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Can Theravadin Buddhism be compatible with Taoism?
voidisyinyang replied to Oneironaut's topic in Daoist Discussion
Know of any Theravedin monasteries that achieve this? There's one in Burma focused on WEsterners - but still - I mean I'm not sure how isolated it is. For example isn't is true that during the rainy season the monks would do a long meditation session with the teacher in the forest? It seems that Western "forest" monastery keeps the monks on a set routine year round - go get your daily food - go back to your hut and meditate. I read one Western expose of becoming a Theravedin monk and he said the big problem was constipation from the white rice. Then I read up on that Western forest monastery in Burma and they say they're introducing different kinds of food to add more fiber to treat constipation. haha. I think if they were doing the "moving of yin and yang" standing active exercises then constipation shouldn't be that much of an issue. I would say the main difference for me - after studying the different philosophies for years is that Taoism is explicitly based on a three-in-one harmonic resonance while Buddhism is derived from the Vedic symmetric logic system - even if the Buddhist logic is "neither this, neither that." Of course I'm simplifying and that is meant to be obvious since Buddhists - precisely because of that symmetric logic limitation - tend to get caught in eternal arguments of the conceptual realm - never realizing that the problem is in the symmetric dualistic structure of phonetic language itself. Still Theravedin monks do the Full Moon all night meditation with the females and that is tantric as is the females feeding the monks - more tantra there. So the "complementary opposites" resonance is implicit to Buddhism - also that females are not allowed to touch the monks. Yeah but still for example Burma still is a military regime that has used slave labor to build meditation temples for the Western tourists who don't know any better - they're just attracted to Buddhism, not realizing they are relying on slave labor to seek enlightenment. Thailand is based on U.S. military bases working with a regime there also. Laos and Cambodia also still recovering from the genocidal U.S. invasions - bombing and the fall out from that. So it seems a bit asking too much for a Westerner to be fed for free so he can meditate as a monk in countries that have bombed and set up military bases and military regimes of vast oppression that starve the masses. I know there's a lot of prestige and karma for feeding the monks and so the wealthy elite in those countries give huge donations to the monasteries but then it feeds corruption as well. This is true of the "forest monks" who, precisely because of their previous seclusion from the modern world, achieved high levels of spiritual mastery - and so were courted with generous contributions by the military regime - so that the regime could hopefully get some of the spiritual power. You could say that is true of Westerners in general - seeking out the spiritual power of Eastern meditation masters who come from a culture of seclusion - the Westerners coming from a culture of military regimes posing as democracies, etc. And so we as militarized Westerners hope to, by offering prestige and money, get back some spiritual energy. So I guess that is also true for Taoism. As far as the meditation process - I was in a Theravadin monastery to become a monk and so I read about the "achievement of cessation" as the first level of samadhi - and so this requires a week long fast. So again is that even possible in that forest monastery in Burma - because as I said in the rainy season there would be longer meditation sessions in isolation - like a couple months - but it seems like in the "modernized" monasteries the local citizens control the routines of the monks and so the monks have to just be focused on doing community ritual events and so the monks can never really achieve deep samadhi success. Because the citizens under "democratic reform" have changed the monasteries into being controlled by the citizens who obviously are not monks and so should not have the ultimate say - and yet they do and so the monasteries are changed into charity places for education and food, etc. People then have no idea what they are missing. -
Commodity Fetish of Folk Taoism as Late Capitalist apocalypse
voidisyinyang replied to voidisyinyang's topic in General Discussion
So it's ironic you mention the spiritual masters flying around, etc. That's exactly what I'm focusing on in that thread. called: Commodity Fetish of Folk Taoism as Late Capitalist apocalypse My point is that while there is no escape from this - the Taoist or male initiation training is sort of the final commodity of sublimated sex energy which at the same time is then marketed as the ultimate good to be pursued in the late-capitalist market. Can it be achieved? Most likely not. Yet it has been achieved in the near past - like the article I just posted from 1986 NY Times with a qigong master saying there are only 20 real advanced qigong masters in China. The real training has to be done in secret - by the males - away from the females and so unless this foundation is achieved then the power is next to impossible to control. And that is indeed how it was originally taught as the Tshoma ritual - which I was just studying from the various online sources. But yeah I'll spend my money on a real qigong master to feel that amazing qi bliss in the center of my brain any day. haha. People have no idea what they are missing. Until they die I think. Instead we have mass male ejaculation addiction syndrome. For example all the cleavage shots which are the norm now - it's really just primate female display behavior. Primate female display behavior is mainly the female backside. For human females though the cleavage is just the front side equivalent of backside display behavior. So the cleavage is the subconscious message of male ejaculation - insert it in that cleavage for the doggy style dopamine bliss - and that is the subconscious reaction to the cleavage as display behavior. And so think of McDonalds - what is that big arch but a big subconscious cleavage symbol? And then what is the message of McDonalds - Loving the Beef. The whole thing is about maximizing male ejaculation. And people really do love it because if the man doesn't keep his testosterone jing energy up - then the weak will be killed off - kill the poor is the main message of the technofeminist "might is right" message. So then it's the edifice complex based on missile envy - technology is just a huge ejaculation contest - the biggest ejaculation will be the destruction of civilization itself. -
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CB8QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.waketech.edu%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Flibraryfiles%2Fereserves%2Fant220%2Fkalahari.pdf&ei=EzU4Vf75MoHHsAWn34DABg&usg=AFQjCNH2Q5GCtgBPMfFAJUPBtI1vqXk5wQ&sig2=NtKjiz5WyHWQOz_yQMqFHA&bvm=bv.91427555,d.b2w So Richard Lee - anthropologist for Bushmen, 90% of human history - on their "trance dance feasting." The focus of the essay is how the Bushmen are required to mock the meat that the hunters kills - so a big fat animal has to be scorned as bony and skinny - this is to emphasize the power of N/om as an impersonal energy and against the ego. But also the essay confirms that indeed the meat is eaten before the actual trance dancing takes place. So that would be very much like what the Tibetan monks do - normally vegetarian but eating meat to induce the tummo heat initially and then relying on the trance samadhi to continue for the real heat from the kundalini "jing to qi" conversion. So they keep joking that the meat will not give them enough strength to trance dance.
