Opening the Heart of a Megalithic Cross (same as email)

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Inside Chi Flows Naturally:

1. Back from Getting Stoned in Scotland – diving into the heart of the 5,000. year old Callanish Stones. Plus tales of recent Taoist ceremonies in Stonehenge. Are these ancient timekeeping devices trying to tell us something?

2. Oct. 21-22 in Asheville. Primordial Qigong + Feldenkrais for Super-Learning the secrets of Effortless Movement. with Michael Winn and Joyce Gayheart.

Open to all. Includes certification to teach wuji gong, a.k.a. “Tai Chi for Enlightenment” for those practicing at least one year. Workshop is highly recommended for anyone wanting to teach this magical form, even if you’ve learned it from the video. (see http://www.taichi-enlightenment.com for info on the form, and amazing testimonials). Also a great time to visit Asheville, peak leaf season in the Blue Ridge Mtns. contact: joycegayheart@earthlink.net to register or help with local hotels. Or call 828-296-1930.

3. Nov. 11-12, Qigong Fundamentals 1 &2. 5 Animals, 6 Healing Sounds, Orbit & Inner Smile.

NEW: Friday Nov. 10, 7-9 pm FREE Inner Smile practice session, to warm up your heart before the workshop. Weekend is still only $144., or $90. to review. At Lighten Up Yoga, 60 Biltmore Ave. in Asheville, NC. contact: winn@healingdao.com

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Dear Lovers of Getting Naturally Stoned,

I am back from getting Stoned. On stone circles, that is, both in Stonehenge and a new site to me, Callanish in Scotland. These are the two largest stone monuments in Britain. I got high on each, using a 5000 year old megalithic technology. What exactly causes the high warm feeling when you stand inside, or next to these great cold stones?

The energetic technology the ancients used is called RESONANCE. The Taoists use it as their main technology as well; in chinese it’s called gan ying. Its a principle of “subtle music” or harmonic tones of nature. By aligning these giant stones in sacred geometric patterns attuned to the cycles of the sun, moon, and earth, the ancient sages in Scotland created a coherent wave and tonal pattern that is still broadcasting – to anyone who is listening.

The stones themselves function as kind of giant acupuncture needles inserted into meridians on the planet. This triggers the earth’s magnetic field to expand out the stone points. I have long suspected the ancients dowsed their site for underground streams, which concentrate the earth’s magnetic jing/essence, like blood flowing in her veins. A similar thesis has been proposed by dowser Michael Poynder in a recent book, Lost Science of the Stone Age: Sacred Energy and the I Ching. He contends every stone has either a lunar (para-magnetic) or solar (di-magnetic) charge to it, that correlate to the yin and yang signs of the I Ching. And that you can dowse five distinct layers down deep into the Earth beneath such sites, a reflection of the five elements/phases that flows into the stones above.

Then as the earth rotates, sun and moon cycles act as triggers which intensify and alter the pulsing magnetic pattern of the “stone needles”. Add to this concentrated cosmic force the millennia of human ceremonies performed on the site, and you are left with a richly layered recording from the past that still feels alive and pulsating — if you are sensitive enough to catch the frequency. It is megalithic fengshui at its best – and still humming away.

During the week of the autumn Equinox, we rented Stonehenge and did a private powerful sunrise ceremony inside its massive circle. Part of the ceremony involved doing Primordial Qigong inside, with our group arranged in the shape of a cross pointing to the four cardinal directions. The primordial qigong form is designed to gathers and concentrates chi from the four directions into the center of one’s body (and core energy channel).

Having 25 people doing this wuji qigong in a “flying cross” formation intensified its normally magical effect. Afterwards a number of us, who had done ceremonies within Stonehenge three times in the last six years, noted that the earth chi seemed to be shifting on the site. It felt softer, gentler, more welcoming, as if the Earth had slowly been opening its giant heart and radiating it out the needles of the massive stone circle. Many people had felt being embraced, even cradled, by the paradoxically hard stones.

Although Stonehenge is the more famous site, Callanish may be more intact and its field less interfered with by modern visitors. It’s located on Lewis, a remote and wild windswept island off the barren northwest coast of Scotland. At 400 feet long by 150 feet wide, its bigger than a football field, the second largest stone circle in England.
Please first take a look at an aerial shot of the Callanish Stones in a celtic cross formation:
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=a312&file=index&do=showpic&pid=1703

Additional photos of Callanish, Stonehenge, Glastonbury, Silbury HIll (actually an old step pyramid), Isle of Skye:
http://www.healingdao.com/stonehenge_index.html

Callanish has a very different feeling from Stonehenge. It is arranged like the much later christian celtic cross – a circle of taller stones at the center of an immense cross extending to the four sacred directions. Only in the north there are two rows of stones, like a woman with her legs spread open, to capture the planetary energy of “new birth” coming in from the darkness of the north pole.

What is the purpose of this massive stone cross, a kind of megalithic “ankh”, that was erected three millennia before the Christians made the cross configuration popular in another part of the world? I think its a combination of geomantic “earth acupuncture” and magnetic alignment to sun-moon and zodiacal cycles of time. The zodiac is indicated by the circle at the center of the cross. Astro-geographers have determined the site measures, among other things, the 18.5 year lunar ecliptic cycle.

Callanish focuses a beautiful heart energy. That was my experience – it was much more heart centered than Stonehenge, even though our ceremony there this time was enveloped in a much softer energy than in previous year’s ceremonies. Callanish, I believe, was designed to hold the deep heart space of humanity, the meeting of the four sacred directions in the central/ fifth circle.

I stood with my back to the 25 foot tall stone in the very center of circle, facing the setting sun. The chi from the four directions was pouring into my heart. It was forcing my heart to expand into a vast inner space, but so powerfully that it was almost painful.

It was as if my heart was capturing in a single moment the force of the stones flowing with unwavering focus for 5000 years. I could voices imploding within me from a past civilization. They were voices challenging us humans, asking: where is your heart taking you, and taking planet earth?

Perhaps the ancients had a vision of vast time cycles, and knew that a time that would come when Earth and humanity would make a great shift. Global warming is slowly becoming global “cooking”, and the impurities in human civilization may get cooked out in the process.

I hope everyone is wise enough to “cook” their own essence before it gets cooked by outer energies of change. That is why i practice qigong and inner alchemy – to open the portal of change within, before the energies without force the changes upon me. There are many ways to ride the waves of change.
I hope each of you has found a process to do so .

To the eternal Song of the Stones of the Tao,

Michael Winn

“Who takes Heaven as his ancestor, Virtue as his home,
the Tao as his door, and who becomes change – is a Sage.”
– Chuang Tzu, Inner Chapters

“The Tao is very close, but everyone looks far away.
Life is very simple, but everyone seeks difficulty.“
— Taoist Sage, 200 B.C