Updates to this website (most recent first)
May, 2008
1. Added a hand-held electric massage tool to both the Healing Love Assumed Basics and to Massage Intro.
2. Added electric massage tool alternative for "partner massage: blood circulation sacrum -> kidneys" in the sacrum section of the spine essay.
3. Added Spleen-6 to the distal massage page, and put a label in the Liver channel graphic.
4. Put twiddle-your-tan-tien in the little orbit, and an ending note at the bottom of that essay re: the lower tan tien's acupoints. Added links to thumb twiddling from the pulsing page, from assumed basics, and from the massage intro within the tapping info.
5. Put a red and gold picture in balancing male sexual energy in the lower tan tien.
April, 2008
1. Put a small but important note in the little orbit about the acupoints being interior.
2. The hitting section is ready to present. Also included the bongers in Assumed Basics, plus. (Thank you! to TheTaoBums.)
3. Added a picture to one of the orbit essays.
March, 2008
1. Brain page updated substantially. (Thank you! to Jimmerino and to the KunlunBliss crew.)
2. Sacrum massage references (*duh!*) put in spine essay and in assumed basics.
3. New essay: Neck Isometrics, linked to pretty much everywhere the neck was referenced. (Thank you! to Laotse.)
4. Linked zhan zhuang pics page to IS 1-2-3 Intro.
5. Added a note about the hara to the kunlun page. I had earlier used the term in the essay without defining it.
February, 2008
1. Brushed up the Dangers essay, also added a couple of pictures.
2. Updated the download (chm) version of the website.
3. Added a Tibetan picture to the Center-Based Shen Theory essay, and added captions to all the pictures.
January, 2008
1. Put Self-Hitting Devices, Methods some ways down on the Massage Intro page. (Thank you! to JoeBlast and to BumGrasshopper.)
2. Removed the foot roller from various pages. I found that if I used the foot roller thoroughly that my knees would somehow get messed up from it. Strange.
3. Removed some of the neck-exercise references that were paired with the foot roller. More on that shortly...
4. Added the bamboo 'wire' hitter (Thank you! to Max) and a bean-filled sock (Thank you! to Neimad and MatthewQi) to the Self-Hitting Devices, Methods.
5. Added a link to the new hitting stuff from the Gentle Marrow Washing page.
6. Put some pictures and a short introduction in Kan & Li, and a link to Cleary's "Taoist I Ching". Also added pictures in s.biel's fire and water.
December, 2007
1. Put the vibration platform in the Healing Love Dangers section, with a pretty bold statement. I'll need a year or so to be really really certain how good it is. But right now it seems pretty clearly huge, and injury-healing-&-avoiding enough that it should be added now. If my statement needs some tuning in eight months or so, easy enough to update.
2. Put the vibration platform in the squats section.
3. Brushed up the description of Sun Do.
November, 2007
1. Added the foot roller and ankle rotations to the bottom of Dealing with the Force. (later deleted)
2. Added Neck and Feet as an interesting distal pair. (later deleted)
3. Spruced up the orbit intro with a couple of pictures and a sentence insert,
"A much more functional beginning physical orientation is toward the integration of the crown, perineum and soles of feet, not just the crown and perineum".
The sentence is really a huge basic beginning concept change, not that it hasn't been touched on before.
Not sure if I'm going over-board with the pictures, but I'm currently with "the more the better" attitude. It's tough to wade through text, pictures are fun and sometimes say a lot.
4. Put the vibration platform in links, stretching, pilates / tao yin, lower tan tien breathing, and massage tools pages.
5. Kunlun page, linked from Front Vessel First essay, S.Biel's Fire & Water. Probably should be linked from a number of other additional places.
October, 2007
1. In Establishing the Abdomen - Got rid of the pilates video file of "the 100" and just referenced youtube. Saved me 3mb, especially for the chm file.
2. Found a really nice water drop & chrysanthemum picture to put in the bindu essay.
September, 2007
1. Added a "Holistic View" paragraph at the beginning of the orbit intro.
2. Added Center-based Shen Theory: from Pick-up Ethics thread, linked from the Five Elements Intro page, along with a little intro there about shen theory.
3. Put some pictures on the about page, and beefed up the disclaimer.
4. Beefed up the description of the Foundation Training Forum on the Links page, and included a link to FTF within the Healing Love: Dangers section.
