Healing Tao USA | Simon V. | Activity https://healingtaousa.com/members/simon-v/activity/ Activity feed for Simon V.. Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:23:16 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 a54c64ae1e83fbcd1e0689d836a7fe30 Simon V. replied to the topic Finally....."Old Pu's Travel Diary in the forum General https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/finally-old-pus-travel-diary/#post-26471 Wed, 05 Dec 2007 16:17:33 -0400 The story of Reid’s connection to Blofeld:

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

]]> f6c3216af9080781892288e550074efd Simon V. replied to the topic Finally....."Old Pu's Travel Diary in the forum General https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/finally-old-pus-travel-diary/#post-26469 Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:40:52 -0400 He is running a detox program in Australia with his wife. His latest book is called the Tao of Detox.

Simon

]]> d30203a513e95d223d9042bc3bed8263 Simon V. replied to the topic viktor schauberger clippings in the forum General https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/viktor-schauberger-clippings/#post-24658 Sat, 06 Oct 2007 10:10:54 -0400 86c9afbc1ba37443a6b909fdff201ef9 Simon V. replied to the topic viktor schauberger clippings in the forum General https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/viktor-schauberger-clippings/#post-24654 Thu, 04 Oct 2007 09:28:04 -0400 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]

]]> 97f1d140690cf8e151f5191bf23a6935 Simon V. replied to the topic 11:11 in the forum General https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/1111/#post-23633 Sat, 18 Aug 2007 20:16:15 -0400 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]

]]> 9b21661cdc88c740a584b083ab48c81e Simon V. replied to the topic 11:11 in the forum General https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/1111/#post-23629 Sat, 18 Aug 2007 11:17:09 -0400 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]

]]> 0630631e8b786617e75aac90e9d32e58 Simon V. replied to the topic Sleep in the forum General https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/sleep/#post-22454 Sun, 03 Jun 2007 06:55:33 -0400 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]

]]> a7a2f46b21b317a5746d365f9d4aa07b Simon V. replied to the topic Sleep in the forum General https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/sleep/#post-22450 Tue, 29 May 2007 05:53:37 -0400 81e3dead53dbf3f674fb680c8aeb4b00 Simon V. replied to the topic Sleep in the forum General https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/sleep/#post-22448 Tue, 29 May 2007 05:51:54 -0400 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.

]]> 8f0e39f6779adc69209fd7886d6d1b5e Simon V. replied to the topic Sleep in the forum General https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/sleep/#post-22442 Mon, 28 May 2007 20:21:49 -0400 Sorry I forgot to answer your question–yes I’m in Canada, in Halifax.

]]> 34920c596f6ca0e60127c0b8beefc928 Simon V. replied to the topic Sleep in the forum General https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/sleep/#post-22440 Mon, 28 May 2007 20:20:53 -0400 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]

]]> 78941dfc781e1078d6e35753c9b7a152 Simon V. replied to the topic Sleep in the forum General https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/sleep/#post-22438 Mon, 28 May 2007 20:10:44 -0400 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]

]]> 581b193e79436d38b37e6a1b229dab07 Simon V. replied to the topic Need your advice, what would you do? in the forum General https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/need-your-advice-what-would-you-do/page/2/#post-21573 Sun, 11 Mar 2007 00:09:15 -0400 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]

]]> 77237754dd755f619064b1937988eef5 Simon V. replied to the topic The Happiest Man in the World? (Hype on meditation?) in the forum Philosophy https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/the-happiest-man-in-the-world-hype-on-meditation/#post-20647 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 05:27:25 -0400 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]

]]> 967a0f32d0e45007134034cd79eeba8d Simon V. replied to the topic Why do Women Lose Sex Drive within Long Term Relationships? Science study. in the forum General https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/why-do-women-lose-sex-drive-within-long-term-relationships-science-study/#post-20311 Wed, 10 Jan 2007 16:35:07 -0400 “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]

