Immortality achievement seems to be the key to this universe, now I think. If you go beyond a lifetime in thinking, there is no such thing as living with or without body, there is either achievement or repeating the same "stories " - in body or not.
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Immortality achievement seems to be the key to this universe, now I think. If you go beyond a lifetime in thinking, there is no such thing as living with or without body, there is either achievement or repeating the same "stories " - in body or not.
Nourishment by air is not treated by modern people seriously, in general, quite opposite to what ancient people said. This is probably due to the fact that nourishment has today a very narrow definition and is substituted with taking food, and in this narrow sense food needs to be substantial - while air has no substance.
Indeed, air is not about providing proteins or anything alike, at least directly. Instead, there are more aspects of human than just physical cells: energy (prana or qi) and even more subtle essentials.
Air is a very interesting sort of nourishment. It provides energy from the cosmos and the Sun into the Earth (as the planet is exposed to the cosmic energies all the time), which ancient people tend to call "heaven" or "heavenly energy". It increases your mental abilities, strengthens the spiritual qualities, as well as nourishes the nervous system, and reactivates cells in their energetic (as opposed to the physical) layer.
Air is a requirement for the physical body to rejuvenate as well.
I think that quick aging of the physical body as it is the case now, although is considered to be a typical way for most of people, is by no means 'normal' and shouldn't be the case. The natural way for the human system when functioning properly - by this I mean everything, not just physical organs - is to live very, very long (in fact, never get exhausted and weak; cells should regenerate at the pace that it allows them to keep the body functioning properly) and not age at all. Aging means simply de-functioning of the body: energy is brought into the cells not quickly enough, so that the cells of the body did not degenerate. They do so because what is considered to be a 'norm' now is not actually - as I mentioned - 'normal'.
Changing the life style is the first, and probably the most important step to not going the common (for most) path of the "dead", but instead to choose life.
However, nourishment or food will never interfere with your will and may only affect your mind in a way.
The even more important thing (which quality air, btw, supports) are emotions which has strong effect on the cells and fluids* within the body, and the underlying energy**.
* in alchemy, cells are the final manifestation form (Earth element), fluids are directly related to and influenced by emotions (Water element), while qi / prana or air is related to energetic part and movement within the body (Air element); the missing Fire element, which I did not mention above, is also related to energy, but of different sort: it is mostly related to spirit and will (as opposed to mind as mental aspect - which is Air), and it provides "fires" which allow to transmute any energies into a different quality - your will decides which ones, and if you choose rejuvenation, you can achieve within the state where the cells of the physical body are nourished and provided with all of the qualities, including non-physical ones, to keep regenerating vs. degenerating. (This means that animals by themselves are unable in the current situation on the Earth to rejuvenate, as having no such spirit-will connection.)
An interesting excerpt from the "Life and teachings of two immortals v.2" by Hua Ching Ni:
And about not neglecting the external vs. internal (a mistake made by so many adepts) - I also believe that there must be balance, as without balance there is always a disturbance and the way is distorted:Quote:
Use the strength of your study and mental energy to plant an inner willingness to be open to internal teachings that will keep you moving in the correct direction to maximize present or future growth.
Wisdom, mental clarity and spiritual purity are needed in every age of your life. Nobody can be excused from not becoming improved internally, spiritually, mentally and emotionally.
And about the balance itself (I already wrote somewhere about 5 energies - or 5 elements / wu-xing in the taoism):Quote:
For both men and women, spiritual practice is of tremendous importance. The internal spiritual energy cultivation will make their beauty and life enduring and maintain their youthful look. Although looking good is an external thing, if you give up your external things, what is your internal reality? Both are important.
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When five types of energy are in harmonious order within a human being, tiny, invisible but real spirits are produced. These spirits join and strengthen the being. When the five types of energy are in disharmonious order within a human being, disaster will occur.
One who discovers the spirits and understands their functions in life will thrive and become prosperous, healthy, self-sufficient and have better opportunities, etc. The same five energies are in the minds of people; when a person sets them in action in a harmonious way, all spirits are at his disposal and do his bidding, and all things receive benefit from this person.
