At http://www.werbos.com/religions.htm,
I discuss the importance of connecting a new scientific world view to intense,
detailed first person experience of a “PSI” or “spiritual”nature. That webpage
links to annotated photo albums of a PART of my trip to Japan last year, but
here I give links to more of the photos of PSI importance, and I copy over
emails I sent at the time which provide some context and explanation.
The
most relevant additional photo albums are:
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Mt Fuji Oct 16-17
https://photos.app.goo.gl/5epcqQJi8KoHjtj78
Shirakawaga Oct 21-22 (from Takayama, one afternoon Japan
time)
Magome Oct 22-24
Beppu Nov 4 to Nov 7
https://photos.app.goo.gl/LsqHkY3dBpidNnGt8
EMAILS:
Sept. 24 To Toshi-----------------------------------------------
Dear Toshi-san,
thank you so much for your enthusiastic response!
We are arriving to Yokahama early morning on October 13th. We
are planning to take a brief trip to Kamakura from there and then take a train
to Shinjuku, where we are staying for the next two days. So, if you are
available after 16:00 on October 13th, we'll be happy to see you. Please don't
cancel your travel abroad -- on October 20-23 we will be in Takayama, using it
as a base for exploring the gassho-zukuri villages.
Sept 28 to Maia and Roger------------------------
Just for amusement.. we woke up today with
message from United. In other words: "Go to. a different airport Your
flight was cancelled. At Dulles, go to gates D for different. That's where you
will board a plane for SF, where you will spend 4 hours in the secure area.
Then you fly from there to Vancouver (late enough to cancel the meeting with iT
executives in that city)". Oh, well. We will be close but not close
enough.
Tomorrow, like Greta, we board a ship to take us to the big
climate meeting, but it's a bit trickier and unpredictable. Laws which govern
AI will also be on the agenda. Meeting first with world President of IEEE in
Japan on the way. Who knows?
Sept 28 in Vancouver….-----------------------------------------------
Hi Lincoln and Meilang,
It would be extremely nice if you could stop by our place in the
morning (382 Powell st) and call Luda's phone ... We'll be up and around
starting at 8 AM, but you guys will probably need more rest.
This way we can coordinate
better, and if we can leave the bags in your trunk, we don't have to come back
to the apartment.
Written to friends just after Vancouver but only sent by
google on Oct 10 (when internet was open):
We are approaching Juneau now, where we expect
brief internet. (Image below, taken from our balcony).
Am so glad Luda arranged a balcony via late upgrade!
I have three missions for this trip. First, the official one, to
give a talk on climate in Korea. I have found it hard to control fear and
anxiety re that onem because every day I hear people say crazy and even
dangerous things so confidently. I was ready to give up until I concentrated on
three promises I made -- to Luda first, also to conference organizers,
but especially to life itself as I rested and meditated with Luda in a small
pool in Brazil last year.
That spiritual connection yesterday was so important... the
sense of reality for all of this.
Other 2 promises? MAYBE talk on internet law/regulations, a
bigger and closer extinction risk even than climate but harder to discuss. And
continuing to try to grasp the bigger picture. Sites in Japan?
Oct 12 3AM to friends:
Luda and I finally have cell phone email again,
as we stand on a ship between Honshu and Shikoku.
We were scheduled to arrive in Yokohama (to go to Tokyo)
tomorrow but at the same time another visitor us now scheduled, they say -- the
biggest supertyphoon in more than 20 years (probably 50). My very last previous
day in Tokyo was the day of the biggest earthquake there in more than10 years.
So many details!
Most off: that morning my previous friend Kunio Yasue became
enraged at me. I was not unpleasant to him but I could not support his new
mathematical theory of physics. I supported what he said about miraculous kinds
of experiences he related about Notre Dame and ki, but I could not support
incorrect math. Later they told me he shifyed from physics to all martial arts
and Shinto, and will help organize formal installation of the new emperor this
month. I couldn't find his email but did inform his collaborator Mari Jibu I
would come tomorrow.
It seems so sad, how pride creates useless unnecessary schisms.
But we will see what we see in this month.
==================================================
Oct 1 to friends from Westerdam:
Written yesterday afternoon (just as we lost internet):
Good morning, folks!
It is 530 pm here now on Monday. This was our first full day on the Westerdam, the Holland American (HAL) ship taking us from Vancouver to Tokyo, with port visits to come at Juneau and two Japanese ports along the way, about two weeks.
Yesterday, it was a whole big story getting to the dock at about 230pm, among the latest people to board. But we should not bore you with those details. We settled into our fourth floor balcony room in record time, mainly because we just had carry-on luggage, and went to bed not long after dining room dinner starting at 530 pm here (830 est).
Ocean stars from an open balcony are usually spectacular. Luda found on the web that northern lights were unusually great last night.. but mainly south of here. I did not even get up more than about ten seconds on the balcony; cold winds limited me.
