Shadao

This seems just like with skillshare, they say you can "try for X time" but they always forget to mention that first they ask your credit card info when singning up. Because if you forget about it once the trial period is over they start automatically billing you.

I don't know if this is considered "TCM"(please correct me if wrong), but it wouldn't hurt to check the collection of books of Jerry Alan Johnson: Chinese Medical Qigong Therapy(I think there are 5 volumes) And there are some books that I think might interest you...

I believe they exist, however I also believe that one's education(by their parents and society, as well as by experience/life) will dictate which is which. For example, one that grew up seeing theft or violence being considered the "right way" to achieve something(which in this case wiould be either "to survive" or "to be the strongest")will not see doing these actions as "wrong". Because even if others say "it is wrong", the other people lived a different life than this person so they have not lived through their eyes to be able to understand their POV...and neither has the person in relation to those that deem these actions/things wrong. Reality has alot about one's perspective...

Isn't this view more of the so called "right hand path" though, rather than of all "esoteric world"? Astral projection?This reminded me when I(years ago) somehow ended up sleeping in class and AP'd...I knew what it was when it happened(because back then I already searched such subjects) so I wasn't spooked(because I was no more than barely a teenager) but to this day I still do not know how it happened spontaneously... Or is it something different from AP?

I'm not rich, the most I can do is probably parkour And comedy isn't a strong point of mine, but I guess that acting with improvisation or doing a performance in a public space(I'm a performing arts student, so this isn't uncommon) can work in place of stand-up comedy. When I first mentioned "lack of fear of death" I mentioned only towards myself. I still very much fear the death of those close to me, and this one I'm sure will be very hard to get over.

Yeah I have no desire to go to one of those, but I also think there isn't one where I live either so...¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I'm between wanting to experience such, but at the same time, not...oh the dichotomy, or is it a paradox?... Now I wonder what kind of life you have to brush with death so frequently... But this would be according to Buddhist belief? Also, I just want to make clear that I am not buddhist. Not gonna lie, I did like this part. This was, more or less, what I was thinking when I wrote this post. If I believed in signs I would say this is the universe trying to tell you something.

...Ok, time to go... ...not. To be fair though, what I believe I fear isn't much death, but suffering/feeling pain before/while dying...dieing...dying? ...could you mention the name of a few of them?

To this day I still hate how many freemasons speak of freemasonry as a means to achieve self-realization, personal growth and such, and how this is something they wish of/for others, but still keep this archaic practice of prohibiting women of being freemasons themselves...so much for being an "enlightening group" huh?

Started reading this book: Chinese Qigong by The Publishing House of Shanghai College of Traditional Chinese Medicine And am surprised to see how here they seem to write of Qigong as a scientific system and not so much focus on it in a spiritual(awakening/enlightment) kind of thing.Sometimes it even seems like they're being skeptical of Qigong itself(or at least, the Qigong that is linked to spirituality) and consider this more of an "alternative health system" of sorts. For example, some of the chapters and sections: Chapter One: General Survey -Section Two: The theoretical basis of Qigong - Qigong and the Viscera Chapter Two: Maneuvers of Qigong -Section Two: Dynamic Qigong - Iron Crotch Qigong(not gonna lie...I laughed when I read that) It is both strange and interesting seeing this kind of "pragmatic"(?) view of something that I'm just so used to seeing being constantly linked with Daoism and all the spirituality that comes with that.

...I really don't know what to say if not ತ_ʖತ

What's that?It's the first time I've heard this.

Anyone knows if this temple and it's people are legit? From a layman's perspective they seem to be...even if giving off a bit of "used car salesman" vibes in some videos... On one of their recent videos they "made it free" some scriptures and "books" but I don't know if their processes are legit or even if they should be ok to be attempted by beginners. You can find the link to their pages with the "freebies" in this video:

So TL;DR: Don't go seek Thunder Magic if you aren't Chinese/of the Chinese culture...got it. Good thing that I seem to prefer more the Korean energetic systems rather than Chinese ones(save for Neidan). Thunder magic seems interesting but magic-wise I think I prefer Chaos magic.Not as limitating, plus I don't depend on the graces of a deity to be able to "have magic power".

To be honest, I think this is why he gave me "used car salesman" vibes...it seemed "too try hard" y'know?

Finally got this book and wow...there is indeed alot to absorb in terms of knowledge and understanding. Seems like the kind of book that you should either read tiny parts daily(like a snack) or take a week off to properly focus on it entirely.

I want to know if anyone here knows of books, youtube channels or websites that may contain legit content about the subject on the title(i.e. Taoist magic). It is a subject that I find interesting but honestly don't have much access to materials of such content. Thank you in advance!

I don't know if anyone here knows of or even reads wuxia/xianxia novels/manhuas, but these stories usually tend to have "energy cultivation" as one of it's precepts and(usually more with xianxia but it can appear in some wuxia stories) through that one can literally rebuild their physical body in order for it to either become "above human" or "in harmony with the supernatural energies".Although the way they make it vary, some destroy their physical body and rebuild it exclusively with "solid energy" or "energies of nature", while others seem to "evolve from inside out" kind of like using alchemy to change lead to gold. Considering this tends to appear quite regularly, I wonder if it is inspired by something either out of Daoism or Qi cultivation.Yes, I am not expecting someone here to tell "Oh yeah, you can definitely rebuild your body like that". I want to know if there is a basis from where this was taken(probably out of context?) and used in such stories. Is there something about "rebuilding the body" in either Daoist or Qi cultivation works?

I've seen many videos of people claiming to be able to do telekinesis...but here's the thing.All objects they tried to move were pieces of paper, very light stuff, or objects that while not as light as paper, were "mobile" due to their shape or you could see that were not stable enough and any force could make them fall/move. If one tried to move a paperweight in the shape of a pyramid...then I would pay attention.But a piece of paper put on a needle?

I APd once when I was younger, but my interest has always been in telekinesis(mainly due to Superboy in comics that uses telekinesis to emulate many of Superman's powers). I tried lucid dreaming but at most could only gain cognition in some dreams, enough to know I was in a dream but not enough to be able to willingly control it.

I think there is a difference, though, between "dumbing it down" and separating the spiritual from the practice

Yeah I got this point from seeing some of the discussions in this forum. Personally I think I learn better through such a "pragmatic" system, but I also like the mystical aspect of it all(reason why I also started to learn about Daoism).I like how they thought and dealt with reality and "the self" in China, before Mao decided to destroy it all I mean...

antique

Hello, I would like to change my username into Shadao(a pun of shadow+dao, because all I know of it so far is "nothing but a shadow" and shadows are the mix of light and darkness.A perfect description for one in-between like myself).

The more I see the level of discussions here, the more ignorant I feel. But I also feel fascinated...it's weird.

It can be both or neither too ¯\_(ツ)_/¯