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- From: dcthomas@.vnet.ibm.com (Dave Thomas)
- Message-ID: <19930125.103518.366@almaden.ibm.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 13:24:49 EST
- Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
- Subject: Re: Is chi/ ki real?
- Organization: IBM
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- References: <1993Jan24.040716.17982@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> <1993Jan24.214711.28267@midway.uchicago.edu> <28616@dog.ee.lbl.gov>
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- In <1993Jan25.153719.5616@midway.uchicago.edu> john peter wagner writes:
- >In article <28616@dog.ee.lbl.gov> TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan) writes:
- >> [On yet another query about chi.]
-
- <Lots of magical stuff removed...>
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- > Yah, that's it:telekinesis. It, along with the curative properties,
- >are being studied at the Beijing University physics department. Check
- >them out for details. They had one guy go through who was 'pretty good
- >with his Chi' who would give up to thirty hour lectures in which his
- >listeners, he claimed, 'fed off of his Chi' so they could stay and
- >not go to the bathroom, eat, etc. I think he gave an 18 hour lecture at
- >Beijing University a few years back.
- > John
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- I'm not sure where this thread is going, but I think you guys are
- up in the clouds a little. Ki exists in all of us. We don't have to
- lift houses or make chickens implode with our ki to prove its existence.
- Us normal grunts can use it in everyday life. Any decent martial arts
- training should provide a glimpse (albeit fleeting at times).
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- Dave Thomas dcthomas@vnet.ibm.com My views, not IBM's
- "ikken hitatsu" JKA Shotokan / Myoshinkan Aikido "one mind, one cut"
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