Steven

>>>Have you taken any of the fusion yet?

Yeah, from Michael, from Marie, and from David Twicken.
I like to repeat courses a number of times though,
so I’ll be taking more Fusion in the future. 🙂

S

Hi Damon,

I think your choice of
Fusion I-II/Iron Shirt I with Marie
would be good choice.

Summer is really the only time
when a person can take an Iron Shirt course
(beyond the intro you get in QF4).
In other words, if you haven’t had Iron Shirt,
you should take it over the summer.

One thing you should know is, is that…[Read more]

Hi Damon,

This is something that Michael added to the Wudang orbit
practice starting in Fall 2007, so you may not have learned it.

In this addition, you do an activity before releasing the
qi ball from the dantian.

You breathe fire qi/love-joy/identity into the qi ball using ha;
then you breathe earth qi/inner will/body into the…[Read more]

Hi Damon,

Personally, I tend more toward the FAST side 🙂

When I do the MO with the pearl, I’ll use
Michael’s Wudang orbit method, and usually
the beginning and end are more fast than the middle.

Here’s what I do:
Before I let it out of my dantian, I empower
my qi ball with Michael’s new ha-ho-hm addition, and
get the ball…[Read more]

Hi,

Just a few side comments . . .

I found your recent log entry interesting.
I’m not sure about the linear progression you suggest
for Taoism, as I think many of the branches developed
simultaneously. However, by putting neigong above
the other aspects I’m not going to complain. 🙂

I also enjoyed checking out your website.
It…[Read more]

>>>the more i learn, the more i get the impression
>>>that practices from whatever tradition are really
>>>about laying foundations, and that the real progress
>>>comes of its own accord when the time is right.

This is exactly right.

Best,
Steven

See https://healingtaousa.com/tao_alchemy_formulas.html

for a description of what the formulas are trying to achieve.

There is no “right” time to move on; just when you are comfortable
adding new material. The intention is to not stop practicing the
old material at all, but just to ADD new material to the mix.
In other words, you…[Read more]

still doesn’t work in IE, but works in Firefox . . . S

When I use Firefox 3.0.7 (my default browser), there is
no problem. The menu bar on the left is intact, and there
is a scroll bar on the right side that allows me to scroll
down several pages of text.

HOWEVER, when I use Internet Explorer 7.0.5, which is basically
what you are using, I see what you see. Namely, there is NO
scroll…[Read more]

Well, I’ll see you there then.
I’m retaking both Fusion workshops with Michael this spring,
and I’ll be bookstore manager again at the retreats.

I can recommend David Twicken’s course.
I took it last year, and it’s a good course.

Oh, by the way, I’ve added your webpage as a link
on my webpage. 🙂

Nice website. It has a lot of good energy.
The different sections of your webpage are a fun read, and
are quite good I think.

Is that you hugging the old Chinese man on the formula page?

Ironic you made a webpage, as I just started making one
myself a couple days ago, LOL.

From what I know about you,
I think you’ll make a great…[Read more]

>>>People will find fulfillment in there given branch
>>>when they see how it connects to the trunk.

Not sure how that’s going to happen.
The point I was making was that the default mode for most is
to keep yourself so busy and distracted that you don’t notice
how empty you really feel. A very close friend of mine who is
always…[Read more]

I don’t think the general population will EVER really
flock to alchemical education enmasse. Alchemy requires
too much serious effort and courage to walk that path.
Of course this means that most people are just
going through the motions.

The problem currently is that there are way too many
people in college that really shouldn’t be there.
Too many kids when they graduate high school go on to
college because they “think” that that’s what they are
supposed to do or what they need to do, without ever
thinking about what it is they want to do with their life.
They end up…[Read more]

>>>Hmm, that may have been the case.
>>>The order you dsescribed things didn’t really
>>>feel like how it happened to me. Like how you
>>>said that energy goes up into the head first,
>>>but my head felt very clear until later when
>>>energy went up there. I also don’t usually fret
>>>too much about tests and studying and stuff, so…[Read more]

Hi SD,

I’m sort of not enjoying the teaching.
Well, that’s only partly true. I enjoy teaching
and love it, but I don’t enjoy teaching the people I teach.
I mainly teach very low level math classes to students who
hate math and are only taking the course because they have
to take it as some requirement. They pour their hatred on…[Read more]

>>>I agree with Steven’s first two suggestions but
>>>disagree with his third. If you do a vigorous shaking
>>>practice after standing meditation i’ve found that it
>>>can really undo the progress you made during the meditation,
>>>and also progress made form past standing meditations,
>>>because it can really make things feel ‘torn…[Read more]