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What's Going on With Me Today?

Talk about your day, what's going on, the good, bad, indifferent or just plain goofy.

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Music - What am I Listening To / What am I Playing?

Started by Joe Fulton. Last reply by Deb Nov 11, 2013. 43 Replies

What music are you listening to or playing today?Continue

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TV & the Movies - What am I Watching?

Started by Joe Fulton. Last reply by Deb Nov 11, 2013. 29 Replies

So this doesn't have to be something spiritual.  It can be funny or other kinds of mindless.  Ok it can be spiritual, too.Continue

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What Makes me Happy?

Started by Joe Fulton. Last reply by Deb Nov 11, 2013. 9 Replies

Everyone has something that brings a smile or makes the day less stressful.It could be a song, a picture, a thought or something completely different.Let's hear what makes you happy :)Continue

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What Do You Do?

Started by Jessica R. Huffmeyer. Last reply by PuzzleSolver Apr 11, 2013. 2 Replies

 Everyday we wake up thinking  of thoughts in our minds  and sometimes these thoughts of ours are not positive and can weight us down from performing our daily tasks or achieving our daily goals. It…Continue

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Comment by Michael A. Williams on November 29, 2011 at 4:23pm

Hi, Heidi, good to see you back on the site again. I received an email from Peter O'Lalor this morning that he's stepping down from the WWW blogtalkradio show for a new challenges and I thought resigning from this site. I emailed him my best to him on his new path. I just received a reply from Peter and he's not officially leaving the site, but only the radio show. He mentioned you were starting on a new path yourself. Much good energy to you in your endeavors.

Joe, I wanted to mention that from what I've read recently, new studies have shown that caffeine and coffee have been getting a bad rap. In quick summary, there are many health benefits to both, in moderation. Of course, one person's "moderation" can be another's "too much." It's light doses for me, or I get the "jitters."

From everything I've read, Ritalan can be dangerous and is way over prescribed. The long term effects of adderol aren't so good. It's no secret that the military used amphetamines in the battlefield for decades to keep the soldiers going under extreme stress. I suspect they've switched to something like adderol, which is seems safer in short term use.

 

 

Comment by Heidi Ann Maycroft on November 29, 2011 at 3:03pm

Be safe tomorrow Karen...  A strike sounds scary to me.

Comment by Karen Barnacle on November 29, 2011 at 1:23pm

Very busy day. Lots of challenges! Several of my own making as a result of doing things in a rush and/or when tired. Mnaged to spend at least 2 minutes watching the heavy rain in the memorial garden where I work before a colleague arrived for a chat.....On strike tomorrow. Never been on strike before, but because I'm aware of the history and philosophy of unions in the UK and as a good working class girl felt that I have to support my colleagues. Would rather be at work - so much to do. Got home after an 11 day and spent a minute looking at a beautiful moon before coming in to start the evening. Lovely husband treating us to a take away and at least I'll grab a moment of sanity on our day of action tomorrow! I'm not well enough to picket, march or wave a placard - I have a serious heart problem that means I have to avoid stress -..............That is another huge challenge as I want to do too much and fret that I can't travel or dance the night away. Still when I'm not at work I have lots of time for contemplation as I'm in bed quite a lot!

Comment by Michael A. Williams on November 29, 2011 at 1:08pm

Sorry, Ferran, but it's well documented that HPB used copius anounts of hashish daily after she started on it on Cairo. I don't know the year for that. She even freely mentions it in her writings, extolling its virtues for inducing visionary and mystical experiences.

You have to keep in mind two things. First, drugs will effect people differently many times. There are some who find marijuana and hashish a stimulant also, and can concentrate, write and do other creative projects. I never could when I indulged years ago. I got the euphoria and sensory enhancement, but was too spaced out to concentrate on writing. And, there are a very few, HPB was one, who do get to the visionary and mystical angle. It took psychedelics to go there for me.(See Olga's excellent response to HPB in Joe's discussion "HPB - First of the Moderns or Last of the Medievals")

Second, as I said earlier, this was a totally different era in regards to these substances. They were legal, little was known about them scientifically compared to now, and there was not the stigma attached to them.

