greenchild

Thank you all for the suggestions. Hey Steve, the term bai wei isn't registering with me for some reason. Can you remind me what it refers to?

Thanks Michael, that's something I'll check out

That is always a good practice, thanks. But I'm interested in learning about approaches that are more potent and specially geared towards internals in the vein of the original question.

Can anyone recommend specific practices for cultivating the downward flow of qi, and particularly nourishing the water and metal elements? This is asked in consideration of past "dead jing" damage from excessive kundalini type manifestations. Perhaps there is an expert you could recommend for help in this area? Would love the feedback of anyone who's familiar with it! P.S. Posted this in "Taoist Discussion" originally. Sorry for the repeat posting, just getting reacquainted with the architecture here

Can anyone recommend specific practices for cultivating the downward flow of qi, and particularly nourishing the water and metal elements? This is asked in consideration of past "dead jing" damage from excessive kundalini type manifestations. Perhaps there is an expert you could recommend for help in this area? Would love the feedback of anyone who's familiar with it!

Ha, well a UFO abduction would not be a-synchronous with this topic. Yes I have read the book. It's called "The Invisible Landscape" by the way. I quote from page 171, from the copy sitting in my lap right now (bolding mine): "This is is a novelty map of the eight thousand years that immediately precode the end of the Mayan Calender on December 22, A.D. 2012. First let me explain that we chose the end of the Mayan Calendar as the "end date" for this graph becasue we found good agreement between the events that comprise the historical record and the wave itself when this end date was chosen." I am no mathematician and so cannot vouch for every step in the process used to come to the conclusion that is Timewave Zero. That said, to the best of my understanding there is no "end date" inherent to the waveform, the wave has to be fitted to an end. The gray area is whether the fractal itself indicates an end date by virtue of how it supposedly "matches up" with historical records... there is potential for a lot of tautology here. I suggest that Timewave, as an expression of the inner workings of the I-ching, is a kind of inner, non-linear mandala. I didn't hear this on CNN. Ananda Bosman has some interesting things to say about Timewave in his video lectures available on an recent post here, "Ananda Bosman at the 2008 Shamanism Conference". He actually takes the visual form of the fractal itself and shows its possible connection with other somatico-imaginal data (such as stupas). That's the thing, somatico-imaginal information is not exactly literal but it is not "just a metaphor" either.. Rather it implicates cybernetic meta-truths that non-exclusively interconnect many levels of knowing. Just a possible paradigm for the day Christopher Greenchild

did you mean to make an empty post taomeow?

This is so great, thank you. I've been wondering about Ananda for the past 6 years now. He is a guy like no other!

I believe Mckenna actually picked the date himself, which certainly makes the case a little funny. He used the I ching to generate the waveform, but decided when and where it should start and end, by matching it up to a particular view of history, a view that is quite loaded with assumptions about the significance of certain events, the "novelty" of some developments vs. others, and all from a rather euro-centric, scientistic vantage, which is strange given how psychedelic the man was/is. From what I recall, He originally thought sometime in Nov 2012 was the best end point, but after hearing of the Mayan predictions just switched it to 2012. The more it was developed, the more it became like an idiosyncratic unconscious mandala of Mckenna's own mind, I believe, inflated by his shattering experience in the amazon with an excessive literalism. I'm not saying it doesn't have worth, but the value I think is on a more non-linear, meta-level. Timewave itself has no end built into it. We could apply it to the last 9 minutes, or the last 9 million years -- it's a fractal wave, after all. 2012 is really a hyperlocal, hypertemporal consciousness-attractor that is not situated anywhere in time, but in which time itself is situated. By literalizing timewave into a linear eschatology, Mckenna I believe missed the point of his own discovery. P.S. Gyrus wrote a nice article about timewave a while back... http://dreamflesh.com/essays/endofriver/ GREENCHILD

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