Closer to dawn, I lay in bed totally conscious. That's partly due to time zone, but I usually spend time exercising some kind of mediation then anyway. But then Luda suggested we put on something warm and go out on the balcony. Usually at home when she suggests a walk or strenuous activity, I say yes (but in PM); I dont feel like doing it, but deeply believe her suggestion is good, and I do it. This time.. I did not feel as much faith (in part because the regular meditation seemed good enough), but, logic or no logic, I decided to go along. Then on the balcony I thanked her several times; it was well worth it.
I guess you could say it reminded me of the huge difference between connections made in bed, even in a state of meditation, and strong direct connections here and now, with the ideas and images they also convey. It was a first order spiritual experience. As dinner comes soon.. I woukdnt want to bore you.. but net that I typed very condensed and dense notes after we came back in.
Just now, Luda tells me we travelled from then to now through the Haida channel. The Haida are themselves an important part of earth, not unlike the ancient Vikings and preVikings in the North Atlantic ("our people").
When we came to the balcony.. it was an impressive sight looking north east (which our balcony faced). Luda took pictures. To the left, a kind of vast open area, blue water and blue coast; the feeling reminded me of an airy Jain Temple we once visited. (Photo recently reposted on Facebook.)
To the right, a glow over the mountains which reminded me of the reality and intensity of the Greek idea of Golden dawn, which I assume the Haida tribe shared. Bits of fog and cloud came to life, playing on the color of the water next to us, the shore hundreds of meters off, and the sky. After some time of that, and inner conversation, Luda pointed where the red sun began to appear. It reminded me of the passage a rabbi discussed with a group on the last cruise, from exodus., the face which would blind if seen directly.
But Luda says internet will go soon, so let me close now. Best regards,
Paul
Good morning, folks!
It is 530 pm here now on Monday. This was our first full day on the Westerdam, the Holland American (HAL) ship taking us from Vancouver to Tokyo, with port visits to come at Juneau and two Japanese ports along the way, about two weeks.
Yesterday, it was a whole big story getting to the dock at about 230pm, among the latest people to board. But we should not bore you with those details. We settled into our fourth floor balcony room in record time, mainly because we just had carry-on luggage, and went to bed not long after dining room dinner starting at 530 pm here (830 est).
Ocean stars from an open balcony are usually spectacular. Luda found on the web that northern lights were unusually great last night.. but mainly south of here. I did not even get up more than about ten seconds on the balcony; cold winds limited me.
Closer to dawn, I lay in bed totally conscious. That's partly due to time zone, but I usually spend time exercising some kind of mediation then anyway. But then Luda suggested we put on something warm and go out on the balcony. Usually at home when she suggests a walk or strenuous activity, I say yes (but in PM); I dont feel like doing it, but deeply believe her suggestion is good, and I do it. This time.. I did not feel as much faith (in part because the regular meditation seemed good enough), but, logic or no logic, I decided to go along. Then on the balcony I thanked her several times; it was well worth it.
I guess you could say it reminded me of the huge difference between connections made in bed, even in a state of meditation, and strong direct connections here and now, with the ideas and images they also convey. It was a first order spiritual experience. As dinner comes soon.. I woukdnt want to bore you.. but net that I typed very condensed and dense notes after we came back in.
Just now, Luda tells me we travelled from then to now through the Haida channel. The Haida are themselves an important part of earth, not unlike the ancient Vikings and preVikings in the North Atlantic ("our people").
When we came to the balcony.. it was an impressive sight looking north east (which our balcony faced). Luda took pictures. To the left, a kind of vast open area, blue water and blue coast; the feeling reminded me of an airy Jain Temple we once visited. (Photo recently reposted on Facebook.)
To the right, a glow over the mountains which reminded me of the reality and intensity of the Greek idea of Golden dawn, which I assume the Haida tribe shared. Bits of fog and cloud came to life, playing on the color of the water next to us, the shore hundreds of meters off, and the sky. After some time of that, and inner conversation, Luda pointed where the red sun began to appear. It reminded me of the passage a rabbi discussed with a group on the last cruise, from exodus., the face which would blind if seen directly.
But Luda says internet will go soon, so let me close now. Best regards,
Paul
Oct 5: Dear
Toshio,
I'm sorry I forwarded you Luda's message from September 28th
carelessly and it got hidden under Google's cutoff line.
Here is her message:
"We can come to Nagoya
on the 23rd and leave on the morning of the 24th. We are hiking from Magome to
Tsumago"
Oct 9 to friends:
Finally in Japan, with first real internet cell
phone connection since Canada. The picture shows you Hokkaido where we have our
first two port days. Luda says we will know a lot more about Ainu later today.
(The ship lectures gave us better appreciation of Japan in general as it has
weathered so many challenges since my last full update.) Vancouver deeply
enhanced our understanding of natives there, but internet limits...
