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Bluephoenix, I'm sorry to hear that you are very ill and seemingly suffering in despair. I know it's hard to have hope or be optimistic when the body is wracked with pain, and the nervous system and senses are numb so that colors, tastes, sounds and even touch are not as vibrant. I have taught FP Qigong to post-operative surgery patients in a major medical center in Los Angeles for several years 1999-2002 (along with Tai Chi from 1996-2002) and the FP Qigong successfully replaced pain-killing drugs, thereby accelerating the healing process and the patients' recovery. I can't make any promises, but if anything is worth a try, the FP Chi Kung certainly is. No matter what your condition, I believe that the FP Qigong should alleviate pain and discomfort to some degree. If you have one or more of the DVD's, do what you can to practice to them. And feel free to contact me by PM if you have questions. Regards, Sifu Terry Dunn

Hello RLDawson, Taking 40 minutes to do this not-so-basic Basic Meditation is an excellent practice that you've nicely employed. Yes, the standard of practice is to move so slowly such that the movements are practically imperceptible. Hence I think it was GM Doo Wai who described the speed of movement as "approaching the speed of a shifting sand dune." This alchemic process (combined with the esoteric breath-control sequences) develops profoundly healthful mind-body integration and "frictionless movement and body mechanics. If you haven't already, continuing to practice in the manner you've described will most certainly facilitate deeper and deeper levels of "absorption" like you've never experienced before. Keep up the good practice and let the thread know what you're experiencing. Best, Sifu Terry

Dear Shen-Joy, Thank you for your question. My meaning of that post was to remind all that Flying PHoenix Celestial Healng Qigong is a complete Qigong and Meditative system that besides ensuring health and longevity will facilitate one's spiritual evolution towards At-One-Ment with the Universal Power or Godhead, if that is one's predilection and karma. Whereas new age calisthenics--what I call "downstream hokum©" made up by hacks calling themselves "masters" and "modern Chi experts" are not only useless, but their bologna-combined-with-Cheez Whiz belief systems and philosophical sewage promising enlightenment and immortality attached to the useless exercises will set earnest seekers and students of the Tao backwards, waste their time and resources, delay and prevent the realization of their genetic talent and their spiritual potential, and perhaps even shorten their lives as opposed to prolong them. Attaining "immortality" in the Taoist sense of the word or Complete Liberation and and becoming a Buddha is not a matter of doing this yoga or that Qigong exercise. As my first spiritual teacher and occasionally visiting ally, the late John Davidson, former senior student of Share K. Lew, stated (posted earlier on this thread): "The wrong person with the right exercise will still come to no good end (--nor will he be able to manifest the full potential of the exercise). But the right person even with the wrong (or incomplete) exercise, will still (be guided to) make it work and become empowered." Attaining Immortality--however one wants to describe it: attaining sainthood in western spiritual traditions, becoming an "Immortal" in Taoism, or an "Arhat" and "Bodhisattva" in Buddhism--in the eyes of God is determined and attained by one's Works and sacrifices made to perform those Works during one's lifetimes--the latter being absolutely essential because it is the only way that one attains spiritual assistance from the other side during one's lifetime from spirits one has helped and healed, one's ancestors, allies, karmic guides, and greater Powers. In the Chinese martial tradition, those spiritual allies are the past generations of masters/"lineage holders" and in the case of monastic traditions, the guardians of their temples. For there are many high-level masters, and I have come across more than a couple in the past 40 years (-and all in southern California, as a matter fo fact) who with truly awesome and formidable metaphysical powers, chose the dark path--to do evil-- and utilized their highly cultivated powers to serve their own selfish and pathetically mundane and churlish goals dictated by their glandular systems. It's taken me 2/3 of my life to understand from had-won experience that anyone can make a deal with the Devil, even high-level masters. And when high-level masters succumb to the Dark Side, their spiritual failure is all the more grievous and grave. As the standard was so clearly and colorfully spelled out in the precepts of the Tibetan Gurus centuries ago: Performing meritorious actions in order merely toattain fame and praise in this world is like bartering themystic wish-granting gem* for a pellet of goat's dung; andthis is a grievous failure. [1]*The wish-granting gem of oriental myth, known in Sanskrit as the Cintamani, like Aladdin's magic lamp, grants any desire which its possessor formulates. --translated by W.Y. Evans-Wentz, "Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines" If such feeble Do-Gooders working short-sightedly only towards worldly fame and reward are considered grievous failures--meaning that they will be descending in a spiritual regression as opposed to ascending, and that their karma is full of only grief-- just think what special Hells the charlatans and phonies working towards the same are in for. And then go an intuitive step further and "see" the karmic retribution coming for those black magicians who use their powers to deprive others of their spiritual blessings, fruits of their labors, and life force. Again, as I had posted in Year One, this is why the great philsopher Mencius advised: "Do not seek in your vitality (i.e., one's health exercises) what you do not find in your heart." A reminder to the wise--that I'm beginning to feel needs to be posted here at least once a year. Maybe more. Because the decision to REAL is made more than once. Thanks again for your post. Sifu Terence Dunn www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

