Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 2

Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 2: "The next day I was returning to my work unit, and Mum put some Chinese dates in two bags and had me take them with me. She wanted to weigh them and see how many dates she had put in each bag. But I immediately said, "This weighs one jin and one liang." She weighed it, and it was exactly what I had said. I told Mum the other was just the same. She did not believe me and weighed it and found out it was just as I said. Mum looked at me in surprisedly. We both realized my gong power had increased again.

From that day on my qigong power had reached a new level. I did my best to sit in meditation and practice qigong at Zishi (between eleven o'clock at night and one o'clock in the morning), for of all the times during a day the qi field is at its strongest at Zishi, and practicing qigong during this period of time produces the best effect. But I learned what it was to "practice qigong twenty-four hours a day." I could stay in a qigong state all the time and often had my tongue tilted upward to touch my upper cavity. My forehead began to sink, and I had a special feeling at my tianmu, which is the so-called third eye on the human body. Once anyone has his/her tianmu opened, he/she will be able to see many things invisible to human eyes, and his/her supernormal capabilities will be enhanced. I had always wanted to have my tianmu opened. My healing power grew stronger and stronger. Many people came to me or had me come to their homes for me to heal the sick. All those healed by me received surprising healing effects. Later, I started to heal remotely. One day a friend came to see me and told me his colleague had an unbearably terrible toothache and asked me to go with him to help him. I said to my friend, "You go back and tell him he is all right now." After a little while, this friend came back to me in great excitement and reported, "The moment I saw my colleague, he told me that his toothache had just stopped. You are really getting more and more powerful." There was once a university student who asked me to try on him the remote massage. I agreed and we set a time. We were several hundred miles apart. But when the appointed time came, I didn't do the remote massage for him, for I forgot about it. I felt very sorry and embarrassed, but received a letter a few days later in which he described excitedly how he had an miraculous experience that day when our set time came. He was lying on his bed, and at the exact time he felt severe bloating pain in his shoulders, and his muscles bounced for about a minute. He said this was the first time he had ever experienced in person the miraculous power of qigong.

After reading his letter, I was greatly surprised. How could this be possible since I had missed the appointed time that day? He was a science student who took facts and logic seriously. I could imagine what he had experienced from the astonishment he expressed in his letter. But how could I explain this event? I had no answer. I later read about similar events in qigong magazines, but had no reasonable explanations for them.

I practiced harder, and my gong power was increasing all the time. I became more and more famous, and more people came to acknowledge me as their master and learn qigong from me. But I was not interested in having disciples, for I had not found any suitable candidates with very good intelligence root ("hui gen"). I taught them some simple gong methods when it was too hard for me to refuse. Some of what I taught was already in books, while others were my own inventions. But the result was satisfying. Under my influence there arose in my town an active trend of practicing qigong. These followers voluntarily organized themselves and practiced qigong together. They bought videotapes of Yan Xin's qi-emitting lectures and played them for free. I went to take a look and was very much inspired. Many of the local people had just realized the miraculous power of qigong. They practiced together, but I still practiced by myself, though they wanted very much to have me lead them. I had no interest in doing so, for their qigong levels were very low, and thus they were not helpful to me.

Later on, I invented a way to cure nearsightedness. I put an eye chart on the wall. I had the nearsighted persons stand five meters away from it and asked them to take off their eyeglasses and to state clearly what was on the chart, starting from the first line, then moving to the second, then the third, until they could see very clearly the last line. They could not believe how their vision could improve miraculously to the best state in just a few minutes. I was startled but did not show it. One after another nearsighted person came to me for healing his or her eyes. I used my supernormal capabilities on all of them. But the problem was that a few days after they got healed and took off their glasses, they had to put them on again, for their vision worsened again. And I could not explain why."



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Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 2

Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 2: "My parents had plans in those days to move to a new home that was not very far away. Dad and I decided to move without asking others for help since it was not a very difficult job. When evening came, we started our task. In order for the new home to be a strong qi field, we repeatedly played tapes of Yan Xin's recordings. We had peace of mind for so doing. At about Zishi (between eleven o'clock at night and one o'clock in the morning), we had almost finished moving with the two tapes being played repeatedly. Very strangely, I didn't feel tired at all, but rather felt very much relaxed as if I had not been toiling very hard at all. My heart was filled with peace and joy. As we were finishing moving, I felt more and more comfortable listening to the recordings on the tapes, and a kind of power was infusing within my body; gradually it spread all over my body and soul. This power began to stir, and my soul felt uneasy and also began to stir. I realized something unusual was happening, but I could not tell what it was. I tried to calm myself down and resisted this power by reasoning. But immediately I knew I had failed. Deciding to yield, I told my parents hastily, "I can't bear it anymore. I want to do something very unusual. I can't stand it!" My voice must have sounded very desperate, for I got them very much concerned for me. They encouraged me and said, "Don't be afraid! Relax! Let it be!" Dad hurried to accompany me when I walked out of the house towards a large piece of land in the boundless darkness of night. I suddenly found it was a vast expense of whiteness all around me. It looked like clouds, but it was not. At this moment I heard Yan Xin's recording on the tape saying "It's a vast expanse of whiteness all around." I looked up, and there was not any white thing, but only the starry sky, which looked beautiful and mysterious to me. Many years later, I still remembered the strange and peaceful sky on that night.

