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Clingless Development, Transmutation & Progression
Join the 7pm meditation tonight, December 16th, at Fat Cat Longevity, downstairs next to Peace Love Coffee & Vegan Deli at Mary’s House of Healing, St Charles, MO
Doors open: 6:50pm close: 7:05pm
David from Alternative Life Guide and I pick up from the end of Part 1 — “Life Force, Art, Technology and (Digging) Crystals | In Conversation with David Hults” for:
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Then we get into:

Watch Part 1 — “Life Force, Art, Technology and (Digging) Crystals | In Conversation with David Hults“
Part one of a two part conversation with Randi Green and David Hults (and me, a little) only on the@HALAcademy
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Above is a clear, concise and knowledgeable series by Brett Stuart of Technical Intuition on how to carryout Controlled Remote Viewing [CRV].
The following questions address the more metaphysical and parapolitical realms related to CRV. Brent Stuart says clear images are almost always Analytical Overlay (AOL), but what about for higher density/dimensional remote viewing? What if a clear image comes up that could resemble what some refer to as “alien machinery” or (holographically and/or reality controlling) “ai cubes” where there’s not really much of a visual reference point but your intuition says — in the later stages of RV — that maybe whatever was seen as a clear image could be something like this?
And could discarding, or ruling out clear images for higher level RV tasks allow controlling forces and systems to:
This also naturally brings up the question of remote influencing on CRV, especially decoys, distractions, deterrents, blocking, alterations, etc.
And the CIA’s PROJECT STARGATE using RV is public knowledge. Would they have an interest in RV beyond the by-the-book method and purpose? And, as a reference point, the CIA seem pretty low level in the cosmic scheme of things.
Much is edited out in this first part of a December 2, 2020, conversation with David Hults of Alternative Life Guide due to our recording setting canceling out barking and aircraft while also silencing us.

Some topics we discuss and display:
Part 2 — “Energy, Consciousness, Psychology & Inner Work | In Conversation with David Hults”
Part one of a two part conversation with Randi Green and David Hults (and me, a little) only on the@HALAcademy
— j dippold (@JJDippold) June 13, 2024
podcast for now, not appearing on the YouTube channel: https://t.co/eGExgnIpCY and https://t.co/o7WoCjPFHi and https://t.co/yFA32SJ64r
The raw unedited YouTube transcription of this podcast:
[Music]
today we have
josh tiphold of integrating presents my
name is david holtz of the alternative
life guide
and we’re here to talk about a myriad of
subjects
including crystals empowerment
and we’re going to start off with a real
base point of things that should be
public yeah we’re just in dave’s davis
backyard
the second of december yep 2020
and it’s a little chilly out but sun’s
shining and whatnot and
i think the the main thing we got here
to get the conversation going is um
david’s recent trip to arkansas um we’re
both um we’re both into
really similar subjects one thing we
connect on and we can show today
is um arkansas courts quartz crystals
from arkansas
so i haven’t really i just heard a
little bit about david’s trip
maybe that might be a good good place to
start northern arkansas
and southern missouri have a very large
quartz deposit underneath
the whole area which lends
a little bit to its mystique in the
ozark mountains
we went specifically to ron coleman’s
mind and
had a good tour and learned about how
they mined the courts and things like
that got to drive around
the place but then they allow you to go
mine
or sift through all the stuff that they
bring out of the mine and kind of dump
in a pile
uh to the side um so while they
definitely collect all of the really big
uh
very nice clean pure clear quartz
uh for sale to collectors and things
like that they
definitely leave a lot of the more milky
quartz golden court things like that in
the ground
so we were able to go with the kids and
really enjoy ourselves for a bit
scraping through the the red earth and
finding a lot of different pieces large
small
and in between very cool
uh yeah i gave david some
um stuff that i founded ron coleman’s
brothers uh jimmy coleman’s mind
when i went down there i think it was
last year
and um gave him a bigger piece to have
camp out here and a bunch of smaller
pieces that i wouldn’t do anything with
and um well
what are you going to do with some of
this course uh and then then
that’ll tie into like with the the the
work you’re doing with it
so this is what i call a orgonite-ish
resonance art it’s in the theory of
orgonite
which is essentially a construct that
harnesses
the orgone energy of the environment
the orgone energy of the environment is
what the chinese and asian people refer
to as
ki or ki uh the star wars group refers
to it as the force
native american culture refers to it as
the great spirit
people call it god creation all kinds of
things but there is
something more to this blank space that
we are all
in and i believe that
it’s not just a belief the the science
