Michael Winn on Social-Psychological Sickness
In this clip, Michael Winn speaks of Qi cultivation in social-psychological terms rather than physical terms. The inflexibility of the muscles and the skeleton that caused so much pain for Bill and Jeff is here understood in terms of the social rigidity that limits people's personal freedom and creativity. Michael understands Qi cultivation in terms of cultivating a fluid relationship with the whole of the Qi-field, that is the sum total of energy that forms around the body. He further speaks of this as an alchemical transformation in which the energies of the body and of the surrounding environment are refined and transformed into something more profound and mysterious than people ordinarily experience. For Michael, Daoist cultivation is fundamentally a form of energy communication that permits this deep transformation to take place.
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