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I think you hit the nail on the head there Blasto. I would ask if anyone has ever done anything cruel to anyone or anything before? If you have lived a totally cruelty free life(as in the giving)then nothing can be said. Otherwise....errr, well.... I'm in no way justifying this ladies' actions, but cats have got out of tighter spots. They are my favorite animal, I would feel much worse had she been torturing the poor animal. This doesn't appear to be cruelty per-se, more a total lack of human sensitivity, which I think points to a diseased mind, which seems somewhat endemic to the human condition to various degrees. I will say in my general experience indignation in people points to lots of repressed stuff being projected onto others. That doesn't make others actions right mind you. Still, the casting of stones and the mote in thine eye and so on. Cows would have faired better in the world they been a bit smaller and cuter. Difficult to keep a cow at home....or put it in a bin for that matter!

You wanna give a little review of this book and author, I'm unfamiliar with either.

I came across this article which is frankly quite disturbing in my opinion. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7953967/Ketamine-is-magic-drug-for-depression.html Anyone I've know who used 'K' ended up somewhat suicidal after a while, due it forcing the inner body out of alignment with the physical. But in this article it's all wonderful! I'm wondering if some 'pharm' companies needed a bit of a boost in their stocks. Seems likely.

Ya, if you do that trip while your on LSD you'll probably never leave your driveway, but you'll think you have. Saves on gas though!

I could understand it being used as a pain killer I guess, but would wonder if there must be something more 'common' shall we say. As for those parties you went to, I'm glad I wasn't invited, that would kind of freak me out. I have enough problems with alcohol and females making me drool, without 'K' adding to it. 'Addicts will see what they wanna see', very apt. I remember the U.S military doing the L.S.D tests.....I say I remember, I don't mean I actually remember, just remember seeing short footage of it. Can't remember if they were testing it as a kind of chemical warfare in the sixties/fifties, but it was certainly funny watching those soldiers trying to do the assault course and try to climb over the wooden wall..... always a problem when you suddenly stop to notice how the grain of the wood looks like the face of Jesus!

This thread is already too complicated for me. I'm not sure if I should be reading an introduction, refining my virtue, drinking water from my hands, be myself, hold warm puppies(there's something in that one I'll leave alone), drink some tea...or not drink some tea, or buy a noisy but quiet fan. This Daoism stuff is hard work if you ask me! Now for something, dare I say it, more simple. Here's a multiple choice question: In order to try to be a simple Daoist, do you A. Drink tea B. Not drink tea c. Drink tea from your hands d. Cultivate virtue e. play with puppies f. All of the above Welcome to the board Windblown, simplicity is the most complex thing of all. I'm guessing that's what people are trying to show you. There's nothing more stimulating around here than simple complexity.

I'm guessing everyone has different results dependent on what they exactly need at that time. I think no one can say exactly for another person.... I think, as someone mentioned before, you can only somewhat go with the flow. I seem somewhat opposite to you. Maybe you just need to experience this for a while, perhaps some kind of balancing effect. Have a good cry when you fancy it is what I suggest. The fact that you are feeling vulnerable about this, kind of shows it's something that needs working on. Otherwise it wouldn't have bothered you enough to post.

Are you sure this isn't related to someone you have known in the past? You mentioned 'very old memory', what exactly do you mean by that? From that one phrase I wonder if it's someone from your past who has rather strong feelings for you, and is currently thinking about you in someway. Due to your practice you may have become sensitive to the thought forms. If it is someone from your past you should be able to make out who by the quality of the feelings. if you think it may be related to a certain person it usually is. Telempathy is a real bummer sometimes. What are the quality of the feelings? Yearning? Love? Or other?

Thank God! I thought it was only me who had been there!!!! To be honest though I have no particular preference anymore, I quite enjoy the healing process part...although that can be hard work...seems worth it in the end, they go off a bit happier at least. On the other hand trying to have a decent conversation with someone with little world experience can be a serious drag too. Ho hum, every coin has two sides.... but it still holds its value.

You must have tried different acid to me, I thought I was a banana. As to the O.P, "What they said!".

I've known girls here who's virginity went 'bye bye' a long time ago simply give their 'first time' to their new bf when they are coming off their period! The guys here don't know any different I don't blame them, many will treat the girl much better than if she wasn't a virgin...and god help any guy who tries to leave a Chinese girl when he's taken her virginity!! Think 'prison break'!

