Michael Winn

Bagua,
I completely agree with you, the individual and the collective have been and always will be One. The Collective has birthed itself as many “Small Ones”, which each contain the collective within themselves.

Knowing this eases but does not solve for most people the dilemma presented by Individual Free Will. We are free to align with…[Read more]

I would be careful about taking hydrocortisol for long periods. Cortisone has damaging effects on the kidneys over time, and can suppress the immune system, like any steroid. Yes, it can suppress some symptoms very effectively. But thyroid extract itself is much safer to take over long periods than cortisone.
michael

Wendy,

You are the leader of this group. 7 out of 7 divorcing within one year is an extraordinarily high statistic, unless we assume those attracted to the group were already dissatisfied and thus self-selected in advance.

Please Read the science articles I just posted in Philosophy on Swarming behavior in animals and humans, and the…[Read more]

the references to vega in that book were taken from my star alchemy course. Wendy edited the book for dirk and put them in…..:)

very interesting – thanks. I suspect that proper breathing (lungs feed kidneys in chinese creation cycle) generates more ions – which would intensify the kidney charge. and I believe that most cellular ions are metallic in nature.
m

have a nice retreat. Seems like your car was telling you that you needed to let off a little steam…..:)
We missed you at the Fundamentals 3/4 – it turned out to be very powerful.
michael

Thanks for posting this. I am soon to begin selling Livia Kohn’s Daoism in China on my website. It feels like Livia is a better scholar with possibly a deeper view, but each writer inevitably brings focus to unique aspects of the subject.
michael

Steven,
I share your view that everyone’s manifested sexual orientation (whether bi at 50-50 or 90-10 to hetero, etc.) does not switch when the soul level opens up (as Swedich Dragon postulateed). Rather, as your androgynous soul evolves, your physical sexual orientation evolves from its unconscious impulse and is accelerated into becoming more…[Read more]

thanks, I was curious since a long time how the Koreans happened to choose such an alchemical flag from the I Ching. Probably the ambassador that designed it was in some spiritual Taoist-influenced group.
m

The ancient Taoists didn’t call it parallel universes – they called them islands in the cosmos, where there were different realities. The immortals could freely travel between these realties.
m

Thanks, useful reference. My china dream trips will usually encounter these chantings. This is the path of Ritual Tao. As is mentioned, neidangong is usually considered more powerful and important.

This analysis reveals the deep debts that Complete Perfection owes to Buddhist asceticism (celibacy) and religoius structure for its community…[Read more]

When I was in Thailand I heard Reid was living in Blofield old house. And that he later moved to Laos – the golden triange, the epicener of opium and heroin smuggling. Later I heard he was addicted….perhaps Blofield’s influence? Last I heard he had moved to a remote part of Australia to kick his addition.

I have read blofield’s other…[Read more]

Yes, I had a natural git for it, used to teach night school “flying classes” where my friends would show up…details on Dream Practice audio. I issue dream commands every night….
michael

Interesting commentary – the weak english gives a steam of consciousness flow. Confirms my guess as to it origins as a Buddho-Tao text. I like the comments about not jumping from the head to the ears….keeing the center.
michael

ps. snowlion, I have received information from the Cosmos that you will be surprised to receive a Mysterious Gift…[Read more]

Explorer,
A lot of martial artists are impatient, and that can cause any subtle energy method to fail.
Sexual cultivation should be part of a progessive training, and opening up energy channels often isn’t enough either if your emotions are distorting or in other ways blocking flow in those channels.

That is why I also make my Qigong…[Read more]

I am posting an email received from Rebecca kali, who just returned from Tibet last month.

Michael,
Thanks for the article, The Tibet Myth by Michael Parenti
I read it with a great deal of interest. Parenti has taken a few historical facts and presented them out of context. The obviously slanted viewpoint leads me to question Parenti’s…[Read more]

I believe the main reason many UT instructors stop meditating is because for years Chia never really developed the kan and li practices – people got stuck in the basics, which became progressively more complicated with pieces from the kan and li but none of their depth.

Even today, it is very difficult to learn in a dark room with 50 other…[Read more]

I urge you to go more deeply into your feelings on the issue of the effects of vuewed
sex vs. violence.

The very fact that you don’t act on the violent images suggests a “numbing down”. An d studies show a strong correlation between children watching TV violence and the violence expressed in their life, which eventually become the “crime…[Read more]

Steven,
the danger in your thinking is to devalue ALL art that includes eroticism- which is exactly what happens with those buddhists trying to cut off ALL desire as distracting or creating suffering. It is why I raised the issue of porn vs. erotic art originally.

So your argument is essentially the same as those Buddhists holding the…[Read more]

There are a lot of instructors in Germany – do a search on Renu Li or Juan Li, who lives in spain but travels to Germany.

Have the Swedish instructors stopped teaching HT or UT entirely?

I am curious, what was your experience with David Shen teachings that led you to reject it?
m