I groped my way to the clearing and let go all my worries and fears, completely succumbing to the control of that power, while my heart was filled with curiosity. I moved in a circle, again and again, letting myself obey the impulses. My body was pulled like that of a drunkard. This power was growing all the while and seemed to pull me out of my body. I felt as if there were two "I"s inside of my body; one was stirring, the other one looked on, having no choice. Finally the stirring "I" rushed out of me at last like a volcano. It rushed out of my throat, and out of my mouth ran a long scream full of strangeness and sorrow, very far, far away into the quiet night. It seemed that my soul was crying. But why? I didn't know. There was no answer to this question. My eardrum shook, my mouth thirsted, but I felt very comfortable and full of a sense of mystery. I realized that I had entered into a very rare qigong state in which I was connected with a superhuman power.

Gradually, my body began to quiet down, and I entered a selfless level. Everything seemed to exist and yet was nonexistent. Very slowly, my sensations became illusory too. After I do not know how long, I suddenly knelt down, and that power forcefully pushed my head downward to the ground. I rejected again, but it seemed there was a huge hand pressing on the back of my neck. It wanted me to kowtow. I felt humiliated and was unwilling to kowtow, but a message entered into my mind. It told me that a high-level qigong master had chosen me to be his disciple and wanted to impart his "gong" to me and that he was dying. After I heard this, I lowered my head immediately until it touched the ground. I accepted in awe my invisible master, letting him impart high-level gong to me as he willed.

After a little while, my hand pulled up some grass beside me and put it into my mouth. I chewed, and at once it felt as if a spring had rushed out; I swallowed down a lot, and my throat thirsted no more. My body had regained tranquility by then, and I lifted up my head on my own and looked up at the dark sky. I knew my "master" had died, and that his soul was still existent and protected me and added continuously more "gong" on me.

I rose and realized the white smoke was no longer there. By the moonlight I could see very far. My Dad was still standing there, far away. We returned home, and it was already after one in the morning. Mum and Dad looked at me concernedly and asked me how I was feeling. I said “very well.” They were very happy for me, but I could see perplexity showing up on their faces. We all went to bed."



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Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 2

Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 2: "The appearance of supernormal capabilities served as a great driving force for me to go on practicing shuang pan. I tested myself according to the practices and switching-on procedures described in books on gong methods and discovered almost all those supernormal capabilities in me. This was my achievement after practicing qigong, especially Yan Xin Qigong, for nine months.

The first to come was the supernormal ability of body sensation. When someone with a disease was near me, I, consciously or unconsciously, felt discomfort in the same part of my body that this person experienced discomfort, so I could tell exactly where the problem was and approximately what kind of disease it was. Because I was afraid to take on others' feelings of being sick and the attack by the "sick qi," I did not like to be near seriously ill people.

The next supernormal ability was that of transmitting messages by mind-will. I tried to transmit to others by will simple messages, words like “left” or “right” or short numbers. I found out that there were people who were sensitive and those who were not. Little children were generally very sensitive. There was a little girl who was especially sensitive to my messages, and she was never wrong. When her parents asked her why she could receive my messages so quickly, she said she could hear my voice telling her the message. In fact, I spoke to her only in my heart.

One major supernormal capability I had was healing the sick. I put my hand over the diseased part and could feel energy coming out of my hand. I would feel a kind of exhaustion later on and was very tired sometimes, but the disease that I healed very easily disappeared. There are many different ways to heal the sick; I could heal in whichever way I liked.

In this way I began to go into action according to the Tao I had obtained, and became very well known in our local area. Many people came to me for healing of their diseases, and I was overjoyed to respond to every plea. I found out that my gong power increased by leaps and bounds when I used my supernormal capabilities to perform acts of charity. It became more and more miraculous and unbelievable. "



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Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 2

Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 2: "About a month later, I went out of town on business, and when evening came, I sat in meditation as usual and was tranquilized in meditation. I did not know how long a time had passed when a white light suddenly flashed in the room and seemed to have brightened up the whole room. I opened my eyes in surprise but did not see anything unusual. I closed my eyes again and realized that it was not a common light, but a good phenomenon of qigong practice, for I then remembered what Yan Xin had said in his book about the white light which one was not to be afraid of and the appearance of which was normal and a good thing. I did not know that I had on that day made a critical step into the spiritual sphere through qigong. Supernormal capabilities entered into me, starting from that point on."



