• the big linchpin

    From chris rodgers@1:229/2 to All on Friday, August 13, 2021 09:40:41
    From: allreadydun@gmail.com

    i wonder how well shorty would have done if Michael Korda
    had NOT bought the rights to the first book? They made big
    money off our graduate student. They got paid, he got paid,
    the public got fucked. Korda swore that he believed every
    word of what Castaneda wrote/said. Too bad he made such a bad
    decision to believe the world class bullshit artist. Korda
    croaked a few years ago (2017). I wonder deep down if he
    ever came to his senses? Of course he would have to admit
    that he was part (a big part) of the scam.

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  • From chris rodgers@1:229/2 to All on Friday, August 13, 2021 09:58:50
    From: allreadydun@gmail.com

    ### - oh dear... maybe mr chips HAS gots dementia LOL ! :)))

    respond to the post or fuck off.

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  • From slider@1:229/2 to All on Friday, August 13, 2021 17:53:18
    From: slider@anashram.com

    chriso wrote...

    i wonder how well shorty would have done if Michael Korda
    had NOT bought the rights to the first book? They made big
    money off our graduate student. They got paid, he got paid,
    the public got fucked. Korda swore that he believed every
    word of what Castaneda wrote/said. Too bad he made such a bad
    decision to believe the world class bullshit artist. Korda
    croaked a few years ago (2017). I wonder deep down if he
    ever came to his senses? Of course he would have to admit
    that he was part (a big part) of the scam.

    ### - oh dear... maybe mr chips HAS gots dementia LOL ! :)))

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  • From slider@1:229/2 to All on Friday, August 13, 2021 18:16:42
    From: slider@anashram.com

    gettin' more direct in his old age haha wrote...


    - oh dear... maybe mr chips HAS gots dementia LOL ! :)))

    respond to the post or fuck off.

    ### - that WAS my response! and says it all really? (i didn't even change
    the subject)

    i.e., stop livin' the past bud, like that was now more than 20 fuckin'
    YEARS ago already!? (20 years wow)

    so no one gives a shit about that OLD cult you once belonged to by now
    huh...

    it's all moved-on quite a lot since then and such regrets are lame...

    try and live in the present a bit more, or didn't you learn your lesson??

    that it's the cult of 'society' ya gots to try and get out of now! (the
    mofo of all cults)

    but lol will he make it??

    place yer bets!

    it's a bit of a longshot tho' ;)

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  • From chris rodgers@1:229/2 to slider on Friday, August 13, 2021 12:18:06
    From: allreadydun@gmail.com

    slider wrote:
    gettin' more direct in his old age haha wrote...

    ha! you should have seen me about 40 years ago.
    Your head would be torn off by now, lol!

    ### - that WAS my response! and says it all really? (i didn't even change
    the subject)

    That was your silly shit reaction you mean.
    You're still acting like a 'gull'.

    i.e., stop livin' the past bud, like that was now more than 20 fuckin'
    YEARS ago already!? (20 years wow)

    i'm right here, right now motherfucker.
    Show me your evidence of what YOU got, ok?
    You got nothing, no proof whatsoever.

    so no one gives a shit about that OLD cult you once belonged to by now
    huh...

    i didn't belong to nothing. so you can kiss my ass.

    it's all moved-on quite a lot since then and such regrets are lame...

    there's no fucking regrets here. I moved on way before he croaked.

    try and live in the present a bit more, or didn't you learn your lesson??

    save your speech for a naive newager. I got your lesson right here pally.

    that it's the cult of 'society' ya gots to try and get out of now! (the
    mofo of all cults)

    don't be fucking stupid. If you knew anything about how cult operates
    you would be embarrassed to hell.

    so the guy that still thinks wake induced dream are WILD
    and not really out of body experiences? Is that right coach?
    Dude out of body experiences have been around alot longer
    than you. Perhaps you don't know where it's at afterall eh?
    Writing a book doesn't make it so but you can try. good luck!

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  • From slider@1:229/2 to All on Saturday, August 14, 2021 00:38:03
    From: slider@anashram.com

    gets more reasonable in the end wrote...

    (so am snipping all the useless personal crap...)

    my personal opinion (and am only speculating here) is that it's actually
    all the same thing albeit approached from different angles, thus
    seemingly
    producing different effects that people have then called/labeled one
    thing
    or another...

    the practice of WILDing, however, reveals aspects of the whole thing
    that
    suggests it's all actually only the same effect/thing: an inbuilt
    natural
    ability to enter at-will and on demand into an altered state of
    awareness
    (you've even experienced it your self 3 or 4 times now so no need for
    moi
    to describe it) something which to all extents and purposes appears like
    being in a lucid dreaming state, the difference with WILDs being the
    'extra' options that are also available (such as there being a midway
    point) that doesn't appear to be available via those others
    forms/modes...
    iow: WILDs in and of themselves are more revealing about the whole
    nature
    of lucid dreaming and states of altered awareness in general...

    my personal feeling being to say/suggest that WILDs are the full monty
    of
    lucid dreaming wherein everything about it is revealed instead of
    obscured... iow: WILD enough times deliberately and it all becomes very
    clear exactly what lucid dreaming actually is and means...

    ### - even laberge didn't 'invent' WILDs, he only invented a modern name
    for a very old + known effect, i.e., he scientifically proved that lucid
    dreaming was a thing and waking dreams were part of it (dilds & wilds)
    and
    thus brought the whole subject out of occult literature and into the
    scientific realm thus making it available to the general public for the
    first time...

    all i've personally done is to add a little something to that (the use
    of
    hypnagogia to enter it + a small map of the midway point itself)

    have never claimed it was new... in fact i've openly suggested it's
    actually incredibly old :)

    i tend to think that dreaming (all forms of dreaming) is like entering
    a library
    of preloaded pictures that somehow we access and it gets played in our
    head.
    Notice that the dream has a mind of its own until we get lucid or awake
    in the
    dream and then it can be altered. But what or who set up the show?
    And don't
    say it was the dreamer as if it concocted all this stuff on the spot
    when you go to
    sleep. There's never a shortage of dreams, think of it. Here i am
    a 73 year old
    fart and i'm still making shit up every night that i don't have a
    fucking clue about.
    They never make much sense. For the most part you forget 98% by noon anyhow.
    IF mankind has been doing this drill for 100,000 years, how come we are still
    dumb as a rug? We don't learn very fast. Here's the best line:
    "it was just a dream".
    Yeah useless as ever, same as it ever was, my ship will come in some
    day, and Jesus/
    God will finally love and accept us. Sure pal, you keep dreaming
    that shit.
    no wonder shorty said "fuck god himself". the best thing he ever
    said and it's useless.

