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You need booster jabs for that.

It worked for Joe Rogan.

It is quite amazing to think of the vast community which our bodies comprise. 30 trillion cells, 38 trillion bacteria, 380 trillions viruses ... and still we tend to think of the physical aspect of being as somehow plain, obvious and simple ... actually it is the most complex and mysterious in many ways. It boggles the mind to think how this huge collection manages to cooperate to make us live.

I'm glad to see my high level and refined topic has resulted in buttock remarks.

Happy birthday

Let me first comment how beautiful and intelligent you are @cheya ..... ! On the general point of the thread - I think that true practitioners (if I can put it that way) exist in all the main religions - they may profess Buddhism or Christianity etc. but they work on the same or similar pathways. Which stream we fall into depends on our connections - I can see virtue in many systems but mostly they feel like strangers to me. Perhaps the main thing with disease is the leaving out of the subtle body by moderns. With the subtle body comes the subtle realm - awareness of which directly is quite rare in humans and most are just spooked by it. I suspect that the weight of the Kali Yuga means that is increasingly difficult to work with subtle energies/beings to cure disease - largely because people these days lack confidence in them unless desperate. Physical cures/vaccines and so on do work - but I think they work in a way which distorts the subtle body because they are coarse - they manipulate the physical body and are often delivered in a very gross way - by which I mean like a production line factory through which we are herded like sheep. This is accompanied by the moral strictures and shaming of those that refuse - which is a deep attack on the sanctity of being and a product of the socialisation of health care.

two plus two

That's just not possible.

OK I'm going to be honest and say I was somewhat captivated by the interviewer ... if I was a young man and not a grey haired old cat I would hop on a plane to Nepal as soon as possible to be in her presence (but not in a creepy stalky kind of a way). But apart from that I just love these discussions which range between art and Buddhism and wotnot. I just know that @steve is thirsting for this content too.

Om Steevi Steevi Mahadaobumi Steeham Soha ... the siddhis man oh the siddhis

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I thought of Steve on the internet aka @steve when listening to this:

2000 year old Roman ladies shoe:

Japanese archers 1860.

That's more or less where I was heading.

Bearing in mind that English and Jewish are not mutually exclusive categories.

I'm sure you know full well how to deal with her but I would comment that neediness can express itself in a variety of ways - even the need to give is a form of want. Personally I cultivate an air of polite distance tinged with sociopathy which comes naturally as I am English, if you know what I mean.

In terms of the neighbours - if you are so inclined - I would recommend making rice and /or incense offerings to them as per harmful spirits and make prayers for their benefit. They are possessed by fears and distrust and have forgotten kindness - which is more sad for them than it is for you. I pray your recovery is quicker than you might think. Best wishes.

Hi Harmen, Thanks for this - very interesting. For me this is a classic confusion of history and mythological narrative - which occurs in many areas of study which involve the ancient world of any hemisphere. The concern, obviously, of historical analysis is date order progression and thus which came first in the texts according to date. Clearly this is important if you want to understand how the various schools of interpretation developed their ideas about the meaning and structure of the Yi Jing and/or to help in actually divinatory readings. Alternatively, and particularly within one particular school of interpretation where the two arrangements occur, then the question arises which is prior symbolically or mythologically - or in terms of Nei Dan which is prior in terms of energy dynamics (my own phrase to sum up a difficult and subtle subject ). Here the Early Heaven arrangement is given as prior in terms of how the trigrams as energetic components eg. Kan and Li etc. arose from the Dao (compared somewhere and I can't remember where, to like the petals of a flower opening where opposing petals are polar 'opposites' like Heaven and Earth). While the Later Heaven arrangement is to do with sequential transformation of one trigram to another comparable, say to how the season of the year progress Spring - Summer etc. These two arrangements will then have related but different cosmological significances if understood in this way. It is therefore possible to hold both the idea that one arrangement came first historically but that another is prior symbolically without confusion. You can look to other religious or philosophical systems such as say, Hinduism or Buddhism and see characterisations of what is 'primordial' being introduced late in the historical record - without any contradiction arising. Your video presentations are very clear and beautifully researched - thanks so much for posting them here. Cheers. A.

There's a difference between normal love making and tantric love making. One thing that interests me is the fact that Hermes was a psychopomp and so a traveller between worlds - and the god of 'merch' - merchantile skills - exchange and so on. We live in a duality and yet search for the non-dual. When snake eyes meet snake eyes then there is recognition ... mind rests in mind ... awareness in awareness ...

Snake porn

I'm pursuing this look at the Hermes staff along the lines of Hermeticism, a tradition which specifically links Thoth-Hermes- Mercury as a kind of lineage. The OP image comes from 1st Century AD which is around the time when Hermeticism was emerging out of the Alexandrian melting pot. Also at the same time we have Neo-Platonism, Gnosticism, Judaic Kabbalah, Christian mysteries (and various heresies). But I think that Hermeticism is the most important but often overlooked of these streams. It is partly overlooked because in the 16/17 Century it was dismissed as a kind of fabrication - because its adherent's claims that it was ancient antediluvian knowledge when the texts themselves could be shown to be from 1st 2nd Century AD. The irony is that while Hermeticism gave rise to science - it was science and rationalism which eventually buried it and labelled it as 'mysticism' and superstition. Even today in the general mind there is a prejudice against it. If you show someone a Buddhist stupa built to image the four/five elements they will think that very nice, if you should show them an alchemical diagram of the elements they will think it some kind of dangerous witchcraft and shrink back in horror. In this way we denied our own magical heritage - even though the idea of the the great mage does live on in fiction e.g. Gandalf, Merlin and so on. Just some personal context. Wiki context: Hermes (/ˈhɜːrmiːz/; Greek: Ἑρμῆς) is an Olympian deity in ancient Greek religion and mythology. Hermes is considered the herald of the gods. He is also considered the protector of human heralds, travellers, thieves,[3] merchants, and orators.[4][5] He is able to move quickly and freely between the worlds of the mortal and the divine, aided by his winged sandals. Hermes plays the role of the psychopomp or "soul guide"—a conductor of souls into the afterlife.[6][7] In myth, Hermes functioned as the emissary and messenger of the gods,[8] and was often presented as the son of Zeus and Maia, the Pleiad. He is regarded as "the divine trickster,"[9] for which Homer offers the most popular account in his Hymn to Hermes.[10] His attributes and symbols include the herma, the rooster, the tortoise, satchel or pouch, talaria (winged sandals), and winged helmet or simple petasos, as well as the palm tree, goat, the number four, several kinds of fish, and incense.[11] However, his main symbol is the caduceus, a winged staff intertwined with two snakes copulating and carvings of the other gods.[12] His attributes had previously influenced the earlier Etruscan god Turms, a name borrowed from the Greek "herma".[13] In Roman mythology, Hermes was known as Mercury,[14] a name derived from the Latin merx, meaning "merchandise," and the origin of the words "merchant" and "commerce."[15]