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Thanks, greenshade... I hadn't seen that one. Reading the editor's comments about his path and work was very interesting, as he's also written three volumes on learning to read the classics of Chinese Medicine! I wish Amazon would let us peek inside!

Welcome Greenshade! Do you have a favorite translation of the DDJ?

Welcome Gustavo! Any particular kind of energy work you're interested in?

The Rajneesh Neo-Tarot deck* is a collection of teaching stories from different spiritual traditions. Osho used these stories to give insight into various spiritual concepts like love, surrender, greed, anger, courage, etc. So, to examine compassion, Osho used the story of Jesus, in the temple, with a whip. Compassion, not anger. Osho says "Compassion is not having a bleeding heart full of sympathy for others— compassion is such a depth of love that one is willing to do whatever it takes to bring awareness to a situation." Further on, he says, "Christians avoid this story. There is no need to avoid it if you understand this sutra of Buddha: For an unwounded hand may handle poison. The innocent come to no harm. Jesus is absolutely innocent! He is not violent, he is not destructive— it is his compassion, it is his love. The whip in his hands is the whip in the hands of love." *Latest edition is called Osho Transformation Tarot

Hey Bindi, This excerpt from an Adyashanti interview helped me around these issues.... "Q: Does being enlightened mean that you never get angry or reactive or make big mistakes? A: Theres no such thing as never getting angry. Enlightenment can and does use all the available emotions. Otherwise, we would have to discount Jesus for getting pissed off in the temple and kicking over the table. The idea that enlightenment means sitting around with a beatific smile on our faces is just an illusion. At a human level, enlightenment means that you are no longer divided within yourself, and that you no longer experience a division between yourself and others. Without any inner division, you stop experiencing most of the usual forms of reactivity. Q: Could you say a little more what you mean by no "inner division"? A: Most human beings spend their lives battling with opposing inner forces: what they think they should do versus what they are doing; how they feel about themselves versus how they are; whether they think theyre right and worthy or wrong and unworthy. The separate self is just the conglomeration of these opposing forces. When the self drops away, inner division drops away with it. Now, I cant say that I never make a mistake, because in this human world being enlightened doesnt mean we become experts at everything. What does happen, though, is that personal motivations disappear. Only when enlightenment occurs do we realize that virtually everything we did, from getting out of bed to going to work to being in a relationship to pursuing our pleasures and interests, was motivated by personal concern. In the absence of a separate self, theres no personal motivation to do anything. Life just moves us. When personal motivation no longer drives us, then whats left is our true nature, which naturally expresses itself on the human dimension as love or compassion. Not a compassion that we cultivate or practice because were supposed to, but a compassion that arises spontaneously from our undivided state. If we undertake being a good, compassionate person as a personal identity, it just gets in the way of awakening." http://www.thedaobums.com/topic/1442-adyashanti-interview/ "Life just moves us." .... I love that!

Yes, and maybe a third room for people who want to have a serious (say "dedicated") discussion, similar to a written thread, without interruption and distraction by off topic comments.

Wow! Bummer, Nungali! Sorry to hear you're going though that. You might give proteolytic enzymes a try. They clear out the damaged tissue, calm inflammation, and reduce pain— generally speed healing. Certainly worth a try! The brands I know are WobenzymN, Vitalzyme, and Serrapeptase. Don't know what you would find where you are, but some equivalent is surely available. Wishing you a speedy recovery!

Your post wasn't so long, just that some of it got in there twice. (You can edit...) Like my double posting that followed! This is a doubling thread...

Welcome Urbanyogi! Nice to see you here!

Welcome to the Bums, Mental Monkey!

Here's Brian's post on hair regrowth, scroll down to #28. And the following post has pics! http://www.thedaobums.com/topic/38454-what-results-do-people-here-have-from-training/page-2 I met Brian a couple years back, and he definitely has more hair now than he had then. And he credits this to his practice....!!!!

Oh! Something else related to cranial fascia. Cupping! I have one client who started shaving his whole head when he started to bald. It looks great on him. He likes to have his whole head cupped! Moving cupping, always done with oil, so you don't end up with any of those circle bruise-looking things like the guys in the olympics. His cranial fascia is really loose now. Unfortunately, he still shaves his head, so I can't tell if there is more hair growth than before. But if you want to try it, it's another treatment you can easily DIY. Maybe have a therapist show you... and just note, hickies on the head will get you some weird looks.

In Neuromuscular Therapy, they taught us to release the cranial fascia, which can be thought of as a kind of girdle that surrounds the skull. Different techniques are pretty easily done on yourself, involving fractioning the hair and ears. Of course if there is no hair, you can't traction it. So for those hairless areas, they taught us to work the tissue in different directions, pressing our thumbs into the skull, moving them past each other in opposite directions. So the tissue basically gets twisted, which loosens the fascia. Some of the guys who had balding spots worked to get the thumbs technique down and found they actually started growing hair in those areas! Seemed like the hair follicles were getting strangled by the tight fascia. Certainly this isn't the case for everybody who is balding, but if you have a tight scalp, it's certainly worth a try. And you need to work the whole scalp, not just the bare spots. So you get to pull and twist— gently!— both your ears and the hair that you do have. Both ears at the same time in different directions is especially interesting. Great activity for waiting at traffic lights. Does look kind of strange though. Also, Brian has some REAL interesting input on this — and pictures! Hope he will chime in.

