hagar

Greetings from hagar

Great to see you’re still around.

h

I miss you RJ!

h

Yup.

I was thinking about that one.

In working with the spine, I find that the best visualisation is to feel the whole spine being filled with light. Letting the essential water and light blend into one.

h

The cracks are natural symptoms of opening in the spinal pathways when the chi ascends up the spine, and when it starts to permeate the bones, ligaments and joints. It is a natural opening that signifies how the chi goes to the place where it’s needed. Don’t worry about it, and remeber that no cracking sounds are either a sign of a totally open or…[Read more]

A friend of mine is a lap. His father is a shaman, and aknowledges a rock on the tundra in Finnmark, way north in Norway as his teacher.
But I have not heard of any Laps having anything to do with mushrooms…
Alot of coffee, and liquour but no mushrooms.

Funny thing you talk about the Kun Lun and the Altai mountains. I have been fascinated…[Read more]

It’s difficult to say what the source of your problem is without knowing more about your history, but no matter the cause, kidney strengthening practices would do you good. Just holding the lower back with both hands, or lying on the stomach, with the back of the palms over each kidney is good for kidney deficiency. (Maybe a herbal program would…[Read more]

Means “a thousand thanks” in Norwegian.

Michael

My own practice is more than enough for me at the moment, but thanks for the compliment.

Interesting that you put the stillness meditation as a beginning practice, as the best way to go about doing it is to “begin with the end”, meaning to start with the end state or quality, and when you are starting to lose it, begin with the end…[Read more]

Max

Thank you for your words. Your dedication spring through the words you write so eloquently. Very inspiring.

I wish I could answer Yes! to more of the questions above.
For me, practice is war, interrupted by short moments of boredom. But sometimes when I get really bored, I realise I am not bored enough. Later I can be in so much pain…[Read more]

Max,

I find the issue of who has the most thorough understanding of taoism, and which path is more direct a matter for scholars.

My point was just that pure sitting, done in a contemporary context often becomes rigid, or unflexible, as following and working with the energy often elicits faster results in an easier manner.

My own…[Read more]

Max

I do agree with your view that original taoism holds a much more sound and direct approach to the essentials of daoism. It’s important not to confuse heritage with transmission, as there is alot of information that is part of heritage that becomes useless, but transmission always keep getting “upgraded” and improved, adapting to the…[Read more]

I must be frank with you; nano and biotechnology is not very aligned with the natural order of things. Look into what the consequences of a society totally reconstructed in the image of their creator (man) looks like. The result would probably be pretty neurotic and narcissistic.

Secondly, Why cultivate forever? This is just my personal…[Read more]

Thanks alot for you feedback.

I relation to the condesation of Jing, I guess the general effect is one of condensing, which I feel in all joints and ligaments in the body. Interesting story about the adept in China. I’m not completely there yet=)

Lately, my emphasis has been on trying to expand the “outer boundries” of my system, i.e…[Read more]

Very good to read this, as this kind of detour into the “saving” and “losin” energy paradigm is a total waste of time. Talking from experience.

In relation to Jing being more powerful than Jingchi, I have a question:

Isn’t Jing, or the essential water in the body better absorbed and recirculated if it is integrated at every step of the way…[Read more]

Plato:

I must admire your courage and pioneering spirit, as I myself would never have the “guts” (pun intended) to try these things out. I remember overdoing it with herbs at one point, wasting precious time and money on stuff that had little or no effect in the long run. But I may only have lacked the proper knowledge at the time…

Anyway,…[Read more]

I blush at the way I presented myself again and again to my teachers in the beginning. And I start sweating when thinking about what I said and did when I became a “beginning expert”. Now I probably am just as naive, but in new, unconsious and self-inflated ways…

But that’s just practice.

So I’ve started to think how my teachers have to…[Read more]

“From the biggest perspective, all human
experience can be seen as being part of a process–an
evolutionary or developmental process that is moving forward in
time.”

First of all, the premise that we are all part of a movement forward in time is not anything more “objective”, but just as illusory as the identification of the ego with the…[Read more]

You don’t need any breathing techniques.

Doing qigong forms that increase and support the Jing will naturally increase your capacity, especially in the lungs.

Personally, I don’t focus on breathing at all. I try to make my breathing natural, and at ease. That means just listening, and responding.

Sometimes I can help to strenghten the…[Read more]

You don’t need any breathing techniques.

Doing qigong forms that increase and support the Jing will naturally increase your capacity, especially in the lungs.

Personally, I don’t focus on breathing at all. I try to make my breathing natural, and at ease. That means just listening, and responding.

Sometimes I can help to strenghten the…[Read more]

Thanks

I’ve done a form of Nei Dan for some time. And beyond the obvious health and spiritual benefits, things are just happening at an increasing pace “Karmically”

In reading about the Sun-moon and planetary alchemy, I just became aware of a kind of speeding up of two factors:

1. Internal
I experience alot of aches, pains and “problems”…[Read more]