Deltrus

I probably wont post much, maybe just a few questions. I want to post on the Flying Phoenix Qi Kung thread, just a few questions and maybe a request for him to sell his stuff through online means. I have a solid scientific background, but I'm also not stuck in the constrained thinking that most western scientists are in. There are a whole host of questions that modern day science cannot answer, especially to do with the concept of awareness -- awareness of thought and sensation. This is where I'm focusing on. I actually have a few theories on how meditative arts may work, but if I mentally strain myself too hard then my energy and health could potentially crash for weeks. I really want to start blog posting on the stuff I thought up. I really believe that there is a real physical phenomenon going on in our bodies, something very beautiful. When this phenomenon is understood and observed, it will go mainstream.

I managed to transfer a mirrored copy of vol 4 onto my ipad. Took like 4 hours of troubelshooting and finding the right programs, but I did it. I'l try working on it tomorrow morning.

Man the only criticism I have for the DVDs is that they should have been mirrored. I find it so hard to move left when the character on the screen is moving right. I see a lot of people saying volume 4 is good but I tried learning it and it seems so hard. I don't think I'l ever be able to do it properly.

I dreamt a lot of stuff one night, but the stuff I keep on remembering was that inside me there was a entity on my liver like sludge with a face on it, and the impression I got was that it was feeding off my energy. Secondly there was octopus-like creatures with no face that I can remember. One giant one was on top of my whole head, and there were other ones as well. They seemed like they were helping out, utilizing energy in order to do things like pull out spikes in my brain and other areas. Thirdly there was some entity that was made out of blackness and eyes, flat and without a specific location. This didn't leave me a big impression, I thought "if I leave it alone, it will leave me alone". The liver entity gave me the largest impression. I have chronic fatigue and it seemed like it was the culprit sucking up all my energy. Does anyone have anything for defeating energy parasites? Were the octopus creatures actually helping or just pretending? Or is a dream just a dream, even though this one gave such a large impression on me? Alternatively I can continue practicing FP chi kung even though I feel it is eating my energy.

I love how your questions inspire me to think so much. Haha. You're great. You should have seen what I typed up, before my ipad crashed. I really need a new tablet thingy. I'm definitely not a busy body, just a busy mind. As for you, no idea. I think a question like that, I'd have to know you better.

My minimalism refers to minimal life and possessions. Efficiency over excess. Seperate from thoughts and concepts. My simplicity refers to concepts. Simple things, are just things as you see them. For example a leaf falling from a tree. Complex things would be thinking about the forces on the leaf, why the leaf is green, how the leaf is alive, whether the leaf is made of energy, whether the leaf exists in dimensions we can't see. And yet within all the complexity, a leaf is a leaf. Edit: holy shit I just wrote like 5 paragraphs on the concept of simplicity, abstract thought vs non-abstract, spirituality and religion. But my ipad freakin' crashed on me. My goodness I had such muse there, all gone now though.

@zen-bear I keep falling into a sleep like state when doing the exercises. For example in bending the bows I keep going to a deep trance and forget to bend my knees at the right times. I contribute this to concentration meditation, focusing on the sensation of breath on the nose, that I did for a few years. I got into the same deep state when I was doing that. Any advice? Should I keep on practicing even though I mess up? It doesn't happen with eyes open. Edit: I probably just need more practice time.

Wisdom is getting better at "being you" and also "acting in accordance with the laws of the universe". People naturally get better at this as they age. Or maybe the laws of the universe get better at acting in accordance with you as time goes on. Same thing. Two sides of the same coin.

Well maybe it is different, I was thinking spontaneous movement = spontaneous qigong. I do a mixture of qigong moves and "exercise" ish moves. Idk. It looks a little similar to yours at times.

@nature beeing funny that you recomended me this thread, I'm actually getting better at spontaneous qigong myself. I'm actually using the same intuition that I developed previously that I followed to take the proper supplements. After a while intuition can branch from qigong to medicine to life. You just have to "feel" it. Honestly I really need some custom qigong for myself. In my right shoulder and leg, I have lumps in my muscles, bones, blood vessels, and nerves because of an injury combined with long term illness. And I've found a qigong that really moves all my body parts and corrects my problems wonderfully. What I do is get a wide horse stance, feet planted in one spot, and move my ankles, knees, and hips in various ways. And also in horse stance, I rotate my arms like I'm doing skip rope or full circles with my arms. Horse stance really is what saved me and my posture. Zhan zhuang as well. I need to introduce the various internet communities I know to zhan zhuang. So easy to get into horse stand and related postures. It seems like the key to the arms, elbows, and wrists is various forms of rotation. The key to the legs, ankles, kneeds, ribs, neck and jaw is back and forth wave like movements in horse stance. Honestly around half of my spontaneous qigong is wave like movements currently. The waves really erode what needs to be eroded.

My views on the divine pretty much come down to an amalgamation of a few of the most popular interveiws on batgap.com, but with my own opinions. All I'm pretty sure of is that we will know everything at death, or there will be non-existance. That seems like a pretty good deal imo. There are a lot of hyper spiritual people that say that the life after death would be amazing and actually have a brand new system, or we reincarnate, or something like that. These people probably know a lot more than me. Religion seems to be a way to feel something already inside ourselves, be it the divine or THE divine or a part of physics we don't understand or an aspect of our brain. It's hard to say really. But yeah I'l know when I die. At any rate it seems no matter the standpoint, the idea seems to be to be that all of life is a lesson that we have to learn to love, be open, adapt, etc. As you can pretty well see, I'm open to all religious/scientific standpoints at the moment, if you want certantity then maybe ask me in 50 years.

