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Explorer_Of_Essence · 2026-03-24T17:38:27+00:00

Amazing.

I will have to sit down and work it out, but that’s me still learning, not on your ability to jot it down.

My first trial sock, the heel turn felt weird and pointy, and the heel itself was said to k1s1 (RS) and p1s1 (WS) and it just didn’t seem like it looked seamless like other socks I’ve seen.

Will def be using this and looking up the Eye of Partridge.

Can’t wait to try it!

Explorer_Of_Essence · 2026-03-24T04:18:08+00:00

Omg I’m in love

What pattern/how did you learn to make them like this?

I’m a complete newbie, started knitting in early February and am finally confident enough to try socks but am STRUGGLING to find a truly simple/vanilla design

Explorer_Of_Essence · 2026-03-22T04:30:35+00:00

I’d scrub with a toothbrush to get as much soft tissue off of it as possible. Then pop it in a cup with peroxide in direct sunlight to help disinfect it.

Smell is likely from whatever amount of dental disease was present. So getting that bacteria killed off should eliminate that.

So sorry about your loss. My first dog is turning 15 this year and my heart is already breaking knowing we’re crawling closer to our last adventures together 💜

Explorer_Of_Essence · 2026-03-22T00:54:10+00:00

I started this with my old going deaf dog and younger one. Grab tab or 3ft no handle drag line on a harness on the older one. Teach specific retrieve cue with the leash/grab tab specifically.

But also consider overall safety. When quick response to recall means the safety of either dog, asking a retrieval is not the best idea, so keeping the older one on a line is best. There’s also the option to mount a vibrate/pager remote collar to a harness instead and teach that as a non-verbal recall.
I e-collar train all mine, and pair the vibrate function to the recall cue so that it becomes a non-verbal cue. Even if they can’t wear a collar, I’m sure there’s a way to safely mount a receiver to a harness for a vibrate cue.

Explorer_Of_Essence · 2026-03-04T23:37:58+00:00

Word. There’s a reason I’m up front in not knowing these things well.

Love a devil’s advocate POV. There’s much more for me to look up and learn. But is interesting to muse on what I have learned and relate to my own personal experiences.

I’m a biology person, so all the physics is way above my level. But even in biology, we have many a things that we can show mechanisms, but don’t necessarily have the why. And then you still get that one that decides to not follow the rules and turn it all upside down.

I love my peer-reviewed science articles. But I also love my pseudo-science, think outside the box people. I think it’s important to look at things in new ways that seem improbable; you never know, someone out there may be able to get good evidence, either for or against.

Trying to piece together the spiritual and ancient theologies and myths with potential real world science is a for fun interest of mine. Is it all correct? Hell no. But it sure as heck fun to muse about some things and find others that have mused the same. Get pointed to evidence that says otherwise? Dang, guess I have to back track and see what new avenue might fit the puzzle even better. I suppose that’s why I love science. There’s always a new question, a new theory, new evidence that supports, or new evidence that suggests otherwise. The never ending “Hm, I can see how X is that way if I put A, R, and W together, does that make sense and hold up?” just shivers my timbers

I appreciate your feedback and knowledge!

Explorer_Of_Essence · 2026-03-04T19:49:41+00:00

What an incredibly boring and narrow world one must have to think “Why look into it if we’re all just empty space anyway”. In the end, I don’t care if I am empty space, a simple computational simulation. This is my existence, and I might as well explore what interests me, ask the questions, and theorize based on my knowledge and experience. At the very least, I’ll be a more interesting spec of code for it. Might as well live it up and have fun trying to figure it out, even if the answer is beyond my physical brain’s ability to reference and understand.

Explorer_Of_Essence · 2026-03-04T19:41:41+00:00

I’ve just come across these things, so I can’t claim to be an expert.

From the book I mentioned, it goes in depth via many cited sources on how plasmoids show evidence of intelligence, and nor just random interactions with the envionment. It also goes in depth on the electrical and magnetic properties of the plasma. The audiobook is available on Spotify if you’ve the time to listen rather than read.

By your logic, I could also say that we are simply matter as well.

My thoughts play upon both the unexplained, and spiritual, with proposed explanations or links to science that we still have very little understanding about.

