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What stretches exactly do you do? It's very interesting, because I've had quite a similar experience as you. I also have a regular stretching routine, may have gotten a spiritual download recently, and just unintentionally experienced my first dry orgasm, too! (In addition, I think my ballsy & relentless TRUTH WORK led me closer to, well, THE TRUTH!!!) Anyways, this happened during a "wet" dream...except it was totally dry and I didn't "lose the alchemical pill" (at least not physically) as drewhempel would say, lol. And similar to you, it involved NO retention, resistance, withholding, delaying, forcing, or edging, whatsoever! I totally let go in the dream and yet when I woke up, I was totally dry! That was the weirdest aspect, because a lot of the "training" for this tends to involve a lot of willful retention. Whereas in my case, I was allowing more of the opposite and was in fact, shocked, when I had no mess to clean up upon waking, lol! I mean, if I had not been able to physically check...I would have assumed that I had indeed shot my full load. I'll spare all the graphic details too...but I could also see how this could easily allow multiple male orgasms without ejaculation. But at this point, I don't know if this will happen again, intentionally or not? What about you? Can you choose to do this consistently at will now?

I see you as a young guy. Smart enough to disguise there depression and angst as 'Matrix is real' philosophy. Which has been done for ages, though before sci fy it was Mara. Maybe I post too much but part of that is to lead an examined life. How to make it better, exploring ideas. Figuring out what works.. leaving bread crumbs for myself. You dismiss my posts angrily without answering the question 'How do you think you get out of hell?' Its an important question that you shouldn't ignore. As a kid, maybe between 5 to 7 there was a period where I considered I was the only one in existence and the powers that be were watching my moves. Some variation of that is probably not too uncommon. Maybe even more so with the generation after the Matrix. As an adult how I've melded that into my life is one section of my blog. Life as Dream section. Which explored the Dream author Moss's theme of taking dreams more seriously, and life less seriously or rather see life from a dream perspective, ie looking at life more symbolically. Seeking out synchronicities. Getting a little more shamanic with life, looking for the messages the universe is giving you. Not the extreme of 'its all illusion' but looking closely and thinking how external things can be sending you messages. Its a practice not only shamanic but probably religious people do more.. the looking for signs. I'm not to active with that concept anymore but its a good practice. Might create a good midpoint between Matrix thinking and reality.

A nation needs boarders. And rules for immigration, citizenship and entry. Compassion's needed too. We are a nation of immigrants, and a nation of hypocrites. Immigrants (legal and illegal) pick our food, mow our lawns, build our buildings, take care of our elderly. We need them, for there work and there future taxes.. and there vitality; they tend to be better at the American dream, then the average American. So I'm willing to be a hypocrite to make illegal immigration hard, but not impossible or deadly.. Build fencing, but also allow in more legal immigrants, perhaps a new tier of short term status. Create a computer check in/probation program; saying where you are, what you're doing. For those doing well, a path to citizenship. For those not.. short term is short term. A real solution has to holistic. Covering what they need and what we need. Intelligence and compassion. Imperfect but not mass criminalizing. Part of that may be economic partnerships. Government and Business seeing what can be grown and built better over there. How those profits can be used and expanded to create better conditions so there's less need to risk everything to come to the U.S. Hard but worthwhile. We are too wealthy and need to be too good to allow our neighbors to live in hopeless dystopia. For there sake and ours. It won't happen overnight, it won't be perfect, but a long term plan can be made, without vilification or too much injustice and we can find a sweet spot where the most people will benefit.

Thanks Walker for all this information. To become a 居士/ 道教徒 is there a formal initiation of any kind, as with the Buddhist Three Refuges/ five vows ceremony? Also, I'm wondering if you read the book Dream Trippers and particularly the chapter on Dr. Louis Komjathy, who seems to have spent serious time in Quanzhen monasteries, and is quite scrupulous/ respectful with regards to the formal structure of Quanzhen, but whose master Chen Yuming (陳宇明) initiated him (he believes as a daoshi) in a rather informal way. This apparently bothered Komjathy enough that he pressed Master Chen for some kind of certification, to which Chen replied that the public ceremonies and certificates were useless with all the fraud and simony going on in China. Chen also dismissed the title "daoshi" as an empty formality which has more to do with government recognition than a real transmission. I assume Master Chen's view is definitely in the minority- and I am not bringing it up here to establish or prove anything contrary to what you said above- but he does seem to be well respected on Hua Shan even after he left monastic life.

