Search the Community

The answer I have at this moment is: 'good natured teasing'! You know how in a group of friends you light-heartedly tease each other - especially about stuff that you normally take very seriously... There is a specific kinesthetic experience when something I've been holding as all-important, true and clever is being teased - the moment I lose that self-conscious "but that story/truth is my baby" feeling is the moment that it becomes funny, I let go of all the sentimentality and feel freed from its grasp. This is one aspect... Also, I find it very useful to think of thoughts, ideas, stories, understanding as flowers... they start out as undifferentiated seeds... they grow, break through the ground and eventually bloom into a wonderful enjoyable spectacle... then they spread their own seeds, wither and die back into the formless... We as a society see the withering and dying part of the cycle as something to be avoided, so we construct mental illusions, beliefs and values to try and keep that flower permanent, and we effect the environment around us to uphold these illusions... all of this is in vain - because the flower always grows, then dies then another one grows... but we blindly stare at some kind of frozen illusion of its permanence. Yet another way of looking at it involves summoning the power of the trickster/jester/fool... similar to the 'teasing'... it involves turning what seems important on its head... making it completely absurd, but doing it with full awareness. Bradford Keeney suggests taking your most sacred book, open a random page and select the most meaningful phrase you see - then, take an electric drill and make a hole right through the middle of the entire book... next, sing the meaningful phrase through the hole, put the book under your bed before sleep... repeat the singing of the phrase through the hole every night before bedtime for 3 nights and wait for a dream or an unusual thought in the day...

Yea, but the thing is it seemed like I ejac'd in my dream...but NOT in real life. Which is what made it really interesting (if that's what really happened). But I can't really remember now, so I'll see what happens next time..

Well, I did do some drawing while dreaming, basically pulling my dantien back towards my spine, but I was laying on my back. But if this technique is repeatable, then I could have dreams, but no emissions. Cuz having no dreams at all would be a more difficult level, I think. Anyhow, hopefully so, cuz I was very pleasantly relieved to have a sex dream, but no emission for once!

Ta Yoda, If we were looking at the symbolism in your dream I would say that you had something really hard, virile and all encompassing chasing you ha ha. Chasing dreams usually mean too much work to do although reading dreams is not my forte. Tena koe Moonbar and kia kaha koe.

Thanks for posting the Stuart Wilde feedback on DMT. Yes the last comment about purging seems right on. I just was talking with my coworker about this -- I said that my third eye was definitely more open from taking DMT but that, again, it was because I was sitting in full-lotus the whole time, so that the energy was guided. I said it was the deepest esctasy imaginable as the energy blockages opened up further - like my sacrum being split open with orgasmic bliss. I repeated the story about the dude who had seen aliens but then when he saw "bad aliens" he took his shirt off and the bad aliens went away. I said that in fact there's a reason because the images are stored in our bodies and need to be physically exorised through the sweat. I said that early on in the DMT trip I had soaked my two shirts and so I took them off -- but again the visions I had I knew they were just like dream information -- not real. For example at one moment I was WITH chimps -- in the jungle. We were hooting it up together -- in bright deep green of the jungle. It was real but I knew psychologically WHY I was with the chimps -- it was just a flash of a vision -- and I "emptied out the awareness" as the Buddhists describe it -- male pgymy bonobo chimps do not ejaculate during sex (only very rarely). So subconsciously I had been thinking about this connection between the peaceful bonobo pygmies and the Bushmen trance dance shamanism (which used drugs sometimes but relied on the sexual transformation to create ELECTROMAGNETIC fields).

I once had a dream that I was being chased by a giant Jade Buddha statue... no idea what that meant. welcome to taobums!!

I had one positive experience with it. I saw a hand and forearm come down through my crown and press in my ribcage somewhere. So it seems like the dream world of symbols, and the real world kind of combine with the practice. The key to getting into it is being in the state of mind between wakefulness and sleeping...the hypnagogic state. It's quite an advanced technique so you have to be pretty clear energetically for it to really work...unlike me. It seems like you need to have generated enough kunlun energy, to be able to "take off" too...if there's no "fuel", then no traveling. Just my experience...everyone's different.

