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'for those it leaves in its wake and those who witness it.' Yes, this is the case, isn't it? The person with the disease seems just fine. It's everybody around them that suffers.... thank you, ST. Funny thing is, it doesn't seem to affect the 3rd eye vision. However, the correct interpretation of what I can 'see' may diminish some. But awareness is intact, and my thinking process, where it remains, doesn't seem to be in jeopardy. I'd like to hang in here with you guys for as long as I can.

That's what I'll be prepared for, then. A bump/initiation. As though sleeping in a dirt coffin wasn't enough.

LOL. Was that TMI?

Mr. Passerby - Now this is strange. Looking at that first Wikipedia article, it mentions that shamans do healing through the deep soul. This is the exact type of healing I do. But since I can't access other dimensions, a little cannabis takes me right there. I am capable of staying "in consciousness" for long periods of time, though. Maybe that counts for accessing other dimensions., Who knows.

I just saw this morning that Kit Harrington and Igrit (the pretty red haired maiden wildling) actually got married to each other in real life. I'll bet she tells him all the time, "Jon Snow, you know nothing".

The way I do healings for things, is I try to figure out what the body is trying to say. If we can truly figure out, we can try to reverse the deep personality dynamic. You were abandoned at 1 (I am so sorry to hear this). I'd be interested to know what your sickness was at that age. The fact that your right side is numb and you sense blockages is the body trying to say something in code. The fact that it involved so many of your senses (eye, ear, sensory feeling of contraction and hardness) is the clue, I think. It of course relates to the abandonment, not having a warm body holding you and meeting your needs. Although you were only a baby and probably don't remember anything, your body remembers. It braced itself against the pain of abandonment (we would have to try to narrow this down even further). This has solidified. To do a healing with these deep dynamics, we would need to figure out the connection between the manifestations of your body (loss of sense and developing blockages) to the original pain. Maybe, at its most general, it started with that crying baby deciding not to feel anything ever again - not hear anything, not see anything. Your baby-depression must have been horrendous, and even though you didn't know the words to think those thoughts, those feelings were there anyway. There may have been horrible things you witnessed before the abandonment - lots of shouting, physical abuse around the house, stuff like that. To reverse this dynamic, we would need to figure out something that would reverse it - back to the place where you felt warm and accepted, loved. This is done with a small ceremony that you could do in your back yard. We need to find a SYMBOLIC and physical way of you expressing the exact opposite - and setting your intent to live out your life with a perfect body. We'd have to give some thought as to what object or small act would reverse the dynamic we find. It has to be symbolic, but we do need to bring the inner dynamic to the physical realm, deal with it in the physical realm by reversing the dynamic, and then go on about your way with a new inner dynamic, hopefully regaining feeling and any other sense loss you've experienced. I would do a long distance healing from here at the same time you do the ceremony. We could try zapping it from two angles. If you want to give this a try, I'm up for it.

LOL. I just took a look at your book trailer. Mr. Passerby is a lovely lady? You shapeshifter you. My ability to visualize is just about nil. I am very left-brain weighted due to 30 years as a career detective. I can't imagine anything! I can't visualize anything. It's just blank. I don't even dream. The few dreams I have are usually the answer to a question I've been having, and sometimes my 'answer' in healings. But that's it. I've gone to journeying group meditations and have tried repeatedly to visualize and get down to the lower earth. I cannot. I try going through a hollow tree down into the earth and just cannot. So I don't know if this disqualifies me from being an actual shaman. I know that many of Castaneda's encounters with Don Juan were in that visualization state; in fact, Don Juan was able to include Carlos in his own imaginings, with Carlos being in awareness that he was there. Could I ask a favor of everyone? Please don't jump on Castaneda with both feet and crush him on this thread. I've heard so many negative opinions on this site about what a sham Castaneda was - but he certainly did a lot for me; for both me and my husband, the books took on a life of their own, and odd things happened to us which followed the theme of where we were in the books. It was really strange. It was an initiation.

This is an excellent point, friend. You are absolutely right. This I know when I am in consciousness. When I fall out, I'm in duality. You caught me in a moment of duality. And the funny thing is, that when one remains in consciousness, knowing all things to be One, there is no feeling of out-of-placeness at all. We are as much a part of that sidewalk as that tree. The self-consciousness leaves.

I'm so grateful that you posted this topic, mrpasserby. I have a history with this, and some of the criteria above make me feel so much better about my current state. Yes, I believe I am - and have walked the path since reading the Castaneda series seriously as an adult maybe 30 years ago. I did this because I was married to a native American man who was a shaman. He put me on to the books, although I was pretty firmly entrenched in metaphysics at that point. But to my delight I realized that so much of what Don Juan would tell Carlos was metaphysical in nature and merged so conveniently with my path. I have done some wonderful healing with this. I use a shamanic-type ceremony (of course using rattles, drums, medicine staffs, healing hoop, sometimes cannabis to get into the second attention immediately). I don't really require the ceremonial part for the healing, but people really like it and it keeps them a bit off-guard in their thinking; it keeps them from thinking "Oh this is ridiculous, it'll never work". They're too distracted with the other stuff around. Previously, when my husband was alive, he would perform an acknowledgment of the directions, things like that within the ceremony as well. But my gift is to be able to see why the person is manifesting the malady, very deep personality dynamics, which I can see because of a 3rd eye and a 4th step. Doing a recovery 4th step and acknowledging the blockages and unwanted traits within myself means I can recognize the problem in another. Clarity appears. And I use the understanding that we are All One to anchor as a basis to escort that person to the other side, the side of health. But what I'm really grateful for is this - the paragraph that talks about being an introvert because we're actually a sort of bridge from one field to another. This gives me relief because I sometimes beat myself up for not wanting to participate in more things, and I have virtually no social life at all. I just don't want to go out there. And that's nothing new. Neither Joe nor I, when he was alive, socialized with much of anybody. The ceremonies may have been the most social part of us. Maybe now that I see that I have a reason for being an in introvert, I'll stop flogging myself.

