Aletheia

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JEDIMASTER! 1. 00:00 - 09:13 - Leaving The Cave 2. 09:14 - 17:42 - Structures 3. 17:43 - 27:32 - Verdens Største Satellit 4. 27:33 - 35:18 - Beyond The Peak 5. 35:19 - 45:13 - Tales of The Giant Stones 6. 45:14 - 51:44 - Memories 7. 51:45 - 57:57 - Southern Hemisphere 8. 57:58 - 1:05:15 - Daybreak 9. 1:05:16 - Fields of Light It's not the kind of stuff I normally listen to. So there you go, the track names are pretty cool thou!

Maybe a diet problem or something concerning the health of the physical body. Because from my personal experience I think deep slow breathing is necessary for reaching the level where praying touches upon the deeper essence of things. I was thinking how after prayer Muslims run their hands over their faces the same way people do after meditation. Probably to help bring us back to the external senses and the every day world around us. The qigong master perhaps does not suffer that problem because he realises the two states ultimately can not be separated -- they work hand in glove as one. Borrow deep enough into the dreamscape and you find yourself back in everyday world. Perhaps!

I saw Drew updated his blog and mentions you. I think you better watch your step too because speaking generally here and from personal experience I think Drew is pretty much right about everything! (Big groan and rolled eyes from over half the forum members lol)

Religious texts are actually written on the fabric of dreams then solidified in the form of a book then preached as gospel by a class of idiots we call the priesthood. Not to cause offence to anyone, that's not my intent here. But prior to the priestly class even coming into being with the rise of civilisations there were only shamans. The shaman does not preach dogma given to him by way of others because he has direct access to the truth -- No religion need be invoked to back up the claims of the shaman. He just touches your heart. Then you'll know too the difference before knowledge and wisdom, priest and shaman.

All the energy I have is coming through the top of my head. I only realised yesterday and then I noticed I don't really feel anything in my soles and legs. Up to now everything I've done has been while slouched at the computer with a curved spine! I'm going to rub the soles of my feet and stand on tip toes 6 times to help open the channels and then do moving yin and yang while drawing the energy up from the floor into the LDT and keeping the 3 fields aligned in horse stance with knees slightly bent. 1 what do you think about that? 2 what's an alternative exercise other than moving yin and yang? I've seen one that looks like hugging a tree. THANKS FOR THE HELP!

Ebert is feeling around in the dark, he knows what he's looking for because he's trying to counter the Freudian patriarchy. What he's actually trying to find is the San tribe way back in history. "THE WOMEN CONTROL EVERYTHING" AKA the metaphysical vulva Anyway, thanks Drew I read your post and I feel like there's a big dent forming in the middle of my forehead. So maybe I'll be seeing ghosts soon!

The world is NOT objective in the sense science's unthought presuppositions might have one believe. It changes with time and that's what he's talking about in the podcast -- the changing of the world through time! In any case the world can be reshaped just through creative imagination itself, never mind the material warping abilities of a true qigong master. If I didn't know that for a fact I would never have been able to help my friend with her bad leg! I just don't think people understand what they're got or who they really are and that's a shame really. -- Martin Heidegger https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=NM5PqgKd2dsC&dq=Science+doesn%27t+think+%22zizek%22+plague+of+fantasies&q=Science+doesn%27t+think+ Zizek's response. He doesn't see it because he's caught up in the language of the patriarchy while simultaneously trying to point the finger elsewhere! EDIT: This is where Drew comes into the picture because he worked out what was going on in the San trance dance and its historical significance too. But it's funny how he's introduced the metaphysical vulva in the video. Anyway, I really don't want to derail this thread. It wasn't my intention and I really am grateful for all the help.

Anyway, listen to the podcast if you're interested. The guy giving the commentary is one of the best philosophers alive engaging academic texts. I think so anyway.

