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Thought I’d share this on the Babaylan indigenous culture of the Philippines. I have participated in some of these rituals and found them both powerful and fascinating particularly seeing the connections to Indian and Chinese language, physical and spiritual cultivation and healing cultures that are part of it. My wife’s grandmother was a traditional practitioner of this and the capabilities of her lineage appear to have been passed on to the women in my immediate family. The video talks about the indigenous experience in confronting Christianity and Islam as well as the role of gender including transgender there. My guess is that many indigenous practices in other parts of the world went through similar processes where they interacted with/were changed by outside cultures trying to control them. In the modern era the Babaylan culture mostly manifests as indigenous healing practices like manghihilot which are still widespread in the Philippines but there also still exists behind this those currently following the culture and practices of the Babaylan. My understanding this tradition was not only affected by Catholicism and Islam but also more recently by American Protestant missionaries who carved up the Philippines in the 20th century into areas of authority to proselytize and before Catholicism and Islam by Buddhist and Hindu influences. These earlier Indian influences can be seen in the language, traditional scripts, as well as in the healing practices. https:// 1 justjoseph responded to this Quote Edit

This is typical Chūnibyō syndrome stuff. Many of the threads where this is mentioned were moved to the staff eyes only section, and can no longer be found via google. Here are a few examples, but these are pretty tame comparatively. https://www.thedaobums.com/topic/50649-brain-cleansing-in-the-internal-arts/?do=findComment&comment=922530 "Thats why for example, I could watch 20k+ 1000hz high quality movies, or remember past lives, or visualize a whole city projection." https://www.thedaobums.com/topic/50381-levitation-and-possibly-flight/?do=findComment&comment=922713 Question: As far as delusions go, you claim to have a harem of goddesses, shoot eye lasers, travel faster than the speed of light, open portals to other worlds to fight ancient 100,000 Naga demons, etc. Answer: "Those aint delusions, these are tiny percentage of extracts from things I have personally encountered on other planes. I have met and seen things you cannot even phantom." https://www.thedaobums.com/topic/50710-questions-to-master/?do=findComment&comment=924660 "I had brain implants and other stuff." https://www.thedaobums.com/topic/50755-divine-truths-from-master/?do=findComment&comment=926199 "I can easily capture your soul after it leaves the body, and put it inside the stone in my magic underground basement lab. You will be my guest for next 1000 years, and mb you will also learn something, but I will never let you back into "free" life. I might allow you to reincarnate in some of my lab rats." https://www.thedaobums.com/topic/50720-what-is-taoism/?do=findComment&comment=926138 "Having third Eye open I can see things that normal humans never can imagine, like a tentacle larvae crawling over an energy egg shaped field which is human. https://www.thedaobums.com/topic/49762-request-access-to-private-gender-subforums/?tab=comments#comment-926426 I am sitting in mountains and meditating while having multiple clones, and one of the clones is dreaming, and he goes internet from dreamworld without any "new age" devices like computer or phone. Old school is best school. " https://www.thedaobums.com/topic/50781-western-mopai-censorship-for-sean/?do=findComment&comment=926903 "I have passed through several galaxies in the matter of seconds, so yeah, I was travelling at a much higher speed than Light." https://www.thedaobums.com/topic/50720-what-is-taoism/?do=findComment&comment=926577 "Because to go through 1 million years of my own memories of past lives it is quite a work to do unlike googling baidu to find divine truths. When I will be 2000 times stronger than I am now, I may commit myself to this research." https://www.thedaobums.com/topic/50781-western-mopai-censorship-for-sean/?do=findComment&comment=926930 "I was never hurt by people making fun of my levitation ... or portal opening ability. I have had too much of these experiences to be able to doubt it or care about someone else opinion on the topic."

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Ok Just expressing how I feel about it. No worries (as I said before) I will be fine with whatever the admods decide.

Hi Tommy, I would say whatever "knowledge" I might have, is built with bricks of silence. So, empty space indeed. Some basic intellectual understanding of core teachings of the Buddha has been helpful. But, in the end, our karma is unwound through silent practice, in my case, looking at the question "What am I?" You have described a very pernicious trick the ego does. The idea of a self, the ego, has only two jobs. 1. To try and be happy in a world where lasting happiness is impossible. 2. To not die. In order to accomplish 2, it will stop at nothing. That's why we have to let go of absolutely everything. Nothing remains, our true nature shines brightly. Or something like that. I don't know. Practice and see what happens. And, when something unshakeable appears, help others to see that too. We all "know" more than we think. Every human being on this planet has innate Buddha Nature. Yet, most of us, including me, are trapped in mind prison created by thoughts. Thanks for your kind reply. _/|\_

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Welcome to the Indigenous Traditions sub forum. This is a space for discussing traditional beliefs and practices from old cultures around the world, so we can share and learn from ancient wisdom, myth and method. As ever on this forum please commit to remaining respectful to those cultures and each other - and enjoy the conversation.

