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Correct temperature takes no patience and about $2 or less. You can buy a thermometer the kind that give instantaneous read for cheap. Now fill your water container that you usually use and boill the water. Open the top and let it cool until it tests well -'you can even add a dash of cold water! Within about a week of this you can boill the water add just the right amount of cold splash and immediately pour the water knowing you are zen with it.

If you learn from books, try to keep it simple - by simple I would actually recommend video for learning the movements and some mild reading to understand the fundamentals. But tread carefully if you start thinking you want to direct the Qi - for this I would seek a master. I came to Qi Gong somewhat late in my practices and find it very powerful - for me it has been a very quick pace of learning but while I can feel the Qi very clearly and powerfully I have refrained from directing it. Though I do MCO (micro cosmic orbit) but this is quite simple. I have enjoyed letting it grow and clean my space, clear blocks and join forces within me. It is incredible! It has been almost 2 years 4 classes a week of Qi gong and 2 of Tai Chi for about 5 months now. All the best

For everyone - please visit BatGap.com It contains some 200 interviews with people that have Awakened. Some of them practiced for years and some had no idea what happened to them. Buddha at the gas pump Batgap.com The basis is to interview people that have had an Awakening and ask them basically what they experienced before during and after. It is a real eye opener - do visit this site

Start with the fundamentals - in a very short time you will find all of your capacities increasing. Be very careful about directing your Qi - not such a good practice for a novice out of a book. Unless you are an advanced practitioner I would advise against retention practice beyond just celibacy. Set up your pre-sleep in a positive way and you will retain much more of your energy during 1/3rd of your day. Correct breathing technique - fundamental stuff - incredibly powerful - MCO and other stuff not so important.

Watch the free video Forks Over Knives Read the book The China Study It is easy to be healthy as a vegan or vegetarian - and many Gold Winning Olympians have been Vegan and vegetarian. Personally I loved bloody red meat, but it is such a downer on my space at this point. Dairy was a downer for me at around 20 when most adult lose their ability to process milk - it was obvious to me. No worries - do your homework - enjoy!

Effort is not necessary Simply put your attention on the feeling - it does not require more energy - it should actually lessen dissipation. You will find that as you have your attention as you state above, it is easier to breath into the appropriate spaces which with no effort maintain and increase this attention. And - the more you practice this the more it becomes apparent where you loose yourself.

Opening of the third eye and other byproducts along the way... I just wanted to point out the title and the reason for the title if it is not self-evident: I never went directly for anything but increasing my awareness and self-realization. My practice was very intense for several years but I did it in a way that I do not think most do it. First I read everything I could get my hands on - I was a philosophy major and I also went heavy into the theosophical literature, Gurdjieff / Ouspensky and many others (all of Castenada and the like). This immersion into the literature is pretty standard. My early practice was Hatha for a short while and then Raja, Prana etc. I dove into the fundamentals with little regard for the teachers at the time. Once I got the basics down I meditated heavily with the inclusion of fasting, vegetarian diet, headstands and many postures. I could do most any difficult posture if I wanted, but my yoga was that of meditation as the most important element, and postures considered a distant adjunct. I came to a point where all of my reading brought me to the conclusion that I should give due dillegence to an intense practice and that I would try to remain neutral during the process and see if the fruits of my labor in any way matched the stories of the miraculous I had read about. It was several years later with meditation and other practice amounting to 2-4 hours a day and more that i finally decided that while I was certainly feeling great and refined and calm and many other things - nothing of the miraculous was occuring. It was all quit within the realm of good physical and mental practice - but I could have been an athiest and nothing would have particulary changed my mind. Exactly in that same week when I decided I had given due dillegence to the practice and that I would cease the practice - I attended one last meeting at the Gurdjieff / Ouspensky group that I had been working with. During that meeting my entire head lit up, an incredible energy vortex within the center of my head, telepathic powers and many other powers that have never left me. Since that time I have been in many group settings - the BPI was the longest - at about 12 years. My overall regard for groups has less to do with the teaching and more to do with the value of group work. To this day the group work at BPI was easily the most productive - and it was fun! I came to BPI with a big background in practice and thought and I had been working with my unfolding abilities for years. BPI helped me bridge my abilities to a certainty within them by being able to play with them. It also allowed for a very wide swath of individuals and strong personalities - strong personalities to the point that they practically teach ego enrichment - (a completely different take on most practices). But with this "odd" approach (and exciting airy fun approach) came a daring to be wrong, make mistakes, not be perfect and all sorts of healthy "being" levels that so many of the other teachings lacked. Most "yoga" schools were nothing of the sort - they were not even yoga - they were exercise combined with a teacher that knew next to nothing. True yoga in my regard is focused on meditation, all forms of purification, breathing and the various postures as an adjunct if desired. I had that and still do. Today I practice Qi Gong and Tai Chi taking 6 classes a week. I came to Qi Gong after starting to create Qi Gong exercises without knowing anything about Qi Gong. Someone pointed out to me that what I was doing was Qi Gong. I would suggest to anyone, that they try Qi Gong - it stretches your energy and opens you up like nothing I have ever done on a physical level and with less than 1/2 the effort of yoga postures and almost no difficulty factor (you don't have to be stretched like a contortionist in order to do almost all of the most advanced exercises). For me it was a good choice to move around in teachings and I was a loner in the beginning after getting very strong basics. I am forever grateful to one of my very first teachers who taught me the basics of yoga and said the following which I took very much to heart - and which I believe to this day regarding the basics he taught: "If you practice these things everyday, they will lead you to uncover all the advanced teachings on your own - you do not have to have a teacher - you are the teacher" (something like that

