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Sensing danger?

2008-07-19T13:30:43Z

As empaths, we tend to sense things around us very well. Being in retail, from time to time I've come across a few people that for some reason I can't make eye contact with. For someone reason, I feel I need to walk away from them. I'm sure others have experienced this too. Have you ever though been able to confirm that you sensed danger? Or, did you later find out that that particular individual was definitely worth avoiding at all costs?

Comments anyone?

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How come and when does...

2008-07-18T12:14:47Z

How come some people are intuitive, while others are not? When does it become important to be intuitive, and when does it not?

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Beginning to notice psychic abilities, am i crazy?

2008-07-17T06:16:37Z

I’m beginning to understand my neighbors telepathically. I don’t hear them with my physical ears, but with my “mental ears”. I can't say I understand what they're saying word for word but I can definitely hear what they're feeling. And what seems to make me believe this is for real is what they are thinking correlates to what kind of noise they make above me. For example, them feeling the yearn to go to the bathroom and then I hear footsteps walking to the bathroom and then a toilet flush. And I hear all of these noises with my physical ears. I also think I tap in their dreams sometimes when I sleep because sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night (I ALWAYS FORGET THE DREAM ) and at the very same time the ones living above me goes to the bathroom. And it’s happened many times when they wake up at the exact time I do at very odd times very late at night. And I always wake up right before I hear the first footsteps. I can only hear footsteps and bathroom flushes from my neighbors, no voices. And when I say footsteps, I just mean the noise of the weight pushing against the floor boards above me. I can’t hear any noise except for the creeks and the flowing of water coming from the pipes.

Also recently a friend stood the night at my place and in the early morning I was half asleep and half awake. And my friend kept talking in his sleep, just one phrase. He did this 3 times, about once every hour. Finally the third time he said, “lock the doors.” And I woke up and was annoyed and said “man you’re talking in your sleep, stop it will ya.” And I went back to sleep. But when I finally woke up and got out of bed I commented on how he talked in his sleep, and then he told me that he remembered what he was dreaming when he said lock the doors. He told me that in his dreams, I kept telling him to say “lock the doors” and he didn’t want to because he was too tired to say something out loud, but then he told me that I insisted, and then that’s when he said lock the doors out loud. And he said it was weird because he was half awake and half asleep (just like me ). And I looked at one of my outside doors and it was unlocked. So I locked it, but it was confusing to me on why I would tell him to say that in his dreams. So I just blew it off like he was just talking in his sleep. And only after the fact that he told me I started barely remembering that I was telling him to say something when he said lock the doors. But it wasn’t to get him to lock the doors; the purpose of me trying to make him say something out loud was to prove to me that telepathy works. That was my motive of thinking in the dream. But every time I woke up I completely forgot what I was going on in the dream world. And I might have just imagined this up in my head and I didn’t remember. All of this could be coincidences.

Throughout my whole life I’ve been different from others, the way I think and my views on life, and my mom thinks I’m psychic, and I’ve had many paranormal events in my life but I have never been able to start hearing souls/thoughts or linking up with people’s dreams until just recently. I confess that I can only hear other people’s thoughts, when I’m high on weed, seems like weed is expanding my capabilities with my psychic ability. Now weed does make you dumb so I’m not indorsing it at all, and don’t suggest anyone does the same.
I think I can go deeper and tune in on this ability and try to start understanding what my neighbors souls are saying word for word but I’m scared because society and science marks people who hear voices as crazy and it also scares me because if it is real this means a lot of crazy people are not crazy and are living in hell with drugs and mental institutions.

And this also makes me think, if it is real, why isn't it publicized. Why hasn't anyone won James Randi’s 1 million paranormal prize? Is it too hard to prove? Well that doesn't stop the government from using psychics. Why would the government use psychics to help them in their investigations if they didnt believe in such things? So why doesn't the government let their findings public? If it's real then the government is covering it up and they know what is happening to mentally ill people who are being treated wrongfully. I don’t know what to think.

Thanks for reading and I’m eager to see the responces.

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2008-07-16T00:05:44Z

Alot of good was on that other thread.
Anyway I said I wasout, I need to remain that way.
I posed honest thoughts.

I also rdo not recall after beign on..ooppss never mind. I am OUT

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What restricts an individuals psychic abilities?

2008-07-15T20:36:31Z

Hi. Here's something I've been mulling over...

It is widely believed today that children begin life psychically aware and that their environment (culture, parents, teachers and other influential individuals) influence them in very many cases toward diminished psychic abilities.

If this is true, what is the diminishing or restrictive factor? Is it in the brain and nervous system? A change of patterns or a blockage in the brain's recognition activity? Or is it totally "non-material" (e.g., in the energy field or aura)? Or is it a "decision" made at an even deeper level of human activity/identity?

Probably most people have had some "sixth sense" experiences during their adolescence or adult lives. A lot of people down through history have experienced the occasional psychic dream, for instance.

While many people today believe that psychic abilities in infancy and young childhood are very common (some people even say universal), this is a pretty recent concept. In the Victorian era, a bit over 100 years ago, it was commonly held that a person had to "develop" in order for higher-consciousness centers to begin to function - and then that person would experience conscious awarenesses like frequent telepathy, precognition, clairvoyance, and esoteric scientific kinowledge. That viewpoint was probably the predominant one into the middle of the 20th century, and even after that it's been fading away only slowly.

I've met hundreds and hundreds of people, and only a few have said that any of their friends, relatives, or children are notably psychic. I realize we've attracted a rather special group to this tribe... and perhaps this group is uncommonly psychic (or maybe not... I'm not sure).

Anyway, what do you believe the realities concerning innate psychism may be? And if we're each born that way, what restricts a complete manifestation of this in our lives?

Tanemon

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how to see the future more often?

2008-07-14T14:14:00Z

Hi all!

For the past year I've been having dreams every 2 months or so and the dreams would end up coming true. It would always revolve around work and since I quit my job a month ago I haven't had another dream. Nothing significant would occur in these dreams but when it would actually happen, EVERYTHING would be the same - people, location, every word. So I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to develop these dreams so that they will happen more often and contain more significant information. Basically, does anyone know of any methods that help to see the future more often?

Thanks.

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Question for Amber (& others here) - REVISED

2008-07-13T22:04:53Z

Okay, I’m trying something. I deleted the old thread (which had immediately digressed into a sort of debate, before Amber got a chance to respond). Now I’m re-introducing the original question, plus the answer Amber provided – down the list, since others had chimed in first. My question was (and is):

Amber, do you think of ALL psychic impressions as being mediated by discarnate entities? How much of psychic activity (claiaudience, clairvoyance, receptive telepathy, etc) is in the psyche of the individual? (Human, incarnate individual)

Or, on the other hand, are discarnate entities bridging between the minds of human beings?

Or...???

Tanemon

To which Amber responded as follows:

Hello Tanemon,

Tanemon writes:
"Amber, do you think of ALL psychic impressions as being mediated by discarnate entities?

Yes, I would also like to say that not everyone receives the same type of impressions that say you may receive.

Tanemon writes:
"How much of psychic activity (claiaudience, clairvoyance, receptive telepathy, etc) is in the psyche of the individual? (Human, incarnate individual)"

This depends on how open the person is to the spiritual world. If they are very open then they can receive all the abilities above, plus more.

Tanemon writes:
"Or, on the other hand, are discarnate entities bridging between the minds of human beings?"

I would like to begin by saying that this is more of a question that should be directed to my spirit guide. Since you asked me, I am going to do my best to answer. Yes, they can even take over the bodies of humans such as trance, spiritual séance, and other ways.

Amber

Please understand, I don’t want to exclude anybody from this discussion. Just first wanted to give Amber an unhindered opportunity to respond first. (Love & light to all…)

Tanemon

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Meditation verses Self-hypnosis

2008-07-13T02:08:36Z

Meditation and self-hypnosis, what's the difference? Inquiring minds want to know.

Comments anyone?

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Ganesh ( Ganapati ) the Hindu Buddhist Deity : practices references and transmission

2008-07-11T18:51:45Z

Ganesh ( Ganapati ) the Hindu Buddhist Deity : practices references and transmission

Keywords : Ganapati / Ganesh the Elephant Headed God of Classical India, Mantra and Praise of Ganapati, Deity yoga, Tantric empowerment, Overlapping Hindu / Buddhist mantra culture, Vedacarya Thomas Ashley-Farrand, Sakya Lineage and Sakya Monastery, Seattle Washington.

“To those for whom these village fires still have meaning:
Oh, may your own most beautiful Animal of Light come safely to you!”
from the Last Whole Earth Catalog

On 13 July in Seattle Washington a Ganapati empowerment will be offered at Sakya Monastery of Tibetan Buddhism. The guru bestowing this empowerment is the tantric master of Sakya Monastery, His Holiness Jigdal Dagchen Sakya Rinbochay. See www.sakya.org for more information.

For this reason it is timely and appropriate to provide some basic teaching and perspective on Ganapati, and in particular an esoteric Hindu Ganapati mantra and also a Sanskrit Buddhist praise of Ganapati. Many diverse teachings on this deity in Hindu form are available on the internet ( under both Ganapati and Ganesh ).

An excellent introductory summary for Ganapati / Ganesh is available online at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganesha

The Buddhist Ganapati is also referenced in the Tibetan Buddhist traditions of the Nyingma ( e.g. Longchen Nyingtik ) and Gelugpa lineages ( see practice texts for www.fpmt.org ). There is also Buddhist practice of Ganapati in the esoteric Buddhist Japanese tradition known as Shingon, which came East via China and not Tibet.

Briefly, Ganapati means Lord of the Troop, and Ganesh basically means Elephant Headed One. Ganapati is known by the title “Remover of Obstacles” or “Lord of Obstacles”. He carries or represents the enormous power of the Elephant. He is often accompanied by two female consorts Riddhi and Siddhi ( Magical Accomplishment and Spiritual Accomplishment ).

