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Foolish Earthling
Qigong is a dangerous mixture of superstition and pseudoscience.
Sima Nan: Fighting Qigong Pseudoscience in China
Aside from the Falon Gong crappola Trained, don't you think it might have at least a placebo effect?
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Qigong is a dangerous mixture of superstition and pseudoscience.
Sima Nan: Fighting Qigong Pseudoscience in China
Statements like the above do not exactly encourage me here Drew. I'm trying to keep an open mind, but "full moons", "kundalini" and "nonlinear harmonic oscillations"?????
How about if you move a certain way, or stretch a certain spot, it increases blood flow and makes you feel better? See, that sounds logical. The whole energy thing and moving through the body?
I've got to see or experience something pretty damn impressive to overcome my doubts.
I'll keep looking this stuff over, but what I've seen thus far.....well.......
And one other thing.....anecdotal testimony is practically worthless. You can pay people to get in front of a camera and say "Pig shit is the best thing I've ever eaten!"......so I don't buy testimonies.
The latest research is that melanocortins activate the sodium-potassium differences via ACTH from the serotonin. Most importantly this is proven to act via the HPI/HPA – hypothalamus-pituitary-interrenal/adrenal axis.
my degree was self-designed and was first published on David Icke's website. So, it's true, I'm definitely a renegade but having Icke as my main internet introduction, puts me solidly into the trickster realm of analysis.
...my degree was self-designed and was first published on David Icke's website. So, it's true, I'm definitely a renegade...
It's awesome. I had my masters thesis published on David Icke's webmaster's magazine -- but I thought it had been Icke's website. When I mentioned this on the theparacast.com... Biedny banned me right away -- no questions asked!
What is your association with Spring Forest Quigong?
What is your association with Spring Forest Quigong?
Drew,
Do you have anything to share with this forum apart from promoting your alternative medicine? This is getting ridiculous and I'm having to try really hard not to close this thread.
None of this garbage has been proven to work no matter what useless, self-confirming studies you produce. It isn't anything more than a placebo effect. Show me some double blind test results not carried out by people trying to promote this stuff and we'll talk. As I said in a previous post with the XKCD cartoon - if this stuff actually worked, so called "big pharma" would have monetized it.
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Oh dear, I just found this from one of Drew's previous posts:
Micah Hanks, DMT and spirits - Page 6
He was banned right after that post by David. I guess the ban was lifted (probably automatically).
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Also from that thread, we find how this practice can be dangerous:
http://www.hkjpsych.com/journal_file/0004_Culture_bound 12_14.pdf
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I would have been on top of this sooner, but I've been extremely busy. Sorry about that. Does anyone believe this guy by the way?
Has even one of the 515446 links Drew has supplied ever linked to the Mayo clinic study? If not, Drew lets see the study. Where was it published and what keywords do I type in the Mayo Clinic website to see it?
Drew -it's clear what you're doing here. If you truly are inspired by the teachings and self transformation aspect of Qui Gong, you wouldn't be pressing so hard and would probably be devoting more time to your practice. Stop clogging up our boards.
As for this quote:
I wasn't aware that "self-designing" a degree was an option in academia -besides in the Arts. Perhaps I'm wrong however. Next week I'll approach my adviser with my intent to design a PhD in Marine Mammal parapsychology-see how far flies.
And: David Icke? Really?
Nevermind. I did a little research and indeed this was a Liberal Arts Masters, so... And Angel, just for the sake of due diligence, Drew posted this statement regarding his association with David Icke on ATS:
In 1999 qigong professor teacher Chunyi Lin did a class presentation to one of my graduate degree classes at the University of Minnesota. By that time I had already researched qigong on my own. I first saw qigong master Effie P. Chow in 1995 when she blew the fuse in the room behind us at St. Kates University. Before I attended that event, which I had learned about from a poster, I was so skeptical that I even asked for the price of admission to be reduced. Effie P. Chow reduced my admission price to $10 and at the event I felt very strong magnetic fields between my hands as we made "chi energy balls" and Effie P. Chow projected chi at us.