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Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 2

Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 2: "It was "Yan Xin Qigong Report" (something like this). I took this book to a quiet room and read it with curiosity and admiration. I finished reading it in a few hours. When I turned over the last page of this book, I knew that the thing I had fancied and wished for had come at last and that my qigong gongfu was going to enter into a new epoch. This book recorded the content of Yan Xin's qi-emitting lectures and a testimonial literature about the strong reactions of thousands of attendants at his lectures. How incredible! Some of the attendants cried, some laughed; some couldn't keep from moving violently, and some ran up and down, screamed and shouted loudly. They all did different things at the same time but did not interfere with each other. Some paralyzed stood up from their wheel chairs and walked; many sick got healed immediately. The spectacular scenes were shocking and unbelievable. People were dumbstruck."



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Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 1

Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 1: "Another very important reason that some practitioners discarded qigong was that, after they reached a certain level of qigong, they met with some horrible problems. The following are examples of such problems:

1. Some practitioners saw horrible things like ghosts, and heard strange voices and words, and experienced troubled days and nights.

2. Some practitioners of qigong could heal other people's diseases, but they were powerless with their own. Sometimes the effect was not good with kind people, but was especially good with evil people. This was inscrutable to them.

3. Some lost control of their supernormal capabilities and were unable to use them when they needed to. Yet those powers would sometimes come when they were not needed and cause embarrassment for the practitioners who could no longer control them as they would.

4. The character and temperament of some practitioners changed lamb-like gentleness to terrifying ferocity. They were full of fear, impetuosity, sorrow, despair, viciousness and pride. They were hateful and filled with lusts."



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Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 1

Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 1: "After 1995 there was another sparkling star in the practice of qigong, Mr. Li Hongzhi. His falun gong was influential not only in China, but also overseas. His method is simple and easy to learn. Because it does not encourage acquiring supernormal capabilities, practitioners do not feel it is too hard. It is called "gong trains people," not "people practice gong"; also it has surprising therapeutic effects. Since the evil spirit gives up conditional requirements on the practitioner, it displays in the practitioners and gong receivers more of its power and more directly than through other methods and performs a lot of miracles. This gong method has spread very rapidly, and its influence is widespread. In recent years it has become a new dominant trend in qigong. In 1999 there even took place in Beijing the world-wide-known "Falun Gong Event," which shocked the Chinese government and therefore resulted in a serious crackdown.

Many qigong masters and people with supernormal capabilities have appeared in the past who have had great influence in their local areas."



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Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 1

Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 1: "At the same time, my mother's illness was becoming worse and worse and even very strange. When she was sick, she would be in a coma, but when she was rescued and had gained her consciousness, she was very quickly back to normal. She was diagnosed loosely as having a neurosis or such like. Her work unit finally agreed to let her receive treatment in a hospital in another city. My father went to accompany her; the joy and laughter in our house were now swept away, and in their place the family was covered by a heavy, melancholic atmosphere. Our parents returned home once in a while and brought home some books including qigong magazines. I had only recently learned about the word qigong and was curious about it, but did not know what on earth it was. My parents explained it to me yet were unable to really enlighten me regarding it.

My mother checked out of the hospital later without her sickness being cured. The medical doctors did not even find out what was wrong with her. One day my father found a book on health care from our collection of books. It taught wu qin xi (Five Animal Sports) by Hua Tuo, a famous physician of ancient China.

Mum started to practice the Five Animal Sports with Dad's help. It seemed to be like our setting-up exercises to radio music. Actually wu qin xi includes five kinds of movement. They are movements of the tiger, the deer, the ape, the bear and the bird. It is said that Hua Tuo was very much inspired while observing the movements of these animals and birds in mountains and forests and invented a form of health care gymnastics. Very soon, Mum was able to imitate the movements perfectly, and we all seemed to see some hope in our family.

For about one or two months my mum's health remained just as the same. Then one day Dad returned from a bookstore, bringing a book entitled "Spontaneous wu qin xi Movements". Through a careful study of this book, he and Mum made a surprising discovery! The book teaches in detail what wu qin xi really is. It is not simple gymnastic movements, but has deeper meaning. It is maneuvering the qi in your body according to some simple instructive steps and then allowing your body to spontaneously make the movements of the animals and birds by following the drive of the qi as if someone were leading you to do it. It sounded incredible, but Mum began to practice.

Shocking things happened! Mum began to move spontaneously while practicing! She could make animal movements and imitate their sounds so closely that they were just like the animal sounds! What was stranger was that my mum's health was recovering miraculously and her incurable disease was controlled. It was a marvel!"