5. Added The "No Guarantee" Guarantee to the about page, and further strengthened the cautionary language. Added captions to the pictures.
August, 2007
1. Added Sacrum Breathing to the spine essay, and linked it to the Pulsing essay. Revised Assumed Basics Plus by replacing testicle breathing with sacrum breathing.
2. Added "Turtle Breathing: The Three Lower Pulsings Path" to the Turtle Breathing essay.
3. Added a picture and link to A Manual of Acupuncture in the Massage Intro page.
July, 2007
1. Small refinements to the dangers essay.
2. Cam got a spot at hindu squats, for his super-human reps.
June, 2007
1. New essay: Semen Retention: Dangers. This serves as the main essay on this topic. There will be related essays to supplement, and provide further context, in the future. This kicks off a new section of "Healing Love" essays: Dangers.
May, 2007
1. Added youtube Slow Spinal Wave link, from the Spine essay, Notes.
2. Added picture of ox horn massage tools to the Lower Tan Tien massage. Also added backnobber to massage tools pictures. Will probably add the backnobber into some essay later.
3. Included a link to Dealing w/ the Force from Pulsing Overview.
4 Added a picture and note to one of the essays about exchange.
April, 2007
1. Added EFT link to Massage Intro, and mentioned within Pulsing Overview.
2. Put a paragraph about method and stillness in the beginning of the Stillness Meditation page.
3. Made Dealing w/ the Force more concise (all the squat details were already in another section), brushed up the writing, and added a combined in succession paragraph at the very bottom of the essay, and "p.s. Twists". Added kettlebell alternatives. Linked to Force essay from the Little Orbit.
4. "Starter Items" paragraph, in Webmaster's Notes, at bottom of Crystal In Uranus essay. (Thanks! to bd2.)
February, 2007
1. Included the YouTube video Stability Ball for Jui Jitsu at the bottom of the Spine page. (Thanks! to Spectrum.)
2. Added a quote from VCraigP, entitled "More Neutral Vision", near the bottom of the Re-Claiming Visual Chi essay. (Thank you! to VCraigP.)
3. Added Ridgeline Fitness links for swiss ball videos to the bottom of the Spine page.
4. Added "softer alternatives" to the back roller page. (Thanks! to Spectrum.)
5. Added body-weight ankle rotations.
6. Added "Orbit Physical Work" paragraph to the Orbit Intro page.
January, 2007
1. New essay, Brain-Massage Meditation (Re-claiming Visual Chi). Linked from the skimpy Brain page.
December, 2006
1. Added lateral squats to squat section, excellent for hips. Took out duck walk (too dangerous for knees).
October, 2006
1. Included a note in the overview about Buddhism and Taoism.
2. Added Four Directions, Six Directions, "Zen Pakua" to the thrusting channels essay, and included a link to it at the bottom of the m.o. elixir field essay, and at the bottom of the little orbit essay.
3. Expanded listing of Tom Kurz's material on the stretching page, added it to the squats section, and to the Dealing with the Force page. (Also, removed pistols from squats section because they're so dangerous to the knees.) (Thank you! Peregrino.)
4. Also included Kurz in the exercise sections of Additional Reading and Links. His exercise system is just so effective, so targeted, in getting deeply into the pelvic region. (Thanks again! Peregrino.)
September, 2006
1. Discovered that the Intentional Communities website has a new (google powered) interactive map of intentional communities that is amazing. Included the map-link in the IC listing in the Additional Reading and Links pages.
2. Put a paragraph at the end of IS123 Intro to clarify that still standing was assumed in each of the IS1-2-3 sections. Also, a while back I changed the font of the Tao Te Ching Ch. 10 quote at the beginning of the IS1 Intro, for emphasis.
3. Put trick of ice water soak immediately after testicle massage in HL Assumed Basics Plus.
4. Contribution of Unwinding the Gathering Sinew, by Owl. (Thank you! Owl.) It is a male massage essay that complements his previous Crystal in Uranus essay. Currently linked from the Massage section, might work it into other page/s later.
5. Included hindu squats in the squats section.
6. Testicle Pulsing Massage essay. I used to refer to a post of mine at HT-USA, but it needed some editing. (Thanks! Yoda, for the feedback part of the feedback & editing loop.)
7. Updated Unwinding the Gathering Sinew with pdf's of the acupoints.
August, 2006
1. New Supplements & Diet set of essays (linked from the Gaps & Miscellaneous section), with the first essay: Yoda's Introduction to Raw Eating. (Thanks! Yoda.)