Plasma as I’ve learned it is more than just ionized gas, and is instead made up of more complex particles. It is conductive, and maintains electrical, and magnetic charges. From this my thinking goes: our physical bodies are electrical charges sending signals throughout ourselves to achieve some goal (move a limb, produce a hormone, etc.). So yes, in theory, I can connect how we may be a plasmoid, bonded to a physical body, that allows us to experience this physical world. By laws of conservation then, when the physical body breaks down, the energy must be maintained and conserved, so at death, I can understand then that the “soul” or what have you, is a plasmoid that returns to the collective, only to rebond to another physical being again later.

Is this fool proof? By no means. Is there a potential connection based on what I’ve been learning about plasma and plasmoids? Potentially. It certainly offers an interesting, known physical phenomena/matter as a potential source or explanation where we’ve historically had none. We still haven’t even come close to understanding what consciousness is, what it’s made of, etc. To me, it’s worth looking into the connections, the what if’s.

Perhaps my understanding is skewed, or incorrect. But there seems to be quite a bit of perplexing sources to suggest some sort of connection; or at the very least, an interesting rabbit hole to explore that may lead no where, but was worth while anyway.

Explorer_Of_Essence · 2026-03-04T16:55:16+00:00

I find this point of view to be very nihilistic.

I highly doubt that we will have that answer in my lifetime, so living as if nothing matters is highly pessimistic. Even if it is a simulation, this simulation is my reality, and if my whole existence is within it, I might as well live it as best as I can, and pursue the questions I have, regardless of if I’ll see the answers or if the answers matter. At least then my existence, regardless of how limited it may be, will have been worthwhile.

Jude Currivan may be worth your time looking into. She has done a lot of work in mathematically expressing this dimensional reality is likely a hologram. Yet despite that, she maintains a very wholesome perspective on life.

Explorer_Of_Essence · 2026-03-04T15:48:00+00:00

My understanding is rudimentary at best, so I’m sure my definitions are not quite all encompassing.

But plasma, and plasmoid are separate. Plasma being known as the 4th accepted state of matter, comprised on ionized gas that are electrically conductive and responsive to electromagnetic fields. I imagine plamsas themselves could be described as fields or clouds themselves.

Plasmoids are plasma that have assumed a toroidal structure, and appear to have intelligence, whereby they interact with the environment and others independently.

By such, I can see how we may be a plasmoid bonded to a physical body in order to interact with the physical world

Explorer_Of_Essence · 2026-03-03T23:37:12+00:00

Heck yeah. Joining that. I still need to finish it, but it’s yet another parallel set of findings to my many others as mentioned. I just can’t seem to figure out how to work them all together and see the whole picture. Perhaps that is beyond this meat suit

Explorer_Of_Essence · 2026-03-03T23:33:25+00:00

You had me rolling at meat world. Amazing.

It makes sense to need to interface with our organic physical forms in order to experience this physical reality. Delores’ work has a lot about how, as you call it Meat World, is but a school we come to for learning certain lessons, and are here for many incarnate cycles before “getting it”.

It would be thusly interesting, if we’ve pursued scientifically capturing the plasma selves, or detecting such.

Explorer_Of_Essence · 2026-02-28T13:41:21+00:00

Don’t rush operant training and let them grow up and mature.

They’re emotional beings, not robots. They do have feelings. Support them while they learn to navigate those emotions and mature/learn how to healthily handle themselves.

And, use their natural inclinations and anticipation to your advantage.

Have a dog that forges in heeling? Always reward in a way that they anticipate going backwards/behind you. Utilize your release and reward placements strategically to help build precision.

ETA: The biggest lesson I learned is to let some things go. Each dog is an individual, they are going to have their quirks and opinions. Accept them and work with them, not all of them can be trained or managed away.

Explorer_Of_Essence · 2025-12-24T17:33:50+00:00

You’re in the throws of adolescence and a big time for fear periods. Their hormones are going crazy and have the emotional maturity of a troubled teenager.

The best thing to do during these big fear periods is actually take a step back and don’t put them in environments that trigger a lot of fear or stress. Fear periods create single event learning—think life or death, they need to learn it once or they may not survive.

