Master Jiang - Adventures In Qi Healing 2o2u6y

Adventures in Qi Healing with Master Jiang

AURELIAN POPA Bucharest, 2013

DEDICATION This book is dedicated to my mother, victim of cervical cancer.

Copyright © 2013 Aurelian Popa All rights reserved. ISBN-13: 978-973-0-14236-5

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Intro

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The Public Demonstration

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The Sacred Oil

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The Sweet Skin

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The Grandmaster

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The Soul Healing

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The Inner Fire

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The Bitter Skin

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The Exception

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The Ingredient

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Outro

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to thank all those who helped me in writing this book. First, I thank my wife, Claudia, for the patience with which she replaces me in daily chores when I practically write or I’m travelling. I thank Shifu Jiang for accepting me as a disciple in 2006 and his help in my evolution. I also thank Tiande for the book review and the fact that he is my big brother (spiritually speaking). I thank Livia Kohn for the idea she gave me and the suggestions regarding my writing style. I thank Irina for the patience with which she checked my drafts and transformed them from simple notes in book chapters written in English. I thank Grady for reading and reviewing my book. Without him it would not sound right in English. If you find it a good book then it's Irina and Grady’s merit. If not, I'm responsible. Thanks to all those who are the protagonists in this book and wish them health and successful practice. I finally thank you for reading the full book - my first book written in English - and I’m waiting you on: www.MasterJiang.com

ADVENTURES OF QI HEALING WITH MASTER JIANG

INTRO “The lack of success does not help anybody” – Grandmaster December 2006 – Koh Samui, Thailand “How long have you been practicing?” I was asked when it was my turn. Master Jiang wasn’t the kind of long haired white bearded old master. No. He had short dark hair and he was tall. He seemed to be about forty. He didn’t turn his head when he wanted to look elsewhere and he didn’t look straight into your eyes, even if he wanted to scan you from top to bottom. “Neidan Gong for three years. Twelve years all in all if we consider the years of yoga and qi gong courses in Romania” I answered. Before asking me how long had I actually been practicing, he had checked my pulse and meridians. I was the only one without health problems or minimum imbalances in a group of twenty practitioners. 1

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My first encounter with Master Jiang was being held in the balcony of a rented hotel apartment in Thailand. In my opinion, I had met other authentic Masters until him. The first was Master Luo in Bangkok. The second was Magus of Java from the book with the same name written by Kosta Danaos. I had already got fa qi from these two masters. Master Jiang was the third person I met who mastered fa qi. Then, a few months later I met Master Wang Liping, the one described in the book “Opening the Dragon Gate”, translated by Thomas Cleary. I do not mean to brag, I just want to make people understand that I didn’t and still don’t lack options. But let’s go back to the meeting on the hotel balcony, my first personal meeting with Master Jiang. “Neidan Gong for three years. Twelve years in total.” I said. I was scanned from top to bottom, without being directly looked at, he paused to peer at his watch, and he drank a bit of tea from cup on the near table, and then told me “You have a very good foundation. You have practiced well all these years. You have reached a fairly advanced level. Everything you had to do with yourself, you did, but to get to the next level, you have to the bridge. Are you ready?” It was only then when he glazed toward me. I was absolutely floored. The first moments I thought he mocks me. I wanted to watch my back in case he was talking to someone else. Looking back into his eyes and pinning his eyes, which was quite difficult with a Master let alone a Chinese one, I told sketching a slight smile, “I do not think I have the level you refer to. Thank you for your courtesy and encouragement.” “No, no. You are too prepared. Once you cross the bridge there’s no turning back. It is therefore important to take a final decision these days. So, do you want to cross the bridge?” he

asked me again this time he was peering at me. Have you seen Matrix? – I, the author, ask you, the reader. I refer to the sequence in which Neo is faced with a choice, “the red pill” or “the blue pill” and Trinity clearly told him “my way or the highway”. That was the way I felt those moments. “I want to cross the bridge” I finally said. More than three hundred people’s lives, including mine, have completely changed. We’ve entered into a realm which some would call it “story” or “magic”. I say it’s a real realm, the real magic. In this realm the paranormal becomes part of everyday life and human being potential is made truly worth. But this book isn’t about me. I’m writing the intro of this book 6 years after I met Master Jiang. The first chapter of the book I wrote in two months, as soon as I met him. I did not want to publish the book until at least 5 years ed and not until enough healing cases gathered. All the stories here are real facts with real people. I just changed the names in case people did not want to expressly appear in a book. Therefore, to be clear, this book is not a book of fiction. So if it’s not fiction, it’s not about me and it’s not even about Master Jiang... Who or what is it about? It’s about real cases where a bunch of people with serious diseases were diagnosed, treated and healed through Master Jiang’s involvement, trough plants, minerals, qi and other paranormal methods. I selected representative cases to more accurately reflect the cases, representing approximately ninety five percent of visitors arrived at Master Jiang. He successfully treated patients from Romania, , , Greece, United States, Turkey, Bulgaria, Malaysia, Italy and Russia. I will refer to Master Jiang using the appellation “Master” just to translate word-for-word appellation of the Chinese “Jiang Shi Fu”.

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We supplemented this book with videos posted on the www. MasterJiang.com site. If you want to access them, all you have to do is sign up here before starting to read the book itself. The purpose of the two complementary products (book and website) is to provide access to those interested in information about these therapies and to mediate dialogue between Master Jiang and his team whose member I am, and the western world where English is the lingua franqua sine qua non. As a conclusion to this preface I want to mention that I tried to tell as factual as possible only what I saw with my own eyes without interpretations, comments or unnecessary additions. For this reason it may be that lecture may seem sometimes too fast or too arid. Also, I minimized my interpretation of facts associated to what I witnessed. No second hand stories here. I’m not a native English speaker and I didn’t learn English in school. In our school only German and French were taught. However I wrote (and published) this book. Why? The answer is very simple, natural and human at the same time: if at least one person finds treatment and healing through this book or the website associated with it, then that worth my effort. Those being said, thank you once again for reading the book and before going to the intro, please subscribe to this web address: www.MasterJiang.com Happy reading! Be blessed, Aurelian 4


1 THE PUBLIC DEMONSTRATION Early January 2007. Here I am in a conference room at a five star hotel in Koh Samui, waiting to see someone d as a real qi gong master in the flesh. His name is Jiang, and I will call him Master Jiang in this true story. There are 100 people split into two groups, practitioners and non-practitioners, for this demonstration. The first group of non-practitioners are people who only saw an announcement and are now very curious. More or less they are either suffering from different diseases untreatable by conventional medicine or looking for an alternative to conventional therapies. The other group consists of perhaps twenty-five practitioners used to this kind of demonstration. Most of them had previously seen other genuine masters, as well as their power and abilities demonstrations. Almost all of them are genuine seekers and disciplined practitioners of qi gong and neigong. Most of them have been practicing for over three years now and invest much of their time, energy, and money in seminars and teachings. Most important, their daily routine includes, for at least one hour, one form or another of qi gong or neigong practice. They spent their holidays in various 5



Asian islands during last few years, trying to learn something spiritually new and staying away from the luxury and comfort of an indulging all-inclusive holiday. Master Jiang was tracked and literally chased by a Western teacher of basic qi gong exercises that I met some years earlier. This teacher, an anthropologist, was the one who gathered this second group of practitioners and worked with them in order to develop their skills in qi gong. He built this group of interested practitioners from all over the world. This international group was quite diverse and the people inside are respectable individuals living in the Western world (e.g. Russia, Europe and US) with families and careers as teachers, engineers, pharmacists, biochemists, information technology consultants, scholars, students etc. Of course the relation between this guy and the practitioners is based on monetary . He accepted almost anyone who had the money, time, and wanted to pay for the teachings. There were almost no pre-requisites needed in order to attend one of his seminars. The teacher never claimed or pretended to be a master. He is only a teacher. He facilitates the relationship with genuine masters for a fee paid exclusively by his protégé students. This facilitation is known as a guan xi (connection) in Mandarin Chinese. The lights went off in the room as the introductory movie started. For 10-15 minutes it showed how Master Jiang diagnosed illness by holding each of his patients’ hands and checking their left-right balance. Afterwards the movie described several methods to cure the presented illnesses. After the movie finished, Tiande (a Master Jiang’s disciple) demonstrated his skills by setting a crumpled piece of paper on fire with his bare hands. The event continued with a short English introduction given by the anthropologist. Among the main ideas in the

introduction I mainly : • There are many fake “gurus” out there, beware. • Fake gurus talk a lot and demonstrate nothing because they cannot substantiate their claims. • Fake gurus, even if they have powers and abilities, fail to transmit these abilities to their followers or if they do it, it is highly ineffective (it takes too much time, there are few attained disciples). • Fake gurus cannot help or heal people in need, even if they claim they can and they do not offer any money back guarantees. Then Master Jiang, Tiande and two disciples stepped on stage. Master Jiang said something in Chinese which Tiande joyfully translated: “Thanks for this terrific introduction, so let’s not waste more time and get right to the demonstrations.” Tiande set the stage, saying: • We are not trying to change your belief system; you are free to be skeptical. • We are not entertainers; this is not a circus show. • What you have just seen and what you are going to see is real; this is not an illusion show. • We are here to assist those in need and we are going to do everything humanly possible to fulfill our promises and claims. Master Jiang tried to settle any expectations by saying that he conducted some curing sessions that day and his qi energy might have been depleted a little bit, so if he were to be tired he would ask his students to perform some of the demonstrations. It’s time for the first demonstration. Master Jiang asked for a sealed bottle of still water from the audience. A woman from the first row ed her sealed bottled water to Tiande. Tiande opened the bottle and asked another person to taste it and made sure it is just plain water. It was only still tasteless water. After that the bottle was placed on a small

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table and Master Jiang pointed his right hand fore and middle finger in the bottle’s direction, moving the hand up and down along the bottle. The distance between his fingertips and the bottle was approximately five centimeters. His face expressed an effort and his entire body language (eyes, intention, and muscle tension) said one thing only: “I sent something to be stored and imprinted into this water.” The whole process took a couple of minutes, maybe less. Tiande then put the lid back and strongly shook the bottle. Now the witness tasted the water again. It turned into sweet water, the sweetest water ever! Master Jiang explained thoroughly and Tiande translated: “Human body energy is transferred into the water inside the bottle and changes the water’s properties. In this case among all properties, the taste is the most noticeable change. Therefore any ordinary water becomes “Life Essence Water” (huo xue). This could be considered a healing elixir for people suffering of diabetes, for example.” Everyone wanted to taste and feel the water for themselves, so everybody came forward with some glasses and squeezed a few drops from the wonder-sweetened-water. Two waitresses would come asking me in amusement if indeed the water was sweet. “Why don’t you give a try and taste it yourself ?” I said. After the audience was quiet again, Master Jiang said that he emitted his qi energy into the water thus modified its taste. Now the water had healing properties and women could even use it for beautification. The ladies in the audience smiled. Then he asked the audience permission to start the second demonstration. He requested a skinny girl, a really thin one from the audience, to come on stage. Then he called his apprentices to move from the first row towards the back of the stage. At that

specific moment all of his staff was behind him. One of the apprentices was called to face the Master and showed the meridians to be opened on Jiang’s head. The whole procedure took under 30 seconds. Then he placed the girl in front of him. He was facing the audience now. The girl faced him. The audience was watching her from the back. Then he asked a volunteer to draw a number on a piece of paper which was already placed on the girl’s back. So everybody was looking at the four digit number except for the Master, the translator, and the Chinese staff. The Master was intensely peering through the skinny girl, and then he whispered the already drawn number. Everybody clapped their hands. The number was correct. He repeated this experiment twice more. For the last one he mistakenly read a “5” instead of a “3”. Everybody laughed. The guy drawing the numbers chose to draw number “3” close to the shape of a “5”. So that the rounded 3 had the upper part cornered like a 5. Master explained how this type of vision was helping him to see the organs of any person if he desired. He said: “Now, you no longer need x-ray tests to see what’s inside of you.” The Chinese staff was invited again to sit in the first row of chairs. Master Jiang said he was tired and invited two of his disciples: one of his nephews and Doctor Wu. The two guys stepped in and another volunteer come from the audience, it was a middle-aged woman with a strong French accent. The two disciples held each other’s hands and placed their palms on the woman’s shoulder. They mimicked a move with their free hands as if ing energy through the other. After less than a minute the woman was crying “Ah!”. She had the same reaction a few more times, as if a feeling of pain was ing through her body. She explained her reaction as an effect of some kind of strong electricity ing through her body. The sensation was similar to an electrical current. After the demonstration