that i’ve been learning
in this 21st century really has started
to back up the concept that everything
is wave form
even the most solid of objects is still
molecular structures vibrating against
each other at a certain rate of speed
and the interesting thing about that is
that it becomes solid like it’s not the
cup
in our hands but at the same time
if you had the electron microscope you
could just see straight through this
there’s so many different aspects of
this people can connect on the energetic
level of this
that people can connect on the
scientific level or do you even just see
this
aesthetic level you know how how it
locked down in the science level
all this is uh the geologist crowd as
well and
how everything’s molecularly formed
under and how it
their theories on how it formed over
eons or less than that
what kind of material and conditions
we’re around to
form this type of thing and that and
then you get the energetic people who
are
kind of like sensitive to energy um one
really
easy example for people to who aren’t
even energetically sensitive
if you hear these big crystal caverns
like in mexico right
where you have to have these special
suits because you can only be in there
so long
it’s because people like start um
sweating or i forget what exactly
happens but
well maybe maybe i’m getting that wrong
but i thought there were certain
precautions around this so
if you just put so much in one’s face
it’s probably going to be a little bit
more obvious to
people just like some people can notice
um certain crystals and not other ones
a lot of people some people talk about
mole divide as an easier one to notice
energetically and whatnot aesthetic i
mean like
jewelry has been made out of these type
of things and
pieces like david’s work here i mean
just just because they look nice you
know they look pleasing
and uh yeah so jewelry if you want to be
down there for more than half an hour
i mean the radio frequency transmitted
through that might have something
to do with it could be that would be
something good to look at and of course
all of our electronic devices have tiny
quartz crystals in them as well
the neat part about it is that right now
we’re discovering how some
people are more sensitive to various
electromagnetic frequencies and
waveforms
and the uh all of this is very
specific to the individual so don’t
dismiss it because you don’t feel it
other people may feel it ten times more
than you could ever imagine and it’s
very painful
i think that we can create a
uh new realm of technology applications
that mitigate the emf
field and not just the stuff that they
are making right now which are
which there’s a whole lot of cool
technology but i’m talking about just
adapting
the things that we have for instance the
emf radiation
from the cell phones that we carry it
while they continually try to reduce
this because they
do acknowledge now that this it can be
harmful to some people’s health
i think that it’s an idea like let’s
integrate black tourmaline in the
chipset
and right now we just have that silicone
board
that everything gets wired too but what
if we lace it with black tourmaline
with the with the industrial
capabilities on the planet we can
take the dust of these things which
vibrates in the same harmonic resonance
as a baseball side
chunk we can integrate the dust of these
minerals
throughout the equipment and perhaps
that would kind of
uh reduce the weight the the size of the
wave system some of these
emf emissions are more in square waves
um
thank you that’s the right word and then
this helps um i guess
round it off a little bit yes
yes yes i’m not 100 sure on that or how
that works you know even just regular
technology
instead of wi-fi instead of radio waves
they’re using light waves
i don’t know if they’re infrared or what
it’s not a really popular technology but
i think it’s
it exists but yeah broadcast
i know that they have made great
advances in light
technology uh as far as how they
perceive
the spectrum how they uh are utilizing
the whole spectrum
and so it would not surprise me if they
were transmitting data
in light package okay so these are all
the large pieces
that i pulled out of the ground this is
the point in the video where
dogs started barking very loudly and
airplanes flying over and due to the
zoom
settings we use the audio for this
portion is pretty much unusable
hey while we’re talking about the
crystals specifically let’s move over to
the
other table and look at all the small
pieces
okay so all of this little stuff is the
things that we pulled out of the ground
from ron coleman’s
except for the things that are not
courts obviously these are some of the
better pieces that i
actually pulled out of the ground right
down here
this is got a uh very fun little
point on it growing out there super
clear
point right there too i really
appreciate
this teeny tiny little outcropping there
i look at that i can zoom
yeah so it’s so fun
we got the jersey courts out of the
ground uh we were walking in the woods
around bonterre missouri i tend to think
that
uh nature kind of has it displayed for
me
sometimes because the jeep trail that we
were walking down
obviously people have been driving down
it for the entire hunting season
this year and nobody saw the big swath
