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That's just like your opinion man. -The Dude I don't mean to pick on you, but smarts and not doing drugs have nothing to do with each other. What would be smart, is saying you tried them and realized they are not for you (that's smart). You were just too scared or a million other reasons you might have had to not do drugs. But not doing something and having no experience or knowledge of it and then saying you were to smart for it, has nothing to do with smartness, it's actually a little ignorant. This is based on the premise of your post where you used the word Drugs - which encompasses a lot. I am too smart to inject heroin into my veins because I have seen what one use can do to people. But saving you're too smart for weed, mushrooms, acid, DMT, saliva, mescaline, etc without doing them isn't smartness, it's something else. I just don't understand how you can be too smart - I can see how you can be too scared or too reliant on your normal state of mind... but smart just isn't the right word because it involves an extensive knowledge of something. And if you said you have never done it, you cannot have an extensive enough knowledge of it to be too smart for it. Like I said at the beginning, not meaning to pick on you. People say that a lot and it just always bugs me. The English language isn't the best, but there are better ways of using it to say what you meant. I apologize if this offends anyone... but it's just like my opinion man. -Hod

Oui oui EDIT: I cannot tell you how many grown men I have seen riding Razor Scooters around Paris... freaking Razor Scooters that they sell during Saturday morning cartoons. Businessmen, tough guys, hipsters... they don't care, "we are French, we'll ride a Razor Scooter and smoke a cigarette." Now tell me how many grown men you've seen riding Razor Scooters in the US. Now I'm not saying this is wrong, just no overtly macho by American sensibilities (which I, for better or worse, am ingrained with).

Jesus, just realized I never got back to my saved spot on the first page and now you're on page three. Well to answer the question... partying, yes, don't mind if I do. I've been drinking a lot, more than usual... no maybe the same as usual. It's hard to tell because I'm in France and the wine is so cheap here. I'm spending the same as usual on drinking but maybe drinking more than usual or maybe the French are just a bunch of EDIT (lightweights) and making me feel like an alcoholic when in the US I was just your run of the mill drinker. Clubber? I prefer to woo her, then make sweet love to her while she's conscious, but if you prefer to club her over the head opposed to good ol' fashion macking... then to each their own. EDIT: What I originally called the French was wrong. They are just not as concerned with masculinity as us Americans.

Welcome and I hope you enjoy your time here. There is a lot of information available if you look hard enough, sometimes you just have to sift through a lot of ego to get to it. I'm a real Athenian when it comes to physical conditioning... so please leave me alone (he says after one bottle of wine and two bacon crepes before 5pm).

I have been attempting your meditation technique and I did come up with one small, most likely meaningless, question. When repeating the word 'Buddho' while meditating, which of the below ways is the way you do it. 1. While inhaling 'Bud' While exhaling 'dho' 2. While inhaling 'Buddho' While exhaling 'Buddho' 3. You don't tie the 'Buddho' with inhaling or exhaling, you just say it over and over again I apologize if this question seems small and meaningless, it is just something I tried all three ways while attempting your technique and didn't know which one was right so I thought I'd ask if there was a better way. From my experience, which is small and will change once I hear the real answer, the third option seems to work better because you have to focus your mind on it more since tying together words and the breath can become repetitive and once things become repetitive, it's easier to stop focusing on them. And since focus seems to be the point, option three seems better, but I defer to you in such matters.

Really great post, thank you so much for sharing this. Just to complete the knowledge on this page, could you share with us a little more about the actually process of preforming the eft. I read over your post a few times and the below paragraph seems to be the only one that actually talks about the process. I am sorry if I missed something and I know I could probably go online and find out more, but I'd prefer to her it from the source. What pressure points did you use and what was the phrase?

I think it's a great idea if you see it as your path. Being someone who travels a lot, there are a few things to consider. 1. If you are not a citizen of the Asian country you are going to, then you will need to get a Visa to go there and Visa's do not last for usually longer than 1 - 3 months, after which time you are in the country illegally. 2. Like most places in the world, all the land is owned by someone, most of the time the government of the country if it's not owned by an individual or company. While many countries have large pieces of land that they don't care about too much, it still could be illegal to just set up a home on any piece of land. So you will want to make sure you are aware of who owns the land you are going to and what they will feel about you living on it. Just a few things to think about.

I have much to say about this, but first let me finish another bottle of wine, collect my thoughts and get back to you. So this spot is reserved.

No mama jokes yet... for shame.

Two people who love each other who engage in sex when both parties want to and with the purpose of fulfilling both the needs of the other person along with their own... and when they're done, both parties feel better about each other and savor the experience like the best meal they ever had.

Who ever said it was bad in the first place. If you feel like doing it, then do it. Eventually you won't feel like doing it anymore, then you won't do it.

Look up the Taos Hum. I'm from New Mexico and my father experienced it. Lot of people think it has to do with all the research they did for the nuclear bomb in Los Alamos (near Taos)... and looking it up now, it looks like the government has released something about it's cause.

Dawg, I have no questions for you (though I have no doubt that you would answer them), just a heart felt thank you for relating your experience and knowledge with us. You are truly an enlightened individual who has in relatively very few words, made more of an impression on me than I thought one could in volumes of novels. So with all my heart... Thank you! On a side note: I will be in Thailand soon (for a few months) and I would love to meet someone like you, at least once in my life, so if you are interest in meeting up, private message me.

Sounds like a place a goverment would use to collect information about your life... so I guess they now know we all love cats.

The name "hod" actually doesn't have a meaning behind it, besides the ones I found out way after acquiring the name (such as the blind Norse archer god). The pronunciation is much like "hot," but instead of the "t" sound there is a "d" sound (so /häd/ as defined by Wikipedia’s pronunciation). Thank you ChiDragon for the old college try.

I've always wondered if there was a way to write my name (hod) in Chinese. Since it's not a normal english name (or word for that matter), I have a feeling the answer is no, but it's worth a try.

Your description spooked me in a way. I experienced something I would describe the same way after my first experience with DMT. The entire world was flowing blue water, waving like the current of an ocean. Floor, walls, furniture, people (including me) all turned into one big ocean with no distinction except for one thing - everything that was alive in the room had one glowing golden orb that floated within the currents of their head. I even noticed a glowing orb in the corner of the room, which I later found out, was a spider who had moved in unbenounced to me. I am in no way trying to say my experience was similar to yours (and I mean no offence or mean to diminish your experience by comparing two completely different experiences), since mine was drugged induced and yours was the result of years of training and hard work. I just found it eerie because I have never heard of anyone else who has experienced a similar thing and then you describe it as how you perceived the world once you attained enlightenment. Don’t really know what it means (most likely a complete coincidence), just thought I would put it out there. I was also curious if you had experienced the glowing golden orb in living things? After that experience, I had always seen the glowing orb as the original spark that made us different from the rocks. It was too bad there wasn’t a plant in the room because I would be curious to know if it would have had a glowing orb in it as well.

It's funny to think that this site is probably blocked in China.

Hello everyone. I have many times stumbled across discussions on this site while on my own search for knowledge and felt like it was time for me to actually join. I hope I may at some point be a useful contributor to the base of knowledge collected here. Thank You, Hod