The simplest is always the most profound.
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The Standing Post: Lin Kong Jing (Empty Force Zhan Zhuang) What humbling words. (via thedaytheytriedtokillme) |
- Fantastic tales about Ninja clans and other secret fighting societies are depressingly common in the martial arts world. These legends are used for marketing and entertainment purposes; repeated often, but rarely taken seriously.
- Benjamin Fulford wants to be taken seriously. Formerly the Asia-Pacific bureau chief at Forbes Magazine, Fulford spent years reporting on the highest and lowest echelons of Japanese society, from politicians to Yakuza gangsters. While many of his native colleagues were kidnapped or killed, in retaliation for their stories on the hidden structures of government, the Canada-born Fulford managed to escape their fate.
- Today, Benjamin Fulford has an incredible story to tell, grounded in personal experience, and supported by his university studies in economics and Asian history. Once threatened by a menacing ninja assassin from the shadow government, he now claims the support and protection of the Triads, in his mission to end the corrupt global plutocracy…
Michael Echanis was a martial artist, mercenary, remote influencer, and some say, psychotic. Without a doubt, a shadowy character who may have either been politically assassinated while training death squads in Nicaragua or killed by misadventure when letting a jeep run over him! Nevertheless, stories about the United State’s first “Super Soldier” will continue to grow. The article above on his life is a high quality scan not available anywhere else.
For information on his Remote Influencing (stopping the heart of a goat) see this post on Rigorous Intuition. With so much disinformation about this man, I cannot say with certainty whether he was or wasn’t involved with Project Jedi, Project Stargate or the First Earth Battalion.
Related Links:
-The only available copy of Major Ed Dames’ Black Belt interview on Remote Viewing.
- Dames and Echanis both mentioned together in this Huffington Post clip on remote viewing and influencing. (Though it is still not clear whether they knew each other.)
Read up on the real story of psychic warriors with this PDF of the actual First Earth Battalion’s manual.
This is the “true weird” in the military, but others might just call it siddhi development.
Bruceploitation
I realize I should be sending this wikipedia find through the proper channels, but I couldn’t wait and wanted to include this supplemental video, a clip from The Ninja Strikes Back (1982) starring the inimitable Bruce Le (not to be confused with Bruce Li or Bruce Lei, who were hacks).
Bruceploitation is a cultural phenomenon mostly seen in the 1970s after the untimely death of martial artist and actor Bruce Lee in 1973. Movie makers in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan hired a great number of Bruce Lee look-alike actors to star in many cheap knock-off martial arts movies to cash in on his success after his death.
Some of the movies were simply rehashes of Bruce Lee’s classics, such as Re-enter the Dragon, Enter Two Dragons, Return of Bruce, Return of the Fists of Fury or Enter the Game of Death. Others told the life story of Bruce Lee and explored his mysteries, such as Exit the Dragon, Enter the Tiger, a fan favorite, where Bruce Li is asked by Bruce Lee to replace him after his death, My Name Called Bruce and Bruce’s Fist of Vengeance.
Winners: Exit the Dragon and My Name Called Bruce.
NOTE: Justin Lin (Better Luck Tomorrow, Fast & Furious) paid homage to Bruceploitation in his 2007 low-budget mockumentary Finishing the Game: The Search for a New Bruce Lee, which is honestly not that bad.
Samurai Creed, author unknown
mills:From the always wonderful Dirk Ashley Knoedler:
I have no parents; I make the heaven and earth my mother and father.
I have no home; I make awareness my dwelling.
I have no life and death; I make the tides of breathing my life and death.
I have no divine power; I make honesty my divine power.
I have no means; I make understanding my means.
I have no magic secrets; I make character my magic secret.
I have no body; I make endurance my body.
I have no eyes; I make the flash of lightning my eyes.
I have no ears; I make sensibility my ears.
I have no limbs; I make promptness my limbs.
I have no strategy; I make “unshadowed by thought” my strategy
I have no designs; I make “seizing opportunity by the forelock” my design.
I have no miracles; I make right action my miracle.
I have no principles; I make adaptability to all circumstances my principles.
I have no tactics; I make emptiness and fullness my tactics.
I have no talents; I make ready wit my talent.
I have no friends; I make my mind my friend.
I have no enemy; I make carelessness my enemy.
I have no armor; I make benevolence and righteousness my armor.
I have no castle; I make immovable mind my castle.
I have no sword; I make absence of self my sword.
Ancient but deadly: the return of shastar vidiya
- “The next technique I’ll teach you is one that can break both a man’s arms in just three moves. In real life of course, once you’ve broken the first arm your opponent is not getting back up. But when you’re practising it’s best to learn how to break both.”
a great run down of Tiberius’ fighting styles with the clips to prove it! Just in time for that movie thing that’s happening.
“Tigers Don’t Get Colds”: Lessons from an unusual master
The new chigong exercise sweeping China!
- My teacher is a sprightly 72-year-old man with a personalized t-shirt. A banner behind him states 爬出健康 (“from crawling comes health”), the mantra of his unique philosophy – the “Five Beastly Walks” – which teaches disciples how to attain personal wellbeing through mimicking the gaits of animals.