July, 2006
1. Put several posts on the topic of Forward and Reverse together on a page in the Healing Love section.
June, 2006
1. Put totem pole pictures in the Center-based Shen Theory essay. :)
2. Added this sentence to the About page, "I've found that it's helpful to look at my general exercise regimen with the somewhat altered set of categories of cardio, strength, connective tissue, and core."
3. Excellent new essay by Owl, Crystal in Uranus. Linked from Massage Intro, and from HL Assumed Basics. (Thanks! Owl.)
4. Added warning for knees re: squat-walk.
5. Added several "webmaster's notes" to the top and bottom of the Crystal in Uranus essay.
May, 2006
1. Made a couple of banner ads and Sean Omlor put one into rotation at The Tao Bums, gratis. (Thanks! Sean.)
2. Linked the Massage Intro's 'Male Massage' to HL Assumed Basics, Plus and took the "under construction" notice off of the Intro page. It's still under construction, but not as much.
3. Added simple hands & knees version of engaging the abs while doing Lin's sexual chi kung.
4. Added "squat walk" to the squats section.
5. Added a paragraph to the Fundamental Gaps page, about my view of what Taoism is, and what I feel is the responsibility and charge of the students of this generation.
April, 2006
1. Put a note at the bottom of S.Biel's post on Dr. Lin's method to mention that pc exercises are still important, just within a different context than we thought in 'the old days'.
2. Put a picture of the K1 acupoint in the K1 Breathing page.
3. Expanded Healing Love Assumed Basics Plus to include the very important topic of massage of the kidneys (a major plug for John Du Cane's Power Qigong video), and expanded the PC Muscle Exercise section to more explicitly include "the whole lower U". This essay will eventually be re-written and incorporated into the massage essays; this short update is an intermediary step.
4. Updated the download (chm) version of the website.
5. More explicit full list of joints at the end of Joint Warm-up.
6. Included a link to John Du Cane's Power Qigong video in the Exploring the Exhale essay. (In the notes after the "sacrum squeeze" method.)
7. In Requisites for a Functioning Cauldron I changed step #4 from
"Profound refinement and stabilization in the deep center/s."
to
"Transformation into Light within the deep-center/s."
Though the former statement includes the idea of the latter, I've come to recognize that the emphasis and inclusion of the idea of "transforming into light" is especially important to include from the beginning, as a basic concept. Included similar change in the deep-center essay. Probably other similar mod's on the way. End of little orbit essay.
8. Added resources for Taoist yoga to the stretching page. (Thanks! to The Tao Bums.)
9. Couple more updates to Healing Love Assumed Basics Plus. Put in a link to a testicular massage method. Also put in a paragraph on prostate massage.
March, 2006
1. Started linking the (still under construction) massage essays, and will probably be working on them on & off throughout the month. (Linked to sections: orbit, healing love, gaps & misc., establishing the abdomen.)
2. Made a K-1 Breathing page, with just several related links - but no essay. The links covered a lot for the practice, enough for putting the page there just with the links. Linked it with The Three Amigos of Rooting.
3. Counter topped 80,000. Slow count for a bit over 5 years on the web. Still, its some sort of mile-stone, and I'm happy.
4. Put two-sentence intro in the distal massage essay.
5. Brushed up the link to the massage essays from the HL Intro.
6. Added another link to the K-1 Breathing page.
7. Added bridges to the Establishing the Abdomen page, and to the Orbit Intro page (and re-organized that page a little).
8. Added Gene Logsdon to Lifestyle authors. (Thank you!, Amanda.)
9. Added an important paragraph about the excessive use of the microcosmic orbit in the little orbit essay.
10. What might look like "minor brush-up of wording" of the orbit intro page, is actually "big coming together of basic stuff" for me. I expanded "Heaven and Earth" to "Heaven and Earth: the macrocosmic", and expanded "Emphasis of the Core Vessel" to "Emphasis of the Core Vessel: the Tao". I also added a link to the Distal Acupressure essay in the "H&E: macrocosmic" part of that page. So, the progression of little orbit, microcosmic, macrocosmic, Tao is now present on that page. Why do I often feel like such an idiot when I finally get some of this fundamental stuff? (.. because it 's taken me so long, and 's been so difficult for me.) Apropos that tomorrow is April Fool's day. Here's to foolishness.
