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Has anyone seen this movie?  It's called Frenemy in the US but it seems to have been called "Little Fish, Strange Pond" elsewhere in the world.

Let me preface by saying, I'm a HUGE Zach Galifianakis fan and have been for many years (long before the hangover - his stand-up is brilliant).  So when I saw the cover of this movie,

I thought, "This should be good, an unknown Zach film, it must be a hilarious indie film".  I was very very very wrong in that assumption, it was nothing like what I expected.  If you watch it, you'll understand why the cover of this film is so misleading.  Nevertheless, it was actually a really good (albeit very strange) movie.  Firstly, if you wanna see it for Zach, don't.  He's not a main character (per se) and he's only in one scene (though it is a long scene).

All of that aside, it was actually a really good movie reminiscent of "Coffee & Cigarettes" or "Waking Life" in that most of the movie is two guys talking about the implications of morality and divine will.  But don't let that comparison give you the warm fuzzies, because the movie also has a "Fight Club" & "Seven"  kind of atmosphere.  You really don't know what's happening right up until the end and the best you can really gather is that this movie is about two really crazy people.  To be quite honest, after I finished watching it, the only thought I had was, "man....that was an effed up movie".  It was brilliant though.  The moralistic message felt pretty simplistic, but in a good way.  If you haven't seen this movie, I definitely recommend checking it out, but don't be surprised if you don't get what the cover made you expect.  And don't watch it with children. 

You can't deny the impact that our lifestyle has on spiritual growth.  The food, medicine, technological dependence, mediocre academic curriculum, cultural degradation, muddled spiritual traditions, etc.

I would say that most of this isn't just the way we evolved as a species/civilization.

But, bottom line is that we're now stuck in an "industrial revolution" paradigm when technologically we've grown beyond it.  That is what is holding us back as a civilization now.  The question is, has some shadow entity (in a purely physical sense) put blocks in place or are we just lacking in the proper development?

Nevertheless, I have a book you might like.

It's called Homo Serpiens by Aeolus Kephas.  I used to listen to his podcast "Stormy Weather", he's a very clever guy.

http://www.amazon.com/Homo-Serpiens-Secret-History-Armageddon/dp/1935487000/ref=pd_rhf_p_t_1

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alcohol seems to shut me down for a couple days.  not just to AP, but to any "psychic" faculties.
marijuana prevents me from projecting when i have smoked, but the next day I'm fine.

sooo, bottom line, don't ingest drugs or alcohol if you want to project.  sobriety seems to be the best option.
some people have a different experience, but that was what I noticed over the years.  now i'm almost completely abstinent, only drinking occasionally (maybe once a month if that).  it's easier to practice when i am sober for long periods of time.

how was true grit?

i used to watch it with my dad all the time as a kid, but my mom said the new one follows the book a lot more than the old one.  i'm really hyped to see it.

We've had this talk before, but I just found this video and it disgusted me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnsNgOuTazM&feature=player_embedded#!

since i'm not one for blind faith, i can't imagine any other position besides agnosticism.

atheists too.  they're putting just as much blind faith in science as a christian puts in the bible.

it's something you can only know, never articulate or define, never perceive directly, just know.

that's how i feel anyway.  feel being the important word.

i certainly won't   

i mean, i'm not going to pursue the matter any further.  it just upset me at the time.  but whatever.  i don't have to be around those people if i don't want to and my fiance supports my decision.  so it's cool.

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thanks for the kind words guys.

i just needed to get it out.  i couldn't really talk about it to anyone and i just needed to say it.

you're probably right interception.

but actually, my fiancee totally agrees with me.  she thinks the whole situation is bonked up as well.  her, her mom and her sister all agree.  it's the rest of her family. 

Hey all.

I hope everyone had a good christmas (or equivalent winter celebration).

I had a relatively good christmas, but some things weren't so great.  Some things happened with my fiancee's family that made me feel really unwelcome and unloved.  I've been with her for 6 1/2 years, engaged for 2 and I really believed that I was a part of the family.  In fact, I have been told numerous times that I was considered part of the family by many of the family members.  But this holiday did not reinforce that sentiment.  I'm not really gonna go into it all, but the end result was me feeling like I wasn't a part of the family.  And it wasn't anything like someone saying "well you're not part of the family", it was worse than that.  It was the subtle, unspoken behavior that really hurts people deep down that i experienced today, those unconscious actions that let you know how people really feel.  And as contented and accepting and open as I normally am, this was apparently too much even for me.  I usually don't take offense about anything.  I mean, what's the point.  Usually you're the only one who suffers when you let yourself feel offended by something.  But today, I was genuinely hurt.  Like deep down in my heart hurt.  I actually cried today, something I haven't done from hurt feelings in a long time.  I really haven't felt hurt like this in a long time. 

