Green Tiger

Ninja Hit Squads the breakfast cereal!

I think you'll work for our Vampire Special Operations team.

Wait . . . there's a ninja hit squad and I'm not on it? Feeling a little under appreciated right now.

I bought some stuff at Whole Foods last year that worked pretty well. I think it was this stuff. It didn't have any of the side effects of allergy medicine, but I did have to take it several times a day. I've noticed that, if I get a good Tai Chi practice in first thing in the morning and before I go to bed at night, my allergies aren't quite as bad. And I feel that, in general, I haven't been affected quite as severely since I've started practicing. There are still two or three weeks in the spring when I get really itchy and irritated, though. EDIT: I just found the package and it was actually this stuff. Much cheaper. I'm surprised to see that it's homeopathic. I usually don't trust homeopathy, but it seemed to work.

http://rumsoakedfist.org/ is also good.

Have you ever tried to absorb yin qi in space, while wrapped in fiberglass insulation, Ken?

I'm just mad that he misquoted me in his banner. I said I could absorb yin chi in space while wrapped in fiberglass insulation. Maybe that was too long for the banner. The banner is really the only cool thing about the forum. Once he and his fan club are finished attacking people he couldn't attack here and venting about how he got shafted, they won't have anything more to say.

It sounds like it might be an issue with the scapula. I would also recommend yoga and maybe some sort of body work.

Grand Master Wai Lun Choi performing the second half of the Liu Ho Ba Fa main form.

Sounds like a fun trip. Did he perform any sort of healing on you, that you are aware of?

You're right, no human being could stack rocks like this.

April Fools?

Yes! It makes me want to travel more.

Would you believe it if you knew what you were for?

I think I would say it like this: "Effective use of intent in a clinical setting presupposes a relationship with source/the light." Johnson's CMQT book breaks down a process for 'aligning with the light' that seems to be geared toward someone who has not yet developed that relationship. It's a good method that includes a grounding sequence (physical connection to the earth), consecration of the healing space (environmental divine hookup), connecting the spiritual center of the body to the spiritual center of the universe (physical divine hookup), aligning with the light (visual divine hookup), and then invoking the 'Lord' via prayer (verbal divine hookup). It's a bit redundant, but for someone who is not comfortable with it yet, it helps to firmly get them connected with the light. Concerning the purpose of the divine hookup, he says: Previously in the book, he talked more about spiritual insights and divine healing power as it related to diagnosis. He goes on to describe some of the sensory diagnosis methods (looking, listening, touching, smelling, questioning) before discussing the intuitive methods. In order to become capable with intuitive diagnosis, the qigong doctor must, according to Johnson, go through an initiatory process he calls 'the awakening.' Finally, he asserts that being in the right "state of consciousness" is more important than any method when it comes to intuitive diagnosis. He goes on to describe some intuitive methods later in that chapter. TL/DR? Just read the first line of the last quote: "The state of consciousness in which the doctor listens and feels the patient is more important than the technique or modality used." According to Jerry Alan Johnson's book Chinese Medical Qigong Therapy, developing a relationship to source/the light is the single most important requirement for diagnosing and healing a patient. Once you've done that, you become a conduit for source/the light to do its work.

If you say so. I've tried both and I think the same effect can be accomplished with either method.

Ditto. Or I might just do one of these:

I learned healing from another tradition, but I've found that there are a lot of similarities with Johnson's stuff. They actually seem to combine the divine hookup, rooting the light, and invocations into one simple sentence: "May the will of the light be done." While I think it has been a good exercise for me to differentiate them a little more and understand the importance of each individual step and associated goal, I think all three can be accomplished with that one sentence.

The first 8 lines are pretty abstract, but I really like the tree image in 9 and 10.

Yeah, I dig that. He was basically giving a generic template by which to practice. In my personal practice, my divine hookup involves Catholic prayers. I wouldn't necessarily teach it that way, if I were inclined to teach, but they hold personal significance to me, so they are powerful. In his example invocation for the divine hookup, which I did not quote, he uses language that sounds very Christian, but he doesn't ever specifically reference Jesus. My point was to show Flowing Hands that not everything Johnson teaches is Jesus-centric. I think he has a very sophisticated approach. Perhaps I didn't do the best job of illustrating that point.

Well, however we slice it, Flowing Hands was criticizing Johnson for some comment he made about Jesus and waxing all "the tao is emptiness, only emptiness and nothing but emptiness" and basically saying that anything and everything Johnson taught was invalidated by his hangup on Jesus. I was just hazarding a guess that he's admired some sage or other himself. Perhaps even invoked? Canoodled with? I dunno. There's more than one version of the 1-10 meditation? I was not aware of that. I think I only know the basic 1-10 meditation. What book are the others in?

I already have his original Chinese Medical Qigong Therapy text and also The Essence of Internal Martial Arts volumes 1 and 2. For my purposes, I think that's all I need so far as his books are concerned. Which volume contains the info on mantra and mudra? I'd have to take a look at the CMQT book I have, but I don't remember any chapters on mantra or mudra. There were chapters covering Dao Yin postural training and healing sounds, is that what you're talking about? I would agree that the Dao Yin training sections from CMQT would be good for people to start with. I'm not sure which volume of his new medical qigong books contain that info.

Yeah, I just looked at the website in his signature. Something tells me I didn't miss much. I think it helps to be more familiar with Jerry's larger body of work before making assumptions about his beliefs. For instance, in Jerry's medical qigong text he describes a preparatory step he calls the 'divine hookup'. At that point the medical qigong practitioner is instructed to link up with the "divine" or "divine healing light." Not with Jesus, mind, but with a more ambiguous concept of divinity.

I definitely think it'd be up your alley, SotG. You might want to clear your schedule for a few weeks if you buy it, though.

You call yourself a shaman. Have you ever invoked a spirit? Called upon a deity?