Brian

Thank you! I didn't know of the word "zhentong" and I have struggled to express this realization.

http://2000clicks.com/Graeme/LangWisdomSayingOntogenyRecapitulatesPhylogeny.htm

Try Quine (borrowing from James Grier Miller) instead of Haeckel...

Not saying that. More like I'm not aware of a model which correlates "spiritual accomplishment" with "electrical surges" AND I am not sure what you would measure for "spiritual accomplishment" to use as data. For "better healing results," it is fairly easy to arrive at some sort of metrics (tumor size, wound recovery rate, or what-have-you) and then do data analysis.

Texas rocks!

Mmmmm... Pie.

There's a relationship between electrical fields and magnetic fields, of course. Some research suggest energetic healing is more of a magnetic thing than an electrical thing. Not sure how you might measure spiritual accomplishment.

Clearly, your ancestors were Aryan dragons on one side of the family and Neanderthal dragons on the other side. Answers a lot of questions, doesn't it?

Yep! Before you switch to pulling, though, is your floor concrete or wood? If concrete, that is rock pushing back against you, right? Now do some experiments with the fish scale, pulling against things which are "stronger than you" and things which are not. You don't have to pull with all your strength, of course.

Take the scale and hold it on its side in front of you, one hand on the top surface and one on the bottom surface. Press your palms together an hold. Notice that the scale is stationary and it measures a force. Now put it on the ground and stand on it. Notice that the scale is stationary and it measures a force. In the first instance, one hand provides a force and the other provides an equal & opposite balancing force. (Imagine shot-putting the scale across the room as an example of one hand providing a force without the other hand balancing it.) In the second instance, your weight is the force. What is the equal & opposite balancing force?

No need to even go to the level of electromagnetism. Got a bathroom scale?

We could talk again about whether a rock pushes back when you push against it. That would be on-topic and yet not... Bestest wishes with flaming hearts of loving fury.

Bestest wishes with flaming hearts of loving fury, MH!

Best wishes, Chang!!!

Best wishes to you, BES!

Thank you, ilovecoffee! That's very thoughtful of you. I don't care what anyone else says, I think your are a prince of a guy.

panem et circenses

Well, there's your problem right there.

Best wishes to you, too, ilovecoffee.

I wasn't talking to you. You can tell because I quoted someone else and responded to her post instead of one of yours.

Matt and I had some very interesting PMs back in the day, you know. Or do you? Is that part of "the Legend of MPG"? I promised him then that I wouldn't reveal what he shared with me so I don't. I haven't lost the details, though. I shared details with him, too, of course, but nothing which I haven't also shared openly here. I'm not big on secrets, you see.

Wait! You mean you aren't sincere when you offer me "Best wishes"? Really?!? I'm crushed. All I've ever asked for, including when MorePieGuy was still a member here (you know that he wasn't banned until he literally asked (no, demanded) to be banned, right?) were answers to a few simple questions. As you make clear, though, your mission here doesn't include answering questions or providing information about MoPai or about your "group's" practice of what you know of MoPai. Instead, you are here as part of a recurring membership drive for another forum and to try to get yourself "banned for no reason" because that is part of the MPG mythology. How many weeks is it now???

You weren't around at the time and I doubt you've dug back through old threads to discover this history, but we had a member of the actual MoPai in Indonesia join this forum several years ago for the express purpose of clarifying that the Bum then formerly known as MorePieGuy did not represent the MoPai, that the techniques he was sharing on the Internet were not authentic, that his "teacher" had never been authorized to teach MoPai, and that they would greatly appreciate it if that group would kindly cease & desist. At first, MPG claimed this was proof that his techniques are authentic and that the MoPai was engaging in an elaborate suppression campaign because what he had discovered was so incredible that it couldn't be allowed into mortal hands (or something to that effect). This same logic was used to explain why Kostas, after writing the MPG Bible, abandoned the practice and encouraged others to find something else; Kostas was just trying to divert attention away from the one real, scientifically proven, objectively evidenced system on the planet. Later, perhaps when the continued defense of this line of reasoning was becoming untenable, the mantra changed to something along the lines of "we don't know who that guy really was and he used some word from an American TV show so clearly he was an American who was using an Internet proxy server based in Indonesia to make it seem like he was from Indonesia ("seem to whom?" is an interesting question as Bums don't see IP addresses for other Bums). Obviously, the person couldn't have actually been an Indonesian student of MoPai who heard about the kerfuffle surrounding MoPai on this forum and joined here to ask that it please stop. Instead, it must be an American bent on undermining and attacking MPG and his "group" out of pure anger and hatred. It is all quite reasonable, you see.

Naah, just having a little fun with some old friends!