American Mystic The Movie - Empire8 Productions Read Aura with Peripheral Vision and Eye Exercise Concentration exercise 2 This exercise aims to stimulate the communication between both hemispheres of the brain, thereby increasing the "processing power" needed to see Auras. Place the picture in Fig 2 about 1 meter in front of you. Stretch your hand forward so that one of your fingers is between and underneath circles. Change focus on the tip of your finger and overlook the circles. You should see 4 circles. Then aim to overlap the middle two to see ONE CIRCLE WITH A WHITE CROSS on top of your finger, in the middle between the two. This exercise turns out to be extremely beneficial: 5 minutes of it seems to double the size of the electro-photonic aura as recorded by bioelectrography. The cross will initially float and seem unstable. In my experience it is best to start with a minute or two and gradually increase the time every week. Gradually, with practice you should be able to achieve and maintain the cross without the finger. Colors and Auric Pairs
10 Words You Need to Stop Misspelling In Texas, young Hindus want to Americanize ancient faith By Dan Gilgoff, CNN.com Religion Editor Houston, Texas (CNN) – In many ways, 29-year-old Rishi Bhutada is a traditional Hindu, not so different from his Indian-born parents. An officer at his dad’s pipefitting company, Texas-born Bhutada had an arranged marriage in India three years ago and then brought his wife back to his hometown, where they recently welcomed a son. Bhutada is a strict vegetarian and avoids alcohol, as do many observant Hindus. Complete coverage: Defining America And the dashboard of his Toyota Prius is adorned with a small metal statue of Ganesh, an elephant-headed Hindu god known as the remover of obstacles. And yet Bhutada is a different kind of Hindu than his mom and dad. His parents were part of a major wave of Indians who arrived in the U.S. in the 1960s and ’70s and focused their religious lives on building a community of believers and temples around Houston, which was then a Hindu wilderness. Surprising origins of "Don't Mess with Texas" The U.S.
Heartless Bitches International - Collected Quotes "He's rude, controlling, abusive, misogynistic, disparaging and dismissive.... In all seriousness though, what a hideous lust object to mythologize. It'll be teaching all sorts of young girls that it's ROMANTIC to accept any sort of appalling treatment some brooding loser who treats you like dirt." -- The Morrigan, (describing the romantic lead in "Twilight") "...it's about writing a coherent application, not SAYING you're not beating around the bush when you are, in fact, grooming your own ornamental hedge." -- -Fabulana, reviewing and rejecting a membership application "In conclusion, I invite the media to all grow a pair. And if you can’t, I will lend you mine." -- Amy Poehler as Hilary Clinton on Saturday Night Live "Seriously, just how psychologically crippled do you have to be before shopping for shoes, the socks your husband left in the floor, coloring your hair, and what your neighbors think of you are the biggest things in your whole fucking world?" "I am a 911 dispatcher.
From Minister To Atheist: A Story Of Losing Faith hide captionTeresa MacBain walks her dog, Gracie, at a park near her Tallahassee, Fla., home. After a lifetime in the church, MacBain came out as an atheist at an American Atheists' convention in Bethesda, Md. Colin Hackley for NPR Teresa MacBain walks her dog, Gracie, at a park near her Tallahassee, Fla., home. After a lifetime in the church, MacBain came out as an atheist at an American Atheists' convention in Bethesda, Md. This is the first in a series of stories on losing faith. Teresa MacBain has a secret, one she's terrified to reveal. "I'm currently an active pastor and I'm also an atheist," she says. MacBain glances nervously around the room. Her secret is taking a toll, eating at her conscience as she goes about her pastoral duties week after week — two sermons every Sunday, singing hymns, praying for the sick when she doesn't believe in the God she's praying to. "On my way to church again. Courtesy of Teresa MacBain Finding Atheism For years, MacBain set her concerns aside.