It was sobering to deeply realize how the discouragement of age
is bigger here in Japan than in our circles,,!
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Oct 12, 3AM, to friends:
Luda and
I finally have cell phone email again, as we stand on a ship between Honshu and
Shikoku.
We were scheduled to arrive in Yokohama (to go to Tokyo)
tomorrow but at the same time another visitor us now scheduled, they say -- the
biggest supertyphon in more than 20 years (probably 50). My very last previous
day in Tokyo was the day of the biggest earthquake there in more than10 years.
So many details!
Most off: that morning my previous friend Kunio Yasue became
enraged at me. I was not unpleasant to him but I could not support his new
mathematical theory of physics. I supported what he said about miraculous kinds
of experiences he related about Notre Dame and ki, but I could not support
incorrect math. Later they told me he shifyed from physics to all martial arts
and Shinto, and will help organize formal installation of the new emperor this
month. I couldn't find his email but did inform his collaborator Mari Jibu I
would come tomorrow.
It seems so sad, how pride creates useless unnecessary schisms.
But we will see what we see in this month.
================================
Oct 19 12:20AM
Good afternoon, Toshio-San!
We got bus tickets from Takayama to Nagoya, leaving Takayama at
13:00, and arriving to Meitetsu Bus Center in Nagoya at 15:40 on October 23. We
will be grateful to be picked up there. We have two small bags with us.
Best regards, Paul and Luda
================================
Oct 24 to a few friends:
Luda and I are on Japan mainly for vacation. We
spent just part of one day with the world President of IEEE who happens to be
an old friend. It is mainly cultural education, exercise of spirit, and
physical exercise, great for all three. Hundreds of photos from me on Google
photos, but thousands and better from Luda. Mostly like what college students
would do Tak ng busses and Airbnb.
Oct 28 to a few very trusted friends, regarding training qi and PK:
Please
forgive my sending you access to hundreds of photos from four new unedited
albums today.
I have learned a lot on the spiritual or psi levels on
this trip. These four places have been places where the most physical qi has
further opened my eyes. There are great toys for the soul in these places. Many
many experiences and thoughts which I have started to write up, for later.
Extensive notes and psi spirit in other places as well, less physical.
A little more explanation. Luda and I are very
comfortable on a four hour train ride ( not shinkansen but quiet soft roomy
enough).
About a week ago I gave a rehearsal of my talk for next month on
Korea TV on the big policy challenge of how to manage or regulate what the new
AI could do to us. I included reference to the YouTube video of Stuart Russell
on "slaugherbots " I made very moderate suggestions, exactly in line
with John Von Neumann,'s tough but rational approach to n player nonzerosum
game. But a lot of folks making money in that area do not want rational
approaches even to save our lives. I recently got dinged hard for US/EU/Japan
links by the guy whose algorithms are used in autonomous drones Russell doesn't
know about, already there, using ANN to decide whom to kill. They once liked
me, a true German in many ways, but they don't want constraints. Yuk.
On the photos, so many types of
toys to play with. Many images which are 2D address windows pointing to 3d and
4d scenes.
Oct 29 to Nancy duTerte:
July
23 date of fall was a major watershed for me, in several ways. It was EXTREMELY
odd for me to remember nothing at all that whole day (could I have it off a
day?), even in the hours before I fell at about 3AM (Luda later told me). I
remember regaining consciousness at Lahey Hospital, but only much later did
Luda tell me that that was the next day.
Routine stuff so far, all written up elsewhere. What was not written up is how this led to a new level of experience and understanding of PM and other paranormal skills, albeit built on my previous experiments in Iceland and Caribean discussed briefly on Facebook (mainly in files on this which I should back up at home). It is notable that these have mainly been during travel. That fits this past week, where travel to Fuji, Shirakawago and Magome presented important new opportunities for experimentation. Yesterday I even imagined drafting an email to several sincere people on training paranormal abilities using these places.
Back at Lahey hospital: When I first regained consciousness that I can remember, I was fully conscious but not embodied. (I wish I had written up all I could remember before this.) I saw faces and heard words of several people discussing serious matters I would have commented on, but as I became more aware I realized I could not comment by internet. My arms by my side were so far from any keyboard. I said to myself: it seems I must rely more now on innernet not internet, then, and more and more later as I get further past 70 and closer to the coming transition. But innernet is a familiar place for me already (though always in need of enhancement and maybe overdue for upgrade).
That, and learning what happened, were the first two big changes. And of course I wondered about why this happened.
The third big change, reinforced after I saw Dr. Uy back home, was to realize I could never just rely on my unconscious (and neural) sense of balance to avoid falls. I said more in emails this week discussing our experience on Fuji.
