If you hate you are a hater, if you love you are a lover, if you flow you are a flower.

he says chi is a form of synaesthesia, a kind of guiding "liquid intelligence", has "projective" properties of imagination, mystical bridge of sorts that connects us to a deeper, hidden world. I would say it is a kind of energy of attention and wisdom.

John's lucidity is amazing, contagious...."flow"- like! Big, big BIG thank you!

i learned juggling balls while dreaming. i watched a youtube video, grabbed three balls and tried it. of course i failed, not a chance. was able to throw each ball up and catch it once at most twice. i went to bed and had a lucid dream. i started to juggle and because i was in the dream it simply worked. next morning i stood up, grabbed the three balls and juggled without problems. since then i tried to use this technique for several things but somehow i wasn't able to have success again

Police album was Synchronicity not Synergy.

very insightful and thought provoking content, thank you for sharing

There it is and a huge smile comes to my face. ROCK CLIMBING, where I first experienced this.

Coming back here for the umpteenth time. It's one of the coolest lectures I have seen.

Complexity is when both differentiation and integration occurs

Great to see some modern scientific thinking applied to this ancient concept. Of real benefit to any student of Chinese martial arts who doesn't buy into the mysticism.

Whoa mind blown in 2 ways 1 half the words you said took me a extra 30 seconds to figure out. 2 it was a very deep train of thought. Nice to see science stop dismissing new ideas at once.

Anyone who has ever had moments of mastery of common things in their life are able to understand this. I have found this in three different examples in my life. Golf which I have played since I child but never even close to truly mastered. There are times when the swing no longer becomes a mental and physical movement but it becomes effortless and everything comes together in one flowing manifestation of the ball rising and coming off the end of the club as they intersect in flight. It is almost like slow motion from a visual standpoint. The feeling inside the body is better than an orgasm. The explanation in a nutshell is feeling like water.

I left a note on Wisdom on YT. I have a great Sophysyn on Wisdom for Buddha Nature, entratcia, Engape as relationships to others, & it being transformative not only for the receiver of the relationship, but the perspective of sharing your cognition, with PTSD pat. It is a great way to heal....Honestly. Thanks John!

Very Good Video!

Please, make the subtitles available! Vervaeke's insights can be hard to follow and he speaks quite fast on top of that. I find myself rewinding the video quite often not to miss anything and even then, there are some words and parts of sentences I simply can't figure out.

Going to have to watch this a bit at a time as there is so much good stuff in here, & I need time to assimilate it.

What you described is how I live my life

This guy is brilliant.

the Police album was called Synchronicity not Synergy

I wonder how this squares with experiences one can have while practising yoga nidra? When I manage to surrender completely while remaining fully aware of my body (and not sleeping), I can get powerful surges of energy running through my body. I would say my most powerful physical experience has been during a yoga nidra session last year a few days before Christmas. I guess iId ask the same of experiences one can have during tantric-inspired slow lovemaking. The term usually used in those contexts is "Kundalini", but I imagine Vervaeke would see this as related with chi, or am I missing important nuances here? Anyway, I was thinking that "learning" really doesn't seem like the crux of what's happening when I'm relaxing into my body and receiving waves of blissful energy.

very sober view - like it much )

