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… although (as indicated by methods like the Inner Smile) – pleasantness is very important to progress!

But really it’s not a question of whether something is pleasant or not as far as I’m concerned, just how useful it is for me to focus on personally. I feel experiential rather than theoretical understanding works best for me.

I get that you are saying Leary’s model is compatible with the Taoist one… (the connection between caves and ketamine is not so easy for me…) although I note he himself did not come up with the ‘series of pole-reversals’…

Here’s my question:

>>”atomic consciousness” first suggested by Leary in “The Seven Tongues of God” (1962) is the…[Read more]

>>What is poorly understood about neutrality is that it is a force in itself, not simply the negation of yin and yang, not simple neither-neither.<>Neither-neither is useful only on the mind level, to neutralize the tendency to conceptualize. Zen is great at that, Tao develops the skill. That true light doesn’t belong to the personal you until you…[Read more]

… actually developing telepathic ability is more interesting though, isn’t it, than trying to explain it with symbols? For me anyhow, for sure.

Yeah so much of what you say is bang on the money.

Actually though I just have to say something. I am not in any way attempting to challenge anyone’s practice at all. Honestly and truly. I really like this board for the reason that, as Michael said to me at the beginning when I first joined, there is no need to be a card-carrying taoist to post…[Read more]

… Still I do remember not long ago thanking both you and Alexander and even blessed you somewhere up there, only a sort of reflexive blessing but nonetheless I do feel grateful, so I hope that stands j

>>I would love a litttle more respect, to assume that I think that this is the only way, would be to disregaurd allot of what I have said. Am I a self rightous prick really?<>As for the kundaliny stuff are you working this from a chakra/yoga perspective. Or are you calling that symbol from western alchemy of the to snakes wraped around some light…[Read more]

… I don’t really have the same feeling about you that you do about me. So if you don’t mind I won’t give up on you. But I won’t talk to you if you don’t want. j

… I think it was the idea that jumping ahead to more advanced practices of Michael’s could be the solution. Since I am dealing with kundalini and kundalini does not get covered here I don’t think jumping ahead is a good idea… honestly. I am only looking to share things about what’s going on with me and occasionally someone happens by who seems…[Read more]

>>I think you are referring to brain gem exercises. In your post above.<>It is important also to note that nothing such as the sun or the moon can be purly anything. So one could resonate with certain aspect of the sun that could be male or female. THis does not mean there are not symbolicly dominate traits.<>Also why do you not just give this…[Read more]

>>Yeah, I’m not sure the exact word or phrase you’re looking for, but I also encountered this knowledge through NLP and hypnosis – it’s around every 90 minutes for me… Also we normally breathe more from one nostril than the other and this flips in cycles (although it flips voluntarily, if I want)<>now if I try to feel whether the channel starts…[Read more]

>>I also find the core to be kind of ‘non-local’ – i.e. it’s everywhere, but mapping it internally it’s definately the core bit of the body – for me it’s like a pillar of light – it goes from the top of the skull to the perineum…<>now if I try to feel whether the channel starts and ends at these points I get that ‘non local’ feeling – my body…[Read more]

>>”OK so hold on, taoists consider solar is yang and lunar is yin then?”

Patently. I have never seen a reference to the contrary in the Daoist orb.

“At least we can settle that one! They are not always considered that way by any means.”

Tidbit for your consideration: The moon reflects only 7% of the light that hits it from the Sun…[Read more]

… but begs so many questions!!!! Not that I need all of them answering of course.

>>I have not yet heard otherwise that all of daoism names the left as solar/yang and the right as lunar/yin.<>But this is how the INTERNAL energy flows whereas the external seems to be the polar opposite, as with males having a feminine core and v.v. for…[Read more]

… please remember that I don’t get the ‘black hole’ part because I am not doing fusion etc. yet. Can you tell me what role the central channel plays in this? All the rest of what you say, as in moving toward the instantaneous production of yuan without thoughts etc. is something I know well and I’m planning to write about it on my blog in a few…[Read more]