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  1. Energy Conductors and Insulators

    Monks would go without socks so as not to block chi... Synthetic materials such as plastic should be used carefully throughout the home, due to the fact that they tend to block the free flow of chi. If you're trying to encourage more positive energy in your home, it's generally a good idea to limit your use of synthetic materials. Instead, try using more naturalmaterials.
  2. http://www.powerofdreams.net/dreamlanguage.html Your limbic system controls "breathing" and "emotion". Both of which are considered necessary for developing and using energy like "chi"... I have had the pleasure of learning a second language after my first, English. The difference is that once you have solidified one language, it is difficult to relaize that thought itself has no language until you learn a second. True fluid language skills come when you don't have to "think" about it to "express" thoughts, feelings, emotion, or details that become instantly clear to the listener. You realize that you are dreaming in another way. You realize that your mind is functioning by using whatever expression, and it was not English it has been babbling all this time, or any other language, even if the end result is the ability to speak it. I realized this is true of walking and moving about. I don't have to think about it, plan it or worry about whether it is the correct way or not. We simply do it once we know how, and call this muscle memory. Even if it is much more than that. So as we move into meditation, and practicing movements, we slowly learn a new way of being. We drag a bit of the limbic into our control, which focusing on breathing and controlling it is. Limbic exercise. And asking any "healer" using chi, they will tell you that it won't flow without breathing and emotions, also both limbic. Science, Language and the Dreaming Brain Only the executive and sensory functions are off line while the rest of the brain is active. This includes the rational thinking and sensing part). The Limbic system, the part of the brain that associates emotions with sensory information, is highly active while in the dream state. Dreams process unresolved emotions though this process in the limbic system. Language centers on the left side of the brain are off-line but the same centers on the right side, responsible for processing associations, are active during dream sleep. Therefore the language of dream is that of association, in particular emotional associations, not the literal naming by which we identify things in waking life.
  3. Communication with the Dream Condition

    http://www.world-of-lucid-dreaming.com/30-common-dream-symbols.html The difference in communication, and how what we use in waking life influences in the other direction. By practicing certain visual techniques as well as physical, we pass information requesting that different portions of the being participate or move the energy. I doubt very much that we are actually changing chi or other energy at all while awake. I think we setup the process by practices and meditations, but that these simply activate or link to what happens after we sleep, or during that phase between being awake and sleeping.
  4. Communication with the Dream Condition