I'm not wallowing in it, I'm not getting angry about it, I'm not holding a grudge.  But it still hurts.  I really care about these people and love them like they were my own and that feeling wasn't reciprocated when i thought it would be. 

anyway, i just needed to share my day with someone who isn't involved and even though i don't know any of you in person, i feel like you guys are always supportive of me and all the other members of the pulse.  so, thanks for letting me share.

passion also includes joyful emotions. 

i am passionate about my personal growth.

i feel that is both a strong motivator and quite positive.

Its about observing the emotions and learning how to feel them on cue.  That's magic.

Happy Saturnalia

i wouldn't doubt it.

like i said, i always understood how knowledge filters work in mainstream scientific publishing, but i never quite grasped the enormity of the implications and the amount of data that has been snuffed because it didn't go along with the status quo.  absolutely insane.  just imagine where we could be as a species.

lol, you're like 10 years late.

i saw that movie in probably 2002 or 2003 or something.

good movie though.

kind of erratic.  just a bunch of people spouting off their personal philosophies.

you know alex jones is the guy driving around in his car yelling through the bullhorn.

http://www.wimp.com/cleandesk/

This is actually pretty similar to some articles I've written here on the pulse about AP/OBE and magikal practice.

some people have trouble staying awake when you do what xanth does, but he practices this a lot so...

some people like to get up, maybe stay up for a few minutes (5min - 1hr), maybe have a cup of coffee, or just read about AP/OBE for a little while, maybe have some water or a pee, then go back to bed and try to phase.  you'd have to do a bit of trial and error to find out what works for you. 

but i don't really try in the morning, when i have, i have always fallen asleep.  so xanth's advice might be worth trying first.

there's a lot of astral projection in christian mythology.  i would be totally comfortable saying that every instance of divine vision is an astral experience.  every angelic encounter, every moment spent in the presence of "God", every divine word uttered in the ear of a follower, even bilocation (yea that's in there).  the bible is littered with these experiences, i'm sure of it.  the culture of the time was still very much what we might call "shamanic" and "pagan", it would only make sense that these biblical figures (assuming they existed) would be involved in pagan ritual of some sort.  so you'd think that there would have to be christians into AP/OBE/Psi out there somewhere.

religion is the collective expression of spirituality.

religious people get uppity when you tell them that religion and spirituality aren't the same.  i studied that topic in a class last year.

There's a really good article in the new issue of Atlantis Rising about knowledge filters in the world of science and how politics and money dictate what scientific knowledge is accepted and what is swept under the rug.  The more you look into this stuff (in books like the Forbidden History, Archeology, Religion, etc.) the more astonishing it is.  You really would like to think that all scientific discoveries are accepted and further investigated but that's just not the way things go.  Pretty much all of the main tenets of modern accepted science have been proven wrong by countless discoveries and ridiculous amounts of scientifically legitimate research, but none of this stuff ever sees the light of day.  Various reasons, but it all comes down to the discoveries not supporting what's in the best interest of the status quo and the political/economic elite.  It's pretty sad and pathetic if you ask me.  One example that I thought was really neat was the creation of the first practical steam engine by a guy named "hero of Alexandria" (circa first century AD).  He was stopped in his tracks by the elite because at the time, all manual labor was done by slaves.  If mechanical devices made slaves obsolete, what would the slaves do?  Possibly rebel and topple the regime in power at the time.  Imagine what our world would be like if the steam engine had been invented and put into application nearly 2000 years ago, 2000 years before it's supposed discovery!  What a different timeline we would have!

Anyway, I can't find a free version of this article yet (since it's so new) but you can buy a PDF of this issue for less that $3 i think at

http://www.atlantisrising.com/index.shtml

It's worth checking out.

I've also been reading these 'Forbidden' books and they are really quite good, especially "Forbidden Archeology" by Michael A Cremo and Richard L. Thompson.

lolz, really?

come on now, all in good fun.