Punshhh

— Punshhh I need to tease out what I am saying, during my practice I am not adhering to a religion, or seeking a contact, or communion with God. As op...

A structured mystical practice changes the person and has an effect on the people around them. This is real and documented. Religion which is a kind o...

For a chap who is not bothered about all those Mystics, you are banging your drum quite hard there. Stick around and listen to what some of them say a...

Quite, I saw a steam engine made out of an old door knob the other day, on the antiques roadshow. The maker had spent hundreds of hours engineering al...

This was on the assumption that the UK would leave with no trade deal in place on 31st December and all the attendant chaos which would come from that...

I just thought I would mention that if we are subjected to a no trade deal scenario on the back of the Covid economic hit. Our economy will be a baske...

You really should educate yourself about these prejudices you hold against the EU. Passporting has enabled easy low regulation services access across ...

It's that old chestnut fake news. Anything said by the other side, in this case lefty's, remoaners, establishment figures, their rags, or reports. It'...

Quite, confirmation, or reaching a perceived goal is a side issue. But rather a growth, or progression along a path is what is important, rather like ...

An interesting report into the way that care homes were required to shield hospitals while there were fears that the hospital ICU wards would be overr...

Yes I know, we do need to see this through a Vote Leave prism ( Vote Leave is now in government, Cummings, Johnson, Gove and their entourage). They ar...

Chester probably works on the roofs of those massive distribution warehouses where people work on minimum wages, on zero hour contracts.

Nice posts, I'm not surprised Chester has reacted this way. The populists have to distance their supporters from any real data because it can contradi...

I like your thesis, but personally I don't take all that much interest in the processes of physical material, because to come to a comprehensive, or t...

Nice summary, do you study, or practice?

Yes I agree with this approach, for me treading the path of mystical enquiry is rather like how we deal with ordinary life, a process of having experi...

I am aware of those points. My point was that in the UK it might require to much tracing (for our tracing teams) to be able to work effectively when w...

Yes, unique perspectives I expect. Perhaps this is why it is best to spend time in person with the person in question. For me the best understanding o...

Been there done that got the tshirt. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PObknmaH9po

Yes, the US did have enough notice, just like the UK they didn't take it seriously to begin with. Now in the UK some commentators are suggesting that ...

The clowns have spilled out of the government onto the page. I hope it's not infectious.

I practice the ability to think on other ways than those instilled by conditioning along with alternative kinds of knowing.

Ah, but if the old people unfortunately die of Corona, it's not a problem anymore. We need less immigrants then because there's less work for them to ...

How many thousands I'm sure I've moved more than that. I've moved over 15 tons in the last couple of weeks and I'm older than you.

Whatever floats your boat, I would say.

No, rather that it can become an obstacle in discussing mystical experience, philosophy etc. I mentioned it because for me mysticism is primarily abou...

But I am of your ilk remember, I'm working class from up north.

Do you mean a transcendence of meaning, as found in poetry, or a story? I agree about the Tao Te Ching (I'm a bit rusty on that one)

Insight in mystical terms does not require logic, it does require a mind, but that is as an instrument of experience, the intellect is not necessarily...

I have had experiences like that too. They are so difficult to share through language.

Nice, I hadn't come across him. If I were to go down that route though, I would use contemplation as the primary means, although meditation would be s...

Nice, now these clowns are presiding over the highest death count in Europe and we're not finished yet, as the death toll in carehomes is still increa...

The methods are not new. Anyway, credibility is not important, rather an interest is what is important. I would point out though, that the laymans und...

I noticed, I didn't want to speak (say anything), but maybe I should have.

Where is the focus of your mysticism?

You always speak volumes in your silence Banno.

I think there is a problem in the west of vanity, or glamour when it comes this subject. To illustrate, I once knew a Guru who was put on a pedestal b...

No shit, down our way we call one like that a Camberwell carrot.

Thankyou for allowing such a lowly working class fool as me teach you my liege.

Beware handwaving ;)

Has something been blocked? I noticed that the Spartans tried to block something. I saw Steve Baker, a spartan, on the box today desperate to get us o...

Not quite, that is a description of the Catholic tradition, although I have little to argue with in there. If one is to talk about talking about mysti...

I appreciate your take on these issues, however what I am concerned about within mysticism is described in this phrase in your Wiki quote. All the oth...

No, although I don't want to diminish the quagmire you describe, I agree with that, but what I think we can do is describe it, what is involved and wh...

Thanks for the thread anyway, it might prove interesting, although I expect there will be numerous folk who will not find anything, stimulating, shall...

Nice article and so the solution is a great big up yours. Nice. No one ever said it was going to be easy to unify Europe, so they can work together. N...

Perhaps the way to approach the issue is to talk about talking about mysticism, rather than talking about mysticism. One way of engaging the issues is...

My reply was not about my position, but a notional person who had an unearned income.

supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!

I am here for a bit of intellectual stimulation where there is a high standard of thought. To achieve this in the area where I live would not be easy ...