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_perception Effects of emotional states Awe Research has suggested the feeling of awe has the ability to expand one's perceptions of time availability. Awe can be characterized as an experience of immense perceptual vastness that coincides with an increase in focus. Consequently, it is conceivable that one's temporal perception would slow down when experiencing awe. Fear Another temporal illusion, possibly related to the oddball effect, occurs when a person perceives a potential threat or mate (See Fight-or-flight response). For example, research suggests that time seems to slow down when a person skydives or bungee jumps, or when a person suddenly and unexpectedly senses the presence of a potential predator or mate. This reported slowing in temporal perception may have been evolutionarily advantageous because it may have enhanced our ability to intelligibly make quick decisions in moments that were of critical importance to our survival. However, even though observers commonly report that time seems to have moved in slow motion during these events, it is unclear whether this is a function of increased time resolution during the event, or instead an illusion created by the remembering of an emotionally salient event. Research suggests that the effect appears only at the point of retrospective assessment, rather than occurring simultaneously with events as they happened.[47] Perceptual abilities were tested during a frightening experience - a free-fall - by measuring people's sensitivity to flickering stimuli. The results showed that the subjects' temporal resolution was not improved as the frightening event was occurring. Events appear to have taken longer only in retrospect, possibly because memories were being more densely packed during the frightening situation. People shown extracts from films known to induce fear often overestimated the elapsed time of a subsequently presented visual stimulus, whereas people shown clips known to evoke feelings of sadness or emotionally-neutral clips from weather forecasts and stock market updates showed no difference. It is argued that fear prompts a state of arousal in the amygdala, which increases the rate of a hypothesised "internal clock." This could be the result of an evolved defensive mechanism triggered by a threatening situation. When exposed to a threat, three-year-old children were observed to exhibit a similar tendency to overestimate elapsed time. Empathy The perception of another persons' emotions can also change our sense of time. The theory of embodied mind (or cognition), as caused by mirror neurons, helps explain how the perception of other people's emotions have the ability to change one's own sense of time. Embodied cognition hinges on an internal process that mimics or simulates another's emotional state. For example, if person #1 spends time with person #2 who speaks and walks incredibly slowly, person #1's internal clock may slow down. Depression Depression may increase one's ability to perceive time accurately. One study assessed this concept by asking subjects to estimate the amount of time that passed during intervals ranging from 3 seconds to 65 seconds. Results indicated that depressed subjects more accurately estimated the amount of time that had passed than non-depressed patients; non-depressed subjects overestimated the passing of time. This difference was hypothesized to be because depressed subjects focused less on external factors that may skew their judgement of time. The authors termed this hypothesized phenomenon "depressive realism." Changes with age Psychologists have found that the subjective perception of the passing of time tends to speed up with increasing age in humans. This often causes people to increasingly underestimate a given interval of time as they age. This fact can likely be attributed to a variety of age-related changes in the aging brain, such as the lowering in dopaminergic levels with older age; however, the details are still being debated. In an experimental study involving a group of subjects aged between 19 and 24 and a group between 60 and 80, the participants' abilities to estimate 3 minutes of time were compared. The study found that an average of 3 minutes and 3 seconds passed when participants in the younger group estimated that 3 minutes had passed, whereas the older group's estimate for when 3 minutes had passed came after an average of 3 minutes and 40 seconds. Very young children literally "live in time" before gaining an awareness of its passing. A child will first experience the passing of time when he or she can subjectively perceive and reflect on the unfolding of a collection of events. A child's awareness of time develops during childhood when the child's attention and short-term memory capacities form—this developmental process is thought to be dependent on the slow maturation of the prefrontal cortex and hippocampus. One day to an 11-year-old would be approximately 1/4,000 of their life, while one day to a 55-year-old would be approximately 1/20,000 of their life. This helps to explain why a random, ordinary day may therefore appear longer for a young child than an adult. The short-term time appears to go faster by square root of their age. So a year experienced by a 55-year-old would pass approximately 2¼ times more quickly than a year experienced by an 11-year-old. If long-term time perception is based solely on the proportionality of a person's age, then the following four periods in life would appear to be quantitatively equal: age 5 to 10 (1x), age 10 to 20 (2x), age 20 to 40 (4x), age 40 to 80 (8x). The common explanation is that most external and internal experiences are new for young children, while most experiences are repetitive for adults. Children have to be extremely engaged (i.e. dedicate many neural resources or significant brain power) in the present moment because they must constantly reconfigure their mental models of the world to assimilate it, and properly behave from within. On the contrary, adults may rarely step outside of their mental habits and external routines. When an adult frequently experiences the same stimuli, their brain renders them "invisible" because the brain has already sufficiently and effectively mapped those stimuli. This phenomenon is known as neural adaptation. Thus, the brain will record fewer densely rich memories during these frequent periods of disengagement from the present moment. Consequently, the subjective perception is often that time passes by at a faster rate with age. Effects of drugs Stimulants produce overestimates of time duration, whereas depressants and anesthetics produce underestimates of time duration. Psychoactive drugs can alter the judgement of time. These include traditional psychedelics such as LSD, psilocybin, and mescaline as well as the dissociative class of psychedelics such as PCP, ketamine and dextromethorphan. At higher doses time may appear to slow down, speed up or seem out of sequence. In a 2007 study, psilocybin was found to significantly impair the ability to reproduce interval durations longer than 2.5 seconds, significantly impair synchronizing motor actions (taps on a computer keyboard) to regularly occurring tones, and impair the ability to keep tempo when asked to tap on a key at a self-paced but consistent interval. In 1955, British MP Christopher Mayhew took mescaline hydrochloride in an experiment under the guidance of his friend, Dr Humphry Osmond. On the BBC documentary The Beyond Within, he described that half a dozen times during the experiment, he had "a period of time that didn't end for [him]". Stimulants can lead both humans and rats to overestimate time intervals, while depressants can have the opposite effect. The level of activity in the brain of neurotransmitters such as dopamine and norepinephrine may be the reason for this. Dopamine has a particularly strong connection with one's perception of time. Drugs that activate dopamine receptors speed up one's perception of time, while dopamine antagonists cause one to feel that time is passing slowly. Effects of body temperature Time perception may speed up as body temperature rises, and slow down as body temperature lowers. This is especially true during stressful events
  5. Communication with the Dream Condition

