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Nov. 21, 2021 - Clif High
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one point woo - Explorer's Guide to SciFi World

hara for the woo point

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Hello humans.
Hello humans!
Yes, yes, I'm back.
Oh, flee, flee.
Okay, oops.
So this is the 21st of November.
And this is a one point woo.
Which is also Al Kem, from which we get chemistry.
That's actually an M. My writing is terrible.
I type too much.
Also I destroyed my hands and too many building trades.
And I can um I've lost the ability to do cursive Cyrillic.
It's terrible.
Yeah, although struggling all those years as a kid to master the ability to write Paruski, Russian, uh in the Cyrillic alphabet in script form.
And now kids don't even write my own language in script form anymore, right?
They they tap it out.
And if the little letters aren't there, they're just laborious to for these guys to replicate with uh you know a scribner's device, right?
Uh Scribner's device, something to scribe, which is the root for writing, okay.
And you notice that scribe is also R, and if we take the I and substitute a Y, we have scry, which is like the scrying, and it means to see.
And so it's metaphorically, or not, it's connotatively means to see, either metaphorically or see visions or whatever, right?
So it has a tendency to mean to see clearly or clairvoyance.
Uh all these words and stuff are related, language matters, all of that business.
Anyway, we're talking about Al Kim because of some interesting bonds.
All right.
And so here's a good book.
Uh the definitive, I mean the best written martial arts book ever, in my opinion, um, in the nature of this book.
It's an instruction manual.
Okay, it's not commentary, it's not um uh color aspects of of martial arts or anything, it's simply um a discussion of how to do this, which what to do, the names and all this kind of stuff.
This is uh Aikido in the dynamic sphere.
Now uh these authors touch on the um hidden power that is the that you can get more about in this book, Hidden in Plain Sight, um, which is about the esoteric power training within all the Japanese martial arts traditions, right?
And so uh these go to the idea of a thing called a hara, uh which is um the one point.
All of these things mean the same thing.
And that's the hara in Japanese, and let's see, it's Don Dien.
It's an N. Again, my apologies for my scribbling.
Um Dian in Chinese, right?
This is the one point.
If we look at a human being in in this kind of crude fashion, that'll be a snout, and those are gonna be legs, and if that's the belly button, then the one point is about in here somewhere.
And uh so it's it's back inside you, it's the point at which it is just slightly forward of the actual um non-dynamic center of gravity.
So if you were to just stand there and not put any effort into your body in any way, you would have the body settle into a natural point of where the center of gravity would be relative to the all of the planes of the body dynamically, uh that would be the point of maximum stability of the body itself.
Now the the hara, the one point is slightly ahead of that because this is consciousness that's that's creating this recognizing, creating, manipulating, uh building upon the one point, the hara, the tangyan, right?
The al Kim.
Um and so consciousness leads.
And so uh why do you trip?
You're walking along and you just fall, right?
You trip over your own two feet, right?
Um, or you have two left feet, they say.
Uh You go out dancing and you know how all of the foot moves and everything go and uh it doesn't work, right?
And why is that?
Or you're you're walking along and there's no obstacle, but you stumble.
This is because the presence of mind has left you for that millisecond, and the body doesn't know what to do relative to the continued motion.
It knows to continue the motion, it knows the the consequences of that task is to continue this way, but it um for a minute for a millisecond, it's absent, and and one or more of your limbs doesn't quite cooperate, right?
This is the point of understanding, this is the one point of understanding the concept of mindfulness.
Mindfulness is is provides grace, it provides freedom, flexibility, and so on, right.
Uh so you become, as you, as the French say, you become comfortable in your skin.
Um so anyway, the this hara, the one point being slightly ahead of the uh of the actual physical center of gravity leads uh when you're when you're moving, and so you don't stumble, or if you do hit an obstacle, you can recover, you don't fall, because you have the one point, the presence, and so on.
Now, this is all about bonds in the sense of bonding to the the consciousness to this one point.
It's one of the things that they instruct you to do in here without going into the uh the details of what are known as the key arts, okay.
And so we have some more words over here.
We have Japanese, uh hell, I'll put it down here.
Uh chi.
This would be life energy.
And I think we'd be calling it, we'd be calling it prana.
Um I don't know the Arabic for it, so I'll have to get back.
I'll have to learn that and get back to you.
Um this um the the connection here is mind-body-spirit, right?
And so that's the whole thing with Aikido, the the uh triangle, the circle triangle and s and the square.
And it's just these collection of things that you fuse with consciousness into this operational martial art from which you derive power and so on.
These things are bonded in that martial art uh through your consciousness.
And are we as our consciousness to detect bonds in nature and so on, right?
And so we get um uh oh like uh uh Linus Pauling, uh the the uh I I don't know if he's a medical doctor first.
Anyway, Linus Pauling, Dr. Linus Pauling, the guy with the Vineman C and stuff, wrote this great book on uh the nature of the chemical bond.
And he goes into the whole, he's an atomist, all right.
So he goes into it from the per uh from the idea that the universe is made up of little tiny spheres that are discrete, independent, and so on.
