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The Way to Heaven, Cosmic Eggs & THE SECRET (sent to e-list)

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  • May 1, 2007 at 12:30 pm #22111

    Michael Winn

    Inside Chi Flows Naturally:

    1. Essay on a secret Way to Heaven….while still living on
    Earth. It’s a neat trick, “going” someplace new, more
    formless – without leaving your old body. It boils down to a
    practical question: how to best allow higher vibration chi
    to flow through your “OLD” SPOT on planet earth… It’s
    especially difficult to get Heaven inside your little body
    when sudden Change destroys your previously well-ordered
    life on Earth. You may instead receive a guided tour of what
    feels like living Hell. I share the spiritual Secret I’ve
    found – on how to reduce Resistance To Change, a.k.a.
    self-sabotage. And why “The Secret”, a popular internet DVD
    on manifesting what you want, unfortunately won’t work for
    most people unless they solve this self-sabotage problem.
    Essay also reveals which Buddhist group bought our Dao
    Mountain center in the Catskills….attracted by our chi?

    2. WHICH WAY IS HEAVENLY MOUNTAIN? There has been some
    confusion over the Way to Heaven-ly Mountain, our fabulous
    new heaven-on-earth retreat center in the Blue Ridge
    Mountains near Blowing Rock, N.C. Folks got rightfully
    confused due to our slowness in erasing all references to
    “Dao Mountain” on our website. I apologize.

    NO, we are not hosting retreats in both the Catskills and
    North Carolina. YES, the sudden change of location has
    induced moments of Primordial Chaos in my office. Funny how
    a moment of darkness can last an eternity. But it’s the
    healthy darkness, the condition of “not knowing”. Adepts of
    Taoist inner alchemy munch on this darkness during
    meditation. It feeds the spiritual hunger of our Inner Sage.
    This darkness is the space of Pure Potential.

    E-BROCHURE. Heavenly Mountain is now poised to unfold the
    tremendous creative potential of the Taoist arts – we’ve got
    a bigger, more beautiful space. The revised brochure is
    being mailed out as you read this. But best not to wait for
    bulk mail, which is slow. You can download the entire 12
    page brochure (in 4 segments) at:
    http://www.healingtaoretreats.com/index.html#p

    REGISTRAR. Rob Renahan, our summer registrar, has agreed to
    start talking again after three months of silent retreat. I
    suspect he was using that quiet time to secretly refine his
    Zen Qigong: The Art of Non-Doing, a new course he is
    offering this August on bringing effortlessness into Tao
    practices. Expect clear advice from him on which of our 30
    retreats are best for you. His cell: 828-242-0968 or
    888-750-1773.

    JUNE RETREATS. Call now to book these six fabulous retreats
    – happening next month!
    See retreats site for full description.

    WEEK 1:
    June 16-21: Mantak Chia on Taoist Yoga & his new Immune
    System Qigong. If you haven’t seen this man in action, this
    is the best time and best place to hang out with him.

    WEEK 2
    June 22 – 27: Michael Winn’s Qigong Fundamentals 1-4. Tools
    for a lifetime of health. By Day 2 we usually blow out our
    old circuits and spend the next 3 days in Chi Heaven.

    June 22 – 27: David Twicken’s Qigong and Spiritual
    Astrology. A fascinating, cutting edge integration – how to
    combine Chinese astrology and Qigong cultivation to
    influence your destiny. Get deeper into the Five Elements.

    WEEK 3
    June 29 – July 4: Qigong Healing Intensive. Robert Peng, a
    humble healer with hot hands from China.
    June 29 – July 4: Fusion of the 5 Elements. Emotional
    alchemy with Masahiro Ouchi, master of the light touch.
    June 29 – July 4: Bone Marrow Neigong & Iron Shirt Qigong.
    Get rooted, get healthy & get powerful with Marie Favorito.

