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Exactly. The entire aboriginal world culture was doing just sustainably dandy before Christian Anglo-Colonialism "saved" them all by decimating them into oblivion.

Yes, the white flashbulb light seems indicative of a Kundalini awakening. Welcome to your jungle, hehe... I have a feeling mine might be on the way to pop sometime in the near future too...had some unusual kriyas this afternoon after some stretching.

YES, I've made this argument many times before...but falling mostly upon deaf ears here. Colonized (left-brained) Daoism has been reduced to a left-brain, beta state, mental exercise...instead of the original, holistic Daoism. This is well-known in Chinese internal health culture. But New Age Westerners don't want to hear it because then it often requires long, grueling discipline, facing and fixing your own sh*t FOR REALZ, and very delayed gratification. And that doesn't fit neatly into fun weekend workshops! (Not that I am saying this is absolute, and there are always exceptions to the bell curve. But generally speaking, it is something to consider - as your study indicates.)

So, who are the real "terrorists?" Remember, even ex-military Trump fanbois admit the US had no legit justification to invade and obliterate Iraq...much less deploy nuclear weapons there! Airstrikes, drone strikes, tanks firing 400 tons of radioactive DU into your land causing horrific birth defects...is not terrifying???

^ Interesting. What brands did you take, what was your dosage, and for how long? And how did your eyesight improve, exactly?

How do Sam's organic offerings (fresh produce, packaged foods, snacks, etc) compare with Costco's? Costco has quite a decent selection, that keeps growing...and they even have stuff like organic, 21-spice seasoning - which I doubt you'd even find at Whole Foods! So, I've always wondered what Sam's has?

Lol, well according to racism...but not actual facts:

2 theories about this one (injuries from a challenge and/or obesity):

Not sure if they did? Metaphysical occultists during that era sought a common "proto-Indo-European" root culture of higher spiritual ability. The actual origins of this hypothesized group were conjectured to be Atlantis...and then on to Tibet, Armenia, etc...after the Flood. Hence, the most common theorized assignment of them at the time was NOT "white north west Europeans," but actually some remnant Tibetan race... So, were they completely off their rockers...or possibly somewhat onto something? Well, artifacts like this certainly add to the intrigue: Of course, it doesn't really prove anything one way or the other...but I think the whole search for root cultures is certainly still very interesting and worthwhile!

Interesting, I heard a very similar story about Lum DaiYong, a Maoshan Daoist Grandmaster who had started the Gee Yung school in Honolulu. He had once supposedly transferred a boy's (Andrew Lum's?) spirit to a tree - so that when someone chopped the boy's hand, branches from that tree fell off instead! His student, Andrew Lum, was Max "Kunlun" Christensen's teacher, btw... I'm a bit skeptical about his story in general, though - as it seems rather archetypically mythological and fanciful. I mean, progressing to standing in horse stance trance for 4 hours...after just 3 weeks??? I'd like to see it to believe it?

^^ Yea, as I said, none of all that obscure theory will really make any sense until AFTER you've stumbled upon some personal experience of it. These old treasure maps are usually more useful in looking back, than moving forward to. As only then in hindsight, will they understandably corroborate what you've actually experienced. But as road maps moving forward...they suck! For example, even if you intellectually knew "which came first"...or how you were supposed to both "fuse" Yin & Yang...yet somehow become "pure true Yang"...you'd still be at a loss at how to put that into any real practice. As it's one thing to casually talk about jing/qi/she & Yin vs Yang...but a WHOLE 'NOTHER MATTER/LEVEL to be able to actually experience, feel, distinguish, and cultivate them as "real" phenomena!

Well, it is often referred to as jing/yang qi/xiantian qi/true yang...the loss of which causes the degeneration associated with "aging." But, this is all quite metaphorical, abstract theory - that is effectively indecipherable and unusable in concrete practice. Somehow, one must be graced with personal experience to understand what these terms were actually referring to... So, if anyone figures this sh*t out...please let us know!