]]> 73960649064cd421389f3a5039e047b3 Simon V. replied to the topic Ten Essential Principles of Tao Self-Cultivation in the forum Philosophy https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/ten-essential-principles-of-tao-self-cultivation/page/2/#post-20088 Sun, 07 Jan 2007 12:22:31 -0400 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]

]]> 06defa397a7c35200dde052eb492529f Simon V. replied to the topic Happy New Year and Thanks to all Forum contributors in the forum General https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/happy-new-year-and-thanks-to-all-forum-contributors/#post-20111 Wed, 03 Jan 2007 16:45:26 -0400 Thanks for providing this space for all of us, it’s really appreciated.

]]> 074d53a21477174eb2ed565b7a375a82 Simon V. replied to the topic Anti-Aging Molecule Discovered in the forum General https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/anti-aging-molecule-discovered/#post-20125 Wed, 03 Jan 2007 16:14:20 -0400 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]

]]> bfebe573172744c6ccf8553fa27bc9d6 Simon V. replied to the topic Favorite comedians? in the forum General https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/favorite-comedians/#post-19907 Fri, 22 Dec 2006 05:09:34 -0400 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]

]]> c1c833737f3262646c5f5cabd5e48f55 Simon V. replied to the topic Favorite comedians? in the forum General https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/favorite-comedians/#post-19903 Thu, 21 Dec 2006 05:43:24 -0400 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]

]]> 760eb7f44cd666fc34c6d4020ddd9002 Simon V. replied to the topic Is Levitation a mark of Enlightenment? (Science Article + video) in the forum General https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/is-levitation-a-mark-of-enlightenment-science-article-video/#post-19790 Thu, 14 Dec 2006 05:06:50 -0400 Interesting–I’d never heard the f-sharp, centre of the earth connection though it makes perfect sense. It’s been my conviction for some time that the pyramids must be amplifiers.

Finding the tone of the centre… It seems they took their ‘meditation practice’ rather seriously in those days. Naturally they would also be fine places to perform…[Read more]

]]> 6046694f8963056ee50f14af620d4311 Simon V. replied to the topic Is Levitation a mark of Enlightenment? (Science Article + video) in the forum General https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/is-levitation-a-mark-of-enlightenment-science-article-video/#post-19786 Thu, 07 Dec 2006 16:13:39 -0400 In Jane Roberts’ material that’s exactly how building of the pyramids is said to have occured (as you say, using vibration).

This might belong more to the philosophy section, but what you’re saying about enlightenment and special abilities like levitation makes me think of reading The Book of Five Rings (by the 16th century samurai, Miyamoto…[Read more]

]]> 9abe3418d3ab4bc3648376105166c775 Simon V. replied to the topic Quiz to Test Your Level of Enlightenment in the forum General https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/quiz-to-test-your-level-of-enlightenment/#post-19505 Mon, 27 Nov 2006 23:35:46 -0400 Though my last limerick’s scansion was off,
As a drunk taoist at stiff rules I scoff;
Being of quick wit,
And terribly fit,
The chains of creed I easily cast off!

]]> 70dc6897de71c9cbe554ebde921716e8 Simon V. replied to the topic Quiz to Test Your Level of Enlightenment in the forum General https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/quiz-to-test-your-level-of-enlightenment/#post-19503 Mon, 27 Nov 2006 22:43:54 -0400 When a monk is caught napping,
It’s not enough to sound out with one hand clapping…
But I’d rather be a carefree taoist drunk,
Than a comfortably napping monk,
Receiving from the master a stern slapping!