Ganapati is very prominent and even central in Hindu practice and is often evoked at the beginning of important engagements or projects, such as making a journey or starting employment, or beginning a meditation practice session. I have seen dance evocation of Ganapati at the beginning of a Hindu temple dance concert. Ganapati is one of the main practices of Hindu business people for success in their commercial ventures.

Ganapati is strongly associated with the “national spirit” or Mother India as well as her earliest roots. In the distant past elephants were used throughout India to clear land for agriculture, and also as war elephants. More recently, public Hindu celebrations were banned by the occupying British and the outlawed Ganapati ceremonies were brought forth, successfully, to rally India against foreign rule.

It is said that the long “History of India” was transcribed by the deity Ganapati as given by Rishi Visvamitra. Many of the key texts of Sanatana Dharma ( Hinduism ) were written down by Ganapati. So, this practice is a primary connection to Vedic Culture. Due to this, Ganapati is also practiced by students to help with their secular school exams.

Ganapati has a very ambivalent status in Buddhist tantra, the esoteric form of Buddhist meditation which relies on yoga, deity recitations and mystic practices in general. On the one hand, Ganapati is often considered unfriendly towards Buddhist practitioners in general, and propitiated or banished or subjugated so as to not cause problems. Thus, a subjugated Ganapati serves as the throne for the deity Mahakala in his Six Armed form. This reflects the fact that some but not all Hindu practice / culture affirms Buddhist teachings.

On the other hand, there are specifically Buddhist practices for Ganapati, as for other Hindu deities such as Shiva, Sarasvati and so forth. The Sakya lineage carries Buddhist deity yogas for the Hindu deities Uma Devi / Parvati and Garuda, as well as Ganapati. ( In Southern Buddhism, such as in Sri Lanka Theravada monasteries, it is common to propitiate the Hindu deity Visnu for outer or worldly benefits. )

More broadly, many Buddhist schools share with the Sanatana Dharma ( i.e. Hindu practice and culture ) a significant focus on Ayurveda, or spiritual medicine. The Buddhist deity Bhaisajyaguru, or Medicine Buddha, is a deity of Buddhist spiritual medicine and Ayurveda in both Hindu and Buddhist forms is more or less identical in practice, not just similar.

In the classical Sakya tradition, this Twelve Arm Ganapati is actually an emanation of Avalokitesvara, the beloved and universal Buddhist deity of liberating compassion. Thus, it is reasonable to view this empowerment as being a definite connection to Avalokitesvara and the general practices of Avalokitesvara.

It is also very important to note that with this ( or any ) tantric Buddhist empowerment comes the general set of universal Buddhist vows, such as the Ten Precepts ( rejection of harmfulness, theft, dishonesty, ill-will and so forth ), and the Bodhisattva vows. The Bodhisattva vows focus on active humanitarian service in the most broad and deep and long term ways, starting with rejection of limiting ideas such as racism, sexism, tribalism, and all cultural divisiveness.

For some basic teachings on Buddhist theory and practice, see the following at Asian Classics:
http://www.asianclassics.org/research_site/webdata/education.html

The Principal Teachings of Buddhism
Buddhist Refuge
The Vows of the Bodhisattva

For an excellent general introduction to Buddhist practice, with a focus on Buddhist tantra, see the following book by Kalu Rinpoche:
The Dharma: That Illuminates All Beings Like the Light of the Sun and the Moon, State University of New York Press, 1986, ISBN 0-88706-157-5

http://www.amazon.com/Dharma-Illuminates-Beings-Impartially-Light/dp/0887061575

This book is short, direct, accessible, classical and effective. It should be. It was transcribed as spoken directly to westerners by one of the greatest Buddhist masters of the last century.

To take the tantric Buddhist empowerment of Ganapati or any other is to take Mahayana Buddhist vows, as well as to become authorized to do magical kinds of practice, such as mantra recitation to develop the power of the deity. The point is that in this case, the Hindu/ Buddhist deity Ganapati is practiced within a classical Buddhist context, not otherwise. Thus the above mentioned Buddhist references are of central importance in this transmission and practice.

As a brilliant red deity aspect, Twelve Armed Ganapati is not only a remover of obstacles and disharmonious circumstances, but also a magnetizing deity, i.e. a deity that “warms up” social situations, and develops strongly positive interpersonal engagement.

On a yogic level, this deity ( in Buddhist deity yoga ) develops strength and power at the level of the navel point of the psychic energy body ( svadhisthana cakra ), although I cannot say more without transgressing tantric vows of secrecy. Note that the Hindu Ganapati is girded by snakes, representing kundalini energy, and is similarly associated with the energy at the base of the spinal column. All tantric transmissions are private, and their contents not to be discussed following initiation.

This is one of many specifically obstacle-removing diety yogas in Buddhist tantra. There are many others, but this one is definitely recommended for those who have a more Hindu-oriented background in culture and/ or personal karma. And as noted earlier, it is a connection to Avalokitesvara practice specifically, and to the outer Mahayana practices in general.

This can also be viewed ( speaking very unofficially ) as a connection to Hindu transmissions. ) For this reason I will now provide a specifically Hindu mantra for Ganapati, which has been confirmed. It is quite reasonable to say that on obtaining a Twelve Arm Ganapati empowerment, one may practice the following Hindu mantra as well.

Maha Ganapati Mantra
"Aum shrim hrim klim glaum gam
ganapataye vara varada sarva
janamme vashamanaya svaha"

Vedacarya Thomas Ashley-Farrand, from whom I have Laxmi transmission, has many introductory and also detailed teachings on Hindu mantra practice. See his website at
http://www.sanskritmantra.com/

The following is not an official representation, but I do have the Sakya lineage Ganapati transmission some twenty years back from HE Luding Khen Rinbochay. This Sakya initiation is for a Twelve Arm Red Ganapati, equivalent in many respects to the Hindu deity Ganesh or Ganapati. Many diverse teachings on this deity in Hindu form are available on the internet ( under both Ganapati and Ganesh ). The Buddhist Ganapati is also referenced in the Tibetan Buddhist traditions of the Nyingma and Gelugpa lineages.

From www.sakya.org :

07/13/2008
GANAPATI INITIATION
Offered by H. H. Jigdal Dagchen Sakya
Sunday, July 13
Time: 10:00 am
Location: Shrine Room
Suggested Donation: $30 Public, $25 Members
Translator: Dr. Jeff Schoening
Ganapati made the commitment to help all beings to uphold the 3 trainings—moral behavior, meditation, wisdom— and, in particular, to provide the necessary materials and provisions for practitioners.
He protects one from obstacles at the beginning of any enterprise and also helps to increase wealth and power for the benefit of the Dharma.
His Holiness Jigdal Dagchen Sakya, head lama of Sakya Monastery, was born in Tibet in 1929. He continues the great Sakya lineage which began with Khon Konchok Gyalpo (1034—1102). He received teachings of the unbroken Khon lineage, the Sakya Vajrakilaya, the Hevajra and the complete Lamdre Tsogshe, from his father, H.H. Trichen Ngawang Thutop Wangchul, the last Sakya throne holder in Tibet. He also studied with many other great Buddhist teachers, including Dzongsar Khyentse Chökyi and Dingo Khyentse Robsal Dawa.
In 1960, H.H. J.D. Sakya was invited to work on a University of Washington research project on Tibetan civilization which was sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation. At the request of students, he co-founded with H.E. Dezhung Rinpoche Sakya Tegchen Choling, a center for the study of Tibetan Buddhism and culture. In 1984, the center became the Sakya Monastery of Tibetan Buddhism.

The following is copyrighted material from The Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon, at
http://www.uwest.edu/sanskritcanon/index.html
specifically
http://www.uwest.edu/sanskritcanon/Stotra/Roman/stotra30.html

The source text is “ Source: Pandey, Janardan Shastri ed. Bauddha strotra Samgrah. Varanasi : Motilal Banarsidass, 1994”.

This is provided as a necessary and specific demonstration that classical Indian Buddhist culture incorporated Ganapati deity yoga as a tantric practice, and not for other purposes.
Ganesastotram

kharvam sthulataram gajendravadanam lambodaram sundaram
vidhnesam madhugandhalubdhamadhupavyalolagandasthalam|
dantodghatavidaritahitajanam sindurasobhakaram
vande sailasutasutam ganapatim siddhipradam kamadam|| 1||

herambah paramo devah karyasiddhividhayakah|
saibhagyarupasampannam dehi me sukhasampadam|| 2||

ekadantam mahakayam lambodaram gajananam|
sarvasiddhipradataram gangaputram namamyaham|| 3||

vande tam gananathamaryamanagham daridrayadavanalam
sundaadandavidhuyamanasamalam samsarasindhostarim|
yam natva surakoyayah prabhuvaram siddhim labhante param
sindurarunavigraham paripataddanambudharahrtam|| 4||

uccairbrahmandakhandadvitayasahacaram kumbhayugmam dadhanah
presannagaripaksapratibhatavikatasrotratalabhiramah |
devah sambhorapatyam bhujagapatitanusparddhivardhisnuhasta-
strailokyascaryamurtirjayati trijagatamisvarah kuñjarasyah|| 5||

ganapatisca herambo vidhnarajo vinayakah |
deviputro mahateja mahabalaparakramah || 6||

mahodaro mahakayascaikadanto gajananah|
svetavastro mahadiptastrinetro gananayakah || 7||

aksamalam ca dantam ca grhnan vai daksine kare|
parasum modakapatram ca vamahaste vidharayan|| 8||

nanapusparato devo nanagandhanulepanah |
nagayajñopavitango nanavidhnavinasanah || 9||

devasuramanusyanam siddhagandharvavanditam|
trailokyavidhnahartaramakhvarudham namamyaham|| 10||

sumukhascaikadantasca kapilo gajakarnakah |
lambodarasca vikato vidhnarajo vinayakah || 11||

dhumraketurganadhyakso bhalacandro gajananah |
vakratundah surpakarno herambah skandapurvajah || 12||

sodasaitani namani yah pathecchunuyadapi|
vidyarambhe vivahe ca pravese nirgame tatha|| 13||

samgrame samkate caiva vidhnastasya na jayate|
vidhnavallikutharaya ganadhipataye namah || 14||

sriganesastotram samaptam|

Sarva mangalam! Siddhi rastu!

