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This is my testosterone maniac protocol: 1. get sunlight on the perenium for 20 minutes. Ideally skip a shower for 24 hours to let the D3 metabolize. 2. colostrum w/ frozen blueberries, 2 or 3 times per day. build up to heaping about 2TBSP colostrum powder on. this is my "breakfast cereal" 3. pine pollen, 2-3teaspoons a couple times a day 4. insanely hard workouts, usually daily. i do one warm-up set, between 8 and 15 reps, and then i'm doing high intensity just to stimulate the hormonal response moreso than pull an arnold in the gym. typical gym session for me is like 20 minutes, i superset everything - usually three body parts in rapid succession. 5. retain semen 6. dragon herbs ant extract - ant has an enormous amount of naturally ocurring zinc 7. oysters, uni, cleanest sashimi i can find (no tuna, ever) 8. deep breathing outside, higher altitude the better 9. coconut water smoothies, with coconut flesh blended in (you can get raw coconut flesh in frozen packs now, the stuff is amazing) 10. deer antler (I like surthrival's elk antler b/c it's sourced very humanely) 11. various jing herbs in tea or chocolate smoothies - ho shu wu, astragalus, ashwagandha, maca, 12. a metric fuck-ton of raw chocolate bars. longevity warehouse, sacred chocolate, fearless, lulus, tons of amazing brands out there now. 13. honey - pure enzymes - and if you wanna get serious, bee pollen and royal jelly. black belt level stuff. take TINY amounts. like the tip of your pinky finger. you seriously don't need much. 14. ginseng - at least 7 years old plz, immature ginseng doesn't have the immunomodulating / dual directional saponin activity which is why it causes hypertension in some people. it only jacks you up, real ginseng should be able to stimulate you or chill you out depending on what you need. adaptogenic herbs do whatever you need them to do dood i'm taking some right now this is awesome and the obvious one - hydrate - with the best water you can get. spring water in glass that you gather yourself is the best water possible, btw. www.findaspring.com just add in this stuff however you can, for as long as you can. certain of these will be the X-factor. for me, it's the sunlight exposure. 1 session and i'm buck wild again like a 16 year old kid. dragonherbs.com - ant extract, ginseng longevitywarehouse.com - anything you want therawfoodworld.com - royal jelly. the only overnight it with ice packs to ensure it's still live. surthrival.com - elk antler, pine pollen findaspring.com - go get it! holiest moments of my life have been gathering wild spring water at the source. disclaimer - raw food enthusiasts are wackjobs, like any subculture if you take it to the extreme, it's extreme. i mention these companies b/c i've used their stuff and i find it to be of very high quality. i'm also young and take more of this crap than i need, but i'm demented strong because this stuff is in my life. at the end of the day if you're doing this, it crowds out the crap you DON'T want in your diet. books - the natural testosterone plan - steven harrod buhner. warning, will tell you that all beer is anti-testosterone due to the hops, i've always hated beer b/c i have a lot of yin energy, this cleared it up for me. way of the superior man - david deida. the bitchslap we all need to man up, from a tantric perspective autobiography of a bodybuilder - arnold schwarzenegger - very inspiring because you see that he isn't just a jarhead, he was extremely relentless and strategic to achieve his goals. applicable to anything. secret note: i cross-reference reddit's r/nofap community with taobums and i think it's amazing both places talk about superpowers that come from retaining semen. from totally opposite perspectives. it's real, it's just about how bad you want it and what you're willing to give up.

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Xunzi, huge compassion, all of us hit plateaus and flatlines in our personal growth. First strategy is to just try and enjoy the level you're at... stress will happen, but being stressed about stressing can get rough. Cold showers! Great way to ground yourself and do a hard energy reset, even 15 or 30 seconds can be really powerful. Also, congrats on 100 days celibate. I've found retaining jing and celibacy can be a trap eventually, you begin to put too much emphasis on it as validation for strength or (when slipping) as an excuse... sometimes I fap just to focus myself and clear my energy. A little bit of "left hand path" / dark side can be useful, but of course this is a personal / intuitive call I make when I feel stagnant. Hope some of this helps! Mars has been retrograde for a long time, it just went direct tonight as of 3 hours ago. I bet you'll start to see positive momentum in your life very soon.

