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One of my practices is Rawn Clarks YHVH canticle The magic of IHVH ADNI -- at http://abardoncompanion.com/csm/contents.html . Its a very interesting kind of chant practice that edges into the magical realm. It's Hermetic, Bardon inspired, I notice the middle part is from the famous Rabbi/mystic Nachman of Breslov, the middle phrase was his mantra (strange but he used them in the late 1700's). There are 9 deep lessons to it, as well as healing modality version. Plus sounds good in the shower

If I may ask, and feel free not to respond if you consider it intrusive. What are the economics of such a life? Expense wise? and pros and cons you've found there (asking in a Thoreau, 'Walden' kind of way) Cause we have people here looking for that, short time and long.

Me 4, I got this: thedaobums.com uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate expired on August 12, 2017 at 6:31 PM. The current time is August 12, 2017 at 7:12 PM. Error code: SEC_ERROR_EXPIRED_CERTIFICATE Using Firefox on a Mac. I had to over ride Firefox security setting.

Actually it wasn't a spit in the face. I believe Karen used the word Please and was polite. Zenmode had been reported and the person asked for their name to be removed. It is against the rules of this forum. Zenmode refused, was asked again, Zenmode went into victim mode and got a 3 day suspension. The next one will be longer. As Ilovecoffee points out this is a private forum, as well as a community for fellowship and discussion and there are rules. You broke one, were asked to make a simple edit, more then once, you decided not to and were given a short suspension. You are not a victim other then in your own mind. To the main point Karen does excellent work in an often thankless job.

I've always felt keeping a quiet mind is very important, the basis for meditation, its platform per se. But because we tend to drift toward negativity, that we need a push of positivity also. Beyond the abyss imo we need to spend some time on life affirming things. Appreciate the sun, the grass, a cool glass of water, children at play, a gentle smile. It feels cliche almost childish but we need to remember our blessings and be thankful for what we have. One thing I do every now and then is listen to something uplifting. I enjoy guided meditations. Here's a nice one, by Kim Walsh, she's got a beautiful lilting voice. And at its heart, after the induction is the focus on Mindfulness. I'll make mp3's of things like this and listen to them in the morning. Course I'll listen to Chod audio's where you feed your own body to a demon, so.. Beyond emptiness, look for some happiness too. The purpose of the Void, is creation.

I'm open to hearing about them, but if you have a half dozen hour and a half youtube videos with pictures from the scream movie and Wizard of Oz, I will probably be automatically won't spend my time watching them. Similarly if its about invisible energy from a famous psychic who's been debunked on many occasions, I probably won't watch an hour video about it. On the hand, I like learning about peoples first hand experiences (long as they're not too long winded, and even then its okay if the drinks are good). Listening to there stories. I apologize for being overly negative here and should not have gotten personal. I think I have an open mind, but it does have the hinge of skepticism attached. Welles has a good point I should watch the video before commenting, but the first were well over an hour. They also had pictures that seemed clearly, over the edge, horror story memes on them, stabbed ghouls, hideous clowns, and the one didn't had the author with a UFO behind him. So instead of spending the time watching, I went straight to research. I quickly found those who'd seen the videos and had there own explanation for them. I found parallels in there explanation and many debunked phenomena. For example the Bermuda Triangle, lots of books and authors, and a few separate issues that are not easily explained, yet on a whole researchers found it was statistically the same as any well traveled sea path. Given enough traffic and chances, unlikely things happen. That's what is responsible for the Bermuda Triangle, not aliens or Atlantis, unlikely, unlucky things, because so many ships and planes travel through the area. I believe that is the same phenomena happening here. The little bit of research I did, shows it to be a similar phenomena. People disappear strangely in the forests. I believe that. Hypothermia, fear, cold, do strange things to the mind. It can have you take off your clothes in winter and walk in a very stupid direction and do stupid things. We know that. That won't explain all the mysteries, you never can. Undoubtedly I could do more research but I don't really care. However, tell you guys what, I'm heading for a couple of national parks soon, Yellowstone, Tetons.. I'll talk with some Rangers and people in the area. I'll ask about people who go missing in the Forest; any mysteries to it?