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I've personally gone to eat with a qigong master eating a steak meal - several times. haha. He said he had to rebuild his energy. The original human culture compared hunting meat to females - hence the Megan Beisele book, "Women Like Meat" which is a play on three levels - women are like meat, women like meat, and the hunters attract meat the same way they attract women. https://books.google.com/books?id=x9uAPeAmSj0C&pg=PA218&lpg=PA218&dq=tshoma+meat+eating&source=bl&ots=mXcqAHTp1I&sig=C8qw2WeD_EAm0EXKODnT-A6KSaQ&hl=en&sa=X&ei=myc4VfvJKqfPsQTVmIDoDg&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=tshoma meat eating&f=false Let's see what 90% of human history says about eating meat and developing N/om energy. This is a new source for me on the Bushmen. So the traditional Tshoma training is a month in isolation away from females. But obviously the males doing that training in modern times can't achieve that. The first menstruating female is equated with the male Eland bull - because both are strongest in N/om energy. The big problem with meat is salt and preservatives. So that link says the boys in Tshoma avoid salt. That completely makes sense. So also the boys avoid meat that has strong N/om - Aardvark - but also honey which has strong n/om. That makes sense - because honey is concentrated fructose and fructose activates the vagus nerve - which causes yin qi to rise up the front of the spine - when yin qi is supposed to rise up the back of the spine. So avoiding honey completely makes sense. Yeah so I think Tshoma is mainly fasting but again it also means avoiding females for a month. The problem is that even with celibacy the male still loses "yin qi" energy to females - through the eyes and the mouth, talking, etc. https://books.google.com/books?id=7LWWvbwf7tsC&pg=PA90&lpg=PA90&dq=tshoma+meat+eating&source=bl&ots=xhXNbnv-fJ&sig=VQpsCOx92DRSJ2WX6Rd1GO5-Xro&hl=en&sa=X&ei=myc4VfvJKqfPsQTVmIDoDg&ved=0CEwQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=tshoma meat eating&f=false Another Tshoma book reference So here again it stresses that young adults who are reproductively active need to avoid food rich in N/om energy. So the females have to avoid the fatty mongongo nuts - that are otherwise the staple to the diet. Ostrich eggs are so rich in N/om they can not be eaten unless an adult has had five children already. http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=7&ved=0CEsQFjAG&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.peacefulsocieties.org%2FArchtext%2FBieHow81.pdf&ei=RS04VcjpFs-lyASWsIDABQ&usg=AFQjCNHd_9cC7ejZqmq5SNvsd-Lx3qNetA&sig2=QW_dDMWb7v6z382xEoR9pw&bvm=bv.91427555,d.aWw&cad=rja pdf link for Megan Beisele so she also talks about an older master healer who eats meat. o.k. another study on the rite of the first kill for the Bushmen http://sc2218.wikifoundry.com/page/The+!Kung+of+Nyae+Nyae+and+Dobe+Ju%2F%27hoansi and so the food for Tshoma training and So it appears plants and separation from females for the training. Then the first big kill hunt to end the training. now for the females and meat: This fits exactly with the requirements of the training detailed in Taoist Yoga: Alchemy and Immortality and also for Brahmin priest purification training and for the Amazon shaman training - females should have no contact with the males. and finally: So obviously this respect of gender separation for the training is not honored in modern culture - on the contrary the focus is on male ejaculation addiction via the "sex sells" commodification racket. So then men have to eat meat and eggs to restore their jing energy.
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You can test the yang qi with the energy ball practice - feeling the electromagnetic force pushing the hands apart.
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You can tell if the lower tan tien is activated by feeling intense heat behind the belly. So for example tibetan monks will eat meat which with condensed calories to kick off the heat but then use that heat as a rocket booster to then go into bigu tummo fasting - relying on solitude and purification to convert jing to qi energy. So Chunyi says to heal serious blockages then 4 hours of qigong a day. Sounds like you are doing that. So as per Stephen Chang - if you are doing small universe meditation - then as the lower tan tien builds up you should also feel your other glands building up - so that the kidneys will get hot and then the thymus will get hot. Finally the middle of the brain will get hot. After that then the yang qi will really kick in with strong electromagnetic energy. So at that point you can purify the energy more in terms of diet. Diet depends on how much exercise you're doing, all sorts of factors - the weather, etc. Like for me I did a vegan diet for my intensive training but I was 29 years old - getting regular charge ups from Chunyi, meditating 4 to 6 hours a day, etc. So also that horse stance teaching is really good that says for internal force you need "mindlessly relaxation." http://www.shaolin.org/general-2/horse-stance.html So then that really means visualization and the Emptiness - right brain dominance relaxation. The meditation music helps with that a lot. It's amazing how modern society is addicted to the dopamine-stress - and so dopamine causes relaxation at first but then due to male ejaculation addiction - when dopamine builds up as desire it triggers a spike in cortisol stress. So that is the dominant dynamic of modern society - and it controls people's diet. Like alcohol increases dopamine and makes people lusty and relaxed but that leads to ejaculation and without knowing anything better - the cycle just continues. Also when the liver gets clogged up from alcohol it causes anger. So - I mean with meat or cholesterol then that liver energy has to be channeled into relaxation - from the switch to parasympathetic. yeah so that routine should be good. This is an excellent summary of why the yang qi never develops. yeah so with mind yoga - of Ramana Maharshi - he said that a vegetarian diet is essential because by weakening the body it strengthens the mind for better concentration. If there is a diet that is dopamine focused with salt, sugar, cholesterol - that locks in the monkey-mind based on stress more easily. The trick is to switch that to serotonin relaxation - which you get from potassium and magnesium and complex carbs. I was eating organic brown rice and tofu and broccoli for my initial training. Tofu increases lecithin and broccoli lowers the estrogen from the tofu. I didn't even know about the complementary opposite effects of broccoli and tofu at the time. haha. Pretty cool. So anyway if a person has more "yuan qi" from "yuan jing" - being younger and chaste - then their body is purified naturally and so the mind can be concentrated much more easily. Whereas relying on meat food for jing energy is very dirty and so then it is much more difficult to purify the mind to create the yang qi energy. So when they say, "after he has taken care of his mind" - what he means is taking care of the left-brain monkey mind - so after one-pointed concentration is achieved then strong right brain visualization can occur. That's when the lower tan tien fire will get very strong - if your mind is very strong in a REM visualize concentration state like hypnosis or dreaming - the colors will be very vivid actually since in a super-conscious state instead of subconscious - the perception is stronger. The butterfly meditation is very good for this visualization concentration of the right brain - for the mindlessly relaxed state. Once you get into that then the yang qi turns on and when it does it builds up fast - it's like an accelerating growth process.
