Yoda

My concern with colonblow is that it wouldn't be strong enough to get the job done the first time... and some of the reviewers said that nothing happened for them. I wanted results, not excuses. So I decided that I'd take some bigger doses to do it right. Colonblow is psyllium and epsom salts and unspecified herbs. Daniel Reid suggests psyllium, bentonite, and magnesium (epsom salts would be my guess) and he has paying clients so I'd imagine that it would be fairly safe. I'll sell anyone my unopened colonblow half price when it comes in and if I have no buyers, I'll probably use it myself or give it away as goodie bags at Halloween.

Actually, I didn't use colonblow. I fasted and took two doses of heaping tblspoon of metamuscil (sp?) level tablespoon of bentonite during the fast and one dose epsom salts... maybe a teaspoonful and senna tea. Fasted for a day and a half. I'm sure they all contributed but I bet you can get results from just the psyllium powder itself is my bet and no fasting. The clay I'd rank as the second important and epsom third. I didn't get a sense of the senna doing anything. (it was all bentonite clay colored so actually probably the best treatment is the clay plus the psyllium. The psyllium says to drink lots of water when you take it so it won't knot up in the system.) My philosophy was just to hit it with everything I had in the medicine cabinet!!! My colonblow will show up in a couple of days and I'll take it every so often. I do feel a bit weak and a little empty in my ltt from the experience, but having that much slag in there couldn't have been doing me any favors. Nice to get it out. Nice weekend project. I'm going to experiment with making a regular dose of psyllium and clay a part of my maintanence routine.

Let's face it, it's hard to get in the groove of regular fasting and when we do, it isn't for very long. So what are the hottest tips for getting the most out of a fast? In the past, I've pretty much just drank water and sometimes tea for a cheap thrill. Recently, Freeform suggested psyillium and bentonite clay which I recently came across again as part of Daniel Reid's fasting protocol and as a way to get intestine shaped mucoid "poo ropes" out of your ass. Needless to say, that got my attention. I immediately placed an order for colonblow, commenced a water fast, downed the psyillium and bentonite and magnesium (another ingredient suggested by Reid assuming you have access to a potty) and senna tea (must have a potty for this as well). Now I am just staring at the clock waiting for the moment of victory to arrive. Sadly, if it doesn't arrive today I really ought to hit the brakes in deference to good business practice. Well, the family is out of town and I've got nothing going on but am left pondering what other cool things might help intensify my little experience. Firstly, I've never, ever had to poo while fasting, so I doubt that all this aggressive intervention business will do anything. Maybe I'll have a close encounter with something strange in my potty on Monday but so many new age promises have crashed and burned in my life that I'm hesitant to get my hopes up. Anyways, back to the subject at hand, I just read that amaroli (pee drinking) during one's fast was pretty rad and now that I've tried it, I have to say that it get the official two thumbs up from Degoba!! Great energy and it markedly accelerates the detoxing making a modest day or two fast kick ass and take names. Another total winner is "Nauli" churning the stomach while vacuum breathing. Yogani finally delivered a good how to description of how to do this popular Asian drill: stand with hands on knees and exhale fully and then vaccuum breath as strongly as comfortable and then, here's the gold, you 'twirl' your abs by pushing on each knee in alternating fashion. Just a minute or so of messing around with those instructions and you'll get the hang of it. Very rewarding to figure that one out. Chia never could describe that one. There are other "Shatkarmas" to intensify the fasting experience. I'm not making that name up, btw. Enemas, salt water intestinal flushes (dhauti) (I bet magnesium is better.) a form of bellows breathing kapalbhati and trataka gazing at a fixed spot, a candle, or some form of safe sungazing. I haven't experimented with the others yet, but has my list overlooked any other key players? Yoda

Thanks again for all the additional information on this thread... very useful! I'm glad that there's a gameplan for vegans too. I'm not 100% vegan, but it's where I like to be for most of my meals so I'm glad I can work within the system. I personally don't have a problem with taking fish oil, so that's good.