    REGISTER ONLINE. Our shopping cart now lets you reserve
    rooms and pay retreats IN FULL. Get a $20. pre-payment and
    other discounts. NEW SINGLE ROOM BONUS: Book a single room
    this year, and get a $30. discount per week for single
    bookings in subsequent years. Housing info:
    http://www.HealingTaoRetreats.com/index.html#h

    IF YOU ALREADY PAID A $100. DEPOSIT online for a retreat, in
    a week or so expect to receive an email. It will have
    instructions on how to open your online account in the
    shopping cart and add payments to your retreat(s).

    TRAVEL INFORMATION is now posted, with three easy ways to
    get to Heavenly Mountain:
    a. cheap Amtrak train (or Greyhound bus) + $10. Mountaineer
    bus via Greensboro, N.C.
    b. Fly to Charlotte Airport + group shuttle (2 hr drive).
    Book it directly at 828-295-7779.
    c. driving instructions from Asheville & Charlotte.
    For full travel details, see
    http://www.healingtaoretreats.com/index.html#l

    TRAVEL SUBSIDY, EXTENDED PAY. Please don’t let money stop
    you from coming to Heavenly Mountain! We have an extended
    payment program. Our 501c3 nonprofit received a donation
    from a generous soul. It allows us to offer travel subsidies
    for some who cannot afford to come to Heavenly Mtn.
    ———————-

    3. MID-SPRING MEDITATION (free) at our home in Asheville
    Saturday, May 5. (incorrectly listed as May 6 on website).
    From 7pm to 11pm+. Welcome to arrive early and hang out with
    the eight giant crystal beings in our Stone Circle. Email
    for directions: winn@healingdao.com

    EGGS. I have a confession: our Stone Circle is not really a
    circle. It’s an egg. I designed it to be slightly ovoid on
    the North-South axis to reflect the innately female
    egg-shaped nature of being in a physical body. The Egg also
    reflects the slight egg-like elongation of planet Earth’s
    body.

    The Microcosmic Orbit meditation circulates chi inside an
    egg pattern. Our Energy body grows from this ovoid shape.
    We’re eggy because the yin-yang poles of our crown and feet
    are pulled away from the dantian/center-of-gravity to build
    a bigger polar energy charge. Kan & Li meditation practice
    internalizes a vesica piscis, a sacred geometry pattern in
    which two energetic male-female spheres copulate to form a
    elongated egg. My conclusion: Being Ovoid and having
    internal sexual bliss is half the fun of becoming human,
    isn’t it?

    New PHOTOS: Easter egg mandala, by my wife’s artistic inner
    child, her spring ritual. A fabulous photo of Lao Tzu
    (life-size statue at Dao Mountain) in a winter blizzard on
    his Way south to Heavenly Mountain; fun snapshots from
    recent retreats in Mexico and Holland. See:
    http://www.healingdao.com/cosmic_eggs,_lao_tzu,_mexico_retreat.html

    Mike Teeters Photo Essay & commentary on wild party with Lao
    Tzu & assembled spirits the night before leaving Dao
    Mountain:

    4. ARCHIVES of past “Chi Flows Naturally” e-letters finally
    posted in Articles section of website. If you’re receiving
    this email, you are already registered to browse the
    archives for free. (Others need to sign up for free ebook
    first). Essays go back 3 years, and cover Tao of Everything:
    from viruses to tsunamis & Earth changes, to celtic chi
    cultivation and whole body Enlightenment:
    http://www.healingdao.com/cgi-bin/articles.pl#top (note: scroll
    down to bottom of page)

    5. HELP! We need retreat brochure distributors – folks who
    live within driving distance of Heavenly Mtn (northern
    Florida to D.C., atlantic coast to TN, KY, southern Ohio.
    If you live in a southeast state, we need folks willing to
    DROP OFF our 12 page color retreat BROCHURES at your local
    health food store, coffeehouse, bookstore, or other
    appropriate venue. Just HIT REPLY and email us name,
    shipping address, and number of brochures you think you can
    distribute. Or call 888-999-0555.
    How many should you get? 25 to 50 might be an estimated
    range – we can always ship you more later, guess in the
    middle range what you can realistically place. Think of this
    process as inviting your local friends to join our high
    energy party.
    If readers have suggestions on the best LOCAL MAGAZINES to
    advertise in the southeast, please email me immediately!
    winn@healingdao.com
    _________________________________