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yeah actually cocoa is dangerous for celibacy because the high zinc and also caffeine - I've lost it from cocoa. The thing about salt and caffeine and sugar - they all mimick ejaculation because they increase dopamine and then increase cortisol. So what you want is to convert your dopamine to serotonin and so horse stance does that - because the key is to take your sympathetic nervous system to its extreme so it rebounds to the opposite extreme of parasympathetic nervous system. For example it will and should clear out the bowels every night - everyone should be having a bowel movement before sleep if they ate in the day - horse stance will do that - along with the "moving of yin and yang" exercise as the yin/yang hand movements really add to bending the knees. So - the thing with celibacy is that if you have any kind of pulsations - then you have to do horse stance to induce Quick Fire - hold horse stance until the legs are shaking - with the thighs parallel to the ground this is pretty quick to induce. As you build up energy - yin qi - then you can hold horse stance longer. The qigong masters in training do horse stance with thighs parallel to ground - no movement for 1 1/2 hours a day or 2 hours a day. So most people can only do a few minutes - and that is precisely from not having the lower tan tien energy built up. The problem is that females will chase after you to get your yin qi energy as they are yang internally and so they can just suck it up and have orgasms over and over since the yin qi energy activates their parasympathetic vagus nerve for internal orgasm. So - yeah I sit in full lotus at computer - but even talking about this stuff you need Quick Fire breathing to counteract any activation of the reproductive organ - deep fast diaphragm breathing. That's why traditionally for the original humans it was trance dance training that was the basis. So - or else like bench pressing will activate deep diaphragm breathing - or you can do some other exercises. But the key is the complementary opposite resonance to actually convert the jing energy to qi energy. Small universe meditation is the foundation for this process - "Moving of yin and yang" is small universe standing up. To build up the energy it is 3 times more standing up to sitting. Yeah having too much rich food too late - see what happens is you build up jing energy without converting it to qi energy. So in the morning you have sublimation and evening is purification and then Midnight is Emptiness meditation. But most of the time - we don't get the purification process right and so then we don't get enough energy to sublimate in the mornings and so then we don't get real Emptiness.
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cocoa also clears out the blood - organic fair trade cocoa.
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http://www.thegreattao.com/html/taoofsexology.html Stephen Chang is great on this subject - says one ejaculation loses - how much food. It's an incredible amount. and and and Yeah I was going to say - you want to focus on horse stance to prevent losing the alchemical pill in the first place. You need to go 3 months no lose before building up the yin qi energy. http://books.google.com/books?id=1e7ZAAAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=ejaculation So he says - after ejaculation all the seven glands are depleted. He gives a normal healthy cycle based on age - But anyway - the best way to build up jing energy is from cholesterol and eggs are the best source of cholesterol. Stephen Chang says how many eggs an ejaculation is worth. It's a lot. But - Pretty fascinating. So - yeah like Jan Irvin who does a podcast Gnostic Media - he eats 6 eggs a day. What I do to counteract the clogging of the channels is I use tons of cayenne - dried chilis - you can buy big bags of them at a Chinese grocery - like from Thailand. Or you can get wholesale cayenne. Also lemons - citric acid cleans out the system. Spirulina is great - lots of chlorophyll. But eggs are also good for lecithin which is good for the brain. Ideally you get grass fed chicken eggs - but even still soy-fed eggs don't have too much phytoestrogen - I looked it up.