The difference between young and old lays in the mental sphere. Adults have a mental framework that limits them (the micro-universe to recover), children do not - until they are taught by adults to be like them. ;)
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Originally Posted by Lao Tzy
Apply this not just to physical:Quote:
Originally Posted by Lao Tzy
Do not take this alchemical suggestion literally ;) It referes no doubt to balancing the energies of the universe: yang and yin, wu xing, etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lao Tzy
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Originally Posted by Lao Tzy
Mind decides how much substance it would take from / for life (creativity):Quote:
Originally Posted by Lao Tzy
Creativity is spirit. Openness is the degree to which mind may be creative.Quote:
Originally Posted by Edgar Cayce
This all means that you need to rejuvenate and constantly be aimed at refreshing your mental sphere. If you die in dis-ease (i.e. dis-connected), your mind would die too.
In short, death is not a solution to live eternally (and to life at all).
No other option: either you choose life, or death - spirit or darkness. And you do this now, not after death. If you die, you are like plants: being the substance that would be used by the universe to create another 'human plant'. The ancient scripts on the universe creation says that human being is the only one to have a choice (free will) what is going to happen with / to him or her. But mental framework is something that may lead you astray, thinking that you 'know' what is going on, thus staying away from the 'Secret'. Esoteric people think that they are astral and some wait until the death, and that physical is illusion. I say astral is illusion as well, and you will ultimately die astrally as well if not choosing life; in fact astral is the biggest source of illusions.
The above seems to conform with the Ancient Egyptian teachings on the universe. Egyptians did not put much weigh on what we call 'astral'; they put weigh on the three essential aspects of the universe (in fact, spheres of your mind - slumbering or not):
Compare 'Heh' to Kether (eternity), 'Hu' to Chokmah (creativeness), and 'Sia' to Binah (intelligence), the three upmost spheres of the Qabbalah tree. BTW 'Heh' might be the same as Horus, I wonder...Quote:
Originally Posted by Britannica
BTW did you know that 'eternity' is an aspect of your mind? ;) I mean, is it slumbering or not?
Eternity is spirit. It is the same as creativity.
Ancient Chinese in I-Ching substituted their first hexagram 1, Creativity, with Heaven, being the same.
To sum up - creativity is something opposite to what most of our society do. They will no doubt die. :)Quote:
The creative successful sublime work (...) The Chinese word that has been rendered with sublime means head, origin, large.
People tend to think that thinking has no effect on how they look like. It does.Quote:
Originally Posted by Antares
People tend to think that thinking has no effect on how they feel. It does.
People tend to think that thinking has no effect on how they think. It also does.
I am constantly awed by how younger than me people feel much older than me and they think I am a youngster to them. And get frustrated and surprised when I out talk them. The feeling is essential to rejuvenating.
I find October and December air every single year very special, maybe it is the case only in Europe, I'm not sure. It is charged with extra cosmic energy, and increases mental abilities largely.
The more I practice, the more energy, the more hormones, glands etc. activating, the more move I need. The more I move, even more energy, more hormons activating etc. It's getting quicker and quicker every month, actually every week now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Antares
Although initially very sceptical or even not believing, I am gradually finding out that what B. Marciniak in the Pleiadians channeling books wrote on the incredible abilities of the human body seem to be really true. It turns out that we have a really very little idea not just about what is world, but what is essentially and potentially a human being. Amazing. I feel I'm just at the beginning of the discovery. How little people know and how much they miss, just chasing daily incentives... it's like living the whole life in a small sandbox and never leaving it (you need to leave it mentally first). The beliefs create what you can reach.
Edgar Cayce often stated to his questioners when asked how long will they live, that it is even 150 years if the body and the mind is properly treated. Essentials for Cayce, of course, were diet, life style, and an optimistic, positive outlook.
I think one of the most fundamental problems with the society is how much belief they put into numbers and expectations. In particular, the number of the current age and expectations related to it - based only on the observations of others people aging, and ignoring the true reasons behind this observation. ;)
I can see people thinking of themselves to be in a certain 'role' just because of their age or a particular work or home responsiblity.
But I think that the true reason for aging is that because of such thinking (taking a specific role and narrowing one's mind to it - which filters the energy incoming into the mind, into the energetic system, and finally into the cells receiving this energy) - in a large, and essential, part. I.e. changing the way how your mind works may change the way your body works, in particular how much rejuvenation and regeneration your body's cells receive (which is the natural process, of course, btw).
I think that Robert Bruce does a fantastic work in describing and researching the energetic system of human being. More people like this are really needed.
If one is not interested in rejuvenation, I have a proposal: think of aging as much as you can, because this is what you actually do - i.e. you age your own body by your activity.
