Daemon

For anyone considering brewing their own booch, it's important to realise that it's powerful stuff, especially if you use the continuous brewing method, which will produce ingredients that cannot accumulate in the limited timeframe of batch brewing. This is NOT like most of the weak, watery commercial booch and care must be taken when starting to consume it because it can annihilate the pathogenic microorganisms with which some people's guts are colonised. If this happens then the the toxins that these pathogens release on death can be highly problematic (the same issue may occur with kefir consumption and with the use of commercial probiotics). Therefore, it's essential to start slowly with low doses and to monitor the effects. For most people the following schedule is, as far as I'm aware, the norm. However, for many, even the gradual 2-week acclimatization at these doses can prove to be far too much. Week 1 Half a small glass per day (about 125ml) but obviously you should stop immediately and seek medical help if you have an abreaction. Week 2 Assuming all is well after Week 1, you can progress to one small glass per day (about 250ml) but still observing appropriate caution. Week 3 Again, assuming all went well in Week 2, you can probably now drink as much as you like. It's also worth noting that there's anecdotal evidence that the anecdotally extensive benefits of booch consumption can take months or years to manifest. It's also just one support for the body's natural healing and it's natural functioning and it's certainly not a magic bullet or a universal panacea, as some seem to believe. ☮️

In terms of optimising the enteric nervous system, establishing and supporting a happy colony of benevolent microorganisms is probably the most important practice. To complete the details of my own current receipe for booch; for a 3 litre batch of nute, I also use distilled water and 260g of ordinary white sugar plus 20g of pure, organic, unrefined sugar (rapadura). ☮️

@wandelaar And so it goes. You will possibly now find this to be of considerable utility both theoretically and, more importantly, in terms of practice. ☮️

So, the best option was another option that you discovered for yourself? ☮️

So you have a few choices including, Waiting Phoning again Writing Working with your emotional responses ☮️

It's perhaps interesting to note silent thunder's misinterpretation of what I've suggested as a possible reasonable and effective course of action as being a threat. That course of action may be the most cost-effective and efficient way for the landlord to deal with the problem, as every Taoist (I've met) would have realised. ☮️

And it's just occurred to me that it might be a good idea to tell them that is they fail to act within a reasonable timespan you will employ a locksmith directly and send them the bill (obviously, check on the wisdom and the legality of that course of action within your own jurisdiction). ☮️

Having taken the reasonable steps to rectify your problem, just wait until they bear fruit (and keep pestering the landlord). ☮️

http://www.maureenmurdock.com/articles/articles-the-heroines-journey/ I sense that you may also find some utility in this? ☮️

That's certainly one of several approaches that you might find beneficial. ☮️

Is it therefore the case that for you ( @silent thunder ) that there are only 2 possibilities, you have free will you do not have free will or do you have a more complex, nuanced and textured understanding? ☮️

I was suggesting that sometimes I might not be responsible for my actions (in the way that is conventionally understood). For example, if I react to an unexpected threat, such as a car driving on to the sidewalk on which I'm standing by jumping out of its way, am I responsible for the action that saves my life in the same way as if I'd undertaken the training needed to survive a solo wilderness trip? We have 3 nervous systems, Cerebral Cardiac and Enteric Are gut and heart reactions cerebrally mediated? ☮️

I suggest that you PM @Eric Woon ☮️

I'd aspired to be a bit more nuanced than that. What about those who are unable to take responsibility? What about those times when it's impossible to respond and it's only possibly either to freeze or to react? ☮️

What is it that you feel the need to excise @manitou? ☮️

For me, it means that I need to take responsibility for my own responses (actions or inactions, although not for my feelings, which are just information flow, which can only be heard properly if I don't judge them). For example, if I were surrounded by people who were really upset that their possessions had been binned, I have some choices. However, firstly I'd need to be able to deal with my own actual emotional reaction. Only then do I need to decide whether I'm able to offer anything to others to help them to process their emotional reactions. For that to happen, I first need to be in touch with my own feelings (and with those of others) non-judgementally. However, I still need to make value judgements about actions, (both my own actions and those of others) because my actions will have consequences for which I will have some degree of responsibility. In this specific workplace example, I might need to take some responsibility to act help others to process their difficult feelings because we would all share the responsibility to maintain a happy, peaceful working environment (and that would also help me as I'd be part of the group dynamic). What would not (in my view) be helpful would be to judge those others as having unreasonable feelings of attachments to objects of emotional value to them. Representational objects can play a vital role (for example, shrines, flags, wedding rings, engagement rings, religious texts, places we love to visit in nature). But I'd only be competent to help others deal with their feelings if I'm really in touch with my own feelings and I'm able empathically to resonate with them without either cutting off my own feelings or being overwhelmed their feelings. ☮️

The secret is to find the right partner if you want to practice this method. That's likely to be quite tricky on this bulletin board (as I've just been discovering myself). ☮️

@rex That was the context. ☮️

I was discussing the problem of leaders and followers with Steve earlier and noting that you'd contributed to this thread, I remembered your reference and assumed that you were in agreement with me about the issue. It seems that you don't agree with me and that you therefore disagree with Steve's view on the matter as well? ☮️

I've started a Path of the Light practices thread in Group Studies and I'll pick this up there more fully (eventually), as what I know about the subject is probably heresy as far as the Tibetans are concerned. I learned the practice after buying a Nova Dreamer (and a study course back in the 1990s), which jump-started me with it. If you want a quick-start technology-free guide this website http://obe4u.com/how-to-lucid-dream/ is probably the easiest way to get yourself lucid really fast. There's also a fairly useful practice that can be done on awakening that's going to be the main focus of what I'll be discussing in the Group Studies thread. If you do struggle going lucid and you want a bit of help, I'm very happy to discuss it more specifically by PM before I pick it up in the Group Studies thread. Good luck and enjoy! ☮️

I was referring to the extremely interesting and enlightening paper about Narcissism and the Moses Complex (which I believe I quoted somewhere)? Does that ring any bells for you? ☮️

@Miroku Firstly, and most importantly, you might want to consider that's it's probably very unhelpful to yourself to put yourself down like that? Secondly, I'm doing my best to be as constructive as possible, so you're certainly wise in not jumping to the wrong conclusion. Thirdly, what you're describing as "attackish", I view as being (mildly) challenging and (from my perspective) it should be well within the capacity of even a mediocre practitioner to cope with that mild level of challenge, so I find his response reaction odd, especially given the subject that he's attempting to tackle in this thread and the fact that he decided to illustrate anecdotally that he seems to consider that he behaved as a superior practitioner at work. In no way have I resorted to ad hominem, as Steve attempted to portray it (and I'm still waiting for him to figure out for himself why he feels that way). I've even gone to the trouble of pointing out to him that there's a practice within his own tradition that he could use to figure it out for himself (as the peculiar graphic with which he used in reply to my question seemed to me to be an indication that he was stuck). ☮️

@steve So, now you're back to guessing and you're assuming that you're not projecting your own hostility onto me because you don't know which of many practices to use in order to discover what's going on for you emotionally? ☮️

I'm struck by the sense that it might have been better to ask why don't you use the practice that can be found within the Yungdrung Bön teachings that enables you to access the answer to fundamental questions that you may have about your own feelings (if you tweak it slightly)? ☮️

Is there nothing in available within Yungdrung Bön practices that enables you to access the answer to fundamental questions that you may have about your own feelings? ☮️