Qigong and Tai Chi both make use of the Qi energy that runs through the body. That qi energy is moved about through the acupuncture energy channels of the body, by use of the mind. “The mind intent leads the qi energy, and the blood follows” is an old training adage. It is the blood …
Author: Via Perennis
Energy Waves and Sacred Geometry
One of the key insights that has come to me in my polarity therapy work, with relevance for sensgendered meditations as well, was that what appear as static material forms to the eye are backed by standing energetic waves in various whole configurations, more complex than the rectilinear shapes and designs projected by our human …
Talking about Meditation by Feeling
There is a lack of an appropriate word in the English language to denote the voluntary action of generating an internal feeling within oneself independently of external stimuli. This becomes a particular problem when we are forced to revert to words like "imagine" or "visualize" almost exclusively to describe or convey meditative exercises. Even feeling-type …
Absence, Presence, Emptiness, Fullness
It is a common and apparently quite natural habit with us to regard the material given through the senses as being something actual....So the larger portion of the human search for Reality is in the field of the things given to consciousness through the senses. But in my reflecting upon the idea that this universe …
Energy Medicine, Putative “Pseudo-science”
There are those who contend that energy medicine methods are "pseudo-scientific" and there is no evidence to support them. Aside from this claim exhibiting more than a little disingenuousness (there are studies that offer limited scientific support for some modalities), Western science has long exhibited an inherent bias against anything that can't be clinically measured, …
Why am I here? What is the purpose?
Those are the fundamental questions, are they not? For you, the reader of this site, and for me as a gentle guide to the bit of hard-earned wisdom compiled through my years of search, and through the millenia where the great voices have spoken at length about the nature of humanity, Divinity, and cosmology. And …
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