peter falk

just trying to keep track of my "gods play in cauldron of original qi" dvd as it journeys round the world. who's got it right now?

ok, have fun playing with the gods

plato et al, there's another book that might reveal some interesting things about this. it's called "what do you say after you say hello?" by eric berne (no, not hte guy from talking heads). it deals with the scripts we're handed by our parents, how live within those scripts and what we have to do to achieve autonomy (spoemthing all of us are presumably interested in as daoists). the reasopn i found the book to be so critical is that no amount of daoist study and practice will get you there if you remain trapped in teh script, because that script will determine even hgow you go about your taoists, mystical, esoteric, whatever work. incredible read. so are his other books.

that's true. but smoking also kills the cilia in your lungs whicha re tiny hairs that remove the mucus. so it may be a moot point. the govt may want to eliminate smoking world wide more in response to popualr pressure. there's way too much money involved in taxes on tobacco fro them to want to eliminate ti altogether. also, too many legislatures are in the pockets of the tobacco industry. a true conflict of interest.

all that will happen regardless of which way you do it. of course you need someone for guidance and to get you thru hard times, but that is independent of the approach. you can get lost in the mind while studying the deeper aspects of daoism and never get the deeper aspects. likewise you need to support what you feel in practice with teaching. but ultimately you find the razors edge, and at that point the intellect is useless and you need higher faculties of consciousness for guidance. all conventional systems of knowledge, learning, and morality become themselves like demons that prevent your admancement. in the beginning, balance the study with practice, or the practice with study. they complement each other. but some people will start with one and then go to the other in its turn, advance, and repeat the cycle.

yes. yes. because one does not lead to the other. a biblical creationist would only believe that life was created on earth. and there are literally millions of people who believe just that. or don't you read the newspaper or watch tv or read the bible? there are numerous other creation myths (surprise!) that make no account of life on other planets and whose believers only believe in life on earth. secondly, evolution only provides for the POSSIBILTY of life on other planets, not the actual belief in life on other planets. the mathematidcal odds indicate that it's probably so, but no one (in mainstream science anyway) really knows that it does for a fact. i don't act i disbelief. i've seen lots of reptiles so i know they exist. we even have fossils of reptiles that were huge and once ruled the earth in ignorant bliss of their destiny with an asteroid or some other damn thing that wiped them out. of course i believe in reptiles. but no one has ever seen a reptile turn into a human or a human turn into a reptile. not has anyione witnessed the rituals in which they eat children to maintain their human form. the evidenc eis severely lacking for this to even be a valid hypothesis let alone a theory. i don't believe or disbelieve anything. i research and figure out what's feasible, possible or even probable. some things are known with greater certainty than others. somethings are verified by people other than the origianl proponent of an idea. that has never happened with any of icke's stuff. things that are far more likely than icke's theory: 1. sasquatch 2. UFO's/aliens 3. loch ness monster 4. the templars and the whole solomons treasure thing 5. international banking conspiracy for world finance control 6. the naga in the mekong river 7. the sphinx was built 10,000 years before the pyramid 8. the abominable snowman 9. the existence of somthing like the illumati (they meet in the woods in california every summer) 10. chemtrails 11. cia-drugs-oil-bush family link 12. academic suppression of some valid science, esp. in archaeology 13. commercial interests influencing scientific research 13. vast incompetence that often looks like conspiracy but is actually preventing it (i.e.,WTC intelligence failure). 14. ronnietsu will be castrated by the dept. of health and human services granted some of these fit under the popular heading of "specualtion." the bigger a conspiracy, the harder it is to hide. and icke puts forth a conspiracy of vast scale that only he knows about. impossible? no. very very very very very unlikely? yes. furthermore, much of what is called conspiracy is really just professional interest: the AMA is a professional group promoting their interest but are not conspiracists against alternative medicine. they are trying to openly protect a professional interest by driding (rightlyor wrongly) a competitive alternative to themsleves. the same can be said of pharmaceutical comapnies and food additive manufacturers with the FDA. and so on. are there creatures and beings with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men? probably so, even though they are not accepted by mainstream organizations. do the flies believe in the scientist who is breeding them in a test tube? could we be the same to some superior beings? could we be part of a cosmic experiment by superior beings? sure we could. does it matter? no. not if your chief pursuit is immortality. is it interesting anyway? yes. but ther is a real psychological danger in being interested in these things and that is taht our DESIRE TO BELIEVE something adversly affects our objectivity so that we end up beilieving any damn thing that fits the paradigm we created for ourself. wqe knew a guy who loved specualtion and conspiracy and believed all the stories, even if they contradicted each other. we used to make stuff up, MAKE IT UP, tell him, and then see how long it took to get back to us from another source. i've also seen this on the internet with the dropa stones. i found 5 or 6 websites on it, all reprinting the same two stories, word for word. none of the so-called original evidence is available. so that's a story i don't give much credence to. sure it's possible, but with the current state of evidence, it's not something i'm going to accept. and i'm certainly not going to go around propagating the tale irresponsibley to gullible people. one guy believes in the dropa stoens so strongly he wrote a whole book on it based, i suppose, on those two web articles. so i ask, is he just irresponsible, or is he out to make a buck? and i ask the same thing about david icke. his soccer career is over and so he has to make a buck doing something i suppose. at least he was right about manchester united..... the AMA and its members is out to make a buck on gullible people, and so is david icke.

