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Michael Varin wrote:
The "joining of the energy/spirit" must happen outside of the physical body.
Aiki must be at least as applicable to sword-on-sword as it is to empty-handed confrontations.
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Ever do the rubber-pencil trick ? Perception confounds action. Kinesthetic perception is very much the same; and some things in the body can be prompted to respond to perception without the intervention of any conscious thought. The mechanism of that perception transmits steel on steel, as well as flesh on flesh -- or "pencil on pencil" ....