    ### - methinks ordinary random dreams are us just still talking away to ourselves while we're asleep, our imagination auto-spinning the various scenarios which we then also react to as those thoughts play out, the
    weirdness of which immediately clears up/goes-away the very moment one
    becomes lucid...

    iow: that's the exact same kinds of random shit that's more or less
    continually going through our minds all the time we're awake too, a
    reflection of it, random musings about random things on & on like that all
    day long lol, this interspersed with occasional but rare moments of
    lucidity before we again wander-off into mindless musings about crap
    haha... a 24/7 condition

    get more lucid in our random dreams, however, and it has the knock-on
    effect of producing more & more moments of similar/corresponding lucidity during the day too... which 'could' be useful...

    the main point being that lucid dreaming is thus a clue that a
    corresponding lucidity is also available during waking as well, that such
    a thing exists to aim for and to experience...

    e.g., (and this is very old indeed) - what is the sound of one hand
    clapping?

    the answer being: thought-less-ness, or, inner silence = lucidity of a different order during waking...

    quite simples really :)

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  • From chris rodgers@1:229/2 to slider on Friday, August 13, 2021 16:07:32
    From: allreadydun@gmail.com

    slider wrote:

    ### - yeah, you keep making such veiled threats innit, wants to rip me a
    new one eh?

    it's not a threat meathead, you're not that important.
    I'm just saying i could do it (if i wanted to) but i don't give a shit anymore. and you're not worth it.

    so lol wtf did i ever do to... you??

    nothing, there's nothing you can do, and why would you bother?
    see? you full of nothing.


    ### - the fact that you didn't understand my response isn't exactly my
    fault haha, there was a time when i used to go to exorbitant lengths to explain and break things down for ya, showed ya every consideration etc,
    but that time has now passed (since ya told me to fuck of that is lol) and
    so from now on you'll just have to take it as it comes pal regardless of
    your shitty cynical mood painting everything black... perhaps if you
    weren't so goddamn self-important you wouldn't get so angry huh, there's
    no room for big indignant egos here ya know ;)

    psycho/spiritual babble. hey, what else can you show me mr. dylan ?


    ### - proof of what already, that you're still pissing & moaning about how big bad cc ripped you and everyone off? oh poor little youuuu LOL !
    (crackin' up laffing at mr chips feelin' sooo sorry for himself haha...
    poor baby syndrome!)

    see you're still brainwashed with castaneda caca. you would trust
    what he wrote as something to follow?


    i didn't belong to nothing. so you can kiss my ass.


    ### - you belonged so why deny it? were even part of his 'special' sunday classes weren't you?

    no, you have me mixed up with one of your gay lovers or something.
    ha ha. i never went to any 'class'.

    one of the inner in-crowd? didn't belong my ass lol,

    no, didn't happen Mr. Mithers.

    are you REALLY that ashamed to admit it?? :)))

    you looking quite stupid now, but why change now? lol

    ### - your current anger and resentment belies your denial? plus i clearly remember you well before he died, how you were and how you held
    yourself... and you seemed to be doin' alright sitting under cc's shadow
    hah, imho he was actually good for ya! you were making quite the sincere effort to be a decent human being! i even still recall our very first encounter in that nagual chatroom haha... you were so self-possessed and
    even kinda dashing heh, and also quite generous to invite a total stranger (moi) to come to 'this' place to see what's going down here, haha i was impressed and liked ya straight away, and that's why i came :)))

    so one guy on the internet is kind to you and you follow like a litte sheep eh?


    ### - the 'lesson' you were given (via cc) re belonging to cults and how
    they operate ya fool lol, don't be so dense! your anger (i.e., self-importance) is blinding you to what am actually saying heh, just take 'you' outta the equation and all will become clear :)))

    dude you're off base and the ump is gonna throw you out again for
    being a flaming pendajo.

    ### - already told ya that my 'real' daddy was part of the team that
    helped deprogram the jim jones cult survivors, didn't i? well then,

    so what? did it sink in any? btw, the only way to deprogram is to
    just stop 'believing'. game over just like that. no snake oil needed. viola ! :)

    methinks i might just know something about how cults operate, which afaic
    is exactly the same as how society works too - or where ELSE did ya think they gots it all from in the first place if not from how society itself operates?? duh! (you're a little slow sometime ain'tcha huh)

    you'll never have the same experience as i do with cults.
    you only read about them. Big difference between reading & living amigo.



    my personal opinion (and am only speculating here) is that it's actually
    all the same thing albeit approached from different angles, thus seemingly producing different effects that people have then called/labeled one thing
    or another...

    the practice of WILDing, however, reveals aspects of the whole thing that suggests it's all actually only the same effect/thing: an inbuilt natural ability to enter at-will and on demand into an altered state of awareness (you've even experienced it your self 3 or 4 times now so no need for moi
    to describe it) something which to all extents and purposes appears like being in a lucid dreaming state, the difference with WILDs being the
    'extra' options that are also available (such as there being a midway
    point) that doesn't appear to be available via those others forms/modes... iow: WILDs in and of themselves are more revealing about the whole nature
    of lucid dreaming and states of altered awareness in general...

    my personal feeling being to say/suggest that WILDs are the full monty of lucid dreaming wherein everything about it is revealed instead of
    obscured... iow: WILD enough times deliberately and it all becomes very
    clear exactly what lucid dreaming actually is and means...

