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Because people still pay to see the crappy movies...
And because of technology; which replaced ingeniosity/originality...

Hum, what was the last movie I did not like...  that would be Sign!
Man, this movie was sooooooo 'empty'.

Forget expensive high quality ones; go with comfortable ones...

For me, being grounded can also mean "connected to the ground".
By example while doing Chi Kung, TaiChi, pushing-hands...

quote:Trying to answer that question, lead Jim to write Rule By Secrecy published in 2002. In that important book, Jim Marrs made links between the money-power elite of America with the money-power elite of Europe back to the money-power elite of Mesopotamia which might have been linked to control and manipulation by non-human entities with their own agendas on this planet.

"control and manipulation by non-human entities"...?  hum...

Somehow related:

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Potent pot prompting drug policy changes
Stronger marijuana poses risk to kids, officials say

WASHINGTON - Alarmed by reports that marijuana is becoming more potent than ever and that children are trying it at younger and younger ages, officials are changing their drug policies.

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Pot is no longer the gentle weed of the 1960s and may pose a greater threat than cocaine or even heroin because so many more people use it. So officials at the National Institutes of Health and at the White House are hoping to shift some of the focus in research and enforcement from "hard" drugs such as cocaine and heroin to marijuana.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5461552/

Maybe you will have to watch the stars at night...  The 'K' might be a constellation.

Hi astralpwka,

I had mostly 2 types of reflections...
One where I could only see my hairs and my clothes; but no face/arms...  No skinny/fleshy parts.
The other, I looked mostly "normal", but with crazy haircut []

A few more:

The problem with political jokes is they get elected.
Politicians are like diapers.  They both need changing regularly and for the same reason.
Don't vote, it only encourages them.
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

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I once saw a tibetan book on 'dream' AND 'sleep' yoga...

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1559391014/qid%3D1089314895/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/103-8374149-9318219

Anyone knows what they mean by sleep yoga (as opposed to the dream one)...?

Ask this guy: http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Club/6285/

I wonder how really effective all this brainwashing and propaganda are on the chinese population...

Yeah, that's one important thing about this news; since India and Pakistan are not always in good terms...

PS: You don't need to subscribe; just click the: "Register later and continue to your Article" link...

This is from "NEW ENERGY WAYS":

quote:Myself, plus many other volunteers, have noticed a peculiar phenomenon that boosts the NEW system and consequentially the healing ability of the physical body.  This only seems to happen when you fall asleep while strongly raising energy.  In the morning, more often than not, the physical pain you went to sleep with will either be gone or significantly healed.

I believe falling asleep while raising energy causes the energy raising action to carry over into the sleep state.  And as the sleep state itself causes a naturally increased energy flow, it is reasonable to suggest this combination may promote stronger natural healing of the physical body during sleep than would otherwise be possible.  Some of these cases may seem like miracle cures, and this does not always happen, but cases like this are not that unusual.

This is from Treatrise:

quote:After any type of energy work it is, traditionally, believed to be important to close all energy centers that have been stimulated or opened. While this idea appears to have some merit on the surface, I have come to the conclusion it is a completely illogical practice. No localized awareness action or visualized action can cause an energy center (chakra) to deactivate or close. This applies to any type of energy center, secondary or primary. Experience tells me that no matter how an awareness action is performed at the site of an energy center it will 'always' cause stimulation. It is a mistake to think that any awareness or visualized action can succeed at closing or deactivating an energy center.

This is a little like fanning a spark (inactive energy center) into a flame with an stimulation action (making the spark an 'active' energy center) and then trying to make that same flame go out by blowing up on it from a different direction. However it is done, it will continue to fan the flame.

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Reversing the energy 'raising' action and taking energy down through the legs (not through primary centers) however does help reduce activity in primary energy centers.  This reversed energy raising action does not involved any type of direct chakra stimulation and will reduces the amount of energy flowing into the energy body, especially through the legs. This reduces the amount of energy available to primary energy centers, thereby reducing activity in them to some extent. This does not, however, involve any focused awareness actions at the sites of primary centers.
Energy centers, primary and secondary, naturally reduce their level of activity once relaxation discipline is broken, as well as when they cease to be stimulated or used.

The best way to deactivate energy centers is to stop stimulating and using them. Energy centers will also cease activity when they become energetically exhausted. This will happen when the supporting energy body circuitry shuts down, becomes exhausted, or for some other reason becomes incapable of providing the required energy flow necessary to maintain primary energy centers in their active state.

One fast trick would be to save the page in text...
If you use mozilla, save the pages as "Web Page, complete".  It will download all external files (images, scripts)...

In fact, it's not a full eye transplant...  They just replaced the cornea.

"We had to proceed very carefully, first to detach the iris and thereafter replace the defective cornea with a healthy one procured from a 50-year-old Madras donor two weeks back"

So, it's not as gound-breaking as expected...

I understand your point of view, but it's not as easy as finding a few people willing to help...  Adrian just cannot give people access to his server and let them play with his html sources and SQL tables.

Also, what I like in a forum is not "quantity" (of shinny pictures and cool pulldown menus); it's "quality" (of the people/information you find in the posts)...  

quote:Maybe talking about people not wanting to take the time to transfer the information over to a new format, unless they had the *cough* money incentive to do it.