Here's an interesting quote by Cayce:
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[3420-1, Female 57, Writer, 12/17/43]
As indicated, the entity is very vivacious, very active. Thus the entity can also rest or relax, or be as lazy as the next. Not that extreme as from Uranus, but the mystic, the artistic temperament, as it were, runs its course and must be set again if it would manifest.
Then the more reason the entity should be very sure within self of its ideals - spiritual, mental, material. And most of all the entity should budget itself, its time. Recuperate in body, in mind, in purpose, in hopes. Then, so much time should be spent in work, in labor; so much time in recreation; yea, so much time in beautifying the body. As the entity may gather, as it analyzes the cycles of that implied and indicated as to the manner in which the entity thinks and acts, at least one week out of each month should be spent in beautifying, preserving, rectifying the body -if the body would keep young, in mind, in body, in purpose. This doesn’t mean that the entity should spend a whole week at nothing else, choose three days out of some week in each month - not just three days in a month, but three days in some definite week each month -either the first, the second, the third or the fourth week of each month -and have the general hydrotherapy treatments, including massage, lights, and all the treatments that are in that nature of beautifying, and keeping the whole of the body-forces young.
One week each month is requiredfor sterilizing the body functions. Then, is it a wonder that a week after such would be well for the beautifying, for the replenishing, for the supplying of the building forces for the body’s activities? Supply the body mentally -so much reading shouldbe done, so much recreation in music, so much in play and in those activities of others. For it is from the emotions of others rather than from things that the entity gains and adds to the abilities of self, or is able to draw upon its abilities to be helpful for others.
Life is a compound between physical and the spirit. Eternal life is an eternal connection between the two.
The Ankh symbol, according to Muata Ashby, the African origin professor of theological studies, is the composition of two more basic elements (symbols):
Shen (meaning the eternity - the horizontal line with the circle above it)
and vertical line below it (meaning the object - a physical thing).
Between both is of course energy - an interesting description of the energetic body or field I found in the "Healing entities and aliens" by Adrian Dvir:
The essential idea is how to keep the energy in the unhampered flow. The opposite - problems with the flow - causes illness.Quote:
Within the energy field are meridians, or energy channels, and chakras, or energy centers. The direction of energy flow along the meridians is from the head to the spinal chord and limbs. There are seven main meridians and several secondary meridians. The unhampered flow of energy along these lines is essential for the physical health of the body. If we delve deeper into the structure of the energy, there are several energy layers, which thicken as they approach the physical body.
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Diagnosing and correcting disturbances in energy flow can cure illness because it enhances the physical body's ability to heal itself.
Excerpt from the "Physical body ascension to the new Earth" by Robert E. Petitt
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Mantak Chia suggests that it is (lack of proper flow and not enough of) energy which is responsible for aging, e.g. in the "Awaken healing energy through the tao":
From my point of view, energy is not the cause, but the symptom of aging, just like the whole body and its cells are gradually get more and more degenerated. This means that there must be a real cause for the life force, and energy, flowing is just the effect - IMHO it is related to higher levels, not just to the etheric level which is used by Mantak for the etheric energy (called chi in his books) in his practices to be circulated by meridians.Quote:
As we age, the energy routes which bring vital power to our internal organs and enable them to function become progressively more blocked by physical and mental tension. The result is general fatigue, weakness, and poor health. A young person usually has sufficient level of energy to keep the routes less obstracted so that the power still flows. The organs are thus nourished, and there is little sickness. But if we do not live healthily and practice to keep the routes open, they will gradually close and cause emotional imbalances, premature sickness and old age.
This author claims to have (and shared in her books) invaluable information about Atlantis. This excerpt from her website is about the rejuvenation. I'm not sure if I can quote it entirely, so I just put a link with a small quote, but essential, below.
https://atlantisinsights.com/rejuvination-in-atlantis/
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Originally Posted by Shirley Andrews
Ok, recent research and discoveries in the subject led me to the question:
if everything is light (energy), including matter, then why we do not draw any conclusions about this fact?