In partial fulfillment of vajrayana teaching responsibilities,

KT

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How Do You Know You Are Meditating?

2008-07-07T21:22:40Z

The favorite phrase goes, "Hey Ma! Are we there yet?" Are we meditating or falling asleep? I think at times we think we know what we know. However, after some time on self-reflection, we then back track and wonder do we really know what we know? I think the same can be said about meditation. How do we know when we're meditating? What would be your description of the tell tale signs that a meditative state has been established?

Comments anyone?

Azazeal

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Thought Photography

2008-07-06T14:24:11Z

Has anyone ever witnessed this or attempted this? I think it has something to do with staring at paper in the dark room through a special lens and making a picture. I suspect the iris actually makes shapes. The photos turn out like Renaissance art.

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seeing// sensing

2008-07-02T19:12:17Z

As a child i would see images... but as i grew older i stopped seeing things... now i see just shadowy figures... but i can sense things... it feels like i'm going to have an anxiety attack. i have a family member who sees my great grandmother everyday. how can i become more open? i can't stop thinking about it. Is there a reason that i can stop obsessing over it?

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what to do when you feel crazy.... again. but its not that bad this time.

2008-06-29T13:08:06Z

Hi, how are you all doing? I've graduated from my academia and moved back home. I just wanted to ask you all how you feel about spoon bending. I mean, I know being psychic doesn't make me crazy, I've finally established that. I've progressed to psychokinetic energies. I'm wondering what the hell this stuff is? Why am I doing this? Why am I bending small, malleable metals such as spoons and forks? Why does it happen randomly? I mean, I know some people can do it. Some people pay money to learn this or train their whole lives. When I was younger, I used to think I could do this but I gave up. Why, because I didn't think it was possible, that's why. Now, a total skeptic even about the other things I can do, I still wonder at myself. I have given medium readings that have scared or at least impressed professionals. I can do readings for people here because of practice. Yes, I could use some. Please email me or post if you want to, because I'm very confused right now, headed for a nervous breakdown of sorts, and questioning my own sanity. Don't worry, I'm seeing my metaphysical friendly psychiatrist, he's Russian, so he knows what he's talking about. My therapist, also Russian, knows what she's talking about. I should call her. Later people.

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clairaudience

2008-06-29T01:02:46Z

Information on coping with clairaudience is requested. In particular advice as to what to do if you are clairaudient, and paranoid about it, consequently, a bit agoraphobic. I have garden-variety paranoia, not schizophrenia, thanks. In which case, I look forward to hearing from people on this subject. I have tried the white light thing, everything. Sometimes my shields get penetrated anyway.

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what do you think?

2008-06-28T18:40:03Z

Hello fellow psychics!

I am new here and trying to re-kindle my psychic abilities that I was fond of when I was younger... so bear with me!

My question is, does anyone have experience with past lives?

This scenario keeps on happeneing:

I have violent, detailed dreams of murder and horrible things that will not be mentioned, and what I suspect to be a gang scenario, where I am NOT OBSERVING, but perceiving through eye level experiences. Then I wake up, open my eyes and there is a young man (mid 30's?) dark hair, white shirt, arms crossed/over mouth, standing at the endof my bed looking at me- it looks like he's thinking. Ahhk! And I have this strong FEELING that he is waiting. For what, I don't know.

Do you think these dreams are past-life related?

Here is my astrological standouts if this helps:

Sun Virgo 7H
Asc Pisces
Moon scorpio 8H conjunct plto in scorpio 8H
Jupiter in Aquarius 12H
South node Scorpio 8H
Saturn scaorpio 8H square venus leo 6H

Any help with this would be appreciated.

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Rain

2008-06-26T13:59:43Z

So i guess i will start this way:
when i was a kid, i used to be misunderstood by most of the people, i kind of had this great ideas about how people and the world works but when trying to render it all in words it just didn't come out as smoothly as i know i understood all things.
I then always felt underestimated, and most people though of me as being a freak, introverted and just strange.
When i felt down i used to come out of school and noticed it would start to rain, all people would go protect themselves but i actually loved the way water felt flowing through out my body, and would rather search a place where i could get wet and comfortable in rain. then i would know my mother was going to be there soon and just go to the place where she picked me up a couple of minutes before she arrived.
My mother always had this consistent way of sometimes forgetting about me and then coming for me a couple of hours later and not even saying she was sorry for it.
So i guess by now you would already have labeled me as a drama queen, or just feel bad about it; Don't when i think about it it just gives me rest, i just feel calmed and think about the rain.
When it rained i felt cleansed from all my bad feelings and it was such a good feeling. It was as if i wanted to cry so much but rather the sky would do it for me, until i felt calm again.

After a while i forgot about the whole thing, i started to socialize by adapting my ego to the necessities of others, and being rather a stranger toward my own feelings. after warping myself with a whole bunch of crap i thought would help me i noticed i was actually feeling worse not expressing my true self, but by then i just had completely forgotten who i really was. After becoming someone i wasn't it was hard finding the way back to myself but i slowly did it, until recently when i finally achieved to remember and suddenly i start to get lots of memories about when i was a child.
Then it started to happen again, when sitting in my room writing about personality changes and development it would start to rain, but now it would rain in a different way. It is a passionate rain, as if i get in tune with the weather and then start writing. It would then thunder a lot. So i started to regress in my memories and i suddenly noticed it was always there when i was making a change in my life or a great discovery it would start to heavily rain and thunder.

Then lately i would feel really good and i would go out noticing it to be a sunny day. If it is raining outside and i want to go shopping it would actually stop raining for a while, then after a while when I'm home it would start raining again.

So i don't believe i can actively interact with the weather i rather believe I'm getting in some kind of synchronicity with it; i would actually react towards the upcoming weather and subconsciously planing my days depending on what i feel is coming. What do you think about it ? am i actually delusional, and it's a lot of coincidences? or why do i have this deep understanding of whats going on in the weather could this be some kind of empathy towards the world?

thanks for reading ;D
i hope to read some of your wise opinions.

Marco

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Channeling...one challenge of a newcomer

2008-06-25T00:39:53Z

I, Ed K., from Maryland, am currently writing as a new member. (this message is basically posted on several other tribes - Channeling, Sedona Psychics, and Star Beings and Light Workers)

I have been paradoxically blessed and challenged to start channeling Friendly Entities who consider themselves non human from another dimension based in Alpha Centauri.

I would have laughed at all this about a year ago, even though I had the desire, as I had worked with Reverend Ana Jones in Hawaii who does Angelic Channeling, and also two Sedona Psychics.

I have also done some of the human study of this phenomena, by reading Arthur Hasting's book: "With the Tongue of Men and Angels" and am now starting on Jon Klimo's book.

To my point: I am writing, partly to help sustain my grounded foothold in the physical realm, because I found that the last channeling session was saying some phenomenal stuff that my ego and personality are having a hard time hearing.

One of these was that, my mission and journey of channeling could be speeded up ten fold by moving near Sedona, Arizona. I LOVE Sedona, and that's all very well and good, but it will be quite challenging and difficult for me to make this transition. Also, I don't know for sure that I could presently handle 10x the speed.

I think it will all work out, but my point is that "I", Ed K., need to help negotiate, and set temporal boundaries, for what comes through so that "I" don't get overwhelmed, and can still function in the earthly realm.

I know that perhaps to some of you this is old hat, and I know from the research that Channelers have their own set of "difficulties", but I thought I'd share it and see what came back.

Peace,

Ed K.

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cloud dissolving

2008-06-24T16:44:49Z

I introduced my nephews (ages 18 and 22) to cloud dissolving last week.
these are some pretty pragmatic kids both in the military... pretty steeped in dogmatic religious tradition - and not as much in the mysteries of life.
So, it was especially wonderful to see their astonishment and to see their eyes open to the wonder and possibilities.

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20 Astral Keys to Gates of Universal Consciousness

2008-06-22T18:29:25Z

Carl Gustav Jung (1875–1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist who developed the field of analytical psychology and introduced the concept of archetypes of consciousness being "innate universal psychic dispositions that form the substrate from which the basic themes of human life emerge. Being universal and innate, their influence can be detected in the form of myths, symbols, rituals and instincts of human beings. Archetypes are components of the collective unconscious and serve to organize, direct and inform human thought and behaviour. ...archetypes heavily influence the human life cycle, propelling a neurologically hard-wired sequence which he called the stages of life. Each stage is mediated through a new set of archetypal imperatives which seek fulfillment in action."[1]

Centuries before Jung, the Maya introduced the very similar concept of Archetypes of Divine Consciousness. (According to the Maya, there are 20 of them.) Likewise, these Archetypes form the substrate from which individual Divine Consciousness emerges. Also being components of the collective unconscious, the Maya-identified Archetypes organize, direct and engender Divine thought and behavior in the human experience, in stages, over the course of days, months, years, ...millennia. Hard wired into the binary code of DNA and the human brain, these Archetypes are mediated through the permutations of an universal, binary, object oriented Code evident in and galactically broadcast by harmonic star cycles. The Maya perceived the astral Nature of the Code and embodied It in a "lunar calendar." Regarded as their Sacred Calendar, they call it the "Tzolkin." The Tzolkin enables them to track the cycles, the individual stages of the cycles [i.e. days] and the progressive effects of those intermeshed stages in order to further enable them to live in conscious alignment and synchronicity with the 20 Archetypes. According to the Maya, living in such alignment and synchronicity activates the inherent Divine Consciousness latent within the individual consciousness. Thus activated, the Divine Unconscious within can be consciously harnessed and channeled for communlal and personal well being.