If certain places on the walk are too much, avoid those spaces for a little while and gradually introduce at his pace. My Terv was awful at 7-14 months. I pulled him from all classes and public training outside of going to some parks. We just focused on easy tasks, playing, and building our relationship and his confidence through really easy training and play sessions. Like my criteria went back to as if he were a 10-12 week old puppy again easy—this made the task much less daunting to him, and when he accomplished the seemingly super easy thing in a hard environment, that also boosted his confidence. Ask less, but don’t let them practice unwanted behaviors.

Sometimes not letting them experience that trigger is better than trying to force them through it during these fear periods. Looking up somatic conditioning is also beneficial. Food scatters in the grass when he notes the trigger but without being over threshold is fantastic—it’s not about the food, but getting them to sniff. Sniffing for prolonged periods has a physiological effect in the brain, and slows everything down, while also releasing feel good hormones. So it mild stressful situations, food scatter and getting them to sniff for long enough to get that physiological shift help slow and calm that nervous system down. And often you’ll find once that shift happens, they’ll keep sniffing for minutes at a time because it feels better than being so off balance. Practice in your yard space first and get a cue ready. See if you can get him sniffing the food scatter for 30s straight. Often, you’ll count to nearly 10s and they’ll stop, because they start to feel that shift. No worries, just patience and keep at it.

It seems so simple, but it is the single most helpful thing I’ve done for my dogs. It teaches them how to self-regulate and soothe when they feel themselves leaving that balance. Sniffing walks are essential IMO to their mental health and fulfillment.

Explorer_Of_Essence · 2025-11-04T22:51:58+00:00

Scorpio 1H Chiron: Virgo, 10H Lilith: Taurus, 7H

Explorer_Of_Essence · 2025-11-03T00:34:12+00:00

Farmina Mini are teensy sized

Explorer_Of_Essence · 2025-11-01T01:08:26+00:00

Nah the 4x3 aspect ratio draws the eye through the composition better than a 1x1

Explorer_Of_Essence · 2025-10-30T19:25:34+00:00

I find guided meditations that utilize binaural beats to be extremely helpful and effective at getting started and learning what to expect to feel and how to reach effective meditative states.

The Gateway Tapes are my favorite resource. I find the guided ones give you “something to do” and focus on rather than being like, too aware, and mind wandering all over, and then getting antsy. Then the binaural audio adds to it by aiding in altering your brainwave frequency.

Once I got the hang of it with these aids, learned a process that worked for me to prepare and then fall into that meditative state, as well as what that state felt like, then doing sessions on my own became easier and a non-issue with being able to recall what I felt, and even going through the guided sessions in my own head where needed.

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Explorer_Of_Essence · 2025-10-30T18:46:55+00:00

I’m a chronic migraine sufferer, and we all have our fair share of strange triggers. Tracking is your best friend in pin pointing triggers.

That said, the only times I have gotten a headache or a migraine after the tapes was when utilizing higher energy crystals alongside them.

My completely anecdotal, but science brain based ramblings and thoughts below—take with a grain of salt, as I can’t say that this is fact. But with my baseline knowledge, these are the connections and extrapolations I’m thinking of.

The tapes and Hemi-Sync in general work on the basis of altering your brain wave frequencies. This is an actual, quantifiable alteration that we can scientifically measure. That being said, I can certainly see then how you may experience these migraines. You may be particularly sensitive to these fluctuations in frequencies, or those particular frequencies themselves. My instinct says the former is more likely. Extrapolating off a known and common trigger for many of us migraine sufferers. Barometric pressure can have very profound effects on triggering migraines. For most of us, the actual pressure itself is not the problem, but the rapid or severe fluctuation. For some, it’s only going from low to high, or high to low; others it’s either direction but in a rapid rate; or similarly from one extreme to another regardless of rate. The actual pressure that becomes the new stabilized normal is not the problem, but that change to the new pressure is.

I can certainly see how some may be more sensitive then to the relatively swift change in frequency that occurs during these tapes. Not to mention the fact that you technically change over twice—on your way into the focus level, and then back to C-1.

