manitou

This is one of the friendliest (and funniest) arguments I've witnessed on the Bums. Congrats to everyone involved. The concept of Do What Thou Wilt is interesting, as I see it. In a sense, I think that's partially true. It's the acting out of everyone's desires and motivations. We are the Dao. The Dao will do what it wants. But I think the Dao also moves toward the light. Back to our actual real nature, which is the nature of the Dao. The law of love or mutual attraction, the foundation for everything. Doing What Thou Wilt will follow the Dao if the intent and nature of the individual doing so has inner alignment to the degree of the Sage. If the intent and nature of the individual is still unrefined and unchecked, it can result in what appears to be disaster. But the Dao doesn't care. The rain falls equally on everyone. Straw dogs, us.

ASTOUNDING.

How beautifully put, ST.

Self realization will straighten this all out

I think just the waves have generated. How many electromagnetic waves go by our ears that we don't hear? If there is no one interpreting the waves, there wouldn't be 'sound', which implies that there is a manifestation that is received and interpreted. I think the real question is What Is Sound? Is it the vibrations alone? Or the capture of the vibrations by the tympanic membranes? It's a real chicken and egg question, apparently.

I don't have a Bible nearby but this statement is reminiscent of the first words in Genesis. God spoke the Word and said 'Let There Be Light.' The Sound came first.

"There comes a time when nothing on this planet is gonna be important to you." -Because you will discover that it all exists for joy. I love this, Everything. It becomes increasingly apparent to me that our purpose here is to enable the Source to experience the joy of living through us. It wants to see itself, it wants to hear itself, it wants to feel itself, it wants to smell itself, it wants to taste itself.. The consciousness that dwells in me also dwells in my little dog. The only difference is that his consciousness filters through different brain configurations and his little doggie life experiences.

If there are no tympanic membranes around to interpret the sound waves, the falling tree makes no noise at all.

i think a lot of negative emotion is stuff we've created for ourselves. Often times it results from not being honest in a given situation. There's a place in the DDJ where it talks about 'the sage nipping things in the bud' or something similar, depending on the translation. Living life well takes courage. Courage to say what needs to be said at the moment it appears. Especially with close personal relationships. Often we will stifle our reaction because we don't want to rock the boat. But the sage will say what needs to be said when it first appears; the sage will say it gently and with love. But the point will be made. The resentment need not grow at all, once your truth has been spoken. Many problems down the road avoided...

Now that's an interesting question. There is one powerful way to manifest. Find the emotions first. Then, experience the emotions 'as though' the desired result has already happened. I've read this in many books, and I agree that there is truth to it - to continually do this to set the stage for the event actually occurring. I think this is most useful in healing, as it provides direct guidance to the body, a template for how it's going to feel in the future (which is really Now). In my personal experience, manifestation happens naturally and it reflects our own mindset and conditioning at any given time. This is how I triangulate causation for an illness; to look at what the person is currently manifesting in their life - is it organized and peaceful? Or is it chaotic, messy? What is the underlying hidden reason that the chaos has manifested? Can this reason be tied to a childhood memory that can be reverse-imprinted? A reverse imprint can happen if the imprint is changed in the Now, even though the dynamic may have started years ago. If one is trying to manifest a different direction in life, one may need to make changes to their inner beliefs about themselves, those things that have hampered good manifestations in the past. The best manifesters are those who don't have a lot of inner baggage, who have self-realized who they really Are. There is a minimum of character flaws; the character is straight and true. If someone is trying to manifest something specific, like a new car or new job or a relationship - most of the books will say that it is important to be very specific about what you want; give it some serious thought, form the image in the mind. Refer to this image daily until you've actually changed the energy field surrounding themselves. Maybe this works. I've never tried to do it that way. What I do is set my intent and then just watch. Do nothing and watch. The situations will come to you, and you will recognize them as aligned with your intent, and you will recognize the right choices. Actually, what you were saying about the spoken word is a subject of debate in healing communities. Science of Mind practitioners will use the spoken word, persuading the person being healed that they are perfect, and that nothing is wrong with them. This is meant to tap into the I AM within us, to remind us who we really are. Christian Science, on the other hand, think that the silent thought is more powerful than the spoken word. I have no opinion on either. Come to think of it, a long time ago I saw a picture of a gorgeous Bugatti car. I ripped out the picture from the magazine and put it in my desk at work, looking at it every time I opened the drawer. I focused on this for months. (This has to be 50 years ago!) But, to this point, I've never gotten a Bugatti. Never even seen one. Never even crashed into one. I'm still waiting. Great topic. I hope a few others pick up on it.

