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    Yeah I did a google. Looks like it's not severe but can get bad. Apparently due to high humidity and too much water (my climate lately). If this is correct it should be a fungi. So I'll try a similar. Anti fungal spray and then remove after a few days/weeks. It's mainly closer to the base so maybe a good dry season might help.

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    I just took a sharp blade to some. It is difficult to take off but once you get under it it seems to come off as on piece and the green flesh underneath looks healthy. I'm just concerned cause their such nice cacti I don't want to get them all diseased. There has been lots of rain humidity lately. I dunno bout root formation, but I was thinking a fungus or something. But yeah I can't scrub it off, I'd damage the cacti more than the weird thing growing on it.

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    Agreed. Nice view. I reckon they'd grow there, but do you notice any areas of the yard that plants don't grow? Or don't grow very well? I wonder how much salt you have in the soil and whether this would effect cacti negitivly. Either way give it a go.

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  10. Posted

    Yeah I would keep Argyreia nervosa in a pot. It gets way out of control otherwise. 

     

    This ones around 14months old.

     

    ive seen it take over areas of bush land where I once lived. And where I got my seeds for this plant from.

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  12. Posted

    Defiantly a problem our species has. We want everything for ourselves to so we may feel or gain more worth than others (speaking broadly not of everyone).

    I love teaching others but I don't think it's as simple as a yes no answer. But the intent should always be to help share and grow each other. 

     

    Sometimes information should be withholded until the right time. Sometimes held back for insight of the seekers 'evil' intent. Sometimes things should be learnt from experience or self growth rather than outlayed in front of them. 

    Another viewpoint of withholding information without the intent of personal gain could be your still figuring it out for yourself. You may not want to spread a half truth or unfinished hypothesis. Chinese whispers anyone? Lol

     

    but I hope you get the idea. 

     

    I think we all need to share our knowledge, but be mindful or how it's shared.

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  13. Posted · Edited by Zedo

    So good to see you once again - I though that you were hiding from me. 

     

    Gonna throw this out there and see what it grows into. 

     

    Ive incorporated meditation into my life ever since my awakening (debateable term but I'm gonna roll with it). Pretty much for the last year and a half I've done at least 15mins a day. Miss a few days here and there and usually sit for 30-45mins. Some days I've done multiple sits for up to an hour or so each. But it's become a part of my life. 

    When I look back to when I started, I remember sitting in the dark just trying to stop the ramblings in my head. I'd try lots of different tactics to mediate and begin to form what worked for me. The experience I had that led me to begin mediating taught me what it was, how it's done, what it feels like and what your aiming to achieve... well in th way that those experiences do.

     

    Everything... And I mean everything lined up and made complete sense at that time in a way that's uncomprehendable. It was like being shown how a puzzle goes together, then given to you in pieces to try figure it all out again. So that's what I did. Well what I'm doing. 

    Some people have asked me 'what sort of meditation do you do?' Generally I get these questions from people who have never investigated meditating first hand. But some are versed in these manners and I've never really understood how there are 'types' of mediation. I perceive it as all as mediation in the true sense of itself. Sure there's breath work, or energy manipulation or though stilling or yoga or whatever but ultimately I see them as a different road to reach the same point. What works for one may not for another and hence the 'types' of mediation. Maybe I'm misguided on my view but that's is my perception. 

     

    Ive had some weird and amazing sensations or experiences while meditating - some repeatable some I've never had again. Once I moved from root to crown slowly and opened each level then dropped back to root and i could feel a sensation as if the energy below me was rising up in a circle around me about a meter in radius. Almost like it was raining upside down or the earth was trying to repel rather than attract. I could feel the deep dark red in a third diamentional view radiating around me. I sorta had a thought once it was like Thor striking the ground and the ground shook dust rose and the vibration emanated out from the centre. Very very hard to explain it it was very powerful. But hope that gives you an idea.

     

    As I got better and better at meditating, I'd get more and more visuals, sensation, control and be able to get deeper quicker. Then I got to a point where I would get white flashes to the point where my head would be engulfed in a blinding white light. Even glimpsed the puzzle picture door once. At first I had to open my eyes to see if there was an external light source. 95% of my meditation are before bed in the dark, no lights. And even today there are times I have to verify there's nothing shining on me. But slowly I'm rewiring my brain to know it's not an external source so that I can distinguish the internal from external and carry on. 

     

    This is where I'm asking for your experience, opinions, or just other perspectives 

     

    Im now at the point where I perceive that I can open my third eye. Let me see if I can explain this in a way that can be correctly interpreted.

