Foot Binding Part 2: Energetic and Epigenetic Impact
Explicit and deliberate dispersal of Qi that will usher in death is a malicious act. When a mother binds a girl’s feet, she is breaking the energy flow network and preventing the energy from gathering in the girl’s body. Thus she is dispersing or isolating it, which invites death.
Overused Logic: Why Intuition was Systematically Sabotaged
When people lose the material means to their independence, they also begin to lose faith in themselves, their history, their cosmologies, and spiritual lessons. Because they now exist in a world where they must appease and fawn in order to obtain their basic necessities, their worldview shifts to center the perspective of their oppressors. If the Western power does not respect or understand the cultures’ spiritual practice and values, slowly those very own people begin to discard their own spiritual heritage.