I visualize it as the eye of a tornado The line you talk about feels the same to me. I sense it as a membrane of sorts, as though it wants to merge together but are unable. But the desire for merger is there. Does that make sense, kimo sabe? And also a wonderful relief to be able to step aside and say "I am not that". I was thinking today about how we seem to be sitting at the junction of time and space, a hologram of time and space. And the perspective from the quantum physics observation that matter is both a particle and a wave. A particle takes up space, a wave of probability requires time. I'm afraid that if you and I ever got together in the physical dimension our brains would explode.

An enlightened mind is a kind mind. It's not a cynical mind.

Aaaah. A moment of wuji....

Or, you could do-nothing.

My understanding as well. And, when we can see it, to err on the side of love, whatever that means in the situation. It's always the right decision - almost like treating our brother as ourselves. And, as it says in the Dao, feelings are to be expressed. It is what is left after years of practice and self-examination. And, like you, I feel the loneliness. I don't fit in with anything wild and crazy anymore. I don't think I'm any fun at all any more, actually. But - once you learn how to walk around with crossed eyes, you really start to like the view.

I figure we're doing it as planned. It can't be explained. I think it has to be demonstrated one day at a time.

Yes, definitely an element of faith. But once you've done it and seen it work, it's not such a huge leap. The only faith I rely on is the intelligence within everything.

When you ask yourself, 'what if I did nothing?', this is assuming that we still have to partake of the mundane things in our lives. When we ask 'What should I do?' of ourselves, this means that the asker sincerely doesn't see an obvious course. It seems to me that the asker in the above instance well knew what his conscience was telling him and was just looking for a way out. Clancy's answer was right on target. Wasn't his call to make, and the financial cripple can only fix his own life. Nobody can do it for him. Yes, Clancy was a trip. There's another thing too. If a person is capable of dropping the shield of ego and/or stilling the mind, you are on the vibrational level that is capable of some strangeness.

Parkour set him free when he was up to his ass in alligators

The most practical application I've found to utilize we wei is, when I find myself wondering what to do in a situation, the first question I ask myself is "What would happen if I did nothing?" And then I do nothing to "Help it along". It's better off without my interference. It seems to work every time. Not 'work' in the sense that it provides the outcome I think should happen, but the universe straightens the dynamics all on its own, without my interference. Like untangling a bowl of spaghetti. You can just stand back and watch it.

I think that was wonderfully put, Jim. Yes! No baggage, no preference. It just is. And you're right. It is truly a process. But it's fun to remember that it's also all happening Now.

That's amazing, looking at that video with eyes crossed. I put on a pair of those goggles at Best Buy and stepped off the top of a skyscraper. That really toys with a fear of heights -

why don't they just call quid pro quo tit for tat?

This reminds me of an exercise that Don Juan Mateus had Carlos Castaneda do. Repeatedly. He would have him look at something and cross his eyes, resulting in the two images. Then, to maintain focus. Sooner or later the image will be dominated by one eye and you'll just see the hologram as experienced from that eye. And then it haphazardly switches to the other eye, and you see the other image. The nagual would tell Carlos that it was desirable to control the switch from one eye to the other, and once that was mastered it had developed a certain type of control. But I can't remember it exactly. But yes, it is fascinating to do that. I'm guessing you're an artist, Yang? Is there a website to see your colorful work?

Where are those? They are spectacular. I was just reading yesterday about a spa service here that offers time in a salt cave, supposedly with healing properties. Are there any indications that these caves do the same?