Starting at Lahey, I remembered a time after Margaret Ho left when my esprit and will to live were so weak that I consciously operated my body like a puppet from afar. For the rest of my life now I must now be more like that, just to avoid more falls ever more serious. And so, as I said in the Fuji emails, I resolved to try to be more aware through qi to compensate for weakness in my aging mundane neural circuits. As proposed in my 2012 paper in Neural Networks, I took a bootstrapping approach to combine mundane and qi inputs and learn; I really needed to learn. Learn on ship, exercise on Fuji, lots of other qi balance learning on this trip with so many challenges to avoid falling in new unfamiliar situations of all kinds.
But that was just one aspect.
Just as important even in the "first grade" (Fuji) were bits of cloud/fog, to be found across so much of Japan. After all, falls and qi gong are available all over the earth (though they require info need training methods). But Japan is really special in this department. Bits exist here and there elsewhere, but volume and prevalence and choice are so much greater here!
I already played with wisps of fog many times in the past, building on my first focused experience with PK in 1972 when I focused on a mobile hanging in my bedroom in Roxbury. (Before that I remember focusing on swirling patterns of falling snow one time, looking out the window of my sister's room at Haws Lane). I think I first played (successfully) with PK on wisps of fog in Hunan Province, on a trip with Haibo He and Luda to the place where Avatar was filmed. After that, as we cruised by Jamaica, Luda showed me I could see wisps of fog between the ship and the shore which I somehow could not notice before; tracking them, in a bootstrap kind of way, I learned how to see and predict better, "looking sideways."
"Looking sideways" is a big deal. Likewise a totally different thread, learning to see in dark.
Later at Niagara Falls, looking into wisps and meditating, linking to some mind there, a type of entry to noosphere…
Routine stuff so far, all written up elsewhere. What was not written up is how this led to a new level of experience and understanding of PM and other paranormal skills, albeit built on my previous experiments in Iceland and Caribean discussed briefly on Facebook (mainly in files on this which I should back up at home). It is notable that these have mainly been during travel. That fits this past week, where travel to Fuji, Shirakawago and Magome presented important new opportunities for experimentation. Yesterday I even imagined drafting an email to several sincere people on training paranormal abilities using these places.
Back at Lahey hospital: When I first regained consciousness that I can remember, I was fully conscious but not embodied. (I wish I had written up all I could remember before this.) I saw faces and heard words of several people discussing serious matters I would have commented on, but as I became more aware I realized I could not comment by internet. My arms by my side were so far from any keyboard. I said to myself: it seems I must rely more now on innernet not internet, then, and more and more later as I get further past 70 and closer to the coming transition. But innernet is a familiar place for me already (though always in need of enhancement and maybe overdue for upgrade).
That, and learning what happened, were the first two big changes. And of course I wondered about why this happened.
The third big change, reinforced after I saw Dr. Uy back home, was to realize I could never just rely on my unconscious (and neural) sense of balance to avoid falls. I said more in emails this week discussing our experience on Fuji.
Starting at Lahey, I remembered a time after Margaret Ho left when my esprit and will to live were so weak that I consciously operated my body like a puppet from afar. For the rest of my life now I must now be more like that, just to avoid more falls ever more serious. And so, as I said in the Fuji emails, I resolved to try to be more aware through qi to compensate for weakness in my aging mundane neural circuits. As proposed in my 2012 paper in Neural Networks, I took a bootstrapping approach to combine mundane and qi inputs and learn; I really needed to learn. Learn on ship, exercise on Fuji, lots of other qi balance learning on this trip with so many challenges to avoid falling in new unfamiliar situations of all kinds.
But that was just one aspect.
Just as important even in the "first grade" (Fuji) were bits of cloud/fog, to be found across so much of Japan. After all, falls and qi gong are available all over the earth (though they require info need training methods). But Japan is really special in this department. Bits exist here and there elsewhere, but volume and prevalence and choice are so much greater here!
I already played with wisps of fog many times in the past, building on my first focused experience with PK in 1972 when I focused on a mobile hanging in my bedroom in Roxbury. (Before that I remember focusing on swirling patterns of falling snow one time, looking out the window of my sister's room at Haws Lane). I think I first played (successfully) with PK on wisps of fog in Hunan Province, on a trip with Haibo He and Luda to the place where Avatar was filmed. After that, as we cruised by Jamaica, Luda showed me I could see wisps of fog between the ship and the shore which I somehow could not notice before; tracking them, in a bootstrap kind of way, I learned how to see and predict better, "looking sideways."
"Looking sideways" is a big deal. Likewise a totally different thread, learning to see in dark.
Later at Niagara Falls, looking into wisps and meditating, linking to some mind there, a type of entry to noosphere…
Niagara Falls, entry via wisps of fog to a kind
of part of noosphere allowing communication.
