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Sorry, but this really don’t have anything to immediately with Taoist practice.

But here you can see how one can, by using crafty and colourful language, create powerful images in the mind.

Here you also will find the reason why that Xenu story is not so silly at…[Read more]

Late artist Tom of Finland is set to be honoured with a series of postage stamps featuring homoerotic art.
Tom of Finland, real name Touko Laaksonen, was renowned for his homoerotic drawings and their influence on pop culture and fashion.
A series of stamps featuring his work will be released in September 2014 by the Finnish postal service,…[Read more]

This is a tool that tries to calculate the Gunning Fog Index. It is a weighted average of the number of words per sentence, and the number of long words per word. An interpretation is that the text can be understood by someone who left full-time education at a later age than the index.
-http://gunning-fog-index.com/

I’ve read this book a few…[Read more]

A separation between Mr Hubbard’s work and his opinions is ruled out by Mr Hubbard’s grandiose claims . . . ‘Galaxy upon galaxy billions of light years away have no bridge no route to freedom. Scientology is the one and only road to total freedom and total power. . . . Scientology has the answers to all the problems of the universe including the…[Read more]

Some of the techniques are highly valuable and warrant further study and experimentation. The E Meter is a useful device … (many variations of this instrument are possible). On the other hand I am in flat disagreement with the organizational policy. No body of knowledge needs an organizational policy. Organizational policy can only impede the…[Read more]

Maybe I’m not right person to comment this more seriously, because I don’t regard some practices which are used as an beginner’s practice (in HT/UT) to be such at all.

Initially when some progress have been made energetically one should be creating vortices with varying size and intensity in energetic plasma.

That ‘star in the circle’ which…[Read more]

Snipers have a mission that demands a tremendous amount of thoughtful analysis, careful observation, disciplined behavior, and some very surprising skills. One of these is a trained memory that can remember in detail things observed during an operation, a skill developed at sniper school with a technique first popularized by the nineteenth-century…[Read more]

For me, as a philologist, the eureka moment in reading Yoga Body came just a few pages from the end when it is suggested that the modern Astānga yoga gets its name not from Patañjali’s eight-fold yoga but from the astānga dandavat pranām, the “stick-like prostra-tion” in which eight parts of the body are to touch the ground.
-JAMES MALLINSON, A R…[Read more]

Looking at so many seemingly different yet internally sound approaches to the martial arts drove me to realize that there must be be underlying factors that make all martial arts function. In short, every style, though different, must work from a similar set of principles. That single realization fully and irrevocably altered my approach to the…[Read more]

Maybe one should consider how T’ai Chi Ch’uan has been traditionally meant to be learned.

So one starts with very simple movement practices for the first years.

One also starts static standing practices.

Then one should start to learn slowly longer solo form.

Then many years later some type of partnered form.

Then T’ai Chi Ch’uan…[Read more]

Dark energy appears to account for over three-quarters of the stuff in the Universe, and it’s pushing all the rest – ordinary matter and dark matter – farther apart at an ever-increasing rate. But what is dark energy? Although theories abound, the short answer is that nobody knows.
-http://supernova.lbl.gov/

The High-Z SN Search Team is an in…[Read more]

The reactive mind is a concept in the Dianetics and Scientology systems of L. Ron Hubbard, referring to that portion of the human mind that is unconscious and stimulus-response, which Hubbard blamed for most mental and physical ailments.
Despite the lack of scientific basis for his claims, Hubbard’s book Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental…[Read more]

Hijras, (Hindi: हिजड़ा, Urdu: ہِجڑا‎, Bengali: হিজড়া, Kannada: ಹಿಜಡಾ, Telugu: హిజ్ర Punjabi ਹਿਜੜਾ) are also known as chhakka in Kannada and Bambaiya Hindi, khusra (ਖੁਸਰਾ) in Punjabi and kojja in Telugu. “Hijra”, as with many aforementioned terms is one of the many terms in the culture of South Asia used to refer individuals who consider…[Read more]

To assure researchers of no possible intake of water, Prahlad Jani agreed he would not bathe during the medical investigation. Prahlad Jani was permitted a small measured quantity of water to use as a mouthwash. He then spat the water into a beaker to verify that none had been drunk. An ultrasound, which was made of Mr. Jani’s bladder twice daily,…[Read more]

All countries large and small suffer one defect in common, the surrounding of the ruler with unworthy personnel… Those who would control rulers first discover their secret fears and wishes.
-HAN FEI TZU

Many years ago, I discovered the Universal Healing Tao books and a whole new way of approaching life. The books led me to Universal Healing Tao workshops, where I eventually met Master Mantak Chia and began my internal practice in the Universal Healing Tao system.
Over time, I learned that the Universal healing Tao system consists of many…[Read more]

She told me then that she came from a line of sorcerers who knew how to move about in
the second attention by projecting their intent. Her story was that the sorcerers of her line practiced the art of projecting their thoughts in dreaming in order to accomplish the truthful reproduction of any object or structure or landmark or scenery of their…[Read more]

The autonomic nervous system (ANS or visceral nervous system or involuntary nervous system) is the part of the peripheral nervous system that acts as a control system that functions largely below the level of consciousness to control visceral functions, including heart rate, digestion, respiratory rate, salivation, perspiration, pupillary…[Read more]

In the library at Kaivalyadhama Yoga Hospital, I found an interesting article on vajroli mudra in their journal, the Yoga Mimamsa. Entitled “Experiments with Vajroli,” it describes the learning experience of the author, Mat Rozmarynowski, with the ancient yogic technique.
In the practice of vajroli mudra, a tube is inserted into the urethra a…[Read more]

Śhruti (Sanskrit: श्रुति, IAST: śrúti, lit. “hearing, listening”), often spelled sruti or sruthi mainly in South India, is the body of sacred texts comprising the central canon of Hinduism and is one of the three main sources of dharma. These sacred works span much of the history of Hinduism, beginning with some of the earliest known Hindu texts…[Read more]