#past life regression australia

[sleepysaurus4]

Sci-fi worldbuilding idea: Humanity repeating the British - Aboriginal scenario on a much larger scale.

Excuse me if I'm wrong, please correct me if I am but do you know how many elements of Australian Aboriginal cultures have remained unchanged for literal tens of thousands of years?

From what I've heard, their way of life, beliefs and even artstyles were often continued uninterrupted from when their ancestors first settled Australia, some 60 thousand years ago. It's beyond fascinating and beautiful.

And then they were violently contacted by the British, a culture which was a polar opposite of that. Constantly changing, lacking clear continuity, endlessly morphing into something new. It's history was marked by sudden and complete shifts in people's lifestyle, and belief that endless progress and expansion are beneficial. Some few tens of thousands years ago, ancestors of the British were probably quite similar to the Aboriginals. But they have changed so radically, that now those ancient people share more in common with population from other side of the world, than with their own descendants.

Now imagine the same scenario repeating itself, but on an interstellar scale.

Let's say there's a population of humans settling a habitable planet and being isolated from other branches of humanity from that point onwards. At the time of them colonizing this world, most of our species is a bit more advanced than humanity today, having technology just advanced enough for short, interstellar leaps, but nothing crazy. And for this particular population, this level of advancement and culture become a status quo for hundreds of generations. Tens of thousands of years or even longer. All this time they remain in isolation, without regressing but also without progressing much past that point. They keep pretty much the same technology, beliefs, even fashion as their distant ancestors who first got off the ancient colony ships.

Let's say that for 40 thousand years, every morning their people put on the same kind of simplistic robes. Get served breakfast by the same type of semi-autonomous robots. Take the same kind of train to a temple of the same religion.

Untill this continuity gets broken, as they are attacked by an alien invandor. Aggressive civilization with completely different and much more advanced technology. Maybe this civilization is heavily based on biotechnology, artificial life and organic machines and weapons, with the line between producing and breeding completely blurred. Invaded humans might put up resistance for decades, fighting living weapons without even meeting their enemies in person and knowing how they look like. Until one day, they manage to capture a rare ship with a pilot inside. As this weird vehicle-organism gets opened, they find the most unexpected sight - the pilot is human... Or at least descended from a human.

The invandors are another human population, which took a completely different trajectory over the millenia. While our civilization stayed in this comfortable statis, cultivating their ancient way of life, those humans were fully focused on technological progress. Endlessly changing and expanding, until they became something completely alien.

Think what the invaded might feel, knowing that mere 40 thousand years ago their ancestors and ancestors of the aliens were pretty much the same. They lived in the same way, had similar culture. Some of them probably even met and talked. But now the ancestors of the aliens are more similar to the invaded than the invandors.

Maybe the progress focused humans have some traits that make them completely alien. Maybe their way of thinking and how they perceive the world are no longer the same as in homo sapiens. Maybe their priority is no longer maximazing happiness, both personal and general, but something completely different and abstract. Maybe they aren't even physically capable of experiencing happiness anymore. Maybe they can't be reasoned with... Maybe, just how many invading populations in our current history, they no longer view invaded as people?... Right now, humans commit this heinous act without even being isolated from one another. Think how the invaders might think after millenia of living around different stars, and becoming two different species. Speaking of, on this scale the differences would also be biological. Maybe invaders are fused with their machines on the biological level. Maybe they no longer have mouths, feeding though artificial apparatus leading directly to their digestive tract. They have become truly alien.

... Idk what's this rambling is about, it's just interesting to think about.

[edgeofthegibbuniverse]

So I just watched this little snippet of an interview that Barry did in the 90’s where he said he had done a past life regression and found out in another life he was a Victorian child who died on a boat going to Australia. He then said this life was fulfilling what was unfinished from before.

He did sort of look like a Victorian waif as a kid!

[oxceen]

🌲 - are you a wild or domestic animal? Both! I'm a polytherian and my theriotypes are Vancouver coastal sea wolf, jackdaw, orca and some sort of long-haired domestic cat I just cant pin down the breed of no matter what I do

🌺 - How did you find out you were alterhuman? I was hanging out with my neighbour and he was like 'hey do you know what a therian is' and then explained it to me, and suddenly it was like my entire life was explained

👑 - do you own any gear? If so, what is it? The same neighbour gifted me a fox ear headband (he couldnt find a wolf one), I also had a wolf necklace from primary school that wouldnt fit my head anymore so I cut it and put the wolf charm thing on my current favourite necklace instead, and I also have a yarn tail that I kinda just procrastinated on and forgot about-

🌥️ - how long have you identified as alterhuman? Over a year and a half now, I think

🍂 - what are some of your favorite alterhuman-related activities? Howling randomly, doing quadrobics, making dens (although I cant do that anymore because im in australia and every time I try I find a spider somewhere)

💫 - do you experience species dysphoria? Not too often, but I still do.

🕊️ - does your kintype/theriotype go by a separate or different identity? (i.e. different name, age, gender, etc) Only my jackdaw and cat theriotypes. Those I can confirm are adult, but my other theriotypes dont have a specific set age, gender, name or anything

🧸 - do you experience pet regression? Sometimes, but it's not common

🦋 - what are all your kintypes/theriotypes? Whoops- guess ill just say it again

my theriotypes are Vancouver coastal sea wolf, jackdaw, orca and domestic cat

🍃 - do you shift? Yes, very often. Mainly phantom, sensory and mental shifts.

👼 - Do you identify as/with other non-human creatures that aren't animals? Not that I'm aware of, no. I did think I was a lot of different things in the past but now I think I'm just a therian :P

☄️ - other random therian/otherkin stuff! Idk if this counts but I'm snakekith :>

Kyr's alterhuman ask game!

