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Okay, liminal_luke maybe some time I'll look for a teacher. I think it's probably important especially with real energetic systems where they can actually show you directly that they have qi etc. But I'm not really interested in paying for this stuff or attending classes with a whole load of other people right now. Anyway if I really need help I'm sure I'll find it eventually. Thanks I've actually got both books I just haven't looked at TY because I thought it would be too difficult for me right now. But I suppose I need to start reading it. I've got it here anyway. So I'll see what it says and read through one of the study groups too.

Right, between the eyes I think. Is Foundations of Internal Alchemy a translation of the same text? TY I'm talking about.

Right so what was "original cavity" again? I can't remember. The LDT? I'll go and find the study group...

Well it's difficult for me to say where I am, but I have studied other philosophies which are probably helpful for neidan and learned from some great teachers whom shall remain nameless. Anyway, I just read some of Drew's latest blog post and after reading what SB wrote above concerning the LDT it's really helpful. So I'm grateful for that. From now on I'm actually going to put my focus on the LDT rather than just wherever the heat happens to go. I did the breathing decribed in the blog post and can feel the heat dropping on the exhale while my focus is at the navel during the inhale. https://voidisyinyang.blogspot.com/2017/04/more-details-on-real-lower-dantian-and.html So it's not really obvious to me that my LDT has really been consolidated because the heat has been a bit all over the place so from now on I'm going to focus behind navel when I breath and see what happens. I dread to ask.. but, does anyone see any problems with that, am I missing something or leaving something unthought here?

It's really not my business to say where or who St. Germain is. I just don't think it's right to intervene in these kinds of sensitive situations. It seems he was working for a secret government agency up until pretty recently and that's all I'm going to say. But like I said it's not really my business to go around pointing fingers and in any case everyone loves a good mystery.

LET'S GET RETARDED

Thanks, SB. I have no problem with people thinking I'm a fantasist and a fraud, it's part of the Menippean tradition tbh so I'm actually honoured your suggesting I take up Zen or just count my breaths rather than study neidan. Actually counting is a bit difficult for me so I'm just going to look in the mirror and dribble down my chin while I pretend to be a Ferrari instead!

Anyway, I have no ill intent for anyone here. I'm just messing around on the interwebz throwing fire!

No I didn't say that. I've been thinking philosophy day and night for years. Maybe I've been mean spirited in this thread, but I explained I was off colour and it was my own fault. And if you look through the posts in this thread people's answers are circumscribed predominately within the narrow confides of the Western mind while suggesting I'm a deviant without sufficient reason then when pushed wildly exclaiming I'm psychotic, one nameless person even managed to completely lose the plot and have a total breakdown, others claim I'm not enlightened while bad mouthing legitimate traditions and generally people are weaving weird tangents into the thread which never even touch upon the thread's topic. Starjumper is even passionately comparing what I'm saying with the miasmic political sphere in an attempt to win an argument wholly engineered within his own mind, which is quite a feat! And it's not as if politics isn't contained by the speed of light inside a post-metaphysical event horizon demonically playing to discarnate man's base emotions many orders away from the truth anyway! The guy is literally the sound of mad barking LOL.

I saw that Buddha Boy documentary and I was wondering if there are any good books which go over that type of meditation? I'm not interested if people think he's fake or whatever, just the type of meditation he's doing is what I'm thinking about. Thanks!

Thanks Wells. I wasn't thinking about tummo specifically when I asked for an opinion. Just some general ideas really and I think what Aetherous said was helpful actually. I personally am a little suspicious about drinking ice cold drinks with a hot or even warm or actually normal temperature LDT. But maybe that's just me, it's really not something I going to argue about. If other people say it's perfectly fine I'm all for it if it works for them. But I don't drink anything cold. Thanks for the help!

I just had a hot shower and at the end I turned it to cold. Then I put one leg in and it heated up straight away and the same thing happened to all the other limbs. Then I turned around and put my back in the water up to the back of my head and my back warmed up instantly. Then I turned around and I put the front of my body in the water and it didn't heat up at all. The first thing I thought of was some qigong master I read about the other day who drank an ice cold drink and ended up dying because of the effect it had on the LDT. So maybe that was on my mind and influencing me subconsciously. But it did give me a slight stomachache too. So I'm not really sure. I'm not ever going to put my front in cold water again though, but I will do it with the rest of my body. Does anyone have any opinions about that?

