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Here's more on Stride Gum's "anti-advertising advertising" strategy: http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2008/07/youtube_dancer_matt_harding_ta.html Here's Matt Harding giving his angle on the Stride gum deal and other criticisms of the vid that it was all a big FAKE!: Damn same jing tingling cleansing!

Thanks for the correction! Does it "fundamentally disagree"? haha. Chunyi Lin does say not to use the sword fingers on the heart which is what I also stated. I just got the reason for not doing it incorrect -- I got the yin and yang part turned around. MY FAULT!!!! You ask "Why did I give wrong information?" The answer is I remembered incorrectly! haha. That's why! It's very simple. If I had remembered that I didn't remember correctly then I would have looked for some source for further clarification. haha. Thankfully you corrected it! Yeah sometimes I get the yin and yang energies turned around -- since the yin and yang are within each other on different levels. I encourage people to provide any details to correct me -- that's exactly why I like posting online for the dialog. As for me posting widely on the internet -- that's just free speech -- and yeah it's just my opinions open for correction, of course. So I appreciate the correction! So, for example, if the body's small universe back channel is yang and the front channel is yin and the heart is yang and the sword fingers are yin -- then what exactly "types" of yin and yang are those? Would you care to help me out? haha. Is it jing as yin or is it shen as yin for the swordfingers? For example there's "yin spirit" as shen energy which would be the light energy. So we can assume that the yin swordfingers are the shen light energy since that's what is being visualized. Then there's also shen "yang spirit" as shen physical energy that has turned back into jing energy (which is yin). So my guess is that if the front channel is yin this is referring to the shen energy as light energy while the heart as yang is referring to a deeper shen energy as the physical jing soul energy - the yang body. What's your take on it? The jing is considered yin (called "negative vitality" in "Taoist Yoga") while the qi is considered yang ("positive vitality").... On the other hand sometimes people claim I've made some error but they don't provide any evidence to back up their claim. haha. So I greatly appreciate you providing actual quotes from Chunyi Lin!! It makes sense that the heart is yang as it states in "Taoist Yoga: Alchemy and Immortality" that the eyes are yang and that the body's spirit is expressed through the eyes via the heart but then during sleep the spirit moves to the liver. So then the yang energy of the heart must be referring to chi energy - "positive vitality" -- while the yin energy of the front channel is referring to jing energy (or is it shen energy?). And then the swordfingers as yin is referring to the "Yin spirit" of the shen energy since, again, it's "light" energy. That sounds pretty good but again I'd appreciate any clarification on these yang and yin differences of the back/front channels and the heart and swordfingers. The thunderpalms as yang energy would, again, be chi energy I would think. As for me "taking in sick qi" -- that's not something I try to do. It's a more interactive phenomenon of the energy -- I would say that "opposites attract." The energy is changing all the time -- but it's the emptiness that balances the energy!! What's the emptiness? I would say it's this eternal process of the complementary opposite resonance of yin and yang itself -- which self-organizes as formless awareness. For example my sister was visiting recently -- she was sitting on the deck, smoking outside. I had been in the garden and then I joined her. Immediately my lungs began buzzing with this tingling electrical sensation along with the strong emotion of sadness. So I could feel her sadness really strongly and I knew it was from her smoking. She's smoked since high school and got depression in high school. My dad smokes but since I'm regularly doing full lotus pineal gland healing on my dad I keep his sadness cleared out but I used to get the same lung tingling sadness activated by my dad smoking as well. He's actually cut back on his smoking (and his coffee drinking and his alcohol drinking!!) Anyway I didn't "try" to take in my sister's "sick qi" -- NO! haha. At the same time that I felt her sadness through the tingling of my lungs, I also felt my chi energy going into her to heal her. I wasn't even in full lotus! I was just sitting about 10 feet from her. As my chi energy went into her -- via the center of my brain, again an electromagnetic bliss sensation, my body also was off-gassing my own internal jing blockages from bad diet. As I stated I have to eat a very pure diet or else the chi rejects it. So I sense that bad diet jing blockage also as a tingling sensation in my body. I think I had had a bunch of cookies and other processed food with sugar (peanut butter, bread, etc.). haha. My sister could smell this bad diet off-gassing just as I could smell her smoke! haha. So all those energy interactions were going on at the same time!! Anyway I know from experience that people who smoke also suffer from depression. Once my coworker entered into the room where I was working. He didn't say anything to me, he "seemed" normal but I immediately was overwhelmed by the strongest emotion of sadness. Again I didn't "try" to take in his sick qi -- it's actually sick jing energy to be specific -- but it's an automatic flow and transformation of the energy. My chi