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Nungas, I say you dissed Sweatman and now must eat geological dirt (with iridium and carbon spheroids) and wash it down with meltwater A. This is the way of science - follow it. Yours sincerely, G. Hancock.

Younger Dryas Comet impact hypothesis paper released which suggests that previous sceptical papers were disingenuous : https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00368504211064272 Even quotes Sweatman!!! ... things are swinging round now!!!!! Nungali - what you got to say now????

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I hope you don't mind but I google translated this: "According to my personal experience, the blood of the physiological period turns into transparent water, leaving only the tissue fluid, and the part of the blood disappears, but this only happens in the third stage of Yangsheng, and if the degree drops to the second stage of Yangsheng, it will return to the original bloody state. The male essence, just like the female sutra, is the same situation, the male blood into the sperm, the female blood into the sutra, and in the yangsheng three stage of the void state, these essences or sutras, are all vaporized by the heart, because in the third stage of yangsheng, there are very strong changes in the heart chakra area, non-personal experience, it is difficult to understand what is going on, only personal experience, and practice to that side of the person, can clearly understand the feeling. As for the yin and yang in the Dan Dao, there are many meanings, it is a relative concept, but if you look at the perspective of 'yin and yang purity', yin refers to the yin qi at the physical level, which is in cultivation, must be dissolved, and must be dissolved with the first kind of yang, that is, the yang of the black liver yang soul, after dissolving the yin qi, there will be a second kind of yang, that is, the pure yang of the yin and yang, the yang of one yang, this yang has three stages, the first stage, the level is relatively shallow, it is equivalent to returning to the degree of the first yang. The yang of the second stage begins to condense the lotus mandala, the tangible character seal and other forms, the yang of the third stage begins to enter the void concentration, that is, the stage of descending the white tiger and slashing the red dragon, this stage, the beginning of the appearance of the great full moon, frost fly, Jindan, Zhenren, Akako and other very high secret inner scenes, the people who practice to this side are indeed very few, and it is difficult to maintain the same state continuously, I have the privilege of experiencing such a state for several months ten years ago, and this short experience is enough for me to see how deep the water of the monastic path is. How shallow the world's understanding is. I don't want to write English anymore, I can read it if I can understand it, and if I don't understand it, I can't read it, just by chance"

'companies' - the corporations (as distinct to normal businesses) are evil and obedience to them is not a virtue. I accept that in the police and army you have to have obedience as a necessary way to operate ... not necessarily a virue in itself tho'. Politics .... hmmm ...

Life depletes jing that's why we grow old and eventually die. So the logic of what you are saying is that a man who wants physical immortality should stop producing sperm. I think in practice this is an extreme view about which I know very little. Beyond castration how would one stop producing sperm? Similarly I don't know much about the female 'version' although I think Damo Mitchell has written about this. By desire I didn't necessarily mean sexual desire. You could for instance desire to know something, or make something or just have something. What I was pointing to is that there is an aspect of awareness which is will, aspiration, intent. Following this leads to knowing the 10,000 things. People who just follow giving up desire become like those austere Buddhists who abstract reality and usually look pale, thin and unhappy. So I think the key is observing and understanding what happens if you let go of desire - and similarly see what desire itself produces. But in either case to do this not in an indulgent way, seeing it as a kind of alternating rhythm or becoming and dying away. I think that depends on what you allow under the definition of 'self'. If for instance you said that infinite consciousness is Self - then this could be more essentially self ... but then it is not really the same as what you might ordinarily describe as 'you' ... so is it self or not ?.... which leads to endless unproductive debate ... The subtle body has structure and function ... and while I believe it can be made so integrated that it survives death - it could also be said to disintegrate and dissipate after death (which is called the Second death) unless the alchemical work has been sufficiently developed.

Bracelet from Tutankhamen .... look at the workmanship!!!

As I understand it jing is the most condensed form of qi that is still non physical. So it is subtle body energy operating at the most condensed (lowest vibration) level and acts as a kind of fuel or battery for life. The aim for men is to guard the three treasures which means jing, qi and shen - which are a spectrum. Although jing is non-physical it is stored in the kidney region and affects biological functions around reproduction (as well as other things). So part of its effect would be sperm production - but once the sperm is created it is obviously a physical fluid and no longer jing. For either normal health or if you are attempting an alchemical process (Nei Dan), jing should not be dissipated ... some say not at all (which probably relates to the minimum 100 days before working with LDT and MCO etc.) or more generally not too liberally as it will become depleted and the body will suffer. "Therefore, always (ch'ang) without desire (wu-yü), In order to observe (kuan) the hidden mystery (miao); Always (ch'ang) with desire (yu-yü), In order to observe the manifestations (chiao). Alternate, Therefore, by the Everlasting (ch'ang) Non-Being (wu), We desire (yü) to observe (kuan) its hidden mystery (miao). By the Everlasting (ch'ang) Being (yu), We desire (yü) to observe the manifestations (chiao). " Translated by Ellen M. Chen, 1989, Chapter 1 On a basic level if you want to conserve jing you have to master casual desire - so at an ordinary cultivation level you have to avoid a dissolute life of gratification - so in this sense it is about overcoming desire. But on a deeper level there is a function of your being/consciousness which could be called intent or aspiration or will ... or just to say 'how you direct your attention'. If this is uncultivated it just follows whatever distracts you ... and usually toward pleasure and often indolence. If you can train your mind to a degree ... and I mean this in a cultivation sense much as you might tame a wild animal ... then in 'non-desire' (wu-yu) the secrets of the hidden mystery (which is the original nature) can be revealed. But that's not really enough as it would be trying to keep everything in an unformed state ... so in actual practice allowing desire to arise then opens up the mysteries of myriad things - the infinite variety of expressions of being - to be understood. There is a balance between attending to your mind/being and just allowing it. So for instance in attending to it you do not suppress its naturalness or expression and in allowing it you don't just become like an ordinary person or animal thoughtlessly following your desires. Jing conservation is part of this because the natural state revealed is like an ocean of jing which activates in qi and illuminates itself in shen. The subtle body with its channels, centres and flow is the structure which makes this possible, it is eternal and more essentially your self than the physical body you drag around daily (although the physical body is a mystery in itself and not to be denigrated.).

