-nine-lives.html ...

... People have the false idea of a single causal event being solely responsible for a single effect. For many events, clearly a combination of causes is necessary: a variety of necessary causes, sufficient causes, contributory causes, whatever the case is. So it is more complicated. There is no chain. But there is a multidimensional web/lattice of probabilitistic nature. All is fractal self reflection in infinite variety. The correspondences are there for those with the eyes to see. But the subjective aspect cannot be removed. The consciousness of the subject, when following a certain stream, will encounter events that are very strongly laden with symbolic meaning. Recall that the world itself is a vast array of living symbols which reflects your own conscious state. I'm struggling to find words here, sorry. ...

... I'm not clicking this time. I'm not. Right I got lulz wrong then ha ha ha. I just meant laughs see. I ain't so down with the groovy new youth speak. ...

... Hypnagogic. Yeah. ...

... I guess so BKA. I am not clicking on that link Nungali. You bastard. I clicked. I only come here for the, what's the word, lulz? ...

... Nice. I read Swedenborg thirty years ago. I very much liked Swedenborg. He had real insight which I recognised immediately. He was an influence on Blake. ...

... Surely that's too much information. ...