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On the other side of this tunnel is a bright light, and you may find yourself sensing that you are on a bridge crossing over a stream or a river. On the other side of the bridge will be those persons of your previous life, the lifetime you have just ended. You may sense those who have died before you, including pets you have had, because the…[Read more]

Maybe the question is somehow too general?

If the Daoist material is not enough my suggestion would be to get for example these four books for the basic information:

Chakras: Energy Centers of Transformation By HARISH JOHARI

Kundalini Tantra by SWAMI…[Read more]

A paracusia, or auditory hallucination, is a form of hallucination that involves perceiving sounds without auditory stimulus. Auditory hallucinations need to be distinguished from endaural phenomena in which sounds are heard without any external acoustic stimulation but arise from disorders of the ear or auditory system. A common form of auditory…[Read more]

Gun is the best offence.
-ERRON BLACK

I would follow program where one starts with Iron Shirt and Silk Reeling.

Personally I am not interested to practice too seriously with ancient edged weapons (but throwing weapons yes) ceremonially. This is simply because there is not enough time.

But some kind of practice with stick and ball is…[Read more]

Through a business misadventure, the European Axel Heyst ends up living on an island in what is now Indonesia, with a Chinese assistant Wang. Heyst visits a nearby island when a female band is playing at a hotel owned by Mr. Schomberg. Schomberg attempts to force himself sexually on one of the band members, Alma, later called Lena. She flees with…[Read more]

Had Cavendish published all of his work, his already great influence would undoubtedly have been greater. In fact, he left in manuscript form a vast amount of work that often anticipated the work of those who followed him. It came to light only bit by bit until the thorough study undertaken by James Maxwell (1831–1879) and by Edward Thorpe…[Read more]

Yiquan is essentially formless, containing no fixed sets of fighting movements or techniques. Instead, focus is put on developing one’s natural movement and fighting abilities through a system of training methods and concepts, working to improve the perception of one’s body, its movement, and of force. Yiquan is also set apart from other eastern…[Read more]

Brawl, a large-scale fist fight usually involving multiple participants.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brawl

Ah, bar fights! Nothing is more fun than going on some viral video site and watching two people who might be part of the Darwin Awards drunkenly slapping each other around to our amusement. In reality, not all bar fights end in…[Read more]

The Foshin Ren Shu / Lin Qui (Kuei), were an ancient clan that operated in Southern china many hundred of years ago. This individual clan’s past and history was shrouded in mystery until now. The true Lin Qui (Kuei) were farmers that resided in the deep parts of the forests around 587. Some of the farmers were masters in different self defense…[Read more]

Shatkarma (Sanskrit: षटकर्मन ṣaṭkarman), also known as Shatkriya, refers to the Yogic practices involving purification of the body.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shatkarma

Sorry for non-Taoist posting!

HOWDY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6jX5F6WGnY(shatkarmadisco)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDnamSM3Z3s…[Read more]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzHJf-am0QY

I would be very careful.

It’s too New Age to start to mix seriously with Taoist and Egyptian.

HOWDY

Ps. Sorry for my broken English.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzHJf-am0QY

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According to 136 visitors Frank Zappa is 34% gay.
However, the average gay-rating on gay-or-straight.com is 69%, which means Frank Zappa is…[Read more]

Hunger artists or starvation artists were performers, common in Europe and America in the 18th, 19th and early 20th century, who starved themselves for extended periods of time, for the amusement of paying audiences. The phenomenon first appeared in the 17th century and saw its heyday in the 1880s. Hunger artists were almost always male, traveled…[Read more]

Ein Gespenst geht um in Europa – das Gespenst des Kommunismus. Alle Mächte des alten Europa haben sich zu einer heiligen Hetzjagd gegen dies Gespenst verbündet, der Papst und der Zar, Metternich und Guizot, französische Radikale und deutsche Polizisten.
-KARL MARX & FRIEDRICH ENGELS, Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei

A fundamentalist is so…[Read more]

“The most comprehensive and awe-inspiring of Taoist reference works available today. . . . Begun in the mid-1970s . . . this three-volume set is a truly magnificent achievement of scholarship, well worth the wait of several decades. . . . A model research tool that will further open the doors of traditional China and encourage more in-depth…[Read more]

The degree to which a person can do pratyahara succesfully depends very much on his ability to sit in a comfortable asana for the duration of the practice. If he feels continual physical comfort, then of course his mind will be continually aware of stimuli from the sense organs giving information about pain, stiffness and so on. Pratyahara, and…[Read more]

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I have impression that those ancient Taoist visualizations are not widely used.

But for example Buddhists especially have retained very elaborate visualization procedures.

If one would like to have short introduction to the Bihar School of Yoga practices best book in my opinion would be ‘Meditations from the Tantras’ by Swami Satyananda…[Read more]

…I recently met with my old Karate teacher and some of my old colleagues, who still practiced in the last 20 years. None of them, and in that I include my teacher, seemed to have changed much and for then KI/qi was still much of a concept that a practical reality…

It’s also my opinion that it’s useful to do meditation and and energy yoga…[Read more]