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Since you mentioned Hitler, that's a good point to mention some things not conveyed in the propaganda storm: The Nazi stuff about the "Aryan" race... just look it up. The Aryans were a race of godlike beings in ancient Indian times. They had those attributes like blue eyes and blond hair. Gods who descended from the heavens with flying machines. They seem to have been technologically superior E.T. visitors. Hitler was interested in all those things, and you find other clues about him having a knack for ancient India. Besides the desire to re-evolve that ancient race of super-beings (probably in a superficial way doomed to fail), the swastika is apparently taken from ancient Indian religious material. Also, there are the vimanas. Ancient texts describe the metallic flying machines of the gods. The Nazis very likely studied those texts and tried to revive that technology and that's where the rumors about Nazi UFOs came from. There might also have been dabbling in supernatural perception, mediums, contacting E.T.s and that. Basically, Hitler wanted to benefit from ancient knowledge and seek out 'powerful friends from beyond' in order to make use of the superior power.

I'll just leave this one comment here and probably not make followup comments, because I don't feel like reading so much of this stuff. It seems that ayahuasca opens your waking consciousness to your subconscious. It shows you the stuff that you chose not to see, and it shows you the belief systems that sunk into your subconscious and there maybe shape reality for you. I think that's why some people have their/certain beliefs about profound questions confirmed. They don't realize that when you enter the entheogen realm, there is no absolute truth anymore, just as time vanishes, too. So what you experience and believe to be the truth (because just like in the dream state you think what you experience is real) might simply be your own subconscious beliefs. For example, Joe Rogan said he thinks we are just bacteria, just a cancer on the face of the earth. This has nothing to do with truth as we usually understand it. It's his program of creating reality, competing with other people's programs of creating reality. It's your choice what to believe, and if you experience something during an ayahuasca trip that doesn't vibe with you, then feel free to make a decision to change that belief system and let the update sink in deeply. The more my ayahuasca experiences move into the past, the more I personally, for me, feel like what I experienced during the trip is less useful than having made the trip itself. The changes in you that you are not aware of might be why you are doing the trip. If what you experienced is just confusing, then let it go. You don't want confusion, right? It's about being your own author, to have omnipotence over yourself and make changes. I can only speak from my own experiences, but nothing is certain or fixed when taking ayahuasca. Easy to fool yourself. As a shaman once said: Ayahuasca can be the worst of liars. - Actually, that's not hitting the core. There cannot be a lie if there is no truth. Only you can be that liar, if you choose to stick to the self-deception once you have been shown it.

Maybe higher chances to find your true love and spread happiness everywhere you go. ;-)

I'd be happy if someone with experience in massage could clarify some things for me. First, what's the efficiency and applicability of massage in the two cases of where it hurts and where it feels good? I mean, what behind-the-scenes effect will it have to massage where it feels pleasant? Common seems to be to massage the areas that hurt, which leads me to my second question: Will prolonged massage of a hurting region have increasing efficiency? In my experience, the longer you massage such a zone without interruption, the less it hurts. Is that just a getting-used-to-pain, or will it actually signal the intended effect of a massage? Or can you 'overburden' a zone with too much massage at once? I mean, when I got tension and I make stretching excercises, the pain will become less and less the more I stretch the muscles. Is it the same with massage techniques? I got another thai oil massage recently and there she would massage a hurtful area for a short time, while it still hurts a lot, and then make long softer strokes in adjacent regions. Is this to open channels for moving the pain out of the narrow region and thus assisting the whole process, or should one really be thorough and massage a trouble-spot until a satisfactory result is achieved? How much of a massage's effect will come over time after the massage has ended? And would you say that it takes an expert/specialist/master in massage techniques to release emotional trauma stored in tension? Or is that just a matter of whether that was the actual cause of the tension. I'm not sure if not all tension in the body is rooted in emotional stuff created by the mind. Something interesting through during my third thai massage was that after a while I got muscle shaking in various body regions - the kind that I remember sometimes having after taking ayahuasca. I assume that some process of shaking-loose stuff had been triggered, although I don't feel significantly released after it. Also, would you say it makes sense when a massaged area hurts a lot to try and replace the natural tensing-up reaction with 'breating into the pain'? Will that in any way help releasing tension long-term or something? To accept the pain and let it flow? Is the tensing up maybe part of the problem-symptom? Or just a useful defense reaction? (I just can't get my massage therapist to keep going until it stops hurting.) Thanks for your insights!

