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  3. Posted

    5 hours ago, Northerner said:

    Probably upset some snowflake.

     

    I was looking for it to post on an international forum to show them “hey look at us wankers” & it was nowhere to be found!! I had to post Chopper Read instead heh.

     

     

  6. Posted

    On 25/10/2018 at 1:20 PM, Glaukus said:

    Recently I have been experiencing visitations by birds on a daily basis. Most notably magpies, but also king parrots and crows. One magpie in particular is now so comfortable that he will eat from my hand. I call him Claude. 

    King parrots are also making daily visits. Crows watch from a distance but are very vocal.

    This is a new occurrence that started a month or so ago, and it seems to hold some importance, but I'm not sure what to make of it.

    Magpies seem to be associated with a message to focus on spiritual pursuits rather than material ones (I'm hardly a materialistic person so I think there's something I'm missing). Parrots are associated with the need to be watchful and alert. 

    These are the typical associations in dreams anyway. But my visitations are physical, so I wonder if there is more to the picture.

    Does anyone have any experience with bird visitation and their symbology?

     

    Birds are definitely messengers.. I noticed them a lot after my brother died and a friend in Europe - whose dad died when she was younger - vividly remembers a whole flock doing something quite bizarre.

     

    Crow is Trickster :) I’ve only ever had them watch me from afar (they’re very very clever). Magpie is related to Crow though.. I was reading about this because Crow is one of the totem animals of the Aboriginal tribes/cultures in my area:

     

    “The various groups of Western Australia offer two versions of the same story about the Crow and the Magpie. The crow and the magpie are brothers, both born with pure white feathers. Both were vain and would argue as to which was the most beautiful. Perched in a tree, they began to argue and then fought. 

     

    The people with the crow as their totem will tell you the brothers fell into a fire below, the Crow getting burnt all over, the Magpie only partly burnt. Those whom have the magpie as their totem will tell the story the same, but that the brothers fell into thick black mud, and the magpie only slightly stained his feathers, the crow covered in the mud.

     

    As for the crow, as in all Indigenous Australian totems, it is known for its cunning and intelligence, a trickster too, and old spirit with prescient knowledge or carrying old knowledge of many lifetimes (like reincarnation). Very powerful too, as in the totem itself is one of the ones with powerful natural magic, and depending on the language groups own mythology the holder of the totem will either carry great respect, or suspect.” (Wikipedia)

     

     

    I’m not sure at all about parrots.

     

    Crow/Magpie are of course Raven family, and some of my all-time favourite cards are Native American animals. I can send you pics of the chapter on Raven if you like :)

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  7. Posted

    On 04/01/2019 at 4:44 PM, Ethnoob said:

    Chemical shamans dick

     

    I remember CS! Funniest guy ever. He’s had a plant/seed/thing named after his.. anatomy? :lol:

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    On 22/01/2019 at 2:06 PM, Spiky Mc Cactus Face said:

    Some finnish shamanic death metal

     

     

     

    Crikey.. I was seeing a Death Metal vocalist/drummer for a while. The vocals and music *are* pretty impressive. I used to get in trouble for saying “yeah.. but it just doesn’t sound very good!” That’s after hearing it for *hours* on end.

     

    :P

     

     

  18. Posted · Edited by ZefSide95

    On 17/01/2019 at 9:15 PM, Glaukus said:

    This may not be helpful but maybe it will be. A few years ago I went through the worst period of my life, I won't go into the details, it's not important anyway.

    Two things helped me more than anything else.

    1. Everything that happens to you while you are alive is your responsibility. Maybe you didn't cause the things to happen, but whatever happens is your responsibility to deal with, and you have to take responsibility for it in order to deal with it.

    2. You're going to die. We're all going to die. We are meant to die. There's no avoiding it. Once you fully comprehend this, your problems may not feel so big. I actually take a lot of comfort in this fact and it brings me peace to know that one day I most likely won't even be remembered at all.

    That's pretty blunt I know. 

    There's a good book that I recommend: "Fear" by Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Than. It's full of gentle advice that may help you with your PTSD. It teaches you that your worries and fears are not to be avoided, you talk to them and tell them that you will look after them and give them love, after all they are a part of you like all the other parts.

     

     

    Yep, a big part of it is I already had very bad anxiety.. When I get really panicky I sometimes talk to myself as if I were an adult talking to a child, because essentially the fear is my inner-child thinking it’s literally going to die. It doesn’t help that my mother says things like “if you want to stay alive you will pack a bag and call the ambulance..” :rolleyes: In other words “you will die if..” It feels like it’s embedded in the cells of my body now though, and I don’t know how to get it out. I can stop it being added to though by changing my environment.

