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Likewise. I just passed by to refresh my memory on some of your older posts here, esp. about the Sami, and noticed this conversation. I don’t make use of astrology personally.
If interested in NDE debate from a scientific standpoint, have a look at some of the episodes here:
This is not only not news to astronomers, it’s also not news to astrologers in the West, nor in India. (China I don’t know about.)
In the West most astrology is Tropical astrology which does indeed not factor precession. But there are many arguments by Tropical astrologers why that still works. There is also however a movement towards so-called ‘Sidereal astrology’ which gives you a different sign as noted, and also works somewhat differently. In the west the most important sidereal astrologer is probably Kenneth Bowser. He claims the Babylonians thought sidereally and it’s only during the Ptolemaic era that the sun signs became fixed in date.
Don’t miss the Dawkinsian undertone in the reporting — culturally speaking that is the real story.
lol on lawyers.
Numbers for industrial medicine are actually far worse than the government stats would indicate. It’s pretty much the number one cause of death in the US once you add everything up, and mostly preventable.
(sorry hit return)
… Mantak forewarded her jade egg book. Her Swimming Dragon demo on YouTube is recommended over porn any day.
Some people go into themselves and have a look at what is really there; others are content to try go along with the majority, but it is the first who ultimately become deeply comfortable within themselves, not the second.
There is all this (quite societally necessary) ‘supposed to’ stuff about sex, which varies massively with culture and period, but on the other hand — read Krafft-Ebing, Havelock Ellis, Kinsey, etc. There aren’t too many sexually ‘normal’ people around. One should be gentle with necessary hypocrisies in others, but once you get a handle on them in yourself, they tend to appear silly.
Good exchange with Bagua.
Personally I think it’s worth remembering that our sexualities begin sooner than most think or can remember. (Freud wasn’t wrong about everything.)
The upshot: sexual judgments and beliefs inside the self are extremely subconscious in the vast majority of people. Strain or awkwardness occurs because these judgments, ‘shoulds’, etc. haven’t all been examined. There tend to be quite a few of them. But they can all be resolved, and issues about ‘self-image’ (which essentially involve treating oneself as an object rather than a divine process) never stand in the way of the truth once it has been found. We get these judgments from the groupmind but no-one can stop us changing them.
The constant energetic exchanges we have with others are often sexual in nature. People are fully sexually aware in social situations, and the sexual is often about power on the social ladder, primates being what they are. However, people also respond to the energy of comfort-with-truth inside a person. Frankness is appreciated.
Things like this:
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… don’t seem automatically tense to me. Link below to a brief Saida Desilets interview in which she talks of public arousal as a gift to be transmuted, which is how I think of it too. Sexual behaviour occurs on a number of levels, and people are subsconsciously aware of them all the time I think. Just because things are not stated overtly, I wouldn’t conclude people are unaware of them.
Well, I’ll give you ‘cataclysm’ if you mean long Great Depressions (with all the undoubted) misery they entail, and ultimately the breakup of the Union, decline of industrial civilization over a century or two, etc. etc. Sure, it will involve some thinning of the human population.
But some are talking about ‘cataclysm’ as in pure permanent Mad Max or the End of Days… important to keep perspective. There’s a difference between a perfectly natural end to the civilizational lifecycle and Ragnarok.
Good to see you too!
I recommend looking into Transition Towns (link below) if you are interested in being prepared. Taoists of course have been through much of this kind of thing in their history and are used to seeing the world as cyclical.
‘Cataclysm’ may be a bit overstated though. Being a third world country simply means living roughly like most people do the world over. Some of the descent is obviously going to be bumpy in places, I don’t deny…
Over the time I’ve been visiting this site you (and one other person actually, but the other one is no longer here) have often made statements that I believed were simply wrong, and misleading to any inexperienced person who might read them. Considering this a public forum I think it’s important to note this. Perhaps if you don’t think seriousness is important you don’t think responsibility is so either, but I feel otherwise.
This seems to be my week to go back over old ground, what with trying to understand Wendy’s approach to popular love and all, and now I see you still doing the same thing. Of course I don’t want to go back over everything you’ve ever said, but in this case, I decided to sift it to the bottom.
As expected there is no real substance to what you said. This is ok, but I just wanted it recognized. There is a good deal of difference between your statements are mine, I do make certain that what I say is absolutely factually true to the best of my ability, and I do consider that to be important. I realize you don’t ‘take seriousness seriously’, so this won’t matter to you, but there was a time when I thought quite hard about all those things you said; I really tried to work out how you could possibly think they were true. In other words, I believed you meant them seriously.
I also feel that when you say things like:
“Alchemy east or west is very similar and the older you go the more silimiar they become”
“I think all traditions would be enhanced by Qigong. Which I am sure was cooked up by interaction with western, pan asian and cosmic alchemists alike.”
… etc., there is no particular reason to feel these statements have a solid basis in fact either. So I don’t take them seriously, especially since the person making them feels seriousness is so problematic. I won’t ask you yet again what is the basis for those statements.
Let the forum newcomer beware of taking things seriously which are said by people who do not believe in speaking seriously. I wish I had been.
As it happens you are 100% correct about Tolle, in fact there is a lot more to that story than you may realize. There is a debate going on that was started by Robert Bruce (another western energy system). It’s not in the public eye at the moment though and maybe it will never be.
That’s my last word here for a while I guess.
