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There's people who like cats, and there's people who dislike them. There's people who like dogs, and there's people who are afraid of them. There's reptilians who like people, and there's reptilians who don't. Yesterday I had a flash of creative inspiration and a whole plausible scenario appeared before my minds's eye as I was stroking my cat enjoying the feel of the smooth silky fur and the play of light on its delicate, shimmering black on grey pattern: reptilians are into humans because they (reptilians) themselves are scaly and prefer smooth animals for pets, just like we enjoy furry and fluffy pets while we ourselves are smooth. Reptilian annunaki geneticists wanted a breed of pets with no fur, for extra smoothness, so they engineered us, taking away the fur all our fellow primates still have intact. Perhaps the reason was aesthetic, or maybe they wanted to minimize their allergies to fur, much the same way humans have created a breed of furless cats, usually owned by people who like cats but are allergic to the fur. Our civilization, which is the environment that can support this unnatural genetically modified trait of ours, was designed for the specific purpose of maintaining it (it is a fact of science that domesticated animals revert to their wild traits as soon as they go feral -- e.g., domestic pigs grow back their wild boar brothers' tougher, longer bristles within 6 weeks of being let loose in the wild!..) how's that for destiny?

I doubt it... but the recipe can be found in this book: Ayurveda Secrets of Healing, by Maya Tiwari Well, I'm a staunch unbeliever in one____(anything)____fits all... and I know literally hundreds of protocols and dozens of good ones and a few personal favorites, but few "universal" ones for all people for all conditions and purposes and ages, etc.. Hmmm... OK, for an all-purpose cleanse along the "one...fits all" lines the only one I would suggest is a course of coffee enemas (sic) and vegetable juices -- this is safe and efficient for most people. Information can be found at the Gerson Institute's site. Their main focus is on cancer and other heavy duty degenerative disease, but a lighter version of the protocol works as an all-around efficient cleanse. I am familiar with the protocol, know many people who used it, have watched the effects long term, and talked to a couple hundred folks on the giving and receiving end alike. If you want to reasearch and try this, keep in mind I'm not in favor of the Gerson DIET at all, this is also experience -- it doesn't work the wonders it's supposed to and can be harmful to some -- but the cleansing part is very good.

I've studied traditional (i.e. authentic, not corporate) medicine of many countries and have a vast library on same. I have never, ever come across a tradition that doesn't include all manner of cleanses in its repertoire. Ayurveda is practically obsessed with them, considering the accumulated impurities the root of most unhealthy states. They cleanse the brain with nasyas, the circulatory system with lepas, the internal organs with enemas, etc. etc.. They scrape the tongue and bathe the sinuses in drops that feel like a bullet through the brain and can rewire your brain and cure even autism, epilepsy and stupidity. Liver/galbladder flush done the modern naturopathic way is not part of any tradition I'm aware of, being too harsh -- and dangerous in case there's a large stone sitting there that will get going and block a bile duct -- but there's liver/galbladder cleanses all over these traditions which are gentler, slower, and surer, usually involving bitter herbs, special diets, and external applications of heat with oil with herbs to the right side while lying on the right side. The big caveat with modern flushes/cleanses is that it is a method disconnected from the traditional way to do it that always takes into account the season, the phase of the moon, and the patient's constitution. No tradition ever advocates the use of a harsh cleanse with a very weak, emaciated person, or anyone with any advanced "deficiency" symptoms, or the "wrong dosha" in the case of Ayurveda, etc.. The season to do it is spring, sometimes autumn, never winter and never summer. The moon must be vaning. For a woman, the phase of her cycle is taken into account. And so on. As for the debunkers of all things natural, without a single exception they are paid prostitutes of the big Pharma, not scientists. What you get from them is what you get from any whore: catering to the paying customer. Drug companies being the only customer who's ever paid for all those "studies" that invariably debunk absolutely anything that can bring the sales of any drug down by making anyone at all a bit healthier.