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she claimed: “It was the shock of my life!” Master said this bio-electric qi was an external manifestation of the energetic human potential. He did not explain what it was used for. A few days later we would find out for ourselves. After these three demonstrations, Master Jiang and his team were available for anybody who desired to be diagnosed or checked. A vocal guy in the crowd sitting in the last rows stated that he didn’t believe the demonstration because, as for the water show, he suspected Tiande had put a sweetener inside the lid before the demonstration started. Master Jiang refused to repeat the experiment and invited the doubtful guy on a private meeting. The whole event closed with a Swedish-style buffet (including lots of seafood) and some networking. It was an astonishing evening indeed! A few days later I decided to pay Master Jiang a visit. I was part of a group of about ten practitioners. We entered a room and were kindly welcomed by Tiande. He invited us onto an open-air terrace outside the room and Master Jiang examined each and every one of us. The consult involved sending “electric-like-qi” into the right hand and then into the left hand, checking the meridians and the “right-left balance” as he calls it. “The root of all disease”, he said, “is a state of a imbalanced yin-yang”. A guy from the group was then diagnosed in less than five minutes with a severe heart imbalance. He confirmed this situation and also told the Master about the emotional trauma he was experiencing at that time. Then it was my turn. I stood in front of the Master, my bare feet on a wet towel. Master Jiang stared intensely at me and took my left hand. He emitted a guttural sound and I felt like I was being scanned

from the top of my head to the soles of my feet. He started sending a current of electric-like qi into my body. Then he switched hands and continued. This was not my first “zap” test. I had already felt this kind of electric qi twice before when the Master emitted his qi into my body. Again, I was not amazed by it. What impressed me though, it was the number of people he could zap in a row. We were ten people. It was 2 pm. I was completely sure in the very morning of that day, he performed at least another ten zaps. The other amazing issue for me was his youthful look. He was content with my “left-right balance” and asked me: “How many years have you practiced now?” After hearing my answer he told me that without the help of a true master and a certain type of a pill, I couldn’t progress anymore. I was on the peak of my practice. At that moment I was happy only with my health state - I wasn’t ill or unbalanced. Another interesting fact was that in the end he instructed Tiande to zap two people from our group. “So”, I thought to myself, “Tiande was also a practitioner and actually he was a quite successful one.” I pondered inside my mind “The Master has reached these high level skills and abilities achievement at a such a young age”. The day closed with everybody sharing their own personal experience had during the meeting with the Master. My friend Andy happened to be in Thailand at the time. He was interested in making an appointment with Master Jiang. He felt very weak and he was in a state that made him think: “What do I have to live for anymore?” He had never seen such a public demonstration and had no prior paranormal background. No qi gong practice. Just some local yoga courses. I managed to get an appointment for him on the last day of

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Master’s visit on the island. Unfortunately, Andy was diagnosed with a severe imbalance: his blood was clogged, his yin energy was circulating through his yang meridians and vice versa, his vertical meridian was blocked and an entity was feeding on his physical body energy structure! I didn’t know at the time what “vertical meridian” exactly was; later I found out they were talking about ren mai and du mai, the so called Conception and Governing Vessels in the Chinese medicine. Master recommended Andy take special pills (neigong dan) and invited him to China for a new checkup three weeks later. Also, for the next three days, he was forbidden to ingest: • Alcoholic drinks • Seafood • Coffee Since the treatment couldn’t be completed in one session, Master Jiang invited us to Guangzhou, for a continuation of his treatment. Needless to say Andy was puzzled by all these unexplainable “events”, but he was very positive and wanted to follow the treatment. Master and his staff concluded their one-week visit in Thailand. They had met the whole group of practitioners before leaving for the airport. As a gift they offered our group two-dozen bottles of sweetened water. The Master gave a short speech about our love and appreciation towards them and the sense of fulfillment they had after meeting with us. Sweet.

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2 THE SACRED OIL Early February 2007, Guangzhou, China After my journey in Thailand ended I went to Guangzhou. It was my first trip to China. Despite this peculiar first-time visit, I felt this trip was an important turning point in my “yuanfen”. I had been seeking and searching since the age of 17. I was closing in on my 30’s now... Andy left Thailand in January. He flew back home first, got the ports, applied for Chinese visas and then he returned to Asia. The plan was to meet the Master in a transit hotel in Guangzhou. It is that type of hotel in which people could spend only one night if they wanted to switch flights or planes were delayed or even worse – cancelled – when to another destination with China Southern Airlines. So we checked in. Tiande welcomed us with a big smile on his face and then helped us communicate with the nonEnglish speaking hotel receptionist for our check-in. Then he invited us inside the Master’s room. First of all Master Jiang checked the pills’ effect on Andy’s blood and his yin-yang balance. Master Jiang zapped 13



my friend. He did with one arm and then switched them. The bioelectricity smoothly ed through both hands without any interruption, like a continuous flow of energy. This was a first good sign for my friend, and for the Master this was the proof that the pills were effective. However, Master Jiang understood the Western mind. He would have wanted to play by these rules, even if sometimes it had been time consuming. The deductive and symptomatic approach on health issues is a widelyaccepted protocol of any type of conventional medicine. Therefore he suggested again Andy should have some “needling” done on the back of his knees. Two little threads of blood started to flow along each shank down the floor. Both little blood puddles had the same color and consistency. Both coagulated at the same time, speed and in a similar manner, with an identical bright red shade. Master Jiang pinched a bit of blood from both puddles and emphasize how the color was in the same sparkling red tint and the consistency wasn’t cloggy as it was in a previous Koh Samui test, when one of the splashes was dark red and quickly coagulating. This proved the cleaning blood technique’s success after 21 days since the pills’ ingestion. Master solved three major problems, all by a non-invasive approach: 1. blood cleaning by safely eliminating or dissolving the clogged constituents within. This cleared the flow and improved circulation (xue), according to his explanations. 2. re-balancing the left and right. It was also called rebalancing the yin with its yang. This gave Andy all the prerequisites necessary for his overall health to improve in of organs’ activities and

functions. 3. the yin qi circulated through yin meridians and yang qi through yang meridians. This was the correct configuration. He considered the blood test invasive, and not necessarily required. Zapping would have been more than sufficient to check or prove the alchemical pills treatment effectiveness. The only reason Master Jiang did this was to objectively prove for anybody skeptical the effectiveness of his treatments. No tricks, no fooling around. Master said “Even after the second blood test, some people are suspicious. They do not believe in this artmedicine.” I thought to myself: “After all, we do have in our Christian tradition a well-known healer in which many people have not believed during his times and still many others do not believe in Him even today. His name is Jesus Christ.” “Very good. First we corrected the yin and yang. We are now ready to work on ren and du mai”, Master said. Master continued: “Now that the yin-yang is balanced, we need to work on the vertical meridian.” It turns out, my friend had a blockage that needed to be removed from his microcosmic orbit (also named small heavenly orbit or SHO, in short). Master Jiang said he brought with him an elixir prepared by Grandmaster or Si Gong, the Chinese name of the most skilled and oldest Masters alive on the lineage. Si Gong was Jiang’s Master. Grandmaster was informed about Andy’s issues and wanted to help. The prepared elixir indicated exactly the blockage location. They would call it “sacred oil”. Its recipe and constituents are protected and preserved by the Masters of the school. “This is not for public entertainment,” The Master

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added. “This is a high level diagnostic method.” Andy took off his T-shirt. Master sprayed him from chest to lower belly. It was a yellow oily liquid. It had a specific flowery smell, but I couldn’t tell what kind of fragrance exactly that was. After a few seconds, a vaguely circular lower belly area turned red. “Here is the blockage,” Master said pointing his finger to that reddish area. “The spray”, he added, “can be considered an external medicine but, despite the current Western medicine, it also has the property of diagnosing the person on which you apply it. Therefore even while we diagnose, we have already start the healing process.” Master Jiang invited Andy to lie down on the bed face down. He placed a few pillows under Andy’s belly and chest in order to make him a little bit more comfortable. He let his right hand slide over my friend’s body without touching him , from toes to the lumbar area and also from head to the same area previously revealed by the Grandmaster’s elixir. In this way his hands directed all the qi in such a way that all the clogs were gathered around my friend’s lumbar area. More exactly, on the back side projection of the red area on his lower belly. Master did this a couple of times. Then he placed a small blood glass pump on Andy’s lumbar area. With a pistol attached to the cup he created a void and the suction pulled the skin inside the pump, creating a stretched skin semi-sphere. He left the pump for almost one minute then he took it out. “This way we prepare his body and skin for the next step. Stretching the skin appropriately prepares its pores. As you know the skin is very elastic. We force the collection of impurities around the area where we’ve placed the glass

pump. The qi flow directs the blood flow. The blood flow directs the toxins flow in a process that collects them and pulls them out.” Using his bare hands, Master Jiang managed to create around 20-30 micro cuts, without even touching his skin. The blood started to get out slowly drop by drop. He placed the pump on Andy’s lower back. The pistol again created a void and the blood slowly got into the pump glass with each heart beat. After a short time, Master continued to gather all the viscous blood on the lumbar area for about two more minutes and the pump filled with blood. “We have finished the toxin release process. We have forced out all the poison inside the blood, collecting it inside this pump.” Finally, Andy turned on his right side and two disciples in the room detached the pump from his back. They spilled the whole content on a salver in order to be examined. The blood coagulated in less than two minutes. The result was an ugly, dark red, with a consistency of “coagulated blood hamburger”. Master stated that “the blood is quite sluggish, because of the deficient qi vertical flow circuit. We consider this as a clear sign of another blockage in your vertical meridian. Another set of pills are required in order to clear this blockage, too. If the blood extraction only partially clears this cloggy area, there is still the need of some more pills.” Master checked again the blockage with the yellow spray. Of course, the lower belly area remained yellow. It didn’t turn red as previously happened. Master explained why he couldn’t work on both sets of meridians. “There are two circulation structures. One is the yin-yang meridians, another is the vertical meridian.”

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While opening the yin-yang structure, you need to keep the other one closed and vice-versa. You cannot work on both structures at the same time. “And the way we do this”, he whispers, “it’s a secret art of our Shaolin school.”