Being both harmonic and binary in Nature, the Tzolkin's Code has been digitized and expressed in sound. As the stuff of our bodies comes from starlight, the acoustic expressions (of the Code's objects relative to the individual Archetypes) directly facilitate an exclusively positive rewiring of the brain, aligning and synchronizing its synapses with the dynamics of the respective Archetypes, and having a sympathetic effect advancing the activation of analogous higher functions of DNA. (Rather than needing to track the individual harmonic stages of the Archetypes as they naturally occur staggered over the course of months and larger spans of Time, as Maya clerics have done for centuries, the Archetypes' entire harmonic sequences can be heard in seconds.) Each of the Archetypes has been individually recorded (in great for meditation lengths) and embodied in "The Mayan Book of Wisdom" (a cognitive/consciousness enhancement software product from DarkMother.com).

On this Summer Solstice weekend, in the interest of fostering the planetary increase of Light, you can download an abridged version of The Mayan Book of Wisdom containing 3:00.00 excerpts of the full length (13:00.00) expressions of the 20 Archetypes. They're for you - Download them, experience them, use them; enjoy them.

http://www.darkmother.com/mbow/mbow-demopack.exe

For more information on the harmonic nature of the Tzolkin, visit and peruse DarkMother.com. (These Archetypes are fundamental components of all the complex Tzolkin acoustic translations embodied in company's "Ascension" series.)

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Spirits manifesting anonymously in a round unbroken circle

2008-06-22T00:46:09Z

I told a friend that I would check this.

She gets these manifestations where spirits are manifesting around her in an unbroken circle. She cannot make up faces but they are all stacked one against the other. Sometimes, she asks them to go away and they do, dissapearing one after another in their proper order.

Is this linked to any tradition? her only past time memory is having been a nun. That could be recent. She also dabbled in healing, I think as she does in this life (Eight House Aquarius moon).

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Aliens, Etheric Life & Energies

2008-06-11T19:58:37Z

I started a tribe, "Aliens, Etheric Life & Energies" tribe, that some of you may be interested in.

This is a supportive & safe place to learn & discuss our experiences & knowledge in the area of astral energies and life. How this affects our mind, body, soul & the universe we live in.

tribes.tribe.net/etheric_life

Thanks,
mia

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the revolution is now

2008-06-05T18:05:57Z

http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/

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The Mayan Sacred Calendar and Solar Wind

2008-06-02T11:11:58Z

The Mayan Sacred Calendar (the Tzolkin) is said to be a graphic representation of a Logic transmitted by star harmonics that unlock doors of Universal Consciousness and interdimensional reality. If so, it ought to sound something like solar wind, right? Having translated the Tzolkin into sound, we offer you a comparison between that and actual NASA recorded solar wind.

When the Tzolkin's harmonic Logic is sequenced in the sonic register and played back at high speed, it sounds very much like solar wind recorded by the Voyager spacecraft, also played back at high speed. The primary dif being the Tzolkin is composed of only 13 harmonics and the solar wind has them all.

Check it out:
http://www.darkmother.com/SolarwindTzolkinComparison

Enjoy! ;)

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hi all! ^_^

2008-05-28T14:18:57Z

hiya people. just wanted to introduce myself. found this site on yahoo, looks pretty good, hope to have some interesting conversations here! yay. quick question if i may, ive been told by 2 clairvoyants that eventually ill be able to do what they do. 1 gave me a pack of angel cards and the other gave me a pack of tarot cards but i havent used them because i dont feel like i know how to! just wanted to know if anybody could tell me if they 'know' or 'feel' if im spiritually tuned in. if so id love some help or advice from u guys. thanks for taking a look here, hope you get back to me.
be happy all
xxx

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Waking up during the night and seeing spirits - Help

2008-05-27T00:01:55Z

Hi, throughout my life I have had a few psychic dreams and things happen. I also read tarot cards. Lately I have been waking up at night and seeing things at the end of my bed. I sleep with my dog and she has been waking as well. One night she was even looking at the same thing I was and barking at it! Im seeing white and also black shapes sometimes with faces but not clear faces, hard to explain. The other night I saw a jacket like a military one it was navy blue with red stripes on the shoulders down the arms, I think it had medals and buttons up to the neck without a collar. It was like someone was wearing it but I could not see the head or hands etc. Can you someone explain what is happening and if I should be communicating with these spirits and how? Some answers would really help, Thanks

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simultaneouty of past and present, a form of "bi-location"

2008-05-24T12:47:02Z

Hi, New member here in Maryland.

My little extra-sensory, or sensory expanding awakenings have been in the form of finding myself present in two realities simultaneously, a past life, and the current life.

I do not however, view the past as past. My reality in this state is the "co-presence" of both realities and the presence of the past reality as being in the present tense, along with the regular contemporary reality.

I find that in this state the past is happening now. This is not nostalgia, and it is not personal memories of this life.

make sense to anyone or anyone have a similar experience?

best,

Ed

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Does seeing number patterns count as psychic development?

2008-05-24T03:07:43Z

Hi all,

I'm new here... I'm quite a sensitive person - I'm sure some of you will pick that up immediately. Anyhoo, for about a couple of years now, I have been seeing number patterns everywhere... it started in 2005 with seeing 4:20 everywhere... After reading a bit about numerology, angel numbers, synchronicity, etc, I started to see more of what I read about... triple/quadruple combinations (all of 'em! 111, 222, 333, 444, 555, 666, 777, 888, 999, 000). The more I read, the more I started to notice. It's not just clocks... it's clocks that are out of synch with real time, license plates, addresses, phone numbers, and more recently I'm finding these numbers in the most exciting ways - like when I turn my head to check the time count in a song on itunes and it will be exactly at 1 minute and 11 seconds or 2 minutes and 22 seconds, or 3 minutes and 33 seconds... for that one moment. I even see it on my DVD player time count. I'm even noticing lengths of tracks with the triple digits. It's pretty blatant. I'll wake up to 11:11, 10:10, etc. Lately I see lots of 10:10, 12:12, etc.

The double numbers eventually came... mostly 22, 33... mostly 44. The numbers I see the most these days are 111, 1111, 222, 444, and 44 and 555. I still see 420, but not as often... I'm aware of all the "angel number" definitions, but does anyone else have any other insights? I make a point to meditate every day now, which I believe is helping. Does this count as psychic development? It certainly seems to be a shift/alignment of some kind.

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distance smelling

2008-05-24T02:47:57Z

wierd ability. I've wanted to develop clairaudience or clairvoyance, but these have eluded me. I have had some luck with smelling people from some distance, when I'm clear-headed and neutral.
Also when I'm horny.

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developing intuition / psychic ability through Manjusri deity yoga (tantric Buddhist )

2008-05-18T01:00:12Z

Hi. Missed this tribe when I did the event posting/ teachings on Manjusri. Wouldn't leave you out.
Here's the text. KT

Manjusri – Bodhisattva / Angel of Wisdom Intro Remarks/ Resources / Empowerment Seattle 8 June 2008
Summary : One of the central Buddhist mantra ( Sanskrit recitation – deity yoga ) practices is Manjusri, the Great Bodhisattva or Angel of Wisdom. Here the practice is introduced. Significant and diverse resources are referenced. Also, there will be a Manjusri empowerment in Seattle 8 June 2008 at Sakya Monastery ( www.sakya.org ).

Keywords : Mahayana Buddhist deities and practice; great Being of Wisdom ( Mahasattva ) Manjusri, tantric empowerment and mantra discipline; practical usage of mantra for developing consciousness and diagnostics and dialectical skill; HH the Dalai Lama teaching concerning Manjusri; list of Buddhist resources for Manjusri practice.

“Instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest things which are sweetness and light.”
Jonathan Swift

“Know this : whatever the presenting problems we face, the real and deeper issues are more a matter of consciousness, whether of ourselves or others. It’s all arising in the mind, so free your mind, help others do the same, and go from there. Mantra will really really help you in this. Don’t forget this essential practice!”
K T

Namo bodhisattva mahasattva arya Manjusri jnanasattva pujayamai saranam gacchami.
“To the great compassionate angle of universal service, noble Manjusri Wisdom Being, I pay homage, make offerings, and go for refuge.”

The practice of Great Bodhisattva Manjusri is one of the original and central teachings of Guru Sakyamuni Buddha, and is commonly practiced throughout Asia and the world. It is practiced in order to develop mental clarity, penetrating insight ( Sanksrit prajna ) and surpassingly transcendent mystic wisdom ( Sanskrit jnana ).

The practice begins with the basic vows of Buddhist ethics ( Ten Precepts ) and Universal Service ( e.g. Mahayana Buddhist Vows see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodhisattva_vows ). These vows and the basic mantra ( Sanskrit recitation and visualization ) practice are common to many Buddhist cultures and lineages from Nepal through Tibet, China, Japan, and now to English speaking practitioners throughout the world. The basic practice is held in common by all.

Thus, though I here mainly make use of Indo-Tibetan derived sources which focus mainly on the esoteric teaching, the main point is that these materials are in fact universal to all the Mahayana schools, such as Zen and Ch’an Buddhism, Pure Land practice and so forth.

Thus, when a Mahayana transmission for Manjusri is given ( whether at Sakya Monastery in Seattle in early June or at some other place and time ), the point is not to identify with the outer cultural context, but to access the inner meaning and practice, which again serves all Mahayana practitioners, schools, and purposes.

