Paradoxal

Very much reminds me of what has happened with martial arts. I see people certified to teach when they can't even use what they're trying to teach all the time!

I know I can control which bits of the lungs I use, as well as the function of my stomach, gut, liver, and kidneys. I have not tried much related to the heart, but I can control blood pressure, heart rate, and body temperature. I've also been able to directly influence things like motion sickness and allergies. My mother also can do this, so I'm pretty sure it might be unrelated to qigong in our case, but rather a hereditary trait (though, it might actually be an energetic hereditary trait causing it, as my mother's side of the family has insane life force and often manifests abilities such as seeing the future).

So THAT'S why all the photos I take are blurry! I'm just too magnetic of a person!😎 Definitely not a skill issue! Nope!

Divinity is just moderator perms for the world 🤣

I would like to point out that I'm of the opinion that you're opening yourself up to the influence (which may actually be rooted in the physical brain rather than the spiritual side of things) via your practices and mindstate. If you need a simple ritual that *might* help regardless, I would recommend setting a barrier up around you (which I will not give instructions on because this is not what I was asked), get a large amount of salt, and touch the salt with the palms of your hands. While touching it, focus your intent on driving the possessed energy from your body into the salt through your hands. In my experience, the energy tends to be pitch black in the mind's eye and will often turn the salt black (again, in the mind's eye). You then need to safely dispose of the salt. I did this by burying it in a spot where nothing that would be eaten by humans was growing and continually blessing the spot, but methods vary here. Be aware that if you do this right, the salt will be as good as poisonous to pretty much all life, so exercise care. Also, you may need to do this process multiple times to fully get rid of whatever influence you're having. Again, despite this, I would still recommend getting some therapy and stopping with any ritualistic practice; to me, it feels less like spiritual influence and more like a physical ailment.

Assuming there is an actual ghost causing you harm, the simplest way is to blast the bitch back to the afterlife. If that can't be done due to insufficient power, then ritualistic seals can also get the job done, but then ya have a cursed object to deal with (which is not fun!)

...and yet, Western influence is currently falling, and the Western powers are on the brink of nuclear war.

...Anything, huh? Then, how many nuns is one 'gali'? (And where does your name come from?)

First, on an individual scale, mental flexibility is needed. You need to be willing to run and fight on a melee battlefield, which would be unthinkable if you were stuck in the 1v1 dojo mindset. You also need to have the ability to kill (or in my case, "kill") an armored opponent in less than 2 seconds without yourself going to ground, as you probably won't have more than that before the lines push you out of position. This means adapting the blocks, strikes, and grapples to be used while moving, instead of slowly and strategically (but you still want to apply strategy!). You need to understand, not memorize the concepts; if you simply memorize WC's concepts, using them at scale would be very difficult, if not impossible. For instance, taking the opponent's balance: in small scale combat, this seems obvious, but how would you apply it to large scale combat? Certainly not by yanking their arm to throw their balance off! This can instead be done through positioning of your troops in key places that cut the enemy's troops maneuverability, as an example. Funnily enough, though, you can also "yank" the enemy troops to throw them off balance through baiting them into weak positions. Both of these cases can apply to single combat through your own positioning and through physically yanking (and psychologically baiting) the opponent, but when understood properly, the concepts themselves can be applied everywhere in life. Think of it like how Sun Tzu's Art of War is currently used in the business world. Again, I was taught that WC was specifically made to include *EVERYTHING* Chen style has, including the energetic and lethal stuff. It was pieced together from every system in the Shaolin temple at the time, using only the most efficient methods from each one, but that doesn't mean it didn't manage to achieve completion of all of them. Unfortunately, I can't make those public as I don't have permission from my teachers, and those contain some stuff that shouldn't be released publicly. This isn't a legend, but actual truth. Karate traces much of its origins to Southern Shaolin, most specifically the systems of White Crane and "Monk Boxing", though some Tiger and Mantis can be seen in particular styles of karate as well. If you're interested, I'd recommend checking out Jesse Enkamp's videos on the stuff. He does his research very thoroughly and gives sources for much of his findings. I'll link some good ones below: (I got the chance to train in this dojo with Hokama sensei myself, and can confirm that he is insanely knowledgeable about the history of martial arts! If you ever have the chance, please do check out his museum!)

