BaguaKicksAss

Hold on... I'm busily building a pyramid in my backyard! The ones in Egypt were pretty amazing. Fortunately I went during the off season. I'm sure if I had more cash onhand I could have spent the night there, but did not.

Did some circle walking today . That would be arms and hands down, pressing down, circle walking. Shoulder not quite better yet.

I need one that isn't backlit, sick of reading my PDFs on my laptop. Also when traveling packing a bunch of physical books just isn't feasible. I would love one of those 9.7 or 10" screen ones, but they are all $400 and up . So 6" it is.... I have to be able to read PDFs on it, has to be ink read in sunlight screen, and has to be able to zoom in and out with touch.... Any suggestions from folks who have tried out some readers? Kobo is tempting. Is $130 for the one which I think has all that....

So I got a KOBO . Finding one in perfect condition on craigslist for $20 was the deciding factor. Well actually I looked at e-readers in a few local stores first, and liked the whole lack of backlit aspect of those. The folks who sold it to me were this older chinese couple a 15 minute walk from me. The wife spent some time showing me how to use it. Apparently they have a lot more features than the one I bought for a friend 5 years ago. The neatest bit is that the local libraries will loan out books for them for 3 weeks, then when your loan period is up, the book just vanishes from the ereader. How neat is that? Now to see how many PDFs I can fit on this thing .

And that was only the Llewelynized version of things...

The point is more about how those martial arts have been changed and watered down beyond belief through each generation. Sort of like yoga has, but different. Also the qi has always been there, just wasn't used as a sales pitch before, and was more seriously trained.

Spent each of the past few days going to my chiropractor and acupuncturist lol. Dying to practice again!

These are more my thoughts on such things (wow, I agreed with Aaron and llewelyn today! ) http://www.llewellyn.com/journal/article/2478

I found these aspects quite surprising when I was comparing notes with a TW friend of mine (his teacher OKed it). Even more surprising is who some of the original Deities are!

A teacher really helps with that, letting you know when you have your head planted firmly up your behind .

Those sound handy! Have any images? How about a modern DIY version? http://www.amazon.com/Unger-92134-36-Inch-Pick-Up-Aluminum/dp/B0000V0AGS

Again, you have been reading far to many books. Really shitty books . Perhaps start a thread about what books folks would recommend on magic. (since you would likely annoy an in person group/teacher .

Why on earth would anyone care to persuade you???? I think that sort of thing is more for major religions and such. What others believe and experience isn't all that important, as long as they are happy and such. Most of my answers were based on the thought that perhaps you were curious about such practices for some reason.

I think that you need both, to have the natural fetch (and that not all do) and to do some form of practice, or have some pretty odd/intense experience to.... awaken? it. Though I have to say, I could be wrong on this, and it's likely that you know way more than I about such things. Definitely an interesting thread. Also interesting is that the TW community actually talks about it! (I hope not too much though)

I'm for keeping the traditional stuff secret and out of books. I have a few reasons for this. I mean aside from recipes handed down through families and lineages sort of reasoning. 1. The lady in a small town who we saw from time to time, who would get possessed by dead folks on the odd occasion from messing around far too much with such things. Well one evening it all got the better of her and she committed suicide while in the possessed state. Yes actual spirits, no not just crazy only. 2. The magicians who while cursing do it irresponsibly and without enough experience who fuck up an entire neighborhood, older people, babies and so forth, because they got their hands on some legit info somehow. 3. The practitioners who go insane from working with things they can't deal with. 4. Yes some are smart/dumb enough to take lighter or neutral workings and use the info for very dark workings. 5. Teenagers read magic books and go on the internet too. I might come up with a few more later....

I see those as something entirely different. Ugh, removing that stuff, ugh. Or in this case do you mean it came in/her with the person? I have never seen any like that, just ones that join in later. Ugh.

I'm curious if you folks feel that everyone has one, or just some folks? Think they get some mundanes into trouble?

You might want to find some awesome source of income, so you can get to Serbia and said hut .

If that is the case, how come you don't start planning, and saving up to have the life you most want? Well also some networking to find the silent and sincere folks.... Half of magic is first figuring out wtf you want (most people have no idea what they really want) then getting to work on both the magical as well as physical plane. Don't need to be a wizard to pull off the hut thing though.

This is still based on paths learned and taught from books though. You skipped over the African Traditional Religious magical paths too... Nah, just the newage crap is loosely based on modern Hinduism. PS Amorc's website isn't the best source about magic .

Hmmm, since we are talking about traditional practices, how about the Deities of traditional witchcraft? I have always found this aspect quite interesting (and I don't mean Gaia and Pan )

Oh I definitely see it as part of ourselves, just not part of our mental construct, or even deep mental construct. Human, not necessarily. I'm just offering a slightly different perspective. I say slightly different since to me most of what Seth described seems exactly the same.

I don't necessarily agree with all of what is written above about it, most especially the offsite links.

Then King Solomon went and summoned many demons to build his temple for him .

Prob something from Llewelynn