(This whole trip I have also practiced the three types of communication psi I documented for Iceland at sites suitable for THAT. )
And so, first stop of 3 PK scenes: station 5 of Fuji, giant bus stop.
So MANY vibrant wisps of fog!
So more on fog OK PK. In Hunan, I treated fog as I treated mobile in 1972, a lot like "Technique of the Master" which I read later but fit. First represent state as if feeling my I own foot, But equally construct image of how I want it to feel and look. Then holding both images firmly in mind push by actmoff will. Feel push, maybe attach higher qi, will, emotional energy to the movement.
But by Niagara I was more relaxed, feeling, listening, seeing first. And in noosphere it is like a ganglion above the lower specific drrtaikksm and the ganglion also serves as a kind of link to higher local levels. It reminded me then if kegensss of elemental, which I could contact at that higher ganglion level and above.
So: At Fuji station 5, first and lower were dozens if bus stops in two or more groups. Easy to walk uphill gently with hundreds of visitors from so many bus lines. Then big two story buildings like a giant malls of people taking selfies buying stuff, being excited just to be there. Gently uphill, last two story building ends with stairs up to second floor observation platform looking ahead to the main (horizontal) trail ahead, sloping gently upwards, with Fuji visible through clouds on the right.
Lud a and I went straight to the crowded observation platform, where dozens of us took pictures, including pictures of a few handfuls of people actually walking ahead onto the trail. Already we saw dozens of animated wisps of cloud moving in different directions near and far, responsive to thoughts in the area. We took photos and videos.
Then as walked onto the trail, taking pictures and meditating and dodging a few others, I "heard the voucebbof Loki" yet again. Whether it us a Jungian connection or a personal cell assembly I don't care but I notice and ooay attention though not reverently, It conjured up a person cursing how hard it was to get a good picture with all these glowing kami or ghosts glowing in the picture.
I took notes on my mental communications there.
I stopped to meditate at one promising place but expected more to come. Some photos.
After some distance, Luda and I came to a split, where the branch up on the right was blocked by threatening fence-like covers. (See photo.)
Then we faced a dilemma. Luda and I share many values, but on Fuji I gave clear priority to spiritual growth via meditation and such, as such, while Lud a would not sacrifice a once in a lifetime chance to scale Mr. Fuji,nor part of it. She reasoned the warnings should be interpreted as "We take no responsibility; it is at your own risk."
I feel a bit "superstitious" about other people's rules in their places. So we agreed to split for two hours, agreeing to meet again between that point and Fuji station, unless we agreed via our cell phones to change plans. That us why our photos for that period have different locations.
I intended at first to spend time somewhere on that trail for more serious meditation. I did a little. But having two hours and a cell phone, I decided to walk forward at least a half hour to see what I would see, and do some photos. I was amaz3d to see two or three side trails on the right, wide fresh plowed black dirt and bulldozers working it. I saw a small "window gap" in a stone walk like a Shinto shrine! Ahead I came to a trail up to a building/ hut on the ascending Yoshida trail (main trail up Fuji) which I took many photos of. As I walked up, I soon met another "trail closed" barrier. I came down and did intense mental communication meditation by the hut which I chose as best meditation spot in Fuji by far for me,
By the way, I knew the main trail was closed (And deserted of course) due to damage from our recent supertyphoon.
On the first step down the stone step side iif the tra
(This whole trip I have also practiced the three types of communication psi I documented for Iceland at sites suitable for THAT. )
And so, first stop of 3 PK scenes: station 5 of Fuji, giant bus stop.
So MANY vibrant wisps of fog!
So more on fog OK PK. In Hunan, I treated fog as I treated mobile in 1972, a lot like "Technique of the Master" which I read later but fit. First represent state as if feeling my I own foot, But equally construct image of how I want it to feel and look. Then holding both images firmly in mind push by actmoff will. Feel push, maybe attach higher qi, will, emotional energy to the movement.
But by Niagara I was more relaxed, feeling, listening, seeing first. And in noosphere it is like a ganglion above the lower specific drrtaikksm and the ganglion also serves as a kind of link to higher local levels. It reminded me then if kegensss of elemental, which I could contact at that higher ganglion level and above.
So: At Fuji station 5, first and lower were dozens if bus stops in two or more groups. Easy to walk uphill gently with hundreds of visitors from so many bus lines. Then big two story buildings like a giant malls of people taking selfies buying stuff, being excited just to be there. Gently uphill, last two story building ends with stairs up to second floor observation platform looking ahead to the main (horizontal) trail ahead, sloping gently upwards, with Fuji visible through clouds on the right.
Lud a and I went straight to the crowded observation platform, where dozens of us took pictures, including pictures of a few handfuls of people actually walking ahead onto the trail. Already we saw dozens of animated wisps of cloud moving in different directions near and far, responsive to thoughts in the area. We took photos and videos.
