Michael Winn

Bagua,
I think the Sun is teaching us/transmitting to us our immortality and our power to shape life as we internalize the solar logos (Way of Knowing) within ourselves. Even if the sun burns out someday, its spirit is imimortal and will take other incarnations if it so chooses, perhaps not in the physical. Remember, Sun is a star, and stellar…[Read more]

Nice correlation on the 12 bonds/12 meridians, hadn’t seen that before.

Leibnitz was exposed to I Ching, speculation is that it stimulated his binary theories.

which system of symbology in joyce’s FW relates to I Ching?

m

Dear Intelligence,

Time to update your scientific database, which is a bit dusty or perhaps irritated-overloaded mentally by too much time spent trying to integrate Leary and Hurtak into a single grok.

I have given the links below, the hard scientific work has been done by Jim Oschman, who has several books out with references to…[Read more]

Thanks for the karezza links.

I have long considered karezza to be the starting point, a kind of kindergartden, for Taoist sex.
I use kindergarden in its positive sense, the place where we should learn our formative patterns.

I ihave explored this method extensively for over 20 years. The principle is that if a man and woman hold their…[Read more]

Your questions are a bit vague, might be useful to include links to clarify your comments.

But I think your direction of question is great and really important – we are still coming into understandinig of what yuan chi is and does and how it does it. That is core of alchemical science, to explore that question. And it may be useful to language…[Read more]

Dantian is a daoist term, not a biological-scientific term, so you have to use their context, not a modern overlap, to define it.

I think it is useful to use overlays to intensify one’s awareness, but don’t try to replace the original meaning.
I teach the enteric brain – the gut brain referred to – as a physical overlap of a multi-dimensional…[Read more]

I like the tone of this piece. The writer is obviously influenced by Thomas Cleary’s translations, uses his terms, but has a more all embracing feeling than Cleary.

The weakness in Cleary, however, is also evident in this writer: the Taoist terminology is very specific in its meanings and its process. Glossing over this doesn’t clarify the…[Read more]

Intelligence,

I thnk you are raising some really interesting questions here. (Your posts are unfortunately all titled the same, suggest for indexing in the future you use more specific titles).

“Ye are all Gods” issue might possibly relate to the issue of the five shen as our Body Gods (in the school of Inner Alchemy) that can become…[Read more]

Great question, freeform. Got deep into a retreat at Dao Mtn. and was a bit slow in anwering.

Many NLP practitioners came into the healing tao back in the 80’s, including gunther weil and steven josephs, who was a top trainer in New England NLP school at the time.

The similarities and overlaps between the methods of healing tao and NLP were…[Read more]

Intelligence,
I don’t think wendy’s response was aout flaky dreams.

But it sounds like your response wants to disucss the “scientific” levels of experience, you mention dmt, pinoline, etc. the chemicals mentioned in Chia’s Dark Room booklet (allegedly based on another european writer on this topic). Maybe Leary ws also into those…[Read more]

>While doing the cosmic orbit, in the part called the merger of heaven and earth, when we begin by lifting our hands are we supposed to imagine chi flowing up from base of spine to back of neck and right after that when we’re moving hands down, do we imagine chi flowing down to the earth

yes. The hands are focusing on the outer pathway, your…[Read more]

fyi,
rinaldini did NOT learn this form from me, I think he got it from Roger Jahnke.
Everyone can have their interpretation of the form; mine is framed by my understanding of inner alchemy.
michael

We probably agree on some level, max. But there may be a useful distinction.

I’m saying that you can never achieve a state of pure emptiness as a prerequsite to beginning the alchemical process. Because the emptiness is co-existing with multiple levels of polarized yin-yang levels of self.

So we are constantly “emptying” (moving towards…[Read more]

Bagua: It sounds like you are saying “intention is following the patterns consciously within your body, following wu xing and energy patterns”. To me this is just following what already exists with your Yi, you are not shaping anything, you are becoming aware of what already exists. Unless the two are the same, this is what I believe.

I will…[Read more]

Bagua: It sounds like you are saying “intention is following the patterns consciously within your body, following wu xing and energy patterns”. To me this is just following what already exists with your Yi, you are not shaping anything, you are becoming aware of what already exists. Unless the two are the same, this is what I believe.

I will…[Read more]

Thanks for the Dalai Lama quote on Emptiness as a quality of Existence, rather than an absolute state within a cosmology built around Emptiness.

I believe this is similar to Lao Tzu’s position on the utility of the empty space at the center of the wheel.

Without the spokes, that empty space in the center does not exist. So its a functional…[Read more]

Dylan,
I think you’ve drawn an important distinction – and one I make in my higher kan & li courses. The difference between the adept who is cultivating himself/individuating to immortality and the parasitical negative thought forms that keep gathering soul fragments together is this: the parasite has no yuan chi. It depends for its life on…[Read more]

This of course is the 64 Trililion (note inflation has occured) dollar question: do I leave a difficult relationship, or work through it?

Only “you” can answer this, i.e. the shen consensus of the ego-self deciding what is most productive. But answering the question is ultimately a reflection of the xin/ego self’s level of communication with…[Read more]

Fajin,

I’ve read through all the responses to your posting. Thanks for stimulating such an important discussion.
The fact that its a real life issue for you, and not an abstract theory question, attracts a deeper response.

Relationship with the “Other” is the most difficult path in life for most people. I think this outer reality is…[Read more]