You separate the world into 'people like you' and the 'smart ones' like Me. I think it makes you uniquely gullible, vulnerable. There are key words that play to your elitism and attract you like honey; that play to your intellect, exclusivity and snobbery. A conman states how the masses will never understand and I think you'd be reeled in every time.

addon> for above. Hard to argue with the only way to get people to tell the truth is for it to be incognito. They won't say the truth unless its in Paulides presence. They lie about there interpretation of his work because.. its a conspiracy from the higher ups. They'll be punished unless they keep it going. Or the majority don't agree with his selective mystery. I think that's more likely it. Not that they're afraid but his view is not widely agreed with. Apologies if you think the Hunting Bigfoot from the History Channel is serious and learn much form it. They also have an excellent show on ghosts that people like me laugh at, and perhaps people like you(?) ponder seriously. Different strokes. But what have you learned from the videos? No opinion.. just how dangerous the woods are? Unknown things are snatching people, disorienting and killing them? That is what you've learned. Fear the wild?

No, wrong generalization on your part. If you're assuming that All forest rangers are working with him, its some and it'd be interesting to get there full opinion of his work, though the ones I've read have been skeptical. Its a bit like psychic researchers who also point to all the police departments who work with them, when in truth, most do not.

Pff, experts.. Forrest Rangers.. why listen to them?? They're biased by long years of experience. They're conditioned by things they've seen happen and have explanations (in many cases for it). For what its worth the reviews didn't think of Paulides as a crank, but a flawed researcher. It happens. Brian.. so.. do you think a group of large hairy hominids living inside the mountain are capturing children? I'll tell you one thing, I believe experts would be against it. But there could be a good book in it. When I was a kid I read the pop mystery books, The Search for the Loch Ness Monster, Bermuda Triangle, Blue Book of UFO's, the usual. They were very popular. I've kept my eye on the news and on the paranormal. Maybe some of it, though very rare is real. But most of it hasn't proven out. I used to watch the Hunting Bigfoot on the History Channel with my son and we'd laugh and laugh. I'm pretty sure the 'hunters' knew it was all a gag. And I'm sure there avid watchers glued to it, thinking this time they'll find him.

I find instead of watching hour and half long videos I can simply read the opinions of experts who've watched them. Its a huge time savings. Particularly with videos that show big foot and ufo's, its not his fault that they're the thumb nails chosen for it, still it doesn't do them much credit. After spending hours and hours you don't have an opinion on them, any ideas as to what makes people disappear.. they just left you with a queasy unplaceable fear? My way, by watching experts, park rangers etc., give there viewpoint and expertise, I learned a little about real dangers. I'm actually wiser for the minutes I spent looking up and reading from credible sources. Why do people take off there clothes and wander in the wrong direction? There are actual answers for that. Really. Knowing the reality, from survivors allows you to understand how vulnerably we can be and what to watch out for.

Sorry, but often the picture infront of a video does relate to it. Even the picture with his picture infront of the MUFO sign with the flying saucer on it, doesn't fill me with confidence. FWIW I didn't write cold. I didn't look at the long videos but I did look up his name and the word skeptic. I did find those who looked at the videos and saw selective bias at work. For example in the one short video you posted (18 minutes) he talked about dogs missing the scent. Observations like that tend to be filled with selective bias, ie any time the dog stayed on scent is disregarded, when a dog looses the scent its part of some unexplained craziness. Yet everything thats not common place can be, preferably with creepy music playing, be considered ominous. Look deeper or in some cases shallower, ie dog having a bad day, rain, skunk.. and its easy add a subset say 'dogs losing scent' which happen and imply that's happening in all the cases. ie little implying the subsets of unusual are happening in many of these cases, when they're not but you need evidence to tie things together.

maybe.. which do you recommend, the one showing the ghoul with the giant spear sticking out of his back, maybe the one with the guy with thick heavy white goop on his face (zombie??) and bright red eye lids and hands? Before I spend precious time what the scoop on those. Am I supposed to think those are real zombies, ghouls and what not. Do the Big Feet shown really have glowing red eyes? I'd be more likely to watch if the videos didn't look like advertisements for the Stephen King's 'IT'. Cause I read Stephen King, I'm familiar with the horror genre, you combine it with suggestibility and you end up with lots conspiracies, some like in the 80's 'Satanic Cults all around us' craze, that happened when a couple of over zealous hypnotherapists created it, ruining lives and families. Praying on the gullible. Really, before I waste spend my time (omg those like an hour and half each), give me a synopsis or what you fear think. Is it that UFO's are abducting people from national parks? Killer Big Feet? Is there a government conspiracy to capture visitors for sacrifice? What conclusions do you draw from the videos. Thanks.

