Do you need some slack? [Archive]

feranaja

12-01-2006, 05:49 PM

Whenever I have attended my Tellington Touch seminaors, I'm always impressed that the Instructor asks everyone, every morning, if any of us need some slack that day. TTouch is very empathic bodywork and it's useless to try to do it when you are stressed, sick, emotionally upset...so if anyone had a bad night, is feeling sick or in general needing some understanding, it's so much better to share that and the group can respond with that in mnd.

Since I feel a growing sense of community here (in addition to the fabulous intellectual content) I thought this might be worth a shot; what, if anything, might you need some slack for? It could be permanent or transient, and you can change it of course (say youre having a bout of depression but recover - its great to hear that too)...

I'll start the ball rolling with two things of my own.

1) I am bereaved, three months ago I lost my dog tragically and without a sngle warning, to a hemmhoragic cancer of the spleen, all too common in large male purebred dogs exposed to specific herbicides. This may not count as a true bereavement to many, all I can say is its the wosrt emotional pain of my life, and I've had some doozies. SO I'm a bit fragile, and prone to melancholy on the one hand, but greatly enjoying some chit chat too, to lighten the load. I know I'll get better, I'm just very sad right now.

2) This one is permanent - I have severe ADHD and I can't concentrate worth crap, but I improve a lot when I'm eating well and exercising - which I'm not, so I'm really scattered right now. This means I may forget to reply to a PM or answer a thread - even one I started - gentle reminders are always welcome. If I dont reply sometimes, its ADHD, and a bit of midlife memory loss in there as well, much as I'm loathe to admit that last one :laugh: .

So that's me - I don't really need "slack" per se, but those two things are parts of me and as much as I'd like to think they'll both disappear, I know after living with it this long years that Number Two gets better but never really disappears.

Now it's your turn. Anything you want us to know? Do you need slack, are you sad, not feeling well, stressed? Communities need to know, I think.

fera

Aodh

12-01-2006, 07:18 PM

I have recurrent manic phases in which I tend to abuse substances around me be they people, pharmaceuticals, or mystical energy currents.

I also tend to have severe codependency issues.

But I make a great mantle-piece and lots of folks like to stick things in me! (Including gods!) so I guess it isn't all bad. ;)

feranaja

12-02-2006, 11:12 AM

..and, you're funny. But that's not a problem! We'll watch out for your manic phases...

YsetEternal

12-02-2006, 11:18 AM

a bit of midlife memory loss in there as well, much as I'm loathe to admit that last one :laugh: .

fera

OMFG you mean that I have more memory to lose. Christ ppl, Im a natural blonde I cant afford to lose anything more...:sad:

feranaja

12-02-2006, 11:27 AM

OMFG you mean that I have more memory to lose. Christ ppl, Im a natural blonde I cant afford to lose anything more...:sad:

Oh you wait :confused: for it girlfriend...
but hey what we lose in speed we make up for in depth...:yes:

m1thr0s

12-03-2006, 12:27 AM

oh geez...this is a great idea fera but I have to tell you...my life is such a freaking mess right now I wouldn't even dare to open the lid for fear of a nuclear explosion...

and really...I'm not exaggerating. nevertheless...plod on...

I won't discuss it because people are trained right down to the bone to hold it against you...well if you're so damn enlightened how come you have personal problems??? They just don't get it that these things can very often be completely at odds... That some of the best minds in history were hapless failures in many "normal" or "expected" areas. That Albert freaking Eistein couldn't find his own damn house if he wandered 2 blocks away from it etc. They fail to see the artist behind the art and think they are looking at some sort of product instead.

depressing actually...and almost impossible to discuss. people are ALWAYS going to be an amalgamate of strengths and weaknesses and it is just an amazing miracle of perseverance the kinds of stuff some folks pull out of their hats. But as long as our asses are tied to this earth, that's just how it is and people really need to understand that better.

I get so sick of hearing what an asshole such and such an icon really was for instance...if people didn't have their own expectations set wrong to begin with...this would be a given. Sure...aleister crowley was looney tunes (for instance)...what of it? He did a hell of a good job with the marbles he had left.

this whole hero-worship crapola is strictly for the birds, man...it just denies people the right to their own innate humanity. It's that very same "humanity" that keeps kicking the odds flat in the teeth.

that's all...rant over.

m1thr0s

Talkingfox

12-03-2006, 01:30 AM

Hear hear m1thr0s.

I remember a conversation with dear friends many years ago discussing that often it seems that the greater the genius the greater the inverse "lame area" and that the responsibility of the magickally aware is to play to the strengths of those around them while helping to heal the weaknesses if asked.

I think that hero worship not only a disservice to the worshipee but severely limits the worshiper as well.