THANKS!

Thanks for the help!

I'm going to read - Lama Thubten Yeshe-The Bliss of Inner Fire

Thanks! I made a huge qi ball last night. Each time I widened my hands and then brought them closer together again it got bigger. Do you, or anyone else, know any books which goes over that kind of stuff? I want to buy one or two books that have loads of good information in. I'm not really talking about neidan here. Just books with stuff like the above.

I can feel the crown of my head when I breath and focus on the qi so that it feels like the air is coming through the top of my head and it felt watery when I put qi there the first time. It kind of feels like there's a hole there and in the 3rd eye and if I put my finger in either of those spots it will go right through like the skull isn't there.

Well now I need clarification because I've only moved qi a couple of times really. Once when I first activated the LDT and I did the orbit and felt it all around apart from the two points in the head and a second time in bed once with inhale up the back and exhale down the front and I felt it warming up at the LDT each time. All my meditations have been me breathing wherever the qi goes with no active involvment concerning where it ought to go. Right now my LDT is warm and if I put my focus there and start breathing correctly it will probably move and I'll feel my 3rd eye too. I'm just not doing anything today because I feel a little off colour from going out and taking drugs (NOT HALLUCINOGENS and don't ask what I took because I'm not telling anyone)

Oh dear it's Capitan Cortisol Cycle back for round two. I noticed you're not denying your secret masturbation habit and just to make things clear I'M NOT TAKING HALLUCINOGENS AND HAVEN'T EVEN TOUCHED THEM FOR YEARS. WOW you certainly walked into that one. Maybe that quote will have to go in my forum sig LOL. And you're claiming qi projection too which surely doesn't add up. Are you making the claim you personally can project qi to a high level while also ejaculating in your spare time? So now you're insulting Master Lin too? What you're saying makes no sense and honestly makes me wonder about you mental stability. Never mind it's deeply offensive and disrespectful. Please refrain from posting your unhinged fantasies in my threads in future and I really mean that. I might joke around with other people but you're sick in the head for real.

I'm going to start doing moving yin and yang in the morning and at night, plus add in the small universe even though I'm not totally sure about that right now. But most people seem agreed it's necessary to advance. But, I'm going to carry on just breathing wherever the heat goes and start going longer with that mediation seeing as that's got me where I am right now. And I'm going to do more wim hoff and wide horse stance too. Healing doesn't interest me any more at all. If I ever get high level I'll just do long meditation routines in the countryside and not talk about it to anyone,

Nope I'm not anxious and my "agitation" is directed at perverts wanting to suck me off!

Seriously Drew is super high level. I think most people can't see past his orgasms from a distance, whatever they might think about it. But there's so much more people are completely missing and I think he's getting most of his stuff from qigong and then applying it right across the board with his music theory in to lots other areas. That's what gives him the edge over other academics. I don't want people to think I'm just a mindless follower of Drew because I'm not. I think the essence or core of what he's saying is totally correct plus he's a good guy and very funny too!

LOL

From memory I think Drew said the deviancy is the right conclusion. I'm not upset with him because he took the time to write a whole blog post about it with a load of great information too. I get upset when people say something and then can't back it up. It was very nice of opendao to write something and I appreciate his doing that. But what he wrote wasn't really relevant to the topic at hand although I have no problem with that really. He was being genuine and honest and those are good qualities. You're saying I'm taking hallucinogenics and heading toward a psychotic breakdown. What you're saying is so fantastical and in the realm of fairy tales I'm not even going to respond to such bizarre claims. Yes, I did manage to project qi and my friend did experience it first hand. Maybe it's a one-off and maybe if I don't get my act together it will never happen again. Maybe there's a slight chance I can achieve very high levels in that area. All seem a very real possibility at this time.

Actually what I conclude makes me wonder why you're wasting your time at a hermitage. Anyway, I've had it with this forum. I'll delete my password and only come back when I have either advanced or fallen flat on my face. Or thinking about it I might not bother coming back. If I advance I won't want to come back here and if I fall on my face I have no problem admitting to it but I don't see how coming back here is going to help with that tbh.