3 THE SWEET SKIN Middle of April 2007. Being anxious to meet Master Jiang and all his apprentices again, I was thinking about the unusual world I entered in. I mean, don’t get me wrong, all these years I’ve been reading and practicing lots of yoga asanas, qi gong, breathing exercises, tai qi quan taolu’s, meditation, and so on and so forth. I heard many stories, I read many things, as you do now. But you know… it’s only what eyes can see, that the heart can easily accept and embrace. It is one thing to hear about it, read about it or believe in it, and it’s something different to see it with your own eyes. Also, another completely different level of experience, my dear reader, is to be able to do it yourself. At will. To attain and reproduce these phenomena at your own volition is a whole new level. Therefore we put together all the arrangements for the second appointment with Master Jiang (second in China, third if counting the Thailand one, too). Master called us in Guangzhou for a date around mid-April of 2007. 18

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During January-April not only did my friend talk with a lot of his own friends, but he even managed to arouse curiosity among some of them. A few of them even expressed their willingness to us and be introduced to this Master. You know that kind of unspoken attitude “I trust you, buddy, but I need to witness it by myself, no offense”. One of these interested people managed to set aside everything else and came with us in China. Many were curious and willing to meet Master. However, only this one was really interested and took action on it. Why? Interestingly enough, I was seeing some patterns of human behavior triggered by the exposure to the paranormal context. Curiosity (in the form of jokes and small-talk) and necessity (to find out and see more personally) began to set apart as the two main categories of reactions. Curiosity counts for more than 95% of the cases. This friend, Alex, had a form of diabetes and for the last ten years he had been dependent on insulin. His doctors were not able to cure that disease and he hoped for an alternative cure of his affection. Despite his serious problem he always jokes and entertains whoever happens to be around him. Alex is a really nice person. Owner of an important IT distribution company, in his late 50s, married, father of a daughter, he is tall and has good social skills. It is very pleasant, indeed, to be around him. A genuine extrovert, he told us many jokes and stories on our way to Master. There we were in front of Masters’ door. The door largely opened. Alex, Tiande and two more people were waiting for us. Strangely, Master Jiang avoided shaking our hands when we entered. With his specific smile Master welcomed us and used the

Buddhist salute, the one with the palms together in front of the heart and slightly bent his head toward us. “Come on in and sit here” he told us raising his open palms toward one of the beds in the room. Now that we were seated he took a chair and sat in front of us. This time Master Jiang didn’t start any small talk. “Please sit silent, keep your spine straight and place the back of your palms on your knees.” We conformed to his commands. “Look at my palms,” he told us via Tiande. We sat in silence for about two-three minutes. I don’t know if it was just my subjective impression, but I felt a powerful and dense energy field radiating outward him. I felt like there was a cloud of warm, bright penetrative qi surrounding us right from the moment we entered the hotel room. While we were peering at his palms I felt something itching in the middle of my palms. “Enough.” he said. “Now please taste the skin of your palms or fingers.” We glimpsed at each other and did as we were told. All of us were astonished by our sensation. The skin tasted sweet. The sweetest taste I’ve ever experienced. Sugar is bitter compared with this taste in our palms. “ This way, the qi of all the three of you aligns and harmonizes. That’s why everyone’s skin tastes sweet now. This type of qi Master Jiang just emitted was very refined, therefore penetrative. It’s like an effulgence, bigger than an aura; it’s like a void that expands and enters through your skin, deep into your body, trough tissues, organs, all the way to the cells, molecules and atoms.” Again, he did not touch us. In fact, we had no with anybody from Master’s staff on that room. Master did

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this only by looking. We just looked at his palms. And now our skin tasted sweet, the sweetest taste possible. We started to taste each other’s finger tips and yes, it was sweet, same taste for all of us. “We are the sweetest people, now” Alex stated. Master asked Alex about his age and disease. He briefly offered his medical history details. Master assessed the situation by diagnosing him. In the next lines I will describe this method of diagnosis (which I was about to observe, and which will be used with almost any person who s Master Jiang from now on). He asked Alex to take off his shoes and socks. Of course Alex started to joke about it. You can figure it outby yourself, the kind of jokes when it comes to socks. No need to reproduce it here, though. Next, one of the apprentices brought a wet towel and placed it just in front of Alex. Another apprentice, Doctor Wu, did this procedure of opening a certain acupuncture point for left and right feet: Doctor Wu took the left foot and placed his two fingers (index and middle finger) on the middle of the sole and it looked like he pushed something through that point on the sole. Then he repeated the process for the right foot. Tiande explained “This process opens two important points on the human body, according to the traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). These two points (left and right yong quan) have to be opened,” he adds, “because, in this way, all the qi emitted into his body by zapping him will through the opened points going down through the wet towel into the ground, or in this case, the floor. This prevents the energy from being stuck inside his body. Without this step, he could have been in real danger even after a few days

after fa qi-ing him with wei qi.” To be more specific, fa qi means emitting the qi outside your body and wei qi means external qi as opposed to nei qi which means internal qi. You can feel wei qi as electricity. Nei qi is barely perceived even though the sensitive one can feel it. Both types of qi can be the object of fa – emitting. After this short clarification, Doctor Wu, pointed his finger to the wet towel and invited Alex to stand up and step on it. Now, there came the interesting part. Master and Alex stood up on front of each other at an arm length. Alex was barefoot on the wet towel. Master grabbed Alex’s left hand with his own left hand. Master’s thumb touched Alex’s back palm and his other four fingers touched Alex’s palm (on the inside). Therefore, Alex’s fingers were relaxed in the air. Master Jiang, then, looked right into Alex’s eyes, took a short energetic inhale and then pushed the air with a short mouth exhale, accompanied by a moan, plus a push of his right palm along his left arm, mimicking the gesture of ing something from his body into the Alex’s body though the hand. Alex’s left hand fingers got together and contracted, along with his whole left arm, similar to an electrocution. This condition lasted for 30-45 seconds; Master’s gesture retracted, and the emitted qi dissipated. His right hand slid back along his left arm all the way to the shoulder. Alex’s fingers relaxed again together with his left arm. We witnessed the fa qi phenomena (some people call this yin-yang gong, or simply zapping). They separated their hands, looked at each other and Master asked: “Have you felt it?” “Yes. I did.”

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“Was it in your imagination?” “No. Certainly it wasn’t.” “Ok. Let’s continue.” Master Jiang took then Alex’s right hand and repeated the zapping. This time, Alex’s right hand bounced back and forth a few millimeters, while Master “electrocuted” him. Master asked: “Did you feel the qi bouncing back and forth?” “Yes, I felt it.” “This is the root cause of your disease. Your yin and yang are not balanced. Because there is a blockage on your right side of the body, the flow of qi is altered and the balance of right and left is destroyed.” I realize “We’ve just been exposed to the entire holistic approach of TCM. So simple, yet so profound. Going right to the root cause.” In this context a simple explanation like this makes so much sense to us. I previously had many s with TCM and so my ears have heard lots of explanations like this one. However it was for the first time I actually started to grasp the true meaning of these words: yin, yang, balance, flow, meridians, acupuncture points, qi, blockage, excess, deficiency... You know why? That is because Master Jiang applied a symptomatic approach while diagnosing in a nonsymptomatic one. Let me explain. It’s important. He already knew where the blockage was just by looking at the person in front of him. However, he wanted to objectively prove his findings. That’s why he wasted a fair amount of qi in order to create the bioelectrical zapping fa qi phenomena. In the next few minutes we learnt that this type of qi is an

external one or wei qi. the opening of yong quan points of the soles? We learnt about that one too. They call it internal or nei qi. You can feel objectively wei qi, even if you don’t have qi sensitivity; in case of nei qi, however, it’s a different story because you cannot feel it objectively, unless you develop a specific skill set that allows you to do this. That doesn’t mean it does not affect you. You just don’t feel it like you do in the case of wei qi. “Would you like us to try to re-establish this balance by clearing your blockage?” I noticed how Master asked for permission first in order to correct things. “Of course, I want that.” You see, Alex usually d himself as a skeptical guy. After all, he was an engineer, right? Not this time. Not now. Not anymore. “Then please take off your shirt and lie down the bed facing the floor.” Master asked him. Master Jiang explained that a blood extraction from Alex’s body is about to happen. Alex asked “what do you do with it?” Everybody laughed. Master explained the rationale behind this. By extracting the blood, first, the blockage is cleared and, second, he could further diagnose by examining the color and coagulation process of the extracted blood. So Alex layed down and waited to be vampirised. Master placed a pump over his back, at the level of heart, a little bit on the right. He placed the pump on Alex’s back and started to create void in it by using an attached medical pistol. After this he took off the pump and started to gather all the qi from Alex’s body in the area where the pump was placed. Master drove the qi with his bare hands. Following this he started to quickly slap that area a few

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times. The first blood drops appeared on Alex’s back. We couldn’t explain how somebody extracts the blood out without any surgical tools. No needles, no cutters. Bare hands. “It is quite interesting the idea of extracting blood out of somebody without cutters or needles. Plus, extracting the bad blood, the cloggy part of it is pretty neat.” I silently pondered. After placing back the pump, we waited for few more minutes. The pump got filled with blood and Master Jiang took it away and placed the whole blood content of the pump on a platter. He asked Alex to get a drop of that blood with the tip of his finger and taste it, despite the obvious resistance about it. Alex smiled and said: “Sweet.” After 30 seconds the whole blood coagulated. Master said: “It seems that we cannot clear the blockage just by doing this. You need to take some special pills we’ll offer you. Then we need to take some blood out of you again tomorrow if you agree.” Master explained that he couldn’t cure diabetes, but he could guarantee that Alex will avoid the specific problems associated with his knees, feet, and with his sight, if he agrees to try these wonder-pills. “What’s inside the pills?,” Alex asked. “Some very rare herbs and animal constituents, therefore very expensive ones… and lots of qi from my Grandmaster and his disciples living in the temple,” Master replied. Because he could afford it, Alex agreed to try the pills that day and see how he would feel with the second blood

extraction tomorrow. In the afternoon, we went to a restaurant. Of course we chatted about what happened previously that day. “How do you feel?” I asked him. “Well, first of all, I must say that after he extracted the blood I felt like truly breathing again with both lungs at full capacity. It’s like he took away a stone out of my chest. The only period of my life when I I had this healthy smooth breathing was during my teenage. I feel like a teenager again.” “How did you experience the electricity?” Andy asked. “Well, it’s like when you put your hand in a power outlet, but this type of electricity is quite warm.” Sinking in our own thoughts, we ate Chinese food and drank the excellent tea that a waitress seemed to refill it in an instant, non-stop. I think she had some telepathic abilities. Slowly, slowly we got used to China, with its uncommon food, language and writing. The next day Master asked Alex to taste the extracted blood again. “You still don’t believe me when I’m telling you I’m not a vampire, huh?” Master Jiang joked. Of course the blood wasn’t sweet anymore and this proved the pills did their job effectively. Master checked him again by using wei qi. We learnt that this ability is called “ fa qi”. The bouncing in the right arm disappeared. Less than 24 hours ed and Master Jiang accomplished three amazing things form a medical perspective: First, he discovered the root cause of the disease and proved it to all of us objectively by using his fa qi ability. Second, he took the pressure off Alex’s lungs, making him

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breathe like a teenager again. And third, he cleared the blockage by blood extraction and pills, reestablishing yinyang balance. Let me repeat again, all of this happened in less than 24 hours. How is that from a medical perspective? He told Alex again that his form of diabetes couldn’t be cured easily and quickly, but the effects of it can be kept away or delayed. Frankly, I ire his honesty. He also advised Alex to change his lifestyle and to be careful with his time management. Also he advised him to stay away from stress and disorganized schedule. Pretty common sense stuff.


4 THE GRANDMASTER July 2007, near Huang Shan, Anhui – China. There we were the three of us, me, my friend and Alex heading ourselves into the rural China. Master invited us at his own house this time. I couldn’t believe my ears when Tiande told me on the phone: “This time we would go in Huang Shan (Yellow Mountain --黄山). No more hotel appointments in Guangzhou. Master invites all of you to his house and possibly we’ll meet Si Gong, the Master’s Master”. This trip objective was to check Alex’s state and to solve another problem of Andy (more psycho-emotional than physical one). Both problems were to be assessed and eventually addressed by Grandmaster. Basically, Master Jiang said he will talk to Grandmaster and ask him if he could provide them The Elixir. None of them was asking what that was and how it will help them, even though the questions were on everybody’s minds… As for me, I wasn’t there with a health problem. I was there to ask Grandmaster if I can enter their Buddhist Shaolin school (少林派) as a disciple. I learned that their school’s Chinese name is, to be more exact, Yi Jin Jing (易筋經).