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Commodity Fetish of Folk Taoism as Late Capitalist apocalypse
voidisyinyang replied to voidisyinyang's topic in General Discussion
John Olivier is an excellent expose comedian - I just watched the above link, plus the Civil Forfeiture, the Police militarization, the ALEC, the Nuke weapons. All great. O.K. so in terms of exposing the commodification of qigong as the ultimate late-term capitalist product - we might want to look at qigong before it was commodified. We can get a glimpse of that by an early NY Times article - early in terms of Western exposure to qigong: 1986. 20 advanced qigong masters in all of China in 1986. Sounds about right. This sounds completely accurate. "Even if you exercise for many years, if there is no foundation, it cannot be easily controlled. How to control it? Constant practice, in the same way every time, and influence of a teacher who transmits the energy into the student. In other words we are talking very strict training - and notice he says it was the sons taught, not the daughter. So clearly this training is based on sex energy and storing it up and the male energy. Of course this is not to say that females can't be qigong masters - but again look at the original human culture - it is the males are train to be spiritual energy healers - qigong masters. Some of the females do also and in fact the females are considered the original healers - but it is said they can handle the pain of child birth while the men can handle the pain of N/om. http://www.nytimes.com/1986/12/02/science/a-traditional-chinese-therapy-harnesses-the-vital-force.html?pagewanted=2 So the training it taught secretly. Always. Maybe that's why a google search of the qigong master's name doesn't turn up much. So to control the energy - again this implies the sex life force focus of the training - it's in secret and the males are trained - and it's very difficult to control. http://www.accordinstitute.org/2007_3_3_exploration_magnetic_field_of_acupoints_of_human_body.htm So then I find this quantum qi research from China - a fascinating paper on telekinesis. That study relies on Ms. Chulin Sun, qigong master. So I googled her name. More hits. http://zeniclinic.com/2011/04/dna/ Another experiment that is repeated is "Mind photography" - the ability of the mind's qi to create an image on some recording device. this seems to corroborate a Westerner who had this ability - Ted Serios. These are fascinating studies! This study is cited in this pdf link: O.K so a 2010 Nano-matter study is cited to corroborate qigong energy! Information is the source of the energy! what is the "information" - measuring the total velocity. That is fascinating - and so as I've stated - the time-frequency uncertainty principle as complementary opposites - is the Tai Chi - it is the source of the energy - this eternal measuring process of time/frequency - which occurs before even velocity is measured. http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=5&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CDcQFjAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjournals.sfu.ca%2Fjnonlocality%2Fpublic%2Fjournals%2F1%2FPREPRINTS%2FKeanII1020212.pdf&ei=rhU3VdqYNNHOsQSyXw&usg=AFQjCNF_WQ0BH9D62Xf3IHrOyPmqTESHuw&sig2=htkI4jgwQIxs4--zU6y5-Q&bvm=bv.91071109,d.cWc pdf link. http://www.technologyreview.com/view/420996/physicists-convert-information-into-energy/ "It's hard to overstate the significance...." That's the scientists gushing over what - information creating energy. http://www.amazon.com/Musical-Qigong-Ancient-Chinese-Healing/dp/0966542150 A Musical Qigong book. This is from an international qigong research yahoo group list https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/qiresearch/conversations/messages/1405 http://www.joltv.us/english/english%20index.htm https://www.facebook.com/pages/Shen-Wu-Music-Therapy/185964308277900?sk=app_2405167945 https://www.youtube.com/user/musicqigong/videos So the basic view of Master Shen Wu is that music qigong was a very early healing treatment that got lost and he is bringing it back. -
Commodity Fetish of Folk Taoism as Late Capitalist apocalypse
voidisyinyang replied to voidisyinyang's topic in General Discussion
In this thread I have focused on racialized sexism. I have pointed out that white people actually comes from malnutrition - from lack of vitamin D in the wheat farming diet. I have tied this to a wrong philosophy - called the "Symbolic Revolution" from around 9000 BCE when wheat farming started in West Asia - and this spread into Europe, creating "white people." So that original farming started an ecological crisis by the 8th millennium BCE. I have documented this in my book "Alchemy of Rainbow Heart Music." So then white farming spread around the world as "Ecological ImperialisM" as the eponymous book by PRofessor Alfred Crosby details. and so finally I have argued a la David Palmer - that the modern qigong fever is based on a Westernization of traditional Chinese culture - and so the qigong as a mass movement was a "vanishing mediator" and then got replaced by an individualized, commodified focus of qigong - led by a fetishized focus of the spiritual training. With a fetishized commodity focus of qigong training - the training done is more superficial - the focus is on conceptual teaching - and so a la impulse buying there needs to be new teaching materials introduced as new conceptual material. This does not mean necessarily deepening the actual spiritual training - but instead can just mean taking in new conceptual information. This is the paradox - since the focus of the training should be on the Emptiness - the actual taking away of conceptual information. And so I've argued the way to get around this paradox is to be aware of this white commodity fetishized superstructure focused on conceptual teachings - and instead just focus directly on the qigong master themselves and the traditional teaching context. So for the traditional teaching context I have focused on the Bushmen culture which composes 90% of human history from before human language was evolved or invented - with the same trance songs documented from the oldest tribes of the oldest languages - which proves those trance songs existed before human language existed - from around 70,000 BCE. But ironically the "spiritual" community knows next to nothing about the Bushmen culture and the training the relied on. Fortunately the qigong training manual - "Taoist Yoga: Alchemy and Immortality" is very much in line with the traditional training of the original human culture. Unfortunately this training is completely opposite of the current "sex sells" culture where everything has been fetishized - where every practically living moment is focused on male ejaculation addiction - if not subconsciously then overtly. And so to do the original serious qigong training means to literally undermine this deep mind-control psycho-physiological "matrix" that goes back to Plato and the deep origins of Western wheat farming from around 9000 BCE origins. The trance music training - which is recreated through tai chi training and simple standing active exercises - is based on complementary opposites that resonates in the Emptiness as a spacetime vortex creating spirit light synchronization - harmonization and qi electromagnetic healing energy. This ritual to train to be a "real man" has been lost to modern society - and so the modern person is controlled by their kundabuffer - the lower emotions of the lower back energy blockage. We can say on a basic level the training is to use pressure and body posture to resonate the complementary opposite energy channels of the body so that the stress sympathetic nervous system is switched to the opposite extreme of the parasympathetic relaxation energy - that ultimately controls the heart via the vagus nerve - the heart being the strongest resonance of electromagnetic energy in the body. This was dubbed the "Relaxation Response" by the Harvard medical scientist http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Relaxation_Response Herbert Benson who also documented the real tummo heat creating abilities of the Tibetan yogi monks. So the wheat diet is