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Thanks for sharing this

Yeah allrareherbs often has some, and herbalistics has some atm for $40. Limberlost nursery in Cairns sells them, and I was told that they were $12 each, pickup.

$55 Thats a nice pile of butts' n bits.

Baba Yaga A keen gardener by the looks of those hands Mushroom enthusiast What an awesome old lady! What an epic cool picture!

Yeah he was a christian, but he studied, and had respect for all religions, It was in some of his books that I have read, which I don't have with me. So here's a few snippets off Wikipedia: "Jung's father was a poor rural pastor in the Swiss Reformed Church" "Jung saw the human psyche as "by nature religious" and made this religiousness the focus of his explorations." "Jung's ideas on religion gave a counterbalance to the Freudian scepticism of religion. Jung's idea of religion as a practical road to individuation has been quite popular, and is still treated in modern textbooks" So yeah he started out christian, maintaned some elements of his christian faith but due to his studies of religion and psycology was said to have developed a more pantheistic view. Definition of Pantheism (wiki): "Pantheism is derived from the Greek πᾶν pan (meaning "all") and θεός theos (meaning "God" if used as a noun, or "divine" if used as an adjective). There are a variety of definitions of pantheism. Some consider it a theological and philosophical position concerning God. As a religious position, some describe pantheism as the polar opposite of atheism. From this standpoint, pantheism is the view that everything is part of an all-encompassing, immanent God. All forms of reality may then be considered either modes of that Being, or identical with it. Some hold that pantheism is a non-religious philosophical position. To them, pantheism is the view that the Universe (in the sense of the totally of all existence) and God are identical (implying a denial of the personality and transcendence of God). Because of this, some pantheist groups avoid usage of the word 'God' for its association with a distinct personal or anthropomorphic god, and use other words like 'universe' or 'nature'. " Damn, I thought I was an atheist but I reckon I'm a Pantheist I supose I could be both - an Irreligious Pantheist...ahhh name taggery

Yeah I' an atheist too, but Jung was christian, not that I think that that matters. He was pretty into omens and such, which is a form of divination. Divination is just about predicting things using mechanisms that you don't understand. Weather it works is hard to determine because there is a psychological element, and we are all vulnerable to psychological manipulation, and I don't think that you have to be religious to do that. And if Jung was right at all about sincronisity and such, then psychological manipulation would completely alter what happens and the way thing happen in the physical world, although not violating the laws of physics of cause, but still changing reality. So predictions within the right framework could change reality to make the prediction come true. So you reckon that this natal astrology is not predicting who you are, but is the real deal? People reading sheep guts, knuckle bones, and turtle shells don't think that they are making predictions, but believe that it is the real deal. Maybe you've changed reality and altered yourself! ...

Hey MountainGoat I've got some seeds I could send ya if ya like. But like Teo said, your prabably better off checking out Limberlost, you could get some different varieties and all, nice and big and ready to go into the dirt while theres still some rain around. I was told that those guys have a good selection of other fruit trees and stuff as well. Might get a bit expensive if you're planing on getting a few going, so let me know if you want any seed I've only got the big green ones this year, the little yellow ones didn't put any fruit on due to irigation problem at the wong time.

Sorry I didn't mean to suggest that that you were being degrading - just a comment on the depth of the problem, inabillity of our society to address it, and the feed-back loop that exists between the two. Androids! I'm more concerned about g00gle monster!! .... Astrology - yeah I would say that there is truth to it, like I Ching and other formes of divination. I'm not realy into predicting the future though...opens up a can of worms in my opinion. But that's just me. But Carl Jung is absolutly brilliant, I love his work. Realy gets to the heart of reality, conciousnes, deep psycology, and philosophy. And he has some realy good, easy to read books too.

Hey why don't we have a donations link? Just paypal would be fine. Really easy and everybody has a paypal account. I have a low paying job but I give $50 to erowid and $50 to wikipedia each year because I realy apreciate their services, and apreciate that websites like them exist. I concider that they are worth more than that to me, and I love web sites with no adds. I would be happy to chuck in $50 per year to help keep this forum going as well. But everyone could put it what they want 20, 10, 5 100 whatever, nothing if they don't want to. But yeah adds are probably the best way to go so as to draw revenue from random users, and $5per year to opt out is good for members. But Torsten we need a donations link so those who want to can help you out a bit! I reckon plenty of us would be happy to chuck in a bit