Thank you for your feedback. How do you determine that this point has been reached? This detail kind of has deeper meaning for me in connection to other experiences. The therapist massages a very limited region with significant pain, and then within seconds, the pain gets slightly less. It diminishes gradually, but if the massage stops too soon, after a minute or so, when massaged, that spot will hurt like in the beginning. This seems to be a universal dynamic to me where focused effort over longer time could have exponential effect. A bit like, as an example, supeficially dabbling in various practices will in its sum accomplish little, while mastery of a single discipline can accomplish a lot and give profound insight. One though is whether it makes sense to spend massage time on regions that don't hurt at all as long as others are still hurting a lot. I also have made experiences that if a problematic spot received treatment for somewhat longer time, significant heat generation can be noticed.

I've read that in Taoist teachings, sighing is the sound of releasing fear. Can't really confirm that experientially though. Intresting thing about head pain is that I was asked in two of those thai massage sessions, while having severe tension in the shoulders and upper back, that I surely have headaches. I had to say no both times. It seems like it's common to suffer from headaches with a lot of shoulder tension, and the only explanation I have is that maybe my well-developed energy centers in the head prevent that in some way.

http://divinecosmos.com/start-here/davids-blog/995-lawsuit-end-tyranny Start reading and if it's captivating to you, continue. It's like a mindboggling geopolitical thriller - non-fiction.

I'm kinda tired of dealing with this shit, so maybe you can help me find a good way to approach this, to help me deciding how to proceed, in parts based on the legal situation. The thing is that if someone gives Facebook your e-mail address for sending you an invitation, Facebook has it saved and even if you ignore that invitation, they will keep bothering you every now and then with reminders. Now in my understanding of decency and proper conduct, the correct thing to do would be to offer not to be sent any more invitation reminders based on those invitations that now trigger reminders. But what Facebook does is this: They offer you to NEVER AGAIN receive any invitations from anyone who might send you invitations in the future, and for that, they have to keep your e-mail address in their database. To me this looks like yet another sleazy tactic and reason to boycott Facebook. What would you recommend me to do? Thanks!

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Those problems are (I'd say of course) not limited to Pagan communities. You can find them in many types of communities, especially ones that have less strict measures of selecting members. Just as one example from personal experience, MMO gaming is full of people that don't want to learn, but look for an escape from it. In one forum discussion one player even said to me something along the lines of "Man, if you think that games are for bettering ourselves, you have some serious problems!". That person is one of many who deviated from the natural path, for if you observe a less messed-up, more healthy nature, you can see how playing is a means of bettering ourselves, to hone our skills for real life, and it's the enjoyment of the process of bettering oneself that makes a healthy being. Today many people say that 'killing time' doing something that doesn't require any effort is fun, but it's not really fun, it's relief. Relief from the other side of the imbalance in their life. If you have a stressful job that you hate and you play games in your free time as a counterbalance, then you create a problem on both sides of that scale. The scales might be in balance, but they might eventually break down under the weight.

Wow, topics move into 2nd page quickly these days. Allow me to bump.

I couldn't identify the tree because websites don't give me an extensive picture gallery. It's quite common in Europe, but I forgot the name. The two geese, especially the dark one, weren't in the photo galleries I checked. Might there be cross-breeding involved? The dark one has an 'extendable feather fan' on the head and makes very low-frequency and low-volume noises. Shorter and deeper than Darth Vader's breathing. (There's a funny anecdote about how the two geese on the photo apparently became friends.)

Flipping the bird is not nice. The bird usually can't get on its feet again.

Wow, that's a lot of useful information, since I'm trying to understand those birds in the park. If the dominance thing is only done by males, that would be interesting, because the muscovy duck has that 'wart' thing on the beak which means it's a male. Either they are both male or the female tried to establish dominance. Either way, it looked to me as if the muscovy originally impressed the other one with his total coolness and disregard for that dominance behavior. He kept following beside me, and I'm not sure he wanted food. I guess he would have smelled it if I had had any on me. Recently he did mostly the same thing, circling me while I was crouching. Very mysterious. He also has that super-confident look that I didn't see in youtube videos of other muscovy ducks. Funny bird.