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Yi Jin Jing literally means The Book of Tendon Changing. Some other alternative translations are: • Meridians’ Transformation Book • Changing The Tendons and Meridians Classic (or traditional). Mot-a-Mot, Yi means change, Jin means tendons, Jing means classic or old book. The main figure of the tradition is Da Mo (達摩). Some still argue today if Da Mo were the same person as Bodhidharma or not. As a general accepted opinion the researchers consider Bodhidharma as the Indian founder of Chan school (Zen Buddhism or Chinese Zen). After landing on the nearest airport to our destination, we embarked ourselves on a minibus appointed for us by Tiande. It was eleven pm. The minibus road trip was about to last for more than 1 hour. This travel would follow more than twelve hours of plane sitting. We had a nice good deep sleep on that night. We were all curious about what was to come in our reality. There were many ways you could perceive that your reality started to bend, or that you were in one of your turning points of your destiny. For me this was definitely one those situations. I was about to meet the mentor of that man who basically turned my world upside down, in less than six months from the initial meeting. It was the first Master that wanted us to go and meet his Master, – The Grandmaster, and that thing alone amazed me, not to mention he wanted us to go directly into retreat Grandmaster’s cave. Early next morning we went all to the cave where Grandmaster was meditating at that moment. Two cars, the three of us, Master Jiang, Tiande, Doctor Wu and two more apprentices (a photographer, who took photos all the time with his 5D Cannon, and a heavy smoker, a very nice Master’s relative, highly qi gong skilled … it was the only one among

them I saw smoking). Three hours drive. Beautiful scenery and magazine cover landscapes. It was definitely not a boring trip. Two more people, a girl and a man, ed us during our trip. They had their own car. After we parked the cars it was obvious we needed to walk as there were no more roads. I was mentally prepared for a, let’s say, two-three hours mountain hike. It wasn’t the case. In less than five minutes we entered the cave. Aside from the entrance there were around a dozen of peasants. They recognized Master Jiang and welcomed us with large smiles and true joy on their faces. The cave entrance was arranged by humans. There were some Chinese letters above the entrance (later I found out that it meant Grotto of The Gods) and even a corridor that led to the red-colored concrete built entrance somehow inside the cave. The ceiling of the corridor was decorated with lots of multi-colored pennants. We were welcomed on our path through the cave by two rows of burning candles, leading on the left and right to the red entrance. As we advanced into the inner section of the cave we had to bend more and more as the ceiling of the cave was lower and lower. The path became a small river as we stepped on little slabs. The temperature suddenly dropped which was good given the fact it was July 2007, hence the outside sultry weather. It was like entering another world, another universe, another reality. No more sky above our heads, no more ground under our feet… In less than 2 minutes of bended walk we all stood behind Si Gong. He was sitting and facing a wall. On his right there was another monk. They both faced one of the plate cave’s walls. On the walls there was a big white chán Chinese character (禅 or chán han zi) on red banner. They were sitting in an area obviously arranged for this

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purpose. It was a round plate concrete platform. In order to get there you had to ascend seven stairs. On each of the stair steps there were tens of lit red candles. There were only fifty centimeters on each stair for a person to get into or out of the sitting area. The rest of the stair length was covered in lit candles. Master Jiang entered the sitting area and whispered something into Grandmaster’s right ear. Tiande told us that he was asking the permission for us to interrupt him. “Sometimes, he added, Grandmaster does not even stop his meditation to come and say hello which is perceived by westerners like unsocial; sometimes he is very cheerful and social, he interrupt his practice and comes to the visitors. Let’s see what’s his mood today.” Basically we were on a point where it was Grandmaster’s decision if he wanted to see us or not. My heart was beating out of my chest. I don’t know about my friends and the others, but at least for me, I felt like being part of a very subtle, but effective selection and scanning process. Grandmaster stopped his meditation, rose up and descended the seven stairs helped by Master Jiang. We all three knelt in front of Grandmaster and paid respect. It looked like an early seventies man, even though Tiande told us he was actually “well over one hundred”. His posture was very straight (unusual for a man of his age) and he was quite tall for an Asian man. I cannot reproduce the conversation between the two of my fellows with Grandmaster. However I will reproduce the conversation I had with him. I was the last. The whole conversation took place with him standing before of us and we sitting on our knees. The conversation was translated with a very low voice by Tiande. “Thank you very much for receiving us” I started. “I’m very glad for finally meeting you and apologies for the disturbance.” “Well, you travelled the world to meet me and this is an

honor you give me. Welcome to our country and culture.” “Thanks. I would like to ask you if it’s possible for me to enter your school and learn your arts. Master Jiang said he would gladly accept me if you agreed. Whatever the answer would be, please receive my “thank you” for being here and inspire us all.” He looked at me quite surprised. He headed my direction and started to touch my bones from head to lumbar area. Almost vertebra by vertebra. Then he went back to his initial place. “Yes, you can enter the school and Master Jiang will teach you our arts. Continue what you are doing and you’ll live well and happy.” It was a very short casual conversation, yet quite deep. At least for me. Then we rose up and started to head the cave exit. The big surprise was when the Grandmaster and the monk on the right actually followed us outside the cave. They decided to come with us to the Master’s house. Near the cave there was a small house were two of the peasants started to prepare rice, green beans, tofu and some vegetables. They even served us with some local beer. Grandmaster was quickly massaged by Doctor Wu after his long hours of sitting. All the people were so glad they re-met their Grandmaster. I really felt what family means in China and how they respected and protected their elder which, unfortunately, in our western culture diminishes more and more, day-by-day. In the evening we all gathered together to chat. It was that evening in which everything was just right, the mood, the people, the space and so on. Master Jiang wanted Grandmaster to give us a demonstration of mental and memory power. He told us that Grandmaster can multiply in mind 2 numbers of 6 digits each. I wanted to check,

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so I turned on my laptop and started my calculator program. We chose 2 numbers 6 digits each. In less than two minutes Grandmaster started to dictate from start to finish the digits of the result. I pressed the equal button in my calc software program and… he was right. We repeated the experiment for two more times. Successfully. It was amazing to see a very old man with such ability. Tiande suggested asking Grandmaster for a “reading”. What was a “reading”? Well as we were about to see, Grandmaster took your hand and started to touch your hand-bones and your head bones. He seemed to read your form (xing). Also he was reading your birth date and your name. Then he started to tell you how rich you’ll be, how healthy, at what age to be careful and on which area of your life, so forth and so on. After we had that arithmetic experiment, the “reading” context was quite un-doubtful. “Next day, Grandmaster, said you need to buy from market few living roosters each of you. You are going to receive their jing. You need this type of energy to grow your qi and to progress with your practice, he added.

roosters and started to slowly rotate the hand facing their direction. Few minutes later the birds were dead. There was not a drop of life in them. None. The whole life force of the animals was extracted by Grandmaster trough his hand. Let me repeat, his bare hand. Then he placed the hand on Andy’s lower belly and transferred him that jing. It was transferred through nei qi. He didn’t feel anything notable during that transfer. The process repeated for the other two of us, Alex and me. We’d just witnessed something spectacular: they extracted life and transferred that into another being. After finishing this, Grandmaster turned to Tiande and told him “Tomorrow early morning you’ll be initiated. We have a visitor from Singapore that needs the same procedure. Will you do that for him? Tiande answered in surprise: “Yes, sure.”

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We all went to sleep, after that. Next early morning, around 4 am, I heard them entering Tiande’s room. Forty-five minutes later we witnessed Tiande doing the same thing. Absolutely amazing. It wasn’t the life extraction demonstration we just saw that puzzled me, it was the modality of how this school transmitted its arts. Once you have a strong foundation established, it is a matter of time and master’s will if you want to acquire a specific ability or skill. What I felt after Grandmaster “gave me” the jing of the roosters? Well, first of all I was very sleepy. Then after I went to bed the whole qi circuit and regulation went activated. I started to feel 35



certain points, meridian (jingluo) and channels (mai) activated. It wasn’t an abstract thing anymore. I was able to experience it on my own body. Not even a thousand books could explain what qi is or what meridians were. If you experience it in ten minutes you know what’s this all about and how it feels. And more importantly you start to believe it is real because it not literature anymore. “And that” I thought “is the real value of a true Master and a true traditional authentic lineage. People who not only talk the talk but also walk the walk.”

5 THE SOUL HEALING Andy’s diagnose and healing process? the yellow spray they used to find the area with problems? Well… Master Jiang solved all of those problems with one exception. Andy had a real vulnerability at his shen level. As The Master explained, Andy’s Shen was depleted and therefore vulnerable to all kind of outside “attacks”. One of his problems was that from time to time a foreign “entity” (or ghost as they call it) entered Andy’s body-mind structure and slowly, slowly started to feed with Andy’s energy and, worse, take control over some of his actions. This was not the classical thriller like possession-style situation you’ve used to see in movies. None of that. Andy was a perfectly normal guy. His case, however, it’s much more subtle. The cohabitation starts intermittently and progressively advances to the level at which he was constantly contributing to that entity’s wellbeing. That’s why Andy went in the latest years of his life the workaholic type, ignoring the signs given by his body and also the relationship he had with people surrounding him. Many of the people that knew Andy, in fact almost all, agreed about his different behavior especially in social contexts

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and love affairs. Andy was a difficult person, quite introverted, not talking too much. Despite of that he was successful in business, made lots of money and he was incredibly smart. During the reading, Grandmaster mentioned this about Andy situation: “You see, looking at your birth date and your body, I can tell you that you have a real vulnerability around the years on which you have ages ending in 9; Like 19, 29, 39, 49 and so on… Around these periods your shen is “permeable” to some kind of entities. These entities want to co-locate your body. Right now you have one problematic entity which must be sent away…” Andy just nodded. We were waiting silently for further explanations. “The only way to correct this is to take the jing of five bulls, turning it into human jing refine it and transfer it into your body. We need a huge amount of this jing in order to correct your problem. Roosters are not enough. We need bulls. The jing in 1 bull is around five million times the jing in one rooster” Grandmaster said. “Does this involve killing those animals?” Andy asked. “Yes, these animals will die because of this process.” “Wouldn’t it be a sin to kill a living being?” my friend asked. “Having so many sins myself ” started Grandmaster in a humble low voice, “one more doesn’t matter. Besides, he added, the life of a human being is more valuable than the life of an animal. And also after the bulls will away we’ll do a ceremony up in the temple. This will help these sacrificed beings to evolve into something higher.” We all went silent. Thinking about how powerful this man was and how humble in his simplicity. He knew this was a sin. He knew his own sins. However he was there to serve, help and heal. “Healing your problem needs a lot of jing. So I need your

approval on this option before proceeding further.” “I agree”, my friend said. The evening came to an end. Next day we went by car to a near village. Some peasants were waiting there. They were extremely glad about Master’s and Grandmaster’s visit. They also welcomed us and invited us inside. I saw the bulls outside. Five of them were about to die in something that completely changed my view on what life’s meaning was and what were the things that sustain it from underneath. We’ve been warned to stay behind Grandmaster. The jing extraction was about to happen the same way as with the roosters, trough Grandmaster palms. Everything alive between Grandmaster’s palm and the bull would die, hence the warning. Some apprentices took the first bull and tied him to a tree nearby. The Grandmaster stepped ahead started a short choreography stance which ended with a foot slap of the ground while pacing ahead, stretching the right hand in the direction of the bull. There were around four-five meters distance between the bull and Grandmaster’s palm. Then his palm started a circular movement slowly but steadily. After a few seconds time nothing happened. Then Master Jiang told us to start clapping our hands just to encourage him. We all started to clap our hands looking at the bull. Finally, after few more seconds the bull literally jumped 2030 cm from the ground and then collapsed on the ground. Then the second bull followed. This was quicker. And so on to the end. We noticed a little spec of blood on the Grandmaster’s mouth but after a few sips of water he came back to his practice. Grandmaster finished doing his job in less than 15 minutes. Think of it. Each bull weighed 500 kg maybe more. All of them

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were dead and all their jing was collected by Grandmaster. “What’s happening now with that jing?” I asked Tiande. “That jing is very raw at this stage. Even though it is powerful, it’s low quality. If it’s ed into his body, your friend will surely die. That’s why we need to wait a few hours for the jing essence to get refined by Grandmaster’s body, making it ready for Andy’s body.” “That means human jing is more refined that any other types jing?” “Correct.” “And how long will it take the Grandmaster to process and refine this jing?” “Around six hours. There are cases when he needs more than that.” Six hours later my friend was ready to receive the jing extracted from the bulls. He was invited to sit. They opened the two points on his feet. Doctor Wu placed his palms behind his kidneys and Grandmaster placed his right palm over the top of my friend’s bai hui (head top). Then Grandmaster started to push the energy down until the doctor said “stop”. I asked Andy: “Have you felt anything?” “It was nei qi ” he answered. “No electricity.” This was one of the demonstrations I would certainly never forget. I was under the impression that we all live into a “matrix” after that day. What I just saw was an old man, Grandmaster, taking and giving life. Healing something the conventional medicine will never think of healing: subtle vulnerabilities… psychoemotional and spiritual ones and also let’s say, aura related ones.

