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Eric Yudelove had some interesting tehories about the correspondance between different aspects of the air element in the western tradition and wood and metal in the chineese system. Something about dry and humid air or something similar. I think it is in the long thread about his teachings.

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I`ll add some examples of the energetic exchange hell I am scared of eventually becoming something I have to deal with: After cultivating more I and female friends that also have cultivation practices start having energy exchanges that break the last boundary between friendship and some sort for sexual/romantic realtionship because the exchange of energy often tends to be of a slightly or very sexual nature or feelings of general love (often very strong in a cultivator) go between us and creates emotions or perceptions of emotions that aren`t really there or just creates tons of confusion. I remember an AYP poster had this problems. Her friends, guys and girls, would suddenly get strong sexual feelings or feelings of love around her and connect it to her without understanding it. I like friendships with girls to stay friendships for the most part. Lovers can become friends but for the most part I`d like t keep the friends only friends. And certainly not just because of energy stuff. Even worse, this type of exchange happens with a male friend . Another example: My friend introduces his new girlfriend and she picks up on my energy and experiences it sexually, have never experienced something like that beofre and gets very confused. A friend or family member has bad feelings towards another friend or family member and I pick it up and suddenly know way more than I could ever have understood through my other senses. I get angry and someone sensitive gets influenced by my anger either taking it as their own or feeling that I am angry at them when I am just angry at something I read in the paper.

I`ve experience exactly the same uplifting inflating feeling but most noticeably in my spine. It felt great. I noticed that this energy corrected my alignment better then I did. My teacher said to rest in it and let myself be moved into the correct position by it.

Mindfulness would be the exact oposite of your fog and mindfulness of everything that is experienced by you right now, including the fog, would be the most direct way of getting out of it but all the mentioned methods cultivate this to some degree and will help dispell the fog. Go shinzen.org and look in the articles section and read the articles about escaping INTO life, equanimity and a pain processing algorythm. Those will give valuable perspectives on all of this.

Falun gong is a cult. That`s not just Chineese government propoganda. Look up webforums and anti cult sites were you can find former western Falun Gong students and you will find that their experience has been just as cultish as most other former cult members. Most people on this forum agree that Falun Gong is cultish and several ehre have had encounters with members or have done some training in Falun Gong themselves. Just go online and find former western students and you`ll find all the evidence you need. The leader is a megalomaniac that thinks he is the next Buddha and has tons of psycho ideas. With Falun Gong you get all teh classical religious extra unecessary beliefs in their worst form in addition to qigong. Not what you are looking for I believe. And Gauss, just look up former western students online yourself and see what they say. A very good book for you Alexander might be a Wise Heart by Jack Kornfield. It is about budhist psychology for westerners and clears up typical misunderstandings. Some of those misunderstandings it seems you have been bothered by. A Path with Heart by the same author is also an excellent book to read when getting into this stuff. Also go to shinzen.org and look on the article section and read the articles about equanimity, escaping into life and a pain processing algorythm. Those might be very clarifying for you.

If you stop ejaculating you will be surprised how much more energy you start having and how beneficial this energy is for meditation practice and how much stronger you feel and more emotionally healthy. BUT if you start having sex in the ways taught within these traditions you will discover that you get even MORE energy than you get through celibacy and that it speads up your spiritual develoment even more. You will also find that your sex life gets spiritual and your love for your partner grows, is much, much easier to maintain, and gets a spiritual dimension it maybe did not have before. My teacher was a celibate budhist monk for 4 years and now practices this kind of sex and says he got a huige gain in energy from celibacy but that this kind of sex doubles that gain. To me this seems much more wholesome and beneficial. Search through my posts in the archive and look at those in threads that concern sexuality in some way. IN those posts I have written much more about this topic and the "how to" part. A good way to practice were you are right now would be standing meditation/zhan zhuan, inner smile and maybe also deep belly breathing. THe standing will ground you to the earth and get you into the body, the inner smile gives self love overal balance and a connection to the body and the breathing also sinks your energy to the dan tien. All three can be learnt ok without a teacher so you could do it right away. But find a teacher as soon as you can because that is important on this path. Michale winns primordial qigong is another practice you can learn from DVD and which I think could be good for you right now.

