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Which means they were not dead, "clinically dead" does not mean anything. Have you ever heard of a "vegetative state"? Do you know what vegetative nervous system is? Do you know where the "vegetative" word comes from? From "vegetable". Are your vegetables in your fridge dead or alive? What do you think, do they dream? Do they think? They think they are dead or alive?

They all have one thing in common. People who told the stories were all alive.

This is another interesting article about opiates that replace and disrupt the neurotransmitters in the brain: https://www.opiate-freedom-center.com/opioid-addiction-naturally-increase-your-bodies-endorphins-serotonin/

This link is a gold nugget: http://advancedpsychcare.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/braverman.test.pdf I used to associate Fire with dopamine and Water with serotonin by my own research on this subject and couldn't find yet an explanation for Wood/Wind and Metal/Earth, but now it makes a lot of sense to associate Wood/Wind with Acetylcholine and Metal/Earth with GABA.

This is not true, more and more evidence is found that the consciousness is generated by the brain, there is no such a thing as consciousness outside the brain. As soon as the brain cease to function the consciousness is gone. This is why you loose consciousness under anesthesia or if you get a blow on your head. OBE and NDE are not an argument for the "consciousness outside the brain/body" concept. OBE and NDE can be explained as brain generated "experiences". This talk is really interesting about how the brain works:

First of all just because someone says it's not Kundalni, does not mean anything. All systems use sexual energy and sexual energy is Kundalini. It does not matter if the sexual energy goes bottom up or top down, it is the same energy, same hormones. Maybe not quite same, because testosteron is made in testes, but dopamine is made in the brain, serotonine is made in the guts, noradrenaline is made in the adrenals, so no matter what system you use you still need all these ingredients in all places of the body and you need to mix them. In my experience Kunlun is both Water-Fire or Kan-Li fusion and yes, it is the fusion in the central channel at the heart level. Is not at the heart, is just that the hormonal soup is so concentrated that the emotions become very intense, which feels like you are in love permanently, your heart is open constantly. And this is not necessarily a good thing, you may be taken for granted and exploited by other people. But in terms of the practice it does not matter if you do microcosmic orbit or central channel or any other practice, what matters is If you make an energetic movement very fast, like uncontrolled shaking, that is the Fire effect, too much dopamine, the dopamine wears down and drops down and you start shaking. If the energetic movement is slow like a small water string, then the feeling is like water, it is a Water effect. But that depends on you, how you use the system or the exercise, not on what the master is saying. Some people have more Water in their bodies some have more Fire, it is your job to do the adjustments and achieve the optimum balance.

The problem with all these medicines (Accupuncture, TCM, Western, Ayurveda, Naturopathy) they are suffocated by their own dogma, they don't want to change their paradigms. For example the "ancients" had no concept of viruses, bacteria and fungi, for them they were "bad smells". Nowadays they started to study the antiviral, antibacterial and antifungical properties of traditional herbs. Another example is the concept of "Qi" that is translated as "energy". This is a really confusing concept, I would personally translate as "(bio)chemical reaction". So all these concepts have to overlap and become common in a single medicine, the Human Medicine. When TCM will fusion with the German New Medicine, then it will be a huge step for humanity.

Fear is always fear of the unknown. To know something needs to face the fear and experience that something. Then based on the experience you learn a lesson, but just one experience is not sufficient, you need to build a database of experiences to find trends, causes and effects. Now you start to know, and based on this knowledge you can control the outcome of experiences. All our fears are programs encoded in our DNA from our ancestors experiences which are our instincts. Somebody may say the fears are engrames in our souls from previous lives, but in my opinion the DNA model is much more realistic. All fears are mechanisms designed to keep you alive, to survive. For example fear of not being included in a group comes from the dificulty of survival in wilderness alone, so the fear of loneliness is ultimately also a fear of death. But true fearlessness, there is no such a thing unless you invent a religion. People invent stories about afterlife, immortality, reincarnation, elightment, oneness, nonduality, universal consciousness etc. Just because of their own fear of death. So this is the solution, just build an imaginary world with lots of meanings and the fear of death will be gone.

