this is work in progress or homilies or miscellaneous items

that don't warrant a page by themselves

or seem to fit better here



pending poems  index



chronological order is from the bottom to the top of the page



audio files can be complemented by listening to them  with the eyes closed !


















 halting the camels outside a caravanseri by théodore frère


charles-théodore  frère


check out the full screen image of    along the nile   : o )(
















prince grigory  potemkin  died from gorging on meat when his bronchial pneumonia became fatal with the iron influx from the meat !


a lover of and later  ménage à  troisist   with the empress catherine


he was an interesting man and a leading force in the creation/extension of the russian empire !
















“ there's not one instance in recorded history when two men faced off and drew guns against one another other !


the movies created fast draw, it never happened in real life !


how did bill  hickok  die?  he was shot in the back, they all died that way ! ”


bob mundenspeaks very  rapidly ,  you can see how how he might be so quick ! :o)(


bill hickok was involved in one duel but it was the traditional sideways duelling stance with not really what you would call a quick draw !
















supreme  competence  :o)(


jackie evancho  (aged 9)  singing   “o mio babbino caro”


lyrics
















now this is how to  live  :o)(
















a correspondent  writes


Hi Andrew,


I came across your website yesterday and I read with avid interest your views on heavy metal  chelation ! Wow !  I've been up half the night thinking about it.


Without going into a massively dull and boring history of how I came to be ill, I have reason to suspect lead & mercury toxicity for myself, although the results of a hair test only showed slightly elevated lead levels ie no mercury  (although that's not unusual).


Several GP's have been unhelpful and unable to tie my symptoms together. I have therefore relied on my own research to identify the cause of my symptoms. This has taken me into the world of heavy detox where chelation is deemed the only way to treat any form of heavy metal toxicity.


I had my amalgams safely removed back in march, by a holistic dentist. I was really ill at the time. Since then I have made good progress and have dabbled with chelation which has usually seen me packed off back to bed for periods of up to 2 weeks, unable to get out again.


I'm not a fan of chelation but found no evidence to the contrary until I came across your site yesterday. Chelation, it seems, is the unchallenged treatment of choice? I'm also a member of a Mercury Detox group on Facebook which follows the Andrew Hall Cutler frequent dose chelation protocol. Funnily enough, all the members support chelation but nobody seems to be getting any better. There don't seem to be any success stories flying around to motivate the others? Most members are either doing chelation or waiting to have their amalgams removed. Everyone is ill!


What I noticed about this chelation protocol is that you have to buy the Andrew Cutler book to start off with and at £40+, it's not cheap (although I did find a pdf on the internet). Then there are the huge amount of supplements to buy and you can end up buying a whole new cupboard to house them in. I store mine in the fridge and I looked at them the other day and thought to myself, "some fucker's making a lot of money out of me" lol! This seems to be an industry all on it's own and that makes me suspicious!


Another thing about Cutler is that I don't trust him. I found out that he issued a take down notice on a website that was promoting his book and using excerpts of it to do so. Such a move makes you question his motives for doing so?


I'm a great believer in nutrition and I'd designed my own program incorporating steam baths combined with mineral nutritional replacement. This seems to work well but if I introduce a chelator, I crash again.


Well, no more chelating for me. I agree with you Andrew that the only way to treat heavy metal toxicity is to let nature take it's course and wait for the minerals and heavy metals to be replaced naturally. Using chelators to claw out minerals is madness and always will cause a range of accompanying problems. I don't think I've suffered any permanent damage but I will consider using cannabis oil at some point over the next few years to aid neuron regrowth if required. I'm hoping this might help.


Anyway, thanks for putting this information out there. I can't believe it's taken me so long to find an alternative view of chelation and one that I whole heartedly agree with.


If you have any tips / links to other info sites re: chelation / nutrition then please share. I'd also like to know more about the compendium....


Thanks


my


reply


I think andy cutler is well intentioned/sincere but misguided, tho he has been a disaster area for people !