Colloquially in Chinese-speaking communities, daoshi and daozhang are often used quite interchangeably by the non-cognoscenti to refer to religious Daoists of Quanzhen, Zhengyi, and other orders who have been, in some way, shape, or form ordained. It can also be shorthand for "有道之士," or "an individual who has Dao," but that is not common to hear outside of literati circles and is separate from the discussion of people claiming to have formal roles in religious groups. When you speak to people who are "in the door," so to speak, these terms take on different meaning. In Zhengyi Daoism, there is a question of rank that differentiates daoshi from daozhang. A daoshi refers to a formally inducted Zhengyi Daoist at the beginning of his or her studies and clerical responsibilities. If his/her religious career advances he or she may become a daozhang, which means taking a more central role in rituals and, therefore, having much more knowledge of the liturgy, which is extremely complex and involves huge amounts of memorized text, stepping, music, visualization, and more. It is impossible to describe how complex a real Zhengyi ritual is to witness in person, but it is staggering. Needless to say, daoshi are many and daozhang are few in Zhengyi Daoism. Also, note that the character 長/zhang in this word here carries the connotation of "elder," similar to how it is used in words like "長輩/zhangbei/elders" or "學長/elder student in the same school," or "長老/zhanglao/elder [Buddhist monk]." in Quanzhen Daoism, daozhang and daoshi are used more interchangeably, but only to refer to those disciples of the Quanzhen order who have become monks or nuns, and never to describe lay disciples. There are higher ranks for monks/nuns in Quanzhen Daoism... One of them, 律師/lvshi, which is extremely important to understand here, I discuss below. Over the years I've met a lot of Wang Liping students and fans in China, for example, but not once did any of them ever call him a "daoshi" or "daozhang." I know a lot of Quanzhen lay disciples who have teachers who are monks or nuns, and they call themselves and each other 居士/jushi/from the Buddhist Sanskrit term "upāsaka/upāsikā;"俗家弟子/sujia dizi/"layperson disciple;" or simply 道教徒/daojiao tu/"disciple of Daoism." If there is similarity, it is probably unfortunate. Rinaldini's own website admits to an extremely short amount of time spent in China, most of it with the qigong master Wan Sujian, who although a remarkable man, is not and never was a Longmen daozhang. To be truly capable of serving as a Quanzhen monk or nun takes years of study, practice, training, and (often) wandering for a native speaker in a temple in China with living teachers. Rinaldini did not put in the time, and showing how far he has fallen from the mark, the bulk of his curriculum is Wan Sujian circle walking qigong and TCM, which are not important concerns for Quanzhen clergy. Can he even read classical Chinese? Can he hold a conversation about Daoism in modern Chinese with his teachers? (Those who see Rinaldini's bio and notice his claim to have been inducted as priests by a couple of Daoist monks should review my above posts in this thread about monks fucking watermelons and mistresses inside of White Cloud Monastery. The situation in China is a mess, and the selling of all kinds of ordination certificates to Westerners as well as other Chinese people is a major problem and has been basically ever since cutthroat capitalism-plus-spiritual-tourism took hold in the PRC in the early 1980s) I know nothing about them. However, when I have heard similar phenomena discussed by those who truly respect the traditional, orthodox teachings of the Dragon Gate, when similar things come up, they are usually called "incomplete transition," or else less polite terms. This may be related: in Taiwan there are "Quanzhen" groups that claim to have been connected to the lineage through spiritual events. The most interesting thing, to me, is that over time many in these groups have recognized that the transmission was incomplete, and a significant number of such practitioners are spending time in China to learn the old-fashioned way, human-to-human. There is even a group in Taiwan attempting to establish a strict Quanzhen monastery in the center of the island, and one of their explicitly stated motivations is the fact that the Quanzhen order has failed to produce outstanding leaders in a very long time, in no small part due to the chaos ("亂/luan," a character used to discuss Daoism's present state quite often in China as well as Taiwan by actual monks and nuns) that currently reigns. Of great relevance to this discussion is that the formal, ritual transmission of vows (傳戒/chuanjie) plays a central role in this movement in Taiwan. I say this having personally attended (but not received vows during) such a ritual in Taipei. They are taken extremely seriously and