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If I really believed that people were being damaged by a practice, and not only that, but someone I love was being damaged by it, then I would work hard to find out how to reverse damage. Maybe that is the question you have for Mak Ti Sin. If you are the guardian of the anus, you have to learn to wipe up shit.

Starjumper, I loved reading your story. More, you say? I cant wait. The story so far,as it seems to me: you met a lady with less than lush hair but nice skin, who groaned with pleasure when she touched you. heh. Maybe alopecia makes some women very easily sexually aroused. Is that what you meant by "Remember, everything has it's good and it's bad side.".... Kidding...

Hello Mann der Talente und der guten Blicke... How about a Good Luck Fu for you - to wish you the very best in your new venture. xxx cat

Steve, what exactly happened to the person who had a demon attach to them from reading the book and practising it? ie How did they perceive it, what were the symptoms, what was the nature of the demon, how was it exorcised? Can you share that? It would be helpful in clarifying exactly what you are speaking of. As to whether or not you share the emails, your own conscience must dictate.

I would love to know more about the Taoist approach to dreams. From a psychological point of view, it could be that my dream was an ego compensation dream, that I am in need of feeling loved and accepted and nurtured and not demanded of in any way. So my Higher Self fulfilled my need for me whilst I was asleep. Which would be a good sign.. because ideally one wants a Higher Self that is freely communicating with the ego and in good relationship with it. Mak Tin Si, what is hell, exactly?

1.why not? 2. And if it is indeed a mess... can we not clean it up ourselves?

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Stuck with it for life. Can that really be so? How would that work, exactly.. precisely how could it be something one couldnt erase?

Yes. Thankyou for sharing, that was interesting. My first response was "I wish I had had clarity on this years ago...." ie so that I could have avoided a lot of tiring interaction and stress. But my second response is..... I learned a lot from those kind of relationships. As a child I decided "give all you've got to give' was the best policy to adopt in the face of so much misunderstanding and brutality of sensibility. And later on, as a young teenager I heard that song "If you cant be with the one you love, love the one you're with".. and I took it to heart, because I couldnt be with the one I Ioved: there was no - one there that I resonated with. So I loved the ones I was with. There have been people I have been deeply involved with in my life, who were the very people I thought "oh - oh" the first moment I saw them, and wanted to walk away. Two things came out of those relationships. One is the death of my "Christ Complex" ( ie I realise now I cant save anybody by loving them enough) and the other is that those people got loved instead of rejected. They got what they wanted. There is some karmic attachment in those relationships where our very first instinct is "oh - oh, this person is interesting, appealing, and I really want to walk away." I really dont want it to ever happen to me again, however. I have totally had enough of those kinds of things. So I guess my point is..umm... sometimes it's okay to feed the vampires? Growth can ensue. Or is that too weird a thought...

Does it happen to you often?

I dont recall him saying that, no. I wish I could ask him about it. I trust Dirk of course. He has a pretty angelic presence himself, in fact. I was thinking of him today and how he just made me laugh soooo much. most wondrous.

Cheesy when types come along and lay down the law. Wouldnt catch me emptyin' my pockets for em. (I just channelled Bertie Wooster in order to answer this topic.)

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Thankyou Mak Tin Si.

I didnt feel harassed, and it wasnt a loved one that I know in real life, nor an imaginary lover. Just a presence. How can it be that there are demons, yet no angels? Are there guardian spirits?

Yesterday I woke from a wonderful dream in which I was being deeply embraced in a loving way. No demands, no expectations, no speech. Just embraced. Not sexual. If there are demons, does that mean there are also angels?

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I'm sorry Mike. I wouldnt of course laugh at real life pain. The troll was so absurd, that I laughed. It was ridiculous. And it was also a never before seen on this board level of surreal lunacy. It has no bearing on you whatsoever.

I love mjjbecker. but a good troll does make me laugh.

What a shudder making tale. How were you afterward, Stig? My psychology training is telling me that the place you were staying activated your own unconscious shadow to such a degree that it reared up to meet you....so that you could experience an inner confrontation between your light side and your dark. And I wonder if the energy of that place became embodied for you,in your dream state, because you needed to know that you could and would take a strong stance against it, because it was so threatening. So you reassured yourself of your own power. Reassured yourself that it was no threat to you. Saw it off. If it was your own darkness, or a dark force 'outside' of you, either way, the effect was the same. You strengthened your own sense of yourself in some way, and gained a deeper knowledge of the feeling of darkness. It shows how very strong you are. A lot of us would have woken up sweating and full of fear, and not resolved the issue. I hope you had a really good pot of tea after that battle, Stig.