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ChapterO ne Looking through the Mirror 1
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Libràry of Cons.e$ Cata,osins-ir-Publication Dôtô ChapterT hree Beginnings
The Masls of lava: teachinssofana uthenticT àoisti mmoftâl/ KostaD anâôs. Chapter Four The Immortals 35
ChapterF ive The Story of Llao Slfu 61
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L Chans,John.2 Taoists-lndoneria lava Biosnphy 3. HealeE
Indonesià Java Biosaphy l Ïtle. ChapterS even ïn and Yang 99
Chapter Eight The Vill of Heaven 116
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Epilogue ForaBreathlTârry.... 162
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Appendix One Notes 177
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AppendixT wo Obsenrationsa nd Speculation 200
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INTRODUCTION
Imaglnea world where the mind and soul of rnar are foeet o reâch
thchgreatestp otential,w here powerso ncec onsidereds upematurâl
or paranorrnaal re a simple fact of life. lmagine a place where dis-
ciscs hitherto thought incurablec an be treâtedw ith the uncompli-
cltcd administrationo fthe healerso wn abundantl ife energy,a place
where mankind caDr eadily communicatew ith earthbounds pirits,
whcre powerful yogis can speakw ith their Creator Cod Himself.
Vouldn't it bewonderfulto dwellin sucha domain,t he stuff of fairy
talcs, myths and legends,s torybooks, and Hollywood celluloid?
Vouldn't life havea distinct flavor,a tangy zest,i f sucht hings were
lndcedt rue?
Velcome to my world. I live in such a place,w here all the ex-
traordinàryt hings that I have suggesteda re real and incontrovert-
lble. In my world Vestern sciencea nd Easternm ysticismw alk hand
In hand,e mbraceda nd inseparablem, iror aspectso f the samer eal-
Ity, equâllyf actuala ndv alid. The opportunity to grow is theree very
waking moment,t he gift of our own $eat potential-
Youmight supposet hat sucha destiny is fâr awat but in truth it
ls at mankind'sd oorstep.T here can be no doubt that humanity is
once again in the processo f chânging.T raditions ar€ evolving as
crossc ujturâlb affiercc ontinue to fall. Old values,i d€als, and con-
ccptsa ren o longerblindly accepted;p eopleo f allcreeds,r aces,a nd
nationsh âveb ecomel essh esitantt o question,t o asko lry
The mindofman is in a frenzya so everbeforeti echnologygrow, makea committede ffort asa specinn,o t asn ationso r groupso f people,
ing logarithmically by leapsa nd bounds.V e have set foot on the to find the answersT. h€ method required is as sirnpl€, and as diffi-
moon and touchedt he bottom ofthe ocean.V e havem ovedat many cult, as that.
tim€s the speedo f sound and havev iewed the faceso f the planets Humanity hasd evelopeda long rnanyd ifferent lines.T here are
around us. Ve control the power oa the atom and can replace a as many cultural approachesto life as there ar€ naturala nd sensory
crippled humanh eartw ith that ofa suitable( andwilling) donor Ve stimuli. Some culturesa re visuâ|,o thers acousric,o thers olfactory
area st€p away from creatingana rtificial,s ilicon basedi ntelligence othersi ntuitive. It is hard to quantify humaoc ulturew ith pr€cision,
Ve havee veni nvadedt he sanciry ofthe g€ne and createdc lones.I t and sucha n anâlysisis far beyond the scopeo f this book. Howevea
seemst hat our quest for knowledge;s constrainedo nly by energy, it is possiblet o say (speakingr ery generally) that, as a dominant
time, and financialâ llocation.
tendenct Vestern scien€e has turned outv/ard,i ts int€nt b€ing ro
Ve havem adem uch socialproeïessD. espited iscriminatoryd is quantity and modiÉym ani environmenrt o suit manswishes.E astern
t.ibutioo, €ducation levelsa rea t an all-timeh igh for the humanr ace. science,o n the other hand, hast urned inward, attemptingt o quan
The phenomenono fhurnans erfdoma ndsub;ugationis on the wane, tiÉy and develop the innate capabilitieso f the human speciesa nd
rebellionj s€videni all overtheworld. Peoplea rea wareo frheirrights und€rstand its rol€ in the schemeo f things. Vhile it is v€ry danger,
andare willins to fisht-perhaps event o die-forrhem. (No simpte ous and unscientifict o make stat€menrs of this sort, for rhe time
thing, this, wh€n you consider that the economieso f all historic being it is important rhat I tak€ this srandpoint,i f for no other rea-
empiresw ere foundedo n slavery) Evenm ore stirring is the fact that son than to clarify the purpos€ of rhis text.
