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On hinoto-ushi (sexagenary “fire ox”) day[a] [24th day of the 5th month, Mommu 3 (June 26, 699 AD)], En no Kimi Ozunu was banished to Izu no Shima. Ozunu had first lived in Mount Katsuragi and been acclaimed for his sorcery and was the teacher of Outer Junior 5th Rank Lower Grade Karakuni no Muraji Hirotari (ja). Later, [a person (or Hirotari?)]…[Read more]

The term pratyahara is composed of two Sanskrit words, prati and ahara. Ahara means “food,” or “anything we take into ourselves from the outside.” Prati is a preposition meaning “against” or “away.” Pratyahara means literally “control of ahara,” or “gaining mastery over external influences.” It is compared to a turtle withdrawing its limbs into…[Read more]

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/12/31/us/ohio-transgender-teen-suicide/

By Ashley Fantz, CNN

(CNN)—When Josh Alcorn voiced a desire to live as a girl, the Ohio teenager’s parents said they wouldn’t stand for that.

“We don’t support that, religiously,” Alcorn’s mother told CNN on Wednesday, her voice breaking. “But we told him that we loved…[Read more]

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/12/30/study-finds-emotions-can-be-mapped-to-the-body

A new Finnish study looks at how changes in our bodies could shape how we experience emotions.

By Shannon Firth

Dec. 30, 2013 | 5:05 p.m. EST

Witnessing two lovers reunite on screen elicits feelings of happiness. Watching someone throw up…[Read more]

Yoga is a vast system of spiritual practices for inner growth. To this end, the classical yoga system incorporates eight limbs, each with its own place and function. Of these, pratyahara is probably the least known. How many people, even yoga teachers, can define pratyahara? Have you ever taken a class in pratyahara? Have you ever seen a book on…[Read more]

The Parable of the Burning House appears in Chapter 3 ( the Hiyu Chapter ) of the Lotus Sutra. In this parable a scenario is presented where children are in great danger in a house on fire…
-http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/buddhism/parable_burning_house.html

excessive or unrestrained gratification of one’s own appetites, desires, or whims…[Read more]

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/biohacking-care/

The big question about biohacking is, what is it? That’s a question my editors and my friends all asked me as I prepared a story for the PBS NewsHour on this new biology term. And when I answered them, they still didn’t quite get it. So I’ll try again, with some help from the folks I ta…[Read more]

… claims that correlative thought was in some way unique to China have seriously impeded comparative studies; known by other names, correlative tendencies were no less prominent (and were sometimes more extreme) in premodfern India, the Middle East, the West, and Mesoamerica than in China….Our model pictures the growth of “high correlative” –…[Read more]

Interesting would be if Mr. Yudelove would allow himself to be asked about the ‘Star in the Circle’ which he suggests as an alternative to Ba Gua, used in the Fusion practices, in ‘Taoist Yoga and Sexual Energy.’
-http://forum.healingdao.com/general/message/20337/

Scientific literacy encompasses written, numerical, and digital literacy as…[Read more]

A shadow is a region where light from a light source is obstructed by an opaque object. It occupies all of the three-dimensional volume behind an object with light in front of it. The cross section of a shadow is a two-dimensional silhouette, or reverse projection of the object blocking the light.
-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow

A gnomon…[Read more]

Deductive reasoning, also deductive logic or logical deduction or, informally, “top-down” logic, is the process of reasoning from one or more statements (premises) to reach a logically certain conclusion. It differs from inductive reasoning or abductive reasoning. Deductive reasoning links premises with conclusions. If all premises are true, the…[Read more]

The Boston Scientific Corporation (abbreviated BSC) is a worldwide developer, manufacturer and marketer of medical devices whose products are used in a range of interventional medical specialties, including interventional radiology, interventional cardiology, peripheral interventions, neuromodulation, neurovascular intervention, electrophysiology,…[Read more]

A catechism (pronunciation: /ˈkætəˌkizəm/; from Greek: κατηχέω, to teach orally), is a summary or exposition of doctrine and served as a learning introduction to the Sacraments traditionally used in catechesis, or Christian religious teaching of children and adult converts. Catechisms are doctrinal manuals – often in the form of questions…[Read more]

Syncretism (/ˈsɪŋkrətɪzəm/) is the combining of different, often contradictory beliefs, while melding practices of various schools of thought. Syncretism involves the merger and analogizing of several originally discrete traditions, especially in the theology and mythology of religion, thus asserting an underlying unity and allowing for an…[Read more]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0emwgBK7lG4

120. Killing, attracting, fascinating, paralyzing others, causing hatred among others, enchanting and inspiring others, cultivating, donating, being enraged and disturbed and buying and selling.
121. The solar swara is auspicious for attracting (calling) spirits, hostility, killing the enemy, using the sword while fighting the enemy, sensual…[Read more]

It has come to our attention that Namkhai Norbu has instructed his students together with him to engage in Vajrakilaya practices and to recite thousands of mantras aimed at the destruction of Dorje Shugden. Vajrakilaya practices should be done with the sublime motivation of reaching the highest enlightenment in order to bring benefit to all…[Read more]

Kundalini can also awaken spontaneously, for no obvious reason or triggered by intense personal experiences such as accidents, near death experiences, childbirth, emotional trauma, extreme mental stress, and so on. Some sources attribute spontaneous awakenings to the “grace of God”, or possibly to spiritual practice in past lives. A spontaneous…[Read more]

BOOKSTORES ARE FILLED today with paperbacks that describe the chakras, the energy centers through which Tantric yogis guide the Kundalini to attain realization.

The book you are about to read is one of the earliest in that genre. It was written more than five hundred years ago in Sanskrit by a Bengali yogi named Purnananda. We know this book…[Read more]

Après le portrait type des morphinomanes, la morphinomanie chez les femmes, le luxe et le morphinisme, voici un cas d’école des méfaits de la morphine sur un poète fin-de-siècle, à savoir Édouard Dubus (1864-1895), mort pathétiquement d’une surdose à 30 ans près d’une pissotière de la Place Maubert à Paris. Ce cas entre la catégorie des morphino…[Read more]