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It's useless to store it if you can't transform it, Cam. As far as ignore status, goes, I have plenty of affection for you, but little respect. You've never been more than a Tao dilettante, as far as I can tell, and have relatively little experience with actually doing the work for yourself, versus trying to get some guru to open yourself up for you. If you want to put me on ignore status, it's not going to make a lot of difference on my end, except to raise my respect for myself, because you have no idea what you're talking about. Traditional tribes all over the world, for tens of thousands of years, have eaten diets that absolutely do not support retention, like shellfish, organ meats, animal fats, etc., and they specifically say those foods are excellent for both health and reproduction. I eat this way, usually, and it does make retention much harder. That's not the point. I'm 32 and my diet is excellent, so, assuming decent luck, I've got decades to learn how to transform the energy upwards. If you're eating specifically to make retention easier, you're also eating to deprive your jing/bone level of the necessary nutrition. A raw low-fat fruitarian diet will make retention pretty easy, and I speak from hard experience on this. That doesn't mean it's safe to eat long-term. 100 is just a round number. I want to make it very clear that I think retention is a long-term goal, not a short-term one. 100 is just a round number. If nobody listens to me, fine. That doesn't change the truth of what I say. It is stupid to eat for retention. Eat for health.

i don't recommend the 100 days yet, cam. Get to the point where you can transform the energy upward easily on a daily basis, therefore controlling stagnation in that area. Ejaculation and prostate massage alone will not completely stop the stagnation in that area. You need to learn to contract your tailbone strongly, it took me months to get to the point where I could do it enough so that it moved far enough forward during contractions to really move the energy and jing around. Until you have this ability, and use it many times daily, and can give yourself powerful orgasms with it, long-term retention work will accomplish nothing, because the energy will not be fully transformed. You risk stagnation. If you're worried about excessive jing loss through ejaculation, change your diet.

That's Plato's story to tell. I wasn't there. But it's weird.

When my sifu threw me, I had no idea he could even do that. I had no idea such things were possible at ALL. I never saw or heard of him doing it before that, or after that. He didn't tell me what was coming. Power of suggestion? I seriously, really doubt it. How can you suggest something like that without telling or showing? He neither told nor showed, nor did anyone in class tell or show me. I'm telling you, Cam, ask Plato about some of the martial stuff he saw people doing in the parks in China in the mornings. It's teh wacky shit. Ask him about meeting Nan Huai Chan. That's an interesting story.

There are levels beyond that, Cam. Levels where skills on the purely physical level are not only useless, but actually dangerous to the practitioner. If someone with highly-developed physical level skill attacks someone with skills beyond the physical level, they are actually more likely to be seriously harmed than if someone with no skill or training does the same. My teacher had a student with 10 years of training, and great speed and skill. He had told the fellow "mike, you can't go fast with me". One day, mike did, and, given the situation, my sifu had to use a non-physical, energy-level attack. I'll be the first to admit I know very little about such methods, but the upshot of it was that the top of Mike's forearm "blew up". Blood starting spurting everywhere, from dozens of small holes that weren't there before. This is the same sifu that once, without me knowing what was coming, threw me across the room without touching me or moving at all. This shit is real, folks. Do not fuck with the "old-timers", as my sifu calls them.

mmm-hmmm. Your martial arts knowledge and a quarter will buy a cup of coffee. I know there are guys like you out there, who've spent decades honestly slogging away, only to never learn anything of great value. I feel for you. I don't know what to say about it, but I feel for you. Seriously, man, I think some of the better internal martial artists on the board are avoiding arguing with you because they're afraid they won't be able to take you seriously in a general sense. I know I can, though. I'm sure you have lots of intelligent things to say on other subjects...just not Chinese martial arts. I can't help but mention that there are at least 2 or 3 guys here (probably more like 6 or 8) who personally know people who could easily wipe the mat with the best of the UFC crowd. Like I said, I think I could hold my own. My teacher could kill any of them in about 1/3 of a second, I shit ye not. Those guys are wasting their time rolling around and beating the hell out of each other. You want skills? The UFC is not the best place. Not the worst, but not the best. Oh wow. 35 years? Wow. Poor guy. Oh man.

That...was...funny.

Wow. I have a feeling I could hold my own against a lot of the better MMA guys, and I'm 5'7", maybe 140 lbs. It's not how big or fast you are, when we're talking about the better quality Asian martial arts. Trust me. Or take Ken Shamrock or one of the Gracies or any of those guys to China and see how fast they get their asses whipped. By the way, this isn't an argument. I've seen footage of O'sensei, as well as of some of his better students. There's no contest. That doesn't even touch on some of the better Chinese martial artists and systems. Please. Don't embarrass yourself. Find a discussion where you actually have some real experience. Please. If you keep talking, I'm afraid I'll laugh at you so hard that I'll scare the neighbors' dog.

After practicing lots of arm-waving-around-over-my-head-type qigong over the last couple months, I have noticed that my skull bones are moving more again lately. Sometimes they'll do that on their own, anyway, but I think this is related to the qigong.

