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Now see .... this is a desirable thing in belly dancing. Maybe I should ride a motorcycle before I dance....

I was very reluctant to take the time to read it because of the Christian setting. I was very pleasantly surprised to find out that her mention of using Jesus as an intermediary was rather uncommon in the book - and easy to sidestep. I was astounded at the metaphysical depth of her mind. And most beneficially, it takes you directly into the 'healing' mindset - in her case, it's that sickness is an illusion of sorts and she works with the pre-sickness mindset. It's pretty awesome. She's right up there with Blavatsky as I see it. And Spotless - I agree with you about the 'distraction' aspect of this. We sort of discovered this accidentally, but I liked the open-mindedness that it caused in the mind of the 'patient'. They don't know what to expect next. I doubt that the ceremony itself contains any whoop-di-do - other than that one time where the jagged K-energy came up through the ground, through her legs, and zapped a breast tumor. But in actuality I suspect that it was 'she' that caused this to happen, as opposed to anything physical we were doing in a ceremony. But I do know one thing. That none of this will happen unless we try. Unless we 'practice' running the energy through our hands. As I see it, we need to be willing to look like an a-hole. I know the first few times I ran energy through my hands, I didn't feel anything. After doing it maybe a half dozen times, I started to feel a magnetic pull in my abdomen when it was running - which was a sign to me that something was happening. I think the healing arts are a practice, just like anything else. It's just having the nerve to do it.

Totally off the wall, you hippy.

Like regurgitate. That makes me sick too

That's assuming the monarchy was a silk purse to begin with...

You've read Science and Health by MBE? Or was that just coinkidink?

LOL - yes, it was a problemo once, when the guy passed me and then did the same to me HE - I love that bird. Yes--that really is the question for traffic - especially the 3rd time he did it....

Yes, on my passive-aggressive days I like to turn on all my emergency blinkers if somebody is tailgaiting me, and slow down to about 20, lol. Then I like to smile at them as they floor their gas trying to get around me. it makes me chuckle, always resulting in a good time for me....not so much for the other guy.

I do think this topic area is just for hermits. You rarely see one in there, though...

To 'be' the one infers some action, as it's asking you to be something other than what you are at the moment it is said to you. The only action I can think of is just dwell in the state of Love to the best of our ability at any given moment. Nestentrie - perfect selection! This is unconditional love that is being described, and lack of judgment toward others in the mind of the sage.

What kind of pendants, bka?

Agreed - any circumstance will promote the understanding of metaphysics if this is where our interest lies. At my child-bearing years, though, I would have been a horrible parent and raised my child just as I'd been raised - didn't know any different! I am actually thankful that I didn't have a child at that time - but if I had, I guarantee you I wouldn't have been involved in metaphysics. I would have been raising my child with a very heavy and controlling hand. I'm guessing that That Which Lives Within Us is the very thing that attracts us to one life or the other. All it wants to do is express within the vehicles of our bodies, and it already knows the circumstances that formed the Acquired Personality, and the best way to break it down if needed.

I know there's some bearing on the fact, too, that we aren't really solid matter moving through space. We are as a wave on the ocean - the water doesn't actually 'move' to the shore, but the force of the moving current underwater passes through the water molecules, although for the most part they stay in place. Quite mind-boggling, all this. Yes, it is all Here and Now, and this mechanism of our 'perception' of time and space, limited as it is, is somehow the anomaly. It's like we're a bundle of little spark plugs that fire anew with each step as we move through space. also - Nungali - similar to your LSD experience. I once smoked some weed that was so good that I was thinking and talking backwards. That must have been a folding of time somehow as well. It really frightened me at the time, I thought I'd lost it.

I imagine only a really narcissistic person would really believe that 'they have no regrets'. Like, they've never hurt another? Intentionally or unintentionally? But the sting is taken out of regret when we realize that everything is happening on schedule. I regret having an abortion at a young age - but on the other hand, if I had had a child and spent my life raising the child, I would not have had the time to devote years to metaphysical study. Forgiving ourselves is a big part of the equation too.

For those of us born in the 40's, we get to say 'GROOOVY'

So this is an ongoing chingazo, lol?

