blue eyed snake

Missing @Maddie

 

wherever you are, I wish you the best dear

dear @Maddie  , dear girl,

or rather, dear woman for you're no girl anymore but have blossomed out into a strong woman.

 

whether you go or stay here on the bums, know that I will always keep you in my heart.

I really hope you'll find a place where you can live in comfort without the constant heckling and fear you now have to endure,

 

much love from your nonbinary european friend 

still somewhat unreliable

today it seems to work well

On 31-12-2024 at 3:05 AM, Nungali said:

By collating different descriptions and 'habits' of  'Yahweh' from the Old testament and Jewish Bible ,   a writer has conjured up a physical image of their  ' God '  :

 

 

" A supersized, human-shaped body with male features and shining, ruddy-red skin, tinged with the smell of rainclouds and incense. His broad legs suggest he was accustomed not only to straining, leaping and marching, but sitting and standing resolutely stiff, posing like a ceremonial statue. His biceps bulge. His forearms are hard as iron. There are faint indentations around his big toes, left by thonged sandals. Beneath his toenails there are traces of human blood, as though he has been trampling on broken bodies, while the remnants of fragrant grass around his ankles suggest strolls through a verdant garden. The slightly lighter tone of the skin on his thighs indicates he was most often clothed, at least down to his knees, if not his ankles. Minute fibers of fine fabric — a costly linen and wool mix — indicate that his clothing was similar to the vestments of high-status priests. His penis is long, thick and carefully circumcised; his testicles are heavy with semen. His stomach is swollen with spiced meat, bread, beer and wine. The chambers of his heart are deep and wide. His fingers are stained with an expensive ink, and there are remnants of clay under his fingernails. On his arms are faint scars left from the grazes of giant fish-scales, and the crooks of his elbows, slightly sticky with a salty oil, bear the imprint of swaddling bands, suggesting he has cradled newborn babies. Traces of the tannery fluid used by hide-workers wind in a stripe around his left arm and down to the palm of his hand — a residual substance left by a long leather tefillin strap.

" His thick hair is oiled with a sweet-smelling ointment, and shows evidence of careful styling: the hair-shafts suggest it was once separated and curled into thick ropes, while slight marks on the back of his scalp indicate it has been partly pinned beneath some sort of headgear, and his forehead is marked with the faint impression of a tight band of metal. Although his beard reaches beneath his chin, it has been neatly groomed, while his mustache and eyebrows are thick and tidy. The hair on his head and face shimmers — first dark with blue hues, like lapis lazuli, then white and bright, like fresh snow. And one glance, he has the beard of his aged father, the ancient Levantine god El; in another, it is the stylized beard of a youthful warrior, like the deity Baal. His ears are prominent, and their lobes are pierced. His eyes are thickly lined with kohl. His nose is long, its nostrils broad — the scent of burnt animal flesh and fragrant incense lingers inside them. His lips are full and fleshy, his mouth large and wide. It is at once the mouth of a devourer and a lover. His teeth are strong and sharp, his tongue is red hot. His saliva is charged with a blistering heat. The back of his throat is a vast, airy chamber, once humming with life. Below it is an opening of a cavernous gullet. Shadowy scraps of another powerful being, the dusty underworld king, cling to its walls. "

 

" All these details appear in various books of the Old Testament. Here’s a sampling .....

 

https://www.thenotsoinnocentsabroad.com/blog/descriptions-of-gods-body-in-the-bible

 

thanks for posting, interesting read

On 18-2-2025 at 12:48 PM, blue eyed snake said:

i would like to have my access to the Current Events removed too

 

can I please have my access to current events removed?

On 19-2-2025 at 8:21 AM, Bindi said:

I think kundalini would have to be present at ajna for longer for direct seeing to have remained and even increased. Do you have the sense that kundalini has descended and stayed down since this experience? 

 

uhm... 