goes into him and then my body sucks up his sick jing and it was the lung tingling sensation as sadness. haha. So I just said to my coworker -- "why are you so sad?" He was shocked that I could feel his sadness but he didn't want to admit this. So then I just said to him: "if you quit smoking then your sadness will go away." He was only 24 and amazingly he quit smoking and his sadness went away!! It was very cool. The thing is I knew he was sad because he made me sad! It's true I was probably sitting in full lotus when he entered the room but that's not necessary as I was not in full lotus when I was with my sister. Still I usually sit in full lotus at least a few hours a day -- usually in half hour or hour segments, depending on if I need to take a leak. So these dynamics are sort of difficult to explain. Another time I was reading in full lotus in BK and ... well I'll spare you the details -- but suffice it to say my liver got really hot and then this dude who suffered from alcoholism -- a total stranger -- after I cleared out his liver blockage -- he came up to me, out of nowhere, and all he said was: thanks. Now before that healing took place again "automatically," his reaction to me, because of his liver blockage, was anger!! So yeah that was a dangerous situation. haha. Still that energy healing transformation only took about 5 or maybe 10 minutes. But the reason I started sitting in full lotus in public was because I'd be reading in public places and, I kid you not, but females -- total strangers -- would practically attack me! Well I could tell tons of stories but you know what I mean. I mean even young females would be hitting on me so strong. I wasn't in full lotus I was just reading -- on a bench, or in the library, or in a restaurant, or bookstores, or in the park, etc. Of course I would try to be nice about it but they just wanted my chi energy without knowing what it was and I would have to reverse the effects of their attraction to me. So I began to sit in full lotus in public and that way I would reverse the effects without it being an issue. In other words the females could "attack" me all they wanted and it didn't matter anymore -- problem solved. Also my work office had a lot of aggressive young females. haha. Of course I have tons of stories about what I called the "O at a D" phenomenon which is the psychic mutual climax -- the internal orgasms that are mutual from my chi energy going into a female and then the female's jing energy going into me. That happened literally hundreds of times in public with females over the past four years after I first discovered this "O at a D" (orgasm at a distance) phenomenon. It was always at a distance -- through walls, ceilings, back to back in the same room, across fields. I would just be reading -- the only difference now is I sat in full lotus -- and so it was like a multi-tasking as my left brain could read while my right brain would be transmitting the chi and the perineum would take in the jing energy. So again I claim that it is taboo to talk about this in energy healing -- because energy healing in the East comes from a tradition usually where there is suppose to be a separation from females and the females are not suppose to hit on the males based on their attraction, etc. haha. But there is the taboo tantra tradition which is more for the poor people who couldn't afford the training with the energy masters. Professor Hugh B. Urban discusses this tantra of the poor in great detail -- about tantra and class dynamics, mainly in India, -- he has an excellent article on Ramakrishna and Vivekananda and how the poor couldn't afford to study with them. On China Dr. David Palmer's book "Qigong Fever" discusses the class issues with qigong and the government - it's a fascinating topic -- how some qigong becomes officially sanctioned but then it also becomes too expensive. So the jing energy is not necessarily "sick" jing energy -- it's life force energy as the internal reproductive energy and once that gets flowing then there's mutual climax after mutual climax from the chi energy going into the female and the female's jing energy going into the male. Then after about 10 mutual climaxes (which is actually 30 internal female climaxes) the heart chakra opens up and there's strong mutual love as chi energy between the male and the female. As Chunyi Lin says first the energy builds up in the kidneys as reproductive energy then it goes to the liver and then to the heart and then to the pineal gland. Of course I'm just talking from my own experiences. Food obviously increases the jing energy but it's also an impure source of jing energy. Gurdjieff talks about this as well -- how sex energy is actually the best source of energy if it is transformed properly. I remember Chunyi Lin mentioning jing energy ONCE -- and that was during a guild meeting -- which are practice healing sessions for the students outside of class -- anyway he also said at that time it's crucial to not think about sex. I had my copy of "Taoist Yoga: Alchemy and Immortality" in my backpack at the time so I was happy to hear Chunyi Lin practically quoting from that book!! He quoted from that "Taoist Yoga: Alchemy and Immortality" book another time -- very specifically -- how he had reached a state of meditation that is detailed at the very end of the book which happens right before the yang spirit as a physical body emerges out. I had the book in my backpack that time as well. haha. But that was fairly early on in the classes -- around 2001 -- and then later on Chunyi Lin said he was more "Americanized" and that normally Chinese culture doesn't talk about those