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Thank you Trunk. I've been following the videos from Dragongate on youtube for a while and am always impressed by the quality of movement, fullness and energy that both Sifu Chritopher and Sifu Ray demonstrate. While I'm not a Bagua player, I've found a lot of the drills and training to be helpful in my regular martial and energetic practice. Looks like I'll be adding a new dvd to my library. : )

Trunk, Where did you find the Heart of Bagua dvd?

Hayes goes into depth talking about the mind / emotion state that each seal embodies. I have an affinity to the budo ryu that he represents, so his explanations resonate deeply with me. Hayes conveys the total being posture that you encode or summon with the kuji and there is an authenticity to what he is teaching.

I have my copy pulled down and am loving it. This product has more detail on the exercises and the reasons behind them than other RMAX products of the past. Just sampling the exercises has already helped me identify some weaknesses in my movement chain.

After trying the sample workout they posted I'm looking forward to the full package.

Stephen Hayes has put out some excellent dvds on Kuji. http://www.skhquest.com/store/index.php?ac...Cat&catId=2 (scroll down towards the bottom of the page.)

Excellent reminder about the petty tyrant. One of the few reasons I still come to TTB is because for me its filled with petty tyrants. My reactions to their posts or threads is what is interesting to me. Lots of grist for the mill. I don't think that the caustic or combative posts here are done in the spirit of crazy wisdom, but instead are just the display of each persons own conditioning and kleshas.

Thanks Susan. I'm always cautious, especially on TTB, taking any advice from the net without knowing qualifications. Considering the tone of this thread I was doubly cautious. Thanks Songs for the info. This gives me some new insight.

What are you medical qualifications? The whole blood clot issue has been something I've been curious about. I know shaktimama is a R.N. with training and experience. Please post your qualifications as an M.D. or other medical professional.

.. sorry, double post

I think that we can say that any post in this thread is going to be rather useless at this point. We now even have sock puppets being created, blazingfire??, to spread more negativity. KAP tribe, just drop this one. Nothing said in this thread is going to have much value at this point, unless you like burning energy to no value. If you feel a real need to post, do some of the healing or tong lin practices Santi and Tao have shared instead. That will have more of a positive effect than posting.

That Guy, what is your problem? Maybe check out the Insult Policy reminder on the front page. How is this at all useful?

Excellent! I've had a few darkfield sessions but we currently have no practitioners in our area. Again, great research.

sheng zhen I applaud your approach. Excellent research! Are you using a standard microscope or a dark field scope?

Its odd. Every time a practice/class/teacher comes along that someone here at TTB finds useful, there are a boat load of folks who jump out of the wood work to tear it down. Now, why would anyone take the advice of an anonymous coward whose contribution is only there to tear something down. Why would anyone take the advice of an anonymous coward at all when it comes to their spiritual development? KAPReview offered a decent OPINION in which an attempt was made to be balanced. Others offered positive OPINIONs, which are just as useful. In the end they are just OPINIONs and your mileage may vary with any teacher. Bottom line is what does your heart say? If you have real reservations, don't take the class or avoid the teacher. You don't deserve anything. No one is that important. The teachers don't need you. They have nothing to prove to you. You don't DESERVE free teachings. If your heart says DO IT, then do it. Take the class, practice the technique, embrace the teacher. Practice the technique or lineage in depth. Ask lots of questions. Then and only then can YOU decide if its right for YOU. If you are too simple to make up your own mind without having a bunch of anonymous trolls give you opinions, well then in my OPINION, maybe you should work on your mundane personality issues before trying any work on yourself.

I'm a member of that group. The article is interesting if you're into the life of Bardon. If you are interested in Bardon I do recommend joining the group. The content is usually interesting and its the best place I've found to get a heads up on Rawn Clark's lectures done in Second Life.

I would agree. Runyon's system is based in the goetia and the preparations to get there. Otherwise its very similar to Golden Dawn and its variants. Bardon's system is grounded in the work done in IIH. To quote from William Mistele's excellent series on Bardon basic training (ref. link): This is very different from my experience with Golden Dawn variants and Goetic focussed work. Also, the spirits one encounters in Bardon's system of Evocation are different from those of the traditional Goetia. Anyway, regardless of path and background, IIH is an excellent program for establishing a amazing foundation for work in any system.

The mirrors are part of step one. Basically you are examining yourself and breaking it down into positive and negative qualities in you journal (magickal diary). You then assign them to elements. You can use the other techniques in Step 1 to work your way through them. EFT and PEAT are energy psychology techniques to work out issues. I've used them, along with the other Step 1 techniques, to work out a lot of black mirror stuff and install positive attributes. The mirrors help keep ego inflation in check. Thats why, IMHO, it is one of the more important exercises to keep up with across ALL stages in IIH.

IIH is a solid foundation for any path. One of the biggest mistakes folks make is not spending enough time on the B & W psychic mirrors exercise. Dig into in depth and do it more than once. I've found EFT & PEAT to work well with it once you've really built the mirrors. There are a couple of guides floating around the help guide you through IIH. Once by Rawn Clark and the other by William Mistele.

Why? My curiosity is as great as anyone's, but to what end?

I watched the entire series with my daughter. It led to some great discussions about chi and chakras. I wish I had a show that talked about chakras when I was 11.

Congratulations, the site looks very nice!

Has anyone read the insult policy reminder that Sean posted?

Thanks for posting this sykkelpump!

By the way, an interesting book about one man's experience in the Work is: On a Spaceship with Beelzebub: By a Grandson of Gurdjieff by David Kherdian.