Books of Mantak Chia are very good about this, the best energetic anatomy you can find. http://www.universal-tao-eproducts.com/catalog/index.php/cPath/2/sort/3a/page/1

I say "correctly" means in a certain quantity not necessarily quality. Quality of exercises is important but most teachers nowadays say: "The more practice the better", but this is wrong because many people experience adverse effects from practicing. Anything in excess is harmful, you have to know when to stop and do the exact opposite of those particular exercises. Just because some people go well with some exercises does not mean that for you or for other people are well suited. In my opinion most Qi-Gong exercises are designed to "open channels". This means they activate the Wind/Wood element and Space element, which is not bad per se, but this is recommended for people with too much Earth element in their bodies, people with Kapha dosha as per Ayurveda Wind/Wood is the element that balances the Earth. For people with Vata dosha which have already too much Wind in their bodies and which they naturally have the channels opened, those Qi-Gong exercises will aggravate the imbalance, those people need to do exactly the opposite, to activate and cultivate the Earth element to balance the Wind/Wood element. There are others QiGong exercises which activate the Fire element or Water element. The same principle applies here, people with Fire element need Water type of exercises and people with Water element need Fire type of exercises. Each exercise has a specific purpose and is designed for a specific type of person. This is the reason why not everything works for everybody. And even if it works, does not work in the same quantities, each person has different quantities of elements and imbalances in their bodies so you have to "not follow the instructions" and listen to your body what it tells you, if it is right or wrong.

I don't know, maybe he just replenished his jing with the Qi Gong practice. Check this video at min 3:45, they say the root remains alive and in certain conditions it grows back

"On this last point, in case of magic, from which we can expect tangible results, there exists a very large number of spells and rituals to gain money, to get sex, to curse, to find buried treasures, etc... Of course, they were created as an answer to a demand, and some people cast spell after spell, and perform rituals after ritual without success." So this means that in this case is applied the law of statistics: if you repeat something in a very large number, then the phenomenon that you seek, even with a very low probability to happen, it will happen eventually. But again just because this is how statistics work.

It's not genetics it's hormonal, which means is due to epigenetics - depends on the environment and the reaction of the organism to environment (food, stress, hormones) . But it's not high testosterone, it's the ratio between testosterone and estrogens. https://perfecthairhealth.com/men-stop-thinking-your-hair-loss-is-due-to-high-testosterone/ Testosterone has two transformations, through aromatase becomes estrogen, through 5alpha reductase becomes DHT. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dihydrotestosterone DHT is the culprit for male baldness and the cause is what your body produces more, either aromatase or 5alpha reductase. So basically if you inhibit one or the other you can change the balance of testosterone/estrogen: http://anabolicapex.com/2016/05/28/inhibit-aromatase-naturally/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5-alpha-reductase_inhibitor#Herbs_and_other_inhibitors These enzymes are produced in gonads and adrenals so this is the Kidney element in TCM, but I think Liver is involved in this too. Like for example norepinephrine(noradrenaline) stimulates aromatase and inhibits 5alpha-reductase and epinephrine(adrenaline) stimulates aromatase too. So the reason why you have baldness or whitening of the hair is in the way adrenals function, which hormones they produce and in which quantities. But it depends also on meridians how active they are, there are the Urinary Bladder and Gall Bladder meridians that go from back up to scalp. So I think the baldness pattern is determined by which meridian is more active. The baldness almost always is associated with body hair especially in those areas where Liver-Kidney meridians are on the chest and the Gall-Bladder and Urinary Bladder meridians on the back. There is a baldness pattern that is called "gall bladder baldness" because is due to the gall bladder meridian that runs through the scalp and brings all the hormones from down under, but there are more baldness patterns so I believe the UB meridian is involved too and probably the Governor/Conception Channel too, and the combinations of those meridians give the specific pattern. The baldness in women I believe is the same cause testosterone/estrogen ratio, but also I believe is caused by food. For example I've seen lots of East Indian women with baldness and the reason is that they use spices in their traditional food like black pepper, curry(turmeric) and fenugreek. I have seen Asians women too with these kind of baldness but less than Indians, and the least I've seen are Caucasians and I believe this is because the dietary choices they have. Turmeric is known as an 5alpha reductase inhibitor while fenugreek is an aromatase inhibitor. And I am sure the other spices have similar action but probably were not studied yet. The thing is that an inhibitor for one works as well for the other too so probably the mechanisms are more complex but there is for sure a correlation here. http://www.besttestosteroneboosterguide.com/ingredients/fenugreek/ The way I see it, hot/warming spices activate the metabolic Fire (Agni) and as the fire has the bad habit to rise up it goes up to the scalp and burns the trees that grow on the top of Kunlun mountains (Kunlun mountains is a metaphor for the cranial bones and the hair is considered the Wood element that needs Water to thrive, if the Water dries, the Wood withers). No, once the hair root is gone is gone. You can revert white hair to black hair (there are many Ayurvedic recipes with Turmeric leaves and Amla, and the TCM famous one He Shou Wu) but baldness can be reverted back only through hair implant, one hair at a time. But if you have the same hormonal profile it will fall too, so after hair implant you have to change the dietary practices accordingly. https://perfecthairhealth.com/why-are-hair-growth-drugs-so-ineffective/