🌲 - are you a wild or domestic animal? 🌺 - How did you find out you were alterhuman? 👑 - do you own any gear? If so, what is it? 🌥️ - how long have you identified as alterhuman? 🍂 - what are some of your favorite alterhuman-related activities? 💫 - do you experience species dysphoria? 🕊️ - does your kintype/theriotype go by a separate or different identity? (i.e. different name, age, gender, etc) 🧸 - do you experience pet regression? 🦋 - what are all your kintypes/theriotypes? 🍃 - do you shift? 👼 - Do you identify as/with other non-human creatures that aren't animals? ☄️ - other random therian/otherkin stuff!

[j-a-smiths-blog]

2251 8Mar24: Chapter 68.1

I just realized the past two days I have been so deprived of sleep that I regressed 10 days in my post putting chapter 56 and 57 when they were supposed to be 66 and 67...

I've been editing photos this evening from my Samsung NX500 camera that I took on the trip to Australia. I know I would have gotten a lot better quality and video, too, if I took a Canon camera with me... but it was just too bulky.

Been paying attention to Mastodon the new social media I joined last week as it gives artist a chance to post art and not have everything censored and taken down for breaking rules and shit... the guy who got me on Mastodon finally posted his first NSFW photos today which really wasn't much compared to what I had posted within my first couple of days... I mean shiiit.. I had action figure cock on my page a few days after joining and then a few days later I had posted photos of self pleasure as it's like a story...

But I am back in the philippines and need to start getting my life sorted out.

I have:

The lathe to build, the stop motion film sets to construct and now thinking about going ahead to start building more stop motiin sets to really start film production. Story wise for Instagram I can post alot of the behind the scenes stuff making it look like the figures are building the sets here and there as Selena directs traffic organizing everything and bossing production around, for Mastodon I can have her sneak off into the sets and have some please time with Viktor her new toy and maybe I'll add a little lesbian scene.. who knows. There is plenty of directions I can go as long as I build these sets and start doing stop motion!

[daddynews247]

Cameron Green: Australia’s all-rounder is suffering from chronic kidney illness

Doctors told the parents of the 24-year-old that he might not live past the age of twelve after diagnosing him with the illness at birth.

Green was part of the Australian team that won the World Cup recently and has since continued to play for his country in all three formats.

Green said to Channel 7 that “I’m still trying to learn as much as I can about it.”

My kidneys basically don’t filter the blood very effectively and don’t function as well as other people’s kidneys do.

Although it’s not ideal for a cricket player, I have to keep my protein and salt intake relatively low. However, because I spend so much of my time on the field during games, I can increase my protein intake.

“I have always done everything right, eating and drinking in a professional way so I did have to make that quite clear, but it is a work in progress,” he explained.

“There’s always a chance that if I don’t take care of myself properly, this could progress from stage two to stage five.”

“The kidneys do not heal; it is a regressive disease; they are unable to repair themselves.” So, if you don’t look after them, it can grow worse – maybe not in a few of months, but certainly over years.” 

The issue was discovered during Green’s mother’s 19-week scan, and there were major concerns about his life expectancy.

“At the time, it was uncharted territory as such, and the prognosis wasn’t great,” Green’s father, Gary, said.

“There were life expectancy issues that he might not expect to live past 12 years of age.”

Green, on the other hand, has not been slowed by the disease and has played 24 Tests, 23 One-Day Internationals, and eight T20 Internationals since making his Australia debut in 2020.

“With the profile I’ve got, I just cr like it was important, and if I can help just one person with raising this awareness then it’s worth it,” he told reporters.

“It never really affected me physically, but one of the symptoms was a lot of cramping.”

[hypnotherapyonsunshinecoast]

[marcellus-nile-born]

Let’s talk about past lives!

It has a lot to do with reincarnation, and the Wikipedia definition for that is:

“Reincarnation, also known as rebirth or transmigration, is the philosophical or religious concept that the non-physical essence of a living being begins a new life in a different physical form or body after biological death.[1][2] Resurrection is a similar process hypothesized by some religions, in which a soul comes back to life in the same body. In most beliefs involving reincarnation, the soul is seen as immortal and the only thing that becomes perishable is the body. Upon death, the soul becomes transmigrated into a new infant (or animal) to live again. The term transmigration means passing of soul from one body to another after death.”

With that being said I subscribe to a belief that we are put here and reincarnated until we learn the lessons we are meant to. We sign a soul contract when we enter into this plane of existence. That contract holds all of the things you must learn over your lives. That is my personal beliefs though and I don’t expect everyone to follow the same beliefs.

I’ve learned I have many past lives, I’ve figured this out through visions I get (I’ll give examples) or past life regression sessions.

An example of a vision of one of my past lives is: I was at work in an automotive parts manufacturing plant. The job I was working required me to take a stack of parts and place them in industrial bins. I walked back from a bin and to my station to grab some parts. I grabbed the parts differently than I normally would.

I grabbed the parts as if they were some kind of rifle in my hands. As I did so I was walking to the bin to pack them away. Before I reached the bin everything around me went black. I wasn’t carrying parts, but I was carrying a rifle with a bayonet on the end. The area around me began to come into light as I noticed where I was.

I was on the battlefield, I was in a green (not camouflage) outfit. The air around me was thin and cold. I felt the brisk cool air on my face as the smell of gunpowder and iron filled my nose. The next thing I know there was a grenade that went off not too far from me and one of my platoon members. As my hearing was shot and vision starting to unhaze, my friend was shot in the shoulder, hip, and chest. He was bleeding out.

Everything began to the fade back to black and I was back in the automotive plant. That was wild because it was my first ever random vision of a past life.

Since that experience in roughly 2020 I have come to know 2 other people who share that same past life.