 

the first weeks were an ordeal, energy kept rising, through all of the channels when memory serves me well. had to do grounding practice every 3 or so hours. Twice a night I woke up due to it, stood beside my bed to do grounding practice and took another nap. after several weeks this began to abate and at last the force of it became smaller.

 

It never really ended though, just as there was an awareness of the small and large circulation, the rising chi of mother earth and the descending light/ fine energy from above. This new one added itself to the chorus, a continuous soft flowing energy up the spine, always.

no tingling, heat or other unpleasant sensations.

Nowadays that awareness has become more notable, also several channels have become wider, especially the central channel, the zongmai/ chongmai, the one that goes straight through the body.  Plus those physical dents on the head became deeper and more pronounced.

 

apart from that ego was gone, cut away with one fell swoop and it took much to get balanced into that. The remnants of me walked around, baffled at the idiotic material abundance, all those packages at the supermarket. But also, just turn a knob and warm water comes out et cetera.

 

Plus the sad isolation of the humans that were being encountered, all wrapped up in their story so tightly

 

some 6 to 8 weeks later ego began to build anew, new story developed with this 'experience'  being part of it. Part of 'me' looked at it and thought it mighty funny, see how she makes up a new story while knowing full well there ain't no truth to  it. 

 

That situation is still there, still reactive ( much less than before though) but also fully aware that it all just a made up thing, a storyline. Lately the thought/feeling "oh, why should i react to that comes more often than the ingrained reaction. And ' something' in 'me' looks at the situations and is grinning, it's just so funny really.

 

On 18-2-2025 at 9:03 PM, -ꦥꦏ꧀ ꦱꦠꦿꦶꦪꦺꦴ- said:

Do you know if it is possible to keep that ability?

 

sure that is possible, but I did not want it. I soon learnt to shut out those visions or open them as  the situation warranted. But mostly I shut it out, it's quite overwhelming to see all that shit of your fellow humans. Also I had no use for the information, well those may be rationalisations looking back, I just did not want it, like " please take this away from me, unburden me from this new load.

 

But even years after when curiosity got the better of me i could look and sometimes told people: "hm, maybe it's good to go visit a doctor, that little pain that you just told me about might be a symptom of something bad"

 

also the memory of the most beautiful golden 'bubble' around a toddler, he will grow up to be an extraordinary man.

 

Teacher once told that his teacher trained him to hone this ability so as to be better able to help people with their ailments, a hard training that was. I could have chosen that, but I did not.

 

 

too much political shit, can read that elsewhere.

 

one must be able to choose when and what to read and lately most of the tab activity, which i prefer to use, is filled up with people talking ( and  quarreling) about politics, trump/musk et cetera ad infinitum

On 14-2-2025 at 12:14 AM, Bindi said:

Thanks for sharing this BES 🙂 Did you notice any changes in either direct seeing when Ajna was pierced or spiritual knowledge when guru was pierced? 

 

 clear memory of a suddenly acquired seeing of aura's and illness, 

 

black or dark grey patches on the the aura were people had illness/ blockages.

I did not want that at all and was glad when it slowly disappeared, also more often people saying to me: how did you know that.

 

probably more but it's long ago and my memory is not as good as it used to be.

i would like to have my access to the Current Events removed too

On 11-2-2025 at 2:28 PM, doc benway said:

enlightenment is far more than the realization of the non-dual nature of being. That very realization can be a trap, which I think is one reason for the secrecy. Such a realization is important but it is simply a drawing back of the curtain, a human experience of the dropping of an obscuration or delusion, albeit an important one; a glimpse  of the real potential of enlightenment but not the full fruition. 

 

yes

 

like a toddler managing to walk for the first time and feeling like he has reached the top of everything, look how big I am and can walk all by myself.

The most important thing they have to learn is not to kick their friends, those who are still crawling.

 

Last summer I told a friend of mine some things, he responded with: but then you are enlightened...

