I don't know why people don't just discuss this stuff on the main forum and ignore the disbelievers and athletic only comments
Chris McKinley wrote:Fong,
There are several possible axes here that don't completely overlap. There's the Great Old One vs. non-Great Old One axis. There's internal and external are different vs. internal and external are the same. There's also potentially the common RSF/CIMA understanding of what internal power is vs. "the IP/IS crowd"'s understanding of what it is, though of course they may end up being the same, the jury's still out on that one because the latter group has never fully clarified their views stated in the positive.
For example, John Wang is an example of someone who is both a Great Old One, and very well-respected, and someone who doesn't believe in the difference between internal and external. OTOH, there may be some newcomers to our forum who are very interested in the topic of internal power and perhaps even very well-versed in its development who are nonetheless not Great Old Ones. There are also probably a significant number of others who fall somewhere in between. As yet a third possibility, what about someone who may be a Great Old One and who believes in internal power as a distinct phenomenon, but who believes it is something very different than what the IP/IS folks put it forth as being? Should that person be excluded as well?
I think seniority or volume of output is not necessarily the best way to delineate between posters on this matter, assuming that delineation of any kind has already been determined to be necessary and appropriate.
Chris McKinley wrote:I see a big red flag on this one as it relates to the possibility of a new sub-forum. Here we have a point of legitimate difference and possibly legitimate disagreement. Already, though, we have broad-brushed dismissal and invalidation of something based on the fact that it doesn't fall into the narrow confines of a particular definition of what ought to be "proper" training of internal methods. This doesn't bode well.
Well if you can read someone telling you to disconnect your body and move from your shoulders separately from your legs and it DOESN"T send up red flags in your head...I have nothing further to say.
It's okay that you don't get it and that it's all just talking points that need to be investigated according to you.
DeusTrismegistus wrote:I don't know why people don't just discuss this stuff on the main forum and ignore the disbelievers and athletic only comments
Tom wrote:Ian wrote:I like how IMAs make people so relaxed and easy going
That's why they are good for health.
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