]]> 0eca239d58cdde7e4bd3e0f37e1ca632 Simon V. replied to the topic Livia Kohn on Daoist "Sitting in Forgetfulness" vs. Chan/Zen Emptiness vs. Inner alchemy in the forum Philosophy https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/livia-kohn-on-daoist-sitting-in-forgetfulness-vs-chanzen-emptiness-vs-inner-alchemy/page/2/#post-19008 Wed, 08 Nov 2006 05:44:37 -0400 That’s true. Stuck in his own ancestral stream perhaps. Also, he wanted to revive and renovate christianity; that’s one of the main reasons he split with theosophy–he didn’t like their mostly eastern focus. I’m not sure myself of his big emphasis on Christ’s role in history, but do sympathasize with the desire to rescue the western tradition from…[Read more]

]]> a85755b1e0bbd1295602a81f5f654a17 Simon V. replied to the topic Livia Kohn on Daoist "Sitting in Forgetfulness" vs. Chan/Zen Emptiness vs. Inner alchemy in the forum Philosophy https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/livia-kohn-on-daoist-sitting-in-forgetfulness-vs-chanzen-emptiness-vs-inner-alchemy/page/2/#post-19006 Wed, 08 Nov 2006 05:39:26 -0400 Steiner (I recently read in a Wikipedia thing) was really stung by early Nazism. Steiner died in ’25 but warned that if the Nazis were to come fully to power it would mean dire consequences for Europe. A lot more prescient than many powerful intellectuals of the day…

]]> 6cb4ccdd08a4778bb5ddc1c9c8e216b0 Simon V. replied to the topic Livia Kohn on Daoist "Sitting in Forgetfulness" vs. Chan/Zen Emptiness vs. Inner alchemy in the forum Philosophy https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/livia-kohn-on-daoist-sitting-in-forgetfulness-vs-chanzen-emptiness-vs-inner-alchemy/page/2/#post-19000 Tue, 07 Nov 2006 00:46:25 -0400 I don’t know what the current Steiner scene is like, only that the Waldorf schools are still going strong (and I don’t know much about those). I just know that I like Steiner’s books, though some of it’s pretty cryptic, occult even. : )

]]> 7a861100748592fbac69ff9caf801003 Simon V. replied to the topic Livia Kohn on Daoist "Sitting in Forgetfulness" vs. Chan/Zen Emptiness vs. Inner alchemy in the forum Philosophy https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/livia-kohn-on-daoist-sitting-in-forgetfulness-vs-chanzen-emptiness-vs-inner-alchemy/page/2/#post-18996 Mon, 06 Nov 2006 09:28:40 -0400 I find Steiner very interesting, a cut above the rest.

There are some great new teachers. This is a good place here.
I also think the primal shamanistic emphasis is important. I like to ask: ‘Which came first, the guru or the student?’ The origin has to be in the deep dreaming mind, poetically giving birth to situations of spiritual tuition.

]]> 24f3a58202e2ba5d13295575f3372dec Simon V. replied to the topic Livia Kohn on Daoist "Sitting in Forgetfulness" vs. Chan/Zen Emptiness vs. Inner alchemy in the forum Philosophy https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/livia-kohn-on-daoist-sitting-in-forgetfulness-vs-chanzen-emptiness-vs-inner-alchemy/page/2/#post-18994 Mon, 06 Nov 2006 09:18:01 -0400 Yeah, I mean, the guy is definitely devoted to the dharma, you have to give him that.
: ). And I’d get my pals to give me glowing reviews too. “The most stupendous book ever written. I fainted through sheer joy.”

You’ve been a naughty buddhist eh? A new buddhist school should be started I think, based on the union of emptiness and naughtyness,…[Read more]

]]> 0fd21f2488e6ef08a210f0fdc5d25c2b Simon V. replied to the topic Request feedback on new Healing Tao Mission statement in the forum Philosophy https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/request-feedback-on-new-healing-tao-mission-statement/#post-19079 Sun, 05 Nov 2006 09:41:42 -0400 I find nothing fundamentally wrong with this statement, and much good.

I don’t remember exactly, but I was fond of the idea–which I seem to remember was in the first mission statement–of what I recall as an idea of openness to other points of view (i.e., different spiritual traditions not dissimilar to daoism). This attracted me at that time.