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Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 6

Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 6: "Some other qigong practitioners still hold that qigong is a "science" and "materialistic." They take the so-called ghosts and gods as the information and energy of humankind and of the natural world. They too begin to hold reverence for the ghosts and gods and idols in the traditional religions. They consider ghosts and gods and idols as reflections and communications of information, hence worshipping of these idols brings good information and upgrades gong power. They do not regard these different happenings as results of the ghosts and gods' doings, but as caused by information that has come from man and the universe. Though they do not believe in ghosts and gods, they have already started to worship the evil spirits and idols. The materialistic and atheistic mode of thinking, adulterated with theory about ghosts and gods, produces a very characteristic worldview of qigong, with its main features being worshipping the mystery of the universe and humans themselves and the concept of not believing in, yet worshipping, ghosts and gods. Hence the materialistic and atheistic mode of thought holds that all the ghosts and gods in all religions are mere superstitious terms and that they can all be explained in terms of qigong."



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Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 6

Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 6: "The Danger of Qigong to Its Practitioners

After we have understood the principles and essence of qigong, we know that it is extremely dangerous and harmful to the practitioners themselves, their families, the society and the culture. When a new religion has been newly started by evil spirits, it breaks out with tremendous force and victimizes a lot of people severely.

Among all the harms it does, that done to the practitioners themselves is the greatest and the most direct."



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Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 5

Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 5: "A Brief Summary: the Scheme of the Devil

Why do the Ru Shi Tao have different gong methods and phenomena, even though they achieve the same results and have the same purpose intended for them by evil spirits?

What evil spirits want to do is to delude, destroy and enslave human beings. And they hope to destroy more and more people. So they raise many different religions in the world at different times. Each of these religions seems on the surface to have its own traditions, individual theories and training methods. The Ru Shi Tao are exactly religions as such. A plurality of religions can involve more people. Different people may have different religious tastes. One may not like Confucianism, but he/she may have an interest in Buddhism, or he/she may willingly accept Taoism. Whichever among these religions is chosen, the evil spirits achieve their purpose. The reason that evil spirits provide each of the Ru Shi Tao with different practicing methods, theories, and phenomena is to maintain the special characteristics of these religions. But once the practitioner's level of knowledge of theory and practice of it reaches the highest realm, he/she will discover that all methods have the same origin and all ways lead to the same destination. Then their worldviews and views of life are formed, stabilized and hard to change. The evil spirits, at this time, will let these people see the same results of Ru Shi Tao and all other heathen religions in order for them to respect each other for the religion each has and to be all jointly used by the evil spirits.

Why do the theories of the Ru Shi Tao and of contemporary qigong all relate to a philosophical elaboration of politics, view of life, worldview, ethical morals, and qigong training methods? (Even though there have not been discovered, up to the present time, any explicit qigong theories of practice in Confucianism.)

Scholars who do not know about the principles of qigong take the theories of the Ru Shi Tao as philosophical systems of theory regarding politics, military affairs, culture, ethical morals, view of life and worldviews. This understanding of Ru Shi Tao is very incomplete and unilateral, for the purpose and training methods of qigong are very important parts of Buddhism and Taoism.

Some people who are modern qigong practitioners regard Buddhist and Taoist theories mainly as the elaboration of qigong theory. I cannot agree with them. The philosophical systems of the Ru Shi Tao are also very important theoretical parts that these religions want to explicate.

The reason why the evil spirits raised up the Ru Shi Tao is that they wanted more people to believe in and worship themselves. Because the training methods of Buddhism and Taoism are not easily promulgated to society, only few believe in either Buddhism or Taoism. But through the supernormal capabilities and strange signs performed by a few, the evil spirits prove to people that the theories of these religions are truthful. And since Buddhism and Taoism have their own complete philosophical systems, many more who do not like to make any efforts in training can accept these philosophical theories as a kind of cultural belief. The evil spirits try to support the beliefs in ghosts and gods in these religions. For example, they try to make people believe in and worship idols, the devil, and evil spirits by performing magical signs in various ways through people who believe in these religions. Hence the evil spirits are more than happy to set up erroneous philosophical systems for more people to accept as their cultural beliefs so that these evil spirits can achieve the purpose of having people worship the idols and the evil spirits themselves.

The greatest characteristic of Confucian theories is that they avoid talking about qigong-like training methods directly so that these theories can form a complete philosophical system, with ethical moral theories as its major component. This religion does not have qigong-like training methods for direct contact with its spiritual background. It is not through physical or spiritual experiences that this religion's theories are proved. Hence it must be through logical thought and practice that this religion's folly and spiritual background is discovered as a general rule.

We have discussed in the second section of this chapter the similarities between Confucian worldviews and values and those of Taoism and qigong. They all use the same theory as their theoretical classic, which is I-Ching. In "Tian Fang Zi," Zhuang Zi, the following is recorded: Confucius met with Scholar Wen Bo and Lao Zi, both of whom were Taoists who had "obtained Tao." He asked questions about Lao Zi's "soul travel" (i.e. the "soul leaving the body" in qigong) and witnessed it. He thus then had a deep understanding and experiential knowledge of Tao. He highly praised "Tao" and had great reverence for it. Zhuang Zi, on the other hand, highly praised Confucius and regarded him as the only person who knew about "Tao" in the State Lu. We can see that it was the Taoists who proved Confucius' philosophical theories through their training methods and that his theory is exactly about "Tao." What Confucius lacked was the practical experience of "Tao." The apex of his philosophical view is exactly "Tao." Hence we know that the highest realm of Taoism and the highest realm of Confucianism are one."



