Originally posted by den4
Thanks for the info, Golgo...
I know too little to nothing to make an opinion at this time. Still, in my non-knowledgeable experience, I have found that many previously attested falsehoods are now established solid theories and facts, so who am I to say what you study is fake or not? I don't necessarily go for all the metaphysical stuff, personally, because a lot of it has been faked by very good illusionists and magicians or con artists, but now that theories of multiple universes, dark matter and its non-existence, and what we once knew is always being challenged, it's always good to know that there are still things out there that I have never heard about and can explore to see what it's about...
Here's a longer essay on Chi energy:
MY THEORIES ON CHI ENERGY
My teacher was master Y.P. Dong of Shanghai, author of
He taught a style called "Yi Chuan" which is very similar to Tai Chi. Yi Chuan was founded by Grandmaster Wang Hsiang Tzai, one of the greatest Chinese martial artist of the 20th Century. My teacher, master Dong, was one of master Wang's last direct students. When master Dong accepted me as a formal "Chinese student", we had a small ceremony with incense, and I had to sit on the floor and bow down to an old black & white photo of Grandmaster Wang. It was reported that in the late 1930s a Japanese Judo expert named Sawai challenged Grandmaster Wong to a fight, and every time the Judo guy tried to attack he was pushed back several feet on his arse with a slight touch of the hand. That Japanese Judo guy became a student of Grandmaster Wang, returned to Japan and later founded his own Yi Chuan style called "Tai Ki Ken".
Chi is essentially electromagnetic energy that sustains life. Whenever I give a demonstration and generate an energy field and have someone feel it, that person says "It feels like warm steam." In fact, the Chinese character for Chi kind of looks like a pot of rice being cooked.
If you take a steel rod and wrap some electrical wires around it, run a current through the wire, the rod will turn into a magnet. The flow of electrons creates energy. Chi is generated the same way. Oxygen provides a positive pole toward which electrons can flow, and deep, slow, focused abdominal breathing emphasized in Chi Kung increases oxygen intake and utilization ability. Also, the slow, relaxed, effortless movements performed while taking these deep breaths (such as in Tai Chi) will develop the ability to control and direct the Chi flow.
How can very strong Chi move or push people or objects without contact?
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If you take two magnets and hold the North end of one magnet against the South end of the other, the two magnets will attract each other. But if you hold North against North or South against South, they will repel each other with contact from the magnetic field. Chi works the same way. Every live organism has an energy field around it. If a guy were to attack me, his energy field would be directed at me, like pointing one end of a magnet. If I counter that by generating an energy field, my chi would be much stronger so the attacker's energy field would be pushed back.
Advanced practitioners will also absorb Chi from the earth through the soles of the feet and cosmic energy through the crown chakra. The traditional way to practice Chi Kung is to generate Chi by deep breathing exercises, then absorbing it in the Tan Dien, like recharging a battery. And every time you need to use up some Chi for fighting or for healing, you use up some.
However, this is not an efficient way to deal with your own Chi. If I had to give a healing treatment to a very ill person, my own Chi could get so drained that I might become ill myself. What I've learned to do is to channel energy. By channelling, I don't use up my own reserves of Chi. I absorb it from the earth through my feet and send it out simultaneously through my hands. Here's an analogy: Let's say you're washing your car. You've scrubbed away, and now it's time to rinse it all off. You pour water into a bucket then go to the car and use up the water gradually to rinse the car. When you run out of water, you go back to the faucet and refill the bucket. But what if you could attach a rubber hose to the faucet? You grab the other end of the hose and spray the water on the car without using the bucket. I train in Chi Kung to become that hose so that I'll be able to use the infinite energy source of the planet or the cosmos and simultaneously use it without depleting my own Chi levels.
Master Paul Dong, also an expert in Yi Chuan, but not related to my teacher master Y.P. Dong,
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Has had his Chi measure using an electron spectrometer at over 3,000 volts. Imagine taking a steel rod 160 cm in length and 80 kg, wrap some electrical wires around it, and then flow 3,000 volts of electricity. The resulting electromagnetic force would be tremendous.
In Encounters with Qi (pronounced "chee") by David Eisenberg,
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The author writes of his own experience witnessing a Chi Kung master emitting his energy and causing a lantern hanging from ceiling several meters away to swing. Eisenberg, a clinical research fellow at Harvard, has had several singular opportunities to observe Chinese medical practices, most notably as the first American medical exchange-student there. In this personal narrative, he introduces practitioners of acupuncture and herbalism, a blind itinerant masseur, psychic children, and master healers who perform incredible feats through Qi's direction, the vital energy at the core of Chinese medical philosophy.
As winter so politely put it,,,"good health"
