I've been having a new year clear out and stumbled on some disks with posts saved from the old HT forum during its heyday. Steve Biels's posts were always real gems so here's one (I plan to dig the others out and might even find the one on jing loss that Ian was after a while back):

pelvis, perineum, heaven, earth

From: s.biel
Subject: General
Date/Time 2001-07-10 21:06:28
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It shows you how much you can take for granted as an experienced mediator/martial artist.
Hearing "tilt" or tuck I can understand exactly what is trying to be said and feel it right away.
A lot of that is just instinct. On the other hand people who are not as good at reading the words in
between the lines and who hang on a masters every words can easily misconstrue something like
that when they read it and end up having a very specific but incorrect notion in mind.


But part of the tao is figuring things out for yourself. Other people can only describe things so well.

Even if the description could be worded better it is up to you to do it your self and figure out what
something is really describing by feel.

For me it has been helpful to use the image metaphors of a golden silk thread from the sky
suspending the crown of the head.
And as far as the pelvis I find a more apt description is to "point the coccyx" to the earth.
The pelvis should actually "float” smoothly.
In this way you are really taking the whole skeletal bone structure especially of the spine and
turning it into a conduit for heavenly and earthy energies to communicate with each other.

We should also keep in mind that the male and female pelvis bones and hip joints and subsequently
leg and knee positions are structurally very different on account of having different biological
purposes. Certain flexibilies, postures and ranges of motion are just going to be easier or harder
for each to achieve. Which is why every pelvis has to find its own natural ideal alignment to
heaven and earth.

It's all about loosening up the spine and making it more pliable and flexible.
Think of your spinal pathway as a river for energy. What you are doing is gently smoothing out the
curves of this pathway into a straighter path so that energy can flow more effortlessly.
It is all about releasing tension letting go, smile. Loosening your spinal tension and enabling the
bones to settle into their most natural positions.

As far as leakage out of the perineum. Just what we consider "leakage" is debatable.
It is not exactly like you are a container with a persistent leak in the bottom if you don’t constantly
keep the gate sealed.

I view it more as though the hui yin breathes like a mouth. It can stream cool earth chi into the hui
yin point
It can also let it out. It's like breathing air and filling the lungs. You don’t hang on to the air in your
lungs forever, you let it go. You take it in retain something from it and immediately release what is
not needed. And then you take in more because it's unlimited.

The key metaphor to remember is that your body as the container is the empty bowl of Taoist
philosophy. You can fill it up and empty it out at will, without worry.
That is if you have reached the realization that the energy reservoir of the universe as well as your
core (inner universe) is unlimited and that there is always more where that came from, and
providing you know how to tap into it. The container in being empty it is full, in being full it is
empty.


The trick is to let the muscles be relaxed but not flaccid and lazy. And to be able to contract tightly
but to be able to relax fully at will.
A well toned anus muscle and urogenital diaphragm are vital. But well toned should not be
confused for tense and constricted. You don’t keep it tight constantly that’s ridiculous.
All those muscles have to be toned and strong but it is foolish to think they have to be constricted
on a continual basis to plug a leak. They should be strong enough to contract strongly but remain in
a relaxed unconstricted state. It is vital for muscles relax, in breathing in to tighten but be able to
relax alternately on the exhale.

If they are strong enough when you totally relax those muscles you don’t have to worry about
loosing energy You know correct way to breathe chi through your anus or perennial energy gates?
When you inhale with your lungs(which usually corresponds to drawing chi inward) you also
breathe chi into your anus. On this inhale you gently tighten up the anus which helps to direct things
upward. But when you exhale you completely relax the anus and let it rest. This is how you keep
permanent tension from forming.

Here is another important point.
One of the reasons that people may be caused to leak energy out of the lower gate is that they
have not made the connection to the legs. Chi ends up there with nowhere to go, You should
breathe the earth energy from your feet up through your legs and spiral it into the hui yin and anus
and tailbone.
And you should exhale extra chi out, down through the legs the same way.

When you do that it is a constant communication with the energy of the earth. You can release
energy from the hui yin down through the leg channels, to the soles and into the earth and draw it
up to replace by the same path. This is like sexual energy exchange with mother earth.


If it is not so easy to see how the soles connect to the hui yin, a good exercise to find that direct
earth connection with the hui yin is as follows:
Just sit down on the cool ground and let your whole groin communicate with the earths yin energy.
Let the cool feeling engulf your entire groin area and disperse any held tension and feelings of
energy blockage.
Inhale the earth chi into the groin and don’t be afraid to release chi from your groin down into the
earth. It is take and receive, share and exchange. This reacquaints you with what it is like to subtly
breathe earth chi into the hui yin, anus, coccyx, genitals. And most importantly gets you in a habit
of keeping energy circulated and moving in and out such that you don’t allow things to ever
become stagnated there. Getting yourself in the good habit of breathing in this way constantly melts
away tension and keeps it from building up in the first place.


