Showing posts with label biospirit. Show all posts
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Monday, July 15, 2024

Prairie Sweet Root

 Prairie Herbs

     The plants of flat earth prairie are important parts of what we do under the shining light of sky,


southwind blowing, here upon turtle island province. Dalea purpurea, purple turtle island sweet root is one of an assemblage of an abundance of local herbs used by the vitalist under guidance, to fortify and potentiate biospirit focusing on supporting the stomach spleen complex. I want to discuss a few flat earth prairie herbs in relation to the stomach/spleen complex. I also want to explain concepts, including vitalism, Qi, runes, and the stomach spleen complex. And discuss why these concepts need to be discussed and elaborated freely. Qi is an Asian term and concept which is fundamental to TCM, traditional Chinese medicine. TCM is important because it is a foundational understanding to using plants, botanical preparations, to heal the body. The connection between Asian botanical medicine and America, what I am calling Turtle Island, is nothing new. As an example Panax quinquifolius or ginseng, was a significant trade item in colonial times. William Byrd (1674-1744) wrote in a 1737 letter, from the Colony and Dominion of Virgina, “I fancy you have been nibbling of Ginseng ever since you have received that Box from my good Lord Pembroke, by the Venture which you have mended all the Flaws which Jamaica had made in your constitution. I believe ever since the Tree of Life had been strongly guarded the Earth has never produced any vegetable so friendly to man as Ginseng. Nor do I say this as Random, or by the Strength of my Faith, but by my own Experience. I have found it very cordial and reviving after a great Fatigue”. So much so that many historical gründungsväter including George Washington, Thomas Jefferson were familiar with ginseng and was for them a cash export wild gathered crop sold to China. It is important to understand that gingseng was for them not a potent medicinal they used for their folk, for the wellbeing of their people. Ginseng for them was something to be extracted and sold off, in an everything for sale niche eco-zone commodity. Ginseng was for them like the fur trade, something to grab. Daniel Boone with his coon skin cap sold ginseng by the boat load. Again gathered not for his folk, gathered to be sold to highest bidder. One record indicates he sold more than a ton of dried ginseng root for $55,000 in the late 1790's, which would be 1.5 million dollars in today's dollar amount. He sold ginseng in the amount of tons, thousands of pounds.

     Qi, in the oldest written records, the oracle bones, is drawn with three diagonal wavy lines. It looks similar to a rock art petroglyph, it looks to be a kind of basic easily understood sign symbol. The dynamics of the visual look like a less linear, more roundish curved rune, perhaps a symbol for waves, ripples, or water. A rune is one of our Germanic euro ancestral forms of writing that exist from archeological evidence. All peoples have scratched lines in the dirt, made marks in caves and grottoes, made themselves understood to each other with lines. In the Asian oracle bones, I always assumed the three wavy lines meant a sign for river, creek, a flowing stream of water. The three squiggly lines being some kind of universal sign for water. However yes, the qi symbol origin of three squiggly wavy lines in the oracle bones seems to be a water sign, with more of a mist rising element, vapour, rather than a stream or flowing watercourse. The earliest qi symbol as mist vapour in the sense of something active inside of something else, something active and present but not always obviously there. Obvious in terms of not being readily noticeable, yet active. In terms of the oracle bones, it is said to be a logoform for one’s breath seen, exhaled as visible steam on a cold day. One’s breath is always active, always present working but not always visible, not always noticeable. On a cold morning one sees the breath but it’s there all the same whether seen or unseen. In that seen or unseen yet working is a fundamental principle, that is, often when a bodily process is working effectively unhindered it does so best unnoticed. We notice when things go awry. Later the qi ideogram was linked with a more complex logoform image, the steam or vapour seen rising above a covered pot cooking, on a stove, filled with rice in boiling steaming water.  Later the pictograph image, it incorporates these three wavy lines with a sickle like a plough added in the lower portion, indicating sowing, breaking up the soil, the penetration of the heavenly sun shimmery wave breaths into soil of earth, producing new green life. If this interpretation is true, then it also points to the human element, the growers of rice, the rice harvesters working in cooperation with their cooking, with the five elements visible. A metal cooking vessel over a fire of burning wood, rice grains from the earth, fire heat, moist water, a metal pot. So it may be correct to in some ways talk of qi as an overarching premise, yet the qi of the human realm is always smaller than that, more personal inhabiting the visible world of action in 5 senses, touch- stirring the rice, taste the sweetness of rice, seeing the rising steam, hearing the boiling sound, smelling the fire and flavour of boiling rice sensed through the nose olfactory smell. Qi may be associated with the three unbroken lines of ch’ien, of heaven but our feet are on the ground on this turtle flat earth island, prairie south wind blowing. The pictograph for Qi symbolizes a kind of vitality that rises upward and also descends. Qi streams down upon us down here as above ground persons on the flat earth prairie, this heaven enters earth. Then the qi rises, like water evaporating from a lake rising into heaven, forming clouds. When we look up and see 21.6.2024 the waxing gibbous moon in Sagittarius, sun in gemini, at mid sommer solstice, it dips in and out of clouds dancing. This walking in clouds as clouds dancing is no different than mountains walking, or our feet turning the wheel of our bicycles. As above as below, sun streaming as solar heavenly sunshine doing all kinds of creation. Earth essence rising, back and forth. We can call the two legged above ground walking earth people as composed of heavenly qi and earth qi. Our human life is the cultivation of qi within the 5 seasons of spring, early summer, late summer, autumn, and winter. Our life as cultivating gathering qi creates infancy, youth, adulthood, old age and death. When qi can no longer be gathered it becomes more and more diffused, less focused, distracted and the qi disperses and separates and our life ends. Our bodies and all the component processes of our human life stop, we die. The body dies when the qi is no longer collected and it disperses. The three lines again form the basic yang trigram Ch’ien heaven. Then the two ch’ien heaven trigrams forming the definitive yang yang, first hexagram of the Yi Jing, as the first grouping, heaven over heaven. The first emanation of the 64 changes in all the various patterns unfolding.


    All vocals, acoustic guitar, bass, percussion, music, lyrics by wild herb ways, recorded 21.6.2024

 Midsommer solstice, above ground days, https://youtu.be/xTNSalU3P0E?feature=shared

Moon in Capricorn, sun in gemini. 

Midsommer, 

Thank you, Wild herb ways. 

For the medicine, for the medicine,

You’ve given me today. 

I ride my bicycle.

I thank you, wild herb ways.

Thank you Dad, thank you Mom.

For giving me birth, so long ago.

This medicine road is endless,

Our well being is non-negotiable,

Blessings wild herb ways,

Thank you Dad, thank you Mom.

Thank you sun, thank you moon.

Thank you sun. and moon.


On this above ground day, midsummer solstice eve,,,

The sun is in gemini and the moon in Capricorn.

I walk through fields of flowers. I ride my bicycle.

I stare at blue sky, clouds and the south wind,

Thank you father, 

Thank you Dad, thank you Mom

Thank you sun and moon.

Midsommer, midsommer solstice,

Thank you Dad, thank you Mom

Thank you sun and moon.

Thank you sun and moon.









    


 The second element is the yang and yin, the dao of heaven and earth, these co-related opposing yet cooperative things. Yang is the bright sunny side while yin is dark, in shadow side, sun and moon, one divided into two. These contrary natures are attracted to one another. Water is downward inward moving coolness, fire is upward outward moving warmth. Water and fire are the embodiments of yin and yang. We classify according to comparison. In addition yin becomes yang and yang becomes as in day and night, night and day. Substance is yin and function is yang. There is yin within yang and yang within yin. Yang waxes and yin wanes, yin waxes and yang wanes. It's dark then gradually the light in the east, day comes. We are young and strong sexually attractive, wanted and desired, then we are cast off, no one gives a thought or consideration to what we have to say. We are worn out, wrinkled, impaired, broken and every axis of our being in old age suffers decline. There is not a single bio system that is not tainted with the failure of sickness, weakness, old age and death. We are visible, then we become invisible.


    Qi takes countless forms and allows one thing to become another. It is important to understand that qi is not a universal spirit, inserted into lifeless stuff like a spirit injection. The idea is quite a shaking up of things, the web without a weaver. Qi is localized to the situation here being the organ system. A universal spirit, as an universal life force is not the best approach to understand the localized forms qi takes within each body organ system activity. As an example the following statements about bodily fluids may be substantially true, yet they are not useful. Mucus is mainly water, urine is mainly water, cerebral spinal fluid is mainly water, saliva is mainly water. Yes it is true that these four bodily fluids are upwards of 95% water yet everything about their activity in the body is different. Yes saliva and cerebral spinal fluid are 99% water, yet that doesn’t make spinal fluid and saliva equivalent substances in the body. Qi in the body means there are many different kinds of qi in the body. In that way qi in the body is localized to function, by that function and so as we said, qi takes countless forms and allows one thing to become another. Qi is most appropriate as a concept when connected to specific fluid situations as process. 

    Stomach spleen is here understood both as the cooperative organ associates and the organ system processes that these organ systems work. Purple sweet root herb tonifies spleen stomach complex, by nourishing the splenetic stomachtic pathway. In the Asian Chinese system the spleen and stomach are interdependent and complimentary. The stomach moves downward while the spleen moves up. The spleen is considered a yin organ while the stomach is yang. Spleen governs transport and transformation, spleen stomach transforms food becoming sources of qi and blood. Original prenatal qi comes from our mother and father and is the kidney qi, postnatal qi is from food and drink and is processed by the spleen mixed with the kidney qi, sent to the lungs, breath qi distributed throughout the body. 

     In general terms of western conceptual anatomy, within the dominant culture the basic concept seems to be that for each described organ and each organ system, each organ and each organ system operates relatively independently. Therefore the anatomy of selfish  individualism run amoc, private property with little public space. While such a categorization was used initially on the level of anatomical dissection, for the purpose of learning and teaching, it has now overtaken the conceptual framework. The heart for instance is a word with a rich nuanced history that was jettisoned and stripped so now the heart is a kind of pump. The heart was once an organ of perception, of love, of warmth, of passion, of friendship and commitment. Now reduced to a pump. In our own historical western framework we have a much more nuanced understanding for the organs, parts and functions of the body that has undergone erasure and replacement within the prevailing preferred lexicon of organ systems and anatomy, on the conceptual level. Just as we have a mechanized industrial culture. We have an industrial mechanized framework of ideas to fit our medicine and health care. So we could say a fundamental truth of this style of anatomy has an analogy in the political science, organizing and validating behaviour, and thereby reinforcing the political correctness of hyper selfish individualism. With the mechanized anatomy supporting similar concepts of the mechanized medical health care delivery system through the organs and organ systems. First it’s important to realize the organ systems as independently functioning entities, exist apart from any system east or west used to describe them. Labeling something does not create or change that something. Just as water has different words in different languages but retains its essence as water regardless of the words to describe water. Dividing the organs up into little fiefdoms is a kind of mnemonic learning device in simplistic anatomy. This scientific understanding was never posited that the stomach functions somehow free and clear of the adjacent organs. Codependency, mutual benefit and cooperation is the root of the organ systems regardless what terms are used to verbally describe these cooperative intertwined systems.

