Qigong...demonic related?

[oildrops]

I've never heard of hormones being considered demonic before this post +1 for originality.

 

never heard of most organized religion?

 

Also, I giggled at the ex girlfriend comment

[Cat Pillar]

Anyone been in contact with a demon?

 

The only demons I've contacted have been my own. I assume they're not as scary as the real thing would be, but they are still pretty unpleasant.

 

kentucker4 asked earlier if anyone had become a better person as a result of qigong. Eastern philosophy, meditation, and the Kunlun practices I learned have all contributed to the betterment of my being.

 

One of my friends once even asked me "Who are you, the Buddha!?" It was tongue-in-cheek and meant totally jokingly, but it was in response to the fact that I tend to be unaffected by the emotional ups, downs, and drama of our circle of friends. I credit this to cultivation practices.

 

Granted, I've got tons of my own personal issues which still strongly affect me...but cultivation is making things better every day.

[snbeings]

im coming into this board as a Christian, who later became a Christian Mystic. Why add mystic to the label?

 

Well I got deep into Christianity, got rebaptized in my early 20's, an then the mystical fireworx and ego deaths began to happen. It was the Holy Spirit entering the top of my head and slaying my ego, along w/ what felt like channels all over my body being opened.

 

A few years after that, I entered the "Dark Night of the Soul" which lasted years and years. It makes depression look like a night on the town w unlimited bank roll, hookers, drugs, and livin it up.

 

I would not wish this Dark Night on anyone, and yet here I was, in it from Christianity.

 

My interested in Qigong comes from having experiences of energy surges and channels throughout my body and the top of my skull opening up. WHen I first started doing Tai Chi exercises, the energy was so strong and very sexual causing me to fall to lusts, porn, sleepin around. So I held off on it.

 

I'm back at it now for health improvements and now I face lust head on, by stirring it up, seeing it, observing it in meditation, then letting it fall away. Repeat then rinse. This has done WONDERS in my spiritual walk because Lust was my number 1 issue.

 

To actually sit w/ lust, to observe it and to see that it is not you, that there is a choice to give in to it or to let it go.... this has been amazing to me and I have not found too much written on this spontanoues technique that has come up in my life.

 

As far as demons go, I find they can latch on to plain Joe's as well, just from drinking too much. My alcoholic cousin had a few of em and he wasnt nothin spiritual.

 

All things in moderation is my take. Just take it easy and calm down a bit. If your already frequenting bars/clubs/alcohol, then your putting yourself out there so to speak.

 

Also look into Nonduality and Advaita as it helps to separate you as Awareness from the Ego (which easily falls victim to lusts). It has helped me tremendously on my walk on a spiritual path as well as to understand CHrist better