Again, I cannot speak for all WC lineages, but the stuff I've been shown adapts to armored melee use quite well; I've actually had the pleasure to fight in full lamellar armor before, as well as in melee-scale mock battles. The WC stuff worked wonders there, and if you examine things from a strategic perspective, even the strategy used at individual levels scales to large army levels quite seamlessly. Plus, at the advanced level, WC actually has an entire arsenal of stuff dedicated to killing opponents, though this is rightly not shown publicly very often. If we're talking about it being just "personal defense," this would certainly not be the case. That said, I can certainly see how it could be taught wrong and thus be lacking such uses; if the athletic conditioning or the martial (as in, for your bones, for your tendons, etc.) conditioning were left out, then it would not only be useless on the battlefield but also for self defense. I have seen it taught without this stuff and frankly, I find such teaching to be very malicious. Another possible way it could be lacking is if you are not taught the actual strategic side of things, and instead take a very materialistic look at the art. What is shown as a "pak sao" should be thought of as a concept, but many people mistake it to be a very specific movement. Such people begin to teach, and thus entire lineages lose out on a large part WC. A similar thing has happened for modern karate, where many people learn stuff like "upper block" or "lower block" and are led to miss out on the fact that literally none of the movements in karate are just for "blocking." It's a shame, but on the bright side, there are still instructors in both WC and karate out there that actually know and teach the deeper parts of the arts.

If there were truly a "most effective martial art", it would most certainly not be boxing. Boxing is a sport, not a martial art! Even if we were to consider it a martial art, the use of gloves in practice makes it ineffective in actual combat because it lacks the conditioning required for bareknuckle use. Its footwork is specialized under the assumption of no kicks and no grappling, and is thus very ungrounded. Likewise, it not only lacks kicks and grappling, which are essential parts of any fighting system, it also lacks trained defenses against them, and against weapons. It can be useful as a training tool for understanding close range fighting, and it can be very fun, but it is not self-defense oriented on its own. I dunno what you've been taught, but the WC I've learned includes kicks, grappling, and groundwork. It is certainly not just defensive or stationary, and includes everything Chen style taiji has. Historically, WC was made for the express purpose of raising soldiers with the same skills as Chen style in 1/3 the time, for the goal of killing Chen style practitioners on the battlefield. Yes, there are dumbasses claiming to be "masters" while never pressure testing themselves or doing basic conditioning, but they are simply delusional at best and scam artists at worst, and certainly do not have even a rudimentary understanding of martial arts.

It's literally just a slap. If you've shooed a fly away with your hand, you've done a pak sao. If you've slapped anything with your hand, that's a pak sao. It's one of the natural movements humans use to get stuff away from them. If you don't see how to use a slap to counter an attack, I'd recommend solo visualization training. Visualize the attack coming at you, and figure out a way to slap it away. It can be a hook, straight punch, uppercut, backfist, elbow, knee, or any kind of kick, to name a few. What is important here is learning an innate understanding of how the body works and how pressure affects it when applied in different places. This is not how I was taught, and will thus not comment on it because it is not my place to. What I was taught, however, is that "pak" means "slapping" and "sao" means "hands", while "tek" means legs. The concept involved is "slapping", so the concept can be applied with any limb, tool, or weapon. You'll have to wait for a video, but as a theoretical, lightly slapping with the flat of a sword to parry. Don't fully extend the arm. As far as I know, all of WC has passed through Ip Man, but I've mostly trained in the William Cheung lineage. Again, I'd like to emphasize that just because you CAN win without stepping doesn't mean you SHOULD win without stepping.

This lines up with the memories of a past life that I have, as mine are from 1945, but I was born in 1995. Time *does* pass "differently" over there, however, as it is outside of what we call spacetime. Additionally, the loved ones I've had contact me from beyond the grave have all pretty much been in the days/weeks immediately after their passing; one even visited me within an hour of death. I don't know if this is because they hadn't gone to the other side yet, though.

If I recall correctly, Eliphas Levi classified this under "necromancy" and included a ritual for it in The Doctrine and Ritual of High Magic. It's been awhile since I've read through it though, so I'm not able to point ya further. That said, I can confirm it is possible as I've had conversations with loved ones who passed on myself. I'm not sure I'd recommend it, however, as it is much better to figure out a way to process this loss among the living. If ya get caught on the world of the dead, it'll prevent ya from living this life afterall.

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