    http://www.medicaldaily.com/while-dreaming-during-rem-sleep-brain-captures-visual-images-darting-eyes-347716 http://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2013/04/03/science.1234330.full
  6. Communication with the Dream Condition

    Research shows that the olfactory bulb projects information into the ventral part of the hippocampus, and the hippocampus sends axons to the main olfactory bulb, (including the anterior olfactory nucleus and the primary olfactory cortex). This is how memories and smells become tied together. Once engaged, sensors emit strong emotional signals based on smells starting from your limbic system (hippocampus) and spreading throughout the rest of your body to places like your heart and digestive tract. I do not know of scent processes in Tai Chi or other practices. Perhaps the use of incense and tobacco?
  7. Communication with the Dream Condition

    Because subparts of the limbic system ultimately regulate important aspects of our conscious and unconscious patterns — including our emotions, perceptions, relationships, behaviors and motor control — it’s easy to see why damage to this region can cause serious problems. Disorders or behaviors that are related to limbic system dysfunction, or sometimes limbic system damage due to things like traumatic injuries or aging, include: Disinhibited behavior: This means someone doesn’t consider the risk of behaviors and ignores social conventions/rules. Increased anger and violence: This is commonly tied to amygdala damage. Hyperarousal: Amygdala damage, or damage to parts of the brain connected to the amygdala, can cause increased fear and anxiety. Anxiety disorders are sometimes treated with drugs that target areas of the amygdala to decrease fear-based emotions. Hypoarousal: This can cause low energy or lack of drive and motivation. Hyperorality/Kluver-Bucy Syndrome: This is characterized by amygdala damage that can lead to increased drive for pleasure, hypersexuality, disinhibited behavior and insertion of inappropriate objects in the mouth. Appetite dysregulation: Destructive behaviors tied to hyperorality or thalamus dysfunction can include overeating, binge eating or emotional eating. Trouble forming memories: Hippocampal damage can include short-term or long-term memory loss. Learning is often greatly impacted by hippocampal damage, since it depends on memory. Someone with the condition anterograde amnesia loses the ability to form and retain new memories. Interestingly, sometimes someone can hold on to older/long-term memories but lose the ability to form new short-term memories. Cognitive disorders, such as Alzheimer’s disease: Research shows that people with Alzheimer’s and memory loss usually have experienced damage to the hippocampus. This causes not only memory loss, but also disorientation and changes in moods. Some of the ways that the hippocampus can become damaged include free radical damage/oxidative stress, oxygen starvation (hypoxia), strokes or seizures/epilepsy.
  8. Communication with the Dream Condition

    https://www1.udel.edu/chem/C465/senior/fall00/DrugAddiction/Parts.html Drugs and the Limbic System
  9. How We Create Our World

    https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-11/cp-aih111909.php PUBLIC RELEASE: 25-NOV-2009 Auditory illusion: How our brains can fill in the gaps to create continuous sound CELL PRESS
  10. How We Create Our World

    https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140627094551.htm Radboud University Nijmegen. "Brain fills gaps to produce a likely picture." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 27 June 2014. <www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140627094551.htm>.
  11. Pattern recognition is one of the things we do quite naturally. I see from studies (will try to remember to post some of those another time) that we almost automatically "bundle" things together in our mental images. We actually create things in order to complete patterns or visual information in our brains. In any case, my pattern recognition brain seems to remember that certain symbols seemed odd, and filed them away as strange zig zag lines, wondering why they were chosen as magical symbols to represent things. One day I was looking at the trace pattern over time of the planets and stars in the sky, and "bingo", I see some of these same symbols. So there was a representation of the planet, by tracing the pattern as seen from the Earth's surface, at a given place on the planet. How many symbols and shapes are either planetary, or atomic, and how did primitive culture find these and put so much significance on them? http://www.nakedeyeplanets.com/movements.htm http://curasom.weebly.com/cymatics-and-morphogenetic-fields.html
  12. Planetary Movement and Ancient Symbols

