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Note: The addiction to porn is generally not recognized as a spiritual problem – with astral entities feeding on the addiction in order to feed themselves. But highlights the need for sexual energy training of the kind Taoists can offer. – Michael
from NEWSER:
Video games, pornography, and social isolation are an unhealthy mix for today’s young men, according to a leading psychologist. Phillip Zimbardo, a professor emeritus at Stanford University, makes his warnings in his new book, Man (Dis)Connectedwhich includes the results of an in-depth study of 20,000 young men, reports the Independent.
“Our focus is on young men who play video games to excess, and do it in social isolationthey are alone in their room,” Zimbardo says in a BBC interview. “Now, with freely available pornography, which is unique in history, they are combining playing video games, and as a break, watching on average, two hours of pornography a week.”
Zimbardo, who gave a TED talk called “The Demise of Guys” in 2011, says young men are suffering from a “new form of addiction” and “a psychological change in mindset.” Sufferers pine for video games at school and desire pornography even when women are around, because with porn, he says, they’ll “never get rejected.” He claims young men are also experiencing “porn-induced erectile dysfunction,” although Psychology Today finds no scientific connection between erectile dysfunction and porn.
Still, Zimbardo urges parents to limit young men’s Internet and computer use. His warning comes amid other concerns for male mental health, including last year’s first Male Psychology Conference and the Campaign Against Living Miserably, or CALM, which aims in part to reduce male suicides.
Had Cavendish published all of his work, his already great influence would undoubtedly have been greater. In fact, he left in manuscript form a vast amount of work that often anticipated the work of those who followed him. It came to light only bit by bit until the thorough study undertaken by James Maxwell (18311879) and by Edward Thorpe (18451925). In these notes is to be found such material as the detail of his experiments to examine the conductivity of metals, as well as many chemical questions such as a theory of chemical equivalents. He even had a theory of partial pressures before John Dalton (17661844). However, the history of science is full of instances of unpublished works that might have influenced others but in fact did not. Whatever he did not reveal, Cavendish gave other scientists enough to help them on the road to modern ideas. Nothing he did has been rejected, and for this reason he is still, in a unique way, part of modern life.
-http://www.notablebiographies.com/Ca-Ch/Cavendish-Henry.htmlI began with the kinship charts.
“What did you call your father?” I asked.
“I called him Dad,” he said with a very serious face.
I felt a little bit annoyed, but I proceeded on the assumption that he had not understood.
I showed him the chart and explained that one space was for the father and another space was
for the mother. I gave as an example the different words used in English and in Spanish for father
and mother.
I thought that perhaps I should have taken mother first.
“What did you call your mother?” I asked.
“I called her Mom,” he replied in a naive tone.
“I mean what other words did you use to call your father and mother? How did you call
them?” I said, trying to be patient and polite.
He scratched his head and looked at me with a stupid expression.
“Golly!” he said. “You got me there. Let me think.”
After a moment’s hesitation he seemed to remember something and I got ready to write.
“Well,” he said, as if he were involved in serious thought, “how else did I call them? I called
them Hey, hey, Dad! Hey, hey, Mom!”
I laughed against my desire. His expression was truly comical and at that moment I did not
know whether he was a preposterous old man pulling my leg or whether he was really a
simpleton. Using all the patience I had, I explained to him that these were very serious questions
and that it was very important for my work to fill out the forms. I tried to make him understand
the idea of a genealogy and personal history.
“What were the names of your father and mother?” I asked.
He looked at me with clear kind eyes.
“Don’t waste your time with that crap,” he said softly but with unsuspected force.
I did not know what to say; it was as if someone else had uttered those words. A moment
before, he had been a fumbling stupid Indian scratching his head, and then in an instant he had
reversed the roles; I was the stupid one, and he was staring at me with an indescribable look that
was not a look of arrogance, or defiance, or hatred, or contempt. His eyes were kind and clear and
penetrating.
“I don’t have any personal history,” he said after a long pause. “One day I found out that
personal history was no longer necessary for me and, like drinking, I dropped it.”
CARLOS CASTANEDA, Journey to IxtlanSooner or later — if you keep trying — you will get basic-basic, the earliest moment of
unconsciousness and physical pain. You will know when you have it, perhaps, only because
things start to erase rather than reduce. If the patient still has a sonic shut-off, you can still
erase: sooner or later that sonic will turn on, perhaps not even until the case is almost finished.
You will reach basic-basic sooner or later.
The erasure, then, is more or less the same procedure as the entrance. You erase all the
early engrams, always the earliest you can find, and you keep discharging painful emotion
engrams either in the basic area or in the later periods after birth and later in life. You erase as
much as you can find in the early part of the case, then you release all the emotion you can find
later in the case (erase everything in each engram you touch) and then you come back and find
early material.