On my journey into witchcraft I’ve been able to make countless mojo bags, spells, mirror magic, ect for past life regression. I’ve only recently been able to enchant a key that I’ve had for quite some time to be able to access my past lives.

The key works like when you are meditating with the key, you will be transported to a room filled with doors. Each door is the door to your past lives. Choose a door, put the key in, and go learn about your past lives.

I’ve come to know that in my past lives I’ve been:

A Viking worrier

I remember looking around and being on a boat, shield and sword at my feet as we collectively rowed on from Scandinavia. My skin was littered with scars, but my heart was filled with honor

Native American child

My tribe stayed along the river sides, it was easy access. Me and my sister were creative and crafty alike, our parents were medicine people of the tribe. Anyone who needed healing were brought before. One day our tribe was completely ransacked, all of my people where killed by the colonizers. My sister and I were both drowned.

Medicine man/ healer

I’m not entirely sure the the time era, or region this past life was ini get a very strong Australia feeling from it, but I had brown skin like the rest of the people in my small village. I stayed in a Hut on the outskirts of the village. The surrounds were dry and desolate as me lived potentially cliff side. I remember on countless occasions mixing different slaves, herbal remedies, wet mixtures, rituals, ect. For the village people. I had a rather large almost black staff with 2 or 3 rattles made from dried bulb like fruit. I remember my body covered in white paint markings, and I would generally just wear a make shift brown/tan shreds of cloth

Soldier

I’m not entirely sure what my initial role was, but I was on the battle field near 6 or 7 people. The enemy threw a grenade, the people around me where blown back as the dirt around me was thrown violently into the air. My vision blurred and my hearing went out. When my vision focused one of my platoon members was in front of me and had sustained 3 bullet wounds. He bled out in front of me.

Those are the main past lives I remember. These have come to me in visions, past life regressions, or dreams. But every last one of them were as real as you and I. Down to feeling of the beads of sweat running down my face, or smell of brisk autumn air.

I will make a future post on what can be done for past life regression. I hope you enjoy my past life’s stories I’ve accumulated thus far!

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[megamind2010]

7 and 14 with booster. very invested in what you have to say

7. What "throwaway" character could they have done more with?

normally i would answer ted's entire supporting cast in his 86 solo (especially murray and angie) but they aren't really throwaway characters i suppose just supporting characters that had nowhere to go when ted left chicago and (to the best of their knowledge) killed himself. i was struggling with this for a while then i remembered who i am and that is THE WORLD'S ONLY JOSHUA BARBAZON STAN

he's the jli's australian liaison and if you'll look extra hard at the family section he has a SPOUSE named ARTHUR meaning that both australian men on that page are canonically gay. he only appears in like one other comic (hanging out with taz) but i'm a bit obsessed with him for being gay married in australia like thirty years before it was legalised here

14. What's the worst thing that's happened to Booster?

in terms of in-universe events... losing ted of course is kind of the big tragedy of his life. it sent him into a huge self-destructive spiral in 52 and his second solo is in large parts ABOUT him dealing with that loss and grief and learning to move past it in a healthy way... so it's definitely fair that it's what people tend to think of as The Worst Thing that has happened to booster. far from the only bad thing though of course lol

i think losing his arm and straight up dying on the operating table and then being stuck in a suit that functioned as life support (so he couldn't take it off otherwise his heart would stop beating) for a full year while dealing with chronic pain probably wasn't a great experience for him. generation lost with max coming back and putting the jli through the torture chamber, losing his mother and sister, his backstory in general, the completely canonical real genuine textual period of depression he went through around identity crisis ~ countdown to infinite crisis (LISTEN TO MEEEEEEEE) he's been through a lot is what i'm saying

looking at this with the hater mindset though the worst thing to happen to booster overall is being written by tom king. what a masterclass in character assassination and regression. truly nobody else is doing it like mr warcrimes

[awarenesshealing]

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[yes-i-am-happyaspie]

Updated AO3 Masterlist  (Irondad)

March 24, 2021

My AO3

****Starker-free Zone- I Do Not Ship It.***

[Updated March 24, 2021]

AO3 Profile Name: happyaspie

Joined on: 2018-10-5  

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A Parent Apparent

Description: May is injured in a car wreck.  Peter calls Tony for help.  Eventually they all grow into their own little family.  

Tags: Tony Stark Adopts Peter Parker, May Parker and Tony Stark co-parenting Peter Parker, Angst, Fluff, Humor and Feels.

Warnings: None   Rated: Teen  Status: Complete  [140+ Chapters]

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What Was Missing Was You

Description: Post-Endgame (fix-it), Peter finds out that Tony has a tattoo and that discovery leads to a heartfelt conversation

Warnings: None Rated: G

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Distracted by a Dime

Description: Homeless Peter Parker ends up under the care of husbands, Tony Stark and Steve Rogers

Warnings: None Rated: Teen

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Entangled [co-written with Moonchild2593]

Description: Tony calls Spider-man in for an assist during an alien attack and almost instantly regrets it when, together, they are hit with an orb of unearthly magic that forces them to see into each other’s past through shared memories. Both the good and the bad. This leads to a lot of unexpected feelings, a few revelations and a long conversation about whether or not things between them will ever be the same again.

Tags: Fluff and Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, Stephen Strange is Helping, Emotional Hurt/Comfort

Warnings: None   Rated: Teen  Status: Complete

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Tony Stark is a Good Mentor Series

Description: A collection of stories highlighting Tony Stark and Peter Parker’s close relationship as Mentor/Mentee, some (who and I kidding…most) of them delving into father-figure territory.

