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Circumcision is more complex than piercing ear. Although there are "points" and "reflexology" in the structure and function of the various parts and sections of the penis - too much for this thread maybe. The purpose of this cutting is to force the baby to "mature" faster physically and hormonally. Normally, penis is remaining covered, protected from much stimulation, and retracts slower over time. Of course, this is not real maturity of any kind, but this is how I describe the physiological intention and result. Also, this is a very painful, almost "primal", trauma for the baby. This is intended to produce a "soldier" earlier in life. Second purpose is that this makes the penis into a plunger, which is "useful" to conquering people in more ancient time - it pushes out previous sperm from woman, which just comes out instead of being retained by the foreskin bunching up. It means when the king's male soldier rapes an "enemy" woman, her husband's sperm is removed first. Related to modern idea of "sperm competition". None of this is natural or "healthy", but is just ways of looking for advantages for competition. And this one does change energy flow, both in individual and in masses or "society". -VonKrankenhaus

Re: ----- "I've read/heard that acupuncture can re-establish the energy flow across or around scars... Is this your experience?" ----- Yes, to some degree - but this requires ongoing treatments, because the scar is staying. Same way compensating with Qigong - it is possible to deal with scar area something like we would with an area of hard to flow chi - like massaging base of skull area to get chi flowing up into the head from the back if someone having trouble making small circulation. Problem is that this chi flow may unblock, but scar blocking is a hard physical impediment that remains in place ongoing. Sometimes new surgery could help if it reduces or eliminate scar. But person would be cautious, knowing surgery caused initial problem and surgeons vary in skill - iatrogenic harm is now #1 cause of death. Also, dietary approach, dispersing hardnesses, can over time help this condition by making flow and functions best possible in every other way. -VonKrankenhaus

Piercing and installing metal "decoration" does change energy flow, but most people do not really pierce on ear acupuncture points on lobe. Much more serious impedence is from deep surgery scars - such as women get right across Conception Vessel for abdominal/reproductive organ surgery, or when people get some arm or leg surgery on joints and tendons. Qi flow become blocked from organ, function usually slows down, organ becomes more likely to accumulate excess - which can help produce various cysts, tumors, etc. -VonKrankenhaus

Re: ----- "You really think airline pilots may have been told that it's a good idea to poison the world including their own families and they agreed because of maybe global warming, or something?" ----- I do not think the chemtrails are being put up by commercial airline planes. Filming them with a telescope now and again since 2002, I have recorded that they are unmarked white jet planes, and not planes used for commercial air traffic. They are also not following any commercial flight paths, and I have followed them landing at air force bases and not commercial airports. That is just what I have observed. Most explanations for these chemtrails involves some sort of weather modification as the purpose, and some people may believe that this is good and will help with "global warming". -VonKrankenhaus

Re: ----- "What does exist is contrails, which are simply water vapour." ----- Not true. Whatever "chemtrails" are, they are not ordinary contrails. Anyone who grew up around jet airplanes can tell at least that. Try to find an old photograph, such as from a personal family photo album, that has giant cross-hatches of "contrails" in it like those seen more recently. If the photo found looks like modern photos of "contrails" and is from the 50s, 60s, 70s or 80s - please post it. My album goes back several decades, but I was not able to find even one. -VonKrankenhaus

I think the pineal gland is one part of the midbrain area implicated in a variety of processes, including the organization and "translation" of vibrations into "human-consumable" forms like "mental imagery", hormonal responses, and other actions happening in response with the environment. Obviously, this is why the pineal gland always become a hot topic with Qigong and meditation people, because "mental imagery", hormonal responses, and action are prominent aspects of these practices. In my own study, I feel that the pineal gland (and associated/related parts/functions) is clearer in babies, and typically calcifies with age. One way to read "age" is how long person has been living in a way that causes calcification - but also this can mean that when it is clear (during baby time) some function is happening that isn't happening so much when it is calcified (adult). The need for forming new mental imagery, the translation of things never really seen or felt before, is highest in the baby, and less in the adult. This function is related to melatonin and naturally occurring DMT. DMT only lasts in the body for long enough for the new imagery to be processed, then it is broken down very fast and ceases to cause effect. Adult today relies more on idea association than direct creation of new imagery in a given experience. -VonKrankenhaus