-L. RON HUBBARD, Dianetics: The Modern Science Of Mental Health…with astral entities feeding on the addiction in order to feed themselves…our focus is on young men who play video games to excess, and do it in social isolationthey are alone in their room…
What about astral entities being fed through prolonged poisonous social connections and contacts?
HOWDY
Ps. Sorry for my broken English.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCaIyoQ4Rd0
Through a business misadventure, the European Axel Heyst ends up living on an island in what is now Indonesia, with a Chinese assistant Wang. Heyst visits a nearby island when a female band is playing at a hotel owned by Mr. Schomberg. Schomberg attempts to force himself sexually on one of the band members, Alma, later called Lena. She flees with Heyst back to his island and they become lovers. Schomberg seeks revenge by attempting to frame Heyst for the “murder” of a man who had died of natural causes and later by sending three desperadoes (Pedro, Martin Ricardo and Mr. Jones) to Heyst’s island with a lie about treasure hidden on the island. The three die (Wang kills one) but Lena dies as well and Axel is overcome with grief and commits suicide.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_(novel)#PlotMonks and nuns lead lives of total celibacy in which any kind of sexual behaviour is forbidden. This includes even suggestive speech or physical contact with lustful intent, both of which are very serious offences for monks and nuns. As one’s intent may not always be obvious (even to oneself), and one’s words not always guarded, it is a general principle for monks and nuns to refrain from any physical contact with members of the opposite sex. Monks should have a male present who can understand what is being said when conversing with a lady, and a similar situation holds true for nuns. Much of this standard of behaviour is to prevent scandalous gossip or misunderstanding occurring. In the stories that explain the origination of a rule, there are examples of monks being accused of being a woman’s lover, of a woman’s misunderstanding a monk’s reason for being with her, and even of a monk being thrashed by a jealous husband! So, to prevent such misunderstanding, however groundless, a monk has to be accompanied by a man whenever he is in the presence of a woman; on a journey; or sitting alone in a secluded place (one would not call a meditation hall or a bus station a secluded place). Generally, monks would also refrain from carrying on correspondence with women, other than for matters pertaining to the monastery, travel arrangements, providing basic information, etc. When teaching Dharma, even in a letter, it is easy for inspiration and compassion to turn into attachment.
-http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/buddhistworld/layguide.htmExtraversion is “the act, state, or habit of being predominantly concerned with obtaining gratification from what is outside the self”. Extraverts tend to enjoy human interactions and to be enthusiastic, talkative, assertive, and gregarious. Extraverts are energized and thrive off of being around other people. They take pleasure in activities that involve large social gatherings, such as parties, community activities, public demonstrations, and business or political groups. They also tend to work well in groups. An extraverted person is likely to enjoy time spent with people and find less reward in time spent alone. They tend to be energized when around other people, and they are more prone to boredom when they are by themselves.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraversion_and_introversion#ExtraversionThe title of this book is taken from an allegory that is recounted to Castaneda by his “benefactor” who is known to Carlos as Don Genaro ( Genaro Flores ), a close friend of his teacher don Juan Matus. “Ixtlan” turns out to be a metaphorical hometown ( or Place / Position of Being ) to which the “sorcerer” or warrior or man of knowledge without reason or thoughts is drawn to return. This is because his elevated perspective leaves him little in common with ordinary people, who now seem no more substantial to him than “phantoms.” The point of the story is that a man of knowledge, or sorcerer, is a changed being, or a Human closer to his true state of Being, and for that reason he can never truly go “home” to his old lifestyle again.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_to_IxtlanThe Puranas tell the tale of Sati’s marriage to Shiva against her father Daksha’s wishes. Her father Daksha and her husband Shiva do not get along, and ignore the wishes of Sati. The conflict gets to a point where Daksha does not invite Shiva to a major fire ceremony, and Shiva does not come on his own, humiliating Sati. She self-immolates herself at Daksha’s yajna ceremony. This shocks Shiva, who is so grief-stricken that he loses interest in worldly affairs, retires and isolates himself in the mountains, in meditation and austerity. Sati is then reborn as Parvati, the second daughter of Himavat and Minavati, and is named Parvati, or “she from the mountains”, after her father Himavant who is also called king Parvat.
