Enishi

I've felt exactly the same way. Currently I'm missing my family, over six months without an in person workshop is too long. Can't wait for the next one, I'll work tons of overtime if I have to!

Comparing Deflationary and Inflationary Collapse

I thought this was interesting too: http://www.knowyourtype.com/myers-briggs-percentages/

Yes, like labelling libertarians and right-wingers as racist/misogynist FASCISTS.

The initial descriptions can seem generalized, but the more indepth articles and discussion forums have had a lot of spot on info for me that was quite helpful with problems I've been having over the past several years. Here's one example in my case: http://personalitycafe.com/intp-articles/76783-recognizing-inferior-function-intp.html

Me too. I've taken the test multiple times and my results always come out as very heavily INTP (particularily on the INT part). Managing my Fe weak point has gotten easier over time (much of which I credit to qigong and KAP practice), but I still get blindsided by it from time to time, especially when it comes to close personal relationships where I let my guard down.

Regardless of disagreements over practices, I like TG. I noticed that in a thread from awhile back he listed himself as a INTJ. Being that my brother is the same personality type, I can understand in part why he takes the approach he does. When he comes back though I do think he needs to stop derailing threads into repetitive Mo Pai debates, and be willing to provide better reasoning if he's going to label other practices he has little knowledge of as 'roleplaying'.

I glanced over some links I was thinking of posting, but it's probably better if I describe it in terms of my own current (limited) understanding for the moment. In quick summary, vectors are composed of direction and magnitude, while scalars are only magnitude. In a sense they don't extend out into space like vectors do, but rather reach INWARD, and thus can connect with 'like' magnitudes.

Chi/spirit would ime be better described in terms of scalar resonance, as opposed to linear vector forces.

In terms of the end result I would say that yes the Fed is beholden to those con men. I mention Congress though because some criticisms of the Fed jump the gun by claiming that the Fed is 100% privately owned, in a technical sense that's not true, it's a form of "hybrid" control between member banks and Congress. In the long run though Goldman Sachs definitely runs the show... http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/01/randy-wray-greatest-myth-propagated-fed-central-bank-independence-part-3.html

The main issue at hand is private financial-corporate monopoly rule by the likes of Goldman Sachs and others. The Federal Reserve is one big lever in the overall process, but it's actually the big banks themselves that perform the initial creation of debt 'out of thin air'. The Federal Reserve certainly serves the private financial elite, but the Fed itself is still very much a creature of Congress, who are in turn funded by private and corporate sponsers. It's an intricate web, and while it does help attract notice and build solidarity, the 'End the Fed!' approach really isn't adequate. At this point I think that ending Citizens United may be essential before any meaningful reform can be made with the government, the Fed or the banking cartel. Once the financial monopoly is ended inequality would certainly decrease, but I don't think it would go away entirely, and nor should it, there's simply too much variation in terms of IQ, MBTI psychology types and personal initiative. A more 'balanced' world might be one where top executives or professionals make an average of 10 times that of the lowest paid worker, instead of hundreds more.

I've had similar thoughts come to mind when witnessing the extreme interests many of my friends have in tattoos and piercings. I also find myself asking more and more whether my own creative work in writing would actually be edifying or mentally expanding to future prospective readers. "Creativity" is always very thereaputic in my experience but not necessarily "useful".

My take on it is that it's possible to go akashic > mental > astral > etheric > physical. I've tried out the Void meditations/absorbtions Mistele suggests and noticed that it's similar to the non-linear state I experience when doing Stillness/Movement (also the latter made the former far easier).

This has been much my experience as well. I have to ask WHY it is that people want to try explaining this away? To me it seems the reason is that it steps on idealized notions of how people want relations to work in this traumatized world, along with people's cognitive dissonance and denial of their own deeply ingrained subconscious tendencies.

Admittingly this is kind of negative, but I'd say the experience that most comes to mind is realizing that even with ample practice and help from years of neigung/energy work, I still have the aspergers/INTP handicap of low emotional/social awareness... :\

Here's some thoughts on how to escape from the parasitic banking network of which the Federal Reserve is part: https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/12/30-3

Ditto. Oftentimes experiencing spontaneous movements during standing meditation leads to a deeper trance for me, whereas sitting by contrast can make it hard for me to detach from my brain's endless analyzing.

Yeah, I'm not to happy about it. I tend to be on the fence in regards to the vaccine debate, but being forced to get them makes me WANT to lean towards the anti-vaccine side. Whenever I get one I notice that although I can still my mind to the same degree, I can't manipulate qi or sense as well. Still, good jobs are scarce and bills and qigong workshops don't pay for themselves, lol. Usually the negative effects fade after a couple hours.

Cold wind on my ears, along with mandatory flu shots at work, are among the few things that I've noticed can unbalance me health-wise at this point. Well, those along with a giant order of nutritionally deficient cheesy bread.

I feel much the same. If anything, the more I practice and learn, the less inclination I have to debate with people. So long as I can offer clarity here and there when I percieve a misunderstanding as having occured, it seems unnecessary to say much more.

Very interesting, and in a way this offers a new synthesis beyond the old 'Nature vs. Blank State Nurture' debate. Both are true, yet also false.

Sounds fake to me, though judges/family courts do go along with some pretty ridicolous things. Also, very lovely woman.

The connection between the Electric/Magnetic Fluids and Yin/Yang is something I've been struggling to unravel for myself. According to IIH, the Electric Fluid comes from deep within the earth, while the Magnetic Fluid is on the surface of the earth. During the workshop on Hilton Head Island last year I had a more tangible experience with pulling Yin up from the earth, and was shocked by how warm and heavy it felt. My intellectual understanding was that it would be the exact opposite. O.o Being a cerebral INTP left-brained type, it really threw me for a loop. I had assumed that Yin = Magnetic/Cold/Light and that Yang = Electric/Hot/Expansive, but now I'm not so sure. I suspect that in many systems Yin/Yang are never used independantly, but rather in dynamic interaction with each other to varying degrees, and thus this is where seeming discrepancies can arise (also perceptions of hot/cold probably aren't the best guide for classification).

INTP for me. 100% Introvert 75% Intuition 50% Thinking 33% Perceiving

Good post! Lately my own perceptions and experiences and have led me to believe that much of what is called "karma" is in fact subconscious beliefs and memories, both from this lifetime and previous ones, and affects one internally and externally via synchronicity.