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alt.meditation.qigong
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Introduction to alt.meditation.qigongA scholarly introduction to the Usenet newsgroup alt.meditation.qigong — a practitioner forum covering qigong, taiji, and Chinese energy arts that flourished in the early 2000s.Magical Spring Day — On Practicing Taiji in the WorldGarry Williams' brief account of practicing Chen taijiquan in a Philadelphia park in spring 2006 — where wild geese with goslings, after an initial challenge, accepted the practitioner as harmless and surrounded him during his form. A practitioner's testimony to what the internal arts look like from the inside.The Refusal of Minds to Meet — On Science, Qigong, and the Question of ProofRichard Burke-Ward's 2003 meditation on why the scientific community and qigong practitioners cannot easily reach each other — not from ignorance, but from incommensurable epistemologies. He argues the effort, if it ever comes, must come from the qigong side — and warns of what would be lost if science did succeed.