Yeah reminds me of last night. I had been sitting in full-lotus most of the day watching documentaries and finally went to sleep around 1 a.m., too tired for full-lotus meditation. So I focus my mind on "Ohm Mani Padme Hum" and suddenly the third eye kicks back into my DMT trip -- and this electric charge goes down to the base of my spine with this deep orgasmic bliss. Then my spirit starts floating out of my body and my brain is floating in the ether-world. Finally I fall asleep but the light in my brain keeps me aware of deep sleep and after two hours I wake up fully refreshed. I take a break back into the dream of waking state and then try again for sleep down time -- same thing happens. Again and again I wake up after two hours of the energy opening up my channels in this deep orgasmic electrical buzz like the sound of a bulb filament in my pineal gland. Then I remember that the chi channels cycle every two hours to a different main organ (just like the circadian rhythms) -- and so the deeper truth emerges.

scattered from that dream you awoke with sleepy eyes found lost in night's daze.

on emerald slabs glow photons of your memories scattered from that dream

Self-love is very important, but if you're ever going to avoid the heartbreak when neediness sneaks it's way into your relationships, you have to realize something else: Love DOES come from other people. It's APPROVAL which should only come from within. When enlightened, you will have all the love you will ever need, but having good people in your life is key to getting there. Love people for their perfect bits, those glimpses of the perfect man and woman and soon you'll see those perfect bits are part of ever-changing, perfect wholes. Love others, and you'll have more love returned to you than you'll know what to do with. For example, what you remember loving in that dream wasn't a human woman but the very essence of femininity itself. Ultimately, it's what every man loves in each woman. If you love the femininity of your partners rather than their transient qualities, then it allows for a successful relationship. There is no heartbreak, no falling out of love, because what you love is always there. Love can change forms, and sometimes individuals grow apart, but there is such a thing as a happy, mutual break up. So it's all good news, you can learn to love fully without getting hurt, and you can find that perfectness in each woman. Eventually, with enough time and enough nurturing of that femininity in a particular woman, the baggage drops away and you're left with just love and happiness. Edit: Ever write something then read it and feel like you had nothing to do with writing it? Maybe I wrote this more for myself... I swear it's not narcissism!

This is my first post on this forum. I came across it apparently quite by accident while searching out an entirely unrelated topic on the web. Anyway, in this lobby the expected thing to do seems to be to introduce oneself, so, 'when in Rome',... Since my early twenties, I've been increasingly drawn to trying to either understand, or experience, the hopeful 'reality' behind my conviction that everything that exists is spiritual. My current beliefs are that it is only some kid of mis-perception by our human mind that prevents most of us from seeing, or experiencing that awareness. To my eternal frustration, I have not yet had so much as a glimpse of what is often called a "realisation", with which to confirm my beliefs. The closest resemblance I have to any tangible support to hold on to are the intriguing chains of spiritual logic that I find myself drawn to. But whenever I look closely into them,... they're about as substantial as clinging to a rainbow. Those chains of logic have often enough changed and gone off in different directions over the 35 years or so since I first noticed my attraction to them. The strongest, longest-lasting, and most recent was a 20 year connection with a very worldly-successful, Western Mahayana Buddhist group. However, recently I have irrevocably split from that path. My feelings are that, (in an oft-recurring tale), they were 'victims of their own success'. I think that with groups striving for Buddha, or God-like perfection,... very often the shimmering attraction of their mind-created dream makes them forget that their feet of clay are firmly here with all the rest of us living beings. Very often, that ever-present subtle delusion of spiritual pride slowly cuts them off from the genuine compassion for others which had initially given their original founding members such seemingly un-stoppable vigour. But as my personal connection with Buddhism was in the process of breaking down, I was extremely fortunate in that I made connection with another non-methodoligical spiritual path,... Advaita. In conjunction with Zen and Taoism, I believe they are the only three major pathways that practice the 'method of no method'. After my experiences with the spiritual bureaucracy of a large Western Buddhist organisation, I am very, very drawn to a spiritual path with NO doctrine, NO dogma, and NO special, intermediary, priveledged collection of priests. Anyway, there's my situation in a rather long-winded nutshell, (if I may be allowed to so mix my metaphors) The title I used for this intro is because of the frustration I am experiencing trying to load an avatar image onto this forum. Perhaps someone can help me with some purely technical information ? (I am not very computer literate). I have used this photo from my own computer before as an avatar so I know it works. But on this forum, it gets squished and distorted into a square that it says is 125 by 125. The image I want to use is 416 X 300, a JPEG, and 16.1 KB. I have seen many beautiful, interesting and complex avatars on this site, so I know I am missing some basic steps in the process. Undoubtedly, that is why I keep ending up with this squished, distorted and thoroughly unsatifactory image. (Perhaps it's a parallel for my spiritual endeavours !!) Can any one help me with some basic computer advice ?? Spiritual matters later.

