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I would like to know if anyone has gotten into the Castaneda arena, more especially his Tensegrity type exercises, and if you have benefited from it.

I have heard pro and con about Castaneda, so don't really know what to think at this point.  

Thanx.

Anyone familiar w/SOHO pics out there?  I checked at time shown and it says "CCD Bakeout" across the pic.  Does this mean the sun is doing something extraordinary and they are blacking out the pics?  I know the sun has been doing some really fantastic things since last fall for sure.  There was a really huge sunspot recently.  Wondering if it finally went ballistic.

Thanks, PuffAddr

What a wonderful tribute!

There is something so final when a parent dies, a feeling like no other.  

But to see the things your father taught you was just so very beautiful....and so rare.

Thank you for sharing!

This is exactly the attitude I have seen concerning fictional worlds. "I cannot do this" simply makes it that much harder for yourself to do these things. If you fail once, that does not mean it's impossible for you to do, it simply means you have not broken past the mental barriers that are restricting you from getting to your goal. /quote]

Thanx....I always need to be reminded that it is me (and not others) that limit myself.  But, at the same time, I DO believe that some have a more affinity for it than others...everyone has something they excel at.  And I think that is what the whole idea of having forums (of any kind) is all about -- people pooling their knowledge and finding their own ideas in relation to things they see and hear....and then off they go on their merry way til the next 'nexus' appears in no-matter-what-form (a person, internet, a book, an overheard comment in a crowd).  

Synchronicity Happens!

Kane,

The Celestine Prophecy author is the son of the owner of a bookstore in Houston,TX called Aquarian Bookshelf.  The best place in Houston to go for new age books if you ever go there.

I read his books and liked them.  He is teaching life principles from his viewpoint.  And being raised in such a free-thinking atmosphere, I can see why his books did so well.  To me it was kindof like the Lynn Andrews books.  Storytelling at a good level.  But, again, that's what stories are for, to teach us things.[]

Nay,

Hmmmm....I don't know of a nice way to say this....

For a moderator I find your actions a hit below the belt and your words cutting and cruel.

You don't care about the rest of us WANTING this thread to continue, you don't care that the rest of us accept Spectral Dragon as he is, and you don't care to listen to anyone elses reasonable remarks.

Conclusion:  you are having a nice personal vendeta, using 'moderator' as a power shield.  

Note:  I think quite a few in this thread also enjoy other items on the forum, and your actions (as a moderator) reflect on the forum as a whole.

I gotta stir it....

My opinion is that each sex has their 'general' strengths in how the brain is used.  Women can access both sides of the brain, or go back and forth crossing sides easier than a male.  Women are more right-brained in their viewpoints/actions/learning.  Men are more left-brained.  So there we are.  Here is where all the trouble comes in.  

Men say that women are more fickle-minded (access back & forth easier); that they are too emotional (more right-brained than..uh...yep, males!).  And then of course you have the monthly hormal fluctuations.  But the other side of the coin... Women say men are too unfeeling (right-brained/logic) and not very artistic/creative (that's why Queer Eye for the Straight Guy show was created, remember?) []  This is just some basic stuff for the 'normal' genders.  I am not talking about gays because they are in a separate category and defy boundaries (this is a very gay topic btw).   So after saying this, I would like to add that each sex can dominate in different ways when it comes to psi-power stuff.  Also, that some people (regardless of sex) just are born with tons of it while the rest of us go about it the 'old fashioned way'.

Now someone mentioned hermaphrodites and transgendered people.  The "in" word for hermaphrodites now is "intersexed".  Like the Native American Indians, I also feel these people are very special.  And to complicate matters,now we have another category refusing to be either male or female, but a "third gender".  (My view on this is that all of us fit into the spectrum somewhere, either on the ends or somewhere in between, or maybe even in the middle like these folks!)  So, in the end, I believe gender has no meaning unless it means something to you.[}:)]  

Everyone has their abilities, talents and troubles and maybe, just maybe, it all depends on what we are able to work thru in life and find at the bottom of the laundry basket.  And we all do alot of laundry!