I'm not saying I personally believe in alien abductions. I'm saying the phenomena can be explained by the "death of God" it's actually a technical term in philosophy, I should have mentioned that. As my friend said when region dies it doesn't just stop working but morphs into other areas of life and most likely manifests as paranoia and anxiety etc. "the greys" "the avatar of Trump" etc. So when religion is working all meaning systems point toward it. Something happens in nature and its an act of God, the week is organised around the church, you see a painting and you know what it reflects, you know where you came from and where you're going etc. When "God" dies meaning starts to splinter and deform while black holes begin to appear within the fabric of reality which in turn allow dark forces to enter into the consciousness stream. All the while the world increasingly has a hollow washed out tone about it. Nietzsche's post-God metaphysics was one of a brutal and blunt will-to-power. So what happened after Nietzsche declared God is dead? Rather than a rich life-affirming metaphysics full of rich cultural forms all we had was a godless materialistic will-to-power -- two world wars concerning competing utopian ideologies, atheism, consumerism, advertising, UFO cults, rising mental health issues, conspiracy theories galore, pop concerts, porn and best of all truth given by the sciences which pretends it can know the world objectively! (all the problems I mentioned go on behind Science's back while it's not watching lol).

I didn't mean to go off topic there. I've bookmarked this thread so I can go over it again. I really appreciate all the help too. THANKS!

Thanks for the help! I'll have to make sure to start making notes so I can take it all in, Although once you are exposed to something a few times the knowledge is absorbed in to the periphery of awareness and necessarily restructures the life-world. I was going to post a podcast for Drew that I thought he might like seeing as he was talking about alien abductions, but there's something in it concerning the nature of the self too which pads out what I'm saying above so I'll post it here - http://www.declinecast.com/2017/02/09/7-intro-to-sloterdijks-spheres-trilogy/ After Nietzsche's "death of God" and the realisation of the vastness of cosmos which followed, the human psyche was totally exposed to alien extraterrestrial invasion! The gods/god and angels where switched out and replaced by unknown and unknowable entities that inhabit interstellar space! The actual cause of that problem goes back all the way to the copernican revolution and the collapse of the Babylonian world-picture, I think. Maybe mentioned in the podcast too, not sure though. In the podcast I think he says alien abductions began to occur with the rise post-WWII electronic media. All cultures are always mediated by a primary means of communication whose effects on the psyche go unnoticed because of their all around pervasiveness. EDIT: Maybe Drew will read this @ 14:00 in the podcast he says there's a shift from images (like the images of qigong or Kundalini yoga which have a real essence about them because they relate to frequencies of consciousness i.e. jing/qi/shen/ and are anchored by the Dao) to linguistics which do not have any essence after the death of God and are phonetic anyway. Zizek is a Lacanian psychoanalysis and doesn't believe in images, that's why he's completely nuts! In Western metaphysics the essence of things was given by the transcendent -- the Platonic forms, God etc so without that capture to hold meaning in place the world falls into a chaotic state of nihilism like Nietzsche said it would. Structuralism is what followed the death of God and it says meaning is given by difference. Cat is different to bat, sat etc so meaning is given by difference within the whole structure of language. But no essence. Lacan was using that system of difference for his linguistics.

Great! thanks for the help, Spotless.

Imagine a thin thread attached from the bottom of you diaphragm to your perineum and then when you breath the thread shortens and pulls the diaphragm and perineum towards one another while the stomach muscles slowly push inward. That seems to work. So the breathing all happens below the lungs. EDIT: That's just my opinion. I have somewhat followed SFQ but am not that knowledgable about the teachings tbh.

For now anyway I'm thinking about doing one round of wim hof shaking knees, then another round (36 breaths) sitting down and then doing 5/10 minutes seated meditation with my grounding mat and just keep going around like that and see how it goes. I'll try that out after I finish my tea. I'm celibate atm too and I'm eating stir-fry with rice noodles with some added eggs. Then eating nuts and some mackerel if I get hungry and I only begin eating in the evening. Does anyone have an opinion about that?