1) I have had dreams that are just plain thought residue from the day. 2) I have had dreams that tell of event ahead of time pretty good and they are not the self forfilled type. 3) I knew a wiccan that pulled me into her dream once. She called it dreamscaping and what was even more cool we I woke up I told her nothing and asked her what happened and she verified it but I still don't know how she did it. 4) I have astral projected once durning sleep but I got alittle scared which to my surpise turned me the opposite direction and I woke up. My first and only time concously attempting it every time I thought I want to go here or there I was instantly there which was really frustating. When I returned to my body I went to go verify that it indead happened with a family member I was observing and she verified it. From both these experiences I concluded the calmer the mind is the easier it will be to move in an astral state. The only problem its hard to get any practice if you only did it twice and you can not reproduce the event effectively. 5) I have had very spiritual dreams that have helped to understand the Tao better. There very vived dreams and what is said is usually very brief but very powerful and life changing.

We could intend him back, and then i'm sure he'll be back in one shape or another For example, we can do it in the following way--through the strategy called Exmining Intent: one strives examine all of his words and actions to see what is the underlying intent behind them. Are they stemming from the "me", from the ego with it's desperate desire to divide and appear "exclusive" and "superior" or from the heart in mood of friendliness and including others? If one does this, they say, the multitude of their words and acts form a cohesive intent and the collective positive mood gains integrity... i think like this we can create nice atmosphere where we can communicate and support eachother. * * * Here is one more video from the same energy practitioner. Basiacally (from my rusty russian comprehension) he has opened channels, spent time to move a sellection of energy ("ball") trough the channels by will, then connects with the "firy" forces in the univers, summons them while projecting a very focussed Intended image of the final result on the object he affects. He insists that he doesn't use his own energy but orders the firypart of the universe to do it. Gets tired in a while and needs to recharge. The key thing is: one needs to bring in the game the Energy Body, and the enrgy body comes only through opened centers and without the Energy Twin there is nothing, and the Dream Body doesn't come if one hasn't cultivated a very palpable and stable ability and bulk of Inner Silence. This, you may know better than me, is because what keeps our Energetic Twin appart is the incessant flow of energy the way it circulates to form the "everiday-life" view of the world: which is mostly the head and the inner dialogue, a view of selfreflection. To interrupt this dialogue is to disrupt this flow and to redirect it, thus creating space for the Enrgy Body to pop in. It only waits a moment of silence and there you are: suddenly you feel its gentle tingling in and around you... My point is: all these give us so much "material" for months of delicious practice and if we don't do this practice no "master" can help us or transport us to awareness You may guess it but these type of evolution starts to happen just about everywhere and some are worried that fluoride in the water and mercury vaxines won't hold this welling wave too long for CRITICALL MASS is growing by the hour and the monkeys are somewhat more than 100 now... Have you ever thought what a little Puckered-Lips-Capricious-Prince-Poop-Studied-with15bestMasters-specialsecret-Foundation-Clown would do if we are all interconnected in (for lack of better word) telepathy--hahaha What is amasing is that they go to learn from Pak John the "exclusive" stuff, the stuff that will give them illusion of being "exclusive" beings compared to the other, but they don't learn the egoless humblness and kindness of this beautiful being! The fact is that WE ARE CONNECTED and our ego's stand on the way to this connection to come to life! and we start to claim the awareness of this alive link... anyways, the little video here: http://www.sendspace.com/file/hnfkl5

Jim, thank you for your presence and gentle generosity! share please about what ways do you use to submerge items in Yin field, i'm sure everyone will find it interesting. Some do it by sheer intending, others (as in the clip below) "suck off" grabbing and inhaling prior to projecting the Yang so that they would put a momentary stress in the unfiformity of the fabric of the vibratory force that holds energeticaly things together. This "vaccum"/stress is probably filled with the practitioners' dream-body (Yin body) field for the purpose...that's hwta it looks like: like this?(see clip below, a energy practitioner from Kazahstan, if i'm not mistaken): http://rutube.ru/tracks/964413.html?v=18ca...efafdee07e0020e * * *

