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Hi, each country has its own laws... sometimes in one country from place to place things can rang from being fully allowed to: two steps in prison. Always best to consult a lawyer of you country who knows the particulars in your case. In Germany even ghost healing is okay to do AS LONG as you don't claim to be healing. People can sell what they do as spiritual counselling or similar... as they earn money with that they have to be known to the finance beaurau... usually those people do a contract with you, in which they declare what they don'T do and that you know what you are getting as treatment. in the US hands on healing and stuff like that: in most parts of the country you need some kind of licence. You can do stuff as a massage therapist but again (as far as I know) can't talk about doing healing of illness. Another option would be to get a licence as a "priest" of whatever religious organization, in order to do it. hope that helps Harry

Meditation or not. If you don't follow their way you are lost anyway.... so why bother? Harry

As a link this one sure is good: http://eng.taoism.org.hk/ http://eng.taoism.org.hk/general-daoism/default.htm thankx for investing your time Harry

Indeed he did... just a completely different context though for me too... and still: a lot of what you read today and will read tomorrow will be a repitition of what we had to say yesterday and the day before... that is the reason some friends after having talked a lot justr play chess or Tai Chi Push hands without talking... Well. This is a much better progression compared to those who just chime in and are smart asses right away... but okay: they likely had their progression ahead in a different forum... What is a "better" taobum? for me it is the progression from "bumhopper to smart ass to humbleness" still in the training Harry

COME ON!!! This is nuts...!!! I actually figured it out a long long time ago!!! None of them is really real... Sean, Cameron and Yoda are just regularly meeting on an Island to write phantasy stories... and all the above are inventions of their weird wicket brains!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - for you to enjoy! So enjoy. Just joking am on apple juice dealing with Gall Stones... please excuse Harry

Actually, my friend, to me it looks like an opposite kind of development. Many actually chose a teacher and decided to spend their time more with study without necessary interest in discussing things. Others chose their teacher and left for their forum. All these controversial discussions might have been interesting, but did they lead anywhere? I think each of us runs into a plateau one day where we talked what we talked and thought what we had to think. While the universe may be infinite our thoughts regarding certain things do have the tendency to run in circles infinitely, but not to grow that way to enhance discussions. So either one is repeating oneself over and over again, without realizing it, being sick of it or enjoying the small talk... do I walk in circles? I do. Harry

One question missing I feel: Should I believe it if indeed I see it?

So. What do you think? "Oh no. Another Max thread..." "Harry writing about Max. This hardcore David-cultist can't be writing anything good..." "Has Harry converted???" So. I am just back from a lecture in Bonn/Germany. I had the chance to meet Jan which was great and I had a chance to listen to Max. No. I won't be changing teachers. I am interested in Kunlun but will have to wait if there will be a stage in my practice were I get permission to try it... if "combinable"... What I want to share is something different. Recently I was to a TCM congress in Germany and Dr. Tan a famous acupuncturist from San Diego was teaching his balance method. Many like him but quite a few deslike him for his showman-kind of way always pointing out the money aspect. I fellow student of mine was curious but also prewarned and "handicapped" in his judgement... later in the break he came to me and said: "I love that guy. You know. there was one moment I knew he is not a showman and just out for the money. He was standing there talking, shaking back and forth and waving his hand in a childlike manner. I have seen the child in him. He IS a big child. I love that man." You can think about Kunlun what you want, you can consider Max's talk bullshit and other things... but I tell you one thing. This man has a big childlike quality, he is warm-hearted and should be checked out by anyone looking for a teacher. No. I can't tell you if Kunlun is the "real thing". I can't tell you if it is a "right or a wrong" path, I can't tell you where it leads... but I CAN tell you this guy should not be judged by all you have read. You've got to meet him and see for yourself. Why I don't pick up the practice? I am happy with mine enjoy a great weekend Harry

Indeed. The Niagara falls itself are worth a visit... but while I had trouble feeling the tree Qi it was much easier with the falls for me. Everybody getting there should try some special sort of sensing and feeling not just watching with smiles Harry

Was good to meet you, Gloria and Michael just want to say that it would be great if anyone with the capabilities, capacities and contacts in Europe would be interested in organizing workshops with Michael. If you go and meet him it is best not to have any preconceived ideas about what a teacher should look or be like... Michael is an amazingly cool guy Harry

You should!