After reading about the breaking results of scientific research in DNA - like the matrix of DNA being a persistant field of non-material nature (confirmed in an experiment with photons reacting clearly to this field - even after removing the DNA itself) - and easily reacting with / toward light particles (photons), I came to the conclusion that DNA is more like a brain of a cell, a transmitter of energy (light), maybe even thoughts (not sure), and then - if to believe this scientific research, we may say that
* the predominant role of DNA is COMMUNICATION (between levels of existence, as well as within one level of existence, i.e. the physical level)
* and that DNA does not exist just on a physical level in a sense
* and that DNA's energy is much more persistent in terms of endurance than any typical molecule - i.e. "something" keeps its matrix on the energetic level, whatever this something could be
This fact alone makes things totally different than we used to think, if we re-consider everything from such perspective. Because this confirms that whatever deals with light or energy (possibly our moods and thoughts), affect DNA itself. In other words, any energy (or whatever that has energetic nature) that we are dealing with, has an impact on the code for the physical body.
(This makes me start wondering about the old legends of the physical transformation of old sorcerers, particularly into animals).
If so, then this could be the secret of life: the geometry of molecules involved in the DNA is an effect of an energetic communication, possibly deliberate, although not sure if concious - at all. And changing DNA is possible from the purely energetic level, like using for this purpose the Sun's light, or any other light. (Take into account that plants grow also when exposed to the artificial light but the result is that it seems either to change their DNA, or activates only parts of it - either way, it again confirms DNA being affected by light, this time apparently very directly in a well known in science process of photosynthesis).
But this is of course just a portion of things to reconsider; take for example the esoteric alchemical processes or the qabbalistic theories when considering them from the perspective of the idea of light affecting the molucules. Again, the research is continued.
Edit: I found some interesting website and further explanation, basically touching the subject of 12 (vs. 2) strands of DNA, 10 of which being not physical https://brendandmurphy.com/what-is-1...na-activation/
Here's a quote from the website confirming my above mentioned intuitive conclusion about the "communication" ("transmitting"), it also adds that not only light but also sound affects DNA:
So, here is my theory how actually DNA works with light, and what does it mean "encoding information". I'm more and more convinced that the ancients must have had some knowledge about it, not sure if about DNA itself, but about the general mechanism around it. I'd use simple general archetypes here to keep the explanation simple, starting with the general division of the universe into the dualistic division of the primordial elements: light (yang, energy in physics) and dark (yin, matter in physics).Quote:
Pioneering research by the likes of Dr Peter Gariaev and others, has led us to understand that DNA utilises sound and light to both store information and transmit messages/information. It can translate sound into light and vice versa.
Light is represented by particularly the property of frequency. There is possibly infinite number of frequencies available. Light is not just visible light, as the sun rays for instance; it is energy in general.
Matter, on the other hand, might be somewhat limited in their properties: matter at the atom level is one of about 100+ elements from the Mendeleev's periodic table. Electrons in each atom defines how the particle of matter interacts with energy (light). More atoms connected together constitute a molecule.
In the esoteric fields, light is known as the "transmitter" (creative force - because it 'creates' what happens afterwards), and matter is the "receiver" (receptive force - it is the element that absorbs the energy). Of course, this is also observed in physics.
The frequency of light interacting with matter (molecules) determines how matter can be affected. If the light's frequencies are limited (as with the artificial light), the effect upon the molecule will also be accordingly limited, of course. Altering the light's frequencies alters its effect upon matter.
A stream of light as such is therefore an encoded information possible to be received by the matter.
Now, returning to the DNA, there are 2 parts of the equation in the interaction between light and DNA:
- light or energy itself, being the frequency that "generates" the potential outcome (same as in astrology, which says about an energetic potential, but does not determine anything) - it is rather a "field of possibilities" possible to become an outcome; restricting or filtering light of course limits the number of possible ultimate results
- matter / molecule: changing the DNA molecules (directly or indirectly, e.g. through the genetic engineering, nano technology, food, pharmaceutics, vaccines etc.) changes the "receiver" of the potential frequencies that may interact with it - so such intervention may change or limit how for the light it is actually possibleto interact with this particular molecule (DNA)
The topic is really vast, and I've read also about possible interaction of the Earth's magnetic field with DNA - and possibly it is also true.
A quote from the "The Three Waves of Volunteers and the New Earth" book by Dolores Cannon about the original plan for human beings:
That's interesting. If it's true, it puts the fault on bacteria for the difficulties with physical life and particularly dying, which means also that DNA holds the information (not necesserily activated) on maintaining longevity (and hence, not aging), potentially forever.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dolores Cannon
DNA - protagonist: I judge thee not
RNA - communicator: I judge this wise
There are two aspects to "good" -
1. My choice is fun
2. Your soul is safe
If using this analogy, I'd say it's the opposite: RNA is like an emmisary (a ray) of the DNA (a sun). Yeah, nobody says that there is only one sun. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by olyris
Anyway, how do they communicate?