I've recently become deeply fascinated by hypnosis for optimizing behavior, various patterns, time management, all sorts of things. My perspective is, the subconscious mind is learning 24/7, so I want to master language and hypnosis because it isn't just about "going under" and coming out different - we're always "under" in the sense that suggestions are coming at us all the time, and everything we say to ourselves or interpret and deal with every situation is a kind of suggestion. I started with Hypnotica and soon moved on to the source, Richard Bandler, one of the founders of NLP. One of the most useful patterns I've found so far is "the more the more" pattern - ie, the more you slip from your diet, the more you feel strong because you're learning what works best rapidly. The more you try to resist becoming the strongest version of yourself, the more you feel blissful right now knowing that mastery is ultimately inevitable. Things like that really work for me. Another way of thinking of it is, it's possible to understand our own patterns so well that an outcome is always possible, no matter what mindset we're in, a long-term strategy kind of mood, or an instant gratification mood, or an artistically inspired mood, or a low energy day mood, it's possible to have a level of clarity where you can just get the knack of acting how you want, no matter the mood, by knowing the right way to "convince" that mood's persona, ie, if your goal is highest level of enlightenment and you're in an instant gratification mood, you can think of meditation as sudden zen thunderbolt enlightenment, whereas if you're in a long-term strategy kind of mindset, you can sit zazen and do a session knowing that every session contributes overall to an ever-deepening realization. Just as an example. Kinda rambly, I've been up all night thinking about this stuff.

I'd be floored just to be around people who can demonstrate what 50,000 hours of training will do - or what exceptional talent will do - ie, powerful psychics / intuitives, any internal master who can demonstrate fa jin at an incredibly high level, ie throwing someone without touching them, psychokinetic effects. I have been blessed to meet a few psychics, for example, who have picked things out about my past, the way my energy expresses itself, which has really helped me tremendously in my life. Being able to actually live with a group of people who exist on that level is ideal, because otherwise I feel like I'm just doing random stuff. Don't get me wrong, I'm in love with tai chi, bagua, xing yi, but I don't really anticipate being in real fights. I do it because I want to evolve as a spiritual / energy being, so knowing where I actually stand in terms of blockages, emotional stuff - some people can really see that and point directly to it and say "work on this". That saves years, if not decades, if not lifetimes.

Respectfully, diet does matter, tremendously. Look, I respect these people I mentioned tremendously, which is why I was willing to spend my time and money to travel to them and study and learn from them. I am someone who looks really deeply into things, and I really believe the subject matter - chi gong, diet, meditation, whatever - the reason we are engaging in these activities is to evolve, or to regain a state which we have lost due to the structure of our world at present. So why wouldn't you do everything in your power to reach that? Please understand, I'm not judging these people in the sense of saying that their work is worthless, it's been instrumental in my own learning and evolution. I'm judging because the rational ability to judge is part of what allows us to grow. Frantzis and Wolfe are two of my biggest heroes, and in some sense I idolize them. It just shocked me to see how even people who have attained such a high state of mastery in one area seem to completely ignore other areas. It's that *mentality* I want to discuss, saying a gigantic part of our life, such as diet, doesn't matter. Do a couple shots of whiskey, or eat a block of cheese and tell me it doesn't matter... everything matters.

