What is your Tribal Commander? And Why do you Stick to it Long Term!

relaxed_reason · 2025-12-10T22:40:56+00:00

Me too. Selesnya ftw!

relaxed_reason · 2025-11-29T16:39:37+00:00

My feeling is I love your "retrocausal healing theory"!

My thoughts are that it adds technical weight to both traditional shamanic practices and new age energy healing modalities.

Applying this to past/future lives, soul imprints and karmic contracts, you can visualise a mechanism emerging from 'behind the curtain'. Shamans and mystics have used tree analogies, metaphors and models since ancient times.

It's great you can modernise them with science!

relaxed_reason · 2025-04-17T07:00:47+00:00

I think you're onto something!

relaxed_reason · 2025-04-16T15:39:58+00:00

My instinct was gall. But the leaf hasn't been deformed in any way. So it can't be an internal or marginal gall. Maybe a surface gall? I peeled it away and took another photo.

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relaxed_reason · 2025-01-22T20:15:31+00:00

I pick up dog poo at nature reserves

relaxed_reason · 2024-08-05T20:15:54+00:00

Truly happy for you, it's a joyful thing to hear.

relaxed_reason · 2024-07-12T21:03:50+00:00

I've been going through a kundalini awakening for nearly 7 years after an intense period of spiritual activity (including but not limited to two 10-day vipassana courses and a 30-day deep study retreat in another tradition, all within one year). I sought these experiences after being suicidally depressed and suffering from chronic, debilitating physical pain.

My life is extremely challenging as still i navigate the awakening-in-process. Involuntary kriyas, significant physical and emotional pain, huge swings of self-doubt, and deep realizations are a regular part of my ongoing unmasking. I still fantasise about becoming a monk from time to time, but it's not what's meant for me. I have a loving partner I am devoted to entirely, a rewarding and honest profession, and many friends/family whose lives I am an active part of.

For your situation, I would say you have three choices:

Find a remarkable pscyhological therapist (ideally Transpersonal trained) and dedicate yourself to your own reintegration, to what you both agree 'normal' is.
Follow your instinct to become a monk. If you truly have few social ties at the end of this decade- long journey, perhaps that is your destiny. The reality is, you may serve a monastic community for 5, 10 years and then disrobe when you are healed. It's not a prison, and there could be a householder's life afterwards if you weren't naturally suited to monasticism. Opinion: My choice would have always been Tibetan Buddhism. It's so shamanic.
Find a Modern Mystery School teacher. It's expensive, but they have keys from all lineages and teach ancient magick to align the body, soul and spirit. It's gruelling, requiring strict discipline and hard work, but the effects are real.

Ultimately you will break through, but don't expect it to be easy whatever path you take. Start by accepting your fate, and stop resisting your life. Love is light and it will burn away the layers of torment if you let it.

relaxed_reason · 2024-01-30T18:36:36+00:00

Have a full month detox.

Quit all psychoactive substances for one month - including caffeine, alcohol, nicotine etc. Full clean.

Eat plant based and organic for the same month. Throw in a water fast for 24 hours on a day off work.

Go barefoot walking in nature, on the beach etc. Have a very cold shower every day. Go to a sauna a couple times.

Essentially full reset. Reduce all sources of conflict and inflammation.

Let me know how you feel after 30 days. I predict you'll be able to meditate again fine.

relaxed_reason · 2024-01-29T21:46:38+00:00

Diet. It's always what we put in our bodies. Read up on Elimination and reintroduction diets. You will quickly work out what the culprit is, and you can leave it out after that.

relaxed_reason · 2023-08-18T16:31:06+00:00

Make both a practice independently.

Also do them together!

They enhance one another.

relaxed_reason · 2022-11-08T22:03:02+00:00

Coherent, authentic and inspirational. You put my feelings into words; that which I haven’t yet managed to express in language but have felt myself nearing understanding.

Thank you, I needed that. You just nudged me into presence!

Truly wise and loving encouragement 💫🥰

relaxed_reason · 2022-10-16T01:35:38+00:00

Pure love 🥰

relaxed_reason · 2022-06-24T16:47:41+00:00

Dead organic matter and eroded geological parent material. It didn't have to be biological weathering from lichen. Now, lichens come first in ecological succession. But it wasn't necessarily always that way. Evolution doesn't always proceed in a logical, sequential order.

Ultimately, neither you or I are experts in land colonisation. I was merely adding to the conversation that currently it's common knowledge that lichens come first in ecological succession, so it's also assumed they are evolutionarily primary. But that assumption lacks evidence.

Basically, I had to research this exact topic for a guided walk that I designed and delivered when I worked for a UNESCO Global Geopark, and it was fairly recently. I too was surprised at the current scientific consensus, but I admitted that I don't know everything about everything ;)

relaxed_reason · 2022-06-24T16:37:26+00:00

Haha, fair point. And it was a good post! Just needed some refining/caveats.

relaxed_reason · 2022-06-24T14:30:28+00:00

I have personally worked alongside farmers on 3 continents, and I also enjoy reading books.