 

mwah, you know these tiny teeny leds, the sort that's used for tiny christmas decorations? maybe that's me, but only maybe.

In that comparison, enlightened is like the lamp of a light-house.

By Alissa Smith Williams

mother earth

 

 

'Sleeping Mud Maid',  by UK artist Sue Hill (and Pete Hill) at The Lost Gardens of Heligan, Cornwall, UK

Anybody else not having connectivity problems lately?

 

very patchy here

long post

 

 

On 6-2-2025 at 10:28 AM, Bindi said:

I understand that kundalini is not part of your belief system, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t a fundamental part of how consciousness integrates and transforms—it’s just something you haven’t encountered yet. Maybe take some time to read about kundalini before trying to debate it out of existence. Gopi Krishna’s experience is a good example—he forced the process and paid the consequences, but it was unstoppable. I’ve also found Swamij insightful, as he emphasises the importance of clearing the side channels first. https://swamij.com/kundalini-awakening.htm

 

so have read up on this, it gives a concise description of several possible states the 'system'  can rest in.

here you find the text about kundalini rising to the crown and out 

https://swamij.com/kundalini-awakening-6.htm

 

 

this is what piqued my interest, it says here there are chakras between the third eye and the crown ( excuse my simple language, I am not much of a reader and preferably use the words I am used to)

 

Quote

Between ajna and sahasrara: From the ajna chakra at the eyebrow center, the journey is up the brahma nadi, an extension of the Sushumna channel. This may be first experienced in the dark field of mind as a black object, lingam, circle, or tunnel entrance. Along the journey to the sahasrara chakra at the crown of the head (also known as the thousand-petalled lotus or brahmarandra), there are other chakras, bindus (points), and levels of consciousness that are encountered and transcended. To go through these levels (called piercing the bindu) can seem like explosions or crashing through walls. If awareness does not stop at one of these points along the way, it comes to the union of the individual and the Absolute.

 

many years ago I had a kundalini experience, without even knowing what it was, once I wrote to a darling bum:

 

 

When i woke up the day after this happened i had a small dent in my forehead, tender to the touch. The layer between skullbone and skin ( subcutaneous connective tissue) had disappeared overnight.  strange uh.

weeks, maybe months after I began to look into what this experience had been and came out with kundalini as it fitted in all details. But the dent in my forehead remained a mystery. Another darling bum pointed me to the acupuncture point that is sitting there, 

 

shenting, DU-MAI 24, Courtyard of the Spirit.

 

 

but there my search ended, I did once mention it here on the bums hoping for some pointers but got a reaction like ' oh that's just yuan qi' or something like that so that wasn't helpful. Especially as i have never learned all those chinese terms.

 

but now i got hold of this text linked by Bindi

 

 

which tells us there is a chakra between third eye and crown, called guru chakra 

(or jnana or trikuti.)  I had seen very old pictures with ' something' high up on the forehead but now I had a search-term.

Searching came up with several ideas were this point is located but it was all muddy and unclear until I found this and it seems to me that this is a source to be trusted.

 

 

so now I have three points of information, the chinese Shenting (courtyard of the spirit), the guru chakra, aka the center of higher knowledge or, as swami Rama puts it: fire of knowledge.

Plus my own experience and my forehead, through the years the dent has deepened so much that i am sure part of the skullbone has melted. A groove down to the third eye has developed and the third eye itself has dented. Also at the spot of the frontal fontanelle a large but not deep indentation has developed.

 

 

So

it did not come 'out of the blue' , i had diligently practiced standing posture, some other practices and meditation. several years, the last years it had added up to a daily meditation of an hour and about same for standing practice. Every day, sometimes more plus regular sessions at the dojo

never done any yoga btw.

 

the ren-du system was open and circulating, the central channel was open so the large circulation also flowing, the other extraordinary channels were open or in the process of opening. The lower tantien was hot and turning.

