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Nonstandard explanation for the advent of qigong and herbalism

Here’s one you don’t hear everyday. This is taken from the Dead Sea Scrolls, document 4Q201, otherwise known as “The Works of Enoch.” Note that the “they” referred to here are “the sons of God” which is a reference to angels or demons. Odd, to say the least.
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[They (the leaders) and all ... of [...]

Dr. Hammer speaks

This taken from The American Acupuncturist, Winter 2007 issue:
“There is a mystery to healing and to life that Western medicine has tried to deny, and that denial has rendered it, in my experience, a lifeless engineering triumph. I am grateful for its existence but could illustrate for pages the fallacies of teh cultural mythology of [...]

Ming Jin dangerous?

About three days ago I spent about half an hour practicing Splitting Fist (a Xingyiquan technique, for those not familiar) at full bore. Since then I’ve been a walking corpse. Even when I sleep, I’m still just absolutely destroyed when I wake up. So I’m talking to Matt, whose student I now am (it takes [...]

A song of Xingyiquan

A Xingyiquan song, quoted to me recently by my old friend and teacher, Bai Hu-Po Long (AKA Long Shi Matthew Staley):
“When my opponent moves backward, I move forward.
When my opponent moves to the left, I move forward.
When my opponent moves to the right, I move forward.
When my opponent moves forward, I move forward.”
Congrats on discipleship, [...]

Yang addendum

I forgot to add the point that was my entire reason for starting the previous post (sorry, was doing 47 things at once last night) which is WOW you have to be strong to do Yang FAMILY TJQ. I’ve done a couple variations of Yang TJQ, such as the “Government form”, Zheng style, Yang Jwing [...]

Yang Family TJQ 4tw!

So as I think I’ve mentioned previously, I’ve gotten back into the MA with great gusto, and I hope that the previous medical conditions that were causing me to get sick from training are cleared up (If not, back to clearing we go). So, I’m primarily training in Yang Family Taijiquan, and secondarily in Hebei [...]

Die worms die!

So I *think* that after about two months of treatment for what Dr. Heiner Fruehauf classifies as Gu Parasite Syndrome, we’ve finally got the little buggers either dead or on their last legs. Suddenly I can eat things and not swell up like a snake. I’ve slept through the night three nights in a row, [...]