Where do I need slack? Where ever it's willing to be given! :laugh:

feranaja

12-03-2006, 08:33 AM

I won't discuss it because people are trained right down to the bone to hold it against you...well if you're so damn enlightened how come you have personal problems??? They just don't get it that these things can very often be completely at odds... That some of the best minds in history were hapless failures in many "normal" or "expected" areas. That Albert freaking Eistein couldn't find his own damn house if he wandered 2 blocks away from it etc. They fail to see the artist behind the art and think they are looking at some sort of product instead.

This is so sadly true and in part, it's how I personally separate the "wheat from the chaff" so to speak. ANyone with any personal development should know that we ALL have issues and problems, what matters is how we respond to them. I may be a product of my time and upbringing but I deeply believe in sharing and openness - within the context of a safe space, as the term goes. If someone calls you weak because you have problems? That tells me pretty much what I need to know about that person. We need to be compassionate and supportive with one another, as far as humanly possible. I know you've heard me prattle on about this many times, but I believe it.

I also believe that brilliance is so often unrecognized and undervalued - I wish that people who have unique gifts were given the opportunity to develop and explore them without the pressures of so-called normal life.
ANd in many ways, we ALL have unique gifts, we just dont all fit in the same niche. Im a recluse and an eccentric who understands non humans more than her own species some of the time, but I'm ok with that. the humans I DO connect with are all pretty special souls. And thats enough for me, really - to know that some of my species are allright.

Hang in there m1thr0s - I believe you are making an incredible contribution...and I'm sending a <group hug> to all of us here who are facing struggles and soldiering on, reaching out, staying strong - doing what we need to get through it and retain our integrity, too

Never an easy task.

fera

Naomi

12-03-2006, 02:52 PM

well if you're so damn enlightened how come you have personal problems???Aww. Seriously?

http://www.thetengu.com/ar12.jpg

Naomi

12-03-2006, 02:53 PM

Does the hanged man have personal problems? Only by choice...

Train, fall back, train, fall back. Contractions like the universe itself....

Well you know how it goes...hard to see it when you're down in it though...

m1thr0s

12-03-2006, 09:20 PM

I always seem to get more inspiration from the eastern end of things...now take Ganesha for instance...Lord of Obstacles etc. Not easy being a beheaded son of Shiva but he manages it just fine...and really the fact that he has these little problems just makes him all the more accessable...people can relate...I can relate...Ganesha is just plain damn inspiring really...

m1thr0s

feranaja

12-07-2006, 08:42 PM

Oh, I have another one - it's not really me per se, but my satellite dish. Sometimes in winter it disappers until I dust the dish or the weather resolves. Ah the joys of country life - last winter it went off for 5 days once and I was climbing the walls. But we moved the dish and now its not likely to do that again. Still, if I disappear abruptly, thats likely why...and not the house blew up or anything.

I love the service though! fera

YsetEternal

12-08-2006, 10:44 AM

Slack is needed here much... have done one final and two final projects, its a pain in the arse...

feranaja

12-08-2006, 12:09 PM

Slack is needed here much... have done one final and two final projects, its a pain in the arse...

Maybe not so much slack as energy? I dont have a lot to spare, but I'll light a candle for you anyway.
you go girl! And whatever you do, don't hang out on occult message forums too much, even the most fun and fascinating ones...:laugh:

Okazaki Castle

12-08-2006, 12:35 PM

I won't discuss it because people are trained right down to the bone to hold it against you...well if you're so damn enlightened how come you have personal problems???

Well, simple really: we need staff. To do the mundane stuff for us, like give us money, massages and other health-related stuff (maybe with advanced healing tech also, or at least like, 8 people doing Reiki for 7 hours a day till everything's fixed - which is how Reiki is supposed to be done, tis effective that way). And are not many things, like the work of slaves (eg commercial system, working for money) utterly beneath us? Better to be a poor King and Master than a rich and comfortable Slave...

As enlightened beings, we are God. The problem was not our own lack of prowess in the Self-Mastery field but God's lack of Dominion, which signifies a lack of prowess, on this Earth plane. Or in other words: Yin, The Fertile and All-Supproting Earth was not talking to Yang, Untiring Heaven, and was ignoring Him, for he was Tiring (boring) and Tired (impotent, or little potency). Hence why we choose The Dark Side for The Lord Baphomet was, and is, Far Cooler. But he was fighting the Old Father too... and Heaven, for all His impotence, was still quite strong in terms of Oppression of the Mortals.... 'bout the only areas he could cut us on though was things like money and life circumstances. Hence, he did, and pissed us off for so doing, hence we sought to take vengeance on him, so we did and are, and so on...

Basically reduces to: It's not my fault, God's to blame. But it's ok because Satan said he'd sort if out for me for Christmas, and I have faith in The Dark Lord! Hail Satan!:cool:

At the very least they'll think you're a bit crazy and freakily dark/occult and so will stop asking you silly questions and judgmentally being stupid, which works really.