Yes one of Dreamworks' agents, I believe, made it a point to call my lawyer to let her know that Dreamworks in Kung Fu Panda 2 used several of the key elements of my Zen-Bear Animated Logo seen here-- --in the battle scene in which their fat panda catches fiery cannon-balls and throws them one after another back at the villainous goose and his navy, seen here, starting at 2:30 (where they also copied my copyrighted artwork "Zen-Bear in Shoulder stroke (a Tai Chi posture btw, but reversed the positioning of their bear's palms and forearms): Before the their panda's catching of and whirling around with fiery energy/cannon balls, it touches a drop of water falling down from the sky in a spiraling Yin Yang symbol. Identical to the spinning yin-yang in my logo. Very typical of this studio to flaunt its seemingly legal misappropriation of other people's work. But these this particular rabble of businessmen believe that there is no God and no Universal Justice and that somehow the Universe doesn't operate according to the laws of karma. So keep your eyes and ears open to the news in the coming 2 years. For it is a proven historic fact--at least in my experience --that such persons--i.e., the person and persons who persuaded Michael Lachance to lie about the fact that he had created the idea for the Kung Fu Panda film but did such a pathetically miserable job of coaching him how to present that lie at his deposition (for the videos of his deposition testimony clearly demonstrate that he did not create the idea for the movie) always learn their life's lessons by extreme paradox.

Try www.kungfulawsuit.com or log onto Youtube, and then simply search using this string: "Eat Your Panda Dreamworks Michael Lachance "

That's OK, Sihing Garry. Welcome back! I've been extensively buried these past many weeks in new work endeavors. So good to see your posting and what I take as a reminder: Thank you, Si-hing, for putting the all-important mundane-and-cosmic question in such straightforward terms: "Is everyone becoming their own Flying Phoenix?" --i.e., is everyone training seriously hard enough so that everyone is literally becoming and manifesting the healing, enlightening, and yes, APOTHEOSIZING yogic process we call Flying Phoenix Spiritual Mastery or Work ("Fei Feng San Gung")? First sign of development is the visible bright blue aura around your body that will show up on a video camera (especially old fashioned videotape!). Sifu Terry Dunn P.S. There are very few complete yogic arts available today where this phrase is functional and meaningful: "Practice makes perfect." --And functional on the spiritual level as well. www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

Good Work, Charlie! It was precisely because I remembered that doing this "Basic" preparatory FP seated meditation is so demanding and does much to release internal tensions in the body mass that I was moved to recommend its practice for 30 minutes. I remember that when I first did this one and the 50 30 10 preparatory meditation (involving the raising and lowering of the arms similar to the first movement of Tai Chi--but done at super-slow, "sand dune" speed), in the first week of daily practice, it was quite painful and even excruciating! But then come the second week of daily practice and all was frictionless and the very definition of corporeal BLISS! In other words, y'all out there who haven't done 30 Minutes of the Seated, Forearm-Tweaking Version of Monk Gazing At Moon, it's time to do it. And don't be wimps, for it gets better...much better. Best to All, Sifu Terry Dunn www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