https://pgmanski.blogspot.com/2024/01/tree-qigong.html



     In this kind of simplistic mechanized derivative anatomy, the stomach is a hollow tube, an organ of digestion. The spleen is understood as a blood filter. Usually when talking about the stomach the topic is related to digestion of food. While the spleen is understood as a kind of specialized blood filter device. The spleen is about 4 inches long, 3 inches wide and 1.5 inches thick. Its color is purple. It weighing about a half pound. A person who studied simplistic trade traditional anatomy will think it rather odd, bizarre or random to talk about the spleen and stomach as closely aligned body organs acting within a common organ system. That the spleen has emotional energy. The heart can break. The Immaculate heart of Mary, the Sacred heart of Jesus. Someone is sick to their stomach. Losing your lover best friend is a punch to the gut. People point at themselves, they point at the heart. That's me, that's who I am. The spleen is sulky and preoccupied, pensive, ruminating. All these associations with a rich mytho poesis then suddenly, the only analogy permitted by their dominant culture are plumbing metaphors, tubes, pumps and pipes. Suddenly we are machines and cogs in a wheel, we are parts. Look you are alive, and anything that worked previously works now. An obsidian blade cuts as well today as it did ten thousand years ago. While the spleen is acknowledged co-habiting physical space in direct physical proximity to the stomach, it usually is conceptually disassociated from the stomach and digestion. As if even though the stomach and spleen are directly next to one another, it is a kind of accident that this physical proximity exists. As if the spleen and stomach are two adjacent suburban homes, separated by manicured grass with completely separate unrelated occupants, who rarely make eye contact, who never interact, sharing only a vague relationship. You can see it’s a peculiar, reflective, projected anatomy that is distinctively political and mechanistic derived. As if the anatomy of a human being is the same as the internal parts of an american automobile. All the stuff inside the body are stuffed into the skin bag shell. As if the anatomy of a person is exactly like the components of an automobile. As if components in an automobile or mechanical system are the same as components in a living human body. The same way the automobile is thrown together with the car battery next to the car radiator, without any meaningful placement of the parts. It’s totally accidental that the battery electrical system is next to the heating cooling radiator. There is nothing shared between battery and radiator but lines on a mechanical diagram. In the same way as the american state of Kansas is a near perfect rectangle, with two paralell 410 mile east west, straight line boundaries drawn on a geometric, mechanical drawing board. Whatever Kansas is, or was is now described and defined and contained in the straight lines and square corners drawn with an ink pen on a sheet of graph paper. Lines drawn with no respect to rivers, hills, plants, animals or people who live within those lines. Likewise a mapped mechanized anatomy to fit a mechanistic worldview with the dominated mechanized people, required to live their monotonous meaningless lives within those straight line mandated boundaries within those stark square boundaries, replaceable malleable consumers of no consequence. 

     The stomach is located in the upper left quadrant of the abdominal area. The stomach is below the diaphragm next to the spleen. It's slightly to the left of the body's midline, between the esophagus and the duodenum, and behind the pancreas. The top of the stomach connects to the esophageal sphincter, a muscle at the end of the esophagus, and the bottom connects to the small intestine. 


    Turtle island purple sweet root also known as purple prairie clover, Dalea purpurea. Daleas known as indigo bush or purple D. purpurea and white D. candida, prairie clovers are new world plants of the western hemisphere. Despite being called a clover, clovers are old world plants in the Trifolium family. Daleas are in the same pea bean family member but are normally not considered a clover. Both are considered Legumaceae, Fabaceae family plant persons. Plant person refers to the genius operative heart of our world teacher known to us as our world teacher genius Wild Herb Ways. Wild herb ways allows us to nourish biospirit, promoting mutual wellbeing thus halting the process of white victimization directed against us as erasure. Purple sweet root is our premier splenetic stomach herb and is a great gift from the creative genius mind of wild herb ways to facilitate our wellbeing because we are an emblematic people. Everything about us is we ours and us. Those are the primordial pronouns we use to obtain our group wellbeing, an us, a people.

    Purple sweet root Dalea purpurea presents 15.6.2024 at first quarter Libra moon, just coming into flower. A tall stem topped with a distinctive purple thimble shape, cone like flower cylindrical spike, although not in the asteracea family with the other black eyed susan-esque, echinacea, rudbeckia and other aster cone flowers nearby. It is considered a pea or bean family legume. The individual tiny flowers on the thimble began to open purply pink from the bottom, moving upward towards the cone shaped grey green top hat. The stem is covered with pubescent bristly hairs. The leaves are compound lanceolate in a 3-fold pattern emerging alternate densely covering the stem towards the base and less so towards the flowering purple fringed cone. The flowery stems in this area are distinctively single although in other areas it maybe flowering in clumps. The turtle island sweet root emerges from a deep tap root. It’s flavour and energetics are sweet, and fruity. It has overtones of melon on the tongue. If you run your hand up the stalk and rake off the leaves, it’s leaves are soft to touch, making a sweet fragrance totally unlike the other thimble shaped cone leaves of the aster family. 


    I Walk Medicine, is a new composition recorded 27.6.2024 Moon Pisces, by the miraculous healer absolute love taken biospirit flesh. I am the medicine road world teacher wild herb ways incarnated to be. All bass guitars acoustic recorded by divine I am the medicine road world teacher wild herb ways incarnated. Thank you I am here to heal you right now, I am blessed and blessing you.


https://youtu.be/Ef-LoTOkLMA?feature=shared

sweet root is known as a style of prairie flat earth deer medicine and prairie chicken medicine. As an herb, it is a sovereign divine being, sent to heal the condition of our time as ourselves. Prairie chicken and deer are both considered sweet, nourishing stomach spleen, enabling us to keep sweet. Many of you are familiar with the parting goodbye, “Keep sweet.” Keeping sweet means to thus nourish the spleen and maximize the splenetic pathway for maximum wellbeing. Keeping sweet is a familiar term used and means one is composed, at ease and acting spontaneously in together action as opposed to the bizarre selfish hyper individualism that is the framework of the infiltrated eco-zone. Turtle Island sweet root is a deep tap rooted perennial that devotes itself to zig zag lightning from sky father and the rooted all mother intuited as our all mother of grottos, springs, cave, glade, prairie and flat earth elm wood. She, the plant person who we devotedly pray enjoining her to bless our decisions in the above ground world, takes the circulating shakti power of air circulating in the atmosphere and makes herself available as rapturous sweet embrace, deep rooted flat earth, purple fragrant sweet root medicine, as leaf stem and flower. The living blessedness of the divine female energy in a living bio-system, is the inherent blessingway of our Holy Mother of God, all the divine motherhood of person plant and place contained in the Euro world preserved in traditional Catholic and pagan Nordic, Sunna, Freya. The unification of earth and sky, mother and father, united as partners and confidants in the celestial marriage chamber and holds the supreme key of spiritual, psychological and bodily well-being known as bio-spirit. Connecting big world Mother energy we can connect big and small world energies of healing in a flat earth prairie vitalism, as above so below– both for healing ourselves and healing others. These begin with the air through which we live, move and have our being as pneuma, spirit placed in our nostrils before birth as we circled around, we circle around, the boundaries of the earth. Wearing long wing feathers as we fly, we circle around. We circled around the boundaries of the earth, awaiting embodiment in a tabernacle at the moment of conception. So which contains the vitality of life as prana qi vital spark within us circulating as in out breathing. The english word atmosphere refers to a vapourous gas exhaled by the living earth and surrounds the planet. The atmos sphere, the atman spirit of our people, our ancestors, our beautiful white wellbeing herbal family.  The inherent blessingway of our Holy Mother of God, all the divine motherhood of person plant and place, Mary, Ave Maria, Sunna, Freya.

There is only one single thing to give up, our selfish individualism. Whatever basket contained us then contains us now. I can pray to Jesus, I can say the Pater Noster the Our Father, as my grand parents and parents said it. I can say the Ave Maria. Because who i am is an us. Who I am is a we. What my father and his father honoured, I can honour. There is only the love we have for each other as a people, that love is also for our immediate ancestors. I believe in you, as saint living beings, guiding and protecting me here now. I know and believe in the communion of saints and the forgiveness of sin, the resurrection of the body and the life of the world to come. I see through a clouded glass, in the same framework my parents believed, my grandparents believed. Yet I believe not only their understanding, a failed understanding, an infiltrated understanding which obviously brought us here, I believe also in the tyranny of experience as experience, the experience of my peers.




    “‘Tis Observed, in the Solary Eclipses, that there is some times a great Trepidation about the Body of the Moon, from which we may likewise argue an Atmo-sphaera, since we cannot well conceive what so probable a cause there should be of such an appearance as this, Quod radii Solares a vaporibus Lunam ambientibus fuerint intercisi, that the Sun-beams were broken and refracted by the Vapours that encompassed the Moon. [Rev. John Wilkins, "Discovery of New World or Discourse tending to prove that it probable there may be another World in the Moon," 1638]

     As such we are particularly devoted to the re-emergence and deepening patriarchy of our father god, and call upon him, Wotan to nourish our white family, and nourish our white values from being compromised by antiwhite intentions of harm through the victimization of our people. We invoke this world and the spiritual world of our ancestors, of Christ, of Wotan to halt the victimization of our people. We are in a situation like Spain in 1480, we are in a generational struggle. If there is one word to remember it is cunning. Only a fool shares the inner heart with a stranger. We have no need to telegraph our plans. Yet our plans and intentions are 100% always for our people, our kith and kin. Our means and goals is to always guard against the selfish hyper individualism that is symbolized by the flag of white erasure that was central to the victimization and erasure of our people in the 30 years war 1914-1945 inflicted upon our european homelands by the oligarchs. The reality is these wars of erasure going back to the fabulous monster Abraham Lincoln, who led the war of northern aggression against the southern folk, left 1,000,000 dead in his war against our people. The mindset to have inflicted countless misery for those who do their dance of death under whatever cause they claim, we disavow. One aside, I met a Kansas wheat farmer couple married 57 years. The husband in a wheeled chair with his wife strapping his leg so he could exercise. I noticed unhealed diabetic ulceration on his lower leg and wanted to share red oil, a potent healing salve for our people since the crusades of the middle ages. Red oil is made from the flowering tops of Hypericum perforatum, St John's wort. Knowing Kansas plants, I know that healing plant grows where he described his farm location. Here was a farmer who had lived his whole life on his farm, yet had never heard or seen the st john's wort growing beneath his feet. A farmer who knows nothing about the plants that grow on his land. I want to make clear I felt a bond with this farmer and his loving wife caring for him. In fact thinking of him, I have cried, for what could have been. A tennant farmer of the industrial complex, a farmer whose connection to the earth has been severed, white erased, in their generational paradigm. I've learned cunning, to always be wary, under any circumstances to use discretion to share herbal remedies directly with the dominant culturist. They frequently have an angled perspective mounted on the surveillance media police state premise of watch, report, shun, and destroy. Their motto is often regime first, everything for the regime. Although I know there are folk first farmers, the entanglements of land ownership here means that farmers are regime 5-year plan farmers. My motto and the motto of our genius world teacher wild herb ways, is was and will be, "Folk first.", and " Evaluate everything for the wellbeing of our people.", that is the test, that is the formula.