Re: ----- "This is about how colonialists interfered with peoples who were living in harmony with nature (to a degree). No one is suggesting this kind of thing." ----- Most people on Earth had little way of not living more-or-less in harmony with nature until quite recently. The colonists (actually, their handlers) first depressed ("helped") the native populations with things like gifts of blankets laced with smallpox, which so debilitated and depopulated them that they began to resemble the propaganda image which had been already built up about the natives back in Europe. Then in the 1960s & 70s there was a lot of push in media about how we needed to help native americans with vaccines and health services and education, because they were all doing so bad that they couldn't take care of themselves. Just a decade before that, people had watching back-to-back "cowboy and indian" movies on TV and psychologically still at war with these people. People in Africa, India, and many other places have had a similar treatment going back quite a while. Hundreds of years of attack on most aspects of their lives, native environment and economy all ruined by convenient "irresposibility", then suddenly we must "help" them with modern biological and psychological control. -VonKrankenhaus

This kind of "helping" has been going on for a while. But - how did so many people become so messed up that they cannot even know or do very basic things that even "wild" people handle well, like birth control and interaction with various environments? They had "help". Here's one old campaign of helping that we have seen the results of: http://www.irwinator.com/126/wdoc36.htm Notice the poor individual depicted saying "Come over and help us". He was "helped". -VonKrankenhaus

Neither Qigong or "Yoga" would by themselves reduce the over-muscularization. Your kidneys will do that. They will be eliminating the disintegrating proteins. Ordinary light moving is good - walking, cleaning around house. Keeping liquid intake good. Watch out for kidney stones. -VonKrankenhaus

Re: ----- "For instance if we wanted to reduce the global population then we should provide good health services and education to women - along with cultural change which puts them in charge of their lives. That's something we should want to do anyway ... surely." ----- Yes. This is reducing the population right now. We have no "good health services" to offer. Ours are actually the leading cause of death. We have no "education" to offer them that has not produced the above, plus all the pollution and devastation in the photos seen in the previous posts. So yes, offering these should reduce everything. -VonKrankenhaus

Re: ----- "If we will simply no longer exist, what's the point of our being created, out of nothing, and returning to nothing." ----- We appeared, as everything has. What are we? If we are appearing from "Nothing", then we must be "Something". Isn't Everything Something? If ultimately we are Nothing, then we are this originator or creator, now appearing as "Something". Looking around, didn't we give ourself Everything? Since we gave Everything, are we not responsible for Everything? We are response-able. The Response: We must be grateful. We must fully appreciate. Isn't this what Life is? Could this be any different when we "die"? -VonKrankenhaus

Re: ----- "The fusion practices and everything above will advance you spiritually, theoretically all the way to a full union with the dao." ----- I not trying to be difficult, but: how would they do that? Tao is the way everything happens, and nothing is exempt. What could be the theory that believes that anything is happening outside of Tao? Even huge "mistakes" are still events that follow natural order perfectly. So what is system actually producing or "advancing"? -VonKrankenhaus

First consider what it is that is travelling or going out in this "out of body" experience. Is that even what is really happening? Is the body or the body energy actually going anywhere? Or is the consciousness? Is the consciousness really going? From where? Where is consciousness to start with? Or - does the experience come to consciousness? -VonKrankenhaus

