Fountain of Youth Qigong (Fountain of Youth): ancient secret to increasing Original Qi Energy (Yuan Qi, the Primordial Qi). It restores youth.

(See also: Fountain of Youth Qigong, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

French acupuncture: Style of acupuncture originated by George Soulie de Morant and pioneered by his student Dr. Chamfrault, a medical doctor. According to its theory, meridian energetics is a framework for understanding the body and disorders thereof.

(See also: French acupuncture, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Fusion meditations (Fusion Meditation, Fusion practice, Fusion practices): Component of the Healing Tao System.

The Fusion meditations are a means of transforming negative energy into a quality neutral force that fuses with positive energy into a Chi ball. According to Fusion theory, the Chi ball opens and cleanses eight special bodily channels used for psychic protection and nourishes the soul (higher energy body).

(See also: Fusion meditations, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

future-life progression (future progression, future-life progression hypnosis): Variation of past-life therapy developed by Helen Stewart Wambach, Ph.D. (1925-1985), author of Recalling Past Lives (Harper & Row, 1978) and Life Before Life (Bantam Books, 1979), and provided by Chet B. Snow, Ph.D. Future-life progression isa means of viewing one's future and the potential lives of future incarnations of oneself. To accomplish this, one must step into spacetime.

(See also: Future-life progression, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

five-minute focus: Form of verbal therapy that involves composing a statement that represents the condition one desires and repeating the statement for five minutes.

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Five Minute Massage (Five Minute Massages): Form of massage advanced by author Robert The. It can take years off one and improve the flow of energy through the body.

Its theory posits Power Points: points on the skin whereby one can

(a)           stimulate energy that flows in channels (meridians) and

(b)           alleviate specific common ailments, such as asthma, chest pain, earache, and hearing problems.

(See also: Five Minute Massage, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Five Rites of rejuvenation (Five Rites, The Five Tibetans, Tibetan Five Rites): Subject of Peter Kelder's Ancient Secret of the Fountain of Youth, first published in 1939, published by Harbor Press Inc. in 1989, and published by Doubleday - with The Lost Chapter - in 1998.

The Rites are bodily movements of Tibetan origin, that resemble those of hatha yoga. Practicing them: accelerates the flow of vital energy through chakras and encourages these centers or vortices of psychic energy to function optimally.

The Five Rites are also the subject of The Five Tibetans: Five Dynamic Exercises for Health, Energy, and Personal Power (Inner Traditions International Ltd., 1994), by Christopher S. Kilham.

(See also: Five Rites of rejuvenation, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

The Flocco Method: Form of ear reflexology, Foot Reflexology, and hand reflexology taught by Bill Flocco.

(See also: Flocco Method, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

flower essence therapy: A variation of Bach flower therapy pioneered in the 1970s by Richard Katz, who founded the Flower Essence Society in 1979. The system involves intake of flower essences - subtle liquid extracts whose active ingredients are life forces from wildflowers or pristine garden blossoms.

(See also: Flower essence therapy, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

foot analysis (Grinberg Method): Ostensibly diagnostic method whose principle is that feet show us how we walk through life. It is the subject of Foot Analysis: The Foot Path to Self-Discovery (Samuel Weiser, 1993), by Avi Grinberg. Grinberg founded the method in 1991 in Amsterdam, Holland. Foot analysis helps one to diagnose spiritual and health problems that show up in one's body language.

(See also: Foot analysis, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Foot Reflexology: An ancient cousin of acupuncture. It involves pressing reflex areas on the feet. Its principle is that these areas correspond to organs and systems of the body. Foot Reflexology really cleanses the mind and body and revitalizes energy. A common theory of reflexology holds that massaging certain areas of the feet restores health by breaking up and dispersing crystals.

(See also: Foot Reflexology, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Foot Reflexology Massage: Foot Reflexology in the form of a massage.

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formative prayer: The science of making or drawing things by using spiritual energy (Infinite source currents) directly.

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Functional Integration: Form of the Feldenkrais Method that involves private, one-on-one instruction.

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Hierophant. From the Greek "Hierophantes"; literally, "One who explains sacred things ". The discloser of sacred learning and the Chief of the Initiates. A title belonging to the highest Adepts in the temples of antiquity, who were the teachers and expounders of the Mysteries and the Initiators into the final great Mysteries.

The Hierophant represented the Demiurge, and explained to the postulants for Initiation the various phenomena of Creation that were produced for their tuition. " He was the sole expounder of the esoteric secrets and doctrines. It was forbidden even to pronounce his name before an

uninitiated person.

He sat in the East, and wore as a symbol of authority a golden globe suspended from the neck. He was also called Mystagogus" (Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie, ix., F.T.S., in The Royal Masonic cyclopedia). In Hebrew and Chaldaic the term was Peter, the opener, discloser; hence the Pope as the successor of the hierophant of the ancient Mysteries, sits in the Pagan chair of St. Peter.

(See also: Hierophant, Theosophy, Spirituality, Body mind and Soul, Spiritual Dictionary, )

Five Finger Kung Fu: Group of exercises whose design is to process the cosmic force so as to nourish chi and direct it to the hands.

(See also: Five Finger Kung Fu, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Focusing (Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy, Focusing-Oriented Therapy, Focusing Process, Focusing Therapy): Natural stepwise system of personal growth based on the work of psychology professor Eugene (Gene) T. Gendlin, Ph.D., author of Focusing (1981), Let the Body Interpret Your Dreams (1986), and Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy: A Manual of the Experimental Method (Guilford Publications, Inc., 1996).

Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy involves dreamwork and inner child work. The effects of Focusing include: direct contact with the wisdom of one's body (prenatal bodily meaning), which is palpable; the flowing of life's energy in new ways of being; discovery of one's genuine self; and an increase in personal whole[ness].

(See also: Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Yaho (Hebrew, Jewish). Fürst shows this to be the same as the Greek Iao. Yaho is an old Semitic and very mystic name of the supreme deity, while Yah (q.v.) is a later abbreviation which, from containing an abstract ideal, became finally applied to, and connected with, a phallic symbol - the lingham of creation.

Both Yah and Yaho were Hebrew "mystery names" derived from Iao, but the Chaldeans had a Yaho before the Jews adopted it, and with them, as explained by some Gnostics and Neo-Platonists, it was the highest conceivable deity enthroned above the seven heavens and representing Spiritual Light (Atman, the universal), whose ray was Nous, standing both for the intelligent Demiurge of the Universe of Matter and the Divine Manas in man, both being Spirit.

The true key of this, communicated to the Initiates only, was that the name of IAO was "triliteral and its nature secret ", as explained by the Hierophants. The Phœnicians too had a supreme deity whose name was triliteral, and its meanings secret, this was also IAO; and Y-ha-ho was a sacred word in the Egyptian mysteries, which signified "the one eternal and concealed deity" in nature and in man; i.e., the "universal Divine Ideation", and the human Manas, or the higher Ego.

(See also: Yaho, Theosophy, Spirituality, Body mind and Soul, Spiritual Dictionary, )

Vendidad (Pahlavi). The first book (Nosk) in the collection of Zend fragments usually known as the Zend-Avesta. The Vendidad is a corruption of the compound-word "Vidaevo-datern", meaning "the anti- demoniac law ", and is full of teachings how to avoid sin and defilement by purification, moral and physical - each of which teachings is based on Occult laws. It is a pre-eminently occult treatise, full of symbolism and often of meaning quite the reverse of that which is expressed in its dead-letter text.

The Vendidad, as claimed by tradition, is the only one of the twenty-one Nosks (works) that has escaped the auto-da-fé at the hands of the drunken Iskander the Rumi, he whom posterity calls Alexander the Great -  though the epithet is justifiable only when applied to the brutality, vices and cruelty of this conqueror. It is through the vandalism of this Greek that literature and knowledge have lost much priceless lore in the Nosks burnt by him.

Even the Vendidad has reached us in only a fragmentary state. The first chapters are very mystical, and therefore called "mythical" in the renderings of European Orientalists. The two "creators" of "spirit-matter" or the world of differentiation - Ahura- Mazda and Angra-Mainyu (Ahriman) - are introduced in them, and also Yima (the first man, or mankind personified). The work is divided into Fargards or chapters, and a portion of these is devoted to the formation of our globe, or terrestrial evolution. (See Zend-Avesta.)

(See also: Vendidad, Theosophy, Spirituality, Body mind and Soul, Spiritual Dictionary, )

Neopaganism or Neo-Paganism:

A general term for a variety of movements both organized and (usually) nonorganized, started since 1960 c.e. or so (though they had literary roots going back to the mid-1800’s), as attempts to recreate, revive or continue what their founders thought were the best aspects of the Paleopagan ways of their ancestors (or predecessors), blended with modern humanistic, pluralist and inclusionary ideals, while consciously striving to eliminate as much as possible of the traditional Western monotheism, dualism, and puritanism.

The core Neopagan beliefs include a multiplicity of deities of all genders, a perception of those deities as both immanent and transcendent, a commitment to environmental awareness, and a willingness to perform magical as well as spiritual rituals to help both ourselves and others.

Examples of Neopaganism would include the Church of All Worlds, most heterodox Wiccan traditions, Druidism as practiced by Ár nDraíocht Féin and the Henge of Keltria, some Norse Paganism, and some modern forms of Buddhism whose members refer to themselves as “Buddheo-Pagans.” Neopagan belief systems are not racist, sexist, homophobic, etc. There are hundreds of thousands of Neopagans living and worshiping their deities today. As “Neo-Paganism,” this term was popularized in the 1960’s and 1970’s by Oberon Zell, a founder of the Church of All Worlds.

(See also: Neopaganism, Neo-Paganism, Pagan, Paganism, Pagan Dictionary)

Spiritual practices:

Activities that purify and strengthen the mind and body for the spiritual path. Siddha Yoga practices include chanting, meditation, mantra repetition, hatha yoga, seva (selfless service), and contemplation.

(See also: Spiritual practices, Yoga, Yoga Dictionary, Siddha Yoga, Siddha Yoga Dictionary)

Dream FAQ Dictionary: f you are lucid, can you control the dream?

If you are lucid, can you control the dream?

 A. Usually lucidity brings with it some degree of control over thecourse of the dream. How much control is possible varies from dream todream and from dreamer to dreamer. Practice can apparently contributeto the ability to exert control over dream events. At the least, luciddreamers can choose how they wish to respond to the events of thedream. For example, you can decide to face up to a frightening dreamfigure, knowing it cannot harm you, rather than to try to avoid thedanger as you naturally would if you did not know it was a dream. Eventhis amount of control can transform the dream experience from one inwhich you are the helpless victim of frequently terrifying,frustrating, or maddening experiences to one in which you can dismissfor a while the cares and concerns of waking life. On the other hand,some people are able to achieve a level of mastery in their luciddreaming where they can create any world, live any fantasy, andexperience anything they can imagine!

Source: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/dreams-faq

(See also: Lucid dreaming, Dream Interpretation FAQ, Dream Interpretation, Dream Dictionary, Meaning of Dreams)