December 2011
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The Chinese Art of Eating, or, how to choose... →
acupuncturegirl:
The Energetics of Food
Click for the Food Properties Chart
Chinese nutrition differs from Western nutrition in that it deals with the energetic properties of food and not the biochemical nature of food. Foods selected according to their energetic qualities is key to balanced health. Acupuncture works much in the same way to create balance. Using the benefits of correct...
November 2011
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August 2011
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March 2011
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February 2011
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January 2011
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Plant Life, Come Walk with Me
“…the perspective that fermentation and plant use - as medicine, as psychotropics, as teachers, as companions on our life path - are an inescapable part of our exploration of what it means to be human; that, in fact, our humanness (as we now understand it) could not have occurred without the gift of fermentation or plants.” - Buhner.
My personal project is the...
August 2010
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Standing QiGong and the Practice of Shiatsu →
The correlation in energy healing between shiatsu and Zhan Zhuang practice. An interesting read to mentally compost…
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Center for Traditional Health Arts →
Good information on Traditional Chinese Medicine with some nice recipes I am going to try.
Check out the two part video of some advanced qigongs too! Solid stuff.
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July 2010
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Magus of Java author says "Snap out of it!"
I thought coming from this guy’s experience this is a valid call to self reliance and resilient community building as well as not getting bogged down in new age fantasy games. Extraordinary human development is real, but what do you do when society crashes?
“Please Stop Hitting the Snooze Button” by Kostas Dervenis (via)
Despite my best efforts, I keep getting letters...
June 2010
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WatchThe Sound of the Big Bang
“If you could stand the heat inside a trillion-degree soup of subatomic particles created to mimic the conditions of the big bang, this is what you would hear…”
via New Scientist
— interestingly sounds like a didgeridoo tone, the shaman’s voice of the universe.
Related:
Michael Bayard Shamanic Theta Wave Entrainment (via TarotWoman) -...
May 2010
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Poor man's Gatorade →
A pinch of salt. A fistful of sugar. A half liter of water.
Bangladesh is the birthplace of ORS, the lifesaving oral rehydration salt-sugar solution. Today, the concoction is so woven into the culture that it’s not only mixed up or purchased for pennies to treat diarrhea and tummy aches, but guzzled by children and adults alike after working or playing outside in the sweltering heat.
April 2010
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Dream the Great Dream
Dreaming is something every human can do and because it is such an important altered state of consciousness various cultures over time have invented ways to hack this state for prognostication, divine help, healing and spiritual enlightenment. Anything is possible here, this royal road to the unconscious. If someone is interested in the energy body then coming to grips with the Dream and the...
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Ervin Laszlo: Quantum Consciousness: Our... →
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Here I call “quantum consciousness” the consciousness we access when we use the potentials of our quantum-computer brain. Our brain is a macroscopic quantum system, yet we use it as if it were exclusively a classical biochemical system. With its quantum-system functions, our brain can receive information not only from our eyes and ears,...
March 2010
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“The greatest achievement is selflessness.
The greatest worth is self-mastery....”
– Atisha (11th century Tibetan Buddhist master)
These statements are some cherished words for me. I hope to experience and understand them all some day.
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“I Lost Too Much Jing” - MeditationExpert →
People often write me saying they are old and weak and lost too much jing .. what should they do?
taosim says to practice emptiness meditation and because one thereby cultivates shen (awareness without clinging), this will in time give rise to jing and chi. Why? Jing transforms into chi and chi into shen and vica versa.
For older people my teacher often recommended the Chinese medicine Liu Wei...
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Can cult group mind control techniques reverse... →
ledgergermane:
It was an experiment that didn’t set out to demonstrate how mind control techniques used by cult groups can work effectively in practice. But that’s one of the results from a behavioral study done to test whether elderly people isolated together could so completely convince themselves they were young again that their bodies actually would begin to morph ‘backward’ in resonance .
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February 2010
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Ritual purification & Popular Culture →
Ritual purification is a feature of many religions. The aim of these rituals is to remove specifically defined uncleanliness prior to a particular type of activity, and especially prior to the worship of a deity. This ritual uncleanliness is not however identical with ordinary physical impurity, such as dirt stains; nevertheless, all body fluids are generally considered ritually unclean, and some...
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“Liu An, Prince of Huai Nan, liked to surround himself with magicians (Fang Shi)...”
– Book of Records, Han Dynasty (206 BCE-220 AD)
via Daoist Magic
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Watchmnmal:
Dan Buettner: How to live to be 100+
And the comments on Presentation Zen
In Sum What are the common denominators running through the different cultures they studied? If you do not have time to watch the video, I summarized them below in my own words. You can go to the Blue Zones website to get all the details.
Move Naturally (1) You don’t need a formal, rigorous exercise plan. We’re...
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The Alchemical Body →
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Beginning in the fifth century A.D., various Indian mystics began to innovate a body of techniques with which to render themselves immortal. These people called themselves Siddhas, a term formerly reserved for a class of demigods, revered by Hindus and Buddhists alike, who were known to inhabit mountaintops or the atmospheric regions. Over the following five to eight hundred...
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The Shamanic Origins of Tai Chi →
Under the moonlight, in a village somewhere in the Golden Triangle, the Ka-ren Shaman moved slowly and methodically. He was showing us the movements taught him by his Shaman, which had been passed down through the tribe for generations. The Shaman moved strikingly similar to a Tai Chi master.
The Golden Triangle is a roughly drawn geographic area that overlaps the borders of three countries:...
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January 2010
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Chi Gong 101: How to Feel Your Chi Energy →
ledgergermane:
a quick exercise, written in plain english, to make you feel the energy currents in your body.
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On Breathing and Dantien Cultivation
Breathing:
Hyperventilation: Notes on Trance States and Suggestion in Martial Arts From the Abstract of the presented paper:
This paper examines the relationship between hyperventilation, defined as breathing in excess of metabolic (physiological) requirements, and the phenomena of ‘trance states’ and suggestion, in the practice of the martial arts. It is proposed...
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The Great Joe Rollino, Last of Old Coney Island... →
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Joe Rollino once lifted 475 pounds. He used neither his arms nor his legs but, reportedly, his teeth. With just one finger he raised up 635 pounds; with his back he moved 3,200. He bit down on quarters to bend them with his thumb.
People called him the Great Joe Rollino, the Mighty Joe Rollino and even the World’s Strongest Man, and what did it matter if at least one of those...
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Yiquan: the Martial Art of Contradiction - Ebook... →
You need to have Scrib account to dl, but interesting read nonetheless.
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Lin Kong Jing (Empty Force Zhan Zhuang) →
Zhan zhuang for the Development of Martial Power
Original Source: http://www.geocities.com/donjitsu2/zhanzhuangarticle.html
The simplest is always the most profound.
Many are familiar with this expression, but how many put the wisdom of these words to good use? One of the primary considerations of a martial artist is the development of power. There are quite a few methods of power development...
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