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Hey guys! I'm Symph. I lived most of my life as a Christian though I was always a "problematic" one because I didn't believe many core beliefs I was being taught in Church, and when I read the bible it seemed to have a completely different, highly spiritual, highly inclusive meaning to me. I began receiving downloads in deep states of ecstacy when I would be dancing or smoking marijuana or creating music. In my early 30's I went on a quest for self discovery searching out other religions and idea that I (as a christian) was SUPPOSED to be afraid of lol. When I found Taoism it could not have resonated more. I began to realize that everything I held dear that I learned from Jesus? Was IN the Taoist teachings! It made sense of how I could read the same book as millions of others, yet see no bigotry, no judgement, because the book, just like all things, is under the law of polarity and yin and yang, and I was able to receive only one side of the coin as that's what I was attracting. So now I've just given myself license to dive into all beliefs and I don't even know how I'd define myself, but as I'm sure you know, definitions are unhelpful anyway. I have started reading Tarot as a way of connecting to my deepest intuitions, I'm interested in Shamanism, Druidism, Hinduism, Astrology and much more. Am I a full fledged Taoist? Well it's certainly not my only focus, but the teachings resonate so deeply with all I have always held to be true I feel as if I was a Taoist my entire life, and just didn't know it haha. So yeah, that's a super condensed version of my story, I hope to meet many like minded travelers and to give and receive much!!

Hello persons of taoness!!! Aparently right when i click post i will be the newest member on this site! .... or was it when i registered.... nevertheless im very excited to start talking to you bums about distant topics only the geniun become comfortable with. I have many questions.... maybe some answers... and alot of allegorical non-sensical dubly mediphorical explanations about why i think things are. But it all amounts to one basic thing... ""the now""and thats really what the tao to me is.... being.... in ones self...... at all times. this and only this will free you from "that thing that people want to be freed from" lol in your own words fill in that last quotation from the author. "tao" is a term created for the fact that no ambiguous sound (word) can amout to the fullest ,yet quintasintial, meaning of what the idea of tao really is. words my friend are very funny indeed. read whorf. anyways im digressing. My purpose on this site is to ask questions about stuff...... please my brothers of affermed faith... answer me in sincerity and disregard my bad spelling and seemingly simple questions on or off topics. For me is me and u are me and anything else is what i see

Hello everyone! I'm new here and practice Yin Fu Bagua. Been training for about six years, not counting my past training in Kempo and TKD. Bagua saved my life because my body was all messed up from years of abuse....now I am transformed and I have way more of a "Bagua Body". I would really like to add to some of the bagua posts here Hope you all have a great day!