Wednesday, June 27. 2007
A new video of John Chang - The Magus of Java
In August 2006 I wrote about an amazing video in the post Amazing video of the power of chi. This video is an excerpt from a documentary movie called “Ring of Fire”, shot in Indonesia. During the filming, one of the crew members got some problem with his eyes and was treated by a local healer using acupuncture, but different than regularly used. Then, the healer demonstrated his powers on the crew by “shocking” them with what felt like electrical charges from his hands or abdomen. The most shocking part of the footage is where he puts a newspaper on fire, allegedly only using his Chi energy. It is very famous footage and you can see it below:
A few days ago, drew hempel, who wrote some articles for this site, including You Can’t Fake The Full-lotus! Testimony of a qigong practitioner in the context of parapsychology, posted in comments a link to another video of the same person, done much later by brother of the crew member above. In this new footage, the brother tells more about the story and brings 3 people with him from the US to “check” this man’s claims and see his abilities. This footage is a must see as the man performs some amazing feats under pretty controlled conditions:
I’ve taken some time to look up this man and it seems he’s become quite famous since his brief and chance appearance in the “Ring of Fire” documentary. His name is John Chang (or John DiJang) and he is a direct heir to an ancient lineage of sages called the Mo-Pai. After the “Ring of Fire” was aired in the west, many people went looking for this man. One of these people was Kosta Danaos from Greece. He found John Chang and has asked him to be his teacher. Apparently, about a hundred people came to Chang to ask to become his students but he only accepted five and Kosta was the second.
In 2000, Kosta Danaos published a book, called The Magus of Java: Teachings of an Authentic Taoist Immortal
Discuss this and other posts in the mind-energy.net forum.
Become a Master Healer!
http://www.amazon.com/Textbook-Complementary-Alternative-Medicine-Second/dp/1842142976/ref=sr_1_2/102-0950595-2989716?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1182980953&sr=1-2
As far as "proof" well I discovered a secret proof for Archytas' doubling of the cube - using asymmetric music harmonics. Math professor Joseph Mazur wants my "very valuable" information published in the most highly read math journal in the world, the MAA Monthly. Essentially Pythagorean harmonics is the key to Taoist qigong as well and what I discovered is something the mathematicians were trying to figure out but were unable to do.
In qigong proof is based on desire because the math is music which is also desire. So we use asymmetric music harmonics (A X B does not equal B X A, thereby undermining all statistical proofs, etc.) to resonate with formless awareness and the more we resonate with formless awareness the more all our secret desires are fulfilled.
In contrast, math relies on a "closed" system based on "deep disharmony." So the tension of technology, created by mass squared inversely proportional to energy frequency distance, is increasing. Qigong is more of a necessity for common survival.
One thing I want to know: where can I find these LED's that "ignite in different colors according to the intensity of current"?
http://springforestqigong.com
Please consider the harm you could do by pitching a Qigong 'Master' as "effective at healing cancer." That notion can be harmful or fatal if swallowed. Early diagnosis and prompt treatment are critical to surviving cancer; Qigong does not diagnose and cannot treat cancer.
Scientific study has shown some practices of folk and ritual medicine to have therapeutic effects, while pretty well debunking the associated mythology. Many doctors are open to letting various priests, shamans and 'masters' apply such therapies, despite the medically incorrect information patents typically receive along with treatment. As the Mayo Clinic goes on to say, "Always tell your doctor before you begin taking any complementary and alternative medicine treatments."
-Bryan
There is a hospital in China that ONLY USES QIGONG to heal cancer.
Of course you have to say "heal" and not "cure" if you are making such claims because corporate law claims commercial infringement against doctors. For example dentists can't say that mercury is bad for your teeth because it's against the business practices of the ADA.
Mayo Clinic doctor says Qigong adds to patient’s quality of life
by Neil Kay, M.D.
Qigong adds significantly to the quality of life of our cancer patients.
Chunyi Lin is unique in the application of Qigong, because of his development of his own style of Qigong. This is a much simpler and yet easily applied alternative medicine for cancer patients. Since many of these patients have both motor and sensory disabilities, his approach, which is easy to learn, but still potent in its development of energies and healing properties, provide a very unusual and unique opportunity.
Neil Kay, M.D.
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, Department of Medicine, Division of Hemoglobinopathy. Former Medical Director of the David Hickok Memorial Cancer Research Laboratory, Virginia Piper Cancer Institute, Minneapolis, Minnesota
http://www.woyano.com/view/4701/The-Biology-of-Beliefs
That is the url for details on the qigong hospital that was very effecting in curing cancer.
http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:h2Xw-13oousJ:www.toxicteeth.org/MEMORANDUM-OF-LAW.pdf+commercial+code+law,+mercury,+gag+rules,+ada&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us
I'm just using mercury in denistry as a case study. "The Politics of Pure Science" is another excellent book on this topic.