Genres: A combination of fluff, humor, hurt/comfort, sickfics & injury  [Always read the tags]

Warnings: None   Rated: G     Status: Ongoing

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Beautiful Boy (Darling Pete) Series

Description:  Tony learns about a young Peter by chance and for some unknown reason he ends up taking a liking to him and becoming friends with his guardians, May and Ben Parker. Eventually, he is tasked with caring for nearly-eight-year-old Peter for a week but when the situation becomes tragically permanent, Tony has to pull himself together to be the man his friends saw in him rather than the man he sees in himself.

Genres: Angst, Fluff, hurt/comfort, sickfic

Warnings: None    Rated: Teen    Status: Ongoing

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Tumblr Mini Fics

Description: A collection of short Irondad one-shots (all 1000 words or less) written based off of prompts sent to me on tumblr

Genres: Varies heavily by fic

Warnings: Varies by fic [Most have ‘No Warning]

Rated: Varies by fic. [General Audience-Teen]  Status: Ongoing

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Spider-man Stories Not Other Wise Specified Series

Description:  A collection of MCU based fan-fictions that don’t fit into any of the other series.  [Always read the tags]

Genres: Varies heavily by fic

Warnings: Varies by fic [Most have ‘No Warning]

Rated: Varies by fic. [General Audience-Teen]  Status: Ongoing

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Peter Parker Omo Files

Description: Unrelated, *Non-sexual* omorashi fan-fictions. This means that these fan-fictions involve pee in one aspect or another including wetting, bed-wetting and desperation.

**Omocute**||**Not Meant To Be Read As St*rker**||**Not Age-play or regression**

Genres: Omorashi, Platonic relationships, hurt/comfort, fluff

Warnings: None   Rated: Teen   Status: Ongoing

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Turning of The Tides

Description: Peter is eighteen now and everything around him is changing. He’s graduating and college is right on the horizon. May is starting a new job that will allow her to travel the country and his friends are all heading different directions to go to school. The only constant in his life right now is Tony, who is ready to guide him into adulthood and remind him that independence isn’t the same as trying to do everything on your own.

Genres: Emotional hurt/comfort, Fluff

Warnings: None    Rated: Teen   Status: On Hiatus/To be Continued

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Together Into the End [co-written with Pandalove09]

Description: People tended to think that Tony and Pepper Stark lived a perfect life and that with an abundance of money at their fingertips, they were never in want of anything. However, that couldn’t have been further from the truth. They spent years struggling with pain and grief. Though rather than tearing them apart, it brought them closer together and stronger than ever as they fought for what they’d always wanted, a child of their own.

Tags: Peter Parker is Tony Stark's Biological Child, Peter Parker is Pepper Potts Biological Child, Angst With a Happy Ending, Howard Stark Lives, Maria Stark Lives, May Parker is Tony Stark's Sister

Warnings: infertility struggles and child loss by miscarriage.

Rated: Teen   Status: On Hiatus

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—–Some Fics From the Above  Series’ Listed by Genre——

Sick Fics:

One Long Night- Peter shows up in Tony Lab with a stomach virus he didn’t even know he could catch

Tony Stark is Not Sick Tony is sick and wants to be left alone.  Peter takes care of him anyway.  He returns the favor a few days later when Peter comes down with the same flu.

Peter Parker’s October [Ch. 6] -Peter had a cold.  Tony wraps him in blankets

Maybe it Was the Taco -Peter gets food poisoning while on a trip with Tony.  

Spider Sniffles - May is going out of town and Tony is going to have Peter.  By the end of the fist night, Peter is miserable with a cold.

Appendicitis it Is- Peter is sure that the stomach ache he’s had all day is nothing.  Spoiler alert- it’s not.

Of All Days- Peter calls Tony to pick him up from school because he has a major migraine.  He wasn’t expecting to meet Rhodey in the process.

Stars- Peter is home alone and sick with an earache among other things… he calls Tony when he can’t take it any more.

Fever Terror- Peter goes to bed with a fever and wakes up later burning up.  He’s disoriented and hallucinating causing him to injure Tony as he tries to maneuver him into a cool shower.

Injury:

What I Really Need is You [Chapter 2] Peter gets shot while on Patrol.  Tony patches him up.

Fourth of July- Peter manages to swing right into a drone leaving him with a concussion.  Tony helps to sort him out.  

One Little Slip Up- One clumsy mistake leaves Peter stuck on the floor with a broken leg.  He’s happy to have so many adults in his life to help him out.

Valentines Night Interrupted- Tony’s on a date with Pepper when he gets an alert that Peter’s been stabbed.  

Mistakes- Peter is injured while on a mission.  He tried to tell Tony but the man is just too distracted to hear him out.  That is until he’s crying.

Lame [Injured Tony] - Tony hurts his back int he lamest possible way.

Stay With Me [Injured Tony]- Tony get some major injuries during a botched mission.  Peter isn’t taking it well.  Happy, May and Pepper all try to offer support.

Don’t Freak Out- Peter calls Tony after getting stabbed.  He’s a little loopy by the time the man gets to him.

Emotional Hurt/Comfort:

Save Me From My Dreams- Peter can’t sleep and the lack of rest causes him to break down in front of Tony.

Everybody Has Bad Days- Peter had a bad day.  Tony tries to make it better.

Australia - Peter is tired and anxious and is mind keeps wandering back to a story his uncle used to read to him.  Tony helps him get what he needs to feel more at ease.

Three Seemingly Small Words- After a nightmare, Peter realizes that he needs to tell Tony that he loves him but he scared of how that might affect their relationship.  When he gets the words out, he’s overwhelmed when the sentiment is reciprocated.

Quiet Company- Tony is having a bad day and tries to send Peter home.  Peter Stays and his  quiet presences is eventually more than appreciated.

Breath Kid (You’re Not Alone)- Ned had died and Peter  isn’t coping.  Tony helps him through.

Entangled- alien space tech causes Tony and Peter to share memories this leads to a lot of questions and feelings.