    Now given that these are probably methods of alignment with the current time/space continuum. Resonance and sound changes as your perception of time changes, which is the easiest for me to try to relate to or explain. The slight change in sound is very obvious when meditating and since we know that the sound is actually a constant belonging to this time/space/gravity system, a change in perception signals that you are moving into a plus or minus awareness condition.
  13. T`ai Chi Tu and Fish

    http://www.ancientpages.com/2017/10/22/ouroboros-cosmic-serpent-self-devourer-universal-powerful-symbol-great-antiquity/ China Sumeria
  14. Some thoughts... Don't forget to add the structural templates. Frequency is one portion. Like water clinging to water and flowing towards gravity, yet floating up away from gravity, depending on the state. In order for this to make sense, there has to be a flow of time, which changes when you move between the ocean level and mountain top, or between planet and outerspace, or anytime you have "changes in gravity". Remember that electrons can flow through two holes at the same time, they are particle, but not a particle, depending on the conditions. In a stable orbit they are energy, and probably meet the torus design better than an orbiting one. Since I have witnessed and experienced time change, I see that our awareness can experience the shift in time and compress experiences that feel as if they lasted much longer, like dreams. In that sense, it can certainly experience and witness time change in both directions, and I would speculate to assume that not only is it a witness, it can influence gravity itself, whether as in bending or warping, or just in causing reflection like a prism of that energy, and thus changing time, which then creates a different set of rules for atomics. The current production of chirp waves during Tai Chi practices and healing has been measured. Chirp waves were used to measure gravity. I would go as far as to speculate that most practices are increasing the awareness of, and "lowering" the point of, "gravity". So we learn to feel that part of ourself that attaches to the time/space continuum in order for us to interact with it. Without aligning ourselves to this time and space, we would be unable to survive the onslaught of creatures here that use the time space around our physical body. But in any case, the template I am describing is the natural flow of atoms to the current time and space, AND our flow of conscious awareness that matches this same flow in order to exist and function. When we sleep, this flow and the awareness change drastically and naturally. As with many animals. Hovering between waking and sleep with awareness releases the time space flow, and with it the rules change.
  15. T`ai Chi Tu and Fish

    Woochi is one of my favorites, made me laugh... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1274293/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
  16. Daoist Winter practices

    https://www.timeanddate.com/moon/phases/ http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/about-us/41-our-solar-system/the-earth/orbit/80-how-can-i-find-the-distance-to-the-sun-on-any-given-day-advanced
  17. Daoist Winter practices

    https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/kits/tides/tides06_variations.html https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/kits/tides/tides03_gravity.html https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/tidetables/2016/wctt2016book.pdf
  18. Daoist Winter practices

    So far, the only timed surges of change I know of, are menstrual cycles, which would match the jieqi fluctuations. These appear to be moon related, which is then also tidal. Showing a push pull system on a large scale that deals with gravity...
  19. Daoist Winter practices

    Seasonal Empowerment Qigong is a simple yet effective practice designed to help you leverage the surge of Qi energy at the start of each new jieqi. The basic technique is this: each time a new jieqi begins you focus your attention on a specific vertebra and empower it. Why a vertebra? The spine is made up of 24 vertebrae and Qigong masters established a correspondence between the 24 seasonal phases and the 24 vertebra. Each Seasonal Empowerment targets a particular vertebra and over the course of the year, you empower your whole spine, one vertebra at the time. Part 1 is the empowerment meditation. You can practice this meditation every day until the next Jieqi, but the golden time is during the first two hours of each new jieqi. You begin by concentrating Qi energy into the vertebra associated with the jieqi, and then radiate the energy that you collected throughout your body to nourish your internal organs. Part 2 is a movement practice designed to strengthen your spine. The movement pattern changes with each jieqi and each specific movement targets the area around the vertebra associated with the current empowerment. Part 2 is not time sensitive. Qigong masters were keen observers of the flows of Qi energy. They noticed that during the first two hours of a jieqi a powerful wave of energy washed over the earth. The start of a new jieqi is determined by the position of the sun. Every time the sun advances 15° on it's journey around the ecliptic, a new phase begins. Winter Start of Winter Nov 7 Minor Snow Nov 21 Major Snow Dec 6 Winter Solstice Dec 21 Minor Cold Jan 5 Major Cold Jan 19 Where here, I would be very interested in any backup measurements from the sun, space, wave technology, and/or other measures to verify this...
  20. Daoist Winter practices

