So, LetsEat reminded me that there are already lot's of other sources of information on the basics of how to feel and manipulate energy and thus I don't really need to care about covering that. This fits in very nicely with my goal of tailoriong this information towards those who already have a desire to attain such abilities and are already actively working towards doing that in their own way. This will make things much easier for me to explain.
I already do Kung Fu and was working with energy years before that. I walked in the door of the studio capable of teaching blackbelts certain things about energy they didn't already know. I know this because I went and did it. It was incredibly cool to hand a few concepts and simple exercises to a 3rd degree blackbelt as a yellow belt and watch as their mind is blown on the spot as they try it. I have yet to actually learn anything new myself from what I've been taught of the Dragon system or told about in private. At best what I have learned is that I know what I'm talking about.
However, the energy breathing system they utilize is far superior to mine in terms of teaching someone who doesn't know anything about anything about energy. In particular, two meditations that are so refined that you can literally take someone off the street, get them to do the meditation, and then that person can start to feel and manipulate their own chi.
The only difference is that the teaching of that school focuses almost exclusively on internal, healing uses of chi. There are combative uses but they too focus on keeping your energy inside of your body and using it to augment yourself, At least so far as I have seen. I've been told about higher level techniques that sound like they transfer energy through touch, or "insert the mind into the body" as I was told, into an opponent but I'm pretty sure I'm not allowed to talk about those. My goals and my expereince focuses on external, physical uses of chi.
Previously in this thread I discussed the alleged possibility of some past life stuff regarding this. Although I fully recognize that I have no evidence of any possible claims for anything like that that I can show to another person, and I recognize that memory is not a very good empirical measure of anything, I cannot deny that I believe the claims made are at least possibly true if not likely true because of the ridiculous amount and types of paranormal things that have happened throughout this life. Pretty much all of my knowledge that I've been operating on comes from those alleged expereinces.
So I'm going to stop acting like that's not the case and just talk a lot more openly about past life stuff within reason as crazy as that may be. I'm not going to shove it down anyone's throat and I'm not going to expect anyone to believe me but I am going to reference it from time to time. Generally in the format of "in the past the explanation of X was Y" or similar. I'm trying to test these memories myself anyways. The stuff that's new to this life is largely astral projection and shared dreams. There was never much reason to learn or refine such skills in the past so I never really bothered. I still see little practical use for them in this life compared to the alternatives and would prefer not to focus on them if possible.
No idea when I'll post again but I'll always try answering questions.