    ### - even laberge didn't 'invent' WILDs, he only invented a modern name
    for a very old + known effect, i.e., he scientifically proved that lucid dreaming was a thing and waking dreams were part of it (dilds & wilds) and thus brought the whole subject out of occult literature and into the scientific realm thus making it available to the general public for the
    first time...

    all i've personally done is to add a little something to that (the use of hypnagogia to enter it + a small map of the midway point itself)

    have never claimed it was new... in fact i've openly suggested it's
    actually incredibly old :)

    i tend to think that dreaming (all forms of dreaming) is like entering a library
    of preloaded pictures that somehow we access and it gets played in our head. Notice that the dream has a mind of its own until we get lucid or awake in the dream and then it can be altered. But what or who set up the show? And don't
    say it was the dreamer as if it concocted all this stuff on the spot when you go to
    sleep. There's never a shortage of dreams, think of it. Here i am a 73 year old
    fart and i'm still making shit up every night that i don't have a fucking clue about.
    They never make much sense. For the most part you forget 98% by noon anyhow. IF mankind has been doing this drill for 100,000 years, how come we are still dumb as a rug? We don't learn very fast. Here's the best line: "it was just a dream".
    Yeah useless as ever, same as it ever was, my ship will come in some day, and Jesus/
    God will finally love and accept us. Sure pal, you keep dreaming that shit.
    no wonder shorty said "fuck god himself". the best thing he ever said and it's useless.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: www.darkrealms.ca (1:229/2)
  • From slider@1:229/2 to All on Friday, August 13, 2021 21:51:44
    From: slider@anashram.com

    still barkin' instead of reasoning wrote...

    slider wrote:
    gettin' more direct in his old age haha wrote...

    ha! you should have seen me about 40 years ago.
    Your head would be torn off by now, lol!

    ### - yeah, you keep making such veiled threats innit, wants to rip me a
    new one eh?

    so lol wtf did i ever do to... you??




    ### - that WAS my response! and says it all really? (i didn't even
    change
    the subject)

    That was your silly shit reaction you mean.
    You're still acting like a 'gull'.

    ### - the fact that you didn't understand my response isn't exactly my
    fault haha, there was a time when i used to go to exorbitant lengths to
    explain and break things down for ya, showed ya every consideration etc,
    but that time has now passed (since ya told me to fuck of that is lol) and
    so from now on you'll just have to take it as it comes pal regardless of
    your shitty cynical mood painting everything black... perhaps if you
    weren't so goddamn self-important you wouldn't get so angry huh, there's
    no room for big indignant egos here ya know ;)




    i.e., stop livin' the past bud, like that was now more than 20 fuckin'
    YEARS ago already!? (20 years wow)

    i'm right here, right now motherfucker.
    Show me your evidence of what YOU got, ok?
    You got nothing, no proof whatsoever.

    ### - proof of what already, that you're still pissing & moaning about how
    big bad cc ripped you and everyone off? oh poor little youuuu LOL !
    (crackin' up laffing at mr chips feelin' sooo sorry for himself haha...
    poor baby syndrome!)




    so no one gives a shit about that OLD cult you once belonged to by now
    huh...

    i didn't belong to nothing. so you can kiss my ass.

    ### - you belonged so why deny it? were even part of his 'special' sunday classes weren't you? one of the inner in-crowd? didn't belong my ass lol,
    are you REALLY that ashamed to admit it?? :)))



    it's all moved-on quite a lot since then and such regrets are lame...

    there's no fucking regrets here. I moved on way before he croaked.

    ### - your current anger and resentment belies your denial? plus i clearly remember you well before he died, how you were and how you held
    yourself... and you seemed to be doin' alright sitting under cc's shadow
    hah, imho he was actually good for ya! you were making quite the sincere
    effort to be a decent human being! i even still recall our very first
    encounter in that nagual chatroom haha... you were so self-possessed and
    even kinda dashing heh, and also quite generous to invite a total stranger (moi) to come to 'this' place to see what's going down here, haha i was impressed and liked ya straight away, and that's why i came :)))




    try and live in the present a bit more, or didn't you learn your
    lesson??

    save your speech for a naive newager. I got your lesson right here
    pally.

    ### - the 'lesson' you were given (via cc) re belonging to cults and how
    they operate ya fool lol, don't be so dense! your anger (i.e.,
    self-importance) is blinding you to what am actually saying heh, just take 'you' outta the equation and all will become clear :)))




    that it's the cult of 'society' ya gots to try and get out of now! (the
    mofo of all cults)

    don't be fucking stupid. If you knew anything about how cult operates
    you would be embarrassed to hell.

    ### - already told ya that my 'real' daddy was part of the team that
    helped deprogram the jim jones cult survivors, didn't i? well then,
    methinks i might just know something about how cults operate, which afaic
    is exactly the same as how society works too - or where ELSE did ya think
    they gots it all from in the first place if not from how society itself operates?? duh! (you're a little slow sometime ain'tcha huh)

    al capone, for example, complained that he was only doin' what 'they'
    (society) was doing?

    it's all the same thing in many forms twisted this way or the other, see?
    ;)




    so the guy that still thinks wake induced dream are WILD
    and not really out of body experiences? Is that right coach?

    ### - i have no idea... i didn't invent the term 'WILD' - laberge did?

    my personal opinion (and am only speculating here) is that it's actually
    all the same thing albeit approached from different angles, thus seemingly producing different effects that people have then called/labeled one thing
    or another...

    the practice of WILDing, however, reveals aspects of the whole thing that suggests it's all actually only the same effect/thing: an inbuilt natural ability to enter at-will and on demand into an altered state of awareness (you've even experienced it your self 3 or 4 times now so no need for moi
    to describe it) something which to all extents and purposes appears like
    being in a lucid dreaming state, the difference with WILDs being the
    'extra' options that are also available (such as there being a midway
    point) that doesn't appear to be available via those others forms/modes...
    iow: WILDs in and of themselves are more revealing about the whole nature
    of lucid dreaming and states of altered awareness in general...

    my personal feeling being to say/suggest that WILDs are the full monty of
    lucid dreaming wherein everything about it is revealed instead of
    obscured... iow: WILD enough times deliberately and it all becomes very
    clear exactly what lucid dreaming actually is and means...




