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This is not true. Your logic is flawed.

TLDR The Egyptians used to say

“Oh soul, you worry too much. You have seen your own strength. You have seen your own beauty. You have seen your golden wings. Of anything less, why do you worry? You are in truth the soul, of the soul, of the soul.” - Rumi

It has anti-bacterial properties. Thats well known and proven, its why it works as a first aid for wounds - used for thousands of years. Beyond that, raw honey has other extremely nutrient rich chemicals and polyphenols. It improves vasodilation, and therefore reduces inflammation in a generalized way.

I dont advocate supplements, but I do advocate eating high nutrient whole foods, and so called "super foods". You can usually find raw turmeric root in the grocery store these days. Get that instead - be careful with prep, it has properties of a dye. goes great in indian food, btw

She was incredibly racist. Its all on record. Granted, racism was rife in that era, but she certainly didnt help matters. The whole idea of "universal brotherhood" is a bunch of bullshit cooked up by apologists. Here is the actual truth: Blavatsky argued that humanity had descended from a series of "Root Races", naming the fifth root race (out of seven) the Aryan Race. She thought that the Aryans originally came from Atlantis and described the Aryan races with the following words: Blavatsky used "Root Race" as a technical term to describe human evolution over the large time periods in her cosmology. However, she also claimed that there were modern non-Aryan peoples who were inferior to Aryans. She regularly contrasts "Aryan" with "Semitic" culture, to the detriment of the latter, asserting that Semitic peoples are an offshoot of Aryans who have become "degenerate in spirituality and perfected in materiality." She also states that some peoples are "semi-animal creatures". These latter include "the Tasmanians, a portion of the Australians and a mountain tribe in China." There are also "considerable numbers of the mixed Lemuro-Atlantean peoples produced by various crossings with such semi-human stocks -- e.g., the wild men of Borneo, the Veddhas of Ceylon, most of the remaining Australians, Bushmen, Negritos, Andaman Islanders, etc." Blavatsky connects physical race with spiritual attributes constantly throughout her works:

Cobblers pose, as well as dragon stepping (as in baguazhang) are some movements I found myself doing spontaneously, when I was younger, before I learned about all the traditions (this time around i guess). They felt instinctual, like I already had the muscle memory well developed. Those exercises are extremely pleasurable. I find that to be the case involving anything which stretches/relaxes the spine and feet simultaneously.

Theosophy was to the 20th century, as Scientology is to the 21st century. Dont forget, Blavatsky was instrumental in the rise of the "master race" philosophy.

The way an acorn becomes an oak tree, that is wu wei. Does this answer your question? In terms of humanity, as the taoists see them - wu wei is a conscious harmony of the earthly and celestial. These terms are metaphorical at best for modern people, so such a description and the basic concept it alludes to probably holds very little amount of the detailed technical information it would contain for other peoples of other times. Modern people have virtually no conscious connection to the celestial, however they retain an unconscious harmony with it. It is the nature of the celestial which contains all possibilities, so its accordance is infinite and unfathomable. Yet the consciousness of humanity, especially in our modern times, is stymied by a dysfunctional adherence to methods by which the earthly is exploited. It is a fractured, fragmented consciousness - it is not whole, but broken into parts that cannot see each other. Thus the manifestation of that consciousness results in our modern world, because self-destruction flows by means of ignoring it. The exploitation and inevitable destruction of the earthly is enacted by ignoring the celestial. This is true at a social level as well as a personal one. In fact, society itself is only a reflection of the collective inner state of humanity. It truly begins from within. The idea of governance of the world of humanity in terms of wu wei was an interesting development in terms of institutionalized taoism from the mouth of The Old Man. However, in all such advisory matters the natural order is still shown to reign supreme. How many rulers of men have actually followed such dictates? The modern world is the result of many generations of people with entrenched principals of greed and tyranny. The fact that such principals have become increasingly genteel and "refined" is simply a matter of technological advancement. It wont last forever. Population increases exponentially, not in a linear way. The resources it takes to sustain such an amount of people wont scale the same way according to our current trends. Crunch time is on the way. And thats not even mentioning the other (increasingly likely) potential possibilities of global events. At this point, the only way wu wei will come to the whole world is through a swift kick in the ass to the entire species. Let me tell you that it will not be fun times.

