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Re: ------ "In my personal experience, approaching "the One" involves a marked increase in vibration, both in frequency and intensity." ----- Yes. To the point where this vibration becomes so fine that it resolves polarity and there is One. Time and Space disappear at that point. The Period and Amplitude of the wave become Infinite, or Zero. This is "beyond" (or "everywhere") the Manifested Universe. -VonKrankenhaus

Re: ----- "From a chi viewpoint, if we understand the word vibration to mean subtle chi, there is there is still vibration to the One, and still vibration to the Tao. Extremely fine vibration, but it is able to be experienced." ----- How can there be vibration from One? Vibration requires polarity, and One is not polarized, not dual. YinYang is vibration and change. One is changeless, vibrationless, and timeless. That means no period of a wave, and no amplitude. No time, and no space. -VonKrankenhaus

Gluten sensitivity may be related to these: 1. The gluten people are eating is refined wheat gluten. Refined wheat isn't even a food. 2. Immunizations may be making the immune-system functions in people's intestines malfunction. I note that I have never seen a non-immunized person with gluten issues. Immunizations seem to be producing many allergies and sensitivities in people that were fairly uncommon before - peanuts, for example. I never saw anyone who was allergic to peanuts when I was young, but now I see this all the time. Immunization is supposed to alter our immune functions. It apparently does. And one way it does is to cause the immune system to attack our own bodies. I also note that I have seen people who were diagnosed with gluten sensitivity actually eat large amounts of Seitan - which is 100% wheat gluten made from whole wheat - and have no problems with it. -VonKrankenhaus

Re: ----- "What you westerners call black magic, we practice as Daoism, we must replenish it through bull semen,,," ----- Well, that sounds great! - maybe you could give us a few details about this practice? -VonKrankenhaus

People have problems with ethics, morals, and laws because these are basically just mechanisms designed to provide impetus and justification for their control, by whomever is maintaining and enforcing these. People ignore these to whatever degree they can overcome fear or see an opportunity to profit. Rather, people tend to rely on their own Judgement - their ability to judge and discern things and events. Judgement can be simplified into things like "Yes or No" "Up and Down" - this is all YinYang thinking, at root. So Judgement is related to dualism, but monism is what makes it intelligent - the ability to resolve dualities and antagonisms and see what they are faces of. And ultimately, to be able to discern the Unity from which all relative phenomena are arising, and which they are returning to. -VonKrankenhaus

Morality is inseperable from immorality. Ethics and morals are relative, and invented by human beings to suit their own purposes. It is dualistic thinking that values morality and shuns immorality. Taoist thinking reconciles such dualities and sees them as two complimentary/antagonistic aspects of the same thing. -VonKrankenhaus

All of these parts of the environment ("foods") have their place and proportion as they appear in our bodies. Generally, we maintain a roughly 1:7 ratio of sodium to potassium, and a 1:7 ratio of these to all other minerals. We maintain a 1:7 ratio of minerals to fats/protein/carbohydrates, and a 1:7 ratio of these to water. Our head is at a roughly 1:7 ratio to our body. It is a very interesting study to find the various proportions that are manifesting as we appear and disappear from Earth. Many of the individual whole foods and whole traditional meals devised by our ancestors also happen to be the best foods for easily maintaining biological order. Most modern food products - like refined sugar, corn syrup, alcoholic drinks, processed meats - do make it much harder to remain in any kind of balance or proportion. -VonKrankenhaus

Re: ----- "I thought black magic always backfires on the caster in the end, and depletes the sender of their own vital essence?" ----- Is "black magic" what most people here are actually practicing? If so - let's read about some results from this training too. -VonKrankenhaus

Re: ----- "If someone wanted to develop psychic abilities - specifically, the ability to perceive auras and qi energy - what is the best form of qigong for doing so?" ----- Seeing aura is seeing energy body - energy/vibrations coming from the human being due to overall energy flow, organs functionings and "emotions", etc. Some of this is in infra-red part of spectrum not really visible to eyes - like heat. Some of this is past ultraviolet part of spectrum and towards "spirit". So seeing aura is not fully "psychic" like "telepathy" or "remote viewing". It is more like the way we "sense" that a pan is hot when we see it on the stove. With practice, we can "see" it. Energy sensing is an effect from practicing just about any form of qigong enough. Spirit sensing requires more than this if we are try to deliberately improve it. We need to build the reciever/sender, the human being, into a better and clearer condition than modern living and food and artificial environment is generally producing. I was born with psychic abilities - as is everyone else to one degree or another - but by rebuilding myself at an early age I was able to become a world-class psychic with celebrity clients. This was several decades ago, and I also had practiced Chinese gongfu and qigong from an early age, and learned some specific techniques that do increase these abilities - but it wasn't until I learned how to rebuild my blood and organs that I was able to really "develop" my ability in a measured, consistent way. Until I did that, I realized that ordinary lifestyle is making the old time exercises and practices take way too long - one step forward, one step back, etc. I saw that even masters and other teachers are ignorant of this and limited as a result. The methods I eventually developed were based on Taoist diet practices and modern Macrobiotics - so those might be a place to start exploration and study in this direction. -VonKrankenhaus

