emily

mmm.....cookie....where??!

hey everyone would just like to thank everyone who shared any knowledge with me in this site. there are some really great people on here am having a bit of a indefinite internet hiatus. i have some goals i really need to focus all my energy on right now. i wish everyone the best in life and hope they get what they want from their practices! all the best, emily

someone on a website said that its like going to hell and back. theres some truth in that. its is something i will do again because i think it is a fantastic method and i am grateful i started it because it has brought to my attention things i wasnt consciously aware of that have probably greatly hindered my life.

its sad but true. i got one of his dvds, and it was really good seems like a great guy and it was a good qigong, set... BUT...... at the back of mind i just couldnt stop think "WHY THE COMBOVER!!!!!! YOUR ONLY KIDDING YOURSELF!!!!!"

In the Kunlun & Kungfu thread, both Rain and I mentioned when practicing Kunlun we have noticed a flowery scent as a result of practice, not from any flowers in the room. Anyone else expereinced this phenomena or able to enlighten us on its cause????

Il make a thread about this its interesting

This is off topic a bit, but the first time I really felt the energy during Kunlun (without attending a seminar) I remember a flowery scent, it still happens occasionally. And no, there were no flowers in the room with me!!! haha

but youl lose all your wisdom!!

thanks to everyone for their suggestions

hey i agree with hundun, clearing up blockages aids in meditation. i got into meditation last year. i had no technique as such just simply setting and being still. i also was doing abit of yoga. after doing energy work my meditation is deeper, or i find it easier to get into a meditative state. if i do qigong, particularly outside on a nice day, sometimes remain in a very calm present state for the whole day. so it helps. but ironically there was something really true and simple about my initial practise. my own little meditation and a few basic asanas from a book. when i discovered the wealth of information on the internet i did get bogged down in academically researching what was best to do, therefore practicing less!!! when i first started reading i felt like you did, all of a sudden what i was doing wasn't enough!! but i then realised if i took into account what everyone id be doing so many different techniques that id die from overload. so i think find a basic system that works for you so you feel secure and have your basics covered and then just follow your own flow. for me i like the concept of working with the three treasures. exercise the physical, energetic and spiritual bodies. thats a nice framework for me to evolve within.

cool!! thats the type of stuff im interested in elarning to live off the local enviroment. what you said about landscaping being a good workout...its interesting beacuse one of my mums friend is a keen gardener and has her own little greenhouse and shes the most grounded person i know, i always say how shes like a big oak tree, so rooted, so theres defintely something in having a close connection to the earth. broken, thanks for the vegbox link. should come in handy.. i know tesco sucks but its the only big supermarket in my area. any sprouters here? apparently its possible to live off them as main source of food?....not an experiment i feel like trying right now!

Recently I'm becoming more and more aware of the consequences of little things in my life that I used to take for granted. Things like all the chemicals used to clean toilets and drainage systems at home. Honestly, when I was young I was quite spoiled and my mum used to do all the housework so it's only recently that I'm starting to pick up on this stuff. Plus the fact that all the vegetables I buy are organic but their shipped from Kenya or somewhere else equally far away. It's so ineffective and damaging. When I was in Tesco the other day looking at some dried fruit it all just seemd so clincal and withered sitting there on the shelf. Plus I'm starting to grow increasingly aware of the fact that I'm painfully domesticated. I've got no real idea of how to look after myself outside of the confines of everyday life. If there was a food shortage what would i do etc. Nowadays is such a strange time...so much unrest and uncertainty, I feel it's time to shape up a bit. Whenever I get into a new topic I'd rather go on recommendations because the net and publishing world is pretty vast. Does anyone have any recommendations for learning about thigs like self sufficiency, cleaner living etc? thanks, emily

Yeah definetely a mind control thing. Cos theres talk of chakras and things but i couldn't see any exercises , practice etc. I think what you said about the videos being fun highlights something that's amiss in spirituality. there's a prevelance of a seriousness which borders on pretentiousness most of the time. i mean seriously, how many times can people use the word path??!! i missed the bus today....it wasn't meant for my path haha i digress....anyway my point is that there should be an element of playfulness with these things. for instance eckhart tolle: i was sent his power of now audiobook. i listened to it and on hearing the droning tone (to draw the listener into "stillness" i guess) i listened to about two tracks and wanted to kill myself it was so dreary. not literally but you get my drift. i then came across a video of eckhart on youtube and the guys great! witty, entertainging AND capable of bringing the listener into stillness. seems like the whole spirtuality movement has a bit of a veneer.

beat me to it!!

thanks. yeah i heard that it was bad for men but my dad told me today he had it 25 and im here!! i just watched more on their site. seems like a cult. i liked the video you posted because i watched it from the perspective of a matrix style metaphor for how nuts everything is. i think for a lot of people madness is a gateaway into realising the illusory nature of things that bothered us, but there is a different become the madness of being disillusioned which brings freedom , or madness of adding more illusion. theres a definite sense of us and them mentality in the videos, and no real clarity. plus their using a lot of trends in metaphysical issues all compiled into a system with a definite sense of heiarchy. so they feed fear, use elusive wording, and theres a chance to rise through the ranks thus gaining acceptance. i think theres hypnotic suggestion the videos too. seems like cult stratetgies. plus all the members begin using the vocab of the texts and videos in describing themselves which enforces the nlp/hypnosis aspect. its the us vs them mentality that i think is most worrying. i read the definition of SIN is to miss the mark. therefore i see the devil or demons as metaphors for the element of ourselves that denies reality. i personally believe that we all have the capacity to be good loving people no matter what our past and to label people as servants of evil forces or whatever could cause someone who is psychologically unstable to cause a lot of problems. on the lighter side!!! when i saw this on one of the members profiles i burst out laughing: "MY COSMIC NAME IS NORIS" noris!!! made me think coronation street (uk tv show for non uk tao bums) something about it reminded me of a doucmentary on youtube i saw about alister crowley.after reading some books by robert anton wilson i wanted to find out more about him out of intrigue. seeing the way he ended up and the effect he had on the lives of others led me to the conclusion that many people ( i think castaneda was one of them) have tastes of a higher perception and attatch it to a series of illusory concepts and i think this is more damaging than just blindly accepting the day to day illusion. it has so much more power and can not only ruin the individuals life but many others. especially if they have charismatic cult leader qualities. i can't possibly say if that is what the leader here is doing, or whether he is just riding the new age wave but i think people should be wary.