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Re: ----- "After sustained practice, have you guys noticed differences in your facial expressions and eyes?" ----- Yes. About 35 years ago after I began some specific trainings. My eyes went from a very dark "brown" to a much lighter green color. My ear lobes separated, where they had been somewhat attached. I often change hair to gray, then back to most black (not with dye - with food and qi) - and this does change public reactions, as people I find do innately respond more politely to gray hair. Many other changes. Yet in other ways, staying pretty much the same over a good time. For example - I am same weight and size now as for the past 40+ years, and I am actually still wearing many the exact same clothes I did obtain as a teenager. -VonKrankenhaus

I first learned the small circulation starting in around 1974, mainly from my sigung in person. I have learned quite a bit about this from always training since that time. I have seen materials by Yang Jwing Ming and Mantak Chia recently, and others - there is a lot of information published about this now, and most of it seems quite applicable. I prefer learning completely from skilled teachers, especially in the first 10 years. Ironically, it is really after learning quite a bit that things seen in books and videos become easiest to see and quickly apprehend. -VonKrankenhaus

Modern industrial production of feed, animals, meat, eggs, and dairy is a very interesting study. The industry producing these things is very very serious. Huge areas of the world have been and are being deforested to accomodate it. Laws have been made that allow taxpayer money to subsidize both production and distribution. For example, a state department program allows that US taxpayers pay to build McDonalds restaurants outside the US. Of course, the US taxpayer does not participate in any profits from this. Without government subsidies, the true price of meat would appear as high as it really is. John Robbins writes that a McDonalds hamburger is actually produced at a cost of $200. Government and Industry have knocked that price down to one or two dollars. They must really want people to eat that stuff. Generally, animal farming is around 10% as efficient at feeding human beings as plant-based farming is. Note that this is industrial production, not any kind of natural human culture. People have seen the photos and videos of industrial animal production. And still consider such products attractive and desireable. Looking at it from a consumer viewpoint, this is producing products intended for consumption or not depending on consumer preferences and other similar ideas. Looking at it from a production viewpoint, these practices are producing several things, including the "end user" - who sees themself as a consumer recipient, but is actually also a product. -VonKrankenhaus

Re: ----- "Because the things they are teaching interest me, not sure where the 6 Flags part comes in…." ----- It's just my reaction. I wrote it. Please don't let me interrupt you or anyone in acting on the amazing statements in the quote. They are self-resolving ideas. And everyone has their own experiences and perspective, making value a relative thing. I have lived in a retreat, a few times. -VonKrankenhaus

Re: ----- "Many countries and geographies are unsuitable for large scale agriculture. Mountainous areas with poor weather struggle to grow much more than grass/scrub. Humans can't eat grass and scrub but animals can. They are also a source of wool/leather/glue and provide milk, eggs, iron rich meat. Where it is easy to grow crops then that's what will generally be grown. It's important to understand how the world actually works rather than an idealist view of it. Animals are reared at a cost. If it's less expensive and more economically viable then crops will be grown instead. Do we write of all land that is unsuitable for crops and the people who live there ? In the places where there is poor crop growth other resources and different production occurs." ----- There is much more to modern animal faming than this. Crops grown as animal feed are being grown on prime agricultural areas, not mountains and scrub areas. It's not a matter of economics. The econmics of animal farming are atrocious and accomplished by trickery and subsidization. It's not about feeding many people efficiently. Animal food is very inefficient use of resources. Here is a link to a recent documentary movie in which one guy looks into this, somewhat superficially, but it is an interesting intro to this puzzle: http://www.cowspiracy.com/ -VonKrankenhaus

Re: ----- "If I could go anywhere right now it would be here: http://fiveimmortals.com" ----- What is it that you find attractive on that web site? Looks like a (albeit rather grim) advertisement for 6 Flags or a Disney experience of some sort. It's an amusement park. -VonKrankenhaus

You ARE the Earth. Looking through Time and Space, you, One Infinity, differentiated, and became all things. "You" floated as pre-atomic particles and condensed into matter. "You" organized by density. Worlds formed of "you". Do you Love yourself? -VonKrankenhaus

Re: ----- ",,,about a foot above the head, there is a bright star. When knowledge comes from that space, it is always true. It is differerent from thought. It is much faster than thought. Bang, and you know something and you know that it is true. It came "from the top of your head". And, it is very hard to manipulate that space. You have to be "above" the normal thoughts that usually block or veil it." ----- Yes. -VonKrankenhaus

During chewing we touch the tongue to the roof of the mouth repeatedly. We touch it at slightly different spots depending on many factors - what kind of food, at what point in chewing, how much liquid, and so forth. We are transferring information, qi, released in breaking up the food, to our brain. Brain will assess information and signal organs doing hormone and enzyme productions specific for that food. Mouth is one connecting area of two major meridians - conception and governing. Anus is the other connecting area - the other end of this process. These two vessels connect in the entire ailementary tract. Good way to study position of tongue in transfer of energy is chewing very very carefully and mindfully. Chewing differnt kinds of foods to see what information is coming. Maybe food is actually suffering animal - we can tell. Maybe processed by machines - we can tell. Chewing is happening in the right place to be applicable to this question of where to put tongue in meditation, because chewing is the early and best meditation. The basic place to start, and one of the very first noticeable things we do involving energy transfer with the environment.. -VonKrankenhaus

