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Thanks for those suggestions. Ejaculation as frequently as possible is often recommended for my condition and it does seem to reduce discomfort a lot but I don’t know what TCM would have to say about that one. I’m taking both cipro and colloidal silver so now I’ll add the massage techniques recommended in the Healing Tao books.
My Hsing-i (or shing-yi) instructor suggests colloidal silver solution as another antibiotic remedy. I asked a pharmacist if it was incompatible with the cipro that I’m on, but they just told me not to take it internally at all. Some people have gotten good results from C-silver but only if they take the right kind, not the stuff with a protein molecule bound with it. Some varieties can turn the skin permanently blue and cause heavy metal toxicity like cadmium or lead would, but I think I have a source who knows what he’s doing with it.
Check out this “eye of God” nebula from Hubble
I haven’t heard of this particular case but stories related to UFOs or life on other worlds have been getting more and more common in the mainstream press for a while now. Some people, including Richard Hoagland, say this is an organized attempt to gradually get the public ready for some really big news. I’m not sure about that yet. It would be kinda insulting to all of us if they think we need to be “prepared” for that for our own good.
Sounds like good advice. I feel that I may be recovering already, so your advice here is backed up by the reality that I’m starting to experience.
When you say “it’s not really worth of serious study any further, because he likes to use expressions like ‘hyperdimensional physics'” that’s kind of like saying at the time that the hot air balloon or airplane were being invented, that it would not be worth studying any further because in explaining how it worked they used expressions like “density of air molecules” which is not something people paid attention to much before. In the pursuit of new energy sources and new inventions it may be necessary to investigate or employ concepts not previously known widely. Didn’t Einstein define insanity as doing the same old thing over and over but expecting different results? What’s happening now in the Gulf of Mexico should be one more reminder of how important it is to investigate hyperdimensional physics and anything else that could potentially unlock new alternative sources of pollution-free energy.
Oh yes, “A gem is not polished without rubbing nor a man perfected without trials.”
I don’t know who said that, but any Taoist would understand that too many obstacles can lead to the same results as too little, right?
“From one thing, know 10,000 things…to die with one’s sword still sheathed is most regrettable.” – Mushashi Miyamoto in The Book of Five Rings
I’m trying to make sure all the talent and opportunities I have are not wasted, trying to make sure I succeed with everything I think is important, including leaving behind a better world than the one I came into. Sounds like you’re trying to do the same. It’s not easy when fate keeps throwing all kinds of obstacles in our way.
Maybe we’re getting into a controversy that won’t be considered particularly relevant to what this site is all about, but I think it raises a couple of issues that really would be of interest to this crowd. First of all, if I am asked to judge people by their official credentials rather than the quality of their evidence, logic of their arguments, and the number of issues they are willing to look into, that’s called “arguing from authority” and it’s the usual crutch of those who support old, familiar paradigms against new evidence that comes in. I think the most destructive tendency in human nature is the tendency to notice what needs to be noticed to reinforce the familiar picture of what reality consists of, to see what we have been trained to expect rather than what’s there. Sometimes the more highly trained you are, the more credentials you have, the more you tend to do this. Galileo had colleagues who refused to look into his telescope because they didn’t want to see his evidence that the sun, not earth, was the center of the solar system. Several centuries later John Brandenburg took photos of some anomalous objects on Mars to a NASA conference where another scientist literally covered his eyes and refused to look at them during the discussion. As the old French proverb says, the more things change the more they stay the same. The infamous “Brookings Report” of 1960 openly recommended that evidence of extraterrestrial life past or present should be carefully covered up to prevent the destructive effect to entrenched priorities and political, scientific, or religious institutions. They were afraid of the same thing the Church was afraid of back in Galileo’s day.
If you go to the website
Click on “Healing Love” on the left, then scroll down and click on the essay “Semen Retention: Danger”, you’ll see an essay that basically says what I have discovered the hard way on my own, which led to this thread getting started. Cheers.
