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   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   On Nov 9, 2018, David Dalton wrote   
   (in article<0001HW.21955A70001061E0700006DBF2CF@news.eternal-september.org>):   
      
   > I have written a few times before of my hope that I will come out of my   
   > low/wilderness years and achieve awakening/enlightenment, like the Buddha did   
   > at the end of his seven ascetic years. I have said that I expect this   
   > awakening/enlightenment to consist of sustained productive creativity and   
   > mental stability, allowing me to taper off my medication without experiencing   
   > adverse effects.   
   >   
   > I think I have briefly come out of the low years twice before, once one early   
   > evening when I was visiting Vancouver in September 2004, and once one New   
   > Year’s Eve a few years ago here in St. John’s. In both cases I   
   > experienced a feeling of luminous clarity, and it wasn’t similar to my   
   > waning crescent highs.   
   >   
   > I have three types of awakening so far:   
   > 1. my waning crescent highs (inspiration/call)   
   > 2. release from my waxing gibbous moon trials by full moon   
   > 3. the above-mentioned two brief incidents.   
   >   
   > But anyway, while medication has eased my way, it seems that it has delayed   
   > the final awakening/enlightenment since most past figures similar to me had   
   > only seven years of low years, a few had 14 years, and I have gone 22.78   
   > years so far. If an 11 year sunspot cycle variation holds, I might come out   
   > of the low years 11 years after the 14 years, so 2.22 more years, or 22 years   
   > after the 7 years, or 6.22 more years. But I hope it will be sooner than 2.22   
   > more years.   
   >   
   > However, note that while my low years were quite bad in 1996 and 1997, these   
   > days they are not very low except in terms of creativity while I am on my   
   > current medication regimen of 1250 mg divalproex sodium and 7.5 mg of   
   > olanzapine nightly and am abstaining from alcohol 1--9 days before full moon   
   > and from marijuana during all of waxing moon, and am not blindly believing   
   > perineum click divination, though I still play at it.   
      
   As I noted in item 16 of the Key Features of My Cycles subpage of my   
   Salmon on the Thorns web page, at some times in the past I have felt   
   "buddha" belly circles (one smaller, one larger, not at same time, smaller   
   one lasted much longer).   
      
   Also in the past I have experienced belly pops of the smaller circle,   
   and have thought that that meant I was being tested to see if I   
   was a buddha by non-humans.   
      
   Late last night I experienced a number of these belly pops (usually   
   preceded by a perineum click last night, and I don’t remember   
   of that was the case in the earlier ones) again and divined   
   that this time I was being tested by humans in various spiritual   
   paths.   
      
   However the counter on my Salmon on the Thorns web page   
   did not increase in the last two days so I doubt there is   
   really any interest.   
      
   --   
   David Dalton dalton@nfld.com http://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page)   
   http://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)   
   “I'm sick of sitting 'round here trying to write this book   
   I need a love reaction/Come on now baby gimme just one look" (B.S.)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)