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(T)hat's what true faith would mean, y'see? Sacrficin' your own life, one day at a time to the flame, declarin' the truth of it, workin' for it, breathin' the soul of it.

The true spiritual life can be very uncompromising. It seems to me now it has cost me dear. Yet perhaps many would envy me.

I must admit though, I am suprised sometimes to see so many sceptical materialists on a taoist (religious) forum, but that's one of the beauties of taoism.

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Check out Fritjof Capra's Tao of Physics.

Highly influential.

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It's food for thought, certainly.

If not food for the gods.

On the other hand, you are probably encouraging people in their delusions, you naughty boy.

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Roger Penrose is a quite brilliant man.

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GMP, being married is not conducive to being a useless Sage.

Nor is being a useless Sage conducive to being married.

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I'll be lurking around for a while.

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Yes, thanks for posting that, Jeff, I found it fascinating.

I am pretty sure I experienced some sort of "shaktipat."

Although I know it was a blessing, nonetheless it hasn't been easy.

In fact, so far, its been a bit of a disaster.

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I do rather like a bit of shamanic dance myself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OovKOGugplU

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I might lurk around in chat too.

You've been warned!

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(S)talking the back alleys of online forums cutting off heads and recruiting sleeper agents for a revolution of consciousness, I personally am cool with that. She's like a character from a Grant Morrison comic.

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Ranting and raving can be seen as a sign of psychiatric illness.

I see a lot of it on the internet.

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Almost cut my hair.

Long as God can grow it, my hair.

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Ah yes, but you are not selling a book or a workshop are you ?

Wouldja buy if I did?

Six Point Path to sudden illumination, tried and tested!

Raja Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, Secret Element Pranayama, Broad Scriptural Study, Secret Element Qi Gong, Secret Element Not-Tantric-At-All.

Hell, it might work for you.

I doubt it.

Maybe I could just hit you on the head with a stick.

Frankly, I would prefer that way.

It's easier, but even less likely to be effective.

More fun for me though!

ps above wizard secrets available for a price, negotiations via pm please!

pps its a wad ewe luck in ad!

ppps kundalini psychosis available at no extra charge!

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I gotta join a yoga class...

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Shakespeare

This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.

Groucho Marx

Please accept my resignation. I don't want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member.

E Y Harburg

I could wile away the hours
Conferrin' with the flowers
Consultin' with the rain
And my head I'd be scratchin'
While my thoughts were busy hatchin'
If I only had a brain

I'd unravel any riddle
For any individ'le
In trouble or in pain

(Dorothy)
With the thoughts you'd be thinkin'
You could be another Lincoln
If you only had a brain

(Scarecrow)
Oh, I would tell you why
The ocean's near the shore
I could think of things I never thunk before
And then I'd sit and think some more

I would not be just a nuffin'
My head all full of stuffin'
My heart all full of pain
I would dance and be merry
Life would be a ding-a-derry
If I only had a brain

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Love and light!

Let's all dance the fairy dance of universal cosmic oneness and harmony!

Come, my nymphs!

Slightly more serious answer, it depends how rigid your definition of "tao cultivator" is.

I don't suppose I am a "cultivator," really.

Perhaps I am.

But I am a wooly new ager with no sincerity and less integrity.

One of the elements of "new age" being ecumenism and a tolerance and indeed favour for comparative thinking in spiritual matters, means that I personally find all manner of materials of interest.

Namaste!

ps what this thread needs is more... ponies!

pps yes I am an illuminati agent sent to disrupt.

ppps is there a living to be had in running a new age store? I'd be lucky to get a job sweeping the floor. Still, I'm good at that.

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I often think the dangers of meditation are overstated, although no doubt coming from me, that is ironic.

I suppose we would have to discuss what is meant by meditation.

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What an inspiring post Nungali!

New age 'spirituality' is the eclectic bastard child of hermetics bought up by hippie foster parents.

And sometimes it is smarter than both.

Sometimes dumber.

I won't mention who's dumbest.

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My philosophical leanings are those of.

Fools.

And Fire Horses.

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The Amazon natives probably have their own face book pages.

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I do keep hopping in.

Update: I've been discharged to my goddawful bedsit since Thursday.

It ain't too bad.

At least I aint starvin' (but I like to fast a little sometimes).

Nor am I livin' in a war zone.

Although it sounds like it sometimes, ie 6pm to 6.am ha ha.

The water's pretty ropey too

I think they tryin' ta poison me like they did the Bhagwan Rajneesh!

Better work on my virtue defense, and my Ironguts meditations.

And I might be attacked by Poison Ivy too, one day!

If only.

Ha ha!

I like a redhead.

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I leave the chat up but it auto kicks after a while.

Did you end up .... 'doing that chick inside the 'clinker' ? .... win the ping-pong championship ? ..... I'm dying to know .... but I dont go to live chat.

Someone's bin tellin tales already!

Relations between patients and patients and/or staff is strictly forbidden at the Arkham Asylum!

An' only Catwoman ever turned up!

I was hopin' fer Harley!

And the catty one wouldn't even give me a date, but she did bathe with me in the soft grass, feeling the warm sun on our bodies, listenin' ta James Taylor.

Ya know, all in all, Tommy's Holiday Camp (aka the Ladywell Unit at the Lewisham University Hospital, South London) ain't such a bad place.

And though it weren't da Paris Hilton,

I still recited Billy's Milton!

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Me too

I'll pop on tonight.

I'll have to keep myself in check.

I'll try and be normal.

But its never worked before.

Ha ha.

But I do have some tales to tell.

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Shh.

Don't mention the...

Nazarene.

Jus' some dumb gnostic.

Me, I agree with Nungali.

As within, so without.

Theory of correspondences an' all that.

So, short answer, yes.

Promise not to spam, I'll be good.

/me looks sheepish.

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