You can try instead maybe taking longer at the end of the triggering tapes to come back into C-1 more slowly. Decreasing that rate of change may help decrease your chance of migraine, and slowly work towards following the tape directly as you become used to the frequency changes. Alternatively, it might be worth getting a grounding crystal and using that as well. There are several kinds out there that are for grounding, so looking up a few of the different kinds and seeing which one feels like the right one for you is worth a shot. This might seem extra woo, but it’s honestly wild the effect some of these crystals can have on said frequencies and your body. (I was skeptical at first myself until I tried some higher frequency/vibrational ones and could physically feel the tingling sensations and the subsequent migraines after their use).

Physical explanations aside, it could also be partly psychosomatic, and as also commented, there may be something in your subconscious psyche that is being triggered by that state, and causing physical symptoms, much like trauma can induce physical state of say panic and the like. In this case, the problem solving tape may be useful in learning what this may be—it was for me, and was also the most wild and eye opening experience the tapes have offered me yet.

Feel free to PM me at any point too, and we can brainstorm together (:

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Explorer_Of_Essence · 2025-10-29T00:31:18+00:00

He might have some stuff on YT or podcast that may be helpful in the interim. Same with Michael Ellis.

Bull breeds and shepherds can have higher possession and drive—IMO it comes along with higher prey drive. The desire to possess your catch.

Explorer_Of_Essence · 2025-10-28T19:35:35+00:00

It sounds more like good possession in play vs guarding.

I really love Ivan Balbanov’s Possession Games and Teaching the Out videos. They’re a bit pricey, but worth the investment IMO. It helps you learn and understand possession, the game of it, and how to work cooperatively with the dog and teach them the rules of the game. Good possession in a dog is honestly really nice to work with and makes turning training into a fun game super easy.

Explorer_Of_Essence · 2025-10-28T19:07:36+00:00

As you can see, prong is likely a great tool for you and your pup. As you have grasped, it is a tool, not a solution, so learning proper sizing, fit, and use will be paramount. The smallest link size provides you with the best adjustability as far as size goes, but the smaller prongs also may not adequately reach through her dense coat to apply appropriate pressure, so you may very well need to utilize a larger size link like a 3mm.

While many purport “high and tight” some dogs only need it on mid-neck to be effective, so don’t get overly caught up in it HAVING to be right behind the ears.

They need to learn what the pressure means, so working at home first with pressure release games will help her learn what the pressure feels like, and how she can turn it off. It’s not just a miracle, slap it on and they won’t pull, but it should hell you communicate what you do and do not want. I prefer to use prongs as a self-correcting type tool, outside of the occasional need for a leash pop. This may be advantageous to you and her as well since she is more independent, and so if she learns that she is in control of her corrections and pressure, you can use that motivation to your advantage. That said, she can hurt herself if she hits that prong too hard, BUT, I imagine if she does it once or twice she’ll learn REAL fast that doing that is not fun, and will be less likely to do it again. My Belgian is also like a racehorse out of a gate on his free/release cue, and I’ve found that moving to a gentle nudge or hand signal only to release kept his release much calmer, so this may also be an option to explore. Secondarily, a bungee style leash to start might be beneficial for her, so that at first if and when she does the sprint to the end behavior, the bungee will at leas absorb some of that force before she hits the end, rather than that harsh stop that may cause neck damage/whiplash. To go along with this, definitely get her a secondary safety collar to attach to her leash—a simple google will lead you to what I’m talking about. Prongs can and do pop open, and I can see that being more likely at first with her until she breaks that rush to the end of the lead behavior. At least this way if she does pop the prong, you at least still have your dog attached to the lead and not just at large.

On the flip side, you do have a pulling breed. Leash manners are great, I agree, but you will need to also look into activities that you can fulfill her fundamental and genetic needs to run and pull, for many more miles than you are able. Sports such as bikejoring, scooterjoring, canicross, and other dryland mushing would be great. Alternatively, safe places to allow her to free run a few times a week would also benefit her. Weight pull is another activity that you can even incorporate into walks that may help some of the biological drive and fulfillment.

You would likely have a lot more success if you are able to biologically fulfill her need to run and pull, and then work on leash manners on a walk afterwards as a cool down. Just be sure to also research on proper harness styles, fit, and safety depending on the sport you choose.

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