YES thank you for this post!!!!! I find this at times totally excruciating, like studying with Big Frantzis and feeling his fa jing, seeing him move plates in his head, all these demonstrations of mastery of his art, and then he'd sit there sucking down 2 liters of starbucks coffee. And I thought to myself, what would this guy look like if he actually took care of his body on the basic dietary level? Would he be less of a jerk? Same when I study with intense superfood gurus like David Wolfe, who I respect immensely and who has turned me on to so many magical things. He eats like people will in the year 3,000 growing microalgaes on solar bioorgone accumulators, but he says meditation is too boring, he does chi gong occasionally, but not really - wow. So I look at people like this and, maybe this is just my own mission - what are we REALLY capable of as beings? How can we avoid the "OK PLATEAU" where our effort just stays at the "I guess it's OK" level, versus being really aggressive about personal growth and evolution? At what point did Big Frantzis say, fuck it, I drink starbucks if I feel like it? Because that equals death to me. Which is why I forum roll with all you amazing beings every day, it keeps my mind focused on my mission in life. Much love.

Boing Boing. This is a great post. From the holographic perspective, everything you're doing, including reading TTB posts in this exact moment, that reality was manifested from a deep part of your own soul. There is nothing except meditation from this perspective. It is God evolving God. From the energy perspective, you are using your physical body in a world, always interacting with energy fields. There will be times your energy field is the most powerful - you doing the dishes, for example. Your energy is stronger than the plate (unless it's been sitting there for a month and you're too grossed out to touch it!) - so your energy field dominates and "changes reality" to your will. Other times, like driving around downtown in a major city at rush hour, the energy field may totally overwhelm you, so you go into survival mode and use all your resources just to survive it. But ultimately you're still cultivating. Exposing yourself to that is changing you, see the holographic level. When I lived in Brooklyn I would drive into manhattan, one hand on the wheel, one hand holding a mudra. And I would see how long I could hold perfect composure, no matter how many people cut me off, or how much noise, or frantic chaotic energy came at me, until I could do a whole day of errands driving around the city and come home in the same meditative state I left my apartment with. Ultimately the scale or the content of what you're doing is irrelevant, you have consciousness that is constant all the time. It's only identifying that and learning to access it more and more of the time. And the more you do that, the more refined the content becomes, assuming you can identify your deeply held beliefs about why you choose to do something, why you continue to do it, and so forth.

Hey guys, I've been researching NLP and hypnosis lately, and the visualizations and emphasis on "mastering your state" have been very useful for me. Does anyone have experience with this kind of "mind hacking" as it relates to your energy work / martial arts practice? NLP's whole claim to fame is modeling successful people. I'm really curious if it's possible, for example, to model exactly what a chi gong master does in terms of how they access the feeling and kinesthetics of doing chi gong for decades, in order to accelerate growth and cultivation of bioenergy.

Or maybe dude just needs to get laid

Being left-handed literally, I've always grown up doing things backwards. I learned real quick if you show too much interest in a girl, she wouldn't want you (or even be disgusted / see your desire as weakness / neediness). Same with money. Usually super rich people started off doing something passionately, out of love for it, and could therefore work super-workaholic hours, manifested insane levels of ability, and just kept going. Most people that want to be rich are broke. So my whole perspective was, "Well, it's opposite day. The universe is set up backwards - or at least, I am. So fuck it. I'll try the weirdest craziest shit." Whenever I have strong intentions of being celibate, I get laid out of nowhere and it's always deep and compelling. And while I don't focus on money AT ALL, I've found myself independently wealthy. So that's lefthand path application. Straight up don't give a fuck and proceed accordingly. That's crept into a lot of my cracked out understanding of taoism / wu wei, too. The best results are when you don't have any outcome in mind. But maybe that's just because I'm wired opposite, I don't know. ---Darkside Shit--- Being hyperkinesthetic, I FEEL a fucking lot, sometimes ecstatic, sometimes horrible. I have a wide range. Sometimes I want to make horrible dirty music, noise music, black death, hardcore punk rock, screaming, terrible shit, so I do. Sometimes I hurl huge energy bombs of negative energy at people I'm angry at. And sometimes the total opposite. What I've found is the darkside shit (for me) is just catharsis, it goes away, while the sattvic stuff gives me a huge amount of gentle energy. My theory is just that being relaxed connects to zero point / wu chi and therefore being immortal is essentially about being connected to source all the time, or at least enough of the time to revert whatever entropic systems are happening in the body. Darkside shit is stressful, cortisol spiking, janky cruel shit. It's always from the perspective of the limited ego - you can't really be pissed off if you're superconscious. Then there are some people who really get off on negativity -- who love it. This is beyond my experience, so I can't really speak to this, but that may be the only exception to this zero point thing. If you really LOVE being evil and hurting people, then maybe it's more sustainable, but I think in that case it's much more likely to generate rapid self destruction, just because the longer you ill on people, the more likely you are to escalate into the karmic level of murder / get killed or some equivalent. I once read, on a Jedi fan site, the difference between a Sith and a Dark Jedi. A Sith is all about anger and pain and destruction - revels in it - whereas a Dark Jedi is just motivated by self-interest. That was a huge distinction for me, actually. Darkside shit can be really useful if it means the difference between being depressed or pissed off for a while, especially if you're a generally nice person, because then it has built-in failsafes. I can only rage for so long before I feel compassion for someone, and then it starts feeling like kicking a puppy or something, it just sucks. my .02