As we pray, “Our father who guides and protects, holy is thy name.” We think of Prairie sweet root as a pathway aspect of our sky father God who we invoke, when we say, “Thank you father, blessings always to our white european ancestors.” Purple sweet root channels the zig zag lightning of tornado alley that circulates as cloud wind energy. Purple sweet root through its deep root taps into useful nutritive gentle supportive love. In a theory of science this is voiced, understood as a nitrogen fixing plant person. Nitrogen fixing plants are often legumes but are not limited to legumes. The nitrogen fixing plants fall across plants in several diverse plant families, such as alder, Turtle island prairie redroot, lead plant, milk vetch, Desmodium spp, and rather than a specific plant family points to a process of cooperative symbiosis with plant roots, soil bacteria, the ambient air, and complex heavenly process such as lightning and fire. Turbulent air embracing meeting earth. The sacred land sacred sex dynamis is why our genius world teacher wild herb ways advises men and women to copulate outdoors in fields, just as our white fore fathers and fore mothers did the same to invigorate their fields and gardens. In this way we re-enact celestial marriage vows, to experience our sacred space. We invite the earth plant people into our lives and becomes the zigzag lightning that penetrates as wind into the female body symbolized by the vagina. 


     For instance we can tend to think of respiration as our own personalized, localized breathing air, in a selfish hyper individualist perspective taking in oxygen, exhaling carbon dioxide. Yes our breathing is our own, in a personal way but it is equally a group symphony of all beings, including bird song breaths, tree leaf breaths and flat earth prairie breaths included in our respirations. However plant persons make up the vast majority of group together being respiration breaths. Our animal breaths are symbiotically located within the plant dominant 80/20, nitrogen oxygen breath ecosystem. We never co-exist outside plant breathing. The air we inhale is only 15% -20% oxygen depending on elevation. The vast majority of the air we breathe is 80%-85% nitrogen. Nitrogen is the 4th most common element composing the human body after oxygen, hydrogen, and carbon. While it may be true on some theoretical level that the air we breathe is composed of 80-85% percent nitrogen and somehow the nitrogen simply is an inert substance devoid of purpose or meaning inhaled and exhaled unchanged, and that the nitrogen that composes most of what we breath in and out has no role in our respiration, that is simply flawed logic. We have ample evidence that if a person were fed an exclusive breath diet of 100% oxygen, they would rapidly suffer oxygen toxicity. We could describe that oxygen toxicity as either acute oxygen toxicity with damage to the CNS nerves or chronic oxygen toxicity with damage to the lungs, respiratory and circulatory systems. It would be false to describe oxygen toxicity as breathing too much oxygen because it is equally breathing not enough nitrogen. We could call oxygen toxicity nitrogen deprivation. Our breathing has emerged and our entire compendium of process is situated in the 80% nitrogen 20% oxygen environment.

     “Extended exposure to above-normal oxygen partial pressures or shorter exposures to very high partial pressures can cause oxidative damage to cell membranes leading to the collapse of the alveoli in the lungs.  Pulmonary effects can present as early as within 24 hours of breathing pure oxygen.  Symptoms include pleuritic chest pain, substernal heaviness, coughing, and dyspnea secondary to tracheobronchitis and absorptive atelectasis, which can lead to pulmonary edema.  Pulmonary symptoms typically abate 4 hours after cessation of exposure in the majority of patients.  CNS effects manifest with a multitude of potential symptoms.  Early symptoms and signs are quite variable, but the twitching of the perioral and small muscles of the hand is a fairly consistent feature.  If exposure to oxygen pressures is sustained, tinnitus, dysphoria, nausea, and generalized convulsions can develop. CNS toxicity is expedited by factors such as raised PCO2, stress, fatigue, and cold.” (Thomson L, Paton J. Oxygen toxicity. Paediatr Respir Rev. 2014 Jun;15(2):120-3. [PubMed] [Reference list])

     The key point in this 80/20 nitro oxygen dialogue is the imperative of vitalism, the principle of gestalt integrity within all biological process. We can describe ourselves as composed of discreet separated theoretical process but whenever under any condition, the technology develops so we attempt to micromanage into reality these discreet separated theoretical processes, we experience either acute or chronic dis-ease and ill health. In this case the hyperbaric chamber or 100% oxygen delivery system. We are simply not and never meant to consume a 100% oxygen  So yes it’s possible to develop a techno machinery delivery system to deliver 100% oxygen, but such a breathing diet is inherently not conducive to health.. In theory it sounds good if 20% oxygen is good, and the 80% nitrogen we breathe is an inert non-factor in breathing,  then 100% oxygen is a better, iproved way to breathe. Which is fundamentally false. Our entire breathing process is rooted in the 80/20 nitro-oxygen paradigm. Just because we have aped the technological prowess to deliver 100% oxygen does not mean it then becomes an ultimate value to be implemented into experience. Breathing 100% oxygen is to poison the breathing process. 

     We can go further into the imperative of vitalism, and the principle of gestalt integrity within all biological process with the fundamental untruth of ‘because something feels good is good.’. Because something feels good does not mean it is good. The neurotic fetish verbalized by statements like, “It’s all good.”, “absolutely”, “Have a nice day.”, “Each to his own.”, “Do your own thing.”, “If it feels good, do it.”  We were talking about sweet taste and the spleen. This does not translate into the sugar, high fructose corn syrup environment death style inflicted upon the culture. Sugar apart and separated from itself does not exist in nature in the exact same way that 100% oxygen does not exist within our genetic experience as self. Added sugar high fructose corn syrup is a deadly poison and part of the white erasure of our people into ill health, lowered potential and biospiritual slavery via diminished potential via the food industry farming factory  .

     


The best purple turtle island sweet root has a together relationship with turtle island rose, Rosa setigira. The thorn rune, known as Thurisaz, is a protective boundary energy is summoned by making the 'th' sound, like the ‘th’-sound in the word ‘thorn’, as in hawthorn. Yet here we are not considering runes from historical archeology. We are talking about the prayerful use of runes that exist all around us as thornful rose family plants. Hawthorn is one such rose family plant that we use for medicine, both medicinal teas, tinctures and so on and as protective prayer plants to both remedy biospirit and protect our bodies, dwelling places and establish boundaries. Hawthorn as in a hedge or fence, a delineated boundary composed of the rose family plant Crataegus spp, hawthorn with its thorny branches. Placing the tongue on the upper teeth by coordinating in and out breathing. Standing erect, with the right arm hanging unencumbered, relaxed, the hand open, and fingers pointing down, the left arm forming a triangle over the portion of the abdomen housing the stomach and spleen and the vital upward moving splenetic pathway, along with the downward moving stomach pathway. The emotion of the spleen is worry, pensiveness, uncertainty, anxiety

      The spleen is inextricably related to the early spring summer. The hours of spleen are the morning hours 9-11am. While the stomach is most active between the hours of 7am-9am. The stomach time of year is the first months of summer heat, fire within earth. The spleen as a person is ok with having a body. Like a small Stomach green snake who emerges during the warmth of summer, who crawls on the ground, relatively quiet and unobtrusive. Who doesn’t have exhausting oppositional tendencies. Who is not oppositional with doing the dishes, a person who doesn’t need to take credit. A person who doesn’t wave hands in flamboyant gestures. We could say don’t waste time blaming others. The stomach takes in food and digests while the spleen distributes the essence of the food throughout the body. The typical problems of spleen stomach dysfunction are abdominal distention, bloating, abdominal pain, regurgitation and gastric distress.       


       

    The spleen is located in the upper left side of the abdomen, behind the left ribs, and next to the stomach. The spleen along with stomach coordinates as an earth organ. The spleen enables the food we eat to be assimilated where it is mixed with air in the lungs and sent throughout the body to nourish marrow and sinew. The spleen can be visualized located as it is between the ninth and 11th ribs, below the left costal margin, and positioned between the diaphragm and the fundus of the stomach.

What follows is a way to integrate protective prayer with the body system, the actual body. Here directly from the genius World Teacher is extracted a discription of how to form then rune, Thurisaz. You can incorporate the bodily position on the first Thors-day of the month for Wotan's monthly day of prayer. Here you incorporate the body with the runic form honouring your spleen.With the left hand resting on the hip creating an outward pointing triangle or thorn rune. This is known as the thorn which facilitates an energy pathway into through the splenetic pathway of digestion, absorption of nutrients into the utilization body from the lower burner. One can assume this mudra of protection to liberate the splenetic pathway. This position of the thorn rune can be cycled, alternated with the left hand, then the right hand hanging down, producing the thorn sign of protection on left and right sides of the body. The thorn rune drawn as a straight vertical line with an outward pointing triangle of two lines, can be visualized and drawn upon objects, spaces for protection and nurturing. A grouping of rocks can be positioned in this pattern with intention, especially with regard to medicine garden areas utilized in promoting biospirit. This pattern can help connect with our boundaries and repel life threatening energies pathwayed against us as erasure. I want to add a significant understanding which many folk will find offensive, that is what I said before, an obsidian blade cuts as well today as it cut 10,000 years ago for our neolithic ancestors. Many volkish pagans will be brought low to cringe to think of a euro-man walking on this turtle island seamlessly going from rune to sign of the cross, from Wotan to the Virgin Mary, from herbs to motorcar, all I can say is, "I do.", in the sense of a alchemical marriage vow. My teaching is do not childishly throw away the ways of your ancestors in a purity spiral. When you meet life and death face to face, you will understand what I mean. Everything belongs to you to use to maximize biospirit, to thrive, to become stronger. Time will sort things out.

     The spleen is symptomatic in the prescriptive vs descriptive paradigm and not so much substance oriented. When we use the term spleen, we refer both to the body organ system and the body process patterns. Spleen is process becoming. Related to the first months of summer, fire within earth. The spleen is an ongoing pattern. Often times it's not until an imbalance occurs as illness, lower functioning becoming within a negative self sabotage script, that we become aware of body process patterns such as spleen. When body process patterns are moving smoothly they are more or less transparent and invisible. The goal in health is thus to have an invisible body based on trust in the healing process, that doesn’t have any need to show itself, but simply works in a problem free way. You don’t usually have body awareness until there is some kind of body dysfunction. You are not aware of your ankle until you sprain or twist your ankle. After you twist your ankle every step you take says, “Ankle. Ankle. Ankle. I am your ankle.” Before the ankle sprain you literally had no ankle. Likewise your heart beats 100,000 times a day, yet you have no awareness of your heart until you have heart palpitations, some irregularity in the rhythm, then you suddenly get a heart, as in angina or the heart attack. After your heart muscle partially dies then you suddenly have a heart. After your Mom dies and your heart breaks, then suddenly you have a heart. Before that when you called your Mom and visited and she made you cookies, you had no heart. Now your heart is everywhere. So with body dysregulation we tend to get body hyper identity. 