Well, it's not just that - but about the archetypal desire to return to the "uncorrupted purity" and youthful energy (xiantian jing/yuan qi) of our "xiantian" source... Like, compare the natural flexibility and raw ENERGY level of a healthy baby...vs a stiff, white-haired senior, burdened with calcified toxins. Ever notice how kids run, and never walk? While adults walk, and rarely run? And, all that young energy level doesn't just manifest in activity, either...but also in immense, developmental and regenerative growth. Fetuses grow in water...and are born composed of about 78% water. Which then drops to 60% by adulthood. I mean, after reaching adulthood, we are all basically slowly dehydrating, fossilizing, and decomposing...lol. And, you can also extend this observation to all of life. Like, look at a young sprout bursting out of its seed and up through the soil. It is very soft and flexible, yet bursting with the same, fresh, newborn energy! So, this was the type of energy and state of life that the Daoists sought to recapture in their cross-cultural search for ming/xiantian jing/"immortality." Remember, no one ever searched for the "fountain of old age," lol! No, they always searched for the "fountain of youth"...not the "drain of old age." And, the Daoists sought to combine both the "fountain of youth" with the "sagacity of old age"...

Yes, that's it! Remember, before language and civilization, aborigines were mostly quiet out in Nature most of the time - intently listening for both prey and predator... Whereas WIRED synths now might only randomly do that once in a blue moon...if ever in their entire lifetimes, lol...

Another perspective claiming that the chakra model is quite arbitrary...while the dantian model is more naturally inherent:

Found an interesting distinction between sadness, grief, and sorrow (The Wounded Heart, p 224)... Basically, sadness is disappointment from a mild loss that essentially can be replaced (like a missed event). Grief is severe sadness over a severe loss that is irreplaceable (like a death). And sorrow is being sorry for the hurt one's caused others.

No idea how helpful this is?

True, that level's description is a false equivalence with 3 things that are ultimately independent of each other... Being post-money certainly guarantees neither purpose or happiness, and not that a purpose is even needed for happiness? But being post-money does relieve a lot of stress and frees up a lot of time. Which could then allow one to devote more time/money to purposes that pay little or even cost money instead (like caretaking family or the environment, for example) and/or the proverbial search for "happiness," etc.

The dantian model seems to be more universal, while the chakras seem to be more arbitrary. I do think they are nonetheless quite useful, but I'm not sure how "concrete" discrete chakras really are? Perhaps the spine could rather be some sort of a "rainbow spectrum" that various chakra models simply approximate?

Hierarchy of Financial Needs (and the Meaning of Life) So, where is everybody?

YESH! What a brilliant theory, my dear Watson! It must just be the modern "Westernized" East Asians aping Westerners that have beat Westerners at their own IQ game! For example, here are some before & after pics of how Asians used "Westernizing" plastic surgery...to increase their IQ by 5 points! Never mind the long list of Chinese discovery/invention/exploration "firsts" starting wayyyy before even the whole advent of Western colonialism and widespread global influence centuries ago...much less the modern reopening of China to the West in the 1980s: Or...I guess Westernization in East Asia must have started millennia ago!!! Yep, sounds legit!

Wow, where the h*ll do you live where $12K/yr is enough for a single guy? Certainly not in the Western world! As that equates to under $6/hr if it were a full-time job, which is below the US minimum wage of $7.25! And $12K is also just below the US's federal poverty level of $12,060... Anyhow, there's a spectrum of ways to attain wealth. But I think on average, your overall strategy "should" be to start off working "hard or smart" to build capital...so that you can later successfully invest that capital to "easily" build wealth. I mean, investment income is the (potentially) easiest way to build wealth that I've found yet... However, you need extra money (capital) to do that, which most people don't have starting out. So to do this, you need to be productive and frugal like a proverbial ant in phase 1 (working for capital), not a "lazy Millennial." And then only after you start successfully shifting to phase 2 (investment income), can you start living more like a grasshopper, Grasshopper.

Very interesting site. Do you need facilitators to work with - and if so, how exactly does that work? Or can you also DIY?