Earl Grey

It is best for you to get the information from Sifu Terry himself. As I oversee the thread on his behalf due to his schedule, I will ask him to reply to you at his earliest convenience.

The funny thing is the original thread and this thread had nothing to do with Mo Pai and it kept getting brought up while I who this thread was addressed to wanted to not talk about it. As for questions to be answered, I have no interest in Mo Pai, my questions that up to now are unanswered are related to life experience, which were ignored in favor of pushing for Mo Pai.

I meet so many people who believe they have angels telling them what to do--a geriatric I met in a bookshop once told me that he was looking for certain titles because his angels told him he had a message for Trump and the merchant was just nodding and saying, "Mm-hmm...." As for services, some of my practices I offer for free, and a lot of times I'll give people a little taste here and there before telling them that the full course meal has a heavy price not just financially, but in terms of commitment. I always heal with Jyorei for free, offer Reiki if someone really needs help. My Akashic services are free, but I don't shy from donations. Teaching the internal arts and all, well, I give a few things for beginners, but the rest is reserved for enrolled students (see my WIP fitness program that introduces Xin Yi slowly after strength training). But anyway, here's a story about another so-called expert: he claimed that Crowley once dissected a cat as a child and because of that, all of his work is evil and that his deck shouldn't offer any good insight since his energy was tainted by that cruelty. I refrained from reminding him that he was the guy who hated his girlfriend's one-time infidelity but never answered when his own consistent infidelity was brought up, among other things...or that he claimed he had a certificate from Japan saying he was enlightened...He never charged for his services, but he certainly never say no if someone wanted to "relax" after a session... Here's another guy who also loved to know people's astrological signs and "fix them and their problems too" to the point he had no idea how bizarre it was to ask someone's name and astrological sign in person, then he'd pull out a little pocketbook (and has since evolved to an app) to check their sign and how they affect him. He now uses a tarot app as well and doesn't understand why people are so "closed-minded about tarot and astrology" as he "tries to open their minds".

I thought I'd create this thread to post stories about some of the odd people I encounter in the tarot community. Perhaps it's time I share some stories. I. Let me begin with a lad who we can already understand the kind of person he is when his business card is The Emperor from Rider-Waite. He goes on to publicly state everywhere that nobody can read tarot properly and he is out to certify them because his an authority. He is also someone who claims to practice black magic and punishes his enemies--meaning anyone who doesn't agree with him, and he is married to a Reiki "master" who teaches yoga. II. Another person whom I met started charing people about $25 USD for tarot readings, and I asked how long he had been reading. He and his girlfriend said "two months" and I asked how long ago did they begin learning, and they said "two months ago" and I said how did they decide to read for others and have such authority, and they said "Oh, we felt we were at the right phase after using an app for two months". Their preferred tarot deck is "Welcome to Nightvale" and that the intent of the tarot reader is all that is important, not the deck. III. The last guy I met was unemployed and gave free readings with his young friend for each other, asking the same question every day again and again about love. Literally. Ten variations of the same question, EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. And they asked me why I didn't ask questions for tarot often, because I do readings maybe once every few weeks and use specific decks for certain kinds of questions. They didn't seem to understand why the expected outcome from their readings didn't manifest, and I asked them if they did anything about it, to which they told me no, they were waiting to be told what to do.

Hello, if you read through the thread, Sifu Terry posts many workshops for Flying Phoenix and other arts that he teaches. As for certification, he also offers this and mentioned it on the the thread before. I myself am working on teacher training.

I actually proposed this before in an earlier thread for simplification of the forum and even ran it by him and the former ilovecoffee. I believe it's a good idea, but again, it depends on their willingness to share this information, and from the initial reaction, it didn't seem to be the case, but with your support, it may make a difference.

Dan the dickhead and dog diddler both seriously are frightening. I’ve run into a few dodgy individuals like them... did I mention the guy who used the emperor as his business card and his wife were both terrible people? The wife had an affair with her student and then when the student tried to break it off she wanted to hire a hitman, and—wait for it—she then asked her husband, whom she cheated on, to use black magic to punish her paramour! And they somehow tout themselves as THE center for healing and metaphysics, but he has probably THE WORST understanding of Crowley than anyone else I met before and up to now, online and offline (that’s saying a lot!). I mean besides certifying people for being eligible to understand tarot he certifies them as being intuitive! Yes: someone will print a certificate and say you are intuitive and can follow your intuition! AAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!! At least you left us with a happy ending for the third story!

Exactly, you have authority as a learned student. He’s basically arguing like a guy who checked out a couple library books and telling an actual academic that you’re wrong!

In my very brief studies of Crowley, I never made the conclusions you have made. While he is indeed very esoteric and controversial, the author you characterize doesn’t sound anything at all like the one I have read. I wouldn’t be able to quote passages as I’m not as deeply engrossed in his teachings aside from his tarot deck and having skimmed Book 4, but I wonder what makes you interpret him as such. It’s analogous to reading the poetry of Sylvia Plath and thinking that education for women is a bad idea because you don’t like what was written and feel that her book will only encourage suicide. Nungali and others make better points than I do and I don’t hold his teachings sacred, but my point is that you don’t seem to understand the basic ideas he’s spelled out and the shared concern is that you’re uninterested in getting clarification from someone who does have the qualifications to help you best understand the text—and for free too.

Post your questions here: https://www.thedaobums.com/topic/12639-flying-phoenix-chi-kung/

What say ye @Nungali?