So then I read Harvard-trained medical doctor David Eisenberg's book on qigong masters -- his website is here Qigong Institute - Home Page His book is Encounters with Qi.
Amazon.com: Encounters with Qi: Exploring Chinese Medicine (9780393312133): David Eisenberg, Thomas Lee Wright: Books
Anyway when Chunyi Lin was scheduled to do his presentation I sat right in front -- the closest to him. I did feel the energy from him and I knew he was the real deal. In fact he had been mentioned to me previously by a friend who had studied with him. I had forgotten about him though since I had already started taking Yan Xin Qigong at the University of Minnesota -- a student club by Chinese students.
So then I signed up for Chunyi Lin's class which was taught through a local community college. During the first class he said he would walk around us and transmit energy to us and we would hear a shaking of the fingers as he walked by us -- that's how he was transmitting the energy. So I was standing with my legs slightly bent -- doing the basic "moving of yin and yang" exercise -- and I had my eyes closed and I heard him walk past and I heard the shaking of the fingers in the air around me.
Suddenly I saw this bright light and my body filled with amazing bliss -- and a sensation of love. When my girlfriend picked me up after class I had to accept that what I experienced was a much deeper love and bliss than I had ever experienced before.
So then I did a self-directed research project through my masters degree -- I was already researching qigong for my masters thesis and so I signed up to take classes from Chunyi Lin for graduate school credit as a class.
At that point I began practicing qigong intensively and also studying all sorts of meditation and nonwestern philosophy books as per my self-directed research -- you can see a list of my references here: What is nonduality, nondualism, Advaita? Part Eight
O.K. so I primarily used the book Taoist Yoga: Alchemy and Immortality as my main text. I practiced the "small universe" exercise intensively along with the standing Tai-Chi exercises.
I describe my training experience in detail in my book -- Chapter Five.
By the end of 2000 I had permanently transformed my brain -- not only that but I had done healing on other people -- and I also saw dead spirits -- I also had telepathy, telekinesis and precognition. I even accidentally pulled this old lady's spirit right out of her body -- by accident. She was bawling for 15 minutes straight but she knew I had good intentions. I had just forgotten that you're not supposed to pull energy blockages directly out of top of the center of someone's skull -- all this was without touching anyone.
For my training I went on a no salt diet, as detailed in "Taoist Yoga: Alchemy and Immortality" -- and I was vegan -- and then I did a final fasting on just a half glass of water for 8 days non-stop meditation -- during this time the electromagnetic fields were strongest in my body. Finally I experienced a spacetime vortex that occurs right before real astral travel.
The energy around me was too intense so I stopped practicing intensely and I began to do more research. At this time I discovered Master Nan, Huai-chin's books that are now out of print but you can find the newest book Measuring Meditation -- a 900 page book at Meditation techniques and guided lessons that teach you how to meditate
So before my energy channels closed up Chunyi Lin said I had an "enlightenment experience" and then he touched his finger to my forehead and he shot this laser shen energy into the center of my brain which created a permanent magnetic bliss in the center of my brain.
So then I stopped training totally for a couple months because I wanted to see if the magnetic bliss would go away. It didn't go away. That was 10 years ago and then I had received my masters degree but I realized I needed to translate my experience and discovery back into Western science as best as possible.
So I spent that last 10 years reading one scholarly book a day on average while sitting in full lotus for several hours a day. The full lotus third eye training enabled me to exorcise my body and mind of the lower emotional blockages so my mind had better energy to take in new information. During this time I continued to do electromagnetic pineal gland energy transmissions and recorded my experiences.
I also kept taking the Spring Forest Qigong classes on occasion but now that I was graduated I was only working a part-time job and I no longer had a car so I didn't have the finances for the classes. The last class I took was six years ago and I haven't had any direct contact with Spring Forest Qigong since then, although I did call to possibly get a phone healing but I didn't actually get one.
