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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 one point woo, which is also al-chem, from which we get chemistry.
It's actually an M. My writing is terrible.
I type too much.
Also, I destroyed my hands in too many building trades.
And I've lost the ability to do cursive Cyrillic.
It's terrible.
Although struggling all those years as a kid to master the ability to write Paruski, Russian, in the Cyrillic alphabet in script form.
And now kids don't even write my own language in script form anymore, right?
They tap it out.
And if the little letters aren't there, they're just laborious for these guys to replicate with a Scribner's device, right?
A 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.
All these words and stuff are related.
Language matters, all of that business.
Anyway, we're talking about Alchem because of some interesting bonds, all right?
And so here's a good book, the definitive, I mean the best written martial arts book ever, in my opinion, in the nature of this book.
It's an instruction manual, okay?
It's not commentary, it's not color aspects of martial arts or anything.
It's simply a discussion of how to do this, what to do, the names and all this kind of stuff.
This is Aikido in the Dynamic Sphere.
Now, these authors touch on the hidden power that you can get more about in this book, Hidden in Plain Sight, which is about the esoteric power training within all the Japanese martial arts traditions, right?
And so these go to the idea of a thing called a hara, which is 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 Dian.
It's an N. Again, my apologies for my scribbing.
So Tan Dian in Chinese, right?
This is the one point.
If we look at a human being in this kind of crude fashion, that'll be a snout, and those are going to be legs.
And if that's the belly button, then the one point is about in here somewhere.
And so it's back inside you.
It's the point at which it is just slightly forward of the actual 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 all of the planes of the body dynamically.
That would be the point of maximum stability of the body itself.
Now the hara, the one point, is slightly ahead of that because this is consciousness that's creating this, recognizing, creating, manipulating, building upon the one point, the hara, the tan tian, right?
The alchem.
And so consciousness leads.
And so why do you trip?
You're walking along and you just fall, right?
You trip over your own two feet, right?
Or you have two left feet, they say.
You go out dancing and you know how all of the foot moves and everything go, and it doesn't work, right?
And why is that?
Or 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 consequences of that task is to continue this way, but for a minute, for a millisecond, it's absent, 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 provides grace, it provides freedom, flexibility, and so on, right?
So you become, as the French say, you become comfortable in your skin.
So anyway, this hara, the one point, being slightly ahead of the actual physical center of gravity, leads 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 consciousness to this one point.
It's one of the things that they instruct you to do in here without going into the details of what are known as the key arts, okay?
And so we have some more words over here.
We have Japanese.
I'll put it down here.
Key Chi.
This would be life energy.
And I think we'd be calling it, we'd be calling it prana.
And 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.
But this connection here is mind-body-spirit, right?
And so that's the whole thing with Aikido, the triangle, the circle, triangle, and the square.
And it's just these collections 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 through your consciousness.
And we use our consciousness to detect bonds in nature and so on, right?
And so we get like Linus Pauling.
I don't know if he's a medical doctor first.
Anyway, Linus Pauling, Dr. Linus Pauling, the guy with the Weinman C and stuff, wrote this great book on 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 idea that the universe is made up of little tiny spheres that are discrete, independent, and so on.
And so he has a lot of that electrical, the electrochemical bond, he has the chemical bond described inadequately relative to an actual understanding of the universe as an energetic substance.
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.
So, you know, in terms of the we vibrate so fast that anyway, read your Boscovich and you'll see why there's no interpenetrability.
You can't drive your fingers from one hand into another.
I can't stick my finger through this wall.
It is the nature of the materium that things should be thus.
And Boscovich goes into the rationale for all of this in the early parts of the book, getting into the comparability of matter and how it all works relative to how we perceive that it should work.
Anyway, so our bonds are mostly, okay, so we have, all right, so humans operate in an environment where there are tons of binding agents holding all of matter together.
We don't have to do this.
Our brain perceives it, but it doesn't create it.
The electrical nature of these bonds is observed even by people that are described as physicists and nuclear physicists like Richard Feynman.
He's like the penultimate physicist in the last century, you could argue.
And even he recognizes that universe, materium here is a strange place.
And he recognizes this in many of his statements without ever stating it quite that way.