February, 2006
1. Danger: Million Dollar Point, post from HT-USA by Michael Winn. Thank you! to Michael Winn. Thank you! to MatthewQi.
2. Started bare bones posting of massage section. Under construction: no link to it yet.
January, 2006
1. Added pictures, several pages.
2. GTG comment re: the ab-wheel.
3. Comment about "awakened and functioning lower tan tien (medicine field)", end of Exploring the Exhale.
4. Added "The Key: Harmonizing the Two Sides of the Nervous System", plus some polishing, to the Eye Movement Exercises page.
5. Put "All of the Major Joints" paragraph at the end of the Joint Warm-up essay (that concentrates mostly on ankles and wrists). Also put a link to Sonnon's material from that essay, because he works on the joints ~ fascia layers so effectively.
December, 2005
1. Included note that "Breathing into the lower tan tien while bridging can be an effective tool for relieving lower heat and stagnation (common difficulties for men, and that goes triple if practicing semen retention)." in several pages, Stretching, Addt'l Reading, and Links.
2. Added a paragraph to the little orbit essay.
3. Now Accepting Donations. The information is at a level to where I now feel its appropriate to accept donations from those who feel moved to donate.
4. More Exhale polishing. Added more notes to the sacrum-squeeze method. Trimmed off a couple of center methods from that page, and added the "Perineum Lift" method. This way the essay focuses on activating all of the outer points sufficiently, which is what people initially have trouble with. Also added notes re: zhan zhuang.
5. Added an external link to AYP's Spinal Breathing method, to the bottom of The Spine page. Thank you! to Sean Omlor.
6. Put a short paragraph on the Iron Shirt Intro page, summarizing the 1~2~3 process. "On the physical, the pathway of heaven ~ human substance ~ earth integration, which the standing practices promote, is fascia ~ sinew channels ~ tendons ~ joints ~ bone marrow."
7. Added a few pictures here & there. Time to make this thing more fun to read.
November, 2005
1. Minor updates to The Spine, and to Exploring the Exhale.
2. Updated the download (chm) version of the website.
October, 2005
1. Updated Exploring the Exhale with "Gentle Spine Compression", "Looking for the Light in the Deep-Center" and "Pause in the Deep-Center" variations. Cross-linked the Gentle Spine Compression variation with Lin's Anal Breathing and with The Spine essay.
2. Updated the Five Elements, Tissue Layers, Zang Fu organ pairs essay with a brief note clarifying the relationship of jing with bone and marrow.
3. Updated the latter part of The Spine essay with some important paragraphs re: marrow washing of the spine, and the sacrum. (A belated thank you! to Ian for the original observation that the bulk of the spine is deep in the torso, which prompted "the spine" essay in the first place.)
4. Polished Marrow Washing Intro.
5. Updated the download (chm) version of the website.
September, 2005
1. Nice quote re: initiation on Fundamental Gaps page. (Thank you! to Hagar.)
2. Added ab-wheel exercise pictures to Dealing with the Force page. (Thank you! to Sean Omlor for the standing pics.)
3. Put the Jade Sutra in a few more places that reference the deep-center.
August, 2005
1. Changed the description in The Deep-Center essay from "four things happen in" to "three methods of working within" the deep-centers. "Nourishment" and "psychological centering" were really two results of the same method. This changed wording makes more sense, and is simpler.
2. Pilates "the 100" (with video) exercise in the Establishing the Abdomen page. (Video courtesy of pilatespa.com; thank you! to Kathleen Conklin.)
July, 2005
1. Added 'Lower Abdominal Muscles' section to the Dealing with the Force essay.
2. Added short version of Finding the Deep-Centers and Central Channel. Started to re-arrange a little, to allow for linked deep-center essays, on the extraordinary vessels page.
3. Added interaction with the deep-centers to the belt channel essay. Important. The big basic things are really coming together.
June, 2005
1. Jing-to-Light transformation, linked from the Deep-Center page.
2. Concise overview of the process of cultivation.
May, 2005
1. Combined Supta Baddha Konasana with Lin's Sexual Chi Gong
Breathing.
March, 2005
1. Brushed up descriptions for first couple of items in Lin's Links, so that its clear for beginners.
2. Updated the download (chm) version of the website. Recent updates important.
3. Added notes to the Spine essay, and a link to Lin's Links. (Thanks! to Harry for the lin-link about the muscles around the tailbone.)
