Lost in Translation

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  1. Anyone willing to share the Hidden Secrets

    Warning acknowledged. LOL.
  2. HI, I am Lucifeh

    What kind of jumping are you talking about? Is this a mental jump (e.g. collecting knowledge) an awareness jump (wisdom/enlightenment) or a physical jump (e.g. teleportation) - or perhaps you are talking about all of the above?
  3. Anyone willing to share the Hidden Secrets

    I would be very interested to hear about the rock major and the rock sheriff.
  4. Anyone willing to share the Hidden Secrets

    The thought had never occurred to me. Now I need to investigate...
  5. Anyone willing to share the Hidden Secrets

  6. Anyone willing to share the Hidden Secrets

    Sheesh! I guess the "hi, I see you" is good after all, that is until I figure out how to bend time and flow my perceptions into the past and future.
  7. Anyone willing to share the Hidden Secrets

    I tried water skrying. I could never get the hang of it. There's something just right about earthen materials. I've yet to get any meaningful information from these experiences other than the "hi, I see you" kind of vibe.
  8. Thoughts on past "supernatural" experience?

    That's the default explanation given when someone reports seeing a UFO.
  9. Anyone willing to share the Hidden Secrets

    I stare at gravel, sand and other stone surfaces. Tiles in the shower work well, as do dirty carpets. After a minute or two shapes begin to appear, either animal or human or other. I feel these are spirit communications. Maybe I'm crazy. How can you judge your own mental state anyway...?
  10. HI, I am Lucifeh

    Welcome to the Bums. Even though your name is not that name, I hope you are a bringer of light and look forward to reading more from you.
  11. Tao is Dao. These are alternate spellings for the same thing.
  12. The Art of Listening

    Good observation! Thank you for sharing. As regards my "what?" - that was in jest. Be that as it may, I have an alert set for 4:15 PM on Thursday, Oct 11 to respond to this thread. "I'll be back!"
  13. The Art of Listening

    I'll set an alarm to wait 73 days and then respond to this again.
  14. The Art of Listening

    What?
  15. According to the Book of Changes, Heaven is the Creative whereas Earth is the Receptive. All begins in Heaven and is realized on Earth. Each - Heaven and Earth - requires the other. Tao is the term we use to describe this relationship.
  16. Not joking, serious question

    Whatever you are doing, STOP! Take several deep breathes. In. Out. In. Out. Feel the ground beneath your feet. Feel the air in your lungs. Imagine a magnificent GOLD LIGHT showering down upon you. Let the light flow over you so that all you see is gold. All you feel is gold. Ask the gold light for protection. Believe that is can and will protect you. Remain this way for several moments, then quietly resume your day.
  17. Several questions about practicing taoism

    I don't know, and I suspect neither does anyone else. It's just something to keep in mind as a possibility.
  18. Several questions about practicing taoism

    That's a difficult task. Even translating from Chinese to Chinese is not easy, given the period of time that has elapsed and the changes in meaning of symbols and underlying culture. You end up with cryptic statements such as "the perfect square has no corners." Meditation is your friend when this happens. Sometimes the texts act like koans and can't really be translated. The meaning (if there was one) is lost in time...
  19. The Path to Freedom

    I thought I had found freedom, but now I am not certain. It seems to me that the opposite of freedom is not bondage but fear, since it is fear that creates bondage.
  20. Can anyone teach me Psychic techniques?

    I feel like an infant who just had his parent "reappear" from behind a blanket! Welcome back! Stop disappearing behind blankets!
  21. Anyone willing to share the Hidden Secrets

    I did not know that. Thank you.
  22. Anyone willing to share the Hidden Secrets

    Oh. Another victim of autocorrect. Damned technology...
  23. Anyone willing to share the Hidden Secrets

    Ok, I'll bite: Who or what is LiEhr?
  24. Anyone willing to share the Hidden Secrets

    Repeating this since even thought it was literally just spelled out people seem to have failed to notice.
  25. Anyone willing to share the Hidden Secrets

    I get it! Three small steps made of concrete! How drole...