    Dude out of body experiences have been around alot longer
    than you. Perhaps you don't know where it's at afterall eh?
    Writing a book doesn't make it so but you can try. good luck!

    ### - even laberge didn't 'invent' WILDs, he only invented a modern name
    for a very old + known effect, i.e., he scientifically proved that lucid dreaming was a thing and waking dreams were part of it (dilds & wilds) and
    thus brought the whole subject out of occult literature and into the
    scientific realm thus making it available to the general public for the
    first time...

    all i've personally done is to add a little something to that (the use of hypnagogia to enter it + a small map of the midway point itself)

    have never claimed it was new... in fact i've openly suggested it's
    actually incredibly old :)

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: www.darkrealms.ca (1:229/2)
  • From chris rodgers@1:229/2 to All on Saturday, August 14, 2021 05:59:32
    From: allreadydun@gmail.com

    so after about 50 years of farting around with this stuff one comes to a conclusion: where's the beef?? where's the payoff here or the gain?
    Oh, no gain? what the fuck, what am i doing then??
    turns out that maybe at best you're just punching the clown
    thinking something great is gonna come through dreaming.
    Where is the homerun or the grand slam.?

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From o'Mahoney@1:229/2 to All on Saturday, August 14, 2021 20:12:26
    From: libertidad@south.south.com

    On Sat, 14 Aug 2021 00:38:03 +0100, slider <slider@anashram.com>
    wrote:

    gets more reasonable in the end wrote...

    (so am snipping all the useless personal crap...)

    my personal opinion (and am only speculating here) is that it's actually >>> all the same thing albeit approached from different angles, thus
    seemingly
    producing different effects that people have then called/labeled one
    thing
    or another...

    the practice of WILDing, however, reveals aspects of the whole thing
    that
    suggests it's all actually only the same effect/thing: an inbuilt
    natural
    ability to enter at-will and on demand into an altered state of
    awareness
    (you've even experienced it your self 3 or 4 times now so no need for
    moi
    to describe it) something which to all extents and purposes appears like >>> being in a lucid dreaming state, the difference with WILDs being the
    'extra' options that are also available (such as there being a midway
    point) that doesn't appear to be available via those others
    forms/modes...
    iow: WILDs in and of themselves are more revealing about the whole
    nature
    of lucid dreaming and states of altered awareness in general...

    my personal feeling being to say/suggest that WILDs are the full monty
    of
    lucid dreaming wherein everything about it is revealed instead of
    obscured... iow: WILD enough times deliberately and it all becomes very
    clear exactly what lucid dreaming actually is and means...

    ### - even laberge didn't 'invent' WILDs, he only invented a modern name >>> for a very old + known effect, i.e., he scientifically proved that lucid >>> dreaming was a thing and waking dreams were part of it (dilds & wilds)
    and
    thus brought the whole subject out of occult literature and into the
    scientific realm thus making it available to the general public for the
    first time...

    all i've personally done is to add a little something to that (the use
    of
    hypnagogia to enter it + a small map of the midway point itself)

    have never claimed it was new... in fact i've openly suggested it's
    actually incredibly old :)

    i tend to think that dreaming (all forms of dreaming) is like entering
    a library
    of preloaded pictures that somehow we access and it gets played in our
    head.
    Notice that the dream has a mind of its own until we get lucid or awake
    in the
    dream and then it can be altered. But what or who set up the show?
    And don't
    say it was the dreamer as if it concocted all this stuff on the spot
    when you go to
    sleep. There's never a shortage of dreams, think of it. Here i am
    a 73 year old
    fart and i'm still making shit up every night that i don't have a
    fucking clue about.
    They never make much sense. For the most part you forget 98% by noon
    anyhow.
    IF mankind has been doing this drill for 100,000 years, how come we are
    still
    dumb as a rug? We don't learn very fast. Here's the best line:
    "it was just a dream".
    Yeah useless as ever, same as it ever was, my ship will come in some
    day, and Jesus/
    God will finally love and accept us. Sure pal, you keep dreaming
    that shit.
    no wonder shorty said "fuck god himself". the best thing he ever
    said and it's useless.

    ### - methinks ordinary random dreams are us just still talking away to >ourselves while we're asleep, our imagination auto-spinning the various >scenarios which we then also react to as those thoughts play out, the >weirdness of which immediately clears up/goes-away the very moment one >becomes lucid...

    iow: that's the exact same kinds of random shit that's more or less >continually going through our minds all the time we're awake too, a >reflection of it, random musings about random things on & on like that all >day long lol, this interspersed with occasional but rare moments of
    lucidity before we again wander-off into mindless musings about crap
    haha... a 24/7 condition

    get more lucid in our random dreams, however, and it has the knock-on
    effect of producing more & more moments of similar/corresponding lucidity >during the day too... which 'could' be useful...

    the main point being that lucid dreaming is thus a clue that a
    corresponding lucidity is also available during waking as well, that such
    a thing exists to aim for and to experience...

    e.g., (and this is very old indeed) - what is the sound of one hand
    clapping?

    the answer being: thought-less-ness, or, inner silence = lucidity of a >different order during waking...

    quite simples really :)

    Nope. You're overcomplicating stuff here.

    Let's look at the facts. We sleep to provide down time for the body
    to rejuvenate from the day's labours. In lizard times, primordial
    times, ancient times, prehistoric times, the day's labours involved
    killing prey for food and avoiding being killed by predators for food.

    That's a fact.

    Part of the down time is/was to provide the brain, that most vital
    organ, with opportunity to stop thinking (about getting food an
    avoiding being food) so that buildup of amyloid on synapses and
    cognate stuff could be shed and removed by our brain lymphatic system,
    called the cerebrospinal fluid system. Sleep is needed for this
    function to occur.