Then as walked onto the trail, taking pictures and meditating and dodging a few others, I "heard the voucebbof Loki" yet again. Whether it us a Jungian connection or a personal cell assembly I don't care but I notice and ooay attention though not reverently, It conjured up a person cursing how hard it was to get a good picture with all these glowing kami or ghosts glowing in the picture.
I took notes on my mental communications there.
I stopped to meditate at one promising place but expected more to come. Some photos.
After some distance, Luda and I came to a split, where the branch up on the right was blocked by threatening fence-like covers. (See photo.)
Then we faced a dilemma. Luda and I share many values, but on Fuji I gave clear priority to spiritual growth via meditation and such, as such, while Lud a would not sacrifice a once in a lifetime chance to scale Mr. Fuji,nor part of it. She reasoned the warnings should be interpreted as "We take no responsibility; it is at your own risk."
I feel a bit "superstitious" about other people's rules in their places. So we agreed to split for two hours, agreeing to meet again between that point and Fuji station, unless we agreed via our cell phones to change plans. That us why our photos for that period have different locations.
I intended at first to spend time somewhere on that trail for more serious meditation. I did a little. But having two hours and a cell phone, I decided to walk forward at least a half hour to see what I would see, and do some photos. I was amaz3d to see two or three side trails on the right, wide fresh plowed black dirt and bulldozers working it. I saw a small "window gap" in a stone walk like a Shinto shrine! Ahead I came to a trail up to a building/ hut on the ascending Yoshida trail (main trail up Fuji) which I took many photos of. As I walked up, I soon met another "trail closed" barrier. I came down and did intense mental communication meditation by the hut which I chose as best meditation spot in Fuji by far for me,
By the way, I knew the main trail was closed (And deserted of course) due to damage from our recent supertyphoon.
On the first step down the stone step side iif the tra
On the first few steps down from the hut, on
the flat steep stones staircase on the right, I soon felt a little anxiety
about my wobbly balance since my confusion in July, along with so many small
stones on the staircase. So I was amused to fell myself: "Just above, I
engaged several major styles and messages with the. So why not now one more
doing respect to Dr. Kam from the ship, his first qi gong exercise, enhanced a
bit with thoughts from heaven and earth as I drew abnd felt qi and felt my body
and I needed to be much more conscious there just to be firmly under mental
control stable and not fall. That was a great exercise.
As I walked back to the rendezvous point, Lud a called me by cell phone. She told me to stay put. She would come down and meet me where I was, so she could see more with us together. We saw no one but construction workers, mostly on their bulldozer like trucks. When we reached the obstacle, I agree to walk up with her this time, to get to the nna in Buddhist Temple above on the trail. I reasoned that this motivation would be acceptable to whatever powers that be. It was more great physical therapy and exercise for physical body feelings control and bakance and qi,
using consciousness to control my body at low level and clear qi.
Then the Temple, many pictures. Who is on the statue? We do not know yet. Mental meditation, a second great place, and photos. We found trail up, but photos and meditation already took more time than expected. Due to Bus schedules and risk, we agreed strongly when to go back down, with vigor and awareness as needed.
When we passed the rock wall with a flower "window" we did stop to feel and take pictures. As we left, fog let up enough to let us see misty magical seeming rocks above/ past that wall, but no time. Saw two bold German women tourists between there and station 5, but that was the end of that, except for finding our bus and cchecking out base camp.
==== Shirakawago
Again Fuji was just first and weakest of three physical qi sites so far, as I type on JR train from Shin Osaka to Issa Peninsula full of wisps and mountains and big water we can see out our windows.
Number two, far more startling to me, was Shirakawago (many pics).
First we read how this was a preserved natural rural village a great tourist site. After a few pictures, we noticed the popular 200 yen bus to the viewing platform above. After we found it (tricky for nonJapanese), It seemed a great mental meditation place as well as picture place.
First mental connection: not my usual mind talk, but feeling reminding me of a little pool on Ilha Belha I wrote about on Facebook, with "i" on pictures more detailed than this. As we planned this trip at home, and nasty politics and difficult logistics discouraged me, I often asked myself: "Why don't I just give up, really?" My real answer wss clear: " I keep promises. This time to Luda, to Youngsook (inviter in Seoul) and to natural earthlife as I promised in strong meditation in Ilha Belha. Looking at Shirakawago from the platform, I linked to it and felt it as an extension or expansion of that special little pool in Ilha Belha (just one site of the meditation there but enough of a gate), a bigger pool of life encompassing normal life, wispy kami, rice paddies and humans in harmony as part of one big pool of life.
That was a great start, despite hordes of gabby, jostling picture takers. But then as Lud a asked for a better picture, and we drifted to the far right side of the platform, I drifted ontii and by a discrete Shinto shrine which of course we photoed and talked to a bit. It was a calm place from which I could link to the wisps up to the left on the mountains, and play PK by ganglion, which was effective. But it also seemed natural there to try to draw qi and link to sun, a natural link both in Shinto and in my understanding of noosphere.