We're psychic creatures and take on each other's qualities, too. Hanging out with *anybody* who has momentum on what serves your life mission can be outrageously helpful. Just a weekend workshop with BKFrantzis helped me hugely in my standing practice, to the extent I feel he activated something just by running a current through my channels. Skill is different from consciousness - but they're interrelated at the deepest level. It can be really useful to find out how someone skillful *thinks* about their art... that's why I'm so obsessed with NLP and modeling right now. Rapid learning is really cool

Very interested. I'm going to be traveling all over California this summer, the magic keeps on coming. I love the no laptops rule, that's key for sure.

Hey Ryan, Even though yours is a very trollish post, and I'm even fairly convinced your whole mission is to just stir up negative energy, you're still good practice. Allow me to offer a weird comparison between yourself and a master guitarist. Often, when one's ears become highly trained, musicians run into the problem where their instrument always sounds out of tune. It's not the instrument that's bad. It's simply that their acceptable threshold of vibration is so narrow that it's literally impossible to tune the instrument into that precise of a range. Everyone who studies taoism, health, immortality, energy work, yoga, meditation, or anything else interprets it a little differently. My guess is, even if you met a real immortal, their hairstyle would offend you, or their total lack of desire to do things your way would put you off. And that's often the point with a real teacher - if they're really intuitive, they'll go out of their way to appear as far from what you expect a "real taoist" to be as possible, because like any other ISM, conforming to any kind of picture or ideal is a trap. The reason that all spiritual teachers teach anything is to liberate us from our monkey-like need to copy something and to act of our own free will, to act intelligently, to think for ourselves. As far as the topic of your post, I actually agree with you. If you have such a specific idea of what genuine taoism is, you know what your own personal tao is, and you really won't find anyone who lines up with that. It's totally for you. Practice it wholeheartedly and enjoy every minute of it! And if you're lucky nobody will come and try to copy what you're doing

S = Division from God Necessary for God to experience itself through division Like the black dot in the white part of the yinyang, or one's own reflection in a mirror Kabbalah has it that "the opponent" comprises less than 1% of reality, the real evil is that we are compelled to focus on the tiny flaws (like a pimple on our gorgeous faces) rather than everything else going on

and what about coconuts, is it true that eating wild coconut flesh and drinking the water replentishes male jing in 1 day? whereas it takes ~35 days supposedly to regain full power? all statements not employing question marks on TTB must be true Nine Tailed Fox: try asking and answering your own questions, akashic record can be like gestalt therapy the key is to have fun doing it. . . here are three totally unrelated books that may help in your journey: -Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopedia, Vol. 1 -Amazing Grace (David Wolfe) -Magic: White and Black by Franz Hartmann ************ magic is real automatic writing yields magic automatically

