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Have you considered that the stretching of the skin makes the palm-mark differ in size? The palm is considerably bigger in the last picture where the skin is stretched out.

Oooo my god... I felt an immediate need to take a shower after just a few seconds of this clip... ugh...

Im getting Bodyreading 101 DVD from the Anatomy Trainns series by Tom Myers. Very expencive but that guy has done some really amazing work!

Yeah, there is a new Gong Fu appearing that someone mentioned before here on taobums: Google Gong Fu. We should not take people with Google Skill for granted

Allright, this is me stripped to the bone... you can even see my poop My hip is totally screwd and I have a lot of screwness up the spine to compensate. My neck is almost curving the wrong way goddammit! Im probably close to living the rest of my life in cronic illness and cancer all over the body from this x-ray, but lucky for me, my poop(and the rest of the body) has been filled with chlorella and natural melatonine(from tart cherry) for years to absorb and heal the radiation damage. As for my general health and wellbeing I guess the outcome of a corrected spine outweighs this radiationdamage a thousandfolds anyways! And my curiosity was satisfied. That is worth more than anything! Another interesting thing is that my chirpractor does something called Network. I had a 30min session today and he just touched a few placed on my spine, very slightly, and that was it. And I left with a wonderful feeling of release all through the spine. It might look a little like CranioSacral treatment only it was even more subtle. But he said it was not about qi-projection. Just activating areas that was allready at peace and balanced to help the nervous system and the brain correct the rest of the body accordingly. A very nice treatment!

You could probably contact some of his students and ask to see it. Maby SeanDenty can be of some help? Its worth a try if you are really interested. I saw some videos when I learned XSZ in Sweden. But not the turtlevideo.

Hahaha, better have an x-ray than go to an osteopath!! The chiropractor I go to is going to do something called Network Integration(I think), which is a lot less crunching than the normal chiropractic techinques. He did a littlebit of it when I was there last time. He held his fingers(swordfingers!)in the base of the neck and I could feel heat and adjustments in the area. My guess is that it is some kind of qi-mainpuliation. Im going to ask him next time. Though I dont believe a chiropractor would explain it as qi

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I knew this would come. Yes, if you do a lot of x-ray you will get cancer. But once or twice in a life has no risc what so ever. And especially not if the individual has a strong health allready. At least I dont feel a need to be afraid. I do things that are much worse than one x-ray, like eating burgers and candy and talking in a mobilephone But Karen, is there no way to remove the radiation? I understand there are many products that help the body heal from radiation damage. So, one more reson to not be afraid of x-ray.

thihihihi What you dont know, benny, is that those you are channeling are still stuck in dualism and therefore has no knowledge of the dao. They still care about constructing rules for what is "right" and "wrong". And when people do that they ofcource want everyone else to understand it is they who are right and everyone who dont agree will be punished. This is the mechanisms of religion, not of nature. Sooner or later they too will grow up to see that there is more to nature than good deeds, bad deeds and punishemet. And benny, if if do a little searching you will see that there are more than enough people giving their teachings for free. Nobody(with access to internet) have any problems finding teaching for free, no matter how poor. So your "message" is pointless and uninformed.

I just want to see it, the vertebras and how they fit together. Now Im even going to get a chirpractor to interpret everything. I can hardly wait.

Nice thread!!! I just came home from a treatment where my atlas was corrected. It was some kind of Cranial Sacral Therapy called Rosenberger or something. And it feels gooooood! The whole body is light, flexible and free. Ive also just begun to go to a chiropractor and I asked him about the atlas method(my brother in law has done it). He said it was just a simple chiropractic techniques that every chiropractor does but that someone has taken out of context and created his own method. Just like lockfoot, he said. And Kinesology. All come from chiropractics. But anyways...on monday Im going to get an x-ray of my whole spine from hip to cranium! Its been a dream for many many years to x-ray my spine!

hahahaha, some times the posts on taobums are really funny!

I never had that problem when I did these things. But I did a lot of meditation during the day aswell and got all the rest I needed. It probably isnt a practice suited for people with a stressful life.

I want a Jed McKenna action figure!!!!

hahaha! dude, why dont you just talk to Mopaistudent in this forum...

Very interesting Mak! Thank you! Dao Zhen once said that the white socks were a symbol of the taoist "walking in the clouds".

Very interesting! So many things to comment. The best quote is the cute buddhist munk explaing with a big smile why Ram started to sweat when they meditated together: "I know why. Its a secret I dont want to tell you now" I also think that other munk was very interesting. Living off sun-energy like the plants do. He said he could live a thousand years with his body that way. They end the documentary saying "noone really knows how this is possible". But that is just the peak of western arrogance, isnt it. The buddhist munks know!!! They have been doing it for centuries goddammit! Why dont scientist listen more to what they say instead of trying to fit everything into our present system of knowledge...

I used to lucid dream a lot some years ago. The best technique I found was to meditate before sleep. To fall asleep while in meditation. That made it a lot easier to stay aware in the transition between waking and sleeping and actually wake up within the dream. I had so many lucid dreams doing whatever I wanted. Sex, flying, changing and manipulating the dream in any way I wanted. It got boring after a while and I started just being lucid but observing the dream and its natural progression. I believe Ken Wilber calls this Pellucid dreaming. After a while with pellucid dreaming and not bothering with doing anything with the dream other than observing, I came pretty much back to normal dreaming with lucid dreams only occationally. But to meditate and fall asleep while in a meditative state has been the best technique Ive used for lucid dreaming. In addition to the other techiques mentioned here ofcource.

Hasta La Vista! Look forward to your spamming

There are many ways of internal cultivation. With many different goals. So I would say there is no right or wrong. Obviously, if you do internal alchemy the taoist way you need to fill the Dan Tien with qi. If you do any other internal cultivation you do other stuff.

Double air quotes??? Now THATs "really" "" ""! Anyways, I dont think any one can ever come to the taobums, or any other open social gathering, and not have someone who is disrespecting them. This is a natural social law. You will allways have someone disagreeing with you or joking in your posts. It would happen to Laozi himself too if he where to post here. Noone escapes social law. I just wish more people would not bother with it, stick with us and still contribute with their insights and knowledge.

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And of course Trunk has allready done A LOT of research on Kan and Li presented on his site www.alchemicaltaoism.com I should remember to check that site before I spend valuble time on searching for things that is allready easily available on Trunks site. Thanks A LOT Trunk!

hahaha, Tenacious D rocks!!! But Dio is the god! Just look at this video, its scary, real rough heavy metal!!!