things, etc. That's exactly the process that happens in terms of reversing people's jing blockages -- so basically if it's a liver (anger) or lung (sadness) or pancreas (worry) or kidney (fear) blockage then it gets reversed -- the full lotus creates the kidney will power and the liver creates the wisdom healing through lots of green energy and then the heart opens up and that's the love energy. Now too much love as over-excitement can even be a problem -- and the reverse of this over-excitement of the love is the broken heart -- and that's very real too -- that aching broken heart sensation. But still once the heart love energy opens up then it converts to the chi energy via the pineal gland and also via the slower breathing as the lung energy creating more courage -- combined with the heart to make compassion. After that the chi energy gets real strong. That also goes along with fasting and more of the tantric energy exchanges. That's basically tantra because it's through interactive healing with other people based on complementary opposites -- the male and female energy. Again I rely on the full lotus for this -- the energy just flows on its own. I just sit in full lotus. It's true that I also "flex my pineal gland" to transmit the chi energy but the chi energy builds up in the brain and then will transmit on its own as well. So by the continual transformation of the energy through the pineal gland transmitting and then the perineum taking in the jing energy -- then I can sit in full lotus for hours nonstop -- unless I need a bathroom break! haha. Of course this can be done with males as well but it's not quit the same since the male doesn't naturally sublimate their sexual energy as does a female -- through the parasympathetic internal climaxes. The love is very real and strong but as I mentioned the tantra still only takes you to the 1st Dhyana level of the bliss realm and to the beginning of the realm of form. That's why for "real" meditation beyond that there needs to be a special training environment -- most importantly with the personal supervision of an energy master to guide the training. Because at that level of energy when the chi is really strong then in a normal mundane environment you're going to be doing serious spirit exorcisms of people -- again the energy just flows into people and their attracted to it, etc. Their emotional blockages will get exorcised real strong -- a lot of times it will be their liver anger blockages!! So I was at that more powerful level just briefly -- after I did my week long fast on just half a glass of water. That's when I could see dead spirits as well -- the shen energy -- the dead spirits come to get healed by Chunyi Lin. So usually a teacher will do a closer supervision training at that advanced energy level but most teachers just have one person they train to be an energy master -- for Chunyi Lin it's Jim Nance. So Chunyi Lin told Jim Nance that he had to sit in full lotus two hours nonstop every night, without missing a night! haha. That was just to get to the real meditation of the nirvikalpa samadhi -- or emptiness -- the Dharmakaya. Chunyi Lin has trained several other "master healers" but they're not "qigong masters" like Jim Nance is. Usually at that "Master healer" level the person does healing professionally -- requiring payment, and having a special location, an office or something, to do the healing, etc. So there's now several SFQ "master healers" with websites, etc. Just because I post online doesn't make me an expert obviously! haha. I just share what I know and welcome any criticism. There is an official online forum for questions about SFQ that I mentioned on the other thread -- but then since you're quoting one of the training manuals that's an excellent source of information. Hopefully Sean Denty will present the answers to the questions that people on Taobums asked Chunyi Lin -- that would be very fascinating. I've had a couple online interviews -- one in Spanish! It's just because someone wants to interview me! haha. If you read the interview I'm very honest about all sorts of details which make it plain I'm not an "authority." haha. Still I have had some pretty wild experiences and I did get to take quite a few classes from Chunyi Lin which was fun. He said "Drew is a healer" but, of course, Chunyi Lin says we are all born as healers! haha. Chunyi Lin did say I had an "enlightenment experience" once soon after I had it and I shared it to him in a class he was teaching. That's when he told me to not get too afraid or over-excited when the energy gets that strong and next time to call him on the phone! haha. Chunyi Lin also told me once that my "mind was confused" and another time he said to "stop eating crap." haha. Yeah here is the full version of my interview -- it was highly edited for the website but then in small print at the end of the website interview there is this link for all the nitty gritty details: http://www.martialdevelopment.com/wordpress/wp-content/files/drew-hempel-spring-forest-qigong.pdf That was just about a year ago! Since then I've been able to reread "Taoist Yoga: Alchemy and Immortality" as it's available online. That's how I realized I had gone through everything from chapters 9 to 11 in "Taoist Yoga: Alchemy and Immortality" -- all the problems AND the solutions! haha. It just takes a long time to adjust to the energy and figure things out from books, etc. I had given away all my previous qigong books, etc. -- including the manual that you're quoting from -- just because I had a lot of coworkers very interested in learning more about the energy healing but they were all too poor. haha.