PRACTICE RECOMMENDATION FOR ALL FP QIGONG PRACTITIONERS--BEGINNERS AND VETERANS ALIKE: Practice the first seated "warm-up" meditation on Volume 2 of the Chi Kung For Health series for 30 minutes (with breathing sequence 5 60 80 40 30. • Hold the "Monk Gazing At Moon" upper body posture for 5 minutes. •Then begun the slow--very slow--"tweaking" of the forearms so that the palms turn 45 degrees away from you and then 45 degrees towards your face. • Continue this for 25 minutes. • Remember to end the mediation with 3 deep breathes. I recently taught this meditation in this manner to my Tai Chi class and will do it again tomorrow. I can thus predict with confidence that if you do this meditation in this manner on a regular basis, you will make profound and healthful breakthroughs in your practice. Sifu Terry Dunn

Thanks Aurelien. I hope everyone in the FP community tries to make it to several of these Friday FP Meditation sessions. I fully support and encourage it. Best to all, Sifu Terry

Hello Ben, Sorry to take an extra several days to answer your questions. But I had a very busy and hectic past week. My comments and answers to your questions are in Bold below: I have felt major Qi in my hands and finger tips. After doing dvd one I usually notice my whole body lightly vibrating especially my face and palms. What you just described here is normal progression of tangible energization imparted by FP Qigong and most legitimate systems of Qigong. I honestly can't get enough of it and it feel like this was a missing ingredient in my life. I feel all my other practices are being enriched by doing FPQG, everything goes deeper and brings more bliss, what is really great! Glad you are enjoying the training and find that it very enriching, and are gaining an experiential meaning of "bliss'--which is sadly missing in so many fads, movements and more recently developed yogas of the "new age." Yes, FP Qigong, and all other internal systems of the Doo Wai White Tiger tradition can have that enriching effect on many other martial arts that one has developed. At the moment I do 2.5 hours a day of FP but I'm planning working that up to 6+ hours over the next months! Good for you--and lucky you that you can devote 6+ hours a day to FP training! As I wrote in earlier posts, for beginners, the longer one does each of the FP Meditations--upwards of 20 to 30 minutes, the stronger the energy cultivation and deeper the healing and rejuvenating effects become. As the effects of the meditations are cumulative, as one progresses through months and years of practice, one can reduce the duration of practice of any particular exercise and still experience the same full blissful impact as if one were practicing for hours. I sometimes train 6 hours in a day, but those hours cover 2 or 3 complete systems of Omei Mtn. kung fu in addition to FP Qigong. Something that helped me is while watching the videos I made notes of the breathing percentages, key positions and important details and have it as a cheat sheet near me to glance over before doing the practices. This has helped me tremendously and recommend that to anyone who is struggling with memorizing the sequences etc. Yes, "cheat sheets" are most useful to memorize the breathing sequences. One uses them like "training wheels" on a bicycle until one can consistently recall the breathing seq. from memory without looking. I used to keep long laminated hand-written lists of all the BFP internal systems' breath controls. Then later, all the breathings sequences and schematic instructions for each Meidtation found their way onto my iPhone and iPad. Whatever it takes to get you to do the Meditation correctly--and that includes doing the breath-control sequence from memory--just do it! I have to say that some of the practices are quite a workout for the back, legs & arms! But I like that That differs from person to person, because every person has different conditioning prior to starting FP Qigong. But there are a few universal effects that i've described earlier: (A) The 2nd seated Warm up meditation on Volume 2, with breathing 50 30 10 where one raises and lowers the arms similar to the opening move of Tai Chi forms, always brings into awareness all kinds of pain and ensign in one's back muscles. Everyone and myself felt this the first several weeks we did this seated meditation. ( Advanced Omei Internal systems--such as 10,000 Buddhas Meditations--cause dramatic involuntary movements in everyone without exception. First-timings go literally flying and careening across a 30 ft. room being absorbed by the energy generated--as if they're on a carnival ride. I just wanted to share my experiences so far and I have been very pleased with the dvd's. I plan to eventually get all of them and learn the whole system. It's a true gem! Yes, as the Bok Fu Pai maxim goes: "May kook on the outside like a brick, but actually worth its weight in gold." Sifu Terry, during my practice some questions came up in my mind, many of them I found the answer to here in this thread but a few are still unanswered and if they were answered before and I missed them then I'm sorry for you having to repeat yourself. 