No I have toyed with the idea - sometimes I just want to close my eyes - I could try it on the playa

I am very happy to hear your post - my post was a concern to me for the very reasons you have caution. The BPI and many of the schools that have come from it can "easily lead to a colossal waste of time and distract one from the real work of self realization" Personally I would advise you to look at the several Awakened individuals teaching here in the Bay Area. If you are fairly well along self realization is not as far as one thinks. Definitely go to Buddha at the Gas Pump and listen to the over 200 interviews of people Awakening and what they have gone through. We have Adyshanti right here in the Bay Area along with Gangaji and others. The fruits of the 60s and 70s are bringing a full blossoming of Awakenings all over the world! I worked intensely primarily by myself for the first 4 years, but it was in relatively useless groups that I accomplished quite a bit. The Gurdjieff groups we comically serious and intellectual spoofs but the intent was intense and at group meetings the air could be sliced. Their practice was silly by comparison to my previous work but being at the meetings was worth the effort. The breezy conditions at BPI were a good place to learn and practice with no head trip - and at the time I was there, controlling your energy was something you were expected to learn or you would have to leave. I learned there faster than in any other school. They also have fun - imagine - fun - I am not a devotional type, and I love to laugh. They simply do not want you to worship them, they teach you to own your space, all sorts of tools that do in fact work and are not majic in the vile sense of that word. It was not a waste of my time - but they did not work on self realization - and it is a pity that they did not. Their is an offshoot nearby - Spirit is Calling - it has made some very good modifications. check out batgap.com and also mooji

Regarding seeing: It is a misconception and one put forth in one of the last posts regarding shutting the mind and seeing: If you are able to observe something clearly then you can become quite disengaged from the mind as you simply observe. This is particularly true of moving things. You can also be looking at something like an Escher sketch and suddenly it transforms. It might be that you are convinced that nothing else is there and then ahhhh - you see. It could be that the person above is claiming that you can never see it clearly - but the question then is - do you ever see anything clearly? It is certainly possible to see a great may "invisible" things with great certainty and I have no doubt that someday many of those things will turn out to be like the Escher sketch - but if you look at an Escher sketch it can be seen clearly in at least three ways all of which are completely correct.

