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Working actively stirs things up and you get to them sooner. Working passively helps to release them, so you can move on to the next things. Alternating is good.

Oneness and Cosmic Consciousness are nice, but I see them as separate from enlightenment. Just an opinion.

Enlightenment is not a place, a thing, an experience, or a state of consciousness. Anything you can look at or point to or touch is not enlightenment. It can only be described in negative terms, because any terms that could be applied are only part of the picture.

As for relaxing into and working towards, it is faster to alternate them than to use one approach exclusively. Your active work and your passive work deepen each other.

It seems to me that there is too much focus on the condition of being enlightened and not enough talk about the things that get in the way of reaching enlightenment. It is easier to talk about the things that falsely appear to be real than it is to talk about being at the point when false appearances no longer arise.

http://www.southparkstudios.com/guide/615

John Edward won it.

If you refer to emptiness in a Buddhist context, it is defined differently in every branch of Buddhism. In the Theravada even, it is known as the three marks of existence: annica, anatma, and dukkha. As you go up the scale all the way to Dzogchen, the definition changes but the same word emptiness tends to be used. It is a subject which requires an enormous amount of book learning. There is more to it than simply visualizing physically empty space or some bright light.

As they say, molecules don't get cancer. The more evolved an organism, the greater the potential for a wider variety of problems to occur.

Anyway, generally we don't tend to believe people who say they are enlightened so it only makes sense to get someone else to call us enlightened to get around that.

There is a difference between being enlightened and being a Saint. It is entirely possible than an enlightened person will feel that since there is nothing to lose, a wider variety of experiences may be explored. Why not see for yourself when you reach that point and tell us?

I read something about using a pinch of a mixture of turmeric and salt to keep the snips from healing back the way they were, and my local grocery has turmeric in the spice aisle. I'm just very reluctant to try it because even with the small trimmers rather than a razor blade I can't imagine what it would be like to cut the spot under my tongue. I have the turmeric and I have sea salt around - so the mental hesitation is all that stands in my way.

This is where I got it:

http://www.archive.org/details/beyondhimalayass00gedduoft

Google was my friend.

It is a seizure medication and going off of it - especially if you take it a long time - can actually cause you to have seizures even if you didn't have them previously. I wouldn't go so far as to say it causes brain damage, though.

The L-theanine sounds like a really good choice. I wish I had thought of it.

I don`t realy understand this but are you saying one could do permanent damage to the brain?

Just ignore that post.

It is like this -

Sodium is a highly reactive metal that produces hydrogen when added to water and often ignites the hydrogen. Under the right circumstances it will spontaneously ignite in air.

Chlorine is a poisonous gas which was used in warfare to scar lung tissue.

Salt is a combination of sodium and chlorine, and both are highly dangerous, so avoid salt and especially do not throw it in water.

You can take that with a grain of salt.

The other thing is that if you get put on prescription medication, you have to watch for drug interactions with herbal medications.

And you can look up the medicine here -

http://www.drugs.com/pdr/clonazepam.html

It could be for brainwave entrainment purposes.

So many medical conditions are caused or made worse by stress. Ensuring that everyone had enough resources to get by would go a long way to removing the fear of not having enough. Unfortunately the thing about desire seems to be that there is no such thing as enough.

People can still try to claw their way into having billions of Euros if they want. They may even be able to do it more easily if everyone has money.

http://www.basicincome.org/bien/

The idea of basic income seems to be to ensure that everyone has at least enough money to buy basic necessities.

It doesn't seem to be very easy to get information about Red Sun. I'd feel better about trying it if I could read about it more first. Is there a book or a web site with more information about what it is, how to do it, and what to expect?

Got it.

http://www.box.net/shared/static/dg6zuvyyqx.pdf

If you put it on a download site like rapidshare (there are also numerous others), then I'd be happy to download it.

It really is badly in need of an editor ...

http://www.box.net/shared/static/luhx1omnzg.pdf

Sperm tend to live 90 to 110 days inside the body. A vasectomy ensures that they never leave the scrotum. When they die they are broken back down and absorbed. By being retained they slow down the production of more sperm, so that the resources are not used in the first place. Somehow this solution never seems to be discussed much, or it is set aside as being a bad idea.

I got "Enlightened is the New Sexy"

 

The test is the most fun thing I've read on here for weeks;-)

I've been a bit disappointed, too.

That is more how vomit works than intuition.

Even channelled material usually needs a good editor. Being dead does not grant perfect writing on most spirits. Even reaching enlightenment is no guarantee of good writing.

Both the author and the reader should be asking themselves what their purpose is before they begin.

It's a book of articles/essays on spirituality/psychology and other topics surrounding me. It is also free and it's quite short. If you like it, all I ask is that you spread it to your friends and family. I am giving all of my writing away for free.

When you write do you have a purpose in mind at all or do you just type what comes along in your internal dialogue?

Only without proper guidence from a liberated master. When entering into other dimensional type of energy practices, one can open lots of really deep closets in the subconscious or unconscious mind, and one needs the protection of enlightened lineage from beyond the grave connected to living guidance. Because the practice is crossing the bridge between the 5 sense experience and transcendent of those limits type experiences.

You wrote three sentences. Do you really believe what you wrote in the second one - specifically about relying on a lineage of dead people? And what are you even talking about in the third?

What is Kriya Yoga and why is it so dangerous?

Kriya Yoga was created by an enlightened master known as Babaji. It was his lineage being described and practiced in "Autobiography of a Yogi" by Paramhansa Yogananda. There is even a technique described in that book as a Kriya - a technique in Kriya Yoga in this context - which will look very familiar to anyone who has done the microcosmic orbit meditation. Actually, Kriya Yoga is a bit of a compilation of traditions. The goal is to awaken Kundalini and open the third eye and to use the energy of Kundalini to reach out through the third eye to merge with God. By itself, Kriya Yoga is perfectly safe and effective, but the problem is that no one practices in a vacuum and we all bring various faults with us to our practices. To the extent that there are instabilities and imbalances present, any sufficiently powerful set of techniques can seriously disrupt your life and your health. Often these instabilities and imbalances are of the sort that do not normally get noticed in daily life, so there is a tendency to put the blame on the path you have chosen by saying that it has caused problems. It is true that a good teacher - someone who has been working a path for long enough to smooth out many of their own problems - can be very helpful when it is time for you to work through any of your own.

The important thing to remember is that you have to live your life. Make sure you have plenty of support in your life before you decide to plunge yourself off into the deep end of the pool. Most people find their lives a bit uncomfortable at times, but they really don't want to change anything deep down. That's the other part of the problem. When you are getting started there is really no way to predict what you are getting yourself into. The only reason to do it is because you can't stand to have things keep going the way they are and you must change or die trying.