Prestigious acupuncture text author and lecturer Alex Tiberi tells a very funny story about the flaming liniment he uses as a therapeutic treatment for muscle aches and pains, and besides its coolness melds very well with our shamanic tradition. In one hotel seminar, he had a (skittish) volunteer try dipping her hand into the flaming liquid with less than stellar results; she did try it and violated the cardinal rule of not being tenetive about plunging her hand in and decisively clenching it to extinguish the flames, thereby resulting in flinging the burning stuff on the carpet.
And while he was looking for something to smother the bits of smoldering carpet, a brave attendee had taken his tee shirt off to use it as a cover for the kettle ‘o fire and managed to flip the whole burning container onto the carpet, which moved the event from a relatively contained mishap to one that required professional fire fighting assistance, carpet replacement, and limiting that particular public activity in the future.
Good times abound!
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We are put here on this earth to help others, what on earth the others are here for, I haven’t a clue. – W.H. Auden
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