Thanks Cam! If you ever go back to that health food shop in Scottsdale, tell the gang that Yoda met with success and thank them for their encouragement and kind words... no anal probes were necessary. Lozen was right about that, as it turns out. This morning I had Evil Smelling Mucoid Poo II and that's the end of it. I don't know how many more feet of it came out this time (maybe 2), but I'm confused... I produced more poo rope than I have large intestine. Oh well, it'll all work out I'm sure.

Ladies and Gentlemen of Taobums, The researchers at Muppet Labs are pleased to announce that at approximately 12:30 am EST on August 6, 2007 AD Yoda extruded three (3) feet of mucoid poo ropes from his ass!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In an interview afterwards, Yoda expressed great surprise at this development and tearfully wished to thank God, his country, and especially the people at taobums for all their expertise and encouragement to make this special moment possible. "I really didn't expect anything special, but the feeling I had as it emerged told me that this was no ordinary pooh... I stood up, turned around, and smiled... finally some far out claim that I read on the Internet has turned out to be true!! It wasn't black like on the photos of colonblow.com, but it was the color of the bentonite clay I took. When I picked it up, the rope was actually coiled into a turd shape but uncoiled to the length of about three feet and maybe a centimeter or less in width. While I was unravelling the coil, it kept breaking and really wouldn't have presented the photo opportunity I had wished. Suffice it to say that it looked exactly like the photos at colonblow.com except that it was clay colored. It was entirely a mucoid substance and not pooh itself and it did smell evil... sort of like poo plus mucus gone bad. I had fasted a day and a half and taken two doses of psyllium and bentonite and a bit of epsom salts and senna tea. I didn't expect anything like this would actually happen. I'm thinking that the psyllium, bentonite, and epsom salts were the main driving force. I'm sure the fasting helped, but I don't think that it was a critical factor as I've done lots of more aggressive fasts before without any poo ropes."

Well, that makes me feel better about all those policemen eating at Dunkin' Doughnuts!! Come to think of it, the "time to make the doughnuts" guy isn't highly sexed either. If we all start taking fish oil, won't the Internet crash? Witch... A question for you... just partway phased into the diet, but I find myself strongly desiring cigarettes. I used to smoke one or two cigarettes a day for awhile but not for a couple of years. I wonder why it's coming up now? Any suggestions? Just say no? Will it pass? Is this just my body getting acclimated to more dopamine and wanting to smoke to get back to the usual high-serotonin vibe?

Wait a second... who the hell is Cliff Richard???? He's spent more time in the British charts than The Beatles, Queen, and Elton John and I've never heard of the guy!! I just found him mentioned at the wiki site for celibacy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celibacy and clicked on him and the article there blamed the fact that nobody knows about him b/c he's not 'in the game.' Funny that. He should have downed his fish oil and peacocked up like Sir Elton John and he'd still be getting radio play in to this day. ~~~ I'm thinking of requesting the Catholic brass to eat their corn flakes! (It would save them a lot of cash!! )

P, there are lots of secondary sources citing Dr K inventing corn flakes to assist celibacy I found through googling: Dr. Kellogg celibacy invented "corn flakes" and the like. The wiki has a pretty good write up of him. Possibly of celibacy too. -Y

Awesome thoughts Trunk, TM, Ian... my next incarnation will surely be appreciative!! LOL!! "Loka yoga" automatically spills into sleeping yoga so maybe both strategies can be put into play. For me, everything has to be 'just so' for me to get anywhere with sleeping yoga right now. Hopefully that'll change. If not, loka yoga is one of the easiest practices out there to do under any set of conditions. Yoda

Agharta, very interesting! I had heard of clay for fasting, but never tried it. Hadn't considered it an everyday thing. All I have is bentonite right now. Cat, I'm glad there's another soul out there who knows how to dream big! If I live to tell the tail (sorry) I'll let you know. -Yoda

Just googling around, it appears that colonblow isn't a necessary product. Most authors say that psyllium and bentonite clay will do the trick eventually. A lot of thoughts to this effect: The bentonite clay is an excellent substance to use for absorbing toxins in the colon, while psyllium seed husks are excellent bulking agents. They swell up to 14 times their original size, and as they pass through the intestines they will help to scrub out the old fecal material caught there. So together, these two substances help the body to eliminate current fecal material, while scrubbing away at old material present along the sides. Colonics or Enemas will also help during the cleanse, though they are not imperative. So keep that in mind if you want to do rope tricks!