    Dear Seekers of the Way to Heaven,

    From the top of Heavenly Mountain, you can see 80 miles. At
    sunset it ranks amongst the world’s finest vistas, as
    purplish watercolor hues of the Blue Ridge Mountains
    dissolve into the inky black beauty of the first rising
    stars. The view from this private mountain top is even
    better than nearby famous Blowing Rock, N.C. But before one
    is rewarded with this marvelous vision, you must first get
    your skinny lil’ ass to the top of the mountain. Meaning,
    you have to first physically find your Way to Heavenly
    Mountain.

    The metaphor of my process in the last month is a perfect
    mirror of the challenge facing us all. We’re stuck, and we
    need to change, sometimes quickly. The wall of Change looks
    like a big mountain to climb. I was suddenly forced to face
    a major change – to find a new home for a loose community of
    Taoists and lovers of natural health who gather for summer
    fun, before wandering off on their individual journeys for
    the winter.

    The immediate difficulty, finding a new home, detailed in my
    last letter, is over. But a new and more hidden challenge
    arises: we still have to release an old and comfortable
    pathway, we have to break with the past. We spent ten
    lovely, intense years in the Catskills. Years of meditating
    and moving and healing in those mountains, years finding new
    friends and lovers, years of exploring our spiritual
    journey. How can the “pull” of all that be safely left
    behind, without us losing something valuable?

    This is a situation everyone confronts at key transitional
    moments in our life. We leave home to go off to college, we
    change jobs, we change relationships, or the big one, we
    change dimensions at death. We’re forced to move on, but the
    past clings to us like barnacles encrusting our old
    identity.

    Our Deep Fear of Losing the Past

    All of these life changes represents an old and very
    comfortable energetic path that is being broken. The fear:
    if we break our comfortable old path, we will lose an
    important piece of our identity. How does one measure
    “identity”, much less let go of it? We cannot get rid of
    “self”, no matter how much the self meditates and tries to
    empty itself of Self. The self-identity is still there, and
    unless we are drunk or drugged or asleep, it doesn’t lose
    its power of memory. And surely becoming more Awake doesn’t
    mean we suddenly suffer from amnesia.

    The problem is that we do not really have the power to erase
    memory itself. Because memory is not just our physical
    senses recording our personal life, moment by moment The
    larger field of consciousness is also recording us, no
    matter how tiny we might seem. Nature itself is holding our
    memory – our personal experience of Nature – in its vast
    databank. It has to – otherwise how can it develop any
    wisdom and evolve the countless “individual selves” that
    function as the cells of Nature’s vast organism?

    Universal memory is one of the most important functions of
    the Life Force in maintaining balance and harmony. Without
    memory, Life would repeat its blunders over again and again,
    learning itself would be impossible, and chaos would
    permanently rule. Instead, we now know that Chaos itself is
    a form of learning, a pathway to break up old identities
    while we shift to higher order. So Chaos itself is able to
    hold memory – even as it dissolves old patterns and tries on
    new ones.

    Our Energy Body Controls What We Manifest

    It is memory, embedded in the chi field itself, that holds
    the shape of the Past. Self relies on memory of the Past to
    help shape the Future. From the Taoist perspective, the
    Energy Body is the aspect of Self that controls this process
    of time-shifting manifestation. The Energy Body is what
    shape shifts. A Westerner might call it our Soul. Whatever
    you call it, we express different energetic shapes that flow
    through our personality and body along the continuum of
    past, present, future.