Simon

]]> 78f23c5c623638c4dc56b146ed83d8ee Simon V. replied to the topic Livia Kohn on Daoist "Sitting in Forgetfulness" vs. Chan/Zen Emptiness vs. Inner alchemy in the forum Philosophy https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/livia-kohn-on-daoist-sitting-in-forgetfulness-vs-chanzen-emptiness-vs-inner-alchemy/#post-18990 Sun, 05 Nov 2006 09:19:01 -0400 You know, the only thing I really want to say is: my heart is with with you all.

]]> e3f787a332db8a8fbd31a184fd07f904 Simon V. replied to the topic Livia Kohn on Daoist "Sitting in Forgetfulness" vs. Chan/Zen Emptiness vs. Inner alchemy in the forum Philosophy https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/livia-kohn-on-daoist-sitting-in-forgetfulness-vs-chanzen-emptiness-vs-inner-alchemy/#post-18988 Sat, 04 Nov 2006 19:48:24 -0400 Hi Rex

No, I haven’t read it. But in general as I said I have found the Dalai Lama to be a competent teacher, who’s presentation is in keeping with other teachers; Tibetan lamas are extremely well-educated. The Gelugpa lineage, which he is the head of, is often considered (as you probably know) the most scholastically accomplished (though this…[Read more]

]]> bc5c394ee4464e89e8df52051357e548 Simon V. replied to the topic Livia Kohn on Daoist "Sitting in Forgetfulness" vs. Chan/Zen Emptiness vs. Inner alchemy in the forum Philosophy https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/livia-kohn-on-daoist-sitting-in-forgetfulness-vs-chanzen-emptiness-vs-inner-alchemy/#post-18986 Sat, 04 Nov 2006 13:01:50 -0400 “(PS: Steiner comes partly from same tradition as Yeats does)”

I’ve just been discovering that… The Rossicrucian connection. And later chapters of what the Golden Dawn became partly adopted him as a teacher it seems, at least for awhile. Steiner is much more up my alley than the other theosophists (I realise he started his own…[Read more]

]]> 8cb6d878d00d0bd818c6d27a32e098a9 Simon V. replied to the topic Livia Kohn on Daoist "Sitting in Forgetfulness" vs. Chan/Zen Emptiness vs. Inner alchemy in the forum Philosophy https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/livia-kohn-on-daoist-sitting-in-forgetfulness-vs-chanzen-emptiness-vs-inner-alchemy/#post-18984 Sat, 04 Nov 2006 12:48:27 -0400 That’s a great video, thank you.

My first teacher is somewhat like that (not quite as impressive, though as a healer he has a great track record). I briefly took lessons from another guy in Stuttgart who sat on a chair with his legs off the ground, then pushed a student across the room using one finger. Can’t argue with that! Interesting fella.…[Read more]

]]> fdf13c3df7b42b2e4435d038ef86ee1c Simon V. replied to the topic Livia Kohn on Daoist "Sitting in Forgetfulness" vs. Chan/Zen Emptiness vs. Inner alchemy in the forum Philosophy https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/livia-kohn-on-daoist-sitting-in-forgetfulness-vs-chanzen-emptiness-vs-inner-alchemy/#post-18980 Fri, 03 Nov 2006 05:45:32 -0400 Thanks Max

It’s really interesting to see Gurdjief in motion; I’d never seen footage of him before. He had a more relaxed style than I’d assumed he had–those intense eyes and many stories gave me this idea of someone like a kind of mannic, enlightened Groucho Marx (esoteric Groucho Marxism… Where do I sign up!).

