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I respond but you do not understand

I didn’t say you didn’t respond. What I said was that you didn’t respond to any of the specific points Michael raised. And you didn’t. Just as you didn’t respond to the specific points I or Steven raised.

Perhaps you can consider what Manufacturing Consent means.

But, there again, it would appear that you…[Read more]

A well-informed post.

Noticeable how rideforever – once again – doesn’t respond to any specific points raised.

Plus ça change!

In previous posts you Islam isn’t violent.

Much of my previous post set out reasons why Islam is violent.

But you pretty much ignore what I said (see Steven’s posts), change the subject and return to your well-worn theme of the moral bankruptcy and degeneracy of the West. We get it. I mean, how could we not get it? After all, you’ve made…[Read more]

​​​Your posts on Islam are ill-informed, childish and arrogant.

ILL-INFORMED

Is there violence in the Quran? Yes.

Well at least you got that one right. But even though the founding text is riddled with violence, apparently

Islam is not violent…

Really?

The founder of Islam was deeply violent. He was a warlord who fought in 27 military…[Read more]

Bart Jordan’s an interesting guy. Here’s an extended interview with him on YouTube. And here’s one of Jordan’s articles, Ice Age Art and Science. Michael references this and another Jordan piece in his Magic Numbers, Planetary Tones and the Body: The Evolution of Daoist Inner Alchemy into Modern Sacred Science.

The two Daily Bell articles and Björkman claim that atomic bombs weren’t very effective, certainly not nearly as effective as mainstream history suggests.

At the same time, we are told that Bart Jordan was channelling esoteric info from very ancient Greece in an attempt to make the bombs effective.

The implication would thus appear to be…[Read more]

The article that Michael posts states

If one is clear-eyed, one is supposed to explain that Islam is a religion of violence and that Muslims have been at war with Christians for more than a thousand years.

In fact, to be properly “anti-PC” one is supposed to acknowledge that the conflict between East and West goes back many thousands of y…

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Clearly, a minority of Muslims are violent. But that violence finds ample justification in the core texts of Islam and from the classical jurisprudence based upon those texts. Clearly, the texts are not a sufficient cause of jihadi violence but they are certainly a necessary cause.

As Bernard Lewis, described by the New York Times as “the…[Read more]

I’m massively looking forward to Michael’s book(s) on Primordial, but suspect they will emerge in their own good time!!! As Michael wrote in 2014

I’ve been talking about my forthcoming book on Primordial Qigong/Tai Chi for several years! It has now become two books, there was too much deep information on Tao Cosmology and new insights into how…

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I’m less interested in stories and technical theory, then I am in practices and actual direct experience. People can say all kinds of things, but it doesn’t mean that they are true. The only real truth is what you can uncover for yourself through direct experience via potent spiritual methods.

You may just have a point!!

Thanks for clarifying.

I should perhaps have clarified in my previous post that I was including the oversoul quotes/links simply as a resource for those like me who know little about oversoul stuff. Wasn’t trying to entice you into writing a long essay!

Been doing a bit of a web search on oversouls. Thought it worth mentioning that…[Read more]

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You are looking at this on the wrong level.

Indeed I am! Thanks for clarifying. I’ll have another go.

I now read Michael to be saying that, in terms of expendability and mourning, an individual’s skin cells are to that individual as individuals are to Humanity/the Oversoul. That is, just as an individual regards their skin cells as…[Read more]

Steven, enjoyed reading your trenchant thoughts. A few thoughts of my own. Michael writes

Individual humans are like tiny cells in the body of Humanity – we are totally expendable. Do you hold a funeral and sob when a few cells on your skin die? It is the same for Humanity. Souls flux in, souls flux out. The deaths of those children serve the…

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Came across this by Michael a few weeks ago. Seems relevant to this discussion. (The bold in the quote is mine.)

Q. Is there any connection between the mass murder of 28 school kids & teachers in Connecticut and the timing of this Galactic alignment?

A. I feel they are deeply connected. Tao is about synchronicity. The murders happened on the…

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Fascinating quote from Jay Garfield!

Similarly, Paul Williams notes

Buddhapalita…says that Nagarjuna wrote the MMK [Mūlamadhyamakakārika] in order to teach the intrinsic nature of dependent origination.

Not sure this essay by Michael answers your question, but thought it worth flagging up, anyway.

Magic Numbers, Planetary Tones and the Body: The Evolution of Daoist Inner Alchemy into Modern Sacred Science

The original form taught by Jiang Nan was not taught with any toning whatsoever, despite maybe some reference to the fact that there may be some used privately in the lineage family. Others have added stuff on, by their own choice. Michael had added on a seven-tone toning scheme that he uses in his Adv. K&L coursework.

Is the same seven-tone scheme…[Read more]

Thanks, Steven. Very interesting that the optimal period is midnight-3am. But I can assure you that this early hours slot holds not the slightest lure for me. I’d struggle to do Ocean Breathing at that time!