It is the effect of serotonin that makes you sleepy and fuzzy. Negative ions boost the serotonin and even when serotonin is ionized it can penetrate the blood brain barrier so it is a natural and beneficial effect. But too much serotonin is not good too so try to find a balance in the way you feel and how much ions you breathe.

Every herbal medicine has in various quantities sacharides, saponins, turpentines and turpenes and many other chemicals. Saponins and saccharides are soluble in water. Turpentines and Terpenes are soluble in alcohol. It depends what are the active ingredients that you want but usually, a tea concoction, a tincture or an essential oil keeps only a part of what the herb has to offer. So best is to eat it raw or cooked whole as it is including the fiber, unless you know exactly what you do and which active substance you want to ingest and which you don't want. There is no "best absorbtion", the body will take what it needs and reject what it does not, exception being allergic reactions to some undesirable substances that the herb has and the body's immune system does not want it.

http://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/migraine/serotonin.php http://mentalhealthdaily.com/2015/05/06/how-to-increase-serotonin-levels/

I think the mushroom messed up your serotonin cycle. It would be interesting for you to read this: http://www.antidepressantsfacts.com/pinealstory.htm http://www.antidepressantsfacts.com/pinealstory2.htm I don't know where I read (I can't find that link anymore) that bufotenin is triggering nightmares, versus DMT that is triggering lucid dreams, so it is possible that in your brain chemistry that melatonin or serotonin to be converted into bufotenin instead of DMT.

Thank you UFA for the explanation. This is what I knew and I agree with you. The problem is with those finer bodies that you refer to in the Hermetic theory (which I know about them because I studied extensively the subject over years). I tend to believe that as soon as the body that provides energy to them like a power-plant cease to function, then those bodies dissolve too. So probably there is a point in the reincarnation belief, but there are two contradictory beliefs: One that says everybody reincarnates and your mission is to escape reincarnation, to put an effort and stop this cycle due to inertia. The other is that nobody really reincarnates and if you really want to reincarnate you have to put an effort to build those finer bodies so that when your physical body dies they survive for a while on the energy you gather until you find another body that you inhabit and continue another life in the new body and you continue the cycle endlessly. Which one of the two beliefs do you think is true? It can be only one true and the other false. Or both of them are false because they can't be both true.

No, I don't do meditation anymore but I lay on the couch or do some exercises in the morning when the ionizer is running and everything is fine for now. I think you were right, the adverse effects of the ionizer I had before were because of the ozone, not because of the negative ions. But also the quality of air is different here in Vancouver than back in the days when I lived in Montreal. In Montreal the air was so bad in the summer that I was waking up choking from smog while I was sleeping at night.

Oh I see what you mean, I am in the "Esoteric and Occult discussion" board. I was just trying to find an answer to Steve's question. Actually if you explain to me how the information is stored and carried forward in a reincarnation and what is the purpose of that information, then you will convert me back to spiritualism.

He is just using a metaphor, don't take it literally. What he wants to say is that if there is ever a God then this God is just pure numbers and mathematics nothing more nothing less. Wuji -> Taiji -> Yin-Yang -> Trigrams -> Hexagrams -> 10000 things Leibnitz invented the binary numbers from the trigrams and hexagrams of Yi Jing. Now the whole internet and calculations of computers, a whole universe is built only on these binary numbers.

I am here since 2007 and I was a spiritualist but I changed my mind in the meantime. I was one of the first users who introduced this forum to the books of Eva Wong on Taoist Neidan. And Taoism does not endorse spiritualism and does not refute materialism. Taoism is both in the same time.

Ozone is a toxic gas, it is good to be high up in the atmosphere because it protects us from solar radiation, but lower atmospheric ozone is undesirable for breathing. http://www.allergyclean.com/problems-with-ozone-generators-and-ionizers-that-produce-ozone/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozone

The spirit of Jesus or the spirit of Buddha lives in our minds, because we carry forward to the future generations the stories of them but with each generation there is a mutation in the story which makes that at some point in the future they will be so different than the original content that will be unrecognizable. The evolution plays in the spirit realm too.