this is work in progress or homilies or miscellaneous items
that don't warrant a page by themselves
or seem to fit better here
pending poems index
chronological order is from the bottom to the top of the page
audio files can be complemented by listening to them with the eyes closed !
check out the full screen image of
along the nile : o )(
prince grigory
potemkin died from gorging on meat when his bronchial pneumonia became fatal with the iron influx from the meat !
a lover of and later
ménage à troisist with the empress catherine
he was an interesting man and a leading force in the creation/extension of the russian empire !
“ there's not one instance in recorded history when two men faced off and drew guns against one another other !
the movies created fast draw, it never happened in real life !
how did bill
hickok die? he was shot in the back, they all died that way ! ”
bob mundenspeaks very
rapidly , you can see how how he might be so quick ! :o)(
bill hickok was involved in one duel but it was the traditional sideways duelling stance with not really what you would call a quick draw !
jackie evancho (aged 9) singing “o mio babbino caro”
now this is how to
live :o)(
a correspondent writes
Hi Andrew,
I came across your website yesterday and I read with avid interest your views on heavy metal
chelation ! Wow ! I've been up half the night thinking about it.
Without going into a massively dull and boring history of how I came to be ill, I have reason to suspect lead & mercury toxicity for myself, although the results of a hair test only showed slightly elevated lead levels ie no mercury (although that's not unusual).
Several GP's have been unhelpful and unable to tie my symptoms together. I have therefore relied on my own research to identify the cause of my symptoms. This has taken me into the world of heavy detox where chelation is deemed the only way to treat any form of heavy metal toxicity.
I had my amalgams safely removed back in march, by a holistic dentist. I was really ill at the time. Since then I have made good progress and have dabbled with chelation which has usually seen me packed off back to bed for periods of up to 2 weeks, unable to get out again.
I'm not a fan of chelation but found no evidence to the contrary until I came across your site yesterday. Chelation, it seems, is the unchallenged treatment of choice? I'm also a member of a Mercury Detox group on Facebook which follows the Andrew Hall Cutler frequent dose chelation protocol. Funnily enough, all the members support chelation but nobody seems to be getting any better. There don't seem to be any success stories flying around to motivate the others? Most members are either doing chelation or waiting to have their amalgams removed. Everyone is ill!
What I noticed about this chelation protocol is that you have to buy the Andrew Cutler book to start off with and at £40+, it's not cheap (although I did find a pdf on the internet). Then there are the huge amount of supplements to buy and you can end up buying a whole new cupboard to house them in. I store mine in the fridge and I looked at them the other day and thought to myself, "some fucker's making a lot of money out of me" lol! This seems to be an industry all on it's own and that makes me suspicious!
Another thing about Cutler is that I don't trust him. I found out that he issued a take down notice on a website that was promoting his book and using excerpts of it to do so. Such a move makes you question his motives for doing so?
I'm a great believer in nutrition and I'd designed my own program incorporating steam baths combined with mineral nutritional replacement. This seems to work well but if I introduce a chelator, I crash again.
Well, no more chelating for me. I agree with you Andrew that the only way to treat heavy metal toxicity is to let nature take it's course and wait for the minerals and heavy metals to be replaced naturally. Using chelators to claw out minerals is madness and always will cause a range of accompanying problems. I don't think I've suffered any permanent damage but I will consider using cannabis oil at some point over the next few years to aid neuron regrowth if required. I'm hoping this might help.
Anyway, thanks for putting this information out there. I can't believe it's taken me so long to find an alternative view of chelation and one that I whole heartedly agree with.
If you have any tips / links to other info sites re: chelation / nutrition then please share. I'd also like to know more about the compendium....
Thanks
my
reply
I think andy cutler is well intentioned/sincere but misguided, tho he has been a disaster area for people !
I have a supplement and dietary program
here you might be interested in
and a message board you would be
welcome to join
OCCUPIED
oh fickle poem
why haunt me so
bitch
just let go
I have no time
you win the war
I shut and bar
the door
my reply
but still I creep in ........ :o)
under the floor.... ! :o)
eileen replies
Lol I bar the door against people not the poems...;o)
don't be so sure you are right, you may not be ! : o()
don't be so sure you are right, you may not be: o()
don't be so sure you are right, you may not be ! : o) :o(
don't be so sure you are right, you may not be
a good
insight into the modelling world !
her “ models on phones ”
photos
from the article there's some outstanding things, she drinks too much, is on anti-depressants and has acne implying some sort of impaired immune response, perhaps some degree of irritable bowel syndrome
in typical american fashion the huge factor of the level of neural decline associated with the need to be on anti-depressants is ignored
no doubt she keeps out of the sun as well
suidide by 55 i'd say...............