There are many forms and practices of Manjusri, and the associated deities Yamantaka ( Wrathful Manjusri ) and Sarasvati ( the Hindu-Buddhist consort of Manjusri ). Here we will not focus on the restricted or very esoteric aspects and practices, but on the basics of deity yoga and why this deity yoga of Manjusri is so deeply meaningful and astonishingly useful.

Simply put, the basic mantra recitation and visualization of Manjusri is a classical and primary Buddhist practice for developing inner or “spiritual wisdom”. . . AND . . . it is phenomenally important as an example of the kind of meditation practice that helps us in areas where we always need help.

Why? Think about this: many people have to spend years in school, to develop professional skills such as in technology, medicine, law, education, management and public administration. Most Buddhists and Hindus have for millennia been practicing mantras to sharpen their minds and thus to become more effective in their professional or communication skills as well as to develop competence in sacred texts.

In other words, the purpose of this practice is not only for ultimate benefit, not only for moksha or liberation from the cycle of unfree existences, but also and very much to develop dialectical and rhetorical skills, diagnostic skills, psychological skills and so forth to become effective in the world.

The practice of Sanskrit recitation, of reciting phrases and invocations is very general purpose, but in particular it is a direct path to sharpening and directing the mind. This is represented in particular by the Sword Of Manjusri, which in the iconography he swings not in anger but to cut through difficult conceptual issues and problems.

We all have inner difficulties and challenges, in our minds, in our relationships, in our work and so forth. Directly working with just this problem is one of the primary goals and teachings of Buddhism for twenty five centuries. Buddhist practice can be defined as developing Wisdom, Compassion, and Power, mainly on the inner spiritual level. The protector and guide of the Wisdom lineage is Manjusri.

A very young student such as in grade school can benefit greatly from Manjusri practice. So can someone who already has a professional degree and has tough technical issues to address. In our time all areas of life become increasingly complex, and require more and more diagnostic approaches. So the question is not whether one should take up a formal method of consciousness development, but which kind.

Manjusri deity yoga is but one example of formal techniques in mantra and consciousness development. If one were to study or practice medicine or psychology, it would perhaps be more typical for a Buddhist to practice Medicine Buddha. If one worked with the arts of fine arts of painting or poetry or music, then the more closely associated Buddhist wisdom deity is the Goddess Sarasvati ( consort to Manjusri ).

If a person worked in police or military professions or in martial arts, then the ferocious practice of Manjusri Yamantaka would definitely be indicated as a specialized need. The empowerment for Yamantaka, the esoteric wrathful wisdom practice is now widespread here in the West. I have thirty three Yamantaka authorization/ empowerments in the Old School ( Tibetan Nyingma ) derived Vajrakilaya transmissions and so forth, plus two grand initiations of Yamantaka specific to the Sakya linage, at Sakya Monastery.

In my personal experience, mantra practice is safe and effective, even and especially where there are real challenges both outer and inner. I rely on mantra practice as a primary yoga, and have completed over ten thousand hours of Buddhist mantra recitation. My only regret in this regard is that in the same interval I could have easily completed twenty thousand hours.

Mantra and Buddhist mantra practice in particular clear away a lot of mental debris and hone awareness to a powerful capability in dealing with ALL kinds of situations. And of course the primary purpose of all Mahayana mantra practice, which is opening up and liberating the mind into a vast sky –like state, is really wonderful to experience, even in part. This actually happens over time, and there are sudden glimpses of “realization”.

As a spiritual discipline or consciousness training technique, Buddhist mantra works as part of a system, an ethical teaching and textual tradition, a psychology and a culture, a wisdom culture. No one can just “do the mantra practice” and ignore all the other primary aspects of the method. And yet, becoming established in this kind of practice is now remarkably simple and straightforward, given all the vast Buddhist resources now available in books, web sites, teaching centers and so forth. This is particularly true throughout the American West Coast, and in major cities throughout the modern democratic countries not subject to the dark speech of Mordor.

So the real purpose here only begins with a basic event announcement for one transmission of Manjusri by one very very worthwhile teacher, His Holiness Jigdal Dagchen Sakya Rinpoche. He is a very important and remarkably generous Buddhist guru, and I have taken major empowerments from him as far back as 1980 and as recently as this year. I recommend him to all who are worthy. Please approach him with humility and respect.

More broadly, the goal here is to make known these kinds of resources, for people in this locale and in many places. For completeness and as an example to help people in the Seattle area, here is the event announcement ( not that I in any way represent Sakya Monastery or His Holiness Jigdal Dagchen Sakya Rinpoche ). From http://www.sakya.org/SpecialEvents.aspx :

[ begin announcement ]

“06/08/2008 MANJUSHRI EMPOWERMENT
Offered by H.H. Jigdal Dagchen Sakya
Sunday, June 8
Time: 10:00 - 11:00 am
Location: Shrine Room
Suggested Contribution: $30 Public, $25 Members
Translator: Dr. Jeff Schoening
Manjushri is the Bodhisattva of Discriminating Insight. He holds the flaming sword for cutting through the fog of ignorance in one hand and the text of the Perfection of Wisdom in the other. Many lamas of the Sakya Khon lineage are regarded as emanations of Manjushri.
His Holiness Jigdal Dagchen Sakya, head lama of Sakya Monastery, was born in Tibet in 1929. He continues the great Sakya lineage which began with Khon Konchok Gyalpo (1034—1102). He received teachings of the unbroken Khon lineage, the Sakya Vajrakilaya, the Hevajra and the complete Lamdre Tsogshe, from his father, H.H. Trichen Ngawang Thutop Wangchul, the last Sakya throne holder in Tibet. He also studied with many other great Buddhist teachers, including Dzongsar Khyentse Chökyi and Dingo Khyentse Robsal Dawa.
In 1960, H.H. J.D. Sakya was invited to work on a University of Washington research project on Tibetan civilization which was sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation. At the request of students, he co-founded with H.E. Dezhung Rinpoche Sakya Tegchen Choling, a center for the study of Tibetan Buddhism and culture. In 1984, the center became the Sakya Monastery of Tibetan Buddhism.
REQUIREMENT: During the 24 hours after the empowerment, one must not eat any meat, eggs, garlic, or consume alcohol. One must also be celibate during those hours.”
[ end announcement ]

The Sakya lineage is renowned for vast and profound scholarship, just like His Holiness the Dalai Lama. You have probably heard that HH the Dalai Lama is deluged with honorary doctoral degrees, including another just a few weeks back from the University of Washington. Well, as a very young man in pre Communist free Tibet, his oral examination and defense took three days, with a large number of senior gurus and scholars in attendance. And they were not there to go easy on him, but to be rigorous and demanding.

To help establish some context and background for the empowerment, here is a teaching by HH the Dalai Lama on Manjusri practice:
http://www.lamayeshe.com/otherteachers/hhdl/manjushri/manjushri_4.shtml

This includes both theoretical background and practical teaching and is remarkably clear. About halfway down the fourth page ( manjushri_4.shtml ) there is a description of Manjusri empowerment and practice. A very important teaching on the Dvadasa Nidana ( Twelve Links of Interdependent Origination is given on the first page of this transcript, at
http://www.lamayeshe.com/otherteachers/hhdl/manjushri/manjushri_1.shtml

The above teaching and transmission were given by H the Dalai Lama at the request of Venerable Master Sheng-Yen, a Chinese Zen ( Ch’an ) master. Together they shared a dialogue on Mahayana Buddhist practice, which is of course equally important to the Tibetans and the Chinese.

A three day doctoral degree defense such as that made by HH the Dalai Lama requires extraordinary focus and mental energy. You can bet that before any formal debate, a Buddhist guru will typically work on their Manjusri practice ( or something equivalent ) as essential preparation.

Now similarly, in our own lives as westerners, even a single day technical interview is a real challenge, and I speak from personal experience. A mere three hour technical “drill down” is very demanding when you have to write a lot of whiteboard stuff down flawlessly and very very very quickly for an all or nothing mark from a set of experienced professionals. I just succeeded in several of these sudden death exams myself. In that sense, being a Buddhist scholar and being a systems analyst are somewhat parallel. ( I do a little of both, being an individually trained and licensed vajrayana Buddhist spiritual doctor. )

In both cases, what really helps ( me ) most is doing mantra. Technical training and examination preparation are indispensible, but it is in fact the mantra practice of many many years that I rely upon as the primary means of engaging technical challenges with my mind. I never take coffee, and I use no crutch drugs or psychiatric drugs, unlike basically most of you.

There is no stimulant or prescription drug that can possibly begin help your mind in the way that Sanskrit wisdom mantras can help ( although these may be temporarily helpful ). And we all are facing increasing challenges these days. I sometimes feel bad that many people just don’t get the central importance of mantra yoga, but then again it is for me a major personal competitive advantage.
We need to each develop our own consciousness as much as we can to handle current and upcoming challenges. Life is very changeable, isn’t it? “Readiness is all.” So, you are here given a real opportunity to engage this most practical kind of yoga. And I again fulfill my formal vows ( Sanskrit: vrata, samaya ) of service and teaching.

In the long term, the real purpose is not merely personal benefit, although personal responsibility and ( therefore ) self-development remain the primary focus in Buddhist practice, whether one is rich or poor, male or female, or a citizen of this country or that.

Right now, traditionally Buddhist lands and culture are in grave trouble and serious jeopardy. I have in mind Tibet, and China, North Korea and Burma ( “Myanmar” ), all of which are controlled by totalitarian military regimes. There has been tremendous suffering – even genocide -- in Cambodia and Viet Nam as well, as a good many of you will remember.

Fro ma Buddhist standpoint, the fundamental issues here are those of freedom and responsibility and co-operation for the greater good based on really understanding the law of cause and effect. Not everybody gets that, and right now in particular the totalitarian regime in Burma is blocking the import of desperately needed food, medicine, shelter, and skilled help from France, the United States, and so forth. So the food and the help are there, but the military forces block everyone from even entering the ravaged areas where so many are sick and hungry.