In the Jose Arguelles book "The Mayan factor" he says that DNA has a vibrational nature. It makes really sense provided that DNA reacts to the light, it is build with phosphorus (an element that easily reacts to the light), and has its light matrix on the higher frequency than matter frequency.
Hence, if we consider that the sun emmits light and is the main emitter of the light to the Earth (the other can be either natural item, such as a burning wood, or the artificial light) - then we need to assume that light DETERMINES how the DNA changes!
My intuition says that also air quality is essential to the DNA development, but I have no scientific background yet on this matter.
People, who spend most of their lives in office, has therefore differently developing DNA (in fact, twisted and restricted, we could say) than those who develop with the natural influence of light. Light being yang makes people more yang, we could say; artificial light is restricted, and people looking all the time on their mobile phones, develop differently, as well - more yin, and indeed the experiments show clearly a negative influence of the digital screens on people (which no government would be eager to say about it). This obvious fact is probably hidden from people that matter (electrons, and some special atoms and molecules - such as those which we find in plants through the photosyntesis process) is reactive to the light.
Cosmic (astrological, in other sense) influence is transmitted thanks to a certain frequencies of the light waves. DNA of a person born at certain "time" (configuration of the light / energy emmitted at the particular time) has a potential to react with this cosmic influence in a certain, determined (but not unchangable) way. This could be probably - the current DNA state - thought as a "destiny".
However, there might be some obstacles in the way, of both yang and yin nature...
How do you feel about this picture, for instance?
https://p0.storage.canalblog.com/02/...24140972_o.jpg
And how about this one?
https://media1.santabanta.com/full1/...unrise-16a.jpg
The attached image shows how nature develops with natural light. The experiments conducted with the plants' growth under the artificial light show that the life doesn't develop normally.
I found an interesting confirmation in the "Bringers of the dawn" book by Barbara Marciniak. Worth to read the whole fragment:Quote:
Originally Posted by Antares
Interesting especially in the context of the virus situation, isn't it. (Masks, staying at homes, not going out, not travelling, taking vacc-poisons, quickly thrusted ridiculous regulations and fines, and so on).Quote:
Originally Posted by Pleiadians
The oxygen must have, I'm sure, a lot to do with the qi (prana) energy in the case of development of the DNA, as it more and more clearly seems that the DNA is multi-dimensional, not just physical, element.
NATURE or NURTURE was a debate long considered to original, however origin for that end was through the notion of TIMESPACE. Now people accept the truth, and indeed, the light tells your DNA to grow. What is SPACETIME, is this where we are headed, originally? The point is fact if compassion is understood. You are going to help people to evolve! Our origin is either CARE or standard apathetic hypocrisy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Antares
This might be what science has to say about NATURE/NURTURE in this era - Some people do not respond to either theory! And they must be ROBOTS.
Have you read "The Kemetic Tree of Life"?Quote:
Originally Posted by olyris
K(h)em is a name of Egypt; Al-K(h)emy meant the art/practice coming from Egypt. One story that I've read about says that the name Khem comes from the son of Noah, Ham, who was supposed to bring this knowledge from the sunk land to Egypt to be saved from the flood. Hence the name.
The mentioned book describes the term "Shetaut Neter", the first word meaning "secret/hidden", and the latter meaning "divinity" (in Egyptian hierogliphic language actually "Ntr"). The further analysis showed the Ntr refers to the Coptic "Nutar" and is further referenced to English both "Nature" and "Nutriment". I, by myself, see a reference also to Chinese "tao" (true essence / true nature).
What it means to me that our true nature is, ultimately, the source of (ever-lasting, infinite) nurturing. And this gives the birth of the art of (divine in essence) alchemy, i.e. achieving immortality.
Here's an excerpt from the book:
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Originally Posted by Muata Ashby
Immortality is a step beyond natural justice (ie, "I want my dignity already") - forgiveness...
Nice new avatar. I like avatars with an "eye", especially in triangles :) But isn't it christian? :)Quote:
Originally Posted by olyris
Anyway, I figured that immortality is a step beyond impurities - of energetic/mental nature.
