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LOL!!!!!! Oh man, that video was hilarious and, unfortunately, for the most part very true for many ordinary couples. I'm open to a woman in life, but it has very specific clauses attached to it. like for one, no marriage -- ever. secondly, she cannot prevent me from seeking truth otherwise it's over. Yeah, it's not going to be easy finding a person like this but quite frankly i'm not really looking. If it happens, it happens but most important is enlightenment. nothing will stand in the way of that, hence, no children either.

Agreed. The Great Heartbreak of my life was a life-changing experience, full of grand introspection and a realization of what a good relationship is to me.

Fascinating. Perhaps the makers of Vicco have intentionally left out glycerine from their packaged list of ingredients for this very purpose. Thanks for the info and recommendations, Karen. They've been very helpful.

I'm all for seeing the perfection in people, but when the vision of perfection begins to inflict unnecessary pain on ourselves, it's probably best to appreciate it from a distance. having experienced the pain of detachment, I can assure you(as others have mentioned) that there are plenty of other beautiful female souls out there who are at the same place of awareness as you are. good luck, man.

I just read the ingredients in Vicco and saw no listing of glycerin. How do you know this? Also, soap!?!? that sounds so simple that i like the idea! So the next question would be - can you recommend a good soap for brushing?

I wonder though, what is our drive to be immortal? I'm recalling that timeless quote from Wolfgang Peterson's TROY, when Brad Pitt, performing what could be his most suitable role as Achilles, says, "Flank! To the flank!" Just kidding, when he says... Achilles: I'll tell you a secret. Something they don't teach you in your temple. The Gods envy us. They envy us because we're mortal, because any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again. Even though i'm using an obscure piece of dialog spoken by Brad Pitt in a Wolfgang Peterson movie, there is beauty in this thought. Why do we seek immortality? What waits behind the curtain of this? Will we be able to appreciate the finite qualities of what we consider to be beauty? Will all of this change and will this change be something we wanted? Does it matter? Why do fools fall in love? What makes the sky blue? Is this some game where we are just trying to reach the next level?

Berkey water filter is probably the best out there. They can also be purchased with flouride filters. Another thing would be toothpaste. I use Vicco herbal toothpaste myself. takes a little getting used to, but at this point I can't imagine using anything else.

I can barely make full lotus, but when I do I notice that my perenium faces the ground instead of being at an angle in half lotus. I'm thinking in FL it might help energy flow through up the spine in a more pure and streamlined fashion.

Fascinating stuff. Thank you very much, Darin. Your posts resonate very much with my own thoughts and experiences.

Agreed on physical immortality, but can you expand on the "red blood turns to milk"? I've never heard of this before.

Will you be consuming fish and just removing red-meat/poultry from the diet? I've removed red-meat and poultry -- period, but still consume fish and some cheese once in a while. Reason being is that it's difficult to maintain a solid stream of protein going purely vegetables without consuming a ton of beans, although I don't enjoy eating animals or animal by-products, but like Taoist principles, I'm taking the middle path. As far as cheese, ugh, it tastes soo good!

from what i've read and heard from others, it seems like a different experience for different people. Third Eye opening for me was the most incredible experience of my life and what started my journey from being a full-blown Atheist to ending up at the Tao. If anyone's interested, i can share my experience in full detail. it's probably the only thing i feel confident in explaining. lol.

The US isn't building a billion dollar base in Iraq to just walk away from it. Even if Obama declares a withdrawal, it will only be a partial US military withdrawal with contractor and specific brigades still inside Iraqi points of interest. There will never be a withdrawal in the middle-east. The goal since inception has been removal of unruly dictators from that region and installation of capitalist-friendly regimes as well as installation of permanent launching points for a bigger theatre. Don't be fooled by all the bs coming out of these politicians, no matter how pretty their speeches and words are, identity them by their cabinet choices and the deals they make. Obama has already chosen Zbigniew Brzezinski as his foreign policy adviser, Z. Brzez is a certified Russia-phobe. Read his book The Grand Chessboard and you'll begin to see the long-term plans ahead. The only nation in the world capable of presenting any real threat to the US and the West has always been Russia and that's where all of this is destined to end. Poland is today's Cuban Missile Crisis but there is no JFK in office (or is there?). We'll see what happens in the coming years, but I'm not holding my breath. Globalization and global euthanasia isn't an impossibility. Sometimes it seems like an inevitability, so i'm just enjoying my life since none of it is in our hands at this point anyway, and maybe not even in theirs either.