Actually, Plato told me about a qigong class he observed in New York Chinatown where they were doing something similar, but, instead of holding their noses with their hands, they were blocking the airflow some other way, I don't remember how, maybe with the tongue. I have done this while in a handstand, and it did cause bone movement in the skull, but the bones have to be pretty mobile from other methods for there to be a lot of movement, n my experience. In general, this is an extremely forceful technique, and I don't recommend it too much. it works for me, but...

I'm thankful for Lozen. Happy Turkey day, my fellow bums.

I would be careful with Kurz' stuff. People have hurt themselves taking it too fast. That's true of general yoga as well. I agree with Kurz that dynamic flexibility is more important than static.

Indeed.

I personally know some very well-respected producers of white powder gold. I'd be happy to direct you to them. We are most likely at the very,very, very beginning of several hundred years' worth of research on these Ormus elements. I think they may end up playing a pivotal role in ascension, one way or another, whatever ascension is. They certainly can stop the aging process, allow levitation, psychic powers, etc. but most of the power of these Ormus forms of these elements is imparted by the alchemist. The method is somewhat important, but the skill and intention of the alchemist, as well as the astrological conditions under which the Ormus is made, are also very important. I am experimenting with growing plants with large amounts of Ormus. There is a lot of research to be done, decades' worth, at least, unless the more advanced races decide to help some people out. I know I wouldn't mind a little help.

I definitely have some thoughts and experiences with white powder gold, Ormus, what have you.

I've done this for months at a time, I would usually eat my one meal around noon or a little after. It definitely allows you to sleep more deeply. I don't think it hurts you at all. I didn't experience any weight loss, but I didn't need to lose any weight anyway. If you want to lose weight, eat coconut oil and go low-carb.

And yet, despite all that, I'm much healthier and stronger now that I eat some raw animal foods instead of being a vegan. Not only that, Dr. Price noted that the mostly-vegetarian Kikuyu had 13 times as many cavities as the meat-eating Masai, who lived right next door to them, in Africa. There's theory, and there's reality. When it comes to diet, I know which I'll listen to more, my friend.

Humans are not natural vegetarians. Our ancestors were all meat eaters, prior to there being organized societies that engaged in agriculture. They also had better teeth and general health, speaking broadly. If you don't believe it, take a look at Dr. Weston Price's book here. Just look at the pictures. All these traditional tribes were in much better health before the white man's food arrived. Not only that, the healthiest groups were the ones that ate plenty of organ meats and seafoods. The ones closest to vegetarian were the least-healthy. I tried vegetarianism and veganism. They don't work. You need some meat and fish, etc. It's part of our heritage. If you don't believe it, read Dr. Price's book. I'm not saying that, if the plants you eat are healthy enough, you can't be a healthy vegan or vegetarian. But...nobody is consistently growing plants of that quality, for the most part. You either have to have just the right soil, or you have to know what you are doing really well. It's much harder than any of the fools trying to be vegetarian or vegan realize. Veganism is the real danger. If you can get raw dairy of sufficiently good quality, you really don't need meat or fish. However, the plants that the cow/goat/etc. is eating have to be of really super high quality. Few know how to grow such plants, as I have discovered in my years of studying these issues. Until you can get such plants consistently, best to eat some meat and/or fish on a regular basis. I speak from experience, folks.

I've heard that learning to do daily activities with both hands equally well will increase the size of the corpus callosum, and, perhaps, the communication between both sides of the brain. My qigong/taiji teacher suggested I learn to write with both hands, and I have practiced it.

It is possible to overdo water fasting. In moderation it is very beneficial. I recommend taking clays while you are fasting.

Software already exists that allows you to play music in any key. I'm not sure if what you are talking about actually exists. However, I don't see the need for real-time conversion. Either the sound is being produced, or it isn't, right? I guarantee I could design an experiment that would test this without the need for real-time conversion.

I muscle-test to see which passages to put the balloons in. Ultimately, you'll have to do multiple inflations in each passage over a period of months and years to get all the results out of it that can be gotten. It's more about the intention than it is anything else. I guarantee it. You're not inflating the balloons inside sinuses. You're inflating them inside the 6 passages that go fron your nostrils to your throat. each side has 3 passages, stacked on top of each other, and separated by horizontal flat bones. Take a look at skull anatomy on wiki or something.

This is too easy. Record it, then play it back at double, triple, quadruple, or whatever speed. Eventually, if you double the speed enough times, you'll have audible sound.

Yes, just the same bulbs they use for blod pressure cuffs. It IS jerryrigged, and that's the annoying part. I think a better setup could be invented, but I've never put my mind to it too much. The bones only move to the degree that you're messed up. The more messed up, the more they move. I use party balloons to get more pressure, but most people just use finger cots. Changes are easy to measure. I know the shape of my own skull, how it feels. I didn't have any particular problems, just wanted to see what would happen. My hearing got a let better, and I can move a lot better and more easily.

Balloons inside the nose go back to the 1920s. Howell, however, is the one who has popularized it. He came up with some mostly-bullshit method to determine which of the 6 passages to insert the balloons into. His real contribution is simply in popularizing it to make it more well-known. He's a pretty good healer, but that's it. No genius. The reason why it's only done in the US is two-fold 1. lots of money and technology here, good scientific minds 2. we eat really poor diets and have very sedentary lifestyles, so, relatively, Americans are very fucked-up, healthwise.