wow what can i say....last night i meet her again.
the wonderfull feminine energy of ayahuasca!
it was my fouth time i got to go to the other side.
This is a very popular ceremony where I live. Years ago, I tried DMT the active ingredient in Aya. An extremely powerful experience but just that, an experience. The people I speak to who use it regularly are like religious zealots, full of ego and thinking they are superior beings (there is a cloak of love and humility but hang around 'em for a while).
I see Aya as another "short cut" to enlightenment, or using a less new age term, maturity. You gotta do the hard yards....
a nuclear reactor is built in such a way, that when operating normally, you take out all the moderator rods.
so if these radioactive materials are released into the environment, yes, radioactivity was released, but no, it is not dangerous, at all.
when the uranium splits, it generates a neutron (see above).
Thankyou for the layman's version of the facts. I had a basic knowledge of what was happening due to reading the report on 3 Mile Island partial meltdown many years ago. That is why I realised the outer contaiment area was filling with potentially explosive gases and was wondering if it would blow. I think Japan has much greater worries than a complete meltdown, with it snowing and aparrantly no food or fresh water available in many areas. Poor buggers....
first of all, i have severe arachnophobia.
rationally, i know most spiders are harmless, but something takes over my brain and my body when i see one........i totally freak out, i can't help it.
they are little pieces of death, wrapped in scarey...... .
first of all, i have severe arachnophobia.
rationally, i know most spiders are harmless, but something takes over my brain and my body when i see one........i totally freak out, i can't help it.
they are little pieces of death, wrapped in scarey...... .
Australia has the funnel web spider, which to me is the ultimate nightmare. It will not back off when confronted but will rear up ready to attack It can kill in 3 minutes. Also we have the taipan and the eastern brown snake both highly toxic and both living in my area. Actually one day walking along a bush track(and admittedly reading as well!!), I got that hair rising on the back of the neck feeling. I looked up and was confronted by a massive brown snake reared up to my own height! It had to be 10 to 12 feet long and thick as my upper arm. He/she was a confident old bugger and held its ground as I slowly backed away...I now carry a stick when walking in thick bush (and sometimes a Bowie knife).
i've read some random articles of late and have found a recurring factor which could well be answered effectively by many of the posters here.
basically the notion relates to what makes one vulnerable to indoctrination into a high-control religious cult and goes lke this .
while most, if not all humans seek group approval and association to some degree .
speaking hypothetically, a elder can not except the logic on the.
new understanding of the doctrine change (over lapping generation).. he voice his concern to his wife, she being a good jw , tell the elders.. the brother have not spoke to anyone in the cong.
about his doubt.. the elders question him, he remains firm, he tell the brothers, i have.
This basically happened to me when the "generation" shifted in the late 90's. I voiced my concerns (to the elders privately) that there had been a 180 degree turn in belief. I received a visit from two elders. I showed them the new belief in the wt, then highlighted articles from the jw CD. The turning point was when the older respected (by me) elder gave no argument but said "You better be careful.You are sounding like an apostate." I left and I assume was df for apostacy (I don't know, as I refused to speak to them after that disappointment). I wonder if he thought of me when the wt article came out a year or so later, confirming my research...
don't get me wrong, it does suck.
but after being on ex-jw boards for years, and being df'ed for almost 10; i do see some hidden blessings.. first, you do not have to struggle with fading successfully.
you are just out; the cord has been cut.
if it becomes obvious to strangers on an internet message board that you should get therapy/counseling:.
my wife and i are in therapy both separately and together.
we're not crazy; we're getting help talking through issues we've never had to face before from a professional who knows how to talk us through things.
When I comment on the site, I attempt to be as honest as possible.
For me personally, I find therapy/counselling ineffective. Yes, I have attempted numerous times, actually I am trained in basic therapy myself. Part of my employment is compulsory monthly supervision with a psychologist, due to the high level of challenges. I do this out of fulfilling my work contract rather than personal insight.
My exwife has her masters in psychology and has gained great benefit from therapy. I have realised, due to my jw background, that I have little trust in others, so need to find my "answers" through personal self analysis and experience. It has been a terrifying, sometimes boring, sometimes profound journey in to the inner. Sometimes, I thought I was crazy, sometimes enlightened (LOL) but ultimately, I am satisfied with myself and am a very functional employee.
does anybody try to analyze their dreams using the freudian or jungian interpretation method.i am doing a paper for class on dream analysis and was just wondering.does anybody try to figure out their dreams.. thanks.
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As noted previously, I respect CG Jung but I am very careful when reading later "Jungian" theory, where there is endless possibilities of what Jung was trying to say. Imo dreams can be the unconscious emptying the daily garbage picked up without realising, can be brought on by rich food(!) but very occassionally can be profound. I have powerful, colourful dreams (may be my diet?!). Last week in a dream a man spoke to me and said "jungfrau". Much research ensued. Anyone who knows of CGJ will understand the importance of that word.
i'm thinking he traveled east and learned the wisdom of the orient.
no way the watchtower line about him being a carpenter's assistant all that time is possibly true.
he was way too learned about the ways of people to not have been educated and his ideas seem very eastern to me.. anyone got any good books, articles, blogs, websites on the topic?.
I had a Gnostic book printed in the early twentieth century (that I sadly loaned out and never received back), that argued the maggi who saw christ as the messiah at his birth would have continued watching over his development. The author argued that the maggi paid for Joseph, Mary and the children to go to Egypt in exile (how else could they afford it?), then took jesus to India and the far east to gain the knowledge fitting of a world king. As I recall, it was believed that he survived crucifiction and returned to north India where he lived out his long life.
A very romantic tale with no evidence like the bible stories.