    The key variable here is Chi. Chi is living “subtle breath”.
    Instead of trying to erase the Self or its life memories to
    escape past suffering, the Secret is how to manage Chi flow,
    how to keep it breathing easily through us. And it turns
    out, managing chi flow is pretty similar to managing any
    investment. So in my case, I find myself invoking the
    pioneer aspect of our Tao communities’ collective soul
    force. We have to break in a new energetic pathway to
    Heavenly Mountain. Why is this so hard?

    Because our old Energy Body was comfortable heading up into
    the Catskills for the last ten years. This is the first time
    this community of Taoists has gone trekking into the wilds
    of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Next year it will be much
    easier, after we have blazed a trail. It is amazing how the
    energy patterns of the past pave the way for the future. We
    take this process for granted. It is known as the power of
    Habit.

    Once the new path is broken in, the new Habit forms. It is
    like the wind behind a big truck on the highway, sucking the
    air behind it to speed its own momentum forward. But how to
    get moving in a new direction, to get enough speed going in
    one direction in the first place? This is the challenge that
    arises. There is a key moment, when we turn the wheel of our
    life in a new direction, and are facing a stiff headwind –
    that is when the challenge comes.

    “The Secret” – A Harry Potter Manual for Adults?

    That is where so many of us fail to grasp the real Secret of
    manifesting something new. The popular film “The Secret”
    buzzing around the internet and Oprah these days gives the
    standard channelled new age nostrums: visualize what you
    want, and build a new energetic thought form. By seeing your
    thought as real, and relying on the Law of Attraction to get
    support, you will manifest the $3 million dollar dream house
    with the pool (that cost $300K a decade ago).

    There is nothing new here, this is an Old Secret, variations
    of which appear as sexual magic (charge up a thought form
    with sexual energy). The only thing that it is really new is
    that New Age visualization is getting into the mainstream
    media as a sign of changing times. The public is over its
    head in financial debt, and the film offers a magic solution
    to becoming one of the wealthy, worry-free elite. Its a
    Harry Potter manual, packaged for adults, promising instant
    riches. The focus is on material, not spiritual development.
    But the advice offered is useful in getting people to focus
    their energy, as many problems do arise from the
    fragmentation and scattering effects of modern life.

    What’s not being fully dealt with is Our Resistance to
    Change. That is the main impediment to manifesting the life
    we truly want. No, Resistance is not a dark cloaked evil
    figure. It’s not Satan trying to make our life difficult,
    forcing us to have a nervous break down, and then sobbingly
    surrender our free will to some religious group claiming a
    power greater than the Darkness.

    Our Resistance is Invested in the Past

    Our Resistance is the shadow aspect of our self, a.k.a. the
    Self-Saboteur. It is actually the part of our Energy Body
    that is invested in the past. The past represents the Known.
    The Self-Saboteur is a junkie for what’s known, even if
    what’s known doesn’t really work and has us mired in
    suffering. Same problem arises when our past pleasures no
    longer really give us pleasure. The sex becomes mechanical,
    the rich food tastes like cardboard. Our past attachment
    becomes future suffering as our Shadow Junkie puts us
    through withdrawal pains if we try to change from what is
    known.

    So what’s the Real Secret to manifesting while living in a
    habit-encrusted body with rigid personality traits? It’s
    pretty simple, but there are three steps. The first step is
    to realize what and where you are currently investing your
    energy. Once you can see your old investments, you can
    choose to re-invest. But unlike investing money, where we
    have the feedback of numbers in a bank account to tell us if
    we are winning or losing, our Energy Body keeps tabs of its
    investment invisibly. We could say sexual bonding, emotions
    and mental beliefs are the most tangible aspects of those
    invisible energetic investments.

    What happens is that people want to invest in having new
    lives, new jobs, new homes, new relationships, new spiritual
    paths. But they forget where their past capital is
    unconsciously invested. It’s like forgetting the number on
    your bank account, and never withdrawing the funds. Banks
    make a lot of money this way in real life. And the same loss
    occurs with our psychic capital.