Qi cultivation is something to approach with caution for anyone with any physical/emotional imbalances. Simpler therapeutic Qigong practices or basic Tao Yin exercises might be better for a while, with maybe less focus on practices that working with hormonal responses and body energetics in more complex ways. You don't mention a teacher. Do you have one? If so, perhaps the teacher, knowing you well and taking responsibility for your progress, might be able to suggest, over the two years, some additional treatments and dietary changes to help bring you and your current trainings in line with your goals? -VonKrankenhaus

Also: From born where water freezes is usually a baldie, all other things equal. From born where the sun burns is usually a hairy head. Ancestors - not just that one person. Growing in response with environment. -VonKrankenhaus

I have only recent begun to examine fully the system Michael Winn and Mantak Chia have been teaching. I do this because someone mentioned this to me in the early 80s, I forgot about it, and more recent now is someone I know is writing a Mantak Chia book with him. Most of what they are teaching looks like common things (small circulation, iron shirt, tao yin, tui na, etc), old, but in some areas they have added detail, and overall looking like maybe adding a lot of "new age" terminology - because up to then this area of study is mostly martial arts people. New people they approach as students in 80s were not coming from Gongfu, but were "hippies" coming from doing Yoga, TM, and many things recently became popular then. This was good, and they did reach a lot of people compared to what Gongfu people had at that time. But maybe because this was not learned following martial arts way, and maybe for other reasons, they personally lack some of these skills and physical basis that can be seen elsewhere (but not so easy as just order DVD from web site). Many of their posture and movements in video look not so good - actually, looking like beginner. And I notice they have no real Fa Jin like martial arts people would absolutely be working - or else we would see it advertise somewhere or show in video, or even someone tells what happened. In the 60s & 70s many people were paying thousand$ to learn just these things from various sifus, without becoming "indoor" students, and some of this may be what Mantak Chia did. Bringing to america in the 70s, not many american people had heard of this stuff that were not close students in one of the Gongfu systems. They mostly just watching Bruce Lee do jackass. Looks like good thing for their market, for people introducing - but they also have what are real advanced practices that even they don't seem to understand what to do with. Some parts are missing. People have fun with it, and little harm could result. -VonKrankenhaus

Re: ----- "and have you ever once, in 'application' been in that stance and punched to the front, with any effect (on a person, in a 'dynamic situation', not a board or a dummy ) ? " ----- I am sure I have - and all kind of other positions, including "weak" ones. I had many chances to apply and be in all kinds of actions. So yes - some weak or not perfect positions, and it's good if we are in good position at the right moment. But we find the perfect in everything and use it right then anyway - stance is not as basic as change. Change is always. But strangely, horse stance in training makes good strength base that becomes obvious in movement even moreso than in standing. This is the real value, and not really as a "fighting position". Only good "position" to be in in a fight is either winning position or somewhere else entirely. And "application" can be anything, even reaching to catch a ball, so there is no "stance" in application - just whatever training made and what instinct comes. -VonKrankenhaus

Sometimes I feel that I spent maybe half of my childhood/teen years in this position, as it is a basic fundamental, and I did spend almost all available waking moments in some form of "practicing". Punching? We began classes with 2000 punching in this stance. At that time, for fun, I am reading entire books in this stance. We have people stand on top, on legs or shoulders, and pile up maybe 6 big guys - whoever will fit, and we stand, do exercise. My wife now, many decades later, sees me looking in low mirror, trying to put on tie, and say "Spent a few years doing horse stance, eh?" Someone drops something, and I picking it up. She says "looks like spent a few years doing horse stance" I am helping deliver baby, and my wife looks and says "spent a few years doing that horse stance is what he did". Later, I see baby first standing, and say "Look! He is doing automatic horse stance!" Funny though - Not once did I ever ride one actual horse, so far. -VonKrankenhaus

For information on Japanese Taoist/Shinto cosmology, try first the Kojiki (various translations available online free), and the book The Looking-Glass God by Nahum Stiskin. -VonKrankenhaus

