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This is about a modern Indian hospital that observed him for ten days without eating or drinking. That is not as difficult as it sounds – I went a week on Mr. Hua. But if this guy did this for 64 years, that IS impressive!
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MichaelBeing married to a vegan I really know what that means. I can’t remember how many times my refrigerator was called a “vault of death”.
My sympathies.
But you get these quirks whenever you have a sweetie. 🙂
Best if you just laugh internally . . . if you know what’s good for you, lolHow can I resist? I just have to smile 🙂
Starsailor – Poor Misguided Fool
Starsailor – Poor Misguided Fool
Some good advice in the last song to not segregate thought from emotion. I would add that it is also wise not to divide emotion from thought. Practice makes imperfect acceptable!
On a more serious note, I also can’t resist this: watch the Dividing Wall symbolically be removed.
Scorpions – Wind Of Change
Thank you.
If it were not for this original post and those that followed, I would not have come across this song that YouTube insisted that I “Watch Next.”
Imagine Dragons – Shots (Official Lyrics)
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Ein Gespenst geht um in Europa – das Gespenst des Kommunismus. Alle Mächte des alten Europa haben sich zu einer heiligen Hetzjagd gegen dies Gespenst verbündet, der Papst und der Zar, Metternich und Guizot, französische Radikale und deutsche Polizisten.
-KARL MARX & FRIEDRICH ENGELS, Manifest der Kommunistischen ParteiA fundamentalist is somebody who adheres strictly to a particular doctrine or dogma, and allows no room for change or deviation from these ideas and practices. Doctrines to which a fundamentalist can adhere include the fundamental tenets of a religion, philosophy or any other dogma. Examples include Biblical literalism and creationism. Atheism, by the definition accepted by most atheists, has no positive beliefs intrinsic to it, and thereby no doctrine. It is only defined as a lack of belief in any of the many gods found in holy books throughout the world. There is no set of people who can be considered “more atheist” than the mainstream or moderate belief and hence there is no distinction between a “fundamentalist” and any other kind of atheist.
-http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Atheist_fundamentalismJasmuheen (born Ellen Greve; 1957) is a proponent of “pranic nourishment” or breatharianism, defined as the practice of living without food or fluid of any sort. She makes appearances at New Age conferences worldwide, has hosted spiritual retreats in Thailand and has released books and audio recordings…As of 2012, four deaths had been directly linked to breatharianism and Jasmuheen’s publications. Jasmuheen has denied any responsibility for the deaths.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JasmuheenThe Indian Rationalist Association has criticized the Indian Ministry of Defence (MoD) and America’s National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for promoting gullibility and undermining the development of scientific temper in India.
-http://www.rationalistinternational.net/article/20031201_en.htm?l=2003745As there are these dangerous practices belonging to waidan, also well-known effects of mercury should make one to ask if vajroli mudra really should be exercised with quicksilver even in small dosages.
-http://forum.healingdao.com/practice/message/24245/Like Americans, the Japanese support a massive underground economy, supported by legions of tax evaders, illegal workers, mobsters, drug users, and more…other groups with a penchant for avoiding the tax man include owners of hotels , hospitals, and loan companies, entertainers, physicians-and Buddhist monks.
-DAVID E. KAPLAN & ALEC DUBRO, Yakuza: Japan’s Criminal UnderworldIn fact, they had discussed the matter quite explicitly in the vote over the minutes back in May. Posen and Parker, believing their views had been misinterpreted by King, went to his press aide with an ultimatum: Unless the governor retracted his statement, they would go public with their objections. He didn’t. So they did.
-NEIL IRWIN, The Alchemists: Inside the Secret World of Central BankersI personally think that if these kind of things are possible it’s better to keep the secret.
But also for example sceptics are not necessarily only, in their own way, fundamentalist and nasty.
For example James Randi is in my opinion very decent and nice type of person.
But those sceptics who use rude methods deserve multiple times harsher treatment.
HOWDY
Ps. Sorry for broken English.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24kpAClYmmQ (jamesrandi)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRzOoa3JO7A (flyingdisco)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvHYlb-9f6M (heartorsoul)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HLez0YHM1c (marketsquare)
Hunger artists or starvation artists were performers, common in Europe and America in the 18th, 19th and early 20th century, who starved themselves for extended periods of time, for the amusement of paying audiences. The phenomenon first appeared in the 17th century and saw its heyday in the 1880s. Hunger artists were almost always male, traveled from city to city and performed widely advertised fasts of up to 40 days. Several hunger artists were found to have cheated during their performances.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunger_artistAccording to the British Press, David Blaine is said to have received between 600,000 and 1,2 million GBP for the 44 days live broadcasting by Channel 4 and Sky One.
-http://www.onlinefilm.org/en_EN/film/43535http://www.theguardian.com/media/2003/oct/20/broadcasting
Oliver Burkeman
Monday 20 October 2003 07.23 BST
Fans of David Blaine were in position by 3pm yesterday, shivering and counting down the hours until there wouldn’t be a man in a plastic box hanging from a crane for no immediately obvious reason.
Blaine was expected to be rushed to hospital yesterday evening after 44 days apparently without food, drinking only water, in an exercise variously received as a pointless publicity stunt and a quasi-religious experience.
He has endured heart palpitations, breathing problems, backache and blurred vision, and spectators hurling eggs and insults – not to mention finding space in his bank account for the profits from the television rights, sold to Sky and Channel 4 and said to be worth up to £3m.
