Meditation Sickness and the (Dys)regulation of Qi > We see all kinds of orientations, where someone's neck is twisted, you can see their chin is pointing right, the chin is pointing left, the chin is pointing up... I see everybody misaligned in some gross or subtle way. When they get activated and the Qi is flowing in deep meditation, the Qi is going to want to jump that gap, pass through that gate into the brain. And what's going to happen there?

🗣️ Meditation Sickness and the (Dys)regulation of Qi (A ✨NEW✨, free, 65-minute podcast)

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On the Very Idea of Religions (In the Modern West and in Early Medieval China) | History of Religions: Vol 42, No 4

An apt occasion to recommend an all-time evergreen, Bob Campany's 'On the Very Idea of Religions (In the Modern West and in Early Medieval China)', History of Religions 42.4 (2003): doi.org/10.1086/378757.

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We also explored the methods practitioners used to access their own interiority: dream interpretation, divination, meditative visions, and practices of confession and repentance. #ChineseReligions #Buddhism

Pure Land and Netherworld: An Essential Combination > The Pure Land was often very concretely present in the Chinese landscape or made present through ritual practice, but it was not owned by a single religious tradition.

📰 An Essential Combination (A free, 34-page article from 2021)

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An apt occasion to recommend an all-time evergreen, Bob Campany's 'On the Very Idea of Religions (In the Modern West and in Early Medieval China)', History of Religions 42.4 (2003): doi.org/10.1086/378757. #Sinology #China #ChineseReligions #HistoryofReligions #ReligiousHistory