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Hi Victor, I’m also feeling rather uninspired in my practice at the moment. I might even say it’s totally falling apart. I’m also reflecting on the fact that I’m coming up on the first anniversary of the beginning of my HT studies, and I’m trying to take stock of what has happened. At the time I was in deep crisis – hopeless, suicidal. HT gave me…[Read more]

Who’s Barry?

Personally I have been focusing on MW’s home study courses, but sometimes I do get the corresponding Mantak Chia book in hopes that I could get a more structured conceptual framework for the material in the home study courses. What I have most often found is that the material in MC’s books is so very different from what Michael is teaching that…[Read more]

Another foundation is having some folks around who can help out when you get stuck. Many thanks for your advice and support!

Thanks Steven. On the fusion 2/3 audio Michael explains deep earth pulsing as a deep channel practice in the sense that one is pumping earth chi into the extensions of the leg channels that go to the center of the earth (if I understand him). I also understand DEP as a grounding practice. I guess my question is: if my immediate goal is to…[Read more]

I think if we wanted to characterize the function of 9/11 in relation to the planetary rebirth hypothesis it would not be as a heart opening so much as an “eye opening”. Some polls in the US suggest that over 40% of the people believe the government was complicit in some way. 15 years later we see that one of most conspicuous signs of a change in…[Read more]

This idea of no-self has become a source of endless confusion, mostly I think because people insist on making it an object of metaphysical speculation. I believe it can be understood in a way that is much simpler and, so to speak, closer to home. For example, as this post is being written, I am aware of a vague sense of it being directed by an…[Read more]

If I may share a few thoughts based on my own limited experience: I got into HT primarily with a view to resolving emotional issues. In somatic terms, these issues would manifest as a feeling of congestion in the chest or sometimes reaching down the front of the body into the solar plexus. I found the orbit practice very useful in relieving this…[Read more]

Interesting. Is it possible to say anything about the nature of the underlying family issue that was manifesting as this allergy problem?

I think what’s interesting about the current election cycle is that we have gone beyond the usual kinds of policy and politics debates to a more fundamental questioning of the underlying system. That’s what’s implicit in Bernie’s critique of American democracy. And Trump challenges the system just through his person, and his flouting and mockery…[Read more]

Are you circulating the energy in the orbit? I find that helpful.

This video is basically similar to some of Mantak Chia’s other statements on psychedelic experience. If I understand him, he believes that the psychedelic experience is essentially a sort of near death experience, and that the mind altering quality of it comes from the release of a “death hormone” that triggers a visionary out-of-body experience…[Read more]

I think if your path includes enough painful experiences, detours, dead ends, pitfalls etc. then you realize your ego self is not really choosing much of anything. Even the energies in one’s body have their own intent and direction. I think the real question is about the nature of this “universe” we speak about, the experiences it brings, their…[Read more]

Interesting, thanks. I have occasionally experimented with psychedelics in a solo setting but have been frustrated in my attempts to produce an effective ayahuasca brew. I also did one major experiment with LSD and mostly it didn’t seem like I got a lot out of it, but I did get one clear “message”: I must practice qigong. While one might have…[Read more]

Victor, may I ask the circumstances of your ayahuasca experience? I mean, did you prepare your own brew and work independently, or work with a shaman/healer, or otherwise?
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Very interesting. I’ve struggled with depression over a long period of time and only recently have I begun to get a sense of the compulsive quality of the struggle. I sensed that the larger pattern of stuckness is not the depression but in the perception of “me vs. depression” and the belief that I have to make it go away or it will kill me. This…[Read more]

This is an interesting discussion but to my sensibility it seems a bit complicated. I just smile at stuff in my mind. It seems totally intuitive. If I try to analyze it, it does seem to emanate from the heart. Also, I am aware that I am “tuning” the energy or feeling of the smile: it is not a big enthusiastic smile; it is a quiet, serene, loving…[Read more]

I haven’t taken the live course. I look forward to finding an opportunity to do that. I’m sure it would be beneficial. But you make an interesting point, as does Steven, about what impels one to return to a given practice over and over again. I’ll have to observe more carefully.
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