Obama is Like Spinning Plates While you make pretty speeches, I'm being cut to shreds. You feed me to the lions, a delicate balance When this just feels like spinning plates. I'm living in cloud cuckoo land. And this just feels like spinning plates Our bodies floating down the muddy river.

You should look into what the past graduates are doing now. Have they found high-paying employment to justify the cost? What was the background of many graduates and do they feel they've learned something profound? Try to find someone with a similar background as you and see what the pos/negs are, because I agree with some of the other posters -- it can very easily be a lot of money that could have been used towards far more productive things. Most important is whether or not graduates can find employment to justify tuition. If anything near half of them went back to their old jobs, or if most are in social/psychiatric work and are supplementing it with these courses, I would gather it is a supplemental program for established counselors, not a program that has an employment base already. But who knows. This could be the future. Find out who supports them and what academics thinks of them.

Okay, well fair enough. Let me explain further because there seems to be some confusion. I've read Opening The Dragon Gate. During that time the transmitters of the Tao, The Wayfayers of Old, sought out WLP to be the 18th Transmitter of the School of Complete Reality. Why weren't they teaching like WLP is? Why did Max of Kunlun decide that he must now teach the secrets he's learned? Why have all these workshops suddenly sprung up saying that now is the time to release all these secrets? I'm not talking about YEARS. I'm talking about THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF YEARS where this stuff has been kept in the dark purposely by the very same lineage of teachers who taught the same people who are teaching this stuff to the public now. EDIT: BTW, spare me with the fortune cookie dough nuggets of wisdom.

they should all have regular jobs instead of teaching or healing full time. either that or take donations. i do like the idea though of a teacher choosing his student wisely, instead of asking for $X amount and teaching anyone who has the cash.

I've been seeing consistent visions of deep blue and green lights exploding in a bulbous fashion, as well as waves of light flowing and bursting from different directions. I can also feel the energy sensations between my eyes in the Ajna while they are happening. Some background info on me: I experienced a spontaneous crown and third eye chakra activation while focusing conscious energy on the pineal gland. Have experienced psychic dreams and can also feel the upper chakras very apparently. Recently I had a Kundalini raising from a Reiki Tummo master through shaktipat, but the master is not available to explain these incredibly vivid light and wave visions i've been experiencing. I am wondering, can anyone enlighten me on what this is/means? Is it merely a sign of heightened energy?

I'll say this much, when my crown/third eye chakras were activated, the next day i felt a STRONG sensation of energy coursing on top of my head. It felt like a bunch of bugs were crawling around the top-center and I literally put a mirror above my head to check if I had lice or something. After a few weeks, i felt like someone had a finger pressed against the third eye area, between the eyes. I thought i had some kinda bruise or something for the first few days, but it kept getting more intense. It wasn't subtle, and it's been months since and it still isn't subtle. In fact, i'm feeling pulses and gyrations all over my cranium now, and it's not subtle at all! Mind you, prior to all this, I had no idea what chakras even were, let alone anything other than being an Athiest.

Thank you, Spectrum. I think i'm probably just being impatient. I'm going to take your advice and seek a natural setting in stillness.

Lately I've been thinking about Karma as well as all the F'ed-up sheet that happens in the world(and has been for as long as we've existed). I wonder how the warlords of third world nations as well as rulers of wealthy G nations have gone so long and continue to pillage people, murder by the hundreds, thousands and millions, and turn a blind eye to it all. Where is their karma? Why don't their actions adversely affect their fates?

Don't forget a good vacuum sealer, like Food Saver. It'll prolong the life of food by 2 to 3 times.

Since governments are now taking over the toxic paper (derivatives) and even taking stakes in these institutions, it is basically guaranteed they will be creating more money to do so because there is no other way for them to do it. Expect sharp inflation in the coming months and years. A wise move would be to begin storing food (rice, beans(protein), canned goods, things you enjoy eating) while prices are at these levels.