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Martial Arts Are Not For Fighting
That's a saying in Baguazhang. It's a Taoist martial art so it's martial in the sense of being in command of one's space, but the art's aim is to protect your space without injuring others. The book I'm reading called Bagua Quan Foundation Training describes the functions of the weapons and concludes each description with "it's purpose does not lie ( Read more... ) -
Delineating My Position In Spacetime
Ascension Conspiracy: the aims of sciencereligion, the methods of artmusic. Fuck! We need new words! By the looks of written German this is how they dealt with an influx of eastern influences way back when. When was that anyway? Colonial aftermath circa 19th century? Oh the tangents. The effect should subside once Luna leaves my natal moonsign. ( Read more... ) -
Wake Up Laughing, Gongfu, Snow
Jeez, it wasn't even that bad but it took me 3 hours to get home from Trader Joes which usually takes about a half hour. Oh well, just as it started snowing some push-hands happened with Adam in Laurelhurst. Gongfu is en excellent way to beat the cold, even standing still in particular ways. I've been practicing circle walking and visualizing ( Read more... ) -
Birthday
I'm declaring the NYE party at the Lodge my birthday party this year. 5 January (solar return on 4, the monday after party weekend) is never a time when many people want to attend a party, even me. The weekday after New Year landing on a weekend makes it even worse. I still want to hang out on monday night with some folks, Vita Cafe or something ( Read more... ) -
Yeti On Why Kung Fu is Better Than Shopping
Radiation from galactic center (((a black hole gobbling stuff so fast it glows in all frequencies astronomers know how to detect))) and the solar wind are simultaneously blowing up Gaia's skirts. This happens to be the same way the magnetic field currently flows. Running around in a shopping mall that's takes little account of the flow of universal ( Read more... ) -
Circle Walking
Circle walking à la Baguazhang trains human skills across the board. A sort of 360 degree awareness develops from not only walking in a circle but walking in a circle while maintaining whole body awareness with a moveable root descending to the core of Earth from each foot. Changing direction without losing balance, the sensation of twisting around ( Read more... ) -
Planetary Reverb Machine
Why do I consider the interweave of music and gongfu, or practices to develop self mastery important? Millions of people connected to the machine of spectacle still have bodies vibrating in the public space and their emotional reactions have real consequences. Musicians who ignore this fact are like children playing with nuclear bombs. Those who ( Read more... ) -
The Language Of The Birds
Harmonics are great fun. A vibrating string or the body of a horn resonates at different frequencies all over the instrument. The quality recognized as the instrument's sound is an average of all these frequencies that in a well tuned instrument has a strong fundamental tone while the other frequencies contribute to the timbre, the instrument's ( Read more... ) -
Obama Channels Orwell: War is Peace
As the debate over whether or not Humans have anything to do with the billions of tons of carbon and other gasses that trap heat in the atmosphere goes on in Copenhagen (it's not us! Really! It's cosmic radiation! Yeah! That's it!) our president accepted a peace prize by defending war. He's elevated the title Commander In Chief above all else that ( Read more... ) -
Bright Sun, Cold Sky
Finals 3 for 3. I know I've been critiquing the art world a lot over the last couple of years. I admit I'm a bit jaded as an academic. Conversations that go in circles are common. Too much theory, not enough practice. But something in me shifted today, something about the sunlight I guess or maybe it was the moon going into Libra, I don't know. ( Read more... )