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Thanks for sharing your experience, Darin. I know some people are against the idea of sharing spiritual experiences, but I think they should be shared with those who have a willing ear.

lately I've been thinking about the different practices out there, and I'm becoming very weary about systems that offer super-fast results as a selling point. I like results as much as the next person, but having been a businessman for over a decade, i'm beginning to see the selling points overpowering what may be a need for qualitative control as well as safety precautions in some cases.

Question for you Darin: Can you describe the physical sensation of kundalini rising? It seems you've experienced such and being that I've probably heard about a dozen different explanations and descriptions from burning to, as you touched on - spinal breathing, as well as spontaneous experiences, i'm curious what the physical characteristics and qualities of your experience has been like? Is it something you can do again with control or did it require painstaking effort? Was it painful? I was reading Kunlun last night and Max or the other fella mentioned kundalini rose one vertebrae at a time. *EDIT - awesome! found your 100 day journal. Excellente, my friend! Thank you for posting this!

Yeah baby. Zankou Garlic Paste Recipe Ingredients 6 cloves garlic 1/2 ts salt 1/2 c olive oil 1 juice of 1 lemon Instructions Active Work Time: 20 minutes This recipe, which has made the riverside restaurants of the city of Zahleh famous, is similar to the one used by the popular Los Angeles restaurant chain Zankou Chicken. * Grind garlic to paste in mortar or small food processor. Work in salt, olive oil and lemon to create mayonnaise-like consistency.

How does one begin to understand these things? (yes, i realize that is a loaded question, but can you at least point in a direction? )

I should add that it's been over 7 months since and things have definitely changed in and around my cranium. For instance, for a couple of months after the awakening, i felt a lot of pressure between my eyes, like a huge zit was about to grow, or like a person had a finger pressing against it. I also experienced various throbbing sensations around my head while meditating. Nowadays during meditation, whenever i see waves of light in my mind's eye, once it leaves the frame of my mind's eye, i can feel its energy flowing along the same path beyond my vision along the membrane of my skin. After meditation it feels as if i've got a magnetic weight hanging from between my eyes as well as the lower back of my head. These have been the physical manifestations, the metaphysical have been mostly in dreams - occasional psychic dreams, but mostly dreams where i feel a strong communication occurring between my personality and my soul. Also, auras seem to visible to me now, which is really f'n trippy. Another subject of note is the research done by Dr. Rick Strassman. I've read DMT: The Spirit Molecule in which he theorizes that at the point of death, the pineal gland, which is heavily guarded against stress, experiences so much stress that it releases large doses of DMT (dimethyltryptamine) and his theory is that when this occurs, consciousness is transported through a micro-wormhole in the pineal to another place in the universe. Many of the participants in the study experienced this, as well as communication with other beings. After reading DMT as well as Inner-paths to Outer-space, i attempted to brew Ayahuasca tea. Ordered bannister caapi as well as chacruna from an online botany company, but unfortunately the plants were too old and the potency had diminished so we didn't get the experience we wanted. Ended up being a complete waste of money. Also, two weeks after my third eye awakening, I experienced sleep paralysis, something I haven't experienced since I was a kid, but this time I surprisingly was able to break out of the paralysis, and as i moved to get up I saw what I can only describe as two smiling pale-green faced alien beings in my mind's eye. I still have no idea what exactly this means.

^it's about getting a foot in the door. Once a relationships starts, that's completely different. PUA deals with the superficial connection, beyond that the real adventure begins.

This discussion reminds me of a movie I saw recently entitled The Man From Earth. It's a fascinating story if immortality interests you because the writers took the time to really analyze what life as an immortal would be like. It's very engaging and definitely worth your while.

I apologize if i came off defensive, but let me explain myself in a more civilized and practical way... first, if we see "PUA" through the lense of branding, then we see it for something more than it is, which in its essence is the transfer of information, not so much different than coming to Taobums to learn and exchange ideas, or taking a workshop like Kunlun to help guide us to what we are trying to attain. For me personally, learning to craft my abilities to communicate with women in a courting fashion was developed by watching and analyzing other guys - guys older than I was who had learned their way; guys who were naturally charismatic and had naturally magnetic personalities, then by imitating and implementing their qualities to my own personality, i learned to find my own voice and my own way. This is what it is essentially all about. If you see this as being anything more or less than that, it is because you're looking at it through a lense of your own choosing. Furthermore many guys are not in a position where they have older male counterparts to analyze, thus the need for a PUA genre became necessary for men. Most of us were not born with an innate ability to attract women and communicate with them in a way that offers results. It's something all of us have to learn one way or another.

yeah, alright, so, like, where's the thread that teaches us how to give women the ta-O-face?

