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@steve Love and light to you, your father and family.

Sincere condolences, @steve.

Thank you all very much, my father has been very ill and passed early this morning. I value all of your good wishes and friendship.

I’m so sorry. Sending you love.

I'm sorry for your loss.

Systems are like recipes. Two people may think they are following Julia Child´s beef bourguignon instructions and yet their dishes don´t come out the same. There´s inevitably a dialectic, a subtle tension, between the approach of a given teacher and a given student; the crosscurrents that ripple out from this tension are, as they say, "a feature, not a bug." Ultimately, we´re all following our own path.

Indeed. The more methods we acquire, the further we go from the Truth. Then again, no matter how many people and times it has been said, we each can only comprehend what our current level of clarity allows.

I dont know who you are, or how you work, but I do know you deserve a thank you, my beloved bums 🪷

yep - done.

Rather amazed to find this is in the National Library of Medicine ... and I'm not saying I endorse this interpretation but ... here it is: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6649877/

They make these things called pinhole glasses which can help improve your vision for computer and reading, as well as distance vision, but are not safe to drive with.

Cool cats rarely follow rules, or get good grades in public schools. They cultivate an air of mystery, not for them the one two three. So Apech´s drinking wine in Portugal, and not concerned with us at all. Let alone the great cat Bastet, who surely deserves her own sonnet. meow

I am not aware of diagnostics becoming less rather than more invasive... depends on what you're comparing them to and what you know about the ones perceived as non-invasive that are in reality anything but. E.g., ultrasound in pregnancy is mighty controversial (and if you haven't heard about it, there's a reason for that... we hear what the establishment wants us to hear, everything else gets swept under the rug... it's just that some of us have stumbled over that rug and developed a habit of lifting it to see what lies beneath before venturing a step.) A fetus is extremely sensitive. Some of the concerns are neurological effects (exposure could affect fetal brain development or neuronal migration, based on animal studies), thermal effects (risk of local tissue heating, particularly near bone), cavitation effects (microscopic gas bubbles forming and collapsing in tissues, damaging molecules and cells), intrauterine growth restriction (observational studies noted a statistical correlation), and subtle long-term effects (concerns regarding increased risks for conditions like autism, childhood cancers, speech delays, etc.). It's just one example, but there are many "non-invasive" diagnostic procedures that are only non-invasive because the invasion is not immediately obvious. As for insulin -- that was discovered over a hundred years ago... Diabetes, in most cases, could be prevented or cured with better lifestyle and (especially) dietary choices. But the money isn't in that. Hence the current approach -- to pretty much everything.

He's done a lot of Egyptian study yet never talks of Bastet, buddy. What kind of cool white cat is that?

Not my brother, a friend. And in reality he´s a sweet guy and I don´t wish him any harm. Just someone who got caught up, as so many of us do, in a particular mind loop. For brother Apech He´s a cool white cat, who knows where it´s at. He´s done lots of Egyptian study, I´m lucky he´s my buddy.

I find it interesting that many Hindu consider Jesus an Avatar of Incarnate God. Not reincarnated. However, many other Hindu have a different take on this

If I had to guess, if you asked either Damo or Nathan Brine about it, they would advise choosing one or the other. But the actual answer would be to ask the teacher IMO.

Thanks I miss him. We had six cats but only one left

I had a cat that looked just like that - he died a couple of weeks ago.