Look, Tensegrity is not “weird chi gung”.
In fact, chi doesn’t exist. Way back in the olden Chinese days (a short 2000 or less years ago), they had junk Chinese science.
They still have that! Lazy westerners go to “Chinese Medicine School”, because it’s cheaper and faster than actually getting a medical degree.
And they want the degree, not the knowledge.
The insurance companies go along with it, because a western bad player type with a degree in “Chinese Medicine” is a lot cheaper than a real doctor.
And it has a very high “placebo effect” benefit. It seems to work!
But it’s crackpot science.
So if you go back to the start of Acupuncture, they seemed to believe they were “venting” the air from your veins, to reduce pressures.
It was air (chi). Thus the needles to let out some pressure.
Naturally that’s ludicrous, but that didn’t stop the Chinese quacks.
As it became obvious that was nonsense, they just turned into into some mysterious energy. And made up stories about how it was discovered.
People wounded by a spear would recover from childhood illnesses.
Or a mysterious Daoist could “see the acupuncture points”.
They had all kinds of tales, to keep their junk medical practice going.
Sure, you can’t prove the “mysterious Chi” is there.
But you can FEEL it.
And from that, “Chi Gung” was born.
It was taken up by old people to do in the morning, because when you are very old you wake up early and have the whole town to yourself. The young people have jobs, so they sleep in as late as possible, then get ready to go to work.
But the old chinese people have nothing to do, so they go to the corner parks all over Beijing, and do “Chi Gung”. And Tai Chi too.
There are a lot of videos on youtube showing this, if you can manage to google in Mandarin. You can also see how silly Daoism really is, in its native land.
Chi Gung is basically a joke among the Chinese. A morning “talk show” topic, for when they have nothing else.
Cholita once posed as a “Sex Tarot Card” reader on a very popular spanish language talk show. I wish I could get a copy!
I asked her, “Do you know anything about Sex Tarot?”
She laughed and said, “I didn’t need to. They did all the talking. I was just there for the men to look at.”
Really, in China they do the “Chi Gung Exercises”, which at 80 years old is enough of a “workout”, then they sit on picnic tables in the park, talk about grandchildren, and granny sees if she can get that old chi gung guy to take her somewhere for “more intimate practice”.
I’ve spent quite a bit of time in Chinese countries. I have an office in Taipei.
Those old Chinese Grannies have even tried to seduce me!
And at my current age, I can see why the old men go for it on occasion.
Any Chinese knows that about Chi gung.
Even the Swedish know it!
Ikea has a problem with old chinese people hanging out where they sell meatballs in their stores in Chinese countries, trying to hook up all day.
But westerners are naive about the nonsense of Asian Mysticism.
Instead of understanding it the way the Chinese do, as customs and rituals intended to be fun, perhaps a lot like our Halloween and Easter Bunny, westerners fall for it hook, line, and sinker.
They chomp down the Asian crapmagic, hoping to get their own “Franchise” and wear the Shaolin monk robes and shiny wooden beads themselves.
So they can suck up attention.
But with no actual magic, they have to pretend the results. So they return to the bad science idea of “chi energy”, and say they can feel it.
An easy way to declare victory, and move one notch closer to your own franchise.
Now don’t get me wrong. Chi Gung and KungFu, can be “fixed”.
That’s my sincere hope. I spent 10 years trying to interest any actual Chinese.
And learned it just can’t be fixed without a bunch of crying baby chinese “Masters” having tantrums.
I wish some MMA guy could just go punch them in the nose, the way they did with the Wing Chun master of all of China.
He was a “national treasure”. Peerless! Undefeatable!!!
But he was getting senile and believed his own make believe, and fell for how his students let him toss them around because they all had franchise hopes of their own.
So he challenged a middle of the road MMA fighter.
Who kicked his “master” butt in seconds.
China punished the MMA fighter severely, so he got revenge by going around beating up other Chinese “masters”.
You can find that on Youtube. If you believe in Chinese mysticism, you might want to see it with your own eyes.
It’s all crap.
But it COULD be fixed. I hope some of you do someday.
This picture shows you what “Olmec Chi Gung” looks like.
It’s the real thing.
Real magic.
They didn’t have money yet. They didn’t have agriculture. It was 10,000 years ago!
If you needed food, you went outside into the jungle and got some.
There was no possible motivation to make up stuff. What they created for their sorcery was the real thing. It was based on what works, and not on what can fool lazy people on ego trips into paying for instruction.
Anyone who can’t tell the difference will fail in this subreddit.
Not because of anything you might think. It’s not because we are “prejudiced”, or “Only believe in what we do”.
Not at all! Myself, I’d LOVE to see some actual magic elsewhere.
Then I could try to figure out where it came from. Long ago.
According to my spirit “Mystery”, there were originally perhaps 8 “strains” of real magic, back before humans learned speech. When the entire earth population numbered well under 1 million.
We have one strain from back then.
But the rest seem to be lost. The North African variety became the crap magic of the middle east, and asia. Diluted by religion and greed.
If we could find the “other strains”, it would be a great thing!
I’ll name them. Olmec (Proto-siberian), North African, and Islander.
What else, we haven’t figured out yet.
In fact, we aren’t “jealous” of other magical systems.
I say you will fail if you believe those, because I’ve seen it over and over again over the last 25 years. So many “students”, and not one single success.
It’s because because what we do is SO MUCH WORK, that there are even “Buddhist masters” on youtube saying it’s impossible.
Saying, “no one can do that”.
No one can remove their internal dialogue.
And a few westernized “Zen Masters” saying it’s possible, but since they have no impressive magic, one wonders if they even did it themselves.
The same was told to me by Chakrapani, the famous Los Angeles Ayurvedic fortune teller. He told me back in the early 80s.
He was so beloved, he even has his own dot com now. Though he’s long dead, and left us before the internet even rose.
I asked him why all the meditation and chanting in Hinduism?
Why not just shut off your internal dialogue, and skip to the good stuff?
He agreed, that would do it. Then he looked me in the eyes and said very sincerely, as if he were worried I was going astray with my Castaneda delusions, “Because no man can do that!”
He was wrong.
It’s just VERY difficult.
And so if you have franchise aspirations for Chinese crap magic, I’m afraid you will fail in this subreddit.
Once you figure out it actually takes work to learn real magic, you have to decide if you really wanted REAL magic.
Or if the pretend kind gets you want you wanted.
A franchise.
And anyone who believes in fake magic, will go get the fake magic franchise when they realize how hard internal silence is.
It’s so much easier to just pretend.
We have no franchises to offer in here. Just magic.
This picture shows a higher step in learning magic. The benefits of getting rid of rationality, once you can move your assemblage point all the way to the deep orange zone on the J curve.
It’s not obvious at first, because you get to see plenty of “the real thing”. Those are the pictures on the left.
But once you can manifest zombie assistants, you could try out the “irrational” version of this pass.
It’s far more stunning.
It also allows a smooth transition from dreaming awake, to dreaming asleep.
But while awake.
Which removes the laws of physics entirely, from your darkroom practice.
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on it’s own; which is the intent of Tensegrity. Or guide the assemblage point the more it is done.