There will always be social problems and disagreements and the threat of force. The point is that no government can legitimately prevent people from receiving basic humanitarian assistance. This is a selfishness and a complete lack of wisdom with extraordinary repercussions. Dealing with intransigent and antisocial and extremely dangerous individuals and groups such as the illegal military regime in Burma requires extraordinary wisdom and wel l developed strategy. And very powerful means of persuasion. So do the very difficult situations in Tibet and China.

So my hope, in doing this outreach and Mahayana teaching work, is to honor those who help, to underscore the necessity of a universal humanitarian outlook free of dogma, and to dedicate the merit of sharing this teaching towards the direct unhindered help of the desperately suffering people in Burma. Know this : whatever the presenting problems we face, the real and deeper issues are more a matter of consciousness. This is clearly demonstrated in the current human rights disaster of Burma: it is not the ocean storm but the military regime that is the real issue.

Buddhist mantra yoga does not “solve” all issues. It is not a substitute for food or clean water. It is remarkably useful in a time of personal or physical crisis, and when sufficiently matured in one’s mind, can keep a person on track to deal with the most severe kind of crisis. For oneself or for others. It’s really valuable for every first responder and every person facing acute distress and trauma.

Another general characteristic of Buddhist mantra discipline is that it can open up and mature psychic capabilities, and also ward off psychological or psychic attacks. There is a more wrathful form of Manjusri ( not necessarily authorized through any one basic Manjusri empowerment ) called Black Manjusri. It is specific to reversing sorcery and black magic.
I have received the Black Manjusri empowerment twice in the Sakya lineage, and the mantra has been openly published. It is:
OM PRASVAD CHUSVAD DURTASVAD DURMISVAD NYIG GO LA CHO KA LA JAH KHAM SAM TAM BAY PAY SWAHA!

So this is broadcast to establish an affinity in the minds of the general public, and as a specifically directed sharp response to the military dictator Than Shwe of Burma.
From the Digital Freedom Network ( http://unix.dfn.org/printer_Than_Shwe.shtml )
“Than Shwe, dictator of Burma and leader of the country's authoritarian military junta, seized power in 1988 after military forces killed 3,000 pro-democracy student demonstrators. Shwe is an unassuming dictator in some senses; his countrymen know little about him and he is not an obviously visible presence throughout the country. He rules by decree, which his junta and military forces carry out, but maintains a low profile.”

So Than Shwe, this Black Manjusri mantra instance and everywhere it is propagated is for you, Than Shwe. As it is said, “Pardon me thou bleeding earth, that I am meek and gentle with these butchers.”
With this I make a rare request, and in public, to the Protectors of the Law ,the dharmapalas : Do Your Duty! Remove the obstacles to freedom and health and democracy in Burma. Now Is The Time. Vajrasamaya! Do It!

Please keep in mind that as a remarkably practical set of inner disciplines, the Buddhist teaching works the exact opposite of Primitive Christianity. Buddhists believe in testable doctrine and humanitarian law and the situation ethics of scalable response, while Jesus of Nazareth was a faith healer and an outright pacifist who rejected legal forums.

In Buddhist practice one becomes the source of help to others, not just someone who stays at the level of praying for this or that from some transcendent other. That’s why there are a basically infinite number of Buddhist techniques for awareness development, compassionate service ( such as medicine ), for yoga, and for warriorship ( kung fu, wrathful protector practices ). It also means that as a formal discipline, the actual practice is what really matters, not mere affiliation hope and faith. I would go so far as to say that the only real “Buddhist faith” is the actual practice itself.

On in inner level, many or most Buddhist practices and yogas are connected to mantra recitation, including the inner practices of Buddhist kung fu at the venerable Shao Lin Monastery. Conservatively speaking, over fifty million to seventy million Buddhists worldwide recite mantras that are directly derived from classical Buddhist India. Many more Hindus - perhaps in the tens of millions - also recite mantra as central or primary spiritual discipline.

Given that the Hindu-Buddhist cultural complex is almost unmatched in the depth and richness and power of inner sciences, it is clear that these people know what they are doing, and maybe there is much more we can learn from such wisdom culture. After almost three decades of direct investigation, I feel I have made a good and useful start on the subject. I hope some of you will be inspired to go forward in such a way, and that you get good results. The door is open, if you so choose.

There are many paths to wisdom and higher consciousness. No Buddhist would ever claim that any one practice or teaching is “best for all”, or claim that anyone will get a specific result with this or that method, or that a certain kind of yoga is categorically more effective in general than some other. That would be more a matter of foolish religious dogma, not the actual practice of inner discipline.

What I commit to here is that many of you do indeed have real opportunities to engage classical Mahayana Buddhist practice, specifically the core practices of mantra yoga, and that if you try this for half an hour or so a day, after one year you can definitely sense whether there is some real benefit worth pursuing further. In one year at this rate it should be possible to complete 1,000,000 recitations of the basic Manjusri mantra OM A RA PA CA NA DHI. That is point at which you will have completed the basic round of practice for a short mantra such as that of Manjusri.

Now, if you continue with self-defeating activities like alcohol and smoking and so forth, or indulge in many cycles of negative thinking, this will really hurt and even nullify this kind of practice. Again, it is not about religious faith in some wholly other divine angel, but in our own inner consciousness and human potential and going forward and upwards with that. Swami Nithyananda of the Life Bliss Foundation ( www.lifebliss.org ) puts it this way :

“Meditation is nothing to do with religion. . . When I started seeking, I discovered extraordinary powers are not miracles or magic. It is reproducible science. .When you calm down, when you bring your thoughts per second down, naturally, you will see the truth very clearly. . .It is an appointment to yourself.”

From
http://www.lotsawahouse.org/intelligence.html ( which retains copyright ):
“Dhih!
Supreme enlightened form of all the buddhas and their heirs,
Throughout the whole of space and time,
Powerful lord of speech and embodiment of wisdom, precious Manjughosha,
Remain forever upon the lotus in the centre of my heart. . .
With the vibrant splendour of the orange sun rising in the sky,
Your youthful form brings to my heart a delight beyond compare.
Adorned with divine garments of silk and with jewels and flowers,
You sit cross-legged, with your long hair tied up in five main knots.

With wisdom’s sword that blazes with the light of intelligence,
You subdue the maras and cut the darkness of our ignorance.
With the fresh and lovely utpala flower clasped in your hand,
You show the mudra of generosity, and grant our every wish.

In the very instant we think upon your perfect form, O precious one,
All the darkness of samsara and deluded perception is at an end,
And you grant us the light with which to perceive the genuine path,
As if the sun’s glorious radiance had been brought into our minds!

‘Gentle Splendour,’ Manjushri, embodiment of wisdom and intelligence,
Respectfully I offer you this seat upon the lotus of my heart,
And I invoke your wisdom mind, O protector,
Through the sovereign of all awareness-mantras.

Swiftly set ablaze a great fire of wisdom within my heart,
A powerful intelligence discerning words and meaning,
Supremely keen, swift, utterly profound and expansive,
Illuminating all, like the mandalas of the sun and moon.

Grant me too the confidence of eloquence,
That is unhesitating, entirely unassailable,
Unhindered, constant, never dissipating—
A vajra-like fearlessness that is indestructible.

Grant me the great treasure of infallible memory,
Which is as broad and all-encompassing as space,
And is entirely unerring, so that never will I forget
Any aspect whatsoever of the words or of the meaning. . .

May I perfect the spheres of study, reflection and meditation,
Shine bright the lights of explanation, debate and composition,
And possess humility, calm, altruism, kindhearted love and faith,
The most beautiful and perfect qualities, as boundless as the ocean.

Through the power of this, may I accomplish vast deeds
To benefit the teachings of the victorious buddhas,
And always delight and be cared for by Manjushri,
Spontaneously accomplishing my own and others’ welfare!

Manjusri Visualization
( from http://yogilin.net/efiles/e0080.html )
“Visualize that, through the nectar blessing of Bodhisattva Manjusri, all sentient beings in the whole Dharmadhatu have returned to the original purity; they all transform and merge into a boundless sky-blue light. Bodhisattva Manjusri, having thus purified all sentient beings, also transforms and merges into this light of original purity. The whole Dharmadhatu becomes a limitless and indiscriminative Oneness.

“In this vast expanse of blue brilliance, suddenly there appears a karma vajra. Above the karma vajra, there appears a magnificent Dharma throne supported by eight snow-lions. Then above the throne there appears, one after the other and one above the other, a five-color lotus, a moon cushion and a sun cushion. At the center of the sun cushion there appears an orange seed word "Di" standing upright.

“ Di transforms into Manjusri with brilliant orange rainbow body, complete with all adornments of a Sambhogakaya, with youthful features, right hand holding the sword of Wisdom, and left hand holding the stem of a five-color lotus that upholds "The Heart of Sublimation through Limitless-Oneness Compassion Sastra." He sits in the lotus posture. In the heart chakra of Manjusri there is a lotus, above which is a moon cushion, and a sun cushion atop. Standing upright at the center of this sun cushion is an orange seed word "Di." Evenly distributed around and above the circumference of the sun cushion are the six syllables that constitute the Heart Mantra of Bodhisattva Manjusri. All six words of this mantra wheel are orange in color and are arranged counterclockwise in their regular order.
OM A RA PA CA NA DHI

“Recite the Heart Mantra and simultaneously visualize that the mantra wheel in the heart chakra is spinning. The word Dhi at the center remains still. The mantra wheel spins clockwise with ever increasing speed. After a long while of spinning, the mantra wheel gradually slows down until it comes to a complete stop. As the mantra wheel spins, it simultaneously emits waves of orange light spreading in all directions throughout the whole Dharmadhatu. With each wave of orange light countless numbers of Bodhisattva Manjusri are sent forth. These Manjusris surf the waves of light to all corners of the Dharmadhatu in order to salvage all sorts of sentient beings.”

