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it makes us all feel a lot more significant when we have a purpose, even if we're just deluding ourselves. 

i've said this before and i'll say it again

LIFE is EFIL spelled backwards.

love is an experience that is no different than any other.  it's importance is neither greater or lesser than any other experience.  it's definition is as abstract and subjective as any other experience.  i don't know about anyone else, but i don't like another person telling me what my experience should feel like.

How do you know humans could adjust? Is there other evidence we dont know of other than the evidence of bone and muslce mass loss in zero gravity?

because the human body is resilient and adaptive.  i'm not necessarily saying it could happen in one generation, there might be adverse effects to the new gravitational environment.  but mars' gravity isn't that low.  there are all kinds of missions being planned for long term habitation of mars.  granted we're talking about permanent residence there, but still.  i think it would be fine. 

what

cheerleader isn't the word i would think of first.

i'm a former junkie as well, so i feel you.

haven't ever heard anyone say they were a taoist.  i'm sure some people ascribe to some taoist principles.  i'm pretty fond of uncarved blocks and books of changes.

we speculate on death because we're afraid of it.  we might say we're just curious, but the ego is really just afraid of it.  but we can't know what's most likely until we do it.   

you look like this girl i used to work with.

god she was annoying.  she was roommates with our manager and she never paid her bills.  she went out and blew all her money getting drunk at clubs every night, then bitched and moaned about how she never had the money to pay her bills and kept asking for a raise.  it probably wasn't a good idea to room with the boss if you wanted a raise.  lol.

thanks for sharing.

agreed.

I work in a "metaphysical bookshop", but only about a 1/3 of the store is books.  We carry all sorts of books from psychic development, magickal practice, witchcraft, paganism, shamanism, channeled material, divination, eastern and western masters, some of the bigger world religions (buddhism, taoism, hinduism, judaism & kabbalah, christianity & gnosticism, islam, etc.), energy healing/work, nutrition, martial arts, yoga, homeopathy, new age, ancient civilizations, mythology, etc. etc. etc. and more.  The other 2/3 of the store is devoted to ritual items of all sorts.  We sell crystals, candles, incense (we have the largest incense selection in the state, maybe further), resin &oils,  dried herbs, ritual supplies (altar supplies), feng shui, statuary and all kinds of other stuff, oh and lots of jewelry & talismans.  We also do psychic readings.  We have 6 staff psychics, and a number of guest psychics (including Mary Duty who Duke University put in the top 75 examples of psychic ability, John J. Oliver, who is our owner and a TV personality and renowned psychic detective, and some other really great readers from all over the world.)

It's a cool job.  Most of the time I just hang out and have metaphysical type conversations all day.  Sometimes people get new agey and whatever (i try to steer them away from the fluffiness of new agers, but to each his own) but there are a lot of really genuine practitioners of all types who teach me so many new things everyday.  Because I live so close to the Monroe Institute, I get a lot of customers coming from workshops so I get to talk AP and OBE and the like a lot.  Plus, the Edgar Cayce place is an hour or two the other direction so we get a lot of people from there too.   

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humans could adjust.  the gravity on mars isn't that weak.  (that was a bit of a joke too, cause gravity is the weak force).

but i don't know what all this gravity talk is about, mars has an atmosphere now, it's just not breathable to humans.   

Hallo Cian
Sometimes your astral awareness will play tricks on you. It is just faulty perception, maybe caused by being too close to the physical body. It happens to many people and that includes me. My advice is to not be concerned. Concentrate on doing something else during the OBE.

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What do mean??? 
Can you explain???

Regards   
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I mean you haven't assumed spirit form and separated your consciousness from your body.  But that's just my opinion on the matter, who really knows.  I see projection as a dissociation of the mind from the physical body.  Now, where the mind goes, if it goes anywhere, I cannot say.  But you know, non-locality, quantum physics, all that jazz, our mind can be elsewhere without traveling just as fast as you can think.  I personally have never had an experience that says to me, "You are no longer in your body.  You have separated your astral body and are moving away."  I don't necessarily believe in an "astral body". 

I casually know 100's, I personally know dozens.  But I've been doing this stuff for a decade now and I've met a number of good people that are open to exploring themselves and their realities.  

