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fwiw, Michael discusses kundalini in great detail, contrasting it with Taoist practice, on page 151 of Chia’s “Awaken Healing Energy Through the Tao”

Is there any trick to enticing Michael Wynn to jump into a thread? As a Taoist master with awakened kundalini, there’s nobody in the world more fit to pronounce authoritatively on this.

On the other hand, he’s busy….so hate to bug him….

Is there any trick to enticing Michael Wynn to jump into a thread? As a Taoist master with awakened kundalini, there’s nobody in the world more fit to pronounce authoritatively on this.

On the other hand, he’s busy….so hate to bug him….

Michael (who’s awakened Kundalini via a similar yoga practice to my own, way back when) says that it’s all about fire channel, but I don’t know about jing or shen.

Trunk, good point on macrocosmic orbit. thanks. Can you recommend an overview somewhere?

You’re over my head here, but I’ll research the terms and puzzle it out. There is just enough equivalency between the models to tempt exchange of ideas, but not always enough to really do anything about it 🙂

According to yoga, kundalini goes up the shushumna, or the central spinal channel….if it’s functioning properly. If not, you can have…[Read more]

One more thing…kundalini (aka shakti) is highly contagious. And it’s on a very steep upturn right now. Sages from different traditions seem to agree (though with different reasoning) that we’ve entered an age of spiritual acceleration, where it’s easier to get stuff going. I’m no sage, but I intuitively agree. Even from the most prosaic level -…[Read more]

It’s one of those things where if you’re not sure then it’s not kundalini, and if it’s kundalini you’re quite sure.

There are all sorts of descriptions floating around, but the one that rang most true for me is the feeling of every cell in your body being in a state of continuous orgasm.

The other thing one reads that’s turned out true is…[Read more]

I don’t practice kundalini, it sort of practiced me. Since it awakened, I’ve practiced yoga in a way that includes a few kriya techniques in order to have some small level of control and insight over it.

I don’t fully understand what Kundalini is, intellectually, though i could easily restate lots of stuff I’ve read. And I have no idea how it…[Read more]

I didn’t notice that the “practice” header indicated a separate forum section. If there’s a moderator who can move this, I hope they do!

As for anger, I live in NYC, so anger coming up is indicative of nothing but being alive and breathing! 🙂

Thanks very much for your replies, Barry. I’ve read them carefully and am trying them out.

Ha! Fair enough! 🙂

But I wasn’t fishing for proof that “I’m right”. Just interested to get at least some basis of agreement that what I powerfully intuit might not be entirely nuts 🙂

My feeling is you can’t really do all that much from the strictly gross level. Spiritual systems that have you enter via the gross level seem to do so as a…[Read more]

Interesting. I just came upon the following Michael Winn quote, which seems to indicate he feels the same. He’s speaking here of breathing rather than qigong movements, but I’d be pretty surprised if he’d say this doesn’t still apply:

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There is a relationship between an energy field and a physical process. The pattern in that energy…[Read more]

Of course, I’m not saying the “boostrapping” (of learning the motions, be they asana or qigong) isn’t useful for the vast majority of people who need to work with coarse gross movements. They learn to inhabit those empty patterns, and then, in time, learn to “add” intent and attention. There’s no shortcut, unless you have an innate sense of your…[Read more]

I can agree with the notion that it works both ways. What I have trouble with is that a given motion creates an effect…just like that. If that were true, traffic cops and violists would be creating all sorts of energetic mayhem for themselves day after day (that’s not the crux of my point…mostly just making a joke).

I come to this from…[Read more]

I guess I see it as both effects and causes, kind of like yin-yang. Anotherwards I believe it to be a relationship. The actual doing of the Qigong is the cause (yang) and the opening or awareness of our chi (subtle body) is the effect (yin).

But perhaps you are getting at something else that is not as obvious.
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Yes. I’m…[Read more]

Even better: Puppetji eviscerates The Secret (link below)Clear here for video on YouTube