    http://www.ftexploring.com/energy/heatflow.htm Science basics for winter and heat flow
  21. Human Electric

    https://www.nexusmagazine.com/articles/doc_view/317-the-electric-people-phenomenon Electromagnetic disturbances in humans. Electrical charges after food poisoning incident in a prison.
  22. Human Electric

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-517487/Meet-Mavis-super-charged-grandmother-touch-BLOWS-UP-kettles.html Meet Mavis, the super-charged grandmother whose touch BLOWS UP kettles
  23. Daoist Winter practices

    Will do! Thanks for the advice. That being said, new rant so you get my drift... Love the mention of the Catholic sex pigs. I wouldn't pick that particular thing to crap on Catholics with, since the slaughter of millions of people in history should be enough to ban that farce. Also my opinion, but tragically fact. If any other organized group had done that much harm to the rest of the world, they would be hunted down and exterminated. The sex scandals and the abuse of power should be enough to ban that cult. Yet they have many followers that are very devout. And they still exist, and are allowed to practice. There are many things like this in the world today. And it IS MY PLACE to bring this up and to say what I think and feel about it. Ignoring them doesn't make any of it right, and people need to be aware of what it is they are promoting or joining in. If one in a thousand is a good priest, and one in ten is a good Catholic, that still doesn't fix the issue or make all the wrongs suddenly right. It doesn't give them the right to be behind closed doors with our sons and daughters without supervision. It doesn't give them the right to put a price on the stairway to heaven, or get involved in politics, or decide about birth control. So all in all, they really suck, and I'm saying so. And they are not alone in this. Most belief systems are now so convulted and full of crap that they have become this mix of legend and truth, and nobody has powers as promised, they are simply going through the motions in the hopes that this will give them solace and a place in heaven. Fake masters and silly beliefs or practices, secret societies, non-science promotion with fake promises, all have to be exposed as what they really are. Anyone with a method or practice that is solid, should have nothing to fear, and nothing to defend, since the truth speaks for itself. So it is in my nature to say that the king is naked and not go along with the flow. Since the public does not have the correct answer, and the more people that are awake to all forms of abuse, the better. An great example, Reiki after a few seminars... c'mon. Not happening. Wishful thinking. Money making scheme. Yet people tend to believe the certificate on the wall and go there for actual help. The blind leading the blind. Lucky us, we can now measure this. Chirp wave technology shows us that out of 35 "healers", only 3 actually produced chirp waves, which stimulate real stem cell production and real healing. The other 32 fakes are probably wishful thinkers, or fakers, and the public needs to know that. You see, if I see my neighbor is killing everyone's pets, and burying them in his backyard or selling them for food to others, I don't care if he thinks it is fine because it is his belief or religion. I will say something, and stand up for other people's right to know where their pets have gone, and what a rotten person he is, and that he is making money from his fake crap relgion. I do not stay silent, since knowing and letting it happen anyway, makes me just as rotten. Where, there may be a science form, where pets can be used to help science and save many lives, yet this may still be questionable behavior and practices. The use of cats and rats, monkeys and such is well known. But that doesn't make that practice right either... Keeping that a secret, and only allowing the scientists who are students to participate, doesn't make it right either. If I suddenly find a cure for cancer, but make it a big secret, only for the student that can jump over the thorn bush, I am wrong. Plain and simple. So if you have something that can help people advance... There should be no secrets, no special stuff, instead there should be simple practices and methods. Secrecy is bullshit in my book, always.
  24. https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21408-telepathy-machine-reconstructs-speech-from-brainwaves/ Telepathy machine reconstructs speech from brainwaves