According to different versions of her myths, the maiden Parvati resolves to marry Shiva. Her parents learn of her desire, discourage her, but she pursues what she wants. She approaches god Kama – the Hindu god of desire, erotic love, attraction and affection, and asks him to help her. Kama reaches Shiva and shoots an arrow of desire. Shiva opens his third eye in his forehead and burns the cupid Kama to ashes. Parvati does not lose her hope or her resolve to win over Shiva. She begins to live in mountains like Shiva, engage in the same activities as Shiva, one of asceticism, yogin and tapas. This draws the attention of Shiva, awakens his interest. He meets her in disguised form, tries to discourage her, telling her Shiva’s weaknesses and personality problems. Parvati refuses to listen and insists in her resolve. Shiva finally accepts her and they get married.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parvati#LegendsAn Apsara called Menaka had come down to Earth from Heaven at the behest of Indra, to distract the great sage Vishvamitra from his deep penance. She succeeded and bore a child, by him. Vishwamitra, angered by the loss of the virtue gained through his many hard years of strict asceticism, distanced himself from the child and mother to return to his work. Realizing that she could not leave the child with him, and having to return to the Heavenly realms, Menaka left the newborn baby on the banks of the Malini River flowing in the Shivalik mountain ranges Himalayas. The Malini River on whose banks Menaka the Apsara left the girl child is located in the Sivalik Hills of the Himalaya and Malini flows about 10 km west of a town Kotdwara in Uttarakhand, India. This is corroborated by the famous poet Kalidasa in his Abhijñānaśākuntalam. The child was found by a Rishi or Sage called Kanva surrounded and protected by birds (Shakunton in Sanskrit), and so she was named “Shakuntala”.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bharata_(emperor)#Story_of_Bharata…Zimbardo, who gave a TED talk called “The Demise of Guys” in 2011, says young men are suffering from a “new form of addiction” and “a psychological change in mindset.” Sufferers pine for video games at school and desire pornography even when women are around, because with porn, he says, they’ll “never get rejected.” He claims young men are also experiencing “porn-induced erectile dysfunction,”…
…addiction to porn is generally not recognized as a spiritual problem…
Sorry but behaving always nicely among stupid sinners can become very serious spiritual problem.
In my opinion.
So learning to lie both with words and deeds is very important in this kind of conditions, but it must be done in the end for some purpose.
HOWDY
Ps. Sorry but if the picture comes through; it’s Sati in her new incarnation as Parvati there bothering Shiva. Clearly Shiva isn’t the most common type of introvert, but it’s only when Uma/Sati/Parvati becomes also an ascetic, she isn’t anymore rejected.
On the other side of this tunnel is a bright light, and you may find yourself sensing that you are on a bridge crossing over a stream or a river. On the other side of the bridge will be those persons of your previous life, the lifetime you have just ended. You may sense those who have died before you, including pets you have had, because the animal spirits also dwell in this realm. If there are incomplete relationships or issues still to be resolved with these persons or beings, you may feel a yearning to enter this light, and by doing so you re-enter the wheel of birth and death, and you will reincarnatemost likely on Earth.
-http://forum.healingdao.com/philosophy/message/25519/What about astral entities being fed through prolonged poisonous social situations and contacts?
-http://forum.healingdao.com/general/message/25555/An Apsara (also spelled as Apsarasa) is a female spirit of the clouds and waters in Hindu and Buddhist mythology.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ApsaraIn Hindu mythology, Menaka, or Menka (Sanskrit: मेनका) is considered one of the most beautiful of the heavenly Apsaras. She was sent by Indra, the king of the Devas, to break the severe penance undertaken by Vishwamitra. Vishwamitra was one of the most respected and revered sages in ancient India. Indra, frightened by his powers, sent a beautiful celestial nymph named Menaka from heaven to earth to lure him and break his meditation. Menaka successfully incited Vishwamitra’s lust and passion when he saw her beauty. She succeeded in breaking the meditation of Vishwamitra and the two had sex for many years. However, she fell in genuine love with him. When Vishwamitra realized that he had been tricked by Indra, he was enraged. But he merely cursed Menaka to be separated from him forever, for he loved her as well and knew that she had lost all devious intentions towards him long ago. Later, Menaka is also said to have been the mother of Shakuntala, who was left at the hermitage of a Sage Kanva when she was a baby. Later Shakuntala became the love of King Dushyanta and gave birth to his son Bharata, after whom India was named “Bharat”.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menaka
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk1C9AEJx6A (edgedweapondisco)
Agreed. I speak to my brother about these sorts of things a lot.
Where are the men ? Any left on this planet ? (where are the women too?)
Most “men” run around in t-shirts like a child these days and trousers with their butts hanging out, acting out either the macho or the enfeebled characters copied from the culture.
Here in the UK one of the most intelligent “men” Stephen Fry who has an incredible mind, just ridicules everything, turns everything into a dick joke.
It seems men are afraid to be men.
Perhaps in such a world, to be a man is the same as to Love God, or to truly Love … just regarded as weird. It can be dangerous.
Where are the wise men, and the old men ?
Where are the strong men ? The men with spirit, courage, pride ?
Similarly it is always a shock to see a woman with grey hair. Real grey hair, flowing down. It’s beautiful. Mostly though everyone is dying and chopping their hair to conform to images from the culture.
In any case my question is :
What can we do about both the spiritual / energetic problem and the cultural problem ? (specifically)
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