everything wrote:Everyone has qi, so n/um, kundalini, whatever name may exist, makes sense.
Personally I'm not so interested in "kundalini awakening", yoga, spiritual teachings, trance, Taoism, Carlos Castaneda, LSD, psilocybin, etc., except for from a vague intellectual distance, or as sort of a recreational entertainment like the test no topic thread. I can see why other people might be interested in these topics.
For me, and I'd argue for everyone here and everywhere, health must come first (otherwise "spiritual" or "martial" or "material" doesn't exist/matter) and a lot of the above (based on many tales not less crazy than yours, void) seems rather unhealthy to me.
Connecting that viewpoint to all the cultural topics, it seems like "sinking to dantian", micro and macrocosmic orbit, meridian theory, acupuncture are specific to TCM and Taoist internal energy work, and by extension, some tiny subset of Chinese IMA work (no one really pays any attention to Taiji classics and "sink qi to dantian" instructions). For these reasons, I'm more interested in "Taoist" arts and Taoist IMA.
he could not pretend not to heal the person - because to detect their blockages he HAD to heal the person, in order to heal his own DETECTION of their blockage!
everything wrote:But there is evidence of homo sapiens that is 300,000 years old. That "humans left Africa" at least 100,000 years ago.
So humans for 90% of our biological history - before 10,000 BCE - we lived from the San Bushmen culture of no war, no rape, no homosexuality, no masturbation and all the males training in trance dancing and fasting based on complementary opposites.
Dmitri wrote:What is the evidence that (early) humans lived in the same culture as the San Bushmen ("of no war, no rape," etc.) for the tens of thousands of years prior to 10,000 BCE? Did someone find a way to determine the sexual orientation of the owner of a few bones carbon-dated to 50000 years ago, or whether they raped anyone, or masturbated?
Trick wrote:Dmitri wrote:What is the evidence that (early) humans lived in the same culture as the San Bushmen ("of no war, no rape," etc.) for the tens of thousands of years prior to 10,000 BCE? Did someone find a way to determine the sexual orientation of the owner of a few bones carbon-dated to 50000 years ago, or whether they raped anyone, or masturbated?
That snake-rock worshipping that went on there prior 10,000 BCE tells about their sex obsession
Re-entry into First Creation: A contextual frame for the Ju/'hoan Bushman
Reentry into First Creation | Journal of Anthropological Research: Vol ...
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/a ... 4.0069.104
by B Keeney - 2013 - Cited by 13 - Related articles
Bradford Keeney, ... Hillary Keeney, ... The Ju/'hoan Bushman origin myth is depicted as providing a contextual ... The latter is regarded as Second Creation.
The Ju/’hoan Bushman origin myth is depicted as providing a contextual frame that orchestrates and gives meaning to their puberty rites, storytelling, and healing dance. These performances are shown to be an enactment of a reentry from Second into First Creation, the latter an imagined time when the original people could change into animals, communicate with all living forms, and have eternal life without sickness. Here n/om, or the presumed vitality of life, change, and creation, is infused into the community. Empowerment of adolescent passage into adulthood, renewal of mythological potency, enhancement of community relations, and healing of sickness take place inside the performances that dramatize reentry into First Creation. Bushman religion and ceremonial life are shown to highlight the importance of experiences that enact the way changing forms are given primacy over any subsequent naming or indication that stills movement. The latter is regarded as Second Creation. This recurrent passage between First and Second Creation sets the stage for Bushman transformative experience.
voidisyinyang wrote: When we close our eyes and rotate them - we should be able to feel qi circulating in the lower tan t'ien, via the pineal gland connection to the perineum.
everything wrote:voidisyinyang wrote: When we close our eyes and rotate them - we should be able to feel qi circulating in the lower tan t'ien, via the pineal gland connection to the perineum.
Is there some kind of related practical advice coming from this observation?
everything wrote:voidisyinyang wrote: When we close our eyes and rotate them - we should be able to feel qi circulating in the lower tan t'ien, via the pineal gland connection to the perineum.
Is there some kind of related practical advice coming from this observation?
By way of illustration, when my immortal inhalation
reaches my two heels it has actually gone from the original
cavity of spirit (tsu ch’iao between and behind the eyes)
to the medulla oblongata 2 which is linked with the two
psychic channels starting from the heels.