have been for long centuries, as I will emphasize below. No. As I said before in this thread, 火居/huoju/"living near the hearth [i.e., in a family at home]" roles for Daoists are not a part of Quanzhen Daoism, despite what a few Americans who spent a shockingly short amount time in China and would like to sell you robes and diplomas might have you believe. This nomenclature does not come from Quanzhen Daoism. There is no "priest/monk" distinction in China in the Quanzhen, and no Chinese words that translate into priest or monk to describe different roles for people in the Quanzhen order. It is ironic that Taomeow brought up the Daozang Xubian to suggest that in the era of its publication the Quanzhen movement slackened in some way to make way for lay "priests," and that Nathan then said her mention of this body of texts was "spot on." I would be shocked if either of them have read it. Part of the reason I asked if Nathan had actually read it--and which authors he thought backed up his and his teachers' claims--is because the primary force behind this project was a Daoist named Min Yide 閔一得. The crux of the irony lies in the fact that one of Min Yide's important works, 《金蓋心燈》(Jin'gai Xindeng or, roughly Jin'gai [Mountain] Heart Lamp) is a book in which great effort is expended to trace and document the lineages as well as primacy of a rank of Quanzhen Daoist called "律師/lvshi/roughly, "stricture master"), who were monks who were often abbots of Longmen temples, in particular because they were those who had thorough education in and ability to transmit all of the monastic vows and strictures, which, as I have said and this article makes so clear, included celibacy and many other rules. Once you get to page 10 of this scanned copy of 《金蓋心燈》, if you can read Chinese you can see that Min Yide began tracing the transmission of Dragon Gate teachings almost entirely through its important lvshi. Lvshi is a term that comes from Buddhism, where it means "vinaya master" (vinaya being the Sanskrit term for the monastic code). The Daoist implications are exactly the same, although one would not use the word "vinaya" to describe Quanzhen monastic rules, which although related to Buddhism's, are not the same. The role of the lvshi in the Quanzhen monastic tradition cannot be overstated, because the monastic strictures are the backbone of monastic living as well as the cultivation of 德/De, and only lvshi can transmit the full array of vows. The video below shows how massive, austere, and beautiful a vow-transmission (傳戒/chuanjie) ritual is in Quanzhen Daoism. This is not "wham, bam, PayPal'ed your tuition, took your webinars, came on your China Dream Trips, here's your certificate" transmission. Rather, this is a massive undertaking that only takes place every few years, because only a small number of Quanzhen Daoists are fully qualified as lvshi (the event shown here, which took place in 1995, was only the second such ritual held after 1949!). Monks and nuns travel from around the entire landmass of China to receive this sort of ordination, and they prepare for a long time in advance simply to even know what all of the minute rules are (I know a young monk who was preparing for it a few years ago, and he put it off to go attend a Daoist academy first, as he felt he was not yet up to the task of keeping up the austerities that are required of those who receive this level of monastic initiation). The irony here gets even deeper, I say with a sigh, because at minute 2:00 in the video the lvshi in charge of the entire ritual is introduced, one Master Fu Yuantian (傅圓天大師, a nineteenth generation Dragon Gate lvshi who was in the twenty-third generation in terms of his receiving full ordination as a lvshi, and thus has a different Daoist name--傅宗天/Fu Zongtian--to refer to his role here). This is ironic, because we can see the absolute respect paid to tradition here by Master Fu Yuantian... and this man is one of the main teachers of Zhang Mingxin, the nun who is evidently now telling all these Americans and other westerners that they can be "priests" in the Quanzhen Longmen without being ordained as monks or nuns! It's not just that Zhang Mingxin was his disciple--she even is on record recently quoting him about how important the strictures are and parroting his words to younger generations of Chinese disciples! Evidently somehow this central importance is being omitted for the Americans, who now would like to sell you "priesthood" for several thousand of your dollars and several precious years of your life. If only these American "priests" took the time to learn Chinese, study the Daoist Canon, and live in the communities they claim to represent, they might realize that something indispensable is missing from what they have been given. But given that they do not take the time to truly learn about the tradition, perhaps they just don't want to know.