Yeah so I reckon that many of us on this forum may have come across people who communicate in this manner. No doubt a certain level of intelligence and a certain level of knowledge, and a strong desire to communicate their knowledge to others. You say bi-polar, others may say schizophrenic, maybe some PTSD as well, or whatever they like, I'm not really into the name taggery. The comorbidity of mental diagnosis indicates that the apparent disorders are beyond the ability of psychology to quantify and catagorize, and are just the manifestaions of something much deeper, at the edge of what we can comprehend. Or the solutions are beyond what our society will accept. Of what is said much may not be technically accurate, not false but metaphorical and abstract, while other parts are in sort of code, and all strung together in a way that can't really be and isn't really ment to be correctly followed, but is largely just trying to press buttons in yor mind. I have spent many many hours listening to friends and associates talking to me in this way, unable to get a word in edgeways. I've been told I'm a good listener... For ten years or so I was in this socio-economic sector where people like this tend to aggregate. For the last few years I have been away from it but permanently affected. Like he said, it doesn’t benefit anybody to listen to what he has to say. Most people are relativity settled and have put a lot of effort into achieving this state, whereas this guy is very unsettled and quite unsettling. I have found that this state of unsettlement is generally achieved by spiritual existential trauma, when the foundation on which a person has built their life has been destroyed. This could be be religious, childhood problems, personal abuse, family problems, social disillusionment, and others, most likely a mix of some or all of those factors in an interconnected matrix. To a degree this can affect the listener, but mainly by the realisation of the incredible depth of despair and sheer helplessness. It it a terrible thing for a concious human mind to be confronted by another concious human mind who was once a little kid, who had beautiful hopes and dreams, and has the memories and experiences of an entire lifetime, to see their wonderful intelligence, knowledge, and reasoning ability thrashing around helplessly trying to make sense and meaningfulness out of the imposable chaos and terror that they have found themselves in - like an octopus on a barbecue - sheer terror to behold. But I have to say I certainly commend you on your choice to look, instead of looking away like so many others. There is a lot that can be learned, but it is not so much in the words spoken. One reoccurring theme that I have come across is the person is often driven by shame and guilt for something or things that they had done or should have done, or a choice or choices that they had made which had resulted in the irreversible situation. Sometimes plausible and other times with a more tenuous relation to cause and effect, and reality, but meaningfull to themselves. He mentioned 'The economy of Greece...in a few words, I am the mastermind let alone the inside story' maybe he was involved in some area of economics. The realisation of what you had done could certainly be enough to destroy a persons foundations, after a life of believing that what you was doing was basically right to then realise what you had actually done, what you had been complicit in, what you with all your intelligence and good intention had been tricked into doing to other people, the terror which you had committed against fellow human beings and human beings of the future, altering the future of humanity in a most reprehensible way. No wonder he would be trying to find a way to rectify things. After all we are all human. But maybe in the the terrible desperate thrashings of a doomed human being he can redeem himself to some degree and help humanity in that at least part of his story is being told - with your help. So good work - but I don't know how to help with it beyond this post. At least I think that what you've done is better than nothing. There's an old poem called "The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner" which addresses a similar situation. It's a good poem – definitely worth a read. It's a few pages long though. You can find it on the internet.

I just came across this plant today and I remembered seeing this post that you put up a few weeks back. I'm pretty certain that the one I saw is the same one - slightly wavy leaf margins, alternate leaves, same vein structure with that cinnamon look, and that camphor smell. Chewing the petiole gives a slimy sensation instead of that dry/astringent sensation of cinnamon (not that that has much to do with ID, or is an advisable practice at all) I was told it was Cryptocarya triplinervis, Brown Laurel. Lauracae family - same as cinnamon. Distrobution from NSW to Nth QLD.

88 Green's one of my favorate colours!.....along with red, purple, electric blue, bright yellow, some shades of orange, dark chocolate brown, and any fluro colours.

"Why didn't you just swim directly above it?" yeah I just can't look at those murderous creatures the same anymore. I liked Steve. He was a sort of a knob, but in a positive enthusiastic sort of way which was sort of cool....I think I sort of miss him really.... "Yesterday I ate 12 tacos." Now thats a good effort!! Makes me hungry Today I raked leaves. damn thats been yesterday for the last half hour...I'd better go to bed.

I think this thread in "Seed & Plant exchange" "Wanted" from yesterday explains the situation http://www.shaman-australis.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=40879

Ok just some extra info for those that I'm sending seeds out to: HBWR - The packs look alot bigger than they needed to be because they are still in their pods, so I hope nobody is too disapointed. I also chucked in a little clippy with some older seeds in it. I don't know if they are any good, they may be getting too old. Barringtonia - I hope they all arrive in good condition. I think the viability period is very short. Each pack has about five good fresh seeds (from last week) plus two or three older ones from the week before. The seeds are quite large and have a thin skin and a thin fiboury layer but no shell. I have found that seeds left on a table inside in airconditioning can shrivle overnight and no doubt die. And seeds left in a clippy bag will go moldy in a few days. Also ants really like eating them, soil ants will burrow in and eat them, and some house ants will too. So I would advise wetting them and planting them the day that you recive them. Could probably find info on the internet, I haven't looked. In their natural habitat they grow in seasonaly swampy areas. They stand in water during the wet season but withstand very dry conditions in the dry season. In a garden they do not need wet or swampy conditions. Their tendency to grow in swampy conditions is probably compleatly because of seed fragillity. The plant its self dose not need thse conditions. The seeds dropped in water in the wet season sprout where they sit on the waters edge. So probably try to emulate those conditions as best as possable. The plant can tolerate quite shady positions but grows best with plenty of sun, and dose well with full sun. Good luck