On Oct 24, 2020, x wrote on alt.philosophy.taoism
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> of the dozen or so books on Chi Kung i bought it's the cheapest second hand
> one written by a humble english dude that draws me in first, emphasizing the
> the felt experience of Chi at the heart of Chi Kung, albeit late in the
> book.. the necessity and importance of such pointing out growing every so
> frustratingly - i was feeling annoyed with all the talking as well as the
> exercise descriptions brushing over the issue of feeling the Chi but had
> started skipping straight to the exercises at the end of each chapter
> preparing to Just Do It, when i found the final chapter addressed the
> question of feeling "Chi" by repeated practice.
I think my hands and feet were awakened to chi sensitivity
by painful “thorn acupuncture” during my naked thorn hill
climb of Sept.5/6, 1991. And for a couple of days after
that, my hands received mini-shocks from metal cutlery
so I had to wrap it in paper napkins.
Some past parallels to my thorn hill climb are Moses barefoot
in the thorn bush and Quetzalcoatl self-sacrificing on thorns.
Let me know if you know of any others.
--
David Dalton
dal...@nfld.com http://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page)
http://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)
“And the cart is on a wheel/And the wheel is on a hill/And the hill is
shifting sand/And inside these laws we stand" (Ferron)