Re: ----- "That can put a target on your back" ----- Let's hope nothing like that happens. Why would it? - People exercising, training and having results, is an area of contention or conflict? -VonKrankenhaus

It would be interesting if people were also to include photos or videos of any relevant part of their training - or maybe even actual demonstrations of effects of their training (where relevant). I know I have enjoyed very much seeing photos and/or video of other people on Dao Bums when they have posted them. I'm working on making some photos/videos like this too. -VonKrankenhaus

Every teacher I had has recommended against it. My theory as to why this has been so is that my experience with teachers began in the early 70s when americans were first being taught gongfu and qigong, and most of the interested students were coming from being "counterculture" and "hippies". I think my teachers saw these american hipsters and assumed it was their famous use of cannabis that made them so awkward, with so much difficulty to understand even very basic things. Their fog seemed explainable due to "drugs". Only later did we start to realize that it was basically everything else they did. -VonKrankenhaus

"The Earth has entered a new period of extinction" Rather than the Earth "entered" - how about "We are right now causing on Earth,,," Earth did not just stumble upon a "period of extinction" in its travels. Most of what we are seeing in terms of extinction and destruction has been deliberately enacted by human beings - most of them just following a few others whose assumed authority and/or salesmanship they believed. It took a lot of work by many generations of people to attain all this world-scale destruction. The Earth didn't just "enter" a "period" and then all of it just "happened". In fact, most people's working/consuming life efforts have been dedicated to producing this outcome. -VonKrankenhaus

Does the title of the thread refer to qi that "feels" "electric" to others? Or to qi that can jump to another object or project like an electric spark? About 40 years ago I learned techniques of generating qi like a spark - sort of like static electricity, in pulses. My sigung first demonstrated this to me using a metal demonstration sword, just holding it out and repeatedly making a blue spark come off the tip. It is like generating static electricity like we get from a rug, combined with the way charge builds up and then suddenly moves during an orgasm - like combining these type of phenomena. -VonKrankenhaus

