Kouji, I've been following your writings for about 6-7 years, however I'm never able to commit to Qigong no matter how many times I try it, especially on top of my Occult practices. I have since my teenage years fallen prey to religious dogma and as such have taken a narrow world view. I would like to return to the time when I practiced the Martial Arts with hard determination, where I embraced the Eastern philosophies and I had healthier life. I think having an active, distinguished teacher such as yourself would really help me and I will work my hardest in your class. I can't thank you enough for an opportunity like this.
This course has been designed from the ground up to give you a simple, basic regimen of Qigong exercises and meditations to practice primarily for health. These exercises are among the most basic and easy to grasp exercises that anyone can do them, but also powerful and rewarding enough that they lead to transcendence and embodiment of Dao if you stick with them. After completing the group, you will be able to move on to exercises in my other articles (Intermediate and Advanced), and you will have a solid enough grasp of the terminology and foundation of Qigong that you'll be able to move on to an internal martial art. Additionally, there is supplemental material at the end of the course that covers things like the differences between internal martial arts, Chinese herbology, tea, and supplements. It is through these things that we see the difference between Qigong, Psionics, Magick and even Yoga, where the goal of Qigong is to treat and supplement the whole body, mind, and spirit together as one. It is believed that if any one of these things is functioning improperly, the system as a whole is not aligned with nature. For many thousands of years this has been the basis of traditional Chinese medicine and folk doctors. So, in completing this group you will not only learn exercises but also the basis of Qigong theory, how to use herbology to balance the energy, and how to identify and remedy things such as Yin/Yang imbalance.
I am happy to have you in the group.
I am interested in participating in this course. I assume the meetings will be held over IRC, but how many times per week and on what days and times?
Hehehe... you're like the 5th person to ask this.
I guess I should have made it more clear in the original post. I'll change that and make sure to have it posted next year.
No, the course is not held over IRC or any other forms of chat. The course will be held in a separate subforum called "Qigong Study Group" that will show up when the group starts under the "Study Group and Mentoring" heading of the Veritas forum index.
On May 30th, the forums will be created, and all of the participants will be added to a group that's allowed to see and post in it.
Your obligations are simply to check the forums, and post in the appropriate threads. Once a week, every Friday, I will post a new lecture with exercises in it. You discuss and ask questions about the lecture in it's thread, and you post your experiences with doing the exercises at a minimum, once a week, in the numbered exercise experience threads I create following the posting of the lecture. Your participation is basically monitored by how active you are in posting overall, but mainly hinges on you posting your experiences practicing the exercises. So, as long as you practice and post your experiences with both exercises at least once that week, you're good.
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