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Yea, that would make more sense. Geographically "Asian," yet genetically more "dark" Caucasian. However, the American Indians would fall more under the "Asian" category. Chinese Olmecs? Chinese in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica? I was really struck by the Asiatic appearance still exhibited by modern Navajos when I passed through the SW a few years ago:

Great tip, thanks! I'd love to keep hearing more of Jenny's tips! Norm Than has his own recipe for promoting health & anti-aging longevity loosely based upon the 3 Taoist Treasures: "Jing" Phase - herbs, fasting & detoxing "Qi' Phase - qigong (awakening the qi, facial exercises & his own brand of qigong using constant yi to eventually open the microcosmic orbit) "Shen" Phase - meditation (while sitting like an Egyptian or in seiza with hands at dantian)

Wow, this may be the most mind-blowing alien conspiarcy theory I've read yet! Synopsis of The Alien Master Plan The Hybrid Breeding Program and Impending Enslavement of Mankind To paraphrase: Basically, Reptilians have created a "negative hierarchy" on Earth (where all subordinates are in some way duped by their superiors) and employed the Hegelian dialectic (artificially creating problem-reaction-solutions) to tool an elitist group of humans (or human-Reptilian hybrids) to impose a New World Order infrastructure here. Once this is done, this human elitist toolkit will be popularly scapegoated for this mess, ousted...and Reptilians will swoop in to "save the day." And seamlessly assume global control using the technological-political medical-military-industrial complex that these elite tools built for them! Not only will humans not resist this hostile takeover - they will religiously welcome them! What wicked, mad, mad genius!

^ Thanks! I'm not Native so don't know where Lee Brown (Cherokee) got that from or how authentic it is...but if it is ancient knowledge, would certainly be rather prescient. Any Natives here who can comment on the authenticity of these prophecies? OT, here's some more interesting excerpts from his speech in 1986, that contains some references that are far more eerily relevant today: I wonder if this might be referencing chemtrails? GM crops, microbes & animals? Uh-oh...

^^ Interesting categorizations.. Lee Brown made some interesting mythological claims about the "4 races:" IOW: Native Americans (red) were to learn how to live ecologically off the land. Asians (yellow) were to learn qigong/neidan. Africans (black) were to learn how to "use water" (this metaphor is not clear). Europeans (whites) were to learn how to technologically harness fire & electricity.

Yea, it can be a blow to the sexual ego, but in reality most women don't cum regularly during intercourse. So any woman who does go on the show shouldn't feel too embarassed, because she certainly is not alone! Maybe they can be silhouetted behind screens and get their voices disguised with a voice box for the interview?

^ Great, I'd love to hear more actual experiences with the assemblage point - than just the advertised claims, which sound great on paper...but where's the evidence? And has anyone read this book? The Subtle Body: An Encyclopedia of Your Energetic Anatomy It's an encyclopedic 500 pages describing cross-cultural energy systems (including the assemblage point). Has all great reviews too.

A gene that causes hereditary hypotrichosis simplex has been isolated - although it does not explain the complex process of male pattern baldness:

Good question, but how do you "maturely" deal with "immature" women? If you maintain your maturity level, you'll repel them. If you sink to their level, now you're no longer mature. Hence, a lot of the ancient Taoists retreated into seclusion away from women as hermits.. I think this is what a lot of men today, particularly "spiritual-minded" men - struggle with. Taoism is ultimately about doing what works naturally. And that is actually what PUA reverse-engineers - field-tested evo-psych. IOW, giving women what they are hardwired to want from eons of evolution - not what the latest societal fad or using your parents as role models might tell you they're "supposed" to want. Think of women as sports recruiters. They ultimately just want the best player (no pun intended) on their team to help them win. So long as the dude is not an ax murderer, how "nice" he is or not is irrelevant. Players are primarily recruited based upon the specific needs of each woman and what each player offers to fulfill those needs. Basically, it's like applying for a job...unless you have more to offer than they do - in which case they become the ones applying for the job with you, now the employer (see Tiger Woods).

I have no problem with that - as long as you lay in the bed you made. Could you pledge to do that? Unfortunately, most of these "dreamers" who "don't care about money" don't like to do that. Eventually, when they see the better, hard-won lifestyles of hard workers "wasting life to work" - they demand all those same monetary-based results as well (without doing the work themselves). Better homes, better care, better schools, better food, more choices in anything, etc. That's when these liberals impose Socialist "Robin Hood" policies to force others to give them charity. See welfare, Sec 8 housing, Community Reinvestment Act, race/gender-based affirmative action, Universal Healthcare, etc etc. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPRPqeYi-60 Problem is, the "conservative ants" who have been working hard all summer long are getting really fed up with the "liberal grasshoppers" playing around all summer and then stealing from their stores once winter comes (see Nancy Pelosi - who has now forced the entire nation to pay for the healthcare of her liberally bankrupted state). Year after year, decade after decade... The fact is, they simply want the same things you do - to pursue their dreams in a fair society. But a society that robs Peter to pay Paul is NOT fair, now is it???

Opening your ren & du mai = opening your microcosmic orbit.Opening your chong mai = kundalini awakening. Opening all 20 meridians = opening your macrocosmic orbit. These are all great steps toward better health & enlightenment, but opening your macrocosmic orbit =/= enlightenment in & of itself.