My best friend has just moved to New York to take a yoga teacher training. She has no friends yet and would love to meet some people that share her interests in cultivation/spirituality. She is lovely, lots of fun and generally liked by everyone she meets. I thought maybe there are a bum or two that live in New York that would like to take a cup of coffe with her.

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I think he mentioned doing it together with 5 point breathing, hair breathing, secret smile or stuff like that and I couldn`t really see how that would work but found it intriguing as it would be efficient to get a two in one. But maybe I just remember it wrong.

You mentioned once doing kettlebels combined with breathing practices. How does on do that? Not asking for precise instructions just a general idea.

People arround me, friends and family, have actually started getting things together more and more. It has been the same as well. But I have seen some people loose it online lately but can`t really say if that is more or less than before.

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I have done one session of clubbels. It left me feeling stronger and strong in a fuller range of motion. It also left me feeling more flexible in my joints. It also left me feeling a smotther flow of chi. Weights training tend to leave me feeling like I have done good in some way and like my muscles are like sponges that have been squised witch is ggod for chi flow but also that I have created small damages that give a feeling of iiritability in the muscles, fascia etc. This iiritability seems bad for chi flow. Especially the harmony of chi flow. Based on this exepreince I`d say go with clubbels as oposed to weights. Myself I am going to sticjk to the weights for some time but that is only a matter of practical concerns. I am going over to clubbles eventually.

That`s great! She lives in queens just two stops on the subway from manhatten and spends most of her days either doing yoga at yogaworks studios in manhatten or roaming about exploring the city. Are you or your girl on facebook? I could give you her name and you can add her on facebook and take it from there.

JK, it seems obvious to me from the posts you have been making for some time now that you are loosing your mental stability. I mean that not in a hostile way as a critique of what you have been arguing as I haven`t been very engaged in those debates or care too much about them. I say it out of concern for a fellow human being. Seriously man you are loosing it. Wake up and take a look at what you need to do to get back to when you were more stable and balanced. Maybe you should seek out both a reputable taoist or budhist teacher in your area and a therapist with understanding of cultivation. Hope things work out for you markern

Never herd of these different orbits before. Maybe the same type of thing as when eternal student talked about nine levels of the orbit in wudang? Which book (by Johnson?) should I read to learn about this? And could you elaborate a bit about it? Very interesting.

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If you have a partner the simplest way is to follow Diane Richardsons instructions or the karezza instructions you can find on reuniting.info. Then it just happens because of deep relaxation. But you will have valley orgasms not multiple peak orgasms. On reuniting they talk about not having orgasms but really mean not having peak orgasms and having valley orgasms instead. I have written about this several times before and you can find stuff about it if you check my old posts in threads about sex. What was said about having the foundational stuff in order I also believe is absolutely key. As I don`t have the foundation in order I stopped experimenting with this stuff until I do as I think it is essential. And much easier as well.

More PIe Guy, Daniel Ingram has your exact same attitude in most ways and his book and forum has been incredibly sucessful in leading people to the first levels of budhist enlightenment and quite a bit beyond that as well. Vipassana done according to good maps is VERY fast. If you want to maximize your chances of escaping rebirth what I would do is this: PRacticing Vipassana accroding to Ingrams principples like your hair is on fire and combine it with some energywork you have faith in. Use that to get a fairly high level of attainment. THen go find the most enlightened Tibetan Lamas you can dig up. Once you already have a high level of realization they will teach you the most high level stuff. If you start out from the beginning you will have to wait in line for this sort of teaching for VERY long and might not have time to get there.

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You might like Damos Cave meditation. You can find it in Dr. Glenn Morris` Path Notes book (amazon). THe book also has a lot about encounters with various beings and deities from otehr dimensions. It has some chapters focused aminly on martial arts but you can skip them if you like and only read about kundalini, healing, encounters with hindu godesses etc. Yoga nidra also might be something you`d like. Your body fals asleep but your mind does not.

I have only done the beginners stuff. HAven`t felt any need to get to the more advanded levels yet. I don`t think I will for quite some time. The beginner level, practiced over a long time, achieves A LOT of good things for your body. So doing more advanced levels is not necessary, but I think at some point it becomes natural to advance and little use only doing the basics when you could get more from the advanced.

The neck movements at the beginning of intuflow are very good. My neck is much better now than before. You can find them for free in the first part of the intuflow begginers series on youtube.