And uh so that he he has a lot of that electrical um the electrochemical bond, he has the chemical bond uh described inadequately relative to an actual understanding of the universe as an energetic substance.
Uh the materium as a place of energy in which our consciousness tricks us into thinking that solidity exists by making our fingers wrap on shit.
Um, you know, in terms of the we vibrate so fast that that anyway, read your boskovich, and you'll see why there's no in interpenetrability, you can't drive your fingers from one hand into another.
I can't stick my finger through this uh through this wall.
It is the nature of the materium that things should be thus.
And Boskovitch uh goes into the rationale for all of this and the early uh parts of the book, getting into the um uh the comparability of of matter and how it all works relative to how we uh perceive that it should work.
Anyway, so um our bonds are uh mostly um okay, so we have right, so humans operate in an environment where there are tons of of uh binding agents holding all of matter together.
We don't have to do this.
Our Our brain perceives it, but it doesn't create it.
The electric electrical nature of these bonds is observed even by people that are described as uh physicists and nuclear physicists like um Richard Feynman.
He was um he's uh like the penultimate physicist in the last century, you could argue.
Um and even he recognized that uh universe uh materium here is a strange place.
And he he recognizes this in many of his statements without ever stating it quite that way.
Uh but he talks about, for instance, um somebody going to do a task of electrical work.
And so you're there uh at uh at a house and you're going to uh troubleshoot some kind of a failing device.
It does not matter what that device is, we could choose anything.
We can say that the washer is screwed up.
Okay, so there's a washing machine that's malfunctioning and it's an electrical device, and you've got a repair person there.
This repair person has to come on in and they have to analyze as one of their tasks uh all of the circuits to be found within that washing machine.
These circuits uh are assayed by a device that sees if there's continuity, if there are actual physical separation in the in the wire.
And it also uh assays whether or not that wire can carry uh current uh through it, you know, electricity can act as a conduit for electricity over the surface of it, so it doesn't really go through the middle of the wire.
And um and basically those are the only two solid measurements that we can determine, right?
And how much how much in terms of amperage can you shove through this wire?
If it's a micro-thin wire, it's not going to do any good to try and shove 6,000 volts through it because you're gonna fire it fry the wire.
Um and if if the wire is separated between uh the point where it's the electricity enters and the point where the electricity does some work, it's not going to do any good to put electricity into it.
This is what the electrician has to ascertain in order to fix the or the washer repairman in order to fix the washer.
These days they don't do that, they just replace shit.
Oh yeah, that part doesn't work, we'll just replace this control unit, that sort of thing, right?
But anyway, so Feynman makes this reference that that repairman in putting his electrical gear, his circuit tester on that circuit, is basically measuring um true.
He's measuring the elect electrical potential and and uh availability of that part of the circuit that he's testing at that moment.
But he's doing so by by basically testing it against the rest of the universe.
And so the concept is that you've got your circuit here, uh, you've got your positive and your negative in terms of your electrical flow, and you're gonna put your connectors on it, and whatever number you get out of your little device here, whatever number reads on your little device after you put the connectors on there is is analyzing your circuit relative to the rest of the whole universe of electrical potential,
because there is no um no absolute other than the universe, other than the rest of the universe uh to measure bonding against electrical flow as a form of bonding.
And so uh we've come to this weird part in our uh planetary journey here where uh we're at the at the end of this empire, and things like um uh keeping one point, as we say in in Aikido,
focusing on your Hara, focusing on keeping your balance and focusing your energy uh in a very specific place and keeping conscious uh control of it are very necessary now because the rest of universe has become wonky.
Okay, so in essence, uh in essence, what I'm saying is in a Feynman, Richard Feynman kind of um esque way, I'm saying that here we are measuring our circuit only to discover our circuit is fine, it's the rest of the universe that isn't working.
The rest of the universe's potential is bad.
But our circuit's perfect, you know, but the washing machine won't work because the rest of the universe is out of kilture.
So that's where we're at now.
All of this weird ass shit going on.
Okay.
And this brings up the nature of bonds once again.
Okay, so uh the one point uh exists throughout all of reality.
Uh we find design patterns.
That's what our minds do, is we find design patterns.
I was very, very, very good at that as a software engineer.
I could go in and find these little tiny chunks of code that should be replicated throughout the rest of the entire code base over and over and over again to get the same uh quality of metaphor operating within uh whatever the application was, right?
And and so it also makes when you find these design patterns, especially early in the process, it makes the uh makes for clean code, it makes for well-designed software engineering, and it means that you greatly reduce the amount of problems you have to repeatedly solve.
Um because much of software engineering is applying these same metaphoric solutions to the from a general nature to specifics as you go forward within each of the parts of the code.
Anyway, so um our issues now relative to to where we find ourselves hosed, you know, screwed up, I mean, in the in the wonky universe that isn't working, and um our understanding of uh of bonding is of bonds is uh very appropriate at the moment in a couple of ways.
We'll get to the legal aspect of that in a bit.