actually the opposite of the "relaxation response" because wheat causes increases in cortisol as inflammation. http://www.poliquingroup.com/ArticlesMultimedia/Articles/Article/1237/Avoid_These_10_Foods_That_Increase_Cortisol_Impede.aspx So low fiber "white" bread - refined flour - increases cortisol because the high insulin spike from the high gluten levels then causes the adrenal glands to extract sugar from the extremities and by doing so increases cortisol as the sympathetic stress hormone. Cortisol depletes the serotonin levels in the brain - and I would argue that the kundalini energy is from the lower body serotonin getting into the cerebrospinal fluid via activation of the vagus nerve from the deepened relaxation response. So the wheat diet actually shuts down the kundalini energy and is key to the Kundabuffer mind control for the masses. So then salt was used to reduce the acidity of wheat diet - salt was the payment for Roman imperial soldiers - hence their "SALary." The irony of this is that salt also increases cortisol stress levels. Obviously it's not that wheat and salt are inherently evil but the basic truth is that for the original human culture = 90% of human history - there was no salt and no wheat in the diet and the diet was much higher in potassium in ratio to the sodium. Also the effect of group trance drumming is to lower stress: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=18&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CEUQFjAHOAo&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdaniellevitin.com%2Flevitinlab%2Farticles%2F2013-TICS_1180.pdf&ei=yN01VeL1PMjjsATVs4GQDw&usg=AFQjCNGErweu1L3wVxz-cODxc-VqqzYbPg&sig2=ljIMJM9zE3nydwBnkUSjZw pdf link on neurochemistry of music: So as I stated in regards to the commodity fetish it is literally based on this male ejaculation addiction cortisol stress spike as a positive feedback cycle that is structurally built into Western civilization based on the logarithmic mathematics causing increased intensity and increased pressure around the world. The victim of the sex male ejaculation addiction violence abuse then turns to "holding their shit in" as a final attempt at self-control. This is the origin of the commodity fetish abuse - and so wheat, salt and even money are based on this dopamine-cortisol cycle - like gambling addiction is proven to be a dopamine spike addiction also - the basic pursuit of money is from this original male ejaculation addiction. And so in the qigong training when the sympathetic stress nervous system is pushed to its extreme - but without ejaculation - and with the resonance of complementary opposites - then the opposite parasympathetic extreme actually causes a spike in serotonin and this flushes out the bowels - literally flushes out the money or the otherwise repressed crap-stress in the body. And so then we can see that the racialized sexism is tied to this male ejaculation addiction leading to a system of malnutrition that actually caused the white race - as based on that original fundamental error of the "symbolic revolution" where an attempt to contain infinity was pursued - using rectilinear, patriarchal, geometric symbols for right-hand technology and left-brain dominant logic. When the Emptiness based on complementary opposites is made the new intention - the focus of the electromagnetic mind consciousness - then a new re-wiring of the body-mind can take place within the fourth dimension of the eternal holographic realm of spirit-astral space-time travel. Literally consciousness can unwind the stress damage from previous generations of male ejaculation addiction - with the increased tension and violence it caused - and so then the heart-mind can be rediscovered as the secret of impersonal immortality in harmony with ecological justice of life on Earth, as was the case for 90% of human history - the Harmless People as detailed by Dr. Bradford Keeney and Dr. Elizabeth Marshall Thomas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItiXR5m1yAY Because of the increasing inequality of late-capitalism - as I have stated the white race has literally become a commodified fetish - the ultimate commodity - to be sought after - for example white females are the most highly prized prostitutes - white blond females - for oil-rich elites in the middle east. The "White LIke Me" documentary expose is a fascinating and brilliant eye-opener on just how internalized this white commodity fetish has been developed in the U.S. - the most unequal economic culture on the planet - with the greatest extreme of wealth and poverty and the highest concentration of people of color in prison for nonviolent crimes - as the new slave-labor work force. So can Taoism as qigong training simply be "added on" to this Westernized problem that has now spread around the world? We shall see. https://www.stormfront.org/forum/t83150/ Consider this Neo-Nazi "white pride" forum with a member saying he practices qigong training. How easily it is assimilated into the late-capitalist white racist milieu. -
Commodity Fetish of Folk Taoism as Late Capitalist apocalypse
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Commodity Fetish of Folk Taoism as Late Capitalist apocalypse
voidisyinyang replied to voidisyinyang's topic in General Discussion
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Commodity Fetish of Folk Taoism as Late Capitalist apocalypse
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qigong fasting is more properly called "energy feasting" and it is initiated only after the lower tan tien is full of yin qi energy - so you should already feel very strong boiling heat behind the belly when you start the fast. Then you do something called "converting jing to qi" energy - for the fast. To do this you need to be meditating as focus on the Emptiness which then builds up the jing energy - the shen energy turns into more jing energy. So then as you fast the qi energy should get strong and you can test this with the electromagnetic force between the palms of your hands. So then also the top of your skull should get soft again and pulsate with electromagnetic energy and also the centers of your hands and feet - pulsating or breathing with electromagnetic energy. At that point you should be able to sit in full lotus for as long as you want in ease - with no pain and not moving at all - at least 2 hours minimum. Also your sleep should not be needed as much and also you should be creating water in the center of the skull - from a kind of reverse electrolysis - the qi electromagnetic energy fusing the hydrogen and oxygen. Also since the breathing is electromagnetic pulsations then physical breathing is not needed as much. So - that is when "immortal breathing" kicks in and then you enter into deep serenity - so that would be the end of a 7 to 8 day qigong "energy feast" - I did that 15 years ago when I was 29 years old. So at that point you enter into the Emptiness as an enlightenment experience which then will cause confusion when you come out of it - it's like a deep spacetime vortex. To stabilize your energy just keep focusing on your lower tan tien to build up more qi to surround the shen spirit light energy. So at that stage the mind should rely on logical inference of the source of the I-thought. So any experiences you have - the question is "who" is having them - and the logically infer that the source of all your perceptions if your I-thought and the source of your I-thought is the Emptiness - which you can listen to but you can't see or perceive otherwise - you can just logically infer it. That will continue to harmonize your spiritual powers and perceptions back to their impersonal source from the formless awareness. So then there are different levels of deep serenity - if you keep going you can go a month or two months - as the original qigong master did - for that there is no sleep for 2 months and you body - your spirit leaves your body and you go into heaven for further teachings. I would study the book "Taoist YOga: Alchemy and Immortality" for further details. But most people don't even ever fill up the lower tan tien with yin qi energy in which case fasting is not a real "energy feast" - but more just like a detoxification process.