the advice i'd have to offer is
this , but it's as certain as the sun rising tomorrow that it will be ignored ! :o()
the other big thing is a strong degree of autism which can be very disguised in women, again not wanted to be thought about ! :o(
i've got to hand it to miscavige, he has
destroyed scientology in a way no-one else could, thank god, otherwise it would have been a main stream religion by now : o ( )
i
cannot
for
the
life
of
me
see
the
attraction
the
belief
system is insane and
hmmm... ramana was quite strongly gender blurred, look at the size of those
breasts (0:36) , naturally high levels of estrogen, not just a loss of testosterone with age !
i'd say he was suspicious of being poisoned (2:27) , which would be a realistic worry, the indian guru scene being what it is ! ?
i always found it odd that no attempt was made on the life of u. g. krishnamurti... too ugly :o)( ?
lisa , the basic point is you claim the authenticity of ramana as your own, yet you behave in a narrow way that he didn't, you endlessly delete what conflicts you or your followers from the pap and blinkered blindness that you and they apparently think is “truth”
if
you
are
real
leave
this up !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
if a thing is so, you can simply leave it as “what is” and let it rest in its own “beingness” ............ :o)
if it's not so, some few well chosen words will suffice and if you don't have them then “what is” will provide, or are you uncertain of that?
the brick wall you face is of your own building ! :o()
i think the truth is that what is really beautiful comes out of what is completely broken !
i think the truth is that what is really beautiful comes out of what is completely broken
i think the truth is that what is really beautiful comes out of what is completely broken
the endless nights of a full moon, white silver brocades that go on forever
the endless nights of a full moon, white silver brocades that go on forever
the endless nights of a full moon
white silver brocades that go on forever
the endless night of a full moon, white silver brocades that go on forever
the endless night of a full moon
white silver brocades that go on forever
my god a reply on lisa cairns facebook
page , an angry mouse roars !
juana hidalgo writes
I´m sure he
wouldn't , Andrew Levin, because he (ed. ramana) didn't have a computer. But I'm also sure that if you had written only one of your bullying messages on his ashram walls - like you ve been doing on Lisa´s-, you would've been kindly asked to hit the road.
my
reply
hi Juana, please point out what is bullying ?
you are making a claim without arguing the point, is that because you are unable to make a point ?
ramana in fact once when a pamphlet was printed outlining some faults of his said they should have asked him because he had plenty more to put in that book !
why not be less sure and start to deal with the issues raised, some closed unreal world protected by censorship is surely opposite to what this is about?
one of the few instances I know of ramana coercing is telling papaji (h.w.l. poonja) to go and save his wife and children living in lyallpur/faisalabad during the pakistan partition which was pretty violent !
hwl poonja was very reluctant to go and I have strong reservations about him (poonja) and the bandwagon that grew up around him !
ramana was notoriously non interfering with his devotees which brought him quite abit of criticism..........!
I suppose devotees in those pre-computer times are pretty much the same as web life, all talk no action and when the talk is shown as vacant............. well then the sticks come out !
if you know a subject you should be competent and able to argue effectively, why end up like the millions whose only action is to slide into a cheap anti-intellectualism..............
my
reply to this blog
entry by kogen
you self medicate with marijuana to get to sleep?
that's a valid use imo but there are better and less brain stuffing ways to do
it but you have no interest in coming out of your psychosis !
your “career” in zen is an illusion but you are inflexible to the point of mental illness I am afraid :o()
andrew llyod webber, that arch creator of substitutive realities, only married
three times !
mia farrow, her child ronan fathered by frank sinatra while in a relationship with woody allen, woody allen's marriage to his step daughter soon-yi Previn, paul hogan now divorced three times, twice from his first wife, and latterly from his 19 year younger co star of crocidile dundee fame linda kozlowski........... to say nothing of andré previn marrying and divorcing FIVE TIMES !!!
these flapping moths in
the
flickering
flame
.
.
.
:
o
)
mia farrow, her child ronan fathered by frank sinatra while in a relationship with woody allen, woody allen's marriage to his step daughter soon-yi Previn, paul hogan now divorced three times, twice from his first wife, and latterly from his 19 year younger co star of crocidile dundee fame linda kozlowski........... to say nothing of andré previn marrying and divorcing FIVE TIMES !!!
these flapping moths in
the
flickering
flame
.
