Chi Kung For Magicians Options

Which is the best form or school of Qi Gong, one that works well with a persons development as a magician?

Have been practicing yoga for a while now and its benefits are astounding, wasnt keen on Qi Gong as the slow movements seemed to go against my more firery temperament but after much back and forth regarding the benefits of the two, yoga and qi gong, someone said it... that Qi Gong teaches you how to manipulate energy, yoga dosent, at least not at all in the same way. Sounds glaringly obvious but it swayed my opinion which was one for the marriage of yoga and magick as the perfect matrimony, being able to open physically blocked channels and assume new positions marking the progress of development etc.

Surprised to read just how many variations of Qi Gong there are, some involving elements such as sound into things and so I thought I'd ask and get a better opinion on which form would go well with Magick, am looking into the Alchemy of Baguazhang...

Think this should be in the Eastern section, forum has been sloooooow recently, not even sure if anyone is around (IMG:style_emoticons/default/face08.gif)

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.M.

... could it be said that Qi Gong is, QBL'istically speaking, a distinctly Yetzirahaic practice?

... could it be said that Qi Gong is, QBL'istically speaking, a distinctly Yetzirahaic practice?

As in Yetzirah, the creative principle? Don't think so. Chi gong is the equivalent of working-out for your energy body. You don't make anything, nothing is created, you can't even rightly say that you HAVE anything because the better you get at chi gong the more your energy body functions like a very elaborate systems of conduits through which chi passes. It may well say for a while, and at any given time you may have a lot of it, but it is just passing through.

Some types of chi gong deal with rerouting some of the conduits, and most others deal with making them flow better. None of that is really your effort though. The chi is smarter than you are. You can help chi along by clearing the way, but more often than not "you" are what is in the chi's way. Get out of its way and it will make life better. Point it somewhere and it will find the best way to get there. Point the right kind of chi to the right spot and magick happens.

At its highest, most elaborate level I have heard that chi gong is assuming your place in the united whole of the universe, all the fun thing that you can do with chi is an extension of assuming a place in that wholeness. You never really left the wholeness but we often act like we did, which tends to complicate matters.

This post has been edited by fatherjhon: Apr 14 2011, 06:03 PM