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Michael talks alot and is sort of like the bible – you could probably find him saying something to support any view! (At least, thinking that way I can hold onto my views without being wrong, and without having to comb through his many tapes and transcripts for support for what I am thinking/saying 🙂

We’re all just talking about where we are…[Read more]

A few days ago I remembered you writing something about the Venus of Willendorf. For some reason I then simultaneously checked into the outer Earth and my inner earth. And, guess who was in there, smiling like the Cheshire cat from Alice, with a body that had dissolved-into and become one-with the whole Earth?

“It´s so exotic, isn´t it, to feel connected to all this cosmic happening? The irony is that it is only taking place in the contaminated mind of the vital and not in the cosmic. A new world is slowly taking place, and I believe it is finally sanctioned from “our” lesser gods that makes it a bit easiser.”

Would you be able to elaborate a bit on…[Read more]

I was introduced to the chi fight at the end of a weekend class on energy awareness and energy protection. We spent most of the weekend learning to sense things with our energy and use different means of creating a protective shell around us.

The course ended with a chi fight for two reasons: so we’d know when we are being attacked by someone…[Read more]

Two-way communication all the way:
Universe to me, me to Universe,
personal shen to personal jing, personal jing to personal shen.

etc to etc

I think I get what you’re saying Jimbo. It’s like when starting Primordial Chi Kung, and waiting for the earth energy to arise, and give that impulse to start the form. Or, like how the movements with Ocean Breathing get smaller and smaller until it is really an internal movement.

But, we couldn’t do chi kung unless we had a body. So, the…[Read more]

Winn talks about Chi as being the waves of communication between Jing and Shen. The emphasis I take from that is that is “communication”, not a directive from one aspect to another.

What I hear from jimbo is a suggestion that the flow of communication is one way – from Shen to Chi to Jing.

What I hear from DamonM is more similar to my…[Read more]

Hi James,

The amount of space available to “Add Link” and “Insert Image” are not long enough to insert many internet addresses. For example, with the photo I tried to insert, the intenet address “http://www.thetaobums.com/index.php?act=module&module=gallery&cmd=si&img=344” was one digit too long. This had also happened when Michael had given an…[Read more]

view from campsite – notice the intense slant of the Earth up north!

The six-hour drive was followed by a 2 km kayak trip to my own little campsite. A strong white quartizite cliff dappled with black basalt was rimmed by wispy white pines. After quickly setting up camp, hanging the food from a tree (bears, raccoons etc.)…then what?! I set up my camp chair half-way up the cliff, finished the novel I’d brought…[Read more]

I think this is it now — deep sigh…http://www.thetaobums.com/uploads/1161902643/gallery_41_42_22677.jpg

George Lake, Killarney Provincial Park, Ontariohttp://friendsofkillarneypark.ca/photogallery/displayimage.php?album=random

It worked for me: 11 hours and 3 minutes of driving!

Hi Wendy,

I did what you wrote and got a great connection with Earth, full and expanded in the solar plexus. Later, I started thinking about the “Earth-like” planet that was recently discovered, and Pietro’s semi-flippant comments about people making connections with it. I then became aware of the stars around me, but not visible in daylight,…[Read more]

I used to have lots of headiness too. Especially when learning a form, it can be easy to end up thinking alot about what to do.

A few things that helped me:
– go really slow, so the mind can do its thing to keep the body in “order” and then you can relax and embody the motions
– if you find yourself getting heady, stop and slap the soles of…[Read more]

A study from MIT says the opposite – that considered in pretty well all measures (okay, I skimmed its 160 pages, after skimming the 400 pages of the CNW study) that a diesel hybrid is the least costly, followed by the gasoline hybrid and so on up the line of alternatives, with the most costly being their control of a 1996 Toyota…[Read more]

This is something that I have found intriguing for some time, especially as other teachers say the opposite – right is yang and left is yin.

The intellectual solution that I have come to is this: yin is always hidden in yang, and yang is always hidden in yin. So, while the right may appear yang in that it is the doing side that engages in the…[Read more]

Great story, and the place looks amazing!

I really look forward to making it down there (though not this summer). Given the beauty and depth of the place, I’ll want to come for a couple of weeks, to explore and get into the groove.

I hope all goes well with the shift.

Chris

Interesting observation. I have had similar experiences with all of the Nei Gung processes – from inner smile onto Sun-Moon (as far as I am).

The disconnect seems to occur for two reasons: in alchemy we tap into non-polarized yuan while bodily existence is quite polarized into yang or yin, and once you find the shen level of being it is easy…[Read more]

Good words Wendy. Since reading them, earlier today, my “Anubis” no longer feels alone. Now, in addition to the silent deep energy, is an exuberant pure heart energy. The exuberance races around the Anubis’ heart, playing like two puppies, tumbling and tipping. And Anubis smiles.