blue eyed snake

as I've experienced it, a dantien alive and turning will clean up your channels and childhood things will be shaken out due to that. to let go of

whats wrong with lobotomy is taking a prettied up long nail, push it in the frontal cortex and move it around a bit. Although at first they made a hole in the skull to do it, later they simply used the eye socket. unruly kids or wife, just stir their frontal cortex a bit and they will become meek as little lambs.

glad to hear the current medical treatments are enough of a help that the idea is to stay on that course. I've known a lady with un-treatable depression who, after long thinking and being in two minds, had consented to do that and was happy with the outcome. She was free of depression for half a year and the treatment itself was well performed and ( although she was scared of it) it turned out to be not more scary then the average medical treatment. after about half a year depression came back but at first only lightly and worsening through time. When I talked to her she had had 2 of these shocktherapies. The depression was again deepening and she told me the idea that she could have another of those treatments was helpful. She felt that suicidal ideation was kept at bay by it, it had replaced in her head by: when I cannot handle it anymore i will do another of these electro treatments instead of: when it gets worse I will suicide. regarding psychoactive medications my point of view has always been, only when really needed, with thoughtful doctor who actively asks for feedback and tailors meds to the person. In those cases where it is needed it can be so helpful, can make the difference between a livable life and hell, for both the patient and his or her loved ones. The latter is something not everybody does understand. Big hug for Jose and you

there was a dutch guy that did this in 1965, Bart Huges. strange thing is, after a particularly 'energetic' meditation I got a slight dent in my forehead, as if the connective tissue at that spot had melted. it has deepened quite a bit through the years and is now so deep that i guess skullthickness has thinned too. It begins to look like his one. I remember in my youth this guy was talked about as the summum of crazyness. He died at the age of 70 in 2004

it's not even gone, nowadays the call it cingulotomy, which is a 'refined' lobotomy and use it on people with severe OCD https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10193485/

so it's about choosing your fishing grounds wisely I am not up to stingrays anymore so I go for the carps

thank you, this is fascinating,

Did not mean that, is just my interpretation of this bit of text.

hm, this reminds me of the time I lived in a city and regularly had junks at the door, asking for a tenner. Never gave em money but handed out a sandwich and a drink, milk or tea, whatever they wanted.

thinking on that, i would not want to be a master, let alone a grandmaster. Imagine all those students hanging on you every word. Always wanting attention and help. nope, not my cuppa tea there are better ways to live the autumn of life

Being humble is one of the signs off wisdom, and where would we be without a good homegrown snack

stupid questions do not exist as far as I am concerned, I've wondered about that too. there is an interview somewhere on these forums with a christian monk, Greece from the top of my head. He's talking about the holy spirit and how you have to make yourself available to it. contrary to the way chi gung works, were the physical body has to move/work to get dantien alive and kicking, chi flowing, channels opening and enlarging. Holy spirit is there and when you are open for it it will comedown on you, it's a different process but it's chi/prana/energy just the same, although of a different quality but cannot find that interview in a jiffy, someone will link it for you i guess, now that i mentioned it. there's a whole list of interviews with interesting characters around here, somewhere on the forums. found it: and I do remember something about turning wheels ( aka chakra's) connected to Christianity, but forgotten were I picked that up.

very nice dragon

humans are multifaceted, one can be wise in one facet and in the others still be quite stupid.

i do agree with Cobie here, the yin chi rises, the yangchi descends and standing inbetween/in their meetingpoint the person transforms/gets reborn line 8 tells us how the people born of the spirit have become boundless.

Noh actor, second half of 19th century

oh yippie, i am free to believe what i want.

that's a preconceived notion, no concentration needed, what opens it up is a quality of the heart. You do assign meaning, i don't

yes, you put that very well, there is a bit of overlap, like a venndiagramm. But the mysteries are vast and the overlap is small. Furthermore a lot of psychology is not very scientific or useful either.

course not, i have zero trust in psychotherapists, they can lay on their own divans and analyze their own shit seem to remember they do not probably psychoanalytics wow, can you be more dedainful

Several reasons, apart from methodological problems, every single westerner is steeped in a culture that denies that reincarnation can exist. It goes against the grain, it's a paradigm hard to uproot. Christianity says it does not exist, we are born, live and then we go to heaven. literally, the onceborn One does not go squarely against the church, apart from being bad for your immortal soul, it could have repercussions on the amount of bread you could bring to the table. It's always the safer thing to lay low and conform to the groupnorms. That mister Stevenson had the guts to stick his head above the parapet, i perceive that as laudable the other thingie I mentioned was near death experiences, very intereesting

grin the discussion above is sort of what I meant that i try to stop interpreting and storytelling about 'practice' or 'spiritual development' the Dao that can be talked about is not the real Dao

MB types meh low validity

in your earlier posts you are clearly talking about interpreting, which to me is useless, storytelling. indicative of meditative progress i was born with that white light shining its clear light on me. But it's no matter to me, you can see it as you like and I see it different. that's the beauty of all those different people down here, all those different ideas