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Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 5

Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 5: "There are also in Taoism external practicing methods. People no longer have to take the internal practice method, which is qigong practice, but directly start dealings and communications with evil spirits through some means. It is similar to the performance of supernormal capabilities and special signs. The following is the fu lu shu method: the drawing of some word-like signs, which are the so-called "words of immortals" to suppress the demons and heal diseases. The following is the nian zhou shu method: incantations for healing diseases, expelling disasters and ferocious animals, etc. There are also divinations. And qi rang shu is pleading to the evil spirits for blessings and for the avoidance of disasters. Bu dao chang is more complex. Altars have to be built, incense burnt, offerings made, gods invited and seen off, scripture read, and ceremonies chanted, with decoration with candles lit on candlesticks and also accompaniment by music. The priests have to bathe and change and abstain from meat, fish and liquor. The purpose of these external methods of practice are for the practitioners to help the common folk to cross the sea of bitterness in this life, to do good deeds and cultivate all kinds of virtues, and to become immortals. They are in essence types of qigong training, having the same goal as qigong, which is to become immortal and never see death.

Furthermore, the Chinese traditional belief in ghosts and gods is also incorporated into Taoism, just as it has been incorporated into Confucianism. This is natural, for all these phenomena are all the same in essence, being cultural phenomena with the activity of evil spirits as their backgrounds.

In a word, all the Taoist practicing methods are actually the present-day qigong practicing methods. Their spiritual background is the activity of evil spirits, which intend to lead people astray from the true meaning of life toward destruction and death."



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Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 5

Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 5: "Also, according to the Zhi Bei You, "The Emperor said, 'Wu si wu lu shi zhi dao, wu chu wu fu shi an dao, wu cong wu dao shi de dao.'" ("When you have no selfish desires or concerns, you will know Tao. When you are bound to no place or duty, you will feel at home with Tao. When you follow no rules or methods, you will obtain Tao.") This describes the process of practicing. When you have given up all selfish desires, you then begin to know "Tao." When you are not bound by anything and yet do not do anything, you can keep "Tao." When you do not seek "Tao" through any means or ways, you have obtained "Tao." This process is the same as that of Buddhist and qigong training. From the Buddhist cutting off of "the six roots" (six human desires) to the relaxing, diving into quiet, and getting rid of distracting thoughts taught by qigong, from Buddhist attentive and willing training to the renouncing of worldly affairs and long-time practice encouraged by qigong, finally from the Buddhist "realm of void" after "sudden awakening" to "man's twenty-four-hour connection with the energy of the universe," which is actually staying in a qigong state twenty-four hours a day—these are all completely identical processes of principles, even though from different approaches. They all have the same result, which is reaching the realm of union with evil spirits.

During the process of Taoist training, a lot of things will happen to destroy the happiness of life. Such things happen often. And because the practitioners do not have time and the mood to do things that should be done, they lose more and more in life, so that they can desire less and less and have a quiet heart, having really nothing much to do. This is so-called the "realm of doing nothing." If practitioners continue their training, they may obtain "Tao" and reach the highest realm of "heaven and man united as one, Tao and me united as one." At this time the practitioners will begin to acquire powerful supernormal capabilities for performing magical signs of all sorts, as if there is nothing that cannot be done. This shows that the evil spirits have become one with the practitioner. Qigong practitioners, especially of very high levels, have deep experiences of this phenomenon."



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Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 5

Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 5: "Lao Zi holds that human beings should seek for the realm of "Tao." He explains that it is a realm of "doing nothing." And the realm of "doing nothing" is "heaven and man united as one," and "Tao and I united as one." "Tao" then is "I" and "I" am "Tao." Though different in approach, this achieves the same result as the Buddhist "Buddha is I and I am Buddha." The realm of Tao's "doing nothing" is the same as the realm of the "void" in Buddhism. Their essence is becoming one with the evil spirits."



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Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 5

Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 5: "Both qigong practitioners and Buddhists who have reached this level know exactly what this "true self" feels like. The essence of this "true self" is the evil spirits that have become one with the soul within. Qigong practitioners at this level have acquired many supernormal capabilities. Buddhist monks at this level can also experience a special "wisdom," capabilities, and "the blissful feeling" of the body and soul. This feeling indicates that the practitioner has entered into an "empty" state, in which the practitioner feels self satisfied and then empty, no longer feeling one's own existence. Temporal and spatial senses begin to become different at this time. Practitioners at this level feel that they have already attained the highest state of enlightenment, and for them sitting in meditation has become an enjoyment. The so-called "chan ji" (chan strategies), an abstruse, mysterious, and comprehensible but unspeakable mode of thought, has taken shape in them. It is a kind of combination of learning, feeling and experience. It is a kind of inexplicable thinking carried out spiritually by the evil spirits now residing in them.