http://www.taijiworld.com/qa/QA5.htm That might be good insight for you.

Yeah that's great advice Ya Mu. Chunyi Lin teaches how to heal deeper energy blockages in the Level 3 and Level 4 classes. I've had friends take his Level 1 or maybe the Level 2 class and then right after the class they did healing on other people with great success. I think that their energy was extra charged up right after the class and then it wore off since they didn't keep up their energy training. Still the healing they did using the sword fingers and thunder palms was of more superficial blockages like aches and pains in the muscles and headaches, etc. Chunyi Lin also says that, while taking the classes gives the information, it doesn't mean the student is necessarily at that level of training -- so he recommends three months of training before taking Level 3 -- which is the standard 100 day gong period, and traditionally would rely on celibacy and storing up the energy, etc. Then for the Level 3 class the focus is on opening up the third eye so he transmits energy to the middle of the brain by touching the forehead -- but this is based on how much the student can handle of course. To fully open up the third eye requires a lot of training. So the last time I took the Level 3 class Chunyi Lin, instead of touching my forehead to shoot energy into the middle of my brain, he put his palm on my heart to further open up my heart chakra. haha. Basically I trained real seriously and I got to the "Dharmakaya" stage described in the book "Taoist Yoga: Alchemy and Immortality" -- I got to the chapters 9 to 11 -- with the immortal breathing as the macrocosmic orbit and the opening of the third eye. But I went too fast since I did the week long "energy fast" (just half glass of water) before I took the Level 3 class where fasting is taught. haha. So then later Chunyi Lin said that if the energy gets that strong to call him on the phone instead of getting too afraid or over-excited, etc. That was 10 years ago though before he had his healing center. I still took Level 4 and I took all the classes several times but my training never got to that level again -- I saw dead spirits, had telepathy, telekinesis, precognition, and did some serious healing. After that I stopped training and so my energy channels closed up a bit but I still have this permanent magnetic bliss in the center of my brain and I see light externally still when I meditate more during a day. Mainly I'm still adjusting to the fact that I have to be on the "modified bigu" diet -- because if I eat a normal amount of food then it just goes to my head as anaerobic bacteria -- so I have to eat very pure food or else there's problems. Sugar is especially bad and it's in everything - bread, peanut butter, yogurt, etc. So that is a pretty serious deal because it requires my family, etc. to accept the fact that I have to be on a special diet or else it's an energy blockage but my family is not really into meditation to say the least. haha. Still they're learning to come to terms with my permanent psycho-physiological transformation -- even though it happened ten years ago!! The other big issue is the external jing life force energy from other people -- Ya Mu do you consider that to be "sick qi" if you take in someone's jing energy and then you transform it into chi-shen energy that is transmitted back to that person? For example Michael Winn talks about how one of the leaders in Yogananda's lineage had to rely on young females to recharge his jing energy when he was older. So that's the great taboo in energy healing in my opinion -- the tantra dynamics of transforming female jing or electrochemical life force energy into the chi-shen healing energy. Obviously if the jing energy is from another organ as lower emotional energy then it's a blockage that has to be harmonized into the love energy -- so liver is anger, pancreas is worry, kidney is fear, lungs is sadness, and the heart is over-excitement. Master Nan and Bodri teach that even this taking in of jing energy and transmitting of chi energy is all a dynamic of pollution -- no different than excrement or phelgm in the body. Also they emphasize that tantra only gets a person to the first dhyana of bliss and to the lower level of the 2nd dhyana of form. So I think that's the case for taking in the jing energy of others and then harmonizing it into love energy that is then transmitted back out of the pineal gland as chi-shen healing energy. But when practicing in an environment where there is a constant exchange of energy with people who don't practice qigong, etc. then there are always people who want and need the chi energy - who desire it -- even though they don't know what qi is! haha. I mean people will chase me down to get the chi energy! haha. Otherwise to do "real" meditation requires a special training environment -- which I'm sure you were able to achieve when you trained in China Ya Mu!! For me I just moved out to the countryside so I have a better environment for training but now I'm focused on healing my parents as they're in their mid-70s. Yeah I still do healing but it's more on the jing level of energy blockages -- not the deeper chi or shen blockages. When I transmit the energy I do it in full lotus and it transmits through walls, ceilings etc. via the pineal gland transduction -- an electromagnetic bliss in the pineal gland. Then I can perceive the energy blockages in the people around me through my own internal organs tingling -- so if a person has a liver blockage then my liver will get real hot as I clear out their blockage or if they have a lung blockage then my lungs will tingle as I clear out the person's sadness, etc. That's what I mean by the holographic nature of the healing experience since it's as if you're inside the other person and the other person is inside you. So any feedback and criticisms you have Ya Mu about diet, about healing, about storing up the chi, etc. would be great but that's my experience. I'm still working on refining a lot of factors. haha. I've had several situations that were dangerous -- mainly from "closeted thugs" attracted to my energy and so I just sat in full lotus and then transmitted chi into them. That's been my practice - sitting in full lotus and then the energy just transmits where it needs to go whether it's the jing energy into my body from outside or the chi-shen energy out of my body. So I just stay in full lotus until the blockages clear out -- which means unless I'm in a safe environment then I just keep in full lotus -- and rely on it even during the night if I have to counteract bad energy in my vicinity -- in the same house, etc.

