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Cats and owls seem soooo alike!

Damn! I just listened to this for the 3rd time in two days! I have always loved Nina Simone! She should be in every music hall of fame on Earth!

In surgery for a heart attack, a middle-aged woman has a vision of God by her bedside. “Will I die?” she asks. God says, “No. You have 30 more years to live.” With 30 years to look forward to, she decides to make the best of it. So since she’s in the hospital, she gets breast implants, liposuction, a tummy tuck, hair transplants, and collagen injections in her lips. She looks great! The day she’s discharged, she exits the hospital with a swagger, crosses the street, and is immediately hit by an ambulance and killed. Up in heaven, she sees God. “You said I had 30 more years to live,” she complains. “That’s true,” says God. “So what happened?” she asks. God shrugs, “I didn’t recognize you

We don’t serve time travelers here,” said the bartender. A time traveler walks into a bar. A man walks past a fridge and thinks he can hear onions singing Bee Gee’s songs but on opening the fridge he discovered it was only the chives talkin’ What’s the difference between ignorance and apathy? Don’t know, don’t care. All those who believe in psychokinesis… raise my hand.

Can you direct me to where the main body has disavowed the obvious racist, bigoted quotes above that, as you say, " are from lectures in the mid 90s to small audiences in the US on a number of niche areas".

He starts right out, bumping it up! You can never go wrong with B.B.

Come on now! Nina Simone was a Goddess!

@silent thunder: Being a big blues guy I had to do this Chet baker blues song. A little jazzier than my usual blues fare but, damn! It is so good!

There’s a story of Chet Baker going to a bebop audition to play with Charlie Parker. He played the best bebop of any of the guys there (Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis included). Charlie Parker stopped the audition right there and went with Chet.

That is some sweet jazz. For pure emotion it is hard to beat Chet Baker on the trumpet. I truly thank you for this! It put me where I needed to be.

Assuming that there is not already a self-aware AI?

A guy spots a sign outside a house that reads “Talking Dog for Sale.” Intrigued, he walks in. “So what have you done with your life?” he asks the dog. “I’ve led a very full life,” says the dog. “I lived in the Alps rescuing avalanche victims. Then I served my country in Iraq. And now I spend my days reading to the residents of a retirement home.” The guy is flabbergasted. He asks the dog’s owner, “Why on earth would you want to get rid of an incredible dog like that?” The owner says, “Because he’s a liar! He never did any of that!”

Near the end of the show, the venue was trying to get him to wrap things up and an employee kept pointing to the clock at the foot of the stage that was counting down how minutes were left in his set. He looked at the clock with a few minutes left on it, unplugged it, sat back down and announced, "I'm here to play for the people. And if you good people want me to keep playing, then I'm going to play ALL NIGHT, BECAUSE I'M BB KING." The crowd lost it! He went on to play for another 45 mins. Honestly the best show of my life. There will never be another.

Is it possible to mistake schizophrenia for telepathy, I hear you ask There are two secrets to success in life. First of all, don’t tell all you know… The worst time to have a heart attack is during a game of charades.

"When a man with money meets a man with experience, the man with experience leaves with money and the man with money leaves with experience." - Unknown

As addendum to the above: There are a lot of ways to ground (I have probably used most of them at one time or another) some of them were very esoteric and powerful, yet a mix and match lifestyle of those above, promote a grounded lifestyle that is better than any single technique. "The more advanced you become the more you must root down into the earth" "The more chaos there is around you the more basic you need to be" "You can not maintain the high levels, if you do not maintain the low levels" -- a common thread among my teachers

See above. Pardon the editing please.

I have mentioned many different grounding techniques here in the past. So, some of this will be repeats. It is necessary that you try a lot of these and start making choices fitted to you. Explore your own ego resistance and learn what, how and when to start eliminating the many varied aspects of this resistance. Getting into the soil is always good, make sure that it is dark, rich fertile, earthy soil. Get out with the trees, epecially old growth, if possible. Feel (not visualize) feel the roots of you extending down into the ground and joining the roots of the trees around you. Go as far and as deep as feels comfortable. Stay that way until you feel very calm. If possible, walking barefoot in fresh mowed grass is always good! Hold your arms out to the skies and dance around like snoopy! Hug a friendly dog. Beekeeping is very powerful grounding. Remember, we ground with the earth, not the cosmos! Water is great, being near rivers and creeks good, if possible, being in rivers and creeks is better. Eating heavier foods, that feel earthy, root vegetables, nuts, stews, soups. Exercise, but, avoid excessive fatigue. Sleep whenever you feel the need. Keep a journal of what you are feeling. The processing can be very grounding as long as you do not get attached to the feelings involved. Find essential oils that calm you. Sandalwood tends to be good. Baking Be aware of situations that over-stimulate you and avoid them. You may have temporary psychic experiences or bliss, do not become attached to them! Let them pass. Avoid big life changes when you are feeling over-stimulated. Sleep in a stimuli free zone. Do not become discouraged, it is a learning process. Relax and learn to surf the wave, like all real surfing, it can be exciting, scary, challenging and sometimes--a hell of a lot of fun.

Sometimes, I feel like a broken record! But, here goes, caution is okay as long as you don't tense up. Go a little deeper and withdraw as you feel comfortable. Never just let yourself fall deeply all at once. While you are exploring this phenomena, study grounding techniques. Become an expert in grounding techniques. Be constantly on the lookout for new grounding techniques. Plus, what ralis said above.

May the swinging gate never hit you too hard in the butt, my friend!

I was watching a dog chasing its tail thinking “dogs are easily amused” and then I realized I was watching a dog chasing its tail

The more correct question: is a spiritual you--a thing? Also, it is more of a very enhanced empathy rather than actual telepathy. Enhanced empathy can be gotten from any good complete system. The thing is, that highly developed empathy brings with it a real can of worms. The acute empathy comes from increased awareness and sensitivity. This sensitivity in large part comes from a sensitized nervous system. A lot of the emotional and mental problems brought on by various practices, is this sensitization being developed, before an adequate foundation of understanding (which includes mental and physical acclimation, which can only happen over a long period of time) being developed. The way of Tao very much applies here, with heightened empathy, you must be able to let things pass through without attachment, or it will destroy your balance in so many ways. .I remember an old saying: May you be cursed with more awareness!

Jesus H! Take care! I am glad that you and your dogs have each other. I think about you several times a day now.

I was raised as an only child – which really annoyed my sister. I told a girl she had drawn her eyebrows on too high. She looked surprised I ’m not being condescending. I’m too busy thinking about far more important things you wouldn’t understand. So she phones me last night, and says “Come on over, no one’s home!” I got there, and there was no one home I organized a threesome last night. There were a few no-shows, but I still had fun. My wife asked me why I was speaking so softly at home. I told her I was afraid Mark Zuckerberg was listening! She laughed. I laughed. Alexa laughed. Siri laughed.