Thanks, FX! I'll check it out. I was thinking back to when I healed my friend and I was standing up at the time and get the impression I wasn't feeling it like I do while seated even then. So the energy is there, I think. Anyway, I worked out why I was getting tension headaches which I think I was talking about earlier in this thread and it was because I was getting a bit emotional thinking about the healing. The level of consciousness achieved during the healing was pretty mind-blowing for me personally. It was like being at the edge of eternity watching the gathering of time enter into reality. That by itself is quite extraordinary, and then I think to myself while it occurred material reality was measurably affected plus someone else actually experienced it too on a personal level and got better (because she was going to go to hospital, the leg got better, I pulled out "sick" energy and the leg changed colour and all the pain went away) plus there were other people there who all witnessed what happened and the whole thing gets me a little emotional when you add everything up. If someone confronted me about feeling heat between the eye-brows for the first time I wouldn't be too confident defending my claim because it was only brief and has only happened once. I feel the same way about the healing, but I can't really deny it because it didn't just happen in my bedroom while I was by myself. My friend actually asked me if I could feel the heat while it was happening too. Anyway, I don't really want to screw things up and I really want to get a good foundation, I just lack loads of qigong/neidan knowledge. Some guy in another thread here was implying I'd been infected by Hempel's insanity and I need some help, I think. So I said I wasn't clinging to every word Drew writes on his blog. Which is true I don't read everything he writes. But then Drew wrote I was being "wilfully ignorant" for not reading his "idiot's guide." So I was thinking, well I may be ignorant, but not wilfully so. Then it occurred to me maybe he's right and perhaps I should read his "idiot's guide." Whatever, I think Drew deserves some credit here because I think I'm doing pretty well seeing as I literally haven't got a clue what I'm doing. I don't think you'll find another system on the planet where you get someone achieving qi protection before they even know what it means to mediate. Which is what I was asking about in the other thread. I'll read the guide and see what happens. Hopefully it's got some wim hof shaking knees in there somewhere because I already know how to do that one!

I got a grounding mat and there actually does seem to be a big difference with the heat generation and I felt heat between my eye-brows for the first time too. Although this was all sitting down, not standing.

The thing is when I'm sitting down I feel qi more tangibly then anything I experience externally through the senses. But when I stand up I don't really feel it, or things feel quite different. So I'm not sure why that is. Earlier I tried standing and everything felt the way it does when I'm seated, breathing, concentration etc and it felt like everything was right. But the qi is really much more subtle for some reason. I'm not sure how normal that is for qi to feel different when standing and seated. Does that happen for anyone else?

I'm going to get a grounding mat. Are there any good ones on amazon anyone can recommend? I got the idea after I just looked up mopai and it says And really heat actually at the perineum itself was only something I vaguely felt today when I tried standing meditation for the first time. I can feel the point between the perineum and the diaphragm, at the end of a breath, creating heat and can feel heat at all the other lower points like the bladder and the tailbone, but I don't really feel it right at the perineum itself and that could be because I'm not grounded properly. Like I was saying before. EDIT: actually I can feel it now while I'm sitting down. So I was making that up about not being about to feel heat at the perineum. I'll still try out the grounding mat and see how it goes. I'm thinking about using it while sitting down and standing.

I think it's a mental thing atm and I'll get it right in the next few day I think.

Thanks. After a while I just kept trying different breathing techniques, moving farther forward/backward, moving my feet farther out etc, Anyway, I'm going to do my first sitting meditation in a bit and see how that goes!

Just did my second standing practise and felt nothing again. I gave up before I got tired actually. I can feel qi now I'm sitting down. But, I can't get the stance right! Maybe I'll get some qi while I'm sitting down and then stand up, but I don't think that's going to help. I'm not really sure where I'm going wrong tbh. Actually it was better than the first one, I had better concentration and did feel a tiny bit of qi a couple of times in the earth meridian.

Tucking the tailbone slightly engages the glutes and also closes the lower magpie bridge. I just tried it and I can feel the qi and do the correct breathing etc. For some reason it just didn't really occur to me what I was doing wrong and I was thinking my leg channels were closed or something which they probably are somewhat. But I just wasn't getting the stance right so it felt like everthing was empty and that's why I never wanted to do anything standing. But now I can do that for 20 minutes at a time with the added shaking knees. So who knows, at this rate maybe next month I'll be posting asking how to stop levitating! I'm just getting this from Drew. I don't know what you guys have been reading from him, but it's all there if you care to look!