That would be kind of brilliant, seeing a spinoff of Dany and Drogo together again.

They weren't in much of a position to do anything else. I wrote a book once and thought I knew how it was going to turn out, but it took on a life of its own and did its own thing. I don't think there was anything else that the 'new' writers could do.

Am I wrong in thinking that Jon went off with the wildlings? I saw him walk out into the snow with the red-bearded leader, his buddy. But other things I've read online indicate that he just went back to Winterfell. Which is it? I hope there's a spinoff with Arya.

Every once in a while I'll do something that I just know I adapted from somebody else. Like a facial expression, or an expression - so much so that I can actually see a flash of the face of the person I got it from. I have come to accept the fact that I am a composite of everybody else.

I just read an incredible passage from Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East (Baird Spalding). The setting of the book is around the 1890's, when a group of scientific men were allowed to be in the company of Masters, in India, China, Tibet for some years. The masters they spent time with were ones who had mental abilities to an incredible degree, such as the ability to disassemble their atoms in one location and reappear in another location. This book reads very credibly. There is something about the following passage that rings true in my heart, as though there really is a way to do this. If only one had the understanding, the idea of Oneness, and the faith, without question, that this can really be done. This would explain many seemingly miraculous events and even reduces those events to nothing more than following the Great Law which underlies all, the Intelligence within all phenomena. The paragraph is this: "We will suppose it is ice you desire. Would you begin by speaking out the word, 'ice,' all about you indiscriminately? If you did, you would scatter your forces in all directions and nothing would come to you. You should first form a mental picture of what you desire, hold it directly in thought just long enough to get the image, then drop the image entirely and look directly into the Universal God Substance. Know that that Substance is a part of God and, therefore, a part of you and in that Substance there is everything you need: that God is pressing that Substance out to you just as fast as you can use it; and that you can never deplete the supply. Then know that everyone who has created that supply has brought forth from this Substance, whether they have done it consciously or unconsciously. Now with your thought and vision fixed on the one central atom, God, hold that atom until you have imprinted your desire upon it. You will lower the vibration of that atom until it becomes ice. Then all the atoms surrounding that one will hasten to obey your desire. Their vibration will be lowered until they will adhere to the central particle and in a moment you will have ice. You do not even need any water about you. You need only the ideal." I wonder at his mention of the Universal God Substance. Would this be to open one's eyes and stare at 'anything', knowing that all is the Universal God Substance?

LOL. Yes, that was really a dark horse that came out of the barn. I didn't think the ending was bad at all. And Jon going off to join the wildlings was truly a surprise - but not a bad ending. But I was surprised that there wasn't mention of Jon actually being the one who should be inheriting the throne. Wouldn't he have been more likely than Bran? Although now I guess they're building a democracy and as such will 'choose' from now on. And right when ours is collapsing.....

This seems to point to the concept of Acceptance. I remember reading in Krishnamurti's work that the secret to his serenity was that "he didn't mind anything that happened". And doesn't it seem that way? That all enlightenment paths do involve acceptance? It's really a bit of a Catch-22. On one hand, we are capable of so much more than we think we are - and I'm sure all of us here can attest to some incredible things that we have done due to our metaphysical understanding, And yet, what is a jewel in the crown of the awakened one is the wisdom of acceptance. The Sage. So it seems to go back to the old serenity prayer. God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

@everything, that was an astounding post! Thank you.

LOL. I'm so sorry the books forked up your early life. I seem to be handling them uneventfully. It really is nice reading, and as a healer who uses deep personality dynamics to 'bend the light', the mysterious stuff is actually helpful for my mindset during a ceremony. We know it's all mind, and this is the common theme with Mary Baker Eddy (Christian Science, which I'm not, but I use their methods sometimes). along with Science of Mind. I'm finding a few nuggets in this book that are helpful for that purpose. And yes, the stories are delightful.

New tangent; merging time and space, or no-time and no-space, seems to merge quite well with quantum physics. The particle and wave phenomenon. A particle takes up space. A wave has to use time. We sit at the junction of time and space as quantum physics tells us that the two phenomena are one and the same. Mind boggling.

This is a curious state, which I share with you. My brain is pretty much shot now, but there is a wellspring of information that dwells within; and at the appropriate time the words just come out, unplanned - but always right on. It's not the 'egoic' me, it's the indweller.

As it is with the spiritual path. The everyday plodding and monitoring of the inner self; the natural desire to express that which We really Are. This is to get out of our own way.

Freeform - thank you so much for taking the time to write all this. It is wonderful information, but your way of putting it - even for the layman - brings it all into focus. All the bits and pieces that I've picked up 'somewhere' that were tucked away in a little drawer in my psyche, connected all at once as I read your words. My dantien is tingling and feels huge. Did you mean to transmit through your words to date? Or is there more to come?

It was pig shit, dammit. Remember when Tyrion Lannister threw it all out into the bay and remember what happened next????

Amen, friend. If We are The Consciousness, and The Consciousness is experiencing itself through Us, then aren't we the Big Wizard who is going to blast us into another black hole or something?? I've had a funny feeling about that whole operation with the collider since they started blasting atoms together. Maybe this is exactly what happened last time around - the big bang was caused by a bunch of scientists sitting around wondering 'what if....?'