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If there's not much fat in her diet perhaps adding some healthy ones- avocado, ghee.. kind of things might be helpful and balancing. Some bodies need more then others.

Miramir, Truth can be a slippery thing and freedom can be spiky. How does your social network keep the ideal of truth in it? Thanks Michael

Just nuked some popcorn, then put on salt, herbs, a little ghee. Relatively low in calories, high in fiber. Starchy and satisfying. Whole grain and ready in five.

I think 'civilization' often means written records. From my understanding over the million 150,000-250,000 years homo sapiens have been around we've been a very tribal lot, probably with various levels of kindness and civility according to the tribe. I assume nicer and kinder then generally imagined but I'm sure it ran the gamut. - Sometimes only the good die young and are never written or suspected by history. I wouldn't be surprised if pockets of were more technological then generally assumed, but you don't leave traces, you get forgotten. Back to OPish I like this video, though it doesn't respect in it's comment section, I wonder if it presents a more sophisticated and correct vision of what our solar system is actually doing. The above is the shorter version of this one, which includes a more galactic view.

Amazing indeed. In my youth I read the book 'My side of the Mountain'. Where a boy runs away from home, goes to live as a mountaineer like his great grandfather did. He gets a book from the library on falconry and is able to learn it just from reading and experimentation. Its fiction of-course, but one wonders at the possibilities of bringing old arts back to life?

No idea, but Max can be pretty out there. I take many of his stories in the parable sense.. ie not literally. (I have a pretty sack of 'Don't Know' in my head). If you're looking for a simple esoteric art, source of spontaneous gi gung and don't mind a little far out stuff then I'd say try one of his seminars. He's a hands off kind of teacher. Which means much of the experience is up to you, good or bad. People had pretty deep 'opening up' experiences at the seminar I went to. Its been over 10 years since I took a seminar with him. I wonder how his teaching has changed? I've always found it worthwhile to meet high energy esoteric folk like him. May not follow them but they open up the brain a bit.

What is the answer to the universe? Just googled it. The answer is '42'. A supercomputer came up with it after 7.5 million years of calculation. brought to you by the towel corporation.

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and now for a commercial break.. Q. Why Is there a hole in the ice at the North Pole?A. because Santa has to live somewhere. Now back to our regularly scheduled thread.

Like the OP I'd say contentment and boredom. Doesn't seem so bad to me. .

One thing I miss about formal group meditation practice is I don't have a sensei correcting my posture, which even after years tended to be every 4rth or 5th time.

I was taught good science tells us what makes up the world. And good religion tells us how to relate to it.

Just downloaded it 2 days ago. Not too much different. I immediately started to get emails from google alerting me someone was trying to log into my email account. I got like 4 of those messages, scary until I looked on the map of where the logger on was. It was my house, updating the system made google forget my computer.. I think. I loved my igoogle home page until google discontinued it. These days I use Ighome to set up similar screens with all my interests.

I just bought a big bag of goji berries for $5 from a local ethnic grocery store. You get away from those who label items as exotic super foods and you can find some really good deals.

hmm.. maybe you should work on grounding type things. Long walks in nature, sweaty work outs, putting attention in the dan tien (also rubbing the area in a circle) after meditation.

I strive for liberosis.

Rawn Clark (abardoncompanion.com) talked about a group of higher level Hermetic magicians he'd get together with on an astral dream plane. As I recall he said they'd talk by phone afterwards to double check on details of discussion. He made it seem like its pretty high up there as far as dream work goes.

Makes sense, later you'd need to get something to rid yourself of the cat problem. Then it'd bigger and bigger predators until finally they'd be after you.

I use AC DC to power my chi all the time. Usually its Highway to Hell or Back in Black.. Let There Be Rock [2003]

Soaring Crane has the definitive quote that answers why things stay the same: Ask: Who wants change? And they all answer: Me! Ask: Who wants to change? And they all answer: ...

I admire your ambivalence. It shows humanity. I've felt the same. then used poison/traps. I simply don't want mice in my home/business. There might be third alternatives, live trapping, but in truth do that and set them out in the winter and its the same as killing them. Its a nasty business, up to each of our consciences. It made me a little queasy. I'm live and let live in there habitat but not in mine. That being said, doing what I can to seal up small entrances not keep food out helps. On the third hand, as a gardener I probably give 1/3 of my produce to the wild.

As long as my youtube recommendations are mostly on flat earth videos and probably will be for the coming future .. I thought this was an unusually thoughtful video on the subject. Examining both sides with the most respectful sensibilities. <its short too which is both welcome and unusual for this subject> Spoiler alert, the earth is flat.. if you're a muon- The muon (/ˈmjuːɒn/; from the Greek letter mu (μ) used to represent it) is an elementary particle similar to the electron, with electric charge of −1 e and a spin of 1⁄2, but with a much greater mass (105.7 MeV/c2). Likewise this is strangely informative. How do We know the Past existed? What rules do we need to sort out basic knowledge. There's a good explanation of philosophical razors from Occams to Newtons Flaming Sword which help us sort it out.

I like ghee. Takes a high temp, and has a nice buttery nutty taste. For keeping things simple its nice to make a big pot of soup/stew at the beginning of the week and enjoy it for a few days.

There's a theme picked out for this years big burn. Da Vinci's Workshop. Sounds like a fertile seed for the creative. This is a good site for Burn nostalgia, full of history, pictures and video- http://www.burn.life/ I hope to hit a burn in 2016. I'd like to sign up to be a volunteer too. While there is lots to see, if you want to enjoy community you have to support community. Also I tend to burn out from 3:00 to 6:00 at these events, so it'll be a good time to re-engage my energies somewhere fruitful.