     The modern manipulation of trans cultural meta experiences via inserted tech, means a person will self identify desired regime associations. So within this context there's a de rigueur de facto required filth generator media device install complex actively functioning as a regime religio icon of erasure. These devices are requirements for the occupation dynamic of occupying and being occupied within extended social space. Known within dominant culture psyop scripting as an entertainment center, or television screen. People are required to install a filth generator in a central significant spot in the home. Just as muslim women are required to wear the various hijab burqa clothing in public society as part of the social contract. So to support the death culture war machine of bombs and poisons under the bloody red white and blue, pad and tampon flag of disorientation, you telegraph your approval of ever expanding economy culture, by mouthing some media platitude of fear. The dominant culturalist in the west is required, by the same mechanism of social contract to maintain and prominently display the filth generator entertainment complex centrally within their occupied spaces. A filth generator entertainment center is installed in their dwelling to dominate and negatively impact consciousness by visually and aurally continuous behavioral prompts that supply a lived in inhabited narrative that demands ill health and dis-ease as a social norm to facilitate white erasure. When you visit a dominant culturalist there is an extravagant need to show you their war machine techno booty stuff, as in big name brand items with an obvious label. If you are wearing sunglasses they have to be Christian Dior, Ray Bann. The tv entertainment center has got to be big, extensive, dominating, wall size, bigger, better, louder, theatre sound, and it has to be running continuously, broadcasting the antiwhite villain priority narrative. If you enter a dominant culture business the tv is running in the background, it could be a doctor’s office, a clinic, a petrol station, you’re always virtue signalling to your demographic. If a he or she is verbalizing talking it’s always some kind of a tv reference dialect, cinematic quote. “You know in the film called ‘x’, so and so says ‘y’. You know what I mean? Like really.”  We really like will self-inflict the negative feedback loop broadcast into the receptive mind. Thus their speech is an incomprehensible word salad mish mash littered with media reference. Every dialogue is some kind of cinematic vicarious click bait narrative referencing some icon influencer. The message of the countless hours spent transfixed in front of the filth generator complex being programmed via cinema videos is designed to inflict harm by producing a narrative that highlights hyper individualism and pathological altruism for the twin purpose of wealth redistribution and erasure of white european western values. Just as frequent consumption of the ubiquitous caffeinated diabetes serum such as coca cola or pepsi cola is a requirement of life under the oppressive red white and blue bloody tampon and pad insignia of the occupied antiwhite regime space, so too is the betrayal into childhood medication slavery provided by the health care police observatory rip off, jag off system guaranteed to diminish biospirit.


     Weak or disordered spleen, the body will have the following symptoms: lack of commitment to biospirit, a deracinated multi-cultural self, a tendency to self sabotage within an erasure narrative by virtue signalling within the villain narrative. A weakened spleen will self identify by stomach or abdominal bloating especially after eating, irregular bowel movement, weight gain, heavy and puffy arms and legs, poor quality sleep and insomnia. Some cases are accompanied by under-active thyroid, depressive chronic fatigue scenario and oedema. All these symptoms are associated with spleen qi deficiency or disorder. These people often self medicate according to dominant culture protocols. You may freely observe these persons carting liters, even half gallon containers of sugar syrup to fuel their evil agenda of ill health, filled with the ubiquitous diabetes juice known within the dominant culture erasure narrative as pepsi cola, coca cola. They crave sweets as per the insert points of the filth generator television screens providing expert flawleshly crafted villain narratives. Sweet flavours can help tonify spleen qi and energy. So let’s douse the children in diabetic coma juice to further the shelter in place die die die, buy buy buy story mythology fairy tale of endless, continuous economic growth.

    The sweet flavor tightens and tonifies, harmonizes, and moistens guiding qi to the spleen. Sweet is warming and expansive, aids in digestion, and is good for low energy, tension, and depression. However, due to its rich and cloying nature, sweet flavors also cause stagnation, dampness, and phlegm in the body. It is important to eat a balanced amount of sweets to avoid issues caused by damp or phlegm such as candida, growths such as tumors, cysts, and fibroids, or excess weight.

Sweet taste:

Earth Element

Spleen and Stomach meridians

Worry, pensiveness, uncertainty, anxiety

Late Summer or Times of Seasonal Transition

Sweet foods include potatoes, carrots, corn, grains, and honey.

Sweet herbs include licorice (gan cao), dang gui, and jujube dates (da zao).

     Tomorrow is July 4th, The First Thursday of each month is set aside as a day for white European westmen to honour our biospirit, our ancestors, our journey, because we are a people and white wellbeing is non-negotiable. We ask the Gods we honour to assist us in halting white victimization. On this day we focus on white wellbeing and halting white erasure. There are many ways you can do this. The only thing needed is the sincerity of your intention and a scientific spirit of inquiry to make an experiment.

     Hypericum perforatum flowers Turtle island meadows of Midgard 4.7.2024 Four day Utisetta at New moon Thors-day. We have 3 bushy Hypericums and 3 wild flower styles. The resin glands are visible on the rim of the five petal sun pattern, ruled by Leo, this gift from Creator enables us to resist erasure by nourishing biospirit. As per genius world teacher wild herb ways: hypericin although standardized as the active compound it's probably  "hyperforin" that has been identified as an significant compound, although it sounds good on paper in small mind replacement science, our big mind wisdom teacher has the whole plant as the real lesson here. St John's wort tincture is best made immediately in the field. The sooner you make it happen the better. Which is why so many  herbal medicine small mind replacement science trials are laughable. Remember, the 9-words - "We are a people and our wellbeing is non-negotiable."

    One of the ways is to light a fire circle at your home and ask Father God Wotan and his son Thor to bless and aid our people.


   We are coming together to ask Thor to help our people. Hail Thor protector of midgard. Help us to destroy the serpent that seeks to hurt our people. 

     Close the circle by greeting the 4 compass cardinals clock wise by singing Heil Austri, ˈsuðre, ˈwestre, ˈnorðre, ˈThe one in the east, south, west and north make this ve holy, banish all evil, destroy all that do evil to our folk. Draw a circle and draw four Algiz runes on the cardinal points surrounding the fire circle. This can be done with charcoal, or with lime or sand, anything you have handy. Offer a drink horn or glass/ Here a note, I personally prefer never to use alcoholic beverages in ceremony as many of our people have been sabotaged and compromised through the alcoholic industry. Generations of our people have suffered the teratogenic effects of alcohol in the womb of their mothers, along with tobacco, marijuana, stimulants and pharmaceutical weapons meant to diminish the biospiritual potential of whites. Alcohol is a teratogenic substance. I prefer to use a home made non-alcoholic drink called an oxymel made from honey and apple cider vinegar to which are added wild harvested herbs such as wild bergamot monarda, yarrow, artemisia, Hypericum St Johns wort, juniper berries, fresh hops, or pedicularis.  


     Hypericum perforatum, 7.4.2024 Uttisetta four day sitting with a particular plant. St John's Wort, fasting and prayer First THORS-day of the month. Uttisetta at New moon passing gemini to Cancer with genius world teacher wild herb ways. "The only way to heal biospirit is to go deeper into who you are for your people bringing back for them the healing wild herb ways from the genius world teacher continuous medicine road"

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HAIL THOR, PROTECTOR OF MIDGARD!




Wild Bergamot, Monarda fistulosa, 

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Pink turtle island monarda, frequent encounter, on turtle island face to face, Pink turtle island bergamot is a plant person, sovereign valued for the is-ness of plant, revealed by genius world teacher in a wild herb ways teach in 14.6.2024 first quarter moon Virgo we are a people, our wellbeing is sovereign  non negotiable




Monday, January 22, 2024

Qigong Nourish Vitality

 Let’s look into nourishing vitality for mutual benefit, which is qigong.     

       The question comes up, what is chi kung, chi gong, qi-gong, qigong, pronounced ‘chee gung’, with soft vowels and consonants. Qi gong is the vitality of friends with benefits, the ultimate friend experience, because all we do is mutual benefit. We are married to experience, and when we no longer nourish the fundamental root, the tree dies. The idea of altruism degenerates unto unsustainable pathological altruism. We help each other best by nurturing our fundamental bio spirit, which is the give and take of the world of being. There is no push without a shove, all things relate to one another in associations of mutual benefit which is nourishment. Formerly in alphabeticalized Chinese it was called ch’i kung, today called qigong. The two Chinese characters from an etymology standpoint, qi and gong. Qi or chi refers to rice and steam, hence nourishment, and steam heat, fire. Rice nourishes the body as in people growing food, then preparing the rice by cooking with steam. Qi or chi has come to mean from this, the vital energy of not only the body but the world, big body bioregion, little body our actual human body. Gong derives from a carpenter’s square and a plough. From an etymology perspective of the Chinese character, a human tool art carpenter’s square and plough, grasped by the hand, Gong, actual work of doing something to create something, achieve something. So the two characters, chi today refers mostly to vital energy of nourishment and the work of a carpenter’s square establishing correct angle in building and the plough which prepares the earth for planting, so both human arts connected to achievement, necessary for living. Like gongfu or kung-fu, you might have heard of kungfu. Or watched kung fu action adventure cinema movies with Bruce Lee. It may be surprising to learn both kung fu and qigong, the word ‘gong’ or ‘kung’, both the same Chinese ideogram, refer to skill, study,  diligent work, achievement and practice as in an, art form like ballet, or painting, or getting a university or nursing degree, or taking childbirth classes and learning to prepare for childbirth and take care of your first baby, or dressage and riding with horses, and have nothing to do with kicking someone in the head or using an elbow to smash someone’s nose. For some reason it’s much more entertaining in certain circles to smash someone’s nose, learn how to deliver a traumatic brain injury, and watch them crumple to the floor, than take lamaze classes at La Leche league. 

     What does qigong mean? Well ‘qi’ I define as vital nourishment, and ‘gong’, is diligent effort, resulting in mutual benefit. So qigong means most of all vital nourishment work leading to mutual benefit. Within that vital nourishment work are several fundamental positive prejudices, pre-judgements. Usually prejudgement is encouraged negatively as a spontaneous kind of bad knowing. Yet the basis of all learning is making assumptions and quick judgements. You smell smoke and think, I better investigate. What’s that smell? What’s burning? Did I leave the stove on? Where is the smoke coming from?  Wood for cooking bbq or something dangerous? You see a flame and immediately remember from past experience, flame is hot. So to make quick judgements is a good thing, it is intelligence. When you buy a new gadget it comes in a box, wrapped in lots of plastic, and somewhere in the box is an owners manual, instructions that tells you how to assemble your new gadget, maintain it and so on. Our own lives don’t have good owner’s manuals, although we are increasingly wrapped in plastic. Some of the official owners manual for our lives have a lot of questionable information. 

     The first prejudice of qigong is that our life at this time, under these conditions means being embodied, rooted in a human body, therefore a lot of the work of being a human being is keeping a human body, is about nourishment. The idea of nourishment is right nourishment as mutual benefit. Mutual benefit means vital nourishment. Obviously plants are living things and the analogy of caring for a plant applies to qigong as working on vital nourishment. Plants mainly live outside in the greater world, so you may have a large pine forest in the mountains. Along the watershed you have a riparian zone with deciduous trees. All these plants in the forest are adapted to their ecosystem of their local bioregion. People have an innate reflexive trait to care for things and nourish them. People like to care for beautiful things. Within all these tendencies to nourish are relationships of mutual benefit. So someone may care for and nourish chickens. Besides the beauty of the chickens and the continual chicken frolicking and play there is nursing them through illness, hot summers, cold winters. The chickens eating insects, using kitchen scraps, provide manure to enrich the soil, all mutual benefits.  There is the meat and eggs, another mutual benefit of nourishment. With plants of course there is much the same mutual benefit with nourishing as with gardening. We have vegetables and fruit to nourish our body. Healing herbs elderberry, mullein, angelica, echinacea, rose hips. Gardening provides nourishment. Trees nourish with shade, wind brakes. Flowers nourish the eyes, the mutual benefit scent of blossom. We can bring plants inside our living space to nourish. We can live in a place like hot dry desert Tucson and grow, pine trees like Pinus brutia eldarica, the Afgan mediterranean pine, with red shaggy bark and twin needles that do well in the heat of the south west. So we can through our skill bring beautiful things into our space for mutual benefit. When we have a house plant like the herbal remedio english ivy Hedera helix growing inside we have the nourishment of beauty and the mutual benefit of removing harmful indoor pollutants like NO2, airbourne mold, formaldehyde, benzene. Caring for english ground ivy as a house plant also provides the mutual benefit of veriditas with the powerful mutual benefits of its herbal medicine for the respiratory system. In traditional Chinese medicine TCM, english ground ivy is known as chang chun teng. It dispels wind, dries damp, and supports the liver, energizing the liver, spleen and lung meridians. In both western herbalism and TCM it is used to address cough with mucus, and although an antispasmodic itencourages a productive cough. Chang chun teng or english ground ivy is in the Aralieacea family with other plants with affinity to the respiratory system like spikenard. TCM uses a variety of herbs, so it would be highly unusual to use a single herb alone. Herbs are always used together in a formula of mutual benefit nourishment called Jun Chen Zuo Shi, which is known as emperor, minister, assistant and courier.