September- Peter had a very bad patrol that leaves him more than a little shaken.  Tony is there to comfort him

What is Real (A Comfortember Fic) -  After being kidnapped, Tony helps Peter recover.  

[nomanwalksalone]

ALTERNATIVE STYLE ICON: JIMMY WANG YU IN THE MAN FROM HONG KONG

by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans

There are things we always want to reclaim from our past, even from its most confused, bittersweet moments. In my case, the thoughtful moments driving home late at night down Santa Monica Boulevard decades ago from an essay-writing extension class at UCLA. With the top down on my coincidentally Australian-built convertible (a deathtrap, a future girlfriend would call it, and refuse to get in), those summer evenings seemed flower-scented, ripe with potential that would go wasted, still and quiet and beautiful in a city that was not mine.

I was taking this after-work class after feeling like I was losing my marbles, wanting to find a way to collect myself after college. College had beaten any confidence in my ability to write for personal expression out of me. I would not rediscover that in that class, in fact not for decades until blogs like No Man Walks Alone reached out to me and I could process and piece back together parts of myself, those disjointed, uncalm, uncollected pieces of myself. At the time, I was young and unmoored, and the station at the lower end of the dial I’d listen to on those drives back reflected that feeling of unreality and detachment. It played everything, ironically or not, everything from the Laverne and Shirley theme to what would have at the time been cutting-edge electronica. And one-hit wonder Jigsaw’s strange “Sky High”, whose refrain “You’ve blown it all sky high” was sung altogether too casually for someone to be expressing the upheaval of their entire life.

I was pleased to rediscover the song playing as the main theme to 1975’s The Man From Hong Kong, whose star Jimmy Wang Yu is today’s Alternative Style Icon. The song’s strangely flip attitude towards destruction works perfectly in this bizarre, bizarrely interesting movie, which ends on the climax of Wang Yu blowing former James Bond George Lazenby and an entire floor of Lazenby’s apartment building to kingdom come. After setting Lazenby (yes, Lazenby himself, in a practical effect that actually did leave him with burns) on fire by kicking him into his open-plan 1970s fireplace…

Lazenby had blown his own career sky high by walking away from a multi-picture Bond film deal to instead star in 1971’s Universal Soldier, a confounding mashup of Easy Rider and The Dogs of War whose chief point of interest is that feminist writer Germaine Greer plays a minor role. Lazenby claims that his friend Bruce Lee was set to star with him in The Man From Hong Kong until Bruce met his mysterious end at the hands of either a Dim Mak death touch or a medication allergy. Jimmy Wang Yu stepped into the role and Lee’s vacant shoes and acquits himself well in all respects except the unfair and unwinnable one of being in the shadow of a deceased legend, deceased so very much larger than life.

The Man From Hong Kong showed how exploitation films could be strangely liberating, indeed subversive. It was a so-called Ozploitation film by dint of its Australian production, going so far as to have its first scene a fight atop sacred landmark Ayers Rock, where a future Mad Max actor actually beats legendary martial artist and fight choreographer Sammo Hung. It also exploited many other period trends:  the Kung Fu, international thriller, and loose cannon cop fads, with Wang Yu a polished Hong Kong police inspector able to charm very white Australian beauties out of their hang-gliding pants and bikinis. Nearly a half century later, moviemaking still is rightfully criticized for emasculating Asian men, yet in this 1970s exploitation film an Asian man got to carry out the old seduction tropes of the regressive, lily-white British spy movie, even if (as Alice Caldwell-Kelly has observed) the characters do engage in racist banter about it.

This is very much a Jimmy Wang Yu showcase. It’s certainly not Lazenby’s fits that stand out in this movie. As my friend Matt Spaiser of The Suits of James Bond has pointed out, Lazenby has to dress the part of a playboy bigwig villain, and wears old playboy clichés like gold-buttoned blazers with draggy 1970s long collars and fat ties, all in combination with the long sideburns and Zapata ‘stache that make him look like a more butch Peter Wyngarde. Wang Yu, instead, makes a deep blue his theme color, first in a rollneck with light salt-and-pepper tweed jacket in his suave arrival scenes in Australia, then as the color of the jumpsuit he wears in a viciously violent car chase and final fight where, as agent of the most chaotic good, he smashes through the windows of Laz’s penthouse apartment. That jumpsuit could have been iconic, were it not eclipsed by the yellow jumpsuit that would turn up in Bruce’s boss fights in Game of Death, released infamously long after Lee had died. In the shadow of the legend, shadows of legend. In contrast, Wang Yu’s dark green corduroy suit that he wears for his first confrontation with Lazenby is iconic and uneclipsed. Despite its 1970s exaggerations of style and details, its material, color and dash are very much contemporary, corduroy being one of the casual materials in which suit designers are trying to lure us out, even if might wear a bit warm for hot girl summer or whatever the current name of this current uncertain, tentative summer is. Perhaps hang gliding should make a comeback, although not in Sydney airspace.

Uncertain and tentative, you do what you can to collect yourself, invest at the time in what you can of yourself, and decades later maybe, maybe, you get somewhere, even if you can never stop looking back.

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On May 14th, 2021, The Lancet published an editorial titled “A flawed agenda for trans youth”. This contains a number of weak or flawed arguments and rhetorical framing that I believe are far below the quality one might reasonably expect from a publication as prestigious as The Lancet.

On April 6, 2021, amid a flood of new bills to curb the rights of transgender and gender diverse (trans) youth in the USA, Arkansas became the first state to prohibit doctors from providing youth (<18 years) with gender-affirming treatment: puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and gender-affirming surgery.