of crazy quartz in the middle
or at least they don’t care about it
piece of organite like creation
so you asked what i’m gonna do with
these things uh
all of the the quartz is over here and
then i
shopped in the ron coleman uh rock shop
that they have there
this is blue calcite it’s one of the
neatest pieces
that i’ve seen so blue calcite red
calcite
this is rose quartz this is
yellow calcite or golden calcite over
here this is all amazonite
labradorite black tourmaline
this is sodalite and uh what i love
about
sodalite is it is this close to lapis
lazuli
it just uh does not have the same pyrite
composition
and what’s interesting about it is the
the density of the rock in order to
crush
is so much easier the sodalite is so
much easier to work with and to shape
than the lapis lazuli because i think it
is the
the iron pyrite content of the lapis
that makes it that much more dense
but i have uh tried to break both up and
the lapis just breaks the pieces like it
it hasn’t broken the hammer but it sure
wants to
so that’s a fun experiment just trying
to play with the dense
space and figure out the rock crushing
aspects
because all in all i do want to create
more pieces
like this and this is just a piece of
shungite cast
in red in epoxy resin but again the
piezoelectric qualities of this
what i like about the epoxy resin to
create
artworks is that while i am
experimenting with organized concepts uh
the layers of metal
and then crystal and metal and crystal
in order to
channel energy in a certain way to
produce a certain effect
perhaps i it acts as resonance artwork
even if it doesn’t
officially qualify as organized uh but
more importantly
the piezoelectric quality of everything
is really
why this works because because when the
epoxy resin dries
it goes in as a liquid and this is any
kind of resin
when it dries it squeezes so essentially
think of this rock emanating all of its
good
vibrations and things like that but then
having somebody squeeze it like a sponge
you know and
and really enhances that energetic
projection that’s kind of the
idea that i’m going for well right on
yeah it is uh
people talk about just crystals in
general um attracting energy
storing energy and then emitting energy
right um
yes it’s uh so what you know energy is
kind of like um yeah
that needs that term probably needs to
be broken down
For this month’s open-audience, open-discussion “Ask Us Anything” — continuing discussions about meditation and related topics — Denny and I sum up the themes of our last two conversations on Mahayana and Theravada while adding in the 3rd Buddhist Council. We then wrap-up the developmental history of Buddhism in China, South East Asia and Tibet. Finally we move into the history of Zen Buddhism. From Denny’s notes (most of which is covered in this talk and/or previous talks):
Miscellaneous mentions:
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Join Denny live Saturdays online for Yi Jin Jing and mindful joint, stretching, breathing, and qi exercises via:
Full list of links at DennyKMiu.com
On November 18, 2020 at Mary’s House of Healing starting at 7pm, I plan to facilitate a guided meditation starting with brief instructions along with a discussion before and after. We will likely choose from the following: concentration; loving-kindness; (open) awareness; 5 simple qigong breathing exercises; and/or mindfulness [1) body 2) heart-mind: thoughts, emotions, moods, mind states 3) relationship to our experience]

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Mary’s House of Healing
524 South Main Street
Downstairs at Fat Cat Longevity next to Peace Love Coffee…
St. Charles, MO
November 18, 2020 — 7:00pm – 7:45pm
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Rohatsu is Japanese for “eighth day of the twelfth month” when Japanese Zen Buddhists observe the enlightenment of the historical Buddha.
Below is a dharma talk from the Jewel Mirror Sesshin with Hokyoji Zen Practice Community I partially attended in August via Zoom.
Fortunately or unfortunately, or both, or neither, Zoom retreats are part of meditation practice for folks at this time. From November 30th to December 6th the hokyoji Zen Practice Community’s Zoom Rohatsu Sesshin (Retreat) focuses on the immeasurable/sublime abiding/Brahma Vihara/divine abode of Upekkha or Equanimity. Retreat details and registration link below:
Equanimity; Finding Our Way Home
In the awakened mind two of the most important aspects are:
Mindfulness and EquanimityPlease join the Hokyoji Zen Practice Community for the deeply silent and beautiful Rohatsu Sesshin. At Hokyoji we have been studying the practices of the Divine Abodes (Brahma Viharas) for a year. These four abodes of: Metta/Boundless Friendliness; Karuna/Compassion; Mudita/ Sympathetic Joy; Upekkha/ Equanimity, help us to cultivate the powerful and gentle reference points for zazen itself, and for the activities in each day of our lives. Right now, the life within us and around us is particularly fraught with disturbance, loss, and uncertainty. Equanimity, the crown of the Brahma Viharas, is the theme for Rohatsu. Equanimity is a dynamic, demanding practice rooted in the nondual teachings of Zen. It’s blessings are peace, nimbleness, responsiveness and capacity.