I have a supplement and dietary program  here  you might be interested in


and a message board you would be  welcome  to join
















a poem by  eileen 


OCCUPIED


oh fickle poem


why haunt me so


bitch


just let go


I have no time


you win the war


I shut and bar


the door


my  reply


but still I creep in ........ :o)


under the floor.... ! :o)


eileen  replies


Lol I bar the door against people not the poems...;o)
















don't be so sure you are right, you may not be ! : o()
















don't be so sure you are right, you may not be: o()
















don't be so sure you are right, you may not be ! : o) :o(


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don't be so sure you are right, you may not be


v1
















a good  insight  into the modelling world !


her  “ models on phones ”  photos


blog


from the article there's some outstanding things, she drinks too much, is on anti-depressants and has acne implying some sort of impaired immune response, perhaps some degree of irritable bowel syndrome


in typical american fashion the huge factor of the level of neural decline associated with the need to be on anti-depressants is ignored


no doubt she keeps out of the sun as well


suidide by 55 i'd say...............


the advice i'd have to offer is  this ,  but it's as certain as the sun rising tomorrow that it will be ignored ! :o()


the other big thing is a strong degree of autism which can be very disguised in women, again not wanted to be thought about ! :o(
















i've got to hand it to miscavige, he has  destroyed  scientology in a way no-one else could, thank god, otherwise it would have been a main stream religion by now : o ( )


i


cannot


for


the

life


of


me


see


the


attraction


the


belief


system is insane and


without merit ! :o()
















hmmm... ramana was quite strongly gender blurred, look at the size of those  breasts   (0:36) ,  naturally high levels of estrogen, not just a loss of testosterone with age  !


i'd say he was suspicious of being poisoned  (2:27) ,  which would be a realistic worry, the indian guru scene being what it is ! ?


i always found it odd that no attempt was made on the life of u. g. krishnamurti... too ugly :o)( ?
















 lisa ,  the basic point is you claim the authenticity of ramana as your own, yet you behave in a narrow way that he didn't, you endlessly delete what conflicts you or your followers from the pap and blinkered blindness that you and they apparently think is  “truth” 


if


you


are


real


leave


this up !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


if a thing is so, you can simply leave it as  “what is”  and let it rest in its own  “beingness”  ............ :o)


if it's not so, some few well chosen words will suffice and if you don't have them then  “what is”  will provide, or are you uncertain of that?


the brick wall you face is of your own building ! :o()
















i think the truth is that what is really beautiful comes out of what is completely broken !
















i think the truth is  that what is really beautiful  comes out of what is completely broken


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i think the truth is that what is really beautiful comes out of what is completely broken
















the endless nights of a full moon, white silver brocades  that go on forever


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the endless nights of a full moon, white silver brocades that go on forever
















the endless nights of a full moon


white silver brocades that go on forever


v2
















the endless night of a full moon, white silver brocades that go on forever


v1
















the endless night of a full moon


white silver brocades that go on forever


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my god a reply on lisa cairns facebook  page ,  an angry mouse roars !


juana hidalgo  writes


I´m sure he  wouldn't ,  Andrew Levin, because he  (ed. ramana)  didn't have a computer. But I'm also sure that if you had written only one of your bullying messages on his ashram walls - like you ve been doing on Lisa´s-, you would've been kindly asked to hit the road.


my


reply


hi Juana, please point out what is bullying ?


you are making a claim without arguing the point, is that because you are unable to make a point ?


ramana    in fact once when a pamphlet was printed outlining some faults of his said they should have asked him because he had plenty more to put in that book !


why not be less sure and start to deal with the issues raised, some closed unreal world protected by censorship is surely opposite to what this is about?


one of the few instances I know of ramana coercing is telling  papaji  (h.w.l. poonja)  to go and save his wife and children living in lyallpur/faisalabad during the pakistan partition which was pretty violent !


hwl poonja was very reluctant to go and I have strong reservations about him  (poonja)  and the bandwagon that grew up around him !


ramana was notoriously non interfering with his devotees which brought him quite abit of criticism..........!


