Thunder_Gooch

You are like an electrical pulse traveling in a large neural network, or at least that is what I experienced in 2005 during meditation. I am no longer an Atheist as a result of what I experienced. You move from the past, into the future, but both past and future are equally as real as the present. What you observe now moment, to moment, is just a 3 dimensional cross section of a larger 4 dimensional reality as you move through it. You exist in the past, the present and the future all at once. The you of yesterday, the you of tomorrow, are apart of one solid object. This is much like a laser reading the data of a DVD, both past and future existing only in comparison to the location of the laser (your consciousness) reading the DVD (this location in infinity) at that moment. There is a 5th dimensional aspect in which all possible events have already occurred, so should you choose to have juice and toast this morning, instead of cereal there is a reality which accounts for each. When you chose to have to juice and toast, you navigated to that reality, the other still exists as real as this one. You get to choose your own adventure in a story book type fashion, but all of it existed before you ever observed it, at least as information. All of these realities are apart of one object, an infinity. Every thought that ever could be thought, every book that ever could be written, every movie that ever could be made, and every song that ever could be created, everything. It all exists just as real as anything else. No one has ever done or created anything unique, or had any thought that was unique. Every possibility is an actuality. The only thing that moves in this universe is your consciousness, reality is silent and still.

If the universe returns to a state where nothing exists anywhere, then time will be meaningless, and infinite time will pass instantly. Over the course of this infinite time, random vacuum fluctuations will occur and spawn a new universe.

The yin shen is the container of the yang shen. The yang shen would scatter were it not to have a container. Most people die with empty containers. Longmen pai, mo pai, and students from other schools I've spoken with. If you own the magus of Java you can read about the yin and yang spirits.

It isn't something I came up with, it is what I've learned from studying neigong from many different schools.

This physical world we all find ourselves in, isn't exactly physical itself. All physical matter in the universe was born (ultimately) from the void, empty space. When strong enough quantum vacuum fluctuations arise spontaneously, they cause the void to separate into matter/energy and antimatter/negative energy in equal amounts. In essence there is no ultimate building block of matter, just the emptiness, the void. Everything is quite literally spun out of nothingness. If this is hard to grasp, imagine that to make a coin it must be first stamped from a sheet of metal leaving behind a hole. The sheet of metal in this case was empty space. You might also think about it like this. If you dig a hole in the ground you will have a hole and pile of dirt. If you fill the hole with the dirt again, you'll be left with what you started. Empty space is really as full, and as pregnant with being as anything in our universe can be. It is more real than physical matter even. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_particle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawking_radiation Hawking says that at the event horizon of a black hole or singularity the gravitational field is so strong it rips apart the virtual particle pairs of empty space, and sucks in an antimatter particle and emits a particle. The antimatter reacts with the matter inside the black hole and this causes the black hole to slowly evaporate over aeons, and reseeds the universe with matter. The matter that was in the black hole was not destroyed but instead turned back into virtual particles which is what empty space is, an infinite ocean of virtual particles.

You are borg, the collective consciousness of your cells.Each and every one of your cells is an independently intelligent being. Every cell in your being is interconnected and in communication with one another by nerves and biochemical feedback loops. You are a living breathing society of beings, and what you think of as you is result of their intercommunication and coordination. It is exactly the same as what we are doing here, on the internet. We too give rise to a larger intelligence that we are unaware of, and as we become more advanced and interconnected we as a species will become more organismic.

More thoughts on the topic. You are information, not physical matter. 98% of your body is replaced with new atoms each year. You are flowing, a happening, not a thing. If you look at water sculptures this is more an accurate representation of what you are, than a stone sculpture.

More thoughts on the biology of the spirit: The you that thinks of you as you, isn't you. You see your entire life you've been living in a virtual reality of sorts. Don't believe me? I can prove it. This world and everything in it, everything you've ever experienced ever has occurred inside of your own mind and not external to it. You live inside your own mind, your body, your senses, your world, your emotions, your everything exists within the confines of your own mind. Everything you've ever thought, felt, experienced in any shape form or fashion has occurred inside your mind, you've never seen anything external to yourself. You've been looking into the depths of your own mind since the moment of your birth. The world you see when you look around you, that is happening inside your mind, not external to it. It is a simulated reality, a reflection of reality. Your neurons are individually intelligent beings that are networked together much like we are via our internet, exchanging information with pulses of energy through neural nets. This creates an energetic holographic experience we call reality. It isn't reality though. It is purely an internal mental phenomenon. You do indeed live inside a virtual reality, merely a reflection of actual reality. This is alluded to by Plato in his cave allegory, as well as Mahayana Buddhist teachings. This virtual reality you live in is made of pure energy, not matter.