I guess I didn’t choose my words very carefully at one point. “not feeling like I need one” was a reference to feeling like I wouldn’t be physically capable of sex, even though my desire for companionship, intimacy, etc. was still as strong as ever. It always has been. But which part of a car is more important and which is the “afterthought”, the engine or the wheels?
Otherwise it doesn’t look like there’s any misunderstanding. This is all very interesting.
Thanks again, this was even more encouraging. There are some issues you raised that aren’t relevant in my case, like not really wanting a partner on some level because of the sacrifices that would be made for a relationship, stuff like that I can confidently say has never been one of my issues. And appearing too needy or appearing to lack confidence certainly isn’t it either. However, the reason why the martial arts are such a big part of my life is because it’s such a great remedy for mild cases of autism, due to the emphasis on being aware of surroundings and shutting down that internal “monkey mind” enough to communicate with the outside world. The problem I’ve been working to overcome throughout my life has been learning to translate thoughts into words quickly enough. I’ve been told a few times years ago that the things I write and the things I say look like they’re coming from 2 different people since I sound so much more intelligent in writing. That could have something to do with my bad luck in my social life. People have often thought I was shy or aloof when I intended no such thing. I tend to be fascinated by things that most people think are kind of weird. I could go on for hours about curious objects in the Cydonia region of Mars that are probably the ruins of an ancient abandoned alien city and the investigation done by Richard Hoagland and others.
“But look, if you don’t currently have a partner, why would
you *want* to be horny and have an intense sex drive? Seems
like that would be pretty frustrating to me.”Well, the way I look at it is if I don’t have a partner that is frustrating enough, but not having one AND not feeling like I need one is two reasons to be depressed instead of one. I mean, being in a bad situation is one thing, but at the same time not having much hope that you’ll have a different future is quite another. I guess different people always look at the same thing in different ways. But now that I think about it, there was another time earlier in life when my sex drive crashed when I was failing in every way, then it came back when I was in a different situation. 🙂
By the way, I haven’t heard anything about sex drives and erections being a liver issue, I always heard it was more about the kidneys. Something else I should mention about the difficulty of learning the Taoist system – I read in that other thread you suggested that 1.5 to 2 hours of practice per day isn’t considered much. Wow. I’ve never been in a situation where I was able to devote that much time to it due to all other demands life throws in my way. Except for the weekends sometimes. I’m trying, though.
Thanks, you gave me a lot of good news here. I recently went to see a modern Western allopathic doctor, he did all the tests they know how to do, and I was told that all my numbers were so spectacularly good that I was expected to make it to the age of 130 at least. That was also good news but doesn’t get me any closer to understanding why my sex drive has disappeared. It happened too suddenly to be explained by the normal aging process, and it happened without any accompanying changes in diet, training, beliefs, emotions, life situation, etc. For many years I believed that practicing these Taoist methods would keep this from happening the way it usually does in aging, even though I never did learn how to have a multiple orgasm or orgasms in any other area of my body besides genitals. The other chi gung I’m practicing (the martial arts system) is going better than ever and my power in that way only continues growing.
Going with what feels right to me now seems like sort of tragic advice since what feels right at this point is just forgetting about sexuality entirely and just focusing on all other areas of my life. I guess I’ve been wondering if this could be the result of practicing the method for a long time but not the right way or something. It could also be caused by gradually built up frustration and loneliness because in my case it’s always been extraordinarily difficult to find a woman who wants a partner but doesn’t already have one. I technically have a lot to offer, but attractiveness in the way that matters is something else.
I’m afraid the whole population of chi gung practitioners is probably small enough and new enough in this part of the world, so no one has yet gotten around to doing any statistical study on whether we are better off than the Catholic priests when it comes to prostate health, but some countries are certainly better off than others due to cultural dietary habits, etc. Sometimes I’ve also experienced a kind of sexual constipation, where I feel horny but can’t reach orgasm. I don’t know how common that experience is in this community. Maybe it’s what you mean by “stagnation”.
Well, thanks to everyone for all the advice and info. I’ll keep trying to solve the mystery and try not to lose sight of what progress has been made.