‘Now place the right palm on the left pressing the right
middle fingertip on the dragon cavity (in the left palm) and
the left middle fingertip on the tiger cavity (in the right
palm) thus blocking both cavities. Draw in the genital
organ, shut the mouth, touch the palate with the tongue,
breathe in through the nostrils while rising the eyes from
the left to look up, and then breathe out while lowering
the eyes to look down. This is turning the eyes to drive the
(vital) breath up and down in the nostrils.
‘Repeat the same exercise for a second, third and fourth
time to complete thirty-six turns of the eyes in order to
block the channel of the generative and vital forces (at the
mortal gate at the base of the penis). After so preventing
nocturnal emission, practise the microcosmic orbiting to
If however
vitality is being lost the practiser should block the dragon
and tiger centres (in the palms) as already explained, raise
the tongue to the palate to link it with the channel of con¬
trol, drive the (vital) breath in and out while rolling the
eyes to push vitality up the backbone and down the front
part of the body.
Drive to the head vitality vibrating
And roll your eyes to control (vital) breathing
To cultivate the immortal seed by day
And night so that it rays out light from within the
brain.
The heart is the seat of (essential) nature which manifests
through the eyes while the lower abdomen is the seat of
life which manifests through the genital organ.
You
should realise that, since the heart is linked with the two
eyes, this exercise in four phases of nine complete turns each
causes vitality in the heart to restrain vitality in the tiger
cavity while you look up to turn the eyes, and to shut the
genital duct while you look up to lift the vital breath. If
so how can the positive principle drain away?
There is a method of knowing whether the immortal
seed is mature or not which consists of placing an oil lamp
in front of the practiser whose eyes should gaze at its flame
while rolling them from left to right nine times, after which
he closes them. If a great moonlight appears between the
eyes, as bright as the glare of lightning which neither in¬
creases nor contracts, the immortal seed is mature.
It should not
be practised frequently in order to avoid dizziness and
waste of vitality that radiates, for the aim of the practice
is to realise this prenatal vitality and also the manifestation
of this light which is spirit that lies between (and behind) the
two eyes.
‘The method of
producing the immortal seed consists of “uniting” the heart
with the eyes for pointed concentration on the lower ab¬
domen so that if vibration is felt there, vitality can be
immediately circulated (in the microcosmic orbit) for
purification, but the slightest carelessness on the part of the
practiser can cause it to drain away thereby nullifying
all previous progress.
Both heart (house of fire) and breath should
be frozen in the lower tan t’ien; although the (vital) breath
may leave it occasionally, the heart should never stray from
it. The heart and the pupils of the eyes should always con¬
centrate on that centre until the postnatal (vital) breaths
return and stay there to sustain prenatal vitality which will
nurture and develop the seed that causes the light of the
elixir to manifest. The latter is like a ball of fire, the size of a
bullet, in the lower tan t’ien centre which will become hot
When the latter is fully developed the practiser
should turn back his eyes to concentrate on and look into
the lower tan t’ien centre (under the navel) so that the ele¬
ment of fire in the eyes which are above scorches that of
water in the belly which is below, to produce positive vitality
whose light manifests in front of him.
The light of the eyes directed downward is positive and when the
positive and negative lights meet, a precious light (pao
kuang) will emerge.
This is like an electric current which, when the positive
and negative poles are joined, gives a bright light, unless
the power supply is deficient.
concentrate his eyes on its flame, rolling them from left to right
nine times to vibrate the (positive) vitality in that centre
(between and behind the eyes) so that it drops to the
cavity of (eternal) life (under the navel) already full of
(negative) vitality so that both vitalities unite to thrust open
the original cavity of spirit (tsu ch’iao in the centre of the
brain).
Each turn of the eyes causes vitality in the cavity
of life to soar up, spreading to the mouth, eyes, ears and
nostrils which are the seven openings by which vitality
scatters away. Of the seven, the heavenly pool cavity
(t’ien ch’ih) above the mouth is the opening by which the
greatest quantity of vitality drains away. This is why the
loss of vitality due to excessive speaking and singing is
comparatively greater than in other activities.
The golden light in the eyes reveals the light of (essential)
nature which illumines the lower tan t’ien (under the
navel), and will in time become golden to show the fullness
of the luminous generative force, vitality and spirit.
Since
the practiser now feels that negative breaths are strong
whereas positive ones are still weak, he should now roll
his eyes to let in the latter while driving away the former
in order to remove all obstructions which will then vanish.
Such obstructions are caused by perverse thoughts rising
in the heart (mind) which change positive into negative
(vital) breaths and prevent the three positive lights from
manifesting and the macrocosmic alchemical agent from
developing.
Dmitri wrote:-lol-![]()
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