February, 2005
1. Added note and link to Dr. Lin's technique, re: the sperm palace, in the Webmaster's Notes section of S.Biel's Fire and Water Technique.
2. Added Natural Variety paragraph to orbit essay.
3. Put Lin's Links in logical sequence, added short note for each, and linked the page to four other pages that referenced Dr. Lin. Should make things much easier for people to approach his work.
4. Added The Spine essay to the Marrow-Washing section, Orbit section.
January, 2005
1. Added a couple of more traditional Taoist pictures at the end of the Squats section. As punctuation.
2. Sean Omlor drew the prostrations gif animation for, and which is now in, the Squats section. (Thank you Sean!!!)
3. Dealing with the Force. New essay re: processing the brute force aspect of jing.
4. Airborne Lunges complete now, including pictures. (Thank you to Yoda!!! - for introducing us to airbornes, and for providing the airborne pics.)
5. TaoBums.com in Links.
6. Removed the links to posts at HT-USA, since those archives were lost in November.
7. Put linked references on the Brain Alchemy page. An essay, perhaps in the future.
8. Updated the download (chm) version of the website.
9. Sunday, January 30, 2005: website up, full sail again.
December, 2004
1. Link to Sonnon's balance exercises, plus pictures, all in the Squats section. Airborne Lunges essay started. (Whew!, a bit more and i'll be done with that section.)
2. Starting a major re-structuring of the whole Iron Shirt 1 section (and less so, the whole IS123). I've got a plan, and its going to take a while to get all of the pieces in place. Mean while, some of the newer essays will pop up into the old structure.
November, 2004
1. Updated the download (chm) version of the website.
2. Added pistols reference, resource links, to bottom of Squats section.
3. Added a Webmaster's Note to S.Biel's Fire & Water essay.
4. Added a paragraph about varying shapes of the little orbit.
5. Adding brief material on the Taoist internal martial arts:
- Webmaster's Note added to the descriptive text for Scott Sonnon's link in the Additional Reading and Links pages.
6. Added several fundamental gaps to this website, on the Fundamental Gaps page.
October, 2004
1. Added "supta baddha konasana" to the stretching essay, plus re-worded some existing parts.
2. Added a paragraph in the Iron Shirt 1 Intro page.
3. Updated #3 in Deep-Center page.
4. Added Furey & Sonnon paragraphs to the Additional Reading and Links pages. (Thanks to Plato!)
5. Added quote to Exchanging Sexual Energy essay.
6. Added Thorough Warm-up to Joint Warm-up essay.
7. Added Center-based Shen-Theory: Thread #26252. (Linked in the Five Element section, and the Healing Love section.)
September, 2004
1. A paragraph about proper emphasis of the central channel in the Microcosmic intro and Extraordinary Vessels intro pages.
2. Modified the first paragraph in the Thrusting Vessels essay.
3. Expanded the first paragraph in the Ext. Vessels intro, and started referring to the 8 extraordinaries as "vessels" (rather than "channels").
4. The Fabulous Four harmonious qi gongs. Link from Establishing the Abdomen.
5. Sept 10th, site down (except for reference to the deep-center page, as before).
6. Continued to refine Squats instructions.
7. Polished Yi Swallows Chi Benefits. (Yi Sw's Chi is so simple, yet does so much.)
8. New logo. 18 Sept '04
August, 2004
2. The Three Amigos of rooting.
3. Aug. 30th website tentatively back up.
June, 2004
1. Added note about blending through physical layers in exchange essay.
2. New essay, The Joints of the Pelvis, linked with Iron Shirt 3 and Iron Shirt 1: Gentler Resources.
3. Webmaster's Note added to Palm & Sole Breathing.
May, 2004
1. Added squats to Tendon Changing Applications.
2. Revised the Joint Warm-up section with information about ankle rotations and earth connection.
April 1, 2004
1. Took the site down.
Mar-2004
1. Started using "deep-center" to distinguish from "energetic center".
2. Added oak tree picture to Iron Shirt Intro.
3. Updated chm file (download-able version of site).
Feb-2004
1. Emphasized progression to heaven & earth in m.o. intro.
2. More improvement Iron Shirt III Introduction (probably complete, now).
Jan-2004
1. Improved the Iron Shirt III section (though still not complete).
2. Updated download version, chm file.
3. Put the 70% Guide-line in Iron Shirt 1 Intro.
Dec-2003
1. Pulsing Overview essay in the Healing Love section.
2. New Iron Shirt III section, especially "Pulsing the Joints, Bones" essay.
3. New essay, The Main Path, Remarks re: Tibetan Context, Fundamental Nature, in the Fundamental Gaps, Additional Reading sections.