Re: ----- "Aveline Kushi died of cervical cancer. Her daughter died of breast cancer. Michio Kushi died of pancreatic cancer. George Oshawa died of a heart attack." ----- To my knowledge, not one of the people you mention ever ate any form of macrobiotic diet, such as was described in publications, for any significant time. Michio Kushi surely did not. He very often ate diner food, or donuts and coffee. Not rice and seaweed. Neither did Georges Ohsawa. Aveline and her daughter really did not. The daughter did not have breast cancer. The two women died after having massive radiation implants, Aveline at a time when her cancer had actually gone into remission due to first attempting with diet. Lots of macrobiotic people have died from fairly common causes, like everyone else is doing. Many of them had truly dire chronic health conditions before taking it up. And like most people, they did not really eat in a way that would be any true application of macrobiotic understanding. All of these people regularly ate things like ice cream, alcohol, pastries, all kinds of meat, diner food, and so forth - the whole time. It seems part of the culture to do so. I have seen most of the articles that are and have been online that you may be referring to - most seem to contain also many inaccuracies. The truth is both more subtle, and probably crazier, than the misinformation. But it is different. Compared to the "soy/grains lobby", if such a thing has had any true size, concerns like ConAgra, Cargill, the medical industry, and so forth, are many magnitudes larger and have spent much more time and power diminishing macrobiotics. That's why it has taken nearly 60 years for even the most basic ideas from macobiotics to catch on - like whole food, local food, organic, etc. The Kushis actually had to ask rice growers in the US to try to grow organic rice, and they had to buy the entire crop up-front as a guarantee that anyone would even want it once it had been grown. The text attributed to the doctor: I think we will eventually see proven that "immune hypersensitization caused or exacerbated by gluten-containing grains" is actually a hyper-sensitization (autoimmune) side-effect of vaccination. People have been eating whole grains, even highly glutinous ones, for thousands of years without exhibiting any of these very recent health issues. Much of the "leaky gut" and other symptoms we see today are actually caused by vaccination. The immune system functions of the "gut" are very sensitive, and related to bacterial interaction that is upset by this, and also by the use of antibiotics. That and the fact that the gluten people are complaining about is gluten from refined grains - nobody ever ate refined grains such as is found in modern "wheat" products much before this modern era. Note that some people today can take quite a while to acclimate their system to whole foods after eating industrially-refined foods and meat for a few generations - so they do not initially "thrive" until their saliva and digestive system have not only healed, but have begun to regenerate and use functions that had previously atrophied from eating modern "food". And his statement "The exclusion of meat is another gray area" is unconvincing, if not actually illogical. Paraphrasing him: '(the) standard American diet will probably "take the cake" compared to almost anything else out there'. Is basically insane. In any event, the dietary application of macrobiotics has never really been finished. The leaning towards Japanese foods was a matter of culture, trying to reach back to traditional culture for examples of basic living. Most of the people who became or have become confused by macrobiotics are those who approach it as consumers looking for a "complete" product. Macrobiotics is like Taoism - it is not really easy to commodify without turning it into something it isn't and never could be. My own explorations started with Taoist dietary/medicine, and continue with it, even though I have had much experience with macrobiotic concepts and practices. My interest has been going deeper into these same directions as relate to internal/spiritual cultivation and the development of human life. I cannot really say I fully understand the way people in modern culture have interpreted and applied these things, including macrobiotics. I may have different goals and expectations. -VonKrankenhaus

Re: ----- "but I'm not touching that poor dead horse with a 6-foot daikon... since members of its family are either dead of cancer, or of alcoholism, or indulge in wife-beating, or are gone to jail for nearly murdering an infant of the family with a diet-induced B-12 deficiency -- I've no business adding to their comeuppance." ----- Most of this must be based on misinformation. I'd be interested in knowing where these claims came from. -VonKrankenhaus

Human waste and human activity on the soil actually changes a given area of wild land to grow different plants - ones that interact with or are somehow good for human beings. If there is a fire in the forest, not long afterwards, "fire weed" appears. This plant is soothing to burns and also changes the burnt soil. There are many other examples. -VonKrankenhaus

Re: ----- "Infinity is a flawed concept. There HAS to be a starting point." ----- Infinity = Zero. That's "starting from scratch". -VonKrankenhaus

Re: ----- "What do you mean when you say "vibration"?" ----- Polarity - Yin-Yang. Up and Down. Inner and Outer, etc. Polarization is vibration, because YinYang is never static. ----- "Also, do you allude that there is no vibration to the Tao or the One?" ----- Exactly - due to the above. One is not polarized. There is no wave, no period, nothing to wave back-and-forth to or from. All phenomena are arising from Equilibrium (the One) via polarization, then will return to Equilibrium when those polarizations resolve. -VonKrankenhaus

The infinite expansion of the Universe. This is infinite expansion of One. When this expansion meets itself, there appears to be Two. This is the beginning of the Manifested Universe. We ourselves come from Infinity. We became polarized into pure vibration - energy, waves. These waves became pre-atomic phenomena and plasma. These became solid elements. From this realm of elements the Vegetal arose. From the Vegetal, Animals (and human) arose. All of this differentiation of One is our Memory. -VonKrankenhaus

Re: ----- "also, i think, the eating of grain as a substantial part of the human diet must have been together with the ending of the hunting-gathering folks...and i suspect that the villagers, needed less sensitivity than the nomadic tribes. maybe there is a correlation with the eating of grain too...?" ----- There is evidence that "gatherers" ate and prepared wild grass seeds ("grains") significantly before agriculture. Our teeth show the evolution of human food habits, as they evolved in conjunction with and for our eating. We see a miniature of this evolution when we have a baby human who will grow these teeth and eat different foods at various stages of growth. Modern people mess this up and thus do not see it so much, because they lost understanding of what people are and what food is, etc, and now just going on falsehoods and commercialized mistakes. The teeth show that early humans first ate fruits, then more vegetables and tubers, then went through a period of eating animals (Ice Ages), then wild grass seeds (grains) most lately. These periods lasted for varying length of time - some were possibly millions of years. The development of artificial grain-based agriculture during and after the last ice age is a somewhat different thing than the switch made to more compacted plants that happened as part of general human evolution. Combined with the subsequent rise of artificial "civilization", this more recent "agriculture" actually looks like a conscious effort to "domesticate" humanity. In any event - grains have actually been a useful staple of human diet for many thousands of years. Our more recent (in millenia) dietary experience/evolution has been based on them. The switch in the modern era to mainly industrial-scale animal foods and refined carbohydrates (and most recent, refined and synthetic chemicals) has been a degenerative health disaster of epic proportions by comparison. -VonKrankenhaus