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Fair trade is a hell of a lot more than just paying the farmers more money. First of all to become fair trade certified you have to join a farmers cooperative. Now is the fair trade label perfect? Obviously not but it's way better than a self-voluntary corporate label. The big issue here is whether Cargill will actually pay the farmers a fair price so they don't have to use slavery. Again Cargill's family has $43 billion in net worth while they have paid $5 million to "solve" the problem of thousands of children in slave labor. In other words they don't want to pay more money for what they are buying - and they have made millions in profit from slave labor. It is quite simple. Cargill is directly buying the cocoa from the farmers. Cargill knows that the cocoa trade in Africa has been based on colonial slavery - enforced by Western militaries. Does Cargill want to continue that slavery tradition? If they refuse to pay a fair trade then yes they are continuing the colonial tradition of slavery. Now should the farmers be punished because they were forced into a slavery condition from Western military colonialism? Of course not. To argue the farmers should be punished is again to blame the victim and to be in denial of the origins of the slavery in the first place. These are export cocoa plantations set up by French and Portuguese colonialism using slavery enforced by the military. O.K> so can the fair trade label be improved? Sure - https://www.organicconsumers.org/old_articles/bodycare/stop-transfair.php Here's a good critique - there are different "fair trade" labels out there. The best fair trade label is Institute for Market Ecology’s (IMO) Fair for Life Yeah so for example I just bought or picked up from the business I work for - some "Fair for Life" fair trade pears from Argentina today. http://www.freshplaza.com/article/118666/New-season-organic-pears-from-Argentina-arrive-at-AweSum-Organics#SlideFrame_1 So usually Fair for Life gives quite a bit of detail about the farmers. For example - I earlier posted a newly certified Fair Trade organic tomato farm that we've been buying from. It's very exciting to me - that these farmers are getting 100,000 U.S. dollars kicked back to them from the Fair Trade certification and then they vote democratically how to spend that extra money. That is how the Fair Trade certification works. http://fairtradeusa.org/blog/power-fair-trade-produce-workers-mexico-invest-their-communities So you can read the details there - and the farm has their own videos, etc. So can we find similar results for fair trade chocolate? I think so - the biggest fair trade cooperative is in Ghana. I know this from buying fair trade chocolate but then I read about it in the links I posted. http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/en/buying-fairtrade/chocolate You can see this list of Fair Trade chocolates. I buy several of these brands. Each bar of chocolate gives details about the farms. http://www.divinechocolate.com/us/about-us/divine-story So there's a detailed story about a fair trade cocoa farm in Ghana. And this isn't just a small deal - it's a big cooperative. -
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There is a great demand for the mass supply of slave labor. Yep I understand that. Just as there is great demand to rape the ecology of Earth - it's called "primitive accumulation." I wrote a paper in college for my environmental economics class called: The Incorrect Supply and Demand Model. haha. It's based on incorrect logarithmic logic - without understanding nonlinear feedback resonance. The dude being interviewed - works for the Workers Rights Consortium. again I volunteered a lot of my time and effort - to initiate and lead a campaign to get the U of MN to join the Workers Rights Consortium. That was a structural change. It created a new economic structure that remained after I left and more people continued as volunteer activists to continue the effort. There has already been successes. One of the first successes ironically was in the same town of the mother of my brother-in-law - Apopa El Salvador! http://www.news.wisc.edu/13649 So that's UW-Madison report on it - that's where I did my undergraduate degree where I also did a lot of activism. -
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Drew Hempel For the past ten years, Drew Hempel has worked on applied social research and theory in ecological justice. Hempel recently completely a stint as a columnist for the University of Minnesota Daily, chalked up eight arrests for civil disobedience and helped lead several successful sustainability projects for monitoring sweatshops, divesting from corporations collaborating in slave-labor projects and passing a selective purchasing resolution at the Minneapolis City Council. Beyond theory and truth-seeking, he is planning on applied research in corporate charter revocation and corporate personhood, a subversion of citizen sovereignty exposed by the Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy. So that's my bio from 15 years ago. on a cached page for this http://nonduality.com/whatis8.htm As I stated - I currently am a purchaser of fair trade organic produce. that's my current job. Business has been growing. Target expands Made to Matter program in organic, natural ...www.startribune.com/business/292820181.html Star TribuneFeb 20, 2015 - Target expands Made to Matter program in organic, natural products ... After a successful introductory year, Target is doubling the program this ... Target to Double “Made to Matter” Sustainable Product Brandswww.triplepundit.com/.../target-double-made-matter-organic-sustainable... Feb 23, 2015 - Target's will double its “Made to Matter” product line, which includes a variety of brands that are made with organic and sustainable ingredients. -
