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WEIRD culture really is one of archetypal MAD SCIENTISTS, isn't it?

More wanton, WEIRD environmental destruction (another day, another story...): Basically, as WEIRD and other populations do this: Everything else on our zero-sum planet keeps doing this: I mean, an 89% global depopulation in just 14 years??? I didn't even know we could do that if we TRIED??? Thing is, with 7.5 BILLION people now...even the smallest actions EN MASSE have MASSIVE consequences on the rest of this planet!!! So really, we all have to start becoming far more conscious of our micro actions - which result in MACRO effects! Any questions?

Well, I think there's a spectrum/continuum of experiences and abilities here...and I don't have enough experience yet to compare and contrast all of them. That would probably entail a whole thread in itself. So mainly my point was simply that if you are on the far end of the spectrum where you basically have no sensitivity to anything immaterial in your surroundings (as I once was), then you won't be able to feel any "power" in any supposed "power" spots/vortices/etc. Which was my own previous experience after visiting a number of those sites (including some on your list). However, it sounds like you DO have some openness, so you may be able to sense something. And if so, let us know what you do!

Well unless you can root, I don't know that you'll be able to sense much? But if you can, I imagine it could be a pretty powerful experience?

Sounds authentic. Has the drunken, yet sobering "tang" of truth. Correlates the ancient traditional descriptions, but with some added personal twists in a modern context that aren't simply cut & pasted... Very awesome! Did anything happen that precipitated or initiated this experience? Any practices or processes that gradually led to this point? What was the final tipping point or breakthrough like, if there was one?

Well, it's a reality check. His generalizations are true - women as a whole tend to be hypergamous and not loyal to their own "tribes." But, so are men! I guess this may be a rude awakening to some men who got lulled into a false sense of security, but really I think we've all always been this way. The only difference has been opportunity. Some guys may idealize the gender stereotypes of America in the 50s, with women typically settling down early with a husband and raising her kids with him. As if this was her "natural" baseline condition and men had it easier in dating back then. But not necessarily... To even be able to date women back then, you had to have first survived the bloodiest WWs ever. Millions didn't. But if he "proved" himself by "winning" on the battlefield, then he was basically over the hump on cruise control. Because then, most surviving men were deemed "war heroes" by default and MORE IMPORTANTLY - the massive heaps of male cannon fodder left millions of SURPLUS WOMEN around to fight over the living scraps! This is what Black Pigeon Speaks completely overlooks - how the root cause of power imbalance between the genders really boils down to whatever the male/female ratio is at the time. And in war/post-war periods, eligible men are at an all-time LOW! As a result, surviving men got their pick of the litter while women had to play by their rules JUST FOR THE HONOR OF EVEN GETTING PICKED FOR A SHOT! I mean, just read these personal anecdotes. They were literally suffering the exact SAME thing that young American men are today! Who are now forced to become hypercompetitive due to facing ridiculous odds in dating women. Who must lower their standards, while women can raise theirs to the point of superficial whims. Marriage is no longer a birthright for them, and instead they face other options like trying to become some hypermasculine ideal they're "not," compromising their values, tolerating mistreatment by hypergamous women, lonely spinsterhood, becoming caregivers for others, basement-dwelling gamers, giving up & going gay, becoming sexpats abroad, etc, etc.. My how the tables turn! But really, men & women are basically both opportunistic and these tables turn cyclically as the gender ratios/odds do. Men are now losing their sexual power and women are gleefully exploiting and abusing theirs...but this has assuredly happened back and forth throughout history too. So, right now is nothing new - and shouldn't simply be blamed on men or women. Sure, young American women basically hold the cards in dating now, which sucks if you're a guy. But it also sucked to be them in times when the opposite was true. Women who happened to grow up in wartimes have suffered in exactly the same way as guys growing up in protracted peacetime now do! Not that many guys in wartimes fared much better either, though - as a large % of them actually got KILLED before they could even date much! But just keep in mind that whenever the ratio flips over again...so will gender leverage and power. So, the woman holding a straight flush now...will then be holding a crap hand after the next shuffle. And at that point, you can only bluff so long before you gotta fold 'em! However...UNTIL then, you can't expect a woman holding a royal flush to fold against a guy holding a crap hand, lol.... Nope, she's gonna raise her bet and if you can't match - then you better take your short stack and crawl back home alone!

Ah, OK well at least a healing would be far more useful than just chatting... At that rate, it would be $16.50 USD/minute. I've actually known those who charge ~2-3X that. But needless to say, either rate is still very high. As otherwise, bodywork in the US normally goes for about $1/min or less. But these sessions usually also have very weak therapeutic effects, if any. And ultimately, what's important is the result of the treatment, not the amount of time spent. In fact, someone who can achieve the same result or better in the same amount of time or less - is actually a better healer. So, best thing to do would be to get some feedback from others who have had his healing sessions before and then figure out whether or not it may be remotely worth trying? Even if he is a good healer though, I would still recommend relying mostly on yourself to make your own gains. Because it's really just wayyyyyyy too much work to outsource to anyone else!!!