      An example of this idea in simplified form scientifically researched would be the EMA’s, European Medicines Agency formula tested to be effective containing the commonly available herbs marshmallow, a demulcent,  london rocket, a hot spicy warming mustard weed herb, and english ivy used together in a cough, winter cold sinus formula. There is a strong tendency to investigate herbs calling it ‘science’, or ‘scientific’, or ‘peer reviewed’, for a standardized single element chemical constituent to quantify. In the so called universal science approach, much of the documented testing is within this single, isolated, to use the western term, freed approach. The emphasis is always on freedom, freed substances from their matrix. Thing vs process.  The mutual benefit vital nourishment approach at a baseline has mutual benefit of living vitality in the whole without a strong thing-ness component. So herbs are not substitutes for single component pill medicine. Herbs are living plants with a vital nourishment mutual benefit. During the recent criterion event of 2019-2021 for instance the following herbs used together in a bundle were effective: marshmallow Althaea officinalis, myrrh Commiphora molmol, licorice Glycyrrhiza glabra, english ivy Hedera helix, ginger and elderberry Sambucus nigra. These herbs do not fit into the scientific model of testing. They can not be counted and measured. They can not be quantified. You can not in vitro test. You can not stick 6 different herbs in a test tube so the formula simply can not exist. Just as the disease is a thing, so the disease can only be treated with a substance. In the vital nourishment mutual benefit approach, the disease is a process not a thing. So it’s addressed as it presents and therefore the same treatment could be used for different substance based viewpoints.

     Nicolas Culper writes of ground ivy, english ivy, Hedera helix, in his 1550 english herbal, “Government and virtues. It is an herb of Venus, and therefore cures the diseases she causes by sympathy, and those of Mars by antipathy; you may usually find it all the year long except the year be extremely frosty: it is quick, sharp, and bitter in taste, and is thereby found to be hot and dry; a singular herb for all inward wounds, exulcerated lungs, or other parts, either by itself, or boiled with other the like herbs; and being drank, in a short time it easeth all griping pains, windy and choleric humours in the stomach, spleen or belly; helps the yellow jaundice, by opening the stoppings of the gall and liver, and melancholy, by opening the stoppings of the spleen; expelleth venom or poison, and also the plague; it provokes urine and women's courses; the decoction of it in wine drank for some time together, procures ease to them that are troubled with the sciatica, or hip-gout: as also the gout in hands, knees or feet; if you put to the decoction some honey and a little burnt alum, it is excellently good to gargle any sore mouth or throat, and to wash the sores and ulcers in the privy parts of man or woman; it speedily helpeth green wounds, being bruised and bound thereto. The juice of it boiled with a little honey and verdigrease, doth wonderfully cleanse fistulas, ulcers, and stayeth the spreading or eating of cancers and ulcers; it helpeth the itch, scabs, wheals, and other breakings out in any part of the body. The juice of celandine, field-daisies, and ground-ivy clarified, and a little fine sugar dissolved therein, and dropped into the eyes, is a sovereign remedy for all pains, redness, and watering of them; as also for the pin and web, skins and films growing over the sight; it helpeth beasts as well as men. The juice dropped into the ears, doth wonderfully help the noise and singing of them, and helpeth the hearing which is decayed. It is good to tun up with new drink, for it will clarify it in a night, that it will be the fitter to be drank the next morning; or if any drink be thick with removing, or any other accident, it will do the like in a few hours.” (Nicolas Culpeper 1550 from Culpeper’s Complete Herbal)

     “When heaven is about to impose a great responsibility on a person, it first tests biospirit exhausting will muscles and bones;  then it stimulates, strengthens and supplies his incompetencies.” Mengzi  You must find a way to break through difficulties and there you will experience a brighter world called wild herb ways. The power that moves the body comes from the center of the body. The hips move the shoulders, the hands link to the feet and the elbows to the knees.The sun and moon though beyond us are among and within us, the brightness of sun shining, the coolness of moon retreating yet nourishing like the dark fluid in the kidney. Regardless of who we are we must purify and cultivate everyday, both young and old must engage in this process. Sarcasm, laughing at others, envy and suspicion lead to negative results. When we stand on the backs of others to gain a higher position we should then prepare to fall. Better to seek out the lowness where water flows and prepare quietly. Water though soft when gathered together yields profound power to carve the deepest canyon through hardest rock mountain. Loud voices will only single you out to be the first to fall. The lush veriditas of spring with elaborate bird songs begins at the timing of dropping leaves in autumn when the energy of earth goes downward and we gather medicinal roots. It’s been said that the genius of nature wild herb ways being self-thus, as it is, revealing itself and replicating, rejuvenating wild herb ways is part of the primal pattern and is freely given as a way of understanding. 


     Each day, week and month the big clock known as ‘big bear’ turns. The big bear turns a revolution in 24 hours, and another kind movement in a year. So we have the same mechanism: a daily 24 hour clock and a yearly clock. We have to respect both clocks as people.  In the dark sky the seven stars are visible as the big dipper plough, part of ursus major, great big bear. The central pivot point pole star, Polaris, is the holder of the purple celestial pool from which the qi of sky descends and rises and descends as earth flow, turning on the celestial wheel. For that reason the idea of celestial heavenly marriage was formed between man and woman, by their association together, children, by children family and by family kindred, by kindred, nation. Through observation of patterns of change in people, plants, place, mountain, desert and prairie we learn to understand the movement of life in the changes. Movement of life in the body in order to prepare to move with change, create resilience by acquiring and storing the vital force in the body. If we call breath a key archetype complex as a process in our small body respiration then it follows that regardless of how we view respiration we can’t go against the breathing in and out complex, and expect to live. We breath in and out. If like a petulant terrible two toddler on an ego trip tantrum we decide to hold our breath, to resist parental authority, what happens? Maybe we hold our breath for a while, our face turns red, we pass out or get light headed, and return to breathing. Because regardless of viewpoint, on breathing, to live we must breathe. The same vital force that moves through the prairie in spring moves through mountain in spring, moves through us. When spring is observed in the mountain and prairie it is because already at the yuletide season the process has begun to grow deep inside the earth. So people make promises deep in winter at the end od December as New Year’s resolutions. At night we rest and sleep we don’t buy and sell under lights 24/7 because this is only addictive behaviour, criminal activity and so on go on in the night. Men and women loose their husbands and wives in these night escapades. Demons and hungry ghosts prowl about in the night hours for this reason we respect day and night and don’t attempt to abuse others through the misuse of these cycles. The stars and constellations moving through the night across the ecliptic heavenly sphere, horizon to horizon are a form of writing upon the night tablet. When we wake in the morning the plants and animals are following the directions written in the night sky. We are asleep so we don’t see the stars writing on the morning sky, but it is there as above so below. The resistance of modern life to follow natural process diurnal flow dark light places strain on the organ system and disease. So the time within the modern cityscape lit up by fossil fuel is duplicating the summer solstice 24/7 365, like every day is fourth of July to use the modern holiday term. The small body cannot sustain this petulant burning candles at both ends late June solstice time day in day out, all year round. What was written by the stars will be carried out as law process. When you see vermillion fly catcher, western cardinal, robin return you can see  the visible plan and take appropriate action in appropriate time. The book of stars is local to place. People carry books but many of these books are meant to be open notebooks, not finished books. The stars are still writing every day. So to cling to the same unchanging book, not written with respect to time and place book and read it ad nauseum is to bind oneself to an unhanging book in a world of continuous change. We are equally systems of change. We adapt to changing conditions by changing. The essential vital force can be seen by observing closely with full attention the natural process of change in our small body and within the greater body that we are part. As above so below, as within so without. What happens in the seasons unfolds according to its intrinsic nature. The symbol of springtime is the first flower of spring candytufts in the mustard family. Unfolding red sappy cottonwood buds and emerging leaves are another symbol of spring to remember, cherish and give thanks. The leaf, flower and bud are both leaf flower and buds and symbols of the same process of unfoldment. “By using the symbols, Sage People saw all the spirit forces in the world we live in. The symbols determine forms and appearances and connect all things.” (The Great Treatise section of the Book of Change) We can use the symbols of sages and we can actually see as sages saw by seeing with the eyes of sages, feeling with the heart of sages, listening with the ears of sages. There are different herbs and trees in different situations. There are many different remedies to nourish biospirit. The genius wild herb ways is person, plant, place mountain, river and prairie. People, plants, places and prairie have mixed and mingled throughout time. Whenever and wherever this mixing occurred there was an emerging genius intelligence known understood as wild herb ways, as the self thus, self arranging patterns inherent in life to renew life. Whether in Aspen forests, oak groves, pine forests, hard wood deciduous forest,  or among mesquite, paloverde, gobernadora, button brush, and cottonwood trees in the thorn scrub flatland, the vital self thus, self replicating intelligence is there, was there and will be there. Regardless of knowing or not knowing whenever there is sincerity and need, asking and receiving will occur. All the while learning about wild herb ways local to specific place and situation, you must increase the life force called qi. Most people do not and can not live in a generic place. We live in specific place. The way to hear the beauty of sound as music is in the silence between the tones. The way to see the beauty of colour in a painting is in the blankness of the canvas. Otherwise there is a cacophony of sound and a confusion of colour. For that reason loudness in music becomes political and brashness in colour becomes ugliness. Both of these tire the mind and restrict the body leading to illness and disease in the organs. Therefore one must not search too hard for perfect forms in far away places because the perfect form is a useful form. The perfect form becomes perfect in its utility to the user. What is found immediately in front of one's face will be most beneficial. There is a thought and misunderstanding that you should cultivate Asian or Chinese Qi, nothing could be further from the truth. The qi you must seek is the resilient life of your biospirit. Likewise where you are right now is the miraculous promised land of your here and now. You can no more find yourself over there than you could find a ring that slipped off your finger while washing dishes in the kitchen sink by traveling to China. It makes no sense to look for the ring you lost in your kitchen sink washing dishes by searching in China. You must stop immediately, search the kitchen sink, quickly and carefully before the ring is washed down the drain. Whatever the steps to be taken you must take them, walking forward with each footstep. Whatever is the length of your stride that will be your footstep. Where your foot touches the ground is as important as the length of your stride. While the sage uses symbols to see, you must also see the spirit forces in the world around you. If conditions are right perhaps the symbols the sage used will allow you to see deeper and develop connections, yet the most important part can never be the symbols the sage used. The most important part is your connection. A situation that denies the view in front of your face will inevitably lead to illness because our lives are our own personal life and the vitality necessary to sustain our lives must emerge from our own people, otherwise what happens is exploitation and slavery.


