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…physical stability as a meditative practice…

For example gupta padmasana is much better than shavasana for this purpose in the earlier stage of practice because of it’s dynamic nature.

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-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contortion-

Contortion (sometimes contortionism) is a performance art in…[Read more]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3ogy-pqvKQ

…inner alchemy…

Physical stability as a meditative practice itself haven’t been treated in Healing Tao seriously enough in my opinion.

…invented in China…

Or in India.

…shamanic…

Spirit world connection is quite independent from some temporal conditions; there are always ingenious…[Read more]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-Tkq8R50V4

With this new forum it seems that the questions mostly will remain unanswered.

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https://www.eisenbrauns.org/books/titles/978-952-10-9492-7.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTSLeW4QGMo

Azerbaijan (/æzərbaɪˈdʒɑːn/ (About this soundlisten) AZ-ər-by-JAHN; Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan [ɑːzæɾbɑjˈd͡ʒɑn]), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan Respublikası [ɑːzæɾbɑjˈd͡ʒɑn ɾespublikɑˈsɯ]), is a landlocked country in the South Caucasus region of Eurasia at the crossro…[Read more]

…ancient Egypt…

Sumer???

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https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Earth-Chronicles/dp/1591432014

Some scholars contest the idea of a Proto-Euphratean language or one substrate language; they think the Sumerian language may originally have been that of the hunting and fishing peoples who lived in…[Read more]

Another important, although brief, previously unnoticed reference to the Kapalikas is found in the well-known Nath-sampradaya text, Svatmarama’s Hatha-yoga-pradipika. Svatmarama claims to describe the Amaroli mudra “according to the khanda doctrine of the Kapalikas.” The Amaroli mudra is a variant of…[Read more]

adjective
moving backward; having a backward motion or direction; retiring or retreating.
inverse or reversed, as order.
Chiefly Biology . exhibiting degeneration or deterioration.
verb (used without object), ret·ro·grad·ed, ret·ro·grad·ing.
to move or go backward; retire or retreat.
Chiefly Biolo…[Read more]

‘I have to say that I do find these titles embarrassing sometimes, but I feel I have to use them because it was actually the words which gave me the music! And those words are always in English. Strange!’ In 1978 when Rautavaara was commissioned to write a double-bass concerto, he was flying back from…[Read more]

This black spirit mirror and other magical objects are thought to have been owned by John Dee (1527–1608/9), the Elizabethan magician, astrologer and mathematician. The mirror was used as a ‘shew-stone’ – one of many polished and lustrous things used by Dee to carry out his occult research into the…[Read more]