The meaning of the mantra OM A RA PA CA NA DHI is given as follows:

OM is universal praise.
A is a door to the insight that all dharmas are unproduced from the very beginning (adya-anutpannatvad);
RA is a door to the insight that all dharmas are without dirt (rajas);
PA is a door to the insight that all dharmas have been expounded in the ultimate sense (paramartha);
CA is a door to the insight that the decrease (cyavana) or rebirth of any dharma cannot be apprehended, because all dharmas do not decrease, nor are they reborn;
NA is a door to the insight that the names [i.e. nama] of all dharmas have vanished; the essential nature behind names cannot be gained or lost.
DHI is the seed syllable of awareness .

There are also longer mantras . . .
( In Sanskrit, from Manjusri Namasamgiti )

"A a: sarvatathagata hrdayam
hara hara om hum hri:
bhagavan jnanamurti
vagishvara mahapacha
sarvadharma gaganamala
suparishuddha dharmadhatu
jnanagarbha a:"

( The same mantra, translated. )

"A a: – the heart of all the Thusly Gone,
Take out, take out – om hum hri:
Vanquishing master surpassing all, embodied deep awareness,
Powerful lord of speech, the great one who ripens,
The complete total purity of all the existents, stainless like space,
Womb of deep awareness of the sphere of reality – a:"

RESOURCES
1 Free downloadable ( pdf format ) Manjusri practice in the Sakya tradition of Indo-Tibetan vajrayana:
ewamchoden.org/texts/Manjushri_orange.pdf

2 Sanskrit written form of the mantra
http://visiblemantra.org/manjusri.html

3 HH the Dalai Lama teaching on Wisdom and Manjusri Practice
http://www.lamayeshe.com/otherteachers/hhdl/manjushri/manjushri_4.shtml

4 A Brief Practice of Manjushri Jnana Sattva Called the "Wisdom of Light":
http://www.garchen.net/GBI-Shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=4_26&products_id=268

5 Primary Scriptural Reference
“Chanting The Names of Manjusri: The Manjusri Nama-Samgiti”
Translated by Alex Wayman, with extensive commentary.

The book is available from Snow Lion ( www.snowlionpub.com ), item # CHNAMA.

Basic translation available online at www.berzinarchives.com, under
A Concert of Names of Manjushri
('Jam-dpal mtshan-brjod, Skt. Manjushri-namasamgiti)
N.B. The recitation of the phonetic Sanskrit for this text is itself the most extensive mantra for Manjusri.

6 A Manjusri music video on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFN0l-O2Pe0&feature=related

7 Manjusri mantra compact disc:
http://www.namsebangdzo.com/Mantra_of_Manjushri_CD_p/13696.htm

8 “Manjushri and Sarasvati Series” A set of Translations from Lotsawa Househttp://www.lotsawahouse.org/manjushri.html
For example, Manjusri Praise Commentary
From Lotsawa House( which retains copyright ):

A Few Remarks
—An Explanation of the Praise to Noble Mañjushri
known as The Splendour of Wisdom’s Excellent Qualities
by Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo

Namo guru mañjughoshaya!

This explanation of the praise of The Splendour of Wisdom’s Excellent Qualities has five parts: (i) author, (ii) title of the work, (iii) translator’s homage, (iv) actual main part and (v) conclusion.

I. The Author

Here, some scholars claim that this text was written by Acharya Vajrashastra [1]. Others have said that in the past, in the noble land of India, five hundred panditas were asked [by their abbot] to compose a praise to Mañjushri, and when they did so, Mañjughosha blessed them so that all their praises turned out exactly the same, and they felt confident that this must have come about through Mañjushri’s blessings. It is said that the name of the praise too was taken from the name of their abbot: Shri Jñana Gunaphala.

In any case, the author was someone in whom we can have confidence.

II. The Title

In the divine Sanskrit language of the noble land of India the title is shri jñana guna phala namastuti. In Tibetan this becomes dpal ye shes yon tan bzang po zhes bya ba’i bstod pa.

III. The Translator’s Homage

“I prostrate to the transcendent and accomplished conqueror, the Glorious Gentle-Voiced Lord.” This is the translator’s homage, made before undertaking the work of translation, for the particular purpose of ensuring its accomplishment.

IV. The Actual Main Part

In this, there are two sections: (1) the actual praise and (2) the benefits.

1. The Actual Praise

The first section has three parts: praises to (i) enlightened mind, (ii) enlightened speech and (iii) enlightened body.

i. The Enlightened Mind

Here there is a praise of wisdom and a praise of love.

Praise of Wisdom
Your wise intelligence, O youthful Mañjushri, father of all the victorious buddhas, has thoroughly overcome the darkness of the two kinds of obscuration which are to be abandoned, both emotional ones which are the roots of desire and so on, and cognitive ones which are the roots of confused dualistic perceptions.

How is this? That too is here explained. Imagine the sun free from the obscuring veils of dusty haze and clouds; like this, your wisdom, when it discerns all dharmas, is utterly purified of those stains of delusion that obscure our true nature, and it is brilliant with the light of wisdom that penetrates all knowable things. How this wisdom perceives its objects is also explained. It says that you perceive the whole of reality, everything that exists, all dharmas—even the most subtle—included within ‘thorough affliction’ and ‘total purification’ from visual forms up until omniscience, and you see them directly and nakedly, exactly as they are, clearly discerning their essence and their distinctive characteristics.

At your heart, you hold a book of the prajñaparamita, the complete teachings on the profound and vast graduated paths of the bodhisattvas, in order to symbolize the fact that—as stated above—you possess the twofold wisdom that knows all things exactly as they are.

Praise of Love
All sentient beings without such lasting qualities are trapped in the prison of samsara—from the peak of existence down to the lowest hell of Avichi—where the three doors of their body, speech and mind are shrouded in the thick darkness of ignorance, as they cling to concepts of “I” and “mine”. For all these beings without exception who are, as a consequence, tormented by the three kinds of suffering, you possess a deep, caring compassion. This is illustrated by an example; just like the mother of an only child who loves him or her so tenderly, you, Mañjughosha, have the loving and unbiased wish to rescue from suffering each and every sentient being, who is currently tormented by frustration and pain.

ii. Enlightened Speech

Inspired by this great affectionate love, and seeing the way things are, in order to establish all beings in the highest possible state of attainment, you speak and thereby clearly reveal what should be adopted and what should be abandoned, in a single voice that nevertheless has the sixty melodious tones of Brahma’s speech. ‘What is its function?’ you might ask. When the dragon of thunder lets out his mighty roar, it rouses all other beings from their sleep. Similarly when you speak with the voice that possesses these special qualities, and the beings to be guided hear the great roar of the 84,000 sections of the Dharma thundering in their ears, it rouses them all from the heavy slumber of their disturbing emotions, and breaks through the tight chains of defiling karma, which cast them into samsara, perpetuate it and keep them bound within it.

In order that you might inspire all beings to attain the state of liberation and omniscience, on your right you hold the sword of knowledge, the essence of all the buddhas’ wisdom, which also has its symbolic meaning. On the basis of the wisdom and loving compassion described above, with your enlightened activity of speech, you dispel the darkness of ignorance, in which beings cling to “I” and “mine” and are thus prevented from seeing reality. Since in the process you cut through all the fresh shoots of suffering, such as birth, old age, sickness and death, that develop out of ignorance, you hold the sword of wisdom, symbolizing that this happens cleanly and unobstructedly.

iii. Enlightened Body

In definitive terms, Mañjushri, you are now, and from the very beginning you have always been, a genuine buddha, in whom all the qualities of abandonment and realization are totally perfected, because you completely traversed all ten bhumis, such as the Joyous and so on, and purified the two obscurations, together with any latent habitual tendencies, many incalculable aeons ago. Nevertheless, from a merely provisional perspective, you appear as the foremost of all the bodhisattvas, and demonstrate the means of training as a bodhisattva in the presence of all the victorious ones and their heirs throughout the ten directions.

Moreover, from the perspective of the mantrayana, there is no doubt whatsoever that you, Mañjushri, are a buddha. In fact, this is even stated in the sutras. In the Sutra of the Array of Mañjushri’s Pure Land, for example, it says you have completed the ten bhumis. And in two other sutras—the Surangama-samadhi Sutra and the Angulimala Sutra—you are clearly referred to as a buddha.

Your enlightened form is adorned with the ten times ten plus twelve—which is to say one hundred and twelve—major and minor marks.

Given that you, Mañjughosha, the “Gentle-voiced,” are in possession of these qualities of enlightened body, speech, mind and activity in their entirety, we prostrate in homage before you, showing the greatest respect with our own body, speech and mind, and pray that you may dispel all the darkness from our own minds, and, more generally, from the minds of all living creatures.

2. Benefits

Here there are two categories: the benefits of reciting this for a certain length of time and the benefits of reciting it continuously.

i. Benefits of Reciting for a Certain Time

As regards the benefits to be gained from reciting this, the king of praises, for a certain period of time, someone with faith and diligence, who recites this praise with a pure, altruistic motivation that is untainted by hypocrisy, and who is intent upon complete enlightenment for the sake of others, will receive benefits according to the number of recitations. As they recite the praise once, seven times, twenty-one times, or even a hundred or a thousand times each day for a month or a year or whatever period, they will gain increasing qualities, such as the purification of their obscurations. By reciting it once in this way, the obscurations that obstruct the arising of enlightened qualities will be slightly purified, and they will engage in the four close applications of mindfulness. By reciting it seven times, they will gain the ability to retain the Dharma precisely as they have heard it, which is the direct cause for developing enlightened qualities. By reciting it twenty-one times, they will develop courageous eloquence—that is, the unobstructed intelligence that is the context for enlightened qualities—and thereby apply the diligence of the four correct endeavours. With a hundred recitations, in order that their qualities might be brought to completion, they will gain the power of total recall, so that whatever learning and courageous eloquence they have already gained will never be lost, and they will achieve the samadhi of the four miraculous limbs. Through a thousand recitations, they will gain, as the function of your enlightened qualities, the power of wisdom that enables one to defeat opponents in debate.