Timely, we're going out to the Tetons and Yellow Stone soon, and you know what, the Wilderness can be dangerous. City folk are amazed at mysterious losses, but park rangers aren't. They've seen people in the cold wandering naked, cause they took them off being tricked by hypothermia. No compass, no map, no change of clothes, no knowledge of the area, no knowledge of dangerous wild life, willing to chance mushrooms.. the list goes on and on. Park Rangers know this and have seen it. There are animals and there on sad occasions very bad people around. If someone who didn't know Chicago, they could fill (very expensive) books with 100's of people mysteriously missing.. maybe its UFO's or local urban Big Feet. But those who live here simply know the risks and mostly how to avoid them. Big national parks have millions of visitors, some clueless, some . People, kids who can get lost in mere minutes. The more of an outsider you are, the easier it is to be conned with selective stories, distilling from the 10's of millions of visitors to the few thousand missing people in dozens of national parks over millions of square miles, down to a few dozen of the most interesting cases. Some are undoubtedly mysterious, but that doesn't mean blaming Big Foot, Aliens and Conspiracies. It's a good way to sell books but it boils down to Big Foot did it, or UFO's. That to me just don't hold water. As Brian points out in his Link, you have people dressed up 'shamanically' in outfits that are damn near sasquatch costumes, you have sane preppers, extreme end of the world preppers, hunters.. mistakes, mischief and wild unlikely coincidences happen. Hard to foresee, low odds; not supernatural, just old fashion bad luck, wrong place, wrong time stuff. What's bad about it besides taking money from gullibles is it gets people scared of the wrong thing, ie Big Feet, Aliens. When the real danger is getting lost, hypothermia, the rare wild animal attack and that most dangerous animal of all- man. Cause in cities and outside of them, there are evil murderers. Not many, but its good to keep your eyes open.. and if some guy wants to show you where a Big Feet are or where the UFO landed or proof about The Conspiracy.. unless you really really know them, they probably have a better chance of being one of those psychos then average. imo

allinone said: if i see a helpless person, its a sign i am doing something wrong, so i better walk home quick and start contemplate. I'll tell you one thing, you wouldn't be able to walk two blocks in downtown Chicago with that strategy.. but if you can take the helpless, the poor, the rich, the young the old, the happy, the anxious.. see them all; the whole of human drama is there. A mirror of ourselves and our minds. Instead of just contemplating, you can dive in, be among them.. life.

1) Yeah, can't say such things don't make me sulk, but when I view it from there point of view, often they have a point. Somewhere along the line, even with good intention, my skillful means messed up. 2) Not to well. Depends on the situation, but often the best we can do is distract them and steal their keys. note to self, learn to use there/their properly.

Thank you, that link is a great resource for those looking into the extraordinary effects possible with meditation techniques.. withstanding ice, fire, heat, cold, submersion. What I like about the videos are that while they're beyond the ability of an untrained man to do, with proper training they are possible for dedicated to achieve. I've done Wim Hof training which greatly enhanced my ability to deal with cold, yet Franz Bardon's training seems beyond mind/body 'tricks' into changing human perception.

?? Only thing I can figure is you posted one time too many on the Mandela effect and the powers that be, play tricks on thee. Not that I believe (or disbelieve) that kind of thing.. outside of my paygrade.

Out of curiosity, What is Silent Sufi meditation? I'm familiar with there famous circular dance/meditations and stories of there 'crazy' wisdom but not silent meditation.

You can't fool me. That's not the Dalai Lama Too much hair.

Let's not forget this 'town' has population of 20! So a little smaller then the average theater's washroom. There's probably a couple dozen such tiny towns a company can buy lock stock and barrel and turn to there own vision. Having MJ just makes it automatically profitably. Drug tourism is already a thriving market for quaint Colorado towns, or so I hear.

Sso.. summerss iss winding down. I'm noticing more snakess lately. I think they were alwayss there, but now I'm more intuned in where to look. Sss

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