(Based on what we know about far matter and galaxies, It seems more natural to assume that a life form based on dark matter would have sun as its main center. That fits many things.)
As I walked back to the rendezvous point, Lud a called me by cell phone. She told me to stay put. She would come down and meet me where I was, so she could see more with us together. We saw no one but construction workers, mostly on their bulldozer like trucks. When we reached the obstacle, I agree to walk up with her this time, to get to the nna in Buddhist Temple above on the trail. I reasoned that this motivation would be acceptable to whatever powers that be. It was more great physical therapy and exercise for physical body feelings control and bakance and qi,
using consciousness to control my body at low level and clear qi.
Then the Temple, many pictures. Who is on the statue? We do not know yet. Mental meditation, a second great place, and photos. We found trail up, but photos and meditation already took more time than expected. Due to Bus schedules and risk, we agreed strongly when to go back down, with vigor and awareness as needed.
When we passed the rock wall with a flower "window" we did stop to feel and take pictures. As we left, fog let up enough to let us see misty magical seeming rocks above/ past that wall, but no time. Saw two bold German women tourists between there and station 5, but that was the end of that, except for finding our bus and cchecking out base camp.
==== Shirakawago
Again Fuji was just first and weakest of three physical qi sites so far, as I type on JR train from Shin Osaka to Issa Peninsula full of wisps and mountains and big water we can see out our windows.
Number two, far more startling to me, was Shirakawago (many pics).
First we read how this was a preserved natural rural village a great tourist site. After a few pictures, we noticed the popular 200 yen bus to the viewing platform above. After we found it (tricky for nonJapanese), It seemed a great mental meditation place as well as picture place.
First mental connection: not my usual mind talk, but feeling reminding me of a little pool on Ilha Belha I wrote about on Facebook, with "i" on pictures more detailed than this. As we planned this trip at home, and nasty politics and difficult logistics discouraged me, I often asked myself: "Why don't I just give up, really?" My real answer wss clear: " I keep promises. This time to Luda, to Youngsook (inviter in Seoul) and to natural earthlife as I promised in strong meditation in Ilha Belha. Looking at Shirakawago from the platform, I linked to it and felt it as an extension or expansion of that special little pool in Ilha Belha (just one site of the meditation there but enough of a gate), a bigger pool of life encompassing normal life, wispy kami, rice paddies and humans in harmony as part of one big pool of life.
That was a great start, despite hordes of gabby, jostling picture takers. But then as Lud a asked for a better picture, and we drifted to the far right side of the platform, I drifted ontii and by a discrete Shinto shrine which of course we photoed and talked to a bit. It was a calm place from which I could link to the wisps up to the left on the mountains, and play PK by ganglion, which was effective. But it also seemed natural there to try to draw qi and link to sun, a natural link both in Shinto and in my understanding of noosphere.
(Based on what we know about far matter and galaxies, It seems more natural to assume that a life form based on dark matter would have sun as its main center. That fits many things.)
Oct 30 to me, one piece of extensive background information
Oct 29 (Magome) 540PM:
And so, the first real surprise for me at
Shirakawago platform was what happened when I linked to the wisps of cloud and
at the same time
tried my new qi exercise pulling energy from sky sun (high in sky there unlike Fuji that day) through power at my lower spine (raised long ago, discussed in "i" in Facebook album posts for Caribbean islands we visited). Basically the wusosm which had been persistent all day, just evaporated when I conected to them.
I also experimented in looking sideways not just at wisps but at qi from my hands, which I had played with before.
And second, biggest surprise. Extending qi for OK to soft nessr tree branch,not worked, but qi right showed more. I could even see both present and past if the tree in vivid color and sharp. I practiced this kind of OK and qi sight together. It was a special place and I had tuned in to it. Later as we walked down the path to the village (which I found after the long sequence), I saw an older lone tree and practiced again. Yes it was to see the past.
We stayed much longer in the village with more pictures. I tuned in more closely to the village at a mental level again, but no PK stuff.
===========
Then the peak place, Magome, too rich for me to exhaust.
My first hour walking uphill...
===
I finished the text above as Luda and I reached Katsuura. Next our kind host drove us to kiyoMon onsen (hot spa). The best hot spring spa in the whole region. Arrive 615 agree to meet him at 730.
I stayed until 650 or so. At most times 5 men in the hot sulfurous water, 4 in washing area before it. At first relax very powerful for that. Then try a bit of PK, as in islands. The deep long wave still works better than little ripples but other movements and situation made PK mild, not so impressive, and what got me further out of water. Yes, some real stuff, but I did not bring watch, giit up to check time, and finally got out to go to shoe removal place where I knew Luda would come. She had REALLY relaxed, less crowd.
