Tuesday, 28 February 2012

Time in pondicherry

When I finally got into my hotel room I was relieved and just slept for a few hours...Unloaded all my stuff and went back on the internet I think, bought some food and walked to the "beach" at night. But it was a rubbish beach there was just rocks and it was overcrowded. I think I did my Qigong for 2 hours and went to sleep again.

The next day I woke up did my Qigong again for 2 hours then went to the internet cafe, back and forth having lunch, there wasnt much to do, when I walked everyone wanted to try and sell me something and then cars nearly hit me every second too, I had to be careful. In the nightime I used the eft matrix reimprinting but I learnt a really good new method that was much quicker. In 3 hours I did 10 traumatic memories (healed and changed) this would take a week of 3 hours a day before. Went to the internet cafe, had something to eat, was in a profound state of peace I couldnt even think for a minute or two then I did another memory.

Next day I woke up bought some stationary, mosquito nets, did my qigong for 2 hours then eft for an hour and a half, then went to the internet cafe, bought a phone charger, came up with the idea that it would be good to a degree because people dont take you too seriously without one and a science or psychology one would be good. I also did EFT for a couple of hours, had dinner and did EFT for another 3-4 hours. I did 9 hours of meditation this day. Its worth noting though that with this technique I healed 50 memories in 2 days whereas in december, january and to mid february I was doing on average a couple of hours a day healing 50 memories. So thats 2 and a half months work in 2 days.

Today I just woke up did Qigong for 2 hours, went over the memories again incase it didnt work well., got a taxi, some more money, Im going to auroville, soon.

Sunday, 26 February 2012

Time with Charles the pastor

So the next day I woke up at 8 and charles the christian missionary was outside so I followed him went to his house, rested, had some breakfast, then later took a car ride to an indian restaurant, I am writing this a week and a half later so it is worth noting that last night he didnt pay for anything I bought meals and he just sat there pretending hed already eaten then. So this morning I did microcosmic orbit opening the energy centers. Which maybe I can do a lot more.

Then I came to the orphanage, and when I got there the kids took my bag I was reluctant because I felt bad him carrying my stuff when hes smaller than me, but then when I was taking it back he looked upset so I just laughed and let him lave it, they pulled a chair for out for me (the kids), and one boy started looking at me and kept looking away, I know he wanted to talk and I was feeling awakrd so i mentioned this to the guy and he told the kids, later the kids introduced themselves to me shaking my hands, asking questions, I looked every kid in the eye and acknowledged them, then I sat down they did little dances, exercises, races, I joined in to some of them too like handstand walks, and kept them from hitting each other. These were cute kids lol..Then I had a meal at a different table afterwards, they all sat in circles with metal plates and their food was rice and some kind of sauce maybe some meat whilst I got nice food, I felt kind of bad. Also the kids kept pouring me water and putting food onto my plate. Later I went to bed in a guest house, which I presume was also better quality than everyone elses stuff.

Next day I got woken up Im trying not to masturbate because it drains my energy, but I think I did last night so I woke up feeling tired.Think I had breakfast specially made like the pastor whilst the kids got hardly anything. Today I was going to the beach with the woman who cooked meals, I did my qigong, microcosmic orbit..and my energy thoroughly boosted, had a small cold shower putting cold water in a bucket and pouring water over me, then in the afternoon I went on the motorbike with the woman who cooked and her sister..then we went on the bus and they kept offering their seat to me but I didnt think I was some god to be worshipped i think were all great, well actually I think Im god but so is everyone, I dont like this whole worshipping mentality india has, it makes people feel powerless, low value, unable to think for themselves, controlled. I bought an ice cream for them, then went and had a look around the boulders, everyone seemed really friendly and open to me, probably because Im white..tried to get close to monkeys and goats they kind of interested me a bit more, also saw some white people for the first time in a few days. Then I went to the beach sat down it was a poor beach really too overcrowded..I think in the nightime I played chess with the kids after my meal.

