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please don't let this derail the conversation but.. Fascinating video.. but at 10:42, it seems like the gentleman has stopped pushing, JC is bending down to pick up one of the boxes, and right then, with no one seemingly doing anything.. 3 boxes move in tandem sideways an inch or two. I don't understand that. He seems to have stopped pushing, is waiting for JC to pick up the fallen box, so why the movement then? Could be real, but its in my Don't Know category. I am impressed that the videos presenter studied w/ Wang LiPing. and another tangent.. I was just reading an old article online (martial arts site) w/ Jim McMillan, what was notable was his saying that Mo Pai brought him closer to God. That is what struck him as most impressive. So.. speaking of Siddhi's personal abilities feeling close to God is a pretty good one. and another tangent.. I like Nathan Brine's Youtube site. Just downloaded his Pore Breathing guided meditation. Look forward to practicing it. Anything from Wang LiPing is good stuff.

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That reminds me.. I haven't been to Chicago's Chinatown in way too long. A place where nothings too exotic and no price too high, not when it comes to herbs & teas. These days the only pu-ehr tea I'm seeing is loose leaf!? Which makes me assume it a poorer substitute.

It's a pity and a loss. There have been instances of woman being trolled by inconsiderate misogynists here. Hopefully those days are past. It could be an internet thing. ie a mostly anonymous place where it's easy to bully people. Also easy to misunderstand since we type without the benefit of tone and body language.

Right. With the newspaper trick they'd put combos like phosphorous/magnesium between different pages. Crinkle it up, which mixed it up and wallah fire. So fakers are out there but its a big world. Perhaps some with real abilities are too. I kinda hope the ones w/ real ability are not into exhibitionism. It could be the path to 'powers' runs through enough self awareness that one no longer needs or want to show them off.

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Hi, that's a curious introduction. Hopefully your other writing will be more approachable.. Welcome to the board. We're an eclectic philosophy forum for learning, discussing and cultivation. Below are 3 important sections: Our Rules, The Insult Policy and our 3 Foundations. Before you join give them a read. Most of it boils down to being respectful. No name calling or trolling. Post as if your mom's looking over your shoulder. Discussion and arguments are what the board is about. Keep it civil, don't get personal. Don't be a troll or one issue zealot. We're here for good conversation and making some friends along the way, to be a community. Jump right in, start threads, ask questions, look for interesting threads and post your (relevant) thoughts. For the first week you will be restricted to ten posts per day but after that you can post as much as you like. Also, until you’ve posted fifteen times in the forums, you’ll be a “Junior Bum” with somewhat restricted access and will be allowed only two private messages per day. TDB team At your leisure, please review-

Hi LLD, welcome to the board. Always interesting to find out about other peoples practices. We're an eclectic philosophy forum for learning, discussing and cultivation. Below are 3 important sections: Our Rules, The Insult Policy and our 3 Foundations. Before you join give them a read. Most of it boils down to being respectful. No name calling or trolling. Post as if your mom's looking over your shoulder. Discussion and arguments are what the board is about. Keep it civil, don't get personal. Don't be a troll or one issue zealot. We're here for good conversation and making some friends along the way, to be a community. Jump right in, start threads, ask questions, look for interesting threads and post your (relevant) thoughts. For the first week you will be restricted to ten posts per day but after that you can post as much as you like. Also, until you’ve posted fifteen times in the forums, you’ll be a “Junior Bum” with somewhat restricted access and will be allowed only two private messages per day. TDB team At your leisure, please review-

Greetings Attackamazon, I look forward to your writings. Out of curiosity, why that name? Thanks and welcome to the board. We're an eclectic philosophy forum for learning, discussing and cultivation. Below are 3 important sections: Our Rules, The Insult Policy and our 3 Foundations. Before you join give them a read. Most of it boils down to being respectful. No name calling or trolling. Post as if your mom's looking over your shoulder. Discussion and arguments are what the board is about. Keep it civil, don't get personal. Don't be a troll or one issue zealot. We're here for good conversation and making some friends along the way, to be a community. Jump right in, start threads, ask questions, look for interesting threads and post your (relevant) thoughts. For the first week you will be restricted to ten posts per day but after that you can post as much as you like. Also, until you’ve posted fifteen times in the forums, you’ll be a “Junior Bum” with somewhat restricted access and will be allowed only two private messages per day. TDB team At your leisure, please review-

