Maddie

Yes, but it's not easy. My focus in Acupuncture school was mental health.

I can't comment on that as I've never done mantras for that purpose.

From a TCM POV schizophrenia is treatable but it's not easy, and does not resolve quickly. It also takes a lot of treatments.

Yeah good point. I've often noticed the Jewish God of today does not at all seem like the one on the mountain with Moses with thunder and plagues and such. These days he seems more sophisticated. Like he started off Russel Crowe and evolved into Jeff Goldbloom?

I remember a long time ago watching an episode of Star Trek the original series where they come across Apollo but since almost no one believed in him or worshiped him anymore he faded out of existence.

Again very interesting, thank you. I would be interested to hear your take on demons and demonic possession?

Very interesting. In your opinion (since you say you met the Christian God) would you say the Christian God is synonymous with the Jewish God or not? What would you say the general feel of the Christian God was?

Ok, interesting. May I ask how this came to pass initially? Who contacted you? What did they say? ect...

This is an interesting theory. What do you base it upon?

That could certainly be the case, but from the POV of the Buddha's teachings on impermanence this would seem to not be the case (assuming the Buddha was correct about everything)

What's your energy level like? High? Low? What is your skin like? dry? moist? What is your stress level? low? high?

A quick tongue and pulse diagnosis should be able to easily determine the cause

Why couldn't there be humans without gods? I'm not saying this is the case, I'm just asking why couldn't there be? Interestingly the Buddha said that when a universe ends and there are no more physical planes of existence most beings are reborn in one of the higher Brahma realms until the next universe comes into existence beings gradually due to the exhaustion of their karma drop down to the lower realms as they are formed.

I have had similar experiences where for a while one mantra in particular seems to be doing magic for me and then after a while it stops. I have actually contemplated this quite a bit and after some experimentation, trial and error and pondering I have a proto-type theory. Each mantra has slightly different effects energetically. Each person has their own unique energy pattern as well. That being the case its pretty much impossible to predict how any one individual is going to react to any one mantra, regardless of how the mantra is advertised. What I think I have observed is that if one begins to do a particular mantra at first it is going to react to the individuals energy pattern in a unique way. Maybe it begins to dissolve blockages, raise vibrations, move energy where it was not moving, react with karma ect.. After a while once the mantra has had time to interact with the individual's energy and karma and previous blockages are no longer there or at least greatly reduced for example this initial interaction that was experienced when the blockage was there is no longer going to occur as there is no longer the blockage there for it to interact with. At this point it can be beneficial to find a new mantra that will work on a different aspect of our energy, or to stick with the old one until enough repetitions are done that it can go to a new level of interaction with deeper blockages.

From a TCM POV there is no one remedy for everything. It would depend on why you are having constipation. It could be heat, deficiency of body fluids, blood, qi, dryness. In order to determine what is the cause you would need to see a TCM practitioner.

That's very interesting. It's too bad most of the wisdom from ancient Egypt was lost.

Today I have been doing a lot of experimenting with mantras. Doing a little bit of a few and seeing how they resonate with me. I can say hands down out of the ones I tried I like the Vajrapani mantra the most. It helped me to feel much better with a few of the things that are going on in my life at the moment. Also found Manjushri helpful for confusion! ** part of me wonders if Vajrapani is so effective for me could that indicate there are negative forces at work against me?

I think Tara is also supposed to help remove obstacles. Find it very comforting.

After recently doing a lot of this one I can say it still makes me miserable.

Ah yes, so it sounds like you are experiencing the dukkah of desire.

Does anyone have experience with non-SGI Nichiren? and if so what do you think?

Explain?

I think life is either not at all fair and random .... OR.... Too fair if you factor in past lives and karma.

Ultimately from what I understand the Buddha said that in the mind there is ignorance and this gives rise to desire, and this desire due to conditioning seeks an object to latch onto. The object is really irrelevant, its the desire in and of itself that seeks and searches. When we loose interest in one thing we don't just sit there and stare at the ground and drool, we replace the old interest with a new one. It's always just desire, the particular thing desired doesn't really have that much intrinsic meaning.

I'd say the desire that interferes with our life the most is the desire that affects us most.