Lets remind some people that Adrian must have a fulltime job and a family to take care of...  He already did a lot of work on this forum!

No offense but, sounds almost like: "Hey, I'm new here, and this forum looks old, slow and ugly; who wants the admin to take on his free time to switch to my favorite forum...?"

Could you try to take some photos without flash and color enhancement...?

Never attended any of their workshops but, just in case you don't know about it, you could check a website created by some old tensegrity members: http://www.sustainedaction.org/.

The only thing I know is that there are many brand new topics/technics that just suddenly popped up from nowhere, and Castaneda is supposed to have studied with some Qi Gong teacher in L.A.

Something a little funny...  What I "saw" was VERY close to this part of the picture, upside down!



Just imagine someone with long hairs, wearing a cap with gray/rainy background...  Just miss the umbrella...

So far, based on my experiences (or the lack of), I cannot proclaim that reincarnation exists.

But I can see the results of such beliefs: people feel better thinking/hoping that there is something after we die...

So far, the only "proof" I got was to realize that my own experience matched others; and without reading any information beforehand...  If it was all imagination; it would be a really huge coincidence!

And don't be skeptical.  Be open-minded while not being gullible...

Some people says that when a parent passes away, some (all?) of his energy will go to one of the children...  And vis versa.

Privatization in Iraq is out of control (Paul Krugman NYT)
http://www.iht.com/bin/print.php?file=518281.html

PRINCETON, New Jersey Last November the top economist at the Heritage Foundation was very optimistic about Iraq, saying Paul Bremer 3rd, the U.S administrator in Iraq, had just replaced "Saddam's soak-the-rich tax system" with a flat tax. "Few Americans would want to trade places with the people of Iraq," wrote the economist, Daniel Mitchell. "But come tax time next April, they may begin to wonder who's better off." Even when he wrote that, the insurgency in Iraq was visibly boiling over; by "tax time" last month, the situation was truly desperate.

Much has been written about the damage done by foreign policy ideologues who ignored the realities of Iraq, imagining that they could use the country to prove the truth of their military and political doctrines. Less has been said about how dreams of making Iraq a showpiece for free trade, supply-side tax policy and privatization - dreams that were equally oblivious to the country's realities - undermined the chances for a successful transition to democracy.

A number of people, including Jay Garner, the first U.S. administrator of Iraq, think that the Bush administration shunned early elections, which might have given legitimacy to a transitional government, so it could impose economic policies that no elected Iraqi government would have approved. Indeed, over the past year the Coalition Provisional Authority has slashed tariffs, flattened taxes and thrown Iraqi industry wide open to foreign investors - reinforcing the sense of many Iraqis that the United States came as occupiers, not liberators.

But it's the reliance on private contractors to carry out tasks usually performed by government workers that has really come back to haunt America.

Conservatives make a fetish out of privatization of government functions; after the 2002 elections, President George W. Bush announced plans to privatize up to 850,000 federal jobs. At home, wary of a public backlash, he has moved slowly on that goal. But in Iraq, where there is little public or congressional oversight, the administration has privatized everything in sight.

For example, the Pentagon has a well-established procurement office for gasoline. In Iraq, however, that job was subcontracted to Halliburton. The U.S. government has many experts in economic development and reform. But in Iraq, economic planning has been subcontracted - after a highly questionable bidding procedure - to BearingPoint, a consulting firm with close ties to Jeb Bush, governor of Florida and the president's brother.

What's truly shocking in Iraq, however, is the privatization of purely military functions.

For more than a decade, many noncritical jobs formerly done by soldiers have been handed to private contractors. When four Blackwater employees were killed and mutilated in Falluja, however, marking the start of a wider insurgency, it became clear that in Iraq the U.S. has extended privatization to core military functions. It's one thing to have civilians drive trucks and serve food; it's quite different to employ them as personal bodyguards to U.S. officials, as guards for U.S. government installations, and - the latest revelation - as interrogators in Iraqi prisons.

According to a number of newspaper reports, employees from two private contractors, CACI and Titan, act as interrogators at the Abu Ghraib prison. According to Sewell Chan of The Washington Post, these contractors are "at the center of the probe" into the abuse of Iraqi prisoners. And that abuse, according to the senior defense analyst at Jane's, has "almost certainly destroyed much of what support the coalition had among the more moderate section of the Iraqi population."

We don't yet know for sure that private contractors were at fault. But why put civilians, who cannot be court-martialed and hence aren't fully accountable, in that role? And why privatize key military functions?

I don't think it's simply a practical matter. Although there are several thousand armed civilians working for the occupation, their numbers aren't large enough to make a significant dent in the troop shortage. I suspect that the purpose is to set a precedent.

You may ask whether the American leaders' drive to privatize reflects a sincere conservative ideology, or a desire to enrich their friends. Probably both. But before Iraq, privatization that rewarded campaign contributors was a politically smart move, even if it was a net loss for the taxpayers.

In Iraq, however, reality does matter. And thanks to the ideologues who dictated American policy over the past year, reality looks pretty grim.

Personaly, I've never been in the RTZ (Real-Time Zone) as far as I know; and still I can go through walls or ground/rocks, even in some weird (obviously not RTZ) worlds...