Same with me the time it happened... still thinking

Must have been somewhere 1994 as a sociology prof. pointed out that others do not necessarily want to be treated by you the same way you'd love to be treated by them" (learned that lesson several times myself)... so if you take into the formula: "treat others the way they'd like to be treated" and get a proper mixture out of it... then it could be you are on the right track... This too shall pass is a nice one though... tough still if one is in the middle of it. Harry

It doesn't necessarily make things easier but it might be helpful or at least interesting for some: http://www.elcollie.com/st/st.html

http://www.clarity-of-being.org/

If you don't mind... have you ever actually stated the same above words somewhere else already about him? Not that I am paranoid (although I might get it)... but actually he cites these exact same words on his webpage... so it could be you adopted them from there? Or he is actually a member of this forum? You would just help me get my thoughts straight. I feel a little bit weird anyway right now and could need some true grounding... "Scotty": I understand your disappointment. I was and am wondering about this myself... although for several reasons not too much. What hits me most in the moment is that it could indeed be true that ALL of our thoughts about enlightenment, ascension, energy, karma etc.... is actually creating "manifest" but still illusionary worlds of their own... with every thought-input from our side we establish worlds we indeed might move towards to, but away from true realization. just some thoughts Harry

So far I stayed out of all of that... but let me say one thing at this point in time: do yourself a favor and just go for it without looking for an excuse. Really. I have my trouble with Mr. Mak Tin Si, but hey: seemingly he has helped people already. The idea of "karma" & "karmic outcome" is not a new one and belongs to his tradition. It counts for you as well as me as well as anyone else. I have done things wrong in earlier life times so I have to reap the benefits of it now. No excuses. Go for it and hope it helps, honestly! sincerely Harry

For all those interested in learning point location: http://www.silencespeaks.co.uk/index.php?m...;products_id=17 as well as the latest Deadman Manual on DVD... it has video clips showing location and way one would needle the points... both highly recommended keep in mind though that some acupuncture schools just consider these locations anatomical locations but say that those would be like on an healthy body... with illness the meridians might change their pathway... still. With acupressure one should always get the area with smiles Harry

So. To me the belly breathing aspect is difficult as well. I assume I need some deep tissue massage here in order to loosen it all up... due to the Gallbladder Stones there's been a chronic inflammation going on with all the internal results one can have... stiffening of diaphragm, shoulder tenseion etc. So. If there is a physical issue that makes the breathing hard to do that got to be worked on first. Then. It was said that the awakening of Kundalini will actually start with the last seminar been taken. From then on count up to 90 days? or more... There are a few things going on... but I can't really share what it is, as I don't know what it is. My "weirdest" experience was that I was missing about every "transmission" / energy clearing session. Either I woke up too late at night, or my computer went off and I feel asleep not realizing it or or or... One time I jumped up 5 minutes before the session ended, locked in, Tao sent a short message I shall play a song on youtube... found the song but did not hear a sound (as the session finished I realized a headphone was plugged in) and while messing around with the computer I still clearly felt some energy like feeling doing something in my head... this likely was no placebo as I was not in any kind of ceoncentration, meditative like or whatever focus or position. another session I did not feel much so. Continue to practice each day and clearly feel some kind of warm-like current in the MCO pathway... whatever that means then with smiles Harry

Hi Michael, thankx for the response to my PM. While you say that even the Gift of the Tao Form has to be experienced instead of things being described by words... if you don't mind it would be nice to get a little info on what the practice main focus is. Harry

Thankx so far to those responding to the Kundalini & Lucifer Thread... So: Djwal Kuhl seems to be utilized by several people as an Ascended Master whom they claim to be in communication with... in the medical community aside from Serge, who is claiming to know the true energetic principles in acupunctire based on esoteric law, there is Mikio Sankey http://esotericacupuncture.blogspot.com/ I don't know if Serge and Mikio are in any way related to each other (haven't ask and for now don'T think so)... but I am curious: is anyone familiar with this Djwal Kuhl, knows Esoteric Acupuncture etc. I would fear to use these Esoteric Patterns if there are any good reasons not to utilize those there was an argument in the other thread that claiming the ways of Islam, Hermetics etc. are not true is futile... that might be true, but isnt it true as well that many claim that the "New era" can't actually rely on the teachings of old, as the energetic laws on earth change? just wondering thankx in advance Harry