Cool, thanks! Maybe the lightly colored bird really is a cross breed. I mean, many geese seem nearly indistinguishable if you ignore the coloring. Can geese and ducks cross breed? They're both "anatidae" so I guess so. Would broaden the possibilities for mixing even more. I was surprised that the dark one is a duck. The whole shape says goose, and the websites I browsed shows no ducks bigger than the usual duck size. The Muscovy duck has some funny behaviors. Apart from those deep short noises, I once tried to touch it and it began to shake its whole neck and did a deep voiced stutter. And then that feather fan on the head (Does it signal excitement/anxiety?)... I'd not be surprised if kids called this bird "duck from outer space". Can you tell me what it means when the lighter duck spreads its wings and shouts at the other one? I've seen this the first time when the two supposedly met, but since then I've always seen them hanging out togther and recently I saw the shouting again. Just some minor relationship trouble?

With the new forum software, there's a page reload for some unknown reason. I'm using Opera 11 and have deactivated page reload for the whole website, but - as it is with many other websites - it won't obey that and keeps updating all the time. I have some open threads that I wanted to read at a later time but every minute or so they all trigger a reload or something. It's annoying.

Marketing can be deeply psychological and refined, and I've heard they even use reverse psychology to mask tobacco advertising in schools as anti-smoking education. As is common knowledge, advertising tries to draw a positive picture about a product, tweaks and spins, omits undesired information and all that. And that's why something curious caught my attention: In Germany we have mandatory labels on cigarette packs that inform about health risks in big black letters on white background. Somewhat older is a kind of fine print informing about the harmful ingredients that's always at the bottom of a billboard. Now I noticed that billboard ads seem to always depict the pack(s) with their warning labels. Shouldn't they keep to showing the brand label and cigarettes? Now I'm not sure whether it's mandatory to include those labels in the ads and couldn't find out through an internet search, but it kinda shows how the tobacco industry is not at all worried about those labels. There are statements from psychologists that suggest those labels even help deepen the smoker's addiction. And after all, the government is in that drug business / addiction industry and generally leans towards corruption, so no point writing them. (I did once, never got a reply.)

For revealing all those 'secrets', I'll definitely reward the guy by not buying his book. For remember... he's a media manipulator. Reminds me a bit of Darren Brown, the guy who demonstrates his skills at deceiving people NLP style. Sometimes in his show, he uses deception against the viewers, too, making them believe he is incredibly skillful when in fact he's not. (Disguising lies within truths is an old trick.)

Athena I guess. Not sure.

Yeah, it's nice to see how people's eyes can be opened. It works for those who didn't really think what they were doing. While others claiming to be serious about stopping smoking might use a fighter mentality which is adverse to the Easy Way method. The book is definitely a valuable work of psychological and self-awareness education, and although I never smoked, I very much enjoyed reading it.

The book requires a sincere desire to stop smoking though. From what I've heard from people, if your attitude is like "Well, I guess not smoking would be convenient; let's see whether that book really does miracles.", it probably won't work. The book is more like a friend talking to you and helping you on the path you've chosen.

Doesn't seem to be a greylag. We have them here, too, and they look different. Regarding the right one, I'm beginning to wonder whether a goose and a turkey can have offspring.

Yes, the relaxed interaction that other people have without nicotine. That substance is a trickster in the spirit of active marketing. Like someone selling rat traps and setting free rats among potential customers. For a smoker, being reminded that smoking might kill them is unsettling. And a cigarette helps them to relax.

Could someone please translate for me the words "heaven" and "earth" to Chinese? Preferrably several types of writing. And a version with the "and" in-between. Thank you! With "heaven" I mean that one which is usually meant in a Taoist context as the counterpart to earth.

OK, here's some fun with language, maybe you can help me with this, too. What's "fist on a stick" in Chinese? It's supposed to be a play of words related to various food "on a stick". Are "stick" and "staff" different words in Chinese? The translated title should, if possible, be ambiguous, hint at the food thing as well as a staff as used in martial arts, and, well, I guess there's a third meaning if you use your phantasy. Also, what would be the same with plural - "fists"? And is there a Chinese way of treating "fist" not strictly singular?