Aetherous
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How did Chi Kung Improve Your Health...?
Aetherous replied to ChiDragon's topic in General Discussion
Well, spinal problems have cleared. Random pain throughout the body occurs much less often. Subjectively, always feel good. Don't get sick. -
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Has Anyone Seen "Ancient Aliens." On History Channel?
Aetherous replied to DalTheJigsaw123's topic in General Discussion
You cannot speak, PERIOD, because you weren't there. However, my friends who also saw it can speak on the subject. -
Is the only reason not to commit suicide - Fear-based, shame-based, or guilt-based?
Aetherous replied to InfinityTruth's topic in General Discussion
Pu-erh, I completely disagree with you regarding salvia. Do some real research before making assumptions and lumping it into the same group as other hallucinogens, please. I consider it to be not dangerous at all. But yes, this is off topic, so this is enough discussion on it... -
Is the only reason not to commit suicide - Fear-based, shame-based, or guilt-based?
Aetherous replied to InfinityTruth's topic in General Discussion
Yeah you can. As human beings, we are incredibly resilient. There is so much further we can go than we think. If you are faced with such a challenge, you will of course have the hardest time of your life, but you will soon find yourself on the other side of it as a survivor, wondering and grateful about how you made it through. The fact is...that is what we do. We eat challenges for breakfast. We make challenges our bitch! So yep, you got it...no matter what it is. -
Well, Sifu Jenny's post actually bothered me when I first read it. Quite a bit. When I started the spiritual path, over 10 years ago as a kid in high school, I gave my all to it. Every day I would spend hours reading online about the subject, then meditating. I ended up leaving my friendships, and would lock myself away from my family to meditate. It became my life completely. My every thought and action was for it. I did meditations in which I gave my entire spirit, mind and body (yes, I actually faced physical death multiple times) for the purpose of gaining experience, or at least personal knowledge, about spirituality. To truly understand. Enlightenment...whatever it meant. Learned a few different paths and gave myself fully to them. The results were often unimpressive. As the years went by, I slowly lost the intensity and reckless abandon that I once had. I did gain some experience, and some knowledge... Now, I look back, over 10 years later...and I am currently a doubter. Apparently I would not seem ready, according to Sifu Jenny's perception (she doesn't know me, but based on what she wrote). If she is actually a good teacher, then why wasn't she there when I was the best student on the face of this earth? I was of first readiness, more so than maybe anyone who was alive at the time...and now, I feel that I've been around the block and have seen through all the BS. Previously, I would have given my life completely for understanding (and made that choice a few times). Now? Nope. THAT kind of passion is gone. These days I am looking for results...something more tangible...a teacher that meets us on the level...one who believes in the saying "there are no bad students"...one who appears synchronistically, and who doesn't try to lure in students instead of teaching them. But I have nothing against Sifu Jenny. I don't know her, and haven't taken her seminar or workshop. Got her video, and it's pretty nice. Just saying how her readiness post made me feel...even though it was written for everyone, it made me feel completely misunderstood as an anonymous potential student, reading it.
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Has Anyone Seen "Ancient Aliens." On History Channel?
Aetherous replied to DalTheJigsaw123's topic in General Discussion
What? I saw these lights at night with multiple other people. Definitely not floaters. Speaking of things which may or may not be in our eyes though...if you look into a clear blue sky in the daytime you can see some interesting things. I've read of these different kinds of lights that appear being used in esoteric ways, in Taoist and Buddhist traditions. But yeah, that is something else...I actually saw crafts of some sort those nights... -
Has Anyone Seen "Ancient Aliens." On History Channel?
Aetherous replied to DalTheJigsaw123's topic in General Discussion
Well, History channel needs to make money...so they are just playing what people tend to watch. If they played shows about real history, it'd be extremely boring and no one would watch. -
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Has Anyone Seen "Ancient Aliens." On History Channel?
Aetherous replied to DalTheJigsaw123's topic in General Discussion
It's pretty funny how common it actually is to see unexplainable lights in the sky. I've known quite a few people who said that some night they saw lights moving in unnatural ways...either too fast for man made aircraft, or doing maneuvers which are impossible. But the phenomena is easily forgotten when you have no means to figure it out... I saw it a few times, myself, while having beers on a porch with a bunch of friends. I pointed it out and we all saw lights moving in ways that couldn't be explained in any manmade or natural way. We could have easily filmed it or something, but it isn't proof of anything necessarily...and the video would have been crappy and shaky. My friends, and myself I guess, didn't particularly care about it. It's not proof of aliens...it's just unidentified flying objects. People whom we told said it was probably satellites reflecting light or something...which I doubt completely. It can be hard for us to focus on the fact that: we don't know! -
Is the only reason not to commit suicide - Fear-based, shame-based, or guilt-based?