Re: ----- "I have a few gay friends. They come from a range of backgrounds, and are all very different people. The only thing they all have in common is that they prefer the tender embrace of a man to that of a woman." ----- Do they have hormone receptors in their cells and organs? Do they eat packaged commercially-available food? Were they exposed to the media, watching TV, and reading magazines? Were they utterly poor and living in a remote jungle from childhood? Chances very much are that the one from the jungle isn't gay or lesbian, whatever else they may be. There have always been homosexual people, and I don't see why anyone would have a problem with that. But right now there are much more than any other time, and this is interesting. This has been suggested as the actions of the Earth itself to reduce population of damaging humans. This is a misunderstanding of what a planet is, an anthropomorphism. Some say that this is due to a more permissive society, but I see that as media exposure to those ideas. It hasn't been a "spontaneous awakening" from nowhere at all - people heard about this in media and acted on it. People in this world with no media exposure didn't see it and didn't act the same. To think there has been no deliberate homosexual agenda in the media/entertainment business is just ignorance or denial. To underestimate the effects of hormone interrupting chemicals on hormonal functions is folly. For example, doctors have found that tea tree oil, which is not even a refined chemical, and is sold freely in natural food and cosmetic stores, has actually caused breasts to grow on boys. It contains hormone-interrupting compounds. But research the industrially produced chemicals like DDT, BPA. BPS, (which were used for decades in food cans and baby bottles) and what they do to plants, and animals and humans. They are much stronger. People are finding frogs in streams with no genitals at all. Alligators with the wrong sex organs. This doesn't affect human beings? Of course it does. -VonKrankenhaus

Re: ----- "I happened to think today that, perhaps, homosexuality is increasing as part of Gaia's defence mechanism against over-population." ----- I'm inclined to think that this was more the result of 50 years of media/propaganda combined with a huge proliferation of hormone-interrupting chemicals and synthetic & phyto estrogenic compounds put into consumer products and food. Sperm counts go way down, breasts going bigger, etc. Opposite kind of thing done physically with women - extreme dieting, eating more yang and androgen-enhancing foods than women ever did anywhere, etc. Period become painful or stop, chin hairs and moustaches growing. Someone decided to swap them, male and female. This is the basis for all humanity evolution, however, so result of messing with it may be very strange, or absent. Results unfolding worldwide in fairly uniform fashion. -VonKrankenhaus

The pictures look more like the effects of human over-stupidity than of human over-population. Looks like an over-incidence of stupidity. There is little about population size alone that would require such things to be done. Nothing says that because there are x-billion of people, that they must spill oil, produce industrial chemicals and aluminum and eat industrially produced beef cows and manage things so that masses of people produce "profits" for a small few, etc. In fact, the current systems for profit are nothing like the most efficient and intelligent way to live, for any size of population. -VonKrankenhaus

Re: ----- "Only appearances change. The Self remains the same forever." ----- All manifestations and all existences change. If the "Self" ever had a beginning, it will also have an end. -VonKrankenhaus

Re: ----- "What do you think, in you personal experience is the single greatest quality or charactericstic that a person can have or exhibit?" ----- Happiness. The characteristic of true, total, all-inclusive Happiness. First is required: Freedom. Cannot be truly happy if not truly Free. Happiness without Freedom is temporary, relative - not truly Happiness. Required for that: Health. Cannot be truly free without true Health. Freedom without Health is temporary, limited, and not really free. -VonKrankenhaus

Standing with wieght on the (your) left side indicates an expanded (weakened) condition on the right side. This could be in any of the organs on that (your right) side - liver, lung, ascending colon. The contraction and numbness on the left side would be associate with either this compensation (written above), or from a very contracted condition in organs on that (your left) side - spleen/pancreas/stomach, descending colon. This is something like seen in people who eat/ate much meat and refined salt, and also sugar and alcohol - but that may or may not apply to you. All of what I writing is just very general, describing, and not suggesting any particular action, and not trying to be definitive. -VonKrankenhaus