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No doubt he wasn't a 'snake guy ' . Saving them or not , any interaction with them , you need to understand them . And each type of snake has a different energy and stuff going on for them of course . I've been bitten by a diamond python ... I have also had one curled up inside my shirt and on my lap while I was sitting down . It depends where they are at and what you do ( and where you are at too ! ) . Any snake that needs saving is going to be in a panic or at least disturbed and on edge . I found a big diamond python caught up in bird netting ... what a mess! all around the neck and head and the body had tried to twist and constrict the 'enemy' tying the whole thing up in multi strand twisted chaos . The first part was hectic, snake hissing , trying to strike me , me using one hand to try and hold it still and one hand trying to cut away net with surgical scissors . But after a bit when I started to make some headway and relieved the pressure and the snake realized it was starting to be freed by my actions she was really good, relaxed, became placid and moved to actually help me . At the end , both of us exhausted I carried her off in my arms to a cool underbrush and left some water nearby .

Are you saying Nana cant sing certain notes pitches and styles and finds sinigning difficult ? I thought she was renown for being a good singer ? Now, we all have vocal cords and a single windpipe . but some birds have the division in the windpipe , from the two lungs a little further up , as if they had two windpipes , result ; - birdsong brings us closer to the light .

(Google) A single vocal cord may struggle to produce the necessary vibrations for certain notes, pitches, and vocal styles, making singing more difficult. Νana Mouskouri has a congenital deformity, causing her to have only one vocal cord that works.

Brings closer to the light: 無為 (wu2 wei2) not stage-acting (i.e. being myself, which is equal to being one with the Dao). Takes away from the light: 為 (wei2) stage-acting (i.e. going against myself e.g. to be socially acceptable).

duality has a valid place in the grand scheme, I'd say the unmanifest is better left to the unmanifest.

I've only had small bites by what we called (as boys) alligator lizards located in S. Calif.. They have very small teeth but will draw some blood and tend to latch on to you when biting. I also had several of them as pets and hand fed them grasshopper's which they really liked to gobble! Lizards are interesting creatures... As for snakes I almost accidently stepped onto a coral snake once (which are very poisonous venomous) and I think it would have bit if I had, regardless of any decisions of mine ;-) Also heard rattlers from a fairly safe distance. (which is their form of a warning) As for real alligators and crocks I've only seen them in Florida at a preserve. Their dark black eyes are always looking out for their next prey! No hesitation if something comes along for them.

An action that takes us away from the light ; Constructing 'migrant cages '

Very true. Also... In taiji, we always go slightly back before any move forward -- it sort of helps gain the correct vector, along with "stitching together" the move forward with the previous one -- which was also forward so if you "stitch" forward to forward you can't get a seamless move! And after a turn to the left, a turn to the right follows, and then if you still need to keep going to the left you go slightly to the right first. And of course opening and closing alternate -- opening is akin to light/yang/expansion, closing, to dark/yin/contraction... and they interchange continuously. (One hallmark of bad taiji is when they don't, and the practitioner remains "too open" or "too closed" without minding this rhythm.) Sorry... couldn't resist a taiji example -- "everything" philosophy is therein, it so happens that all questions are answered there... including those one hasn't thought of asking.

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Hi Vajra Fist, Important points of clarification: There is no inference or implication that "if the FP Qigong 'doesn't work' for someone, then that someone is 'evil'." First of all, I had never stated nor written that "Flying Phoenix Qigong doesn't work for evil people"---nor has any other instructor in Bok Fu Pai arts nor any of my in-person students. What I quoted Grandmaster Doo Wai as having said is this: "Evil people will not practice Flying Phoenix Qigong." • And I will elaborate upon this statement to explain exactly what GM Doo Wai meant based on my being in the room with him when he said it, and based on my direct experience in teaching FP Qigong since 1992: "Evil people will not continue to practice FP Qigong once they have tried it and felt its effects--because evil people DO NOT like the way FP Qigong transforms their body-mind to pristine health." The implication is that FP Qigong works on everyone--to some varying extent. The fact is that evil and corrupted people who are intent to continue doing evil, will not practice FP Qigong because they don't want to stop their ways--i.e., they don't want their nervous system reprogrammed to not do evil. Evil people who have tried FP Qigong cannot in all honesty deny that FP Qigong has some positive effect on the body-mind. Thus they will spurn its practice. • The implication ( and yogic fact) being that FP Qigong is so steadily transformative of the body-mind to a pristine (and at times blissful) state of health (homeostasis) that any person who is so bent on doing evil (and is thus so mentally bent by evil) will not allow any thing or influence come near that might unbend him/her. • The further implication being that there is no such thing as "original sin." That's the reality that's experientially proven by Feng Do Duk's Ehrmei Mountain Flying Phoenix Qigong. That's the experience shared by GM Doo Wai when he said, "Evil people will not practice Flying Phoenix Qigong." Relatedly, the physically healing and spiritually purifying effects of FP Qigong are so extremely powerful that after years of practice, one becomes thoroughly and deeply calibrated to discern and recognize evil energy instantly (on a neurological level)--and even distinguish between different "grades" of evil. In November 2024, I wrote this substack article about sighting in a public place and almost confronting a prolific serial killer, Lonnie Franklin Jr., in L.A in August 1995. (This article was in follow-up to my Oct. 10, 2024 article about attracting and crossing paths with another serial killer 9 years earlier in 1986 [named Michael Player, aka. "The Skid Row Killer"] in the Miracle Mile district of L.A., and explaining how that earlier incident was my harshest lesson in anger management, resulting in me getting shot in the back with a .38 pistol and the shooter dying the same night.) https://open.substack.com/pub/terencedunn/p/seeing-the-grim-sleeper-in-my-very?r=5i7g9&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false In this substack article, I explained how I was able to instantly recognize this person (who later turned out to be Lonnie Franklin Jr., aka the "Grim Sleeper") the instant I laid eyes on him as I was checking out of a Ralphs supermarket in LA and he was 4 check stands away to my right. When I wrote the article, I attributed my ability to instantly recognize him as a dangerous killer --AND knew that he had just killed someone (i.e., he was "fresh from a kill")--to my practice of the Tao Tan Pai Nei Kung system for 21 years up to the time of the sighting. But I am stating here and now that I believe that my "ability to instantly recognize strong evil" was also attributable--to a much lesser extent--to having practiced FP Qigong for 4 years, as of August 1995. After 34 years of practicing FP Qigong, I now firmly believe that long-term practice of FP Qigong enables the practitioner to access (turn on at will) the self-healing state of allostasis (self-healing) and slip into FP Qigong's uniquely sublime higher state of consciousness that enables one to readily perceive and recognize any type of animal consciousness (mental energy. intentionality, and yes, even spiritual energy) that is opposite in nature to the Flying Phoenix healing mode to an extreme. That is, as a side effect of FP Qigong practice, one is conditioned to perceive and instantly recognize negative energy, destructive energy, destructive intent, evil karma, and ultimately "demonic energy." Remember that FP Qigong is the health cornerstone of the vast Ehrmei Mountain Bok Fu Pai ("White Tiger")Kung Fu system, an authentic Taoist monastic tradition founded by Feng Do Duk (Feng Dao Deh) in 1644 that systematically trains warrior-healer-priest-exorcists. I hope this clarifies. Sifu Terry Dunn P.S. This is the link my earlier written article in October 2024 about my violent encounter with "The Skid Row Killer" on October 8, 1986: https://open.substack.com/pub/terencedunn/p/sifu-terry-dunns-tai-chi-for-health-ac0?r=5i7g9&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false