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When we say scientists, what do we mean? I suppose only research scientists are scientists. Engineer, doctors and other professionals are not scientists?

I think it is not so ethical to ask newbie to donate their energy or whatever, until they have lots of them.

Flying termites, also known as swarmers, are the reproductive members of a termite colony. They swarm to establish new colonies, ....

It may be worthwhile if doing once. You can compare with what the healers do. They spent a lot of Chi in healing. Then they take quite some time to recover. Even magicians have the same problem. Without the limitation, we could have seen hundreds of healers working side by side, 9 to 9 like factory workers.

Is chicken bird?

It is not uncommon to exhibit some "special abilities" to attract students, even though they are not really useful. If you are going to teach, are you going to tell your prospective students that they would be imprisoned in a dark cell 12 hours a day, eating tasteless little bit of food, being pulled, twisted, bent; sitting on invisible chair, discomfort and pain magnified; prostrate to higher authority, chanting submission during the remainder of the waking time. There are many prisons in different countries offer these for free. There have to be some "incentives".

Really? I think all their minds are about mating and pregnancy.

I used an Android app for EMF detection. Somehow a spot in the wall has an unusual high EMF reading, comparing with wall around it. If there is pipe or steel inside the wall, the higher reading would be recorded in a linear form. But it is only a spot. Internet says phone cannot really detect electrical current, but magnetic is possible. Any idea?

White ant can fly.

Not latest fad. I read a blog whose owner took a lot of curcumin for over 20 years to deal with blood cancer. And there are quite a few Chinese books only for curcumin pre-Covid.

Curcumin exerts anti-inflammatory effects by regulating inflammatory signaling pathways and inhibiting the production of inflammatory mediators. Read research paper: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8572027/ But what is the conditions that make you want to take curcumin?

How to prove a coffee table exist? We use it. If it works, then it is the proof. The result is the proof. We are not talking about things like awakening, transcend, enlightenment which are immeasurable. The exercises that lead to MCO are all concrete physical bodywork.

The idea of pattern is quite suitable for acupuncture, acupressure or Dao Yin. A certain trigger is applied, a pattern of events come about. But for cultivation, I am not sure. If the LDT is heated up, different patterns could occur, Chi can go up, horizontal or down. I mean the acupuncture is more for the desired end result. While cultivationwise, Chi going somewhere is normally only a mid point.

Some say Chi is information. When the information hits at a certain point, the point and the surrounding area light up. It is why people feel the warmth, tingling, itchiness, pressurize, see light..... once the appropriate area is activated with information.

The question is of course wrong. MCO is merely one of the methods in Neidan. How is it not real? The method itself is absolutely real. It is written in books, having people practise it for centuries. As you say, the question should be does it work as intended, does it work well, doesn't it work without too much costs or side effects..... This is a very good insight. The major aim of all kinds of trainings is to ensure haphazard, by chance happenings to be dependable, achievable as and when required.