The next day I went to the beach again with another guy, I think in the morning I did my qigong stuff for 2 hours really makes me feel calm and zoned out, So I went on the bike with this guy and just normal chat I just be myself and people like me, I find it hard to answe when these people who work as christian pastors ask me if im christian and why not? sometimes I just say yes and roll my eyes, this time I went to the park with the temples and boulders, I went up a lighthouse, I just lied and said I was indian and shook the guys hand, walked up the stairs of the lighthouse but it was pretty scary because it was so thin walls I felt relieved to get to the top bit, and then when I got to the very top of the lighthouse, I was really really scared, thinking I could die if I step wrong and was clinging really tightly I was kind of meditating whilst afraid, I never really get scared so this was a new experience, some indian people took a photo of me being scared, and I got angry when it took a long time to leave the top, I hadnt been angry in a few days, and I realised anger was a different form of fear. then when I went down it also took a while...then we went to the beach I just stood in the water for a while wasnt that interested in going in the water even though I took my swimming shorts...but I went and sat around some boulders near the ocean for a while and just a had a chat with the church pastors friend was nice to just chill for a bit, after about half an hour we walked away but I saw people climbing into the park which I said we would go to, so I decided to jump in and my friend/guide did too, but this kind of thing wasnt very common for him. We just walked around, saw a lot of white people and just joked about for a bit. We went home on the bus and bike and I refilled his petrol, when we got back and I just sat and listen to their christian prayers and then the christian pastor guy asked me what my opinions on politics were and I just said I think its all rubbish because businesses run politics also politicians are rich lawyers not neccessarily kind compassionate people, which was brave to say as I was staying here for free. Later I showed the women cook and the kids my laptop and tried to figure out how to use the womans internet connection but it didnt really work.

The next day I did my Qigong, and was going to the jungles and mountain. Charles said I could stay here for a few more weeks but he seemed to change his mind so I had to pack up my bag and was sad to leave the kids, when I was going on the bus..I did my EFT without tapping with my fingers just going over the points, releasing emotions like "the kids need me, I am responsible for them, I am a bad person for leaving them, they cant cope without me" funny how stupid beliefs are. We sat on the train for 2 hours, I was getting to know this women cook Esther better she was going to be my guide and I was going to pay for her train and stuff. When I got to the train station I sat for a while ate food that she bought and mosquitoes kept biting my feet so I put on jeans and shoes and charles came with the ticket, and I said I would pay for it although it was quite expensive and then he said you can go back to the childrens home but you have to pay I was trying to negotiate but eventually said ok and the extra money would be my contribution to the orphans. I slept on the sleeper bed on the train which wasnt really that comfortable, but I'd never done it before.

At 4am I woke up, we sat in a different area the guy charles was talking to the train security..then we got off and waited for the hill train, we were late so the guy charles organised me and the esther tickets and I saw a lot of white people for the first time in a while, and I immediately made friends with the people in my carriage whilst staring at the people opposite thinking the girl was hot and the guy was whipped. I sat in awe watching the scenery just in a kind of meditation for the whole journey. Every stop I got off some Indian guys from kerala wanted to take pictures of me I just talked to them joking like, Im going to start charging for photos. When we got to the top I said bye and then met another christian pastor who would be my guide for the day, just sat in the car got to his house he kept talking and making statements about himself, he seemed very smart into bikes and adventures and stuff. I had a room for the night which was pretty nice actually. I just changed my clothes and sat in the car, I payed 500 rupees just to fill his charge for like 2 minutes which was quite naive of me. Anyways I was getting jealous of him getting attention of the female guide, I was used to it even though I didnt want to think I liked her. We walked through tea estates which were really beautiful and the guy kept talking about his cars. I found him slightly annoying at first. Then we got to a section where there was a good view of everything but I was annoyed because I thought he was a bit arrogant and flirting with the girl. I was jealous which was a bit strange. Then we walked up and started discussing religion, which was interesting for me because my thoughts are that it controls people and you should meditate and become god like so its easier to be nice rather than worship a potentially imaginary god and try your best to be "good", I warmed up to him after this discussion, we had some stuff to eat. Then we went to a dam which was beautiful lake with monkeys in the trees it was really a beautiful place. I started to like this guy more and he suggested I work in a call centre teaching the english accent and make lots of money which was interesting. I was sharing my thoughts a lot with this guy because he seemed smart. When we got back to the house I did my Qigong stuff for two hours, felt super relaxed. Jim left and then I just went to dinner with esther, just really relaxed and had some special bread called porota three times I didnt think it was healthy to just have bread for dinner though. I went to bed that night pretty much as soon as I came home.