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surprise.” We checked in, had a shower and went to the Master’s room. After the welcome moment we were invited to occupy some chairs and Master Jiang invited my friend to sit at a desk in the room. Master went in the bathroom and returned with a glass of water. He invited Andy to place his finger tip into the water. “Hot?” Master asked. “Yes! Very hot”, he confirmed. “Ok.” Then Master went into the opposite corner of the room and asked him to place his palm on the desk facing Master’s place. Master placed his right knee on the ground, stretched his right arm and his palm (like a pistol) was pointing into Andy’s palm. He retracted his palm. Then he said, almost yelling: “Ouch, something burned my palm.” “How hot was it?” Master asked. “Definitely hotter than the water in the glass.” Alex was the next “victim”. Same sequence. Same testimonial. I was the next. He tried from about two meters distance. I didn’t feel anything. Then he tried again. Still nothing. Third time I felt the burning skin in my palm. Master went three meters away on the entrance corridor and tried again. It was definitely more powerful. Hotter and more intense. After he quickly burned my palm too from a distance

of over four meters, Master looked for a napkin. He gave me the napkin. Without any explanations he went back five meters away from the desk. I was holding the napkin waiting to see what was going to happen. All the people in the room were anticipating what was to follow next. One woman even started filming. After a few seconds the napkin started to burn. A round whole was set in flames and became bigger and bigger second by second. We couldn’t believe our eyes. I quickly ran into the bathroom threw the napkin into the washing basin and returned. “This is the objective test which proves that Master raised his gong fu one level”, Tiande said. “Before this he could fire things only by touching. Now he can do the same remotely.” “What is the medical application for this power?” I asked. “Well, there are many but one of them is to balance the fire inside one’s body-mind structure.” “For example, he said, you need some more fire. Can you take off your shirt?” I did as asked. Then he burned my lower belly skin from a distance of about three meters. I felt the biggest pain in my life. No words can describe the pain I had. After this he asked me to do some squatting just to make sure the received subtle fire invaded my whole body, top to bottom. Andy and Alex experienced exactly the same procedure. I wasn’t the only one “suffering” . The meeting concluded as always with the advice to

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eat and take a good rest. This way we allowed the qi to absorb better into our tissues and diffuse deeply inside our organs.

7 THE BITTER SKIN September 2008 She was a beautiful mignon girl, with big brown eyes, a large smile and nice facial traits. Mady familiarized with the rest of the group in Beijing very easily after she arrived. She was the last to the rest of us. It was shocking for me for such a pretty woman to have this kind of problem. If you looked at her from the distance you couldn’t guess she had this kind of problem discovered two years before: inoperable brain tumor. The group took the plane and then a minibus to reach Master’s house, where we were supposed to meet. On our way Tiande ed us. We entered a large room full of inviting sofas. Master Jiang shook my hand in a very occidental manner. As an important detail, when he was supposed to salute Mady, he suddenly became preoccupied with making us comfortable and invited us to sit and feel like home, showing us the sofas and saying zuo (have a seat). “How old are you?” “Thirty-two” the answer came quickly. “You look very good and you are young and pretty.” 44

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He said that in Chinese and Tiande added something else and they both laughed. Tiande then explained his words and added that he agreed to what Master Jiang said. Of course now it was the westerners turn to smile. “Do you have kids?” “Yes. A five years old boy.” “Good” he nodded giving himself a few moments for a tea sip break. “Only by looking at you, examining your face and body form, I can say your problem is caused by your liver which is weakened, more exactly the liver bladder. This small but important organ produces bile, in order to help digestion and metabolism. Are you aware of the weakness of your liver?” “Yes I am. I often get tired.” “The diagnosing process is part of any medicine or medical system. This process is very important and requires many and subtle skills. Diagnosing, especially in traditional Chinese medicine is an art. I have over 20 years of experience in this system, period during which I had hundreds of patients.” He waited for Tiande to reproduce his words and then continued. “Classical western medicine looks only for symptoms, not to the root cause of the problem. The function of the liver is to clean and to detoxify your blood. This function is altered due to the malfunction of the bladder which is a satellite organ of this major liver organ. Because of this malfunction, all the non neutralized toxins circulate through the blood flow into your body and accumulate in the places where the qi is stuck. Do you understand? “Yes. It is true, before becoming a vegetarian, I used to have many problems like premature tiredness, bad digestion and so on.” “In your case the liver-bladder organic function is damaged in

such a way that everything goes up to the level of your brain area. There, the flow of your qi doesn’t . The vicious qi carried by toxins in the blood builds up and solidifies in growing damaged tissues. This is how your brain is affected by this tumor. There are two kinds of patients I have. The first category comes to me with all kind of sickness. The second category is those who come to me because their life is threatened by this type of disease. In your case, it’s a problem of life and death. You have great friends and buddies, and you are here because of yuanfen (faith/destiny). This is why it is my duty to do my best in order to keep you alive. And I promise you, you will live unaffected by this disease. Let me look at you closely.” Mady moved from the sofa which was positioned opposite Master’s chair. The entire discussion up to that point took place within a four-five meters distance between the doctor and the patient. She was sitting on a small chair one meter away from the Master Jiang. He asked her to take three deep and prolonged breaths. She conformed to his requests on a standing position. He fixed his eyes on her body and looked at her intensively keeping his eyes wide open but transforming his sight in something that definitely was more than an ordinary one. Before of this he asked everybody to move away from the place where she was sitting. A two meters wide area was occupied only by the patient and Jiang. After that he asked her to put her hands on the liver area and rotate them seven times clockwise and counter-clockwise. Then he asked her to taste the palms. She was extremely surprised that her palms tasted very bitter. The bitterest taste she ever felt until that moment. I tasted my own palm and it wasn’t bitter at all, as it happened in other cases. We were curious, very curious to taste and witness for ourselves. All four of us confirmed the bitterness of her palms. Then Master Jiang asked Tiande, to extract the qi of the Mady

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into his own palms. He did that without touching her palms, just by putting his both hands on both sides of her palms and performing linear, slow and strong movements from the top of her finger to the base of her palm. His right palm was facing her palm (both the right and the left one) and his left hand faced the back of the palm. Predictably his palms tasted exactly as hers. Of course this time too, my palm had no taste at all. Master Jiang kindly asked both of them to try and wash their hands with soap. Even after the washing, their palms tasted the same, a little bit diminished, say 10%; Please note that up to this point Master Jiang did’t touched Mady at all. He checked her pulse in a very acupuncturist-like way. He put his right hand in a point situated within three middle fingers over her vein at the base of her arm, near the palm. He checked both sides this way, left and right. Then he checked her eyes and tongue. “This is a very serious disease you have. It is, as I already said, life threatening. It’s not something that only hurts or creates discomfort, it can kill you. I do not know yet what should I do for you as a treatment, as I do not have enough information. The experiment we just did confirmed my initial supposition. The liver bladder, like other organs, can be in two states of unbalanced function. First is an internal unbalance, case in which stones get formed. So the malfunction stays inside, affecting the organ itself. The second situation could be that in which the unbalanced function is manifesting outside the organ itself. In this case the produced bile and toxins does not get solidified inside the bladder producing stones, but reverse to the exterior of the organ into the intestines. This way the vicious bile liquid spreads into your digestive subsystem without performing its duties like: dissolving the fats, detoxifying, helping digestion and so on.

Another problem I detected during the meridian check was that your kidneys are weak too. This is why sometimes you have back-pains. Is it right?” “Yes”, and she nodded full of hope and smiling becoming more and more trustful about this master-doctor she was introduced just one hour ago. After this, Mady was “allowed” to sit again to the sofa. With this, the primary diagnose concluded. “Whatever your evolution will be, first we need to revert to the correct circulation or flow in your liver meridian. Thus the blockage at the brain level gets cleared and the liver bladder function reverts to normal. Then, perhaps tomorrow, I need to check your blood: how clogged it is how many toxins it carries. Do you agree?” “Yes”, she smiled at him again having her face full of light and positive radiance. “Your life is very important, your destiny made our meeting possible. That’s why it is very important for you to be optimistic and have a positive thinking. The healing process is a complete change of your live at every level one can imagine: spiritual, emotional, physical and so on. Even if we may not extinguish the tumor, we can stop its growth, or even diminish its size; I already found out that you are vegetarian, but, just in case, I must mention that in the next 20 days anything that contains sea food and blood-based meals is completely forbidden. Ok?” “Ok. I have been a vegetarian for two years now when I first fainted. Since then I started some medication and I succeeded to reduce the black outs. I doubled this with vegetarianism. “Very good. Let’s do some corrective treatments now. I will close a specific point corresponding the bladder and regulate again the flow on the brain area. Do you agree?” “Sure!” She jumped from the sofa looking ready to be “reborn”. So Master Jiang asked her to stand up and placed his two right

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hand fingers on her back and his left hand on her head. He then seemed to force something, he tensed all of his muscles, retained his breath and then he suddenly released it by strongly pushing the air from his lungs, at the end. Finally he closed the right point placed under the armpit. “This evening you’ll rest and allow the entire blockage to clear. Main leakages and energy loses will diminish by tomorrow and stop in time. We will check it again tomorrow morning.” At this moment I couldn’t resist and had to ask a question: “Jiang Shi Fu, yesterday, if Mady had done the same hand rotations as today, would she feel any bitter taste?”. “Because her leaking points are sealed, this bitter taste will diminish. So, if tomorrow we repeat the energetic massage and if the healing process starts, then the taste naturally and gradually disappears.” I was not satisfied with the answer, but the discussion was interrupted because we were invited for dinner. It was six o’clock afternoon and, as we already knew, the dinner was ready. We quenched our hunger with many Chinese traditional dishes assorted with plain rice, laughing and making jokes all the times. After dinner we came back into the main salon in order to drink tea and have the after-meal siesta. I asked if Master had other cases similar to this one in these 20 years. Master Jiang started a small story about the most recent he ed. A guy in Malaysia came to him on February 2008 to have a check. Master Jiang checked him and told him he had bladder problems and his general situation was critical. Master also advised him to take quick action since his life was at risk. The patient went back to Malaysia and started to investigate his situation using classical medicine. He undertook many tests: for blood, urine and so on. The doctors didn’t notice anything unusual or abnormal accordingly. The patient called Master Jiang

and told him he was fine and he didn’t trust him and his “claims”. Jiang insisted that the patient was terribly sick even though conventional medicine couldn’t detect that. He told him that the destiny made possible for him, the patient, to find out about his problem long before any symptom would appear and he had to take advantage of this situation. However he was stubborn and kept his ideas about his overall health status quo. Two months later he was detected in fourth stage of cancer and came back in order to get healed. Master Jiang told him it was too late and the treatment could do too little to save him. Four months later, the Malaysian patient ed away. At the end Jiang made a pause and seemed sad. The story concluded: “Each one of us has a destiny and along this destiny we have some inflexion points, some chances. The only thing is to get advantage of these chances at the right time.” Then Jiang looked at the RMN films that Mady brought with her and said another interesting thing: “Some symptoms are easy to detect and smoothly indicate the disease. Others are hidden or misleading. For example, a patient came to me because he had pains on the left knee. I was examining the right knee. Why? Because the right leg was the problem, the left just tried to compensate the malfunctioning of the right one. In time, because of the over-weight, the left leg started to produce pain and signaled that there is an obvious and constant disadvantaging left-right imbalance.” After this we got back to our rooms and had a rest. All of us were amazed by today’s events and curious to live the day to come…

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The next morning “taste of hand and arm skin” test performed again. “Let’s repeat yesterday’s test this morning. Mady performed again the two sets of seven rotations and tasted again her hand.



