Steven

I read the descriptions off of some of the links you guys provided,
and using an internal feel I gathered my impressions of what
I thought I’d be.

Then I found some online tests and I took a few to confirm.

Some tests said I’m a 5 with 1 in close second.
Some tests said I’m a 1 with 5 in close second.

Pretty much I consider it a tie:…[Read more]

the what now?
I guess my answer to your first poll question is no, since
I don’t know what this is, or what you are talking about 🙁

Can you please enlighten me? 🙂

This is just something interesting I learned that
I thought I’d share with you all . . .

Now you could say “because they need chlorophyll to produce
photosynthesis for energy, and chlorophyll is green”.

The real question is “why did plants *choose* to be green?”

I learned this cute fact when I took optics:

The sun is not…[Read more]

Someone who spends their time investigating such things
is someone I would consider to be seriously mentally
disturbed with an ice-cold heart and no understanding of
empathy.

Oh, what a strange thing life is . . .

Steve

“. . . some things are so deep that when you first uncover them it’s like things are getting worse, because you have twisted yourself around trying to avoid looking at something and when you try to straighten at first your body habitually protests”

This is so true. I concur with this.

That’s pretty funny about the movie Labyrinth. I…[Read more]

Hi Brian,

I’m glad to know that you got some benefit from my story.

Actually, I was about to make an “apology” post to the board
because I felt guilty about filling up the board with
my personal junk and distracting people from more important
issues . . .

I wish I could suggest something that would help, but
from obvious posts…[Read more]

“You can try to force your self to forget what is to be
complete
Put your passion into your work
Or material status/wealth/muscles/whatever
So the soul doesn’t forget passion
And the soul is the heart
And the heart hungers and almost forgets”

Exactly . . .

S

I feel like I should respond in some way to your advice,
but I feel your post speaks for itself.

Thank you for this,
Steven

“… the problem can be that the ways you have found to be happy in the absence of such an important part of yourself don’t work with the part added.”

There’s a lot of truth to this I think . . .

Best,
Steven

You knew what I meant 🙂

I meant “is there any association to orange in the Healing Tao system?”
Of course, any associations we make to various colors are just constructs
of the mind anyway, but I was just curious.

Your ridiculously to-the-extreme thick sarcasm in this post did
have me rolling, though.

Thanks for a hearty laugh,
Steve

“I feel that we are in a place of having to use up all the wrong ways to go about having life so that by a process of reduction only following the natural way remains.”

Simply beautiful . . .

Thank you Alexander.

Your analysis seems spooky accurate to me, and I consider
your advice to be very valuable.

It’s interesting that you ask me if I’ve been crying,
because I haven’t cried for so long, I think I’ve forgotten
how . . . I think maybe *once* in the last ten years
and that was almost five years ago now!

Part of the…[Read more]

You made a good point and made me smile at the same time.
Thanks Julian 🙂

When I was taking the Iron Shirt class at Heavenly Mountain this
summer, there was a guy in the class (Peter?) that did this
acupuncture with tuning forks that you mentioned.

I think that sound can be a powerful tool.
The Six Healing Sounds show up right at the beginning of the
Healing Tao system.

When I was taking the Mantak Chia…[Read more]

Hi Jason,

Oh, by the way, what does “entheogen” mean?
It’s not in the dictionary, so I assume it’s a
specialized term in shamanic settings.

Best,
Steven

I stumbled upon this bit of Taoist philosophy:

To follow the dao (path) of life is to go with the
natural flow of life and to avoid going against it.
Controlled quantities of the bad can be good.
Excessive amounts of the good can be bad.
Poison kills. But when handled properly, it can cure diseases.
Without poison, there can be no…[Read more]

I’ve never seen House, although people talk about it all the time!
I’ve heard that the character is a pretty comical guy.

That’s funny about the ulcerative colitis though . . .
and ironic considering the recent discussion!

Regarding my own personal experience relating to my
intestinal pain, here is my empirical evaluation:

1…[Read more]