1) Earlier in this thread it was briefly mentioned by you Sifu Terry to hold the breath after each percentage to keep the breath cycle nicely balanced. You said that this bit of retention really added to the effect of each exercises. I didn't see any mention of it hereafter and was wondering if you could touch a little more on this. At the moment I breath in a again after the percentage count but can easily add the retention part to it of the remaining count. I just wanted to check with you to make sure that's really what you meant. I'd like to get maximum benefit out of the practices. ​In the beginning, do not do any breath retention. Just do the percentage exhalations as prescribed int he DVD's and don't hold the breath. I'm not sure where i said hold the breath after each % exhalation...but thinking about it now, that is unadvised for beginners and will only lead to unnecessary and futile complications. As you practice the FP system, you will be able to ascertain for yourself when and where certain type of breath retention will be constructive and enhancing to the practice. 2) When for example doing "Monk holding peach" the legs are two shoulder widths apart and you say to stand straight, I believe there is some slight bending of the knees. Is this correct or are the knees locked and legs totally straight? No bending of the knees on "Monk Holding Peach.' Keep knees locked throughout the practice. For a few tiny moments, you can experiment and see what happens to your form when you bend the knee slightly. But departing from the knees locked position is nothing but a curious test. 3) When you go down low in the horse stance is it ok if the knees come over the feet? If you mean: if the knees come forward beyond the vertical line of the toes, the answer is "No". But if you assume a deep and low horse stance, your knees are generally over your feet, such that when you look at your legs from the front, your knees and your feet are vertically aligned such that lines drawn connecting them would form a rectangle. 4) MSW meditations: when the hands go up at a 45 degree angle above head and down again is it ok for some of the fingertips to touch? it makes it easier if one or two fingers touch so they stay in sync with each other. It is OK for the fingertips to touch in those positions and movements of the MSW Meditations. 5) My wife started practicing FPQG with me and is loving it too! She was wondering if there are any guidelines for when a woman is on her period? I could not find any mention here on the forum or on your site or anywhere else. ​No, there are no special guidelines for women during their periods. FP Qigong is so perfectly safe in regulating of the organ systems throughout the subconscious mind and creating allostasis, that the one method (breath control sequence followed by specific posture(s) and movements) imparts the same benefits for all. There are other esoteric Qigong and Neikung systems where the practices for females differ. But FP Qigong is not one of those. 6) Would it be a wise thing to use a gentle alarm on a phone or something that is not too disturbing to mark a certain amount of minutes so you know when the selected timeframe for certain practices are over? Or do you ahem any other tips for keeping time? That's totally up to each practitioner. If one needs an alarm of some type to mark passage of time in practice, by all means use it--especially if one has to keep to a daily schedule and not be late for other activities and obligations. Some people have accurate internal clocks. I practice until I feel a certain way or sometimes until I surpass a benchmarked state of meditative absorption (jhana). You're welcome. Sifu Terry Dunn

Ben, Developing the horse stance--and all horse stances (ma bu)--is best done by practicing a bona fide system of Kung Fu or Tai Chi. If that's not possible, and all you have is the FP Chi Kung system to work with, the best FP Meditation to develop one's horse stance is "Bending the Bows". Make sure your feet are parallel for best results. Same is true when doing "Wind through Treetops" and "Wind Above the Clouds." Sifu Terry

