Simon V.

The story of Reid’s connection to Blofeld:

http://www.danreid.org/daniel-reid-articles-john-blofeld-the-wheel-of-life.htm

He is running a detox program in Australia with his wife. His latest book is called the Tao of Detox.

Simon

Thanks for the this, and I checked out Russln’s link.
I hadn’t heard of him. I’ve just been looking into “The Keely Motor” as well…
I’m particularly interestned in his “Heimkraftwerk” idea. We really, really need this kind of thing in the world, and the more people there are working on such ideas independently and enmasse the better, to pull…[Read more]

I was also interested then (it was late eighties and nineties I guess) by Robert Anton Wilson–you find what you’re looking for in your ‘reality tunnel’ kind of thing. But there IS an order to things on the other hand, and there are discarnate entities, but that’s a pretty big grab bag.
Taking into consideration the idea of ‘elementals’…[Read more]

First time I heard anyone else having that quirk!
I am not sure I buy the material on that website though, but it certainly is curious to me that others have had the thing of looking at the clock at 111 or 1111, as I had never heard of it being a ‘thing’ en masse.
In my case I chalked it up to preconscious association to my birthday (11 Jan),…[Read more]

I couldn’t help but interject this ambiguous but beautiful Leonard Cohen poem on the topic of love:

Dance me to the End of Love

Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
Dance me through the panic ’til I’m gathered safely in
Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove
Dance me to the end of love
Yeah dance me to the end…[Read more]

Well, I can relate to that from my own life.
My philosophy is to maintain friendship if at all possible, over and above any changes in the ‘offical status’ of relationships. It’s always great to see when that is possible.

Sorry I forgot to answer your question–yes I’m in Canada, in Halifax.

There again it’s hard not to be affected by the person lying right next to you, who’ve you’ve just made love with, and will wake up with.
Pros and cons. Naturally it depends on each other’s mutual stage, each other’s trajectory.
I recall experiences sleeping with women where the dreams were really quite odd, where I found myself feeling like I…[Read more]

I see your point about Cohen. But I have a lot of sympathy for that guy, his poetry, his wisdom. It’s a different path he’s on, not really strictly a meditation oriented–it’s an aesthetic path mainly. He’s reaping the fruit he’s sewn and I find what I glimpse of it both grounding and mind expanding. He doesn’t actually consider himself a…[Read more]

When I was living in Germany (Stuttgart area) I was once approached by a woman who was a refugee from the eastern european crisis (around 2000). I simply don’t remember what nationality she was in that mix–nor do I care.

I was riding on the train home to the town I was living in with my now ex wife (who is still a great friend I’m happy to…[Read more]

Actually I saw a show on this on tv at the gym a while back. I was sitting on the couch at the gym eating Doritos, happy as a clam. No, of course it was one of those screens that blare at you from the wall, meant to distract you from paying attention to your body as you work out.
But it was interesting and I followed along. I also found that it…[Read more]

“are there both men and women who tire of this “game” and instead seek connections on deeper levels (levels which become accessible through cultivation)?”

Well, of course there are. But people also go through stages; the game may come up and get shelved several times over.

I think DNA is being given more credit than it’s due here, frankly,…[Read more]

I think this is a confusing and very vital–and also scary–point for many people. To speak of it briefly as ‘the ordinary souls dissolve’ and leave it at that is too little or too much (better to leave it out if one isn’t going to clarify it).
It contradicts (on the surface) people’s common experience of communicating with fully volitional loved…[Read more]

Thanks for providing this space for all of us, it’s really appreciated.

Happy New Year all.

This is evocative stuff.
Even if it doesn’t turn out to be as promising as it seems, it still illustrates how there is that ever-present potential ‘novelty factor’ that no one can fully factor in to (mundanely considered) calculations, like Einstein breaking onto the scene suddenly with three essays to radically change the…[Read more]

I heard an interview with him too, on the local CBC. About his book–‘Meditations from the Joint’. He was funny, but also very sincere, very friendly.

My mother has these old albums of the ‘The Goon Show’ and also an amazing one with a long interview with Sellers on it, which she played again not long ago when I was visiting, in which he does…[Read more]

All of Monty Python and Peter Sellers.

If we could take over the tv and computer screens of the world for one week, and play non-stop Monty Python on them, I predict that the resulting confusion, hilarity, and inability to make one’s cherished ideaologies sound like they ought to be taken all that seriously, would result in nuclear…[Read more]