They were still bitter but less then yesterday. We also witnessed what happened after tasting the skin of her palms. “Because of the points sealing performed yesterday the qi leakage diminished and, therefore, the so called bitter symptom is gradually disappearing. Because of the after-lunch increasing circulation, specific after having a meal, the bitterness will completely disappear.” He made a short pause and continued: “Only after this whole process ended we can further investigate deeper. We will investigate your blood in order to determine what actions we need to take in order to improve your situation.” Mady said: “I also tried to taste my arms, not only palms yesterday night. It was amazing and surprising the taste was bitter. After having a shower the taste persisted. Now I see it diminishes.” Jiang looked at me for a second and said: “Now let’s get Aurelian do some work. He is going to fa his qi into you. It will be a fascinating experience for you and also for him since you are one of his first people to fa qi.” This was the moment I went appalled. It was my second person I was ever to emit wei qi into. I was aware of my lack of control and of my full dan tian. Since two weeks ago, every time I was practicing my routine exercises, I literally felt qi flowing through my arms, palms and fingers then from the dan tian up to chest, then into the shoulders and so on. So here we were, both of us standing face to face on wet towels me trying to reach up the qi towards my arm in order to emit it trough the palm that held her right palm. After the wellknown, shaolin-style, wild moan the qi started to generate and circulate into Mady’s right arm. The difference from the first person, was that in this case the flow was not continuous. So the qi had pauses of circulation on a ratio of three-to-one (electricity flow/bounce back or non-flow);

it was like three heartbeats flowing, one bounced. We changed the hands, so I emitted to my left hand that was holding her left hand. The current circulated continuously and constant. Jiang asked what she felt. “It is unbelievable. Aurelian emitted electricity through my body. Real electricity! I felt it from my palm to my toes. Very powerful. I cannot believe it.” “Ok. Zi fan (let’s eat!). We are meeting together in the afternoon. Please have a good after-lunch rest.” After lunch we followed further with the procedure. “Ok. Are you ready?” Master Jiang asked Mady. “Yes,” she said filling her face with a radiant smile. “Are you afraid of blood?” Master asked. “No. Not at all.” “Ok. Brave girl. Please come over. Let’s start.” Master Jiang asked Mady to lay down on a bed with two pillows under her chest. He started to walk move his right palm along the entire length of her body starting from the legs to the bladder point and from the head down to the same point on her back. At the end he “opened” an area on her head. Then he placed a pump on her back, waited for ten minutes, removed the pump (6-7 cm diameter) and did again all the process in order to concentrate all the “toxins”, “poisons”, dirt and clog on that bladder area. Then some fine cuts on her skin appeared (no needles or cutters were used, bare hands only). The blood started to go out; he placed again the suction cup and waited again for ten-fifteen minutes. Finally the resulting eliminated blood was collected on a deep plate. It was so clogged, almost like a piece of meat. Mady’s fine cuts were disinfected with a piece of alcohol tissue and she got a bandage. She stood up and Master Jiang invited her to sit next to him to continue the discussion.

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He started a discussion becoming very preoccupied and explained the meaning of the stalled blood. “Look at this” and he pointed to the deep plate containing the collected blood. “Do you see?” “Yes. I suppose it is not good.” “Unfortunately, I didn’t succeed in eliminating all the poisonous toxins from your blood. In order to complete this cleaning, you need to take advantage of the pills. I have some pills from Si Gong. These pills have 3 main effects: first, they dissolve all the clogs, second, they clear the blood from the impurities and toxins and third they boost the circulation and the quantity of qi in your body.” “How many pills should I take?” “You need to take eight pills. These pills contain a specific poison. This poison counterbalances the poisonous process. As we say the small poison kills the big poison. This is why I cannot give you more. I am 80% confident that by taking eight pills your blood will be cleaned and this fact plus the sealing we did yesterday are the two main conditions to restore the normal function of the liver and the bladder. This way we will stop the expansion of the tumor.” “How expensive are these pills?” “Si Gong’s price is 4,200 US$ per pill. I need to add to this sum, our own expenses which amounts a total of 400 US$. In EURO, it is 3,200 EURO. In total the eight pills values 25,600 EUROS. I know it’s a considerable amount, but give it a thought. If you consider it closely you should give yourself a chance.” “I want to take the pills. I’ve already decided.” “Don’t you want to talk with your husband? Or perhaps, with your family?” “He already agreed. The only problem is that I have with me an amount of only 20,000 EURO in cash.” “Don’t worry. You can bring the rest of the money when you’ll come next time with Aurelian.”

“When should I come again to be checked?” “After three months, roughly” Master Jiang said. “Ok. It’s ok this way.” Master Jiang sent one of his disciples to bring the eight pills. Mady started to take the pills smiling and joking: “This is the most expensive meal I’ve ever had.” Everybody laughed and acknowledged her braveness and optimism. “These pills are made by Si Gong. I cannot prepare them. All the ingredients are very expensive. When we go on the mountain to buy the ingredients we walk half a day to a farmer’s house . There we wait in his house. The farmer keeps the place secret. He goes to the place and gathers the plants, and then brings them to us. Because the mountain farmers are aware of the pills’ value they increase the price accordingly. Si Gong knows all these mountain farmers and the places were those plants and herbs are the best. We don’t have this know-how. Si Gong knows even were to buy the 100 years ginseng from. This plant can considerably extend your life but the price can reach a peak of 200.000 US$; So only the very rich Chinese people can afford it.” In the meantime Mady finished eating all the pills. Master Jiang said “All right. If you feel any discomfort or unpleasant sensation, please announce me immediately and I will do something in order to calm them down.” “I will. Thanks.” “Also : no seafood (seaweed is ok) or blood based food. Otherwise you waste your money.” “I’ll .” “Ok. Go into your room and try to sleep. Don’t let the airconditioning to blow the air directly over your body. Cover yourself and have a good rest. Let the pills get assimilated into your blood and circulated all over your body. At 5:30 we meet again at my house. Tomorrow you will be again checked by

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Aurelian in order to determine the yin-yang balance into your body”

to name the hand gestures. Well, in fact with the left I keep the fingers to form a square, the earth, and with my right hand fingers I create a circle. In Chinese tradition, the square symbolizes the earth, and the circle represents the heaven, the universe in his entireness. Ancient Chinese coins were round with a square cut in the middle of it.” “How interesting… I didn’t know.” Mady said. “Yes indeed” said Tiande, he sipped from his cup of tea and then he added. ”Another thing about the circle and square is connected with the pyramids. When it was built any of the ancient pyramids (Mexican or Egyptian, doesn’t matter) people used the circle-in-square geometry. They didn’t have any modern measure tools in order to obtain the perfection of those pyramidal shapes. So they created a square for first level of bricks, then they determined the center of this square at the intersection of the diagonals. Then they used this center to draw an imaginary circle tangent to the outer square. Inside this circle they drew another inner square that provided the imprint for the second level of bricks. And so on. This way they obtained very easily those great wonders of the ancient world.” “All right. I will do the sitting posture daily, I promise.” Mady said.

In the morning, Tiande and Mady had a very interesting discussion about the lifestyle as a critical factor. Tiande started “Allow yourself to have your own time each day. Many people say, especially women, they don’t have time for themselves. They use to say: “I wake up early. Take care of family, clean the house, cook. In the evening I fall asleep very tired and next day I start again”. I always tell them: “If you don’t’ have time for yourself then you don’t love yourself. If you don’t love yourself, you have all the chances to fail, so how can you love somebody else, in this case?” “Well in my case it was very simple. I quit the job and my husband told me that the healing is the main concern now. After we “solve” the problem we see what we’ll do next.” Mady stated. “Very good.” Tiande said. “Everyday just sit for ten-twenty minutes and allow the energy of the entire universe to heal you. In those minutes don’t allow any “urgent” phone, or “critical” issue to disturb you. That is your private time. Half an hour per day is not too much. Anybody is entitled to this private time, no matter how busy he or she is. Right ?” “Yes. You’re right. I’ve never thought of it like this.” “Ok. Here’s how you sit. Cross your legs. Put your palms faced up on your knees. Keep your spine straight but not rigid all this time. Align your bai hui with your hui yin. Then hold the earth on your left hand and hold the heaven on your right hand. Do you know how to do that?” “Unfortunately not” Mady said. “This is one of the situations in which what you observe on external form is not enough.” Tiande said. ”You need the revelation of that secret. The secret of the internal work. From outside, my hands look like I do the same mudra, as Indians use 56

On the next day we stayed with translator talking about the past events we had just witnessed. I started to shoot question after question eager to find out some more things about this amazing way of diagnosing: “So, Tiande, how did Shi Fu diagnose Mady? I mean there was a moment when he asked her to sit in front of him, one meter distance, and also asked the others to take distance. At that very moment he looked at her intensively and something happened, a process was triggered. Can you explain?” “Well Shi Fu can “see” the inner organs. He doesn’t see organs very precisely, only its silhouettes. He sees like some 57



hallows. If an organ has a disfunctionality he can recognize the uncommon organs “silhouettes” . This way we have a very accurate, non-intrusive kind of human X-rays test. That’s why he needed everybody else to stay away from her in order to avoid any “interference” on his super-visions.” ”Ok. What about the taste test. How Master did influenced Mady in order for her hands to taste bitter?” “Yes. You’re right. He “influenced” her. There are two types of diagnoses: one that edifies the healer only, and another that convinces the patient, too. In this case we had a demonstration of the second type of diagnosing process. When Shi Fu looked at her he modified the flow of her qi by making a pressure on the internal qi at the level of her liver and bladder. Because of this pressure, the flow of qi started to go outward to her skin and further to her rotating hands.” “How did he influence her and how did he invert the flow of qi?” I asked. “By looking. With his eyes.” Tiande shortly replied. “He knows how to use his eyes in order to conduct qi as he wants, not only on his own body, but also on another body. In this case he just inverts the flow, of course, without influencing the resulting taste itself. This is quite amazing for most of the people. It’s worth mentioning at this point that the cure methods fall into two big categories: the first type in which the link between patient and the universe is such that the healer is just a channeling factor, or the second implying the healer’s direct involvement in the patient’s system. “Why Shi Fu didn’t give me this explanation the first day?” I asked. “He does not want to have “I did this; I do that;” kind of attitude” Tiande replied. “In this school, they just want to be humble and use their powers to serve the people, too. They almost hate to show off.” “I see”

“But I still feel some pressure in the heart area. Are you sure I don’t have a blockage there?” Mary asked, looking with the last glimmer of hope at Master Jiang in the second day of our visit. Mary was an old lady who had practiced medicine for over thirty years. She was around seventy. She had come with her husband John, and their two children, Helen and Bogdan. Bogdan, the youngest, was an engineer and he lived in the Bahamas. John, a gentleman, very jovial and not quite tall was a retired GP and despite his enduring discopathy, which hindered his movements, he was joking and didn’t show any moment he would suffer from any disease. Both parents lived in Bucharest. Helen, anesthesiologist, was their eldest daughter and lived in the US, Texas. Master Jiang and Doctor Wu consulted all four on our first day session. He assessed the pulse and performed fa qi on both hands and through tian mu xue. John and Helen had blockages, so that a further blood extraction procedure was completed for both.

