Footnotes

*1 I am grateful to the lineage of mystical and wise women for bringing these life-enhancing practices to us and influencing Oriental medicine with their profound ways of embodying source energy.

*2 See http://nfmcontraception.com.

*3 Peter Tompkins, The Secret Life of Plants (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1973).

†4 Fabien Maman, The Tao of Sound (self-published by Tama-Do Academy in the Czech Republic, 2011).

*5 The right rule of thumb can be used to clarify the direction of how energy spirals. If you flip your right hand over so the thumb is facing down, the fingers are curling clockwise. With the right thumb facing upward, the fingers are curling counterclockwise.

*6 See www.onebillionrising.org.

*7 See The Tao of Sound by Fabien Maman for more information.

*8 See Chinese Medical Qigong Therapy, volume 1, by Jerry Alan Johnson.

*9 See, for example, the book Messages from Water and the Universe by Masaru Emoto (New York: Hay House, 2010).

*10 Translation by John Stevens in One Robe, One Bowl: The Zen Poetry of Ryokan (Boston: Shambhala/Weatherhill, 2006).