Ah Palbasha Siddique says she got paid $1000 but that "they" are making millions of the MP3 download of her song. So I hope they are donating to her nonprofit for disabled kids in Bangladesh!! Yeah a Minneapolis article on the background to the vid: http://www.minnpost.com/stories/2008/06/27/2396/dancing_with_the_universe So she got a scholarship to the SAME music school I trained at -- doing piano performance for some 12 years. Yeah here's Palbasha Siddique doing her own music video with her band in Minneapolis -- Pretty funny as I can locate about 90% of the scenes used.

Oh yeah that totally clears out the jing blockages -- I had tingling sensations throughout my body and then got teary eyed. haha. Thanks for posting this -- I had watched it originally but had forgotten. And then when listening to my local community radio station I discovered that the vocalist for that video is from my home town! Minneapolis!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palbasha_Siddique Yeah here's the interview with Matt Harding on the local "South Indian" music show that I always listened to in Minneapolis -- Here she is - Palbasha Siddique -- on her 18th birthday -- founding a nonprofit for Bangladesh where she is originally from: This is great she sings the soundtrack song again in this vid - amazing.

It's ironic that you've mentioned Godel -- as you probably know Godel was a Platonic philosopher and so Godel practiced self-enquiry philosophy -- the logical inference of the I-thought, as taught by Socrates. Still Godel was also a Western mathematician -- so he believed in Platonic philosophy as eternal geometric forms, which is why Godel proved that Einstein's general relativity meant that the whole universe was a rotating black hole. Because the universe is rotating, according to Godel, then there is also the ability to time-travel. Godel argued that the "grandfather's paradox" of time travel would not happen because the person doing the time travel would not DESIRE to kill their grandfather. There's a deep lesson to that time "double bind" paradox from Godel but since he was a Western philosopher he didn't quite solve it. The lesson is that in order to time travel it's not "you" that time-travels but pure consciousness itself as formless awareness -- and in order to resonate with the pure consciousness the philosopher or time-traveler has to first harmonize their body energy so that they have no selfish desires. That's the real reason why the time-traveller would not create the "double bind" of killing their own grandfather, thereby preventing their own existence in the future. But since Godel was still stuck in Platonic philosophy which defines eternity through time as spatial geometry then Godel did not have a proper understanding of how to sublimate desire. So as Godel practiced his self-enquiry philosophy as logic Godel got paranoid that someone was poisoning his food and Godel then refused to eat food. His wife would try to feed him but could not get his weight up and Godel, so fixated on Platonic reality with his increasing paranoia, starved himself to death. Yeah here's more details on Godel: http://www.metanexus.net/magazine/tabid/68/id/9796/Default.aspx http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_G%C3%B6del#Religious_views

Hey Rob if a virus attacks then the qi wasn't strong enough to repel it and once it invades then you'd have to get someone with strong qi to do a healing -- which is probably difficult to find. You can have your friend get a phone healing from http://springforestqigong.com -- Jim Nance would be very effective and of course Chunyi Lin. Still when I was over-working and had a virus attack -- and I had all the full blown symptoms -- then I just took three bulbs of garlic. http://www.medherb.com/Materia_Medica/Allium_sativum_-_Antibiotic_and_Immune_Properties.htm Yeah it's tough but garlic is very effective for flu type viruses -- organic garlic is much better then the cheap garlic from China. haha. Of course your friend would want to take dark greens with the garlic to have the chlorophyll absorb the hydrogen sulfide aftermath. But it is the "stinging" or "burning" power of the hydrogen sulfide that makes garlic so effective -- along with the allicin -- and that's why it has to be fresh garlic. All the attempts at garlic pills, etc. are just not that effective and I have tried all of them. Again three BULBS of garlic completely reversed the full flu symptoms for me -- in just a day or so. Once I had a flu virus hit but I was already doing qigong and I wasn't that far from my house -- biking. So I was able to use just my chi energy to reverse the flu. But that was because I wasn't overworking. haha.