     

    Re the “you are going to die” (the philosophical concept not mum’s neurosis!):

     

     

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    On 20/01/2019 at 2:02 AM, FancyPants said:

    It’s nearly 2am and I can’t write on a proper keyboard so I’ll be extremely brief. I humbly suggest you have a look at Transpersonal Therapy which can take many forms with how it’s utilised for the client (art/music/body movement/counselling etc). It’s not even the Contemporary idea of Art Therapy - it’s so much more. But if it doesn’t call you, then it doesn’t call you :) I’m just offering something you may not have seen. 

     

    Ive got PTSD (undiagnosed) from a police incident in April last year. 

     

    Thanks.. That sounds very much like Jungian psychology, which I love and have studied formally a bit. 

     

    Yeah mine’s “undiagnosed” but a couple of doctors have said I seem traumatised. I like what George Carlin says here about terms like PTSD. Such a clever guy :)

     

     

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  21. Posted

    On 17/01/2019 at 8:49 PM, bardo said:

    "Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards, and which incorporates itself with the grapes to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy."

    Benjamin Franklin

     

    Image result for beer is proof that god wants man to be happy quote

     

     

    P.S I don't know the validity of those quotes, I do think that all intoxicants, plants and inebriants etc have a place and can be utilized by man for aid, spiritual quests, healing, understanding and such, and that all one has done and going to do is in perfect precision to ones own journey, I also agree with glaukus, those Peruvian shamans where onto something and what it is may make one laugh and cry but at the same time can give peace and understanding that can make near darn anything 100% ok, like a glimpse of the possible beyond, like a dance with the non physical, a way in which shows the more hardship we endure the sweeter the relief, I believe pure unconditional love awaits each and every one of us, the more we lack this love here and now the sweeter it will be when it greats us. 

     

    Yeah I mean if you can do things in moderation, all good, but alcoholism is rife in Oz. I can’t get it atm cos I’m on a phone, but I’ve got some info on alcohol written by a doctor whose life’s work is detox/rehab.. It’s one hell of a drug basically, in terms of the number of neurotransmitters it affects. Shamanic cultures were/are able to use things moderately and with respect. We tend not to.

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    18 hours ago, Glaukus said:

    I think facing whatever it is that's causing your pain is the only way to move forward without repeating the same patterns. Acceptance is very important. Everything is ok, if it's possible it's permissible. Don't worry about whether it's acceptable.

    If you can dry yourself out so that you can safely drink harmalas every day for at least a week you will find help to see a way forward, but that's just the start of the work. There's no easy way but you already know that. We're here for you and with you, lots of us have been through the grinder.

     

    Well see I’m not really using that much of anything.. Compared to my alcoholic days I’m really straight. People think alcohol is ok because it’s legal and socially acceptable. Hell, in this country beer is cheaper than Coke (cola haha). I’ve spoken to a GP about this and she said the alcohol lobby is very powerful.. You just have to look at the advertising to see just how much freedom the industry has. Even the dockets you get at the supermarket have offers at the bottom — “buy one bottle of Scotch and get one free”. Meanwhile, cigarettes are locked in this filing cabinet thing and buying a pack is a bit like some shady drug deal from the boot of a car. Not to mention the pricing. The difference between the attitude toward alcohol/cigarettes in Australia is a huge bug bear of mine because alcohol is what landed me in ICU for a week in 2008 with pancreatic necrosis.

     

    But yeah I really think any drugs I’m using atm are secondary/symptomatic of the trauma. If you ever end up in hospital though, NEVER tell them you use anything illicit because you’ll be written-off. Of all the dealings I had in 2018 with hospital/police/fire brigade, the hospital was the worst. The cops have always been assholes (mind you, Australia is becoming a police state more and more) but the hospital wasn’t too bad ten years ago. Now it’s like hell on earth. I went there for a physical thing but ended up having huge panic attacks and had to beg this doctor like some kind of junky for 10mg of Valium, but he was quite happy to give me Zyprexa (anti-psychotic), which I suspect was a factor in why I was there in the first place! I told them that but noone took any notice. Again, benzos are completely demonised, while they give out anti-psychotics and anti-depressants like candy. The medical profession is probably the #1 factor in this whole PTSD thing.

     

    /rant :)

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