many individualsa re now wjlling to fight and die for otrelp eoples Let me return to the phraseac ohtniueed|.J oans a stsc,eTsh is stare-
rights, perhapsm ores othan in anyotherperiod in ourhistory.V hat ment impliest hat we humanb eingsm ust pierc€ through our ethnic
is equally important is that the seli-sacrificeo f rhes€ heroesi s nor andnationalb arriersa ndwork together Historytells us thai incred,
basedo n any specificr eligio6 belief or practice,b ut rather on the ible eventsh ave unfolded wheneverw e rvere able to remporarily
simplec onviciion that human righrs desewet o be protected. crosso urself-imposedth resholdsT. he HellenisticA ge, for example,
There is a backlasht o thh, ofcourse.E thnic and.eligiousf anati- clearly showsu s what can be achievedt hrough cdtural inreractionr
cism is on the rise.F ascismtr oublesu s oncem ore.M ultinational cor_ in the fourth centuryB cEa nci€nt Creecem et with ancienrI ndia, and
porâtionsâ buset heir power èt will for $eater profits, bribing cor- the destiny of the world wasf orever,a nd quite radically,c hanged.,
rupt gov€rnments to râpet heir land and uset heir own cirizens.T he The exploits of Kins Alexandera nd his men, howeve, ar€ not
planett ecologicalb alanceh asb eend estroyeo-permanenuy,s ome directly pertinentt o this book. The point is, rhere is no reasont hat
people claim. Our flora and faunaa re dying, rhe planet suffering we todaycannot duplicarew har the ancientsa chievedthen,a nd that
The Almighty Dollarnrles,a ndconsumerismis the creedof the day. is to learnf rom eacho ther in ord€r to grow, to survive,p €rhaps even
It seemst hat for all our power-for we are powerful-we have to thrive. In the nineteenthc entury Kipling wrote, '€asr is Easta nd
yet to answert he fundamenraql uestionso f life.Wboa reo ezW lwea re VestisV€st, andneverthetw ains hallmeet."H* ewasw rong.E astis
weg oh4t Why area e hrel Wbata ft oxrj ùeft t cababilithso,h at ouJr inal meetingr l/estt oday,a ndwillcontinue to do so if we canjust nurture
potentiabD o wel io?o 't aJtedr eatha, si s belkoedWz hat ts troeh appilrr;ds nâhow their union. To realize this, we must ensure that both cultures
cdltu e ftocbi t/ Is thereh,d reda, GeatorG odtT he list is endless,a so ld as
man hirnself.
Ii û rossiriefo f us ro ânswerr heseq uestionsT. he secretr o a suc- l Seea ppendix I for this and all other numberedn otes.
cessfulr esolutiono f theseb asici nquiries,h owevet is that we must * RudyardK ipling,'The BaUadofE asta nd Vesr, tss9.
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approache âcho therwith mutualrespecto, pent hemselvecso mpletely ritiltuso l thc originalt eachera, t which point the cycle went on
to ea€h other, ând shar€ their conclusions.I t is not an easyt ask. wlth ,i, studentsa,n d so forth.T he €apabilitiesa nde xploitso f the
Chinesec ulture,a nd more specificallyT aoistc ulture,h ast aken Mastcrsb ecamet he stuff of legend, and later the sroryline of the
the Vest by storm. Acupuncturci s prâcticede verywhere.C hinese ( lhincsco pera.T oday they are the essenceo f all kung tu movies.
