GrandmasterP

Mmmmmm. I wonder if religions aren't the main authors of most groundless fear and guilt trips. Along the lines of them creating the fictive disease then selling the medicine, that they claim to possess; for 'curing' it.

Interesting idea and a quick Google found that some Sufis claim that it predates Islam... http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Sufism

...... Good call Sifu FH.

....... Agreed. They had a very rough deal at the time and an enduring bad press later. I am really not at all keen on the sort of God who flatly refuses to celebrate diversity.

Woad does the trick too if you want to turn blue. Ancient Britons used it both as a medicine and also as war paint. Piccies here.... http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=woad&hl=en&tbo=u&tbm=isch&source=univ&sa=X&ei=2STLUP7eIujb0QWXt4GQBA&sqi=2&ved=0CF4QsAQ&biw=1024&bih=672

As the Master said in the intro to every episode of Kung Fu. The Next Generation.... "I am Cane. I will help you". Interesting Cane Masters Seminar here.... http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=t6l8JW3jVA8&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dt6l8JW3jVA8&gl=GB

I have a stick, had to use that when arthritis kicked in and before I began with QiGong. Still use it now but only for Cane Masters Cane Defence play. Great fun but impossible to get affordable insurance to teach it at the centre. Full insurance (5 million pounds cover and no excess which is the legal minimum in England) for a year to teach both QiGong and Tai Chi is less than £60-00 but add in any 'weapon' cane included and that goes up ten fold with a two grand excess on all claims so any claim is going to cost you £2,000 before you even start.

Welcome Mrs. Shen. Mrs. GMP tolerates my posting here as it keeps me out from under her feet.

http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/sis/search/a?dbs+hsdb:@term+@DOCNO+7714 Contraindications of apoptosis (cell death), also maybe breathing difficulties. Treat with great caution, seek qualified medical advice before use. Some, not all; pharmaceutical research is funded by those seeking a licence for their product.

Nah they are just people who have left their bodies and are hanging around to check out what their loved ones are getting up to. They all move on eventually apart from the few who get stuck i.e. 'ghosts'.

I can't wear synthetics at all, get terrible electric shocks if I do. Bought some synthetic Ugg type boots last winter and had to bin em. Every time I touched the door handles sparks flew, literally, you could see the sparks jumping from my hand to the metal door handle.

Moan moan moan some of em. Just cos someone's left their body doesn't mean they suddenly become cheerful n chirpy. Just now and again I'd like one to pop in with the next lot of lottery numbers but no. Grannys bringing flowers, how they were there when the widow moved the photo or that they really like those new curtains Mundane stuff 99% of the time. Still, it's a living.

Who is this Jean you sleep with and what is her 'natural material'?

I've ordered the book, cheapo second hand from Amazon Partners, hope it arrives.

Yep it kinda gets ya that way after a while I suppose. Dead people can be just that bit gloomy sometimes.

DAAD = Denial Anger Acceptance Development

....... Lung healing sound SSSSSSSS works a treat as an expectorant if you are congested from a chesty cold or such.

Religion and spirituality innit? I think the poison got flushed out a few pages back.

Chance would be a fine thing. You get to my age and an 'erotic' dream involves pipe and slippers. Nothing else, just pipe and slippers. The really crazy ones might have a nice cup of tea and a sit down in there as well but there has to be a full moon for those wild n whacky dreams to happen.

In no particular order.... Druids, the Xtians did for most of them. Baal Priests, they got a bad deal. Queen-godess Cleopatra. The wicker lads and lasses, one was sacrificed every winter solstice to ensure next year's fertility. Devout Sodomites (who lived in Sodom) that was just plain wrong what happened to those poor guys. Shall I go on?

Goliath

Then Red Indian guides went out of fashion so, even though they kept the piccy of SB as a Red Indian on the cover of each slender volume they come up with the story that he's maybe just using the Red Indian persona as a sort of cover when actually he's... (Depending on whatever was in fashion at the time).... An Atlantean sage Member of the Galactic Council Mr Jesus Mr Buddha...etc etc I kid you not, they had every angle covered and then some. Utter bollocks and the books are worse than Xmas Cracker 'wisdom', platitude central. I'll stop now, rant over. :-)

Give your Laughing Buddha statue a festive zing by putting a small Santa hat on his head. Ours looks a treat. Will try for a piccy tomorrow.

Morrie (fond of a tipple) Barbanell was editor of our trade paper The Psychic News for years. Trade was bad. Morrie comes up with an idea. Red Indian spirit guides are in vogue, Morrie shall have one. Anyone with a burning question and a handy ten shilling note can send both to Morrie c/o the Psychic News office and Morrie in trance will channel Silver Birch's answers. The clever bit was that Morrie did not let on to readers that it was him who was the medium, he kept schtum about that for a couple of years and the money rolled in. Sil;ver Birch even had his own column in Psychic News answering readers questions from his happy hunting grounds over there on the astral plane. (Actually Morrie wrote them in the office at Neasden) The scam went on for ages until someone blew the whistle, Morrie admits he's the medium and the ten shilling questions thing is phased out. BUT Spiritualists being what they are, by now Silver Birch or SB as he is known, has gained quite a following so Morrie sets up a trust cum charidee to pblish SB wisdon in book form. The books are tiny pamphlet like things with a couple or three SB columns in each one. They have been in print and sold well ever since. Morrie's executors (friends and family) are still trustees and, if you are daft enough; you can still buy SB books to this day from the rather well to do folk here... http://www.silverbirchpublishing.co.uk/

Aaaarrgghhhhh. "Silver Birch".. (also known as Maurice Barbanell, pissed and talking bollocks) Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo sinan. Run away fast, save yourself.