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In this case it would be better to take the Ericksonian, gradual approach from addiction to stronger morality. Thats to say, if this person can fight off the urge for one day to take drugs, and subsitute the behavior with doing something good, like picking up garbage in the public park, for free, for no reason. Then perhaps little by little, the person can understand that it is possible to beat the addiction for longer periods of time. Drug addiction is inherently egotistical behavior (seeking pleasure for oneself) But morality is based on the opposite type of behavior, doing something for other's good. The reason why morality can be considered a spiritual method, is that it reverses the ego flow of me me me, and when you do this, and are in this state of give give give, your qi starts to flow greatly and your energy body opens up and advances. So you can practise this all the time, regardless of how much you meditate, and it will benefit you. What I do is reproduce the give give give type of feelings state during my meditations to amplify their results. *a secret of meditational success If you leave the rule and structure kind of approach to one side, and look at this process as tendancy and energy flow, its much less confusing. You can meditate at any time as well as do kind things at any time. These are mere formulas to push away from the ego towards self-less and huge energy flows, of the ego-less state known as enlightenment.

Suckered by the right wing media. Oops. FACT: International assistance is part of Gulf spill response Deepwater Horizon Joint Information Center: "15 foreign-flagged vessels are involved" in response to spill. In an interview on the June 15 edition of Fox & Friends, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs stated that "foreign entities are operating within the Gulf that help us respond" to the oil spill. Further, in a June 15 press release, the Deepwater Horizon Incident Joint Information Center stated, "Currently, 15 foreign-flagged vessels are involved in the largest response to an oil spill in U.S. history." The center further explained, "No Jones Act waivers have been granted because none of these vessels have required such a waiver to conduct their operations in the Gulf of Mexico." Looking closely at the Dutch article only the headline was foreign workers not allowed to help, but the text of the article was that the Jone's Act was an impediment, kind of trade barrier to modernize USA's oil skimmer technology over the years, not specifically in one point in time.

Here's the source article translated:http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.standaard.be%2Fartikel%2Fdetail.aspx%3Fartikelid%3D542R5JNH%26word%3Djones%2Bact%2529&sl=auto&tl=en The link to the unions is probably not true, but the decision to not waive the Jone's act is super stupid, and likely be based on something very dodgy.

Hey thar hoss, you from the Sawth?, "In the U.S., oil is usually pronounced as two syllables in the Northeast. A one-syllable version is common in the South. The m-w online dictionary (which reflects American pronunciation) shows an optional schwa in the pronunciation, and the sound clip there is of the two-syllable pronunciation. The second syllable in oil is just like the second syllable that sometimes occurs in 'hour' amd 'towel'. Thats poker for you But do you care for a game? Where ev'ryone wins?

Another Gold Rush Another oil well gush Nature gets the flush.

My qigong teacher likes to tell the story of a Japanese woman who had the ability to heal, transmitting the energy from her vagina region. She was too embarrassed to use the power in general, but one day she decided to help a sick person, so she sat on the ground with her kees up and opened her legs in the direction of the person and blasted him for half an hour until she was exhausted. He was cured.

So its the Jone's Act preventing the Belgian high tech boats from helping in the spill. This makes about zero practical sense, less than zero, but it at least explains how the Saudi's were able to manage their blowout where Americans cant. I cant get my head around this, you might expect that kind of destructive decision making out of a Communist China or North Korea. These law-abiders are at a still lower cognitive level that I had previously thought. How do you risk you ecosystem for some temporary jobs? Who does that?

Ha. Don't question me, you are wasting qi. Thats pretty lame.

Even at this late stage, you see nothing of the *lets settle our differences, come clean, work together, leave self-interest behind* type of behavior needed for humans to acheive maximum results in battling a major objective. A huge blowout in Saudi Arabia gulf, they sent out many many huge ships to lap up the oil as it came up. Jeez, what a easy plan. But look what happens in the USA, its just blaming, sueing, lying, greed, betraying in all strata of society, from the leaders to the deckhands, and it just continues. In a battle of competing self-interested behavior, everyone will lose, as in the prisoner's dilemma in game theory. Its happening in real time. Even at this late hour, you'd think these people could prevent half of Florida's coast becoming a toxic death hole. It hasnt happened yet. Why does it seem so likely?

Yuanqi has made some very good points. We in the west have hijacked the term shaktipat from a limited traditional meaning out of the Indian systems and broadened it to fit virtually any energy transfer with the intent to start and awakening process. Just like the term Kundalini and chakra, it has become the most common way to communicate these ideas, but has deviated and become vague. If I were a high level guru of a verifiable lineage, I would be a bit miffed at westerners using these important terms in such off-hand ways. I'd like to add that there are different ways to admister the Shaktipat energy, and by the looks of things, the Indian tradition has their specific ways to maximize the result. The basic way is just through intent, sending a shower of energy into anothers's energy gates. This is certainly not the strongest way. Sending the energy down to certain areas, the sacrum, the dantien, the spine, has probably its own science, evolved through millenia. No doubt the Indians have very efficient and closesly guarded methods, far beyond sending some qi by intent, by stimulation of this and that area in specific ways. I remember during a seminar Max of Kunlun demonstrated an Egyptian way of awakening the Kundalini that was truly interesting, and the technique totally different from what I have ever seen. But in order to replicate that, you would have yourself to evolve that ability (siddhi) as well as have the instructions. So in the final analysis, we are not so far apart.