Thank you for the good wishes. Selling DVD's on the side is a way to support one's teaching and preservation of these ancient arts. Flying Phoenix Celestial Healing Chi Kung is an ancient vast system of alchemic yoga that happens to precisely offer total stress management and relief for the cubicle workers of the world and the more work-oppressed. (See the 5 year+ discussion thread here on "Flying Phoenix Chi Kung" read by I think 335,000+ paris of eyes to date). That is a valuable and accessible case of real cheese, ready for use. Other than GM Doo Wai who is retired and in not great health in his 90's, I am the only teacher and preserver of this rare and tangibly effective system of medical qigong from an authentic monastic tradition located at Ehrmeishan in Xichuan province in western China. Info also here at my website: www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html Regards. STD

Try www.kungfupandalawsuit.com and to find the Lachance videos, go to Youtube, and just search for "eat your panda, michael lachance, dream works"...and you should get to this link: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=eat+your+panda+lachance+dreamworks which displays all the testimony of this fellow made under oath.

Oneness Blessing certainly works to rewire the brain and integrate the human process in its own unique way. I still get a profound charge --electrical activation of very specific brain centers--from every exposure I have to Sri Bhagavan's waves. My years of practicing Flying Phoenix Chi Kung since 1991 (and Tao Tan Pai Nei-kung since 1977) have enabled me to be thus attuned to similar healing energies generated buy deep monastic traditions, such as Oneness Meditation. Sifu Terry Dunn www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

Hello Zenyogi, Welcome to the FPCK community. Glad you found the abundant knowledge in this thread to be revealing and useful. It flows from many practitioners because of the simple fact that Flying Phoenix Chi Kung works! It is thus natural to wonder why there are not dozens and dozens of similarly detailed discussion threads and blogs about other legitimate Qigong methods. Enjoy the DVD training when they arrive. And, of course, post any questions that arise here. Best, Sifu Terry

Hello Steve, Thanks for your objective and candid comparison of FPCK practice and SYG practice. It's most informative for me as I have not had to time to practice what Sifu Garry is preserving from our teacher's system--just as he has not had time to practice (but a smidgeon) of what I am preserving. Without having done them, but from just looking at several of the SYG meditations, I can intuit that there are differences in the energy cultivated by the two systems and these differences may be more than subtle ones. One cannot tell until one has practiced both for--I would estimate--5 years and thus be able to experience the differences in each system's healing functionality. (I've described in some detail how the FP Healing Energy works at many points in this discussion.) Thanks again for sharing! Best, Sifu Terry www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