If chi is stagnated at the perineal area it is going to want to exit that point because its looking for a
place to expand. But if you route that chi into the leg channels and forge that rooting connection
with the chi of the earth then it has a better place to flow.
The hui yin must be understood as the intersection or "conflux" or crossroads of all the yin earth
energy channels of the lower section of the body. Chi in the channels is only intended to pass
through that point on its way somewhere else. You have to keep all the routes elsewhere opened
up.

One of the sexual kung fu techniques I have been playing with is to send the orgasming spiraling chi
at the hui yin be directed down into the legs to relocated it. For males during sex if the expansion of
chi gets to strong for the tension of the perineum and it has nowhere else to expand to it takes the
nearest exit out the urethra. By giving it a alternate open pathway to expand into the orgasm can
instead be redistributed to other and more areas of the body.
Sending it down to the soles of the feet to the earth is instead of sending it up the spine to the crown
and heaven. So it is probably gentler. (and you can also do both at once.)

The Taoist reverse breathing is a great thing to tie all these different processes together. Gently
pulling the lower abdomen in on the inhale helps to alleviate muscular stress on the lower back it
helps to relieve stress on the psoas muscles and thereby ensures the release of skeletal tension and
the desired smoothly floating pelvis/sacrum and it helps to create a suction which makes chi
naturally stream into the hui yin and up the spine and it massages the organs and naturally tightens
the anus.

I also think another highly important concept that picture of how strong organs are like strings
suspending the pelvic floor/perineum and anus. Whichever side you angle the anal sphincter
towards is the side and the organ it directs chi up to. So you the anus is like a router switch for
sending chi to particular organs and sides of your body and in turn the organs return the favor by
holding up the strength of the anus and perineum.

Being worried about perennial leakage can tend towards another form of fanatical retentiveness.
I never worry about anything leaking I just keep things circulating, keep the muscles toned, relax it,
and let chi breathe itself in and out.
Chi at the lower gate/perineum/hui yin is constantly expanding and contracting (orgasming in its
broader sense). Sometimes its direction is receiving inward sometimes it is releasing outward.
It is like the operation of a bellows, sometimes it blows air out sometimes it sucks it back in.
Empty it is full, full it is empty.

I should add that ideally in breathing and meditating a identical process of drawing in and releasing
should be happening with the crown and the heavenly energy just as the at hui yin with earth
energy.


When we look at all of this we can see that the entire tao is in essence keeping life, the body, spirit
all free of the obstacles that impede the free flow of things

Thanks Rex! Keep em coming.

Yes, I always wondered what happened to Steven.
Anybody knows?

A wonderful contribution. The deepest truth likely this:

"But part of the tao is figuring things out for yourself. Other people can only describe things so well."

But all resonates truth.

Thank you rex. And s.biel should you read this.

I have his old email.

we should contact him. Maybe he moved away from the whole HT too, and now he would find a new house in here.

He was by far the youngest of the original Healing Tao USA forum group. Cam and I are 32, Plato and Max are about 36, Keith's around 40, etc. Biel would be about 24 now, I think.

Ok, I will write to him. I think he got seriously fu.cked up experimenting with methods. Remeber when he came back about the same time they hacked HT forum the first time? His energy was really screwed up.

He was a good guy. The last thing I remember Plato or someone was harassing him about doing alchemy with squirrels or something.

Kieth is in his mid 40's, but could easily pass for mid 30's

The email bounced back.

I believe it was "Pyronecrobestiality", and it involved burning a dead squirrel with a lighter whilst fucking said squirrel. Also there was drool, which made the burning more difficult.



Biel was a smart kid. I liked him.

You know, I really can't believe that that was the real reason why he left. I always thought he just got tired. I saw his getting angry only once, with Ron. And that was the time when Ron stopped changing name EVERY time he was writing but wticked with his latest one... what eventually became Ron. And Ron said something along the lines "AND I HAVE MAGICALLY BEEN TRANSFFORRMED INTO A NICE GUY". or similar.

After he left he came back one time, and then left again, which is why I also thought it must have just been a change in interests.

Did the email bounce said something interesting?
Can we use his email to make a google search? I have already tried s.biel and steven biel but with no success.