I suppose devotees in those pre-computer times are pretty much the same as web life, all talk no action and when the talk is shown as vacant............. well then the sticks come out !


if you know a subject you should be competent and able to argue effectively, why end up like the millions whose only action is to slide into a cheap anti-intellectualism..............
















my  reply  to this blog  entry  by kogen


you self medicate with marijuana to get to sleep?


that's a valid use imo but there are better and less brain stuffing ways to do  it  but you have no interest in coming out of your psychosis !


your  “career”  in zen is an illusion but you are inflexible to the point of mental illness I am afraid :o()
















andrew llyod webber, that arch creator of substitutive realities, only married  three  times !
















mia farrow, her child ronan fathered by frank sinatra while in a relationship with woody allen, woody allen's marriage to his step daughter soon-yi Previn, paul hogan now divorced three times, twice from his first wife, and latterly from his 19 year younger co star of crocidile dundee fame linda kozlowski........... to say nothing of andré previn marrying and divorcing FIVE TIMES !!!


these flapping moths in


the


flickering


flame


.


.


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mia farrow, her child ronan fathered by frank sinatra while in a relationship with woody allen, woody allen's marriage to his step daughter soon-yi Previn, paul hogan now divorced three times, twice from his first wife, and latterly from his 19 year younger co star of crocidile dundee fame linda kozlowski........... to say nothing of andré previn marrying and divorcing FIVE TIMES !!!


these flapping moths in


the


flickering


flame


.


.


.
















umi redwalla  quotes  Saint Hildegard of Bingen  -  (1098-1179)


“ ...I, the highest and fiery power, have kindled every spark of life...I, the fiery life of divine essence, blaze in the beauty of the fields, am aflame beyond the beauty of the meadows, I gleam in the waters, and I burn in the sun, moon, and stars. With every breeze, as with invisible life that contains everything, I awaken everything to life. The air lives by turning green and being in bloom. The waters flow as if they were alive.... I am also Reason, having the wind of the sounding Word by which all things were created, and I breathe in them all, so that none may die, because I am Life... ”


my  reply


good quote umi, it's a pity that neo advaita and non-duality seem to ignore this ultimate expression, pissing around with their inverted partial expressions the way they do !:o()  


I have re-expressed the last line as  “ I breathe in them all, so eternity may be ............. ”  
















my  comment  to lisa cairns who seems unable to cope with some of my comments on her facebook page and deletes them, this claimant to the heirdom of ramana ! :o(


would ramana delete comments that you don't like the way you do ? one can pretend but at a certain point, the pretence fails and we get locked into something sick and erroneous ! :o()
















fred  writes/masturbates


seeing the nature

of the practice of nothing

the wind in the leaves



mark foote  writes/ jerks off fred  !


the wind in the leaves

rustles and stirs, then settles

the sky opens wide



my


reply


the monkeys scratch their armpits and prance, aping what they cannot do


their


poems


crash

:


o


(


)
















fred  writes/masturbates


seeing the nature

of the practice of nothing

the wind in the leaves



mark foote  writes/ jerks off fred  !


the wind in the leaves

rustles and stirs, then settles

the sky opens wide



my


reply


the monkeys scratch their armpits and prance/dance,  aping what they cannot do


their


poetry


crashes :o()
















it's


what


we


do


that


takes


our


lives


in


different


directions !


|


'


directions !
















it's


what


we


do


that


takes


our


lives


in


different


directions !


|


'


directions !
















it's what we


do


that


takes


our


lives


in


different


directions !


|


'


directions !
















death


when


we


cease


everything


that


was


and


is


and


will


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been


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will


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for


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death


when


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cease


everything


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death


when


we


cease


everything


that


was


and


is


and


will


be


and


has


been
















sleep problems, poor quality  sleep  and short sleeping times are a disease state and damage   ( I  II )   the brain ! :o(
