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restaurantsa reu biquitous.K ung fu moviesa nd TV showsa rep opu- make mattersw orse, the Mastersa ,most nevel worked to-
Iar farandwide. Meditation hasb eenr ecognizedasa bio,behavioral lclhcr. Th€ concept of a Vest€rn university,w here knowledge is
state by Vestern medicine.*T he Tao Tè Ching is being read by rharcd and experiencesa re compared,w as an alien one for them.
unive.sity studentsa ll over the world, and many Westernb usinfss, l\rwcr wasm eantt o be usedf or profit, materiala nd spiritual.M ore
men areu sing the I Ching and feng shui (Chin€se divination meth, l|ltcn than nor rnartialMastersc hallengede acho ther, much knowl,
ods) in their day-to-dayd €cision making. cdac wâs forfeited in this manner becauset he bestedM aster fre-
Andyet, despitet he popularappealof ChineseT aoistc ulture,a (lucntly lost his life as well. To our Vestern culture, such an ap-
fine fusion of Ëasta nd \Xr'esht aso nly begun ro take placei n recent proachs eemss hocking,t o sây the least.I nlormation dissemination
years.F orthe most part, peoplei n the Vest either entirelyr eject the lI cvident ev€rywhere; indeed,i t is very difficult, even undesirable,
Easterna pproacha s mumbo-iumboo r embrâc€ itwith religiousf er- Lok cep knowledg€ secreto r propri€tary in our society.'?
vor asm ore ancienta nd spiritualthanV estem science.B oth o[these Yet there is a way that a complete union of theset wo cultures
attitudesaree noneous.T he first presumptuouslyre jectst hevalue of crn be accomplished,a nd that is simply by the creation of a 'so
Chinesel earning,t he secondt akest ried andpmvenb iophysicatl ech- flclcncet hat is n€itherEastern nor \X/esternb ut a union of both. Bold
niques developedo ver millennia and turns them into dogmâ.T his vlsionarieso f g€nerations pasth ave foretold such a discipline.I be'
problem is compoundedb y the fact that mâny \Testernersa nd Chi- llcvc that it is mankind! destiny to come together in this fashion,
nesea like aret oo eagert o pushw hat little tidbits of knowledget hey nnd that such a science,c ornbining the orthological* approacho f
have down consumerst'h roats in a desperateq uestf or money- thc Vest with the mysticald isciplineo f the East,i s beins forsed in
The Chineset hemselvesa rer esponsiblefo r much of this. Th€re our day and age.T his story, in essencer,e presentsth € future direc-
is, unfortunately,n o such thing as Clirne science.I nst€ad, there are tlon chosenb y humanityt awakeninsd esir€ for a better life and a
Janily and clar sciencesa nd arts developed by the people of the Chi- hlgher truth. You will find many pârallelsw ith readily available€x -
nesen ationo vermillennia.T he knowledged evelopedb y the Chinese lliting texts. Th€ main difference,h owever,b etwe€n this book and
was' l.rerw idespreadn, ot evenw ithin China itself.l t wast he preroga- any other is that it is representativeo fa working, extant system,n ot
tive and the powerbaseo f the privilegedf €w and their families. â historicala ccounto f somethingt hat once was. lt is fact, nor sup-
In the past a ChineseM asrer nev€r taught his appr€ntices 100 position or a dogmatics ystemo f beliefs.
percent ofhis knov/ledge.! nsteadh e retain€d, say,r he forenost t0 There is a man in Indonesiaw ho is a mastero f the ancientC hi,
percent for hims€lf alone.P erhapsh e would wrire down the rest in n€se sci€nce ofrsi[{'rr, or "internalp ower."H is namei sJohn Chang,
a document fof his favorite student,t o be opened after h;s death. and h€ is my teacher.M r Changv/asf irst presentedt o the world in
The result ofthis approachw ast hat the sum of eachc lan'sl earning the award-winningd ocumentarys eriesR i'4 oJF rre,rf ilmed by the
decreasedb y l0 percent with each generation,u ntil some charis- brorhersL orne and LawrenceB lair;h is privacyw asp rotectedb ythe
matic student was able to decipher the mysr€ry and return ro the
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From the Creek oriro meaningcorect, propet straiaht-and "loaic "
* Herbert Benson,7 'ûeR ala'rnorR $po'n (New york, Villiam Monow Ortholosical m€ans "having proper logic."
andC o., 1975). 1 Lorne and LawrenceB fai, RiU oJF ift' Easot J: vdkdtaa,t s88.
rather ignominious psetd,onyrilD ynaflal dc& In this documentary This tcxt will ess€ntially cover the life history and preliminâry
Master Chang shockedt he world by demonstratingt he impossible: rcach;ngso f John Chang. I have attempted to follow the method
First he generateda n €lectrical cunent of high arnperagetr stls 1'5 suggestedb y theJedi and presentÊ asternc onceptsi n a mannert hat
our bodyt o heal Lorne of an eye infection, and then he "zapped" âll \flesternersc an und€rstand. As such, I pray that this volume wlll
Lawrence( and their soundr €cordist) utilizing the samee nergy.*I n a beu p to the task,a ndh onorJohnC hanga ndh is teachings.