The next day I woke up, tried to do the part of the qigong which worked with sexual energy and healthy masturbation as i couldnt do this infront of anyone and then open up my channels in the car or whatever. We said bye to jim and took a bus to another place called ooti, I did the meditation on the bus and felt super calm. Then when we got to the place I met charles again in some restaurant, we had a meal and he bought a ticket for the train I noticed this time the ticket was really expensive but I was being nice and possible naive about it all. Then we walked to an amusement park although it wasnt really that good and then to a boathouse, which cool but a bit expensive then we walked back to the train station to wait for the train early, we got in line early but somehow didnt get any tickets, It was a bit of drama but we ended up getting a bus and esther chatted to some pastor guy. When we got to the next train station we waited for a bit then met charles again i was feeling real peaceful again, I met charles cousin who was also a pastor and was just friendly with him, maybe I would hang out with him and he said jim said I was lazy but he wanted to hang out again. I said I like him although earlier esther said he talked too much and I just teased her about the kind of guys she likes. We sat in the sleeper train for a while and then went to sleep but I had a terrible sleep, mostly because I had an urge to masturbate so I did in the toilet, and then that drained my energy for the next day. my heart felt like it was out of its socket, I left charles and we went on a couple of buses home but esther and I were really really tired, when I got back to the orphanage I just slept for a until mid afternoon then did my qigong still felt tired but then ate and then exercised and felt a lot better, played with the kids did exercise pull-ups, dance, racing, and after dinner I just went to dinner again. I did EFT Matrix Re-Imprinting tonight but I really changed the technique and was suprised how quickly it worked.

The next day I woke up did my Qigong and did some Matrix Re-Imprinting for the memories that werent complete. I felt pretty good. I saw charles he was in a different room preaching and singing songs, I had breakfast for a bit, was in a complete zone of peace and stillness, trying not to judge christianity as bad. Then played with the dogs I caught him looking I dont think he was too impressed that i was walking out on his stuff so I just sat on the swings in my state of far superior peace than christianity could ever bring, I went in and out of the different rooms, I got bored so went upstairs and just slept for a few hours, chatted to esther about marriage in india. I found out that most people marry their cousins and dont choose marriage partners and no sex before marriage, also in another conversation I found out how the price of everything in India was drastically different to the price of things in england for example in india its 15 pence for the bus in england its 2 and a half pounds, in india its 80 pounds a month to rent a house in england its like 1000 pounds. I asked to go to the internet cafe, and I went with a kid, let him go on the internet printed off some documents, bought some chocolate for all the kids. When I was in the taxi coming back home charles called me and said he wants coke and pepsi i was getting irritated by how much money I was spending on him so I kept repeating if he would pay me back and eventually he got the message and said ok. I got back to the orphanage and said Hi and he was caning kids which really irritated me later he explained that it was kids were eating poisoinous foods, I said ok I understand I guess I just dont really like watching kids get hit, he said something about the bible saying spare the rod and you spoil the child i just said yeah but your christian and Im not. Anyways we had dinner and he started mentioning about paying for the rent for the week before were he never mentioned anything about rent I just said Im not going to pay he kept going on, and asking me why im going travelling with not much money and I explained, anyways I was getting bad vibes he was getting interrupted by his phone and I was getting calls from my parents so I finished my dinner and went upstairs to sleep. i was trying to discuss what to do with my parents and my mum said something about leaving if youve paid a lot of money then later I figured Ive actually spent tons of money on them and counted how much then I thought, I dont need to pay anything more, so I talked with my parents and then decided and walked around thinking about things. I packed up my stuff, tried to figure out a route where I wouldnt be seen and the dogs wouldnt be heard, I realised they had my passport photocopy but they couldnt really do anything about it also had my mobile phone charger but I could get another one. So at about 12am I just left creeping quietly through the dark, walking with an extremely vague sense of where I was going, stray dogs kept waking up at barking for about 1 minute at me, these werent cute pets these were diseased dogs. I was a little scared but just kept walking with my head down maybe kissing my teeth and looking the dogs in the eyes and smile, I got lots kept asking for directions, the bag was really heavy so i stopped every 10 minutes after an hour or two I found the bus stop, sat for like an hour or two started seeing buses, got on every bus and asked for pondicherry but the buses where all written in tamil and no one spoke english, eventually I decided to ask a coach driver if he spoke english and then found my way through various buses, I slept a little bit. Then I finally got to pondicherry it was sunday and all the internet cafes were closed and I had no phone reception so I guess I had to look at different hotels and consider my options, i eventually got helped by one guy who showed me a list of hotels and maps and let me keep my backpack in the lobby for half an hour or so. I walked around eventually saw an internet cafe which would give me time to contact my parents and go on the internet and do my teach english also this would reduce my hotel costs as i could get the cheapest hotel and just use an internet cafe instead of wifi, I liked this place lots of tourists and a good beach and tons of shops, I found a few cheap ones and one guy showed me a cheap and one of the guys wanted a bribe and I was getting annoyed with him so I shouted because he was teasing me, eventually i decided to stay at one hotel for three days and relax check out the beach before I go to auroville for a bit, so i got a room, slept for a bit.