Yeah if you first break up the blockage with the sword finger yin energy then the energy blockage has already been "dismantled" so to speak. haha. So then when you pull out the broken up energy then you just visualize it as going back to the emptiness -- and since it's visualized as smoke that's how it easily dissipates back into the emptiness. Also Chunyi Lin teaches that if someone is trying to take your energy and you don't want to give it to them then you just use the mudra of putting your index fingers as a ring touching the tip of your thumbs. That stops your energy from leaving the body -- and also to keep your tongue up against the roof of your mouth along with smiling. haha. So you can just fold your arms and then with your hands under your arms have your thumbs touching your index fingers. Still Chunyi Lin told this story about how he was teaching once somewhere in Arizona and there was a couple in the room who were using their skills to take Chunyi Lin's energy. So he knew what they were doing but instead of fighting it he just let them take as much as they wanted since Chunyi Lin can then just recharge himself from the emptiness -- through his "Big Accumulator" -- the heart center. So this process is a spiritual exorcism because the people taking the energy for their own selfish reasons realize through the energy experience that there's no limit to the energy! And so as they're trying to take the energy they realize they're not really gaining power over Chunyi Lin (it's not a win-lose situation) and so then they realize that their intention to steal the energy is not getting them anywhere in terms of their original bad intention. haha. So then they realize that what they were doing was wrong and so then they went up to Chunyi Lin and apologized. haha. So that's pretty much how it works -- when the channels are open there's a continual flowing and recharging of the energy through the emptiness. Of course the healing and recharging experience is increased through training, etc. For example Chunyi Lin also teaches to never pull the energy blockage from straight out of the top of the center of the head. I forgot he taught that and once when my energy was really strong this old lady asked me for a healing. I accidentally pulled the energy blockage up out of the center of her head and we were both very surprised at what happened. haha. Nevertheless she knew I had good intentions and when I saw her later she smiled at me but it was a powerful learning experience. Also Chunyi Lin teaches to not use the sword fingers directly at the heart chakra since the heart is also yin energy and the sword fingers are yin energy so it creates a repulsion effect. Basically the energy flows through intention but the intention is "bidirectional" through the emptiness so if a person tries to use energy work to steal energy what happens is that their bad intention creates a rebound effect of negative energy and the rebound is twice as strong. So that way the energy automatically corrects itself. The negative energy gets transformed into positive energy but the person with bad intention perceives the positive energy as twice as bad since it's the opposite of their intention! haha. Also if a person has a good intention but then makes a mistake in their healing energy as happened with me -- then the intention used to direct the energy will realize the mistake and automatically reverse the direction of the energy. Qigong master Yan Xin states that the intention of the energy is "bidirectional" and gives a similar example of how he accidentally caused a car engine to smoke when Yan Xin pulled down energy from a power line in order to jump start the car. haha. That's how the emptiness as consciousness guides the energy in a naturally healing way -- so that if you keep focusing on the emptiness then the love energy keeps increasing.

Yeah the sword fingers is yin energy so it breaks up blockages while the thunder palms is yang energy. You probably know that already. haha. Anyway Chunyi Lin teaches that the more we heal others the more we heal ourselves and Chunyi Lin also teaches that illness is just "extra energy" in the body that needs to be harmonized or transformed back into the emptiness. Finally Chunyi Lin teaches that the deeper you go into the emptiness the more healing power you have. Still the focus on the heart/love energy is the correct answer -- congratulations! haha. The heart is how the soul connects to the emptiness and also to the energy around us -- so while the energy keeps transforming, the heart is sort of like the pivot that accesses the most power. Gurdjieff calls the heart the "great accumulator" but it's a bit difficult to figure it out what Gurdjieff is referring to. haha.

Yeah a great introduction book on the "small universe" practice is Mantak Chia's "Awaken Healing energy through the Tao" -- freely readable online: http://www.scribd.com/doc/2672168/Mantak-Chia-Awaken-Healing-Energy-through-the-Tao This gives report backs from students about what they experience as they're opening up the channels and then the book focuses on why the small universe is so important -- only it's called "microcosmic orbit."