"Beyond thinking, beyond body, you exist. This is easy to see: Simply close your eyes and notice your experience beyond thought. Stop thinking for a second or two and notice what is here. You will realize you still exist, without definition, without description, without limitation, separation or conflict. It is the identification with the thinking 'I' that causes all of the trouble. All of your problems worries and desires are about this thinking 'I.' But what is this 'I' with problems to solve? Does this 'I' exist beyond the idea of it? Is there really a you that you define by a memory of a past and an anticipation of a future? Beyond thought, does this 'I' exist? You assume it does, because you choose to identify with thinking. But if you look to validate it's authenticity beyond thought, it is not here. The moment you bring your attention to the experience of existing in this very moment, you are free of this thought of 'I'. You rest as awareness itself. Meditation is the means to break this habit of constantly identifying with this thinking 'I.' Because once you wake up from a dream that you were being chased by a monster, you don't have to run anymore. Blessings, Kip" How to Be Blissful For Free Teachings on Meditation & Awareness Visit the How to Become Awakened Website

Use reality checks to induce lucidity backsnaps Use still meditation to check mind at the station b4 falling behind your sleeping self less you snapbacks This is a portal to many realms mental spiritual dream land vibratory states peircing the veils movement as thought as movement 360 degrees up is up down is down side ways play

Hear Here. Give the man a cigar on not getting sidetracked from the central focus of ALL taoist practices in either still or moving meditation, that of WUJI... and from what i've seen I agree with you. There are charactaristics to balanced movements that are universal. Taiji and chi gung are no exception. I recently posted a bow sim mark video up in trucks bday thread that impressed me with a centralized movement of the dantien that is easy to see. A;sp check heck out Bing in L.A. www.youtube.com/wudangbing I'm going to visit him this month. I had this funny dream I went down there and was hanging in a park w/ him and his students practicing our chuan and he was like smoking cigerretes and had this look in his eye... The thing is when you take what has manifested even in a breif moment finding "wuji" and apply that to a form of movement, or a weapon, dude... you fly... imagine finding wuji in every movement, floating... so sick... there are some who do it better than others, in absolulte movement we find stillness, in absolute stillness we find fine ass movement...

<sigh> 220 Freedom from... ones own.... (he's not sure) 240 control reality to the degree you can control your own mind (sidhi) 620 original circuits 825 true breathing 955 mitowowow friends 1108 it FEELS 1128 electromagnetic dynamo 1150 they don't teach this. (maybe not where you been) 1300 bindus 1355 stabilization of clear and open (he does not address keeping them open through practice DUH) 1640 emptispace is everywhere, lets hero worship some more 1700 "our"training 1710 thats right you should cough when you say that 1730 white people asking those questions 1750 hit it again 1925 finally talking about something worthwhile the zero and the one 2023 universal definations 2040 kunlun mentioned 2100 merging dualitites from sides to central. not unique to kunlun. 2114 unifying bliss and emptiness 2122 amature 2130 like your doing right now? 2148 reabsorbing projections? (illusions are dispelled the mind is set free) 2157 the opening of... what time is it? 2222 awake awaken wake. normally asleep until that moment when... what... where... 2238 reset. practice. grow. reformat. change program, transmissions 2304 center is key. 2323 no complicated manuvers. 2340 cultivations of original circuits 2400 kundalini is only ONE frequency. many frequencies in the spectrum 2422 white people always getting hung up on the power sex thing juar can't let go, fix the hair. 2444 primarilly energetic... not physical... 2530 bull shit on needing the transmission 2614 emotional circuits mind letting go of ALL outcomes 3232 cascading .... moving up and down sidhis seekers "control" the dream 3356 fingers

Lucid dreams are awesome! Though I still fight with the OBE or Lucid dream question, or maybe even a mixture of both? Set up a sign for yourself to kinda give you that "'ahh I m dreaming" message. What works for me is that as I go to "sleep" I'm aware that I am in bed, so if I find myself somewhere other than in bed it clicks " I m in bed, this isnt my bed so I must be dreaming" As for OBEs ( I think,but not 100% sure) what I do is lay down, relax and just quiet the mind, not forcefully though, if thoughts come let them just pass by at their own time, but dont focus on them. Don't fall asleep, just try to keep aware. After a while you'll feel vibes through your body, shortly after that moment what I do is roll to the side, and I m out ( I think ). Not matter what it is it's AWESOME! I just love t fly around, I feel like so happy the next morning