improv = flow state

A new chi theory;- The density of the gases around us cause bouyancy, we live at the bottom of an ocean of air. Imagine a glass vaccum jar with the same surface area as the average human body. Once empty, the glass would have to resist 20 tonnes worth of Newtons to prevent collapse. (The direction of this force that is 20 times stronger than gravity and is centre to peripheral rather than up down. Architectural thought proces have been overlaid onto a liquid system. Standard Western model of biophysics regards the body as a solid object running off pulleys and levers.) Imagine the glass becomes elastic filled with water, a water balloon. Any presure changes within the liquid (an air balloon inside the water balloon opening and closing) will need to rapidly EQUALIZE this 20 tonne force as well as the weight of the water being contained by the balloon. A liquid relaxed body does so, a hard solid body does not. A liquid relaxed body can dilate nerves as well as contract them allowing effortless hydraulic piston action to form and the pressure to move around hydraulicaly. A relaxed liquid central nervous system can feel lines of sonic stillness that form inside the liquid due to curved mirror wave cancellation. Think of nerves as elastic bands suspended in fluid, rather than copper wire running through solid walls. You can feel the lines of quiet inside the body more easily than areas of vibrational sonic noise. Any rounded surface like the inside of an egg that has waves of energy bouncing off the walls inside, will create tapestries of stillness, click my channel for experimental evidence of this effect. Rounded surfaces are the only effective waty to deal with bouyancy force. Once the major laws of physics, gravity, heat, and bouyancy equalization/ curve / nodal tapestries can be felt, the next major law that becomes visceral, is sympathetic resonace. Boddichitta anyone? I have run my theory past Physicists and a Taoist lineage master (i am a tai chi master) and have so far not found any resistance, so, can you see any flaw in my argument?

superb

May I say, "woot!" What a treat. Next time I'm in Toronto I want to push hands with you guys. ;^)

Does anyone know which sources John cites for Kennedy and Van der Veer? I found mutual modeling by Read Montague in his book "Your Brain Is (Almost) Perfect: How We Make Decisions".

those earings

Bruce Leroy in The Last Dragon proved the power of these ideas!

The way we discuss chi in my kung fu school is a mixture of internal awareness (prorioception, nociception, equilibrioception, pulmonary stretch reception and so on, and externally-focused mechanoreception and EPP (extended physiological proprioception). Which are all enhanced by increased oxygenation of the blood, and brought into conscious focus by awareness training (meditation, moving exercises, etc.). Nothing mystical about it, it's just you being more aware of the current state of your body re. relative position, tension, acceleration, rotation, and centre of gravity; and awareness of external things by way of EPP and haptic perception.

Still relevant

Be Water!

The comments later on about verbal language hindering insight & learning, and gesture facilitating them, make me wonder about how sign language might influence them. Sign language makes use of much of the same neural & cognitive machinery as verbal language, but it is of course conveyed through gesture of the face and hands, rather than articulation of the mouth parts.

Chi is a Silent Mind

Did anybody else see a connection to the Taiji symbol when he was discussing mutual modelling and drew the husband and wife diagram?

I do martial art. I do chi. I do flow. (it was not easy to learn). Fantastic talk, so insightfull, linking so many different aspect of the mind.

A martial artist doesn't buy into the mysticism. By keeping an open mind to concepts undefinable by modern science the martial artist can experience the fruits of ancient practices. The results of Alex Golod's pyramid studies are pretty interesting and I would presume the energy used in them is akin to that of Chi

46:40 A well rounded mother as opposed to a blockhead mother?

25:45 brilliant

1:04:00

The title of this speech is misleading. He only talks about 'working with chi;' he never explains what 'chi' is. It is still an interesting speech.

So... chi is a state of mind?

Bro just explained magic

If some one were to ask " which one is booba and which one is kiki" there is already a pre-determined booba. By telling them "Booba' first and then "kiki" to follow, wouldn't their brain automatically replicate that in a way since writing is usually done left to right. Wouldn't their brain automatically find the easiest solution which would be to most likely look left, like they were reading, and then look right. Ask someone backwards, which would would you call kiki and which one booba.

I thought Chi was a primarily physical experience, why is he equating it with mental intuition?

I was hoping this video would talk about Chi in the acupuncture sense, meridians etc. This doesn't really go into that at all.

So Chi is a type of flow state. I heard lots about flow but not much about chi. But if they are the same I guess that’s it.

The kiki, boobah thing is because boobah sounds like more of a male name and kiki a female name. Females tend to have more curves hence kiki being the one on the right. Males tend to have straighter bodies hence less curves is more male.