Hey Kenzen -- cool you're practicing SFQ with Chunyi Lin. There's an "official" forum for SFQ with a moderator paid by the company that markets the SFQ learning course so the moderator has close contact with Chunyi Lin. Here's where someone posted a similar question on the breathing at that forum: http://www.learningstrategies.com/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=postlist&Board=9&page=1 As you can see the moderator didn't see the need to answer it -- just another SFQ practitioner. O.K. so at the start of the exercises you take a deep breath to clear out your energy -- but then when you're doing the exercises you breath through the nose and the breathing is more mild. Yeah Chunyi Lin teaches to use "reverse breathing" but just in a mild manner -- he isn't strict about it. The sitting meditation C.D. -- Level 1 sitting meditation has one track as the "small universe" for about 1/2 hour and then the other track is the "self-concentration" sitting exercise which is the equivalent of zazen. So you can mix those meditations. The "small universe" is considered the foundation practice or the "most powerful" so it is emphasized as the key practice but Chunyi Lin also has recitation c.d.s using visualization (including the Heart Sutra) and he uses and sells the "Ohm Mani Pamde Hung" chanting from Tibetan meditation. Basically the breathing follows the mind so Chunyi Lin doesn't emphasize any strict breathing technique except to use a mild form of reverse breathing -- but even that term can be considered off-putting to some. The most important key is to use relaxation and visualization. So as the chi energy increases what happens is that the breathing is done through the chi energy itself -- but that's an advanced level of practice called "immortal breathing" or "embryonic breathing." Chunyi Lin does say that even if you just do 15 minutes of slow relaxed breathing a day without practicing qigong then that's great -- breathing about 6 times a minute.

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/how-does-your-memory-work/

http://blog.ketyov.com/2010/08/eeg-hans-berger-and-psychic-phenomena.html Watch your brain pulsing from your heart pumping!! http://blog.ketyov.com/search?updated-min=2010-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-08%3A00&updated-max=2011-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-08%3A00&max-results=18

That was great -- first new close up vid of Chunyi Lin celebrating the new publication of the Mayo Clinic qigong study. Also those visuals were actually helpful for really explaining the processes of breaking up the blockage and then pulling the blockage out and then sending the energy back in. He then describes the feeling of pulling the blockage out. Excellent job by Gary Rebstock. haha.

O.K. that memory doc gives the MRI studies on how Alzheimer's is from destruction of the white brain matter -- the glial cells. There's now new research stating that a byproduct of tryptophan turning into serotonin in the brain's nerve cells (gray matter) is the increase of kynurenic acid in the white matter, the glial cells. http://www.physorg.com/news199944356.html So if they can decrease kynurenic acid then there's a cure for Alzheimer's and possibly schizophrenia. Yet the documentary states the big problem with aging and brain cell death is lack of blood circulation into the brain. So qigong is focused on increasing brain circulation of blood -- to be sure -- everyday I feel and hear my brain cracking and popping as the blood opens up blockages. haha. And definitely "memories from the future" are a feature of deep meditation -- precognitive visions. Of course the chi and shen have to be built up quite a bit for this to happen. The key question in the documentary is how do memories actually form. It's known that when memories are recalled they become "malleable." So that's the secret of exorcism in qigong -- the emotional blockages are stored in the body as the subconscious memory -- and then as the memory is recalled by activating the body's energy, there is also an EXORCISM of that memory, back into the "emptiness." Science only has the concept of "emptiness" as quantum uncertainty -- which is the new fundamental foundation for physics. Quantum uncertainty is how position and energy are inversely proportional -- and so how does this relate to memory? The deeper our memories of position the stronger the energy used -- yet the energy is impersonal since it's created from the emptiness. Chunyi Lin says he does read our past lives but he rarely tells someone their past lives unless it's necessary for their healing. Also Chunyi Lin says that the energy keeps transforming and so reincarnation will keep continuing for ever. This is emptiness itself -- I personally don't believe in the concept of an individual soul being able to transcend the transformation of energy -- so that individual personality remains as an eternal entity, outside of the universe. To me, such a belief is the typical misuse of religion since the concept of emptiness is always the foundation for philosophy -- it's the ultimate lesson in humility and it's beyond power, etc. Still during the qigong practice the increased blood and hormones (jing) and then the creation of chi and shen in the brain does enable amazing recall of past memories. The documentary states that such recall is key to also imagining your future -- but "imagining" is not the same as left-brain planning based on facts. This is also pointed out in the documentary. Usually people plan their future as a left-brain intention -- in contrast consider Islam stating "Enshallah" all the time - if "god wills." For example there's a book on the meaning of dreams (Johnathan Winson) http://sami5001.buzznet.com/user/journal/18683/ stating that the Echidna -- a mammal in Australia - actually has a LARGER prefrontal cortex than humans -- but the problem is that it doesn't dream. So the dreaming state is actually the primary reality -- through logic of association -- rather then the logic of linear time planning. Review of the book: http://www.scaruffi.com/mind/winson.html So if we get visions from the future which does happen -- I had one that was very specific and I wrote it down stating I thought it predicted the future -- and THREE YEARS LATER it came true in great detail. I had forgotten I had wrote down my dream but then my subconscious activated this sense of uncanny reality and so I reread my journal. Again the details were very specific -- I had a dream of my activist friends standing on the roof of a house with Native American activists holding a banner to protect a forest. Obviously when I saw, in the newspaper, the exact photo of that dream -- three years later -- there's no way it could be a coincidence of so much detail. Especially when I had the dream I recorded that I thought it was predicting the future -- because the dream was "more real" than being awake. The point is if our future can be predicted in great detail -- 3 years before it happens -- what does that mean about free will? Do we even have a "self" of individual memories if our future is already predestined? Chunyi Lin says that 70% of our future is predestined based on the planets and stars, etc. while we can change 30% through qigong. In nondualism, as per Ramana Maharshi, it's stated that the evolution of the universe is an illusion -- that there is only reincarnation if the individual spirit believes in it, that, in fact, there is only the eternal, impersonal process of consciousness which then creates light and creates spacetime from out of pure awareness without any specific memories or thoughts, experiences, etc.