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I saw a youtube of a person ripping up paper into little bits, waving his hand at them and moving them around. One message said 'What's the humidity there?' It wasn't flippant, in low humidity there's more static build up. More electric shocks and static cling. So wearing wool and a waving your hands could cause bits of paper to move. It's the kind of phenomena where the person doing it may not even be aware he's simply demonstrating static cling.. ie like a person who rubs an inflated balloon on there head and uses their 'power' to make it stick against a wall. To me powerwise, there is dedicated daily practice (yes that's a power), Calmness, Quiet Clear Mind. Then Right Action, Living with flow. Then maybe dreamwork.. increased synchronicity.. increase mind/body control. I get the feeling pyrokinesis and telekinesis are pretty far down on the siddhi list. Though I'm reminded of a book I read along time ago: Michael Murphy 'The Future of the Body:Explorations Into the Further Evolution of Human Nature'. Where he investigates and lists siddhis, mostly historical of different systems. Interesting and long. and that reminds me, Michael Murphy and George Leonard wrote the book 'The Life we are Given' a system for gaining some unlikely results- after long practice. Might be worth checking out. Long term practice and people would go for 2 minor and one major change/ability. For example I recall one person wanted to grow 2" taller, and I believe he got. Or did he.. posture, stretching..

There's an old survival trick. When camping bring along a pad of steel wool and 9 volt battery. If you need fire touch the wool to both positive and negative knobs. The steel wool will quickly grow red hot and you can start a fire from it. If, before there's fire there is electricity, then I think it'll be easier to find people who can shock others. Not that crazy a skill, seeing we are bio-electrical beings. There are a couple high level practitioners, mostly on the healing side, who are said to have the ability to shock others, on touch. John Chang was famous for it. So is Robert Peng and he's alive and teaches, I believe. Might be interesting to see if any of his senior students make the same claim. With decades of study, one is more likely to become like the advanced student, rather then the master. At a Healing Dao retreat I talked to someone who said Peng shocked them. Was awhile ago. But you find testimonials like.. (https://www.robertpeng.com/testimonials) “Robert’s work is unique. I never felt anything as powerful. As his fingers touched certain points on my face and neck, I felt surges of Qi which I would describe as ‘zapping’ or mild electric shocks. It was a remarkable experience. I know of no other Qigong Master who can do this.” Tom Banasiak, Shiatsu Therapist and Certified Teacher Don't know any pyrokinetic people, but if you wanted to find out about shocking.. you could write and respectfully ask Robert Peng, perhaps he'd know. On the hand, practitioners might be turned off by that kind of question. ie they're serious people and not side show performers. They have nothing to prove to strangers and attracting clingy 'I want powers' students might not be their goal. Better odds, people like Peng want 'I want to learn to heal others' kind of people.

Any practices you'd recommend during this time? Or simply doing more of what you're already doing? thanks.

2 bits from an amateur. I've heard enough warnings about the 'million dollar' point, ie putting pressure on a point between anus and genitals when close to orgasm that I wouldn't use it. ie that it can seriously screw up the system. Perhaps with a true master you can get to the 'true' point and proper pressure, but I don't think I want a 'master' fiddling around down there, to show me. 2nd bit, on the householder path, ie not a monk, losing some semen/jing, every now and then, ain't so bad. I'll usually wait til I have half a bucketful before hauling it off to the sperm bank. <kidding>

Hi Zenflow, love the name. Those are very worthy goals. Sometimes working on mudras, different finger and hand positions help when one is tired and needs to meditate. They force a little more awareness and tension. In one Ki-Aikido practice we'd keep the fingers interlocked w/ the 'pointer' finger together and pointing(ie like in the kids rhyme this is the Church this is the Steeple). Keeping the 'steeple' of fingers at eye level. Good for keeping one awake, and in the end you'd let it drop down to your lap and keep meditating. Welcome to the board. We're an eclectic philosophy forum for learning, discussing and cultivation. Below are 3 important sections: Our Rules, The Insult Policy and our 3 Foundations. Before you join give them a read. Most of it boils down to being respectful. No name calling or trolling. Post as if your mom's looking over your shoulder. Discussion and arguments are what the board is about. Keep it civil, don't get personal. Don't be a troll or one issue zealot. We're here for good conversation and making some friends along the way, to be a community. Jump right in, start threads, ask questions, look for interesting threads and post your (relevant) thoughts. For the first week you will be restricted to ten posts per day but after that you can post as much as you like. Also, until you’ve posted fifteen times in the forums, you’ll be a “Junior Bum” with somewhat restricted access and will be allowed only two private messages per day. TDB team At your leisure, please review-

