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	<title>various verbiage &#187; meditation</title>
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		<title>An Ode to &#8216;Magical Thinking&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://practicalmysticproductions.com/blog/2007/07/12/an-ode-to-magical-thinking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2007 18:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>taijidave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quick now&#8211; what do Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan, Bruce Jenner, Jimmy Connors, Arthur Ashe, etc etc have in common?? They visualize. And not just &#8220;Oh I hope I&#8217;m gonna win&#8221; kinda visualization&#8230; we&#8217;re talking systematic, strategic, detailed, intricate, point-by-point visualization. Tiger even admits to visualizing his complete swing, from beginning to end, multiple times before [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NYT &amp; &#8220;Magical Thinking&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://practicalmysticproductions.com/blog/2007/01/26/nyt-magical-thinking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jan 2007 00:55:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>taijidave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m confused why NYT countenances such illogic, unless it&#8217;s their effort to balance their oft-castigaged &#8216;leftward-leaning&#8217; Op-Ed pages. I deconstructed a similar article here. Here we go again. First off, the circular reasoning fallacy is repeatedly evoked. The author presents a scenario of &#8220;magical thinking&#8221;, then tacitly labels it [ridiculous]. Next they state that there&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I guess OOB experiences must be Mental Confusion&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://practicalmysticproductions.com/blog/2006/10/05/i-guess-oob-experiences-must-be-mental-confusion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Oct 2006 10:03:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>taijidave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m amused by this NYT article, purporting to be &#8216;science&#8217;. Blanke&#8217;s research is interesting, but his conclusion (&#8220;[mystical/supernatural experiences] are simply the brainâ€™s attempt to make sense of conflicting information&#8221;) is fraught with logical fallacies (see below). And Brugger&#8217;s examples actually strengthen the idea that &#8216;mystical/supernatural&#8217; experiences happen all the time, even &#8220;occur[ing] without electrical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Notes on the &#8216;life-sucks&#8217; moment&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://practicalmysticproductions.com/blog/2006/07/15/notes-on-the-life-sucks-moment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 11:13:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>taijidave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a little something I worked-up for a workshop some years back: Ever have that moment when &#8216;life sucks&#8217;? When everything seems just &#8216;too-much&#8217;, when you just wanna give-in? Sure you have. it&#8217;s normal; it&#8217;s a valid part of the human condition (&#8220;human&#8221;, b/c you can spend a whole heckofalot of time futilely waiting to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Believe&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://practicalmysticproductions.com/blog/2006/05/03/i-believe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 May 2006 22:40:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>taijidave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I believe we&#8217;re all completely free, b/c we&#8217;re completely responsible for who-we-are&#8230; I believe no one &#8216;makes&#8217; us do anything; we always have a choice [the foundation of mysticism]. I believe &#8216;feeling pissed&#8217; is just someone else&#8217;s energy (attention, expectation, judgement, competition, and/or &#8216;they-know-better&#8217;) in our space. Thus, getting un-pissed requires getting rid of that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>where the Consciousness Movement went wrong</title>
		<link>http://practicalmysticproductions.com/blog/2005/12/09/where-the-consciousness-movement-went-wrong/</link>
		<comments>http://practicalmysticproductions.com/blog/2005/12/09/where-the-consciousness-movement-went-wrong/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2005 01:58:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>taijidave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So back to why the discussion of &#8220;ego&#8221; has been &#8216;programmed-out&#8217;, if you will, in many of the western intuitive/meditative disciplines today. The reduction of Ego is systemic in traditional Eastern training&#8211; you shut-up, &#038; practice. The Teacher is Right, so again&#8211; shut-up, don&#8217;t question, &#038; do the same [basic] training, over&#038;over&#038;over. And in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the Golden Rule</title>
		<link>http://practicalmysticproductions.com/blog/2005/08/10/the-golden-rule/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2005 00:55:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>taijidave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[a school i traversed, some years back had a funny take on the Golden Rule, namely: &#8220;Be nice to me, &#038; I&#8217;ll be nice to you&#8221;. Er, that&#8217;s approximately 180 degrees out of whack. The real Golden Rule says: &#8220;Be nice to everyone as you&#8217;d like them to be nice to you&#8221;. iow, be nice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the Test of Truth</title>
		<link>http://practicalmysticproductions.com/blog/2005/08/09/the-test-of-truth/</link>
		<comments>http://practicalmysticproductions.com/blog/2005/08/09/the-test-of-truth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2005 00:59:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>taijidave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[in The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, The UnBeliever (Stephen R. Donaldson; terrific, a close second to LOTR imho), there is the concept of the &#8220;Test of Truth&#8221;. basically, using knowledge/wisdom/experience (or &#8220;lore&#8221; for short), the Tester questions the Testee&#8230; to determine what is True. not if something specifically is &#8216;correct&#8217; or not, objectively verifiable or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the &#8216;Four Practical Truths&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://practicalmysticproductions.com/blog/2005/08/09/the-four-practical-truths/</link>
		<comments>http://practicalmysticproductions.com/blog/2005/08/09/the-four-practical-truths/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2005 00:08:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>taijidave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[so, Buddhism has an incredibly-huge canon of texts, myriads of schools, &#038; a gen-u-wine Enlightened dude wandering around singing its praises. Despite all that, Buddha found it useful to refine his philosophy into a simple, easily-digested mouthful, a la &#8220;Four Noble Truths&#8221;: 1) Life is Suffering 2) Suffering is caused by Desire 3) Desire can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>spiritual competition</title>
		<link>http://practicalmysticproductions.com/blog/2005/08/05/spiritual-competition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2005 15:27:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>taijidave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;is when you say &#8220;my school is better than your school&#8221; or &#8220;i know more/better than you&#8221; &#8230;but the best is &#8220;i&#8217;m oh-so-cool b/c i meditate &#038; stuff&#8221; Chogyam Trungpa calls this the &#8220;golden chain&#8221;, &#038; is the last (&#038; hardest) egoic barrier to enlightenment. i call it the &#8220;new age curse&#8221;, &#038; i see [...]]]></description>
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