Yeah I stopped watching when the creepy naked old decayed lady ghost was going to have sex with Jack. Anyway here's a "shockumentary" on the "double bind" of Africa right after colonialization. http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/africa-addio/ It's got genocide, massacres, of people and animals -- but it's presented in the form of the "banality of evil" so to speak.

Started watching. Felt too embarrassed. But then the full lotus -- "looks like he's taking a shit" kriya -- has to be the most effective in my opinion. haha. Even Jim, student of John Chang, verifies that the chi transmission feels like you're taking a dump. haha.

Oh yeah Stanley Kubrick was a master of double binds! The movie "The Shining" was on cable recently and I caught part of it -- I had watched that movie about 20 times back in 1989 - 90 as my buddy was writing a paper on it. The Shining is all about paranormal reality and double binds in Western culture -- there's a structuralist or neoformalist theme in the movie using the color scheme of red, white and blue for the AmeriKKKa and then the Bartok music and the labyrinth is the spiral vortex into the paranormal realm. So while superficially it's a "horror" movie genre it's actually about the Native indigenous shamanism as the hotel was on a native burial ground -- and then all the ghosts, etc. Chunyi Lin actually shared a story similar to the Shining when he went to Mankato to teach qigong and he encountered this giant ghost spirits guarding over the largest mass hanging in U.S. history -- of the Dakota who revolted against the U.S. reneging their treaty agreement, leaving the Dakota to starve to death.... Anyway then there's also Madeline Island in Lake Superior which was a sacred regional gathering site but then there was a massacre of Indians there and so the Island was no longer visited by Natives as it was considered haunted by their spirit ghosts. But the white dudes were scared as well until a new family moved there and then the white dude axed his family to death -- just like in the Shining. It's in Warren's "History of the Ojibwe" book. Kubrick's my favorite film director but his films are so intense -- I finally saw some of Lolita on cable a few weeks ago -- another brilliant double bind. So the old man gets strung along with the daughter flirting with him in his prime -- in competition with her mom. So the daughter wins the old man -- a professor so that's a real catch -- but then she ditches him but too late as the old professor is obsessed in love as lust, of course. Finally he tracks her down after he became psychotic while she was flirting with other males in his presence and he thought he'd get arrested for underage sex.... Anyway at the very end he just gives everything to her even though she's with another man because he has a broken heart and he doesn't care anymore -- he just wants to express his love and get it over with. She's just like "cool I get all this money." haha. That's probably the most common double bind -- but then I was writing about that in the link I gave.

Sitting in full lotus is how I remove double binds! haha. Otherwise do standing tai-chi and then the "small universe" exercise. Still keep in mind that the nonwestern energy is the opposite of the Western repressed fascist neurotic b.s. so the double binds to be removed will be nonstop. Still it's a fun trip and after a certain amount of practice there's no turning back -- permanent third eye energy reality.

http://webtalkradio.net/shows/hope-healing-and-wellbeing/ Spring Forest QiGong (SFQ) is a practice of breathing, focusing your mind, doing simple body movements and meditating. Our guest, Jim Nance, M.A., S.F.Q. M, will discuss some of the research and benefits of using these simple but powerful techniques to foster wellbeing and healing of depression, pain, and numerous other health issues. Join us and to learn more about SFQ, please visit http://www.bornahealer.com.

Too bad the CIA was the first to have LSD mass produced -- and then used it on people for MKUltra torture.... http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2007/01/08/brainwashing-suit.html http://boingboing.net/2010/03/11/french-village-went.html CIA spikes a whole village in France with LSD....