Steven

A few thoughts/connections spring to mind from the article:

A overstressed body creates a hyperactive triple warmer pathway,
which keeps the body in fight-or-flight mode. In this state,
the body locks on and strengthens previous behavior patterns–
positive or negative. The reason is that the body knows you were
alive previously, but…[Read more]

If you are interested in Hermetics, maybe you should
try to get in touch with Nnonnth, who used to post
on here . . . although there tended to be some friction
between you two, so maybe not such a good idea, LOL. S

>>>I am someone who wished I had been given more
>>>disciple and direction to study in school as
>>>a kid. I feel I had too much freedom to roam
>>>around and this didn’t help me in a lot of my development.

And do you feel you are lacking today?
I don’t think an “optimal” childhood learning experience
translates into a happier…[Read more]

I know nothing of them; only a passing
acquaintance with his “Chinese Medical
Qigong Therapy” series. It is possible
that due to lack of responses others are
unfamiliar with them as well.

Therefore, if you do choose to buy them,
we expect your report 🙂

Smiles,
Steven

>>>Don’t be naive. If the swine flu got to proportions
>>>that pushes the government to adopt martial law to
>>>stop the spread of the flu, they could care less if
>>>there are riots. That is what FEMA and the military are for.

On a local level, ala Hurricane Katrina, perhaps.
Then the dissidents would be arrested, and after the…[Read more]

I can speak a little about texting addiction.
I see this kind of behavior first-hand.

Starting about two years ago, undergraduate classrooms
at MSU have been infected with addicted students who
literally can not go 50 minutes without texting.
Moreover, some of them get quite uncomfortable
with the idea of not being able to maintain…[Read more]

Now all we need is for some crazy person–
who loves to translate Chinese (archaic?) into
modern-day English–to then take all of these
articles and translate them; then compile them
into one tome for easy acquisitioning. LOL.

S

Good to see Aaron is still active;
I missed his exuberance this year 🙂

Also good follow-up comments Chris . . .

I’ve been living in the world of acceptance
the past two weeks. In that time,
both my desktop and my laptop died; I’ve
taken my car in to the shop for work
three times; and that’s just the beginning.

Strangely enough,…[Read more]

Will never happen in today’s day and age . . .
People wouldn’t stand for it; there’d be full-scale riots.

The author is fear-mongering.

S

Hi bagua:

S:If I am asleep, and you are awake, I don’t have the awareness you have.
Thus the part of the lifeforce that is me is not the same as the part of
the lifeforce that is you. Right?
****************
B:How would you know?

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OK, I suppose I could rephrase in another context as:
If we are both awake,…[Read more]

Hi bagua,

S: “Are you aware of the present moment when you fall asleep at night? Do you have
continuous awareness as you shift into sleep? I don’t know about you, but I lose awareness as I lose consciousness. I go from having awareness to nothingness–periodically punctuated by dreams–then a return to awareness as I wake up.
And here I…[Read more]

>>>I feel the tiger roaring.

I am a tiger, after all. LOL.
That’s what tigers do 🙂

Just don’t take it personally 🙂

>>>I can say that I have a sort of awareness
>>>that is very different from being awake
>>>(and I’m not talking about dreaming either).
>>>I do feel a presence that exists when I sleep
>>>but it’s very hard to d…[Read more]

Hi Damon,

I’m going to be a little more direct–perhaps
less tactful–to cut through the jargon and more
clearly illustrate my feelings. Hopefully I
won’t piss anyone off in the process 🙂

>>>There is a parallel to life as in space and time,
>>>where as the more present you are to the moment
>>>the more you are eternally aware.…[Read more]

>>>Life is diverse, life is dynamic, life is changing.
>>>How can we live in this diverse, dynamic and changing
>>>world? How can we stop from living in the past,
>>>attached to the past, trapped in old thoughts,
>>>living from our ego and past patterns?
>>>Its my experience taoist practices are about guiding
>>>us to live in the…[Read more]

>>>I would not call it a model, its my direct experience and others.

I call it this simply for language convenience. I have not had the
direct experience you speak of, and moreover models presented by
others seem completely plausible to me at this point, as we’ve
discussed before. In particular, I’ve had no personal experience
with…[Read more]

Hi bagua,

In your “model”, do you believe that
things not previously present can be added
to the “essential nature”. That is, considering
the essential nature to already be complete, can it
still nonetheless be added to.

I.E. In your terminology, can the “hidden diamond”
only exist as a static entity, or can this itself
also be…[Read more]

Hi bagua,

Do you believe it’s possible for things to be
added that were never there previously?

In that regard: I’m not casting a judgement as to whether
such a thing is good, bad, or even desired. Just
wondering whether you believe it’s possible.

Thanks,
Steven

That which is named is not eternal.
Bagua is as immortal as a diamond in the rough. 🙂

Use your EEV psychic channels to obtain the
answer you seek.

S