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Finally you seem to worship the myth of the supply/demand model. As I've pointed out repeatedly the Cargill family has $42 billion dollars. So far they've invested $5 million to stop child slave labor - and yet they say a "fair trade" option is available - and only the Utz certification is available by the products they own. So then you continue to say I just focus on Cargill - for good reason! It's very easy - they have the SUPPLY of money - and they need to pay it to the farmers to stop slavery. Very simple - their wealth is from the slavery of the children on the farms. So yes - slavery is based on a supply/demand model. I understand that - you want to keep the supply/demand model that has continued to maintain slavery around the world. There's currently 20 million people in forced slave labor. I disagree with you. I think that people should have basic human rights met. Guess what - most people agree with me. It's not just my personal vendetta against Cargill. As I pointed out Kevin Bales - who personally negotiated the cocoa agreements to stop child slave labor has concluded that Cargill needs to pay more money!! So take it up with Kevin Bales, the expert on the subject. As I said - I have personally done similar work to Kevin Bales - http://www.mndaily.com/2000/02/25/u-activists-fight-new-sweatshop-monitoring-system There's one example. So for over a year - I first introduced hundreds of pages of documents that stopped the fake corporate "voluntary" monitoring of sweatshop conditions - that was going to be rubber-stamped by the over-paid brown-nosing administrators. Then I met with the general counsel of the University - 9 times - over a year - and finally I announced I was going on unlimited hunger strike - to use my qigong skills. The president of the University personally emailed me pleading with me not to go on hunger strike and then he signed in the agreement for the school to join the independent monitoring - the Workers Rights Consortium - not the fake "voluntary" monitoring by the corporations. O.K. so I have personal experience in this. So for example when I visited the Berber village in Africa - all the females had tattoos on their chins. Why? Because the Arabs used to steal the females for as sex slaves and then tattoo them when they were "used up" and return them to the villages. So the females all tattooed themselves preemptively to stop the Arabs from knowing who was used up already. So I know that African parents pro-actively work to stop the sex slavery trafficking of their children and that is also true in this Malian villages. -
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So you say - you are blaming the parents. Again that ignores the structural history of colonialism. The cocoa slave trade was originally based on contracts of ownership of other humans - using chains - just exactly like slavery in the U.S. and this cocoa slave trade was going on like that in the early 1900s - the 1920s even. You could say it's very similar to the nonviolent prison slave labor in the U.S. from the fake drug war after the CIA flooded the U.S. with cocaine. So those are structural examples - institutional dynamics that create a huge supply side of economics - in this case the supply is free labor. But with "forced labor" and not just contract slave labor - you don't legally own the person and so even better - you can torture and work the person to death because you can't resell it or its progeny, etc. So yes there has been a study of the traffickers in Mali: and and The source cited is this: The International Migration of Young Malians: Tradition, Necessity or Rite of Passage, by Sarah Castle and Aisse Diara, 2003 So instead of assuming blame on the parents - again even if the parents knew the child was to be enslaved - that is due to the imposed colonial conditions and it's not the blame of the parents. http://www.sarahcastle.co.uk/docs/Traffickingreport_final_October.pdf pdf link of that study. I think we can safely say the parents would not knowingly sell their child into slavery. It's even quite possible the parents of the girl did not even know she left: So again you made a bad assumption and then blame the victims. Why would you do this? You don't know if the parents even knew and yet you are blaming the parents. It is a lie to say the parents would have known the child was going into slavery or even suspected bad working conditions, and it's a lie to blame the parents. and and -
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Wow you read a book about Africa!? Congratulations! haha. Yeah I read that book also - a few years ago. It was at my uncle's house when I visited - a riveting read. But guess what - in no way does that book focus on structural issues of economics. One person figuring out how to make a wind mill generator from a bicycle alternator - it's pure genius - salvaging the wind mill parts, etc. In fact I actually subscribe to Afrigadget which updates all these types of ingenious inventions from home-spun parts on Africa. http://www.afrigadget.com/ There you go - have fun with it. It reminds me of the Gold Rush history channel - Henry Rollins series - highlighting the various inventions to speed the travel across the U.S. to California to get gold. So one dude invented a hydrogen powered steam-engine propelled airship for 3 days travel across U.S. - it worked but a mob destroyed it when he demonstrated it - I guess they all wanted to ride the thing and went insane. So then a dude invented a wagon with huge sails - to literally sail across the prairie. It also worked but too well and the too fast speed busted apart the axles. Those are great tries and even if there had been a successful quick fix trip across the U.S. - guess what? The prospectors searching for gold would still have been basically working in poverty conditions until they struck rich - because that was the structural conditions of their working. So you try to attack fair trade. First you say it should not be enforced. Now you say - it would increase prices by 10%. Yep - people might complain they have to pay more for not supporting child slave labor. I have a family member who complains - but I say - yeah you're whole life you've been being child slave labor chocolate. That shut her up quick. It's called moral superiority. Then you say - yeah but even if the consumer pays 10% more the commodity price will still fluctuate and that won't help slavery at all. I guess you didn't read the links I provided. Arguing from ignorance is a waste of my time. But since you seem quite "invested" in propping up child slave labor - here you go: and and and So I hope that helps you better understand what fair trade is. And fair trade chocolate actually tastes better. -
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http://www.amazon.com/Chocolate-Islands-Slavery-Colonial-Africa/dp/0821420747 http://books.google.com/books?id=gcnec1dIKPwC&q=cargill#v=onepage&q=child slave&f=false So this book reviews the modern evidence on child slave labor - 15,000 child slaves. So 2010 the President of Ivory Coast was defeated after he was using cocoa profits to fund his war. He refused to step down despite the democratic elections and so the elected new president called for a boycott of cocoa exports - this forced the current president to step down and also caused international cocoa prices to soar. https://networks.h-net.org/node/7926/reviews/8353/clarence-smith-higgs-chocolate-islands-cocoa-slavery-and-colonial-africa http://socialistreview.org.uk/382/chocolate-islands http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=8&ved=0CFAQFjAH&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.antislavery.org%2Fincludes%2Fdocuments%2Fcm_docs%2F2008%2Fc%2Fcocoa_report_2004.pdf&ei=CDY0VYjaDYWaNoOqgKgF&usg=AFQjCNHRPU83_WEHJx7vgv0dfDqYci3RGw&bvm=bv.91071109,d.eXY&cad=rja So the report pdf link says that the big purchasing processors need to be converted to Fair Trade. Just as I've stated. -