This was 4 years ago. But, there's not much else here on this guy (Zhou Gan Sheng) and perhaps things have changed since then? Based on this small evaluation, I wouldn't be paying 300€ per 20 minutes, though. Like, not even close. I mean, what does he even promise to do in that 20 minutes? Actually to do an intense healing, or just give some oral instructions? Gee, I hope he works or talks really fast at that rate! Look, when n00bs start this game, they usually try to seek out the highest master they can find and then hope he can magically upgrade them like some computer software. After a while though, they'll start to realize that most of the work is up to themselves to slowly build up their foundation (jibengong) and progress from there... Honestly, if you want to study neidan or even just qigong - a good, accessible starting block is simply YOGA. Then after maybe some ~15 years of that, you might be ready for the next step into some actual qigong or neidan?

Right, although perhaps true over the span of millions of years, these rationalizations are really all mental deflections from the stark reality that we just don't want to really feel. Because it's a sad fact that we are destroying what took millions of years to evolve naturally on this planet - in mere centuries. And we are entirely responsible. Not carbon, or any other SYMPTOMS of our wanton appetite for destruction. Free carbon is not cutting down forests or turning all waterways into plastic teas - we are. Now, how does that really FEEL to know and fully acknowledge our own blissfully negligent parts in that?

^ Well, self-education and spreading awareness is a huge first step. I've been learning about plants for at least ~5 years now, and still find new ones out in the wild every few days. So, this process takes TIME and is infinite because Nature is...soooo infinite! The learning curve just never ends! In fact, I suspect the learning curve may be more like this: Than this: But, I've also already progressively taken some small steps in realspace too. Mostly, these are personal lifestyle changes - with a little action in public areas too. Like, I conserve and compost everything I can. Simply pissing in a bottle saves gallons of water with every avoided flush and can be used as fertilizer elsewhere (win-win). I obviously don't buy any invasive plants or use toxic chemicals for gardening, either. I've helped to permaculture and cut down invasive trees in public greenspaces. I've reseeded and grown seedlings from desirable, mostly native trees/plants to replant elsewhere. I helped landscape a residential complex using mostly native and edible plants (rather than the "useless," invasive industry standards). I have even provided input to local public park developers (although I believe my "permaculture" ideas were basically dismissed as "too radical"). In short, I try to conserve, preserve, and spread the "good"...while preventing and removing more of the "bad." But again, just to be able to distinguish the 2 takes a long time. You have to first learn which plants are native and which ones are invasive foreigners, and then be able to ID them out in the wild - before you can even do anything about them! So, it's not that much yet, but if everyone did a little of this - the net positive change would be measurable. What does everyone else here do? Right now though, the battle is still in the early, ideological stage. Thought informs and precedes action. And my views are still totally contrarian to the mainstream dogma (often even repeated here) that denies WEIRD lifestyles/population are the problem, but only free carbon is. And that in fact, any population reduction is an ALARMING crisis! Whereas I am countering that WEIRD lifestyles/population ARE the problem and deforestation is a secondary, devastating one to that. Of which free carbon might then be a tertiary effect of THAT... So, any population reduction would actually be GOOD for the planet - on multiple levels. Where "carbon" is basically just used as a palatable proxy for "WEIRD people" because we don't really want to directly incriminate ourselves!

Yup, that's why I said WEIRD overpopulation is the problem...because look what it is constantly causing: And yet, not only do WEIRD Baby Boomers religiously DENY that this is THE PROBLEM...they actually pretend that the only real solution (any reduction in our population & lifestyles) is an absolutely dire, "huge sex problem/fertility crisis/demographic time bomb/economy shrinker"...LMFAO!!! Without even a SINGLE mention of ANY positive effects! Like how...this is actually the GREATEST thing EVER for the rest of our planet? Seriously, WEIRD humans have got to be the shitt*est neighbors on this Earth!

Yea, and it actually even goes a lot deeper than that article states...! Hence, I've been arguing that the real problem is not free carbon, but DEFORESTATION and WEIRD civilization. Which all keeps "progressively" pushing us further and further away from our natural condition, state, and selves. We are now becoming the equivalent of chemically-laced, pasteurized, homogenized, sterilized, GMO skim milk refrigerated in plastic bottles sitting up on shelves under the flickering glare of fluorescent lights. Which is not ever what we evolved to BE! But in focusing on isolated, short term "gains," we've lost sight of all the underlying, subtle losses we've incurred in the process...on all levels, including spiritual. This is well beyond a "divorce" from Mother Earth. This is pretending that "she" is not even there anymore and doesn't even exist!