From my online research I began to make contact with people from all over the world who were interested in my research so several people interviewed me and posted the interviews online and then several people began reading my research regularly online as well through my blog Natural Resonance Revolution
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Qigong has a documented history going back over 3,000 years and it is a mystery. This forum is titled "Ancient Mysteries." My argument is that qigong comes from the Bushmen Khoisan culture -- the original humans -- going back to 100,000 BCE. As I stated the N/om energy of the Bushmen is the same as the kundalini energy of India and the jing energy of China.
So I'm just sharing this ancient mystery on the ancient mystery forum. Since it's a forum then obviously it's subject to debate and criticism and the continued posting of links to be considered as per the means of the internet, etc.
As for "double blind" standards versus the "randomized controlled" standard -- one blind -- the basis for qigong is the philosphy of nondual consciousness which means a "double blind" can not be applied by definition.
For example as causation of the energy transference -- was it telepathy? Did the person have precognition? In other words if the original source of the energy can not be "contained" and measured then it can not be subjected to a "double blind" standard. On the other hand a randomized controlled standard is considered sufficient for Western medical research. Randomized, controlled designs: The for knowing what works — Evidence Based Living
So I've posted three randomized controlled qigong studies on this thread -- so qigong has been proven by Western science and qigong efficacy has been replicated by Western science.
You might want to enquire with Dr. Nisha Manek at the Mayo Clinic if you have further questions about applying "double blind" to energy medicine based on the concept of consciousness. haha. There is some excellent research in this arena by philosophy of science professor H.M. Collins, as I discuss in my book.
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If you look at the original post I made on the thread it gives the actual peer-reviewed journal that the Mayo Clinic research was published in. You'd have to access a database that has a subscription to the journal to read the full study online -- at a local college or university for example. Science Citation Index would probably have it. A local public library might have access to it but it is less likely.
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Yeah my masters thesis was published a couple places online -- the HiddenMysteries online magazine had the same webmaster as David Icke's website --and also the volunteer webmaster for Ken Wilber published my masters thesis. I critiqued Ken Wilber in my masters thesis and I was attempting to contact him to get his feedback and so his webmaster published my masters thesis instead. Then someone put my masters thesis on scribd -- you can read it here: Epicenters of Justice
Here's some self-designed Ph.Ds for you Self-designed -- interdisciplinary so I would assume that includes the natural sciences as well -- not just social sciences. Yep -- UMKC School of Graduate Studies Includes biochemistry, etc.
Apparently Qi Gong hasn't trained you in the subtleties of human communication -i.e. understanding when you're overstepping boundaries and over-staying your welcome here. But on the flip side, Qi Gong has done a bang up job at forging your obliviousness -especially on prepaing you to outright ignore messages like the one that seems to be the general consensus of the forum members here, "bugger off." I mean come on, you're quoting reactions from the forum members here on your website!? From an outside observer, it could look like this is a deliberate attempt to provoke and upsell your speil.
And how pathetic is it name dropping Ken Wilber and David Icke's Webmaster? -as if publishing on their Webmaster's sites in any way associates you with their work or validates you by default. In my book, that desperate little move puts you in a category all alone.
Well thanks for checking out my blog. Yeah I get over 300 hits a day from all over the world -- so it's decent for a "micro blog." haha.
The name dropping charge is hilarious. As I wrote -- I was critiquing Ken Wilber in my masters thesis, not agreeing with Ken Wilber. I've critiqued David Icke as well (which, of course, isn't difficult to do). haha. I did have a nice connection via Icke's website though -- Cy Grant corresponded with me and then he wrote a column on his website that is a great summary of my own research as well. MUSIC OF THE SPHERES : The Cy Grant Website So yeah I'm proud to share agreement with Cy Grant -- better known in the U.K. from where he's from. Yeah Cy Grant actually quotes alot of the same sources I used in my masters thesis and he told me he really enjoyed my masters thesis.
So Cy Grant is reiterating the nonwestern music harmonics as the underlying commonality to the ancient mystery of energy healing and consciousness.
It is ironic that the topic of my thread is clearly in the subject of this forum -- ancient mysteries -- and while the members of the paracast forum who have replied have largely not addressed the content of my thread they have attempted to remove the topic as a whole. Of course there was one person who said he was going to look into the subject of qigong in more depth which is why I provided more links. So I do appreciate that encouragement in the subject matter.