In Buddhism there is a "six-word true verse", which is actually an incantation. There is an incantation that Buddhist monks never quit saying, "a mi tuo fu", which has the effect of worshipping evil spirits. There are many qigong practitioners who like very much to hear these words. People who are sensitive to spiritual affairs have a direct feeling of the energy in these words. Some uneducated old ladies who believe in Buddha devotedly, even though they do not know any "chan ji," simply repeat these words every day, over ten thousand times sometimes, and strange things happen. For example, they can see and hear strange things. They can also have very comfortable feelings, enjoy good health, and feel the great and dreadful power of "Buddha." They will thus respect the "Buddha" even more. Yet the "Buddha" is an evil spirit. Now there are even audiotapes of "a mi tuo fu." Pious devotees of Buddhism listen to them repeatedly and very effectively enter into qigong state in this way. Hence we see that such a level can be arrived at without strict practice, or theory, or logical processes. Just as is said in Buddhism, "Law is without set rules, all laws point to the same one goal." "Giving up the one self brings forth the chan strategies." These theories expose the motivations and means of the evil spirits thoroughly. As long as humans worship these evil spirits, they will let them reach the highest realm because the purpose of the evil spirits is to have people give up their souls and bow down willingly before them.

It is recorded that before Sakyamuni, the founder of Buddhism, yuanji (which means "died"), he said to his disciples, "Wu you zheng fa yan zang, nie pan miao xin, shi xiang wu xiang, wei miao fa men, bu li wen zi, jiao wai bie chuan, fu zhu yu ru, ru dang hu chi, chuan fu jiang lai." The meaning is approximately: "The 'fa' (the truth, the law) that I preach indeed exists but is hard to comprehend. It is an experience very subtle and inexplicable through any words and languages. I impart it to you now, and you should continue to spread it to future generations." These words by Sakyamuni reflected his experience, which is the experience of a human dealing with evil spirits. It does not have fixed patterns, for the goal of evil spirits is to use the most suitable means to captivate and enslave deluded human beings.

The training principle of Buddhism is for humans to suppress and give up their souls and consciousness and to accept Buddhist practice and learning with a sincere heart. After Buddhists have realized this principle, they discover that all scripture teaches the same principle and aims at the same goal. They hence find it no longer necessary to study any scripture, but proceed immediately to sit in meditation and just experience it to reach a very high level, or state, in which evil spirits and human souls unite as one. This is also described by Buddhism as follows: after one's "dunwu" (attaining sudden enlightenment), one will discover that "I am Buddha and Buddha is I." This Buddha is evil spirits; the abstruse and mysterious "chan" is the experience, views and modes of thinking that the evil spirits living in humans engender in them. This is all of the "truth" of Buddhism."



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Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 5

Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 5: "Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism are shortened in Chinese as Ru Shi Tao.

The close relationship between qigong and Ru Shi Tao is only known to some qigong personnel and researchers on Ru Shi Tao who happen to know about qigong. This relation explains why among gong methods are some methods of Confucianism, of Buddhism and of Taoism. But this relation is denied and derided by many scholars. Atheists believe religion to be a kind of outlook on life, worldview and philosophical system of ethical morals. Even some theists would not regard qigong as having any actual connection with Ru Shi Tao, for they do not know the essence and principles of qigong.

Yet qigong practitioners and people who have studied qigong theory would know that qigong has a deep relationship with Ru Shi Tao. The reasons are simple: First, Ru Shi Tao theories and qigong theories are similar or completely identical in many aspects. Second, many of the gong methods practiced have originated from these three religions. Practitioners of them get great help from the philosophical thoughts and detailed qigong theories of these three religions. Hence, they have concluded that qigong and these three religions have the same origin. Confucianism has the lightest qigong coloring of these three, and this is why Confucian gong methods are almost lost and are seldom known by people today.

Why do the Ru Shi Tao all have their own qigong methods? Is this a coincidence? What are the purposes of these gong methods? What connections do they have with the philosophical theories of these religions?

This is a very natural question. The answer to this question is the key to understanding the spiritual background of these religions. We will here clarify our views about this topic and then elaborate and prove our views in the next three sections.

Generally speaking, the spiritual background of Ru Shi Tao is the activity of evil spirits, just like that of qigong. The goal of Ru Shi Tao is exactly the same as that of qigong, which is also the purpose of the evil spirits.

We all know that the purpose of religion is to enable human beings to know about spiritual reality and get close to spiritual beings. Human beings have a natural tendency to worship God. God has placed this desire within the human soul. The purpose of the devil, however, is to prevent people from knowing God, to keep them far away from God so that they will turn to the worship of evil spirits. Henceforth, it is the purpose of the devil to set up various religions in this world so that people will believe and worship the devil and his evil spirits.