04-Sep-2003 (and on into September)
1. Revised Preparing the Body section of "Balancing Male Sexual Energy in the Lower Tan Tien".
2. Updated download version, chm file.
3. Zang Fu Pulsing, effective for connecting, harmonizing upper and lower consciousness.
4. Entered Zang Fu Pulsing, and Sun Do, references in the Preparing the Body section of "Balancing Male... ".
5. Updated download version, chm file, to include changes 3,4,5.
04-Aug-2003
1. Revised finishing paragraphs in m.o. essay to properly emphasize the neutral space.
2. Modified HL Assumed Basics, plus to include "Lower Tan Tien Massage". Important addition. Also included link to it from within S.Biel's Fire & Water.
3. Expanded Lifestyle section of Additional Reading.
17-Jul-2003
1. Clouds and Rain essay.
15-Jun-2003
1. Added quote to The Center essay.
09-Apr-2003
1. Added a paragraph on the Belt Channels essay about the thrusting channels, core (and its centers), du, ren, and belts resonating / working together.
2. Started putting hyperlinks in this Updates section.
3. New, very short, essay on The Center. Updated again on 18-May-2003, including chm file. Again on 06-Jun-2003 (re: personal psychology, thank you CLarson).
4. Updated download, chm, file.
21-Feb-2003
1. New Thrusting Channels: Breath Technique essay.
OTHER RECENT CHANGES
2. Updated Requisites for Functioning Cauldron.
3. Minor revision (yin & yang) in Thrusting Channels essay.
07-Jan-2003
1. Added Eva Wong's book, "Cultivating the Energy of Life" (a traditional text on the microcosmic orbit) to the Additional Reading section.
2. Some general tune-up work on the Additional Reading section.
3. Updated download version of website.
12-Dec-2002
1. Added "Tsongkhapa's Six Yogas of Naropa" to the Additional Reading section, and linked several core channel references (in various essays) to the book reference. The first yoga (of the six) is so pertinent to Taoist meditation that... I'm speechless. (Thank you, SimonV! and KP!, for prompting me in this direction of study.)
16-Nov-2002
1. Thrusting Channels essay in new Extraordinary Vessels section.
2. Metal Vitality in Water page, brief definition, linked to m.o. essay.
*30-Oct-2002
1. Yi Swallows Chi (IS1 Gentler Versions section).
2. Updated downloadable chm file.
14-Sept-2002
Website offline.
*21-Aug-2002
Updated downloadable version of this site (chm file). Had mistakenly omitted m.orbit section in previous version! (Plus a few minor changes here & there.)
18-July-2002
Updated the downloadable chm file. (Includes all additional revisions since 09-Apr-2002.)
04-July-2002
1. A couple of additional paragraphs in the Iron Shirt: Gentler Versions page, that pay some balanced tribute to the more physical packing practices.
2. Minor revisions elsewhere:
- s.biel's fire & water and kan & li comparison.
16-Jun-2002
Back online after a three day intermission for internal review.
31-May-2002
1. Updated the "Field Level Exchange" portion of the essay, Exchanging Sexual Energy: Overview of the Major Ways.
2. Various minor changes, lately.
19-May-2002
New essay: Requisites for a Functioning Cauldron, linked to various essays that mention an alchemical cauldron.
10-May-2002
1. Added a key phrase to, and related quotes at the bottom of, the "Front Channel First, ..." essay in the Microcosmic Orbit section.
2. Organized Additional Reading section, and
3. added an Ab-Back workout book.
*25-Apr-2002
Added "A few orbit posts at HT-USA" in Microcosmic Orbit section.
09-Apr-2002
Posted a new version of AlchemicalTaoism.chm, the downloadable version of this website.
05-Apr-2002
New "Microcosmic Orbit" section.
03-Apr-2002
Added "Kundalini Resources" in both the Additional Reading and Links sections.
06-Mar-2002
Shifted background color to a lighter blue: easier to read.
20-Feb-2002
- Downloadable version of the website now available. Used FAR to create a single compiled HTML help file of the entire website! Read website contents offline, conveniently print pages, pass it along to friends.