“everything is meaningless”   isn't that  (also also? also also()?)  a form of meaning ?
















the neo-advaita/non-duality/toni parsons/lisa cairns paradigm of saying  “everything is meaningless”   isn't that  (also also? also also()?)  a form of meaning ?
















dave st. germain  quotes  me and  replies


“ avoid direct attack and try and untwist the bullshit is the best way ;o) ” 


or just avoid it entirely. i've really got no need to stir that pot. easier to let them stew.


my


reply


correcting people is like a disease with me :o(


i must be a reincarnated pit bull, i can't let go...............

:


o


(
















this  study  says that BRCA mutation carriers also have higher levels of the female hormones oestradiol and progesterone contributing to the increased probability of breast and ovarian cancer !


so high natural levels of oestradiol and progesterone will be partly diagnostic of the BRCA mutations and similarly low natural levels would be diagnostic of not having the mutation !


it's a bit weird, can explain things like angelina jolie's maternal and mate stealing overdrive ! :o)(


my write up on  HRT  !


interestingly in that study they say  “ develop breast and ovarian cancer rather than other cancers ”  which would seem to imply that higher estrogen and progesterone levels are protective against other forms of cancer !
















michel foucault/ blanche monnier  update
















dave st. germain  writes


this is a fascinating  glimpse  at how power, manipulation, and sex fantasies lead to confusion and ruin. philosophers are moths to a flame, too...


my  reply


he's actually  saying  that an investigation of conciousness is recursive which is a sorta zen point of view and deconstructive of philosophy, this would make him an anathema to university philosophy departments, they were only looking for a means to shoot him down which he obviously has provided :o()


young women want the intellect, but they also want the sex and ultimately the sex wins out, heidegger ran into the same trap, his wife had one of her children  ( hermann )  by another man !!!!!!!!


--------------------


singed by the flame of the hardcore zen blog lol? you need to sharpen your technique to deal with that lot, they are not necessarily so stupid :o)


avoid direct attack and try and untwist the bullshit is the best way ;o)
















humans the madness of endless breeding............
















humans, the madness of endless breeding............
















humans, the madness of endless breeding
















humans the madness of endless breeding


audio
















 klyuchevskaya sopka erupting december 2009


klyuchevskaya sopka erupting december 2009,  photo taken by denis  budkov


english russia  collation 
















Justin  Kucera  asks


hi, are you a zen master


my


reply


“ As long as you remain in one extreme or the other, you will never know Oneness ”


zen masters and zen incompetents, where are they in that?


( ed. quote from the Hsin Hsin Ming,  verse  two,  lines 11 and 12 )


justin kucera  replies


IS THAT A DHARMA THAT FACILITATES AWAKENING? WHO GAVE YOU TRANSMISSION


my


reply


the process of awakening is a long hard road and mostly self taught, people like you want some short cut which is why true understanding is so rare !


you can google for a blog called  “ 7th  zen  patriarch ”  which explains about me !
















is the schema  correct  or inverted ?  rather than telling us something should an art work be the exploration itself of what might be or is?


in terms of film andrei tarkovsky is hard to go past, something rough or tumbled with moments of lyricism with an overall thematic that  (slowly ?)  shows itself :o)(()
















my  reply  to herb deer's  the essential teacher student relationship  blog  post


you got more than lucky, women don't find it easy as they get older, I hope you return the care she has given you !
















a good chris van allsberg  interview  !
















i felt in him what women feel in men, something so tender, swollen, tyrannical, absurd; i would never take the consequences of interfering with it


the above quote by alice munro,  from  “ lives  of girls and women”
















my  reply  to herb deer's  buddha's in the mist  blog  post


start fucking with the underworld and how long are you going to live ? not even a nice death, they torture as well :o()


read some charles bukowski, that will cure you of any notions of saving the world or being a bodhisattva :o()


the value of voluntary work is the actual doing it and not other people talking about it, but it's risky from a health and financial point of view, it's not that the world is better for this work, but that you have spent yourself in a more meaningful way than watching videos and listening to mp3 's  ! : o )( !!!