    Dreaming, that vital part of sleep, is a tremor of the brain which
    induces the removal of amyloid and other nasty proteins from the
    synapses into the CSF so the guck can be drained away and the brain
    refreshed and cleaned for another day's hard work killing food and
    avoiding being killed for food.

    Dreaming is random memories and artifacts woven into nothing special
    and nothing meaningful, simply to shake the synapses so that the
    clinging amyloids and so on can be removed and drained during the
    night. Amyloid, when not adroitly and efficiently removed, becomes
    the bedrock of Alzheimer's Disease.

    Dreaming is nothing special and nothing meaningful. Any accidents
    which result in anything meaningful (such as Kekule's dream of the
    benzene ring) are just that, accidental.

    So as you say, Brian...

    Quite simples, really :)

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  • From chris rodgers@1:229/2 to All on Saturday, August 14, 2021 07:36:39
    From: allreadydun@gmail.com

    it's the Walter Mitty in you that makes you play this game.
    sounds like a neil young lyric don't it? ha ha

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  • From o'Mahoney@1:229/2 to allreadydun@gmail.com on Saturday, August 14, 2021 21:08:55
    From: libertidad@south.south.com

    On Sat, 14 Aug 2021 05:59:32 -0700 (PDT), chris rodgers
    <allreadydun@gmail.com> wrote:

    so after about 50 years of farting around with this stuff one comes to a >conclusion: where's the beef?? where's the payoff here or the gain?
    Oh, no gain? what the fuck, what am i doing then??
    turns out that maybe at best you're just punching the clown
    thinking something great is gonna come through dreaming.
    Where is the homerun or the grand slam.?

    "Hoping something great is gonna come through dreaming".

    Fixed it for you...

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  • From slider@1:229/2 to All on Saturday, August 14, 2021 15:45:34
    From: slider@anashram.com

    On Sat, 14 Aug 2021 13:59:32 +0100, chris rodgers <allreadydun@gmail.com> wrote:

    so after about 50 years of farting around with this stuff one comes to a conclusion: where's the beef?? where's the payoff here or the gain?
    Oh, no gain? what the fuck, what am i doing then??
    turns out that maybe at best you're just punching the clown
    thinking something great is gonna come through dreaming.
    Where is the homerun or the grand slam.?

    ### - the merchant mind does commerce and thus 'expects' results in sole
    terms of profit, gain and/or loss... the fact that people think
    exclusively in such terms unfortunately (or perhaps even deliberately)
    limits the scope of their activities and horizons to the world of reason & rationality alone...

    thus the 'effects' of lucid dreaming (a strictly non-rational pursuit)
    can't really be weighed/valued in terms of gain or loss, it's actually
    about something else entirely: it pertains to a wholly different side to
    our nature that to this day remains relatively unexplored & mapped, all we consciously know about being in the realm of vague myths & weird legends...

    in your other post (which am also gonna reply to) you merely 'rationalise'
    it all, something which in effect only removes you from the possibility of
    ever exploring/probing it further; rationally it's all nonsense and
    meaningless so why bother because there's no profit in it etc etc... so
    the computer just says: No.

    iow: there's really only one way to understand it and that's by actually 'doing' it...

    'understanding' it then, initially follows along behind the experience
    itself, until after a few experiences wondering and understanding begin to coincide and thus one begins to realise the answers while still only
    asking the questions... questions about life, the universe & everything,
    and of oneself being alive within it all begins to take on new meaning...

    that what such an experience 'leads' to (or results in then) is thus a completely different knowledge-set, one not based on clumsily figuring
    things out but on a form of 'direct-knowing'

    which i realise sounds preposterous to the rational mind (after all,
    there's no profit in it so why bother etc), that is until one finally
    realises that this 'alternate' knowledge-set is actually 'inclusive' of
    the standard set and as such is vastly larger than it!

    perforce the ONLY way to REALLY understand all this is to experience it oneself...

    that because it's innate (like walking is innate but still has to be
    learned) it's not that difficult to do and takes relatively little effort
    by comparison (on average 2 weeks to make the initial breakthrough) after
    which one is then in the perfect position to assess it all for oneself
    rather than taking someone's word for anything...

    to get started, however, you have my book and also the walkthrough videos (videos 1 through 4 is all someone needs to get started = 30 or 40 minutes
    of video), after which it'll all look very different indeed... the only
    reason i published it/them being the discovery of a surprisingly more
    rapid and reliable means of accessing it via hypnagogic images...

    try it and then join the debate ;)

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  • From slider@1:229/2 to still crazy after all these tears on Saturday, August 14, 2021 19:08:22
    From: slider@anashram.com

    still crazy after all these tears wrote :)

    oh bullshit, you sound like some dufus new age bullshit artist.

    you're sounding like a chicken shit cult leader now.
    Jim Jones rap, Chuck Manson talk, fill in your favorite cult leader
    here.

    yeah but where's the fucking beef? Sooner or later your followers
    are going to question what the fuck you're saying. No suckcess like failure.

    means nothing. idle head spinning. blah blah, listen to me i'm the messiah.

    look behind you right now, how many people are following you besides
    your Nikes?

    show me your 'winners'? where are they and what have they done in the world?
    Nothing, nothing but Walter Mitty train to nowhere. All aboard?
    Fuck no!
    oh and btw, nothing personal here, just calling a spade a spade.

    ### - known winners: https://www.thewildway.com/files/reviews.htm

    and, in a once obviously far more lucid and less snippy mood... chris once wrote:

    allreadygone wrote... Mar 2, 2016,

    the great thing about the book Slider is that you only
    discuss the process of WILD without going into
    contents of dream. you stay out the area of the
    dreamer's world of dreaming. Each dreamer is different.
    Who knows what any one person can find in dreaming?
    This will prevent you from ever becoming a cult.
    This is the highest honor i can bestow upon you.
    As though i would ever have any authority over anything.
    I can barely tie my shoes some mornings, lol!