Seems like we swing between enlightenment and endarkenment from moment to moment, lol. Did you manage to flip him off??

This is also the #1 rule of the shamanic tradition; perhaps Daoist, perhaps Buddhist as well. Wish you'd stick around and keep a low profile for a while. Return to the Oneness of all of us on this forum, and use this as a huge opportunity for inner growth. Please don't focus on the negative - you are so very Loved around here. To take something personally is to let our ego be the receiver of the stimulus, as opposed to let the stimulus just float by. I struggle with this on this forum all the time - I've had to allow ego squishings, get up, keep going. When my ego no longer feels squished, I'll know I've transcended it in this sense. We are all One.

Extraordinarily enough, this type of man would have been attractive to me at one time! My bathtub ring was so low, my self esteem was so bad - and I would cover all this up by nabbing fellows just as you described above and try to 'fix' them. Actually, when I met Joe - he had done a total of 19 years in jail, 12 of which were for a murder he apparently committed in a bar fight with a crowbar but doesn't remember. I so wish(ed) that I could have said 'I'm Walkin!', and mean it. I said 'I'm Walkin' plenty of times, but I always managed to turn around and walk right back into the door. When the dynamics are That Entangled, it takes some heavy inner work to disentangle ourselves. The co-dependency is a might strong force, and we can mistake that force for Love all the time. After years of inner work on the part of both Joe and myself, we've had pretty clear sailing the last couple years. I can actually say that we love each other now for the endearing friends we have become - not because of the codependency.

YES !!!

I think we could go pretty far down the rabbit hole on this one - the world of opposites. Suppose for a moment that we really are The Manifester, as most paths would seem to end in that realization at their terminus. In that event, we would be manifesting Time from the inside of our communal brain (of which you and I are only a two-zillionth of the Whole) and should, under that theory, be capable of actually changing the speed of Time as we perceive it here on Earth. (It is no doubt perceived differently in different parts of the Universe, thanks to Einstein) So maybe that's why all observations made up to this point are correct! So rather than the sense of slowing down being a total illusion, isn't it possible that we, at our base level, are capable of projecting the speed of Time to enable a physical reality that is not of Newtonian origin? And that fear or imminent death (we had no fear, no time for it) it was as somebody said previously....that the imminent death or great fear is the very thing that pushes us into this other modality? How is it that the Sage is unharmed and protected, as a small child? maybe because he is the protector and the manifester, and he Knows It.

Two with dualies. It was quadriplistic.

Do you think that the slowing down of time is the illusion, or the speeding up of time is the illusion? My first thought was that it was illusion too - the slo-mo effect. but it didn't explain the repositioning of both rigs to the degree that it did. Right after it happened, neither of us said anything. About a mile down the road, i said "Did you see what happened back there?" Joe answered that he did, and we were then a bit more verbal about our mutual amazement. I'm so inclined to believe that it was just illusion. But it just doesn't explain the physicality changing as it did.

An incredible post, Spotless. Spot on, as I see it I think of how angry and fearful my face used to look before discovering my Path, which includes meditation. Certainly, if nothing else, we're giving our cells a feeling of "what they're supposed to feel like without fear and tension". Certainly it calms our heartbeat, no doubt does something for blood pressure. As we manifest from the inside to the outside, meditation would almost seem to be the 'connector' between the inner life and the physical life. The more we meditate, the more control we have over our thoughts. We no longer have a motor-mind that chatters incessantly, keeping the owner of the mind in a state of continual stress. I'll bet the connections are legion. As I think about it, meditation is the 'default setting' for the virgin mind and all stimulus from that point on creates distortion - whether perceived as 'bad' or 'good'.

I think there's an aspect to gratitude where we 'give credit where credit is due'. We realize that we are not the one doing it, that it's being done through us by our higher selves. This acknowledgment alone gives me much gratitude. So....yes! We are grateful for our own selves. We become grateful (in a full way) that we can see Life for what it is, a training ground. We become grateful that we can transcend the apparent negativity and see the Whole. Gratitude seems to become less and less a periodic thing, and more and more an internalization that remains with us. It seems to be with me all of the time - although sometimes it glows and becomes almost overwhelming when someone is particularly kind, etc. But the gratitude grows as the transcension increases, as I see it.