As I stood and sat by shoe removal place, I first noticed a kind of gently lit central courtyard out the windows on one side of the corridor. But I realized the women's area was on the other side and I should not stare. Fresh air through the window. So I went to other side of corridor, opened a window, breathed great air and stared out at a tree with gentle branches one foot awash, lit from below by soft lights.
Staring at that tree... It was a better psi exercise than the spa! Looking sideways, qi vision. Once basics are established, living things like wisps much better foci than pool water. I was reminded of 1972, glowing around object moved, but also more around and past again! Clearly visible was form, color, mmlight, life, flow of qi. Qi vision merits more..
====
Back to Magemo., I took notes on phone. Similar to this tree, really, but more history, river flow, rich life, wisps and water. My sense: the Meiji shrine was an attempt to copy this, but the original was much more powerful.
tried my new qi exercise pulling energy from sky sun (high in sky there unlike Fuji that day) through power at my lower spine (raised long ago, discussed in "i" in Facebook album posts for Caribbean islands we visited). Basically the wusosm which had been persistent all day, just evaporated when I conected to them.
I also experimented in looking sideways not just at wisps but at qi from my hands, which I had played with before.
And second, biggest surprise. Extending qi for OK to soft nessr tree branch,not worked, but qi right showed more. I could even see both present and past if the tree in vivid color and sharp. I practiced this kind of OK and qi sight together. It was a special place and I had tuned in to it. Later as we walked down the path to the village (which I found after the long sequence), I saw an older lone tree and practiced again. Yes it was to see the past.
We stayed much longer in the village with more pictures. I tuned in more closely to the village at a mental level again, but no PK stuff.
===========
Then the peak place, Magome, too rich for me to exhaust.
My first hour walking uphill...
===
I finished the text above as Luda and I reached Katsuura. Next our kind host drove us to kiyoMon onsen (hot spa). The best hot spring spa in the whole region. Arrive 615 agree to meet him at 730.
I stayed until 650 or so. At most times 5 men in the hot sulfurous water, 4 in washing area before it. At first relax very powerful for that. Then try a bit of PK, as in islands. The deep long wave still works better than little ripples but other movements and situation made PK mild, not so impressive, and what got me further out of water. Yes, some real stuff, but I did not bring watch, giit up to check time, and finally got out to go to shoe removal place where I knew Luda would come. She had REALLY relaxed, less crowd.
As I stood and sat by shoe removal place, I first noticed a kind of gently lit central courtyard out the windows on one side of the corridor. But I realized the women's area was on the other side and I should not stare. Fresh air through the window. So I went to other side of corridor, opened a window, breathed great air and stared out at a tree with gentle branches one foot awash, lit from below by soft lights.
Staring at that tree... It was a better psi exercise than the spa! Looking sideways, qi vision. Once basics are established, living things like wisps much better foci than pool water. I was reminded of 1972, glowing around object moved, but also more around and past again! Clearly visible was form, color, mmlight, life, flow of qi. Qi vision merits more..
====
Back to Magemo., I took notes on phone. Similar to this tree, really, but more history, river flow, rich life, wisps and water. My sense: the Meiji shrine was an attempt to copy this, but the original was much more powerful.
Nov 1 720 PM to Nancy:
For a few minutes I am at a train station with cell phone
coverage I can link to Google FI.
Those long pieces on learning psi were typed into
"memo" offline. It let me forward to Gmail when I was briefly in
range again. [Those are emails above!!!]
But Luda and I are not suffering. yesterday she brought me to
enter five onsen (sulfurous baths), climb up a mountain, take 4 local busses,
and more.
Nov 2 just to me: https://www.isejingu.or.jp/en/
Nov 6 to friends:
This town on Kyushu is second only to Yellowstone in sulfur hot
springs. Today was the first of our two full days here. After that, Yakushima
on Shikoku, then Fukuoka, our final stop in Japan. From there we fly to the Big
One in Seoul. Can we really save the world in Seoul? Will try.
News from Philadelphia reinforces idea I need to focus
more on these kind of issue, saving the more advanced tech to eastern Pacific,
maybe not even Japan dye to connections they have getting in the way. Who
knows? Can you believe, there is even an actual Nazi involved. Crazy planet.
After Beppu, we went on to Fukuoka and Yakushima, especially,
but the spiritual aspects are largely covered in the Shinto and Buddhism photo
albums linked to on http://www.werbos.com/religions.htm. The
full Yakushima album is at:
I will always remember how the small town public address system
broadcast Edelweiss everywhere there in the early morning.. and my mind replied
with Old and Wise of Alan Parsons (see youtube). That was sad in its way, but
better than the 30s and 40s stuff in the air. Back home, Christmas music was a much more positive way to start a day.
Miyazaki was a major positive part of our days on Yakushima, as was a great host
from New Zealand.
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