What exactly are you doubting? Reason i ask is that self-doubt covers a large blanket of qualities. For me, personally, i doubted my ability to stop abusing substances, i.e. alcohol, drugs.

Bruce Lee probably did more than any person ever in bringing Eastern culture to the West. He did this through showcasing the BadAss-ness of martial arts through cinema. I've gotta say though, he had to have had one helluv an ego as well as a strong desire to be famous to accomplish what he did. I'm sure the underlying drive to bring East to the West was prevalent in his motivations so i don't want to take anything away from his accomplishments because he truly was a gifted individual in more ways than just martial arts. I mean, just coming to the US and getting inside a very close-knit Hollywood at the time was a remarkable achievement in and of itself.

That's a completely biased and ignorant statement itself, but given that you're a woman and completely naive when it comes to the art of picking-up women, it's understandable. Natural game is the way to go as it incorporates your personality and fine-tunes the best parts of it while also allowing a guy to maintain his sense of self as well as a sense of Self-dignity. From my experience a lot of it has to do with just making the girl feel comfortable. In as far as fidelity is concerned, that to a large degree is based on the girl. Sure every girl has this beautiful perfect side to them, but if sexual faithfulness is important to you, then look towards her family background - how she was raised, her relationship with her father and how this translates into a need for attention and validation from men.

LOL!!!!!! Oh man, that video was hilarious and, unfortunately, for the most part very true for many ordinary couples. I'm open to a woman in life, but it has very specific clauses attached to it. like for one, no marriage -- ever. secondly, she cannot prevent me from seeking truth otherwise it's over. Yeah, it's not going to be easy finding a person like this but quite frankly i'm not really looking. If it happens, it happens but most important is enlightenment. nothing will stand in the way of that, hence, no children either.

Agreed. The Great Heartbreak of my life was a life-changing experience, full of grand introspection and a realization of what a good relationship is to me.

Fascinating. Perhaps the makers of Vicco have intentionally left out glycerine from their packaged list of ingredients for this very purpose. Thanks for the info and recommendations, Karen. They've been very helpful.

I'm all for seeing the perfection in people, but when the vision of perfection begins to inflict unnecessary pain on ourselves, it's probably best to appreciate it from a distance. having experienced the pain of detachment, I can assure you(as others have mentioned) that there are plenty of other beautiful female souls out there who are at the same place of awareness as you are. good luck, man.

I just read the ingredients in Vicco and saw no listing of glycerin. How do you know this? Also, soap!?!? that sounds so simple that i like the idea! So the next question would be - can you recommend a good soap for brushing?

I wonder though, what is our drive to be immortal? I'm recalling that timeless quote from Wolfgang Peterson's TROY, when Brad Pitt, performing what could be his most suitable role as Achilles, says, "Flank! To the flank!" Just kidding, when he says... Achilles: I'll tell you a secret. Something they don't teach you in your temple. The Gods envy us. They envy us because we're mortal, because any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again. Even though i'm using an obscure piece of dialog spoken by Brad Pitt in a Wolfgang Peterson movie, there is beauty in this thought. Why do we seek immortality? What waits behind the curtain of this? Will we be able to appreciate the finite qualities of what we consider to be beauty? Will all of this change and will this change be something we wanted? Does it matter? Why do fools fall in love? What makes the sky blue? Is this some game where we are just trying to reach the next level?

Berkey water filter is probably the best out there. They can also be purchased with flouride filters. Another thing would be toothpaste. I use Vicco herbal toothpaste myself. takes a little getting used to, but at this point I can't imagine using anything else.

I can barely make full lotus, but when I do I notice that my perenium faces the ground instead of being at an angle in half lotus. I'm thinking in FL it might help energy flow through up the spine in a more pure and streamlined fashion.

Fascinating stuff. Thank you very much, Darin. Your posts resonate very much with my own thoughts and experiences.

Agreed on physical immortality, but can you expand on the "red blood turns to milk"? I've never heard of this before.

Will you be consuming fish and just removing red-meat/poultry from the diet? I've removed red-meat and poultry -- period, but still consume fish and some cheese once in a while. Reason being is that it's difficult to maintain a solid stream of protein going purely vegetables without consuming a ton of beans, although I don't enjoy eating animals or animal by-products, but like Taoist principles, I'm taking the middle path. As far as cheese, ugh, it tastes soo good!