Hi Fudomyosti, Here are answers to each of your questions in bold blue: as we cultivate the FP system, how is it stored in our bodies(?) That is an interesting and curious question that I really don't want to answer for you directly or too explicitly at this point because those are basic questions for you to answer through your own practice of the system. And they will be answered as you attain intermediate level in the FP Qigong system. The more you master the FP system, the more self-explanatory it becomes. But i will provide a few partial answers just the same: Even though I described in the first 4 years of this thread that the beneficial outcome of the dedicated FP Qigong practice is the cultivation of a "superabundance" of the tangible FP Healing energy, that can impart spontaneous healing to others with the slightest touch, I would say that the FP energy is not stored in the tan tien region like the energy cultivated in other Qigong and internal martial art systems. In fact, most beginning FP partitioners rather quickly discover that the FP Qigong energy can be stored wherever you want to store it in your body! For everyone sooner or later discovers that each of the basic Standing FP Meditations--Monk Gazing at Moon, Monk Holding Peach and the 3 varieties of Monk Holding Pearl (standing, seated & supine)-- "stores" the FP Healing Energy at the head (third eye) , heart, and stomach chakras I have experienced the FP Healing Energy spontaneously emanating from the fingertips and from the higher energy nerve plexuses or chakras--the heart, throat, brow and crown chakras. it is thus no surprise that many of my advanced FP students over the years have reported that the FP Qigong caused periods of clairvoyance and clairaudience, and high levels of absorption (jhanic states), which were accompanied by spiritual visions. With advanced practice over a number of years, one will eventually feel the FP healing energy activating or manifesting in certain specific brain centers--besides imparting the feeling of "lightness" throughout the head region and also an unmistakable mental clarity. Thus, once one regularly experiences activation of the brain centers with every FP meditation session (especially from the seated Monk Serves Wine meditations), that would enable to say (figuratively) that the FP energy is stored in the brain. or what becomes of it after the practice? Your body uses it if it needs it for self-healing. If it doesn't, then it accumulates and provides a whole host of health benefits described in the FP literature (DVD packaging). Once accumulated to abundant levels throughout the body, the energy is available for healing other persons and organisms. Would there be any benefit or need to do a chi storing motion at the end of the practice (e.g. palm circling at lower dan tien) NO! The FP Qigong system is very complete. It does not need anything added. In fact, each of the three variations of "Monk Holding the Pearl" (standing, seated and supine) effectively returns the energy to the tan tien region. As explained several times in this thread, the yogic alchemy of FP Qigong is supremely sublime--and far from being so "mechanical" (as I had also mentioned here in the past ) so as to require any type of physical movements such as circling of the palm around the lower tan tien. FYI, there is an advanced seated MSW meditation (not published in my DVD series) that begins with slow circular massaging of the abdominal area by alternating hands going in opposite directions (clockwise and counter-clockwise). The purpose of this alternating circular massaging of the stomach is not for the purpose of "storing"--but rather is for the purpose of "mustering" or "mobilizing" the energy from that region. Fudomyosti: stay with the practice and every question you have will be answered by your cumulative experience. Best, Sifu Terry www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

Hi Raynevin, Yes, excellent healing effects attained from practicing the seated FP Meditations on Volume 2. Congrats. Thanks for sharing your positive healing experience. Tip: Continue to practice that regimen of 3 seated and 3 MSW meditations, shorten the time of the 3 basic seated warm-ups, and rotate in 2 or 3 of the Basic Standing FP Meditations (just 3-5 minutes each) to still fill a 40 minute practice session. And you will note more salient effects. More so if you expand to one hour total practice time. Sifu Terry Dunn

I found a little time to review past posts...and am now commenting on a few that I failed to respond to months if not years ago!: I agree in sentiment with Tao Stillness: I'm of course thrilled and gratified as an instructor--the sole instructor of FP Qigong as far as i know--each time I field questions or read comments by subscribers who are putting in 45 minutes or more per FP Meditation and thereby, as Steve has put it, are "going for the gold". If you practice each of the FP Meditations for 30 to 45 minutes at the outset (or at some stage of your practice) , and cover all the FP Meditations presented in the DVD series in that manner, over the long term, you will experience sublime health benefits and verifiable and repeatable rejuvenation by regularly attaining the allostatic state, and you will also continually experience an evolution of consciousness--and attain deep samadhic states or levels of absorption that for most people are quite ineffable. (btw, recall that about 1.5 yr ago, there was lengthy discussion by many FP practitioners of the altered state of perception and sublime FP meditative effect of literally seeing gold light draping everything in one's field of vision.). The effect on one's vision (@Fudoymyosti) is another key benchmark of progress in FP Qigong. Sifu Terry Dunn www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

Fudomyosti, The "points along the way" or benchmarks of growth and development in FP Qigong are in the beginning levels similar if not identical to the noticeable/tangible benchmarks in "form practice" in Tai Chi Chuan and other internal martial arts. The most unique and totally different benchmark in FP Qigong training is the tangible cultivation of the FP Healing Energy, which I have described several times in this thread (at least once or twice very year) has its own unique qualities and very special characteristics and healing properties. When you experience these unusual healing effects--not just of yourself but of others in your vicinity-- you will know it to be the result of FP Qigong and of no there practice or source of energy in the Universe. --Just like the deeksha energy of Sri Bhagavan's Oneness Meditation movement is unique, distinctive and unmistakably attributable to that tradition. Sifu Terry Dunn www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