From the outset, the focus is on the political and legal situation in the US, which of course is not reflective of the global picture. Seen from the UK, our legislative, medical and political landscape are markedly different, but that has not stopped this article being shared approvingly by UK-based lobbyists such as Stonewall’s Nancy Kelley.

Here we see that editorials such as this are not merely narrowly focused on the specifics - and ethics - of care of vulnerable youth, but actually in service of wider political lobbying. This is evident from the language and framing of the whole editorial:

However, what the bills seek to protect appears to be traditional gender norms, using a vulnerable group in a protracted culture war. The bills' socially conservative advocates create fear by focusing on emotive issues, honing the same messaging around protecting women and children that was used in earlier campaigns against abortion and same-sex marriage. As clinicians, it is important to use evidence to debunk the false claims being made.

The author castigates “social conservatives”, and links opposition to euphemistically titled “gender-affirmative care” as akin to anti-abortion or anti-gay marriage.

This is a binary framing that bears no real relation to the actual breadth of opinion and concern out there. For sure, many social conservatives are in opposition on those grounds - but there is a failure to recognise and account for the positions of the many people who come from an entirely different position. People who embrace and encourage gender nonconformity, who fought for gay marriage, and who now see current attitudes as a regressive approach to behavioural stereotypes that are harming predominantly gay and lesbian youth.

Disproportionate emphasis is given to young people's inability to provide medical consent, a moot point given that—like any medical care—parental consent is required.

This is not a moot point. A parent does not have unlimited power to subject a child to elective medical treatment. Indeed, this is the entire crux of the matter: is the treatment necessary? Does the potential benefit outweigh the potential harm? Is a child capable of understanding what they are consenting to?

This is why so much of this is framed in life-or-death terms - because absent some imminent threat, there is no justification for subjecting a child to experimental treatment in the first place.

Supplanting parents with the law for this decision presumes that a parent living alongside their child cannot grasp what is best for them, despite often witnessing many years of struggle.

And yet, parents abuse their own children, and sometimes the duty of the state is to intervene in the best interests of the child. This is a legitimate conflict - simplistically pretending it doesn’t exist, or that a balance is not needed to be struck, denigrates the debate.

Driving this consent narrative is the anxiety evoked by focusing on the minority who regret transition (estimated as 1% of adults who had gender-affirming surgery as adolescents).

This cites a recent meta-analysis of 27 articles, going back to the 80s. As such, I think it has the following weaknesses for making this specific claim:

It covers decades of adult transitioners. Adults are not directly comparable to children because there is wide variation in the persistence of dysphoria past adolescence (as high as 88% in a recent study). This is a key point of contention with early intervention, because this would indicate a nearly 9-in-10 chance of unnecessarily and permanently medicating a child. If regret samples are only drawn from the pool of those who persist into adulthood, then of course regret measures will be lower.

It covers surgical outcomes only. This again does not apply to children maybe given puberty blockers and hormone treatments.

Patients lost to followup or who (for whatever reason) do not proceed to surgery are often not accounted for - and by the above metric these could easily be patients who presented for treatment, before desisting, something much more likely with younger patients. For example, the meta-analysis cites the following paper as having a cohort of 132, only 2 of whom express regret. But actually, the paper starts with 546, which becomes 201 participants, only 136 of whom proceed to surgery, 4 of which are lost to followup. This is a very different picture, with 75% of the recruited sample an unknown quantity - and it is those lost to contact, or refusing to participate, or who simply drop out that are most likely to contain those with regret.

Whatever else, I don’t think that regret rates of adult surgical transition are a useful proxy for regret rates of children who have been affirmed as the opposite sex from a young age and proceed through puberty blockers to cross-sex hormones. I think these are entirely different groups, and using the best-case success rate of one to downplay concerns about the other is disingenuous.

However, in any situation when medical treatment will alter a person's identity, no one can know whether post-treatment regret will occur; therefore what matters ethically is whether an individual has a good enough reason for wanting treatment. Regardless of law makers' stance on identifying with a gender other than one's birth-assigned sex, the autonomy for this decision lies with young people and their parents.

Autonomy, but also clear and informed consent. A child who simplistically believes they are in the wrong body, who may be struggling with internalised homophobia - or homophobic parents - and comorbid mental health issues. Who has been told by people they trust that blockers and other interventions are necessary, and that they will simply go through the “correct” puberty for their “identity”, is being told lies. Phrasing such as “birth-assigned sex” is part of that lie - for sex is determined at conception, and cannot be changed. The association of the word “gender” with “sex” is part of that lie. How can anybody meaningfully consent when surrounded by such imprecise language? Why are children encouraged to change their sex characteristics to express their “gender identity”? What does any of this even mean? When even the Lancet publishes misleading data about rates of regret, or the reversibility and side effects of blockers (see below), how can a child understand this complicated and contradictory picture and offer informed consent?

More fear is stoked by rhetoric about a malevolent threat to children. Social conservatives in the USA, UK, and Australia frame gender-affirming care as child abuse and medical experimentation. This stance wilfully ignores decades of use of and research about puberty blockers and hormone therapy: a collective enterprise of evidence-based medicine culminating in guidelines from medicalassociations such as the Endocrine Society and American Academy of Pediatrics. Puberty blockers are falsely claimed to cause infertility and to be irreversible, despite no substantiated evidence.

Again, the editorial frames opposition as “socially conservative” - and completely ignores the social progressives who are expressing concern. This is simply not a narrative that fits the polarised binary of US liberal/conservative politics. In fact - especially in the UK - opposition is largely left wing, from those who don’t believe that gender nonconformity is something that should be medicalised, and who are worried at the prevalence of gay and lesbian youth in the cohort of children now being referred for paediatric transition.