AUM vibrates the body from the bottom up. So, in a sense, it is a song of the Earth, made to Heaven, via Man. It is a compacted miniature of our path. -VonKrankenhaus

Re: ----- "Are there anty studies that supports this claim?" ----- It's not studies that have shown me this. It's people with hard calcium oxalate crystals that eventually come out of their kidneys. That's what I saw over a period of about 45-50 yrs. It's not usually normal healthy people who take up "health foods", so many of the "smoothie" people are pumping calcium around their bodies in the wrong way from chronic lack of sunlight when they start flooding the system with oxalates from raw greens mixed with fruit solvents (or even sugar & chemicals from modern food products). But not all people. Some people get plenty of sunshine and good water, lead active lives, and some even eat somewhat modestly. They seem less likely to develop issues, unless they grabbing a fad and overdose on it. Everyone is, of course, free to make their own observations, or to believe studies, or just do whatever they like. -VonKrankenhaus

Third eye is mid-brain structure and functions. This determines image-making from various types of vibrations. Most people today are barely making images from normal visual sense - there is so much they seem to miss. Good functioning mid-brain can process beyond the visual spectrum, including "light" beyond ultraviolet, and "magnetism", etc. One way of improving is physiological - regaining something like normal functioning. Instead of shocking novice system by taking external DMT, internal DMT functions are developed by darkness trainings. Darkness training basic concept (not full explanation) is using body homeostasis functions to withdraw or block from part of spectrum, in one case, the upper range of and past ultraviolet, by staying in infrared or below (darkness). Results from training will depend on preparation and function of the person - because modern living is making functionality obstacles that decades of meditation training could not improve alone. -VonKrankenhaus

Re: ----- "And i also doubt people put only green vegetables that are high in oxalte in their smothies." ----- Well, that's the thing, because they are. Not the only ingredient, but the only greens most people end up using. I encourage everyone to prove their own beliefs and doubts for themselves though. I myself have known many raw green vegetable/fruit jiucing/smoothie faddists, going back to the 1960's The proof is in the kidneys, and over time. -VonKrankenhaus

Human being is the most compacted animal - so much function packed into being smaller than a horse, less hair than other animals, etc. Grains are the most compacted seeds, from the most recently evolved plants - grasses. In fact, they are the fruit and seed contracted into one thing. Seeds from bushes and trees point downward. Grain seeds point upwards. Eating grain seeds causes upright standing and talking. When we feed a baby grains it stands up and starts talking. If we feed the baby meat and fat it stands and talks later. If we feed the baby fruits it stands and talks later. If we feed the baby chemicals it stands and talks later. Feel free to try this or observe what others do and what happens. The time that people assume humans ate fat and meats and not grains and seeds, like before 10,000yrs ago - that was the last Ice Age. What will happen if people now continue to eat as people did during an Ice Age that ended 10,000 yrs ago? They will have trouble from excess - plaques, tumors, hardening, etc. They will be out of sync with the current environment. They will become "wrapped too tight" or "too cranked-down" and start looking for alcohol and drugs to loosen them up. -VonKrankenhaus

Re: ----- "But yes, oxalate is poisonous in high amounts but in general one doesn't have to fear this unless one has a medical condition which requires a low oxalate diet." ----- One major condition that predisposes people to develop kidney stones is dehydration. Another is chronic low-calcium, such as osteomalacia (very common in north areas). These both disturb calcium handling and release too much calcium into circulation, which can then redeposit in the kidneys, react with other compounds, and be repeatedly contracted into a solid mass by cycles of dehydration. Chronic, low-level dehydration is actually very common for people living in heated and air conditioned homes and workplaces. Most common type of kidney stone is formed from calcium oxalate. Green vegetable "smoothies" can be an excellent source of oxalates. -VonKrankenhaus

The big war against "the devil" seems to be killing everyone BUT "the devil". Maybe that's what happens when the war against "the devil" is also run by "the devil"? Of course, we should ask - What is "the devil"??? -VonKrankenhaus

Re: ----- "Mine is comprised of cucumber, celery, spinach, apple, lemon and ginger.,,," ----- You might try swapping out the spinach. It's fairly high in oxalates, and with the citrus, and especially if it is raw, excess of this may produce calcium oxalate in your body. This is what kidney stones are made of. To me, the cucumber and apple are somewhat contradictory energetics. These have similar structure, seed arrangement, and growing pattern - but one is on tree and the other is on ground vine (like tiny temporary version of a tree). I find that intake of small conflicts like this, over some time, can cause things like hardness in tissues (like kidney stone, etc), mental confusions, hormone and temperature fluctuations, etc. But main thing is caution to anyone using oxalate-rich greens (spinach, kale, etc) raw in "smoothies" about the possibility of stone formation. Eapecially people with some calcium issues like low D3 and calcium from lack of sun exposure. -VonKrankenhaus

