Earl Grey

Back-to-back with Level 1 and 2 as well...On SKYPE!

There's a song with lyrics that characterize her seeming joy of spiritual bliss: "Hey smiling strange/you're looking happily deranged"... Playing with energy makes you high if you're a beginner and can lead to delusions of grandeur until you hit a point when you're on a low, and it's like withdrawal from crack...

Level 1 to master in one year...

I believe you--I just can't believe how ridiculous they are to publicly say these things with no understanding whatsoever.

Here are some sarcastic answers: Get some better spiritual coffee. When you're not spiritually sleeping. Get a spiritual alarm clock.

Here's something for MegaMind that involves one doctor from Yale's approval of Flying Phoenix qigong, a system I am aware that does not meet his group's standards for testing. This was posted by Sifu Terry.

This reminds me of the memory inheritance in Gene Wolfe’s The Book of the New Sun. All memories and personalities passed on through eating a mixture of an animal extract mixed with the forebrain of the previous autarch to show it’s the same leader and lineage, but also the many individuals who assume the role becoming one in the same.

Oi! ‘Tis the season! Dreidels!

and who is at fault? God, you S.O.B.: you make beautiful sunsets.

I'm more partial to Gwen Stefani's version, but love the original you posted too!

Above is an example of an affectionate toast and roast from liminal_luke that doesn't have to be set to Christmas and Hannukah jingles! Now my challenge to Luke (or whomever) is to see if you can do something like "You're a mean one, Mr. Grey" to the tune of the Grinch song!

To the tune of 12 Days of Christmas, I give you The Twelve Days of Digging but am too lazy to type out the whole version, so figure it out with each day already spelled out here like we've reached the 12th day already. On the twelfth day of digging the forum gave to us: 12. Luke's Awesome Artwork 11. A brand new Mo Pai FAQ 10. Board rules much better 9. Brian coming briefly 8. Jim's wake and party 7. Non-cis as a forum 6. Sex talk and qi flow 5. Tao-MEOW came baaaaaack!!! 4. Some awesome pics 3. More weird memes 2. Dwai and Steve's new books 1. And a chain for haiku poetry

A lot of reiki people will insist they can do more than anyone else with qi, and I usually just shut up because that’s a losing argument with a four year-old.

This SHOULD be in the Christmas thread even without matching a holiday melody!

I'd be honored knowing your sincerity in a roast!

Yes, and this leads to complete indifference I've found personally and among some peers when dealing with know-nothing know-it-alls who have funny ideas about how we should be "spiritual" and think we don't get angry or that we're party-poopers for laying out the cold, hard facts! Years ago when I was still a whelp, I found some Taoists here off-putting, but now I find them to be completely justified and relate more to them and their bluntness and indifference, and yet when we chat with each other, we even joke that Pai Mei from Kill Bill was a softie!

Are you sure you’re not one of our sister lineages or one of our instructors?😂 this is exactly what we teach and warn too!

Yep--"activation" of LDT varies across disciplines, with some being activation for healing, some for martial use, and then the rest I am not allowed to publicly discuss.

I could trade stories all day about how Zhan Zhuang is dangerous for people with mental disorders if they do it in our system, but it also helps heal them as well--provided they have supervision by the teachers. Here's one, for the purpose of this thread: when some people reach a certain level of practice, usually when standing for an hour is comfortable in several postures, hallucinations will come in, and this is before we even teach them the Hindrance part of our syllabus to develop power in Xin Yi. On the one hand, people see ghosts and floating faces, on the other hand--they are there. There was a time I was with several students at a very special hour for training that I won't mention here as it's a public secret, but still a secret as to what is a good training time for optimal practice. Walker and Zork know what time this is at least, and I'm sure you do too. We were standing in the mother posture for an hour, and my German student's hair stood up when my Australian student said she saw my face changing shapes and hair color turn blond, and the German lad said he would never had said anything if she didn't first because he thought he was hallucinating from the time and the effort of standing for an hour. It came to a point that they saw a wolf head replace mine, then the limbs became larger than a torso, then an outline of body was no longer the physical body they knew, but an Earl Grey-shaped space that looked like they could walk into and go through and into the ocean of stars in the cosmos. Campfire tales were fun that evening, so to speak...

No, no, I do Xin Yi 心意 , not Xing Yi 形意! But I also know Xing Yi as well as Bagua, as our grandmaster studied them both along with Taijiquan, Liuhebafa, and Yi Quan before incorporating what was necessary into our syllabus!

And this is exactly why self-initiation and practice is dangerous for beginners...as I've written many times throughout the forum and in another thread that the old admin refused to remove as well.

Yep, and that stance they call "wuji" is not what we use in Xin Yi--we go right into embracing, the mother posture, before we go into the others of the 9 main postures. None of the systems I have use this except in the opening and closing for a special Baguazhang eight directional Zhan Zhuang set.

Some people have a hard time learning their lesson, some people don’t want to learn it, and in that regard, I thank you, moment, for attempting to appeal to someone’s better nature even if he himself refuses, and won’t say much else as this thread is for Jim, not any other agenda.

He is following what I said when pointing out your post was inappropriate. It also does not match recent interactions with you where you said you prefer to talk with me offsite via email and here you are being passive-aggressive and inappropriate again, while now acting like you don’t understand.

Wow, do we know the same person or people? I have a student who after a year hated the Taoist path because she realized that what she really wanted was to dance again and that being a fighter wasn't what she wanted nor was it what she was doing anyway sitting, standing, and doing a seven-move form. It also makes me wonder, not talking about MegaMind and his group specifically, but people who are drawn to the Mo Pai practice. It seems almost all of them just want power, but towards what end? From what I recall, a lot of people in MegaMind's group in their filtering process tend to hate people who want to learn the instructions they have from Jim and company purely for power. An example is if someone claims they want to be able to fight, they tell them to learn BJJ or MMA, or if they want power, they tell them something along the lines of a generic 12-step course. Kind of interesting how Jim's informal students have their own views of restricting the admittedly weirder people looking for Mo Pai, who have no affiliation with either Jim's friends or official students of the school in Java.