However, there is only one religion that God has set up through man.

Evil spirits try to tempt man through various religions with the purpose of destroying man's soul and life. Let us stick to Ru Shi Tao for an illustration. These religions are means to make people voluntarily get close to the devil, who can then control and enslave them. First, Ru Shi Tao all offer views on life and death and philosophical theories of ethical morals. Yet these theories are very obscure regarding their views of life and death and the meaning of life and unable to survive any examinations by logic and analysis. But like almost all the rest of the religions in the world, their theories of ethical morals advocate the beauty of the humanities. No one will say to this: This is wrong. We will not because God has put the standard for right and wrong, goodness and evil, in the human heart. After people have endorsed these views, they start to accept the rest of the theories in Ru Shi Tao. If ever any theory contradicts the common morals of human kind, it will be rejected instantly. The evil spirits are not stupid. Though the motivation of the devils is vicious, they will resort to means not easily noticeable to people to dupe them step by step.

The evil spirits adulterate dangerous lies with easily accepted theories in order to catch people off guard and make them accept those views partially or wholly. This is the half-true, half-false lie that we have talked about in Chapter 4.2. Having people agree directly with the theories and then attracting them into practice are these religions' characteristic means of deceiving people.

Among Ru Shi Tao, Confucianism is the religion that has ethical morals as its main preoccupation. So it is not easy for people to discern its spiritual background. Up to the present, except for the few qigong personnel who know its spiritual background to be evil spirits, most people, especially Chinese, take Confucian culture as one of man’s highest treasures. Yet modern Chinese history has not seen success but rather suffering and shame brought about by this mainstream element of Chinese culture.

The major aspects of Taoism and Buddhism are concerned with ghosts, gods, and determinism. They have distinctive qigong theories and gong methods. Their contact with the spiritual world is relatively more direct. It is easy for people to see that their theories are about ghosts and gods; hence atheists, in particular, reject them very readily. This is also why Buddhism and Taoism have declined much more quickly than Confucianism in modern times.

Like that of qigong, the purpose of all religions with the activity of evil spirits as their background is to have people believe, worship and be manipulated by evil spirits."


In qigong evil spirits have taken off all their coverings in the forms of various religions and have presented directly their essential contents. They used to guide people timidly through the means of the various religions, but now teach people the most direct meanings of dealings with the evil spirits through qigong.


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Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 4

Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 4: "Sorceresses in the Countryside

In the Chinese countryside a sorceress is known to all. Every local area has its own woman of supernormal capabilities called "divinities" like "xian gu", "huang gu" or "ban xian." Most sorceresses are old ladies, and there are not many of them. There is usually one well-known sorceress in a town or area. But they are spread all over China and are respected by the local people. They are "half a supernatural being" in the local people's heart. The major work of the sorceresses is to perform divination, the casting out of demons, and healing. When the local people have lost their ox or some other possession, when their children are strangely ill or have lost their soul "hun," when they need to ask about their future, or when they need to ask for help after a disaster, they will go to the sorceress for help. Before or after the sorceress helps them, they will give her money or other things in order to thank her. Even though they live in the poor countryside, sorceresses never lack such good food as chicken, duck, fish or pork. They are the first ones whose families become comparatively well off.

Of course, some sorceresses are false and do not have any supernormal capabilities. Genuine sorceresses are those who have supernormal capabilities, and quite a number are even well educated. High officials often go secretly to see the sorceress. Because sorceresses can tell exactly what will happen, people believe in them after seeing things happen as they have foretold them.

The spiritual background of sorceresses is the activity of evil spirits, just as is that of qigong. The difference lies in the fact that the ability of sorceresses is given directly by evil spirits, not as a result of gong practice. When sorceresses perform divinations, the evil spirits speak directly to them or display a kind of "pictures." Sorceresses simply pass on the information the evil spirits have offered When sorceresses drive out demons, the evil spirits will very often produce its effect within the sorceress, just as in spontaneous qigong. At this time the sorceress knows exactly what is happening, but is unwilling or unable to control herself. Evil spirits sometimes speak prophecies through sorceresses, imitating other people's voices identically, or even show vividly other people's facial expressions on sorceresses' faces. Those imitated are usually dead people whose living family members have come to ask about them. Hence people greatly fear and respect the sorceress’s power, which is in fact the activity of evil spirits. The so-called driving out of demons is having the evil spirits that are on the victim cooperate and leave the person in order to perform a strange sign and to convince people. The calling back of souls is the same. In the countryside where a belief in ghosts and gods is prevalent, evil spirits are active, roaming all around, looking for people that they can attach to. Small children's souls are relatively weaker; therefore, the devils find them easier to get hold of. Sorceresses simply affect to call back the soul, and the evil spirits cooperate by releasing the soul of the "soul loser." The evil spirits like to have people worship them and like to go to the places where idols are kept. This is why, where people are very superstitious and worship idols, the evil spirits often display their supernormal powers and perform strange signs. To common people these areas seem to be abnormal, having a lot of strange things happening there. Please note that people worship idols because they hope the idols will protect them and bring them good luck. Worshiping a man's picture is also idol worshiping. We often see people put up the picture of a certain "great man" for the purpose of getting protection and good luck from it. Such actions are not only benighted and superstitious, but invite evil spirits as well."



