Magitek

Sounds like a kundalini awakening. Lucky you.

LOL just testing you man.

LOL its a good job you had some kundalini stuff going on, imagine if she asked you that and you weren't!!!!!!! Do you mean that the balls are firm and close to your body in the same way that happens when ballooning (see Dr. Lin, actionlove .etc) ? What about the penis (shaft .etc) does that stay normal for you? I can see why the balls would go up, by surely blood isn't drawn away from the penis? what is the point in that? Either way I want to activate. Cheers.

I've never heard that said neither in Taoist Yoga by Luk or JJ Semples book. The way it is worded could give the impression though but I saw through to the real meaning. It just means there is no point getting an erection if you are doing retention. The shrinking talked about in Taoist Yoga just refers to what happens when doing the MCO when one has an erection. It goes back to floppy..... It even suggests when one has an erection to do the MCO. So instead of being aroused which is just tension you relax and turn inwards. It also says how older men can arouse themselves and then practice the MCO and see the results by the penis "shrinking" back to normal. I don't see the point in that one but I'm not an older guy....Maybe I am stupid but MCO just seems like a way of breathing to me. Well whatever, I'll stop there..... No I wasn't. Never mind I don't care to debate or be misinterpeted. Maybe some people can read. Anyway lets leave it to April to speak. I want to hear.

Consider that it is OK to cut the cord.... They sound like fascists. How about checking out the Nag Hammadi library (gnostic christian texts) ? The Gospel of Thomas would be a great place to start Oh yeah, I understand Moses had a kundalini awakening.

I read JJ Semples Deciphering the Golden Flower the day I recieved it. Mikelz, what you say is all well, yet have you experienced anything like JJ Semple? Or can you just talk about stillness? Because I can do that all day but its not what I want. Well either way the loftier goals do not appeal to me. Have a think who gave you the loftier goals.... They are probably not yours. JJs book just seems pretty honest and straight-forward to me. A rarity amongst all the cultish bullshit. The books great even if his technique is not repeatable..... There is a part where who goes to see a guru and he talks about his the cracks and pops he had in his head during his kundalini awakening.... The idiot guru says that there are no muscles in the head and everyone laughs at JJ. Obviously that guru is a fraud. I don't care if I would get all the Rolls Royces and groupies in the world, selling out could never satisfy me.... People are talking about the technique and saying its about visualising energy going up the back of the spine but he doesn't say that!!! He says first master DEEP abdominal breathing, to the point the abdomen pumps in and out fully and the breath is so silent you cannot hear it..... How many of you are doing that, eh eh? And yet you talk about visualisations!!!! Then apparently when the time comes the breath will be noticed to be going in a direction and when that happens you will be able to change it if you want. No imagining, no visualising, .etc

Hmmm, how I am supposed to understand that? They are special? I don't see anyone as special. I used to listen to Tolle, Barry Long, Vernon Howard .etc but at some point it just seemed so absurd, "what am I doing?".

Thanks for reading my posts Everseeking. This is such a complex topic for those who need an authority outside of themselves. But really it is simple. I see a lot of extemist attitudes. Like you get Timothy Leary at one end and the witch hunters on the other. You made valid points and I could add this or that factoid but I won't. I don't care to educate anyone. I don't even believe my own rhetoric anymore. At the end of the day it is just about getting high, I agree. Going on a rollercoaster is about the thrill. Relationships can be an emotional roller coaster..... All sensual.... we can at least be honest about that. My intention is to show how absurd it is to be anti-drug yet chase bliss states. Now, I am not saying this is good or bad. I am not for or against. And I am not saying I have found a higher path or I know better. People do what they want anyway. Old Man Contradiction thanks for your experiences. Yeah you pay for what you do. Who knows, maybe you'll pay for listening to E. Tolle too? BTW drugs really don't interest me anymore.

Lets have a phoenix rise out of the ashes. This thread owns!

Findley, I am very much enjoying your posts.... Biff, is your only purpose to discredit Finley? Do you practice kunlun? Why can people not talk against practices? They demand your money and your time, basically your life, it is like joining a religion. Lets not turn Taobums into a commercial forum.... What the point it that?

Maybe you could call that your "enlightenment". Jeez I can't believe what I am hearing. Good luck guys I mean it! Scientism... Didn't you get enough of that crap from school? Oh yeah I am not saying this because it goes over my head.... I just can't see anything smart there, probably better stuff was said 4000 or more years ago lol.

more like implants a kundabuffer organ. Well I hope you are jokin. When most you guys talk about kundalini I don't believe you

I take back my last comment because it was pure BS.... Infact every comment I make I take back because I will never hold my mind..... I'm a little grouchy when people mention the brain because brain tension sucks so bad, and thinking the brain is important will just keep you up there. Looking at him he has nothing I want or aspire too. Probably those peak experiences were due to being at high altitude, plus that Ingo Swann guy was a great phony. I'm ashamed to say I read some of his stuff and tried it out. Heard someone tried his stuff for over a year, poor guy. He didn't get anything. (sings) Keep on believin' , keep on decievin' But if you like him thats fine, I guess its not nice to throw insults at businessmen.

You guys giving some knowing winks at each other... Whats the deal?

So it is just feeling tension/blocks spun into almost 300 pages?

Pietro, Please be kind and avoid secret acronyms. What is LDD? The only thing I could think it to be is the lower dan tien. Also who is Bruce?

What kind of techniques?

LOL well I'm not into HeartMath crap or any other of those bu$ine$$es. I say to anyone who really thinks the brain is king .etc to waste your time with Neil Slade the amygdala-whackjob.

Ask your master if you can do burmese posture, that may be better. I know people say you can grow into the lotus but I don't see how this is so when for most people all the pressure will be on the kness and ankles. Even the people who show it off often cannot do a correct one, just watch. I wish people would mention more often that the a proper full-lotus requires animal-like hip flexibility. BTW Drew Hempel got his lotus through soccer stretches, he posted that another on forum..... *edited to be polite.

Or we could never mind the brain. I see it as a reciever of "world mind" and not necessarily something to be developed or something active in itself. Also theres the complex nervous systems around other organs that function like "brains", since we have "gut feelings" and we "follow our hearts" .etc.... Hence people saying body-mind. The balance is probably there if we don't interfere too much. *edited since my grammer was terrible

Moonbar, My opinion is that that if it hurts just do a different position. There is a book called "becoming the lotus" that explains that the lotus requires tremendous hip flexibility and if you do not have this you will be stretching your knee and ankle ligaments instead..... Ligaments aren't meant to be stretched because there function is not movement but holding bones together.... It is basic anatomy, when done properly the feet are facing the body (not upwards that is wrong) and your knees are left in such an alignement so that they can bend forwards and backwards as nature intended!

I don't get it, are you paraphrasing him? If so give why not give us the straight quote! Don't like that picture, why would anyone wear glasses when facing a wall? I don't think Rinzai would like that picture either. From the Zen Teachings of Rinzai:

I was reading Terrence McKenna and he went off LSD near the end..... He never said why exactly. I just don't get a good feeling about it....... There was a time when I really wanted to take it but couldn't get hold of it... I think the universe was doing me a favour.....

Yes, please PM me. Thanks.