    For the person trying to change, half of their “energetic
    money” is still invested in the past.This reduces by 50% the
    amount of energetic money they have available to invest in a
    new future. So when folks try implementing “The Secret” and
    visualize a new life, they may be dealing from half a deck
    of cards. It’s hard to produce a royal flush or four aces
    playing with a half a deck – even if you are the dealer and
    the only player.

    That is why, by process of trial and error, I’ve concluded
    that Taoist energetic practices are the most valuable tools
    I’ve discovered for managing my “unconscious money”. The
    money is hidden inside our body, in deep energetic patterns
    – right where we invested it and stored it years ago.

    Lots of people try to get rid of that money in therapy,
    because they don’t recognize it as money. They try to
    discard the old self or deny the self even exists, or try to
    heal the old pattern by surgical-energetically removing
    these dysfunctional patterns. I’ve found you are best off
    simply remembering that the old pattern is there, and
    re-invest its chi into a new pattern that is now unfolding
    in your life. You turn what is a useless self-sabotage into
    something productive.

    Breaking the Vessel of the Old Self

    Sure, there is “big new money” floating all around us, in
    the general chi field of Nature. We could say infinite
    amounts of chi money has been pre-printed by Nature, waiting
    to be spent, if only we could attract it. Just like there
    are trillions of dollars floating around in the global
    economy. But there’s no point chasing after those trillions
    until you break your old piggy bank and create a vessel that
    is big enough to hold what you really need.

    But if your Energy Body is habituated to being the size of
    child’s toy piggy bank, then that is how much “money” you
    will allow yourself to receive and spend. Because that tiny
    piggy bank is the vibrational vessel for your wealth. You
    have to break the old toy piggy bank and build a bank-sized
    vault as big as the sun, moon, and stars if you want to hold
    the vibrational wealth of Nature.

    But again, visualizing the sun and moon won’t do much if the
    tiny piggy bank is still the core investment that you are
    holding onto in your deep unconscious. The piggy bank
    represents something valuable to the subconscious child in
    you. That child is holding tight in its fist the first
    nickel you ever got, and only lets go of the nickel to store
    it in that little plastic piggy bank.

    That nickel seemed like huge wealth to the child – and back
    then it bought a juicy handful of candy. We know from the
    Law of Compounding that energy, just like money, grows over
    time if undisturbed and allowed to multiply steadily. Our
    Energy Body acts like a focusing vortex for the Life Force,
    and it will grow exponentially if we don’t disperse it. That
    is why alchemists create inside their body a vessel for the
    elixir. They know the Life Force will compound over time if
    allowed to “cook” in a strong container. This internal
    cauldron space is the equivalent of the alchemist’s piggy
    bank.

    Whatever we focus on, chi will keep pouring into it until we
    tell it to stop. We forget what commands we’ve issued in the
    past – but the Life Force doesn’t forget. It keeps feeding
    your request until you take responsibility for changing it.
    That’s how it gets us to grow up.

    So our first job in overcoming Our Resistance is recognizing
    what form that piggy bank takes inside us. It could be
    encoded as a small or weak self-image. It could be from a
    phrase like “You are worthless!” that someone unconsciously
    imbedded into our field at a vulnerable time. It helps to
    locate where in your body these old energies are stored, and
    note the shape, feeling, color, size, etc.

    Second step is to break the old piggy bank, now a
    dysfunctional energy pattern, but still a controlling one.
    There are many methods for this, available through study of
    qigong and inner alchemy and certain kinds of healing.

    The third step is to re-invest that nickel and the hundreds
    of dollars in interest it has unconsciously accumulated over
    the years. You invest the past “stuck” wealth into your new
    direction in life. Then you are investing from inner
    strength, not struggling against your old investments. You
    are putting the Shadow energy to work for you.