@soaringcrane: structure itself is antithesis to feminine energy, the shakti! pure energy! not a structure. male linearness wants to structure and contain and the feminine is all maniac throwdowns! and we all have both inside us, but from a tantric perspective, or a "I've been smoking weed and reading David Deida books all night" kind of way, that's why. Laws of the universe and magic override social structures though, depending on how much of a jedi you are. . . I like this automatic writing thread. Let's all get weird.

hi jose, welcome to the tao bums! take a deep breath and relax, i think that's the most spiritual and humble thing a person can do in this life. there's all kinds of inspirational people and knowledge on these forums. it can be helpful to keep in mind that all these methods and techniques and practices are here to help us enjoy life more. it can be overwhelming... just keep coming back to the breath. the breath is always there for you, like the ground. you're among friends

Hi all, Curious if anyone has experience doing intensive weight training / bodybuilding and chi gong at the same time. I'm specifically struggling with shoulder / rotator cuff tightness. When I practice standing postures, I can stay away from the gym for weeks and come back lifting heavier. But when I'm lifting regularly, standing becomes excruciating. The tightness of those ligaments being opened energetically from the inside is really, really rough. Anyone have experience doing both? Any tricks or tips that might make opening up quicker a possibility? Doing massage and various bodywork often, but it's tough to really find a balance. I'm also curious about general energetic potentials in bodybuilding. As I've posted elsewhere, I'm a more "yin" male, so bodybuilding really spikes my testosterone and makes me way more assertive and present. I want the practice for my whole life, I just want to figure out a way to have symbiosis so it doesn't feel like it's directly inhibiting my chi gong practice.

This thread is the REAL TTB shiznit! To the original poster: the question itself is grasping. Just be where you at!

I got a pink clamshell alarm clock in Gibraltar about ten years ago. It looked awesome. Lasted until my bags were jacked in Bombay. That's an impressive amount of time to hang on to any object, let alone something plastic. Respect.

I think the social norms / "conditioning" of being big, strong and powerful as a man really does have truth to it. I suppose in America, where we like everything huge and powerful, it's taken over the top. When I talk about bodybuilding, I'm not talking about building an Arnold or Flex Wheeler type of physique. But I do want to cultivate my full genetic potential, as regards being both physically strong as well as energetically. Rudolf Steiner used to say that when you try hard physically, your etheric forces also become strengthened, and I feel this VISCERALLY when I work out. Just walking into a room changes the energy field, and challenges and stresses of day to day life become simple, even a pleasure, whereas just doing relaxing or gentle exercises might make me healthier, but not more effective. Men really are designed to build things, and go out and achieve, and hit targets and wrestle and kill and fuck things into submission. That's how masculine energy is wired. If anything, I believe social norms are emasculating this aggression out of us, only to have that biological need sublimated into products, like cars. I just think it's crucial to maintain a balance. If I didn't know about chi gong and meditation and I worked out the way I do, I would go psycho for sure. Arnold freely admits he got into fights every single day back in his competition years... it's one thing to have a lot of energy, quite another to master it and use it skillfully.

This is an awesome post, thanks for that. I don't actually get sore much at all, which can be frustrating - I feel like I'm at a plateau where it's almost impossible to crush weights hard enough to grow, or be sore, the next day. What I'm talking about is just muscle *tightness* that ends up really hurting when I'm doing post standing. It's to the extent that I can't really clear 20 minutes of standing holding the ball because it's so tight. It's frustrating to feel like it's either one or the other, as heavy weightlifting really balances my yin / yang but chi gong is my true passion and obviously cultivating on a much deeper level.

WTF that clip is like enter the dragon on crack!!!!!!!!!

I'm popping some 80s-ish Jakwob remixes right now https://soundcloud.com/jakwob/sets/jakwob-fade-feat-maiday Happy music!