Of course, we ultimately should, and WILL be perfect. Anything less would be infra dig to Our Egos, which are massive, are they not?, and rightly so, I contend...

all the best,
Oazaki.

Aodh

12-08-2006, 03:52 PM

Well, simple really: we need staff. To do the mundane stuff for us, like give us money, massages and other health-related stuff (maybe with advanced healing tech also, or at least like, 8 people doing Reiki for 7 hours a day till everything's fixed - which is how Reiki is supposed to be done, tis effective that way). And are not many things, like the work of slaves (eg commercial system, working for money) utterly beneath us? Better to be a poor King and Master than a rich and comfortable Slave...

As enlightened beings, we are God. The problem was not our own lack of prowess in the Self-Mastery field but God's lack of Dominion, which signifies a lack of prowess, on this Earth plane. Or in other words: Yin, The Fertile and All-Supproting Earth was not talking to Yang, Untiring Heaven, and was ignoring Him, for he was Tiring (boring) and Tired (impotent, or little potency). Hence why we choose The Dark Side for The Lord Baphomet was, and is, Far Cooler. But he was fighting the Old Father too... and Heaven, for all His impotence, was still quite strong in terms of Oppression of the Mortals.... 'bout the only areas he could cut us on though was things like money and life circumstances. Hence, he did, and pissed us off for so doing, hence we sought to take vengeance on him, so we did and are, and so on...

Basically reduces to: It's not my fault, God's to blame. But it's ok because Satan said he'd sort if out for me for Christmas, and I have faith in The Dark Lord! Hail Satan!:cool:

At the very least they'll think you're a bit crazy and freakily dark/occult and so will stop asking you silly questions and judgmentally being stupid, which works really.

Of course, we ultimately should, and WILL be perfect. Anything less would be infra dig to Our Egos, which are massive, are they not?, and rightly so, I contend...

all the best,
Oazaki.
See, the way I see it, if it truly was beneath you, you'd be able to deal with it.

People who complain a lot, tend to do so not because the things are actually bad but because they make them bad.

*shrugs*

Naomi

12-08-2006, 08:19 PM

We are dealing with it. Well we knew we were getting in deep shit and discomfort incarnating here but that doesn't mean I can't be real.

Whatever.

Can't spend all your time killing and fucking all day, sometimes you gotta just talk and shoot the shit...

'Side, you bitch all the time Aodh.

You want someone to just tell you to "deal wit it"?

:laugh:

Aodh

12-08-2006, 08:34 PM

YEah but I never say that the stuff I'm bitching about is "beneath me" or that I "shouldn't have to deal with it".

Although I don't quite think I complain that much about things except when I'm in the process of fixing them. ;)

Okazaki Castle

12-09-2006, 06:53 AM

Well, the fundemental problem to my 'dealing with it' is that my standard soplution to such things is to just kill vast numbers of the population until the rest sit up and pay attention. Trouble was this rock was so weak and annoying that the whole creation would rip apart if I did too much of that too soon. Hence, I was constrained to be gentle, which pissed me off no end, cuz I want to use this place for things, wjhich is why I came here in the first place. So, being arrogant, I figured I'd incarnate here and then figure out what was necessary and just do it once here. Mind control and demonstration killings seem to work as a good solution so far I think...

all da best,
Oazaki.

Naomi

12-09-2006, 10:37 AM

feranaja

12-16-2006, 08:51 AM

I don't really need slack per se, but I'm a bit emotional this weekend as many fo you know we are burying Luke. I have friends coming and Danny to buoy my spirits but its' tough all the same. Lots of you have signed already but if anyone wishes ot light a candle for me/Luke/Lila, my friend Started an online vigil at http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=Luke (http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=Luke)

I can really feel the energy there and throughout the weekend, which is a sort of open house and lots of tears memories and love around here, I will visit the site and soak in the energy - it has meant a lot to have the support of so many friends here and in the dog world. And its so approprriate we will ritual his passing at the Solstice. he was,after all, my Sundog, my Light bringer - and the Winter Solstice is Lila's birthday. Some kind of powerful symmetry there.

So if I get a bit emotional and posssibly even ramble tonight - just a little - I hope you'll cut me a bit of slack.

feranaja

feranaja

02-02-2007, 08:37 AM

I need some slack, life has become really chaotic and I am not replying to posts or PMs or emails in any reasonable order. Its a long story and I am ok - actually better than I have been in many ways - but I have ADHD and when life gets frantic I can get lost in it all. A lot of extra stress lately so if I owe you a PM I will look forward to getting back soon and please dont think Im ignoring anyone! Nuhad can vouch for my tendency to get scattered, and I have way more on the go than any 5 people could handle - I never learn, lol, juts keep piling it on...
So - cut me some slack! I miss being active here!Can't wait till things calm down again.
fera

BrotherM

02-27-2007, 12:53 PM

I need some slack because my mortgage lender is really messing me around with the mortgage and if they consistently delay like they are dong, I will lose the house. My wife is so stressed she is getting hard to live with and we stupidly gave notice on our current house (rented) and may now be joining the homeless :D

Anyway, that is why I need some slack

m1thr0s

02-27-2007, 01:06 PM

crap...I know that drill all too well BrotherM...