dramati€ conclusionM aster Chang th€n usedt his bio-energyt o ser Perhapsw e are indeed fortunatet o be living in that time in our
a crumpled-up newspapera blaze,w arning the researcherrsh at the developmentw hen Cod has decreedt hat the separateb rancheso f
samep ower that had healedL ome could readily be used to kill a humans ciencec om€ together Perhâpsw€ of the rù/esnt eedt he East
man asw ell.
to saveo ur world from ourselves
It was the first documentedd emonstrationo f neikung giv€n ro
tbe Vestern world. \ù/hati s evenm ore amazingi s ihat tenso f thou- Kosta Danaos
sandso fpeople aroundt he world (myseJifn cluded)r eadilyb elieved
it, and that the two brothersh ad no ideaw hat itwas theywere film-
ing at the tim€.
In order for you to fully und€rstand what the term neiha4i m
plies,y ou'll hàvet o workyourway through thts text. \X/hati s impor,
tant at this poirt is that, for the first time in hrrmand evelopment,a
man who accordingt o Chines€ culturei s a rstri',a Taoisti mmofal, is
willing to come forrh and revealt o the Vesr the truth behind his
teachins.J ohn Chans is unique in the annalso f mankind. Like the
Jedi Knights of the StarW an sagah, e hasa mazinsp reternaturâal bilj-
ti€s, telekinesisp, yrogenesis,electrogenesries,le pathyI,e vitation,rc-
mote vie\rins, ev€n astralp rolectton( for lacko f a better term).T hou-
sandso f people have wihessed him do rheset hings. My teachert
power is cntathomablet o the \(esrern miodi â smâll per€enràge of
its accumulatede nergy can inslantly overpower,o r heal, a human
being or largera nimal.A ndyet Mr. Chang tsa Vesterner A resident
of urbanJ ava,h e visits Europea nd the United Stateso ften. He has
searchedt hrough China fo. others like himself with the intenr of
leamins and sharing a unique trair for one such as hc, as you will
discov€r It could be said that Mr. Chans is the ultimate combina
tion of Easta nd \X/esot r, morc poeticall, rhat in rhe bidge between
Easta nd Vest, he is one of the loundation rowers
r
MâintaininAp hysicacl ontacrw ith hin at tharp oinrw ouldh aveb een
like puttins onei hand tn a wàllsocket. I havc called rhis ability electro
senesis( or clect roge.c.ati on ) for lack of a b*ter rerm
Chapter One
LOOKINGT HROUGH
THE MIRROR
FIRSCT ONTACT
I am by training a scientist,a nd haved egreesi n two fields of engi-
neering. Among other things, I have been employed as a senior
project engin€e( by one of the largestc orporationsi n the world.
Logic and socials tereotypingw ould dictate rhat I am not the sort of
personw ho readily believesw hat he hearso r seesi n film format,
that things would have to be repeatedlyp roven to me for me to
question my establishedp attern of beliefs. Vhen I saw the docu-
mentary however,I did notdoubt its credibility fora second.I knew
thatwhat I wasw itnessingwasr eâI,t hat itwas neithers pecialeffects
nor haud. I wass ureo fit. P€rhaps it is the comingofthe newmillen-
nium thât allows this, that a rnans chooledi n Vestern thought and
sciencec an look at a deviationf rom the acceptedl awso fnature and
'"fhis
say, is r€al."
As I mentionede arliect he well-doned ocumentaryb y the broth
ers Lorne and LawrenceB lail called Rra4o JI rre, depicts a nond€-
s€ript Oriental man doing what is impossible according to our
$/esternb ranch of medicalk nowledgea nd our Vestern scienceo f
physics:u sing his own int€rnal bio-energyr o light a newspapero n
fire. Thls was accomplishedw ith a minimum of fuss,a lmost with a punch if they had to, yet abhorredt he violencet hey trained
nonchalantly.T he man waiteduntilthe film crew wasr eady,looked for I wanteda n art whosep ractitionersw ould acnrallyg ow strottger
up to check with the cameraman,s teadiedh is right palrn over â with age rather than weaker. Iwanted an art through \{hich my
crumpled newspap€r, tens€d his body, and set the paper ablaze.l t tcacherw ould indeed teach me about myself and the world around
was obvious to the viewer that somek ind of pot€nt €n€rgy wasb e' me. I wantedt o r? Kwai Chans Caine.
