Impressions from this afternoon's walk
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Tiger Emperor Temple (虎帝庙), on Hutou Mountain Park, Taoyuan City, Taiwan
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“Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible; and suddenly, you are doing the impossible.” ~ Saint Francis of Assisi
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Internal Arts Practice Concepts
Internal – meaning inside your body, inside your mind and your intention. Therefore, your body focus is the 神 (shen), or (body) awareness/spirit. Your mind focus is the 意 (yi), or intention/will/impulse energy between thinking and doing. Your heart-mind, the 心 (xin) or emotion/attitude, is not the primary focus. The aim of the training the shen and yi focus is to cultivate your 气 (qi), or (internal) energy, guided by methods that cultivate 鬆 (song), or loosing/relaxing. An important principle is that where intention goes, energy follows, Yi Dao Qi Dao (意到氣到). The goal of your training is to harmonise these three internals. When you can harmonise your 神 (shen), 意 (yi) and 气 (qi), you will be able to apply them at will into your techniques and are on the path to unlock the 太极 (Taiji) or supreme potential in you.
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“Bad times, hard times - this is what people keep saying; but let us live well and times shall be good. We are the times. Such as we are, such are the times.” - Saint Augustine of Hippo
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Synchromystic, somewhat synonymous with the word Fortean, is a word coined by Jake Kotze (maybe) in 2006. It’s described as the study of name games, anomalous phenomena, and the meaningful relationship between coincidences.
Synchromysticism blogs: copycateffect.blogspot.com - thesynchromystic.com - g8ors.blogspot.com
Synchromysticism example videos: BACK TO THE FUTURE predicts 9/11 - Richard C. Hoagland Press Conference on NASA sending a lightsaber to space
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The act of compression, distillation and modeling of information/knowledge/matter within a truly infinite reality has similarities to constructing sandcastles: Fun play time with sand and water.
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Being process-oriented, not product-driven, is the most important and difficult skill for a designer to develop. - From "101 Things I Learned in Architecture School", by Matthew Frederick
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Master Zhang, ( Zhang Tian Shi, 張 天 師) (34-156), the founder of the Five Pecks of Rice Sect of Taoism during the Eastern Han Dynasty.
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What are kids watching? - Analysis of the Anime "Toaru Majutsu no Index" - by Mark Valin
"Kinda crazy there’s a cartoon out there about an Academy of Gifted kids at war w/ secret societies. Accurate depictions of ceremonial magic & grimoires. Weather modeling satellites, Reality Distortion Fields. The Book of the Law, Aiwass, Aleister. "
"An English Church of Necessary Evil, Queen ‘Elizard’. A war in Russia, more floating fortresses, psychic vortices... probably nothing 🥴"
More on the Setting of Toaru Majutsu no here.