Somewhere, some time or another occultists are going to have to wise up and begin pooling their resources the way every other economic minority has ultimately had to do to survive...

Until we do, we are all just sitting ducks waiting for our isolated individual numbers to come up...

Intentional Community is the way...but how to do it and still allow for a maximum amount of personal freedoms. That's the real issue before us I think.

All I can do is wish you good "luck" BrotherM...what a pathetic & pointless gesture. I wish I had the means to just front you the damn money, man. Money is the talisman they are coming at us with on all fronts little and big and many of us would be a hell of a lot better at the money game if being this way did not altogether poison the waters of life itself in all too many cases...

More and more we are all going to need to begin to confront this kind of crap as an organized group of free-thinking individuals banded together as clan.

m1thr0s

Naomi

02-27-2007, 01:15 PM

Get Orobas to help BrotherM, he is the manager I use for my business affairs. If you don't feel like it I can contact him for you and tell him what to do.

His sigil is easily found online and he prefers to appear as a horse.

You're always welcome at my house anyways...for what it's worth.

(I know you both live in London though)

BrotherM

02-27-2007, 03:29 PM

m1thr0s: the intangible is super important and you just wishing you could front me the cash, as in the genuine feeling of wanting to help has made me feel a whole lot better. thanks bro!

NaomiChan: If you could contact Orobas for me I would be very greatful to you for doing so. I am using NAP and some angels at this time, but any additional help would be great!

Thanks guys :)

Bro-M

Anibis

02-27-2007, 03:39 PM

I have a technique by which I attune to money. It's simple. I pay careful, fond attention to pennies. An old teach of mine told me how he had a vision of the Devil, who lovingly referred to pennies as his 'little red daughters', how each of them can save a human life, but how most greedy people just try to hord them. Think of them like a fluid. You see one and think its an object, but it's not, it's more analagous to a red blood cell... establish fond rapport with pennies. find them, leave them, find them and give them to whoever your with, throw them back onto teh street and make a wish on the sound of them 'tinkling'... just remember. Your flow will increase... Pennies aren't things, they are the fundamental units of a fluid. establish yourself to them on that level and they will become what I call 'the copper dragon'... just remember: when you wish on the pennies, I recommend you wish for someone else's good fortune... Trust me on this. It won't happen all at once, but it works...

-Ibisis

Edit: Also try not to buy stuff or tip (obviously) in pennies. Only magick.

MythMath

02-27-2007, 04:21 PM

May the Wheel of Fortune roll your way, Bro M...

And speaking of wheels and pennies...

My wife and I were leaving a theatre not long ago and
we discovered this vehicle parked next to our own:

http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q48/MythMath/PennyCar.jpg

The artist/owners came out while we were admiring,
we chatted, and they gave us the postcard...

imakansasenigma

02-27-2007, 04:24 PM

I truly understand your ADHD. I have been dealing with mine for years but have also become OCD in some parts of my life and it had a tendency to come and go totally irritating at times. I would give you a hug due to the loss of your dog. have also been there and it is very upsetting. Please be aware that people care for you and will "cut you slack" and when or if u want to talk people will be there for you

Anibis

02-27-2007, 04:53 PM

Hi there imakansasenigma. Welcome to the forums, I hope you have a good time here. Please try to quote the original post, or specifically direct your post to the person you are adressing (in this case Feranaja) if there are a couple different streams of conversation going on, though. No big deal or anything, just a good way to keep clear who's talking to who. Peace;
-Ibisis

Anibis

02-27-2007, 04:54 PM

Cool, car, MM. A true 'money machine' I'd say...
-Ibisis

BrotherM

03-02-2007, 04:49 PM

Thank you to all, the mortgage was granted in 'strange' circumstances which usually means magick has worked in some way. Thank you for sending your thoughts, energy and more, I really appreciate the help!

I would like to specifically mention Elubatel and the wonderful NAP book which seemingly never fails

BrotherM

feranaja

03-05-2007, 10:48 AM

Brother M I'm sorry you've been having issues lately..and that I haven't been able to be here more to catch up with people. Well - I wanted more work and boy, careful what you ask for...Im needing slack not because anything is wrong - things are good, actually, but just because I'm sooo busy. I'll need to set myself a regular discipline soon so i dont go nuts trying to juggle it all.

So many dogs...so little time ( no wait - I have a lot of time left, Im a life extensionist)...
hope everyone has been well and I miss you guys!
love, fera and the furkids