But for some reason, no matter how much I research on the subject of sex and power useage...it always seems to come back to personal balance.

>............hanging up spoon for someone else to use now.....[]

There is an old saying "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy".

I think many people do not understand the hours of time and the intense mental effort required to do this.  Take a vacation [8D] and just enjoy the heck out of everything!

Twilight Zone is a good source of ideas.  Then of course, you can play the 'what if' game with your characters.  You may need to decide what flaws your characters have and how the events change their viewpoint from 'this' to 'that' or how it makes them evolve.  Otherwise you are doing a 'macro' on an event to give different angles to the reader that they have not thought of before.

Thanks James.  [8D]

1. Many years ago I woke up from something too horrific for words, but I don't know what it was.  Just felt that I was on the verge of being totally annihilated (not just my body, but my total being), I was being taken further and further into the nothingness and I screamed and screamed without a sound and woke up like that, my heart going 100mph. Never had such an extreme fear of anything before or since...  What really happened?

2. Do I have any alien implants of any kind (physical/non-physical)?

3. http://cbswork.com  (atmosphere)
  This organite idea (spiral metal shavings/bb's imbedded in resin with/without other metal spiral/crystal configurations, etc. normally in cone/pyramid/cylinder shape)...does it really emit energy that counteracts unfavorable energy sources set up by...whomever as stated?

4. (re #3 above) and is it indeed helpful to sylphs/faery realm (i.e. nature realm) in some manner?  And if so, in what manner?

5. Are there people alive now that are familiar with true dragon magic?  

6. The phoenix can restore that which was lost to me, if I go about it the right way, correct?

7. Is that why it is a phoenix that guards (i.e. sounds like a 'second barrier' situation to me...)?  If we fail, they take up the slack.. (sorry, best way I could figure out to say it)?

8. Do I have more than this one guide?  If so, can you tell me anything helpful:) ?

9. Michael, did you feel what I did at solstice? Is that of worth, or mere human ummm.....(superfluous?).

10. I am trying to find my own way of 'doing'.  Though there are many truths in this world, I have put religion as the world knows it, and as the pagans know it, and as magicians know it on the back burner.  It seems to me that any serious religion is always concerned foremost with the spiritual development of the initiate in some manner, and how the initiate 'relates to the whole'.  There are methods to change point of view/thinking...there are methods to strengthen focus ability...there are methods to create repetitive motions (to create mind grooves for future subconscious actions??)...there are methods to change frequency.  (Geeze, words are so inadequate here. Try "Awakening Spirits" by Tom Brown Jr. for atmosphere.  I think I am trying to do the same thing the Indian man was...trying to boil down everything to the basic tenets).

11. Would like to know something more about karma...It's like this: Joe does something bad to Sam.  Later on Joe dies, looks at his life and says "Hey, I did some not-so-nice things to this and that person involving this principle.  So next life I will work on that principle." And he gets reincarnated and tries again... In the meanwhile my old fashioned idea of "punishment" goes out the window because when Joe dies...he really believes he deserves to go to a nice place...so he goes to a nice place simply because his beliefs are sincerely based on this."  So where does karma fit into this?  Do people really get punished for things they do that encroach other's space?  Or is it dealt out in this or future lives in the physical?  (I don't believe in the christian hell, only in ones we personally lock ourselves into by personal belief.)  Maybe I am thinking personal beliefs Joe has can override the wrong done to Sam if Joe sincerely believes he was doing the right thing....? Or does karma override sincere personal belief systems when it comes to getting into other people's space?

Nevertheless, I regress.. thank you SD, thank you Archangel Michael.

I am concentrating on the "why's" of magick.  If you look back in our history, Aleister Crowley got his ideas from books he read, created a new system based on HIS logic and now we have all people following this created system like it was the Bible or something.  What makes his system of more worth than others -- even older systems that could still be unknown to us?  I mean, the people that wrote the books Crowly read -- they got their systems from somewhere else too....and on it goes round and round....  

1.  Are there forms more correct than others, if so, please make suggestions as I think alot of us here would be interested.

