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    13 hours ago, gj551 said:

    i typed the text of the first 10 chapters into my computer and then converted it by a text-to-speech software, so i can hear it when riding the bus :)

     

    i also made a handwritten copy (till chapter 10) ^^

     

    I used onenote to screenshot the pdf pages, ocr it to text, then pass it to a web filter to remove all line breaks, then passed it to a notepad filter to split all the text into sentences line by line for analysis. Took a few sec ^ ^ but before I figured that out, I did the same thing xD.

  6. Posted · Edited by Emera

    Wow. That's a load of assumptions your making there. Kinda highlights how you think. Nowhere did I say that I know more than you.

     

    The source material or the Aurum Solis is indeed a good start, but after schism after schism in the order, its more drama and imbalance. Too bad Denning and Philips are no longer among the living. Outer order stuff. I take the order to be historic now, but their curriculum is still widely published.

     

    As for online courses, I can't comment on the efficacy O_O. Sorcery? Is that magic of a material basis going by the definition people give it nowadays?

  7. Posted · Edited by Emera

    After many restarts of reading the book, the best thing I found to do is to read the glossary first and organize all the concepts together (maybe on paper). That way, you wont be confused by what the book is saying. Also, skip the introduction and go straight to C1. Read the Intro after all the other chapters.

     

    Also, since Taoist yoga is incomplete, you have to look and compare in other texts.

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  13. Posted · Edited by Emera

    The farther you go along your path, the less you keep track of your beliefs. Then, only Silence is left. One profound prayer in the Arbatel is to be free from unending human beliefs/infinite human opinions.

     

    There is truth in everyone's statements here.

  14. Posted · Edited by Emera

    I guess some people don't get my point: there is no way that you can prove such a thing. But, there are methods that people claim leads to experience of such a being, and in my western path, I use many models that access such a being. Real or not real is just a boolean value in the head that falls away against experience. It is Supreme Mystery.

     

    I am not attached to belief because it is a commodity I can change when I wish.

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  17. Posted · Edited by Emera

    Ooh I like eye techniques. I know bewitching eyes, the evil eye, and sight. The first 2 I learned studying curses.

     

    How to charm and entrance through the eyes.

     

    How to harm through the eyes.

     

    I would say clairvoyance and the ability to see spirits is not directly linked to the 3rd eye. I know because my training involved refining my senses.

     

    I would say that the third eye is more like on your energy body, for advanced practices. Different cultures attach different functions to it.

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    I really do. Right now, Im digesting Taoist Yoga. Having no connection to these schools people are a part of, and knowing that books clearly have errors - Im reading through the book and organizing it's terms, instructions and main points. 

     

    Then I go to the search bar and search up discussions on this books and people talking about their schools, etc. Having no teacher, I have to make judgement based on what they say about this cultivation, maybe I'll go evoke some angels to correct my mistakes or heal me when I make a mistake or help me prevent them.

     

    I'll see what works and what doesn't - wasn't there someone who fumbled in the dark to be the father of cultivation? And I'll use the personal practice and discussions in my considerations to distill a method from this book. Maybe start off a few of my own. I still have decades left for cultivation and I have my own western methods.

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  24. Posted · Edited by Emera

    17 hours ago, 9th said:

     

    Rick and Morty "Don't think about it :P" You can never really prove the existence of something - you can only disprove. Human logic only works in false - not false logic. That is why science, not sciencism -  the religion of science - has hypotheses and theories.

     

    On the record, we have not yet able to prove or disprove the existence of god or of the pasta monster god thingamjig.

  25. Posted · Edited by Emera

    18 hours ago, 3bob said:

    Emera, Have you also noticed in the quote above that its author reached a verdict so to speak, in other words no doubt tied to conflicting beliefs derived from only doing mental gymnastics regarding Tao?  And one might ask how is that possible - well it is possible through direct experience as repeatedly alluded to in the text.  (Btw, I'd add that a discussion on meanings related to belief and its sister faith is a big one and can not be discounted or dismissed out of hand)

     

    It's just the author's bias. But real seekers can change their model of reality at whim. Such mental flexibility can break people's minds - holding contradictory thoughts in the same head ;).

     

    But the main point, as I take it of that statement is -

     

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    The Tao that can be told of is not the eternal Tao;

    The Dao the rabble call Dao is not the eternal dao. That means it exists outside of the limits of their comprehension.

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    The name that can be named is not the eternal name.

    Because how can you speak it, the mystery?

     

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    The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; The Named is the mother of all things

    Humans call the named the mother of all things. But of the nameless???? A mystery ;).

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