Resources: Books, Links, Articles, Movies, etc.

[DalTheJigsaw123]

A great link:http://taoism.about.com/

[IMPERIAGO]

http://www.wudang.me/

http://www.wudanggongfu.com/

http://www.damo-qigong.net/wudang/index.htm

http://glorian.info/

http://gnosticteachings.org/the-teachings-...and-references/

http://roaringlionpublishing.com/cms/

http://www.templeofastarte.com/

http://www.emeikungfu.com/

http://www.higherbalance.com/

Edited November 14, 2009 by IMPERIAGO

[rex]

[tumoessence]

I would like to let everyone know about the release of my teacher's new book on tai chi practice. Master Hwa practices and teaches from the Wu Chien Chuan lineage of Young Wabu. His website is classiscal taichi

and the book can be found at Uncovering the Treasure

 

I share this link with enthusiasm because of every good reason to promote great tai chi practrice, but also and maybe mostly because this teacher is such a great and generous resource and a true human being and therefore embodies much of what Taoists strive for. This way is largely understated, the moves small and not flashy, but the effects of its practice are enormous. The teacher is an image of this way, and is not promoting himself but the joy of practice and is there for his students.

[JustARandomPanda]

Chinese Shamanism

[Ulises]

3 great audio interviews about Shaking Medicine:

 

http://www.podfeed.net/episode/EPISODE+259+-+The+Bushman+Way+of+Tracking+God/2764633

 

http://arewelistening.net/podcasts/BradfordKeeney_2010_9_28.mp3

 

http://www.futureprimitive.org/2008/05/shaking-up-bradford-keeney-phd/

 

...and this one:

"This connection with the life force is something that we've forgotten. It's become dormant. If you look at an ancient ritual and try to copy it, it may be rather silly. But if you see that underneath it there's a body that pulses and moves in rhythm to the life force, there we can pull away some basic principles, some ways of opening ourselves. Its form may be different to us; in fact, it's appropriate that it be different. Let me go on and say that every elder I've spoken with would agree that however the form of ritual, whatever you need to do to make access to spirit or to the life force, it's appropriate that you find it in your own way. It will come on its own accord ... like a musician has to eventually find his or her own style."

http://www.lightworks.com/MonthlyAspectarian/1997/September/0997-08.html

 

 

 

 

Spontaneous Movement: a fascinating article by a transpersonal psychologist with experience. Evolutionary biomysticism:

 

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_7642/is_200901/ai_n39234948/

[torus693]

reference materials:

 

Encyclopedia of Shamanism

 

Gurdjeif Introduction to His Work

 

Psychic Abilities A-Z Definition

 

amazing

 

book

Edited February 8, 2011 by torus693

[Desert Eagle]

Free lectures by Ivan Stein on manifestation, control, relationships, chakras, positive vs negative, and metaphysics.

 

If you want to download them all to watch later then you can use a firefox addon called bulk youtube downloader and then choose the page that only shows the files you want, for this example choose one of the playlists to download on this page, you can filter out unrelated videos by writing some letters from the file names you want.

 

Workshop# 1

 

Positive Manifestation

 

 

Workshop# 2

 

Breaking Control Dramas

 

 

Workshop# 3

 

Learning from experiences

 

 

Workshop# 4

 

Manifesting Your Thoughts

 

Edited July 30, 2011 by Desert Eagle

[Desert Eagle]

this guy has a lot of good instructional videos about martial arts and qigong.

 

http://www.youtube.com/user/waterwheel1#g/u

[Desert Eagle]

A nice looking and new site for making friends online instead of dating sites and social networks.

 

http://www.wusoup.com/

 

it is by a redditor and here is the discussion and recommendations about it. (great sites start this way from reddit such as imgur and filevo).

 

[Friend]

I came across this page while looking at Fu Zhou

 

http://kenlaifengshui.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2007-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-06%3A00&updated-max=2008-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-06%3A00&max-results=50

 

It is about Bazi, Qimen Dunjia, Feng Shui, Talisman.

Maybe some of you advanced in this arts in on of the fields speak in Forum about the topics mentiond it worth 4 years of articles.

