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At Burning Man there was seminar from a guy who did trout farming with aquaponics. His 'secrets' were digging long ponds deep so they'd stay cooler, getting leftovers from fishmongers to cut down on fish feeding costs, but he also made it clear that with trout it wasn't easy. You had to keep very close tabs on a number of critical factors from acidity to temperature. Still there were other types of fish much more forgiving. Even now there are lots of commercial little units for goldfish and betas to grow with some symbiosis with plants. But the real thing, to get real harvests seemed to be a major effort unless its a serious hobby.

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My thinking is.. we have our genius's, our ancestors had there's. Not super tech, but over generations they had there DaVinci's, MichaelAngelo's.. people way smarter then average and way smarter then me. Every generation spawns some and every now and then one ends up in the right place and they produce wonders of there age. We have this too, maybe it's harder to recognize, cause it's a theory or Blackbird spy plane or computer chip.. or skyscraper or subway; things that we take for granted, but are inspired works of advanced genius that are leaps ahead of there time.

Strange, I told a Tibetan Buddhist I wanted to be one with everything and he gave me baklava, in a bun.

And since I'm a week or two behind here's one more. This is just for fun. A chance to pick up hitch hikers, take'em home and do drugs with them.. in hypnosis. Not everyone's cup of tea, but I can't think of a safer way to experience it. Here's the video- Try it if you dare. There's no harm in listening to it first and choosing not to fall under, to get an impression, but imo there's nothing too racy or crazy on it. Your mileage may vary. Here's a shorter version in mp3. Some may love the long induction with eyes opening and closing. Most of the time I'd rather side step it. Thus I've turned it from 50 minutes to 32. Her youtube is interesting, certainly on the sexual side of hypnosis. There are people like Kim Walsh and Michael Sealy who tend towards more productive readings. I've even found a couple sites that specialize in transmogrification, from werewolf to kitten and beyond. If you're comfortable, these trippy readings can be fun. Otherwise there's always the traditional mild yoga nidra's that are pleasant journeys of relaxation. Let me know which ones you enjoy, whether I've listed them or not. Shorter_Psychedelic_Meditation.mp3

Often short is good. Once your used to the relaxed focused state of hypnosis you don't need long introductions. With that in mind here are two excellent from Kim Walsh, one I had full length earlier, but here it is shortened. The Happiness one, without all the relaxation and leaf counting, here it starts at the river, where the sky will darken and stars will fall and fill you with good feelings. Likewise here is the a meditation of mindful eating without the longer relaxation and walk through the garden. Instead you're close to the hotel, the nice elevator induction to the theater where you learn a bit watching your healthier self on screen. Both in Kim Walsh delightful voice. Shorter_Mindful_Eating_Meditation.mp3 Shorter_Happiness_meditation.mp3

I don't delete, but I do modify posts.* Even old ones, usually it's grammatical or to get my point across betterer clearer. Deleters beware. Our posts are in part our diaries, as years and decade go by, they are the footsteps of our thoughts, showing us where we have been. There is a loss, when we erase them. We've had people erase their entire blogs in a hissy fit over a staff decision only to come back the next day to rage about the loss that they felt 'forced' to do. Reflection maketh the man or at least has potential to improve him. Cause hopefully we grow or at least start recognizing patterns in our foolishness. *even hide and bury things invisibly.

I understand the cleansing aspect yet I'm sorry when people delete everything. At some point everyone posts some good solid stuff. Are part of solid intelligent conversations and to delete those hurts the flow, perhaps keeps people from accessing a little unique wisdom. So delete if you must, but maybe not everything. Take your time, if you've written some good posts, let'em live. We all produce alot of chaff but let the wheat stay. Every now and then old posts come back to life, often the best of them do, years later and your contribution deserves to be read and not a hole in the conversation.

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Also.. what is it wearing around its neck? Kinda looks like a strung up partridge or parrot. note, I'm the guy who thought That monkey sure has big balls whoops peaches.

I don't use mantra's to calm myself. For that I walk, slowly, meditatively. Keep attention on my feet, feeling the earth, how my heel and soul connect with it as they land. To open my hearing, listen closely to sounds and nature around me. I keep my eyes on wide focus. Often, step by step, I find some peace. Perhaps walking itself is a mantra spoken by the feet . There are also some guided meditations I find soothing and good for reducing anxiety. See- The mantra I use most is YHVH from Rawn Clark. More a canticle really, it gets deep and into hermetic magic- http://abardoncompanion.de/TMO-Links.html I mostly do it in the shower for the superior acoustics. To some extent any tune you repeat and focus on can be soothing. Even better when it has some special meaning and the vowels themselves carry some power.