I don't have much info to offer in response to the OP. I can say that I've spent a fair amount of time with dream and sleep yoga practices. The Tibetan approach to both subjects encourages behavior that leads to healthier, deeper, and more restful sleep. In addition, I never feel more rested than after experiencing lucidity during dream or deep sleep. I HIGHLY recommend these practices to everyone interested but a warning, they required considerable devotion and patience for me. Some come to it more naturally.

"Hey babe! I want to take you out for a dream dinner, but I don't have any money so you will have to pay. It's only fair because I am such a charming and nice guy."

People asking for free spiritual teachings even after they are kindly explained that the teachers' time should be fairly compensated. "Hey babe! I want to take you out for a dream dinner, but I don't have any money so you will have to pay. It's only fair because I am such a charming and nice guy." If you want to take your sweetheart to a free romantic dinner, there is always dumpster diving option available for a free range gourmet course. She'll love it how dedicated and frugal you are.

I am experiencing what I refer to as 'the grey zone' in morning sleep. I come fully awake as usual, but remain still. awareness and body bouyant in a zone of extreme relaxation and still calm presence... Full lucid mind awareness but body soon returns to sleep. Mind enters and exits dreaming without losing consciousness. Fluid intermingling of dream and waking local awareness. Float in this zone for extended periods notion of self, localized unique personhood diffuses out into bouyant calm presence and witnessing

Perhaps this post @steve made a year ago, may point in the general direction (although I have some reservations regarding what was highlighted as "experiences during N3 sleep" in the OP as they would relate to "dream yoga.")

I'm looking into Deep Sleep, sometimes known as Slow Wave Sleep (SWS). Its considered the most rejuvenating and restorative sleep stage. Its when the glymphatic system removes neurotoxins and beta-amyloids**. PHYSIOLOGY OF N3 SLEEP EEG: slow-wave brainwaves Decreased heart rate Decreased blood pressure Release of growth hormone No eye movements EXPERIENCES DURING N3 SLEEP Very difficult to wake up from deep sleep If awoken, disorientation and grogginess FUNCTIONS OF N3 SLEEP Cell repair and rejuvenation Replenishing glycogen Long-term memory Removal of waste from the brain: glymphatic system I want to find out if any meditation style or length of meditation either simulates Deep Sleep or increases it at night. Anecdotally things that help general sleep tend to increase Deep Sleep ie not eating, drinking a few hours before bed, limiting or eliminating caffeine and alcohol etc., I found studies where meditation increased REM sleep but haven't found one yet for Deep. I'll keep looking. While branches of Taoism took dream work very far, many sages wrote that deep dreamless sleep was the real aim at night. Try Pink Noise: (https://www.sleepscore.com/extend-deep-sleep/)A recent study by Northwestern Medicine found that pink noise, like waves lapping on a beach or trees rustling in the wind, increased time spent in deep sleep. While the study only observed thirteen participants, it’s an exciting discovery in the world of sleep solutions. A 2014 study in U of Fribourg found audio hypnotics could increase deep sleep by 80%. Exercise helps too. **https://landing.ouraring.com/ln1d-stages-of-sleep?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=IP_US-CA_G|s-o-s-ln1_ln1d&utm_term={keyword}&utm_content={creative}&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&gclid=CjwKCAiAg9rxBRADEiwAxKDTuoQSd0dJ7KH_pXfUGCE2BUnxBE_EjbftNMK23VXFI7-tDFSft8kBchoCfNUQAvD_BwE)

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I have had several out-of-body experiences, all memorable, all unpredictable (mostly) and I still only understand a small fraction of them. I find that lucid dreaming or half-wake condidions are the most productive. Though, I was getting a lot of it (lucid dream flying) after a certain type of Kriya (I will not name it because, it can be destabilizing if a proper foundation has not been laid). The layers of, underlying realities intertwined with, subconscious garbage and all that.