    You have 5 obvious senses as we're told and the 6th apparent untold sense we don't obviously recognise. The way I see life is with my eyes. As like most of us. So my life, my entire perspective of everyday life, my centre of direction, my view point, my... my eyes... I am my eyes. You are your eyes. It's your window to the world. Think about it - then realise your thoughts are actually coming from above your eyes. Yes that's it you guessed it... the brain lol... or I'd rather use the term the mind.

    But you don't perceive with your mind. It's the processor, the central hub, to gather what is perceived from the other senses, then relayed back to you in the voice and image in your head. And what other ways it does this. 

    So so before I proceed look at it this way. Blind guy. From a very young age I've always wondered, 'what does a blind person see?' And 'what does a deaf person hear?'. I know their blind and or deaf but what replaces that perception. So a blind guy can't see so how could he be his eyes. He can't. He would most likely be his ears - or nose to a degree... I don't know. But if he is his ears, then he would perceive from the sides of his head as the main focus rather than the front. Make sense?

     

    So what I'm saying is I can move my perception to my brow. But in doing this my eyes involuntarily... switch off? It's like my eyes either roll down or up or god knows where and my perception has shifted. But upon trying to 'look' around my eyes sorta fire on and off and I feel like I'm all crazy googley eyes until I find a perception spot whether it's my eyes or brow. With enough focus you can 'look' around slowly by what feels like a cross between looking horizontal/vertical and widening the field of view. But once again I think this requires a bit of brain rewiring to know it's not visual from your eyes so that the energy used to move your perception there isn't wasting as much on switching off your eyes. 

     

    Ive heard/read people look up at their brow to open their third eye. I've never done this as a common practice while meditating. I've tried but I felt this was a misinterpreted truth when I tried. So to me the aim was focus there not look there. Which yes while it's easier to focus on something your looking at... it's not your eyes that perceive this experience. So when I say my eye switch off and move (sometimes up) involuntary, I don't think it would be them getting stressed and conking out on ya staring straight up trying to 'see' the light. 

     

    Maybe this is the sixth sense. If it was, I would probably call it focus.

     

    Thoughts? 

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  15. Posted

    I can see your problem from both view points, though I don't know the exact situation first hand. I've played the role of the rock for someone to confide in, and the opposite. Your right to question your involvement and influence to the situation, but in doing so we over analyse beyond what we know. This can be both a blessing and a curse, as can anything really. It all depends on the action you take and how well you execute that action. 

     

    One thing I would recommend since your unsure if you've made it better or worse, would be to write a simple letter just saying hi etc, thanks for thinking of me in your situation, say how you were sorta unprepared to react to the situation and just let him know that he 'can' say hi and talk about things whatever they are when ever he needs to and you'll do the best you can to help where you can. 

     

    Sometimes having it writen (handwriting transmits more sincerity) in front of someone gives them the space they need and they can read it over and over knowing they have that option. Whether they take it is really out of your control. 

     

    But it at the end of the day you need to be happy with your decision and how you acted. And I would imagine you acted well... how you would have acted. Like CrayZ said, be yourself.

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  16. Posted

    Good luck, hope they grow well. I've tried several times recently to grow them. 3 different lots of seeds from different people. They sprout super easy, get to around an inch high then die. Would love to know how to get them past that point. 

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    I pretty much use my phone or iPad to view the forum. Since the recent changes, I find that:

     

    the 'unread content' button only shows on my iPad in landscape mode.

    when attempting to post a new topic, the drop down menu for selecting the area to post is cut and I cannot scroll to the bottom.

     

    can this be resolved at all?

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    Recently I didn't drop my recently sown seeds, but rather woke up to find something dug them up all over the place. 

    Distort at first yes but left it and came back after work that say and spent around an hour sifting through it all and replanting as many as I could as carefully as I could. I think I've got around 30 left from around 100 or so. 

    Not so much give this event a place in my life than experiencing life and reacting to a given situation. 

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    Good point. Though while I see your view as to 'why' so much of our power is fossil fuel, then nuclear, then least renewable, I think it warranted to add in the fact fossil fuel derived energy has been around longer and therefore more developed, tried and tested. Defiantly nuclear can be bad (or so we're told) but it's also not as developed etc. even more so for renewable.

    I thought a few euro countries were now over 50% renewable up to 100%.

    ive got a feeling tesla (the real tesla not the branded tesla) may have had much technology to derive, amplify and use energy in other ways that could have been better used by man. But I guess we won't know.

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    Same boat, haven't back tracked to read the whole thing. I agree coal is not a good way to derive energy - very inefficient at that. But I don't think it's the main pollution contributer. I was under the impression our farming of livestock and exploitation of our land was the greatest issue tied to the climate instability. 

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