.
umi redwalla quotes Saint Hildegard of Bingen - (1098-1179)
“ ...I, the highest and fiery power, have kindled every spark of life...I, the fiery life of divine essence, blaze in the beauty of the fields, am aflame beyond the beauty of the meadows, I gleam in the waters, and I burn in the sun, moon, and stars. With every breeze, as with invisible life that contains everything, I awaken everything to life. The air lives by turning green and being in bloom. The waters flow as if they were alive.... I am also Reason, having the wind of the sounding Word by which all things were created, and I breathe in them all, so that none may die, because I am Life... ”
my reply
good quote umi, it's a pity that neo advaita and non-duality seem to ignore this ultimate expression, pissing around with their inverted partial expressions the way they do !:o()
I have re-expressed the last line as “ I breathe in them all, so eternity may be ............. ”
my comment to lisa cairns who seems unable to cope with some of my comments on her facebook page and deletes them, this claimant to the heirdom of ramana ! :o(
would ramana delete comments that you don't like the way you do ? one can pretend but at a certain point, the pretence fails and we get locked into something sick and erroneous ! :o()
fred writes/masturbates
seeing the nature
of the practice of nothing
the wind in the leaves
mark foote writes/ jerks off fred !
the wind in the leaves
rustles and stirs, then settles
the sky opens wide
my
reply
the monkeys scratch their armpits and prance, aping what they cannot do
their
poems
crash
:
o
(
fred writes/masturbates
seeing the nature
of the practice of nothing
the wind in the leaves
mark foote writes/ jerks off fred !
the wind in the leaves
rustles and stirs, then settles
the sky opens wide
my
reply
the monkeys scratch their armpits and prance/dance, aping what they cannot do
their
poetry
it's
what
we
do
that
takes
our
lives
in
different
directions !
|
'
it's
what
we
do
that
takes
our
lives
in
different
directions !
|
'
it's what we
do
that
takes
our
lives
in
different
directions !
|
'
death
when
we
cease
everything
that
was
and
is
and
will
be
and
has
been
|
|
'
'
will
be
for
ever
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|
'
a
nd
never
and
cease
and
will
be
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|
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for
|
|
'
N
e
V
e
death
when
we
cease
everything
that
was
and
is
and
will
be
and
has
been
|
|
'
'
will
be
for
ever
|
|
|
'
a
nd
never
and
cease
and
will
be
|
|
|
for
|
|
'
N
e
V
e
death
when
we
cease
everything
that
was
and
is
and
will
be
and
has
sleep problems, poor quality
sleep and short sleeping times are a disease state and damage (
I II ) the brain ! :o(
“everything is meaningless” isn't that (also also? also also()?) a form of meaning ?
the neo-advaita/non-duality/toni parsons/lisa cairns paradigm of saying “everything is meaningless” isn't that (also also? also also()?) a form of meaning ?
dave st. germain quotes me and replies
“ avoid direct attack and try and untwist the bullshit is the best way ;o) ”
or just avoid it entirely. i've really got no need to stir that pot. easier to let them stew.
my
reply
correcting people is like a disease with me :o(
i must be a reincarnated pit bull, i can't let go...............
:
o
this
study says that BRCA mutation carriers also have higher levels of the female hormones oestradiol and progesterone contributing to the increased probability of breast and ovarian cancer !
so high natural levels of oestradiol and progesterone will be partly diagnostic of the BRCA mutations and similarly low natural levels would be diagnostic of not having the mutation !
it's a bit weird, can explain things like angelina jolie's maternal and mate stealing overdrive ! :o)(
interestingly in that study they say “ develop breast and ovarian cancer rather than other cancers ” which would seem to imply that higher estrogen and progesterone levels are protective against other forms of cancer !
michel foucault/ blanche monnier
update
dave st. germain writes
this is a fascinating
glimpse at how power, manipulation, and sex fantasies lead to confusion and ruin. philosophers are moths to a flame, too...
my reply
he's actually
saying that an investigation of conciousness is recursive which is a sorta zen point of view and deconstructive of philosophy, this would make him an anathema to university philosophy departments, they were only looking for a means to shoot him down which he obviously has provided :o()
young women want the intellect, but they also want the sex and ultimately the sex wins out, heidegger ran into the same trap, his wife had one of her children (
hermann ) by another man !!!!!!!!
--------------------
singed by the flame of the hardcore zen blog lol? you need to sharpen your technique to deal with that lot, they are not necessarily so stupid :o)
avoid direct attack and try and untwist the bullshit is the best way ;o)
humans the madness of endless breeding............
humans, the madness of endless breeding............
humans, the madness of endless breeding
humans the madness of endless breeding
klyuchevskaya sopka erupting december 2009, photo taken by denis
budkov
hi, are you a zen master
my
reply
“ As long as you remain in one extreme or the other, you will never know Oneness ”
zen masters and zen incompetents, where are they in that?