BTW, teacher told me that apart from the ren-du circulation there is also a "sideways" circulation, ( a bit like how the indian pictures show it ). (He told me that when strange and uncomfortable body things started to happen, he said something like: you're clearing up old emotional stuff and opening these side channels, the discomfort will pass. Much text from my usually taciturn teacher.)

He's a chinese and his teacher was chinese also.

 

 

This simple soul has encountered 4 "sorts" of energy

the stuff you get born with

the light from above, called Grace by Christians and their way to god ( and/or enlightenment/realisation)

the energy from mother earth, rising through your legs and so entering the bodily energy system. I was told that some people feel this as originating in the perineum.

 

and kundalini, the favored way of the culture of india.

In my experience it is embodied and it sits in the sacral bone, there the hot fire started. Although it rose up the spine, it was totally different from the ren-du circulation, that goes through the perineum which also has a function in that circulation. The Ren-Du always went smoothly and 'watery'.

Kundalini was hot as fire, prickly as electricity, quite unbearably really, until it popped out of the top of my head.

 

I would not call one 'system' better than the others,

it's simply different ways.

16 minutes ago, Bindi said:

 

I think the Indian model is pretty accurate, overlaying Indian and daoist models I’d say ida and pingala are equivalent to yin and yang though daoists don’t place yin and Yang specifically in the subtle body. To me they are channels that run from the bottom of the body to the top like the Indian system. There doesn’t seem to be an equivalent energy to kundalini in daoism, and from my perspective that’s a shortcoming. Kundalini is not actually activated Yang qi from pingala sent into the central channel, it’s an actual ‘consciousness’ that is actually asleep in the lower part of the body that ideally is awakened when both Ida and Pingala are cleared and flowing. That’s my understanding, what yoga people do I don’t know personally, but I am not drawn to what I consider to be forceful methods, breathing, locks, trying to force energies, so I’m not defending yoga practices.

 

seeing how you like to compare systems,

maybe you like these sites

 

https://fiveseasonsmedicine.com/kodaishin-meridian-therapy/

 

https://drjakefratkin.com/3-level-najom/part-3-more-eight-extraordinary-channel/

On 6-2-2025 at 10:28 AM, Bindi said:

I understand that kundalini is not part of your belief system, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t a fundamental part of how consciousness integrates and transforms—it’s just something you haven’t encountered yet. Maybe take some time to read about kundalini before trying to debate it out of existence. Gopi Krishna’s experience is a good example—he forced the process and paid the consequences, but it was unstoppable. I’ve also found Swamij insightful, as he emphasises the importance of clearing the side channels first. https://swamij.com/kundalini-awakening.htm

 

thanks for that link, found some interesting thingies

thanks to whoever made and added the new logo

 

let the bums be prosperous, funny and wise for another year

17 hours ago, Maddie said:

Goodbye democracy it was fun while it lasted.

 

oh dear, you need a cuddle and a passport     

On 27-1-2025 at 12:16 PM, liminal_luke said:

Many transgender people are understandably shocked and dismayed by Trump´s recent executive orders. When things seem dark, I think it´s good to remember and hold on to points of light.  Some feared things have not happened.  Trans folks are not being rounded up by the government and killed.  With the exception of those in prison, gender-affirming care remains available for adults.  The vast majority of people are happy to call people by whatever pronouns they prefer.  (Or at least this seems true to me -- perhaps I live in a magical fairy kingdom?)  If a Bum purposely misgenders another Bum here with intent to hurt, the moderators are likely to take immediate and decisive action.  

 

No matter what happens politically, we all have the right to affirm to ourselves what we find to be true.  I know my gender and nobody can take that knowledge away from me.  Reality is reality.  Trump doesn´t have the power to change reality no matter what.

 

Only reading up a bit from Europe, the developments are very disconcerting.

Denying women reproductive healthcare is getting on "well"

I won't be long and the measures taken against trans people will get worse

and he will go for gay people too.

 

You just wait a bit.