In my initial post of this thread I didn't limit myself to qigong but used it as a gateway to the ancient mystery of the Bushmen healing culture -- again with the common model of complementary opposite resonance modeled by nonwestern music.
Yeah my masters thesis was published a couple places online -- the HiddenMysteries online magazine had the same webmaster as David Icke's website --and also the volunteer webmaster for Ken Wilber published my masters thesis.
Wilber is racist and dishonest about the implications of modern and postmodern "evolution." In fact the concept of evolution was created at the same time the industrial revolution was completely raping and wiping out Nature.
There is no "evolution" for higher mammals, as documented by the top conservation biologists.
Humans are just a blink in the cycles of cosmic geology.
Spirituality is real but it's an artifact of indigenous cultures and therefore less and less common while the techno-spirituality of new brain-machine interfaces is all controlled by the top-down Freemasons who live in underground cities!!
The Apocalypse is among us.
You're DoomEd and you're Going the Wrong Way!!
Aside from the Falon Gong crappola Trained, don't you think it might have at least a placebo effect?
Yes, and when placebo effect meets genuine chronic illness, like Multiple Sclerosis, the relapse is eventual.
[SIZE=+2]H[/SIZE]uaxia Zhineng Qigong Clinic & Training Center*, simply known as the Center, normally has more than four thousand people living there, including doctors, patients, ChiLel teachers, trainees, and supporting personnel. The Center was established in 1988 in the city of Zigachong and later, in 1992, relocated to the city of Qinhuangdao. In 1995, it again expanded to its present address, an old army hospital in the city of Fengrun, two hours by train from Beijing. It is directed by its founder, Dr. Pang Ming, a Qigong grandmaster and physician trained in both Western and Chinese traditional medicine. This hospital is the largest of its kind in China and probably in the world. The Center avoids medicines and special diets in favor of exercise, love, and life energy. It is a non-profit organization and is recognized by the Chinese government as a legitimate clinic. Over the years, the Center has treated more than one hundred and eighty diseases, the overall success rate being more than 95%.
I spent the entire month of May living in the Center, observing first hand how the hospital operates and interviewing more than one hundred people who have miraculously recovered from incurable diseases such as cancer, diabetes, arthritis, heart disease, severe depression, paralysis, and systemic lupus.
* Due to political reasons, the Center was closed in 2001.
In November 1991, grandmaster Pang Ming founded the Huaxia Zhineng Qigong Centre in Qinhuangdao, China. Over a period of more than ten years, 200,000 patients (Pang Ming called them students) were treated at the Centre, the largest medicine-free hospital in the world. All patients were tested and diagnosed, then put through intensive training in Zhineng Qigong for a month, after which the tests were repeated. The healing rate for patients was over 95% and encompassed over two hundred disease categories including cancers, liver disorders, heart disease, paralysis, diabetes, congenital defects etc. More than 3000 scientific reports about Zhineng Qigong have been published in China and in 1998, grandmaster Pang Ming was the first person to receive a certificate of appreciation from the Chinese Ministry of Sports and Health. Of the eleven Qigong forms that were researched by the Government, Zhineng Qigong was recognized as the most effective for healing purposes.
In 2001, the Centre in China was closed due to the Chinese government’s problems with the Falun Gong movement. The authorities banned gatherings of more than fifty people and the Huaxia Centre, where thousands congregated, was shut down amidst this political firestorm. Students and teachers of Zhineng Qigong were scattered in smaller centres throughout China and abroad.
In 1991 the centre published "A Summary of Zhineng Qigong's Healing Effects on Chronic Diseases". According to this data from 7,936 patients, an overall an overall effective healing rate of 94.96 % was achieved. This represents:
- 15.20 % cured: All symptoms gone; tests, x-rays, etc. show everything is normal
- 37.68 % very effective: Symptoms almost gone, tests show great improvement
- 42.09 % effective: Noticeable improvements, can eat and sleep well, and feels good
- 5.04 % no effect, or worse