earth, akasha and summer equinox

I’ve noticed that Michael Winn references air as corresponding to metal
in the home videos, but I don’t understand why.

I don’t disagree with the idea; I just don’t understand the connection

Hiya,

Here are some passages from Lonnie Jarrett’s book Nourishing Destiny, a Chinese medical text which brings the focus of acupuncture back to its center- daoist alchemy and its understanding that we all are born with a destiny to fulfill and that THAT is the primary aim of medical treatment.

Notice how metal, air, lungs, moisture, breathing, and the po spirits are woven together to get an understanding of the air/metal question. The implication is that the lungs pull in heavenly chi and extract what is valuable from it – the yang sunlight energy in the air – and that is the “metal” of air, the thing which is valuable. Alexander

p 259

The Nature of Dryness

A function of the lungs is to allow water which rises in the body to condense and to then descend in the same way that heaven creates clouds which create rain. Heavenly moisture in the lungs and large intestine forms the interface between our internal and external world. Moisture helps the lungs and large intestine draw quality into our being and discharge what has been metabolized and no longer serves. The direction associated with the metal element is the West, which in both China and the United States is where the deserts are found. Hence dryness is the environmental condition that affects the metal element. On a physical level, dryness may manifest in the lungs in association with respiratory ailments and in the large intestine as constipation. On a psychospiritual level, dryness ma embody a sense of loss and feelings of having been “burnt” by heaven, which has taken away what one has valued.

The Spirit of Metal: Po

The character “po” consists of the character “bai” on the left, meaning white, and “gui” on the right, signifying earthbound spirits. White is the color of metal, and the “po” is the “shen” associated with the lungs.

p 260

The function of the “po” is to contact what is of essential worth, receive it into (lungs), and retain it within (large intestine) while returning the “yin” mundane influences back to the earth from whence they came.

The “po” turns the nourishing “yang” (sunlight) of later heaven, which is contained in air and captured by all that grows, into the body. Upon death the “po” becomes fertilizer, returning to the earth in a way that empowers new growth.

>there are two humane training systems:
atlantean/egyptian/indian/western hermetics (air/water/fire/earth plus akasha)
lemurian/chinese (wood/earth/fire/water/metal plus yuan)

This is not correct – yuan is NOT an element, the is the ground from which all the elements arise.

Earth is the center element, the fifth element that gradually integrates with more subtle forms of earth, called ether in the west.

It is not a political issue, the lemurian and atlantean systems evolved in relative isolation from each other.

Metal is confusing on which you take these names literally to be objects. These are phases of chi flow. In chinese it is literlaly GOLD, jin. Gold implies a refining process. Our lungs are refineries, they extract and condense out the rare elements and chi from the air and descend it to the kidneys.

It is the condensing power of metal that one experiences as chi condensing back into the earth, sinking down. Air is just it more ethereal octave – but air masses are heavy as well, hence the power of wind. It is about the atmosphere sinking chi down into the earth, where the metals conduct the chi underground/within the body. So metal becomes internal channels in the body that breathe and connec to the above air of the sky.

The western system talk about refining gold, but its harder to fiind in their system, or how to shfit ether into gold…..unless you also look at what happens with ether as it interacts with the material plane. It raises the vibration, goldne light may appear as a byproduct of the refining proess of descension.

michael