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I agree with that! The kidney energy is very important. Especially with getting rid of fear. But, we have to remember its a cyclical interaction taking place! So, SHEN > QI > JING > QI > SHEN Which means that whether you go UP or DOWN, the 5 Yin organs will still be purified and looped back into the next energy. It doesn't mean that if you start from the top down that you will get stuck somewhere and skip any of the organ purification! NO? : )

btw DREW. Just because you may loose some SHEN, which deconverts to QI and then to JING in order to facilitate sexual expenditure, it does not mean you loose ALL your SHEN at once. Also, it is well known that as you advance in practice you ability to absorb much larger quantities of energy, more efficiently and more quickly, INCREASES. Thus, at some point, the energy lost during ejaculation will be unnoticeable compared to the current reservoir. Similarly, if you are working through alchemy in the normal way JING QI SHEN, and have sex you don't lose all your JING at once, it's a partial loss that comes with the sexual act. I am speculating here : ) I'm expecting to have some practitioners of the system chip in soon, to give us their point of view.

Indeed! Drew, you know me on here man. I agree with you. BUT - we have to assume that since we all exist in the TAIJI that we are governed by the law of YIN and YANG, so if it can be done going UP, it CAN be done going DOWN. - Once you leap out of TAIJI into WUJI then we can talk about absolutisms, but while we are still under the hierarchical influence of both forces of the TAIJI, we MUST assume that there are both completely YIN methods and both completely YANG methods available, which could be in completely opposite directions, but STILL, COMPLIMENTARY, such as is the TAIJI energetic interaction by which all living things and energies a product of it ARE governed by! Lets try to be open minded! : ) Rather than allow what we have learned become the obstruction to the growth of our knowledge, let us entertain the possibility of alternate modalities of practice and hypothesize on how they may come about

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OK! Just got back from London a few hours ago. It's OFFICIAL! I'll post the details tomorrow.

LONDON, August 24th/25th event page: http://www.facebook.com/events/345257788909902/

Travelling to London today for a viewing and to book the venue. F****** FINALLY! I didn't know it would be this hard to find a decent place that wasn't already reserved by someone else 3 months in advance. Must have been on the phone non-stop and through 100s of websites O_O Alas! The fruits of my efforts are about ripen I will update the page later today with the address, dates, event schedule and entrance fee, once I get back home : )

Some Science

You can only read so much of that book in a day before you brain just goes - FUCK YOU! It's not that the information is too difficult to understand. It's that there is just so much.

Holy crap, guys this is amazing. I advise everyone to read it. Drew, this guys' posts are right up your alley. He is a 70+ year old Physician who claims to have created the Yang Body. He is making ground breaking connections between western and eastern science on that blog. What a jewel. Anyone know if he is a TaoBum member? Mind blown: http://sygz2012.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/can-tong-qihuang-ting-jingwu-zhen_23.html

This topic is good! It's exactly what I've been pondering about the past few months: http://sygz2012.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/longevity-and-enlightenment.html

Found a really nice website today with lots of different posts on Immortality and such: http://sygz2012.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/dayan-50-yi-jingi-ching-64-he-tu-luo.html

Ha. I was watching Dragonball Z yesterday and there was a part where they said that when normal people die, their body disappears and their soul is wiped clean of all memories and identities and then sent out to reincarnate by finding a new body. And accomplished martial artists can keep their body and live on in the higher realms. Funny to hear such profound information even from a cartoon!

He also says the White Light in the Mysterious Gate can't be gathered early or it will blur out and disappear, or expand and disappear or contract and disappear. Only after it has been stabilized can it be moved to the MDT. You can stabilize it by doing the Fire Cycle of the MCO with the eyes moving from A to D to G to J as in Taoist Yoga, or Zi, Mao, Wu and You. 36 times, for 36 in and out breaths. This will stabilize the light until it is a full bright and glowing orb.

He also says that, after it has stabilized, you have to bring the light down to the MDT, where it will energetically vibrate and produce the immortal nectar (sweet dew). After that, he should move it to the LDT and begin to produce the MACROcosmic Alchemical Agent in order to form the Golden Embryo and begin the Creating The Golden Fetus stage. So thus far the process is: Jing, Qi, Shen transmutation (Mind and Body Celibacy) >> Alchemical Agent >> MCO >> White Light Manifests Within Mysterious Gate >> Stabilize the White Light >> Move the White Light to the MDT >> Wait for Vibration and Sweet Dew >> Move White Light to LDT >> Begin MACROcosmic Circulation.

The "Mysterious Gate" (Xuan Guan), the "Supreme Ultimate" (Taiji) and the "Great Luminous Pearl" (Daguang Zhu) are all one and the same, or the circle of white light shining in the UDT behind the Yintang. All these refer to the white light.

I would say it is 95% focused on refining energy by circulating it through different combinations of the meridians. Some of these are conventional orbits, like the Macro and Micro orbits, but many of them in the book are connections between meridians and Dan Tiens, that I have never come across before. A great deal of the book concentrates on laying the foundation, by balancing the yin and yang organs and it concentrates heavily on rooting the body energetically into the earth to create the proper foundation and connection to the Yin Qi of the earth. Then after that there are practices to connect to the Yang Qi, then basic, intermediary and advanced methods of beating and drumming the Qi meditations and others used to combine The Yin Qi and the Yang Qi in the Dan Tien and fuse them together. Once the foundation is laid, then one can begin cultivation of the immortal arts (as we know it in the Taoist Yoga). Although what you get in JAJs current book is in a lot more detail and rather than using a lot of symbolic wording he approaches things from a Chinese and Western medical point of view, that just MAKES sense logically, without the need for ambiguity. I will post more : )

So he is saying that if the External Medicine hasn't been circulated at least 300 times, you can't begin to create the Internal Medicine. I guess because the EM needs to be cleansed and purified at the Mao and You cardinal points enough times, such that every time it passed by Mao and You it is is radiated by the Spiritual Energy of the Heart.

JAJ says that until the heat occurs followed by the vibration about 2 weeks later, you have no business doing the MCO, unless you are sedating a NATURAL errection, one not born of the false fire of the heart, ie at the Zi hour or whenever else the fullness of your Jing QI manifests in the sexual organs. Before the heat and vibration occur, he advises to only use the NAB method for pulling in Qi into the LDT, while the RAB should be initiated only after the heat and vibration occur to signify that the Alchemical Agent, now the External Medicine is ready to be driven up the spine into the MCO by the Yang Fire, as the RAB adds UPWARDS pressure and pushes the Qi naturally up the back.

So far so good. We have 91 registered going and 14 maybes, and the list keeps growing. As it was, initially we had to secure two things; accommodation and a venue. I'm happy to say that one of our TaoBums who will be joining us has generously offered up accommodation in his home in Ealing, for the Taoist master in August. So that is out of the way. Right now the only thing I have to do is secure the venue. It's difficult to do as the attendance list keeps growing, so I'll have to wait closer to the date before being able to determine how large a place I will need to rent, after which I'll make the address available. I'm going to pay for the venue myself and rental of the things we need, but will place an entrance fee of 5 to 10 pounds per person to help me cover the cost. So, yeah. Right now. Just waiting : ) Event Page: http://www.facebook.com/events/345257788909902/ Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/TaiShangMenXiaoYaoPaiUK How was it organized last time in the US? - Who provided accommodation etc? Effi (Xuan Dao)

Yo Dawg, I heard you like LDT. So now you can work on your LDT while you work on your LDT.

Drew, just getting to the main part of the book on Neidan. Will post quotes when I come across a useful one.