    ***

    smile, ya appear to be awarding yourself a bit 'more' authority these days
    then huh, more than you perhaps deserve?

    but methinks we wants the OLD chris back, the less cynical, shitty and
    morose one...

    coz the NEW chris is shit lol :D

    (i.e., don't be a dumbass hypocrite maan, you're bigger than that...)

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  • From chris rodgers@1:229/2 to All on Saturday, August 14, 2021 09:09:09
    From: allreadydun@gmail.com

    ### - the merchant mind does commerce and thus 'expects' results in sole terms of profit, gain and/or loss... the fact that people think
    exclusively in such terms unfortunately (or perhaps even deliberately)
    limits the scope of their activities and horizons to the world of reason & rationality alone...

    oh bullshit, you sound like some dufus new age bullshit artist.

    thus the 'effects' of lucid dreaming (a strictly non-rational pursuit)
    can't really be weighed/valued in terms of gain or loss, it's actually
    about something else entirely: it pertains to a wholly different side to
    our nature that to this day remains relatively unexplored & mapped, all we consciously know about being in the realm of vague myths & weird legends...

    do you really think that gold miners or diamond hunters would waste their
    time and never hit paydirt? No fucking way. They have sense enough to
    move on. Do think Babe Ruth would get a chance to bat IF all he ever did
    was strike out? No fucking way, he would be riding the pine (sitting on the bench)


    in your other post (which am also gonna reply to) you merely 'rationalise'
    it all, something which in effect only removes you from the possibility of ever exploring/probing it further; rationally it's all nonsense and meaningless so why bother because there's no profit in it etc etc... so
    the computer just says: No.

    you're sounding like a chicken shit cult leader now.
    Jim Jones rap, Chuck Manson talk, fill in your favorite cult leader here.


    'understanding' it then, initially follows along behind the experience itself, until after a few experiences wondering and understanding begin to coincide and thus one begins to realise the answers while still only
    asking the questions... questions about life, the universe & everything,
    and of oneself being alive within it all begins to take on new meaning...

    yeah but where's the fucking beef? Sooner or later your followers
    are going to question what the fuck you're saying. No suckcess like failure.

    that what such an experience 'leads' to (or results in then) is thus a completely different knowledge-set, one not based on clumsily figuring
    things out but on a form of 'direct-knowing'

    means nothing. idle head spinning. blah blah, listen to me i'm the messiah.

    which i realise sounds preposterous to the rational mind (after all,
    there's no profit in it so why bother etc), that is until one finally realises that this 'alternate' knowledge-set is actually 'inclusive' of
    the standard set and as such is vastly larger than it!

    look behind you right now, how many people are following you besides
    your Nikes?

    perforce the ONLY way to REALLY understand all this is to experience it oneself...


    that because it's innate (like walking is innate but still has to be
    learned) it's not that difficult to do and takes relatively little effort
    by comparison (on average 2 weeks to make the initial breakthrough) after which one is then in the perfect position to assess it all for oneself
    rather than taking someone's word for anything...

    to get started, however, you have my book and also the walkthrough videos (videos 1 through 4 is all someone needs to get started = 30 or 40 minutes
    of video), after which it'll all look very different indeed... the only reason i published it/them being the discovery of a surprisingly more
    rapid and reliable means of accessing it via hypnagogic images...

    try it and then join the debate ;)
    show me your 'winners'? where are they and what have they done in the world? Nothing, nothing but Walter Mitty train to nowhere. All aboard? Fuck no! oh and btw, nothing personal here, just calling a spade a spade.

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  • From slider@1:229/2 to All on Saturday, August 14, 2021 15:59:32
    From: slider@anashram.com

    On Sat, 14 Aug 2021 13:12:26 +0100, o'Mahoney <libertidad@south.south.com> wrote:

    On Sat, 14 Aug 2021 00:38:03 +0100, slider <slider@anashram.com>
    wrote:

    gets more reasonable in the end wrote...

    (so am snipping all the useless personal crap...)

    my personal opinion (and am only speculating here) is that it's
    actually
    all the same thing albeit approached from different angles, thus
    seemingly
    producing different effects that people have then called/labeled one
    thing
    or another...

    the practice of WILDing, however, reveals aspects of the whole thing
    that
    suggests it's all actually only the same effect/thing: an inbuilt
    natural
    ability to enter at-will and on demand into an altered state of
    awareness
    (you've even experienced it your self 3 or 4 times now so no need for
    moi
    to describe it) something which to all extents and purposes appears
    like
    being in a lucid dreaming state, the difference with WILDs being the
    'extra' options that are also available (such as there being a midway
    point) that doesn't appear to be available via those others
    forms/modes...
    iow: WILDs in and of themselves are more revealing about the whole
    nature
    of lucid dreaming and states of altered awareness in general...

    my personal feeling being to say/suggest that WILDs are the full monty >>>> of
    lucid dreaming wherein everything about it is revealed instead of
    obscured... iow: WILD enough times deliberately and it all becomes
    very
    clear exactly what lucid dreaming actually is and means...

    ### - even laberge didn't 'invent' WILDs, he only invented a modern
    name
    for a very old + known effect, i.e., he scientifically proved that
    lucid
    dreaming was a thing and waking dreams were part of it (dilds & wilds) >>>> and
    thus brought the whole subject out of occult literature and into the
    scientific realm thus making it available to the general public for
    the
    first time...

    all i've personally done is to add a little something to that (the use >>>> of
    hypnagogia to enter it + a small map of the midway point itself)

    have never claimed it was new... in fact i've openly suggested it's
    actually incredibly old :)

    i tend to think that dreaming (all forms of dreaming) is like entering
    a library
    of preloaded pictures that somehow we access and it gets played in our
    head.
    Notice that the dream has a mind of its own until we get lucid or awake
    in the
    dream and then it can be altered. But what or who set up the show?
    And don't
    say it was the dreamer as if it concocted all this stuff on the spot
    when you go to
    sleep. There's never a shortage of dreams, think of it. Here i
    am
    a 73 year old
    fart and i'm still making shit up every night that i don't have a
    fucking clue about.
    They never make much sense. For the most part you forget 98% by noon
    anyhow.
    IF mankind has been doing this drill for 100,000 years, how come we
    are
    still
    dumb as a rug? We don't learn very fast. Here's the best line:
    "it was just a dream".
    Yeah useless as ever, same as it ever was, my ship will come in some
    day, and Jesus/
    God will finally love and accept us. Sure pal, you keep dreaming
    that shit.
    no wonder shorty said "fuck god himself". the best thing he ever
    said and it's useless.

