Our perceptions are influenced by our beliefs and fears. What appears offensive to one person is not so to another. Strong reactions indicate strong opinions, but they do not necessarily have any connection or relation to the person being reacted to.

I agree completely.

As we are civilized by our parents or guardians, authority figures, and other friends; young children do not want to be thought of as weird by talking of real experiences they have or had, then after time passes; they accept the idea that those experiences were fignents of an overactive imagination, then their unihipili (sub conscious mind) begins building a set of walls that limit the type of material that will be passed through to the Uhane (conscious mind), and people are litterally inside a box.

I just want to help people tear down those walls, so they can reclaim the powerful spiritual being they were intened to be.

Two bears has made it clear that he is not a guru, that he faciltates a process, and he does not charge money. So he does not have to be perfect. I am more suspicious of people who project as "holy" and saintly. They can be very manipulative.

Freda: Thank you for the kind words.

I am neither a guru, a saint, or holy. I am simply a human being who is doing the best he can one day at a time.

If I am a holy person; then God must be scraping the bottom of the barrel.

In my youth; I was horribly physically and mentally abused by my guardians. They were devout Baptists, and it was like this child from another planet was placed in their care. They thought ALL mystical, psychic, etc gifts were Satanic, and they did their best to beat Satan out of me. 40 years later; I still have several knots and scars on my body where I was burned with cigarettes, peaten with broom handles, iron pokers, and anything else they could get their hands on.

Their worldview, and religious indoctrination had forced them to perceive such gifts were EVIL, and I suffered because of their indoctrination.

From the abuse I received at home, the abuse and torture I received at school because I was weird; I became a walking/talking nightmare. When I was only 10 years old the school dictated that I learn martial arts "So that young man can learn some self control and self discipline. All the martial arts did was turn an SOB into a dangerous SOB. I left three of my school teachers, and hundreds of classmates lying in the floor. I became the 11th commandment "Thou shalt not get away with it. In my youth; I came close to killing people.

When I was 18 and in college; I took a course Taoist meditation. A few weeks later; Tsang (my meditation teacher) saw the grumpy old Bear side of my nature just about take a classmate apart.

Tsang took me to his home where we had a 90 minute chat about my anger, hostility, bad attitudem etc and he did all of the talking. At the end of the chat; he decided yo break his oath, and teach an American (Qigong) instead of doing nothing and watching me destroy myself.

When Tsang started talking about ch'i the all pervading energy in the universe; I thought he was the biggest crachpot ever to walk the earth, then when he started talking about the more esoteric subjects such as directing the energy to punch a hole in a cloud, influence the weather for a wind to come up, influence the movement of wild animals, etc, I could not stand it any more, and I asked him to prove it. BELIEVE ME; HE PROVED IT!.

31 years ago; if Tsang were to tell me that I would be doing what I am doing now; I would have asked where I could buy some of whatever he was smoking!

Well two years after I began energy work; I reached the realization that every day; I was gives a choice (how I would affect the world around me) to either be a positive or a negative influence. I began consciously choosing to be a positive influence, and I am no longer the miserable excuse for a human being; that I used to be.

ANL - 2B