Patrick McLeod

This looks fantastic! What a wonderful opportunity.

I’ll be on the east coast during this time, but I would definitely participate if I were closer…

So if I follow, the parts do not have meaning apart from seeing the unity of the integrated whole, but the whole can be decieving because one also needs to look at it’s parts.
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Chinese philosophy is about how things influence each other. Its Yin-Yang, not Yin and Yang. Its what happens when things come together. Isn’t…[Read more]

So if I follow, the parts do not have meaning apart from seeing the unity of the integrated whole, but the whole can be decieving because one also needs to look at it’s parts.

Hmm…

Ever try cutting up an ox? 😉

I’m going to stick to a weak day master always pushing the balance towards more wealth. Isn’t it always true with the five…[Read more]

One representation of the integration of all four pillars is the five element composition (the percentages and circles given in bagua’s software.) The five element composition I believe can be read as various forces in tension. For instance, a weak day master element will always tend to make you more wealthy.

Interesting perspective. Can you define some of the terms you use and “how” they relate to the Chinese calendar, which is not the same as the western calendar. And it does not really relate to planets like Western astrology and astronomy?

True. Chinese astrology seems to be guided by the principle Lao tzu mentions in chapter 25 of the Tao Te…[Read more]

To answer your first question, I think I heard Master Chia say it best:

“Where the mind goes, the chi flows.”

As for yours second question, vedic astrological tradition is vast. Those more inclined to reduce things to their essences (as I often do in my work) would probably have little trouble accepting the Taoist view of the planets as…[Read more]

My two cents:

The day master represents the stellar resonance of the moon. The location and spiritual vector (direction AND velocity) of the individual astral body within the collective field of stellar mind.

The year master marks where within the “seasons of the human collective” your soul enters the drama (it is defined by the wood-earth…[Read more]

Welcome back Ladies and Gentlemen to your favorite game show and intergalactic spiritual past-time, where we swoon and sigh over the One Most High:

ASK A TAO IMMORTAL!

Yes, that’s right, we’re back and you’re all looking particularly beautiful today on planet…*psst…which planet are we on today?* [earth.]… *Right! Earth! And what a…[Read more]

Here’s a bit of spiritual teaching that I have found to be quite liberating. Usually liberates my body from my chair. It also frees the mind to focus on its true deepest purpose: to coordinate the body’s dancing. I’ve pasted a good transcription of the…umm…transmission, below. I recommend studying it from the original vinyl for a…[Read more]

For a good example of how NOT to attempt this renewing of the earthly contract, observe the strategy of fictional villain “Vigo the Carpathian” in the educational documentary Ghostbusters 2.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostbusters_II

Serious issues are the ones which need silliness most, to balance them along the serious-silly axis of polarity. 😉

But you suggest to yourself, unbeknownst to yourself, an excellent practice for increasing your skill at and understanding of the art of longevity: consult an expert. Namely, a being who has managed to live on earth in a body…[Read more]

Eat more lead.

😉

Hey,

Where’d the “Li” in Greatest “Kan & Li” go?

Just curious…

😉

-Patrick

“My experience is that LSD depletes your jing if over-used.”

Hi Michael,

Do you have an alchemical explanation for why this is?

It’s the testicle breathing.

You’re pulling up the jing too hot and it’s getting stuck in the head because you’re only circulating chi in the microcosmic orbit.

TIPS:

#1 Try to exert yourself less when testicle breathing. Ideally, the jing hits the occiput (the back of the neck) chilly, cooling the head.

#2 Work on moving the jing…[Read more]

Well,

What difference is there between creating one’s own Immortal Embryo, and creating an Immortal Embryo for another?

I suppose the difference would be not the substance or vibration of the body (neutral force, of course, of course) but the centering of the body. The real difficulty would be centering the new golden perfect body at the…[Read more]

Yes, I had a moment of intellectual confusion when the greater and greatest formulas collided with my map of Vedic Astrology (where the Moon is seen as the astral body, repository of the soul pattern’s past wanderings.) This confusion faded into amazement when I realized how advanced and ambitious these formulas are (and how much clearer in…[Read more]

You might try focusing on the temporal (time) aspect of the formula. From this perspective, time as we experience it in the solar system is our name for the process of the earth and sun vibrating at each other, singing into each other. The sun’s side of the polarity we call the future, the the earth’s side is the past. When gathering and…[Read more]