Thank you, Rainbow! Cool. I also choose "resonance" as the best translation, and the phenomenon is indeed worthy of contemplation... The notion is one of the taoist fundamentals, on the same level of significance as yin-yang and qi if not greater... The superstrings of existence vibrate to the tune of ganying; nonexistence is merely a set of strings untouched by it. One could say that wuji is taiji without ganying, or to put it the other way around, silencing all ganying of houtian results in xiantian, or... tao-in-stillness doesn't ganying, and tao-in-motion doesn't move any other way but the way of ganying. This is the cat's meow of taoism, verily! Which is why whenever I come across a "superstition" I examine it for its possible hidden ganying action. In different traditions it goes by many names -- the Doctrine of Signatures, the Laws of Attraction, like begets like, "vibrational frequencies," sympathetic magic, homeopathy, the list goes on and on... to say nothing of all manner of divinations (except the stupid ones) and the reason behind the I Ching being a true tuning fork of a wider reality, with its particular moment resonating just so into your own life... to say nothing of the whole concept of karma which is as ganying a phenomenon (and/or idea) as it gets. Ganying is the very core of "real," by the way, but it is not easy to discern among the multitude of resonating patterns we're immersed in at all times. The main reason I study "superstitions" is because it is an exercise in sharpening my ear in discerning true resonances and differentiating them from sheer noise. It's a lifelong practice, to hear ganying... much like a music conductor hears a multitude of sounds produced by the orchestra and yet can clearly discern each and every one of them and tell whether it's ganying or not (without using the term, just using the ear and the vast experience that comes with decades of practice), any human being can learn to hear and understand it... with lots and lots and lots of practice. I suspect our ancestors who came up with "superstitions" "heard" it way better than we do, their world wasn't nearly as noisy as ours... so I tend to respect much of what they "heard," and don't dismiss anything on the basis of "I can't hear it" until I listen very very closely... not only with my ears of course.

I dunno. About as much as the Afghani and the Iraqi are offended at being invaded by the Americans?.. Sigh. To the rejoicement of the puppeteers, the puppets keep finding their solace in blaming, demeaning, and despising each other. Or do you mean the war in Iraq was YOUR PERSONAL CHOICE as an AMERICAN? You are the one who decided you wanted it to happen and made it happen?.. Well... if it was, kudos, you are one of the puppeteers. But if it wasn't, just keep in mind... the CHINESE invading Tibet had every bit as much power over the happenings as you. To wit: zero. Now the sum total of the puppets' power will always remain just that, zero, unless and until they stop responding to that particular string which pulls their lil' puppet hand to point a blaming finger at another lil' puppet.

Well, the qi of metal "contracts" -- which is the opposite pattern of transformations to the one you want to promote while trying to conceive -- so this is not a superstition at all... unless one counts the rest of TCM and the rest of taoism and the rest of Chinese civilization a bunch of superstitions. Interestingly enough, a close examination would reveal that most people's real unconscious definition of a "superstition" is "any belief that doesn't have a white male for its originator." By the way, TCM will also tell you to open all the doors, closets and drawers in the house and unlock all the locks when a woman is in labor. This is not superstition either; this is ganying, the art and science of resonating patterns. Its surface is currently being scratched by cutting edge physicists and mathematicians tackling chaos and fractals. Its depth, meanwhile, is a sorcerer's, shaman's, and well-educated taoist's old stomping ground.

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My favorite topic. I collect books on "superstitions" of the world and study, compare, and follow many of them too. I had scientists as far back as great-great-grandparents in my family, and my great-great-grandfather used his superstitious upbringing to apply to his scientific pursuits in agriculture. The result was the sturdiest, most successful crop Ukraine ever had for over a hundred years that is still going strong, sugar beets of outstanding performance. The old man became CEO of a company that exported sugar to 13 European countries, supplying more than half of their overall demand. No one was fat on my ancestor's sugar! My grandmother, who remembered him well from her childhood as an outstandingly superstitious man, told me that his main quarrel was with firearms -- he thought the earth got sick from the sound of shooting. He predicted WWI based on the behavior of the soil...

