Sanity Check

I try to learn something new every week. Over time improvement has been noticeable. This is something life coach gurus call self improvement. (Which fight club famously compared with mastication.) Recently, I have found a new adjective for this process. "Evolution." I feel like I am evolving. I wonder if this is a path God favors for His followers? It used to be common to debate: do you believe in evolution. I contend a person cannot truly believe in evolution unless they practice it as a lifestyle.

In the Tao Te Ching thread there was a line that said something like... that which is eternal cannot be seen or heard. It made me think Qi energy may not be detectable by modern day science as it is eternal & exists outside of normal space time. There is definitely no shortage of interesting concepts as far as metaphysics goes.

"Lesson in Machismo." All the magic words you'll ever need.

A popular catchphrase of finance is to summarize the history of market and economic trends with: "the rich get richer while the poor get poorer". Does qi operate in a similar fashion. If qi attracts qi, then having a large pool of qi may make it easier to attract more? Which could be an advantage? In which case those with large quantities of qi, receive more qi. While those with smaller pools, tend to have qi be diminished over time? Small bodies of water like lakes and rivers are not affected by tides. The moon's tides will affect an ocean sized mass of water, but not smaller ones. Which could be yet another advantage for larger masses of energy? In which case, are there advantages to having a smaller quantity of qi that I am overlooking? I would definitely expect there to be some advantage yet cannot for the life of me find it. What observations and logical deductions can be made of qi based on natural principles and science? Let's have a deep philosophical discussion.

Remember in Enter the Dragon. Bruce Lee says... "Chi. Power. It is like a finger pointing to the moon. Do not concentrate on that finger or you will miss out on all that heavenly glory." I'm not particular. People can discuss any type of qi they wish.

Was I the only one who read the title and thought of this.

Deja vu

The only thing I remember about Flatliners from the 1980s/1990s is its about medical students who flatline their hearts then resuscitate themselves in an attempt to give themselves near death experiences (NDE). The summary for altered states says "genetic memory" plays a role in the film. In the book Travels, Michael Crichton participates in hypnosis or meditation to make contact with his ancestors or former lives. He says he connected with a gladiator who lived in a past era. There could be a case for trauma being written to ones DNA. The same with famine and other conditional circumstances. To some extent our life choices also have an impact on DNA. But also remember that there were lengthy and comprehensive studies done on newborns addicted to crack. With the conclusion being that living in a negative environment being surrounded by negative people is more debilitating to human development than being born addicted to crack. In terms of nature versus nurture, it is possible that study proves nurture or choices matter more than DNA.

*Reads the summary* Shades of Flatliners with Kiefer Sutherland or Michael Crichton's book Travels?

This man has an inspirational story and says he may be evolving back into a monkey. This man also has inspirational stories & may be trying to evolve to become more like a fish. And so maybe there is hope for people to become more like koala bears if needed.

If I had to guess, an accurate diagnosis and treatment plan might require OP to be more specific & detailed on the practice they were engaging in. A basic treatment process might take whichever practice caused the injury and to invert it to some degree. Excess yang injury might be treated with a yin approach and vice versa. In your case however things likely snowballed to where that is no longer viable. But a diagnosis involving the specific practice used could shed light on details in ways that can be useful. As far as I know there is no one in the world who knows how to treat ki deviation. Even in past ages when there was greater knowledge and more masters there still was no knowledge of how to treat it.

I think it would take multiple visualization sessions for ki deviation to occur. It wouldn't happen in a single session. If it happened in a single practice it had other causes.

What type of haphazard energy practice were you following? I've read about many cases that sounded similar to yours. As far as I know, the best practice is to cease any type of cultivation or training when negative symptoms begin to manifest. If the practice is dropped early then there is a good chance things will return to normal. But if people persist and continue to practice after symptoms begin to emerge, then there is a greater chance of permanent damage.

Observing the boundary of the visible appears to invoke empirical science. While grokking the quale of the invisible leans towards practices which cannot directly be observed via material science. That's my "water is wet" comment for the day.