2.  Why does contact with non-physical type beings usually involve ceremonial magick?  

3.  Is it because we are unable to hold a focus? or need to convince our subconscious in some way?  Or is it because thru the ages we have put the thought forms out there and it won't work in newer/simpler ways?

4.  I would like to know YOUR viewpoint on the basic differences between ceremonial magick and chaos magick.  (The human viewpoint is based on ancient texts that can have so many different meanings, the valid interpretations may in reality be lost to us.)

5.  What is your definition of 'advanced hermetics' please?

6.  Why....why....is magick the way it is.  Certain times, certain symbols, certain colors or smells or words.  It seems so very confining, restrictive, like a weight.  Is it merely for the discipline?  or more to develop personal protection?

Thank you Archangel Michael and Spectral Dragon.

Just add to the list when you can...

1.  A.A. Michael, you are over death and many other things for us.  There is much happening now.  Is there anything I (as human/as dragon) can do that would actually help you in some way?  

If so, please give best time(s) of day to do it, and the assignment.  

Thank you.

When I care, I get emotional.  Taking drink of tea...[:I]  Hmmm, so that is flaming.  To me it was discussion, and I rather enjoyed it.  Will try to be more 'tame' in the future, just be aware I have a portable soap box (my most favorite piece of junk furniture).  As I am aware you have a quick 'delete' key!

Wrote it this a.m. before leaving for work, so apologize for leaving out everyone else.  Early morning thinking isn't my cup of, well, tea.[]

It seems that everyone here is saying the same thing, but from a different viewpoint and everyone thinks it's different.  But I don't see much difference.

James feels trust verified from a more 'professional' type angle - an outter mentor, would make him feel comfy because he is the moderator and doesn't want any hokies on this forum and is worried about his readers (I assume here).  That is his best.

Spectral Dragon has cautiously gained trust in the Michael/Spectral Dragon relationship thru his own private methods of inner testing.  This is his best.

Akensai opinionates that true trust can only be had by the one doing it because the rest of us are spectators. This is his best view of it.

Lord of the Bunnies is helping Spectral Dragon verify as much as possible thru doing buddy work on the inner. This is his best.

So guys, it looks like everyone is all looking at the same object here, and it looks like a consensus has been formed.

I, for one, do NOT want to know what Spectral Dragon has had to go thru to get to this point.  It really is none of our business, and feel it would be very unfair to make him bare his soul needlessly.  I agree with Akensai, that, like anything else we come across in life, we have to do our own evaluating to see if we want to use it.  We do that with all other things (even going to the doctor).  It always boils down to that no matter what the source is. That is the bottom line, nitty gritty folks.

So, to the best of Spec's ability he is working his heart out for us.

I say to all of you.  There are those of us who like what he is doing, WE trust it, even if you don't.  If YOU don't like it, leave the thread.  There are many other interesting threads here.  This thread's purpose is not to provide proof to anyone about anything, I don't care what you want.  Like Spectral Dragon says -- take what you can accept or get off the boat and go where you feel comfy. And that is why he says it like that...you never force your stuff on anyone.  

It has already been established (as much as possible) that this is not a hokie site, those of us who are asking questions are VERY sincere.  And I, for one, don't want the rest of you messing up and chasing away this talented guy!

I came here to this forum expressly for this purpose.  I read all the way thru all the posts on 2 other channeling threads and everyone chased away the guy because they wanted proof, they weren't happy.  And neither was I when I got all the way to the end to find this out.  So don't I have rights too?  Give people some credit for brains here, ok?

Spectral deserves some space.  He has rights too!  You people have no idea how hard it is to find someone like this who is sincere and has scruples!  Don't chase him off.  

I think everyone, somehow, is slowly realizing they are saying he same thing from different aspects, and wants to continue.

......>putting duct tape over mouth before I get dragged offstage....

FYI guys...

Must be the Venus transit that has started 6/6, will maax 6/8 and continue to 6/10.  Transit part 2 to finish in 2012 [^] for those familiar w/that date.  