You are alive because you have two spirits or minds, a yang mind/spirit and a yin mind/spirit. The yang mind/spirit is what is reading these words and making sense of them, right now you are in your yang mind/spirit/consciousness. Your yang mind/spirit is made of yang energy. Yang energy is like sunlight, it is active and moves of it's own accord. The yang mind/spirit is responsible for your active thoughts, ego, identity, emotions, desire, passion for life, etc. At death this mind/spirit is scattered to the wind and becomes one with the environment. Your consciousness is lost. What remains is your yin spirit. It is made of yin energy. Yin energy is like gravity, a field that pulls objects to it passively and does not move of it's own accord. Your yin spirit is responsible for observation, and memory. This is what will remain of almost all beings on earth, a burnt out shell that just observes and awaits reincarnation as a passive observer. I would say out of 7 billion people maybe a few hundred each generation fuse their yin and yang spirits as one whole and can survive death and prevent reincarnation. The practices that allow for this are disappearing quickly so likely in the future these will be lost all together. I have no idea why most people cultivate, as they don't get anything meaningful out of it. I seek to fuse the yin and yang spirits as one and continue to exist as a mind as it was before it's death, and prevent future reincarnation. I view the fusion of the yin and yang spirits as the fusion of ovum and sperm. With more cultivation the spirit is fed both yin and yang energy and develops from an embryo to a fully formed adult. If the spirit can fully mature before death it will exist as a physical entity in our realm, if it wishes to remain here.

And make yourself a big ass target, you do know the JRF prize is funded by the D.O.D. right? And it isn't possible to remain anonymous even if you don't want the cash. Even if you were able to force the scientific community to acknowledge these abilities without "disappearing" into a lab somewhere, the newage nutjobs would come out of the woodwork and claim their silly practices like dancing naked around campfires were suddenly validated and authentic, so in the end you'd probably see more people being deluded with BS practices. As for convincing the skeptics see: http://thetaobums.co...empirical-data/

I'll work on writing an short article on the topic, it will take me a few days to collect my thoughts an organize it. I'll post a link to it here as soon as I can get the time to finish it.

There is nothing in this universe that is supernatural, there is only that which we don't understand. I could rant on for hours about the biology of the the mind and the spirit, but not many people here really care and I would just be wasting my breath. If you are interested please feel free to pm me any further questions though.

I view the spirit as an energetic biological entity, no more supernatural than your flesh and blood body. Our purpose here is to extract energy from the environment to feed and nourish it, and help it grow. In many schools they refer to it as the immortal fetus.

http://www.amazon.co.../dp/0965713571/ I own this book and it documents much research done in China in the 80's on the subject. It documents electrostatic, electromagnetic, infrared, and infrasonic anomalies during external chi emission. As well as:

http://news.harvard....8/09-tummo.html

Watch this video of tummo master wim hof, and read the article. http://www.scienceda...10422090203.htm

It is my opinion there is no such thing as magic or the supernatural. neigong training is mechanical energy extraction and storage for the development of of your spirit in a biological manner.

I sit with a bare metal grounded wire touching my perineum during meditation, so touching something grounded after meditation has no effect. It is my understanding you can only hold as much yang energy as you have yin, and the yang chi gathered in meditation will not accumulate in your body if there isn't an equal amount of yin to compensate, and the yang will just flow right back out at the first chance.

Did you miss the studies I posted? I post things documenting abilities, because studies that document healing abilities aren't as convincing.

Chi flows well through metals.

Chang's top western student passing his level 3 exam (home video) Older footage from the 80's of Chang:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoOgZsQGQpA BBC documentary Sky One series 'Myths Magic And Monsters' Host: Dr. Lawrence Blair (Ph.D. Anthropology) Catherine Nixon Cooke President of the Mind Science Foundation http://www.mindscience.org/ Roger Nilson (M.D. Orthopedic Surgeon Sweden) Dr. Gregory V. Simpson (Ph.D. Biophysics Albert Einstein College of Medicine)

http://www.amazon.co.../dp/0965713571/ I own this book and it documents much research done in China in the 80's on the subject. It documents electrostatic, electromagnetic, infrared, and infrasonic anomalies during external chi emission. As well as:

More Wim Hof: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfCsSDiPZxk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=madoDvtKEes As well as: http://news.harvard....8/09-tummo.html