    In terms of Taoist energetic practice, you won’t be able to
    hold much chi until you clear your inner space of old
    energetic patterns – it’s like furniture blocking free flow
    of chi inside your body. That is what the Six Healing
    Sounds, Inner Smile, Orbit and Fusion of the Five Elemetns
    are all doing – clearing out old patterns while something
    new simultaneously is invited to flow in.

    Become a Moving Vessel for the Life Force

    In this way we each become a Moving Vessel for the Life
    Force. This is a flexible, process-centered identity that
    eliminates the rigid psychic battle between the dark Shadow
    Self vs. the good Light Self struggling over what gets
    manifested. Instead, we become aware of both aspects moving
    through outer time and space, while inviting the Life Force
    to move through our inner space.

    It’s a dance. We wake up to the possibility of having a
    vast, spacious cauldron in our center of gravity, where
    before there was just the blood and guts of our physical
    belly. The notion of “dan tian” takes us into a deeper
    dimension of ourself, beyond the physical. The ancient
    chinese characters for “dan tian” are best interpreted to
    mean the “open field in which the elixir completes itself”.

    The spiritual science of manifestation is focused on
    completing our soul’s destiny – not on satisfying mere
    culturally stimulated desires – like chasing after 3 million
    dollar homes with swimming pools. Many people manifest the
    dream home, but how many also end up in divorce, loneliness,
    and dissipating their energy through drugs, power, lust,
    etc.? Ao one Secret is not to chase after the cultural
    dream, but to listen to your inner soul’s desires.

    The inner elixir sought by alchemists is your soul’s wealth,
    gathered from your life’s experience. We can concentrate
    this essence in one very pure point of consciousness that
    fuses our yin-yang identity into a third force. But we need
    a very dynamic space, and that is why I describe it as a
    Moving Vessel, because the Life Force is always flowing in
    and out of it.

    When we are children, it feels like there’s no past, so our
    chi is free to flow in all directions, a time of wonderful
    exploration. Because kids have no past to get attached to,
    little resistance has developed. It’s easy to change
    direction, and do it often. But our Way in youth is a
    unrefined, unformed, a lump of clay waiting to be sculpted.
    Lao Tzu might say youth is carrying within itself the
    uncarved block – the pure potential of the situation or
    one’s life, before we’ve shaped it into something new and
    beautiful. One translation of “lao tzu” is “ancient child”,
    implying a sage that has learned to live in the moment with
    a child’s fresh joy and wonder. Yet this child-sage
    simultaneously holds the wisdom of the past and future in
    this present moment.

    The Law of Attraction is also working on us, even as we
    think we can manipulate it. It is a difficult force for us
    adults to manage, because it impacts onto our own
    (unconscious) sexual energy. Sexual chi holds the yin-yang
    poles within our core self identity. They are constantly
    magnetizing everything in the field around us. Yin-yang
    sexual force causes the chi to flow towards us or be
    repelled out of our personal cauldron. Once we can witness
    this sexual inner push-pull, we can begin to shape our
    manifestation process. But that is not a quick
    visualization. It takes years of serious qigong and
    meditation cultivation practice.

    This is one application of the Kan & Li (Water and Fire)
    alchemical process. The Lesser Enlightenment of Kan and Li
    harnesses your sexually polarized soul force to re-shape
    your reality. It converts the yin-yang forces into neutral
    force, and then allows that to spontaneously unfold as
    needed in our body and our life. Because it works at the
    deep jing (sexual essence) level, I find all the Kan & Li
    meditation practices to be the most powerful way to shape
    the Law of Attraction and thus manifest what your soul
    REALLY needs.

    Visualization is Limited – Use Your Whole Energy Body

    Visualizing the manifestation process is too mental and too
    partial to produce the most profound results. We have to
    gather and reinvest our sexual and emotional and at higher
    levels of practice, our ancestral and astrological soul
    energies if we really want to shape the process of
    manifestation. This involves deep and long training of our
    energy body. We invest decades in school to acquire outer
    knowledge in order to earn outer wealth. Why not invest a
    few years to learn the secrets of your internal process, and
    how to invest your inner wealth?

