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HI stefos, I'd say you have it right. I can say that because I dont have an image of God as a man with a beard in the sky.. well, I do actually have that image, come to think of it, or I wouldnt have mentioned it...and also.. along with that image, which is something I got from Santa and MichaelAngelo and Blake, I also have a sense of god as the primordial force which manifests in all forms and yes, shows itself as deva's and dakini and shines through us as teh. In taoism, The Primordial is something we can communicate with via trees and planets and stars, our own bodies, water, fire, earth and air... I would say that the primordial is God... if I wanted to use that word.. because we contact all of these elements of creation,in order to empty our ignorance and allow the wisdom of creation to breathe through us.

I found this old footage!

I-scream but not for icecream.

I was axin you about Isis being pollocked. The streams of Isis being pollocked. The streams of being, being beautifully and elegantly and artfully surprised by their chance formations which cause us to take pause as we observe the dynamic being that never repeats itself yet never changes.

goodness me.. if I were not free from attachment to Pollock right now, Mr Gmp, I'd, why, I'd be really disgruntled!! Like all "grrrrr"...

And do they splatter like a Pollock? Or is it all really rather neat? Or what?

you have to ask one of the mod team to do it for you.

Hmmm ...well, this is my feeling about this: the amount of POWER and EVOLUTION pouring out of those priestesses is available and present to any and each that seek. If a person gets 'under' they will find the strongest stream of energy available to them, first. To assume that that there is an "I" that is involved in the event, historically, is just the human love of stories and the human love of "I".

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tantric-Quest-Encounter-Absolute-Love/dp/0892816201/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1357145210&sr=8-1 daniel odier's tantric quest... he was found by a tantrika, who was naked in the woods. biggest challenge ever. really good read.

I have read Jason Miller. I think he is good. His money magic ideas seem to me to be solid also. What's that monkey paw and three wishes story?

100% ditto. David Deida writes well about male spirituality being head based and about emptiness and freedom, and female spirtuality being about embodiment, presence, and relationship.

Seth. I dont know what to say to you, you have so many projections about what you think I believe or feel or am doing. It seems as though you have created a story of me , which is nothing to do to me. I'm sorry this has happened. The moderator team has discussed this thread and I am not the moderator team, I am part of it. For myself personally, I am mildly phased by you noticing which posts I like and logging that and then writing a story in your mind about who you extrapolate that I like and what I am doing as' a mod'. Rather than as a person, a human being. I notice you used the word 'nanny' in terms of a note that presumably came via me to you and was a moderators note. I'm sorry I dont recall it, I have to write a lot of notes from the mod arena. I offer back to you the concept you have introduced of Nannying as being one that lives in your mind and wonder wether your valiant defence of the truth for all the people who could be reading VMarco and suffering from his synthesis might possibly be where the Nannying urge is actually manifesting. I appreciate that to Nanny means a mixture of nurture and contain. And I guess that is what is motivating you here. Seth, your asumption is that those who get something from reading VM are 'followers'.. your denigration of those people.. doesnt seem respectful to me. You also assume that his 'followers' have started 'following' because of the sheer volume of hs posts... this also holds taobums members as .. how shall we say.. .. sheep like? I bring up these two things, which are really just mirror examples, Seth. Isnt it one of our tasks, to look in the mirror and laugh at what we are reading life and others as?

I'm sorry 3bob, your post is cryptic to me.

A lot of women find the forum too abrasive, and also too head - based. Owledge.. 'gossiping about the tao'.... interesting way of seeing it. What is the difference between gossiping and conversation?

perhaps there is a cleopatra archetype that people have been part of... a cleopatra ray of being.

Its nice now that you understand how moderation works on this board. There are no professional mods here, no paid mods, no trained mods.. it doesnt work that way at all. The board works on the basis of co - operation and minimal moderation, ideally. Sean also didnt appoint bouncers. The solution here to coping with posters that one finds too difficult to read without getting activated / reactive/ hostile is of course to attempt friendly dialogue if you feel so inclined,or to put their posts on 'ignore'. Its actually pretty standard forum rules, I think. Sub forums are for topics, only.

There is a team of moderators here on this board. I am not the only moderator team member to have posted in this thread. This thread is under discussion in the moderator area. It takes time, with moderators in different countries, and over a holiday period, for reports to be processed. Perhaps you dont realise these things. Now you know. Interesting thread.

How do you discard CT? What does your practice tell you about how to discard?

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE. LETS MAKE IT A GOOD ONE.

BTW as a reminder for everyone, bullying is against forum rules. Hectoring is too.

lumping.. well, it's illustrative of a spectrum of possible experiences of love. maybe less lumping than ironically acknowledging. I should have added Henry Miller? morepieguy, that's a great quote from HP Lovecraft! Thanks for finding that. Yes.. what you think about the idea that Shakespeare was St.Germain? Well, in fact I guess there is not a lot one can think about that idea. One can only look at it, I suppose. The stupendousness of Shakespeare would suggest that he had an ability to harvest multiple intelligences to add to his own.

Looking for a map of territory out there, which is an objective correlative of what we feel inside. So we might, for example, feel relief when we begin to understand what the tree of life is really about.. at last a map that explains what we feel to be true.. and so we can begin to study in depth and get articulate whole brain understanding of what was previously a less than clearly felt experience or intuitively shaped experience. Yes, literature does this job. Occult and hermetic literature does this job for occult and hermetic inner experiences, and barbara cartland, or shakespeare, does it for love.

Well, morepieguy is right that it is a challenge to give answers.. I just found one though, I was looking at the Paul Brunton notebooks that VMarco linked to and straight away saw this: I'd guess that most of the time we are looking for objective correlatives.

The populist books about the knights templar etc spawned by da vinci code , are not "studying hermetic and the occult" which is what this forum is for. This isnt a chat room about populist texts. Members are hoping for a lot more content than that. This is a forum for practitioners, who have drive and sustained impulse to go deep.

Most people arent interested in studying or following the hermetic or occult. The vast majority are not interested, make no effort to find out. We are. idiotstimpy assumes we know why and if not, invites us to speculate..