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Thursday, 16 February 2012

1st day in India

I took a plane trip, sat next to an american had a chat.
I went to bahrain, it seems to be a rich country.
Took a flight to India it was boring.

When I got to India I was the only white person in masses of cues. I started laughing at something and ended up chatting to a few people. I told them lots of things about me, I think they thought my ideas were a little bit silly. But I didnt mind. Changed money at the airport and probably got ripped off a bit. Went in a taxi probably got ripped off but it was nighttime, I couldnt get a simcard, I wouldnt have been able to anyways or get a bus and I just wanted to feel safe.

I got to my couchsurf's place and it was fine, there was one person there sleeping in the other room but he was leaving in a couple of hours.

I sat down on the floor tried to sleep, but was in pain, I was lost, wondering who I was, what is true. I just used this pain as a meditation, All my ideas eg its better not to work, Its better to be in another country were being destroyed, I was losing my ideas of who I was, Am I my parents? My experiences? My native country? I was suffering. I was trying to figure the cause of this suffering. So I thought Attachment, desire, and fear cause all suffering, and knowing who you are or rather who you are not will mean you dont get too attached as you dont seek yourself in concepts, beliefs, ideas and images, It will also mean you are less scared and less desiring of adding or losing something to your idea of yourself. Anyways I chatted to the guys and went to sleep for like 12 hours.

I went to bed had a very long sleep But very nice one too.

I woke up, my host offered me out earlier but I was half asleep so I went for a walk, It was a bit scary being the only white person out of hundreds and having lots of people stare at you. I went into the internet cafe..tried to complete my teach english course because I extended it. Couldnt do it all because of headphones. But I did most of it, and met a christian missionary guy, but he was genuinely trustworthy I could kind of see or havent seen fully yet. I talked with him for a bit in his house, and he said he was in charge of an orphanage if I could help out, and then he could take me to auroville, and also suggested going to the mountains and showing me around, so it was interesting. I read that surrendering to god was also a viable option of spirituality so I was pondering this. I will meet him outside this house at 8am.

I wanted to spend a little time with the guy I was staying with and so had brief chats with him, had dinner with him which was food put onto a leaf which was washed, and tried eating a little.. chatted a little bit longer too.

I am going to finish some of my tefl course and have some good sleep.


Saturday, 11 February 2012

So I am going to India

Wow I am going to India with less than £1000 one-way and I have to keep enough money for thailand and then getting a job later. Couchsurfing is great, I found it yesterday, I can have accomodation for free for a few days, as well as possibly food, getting shown around and making friends. Workaways and Helpx.com is great got a few projects eg Camel tour, teaching in a school (which will give me experience), working with alternative energy, sustainable living and organic farming, working with kids projects. I also want to visit places like Goa and figure out what is good to do in India and do it, via the website of India Mike.com, I want to do a couple of vipassana retreats, whilst working with my own emotional freedom techniques a couple of times. I want to learn yoga, or at least do yoga and spend time with nature eg tigers, elephants. I might like to go hiking or trekking or be in the jungle. I might like to hitch hike just for the thrill of it too.