Divergent opinions on what is Shaktipat. I view it as "awakening qi" like Ya Mu has stated. Theres quite alot of baloney surrounding many people's views on shaktipat and kundalini. Evolution is right.

I get irked when I see fish refered to seafood. Sure they are in the sea. Before there was LOTS of fish and sea animals, but humans have killed SO MANY, and except in very limited cases, carry on unsustainably scooping them out. 6 billion humans is going to do that. Fisherman is a dated profession. Historically it was perhaps a proud profession, now its just raping the last vestiges of sealife there is, and they wont let up not even to let the sea animals allow themselves time to flourish again. The Gulf fisherman get angry because they didnt get to kill the shrimp first, which they translate into dollar signs. Am I the only one who gets this? You just dont go around killing everything.

Pranic mastery aside, the site refers to a specific nada yoga siddi, and says that this omdasji spent a long time researching and training this particular yoga. I wonder does anyone know anything about techniques that may differ from what we could charaterize as a more "normal" pranic projection from voice.

I just listened to the 4 minute free mp3 on that link. Its powerful, Ive never felt my heart expand like that from a recording before.

Now the discussion is heading the way of my own musings. I think it comes down to shifting values, and how to shift the values of the great mass of population who kind of ignore the fact that they are the ones ultimately creating the oil demand, and hence the pollution. Sometimes the use of shame and guilt works, but often it backfires because people have an ego-defence mechanism that will allow them to sqirm out: blame someone else, the oil companies, the president, or like Palin, blame the environmentalists. So often if I accuse someone of being guilty of being the cause, they will create an emotional response as to why I am wrong, and then once stated, they will have the tendancy to believe their own creation... And yet shame and guilt can work if there is a doorway out, such as a finger pointing towards a green vehicle that just happens to be on sale. I have no idea why electric vehicles such as scooters, electric bikes, commuter cars are not being promoted and someone cashing in. These kinds of vehicles are all over in China, the suppliers are there. Most small trips to the mall or park can be done with these vehicles. Back to shifting of values, from relatively selfish to selfless. The easiest and most natural route is to spiritually lift the people so that the values will naturally shift. A population must be ready for a spiritual shift, must be fertile grounds or it will not work. A little pressure is good as a catalyst. If anyone has any other ideas to shift the core values of people let me know.

Indeed. The existence/non-existence of a creator god is the biggest red herring in religion and in atheism. A cultivator methodically merges with the Tao, but the merging to a creator god yields the same results as far as jing-qi-shen transformation. What I mean is that if you sit down and contemplate and meditate your mind to merge with the everythingness, it doesnt matter what you call it or what you attribute to it, as long as it contains an everythingness element to it. The idea is that you want to become a higher being yourself. Anything that stands in your way to becoming a higher being, such as the arguement of whether a creator god exists or not, and by not understanding how cultivation can work whether you use this concept or something different, is getting bogged down in pointless speculation.

Again, Blasto. Thanks for taking the time to deal with that guy. The seemingly "live and let live" arguement of vsaluki is fine, wonderful except that it cloaks the status quo of out of control human greed. As top feeders of the food chain, and the power of reason and foresight, we have the responsibility as care takers of earth, moderating ourselves, otherwise we are merely profligating sewer rats, a virus that blindly seeks to eat its host. Accidents do happen, yes, but they CANNOT happen in such important ways. Also this disaster shows again like Katrina the selfishness, mistrust, dissent and lack of cooperation built into the present degraded American value system. It is extremely foreboding for any future big catastrophe (not just an unplugged hole, but a big disaster)

Any hypnotist or NLP person should be able to deal with that inside of 15 minutes. The type of phobia you have is the easiest to get rid of, because you realize the fear is irrational. It was somehow picked during childhood, but you know as an adult of course spiders are not fearsome at all. If it was a phobia where you were still exposed to the wrong information, then that kind of phobia is harder to deal with. So it comes down to altering the symptoms of the phobic reaction, and hypnosis and NLP has devised those quick phobia release for that. Anthony Robbins seemed like so magic when he first started doing those, because it was so fast. I once hypnotized my friend who had a fear of water and sharks, even in swimming pools. The technique was something like having him watch himself as if in a movie theatre, then associating him into the reaction where he no longer had any of the symptoms of the fear. You might be able to find some file sharing download of a mp3 where they take you through a phobia release script. Just search for "NLP phobia" Tapping is good too.

This thread could be viewed as a contrarian indicator.

It was not Confucious, it was the American philosopher/sociologist George Santayana who said "Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it."

What? You are enlightened so you dont click on this forum anymore? Whatever.

This article is close to how I feel about the situation. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-daou/the-great-shame-americas_b_586377.html This video about booming is interesting. I didnt really know anything about booming, but I do know the ocean, and something looked terribly wrong when I saw pictures of the boom. Now its clear, the whole thing is a fiasco, and Obama on television vaunting every chance he can get about his 5 million feet of boom. Its all mislaid and useless! Holy Crap!

Would you please clarify what you said without the irony and jokes. Thanks.

Big Oil is not to blame, they are the reprentatives of our own addiction to oil. Any of you junkies gotten rid of your cars? I thought not.