Questions: do all exercises end in 3 deep breaths and the last breath being through the mouth? What happens if you take 4 deep breaths by accident? Is the aim for the spine and head to be straight up in all exercises which don't specifically say to bend? Like suspended by a string at the crown of my head? Edit nvm I see the last standing exercise in vol 1 has the back bent in parts, but the question still stands for exercises 1-4 in vol 1. For monk gazing at moon, do I have to have the intent of looking forward even with eyes closed? I've just been relaxing my eyes. In "bending the bows" and "monk holding the pearl" should the elbows be straight outwards and in a line or relaxed and bent towards the body? Should the hands be touching the stomach in this position, or hovering in front without touching? How many times should "bending the bows" be repeated?

I'm making this post for crazy theories. We will be totally open in this thread, anything is possible. No judgement. Science, spirituality, conspiracies, aliens, sci-fi, Christian, Daoist, Muslim, Oneness, etc. All perspectives are welcome here. Not everyone needs to understand each other nor do they need to post, but if they want to, they can do it. I've got a theory for how water can turn into a crystalline structure and may make up meridians, I'm just working on the blog post now. I've also got some crazy theories about how our body's work and how we are all part of the whole universe. How we are made of energy and how we are not made of energy, at the same time. Keep in mind that crazy theories may be flat out wrong... but that is ok. I feel like all knowledge is a perspective, each one of the same thing, some people are seeing a painting straight at the front, some people are looking it at the side and just seeing the frame, some are seeing parts of it super closely etc. But it may be very important to see the sides of an object to understand what it is. Everyone has wisdom and a good perspective, eventually we will figure out what we are looking at. Of course we aren't looking at a painting, what we are looking at may be a 4+ dimensional object with many shapes and sizes etc. It's all about linking things together in a way that others can also link things together.

Things I'm noticing as I practice: - much easier to not make mistakes if I stay exactly in the current moment, the present. - everything is getting easier as time goes on (was super hard for me at first) - Easiest way to use the dvd is to select each individual meditation, review the start, then pause at the breath sequence. Then just press "next" when done to go back to the meditation selection screen. I'm currently doing 4/5 standing exercises every morning.

EDIT nevermind, my laptop broke @zen-bear would you mind if I looked through the thread and made a FAQ / info compilation? I'm thinking of looking through the entire thread anyways over the next month or two. Also would you mind if I posted basic notes from the DVD? (Names, breath sequences, legs straight/bent, recomended duration/repitions, additional info from thread etc) Just basic stuff that is so easy to forget, to stimulate people's memory after they watched the vidoe for a few weeks.

"Lysergi" has a legal lsd analogue and has been pretty popular. 1p-lsd is what it is called.

Thanks, I was too just thinking I was opening myself up to these thoughts too much, I should just block them off and go to how I was before I had this surreal dream. EDIT: Locking this because I currently believe that I had a one time psychotic episode and shouldn't look too much into it.

http://aprilcrowell.com/asian-medicine/the-liver-in-chinese-medicine-controller-of-vision-planning/ Liver controls planning, was the liver entity a representation of my habit laziness destroying myself? What is liver wind? I seem to have many of those symptoms: I guess qi isn't just energy, it is how we use it as well, and I never plan to use my energy for things, only choosing to rest. Is rest and laziness a symptom, or the root cause itself? EDIT: Nvm exterior wind moves quickly and doesn't stay long, while I am having chronic problems.

From a scientific veiw, I don't think it will work. We are like 200 years too soon for this. Nerves and blood vessels wont align since those are often slightly different between people. Impossible to reconnect spinal nerves. If we could connect a head to a body then we wouldn't have people paralized etc. We aren't that far yet. I have no idea how his heart will beat and lungs breath. As for energy bodies no idea.

Yep thanks. The breath sequence 50 - 80 - 10 must be an error on my part.

I'm beginning to discover this myself. The stuff I've been experiences daily feels like it goes beyond what can be comprehended through physical means, I'm even starting to believe in metaphysical stuff which is usually the territory of religion. Do you have any advice for learning "thinking in the jing/qi/shen framework"?

Yeah man IDK, this is why I made this thread, I was having some crazy "quantum physics" theories due to having a 2 week long psychosis session, although I made my water theory before that. Now I have to deal with erasing old leaps of logic. I'm doing much better now though. I'm gonna go ahead and delete a few theories I now think of as not true.

I am actually getting better at following the DVDs, maybe I needed time to get better at following them and that is why I was impatient the first few rounds. I guess everyone takes a while to get used to something. People have to sleep on a new system a few times before it gets easier to follow. Also the warm exercises for standing meditations volume 1 seem to be "flossing" the muscles and veins in my injured shoulder now, which is very good I think.

Please, and thank you

Thanks. Great advice. I'l think about that. So the foundation, Shu, would be to copy the best you can, from a master, until no improvement can be seen. But man, this makes me realize, having a master in person is so helpful. He can tell you so many things, tell you what you are doing wrong, push you to do better, tell you when there is no improvement to be made, he can make necessary deviations for you, without you deciding on your own. This is cool. EDIT: I reread and reconsidered everything and I think breaking everything into parts and learning using my own strategies is a good idea for me. It was still interesting to remember that I'm in the Shu stage. I'l make sure to not "change" anything, as in alter what the video says.