Okay, now I'm dragging this on :(, but here's another video, ignore the first few minutes, but its got a good history of monk and Abott Hai Teng. A fascinating albeit slightly propagandist (cause communist China) biography of the man. It's all fascinating, but you can see him in action around 23:40 & 44:10. Again are these real fights? No.. course not, he's being treated with respect, he's a man is in his 80's or 90's, yet he's damn good. You can see him teaching Shaolin arts throughout. This video is well worth watching. Also watch for the other older masters performing for each other around 38:12 and throughout the video, very very inspiring. An amazing thing I found in yoga ashram's was woman do incredible poses that I assumed required incredible strength, like the scorpion variations and yet it wasn't about strength.. well some yet there are other equally important factors that allowed woman to stay in vertical poses I couldn't even attempt. Again, I could show more videos of woman flowing through incredible strength postures but you might not get it. Think they're fake. What I'm getting at is that balance and extension are the equal to strength in the handstand. What I'm trying to get through is that this is not due to supernatural. If Abbott Hai Teng of Shaolin is doing it at 90, its not because he's supernatural or super strong. It's that he's kept himself in amazing shape, as per seeing him do the splits, and that what's he doing is an extreme example of mind/body coordination, balance and extension. He's also probably deformed his finger due to his one finger sword technique. Again the man in motion- The more I learn the man the more I respect. There are extraordinary people in this world. Not supernatural, but just frickin amazing and inspiring. Giving us something to aim at.

Personally I don't think that video of Ueshiba near the end of his life when he's in mystic grandmaster mode is a good example. Likewise showing the video of 5 year old girl as proof of Ueshiba being a fraud or against the OP video doesn't really mean much to me. There are a dozen of other videos of Ueshiba, still an old man doing remarkable things.. some having him demonstrate on American MP's and others showing much more vigorous attacks and his uncanny ability. If you're willing to look or if you want to start a separate thread on Ueshiba that'd be fine too. If you read, you can read first hand accounts. But do you think that the one finger hand stand is impossible? That it's akin to a person levitating? I don't. I think the right people, extraordinary to be sure, with the right training could do it. That gymnastic strong can achieve it, and that a spiritual (yoga/Shaolin..) strong men too. I think the video of the monk is legit. Not selling anything, but an amazing example of an old man repeating a phenomenal mind/body routine from his youth. I wouldn't be surprised if the middle set up wasn't show because he had help getting into position, but that the end result, him balancing, feet against a wall on one finger was (probably) legit. For example in the middle video (America's got talent) I showed above with Christian Stoinev, at around 2:03 he does a one finger hand stand with no wall, total balance. Note his finger is in a thimblish indentation. Still he's balancing. Look at the strength of the people in the other videos. They're doing dozens of times, what we couldn't do once. Still, Christian is not 90 years old. Could an old man do it? Not anyone. I know the Mighty Atom was ripping horse shoes (not bending, ripping) apart in his late 70's in front of large audiences. He called upon spiritual strength but it was a skill he learned when younger.

Nungali, I was trying to get through that it's not a mysterious power. Least not in my opinion. Not like levitation would be. Numbers of reasons why I believe. Its on film, I read Dobson's account as well as descriptions by several Japanese who interestingly were less impressed by it then Dobson was. Unlike levitation imo it's not a mysterious power, its the extreme of mind/body coordination, showing off the power of amazing extension. It wasn't a one off kind of thing, he'd demonstrated at least a couple times. O'Sensei taught for decades and had generations of students. There are many films of him doing similar feats of withstanding huge force. He'd usually explain his legendary fudoshin (immovabilty) as being done because the gods had entered his body. One of his top students and founder of my style of Aikido, Koichi Tohei had a much more down to earth explanation and would simplify it into following 4 principles, 2 of mind, 2 of body. That and practice.. My Aikido sensei could hold a sword out against 2 people and explained how it was done.. ie the power of focused relaxed extension.. taken to it an extreme. He readily admitted he couldn't do 4 or 5 like Ueshiba did. Importantly, it's not supernatural, just remarkable training and insight expressed physically. Every weekend we'd have a Ki Class and play with these kinds of ki tricks. See how they'd apply to walking, sitting.. striking.. over all balance. My sensei had another cool trick. He could pick up short staff, hold it in the middle by one finger. Have two people grab the ends and together try to push the jo and him backwards. He stand there holding it with a finger, and smile. They couldn't do it, and if one pushed to hard, the other pusher would end up being forced back. Cool trick. How'd he do it, 30..40 years of practice in mind/body coordination. I expect if I had his dedication and put in the same amount of decades I could learn it, but like the one finger handstand.. it's a lotta effort for a 'trick'. Yet to do such, shows an amazing level of mastery. The horizontal sword 'trick' is one I never picked up, but I could do the old sitting while 8 or 9 people pushed against me in a line. And it wasn't all that hard. The secret is, two people pushing are harder then one, 3 might be harder then 2, but beyond 3 it didn't matter. They would interfere with each other. If you took up slack a certain way you could negate the push of the first person and then he's squashed and it was real easy. That is probably the biggest secret subtly negating the power immediately. I was never anywhere close to my instructor's ability. It's the kind of thing worked on over the years, and has some lessons in it, but not due to a mysterious power. Rather its part physics but to do, required relaxed extension. For me, the use of metaphor greatly increases the ability to create that relaxed extension. So.. the imagery of water (or qi) shooting powerfully out of your arm gave you access to that relaxed strength.