But he talks about, for instance, somebody going to do a task of electrical work.
And so you're there At a house, and you're going to troubleshoot some kind of a failing device.
It does not matter what that device is.
We could choose anything.
We could 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 all of the circuits to be found within that washing machine.
These circuits are assayed by a device that sees if there's continuity, if there are actual physical separation in the wire.
And it also assays whether or not that wire can carry current 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 basically, those are the only two solid measurements that we can determine, right?
And 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 going to fire it fry the wire.
And if the wire is separated between the point where 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 true, he's measuring the electrical potential and availability of that part of the circuit that he's testing at that moment.
But he's doing so by basically testing it against the rest of the universe.
And so the concept is that you've got your circuit here, you've got your positive and your negative in terms of your electrical flow, and you're going to 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 analyzing your circuit relative to the rest of the whole universe of electrical potential because there is no absolute other than the universe, other than the rest of the universe, to measure bonding against.
Electrical flow is a form of bonding.
And so we've come to this weird part in our planetary journey here where we're at the end of this empire and things like keeping one point, as we say in Aikido,
focusing on your Hara, focusing on keeping your balance and focusing your energy in a very specific place and keeping conscious control of it, are very necessary now because the rest of the universe has become wonky.
Okay, so in essence, in essence, what I'm saying is, in a Feynman, a Richard Feynman kind of 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 kilter.
So that's where we're at now.
All of this weird ass shit going on.
Okay, this brings up the nature of bonds once again.
Okay, so the one point exists throughout all of reality.
We find design patterns.
That's what our minds do.
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 quality of metaphor operating within whatever the application was, right?
And so it also makes, when you find these design patterns, especially early in the process, it 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.
Because much of software engineering is applying these same metaphoric solutions from a general nature to specifics as you go forward within each of the parts of the code.
Anyway, so Our issues now, relative to where we find ourselves hosed, you know, screwed up, I mean, in the wonky universe that isn't working.
And our understanding of bonding is, of bonds, is very appropriate at the moment in a couple of ways.
We'll get to the legal aspect of that in a bit.
But the idea of the one point, the Hara, keeping that a very tight, meditative kind of a concept, especially the way the Japanese apply it within Zazen, is meant to provide sort of like an element of conscious bonding 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 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, much of the, many of the storms that will affect you in your life are the result of nucleation, where radiation from the sun comes zinging into the earth, and as it goes through the atmosphere, the cosmic rays damage and distort the atmosphere in the area of where there's dust particles, ice, little tiny ice bits.
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.
And 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 material, which we can call the ether.
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 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 energy zings down, shoots down through the atmosphere, strikes a bit of dust, and thereafter that little bit of dust has that energetic impetus transferred to it, and it goes on to seed out a cloud.
Because that energy right there has to dissipate.
It spreads out into the atmosphere relative to it, drawing in more moisture because of the ionic charge of both the moisture in that recently attacked, now positive, positively charged area of lower pressure.
Okay, so 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 as positively charged.
In reality, it becomes discharged.
There's a state of ability to accept charge, but no longer any ability to give charge.
This is an actual description of what we call positive charge, because there is no such thing as positive and negative charge.
They're simply charge and discharge.
And we just don't have adequate language because we've been trapped by the atomists into this distortion of our language, very much the way that the Wokians distort all of the CRT shit, right?
Distort the idea of racism and anti-racism and fascism and all of this.
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 our language is distorted.
This is what makes all these lectures necessary and all this shit so tedious.
So anyway, the radiation comes down and it hits that little bit of dust or whatever, even just basically atmospheric 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 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 like periods of 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 such that we pack it full of energy.
This is the whole point of this Chinese book called the Hui Ming Ching, which is the cultivation of the energy of life.
And it's been very greatly translated.
I mean, it's a good translation by Eva Wong.
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 going to be meaningless to you, right?
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.
You take key and you shove it into your one point and you're just all robust.
Which is sort of the idea in meditation, that in Zazen, the idea is that one would meditate 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 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 nucleation is the idea that not only that there's going to be a single one point that takes the radiation or takes the blow or takes the key being compressed into it, but that also the point is within the materium that this energy is going to spread out, that it's going to be effective for more than just that one point.
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