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  1. Posted

    51 minutes ago, Taomeow said:

     

     

    I know...  a waste of talent.  But the title of the thread is "Pain management techniques," and school was always a huge pain in the ass.  

    Indeed...

    I've learned as a child chemical ways with home items to induce fever. That would help me skip school. Won't share them as teenagers may reed this 🥶

    Congrats for your talent 🔥

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  3. Posted

    1 hour ago, doc benway said:

    One can bring clear and stable attention to the area of pain, or the system, and connect to the feeling of spaciousness that is there if we can open enough to the experience. I think there is a relaxing there as well, @oak and also a loving, caring attention. Touch can be so healing and also the simple touch of awareness. Spaciousness and openness to the experience, not engaging with the psych/emotional side or stories, just being with the direct experience as best you can and open to the genuine warmth that can come up, as if caring for a loved one.

     

    That worked indeed for me, once. Again it was excruciating pain and I managed to totally listen to it without trying to alter anything...and as if by miracle it stopped. Untill this day I couldn't reproduce that again. It requires an extreme amount of focus and self-control.

    This time I have decided to try something else. You learn by experiencing, isn't it? 🙂

    Thanks for your contribution @doc benway

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  7. Posted

    1 hour ago, Taomeow said:

     

     And those ancient alien geneticists don't seem to have been any more ethical than our modern ones.  Any and all GM modifications are designed to serve the modifiers, not the species subjected to them.  The meddling entities only want to find out whether they can -- not whether they should.

     

    No faith in the gods, "as above so bellow" in a bad way. 

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    1 hour ago, Taomeow said:

     

    I suspect this already happened to our species in the distant past.   We have a lot going on in our genome that's hard to explain otheriwise.  E.g., 

    Chromosome 2 Fusion: Two ape chromosomes (2A and 2B) fused into one big one in humans.  No one knows why.

    Centromere Shifts: Centromeres moved a bit on chromosomes like 1, 3, and 11 and no one knows how or what for.

    Pericentric Inversions: Flipped sections on chromosomes 1, 7, and 10.  It's like parts of chromosomes doing somersaults and flipping backward.  No one knows the reason. 

    Shorter Telomeres: Our chromosome end-caps are shorter than in apes.  This means accelerated aging.  

    More Heterochromatin: Extra packed DNA on chromosomes 1, 9, 16, and Y.  This means we have a larger amount of non-coding DNA (scientists call it "junk DNA" -- it may or may not be junk but it has no known function and we have way more of it than our closest evolutionary relatives.)   

    Shrunk Y Chromosome: Our Y is smaller and leaner than in other primates.  This one is in charge of sex determination.  Compared to the Y chromosome of other primates with their much more developed and functional counterpart, in humans it's stripped down to bare essentials. 

    To name a few which make me suspect we've been GMO from the get-go.  And those ancient alien geneticists don't seem to have been any more ethical than our modern ones.  Any and all GM modifications are designed to serve the modifiers, not the species subjected to them.  The meddling entities only want to find out whether they can -- not whether they should.

     

    A lot to dive into. Thanks for sharing all the info. Indeed interesting stuff.

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  10. Posted

    36 minutes ago, Taomeow said:

    The puppies are adorable but they are not dire wolf, contrary to the way the story has been presented by the MSM.  In reality they are a novel hybrid, and possibly -- just possibly -- a novel breed (assuming they are able to mate with each other, which remains to be seen.)  20 gray wolf genes were edited and dire wolf DNA inserted toward this modification, so they are genetically modified gray wolves with some dire wolf phenotypical features derived from those inserts.

         

    It reminds me of something...  something about breeding some other species out of the wolf...  don't we call it a dog?  :rolleyes:

      

    Meow. :D 

     

    Ii get it. I see it as some version of an old Ford model, something still experimental. It gives me hope though 💚

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  11. Posted

    Spent quite some time of my life pondering about the verses of Ecclesiastes which refer to the non-possibility of extinction of anything created by God ( call it whatever you want, Universe, Dao, etc. )

    When the film Jurassic Park came out I have pondered if genetic re-creation would be the way...

    Well...

    It seems dire wolfs are back 🥳

     

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  12. Posted

    5 hours ago, doc benway said:

    You who want

    knowledge,

    see the Oneness

    within.

     

    There you 

    will find

    the clear mirror

    already waiting.

     

    Hadewijch II of Antwerp, 13th century

     

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    Interesting character.

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  14. Posted

    Thought it would be useful to share my findings as they might be helpful to someone in the future. 

    Have to wait 2 weeks for a dental apointment and I find myself with excruciating pain. Paracetamol and iboprufen not working anymore. Took some other Polish medication even stronger but guess what? Stopped working : )

    Came to my mind two things said and written by Moshe Feldenkrais. I remembered him saying once in a video where he was treating a woman with chronic migraines that he had " many ways to trick her brain". With this in mind I tried to saturate my brain with "information" focusing in specific areas of both soles of my feet not giving any chance for the brain to give any attention to the pain. It worked. The pain was gone for more than 12 hours.

