I respond but you do not understand

I didn’t say you didn’t respond. What I said was that you didn’t respond to any of the specific points Michael raised. And you didn’t. Just as you didn’t respond to the specific points I or Steven raised.

Perhaps you can consider what Manufacturing Consent means.

But, there again, it would appear that you…[Read more]

Noticeable how rideforever – once again – doesn’t respond to any specific points raised.

Plus ça change!

Much of my previous post set out reasons why Islam is violent.

But you pretty much ignore what I said (see Steven’s posts), change the subject and return to your well-worn theme of the moral bankruptcy and degeneracy of the West. We get it. I mean, how could we not get it? After all, you’ve made…[Read more]

ILL-INFORMED

Is there violence in the Quran? Yes.

Well at least you got that one right. But even though the founding text is riddled with violence, apparently

Islam is not violent…

Really?

The founder of Islam was deeply violent. He was a warlord who fought in 27 military…[Read more]

At the same time, we are told that Bart Jordan was channelling esoteric info from very ancient Greece in an attempt to make the bombs effective.

The implication would thus appear to be…[Read more]

If one is clear-eyed, one is supposed to explain that Islam is a religion of violence and that Muslims have been at war with Christians for more than a thousand years.

In fact, to be properly “anti-PC” one is supposed to acknowledge that the conflict between East and West goes back many thousands of y…

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As Bernard Lewis, described by the New York Times as “the…[Read more]

I’ve been talking about my forthcoming book on Primordial Qigong/Tai Chi for several years! It has now become two books, there was too much deep information on Tao Cosmology and new insights into how…

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I’m less interested in stories and technical theory, then I am in practices and actual direct experience. People can say all kinds of things, but it doesn’t mean that they are true. The only real truth is what you can uncover for yourself through direct experience via potent spiritual methods.

You may just have a point!!

I should perhaps have clarified in my previous post that I was including the oversoul quotes/links simply as a resource for those like me who know little about oversoul stuff. Wasn’t trying to entice you into writing a long essay!

Been doing a bit of a web search on oversouls. Thought it worth mentioning that…[Read more]

You are looking at this on the wrong level.

Indeed I am! Thanks for clarifying. I’ll have another go.

I now read Michael to be saying that, in terms of expendability and mourning, an individual’s skin cells are to that individual as individuals are to Humanity/the Oversoul. That is, just as an individual regards their skin cells as…[Read more]

Individual humans are like tiny cells in the body of Humanity – we are totally expendable. Do you hold a funeral and sob when a few cells on your skin die? It is the same for Humanity. Souls flux in, souls flux out. The deaths of those children serve the…

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Q. Is there any connection between the mass murder of 28 school kids & teachers in Connecticut and the timing of this Galactic alignment?

A. I feel they are deeply connected. Tao is about synchronicity. The murders happened on the…

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Similarly, Paul Williams notes

Buddhapalita…says that Nagarjuna wrote the MMK [Mūlamadhyamakakārika] in order to teach the intrinsic nature of dependent origination.

Magic Numbers, Planetary Tones and the Body: The Evolution of Daoist Inner Alchemy into Modern Sacred Science

The original form taught by Jiang Nan was not taught with any toning whatsoever, despite maybe some reference to the fact that there may be some used privately in the lineage family. Others have added stuff on, by their own choice. Michael had added on a seven-tone toning scheme that he uses in his Adv. K&L coursework.

Is the same seven-tone scheme…[Read more]

Primordial is most powerful in the morning; Big Dipper is most powerful at sunset

In your experience, is there a most powerful time to do Deep Healing Qigong?

My other half remarked that, in the black and white photos, the flash of light looks like a solar eclipse. And that, like a solar eclipse, the meeting of the egg and sperm is the meeting of sun and moon.

The abdomen is sometimes referred to as the second brain.In another essay, Does Your Brain have an Enlightened Twin”, Barclay Powers writes

It is not that the enteric nervous system is a 500…

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My (very limited) understanding is that in certain traditional societies, shaman took psychedelics on numerous occasions (as this was part of their “job”, so to speak). If this understanding is correct, is it known whether shaman generally lived shorter lives, or did they have the ability to…[Read more]

In a post in a recent – and very interesting – thread on drugs, Steven says that

ANY chemical that alters biochemistry, be that caffeine, nicotine, LSD, ayahuasca, ibuprofen, whatever, needs to be detoxified by the body–typically the liver–and exhausts qi to do so. Also,…

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I managed to download a PDF from Academia.

Sometimes I think Master Chia writes too many books

From what you write elsewhere in your post, I think you mean that MC commissions too many books / has too many books ghost-written!!!

usually in courses below Greater K&L–except for maybe Master Chia–as teachers, we usually avoid bringing up the term [cosmic qi], to avoid having students get…

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Thanks for your second attempt to bring clarity. I’m getting much clearer!

Terminology and misreading
You ask

What does “inner heart qi” mean?

This is the key to my misreading. You write (my bold)

With more detail, you are drawing in cosmic qi into the third eye as the ignition on a car, but upon entry into your body, it…

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This para might be of interest to Taoists.

So Tantra is a spiritual movement that influenced the development of most Asian religions. But what is the essence of Tantra, you might ask? How do I know it when I see it? Scholars have debated…

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Many thanks for your detailed reply. However, perhaps due to my lack of knowledge of alchemy, I’m struggling to keep up!

With more detail, you are drawing in cosmic qi into the third eye as the ignition on a car, but upon entry into your body, it immediately meets and blends with the energy from your inner heart. This gives the qi its…

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As far as “focus”, that part seems relatively clear: it should be dropping into the center of the earth on the weighted side

This is indeed the main focus. However, when one is seeking to refine technique, one also has to focus on other issues – such as whether most of the weight is on K1 or the heels! I was simply suggesting in my previous post…[Read more]

In the comments beneath the article, mention is made of a reply to the article by Anodea Judith. Wallis, in turn, responds to Judith.

However, interestingly, as an example of innovation, Judith says: “no modern or ancient text has suggested that we use the downward route through the…

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I don’t have a copy of Michael’s Healing Love DVD. But I see that one of the (many) exercises on it to build kidney energy is “knee walking”. Just wondering what your experience is of knee walking? Presumably, one needs to do it on a soft surface (e.g grass, a carpeted floor, mats at the gym) or wear knee-pads?

Breathing through the heels is first mentioned in Zhuangzi 6 which states that “the Real Man (zhenren) breathes through his heels whereas the ordinary man breathes through his throat”…

But I missed it!!!

The scholarly work that has understood it is, arguably, somewhat obscure. I only stumbled across it whilst randomly browsing the Routledge Encyclopedia of Taoism. And the work referenced there (by Hidemi Ishida) is published…[Read more]

Enjoyed your response.

You write​

And even most of the Chinese scholar translations are not by Daoist adepts who would understand the deeper content of Lao Tzu and his clear qigong comments like “A Sage breathes through his heels”.

The scholar-idiots, whom you so greatly admire, haven’t a clue what this referring to. But…

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Having observed myself more closely, I find that – like you – the heel of Foot B is, in fact, raised prior to Leg A straightening!

I also notice that when Leg A straightens, Leg B straightens somewhat i.e. Knee B becomes somewhat less bent.

Whilst the straightening of Leg A and the partial straightening of Leg B…[Read more]

Do I understand correctly that as the weight shifts to one side, that leg initially bends slightly, then straightens, pushing down on the heel, as the hand on that side comes down

That seems right to me. Further, as the weighted leg (Leg A) straightens, the heel/knee/hip of Leg B lifts so that only the ball of Foot B is in contact with the…[Read more]