What does your nick-name and your avatar mean?

[Aila]

Shiu'
You have put a lot of time and effort into expanding on the topics.
Much appreciated, it is all very interesting

[Aila]

Nice pictures. If that nation is related to your nation, then what is the problem that you use that avatar? Or did I not understand correctly?
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There is some cultural overlap, but since that is not my ethnicity, I would consider using that image inappropriate like it would also be inappropriate for me to dress up in my relatives specific Saami clothes, since I wasn’t brought up in that community.

As exciting as Toltequity is, others adopting some Mesoamerican practices (like the various dreamings) without first even understanding the meaning of non-dual worldview could potentially become quite dangerous and self-destructive.

[Aila]

In my culture, the 'energetic double' plays a major role in understanding energy.

I suppose Victor Sanchez has been accused of being “New Age” (I haven’t read his books) but nevertheless, at a glance, it seems that he has done his groundwork and presents the topics in a way Western audience might understand.
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[Shiu']

There is some cultural overlap, but since that is not my ethnicity, I would consider using that image inappropriate like it would also be inappropriate for me to dress up in my relatives specific Saami clothes, since I wasn’t brought up in that community.

I understand that. The Andean peoples are culturally and ethnically very close to the Mesoamerican peoples, but I would feel distant from them.

As exciting as Toltequity is, others adopting some Mesoamerican practices (like the various dreamings) without first even understanding the meaning of non-dual worldview could potentially become quite dangerous and self-destructive.

Totally.

[Shiu']

In my culture, the 'energetic double' plays a major role in understanding energy.

I suppose Victor Sanchez has been accused of being “New Age” (I haven’t read his books) but nevertheless, at a glance, it seems that he has done his groundwork and presents the topics in a way Western audience might understand.
(?)

I don't know Victor Sanchez. Didn't you mean Carlos Castaneda?

He was educated by a Shaman of the Yaqui tribe with power plants or psychoactive plants, and he narrates his experiences.

He captured part of the nahualica/shamanic teachings in his books. His books are very good, his books have allegories and practices to control dreams.

[Aila]

I don't know Victor Sanchez. Didn't you mean Carlos Castaneda?

He was educated by a Shaman of the Yaqui tribe with power plants or psychoactive plants, and he narrates his experiences.

He captured part of the nahualica/shamanic teachings in his books. His books are very good, his books have allegories and practices to control dreams.

No. I mean him:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A...nchez_(writer)

I had just glanced the chapter “Ego vs. Energetic Body” & at least the start of it it sounded like a good introduction:
https://books.google.com.au/books?id...0books&f=false

[Shiu']

No. I mean him:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A...nchez_(writer)

I had just glanced the chapter “Ego vs. Energetic Body” & at least the start of it it sounded like a good introduction:
https://books.google.com.au/books?id...0books&f=false

I didn't know him. If you were inspired by Carlos Castaneda, I suppose he has interesting things to say.

I won't judge him without knowing his books, but his books look interesting.

[alnortedelsur]

My avatar means nothing. I just like to have a wolf in there. I used to display avatars of famous females (women that I like), but some users misinterpreted it as me being effeminate (which I am not), so I stop putting them in my avatar.

My user name refers to the location of my native country (Venezuela) in northern south America.

[Roy]

My nick is not supposed to mean anything, it was just a nickname that is coincidentally a forename that came to my mind.

My current avatar is a part of a painting of Gustave Caillebotte, and my signature is also his art. He's my favourite painter perhaps.

[KirillMazur]

Kirill Mazur is the main character in the (entertainment) books by Alexander Bushkov.
Naval officer, diver and commando, in later books already a rear admiral. In short, Superman and a favorite of women.
Russian of Polish origin.
In the cinema, the image was embodied by Vladimir Mashkov (on the avatar).
https://dic.academic.ru/dic.nsf/ruwiki/1806810