Brilliant guy who ran dancing without the ball. Maybe next time he can say something about the proposed topic...

Well, this brilliant talk referring to many cross-discipline ideas is in many ways similar to my perception of what happens in the the neuronal mind (rule-deducing / logical / modelling side of our mind). However Chi is spiritual in nature. And, although John doesn't recognize this more general context, he tries his best to make the meaning of everything in the context of neuronal networks / rule deduction / evolutionary framework. However this doesn't make a perfect sense. For example, John talks about cerebellum and cross-modal integration of various models and representations. This looks reasonable - as brain makes many levels of models (and meta- models) of the world and tries to conceptualize everything in an abstract way. But. It doesn't explain Chi this way. If brain is so evolutionary expensive, if life is risky - then why on Earth the brain would need to create some weird models of "strange" motions of "non existent and non physical" energy. What evolutionary advantages it would give us? Why it will evolve our desire to explore it? We FEEL it very deep - all its flows and all its subtle shades... This phenomenon won't survive through natural selection. Because there is no evolutionary pressure for non-being a Chi master :) Chi mastery isn't required for our bodies survival and reproduction and its practice isn't too helpful with all this cross-modal integration of brain parts. I think its different phenomena. Chi knowledge is cultural phenomenon (as we learn it from our masters) so its more like an alphabet, or knowledge of physics laws ( that are objective - but we had to spend many centuries and lots of efforts of many people - to crystallize this knowledge into the working models). So Chi indeed is a phenomenon that is WORKING but in another way. And isn't just a by-product of brain cross-talk. I think, that this is a next level of consciousness organization, by perceiving one's own consciousness and its flows. Because if we look at our mind in the more general framework (as at a spiritual reality) we would notice that we're here to learn some lessons. And that our life isn't just some survival & reproduction inferno. Its something MUCH MORE greater. Like some kind of "elementary school" where we are learning basic lessons of ethic, and how to to awake our consciousness. So, without this greater frame of meaning, everything becomes meaningless. We cannot explain this greater phenomena in terms of biological machinery... Thats it, brain machinery exists as a means to implement the God's will about us all...

Qi as depicted in the Classic Chinese Texts is neither ‘energy’ nor ‘spirit’ and certainly has v little to do with the projections of western thinking! Here are some pointers…. As a literal translation it has more to do with the vital breath, vital here from the original Latin meaning Life. The Yuan Qi or Source/ Original Qi, is Existent as a continuous ineffable Well-Spring who’s nature flows, here and now, condensing through subtle realms. In the first place as the life of Heaven, which is a priori and acts as the initiating and inspiring domain for the more condensed Earthly realms which sit below acting out as the play of light and shade (YinYang) Qi is this breathing of the Life of the Universe, you could say the Infinite moving through an infinite number of finite forms, trans- forming and expressing more emergent possibilities from the limitless potential of the Sea of Qi. Qi is primordial and belongs to the mystery of life which cannot be named (categorised) being both transcendent of space-time yet immanent as the movement of Qi within Form. You cannot own it, anymore than you can catch air, in fact space Is the total free flow of Qi. It is our Original Nature.

I have no idea what he's talking about.. talking about insight cascades and energy. My brain is all confused.

Could he talk any faster?

"Correlational appearance versus causal realness." [24:20]

I don't understand why we find the need to try to explain things that do not need to be explained. Chi is not something that needs to be coupled with science or psychology. Brilliant speech and examples but the best way to understand is to practice and learn from within

Wake me up in one hour

We need to convert the New Agers to naturalism NOW.

why are you trying to explain it so much. it's energy = chi = ki = qi

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Chi is electromagnetism

He needz Jesus!

sorry, i could not follow these nervous fumbling and stumbling speech .... after 5 minutes i had enough! horrible speaker!

Hi! I'm Mike and I don't give a f***.