     Whenever a westerner hears about the amazing enlightened east , China, Asia there’s a kind of honeymoon stage of unrealistic expectations within the belief system. Because at some point the question comes up, if China and its Asian wisdom is so superior to our own wisdom traditions, then why do these seemingly discordant events come up. I don’t want to pull the human rights card, or even the fish market bio-lab pandemic card, because it’s too hard to evaluate. You can look up the history. Instead, let's look at mercury, an interesting heavy metal that accumulates in the tissue of all life forms, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals, fish and humans. In the body it doesn’t do much good. Although in east and west it was used as a kind of heroic, last ditch anti-microbial, anti-biotic. Mercury though is too antibiotic, too anti, too against life to promote health, to be useful. Precisely due to its bizarre super heavy dense nature it accumulates. It also accumulates because biological systems have no history of encounter with mercury to have developed any systemic process for elimination of mercury. Your body for instance uses many metals within metabolic process. It uses these metals because they were encountered and pulled within the realm of biological process. Iron in hemoglobin for oxygen uptake. Chromium by the hormonal system the pancreas and liver for blood glucose regulation in and out of cells, for energy storage. Sodium is used for water transport across cell membranes. Plants have similar uses for these same metals, also known to us as minerals precisely because they exist in soluble forms in the soil, taken up by plant roots. The roots take these substances into the leaf and stem. We eat the plants and so have developed roughly an equivalent usage, a corresponding usage has developed across the life continuum of bacterial, fungi, plant, animal symbiosis. We are in some ways plant-people associations. There is no such use for mercury across biological process, that I know of. Every exposure to mercury builds up like the frog in gradually temperature increasing water. At first as the temperature rises from cold to warm the frog has no perception of change. If you placed a living frog in hot, heated, boiling water the frog would immediately instinctively by using its powerful legs  leap to safety out of the boiling heated water . Mercury was like 18th and 19th century chemo therapy and radiation treatment for oncology. Mercury as it accumulates in the human body, decreases life potential, decreases vitality, creates cognitive decline and neurological damage in many ways irreversible. Mercury as a toxic heavy metal kills. 

     So why is, let’s call it, increasing mercury encounters occurring in the biome where before it did not occur? The reason is because mercury is being brought up, out of the earth where it was hidden and it’s being exposed. Mercury is being uncovered and broadcast and spread. Gold has for instance been highly valued throughout human history. That ancient gold was something like a fossil gold, often called placer gold, free gold. Free because it exists as nuggets and tiny flecks.  Free because it exists not bonded to other materials. Lying exposed in the sand and sediment streambanks of moving water from exposed mountain deposits. Placer gold, or free gold is distinctly mainly non-reactive, a stable element. As population increased more people wanted more gold. The stable, non reactive, free placer gold deposits were mined essentially via gravity. Gold as a heavy non-toxic heavy metal separated and sinks due to its density and heavy weight. So panning for gold in streams. As these easy accessible sources for gold were used up other ways of sorting gold from lower density dug up ore bodies were exhausted. The technique of crushing low density ore, crushing the rock and soaking the crushed rock in a mercury settling pond was expanded to huge industrial levels.The technology of gold smelters was expanded to open pit mines visible from space satellites. In the american west, much of the US state of Nevada is one giant immense low density gold ore body. These giant mercury laced settling ponds are seen across Nevada. Likewise as the search for minerals like copper expanded to open pit mines, miles across, it was also found that minerals like silver, platinum, gold and mercury were also present in the crushed rock from these open pit mines. So much so that in most of these open pit copper mines, the ore bodies highest monetary value yield in an open pit mine is from incidental gold. The value of gold is $2000 per ounce while copper’s monetary value is $0.23 per ounce, 23 cents per ounce vs $2000 dollars per ounce. The ratio of value gold to copper is 8700:1. These sources of hidden buried mercury are increasingly dug up and exposed in the process of smelting metals and set afloat in the air like death pollen to circulate on the prevailing wind. 

    To get back to this very random take on the  wisdom of China of Asia and its rooted respect for the Dao, for nature and toxic mercury. How someone falls in love with this smorgasbord of Asian wisdom, falls in love with Dao, with Buddha, with the wisdom of the east and gets into this goo goo eyed lovey, dovey head over heels honeymoon stage of worship of everything Asian, everything Dao. Falls in love with this amazing body of wisdom only to find the people born into and steeped in that tradition are leaving it? Leaving their own Asian nature tradition like the proverbial frog leaping out of boiling water. Well within that honeymoon are the powerful observations, like questions. If China is so superior, why then are we seeing this influx of Chinese asian people choosing to leave China and settle in places like Buffalo New York? Or ten’s of thousands of Indian sub-continent Hindu’s from India choosing to leave everything Asian, Indian for Pittsburgh Pennsylvania? Well the answer is complex. Getting back to random mercury. China has chosen coal powered electricity generation, burning dug up extracted coal. Mining coal, burning coal on such a huge level that the air floating across the Pacific ocean falls on the Pacific coast of Canada, British Columbia, and America depositing the mined, contained in coal, mercury on the ground falling as mercury laden acid rain, taken up by plant roots, eaten as grass by cattle, the mercury in grain, milk, meat. So that mercury along with mercury from mining, metal smelting, combustion engine gasoline burning increases and accumulates year by year in the long lived mammal bodies of human beings. Who as they age experience higher and higher levels of cognitive decline as they age. What people are calling alzheimer's cognitive decline with aging is in most cases mercury exposure and a toxic result of a chemical low level soup of multiple toxic chemicals. One of the biggest reasons Asian’s mention for leaving their Asian nations is environmental pollution, poverty, decreased standard of living due to the extreme industrialization and crowded living situation, and none of these are reflective of love of nature, they are in fact a profound cultural defect of adaptation. 


    


 He stood and walked beneath cottonwood trees, Populus fremontii, fremont cottonwood, with cordate, heart shaped leaves. Sitting on fallen, grey furrowed,  hollow branch trunks bleached in the sun. In such a place you can  grasp the 8 forms of the earlier diagram map. When facing the east rising sun he understood sky heaven on his right south, and earth to his left, north. Above was the sky with sun, moon, blue sky, light, this was heaven sky, sky heaven, palms of the hand fire. While the sun ruled the sky was warm, bright, shining. Below was moist wetness. The moist wetness below is dark and cool. Below the ground the roots went deeply down and this was understood as earth. In the dark cool moist place below grew roots. In the bright warm dry place above ground grew the leaves and branches. So he understood, sky south above, and earth below north, as two points on the compass. The compass is a round wheel circle that turns and shifts although the form we hold on paper is a symbol, is a memory of that turning. The hands and feet are like roots, leaves and branches. Today we walk on two legs, then two feet, yet our feet have the inner form of hands, and our hands have the inner form of feet. Also understand without opposition, the hands do many things. One time the hands build and another time the hands destroy what was built. They are the same hands. The hands are aligned to the Lao gong at the center of the fleshy palm, palms of the hand, as leaves and branches aligned east with fire at the rising sun. The earth aligned to the soles of the feet, as roots, aligned north with the yong quan bubbling spring at the fleshy sole of the foot,, aligned with flowing nourishing water in the west.     

     The circular wheel is set in motion through eight things of the early pattern. Sky, wind, wood, Flowing water, mountain, earth, thunder, fire, standing water/ marsh lake, returning to sky heaven in a sequence.  When the sun in the sky set below the horizon it became cool and dark. They could see the leaves of the cottonwood trembling, shaking in even the tiniest breeze. This stirring up is wind which connects and penetrates. As the wind moves the clouds bring flowing streams. As the rain falls come torrents of water flowing with a rushing gurgling sound. These torrents of rushing water come charging down from mountain. Below the ground the roots went deeply down and this was understood as earth. Understanding the seasons, first comes thunder lightning in early spring that wakes the qi of earth mixing sky and earth. had round drums, circular hoops with stretched skin. In this mixing of heaven and earth is a stirring up, and mixing. With the wind comes clouds and with clouds come thunder and lightning. So they made fire to warm themselves. As the rain falls come torrents of water flowing with a rushing gurgling sound. These torrents of rushing water come charging down from mountain and settle in pools low places that are called marsh and lake. The water standing in low places rises like mist into sky and the circle was made returning to sky heaven. Sky, Wind wood, Water Flowing, mountain, earth, thunder, fire, standingwater marsh lake, returning to sky heaven in a sequence.  On the drum head they could see and remember the place where the sun rose up and sank down below the horizon. From four directions between each one made eight directions.

     In the Chinese ancient classic Daodejing, The Way and Its Power: we read in chapter 3, “Empty the mind, fill the belly.” So what does this mean to empty and fill? Who was this emptying and filling addressed? The author is the Daoist Laozi. Laozi is part of the fundamental heritage of what we call today the bioregion nation China. Laozi is the founder of Daoism. Like most ancient surviving books from this time period the statements are short, pithy and non-specific, generalized statements that could mean manythings, depending on host and guest. The oldest extant examples of the Daodejing date to the second century BCE written on bamboo strips. We know the exact day Laozi was born 2595 years ago, on the 15th day of the second lunar month. His birthday this year is celebrated on the 15th day of the second month of the lunar year rabbit month in the year of green tiger which falls on March 24, 2024 near the vernal equinox. He left his book of Dao with the gate keeper of Hangu pass, near the Yellow river. The sage is identified as Laozi, as an actual state official in China, as part of a wise ruler tradition, who says, ‘empty the mind and fill the belly’. There is a question, is the sage Laozi, advising members of the ruling elite living 2500 years ago, who today might be an elected officials, or a CEO of a business, or a political leader with clout, who was in turn advising the general population to be kept relatively in the dark but well fed?  Many translations translate the texts somewhat in this way. Certainly there is truth to keeping people in their city states,  well fed to maintain peaceful, productive social conditions and so benefit all. Famine, food shortages, political intrigue certainly don’t bode well for leaders in power, or for the less affluent members of society regardless of what the political system is called. People need to be well fed. Starving paranoid, fearful people won’t have good lives regardless of social strata. Revolutions, although high on the adventure drama world bucket list, don’t particularly bode well for life expectancy and meaningful, stable mundane lives of abundance. Are the concepts in the Daodejing meant for organizing, running large or small groups like a business organization or a family? What does it mean to empty the mind? Empty and fill. Is the sage telling us, eat a hamburger, drink a beer and chill out? Or, eat a salad with greens, nuts and berries, nourish the body in a good way? Who is this sage wise ruler? Is the sage the Genius Wild Herb Ways, the actual bioregion of plant, person, place and prairie speaking in quasi metaphorical terms? Is the genius wild herb ways talking about the belly? The stomach, food, eating, drinking, emptying?  Body breath biospirit? So what does any of this mean? What does it mean to talk in short terse often rhyming poetic riddles? The answer is that Laozi’s admonition to , ‘Empty the mind and fill.’, has been taken to mean all of the above. The Daodejing like nearly all existing ancient Asian literature is highly nuanced, and non-specific. It is advice, insight for rulers, leaders, small group management, anyone trying to make sense of difficult situations, and advice for both the actual belly and the mytho-poetic deeper belly of the dantien, solar plexus or hara. Laozi’s writings are a part of a tradition of revelations from meaningful world. 


