Steven

I made up a table trying to summarize the data
we have so far. I put it up on a “hidden” page
on my website for convenience in viewing, but
it’s not connected right now to the rest of the
webpage because it’s just something I threw
together in the rough and raw a few minutes ago.

Maybe you can get more info. 🙂

(and/or anyone else…[Read more]

Well it’s also possible that he got his formal
training earlier and then maintained some form of
social connection afterward, since apparently One Cloud
gave Mantak the go ahead to teach and heal and also
encouraged him to study western anatomy.

I wonder if we could get this information.

We know Mantak Chia was born in 1944.
Mantak…[Read more]

Have you noticed anyone with cats’ heads yet? 🙂 S

>>>The vista is from changbei shan, I thought
>>>it was fitting because of the origin of our practice.

Awesome.

>>>I really I meant to say that Mantak Chia trained
>>>with One Cloud until age 96

Really? He trained with him right up to his death?
On Chia’s website, it says that he trained with him
for about 5 years, after being…[Read more]

Yeah. That looks pretty cool.
It’s unfortunate that you have to pay to get the DVD though.
I wonder if its available as a video rental
at a nearby video store?

S

Cool.

I’ve now added your website as a link on mine under “Healing Tao Instructors”.

Yes it is somewhat busy and technical, but then again you love
detailed Daoist philosophy and the page is a reflection of who you are.
There’s nothing wrong with that. Page should mirror who you are.
Plus it’s not necessary bad. MW’s page is extremely…[Read more]

I agree with Stalker. Cool bagua pic. S

@singing ocean

I’ll have to check your website out, and add it to
my list of links for Healing Tao instructors 🙂

@STALKER2002

Thanks. Is that you in your physics lab?

@Barry

Yeah. It’s sometimes only when we look back, do
we see change.

Best,
Steven

OH, I see. You are still using the old version of the Forum.
Michael updated this a few years ago.

Now the forum is split into 3 subforums depending on topic.
“General”, “Philosophy”, and “Practice”.

You should switch to using the newer version.
Not only is it nicer to have the three forums separated,
but sometimes if you post messages…[Read more]

Stalker,

I’m just referring to Healing Tao Philosophy Forum.

The Healing Tao forum is actually THREE forums . . .
one called “General”, one called “Philosophy”, and one
called “Practice”.

To access the philosophy forum, just click on the word
“Philosophy” at the top of this forum (which is the General Forum).

To switch between…[Read more]

Check the posts on the Philosophy Board on Tori and Twisters.

Maybe you can solve the physics problem
by creating a “Generalized Twistor Theory”
based on lines in HP^n, namely quaternionic projective space.

Just a thought ;0

Smiles to you,
Steven

>>>Has anybody checked out the new book “Emotional Wisdom”?

Do you know the book “Taoist Ways to Transform Stress into Vitality”
by Mantak Chia? It’s an older book written by him introducing
the Inner Smile/Six Healing Sounds along with some scattered
“Taoist wisdom”.

Well, the book “Emotional Wisdom” is basically a modernized…[Read more]

Here is an interesting website I found
re: physics, consciousness, spirituality, 100th monkey, etc.

relates to your paper . . . Shttp://www.smeddum.net/articles/matter.htm

Wikipedia makes this Torsion Field Theory you
refer to look like a scam. I wouldn’t say
that of Twistor theory, however.

Twistor theory is a mathematical physics theory
created in the 1960’s that is a competing viewpoint
over the multitude of higher dimensions needed to
make string theory or superstring theory work. It
is still an…[Read more]

>>>What is everything made of?
>>>It’s now clear that ordinary matter — atoms, stars and galaxies
>>>– accountsfor a paltry 4 per cent of the universe’s total
>>>energy budget. It’s the other 96 per cent that keeps
>>>University of Michigan physicist Katherine Freese engaged.
>>>Freese is excited that one part of the problem, the…[Read more]

I guess this stuff on twistors is pretty advanced.
Here are three very short paragraphs on them.
Unless you are a theoretical math-physicist, I suggest a rapid skim . . . S

Part 1: What is Twistor
http://www.nonequilibrium.net/twistor-2/

Part 2: Twistor and Non-Linear Differential Equation; Curved…[Read more]

Here are some pictures of tori.
These are all distinct mathematical shapes, and
you can’t get one from another without passing
through a singularity.

May address the torus-type question I posed . . . S

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Here is a picture of a…[Read more]

>>>Steven,
>>>How did you have yourself tested for L-R brain dominance?
>>>That might be interesting (if its cheap enough)
>>>to test many Western Daoists….

Nothing too “official”.

I just remember taking a few “free” online tests several
months ago (took a couple different ones for more certainty),
and compared the results to…[Read more]

>>>note: This is a paper I’m presenting Nov. 5-7, 2009
>>>at the International Daoism Conference in Beijing,
>>>meeting for the first time in the Great Hall of the
>>>People on Tianamen Square. that’s significant that
>>>the communists are allowing that, it implies a certain
>>>recognition of the revival of Chinese nationalism
>>>being…[Read more]

I don’t speak whale, but found someone who can help 😉