Cancer Studies
"It is generally known that qigong practice is beneficial to health and can prevent disease. However, it is less known, that qigong may be an effective way to treat various diseases, including cancer," says Kevin Chen, Phd., a researcher at University of Medicine and Dentistry in New Jersey. Chen reviewed more than 50 studies in the article "Exploratory Studies of Qigong Therapy for Cancer in China." He found many cases of "complete remission" in advanced cancer patients using qigong. "Most patients achieved significant short-term improvement in their health and/or a recovery from cancer through qigong practice alone. Furthermore a large proportion of these patients became cancer-free," he says. "The qigong groups had a better survival rate" than those receiving western treatments.. Chen describes one study of 1648 patients with various cancers carried out over 8 years at Beijing Miyun Capital Tumor Hospical "This study documented significant improvement for 32.4 percent of patientsŠ more than 500 of the cancer patients survived 5 years or longer (30 percent). This is a much better result than other tumor hospitals that have not combined qigong therapy in their treatment plans."
How would a Qigong-only hospital even know when they're dealing with cancer? Do they have another magic trick for that? Do dead masters appear in dreams holding biopsy results?
Drew, your method of research seems to be to believe whatever the pitchmen tell you. Popular as that method is on this site, it simply does not work. Did you check out where Kevin Chen's paper was was published? Clever peer-review process: the Qigong guys, the Zen guys, and the biophoton guys can all approve each others' papers and pretend to be doing science.
In fact there are many papers in much better journals that present positive results for ineffective therapies. Contrary to popular belief, papers in highly-respected peer-reviewed scientific journals are often wrong. Fortunately some smart and dedicated people have devoted their life's work to evaluating this kind of evidence, and good health-care practitioners listen. I think the Mayo Clinic gives alternative medicine too much credit, and I can certainly site skeptics' sites about Qigong; setting that aside, Drew associated the Mayo Clinic's name with Qigong, so I cited what the Mayo Clinic actually says about alternative medicine.
Drew, the A.D.A. matter is irrelevant here, and even on your tangent you don't know what you are talking about. There's no gag on the scientific debate about filling material. The ethical violations were cases where dentists scared patients into thousands of dollars of work to replace existing fillings.
No question about it: some doctors with the highly-respected Mayo Clinic work with a Qigong Master. That also means a Qigong Master works with medical doctors. Whatever your beliefs on spiritual aspects of healing, give 'western' medicine a chance and keep a medical doctor involved in your health-care. In many cases promptness of diagnosis and intervention is critical, so do not delay seeing your doctor, and know how to call for emergency medical response wherever you are.
-Bryan
Here's the link to Kevin Chen's paper and note that it's a review of all other qigong papers so the particular journal it's pubished in is not a reflection of the diversity of analysis.
http://www.qigonginstitute.org/html/papers.php
If you want more details on my research process you can read my masters thesis linked at http://nonduality.com/hempel.htm or you can just google "drew hempel" and you get about 700 hits.
Ironically I have a paper going through the "referee" process right now at the MAA Monthly, the most widely read math journal in the world.
INTEGRATIVE CANCER THERAPIES 1(4); 2002
Bryan Olson -- if you actually read the paper you'll find plenty of DNA analysis in relation to cancer and qigong. Below is the introduction:
Chen, Yeung
Qigong Therapy for Cancer in China
Exploratory Studies of Qigong
Therapy for Cancer in China
Kevin Chen, PhD, MPH, and Raphael Yeung, BA
The authors reviewed more than 50 studies of qigong ther-
apy for cancer in China, in 3 categories: clinical studies on
cancer patients, in vitro studies on laboratory-prepared can-
cer cells, and in vivo studies on cancer-infected animals.
Most of the clinical studies involved observation of cancer
patients’ self-practice of qigong. Although no double-blind
clinical trials were found among patient studies, many had a
control. The qigong groups showed more improvement or
had a better survival rate than conventional methods alone.
In vitro studies report the inhibitory effect of qi emission on
cancer growth, and in vivo studies find that qigong-treated
groups have significantly reduced tumor growth or longer
survival among cancer-infected animals. However, there is
much room for improvement in these studies, and some re-
quire replication to verify the findings. Qigong therapy is an
area that is often neglected by mainstream medicine and
research, but our review strongly suggests that qigong de-
serves further study as a supplement to conventional cancer treatment.
A family had to fight science in order to enable their son to choose what treatment he wanted to receive. This is unfortunate that science works as an Imperial Command-Control system.
Major Win for Alternative Medicine!
This development is wonderful news for the advancement of medicine. While I will not claim to endorse the Hoxsey method per se or any other alternative method for the treatment of cancer, the fact remains that such a court victory, allowing a sentient individual the say over whether or not he wishes to receive debilitating mainstream cancer treatments, is extremely important, as it will assist in scientifically weeding out what works and what doesn't. Three cheers for this brave young man and his family!