( ed. quote from the Hsin Hsin Ming,
verse two, lines 11 and 12 )
justin kucera replies
IS THAT A DHARMA THAT FACILITATES AWAKENING? WHO GAVE YOU TRANSMISSION
my
reply
the process of awakening is a long hard road and mostly self taught, people like you want some short cut which is why true understanding is so rare !
you can google for a blog called “ 7th
zen patriarch ”
which explains about me !
is the schema
correct or inverted ? rather than telling us something should an art work be the exploration itself of what might be or is?
in terms of film andrei tarkovsky is hard to go past, something rough or tumbled with moments of lyricism with an overall thematic that (slowly ?) shows itself :o)(()
my
reply to herb deer's
the essential teacher student relationship blog
post
you got more than lucky, women don't find it easy as they get older, I hope you return the care she has given you !
i felt in him what women feel in men, something so tender, swollen, tyrannical, absurd; i would never take the consequences of interfering with it
the above quote by alice munro, from “
lives of girls and women”
my
reply to herb deer's
buddha's in the mist blog
post
start fucking with the underworld and how long are you going to live ? not even a nice death, they torture as well :o()
read some charles bukowski, that will cure you of any notions of saving the world or being a bodhisattva :o()
the value of voluntary work is the actual doing it and not other people talking about it, but it's risky from a health and financial point of view, it's not that the world is better for this work, but that you have spent yourself in a more meaningful way than watching videos and listening to mp3 's ! : o )( !!!
you mention the middle class not having many health issues, but isn't there this huge and mordant undercurrent of health problems eating away at the quality of life gains in the last fifty years?
it's sorta sad to be helping people
there's
something
better
it's sorta sad to be helping people
there's
something
better
:
o
)
it's sorta sad to be helping people
there's
something
it's just a long slow process, somethings take 20 or thirty years to work out and somethings we never do work out !
:
o
)
it's just a long slow process, somethings take 20 or thirty years to work out and somethings we never do work out !
it's just a long slow process, somethings take 20 or thirty years to work out and somethings we never do work out !
it's a long slow process, somethings take 20 or thirty years to work out and somethings we never do work out !
it's a long slow process, somethings take 20 or thirty years to work out and somethings we never do work out !
it's a long slow process, somethings take 20 or thirty years to work out and somethings we never do work out ....
it's a long slow process, somethings take 20 or thirty years to work out and somethings we never do work out
i had alittle thought
that
appeared
and
disappeared
what was the thought?
“ i had a little thought... [....] ”
i had alittle thought
that
appeared
and
disappeared
what was the thought?
“ i had a little thought... [....] ”
:
o
)
i had alittle thought
that
appeared
and
disappeared
what was the thought?
“ i had a little thought... [....] ”
:
o
i had alittle thought
that
appeared
and
disappeared
what was the thought?
“ i had a little thought... [....] ”
:
o
i had alittle thought
that
appeared
and
disappeared
what was the thought?
“ i had a little thought... [....] ”
i had alittle thought
that
appeared
and
disappeared
what was the thought?
“ i had a little thought... [....] ”
i had alittle thought
that
appeared
and
disappeared
what was the thought?
“ i had a little thought... [....] ”
:
o
i had alittle thought
that
appeared
and
disappeared
what was the thought?
“ i had a little thought... [....] ”
people have a very limited ability to escape themselves
i should know
:
o
people have a very limited ability to escape themselves
i should know
:
o
)
people have a very limited ability to escape themselves
:
o
)
people have a very limited ability to escape themselves
:
o
)
i should know
:
o
people have a very limited ability to escape themselves :o)
i should know :o(
people have a very limited ability to escape themselves
i should know
people have a very limited ability to escape themselves
ok, you can start to see the
genius
of alice munroe !
diana athill at her
best :o)(
my reply to herb deer's
post posing some questions about zen that i address !
herb, everything is fucked up, why should religion be any different ! it's all a big cosmic joke, all these “compassionate” zen 'tards actually belonging to the religion responsible for propagandizing militarism and nationalism in ww2 japan which is why so many japanese zen priests ended up in the west following the discrediting of zen in post world ww2 japan, the authoritarianism and anti intellectualism of zen has its origins in being a vehicle to make troops obey orders and give their lives !
the chinese invasion of tibet could have been avoided if the dalai lama had displayed some political abilities, it's not his fault, he was just aboy plucked off his families farm, but tibet was ruled by idiots !
there is no context for “abusive teachers” because there's no right and wrong for this sort of thing, zen and religion is about fake substitutive realities which act as a disguise for primal human evolutionary motivations !
women seeking men with status and power (lol, they got that wrong for sure !), men seeking to inseminate without the burdens of matrimony :o)(
i think you would have seen more people of colour in zen except that zen has collapsed numerically and basically neo-advaita/nonduality is picking up the zen audience, just as wrong minded of course but i do think the “self appointed teacher” paradigm of neo-advaita/non-duality works better, it's really this ghastly transmission system in zen that seems to have ensured only very mediocre and incompetent teachers now represent zen !