Thus it continues, so that if you are able to recite more than a thousand repetitions, you will gain the strength of wisdom, at which point your wisdom will become capable of withstanding challenges from opponents and any other circumstances. This serves to illustrate that you will gain the immeasurable qualities of the paths of training, such as the other powers and strengths (meaning faith and so on), the seven branches of enlightenment, and the eightfold noble path, as well as the qualities of the path of no-more-training.

ii. Benefits of Reciting it Continuously

Beyond this, it will be explained how benefits arise from reciting the praise continuously. Someone whose mindstream has been purified through faith, diligence and two-fold bodhichitta, who recites the praise three times a day throughout their lives will come to possess all the qualities mentioned above. Upon the foundation of ultimate bodhichitta, meditating on shunyata (the aspect of wisdom) becomes the direct cause, and compassion (the aspect of skilful means) becomes the contributing condition, for completing the five paths. Then, upon the foundation of relative bodhichitta, skilful means and compassion become the direct cause, and wisdom and shunyata the contributing condition, for reaching the ten bhumis.

As the paths and bhumis are gradually traversed in this manner, the qualities of abandonment and realization grow proportionately greater, and one swiftly arrives at the ‘citadel’ wherein all knowable things are understood with perfect wisdom. At the culmination of the paths, one actualizes the dharmakaya for one’s own benefit. At the culmination of the bhumis, one benefits others through the two form kayas, and, like a great captain, performs the enlightened activity of liberating all beings not only from the crippling sufferings of samsaric existence but also their causes, continuously, for as long as space remains.

V. Conclusion

Here there are three sections: the author’s colophon, the translator’s colophon, and inspiring delight by means of an incidental history. The first of these, which begins “The Splendour of Wisdom’s Excellent Qualities . . .”, the second which begins “the holy translator(s)…”, and the third which begins with “Acharya Dignaga and…” are easy to understand.

The unfathomable benefits and blessings of this king of praises have always been evident, and remain clear even up to the present day. Having first received the transmission for focusing your awareness [2] from a teacher belonging to the lineage, exert yourself in the practice with one-pointed faith and diligence.
Written by Mañjughosha simply as a note to aid his own and others’ memory.
Sarva sata hitobhawatu.
Translated by Adam with the kind help of Lama Chökyi Nyima.

To which K T adds in dedication,
SARVA MANGALAM! SIDDHI RASTU!
May All Beings Benefit! May there be accomplishment!

[ End article ]

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Hi everyone! Just wanted to get the word out....

2008-05-10T05:57:25Z

Finally there is a dating site that caters to people who practice afro-Caribbean religions. It is completely free and also very new, so we are just trying to get the word out. If you know anyone single please pass it along. thanks.

http://lucumiluv.ning.com/

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clumsy telekinetic?

2008-05-08T00:35:07Z

growing up was a strange experience for me. strange things happening all the time all around me. my whole family experienced it, and can validate it. when i was a little kid i would pretend i could make the wind blow or make it rain. ghost stories out the whazoo.....stuff like that.

i don't want to say too much cause you'll all think i'm a quack.....i'm not. i live a fully functional life. but all these things faded away as i grew older. i guess my situations forced me to devote my energy to more practicle things.

lately, though when i reach for a door, or a pen...it roles toward me. i walked through the room and the broom slid over and fell into my hand as i was passing it by. light bulbs blow out on me consistantly at work and home. computer/cash registers malfunction at the grocery store.....several times in the last few weeks i'll look at somebody right before they stumble or something.....

i dunno. what's the point of telekinesis if all it's all clumsy?

micah

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do you belive in destiny? my personal revelation...

2008-05-05T23:59:12Z

so ive never been one to EVER believe in destiny or a pre-determined fate. free will is one of the little freedoms we as souls have. i still believe in free will but a free will that has already been written..if that makes any sense..

ive had one too many precog dreams to deny the fact that our path is already paved we just have to walk it. i hate that i know this, but i do so ive been getting to deal with it. i in fact enjoy knowing that everything thats supposed to happen...will happen. when i sleep i dream and sometimes when i dream i catch a glimpse into my life, my life that hasnt happened yet. ive been struggling with this idea and oddly feel at ease.

some examples...

the biggest has to be the dream i had about a car rolling down a driveway into oncoming traffic and me and my friend having to pull the e-brake to stop it...i woke up and this happened to me in less than ten minutes...the accident had it happened could have been fatal.

ive had dreams (many dreams) about pictures on the moon. just today i saw a billboard that said "Moon-vertising coming sooon!" and it had a picture of a large lazer light that i guess will put an ad on the moon.

other dreams more subtle..like having a dream with a certain actress or actor i would never think of then the next day find myself unknowingly sitting infront of the tv with their movie playing.

it happened to my little sister too. i was longboarding with little brother who had a shortboard and my sis who had rollerblades. my brother and i switched boards for a bit, i said "wow im not used to this im used to havin g abigger board" my sister told me she had dreamt that exact moment to the T...my words, all three of us skating.

so what have i learned? ive learned to simply smile throughout life. everything that my life is supposed to be..will. it comforts me during stressfull times and makes me laugh during times i probably shouldnt be....

what do you think?
feedback please

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new, related tribe - Positive Thinking (cross post)

2008-04-23T06:40:50Z

Hey there, I thought that maybe some of you would be interested in this new tribe : D
Please fell free join us and add your thoughts, energies and wisdome!
Hope to see you there,
with love and thanks!
~Stephanie

tribes.tribe.net/positivethinking

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anger blocking abilities??

2008-04-15T06:51:40Z

a friend of mine mentioned today that maybe my anger is blocking my abilities. This makes a lot of sense to me, as when I get upset about something I cannot work at all, and the idea of carrying around anger constantly blocking my natural abilities sounds dead-on.

So...how do you let go of anger, when a situation isn't going to change? I'm dealing with a lot of passive aggressive people and my partner does not back me up the way he should, he'll say one thing then cave when the meddling relatives ask for something we expressly agreed we wouldn't allow, for example. We also seem to have many discussions about house rules, but he bends them for his daughter while expecting everyone else to do as agreed. It would be so simple to just say NO and stick to it, but he doesn't.

Other than being pissed about it, what do I do to just not care about whether or not he does what he promises? It's so tempting to do the same thing in return, but that's just going to continue the cycle and confuse our children more. Is my only option to give up and leave, or put up with it and somehow find a way not to notice? I'm getting mad just thinking about it.

:(

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psychic confindence

2008-04-15T02:28:54Z

I was listening to the radio the other day and they where giving away free tickets to caller 76. I called in a couple times and realized i still had about 50 some callers ahead of me. So i stopped calling and waited. I waited untill the moment felt right. I even remember thinking at that exact moment "call it in when you absolutley feel its right, not a second sooner, not a second later" so i waited with the phone in my hand and my finger on the send button. suddenly a feeling rushed to me, not right away but gradually, as if it was a drum roll building up. i remember waiting till the last possible split second once this feeling hit me. i called and won the tickets. the strange part is not that i won the tickets, rather the confidence i had KNOWING i was going to win the tickets that really got me thinking

feedback always welcome

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ghostly visitor number 3

2008-04-12T18:39:33Z

i was having a dream about trying to call upon a spirit. the whole mood of the dream was kind of creepy. i knew there was a spirit in my house for some reason. i was half asleep half awake. i felt someone sitting to my left on my bed (like i have before). the living room is to my left beyond my bedroon walll and in the dream that is where we were trying to call upon the spirit, it was actually right next a cross we have hanging up in the living room. now me ive never been one to understand how jesus relates to the spirit world because there were spirtis even before jesus but anyway i felt a strong connection to this cross...its old and possibly had a previous owner..anyway i woke up from the dream and was in a state of paralysis. i knew there was someone or something next to me on my left. with the tiny bit of energy i said, "do you have a soul?" i dont know where that came from it just did. the second after i said that i was thrust back into a dreamy paralysis which frightened me. i tried to shake myself out of it but before i did i heard a woman's voice speak into my left ear, "go back to sleep". she was calm but a stern tone to her voice the time was 5:55 am about the same time i had another ghostly encounter. about a year ago i had a similar experience with a woman telling me somethng very urgent while i was in this state of sleep paralysis. i feel now that i know what feelings to look for these spirits seem to be visisting more and more ofter...im about to take a nap - let you know how that goes...

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Is there a connection between empathy and mass hypnosis?

2008-04-05T18:43:50Z

I've read a lot that contains the term empathic. I thought for awhile I might be empathic but probably not as severe as some people. One time I got a cut in my finger and had to take a break in moving a piece of furniture. I said "ouch, I don't want to bleed on this wood". Someone started crying in a weird way. My pain was more than it should have been. Later, I noticed I had no injury or mark on my hand. It was a weird night. But back to the question, can the empathy thing turn into a collective brain? Where, things start flying around to complete any will?

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The Warrioir Within

2008-04-02T15:20:06Z

http://eventful.com/events/E0-001-010005707-7@2008041911

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need help with Description of "reading a Rose"

2008-04-01T04:36:04Z

Can anyone tell me what each part of reading a rose means?
Example:
1. The suns relationship to a rose, in alignment means? Off to the right can mean?
2. The rose body
3. The condition of the rose hip
4. The stem
5. The leaves

Thanks for your help!
Suzara

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psst...i ask for help reading a situation

2008-03-31T03:08:18Z

privately...
please pm me if you would like to participate.
i would send LOTS of Gratitude and Love to you if you do!

: )

Bless.

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