I am sorry for taking so long to respond. I was actively looking for anything with the word psychic and pretty much all metaphysical subjects. It was in the early 80s - maybe 81 that I was in Berkeley. I was familiar with Berkeley having gone to UC Berkeley a few years earlier. I attended several things I found in Berkeley probably at Cody's (second floor) or at one of the Metaphysical book stores there. Somehow I ended up at the Berkeley Psychic Institute. My third eye was already open but when I arrive at the BPI I was immediately excited because they offered a play space for me. The other groups I had been or was involved with we're incredible heady but most of the leaders had never put in the real effort of practice wherein you get real (big) fruits from your labor, so I had little to talk to them about and the students in those places were experientially clueless though amazingly certain of their conclusions. The Gurdjieff / Ouspensky groups were sadly this way then and now for what I am aware of them. They are still exciting though because in spit of themselves they teach a sort of non- dissipation that is extremely valuable on its own and group settings with the correct intent are of immense value. Back to the Berkeley Psychic Institute - it is still alive and well though the founder died in 1995, he was a good friend. After that big chunks of it broke off. You can find Institutes that are offshoots of this all over the world. If this interests you I can help you find someone in your area. (It is so incredibly odd to me that it has taken so long for someone to ask this question) All or at least most of the offshoots and including the original BPI have tele-courses. Unlike many from the robust era of the Berkeley Psychic Institute, I remain good friends with all sides in the political battles that ensued after his death. I had basically left prior to them in the early 90s while remaining close to the founder and his family. I have found the meditation form of the BPI to be the best that I have encountered to my recollection. I say to my recollection because I had done years of meditation prior to meeting this group and so I may take for granted some of the earlier basics. I am glad I did not meet with them prior to opening my third eye because I studied and learned a great many good teachings that I think I would have skipped over otherwise. (It would have been fun to have met with the founder a bit earlier ) I did Hatha and then Raja Yoga intensely for several years and just about gave it all up but then my third eye opened up that very week and the rest is history as they say.

Thank you - particularly loved the first paragraph - it took me there... I appreciate your careful use of terms and yin and yang are no problem but I would appreciate a more sublet explanation of your use of the concept of "left". I remember that many years ago it had a very specific esoteric meaning to me but that seems like a past life to me now. You should definitely write and the Idiot's guide would sell (I did Ayahuasca once in a very fine setting in Marin Cal with a very famous actress and a small group. I enjoyed it)

I do want everyone to know that you do not have to be one of the most powerful people on the planet to see an aura with your eyes wide open during the day with your clothes on and wide awake. (Or my wife is hugely mistaken about me) In the first cases of seeing an aura with my eyes wide open it was at night and it was my fingers and hands and I was checking to see if I could see my aura frequently - and finally I did. But for some that could clearly be taken as a delusional and highly questionable viewing. The first time i saw an aura during the day was outside of a building on a well sunlight day. I was in a very clear and awake space when a friend got out of a car nearby and came over to me to tell me that i needed to get the rest of my payment in for a group trip by Friday or I would loose my $500 deposit. I informed her that i was an exception to that and not to worry - that i had worked that out with the director/founder. She then insisted that that was null and that I needed to get the balance in by Friday and she began walking towards the stairs to the building. At that point her aura became visible out to about 3 or 4 inches - a beautiful clear crystalline red! I calmly said that was not the case - at almost the exact instant that i saw her aura - i immediately must have smiled or brightened up because she was looking over at me and then her Aura doubled in its extension from her body - as though what ever was on my face infuriated her. I want all of you to know that while the seeing of an aura in broad daylight while unmistakably clear headed and fully refreshed and awake was extremely exciting - what i took away to this day that was more remarkable to my awareness was that she did not throw energy at me, she contained her rage fully within her space. Not only did she contain it but she did it in clear clearing energy - no black spikes, no ruble from the head, just a clear bright red rush in her space. It became a level of neutrality i strove to emulate, it was really pretty incredible. I do not see auras all the time with my eyes open - most of the time it is a surprise. I can see them anytime with my eyes closed. The last time i saw an aura with my eyes open and rhis may be cheating because it was not actually an aura but rather a persons energy was during a Qi Gong class with my master. He is a 6th generation Qi Gong & Kung Fu Grand Master from Shaolin Temple. It was in a class of about 12 of us starting at 5:30 pm on a Wednesday. I was directly in front of him and I was lucky enough to be looking at him when he popped a fairly thick white with a slight bluish tinge of what I assume to be Qi energy off his fingers directly in front of me about 5 feet away. The puff stayed visible for a few moments and was about the size of a deflated balloon.

