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Creeps out there, the Dao loves you

That is it!

Note: I won't let my ambition to be bigger than that.

To find some balance and sanity in this crazy world we live in.

Question for @Bindi How do you deal with powerful cathartic dreams? The kind that can shock you deeply as you find yourself for example expressing agression or sexuality without any boundaries, that is doing things that your conscious self would never aprove. I do understand that the reason why they happen is repressed energy, even so in my case it was something I couldn't deal with.

Meanwhile I've checked about injera. Definately something interesting to try to reproduce in my lab.

Some without a doubt are. Others are dreams with deep meaning that over the years keep unfolding new revelations and understanding.

No big problem having a Freudian slip. Big Motörhead fan myself.

Lovely post. Thank you for the clarity of it and sharing your experience. You should stop listening to metal if it stresses you.

Tell me about that, in the place where I work most of my colleagues are from Kerala and Nigeria. That staffroom at lunchtime... Start cooking, mate. Learn from the best. These days I rarely go to restaurants and pretty much cook 80% of what I eat. Food wise, it's all poison out there.

Hi Steve, Sorry to interfere with your conversation with Bindi but I feel like comenting on what you have written with an example of a dream. I remember buying my first DDJ in my 20's in a time of my life of great confusion. After giving it some 5 minutes of attention I simply quit and put it on a shelf untouched for the next 2 years. The thing was too obscure for me I was expecting clear instructions about a healthy Chinese way of living. By that time don't know if before or after buying the book I had a dream where I was riding a blue ox that was taking me to "soul-land". The dream left a strong impression on me altough I couldn't grasp its meaning. Two years after having bought the DDJ I finally gave it the attention it needs and found it an amazing book of wisdom. Still, it must have taken me some 5 more years before understanding the symbology in that dream. Just my experience... Don't think that Bindi is defending that all dreams are untouched by our conditioning but a few in fact seem to be.

After having learned that altough Nigerians are the most genetically propense population to develop Alzheimers disease and however don't get it much due to having a traditional diet very rich in fiber my curiosity increased regarding African diets. Don't watch this if you're fasting...or trying to.

Forty-five years after the publication of The Way of the Shaman, I'm feeling compelled to revisit Michael Harner's work.

What made me seriously think about it was once listening to this englishman born and bread in England but with a Russian mother speaking of his experience while visiting Russia. He never felt identified with English culture but while in Russia altough sometimes feeling literally smashed by the cold he felt simultaneouslly extremelly happy to be amongst his people, those who really understood him 🙂