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I bought some pills which you take two a day and have black pepper extract for absorption. The dose is 560 mg turmeric in powder form. I was told that eating turmeric in food was not enough because the powdered turmeric is only a few percent actual herbs.

I have very little dairy apart from milk in coffee and very occasionally cheese.

Which leads us all back to the main picture: Ankh-n-f-khonsu stands before an offering table which contains meat, fowl, fish and bread. He is wearing a leopard skin, which marks him out as a Sem priest. The Sem priests go back thousands of years to the Old Kingdom and probably before, descended from the earliest shaman/magicians, the role developed into one skilled in the funerary cult. Particularly in the 'opening the mouth' in which mummies and statues were ritually brought to life using a magical adze (a wood working tool). The opening of the mouth had a mudra of the closed fist with the little finger extended. This is drawn from midwifery, where the birthing nurse would insert her little finger into the babies mouth to remove mucous and allow it to breathe and feed. In the same way the statues and mummies had their mouths opened so that their Kas could receive sustenance from the offering. There are two related ideas to offerings. One is the Eye of Horus which is the ultimate offering, Horus offers his eye to his father Osiris and Thoth offers the healed eye after it become injured either to Horus or the Sun God. So in this sense the Eye is the type of all offerings. Also the word 'hotep' which means peace, contentment, fulfilment or satisfaction is represented by a mat with a loaf of bread on it as an offering. Hotep is found in names like Ptah-hotep etc. and is a key Egyptian concept. So in making offerings and receiving them what arises is perfect contentment. The deity that he offering to, sat upon a throne, is Ra-Horakhty, a syncretic god. He is shown with a falcon's head and solar disk as a crown, holding a 'was' sceptre representing power. This deity is formed from merging two gods. Ra as the sun, or the power behind the sun and Horus the ancient sky god who is associated with awareness and keen sight. The 'akhety' part of the name means between the two horizons (of East and West). The two horizons represents the extent of the known cosmos, the East is where things come into being and West where they die. So this could be understood as placed Ra-Horus over all that is between birth and death rather like the alpha and omega of the Bible. So this god, which is Ankh-f-n-khonshu's highest value, is energy/awarness over all that is. Behind the god if the symbol of the West ... a bird perch with a falcon on it and a feather of ma'at. Above them stretches Nut the sky goddess and over their heads is the winged disk of Horus Bedhety (which Crowley calls Hadit). So how are we to interpret all this ....

Hi @Wordless and welcome.

I have been feeling of late mild physical inflammatory discomfort. On occasion I have taken NSAIDs but I don’t like taking them. When I read online about turmeric I felt that it might be helpful but I wasn’t sure if it was just the latest fad being pushed online - so I thought I’d ask on here if anyone had tried it and if it really worked. I bought some today and will start it tomorrow - I’ll let you know if it seems to help.

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awaken!

Drowning

Or alternatively do qigong or cultivate stillness through meditation to get all the proof you need.

Some people argue from ignorance and call it a strength.

I have stopped my thoughts.

As a Buddhist I am working to eliminate my ego.

‘to not stop thinking’ ( if you get my drift)

I was serious.

The second part of the reverse text is a quote from Spell 2 Book of the Dead. O (you who are) Unique [C7], who shines like the moon, the Osiris, Ankh-ef- [C8] en-Khonsu, goes forth from your multitudes, [C9] (O) deliverer of those who are within the sun-light, open for him [C10] the Netherworld, indeed, the Osiris, Ankh-ef-en-Khonsu who goes forth in [C11] day in order to do everything all that pleased him upon earth among the living-ones. In the Book of the Dead this Spell has the heading " Spell for going out into the day and living after death". The real name of the Book of the Dead is the book of 'Going forth by Day and living after death' - and the end of this Spell indicates the goal of 'goes forth by day in order to do everything that pleases him upon earth among the living ones' i.e. resurrection as an akh (a fully equipped spirit that can come and go as it pleases). It starts by addressing the unique or only one who shines like the moon. It doesn't say who this is, it could be Thoth but more likely as it then refers to his 'multitudes' to be Osiris Lord of the Underworld. This would make sense in terms of the desire to be released from the underworld. Those in the sunlight is probably the blessed (justified) dead. Those who pass the weighing of the heart were thought to reside in the Field of Reeds (Elysian Fields) and be constantly bathed in the sun's light. This is a kind of intermediary state of bliss (which is clearly not enough for Ankh-f-n-Khonsu who seeks full liberation). So he asks for the Netherworld (Dwat) to be fully open to him so he can come and go as he pleases. The goal is here framed not as bliss or wisdom or even survival but perfect freedom. He can do anything he chooses and come and go as he pleases.

The middle bit says Bedhety great god lord of the sky (= the winged disk.) on the right ( offerings of ) meat and birds ( fowl) on the left ( offerings of) bread and fish.

Sorry for your loss, steve, stay strong at this difficult time. Best wishes to you and your family.

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This is not my system so I wait to be shot down in flames but doesn’t the patterning come from shen rather than qi?

Lunatic

Sorry I don’t understand what you mean.

I should have mentioned that in the Judgement Hall 'you' are both your heart and Osiris! So actually you are judging yourself! Or you could say your higher self is judging your ordinary self? Maybe. I see being 'true of voice' being about self consistency. So you have what you intuitively know to be good, your own ethos if you like, and you measure yourself against it. It is a moral position but it's not about just obeying an external code. Because when you get to this in the underworld it is just you looking at you and asking 'did I measure up or was I shit?'

I find this emphasis on belief a bit odd - and very Christian. Christianity promotes faith and in the end science emerges as a project out of western Judeo-Christian thought. The ideas that qi is just oxygen and that meridians are nerves is a result of this I think. Just for the record I was trained up to degree level in science and my father was a scientist. So I have some experience of the hard edge of that world. I understand it reasonably well. It is very effective (including medical science) at its own level. But it does not allow for subtle levels or bodies etc. However I think it can be observed that although medical science is effective at dealing with a range of things - a side effect is to push the problems to somewhere else - hence the massive rise in things like autism, allergic reactions, immune diseases and so on. This is why I uphold the view of the ancients. That there is/are dimension(s) to reality to which you can travel to effect change and 'do things', that there are subtle levels to existence beyond the physical/material, that we are as beings not a single entity but a combination of several and that non-embodied entities of various types exist and can interact with us. In other words I agree with the ancients. And given, for instance, in China this view held for ? thousands of years, was upheld in ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, India and so on, it has a long pedigree, which the few centuries of science cannot challenge. I don't count these things as beliefs because I have tested them out empirically and decided they are true (even though these days would be considered a bit bonkers!). Having said that, it is true that the ideas and diagrams and so on which you will find in books on Neidan etc. are not themselves the reality but merely a kind of clue or code for unlocking it. So you cannot look in a book and literally see the reality of these things. But when your practice begins to work you will have 'oh that's what they meant!' moments where the reality is revealed. This is my position. Here I stand I can do no other.

Yes. But the Buddhist would say that the Buddha did teach this but that it was held secret until the time was right.