Don't worry, be happy! And don't worry, be sad! Don't worry, be angry And don't worry, be fabulous! Be everything fully but don't take any of it too seriously, in a short time it will change. The "Absolute" has no preference and no limitation, everything is a part of it without exception.

Whatdaya think?

@Cobie I share your preference for a symbol that feels peaceful rather than fiery in an angry way. To my thinking, balanced fire has many positive qualities and these are the ones our banner should emphasize -- vibrancy, warmth, playfulness, forward motion, willingness to take necessary action. Political conflict and social media squabbles can also be fiery, but most of us will agree we´ve had enough of that. This said, I think the logo really does need to be a horse. The point of changing the banner every year around this time has always been to reflect the energy of the coming year according to Chinese astrology.

I like this story. Occasionally in my anthropological studies I come across a gem . A few years back ( due to 'emergency situation' - threatened collapse of culture , imminent loss of important knowledge , etc ) certain Aboriginal elders started to reveal previously secret knowledge about how the immensely complex Australian Aboriginal 'social system worked . I started about 10,000 ya, by the inspired vision of an artist and solved immense problems and allowed all the people to live together . This thread isn't about that though ... that is just another example of the ingenuity of the 'primitive' ancients , in regard to 'social engineering' , finding and implementing social systems that work .... and getting the people to accept them . The story of Malo is one of these . I think it is ingenious. From the 'outside' ; Someone or group realised potential discord and trouble in the Torres Straight Islands ( spread from the north tip of Oz up to New Guinea ) . There where different peoples and different cultures from different island groups , but focus was becoming more prominent on Murray Island ( perhaps something to do with resources there ? ) . What was going to happen, they where going to 'intersect' and overlap and they had all different Gods . Then someone thought up, 'realised' or was inspired to : ' But the God of THIS island is an octopus . Octopus has 8 arms and they cover the island and go out into the sea in all directions . And all of you 8 different tribes and all of your different Gods are arms of Malo , reaching out and drawing you into himself . You are all different but now work together under Malo and work to help and look after each other . ' I guess people either thought ' Yeah, makes sense.' or just thought it was a good solution. ( Another interesting thing here is that Octopus has 9 brains , one 'satellite' brain for each tentacle and one main toroid * shaped one in the head . .... ) The story from the inside : " Malo was one of four brothers who sailed from New Guinea. A strong wind separated them and Malo sailed on alone until a big wave sank his canoe at Mer. But Malo was very powerful. He drifted around the islands, transforming himself into sea creatures and finally an octopus. A woman called Kabur was fishing and the strong waves carried Malo towards her. He entwined himself around her. Kabur speared the octopus, placed him in her basket and took Malo ashore. Then Meriam hailed Malo, "Keriba agud, ged seker em. Our God, our protector." The men of Las said, "Let there be no more fighting between us. Let Malo remain here to be a god for all. - So Malo gave the Meriam laws and ceremonies to govern their lives. " The system is still in place today . Malo ; https://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/p151301/html/Text/ch02.html?referer=&page=4 Boys about to be initiated by Malo ; https://octonation.com/octopus-brain/ * dont know what a toroid is ? see below

I would fine tune that a bit: - The ego (personal will) has as its highest value, its self-esteem. It hates to be wrong. - The ego drives the personality to protect the ego. This requires disciplined physical, emotional and mental flows - The disciplined personality is useful to the human spirit when that spirit exerts itself to control the humanness. Control of a disciplined personality is the most obvious precondition to first stage enlightenment - At first stage enlightenment the ego changes from defensive to creative. Thus the ego is central to the spirit establishing control of its humanness.

Glad to now know about the Babaylan. Thanks for sharing your experience and the video.

So, instead of refuting any arguments or blunt truths told in that article - https://ancientmasters.org/library/johnchang-faqi-mopai , you decided to spend hours trying to discredit someone you do not know with things you do not understand. It is hard to refute truth, but you can always seek qualified guidance and support, theraupist sessions exist that work with mental health problems like this. Do not make a victim out of yourself, you have been going around for years talking crap about every single teacher - teaching, justifying it with the lack of "hard evidence". A much better tool would be to open third eye and be able to evaluate every teacher and their level of cultivation yourself. Methods you follow do not grant even the most basic - core abilities. I did AP scan on John Chang as well, it was not included in the article, but it is way below our standards for teaching. With AP upper manipura you cannot claim yourself to be a Magus. Adepts have AP anahata that is the base level for practicing magic.

You are too hard on people. The reality is that vast majority can't even understand what 'objective evidence' means. When asked, most people are convinced that somebody's verbal narrative is as good enough as 'hard objective evidence'.