levitated twice in my young life or rather, localized mind harbors vivid memories of such... once out of body while exiting the dream state and once wide awake, off the back of our couch These days, I'm more interested in emulating the high skill of the likes of Liminal_Luke than floatsies. Integrity, Sincerity and Poise. Those are siddhis I crave.

flying in lucid dreams is a skill I wish I had. ones thats attainable too. one day night. learning to pilot an ultralight is another dream. probably easier, just $$ and time

It seems you've awoken from one dream, yet remain deep in slumber within the next. Experience is the proverbial snake in a rope. Watch out all you little egos, the big boy is here. And there are those that never touched pages or heard teachings, yet spontaneously abide "freely" without so much as a guru's glance. It is one thing to have self-knowledge, and it is quite another to presume one has known others without self-knowledge. The latter characterizes the epitome of ignorance. The Adept is self-shining and ever present. He knows nothing of profit or loss, remembering or forgetting, birth or death. And He certainly finds no difference between himself and the 10,000.

Yes, I know its crazy but at first I thought the guy was jason sudikus, in my dream but low and behold....sweet jesus theres my boss with a machine gun( we only have one photo of the guy) and its a damn shame...we got invited to a ski trip, but had -30 below weather approaching, you guys know how i feel about wood and getting it myself. kinda really wanna meet the guy now...

Well, 'energy vortex is kinda general , what type sort to you mean ? I have experience with several 'phenomena' that could be called such . I suppose the first classifications are either intersections or gateways ( they can be both ) and 'good or bad' , like in dowsing its usually intersections of lines or streams of energy. A good one can give amplification of other energies in it's field . 'Down here' we dont call them ley lines ( well, some nongs do ! ) , they are 'dreaming lines' , some follow song lines . Got one right through the cabin , ; it starts in a birth pool down at the river , up the very steep side, through my place , out across the paddock, through 'Snake Gully' at 'Fairy Glenn Creek , up 'Pyramid Hill' , and 'nodes' near the 'lightening spot ' * , up to the steep back ridge and 'ends' (actually 'nodes out ' ) as the ridge drops down its very steep south side . Its taken 15 years of experience there and absorbing / learning plus elucidation from Aboriginal Elders (including my teacher) to map that out . So, the lightening spot is 'sore spot' , 'charge in' fire , lightening , watch out for that . Birth hole / pool is charge in , but water earth. Then it goes to my place / node, charge out - water earth . the 'end is node out , earth air . So, if you 'dream' safely past the lightening , to end .... you can come back in somewhere else , far across country - one step . Before I knew what the hell was going on there , I was both flummoxed and amazed at the vivid dreams I was having, I would be walking up the back ridge to the top, step and .... the in the dream I would be some where else , trying to figure out how the helI got there ( as its not like an ordinary dream, where surreal things happen and scene can chop and change ) . There is a lot more to be said about that, and the lightening spot , and the associated regolith and structure , quartz seams , etc . Not sure if this is what you are chasing ? I also have done magical ritual ceremony using energy vortex . Done some dowsing and remedial geomantic work ( at a 'stone age farming' workshop I went to ) , thats about lines and intersections . I also helped my mate in the film industry understand why his extremely high tech stabilising gear.was going haywire in some outback locations He uses these maps now ; ; One of Washington might me interesting ? Anyway, depends what you mean and what your bag is ? As long as it isn't ....

Not by work, nor by progeny, nor by wealth, but by devotion to him and by indifference to the world, does a man reach immortality. Retire into solitude. Seat yourself on a clean spot and in erect posture, with the head and neck in a straight line. Be indifferent to the world. Control all the sense organs. Bow down in devotion to your Guru. Then enter the lotus of the heart and there meditate on the presence of Brahman—the pure, the infinite, the blissful. Unmanifest to the senses, beyond all thought, infinite in form, is God. The seers meditate on him and reach the source of all beings, the witness of all. He who knows him conquers death. There is no other way to liberation. The mind may be compared to a fire-stick, the syllable OM to another. Rub the two sticks together by repeating the sacred word and meditating on Brahman, and the flame of knowledge will be kindled in your heart and all impurities will be burnt away. He, as the Self, resides in all forms, but is veiled by ignorance. When he is in the state of dream that men call waking, he becomes the individual self… he is happy or miserable because of the creations of his mind. In the three states of consciousness, whatever appears as the enjoyer or the object of enjoyment, I am the witness thereof, separate from all. I am pure consciousness. I am the eternal Shiva. I am the knower…. I was not born; I have neither body, nor senses, nor mind, I, the Supreme Self, dwell in the lotus of the heart. I am pure. I am One without a second. Om Tat Sat Kaivalya Upanishad

