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   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   I believe that my naked thorn hill climb, described on my Salmon on   
   the Thorns web page, acted like acupuncture (though much more   
   painful) to awaken my hands and feet. For days afterward I got   
   little shocks from metal cutlery and had to wrap it in paper napkins.   
   That subsided when my hands healed, but since then I believe   
   I have had more chi sensitivity (sometimes exhibited as tingling   
   in my palms during geomagnetic storms) than before.   
      
   I am interested in learning more about the historical origins of   
   acupuncture (I do have an acupuncturist friend who I may   
   ask about that.) and speculate that it may be related to past   
   naked thorn hill climb incidents in China.   
      
   The Old Testament mention of piercing of hands and feet may   
   also be related to a past naked thorn hill climb incident, as   
   may Jesus’s crown of thorns and the thorns wrapped around   
   his heart in the Sacred Heart of Jesus picture, relevant in   
   this Easter season. Also Quetzalcoatl is said to have   
   self-sacrificed on thorns. (Let me know if you know of   
   other past figures who went through thorny ordeals.)   
      
   --   
   David Dalton dalton@nfld.com http://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page)   
   http://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)   
   “and if I shed a tear I won't cage it/I won't fear love   
   and if I feel a rage I won't deny it/I won't fear love" (Sarah McLachlan)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)