Furry Fandom -- The Ultimate Guide The "canonical" answer to this question is that back in the 80's, a couple of furry conventions accidentally-on-purpose advertised in some fetish groups looking to fluff up attendance numbers, and the media lapped it up (because of course the media is going to run with the most shocking angle it can). The truth is, whether or not this was actually the case, the mainstream opinion would still have been the same. Honestly, people like having a moral panic to rally around. uch like D&D in the 80's and Anime in the 90's, Furry Fandom has been set aside as a something meant to be feared, fueled by claims of kinky fursuit sex, cartoon illustrations of every known fetish to man, and the odd freak who gets in the news every now and then who just "happens" to be a furry, much in the same way teen troublemakers just "happen" to be playing video games or listening to the wrong kind of music.
‘Free Will,’ by Sam Harris But the last half-century has seen this ancient subject pulled down from its academic perch and into courtrooms, laboratories, real-world questions about moral responsibility, and even popular culture. (It forms the plot of such contemporary movies as “Minority Report” and “The Adjustment Bureau.”) Over the last few decades, procedures for measuring, imaging and analyzing mental processes have grown in number and subtlety. During this same period, books for the general reader about the brain and its functions, consciousness and will, thought and reasoning have proliferated. We have Daniel Dennett, Steven Pinker, Richard Dawkins, Cordelia Fine, Oliver Sacks, Michael Gazzaniga, Daniel Kahneman and scores of others explaining, and extrapolating from, new findings in neuroscience and almost always addressing the matter of free will. His absolutist position, I should add, because, as he puts it near the beginning of the book: “Free will is an illusion.
50 Things To Do Before Summer Ends www When I came back from London last week, the temperature in NYC had cooled off considerably. We’re still being treated to balmy afternoons, but the mornings are crisp and the days feel shorter. Whether you’re looking forward to layering up and embracing the fall or not, make the most of your summer before it disappears! Here’s a list of 50 things to do before summer ends… Buy a stack of old MAD magazines from a second-hand bookshop and read them on the grass, in the sun. Take lots of photos of you and your friends enjoying the weather. Wear something totally inappropriate and go out dancing. Make at least one new friend. Lie in bed in the morning, with the windows open and good music playing loudly. Take an outdoor yoga class, and wriggle your toes in the grass. Eat black cherries and spit the stones into a silver bowl. Flirt with someone of the same sex. Have a picnic in a tree! Buy an inflatable paddling pool, lie in it and take self-portraits. Trust your intuition… Kiss someone new! Much love,
A Catholic Reply to “How to Suck At Your Religion” An anti-religious (and specifically, anti-Catholic) webcomic is making the rounds on the Internet right now. It’s part of a webcomic called The Oatmeal, and is called “How to suck at your religion.” I have to warn anyone clicking that link that it’s really offensive: profane, lewd, and blasphemous, all at once. You would think that something this over-the-top would cause even non-religious people to balk at posting it on their Facebook feeds as indicative of their own views. There is a temptation to say, “It’s a webcomic, don’t take it so seriously!” So here are my thoughts, by panel: The first panel depicts a Catholic priest (with a Roman collar) confidently damning all those who don't belong to the Church. But the other view is that religion describes something, and Someone, utterly real… the very ground and sustenance of reality, in fact. Update: Marc Barnes (Bad Catholic) responds to the same webcomic, quite wittily.Update: Thanks to all who have commented so far.
Italian Dessert Recipes | Make Tiramisu, Cannoli, Biscotti, and MORE! Orfeo: A Dialog between Robert Hunter and Terence McKenna This is Part OnePart TwoPart ThreePart FourPart Five (current) Terence, in reading your books I was struck with how closely your DMT experiments paralleled my own. I wasn't surprised by the confirmation, as you might guess. I considered myself a serious DMT explorer between 1967-69. I stopped only because I was told to, in no uncertain terms, by the Boss of that place. Robert Hunter Greetings Bob-- I was interested in what you had to say about being an explorer of the DMT world until the management told you to stay away. I enjoy the idea of a slow moving dialog, I hope this can continue. Best, T Terence, I suppose the "facts" of DMT might as well be written in cunieform on our breastbones for all the good it does to know about it, as opposed to "dwelling in the know of it." My personal take on the "secret" of DMT: it was long, hard work making this world real. My take could be way off base but anything more Gnostic is off-putting. We need a few verbs and prepositions to explain ourselves.
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