Ep25: Taoist Energy Arts - Paul Cavel

[@raabyau]

This channel is a hidden gem. Keep up the good work!

[@GuruViking]

Thank you! Lots more to come :-)

[@nemesisurvivorleon]

way too hidden

[@Durzo1259]

This was a great interview, amazing talk and Paul was one of the best speakers I've heard on this topic. However... somebody needs to inform him that "yes" isn't the period you put at the end of every sentence. xD

[@loveudon6972]

It really did my head in also. TBH

[@dingosmith9932]

Yes

[@balisuncocoyt]

Actually I quite took a liking to his affirmative.... Yes... it's positive in nature.

[@walkonthewooside]

Paul is a great teacher (I've spent hundreds of hours with him). He makes some excellent points about the importance of lineage and the dangers of mixing lineages. However, his claims about Laozi/ Lao Tze (around 57min) are disputed by many historians who argue that he was not a real person and his writings were in fact written by a few different people. The claim that Bruce's water tradition is an unbroken lineage that has been directly transmitted from Laozi to Bruce is completely unsupported. Perhaps we can trace Bruce's teachers back to Chen Wangting (1670) or Li Luoneng (founder of xingyiquan) or Dong Haichuan (founder of baguazhang), but not 4,000 years plus.

[@EyeSchooler]

Thanks Paul. Your talk about neigong and it’s history and function as a personal evolutionary tool and it’s path is personally of great value.

[@christopherneil6117]

The way this guy says 'yes?!' after every sentence is so mesmerising 😅

[@stefanstrasser3279]

Thank you for the great interview!

[@gracepoint-vo1hy]

The energetic transmission is actually very common in some systems

[@paintta]

Paul Cavel, fascinating.

[@Spectre2434]

Many teachers can engage in unspoken transmission. I actually met a massage therapist from Long Island who could do that. It was very interesting. She wasn't the only one. The bifurcation...A Senge Nahwa practitioner I knew was very capable of doing it as well. He was also a Dzogchen Practitioner .

[@skipskiperton4992]

great interview

[@Evolvor7]

YES!

[@susansmart7727]

the astral field is where tai chi takes place...it is possible to manipulate this field, hence one works together. Chi moves the body.

[@Durzo1259]

I'm wondering, what does the "psychic" mean in "psychic knot"? I know it's not the fortune-teller kind of psychic, but the Taoist model of the 8 layers of self lists the 4th layer as the Mental Body, with the 5th layer as the Psychic Body. I always thought "psychic" meant "of the psyche", synonymous with "mental", but it seems to be to be separate. Any insights?

[@johnnyhourihan8834]

The psychic body would be talking about the intuition and those type of faculties rather than the mind (psyche). The etymology is confusing because the words are closely related in form but not definition. I'm certainly no authority in the tradition but that's my take

[@Durzo1259]

@@johnnyhourihan8834 Actually, that makes a lot of sense. The brain calculates an incredibly larger amount of information in the subconscious than the conscious. That's where intuition comes from, which Taoism teaches to awaken and come to the forefront. So that clears it up. Thanks. :-)

[@MonacoBlast66]

Yes? Yes.

[@astrosurf68]

Wonderful interweiv and the way of the water is my way after a life of traumas and healing covid-19. Thank you both and here's Paul's channel here on KZbin: kzbin.info

[@marylewis3311]

Yes 😳

[@Spectre2434]

Dodgy stuff... I love it!

[@Spectre2434]

Some systems can't be mixed

[@Spectre2434]

The Thunder Magic

[@tenzinthomasmasami]

Teaching sorcery, magic and energetic mundane powers insufficiently tethered to great compassion and wisdom, yes? Simplifying and reducing enlightenment to basically just a practice of body mechanics, yes?

[@nemesisurvivorleon]

"You need to get in the classroom"...that doesnt exist? Because NO ONE does these amazing things. Everyone spams competition-ready Taekwondo bullshit anywhere you look. ZERO chinese martial art wisdom in this town or the next. It's pathetic. How has this art survived if it cant start growing in places it's completely absent? amazing personal stories and interview otherwise.

[@DafruitYogi]

YES!