Re: watermelon fucking, on a general note, I think it must be concluded that internet access is one of the worst things a monastery can have. Not that crazy things didn’t happen before- humans are humans. I remember an episode in the novel Seven Taoist Masters where the disciples are made to sleep next to wooden boards. They dream about beautiful women and in the morning the boards are covered in... uh, jing. Further afield I was a bit shocked when I first read this quote in the Sayings of the Desert Fathers: and this from an age where Christian monasticism was supposed to be at its most pristine. So stuff happens, but man does the internet not help. In my years in the Orthodox Church I saw more than a few cases of monastics from respectable places who got internet connections and *poof* goes that old aura of sanctity and wisdom. Maybe some guy on Mount Athos launching into a tirade about how the EU is trying to turn everyone into slaves of the one world government with biometric passports; or a monk in Romania singing fascist songs with a chorus of nuns on his birthday; or a Russian elder going on some anti-Semitic conspiracy rant. And of course all kinds of sexual abuse and predatory behavior. Keep the monks away from the internet, folks.

Elon's pipe dream .

Interesting thing there is, was it 'elders', as in senior teachers. Or was it, 'Elders" as in dead masters in the spirit realm visiting Chang (in a dream and laying down the law in such a way he was visibly shaken as per videos report). The difference is vastly important, imo. In the understanding of the art. ie anything that scares a man of Chang's ability is something I'd want to respectfully stay away from.

Nocturnal emissions with a dream, perhaps. Nocturnal emissions with no dream are called 滑精/huajing, which is different from those with a dream, usually called 遺精/yijing or 夢遺/mengyi. Huajing is generally understood to be primarily caused by weak kidney yang. There are various types of mengyi which are categorized by their causes, which can include excessive desire, built up jing fluid, kidney yin deficiency leading to a type of "fire" (metaphorically speaking) that disturbs the mind during sleep and triggers wet dreams; and visits from entities which in English I suppose we could call incubi/succubi. "Weak subconscious" arguably plays a role in all of this, but not necessarily the main role. For instance--supposing that we interpret the term "weak subconscious" in a similar way--a person with this problem may be more easily "seduced" in sleep by a ghost. However, strong qi in and of itself will protect the body from the advances of such creatures, and not everybody who has strong qi has a strong mind, just as not all people with strong minds have strong qi. Premature ejaculation is not generally treated as a symptom of qi stagnation or insufficient qi circulation in Chinese medicine, and since Chinese medicine is very good at treating this condition, I lend credence to its explanations. Premature ejaculation is also more about deficient kidney yang (leading to the inability of the body to "hold" jing in long enough) or kidney yin deficiency (leading to "deficiency fire," which means that the various sexual responses, including both arousal and orgasm, are too easily triggered, kind of like a fuse that burns way too quickly). Chinese medicine also recognizes the mental factors that dominate the thinking on this condition in western medicine, anxiety and excessive excitement being the main culprits.

A related note, but not a technological, rather a purely 'natural' process. The daily 'waking state' now routinely mirrors harmonically (think octaves) the nightly personal dream state. Lucidity in the dream state and true lucidity in the waking state are experienced as nigh on identical in nature and essence. As are non-lucid dreaming and daily human living when in hypnosis and trance. Much of what used to pass for 'waking' consciousness, i.e. going to work, school, shopping, daily life, has revealed itself to be various vibrational states of trance and hypnosis.

After 40 mins of qigong, when I walk after, everything becomes like a dream. It's amazing stuff, but yes, focus a lot more on grounding exercises.