I remember such researches like life between lives which resulted in discovery of a soul needing to be "refreshed" and "purified" after a physical life.
Have you asked yourself why is this needed at all? The purification? Of what and for what reason?
Certainly there is an important reason for that. I'm gonna do some studies on this stuff, i.e. how it works on the soul (or lower, beyond physical, in particular Ka / Prana / Ki / Qi...) level. I think that this is mind, after all, which affects not just DNA but the entire body in the end (depending of an amount of energy that body relies on in a partciular case, which can be increased - and no doubt this is the goal of many eastern exercises). Further more, this is what taoist alchemists stated as well when talking about longevity and immortality.
What I can say from my experience, you can "feel" when you're out of your "tune" - the original vibe or whatever. When this happens, you do not feel entirely yourself (I think this is what deceased are actually talking about when mentioned "returning to home" - home is not a place, it is a state of mind, IMHO). When a living person gathers a "mental garbage" (in large part because of the external, environment influences from the childhood), he or she becomes "impure". Is it good to be impure - in this sense? Obviously not. It's much worse than being physically impure :) so when choosing priorities, it's better to take a mental "bath" first before thinking of a bath in a physical sense, IMHO. :)
I haven't found much so far, however I stumbled upon some descriptions of this refreshment. Few points to summarize:Quote:
Originally Posted by Antares
- "down", material energies strongly affect the conscious, soul
- the conscious / soul is frequently confused and limited, according to the accounts
- the idea is to take over the material energies, instead to be a victim to them
- purification after the physical life seems to be needed
- it takes (soul) experience to better utilize these purification energies, described often like an energy bath or something like this
My conclusion is that all material energy can be probably considered to be "external" (not original). Therefore, purification, either of sort that alchemists suggested, or the one that is experienced by a conscious / soul after the physical life as mentioned above, is required in order to have a full potential by the conscious / soul, I guess. This includes, possibly, life-energy for the soul.
(Because, after all, everything is energy, modes and frequencies of energy: therefore lack of some perspectives, perceptions, abilities etc. simply is a result of lack of certain frequencies, in particular those being limited - most probably by the living in the physicality).
This all suggests the limitations of the conscious / soul, and possibility to overcome those - still when living in the physical life, not necesserily after that.
Another conclusion is that material energy, i.e. the physical body and related energies, is basically "odd" to the conscious / soul. When the matter takes over the soul (which is almost always the case), the person dies. To overcome this, one needs to provide more light into the matter so that it was transformed, which results in prolongating the life of the cells, i.e. leading to longevity.
The inquiring question is what is that original energy (the one that has been purified previously, or doesn't need purification at all) which is - after incarnating - enmeshed with non-original energy (basically, matter)? (The original energy often is called "pure energy", and the latter - "impure energy" in the alchemical texts). There were also some researches made, and also in the life between lives therapies etc., which involved the opposite process - not dying and refreshing afterwards, but being born. There must be some original energy of the conscious / soul which gets into the physical body of an unborn baby. Taoists believed that this original energy is put around the lower tan t'ien and is the primary source of rejuvenation - the original energy. They called it yuan qi:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuanqi
Getting deeper into the topic of how the soul is born into a physical human baby, and what obstacles it experiences during this birth process, might bring some further discoveries and revelations on the nature of life itself (not - biological forms, as taught in biology).*Quote:
In traditional Chinese medicine and Chinese culture, yuán qì (元氣) is an innate or prenatal qi. This inborn qi is differentiated from acquired qi that a person may develop over their lifetime.
* because I believe that life and physical processes in living organisms are two different things: the latter is an effect, not the cause, of the former, i.e. I think biologists are totally wrong, and therefore they cannot succeed with such an axiom in discovering the secret of life; they only can discover the secret of living forms
An interesting quote from the Chen Tuan's volume by Hua-Ching Ni. The taoist (to be) immortal went back to his home province when he was more than 60 years old...
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...to look for a certain person of spiritual achievement who could teach him how to control the breath through controlling the muscles of the nostrils. He heard that there was a master who could transform the internal essence by breathing. This master would lie down, touch the pillow, sleep for months and then wake up. Master Chen Tuan was interested in that and wanted to learn it. The master's achievement seemed to make his worn-out and old-looking skin quite similar to an insect that has left its shell; he was like a baby with fresh skin again, and his achievement made his bodily movement light like a spirit This was a true profounf attainment of internal alchemy.