Alot of people have been out of whack this weekend.  I know my energy has been off base.  The transit has something to do with the Goddess energy blossoming into our consciousness in a bigger way, which will finish in 2012, and set a 'new age' in some manner.  I saw a site that showed past transit years and the historic events, usually having something to do with how humans communicate.

So, I guess in a subject like this, very appropriate.

SD,

For core shamanism (nitty gritty - what's the bottom line stuff) I highly recommend:

Anything by Sandra Ingerman - Soul Retreieval, Welcome Home, Earth Medicine.  She separates the 'what's really needed' from the 'traditional religious'.

A celtic shamanism book that I highly recommend to read just to experience this guy's viewpoint is:  The Mist-Filled Path.  No fluff, but tells his own story and gives some very good meditational exercises no matter what path you go on.  Most of the books out there are fluff.

An Indian shaman's info, written by a white guy that learned under him from a kid - Tom Brown Jr.   I recommend starting with Awakening Spirits and then going back to read the others.  This book explains this one Indian's life quest for what was common between all earth religions and what made prayer work, other religious things work.  Very very eye-opening to say the least.  Makes you want to read his other books about the guy teaching him to survive by learning tracking in the wilderness.  Definitely not the normal Native American viewpoint at all, not at all.  Cuts it right to the quick.  

Herbology.  Hmmm, it's been a long time.  But the best herbal I've ever seen was by Maude Grieve (spell?), 2 vol. set normally.  Publ a good while back, but the best.  Only has plants and what they do, not a how to at all, just reference.

Devic.  I am assuming faery/earth related.  Check out R. J. Stewart.  His books are available in the UK easily, but here hard to get.  He does have 2 websites, one for learning, another for books. Google it. Any of his books are ab fab the best, but warning, he writes from a deep intellectual viewpoint.  No fluff here.  Might also want to check into Machelle Small Wright's books.  More down to earth and shows the possibilities (works w/plant devas).

Your friend is checking out the paths.  Be sure and tell him to always doublecheck things in his heart. Not to believe everything he reads as 'the total truth, the way'.  

The last bit of advice....tell your friend to go to Amazon.com/books and look up his favorite subjects and read the reviews.  You learn alot by surfing all thru the subject books and looking at reviews. []

Spectral Dragon:

I just had something serious jolt my thoughts.

1. Archangel Michael.... The aliens.  It's like in that book "Dear God! What's Happening to Us?" by Lynn Grabhorn, isn't it?  They have no heart chakra, but we do because we come from the "other brother".  That is why they are so concerned with emotions, developing them, understanding them.  Using our genes.  This is so, yes?

2.  Are you 'from' 100% pure light?
3.  Are Phoenixes 'from' 100% pure light?
4.  Are dragons 'from' 100% pure light?
5.  Are there aliens out there that are from 100% pure light? If so, would you mind telling us some of the more familiar ones that earth humans may already be corresponding with?

These questions all pertain to that book.  

Thank you.
.....<demur PuffAddr exits stage left....

MAN.....finally got in....took me all day.  AOL

SD I gave up earlier and sent it the other way, do what you feel is best PM or here.  Just had to say some things to both you guys. I will be able to get into PM in a couple days.  Non-weekend traffic times are always easier on AOL [8].

Hang Ten!

PuffAddr

Looking at most other channelers out there, they have turned it into a kingpin business-making machine.  

I understand that doing this (no matter if the results are true or not) requires alot of personal effort, talent and TIME.  I am sure Spectral Dragon could be having alot more fun on a date at night than messing with this forum!

Some of Blackbox's thoughts are interesting.  Then again I also pay attention to Red Dragon, Cube and the rest.  Everyone has their viewpoint, their thoughts, their evaluation of the results.  Like someone said (somewhere!) that we all look thru our own filters.

Blackbox, I felt immediately that you are a "logic thinker", linear.  Lord of the Bunnies, I felt you think more "wholistically", as in the mind-mapping structure.  We are all different, and like fingers on a hand, we all have millions of opinions and viewpoints, each one valid in it's own way.  Ask a cop what accident witnesses say...everyone sees something different, and it is not unusual from some to be radically different from the other.  But there is always some reason found for that inside the person viewing it....

