Thunder_Gooch

Illustrates nonduality and unity with the Tao, the spoon and the thing observing the spoon are the same thing, you can't bend the spoon only yourself.

Check again. It used to just be you had to fill out a captcha and that was that, but something somewhere broke and without moving to a new forum and losing everything I had to move to a moderator approval method. I chose vanilla forums because from my research it seemed most obscure and least hackable of all the forums, but getting support for it when it breaks sucks.

I don't teach, I just recommend other teachers and books to people. I can't say anything better than they can, I am just a student and I am not even level 1 yet. I just run the forum because they wouldn't create a neigong and qigong practice discussion forum here on thetaobums and I felt there needed to be one as I couldn't find one online. It's just a place for people who are interested in neigong training, a place for news of new schools and teachers etc. I recommend contacting Jim Chang's student he left his email up for contact here: http://www.thetaobums.com/index.php?/topic/5786-john-changs-1st-westener-student/page__view__findpost__p__67022 Also attend a longmen pai seminar and or buy this book if it turns out to be a real training manual and not some philosophical discourse. http://www.laoziacademy.us/ http://www.longmenpai.com/forum/ Dr. Jerry Allen Johnson is set to release his schools neigong manual next year, and I am looking forward to that as well. Those are the best leads I have for you.

Yes, you should be approved if not send me a pm here and I will try to fix it.

you aren't supposed to do retention and MCO at least to best of my knowledge.

If you are having a spiritual crisis. STOP. Do not meditate anymore till you are grounded. Eat large full meals, protein is grounding. If you are vegetarian eat lots of dairy and eggs at meals. Shower to rejuvenate and relax not just clean yourself. Chill out and listen to calm music, don't focus on heavy existential questions. Limit sensory overload from other people, stay away from people if you feel unbalanced. Use your will power to ground yourself, and push out negative emotions into the earth. Relax and breath deeply while you push out negative emotions. Use your will power to get a grip on things, say I am in control, everything is fine, and mean it with stalwart resolve. Above all else make sure you are getting enough quality sleep. That is the best advice I can give from someone who's been at ground zero.

Sorry, I should have posted more in depth articles. http://www.gizmag.com/tree-powered-electricity/12772/

I know probably after reading this you guys will think I've lost my mind, maybe I have. I just woke up from an in between sleep/waking state in which I was meditating in my dream. When I woke up my body felt like I was covered in pounds of a black tar, a deep humming and vibration was so loud I could barely hear anything else, and it was like I was moving in slow motion. Literally when I tried to bend down towards the ground I felt resistance that acted against gravity. There were red lights coating the inside of the walls like they were glowing red, and reality fluctuated for about 5 seconds in which reality reacted to my thoughts, the cats in the house started going absolute bat shit. I wasn't anywhere near an area where dishes fell and broke, nor were the cats on the counter to knock them off. The other person here where I am staying woke up as well as if having a nightmare. I am still pretty shaken up, I am still biting my finger to try and determine if I am dreaming. Not sure what to make of it.

John Chang, Wang Liping, Wim Hof, Chunyi Lin, Robert Peng (maybe), Jed McKenna, Steven Norquist, Daniel M. Ingram.

Don't be sorry I wouldn't be on thetaobums or on my current life path if it hadn't. It changed me for the better I think, and I did get some good insights out of it. That being said I don't wish to repeat it again.

I believe non physical beings exist, and I don't really understand what is going on. I used to live in a nice cozy predictable, scientific, rational and understandable world where nothing we would "call" supernatural exists. That view was forcibly uprooted in the face of convincing evidence for me. I think Chang is telling the truth about what he experienced, he is one of the most advanced humans alive on the planet. There are higher intelligences above us, if they created this universe or a natural product of it I don't know for certain. I have a lot of theories on the subject but no definite knowledge of the truth.

I probably would have written it off as a psychotic reaction, but I wasn't the only one it affected, the friend whom it most affected is now dead (that may be only coincidence) I will quote him He wasn't on any drugs. But lots of real life events that make no sense happened during this time frame to the point people in my life were freaking out, and not because of me but things that were happening to them. When my brain came back together from this experience I realized I wasn't the only one whom it affected. I am no longer an Atheist because of this experience.

Well I'd say it was one of the most physically painful experiences I can remember, being ripped in half by a bunch of beings while tripping out, puking and pissing myself, because I couldn't move my legs to get to a bathroom, as each leg was in a different layer of a different reality. There is a lot more but it was worse than any drug trip I've ever read about in my life. I was carying around notebooks trying to get out all the insights and knowledge that was pouring out of me before I lost contact with this reality. You could be super hyped up to the point you can't sleep. I don't see anything good coming of forcing your brainwaves into such a state, I think biofeedback via an EEG is much safer.

You will find the best teacher your karma allows for, being financially able to travel is part of your karma, being lucky is part of your karma, finding a one in a billion teacher is the will of heaven. I think there is plenty of public information that can take use to a level where our odds are drastically increased but in the end there still is no guarantee. All we can do is the best we can with what we have.

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You will find the teachings appropriate for your karma would be a better way of saying it.

Make sure to tell your friends and family and room mates what you are attempting if you try it, so they know to tell you to stop if they feel like it is negatively affecting you. Watch for sleep disturbances, I didn't sleep for a week+ because of it, realizations and information was pouring out of me faster than I could write it down, every moment was an epiphany. Stop if you get to the point you can't sleep, and make sure you are away from people if things start to get weird. It took weeks of meditation to get to that point, so it isn't an overnight thing. I wouldn't do it every night, maybe three times a week max, for no more than an hour. I highly advise against it even with those precautions.

Maybe you could see what it looks like outside and take a picture tomorrow.

I noticed you mentioned synchronicity in an earlier post. That was happening to be like crazy when I had the idea to make a 42Hz CD and do metta meditation each night. When I started meditating with it each day it got worse and worse, to the point it was absurd. Reality began to feel exactly like a dream, because there was no way for so many coincidences, ironies and synchronous events to happen. It might be a warning for you, not to advance. I think an EEG and software to watch your brainwaves for feedback would be a much much safer alternative than forcing your brainwaves into a state. Remember gamma is linked to consciousness itself, start screwing with it and it might disrupt your disrupt your input/output carrier signal. It could lead you to a point in your life where you no longer accept the reality you are living in as a real world, I don't even though that happened in 2005. Just my $0.02

I forgot to mention to not try it, it didn't end well. If you have to try it yourself use an EEG and do biofeedback, don't try to use binarual beats for this. It was one of the most terrifying experiences in my life, I was out of commission for months and lost my job as a result. It isn't something you are going to want to mess around with.

My guard cat seems to have developed a small dark spot on his crown recently and made me think of your picture:

Awesome man! If you become enlightened or liberated before me help a bro out

Thank you for this. I believe Jesus was what we would call a taoist immortal as heretical as that may be. The bit about: Fusing the yin and yang spirits as one, to enter heaven seems right in line along with what Chang, Wang Liping, and others have spoken about having to fuse your yin and yang spirits together to survive death, and how most spirits lose their yang at death and are purely yin beings who wind up being reincarnated. I know that females are blessed with the ability to work with and cultivate yin energy better than any male is.

Was the picture taken after the bump had returned to normal?