Re: ----- "it has nothing to do with qi or qigong. you can hypnotize animals, take a look at the hand movement. I had an old uncle how study it from a church priest" ----- There is nothing that doesn't have something to do with qi. Also, anything can be qigong - cooking, hypnotizing, etc, etc - all activities can be qi work/skill activities. Yes - animals and people can be hypnotized. I'm sure there must be somewhere online the simple method for hypnotizing chickens, which was common knowledge among farm children and probably still is. For people it has been made very simple to do - an true area of huge "progress" of modern society. People will even voluntarily buy the devices made to hypnotize them, and use them, it seems, as much as possible. VonKrankenhaus

I haven't seen this app, as I do not use apps or phones. But I have studied CCM/TCM since the early 70s, and I have also studied Macrobiotics rather extensively. Macrobiotic YinYang is based on physical existence on earth being created and influenced by two forces - Heaven's force and Earth's force. Macrobiotics sees Heaven's Force as that coming into Earth from space, from all sides, going downward to Earth, centrepital, and causing contraction. In this sense, the Earth physically is matter compacted into a ball by Heaven's force. Macrobiotics calls this force Yang force and expects it to produce Yin physically - things contract and slow down. Macrobiotics sees earth's force as that coming out from the Earth from inside, from rotation, upward, centerfugal, and causing expansion and dispersal. Macrobiotics calls this force Yin and expects it to produce Yang physically - things actively disperse. The traditional Chinese way is seeing YinYang as "metaphysical" or energy and not physical structure - so it sees Heaven as very Yang and active, and Earth as Yin and static by comparison. Macrobiotics is using YinYang to describe physical structure - so it sees Heaven as very Yin and expanded and moving, and Earth as very Yang and contracted and still by comparison. Macrobiotic food classification is looking at physical characteristics as resulting from energetics. In a sense, we could say it is a modern adaptation of Taoist YinYang thinking that was developed to be understandable to western materialistic science thinking. But it also has roots in Shinto - for example, where in the Kojiki the first two dieties that appear after the August Lord of the Center are basically the complimentary paired dieties of contraction and expansion. -- I will write a more detailed post about the differences in food classification between these two ways of looking at it, and how to apply them. -VonKrankenhaus

What is happening at this level of cultivation is that the practitioner is essentially transitioning to a "non-human" (non-"normal") state of spiritual development. The foods eaten are high in plant resins - certain species of pine trees, for example, plus grass roots and select other wild mountain plants. The effect over some time is something like a combination of mummification and what happens to tobacco shamans - the peripheral energy metabolism becomes very contracted and slow, while the outer body is increasingly imbued with plant resins. They are able to meditate and "trip in" for very extended periods, and the resins keep the metabolism low and keeps rot and insects away. This is like stretching out the dying process from maybe a day or a week in most people to expand into what can be decades. People who do this are able to examine the process of the development of the spirit body in great detail due to the slowing down of the process. This has almost nothing to do with a discussion of "healthy diet", and it is a very specialized practice that few today will ever approach - but it is very interesting to research for people today. -VonKrankenhaus

Re: ----- "Taoist diet seem to be about keep it natural, keep it seasonal and somewhat anti-grain." ----- Grains are generally the seeds of grasses. Grasses evolved around 60 million years ago - a very modern sort of plant. Grains are interesting because they are so contracted compared to other plants that their seed and fruit are the same structure. Eating the seeds of wild grasses may have been the thing that caused apelike hominids which had been eating fruits to become human beings that walk upright and talk. Grains have been known as "the food of humanity". In more recent history, Taoist cultivators have been known to leave human society for the remote mountains, and also leave behind the food of humans to exist on the wild energetics of certain mountain plants and tree nuts. This was not because they were "anti grain". It is because they wish to attain something both before and beyond human life. -VonKrankenhaus