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Unfolding Nature Shop: Unfolding Nature: Being in the Implicate Order

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The Taoist Immortals ~ The Pill of Immortality
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So lately I've been reading "the tales of the taoist immortals" by Eva Wong, and in the stories a few of the sages attain immortality by going into the mountains searching for herbs and minerals, they then go through long alchemical processes and create the pill of immortality... when they take it, they fly of to the celestial realm.

So what do you guys think is IN the pill?


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"We are the one's we have been waiting for"-Hopi proverb

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Re: The Taoist Immortals ~ The Pill of Immortality [Re: Teotzlcoatl]
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Likely it is a placebo, allowing them to transcend the self-imposed limits of their material existence.

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Re: The Taoist Immortals ~ The Pill of Immortality [Re: Veritas]
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Homeopathic life force.:rofl2:


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"Don't believe everything you think". -Anom.

" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
The more knowledge, the more grief.
Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC

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Re: The Taoist Immortals ~ The Pill of Immortality [Re: Teotzlcoatl]
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I think these sages also created an ancient viagra pill and kept it a secret from the world :lol:

If the soul survives the body, why go for immortality?


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Pray, v.: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy - Ambrose Bierce

Medical science has confirmed what the male world has known intuitively for millenia: that scratching your ass is a great aid to complex thinking.

Its God's responsibility to forgive the terrorist organizations such as Jaish, Lashkar etc.
Its our responsibility to arrange the meeting between them and god."
- Indian Armed Forces

"Hey Monkey!! Get Funky" - Tarzan and Jane

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Re: The Taoist Immortals ~ The Pill of Immortality [Re: Icelander]
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First, the Pill is real.

In the future, humans will create a completely fake, lifelike reality: virtual reality. It will be used to create a superficial Celestial Afterlife.

What is the ultimate goal of virtual reality technology? I think about being able to take someone who has died, retrieve his brain, preserve it, fire it up and connecting it to a Reality Synthesizer. To experience paradise indefinitely, perhaps for eternity, with other beings. The Matrix, right?

Before this person died, he specified the exact conditions under which he would be reincarnated into the virtual afterlife. And of course there's not just ONE afterlife. Think of the possibilities. World of Warcraft freaks and shit.

Until the day we meet the Supreme Other Overlords Of It All and discover the true Celestial Realm.


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“Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced.”

Terence McKenna

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Re: The Taoist Immortals ~ The Pill of Immortality [Re: PsiloSaint]
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So true.:monkeydance:


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"Don't believe everything you think". -Anom.

" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
The more knowledge, the more grief.
Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC

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Re: The Taoist Immortals ~ The Pill of Immortality [Re: Veritas]
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Excellent, excellent answer...


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Re: The Taoist Immortals ~ The Pill of Immortality [Re: PsiloSaint]
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The virtual paradise could never compare to the true celestial paradise


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Re: The Taoist Immortals ~ The Pill of Immortality [Re: PsiloSaint]
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PsiloSaint said:
First, the Pill is real.

In the future, humans will create a completely fake, lifelike reality: virtual reality. It will be used to create a superficial Celestial Afterlife.

What is the ultimate goal of virtual reality technology? I think about being able to take someone who has died, retrieve his brain, preserve it, fire it up and connecting it to a Reality Synthesizer. To experience paradise indefinitely, perhaps for eternity, with other beings. The Matrix, right?

Before this person died, he specified the exact conditions under which he would be reincarnated into the virtual afterlife. And of course there's not just ONE afterlife. Think of the possibilities. World of Warcraft freaks and shit.

Until the day we meet the Supreme Other Overlords Of It All and discover the true Celestial Realm.


Why? Why do we think that we cannot traverse nothingness unscathed, since nothingness is where we come from?


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I am the MacDaddy of Heimlich County, I play it Straight Up Yo!

....I embrace my desire to feel the rhythm, to feel connected enough to step aside and weep like a widow, to feel inspired, to fathom the power, to witness the beauty, to bathe in the fountain, to swing on the spiral of our divinity and still be a human......
Om Namah Shivaya, I tell you What!

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Re: The Taoist Immortals ~ The Pill of Immortality [Re: PsiloSaint]
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PsiloSaint said:
First, the Pill is real.

In the future, humans will create a completely fake, lifelike reality: virtual reality.  It will be used to create a superficial Celestial Afterlife. 

What is the ultimate goal of virtual reality technology?  I think about being able to take someone who has died, retrieve his brain, preserve it, fire it up and connecting it to a Reality Synthesizer.  To experience paradise indefinitely, perhaps for eternity, with other beings.  The Matrix, right? 

  Before this person died, he specified the exact conditions under which he would be reincarnated into the virtual afterlife.  And of course there's not just ONE afterlife.  Think of the possibilities.  World of Warcraft freaks and shit. 

Until the day we meet the Supreme Other Overlords Of It All and discover the true Celestial Realm.


:what: :omg:


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All this time I've loved you
And never known your face
All this time I've missed you
And searched this human race
Here is true peace
Here my heart knows calm
Safe in your soul
Bathed in your sighs
:bunnyhug: :yinyang2:

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Re: The Taoist Immortals ~ The Pill of Immortality [Re: PsiloSaint]
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Before this person died, he specified the exact conditions under which he would be reincarnated into the virtual afterlife.


What if there was a glitch and he ends up in hell indefinitely. I would never trust a machine to manage my afterlife.

Besides heaven and hell we already experience in this world, coursing through every moment of our lives.


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Pray, v.: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy - Ambrose Bierce

Medical science has confirmed what the male world has known intuitively for millenia: that scratching your ass is a great aid to complex thinking.

Its God's responsibility to forgive the terrorist organizations such as Jaish, Lashkar etc.
Its our responsibility to arrange the meeting between them and god."
- Indian Armed Forces

"Hey Monkey!! Get Funky" - Tarzan and Jane

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Re: The Taoist Immortals ~ The Pill of Immortality [Re: shakercee]
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Maybe the pill included some sort of entheogen?

In many of the immortal stories when a person is given the pill of immortality he is forever transformed in consciousness but does not leave for the spirt realm immediately, and lives long past their experience when the pill was ingested....


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Re: The Taoist Immortals ~ The Pill of Immortality [Re: Teotzlcoatl]
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http://www.v72.org/sacred_caesalpina.htm


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