Aetherous replied to InfinityTruth's topic in General Discussion
Speaking on salvia, it is dangerous (if you don't have someone watching you while you take it...otherwise it's completely not dangerous), yet: At least personally, I found that it renewed my appreciation for life as it is. I stopped taking drugs, including salvia itself, and started valuing sobriety. Plus it was a temporary escape, which is sometimes needed in today's workaholic society. I can say that despite it being a rough and sometimes scary trip, it was an overall healing experience for me to take the plant. Not to put down your education, but just because you're a psych student and you've done these drugs, doesn't mean that you are qualified to speak on them. Do you know what results a depressed person will have from salvia, versus a non-depressed? No, of course not. There haven't been any studies on that. Have you done any studies on the drug, yourself? Nope. The drug itself is not harmful in any way...the ONLY occasion it may prove to be dangerous is if the person taking it ends up hurting themselves while on the drug. If there is a sitter (person watching), then there is no danger. The other drugs listed are known to be dangerous, though... -
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Is the only reason not to commit suicide - Fear-based, shame-based, or guilt-based?
Aetherous replied to InfinityTruth's topic in General Discussion
Speaking of drugs, I think salvia divinorum (which is still legal in some places) really does have potential to do some healing. -
Is the only reason not to commit suicide - Fear-based, shame-based, or guilt-based?
Aetherous replied to InfinityTruth's topic in General Discussion
Well, there are lots of jobs out there where you barely deal with people. Towards (what most consider) the bottom end of things: manufacturing, night cleaning, stocking, warehouse, security, truck driving, etc. It's totally possible to find something that works for you (isn't completely miserable, only partially ) where you minimally deal with others. I suggest you sell some things in the meantime, to get by....and spend a lot of time each day searching for the right job. In the paper, while driving around town, online at multiple sites, through an agency, etc. I wish you luck. Also...you don't have any kind of friends in your life? It's a huge buffer if you have people to get a drink and just joke around with. Some consider it essential to a person's psychological well being. Not everyone in the world is a hater. Yeah, it's very enjoyable to live that way. Hard to switch from it. -
I don't see a difference between famous men and women in having charisma.
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Is the only reason not to commit suicide - Fear-based, shame-based, or guilt-based?
Aetherous replied to InfinityTruth's topic in General Discussion
Life can be enjoyable. At least personally, in times when I'm really low, I just go outside and feel the fresh breeze...and take a deep breath. Just that simple act is a reason to live, because it feels good. What else is needed? If you're in a crappy situation, try to remove yourself from it and build a life that you enjoy. It is yours. This is what's happening in my opinion. Please think about it for at least a year. Why are you sad? -
Are you implying he is a she!?!?
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Well, if Santa Claus had a heartmind, I'm sure he would do that.
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Christian missionary converted by tribe
Aetherous replied to Oolong Rabbit's topic in General Discussion
This is the first time I've heard of such a culture. -
Hawaiian baby woodrose seeds...legal hallucinogens. http://www.erowid.org/experiences/subs/exp_HB_Woodrose.shtml Haven't tried it but was just recently researching them.
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I've never seen someone that good before!
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I actually read the whole thing. Maybe I'm not smart enough to get it.
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Sunya, When everything else is taken away, self is the individual consciousness which observes without being an object. You can't see it but you know it's there by inference. Consider that you don't see everything in the universe...so your awareness is focused on one small aspect...for instance, a green leaf. The green leaf is obviously not the self. You can't point to something in this case and say "self". But how is the green leaf alone appearing if not to YOU? If it were to just appear as part of the universe, with no self involved, then the entire universe would be within awareness. Yes, due to the multifunctioning aspect of the mind and body...the self. Imagine I numbed your left arm completely, so that you couldn't move it no matter how hard you tried, but I could with muscle stimulators. You as a self could move the right arm with complete control, but you'd have lost control of the left. It would seem like someone else was moving the left when I was stimulating the muscles. So "someone" (as a unit of many complex processes and conditions) is in control here. You do it in both instances. "You" also applies to the body. That's why your individual consciousness can't leave your body, and if it can, it must come back at some point...as if its tethered to it. That is part of what makes you, a self. A person can kinda get away with automatic reflexes in this case, though...saying that it wasn't their decision to react instinctually. So "intention" implies a greater involvement of the self, versus automatic or autonomic bodily functions. Why can't a "self" be part of the world and be capable of changing?
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"Past conditioning" is part of what makes you, a self. So you're saying, in order for a self to exist, it has to psychically predict the next thought it will have? Who is aware of the thought that arises from nowhere and vanishes? Who is in control of the 1% of the body? A thought that arises? So each time you go to type a letter on the keyboard, an idea of yourself asking your body to do that arises? Or you simply do it? So there are separate consciousnesses, which consider themselves to be selves, but those separate conscious selves...are not selves?
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Someone told me to jump and I said "no way man".