Not true, not necessary. Also, not true, unless you are of a shaky psychological condition. Then maybe you might scare yourself to death perhaps. I have the utmost respect for most of your posts Drew, but in this case you are misinformed. OBE/astral projection(or whatever you may call it)is not an exclusive of the full lotus school of thought, nor the eastern esoteric schools either. To the original poster.... I rather doubt you should be learning to do an OBE bearing in mind your other thread.

I actually quite like some of the fake monks.... they always amuse me when I see them in a supermarket shopping and talking on their shiny new mobile phone.

I remember staying in a hostel in Thailand where there were some pretty bizarre entities wandering the corridors due to the debauchery factor. I got out of there right quick the next morning. Onto a nicer one though, staying in another hostel close to some Buddhist temples I was having a lie in, minding my own business, when what I can only describe as a Thai imp with a golden Thai roof type head and a big silly grin loomed his face right in front of mine(my eyes were closed)and shouted "get up, get up!!!". Needless to say I did. It's probably not polite to refuse Thai Buddhist imps with golden roofs for heads. I've tried to find a picture of something similar online but can't. I rather liked him.

Not that it's Daoist or anything, but this is a good nuts and bolts book on the workings of talismanic magick: The art and practice of talismanic magick .Ophiel Works too.

Is self-replicating a polite way of telling me to 'go f*** myself'? I'll have you know I don't f***......I make love!!!! I have reported you to the F.B.I for your unruly behavior on this forum Marblehead. Soon your gonna have to do the whole 'Bourne identity' thing. That'll teach you.

Sounds like both work together to achieve a common aim. Much like baking a cake with someone. Everyones a winner! Personally I'd rather bake a cake, as then I get to eat after. Nice idea though. Wouldn't wanna bet on that game mind you..... or maybe I would! As I'd always come out a winner! Like to find the bookie that would take that bet.

I disagree and I resent the insinuation!! And don't try and get out of it by saying I'm being subjective!

Fair enough. So let the jokes begin!!! Don't worry, I'm not serious, I think Taomeow is onto something.

So humours' 'out' now is it? No more jokes as it's a form of leaching! Honestly, all this energy leaching stuff gets a bit silly after a while. Next you're gonna be telling me having sex is a form of leaching(oh yeah, that's right, it is!). Actually, I won't disagree that perhaps it is. But really, I think the point may have been missed, people enjoy laughing, and people enjoy sex. Or at least I do anyway. I can't speak for Drew or anyone else. Seems to me these two examples show an exchange and not a one way 'leaching'; quite different from one of Drews 'the girl started bouncing her legs in McDonalds trying to steal my yang' type of things, that would be a leach without benefit to him, unless she decided to give him a bite of her burger. Just so there is no one around her feeling guilty about stealing my energy because they made me laugh, let me make it perfectly clear that I think it's a fair exchange! You joke, I laugh, you get some energy.... luckily there is an unlimited supply of energy, so I think I can spare it! How about if I told you you come from a dimension where that feeling that rises within when you laugh is a constant, without an actual joke having been told. Would that be regarded as a 'universal leach'? Personally I regard laughter, and orgasm for that matter, as a temporary 'return' to the divine state. Anyone who wants to help me 'return', all be it briefly, is very welcome to help me do so...especially in the case of orgasm I might add Apologies for any energy I may have stolen over the course of this post.

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Ahhh...direct proof of past life talents coming to the fore! Mozart got music....you got picnic tables! I think you got the best deal by the way. 'If music be the food of love play on!(on the picnic table)'. You never know, you may have been a picnic table in your past life, experiencing the evolution of wood(as in this lifetime, if you get my drift)!

Looks like you took a wrong turn in this lifetime then!!! You could always go the quick route and take out a few infidels with your own life, apparently Allah has a special offer this week of 20 virgins to the first one hundred takers!..... and you can always come back again(thanks to reincarnation).

Admit it, you want one bad! I saw someone using one the other day taking notes, turned lengthwise with a touch sensitive keypad for typing. I must admit that did look kind of useful. I'm holding out for the boomerang design, so when I get annoyed with it, it will always come back.

I've managed day 1. I think I may even have managed day 4.... once. Nice advice by the way. I think I need some motivation. I'm thinking of doing a charity sponsored 'no ejaculation for 100 days' kind of thing. I reckon that will give me the motivation. If anyones' interested in sponsoring me let me know. All proceeds will go to the 'flaccid penis society'. I'm listening to Olivia Newton John singing 'Xanadu' right now. It probably won't help me thinking about her in her prime. Especially when she was singing 'let's get physical'! Much better I choose Vanilla Ice whilst lying on a bed of nails. That works better than a cold shower. Let's get those sponsorships coming in, 5 cents a day, or the currency of your choice!