Well to be fair, I don't think Xing Shen Zhuang was really billed as a "high qigong," but more of a preparatory foundational exercise. A (Heming Pang's) Zhineng Qigong site seems to modestly advertise it as a qi detoxing/kinesthetic training exercise: Then again...others do purport more advanced levels with higher alchemical promises

^ I'm not sure how useful those stretches actually are now. Based upon personal experience since then, the primary stretch for full-lotus really seems to be the Upavistha Konasana "WASFB" or "T-stretch" (taken from this video): Right now, my routine consists of a initial "toe-touch" to loosen my hamstrings... Then I'll start with (trying) the American splits from 1 direction...into the Chinese splits...into the American splits in the other direction...& back into the Chinese splits. (All these stretches are mainly just preparatory "warm-up" stretches for the WASFB/T-stretch. They themselves aren't directly going to help you get into full-lotus much.) From that point, I'll then slowly bend down forward into the actual WASFB/T-stretch. Similar to this routine here: Then I'll finish up with a Bakasana "Crow" Pose, modified Butterfly Pose & "Asian squat" - using my elbows to push my knees apart - for a final bit of kua stretching. Be sure you do all these stretches slowly and know your limits, though. The wushu lady in that 2nd video is obviously extremely flexible and so can just drop into each stretch fully & effortlessly. Most of us likely can't do that yet. And as was said earlier - the focus should be on opening your kua (groin & hips), not distending your knees or ankles.. End result:

Well, psychic siddhis often occupy a middle ground between low anecdotal standards subject to confirmation bias & fraud to exceedingly high scientific standards of repeatability at will. IOW, I think siddhic occurences can often far exceed the standards of probability...while not quite meeting the rigorous standards of science. Similar to someone winning the lottery, lightning strikes or tornados. Natural phenomena is often simply hard to replicate in the lab, by nature. Which means that it could be very likely that they actually happened...but would be difficult to prove scientifically because they are not easily repeatable under controlled conditions. I think several of your psychic anecdotes would fall into this category. They definitely aren't scientifically PROVEN, but cannot be easily logically or scientifically explained away either. The point here being that we should allow some room in the middle of the spectrum, instead of polarizing everything as black or white. Just because something can't be scientifically proven - does not mean it didn't happen legitly. For example, with your same argument, BKF's Water Method isn't scientifically proven, either. Not by a long shot. You may have attained results while using it - but correlation =/= causation. Also, the Scientific Method demands that the results be repeatable. Good luck trying to organize a mass group of people with your prior conditions willing to spend hundreds of hours doing BKF's qigong under scientific monitoring. If you couldn't convince your own family members to do so, good luck trying to convince enough random strangers. And good luck trying to raise the funding to study a treatment with little profit potential. IOW, folk methods that require a lot of personal effort like these will probably never be scientifically proven - because people are too lazy to do them & there is no profit motive to recoup the costs for such studies. Interesting. Although are you now saying that siddhis are real and can be attained through "psychic" training? PS - According to the John Chang videos, the team of scientists did set-up & control the parameters of all his experiments - including relocating to random locations to perform his LED diode test, for instance. Or are you saying they were in on the act? Overall, you made some great points and I agree that many of us were initially drawn to these arts looking for superpowers to overcompensate for worldly insecurities. And of course, later came to find out that these those superpowers are a lot harder to come by than portrayed in pop culture fantasy genres...lol. But as we matured, our motivations changed so that didn't matter much anymore, anyways...

Interesting, me too. I wonder what that is?Mine looks like the round shape of the 3rd pic with more of the color of the 4th pic. Kind of like a rapidly swirling mass of squiggles with pastel oil slick colors.

Feng Zhiqiang claimed that he witnessed his master, Hu YaoZhen levitate... Yea, Max is a very good mindreader. He casually read my mind on 2 occasions, which left me very flummoxed...asking myself, wait, WTH?...but I didn't say anything...how did he know that? Funny that he did that to you too!

Ok, guess I can re-ask my questions here, lol.. I don't quite understand how a confluent pt works, though? It links one of 8 extraordinary vessels with one of the 12 meridians...yet is often not on the actual extraordinary vessel itself? Is that correct? Like the first 2 confluent pts you have listed link the du mai & ren mai to other meridians...yet are both by the hands...and not anywhere near the midline on the torso by those vessels. So, they somehow work remotely (distally)? If so, how exactly? Sorry, I'm confused here.. Deadman's book looks awesome btw, but $144? Ouch.. Still worth it?

I didn't say it was a bad thing. I'm aiming for a semi-ascetic lifestyle myself.. My point is simply that most laymen would NEVER be able to stomach that. Most can't even resist McDonald's, Marlboros & mindless video games. So, forget about living a pristine existence practicing meditation. Just listen to the typical American attitude towards health: And people wonder why health care costs keep spiraling in this country???

Hey, starving ascetic monks gotta put some rice in their bowls too! Anyhow, Jesse has made some of the most spectacular posts on this forum EVER, so I don't mind a few ads from him. His signal-to-noise ratio is still one of the highest here. And I hope he posts some more content again!

Sifu (or shifu in Mandarin) means "Master" in Cantonese.Laoshi means teacher in Mandarin. Laoshi has been replacing sifu in common usage because it is more generic and casual...and less honorific and formal. And the general trend all over the world these days is increasing informality. "Loa xie" must just be a really bad typo. Anyhow, the important thing is what he is actually teaching, not his evidently poor Chinese.

I agree. Genetics, diet & general lifestyle all do have a noticeable impact. However, the few I've seen with remarkable health and youthfulness well beyond their years were neidan/qigong masters. So, I don't believe this level of anti-aging can be attained without a lot of hardcore internal energy work...which VERY VERY few will ever have the drive or discipline to do. You essentially have to stop living like a human and start living like a tree - some of which are the longest-living organisms on the planet...

Thanks.. Are you keeping your eyes half-opened during this or closed? Also, I get the same difficulty that tumoessence gets - eyestrain when looking down at my nose tip. Do we just suck it up and grind through that?