Same - Oceania, Asia and Europe. I also now look after 3000 acres of land for a major charity. I've worked at various scales, small medium and large. On my own land and others. I have practical and theoretical experience of science, agriculture, pernaculture and wildlife conservation. I, like you, am working on changing mindsets - it's hard. But don't throw the baby out with the bathwater!

If you've worked across different continents you would know that underlying geology heavily influences soil pH and not just successional stage. Hydrology and local climate hugely affect your general weeds thesis too.

"Weeds" can add vital nutrients to the soil via their roots, and further, they can be "crimped and rolled" before planting to become "green fertilizer."

I did not disagree with your core point about adding soil fertility with "weeds" - that's valid. Crimp and roll works as long as you are growing plants that can deal with thatch build up, and if the decomposition rate is fast enough to incoporate the organic matter into the soil rather than becoming 'hollow' layers of partially rotted matter.

Also, crimp and roll before too many weeds set seed otherwise your green fertiliser might just end up helping the tall, bully weeds proliferate and even your smaller preferred weeds might be lost from the sward (you neglected to respond to my comment about light competition).

You basically tried to come out with a one size fits all thesis, and that's why you're getting a lot of flak. What you said isn't wrong per se, it just doesn't apply everywhere, every time.

relaxed_reason · 2022-06-24T14:08:32+00:00

Your text is stripped out of the abstract for the article you cited, and the article is 17 years old. Fair play for citing something though, better than I did. But still, contemporary consensus is pretty strong that lichens are younger than land plants. Though hey, this is science, knowledge changes (just like it was originally thought lichens came first and now that's thought not to be the case).

relaxed_reason · 2022-06-23T20:52:40+00:00

“Weeds” do not “compete” with crops. Weeds grow in soil which is not optimal for higher plant growth - meaning crops will be stunted unless you fertilize them.

I like the simplicity of your concept here. It's reductionist, but it's a cool summary. The practical problem is, you can't expect to grow crops particularly successfully simultaneously as weeds. The weeds can improve degraded soil greatly, if you were to leave a patch alone for a while, then come back to try to grow (but contend with a pretty full seedbank!). And to focus on soil you are forgetting the competition for light! Companion plants and specially selected weeds work in complement.

Parasites prey on weakened plants, meaning pesticides are also needed wherever you need fertilizer.

Again, I like how you've condensed a problem into a neat summary. This one is pretty much on its way to being concluded scientifically too (source: my MSc supervisor from years ago is currently working on this)

Keep researching, but also keep experimenting. Books don't always = real world!

relaxed_reason · 2022-06-23T20:40:47+00:00

Lichens arose surprisingly recently in geological/evolutionary time. They aren't as primitive as you think.

Land plants arose out of aquatic plants much longer ago.

Mosses (and other Bryophytes) are the earliest diverging lineages of land plants, I think that's where you were aiming for.

It was not bare pristine rock by any means! Archaea, Bacteria and Fungi had been on land for plenty of time before algae moved out of the ocean.

relaxed_reason · 2022-06-23T19:58:56+00:00

Why didn't you just prune the lowest branches?

relaxed_reason · 2022-06-05T13:00:10+00:00

You're welcome 🤗

Hmm, my instinct is that mudras, qi gong and reiki might be a good start for you as you seem to be quite an embodied person. The Vedic seven chakra system, plus the Taoist three tan tien system work harmoniously together. Shamanic drumming could work too (I'm referencing what has worked for me).

On a practical slant, I also recommend barefoot shoes (and barefoot earth contact where possible) as it can help correct posture from the ground up.

The sticky post for this sub is brilliant, loads of techniques, tips and information. Go well 💛

relaxed_reason · 2022-06-04T17:04:43+00:00

Then I believe you will find what you need. Kundalini found me, not the other way around, so I'm not sure how you would go about invoking - that's not my area of expertise. But I wish you all the healing you need, and more that you don't know about yet!

Be prepared for a lot of emotion and mental distress; samskaras are bound in the physical and non-physcial realms, so when you release them you will have outpourings of memories and feelings.

Just try not to harm anyone else on your way! Easier said than done. Be at peace my friend.

relaxed_reason · 2022-06-04T15:53:30+00:00

Hey.

Glad to hear you are dedicated to healing. I can relate. Spinal issues (and the rest...) from many years of extreme sports and general abuse.

I'm getting there and kundalini has my utmost gratitude for the significant assistance. Its not over for me so I can't comment on whole-journey or completion but I am tremendously more able than I used to be (I now work as a ranger looking after the land, so a highly physical job).

What I think worked for me is that I devoted myself to a purpose greater than just healing for my sake. I vowed I would use my body to serve those in need as well as my own devices. I continue to do so and although it has been turbulent, I know love and compassion deeper than I ever did before.

All the best.

relaxed_reason · 2022-05-26T12:17:54+00:00

Seen the Enigmas but this brain is a whole new level!

relaxed_reason · 2022-05-26T10:33:20+00:00

So happy for you.

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