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8 THE EXCEPTION December 6, 2012 - Taiping, Huang Shan, China



Bogdan was balanced and had a clean blood, which was evident after the pulse and fa qi ( that if things were right regarding the qi, the blood extraction was no longer needed). For Mrs. Mary, though, things were not clear. The pulse didn’t show any major problems, but only a slight attenuation of her heartbeat amplitude which was normal given the age, but again, there was nothing pathologic. Although after fa qi, she didn’t show any blockage, she still insisted she didn’t feel good and certainly had a blockage somewhere. Master Jiang examined her face again, her eyes and tongue and then agreed to write a prescription, the herbal, traditional Chinese type. On the second day, after Mary and John were rechecked through a second blood extraction, Mrs. Mary insisted again... “But I still feel pressure around my heart. Are you sure I don’t have a blockage there?” Then Master Jiang became very careful. And when Master Jiang is very careful, the same thing happens to me too. I noticed how internalized he became while he was examining something outside Mrs. Mary’s body. After a moment he sighed deeply and said: “Ok, we would perform a piece of a slightly unusual fa qi procedure, so please resist the pain and remain relaxed.” Mrs. Mary nodded and said she would do anything to get rid of that annoying pressure she acutely felt inside. After Master Jiang quickly explained the Chinese staff what each had to do, we all witnessed the unusual fa qi method practice. I had never seen such an application during the long six years I worked with Master Jiang. After unsealing the two yong chuan points in the sole, Mrs. Mary stepped on a wet towel lying on the floor in front of her that was used for “grounding”.

The three staff disciples were placed behind the dancers, forming a line. Each had placed his hands on the back of the front man in the ming men and jia ji. The first placed his hands on the lady’s back. Thus was created a circuit consisting of four people. Its role was to mitigate or make bearable the large amount of qi to be issued in Mary’s system. Doctor Wu was appointed to conduct the fa qi. Master Jiang placed his palms in the diaphragm area. Doctor Wu started the procedure by fa qi in Mrs. Mary’s left hand. She first received wei qi throughout the palm and then on each finger separately, starting with the little finger and ending with the thumb. Then the four repeated the whole process but on the right hand. Throughout the fa qi the people behind the lady emitted also a type of qi, although it wasn’t wei (external) but nei (internal). They all made an effort beyond everything I saw before. I was looking at the mimics and gestures. The amount of qi “spent” in this case was quite significant comparing with the standard procedure. The scene was strange if we look outside and strange was a “kind” word. An old lady, a doctor, married to a doctor and with a currently doctor daughter held by hands was electrically plugged. The three Chinese gentlemen lined close behind her completed the circuit each holding his hands on the back of each other. There were groans, screams and strains I heard. There were faces frowning with effort I saw. They were all synchronizing together all their efforts for one purpose. The aim was that Master can direct the toxins Mrs. Mary insisted she had, and which Master suspected to be the source of the acute blockage, towards an external area where they could be subsequently pump suctioned. The whole procedure lasted for about three minutes and

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after completing it all five of them displayed shawls of sweat on their foreheads, including Master Jiang. Blood extraction was undertaken next. After this, the collector bowl showed indeed that toxins were removed from the blocked area. When I asked the Master, “Why couldn’t that blockage be detected by standard procedure?”, he said “Lady Mary is a very rare and special case at the same time that even our classical procedure wouldn’t have detected without her insistence, much less should she search it using classic western medicine”. We were all amazed to hear the above statement just out of his mouth. Master continued, “She has no clogs on the meridians. Therefore even if we had made the extraction on the first day following the standard procedure, her blood wouldn’t have showed any toxicity on coagulation.” “That’s the reason why I rechecked all the meridians, one by one through her ten fingers. I created a higher qi pressure in her system. Therefore I connected her to a greater qi source than the classic cases. Thus I was able to detect a hidden blockage in the diaphragm area and to direct toxicity there through blood circulation and the result can be seen here, in the bowl”, he concluded, pointing toward the bowl with freshly drawn blood he was holding. Everybody examined the blood in the bowl. It was dark, which wasn’t necessarily bad. It was full of large and elongated clots. Critical was, however, another “signal” of blood: the smell. The blood smell in the bowl was unpleasant. If I had to choose one word to describe that smell blood in the bowl, then I would choose the word “pestilential”. Then the standard recommendations followed: pills, plants, and other successive extractions during the day and

the last day according to the standard protocols I was already accustomed after six years...

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I learned two important things after this case. First, Mrs. Mary’s case confirmed me that the attitude of cooperation between doctor and patient, even in alternative medicine, is a key issue. If she didn’t insist she “didn’t feeling well” and still “had a jam”, she would have returned home just as she had come. Okay, maybe a little better, but that didn’t solve the real serious problem without eliminating the root cause of a potential disease that he could put his life in real danger. That block would turn into a severe chronic disease, although it is most likely she would have continued the investigations at home. Traditional medicine would have found or invented the wrong way to a heart disease as she perceived the blockage to be at her heart level. If she had gone to an acupuncturist, he would have said there was nothing wrong with her meridians. And - to be better understood - the hypothetical acupuncturist would have been right. If the lady insisted on the heart blockage, probably acupuncturist would use those on heart meridian, “just in case”. (Probably with no major negative side effects.) Even Master Jiang gave her a verdict of “apparently clinically healthy” using the usual investigation, i.e. pulse and normal fa qi. The problem, instead, was at the diaphragm, not at the heart. The second thing that struck me was that clogs can be “super-hidden”. That area of the diaphragm wasn’t on any route belonging to meridians (jing luo) or channels (mai). In other words meridians can be clean, yet the concerned person could show hidden toxicity at other levels (including



the blood). In Mrs. Mary’s case it was about her diaphragm, but this kind of “super-hidden” blockages can affect other tissues or cavities. Their detection requires a tremendous amount of qi and a higher than the usual thoroughness needed in conventional cases. Once the deadlock detected, its elimination procedure is similar and equally effective. The less good news is that this kind of blockages detection requires decades of practice, expertise and casuistry experience in this field plus the “patient’s” cooperation. I used that word in quotation marks because in Master Jiang’s acceptance there are no disease and patients, there are only precarious or better states of balance. However, the good news is that you can remove these blockages even though “special”. As well as other situations in Mrs. Mary’s case, the means used by the therapist was the blood. Blood carries nutrients and oxygen to both cells and tissues but – under special conditions, created by Master Jiang –, will transport these toxins, too. Once the toxins are “pushed” outside the body, the necessary preconditions are regained for an optimum balance. If there is no such a notion as disease may I ask if there is such a notion as healing? Well, there are but not in the classical form. The human body has an amazing self-healing power. Master Jiang’s only concern is that of reestablishing those conditions that ensures the organism proper self-healing circumstances. Once again, we’re talking about a better or worse state of balance. A sick man by the Western standards, has a precarious balance in Master’s vision. A healthy person by Western standards has a better balance and more stable condition than a diseased. Just as a perseverant practitioner has a better and more stable balance than a normal, healthy,

non-practitioner person. As the causes for the imbalances are the obstructions, it is sufficient to eliminate those imbalances in any form in order to give the body an opportunity to self-regenerate and to regain harmony. “Recovery” as it is approached by Master Jiang is nothing less than a process of healing, and the “doctor” is nothing but a “disposer” of the causes that led to the “imbalance”. So healing is an internal, natural, continuous and permanent process in contrast to what it is in the west, an external, invasive and punctual event, bearing the risk of relapse. There is a global change related to health and medicine. People are seeking for “holistic” curative and palliative alternatives. Therefore all branches in alternative and complementary medicine claim to be holistic. The acupuncturists are obsessed with meridians, channels and acu-points. Reflexologists with reflexology. Homeopaths use as the main weapon “homeopathic quantities”. Yoga instructors talk about chakra balancing. Qi gong teachers talk about the dan tian and qi. Not to mention the rei ki crowd. Then there are lifestyle coaches, nutritionists for weight loss, detox specialists, herbalists, masseurs and even the gurus for personal development. Everyone is considered “holistic”. Not many, however, are willing to use other methods than the standard ones they learned and which they are specialized in. So the question is: “What is so holistic in the complementary and alternative western medicine?” “Holistic” means complete, integral, intra and inter-dependent. Considering Mrs. Mary’s case, those listed above seem

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much more “holistic” than a surgeon whose only tool is the scalpel. Master Jiang was able to detect also the 0.1% statistics exception by proceeding, thinking and acting totally out-ofthe-box, giving up the standard protocols and adapting to the uniqueness of each human being. “And that’s because”, he said, “sometimes it’s not the meridians.”

9 THE INGREDIENT Kuala Lumpur, March 2010 I was in Kuala Lumpur together with a group of Romanians which had proved to be quite large. We lived in a hotel 5 minutes away from the famous Petronas Towers and 2 minutes far from the Surya mall. Master Jiang spent his summers in Malaysia at that time treating the Malaysian Royal family and several local high officials. As far as I understood he lived right in one of the princely residences. Except from “Sandokan, The Tiger of Malaysia” I do not think I knew more about Malaysia as a country at that moment. We spent a day visiting the city in order to accommodate. The next day we were to meet again with the Chinese staff. After the normal medical examinations and routine checks performed on second or third time visitors and disciple - practitioners the new ones followed. Master Jiang began the standard diagnostic procedure for each new visitor. Among them there was a young lady from Russia - Alexandra which Master Jiang kept for the end. 66

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Alexandra held an important position in a multinational and lived in Moscow. Master Jiang didn’t find any major imbalance after the pulse and fa qi consultation. But he kept on looking at her neck, on the right side more exactly. At the moment he didn’t say anything and because the lunch was approaching he told us, “Okay, we should stop for now. We are meeting again this afternoon.” After returning from lunch, Shi Fu Jiang continued to treat and check everyone in the group, except for Alexandra, of course. From time to time he looked at Alexandra’s neck but shortly and without too much insistence. Only the next day, after almost everyone had gone out of his apartment, Master Jiang asked Alexandra: “Are you afraid of needles?” I there were only two or three people in the room except for Alexandra. Others had already gone out. “No, or I don’t think so,” replied Alexandra. “I want to extract some liquid from your neck area. I think there is a pretty strong imbalance in that spot” said Master Jiang. “Why?”, she asked puzzled. “As far as I can tell, there is stagnant qi in the neck. But I cannot say exactly if there are problems or not. Therefore I would like to remove some fluid to make sure everything is ok.” answered Master Jiang. All said and done. They took a syringe and stung Alexandra in her throat, without any local anesthesia. Looking at her mimics I would guess the whole procedure was not painful at all, although when watched from the outside the scene was not very pleasant. Looking at the others in the room I surprised everybody

clinging tightly their teeth when she was stung in the throat. The green liquid gathered in the syringe. It was a dirty dark, opaque and dense green. Somebody in the staff brought a bowl collecting the leaked contents of the syringe. The same stinging and unpleasant odor similar to toxic blood was released from the bowl. Master Jiang sighed unhappily and said looking to Alexandra: “Not good. Although I hoped not to be problematic, the stagnant zone is pathological. To solve the problem I need on a pair of wild musk testes out from the black market. They are very hard to find and only on the black market, which is why, please, you should go to the Chinese Town to look for them for yourself.” Alexandra asked, “What would these musk balls be used for?” I know the discussion might seem funny, but we were all very attentive and concerned about Alexandra. In addition, it was the first time a visitor was sent by Master to procure a necessary ingredient for the treatment on his own. “I will then prepare a mixture which, together with a significant contribution of qi, will solve the problem permanently” said Master briefly then turned to a Malay gentleman and gave him some instructions. The man listened carefully and then told us “I will accompany you and give you some help to procure what Shi Fu asked”. Tiande decided to the group, which is why I went with them, too. We took a taxi and went to the old Kuala Lumpur Chinese Commercial Center which everybody refers today as China Town. We unsuccessfully tried two pharmacies. The sellers explained us briefly that they didn’t have such a thing and that musk is protected by law.