    ### - methinks ordinary random dreams are us just still talking away to
    ourselves while we're asleep, our imagination auto-spinning the various
    scenarios which we then also react to as those thoughts play out, the
    weirdness of which immediately clears up/goes-away the very moment one
    becomes lucid...

    iow: that's the exact same kinds of random shit that's more or less
    continually going through our minds all the time we're awake too, a
    reflection of it, random musings about random things on & on like that
    all
    day long lol, this interspersed with occasional but rare moments of
    lucidity before we again wander-off into mindless musings about crap
    haha... a 24/7 condition

    get more lucid in our random dreams, however, and it has the knock-on
    effect of producing more & more moments of similar/corresponding
    lucidity
    during the day too... which 'could' be useful...

    the main point being that lucid dreaming is thus a clue that a
    corresponding lucidity is also available during waking as well, that
    such
    a thing exists to aim for and to experience...

    e.g., (and this is very old indeed) - what is the sound of one hand
    clapping?

    the answer being: thought-less-ness, or, inner silence = lucidity of a
    different order during waking...

    quite simples really :)

    Nope. You're overcomplicating stuff here.

    Let's look at the facts. We sleep to provide down time for the body
    to rejuvenate from the day's labours. In lizard times, primordial
    times, ancient times, prehistoric times, the day's labours involved
    killing prey for food and avoiding being killed by predators for food.

    That's a fact.

    Part of the down time is/was to provide the brain, that most vital
    organ, with opportunity to stop thinking (about getting food an
    avoiding being food) so that buildup of amyloid on synapses and
    cognate stuff could be shed and removed by our brain lymphatic system,
    called the cerebrospinal fluid system. Sleep is needed for this
    function to occur.

    Dreaming, that vital part of sleep, is a tremor of the brain which
    induces the removal of amyloid and other nasty proteins from the
    synapses into the CSF so the guck can be drained away and the brain
    refreshed and cleaned for another day's hard work killing food and
    avoiding being killed for food.

    Dreaming is random memories and artifacts woven into nothing special
    and nothing meaningful, simply to shake the synapses so that the
    clinging amyloids and so on can be removed and drained during the
    night. Amyloid, when not adroitly and efficiently removed, becomes
    the bedrock of Alzheimer's Disease.

    Dreaming is nothing special and nothing meaningful. Any accidents
    which result in anything meaningful (such as Kekule's dream of the
    benzene ring) are just that, accidental.

    So as you say, Brian...

    Quite simples, really :)

    ### - very simple heh, so simple in fact it's forcing a complete rewrite
    of everything scientists currently 'think' they know about sleep &
    dreaming, which perforce includes all of the above rationalisations ;)

    i.e., your whole above argument is thus singularly composed from the very similar pov of that which existed before galileo arrived on the scene to
    point out that the sun doesn't in fact revolve around the earth and that
    the complete opposite is true...

    everyone (except the church because they realised the dire implications of
    it) thought he was nuts haha ;)

    only he wasn't actually nuts was he heh - THEY were the one's who were
    nuts :)))

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  • From chris rodgers@1:229/2 to All on Saturday, August 14, 2021 12:11:35
    From: allreadydun@gmail.com

    not only does shit happen......
    ........ shit also changes..............

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  • From slider@1:229/2 to All on Saturday, August 14, 2021 20:41:56
    From: slider@anashram.com

    not only does shit happen......
    ........ shit also changes..............

    ### - i hope you can see the funny side of my error here lol, coz it's
    really quite amusing? :D

    meaning, i talk to thang completely differently to how i talk to you
    (which is why i went to town on that explanation etc to him) and then
    bawled you out for being shitty about it for no damn reason just when (i thought) we'd sorted things out some ahaha... (i thought: oh nooo mr chips
    has started wobbling again??)

    so who says i don't get things wrong sometimes eh?? (crackin' up laffing
    coz that was a blunder)

    all i can think is something other than my conscious volition was at-work
    here innit hehe ;)

    with what purpose i couldn't say lol, other than am totally surprised by
    it and experienced a totally wtf moment there for a couple of minutes or
    so before finally sussing it all out haha :)))

    funny shit :D

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  • From slider@1:229/2 to All on Saturday, August 14, 2021 20:03:49
    From: slider@anashram.com

    turns out that maybe at best you're just punching the clown
    thinking something great is gonna come through dreaming.
    Where is the homerun or the grand slam.?

    ### - gave ya the tool to find out exactly that, but you've apparently
    grown too old and lazy to follow-up on your discoveries? you had 4 genuine WILDs and then expect everything to just drop into your lap no more effort required, and if it doesn't do so then it's all just shit haha...

    unfortunately, WILDs don't work that way... dilds might work that way by sitting around popping supplements and waiting for shit to happen, but
    WILDs are the opposite: one has to actively 'employ' them instead of
    sitting around on your lard-ass waiting for things to happen, or you'll denounce it all??

    lol what a prick! :)))

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  • From slider@1:229/2 to slider on Saturday, August 14, 2021 20:08:57
    From: slider@anashram.com

    ### - LOL ! for some unknown reason i thought i was replying to THANG in
    this post???

    s'no wonder then chriso nearly shat himself over it ahaha :))))


    On Sat, 14 Aug 2021 15:45:34 +0100, slider <slider@anashram.com> wrote:

    On Sat, 14 Aug 2021 13:59:32 +0100, chris rodgers
    <allreadydun@gmail.com> wrote:

    so after about 50 years of farting around with this stuff one comes to a
    conclusion: where's the beef?? where's the payoff here or the
    gain?
    Oh, no gain? what the fuck, what am i doing then??
    turns out that maybe at best you're just punching the clown
    thinking something great is gonna come through dreaming.
    Where is the homerun or the grand slam.?

