old3bob

Btw, "Custer died for your sins" or the sins of many of our ancestors but not by a long shot times millions!!

I'd put it like this, "The Self is formless", soul body is body of light/Prana that returns to an ocean of light at some point.... which arises from the formless. "Prana springs from the Self", as found in the Upanishads (see Chandogya)

so go ahead and ban me for good, and have your censoring ways... Btw, I don't need lecture or threats.

"I know what is happening", do tell? (What does kumbaya mean in American slang: In recent years, however, kumbaya has become a term of derision, having been associated with what are considered naïve and unrealistic attitudes of peace, harmony, and cooperation.)

the Self sees death die, it is not caught up in the mountains of doubts, speculations or profound sounding mental gymnastics.

"really struggling"? ask the millions who are really struggling with living and dying under a dictatorship where ever they may be and those Americans who are suffering under our destructively driven madman in power. Do you watch the news or are you above it all?

a kind, considerate and sharing soul, may she rip...

so we can post on genocide related to native peoples but OMG not on the forms of genocide against all American peoples going on now 24/7, stranger things indeed!

I lived on the north shore of Oahu when they tested the largest of the Amchitka Nuclear bombs on an Alaskan island... "Three atomic weapons went off at Amchitka in the late 1960s and early 1970s, including the largest underground detonation the US has ever set off. No humans lived on the island, but the biggest blast, in 1971, killed at least 900 sea otters." There were warnings for Island people that there might be tsunami from that bomb. Several of us shore dwellers went up the hillsides to higher ground just in case. But it never developed while we waited and enjoyed stuffing our faces with wild guava to pass the time on a beautiful sunny day...

Right, or going for a swim in that pool when it hit..

Wouldn't want to be around or inside some of those big buildings in San Francisco that have bottom to top floor glass windows if the "big one" hits! Btw here is short footage aboout the 64 Alaskan quake that got up to a 9.2 magnitude! I was in a 7.4 quake in Anchorage and it was hairy, can't imagine that 9.2 !

some of those homes are built very well, better than mine... but I don't know the different companies.

a certain depth of evil was not underestimated, just the quick speed of its takeover....Btw. good and evil are parts spiritual teachings even if some are in denial or don't want to deal with same.

Cocaine was originally used by Andean civilizations for various purposes, including combating the effects of cold, hunger, and altitude sickness. It was also used in the form of tea or in a sachet. Later, cocaine was isolated from the coca leaves in 1860. In more recent times, cocaine and amphetamines were used during World Wars to increase alertness and suppress appetite. another once common use of cocaine shown below:

and many died (which may have taken years) from being down wind and breathing radioactive particles after A bomb tests were conducted ..thus the Government rolling the dice with peoples lives!

ok, although lets say there are many golden beings (or fully integrated and evolved) human beings who all embody the same Great Tao, we could then also say that that Tao is the one of them in the many of them...difference is they know it without being veiled or conditioned as the "ten thousand" are in time and space. (i'm taking some liberates with this analogy which I don't know if Taoists would agree with it or not?)

that's fine, and can not be forced which would be "bad" karma,

Ultimately there is only one of us in the many of us...and with that realization there really are no private, secret or separate super dupers except in relative realms.

Didn't know this about the original source for the term: Snake Oil—Salesmen and Doctors "While today a “snake oil salesman” is someone who knowingly sells fraudulent goods, the use of snake oil has real, medicinal routes. Extracted from the oil of Chinese water snakes, it likely arrived in the United States in the 1800s, with the influx of Chinese workers toiling on the Transcontinental Railroad. Rich in omega-3 acids, it was used to reduce inflammation and treat arthritis and bursitis, and was rubbed on the workers’ joints after a long day of working on the railroad. Enter Clark Stanley, “The Rattlesnake King.” Originally a cowboy, Stanley claimed to have studied with a Hopi medicine man who turned him on to the healing powers of snake oil. He took this new found “knowledge” on the road, performing a show-stopping act at the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893, where he reached into a bag, grabbed a rattlesnake, cut it open, and squeezed it. He labeled the extract snake oil, even though the FDA later confirmed that his products didn’t contain any kind of snake oil, rattlesnake or otherwise. That didn’t stop other unscrupulous doctors and fraudulent salesmen, who also started traveling the American West, peddling bottles of fake snake oil, giving the truly beneficial medical treatment a bad name."

we are apparently and only or just human per human identification, but the Truth is greater per Om Tat Sat...

Well The Self of pure Spirit is said to be within, although that Self within (the small lotus of the heart) is everywhere at once and not only within a particular place, time or Being. ( pointed to by the Upanishads) Some debate may arise over aspects which can be named but the Self which is also a name is not really limited to a name.

granted that cracking the ego is not the death of ego but a start...It is said that those who have resolved enough karma may reach Moksha or freedom from transmigration and thus have lost who they once seemed to be on the wheel, further and complete purity (or change) is then the final death of ego and separation. (having served their purpose)

unconditional Love from Spirit changes us without any devices or motives for itself... (and it can not be bought, sold or forced with our efforts and acts with power per its own wisdom beyond any "normal" understanding of who deserves it or not)

and eat some of the mosquitoes...

Its kind of amazing that so many people (many millions in the U.S. and elsewhere after countless examples of suffering have happened over thousands of years and also about every day during that time) who haven't figured out that evil does not care about human sensibilities, concerns or life'....for there is no bottom to its bottomless pit of malicious inhumanity and greed!