Michael Winn

James has refused to allow me to use the current software that runs the forum.

So I’m forced to move it to a new format.

We should have a new forum up at the time we transfer on Dec. 31.

We haven’t yet looked at the issue of transferring all logins.

It may take some additional time to figure out how to make the millions of previous…[Read more]

A Sunni Muslim Addresses the Question: Is “Radical Islam” the Problem or is “Islam” the Problem?

This is ultimately about a PEW survey of muslim attitudes towards violence worldwide. It makes Trump look more alarmist than racist. Contrary to my own previous stated beliefs based on my travel, the number of “radical”…[Read more]

Note: Bill Bonner (largest financial newsletter publisher in the world) writes from France, parsing the Hillary-Trump divide abroad:

A Different Candidate?

“I would vote for Trump.”

The remark last came from an unlikely source.

The French press treats Trump like a clown or a con artist. Until last night, we had not encountered a s…[Read more]

Note: here’s a post that offers a counter-view to Steven’s rosy views of Hillary. Just so we don’t fall into the popular media propsaganda trap….Mish Shedlock is a popular blogger who is NOT for Trump:

Most Dangerous Person On the Planet Today: Hillary Clinton

23 Sep 2016

On Monday, Hillary Clinton accused Donald Trump of giving…[Read more]

Note: Swami (Steve Bhaerman) is actually a very astute political analyst. I agree with his summary of our decaying society. This is why I personally am considering voting for Trump. Not because he is any better than Hillary, but because he is more likely to lead to a period of political chaos that is needed to finally precipitate change. Tao is…[Read more]

This is a good general chapter on circadian rhythms (standard science)

https://www.princeton.edu/~ota/disk1/1991/9108/910805.PDF.

and the author of the first article had this comment:

The ‘how to’ is living in sync with nature — this means eating seasonally appropriate foods, going to sleep by 10pm, eating your main meal between 10am an…[Read more]

Shock Interview: Anders Björkman Is a Professional Technologist Who Doesn’t Believe in Nukes
By Daily Bell Staff – August 07, 2016

Shock Interview: Anders Björkman Is a Professional Technologist Who Doesn’t Believe in Nukes

Anders Björkman, M.Sc. is a Naval Architect and Marine Engineer with more th…[Read more]

We’re not excluding “subtle light”. Just making it clear that human bodies have something in common with plant bodies, ability to use photosynthesis to nurture itself.

This diagram looks like it is an adaptation from some of my material (white-hole/black hole/singularitiy through which the adept’s pearl must pass. Chia bought my star alchemy tapes years ago….But this is trying to twist Taoist cosmology to fit it into western science cosmology. There’s no need to do that – the Taoist cosmology is perfectly…[Read more]

Note: the key sentence in this ineresting study was:

Physical activity results in the production of endocannabinoids and some studies have shown that exercise may slow the progression of Alzheimer’s disease.

You don’t need to smoke pot to resist ALZ. Just keep the Qi flowing through your body and brain. – m

Thanks, Ribo, for your half-vote of confidence in my work.

I appreciate and respect your attempt at creating your own cosmology crafted from Tim Leary, Islam and techno-intellectual esoteric biology. Ultimately, everyone with any level of spiritual will creates their own cosmology. There’s no right or wrong here, despite your “authoritative”…[Read more]

This newsletter is really just a short dip into deeper cosmological struggles happening on the planet. I’ve devoted three long chapters on this topic in my Primordial Tai Chi: Way of Enlightened Love draft. (One reason the book is delayed).

I completely agree with Ribosome here – there will be no evolution until the role of soul is elucidated…[Read more]

I do internal energetic practices (from Inner Smile up to more advanced Kan & Li methods) while holding my son. I feel these patterns are like learning to “read” Nature’s Energy Body, which is the core skill needed in life. If they are imprinted in a child’s Energy Body, easier to access later.

Also, important to let kids see you practice…[Read more]

Russelln,
You might enjoy the book just translated by Livia Kohn, available as ebook from Three Pines Press.

Daoism Excavated: Cosmos and Humanity in
 Early Manuscripts, by Wang Zhongjiang (2015)

I have a much higher level of respect for Rideforever than for Ribosome.

Rideforever had a point of view, he presented it in an articulate and very intelligent way, he was critical but never resorted to personality attacks.

I agree with a lot of Rideforever’s separate points, just not with his premature conclusions about qigong as a…[Read more]

The CORRECTION is that I have never insulted “the Buddha”, only perhaps those who later tried to make a religion out onf his efforts to ease the suffering of some human souls by reminding them that their physical existence would eventually end and with it their suffering. That was a great TECHNIQUE.

As a religion, it had so many contradictions…[Read more]

Thanks for sharing this research,Richie.

Yes, modern scholars are getting better at looking at the esoteric side, especially after harold roth’s Original Tao treated the entire Tao Te Ching text as a meditation guide.

But they still did not identify the Eight Extraordinary Vessels.

And my bad, it was Chuangzu in this case. – m

Howdy, love the serpent image, thanks.

Bottom line: historically, Buddhism DIED in India because bodies kept appearing. This suggested that there was some kind of Self causing them to appear, and no one believed the theory that there was No Self.

Buddhism only survived because Tibetans revived it, mixed it with other teachings, modified it. – Michael