Michael Winn

The student loan game is part of the scam by big educational corporations to get federal funding in inflated amounts. Most educations do not earn back the high price paid for them today…..and the fed govt is holding the bag on 600 billion in student loans, which I predict most will not be repaid. – m

Ah, Bagua is stirring up an old pot of mischief. But I feel it’s mostly linguistic mischief, based on past conversations.

The hidden discussion here: consciousness itself being “immortal”, i.e. it never dies, and it precedes human birth, vs. human beings “achieving” immortality while in earthly form. The two types of immortality are using the…[Read more]

Blue,
I appreciate your explorations, thanks for sharing them.

Alchemy is an open system, and everyone can only practice (or teach) what is revealed to and absorbed personally. There is no fixed path for an alchemist.

My changes to One Cloud’s formulas came over 30 years of practice, and teaching over 100 kan & li retreats. I noted…[Read more]

Worthwhile question.

J. Star gives a word by word verbatim translation, with index.

He says “music” (yin) is found in 3 passages:
v. 2, character 39
v. 12 character 8 (the 5 tones deafen the ear)
v. 41 character 78

so you have two of them, but not v. 12.

I’m sure the quote you hear most often is from 41, something like, my…[Read more]

Adel,
I spend 7 weeks every winter in the Caribbean, and try almost all my internal practices out in the ocean. Too many to enumerate here. But you can “breathe” any element directly, not just water.
enjoy
michael

Dragon Love, I appreciate your enthusiasm.

The EMDR method is actually just a western therapeutic technique that in my opinion mimics the Taoist alchemical method (probably by accident).

It works because when you shift your attention from left core channel (and any organ/orbs focused there) and right core channel, moving back and forth, you…[Read more]

No need to prove Chinese medicine, although plenty of studies have verified at-a-distance correlatins. They just cannot explain WHY they correlate.

It’s all irrelevant to you. Qigong doesn’t rely on chinese medicine’s truth. It’relies on YOUR experience. There is no better judge.
michael

STALKER,
I welcome your posts on the forum. But you and Ribosome have the annoying habit of posting 2,3,4,or more posts in a row.
That is technically forum SPAM.
I am requesting that you and ribosome stop this practice immediately, and only post ONE post per topic, like everyone else.
If you persist, I am going to start deleting ALL…[Read more]

IT IS THE STOMACH FIRE THAT IS EXHAUSTED BY ALL RAW FOODS.
m

0Nonnth,good to hear from you.

My one the high level inner alchemy adepts (who completed allthe way up through heven & Earth Alchemy) is Patrick McLeod.He hasdeveloped a sidereal -Hindu + Taoist sytemof reading that is really interesting.

You can contact Parick at mcleodian@gmail.com if you want a reading,or subscribeto hisnewsletter.

m

Jimikir,
It is very hard to give advice by internet. But usually the problems come from not developing energy body properly. This mea ns practice more deeply in Microcosmic orbit using Wudang Orbit method, not the other methods in Chia books (that I wrote).

Wudang orbit method will give you much better control. Plus more Healing Sounds,…[Read more]

The only cure I’ve found for TMJ is using a wire hitter on the contracted jaw muscles. But certainly not if there is a fracture. Try getting some sacral-cranial work to release the neck and jaw.
m

I agree especially on your point about fats,which is why I use olive oil everyday. Our brains cannot function without fat.

Chinese teas are another great addition to a diet – healthy and filling when you think you need a snack.

m

Lovely! Thanks for sharing. Welcome back, come again.

Obviously Eckhardt Tolle’s Power of Now is nothing new….

Michael

Thanks for sharing. I’m still working on the Primordial ebook, and might find space for your sharing. Are you OK with that? If so, how would you want to be identified, or not?
thanks
michael

Re: Compilation of Winn Forum posts on Free Will, Neidan vs. Chan, 5 Shen vs. Original Shen,

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Michael,

THANK YOU very much for the post, and also THANKS to Jerome. This post is much jucier than your regular article ones, keep it coming.…[Read more]

Those books are written by john blofield, I believe. I have Needham’s volume on alchemy, it supplies lots of interesting details and sources. But Needham himself has a somewhat negative attitude about alchemy, i.e. this stuff is not real, but it led to real developments in chemistry and science.

from relaxnews.net

A study presented November 16 in San Diego, California, at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, suggests that practicing meditation for one half-hour each day for four days decreases pain responses in the brain.

Taking brain scans of voluteers who practiced meditation, researchers discovered that brain…[Read more]

note: The NYT author Ian Johnson gives a reasonably good list of books. I would have included Daoist Body Cultivation and Internal Alchemy (edited by Livia Kohn), and a few others, but that’s me. – Michael

Where to Begin: Five (Or More) Books about Daoism

November 8, 2010 in Books, Where to Begin by The China Beat

By Ian Johnson

With…[Read more]