Looks like a story of some fat guys in america jockying for attention using ideas that were at arm's length or less.. -VonKrankenhaus

It's about mind/energy circulation. So physiological blockages are in the way of this - organ/hormone dysfunctions, salted-up muscles, mucus and fat deposits, electrolyte imbalances, and all of the various imbalances developed from modern diet and living. Would the water in a home plumbing system flow well if it had epoxy put into it first? Most people's qigong and meditation practices are burdened from the start with compensation for the person being more or less completely unhealthy and distorted by modern commercial/industrial "living". Taking Tylenol? Forget about getting coherent results in cultivation - your liver is now too hardened. Confused by 16 years of state brainwashing, money problems, and abstractly concieved relationship issues? Good luck with meditation. Consider a pre-requisite of first attaining something like human life and health by giving up things which would distort these. Then efforts in cultivation will produce progress and not just be spent inching towards what could best be achieved in another way. NOBODY at the time these practices were developed, was set up anything like a modern person today in terms of health and functioning. -VonKrankenhaus

I have been amazed all year reading about people's reactions to that video. There is nothing unusual happening in the video, neither any unusual 'philosophy'. There are several, and probably many, people who can actually do things like depicted - qi projection, electric qi, etc. And each of these things is so easy to fake that even seeing them performed in-person is not "proof" of anything. There are many old and new tricks among qigong masters, and americans especially are easy to fool. Since I began looking recently I have seen other now-popular masters doing them in videos that people do believe. -VonKrankenhaus

Re: ----- "Uh, who are the parents, who are the children? As a parent I can take away my kids smart phone. I can make make sure they don't have one in the first place. I can take away there ipad, computer and turn off the internet in the house." ----- The scene I described consists of the school district signing on to a program (and getting tax reimbursements & other incentives for doing this) to give children iPads which they will use for almost all school work they do. If the parent takes away the iPad, the kid loses access to their school work. Of course, like a Trojan Horse, this gives the children access to games, facebook, and all the stuff kids are being trained to essentially become addicted to in this concept of "internet addiction". Programs like this always seem to start with "under-privledged" areas where giving a kid a trendy wireless computing device is seen as all kinds of good things it may not really be. After tossing it into a context like that, it will no doubt be expanded to other areas and become standard procedure. Very much this messes with parental control of internet use. Meanwhile, in an interview Steve Jobs and his wife said their children had never used an iPhone and were not allowed to, and that they did very much restrict their access to technology products theirs and other companies make. So here we have low-end school districts foaming at mouth to get something that the guy responsible for it would not even let his own children use. -VonKrankenhaus

One good way to be more alive is to be less dead. Food, for example, is compacted energy of the environment. So are we. This is food/energy is data, information. In-formation. With modern commercial/industrial food, this information is not the same as we would recieve directly from Nature. It is often not really information useful to life and living. It is often information contained, compacted from - sad, tortured animals, genetically abstracted monocultured plants, mindless synthetic processes, and repetitive machines, etc. This will not produce a feeling of vital aliveness or abundant natural energy, no matter what nutritional hocus-pocus is used to "explain" amounts of protein, carbohydrates, vitamins, etc.. -VonKrankenhaus

Re: ----- "Here in the UK, the Authorities are thinking of Banning kids from taking their Mobile Phones into School, as too many pupils get distracted by texts etc during Lesson time !! :blink:" ----- In many places now, children are being given iPads by their school district. This iPad is basically a big cell phone/wireless device. "School" is actually the State and the State is actually Corporations - will they truly interrupt themselves in their electronic access to your children? Or, will it increase? -VonKrankenhaus

Re: ----- "Through experiementation, the ancient daoists set upon learning the progressions and changes in nature using the I Ching, with the objective of matching said transformations into the body." ----- Matching the progressions and changes in nature into the body? These changes create the body. Our evidence is the body itself - 32 teeth, 32 vertabrae, 64 gua/64 codons in DNA, etc, etc. Can you explain this idea of "matching" and "into"? What exactly does that mean, and how would that be done? -VonKrankenhaus

"Food" is the environment. Modern fake culture teaches to see foods as items and products, but this view will not produce understanding. It will produce people looking for items and products - "consumers". Are we "consuming" the environment, or is the environment producing us? There are parts of the environment that we all intake - light, heat, cosmic rays, etc. Then we can see more specific as we look in various areas. Local air, local water, local emergence and continuation of life such as plants and animals. Today not much of this is related to real environments. It is abstracted away from Nature. And so are most choices about what to eat. -VonKrankenhaus