    Other thing that I have tried and again with Feldenkrais' ideas in mind was the following, according to him sensitivity is directly proportional to muscular relaxation. You can't feel a feather on the palm of your hand if you have been carrying heavy weights. So, if you try to feel soft or subtle things on the surface of your skin the surrounding musculature will relax. Again, it works. A soft hand barely touching my head and face made the musculature relax and stopped excruciating pain.

    Feeling very thankful to know what I know know and if it may help anyone, great : )

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  15. Posted

    38 minutes ago, Lairg said:

     

    If I recall correctly in one version Michael tamed the dragon and led it through the marketplace.   

     

    I wonder if the dragon symbolizes the human persona - that needs to be trained before it is taken out in public

     

     

     

    Didn't know that one. Good luck with taming your dragon 🙂

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    6 hours ago, rocala said:

    I don't think they did. Prior to St George, it seems that St Theodore was a dragon killer. The switch appears to have origins in what is now Turkey.

    I don't know about St Michael, is anyone suggesting there was only one dragon?

     

    Maybe you're right. Doesn't really matter to me. I'm interested in the simbology of Michael defeating the dragon, that's all 🙂

  19. Posted

    On 06/04/2024 at 9:05 PM, Trunk said:

    Inspired by the video below, I’ve made some effective strides on ren and the whole abdominal region.  She instructs along the line of belly dancing … I modify the breathing towards a more Daoist orientation.

     

    The tip:

    1. Put your finger on any acupoint (indendation) along the abdominal section of ren (below the sternum and above the pubic bone).  Whether you place your finger firmly, lightly, or not quite touching at all - will emphasize physical ~ subtle engagement (all good).

     

    2. Do a slow smooth inhale ~ exhale from the center at finger-level.  Basically, doing dan tien breathing at the level of the finger.  Slowly, so that the layers of tissues gently separate during the (inhale oops!) exhale, often including a gentle tug-pull from the inside at the acupoint.  Just 1 to several breaths, then…

     

    3. Next acupoint, repeat 1&2.  All up n’ down.

     

    I find that this extremely simple tip:

    - Helps to locate areas of the abdomen that are … unfamiliar, inarticulate, physically, and getting the sensitivity and muscular articulation online.

    - extraordinarily effective in activating acupoints along ren 

    - overlaps + complements other kinds of deep abdominal work

     

    - Trunk

     

     

     

     

     

    I found this today and this thread immediately came to mind. Enjoy 🙂

     

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  21. Posted

    1 hour ago, Maddie said:

    I don't know if there is a glitch or if someone is spamming a topic in the Rabbit hole, but several copies of a new topic popped up

     

    That's happening because when you press "submit reply" nothing seems to happen...and you keep pressing it...and then the system uploads all at once.

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  22. Posted

    2 hours ago, Cobie said:


    “Europe”? I am in Europe (the Netherlands) and I cannot log in lots of times.
    I get this message: Gateway time-out Error code 504

     

    And when I do get in it’s very slow and sometimes stops completely. 
     

     

     

    I was having the same problem ( UK ). It seems to be solved now.

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  25. Posted

    On 07/01/2025 at 7:36 PM, Bindi said:

     

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    “In the dream, an overgrown grapevine was entwined with a wooden pergola. My task was to disentangle the vine from the structure. Methodically, I unwound the tendrils from the beams, separated the branches, and finally approached the central post, where the vine’s trunk had become so intertwined with the structure that they seemed inseparable. After much effort, I managed to split them apart.

     

    Once separated, the entire structure began to topple. I attempted to stabilise it twice, but on the third attempt, I gave up and walked away. When I turned back, the overgrown vine and structure had vanished, replaced by a fresh, new vine, this time without a structure. In the dream, I realised that while I had thought the pergola supported the vine, it had actually restricted it. The new vine, free of the structure, was now able to grow unimpeded.

     

    I interpret this to mean that spiritual "work" involves the gradual peeling away of emotional and mental clinging to conditioned reality. This process progresses from the easily separable to deeply entrenched complexes. However, the work does not end there; ultimately, both the conditioned manifestations (the vine) and the supportive but restrictive structures (the pergola) are entirely cleared away. What emerges is a renewed, unconditioned self—rooted in the same transcendent ground of being but manifesting in the world in an entirely different, freer way.”

     

     

     

    I've been absent from the bums for quite sometime now. Last night I found myself having a conversation with a relative about symbols that appear in dreams. I gave as an example the biblical vine... believe me it's not something that happens often, maybe once every five years, nor the vine is one of my favourite symbols. A few hours later I find your thread, Bindi 🙂

    The synchronicity is indeed fascinating. 

    Slowly I'm trying to read the whole thread. Maybe some information I need to find in this dialogue. Again, thanks for starting it.

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