    Otherwise, many spiritual seekers settle for becoming
    “spiritually detached”, mere passive witnesses to the
    unfolding of life. This is first stage, letting go of their
    past. But they never get inside their body and its
    spiritual secrets – they have forgotten where the “money” is
    hiding in their little piggy bank. I feel many may never
    realize the next stage, they never re-invest their chi. Some
    become spacey and lacking worldly direction, pretending it
    doesn’t matter, as long as their head is in the clouds of
    some other higher world. That is when their Self-Saboteur,
    The Resistance, starts acting out and they wonder why
    physical life doesn’t conform to their idea of spiritual
    life.

    But in reality they have yet to learn the True Secret, the
    need to reinvest their old stuck energy into Life’s new
    direction. This involves learning energetic skills that make
    this process much easier, like qigong. And developing skill
    in recognizing what you are really invested in, so you can
    re-direct that energy. Then we can realize the creative
    potential of the gift of Free Will that we each have.

    I was grateful that Mike Teeters, who I sent up a few weeks
    ago to the Catskills to gather my extensive collection of
    asian artwork, did a ceremony to “gather the spirits” that
    we had been working with closely for years at Dao Mountain.
    I recall how when we first arrived there, the chi felt dead,
    totally asleep. But we invited the elementals in the earth
    to wake up and play – and they did. Each year I noticed the
    place would buzz more deeply, the elementals happy that we
    were returning.

    The description of Mike’s “party” with the spirits of the
    land is posted at
    http://www.arrowofmoonlight.com/dao_mtn_move.html

    I knew last summer that our time was drawing to a close,
    based on I Ching readings and my desire for deeper silence
    than that space could offer. The cause for our suddenly
    being forced out was the purchase of the retreat center by
    Thich Nat Nanh – a famous Vietnamese Buddhist. He is turning
    Dao Mountain into Plum Village West, a counterpart to his
    Plum Village in France. I feel good about having prepared
    the ground for another generation of spiritual seekers.

    But I feel even better about taking the consciousness that
    we refined there – and moving it to Heavenly Mountain, to be
    evolved to a new level. I have followed up on Mike’s
    ceremony with my own at Heavenly Mountain, preparing the new
    pathway for the future of Healing Tao summer retreats. And I
    can feel the momentum shifting. The Change is happening.

    When I suggested to Corky Jeronimo, the owner of the
    Catskills ceneter, that it may have been our Taoist energy
    that attracted his buyer, he laughed and replied, “but it
    was my energy that attracted you Taoists to come here!”. And
    so the Process of Change turns the world, and everyone finds
    a new place on the stage for their next act.

    Surrendering to the Secret Ways of Heaven,

    Michael

    “Who takes Heaven as his ancestor, Virtue as his home,
    the Tao as his door, and who becomes change – is a
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    Life is very simple, but everyone seeks difficulty.”
    — Taoist Sage, 200 B.C

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    May 2, 2007 at 9:31 am #22112

    wendy

    When the 12 spokes of the year 9 turned, some of us will find ourselves born into a new dimension, inner or outer.
    Many of us will experience a deep change, embracing chaos as our teacher.

    In the beginning of the year 9 I posted wondering what kind of change some of us would be dealing with….

    I can not know what others need for their transition, mine takes me as deep as possible into Earth, I talk with her every day, my personal need is to connect with her as deep as the sky is high. Every question is answered, she is a wise teacher.

    I hope that Heavenly Mountain is the new foundation for an even more committed, stronger and more loving community.
    A home where hate, pain, jealousy, anger and fear are embraced in loving arms.

    Taking so much on your shoulders Michael, the path you have chosen, I support Heavenly Mountain. Your efforts and the sacrifices you make are only known in your own heart.

    Wendy

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