And thanks for the…[Read more]

]]> a0154a0e538e83d67c835917c5360e88 Simon V. replied to the topic Livia Kohn on Daoist "Sitting in Forgetfulness" vs. Chan/Zen Emptiness vs. Inner alchemy in the forum Philosophy https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/livia-kohn-on-daoist-sitting-in-forgetfulness-vs-chanzen-emptiness-vs-inner-alchemy/#post-18976 Thu, 02 Nov 2006 06:05:02 -0400 I’ve lately become suspicious of Krishnamurti, while still holding out some respect for him.

Spyrelx mentioned the obscurity of the statement concerning him.

Basically my suspicion rests on his tendency to reject everything that wasn’t his own particular mode of non-dwelling (not a foible entirely unique to him), which is (somewhat) like…[Read more]

]]> b00a225d7fa81d085b277c84ed718eb0 Simon V. replied to the topic Nice short interview in the forum General https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/nice-short-interview/#post-18894 Thu, 26 Oct 2006 05:28:26 -0400 Thanks very much for this link.
I have read books by G.R.S Mead on Gnosticism, and other authors. I had been planning to read Mead’s translation of the Pistis Sophia (I’d read a summary by him in his overview of Gnosticism), but it seems to me Hurtak’s would clearly be the better translation to read at this point (Mead was an excellent scholar…[Read more]

]]> e24d3c1e5d33a1b41ef4df6ba87bc71b Simon V. replied to the topic Apocalypse revisited in the forum Philosophy https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/apocalypse-revisited/#post-18826 Tue, 24 Oct 2006 03:31:55 -0400 I agree. Things are so volatile now it’s tempting to lose track of the possibility of seeing things as ‘gamelike’–as in how children-cum-teenagers take things only half seriously, though I’m of course aware that situations with children and teenagers, namely schools, can in modern times be the site of the most awful grimness and violence. Still,…[Read more]

]]> 2cdd6e27eb82b60d17ac2b5844941f0c Simon V. replied to the topic Apocalypse revisited in the forum Philosophy https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/apocalypse-revisited/#post-18822 Sat, 21 Oct 2006 09:45:56 -0400 I can relate to that as my father was in Taiwan for a big earthquake. I could tell that for him it was like being at an amusement park. Wheeeeeeee!

]]> b491c5581d750993e05bf81a0672b8e3 Simon V. replied to the topic Apocalypse revisited in the forum Philosophy https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/apocalypse-revisited/#post-18818 Fri, 20 Oct 2006 17:32:37 -0400 That’s great to hear. But tornadoes and giant waves are only part of a healthy diet, so you might want to add a few earthquakes to aid digestion (even better than Jaegermeister). ; )

]]> 69079c84e02bc48622aebba1c5a9649b Simon V. replied to the topic Apocalypse revisited in the forum Philosophy https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/apocalypse-revisited/#post-18814 Fri, 20 Oct 2006 05:06:35 -0400 Coagulated lightning house parties, serving electric beer; write your own ticket for admission.

]]> 150b0bb072078d0524b3ca01799cac3f Simon V. replied to the topic Apocalypse revisited in the forum Philosophy https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/apocalypse-revisited/#post-18806 Thu, 19 Oct 2006 18:04:52 -0400 I had a dream on the verge of Bush’s first election that was very negative. I am philosophical about this, in the sense that warmongering is nothing new; and there have always been the enclaves of practicioners who stubbornly sweated it out, who indeed took advantage of the situation to spur them to even greater efforts.

Carl Jung was of the…[Read more]

]]> d7ef7ecc7c423892088f2d6281e0675c Simon V. replied to the topic Dream: Philosopher Plato's cave revisited in the forum Philosophy https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/dream-philosopher-platos-cave-revisited/page/2/#post-18419 Thu, 19 Oct 2006 17:46:28 -0400 : )