ing generatedf rom the mant open palm-so much so that the news- I had searcheda round the world for such a mentor, and what I
paperb urst into a roaring flame. had found generallyf ell into thr€e categoriese, nlightenedp hiloso-
There are at leastt wo ways that this feat could have been ac phersw ho could not punch their way out of a paperb ag given the
complisheda s an illusion.O ne is that the filmmaken were collabo- opportunity; total animâlswhowereg reatf ighters,b ur whom acivi-
ratingwith the man and,t hrough specialeffectsp, erpetratingâ hoax. Iized man would not invite into his housera nd individualsw ho ap-
Th€ other is thàt it was the rnan himself who was tricking the re pearedt o b€ exactlywhat I wass earchingf or but proved inadequate
searchersh, aving slipped a piece of phosphoruso r some other in' to the task,u ltimat€ly dispiayinge ither lack of judgment, inh€rent
flammablei nto the crumpledp aperandt iming his displayt o coincide weaknessh, audulentm otives,o r emotionali nstabil;ty.I t is âlsoq uite
with the chemicalt oxidation.B ut I knew that neitherw ast he câse'I possiblet hat it was I who was not worthy of them, and left them
knew that I was looking at the real Mccoy, so to sp€ak. beforeI camet o understandt hem.
There were reasonsf or this, th€ most impoltanl beiôg tbe man In the past I had r€peat€dly rejected the Chin€se martial arts
himself. He was a well bùilt but smâll Oiental, srnilinga nd unpre' becauseo f the notables carcityo f authentick nowledgei nherentt o
tentious.H e appeâredto b€ of indeterminat€ age,w ith a fullhead of th€ir disseminationin \X/esterns ociety.I n the 1970sa nd 198Osth e
thick black hair and thc skin of youth, but his eyesw ere the eyeso f Chinesea rtsw eren otoriousf or their lack ofcredible teâchersT. iust
an ancient,â nd sinceritys honet hrough them. His voice wasc aÎing worthy instructorsw erc, in general,m uch harder to find than im-
and compassionatew, ithout glrile. He wase ven nervousi n front of postorsc ashingi n on the popularityo fkung fu movies.A lso, Icould
the cameralM ost important, it âppearedt hat the man had nothing not enter Communist Chlna to searchf or a true masteru ntil 1992
to gain lrom the displayrn either his nâmen or his location v/asd is, becauseo f my profession.A nd yet I had, like all diligent marrial
closed by the researcbersa,n d he certainly was not askinga nyone artists,r ead the books by reliabler esearchersa nd teachers.I knew
th€ th€ory behindthe Chinesem artiala rts,a nd Iknew that the man
None of ihes€ things occurredt o me at the time, ho\ûever.I n lhadseeno n the filmw asC hinesel.a lsoknewr,vhaI th adwitnessed
that mom€nt when I first sawt he video, I knew only one thlng, that wasc alledn eikung-the manipulationo f internal power.
I had finally, after twenty-five yearso f searchinsim et my mast€r It I hadt o find him.
was shocking, I looked at him and knew htm, and nothins could I knew it wasn ot going to be easy.I didnt know the mansn ame.
sway me from going to hjrn. The documentaryh ad indicatedt hat he l;ved somewherein Java or
Lik€ many people of my generation,I had been studying the Bali,b ut I had nowayofknowing if event hatimplication wast rue
rnartiala rts for a longtime.I hadstarteda t the ageo f ten and drifted they could have filmed him in San Francisco,f or all I knew. And I
through a serieso f Orientalfighting artst o finâllysettle onJapanese spoken either Chinesen or Malay.
jujutsu in my early twenties.\ ù/hat I had been searchingf or was Tèndayslaterlwasonaplanetothelndonesiancapitalofjakarta.
simple, I wantedwhat the actor David Carradineh ad so eloquently After ân eighteen-hourt rip, I checkedi nto the cleanesto f rhe dirty
portrayed in the now classich it seri€s Knr, Fl,l.lw anted an artwhose motels found onJalanJaksâa nd restedu p for the morro\r. I knew it
Mâstersw ere wis€, €nlightened philosophersw ho could kill a tiger would be tough going.
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