Greetings Jebei, Great to have long timers coming in, and much respect for the Bagua practice. Welcome to the board. We're an eclectic philosophy forum for learning, discussing and cultivation. Below are 3 important sections: Our Rules, The Insult Policy and our 3 Foundations. Before you join give them a read. Most of it boils down to being respectful. No name calling or trolling. Post as if your mom's looking over your shoulder. Discussion and arguments are what the board is about. Keep it civil, don't get personal. Don't be a troll or one issue zealot. We're here for good conversation and making some friends along the way, to be a community. Jump right in, start threads, ask questions, look for interesting threads and post your (relevant) thoughts. For the first week you will be restricted to ten posts per day but after that you can post as much as you like. Also, until you’ve posted fifteen times in the forums, you’ll be a “Junior Bum” with somewhat restricted access and will be allowed only two private messages per day. TDB team At your leisure, please review-

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Hope this is helpful. The KAP program (https://kundaliniawakeningprocess.com/blog/kap-explained/) is done over the net. Its kind of a Jeet Kune Do of energy training, borrowing things from a few different traditions, ie those that work best, fastest and safest. You get feedback from a teacher during the internet sessions. Certainly no guarantee of success, but its a solid program based on Doc Glenn Morris's work. Note I went through. It kicked up my energy but no Kundalini, course I tend to be energy resistant and a slackard. I think they have/had a sale going on. Tao Semko who's running some session is very impressive, in my book. https://kundaliniawakeningprocess.com/blog/video-what-are-different-ways-that-people-feel-kundalini-in-their-bodies/ In this issue: Donate $100 to a food bank or shelter and save $300! Video: All the ways people feel kundalini... Schedules: Upcoming classes in December and January Doctor Morris's Books... Donate $100 to a local food bank or shelter this holiday weekend, and Tao Semko will give you $300 off registration on his upcoming Online Improved Kundalini Awakening Process class! Tao Semko is giving a US$300 discount on his next KAP Level One or Two 12-week Online Course when you make a US$100 donation to a local food bank, homeless shelter, domestic violence shelter, Native American/First Nation charity, civil rights charity, mental health charity, or to a 4-star Charity Navigator vetted COVID-19 community relief charity. Details and register for KAP Level One! or Details and register for KAP Level Two! Video: All the (Kundalini!) Feels A very grainy video but highly informative livestream video capture from a 2011 Skype Question & Answer session with Senior KAP instructor Tao Semko on the wide variety of kinesthetic experiences people have as kundalini streams upwards in their bodies: Please click the image or this text to view the above video on our blog More about Dr. Morris's KAP as a method... Frequently Asked Questions about Dr. Morris's Improved Kundalini Awakening Process (KAP) Testimonials Free Videos and Articles about KAP, Kundalini Awakening and Integration, Kundalini Syndrome, practical physiology and metaphysics, and more To learn Dr. Morris’s Improved Kundalini Awakening Process: click here

That's easy, the one where the instructor lights things on fire with his mind, floats pennies off the floor without touching them infront of you, like its no big deal. Plus they should be at least 140 years old. If you find them, and they're real, good its no guarantee you'll get such 'powers', not even after decades of hard dedicated training. Nor that such things will make you happy or a better human being.

Bourbon.. on the rocks with a large splash of water. Wild Turkey 101, William Evans single cask.. Beer.. just found Goose Islands SPF, nicely drinkable w/ hint of berry. Tea.. Genmai (green w/ toasted rice) Kombucha.. Gingeraid, most often watered down 50% w/ seltzer.

The metaphysical question that been bugging me for years has to do with the Golden Flower practice. It's heart and goal is to Turn the Light around. I'll spend time thinking Light = awareness, and it's going for a deep state of inner reflection, laying bare the flimsiness of egoic construct. Other times I think it's literal, in your mind's eye LIGHT turns around, and you see/enveloped by it. Or its a combination of the two, Or something else entirely..