You had a mean Mommy, or something? Did she ever have the audacity to call you unenlightened *gasp*? Srsly though, I had asked you a legit question, followed by some humor pointed more at the ClA, than you. Because, isn't it great to know how they were spending tax dollars sending spooks in to infiltrate the Metaphysical sections of Barnes & Nobles back in the 80s, and hoping to militarize adjacent Starbucks into interdimensional Stargate portals while sipping on frappuccinos? Although, the real joke is the pop-cult, New Agey sources themselves that they used Most of which are like bad jokes - with big wind ups, poor delivery, and DOA punchlines - as thelerner noted from his own experience. Note that this report mentions little in the way of actual, impressive RESULTS either...likely because there WEREN'T ANY. I'm not saying they're all completely worthless - just that they usually don't live up to a lot of their own wishful thinking. I've found that most of these off-the-shelf IKEA kits all lack some crucial keys - that are either missing altogether or sold separately, lol... Thus, you still have to do a lot of personal sleuthing to make them actually work. So, that was the joke - not you. Sorry you didn't get it...but forums ARE text-based phonetic mediums - so there's probably a lot lost in translation...

Hmm, "sounds" like more completely audio, left-hemisphere bias, no? Nice or not, what difference does the content make? Blame the medium, not the message or messenger, amirite? And bonus question - are you now saying there is a self to condescend, disrespect, call stupid names, or fvck?

While I agree with some of what he says, some other parts are contradictory or delusional wishful thinking. He preaches unplugging from media and consumerism...yet gives examples of worthy dreams as creating better social media and becoming a multi-millionaire. And then dreams on about how merely modest conspicuous consumption, even in middle age, could then magically attract young women like bees to nectar? But, if this is all it takes to pull a hot 24-yo trio from a club...then shouldn't MOST guys already be able to do it? You don't really need to dream that big to afford a ~$20Kish car, lol.

Wait...so which is it? Sound = logical left or mystical right? Visual = mystical right or logical left? Also, is there a CIA white paper on The Secret, too? Or would that still be classified as secret?

Actually, George Lucas created the Star Wars franchise...although both he and Steven Spielberg were heavily influenced by Akira Kurosawa & his greatest "tough guy" act, Toshiro Mifune. Of course the irony is, Akira was actually heavily influenced by older Hollywood Westerns & silent films himself... So, it's interesting how inspiration crossed cultures and came back full-spiral over generations!

Hmm, am I missing something in translation? What exactly does he mean by, "your mother was black?"

Great question! My guess is that the Ren & Du Mai are extraordinary vessels that were active prenatally (xiantian) in the womb - when fetuses invert head down. Not that orientation matters that much in the womb anyways...as energy is absorbed from the Mother? Whereas the 12 meridians are active postnatally (houtian) and the Yin ones draw qi up from the Earth, while the Yang ones draw qi down from Heaven.

Well at the end of the day, the process is about dropping your egoic mental defenses and facing every emotionally-charged moment naked and defenselessly. His specific 10-week protocol is a way to help you attain that ability, but is really just a means to that end. I mean, if his protocol was THAT ironclad, then he would not have ever decided to modify it later... I did follow his procedure basically to the letter (albeit busily) for 10 weeks, just to be safe. But I still didn't really get my breakthrough until much later on my own terms unintentionally through my own portal. Which also led me to my own other realizations not discussed in his book... So YMMV too, but I think the key here is that he IS definitely pointing you in the right direction - no matter how YOU get there. All too often, psychology and emotions get completely short shrifted in spiritual technological how-to manuals. But, they are actually a huge missing link to our spiritual selves. Which is why his work is actually so spiritually authentic and essential. It is simple, natural, powerful, and direct...just like the Dao. I think if you read his book, watch his videos, and do his process (even if not exactly to the letter), then you are laying all the groundwork to get there somehow whenever you are ready to crack. And once the seeds are planted in the back of your mind, they will likely germinate eventually. At this point, I can go into that mode at will, even though I still hover around in the mental space a lot. Especially when performing ordinary tasks or posting on here a lot, lol. Whereas residing in my "egoless" space all the time would be a little tiring at this point. But if I actually want to resolve something within myself, I would drop my defenses and lay myself bare.

First Nations speaks out against WEIRD nations in first ~3 minutes here:

Wait, you're saying that you did all those things...but still wish you had done some things differently? Or that you had done things differently, but wish you had did those things?

What about Mark Griffin, who seems to have garnered a lot of hardcore fanbois around here?

I meant commuting between their land house and boat. Which you are saying that they drive 6 hrs roundtrip to/from at least every weekend (if not more), correct?