In the days that would last forever The sun turned a blind eye to the world And in its mother's voice, cried A star is born In the night sky of children's laughter The smoke rose from the chimney ahead Sandlewood and myrrh and acacia Firelight flights of fancy free dancing leaves Yearning to kiss the ground On the horizon, bleeding into the expanse Rippling clouds lit by a billion bonfires Carrying the wings of a raven Aloft crescendos of the fated winds

Many of the people who talk about spiritual growth, spirituality, or spiritual will often draw a blank when you try to pin them down for a definition of it. I was one of them. I used to think it had something to do with miraculous happenings, telepathy, synchronicity, a feeling of oneness with god/universe/spirit, etc. Then I heard the best definition of spiritual growth and intuitively realized it was correct. The definition is this: Spiritual growth is emotional growth, being spiritually advanced is being emotionally mature. Emotional maturity is normaly dictated by a person's native character and is the result of parental influence. The emotional growth due to parental influence usually stop before a person reaches adulthood. Meditation causes emotional growth due to the introspection it causes. In many systems meditation means thinking about things, but in Taoism meditation means not thinking. We are supposed to not think and either focus on the feeling of energy in the body or remain totally blank. Stopping thinking is very difficult and anyone who tries will quickly discover this. It takes many years, and little by little the spaces between thoughts grows longer. As we go through this process of trying to stop thinking but not succeeded we end up reviewing our past actions. Things we said to people or things they said to us, things we are thinking of saying to someone or things we want to do or things we have done, the list seems endless. Sometimes the same thought will occur over and over and over and that in itself can be quite annoying when we are trying to stop thinking but it's best to bear with it and keep at it because the results of meditation are truly worth the effort. A lot of people don't spend much time examining their lives because they are too busy; or, if they don't want to examine their lives they see to it that they become too busy. Consumerism is an escape from reality in this sense. It seems that everyone has some emotional responses which they learned in childhood which may have served them well when they were children, but tend to result in self sabotage when they are adults. In short, almost everyone experiences some emotional pain from time to time, therefore they have an emotional problem. Having an emotional problem doesn't mean a person is crazy, it's just that if some action or reaction that we habitually have results in emotional pain then it's a problem, an emotional problem. The common pre-meditation reaction is to blame the other person. The increased awareness caused by meditation also extends to our emotions and as we meditate more an interesting thing happens. Some emotional difficulty that we were having previously will seem to get worse. This is probably most likely due to two reasons, the first being that before we didn't want to think about it, we wanted to avoid it, and the second is that we become more sensitive. So whatever emotional difficulty we were having will become worse and more annoying, more upsetting, and more infuriating. When this happens then there are a couple of possible outcomes. The most common is that the person will realize that it is due to their meditation so they take the easy way out and quit. The other is that they will continue to meditate but the increased annoyance due to the problem will cause more self examination. This self examination results in us realizing what we are doing that is causing the problem, we realize the original motivations for it and we realize why it's not working. It seems to me that the most important thing that happens is that the increased annoyance provides the motivation to fix the problem. Very little happens without motivation. In a nutshell, meditation causes emotional growth because it will make an emotional problem seem worse and that motivates us to fix the problem. It's really as simple as that, but it takes bravery and persistence. There is an analogy in the many myths of spiritual growth that tell of a person going into a dark cave to face their worse fears. The hero or heroine conquers the fear by entering the cave. There is some kind of epic battle in the cave, and if the person wins then when they come out of the cave they are changed people. More mature, leaders, at peace, things like that. So meditation includes a process, likened to entering a fearful cave, where we get to do the scariest thing of all, to face our own worst enemy. - Steve Gray

This is from Steve Gray, not me. Ive already shared my perspectives on all this, but its usually like a dog whistle around here.

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