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    I don't think Reiki is it. It's about connecting two points of energy. I remember someone on the ME forum saying they had asked Richard Bartlett about 2 pointing, and he said it was like two ducks swimming towards the same piece of bread. (It may have been two swans or something).

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    I read the book a couple of years ago and couldn't quite figure it out. So, I went to the ME forum to learn more but it seems that even people who take the seminar have difficulty understanding it, or at least explaining it. I would check out the forum and maybe ask over there.

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    When might you be coming back to San Francisco? I would have liked going to that seminar. I read where you mentioned coming to SF and I was watching for an email from SSTT meetup groups but didn't receive one.

     

    Should I contact Aine?

     

    Gordon

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    Wow,...that must suck. Is it a hemorroid or a boil? I once made a paste of baking soda and turmeric and put it on a boil at night before bed, and also used MMS (miracle mineral supplement) internally and campho phenique externally and the boil went away in three days.

     

    check out earthclinic.com for remedies.

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  18. Posted · Edited by bindo

    enouch - you have some different opinions about doctors.

     

    Knowledge isn't the foundational key to excellence, experience is.

     

    I have both courses. Ken Cohen is pretty good. He's knowledgable about qigong, but, Chunyi Lin is in a category far above Ken, imo. He is a true master who has experienced the height's and depth of what qigong is about.

     

    Qigong isn't a complimentary practice; it is the foundation. "Working out" is much more about fitness than health.

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    Happy birthday!

     

    You sound about the same as me and I'll be 45 in a month. I haven't felt too much of the physical decline that many people experience by the time they get in their 40's.

     

    I guess I've lost a little bit of that firey, get up and go energy, but my endurance is better now. So, for me, the energy has changed a little bit but I wouldn't say I have any less energy than when I was 25. I consider it "lifestyle qigong". Using energy more wisely.

     

    Turning 30 was the difficult b-day for me, for some reason. Turning 40 was great. I wouldn't want to be any younger.

     

    So, did life begin at 40 for me? No. Not really. I guess my interests and goals are more defined now, and I have more money, but, other than that and more life experience to draw upon, I haven't noticed much difference.

     

    But hey, 50 is the new 40, so we'll see what that brings.

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    here is a place I found when I was doing retention. It's kind of like a forum for western schlong exercises, that include some taoist techniques. Anyway, here is a 28-page discussion on the forum about homosexuality in heterosexual men. Some good insights, these dudes seem really grounded, probably because they are used to being very honest (reporting lengths and girths every so often etc..)

    Retention rule #1; Hands off the schlong!

     

    Does anybody else have a problem with homoerotic fantasies whenever you practice retention?

     

    I do. I said it. I admit it.

     

    I'm not gay and I don't want to be gay. This really really sucks. So whenever it happens I just give in and release.

     

    I hate this so much. someone please help me with this.

    Maybe you could stick with the celibacy for a while until you overcome both hetero and homo fantasies/desires.

    If you throw in the towel every time you start having homo fantasies, you're not really getting anywhere.

     

    'opening' the Microcosmic Orbit is a joke to me-- a corruption of thought from the tSofGF. The 'orbit', and everything else, should open of its own accord as one dwells in the primal consciousness. When I was younger, I practiced so much mantak chia-style 'microcosmic' practices to little to no fruit. (at least it is nothing compared to a genuine cultivation of the primal consciousness, in my experience.)

     

    I believe there is a strong line in the book, 'if it [the light] really moves, this is a bad thing.' circulation of the light is not subject to the control of the corporeal consciousness, but will rather happen on its own accord as one fixes ones attention to the primal consciousness, (stops thinking, and 'reverses the flow of the light')

     

    -that's Lao tzu !! from one of the penguin-classic editions of the tao te ching =)

    While eating or drinking, attend to the one!

    When happy, attend to the one!

    When anguished, attend to the one!

    When sick, attend to the one!

    Whether passing through water or fire, always attend to the one!

    Especially when you are agitated, attend to the one!

  22. Posted · Edited by bindo

    Jim Borelli is one of two people authorized to teach Chu Nei Kung and he's in Santa Monica. www.neikungla.com. You could talk with him.

     

    Or, you can just send Master Chu an email. I had some correspondence with him about nei kung a few years back. He seems like a very nice guy.

     

    I agree with Iskote.

  25. Posted

    It never ceases to amaze me how people will look anywhere they can to try and justify their drug use. Even funnier, is the "medicinals" people have mentioned in this thread. I would love to hear how hallucinogenics are beneficial to someones health.

    psilocybin mushrooms, LSD, and eating the seeds of some hallucinogenic plants have a very high success rate in relieving cluster headache cycles.