    ### - the merchant mind does commerce and thus 'expects' results in sole terms of profit, gain and/or loss... the fact that people think
    exclusively in such terms unfortunately (or perhaps even deliberately)
    limits the scope of their activities and horizons to the world of reason
    & rationality alone...

    thus the 'effects' of lucid dreaming (a strictly non-rational pursuit)
    can't really be weighed/valued in terms of gain or loss, it's actually
    about something else entirely: it pertains to a wholly different side to
    our nature that to this day remains relatively unexplored & mapped, all
    we consciously know about being in the realm of vague myths & weird legends...

    in your other post (which am also gonna reply to) you merely
    'rationalise' it all, something which in effect only removes you from
    the possibility of ever exploring/probing it further; rationally it's
    all nonsense and meaningless so why bother because there's no profit in
    it etc etc... so the computer just says: No.

    iow: there's really only one way to understand it and that's by actually 'doing' it...

    'understanding' it then, initially follows along behind the experience itself, until after a few experiences wondering and understanding begin
    to coincide and thus one begins to realise the answers while still only asking the questions... questions about life, the universe & everything,
    and of oneself being alive within it all begins to take on new meaning...

    that what such an experience 'leads' to (or results in then) is thus a completely different knowledge-set, one not based on clumsily figuring
    things out but on a form of 'direct-knowing'

    which i realise sounds preposterous to the rational mind (after all,
    there's no profit in it so why bother etc), that is until one finally realises that this 'alternate' knowledge-set is actually 'inclusive' of
    the standard set and as such is vastly larger than it!

    perforce the ONLY way to REALLY understand all this is to experience it oneself...

    that because it's innate (like walking is innate but still has to be
    learned) it's not that difficult to do and takes relatively little
    effort by comparison (on average 2 weeks to make the initial
    breakthrough) after which one is then in the perfect position to assess
    it all for oneself rather than taking someone's word for anything...

    to get started, however, you have my book and also the walkthrough
    videos (videos 1 through 4 is all someone needs to get started = 30 or
    40 minutes of video), after which it'll all look very different
    indeed... the only reason i published it/them being the discovery of a surprisingly more rapid and reliable means of accessing it via
    hypnagogic images...

    try it and then join the debate ;)

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  • From chris rodgers@1:229/2 to All on Saturday, August 14, 2021 13:05:48
    From: allreadydun@gmail.com

    yeah but nobody cares. :)

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  • From slider@1:229/2 to All on Saturday, August 14, 2021 21:15:59
    From: slider@anashram.com

    so after about 50 years of farting around with this stuff one comes to a conclusion: where's the beef?? where's the payoff here or the gain?
    Oh, no gain? what the fuck, what am i doing then??
    turns out that maybe at best you're just punching the clown
    thinking something great is gonna come through dreaming.
    Where is the homerun or the grand slam.?

    ### - winding the clock back some, this then deserves a totally different
    reply :)

    (it's the same reply in terms of content albeit put very differently heh,
    not so formal or direct)

    the 'point' of it all (the ultimate payoff as you called it) is that of an expansion of awareness.

    which doesn't sound like much does it, but that's what it is...

    and it's likely to be a similar effect for dilds too only far slower, if
    ever? (in 50 years it's accomplished hardly anything etc)

    i.e., we live and think the way(s) we do due to our 'current' level of awareness, right?

    a level of awareness that's given us the modern world and all its
    technology etc etc, even rockets to the moon et al...

    so it can be assumed then that any 'expansion' to our current awareness
    will perforce begin to include other/new things to deal with too, things
    that will somewhat modify our waking perception of the whole and of
    ourselves living in it + the kinds of things we can all do and look
    forward to doing...

    e.g., one way to look at WILDing is as an advanced form of meditation, and meditation peaces/levels people out by dint of bringing some kinda
    spiritual values into people's lives... their views broaden accordingly in
    a similar way to the way travel broadens the mind kinda thing... the mind expands/matures...

    you (and others) have been farting about with dilds for 50 years because
    dilds are by nature unreliable and thus slow advancing, WILDs, however,
    are much faster and in 3 months it's quite possible to cover all the
    ground (and more) than all the last 50 years of dilding has accomplished combined!

    if'n ya wants to get right down to the 'nub' of WILDing, it's really about attaining the midway point and the inner-knowledge that then becomes
    available to us from that position in awareness... a 'direct knowing' as opposed to having to first figure shit out kinda thing...

    perforce the questions one asks while standing in such a place will
    illuminate our road, you will thus be (and become) your very own reliable
    guide through life, and you'll learn it all directly from yourself and
    from your own inner knowledge (so no more depending on ripoff guides and
    shit huh)

    iow: humanity learning to WILD is (or can be) a way out of their current predicament and stalemate when it comes to being & behaving like jerks on
    this planet, that if everyone meditated to that degree wallyworld would
    change inordinately because humanity would come around to seeing
    themselves very differently indeed... wallyworld actually ending at some
    point to be replaced by a perhaps more enlightened society :)

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  • From slider@1:229/2 to All on Saturday, August 14, 2021 21:33:46
    From: slider@anashram.com

    yeah but nobody cares. :)

    ### - oh i dunno so much heh... you gots pretty hot under the collar there
    for a moment considering you say you don't give a damn huh :D

    look, we have to know the world is shit but still make the best of it
    don't we?

    it would be dumb to live in la-la-happy-land anyway + equally dumb to live
    in a completely horrible/ugly world... there's both good & bad things iow,
    it's not all good but it's not all shite either?

    life thus being a kinda tightrope walk between those 2 (a balancing act)
    plus woe betide anyone who falls-off on either side...

    observation suggests that most people fall off either one way or the other
    at some point and never get back up, so only very few ever make it all the
    way + those that do are always reputed to be rather strange (read:
    advanced) beings ;)

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