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Taoist Esoteric

To some the phrase "Taoist yoga" may conjure up the ancient stances of the Chinese martial arts or the stylized poses of the Peking opera. But Taoist yoga has little to do with poses or stances: rather, it is a precise science of cultivating the body's subtle energy, or ch' i, for balancing and healing the body and mind. And according to old Chinese texts and a handful of modern master, it is a safe and sure practice for attaining enlightenment as well. One such modern master is Mantak Chia who has been teaching the methods of his Taoist lineage in North America since 1977. Neither a scholar of ancient texts nor a workshop educated purveyor of fashionable growth techniques. Chia is apparently the genuine article - a man who has studied since childhood with a series of authentic masters and has been specifically empowered to pass on to others the ancient teachings of Taoist yoga....

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Hi, have you heard about the crisis in Burma?
Burma is ruled by one of the worst military dictatorships in the world.  This week Buddhist monks and nuns began marching and chanting prayers to call for democracy. The protests spread and hundreds of thousands of Burmese people joined in -- they've been brutally attacked by the military regime, but still the protests are spreading.
I just signed a petition calling on Burma's powerful ally China and the UN security council to step in and pressure Burma's rulers to stop the killing. The petition has exploded to over 371,660 signatures in a few days and is being advertised in newspapers around the world, delivered to the UN secretary general, and broadcast to the Burmese people by radio. We're trying to get to 1 million signatures this week, please sign below and tell everyone!
http://www.avaaz.org/en/stand_with_burma/tf.php

Maybe if many people sign this, something is moving in the collective subconscious to help those people?

 

Hi everybody, glad I found your forum.
I've had lucid dreams and obe's since I was a kid, mainly false awakenings, sleep paralysis and nightmares.
Because I had them so regularly I always assumed that everybody had them.
Then I found books about Astral-travel and started to get some control over it. By then I was a teenager and I was so delighted about actively controlling these things that I started talking to my class-mates about it.
That's when I realized that I was pretty much alone with it, after the initial teasing and getting a nickname for being a weirdo I shut up and kept it to myself, lol.
I never met an active lucid dreamer in real life, (only once , but by then the guy had been scared and given up).
It's so good to see that here are lot's of people having these experiences!
I've got some stuff to share, even a couple of validations and premonitions, so I look very much forward to join into your discussions.

cheers 
Birdy