you can learn the deeper principles of daoism from the qi and from the dao itself. its a matter of preference if you want the intellectual foundastion first or the feel of qi first. eithert way is ok, depending on the person. dirk ollebrandt teaches in belgium and imho he's among the cream of the crop in healing tao. excellent teacher, a fine gentleman, and funny as shit. if i lived in europe i'd be studying with him. best thing to remember is that the dao is the effortless way. to me that means doing what comes naturally instead of forcing results. immortality is forever so dont feel like you have to rush anything. i first got a grasp on this from tom brown, jr. later, maicael winn was intrumental in solidifying it. probably the most important lessoni got from him.

i think another reason is that chia and winn have alowed the daoist teachings to evolve in the west. they let the dao teach them instead of clinging to mauals and traditional forms. and the minute someone starts doing that they come under fire of allthe traditionalists. chia and winn still value the traditional forms very highly, but sometimes things have to be adpated or modified or discarded depending on what the dao is teaching you, not what the books say. peopel hated darwin at first too. and galileo. and copernicus. well, you get the idea....

that is so full of assumption and presumption it's inane. and yes, i have read his books and visited his website and followed the links. you wanna believe the stuff, so even the most tenuous evidence you find convincing. you lack a discerning mind. yer such a fanatic you assign beliefs and thought processes to people they probably don't have. and yer patronizing attitude doesn't help either. and your logic is flawed. if all of icke's books and his website and the links don't show enough evidence of reptilians, your post certainly isn't going to convince me.

http://www.nexusmagazine.com/articles.html

http://www.damo-qigong.net/program.htm

i be teachin' english. and whatever else i can work in ;-)

ok, ronnietzu, i love a good conspiracy theory as much as the next guy, but david icke is full of shit. he contends the world is ruled by shapeshifiting reptiles that eat children. every president, every monarch, every rich guy, and most celebrities, are to him, giant reptilians who feed on teh flesh of babes. (in fact, he's rather mccarthyistic in the way he goes about calling out reptilians--if he says you are, you are). they need this flesh to maintain their human form. now if he had confined his theory to a few people or some small closely associated group and had solid evidence such as dna, photos, films, footprints, scales, a body, medical reports, etc., i might consider it. but there is no way that a conspiracy of the size he describes can go unnoticed by everyone but him. one of these people would've morphed back into a reptile in public at some point. now that doesn't make everything he says untrue, and his comments about chemtrails might be. but with him as the source i'm inclined to discount them.

how can you talk about athens, ga., without mentioning the B-52's, REM, or pylon. great dance tunes and interesting sounds. but my big preference is for the mosh pit--a truly tibal and primeval experience. back in my DC HC days i could be found at a local thrash twice a week. but whereas that may free the soul, you also need food for the spirit. i also like classical music, space/new age stuff, the occasional world beat and indian and chinese music. dance can mean many things to many people. it can be formal like the sufi, which is really a form of cosmic cultivation, or your own thing. you have to find what works for you.

cupla good links for research: http://xfacts.com/x.htm http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/planetx/

Movies: Pathfinder (1987). Norwegian. nominated for best foreign film. Excalibur (1980). actually hints strongly at the sexual mysteries of the holy grail. Repo Man (1983). modern mythology of the journey South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut (2001?) also a modern mythological setting. no shit. Circle of Iron (1970's). conceived by bruce lee, produced after his death. good story teaching The Way. Sukavati: the Place of Bliss (1998?) joseph campbell's journey of the soul on mystic fire video. released posthumously. Books: Games People Play by Eric Berne What Do You Say after You Say Hello by E. Berne (these books arent exactly "daoist" but extremely useful for those seeking an autonomous destiny)[/i]

yer absolutely right. although sitichin isn't exactly the first person to point this out. other writers have indicated the derivativeness of the bible from other stories, etc. he was the first to make clear the "falseness" of the biblical god. an hispanic writer who calls himself the Venerable Master Samael Aun Weor said this in some of his books back in the 70's. i think what he avcers is that yahweh is a false god but jehovah is the real deal. i'm not sure if he's right, but i really don't care either as it doesn't affect my pursuit of immortality. the concern is the public fraud that's being perpetuated by the mainstream christianity.

i love you, man. i'm going to use that with my students in china.

realx, do your daoist alchemy, and you'll be immune to whatever they throw atchya.

met him in china. we spent five days feezing our asses in a monastery on huashan. he was like a stream of bat's piss. that is to say he stood out like a shaft of gold when all else around was dark. if i may quote monty python. we often did qigong or baguazhan together. the monks, particualrly this guy named chun yuming, found him hysterical with the rest of us. his humor transended cultural barriers.

dirk is a genius. and very very funny.

BRAVO, RONNIETZU! long live dao anarchy. i believe it is in the daodejing itself that laozi basically says that the more rules you have the further you are from the dao.

IS THAT MOFO RON JEREMY? MISS HIS ONLINE SHOUTING FONICS....

what were we in the dim past before the invention of religion? shamen. i resent all those naysayers or pop cultural observers who way we are a "christian" society. i don't know about you guys but my ancestors native religion is shamanism. it later evolved into "paganism". christianity was forced on us by the Romans, who themsleves were pagans and shamen before that. i believe constantine is to blame for that. you can even go back further than shamanism to a great er purity, and then where does the race based view of religion stand. the one advantage christianity and islam have over other religions is that anyone can be a christian or muslim. aside from taht, they are still religions...

chinatown. tryto get a correct pinyin spelling or chinese3 characters by looking in the materia medica.