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Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 4

Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 4: "Tibetan Buddhism is mainly divided between the Red and Yellow denominations. Long-term training is mainly by means of the Tibetan gong method with the goal of supernormal capabilities as its major focus, though emphasis is also put on Tibetan medicine and the study of Buddhist theory. The major methods of practice of Tibetan qigong are sitting in meditation, learning gong from masters, and cultivating a belief in the reincarnation of the soul. Major functions include sense transmission by will, tianmu opening, keeping out the cold, sit-and-die, and light cremation, etc. It is said that light cremation is an unintelligible phenomenon. When a practitioner thinks he is going to become Buddha, he will sit in meditation in front of all followers. Then his body begins to radiate colorful lights and shrink gradually. When light cremation is complete, only the hair and fingernails are left. The bodies of the ones with slightly lower gong levels, cannot be completely light cremated. There will be left a very small body as hard as iron. This supernormal capability is rare. It is a big strange sign performed by evil spirits."



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Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 4

Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 4: "The methods of the practice of Yoga involve treating human body cruelly, putting the body in almost untenable postures, suffering hunger, swallowing strings in order to clean the intestines, keeping the same posture for a long time, holding the breath for a long time, or even cutting the tie under the tongue to stretch it long enough to reach the part that is between the nose and the mouth because in this way the practitioner can practice having the ability to breath little. Some Yoga practitioners are able to lie in hibernation underground for a month, depending on only the air in the coffin in which they lie, which is sufficient for them. Usually, the hibernators will need many Yoga practitioners to wake them up through meditation.

The background of Yoga is the activity of evil spirits. After torturing a human body painfully for a long time and rendering the soul near collapse and very weak, evil spirits then easily capture and take control of the human soul. Then this person will have supernormal capabilities. The hibernation is actually what happens when the soul has left the body or when the soul is so completely controlled by evil spirits that it suffers from shock. This is why there have to be many Yoga practitioners to meditate in order to maneuver the evil spirit to have that person's soul returned and that person awakened. Generally speaking, this kind of training is hard for people to keep, yet those who do succeed usually have shocking capabilities. The point is that it does not have much practical meaning, for it does not solve any problems in human lives. Its practitioners are very miserable, for the devil likes to torment them. But they are willing to cater to the evil spirits, leading a hellish life while still in this world."



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Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 3

Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 3: "A strong power at my belly button pulled my body violently and pushed my head and feet upward just like in a twitch. I tried to hold on and seized the sofa fast with my hands. It seemed that there was more than one power in my body knocking side to side. These forces then combined into a single force and rushed fiercely, which bulged up the part of my body it happened to attack, like a trapped rabbit wanting to escape out of a sack. I opened my eyes and looked while it tormented my body.

Slowly I felt this power had suddenly become a person, a conscious person. Oh, God, it was me! No, it was impossible. Then who was "he"? I felt again that it was me. But then who was I? A terrible idea came up to my mind. There were two "I"s. One wanted to go out of my body; the other was at a loss. Oh, my God, which one was me! I shouted out loud, and my cries were filled with fear. Then I was taken into warm warms, and I opened my eyes wide open and looked at my hands and my body. My mind made a clear judgment that this was me, no problem, a real me. Yes, this was me! I was able to control my consciousness at last and calmed down a little bit.

My body got impulsive again, and it seemed that my whole body was going to be thrown out. I clasped tightly the mat I was sitting on, expecting the power in my body to go out soon. It rushed to my chest, and my upper body shifted to one side abruptly, and the lower part of my body was stretched out like an arch. I twitched for a long time, and I moaned desperately. At last, all that crazy power rushed out of my body. Instantly my body became like a deflated rubber ball and was softened. I lay completely still. Both my body and my mind felt very empty, as if everything had become static. My friend’s gentle voice flew softly into my ear, saying, "It's ok now. You're all right. It's all over."

I opened my eyes slowly and felt as if a century had just passed by. I sat upright and looked at my body. I felt that I was myself, very real, and felt like I was cleansed thoroughly inside and out. My heart was thus extremely lightened. I was now very clear-headed. There was no doubt that I was I!

He looked at me with concern, and weariness on his face betrayed him. He told me that I had invited very strong demons into myself during the years of my qigong practice and that what had happened just now was the casting out of these demons so that Satan could no longer control me or defeat me"



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