I decided to order some colonblow... got the mega dose... I'll pull a poo rope out of my ass or I'll die trying!

In light of Witch's insights, it is interesting to recall that Dr. Kellogg invented corn flakes in order to reduce people's sex drive and eliminate masturbation. His marriage was 100% celibate per wiki. I'm sure later accounts will come out that he would slug down some fish oil and visit the local saloon on occasion.

Here's another vote for Witch's case: http://www.texasgrassfedbeef.com/grass_fed..._a_nutshell.htm I think he makes a good point... the meat industry is fighting against the science rather than using it to overhaul the system and solve the problem. Getting rid of factory farming is probably out of the question, but you can maybe feed the animals pelletized grass and maybe solve it that way. I might start eating a bit more meat, though.

Agartha, I've done the high meat thing before and it didn't work out for me, but that's not to say it's not great for somebody else. Where in NC are you? I'm in Columbia, SC. -Yoda

Flipping through the book again. I've been a vegan (more or less) after reading The China Study where there seems to be pretty good documentation that eating animal products isn't good for one's cardiovascular health and longevity. But there was no real theory as to why that might be the case. Has Witch figured it out??? She says that the problem with animal products isn't an intrinsic one... grass fed animals are high in omega 3 and grain fed animals are high in omega 6. Go back to grass fed and the health issue is solved. If I understood her correctly, you don't need to spend gazillions on grass fed animal products, you can simply avoid eating junk food type fats, eat regular animal products with their omega 6s and simply take pretty good doses of fish oil to balance out the situation. I have a friend who feeds his family on organic, grass fed everything and let me tell you... their food budget is like 30k a year!!!! I'll just stay vegan if that's the case! I haven't come off my vegan perch yet, but I have eliminated soy. Very interesting theory, though!!!

http://science.howstuffworks.com/pet-sixth-sense.htm

I tried to set up an account, but last I checked I never got a confirmation email.

There's a guy on dragondoor who is raving about the training principles of the 72 Shaolin traditions. Anyone tried it? I downloaded the free version and while it's a bit of a tease, it was still interesting. I'll probably check it out at some point.

So the compiler of the above book has a more recent book out. I figured maybe this would be a 'best of' Wushu. The picture I got from that book is that any sort of external qigong which would include stance training, pistols, kettlebells(stone padlocks), 8 Brocades, and Muscle/Tendon Changing postures. Of these, the later is the best to cultivate the super fighter. External practices can make you undefeatable but can't make you immortal. So flip to the internal section and it's only a few scant pages on emptiness meditation. Sigh... the mystery lives on. But I like the fact that I can think of my kettlebell training not as cardio or endurance training (boring!) but rather as an ancient Shaolin chi kung devised by Bodhidharma to whip his monks into shape! His treatment of Muscle and Tendon Changing wasn't as detailed as in other books which is a bit out of place from the very high marks he gives the drill.

I found the paper book on amazon here: http://www.amazon.com/Authentic-Shaolin-He...8592&sr=1-1 You can noodle around a bit. Note the section on stone padlocks... a prior incarnation of kettlebell training. Written in 1934, but it appears to have all the basics: lots of massage, teeth knocking, saliva swallowing, stance training, with misc. practices like eyesight improvement, etc before the arrival of slick talkin' chi teachers.

Even Leonardo's girlfriend, "Mona" Lisa had an active 6th chakra sex life: http://www.n2davinciandbeyond.com/.shared/..._forehead_2.jpg Check out her third eye on her left side of her forehead in the shadow.

I heard it on dragondoor, haven't seen any other mention of it. He was in his early 80s.