Please follow rule #6!

Which has absolutely nothing to do at all with what I am talking about or the topic of this thread, which is what makes us laugh. If you have a hard time finding joy or laughter even in small things, then that is on you. Don't shoo out the clowns because you don't find them funny when some of us actually came to see them.

You remind me of the wisdom of Wayne Dyer and a story he once told in The Power of Intent. Two ministers were working quietly in their respective area next to one another. A man storms in and starts demanding that they give him what he wants as he has endured hours of bureaucratic nightmares and incompetence. The first minister nonchalantly looks up at him and softly says, "Kindly remember rule number six, please." The man suddenly stops in place, as though a lightbulb had gone off in his head, then says, "Oh! Right! Thank you!" and he breathes a sigh of relief, then leaves with a face of complete peace and acceptance. A woman comes in after having kicked the door open and throwing her hands up in the air, ready to bite someone's head off, demanding to be seen. The first minister again looks up and politely says, "Kindly remember rule number six, please." The woman immediately blushes, laughs, and says, "Oh, of course! What was I thinking! D'uh!" She walks out with the same sense of elation, completion, joy, and peace as the man before her had when he was given the friendly reminder. The second minister looks up and says to the first minister, "Hey, you're pretty good at handling these kinds of things. Can you please tell me what rule number six is?" The first minister smiles back and says, "Oh, ha! It isn't that complicated. Rule number six just says 'Don't take yourself so god damned seriously'. That's all there is to it." The second minister said, "Hey, pretty good rule! So what are the other rules?" The first minister responds, "There are no other rules."

Reading the back and forth on this thread, I am beginning to be reminded of an intellectual, a worldly lad named Ignatius J. Reilly, protagonist of esteemed late author John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces. Ignatius considered himself worldly but had never left New Orleans, and was chronically unfit for work while railing against the assault on good taste and reason. One of Ignatius' favorite books was The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius, and how he consistently reasoned out all misfortune and all that is wrong in the world with people forgetting the wisdom of such medieval philosophy. Fortuna's Wheel would spin, and his life was a slave to its indiscriminate nature, for good or for ill. It should be noted that for a well-educated lad, he also comically missed the point of Boethius and was conveying the exact opposite of how Fortuna's Wheel functioned, and the more he spoke of Fortuna, the more he not only showed that he had no idea what he was talking about, but that he inadvertently contradicts himself. His rival, Myrna Minkoff, consistently pushed his buttons and inspired him to constantly prove her wrong, even if her point wasn't that he was wrong, but that his reasoning itself was flawed and came from a severely deprived background, perhaps Oedipal in nature. Highly recommended reading!

Well, this kind of control is impressive (it dramatically improves the song too):

I had a friend once who was Roaring Thunder and another friend who was Silent But Deadly. They were a group of misfits (including me...) who would go to places like haunted houses in Universal Studios or those Halloween pop-up mazes. Roaring Thunder would fart on the people hiding and preparing to do jump scares or hold one in constantly just in case he had someone sneaking up behind him. Silent But Deadly would eat all that wonderful stuff like gorgonzola cheese and cherry coke in anticipation and proceed to leave a trail of tears for the scare actors in his vicinity who were unprepared for this assault on the senses.

You have way more patience than I do when dealing with tarot experts, good sir. I think at some point I will start another thread on horror stories of dealing with self-proclaimed tarot experts.

Alternative definitions I have heard to simplify jing, qi, and shen that have been posted here multiple times already: Qi is your energy, akin to the money you have on hand in your wallet, but qi itself is not energy per se. Jing is your life essence, akin to the savings you have in the bank Shen is reality itself and the blueprint for everything, akin to marketshare and how the greater marketshare you have, the greater influence you yield. (thank GSmaster for contributing this analogy of marketshares).

Then Flying Phoenix is your best bet.

Best to ask Terry Dunn or Garry Hearfield, the lineage holders GMDW has appointed, about that.

It is not a simple question. But you appear to know more than some people who dedicate years of their lives to be able to give what’s best and if you focus on money then you will get exactly what you put into it. Eric is a good guy and I myself have multiple systems under my belt. Eric has been used by multiple members of this forum and is endorsed by Terry Dunn of Flying Phoenix if you’re so skeptical of his skill and expertise. Searching his name in this forum will show multiple people besides me recommending him and sharing their satisfaction consulting him. When mixing systems, say for example Flying Phoenix can not be mixed with Fragrant due to the no abstract breathing rule. You wouldn’t know that. Flying Phoenix can be mixed with spontaneous forms or sleeping qigong or even Tao Tan Pai as well. I wish you good luck trying to save money on an important lifetime practice and commitment.

It depends from system to system and you as an individual. Consult Eric Isen with the systems that interest you and he can tell you how good the synergy will be between the two systems or more for you. www.ayurvedicintuitive.com

A broken clock may show the right time twice a day, but the problem with Frantzis is that he claims to have more power, understanding, and skill than he actually does, and it shows in some of his instructors and the experiences of people I know in his courses with him who have characterized him as being more interested in financial gain and promoting himself. I will share vague details here and save the actual story for my close confidantes: he boasted about his skill somewhere in public, but was unaware of the individual in front of him being very skilled himself. Volunteering himself when BKF wanted to show off his skill, he ended up embarrassing BKF as BKF ended up on the other side of the room, who then realized that he had forgotten his humility.