I'm sure you know this and I wasn't going to post.... but you never know. Network Network Network. I've never got a job from an advert in the paper. It's always been through people I know. Friends in large organizations (like a hospital ) can let you know what jobs are coming up and how to apply "correctly" to get one. Qhealth always has operational jobs (unskilled manual work) available, but it can be hard to land the permenant ones. Most of us get in by being casual first and only get the full time ones if we "Get on" with people. Friends in small business will almost always be looking for a good worker, or know someone who is. Do anything (pretty much) to get some cash. Then you can eat while you harass people for your dream job. You are in Brisbane, yes?

O.K. yesterday I went to Walgreens pharmacy and I found three different garlic oil capsules for sale, plus 3 different tablets. The highest allicin concentration claim was HALF of what the above garlic oil capsules claim. And based on that half highest it was still claimed that it took two to three oil capsules to be the equivalent of one clove of fresh garlic. So the 250 cloves of garlic claim is not accurate. Then I did a price comparison of fresh garlic to the odorless capsules and I figured it was a fairly equivalent price (compared to higher quality garlic -- I can get cheap garlic at 5 bulbs for a $1 but high grade is two bulbs for a $1). So then I bought two bottles of capsules -- at $7 each. I then immediately tried some capsules outside the store -- they killed off the rotten egg hydrogen sulfide smell from my previous fresh garlic which was a good start. The question remained would the garlic oil capsules kill off the bacteria from sugar? I can't smell the bacteria but I can feel it in my brain and leaching through my gums and nose, etc. -- from sitting in full-lotus -- it's a kind of tingling sensation (proprioreception). My coworkers and friends will definitely tell me when they can smell it! haha. So then I went to the grocery by my house -- I bought a box of donuts plus two bulbs of fresh high quality garlic (and some cleaning supplies for fresh smell -- vinegar and borax). I ate all the chocolate donuts in the box -- but couldn't finish the bad donuts left (a glazed, and some pastry). I also ate the two bulbs of fresh garlic at the same time. I was sitting in full-lotus the whole time while reading or watching a movie. I also had yogurt and an orange. I was down to one clove of fresh garlic left -- but there was still some bacteria left-over being leached through the brain and my gums and nose. So then I went into the garlic capsules to see if they would kill it off. I kept chewing the capsules to release the allicin in my mouth and to get it up into my brain -- via the full-lotus. The capsule were MAINLY SOY OIL -- and were ineffective against the bacteria. I ATE THE WHOLE BOTTLE OF GARLIC OIL CAPSULES IN ONE SITTING -- 100 capsules. Then I remembered that allicin is actually to lower the cholesterol -- as advertised on the garlic oil capsule bottles. Again it's the sulfuric acid which kills the bacteria and then the sulfur compounds kill the enzymes which the bacteria feed off of. That's why fresh garlic remains the real choice. My heart rate remained good but I was suspicious about the tingling in my hands and wrists. Then I realized it was from the borax I had used to clean my place. Nevertheless I kept sitting in full-lotus much longer than usual just to make sure my blood wasn't too thin from all the allicin. I was in full-lotus till about 2 a.m. or maybe 3 a.m. I just had bad garlic gas and then woke up again to "ye old perv" in the bathroom directly behind my head about 5 feet -- he was sucking up the electromagnetic energy in my brain. I realized that's why I was having this nice erotic dream.

Well, let's just keep the dream alive and it'll happen someone somehow sometime. No rush.

on the subject of ruining sleep. the first night i had a dreams about an japanese airline stewardess talking to me. but what she was saying didnt make any sense, as her sentences would stop at seemingly random times. then i woke up. the room was eerily lighted by the sky outside but the voice from the dream wasnt stopping. then i realized that it was the japanese lessions. the way i find most effective when learning is using taichi principles of just letting the information pass through you. I will use tamos cave meditation to supplement the learning i suppose. Maybe i should try sleeping on books. It seems like it would be a useful method if it worked. Im not concentrating on kanji just yet. im currently working on the speaking and listening part.

somebody's so uptight it's like a DREAM! *bows* must gratefully whats with those moves anyway I do them ever so often? is is the wig, I wonderl?