you mention the middle class not having many health issues, but isn't there this huge and mordant undercurrent of health problems eating away at the quality of life gains in the last fifty years?
















it's sorta sad to be helping people


there's


something


better


: o )()(
















it's sorta sad to be helping people


there's


something


better

:


o


)


(
















it's sorta sad to be helping people


there's


something


better
















it's just a long slow process, somethings take 20 or thirty years to work out and somethings we never do work out !

:


o


)


(
















it's just a long slow process, somethings take 20 or thirty years to work out and somethings we never do work out !


: o ( ))#@!)(
















it's just a long slow process, somethings take 20 or thirty years to work out and somethings we never do work out !


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it's a long slow process, somethings take 20 or thirty years to work out and somethings we never do work out  !


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it's a long slow process, somethings take 20 or thirty years to work out and somethings we never do work out !
















it's a long slow process, somethings take 20 or thirty years to work out and somethings we never do work out ....
















it's a long slow process, somethings take 20 or thirty years to work out and somethings we never do work out
















i had alittle thought


that


appeared


and


disappeared


what was the thought?


“ i had a little thought... [....] ”
















i had alittle thought


that


appeared


and


disappeared


what was the thought?


“ i had a little thought... [....] ”

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i had alittle thought


that


appeared


and


disappeared


what was the thought?


“ i had a little thought... [....] ”

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i had alittle thought


that


appeared


and


disappeared


what was the thought?


“ i had a little thought... [....] ”


:


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i had alittle thought


that


appeared


and


disappeared


what was the thought?


“ i had a little thought... [....] ”


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i had alittle thought


that


appeared


and


disappeared


what was the thought?


“ i had a little thought... [....] ”


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i had alittle thought


that


appeared


and


disappeared


what was the thought?


“ i had a little thought... [....] ”


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i had alittle thought


that


appeared


and


disappeared


what was the thought?


“ i had a little thought... [....] ”
















people have a very limited ability to escape themselves


i should know

:


o


( ) (( )()
















people have a very limited ability to escape themselves


i should know

:


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people have a very limited ability to escape themselves

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people have a very limited ability to escape themselves

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i should know

:


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people have a very limited ability to escape themselves :o)


i should know :o(


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people have a very limited ability  to escape themselves


i should know


v2
















people have a very limited ability to escape themselves


v1
















ok, you can start to see the  genius  of alice munroe !
















diana athill at her  best  :o)(


very sobering !
















my reply to herb deer's  post  posing some questions about zen that i address !


herb, everything is fucked up, why should religion be any different ! it's all a big cosmic joke, all these  “compassionate”  zen  'tards  actually belonging to the religion responsible for propagandizing militarism and nationalism in ww2 japan which is why so many japanese zen priests ended up in the west following the discrediting of zen in post world ww2 japan, the authoritarianism and anti intellectualism of zen has its origins in being a vehicle to make troops obey orders and give their lives !


the chinese invasion of tibet could have been avoided if the dalai lama had displayed some political abilities, it's not his fault, he was just aboy plucked off his families farm, but tibet was ruled by idiots !


there is no context for  “abusive teachers”  because there's no right and wrong for this sort of thing, zen and religion is about fake substitutive realities which act as a disguise for primal human evolutionary motivations !


women seeking men with status and power  (lol, they got that wrong for sure !),  men seeking to inseminate without the burdens of matrimony :o)(


i think you would have seen more people of colour in zen except that zen has collapsed numerically and basically neo-advaita/nonduality is picking up the zen audience, just as wrong minded of course but i do think the  “self appointed teacher”  paradigm of neo-advaita/non-duality works better, it's really this ghastly transmission system in zen that seems to have ensured only very mediocre and incompetent teachers now represent zen !