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Brian - I must confess that any conversation I have with you always sends me into fits of spasmodic giggles.

Trusting Source would be the way I would go on that one too. I've had lucid dreams where ancient texts of unknown language were being "downloaded" into my brain. Who knows how Source finds ways to instruct us when we are absolutely ripe for receiving the information? Probably any little passageway that's there. Yes, you have talked to shamans. there are a few around this forum.

This is a shamanic idea as well. Using 'death as an advisor', meaning that every breath is precious - that life can end at any time - and for full appreciation of life from moment to moment. Maybe this is part of the meditator-under-the-skulls mindset as well.

Please ramble on any time you have the urge. Your ramblings contain crumbs that this crow will scoop up right after they're cast out. And take back to the nest for further study. The place between aversion and grasping would seem to be Acceptance? Recently I was reading a book by Almine who talks about the double-cone (as a chakra) of insight. As far as one cone is capable of seeing within is equidistant to the capability of outer 'vision', whether used for healing, understanding, or seeing for other purposes.

I wasn't referring to the light bulb. I was referring to the hot dog.

I HAVE WONDERED THIS FOR YEARS!!!!!!!!!

So the method he is using is to merge energies, by being under them, to achieve a oneness (equanimity?) with the spirit of different species....

The tubular kind?

I went on in 1969, so your uncle and I were there at the same time. What's his name? You can PM me if you don't want to put his name on the thread. It's a big department and it's kind of like asking a guy in the service if he knows Joe Smith. I worked Homicide as well, but in the San Fernando Valley (Van Nuys Division and Foothill Division) Kudos to him for remaining positive. I found my positive views through alcohol recovery after the breakdown - not on the job at all. I lasted with the PD for 15 years, then the remaining years were spent as a licensed P.I.

Thank you so much Dawg - I'm going to have to study your post! I am self realized, but from a different dynamic. It was the dynamic of going into my own nature and finding the One; my third eye is opened as well. But a really different path. But I am going to study your words and see if there is something more for me there. Again, thank you so much for all the time you took to write that. love you!

I am relieved, darling. Keep 'em laughing.

I wonder if he meditates under those objects because he considers them totem animals, maybe human ancestors?

I wonder if the operative word here is 'intensity'. Your intensity to heal a friend. It happened to me during a great period of intensity as well - I was waiting to see if I would be awarded a pension from LAPD, after my breakdown. My house was in foreclosure. I would go outside at night under the stars and pray about this - very intensely. This phenomenon happened during that period and during those prayers arising out of financial fear.

Great post, Dawg! (post 47) The thing that's frustrating for some of us is that our left brains are so darned well developed from years of specific use. In my particular case, I have been a detective for over 40 years. although there is a component of 'right-brain-ness' that is an intuitive part of detective work (hunches, etc), there is a very rigid structure of evidence and evidence connection. It lays out like a family tree, one thing leading to another. Not a lot of room for abstract thought. I've meditated for oh so many years, and I've never been able to truly experience the beings you speak of. How I would love to.... But as Castaneda said, some of us are Dreamers, some of us are Trackers. I'm a tracker; I track my own behavior. But how very frustrating it is to hear another describe the beautiful light beings that can be experienced and communicated with. Maybe in my next life...

Sounds like mastery to me. but did you really want the big bag of green onions?

LOL. I just knew you would say this if you found this thread, BKA! OMG Lerner - there is something so familiar about that first paragraph, almost like it's a memory behind the fog of something having been done before. I almost remember it. Apparently the harmonics weren't in as much sync after all, if he missed that little bit of $3.50 karma. This reminds me of the time my shamanic partner Joe recently helped a friend, Mo, cross over. When Mo did die, Joe put quarters on his eyes to hold the lids down before his sister got back to the apartment. About a week later, Joe said "Damn." I said "What." He said "Mo still owes me fifty cents".

This is great. Particularly in lieu of 'Need a Hand?' over your avatar

So you're looking at the water as the cosmic soup, lol?

The concept of atheism is interesting. I consider myself one as well, but only in the sense that there could be something "separate from us" that is directing all the traffic. As a kid, most of us have early imprints of something grand "out there", an entity separate from ourselves that needs worship, for some reason. When we self-realize, we realize that we're not separate from it; and to worship something exterior is to miss the point. it's to place the responsibility for our lives in the lap of something out of our control. But when we realize that we are the Manifester, suddenly it places the responsibility for things that happen to us squarely on our own shoulders. I take no issue whatsoever with folks who worship an external god. I was there myself for a long time. I think the point is to transcend the individual 'face' of the god with whom we grew up (whether in the States, in India, or China, etc) and dwell in the place of the merger. Obviously, there is incredible Order in nature, of which we are a magnificent part; perhaps the cutting edge.

DreamBliss - what a novel thing to have happen. When I first got sober 32 years ago, I had to return to my Christianity (which I had long abandoned) in a big way - a real born-again adventure. The same thing happened to me for a while - I would sit outside on my porch at night, in the desert, and speak in a totally unknown language - and tears would stream out of my eyes. I had the same sensation that you did - that I couldn't tell if it was gobblygook or something was actually coming up from the inside. This went on for a few months, then finally rested. Yours sounds pretty viable, particular when you figure in CT's input.

Odd that you say the thing about communication in geometric form. I've been given the ability the ability to "See" within dynamics, and the seeing is always done in geometric form - triangles. It's like one point of a dynamic is connected at one geometric point of the triangle, another point is within myself, and another point is in the manifestations of the person or situation being viewed. it is definitely triangular and geometric.

This is going to sound way too pedestrian for this forum, but I think you would benefit from a few Alanon meetings. The meetings go directly to the relationship we have with our significant others, our kids, our bosses - any person or situation because of whom you feel powerless. it teaches us how to not be victims, and stay in our own lanes -

Stosh, the last thing I want to do is insult anyone. I was thinking a discussion of the cause of the god-thought to manifest within mankind might be a nice topic. Please forgive me if i insulted you.

I like that very much, Brian. I understand that you have no need to convince anybody, as I have no need to convince anybody. But the integrity of your body of posts on this forum speak for themselves - and, personally, I trust anything you have to say. Thanks! then once something like that happens, you're changed for life it seems.

maybe you've located the very yin/yang place within us. the place where it is the seat of tension because of its the crux of the yin yang dynamic, the tension (or grip) that keeps the whole thing operating. The design of the taiji symbol (yin yang) has always reminded me of a sort of perpetual motion design, wherein the force for motion is exerted and works because the light has a remnant of the dark in it, and the dark has a remnant of the light in it also, each pulling the other along. I agree that breath is the key to the knot. I've also wondered whether this knot phenomenon isn't the same as Castaneda's 'assemblage point'. In his version, the assemblage point (of electrical currents in the energy body) is located about 2 feet behind the upper/middle back. The knot I speak of does seem to have two noticeable locations that it inhabits - the one at the top of the stomach and behind the sternum, and yet also somehow behind me (in some other dimension, but 'feel-able' all the same.