If it’s a myth how the hell does he deliver all those presents every year? With mushrooms? Fools.

@manitou Only just found this thread! Goes without saying that I hope you stay around and keep posting. You always have something wise and heartfelt to say - I've always found your contributions full of humanity and value - I'll miss them if you really do stop. It's kind of spooky this thing about wanting to post and then not posting - or typing and then deleting - because that's what has happening to me too on a lot of occasions. Certainly when it comes to serious stuff. There's been a few days lately when I woke in the morning with an idea - and thought that it would make a great thread on here - but when I sat down to start it the energy drained away. I'm not sure why this is. A kind of tiredness perhaps. It's hard to say if it's something to fight against or to accept - but I came across this advice from a Buddhist master the other day: "Try to let things be. Try to let the sun rise on its own. Try to let the sun set on its own. If you’re sick, let it be and try not to get too hung up about it. If you’re dying, just let it be, don’t try to fight it, because it’s natural. It’s not a bad thing at all. You know, we’re meant to move on in a way, and just go further and further. We are never meant to stay in one place and get stuck there. So, therefore, try to somehow find a way to let it be, in your own way. Whatever way works. Of course we are individuals, we all have our own way of letting go and letting things be. Try to do that, and by doing that, then all the things we wish for automatically come. I cannot explain why. We often think that if you want things you must do things but often that doesn’t work. And when we finally get what we want we are not happy with it, and we want something else. So therefore, if you let it be, in fact, the things we want the most actually come. It’s the funniest thing. We don’t know how to explain it, but that’s the way it is. So in that spirit, in that mindset, try to let things be. Then whatever it is that you’re looking for, it will come." #Karmapa Anyway, best wishes and love to you. A.

He's evil.

Atlanteans get that sinking feeling.

This kind of happiness is not comfort or pleasure but more like inner peace - that the Egyptians called 'hotep'.

Indeed this is a chilling example.

I've seen the film - it has whatshername from Titanic in it (who turns out to be a very good actress)(I saw her in a TV series called Mare of Easttown also) - I wish I could remember her name. The point has been made by some authors - including Tom Holland in 'Dominion' that the Nazis have become the codeword for evil generally - whilst in previous times it would have been the devil or Satan - now it is the Austrian failed painter who is evoked. So people who say bad things are compared to him and the accusation of 'fascist' and so on is easily made. It does seem to have a masking effect on the complexity of human morality - and particularly what it actually means to be a good person ... good is not compliant or even inoffensive - and may mean making a stand against the consensus view in society. There is something particularly soulless about corporate society - and often think of William Blakes poem London (where he uses the term chartered for what we would call corporately owned) "I wander thro' each charter'd street, Near where the charter'd Thames does flow. And mark in every face I meet Marks of weakness, marks of woe." Thank you for sharing your experiences as a street junkie. I had a teacher once who was very strong on 'prodigality' and said that we in our various ways will go through living with pigs and eating husks before any return to the spirit, as per the parable of the prodigal son.

I don't know if you have heard of or read this book https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ordinary-Men-Reserve-Battalion-Solution-ebook/dp/B01G1F0F84/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=ordinary+men&qid=1639063142&sr=8-1 which describes how a group of policeman (who were non political and family men basically i.e. not SS Nazis) were dispatched to the Eastern Front in WWII and ended up executing people in the street including pregnant women. The point of the book is to examine what ordinary people will do in extreme circumstances ... and to pose the question what would you or I have done ... we like to think we would have stood up to the oppression but it is by no means certain. Someone posted this pic on twitter and at first glance I thought it was a group of girl scouts or something and that they looked quite jolly. Obviously when I found out who they actually were I had to re-examine both the photo and my feelings about it. The optics are very different to the 'reality'. Although one has to ask what these people were actually like - could they take part in the bureaucracy of genocide and just not realise what they were doing? Can good people do evil things - and so on. So I just wondered if I just posted it if people would pick up any or all of this and what they might think.

The Siberian Ice Maiden, here pictured with an impressively preserved and detailed tattoo c. 5th century BC

What if you didn't?