Court pact says Va. teen can forgo chemo
By SONJA BARISIC, Associated Press Writer (2006)
ACCOMAC, Va. - A 16-year-old cancer patient's legal fight ended in victory Wednesday when his family's attorneys and social services officials reached an agreement that would allow him to forgo chemotherapy.
Known to who? Certainly not to medical science.
"Although no double-blind
clinical trials were found among patient studies, many had a
control."
Control? Huh? Either there were proper clinical trials or there were not. No hand waving please.
Before people go off and ask silly questions like "Can Quigong cure cancer?" perhaps a more basic question would be "Can you demonstrate Quigong actually exists?"
No anecdotes. No testamonials. No 'personal experiences'.
No stories of odd-ball hospitals in China somewhere.
No second-rate parlour tricks on camcorder.
Evidence.
Scientific Evidence.
Peer-reviewed research.
All else is just quackery and gobbledy-gook by people playing at being doctor and making money off the credulous.
Put up or shut up.
www.randi.org
www.quackwatch.org
http://www.csicop.org/si/9607/china.html
Put up or shut up.
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Dear Cedric, first, read Drew Hempel work. Try to understand the 1:2:3:4 musical stuff, later try to dig the arquitas rotten root proof.
second, do a little better research before go around saying CHI does not exist... the thing is like this: science DEPENDS on MACHINES to READ effects... YES!! the WRONG TOOLS the WRONG RESULT!! it's easy to understand it, but i feel ou try to debunk that too!
randi -who never was a GREAT magician anyway- and csicop people FILTER things so they ALWAYS SEENS RIGHT and ENLIGHTEN!
On the other side, see some of the links our dear post-pre-socratic Drew Hempel post above!!! and if those are not ok for you, try this one, about the infrasound proof of chi!!!!
I known my english is bad, but, AGAIN, INFRA SOUND PROOF of CHI, again, infra sound proof of chi! :D: D
and since we only work with TRANSVERSAL WAVES, why not search for a SCALAR WAVE effect too in near future?
And if you can't, as RANDI and CSICOP people, PRACTICE SCIENCE BY YOURSELF, I'll give you the same advise you gave mister hempel >"Put up (A POSITIVE DISPROOF) or shut up."
and pardon my REAL bad english writing, a language I don't care much about, since the only REAL INTELLECTUAL HUMAN AMERICA gave the world, Bob Fischer, died as not american!
you skeptics as SOOOO clever and funny!
http://www.drwastl.org/files/eeg_and_qgm.htm
EEG and QGM
Infrasonic Simulation of Emitted Qi from Qi-Gong Masters
by Professor Liu Guo-long, M.D. , Ph.D. with Richard Lee Beijing College of Traditional Chinese Medicine
SUMMARY OF RESEARCH:
***Emitted Qi from Qi Gong masters clearly has a strong effect on the central nervous system, not only in humans but also in animal subjects. Qi-Gong meditation and the Infratonic have similar effects. These findings are summarized below
Summary:
***When l started this project in l976, l had serious doubts about Qi-Gong masters and emitted Qi. Now I am convinced that emitted Qi is very real and that Qi-Gong is a very valuable art. With the support of the China Government, an estimated 50 million Chinese are practicing Qi-Gong daily, and many Western hospitals have added Qi-Gong departments for patients with chronic and degenerative diseases. In addition, the China government has funded extensive scientific research into the nature of emitted Qi with the goal of advancing science and medical technology.
***The study of emitted Qi and infrasound, as they relate to human health and functioning, is a broad and exciting field. The use of Qi-Gong in treating chronic degenerative diseases such as cancer and hypertension in China has proven very effective. It has proven effective in accelerating healing for thousands of patients with a wide variety of diseases in Chinese hospitals. I am confident that emitted Qi, Qi-Gong meditation, and the Infratonic Qi-Gong simulator will play an increasing role in health care around the world.
#2 Bryan Olson on 2007-07-02 02:46 (Reply)
Bryan, there is in the brazilian jungle LED's that ignite diferent tones of color if 110v or 220v. But it's jungle stuff!
Anyway, try this at home:
choose a finger of your right (YANG) hand. get a ruler and measure it. than sit, drop down the left hand. raise up the right hand. Open fingers. Choose a finger. put tongue @ roof of mouth. breath baby breath. think "my finger (the one you choose) is getting longer, longer... my finger is getting longer... longer... Do this for, maybe five minutes. You will feel your finger pulsing... than get the ruler again and see the result of your mind over you body. Just try. No one will known but you if this thing works or not.
this is an exercice the creator of the chikung mister drew hempel promote uses to show people how their mind can affect the body.
chikung is a thing you will understand just trying it. I was a skeptic martial artists once. Recent I let the second "best" brazilian MMA punch me for more than 3 minutes.
but... give it a try! No body needs to known! no embarrassment! maybe you will be surprised! or have a FINAL proof it's mambojambo!