It is telling also that the study offered to rebut the claims about infertility or irreversibility of blockers is not applicable. The cited paper is a study of the effects of blockers as a treatment for several conditions, but the author here cites the outcome when treating precocious puberty, ie in the instances where a young child is given blockers to halt early pubertal development for a short period, and then allow the remainder of normal adolescence to continue as much as possible.

This is not at all applicable to the treatment of children who go on to cross-sex hormones. These children never experience natural puberty. Blockers in this instance do not delay, they prevent it entirely, and substitute with synthetic hormones to encourage the development of opposite sex characteristics. This is a wholly different treatment pathway, and yes, blockers cause infertility and in some cases complete loss of sexual function, as well as other long term issues.

And the paper itself confirms this:

I believe The Lancet are wholly wrong to present this position with such certainty, and that by making claims that are contradicted by the given citation they fatally undermine this claim.

The dominance of the infertility narrative, usually focused on child-bearing ability, perhaps reveals more about conservatives' commitment to women's role as child-bearers.

Again, this does a huge disservice to the actual debate. The focus is on such things as fertility and sexual function because these are the very things children are incapable of consenting to lose. A child cannot know if they will never want to have a child of their own. A child too young to experience an orgasm cannot consent to never experiencing one.

Puberty blockers are framed as pushing children into taking hormones, whereas the time they provide allows for conversations with health providers and parents on different options. Gender transition involves many decisions over a long time, and those who take hormones do so because they are trans. Contrary to claims of a new phenomenon, trans youth have always existed; historians show they have sought trans medicine since it became possible: the 1930s in the USA.

The concern is that affirming the social sexual transition of a child too young to understand what sex is, is fixating on a fantasy identity that then becomes a medical one, again before a child is too young to know the implications. This is something borne out by the difference in desistance rates between children left to resolve their gender identity in adolescence (ie, allowing non-conforming boys and girls to simply be authentically nonconforming boys and girls) which are up to 88%, and the <1% desistance rate seen with the affirmation approach at the Tavistock. If the intervention itself is fixating and medicalising an otherwise fluid identity, is that really in the interests of the child? And again, this was found in the Keira Bell case - blockers are not in practice “a pause” for “time to think”, rather an early intervention to avoid the development of secondary sexual characteristics and lay the ground for inevitable cross-sex hormones.

Focusing on potential harms ignores the fact that wellbeing is broader than physical health alone. The harms to wellbeing posed by prohibiting care are huge. Being a marginalised group (<2% of US youth), trans youth already experience the stress of discrimination and stigmatisation. They have high rates of depression, anxiety, and suicide: almost double the rates of suicide ideation of their cis peers. As Laura Baams discusses in her Comment, puberty blockers reduce suicidality.

Except as the published work by the Tavistock shows, this is not true. Blockers don’t improve mental health outcomes at all, and indeed the focus on avoiding the development of secondary sex characteristics may even be creating distress.

Additionally, such studies of mental health and suicidality are skewed both by sex differences and confounding comorbidities. Notably, girls are more likely to suffer poor mental health than boys, especially lesbian and bisexual girls. There are large numbers of co-presenting conditions, like eating disorders and self-harm - and it is specifically among girls that we are seeing a large rise in identifying as trans or non-binary.

The author says they have poor mental health because of discrimination and stigmatisation. However, another hypothesis might be that children are identifying as trans as a response to homophobia (as has been reported at the Tavistock), or - in the case of girls - as an escape from a highly sexualised culture of objectification, or experiencing social contagion in friendship groups as has been shown with eating disorders and self-harm in the past. Do they have poor mental health because they are trans, or do they identify as such in response to poor mental health and other social factors?

Separating out whether identifying as trans is a cause of or a response to such things is difficult, but statements like the above are reductive and simplistic. The author leaves no room for such alternative interpretations of the same evidence, which again falls into the whole polarised culture-war framing of the article. Such alternatives invariably are not given weight in pieces like this because they do not fit that narrative.

Removing these treatments is to deny life.

And here is the crux of it - the emotional blackmail. The only thing that could possibly justify the risk of unnecessarily sterilising children is the threat of death.

Moreover, whereas the bills focus on medical treatments, the care trans youth receive is far wider in scope. Those seeking care typically also see social workers and psychiatrists, and much of health providers' work involves listening, talking, and setting up support in their families, schools, and communities. Health providers also discuss with them the idea that gender is something we “do” in social practice and can take many forms.

I struggle to see what the point of this paragraph is. If wider care and therapy are not under threat, why mention them? If the focus of legislation is on medical interventions, then talking about other forms of care is irrelevant. If people are arguing for less medical intervention and more of these wider social measures, then what is the author taking issue with?

Indeed, some choose social transition without medical treatment, and it is useful to remember that the notion of gender dysphoria perpetuates the historical pathologisation of gender diversity. Challenging the current social construction of male–female will undoubtedly ease trans youths' lives, reducing the pressure of rigid definitions. But alongside these social aspects is a pressing need for medical care.

This is pure doublespeak. What is more pathologising of gender diversity than the medication of children who display it, to “fix” their bodies so that they match their expression?

It is precisely the opposition to the pathologisation of gender nonconformity that is at the heart of many progressive objections to the current treatment regime.

We would agree that encouraging children to express themselves however they like is the aim - but we argue that telling them that they need to somehow “correct” their bodies in order to do this is a regressive step. You cannot literally change sex, and telling young children that you can, or connecting such things to stereotypical dress and behaviour and ephemeral feelings is so bizarre that I am still staggered as to how prevalent such a conservative idea is among supposed “progressives”.

Indeed, the idea that you can literally change your sex in this way also means that you can literally change your sexuality. With the right treatment, apparently a gay child becomes the straight one they truly were all along. Can the author really not see how some gay and lesbian people might be appalled by such measures? Might see such interventions as conversion therapy?