Could you please expand on "opening the joints" Perhaps in a new blog titled " opening your joints " I am very interested in knowing about this topic - i did not know it was a topic

Can you attempt to give us a better idea of how the feeling of yin felt - feels? (In common terms - I don't know half the words used in this section that are not traditional english ones - thanks

The moment i read your reply I remembered that loop - It was a very clear loop feeling! Thanks!

Sorry but you are incorrect on this point - it is quit possible to see a magnetic field with your eyes wide open and it is very cool when you do. If you ever come to see auras with your eyes open, you will find that they appear as magnetic fields for the most part. Brilliant crystalline colors that move and are affected in a very similar and ethereal looking way. (On a healthy vibrant aura) Magnificent! You can also hear a person - each race has a definite tonal aspect and an intermix adds additional tones. You can also hear the difference between a male and a female - perhaps the hearing is the yin or the yang. I do not know where your certainty comes from regarding the feeling of yin. I have not looked into it personally - though at some point I think i will now. Is your certainty on this point from the same level as your assumptive certainty regarding your mistaken point regarding the ability of the open eye to see a magnetic field? I do not mind if your information of the yin is from a very good group of sources - nothing wrong with high teaching. I am certain you have not utilized high sources for your mistaken point regarding the seeing and you may want to question those sources or restrain from "teaching" with certainty based on assumptions if that was the case.

I did not see anything in the interview (which is necessarily a short time) that gave me the impression that he had no idea what he might propose - i saw a man on track who stayed on track and was not sidelined by a question that cannot possibly be answered in such a short time with the type of interviewer he was presented with. Certainly if he had even begun an attempt he would have been interrupted on every point. It is quite possible and actually quite probable that some sort of constitutional changes are what he might have in mind - that could certainly constitute something that would be called a revolution. We use the word more often than not with a meaning that real change would occur in a sort of group up rising. For the last two decades the Republicans have called a great number of their efforts a revolution. We had the Prop 13 revolution - and it had sweeping effects across the country. We had the Gingrich revolution and that was so effectively myopic that it carried over into the copy cat Tea Party Revolution. Additionally, let us not assume that just because someone has not voted that it does not mean they have no intention of ever voting or working within or on the current system. In our last Governors race right here in California, the republican candidate Meg Whitman admitted that she had never voted. I for one liked the simple fact that he did not bend in any manner to the robotic and completely common din of the interviewer. This has been such a youthful discussion of such extremes with such exaggerated assumptions and personal indignation - the sheer egoism is a bit odd given the location.

It appears we have a fair amount of expertise on this so does anyone know of some information on the following: This occurred in my early 20s I was having sex with a very attractive girl who I had just met that afternoon. During the sex my kundalini turned on from the tip of my penis and continuously along my back up into my head. (It was a variety of colors including reds,blues etc. - I should look at a color chart for a more exact exchange of colors) It was an extremely electric sustained current and it felt as though it extended a bit beyond my penis. I was completely rocked up and this amplified at the time measurably (by rocked up I mean pretty much every muscle in my body was taut). Anyway - it was a hell of a surprise - and it was definitely not depleting that I can remember.