So, like me, no one likes to be told anything, because we ALL feel we are right for our own reasons.

Thanx for the links Blackbox.  Also, from my viewpoint, Steward Swerdlow has his benefits, but don't let what you learn from him limit you.  I admire what he has done to survive, but that is not the "whole path" either, no matter how much it has helped you.  

.....< getting off soapbox, dusting carefully, stowing it under bed..

just gotta stir it, just gotta stir it

the italic button is not working...

I have enjoyed all the posts on this line.

This line is also suffering from the same thing that afflicts every line
started in this forum...mainly self-thought.

Huh?  All of us have a human brain, sorry!  That means we all look thru
"filters" to process our information.  These filters come from many things,
our religous beliefs, our upbringing, our subconscious programming (note
the word subconscious) from baby/childhood AND also from growing up and
early adulthood (peer pressure, society, family, the media, your job,
whatever fits).

And to those of you who want PROOF I tell you -- YOU ARE IN THE WRONG
FORUM!  Here we ALL come to learn from each other, each one offers a piece
of food to the very watery stew, slowly, surely, it becomes savory after
many additions and is then very nourishing for all.  No one is forced to
eat!

So here we are, all wanting something similar.  To provide help, to look
for help, something that will help us understand and progress in SOME
manner (again, our personal interpretation of progress here).

The result?  Each one of us sees from different viewpoints.  Even the
aliens see from different viewpoints because of their filters (maybe even
lack of, who knows?), that is obvious.  We are all different.  In our own
way, we are each trying to communicate very hard with each other.
Sometimes it is amusing, sometimes sad.  Maybe we can all just agree to
disagree.  Nevertheless, I would (yep) like to add my own opinion to the
pile....

The Founder.  Thank you for starting this line.  Thank you for doing in
your heart is the right thing.  (Btw, your link doesn't work, but I am at
work.)  I am learning.  At my age.  I watch many young people on this forum
and wish I had known these things at my age.  But, alas, it just wasn't the
time.  Youth has energy, strength.  Yes, if there is a fight, you are the
ones to do it. Thank you for preparing, for could you do no different?

All of you, realize, that no matter what is truly RIGHT, as far as
'mindset' for the 'shift', people are going to be people before, during and
after whatever happens happens.

I happen to have the opinion that the poleshift will not be a dramatic
thing. It is the astronomy-type influences (comets/asteroids, etc.) that
worry my brain.  I don't like natural disasters of any kind.  But this is
my big bad fear-under-the-bed.  It is also my opinion that there will be
several influences happening on many levels in the upcoming years.....

My opinion is that the powers-that-be (illuminati-whatevers) that exist
will be busy plotting, using whatever leverage economically, politically,
war-wise (I have always felt war was only an economic tool),
propaganda-wise they can to keep society's attention on some problem while
still manipulating (or trying to) possible futures due to natural disasters
(tidal waves/super-quakes), etc.  Then we also have the spiritual side (but
I do consider everything spritual somehow) of the heart/mind
which many will die, but some will survive (thanks to those like Founder
who know survival/protection skills).  We all hear why the
good and bad aliens are all involved....but do we truly know the whole
story?  I am NOT dissing you guys, I just like to keep a wary ear to the
railroad track, that's all.  Like I say, it takes all kinds of us to
survive, whether anything disastrous happens, or it's just the aliens that
make a landing....things will start to pop one way or another!  So we need
those that communicate well with aliens too.  And the "this is all crap"
gang....we need you too.  We need your common sense, your earthiness,
someone to reel us back to reality from time to time and re-evaluate what
kind of ground are we really standing on at this moment.....
The "all is love" gang, people are going to need you like kids love candy.

Whether natural disasters happen or not, one thing is for sure.  Something
is going to happen.  It's just a matter of how it all pans out, because we
are all earth citizens.  Like true brothers and sisters we may kick and
fight when the parents aren't looking, but when the going gets truly rough,
we are there for each other.