- Huge thanks to Nicholas Coldrick!!!, for help in reviewing and editing suggestions of essays to date, for finding the FAR tool, for co-studying, for friendship.
28-Jan-2002
For all pages that were pasted from HT-USA discussion site, I put a link directly to the post at HT-USA so that readers can read through the original thread. Also, recently, I put a "HT-USA Discussion Site's Greatest Hits" page, at the bottom of the Healing Love section. (Thank you, James McConnell, for making all archived HT-USA threads available online!)
02-Dec-2001
Turtle Breathing, in the Healing Love section.
08-Nov-2001
Hit-counter topped 20,000! A bit over a year since the site has been online, about 8 1/2 months since posted on Yahoo!. Thanks to those for the quality contributions, and encouragements.
20-Oct-2001
"Joint Warm-up" essay in the Iron Shirt 2 section.
12-Sept-2001
New "Pulsation Packing Benefits" essay in the "Iron Shirt 1: Resources for Gentler Versions" section. Plus, over the last week or so, I've added links to that section in various parts of the site.
19-Jun-2001
New "Healing Love Assumed Basics" essay.
07-Jun-2001
Included a reference to Iron Shirt II within the Stretching page.
08-May-2001
1. New "Exchanging Sexual Energy: Overview of the Major Ways" essay in the Healing Love section.
2. There have been a number of additions and notations in the Additional Reading section, lately.
06-May-2001
Alchemical Taoism.com's logo in place. (Thank you, s.biel!!, for your help.)
28-Apr-2001
"Iron Shirt 1: Resources for Gentler Versions" in the Iron Shirt section.
20-Apr-2001
Revised and polished the "Vertical Positions" essay several times in the last few days.
17-Apr-2001
Added "Fundamental Gaps" section.
16-Apr-2001
1. New "Vertical Positions" essay in the Healing Love section.
2. Short "Stretching" essay, linked to many sections, including Healing Love.
31-Mar-2001
1. Several new paragraphs about the importance of exchange, in the "Healing Love: Overview... " section.
2. SimonV's post on a very direct method of sexual energy exchange, a new "Healing Love" essay.
3. Included bookmark-links for various sections of "Balancing Male Sexual Energy in the Lower Tan Tien" essay.
21-Mar-2001
Put in the "Establishing the Abdomen" section. Though not all of the essays are ready, the concepts & references are too fundamental to leave out.
18-Mar-2001
New "Tendon Changing Applications" essay in the "Iron Shirt 2" section.
05-Mar-2001
A post from Michael Winn in "The Five Elements" section, caution about pearl shooting.
28-Feb-2001
Put notes by much of Cleary's material, in the "Additional Reading" section.
21-Feb-2001
Alchemical Taoism.com posted on Yahoo!.
07-Feb-2001
Added "Activating the Belt Channels in Standing Postures" to the Iron Shirt and the Five Elements sections.
29-Dec-2000
Added "Core Principles" essay to the Healing Love section.
11-Dec-2000
1. Put links to, and complementary paragraphs about, Dr. Lin's work in the "Healing Love", "Additional Reading", and "Links" sections. Sheesh! ..but it did really belong in all three sections.
2. Added some links, in the midst of joining several webrings.
3. Added a "Fire and Water" paragraph in the "Healing Love" section. Thank you, JRoads, for the prompt.
29-Nov-2000:
Filled out the "Additional Reading" section with links to Amazon.com.
26-Nov-2000:
- Added "Lesser Kan & Li and S.Biel's Fire and Water Technique comparison" in the Kan & Li section.
- Thank you, s.biel, for your fire & water technique.
19-Nov-2000:
Announced that the site exists, on HT USA. Though some gaps, need a rest from the project. Posting it as-is to a limited audience, for now.
Still some major gaps:
- Microcosmic Orbit supplemental information
- basic Healing Love essays
- Iron Shirt 3
- Product Reviews
- various other less-major stuff.
12-Nov-2000:
- Sunday morning. First time getting the site online!!! :)
- Major thanks to Plato Rosinke!!!, for pointing out the importance of Kan & Li at HT-USA. Now, everybody knows it but - at the time - it was bold and aggressively insightful.
9-Aug-2000:
First day of design work, off-line. Never built a website before. Learning FrontPage for the first time. Some of the essays not written, or not fully written.