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“If we were caught by authorities we would both go to jail, you as foreigners and we as residents. Wild musk is protected by law because it is an endangered species and I don’t think anyone would dare to risk his business and his freedom” a saleswoman told us in a broken Chinglish. While the taxi was leaving we could see her watching us in a curious and intrigued gaze. One could read on their face the total suspicion and distrust toward us. After all, who were we? Some western eccentrics seeking for an ingredient banned on the black market, an ingredient used in the secret recipes of the Chinese remedies. That was the first time I realized how difficult it would be for us to prepare these mixtures and pills even if we knew the recipes and even if we had the means for such a process. Firstly, we should have a reliable source for every single component, including those prohibited by law. Such a relationship with a person who commits a crime requires trust on both sides, and a serious “financial investment”. Secondly, the provider should be somebody with the knowledge about how to collect, preserve and transport the plant in question or how to hunt and to extract the useful part if we talk about an animal. The quality of the ingredients depends on that. Shi Fu told us once, how, when he needs wild ginseng he climbs on the mountain (Yellow Mountain) to an isolated peasant community, who only knows where and how to pick this particular plant, used in cooking the elixir pills… The peasant goes on the mountain in the “secret” harvest places and Shi Fu (or the person sent by Shi Fu) expects the peasant in the cottage for a few hours until he comes back with the “prey”.

That was the first time I learned, for instance, that in the place where wild ginseng is harvested, if you don’t know how to glean it, nothing would grow there for at least 2-3 years. Not even ginseng. It is therefore important how “reaping” is made both for the collected part and for the species left to grow there. And finally we should talk about quantities and prices. Maintaining a relationship with a supplier depends on a significant proportion on these two variables. Some way you are treated if you appear from time to time with small requests to a specific provider. And there’s a completely different story if you ask for large volumes consistently and regularly. However, as a general trend, after 2008 price inflation has been significantly present on the black market of this type ingredients. On our way to the third pharmacy, Tiande noted that “in the last three years prices of certain constituents that we currently use in our recipes nearly doubled... on one hand there is inflation caused by currency devaluation and then the prices rise while the demand decreases...” “Why did the offer lower?”, I asked. “There are two reasons,” said Tiande. “The first is related to the fact that our recipes involve using ingredients out of wild natural sources, not “farm made” or “greenhouse produced”. There are more and more species of plants and wild animals coming under the protected local and international laws heritage.” Tiande paused and sighed. “The second cause of the lowering demand is that traditions are slowly but surely lost in Asia, too. There are increasingly fewer people dealing with these things. The younger generation no longer has an interest in these fields, so that the traditional schools have difficulty in conveying

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their teachings to the next generation.” Meanwhile our taxi arrived at the third pharmacy, much more shattered than the other two. Tiande got out the cab and went in to ask the sellers if they have what we wanted. He was answered affirmative, so we all got off the taxi and entered the drug store. We felt relieved but not for long. What happened is worthy of being mentioned in a negotiations course. They knew we needed that product and we were sent by someone who used it on a regular basis. We were aware what they were doing is illegal and they are not often asked for musk testicles into the store. “30,000” said the pharmacist in some broken English. I rather hoped the value was expressed in Malaysian Ringgit or it was about 13,000 not 30,000. Unfortunately the seller had told us the right price and the currency was USD. He even typed it on a pocket calculator. Turning it for us to see it better he mentioned briefly “This is dollars.” He then explained the source is reliable, we are talking about a wild animal and it’s for sure the only pharmacy in Kuala Lumpur we could find such a thing. We pretended to leave, supposedly being not interested about that anymore. They didn’t give up until we turned our backs to the counter. While stepping out the door we were called back and offered a 5% discount. After a several minutes negotiation 27000 was reached. I could not believe it. A wooden box with two musk balls were to be purchased illegally on the black market for 27,000 USD. And we were happy to spend all those money because we finally found what we were looking for so that Alexandra could regain her health. On our way back we all had fun about the little box

contents and the price. It was perhaps a simple protection way and an attempt to dissipate stress about the illegality that we just took part in. Tiande even composed some new lyrics for the Jingle Bells song. Imagine the atmosphere in the cab when we all started to sing together with Tiande in a loud chorus: “Jingle balls, jingle balls, jingle all the way Look at these expensive balls hanging on the walls Hey!” Finally, after we arrived, Master Jiang took the box and told us that we’ll meet the group at his residence the next day, not at the hotel. The next day the last checks and examinations ended. Alexandra was again left for the end. Everyone was curious to see what the process would be in her case. “Today we will execute a technique less used as Alexandra problem is not so often met,” said Master Jiang. “We saw yesterday that liquid extracted from her throat. The fluid in question invalidated the preliminary balanced pulse and fa qi diagnosis which. This problem could be solved using qi and a special blend which contains musk balls. Last night I prepared this special blend designed for clearing the liver meridian which is blocked.” A Chinese staff person brought a pail with a light gray sandy mixture. “Please, take your shoes off and sit on this chair,” said Master Jiang to Alexandra. Master Jiang took a half teaspoon of that mixture and spread it on waxed paper. Doctor Wu took the paper with the mixture and spread it on Sasha’s right foot.

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Master Jiang used then nei qi to direct qi along the liver meridian. After that he threw the waxed paper. They spread again the rest of the mixture on another piece of paper. Doctor Wu placed the mixture on Alexandra’s neck and Master Jiang used again nei qi to “irrigate” that channel. Everything lasted for about five-seven minutes. “Tonight we will repeat the syringe test at the hotel. For the moment we stop here” said Master Jiang. In the evening, at the hotel, after the second extraction, the liquid no longer smelled and was lime-green. “That’s it, the root of the problem has been eliminated, you’re better now.” said Master Jiang. “How serious would it have been if the stagnation continued to exist?” asked Alexandra. “This imbalance would have evolved into a disease endangering your life,” said Shi Fu shortly. After we said goodbye we all headed to the taxis. On the way back I was thinking about three important things I learned on this trip:  Why are pills so “expensive”  Why buying ingredients becomes more and more difficult?  Why qi gong is more ecofriendly than long-term Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). First, these treatments are not cheap. If only qi is used, then the treatment does not cost anything either. But if we need an external remedy the situation is quite different. There are ingredients whose price is worth twice their weight in gold, and all are difficult to procure. And expensive ingredients in pills make a high price. Second, purchasing components becomes increasingly difficult.

Why? Although not all the constituents come from wild sources, most of them must fall under the same restrictions: natural sources, development in the wilderness. Because the human population increase while the forest areas decrease, creating an imbalance, international organizations intervene in order to protect many species of plants and animals. Wild sources are becoming scarce, and those willing to risk are becoming harder to find. The third aspect: how eco is TCM in the long term? Let’s return to the problem of overcrowding. It is paradoxical how the Chinese Traditional Medicine, a discipline essentially “alternative”, intertwined with qi gong, isn’t it? - a tradition purely “spiritual” cannot be characterized as eco although it was so, let’s say, in the 1900s. Why? It’s simple, in 1927 the world population was 2 billion, and today we are a little over 7 billion. Last population doubling took less than 40 years. Since 1960, when we were 3 billion until 1999 when we were 6 billion there are exactly 39 years. I don’t know of any species to be doubled in 40 years. And even if, supposedly, the wild musk doubled its population, would that have solved the problem? I doubt it. On one hand our planet’s ecosystems would have been globally disturbed, and on the other hand, there is a constant which cannot be doubled, no matter what: the physical dimensions of the planet (surface, volume, diameter, etc.). In this hypothesis, of population doubling on increasingly shorter time intervals, the idea of an allopathic medicine is becoming increasingly viable. Look at the arguments used by the food industry: without us and our industrialized

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unhealthy food, population would starve. On the other hand, population growth brings good news, too. More people means, potentially, more human sources of qi and therefore higher amounts of qi. There is a little problem, though. Only qi gong practitioners generate large quantities of qi.

OUTRO I write these final words during my return flight in December 2012. I met Master Jiang in December 2006. I think it is necessary to give you updated information (as of February 2013) about the people you’ve already met in this book. Andy Andy feels fine. He became a practitioner and has good results. He is coming closer and closer to the new boundary Grandmaster talked us about... Everyone around him says he has rejuvenated. He has found physical and emotional balance. He married a former high school colleague of mine and they have a beautiful relationship. All in all, he’s doing particularly fine.

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He is still dependent on insulin, but has no diabetes bothersome symptoms. He is a perseverant disciple and continues doing IT business in a declining economy. He is as funny and jovial as I knew him a few years ago. Still, he couldn’t convince his co-associates to visit China. Instead, there are a lot of his clients and part of his suppliers that visit Master Jiang regularly. Practice brings results.

I didn’t have the necessary time to talk to Mary. I will come back with details on site, if necessary. Alexandra I only talked to Alexandra on Facebook. She said she is a human being, grateful to Master for everything. She is healthy and she advanced in her career. Grandmaster He left us in 2011 leaving behind as his legacy, a strong Shaolin Buddhist school and an 83 lineage generation.

Mady She started working again and she’s taking care of her child together with her husband.

The Hospital built by Master Jiang is the hard work and perseverance culmination of decades.

She is still having blackouts but they are increasingly rare.

On our last meeting he blessed us all by putting his palm on all of our bai hui’s.

Although she tried to practice, the results are yet to be expected. She keeps on coming back to Master Jiang for checkups and readjustments.

Master Jiang

The tumor is still there but there’s no increase in volume and it is in the process of calcification.

He will open Taiping Huang Shan Hospital in February 2013, and he continues to receive patients and further guide those who are his disciples.

She recommended Master Jiang to many of her acquaintances and friends.

He looks physically almost unchanged and he is as demanding as ever when it comes to practice. He is encouraging me to learn Chinese, something I work for every day.

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More Info Of course this kind of book never ends, so if you still want to know what happens with our group, sign up on the website and subscribe to the private version of this site. This book was not about me, nor Master Jiang but about the people who were cured after they met him.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Born in 1977, Aurelian Popa began to meditate and practice yoga at age 16 in his hometown.

What next? Another book that will centralize all my diary notes where I kept track of the progress made after “I crossed the bridge”. I had the chance to be one of the few people who arrived perfectly healthy to Master Jiang, which for I’m grateful. In that book I’m going to write about me as a practitioner who works with Master Jiang :) If you want to know when it’s ready or to get pre-public chapters, don’t forget to subscribe here: www.MasterJiang.com That being said I wish you all good health, prosperity, longevity and happiness together with the loved ones of your heart.

Co-founder of the Romanian Association for Daoist Studies, he began his travels in Asia in 2004. Since 2007, after being accepted as a disciple, he travels to China every three months to meet Master Jiang. He participated as a student to numerous seminars: Master Wang Liping (Dalian), Master Luo (Bangkok) and visited Master John Chang (The Magus of Java) at home. Beginning with 2009 his hobby became accessible to others because, every 3-4 months, organizes intensive internships for family, friends, curious people and newsletter subscribers online. For more information visit this website: www.MasterJiang.com

Love, Aurelian

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