The "i love power group" .... sorry guys...i have no words adequate for the
horrors they perpetuate now and in the future.  None of us know how long
(if any) it may take for all these changes (dimension, poles, catastrophes)
to occur, as I don't think they will happen all at the same time, just
maybe in the same generation.  The dimensional change is one of heart and
it affects the physical (as the heart/spirit always does) and a split may
occur when the earth passes thru this photon belt (that even scientists are
finally admitting exists anad will happen), or it may take a few
generations, who knows for sure?  And when/if the natural calamities take
place, God help us all on earth.  We will need those with survival and
battle skills to protect many who cannot defend themselves.  Just for the
survival of the human race as a specie.  Natural disasters would stop
crops, no food at the store, possibly no reliable water at all.  People in
the cities would start killing one another off very soon, very soon.  For
those not coalescing in protective tribal groups, the old "law of the
fittest" will prevail.  Many will die during this time, exceedingly many.
Not to mention the government probably adding to the fire by enforcing
marshall law and not letting people out to forage for water or food in the
woods.

I found a website that shows the NASA space calendar.  It has a list of all
the "events".  You cannot tell much from it, but one I found scared me
alot.  One asteroid has been paralelling the earth orbit for a good while
now.  Just think, if something else comes too close, like a passing
planetary influence, or the comets that they are talking
about.....well.....you see my concern.

This was a long wordy post.  [:I]

I commend the young.  Keep up the unique thoughts from ALL angles.  We need
every angle in the future to survive.  You will have to learn to think,
fight, and survive on your own because most likely most of us adults may
not live thru this.  The main thing is learn to think!  Don't let the
government or society or friends tell you you are stupid or unworthwhile!
Lives may depend on you.

And when you come thru it.  Remember, and learn from the mistakes of your
forbearers....Teach UNDERSTANDING, TOLERANCE, COMMUNICATION, and hopefully
peace will prevaid between humans and aliens, and other dimensional beings
of this earth and not of this earth.  Love the earth your mother and she
will provide for you all.

Thank you.
PuffAddr
Gotta stir it.  Gotta stir it.

Read "Dirty White Men..." by Michael Moore, a bestseller, non-fiction.  Facts, just the facts about all the lies and also 9-11 stuff.  

He made a film, showing -- PROVING -- that Bush/administration already knew about the 9-11 attack before it happened, plus....the fact that they didn't give a cr*p.

Now this film was so extremely moving, so very moving, it won the Cannes Film Festival in Europe.  This is the film banned here in the US.

There are alot of facts out there that the everyday Joe doesn't know.  A ton of facts.  I listened to this guy at a formal book review here in Minnesota (over the TV it was such a big crowd)...they had tried to ban this guy's book before it came out, and the librarians got on the internet and had 'an uprising' and ordered the book for their libraries and put pressure on the publisher to where they had to publish it.  Interesting stuff.

I look forward to the day the film is shown here in the US in the underground.

Haveyou ever asked AA Michael about the angel-related enochian magic.  I heard you just don't mess iwth it, even say the names invovled unless you are relaly into it and know what you are doing.  Just wondered if that branch of magic was really related to angels and if they were well-meaning, or if it could be a branch that was on the 'fight the light' side?

   Correction please!

functions as..."Guardian of Developing Societies".....

(thanx!)

Spectral Dragon:

Yea, yea, yea!  Finally got on board!

This section has been really fascinating.

I have been jumping up and down waiting to ask AA Michael about a situation...

Question:  I had a 'reading' done by a channeled entity named Kirael Monday nite.  This entity states it currently functions as a "Guardian of Dimensional Shifts" and is from the 7th dimension; it channels thru a human named Fred Sterling in Hawaii. In this reading he told me I am a dragon, but chose to be in human form at this time to observe and record the upcoming earth/human changes as things "shift".

a.  Am I a dragon in human form? And are there are secondary non-human forms sharing my earth body?
b.  Can you tell me what abilities dragon entities have?
c.  (If yes...)Does the dragon soul (?) have the ability to influence any of my bodies in physicial or non-physical ways other than what a normal human does?
d.  Is there anything else I need to be aware of that would be helpful to this entity (me) concerning this whole issue?

Thank you AA Michael.
Thank you Spectral Dragon.