Whatever else it has achieved, Blaine’s undertaking has highlighted the differences between American and British audiences. Mild insults were the worst he faced during a stunt in Manhattan; in London he has been the subject of psychological taunts including a man beating a drum whenever he tried to sleep and an organised “flash mob” whose members proferred hamburgers.
Nobody seemed to know whether he was cheating, though theories abounded – involving everything from glucose and sodium supplements to complex body-double schemes and holograms. But then again, the 30-year-old illusionist is an illusionist.
Many in the crowd of at least 1,000 didn’t care where truth ended and illusion began.
But Paul Kenny, the medic who has been monitoring Blaine, did. “First thing we do, we’ll sit him on a stretcher and do an electrocardiogram – because of the heart palpitations and because we think he’s probably broken down the fatty layer around his heart, starting to use that fat to survive,” he said.
“We’ll put him on oxygen, but we can’t put him on a drip until he’s had a blood test at the hospital, because if we fed him wrongly that could cause his cells to collapse, and he’d die.”
Mr Kenny said he thought the illusionist had probably lost around 2 stone (16kg).
“He will be in extremis,” said Catherine Collins, the chief dietician at St George’s Hospital, who earlier analysed Blaine’s drinking water and declared it unsullied by supplements.
“They’re saying he’s got blurred vision, and that could be due to low blood pressure, or to a swollen brain if he truly is salt-depleted. Or maybe he’s somehow taking a tiny bit of salt, below the threshold you would detect in urine. He’s an illusionist, so if he’s doing that, then he’s very clever.”
If not, she said, there was a risk of “refeeding syndrome”, where a starving person’s digestive and immune systems are so degraded that ordinary food can lead to death.
“And if he drinks any milk he may suffer for it,” she said: “Explosive diarhhoea.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDGPwYvQZIY
As with many things in modern culture I have difficulty understanding … what this is.
Is anyone doing anything ? Or is it just a “spectacle”, meaning everyone at the show is in their normal hypnotic subconscious state and they have no clue about who they are.
Does this man have any powers or capacities ? Has he anything to say or show us ? Difficult to tell … why doesn’t he do something a bit closer to people … and show them what he can do, if he can do something.
Or is nothing actually happening. It seems he is making money, the TV companies are making money, and the public are relieved of the boredom of their lives for a few moments (any reason will do) … and really nothing is happening.
On youtube you see people doing fasts … and they upload a video each day and talk into the camera. That is interesting.
The Shaolin Monks do a nice performance and demonstrate their “powers”, although I have myself punched and chopped my way through a few bricks and bits of wood … not really a big deal.
Carlos Castaneda
The Jorney to Ixtlan
Third book in the series.
Introduction……………………………………………………………………….4
Part 1: Stopping the World
1. Reaffirmations From The World Around Us……………………….9
2. Erasing Personal History…………………………………………………..14
3. Losing Self-Importance…………………………………………………….19
4. Death is an Adviser…………………………………………………………..24
5. Assuming Responsibility…………………………………………………..30
6. Becoming a Hunter…………………………………………………………..36
7. Being Inaccessible……………………………………………………………42
8. Disrupting the Routines of Life …………………………………………49
9. The Last Battle on Earth …………………………………………………..53
10. Becoming Accessible to Power ……………………………………….59
11. The Mood of a Warrior……………………………………………………68
12. A Battle of Power……………………………………………………………77
13. A Warrior’s Last Stand…………………………………………………….87
14. The Gait of Power…………………………………………………………..96
15. Not-Doing……………………………………………………………………..110
16. The Ring of Power …………………………………………………………120
17. A Worthy Opponent………………………………………………………..127
Part Two: Journey to Ixtlan
18. The Sorcerer’s Ring of Power…………………………………………..137
19. Stopping the World…………………………………………………………145
20. Journey To Ixtlan……………………………………………………………151
-https://moonmetaphysics.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/carlos-castaneda-all-books-in-one.pdfI almost agree.
My suggestion is, for example, to study some Castaneda if one doesn’t feel like being enough self-sufficient and self-contained.
Already chapter names tell what it is about.
HOWDY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcjcE-zwnZo
. . . these are all things that pull you away from actually living your life–the one you see in front of you. In reality, you are as pulled away from the world as these other folks that you ridicule for being pulled away from the world for other reasons. In fact, that’s the whole point to your post: you are becoming more disconnected from the external world.
-http://forum.healingdao.com/general/message/25736/She explained that a recapitulation is the forte of stalkers as the dreaming body is the forte of
dreamers. It consisted of recollecting one’s life down to the most insignificant detail. Thus her
benefactor had given her that crate as a tool and a symbol. It was a tool that would permit her to
learn concentration, for she would have to sit in there for years, until all of her life had passed in
front of her eyes. And it was a symbol of the narrow boundaries of our person. Her benefactor
told her that whenever she had finished her recapitulation, she would break the crate to symbolize
that she no longer abided by the limitations of her person.
-https://moonmetaphysics.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/carlos-castaneda-all-books-in-one.pdfSorry for my broken English.
..as with many things in modern culture I have difficulty understanding … what this is…
For this kind of situation I suggest RECAPITULATION.
That Castaneda quote should already be enough to start with.
It is to strengthen the mind and also one’s emotional intelligence.
HOWDY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_373M_YbQw
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