But um though the idea of the one point, the Hara, keeping that uh a very tight meditative kind of a concept, uh especially the uh way the Japanese apply it within Zazen, uh, is meant to provide um uh sort of like an element of conscious bonding uh to your bodily processes that would not exist if you didn't apply that consciousness to that process of creating those
bonds.
And this is an idea that uh we take from nature, we see this design pattern around us continuously, which is the application of a seed, or as they express it in physics, nucleation.
Okay, and so we see nucleation around us all the time.
So for instance, uh much of the many of the storms that will affect you in your life are the result of nucleation, where um radiation from the sun comes zinging into the earth, and as it goes through the atmosphere, the cosmic rays uh damage and distort the atmosphere in the area of where there's dust particles,
ice, little tiny ice bits, uh, you know, even oxygen atoms would get smashed by the cosmic ray energy, and thereafter that would cause a single point, a one point, a nucleation point, a point from which there is a carryover of energy.
And so this is the idea of nucleation.
Um we our language is screwed up, okay, because we have the connotation of nuclear, as in the sense of we think there are nuclear forces, which there are not.
Even Richard Feynman will tell you that what we attribute to nuclear forces are just aspects of electricity, aspects of the dielectric that we live in within the materium, which we can call the ether.
Uh, and that the dielectric is a modality that arrives out of the ether.
Now, he doesn't use that language.
He can't, he couldn't in his life because he was an academic and he his life was based within that structure.
But I'm applying that term, right?
Because he gets close, he skirts it continuously.
Anyway, so the idea of nucleation is the idea of keeping one point in nature, where it uh energy zings down, shoots down through the atmosphere, strikes a bit of dust, and thereafter that little bit of dust has that energetic impetus uh transferred to it, and it goes on to seed out a cloud because of that energy right there has to dissipate.
It it spreads out into the atmosphere relative to it, drawing in more moisture because of the ionic charge of both the moisture and that recently attacked now positive, positively charged uh area uh of lower pressure.
Okay, so so when the when the ray from the sun comes through and it hits this little bit of dust, it causes that bit of dust to become positively charged, what we think of is positively positively charged.
In reality, it becomes discharged.
There's a state of ability to accept charge, but no longer any ability to give charge.
Okay.
This is what uh an actual description of what we call positive charge, because there is no such thing as positive and negative charge, there's simply charge and discharge.
And we just don't have adequate language because we've been trapped by the atomists into this uh distortion of our language, very much the way that the um the wokeans distort all of the CRT shit, right?
Distort the idea of racism and anti-racism and fascism and all of this.
If you if you support the establishment and insist that the government is right and that everybody bow to government authority, you must be an anti-fascist, a good anti-fascist.
You know?
It's like, wait a second, people.
Anyway, though, so so our language is distorted.
This is what makes all these lectures necessary and all this shit so tedious.
So anyway, the the radiation comes down and it hits that that little bit of dust or whatever, even just basically um uh atmospheric m material itself, then the radiation goes hidden down to the middle of the earth.
But up here, we get this area that has been created that is now at a lower pressure state than the surrounding air, so the surrounding air wants to come on into it naturally anyway, plus this discharged state right there draws in all of the the what we think of as negatively charged ions towards that area, and that's how a cloud forms.
It has very much the same effect within the water, and you can see when it hits the ocean and when there's been um like uh periods of uh aurora borealis.
If you're out on the water and you're observing them sometimes, if there's phosphorescence in the water, you can see a similar effect natively arise in the water that is not a reflection as the radiation continues down and causes a disturbance within the water, very much at the same level.
Anyway, so these are all one-point effects.
Okay, nucleation is not restricted to that one point.
The idea, conceptually for us, is that we want to keep our one points, we want to develop our hara uh such that we pack it full of energy.
This is the um whole point of this Chinese book called the Hui Ming Qing, which is the cultivation of the energy of life.
And it's been uh very greatly translated, I mean it's a good translation by Eva Wong.
Um you can find it on Amazon.
It's not very expensive.
Most people won't, if you buy it, most people won't understand it or read it because there's only two pages, and I think maybe there's 30 other pages of commentary.
There's only two pages in the book itself, and if you don't read symbols, it's gonna be meaningless to you, right?
Uh but the whole point of it is to the one point of the book was to get you to understand the nature of the one point and the cultivation of the energy of life, which is the packing, in their understanding, that this you take key and you shove it into your one point and you're just all robust.
And which is sort of the idea for in meditation, that in Zazen, the idea is that one would meditate uh for all of the benefits in the materium, but the real benefit is to have energy available to you to use on the other side of the life death barrier where uh we where there is not energy as we have it here.
You don't have motion and that kind of thing, right?
But you can take energy from here over there and use it for some brief period of time for certain purposes.
Anyway, so um nucleation is the idea that it not only that there's going to be a single one point that takes the radiation or takes the blow or or takes the key being compressed into it, but that also that the point is within the materium that this energy is going to spread out, that it's going to be uh effective more for more than just that one point.
It'd be useless to just have that one point nucleate if it didn't form a cloud, right?
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