Joe, you're right about seeking professional help if one has an addiction problem. The current Medical Establishment would be of no help if one wanted to use certain drugs/substances for consciousness exploration. They wouldn't even admit that's possible.

Christian, if I interpreted your long comments on HBP the other day corrected, one things you were pointing out was you felt that this hashish use caused HPB to be influenced by nefarious lower astral entities, masquerading as higher beings. Is that correct?

 

Comment by Ferran Sanz Orriols on November 29, 2011 at 8:19am

 Hi, friends! Have a good day!!!

Thanks for your answer, Michael. Well, I don't think HPB used hashish or marijuana as a habit  ;-) ... the main reason for my opinion is that I've made hashish myself (not for sale, strictly for fun ;) and, knowing about this substance and its effects, I just don't see HPB stoned. Of course my opinion is not at all a proof hehehehe. :-)  

Comment by Christian von Lahr on November 29, 2011 at 12:51am

such a busy day, ... managed a bit on my FB page.   Lots of researching, reading, editing, and stuff, stuff, stuff.  Interesting read on HPB's habit.  I am more convinced than ever on what I've perceived has been behind her ways and means.

 

Comment by Olga Stolyarchik on November 28, 2011 at 6:31pm

Hello Everybody,

Today I posted some more of inspirational, wisdom quotes with my art on a background.Inspirations from The Theosophical Network. It is fun self-inspiring and it is pleasant form of giving. I will consider to spend a few minutes of my day and will continue to create at lease 1-2 a day. Today it was from my poem "Gratitude - Awakening"  and my new quotation on Universe. 

Thank you for reading. 

Comment by Michael A. Williams on November 28, 2011 at 1:21pm

Hi, Ferran, good to see you here again. This is no new revelation or late breaking expose of HPB. It's been well known for some time and, to my knowledge, not even a hardcore Blavatskyite has refuted it.

I first read about it in when Colin Wilson's book, THE OCCULT, came out in 1972. He mentioned she was something of a two-fisted addicted smoker, a tobacco cigarette in one hand and a marijuana joint in the other. He doesn't list a source, but he's known as a meticulous researcher.

Over the years I've seen it mentioned numerous times in articles. Recently, I ran across it again in Gary Lachman's A DARK MUSE, A HISTORY OF THE OCCULT, 2003. He says Blavatsky used copious amounts of hashish, the potent resin of the bud of marijuana plant, and started when she was in Cairo. He gives the Sylvia Cranston's book HPB: THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE OF HELENA BLAVATSKY, 1993, as one of his sources for her life. It's probably in there.

Also, I just did as Google Search on "Blavatsky and hashish" and a number of sites turn up, with more proof. In fact, here a quote from ISIS UNVEILED I ran across that's quite an 'eye popper" for its day":

"Plants also have like mystical properties in a most wonderful degree, and the secrets of the herbs of dreams and enchantments are only lost to European science, and useless to say, too, are unknown to it, except in a few marked instances, such as opium and hashish..." - HPB

It must be remembered that these substances were legal back then and didn't have the stigmas attached to them that they have today. In fact, you could buy syringes, needles and vials of opium legally through the Sears mail order catalogue. 

Hope this helps to answer your question.

 

Susan, I never heard of recycling wine bottle corks, sounds like a good practice. I imagine they grind them up and then re-press that into new corks.

 

 

Comment by Ferran Sanz Orriols on November 28, 2011 at 10:16am

  Hi friends, have a good Monday!!!

 Michael, could you give more details on the well established fact that HPB used hashish?  You have awaken my curiosity on this point :-) 

Comment by Olga Stolyarchik on November 28, 2011 at 7:58am

Thank you everybody for your kind comments.
I am really glad you are like it. Looking forward to new discussions. I wrote a comment on Reincarnation. It is one of my favor. Researching and documenting own Reincarnation for last 10 years.  

Wish a beautiful day to all and the Best of Peace.

 

 
 
 
 

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