This online retreat will begin Monday, November 30th at 7:00pm and continue through Sunday, December 6th at noon. Event leaders will reside at Hokyoji in accord with pandemic guidelines. Participants will participate online via Zoom and have the option to participate as much or as little as desired. We ask that all participants attend the orientation session on Monday evening. Once you register, you will be sent a Zoom link.
A normal Hokyoji in-person retreat would be listed at $510 for 6 nights, with Hokyoji members receiving a 20% discount: $480 for 6 nights. However, as this year is a online retreat, Rohatsu 2020 will be based on dana (generosity). Please pay what you think is appropriate for your participation, or just pay what you can, be it a smaller or possibly a larger amount. No one will be turned away. Please REGISTER HERE
On the topic of equanimity, a few equanimity cultivation phrases:
May I learn to see the arising in passing of all things with equanimity and balance — Jack Kornfield
May I embrace change with stillness and calm. May I deeply except this moment as it is. — Christina Feldman
May I accept and open to how it is right now because this is how it is right now. — Carmella Masters
A write up by Caroline Jones and Paul Burrows on how the Brahma Viharas connect, interrelate, balance and counterbalance each other (as a whole):
The Four Sublime Abidings
Metta, [kindness] the love that connects, is an antidote to all forms of aversion.
It is not attachment.
If it slides into sentimentality, karuna [compassion] brings the heart back into balance.
Karuna, the love that responds, is an antidote to cruelty.
It is not pity.If it slides into sorrow, mudita [appreciative joy] brings the heart back into balance.
Mudita, the love that celebrates, is an antidote to envy.
It is not competitive.If it slides into agitated excitement, upekkha [equanimity] brings the heart back into balance.
Upekkha, the love that allows, is the antidote to partiality.
It is not indifference.If it slides into disconnection, metta brings the heart back into balance.

Lek Lai, a Sacred Kaya Siddhi Adamantine substance is the subject of legendary tales of miracle powers. One translation for Lek Laï may be “steel eel”, an allusion to the ability of certain Lek Laï to assume a liquid state. Some tales tell of Lek Laï not as a simple mineral, but a kind of metal-animal capable of “swimming across mountains”.
I learned of Lek Lai on a podcast. I cannot really comment as I have not encountered Lek Lai other than being mindful of spiritual materialism and at the same time investigating how the so-called spiritual is not separate from the physical. While I include links and a playlist of videos above, I am not responsible for what does, or does not happen when studying Lek Lai and/or acquiring Lek Lai so please employ discretion and discernment if and when doing so.
The words in this “art” are a mishmash of mostly these two translations of “Nansen Cuts the Cat in Two” from The Gateless Gate:
Nansen Cuts the Cat in Two
Nansen saw the monks of the eastern and western halls fighting over a cat. He seized the cat and told the monks: ‘If any of you say a good word, you can save the cat.’
No one answered. So Nansen boldly cut the cat in two pieces.
That evening Joshu returned, and Nansen told him about this. Joshu removed his sandals and, placing them on his head, walked out.
Nansen said: ‘If you had been there, you could have saved the cat.’
Mumon’s Comment: Why did Joshu put his sandals on his head? If anyone answers this question, he will understand exactly how Nansen enforced the edict. If not, he should watch his own head.
Had Joshu been there,
He would have enforced the edict oppositely.
Joshu snatches the sword
And Nansen begs for his life.
NANSEN CUTS THE CAT IN TWO
Nansen saw the monks of the eastern and western halls fighting over a baby cat. He seized the cat and said, “If (any of) you can say (a word of Zen), you can spare the cat. Otherwise I will kill it.” No one could answer. So Nansen cut the cat in two .
That evening Joshu returned and Nansen told him what had happened. Joshu thereupon took off his sandals and, placing them on his head, walked away. Nansen said, “If only you had been there, you could have saved the cat.”
Mumon’s Comment:
Why did Joshu put his sandals on his head? If you can answer this question with one word, you understand Nansen’s efforts. If not, you are utterly in danger.
Had Joshu been there,
The opposite would have been done.
Joshu would have snatched the knife,
And Nansen would have begged for his life.

Given today is the general election for President of the USA perhaps it seems fitting to post about “personal” images. Because unless you’ve actually sat down face-to-face beside the candidates, all anyone voting has to go on are video images and (spoken) words. (And the rare discussion with those who’ve actually met the candidates.)