Anybody here worked with the practices described in Chia and Oellibrandt's book Taoist Astral Healing? I've never related much to any of Chia's books so far, but this one has caught my attention. (Oh gosh— auto editor just wrote sought my attention!) Any comments on these specific practices? (Not on Chia in general please, heard enough of that )

Hey LL! Thank you! That's an interesting thread. So far, brain activation seems balancing as I've been working on my feet for so long. The flows just start there, but include the rest of my body... no congestion.... so far!

Hi LL! I've had the first volume book for years, but don't practice anything in it. The Buddha Palm looks similar to Ken Cohen's one finger zen, which I did play with years ago. I see there's more in the Cosmic Healing book that may grab me more now... I'll go back and have look. Just so you know, I'm more of a collector of books than a practitioner of techniques. Right now I'm interested in Chia's astral book because he talks about the centers in the brain, and what they're connected with. I've been having all these different brain surges, really not a good description of what's happening. Like different areas of my brain light up and then set off flows to different parts of my body. It all started with discovering niwan.... but it's gone on beyond that now. These brain activations got connected (probably randomly) to interest in the Big Dipper and pole stars, and I ended up wanting to know more. Some discussions are really complex and involved, and others are simpler. I tend to go for simpler, therefore Chia... I should probably just stick with watching the activations and not make it so complicated!

Sorry, Arramu... I appreciate your taking the time to describe the practice. But I just can't bring myself to listen to the guy for very long! Not to say it wouldn't be a great practice... just that his delivery style grates on me. Chalk on the blackboard kind of thing

Eric Goodman's Foundation work, especially the first two "founders" are really good for opening the shoulders, strengthening and straightening the back, and building the glutes. His intent is to reactivate the posterior chain.... which is what PTs apparently call the linked chain of muscles that keep us upright, muscles and use patterns that modern life is eroding. (Translation: too much time spent bent over e-media! ) Arramu... very interesting shoulder exercise there. I like the movement/breath component he has aded to the basic stretch.. Definitely adds to just doing the first part by itself. For years I've done the first part, lifting the joined hands behind the back, but I turn the hands over so palms face down and thumbs are pointing out and up. That opens the shoulders much more than the position he shows. It's also hard to do at first (was for me too, I had to work at it), probably more so for guys, because the forearms have to really stretch. Curious if you try that with this exercise and what you think...

Thanks, Arramu, checked it out.... that one's not to my taste... I'm not that fond of Chia either, but I understand Oellibrandt actually wrote the Astral Healing book, as well as the second volume of the Cosmic Healing book. Oellibrandt is a whole nother story.... I've got a book with Jerry Alan Johnson's methods, and Damo Mitchell talks about it too. But they are pretty complex practices. Chia lures you in with, "Oh, you can just learn this practice first"....("but then you need to do the rest of my practices to really get it.") How long did you stick with Bear Heart's Merger?

Hey Arramu, I don't have a pdf either, just got it used on Amazon, so can't help you out there. What/whose planetary practice did you do? Did you find it effective or useful?

Hi Hagar! Nice to see you here! If others haven't reported that effect from chaga, have you thought of trying a different batch of chaga? Melatonin and melanin are two different things, yes? Melatonin is a hormone made in the brain in darkness that helps you sleep, and melanin is a skin pigment... When I was reading about chaga, one of the websites was saying melatonin instead of melanin, but they changed it when it was pointed out.... Have you found a connection between the melanin and melatonin? ​It interested me, because melanin in the skin increases in the presence of light/sunshine, while melatonin in the brain increases in the presence of darkness, but I haven't found any specific links. But I haven't looked for awhile... you got any? Just now I found one interesting site...saying that the pineal produces melatonin which causes the pituitary to call for more melanin production... some confusion here, but interesting... http://www.thegracevine.com/pineal-gland-melatonin-melanin.html And this site really blew me away awhile back, maybe one that got you into chaga? http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/could-melanin-convert-radiation-harmless-even-useful-energy Interesting stuff!

Oh, Randomer, thank you! I have been trying for weeks to remember Guy Cramer's name and website. Haven't had a chance to see if he still has the same stuff on his website, but that guy is AMAZING! No, looks like the old stuff is gone. He did the most amazing bit on the effect of weather pos/neg ion ratio shifts on the stock market. Were you following him back then? He finally turned it into a subscription newsletter, and apparently made a fortune. His stuff also had military ramifications, and he had to go hush-hush with that. It was fascinating! Here's an old page that alludes to his stuff in the stock market arena: http://wealthmanagement.com/archive/ion-market And it does look like some of his old stuff is still up at www.superforce.com . Pretty amazing. Thanks for that link!

Here you go Apech... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_Always_Sunny_in_Philadelphia

LDMB, Eric Pearl is incredibly funny on this! Maybe post it in the shielding thread too! Thanks for making me laugh, over and over even!