Just seeing him do the splits at 90 is damn impressive. If top guys from your school wanted to do a 1 finger handstand (against a wall), do you think they could train themselves for it?

levitation goes against physics, ie using some unknown undetectable dimension energy kinda thing. This is a handstand.. kids do it.. course its taken to the nth degree, but with a combination of extension and strength its possible. In truth I think the elite (thin) gymnast could train themselves to do a 2 finger handstand. This is just 1 finger less. This monk could be in the 80 to 95 pound range, and his feet are leaning against the wall. In truth, this is amazing, but not in my opinion superhuman or supernatural (human levitation would be one or the other..or bogus). We have clear records of people doing 2 finger handstands without a wall. Heck, I'm showing a 2014 video of a guy on America's Got Talent doing a 1 finger handstand. This is remarkable but then the entire Guinness Book of World Records is full of 1,000's of remarkable crazy records.

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No, no no. If you think you need to keep explaining why the video isn't real. Keep it at it man. don't mind me.

While generally skeptic, I believe this video. Though I understand why it's easy to scoff at, especially since its a 90 year old man doing it. Yet with decades of hard practice, and incredible extension(qi) its within the human realm. My art is Aikido, and there are videos of Morihei Ueshiba doing amazing things as an old man. For example holding a sword out and having multiple people press against it sideways and it being immovable. Terry Dobson, a Westerner wrote he applied his full strength suddenly and didn't move an inch. This was filmed. In my view these acts are possible and take mind body coordination into the spiritual. Note they are not supernatural, the man is light, his ligaments and bones trained, his extension perfect. For all I know he had help getting into the position or was less then graceful, thus not shown, but I believe he did the one finger stand. However, doing some research we have the monks name. We can research him, see longer, more indepth videos of the man. Here the full longer video- Note there is a younger monk doing the same action at 10:45ish. You can see the set up. In this video you see demonstration of a two finger or rather 4 handstand with great control. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LkhVeW7VV0 Shaolin is not without it critics. Particularly its modern, showman style. I've read exposes on serious MMA fighters who've visited its temple and found a mixed bag. So, here's a video of a Western gymnast/yoga type doing amazing handstand work (not one finger though) heck, here's someone doing a one finger pushup in an old America's got talent- Really the outer limits of strength and control are wild-

Yup, look like Saluki's to me.

Thing about Alice is, when she won, she was able to walk away. You realize that we (everyone answering the post) proved conclusively that the OP video was fake. And then you kept writing again and again.. just seems silly. A rabbit hole to avoid. Even now you seem to think its about defending the video instead of learning to move on instead of beating dead white rabbits.

I believe it. Amazing skill, dedication, mind body control. At a price, like many old karate men, they form such thick calluses and fused bones that there hands are semi-deformed.

maybe like this thread, they got distracted and pulled off course. Traveling in the West years ago, I found a small town that had an old Taoist shrine, built by the Chinese imported to build railroads in the 1800's. I got the feeling it was a remnant and there was no or little Taoist tradition going on there, but i could be wrong.

I'm thinking between ignoring and getting too involved there is the nice middle ground of stating ones truth and keeping it light.. cause hopefully we're all friends here and no need to pile on too heavy, especially when all the replies are pretty unanimously agreeing with your point of view. Its like, once you've sent the message clearly you don't need to keep beating the wet rug. Push too hard and suddenly the thread warps or gets too personal.

Ikea had some inexpensive green spectrum bulbs. There's also a wide underground re-purposing movement for there furniture. I wouldn't be surprised if people had hacked there inexpensive stuff into hydroponics. asks google hacking ikea into hydroponics . Oh yeah, two million hits and the first page or two has lots of ideas-