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O.K. on the Cargill purchasing of cocoa slave labor - it's an issue that based on colonialism of Africa. I said you either lied or your logic was wrong. Now that you have clarified - I think it's just your logic is wrong. The child said her parents are expecting her to bring back money. That says absolutely nothing about what her parents know or what their intentions are. You are making all sorts of wrong assumptions about her parents based on projecting your own limited cultural assumptions. O.K. so you say "the parents probably weren't stupid." I'm sure they weren't stupid - but I think they were targeted. The child was put on a motorbike and driven a long ways to the border of her country and then put on a bus and was waiting to meet her new boss. Do you really think the parents secretly understood their child would be put into a bad job situation? So first you said - oh but the child would probably have starved to death otherwise. Again you are blaming the victims. The context of the situation in Mali is a neocolonial situation. Africa is not poor - Africa has been looted by the white man, plain and simple. https://books.google.com/books?id=azkzBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT157&lpg=PT157&dq=the+looting+machine+africa+youtube&source=bl&ots=rQlDOvTP-E&sig=s3BbFaGUbJeq7Okp23zAjFV6fWk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ASQ0VdvsJYHRgwS8v4CQAw&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=cargill&f=false The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth (Google eBook) So for example when the Chinese traveled the world - and reached the New World before Columbus - the Chinese also went to Somalia because there has been a long history of trade of clothing apparel between Somalia, Arabs and the Chinese. So for the Cocoa industry - it is also the Arabs - the Lebanese - who act as the middlemen between Cargill and the farmers using child slave labor. Now you post Cargill propaganda. As I stated Cargill is claiming to offer fair trade but the labels they list don't actually offer fair trade - rather they offer Utz certification. You say you are a better researcher on these topics. Actually I have a masters degree on these topics and I have personally debated corporate hacks who control these types of policies - the supply chain policies. I have personally changed supply chain policies. So for example you say that the nation should enforce the farmers - punish the farmers for using child slave labor. In fact most of the child laborers are just the children of the farmers. But for fair trade - and even Utz certified - they are not supposed to use any child labor. The children should be able to go to school. So the issue is the ability of the farmers to afford to hire other help - instead of resorting to child labor and child slave labor. So then you say - well the nation should charge an export tax. Maybe you're not aware that Cargill personally - and when I say personally - I mean Cargill is legally a person protected by the bill of rights according to the U.S. constitution, as interpreted by the Supreme Court and the Commerce Clause, etc - Cargill personally wrote the WTO GATT "free trade" laws - a closed door global corporate government that punishes small farmers worldwide. https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/tpr_e/tp8_e.htm So you can see a WTO review of the Ivory Coast right there saying "liberalization" to increase cocoa exports. In other words this is Neo-Colonialism pure and simple. Cargill is extracting child slave labor cocoa in order to make enormous profits. So there has still be periods of heavy taxation of cocoa. the main issue is the derivative speculative trading of the cocoa market which has brought down international price to parity with the farmer price - before even any taxation: So the French colonial infrastructure was set up in the 1920s for cocoa production. The cocoa child slavery has been an issue since colonial times. Cadbury was aware of it. Despite heavy government export taxation of cocoa - the price paid to farmers has remained too low - and now with WTO enforced privatization - the international price also remains low: so again the issue is the "farm-gate price" - what the farmers are paid: and we can see that Cargill has directly argued for lower export taxes: So that nixes your argument to increase export taxes - Cargill controls the export tax level. That is Neo-Colonialism in action. http://www.iatp.org/documents/cftc-should-impose-tough-limits-on-wall-street-speculators You can see here how there needs to be stronger limits on cocoa speculation derivatives by Wall St. Here's a book called Ending Slavery: How we can free today's slaves - and it has a section on Cargill and Cocoa. https://books.google.com/books?id=SBQaVwsVmu4C&pg=PA187&lpg=PA187&dq=cargill+cocoa+derivatives+giant&source=bl&ots=LM7qq3Txqg&sig=Z1KbUs1g1FC48BC1mPvsKK_eOmE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=bTA0VdmXC4GdNr2CgcAH&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=cargill cocoa derivatives giant&f=false Kevin Bales has personally focused on the chocolate industry and he's investigated this directly in Africa. All these efforts, again, as described in the book - The Cocoa INitiative - was provided by Cargill, etc. and only amounts to $5 million by Cargill. Again Cargill family has $42 billion so they can provide a lot more than $5 million. $5 million is only 1 / millionth of 42 billion. It is a very puny amount to end thousands of child slaves. http://www.freetheslaves.net/kevin-bales-talks-cocoa-on-cnn/ What does Kevin Bales say after investigating the issue in great detail: There you go: More money - pay the workers fair trade. Simple - the reason Cargill has so much money is they pay the farmers very little money. -
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The irony of formerly poor folk medicine becoming California Chic when it is imported back into Shanghai: http://news.uci.edu/features/chinese-medicine-goes-global/ -
Campbell is a fake academic racist. If you want to study mythology go for James Frazer. Read his full set - not just the concise version. I mean if you're serious about mythology - the full set is something like 12 volumes. The concise version is one book as a tome - probably 800 pages. http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CDgQFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hermetics.org%2Fpdf%2FSir_James_Frazer_-_The_Golden_Bough.pdf&ei=GcMyVfuPO8GANsDagJAL&usg=AFQjCNErKSDuxOFlp6oDGLEghFoeeXUMKA&sig2=vZ7ltqHb99mwLpTP_jwkfw That's the pdf link for the Golden Bough - the concise. 600 pages.