O.K. a man has got the right to change his mind. I withdraw my remark ("I don't need a PH. D. in logic to tell you that your remark "insight MUST be TESTED for validity!" is rather illogical.") basically because on re-reading your statement I just realised that there is more than one interpretation possible for your remark. Considering the fact that I am prepared to change my mind clearly proves that I am NOT related to Msfe Everything else stands. freealways
there is a split between people who always need a theory, and those who just want to accomplish something. A medical researcher wants theory first and then trial and error, an herbalist may draw on centuries of trial and error and make up a theory afterwards. If you happen to be sick all you care about are results, which is why things like accupuncture are legal.
no no no you (like freealways) are totally clueless. please don't try to speak on this subject anymore until you repeat 6th grade science class. (this goes for freealways too) OK? Thank you.
Mystiscism has a great power on fooling people thanks to IMAGINATION; if you don't believe it hear one of the master: "All the supposed abominations, the skeletons and death's head, the coffins and the mysteries, are mere bogeys for children. But there is one dangerous element and that is the element I have copied from them. They form a sort of priestly nobility. They have developed and esoteric doctrine more merely formulated, but imparted through the symbols and mysteries in degrees of initiation. The hierarchical organization and the initiation through symbolic rites, that is to say, without bothering the brain by working on the imagination through magic and the symbols of a cult, all this has a dangerous element, and the element I have taken over. Don't you see that our party must be of this character...? An Order, the hierarchial Order of a secular priesthood." -Adolf Hitler praising Freemasonry <center><img src=http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/attachment.php?s=&postid=235642></center> And I dare say that it is the same kind of PSYOPS (psychological operation term used by army and cia) that is used with part of Traders population with so called Mysterious Natural Law !
"The Hebrew God has announced the end of the world to a Hasidic fish-cutter in New York through a talking fish. According to Zalmen Rosen, the fish messenger said Tzaruch shemira. Hasof bah. The dead fish, a carp, claimed to be channeling the soul of a local Hasidic man who died last year and who was fond of buying carp at the shop for the Sabbath meals of poorer village residents. This nice story is brought to us by the New York Times. "Some people say the story is as credible as the Bible's account of the burning bush," writes Corey Kilgannon, the author of the Times piece." Look at the junk that people want to believe! TAKE A GOOD LOOK! This is what the absence of rational thought looks like! Dumb isn't it!?
Knowledge told Einstein that Space/Time was absolute, wisdom - coupled with imagination is what told him that Newton was only 'right' when dealing with macro-level phenomena. "Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world..." ~Einstein~ PEACE and good-trading, Commisso
wrong (again). MATHEMATICS "told" Einstein he was "right". "imagination" simply gave him direction and fodder for his computations. MATHEMATICS!
"Trepanation is the process of cutting a hole in the skull. According to John Verano, a professor of anthropology at Tulane University, trepanation is the oldest surgical practice and is still performed ceremonially by some African tribes. A trepanned skull found in France was dated at about 5,000 BCE. About 1,000 trepanned skulls from Peru and Bolivia date from 500 B.C.E. to the 16th century.* Bart Huges (b. 1934), a medical school graduate who has never practiced medicine except for a bit of self-surgery, believes that trepanation is the way to higher consciousness. He wanted to be a psychiatrist but failed the obstetrics exam and so never went into practice. So he says. In 1965, after years of experimentation with LSD, cannabis and other drugs, Dr. Huges realized that the way to enlightenment was by boring a hole in his skull. He used an electric drill, a scalpel, and a hypodermic needle (to administer a local anesthetic). The operation took him 45 minutes. How does it feel to be enlightened? "I feel like I did when I was 14," says Huges. What led Dr. Huges to believe that trepanation would lead to enlightenment? His first insight came when he was taught that he could get high by standing on his head. He came to believe that by permanently relieving pressure he could increase the flow of blood to the brain and achieve his goal. After he took a little mescaline he soon understood what was going on. "I recognized that the expanded consciousness was attributed to an increase in the volume of blood to the brain." How has such a simple fact eluded scientists and mystics alike for so many millennia? In the past, trepanation was used either to relieve pressure on the brain caused by disease or trauma, or to release evil spirits. The former is still an accepted medical procedure. The latter has died out in those parts of the world where scientific understanding has replaced belief in invading demons. Huges has yet to command a large following of trepanners, but he has managed to attract a few supporters with holes in their heads. One of his most illustrious pupils was Amanda Fielding from Oxford, England, who not only lived through the filming of her self-surgery but also became a candidate for Parliament. She received 40 votes from the people of Chelsea in 1978 where she ran on the promise of free trepanation from the National Health Service. Feilding maintains that having a hole in her head allows more oxygen to reach her brain and helps expand her consciousness. It's safer than LSD, she says, apparently convinced those are her only two options to expand her consciousness. She claims she now has more energy and inspiration, and is on a "permanent natural âhighâ." She claims the trepanned are "better prepared to fight neurosis and depression and less likely to become prone to alcoholism and drug addiction."* One could say that she is very open-minded." oh my oy my what wise ancients! how did these wise ancients ever concieve of this "truth"? LET THE DEMONS OUT!! was it divine inspiration from the "mastermind" of the universe? who need Science? we have "wise ancients"!!