I also work in a metaphysical shop though, so that's where I know the 100's from (and i actually do know all of them and have amazing conversations but I don't know them personally outside of work so they are more like acquaintances).  

yea, Terra means Earth.  Like Terraform is to manipulate the environment of another place into the form of the environment of earth.  There has been theoretical work figured out for terraforming mars.  I don't know that anyone would necessarily try to do it anytime soon, but the idea is to build machines that drive around mars, pumping out greenhouse gasses for 20 or so years.  This would warm up the planet enough to free the frozen water under the surface which would help support plant life.  Then we could transplant some trees and whatnot to start converting the carbon dioxide into oxygen and before long mars would be habitable to earth creatures.  Kind of irrelevant, but yea, Terra.

An old friend of mine just called me yesterday at work to talk about the same thing.  He was having problems because for a few years he was lost in an ungrounded spiritual wonderland and now he has returned to the rational reality everyone experiences and he doesn't now how to reconcile the spiritual "truths" he learned with what his rational mind says makes sense.

In some regards you're asking the same question everyone wants to know.  What is the absolute objective truth of reality.  That is the mystery.  But I think what you're more interested in is how to live an uncertain life, a life where the primary goal is to constantly chase that mystery.  That's tough.  This isn't a shot at you, but listening to your 'gut' is about all you can do.  The trick is to recognize what you already know, that nothing and everything is absolute truth, which balances out to neutrality.  This makes all of reality one great big ocean to swim through, with no particular landmarks to lead your rational self through.  So, what you're left with is your non-rational self, your spiritual self.  You could call listening to this self your intuition, which is what i'm referring to when i say intuition. 

So here's the bottom line.  The only thing I have discovered to really reconcile so much conflict on the quest for absolute truth is a philosophical perspective called solipsism.  Essentially, solipsism says that I can't know anything but my own mind and my own perception, therefore other people might not exist at all.  This is the source of the idea of philosophical zombies, creatures that can react as a human might but who have no consciousness of their own.  I'm not saying this is the ultimate truth, I'm just saying it helps.  When you acknowledge that all you really know first hand is what you experience, you can put more weight on your experience and intuition.  Maybe it's a stupid thing to do, who knows.  But it helps.  It puts more "importance" on your experiences, which is a great motivator.  However, (IMO) the most important point this brings up is that if you are the only one that you can truly KNOW is having a conscious experience, then the "truths" that other people propose are potentially just projections of your own mind.  This is one of the more extreme aspects of solipsism, that not only are other people not conscious, but they aren't even "real".  Rather, they are a part of your mind, projections created by your mind (maybe your subconscious) to function as a reflection of your inner turmoil.  In the end, your experience and your experience of these projections we call other people are a symbolic representation of that great mystery/truth and it's your job to understand what that symbol is and what it represents.  This may sound far fetched, but it's really not.  We are all one right?  And the way we see the world is often a projection of the depths of our mind laid over the world.  It's not so hard to believe that the world is literally ours because we are constantly interpreting it based on our experience. 

That may not have been helpful at all, but that's how I deal with it.  I treat every person as something from my subconscious that I have manifested into the world to teach me something.  I may not always know what that is and i may not always figure it out, but my subconscious never gives up.  I mean, it has created 7 billion chances to learn these lessons right?

we're earthicans   

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It's Veterans Day here

do they make portable brainwave monitors?

from my practices it seems like we use thought to affect the astral which in turn affects the physical.  it's like the aboriginal dreamtime, all of physical reality is spawned from the dreamtime.  so a shaman who is skilled in working with and in the dreamtime can more easily manipulate the physical by going to the dreamtime.

personally, when i perform any kind of ritual i acknowledge that the physical tools are just symbolic of astral energy forms.  for example, i may perform a ritual with a piece of quartz.  it's not necessarily the physical piece of quartz as much as the astral energy that is symbolized by quartz that does the work.

fair enough CFT, fair enough.

what Robert Bruce calls "secondary chakras" aren't really chakras, so no, you don't have other chakras.  the ones at joints and what not are nadis, like chi pathway intersections.  there are other chakras besides the main seven though, but i don't know if those are traditional or if they are a more modern development.  it should be noted that different cultures see these energy center differently. 

for example, kabbalah aligns with the tree of life, like this



and here's all those little nadis

why NoY?

Well, Fox was was banned because leftists  started cry foul, they don't like conservatives as we all know and Soros is an evil master manipulator(God according to him) which prefers socialism/kommunism because it empowers him etc etc.

aren't all europeans socialists anyway?  especially those scandanavian countries right? 

lol, i'm just kidding, i have no idea what euorpean politics are about and i don't really care.

but kudos for banning FOX i suppose.  might as well ban all of them though, they're all owned by the same people anyway.