 

Q

[ATMA]

Sound frequency tests produce secret geometry:

 

Edited November 8, 2011 by ATMA

[Dainin]

A new book by Wim Hof coming out later this month:

 

Becoming the Iceman: Pushing Past Perceived Limits

[julianlaboy]

http://www.randomhouse.com/book/3170/dao-de-jing-by-roger-ames-and-david-hall

 

Dao De Jing: Making this life significant, By Ames and Hall (2003)

[Desert Eagle]

A new book by Wim Hof coming out later this month:

 

Becoming the Iceman: Pushing Past Perceived Limits

 

thanks man! just ordered via http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/Becoming-Iceman-Wim-Hof/9781937600464

 

free delivery everywhere!

[suninmyeyes]

Cheers , wasnt even aware of the book . Just ordered it too, looks as if it will be an intersting read.

[minkus]

[Immortal4life]

You're welcome

[Desert Eagle]

kundalini yoga dance workout

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QULTIyZi0O4

[humbleone]

kundalini yoga dance workout

 

 

Its hard to top the kundalini yoga dance workout, but just wanted to mention that the documentary 'A ZEN LIFE' about D T Suzuki is now available via Netflix. I watched it last night.

 

He had a hard early life, his father passed away when he was six. He grew up in extreme poverty, his mother was then too poor to send him to school, D T Suzuki taught himself English and then in his teenage years taught English at a middle school to earn money. His mother passed away when he was twenty. His brother died when ten. This adversity forced him towards Zen and we all benefied as a result.

 

This little man, single handedly brought Zen to the West. Just amazing!

 

http://www.azenlife-film.org/dvd.htm

[buscon]

here are some nice holy books:

 

http://www.holybooks.com

 

enjoy

[Thunder_Gooch]

I made this for you guys.

 

It should be small enough to fit on a standard CD-R if you wish to burn it to disk.

 

I was googleing some sounds and found some hour long mp3's of ocean waves and tibetian singing bowls and use a program to mix the two together.

 

I realllllly like it a lot, like better than other professional meditation programs.

 

This contains no binaural beats or anything else, it's just singing bowls and ocean waves.

 

It is a huge file as I tried to preserve audio quality, it's a 320kbps mp3 and over an hour in length.

 

I am trying not to eat my server's bandwidth up, so here is a mirror:

 

 

http://www.uberg33k.org/Meditation-MP3.zip

 

and a free hosting mirror:

 

http://www.filefactory.com/file/42qep1j16wgf/n/Meditation_mp3

 

I hope you guys find it useful

Edited April 11, 2012 by More_Pie_Guy

[C T]

Watched this documentary http://www.amazon.com/Tibetan-Book-Dead-Leonard-Cohen/dp/B001T46TCO on dvd yesterday.

 

Quite elementary. But for those thinking to read the book, watching this will indeed lend a bit more depth.

[Desert Eagle]

The animal frolics are the origin of Taiji movement

http://massagepostureandmovement.com/taiji.html

 

i was searching for five animal frolics, simple repetitive shamanic movements.

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uvj-PNw_cxw

 

 

 

 

german language

 

spanish

 

Edited April 18, 2012 by Desert Eagle

[zerostao]

i was searching for five animal frolics, simple repetitive shamanic movements then I found this more in-depth video about a related system, it has 16 reviews on amazon, all 5 stars:

 

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=Uvj-PNw_cxw

 

 

as for the frolics AKA Wu Qin Xi here are a few, note there is an overlap with similar qigong systems that have the same name:

 

 

 

 

german language

 

spanish

 

 

 

yep, i have the Dr. Yang Jwing-Ming dvd and i always like anything by Dr. Yang.

my friend lazy cloud and his teacher and teacher's teacher etc,

have a 5 animal frolics far more complete than i have seen elsewhere.

there is a live set of the 5 animals, then a dead set , then a spirit set , and the original hwa t'o posture too.

and lazy cloud's set is the same 5 animals that Dr. Yang illustrates.

of course there are other 5 animal sets with different animals.

there is a standardized set. like lazy cloud will say, zerostao will never give him undue credit.

in this case his school has the top shelf goods.

at one time i thought that with the hwa t'o and xingyiquan would be the path i took.

and it woulda been a great choice.

if someone needs some great health and a medical qigong, this one should be considered.

excellent for the lymph systems.