Posted by jonvon on June 11, 2002 at 17:23:47:
In Reply to: Re: reaquanting with enchantment posted by john on June 10, 2002 at 06:39:42:
hm. you remind me of my wife sometimes. she can spot a nest on top of a telephone pole that i would have never seen as we are driving down the highway at 70 mph, and she'll tell you what kind of bird is up there too. she is very tuned in all the time, its the way she's wired. i'm definitely not as tuned in as she is that way, i live a lot in my head instead i guess. not that she isn't cerebral, i just can't tune into the outside world the way she can. she's just smarter than me when it comes to all that.
the most amazing experiences i had "energy wise" were when i was riding my bike out in colorado. it was out there on the road with the energy pouring from the naked earth and the sun shining all around and me breathing deeply because i was riding up and down steep hills. i was absolutely bathed in it, way beyond anything we ever did in kung fu class. it was life changing, one of those things where you aren't really the same again.
: I understand what you are saying. I think the energy, or majik is there. I've spent the better part of my adult life searching for it. But it is truly an uphill battle. At every turn there is something restricting it, squashing it. and most of it unnecessarilly, or in ignorance. Some may be content to feel any chi that comes up from the ground through polluted earth while taking deep breaths of poison air. But if you do those exercises in the pure earth, far from the things of detructive man, the chi is magnified exponentially. I mean you don't even have to do exercises to get the level of chi you described, it just comes by existing. I have tried to practice proper breathing at work and in town, but every breath is stifled by the noxious fumes of exhaust and dust, and the only sounds to reach my ears are the devil's chords generated by the beastly trucks and machinery.
: Stil I have been able to find the small slivers of hope and majik that persist there. Just as Bill said I've been able to see the wilderness inside the urban. But my question is are we going to be content with the candle flickers? Are we going to huddle around the tiny flames when we could experience the absolute conflagration? I am not content with any less. I don't understand how people can find this mutilated shred of hope and be content with that. It only fuels my desire to see the full beauty manifested. Take botany for an example. We can keep a house plant inside and barely water it and it may live, but who among us would be content with that sickly plant when we could cultivate it, give it light and nutrients and see the full splendor that it has to offer?