Categories: Student Experiences & Reflections
The Chi Sound, Two Tortion-Rings & a Superluminous Bonfire
By: Connie Shaw
Johnstown, Colorado
Something has been happening in our eventful Wednesday T’ai Chi Chih classes in Johnstown, Colorado, with Marie Dotts. In January, three new phenomena occurred in the group, involving myself and another class member and friend, TheLea Brooks. (Her sharing is included at the end of this article, since it took place as the nine of us sat in our “sharing circle” directly after the day’s practice, before leaving the room.)
While we were being led in Pulling Taffy and Perpetual Motion, I noticed and felt the unity of the class as One Body as I was focusing on the tan t’ien. Then suddenly and simultaneously, I heard the “Chi Sound” and felt a warm energy-expansion of the tan t’ien encircle my lower torso, which was the same size and shape as a swimming pool life-preserver; it was heated. Simultaneously, I felt and smelled a floral fragrance shoot out of my heart chakra and encircle my upper torso. It was the same life-preserver size and shape as the lower torsion ring around the tan t’ien. Finally, a slight hypnotic trance-like state settled over my mind and the entire length of my body, accompanied by the sensation that either levitation or bi-location was imminent, though the Subtle Body did not lift off from the physical, as has happened to me in the past.
As the thought entered my head, “Yikes, this is amazing!” and my attention left the tan t’ien, the warmth, scintillating energy and fragrance of the two torsion-fields gently subsided. The entire experience lasted no more than five minutes. Although I routinely hear the “Chi Sound” daily, and have experienced a fragrant torsion ring around the heart a few times (smelling like roses or lilies), I had not experienced the warm, swelling, scintillating encirclement of a torsion-ring around the tan t’ien, and thus had never experienced all three at once. (See diagram.) One wonders what other mysteries the Chi will yield as time passes and I stay out of my head.
But that wasn’t all that transpired. As we finished the practice and pulled nine green upholstered armchairs into the circle for our final sharing, our friend and newest student in the class, TheLea Brooks, began wide-eyed sharing. She reported that during the class “the central column of her body opened up.” As we sat in the sharing circle before leaving, she was suddenly given a vision of each of us in the circle.
“Just now I saw all of us in this circle encompassed in a large, bonfire-like, luminous Light. Everyone was the Fire and each person was a different-colored flame, in beautiful, super-luminous, neon-like colors, such as shimmering green, yellow, orange, purple and blue. Each person’s body appeared as a body-sized flame. Connie, across from me, appeared as super-luminous celery green. Marie, to my left, appeared as a (gas) pilot-light blue. We were all an integral part of the bonfire-like Light, yet distinct in our individual, differentiated, super-luminous colors.”
TheLea’s face was dewy and glistening with light perspiration, and her complexion was extra pale, framed with brunette hair, as she shared her experience. She had a far-away look in her eye and seemed to be in a light trance state, as I was, after both of us had accessed the Quantum Field of Universal Love while focusing on the tan t’ien, and being exquisitely aware of the unity and harmony of the simultaneous group movement. Words are inadequate to express the profound blessings we are being given through TCC.
Author’s Note: Gregg Braden, Ph.D. — author, speaker and physicist of world renown — often speaks of the natural, circular, energetic emission surrounding the heart. He refers to it as the “torsion-field of the heart” about which much scientific study has been done. The term “quantum” is used in this article to refer to the experience/reality of simultaneously existing in overlapping dimensions. As author and workshop leader, Richard Bartlett, D.C., N.D., says, “We are not these bodies. We are patterns of light and information appearing as bodies.”
Topics: Chi and Intrinsic Energy, Colorado, Group Practice, Heightened Awareness, Personal Stories, Pulling Taffy, T'an T'ien
Originally appeared in: November 2020