     

    

      The meaningful world is of course a world of meaning. The biggest issue is that meaning requires smooth connection. We could say that meaning requires meaning. Meaning requires connection. Conversely we could also say meaninglessness requires for human beings to have no sense of connection. Meaning and connection are related. Where there is more connection there is more meaning, where there is less connection there is less meaning. The connection of meaning means a vastness of associations that point at something else. By pointing at something else we are admitting that what we pointed at is connected to us. Children play both the actual game of dominoes, connecting the dots as linked numbers on one side in a connected pattern according to the agreed upon rules of dominoes. Children also play with dominoes as a game based on their physical form. So children arrange the dominoes standing on their side in close proximity so that when one domino is pushed all the dominoes start falling, click, click, click. The world of meaning includes games like regular numeric dominoes and click click knock over game of dominoes. In both instances we are using the same dominoes, yet the same dominoes are seen differently. It is not that the dominoes changed from numeric dominoes to click click dominoes, what has changed is our view. Our meaning lies in connection. When we live in meaningful world everything is meaningful. Our gesture of pointing acknowledges our togetherness in time and space. By pointing we admit our togetherness in meaning, in our us-ness. Because all things are connected, not connected in a theory of connection, but actually connected as connection. If you ask a child, “who is your mommy?”, the child will point at her mother, with a nod of the head, meaning ‘her’. The pointing is that whole six year long connection contained just in that little action gesture of pointing. The mommy is at one time a cooking mommy, chef mommy doing nutritious food preparation. She is a councilor listening mommy. She is nurse mommy with milk filled breasts. She is story reading mommy. She is a clothes washing mommy. She is transportation mommy. She is bread baking mommy. Shoe tying mommy. She is all these different manifestations of mommy. The totality of all those different mommys is contained in one small, simple gesture. The Buddha held up a flower to Makyakashappa, and although his holding a flower in his hand was a flower holding gesture, his holding up a flower was also transmission of the teachings outside the framework, directly person to person and the treasury of the true dharma eye.


The Tree Rotation Diagramm opening the four gates qigong.

     Here we have the four major gateways of the body on the fleshy hands and fleshy feet. This is known as opening the four gates qigong. It has been said many times in many different ways, “The hands are aligned to the Lao gong at the center of the fleshy palm, palms of the hand, as leaves and branches aligned east with fire at the rising sun. The earth aligned to the soles of the feet, as roots, aligned north with the yong quan bubbling spring at the fleshy sole of the foot, aligned with flowing nourishing water in the west”.  These four points, one on each hand and foot, hand  points fleshy palms Lao gong and feet points fleshy sole of foot Yong quan, allow us to conduct and learn energy within the Dao big body universe, and the Dao small body, our personal vehicle for living space. So the hands and feet are learning tools for conducting and directing energy from the big energy field outside  to the small energy field inside. This is a way to connect. The connection of the two energy fields is itself meaning because we point,  using various symbols, not only the things themselves. The Lao dong on the fleshy palm is the center of our heart and deepest intention because everything we do is accumulated via work with the hands. So in that sense taking responsibility for whatever we have, whatever we are going through, this is our work. Blaming others for mistune is a fundamental mistake that must be corrected. This is the meaning of Lao dong, center of work. From the Lao dong point at the fleshy palm by moving the hands, opening and closing fingers we see the wrists, fore arms, upper arms as creeks, streams and flowing rivers of the universal life force qi.

       The Yong quan point is located on the plantar between the second and third toe, just in front forward from the arch, centered in the foot. The foot is a neglected orspecialized organ of the body. The foot alone has 52 bones, one quarter of all the bones in the body are contained in the foot. It is known as a bubbling spring. The Yong quan is a bubbling spring of living water, that circulates upward as kidney energy, yin, cool and dark. We draw in from both hands and feet. It is well known that binding the foot, although considered a kind of erotic keeping of concubines, harms the body. This foot binding of kept concubines is not ancient history in China. Binding the foot harmed women in the past and harms them today in the form of exaggerated shoes, with elevated heels, painting the face with strange colored face paint, that prevents the true face from being seen and appreciated, drenching the scalp with caustic colorants are all to be avoided. Elaborate elevated heeled shoes damage the Yong quan bubbling spring. 

    Opening the four gates qigong. We synchronize the hands with the feet, the hips with the shoulders, the elbows with the knees. With the hands we pull in, turning the palms and pulling in a rope. We focus on the space between the hands, this is called holding the ball, turning the ball, rotating the ball, squeezing the ball, turning the ball, risingthe ball, lowering the ball and so on

     The first story my teacher taught was each day, we are  one day closer to death. He would say, “Today you are one day closer to death.” He would say this smiling and everybody would laugh. He told a story of a man being chased. He told a story that was written down by Leo Tolstoy, the 19th century Russian writer: “ “There is an old Eastern fable about a traveler who is taken unawares on the steppes by a ferocious wild animal. In order to escape the beast the traveler hides in an empty well, but at the bottom of the well he sees a dragon with its jaws open, ready to devour him. The poor fellow does not dare to climb out because he is afraid of being eaten by the rapacious beast, neither does he dare drop to the bottom of the well for fear of being eaten by the dragon. So he seizes hold of a branch of a bush that is growing in the crevices of the well and clings on to it. His arms grow weak and he knows that he will soon have to resign himself to the death that awaits him on either side. Yet he still clings on, and while he is holding on to the branch he looks around and sees that two mice, one black and one white, are steadily working their way round the bush he is hanging from, gnawing away at it. Sooner or later they will eat through it and the branch will snap, and he will fall into the jaws of the dragon. The traveler sees this and knows that he will inevitably perish. But while he is still hanging there he sees some drops of honey on the leaves of the bush, stretches out his tongue and licks them. In the same way I am clinging to the tree of life, knowing full well that the dragon of death inevitably awaits me, ready to tear me to pieces, and I cannot understand how I have fallen into this torment. And I try licking the honey that once consoled me, but it no longer gives me pleasure. The white mouse and the black mouse – day and night – are gnawing at the branch from which I am hanging. I can see the dragon clearly and the honey no longer tastes sweet. I can see only one thing; the inescapable dragon and the mice, and I cannot tear my eyes away from them. And this is no fable but the truth, the truth that is irrefutable and intelligible to everyone.


The delusion of the joys of life that had formerly stifled my fear of the dragon no longer deceived me. No matter how many times I am told: you cannot understand the meaning of life, do not thinking about it but live, I cannot do so because I have already done it for too long. Now I cannot help seeing day and night chasing me and leading me to my death. This is all I can see because it is the only truth. All the rest is a lie.


Those two drops of honey, which more than all else had diverted my eyes from the cruel truth, my love for my family and for my writing, which I called art – I no longer found sweet.”

Leo Tolstoy, A Confession and Other Religious Writings





The Six Harmonies

When practising qigong forms, remember the Six Harmonies.  These will allow for good structure in stance, good flow of energy and will result in smooth and continuous movements


External Harmonies 

1) The hands harmonise with the feet

2) The hips harmonise with the shoulders

3) The elbows harmonise with the knees

Internal Harmonies

1) The heart harmonises with the intention

2) The intention harmonises with the Qi

3) The Qi harmonises with the movement



                                            


 


Baguazhang? Otherwise known as Pa Kua Chang, Bagwa Jang 8 trigram palm qigong.

There is constant change. Those who embrace changes and adapt will be successful. Those who resist changes and cannot adapt will be left behind. Adapting to changes is going with vital force, with life force, with Dao. Not adapting is going against vital force, against life force, against Dao and according to the Dao Te Jing, to go against vital force Dao is death.

An important point the Yi Jing teaches us is that everything has a center. The center of our solar system is the sun and everything rotates around the sun.  Our earth has a central axis and rotates around that 24 hours a day. A hurricane has an eye, which is the center and everything rotates around that center. Our body is a microcosm of the natural universe. Our spine could be called a center and your body rotates around that. Your Dan Tian is a center. Within your body you have other centers, shoulders, elbows, knees, wrists, ankles and neck. You can rotate the areas of the body around these centers. This is a Baguaxhang principle.


                                                                                                                             

                                 



Baguaxhang principle

         Spring      Summer       Late Summer  Autumn     Winter

          Wood       Fire                  Earth            Metal          Water

Yin      Liver         Heart               Spleen          Lungs       Kidneys

Yang  Gall Bl     Sm Intest         Stomach      Lrg Intest    Urinary Bladder

          Anger          hatred            blame trust   sarcasm    arrogance


“Don’t blame others” like a boomerang that comes back to hit us. This is what I did to blame others. Negative emotions blame, hate, anger, sarcasm, are stored in the bones and organ tissues. There is a hierarchy of intention, mind, shen guiding matter. Love releases energy in the body.

Five Phase Element Relationships

By Wan Minying
14th Century1

Translated by Heiner Fruehauf
National University of Natural Medicine, College of Classical Chinese Medicine


“Metal is generated by Earth; if there is too much earth, Metal will be buried. Earth is generated by Fire; if there is too much Fire, Earth will be charred. Fire is generated by Wood; if there is too much Wood, Fire will flare. Wood is generated by Water; if there is too much Water, Wood will be washed away. Water is generated by Metal; if there is too much Metal, Water will be grimy.

Metal can generate Water; if there is too much Water, Metal will drown. Water can generate Wood; if Wood is in abundance, Water will be in short supply. Wood can generate Fire; if there is too much Fire, Wood will be incinerated. Fire can generate Earth; if there is too much Earth, Fire will be obscured. Earth can generate Metal; if there is too much Metal, Earth will spoil.

Metal can control Wood; if Wood is flinty, Metal will be marred. Wood can control Earth; if Earth is thick, Wood will break. Earth can control Water; if Water is too much, Earth will erode. Water can control Fire; if Fire is ablaze, Water will sizzle. Fire can control Metal; if Metal is too much, Fire will become smothered.

If exhausted Metal comes upon Fire, it will melt. If weak Fire encounters Water, it will become quenched. If weak Water encounters Earth, it will be filled in and become stuck. If weak Earth comes upon Wood, it will cave in. If weak Wood encounters Metal, it will be axed.

If excess Metal receives Water, it will in turn have its edge blunted. If excess Water receives Wood, it will in turn have its momentum drained. If excess Wood receives Fire, it will in turn have its denseness transformed. If excess Fire receives Earth, it will in turn have its blazing quality checked. If excess Earth receives Metal, it will in turn have its calamitous potential restricted.”    © 2007 Heiner Fruehauf







The Constructive Cycle:

  • Wood feeds Fire

  • Fire creates Earth

  •  Earth creates Metal

  •  Metal enriches Water

  • Water makes Wood

If this cycle is reversed, each element is then reduced or destroyed by another element:

The Destructive Cycle:

  •  Fire destroys Wood

  • Wood consumes Water

  • Water destroys (rusts) Metal

  • Metal consumes Earth

  • Earth smothers Fire

If the cycle is seen another way, the elements can be seen to control one another:

The Controlling Cycle

  •  Fire controls (or melts) Metal

  •  Metal controls Wood

  • Wood controls Earth

  • Earth controls Water

  • Water controls Fire

These relationships are at the base of Chinese Medicine. No system or organ operates without affecting all the others. When one organ is out of balance, it affects all the others. The balance can be determined by hot, cold, damp, dry, Yin or Yang. Emotions, diet, environment and genetics can affect the way the organs function.

Based on the Five Elements, each element gives rise to a different energy or frequency in the body. During gestation, these energies guide the fetal organs to be formed, supported by the mother’s energy channels. As the new Soul inhabits the body, these qualities also form spiritual qualities housed in and guarded by the Five Yin (solid) organs.  The relationships between the organs and the emotions form the basis for the integration of Body, Mind and Spirit in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). The emotional/spiritual qualities of the Five Elements are:

  • Fire—Order—the Heart

  • Earth—Trust—the Spleen Liver

  •  Metal—Integrity—the Lungs

  • Water—Wisdom—the Kidneys

  • Wood—Compassion—the  Liver

After birth, these pure qualities must struggle to manifest in the human being because, as we live our lives, we inevitably encounter difficulties, traumas and hardships which cause other energies or frequencies to manifest in our bodies in the form of toxic emotions and thoughts. The organs are thought to hold these toxic thoughts and emotions. These strong emotions cause Qi stagnation which can lead to disease.


