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Good story Steven – we are all so tied into distraction.

My car radio has slowly been dying, receiving ever-fewer stations with ever-more static. About 8X a week I have a one-hour drive, and I click away between bad stations, looking for…something.

Meanwhile, I miss connections with my environs — the wild and rugged escarpment, the…[Read more]

As I read your post, I quietly resonated with deep Earth. Your post was uncontrived, and it worked. I then looked at you blog and some of it felt similarly uncontrived, and other parts did seem written in a forced way of recording to prove.

For awhile on taobums I was recording sessions of shamanic exploration using the method of Focussing…[Read more]

Not major, but how about the ongoing Kashmiri border skirmishes between Pakistan and India, or the conflict last summer between Israel and Lebanon?

Information on current and recent wars at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ongoing_wars

But, you are correct, most of the armed conflicts are in countries with marginal democracies at best.

The…[Read more]

Your “stories” are not pollution — they are glimpses of living dao, not abstracted dao of concepts and models.

thanks,
Chris

A lot of energy being released by you! Any relation to the big storm in your area? 🙂

I hope it keeps going so well.

It is good to hear that you are both getting more space to grow, but can still be committed to what you have.

These questions of physical sex vs. shen sex are difficult. Having this physical body, do we learn best by engaging in physical sex? Or, does having a physical body amplify the attraction so much that shen sex can occur, something that is not possible for us when non-bodied?

For me, physical sex has always been so complicated. When I was young,…[Read more]

Top 10 lists.

Any list with ten points to it seems trivialized by association with arbitrary compilations of “top 10” lists of movies etc. Even more trivializing is the association with David Letterman’s “top 10…” which is further trivialized by association with his “stupid X tricks”.

Go for 9.

I like these!

One thing: Surrender (1) and Letting Go (5) sound the same, though the descriptions are different. Perhaps rename them to clarify there differences, or compile them (with the fortunate side affect of appeasing Wendy 🙂

Barry said: I spent a long week in Glastonbury this summer before your gathering and soaked up the Tor and Well. My plan is to attend this September (though Michael sent me a cryptic message suggesting NOT doing Greatest this year but some revision of the primary formulas) as I am ready for that next Kan and Li…[Read more]

Hi Barry,

It does sound like your practice has…withered/run dry/hit a wall etc.

This is a time of great opportunity! This is the time when you make the big leap/shift.

How to do that? For me, it is to get into communication with the relevant parts – the parts that “likes to do alchemy, and the parts that “don’t”. Discover what…[Read more]

NN,

Any suggested resources on the panoply of earth spirits / elementals / djinn, and how to contact them?

thanks,
Chris

1) for pictures already on the web: just create a link to htem

2) for personal pictures:
a) Become a member of Taobums.
b) Upload your picture to their gallery
c) create a link to the picture and name it.

Note: I don’t know how to make “Insert Image” to work, but the two methods above will allow the picture to be seen.

Yours in…[Read more]

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Have you explored diet? I suffered from anal fissures for many years. They cleared up once I got off caffeine. For other people their body is “allergic” to other things (e.g. apples).

I found a website once that people posted what they removed from their diet to remove the hemmorhoids or anal fissures; if you do a bit of searching you should…[Read more]

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The Shaolin Master I used to train with often mentioned “mosquitos”. I interpreted them to be little energetic beings that would nip at us and take a bit of energy, much as mosquitos take blood. He would cleanse the room with different incenses to clear the type of mosquito/energy that was active under the conditions of that day.

But, I don’t…[Read more]

Snowy,

To see what all the hullaballoo was about, I signed up for David’s site that Sean Denty runs; you can too.

I read some of the student postings, read some of David’s writings, and will go back sometime to read some more and sense into it all. I don’t plan to post there, because I am not a student of David’s and feel no need to judge…[Read more]

I was out in the forest, below some cliffs, just after sunset, looking through the trees, over the city, to the Great Lake Ontario beyond, sitting on a big tree root, settling into sun-moon-earth inside me.

Hmmm? I just couldn’t resonate with the Earth — where was the green vibrance, the mellow glow? Then I realized the phase of the year and…[Read more]

Hi Wendy,

Happy birthday!

Your thoughts about the subtle judgement that is inherent in perception and concepts (my words, not yours) reminded me of similar things I have dealt with.

I have two thoughts about it:

1) From TTC, Chapter 1, Addiss& Lombardo translation:
“Nameless: the origin of heaven and earth.
Naming: the mother of ten…[Read more]