Yeah come on man just let him LARP, he's not hurting anyone

My friend, this level of obsession is unhealthy

I like it--I'm wondering where you got the horse, hopefully open-source!

My understanding is that you can provide a link to an outside source that says whatever you like. The moderators don´t police sites other than TDB. (I reserve the right to say otherwise if it turns out I´m wrong. It´s happened before. )

Thought I’d share this on the Babaylan indigenous culture of the Philippines. I recently participated in some of these rituals and found them both powerful and fascinating particularly seeing the connections to Indian and Chinese language, physical and spiritual cultivation and healing cultures that are part of it. My wife’s grandmother was a traditional practitioner of this and the capabilities of her lineage appear to have been passed on to the women in my immediate family. The video talks about the indigenous experience in confronting Christianity and Islam as well as the role of gender including transgender there. My guess is that many indigenous practices in other parts of the world went through similar processes where they interacted with/were changed by outside cultures trying to control them. In the modern era the Babaylan culture mostly manifests as indigenous healing practices like manghihilot which are still widespread in the Philippines but there also still exists behind this those currently following the culture and practices of the Babaylan. https://

What if there is no Absolute that an embodied human can ever partake in? I suspect the “Absolute” Is a philosophers dream, embodied reality is a far more complex issue. In embodied reality it’s likely impossible to simply not worry and be happy, anyway it would be fundamentally immoral to take this attitude in some situations.

Just in time for the new subforum to meet and greet the Solilunar (aka Chinese) New Year. Thanks to all involved.

Perhaps the usual/religious concept of God is not useful for the deep thinker. For example, you will recall that mystics in the Middle Ages invented their own term: godhead. Why did they do that?

God wills, Man dreams, The Work is born. (Fernando Pessoa) That's pretty much what I feel about this one. Gamaliel comes to mind as well. Anyway, thank you moderation team for the sub-forum.

Lo and behold a new sub has appeared!!!! For some reason it is a bit pale and doesn't have a blue blob. Why? I don't know. Anyway I made a pinned welcome post. So now it is up to you guys.

Dude ! Do not feel up my horsie either ! .

We got one of them down here ! (Well, had one of them, maybe she is dead by now ? Its important to give yourself a cosmic sounding eastern like name ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasmuheen ... except her name is Ellen . '' Jasmuheen has stated that she has lived on approximately 300 calories per day for the past fourteen years, maintaining full health through supplementing a fluid intake with "cosmic particles" or "micro-food", which she describes as prana. '' Except ..... '' Regarding her intake of food, Jasmuheen said:[5] "Generally not much at all. Maybe a few cups of tea and a glass of water, but now and then if I feel a bit bored and I want some flavour, then I will have a mouthful of whatever it is I'm wanting the flavour of. So it might be a piece of chocolate or it might be a mouthful of a cheesecake or something like that." In the aftermath of the 60 Minutes broadcast, Kathy Marks noted in The Independent, "Visitors to her large villa in the prosperous Chapel Hill area of Brisbane invariably find her refrigerator generously stocked with food ... '' If you went to one of her seminars ; Ambassador Training Retreats: For in-person intensive events, such as those held in locations like Mexico, the "investment" can be approximately US$1,200 for the training itself, plus accommodation and ....... wait for it ...... food costs. Total packages have been listed at roughly US$1,999 to US$2,222.

It seems he is doing dream, but not sleep Kung Fu. Neidan doesn't do dreams because once a person reaches higher stage, he won't have dreams, so no point to work on it in earlier stages.

debateable.... What realized being can radiate great compassion and or love with a sour/dour look on their face?

Coming back to this thread, almost 14 years later. It's been quite a ride. A couple of points, HGA certified. 1. Hands Off: The Holy Guardian rarely gets involved in a person's life, without being asked. The amount of times this has occurred in my life, can be counted on one hand. All of these times, were when I was making regressive decisions and inhibiting my "long term" growth, in a "Cosmic" context. That being said, if you pray.....they'll be there.....whether you perceive them or not. 2. The Angelic current: is a path of profound light and when you seek K&C, your going through a process of becoming "attuned" to that Light. 3. K&C: is a process that accelerates you growth in significant ways. Deep cleansing, Energetic sensitivity and Increased Magical Knowledge, all factors.

FINALLY ! Got someone new to train with ... that actually turns up ! he mostly wants to do Arnis and not other weapons at this stage ... thats ok, I wanted to get into that myself . So far we got a reasonable 'Sinawali' going ( weaving 6 count standard pattern Heaven / Earth ) starting ; Then there are the masters ! ;

But @Nungali, what is going on with Torres Strait Islanders? Curious place, Lemuria is. Very curious is indeed.