9th

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  1. I had always been a bit nonplussed about the 2012 hype ever since I heard Terence McKenna admit his Timewave Zero theory "may not be true, but its good social engineering" (paraphrased). That was the theory that brought the mayan calendar end date into the spotlight for new agers and hippies back in the late 70s. There was an eager young mathematician who attempted to vet McKenna's formula and charts and so forth, and he discovered the math involved was all a bunch of bullshit. He managed to have a dialog with McKenna for a while, and eventually got him to admit it was more like a pure belief than anything else. Other insights into McKenna can be found here: http://brotherhoodofthescreamingabyss.com/ The mayans set their long count calendar in stone around roughly 500 BC, with an endpoint of the approx. 26,000 year cycle to be in Dec. 21 2012 AD. It seems that they were using their observations of the procession of the equinox to calculate a projected future alignment - which the long count calendar is designed around. The only problem with this is that such measurements could not have been as precise as the ones we make about astronomical movements today, simply due to the tools we have compared to the ones the mayans were using at that time. In terms of the visual phenomena of the sun rising in line with the galactic center, supposedly this already happened back in 1999 regarding the most central point of reference of the milky way that we can see in the sky - which is really hard to determine in the first place without very detailed visual measurements and so forth. So while the 2012 solstice may also have had a similar phenomena, apparently it was a bit less centered than the one that already occurred in 1999.
  2. my incredibly amazing poem was mainly towards both of you and yeh im hard, yo
  3. fuck fuck motherfuck you fucking motherfucker i am so awesome
  4. bliss vs Bliss

    "Bliss vibrations" is also what pulls consciousness out of the physical body during OBEs instigated with unbroken awareness (i.e. during waking state). So you might want to make sure its not just instinctual, animal fears getting in the way and masquerading as "higher knowledge". Translating your awareness into another medium can be fairly intense and unfamiliar to the conditioned daily mind, as its not commonly addressed or even "purely" biological anyway. ive been pulled out of the body by bliss energy plenty of times and im still here to talk about it.. but maybe i died then i just reanimated myself.. or maybe im possessing my own body! whoa...
  5. Haiku Chain

    an aquatic foul in marco water polo echoes location
  6. What is this true meditation? It is to make everything: coughing, swallowing, waving the arms, motion, stillness, words, actions, the evil and the good, prosperity and shame, gain and loss, right and wrong, into one single koan. Make your skirt and upper garments into the seven or nine striped monks’ robe; make your two-edged sword into your resting board or desk. Make your saddle your sitting cushion; make the mountains, rivers, and the great earth the sitting platform; make the whole universe your own personal meditation cave. Consider the workings of yin and yang as your two meals of gruel a day; heaven, hell, pure lands, and this world as your spleen, stomach, and intestines. Thrusting forth the courageous mind derived from faith, combine it with the true practice of introspection. Then rising or staying, moving or still, "at all times test to see whether you have lost the true meditation or have not lost it." This is the true practice of the sages of the past and of today. You must become aware that meditation is the thing that points out your own innate appearance. To carry on the real practice of seeing into your own nature by transcending the great matter of birth and death is by no means an easy thing to do. Placing the essential between the two states, the active and the passive, and being in a position to be able to move in any direction, with the true principle of pure, undiluted undistracted meditation before your eyes, attain a state of mind in which, even though surrounded by crowds of people, it is as if you were alone in a field extending tens of thousands of miles. - Hakuin Ekaku
  7. sparrows

    The Law of Force full spectrum sheen on the slick oil anointing the heads of runaway overflow gushing tiger blood in the halls of the Vatican caressed by the lust for screaming witches smashed together and burned alive thrashed and trashed or recycled in the name of our Sweet Lord stashed the cash under statue of Baphomet and stuffed like Christmas goose in mouth of John the Baptist's severed head with pronounced Cymatic registration for Logos tuning forked tongues and tails haunted by echos of the Superuser marching down the command line interfaces of death with hot sticky breath chasing fogged sunglasses worn at night with red shoes for dancing black and blue Skyline racing invisible sunlight wrapped tight so the bedbugs wont bite the white wall tires like termites in the root access directory structure punctured by the fangs of our Sweet Lord who maketh all the young girls lie down and wait for sweet rape in the tall grass squeezed like grapes and a piece of ass fermenting still waters into cyclone tsunami wine bottle tidal wave killing punani with the jammy that listens to the way we slay bad brains damaged by raiding black flags nailed to the crossbones under crystal skulls trailed to lost homes of child sacrifice in the name of our Sweet Lord
  8. Haiku Chain

    there are things unseen in games of hide and seekers let them have their fun
  9. The Power of "Ignore"

    Having "rights" is another issue, but somewhat related anyways. The idea is that if you consider yourself "compassionate" or "honorable" or doing the "right thing", chances are you are heading in the direction of self-righteousness and sanctimonious moralizing. Its a trap that plenty of cultivators miss. Its not a rare problem. Everyone is fallible, that is the point. Having a real view on equanimity is quite helpful, because accepting faults in others helps to accept faults in yourself and vice versa. It contributes to a workable situation rather than something to be avoided and shunned and down-voted and booed and so forth. You might think that you are doing yourself a favor by avoiding all the assholes in your life, but you can also do yourself a favor by realizing that assholes only exist in your own mind to begin with. I never said it was easy, btw.
  10. Right, Im not sure why anyone would need to accept it as final say, but since you were the one who brought it up, that may apply more to you than someone who was not planning on doing so in the first place. Background information is what I am trying to provide. Plenty of people take wisdom teachings and self-cultivation methodologies so forth for granted without any sort of investigation into the origins and source of particular terminologies and theories in regards to the larger community of knowledge from which they appear. Often they do not even investigate these theories in their own specific context or school, but rather jump to very personalized conclusions derived from very limited personal views. For instance, perhaps you would share your thoughts on Buddhism's "own major problems in meaning"? I am quite interested to hear this.
  11. Did Carlos Castaneda make it all up?

    http://youtu.be/bMR53zHrdzg