]]> 6c7bc1904bc3f784e4a6e08ec737b20b Simon V. replied to the topic Dream: Philosopher Plato's cave revisited in the forum Philosophy https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/dream-philosopher-platos-cave-revisited/page/2/#post-18415 Thu, 19 Oct 2006 05:24:13 -0400 This list has a long history of people stepping into more sober and/or lighthearted dialogues with crass attacks; I jumped to the conclusion, not being familiar with you, that it was one of those, which it seemed to be apart from the laughtrack at the bottom. I also considered, after laying into you, that it might be someone immitating you, which…[Read more]

]]> 0246ec1ee0b4703c3aba87119e4cdfda Simon V. replied to the topic Dream: Philosopher Plato's cave revisited in the forum Philosophy https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/dream-philosopher-platos-cave-revisited/#post-18411 Wed, 18 Oct 2006 17:14:04 -0400 : )
Ahem, well then… Here, let me help you put your arm back on that bleeding stump…

But y’know, there has been a lot of ‘joking’ on this website which has precluded more civil forms of discourse, which joking at this point I have very little patience for. Still, I haven’t been keeping tabs on things and so haven’t been paying the…[Read more]

]]> 81efc9bdcd785b95984d41b23540f38c Simon V. replied to the topic Dream: Philosopher Plato's cave revisited in the forum Philosophy https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/dream-philosopher-platos-cave-revisited/#post-18407 Wed, 18 Oct 2006 05:01:54 -0400 Actually my meditation background began at the age of nine in Zen and the martial arts, and has continued from there as a lifetime of hard study and practice. I have used drugs and do indeed consider them an unsatisfactory shortcut that is no substitute for discipline. Instead of curtailing the innocent banter of others out of hand, I suggest…[Read more]

]]> d58050f7d7a589d0d74d761877141bde Simon V. replied to the topic Dream: Philosopher Plato's cave revisited in the forum Philosophy https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/dream-philosopher-platos-cave-revisited/#post-18401 Sun, 15 Oct 2006 16:55:03 -0400 Well, you are the back door yourself–your own intimate sense of presence is an escape hatch, a smiling inner sun oasis. All the rest is fun and games with meditative arts. But I bet you have your own answer to the back door question, and I’m just shining a flashlight into a fire. : )

Simon

]]> 1f4ab0a6585c612ed061fe404d8439e9 Simon V. replied to the topic Dream: Philosopher Plato's cave revisited in the forum Philosophy https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/dream-philosopher-platos-cave-revisited/#post-18397 Sun, 15 Oct 2006 14:40:36 -0400 Birth shock. Dropping the birth bomb (of peace! happiness! and having fun!).
Sometimes I’m tempted to think dreams are my real guru, but probably they’re just an intermediary between me and the deepest, grooviest guru of them all, and I’m always wary of deceiving myself. Still, they are Notes from the Underground, as one dream suggested,…[Read more]

]]> 0dfdfd1ccd355c4af938dde841c9fd11 Simon V. replied to the topic Dream: Philosopher Plato's cave revisited in the forum Philosophy https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/dream-philosopher-platos-cave-revisited/#post-18393 Sun, 15 Oct 2006 00:21:21 -0400 Uncannily I had a dream this morning involving a flood in New York; but it may have been in relation to my imminent though unconsciously formed intent to check out what’s up with the tao forum, which intent may have brushed up against the undercurrents of your visioning. Ahem, perhaps that’s a bit convoluted. Still, it seems remarkable. A woman…[Read more]

]]> ac38dc6a88aa7077442fde076f9bd691 Simon V. replied to the topic Would Anyone Like to Discuss Positive Practice Experiences? in the forum Practice https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/would-anyone-like-to-discuss-positive-practice-experiences/page/3/#post-15174 Fri, 14 Jul 2006 17:28:34 -0400 I found Energy Medicine at a local university library. Excellent stuff, really lucid.

Interestingly, Christopher Hyatt of New Falcon, the publishing house that is a bastion of Leary-related thought (including Robert A. Wilson of course), has increasingly moved into energy work himself, heavily influenced by Israel Regardie, who was a dedicated…[Read more]

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