An electronic visual depiction of a human being is only a very tiny semblance of a rendition of who and what that individual is. But in this day and age where information gluttony is status quo, “image is everything,” especially in America. A vapid statement indeed. Especially given so many hold one another’s images anywhere in the range of high regard and affection, all the way down to utter contention and resentment, mostly unconsciously, not realizing even that in real life — away from all the screen time, and even combined with all the screen time — our sight, eyes, vision, images, eyesight, seeing, looking and visual consciousness is but a mere sliver of our current and potential experience and reality.
While professional photography for one’s (individual) website is commonplace today, that doesn’t make the process any less challenging.
It is all about how to depict and represent oneself authentically while bucking the mainstream staged photography aesthetic of appearing self-absorbed, egotistical, attention seeking, and feeding the hungry ghost of fame and celebrity solely for the sake of fame and celebrity. But not going to the other extreme either — the extreme of jadedness, disinterest, too-cool-for-school, and instilling any other mindsets detracting from authenticity. The aim is to transcend these two extremes while conveying a look and feel to accompany and complement the intent and purpose of the published location of the images.
Ideally, these types of pictures will also accurately convey an encapsulation of the culmination of one’s life experience and state of being at that unique moment in time and specific place. All without any kind of typecasting. Without defining, freezing in, and locking down any kind of personal identity while allowing plenty of mindspace to grow, evolve and expand into one’s next highest version.
Sometimes an image is so captivating one forgets the elements of mind, intent, attitude, and consciousness of the photographer, subject, and even the viewer in forging the visual experience. On one hand it can be wondrous, moving, inspiring and beautiful. On the other hand spellbinding with deep subconscious influences.
Another polarity in photography is stealing a bit of one’s soul versus revealing what needs to be seen.
Some say one’s image can allow those with certain psychic abilities to heal, harm or otherwise affect or influence the subject. At the least, a picture can definitely form a mental impression in the viewer. How much difference this makes varies vastly and is dependent on myriad conditions.
On the other end of this spectrum photographs can coax out often hidden aspects, traits, demeanors, and comportments hitherto unbeknownst allowing one to “be seen” on deeper, more expansive levels and dimensions. There are those who need to be heard to be seen. And those who need to be seen to be heard.

Behold the butt chin, caved temples, jelly jowls and an Adams apple for a neck. And be sure to blink a few times to make sure you’re not viewing a corpse. I can kind of see now some of the reasoning why I was playfully told a long time ago, “I’ll break your face.” Or maybe just call such a semblance uniquely and distinctly chiseled. Whatever. It’s a bit of a shock sometimes to see what we look like on camera (as well as how our recorded voice sounds.)



I can’t sing enough praise about the color, lighting, background and composition though. Big ups and much love to Brannon Rehm, the operator behind the lens at Meramec Highlands Quarry aka Quarry Park aka Dee Koestering Park; a place where I wonder WTF went on there in an old twitter thread below:
(Mostly minute & unanswerable) questions about Meramec Highlands Quarry aka Quarry Park aka Dee Koestering Park https://goo.gl/maps/7sVdztNgKrLTNPzv7
Why the interest in this Meramec blue limestone over other limestone in the area?
Why stack huge stones on top of each other in the woods?




Some are at strange angles. Others look like they have tumbled down. Did they tumble? If so, how? If not, why and how were they placed the way they were? How (and why) did each stone get to its (current) position?
Why don’t the little stones propping up the bigger stones crush?
Is there evidence of these stones being sawed? If so is it reproducible? How long would it have taken to cut all these?
Why was the site abandoned?
What’s underneath the big stones?
What are all the kinds of fossils in the rock? Have these been studied and recorded?
How was this particular Meramec blue limestone formed and why at this location?
How were the massive table top portions of stone extracted from the sides of the hill? Why were certain areas of the (bed)rock cut into diagonally while other rock areas close by appear not cut into?
Why do some stone slabs have mini drill holes close together while others don’t seem to?
Why is one section of rocks spaced apart in 2 to 3 major piles?
Who all has inhabited & owned this land over time? What groups & companies were involved and their histories & backgrounds?
Is all the stone accounted for, as in do quarry records say how much stone was extracted; who bought it; where it went (& is it still there now); and how much stone was left unsold or unsellable?
[While taking notes at site iPhone froze & needed hard reset: power + home buttons]
Originally tweeted by j dippold (@JJDippold) on March 3, 2020.