In TCM, Qi or vital energy moves the fluids in the body (blood, lymph, waste products). Therefore, as the Qi is stagnant, so the movement of vital fluids is impeded. As the Qi is impeded, the organ’s function is diminished.


Each organ holds different emotions. These emotions have different frequencies and affect the Qi differently:

Fire—Heart—Anxiety, Over-joy

Earth—Spleen—Worry, Mistrust, Obsession

Metal—Lungs—Grief, Sorrow, Shame, Remorse

Water—Kidneys—Fear, Loneliness

Wood—Liver—Anger, Rage, Resentment



  • Wood—(Yin) Liver-(Yang) Gall Bladder

  •    Fire—(Yin) Heart-(Yang) Small Intestines

  •    Earth—(Yin) Spleen-(Yang) Stomach

  •    Metal—(Yin) Lungs-(Yang) Large Intestines

  •   Water—(Yin) Kidneys-(Yang) Urinary Bladder



- Spring/Wood is the (Yin)Liver and the (Yang)Gall Bladder. 

- Summer/Fire is the (Yin)Heart and (Yang)Small Intestines, and also the (Yin)Pericardium and (Yang)Triple Heater. 

- Late Summer/Earth is the (Yin)Spleen-Pancreas and the (Yang)Stomach. 

- Fall/Metal is the (Yin)Lungs and the (yang)Large Intestine. 

- Winter/Water is the (Yin)Kidneys and the (yang)Bladder. 


Although in the West we consider there to be four seasons, in Daoism there are five. The Familiar Western sequence is Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter; however, in the Daoist view it is considered that the period of Late-Summer (sometimes called Indian Summer) is a separate and distinct season of its own, the point of balance and harmony


The Five Element Theory

The Five Elements, earth, fire, water, metal and wood were selected by the sages of long ago to describe patterns and relationships between many variables. They relate to one another in an abstract sense and can be used to describe the relationship between the seasons and many other aspects of our lives, as well as the human body.   The Five Element theory is one of the major systems of thought within Traditional Chinese Medicine and is used when practising acupuncture.  But the Theory is also used as a guide to help balance our emotional and physical health.  Based on the Taoist theory that each of us is a microcosm of the universe, it stands to reason that the human body will experience similar cyclical patterns as in nature, such as the baguazhang eight trigram qigong of seasons and the cycle of life and death. 

    The Yi Jing, is considered an ancient classic. The most ancient portion of the book is a diagram which could be written on a single page, with extensive elaborations written over numerous centuries, so the ancient book, with elaborations, is extensive with numerous layers.  As a reflective foundational book, the book of changes, describes patterns occurring in a specific  bioregion, observed by specific people in that specific place.  The Yi Jing records the perception of being in the ecosystem and in that sense predates the application of culture, and later medicine of that Asian biospirit. So the Yi Jing asserts the Dao, the undivided, undifferentiated being wushi splitting into two, yin and yang, the vital force qi moving in the visible observations as fluid cyclic patterns of change. The 8 bagua are described there, the one, into two, into the three, as arrangements of a yin broken line, and a yang unbroken line. The bagua are made up of three possible determinants of x or y, (-) (+). yin(-) yang(+) as eight numeric mathematical, logical possibilities. So yin(-) yin(-) yin(-), yin(-) yin(-) yang(+), yin yang yang and so on, totally eight. Each of these combinations are then named and associated as symbols arranged in 8 sequences of change. Heaven/sky, earth, thunder, water, mountain, wind, fire and lake/marsh. With regard to herbal medicine, any one herb is the yin and yang as the biospirit of plants. Plants contain the self thus aspect of fundamental self-replicating intelligence as plants in a similar way as human beings. When describing Chinese herbal medicine, plants are prescribed as groups of plants in a formula. When looking at the human body, the organs are depicted as one of the Five Elements, and in a healthy  body all organs are functioning efficiently and in harmony.  Two primary forces (yin and yang) interact in the body and hopefully there is a balance between these two forces within the body. 



King Wen ‘Later Heaven’ Bagua arrangement

乾 Qián 天 Heaven Summer Creative 父 Father 南 South Expansive energy, the sky.                                                                                               巽 Xùn 風 Wind Summer Gentle 長女 Eldest Daughter 西南 Southwest Gentle penetration, flexibility.                                                                      坎 Kǎn 水 Water Autumn Abysmal 中男 Middle Son 西 West Danger, rapid rivers, the abyss, the moon.                                                              艮Gèn 山 Mountain Autumn Still 少男 Youngest Son 西北 Northwest Stillness, immovability.                                                                                 坤Kūn 地 Earth Winter Receptive 母 Mother 北 North Receptive energy, that which yields.                                                                                                              震Zhèn 雷 Thunder Winter Arousing 長男 Eldest Son 東北 Northeast Excitation, revolution, division.                                                                                                                                 離Lí 火 Fire Spring Clinging 中女 Middle Daughter 東 East Rapid movement, radiance, the sun.                                                                     兌Duì 澤 Lake Spring Joyous 少女 Youngest Daughter 東南 Southeast Joy, satisfaction, stagnation.                                                                                               King Wen "Later Heaven"

The Five Element Theory explains the relationship between the organs and the way energy travels to the organs (through meridians), and how the chi, or energy, originates from the kidneys.  The kidney's job is to filter blood, which is then circulated through the body.  

Chi energy is associated with the kidneys because they are said to hold opposing fire and water energy.  An imbalance in these two elements will  affect other organs.  In a healthy body, organs are working in harmony, with all elements in a balanced state.  In an unhealthy body, organs are not functioning effectively, which has a spiralling effect on the other organs.

When practising tai chi and qigong, much of the meditation involves focusing on the belly where the dantien and mingmen are located.  These directly nourish the nearby kidneys.  The movements of taichi and qigong rotate and massage this area, thereby balancing the kidneys which allow a flow on effect to other organs.  Tai chi is designed in-part to nourish and support the activity of the kidneys.

Below is a flow chart (from Spring Forest Qigong) showing the relationship between the five elements.  The outer arrows around the diagram represents the nurturing or supporting relationship between the neighbouring elements:  Wood  nurtures Fire, Fire (or ash) enriches Earth, Earth contains Metal, Metal condenses Water and Water feeds wood.  The dotted lines within the diagram illustrate the cooperative or controlling relationship of two 'opposing' elements: Wood penetrates Earth, Earth limits the flow of water, Water extinguishes Fire, Fire melts Metal and Metal cuts Wood.  The diagram also shows other aspects of our lives that are influenced by the five elements.

                                           




 “Kidney water reverses its course.”The lower mind, or the lower Tan Tien is in the lower abdomen and this is where our awareness resides. It is also the place to generate Chi.  The middle mind, or the middle Tan Tien, is centered in the heart. The upper Tan Tien, resides in the brain.“Transform Jing lower(Sexual Energy) into Qi middle hara(Life Force Energy) and Qi into Shen upper, head (Spirit Energy).” The first step is to make a connection with the North Star and the Big Dipper’s violet/red light ultra violet which is one of the most powerful heavenly lights. Through this practice, learning to feel Chi and using the mind/eye/heart power (Yi-2) to guide the Chi flow through the primary energy routes in your body is the foundation of Taoist meditation. The order of the organs healing sound is: lungs, kidneys, liver, heart, soleen and Triple Warmer. Triple Burner (or Triple Warmer or Triple Heater) ‘three burning spaces’. San Jiao,has no exact counter part in anatomy, only correspondence. One of the main functions of the Triple Warmer is regulating the movement of water within the body.  According to Chinese medicine, water behaves differently in the three different burners. The upper burner is located above the diaphragm and includes the heart and lungs. Its function is the dispersal of fluid throughout the body. This fluid is in the form of mist or vapour.

The middle burner includes the area above the naval and below the diaphragm, including the spleen and stomach. Its main function is digestion 632and the distribution of nutrients throughout the body.

The lower burner is located below the naval and includes the liver, kidneys, large intestine, small intestine, and bladder. It separates food and drink waste. Useful fluids are absorbed, with the remainder transported to the bladder.

Triple warmer, functional medicine, inter webbed. We as a microcosm are interwebbed. Our body is one with the macrocosm. All the constituents are connected and will with time be reduced. I am the alpha and omega, beginning and end, I am the source. A dragon with a pig’s snout eating its tail, the dragon is a pig, incredibly fertile, a living garbage can who transmits into new life. Wu wei, the master in the experience of pure sound, where the music is wu wei. Northern hemisphere November 1- December 1, hexagram 2 k'un, six yin broken lines. Oneness with the source. Feeling oneness with the ocean, becoming a cup, molecule of water in the ocean. The ocean, to submerge into unity with the ocean, as the pericardium. Resting the fire organs. sea, the headwaters of an ecosystem. Quiet time of year, energy goes underground, followed by winter solstice. Triple burner is the grave. The story of source energy 9pm-11pm. Time of triple burner. The job of triple burner is rest, subvergence, ideally go to bed by 9pm, to avoid adrenal exhaustion. The time for rest is the first part of night 9-midnight, the most important cycle of sleep. Oneness, fully in the flow, in the place of doing nothing. The pure energy of the universe. Yin Yang not only describes polar opposites but transformative processes. Different than linear process, the spleen the generator of energy, gets cold and damp easily. Kidney mystery, dark. The triple warmer is continuum of life force, the energy, in the ground ebbing and flowing. So the darkest yin month is true yang month. Compressed as a seed, a physical dot. All the energy is here. The triple warmer is the connection of the various systems, a web like system, a net, a tree upside down, visuallizing the roots,  lymph, nervous system, endocrine system. While it’s true water moves, it doesn’t move exactly like isolated water moving in pipe. The water is outside the cell, the empty spaces holding water. When drilling a well for water, or oil, it’s not that the water is existing only as an underground lake, not only as a pool, the water is in the seemingly solid rock, the rock contains water. So a well is a vertical empty structure hollowed into the ground, the water moves through the visibly seeming rock at great pressure. The well is a drawing, subtracting negative space that attracts the oil, attracts he water, then it is pumped out. Water in the body is likewise contained in the bones, contained everywhere in the body but not exactly as pure, see through transparent water you see in a glass. It’s rather moisture. Kidney water, bone water, brain water, lung water, liver water, gall bladder water and so on, but not clear free standing water. So the triple warmer is this interconnected system of relationships happening, ebbing and flowing in the body. 12 spokes makes up the wheel, but it is the empty space, the hub that attains its full function. Go to bed early. Know that activity on the surface is generated by rest. Likewise at the spine, in immobility movement is generated. Power is generated from the core at the spine. Empty time, vacation. Letting universal action complete the action rather than a reckless doing from the ego small self, which creates exhaution. So resting appropriately where replenishment occurs. If the well is always pumped it goes dry, letting he water table recharge the invisible underground aquifer. Rest is the key to action.

     

      

                                                             

Inner Smile: We begin the inner smile by activating a memory. This is your happy time memory. Close your eyes and visualize a blue cloudless sky. 




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