The Immortals: a true story

This is of course just the first chapter in a long story. As someone privileged to witness (or incite?) some of the other chapters, I hope that someday Wendy will just buckle down and write a book about it, that gives perspective and wisdom for others exploring multi-dimensionality.

love, peace,blessings,
Michael

The first present that I gave Wendy was a pen, knowing that she had a book to write. 1.5 years later, it is building in bits and parts. And so the race is on! Who will get their book out first – Michael’s on Atlantean alchemy or Wendy’s on immortals and dragons?!

Steven,
I hope you reconsider and decide to stay, I have found you to be one of the most open and helpful people on here. You always have something interesting to add, and honestly I thought the whole anal sex topic (besides the crazy homophobic wierdness rant) was very informative and I learned stuff that I don’t think I have ever heard talked about, and I mean that in a good way. It is important to have a place to discuss all aspects of practice. I am sorry that a few peoples close mindedness might have ruined that. Their comments were quite unfortunate; don’t let that stop you from contributing to this community. I hope you decide to stay.

Peace & Tao
Shenchi

Born in Stockholm in 1688, the son of a Lutheran bishop, Emmanuel Swedenborg had trained as an engineer with specialty in metals. As a student, he’d traveled to England in his early twenties to learn from such renowned scientists as Isaac Newton and astronomer Edmund Halley. By 1744 he was comfortably set as an administrator of mining ventures for the Swedish government.
That year, though, while travelling on business, Swedenborg experienced a life-altering vision. He was relaxing at the tavern of his London hotel when, he said, a mist formed before his eyes and then separated into a silvery mass of snakes. As the reptiles coiled around the floor, he caught the outline of a man cloaked by shadows in the corner of the room. The following night, when he returned to the tavern, the mist and the snakes again swathed the room. The figure stepped out the corner, Swedenborg said, and identified himself as the Lord God. The Swedish scientist left London with a new mission-to explain the real meaning of the Scriptures to the world. God would tell him what to write and give him the gift of far sight.
Swedenborg abandoned his scientific career. He became a wraith of a man with a thin, sharply lined face and sunken eyes. He lived on sugared coffee and cakes, which he believed aided a newly fragile digestion. He spent hours in trancelike state, dream-writing his books on heaven and hell, the spirit world that inhabited our planet and others. For the rest of his life, he spread his version of the gospel, invoking the spirits, which were hidden to all else, by demonstrating his newfound powers.
-DEBORAH BLUM, Ghost Hunters-The Hunt for Proof of Life after Death

There are nothing new in various kinds of visionary experiences (maybe including also tactile sensations like burning, sharp pain etc.) from Biblical times through likes of Teresa of Avila and Joseph Smith Jr. (also many others) to somebody like Drunvalo Melchzedek telling about his interactions with angels in present time.

There are some experinences which one almost necessarily would come if one is making dedicated effort practicing yoga.

My impression writing still more books about these things don’t change much. What did for example Emmanuel Swedenborg got? What others came to see of it was that he died from a stroke.

There is property of strong egoism present in the practice of neidan, at least for the ordinary eyes and this has also popped up every now and then on this forum. But it’s only positive if one is really starting to make extraordinary progress.

The reason for this kind of experience happening only once is maybe because one is actually not making effort. When it becomes one’s everyday experience then one maybe has got that essential component of alchemy working with which Golden Elixir can be produced.

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Hello Swedich Dragon!

You asked one year ago what kind of Daoist teachings there are available in Finland and I mentioned that this yiquan master Zhang Changwang visit once a year sometimes in the late spring or early summer. And he is again back.

Well, I don’t know how Daoist one should regard him, but anyway interesting.

Comrade H

http://www.dynamis.fi/yiquan_zcw2009.php

I have not much experience of spirits and entities expect one, that I am associating with my health problem. If you are interested I can tell you the story am interested to see if it possibleto find solutions to the health problem from tha experience.
-Swedich Dragon, 2008-04-29

“Why do you say that they are reconnoiterers, don Juan?”
“They come in search of potential awareness. They have consciousness and purpose, although it is incomprehensible to our minds, comparable perhaps to the consciousness and purpose of trees. The inner speed of trees and inorganic beings is incomprehensible to us because it is infinitely slower than ours.”
“What makes you say that, don Juan?”
“Both trees and inorganic beings last longer than we do. They are made to stay put. They are immobile, yet they make everything move around them.”
“Do you mean, don Juan, that inorganic beings are stationary like trees?”
“Certainly. What you see in dreaming as bright or dark sticks are their projections. What you hear as the voice of the dreaming emissary is equally their projection. And so are their scouts.”
For some unfathomable reason, I was overwhelmed by the these statements. I was suddenly filled with anxiety. I asked don Juan if trees also had projections like that.
“They do,” he said. “Their projections are, however, even less friendly to us than those of the inorganic beings. Dreamers never seek them, unless they are in a state of profound amenity with trees, which is very difficult to attain. We have no friends on this earth, you know.” He chuckled and added, “It’s no mystery why.”
“It may not be a mystery to you, don Juan, but it certainly is to me.”
“We are destructive. We have antagonized every living being on this earth. That’s why we have no friends.”
-CARLOS CASTANEDA, The Art of Dreaming

Hello Swedich Dragon!

I sended that link about those courses in Finland to you because I have understood that you have tried to find cure to your health problem from qigong and some yoga exercises. That Beijing guy (Zhang Changwang) is very experienced what comes to using zhan zhuang (standing like a tree) for therapeutical purposes. So if you are still searching experiences with different teachers he is one whom one shouldn’t neglect.

I will send (Insha’Allah) message about it again in one year if we still are on this forum.

Have you by the way read ‘Anatomy of Hatha Yoga’ by H. David Coulter?

Toveri Hellurei

http://www.egreenway.com/taichichuan/wuju.htm#Embrace

Hello

That hatha yoga book is actually quite expensive one. In Finland you have to pay 80 euros for the copy from ordinary bookshop and maybe 25 euros for pirate version from India.

But one can also get it easily from the library, at least in Finland.

I think many are in such a situation that there is too little time. It’s evident.

I only wanted from my small part say that there are some attractive practices like all these energy yogas which are so easily available (for example) through Healing Tao USA, but the question is what really works for oneself best.

It’s only my opinion, but I say it once. Maybe if you want really get help with your health situation, you should be more carefull with that internal alchemy part and take care to get strong and healthy body first. Also important would be to become impeccable with such everyday things like eating and drinking.

This hatha yoga book which I recommend is good because it’s completely down to earth and it’s written by person who has been professor in the university (gross anatomy). It doesn’t offer immediately anything else than practice that can give oneself well-being, health etc. and for sure not some empty talk about immortality (or immortals), dragons and whatever fairy tales stuff.

That P.I.G.

http://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/Backronym