Hi, Betsy
When I read your post I felt more than a touch of dismay. I thought, "There goes a nice person who is being diverted into mysticism."
From my perspective, admittedly a hyperrationalist one, you don't really connect with a master's energy somewhere out there in the 5th dimension. You connect with a part of yourself I call the Higher Self, kind of like a supercomputer that can, depending on how "intuitive" you are, take odd bits of info from many disparate sources, and come up with an idea that turns out to be true, event though a person who didn't know about the Higher Self would have a devil of time explaining logically how that truth came to be discovered!
You can direct the Higher Self to connect to the master's energy, and it certainly connects with "something" though I'd bet a dollar there is no actual energy out there, outside of me the person who is doing that "connecting."
I totally accept the ability of Qi Gong to coax the body to heal itself, though I take with more than a few grains of salt Chu Lin's metaphysics!
The argument against a subjectivist metaphysics is superstrong, Betsy. Every time we are successful with anything in life, we act on the principle that there is an objective reality independent of us, a reality knowable to us via our minds interpreting the evidence of the senses. No ghosts, no spirits that exist in such form they cannot be measured by physical instruments.
I say this with all due respect for the wonderful work Chu Lin has done or, for that matter, that Paul Scheele has done with Photoreading and its extensions. As we come to understand more the wonderful power of the Higher Self, we see there is no need to hypothecize the existence of a Platonic dimension of Forms, whereat we can know the whole truth of anything. We all have this marvelous high-speed computer as part of our inner wiring. Let's connect it up and use it, without putting forth the strangest explanations to account for its remarkable effects!
best wishes,
Mike
moochy_hope@yahoo.com