This editorial is partisan and polarising. It relies on limited or questionable evidence, does not consider the full range of contradictory evidence, and focuses on a narrow - and false - political framing of a complex and wide-ranging issue. It does nothing more than provide superficial legitimacy and ammunition to a particular political stance, rather than any sort of informative or open assessment of the evidence or genuine criticism.

As such, it is no different to 99% of what is written on this subject, but I do feel that The Lancet ought to aspire to more.

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Hypnotherapy - Past Life Regressions

"The Reincarnation Experiments, a dazzling TV narrative wherein four housewives from Sydney, Australia, gave subtleties of previous existences under entrancing and afterward checked the proof - before TV cameras and free observers - by venturing out a great many miles to the areas of these past lives, was screened before the Australian open in March, 1983. Indeed, even skeptical watchers were constrained to concede that rebirth gave off an impression of being the main intelligent clarification for these noteworthy excursions through time which followed mesmerizing relapse led by Hypnotherapist Peter Ramster." Fisher (1984:978).

In the wake of perusing Fisher's statement, hypnotherapy toronto  we may think about how we get the opportunity to encounter a previous existence relapse meeting.

In spellbinding, we sidestep the basic cognizant mind and enter the psyche to make the way for old recollections. The daze is a changed perspective which we consequently enter commonly every day. Sitting in front of the TV or driving a vehicle is particularly similar to an entrancing daze since we concentrate and permit the inner mind psyche to open up. How frequently have we driven from A to B to show up at B without truly knowing how we arrived? We put ourselves in a daze to close the outside world and all its commotion out. Competitors call it being in the "zone".

What occurs in the cerebrum to permit the cognizant, expository piece of our psyche to float separated and permit the past live recollections of our inner mind to surface? Our psyche works on various mind wave frequencies throughout the day moving between the cognizant and subliminal state. The cognizant state, called the Beta state, capacities with a mind wave recurrence of fourteen cycles for every second and higher with a normal of around 22 cycles for every second for most exercises. At the point when we permit our mind waves to back off by resting, by concentrating or by wandering off in fantasy land, we enter the Alpha state, likewise called the entrancing state.

All people enter a sleep inducing stupor at any rate 10 times each day by floating into the Alpha state, which works with a mind wave recurrence of 7 to 14 cycles for every second. Fast Eye Movement (REM) begins at 10 cycles for each second and permits us to dream around evening time. The inner mind surfaces and speaks with our cognizant psyche by utilizing its own language, the fantasies, to break down every day occasions. Hindering further, the psyche enters the Theta state. "The Theta scope of mind action is around four to seven cycles for each second. This is viewed as the mystic scope of the brain and the territory where clairvoyant encounters happen. Delta has a recurrence scope of zero to four roughly cycles for every second. This is the scope of all out obviousness." (William W. Hewitt 1996).

It is in this condition of profound mesmerizing that we can open entryways that have been shut. On the off chance that we don't convey any squares or fears, we can take advantage of subliminal recollections of different occasions and different spots.

Throughout the years, I have led numerous past live relapse meetings. Despite the fact that my job as a facilitator is to control through the meetings, I never give any heading or counsel, and my customers follow their own characteristic way. Their previous existence venture is their own understanding and my duty is to ensure that they have a sense of security and ensured consistently.

A few customers slip into previous existences without deliberately deciding to. They come to see me for different reasons, not having faith in rebirth and "incidentally" take the excursion to previous existences to subliminally tackle or manage issues that have been built up before this live, however shipped into it. When they discover the reason for their issue, they are regularly ready to determine it rather rapidly.

We are accepted to have somewhere in the range of 200 and 600 previous existences. Our inner mind permits us to recall those lives that furnish us with the shrewdness and information that we are prepared for at the hour of the meeting. The experience itself feels like a fantasy that we deliberately observe, feel and hear in a condition of absolute mindfulness. The great part is that we quite often recollect the entire meeting and can take from it whatever we need in the years to come. All the meetings that I have ever done by and by remain in my brain and help me to comprehend troublesome circumstances in all parts of my life.

The meetings start with a serene unwinding acceptance which permits every individual to gradually go into a sleep inducing stupor. When the psyche mind has opened up in the Alpha state, it can give significant data that permits the review of past live recollections. In a previous existence relapse, the condition of mindfulness isn't equivalent to in an ordinary spellbinding meeting. Winafred Lucas expresses that "individuals' cerebrum waves change when they are in a previous existence relapse, and they are not quite the same as the mind rushes of some other mental state we are aware of (typical alertness, rest, dreaming, entrancing alone)", Lucas (1996, web article).

The review starts by observing, detecting or feeling yourself standing some place new in an alternate situation, time and spot. A few recollections are clear, distinctive and nitty gritty, some are unclear and progressively like minds. It doesn't generally make a difference how one sees the data. It is imperative to permit the inner mind to pass on the astuteness and information that is required at the hour of the meeting.

Subsequent to encountering a couple of occasions in that life and getting subtleties, for example, names, locations and dates, the meeting prompts the finish of that life and the passing experience. As I would see it, the passing experience is the most great piece of the meeting since it feels freeing, invigorating and totally quiet. Regardless of what the conditions of the passing experience are, the second the spirit leaves the body is mind blowing. One wants to venture into the Universe, turning out to be free and boundless once more. All concerns, agony and egocentric sentiments are gone, and one reunites with the Universal Consciousness. It wants to glide, floating, flying high like a hawk.

The substance of the meeting starts in that condition of gliding, feeling weightless and being associated with Oneself. Despite the fact that the customer is in an underground government of entrancing, the person in question can impart and talk. It wants to be in two distinct universes on the double. The cognizant mindfulness is sitting in the seat in the room where the meeting is occurring while the inner mind centers around the impressions of the previous existence.

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