It is a Xiantian mudra, the earliest one a human being performs -- before birth and immediately after! It is used in female alchemy (are you female? if you are, I'll tell you more.)

Your qi moves your blood... it might move it vigorously enough to inspire you to ride a bicycle, but if it doesn't move your blood you won't move the bicycle. It's true you use energy (li, muscle force) to pedal a bicycle. Qi, however, is not li, as any good taiji teacher won't fail to mention to any decent student, along with the mantra of the art: use qi, not li. When you use li, you pant... when you use qi, you pattern. A child doesn't strain to grow... a bodybuilder does. In the first case, qi is used, in the second, energy. Qi is not energy.

Yes! All this and more. I believe what Plato believed: "God is a geometer." Taoism itself is nothing more and nothing less than an extended (albeit over millennia) interpretation of some 45 dots arranged just so in Hetu and Luoshu -- it was born of these sacred-geometrical revelations in its entirety, just the way you, me and everyone else here was born a complete whole person, not "primitive" at all, perfectly complex and complete, only very young and not yet verbal -- and to this day, taoism the real thing, the original and the best, hasn't lost the connection, and never stopped being an adequate tool for comprehending reality and efficiently interacting with it precisely because of that.

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I suggest you youtube guzheng, erhu, pipa... there's a wealth of samples, you will figure out which ones you like the most. Here's an erhu piece I like:

Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard drive?

I gave you a vote. Good luck.

Yeah, I've seen the movie, but you have to realize it's a movie, and the writer and/or the director are mere mortals who present their idea of dim mak as something bogus, which gives you an idea of what they personally believe or disbelieve -- plus know or don't know -- and not much else. The real dim mak story is quite different from the movie version. I hear what you're saying though. There's no control group to find out if it's bad FS that caused the problems. Control groups, no, but statistical groups, yes. E.g., the cops are aware of certain houses -- regardless of the level of affluency or lack thereof of a neigbourhood -- where things always go wrong no matter who lives there, consistently, for decades. They know because they get called to certain addresses where the residents may have changed but the frequency of police presence hasn't, it's always something with these houses -- a violent domestic dispute, an accident, a crime, a fire... Yup, some of these things can be felt, most of the advanced FS stuff can't though, can you feel the pull of Jupiter? -- most males and many females don't even feel the pull of the moon. Space-time FS is one of taoism's rocket sciences, it's not intuitive anymore than quantum mechanics is. A master's skill is enhanced of course with developed intuition and sensitivity and meditative/qi modulating practices, but most of it is an in-depth course of study with empirical applications as one goes, the best masters emerge after 30+ years thereof, and the ones who want to transmit the art rather than a general idea hand-pick their students and don't waste precious secrets on the unworthy. I was vacationing in the vicinity of a cemetery once. It was actually a small but very old church cemetery, with many generations of priests buried there. There were mulberry trees growing over the holy fathers' graves and they produced the biggest, sweetest mulberries I've ever eaten. I had no qualms about eating them. I've been to nice, not-so-nice, and horrible cemeteries, but I wouldn't live near one regardless of how nice it is. The world of the living and the world of the dead play by different rules. Yin FS for the graves, which in parts of Asia where they didn't lose the tradition is considered far more important to observe than FS for homes and offices, gives one an idea as to why you don't want to intermix the worlds of the living and the dead: doing so causes both to participate too much in each other's affairs. Which is why avoiding this is FS rule number one. The worst thing one can do FS-wise is invite the energies idiosyncratic for the world of the dead to participate in the lives of the living without being a professional skilled in handling them expertly (a shaman or a priest.) And vice versa -- the last thing someone who is dead needs is a noisy family running around or over the grave, or machinery, music, construction, you name it... The dead are universally known to prefer eternal peace to eternal commotion...