Sign me up House would be cool It's in my calendar

What a great road map! Master Zhang Xiaoyang Zhang Xiaoyang: "Energy channels exist in a fluid state and to the person who can use internal vision, they present themselves as light. This light is the Qi itself. I observed energy channels as a fluid flowing into pre-defined routes in the tissues of skin, muscles, internal organs and fascia. Without any external influence the fluid moves slowly and the movement is almost unnoticeable. As its movement follows the complete cycle that correlates with the cycles of Heaven and Earth, movement of the Moon and Sun, at any moment of time which we would take it looks steady, immobile. However this is not true. If we needle any acupuncture point, within a short period of time Qi activates and its flow in the given area of the energy channel speeds up. The Qi in turn moves the fluid which starts moving through the passages of the energy channels. Once the fluid reaches the following acupuncture point, its movement stops for a short moment and during this time the point lights up like a little star. After that, the fluid carries on with its flow [through the channel]. To sum up my observations; 1) energy channels in the human body are located at different levels and depths. 2) the width of the energy channels varies depending on the person 3) the width of the channels also fluctuates depending on time 4) the width varies in different areas of the channel. In particular, applying various needling techniques, the width and the speed of the Qi flow in the channel will change. Speed of the Qi usually increases with intense stimulation. In the case of broadening of the channel, external stimulation of the "biologically active" point leads to the change of the color of the point's radiance. Points located on a single closed path, glow similarly to the bigger and smaller stars of various luminosity. "Larger" points such as Bai Hui, Jing Ming, Da Zhui and Zu San Li would correspond to the stars of the 1st grade of luminosity whereas smaller points - to the stars of the 2nd and 3rd grades. Every point accumulates certain amount of electric energy and influences the functioning of the energy channel, playing a role of a "pump", stimulating the flow of Qi-liquid through the muscle tissues. Regarding the "central-median channel" [known as Sushumna in Indian Yoga - O.A.], there are no references to it in the ancient [Chinese] scriptures teaching of energy channels. However, during my Qigong practice and experiments with acupuncture, by means of internal vision I could see the channel leading from Bai Hui point down to Hui Yin point, forming straight line through the trunk. At the beginner's stage of Qigong practice this channel is very thin and hardly seen at all. However with some improvement in practice it becomes wider and looks like a transparent column of red light. In ordinary people, the "central-median channel" exists as a dashed line coming through the internal organs." I am able to use internal vision, but I have not see anything written in this fashion before. I was particularly excited to see the comment at the end about the "dashed line" - it looks and feels exactly as described.

I remember this jerk - he was a prince - deserted his family and went out and got enlightened. Decided not to listen to anything he says because he was a jackass. Oh - and there was a murderer, I think his name was Milarepa - complete freak into sorcery and the like. (I have gotten out of the habit of writing myself off for a past that I used to view as someone other than myself) In present time, regardless of who Russel may have been or is - the content was quite good. I have no bone to pick here. Regarding someones objection to my statistics regarding the internet - I did say (with a few exceptions). It does not take a great deal of effort to see that of the percentage that does not have internet access - very few of them are in positions of power and throughout all of history - the segment of the population that they represent have almost never started or ended a revolution. Everything Russel said was clearly in protection and inclusive of this group. Those in power or in a position to take power have internet connection to a very great degree. A new age was born in the 60s and we are seeing the spiritual fruits of it all over this increasingly empowered planet. Perhaps you are not aware of the sheer number of people Awakening. Or for that matter - the sheer number of Awakening individuals that are no longer going to the loony bin for what for many starts out as a very disorienting ordeal, I have been surprised by the jaded and reactionary responses (to put it politely). I also remember a bunch of non-voters that decided England could go F its self - they were quite successful even though they were a bunch of upstarts - they even joined forces with heathen Indians if I am not mistaken. Look at the core of the 60s I definitely do not look down upon the words hippie, new age, wholistic, organic, occult and many others. I do look down upon those calling some "cult loving hippie new age tree hugging motherf---er! He was correct - we are already well into a revolution. Please check out the following: Buddha at the Gas Pump Some 200+ and growing interviews with people that have Awakened and their account of what happened. You can download on your phone hundreds of hours of interviews with awakened people and their discussions of the process. Most of them practiced cultivation for many years, others just awoke. They are not preaching - they are being asked good questions and the pace it not slow and laborious. I am not in the buzz any longer - though I do have a toe in the currents. The currents have some strong refreshed beats, others have an ebbing pulse.

The "revolution" started in the 60s People all over the world are now Awakening - this has not been the case for thousands of years. And they can talk to millions online. Everyone can talk to everyone all the time (with a few exceptions). I have many friends all over the world - and I know them - I see them daily if I want. KnowHope is correct - Russel used his time wisely - and his voice has reach - deep reach.

Revolutions start with disengagement - I would not brush off the angst so lightly - he didn't miss a beat or play into the hands of the interviewer.