Hi Fudomyosti, Nice discovery of that particular natural movement in "Moonbeam"! If you have good form (through practicing any particular internal exercise or FP Meditation long enough), you will find many instances in the Flying Phoenix (moving) Meditations where your movemens see effortless-- as if your arms are doing the correct movements by themselves without the slightest volition and absolutely no effort. This follows the adage used in Tai Chi and pretty much all internal arts: "The mind moves the chi, and the chi moves the body." Also, one of my favorite teachers teaches "activating the thumb and first two fingers with the metaphysical heart space." This latter oral teaching will help you perfect your natural, effortless movements of the upper body. Good progress! Sifu Terry Dunn www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

One of the most enjoyable videos I've found on the internet this year: http://www.upworthy.com/some-strange-things-are-happening-to-astronauts-returning-to-earth?c=reccon1 --which offers a clear descriptions by former astronauts of one of the highest meditative states of consciousness--that is also easily facilitated by practice of Flying Phoenix Heavenly Healing Chi Meditations, Sunn Yee Gung, and also Sri Bhagavan's Oneness Meditation practice! Savikalpa Samadhi – The lead science officer of Apollo 14 upon returning to earth sought help to find the terms or frame of reference to describe what he had experienced during the mission to the moon. . "My job as lunar module pilot was to be responsible for the lunar module itself and for the science on the moon. So when we started home I had a little more time look out the window than the other guys because most of my responsibilities were completed. We were in a particular mode called “the barbecue mode”, so we’re flying like this but rotating like this...and what that caused to happen was that every two minutes, a picture of the earth, the moon, the sun, and a 360 degree panorama of the heavens appeared in the spacecraft window. And I had studied astronomy and I had studied cosmology, and fully understood that the molecules in my body and the molecules in my partners’ bodies in the spacecraft had been prototyped in some ancient generation of stars. In other words, it was pretty obvious from those descriptions that we’re stardust. Well, that was pretty awesome and powerful. Particularly. since I had a little more time at this point to be reflective and to think about it. After I came back and tried to understand what this experience was all about, I could find nothing in the science literature about it and nothing in the religious literature that I looked at. So I turned to the local university and asked them to help me with what I saw. When they came back to me a few weeks later, they said, ‘Well, in the accent literature we found a description called ‘savikalpa samadhi.’ That means that you see things as you see them with your eyes, but you experience them emotionally and viscerally as it was ecstasy and sense of total unity and oneness.” And I said, well that’s exactly what the experience was. And so it was rather clear to me as I studied this was nothing new but something that was very important to the way we humans were put together.” — Edgar Dean Mitchell, Sc.D., Astronaut and Lunar Module pilot of Apollo 14, who was responsible for the science experiments on the moon during his 9 hour exploration of the Fra Mauro Highlands region, making him the sixth person to walk on the moon.

Hi Steve, Thank you for sharing your comparative thoughts on FP Qigong and SYG. Excellent that you have both as a frame of reference and comment intelligently regarding both! --something that I cannot do, as I have not practiced my Sihing's SYG art. Best, Sifu Terry

Hi vivekji108, I'm not sure if I answered this already...but I don't think so. It is perfectly safe to practice the Flying Phoenix Qigong by using the 6 DVD's in the series. The more experienced and advanced on is in Chinese internal energy arts, the better. At some point, face-to-face instruction is needed--but not for the sake of safety...but rather for advancement in higher levels of cultivation. If one simply follows the instruction provided on the dvd series, one will derive full benefit of the DP Qigong system and no ill or untoward effects. I wrote early on in this thread that FP Qigong is relatively "foolproof"--i.e., one really as to try hard to mess up these meditations and to do oneself harm. Best, Sifu Terry Dunn