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= Tai Sui, the Grand Duke Jupiter, one of the main forces considered in feng shui, and by far the strongest. (Jupiter's mass exceeds that of all other planets in the Solar System put together. Doesn't it stand to reason it's going to "do something" by just "being there?") It is actually an office occupied successively by 60 deities, taking turns as rulers of the year and known as the Cycle Gods. They are heavenly generals who assist the Jade Emperor in ruling the world of manifestations. Most of them are military men. Each of them holds a weapon that signifies the nature of a particular year. Some, however, hold a pen, and are political rather than military leaders. The pen-holding Tai Sui is thought of as more dangerous by some FS professionals.

Traps are always baited with something attractive or no one would get caught. Meat in a bear trap, cheese in a mousetrap... There's usually a 4P problem underlying people's attraction to bad feng shui residences -- someone with a lucky chart will navigate toward good feng shui, and vice versa. Tell you what. Don't take my word for it. Find a good form/compass FS professional (just don't fall for anything that isn't that, which is 99% of what's out there and all bogus -- from your description of the house I gather that's what you've seen, the static make-believe FS for Western consumers originating with Lin Yun and his bogus BTB sect -- which is a FS-flavored scam, is all it is). Ask the same question. Ask ten of them. If there's going to be even one who will suggest renting a graveyard-adjacent house on the merit of its beauty and fitting the budget and so on, I'll become this master's student, upon checking the lineage credentials that is. (If there's none or if there's a Lin Yun lineage connection, I will just call a fraud.) There's groups on yahoo -- basicfengshui and advancedfengshui, if I remember correctly, where you can find a wealth of resources and ask questions and ask for references. I was a member for years years ago, and there were some serious people there, don't know what the situation is now, but worth checking out IMO.

The problems are seldom immediate and hardly ever obvious to anyone who won't phase in the feng shui connection. Of course you are still young and the younger you are, the higher your natural vitality that counteracts adverse feng shui for a while. For a while, but not forever. I had a friend whose wife killed herself by jumping from a 13th floor window of their beautiful upper west side NYC apartment. When I was there shortly thereafter, I looked out of the window she jumped from. Down below right across the street from their building I saw a cathedral, Gothic style, with its spiked towers pointing in the general direction of the window. FS rule number two is, don't live near a church, hospital, fire station, slaughterhouse, or some such. Those people lived in that apartment for fifteen years before tragedy struck. They were very happily married, professionally successful, nice people. However, the wife started having health problems and diligently treated them, only to keep getting worse. What pushed her overboard was some new pill a doctor prescribed -- she took it in the evening, jumped out at dawn, leaving a note for the cops and a letter of apology for everyone else. The husband wouldn't hear about "silly superstitions" when I tried to tell him he might want to move. He died of a stroke two years later.

Yes, mistaken you are, as is everyone who chalks up thousands-year-old taoist sciences to superstition. Chinese geomancers are the ones who discovered magnetism, for starters. Thousands of years before Maxwell and Faraday et al. They discovered that certain rocks which superstitious people said attracted certain metals -- gasp -- actually did. They made a hair-breadth needle out of one of those metals, light enough to float, and threw it in a pool of water collected in a concave leaf, and it turned always in the same direction. That's how they invented the luopan, the main tool of feng shui, whose poor relative became our compass. (No, we didn't invent it, we borrowed it from Chinese taoist civilization, too superstitious for our taste.) Anyhow... don't even go there. In fact no one should go there in diapers.

Do not rent this house. Yin energy is the least of your concerns, it's sha' qi of the graveyard that comes with the territory and can't be neutralized with any feng shui methods. Not living near a graveyard is feng shui commandment number one. There's cleansing procedures in feng shui to use after visiting a cemetery, but none for living in its proximity.